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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALl JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY' THE TIME” 1947 M[:MBE;R /\SbO(l \_ll D PR[ S5 ‘BRUARY 27, =) VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,514 THIRTEEN ABOARD MISSING ARMY PLANE ELECTION OF PARTY HEADS IS THWARTED National E)Tnmifleemen 'y 3KILLED | contemplating Bill Fails by 10 fo 14 Vofe in Lower House | The bill to provide for the di- rect election of National Com- mitteemen and Committeewomen and Delegates and Alternates to National Party Conventions, went down to defeat by a vote of 10 yeas, 14 nays, in the House of Replesen- tatives yesterday afternoon, but not until after Reps. Maurice Johnson and Harry Newell had made a wal— jant fight for its passage. Rep. Engstrom started off the discussion of the bill by reading | from a letter from the National Republican Convention Rate Reduction Planned On Alaska Railroad; Line Also fo Be Rehabilifated = | INPISTOL SHOOTING : ‘Two Veteran Police Offic- ers of Vancouver, Young | Gunman, Die in Battle | WASITVNGTON, Feb. 27 Oscar L. Chapman, acting Secre- tary of the Interior, disclosed to- day that the Alaska Railroad is a rate reduction as well as general rehabilitation of the line, President Truman's 1948 budget asks for $4,000,000 for the Alaska Railroad, and contract authori-! 7aunn for an additional $15,000,- AP — Wnl\ the addition' of an esti- mated $7,000,000 in revenue, $26,-': 000,000 would be available for the 1948 rehabilitation program, as well as for operating and main- tenance costs. Details of the reconstruction program and of the proposed re- | VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 27.—(p— |ductions in freight and passeng- setting|Shot down in a cold blooded pistol € charges have not been an- forth the present procedure for se- | battle, two veteran police officers|nounced, but Chapman said, in a lecting National “The present bill,” she said, tempt to wréck the two-party sys-| tem in Alaska.” Prior to 1933 National Commit- Committeemen. ‘nnd a4 young gunman “seems | today after a wild trainyard shoot- to be nothing more than an at-| ing melee. teemen were elected in Alaska, Rep. | Garnick told the House, but the|few hours after the killings. were dead The two surviving members of lhe trio, baoth teen-aged, were for- | mally charged with murder last| night in warrants read to them a The system proved unsatisfactory. Shej i battle occurred as the men 1led by cited an instance of a Democrat‘flulom(bllu from near a bank having been elected Republican Na-| Where a witness had reported see- tional Committeeman, that the Republicans who are com- | plaining about not being able to elect the Committeeman did not| even attend “our” convention at Anchorage in 1945, “Harry McCain who faveored this bill, was defeated by more than 1,400 votes in the and -said ing three men of Ketchikan, “putting on masks. The two were Harry Johnson, 19, | wounded and under close guard at the Vancouver General Hospital, and William Henderson, 17, held at police headquarters. Killed were: i Prcwler officer Oliver Leding-| recent special election,” Miss Gar- Dham, with the force 12 years. nick said, and pointed to this as (Contlnued on }zwe ..A,,Ixt; The Washmglo Merry - Go-Round, By DREW PISARSON WASHINGTON—Many states of |er, the United States require every dairy cow within their borders to be tested for tuberculosis year. taken the elevating human same level as cows. revolutionary beings step to | tentatively n | Carter. i of | ward me. I the | Jooked { black hanging from the belt of the during the war From now. on, every man, woman | tallest one and I pulled it out and child in New York State not was Prowler officer Charles Boyes, veteran of the Indian Army and a policeman here 11 years. A gunman about 20 years identified as Douglas Detective Allan noare, a mem'uer} of the force's first-string revolver | Leam shot in the shoulder and lup, dropped to the ground and tired the bullets which killed the one gunman and injured the oth- witnesses said. Hoare related how he two other officers catch saw the up with once a the trio and talk with them. Governor Tom Dewey has now | “They turned and walked to- id, ‘Who are you?' I down and saw something It an automatic. One of them only will get a tuberculosis test|jumped back and shot.” but also will find state hospital available for their care if necessa: At a time when Republicans in | Congress are pinching the Federal, budget even to the extent of wip- ing out the school milk program, the Republican governor of New York has quadrupled his health budget in order to battle tuber- culosis. He is also coordinating New York hospitals so that certain tions in healthy counties such as Herkimer, which are virtually emp- ty, will be taken over by the state.! This will prevent the construction of more hospitals at a time when building materials are critical and their use would interfere with vet- | erans’ housing. Note—Worst tuberculosis patch in New York State is among the| negro population of Harlem. Mi- gration from the warm south, plus crowded living conditions has made § Harlem ohe of the worst TB areas in the USA. RANKIN "IN REVERSE During the long years under Roosevelt, the best friend and ally of minority Republicans in the House of Representatives was root- in’-tootin’ Congressman John Ran- kin of Mississippi. His barbs at his fellow Democrats always brought howls of laughter and rounds of | applause from the Republicans across the aisle. They continually goaded the pint-sized Mississippian mto more harangues. Now that the Republicans are in the saddle, however, things are different. Rankin isn’t the ally he used to be. In fact, he’s almost more critical of the Republicans than of the northern Democrats. Talking in the House cloakroom the otker day, the gentleman from | Mississippi opined: “In nearly one month the great and glorious GOP Senate, the Sen- ate which was going to do every- (Continued on Page Four) institu- | | | i { i | i | | | J ithe wartime transfer | States ships to Russia. SHIP DEAL WITHUSSR IS PROBED {Claim 100 American Boais\ Held by Soviefs-Mar- | shall Subpoenaed | WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—(®. old, |erations in the railroad, thus giv- lation land air transport, letter to Col. John P. Johnson, the railroad’s manager: “The rate reductions contem- plated in your rehabilitation pro- /gram not only will encoura greater public use of the rail- | road, both from a passenger and a shipper’s standpoint, but unde-| niably will have the effect of op-! ening up a broad field of expan-, sion of existing industry in thel area, and, in addition, of develop-| ing new industries which hereto-" fore have looked slightly askance L] at Alaska as a field of operations ip a I e s ' I “ e Obsolete Equipment | “The Alaska railroad has been | p bl i tion was spensored by enthusiasts. (P Photo. burdened with obsolete equipment | since the begining of its opera-! tions. Your present program for the retirement of this rolling stock ' as fast as the new surplus equip- i ment becomes avallable cannot help reflecting more efficient op-' ( ing more thorough-going service Lo‘ your shippers.” 3 Chapman said that Jonnson, 1 assumed his duties January 1, 1946, has ‘“accomplished a fair: bulk of the many badly nfl‘d’d changes in operating economy.” He said acquisition of. surplus property for railroad use, install-| of labor-saving devices and reorganization on modern and efficient I within the past year have resulted in savings of! thousands of dollars annual our ckgrouna of four Must Smoom)ut Charge that Truman Played Politics on Question WASHINGTON, Feb. 27-—P | The problem of smoothing Anglo- American relations troubled by dif- ferences over Palestine emerged to- as the first hurdle for plain- AH’IHR Lewis A. Douglas when he {takes over the Embasy in London years . trans-Atlantic controversy transportation activities overseas| 1€ @ > pa to a head in a White House has brought new:Ccame 5 a rail system whwhwuatrment describing as “unfortun- has needed dra change from'ate and misleading” any British outmoded operational methods to' !mplication that President Truman modern practice,” Chapman wrote.| Was playing politics last Oct. 4 “It is our belief that your plan-|when he urged the immediate ad- ned rehabilitation program, if au-.mission of 100,000 Jews to the Holy thorized by Congress, will effect, Land. cven greater economies in the fi-| The statement, handed out nal analysis. ;mgm only a few hours after “I cannot conceive that any in-: President chose the one-time New dividual or groups sincerely in-|Deal budget director &s his new terested in the development and;Amhu.\wndcr, was issued as a reply welfare of Alaska would stand inito Foreign Secretary Bevin's tart the way deliberately of your pro- tassertion to Parliament Tuesday posed 1ehabilitation program, Bevin declared Mr. Truman's Oc- which the Department of the In-|tober vemarks, during the Congres- ! terior wholeheartedly supports.” Asmn.\] election campaign, “spoi Johnson, peace-time employee onne gotiations which might have led | the Atchison, Topeka and Santa|to a settlement of the Arab-Jewish Fe Railroad, worked on the Iran!-conflict. land Iraq state railroads early in “I really must point out,” the tke war, went to India to co-!British Cabinet officer told Com- ordinate rail, river boat, highway mcns, “that in international af- and later was|fairs I cannot settle things if my army chief of transportation iniproblem is made the subject of the Phllippmes |local elections.” wno | concepts to last the sub- | Sec- l pro- records | | A House Merchant Marine committee today subpoenaed retary of State Marshall to duce for it tomorrow all and communications dealing with of = United The subpoena, signed by Rep. Weictel (R+Ohio), subcommittee chairman, was turped over to the! House Sergeant-at-Arms, William F. Russell. Russell reported he was unable, to contact Marshall at the State Department and left immediate- 'CONFERENCE FRIDAY T “The White House (GAME COMMISSION S 's o i EXPECTS TO FINISH statement Secretary “The impression that has urmu from yesterday’s debate in the i tish Parliament that Ameucx|~ in- hemst in Palestine and the settle- iment of Jews there is mctivated by partisan and local politics is most I unfortunate and misleading.” | It went on to declare that Mr Truman’s October stand simply re- iterated the position he had com- municated to' Prime Minlster At- tlee as long ago as August, 1945 Alaska Game Commission is winding up its annual conference as the 11th day of sessions takes place today. Chairman Earl Ohmer said that final meetings will pro- - 945, ly for the White House where mevbably be held tomorrow and recom- | and made public in November, 19 Secretary was reported in con- ference with President Truman. Weichel * instructed Marshall left. | mendations made during the meeL‘ “America’s | will be sent on to the Fish and|the interest in Palestine statement continued, ‘“is of | wildlife branch of the Department llong and continuing standing. It is Russell to wait at the White House until of Interior for approval by Sec-;a deep and abiding interest sha ‘retnry Krug. Upon his signature, rb) our people without regard to The subpoena directed the Bec-lhe Game Commission’s recommen- 'Lheu political affiliation.” retary to appear before the com-|daions will become effective as re- | (EST) tomor- | gulations. mittee at 9:30 a. m. row with “all books, papers, com- |munications and other memoranda povering the matter of approxi-| mately 100 merchant ships owned possession of the Russian govern-| ment, the communications to Rus-; 'meeting is ended. sia and the replies of Russia.” land wildlife, ————— f HARRY ADSERO ARRESTED Director of Fish left yesterday for| A complaint was filed today | Washington, D. C. and both|against Harry Adsero by his wife Game Commission members Mrs. Agnes M. Adsero, on alleged Alfred M. Day, |by the United States now in me‘and wildlife agents plan to return.charges of assault and battery cn to their homes in octher parts of his twelve year old daughter, Dar- the Territory as soon as tomorrow’s lene. Adsero was arrested yester- day and. faced arraignment today Miss Majorefic of 1947 Resemary Schwebs, 17, of Menasha, Wis., along a table at the coronaticn banquet she was named as the best of the nati The Drum Maj Ambassador put un a victory march Wis., where The competi for twirling at Janesville n's majerettes. a magazine A 4 SW I MM E R_—Comedienne Martha Raye displays a {wo- piece swimming suit on the cdge of a Florida pool. NIGHT SHIFTS AREPLANNED FOR BRITAINS Square Knof Picket Tie-up Ends; Lumber Aboard fo Be Discharged by Shore Tackle; Vessel fo Be Sent on Way; | 50,000 | Communist, | nate | travelers | obtain and | elective | There are about 40,000,000 BIG MONEY | Red 1140 | would | throughout Japan, { | | FOR REDS IN JAPAN $600, 000 Bankroll for| Propaganda Work in | Election Campaign Tokyo, 2b. 27 —A and 60,000 Between organized Com- munists with a 10,000,000 yen $600,000—bankroll will spread the doctrine . throughout Japan prior to the forthcoming elections, a paity leader declared today. inzo Nozaka, Japan’s No. 1 told the Associated Press that his party would nomi- 200 candidates, for members and fellow- | be ordered cam-' whom will to Last Communists had candidates for the diet and won six secats This year, Nozaka said the Communists hope to between 25 and 50 seats install party memkers in posts, great and nall the election has not been year, the to Date of set. Nozaka the upon Cnmmlmisl\ their cells on propaganda ‘and on disciples dispatched from i Tokyo to spread Llu- 4]“(“0!\ doc- | trine of “democ ‘The Communists, he said, would attempt to line up with Labor in industrial areas, preaching high- 2r rice prices and land reform to farmers. Nozaka said Communists have won control the farmers union, and by playing farm- ers’ discontent, have boosted the membership tenfold, to a present strength of more than 1,000,000 farmers sald depend the of on in Japan. membership, increased re- Communist party Nozaka added, he markably. One ar ago there were 10,000 party members, and there now are 50,000 to 60,000, he said General McArthur's recent ban- ning of a general strike, brought many new recruits into the party, Cemmunist leader said - y "PAPPY’ BOYINGTON jthe opinion of Gregory 1Y) Labor Government Hopes| to Save Electricity by Changed Work Hours ~P—Britain traditi attering decision to in-land asserted “Japan will prove one 10 shift in British lof our . most® valuable asset > night expected the Labor of the tough in its 19 months industry to| confront with one as facad power. The government’s plan urate night working shifts—which have been resisted bitterly for many years by British trade un- icns forming the backbone of 'the ernment’s support as nounced in the House of Common; last night during debate on the grave coal and power crisis which| has closed many industrial plants! and brought discomfort to whole nation, was today |told his listeners that jon food was scanty, | government | people. ost tests it{can way. Japan, if allowed tp go| injour way, will prove {in to inaug- And it is not far an- | PRAISES JAPANESE L (Pap- Corps and a priks the HCLLYWOOD, Feb. 27— w Boyington, the Marine top ace of the Pacitic war long-time Japanese prisoner, should do all we can to give Japanese people every break.” Boyington, in a talk last night the Marine Newsmen's Club, while pris- | Japanese sol-| better off to diers were little if any “The Japanese are industrious They think in the Amvn« very valuable when it comes off | - the next war STEAMER MOVEMENTS | | South, after- Princess scheduled to arrive |noon or evening Aleutian scheduled from Friday Norah, to sail from| the Seattle February 28. ! Freighter Sailor's Splice of lh(" Sir Stafford Cripps, President of {Northland Transportation Co., sail- the Board of Trade, :ram for putting 2,500,000 Britons on would be devised by with the worke: said the pro- approximately night “agreement and added: (Continued on Pag; Three) duty | -— 'turn to Juneau then wes ed from Seattle 8 a. Due March 2 or 3 Denali scheduled to sail Seattle March 6, calling at cast Alaska ports, to Si m. Saturday.! from; South- a, re- rd in- cluding Kodiak. | housemen | { Knot | waters + The | International Harvester 150.78, utilitics 2 NO TRACE IS FOUND OF (RAFT Air Searches B'eing Con- o | ducted to Westward by el Twenfy -six Planes the Juneau Local of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s and Ware- | Union, Area Engine WASHINGTON, Feb nes Huston has received orders The Navy Air Forces r take off the lumber already | day that 13 men wel believed loaded aboard the freighter Square|ahoard the B-20 plane which has and send her on her way. |peen missing in Alaska since Mon- The orders to unload the vessel.|day, Earlier reports put the num- will involve neither the crew nor|per of crewmen at 11 v the ship’s gear. War Department| Ajr searches for the ship are be- employees will do the job, using|ing conducted by 26 planes flying cranes and shore installations to| from bases at Elmendorf Field take the cargo from the holds. |and Fairbanks, Alaska, and in the Unlloading is expected to take| Aleutian Islands. No it about two days, then the Square! has been found Knot is due to sail. She is not to| The last word from the B-20 return to Seattle, but has orders Menday w when it reported it which will keep her in Alaskan|was flying near Bruin Pass north . jof Kodiak Knot is a Maritime! pollowing Commission vessel operated by the | ¢ Alaska Steamship Company, but under a non-commercial, per diem |pearest relatives: charter, to the U. 8. Army Engin-| Capt. Raymond N, Tutton, The Longshoremen's Local|wife, Jane L. Rome, Ga. contended that under the agree-| 1st. Lt. William Johnsen, co-pi- ment existing between their un-iot, wife, Joyce Elaine, Grand Is- fon and the Alaska, Steamship land, N. Y. Company, they should be given the| Capt. Kenneth W. LaFrance, job of working the ship. vigator, wife Anne O, However, neither the Army Tex Alaska Steamship Company has| and Lt authority to hire longshoremen to npavigator, work the ship. The operating com- | tin, Tex pany cannot beeause it 1s not pro- 2nd Lt. James C. vided for in the contract; the Al flight engineer, wife, Engineer cannot because he Is not Chico, Calif. - permitted to enter Into a° direct| Master Sgt. Leon D. Blakeman, contract with any union | engineer, wife, Thelma M., Arling- - ton, Calif. | 1st Lt. John L. Ludacka, dacka, Omaha, Neb. Ist Lt. Juan A. Truhe, observer, wife, Loretta A. Girardville, Pa 1st. Lt. Paul E. Riddle, observer, ‘\\lll' Jean, Washington, D. C. Staff Sgt. Robert McLaughlin, observer, wife, Evelyn H., Cherry- WASHINGTON, OPA will get a pretty good gpcorver indication today whether §t is to| . got a peaceful or tumultuous bur-|" g fal observer, vale, Kan aff Sgt. Clarence R.Adams,ob- A Senate appropriations sub- oo committee server, wile, Virginia A., Tampa, is to vote this after-| > > - Fla noen on whether the control agen- After 15 days of 27— ported to- to The Square are the names of the the AAF said were together with names of pilot, cers na- San Antenio, nor Hubert H. Jarvis, second wife, Mildred R. Aus- Lomax, Helen Jr., M. bom- Lu- Fzb a Sgt. wife, Orville Nora B., Palmetto, Sgt wife, James M., Maloney, Mary E., Dorchester, Staff cy should be given some 15 million dollars to carry on sugar and rent controls until June 3. Under the,present law, t he OPA is due to diz on June 30, although Con- gr is expected to extend rent| and sugar controls under some other agenc The Hnll~t already has kil'zd off the |)ll((‘ administration’s con- trols by not voting funds. But, as|ter a conference of railroad un- Chairman Styles Bridges, of New|jon men and industry leaders to- Hampzhire put it before today's|day that peace prospects appear Senate committez meetings, he is| prighter than ever, in favor of giving the OPA encugh money to wind up its af- fairs in an orderly manner, | - STOCK QUOIMIONS NEW eSS WASHINGTON of the Railroad Trainmen, | Whitney, is hopatul prospect for * labor-management peace. Whitney told newsmen af- The President A P about the SEATTLE—Vivian Kidd, a flyer from Anchorage, forfeited $100 bail in Justice, Court at Renton yester- day on a charge of “dangerous flying” over the Renton Highlands housing project Sunday. Sheriff’s quctation of Alaska Juneau mine | deputies said -Kidd told them he stock today is 6, American Can 96,| Was trying to attract triend’s Anaccnda 40%, Curtiss-Wright 57, | attention. 79', Ken-| necott 47, New York Central 197, | |Northern Pacific 20%, U. S. Steel 74%, Pound $4.027%. Sales today were 960,000 sh: Dow, Jones ages today as foliows industrials 178.88, YORK, Feb. 27—Closing a WASHINGTON-—The House, de- ,b:ninu legislation to outlaw portal- to-portal pay suits, today heard P the measure called essential to rails |PTEVENL “economic chaos,” and de- |nounced as an unconstitutional | blow at “labot’s rights.” res. FORTY INJURED IN BRUSSELS RIOTING BRUSSELS, Feb. authorities said today fons hurt in a riot liament building yesterday had, CATANIA Eeen discharged before midnight,|down the and only one policeman still was Etna was hospitalized | miles today, eutting the main road The riot occurred when approx-|near the villages of Randawo and imately 50,000 demonstrators, de- Lingguaglossa Imanding full payment of a bonus |for persons imprisoned or deport- ed by the Nazis were confronted with gendarmes and cavalrymen|dent at on their pay the parliament White House today that conditions tuilding, where the cabinet was all over Europe are “pretty grim” meeting. and are the worst in 50 years, BUFFALO-—The Loard of Educa- tion closed all public schools for the duration of the teachers’ strike today and the city appealed to the State Commissioner of Education for aid in settling the four-day-old 27 dispute. Hospital that 40 per- near the par- Molten lava flowing hills of erupting Mt. of strung out for seven WASHINGTON Former Presi- Herbert Hoover said at the to