The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 15, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,554 " JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1947 _ _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = ASHBY FOUND NOT GUILTY BY JURY orld Fliers Sp an Pacific, Land In anada REYNOLDS IN Steamship Man EDMONTONON Difficulties SPEED FLIGHT Hopped from—Tokyo, Re- fueled at Adak-Expects to Reach N.Y. Tonight BULLETIN—Edmonton, Alta., April 15—®—The Reynolds round-the-world plane landed here at 12:55 pm. PST (3:55 pm. EST) on a flight from Adak in the Aleutians. Its time for the approximate 2,615 miie distance was cight hours, 31 minutes. The Chicago industrialist and his two-man crew taxied up to the Municipal Airport Admin- istration - Building for a quick rofueling job, hoping to com- plete the last leg of the trip to New York in under eighty hours. The plane was 61 min- utes behind schedule on its flight from Adak when it land-- ed in the Alberta capital. ' ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Apiil —M—Chicago manufacturer ton Reynolds hurtled through the skies toward Edmonton, Alberta, 1€ase account. and. the American mainland todayi Rather. it is on the next-to-the-last-legof his bertion of lasting, civilian-type of record-seeking 't 01 n d-the-world |§00ds ‘Which were shipped to ba] flight. 5 Soviet Union as part of the $50,- The “Bombshell” plane took off 000000000 flow of supplies which frcm Adak in the outer Aleutians|Poured from the United States to at 4:24 a. m. PST this morning|its allies up to V-J Day after an unscheduled stop. In the case of other Reynolds listed Calgary, Alberta, | this country has agreed to accept and Great Falls, Mont., as alter- —Ccither in cas Hedipis g Dy nates stops. less than three cents on the dol- His flying time for the 15210 13T miles from New York was 49 But officials who helped wind up hours, 13 minutes, an approximate the vast enterprise said today that speed of 308 miles an hour. His Russia will be expected to ante at elapsed time was 62 hours, 13 min- @ substantially heavier rate utes from his takeoff at 5:11 p. PRy " s “Eamonton e vessrere| GEN, CLAY GIVES GERMANS ROAST of Transport's Air Control office said it had teen informed the plane STUTTGART, Germany, April 15 —M—Gen. Lucius D. Clay told was expected to reach there about German leaders in the American 12:54 p. m. (2:5¢ p. m. EST). Anchorage reported light rain and zone today “not to expect too much” from the Moscow Foreign a moderate fog, with overcast at Ximately s AelY Ministers Council and angrily de- 1,200 feet at about the time the “Bombshell” was due over the Al- nounced the Germans' methods of handling thteir own food crisis. aska coast on its Adak-Edmonton Clay warned that the United hop, a distance of appr 2,619 miles. States and Britain cculd not be expected to continue imjporting Reynolds sa;s the plane turned back after passing over Adak be- focd into Germany if the Ger- mans failed to collect all possible cause of heavy headwinds and be- cause the plane’s fuel supply was production from the farmer — ., - running low THREE FROM ANCHORAGE Previous reports that he had been forced to turn back because Floyd Popa, Joseph Park and Hu- bert A. Gilbert, of Anchorage, are of “mechanical difficulties” were -gistered at the Hotel Juneau. RUSSIATO - PAY STIFFON LEND, LEASE Nation Will Not Be Let Off as Fasy as Other Na- tions on Big Bill WASHINGTON, April 15:- {P— Russia stands to get a stiffer llend-lease bill than any of this country’s other wartime allies once the long-delayed settlement talks get underway. The reason, Sovict-American however, is neither differences on 15, current world issues nor the Mil. | Kremlin's year-long refusal even to discuss her $11.298,000,000 lend- is the larger pro- nations unfounded, Reynolds informed Frank Lamb, director of the flight, in New York 'by telephone. Edmonton is a little more than halfway along the 5,000 mile route from Adak to New York. Reynolds; e said he expected to make the, 3 trip in approximately eight hours..The waShlngifin The manufacturer told Lamb he planned to be in New. York “about M - G - R fl 8 p. m. tonigh Merry -u0-hounc Northwest Airlines said the plane Rmimen landed at Adak at 1:25 a. m. this, By DREW PLARSON morning, 9 hours and 1 minute/ S after leaving Tokyo. | WASHINGTON — Those who sat The takeoff time gave the in on President Truman’s highly Bombshell an clapsed time of 62 secret meeting with the Cabinet hours, 13 minutes from its take- and the Council of Economic Advis- off at New York at 5:11 p. m.lers considered it one of the most EST Saturday. important sessions in the history By these figures, the ct:nverted\or the Truman Administraticn--or A-26 Dcouglas bomber must nego- of any administration, for that tiate the remaining 5,000 miles to|matter. Never before had a Pre New York in 29 hours, one minute dent and his Cabinet come together to eclipse the present global record with the nation's outstanding econ- of 91 hours, 14 minutes, set by omists to chart the economic future H(;wa_x'd Hughe;l ;1‘1‘ l%fi:}-flk Gt of the country. before, not after, rriving in 4 4 - | trouble starts. m. tonight” as hoped by Reym’“’_swL Inside facts is that the 3-man he will have made the trip in{gouncil of Economic Advisers gave 74 hours 49 minutes. | the Cabinet a gloomy report on the SRR % G | economic outlook of the nation. STOCK ouo‘n’"ous ‘ The President had invited the g {Council to familiarize his Cabinet qu’;&?mvsf'!:'lux:‘1‘,::&:1‘:3"5“members with the national price stotk todsy is.4%, American Canwcrisxs, and_they pulled no pupches. s A it VGG‘\. Ourtiss Dr. Edwin G. Nq , Chairman Wright 5%, International Harveste: Sprichc i anod, B 08 9%, ‘Kennecott 43's, New York| ur sometiing isn't done and Central 15%, Northern Pacific 16%, | gone goon, we're riding for a fall,” Merrill-Lynch avers;ges: today are‘d‘dn! l.\mit lv"msg" to She PaRERrs oi T T unla 106,68, rails | oo RIANIER, | DU o 44.24, utilities 33.82, J (Continued on Page Four) Tells of Operaling Boats on Alaska Route SEATTLE, April - -Diffi- culties faced by Alaska ship, opera- tors, which have contributed great- to soaring . transportation costs interruptions of service, include with different unions contracts expire intermit- tently from June to December, General Manager Lester W. Baker of the Alaska Steamship Co. said. He spoke at an opening of of the two-day Pacific North- west Trade Association conference. In addition to the large number of unions to deal with, the com- pany’s vessels have been picketed by cannery workers’ unions tising up service, Baker said “We were just bystanders, they picketed our ships wouldn't let them sail “We haven’t printed in five years because we haven't known when a ship would sail. We just have to let the passengers call up from day to day and see when one is going out,” he said. The antiquated terminal situation here also increases costs tremen- dously, with trucks lined up at times for several blocks and costs mounting during such delays, Dray- age costs here are sometimes great- er than freight charges to Alaska, he said. Piliering on Alaska ships is also ! the highest on any lines he kno: he said, probably induced by the | “example” of “thousands and tens 'of thousands of dollars of govern- ment money wasted in Alaska.” The service also needs five six new ships which would c from four to five million dollars each, he added. Before the war Al- aska was served by 23 ships but now the number of passenger sels has been reduced to tour. Dave Beck, International Vice President of the Teamsters Union, charged that Henry Wallace was close to treason in his remarks against the American foreign policy in England. Eeattle and ly and dealing whose session but and a schedule or ves- Vancouver, B. C., highway transport operators ask- ed the Association’s aid in straight- ening out a customs jam at the Lorder Canadian-bound Ameri- can trucks, they said, were being held from one to two weeks at the Pacific Highway port of en- try near Blaine by Canadian Cus- toms while contents of the trucks were being appraised and duties | assessed. Gilbert W. Skinner, President of the Alaska Steamship Company; said the Alaska Military Highway is “no tourist road because of the lack of tourist accommodations along the highs 2d in Alaska.” . U. 8. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash) disclosed that Gen. {Dwight D. Eisenhower told him that' the joint chiefs of staff have no military interest in whether the Haines cutoff is continued in cperation or not. Magnuson also told the Associa- tion that the recent four and one (half billion dollar cut in the tional budget is not only going to handicap the Columbia Basin and other project developments in tHis area, but will impair the military security of the whole | Pacific Coast, most particularly in Alaska. — e — STEAMER MOVEMENTS from Seattle, | | i Tongas due on | Thursda, Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle April i7, «alling at Ketch- ikan, Wrangcll, Petersburg, Ju- !neau, Sitka, Cordova, Valdez and itka. Sailor’s Splice scheduled to from Seattle April 18. Princess Louise, scheduled |sail from Vancouver April 19. ! Northern Voyager scheduled Isaid from Seattue April 24. i Aleutian scheduled to arrive from iwestward at 8 p. m. April 19. - — i CAULEY RETURNS ! James B. Cauley, Field Auditor for the Unemployment Compensa- tion Ccmmission returned here ye: | terday following an extended bus! {ness trip to the Interior sail to na- | to; MARSHALL, STALIN 10 ~ MEETNOW iU S.Se(r;taryof State | | Goes fo Kremlin for Straight Forward Talk After 37 haggling at council table, tate Marshall direct! to | MOSCOW, April 15.—(@ |days of bickering and |the Foreign Minist \U. S. Secratary of lis taking his case | Prime Minister Stalin jwent to Kremlin to ending weeks of speculation {when the two men would face to face Marshall, the | visiting foreign on the Soviet (to have sought Stalin in a final the conference which to have been dashed of failure. | Before his appointment with | Stalin, Marshall told the Big Four ‘conferenca that it's Russia’s fault {that no agreement has been reach- led on the proposed four-power de- /militarization treaty for Germany. In some of the most out-spoken langu of the current session, Marshall blamed Russia’s Molotov ifor sabotaging the treaty by in- | sisting on includuing sukjects in {it which were unacceptable. With | progress blocked on that major is- isue, the conference decided to go fon to the next topic—German coal production. iHo for Alaska; ' Group of Four Starti ng Trip | WASHINGTON, April 15 (¥ | A litle group of piongers set out today tor Alaska in the 20th cen- itury version of the prairie schoon- fer—a truck and trailer outfit. Their goal is Chilkoot Barracks. an Army town the Veterans Coop- | erative Co., recently bought from Ithe government. The organization {plans to settle war veterans in the jold Army post which consits of 86 Ibulldings on 400 acres of land 70 miles north of Juneau. In the group which started roll- are Mr. and Mrs. Chris | J. Burris and their three-year-old { daughter Judith, Baltimore, and !Edward M. Repetti, Washington, a student at Alaska University. Bur- iris and Repetti are war veterans, | 1t was Judith’s third birthday. | She was delighted with the work of i getting started while Buddy, her { Boston terrier, pranced around the j trailer and seemed anxious to get underway. Burris, who saw service on a re- jpah' ship, formerly was employed !by E. I. DuPont Co., at Seaford Del. He is an electrician and will have charge of the Chilkoot pow plant. Mrs. Bu , a régistered nurse, will have a part in the com- health program. | told reporters he expects ito reach Chilkoot in three weeks. He plans to stop in Pittsburgh to- night, then to Madison, Wis.,, St. !'Paul and Minneapolis, Fargo, N. D., | Bismarck, N. D., and leave the | United States at Sweetgrass, Mont | From there the group will go to Calgary, Edmonton, and Dawson Creek, Canada, where they will get on the Alaska highway which they will iollow to the Haines Cutoff leading to Chilkoot. D DOGS IN POUND | Two lonely and unclaimed pooch- |es face death in Juneau soon unless their owners appear at the Juneau City Dog Pound to bail them out " tomorrow. The dogs were picked up ‘by the new City Dog Catcher re- ‘cently and a Municipal Ordinance provides that dogs may not be kept lat the pound for more than three thus over come three to call last of the ministers leader, believed the interview with effort to salvage today seems on the rocks is > | i i i 'ing today | ? Marshall s CHANGES IN NEUTRALITY LAW SOUGHT jPresident Sends Special A. B. Phillips | { | \ | | \ A. B. Phillps, tor 14 years con- | nected with the Juneau schools and for 13 years as Superintendent, has resigned. He submitted his resigna- Message fo Congress {of the Board last night the resig- April 15 ation was accepted, effective at today proposed | the close of school this year changes in this coun-{ Mr. Phillips owns his own home trality law to permit the jn Juneau and is a taxpayer. He nt to place embargoes on'expects to remain here, although s of arms to unfriendly|pe is going to the States this sum- ! mer. When he returns in August jor September, Phillips expects to 1 he must be free t0[pe aple to anounce his future pians, accordance With our posi-{which he hopes will afford him a e United: Nations, chance to make a living so that ection 12 of the neutral-|y. .oy support his family without act Truman pointed uu!.;]m‘,m; Juneau. requirement of mpartiaity | “go s jeqying the teachmg pro- Secretary of State 10} roiqi0n permanentiy, although he and aggrieved, ., oo picveing are so full of years and troublemaker 1 of school room chalk dust that he granting every appli- > J s thal e can stay ‘out cation for the license for the ex—l‘(; ’l‘;" ane CuT Ry oan sia) prtation of any arms, ammunition, | op:- finpiehents’ of war tnifess’ guohi: S:. B RRUIEUIsLL sehool grce fotion wolild be in violation of a|DbeIore, when 1§ ‘was 12 years old. breuty.” IBorm i Iwaco, Washington, on “Such & provision of September 19, 1895, A. B. was the longer consistent with this coun-iSon of John William Phillips, a ta's committments and require-j Printer. His father was editor and e President’s message! owner of the Tlwaco Tribune and {other papers in that area. ‘We have committeed ourselves! At Work Young to international cooperation] When he was in the seventh through the United Nations. | grade, young Phillips went to work “If war should ever again become|as a railroad man, and worked up imminent, it would be intolerable;during eight years from brakeman to find ourselves in our present| to locomotive engineer. Working as position of being bound by our|engineer for the building of a gov- own legislation to give aid and;ernment project cn the Columbia support to any power which might’ River, he was left without a job later attack us.” iwm-n Congress failed to appropri- He said the proposed legislation’ate money to complete it provides for export controls overi Working on paving crew in (1) articles especially designed for!Corvallis, Oregen, after that, Phil- or customariiy used only in thellips was refused entry into Oregon manufacture of arms. ummumliun.fAgn,_-u]mml College, now Oregon and dmplements of war, and (2);State, because he had not had a articles exported for use, dix'pm 1 high school education. or indirectly, by foreign military’ Doing odd jobs and Jdiving over a establishments. | 2 The bill would authorize sup-| ervision of the exportation of arms, | mmunition, implements of warj N 0 N 0 T l ( E q related commodities, and the; importation of these OVER TALKS articles. IzK also would provide for registra-i tion of manufacturers, exporters,| ‘Former Vice-President Speaks as 'Private Citi- zen’ Says White House importers, and dealers in muni- | By JACK BELL ticns of war and provide mear for giving "the government adequate check in the international traffic in arms. - ; THE ASSOC!A1ED PRI WASHINGTON, April 15—(® Development of huge fisheries in The White House said today that the Pacific has been recommend-|Henry A. Wallace speaks only as ed by Interior Secretary Julius A.|“a private citizen” in his attacks Krug. He addressed the National|abroad on American foreign policy, Fisheries Institute in New York and{and no “official notice” has been reported on his recent visit to the taken of his speeches. Pacific Islands | Presidential Secreta Krug said he referring | Ross emphasized that when report- to an area in the triangle mrmedi“.S questioned him at a news con- by Hawaii, Samoa and Kwajalein.|ference apout the furore raised in some of which formerly Were con-j conpregs by the former Vice Presi- trolled ty the Japanese. He said|genys gegertions that the United the region has unlimited fiSNery, giates js embarked on a course of resources suitable for canning B‘]d“'lmperialmnl 5 freezing. He pointed out there % lare Ifmlsiakanle signs of d.eclm.a government would notify the Bri- |ing productivity in the NOrthwest, ., o vernmoent that Wallace is Atlantic fishing banks. ¥ ; it Krug declared there is need for| speaking for himself. Ross replied: greater cooperation between thej “Tt s b i fishing indus! and among gov- 880 obvious fac ernment agencies. WASHINGTON, President Truman to Congress, the sage in tion in Under ity th forces ‘treat peacemaker equally by the aggressor law is no said was One question was whether this is it not, o | private citizen? I have no comment CITY Pri>ONERS AT on that.” WORK, VARIOUS JOBS| Asked if it would be correct to Mayor Waino E. Hendrickson re- assume that the U. S. government vealed today that prisoners from 'has taken no official notice of Wal- the City Jail are being used for |lace’s speeches, Ross said: various odd jobs about the C)t}z;‘ He said that this use of prisoners | cial notice.” accomplishes two things: it gets| He added that any official notice the prisoners out of Jail more|would be published quickly because they receive three| The questioning started with a days jail credit for each working jquery as to whether President Tru- day; the city gets a lot of much man has been asked, or needed work accomplished; and,) House asked, by Congress members the city saves almost half the ex- to make some statement about pense of the upkeep for working Wallace. prisoners by being able to release “Not to my kncwledg Jthem earlier plied -- Ross re- Superiufil—endenl of Schools 14 Years in Office, Juneau, y Charles G.| !that Mr. Wallace is speaking as al “Of course it has taken no offi- | the White | ACQUITTAL VERDICT RETURNED y Deliberates 18 Hours Then Sets Pioneer Free in Shooting Case A jury of six men and six The next fall, he entered OAC,|YOmen: b".mfl |1s e ‘?em’zfl; where he once more started out m,?“_"";n "’“f"H ”k !“b"' ‘2‘2“‘{“‘ ; an active student in sports, on mw‘o‘]’(‘i Am‘:’l:::“ phmu‘; ‘”:N mt;l’“:"; football team and wrestling squad. | : Brees P et g i lin UL S. District Court where he R the Bt had been on trial since last Sat- - b s sect g murd War I, and was commissioned. He | il :‘z‘e‘gn drc,:’c]l:‘:;; charg‘: d“}‘{".‘(‘f:l_ng"“:g“l‘(“":]w v:,‘::“c";m Lt [of second degree murder, with in- ver.-the war, FLiligg eanaterred | a e CERTESR R0 AR e |from OAC to the University of |jung here oo Outober 20, 1048 Washington; but by the end of| Tne freed man wept with.grati- summer school in 1920 he was 100 (ude when Clerk of the Court “broke” to continue, and accepted johy Walmer read the jury’s ver- a job as coach of athletics and'gict delivered by jury foreman manual training teacher in the Ju- | james H. Wheeler. neau Puklic Schools Ashby was defended by Attor- After one year in Juneau, he ney Howard Stabler, who, although went to Nenana as Superintenderf handicapped by his client's deaf- lof Schools, and remained for two ness, presented a strong case of years. Then he returned to the self-defense for the Territory's old- University of Washington and fin- est white settier. ished the requirements for gradua- | -_—r— tion with the A. B. Degree. a2 g In the spring of 1921 A. B. Phil- " A lips married Ethel Nixon, a teach- | er in the Juneau school, and they ! went down the Yukon river for; their honeymoon. Upon his gradua- ticn from the University of Wash-.wife of the ncvelist, died at their ;mmn, he :u'c;'(nh'rl uwpo:mm;l u’.uhmm. here yesterday with her hus- rincipal at ent, ash igh | pand at her bedside School and remained there for four | o el year { PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — The Ait, Kl‘(-m llu.~ son E]nb wu;hb;:m,‘ private plane of industrialist Henry and after leaving there 1ips Kaiser slewed off a landing strip was for five years Superintendent' here last night and was wrecked, at Foster, Wash., and one year as' hut Kaiser and his two sons, Ed- :1 class room teacher at Garfield | gar and HenYy, Jr. escaped injury. igh School in Seattle. Resigns Atter meat market, A. B. then \nn-n'(l“,ur Corvallis High School, where he was an active student in sports and extracurricular activities, edited the annual his last year, and grad- uated with the highest honors in| (three years. | In World War SEBRING Mrs, Rex Beach WARSAW—Rudolph Hoess, who In 1934 Phillips was given L-(r?llf};axlded the Nnm' ‘extermina- G 3 ytion” camp at Auschwitz, was opportunity to return to Juneau as{yooo04Ciodey near the spot where uperintendent of Schools, and he 14,000,000 prisoners were executed. brought his , ; e ere " ouly of1Only a few officials witnessed the o ASARRT ol vear, N |y nging. Afternoon newspapers suifered a severe blow in the loss g "1 carried a one-paragraph.announce- of his wife and their new son in' ; i ment. a tragic accident Vi It was not until December ot J 1540 % thab. Phillips. was: mharviad | o EaNON. T e TRANEL r IR rmont, Pa,, oc! out ritish again, to Myrtle Moe, his present . I Kpaeked She. BpEs ” Empire heavyweight champion, wife. In the meantime his son Bob 3 - | Bruce Woodcock, in the seventh was graduated as Salutatorian from | > " 5 !round of their scheduled 10-round Juneau High School, and will be S |bout today. The referee stopped graduated with his A. B. Degree! 2 5 . the bout and Baksi won by a tech- from Stanford University on June 2 nical knockout. His reward Is ex- 15 of this year. Bob is taking a pre- | joioq” 1o pe a shot at Joe Lewis medical course, and will have four heavyweight crown. more years after this June before i he receives his Doctor’s degree. A A % Kias Bonool Grov SAN FRANCISCO—A new four- 4 'engine Douglas pli has pl During his 13 years as Superin- ud:cld to ‘hg,l ;“z:l;hik,‘ g:‘,,l_‘ tendent of Schools in Juneau, A.igon' of Pan American Alrways B. Phillips has seen the Juneau'pp. pew ship bears the name chool grow until he has had 10 {.0cean Rover” after a sailing ship add five class rooms. He has 4 ST “;::«:11:; .h“_?‘ malh- | which made several voyages around 5 Scho'astic - Standard. yne Horn in the '1850's. for students, and made a good re- ' putation for Juneau High School. Phillips managed - to keep Returns To Juneai. the ! “or| OTTAWACanada will not hesi- A tate to reinstate price controls it school operating 3 ) ar operating during the war)ine cost of living gets out of line, when it was almost impossible 0|y avce Minister Douglas Abbott get teachers, a ime ha s 2 achers, and at one time had . 014 Gommons. three soldiers helping out as teach- ! AR ers. At present, he is occupied with' on 4 e | ST. LOUIS—For the sec writing a book on the history of the THE-Rel Hip Sesgd S0 Tincan Pastic Sehoon oy of (he st. Louis was without daly news- s s, which he hahers today as members of the hopes to have cf year. | . pes to have completed this year.| App, pressman's Union continued & ;" gl‘”‘l'l‘f :" _1‘?""_"] | their walkout over wage difficulties % ps resigns having | with puplishers. completed all requirements for re- & tirement from the Alaska School! SEATTLE—R.wr admiral Freder- ystem except age. He has a total|ick Zuesler, retired, today received | teaching experience of 26 years, the Legion of Merit award with holds Life Administrative Certili- | permanent citation and the bronze cates and. life certificates to teach |star medal with temporary citation in both Washington #hd Alaska as district Coast Guard Officer in schools. the 13th Coast Guard Distriet. Phillips is a 32 dgree nmmbfl'! LONDON--A Briush news agen- of the Scottish Rite Lodge, a mem- 1 cy says tugs have pulled the mas- ber of the Masonic Lodge in Juneau ‘ sive liner Queen Elizabeth rom {and the Nile Temple of the Shrine the sand bar where she ran aground in Seattle. He is a member of the| yesterday. The Queen Elizabeth, Juneau Chamber of Commerce, alprize of Britain's merchant ship- member and past president of the'ping, had been stuck on the sand- Juneau Rotary Cluk, and has serv-/bar outside Southampton harbor ed on many and varied public and |for 24 hour: private committees. i WASHINGTON-—Labor Secretary - | Schwellenbach has called for quick HARRY LEAS GO | acceptance of his lormula for:set- Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lea are|tling the nationwide telephone southbound by steamer for several!strike. He has arranged to broad- weeks on pleasure and business in'cast tonight to tell the public the \the States | latest news on thestr ife situation, |