The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 27, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS s VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,590 College Sweethearts Face Trial, Murder Case NEW HOUSING Four Alarm $200,000 Fire TEEN - AGER ' DRAWING OF | AGENCY SETUP IS PROPOSED President Truman Asks Congress for Creation | of Organization | | WASHINGTON, May 27.—(M——\ President Truman has proposed to | Congress the creation of a com-! pletely new housing and home fi- | nance agency to handle virtually an ! government activities in that field. In a special message, Mr. Truman 1 said such an agency “will unques- tionably make for greater efficiency | and economy.” His plan would scrap the existing , National Housing Agency (NHA)' which coordinates present housmg; functions. It was created under the President’s wartime powers and wul! g0 out of existence six months af-! ter the declared end of the war. { Mr. Truman said the proposed | new agency should be a permanent | part of government. i e i MAN, WIFEARE | SENTENCED TO TERMS, PRISON' Plead Guilt;ESIarvaiion, | Strangulation of 16- . Month-0ld Son BREMERTON, Wash.,, May 27.— (M—Homer E. Wells and his wife, Ruth Helen, were sentenced to the state peniteniary yesterday after pleading gui'ty to respective charg-, es of second degree murder and: manslaughter in connection with the starvation and strangulation death of their 16-month-old son last February. Superior Judge H. G. Sutton sen- tenced Wells to life imprisonment | on the second degree murder charge, | and the wife to a maximum of 20 years for manslaughter. Charges of | first degree murder against the | i COMBAT FOUR ALARM BLAZE in heart of business district. Tangled fire hose block Berkeley traffic as firemen ba swept Shattuck Square block in the h Thousands of persons watched the mated at $200,000. The fire raged was brought under control MAiIilary» (oopérafion, Lo e four alarm fire that art of the shopping district. blaze which caused damage esti- for more than two hours befcre it Weslern Hemisphere, Proposed by President BIG SQUADRON OF SUPERS FLYING T0 AIRFIELD IN JAPAN Another Squadron,Return- ing from Training, to Fly Over Alaska HONOLULU, May 27—(®—Nine pair were dropped. Minimum sen- p.pg guperfortresses of the Eighth tences will be set by the state pri- son board. Air Force arrived at Barber's Point airfield yesterday enroute to Yo- = kota, Japan, for a month of in- 1 tensive training. They were ac- STOCK QUOTATIONS 000 oo ©25k ncpons NEW YORK, May, Sig=Closing 'S5EIDE snipment. ¥0- mgte quotation of Alaska Juneau mine = Lo \:uadr(im lol' YTt L stock today is 4 American Can and men commanded by Lt Col.| 88%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright 4ls, International Harvester 80, Kennecott 43¢, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 147%, U. S. Steel 63%, Pound $4.02%. Sales today were 660,000 shares. Merrill-Lynch averages today are |Jack J. Catton left Tucson, Ariz,’ Sunday night. Designed to be entirely self-suf- ficient, the squadron will replace an identical pioneer unit which ar- rived in Japan one month ago and 4 "€ which is to start home to Fort as follows: industrials 166.18, rails Worth, Texas via Anchorage, 248, utiities 149 |Alaska, before the replacements |arrive. ' —_—————— - The—Wa'shi;gion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PLARSON WASHINGTON — James Clement Dunn, U. 8. Ambassador to Italy, always has been considered one of the “safest” men in the State De- partment. He fought hard to send munitions against Loyalist Spain, did his best to support Franco, used his influ- ence against admission of refugees when Hitler began to tear up Eur- ope. He also murried one of the weal- thy Armour daughters, and Mrs. Dunn has been considered equally safe. Never has anyone suspected either of them of a “Red” thought, or being gvén remotely iriendy to! Russia. « « Some weeks ago, however, thel Un-American Affairs Commitiee of | Congresg sent the State Depart-| ment a list of employees whom they considered unsafe and subversive. The list included quite a few State Department wives who had joined organizations listed as either Com- munist or Communist front. After the list of alleged subver- sives had been with State Depart- ment officials for some time, mem- bers of th: Un-American Affairs Committee began to get restless. Nothing had happened. So one of the Congressmen called Assistant Secretary ot State John Peurifoy (Continued on Page Four) NATION HEADING FOR DEPRESSION STATES WALLACE PORTLAND, Ore., May 27—(®— {Former Vice-President Henry A.'the Alaska Steamship Co., as its|hospital at 6:30 a.m. today. | Wallace warned of a ‘“century of girst vessel of the year for Nome| !lear" in a speech here last night gng and said it would result from the Truman doctrines in foreign policy WASHINGTON, President Truman has asked con- gress to approve a broad program of military operation with all western hemisphere nations, in- cluding the arming, training, and organization of the armed forces of Latin America and Canada. Declaring that world develop- ments in the past year give “still greater importance” to close hemis- phere collaboration than a year ago—when similar legislation was proposed—Mr, Truman asked for prompt congressional action A key segment of the program is the standardization of arma- ments thoughout the hemisphere, and the transfer of U. S. military {and naval equipment to the sisteri 3 governments by ‘“sale or other methods.” B The United States, Mr. Truman May 27—B— e He Takes a Double Sentence KILLS FOUR '* TEEN-AGERS, jFour Vidimfihree Girls, One Boy, Found in Flow- er Paten, in East I IMLAY CITY, Mich, May 27— (#— Slender, 16-year-old Oliver " ITerpenning. jr., was arrested near! i Toledo, O., today and was charged | jwith murder in the flower-patch | |slaying of four ‘teen-aged farm|" neighbors. { | Justice Albert Perkins signed a ' warrant on recommendation of | ! Prosecutor Kenneth Smith of La- peer county, charging Terpenning with the murder of 16-year-oid, jBartara Smith, oldest of the four victims and “girl friend” of Ter~ | penning. ! The bodies of three girls and a| boy, bouquets of flowers clutched )in their hands, were found late | Monday near a swampy gravel | pit. 3 | ! They were Barbara, 16, Gladys,!| {12, Janet, 2, and Stanley, 1 ichildren of Mr. and Mrs. William | Smith, living on a farm nine miles | {northeast of here. i Harley Hurst (third from left), was sentenced in Oklahoma City to 10 years in prison for bank robbery. Then, a few hours later, he was married to Mrs. Cynthia Reed. Judge Carl Traub (left), read the“vows while Bill Miskell (second from left), Deputy U. S. Marshal, was best man. After the ceremony the bride said: “I know he will be good as he can get a shorter lerm for good behavior.” P Photo | Ohio autkaities shortly after — - - | motorist gave him a ride as he | hitchhiked south toward the Mich-{, 2 enafor Magnuson Keeps TODEATH Up Fight Against Higher Terpenning was turned over to’ Y i Police officials in both stalesi !said he admitted shooting the I children about 3 p. m. Monday, ibut gave no reason for his act. Sgt. Carl Siem of the Michigan at Erie, Mich.,| b e s erators of Infamous | Nazi Concentration !state police post ‘said the ‘high school jed.to be “in a fog.” | ‘The youth, a “boy friend” of the |slain Barbara Smith, had been the object of a state-wide hunt since . WASHINGTON, May 27.—(@— !anothex‘ of the Smith's 14 children camp Die on Ga"OWS "Avv SHIPS wul pooa il ey ifound the bodies. | goeni- g a Senate appropriations subcom- i I, A i . The four Smith children were] {found dead of bullet wounds in ,the backs of their heads. The boy iwas about 100 feet away from the girls, officers said, as though shot idown while fleeing. Two physicians examined mittee that increased steamship rates to Alaska require that the Alaskan services affected by the Interior Department appropria- tion bill be given more money than allowed by the House. An increase of about 43 percent became effective last week. “Those rates,” said Magnuson, |were already the highest of any maritime carriers. This latest in- crease was granted by the Maritime Commission without a hearing. LANDSBERG, Germany, May 27. -~ P—Twenty-two operators of thel linfamous Nazi concentration camp | at.Mauthausen were hanged today,| with 27 others scheduled to follow | the 'them to the gallows tomorrow in| |girls and said there was no evi-|the biggest mass executions !dence of rape. \war criminals yet carried out | Another Smith child, 19-year-old any Allied power. ! Ella Mae, left the supper table to All were convicted by an Amer-| look for the children and ranican war crimes court of murders Iscreaming back a short time Jater and atrocities against inmates at; at which | TAKE SUPPLIES TO ARCTIC OIL AREA Three Cargo—Vessels, ice- breaker to Make Trip North in July | | * Senator Magnuson i | of by i % ' . the big camp near Linz, > L(:m‘e:?m her discovery of thelr| @ o than 700,000 Nazi victims al-| SAN DIEGO, May 27—M—Car-' “You. will recall that two months ; e A e e 5t legedly were extermineted during rying twice the tonnage that the 280, the Congress, conscious of | the war |first expedition transported three the ~importance of maintaining i On two gallows in the yard of years ago, a squadron of Navy maritime transportation with Al- aska, JURYBEGUN, SANTA ANA Louise OV:rEII, George ; Gollum, Accused of Kill- i ing Former's Parents FRANK FRAWLEY By SANTA ANA, Calif., May 27—/@ —Balked in an -attempt to disqual- ify special prosecutor Eugene D. Williams, the case of Louise Overell and George Gollum, college, sweet- hearts accused of murdering her parents proceeded slowly today in | questioning prospective jurors. | Lawyers for the young couple ar- ! gued vainly before Superior Judge | Kenneth C. Morrison that the At- { torney General's office exerted pol- ‘moal pressure in supplanting Or- ange County District Attorney James Davis with Williams, who was a prosecutor in the Japanese : | war crimes cases. The defense has challtnged two lJumrs for cause because they testi- | fied they had formed opinions as to how Mr. and Mrs. Walter E, Over- ell, wealthy Flintridge residents, came to their deaths aboard their dynamite-blasted yacht in Newport harbor the night of March 15. { Throughout the opening day of I'the trial, Gollum and his sweet- heart, sole heir to her father's esti- mated $600,000 estate, listened with unswerving interest to attorneys arguments and questioning of pros- pective jurors, When court was ad- i journed they shook hands with { their counsel and were led back to i H {Jall, the husky, 220-pound Gollum lpplng a es 10 'lm handoutts, ; g s ReR ] Lawyers estimate. take two . weeks to select a jury veight to nine weeks to complete | the case. BEZ FISHING * VESSEL CASE ' GOESTORKC ! Record of Hearing on ""Pa- v cific Explorer” Turn- said, will confine its military sup-| poft to “reasonable and limited”; ame ea er' purposes. i Mr. Truman said that would| implement the responsibilities sev.] forth in the Act of Shapultepec. Under that agreement, the Uni. Marine Unifs, | | -1 Landsberg prison, where Adolf Hit- ler was once incarcerated, three U. 8. Army executors dropped the operators to their deaths in two hours and 37 minutes. A muscular Austrian snapped ’sh!ps will leave here July 1 to deliver supplies at Pt. Barro Alaska, for workers on the Navy's 'first: 22 of the 49 doomed camp lonely Arctic petroleum reserve, the Navy announced today. | The squadron commanded by Capt. Byron S. Anderon of Cor- onado, Calif., will carry 16,000 tons ted States and the Latin Ameri-| the cords binding his wrists as he can republics agreed that they ‘p s Awa !plunged through the trap and of cargo ranging from canned would resist jointly any aggression, a |grabbed the rope above his head. beans to construction equipment— against any of the signatory na- Kicking and struggling violently, a full year's supply for the in- tions. he managed to forestall death for habitants of. scattered camps on RIS 20 118 minutes. Naval petrcleum reserve No. 4, a Brig. Gen._Ev—ans Carlson NOME SAILING Dies Early Today in | FROM SEATTLE | Portland Hospital 1S ANNOUNCED o525 et famed lead~r of the Marine unit "known as Carlson’s Raiders in the Pacific war, died in a Portland | SEATTLE , May 27—(®— The motorship Reef Knot is listed by The Emmanuel Hospital reported other Bering Sea ports.|the famed veteran of two wars was Freight will be received until 3 p.jadmitted at 7:30 pm. He was m. Thursday. stricken at his mountain lodge re- treat in the focthills of Mount Hood The convicts included Austrians, as well as Germans. Most were Their ages ranged from 22 to 63. —— .- — NATION URGED T0 SPEND MORE FOR EDUCATIO 35,000-square-mile area lying north | Czechs, Hungarians and Yugoslavs of the Arctic Circle To serve as beachmaster, the | members of the SS Elite Guard. Navy has recalled to active duty Ccmdr., Glen Whaley of Seattle, who has had previous Arctic ex- 'perience. Capt. Leonard Firsco of Bronx, N. Y. another veteran of | Arctic operations, will serve as |senior technical advisor. | Ships leaving from San Diego |will be the attack cargo ships !Seminole, Union, and Muliphen iand the ice breaker Burton Island., They will load supplies ! Hueneme, Calif., and Seattle, and 'will be joined at the latter port at Port! 7 approved a plan by which; the Maritime Commission would ! ed OVel' bY TO“Q'SOH provide the private operators with vessels at nominal rates and like-! WASHNGTON, May 21—(®— wise carry the costs of Marine | Chairman Tollefson (R-Wash) of a insurance and depreciation. House Fisheries Subcommittee to- “Nevertheless, despite this sub-|day sent the record of its hearing stantial indirect subsidy, the op-'on the cannery ship “Pacific Ex- erators felt a considerable increase’ plorer” to the Reconstruction Fi- in rates was necessary and took!nance Corporation without recom- the position that they would not|mendation. operate without it. So in order! The hearing was on complaints to get the resumption of private’of the Southern California” Tuna operation started, the Maritime|Canning and Fishing industry that Commission allowed the full in-ithe ship, constructed with RPC crease requested. }funds, is engaging in tuna fishing “I am hopeful that early hear-!nstead of being used exclusively ings—which I have joined in re- 55 g research vessel in the Bering questing—will demonstrate that theigeg A rates granted are too high and can! Niok Bez of Seattle, President of ke reduced to previous levels.” !the Pacific Exploration Company, b s B | denied before the subcommittee w a'“s Re“ora“on that he is operating the ship in vio- with the RFC. He said he intends to experiment — (P the Bering Sea eventually, but to h“,rlbe the money to meet the re- ilnuon of the terms of his contract 0' Il“' Dep" (u“ with the fishing of king crabs in WASHINGTON, May 27. Senator Magnuson (D-Wash) jand “one party coalition” in Con- 1gress. { Wallace also called for interna- { the Dardaneiles and the Suez Can- al as steps vital to eliminate the causes of war. He said the control |by one country of these strategic |areas “tends to break up peace.” | . He told an audience of 3,000 the nation was heading for a depres- sion, and said a, réduction of pric-| es and raising of wages where pos- sible must be accompanied by loans | to European and Asiatic nations | to raise their standards of living. | He denowed John Tabor, chair- The Briggs Steamship Corpora- tion, planning to enter service on a weekly schedule from Prince Ru-; tionalization of the Panama Canal, pert, B. C. to Southeast Alaska!1946. said the 132-foot freighter Southeastern is loading here for the trip north. It is a 450-ton former Navy cargo vessel. Chartered by the Santa Steamship Co., for operation the Seattle-Kuskokwim River trade the motorship Coastal Rider was due today from San Francisco. She will make two trips this sum- mer to Goodnews Bay and Bethel, ports, Ana in; urged a Senate appropriations sub- committee to restore to the Inter- jor Department’s budget all cuts made by the House. Magnuson also asked restora- tion of funds for ‘education and health of Indians in Alaska, and more money for road construction there. e STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise, from Vancouver, scheduled to arrive at 5:30 o'clock this afternoon and sails at 11:30 for Skagway. New York Times Editor Asks Larger Parf of In- | by the LST 642. ‘where he has made his home since _— ., —— retirement from active service in { ' Gen. Carlscn suffered two earlier | Gen- carsn suttred ewo crier come Tax for Purpose | VERDICT OF SUICIDE PR e e (TOTPUIPOSE ™ IN ELZA MURPHY (ASE {ia, Ore., Naval Hospital where he WASHINGTON, May 27.—P— (was a patient for two months. For- Benjamin Fine, education editor of A Coroner's Jury brought back {mer Vice-President Henry Wallace the New Ycrk Times, said today a suicide verdict ){:sterday in the visitéd at the Carlson home Sun- the United States should spend at inquest into the death Friday of day. ‘Ieast five percent urv its national ‘g, Murphy, 33, in Juneau. The The General won recognition in|income for education instead of the Jury said that he died from a |the Pacific warfare leading Mar-‘present outlay of 1.5 percent. self inflicted wound in the head iine buttalion_s behind enemy lines| }{e told a HOIfSE Labor Suk)com-<‘hy a bullet from a 38 calibre and in pre-invasion exploits, first|mittee about $2,500,000,000 annually g ith and Wesson revolver. The | payment provisions of his contract 1 he must fish commercially. He said the contract permits him to do so ih\ any waters of the Pacific Ocean. 'SEATTLE WILL GET BIG CHURCH MEET GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, May 27.- (P— Seattle will host the 160th General Assembly of the Presby- terian Church at its 1948 session. The City's bid, presented by the | ] | 1 | connecting at Bethel with the Alaska Rivers Navigation Co, for|¢ Makin Island the summer of) now goes for education in this |jury said that the motive was de- sailors Splice, from Seattle, due}Rev. Paul McConkey of Seattle's iman of the House Appropriations | Committee, and said American farmers shonid demand a return of the AAA local committee system, (which he said would be vital when prices decline. Wallace said Tabor | jand other Republicans took the! | AAA program out of the hands of | { the farmers. [ | - e I The first known use of tea was in China in 2737 BC. points on the Kuskokwim. BAND TO PRACTICE 1:30 THIS EVENING In preparation for Memorial Day, |the Juneau City Band, will prac- tice tonight starting at 7:30 o'clock, meeting in tae High School Gym. ‘Thursday morning. Grommet Reefer, due Thursday. Square Sinnet scheduled to sail from Seattle June 5. Northern Voyager scheduled to sail from Seattle June 6. Aleutian scheduled southbound at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, sailing for Seattle at 4 p. m. Alaska, from west, scheduled southbound about June 2. 1942, and then at Guadalcanal,|country, as compared to $9,000,000,- ‘shondency. The shooting occurred Terata and Saipan. His retirement 000 for liquor, and $4,000,000,000 for jn his home on Willoughby Avenue. ywas due to wounds received in the cigarettes. | The six jurors were: William L. lsaipan campaign. [ He added: | Grisham, Williamt Busch, Thomas -, | “We spend more for beer than N Cashen, Payton Fleek, G. E. from Seattle, ..AT THE HOTEL JUNEAU books. I'm not arguing against beer, Almquist and John J. Fargher. | cigarettes nor cocktails. All I am| U, §. Commissioner Felix Gray ¢ Registering at the Hotel Juneau :aying is that we have adopted a js making arrangements for the tare Ed Burke and Johnny L. Myers |false sense of values. If we can af- | disposition of the body. He said {from Seattlc, Wayne L. LaCasse ford to spend $20,000,000,000 for that there are possibilities that from Bellingham, Wash., and C. L. we surely can afford to Murphy may be shipped to his | Crutcher from Kake. parents in Flippin, Ark, luxuries, spend five billion for education.” First Church, was accepted yes- lzerdny. It will be the fourth time the national conclave has assem- ibled on the Pacific Coast, but the first time it has mets on Puget Sound. - e COUPLE FROM HAWAII Mr. and Mrs, Allen V. Hurd, o Honolulu, T H, flew to Juneau 1 yesterday and are registered at the | Baranof Hotel.