The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 20, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 10,584 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1947 MEMBLR ASSOCIATED PRESS PR(CE TEN CENTS NORTHERN STEAMER LINES GIVEN SHIPS NAVY BILL DEBATED IN HOUSE Represenlafi; Thomas Takes Exception fo Pro- posed 10 Percent Cut | WASHINGTON, May 20.—(®—| Rep. Albert Thomas (D-Tex) said| today the Navy and Marine Corps will have to discharge 82,000 men if Congress accepts the 10 percent cut the House Appropriations com- mittee recommended in funds that| President Truman asked for the Navy. | In a prepared speech as the| House started debate on the Navy| appropriation bill, Thomas said tie Navy gave him that information. Proposed cuts in pay and sub-| sistence items, he contended, will| cause a reduction of 70,000 in the| average enlisted strength of the| Navy during the coming year, and| 12000 in the Marine Corps. i The effect will be a force “en-| tirely insufficient to carry out the Navy operating force plan,” Thom- as said, adding: “During these troubled times I\ doubt the wisdom of these substan- tial cuts. Maybe twelve momhs hence, after world conditions clarified, these cuts can be sub— stantiated by even going deeper. But, at this particular time, I do! not approve of the chances we are taking.” On the other for Greece, Poiand, China and t FABULOUS (ROP WINTER WHEAT, SCON BE MOVING Railroads ang Tough side, Rep. Taber (R-NY), chairman of the appro- Problem as Harvesiing priations committee, called for co- ordinating of activities ~of the Ge's U"derway Army, the Navy, the Air Corps, the Marine Corps and the Maritime Commission. “No one of tnes( crganizations dovetails into the picture or pro- gram of the other,” Taber said in a statement. “The interests of national defense absolutely de- mand that this coordination take place.” ! If it does not take place, he de- clared, the appropriations commit- tee will “proceed with the opera- tion of coordination.” CHICAGO, May 20— Rail- roads which soon will start to move the first billion bushel. win- ter wheat crop in the nation’s his- tory reported today that their boxcar situation was improved over last year. However, they agreed that transporting such an enormous ameunt of grain will present a “tough problem.” Within the next ten days har- vesting of this fabulous crop—be- \lieved to be the largest any na- WA:HOI‘;SG?JP‘:SSE‘:YB';;‘_W_ tion ever produced—will start in The House passed and Sent to the c:o 3 ¢ tinued on Page Two) Harvesting will progress norin- oo pmies LY ward through Oklahoma, Kansas| ,and Nebraska, and when it is over, around mid-July, a whopping store jof wheat will have been added to the food supply of a world desper- |ately in need of bread. Agricultural Department officials 1estimated the crop, as of May 1, Merry: Go-Round {would total 1,025,789,000 bushels, By DBEW PLARSON but private reports since that date WASHINGTON—In all the sar- have said the outlook had furth- castic tPos$-examination of the'er improved. Large demand and State Departinent’s art program, it|high prices are expected to en- is interesting that no Congressman | courage farmers to ship the wheat ever Lt . Yo inquire about the as soon as possible. effectiveness %ot these art exhlbhs‘ —— .- in building ‘friendship abroad. Actualy, had any Congressman FAM“_Y OF FlvE i inquired, he would have found that A Casaibelcrskis’ Beeoign | BIKB 'I'o SEA'[“.E Minister Jan Masaryk personally opened the exhibit with a speech‘ praising Amcrican art, while Pres- | FROM FI.A Towu ident Benes spent several hours| studying the pictures. Apparently | they appreciated the State Depart-| SEATTLE, May 20—®—On a bi- ment’s selecuion, including the fat|cycle rig built for five, Mr. and circus lady, even if the Republican Mrs. R. K. Parker, Winterhaven, Congressmen from the wide-open Fla., and their three small children spaces of Norfolk, Nebraska or the rested today after a six-months, 3,- famous prison-city of Auburn, N. 429-mile trip across the country. Y., didn’t. oy i ‘They left Winterhaven November In the Western Hemisphere, e 13, art show was equally well received.| Parker said that while on a war In Haiti the public st.rfn‘merl l:io :ge Joh in Alaska he passed through it. One .Cuban art critic sai € here and wanted to return to the show demonstrated that the United northwest. To his objections that States was atile to contribute to the | | “if it n't for the kids, we could cultural riches of man as well a5 go on bicycles,” his pert wife re- to his material riches. : \phed “Heck, we can do it with the Even befors Congress cut his ap- kids.” propriation, Assistant Secretary of | He bought two kicycles and at- | State Bill Benton, worried over the tached them side by side with a scowls of Auburn, New York’s Con- rigid frame of iron bars. A sup- gressman Taber, Ls:criflcued LeR(:y‘pornng canvas between held seats Davidson, onc of the nation’s out-|for Dick, 8, Vonnell, 2, and Dwight, standing art collectors, who was iv““L They shipped their extra clothes charge of the State Department’s and baggage about 200 miles ahead | art prs:je"cl. g::a btoth foniesi:ifig‘o( them, and averaged 45 to 50, the ate rtment al miles a day. bombarded with protests from lead-| In Texas, an automobile wrecked* ing museums, artists and laymen|their rig when it was parked and all over the country, many of whom |in Los Angeles their second set of charge that the attack on modern |bicycles wore out and they bought The Washingion ert is identical with similar moves'two more. by totalitarian regimes in Italy| e et and Germany before the war. Note—President Truman, who| Most radios do not reproduce thinks no art after 1800 is really sounds in more than about a third (Continued on Page Four) by the human ear. { TRACTORS FOR OVERSEAS _ First sh 5 is inspecte he Phili re: Fighter Plane Pilot Bails Out at Sea fhen Fighs for Seven Hours fo Save Life ECLIPSE OF SUN CAUSES DEEP NIGHT (lear Weather Prevailed| Making Observa- tion Successful BOCAIUVA, Brazil, May 20.—/— A total eclipse of the sun occurred here today in clear weather, which promised success for the prepara- tions of a large group of American scientists gathered on a wooded plateau at Bocaiuva to witness the phenomenon. The eclipse was not seen in the northern hemisphere. (A broadcast heard in Rio de Janeiro quoted Prof. C. C. Kies the U. S. Bureau of Standard: saying “the total eclipse observa- tions at Bocaiuva were 100 percent successful, pending of cours velopment of the film: broadcaster remarked during period of totality: here; even the the “It is deep night sun is black. The sky is midnight blue, and there are bulham stars. This Famlly Lived in Fine Style on N.Y. Relief Money NEW YORK. May 20—P— ‘Mayor William O'Dwyer, learning that the city has been paying more than $600 a month since De- cember to house a relief family in a midtown hotel suite and pro- vide its food and clothing, has |directed the Welfare Department to re-house such cases “as quick- ly and humanely as possible.” The status of the family came to light yesterday when the 35- year-old unemployed father was called into court to explain the truancy of cne of his five chil- dren. .- AT THE HOTEL JC]\EAU New registrants yesterday at the Hotel Juneau were Gordon Parting- | ton from Anchorage, Agnes Schlos-' sner from Fairbanks, Robert Clark |from Sitka and Albert Frank from Angoon Miss Kate Smith, field worker with the Alaska Native Service, re- | turned yesterday from leave in the of the range which can ke hcard states to her residence in the Hotel | speed as high as 25 miles Ehoux { Juneau. inment of 1,000 tractors bought by UNRRA | d by Frank Cohen at Empire factory. Pbila, PLANE CRASHES STORM IN ONT. Three U. S.Xr?ny Air Force | Officers, Two Enlisted | Men Are Killed WINDSOR, Ont., May 20—®— Three U. S. Army Air Force offi-| |soaked wheat field near here last| night when their twin-engined C- 45 Army Transport plane went| IN ELECTRICAL 'down during a severe electrical| storm. | The five flyers were bound nom‘ . Wright Field, near Dayton, Ohso,‘ ito Selfridge Field, Mich,, and were lonly a few minutes from their des- | }timuon at the time of the crash. ‘The ermy identified them as: First Lt. Willilam C. Reilly, 24 Milwaukee. San Diego, California. First Lt. Milton D. Cunningham, 24, Centralia, Ill. M-Sgt. Pearl H. Zempter, Ohio. { | |" First Lt. Raymond L. Berke, 2, i 29, of | Sciotoville, burg, Tenn. - —— SAVAGE MACKIN | . POLITICAL FIGHT IN WASH. STATE - ' Nominated at Special Ele( “fionto Fill Vacancy in | * U. S. House | OLYMPIA, Wash,, May ZO—lM* Former Dermocratic Cm\grc‘ssman Charles R. Savage, squaring away ITCHELL FIELD; N. Y. May A battle for survival in the dark wat of the Atlantic was told here today by a P-47 fighter plane pilot who parachuted into the ocean last night and fought to in- flate his life raft while entangled |in the shroud lines of his para- 20. —i@ | chute. | with Republican-publisher Russell | | V. Mack in one of the nation’s first | The pilot, First Lieut. Hubert W.!tasts of 1947 political sentiment, Galner, 31, of Freeport, N. Y., Who termed his nomination for Wnsh- was reported in good condition at | the station hospital here, was \wmhed ashore at Breezy Point in \lhu Rockaways at about 4:30 am. (EST), almost seven hours after he year-old Savage said results of the catapulted frem his plane. | Saturday special primary indicate Gainer, vhosewifeisin the Pan- the voters “intend that the tide of jama Canal Zone where he is at- ,eaction shall be turned.” 1 tached to the 36th Fighter Group,| wmack, 55, publisher of the Daxly‘ told otficials here he was enroute washingtonian at the seaport city | from Maxwell Field, Ala., to Mitch- of Hoquiam, issued a statement im- ell Field when he ran into bad wea- mediately upon being assured the [ ther between Washington and New |nomination assailing what he term- | York. led the “left wing” foreign policy The weather buffeted the plane!yiews of Savage. | so badly that some of the instru-| The special election was called ments went cut and jhe radio py Governor Wallgren (o select | worked only irtermittently, Gainer nominees for the post left vacant said. Ity the death of Fred Norman, Re-! He attempted to land at the tiny | publican. The final election will be' Kings Park field in Suffolk County held June 7. on Long Island but was unsuccess- ful in four tries. Gainer finally reached Mitchel Field but his gas supply was toc low for him to fly the ground ap- proach control pattern necessitated by the bad weather and he was given a bearing which would take the plane out, to sea and he was or- | dered to bail out ington State’s third district Con- gressional seat to be “the nm. step back toward sanity.” An avowed ‘“Progressive,” the 41— Savage defeated State Attorney | General Smith Troy and Mack was in a four-way Republican race. | 'GROMYKO ISSUES VEILED THREAT ON ATOM POWER, 'Declares Monopoly by Any! One Country of ‘Tem- porary Character” | NEW YORK, May 20—(®—An-| NEW METHCD FOR JAP REPARATIONS | ~ ISNOW PROPOSED WASHINGTON.’ May 20.—(P— The Allied Nations said today they drei A. Gromyko, USSR delegate to may take Japanese reparations the United Nations Securi/y Coun-| from the Empire's current indus- eil, says that an atomic weapons' !rxal production as well as from monopoly by any one country cau‘ its capital assets. |be only “of a temporary character” In a policy decision by the Far' angd “in reality, such monopoly is! Eastern Commission, Allied gov- an illusion.” erning body for Japan, the Pacific, «who knows?” Gromyko asked.| |victors said ‘“reparations shall be «Tne time may come when the exacted through transfer of Japa- country, at present occupying a nese capital, equipment + O more 1avorable position in this re- goods as may in future be Pro- gpect than other nations, will find | duced. ; |itself in the same, or maybe even | The decision, approved May 8. ;i o less favorable position in com- | ‘but made public only today, con- |parison with other states in the! 'smutes a departure (rcl_'n the Pol field of the development and per- icy of the Western allied nations|goiion of certain dangerous kinds regarding reparations from Ger- o weapons if such weapons are ;jmany. There under the Potsdam not prohibited.” ‘agreement and over Russian OP-| “mye peputy Soviet Foreign Min- {position, it was decided that re- |y giccusced the United States' parations should be taken O"Wapparent atomic “monopoly” and {Fromy caplml joods. {Russia’s objection to American pro- Sg. John H. Kennedy, 40, Lewis- ! | that Mrs. {an imn, Ito tell reporters that Mrs. ‘ i | 0 posals for international inspection a and control of atomic energy de- an' velopment at the annual dinner of the American Russian Institute. E An elephant can move at for short distances. Idenfical Twins Marry cers and two enlisted men were| § plunged to their deaths in a rain-|§ Margaret (left) and Adelaide Schenk, Frank twins, clasp hands after bands are in business. Molher of Truman Had Bad nghl Mind Is Clear as Indicated on Arrival of Margaret at Bedside By ERNEST B. VACCARO GRANDVIEW, Mo., May 20.—(#— President Truman’s gravely ill mo- ther rallied slightly early today af- ter a bad night. The President told reporters as he left his hotel in nearby Kar City, for a hefore-breakfast walk, Martha E. Truman, 94, “is all right now, but she had a kind of bad night.” He has abandoned all hope for immediate return to Washing- He looked solemn and worried as he gave his brief report to news- men withoui elaborating as to his mother’s bad night. Returning from the walk, Mr. Truman drove to Grardview to spend another day with his mother. The elderly Mrs. Truman, whose occasional rallies have been offset by unfayorable changes during most of the week was growing percep- tibly weaker Margaret Arrives ‘The arrival of Margaret Truman the President’s 24-year-old daugh- |ter, so encouraged the elderly |grandmother that Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross was able Truman was “somewhat better” last night. The President himself, looking tired and drawn, retired early in | his Kansas City Hotel Muehlebach apartment, telling reporters he wanted a good night's sleep in or- der to be able to spend all of tomor- row with his mother. Margaret, cancelling singing con- cert engagements at Pittsburgh to- night and at Cleveland Thursday, drove immediately to her grand- mother’s bedside upon her arrival here by plaie yesterday afternoon. Her father was overjoyed when the elderly Mrs. Truman, growing steadily weaker from the after- maths of a hip fracture suffered in (Continued on Page Thrc»:) their marriage at Glendale, (AP l’hnlm Krug Wanis American Flag on Ships Serving Terrilories of U. S. A | VESSELS ARE @ ASSIGNED T0 . ALASKA RUNS Two Steamship Company { Officials Make An- nouncement SEATTLE, May 20—®— Two |Seattle steamship company offi- {clnls who arrived yesterday from | Washington, D. C. after confer- ences with the United States Ma- i |1ine Commission, announce assign- /ments of ships to the companies 'ror private operation in the Se® !attle-Alaska trade under the new interim shipping arrangement. L. W. Baker, general manager of |the Alaska Steamship Company, 'said the commission has allocated 16 ships to the company under the agreement signed in Washington recently, | The vessels are the Alaska, the | Aleutian, Baranof and Denali, | passenger ships, and the Viectoria ‘now a freighter, which were com- imandeered by the Maritime Com- mission in May, 1942; the Coasta! | Monarch, Diamond Knot, Jumper |Hitch, Reef Knot, Rose Knot, Square Knot and Terminal Knot, all dry-cargo type freighters, the Victory ships Harold D. White- head, Peter J. McGuire and Ed- mond Ballet, and the troop carrier Cape Victory. 8. J. Swanson, general man- ager of the Alaska Transportation Company, said four ships, the Northern Voyager, Sword Knot, |Clove Hitch and a full refrigerator ship, the Grommet Reefer, will be delivered to the company for pri= vate operation when they complete their present voyages. J. D. Reagh, Secretary of the ® Santa Ana Steamship Company, announced that the Coastal Rider has been chartered by his com- WASHINGTON, May 20— - pany from the Maritime Commis- Interior Secretary Krug urges that sion for operation between Seattle “not less than half” of the Mer-'and the Kuskokwim River district. chant Marine which serves U. S./The vessel will arrive in Seattle o i 21-year-old identical twins and (second from left) and Aronld Britschgi, 32, also identical Calif. The | Territories be under the Ameri- from San Francisco May 26 and can flag. |depart for Bethel on the Kuskok- Krug, in a prepared statement wim about June 1. Reagh said on the observance of National that present plans call for two Maritime Day next Thursday, said round trips in this trade. the occasion has “important sig-! As announced by William Semar, nificance” to more than 2,700,000 general manager of the Northland American citizens in the territor- Transportation Company recently, les. |this company has been assigned He pointed out that Hawa:i and four dry-cargo and two refrigera- Alaska are “Bastions of Defense” tor vessels for private operation of the ncrth, while Puerto Rico!in the Seattle-Alaska trade. and the Virgin Islands guard the AT Pk i o e 1HEA[TH Blll liable merchant marine service can lNTRoDU(E provide a sound civilian economy,” "t e sure of continuing tnis' Legislafion ‘Will Follow trade under all circumstances, not Suggestions Made by Truman in Message less than half of the vessels should ! be under the American flag.” | eee - | | ASKS ACQUITTAL FOR 22507 ot 8-t |Senator Taft, (R-Ohio) said today the Republican-controlled Senate 28 WHIIE ME“ FoR’hns no place on its 1947 schedule \for the *“long and bitter battle” | Federal Health bill. l This rejection by the GOP policy ittee chairman of President GREENVILLE, 8. C, May 20.— Truman's (#—Defense counsel appealed to a attention to the development and Greenville county jury today to enactment of national health and cused of lynching a negro, and was accompanied, however, by a assailed “northern interference” promise of early hearings on the With the suggestion that the Dem- question. hoped “to get votes in the nurl]\ which he heads, in a crucial election” by prosecut-! ling to testimony ing Southerners. in a few days. lv“("l“fi oF “EGRO[that would be required to pass a }comm appeal for “immediate acquit 28 white men who are ac-disability insurance programs” ocratic national administration| Taft said the White defendants, most of them, Senator 'Murray The breakdown in trade between the mainland and the territories/ early in World War II, under the imract of submarine attacks and! the withdrawal of neutral hhlppmg “clearly demonstrated the need | for a strong American Merchant Marine,” Krug said. | “For the territories, only a reA labor committee, will start listen- on health needs (D-Mont) an- Greenville taxi drivers, chewed nounced he planned to introduce gum and chuckled from time to/a bill today to carry out most of time as counsel referred to the the suggestions made by the Presi- negro lynch-victim, Willie Earle,/dent in a message to Congress yes- and at one point linked him to|terday. “a mad dog” that should have been| e the court v\amed’BA“D mGKE Is At -the outset, defense counsel they could not| om' plead “justification, mitigation or| S(“mum' excuse” for the brutal lynch-mur-| The Juneau City Band will prac- der. tice tonight at 8 o'clock in the But defense attorney John B.|High School Gym. Special marches Culbertson shouted “Willie Earle will be given the once over for the is dead and I wish more like him|Memorial Day parade, according to were dead.” Director Joseph Shofner.