The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” s VOL. LXIV., NO. 10,587 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1947 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS T0 SOON OPENHAINES CUTOFF TO TRAVE TOP MAN FOR AID PROGRAM SOUGHT NOW Paul Hoffman, President of Siudebaker Corp. May Be Firsf Adm. HIGHTOWER May 23 —P— difficulty in By JOHN M. WASHINGTON, President Truman’s To Extend Hi MAY CURTAIL DUCK SEASON; |yond June President Asks Congress s Authority, (erfain Domestic Controls ‘ WASHINGTON, May 23. ‘Prcsuh-m Truman today asked Congress to extend for a year be- 30, his authority to domestic use and export few materials “to prevent control of a harm to our own economy and give | concrete to our foreign policy.” He said in a message it is es- support MOTHER OF TRUMAN 1§ - 'VERY WEAK' | to Remain at Bedside ; Indefinitely | — GRANDVIEW, Mo. May 23— Truman's “very (M—President ‘weak” mother showed no improve- President I\EyA Be Forced | T0 CUTBAGS findyag a top-notch man to run the tential to maintain domestic con- £ ivish ney American aid program in trol, by priority and allocation,/ment today, raising the possibility; Greece threatens some delay in [over tin, fibers and cordage, anti-|he may remain here indefinitely | g/tting the cperation underway. PORTLAND, Ore., May 23—(#— mony, cinchona bark, and quinine. unless there is a decided change; The State Department already islsharp curtailment in season and! Mr. Truman also asked (1) ;m_:for the better. d i reported to be acquiring a $100,000,- |bag limits on migratory waterfowl|port control authority over a few| Mr. Truman told reporters that 000 RFC loan to finance the start {hunting are expected this year be-|foods—fats and oils and rice and 9é-vear-old Mrs. Martha E. Tru-j of the $400,000,000 undertaking to|cause of dwindling duck popula-!Tice products; (2) import con-/man’s condition was *just about| buttress Greece and Turkey against|tion, sportsmen's representatives of |trols and export priorities on ni-{the same” this morning and that any extension of Soviet power over |Oregon, Washington, Idaho and trogen fertilizer; and (3) export she “didn't have a very 3"0“‘ those countries. [Montana were told here yesterday.| Priorities on key industrial pro- night. | But officials made clear that de-| Dr. Clarence Cottam, Assistant ducts needed for foreign recon- The President, tense and emo- spite the availability of money and.Chief of the U. S. Fish and Wild- struction and rehabilitation the authoriiy granted by Congress {life service, s; the program had | In asking import control over in the bill which Mr. Truman sign- |not yet been decided on, but that|fats, oils and rice, Mr. Truman said ed yesterday, nothing very substan- tial can be accomplished until an administrator is appointed takes over his duties. Diplomatic officials were hopeful this might be done today. But they were uncertain whether it could be. At least five men have been con- sidered but for a variety of reasons each has proved unavailable. In- side speculation at the moment centers around Paul Hoffman, President of the Studebaker Corp. WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period Ending T7:30 o'Clock This Morning In Juneau—Maximum, 49; minimum. 45. the reductions were in prospect The waterfowl situation is ser- and ious but not hopeless, he said, in necessary, outlining the reduction in number 'of birds from 125,000,000 in 1944 to labeut 54,000,000 this year. | He said an open season of 30 days, or less might be ordered, with daily kill limit on ducks of five |and a corresponding reduction in Ipossession at one time. Last year the bag and possession limit W two. “Gone forever are the good old \days of long seasons and big bag limits,” he said. BERING SEA s fallen. that the food situation abroad, |“continues to be desperate.” It is he added, that the American peoplé “do not add to the hunger of other people by im- porting more than our agfeed share of scarce foods.” | While fertilizer production has risen “spectacularly” since the war’s end, he said, the supply |available for foreign countries has Only in “special cases” cer- Itified by the Secretary of State, 'he added, will export priorities on !machinery and other “key indus- trial items,” be issued. 'HENRY KAISER CO. ENTERS LIMESTONE BOUNDSHIP ' “fieio i aLaska MAKES poRTlprommem western industrialist, in- | to the Alaska mining field, was re- i vealed today when Territorial Au ‘mr Frank A. Boyle granted permis- At Airport—Maximum, 49; minimum, 45. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Continued fair and warm tonight «nd Saturday. tional after a week made up of long hours of anxious vigil at her bedside, was torn between two roles. He important affairs waiting him in Washington, he feared the effects of his de- parture on the tired heart of his mother. His daily presence at her bed- side since a dangerous relapse a week ago has been a principal hope for a continuance of her will to live. had >, — — Katayama Is NewPremier For Japanese TOKYO, May 23.—P—Tetsu Ka- tayama, 60-year-old socialist lead-| er, was elected Japan's new pre-. mier by almost unanimous vote of the House of Representatives to- ~HOUSE FLOOR Are Menaces | | PRECIPITATION H . ! ‘mis- | night. st A CIATATION o o DANSCO, With Movie Men|uon o transact business within “Atter o week ot _political bick- In Juneau — .38 inches; |the Territory to the Permanente ering, Katayama received 420 votes - sirios’ May | 15824 Anches: Aboard, RUHS IntO | Cement Co., Inc., of Oakland, Cahf.‘w become the first Bocialist pre- since July 1, 91.56 inches. | Stock in the Permanente concern |mier in Japan's history, and the At Airi)ort — 09 inches: SfOl’m 0" COGS' | was listed as being owned by the first premier whose election was ! since May 1, 348 inchesj — | following concerns: The Henry J.|dictated by popular vote at lhe‘ since Juiy 1, 57.58 inches. . ASTORIA, Ore, May 23.—(®— Kaiser Co., The Kaiser Co., Gen- |polls. | The 104-foot vessel Dansco, report- | eral Construction Co. J. F. Shea | Katayama faces the problem of | e o o o o o o - — AT THE GASTINEAU Newly registered guests at the wastineau Hotel this morning were fjordy Bartow, United Trollers of Jaska representative, Sgt. L. E. Vells and Cpl. W. D. Olson from Izetchikan. « \/The Washington \ Merry-@-Round By DREW PLARSON l WASHINGTON—One of the am- azing things about the secret Na- val court-martial of Lt. Com. Ed- ward N. Little in connection with maltreatment of American prison- ers in a Jap prison camp is. that the Japanesc people have had ac- cess to the facts but the American public hasn’t. When the two <Jap prison-camp commanders, Capt. I. Fukuhara and Lt. K. Uri, were tried and executed for the brutal murder of American prisoners, the Japanese public was admitted to the trials and all the evidence was public. Little's name came up frequently as having contributed to the death of two men. In fact, it came up so often that Lt. Val Burati, in charge of Army press relations in Yokohama, pre- pared a dispatch on Little's activ- ities and sent it to Tokyo for press distribution. Except for a brief reference in the Nippon Times, however, it never reached the press. And today, though the Japanese ‘public has had access ‘o the facts, they are still being suppressed—at Com. “Little's request—in the court-mar- tial now being held at the Naval: gun factory in Washington. Sworn affidavits placed dence at the Yokohama war-crimes trials show that even the Japs thought Little acted like a tyrant. (Continued on Page Four) in evi-| |crossed over the bar and was mov- ing toward the harbor here at 8 am. today. The Coast Guard Cutter Ononda- ga had gone out yesterday on a 'report from representatives of IDansco Productions, a Hollywood {film company, that the vessel was overdue. It is to pick up camera- men and others here and head for ithe Bering Sea to get scenes ior a { forthcoming picture. | The Coast Guard at Eureka, | calif., reported that the 126-foot |diesel tug Island Navigator, which had been in distress off the south- Bay last night with one of its four | scows still in tow. Two Coast Guard {cutters were standing by three other drifting scows, awaiting calm- ler weather to put tow lines aboard. | still missing is the fishing boat | Governor, with three men aboard. {The Coast Guard has ordered a ‘check of all Coast ports where it {might have put in safely after leav- {ing Humbolt Bay May 16 for three-day trip north. iMormonE;i;I(—efi Swarm in Oregon ORDNANCE, Ore.,, May 23.—(®— | Reinforcements of men and equip- imem today intensified the fight jagainst billions of Mormon crickets |which had moved within six miles jof Hermiston, heart of the rich ir- rigated Umatilla river valley farms. | The Oregon Trail Highway was red with smashed crickets on a |two-mile stretch six miles west of (here but the march alongside the highway continued despite efforts of farmers and seagulls. e DOWN FROM SKAGWAY i Four persons from Skagway are | registered at the Baranof Hotel. They are Mrs Eula Thornton, Mrs. Alfred Ildred and Mr. and Mrs. M. !H. Wheaton, ern Oregon Coast, reached Humbolt | © ed overdue from Eureka, Calif, Investment Co., Utah Construction organizing Co., Clarelel Co., and the Morrison- Knudsen Co. These concerns have |all been connected with various | Kaiser interests from time to time. | The Permanente Cement Co. re- |cently purchased the View Cove | limestone quarry from the Superior | Portland Cement Co. This quarry is located about 60 miles from Ketchikan on the east coast of Dall Island which is located just west of Prince of Wales Island. According to a report published ilast week by Territorial Mining Commissioner B. D. Stewart, this quarry is now in operation and is shipping limcstone outside. as Territorial legal representatives {of the Permanente Company. 'U. 5. TRADE WITH . PHILIPPINE ISLES URGED BY McNUTT NEW YORK, May 23.—(®—Paul V. McNutt, who recently resigned as { American Ambassador to the Phil- ippines, said today that the ex- pansion of “a healthy and mutually | beneficial trade with the peoples {of ‘the Orient is a surer way of | promoting democracy in their lands {than the providing of relief to the | peoples or subsidies to their govern- ments.” In a speeck: prepared for a world trade luncheon, he said that the United States’ 18,000,000 friends in the Philippines point the way to itomers for American goods within !a radius of 1200 miles of Manila. ———,———— | IN FROM WESTWARD | ' Registering at the Baranof Hotel are Elmer F. Senkbeil and George and Mrs. B. J. Logan registered from Cordova and Wayne S. Jones from Kodiak. more than one billion potential cus- | 0. Black, both from Anchorage. Mr. | a workable coalition {cabinet with the probable opposi- tion of the influential Liberal |party headed by outgoing Premier | Shigeru Yoshida. i ———————— - SUPERFORTRESS " OF BOEINGS ON ~ SPEED FLIGHT SEATTLE, May 23.—(#—The Boe- | Arc” i day. ing Superfortress “Noah's |was flown to Salt Lake City, a | new unofficial flight speed record Boeing officials announced today. |Flying at 41,000 feet, ‘the big B-29 ?averaged 424 miles an hour, with jone stretch a: 472 miles an hour. i The high speed was incidental |to the purpose of the flight, which was work on an extensive high-al- Army Air Forces, a spokesman said. |Two earlier fast round-trip non- | stop flights were made to the Sar Francisco and Billings, Mont., ar ‘eas. P | Boeing test crews now have made 145 such flights and spent more than 70 hours above 40,000 feet, the \most of any such test groups in the world. | On one such flight, a temperature of 106 degrees below zero was found 40,000 feet above Seattle. e ——— BURIED TREASURE LOS ANGELES, May 23—®— | Housewife Vivian West was digging up a plot for flowers in her yard each the size of a pea. A jeweler told her they were cul- tured pearls. 5 sort of mysterious.” ‘, | The Juneau law firm of Robert- distance of 721 miles, in an hour| son and Monagle were appointed and 42 minutes this week for a| | |titude research program for the ,. yeg for trial either at Dachau taken up in the Council. | | | | | | | ] | when her spade struck an old fruit | Austin will serve out a former sus-| jar. In it were three small stones,|pended sentence of 180 days for sel- tanks this winter is considered so| RLS AT WORK—Lawana Ryan, June Morris and Jackie Greenleese (left to right) do this as part of Akron, O. They're testing new rubber life rafts. H. WALLACE IS Armed Bands CUTSMADE CALLEDDOWN, On Fronfiers ONBUDGET BY GOPERS : G1 their jebs at the Goodrich plant Balkans InvestigationfBridges Says Demo-Con- Commission Makes | gress Appropriations Report to UNSC to Be Lopped By ERNEST FISCHER WASHINGTON, May 23.—(P-- GENEVA, May 23— The 11- Senator Bridges (R-NH) said today nation Balkans investigation com- Republicans intend to cancel $1,- mission today formally signed a 000.000,000 in appropriations voted \report to the United Nations Se- by the last, Democratic-controlled curity Council recommending that Congress in the GOP drive to cut after telling the House he had read support of armed bands violating 1948 Federal spehding at least $4,- that the former Vice-Presidént re- Balkan frontiers should be consid-{500,000,000 below President Tru- ently referred to the House Com- ered a menace to world peace, sub-|man's estimate: mittee on Un-American Aetivities | ject to action by the U. N | ‘Bridges, chairman of the Senate as a “group of higof i American and Russian sources said | Appropriations Committee told Rep. Rankin (D-Miss) interposed there was no formal vote on this reporter a $641,832,000 fund trans- Is Termed 'Eorant, Vici- ous Unpatriotic Liar” by McDowell WASHINGTON, May 23.—®—| Rep. McDowell (R-Pa), in a state- ment on the House floor, has call- €d Henry A. Wallace “an ignorant, viedous, unpatriotic liar.’ He made the statement yesterday to say, “it has been suggested to/conclusion, but that nine nations fer the Republicans got through me that what Mr. Wallace needs is favored it. Russia and Poland!Congress yesierday by some fast a mental examination.” | were opposed. (tinancial foolwork “will help out.” ————— The informants alsd said that But he added the proposed $1,000,- |the commission approved 8 to 2!000,000 cutback in old appropria- tions will be ‘needed to make the savings the Senate has pledged. “I believe we can show a reduc- ‘and declaring and Albania and tion of $500,0%0,000 under the Presi- | Bulgaria were blaleworthy to a dnt’s $37500,000,000 figure if we | lesser Conditions within can hold the economy ling on Ar- Greece were declared a contribut- my, Navy, Agriculture and other ling factor. appropriations that are coming lN BAVAR'A‘ along,” the New Hampshire Senator ! LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., May 23.— M—The United Nations Balkans said . The old appropriations which the | Investigation Commission report signed today in Geneva is' headed for rough saiiing in the United Na- tions Security Council. There is a definite prospect that Soviet Rus- |sia mignt veto any condemnation of her Balkan allies. Battle lines on the report already have been crawn in the Council, |a section blaming Yugoslavia, pri- marily, for the support of guer- \rilla warfare in Northern Greece, degree. ROUGH SAILING proved in advance for actual spend- ing in the year beginning July 1. e e Siratosphere Balloon Flight Posiponed Year WASHINGTON, May 23— The Navy said today that a strat- osphere balloon flight originally planned for Mid-June has been postponed for about a year. official reason was given. Earlier announced plans were for Dr. Jean Piccard, veteran strat- osphere balloonist and scientist, and a Navy pilot to take off from Ottumwa, Iowa, in an effort to Eagerly Sofiht German Fugitive Captured Affer Two-Year Search MUNICH, May 23.—(M—Brig, Gen. Eric Neumann, principal ad- . g : jutant to Nazi Gestapo Chieftain where Russia and Poland stand Heinrich Himmler, has been cap- t any moves to condemn Yu- tured in Bavaria after a two-year BCSIavia, Albanig and Bulgaria in search by American War Crimes the Balkan border dispute. westigators, it was announced to-| .The commission is expected to ar- rive with its masse of documents The SS (Elite Guard) general early in June and the fight will has been one of the most eagerly CPED formally shortly after its ar- ought of German futitives. He rival ad been commander of Security! A prelimmary squabble ended Police in Holland and Belgium, last night in a Council refusal to and was combat commander of accept a Russian proposal limiting Nuernberg. ;the power of a sub-commission He was found using an assumed\len to watch the border while the name and working as a farmer Council acts on the full report. The near the Austrian border in the delegates decided furthermore to yeach 105,000 feet for studies of the neighborhood of Berchtesgaden. {hold up further discussion on the physics and chemistry of the It was assumed Neumann would whole affair until the report was stratosphere. | The present balloon or ‘Nuernberg as a war criminal,, The UN charter gives the Secur- cord is 72,395 feet. ut there was a possibility that ity Council full and complete au- jished in 1935 in an ‘ascent spon- e Dutch or the Belgians might | thority to decide what is a threat gored jointly by the National Geo- ask his extradition. "!o peace and just what to do about graphic Society and the Army Air ——a— . | Forces. MARSHAL BRINGS i i i 3 rRoM sitka o THREATENED FUEL SERVE SENTENCES'OIL SHORTAGE IS > STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 23. — Closing quotation today of American Can {is 89%, Anaconda 35, Curtiss- ¢ !p [ WINI w RR { Wright 4%, International Harvester U. 8. Marshal William T. Ma-, - 80%, Kennecott 44'%, New York honey returned to Juneau late yes'[ e o ISR R terday from Sitka with three px-l-”m’,‘i‘(’zmfizfllfi May 23.—P—Some “ and - home owners U. S. Steel 64', Pound $4.02'%. soners who nad been commitied 10 1, i, quay from John L. Lewis'| Sales today were 680,00 shares “ 4 2 bry !coal miners a few months ago are| Merrill-Lynch averages today are Comiissloner Ernest Dennis. |running back again for winter imw 8 follows: industrials 16695, rails Paul Milton will serve 90 days for |gyrance against a growing fuel oil 4287, utilities 33.18. drunk and disorderly conduct. Jack | shortage. TR " A 50 The specter SEATTLE FOLK HERE Among the guests at the Baranof ling liquor to a minor. His suspen- real by one big eastern market- Hotel last night were the following sion was revoked for violation of 'er that he is quoted as consider- Seattle folk: Gertrude S. Olsen, D. his parole. Nancy Aspen was sen- ing non-renewal of industrial con-!J. Buttles, Eldon B. Davis of Stand- | of empty fuel oil “I guess tacy're mine,” said Mrs.|tenced to serve 160 days for family tracts “so that preference can be ard Oil Company, Eldon W. Nicholl, West, “but I feel like a pirate— neglect, drunk and disorderly con- given to purchases for home heat- Thomas V. Young, Mr. and Mrs.|madge, of Athens, Ga., and will duct. Ted Snyder and E. R. Coar. ing.” No| [l altitude re-‘ It was estab-| BARTLETT - ANNOUNCES - DECISION Canadian A_rm_yWiII Main- {fain Part of System fo Interior Alaska WASHINGTON, May 23.—P— The Canadian Army will maintain Canada’s part of the Haines Cut- off of the Alaska Highway this }summer. delegate Bartlett of Al- {aska said today. He said the State Department informed him of the decision. The Cutoff runs from Haines, Alaska, through a section of Can- ada to the Interior of Alaska, con- necting with the Alaska Highway. It is the main artery of highway transportation between the two sections of the Territory. Canada a few months ago was ireported to be planning to aban- |don maintenance of the part o }the Cutoff running through the | Dominion. Bartlett and Senator Magnuson (D-Wash) protested to |the State Department. The De- |partment worked out the plan in | negotiations with Canada, Bartlett isaid. The Haines Cutoff is not expect- |ed to be open to traffic until late next month. This news was re- |vealed today in a telegram recejv- ed by Leonard Smith, Territorial {Highway Engineer, from Brigadier G. Walsh, Commander of the | Northwest_ Highway . System of Canada. + Walsh said that a erew is now fworking on clearing a passage through the roadway, but has met considerable snow at Mile 93. He |said, also, that the North end of (the highway is blocked by a three-quarter mile glacier. Walsh declared that Canada hopes to have the road open by ithe third week in June, but if ex- cessive damage is discovered to Ithe road, he said, it may not be opened until a later date. -eoe — Romneyls ~ Sentenced Republicans hope to cut represent | money which the last Congress ap-' | WASHINGTON, May 23—P— {‘Kenneth Romney, former House | Sergeant-at-Arms, was sentenced ’Lodny to serve from one to three | years irf Fed.al prison on a charge of concealing a $143,863 shortage in his office accounts. The sentence was imposed by | Federal Justice Alexander Holtzoff 'who said he was dealing leniently because the shortage occurred a ‘great many years ago and two oth- er people who apparently had some | part in it are beyond the law. | CUB SCOUTS, DEN 5, . NOT MEETING DURING - MONTHS OF SUMMER | | Den 5 of the cub scouts will not |hold any meetings during the sum- {mer months. Members of the group are Thorlief Snaring, Keeper of the Buckskin; Allan Engstrom, Denner; Don Miller, Frank Pera- trovich, Dick Folta, Denny Ryan |Leslie Sturm and David Gross; (with Mrs. Elton Engstrom, Den | Mother. | This Den has had an unusual | number of awards this year, having won second place at the December land January pack meetings; and \first prizes for the basketball tour- (nament in February, the Blue and {Gold Banquet in March and the | Marble Tournament in April. ‘Mrs.R. C.0'Byme " Is DAR President | WASHINGTON, May 23—(#— |Mrs. Roscoe C. O'Byrne of Brook- le, Ind., was elected President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution early today. She succeeds Mrs. Julius Y. Tal- serve for three years. =)