The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 20, 1947, Page 2

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Tractors GARDENAID FOB Olympia (e — o RO Olympia, Washington Plow - Harrow - Cultivator - Disc — Snow Plow - Grader Tractor $225.00 POWERFUL NAVY BILL DERATED IN HOUSE Continuea from Page OTe Senate toda a $3,469,761,100 Navy appropriation bill over Democratic protests it means a 1orced reduc- ticn of 82,000 in the strength of the Navy and Marine Corps. Passage Was by voice vote. The sum is about 11 percent un- der the amount President Truman asked for the Navy for the 12 months beginning July 1. The cuts were made by the House Appropriations Committee Rep. Albert Thomas (D-Tex) led an unsuccessful figkt to restore the amounts cut off. -o e o o o o ¢ o WEATHER REPORT Temperarure for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning £ e . In Juneau—Maximum, 47; @ minimum. 41. At Airport—Maximum, 46; minimum, 36. WEATHL FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Partly cloudy and a little . cooler tenight. Increasing cloudiness Wednesday with light rain Wednesday night. Pi£CIPITATION s ending 7:30 1.m. taduy) Juneau — 73 inches May 1, 4.13 inches; July 1, 89.95 inches. Airport — 49 inches; May 1, 3.05 inches July 1, 57.15 inches. Past 2 In since since At since since $eeee0scccssecerOoese0ecoo 0 . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . BURGLARY 15 CHARGED Ray Faig was arrested here yes- terday by Ci Police and turned over to the U. S. Marshal to face prosecution on charges of alleged burglary. Faig is accused of break- ing and entering the Star Bakery last Sunday Faig was arraigned yesterday be- fore U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray and bail was set at $2,000. Date for 1 preliminary hearing will be set later. AN Al R Farming has been traced as far k as 3000 B. C. in Egypt. FIRST RUN JUNE 29TH? “OLYMPIAN HIAWATHAS petween SEATTLE-CHICAGO These great diesel-powered Speedliners will operate on a 45-hour schedule. Brand new equipment will include: # Touralux Sleeping cars—smart and differ- ent; luxury with economy. * Hiawatha Reclining Seat Coaches — with spacious separate lounge rooms. * Tip Top Gr + ™ and cocktail room. % Diagonal-seating Dining car with ample room for forty guests. Also bedrooms, compartments and draw- ing rooms in standard sleeping cars. Until June 29th, service to the East will continue to be provided by the eleetrified Orympian. Full range of accommoda- tions available. For reservations, ask your nearest Steamship Office, Travel Bureau, or R.E, Carson, General Agent and Union St. attle 1, Wash. Grill car with restaurant section MMILWAUKEE ROAD B e e i | 15 L L ECONOMICAL DEPENDABLE VERSATILE LIGHTWEIGHT EASY TO OPERATE IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Dired Faciory Dealer (oniracls Now Being Made Write for Information to: WESTERN TRACTOR MANUFACTURING CORPORATION -———— S e TSRS p—— T — | | | THE | ONE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT | _COMING UP! | ST B. VACCARO Newsfeatures WASHINGTON—A White .louse reporter’s principle need is a strong constitution, coupled with insomnia » ® and a distaste for family life. His assignment carries him many thousands of miles a year, to gay modern cities or to places steeped in history. What he sees most, however, are telegraph ofiices, hotel rooms and bellboys. His wife spends her time worrying, or wondering. The Washington corres covering the President may the finest of beds, but no time in which to sleep in them; the finest of food, with no opportunity to enjoy it; educational sights with- in walking distance and no chance to cross the street. I've traveled many thousands of miles with Harry S. Truman dur- ing his two years in the presidency and during his 1944 campaign for the vice presidency. We've rolled by train across the continent. We moved to and from Europe by cruiser and by smaller ship to Bermuda and back. There have been flying trips to Kansas City, to Key West, to San Fran- cisco and a dozen other places. I've seen a lot of water, a lot of sky and a iot of trackage. I've seen a lot of the President. The places I've been, however, are &£ By THE DAWN'S FARLY LIGHT-- ——— S\l THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA [ 3 THE —=— SACRED COW SOFTBALL LOOP HERE PROPOSED, FOUR CLUBS IN Organization of a local soitball league for this prospective summer season is now being fomented, with four teams already champing at the bit. Set to kegin to play are tens representing the CAA and the Vet- erans Administration. ACS Teen-Age clubs have signified their intention of going into the league; leaving opening for two or four more clubs—at least two are want- ed and | ' Airports for ~ Alaska Area | WASHINGTON, May 20.—(P— | Legislation to provide an $8,000,000 | public airpor: in Alaska, and a-$5,- | 000,000 airport for Fairbanks, has been introduced by Rep. Howell RES { The measures would direct the Civil Aeronautics Administrator to | construct both fields. The first one | would be operated by the CAA, ‘\Ahull could lccate it wherever it | thinks desirable, and the second | would be turned over to the city | of Fairbanks when completed. | For the Fairbanks tield, the CAA 1would build any highways and ! bridges necessary to reach it from Ilh(‘ city DU ‘COASTAL AIRLINES TRANSPORTS 280N ~ MONDAY FLIGHTS | Alaska Coastal Airlines sent out {two flights yesterday, touching at ! Sitka, Pelican City, Tenakee, Fish |Bay, Kimshan Cove, Cobal, Hoocd {Bay and Hoonah Passengers from Juneau to Sitka were Clem Pace, R. Fraki, Allie Lister, Ruth Glaser, Miss Malloy, to Pelican City, D. L. to Tenakee, John Asp. From Fish Bay to Sitka, Roy |Haisen; from Sitka to Hood Bay, |Jack Miller; from Sitka to Ten- Softball league plans call 1or|akee, Mrs. .Olaf Tang; from Chi- games at Evergreen Bowl, at 6:30 chagof to Juneau, T. A. Anderson; c’'cleck, evenings when no Gastin- |jromm Cobal, Lewis Drydahl and eau Channel League “hard ball” prank Cap. | games are scheduled. From Sitka to Juneau, Dorothy | Groups or individuals interested | Novatny, Esther Johnson, F. Nel- in entering other teams in the pro- {son, H. R. Blood, Maria Valle, Jo- ‘posn‘d Jeague are asked to contact Hagan, of the CAA, who may be reached at the Airport daily until 4 pm. Additional information may also be obtained at Darnell’s Sport Center. Softball proved its popularity here during war years when perienced eballers were too !scarce to maintain the regular dia- sephine Rener and R {son; from Hoonah, i - 27 INDICTED BY GRAND JURY FOR ELECTION FRAY osemary John- Lillian Austin i 1 ovever, 81¢ mond game at_satistactory : azy memories of speeches in ban- with last season’s revival of the | R A quet halls, stadfums and other “harq” game, the faster-moving| EANCAS CITY, M ke meeging places—of sleepless nights, softhall fell off in appeal. Bub,|Llc Jackson County grand jury to- of checking in at airports in the inose tounding the loop now pro- |2y Feturned 29fl:::n:«x,mm ingg ar] g V) 12 Persons E mne e darkness of early dawn. posed feel that there is plenty of | S S oAbyt i S 3 The life of the White Houge yoom for both games gohnsges rclileg g Yote, frau correspondent, despite the whirl Bt g oD {in the prima dut.u n here last that carries him to colorful dale- i 4 August. Blieies Tol. ke cRagieq lines for his copy, is not all am- o I I FI h‘ and details of the actual violations Yet the “gced trips,” as the cor- | respcndents call them, wipe out memories of the bad. | Take Bermuda. There, the cof-| respondents like to recall, they liv- €d “high up on the hog.” It was last summer. Huddled in a | crowded cabin on a destroyer es- cort, their sea jackets and heavy overcoats ready for the worst, they headed for New England waters with President Truman. They were following the presi- dential yach:, the U.S.S. Williams- burg. A few hours out of Quonset Point, R. I, they learned the ships course had been reversed. A couple of days later they were relaxing at’ Bermuda. Mr. Truman had returned there when the scas got rough. For a week the reporters had little to do but bask in the sun- shine, enjoy the naval base bar and roam around Hamilton, do- ing a little fishing and swimming in between. The preseat trip to Mexico City, however, was a nightmare for the White House press. Everybody loved the city, but nobody saw it. President Truman, always an early riser, moved about from dawn’s early light until it was bed- |time for even the more hardy stay-ups for three action-packed days. | The fourth day the President de- parted in his plane, the “Sacred Cow,” for the United States. Ev- erybody had to get up at 4 am. They had left Washington five days before at 6 am., after attend- ing the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents Association. ) The second day, after covering Mr. Truman’s visit with his mother at Grandview, Mo., they had taken off from Kansas City at 2 am. | ., 'FOREST SERVICE | MEN CONCLUDE 3 DAY CONFERENCE U. S. Forest Service Alaska Divi- sien Supervisors left Juneau today to return to their respective head- quarters. The six division heads have been in Juneau for the past three days attending a conference with top Forest Service officials At the meeting, plans were com- pleted for the renewing of mainten- ance work which has been neglect- ed during the war years. e ; ADDING MACHINE MAN H. Conrad Peck, iield represen- tative of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company office in Seattle, registered with Mrs. Peck av the Baranof Hotel last evening. y ed Of Pan American To Begin June 3 i SR MANILA, May 20—@— American World Airways announc- today that San Francisco flights to Shanghai via Guam have been authorized to kegin June 2 and that service to Bangkok via Manila xpected to be approved carly month. The airline plans Bangck tiip with eventually Korachi, it would meet lantic divicion Pending tional aids next to link Calcutta India, the compan: the and where s At- allation Hong of © Kong vaga- and it Singapore ard agreement with the Duteh Batavia, ojected American cn Pan said is delaying* flizhts to theee points. .o STOCK QUOTAIIONS NEW YORK, May 20.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 4%, American Can, 817, Anaconde 317%, Curtiss-Wright | 41, International Harvester 79%, | Kennecott 42%, New York Central | 12%, Northern Pacific 14, U. S.| Steel 63!, Pound $4.02%. | Sales tedny were 920,000 share Merrill-Lynch averages today are : industrials 163.60, rails es 32.28. { Stocks extended yesterday's ad-| vance by fractions to more than al point in a quiet session today. { Chrysler took the lead irom the | | WASHINGTON, {arrest of those named in | dictments. , The grand jury, which besan its { Investigation March 29 with a mass | of evidence obtained by the Kansas the in- of workers—on connection w:th the primary. charges fraud { In the first indictments, | judges and clerks were | generally with making turn of the true and lawful result,” |and others were named as acces- I sories to the alleged false returr the charged WASHINGTON, May 20.—(P— Senator Kem (R-Mo) asked the | Senate today to investigate what he called the “failure” of Attorney General Clerk and the Justice De- |partment to act on alleged ir- {vegularities in the primary last year in Missouri's fifth district. “Vote frauds cn a large scale DECOTO, California — A Wect- ern Pacific liner, the eastbound Feather River Express, has been wrecked at Decoto, approximately 25 miles southeast of Oakland, California. First accounts of -the mishap say that four train crew- men were injured The engine 2 baggage car were derailed. BERLIN The American and British military governors of Ger- many told the citizens of the reich today to stop striking and grumb- ling against the alli They said that the Germans should face the current food crisis with hard work and courage. HAMPDEN, Maine—A blaze in a farmhouse in Hampden cost the lives of two women and a five- year-old boy today. The dead are Mrs. Ruth Porter, her sister, Mrs. Edna Hudson, and Mrs. Hudson's son, Ronald. LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.— 2300 employees of the United Nations iwill get more pay beginning on June 16. The pay raises will go to all ff members except the v who receive $8,000 or more a year. The increases will range from $50 to $200 a year, with the bigger sums going to the lower paid workers. WASHINGTON— Former chair- man Andrew May of the House Military Affairs committee testi- fied at his trial that he purpose- ly represented himself as the own- er bf a Kentucky lumber com- pany to avoid labor troubles. May is aceused of accepting wartima bribes from the Garsson munitions combine, with the Iumber firm serving as the transfer medium. The one-time Kentucky congress- man maintains that the Garsson trothers actually owned the lum- ber company. FAETAEERTIE O BN SR DEMOCRATS MUST BECOME LIBERAL CLAIMS WALLACE 20.—P— an outdoor HOLLYWOOD, May Henry A. Wallace old audience last night that despite present global unrest “there is a b for las e in a world in which capitalism, socialism and Communism live side by side.” The former Vice President spoke in Gilmore Stadium where an en- larged seating arrangement for 27,- 000 was filled to capacity. Robert W. Kenny, Southern Cal- ifornia chairman of the Progr sive Citizens of America, in intro- ducing Wallace, referred to him as “the man for Many in the audience immediately responded with a chant: “Wallace in '48.” Turning to the domestic scene, Wallace criticized what he déscrib- ed as the “bi-partisan bloc” in the government. He declared it has no place in peacetime and he es- poused the two-party system, add- ing: “One of the parties—the Dem- ceratic party—must be liberal.” He also attacked the Thomas congressional committee Un- American Activities. Has Remedy For Juvenile Delinquency TRENTON, N. J., May 20.—®— One year of compulsory military training near the age of 17 was on TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1947 "COVERING" THE PRESIDENT Proposes Two BULLETINS Clothing White House Reporter Says fo Do the Job Right You Need Insomnia and a Distaste for Family Life Situation in Germany HAMBURG — (# — The German newspaper Hamburger Allemeine reported thet the total clothing coupons available for'the 430,000 population of Dusseldorf in one month - would have; bought two handkerchiefs, 26 men’s suits, 15 boys’ suits,| 33 workmen's overalls and three women's coats. The rationing director of Dus- seldorf commented that at that rate it would take a man in Dus- eldorf 98 years to get a new sui 18 years to get a shirt and 29 years to gbtain underwear. It would take 350 years to supply all the women of the city with coats | - e — " SHIPS NEEDED SAYS (10 - MSW ! WASHINGTON, May 20.—(®— The CIO-Marine and Shipbuilding Workers told a Presidential com- mittee today this country should start building 59 new merchant ships this year to keep American shipping “strong and profitable.” The five-man advisory commit- tee, named by the President to formulate a merchant = ship: pro- gram for the nation, is hearing the views of maritime labor and shipbuilding. men now. Earlier, it got the opinions of government agencies, including the Army, Navy ,and Maritime Zomm LURE OF NOR LURE OF NORTH - ATTRACTS SCHOOL 1EACHER AND WIFE HARRBAH, Yakima County, Wash. May 20.—(#—The lure of the north a has called Willlam Graham, school teacher here, and his wife They will sail for Alaska the last of August to open a school at An- chor Point, 16 miles from Homer, on Ccok Inlet. He has been Scout- master here of a troop of 40 boys and his wife plans to conduct re- ligious work among the children in their Alaska community. The vil- lage has about 20 white families. Tewish Sfi;@ue Reopeped, Munich MUNICH, May 20.—(#—A Jewish synagogue wrecked by the Nazis in 1838 was returned to the service of the Jewish pcople of Munich at dedication ceremonies today. It is the first synagogue to be reopened here since the end of the war. - i 5 R - ACTIVE THIEVES | | | SALT LAKE CITY, May 20.—@ | —Faiimont Park caretaker Eddie | Swift reported the theft of lawn isod from an area 15 by 15 feet. ! Bvidence indicated he said, that | scmecne backed a truck to the area, dug up the sod and hauled it away. “I ‘guess,” commented City Parks have again occurred in my home advocated last night by U. S. At- Commissioner Fred Tedesco, “we'll city of Kansas Cit the has the the part of the attorney general of Unitel States in failing to prosecute the guilty persons.” e LAST DISPUTE OF PHONE STRIKERS IS NOW SETTLED May 20.—(P— The last major dispute in the 42- day-old telephone strike has been settled. The Labor Department has an- the Association of opening and held it throughout the ‘ nounced that entire day. It opened at 95 and|Communication Equipment Workers promptly rose to 96, later touching |has agreed to the oifer of an 11 96% up 1% pointd. It held most of (and a half cents hourly average the rise and General Motors was wage increase for its 20,000 mem- s {bers. The employ have been up nearly a point. Other outomobile issues were firm. Steel shares held fractional gains throughout the session. Rails rose fractions to more than a point early in the day and held fractional gains. Norfolk & Western was up 1 point net. New York & Harlem lost 25 points early in the day in cne of its rare appearances and failed to sell again. DuPout and Dow Chemical rose more than a point each while Al- lied Chemical lost 2 points. Eas n:an Kodak was holding around the previous close despite declaration of a 35 cent dividend. During the session, new lows were made by Corn Products, General Tire and Johns Manville. Flintkote, | Radio Corporaticn and Sinclair Oil equaled their lows. e The annual consumption of oil in the United States is more than isoo gallons per capita. A ‘ R— | striking against the Western Elec- | tric Company—a subsidiary of Bell ‘Telephone. The company announced that it |will be ready to resume work to- bership must still ratify the agree- | ment—but that approval is con- |sidered a foregone conclusion. The | workers handle switchboard instal- |lation work in 42 states and their !union had been engaged in pro- {longed negotiations in Washington before today's settlement was an- nounced. Besides providing for wage boosts, the agreement contains a no-strike clause for the two years it will re- main in effect. - R FISH MAN IN JUNEAU Howard Morgan, representing the Harris Fish Company of Seattle, flew to Juneau yesterday and re- gistered at the Baranof. ! morrow morning. The union’s mem- | ces, especially Communism, among young people. Clark spoke at the first state- wide conference in the nation, call- ed by Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll, to map a coordinated attack on youth Northern Voyager, from Seattle, due tomorrow. Sailor’s Splice scheduled to sail from Seattle today. Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle May 23, calling at Ketch- ikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Sitka, Cordova, Valdez and Sew- ard. Grommet Reefer scheduled to sail from Seattle May 23. Princess Louise scheduled to sail |from Vancouver May 24. POLICE COURT FINES i Wally Diboff was fined $8 today {by City Magistrate William A. Holzheimer. Diboff was arreste\ yesterday by City Police and charg- led with speeding at the rate of 28 miles per hour. Arresting offi- cers sajd that Dibofi had been warned, on previous occasions, against driving at excessive speeds. Evangeline Miesenzhal was fined $25 by Judge Holzheimer for being drunk. e, 90 DAYS IN JAIL U. S. Marshal William T. Ma- honey reports that George Leslie Norine has been sentenced to serve 90 days in jail at Ketchikan. Nor- ine was charged with being drunk and with disorderly conduct. | | Aleutian scheduled scuthbound | {from west May 27. Kem told torney General Tom C. Clark as a have to put extra guards on the Senate, “and apparently there means of combatting juvenile de- city swimming pools to keep ’em been a dercliction of duty on linquency, and subversive influen- from stealing the water.” e GUESTS AT GASTINEAU Registering at the Gastineau Ho- tel this morning were the follow- ing persons who arrived here on | the Aleutian: O. W. Robbins from | Whittier, Calif.; George B. Me- | Michael from Nampa, Idaho. Peggy Lee, from Hood River, and Jean Eby from Portland, Ore.; Carl C. Snelling from Craig; and Roy Harris [rom Winchester, Ore. PR D SR ARRIVE BY PAA Flying to Juneau yesterday with Pan American Airways from Se- attle were Mr. and Mrs. R. C. {Rand from Hollywood, Calif. They are at the Baranof Hotel. i HIGHWAY IS OPEN G. H. Skinner, Chief Clerk of the Alaska Road Commission, announc- ed today tha' the Richardson High- way is now completely open from Valdez to Fairbanks. Skinner re- . ported that traffic began moving |over the regular route, Sunday, in- stead of detouring via Tok Junc- tion. ————— TWO FROM SITKA Miss L. M. Mills and Mrs. S. | Mattson arrived in Juneau yester- day by air and were guests of the Baranof Hotel last night, register- ing from Sitka. s g S The United States has produced twe-thirds of all oil used in the world to date. e SR U Texas has about one-tenth of the land area of the United States.