The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 24, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” s [ sl VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,535 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1947 ~ MEMBER /\\SO(VI\[H)PRI,bS PRlChTENChNTS Terr. Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto NOTROOPS Apple Blossom Queen TO BE SENT TO GREECE Acheson Makes Statement to Com.-Secret Docu- ments Made Public WASHINGTON, March 24— — Undersecretary of State Acheson said today the United States does not plan to s2nd troops to Greece and Turkey to shield these coun-| tries against the spread of Com- munism. He told the Senate Foreign Re- laticns committee that this coun- try had not been asked to supply trcops — “we do not forsee any need to do so. And we do not intend to do so.” Acheson testified at the open-| ing of the Committee’s hearings on President Truman's pruposalf for $400,000,000 as aid for the two| countries. I As he told the House Foreign| Affairs committee Previously, | guecn Jean Maric, whe will reign over the 28th annual Washington v The attractive Acheson said that he did not think such assistance would lead to war. Undersecretary of State Clayton, meantime, gave the House ! = committee a breakdown on the} State Apple Blosscm will| Olson, of Wenatchee, Wash. $400,000,000 program. He said all| except $150,000,000 would be u~cd u u I ea o . i ebate Tonight at §; Large I documents accusing Russia of at- tempting to extend Communist contrcl over Gresce and Turk for military purposes. Secret Documents The two Department officials went before the committees fol lowing release of hitherto-secret! These dccuments told of a Rus- sian “war of nerves” against Tur- key and of a “master plan” to] bring Greece under = Communist domination Poland was labelled! a Soviet “satellite.” l gh S Release of the documents, pre- ahd 8 viously laid before the House For-| eign Affairs committee for the | he question private “background” information of members only furnished this; country with the first detailed in- formation of the counter Ru: reasons behind the Admin Lla tien's Greek-Turkish aid pmgmm‘ Delay In Approval Chances developed that it misht| Board Members Would‘ be at least two weeks after March 31 — the Administration’s original Carry Over Until Suc- | goal for the measure’s passage— & befors the legislation could clear essors Coflhrmed both the House and Senate. Hence a move got underway to give President Truman stopgap, ‘EXecutive Session’ was again authority to borrow $100,000,000 the order in the Alaska Sen- from the Reconstruction Financelate this morning, but the do Corporation in anticipation of mc‘\\fixe not barred until after a new bill's eventual approval. bill had edged in under a 12 to Of Greece, the formerly secret! i3 vote to suspend the rules documents declared: | The latest measure—S. B. 118— “Armed band activities, directed | which definitely puts the Senate and assisted from outside the coun-|ahead of the House in bill total try, are part of a master plan to for the session, cpens a new of- sepnratn Macedonia rmm Greece | fensive move by the legislature in . (its bout with the Gov (Contmued on Page I"wo) appointments to the Board of Edu- . mul‘mn and the Univers The Washingfon &G .’ ter of recess appointments. Merr Go Round Entitled: “An Act relating to) G Y the tenure of office of members!gson, lof the Board of Regents of the|Wray Graham, By DREW PEARSON | University of Alaska, Territorial J. Snodderly. Board of Education and other! WASHINGTON — Quite by acci- |boafds and commission: dent Democratic Congressman Ed- sure provides that “Every per: die Hebert, former news editor ohDFEVIUUSH appointed and now| the New Orleans States, stumbled |holding office as a member of .my on a new Republican policy the board or commission . . . and other day. {whose appointment has been con-| Hebert, who can’t get out of me,flrmcd by the ‘Legislature or habit of being a newspaperman, got |Joint Session thereof, (n.Llud)m, the first faint whiff of the new Persons whose terms of office have GOP policy when he introduced a | expired and no successor has been: shall to bribe an athlete. His ! continue to hold office as a mem- the ' bn_‘bex of such board of cumnn.\-\mni involving New York until his or her successor is dulv, bill making it a felony to bribe or, |appointed and confirmed) attempt move, coming just after bery scandal ; ‘football players, brought wide na-|3PPointed and confirmed 1 tional acclaim, and While that ac-| The bill would also bar the Gov-y claim was at its peak, Republican 2T from’ making any recess ap- Oongressinsm TeoAllan: ot - Hlin- | EOMGaR expept fo T an actual ois strangely introduced an almost | identical measure. deThe Louistana. . Démocvat: said{REpeiaee) Would expire) with % 01 e] og nothing. But last week another pe- f’ggef"“m‘ nt of the next Le culiar incident happened. Carfying cleaning up jails and crime in (hers“mm O. D. Cochran on' the District of Columbia, introduced.an g, .q of Regents and A. H. Zieg- last wi v‘k")L d‘,\ Lefore mp \mke or on the Board of Education, mlendrd 4.300 p-odnv.nun workers re- stream of drunks that crowd Wash-|,ccordance with the will the Legis~ jails has been one of |j;ture” already has expréssed -im!said the Capital's worst problems, B“d‘]olnl session. Voting against in-!would trickle ere Sen- ) temporary Brownell, Engebreth and It was referred to the|G. Dieckhoff disease. He proposed alcohol clin-|judiciary Commiitee after presen- clashes employees who returned to aleoholic bill. The never- endmg1 ington, D. C., Hebert’s bill set up machinery| |treduction of S. B. 118 w whereby alcoholism was to be 4!( treated not as a crime but as a Rive ics to be paid for by the liquor in- tation by Senator Joe Green. terests. | (Continued on Page Four) I (Continued on Page Thresy i al scheduled for May 18-year-cld school miss is the daughter of Mr ~1uu~ms of Ju~ A. B. Phillips lnmplv‘lu medical care available to' 1 simple terms, rivl)nlvd Krlt 'nkul\ s at Ketchikan : 5 A vflUnpre(euenied ngm §@S- | council entered a new phase today | to make a list, and keep it up 10 °guisiie London, York was the T and will debate to help defray ging the same adm: 51 per person. morally and nn.m(mlh bate is to be continued as a ~umol¢"‘”““k’ And we believe Ilm( rnor over, for $1 so please do not ty of Alaska,presence as as tually tie | your hands in the mat- | The Kvllluk.m David Bantam and"Ma-‘-w ]Hallcnk (Ind); Senate Minority b jud r legislative ) The debaters representing Juneau | Leader Barkley, (Ky), and House GOVERNOR DEN!ES the goverrfment, hé emphasiz Dick Wingerson On | and Mary Lou Fagerson the mea-; are ~328-Day-0ld Strike Ended. MILWAUKEE, longest major strike in the nation, ' UAW-CIO local | epasmodically ;uu- home plant ended without! Denali, from westward, schedul-) 10 & dispatch from Bellingham, WI"'H 10 ABOARD' July 1 5. inche ment today as lines of pro-{éd to arrive at 1 a. m. tomorrow Wash,, Marks said “during the Fri- {® At Airport —0 inches and | Sitka, Cordova, Valdez and Seward. | ; June and make a flying trip to the pl ANE IS MlSSING at| Northern Voyager scheduled to Aldak A RRbaEInT. . S Me |vacancy created by death; and, Chalmers Mig. Co, the term of office of any recess, « the dufnun workers filed quietly into isla- | the vast works. check showed there| 2 an emergency clause, | were Hebert, who has done & great job i enacted - the bill would retain, pwdmlwn the spokesman | “probably| The alleys at the Elks will be|fically plans for the cruise to Ju-are Jeft | Open to women bowlers tonight and neau and Anchorage and the air 54 Skymaster, was enroute from stock today is 5 American Can held elsewhere. Police Capt. remained at jobs during | Scott and Lena Brown ear genator Frank Peratrovich, who OF The Hebert bill attracted national {was ailing Saturday afterncon, the 328-day-old strike. 'MOUNTAIN Set for First Orange Show Since War HOUSE VOTE ~ CLIMBERS B 18-6, HAS STARTOQUT TWO EXTRA il r AR Washburn Party of Twelve | 'Said fo Be First Time in Al- Leaves Boston for As- | askaHistory Chief Execu- cent of Mt. McKmIey . | tive Not Sustained | BOSTON, March 24—#—on al ‘ mountain climbing trip, a party of j 11 men and one womian was en-] route to North America’s highest peak today to car out the most* ambitious scientific program ever; | attempted bn 20300-foot Mt. Me- | Kinley. ! | Headed by Bradfdrd Washburn, ! director of the New England Mu- | séum of Natural History: the! lgroup will spend two months on | |the icy slopes of the Alaskan| | mountain, making observations and | stiidles of scleftific phenomena MINIATURE! With small models of Touranment of Roses floats bedecking it this disp Washburn's wite, Barbara, 33| pagaqena. Shirley Buchanon locks it over. The $1,00800 spectacle will open for eleven days. iwho has accompanied the adven-| iy Orange Shew since World War 11 began. Taking precedeni-shattering ac- |tion, the House of Representatives |late urday afternoon voted to concur with the Senate in over- | riding the veto of th: Governot on Senate Bill the bill to re- peal the gross tax on gold and set up a graduated net tax on |all types of mining ‘This is said to have been the ifirst time in Alaska's legislative |history, which extends back to 11013, that the veto of a governor 'has not been sustained. The House epresents |vote was 18 to 6 and the bill had Its the | previously passed the veto by 13 [to 3 in the Senate. Lturer on two previous mountain, _ g | The vote was taken after long climbing expeditions, will be the| = " lhours of testimony and discussion. [ first woman ever to attempt Mt..Dl 3 of the Lill itself and of the mining by the expedition is the use of air- [N 4] |tense moment when Chief Clerk planes to parachute fresh foods to William L. Paul began to call the ! the climbers. %) H roll and it was by far the most | The purposes of the expedition] ! overnme“' Io e ur e o dramatic roll call of this session, {include cosmic ray observations, i ‘perhaps of any session of the weather research, studies for the | Alaska Legislature. |U. 8. Coast and Geodetic Survey.| u u { Shall Senate Bill No. 32 D ciers and testing of postwar Army veto?" Speaker Oscar Gill put the {Arctic equipment—including cloth- | _ | question {ing, food, tenting and aerial deliv- 5 e Slowly and at measured inter- £k < i WASHINGTON, March 24P 2 e a1k % : e N DIPLOMA“( President Truman has ordered a SerVKe IS Hd"ed,Bflnglng vals_the,jclars el Sic TRie Waghburn and his wife left Bos- and the answers were recorded: Jton last night for Alaska and will burge of ‘all ‘government, employees i iti Almquist pick up other membets of the party STRU GGLE ON wh there -are; Srewsonable ChHO‘IC COfldlhon '0 cfln‘]l Anders yes | along the route to Anchorage grounds” to doubt their loyalty and Grea' Afea Edward Anderson, yes. i BT HA LT sel up sweeping/ oW standards. 1o 2 . | Barnett, ne S N W ol P 8 2 * | - OVER GF.RMANY e e e yor: ' ecutic Oraer directed a, LONDON, March 2¢-—#—Flood Egan yes. «uue’ lg Ix lO\unv investigation” of everyone waters seeped into the largest Engstrom, yes 2 i 2 G . ho applies for a job in the exe- London subway power station to- Garnick. © no. g ctars ¥ J es | ;F0re|gn Ministers Study e e nlon| day Ralting Rerviog. on * 4OMRUles ' pive s Livas Thar wilmathont g ! i Ne Ohahon fo{ F| without exception, where now only 0f tracks and bring. chaotic ajr was electric and scarcely a o ee ! g S - questionable applicants are tested.|conditions to much of t'c worlds preath was drawn as the roll was | nd it instructed the agencies to!lareest city icalled. The answers boomed in ! al Governmen‘ submit the names of all their pre-| As floods svread in still more the dead silence like the measur- sent employees to the Federal Bu- dreas of Northern England, wip-led firing of d salute gun: | |ruma“ By JOHN M HIGHTOWER | reau of Investigation for a check NS out clop prospe i M { MOSCOW, March P—The | Wherever” this has not already been | 8cres, talk started In London Hoopes, yes. i Ma : lover the possibility of seeking an-| Huntl | |diplomatic struggle over Germany 9one. 'other American loan. The Labor r"mkey"y hno‘ i L M ehiey. General s ordered| 4 i e YN ghgson, {in the Big Four Foreign Ministers’| The Attorney General is ordered g, ernment maintained silence. Maurice Johnson, las the conferring powers planned date, of all subversive organizations. moior flood sufferer as the Swol- el 1 i sion Is Scheduled at their next moves in negotiations| A person’s membership in or “sym- | . i e en Ouse River virtually cut the } on a German governme I pathetic association with" one of |y qust McCutcheon, no i Whi : city of 100,000 in two. Eley s E o hl'e House The Soviet Union on the one|them will be grounds for stamping| virtually everyone was lat: 10 and the “;mgr‘:alflk‘boc!lx:;t" at:):l(:s: : —_— hand and the United States and |him disloyal work in London. The dead sub- seemed 1iké eternity as the roll wwed| This blacklist is to include all y, WASHINGTON, March 24— Britain on the ot )s coused Londoners to travel'continued | President Truman will meet with maneuvers aimed at achieving the | “Totalitarian, Fascist Communist,by sirange and devious routes.| Meath, yes the bi-partisan congressional “Big }\m(l of government under ce- | or subversive” groups; all that vice was stopped entirely to Neweli*' yes. TiSix” in an unprecedented night!treaty provisions that side | vocate or approve force to deny two main subway routes and slow- Noba y 5 at the White House to- SCel to believe w ke most persons their constitutional rights; ed on the other -three. Seventy Ost ves night. |favorable to its own pol and all that seek to change the subway stations were closed Fifteen 16/ idive. with one’ o The meeting, which is to be held tem form of the it by un- Long lines stood at stops 10T yote needed for passage, and in {in the residential part of the exe-| Proposals of all four pcwers on | constitutional means. buses, trolleys and taxis and be- the intervals. there was a faint o Sy e s for 8 p. m..this issue had izen laid before| Moreover, itral master in- fore telephone booths. Some form- | outletting of slong-held breaths, request ;The White House did not disclose the council in varying detail Sat- dex” was ordered set up of all per- ed at the better hitch-hike loca- like the soft deflating of a distant (Ullh(‘ reasons for the conference. :urday night when it quit work un- sons whose loyalty been inves- | tions. | balloon i3 ; Your! The “Big Six" is made up of four til tomorrow to give the Foreign tigated since Sept. 1, 1939. Tt may e transportation jam, the worst| pojlarg 5 as Republicans and two Democrats,| Ministers' deputiss time to sum-/he referred to by vernment in memory here, started just be- Sniftr m)" tas follows \m. ize the results of deliberations!agenc fore the morning “tush hour and Vikovich. yes - Senator Vandenberg (Mich),|not two weeks old A White House official said that lastzd two hours Mr. Spea‘ker "o [m, Ahulmn An(l are | President Pro Tempore of the sm,, N - “this will not be a witch hunt—1 5 e Another deaéi silence, then Ander_mle Senate Majority Leader wmu can't imagine that any great num- ® ® ® ® » . 58 @ Assistant Clerk Bonnie Jo Gron- | (Maine); House Speaker ammWR“ER AFHRMS ber of Jirings will result > WEATHER REPORT roos announced the result: ss); House Majority Leader The crder does not apply to the ® Temperatures for 24-Hour “Yeas, 18; nays, 6." al or legislative brar of ® Period Ending T:au o'Clock The salute was ended, a salute and on some there were set scowls. PRECIPITATIC (Past 24 hours endirg 7:30 & . Alaska scheduled to sail from . v H I’ ¥ the Sunday Review and which L Seattle March 29, calling at Ketch-| . .1aq that President Truman ARMY [RANSPORI ikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau ould visit the Pacific Northwest in Long Hearing The mining tax bill, when it ap+ !peared before the House for its second hearing and second approv- al, received a hearing which last- 'ed most of the day, with occa- n. today) nor ® This Morning. of 18 stout yeas."” A salute Hared | Majority Leader Rayburn. | does it inyelve changes in present ® - - to what? A declaration of inde- | S i VIS" BY IRUMAN security rules of the avmed forces.|® In Juneau—Maximum, 47, ® pendence, prhaps? To freedom { | Supplemental approj ons for ® minimum, 32 from the Federal yoke? Whatever | | i yoke? hatover i SIEAMER MOVEMENIS { —_ the Civil Service Commission ® At Airport—Maximum, 45 it wi something had happened. 4 “ _, . ... 1and FBI probably will be asked.|® minimum, 29. something more than just a vote { elghtanc Rasl Hrat e se.! SPOKANE. March 24 —®—Calli- lmpeu pay amount to $15,000,000 to | ® on a tax bill. There was some- | attte gd“e 8 tonight ot, from Se-, son Marks, Spokesman-Review stafl | g50000,009, 'e WEATHER FORECAST thing in the air that was not EhEes Frim Eanie) dus von | 'lemSIA Goday In o slgncd &85 iERRnN epdey: hend, Mr. Trumanis (Juneau and Viciity) there tefore. The dam had brpk- March 27. : ticle that “despite denials {rom | yjeq myst he “personally respon-|® en, the fetters had been loosed, i Barah sibadaen s smi“""““‘_‘“ Wallgren, this f‘“"»” re- | Gible” for cleaning his own house. ® Cloudy with occasional and there was jubilation on many trin Veboohtar March o afiirms the statements attributed ) L S |'® light rain tonight and Tues- e faces. On others there was a to the Governor which appeared in ® day. Warmer tonight wooden and unyielding stolidity . ‘U . ° In Juneau ace; since 3 inches; since 06. inches. |sail from Seattle, April 3. @0 see0cecsecvee® 000000000 0 land sails ‘s$uth about 9 a. m. |0ay night interview, the Governor| | ® since March 1, inches; Aleutian, from west, b(‘hedulvd‘rilfl he had that day talked to NEW YORK MM” P—air| ® since July 1, 49.55 inches.* sional interruptions for receiving to arrive gbgug March 30. John Snyder, Secretary of the ,,4 ground rescue parties started . messages from the Senate or for A P ] PR o, S R R R E AL other routine business. | Treasury, and that Mr. Snyder had ) b out al aybreak toda to resume Ereresk today TeRLne L Among those who spoke on S. | WOMEN Io BOWLON 5 Poosiinst Truasi o g N L 0. Aoy s STOCK 6!1'0? ATIONS. |57 e, et raskte. | jvate mining operator; Al Ander- | ELKS ALLEYS TONIGHT the Pacific Northwest and Alaska land ‘with ten persons aboard. | i ning, Epesdiots, 1A i in June. | The Air Transport Command] o Exscuites SOEMUNE. IE - W “The Governor mentioned speci- here sald visibility in the search| NEW YORK, March 24— Closing Alaska Miner’s Assoclation; Henry Roden, former Senator and Attor- a was mod The plane, a C- auotation of Alaska Jineau mine ; ! @od. The plane | General; George Rogers, econ- omist for the Interior Department, | they are requested to be ready to|flight into the Alaska interior,” Westover Field, Mass, to Harmon 94%, Anaconda 38':, Curt — g X ; Harvey | roll at 8 o'clock. Marks said Field, Stephenville, undland, | Wright 5%, International Harvester |2%i8ned to the Governors office, no! e Marks yesterday also quated the, R o |84, Kennecott 46%, New York Cen- (80 M. P. Mullaney, Tertitorial and| TWO ARRESTS WEEKEND | Governor as saying that a proposed| FIVE FROM KETCHIKAN | tral 17%, Northern Pacific 18%, U. Tax-; Commingloner, 1 Glenn Franklin, a graduate cof Steel 72':, Pound $4.02'y les today were 580,000 shares. | ! four partners Ernest E. Bailey, M Bliven and Mr. and Mrs. C Juneau City Police arrested Bill /supersonic aviation research centel y Sun- would be established at Moses Lake. the University of Alaska, who with operates the Yukon day morning, both for disorderly Wash., by the Army. The Governor Merrow, all of Ketchikan, register- Merrill-Lynch averages today are 4 o J ? 4 g . 'orty conduct. These two were the only r also denied making the state- ed as guests of the Hotel Juneau &s follows: industrials 176.40, mn.JP'"” Miniog- 160,10 sthey, Folsy arrests on a quiet weekend, ment, over the weekend, \ 48.56, utilities 35.70 (Continued on Fage Tight)