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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE . “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" = VOL. LXVIIIL, NO. 10,560 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, \PRIL 22, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NELSON SENTENCED T0 HANG ON JULY 1 it 3 Basic Needs For Alaska Outlined By Krug ROADSARE NEEDEDIN ~— NORTHLAND Power Devéiobment, RR.' Rehabilitation, Hous- ing Are Requnred Apxul 22 —P—| ryv Krug of the Interior| Department told the House sub- committee on Interior Department! appropriations that power, trans- portation and housing are Alaska’s| WA‘HI’\L-ION Secr | i i Selected by five editcrs of Pac aticn of 1947, is Lillian Nicolich, tary in the public in Japan. Vital statisties indica 37 inches; its Francisco of Proper- basic neads. ‘The Secretary, testifying in clu(‘ ed session January 21, discuss the power situation off the record,! so his remarks do not appear in| the testimony made public today as the appropriation bill was in-| troduced in the House. At con- clusion of the confidential discus- sion, Krug gave the list of the three basic things needed for the Territory’s development “There is a lot of gcod powe that could be developad in Ala: Krug said. “As a matter of fact ! it is not at all improbable Lnal' lN (R A S H the availability of power will uc- termine whether we can tuild a big pulp mill in Alaska which OF plAHEs would contribute more to Ala: n s econocmy than anything else ther>.| In deciding not to request funds! for such .development, I have been controlled by the feeting that ve w0 (Craff COHIde Bust will find it difficult to complete] the work we have under way and| |nfo Flames on Geor- should h.\sten to complete the' i 9 h roads_there. | gia Landing Field Edwin G. Arnold, director of the;| i Division of Territories of the De COLUMBUS, Ga, April 22— partment, said it was “doing €V~ “noj, ajrlines plane collided rything possible to stimulate i E Qurng e with a reconverted Army basic Amk“",.d“clo"tmfi’;;‘ Block jtrainer in landing here today and ment has not xonu ahead is that|dead in the crash. : theve has been almost a total lack | Attaches at Muskogee Airport of transportation facilities to theSaid no bodies had been recovered resource areas in the Territory,” {rom either plane, both of which Arnold said, and described the! Were burning % condition of the Alaska Railroad; Delta Airlines safd its plane was and lack of steamship facilities. @ special flight carrying eight Heo told the committee the Alaska ccutives of the company cn a sur- Railroad, owned by the gover !vey flight. It listed the eight as ment, “is in such a dangerous| pparently” dead. One man was condition that it will either have reported in the other plane to be rehabilitated or abandoned.”; Delta said the men aboard He said it had done a great _]uh\xfla'u' were: hauling army supplies during the| George R. Cushing, Philadelphia war, which further wore out the!vVice President of Operations and lcgmmucd e Tiires) E:m\;m.m pilot who was flying the e SRy Lindley W. Camp, Atlanta, solici- The washlngto \tor of the Fulton Municipal Court ‘and attorney for Delta. R. Bolander, San Merry - Go- Rounfl et ooy 4 3 B. Litle, Cartersvill, By DREW._P_)_:‘AR&’ON I trict Traffic Manager. WASHINGTON—President #ru-| L. T. Campbell, Hapeville, Ga., man heard some blunt talk about Superintendent of Communications. “liberalism” from an unexpected| E. A Rainouard, New York, Chief quarter the other day. The manIFlthv Superintendent. § who preached the sermon on lib- John L. Schneider, Nélchcz eralism was none other than Ed | Miss,, Superintendent of Stations Flynn, “boss of the Bronx” and the| Clayton Berry, Atlanta, Superin- man who did the most, next w'lendem of port Construction. Bob Hannegan, to nominate Tru > - A | JURY SETS $25,000 Flynn, together with DEmocralch leaders from Rhode Island, New | AS puR(HASE pRI(E York, New Jersey and Gonnecticut called at the White House to dis-| oF FA'R BuIlDING cuss party political prospects with‘ the Chief . Executive, and barely, .. oo o 2070 0 aociation had they been seated when Flynnj .. =, oo =0 iirabass price ; df cut loose. Democratic executive di- | 25000 <Fad the " Jinedu Tair builds rector Gael Sullivan, standing near {ing taken over by the U. S. Army the President, started the dlscuh'r.n 1942, Last night in U. S. Dis- sion by sayiug: itrict Court, a jury returned a ver- “Folks, this is lour listeping. Postd giog ‘gwarding the association this "Miss Occupation of "47" relaticns office of e Miss Nicolich is tall, weighs 135 pounds and has the waist, 26 inches, and hips, 36 inches. s and Stripes as “Miss Occu- tle, Wash., 21-year-old secre- American air force unit feet measurements: an { inches following bust, WAGE BOOST WON'T TAKE . (OSTSDOWN ;Tafl Sees U S. Steel-ClO° Ga,, Dis- | | for today. We want t0 hear Your umount plus interest, after a two! problems. Go -abead and {ell US{qay trial which had been appealed about them. by both sides from a Commission- “The biggest problem lhe Demo-‘c‘ s Court. cratic Party has,” shot. back New! The Government had originally! York's boss 'Flynfis “is “staying’ 1 \appraised the value of the building beral. Unless the Democratic Party |at $15,000 and the Commissioner’s remains liberal we're licked.” “That's just what were doing, |sum of $24,000 to which both sides Ed, staying liberal,” replied the ‘had objected. In a special gentleman whom Flynn make President the States. ‘erated -only two hours “On some things we are,” said minutes on their verdict after Flynn, “but on others we're missing ceiving the case at 8: 35vo'clock. the boat. There’s a growing tend-! R. E. Rodtertson w. of United 'o'clock last 1Court. had awarded the owners the eve-| quotation of ‘Alaska Juneau mine helped !ing court session beginning at 7:30! night, the jury delib-| and fifteen re- Kennecou 45, ency in the Administration to move | the Fair Asscciatior. and U. S. Dm-l This trend |trict Attorney P. J. Gilmore, represented U. S. Tom Clark for over to dead center. Jr, (Continued on Page Four) the government. Attorney General as follow « Agreement as Open Door | to Continued High Prices WASHINGTON, April Chester Bowles, former OPA Ad¥ ministrator, suggested today the appointment of voluntary price board of businessmen to seek gen-! eral reductions in industry Bowles advanced the suggestion | following a call on President Tru- man to congratulate him on his ! speech to the g@nnual Associated | Press luncheon in New York yes- terday. ] enator Taft (R-Ohio) comment- ed meanwhile that the agreement | of U. S. Steel with the CIO for $1' a day wage boast probably has “tossed cut the window” any real chance to. bring prices down. Taft, 22 —(M— a who is chairman of the | Senate-House Committee on the economic report, told a reporter that the Big Steel-CIO agreement ' is likely to set a pattern for similar wage increases that will prevent any substantial reduction in the prices of manufactured products. Mr. Truman asked for “modera. ion” from busines; forbearanci rom labor, and an “gll-out” effort ' from the farmers to prevent a bocm-and-bust inflation in ad-! dressing the annual luncheon of Asscciated Press members in New ank yesterday -oo | | Fallmg Cakeof | le Kills Young | Seaman, Anchorage| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 2| —IP—The Fort Richardson public relations office today identified the| 19-year-old civilian seaman killed! abpard an Army tug in Anchorago Harbor last Saturday as Frank W. Rose, whose mother, Mrs. Ella Rose, resides at 5055 Lane St., Fres- no, Calif. The youth was killed when hit by a piece of ice which fell from a huge cake when bumped by the| |tug. He joined the tug's crew on| February 14. e STOCK QUOTAIONS | NEW YORK, April 22——Clos'mfi} stock today is 4'., American Can) 92'%, Anaconda 37%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, International Hanea{er 811, ! New York Central | 15%, Northern Pacific 16%, U. b.] attorney for, Steel 70'z, Pound $4.027%. Sales today were 830,000 shares. | Merrill-Lynch averages today are industrials 170.95, rails | 45.27, utilities 34.22, DEPARTURE OF | hatibut banks today | ,tage boost, |fish prices could be retailed by ju 'WORLD AIR SPEED { faster than NEW DANGER 'FBI PROBING THREATENS MURDER CASE TEXAS CITYAT PALMER | { ‘Warehouse Breaks Info! Gail Harmon, Lunchroom | i Operator, Found Dead in Place of Business PALMER, Alaska, April 22—(®— {Federal Bureau of Investigation | agents today opened an investiga- ytion into the death of Gail A. Har- | mon, 43-year-old lunchroom opera- : tor, whose body was found Sunday TEXAS CITY, Tex., April 22— (®j0n & bed in a basement alcove of —A warehouse stored with ammon- | the theater building in which he ium nitrate, burst into flames here [ Operated his busin today seven days after the disas-! A coroner's ju said Harmon trous explosions, caused by thejmet death at the hands of ame chemical, killed an vxum.ntedlwn er persons unknown.” { Harmon, who came here three John Hill said he|Wweeks ago with his wife from An- was said to reside in Ove- Flames-Explosion Is Feared at Any Time : BULLETIN Texas City, April 22.—®—The blaze in the warchouse was extinguished af- ter a two hour fight and no ex- plosion resulted, Deputy Mayor !'could not say definitely what would ! chor happen, but that “an explosion | Bon. could occur at any time.” piaki 22 caliber The cause of the fire was notshell from the drnrmuud, but a Houston Chron-,beside the body. licle staifer at the e said it - broke out shortly after 9:10 am,; | almost the same minute the Wed- MD Io GREE(E i rifle and an weapon were empty found | nesday blast occurred aboard the Fr vmh ship Grandcamp. " Huge clouds of smoke again obs scured tragedy-torn Texas City. The city was returning to not ral today when the new danger l"(l.l]lll(l he streets were jammed with traffic, stores were open, and ithe thread of life was gradually be- ing restored. | Senator Vandenberg De-‘ i scribes Utterances of Sen. | Johnson ‘Inflammable’ | D s i ! ! WASHINGTON, April 22—(®— i Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) des- | cribed “inflammable” today state- HALIBUT FLEET - BEING DElAYED lmcnts that President Truman's | program to Bulwark Greece and 'Turkey against Communism Distribution of Fish Catch|"Sa Bt ™ ™ e Shares Postpones Seattle Sailings |lmeigu Relations committee took SEATTLE, April 22 —(P—Distri- ,(hr floor as the hour for a vote ixm the $400,000,000 Greek-Turkish s bution of fishing catch shares halt- ed the northern departure of a 100~ {assistance, measure uppmuched vessel fleet for the north Pacific 5 Vandenberg said he arose categorically repudiate” the st {ment he said had been rele: Eonator Edwin C. Johnson tl)- Colo) that the President's policy will lead to war with the Soviets. owner| CTeat Britain and the United The dispute hinges over ¢ b adet r‘i demands that fishermeiy share pan“‘ alge e Lo I Slaraiped lat any cost, including war, of the cost of fathometers, radio re- | keep Wuadia out of the Dardan- pairs and accident insurance; that elles,”. the Colorado Senator «.nu boat shares be raised from 20 to .uwdm& i percent; or, in lieu of the percu)-!l “Turkey mow has consumated u that wording of the !, itary “ailignce with the greatest ‘be revised so increased {iitary - power on earth—the nited States of America. | The Senate slapped down a move (v strike authority for military as- sistance from President Truman'’s 's4 000,000 program to bolster Greece and Turkey against Com- RECORD REPORTED - | The move was one of a series by |opponents of the program as the Senate drove to a final vote. | Aircraft Co., claimed an unofficial | Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D-|g am- | agreement owners, ¥ - e | LONDON, April 22—(®—Gloster world air speed record today with Colo) proposed to limit to relief| the announcement that a jet-pow- |only the help that would be giv- ered Gloster “Meteor IV" averaged [en the two countries. | 630 miles an hour on -a 500-mile >->e— — ilight from Brussels to Copenhagen | MA (oM yesterday. i "'ME The speed was 14 miles an hour the -official werld re- ASKS BOOST IN 2] cord established by the RAF last | September | ~ee- | FREIGHT RATES TRAINS COLLIDE; | ' WASHING~ON, April 22.—®— The Maritime Commission told the | 'SPERSONS HURT Interstate Commerce Commission, |today that the nation’s dumesuq |ship service is threatened with a| BOONEVILLE, Ark., April 22— |complete breakdown and asked for! @®—The Rock Island Railroad’s|a quick upward revision in rmgm eastbound Rocket from Amarillo to | ransportation rates Memphis collided with the wwl-! Hhe Maritime Commission is stil bound Rocket at the Echo, Ark.|operating the wartime-seized mer-| switch, 10 miles west of here early !chant fleet, but must turn the| today, injuring approximately 15 ~h|ps back to private operation by persons. There were no fatalities. June 30. It has taken the posi-| A brakeman suffered several bro- |tion that this can .not be done ken ribs and about 15 passengers unless rates are increased for both; i suffered slight injuries. ail and water carriers, to pre- R l.\t'r\'e competitive relationships. FROM TORRANCE, CALIF. e i : PATRIClA i2OGUE HOME Patricia Hogue has returned to her home by PAA after spending the winter in Virginia with Mrs. Joe DeGanahl, formerly of .luneuu./ Jess W. Sdndera whose home is in Torrance, Calif., arrived in Ju- neau over the weekend by air and is at guest at the Baranof Hotel WAR ON SOVIETS | actress in favor of one as a Navy “ai . machinegunned attack was made | uncertified Jewish immigrants had to has tossed 4 wife. She's gene to Honolulu to live with her husband, Lt. Comd. Sam L. Lanier, Navy flier and veteran of the Pacific War. (AP Wire- photo). uive SENTENCED R WASHINGTON, April 22.—® committee yesterday Alaskans want! . Killer of Ellen Leze C. Bettinger, mayor of Kodiak,|Pratt in U. S. District Court here. the additional cost is $5,000,000 or|Women of the first degree murder “The opposition to statehood has|jury’s verdict did not contain any is a young man's country and the|Pratt to pronounce the death pen- |created by the new state.” jcution as July 1, 1947, at Juneau, [said that if he telieved Alaska|watch the hanglng of Nelson at main there. He is a business man|judge Pratt asked for remarks was risky to invest large sums n torneys, Henry Roden and Joseph ing in Alaska miss the right of Nelson took the opportunity to pro- der Territorial government ther “Your honor,” Nelson said, “I was “A Navajo Indian has more tolis all atout. I guess I'll have to |do residents of the Territory.” [the judge about a possible new {will encourage investment in busi-!for advice on those matters. mak> a success there len and in low spirits as if brood- erans in the Territory, adding that! His four day trial was the cli- of it. !courtrooms each day. Highlight GAllows BY {is one of the worst things you who claimed to have seen Nelson Bettinger, who said he reached The government paraded many 59 h jof land from the public domain,|evidence against Nelson. An after- w Up Britis Te"o”s's Blo p ‘tnu government. He said so much|Moore, on the following day, for Three Statehood Advocates (ONVICTED | | ( ] [ n | cmmittee in Washingfon UITTING MOVIES «"ioh, 2 2 2. Judge Pralt Pronounces statehood and are ready to meet “Alaskans are individuals and| Austin Nelson was today sen- testified. “We can manage our own Nelson was convicted last Friday $15,000,000 run the state it isof groceryman Jim Ellen in Ju- come from men who have had|recommendation for clemency and more we invest in our state gov- flty on Nelson. and directed that twelve witnesses would not become a state in the'the Federal Jail here, and said that under Territorial from U, S. District Attorney, P. J. business there. A. McLean. None of the attor- | citizenship and want a “voice In fess his innocence of the brutal was no interest in the governor-'condemned for a crime I did not Blende Jane Harker (above) cay about the appointment of pay the penalty for someone else.” | Ken Hickney of Anchorage, an-itijal or an appeal and was in- |ness in Alaska and and “young| During his appearance in court The witnesses said they consider ing. over the consequences of the |men who had the right spirit max of the current court session “The government’s efforts tolof the trial was the appearance of jcan do for them,” he said. “Youlat the scene of the crime at the EACT SUI(lD Kodiak several years ago with a'yitnesses' to the stand during the Ipreventing its being homesteaded, math of the trial was the arrest Troop Train in Tel Aviv siveTh eir OpinionsBefore = SLAYER IS FOR MARRIAGE the mayor of Kodiak, told a Huusc" Dea'h on GU”OWS for the additional expense of a state want to shape Qwir own destinies."|tenced to hang by Judge Harry E. affairs and regardless of whether|by @ jury of nine men and three a mere pittance (neau on December 22, 1946. The their day in Alaska,” he said. “It thus made it mandatory for Judge ernment the more wealth will be| Judge Pratt set the date of exe- Hugh Daugherty of Anchorage from the community be present to next ten years, he would not re-; Before pronouncing sentence, | law and government regulation it{Gilmore, jr, Nelson and his at- | Daugherty agserted people liv-|neys had anything to offer but our own affairs.” He said that un-|slaying of Ellen. ship as the official was appointed. commit. I don't know what this ide her career as a movie |Alaska’s governor” he said, “than The condemned man then asked lother business man, said Statehood |formed to consult his attorneys |man with a pioneering spirit” can this morning, Nelson appeared sul- it a bad idea to try to settle vet-|crime of which he was convicted. jEwS (HEAT iwould go there and make a success 'and was conducted before packed | help homestead veterans in Alaska Dolly Silvers on the witness stand should let him make his own way."|estimated time of Ellen’s death. 2 aime, said government withdrawal!four days to amass bit after bit of was one cause for irritation withiof a defense witness, Eugene La- in Reprisal land on Kodiak Island is Wwith-|perjury. LaMoore is now in jail, drawn that the city can't get;in lieu of $10,000 bond, awaiting land to extend its limits. I trial. All of the witnesses expressed' * celief that opportunities would | be increased under State govern- To ELIMI"AIE ment. Rivers, Attorney General (_XR‘::P" Territory, will testify “"i (USTOMSDELAY ' ALASKA TRUCKS mOrTow. A House Public Lands sutcommit-| SEATTLE, April 22.—(®—Elimin- tee was told today that history| ation of delays for northbound demonstrates the development of | commercial trucks at the Canadian Alaska need not precede state-| border was ordered yesterday by hood. |the Ottawa government, C. B George Sundborg, General Man-, Lindeman, President of the Pacific nearing the Palestine coast ager of the Alafka Development Northwest Trade Association, was The doomed Jews, Meyer Fein- Board. told a hearing on statehood: | informed. A stein and Moshe Baranzani clas “Other areas of the country be Lindeman said he was notified came = economically sound after’ that Ottawa has authorized the e o | 22 —M—Te ) ish troop train today, killing persons, and then the wreckage. The two hours after Jews committed | s 'just before mounted the JERUSALEM, Ap o rorists blew up a Br southeast of Tel Aviv at least eight SUNDBORG TALKS WASHINGTON, april 22— | two coademned suicide with explosiv they were to have gallows. Almost simultaneously another official announcement disclosed that a ship carrying approximately 730 been spotted by British Naval craft | > An early practice in {will take place at 7 Inight for the Juneau outdoors if weather permi in! the High School Gym, if it is rain- ing. Following the marching practice, a music rehearsal will be held in falo, N. Y, the Grade School Auditorium, Baranof. Ji 5 p in holl d % » e gevceted 10MOWET their admission to the Union collector of ecustoms at Vancouver :;\mma;;gkd w:"':'fll“”w ‘:;“,“"_mxt: of the Territory to the Union would | sonal men for border duty. PE - nst belol ; | facilitate the development of many underground members and had o} 2 / development The revision of been condemned 1or anti-British Alaska’s antiquated tax system, he mmn 'en Lngun, were ‘ hanged last “‘“'k"““d enues to support state government, | Irgun had issued threats of veng- .,i.h pe estimated would cost! * imore than Territorial gu\'«-rnmrnh ve'sl w“" war ju"flu any BAND | R | WASHINGTON, April 22.—(P— | Dolly Silvers was released from ' tion said today that until the war custody today in U. S. District is officially ended, men in the marching | | eral weeks as a material witness in | war veterans in applying for home- o'clock m_'lhu first degree murder case against stead entry. - may qualify, however, the assump- COME TO ALASKA tion being that by the time the | Texas, and Frank Borge from Bul- | homesteading, the terminal leave are registered at the will have expired and the service- manpee to their breasts and died Sundborg said that admission| to employ 18 i et AT to have been hauged. Both were i, g ries necessary for economic! violence. Four other members “t‘added, should produce ample rev- Homes'ea‘m 'or fance $7,000,000 annnally, or $2,000,000 DOLLY SILVERS RELEASED IThE Federal Bureau of Investiga- pRA(“(ES IONIGH' | Court. She had been held for sev-| Armed Forces cannot qualify as City Band, Austin .NeLson | Servicemen on terminal leave C. F. Zimmerman, from Houston, land applied for is opened to /men will have become a veteran.