The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” eee——— VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,553 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 14, OM ASHBY TAKES STAND OWN DE 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS ENSE Reynolds Now Making Round-the- World Trip BOMBER T0 FLY OVER NORTHLAND RAID BY AIR .- Craft Land§ in Shanghai, 0ff to Tokyo with An- chorage Next Stop BULLETIN—Tokyo, April 14. —(P—Reynolds plane landed at the Yokota airfield at 7:01 Tuesday a.m., Japan time or 2:01 pm. Pacific Standard Time. The plane has new been 48 hours and 50 minutes from New York, averaging 300 m.p.h, in- cluding stops. While the plane was being serviced for the Anchorage hop, Army briefing officers mapped two alternative routes te avoid Russian territory, one north to the 38th parallel then along the Great Circle more than 30 miles off Kamchatka; other would skirt Kuriles where 12 mile limit permissible. At Seattle Northwest Airlines received a report Reynolds estimated Ancherage arrival time 11:30 p.m. Pacific Stand- ard Time. SHANGHAI, Tuesday, April 15.— (P—The Reynolds round-the-world plane a 26 Invader attack bomber, took off for Tokyo at 3:22 am., Chinese daylight time, today (10:22 am., Pacific Standard Time Mon- day), after a one hour and 24- minute stopover at Shanghai's Kiangwan airfield. The plane had landed at Kiang- wan at 1:58 a.m. (8:58 a.m., PST, Monday) after a fast flight over the towering Burma hump from Calcutta, during which it reached an altitude of 19,000 feet. New oxy- gen tanks were installed during the Shanghai stop. Weather prospects for the Tokyo hop were excellent. The plane took off for the Chinese city after a whiz-bang flight from Karachi to Calcutta, India, covering the 1,400 miles at an average speed of 350 miles an hour. Milton Reynolds, the Chicago manufacturer who is spon- soring the flight, figures that if everything goes well the plane ought to set a round-the-world re- cord of 65 hours—slower than he anticipated but still day and a night better than the (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PHARSON WASHINGTON — Some cant behind-the-scenes discussions have been taking place in the ‘White House and State Depart- ment regarding a large new loan Tor England. more than a! signifi- | SAYS U.S. 1 WIDE OPEN 10 Claims Warlime Aircraft Detection Network All But Dismantled By ELTON C. FAY (® Mititary Affairs Reporter) WASHINGTON, April The United States—its wartime air- |craft detection network all but dismantled—is virtually wide open to a attack from tke air. VA icia survey indj ed this y, following the disclosure last week of a document dealing with war department thinking on the national security effects of the atomic bomb. ‘That document, vy for congrt {mented that pr lof delivering an atcmic limited to long-range {Lombs smuggled in Rocket delivery is be reckoned with in the paper said Questioned by a jcerning the aerial assault officers igned to the ment and employment of defense ) weapons emphasized that the greatest problem would be the de- |tection of any attacking force in {time to get fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft guns into action. | During the war the seacoasts, {torders and interior of the coun- 'try were covered by a tie-in radar network which detected the ap- proach of aircraft from any direct- ion and plotted its course as it moved inland. Demobilization reduced army and navy manpower to the point, how: ever where it no longer Lecame possible to operate this detection ccmplex. While it is ed that the local defense a in operation will continue to use radar detection eguipment, they are not numerous enough nor link- ed togzther to form a screen One officer summed it up way: fi “It would be possible today for a foreign aircraft to approach and fly clear ac the United States without ever being reported.” Experts agree that until the ad- vent of guided missiles and im- provement in the accuracy of rocket-type weapons, the defense against attack by air must rest, as it did in World War II, pri- marily on anti-aircraft artillery and fighter airplanes. SAFETY SHUTDOWN "'SOFT COAL MINES prepared pr 1 use, com- methods attack are tombers or by agents. scmething to the future con- theory develop- reporter this PITTSBURGH, april 14—P— Spearheaded by re-opening of big |captive coal mines in the Pitts- | burgh-Uniontown area, the safety | mpe market today skidded to new [to General Motors will be: 14—~P—| FORMALLY ENDED' NINE MEET DEATH N ACCIDENTS IN \WASHINGTON STATE OCIATED PRESS) persons met violent deains State Sunday. All |but two of the accidents occurred lin Scuthwest Washington whare [three men were killed in a traf- |fic mishap Vancouver, two young women drowned in the Lew!s [River near Woodland, and a man 1d wife died in what the Ho- uiam police described as a “mur- uicide.” e three traffic casualties oc- in a three-car collision on he Pacific Highway north of Van- couver last night. State Patrol headquarters said the dead were | Her t © Varner, 33, Woodland, Wash.; William H. Prince, Vance- |port, Ore.; and Sam A. Ostervack, 26, Portland. A fourth man, Earl 28, of Portland, was injured Patr F icars driven by lided broadside, into (By THE Washington red McFeeley Ostermack and head-on and spun traffic where Var- ner’s machine hit again by W. L. Robb of Vancouver. With Rotb was his wife and two children, but police said all escaped in- jury. A Lewis River fishing party with their husbands led to the drowning deaths of Iva May Gray- beal, 22, and Maxine Rierson, 23 both of Vancouver, the sheriff's office reported. Deputies said a ,small rowhoat in which the two | couples were fishing capsized A Istrong undertow caused by the | juncture of the North and East Iforks of the river hampered res- ! rs. Marion F. V. Hurlbert of {Hoquiam died in an Aberdeen Ihospital from wounds received when, according to police chief Norman C. Foote, she was shot by her estrangad husband through a peephole in a wall between the said Var- " lhusband’s paint store and a cafe ing Imanaged by Mrs. Hurlbert. The .chief said Hurlbert, after shooting his wife, fired a bullet through the head of his dog, and 'then tock his own life { In Tacoma, James Natucci, 37, iwas burned to death when flames swept his home. Firemen said the |blaze apparently started from a’ igarette which Natucci was smok- ing when he fell asleep. Karaatz, 17-months-old i Lynda daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer‘i(m of New Jersey. C. Karaatz, drowned in Seattle |when she fell into a fish pool in (the yard of the famiy home. ! - D . STOCK QUOTATIONS | L { NEW YORK, April 14.—Closing (quotation of Alaska Juneau mine !stock today is 4'c, American Can 1892, Anaconda 36',, Curtiss-Wright {5, International Harvester 78', | Rennecott 43%, New York Central 115, Northern Pacific 16%, U. S. i Steel 66'2, Pound $4.02%:. | Sales today were 2,200,000 share Ias follows: industrials 166.69, rails | 44.46, utilities 33.82 . | Motors i Merrill-Lynch averages today are reaction to its offer of a ten-cents INDUSTRIAL SITUATION IS TANGLED 'Soft Coal Fields Reopen " But Hello Strike Up in | Air-New Threats | (Bv THS ASSSCIATED PRE: The industrial situation at nome has become a bramble-tangle of deadlccked negotiatic threats of new strikes, and politics. About the only encouraging word today .ccmes from the soft-coal fields, wt additional thousands ol miners returned to wo:k after a i two-week lay-off. All 13 mines of the United States Steel Cor ation in western Pennsylvania are open- ing, restoring pig iren production to normal, And four mines Jenes and Laughlin Steel Corpos tion also recpened. The West Vir ginia mines are nearing capacity production and 75 percent of voting this afternoon on to follow suit. B Hello Strike The telephone strike, though, still is very much up in the negotiators continue” to issue vague statements. And that situation seems to be building up to more trouble with the CIO backing the strikers nationally and both the CIO and AFL supporting them in a one-day demonstration later this week in New Jersey. Incidentally, one of the three women telephone union oificials who were arrested under New Jersey’s new anti-strike law, was absent today at the hear- ing which very brief—it lasted but two minutes—with the case be rushed to the Grand Jury. Th missing defendant was Mrs. Pasquale Siciliano, nee Elizabeth Ryan, the union’s Secretary-Treasurer, who is honeymooning. Miss Ryan was married yesterday and had the Judge’s consent to go on a honey- moon-—under $500 bail. Suits Against Union New Jersey Attorney General Walter Van Riper says in Trenton that hell file a suit against the Telephone Workers Un- That union or- dered its members to leave their pesitions to respect the switchboard operators’ picket lines. Van Riper !says that other suits may follow at any time against the unions involy- ed in the current strike. In Auto Industry Things don’t look too good for the automobile industry, either | Chrysler and Ford have been put on strike notices by the CIO Ch er in the case of wage nego- tiations and Ford because of quarrel over foremen. The other member of the Big Three—General s awaiting official union an hour wage increase. But if what | union officials and councils already have said prevail, the CIO's answer Come of lh(‘:X the { diggers in eastern Ohio are back ! on the job, with most of the rest! whether | air while | for $20,000 A. THREE SOLDIERS A portion ef the wrecked bu WASHINGTON White House day all question t Truman ma Wallace’s speeches ticizing the U. S It is apparent that ments are confronting the eign policy isn't above polities. Wallace, resident’s Greek-Turkish has in Congress for remarks during his current speakin Although they that way, some with cooperation if Mr disavow Wallace cal effect such a move might have. Storm Wredkage of Higgin FOUR PUT UP TO (ONFERENCE Major Provisions in New Legislation Given for Formal Approval WASHING 1un, * apnil 14— Senate Republicans have voted 21 eri-ito 7 to lump all labor legisla- tion proposals in a single measure and risk the possibility of pres- dential veto which would kill all such legislation in this gession of Congress. The action tcken GOP conference wa after the House Labc formally approved, 18 to 4, & containing the fol ' proviio Outlaw th the union s Ban indu with a -Trip By JACK BELL child will steps of I Chilkoot April 14.—1P turned aside t s to what Pres do about Henry abroad foreign policy the develop- Mr. Truman () erac (b) facing Adnfinistration’s Alaska Coop The veter the old choice of Wallace, or the by the announced Committee Ccoperative bill' Chris J major dith, aged 3 Edward the Alaska cran. Bu for- These le: critical of the aid pro- criticized hignly been roundly tour of England.! I OP, BREE, didn’t put it just Republicans m have little about bipar Truman doesn't politi- bar ion yain- will talk they 4 B G, will Zet tices fer ployers. 5. Provide tion to avert or stop ening the national wel !limited time up unions despite the Cutoff ton the day tories Subcc ing on a > > rnment strikes thr are for for ness district of Higgins, Tex, is pictured after tornado ripped threugh por- ticns of Texas and Oklahoma causing at least 132 deaths and 1,305 injured. (AP Wirephoto) WALLACE'S TALKS ARCUSING IRE OF LABOR BILL U.S. CONGRESSMEN Developmens Confronting * Truman-Has 2 Choices to Follow, Report o WASHINGTON, April 14.—P— Three adults Barrac they will become part of a colony to be established Arr from the War Assets Administration and plans to operate the town as a veterans project Burris and M. rls, tendent of the pr Mrs, Bur rupity’s health program group plans to drive over the (D8 comc here in 1884 way bill proposing § DEFENDANT TESTIFIES IN DEFENSE Trial of Pibneer in Shoot- ing of Stanley Hanning in Federal Court Thomas Ash pionesr, s trial in the Federal Court before [Judge Harry E. Pratt on a second (degree murdor charge in the death |of Stanley Hanning, resulting from ;@ shooting cn the night of Octo- ‘L‘('I' 29, 1045, in the Ashby home on Court House Hill “ ; The jury was secured Satur [ fcrenoon, and the case was st 3 ‘T‘:‘ Saturday afternoon, The govern- {ment completed its case at 4 jo'clock in tha afternoon and the |defense called one witness. i This morning tke case was ‘sumed with defense witnesses [the stand. This afternoon testimony will b2 given, on re- on rebut- argu- case may go Ital [ments made and tko {to the jury. Last Saturday 'the Government, Assistant U, 8. Attorney Robert L. Boochever, and the defense, !1cpresented by Howard D. Stabler, {made only krief openeing argu- _ (ments and the first witness, Ed- iward S. Nieisen, was called lEAVING FOR Nielsen testified as to hearing i”” argument between Ashby, his afternoon, both represented by son Chick, and the man Ashby is (HIlKooT BARRA(KSAN d of shooting. Nielsen re- Will Start from National Capitol Steps Tuesday | \perted that he was walking past ithe Ashby heme as thz argument was taking place about midnight ,on October 29. He said he heard ! Ashby senior speaking to someone, and saying: “I'm a gentleman and hope you are too.. Will you se leave. this house?” Nielsen testified that the argu- ment was quite nofsy, aithough he he could not Ytear every word said During the argument. he said he heard Chick Ashby teli 1d a three-year-old his father: “Shoot the son of a start from the front h> isn't any geod.” e pitol Tuesday for! Later, Nielsen said, he heard Alas where Chick say again: “Kill him, Dad, (kill him.” During the argument, Nielsen said that he heard Tom yAshby ' several times tell Hanning to “get out or I'll shoot.” Patrclman Testifies !, City Patrolman Solon Dore {the witness for the prose- cution He corroborated portions ving Wednesday, the of Nielsen’s story and then iden- Mr. and Mrs. tified the pistol which Ashby is daughter Ju-'accused of using. He said he teck of Baltimore, Md., and it frcm the 82yearcld pioneer’s Repetti, a student at pocket aftor asking for it several University and a vet- | time! also fdentified a pic- Over Highway by the Veterans serative Company. ns organization bought post for $105,000, He ture of the Ashby home which he (teok and which was introduced 23 é ,an_exhibit. take part in the com-| Ashby is the jAlaska still in s pow- oldest resident of the territory, hav- When ar- told about in trouble be- said awfully he is “I'm to have S0} Haines | rested, | police, | this ! fo the W, and raving shing- before a Hou erri- ymmittee opens a hesv- ik e third witness was Dr (lan P, Blanten who gave of the United Mine ),uq fo; the year or even longer.|higher, your offer for Alaska that the British have aplied for al Workers came to a formal end to- | gg migday, heavy selling had sent Politics Vs. Laior netw loan. Officially they haven't.|day. The return to work of thou-|io,qers sagging anywhere from $1| In Washington, there are charg- Howeves, British ecconomists wigh |$ands of miners shot bituminous | 45 gpout §7 a share before there es that politics on labor matters the Chancellor of the Exchequer | Production up towards normal. { was a slowdown and extreme losses has taken over on Capitol Hill have informally told their opposite The Solid Fuels Administration} gere trimmed somewhat. Selling!The Senate Labor Committee i numbers in the United States that TePorted output was “pretty much | waq going at such a pace that for | meeting today to complete its work the United Kingdom wil run out of |normal' in Pennsylvania. ~ia brief interval the high speed|on an all-inclusive labor bill critically needed dollars soon. Bri-| Resumption of large scale mining | yioper tape was one minute behind | There's a revolt among the Repub- 1 tish Ambasador Lord Ir\verchapel;tmds fuel consuming industries | yyongaetions, |licans, with Senator George Aiken has also discussed the problem in- Benerally in good shape, thanks 0| qne early slump was attributed of Vermont, accusing Senator Ro- formally with Acting Secretary of (adequate reserves. The work SWOD- |y, pearishness over complex labor'bert Taft, of Ohio, of high-handed State Dean Acheson. | page began April 1 with a siX-day | ityations, taxes, business prospects political bossisms. Taft is Chair- Most important single communi- | ourning period for Centralia, Il {on4 foreign affairs. The recovery man of the committee, and Aiken cation on the subject to reach the mine blast victims, and then CON-|pat geted as a brake on the down- | claims that the Ohio Senator man White House is from elder states-|tnued until Saturday under Lewis'| o4 came when General Motors euvered a party wrap-up of labo: man Bernard Baruch. Baruch re-|edict that miners would stay abl,,nounced that it had agreed with ' legislation on Saturday because he cently sent an important secret!home pending Federal inspection of | e IO Electrical Union on a 15-|was afraid he would be licked on letter to President Truman, urging /!l mines. {cents hourly wage increase. for!that in the Labor Committee. & new loan to England. In it, Bar- Still idle were some 123 pits “‘“iabum 30,000 workers. { i uch pointed out that America must °f 518 which Interior Secretary i TIME-LIFE MAN IN adopt a global strategy to defeat|KTug ordered closed until spe(‘iflc) Communism, also that Britain’s!5afety measures were taken. 1 - o - economic well-being is vital to this| J. Gerald Williams, formerly a strategy. : STARR ON HONEYMOON | teacher at Juneau High School, Baruch urged a large loan, He D. Sherman Starr arrived in Ju-|stopped in Juneau with his family injormed Truman that he had dis- i 1€au from Anchorage. yesterday ac- on Sunday and is registered at the Wy i jeq | Shutdown 3 enoug! Technically it could be denied not enough ning medical treatment during his {last hours at th> Lospital. Blan- |ton testified that Hannings death I-O | '8 Make unions punishable for it . SE I-IVES IN | violating contracts ! | 7. Guarantee employers , free} LADD FIELD FIRE LINDBERGH CALLS e conmed s e buies ana |that he had operated on him in speech on labor FOR NEw DEFENSE a vain attempt to save his life. -, matte | urisdictic and pecitic | 8. Outlaw various other strikes. At that time, Boochever endeav- one-story ! 9. Ban seconc |ored introduce two pictures of club at 10. Abilish t! - {Hanning’s body, but the court. rul- /, bring- lakor relations .ed out the second one on Attornay Stabler’s objection. Dr. Blanton, |upon cross-examination, said that ng death to t soldiers and ser- 11. Create a wew lab iously injuring fourth ment relations ¢ Hanning had been under the influ- ence of alcohel at the time of the Names of the dead and injured hear and juc shooting. were withheld i fair labor practice - o 12. Set up an Officer John Homm=, of the Ju- neau Police Department, was the 4 (ministrator to i H rosecute unfair pr oro eDnare: G' 's ermen day afternoon. He gave tcstimony iven fo Fish - - Americans could live securely be- \regarding some of Hanning's last SEATTLE, April 14—(P—The neau by Pan American Airways on| hind our defenses, but now, Mason ‘Whitney v e ; j0 earthly distance is adequate“ords: but was not permitted to all Hanning’s statements chureh’s blessing was invoked by Sunday and registered at the Bar- he Rev. C. L. Haavik, a one-time!anof Hotel. They are traveling to A defense against the latest weapons | oF asfcing Just those important to the ease. ol iac GRIIR AL 3P Atk The Government rested its case ] lat 4 o'clock Saturday and the fisherman in Norway, and hymns Sitka on business with Sheldon Dection with the anniversary of WS joronce was able to call only one i 0 ¢ and is registered at the Baranof 1o the men of the sea were sung Jackson dJunior College there. historic New York-to-Parls fUght,w.v oo a¢ that time. Stabler said cussed the matter with several key companied by his bride, and regist- | Baranof Hotel. THotel. O'Neil is from Rye, New vesterday at the 18th annual-Fish-| P 20 years ago, Lindbergh replied that \oporpo ™ haq not expected such Wall Street bankers, all of whom €red at the Baranof Hotel. They' Wiliams came to Juneau High|York. {crmen's Festival in the Ballard| FROM § were prepared to back up the Pres- Were married oh Saturday in An-.in September of 1941, and taught D First Lutheran Church. Fishermen ! ident under certain conditions. 1chorage. and plan to continue on to rall of that year. He left in October| SALESMAN FROM SEATTLE and 1300 of their familes and| Mr. R. E. Myers, {rom Ne! g These conditions are the nubbin |the States for their honeymoon to-|of 1942, one month after the open-| Paul A. Monroe, salesman, re- friends assembled. The 65-voice arrived in Juneau on Sunday andjand one who had been Outspoken 'ty the stand to testify as to the he was “not interested in annivers oo action in the case and was | morrow. Starr is mandger of Alaska |ing of the fall session, and is now gistered on Saturday in Juneau as Norwegian male chorus, was led registered as a guest of the Baranof | previously, to make his position ‘m.n“;m 'n‘ul \\’Jl» ‘c;m. erned _'"'"_"l"f'f’ ‘nm prepared to continue until to- 1 N e "obMlgauien, a8 .8 ClLinen. He then called Tom Brown i 3 JRadm, Inc, of Anchorage, located at Anchorage. Ja guest of the Baranof Hotel. by J. Al Brevik, conductor Hotel, J¢lear on Am s foreign policy ’ FAIRBANKS, Alaska, P—Fire destroyed the ~commissioned of ficers nearby Ladd Field Saturd April 14— boycott i ent national| NEw YORK, April 14— Charles A. Lindbergh says that this nation must help rebuild western civilization, even though “it may require the use of military fore because “in a rocket-atomic age, the welfare of other nations is more than important, it is vital to us. boar naze- would un- that ints of board omp! ad- and | independent vestigate ie tate- J COUPLE FROM BERKLEY | Mr. and Mrs. C old jof Berkeley, Calif, arrived in EX-LOCAL TEACHER HERE —— Paul O'Neil, correspondent for Time and Life magazines, arrived in Juneau from Seattle on Satur- day with Pan American Airway t for HERE NENANA (Continued on Page Four) /(‘;VH'I"vIIPd on 71;11?/( “{m/"—‘