The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 22, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1947 VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,586 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — | Historic U.S. Foreign Policy Bill Is Signed TAX CUTTING MEASURE UP ON MONDAY Senate Will Take Vote on Motion to Postpone Ac- tion Until June 10 WASHINGTON, May 22—P— The Senate agreed today to vote at 3 p. m. (EST) Monday on a motion to postpone action on the $4,000,000,0000 intome tax cutting bill until June 10. ROPOSES BOOST INALLOWANCETO VETS AT COLLEG 'House Committee fo Make | Recommendations for | Increase in Pay | WASHINGTON, May 22—(®P— Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers (R- iMass) chairman of the House Vet- ferans committee, said today that a subcommittee soon would recom- P STRIKE ON ¢ RAILROADS UNDER BAN | Five Big Unions fo Bargain Out Demands Forestal- ling Showdown WASHINGTON, May 22—(®— | | | i (10 TROLLERS T0 MEET HERE NEXT SATURDAY Stalematedfiirad Nego- tiations fo Be Taken Up with Fish Buyers KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 22— | P—Possibility of a strike of CIO- | trollers in Southeast Alaska was lseen today with the announcement that all locais of the United Trol- | | [ i | |mend a boost in the subsistence jallowance of veterans attending ‘college under the G. I. Bill of iRigh!s. | Mrs. Rogers appeared before the The Senate gave unanimous con- |House Rules Committee to uppeflli sent to the request made by Sena-!for floor action on another mea- Five big unions prepared today to|lers of Alaska will meet in Juneau bargain out their demands on theismurday to discuss their future ac- railroads under procedures which!tion regarding stalemated contract will delay any strike shutdown for negotiations. perhaps six months. The UTA filed a 30-day notice A. F. Whitney, President of the of intention to strike recently and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, | the notice expires June 2. i 1 | 19KILLED, (RASH OF AIRLINER | | l Incorrect M;;Show ing Height of Mountain Is . Cause of Disaster MANILA, May 22 —(®—Wreck- | age of & luxury air liners carrying até least 11 Philippine government officiels and a crew of seven, Wwas found today on a mountainside! on Mindanao. All aboard were be- ! lieved dead. ! Incorrect maps which show tow- tor Millikin (R-Colo), floor man- ager of the bill. Senator George (D-Ga), author of the postponement motion, said the voting time was satisfactory to him. & Democratic Senators were wheel- ing up their heaviest artillery to put the George motion over. Re- publicans admitted the outcome will be tlose. Marzani Convicled By Federal Jury on (ommlflisi Charge WASHINGTON, May 22—®— A tederal court jury today con- victed Carl A. Marzani of conceal- ing Communist affiliations while employed by the State Department. Government witnesses at his trial testified that under the name “Tceny Whales” he was an organ-| izer for the Communist party in New York City in 1940. —— > — WEALTHY ALASKAN DIES IN SEATILE SEATTLE, May 22—(P—Edward J. Mathews, 81, wealthy Alaska mine owner who lived at the Rain- ier Club, died yesterday. He had iived here and in Alaska since 1900. He was a former president i i 1 Elhan the present $65. ‘get i child. isure which would permit an in»ltn]d reporter: crease in the ceiling componsn-[ 1. The railroad labor organiza- tion for veterans participating in'tions feel they have a legal right on-the-job training programs. ito call a “quickie” strike any time She and Rep. Ramey (R-Ohio), after Sunday—but do not plan to chairman of the subcommittee,|do anything of the sort. said a bill will be approved with-| 2. He believes his union and in a few days to give sirigle vet- four others allied with it will agree erans in college a subsistence ax-lm “start from scratch” under the lowance of $75 a month rather)time-consuming Railway Labor Married vet-|Act in their negotiations for erans, who now receive $90, would |changes in 44 working rules. $110 and $15 extra for each! 3. He thinks this should result ;in “a settlement or a breakdown Mrs. Rogers told the Rules Com-|of negotiations by Nov. 1." mittee that the present ceilings| Whitney's statement at a com- are so low that many veterans bined dinner and new conference were refusing to participate in thellast night jibed with the stand of program. She quoted Veterans Ad-JAlvanley Johnston, who said the ministrator Omar Bradley as esti- same thing in Cleveland regarding | | cosi about $149,000,000. ! gineers. The committee had before it a| measure by Rep. Kearney (R-NY) {which would raise ceilings on wages 'and allowances for some 600,000’ veterans who are training for jobs: by working at them. ‘ i ety B "FREEDOM TRAIN" T0 TOUR NATION jmating that the increase wuuld}hu, Brotherhood of Locomotive En- | Myron Dean, representative of the International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America, with which the UTA is affiliated, said |the Alaska union has been nego- |tiating with 1ish buyers fur a con- tract for weeks. The negotiations 'have met wiEh no progress, he said. > 2-YEARBAN ON STRIKES, STEEL MEN President fifiip Murray Issues Orders Approv- ed by Directors ARNING ISSUED BY | FOREST SERVCE ON | CARELESS SHOOTING W | ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, May 22.| {P—A two year ban on strikes or- |dered by United Steelworkers Pres- |ident Philip Murray paved the |way today toward what he said iwould be uninterrupted production lin the nation's steel industry and 'WITH DOCUMENTS Rededication fo American Principles Is Plan for ering Mt. Katanglad in the wild Bukidnon plateau region as 7,800 !feet, instead of its actual 9,500' feet, apparently brought disaster: ‘to the plush-lined, twin-engined aircraft on the mountain's cloud- obscured northern slope. | It was the personal plane of | President Manuel A. Roxas, who ordered Maj. Gen. Rafael Jalan-; doni, Chief of Staff of the Philip-: pine Army, to fly to the scene and | direct operations. | Col. Edwin Andrews, an Ameri- can who was chief of the Philip- ’pinp Army Air Force, was in| (command of the plane. — - "NO PRECEPTIBLE CHANGE", CONDITION TRUMAN'S MOTHER| 1 (President Shows Strain at| L Confinual Presence at Bedside GRANDVIEW, Mo., May 22— —President Truman said today| Three Cancer Specialisis (omjllg Her DEAN B. SEABROOK, M. D. Professor of Surgery University of Oregon Medica! School 5 28 WHITE MEN ACQUITTED IN NEGRO KILLING Verdicts Refurned in Mass Murder Trial in South Carolina By ROMNEY WHEELER GREENVILLE, 8. C, May 22— | P—Twenty-eight white men were }acqumed at their mass murder { trial last night of charges that they riynched a 23-year-old negro. The verdicts were returned last night in Greenville's County stif- |ling courtroom after a nine-day trial unprecedented in southern history. The state had demanded GREEK - TURK AID BILL IS SIGNED NOW Truman Puls_SignaIure fo Measure Designed fo Fight Communism KANSAS CITY, May 22.—®— President Truman today signed the $400,000,000 Greek-Turkish aid bill setting in force a historic American foreign policy of bolstering weak countries against outside aggression as a “support” to the United Na- conviction—but ndét death—against ' tions, I the alleged murder of Willie Earle,| | who was taken from Pickens Coun- | ty jail before dawn Feb. 17 and f-lynch:‘d in reprisal for the stabbing {of a white taxi driver. Agents of the Federal Bureau of | Investigation and local and state, i police moved quickly into the case land within 24 hours had incrimin- (ating statements from self-acknow- | ledged members of the mob. Even- jtually, 26 defendants signed wun- sworn statements, admitting to po- lice that they had helped take the (negro to an old slaughter pen where he was bludgeoned, slushed and shot to death. 1 A County grand jury indicted 31! | [men for murder, conspiracy to com- | 'mn murder, and of being acces-| ,sories both before and after the| jfact. All were brought to trial in| { Greenville criminal court. Three| ‘won directed verdicts of acquittal.| R R Communism i He called it “an important step )in the byilding of peace” and sald it offered “proof” that the United States will make “a vigorous effort to help create conditions of peace.” “The conditions of peace,” he said, “include the ability of nations to maintain order and indepen- dence and to support themselves economically.” The President, his face drawn and worried after anxious days at his mother’s sickbed read his state- ment to a group of reporters. Looking un from the text he de- parted from it once to reiterate that the bill “is a step for peace and support of the United Nations.” “I can not emphasize that too strongly.” He also signed immediately . an executive order transferring certain administrative aythority to the Sec- retary of State. Ross said that the appointment of an administrator of the pro- gram was “being worked on in The Assistant Regional Forester | {of the U. S. Forest Service, Charles G. Burdick, announced today that | he is sending out a letter to all summer home site permittees cau- tioning them against the careless and promiscuous use and discharge i ,of firearms. He said his office has internal economic af- Cities Visited i L | fairs. | WASHINGTON, May 22—®— pyrray, holding down the dual Attorney General Tom Clark said ;oo of United Steelworkers Pres-| today *“a pusitive and demanding jqent and head of the parent CIO, need has arisen in our country for jssyeq the no-strike orders last country’s American heritage.” |union’s 41-man board of directors of the Keewalik Mining Company at Candle, Alaska, and president of the Fairhaven Gold Dredging Company, also in Alaska. A broth- er and two sisters survive. The Washington Merry - Go- Round | By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Last week's clos- ed-door conference of Republican Senators was one of the hottest in several months. It was one of the regular meetings of all GOP Sena- tors to discuss general legislative policy, and it was featured by a; scrap between Ohio’s Senator Bob Taft and Oregon’s Wayne Morse. Finance Committee Chairman Eu- gene Millikin of . Colorado also put ; his foot in it. In fact, Millikin paved the way for the forensic fisticuffs by an- nouncing that it was essential that a tax reductivn “be driven through.” The Democrats intend to delay the tax bill until all the major appro- priations are made, Millikin said, adding: “We can't be sucked in by those tactics.” | “I want the support of this con-l ference,” continued the big Color- ado Senator in very demanding tones, “I want to know if there is any man in this room I can’'t count upon to vote for immediate con- sideration of the tax bill.” Senator Wayne = Morse, Dean of the University of Oregon Law School and .chairman of the ‘War Labor Board, immediately rose ! to his feet. | “I want to say to the gentleman,” | replied Morse, “that here is one! member of this conference from whom he can have no commitment. The people of Oregon sent me here to vote on the floor of the Senate, not in this conference. “I want tc hear the debate on the whole question before I make up my mind. There are several Democrats for whose judgment on these fiscal matters I have high re- gard, and I want to hear what they have to say. “Further, I'm not yet ready to conclude that the Democrats are simply playiug politics on this whole matter, while my Republican col- (Continued on Page Four) former | received many complaints from persons who have narrowly escaped serious injury or death fronw the indiscriminate use of firearms in Forest Service areas. Burdick pointed out that it is il-} legal to use firearms near camps, | residences, recreation areas and over lakes and other bodies of wa- ter adjacent to other persons. He .stated that, if it becomes necessary, his office wiil use its power to pro- hibit the use of all firearms in Forest Service areas unless more care and good judgment is exercis- ed in the discharge of firearms. Burdick stated that his office does not wish to prohibit the use of firearms as long as they are used with discretion. He sent the[ warning to all permittees and in-{ formed them that they are also| 'responsible for the conduct of | guests on their property. Clothing Drive for Alaska Natives Is | Underway, Seattle SEATTLE, May 22—(®—North- west Airlines announced a cloth- ing drive. today for needy natives. {of Hooper Bay, Akuluarak , and {Holy Cross, Alaska. Northwest said: it will fly the clothing to Alaska; free of charge. Collection boxes| have been placed at . Northwest office here. Capt. Paul Thrush and Chief Stewardess = Corinne i i 1 ( i H i To meet it, he outlined to a White House gathering of promin- | ,ent citizens from all parts of the \was “vital to preserve the integ- but that she was “a little restless: ! i nation plans for sending a “freedom ! train” across the United States. at their biennial meeting here. Murray said the no-strike rule the wage recently-concluded agreement which| rity” of two-year It will bear the Declaration of he described as “one of the most Party raised the possibl.my of his i { Independence, the Bill of Rights, notable achievements in the an-|return to Washington within a rew|| I the Emancipation Proclamation and jnals of our nation’s collective bar- days if Mrs. gaining history.” ——eo—— — JUDGEFOLTA | matters were disposed of during | | other treasured historical documents | ito be viewed by citizens in every | i section. | “The freedom train” will be made MAY GIVES MORE up of a number of exhibit cars, and will probably be on tour for a | year, visiting several cities in each | IESTIMO“Y TRIA[ state in the course of a 25,000-mile | 4 journey. - i In each community, it is planned ! ovER WAR FRAUD to have “a week of rededication to ol L American principles” just aheadl of WASHINGTON, May 22.—®— the train'seaEstesl, {Ex-Congressman Andrew J. May| At least 200 clties will be visited. | testified today he tried to speed| laction on a wartime army com- HolDS mission for a New York investment |tanker, after he had been in-| formed that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt | FIRSI (ouR' TODAY |was one of the banker’s sponsors. | The former House Military {Committee chairman told a federal U. S. District Judge George W.!jury that the banker, Harvey L. Folta was on the Federal bench for |Schwam, was introduced to him the first time today when he re- at the Washington hotel by muni—i convened U. S. District Court this tions maker Murray . Garsson. The | morning. Several routine ex-party latter -and his brother, Henry Garsson, are on trial with May on the brief session. Judge Folta an-|war fraud charges. | nounced that, in compliance with| He also told the jury that a de-| a March ruling for District Court sire to see “justice done” had procedure, Fridays will be set aside prompted him to appeal to Gen. for decisions and for the hearing {Dwight D. Eisenhower to intervene of motions. |in wartime court marital proceed- Due to the absence of Miss Mil-|ings against Capt. Joseph Garsson, dred K. Maynard, court reporter, son of Murray Garsson. He said who is out of the city receiving|he twice wrote in 1945 to Eisen- an “opportunity for stabilizing our there was ‘“no preceptible change”| in bis 94-year-lold mother's con-: dition. | Despite the optimism of his per- sonal physician, who says the eld- erly patient has a chance for re- covery, the President’s usual cheer- ' | | emphasizing the blessings of the njght in a letter approved by the ful smiles were missing during the | The President said| his mother had a ‘“reasonably good ! night” in her new oscillating bed,: brief audience. this morning.” | Some members of Mr. Truman’s; i can continue the slow improve-/ ment noted by Brig. Gen. Wallace' H. Graham since a setback Sun- day. The President gave no 'indica- tion that he shared General Gra- ham’s optimism. He showed the effects of the ! strain. . A The President'’s wife,. Mrs. BéSs Truman, arrived by train from} Washington, last night. They had dinner with. their daughter, Mar-: garet. The daughter cancelled singing| engagements at Pittsburgh and Cleveland this week to fly to hes grandmother’'s bedside. ———ee U. 5. AMBASSADR DIES JUST BEFORE LEAVING FOR POST | i | | Martha E. Truman:| WILLIAM Y. BURTON, M. D. Acting Head, Dept. of Radiology University of Oregon Medical Schoot I i WARREN C. Hcad, Department of Pathology University of Oregen Medical School HUNTER, M. D, A cancer control program Alaska is now underway and in line with this a most important clinic will be held in Juneau next Monday and Tuesday. Consulta- tion " sessions will be held, made possible through allotment of Fed- | | . Infrenched, | Washington today.” | ity ANTI - AMERICAN RESOLUTION- LONDON, May - 32.—(®—Labor Party leaders, girding for a show- down with a leftist rebel bloc at next week’s annual party confer- ence in Margate, declared today that the aim of British-American Hollywood | understanding is to prevent war. | “The Labor Government,” the WASHINGTON, May 22— ruling party’s leadership said in a !Rep. McDowell (R-Pa) said today, booklet published today, “does not 1a House Un-American Activities propose to take sides in a lineup Isubcommittee had uncovered evi-|for the next world war.” idence that a “ring” is sneaking| The bcoklet, entitled “Cards On | Communistry from Mexico into the the Table”—a phrase much favored | | | i i United States. | !gotten into the films. {pared to name the film and who McDowell said the subcommittee salso found “Communism deeply !intrenched in Hollywood and the ! movies.” || “It was a highly successful trip,” |McDowell said. “Communism has ,got it in and how. “It was put over cleverly, The are not to blame. The We are pre-| | by Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin —was designed in part to disarm caustic leit-wing critics of British foreign policy, who contend that Britain is snubbing Russia and |-aligning herself too closely with the United States. Konni Zilliacus, one of the lead-" jers of the ‘“rebel” Parliamentary | delegation in the Labor Party, dis- closed 'yesterday that five party . units had drafted an anti-American for! pulled over their eyes”| resolution for submission at next e .° ‘. 4 R .:week's five-day conference in Mar- 3 b gate. | b e - — | WEATHER REPORT ° e Temperature for » 24-Hour o “o(x o"o]‘"o"s ;@ Period Ending 7:30 oClock e © ; This Morning L am—— NEW YORK, May 22. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine o |Stock today is 4%, American Can '89, Anaconda 343%, Curtiss-Wright 4%, International Harvester 81, | Kennecott 44, New York. Central o |13%, Northern Pacific 15, U. S. .lsuel 65%, Pound $4.027%. Sales today were 950,000 shares. Merrill-Lynch averages today are o |88 follows: industrials 166.73, rails o | 4268, utilities 3295, 3 In Juneau—Maximum, 47; minimum, 42, At Airport—Maximum, 46; minimum, 41. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with inter- ® mittent light rain and south- o easterly winds 10-20 m.p.h. ® tonight and Priday. Slightly ® warmer Friday. . PRECIPITATION L] @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 v, toduy) ® 1 Stocks extended their advance for e In Juneau — 92 inches; ®| the third session today, rising e sfhce May 1, 536 Inches; e|270und half a billion dollars in re- since July 1, 91.18 inches. » Sponse to several good dividend an- |Juelson are in charge of the dical attention, id | Neive: ! medical attention, the judge said {no contested cases will be heard| funtil her return on June 10. | Judge Folta set June 24 as the opening date for the iSetchikan court term. - e—— \BASEBALL GAMES e S FISHING NEW Three halibut boats landed their catches this morning at the Juneau | Cold Storage. They were the Cur- ( 1 lew, under George Kenny, with 17,000 pounds; the Thelma, Bernt| poslpo"ED- RAI"‘ Allstead, 11,000 pounds; and thel [} | Mabel K. Lester Wiess, s,oool | ! pounds. | An Associated Press dispatch to, | ———,————— the Empire this afternoon said| MARRIAGE LICENSE i that all of today’s scheduled Major | , League baseball games have been | Raymond E. Packard and lflr-lpcstponed by rain, just like in Ju- | {ene L. Hamil have applied to U. 8., neapn. |Commissioner Felix Gray for li-! —_———————— cense to wed. Both are residents of! The first regular newspaper ad- Juneau. vertisers were booksellers. hower, then Supreme Allied Com- |review the case. mander in Europe, to urge him t e — heart attack suffered Feb. 6 by O. Max Gardner, 64, in New York| iphysicians on early diagnosis and | therapy. Consultations will be held| (FIVE KILLED IN ieighl hours before he was to sail to the Court of St. James. " STEAMER MOVEMENTS persons were killed and two others Alaska scheduled to sail fronr injured today when a four-engined Seattle May 23, calling at Ketch- army transport plane from wnght;nkan, ‘Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, field crashed and exploded in a|Sitka, Cordova, Valdez and Sew- field about four miles east of Day- |ard. ton. Names of the dead are] Grommet Reefer scheduled withheld pending notification of sail from Seattle May 23. relatives. | —_— ,—a— !from Vancouver May 24. Colombia has the world's larg-| Aleutian est production of emeralds. Ifrom west May 27. CRASH OF PLANE to | {for England as U. S. Ambassador | lon pre- and post-operative cancer cases, as well as pre-cancerous ones. Conferences on oral cancer will be held also with the den- tists. Local residents will be benefitted {but must first have authorization for participation from their family physician. e e | VET OFFICIAL HKERE (omngunisl Question LONDON, May 22—(P—With the British watching their dollars so carefully, the question arose in the House of Commons today : Where do the Duke and Duchess |of Windsor get their dollars to !travel in the United States? . | The question was raised by Philip ! Piratin, one of the two Communist {MPs. He linked it to an observa- ition that British citizens legally Frank R. Clayton, with the Ter- are limited to $300 each for rorelgn!cwk. Princess Louise scheduled to sail|ritorial Veterans Administration ()I-Eu'svel But the spokesman for the and Mrs. Willlam Johnson, and BRYAN, Texas, May 22—P—jeral funds to the Territorial De-'® nouncements, william S. Howell, 54, business'partment of Health. $7 AV AlpoeriT R TRORIEL: W/l T i ol thy A man, attorney and veteran of the! The specialists (cuts above) are:® Since May 1, 339 inches; '{‘wuh Pullma: dnel e‘ Hpeeing. U. S. Diplomatic service, died to-|professors at: the University ofj® Since July 1, 5749 inches. .;announcemenzaor AvIng oantph day, one-half hour before he Was|Oregon-Medical School. The clinics|® ® ® * ¢ ® @ (3 i o %’!"‘;:m"m o to leave for South America to as-|have or are being held in An- APy o S ) [on. o€ &' raks o; $57.50 o sume his new post as U. 8. Am-|chorage and Fairbanks, and Ju- | ngoramg dividend i bassador to Uruguay. {neau will have the clinic nexL.where Does Duke o'jed larger elt‘s e B Y ;‘40‘;"‘" Of Bryan saidweek, then Ketchikan will be visit-{ so 0 Bt b T o How ed of a heart ‘attack. !eq. | i i . Howell's death recalled the fatal' Lectures will be given to l,mjwuldsor Ge' F IlndS |S Galns In coppers ranged to more |than a point in Anaconda, with . American Smelter up 1% and Dome }Mines up nearly a point. Tire | shares held up well in spite of an | announcement by Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward of a tire | price cut. | Goodrich rose more than a point. Montgomery Ward and Sears Roe- buck were higher, the last rising unearly a point. AL R GUESTS AT GASTINEAU Registering as guests of the Gas- tineau Hotel are Mrs. Truman E. from Sentinel Island; Mr. |fice in Ketchikan, arrived in Ju- | British Treasury refused to say Mr. and M:s. Philip P. James of the Baranof Hotel. | their dollars, scheduled southbound neau yesterday and is registered at!where the Duke and Duchess ‘get | Hoonah; and Myron A. Dean from ' Ketchikan.