The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 1, 1947, Page 1

minsieredrel and - the door locked:until SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE [mw. “ALL THE NEWS ALl THE TIME” [ e VOL.. LXVIIL., NO. 10,516 g JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURD \\ VlARCH I, 1947 R MI‘MB[R \SHO(I\I! l) PR[b PRICE TEN CENTS THIRD ALASKA ARMY PLANE GOES CRASH THREE UTILITIES. CLOSE VOTE TRE LR ENGINE FIRE ON MEASURE | -~ HERE APRIL1ST SENDS (RAFT 10END ADS et INTO DIVE Reconsideration of Repeal | dum on Dock 'Fourteen Crew Members Bill Called for in | ! mina up S8 Bail Out, Land Safely- ing gave point to ccnientions that| ithe City of Juneau must some- 'where obtain & good-sized operat- {ing fund before it can set up in| in«.:- public utility business. It has been estimated that one | {hundred thousand dollars would be| needed to carry initial payrolls; lend maintenance, as well as tu‘ start whipping even the electric| House Today ! BULLETIN—After twice vot- ing on whether Rep. Robert Hoopes should be extended the courtesy of reconsidering his vesterday’'s vote on the bill which would abelish the Al- aska Development Board, the House this morning failed to Rescue Work Quick (By Asseciated Prese) Another B-20 € erfortr has | erashed in the ‘Alaskan wildnerness the third big plane to be lost by | the Alaskan Air Command within 'a week | All 14 crew members in the new ffl»m crash are safe after para- \ | pass the bill. The vote was ju back into efficient operat-! 12 to 12, Hocpes being the only i” shape from the run-down con-| | chuting into the dense woods of the Alaska Peninsula when their jdition it had sunk to through ! {the war years. Councilman James | {Larsen doubted that re would one to change his vote on the question. plane caught on fire. The big plane drocpped to earth with a terrific AR i .. i s : . = ke nearly enough - L et oAt - i Ehe ity o The bill to abolish the Alaskii DO G W AT CH — carlo, mystery dog of Buena, Wash., ! 5 = | explosion. At the time, it was on a Development Board failed to Dass| gpent six months at this highway signboard T TE Y bt [ iovevex, - ey aiindinen VIENNESE SCRA ™ B L E FOR CO AL _— women and young boys scramble for | search mussion, looking for the B-29 the House of Representatives ing car for a glimpse of the master who dropped him off and gunsd hy. Cliygil Sinny S of coal on a street in Vienna, secking relief from the severe weather which caused great suffering. | which crashed' last Monday north {arday afterncon by a vote of 11- drove away last summer. The dog made friends with townsfolk . |~ 'ff,’“ [ that HIESGRE L ‘[’“"u‘]-fj‘ 4 B 5 ———— jof Kodiak sing B-29 went 13, but final action on the mea-. but refused to leave the signboard except to eat. Recently am [Pect to raite an operating fund by | down the another Superfort | crew was rescued from a northern | Greenland ice cap where it had crash-landed Fire In Engine Yesterday's crash, according to the Alaska Command, was caused by a fire in an engine. Two amphibian planes accom- |u|'\n|15 the B-29 cn its search mission circled about as the crew | dropped one by one in their par- | achutes into the lake-studded wild- | ermess below. Four of the crew- Senaie Approves Budge' men were said to have been in- jured as ‘their chutes tangled in Cut-Republicans Take | tne uees The alert amphibian . pilots Se'ba(k on Debt {brought their flying bodats down Jon a lake a mile and a half away » |from the crash scene, and, within a short time, had located all of su}e was postponed until today unidentified couple with two children coaxed him into their car. {issuing revenue bonds in excess of! when Rep. Robert Hoopes gave no- . = actual purchase amounts of / G (s " " . {the utility properites. There is a tige) that, i iilended: o aak 08 {nothing, he opined, in the congre reconsideration of the vote act that would permit it, added that bending com- | vill carefully scrutinize the The vote on the bill came late in the afternoon foilowing pro- longed debate and a call of the . s House, which took nearly an hour | 4 ions of any Lond issue to s2e, {that ail provisions of law are | Can't Use Taxes | After directing the Council to to complete. The call of the nouse was made by Rep. Maurice Johnson when it was discovered that Rep. Meath and Egan were 5 absent as the House was called to llook elsewhere for operating money WASHINGTON, Mar. * 1.—(®. crder after the noon recess. l.” the voters approve the utility President Truman tekes off to- ipurchase, Stabler added the cau- merrow on a b5-day flying trip tion that city money/ derived from which will include a visit with ation cannot be used for util- hj, smother, three days .in Mexi- | ¥ operation. “Thére was appar- co, and a major address ai Waco, | ployees and others, was ordered The gallery, which was filled lent reluctance to consider Council- Texas with Federal and Territorial em- the absent members were located. Iman Ed Nielsen’s suggestion that, Charles G. Rcss, Presidential Sundborg On Stand George Sundborg, General Man- | SHINGTON, March 1 w. jan iscue of general obligation press secretary, said Mr. Truman's / ) s oV ! " 1 ¥ . M bers of Corgress today coun . . i;.)crdcf the lAla;k‘It lll:)us'lupn;em ibonds to raise a fund that could wWaco talk, to be del (’ll ");!m‘; "L"Ll\' A tberatien | the crew. The four injured men— oard, was extended the privilege be loaned to the ies. gt o) 3 Are! Gy z | whost b ane L be loaned to the utilities day at 1 p. m before any decision on whether thi whose names are not yet known-— i were flown to a hospital at Kan- akanak. Six men were flown to of the floor and took the stand to answer quostions on the Develop- nent Board. Questioned about his salary,’ Sundborg said that it is $12,000 a year; higher than an other | After putting all the difficul- o degree from Baylor College, ties, Stabler advised the Council deal with both foreign and do-|” Ithat there was # way out, through mestic affairs. | ¥ # country should take over weary PARKA G!RL _ nmaxine ' Britain's pledges of economic aid to 3 3 the village of Naknek, and the { / i 1 . 7 Branham, (above) chief hostess | Greece and Turkey 3 adjusting utility rates to insure Leaving here Sunday at , (abov e i d o SR : : o Y S L Suncy : for Alaska Airlines, was an en= | Republicans and Democrats altke | fOur others were taken back to toperating costs, rehabilitation and the President will fly to Grand- trant in the contest to decide the ' appeaved inclined to weigh the im- | heir base at Eimendorf Field near !me retirement, | From the sperse view, Mo, for a brief visth With| gueen’ ot the. Anchorpge Fue t of all possible courses of action | Anchorage, Alaska Territorial official, but not as high; ranks of onlookers, former Mayor his mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, Rendezvous. open in face of reports that Britain Crew Members bl e ;;“‘ ‘g""” b et - | Ernest Parsons commanted that he now recovering from a broken hip I dvised that its strained econ-| The Alr Command says the B-29 business. e sai 1at he had 5 is sure any bonding company that suffe a fall 38 o el omma , B amied ShAb EinnIMt A8 A ainith s KATE SMITH HONORED _ singer Kate Smith ! ) pan uffered in s Ny won't permit support for those | Wis commaended by Lieutenant B. (ieft) receives a plaque symbolizing the Americanism award of offsag:: the thie Disabled American Veterans, from Vivian D. Corbly, national salary when he w might be selectzd would insist upon Early Monday morning he takes o M. Jo A Sty 3 3 . saass Sranbetey Ba Songe/ ohnson of Mason Gity, Iowa. a rate structure that would insure off for Mexico where he will Two DivoR([S ARE ““““" Anean countries % ahe DHBH wae Lh'uu:nu%x % Ol ob and that h= has recently been sestme: ” s o . ‘ J“ h i . at $12,000 adjutant of lhe D.A.V., at a ceremony at New York (.Il). its investment. Parsons dis ed spend three days ; l\l"&"ll of Canitol Hill comment liver of Sand Point, Idaho, his two offered two jobs, one at $12000 — _ Lwith conclusion that present He will fly from Mexico City % : 3 : % a year and one at a larger salary. H " ’ i was that of Senator George (D.- observers -vere Captain D. V. Hal- a year @ a larger s as far as the light company is to Waco Thursday 3 e G member of the Senate Foreign pin, of Richmond Hills, Long Is- He also pointed out that the ncerned, would not bring in suf- 3 ving Saturds he ia.), member 3 p s, g Is Development Board was unique; e T P S ,_Tl_“ “’?‘”“”‘“, ““"".”{f‘j' ‘) 5 Relations Committee: land, New York and Captain F. W. T {ticient revenue for all needs, and president is to fly to Key West, Two divorces were granted this ¢ | Elliott of Char . i among Territorial agencies in tha 3 v o 3 e 1t is an ominous situation tha illiott of Charlotte, North Carolina 1 St B t that the City e g a b- g by Jud r 5. P Stabler pointed ou! Fla., on the first leg of 1b- | morning Judge Hary E. Pratl om yequive a great deal of study Other members of the crew are it has $45.000 remaining of th {would have an advantage over a pp fip whict 1 lude $120,000 appropriated for it during gmud e an. iyt trip which will include @ following convening of court at 10|y g pelieve any hasty decision ' Lieutenant J. A. Kulenguski, Glen- private operator in escape from yeview of flest mancuver Voroloak: . 1n ¥¥s of - Annm B N : : s the current biennium | taxes. el Ny e s Zuboff versus Cyril Z1 1 - can be made dale alif | navigator; Lieutenant ADB Projects T Ulas Onlly Kogevs _“"”’ "“U"C”““ ) -:‘-“"’L'_ Republicans, handad a setback by | N. F. Repy, Julesburg, Colo, engin- | . was granted to the plaintiff on her ' po pemocrats yesterday in efforts | eer; Sergeant R. Middleton, Mar- Asked about specific project. on which the Development RBoz had worked, Sundborg mentione up d { Anpther pipeciataRl SEBGA: B (oASTAl AIRHMES compiaint of incompatibility to hold the vear's debt reduction | thaville, Louisiana: Sergeant C. D. jFoss, felt that thergiwduld ke suf- b Custody of two minor children' [ . it i Lt \ ‘flriem income to carry the in- % 4 o A g payment to 0,000,000, huddled | Harris, Covington, Kentucky; Ser- £i ON SPE(!A[ -I-Rips lus $76 a month allowance and g0y to map their next move geant C. C. Combs, Raton, New sawmill as Wrangell and a creosot- vestment. Retirement of the 1 X costs of court were allowed Loretta | opy g : ; | This was the situation Mexico; Serges .. Hogan, Chou- ix;‘g E:::: wl?cch o p:;”?l:{:x (:ur o 7 }3900000 on A S T Lt i hveie divoroe ac inst’ The Senate has .l]'l‘u‘r\'ul a plan| drant, 1!!\]‘:"’\::: I%H(L I:“(' (1;"“;‘1 0.4 e, ARVESpERLION Ol1. yag mw.':«w Mar. 1. By EDDY GILMORE t B gokton. € if. Pk the problems of the Alaska tutter 2 a8 The Senate yesterday approved Cight) legislation authorizing the Mari- % |time Commission to negotiate with e shipc rs to give Ala Light m.*ul Power Co., Stabler f Philip P. Lund. The diovrce Was ¢, oyt $4,500,000,000 from President | Benedict, Stockton, C: Sergeant imated, would take just about granted on grounds of incompati- | rppeinan $37,500,000,000 budget. | Bait o R MOSCOW, Mar. i The Rus-{all that company's profits as pres- bility STUIE o 8o : 825 (9. A Baries, ‘Taylors, Bouth: Siasis } by’ unanimoRs vote, the | g Haveta s S sian Council of Ministers (Cab- lently reported, but he again stated o 0 ap o coastal Alrlines I the c o Baan o £ lina; Sergeant P. T. McWilliams, ; a Credit 3 0 @ " L 3 Senate accepted $2,600,000,000 as the | pop 44 Fonty inet), blaming a lag in ccal pro- jthat rates could be raised, if hec- B Otcar Pederson. s | ORI Sceontad 45,400, A Portmouth New Hampshire: and .. have been shuttling bac @ | debt payment for the year starting A, Schmolt, Watterloo, (Continued on Fage and f \mp"m” service until = June 30,,‘1!"_‘,1"'! for delaying the nation's [essary to meet all other expen: between Wrangell and Sitka v HNS | guly 1, The Republicans plan to ap- | Towa e was lng On 1948 [whole ecconomic development, to- {No one can lose except the people ’WSEr WM Mg B4 % Willfa | S Lo 106 SARKENCAns PG 10 80 | Towy The Commission would turn over.day called for a 16 percent in-{whc pay the rates, was his view. . 2 i6te 1he i yex nintite, | ¥ 5 0 ) D : : R il S "* frem Wrangell Tnsti Merr _Go_Rounfl its government-owned vessels at|Crease in coal output as it set goals| Previous to discussion of oper- ..o nNoGive Service school on Y = nominal ¢ er hire, and would for 1947 under the five-year plan. (ating whys and wherefors, the [ 00 "ro g Todoy, only a few 1 S G !coordinate service to the 'Terri-] The Council, listing “shortcom-|four councilmén present had vot- ;];I“)e'l s B ke ¢ % -. By DREW PKARSON Vo inge mgh des6, sald; [z to put the Nelson Water Com- |y gnping (n wrangell eill and Libby. R. E. goys property sales be applied to! { The Commission also would be: .o oo yanco evieroncing pany's offer to sell to the City "o " oo nights yesterday. Al- Robertson represented the defend- |y "o i a0 e vor Taft (R~ WASHINGTON- It has escaped |authorized to adjust rates to ustry, g |for $15000, on the ballot at the o' oooo) Ajtines planes made |ant and William L. Paul, Jr, handled | opio) sought to add a clause speci- next Oity election, April 1, along|pgpes to sitka only, with one stop | the plaintif | fying this money would be part of | the great ifficulties as a re- most people’s attention, but there’s| Alaska. Private owners say it pro-i =0 L::‘ :_”ihl; ‘“‘nz,r:\ “t‘ :l:e 4 y a very interesting presidential |bably would mean a 35 percent in- AR A0 : {with the Juneau Water Company | Fmo o vel nd one at Hood Bay; | Also coming under yesterday's dis . war, is lagging behind, thus hold- g : ] 2y; ot erday’s dis- | (e £2 600,000,000 and not in addition | story spelled out in the list of con- Crease. ling up th: development of omerld“: ;he (?EL an‘d o q hing [0UF persons were carried to Wran- missals was the case of Henry Moy |, 4 tributions given . to Congressional | The measure now goes back tol * N0 B% SEURARNL o SR ARG, Snee there was nothing ..,y erom juneau and Sitka . vs. Rhedes H. Cameron. “Jourt ad- | pemoerats, with help of five R candidates by the friends of Sena- the House concurrenge 0B L¥D pe 3 p Else to 80, 16 was decided to fix “gp gy ¢, itka passengers weredJoumied this morning at 10:45 o' "“'k, publicans, defeated Taft’s move 39 | F way transport and the whole na- jthe revenue i vill convene ag for tor Taft on one hand and friends |Minor “m""dm”‘“ ti “ 1 _] Az {tee amosny of e tevemse bond| . gedevie white, Annie White t8n€ will convene a Monday 2 10 38 and the GOP leadership quick+ onal economy. igsue to be submitted to the vot- sht, Walter Hellan, J. Mc- | ©'¢lock in the afterno I Judge x reduction | his juncture Senator Wherry | b.) offered an amendment ng that all proceeds from where reported still prope of Governor Dewey on the Other‘ | The announcement safd “a num- {ers at the total of the three pur- Frank Wr ¢ By djourned the Senate, leaving the OTTAWA, Mar. 1—®-J. G. It ‘indicates JWRb | the SN DOV ber of hardships” had been created chase priccé—or {$1125000 plus MUFtay, R. Rottluff, R. Jorgerson. Wherry mgtion Rhnghig Gurdiner, Canadian Minister M already are beginning to “sew up"ipAN AMER!(AN ‘ sy PR Ll b S Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, A. Van £ ! Py , by consequer itk srop | whatev 5 L s | Agriculture, told the House of their delegates for the 1948 Re-| et A AR P R e to DAY far e riucrion | A4lll Iy, Henz and Butus il o} STEAMER MOVEMENTS | ormen peverorses { Ootimony, Tast Laikbt itk Oatas publican naticnal convention. | di g% G Passengers from a to Juneau L,u,u \"n,’u . dians would get t sy i : vidual branches he people’s o z 4 a — ans would get the present meat backing Congressional candidates in | '8 IN AND ou‘l‘ s Ll Tha; m[:l 19 AL Florence, R O R o Eeactis. dbh r: Lilientt GF theTotis i del i Tl it they very carefully picke eir | —_ » er Company, $800,000 for the AEL sherg et Denali scheduled to sail from PO 9 1 g S ling all surplus meat to Britain and Committee 7-5 rejection of Gordon Clapp as TVA Director and said “it is the shape of things to come PORTAL PAY \ator Ferguson (R.-Mich,) predicted the Jike the House, will approve legisla- | >eo tion to deprive portal pay suits of 0 o'clock | their court standing. The Senate GOING - 10, RESHED mons, Wjalter He 1 amd Jack | Lolke; Delbert Brown Was MWD least:: lagka ports, to Sltka, re- ‘“m; Hpod Bay ‘,”k“ “""'I “”:l jturn to Juneau then westward in- Husfelt from Tenakee to Junea ‘Lmd"": Kodiak ¢ Seattle March 6, calling at South- added hat “we've attempted to pi into figures what we think 3 quantity is we'll be able to deliver and we 4o attempt to reach that figure for the men, and contributed specific sums = Jun ,:I::;gd ntx’hi:’u!;.‘m:“.m«;‘xr‘u{l:: ON MQNDAY AFIER"OO“ land P, and $210,000 plus of money to their race for oifice | Airways Junesu Water Company. 1ast November. * | following persons flown in and out LA \ Profits Scanned In confrast, the United Republi-|of the Capital City yestepd: | Before voting t bhmit ur- can Finance Committee, dominat-| Seattle to Juneau—Russel Hart,| Funeral services for Mrs Annie | n g 1 ot Susely DU Two passengers from Sitka to| ed by Dewey, spent far more mon- | Roland Stock, Gardiner Sullivan, Nelson Scott, who passed away at il‘“* l“"fe t :)o 91519“ water ““]r.l Wrangell were R. H. Rose and €. ey on the November election out- Maude Anderson, Maudie Welcome, her home in Juneau recently, will; fe: i e en peanned | p UEmith; and from cau to | o e New York but did mot try to|John McNanamin, Robert Stanford, |be held at 2 o'clock Monday after- {Statsments showing operating Pro- wrangel, Roy Peratrovich and J. Square Sinnet scheduled to sail from < Seattle March 7 Princess Noral hed h sche ' y |rive from Skagway at 7 sew-up any individual candidate |Frank Radcliff. [noon in the Salvation Army Hall. “’g‘; SFERIT 0 015 1) vt e omn e robably next week,| ; : by contributing money to him. In-| Juneau to Annette—Harry Bugby, |Brig. C. O. Taylor will preside at| ‘ 1 > e o i o | a Judiciafy Committee bill to outlaw nn Marle Mooney, of Bethel, stead the New 'York Remulilicans|EAte Smith: Ve services, and interment willi OTOS income for 1946 was shown ypgp prom KETCHIKAN |0 9 oclock ; the ortar claims. It is simiar in|8rrived in Juneau on the steamer : s : i ; ? iat $2,30850, less the following ¢ ! g el .o — | tal claims s Mmiis Princes Nora . s dumped a quarter of a million dol- | Juneau to Seattle—Wilbur Trving, ' be in Evergreen Cemetery I eniseati’ REDIIEE. Tab i A. L. Florence, IIU{XI Ift-hluk.m. VISITORS FROM SITKA {aim but differs in detail from the rinces 1‘{&: ah, and is at the Bar lars in Republican national head- | Dorothy Irving, Douglas Starr, Rob- | Mrs. Ccott was 49 years old, a P S, anar. | an is registered at the Gastineau Ho- one the House approved yesterday |#10f Hotel ars in Repul S / s g X % % terials, $325.62; office, shop and i 7 348 ¢ ’ ; oo quarters and let them decide where €rt Thompson, Ernest Seel. | widow. She s suvived by twol ST S SN PICE s licen | oV | Russell Clithero, manager of the 345 to 56. G wae' Sinodad most. | Juneau to Fairbank: Garnet | daughters, Rachel Scott and Naney a']d"’"'L:\'mnce' ;]7:;? m}” RO - Sitka Hotel, arrived in Juneau y PREE ST FOUR FROM ANCHORAGE Hloeticn tima. s when & cans|Martin, Ofiver Jetty: {Seott of Sitka, and’a son; Ralph §e &°C DUTARCE SUTATE SAICT SEATTLE MAN VISI |terday and registered at the Gas-y VIRGINIAN IN JUNEAU | Robert .\1.‘«»;(;.. LM {..}-nzc‘ FZ:I)(\le.u'd didate needs money the most. It is P A T Scott, of Ketehikan. There are also ¢ a9 g9 U. A. Bergeron, {from Seattl tineau Hotel. Also from Sitka at| M. Alan Dalton, registered from L fiin an imer plan, Mozart gave his first concert atmuee brothers and two sisters sur-; R, ived in Juneau on the Princess!the Gastiveau is Mrs. A. M. An- Glen Allen Virginia, is at the Bar-|all foi from Anchorage,, are re- (Continued on Page Four) the age of 6 | viving. (Continued on Page Three) Norah and is at the Baranof. derson, anof pistered a. the Gastineau