The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1947, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition “ALL THE NEWS ALl THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR el SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition [——= = VOL. LXIV., NO. 10, 582 MLMBl R / '\SSO( I H D I’RESS PRlCE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA; SATURD \Y, MAY I7 1947 T0 PROBE HOLLYWOOD RED ACTIVITIES TRUMAN GOES Cornea of Eye of Dead | Murderer Transplanted Salely fo 2 Living Men T0 BEDSIDE OF ILL MOTHER Signing of (;r;ék-Turk As- sistance Legislation Now Delayed WASHINGTON, May 17.—#— President Truman’s absence from | Washington at the bedside of his| mother in Grandview, Mo., will de- lay his signing of the $400,000,000 Greek-Turkish assistance bill. Eben Ayers, Presidential aide, told reporters today that Mr. Tru-} man had planned to sign the mea- | sure Monday or Tuesday. He said| the ceremony will be postponed | pending the outcome of Mrs. Mar-| tha Truman's illness. The President | flew to Grandview today to*be with | her. Congress gave final approval to| the measure Thursday and Mr.| Truman has 10 days to affix his signature and make it law. Mean- while, he is seeking a director ior the aid program, whose nomina- tion must be confirmed by the Sen- ate. Senator Vandenberg indicav.ed‘ Congress may close the door on fur- ther direct foreign relief with ap- proval of a pending bill, but he did not foreclose action on rehabilita- | tion and other assistance funds. The chairman of the Senate For- eign Relations Committee told re- porters without elaboration that he expects no further direct relief requests. However, it seems likely | President Truman must seek addi- tional funds for economic assistance for nations hard hit by the war. Korea has been mentioned as one possible recipient of help and oth- er countries are expected to line up with requests after the Pr dent signs into law the $400,000,000 Greek-Turkish as ace bill now before him. | A Senate-House committee agree- ment yesterday on the terms of the $350,000,000 relief measure will be, submitted > both chambers next week. Because of its terms, Con- gr is expected to take no action on a speciai United Nations fund to provide medicine and nourish- ment for Europe’s hungry children. COURT TERM IS SET FOR MAY 22 District Judge George W. Folta | announced today that the currem‘ term of the U. S. District Court! here will reconvene as scheduled on May 22. Judge Folta said, after scanning | pending court business, he can s_e‘ no reason for opening court be-K fore the date set by Judge Harry E.! Pratt. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PbARbON WASHINGTON — World travelerl Harold Stassen talked off the re-; cord to about 60 freshman Repub-} lican congressmen at the Army- | Navy Club last week. | Only one question hurled at Stas-| ren went unanswered. It was asked | by young Claude Blakewell of M)s-‘ souri: ® i “What do you think your chances | are for winning the Republican| nomination next year?” “ Inmediately Congressman - at - larte William Stratton of Illinois | int4rposed a point of order which | | . | | was' upheld by Chairman Abe Mc—\. Gregor Gotir of Idaho. Most of the evening was spent| in a review of Stassen’s trip | ® abroad. | “The Russian people hope to see things work out peacefully,” Sta: sen reported. “And I'm not so sure their government doesn’t feel the same way. One thing I did while I was there was try to inspect the| plants which I understood had been vifdl in supplying the Russian Army during the war. Most of them are today converted to peacetime production. 7 “For instance, the huge tank plant in the Urals, which made cne | of the finest production records of all Russian plants during the war,, e e _ (Continued on Page Four) ! | tow, BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA GOES DOWN {Once Mighl} Survivor 0 Pearl Harbor Attack: Takes Last Plunge SAN FRANCISCO, May 17.—{P— The battleship Oklahoma went |down for the last time today. The once mighty survivor of a sinking in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor plunged to the bot- tom at 4:35 am. (PST) 540 miles out of Honolulu in Pacific approximately three miles | deep. Abandoned by the Navy nghtmg ship, the 33-year-old v isel was under tow to an Oakland, as a Calif., drydock company for scrap- | ping. The Coast Guard announced there were no crewmen aboard. The Oklahoma, launched March 23, 1914, had been reported earlier as listing bacly and Young Broth- | ers, Ltd., Honolulu agency which handled her purchase for scrap, | had ordered the tugs Hercules and | Monarch, who had the ship under to return to Pearl Harbor ra- ther than try to make the main- iand. She left Honolulu last Satur- _ day. Little of the might remained for her last voyage. Her superstructure, including her anti-aircraft batteries, her 10 14- inch guns and 16 5-inch guns, was gone. Much of her mav.hmery however, including boilers remained intact. Torpedoed from the air in the Japanese air attack at Pearl Har- bor, the Oklahoma turned turtle in shallow water. She was righted | and refloated in May, 1943, and re- built. ‘The Moore Drydock Company or Oakland had purchased the Okla- {homa as junk for $46,000 &nd plan- | ned to begin reducing her to scrap |in June ANS Plannmg Move; Geeslin Investigafes) SITKA, Alaska, May 17.—®— Fred R. Geeslin, Acting Superin- tendent of the Alaska Native Ser- | vice, made a special trip yesterday w Mt. Edgecumbe, the former Na- |val base across the bay from Sitka, to study building facilities which | might ke converted into office space for administrative offices, now lo-| !cated in Juneau. Such a move is under considera- tion in an effort to curtail operat- | ing expenses because of a proposed budget cut for next year. . ¢ WEATHER REPORT ® Temperature for 24-Hour e Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning . ol ] In Juneau—Maximum, 44; ® ® minimum, 38. L At Airport—Maximum, 47; {® minimum, 39. . B WEATHER FORECAST . (Juneau and Vicinity) . . Rain clouds today and e ® Sunday. Not much change in e temperature. . PLECIPITATION . @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 v.m. today) @ . In Juneau — .33 inches; e ® since May 1, 335 inches; e since July 1, 89.17 inches., . . At Airport — 36 inches; e |® since May 1, 228 inches; o since July 1, 56.38 inches. . an area of the/ Oklahoma's former | ® ) parking ticket. POLITICAL BATTLEON ATPOLLS Special Democratic Pri- mary, Wash. State, LITTLE ROCK, May 17—®— The cornea of the right eye of al dead murderer was divided lnda}‘ ;bel\\een two living men | | The left eye was burned and renderéq uselss for surgiost wara:| Affracts Attention | plant, doctors discovered, when the murderfl'. Vollie Bill Bates, 20, of| OLYMPIA, \V‘\fih | Mena, Ark., was electrocuted - —National attention terday at Tucker prison farm for today on a special l!\e <la}mg of a hometown mx:mblpnrgm:, in shington's | Congressional District in two grafts of zh’fllstato Attorney General A Dr. K. W. Cosgrove, ! Troy, who labelled who with Dr. J. F. Henry, perform- |“Truman Democrat,” jed the operations, said. | Congressman “It will be at least 10 days be- | whose supporters |fore we know whether the opera- Henry Wallace's |tions are successful,” he declared |views, sought their after finishing the first transplant. nation. Michael F. Boucher, 73, retired| Savage has refrained from dis- Hot Springs, Ark., bricklayer, was|cussing Wallace in the campaign. |first in the operating room for the| The Democratic fight over-| |transplants. He was followed by shadowed interest in the Repub-! |Frank McCracken, 49, Fort Smn.h lican primary in which there are! piano tuner. Each had one eye !four candidates for the June 7 which transplants might help. |special election to fill the vacancy | The operations were performed in the House of Representatives, May 17—® was focused | Democratic | Third | wmehl Smith | himself a1 and former Charles Savage, said favored foreign policy | party’s« nomi: = 'W(- made good eye, moved \'mnl} after the execution.|before Leing defeated by Norman| Charles Ross - last year, said he was “for the loan| — ‘tn Greece and Turkey if it is used’ to feed hungry people, but I don't believe the money should be used {for political or military purpose: DESTROYS the Democratic conserva- | congressional nominee; Herbert = . _Isieler, of Chehalis, a former State | NEW YORK, May 17— NeW gopai0r gtate Rep. Thomas Hall, SLAVTIRAD ‘While {tive raction lent = support to Troy, Q'\mges campaign was aided by Lhe Progressive Citizens of Ameri-| ca_groups. The four-way Republican race is betw\en Russell V. Mack, Hoquiam ipublisher and formed Republican U. 5. Deelgatefo U. N. 5. C. York was in theoretical “ruins” to- | Wahkiakum dairy farmer, and 2 day after a mock raia by lou|Wenkekum dun tmen ot Tangled with Gromyko, Army B-29 Superfortresses Wit-f ot 5 9 nessed by milions ol persons 0| *Opservers torecast rather lght, Balkan Frontier Question George C. Kenney, commander orizgzel;?s‘mn?t 50,000 in the nine-| Ry SobN 7 bAnad 3t ithe Army Air Forces Strategic| y 3 3 3 LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., May 17. P—Russia and the United States |Command, says that “even though| {this force looked formidable . . . it vmuldnt last long in a shooting| today for a \h Tms force you saw today is| tions Security Council over a mobile and all right and it is| lav revolt against maintaining an (urley D!et international watch on the troub- led Balkan frontier areas. Representatives of the two pow- 17.—P—The €1s tangled yesterday over Yugo- slavia’s right to deli a “tirade |capable of dealing a real blow, but | for sustained operations it would not last long,” Kenney said in al network radio troadcast last night BALTIMORE, May pirony e, Tork. IMost Rev. Michael J. Curley, | About 130 B295—-representmz-Awhbu,op of Baltimore and 4sainst the Greek government in fevery plane of the type avallable,yr,cpingion, who held senior rank the council |in the United States for opera-| ... . other Roman Catholic' U. S. Deputy Delegate Herschel tional work at present—were muarchbtshops in the United States V. Johnson and Soviet Deputy For- have been in the armada yesterday)gieq pere last night at the age cign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko {but a score and a half were ""ior 67. traded sharp words after the }verted because of bad ‘weather. Archbishop Curley died without American interrupted a speech by ] |regaining consciousness, about an sava N. Kosanovic, Yugoslay rep- hour and a half after a cerebral resenthtive who had been invited hemorrhage, at Bon Secours Hos- to the council tatle to give his ~pltal Dr Frank J. Geraghty an- country’s views on a Balkan in- quiry group. As the Yugoslav representative reiterated charges that the pres- ent Greek government was respon- 1 ‘ Archbmhop Curley, who had giv-| | |en up public appearances in 1943, jas a result of an eye impairment, |listened to a radio broadcast at 8 sible for all border incidents along |oclock last night. A short time the fromtiers with Albania, Yugo- Fred Wyant, fox rancher at Te-later he was found unconscious on slavia and Bulgaria, Johnson in- :benkor Bay on Kuiu Island, has the floor, apparently having risen been reported missing from his|from his chair when the stroke home. Wyant, according to Steve | came. {Feist, of the M. S. Yakobi, which| The prelate, who became dehvers the U. S. mails to that|ninth archbishop of Baltimore in area, has not been seen for ap-|1921 and also first archbishop of proximately 40 days. Washington in 1939, was the only‘ Feist told U, S. Marshal Ma- prelate to preside over two arch- Ihoney today that Wyant had in-|dioceses in the U. S. He held structed him, the last time they!senior rank’ by virtue of the fact met, to leave any mail in his box; Baltimore is the primal see of the as he expected to be gone for a'Unlted States. terrupted: “Do we have to put up with !this tirade against the Greek gov- the ernment? I've never heard such an .astonishing statement made in the Security Council.” Kosanovic retorted: “Yugoslavia has a right to de- fend herself.” And then Gromyko declared: “I ask the United States delegate not to interrupt and let the Yugo- {few days. Since that time, Feist| He was born October 12, 1879, at :lav delegate speak.” said, the mail box has become full|Athlone, County Westmeath, Ire- Jjohnson ‘retorted land. | “I don not recognize the right |and Wyant has not returned. Marshal Mahoney asked the Em- N e, VPR of the Soviet delegate to tell me pire this morning to request any- b iwhen and how to speak.” Camouflaged Bom { with knowledge of Wyant's Gromyko shouted: one, " whereabouts, to contact the U. S. I1 suggest mte Ubnlll'fld Slates; Marshal - in Juneau ¥ I F dl 3op | delegate is not the arbite: | | | 1S Found; 3U PeISONS “coincu’ chairman attonzo - Lo-| pez of Colombia mmll\ managed to break up the heated exchange and instructed Kosanovic to con- JERUSALEX, 1-uy i7——Thir- 1, ye hijs statement, “although ity persons were detained for ques-'. me of it may not be relevant to tioning today after an unexploded ;o question.” bomb, camouflaged with netting| The council had been called into, and leaves, was found in a tree .ssion to debate a Soviet resolu- fork near the military courts build- jon demanding sharp curtailment ing in Jerusalem. of powers for an interim U. N Police said the bomb contained commission investigating warfare 67 sticks of gelegnite and 15 pounds along northern Green frontiers of rivets, and had two electric de-| P o tonators connected to about 20/ The Bible contains yards of wire. references to coal. WONDER WIVES | SAN FRANCISCO. Calif., May 17. | —P—The Wonder Wives are or- ® | ganizing to support the city’s traf- | fic safety campaign. The chief or- ganizer, Mrs. Forest Lee Jordan, ?ssid each Wonder Wife has driven lat least 10,000 miles without an ac- cident. Some—wonder of wonder&—have driven 25 years without even a ' Detained for Quiz numerous (left), Presidential \'vrrrl:lr\. and BRINGS OUT SHARP WORDS | showdown battle in the United Na- President at Associated Press Meeling Admiral William D. L F CONGRESS URGED \STOCKS N T0 ENACT 5-YEAR | NATL. AIR PLAN Healthy Commercial Avia- tion Is Vital for Nation's Defense, Is Claimed WASHINGTON, May 17—P— Oliver P. Echols, president of the | Aircraft Industries Association, has urged Congress to enact a fiv |year national air production pro- gram. He emphasized need of a “healthy commercial aviation.’ Echols told a Senate subcommittee that Jeadership is “placed in by lack of a national pol program should include pansion” for latest air said. Chairman airi jeopardy . "The rapid ex- weapons, he Brewster (R-Me) of ' the group which heard Echols as the first witness in a study told a reported in advance heatring that the nation's aircraft industry needs government help quickly. “Our hemispheric going out the window stalling around,” Brewster defenses are 7 we are declar- Gengral said ex- a reired Major Air Force procedures are out here is nezd for a production progiam. of the isting aviation of date and lcng range Under questioning by Senators af- ter reading a perpared statement,; is lhul_ Echols said the concensus Russia continued her wartime pro- ducticn after hostilities ceased and that she transferred to Russia the German aviation plants in her oc- cupied zone in Germany. Urging a boost for commercial aviation, he said: “An air transport system “ad a vigorous and progressive non- scheduled aviation, including priv- ate flying, are recognized by mili- tary authorities as vital compon- ents of national air power, and hence of national security.” - ,e [TEAMSTERS' STRIKE INPORTLAND ENDED PORTLAND, Ore, May 17-®— AFL teamsters prepared today to remove pickets immediately fol- lowing signing of a contract that |would end a four-week long strike that had tied up 66 drayage and warehouse firms here It calls for a 10-cent hourly wage increase, plus an additional 5 cens hourly for night work The strike had affected 1100 teamsters and held up delivery of| furniture, home appliances and| some 'magazines. | today’s market. of |4 EXTENSIVE HEARINGS PROPOSED TRe(ommendatiOns fo Be . Made to Full Com- | mittee in Wash. | LOS ANGELES, May 17.—(P—A | House subcommittee on Un-Ameri- |can Activities has concluded its in- | vestigation of Communist influenc- jes in Hollywood and Chairman J. (Parnell Thomas (R-NJ) says the | following recommendations will, be {made to the full committee in | Washington : 1.—An all-inclusive public hearing | be held starting June 16 covering ‘Hunns Eisler and others. -Launch a broader field inves- ‘ngnuon of Communism in the mo- {tion picture industry. 3.—Follow this with a full dress | public hearing either in Washing- i ton & Hollywood. - 4.—Public hearing beginning June 26 in Washington to air disclosures under local anesthetics and thejcaused by the recent death of Rep. of Viktor Kravchenko and others. | patients talked with the surgeons Fred Norman, Republican. | | Eisler, Hollywood composer, is & and Baptist Hospital attendants Troy, a World War II veteran, President Truman (center) shakes hands with Kent Cooper (left), Executive Director of The Associated brother of Gerhardt Eisler, charg- _|Dr. Cosgrove said. jhas made speeches urging the| press and Robert McLean, President of The Associated Press, at the annual luncheen meeting of The €d by the group as “No. 1 Soviet i chl::”:) bt f;:,e'in:gg: e i ‘:‘;’;{;am‘i‘;”:“"’é‘fl‘,a‘;‘e’_' Associated Press at the Waldor-Astoria Hotel in New York where the President made a nationwide radio 480t i the United States.” Kray- o en e adly o They were re- who served one term in Congress| 2ddress urging the prices be lowered as o move toward forestalling |m|~il;|d- recession, In background are ‘pl‘fl‘“:;m‘-"’"g‘:mm'mm’:myw;‘l‘:“: Leahy > p (AF Elinw) member of a Soviet purchasing commission in Washington in 1944. Both appeared before the commit- tee here. Thomas declared the week-long hearings produced “recorded testf- mony that the White House exerted its influence on certain people in Holl»wood to have certain pro- year. ;’ Russian motion pictures filmed ary, 1945 T0 COME HERE cents to more than $2 a share in der heavy pressure. Advisor Arnold, Others 1945. Total losses for the week were | Volume of 980,000 shares topped WOrthY Advisor of the Order of Territory of Alaska, will arrive in developments was rated by brokers " "0 0 pot T Lkl in during the regime of the late ing Pri 'GRAND OFFICERS |Closing Price on Average J NEW YORK, M.fly 17.—(M-—Heavy Important Visit Will Be It was the second At the (hm- pri on the average i the largest for any similar period | Announcement was made today short session for, more than a Bainhdw: (REfls, Yok L' Biai Investor pessimism in the face of Juheéau on the Princess Louise on as the main reason for the fresh ' Alagka., Miss Arnold will be ac- Pwsldem Roosevelt.” Lowest Sincein Janu- RAINBOW GIRLS, selling knocked down stocks a few faay in a row that prices were wn- . Made by Grand Worthy were at the lowest since January, since September last year. Lhat Miss Margaret Arnold, Grand of Washington and Idaho, and the business uficertainties and [ort-ign‘MBy 87, for her first official vis- sethack. companied by several other Grand s R Officers, and the group plans to it fly from Juneau to Anchorage; a“ o e Fairbanks, and then to Ketchikan !with four or five days in ‘each city. Miss Arnold and her offi- |cers plan to return to Seattle in sufficient time to complete the ar- rangements for the Grand Assem- bly. which will be held in Ta- coma, commencing June 22. Plans for the Rainbow activities during Miss Arnold’s visit in Ju- neau will be discussed at the Rain- bow meeting tonight, and a special ek £ & meeting will be called for May 24 :l.ny band played the Australian y, complete arrangements for the {folk song, “Waltzing Matilda,” the ;0 7y is expected that the i}l!zf'los::ooli:m;:’ile‘rLfodan%:i'nd":: Grand Officers will conduct the ows- Htax. saveral oo Yaoke| Oty " Savioe mna with Kl Swarkad " thal" tiey: wete® dn® % confer the Grand Cross of Color % Degree on those Rainhow Girls who Given Yanks At Sydney S¥DNEY, May 17.—®—While a %s}‘i‘i‘:‘””h;‘"‘;{) and to behave them- . ve yoceived this honor during s r shore. the past several years. Before they were turned loose in Complete details will be announc- Sydney’s amusement centel the ed later. imen were given a brief talk on st GONC e Sl . T |moral guidance by the American Center and initiated into the mys- they were told meant, babe, plonk, -_— cheap wine; shivoo, party; and Aleutian scheduled to sail frem hloody “teeut, mwell Seattle today at 10 a. m. call- | b e SRR | WHIZ FISH CO. MEN IN ing at Ketchikan, Juneau, Yaku: tat, Cordova, Valdez and Seward. Sailor's Splice scheduled to sail from Seattle May 20. Alaska scheduled to sail from at the Bar-|gesttle May 23, calling at Ketch- ikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau. Sitka, Cordova, Valdez and Sew- ard. Princess Louise scheduled to sail Mr. and Mx\ J. Thomas Crowe, from, Vancouver May 24. residents of Visalia, Calif., regist- PSS — lered yesterday as guests of the| Many authorities state that coal | Baranof Hotel. Juneau’s weather is is the greatest natural resource Jcooler than Visalia's, in the werld aside from soil. Tke Alhadeff and Mike Goodman, with the Whiz Fish Company of Seattle, are registered anof. COUPLE B FR()M VISALIA