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“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —_ VOL. LXIV., NO. 10,573 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —— JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1947 NEEDED FOR ALASKA R.R. i ef bl ) Major General Arnold, Gives Personal Opinion ! from Defense Angle WASHINGTON, May 7—#— Major General W. H. Arnold, of | the General Staif Plans and Oper- | ation Division, told a House Ap-; propriations Subcommittee during executive sessions he personally be lieved the Alaska Railroad should have couble tracks. | Arnold, Deputy Director of the' Division was testifying on the need for rehabilitation of the railroad. | The committee approved a five- year rehabilitation program to cost | $34,000,000. Arnold said the railroad's single track can handle Alaska traffic in peacetime, then added: { “In wartime I have grave doubts, if that became a very large operat- ing base, that a single track could handle the situation.” . b Later Rep. Stockman (R-Ore), asked Arnold if he believed the railroad should be double tracked. “That is my personal opinion, sir,” Arnold replied. “I said that in case of a national emergency it would take a double track railroad to handle it.” The committee in its report to the House said Arnold declared the War Department was much con-' cerned over the lack of roads and the “critical condition” of the Al- aska Railroad. | “The support of military bases in Alaska and the development of new sources of strategic raw materials are vital requirements of national defense,” Arnold said. “Both of _ _ these requirements depend upon ANOTHER iHARGE | ? l; TWO TRACKS | the existence in Alaska of a system of roads and railroads not only adequate for peace time use but capable df sustaining the increased traffic which an emergency would impose. It is the opinion of the War Department that the condi- tion of the Alaska Railroad and the deficiencies of the present road MOSCOW, M national defense.” e — and charges that the merger of British and zones in Germany 1industrial magnates { Jandlords. |S p R 0 MOTED { Iavestia, the government naming Denmark, Sweden and 1 ments with way specilically, said Russia’s ag and these economies | American agreements. Commentator Constantin land to be Assistant Manager, ef-| g,y fective.as of this date. i : Holland, who has been Chief Ac- industrial magnates of years, first joined the staff of' % the AELPC in January, 1935. Paracs is married and hasoneson. ats was causing Hel the western zones. Heis| ' one of Juneaws public spirited citi-1 worry - - | zens and has been leader in many‘pRESIDE"I IS 63 « movements for community pro—‘ gress. 1 e { May is planning f Merl’y s GU = B.()]],]],di " WASHINGTON, { President Truman L3 eyt s & ) \fly to Grandview, Mo., By DREW PEARSON {94-year-old mother, Mrs. backstage ! Truman on Mothers’ Day. [ WASHINGTON — The atmosphere of the secret AFL-CIO { wild-animal acts., &Che performers bration. . never took their eyes off each oth-' Presidential Secretary Charles labor’s double-trouble boy, who will hold & news conference * chewed his cigars so haid H leagues began to worry about his, \ false molars. i 2 Once the doors were closed, CIO chief Phil Murray proceeded to lay | out his detailed ideas on labor uni- 6 ty. Auto workers’ Walter Reuther ‘ also brought a carefully drafted plan for joint action. They urged that the CIO-AFL undertake a trial, marriage by developing a united program to oppose anti-labor legis: lation. rd “Gentlemen,” r er. Least relaxed was John L. Lewis, [R0ss said today that Mr. Truman as usual through the day. - - WANTS DIVORCE from George Converse from harming her. Murray said, “the were married at Juneau, (Continued on Page Four) 1946 and have no children, MADE BY RUSSIA INATTACKONU.S. 7. — (B — Soviet system jeopardize the mission of newspapers today attacked United States and British economic agree- i ments with Scandinavian countries economic American was benefiting junker organ countries were based upon mutual respect for the involved but that such iwas not the case in the British and l Hoff- W. S. Pullen, General Managerimap writing in the trade union of the Alaska Electric Light and)pewspaper Trud, charged that un- Power Company, today announced|qer the protection of the British- the appointment of C. B. Hol-! American economic merger in Ger- and | junker landlords were “prospering.” iHe added that the plan of unifi- countant and:Cashier for a NUMbeT | .o, of Communists and Social .TOMORROW; PLANS The Washington VISIT T HIS MOTHER T—A— to visit his Martha President Truman will observe his peace parleys last week was about\“"d birthday anniversary tomorrow as relaxed as one of Clyde Beatty's ybut has no special plans for a cele- col- |10:30 am. (EST) and plans to work Nov. 16, | By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON, May T~ It's easy to be pioneer can- do it, in Alaska, right now. All you need are: (1) A know ledge of timbering, (2) the lo down on the woodpulp industry, and (3) $28,000,000. | The pioneer proposition came up’ today Publ: Her Fifth Marriag It was Miss Judge's fifth wedding and Toppin’s third. was formerly married to Topping’s brother Dan. Chance for Pioneering In Alaska Excellent If, With Many ifs, Then Som | | povt| Actress Arline Judge and Henry J. Toppin were recently married. Miss Judge Lands committee. s« ) Chancellor BRITAIN NOT 10 PAY DEBTS, FULL AMOUNT - | Staggering Blow Is Struck| Out to Nations-Must Make Cufs LONDON, May 7.—@—Britain’s| beld declaration that it will not. pay in full war-born debts totaling jing the first blow in a “tough” financial . poli placed sources said today. of the Exchequer {Hugh Dalton, the government's | shrewd 1iscal boss, delivered the® { punch last night. Today, the credit- ors at whom it was aimed had. naf countered In dollars, is new Britain's debt totals. lar figure is important because thes | American loan with which Brital 'is trying to regain its economi¢ equilibrium caused Dalton to speak ‘out. Under the loan terms, Britain | must make some move toward debt settlement by July 15 In making the loan, the United' { States suggested that Britain get |its creditors to scale down their iclaims. The United States itself, { holds Britain to no war debt. That {was all settled under lend-lease, iand Dalton himself said that if . other creditors had operated during {the war on the Anglo-American lplam Britain would not have the 'debt burden to wrestle with today. { Observers said today that Dalton iwas not speaking merely for the ‘henefit of South Americans, His i punch was delivered at bigger cres i ditors—specially India and Egypt. ! - -es - ' |WILLIAM WARNE | NOMINATEDTOBE ASST. SECY. INT. WASHINGTON, May T-AP— at a meeting of the House presigent Truman today nominat- Its con-leq william E. Warne of California sidering a proposal to open Alaska iy, pe Assistant Secretary of the lands to war veterans for home-!ynterior, steading. But teok a forester those dim Frank Heintzleman, government:eoffective June 30. | i | and Alaskan who view an of testified today the bill. for 29 years, said Alaska’s basic industries are He taken there per “Oh, said care are lumbering and fishing of some tunities for the right pioneer who'!agsociated Press Staff in Washing- knows how to produce woodpulp. | And how much would this costiap in Los Angeles and San Diego, pioneer? around $28,000,000," Heintzleman. O. S. Aamodt of the e P Plant Industry spent last summer| . said he figures that of the 365,000,- IAIaSka Shlp studying Alaskan agriculture. fis is hing. pretty well But it’s his idea| splendid oppor- said Bureau of He 000 acres in Alaska about 1,000,000 are fit for farming. “But much of this land must be cleared,” of clea acre.” Well, waiting he said, ing is from $100 to $150 an| pioneers! for? “and the cost What are we - - ‘Love Refurns LONG BEACH, Calif, May stopped Frank L. Rector, 1 said never After 27 Years 10f Divorce loving 75, as applied for a license to marry Nel- lie him G.'he added JCIO-U'PW Convention' M. Rector, years ago. “She needs me and I need her,”| The wedding place “in a week or two 6, who divorced will take > 'Advocates New Party Lucille M. Converse has filed suit | ! for divorce in U. §. District Court! Almost wooded the a convention CIO-United CLEVELAND, May 7.—(®—A re- charging solution expressing fear of an Am-| cruelty. The complaint also asks for erican brand of Fascism and calling | an injunction preventing Converse |ior an “independent political party”} She also asks|was on for the return of her maiden name | the of Whittington and for $500 in per- | Workers today. sonal property owned jointly. They record of Packinghouse LI B third of Formosa is succeeding Warner W. | Gardner. | Presidential Secretary CI S G. Ross said Gardner is resigning Warne, who is 41, has been As stant Commissioner of Reclama-: Ition in the Interior Department {since July, 1943. | Before entering government ser- vice, Warne was a member of the {ton. Previously, he worked for the icahtorma, and on newspapers in San Prancisco, Oakland, Brawley land Calexico. . Strikebound ! SEATTLE, ‘May 7.—(®—Alaska | Steamship Company officials said itoday that the freighter Clove' { Hitch is strikebound at Seldovia, |Alaska because of a fishermen's| Istrike against the Alaska Salmon |Industry, Inc. They said the Clove Hitch was affected because she was carrying cannery equipment - - — - | e o o o o o o WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning In Juncau—Maximum, 62; minimum, 37, At Airport—Maximum, 58; minimum, 32, (Juneau and Vicinity) Fair tonight and Thursday with warm sunny days and cool nights. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 1.m In Juneau — None; since May 1, 49 inches; since July 1, 86.31 inches. At Airport — None; l® May 1, 33 inches; ® 1, 5443 inches. (R ek el el A VR TRR ) today) since since July . . . . . . . . ° . . . WEATHER FORECAST 3 . . . . . . ° . e . . . ° more than four billion pounds Stexl- | highly | more than 16 billions. And the.dol=i# Arrive from R Y bassinets, their cther nine children cff plane at La Guardia Field, after flight from Amsterdam. The family, said to be largcst to come to U, 8. by air, is en route to Bellflower, Calif.,, where Van Der Dussen will operate a dairy farm. (AP Photo) Brannaman Gives Warning To Veferans fo Gef a Job INFUNDS FOR ~ Before (oming Io.WAhlaska TERRITORIES AIDBILL ATTACKED IN HOUSE Efforts Being Made fo Shuny Whole Issue fo United Nations WASHINGTON, May 7.—M— The sharpest attack on administra- tion foreign policy since Pearl Har- bor imperiled the $400,000,000 Greek-Turkish aid bill today. Opposition forces in the House were throwing their full weight be- hind a move to shunt the whole is- sue to the United Nations, and the outcome was in doubt. A similar effort in the Senate | failed. But passage there had been a foregone conclusion for days be- fore the 67 to 23 vote on April 22 In the House, Republican ranks were split wide open as the Cham- ber was called together for the sec- ond day of general debate on a program termed by friend and foe alike as one of seldom-paralleled impertance i1 the relations between this nation and the world. - e — SWEDISH STEAMER GOES T0 BOTTOM AS RESULT OF FIRE SAN FRANCISCO, May T7—/®— The Swedisn steamer Frej rested in 23 feet of water in a shallow corner of San Francisco Bay today —a victim of fire and water. No casualties were reported. | Fire broke out shortly after the 1976-ton ship left San Francisco| pier last night. It was controlled around midnight, but the Coast Guard said tons of water poured | into the blazing holds caused the! Sweden-bound vessel to settle to the bottom | The Frej formerly the Stanley A. Griffiths, sailed from Seattle April 21 enroute to Gothenburg, Sweden, via Havana. | e | Cyanide gas has peen used el- fectively to kill rattlesnakes. WASHINGTON, May 7@ If you want a job in Alaska, go to Seattle to get it, is the ad- vice of Ray Brannaman of Denver, Senior Vice Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Brannaman has just returned from Alaska, and he says the em- ployment situation there, among venturesome young war veterans who have headed north with Xll-! sufficient financial reserves, is not good ! “Already the Salvation Army and| VFW and other organizations are having to take care of some of Brannaman told ! those ex-G. a reporter. “Costs ‘up there, for transporta- tion, food and everything else, are| just about twice what they are in) the States, and some of those boys| are in a hell of a shape. | “Even with spripg opening i up, | there’s not a world of jobs in Al- acka. The veteran who wants a/ job in Alaska can best get it in Seattle, where the Territory does most hiring,” hefore he| leaves. { “That of its way. Le providec ‘Brannama erans, civic officials at Whitehorse too, his passage will both ways.” i conferred with vet- leaders and Territorial Ketchikan, Juneau, and other cities. iie said Major General H. A. Craig,/ Commander of Military Forces in| Alaska, expressed concern over! national security in the north { “General Craig agreed that that! is our frontier—that three-fourths of the people in the world live, 'across the Arctic Circle from us,| and that out greatest chance of) invasion or air attack is from! the north,” the man who is in line to be the next VEW (-ummm:-; der declared. Brannaman was one of the vet- erans attending the recent en- campment of the VFW in Juneau and made several highly interest- ing talks while here. His warning indicates that he got down to facts while he was visiting various cities in Alaska to study tions. - -es STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau riine stock today is 4's, American Can| §1'2, Anaconda 3¢ Curtiss-Wright ! 47, International Harvester 82':, Kennecott 44';, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 16's, U. S, Steel 68%, Pound. $4.02%. Sales today were 600,000 shares. | Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follows: industrials 17249, rails 45.11, utilities 33.97 Route to California e condi- * c |the city corporation. 'NEW ATTACK VESSELS PLANNED BY NAVY Netherlands En RAIDERS WILL |BE EQUIPPED WITH ROCKE |Guided Missile Ships, {Strongly Armored, fo | Blast Cities, Bases | WASHINGTON, ™M™ay 7@ The Navy formally nnnoynced to- day it is setting up a special section to try to develop atomic powered warships. The announcement followed 2 |statement by W. John Kenney, | Assistant Secretary of the Navy, that future ships of the fleet may go into action so “buttoned up” against atomic radiation that not a man will be in sight. AL the same time there were signs that the Navy of the future | will take the shape of a force for | blasting enemy cities and land | bases rather than opposing fleets. Navy men say the battleship {may vanish in favor of a guided | ship, strongly — armored \for taking heavy punishment, ‘whh-h can move up to foreign coasts and pound inland cities and industrial centers with huge rock- L ets The department already is | converting two large craft for | tiring guided missiles. Cruisers may bow out in favor lof fast raiders which can bombard | coastal installations with rockets. The carrier may give way to | speedy interceptor ships bearing I pilotless aircraft whieh can knock down enemy guided missiles aim- ed at the United States, | An “attack-killer” class, with ‘terrific- fire power and ldaded with ‘anti-submarine devices, is expected to supercede today's destroyers. Sulmarines are expected to take on new functions in scouting, and the Officials( Others Seek Re- tiomiverer, /oo™ the Navy an- i | 1 | PROTEST CUTS i nounced last week plans to use SiOfaflon Of Sums for (undersea craft for cargo, troops i and reconnaissance missions in Ime"or Dep' | Arctic waters. Kenney said the Navy will send a small force to the Arctic for WASHINGTON, May 7/~ yeatner observations this summer. Government « officials and repre- sentatives of private groups urged a Senate Subcommittee yesterday to restore House-approved cuts in funds for the Interior Department. They testified after Secretary of | the Interior Krug told .the com-, mittee approval of House cuts in Interior appropriations from $295,- 000,000 requested in the budget to! $161,000,000 would ke “false econ- omy George W. Folta, of Juneau, took Alaska’s Governor testified that the oath of office this morning the Territories and Island Division 2 District Judge of the First Ju- is “invaluable” to the Territory in dicial Division. Although he had handling migration and other prob- Folfa Isiow inot desired any fanfare or fuss, lems. the courtroom was full of his He said it now is completing ne- |many friends and acquaintances gotiations for establishment of who went to witness the brief newsprint industry in Alaska, SHPRDY and to extend congrat- H. Rex Les, Assistant Director of Uations. the Division, urged restoration of _ After C‘;“; 0‘“ ':;e:"“'; ':flh‘: the budget figure of $189,900 to! VAlmer sohme ey g ! speed up work to make Hawail, ‘”:"f‘,_‘ e "“": d° : °pe'& b Puerto Rico and the Virgin Is- JUdBC'S many frencs step lands self-sufficient. [ward to express their good wish- - - ‘es Judge Folta said that he will lannounce his plans, within the Inext few days, for the reconvening jof U. S. District Court here. He {will also name a court reporter Paralyzing Strike Hits ypqep piusion London 'City’ FORSPANISHWAR ... VETSIS PROPOSED LONDON, May 7.--#—-The dead were unburied in the city of Lon- don today The y" is the mile-square, historic section of London which contains the big banks, the law the newspapers and maga- ate fish market and- ke by employees of WASHINGTON, May 7.-f— ! The House Veterans Committee ap- | proved unanimou today a bill to increase by 20 percent the pensions ‘of 185,000 Spanish American War veterans and their dependents. The bill goes to the House for action. Th cost is estimated at $27.450,- 000 in the first year. After that Street cleaners, bridge operators, grave-diggers and other public | deaths are expected to reduce the workers are involved in the strike, | 2mOUNt Spanish war veterans now get which is against the promotion of a fish market policeman to ser-|$62 @ month at the age of 62 and geant $75 at the age of 65. - > o — T iy TROUT ON EXHIBITION STEAMER MOVEMENTS | <. uis. beautiu steetnead trout —_— are on display in a showcase in Square Sinnet due about May 9.|front of Darnell's Sporting Goods Palisana due May 10. |store today. The fish, caught by Princess Louise is scheduled to|Ken Kearney and Jack Pasquan sail from Vancouver May 10. yesterday at Peterson Creek, mea- Aleutian due southbound May 9. sured as long as 34 inches.