The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _ —_——————— VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,487 BER ASSOCIATED PRESS jUNEAU. ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1947 " PRICE TEN CENTS 18TH TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE OPENY GRACE MOORE ISKILLED IN | 1 i PLANE (RASH 1, Sweden’s - Prince Gustaf Adolf Also Victim Same Accidene at Weekend | (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: A Airplane crashes at home and! obroad over the weekend caused | the deaths of 54 persons, including the American soprano Grace Moore and Sweden’s Prince Gustaf Adolf. In China, search planes were sent ' out today (Monday) to find a Chi- ! nese National Aviation Corp. pas- | senger plane missing since Mon- | day on a flight from Canton to Chungking. The Chinese Central News Agency once reported the plane had. been found, with 18 tboard dead, but later said the report was incorrect, based on a mistranslation of a coded message from its Chungking bureau. Miss Moore and the Prince were among 22 persons killed at Copen- | hagen, Denmark, when a Royal Dutch (KLM) plane crashed and burned yesterday (Sunday) at its takeoff for Sweden. That was the costliest of the weekend crashes. | From 17 to 21 persons were re- . ported aboard a Chinese National Corporation plane missing on a flight from Hongkong to Chung- king, China. | The four crew members were kill- ed and a $2,000,000 cargo of gold bullion and coins was scattered when another plane crashed into a peak on the island of Hong Kong, off the China coast. On_Saturday, 12 persons died in a crash at London's Croydon air- port. f In the United States, five men were killed when a seven-place pri- vate plane carrying them from a district sales managers’ meeting of the U. 8. Machine Corp., at Leban- on, Ind., crashed near Rensselaer, Ind. Two persons were killed in each of four other plane acidents, near Tipton, Okla., Darlington, Wis., Taneytown, Md., and Westmoreland, Kas., the latter crash occurring while the plane was on spotting duty for the Poitawatomie County coyote hunt. A Purdue University student was killed in a crash near Rochester, Ind.; a Wales Center, N. Y., man was killed when his small plane fell near there, and one man was killed and another injured in a crash near Conway, S. C. e TANKER IN PORT The Union Oil tanker L. P. St. Clair was in port yesterday with 2 cargo of fuel oil for the Alaska- Juneau Mine. —.——— f The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — If Congress really wants to cut the budget, the boys on Capitol Hill might scru- ftinize certain operations going on almost under their noses in South- ern Maryland. Directly south of Washington near Solomon's Island, Md., the Navy operated an important war- time ordnance development center. About 19,000 men were stationed there during the war and some of the Navy's most important guns were tested out near Solomon’s Is- land. : Just half a mile on the other side of Solomon’s, the Navy also operated another important estab- lishment—a mine test base. Came the end of the war and last August, the Navy decided to aban- don the mine test base but continue the ordnance development center as a permanent operation. So it started to tear down buildings, clear land and to construct permanent officers’ quarters for the ordnance center. Then two months later the Navy changed® its mind. In October, it decided to reverse the process and make the mine test center perman- ent, abandoning the ordnance devel- opment center. Accordingly, the Navy signed i ] | i contract with the Burns Construc- Pire staff, retwrned home from Se- nhcurs later Helen Borden, 40, (Continued on Page Four) New "Safety Irvin Bassett, 65, of Detroit, Mich. and underwriters. Designed to save persons trapped descent by steel ribbcn released from an automatic recl the strap looped under his arms, Center, he descends at elevator «peed, and right he completes the drop Escape” Device Demon ., demonstrates the in approximately 18 seconds. (AP Photo) afety Scape” at an Atlanta, hotel fires, the simple mechan: Left, Bassett leaves the 12th story window with strated |2 BRITISH | OFFICIALS KIDNAPED Again, Epdenic Raging i Pales "DEACE STATUTE” tine-Troops Taking | ON GERMANY GETS hotel for firemen which the police attribute to: one| iof the Jewish undergrbund organ-) All during the night, troops had ‘A‘Emched an ancient Moslem ceme- Made bY U- S !ish major. Collins was spirited] LONDON, Jan. 27.—Russia turn- raway from his home yesterday. And'ed a diplomatic cold shoulder to- y that Collins was being|unconventional “peace statute” on > to prevent the execu- Germany. foregoing a formal peace { ail appeared to lead to viet memorandum to the western the cemetery, but nothing was members of the four-power deputy cal device permits Yynu0404 by British armored cars. ers draft a formal treaty, sponsor !Thc\ residents were warned to stay a peace conference to approve it, ’ But even as this was happening,! Under the Soviet plan, the coun- tirgun apparently struck again in cil of foreign ministers would write (PY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) et {izations, has hit the British in| tery in Jerusalem for some trace of | —_— Eritish authorities blame the Irguniday on an informal American sug- ow of one of the under- treaty. found there This morning, two foreign ministers conference pro- {indoors and the troop began a'and then submit it for ratification !bhe nearby all-Jewish city of Tel the final treaty text after hearing Two Members of First Legislature Are Back CONVICTED WIFE "Just Too Damn tAvViV. KENNEY WARNS OF AIR ATTACK ACROSS ARCTIC U. S. First Target of Future War, Strategic Air Com- mand Chief Says MacKENZIE By DEWITT Ap Foreign Affairs Analysi General George C. Kenny, Chief of the Strategice Air Command at Andrews Field, Md., tells us that in a future war our United States would be the first target and would be reached by a trans-Polar assault which might “result in a casualty list of 25,000,000 men, women and children in the first 24 hour: The General thus bluntly advised the Women's Patr: Conference on Defense yesterday in Washing- ton. He asserted that, above all, the enemy would strive for a quick knockout, the attack coming over the shortest air routes from the European-Asiatic land m: ACTOsS the North Polar basin Aprcpos of this, it's less than four months ago that the Pacusan Dreamboat —the giant B-29 of the U. S. Army Air Forces flew non- stop from Honolulu over the Arctic | to Cairo. General Carl Spaatz, AAF Commander, stated at the time that this proved “the feasibility of flight across the Polar wastes.” Kenny said the attack would be made “by both piloted and pilotless aircraft, by radio-controlled mis- | siles, by rockets—all loaded with atomic bombs, super-explosives, su- per-incendiaries, bacterial weapons or whatever means of mass destruc- tion happens to be in vogue at the time.” Just to make sure that he got his idea home, the General add- ed that “four atomic bombs of the | old Hiroshima-Nagasaki type, prop- erly placed, would knock New York City out of commission.” That’s strong mustard, and ob- viously is so intended by General Kenney. He. has deliberately eri- phasized one of the gravest dang- ers of the day—the development of another global conflict which would bring into play not only the atomic bomb but any other fearsome agents of death which have been created i |since the close of World War IL! His purpose naturally is to spur the minds of men to advise ways of averting such catastrophe. There are two ways of meeting this menace. One is to prepflre‘ mighty defenses to try to ward off attack. The other is to push through measures for control of the atomic bomb and for universal disarmament. Pending disarma- | ment, preparedness must be the watch-word. ———-—— MRS. MONSEN HERE Mrs. Alf N. Monsen, of the Em-' attle by PAA plane. She is at the Baranof Hotel. | words, “just too damn cold.” Cold af Fairbanks™ SopsPl.HopeEskimo b, SON,DISAPPEARS The mercury skidded to 62 degrees | below zero this weekend, and to at| least one Eskimo, it w: in his! | Everett Frank Lindsa Newsmen interviewed Private First convicted wife slayer, Class Augustus Kowunna, a native away from the Washington State of Point Hope, Alaska, several | penitentiary at Walla Walla yes- hundred miles north of Fairbanks.|terday. Kowunna, who has charge of Air| Warden Tom Smith said Lindsa Force dog teams at Ladd Field, de- a trusty employed as a cook in the clared at Point Hope it seldom Warden’s household, walked away gets colder than 35 Lelow zero. The| ;rom the prison after being releas- Eskimo said that when his enlist-| ed from his cell to go to his job. ment expires he plans to go home| Lindsay killed his wife, Mrs. Aud- oo g eias 4 ,‘_‘I""“‘m"l*‘:;“:;,_ Said , Kowunna: | yoy glizabeth Lindsay, in their West | court, ‘They addressed him search was under way today for!along. The judge was taken away, who walked - partly filled with spectators, law- yers and officials, none of the lat- {the abduction. { Judge Windham has been in the 111 of which have been spent in Palestine. He is heir to an ancient 'baronetcy. As in the Collins kid- that the Judge was seized as a hos- ' Briish Colonial service for 15 years, naping, British authorities believe A new epidemic of kidnapings, Diplomatic Celd Shoulder !Pslesum' iH. A 1 Collins, a retired Brit- By JACK SMITH {Zvai Leumi for the kidnaping onigestion that the Allies impose an members. Ignoris the suggestion, a So- {Jewish sections of Jerusalem were posed instead that the major pow- house-to-house search for Collins. {to the “German state.” suggestions at an international con- | A group of men rolled up to the ference of active belligerents. The | killed this winter for dog fe SI.AVER TRUSTY I \Tel Aviv district court in three plan would be submitted to Allied|the heavy snow has kept a bull- 4 axis. They entered the courtroom nations who declared war but did dozer at work continuously to jand confronted Judge Ralph Wind- not put forces in the field Then the streets at all passable. bam, the President of the Tel Aviv in SEATTLE, Jan. 2T—A" state-wide YHebrew, and ordered him to come|conference should be called only!thermometers recording 40 belo it would go to the German state. | The Soviet note said.a peace |“when a central government is es- 59-year-old ' and although the courtroom was!tablished which is recognized as |suitable to accept” a treaty. American sources said a clarifi- ter apparently did anything to stop cation of the memorandum would e sought. Poland and Greece, appearing be- ‘fore the deputies’ German and Austrian sections, made their ap- |peals today for reparations and peace guarantees. Poland estimated her material losses alone at $11,700,000,000, or (tage against tomorrow’s scheduled 36 percent of the “substance of our taken !material wealth.” ~ GILL CHOSEN AS SPEAKER; PresentSession PAUL, CLERK Back in legislative harness after! 34 years is Charles D. Jor of Nome, ESenator from the Division, who served in the Ho of Representatives in the First Session, away back in 1913 | Another Senator who returned |this year after long absence from | the legislative chamkters is E. B Collins of Fairbanks, who was| speaker of the House in that First| sesslon Both men Jones in Sénaie Chair as Organizing of Upper House Bogs Down The House of Representatives of the Eighteenth Alaska Leg- islature this afternoon adjourn- ed until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, after seating Oscar S. Gill, of the Third Division, as permanent Speaker, electing William L. Paul Chief Clerk and appointing a Committee on Permanent Help and a Com- mittee on Committees. The Senate adjourned this +afternoon, also until 10 o'clock Tuesday, without attaining per- manent organization. Charles D. Jones, of the Second Division was elected President Pro-tem of the Senate. . ond use are Republicans and' were placed in office by Second and Fourth Division voters who tossed out Cross, Lyng, Landers and Taylor in last fall's upset election “The Territory seems to be in bad and we've come back to help straighten things out,” is the way Senator Jones puts it Jones is an outspoken mining man who has lived in the Second Division almost from the time it was established and served as U.' S, Marshal there during the last Republican administration. More g ey recently he has done some work Oscar Gill, Anchorige Republi- for the CAA and is opening some Can, became speaker of the House mining claims in the district (for the Eightesnth Session of the There has been the ieavicst Territorfal Legislature, without op- snowfall at Nome this winter since Position and with unanimous con- the records have been kept,” Jones sent, ‘this forenoon. reports. He also gives the follow- Fellowing Gill's nomination as ing items of Nome news for any {emporary Speaker, the nominations who may be interested were quickly closed and he was The last horse in Nome was €icorted to the chair by Reps. Me- ed and Cutchzon, Nolan, Maurice Johnson and C. D. Anderson. The election ) keep @5 permanent speaker followed There duickly. |has also been an extremely cold! The nomination and election of spell. since Christmas, with locall Willlam L. Paul, 8r, as Chief N w Of the House also went off it zero. a hitch, Paul winning tke posi- Igloo No. 1, Pioneers of Alaska, ton over Lee Lucas on a st¥igtly at last has its own building. One PArty vote of 13 to 11. of the mess houses built during the Just tefore the election of Paul war was purchased and moved to @ Chlef Clerk, a motion by Rep. Ploneers’ lot. In it are a small McCutcheon to temporarily adopt ledge room, a larger hall for en- the rules of the 1945 session was |tertainment and dances, a kitchen lost by a vote of 14 to 10 with land cloak rooms. ;Rep. Hoopes voting with the pre- | The Pioneer Roof Gardens, held, vailing side. lon December 21, was a suceess Williams: Presides Loth socially and financlally. At, The House was called to order the same time a collection was Shortly after 11 o'clock by Secretary for the Pioneers' Homr;o‘ Alaska Lew Williams, and the | Christmas Fund and $600 was sent Session opened with a prayer by Polish spoke to the blowski renewed Poland’s claim to man Stefan Wier-|to brighten the timers, day for the old- Erigadier C. O. Taylor of the Sal- He was captured in Los Angeles shadow of pessimism over the Pales- 40,000 square miles of prewar Ger- These were The entertainment was planned vation Army. Secretary Williams read a list of 1 one of the twin beds in the room.Santa Cruz and the Cape Victory. . o | Seattle home in February, 1930, cxecution of one of the Irgun mem- ! then fled to Oakland, Calif., with'bers. a young adopted daughter, Pearl.| All this has added Dies, Miami ies, il nearly two years later after altine talks in London. world-wide search and convicted of resumed by British and Arab nego- second degree murder. (tiators today. The Jews continue —_—— e — ito boycott the discussions form- jally, But several members of the MI(KEY Ro |Jewish Agency Executive are in ! v |London in case the opportunity |should arise for talks on the side- BIRMINGHAM, Ala.,, Jan. 27— (lines. ! Little hope for such an oppor- 1 however, Mrs. E. M. Rase, mother of Mrs. Mickey Rooney, confirmed reports that the motion picture actor and + tunity, is indicated in {what the Arabs told the British her daughter “have agreed to live apart.” itoday. Dr. Jamal Effendl Husseinie i (Hoo-say-nee), the vice chairman Mrs. Rase saiGc Mickey, Jr., 15 months, and Timothy, born here of the Palestine Arab Higher Exe- cutive, turned thumbs down on the ! British proposal that Palestine be isplit up. He said that if a Jewish ;:;tat,e were created there would be la permanent source of troubls in {the Middle East; that it would be (another perennial sorespot like the three weeks ago, would remain injBalkans. Birmingham with their mother. | e “Nothing else has been settled | and no legal action has been taken,” Mrs. Rase said. Property settlement discussions are under way.” ! Mrs. Rooney, who won a Miss:Scheduled to arrive Thursday. Birmingham contest in 1944 and! Alaska scheduled to sail from represented this city at the Atlantic |Seattle today. City beauty pageant, met Rooney Denali, scheduled i Seattle, February 1. at a movie theater here when the actor was stationed at Camp Sibert,| Princess Norah “hed“lm‘ to st} i Ala., and they were married a week | {fom Vancouver February | later, on Sept. 30, 1944. { Aleutian, from the west, scheduled SN jto arrive at 1 o'clock tomorrow af- { . ; ternoon. 5 i leamers Cordova, | ’ S l k' ' | Five members of the Territorial a 'na ° e ’Ibegislnlure arrived in Juneau and | registered at the Baranof Hotel on Saturday, and one on Sunday. They SEATTLE, Jan. 27.--The vetex'-“[were Senator N. R. “Doc’} Walker an Alaska Steamship Co. vessels from Ketchikan, Senator and Mrs. Cordova and Lakina, commandeered Frank Peratrovich from Klawock, sald today they were secking & hy the government during the war, | Senator Edward D. Coffey from dark-haired woman for questioning| 500N Will be returned to the com-:Anchorage, Senator and Mrs. E. B, in connection with the mysterious Pany and sold, it was announced|Collins from Fairbanks, Represen- death of Paul DiGenovario, 46, Over the weekend. tative James Nolan and wife from father of five children, who was' The Cordova was built in 1912; Wrangell, Representative C. D. An- found dead in a room in the hotel the Lakina in 1913, ! derson and wife from Nome, and Normandie. | The company also will receive Representative Lawrence Meath Police said Frank Hudson, night! the steamship Victoria, now moored and wife from Fairbanks. clerk at the hotel, told them Di-|here. i .- - Genovario and the woman regis-| The company will return to the| ALASKA LIFE MAN HERE tered about 3 a. m. yeserday. Eight Maritime Commission the freighter ~H. H. Hardy, of the staff of Al- a Oduna, and the Clove Hitch, both aska Life Magazine in Seattle, ar- maid, found the body sprawled on to be tied up at Olympia, and the rived in Juneau on Saturday and is registered at the Baranof Hotel Once WeaHi;y Mobster Passes Away Penniless . Man, Says Attorney MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Jan. 27— The body of Al Capone, once fab- ulously wealthy Chicago gang lead- er whose attorney said he died breke, lay in a mortuary here to- day, waiting completion of plans for the funeral here later this week. Dr. Kenneth Phillips, who attend- ed Capore for several years and was with the 48-year-old ex-mob- ster when he died in his 25-room villa on nearby Palm Island Satur- day, said the final rites would be held here. Other information, he added, must come from the family. In Los Angeles, Capone's attor- ney, Abraham Teitelbaum, said as far as he knew “Al left no will and no money.” The lawyer said that members of Capone's family had supported him in recent years, and the villa was “mortgaged to the hilt.” Federal officials once estimated Capone’s fortune at $20,000,000, but, Teitelbaum said, “Al still owed the government money when he died.” MYSTERIDUS DEATH; WOMAN 15 SOUGHT PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27.—Police STEAMER MOVEMENTS Northern Voyager from Seattle, to sail from -+ —— LEGISLATORS HERE ;man territory along the Oder and | Neisse Rivers. The Poles, admin- jistering the region under the Pots- {dam agreement, have had “consid- ‘erable success” there already, Wier- Iblowski sald, “in the field of economic and cultural life.” : - ‘Company-Wide Contract_Plan Gf Rubber Co. | CINCINNATI, Jan. 27 Agree- ment on a company-wide contract to cover some 30,000 U. S. Rubber Co. employee in 16 plants was an- nounced today by officials of the company and the CIO-Unitdd Rub- | ber Workers. | It was the [irst company-wide | contract in the rubber industry and | union officials said it might be the | first negotiated by a CIO union. 'COLD WAVE HITS ' JUNEAU SECTION i Lowest temperatures recorded at 7:30 a. m. today on the Federal | Building in Juneau was zero. Ac- (cording to Claude V. Brown, the { meteorologist in charge of the local U. 8. Weather Bureau office, this iis the coldest minimum - recorded Hin the last half of January since 1917, when minus 17 was recorded iun January 30. Zero degree was also recorded on {December 14 and 15 last year. The lowest January temperature on record is minus 15, which occurred on January 20, 1916. This is also the lowest temperature ever record- ed in Juneau. At the airport, zero degree was also recorded at 7:30 a. m., but dropped further to minus five at 10 a. m. A temperature of minus seven was recorded at the airport December 11, 1946. D g - Bernardo O'Higgins led the Chil- €an revolt from Spain and became the nation’s first president. and advertised by Past President those entitled to seats in the House Mike Walsh, who was a member of 4nd the roll was called by Mrs. the Seventeenth Legislature, and C°celia Thiele, with all members |iricluded ® large number of Nome! Present. Two oaths of office were lcitizens who took the parts of ddministered by Attorney General various movie and radio stars. Ralph Rivers. | “It showed that the old spirit, The first, the standard oath of still lives in Nome and that we Olfice for Federal Employees, under have not forgotten how to enter-|Which heading the legislators come, tain ourselves,” Jones said. required only a few seconds. The | | “There have baen no serious epi- £2¢ond, which appeared to be an 'demics and while the shutdown of ©ath drawn up for appointses of the mining industry slowed down the Department of the Interior, re- Ithe whole gistrict, Nome is still on Guired the members .to swear that {the map,” he related, “and will be th€y have not been on strik> there with the bells on for @ long @Bainst the government and that time to come. We have been burn-|they do not belong to any organi- ed out, flooded out and decimated “ation which asserts the right to by flu and so forth, but well be Strike against the government or there 'til the end!” overthrow the government. L 5 S For some reason or another, the Territorial oath of office was not MA administered at that time. Before turning the chair over to HEAV'[Y F'"ED Speaker Gill, €ecretary Lew Will- . fams presented him with a new, —_— hand-turned gavel, the gift of Rep. NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—Federal J. F. (Joe) Krause of Ketchikan | Judge Alfred C. Coxe imposed a|At the opening of past sessions fine of $25000 against the Dairy- Williams remarked, it had been men's League Cooperative Associa- necessary to borrow a gavel from tion and fines of $1,000 each against the Territorial Muscum. The gavel ! four officers of the Association to- Wwas delivered to Ketchikan by Rep. {day after they entered guilty pleas Harry F. Newell of the First City to a criminal information charging Fcllowing his election as Speaker, manipulation of the New York but- Rep. Gill expressed his gratitude ter market to fix the January, 1947,for the support of the 23 other milk price’ ]member.s of the House and said | The indiviguals named were Hen- D€ hopes he can end the session with ry Rathbun, President of the Asso- tI¢ same friendship and support. ! ciation, and three members of the 2 @lso called the attention of the executive committee of its board of Members to their responsibilities as * directors, Leon H. Chapin, Hedley (‘If,‘(x'(l representatives of the people. Benson and Herbert Seeley. The minority membters of this PSR A House are entitled to their opinion and should feel free to express SIO(K ouo-lA"ouS these opinions on the floor,” the Speaker said. He also called at- 5 ‘tention to what he sald were mis- NEW YORK, Jan 27.—-Closmg:mkg“ made by majorities in past quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | S°55ions, and promised minority stock today is 5i, American Can 95, vxr‘(?upn 'a hearing on every question. Anaconda 39';, Curtiss-Wright G'Emulel d"“‘:’"b‘ ‘;171“ to pack a"::‘ » | International Harvester 72%, Ken- o WEIAT WO N ATON: PINR | necott 47, New York Central 19, peaker Gill told his fellow rep- Northern Pacific 17%, U. 8. Steel | cocntatives, and asked that they {727, Pound $4.03. |cooperate with him and correct Sales today were 900,000 shurm“mm if he “gets off the beam.” Dow, - Joues s averages- today urc“’ The House recessed shortly be- |as follows: industrials 177.28, rails| dte. noolt Jo xeaume “Hel bR 49.46, utilities 36.36. (Continued on Page Two)