The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1947, Page 1

SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition | VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,594 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” == — JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = 93 PERSONS KILLED IN PLANE CRAS Truman’s Alaska Trip PRESIDENT PLANS NO VACATION Going fo Kansas City for Address, Then Good- will Trip to Canada WASHINGTON, May 81 — ® —i o h 3 : A G. Ross| Hungarian Cabinet announced today |—One youth has been sentenced to ! Negotiations between John L. Lewis :crowd of several thousand at open| pegignate Alcide De Gasperi an-; The two worst disasters in the (m—A four-engine Eastern Airlines Press Secretary Charles told reporters today President Tru- man has “definitely decided” against a trip to Alaska this sum- mer. He said the President “has no plans now for any trip.” President Truman will make an address in Kansas City next Sat- urday and leave for visit in Canada the following Mon- day. The President will leave here by plane Friday morning for Kansas City. He will speak the next day before the Memorial the 35th Division, his World War I outfit, at the Municipal Audi- torium. The address will be glven at 7:30 pm. PST. Ross told reporters that he wish- ed to quell frequent reports of a Presidential vacation trip to Alaska. Ross said one “compelling” rea- son for the adverse decision was that Mr. Truman must remain in Washington for a week or ten days after Congress adjourns, to study and act on measures passed. The President had never fully committed himself to make the trip, Ross said. On Monday, June 9, Mr. Truman | will leave Washington by train for: Ottawa, Canada, where it is ex-| pected he will address the Domin-i ion Parliament. The Washington| Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—The 32 percent today that Congress get busy at arrived cut of farm funds, already causing once on the 1949 National Budget| missing for six months, left the; much GOP teeth-gnashing in “so we won't be working in the Bartness car achieved dark” in attempting to cut Govern- Hoskins home across the street. s0 the Midwest was not without some rough verbal slugging. between Repubicans and Democrats | in the House Appropriations Com-; mittee. i Democratic Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi hotly chsrg-l ed that the GOP Congress was. make a detailed analysis of depart-| “breaking faith” with the American farmer. Everctt Dirksen of Illinois, Chairman of the Agriculture Sub- vacation | YOUTHTO | HANGFOR | KILLING, tSoccer Player, World War}Second Youth.Is o Go on' Sergeant, Announced | Trial Monday for Fatali- | as New Premier ties in Gun Battle S / | BUDAPEST, May 31. — (®#~The| VANCOUVER, B.C, May 31—®, | | Shakeup In Govl., Ij}mgaryé i | i | { lthat Lajos Dinnyes, 46 - year - old hang an another will go on trial i Minister of War, had been chosen !for his life Monday as the out-} Premier to succeed Ferenc Nagy,lgrowth of a Feb. 26 gun battle at/ who resigned two days ago while on |False Creek in which a companion vacation in Switzerland. and two Constables were killed. The cabinet also announced that, Harry Medos, 22, found quilty | Istvan Kertesz, recently named |yesterday by a Supreme Court jury Minister to Rome, has been appoint- jon a murder charge, was sentenced WAGE TALKS FOR MINERS SUSPENDED Negotiation Meeting Be- tween Lewis, Operat- ors, Ends Abruptly WASHINGTE)P;. ;l!a_v 31, — P— and soft coal operators of the north and west were suspended indefinite- today without explanation Definitely MLON DOLLAR 4TH CABINET " THEATRE OPENED 2 CRACKUPS | KILL 93 IN 0l 24-HOURS \No Communists, Socialists Total of 174 Lives Lost in in Makeup for New | Accidents in U. . and IR RT\asks ckreer of | Austin -E Government | Around World | ccap) Lathrop, - the Territo SR first million dollar theatre—drew n} ROME, May 31 — (® — Fl'(‘mler-: (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) AT ANctoraGe FOR ITALY | 'Capt. Lathrop Receives IS FORMED' | Congratulations on Latest Milestone ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 31—| (A—The latest milestone in the 51-) { { ! house ceremonies yesterday Inounced today the membership of |[Nation's commercial aviation his- | Many visitors are still arriving by his fourth Cabinet—the first since tory killed 93. persons within 24 |plane today and telegrams of con-|¢he Jiberation to contain no Com-!hours and seven other plane crash- Postponed 4ENGINE AIRLINER ~ PLUNGES Huge Craft Turns Over at 1,000-feet Altitude Then Starts Falling PORT DEPOSIT, Md.,, May 31.-- | | | ‘transport plunged suddenly from 1,- /000 feet into a wooden ravine near here last night, killing all 53 aboard Lewis had nothing to tell reporters | gratulation came from prominent as he led his delegation from a 35- persons in the United States minute wage contract conference: Four large base relicf memorials with the operators representing 75;a 16-panel assembuly of Alaska per cent of the bituminous industry. :flora and fauna, and a large re He referred questioners to Ezra Van of the late Sidney a good will, 1 ed to replace Foreign Minister Jano: | Gyongyosi, whose pro-Western views by Justice A. M. Manson to go to the gallows July 30. The trial of Reunion of, yhave been opposed by leftwing par- ties. It said that new national elee- tions would be held in September. Reports circulated meanwhile, that Both were charged | with the murder of Constable| Charles Boyes. 1 Also killed in the shooting werel the Communists, having forced Nagy |Douglas Eldon Carter, 19, third| 'from office, had turned the pres- member of the trio, and Constable !sure on President Zoltan Tildy in G. O. Ledingham. The three were; continuation of what some inform- |reported by police to have been} ants said was a determined drive to |trapped after a frustrated bank: iturn Hungary into a police state. |holdup. | A presidential military aide said | i H 1the Communists were {hreal,ening‘.(ollie open Monday. {to compel President Tildy to resign | j unless he bowed to their wishes. | | Dinnyes, a noted Hungarian soc- jcer player, was a sergeant in {hef +last war. - - | | | | | ‘New Budgef Is Worrying Legislator WASHINCT 2! Senator Russell v 3 —— (D-Ga.) proposed ment expenditures. Appropriations Committee, told a reporter he believes the over-all Congressional Budget Committee should begin organizing a staff to mental needs for the fiscal year Leginning July 1, 1948. We're working in the dark now Home KANSAS CITY, May SIAUB—A! |Collie dog belonging to Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Hoskins was back home \today after hitch-hiking from the | Missouri-Towa state line. | . Mr. and Mrs. R K. Bartnes | were returning from Ft. Dodge, Ia. |'The dog ran in front of their car,! /then jumped in when Bartness| stopped the vehicle. When they| in Kansas City the dog,! ! and dashed to the Mr. and Mrs. Bartness said they “having lived in the neighborhood | tonly three months. i Uncovered Car Trip CHICAGO, May 31 — (A — The! |tents this year ,clude beach patrol, safety rescue Horon, Ohio operator representative ' Laurence’s oil painting of Mount pendent, was named Vice Premier r‘nlshnps, William R. F. Henderson, 17, williand chairman of the joint confer- | McKinley ence. Van Horn, sober faced, said: “This meeting was adjourned by joint assent.” He refused to comment further or explain the breakup of negotiations. Although details of the contract talks were lacking, a report circulat- ed that Lewis has demanded wage increases equalling 35 cents an hour | for the 400,000 soft coal miners, e - — BOY SCOUTS LEAVEFOR THEIR CAMP Boy Scouts from Juneau and Sitka started for Eagle River Scout Camp this morning, with ten big days of fun and adventure ahead f them. A minimum of 36 boys ‘were expected at the camp, includ- ing nine who arrived at Auk Bay from Sitka early this morning on the Princeton-Hall Leading the boys will be Scout- masters Bob Wagner of Troop 600, Harold Zenger of 613, Bob Booch- ever and Keith Wildes of 23. Dis- | i jtrict Committee members will also Poland, China and Trieste. Russell, a member of the Senate had never seen the dog bero""lbe at the camp at least part time.'$350000000, & minimum of $1 Scout Executive Del Hanks is in charge. Scouts will have a big time camping by patrols and sleeping in Activities will in- with and without boats, swimming and diving instruction. A large mittee on Appropriations, counterediin trying to cut the budget,” the:weather—rain—interferred with theiselection of leather craft projects just as hotiy that he and other|Georgia Senator said. “We're like|motor trip two women made from!will be made by the boys this year. | Republicans were only trying to put & grand jury because we only get|Hollywood, Calif, to Chicago—! Parents' day will be held at the the farmer “on a respectable basis” |one side of the case—the claims ol they were on the highways for 17!Eagle River camp next Sunday, by stopping Government handouts. | “We've got to quit treating the. American farmer like a serf, as,t0 make any intelligent budget jerry Juul, 33, explained that their 'the entire camp will they do in Russia,” yelled one Re-, publican during the closed-door ; melee. the Government agencies on their needs for funds. It's awfully hard cuts that way.” Senator Taft of Ohio, Chairman days. ! Miss Elaine Enlow, 30, and Miss. |trip was in a 1931 model converti- | |ble roadster that didn’t have a top. iof the Republican Policy Commit-|Eyery time rain fell the two wo-! with a Court of Honor scheduled for the afternoon. Highlight of be a two day overnight hike to Windfall and Peterson Lakes and down to Mon- tana Creek. ; production |munists or Socialists. It is com-|®S 8round the globe—in Japan, Ice- in the nation’s worst commercial | Sasadof Tiva-TAdwnatidents) ant ”[lm)((. the Netherlands, Alaska and airline disaster. members of De Gasperi’s Moderate | Argentina—boosted the total num-| peo itnecces differed on what |Christian Democratic party. {ber of dead to at least 174. Three ;. noned fust before the big DO e e rsons " 5. S 8 o3 Luigi Einaudi, Governor of the Persons were missing and 31 suf- .1 mmeted to the ground at & 48- Bank of Italy and a political Inde- | fered | degree angle. injuries in the nine plane are among the costly yn4 Minister of the Budget, a new| The most disastrous ot the crash- | ‘decoranons,‘ post in which his responsibility {es occurred yesterday — Memorial i Construction of the theatre, be- i pe to balance Italy’s finances., Day—near Port Deposit, Md., when | iE{un in the spring of 1941, was de-| cuplo Sforza, 63-year-old diplo- an Eastern Air Lines DC-4 trans-! {layed by the war and when nearly mai-author and also an Independ- 'Port cracked up, killing all 53 per- |completed last year was again ent was reappointed Foreign Min-'sons aboard — 49 passengers and Ihandicapped by the maritime strike jgiop four crew members. (S0 that trucks had to carry mater- Ezio Vanonoi, Christian Demo- | 'crat, was named Minister of Fi-| eSS than 24 hours before the fa iy B A 'as | Memorial Day crash in Maryland, | Honve | aud mso-levin e |40 persons lost their lives when lials over the Alaska Highway. iven the portfolio of the Trea-| | lsury. A Minister of the Treasury‘?"mher.tncq‘ hal U(rlmed Alslines expected to be named later. itransport, cragh-landed at New B “The Government is one | York's 1a Ouardis fold, 3 that | jmust be overthrown immediately,” | OTHER MISHAPS 1smd the Socialist newspaper Avnnliw In other plane mishaps around | T T e i the world on-Phursday: - RANGELL PROPERTY o Teetana: 12"in e Netheriunds’ CASE TAKEN TO COURT| i | | i | | H " BY TRUMAN | and three were missing in Alaska, Four persons were killed and an- ¢ Several sald they heard an ex- plosion and saw the tip-end of the tail section tear away, Others said the plane was flying along smoothly at about 1,000 feet when the engines suddenly roared thunderously and the big aircraft turned over on its back and started falling. The graphic eyewitness account of seaman 1/C Frank Welch of Tona- wanda, N. Y, was typical of the statement by most of those who watched the plane fall into th woods. ‘ Turns Over Welch said the DC-4 was flying T4t 1,500-2,000 feet when it started to turn over to the right, “The plane tipped a little,” he said, “and then started to nose down. The whole tail assembly | Preddent Truman today signed the 1$350000,000 bill for relief of war- \ | WASHINGTON, May 31— # — other seriously injured in three disintegrated and I coun plane crashes in Argentina since separate pieces falling "& n::: District Cout to force the sale of Thursday. ground.” four and a half lots of property in' The series of plane crackups in| 1t tore into the wooded hillside, | Wrangell which is jointly owned by ithe past two days increased to 48| snapping off six and eight-inch A suit has been filed in U. S.! idevastated countries in Europe and | Asia. |several persons. Presidential Secretary Charles G./the court appoint a referee to sell Ross announced Mr. Truman’s ap-|the property and divide the pro- Iproval of the measure, along with:ceeds among all the owners rep- issuance of an executive order dele- Tesented by both the plaintiffs and {gating broad authority in adminis-|the defendants. The complaint itration of the relief program to charges that, because of the multi- {Secretary of State Marshall. ,ple ownership, the revenue received | Congress gave final approval May is too small for such a large group 21 to the foreign relief measure|Of Owners. \which permits expenditure of funds _ Plaintiffs, represented by R. E. lin Italy, Greece, Hungary, Austria, Robertson, are: Julia Bjorgo, Ma- Of the lina Heiser, Lewis Iverson, Cleo 5,-/ Amundson, Helen Cook Besserud 000,000 is ear-marked for the Unit- and Everett C. Cook. Defendants ed Nations Childrens' Emergency 2Te: Joyce Amundson Hallevoet, Fund. /Luella M. Higgins, Sam Higgens, ; Waldo Jorgenson, Mina Klatte and the $400,000,000 program to bo!stcr’ Alma_Solie. | Greece and Turkey against Com- munism) . | Capt. George McCracken of Pa- Two.vuk.ow (HllD 'cific’ Northern Airlines underwent L DROWNS AI Tuls[ou‘“ an emergency appendectomy at St. i An R OPERATE ON AIRMAN | 'at 9 o'clock. His condition is satis- factory. Mrs. McCracken flew to Juneau yesterday from Anchorage to be with her husband. MRG0 A ! A two-year-old child was drown- jed yesterday at Tuisequah, B.C. mining settlement 50 miles North- {east of Juneau. The name of the (Jittle girl was not known, although | (The bill is entirely distinct from Herman Jorgenson, Lila Jorgenson, ! nn’s Hospital Thursday evening! in the world since Jan 1 in 1§ major commercial and miltary | crackups. | Yesterday's crash at Port Deposit :took almost as severe a toll as the lcrash of a Colombian Avianca Air- lines plane near Bogota, Colombia, 1last Feb. 14, when 54 persons lost | their lives. l BODIES FOUND ; The bodies of 25 persons wete \found by searchers in the wreck- age of an Icelandic Airways DC-3 plane which smashed up on i rocky mountainside ‘Thursday. yThere were 10 women and four children among the passengers, all Icelanders and Norweigians. The crackup of a C-5¢4 Army !Courier plane Southwest of Tokyo (cost the lives of 28 enlisted men, eight officers and four civilians. ‘The bodies of all were reported burned beyond recognition. Three members of a crew of a B-29 which crashed shortly after a takeoff at Fairbanks, Alaska, still were reported missing today. Nine other crew members who sur- vived suffered injuries. | | { i The suit asks that!the total number of persons killed trees and burst into flame with a ,mighty explosion. | Largest single bit of wreckage was ot more than 12 feet long, appar- ently a section just forward of the tail. Debris and dismembered bodiee |were strewn over an area 20 yards - wide and 75 yards long. | Bodies Mutilated | By dawn, rescue workers had col- lected 52 distinguishable bodies but | most of them were mutilated beyond | recognition. They were taken over trails hack- |ed through the woods to nearby | Bainbridge Naval Training Station, [ where investigators this morning started the grim job of trying to establish identifications. i Civil Aeronautics inspectors mean- | time poked through the strewn | wreckage seexing evidence which | might establish the cause of the | crash, | The disaster climaxed a 48-hour series of costly alr crashes around | the world. Only the night before, a United |Alrlines plane of the same type | erashed on takeoff from La Guardia | Field in New York and 40 lost their lives. Twelve persons were killed at| ! . Py H ‘tee, said he agrees with Russellimen fled to the nearest shelter| “Well, you folks have got the P 8 that steps should be taken now to|and waited for clear skies. Grocery supplies and duffle were|Alaska Coastal Airlines made an GROMMET REEFER HERE Ly ine Netherlands, in a col-| votes, so there is nothing we can| do,” angrily < declared Mississippi's Whitten. “We of the minority are! tilting at windmills. This very sub- committee has been rigged against us. You've got five Republicans on the Agriculture Subcommittee to three Democrats, whereas all the other subcommittees four to three.” o Whitten leveled his “break faith” charge mainly at the extremely large slash in soil-conservation | payments—$117,000,000. The farm- ers, he declared, had already been “promised” this money when Con- put Congress in a position where it will know next January, when the Presidential Budget is submitted, whether it can be cut and where. BRITISH WHALING e o\ SHIP BRINGS BIG | ANTARCTIC CARGO LIVERPOOL, England, May 31— I(D—The 21,846-ton Empire Victory, [} But they said they spent only $1.25 in repairs on the car in the 3,301-mile journey. e —— ALASKANS AT BARANOF ! Among the guests registered at ;the Baranof Hotel yesterday were the follwing Alaskans: Helen Essig and Mickey Von Vieet from Ketch- ikan; Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn Pym and | | children from Nenana; William J.| | Johnson from Bethel; Mrs. M. D.| { Williams and child from Fairbanks; and Cora Harton and Mary Wilk- !inson from Anchorage. .- { gress authorized $300,000,000 lastione of the world’s largest whaling| % A vear, He added that some farmers)factory ships, has docked here from| SALES REPRESENTATIVES 1IN | had received full conservation allot-{the Antarctic with 13,500 tons of; Iegistering at the Baranof Hotel ments for 1947 in lime or fertilizer, whale ofl, 400 tons of sperm oil|ar¢ R. L. Simmonds of Westing- hauled to Auk Bay by Stan Perry and Doug Babcock, of the Glacier Ice Co., with the Sea Scout Ship loading there for Eagle River. - e STEAMER MOVEMENTS Grommey Reefer, from Seattle,|first two, and a search was im-|under the command of Capt. Larry in port. Princess Norah, with full load of tourists aboard, due about 9:15 to- | night. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver June 4. Square Sinnet scheduled to sail from Seattle June 13, Northern Voyager scheduled to sail from Seattle June 6. Baranof scheduled to sail from emergency flight carrying a pulmo- | 'tor to use in an attempt to revive iher | According to what lnturmatiun‘; {was available, the child was guing‘mk' She brought approximately {with two older children to their|240 l;)emt e‘;"s“:fi;’] :)‘;l'n-";:::c“i :;l‘l: family’s campsite. Lagging be- 18 €Xpec! hind, she did not arrive after the|€vening. The Grommet Reefer is M. V. Grommet Reefer of Al- aska Transportation Company is unloading today at the Alaska mediately made. She was found Parks. | where she had fallen into a creek OIS, . v D but over two hours later, when' HALIBUTERS SELL the plane from Juneau flew out| Four halibut boats which tied up after delivering the pulmotor, she|in Juneau yesterday sold = their had not been revived. i catches today, all at 16 and 14 cents o - per pound. The Lassie sold to ACF, COUPLE FROM DAWSON and the Tern, Vivian and Two! lision of two planes. Four civilians suffered severe burns at Lichfield, England, yester- day when a Royal Air Force Lib- | port runway blew up. The plane was destroyed by the explosion, the Icause of which was not determined. B e o o o o WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning erator hombter parked on an air-| TEN HALIBUT BOATS LAND BIG CATCHES AT CANADIAN PORT } VANCOUVER, B.C., May 31—m —Ten fishing boats unloaded 232,- 1500 pounds of halibut here and at |Prince Rupert yesterday, the larg- est catches of the season. Sold on | ®'the fish exchange, prices averaged 16 cents a pound for chicken, 19.6 ® cents for medium and 16 cents for { | { Mr. and Mrs. jdents of Dawson, Yukon Territory, D. M. Old, resi-! 16,000 pouids, and sold to Alaska Brothers to Sebastian-Stuart. Arndt Nelson's Saga came in with | Coast Fisheries. In Juneav—Maximum, 68; minimum, 52. At Airport—Maximum, 68; minimum, 45. large. BEEATS < Nl 6 and now the Government would not | | house Electric E. A live up to its agreement to pay| for them. To this, Republicans Dirksen and ;| Charles Plumley of Vermont coun-! tered that many farmers had been “loaded up with lime they didn't with the result that committee in- vestigators had found considerable quantities of lime “rotting on tarms.” The Mississippian reported that and 1315 tons of meat meal. The British Ministry of food will distribute the cargo for the manu- facture of Margarine and othe: fats. {PRINCESS NORAH ask for” by their county agents,| HAS TOURIST LOAD Canadian steamer Princess Norah, due late this afternoon or evening, has all accommodations taken by | tourists according to advices re- this was news to him and certainly was not true in his farm district. (Continued on Page Four) ceived by local agent D. H. E. Mc- ' Lean. The ship is the first tourist | vessel of the season. | Company, Seattle June 6 calling at Ketchikan, arrived in Juneau yesterday and iSchailer of Sinff and Company,|Juneau, Cordova, Valdez and Sew-|arc staying as guests of the Bar- jand G. H. Sampson of Standardard. japot Hotel, iou Company. All are from Seattle.; Aleutian scheduled to sail from | e — | A S | Seattle Junc 13. GASTINEAU GUESTS | SANTAQUIN Utah, May 31.—®—| Alaska, from west, scheduled Mewly 'gistered guests at the ;That buzzin' yesterday was bees—;southbound about June 4 or 5. ineau Hotel include Henry 108 hives fuli which were liberated ———eo——— | Be from Sitka, Ole Bakke from suddenly when the truck they were | SLEEPS IN AUTO 1. Mrs. Nora Cogdall from riding overturned. Harry Carl Buttel, arrested by S id John Herman from | Driver Joseph Yack of Neola, City Polce vesterday, when founc | Utah, was not injured, put his asleep in the automobile of Dr. new hat on and quickly persuaded'James O. Rude, was fined $25 to-| the insects to come home. |day by City Magistrate William A.| But before heeding the call® the | Holzheimer. Buttel had been booked &1 swarms “buzzed” a couple of cars|for being drunk and for investiga- € and nearby homes, 'tien of auto theft, Ge son .- SEATTLEITES HERE le folk who are at the Bar- are Verne Taylor, Agnes toffersin, Charles Nicholls and Mage Hotel | J |during the war, came north ln.sl,o May 1, 5.74 inches; since July |fall to attend her sister's wedding. e v LILLIE MAAG GOES SOUTH Miss Lillie Maag, sister of Mrs. Sam Paul, Jr, and a nurse at St. |Ann’s Hospital the past six months,’ e Isalled on the steamer Louise, en-|e ly cooler. | Toute to Calilornia where she will e PRECIPITATION \enter school for specfalized nurse’s, @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 vm. taday) training. Miss Maag, a Navy Nurse o In Juneau — None; since WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cloudy this after- noon and Sunday with occa- sional very' light rain. Slight- : CONTRACT IS LET : " FOR CHERRY CROP 4| LEWISTON, Idaho, May 31—(P— ® (L. M. Donaldson of Yakima, has ® Leen awarded a contract by the ® | Lewiston-Clarkston Cherry Growers . ilu.soclanan for cherries of process- . ‘ing grades. Donaldson bid 9% "ccms a pound for Royal Annes, 8 ® cents for Bings and Lamberts and ® |7 cents for ether varieties. The e harvest will get under way this o |weekend and extend through June. 1, 81.56 inches. e o— | At Airport — Trace; since | DIVORCE GRANTED ‘In May 1, 348 inches; since July | Federal Judge George W. Folta e 1, 57.58 inches. {has granted a divorce to Lois v.'e | Likens from John H. Likens. ‘e e o o o o o o