The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 9, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” [ (", VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,601 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1947 "MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e WEEKEND DISASTERS KILL 23 PERSONS Boy Scout Chief Is Greefed CRITICISM AT TRUMAN — | President Charged with| “Building Political | Fences” in Speech | WASHINGTON, June Republicans accused President Tru-| man today of trying to “build poli-; tical fences” in his Kansas City| speech outlining a broad domestic weliare program and criticizing the | GOP-controlled Congress for cut-| ting appropriations. | But Democrats took the view ll\c! Chief Executive simply was restat-| ing his position on issues confront- ing the nation. | Senator Dworshak (R-Idaho) mld“ .a reporter he thinks the country’s reclamation program — mentioned | 'Homesteads for Veterans s IS HURLED = Threat fo Timber Industry Claims Alaska Lumberman RAIN DOES DAMAGE IN NORTHWEST Cherry Harvest is Struck in Oregon, Washingfon- . Deaths in Flood (By The Associated Press) A hammering rain, striking at the specifically by the President—has height of the cherry harvest in the become involved in politics “by rich fruitlands of Oregon and Wash- those who are more interested in |ington, took one life over the week- building political fences than theyiend and slashed a $2,000,000 hole are in building reclamation pro-!in the wallet of the Northwest farm- jects.” | ers. “It is unfortunate that the Presi-| Mrs. Michael Yallup of Toppenish dent, who wants reclamation pro- | died when a flash flood swept her jects built rapidly, should have seen {frem a tent near The Dalles. Her fit last August to freeze reclama- husband said an eight-foot wall of tion development by an executive water slammed into their camp and order tying up 60 percent of the that he clutched at a fence wire to funds tor construction,” Dworshak |save his life. Mrs. Yalllup’s body was declared. {found a mile beow the camp. Senator Baldwin (R-Conn) said| T. O. Duncan, whose home_is at he thinks Mr Truman’s speech, de- | Baker, Ore., rescued his children i i f : j the ma- livered Saturday night before vet-|irom a truck just before erans of the 35th Division, “sounds | Chine was swept away in The Dalles like a campaign document.” {food. The Red Cross at the Oregon Mr. Truman called, among other | City said more than 50 persons sav- things, for an increase in minimum | 4 themselves by clinging to debris, wages, broadening of social security, | fence wires and by climbing trees. WASHINGTON, June 9.—P— An Alaska lumberman has opposed veterans homesteads in Alaska as| a threat to the timber industry. F. V. Wagne:, ' representing a| lumber company at Wrangell added | in testimony before a House sub- committee considering homestead legislation, that the proposal wuuld‘ turn over 83,000,000,000 board feet| of timber to a veterans' rpunop(»l,\ui He based his statement upon ar-| guments that because of the Alas-| kan terrain and need for smooth | water on which to form lumber rafts, homesteaders in quiet coves could control timber shipments. | “Fifty or 100 veterans under the! terms of t!:'s legislation,” Wagner said, “can control all the timber along the shores and force owners of timber away from the shores to| pay them to cross their lan, | Charles F. Brannon, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and Robert | K. Coop, of the Interior Depart- men't Land Management Bureau| also opposed the legislation. | Brannon said that if the timber areas of Southeast Alaska are turned over to veterans, companies | proposing to build paper and p\xlp‘ mills will drop their plans because | they would lack assurance of a continuous supply of timber under |indivdual ownership. He said the companies negotiat- | ing for timber rights for mills would | furnish jobs for thousands of per-| sons. | Coop said the Interior Depart-| ment opposes theineasure because of the acreage proposed—from 320 to 1,920 acres—and urged that the decent housing and equalization of | Frult growers estimate the damage educational opportunities. i He said “critical shortages” in electric power must be overcome, | that laws designed to conserve na- ! tural resources are “in grhve dan- to orchards from the rain and hail | Present limit of 160 acres for each! storm that brought on the floudih“mc‘“"m ke retained. would exceed $1,000,000. | The testimony by Brannon and Hail, rain, high winds and flood | CO0P concluded the hearing. ruined 5,000 acres of sugar beets and | e, !much wheat in the Walla Walla ger” of being made ineffective by region. qongressmnal f5ipeal O‘_ approprm-! Farmers there and in the central tions and that the fal.m program | Washington fruit growing area from may be endangered for the SAME | Oranmgan south through the Wen- TERBEN- o latchee and Yakima valleys placed Depicting water control, "eda"?n'!meir losses at another $1,000,000. SPANGLE, Wash., June 9.—(P— Two persons were killed and eight injured near here yesterday when a Greyhound Bus and a passenger {car collided at the top of a small "} hill, The dead, both of whom were riding in the car, were identified as Robert Cole of St. John, Wash,, CANNERYMEN '(OME NORTH - BY AIRPLANE Modern Method Will | Reach Peak During Present Week SEATTLE, June 9. (M—The | movement of cannery workers to | Alaska by air, tried out on a large scale the first time this year, reach- es its peak this week. Officials of | Northern Airlines said today more than 1500 workers, headed for 21 different canneries, are being flown from Boeing Field here and Bel- lingham to Naknek, Cold Bay, Ko- diak and Anchorage. The largest group is being flown for Pacific Am- | erican Fisheries of Bellingahm. The |shorter air run north saves oper- | {ators wage costs, as workers are | m. | Thibodeau, tion and power projects as “in-|py,,45 also struck the lower Yakima vestments, It/lr, Truman -said _hEIValley, covering fields, filling base- hopes that “on careful reflection |ments and washing out roads and and consideration” Congress wm‘ditches. C . | west was in prospect today. ORDOS RETURN | e ) Joe Ordos, Acting Commander of Juneau Post No. 4, American Legion, | Bus AuTo has returned by PAA from a one- | ’ Oregon. Ordos, who is on the U. S. | Post Office staff, said that he, and [ Mrs. Ordos, spent considerble time on the beach at Newport, Ore. Mrs. | [ Ordos will remain at Elma, Wash,, | for an additional two weeks belore: returning to Juneau. | By DREW PLARSON WASHINGTON—The final deci-| sion to sell arms to President Per- | on of Argentina and to oust Per-; sistant Secretary of State probably will go down in history as one of the most momentous the United States has made in many years. It was attended by some soul-search- partment with Braden lined up on; one side and various military ad- visers on the other. Because the decision was so im- portant, it may be well to review| put forward by both sides. Chief pomt which big, burly Spruille Braden made to Secretary| ‘Marshall was that the United States and ‘Argentina enjoyed perfectly | way except one—namely the U. S. de~| clined to sell Peron arms. We ex-; change ambassadors. We buy all the goods Argentina will sell us excepci all Argentine credits in the United | States. However, argued Braden,| Argentina s a dictatorship sus-| pected by other Latin-American cheir territory. Therefore, the Unit- cd States should not increase her power by seiling arms. Others of Marshall’s advisers, es- pecially his old friends in the War provide rv?ney for them. | More rain throughout the Notrh- month vacation in Washington and | The Washington, on’s enemy, Spruille Braden, as As- ing conferences inside the State De- some of the backstage arguments normal relations in every possible fresh meat. And we have unfrozen | neighbors of having designs on| (Continued on Page Four) i |received severe head and facial staff scored a hit Saturday when | Lcuts.’ ‘they invited the CAA personnel and ———————— {their families to a picnic in Ever- paid from the time they leave. and Eugene E. Nelson of Rosalia, - Wash. Andrew J. Calhoun, 22, of Rosa- lia, and Bill Schaffer, 20, of St. " WEATHER BUREA | the "c‘af’li’erfieffiet;’sf?i;‘;fi?fn’,".‘ SCORES HIT WITH Dital sufteing trom ' fractured PICNIC SATURDAY skull. Possible leg fractures and a| crushed hand and wrist. Scha!fer! The local Weather Bureau office | HERE FROM SEATTLE green Bowl. People and food were by |in abundance, according to all re- The following are registered at ports, and entertainment for the the Baranof from Seattle: Stewart grown-ups was provided by a soft- H. White, H. R. Ambuhl, G. S. pa)] game between the CAA and the Newhouse, W. E. Mitchell, R. P.'Navy team from the destroyer U. 8. | Emery, Howard J. Hanson, F. R. Dent and Eldon B. Davis. AT BARANOF Four registered from the east at the Baranof Hotel over the week- end. were Mrs. J. H. Weaver Jr., of Stillwater, Oklahoma and J. Paul Rusk, Robert G. Kelly and Fred Rip- petol, who are from Charleston, West Virginia. s B A0 s g HERE FOR SUMMER Accompanying his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Killewich, on | their return to Juneau from Cali- fornia, was Earl Lockhart, who will spend the summer visiting here. ,S. Thomasen. {* At the close of the picnic, weath- ermen patted their stomachs and | gleefully forecast thickening skies ‘mr less fortunate picnic-planners. .o '» AT HOTEL JUNEAU | The fllowing registered at the ' Juneau Hotel over the weekend: W. Kopeczky and C. Berger of Anchor- ‘age. A. F. Taylor of Ketchikan, Gordon Partington from Gustavus, | ‘Glen Reynolds of Sitka and Frank Legace of Red Deer, Alta. R McGEE FROM WRANGELL Louis J. McGee of Wrangell is 1 registered at the Baranof. | PRESIDENT HOLDS OFF ON2BILLS No Action on Tax or Labor.! Legislation Unfil Fri- | day af Earliest WASHINGTON, June 9.—(®— President Truman will withhold ac- tion on the income tax reduction and labor bills until he next Friday from Canada Telling reporters this today, Pres-“ idential Secretary Charles G. Ross said “thousands of letters” have| flooded into the White House on both measures. | “Most of the mail is concerning the labor bill, and most of it urges | a veto,” he said. “The mail comes | from both individuals and organi-| zations. | The Presidgent will leave Wash=| i { returns lington tonight at 9 pm. and will, address the Canadian Parliament on Wednesday. He is to arrive back in Washington Friday night. He has until next Monday to act jon the tax bill which reduces in-| come taxes by 105 to 30 percent. Unless he signs or vetoes it by Monday midnight, it will become law without his signature. He must act within 10 days (ex- cluding Sunaays) after a measure reaches him. The labor bill has nov yet reach- ed the White House, but probably will arrive late today. Congressional action was completed last week. The; President fliew back to the Capital izom: Kansas City yester- day after a two-day reunion with his World War I buddies and an address criticizing the budget cuts voted by the Republcan Congress. SRR S 0 Louise Has Forty-eight for Juneau C. P. R. steamer Princess Louise arrived from the south at 3:30 o'clock last Saturday afternoon and | left for Skagway at 11:30 o'clock D. Passengers for Juneau from Vancouver were as follows: Viah C. Dodge, Florence Eckardt, |Fred Hounshall, Mabel Hounshall, Ida M. Lindenmeyer, Mildred Louis, Harry J. Nicholls, Ruth A. Nicholls, Daniel S. Reid, Lorene Reid, Luella Robinson, Howard Hanson, Antone Herman, Robert G. Kelly, Lydia Keithahn, Dorothy Killewich, Bob Killewich. Ruth Lingbloom, Earl Lockhart, Dick Martin, Rhoda Pearson, Fred Rippeter, James Rusk, Lucy Riggs, Joyce Smith, Bob Steilen, Dorothy Ann Williams, James Williams, Inez Ziegenfuss, Donald Adams. Wilfred Crosbie, Joe Denneus, John Dynneson, Clarence Gilmour, John Mann, Bob Moore, Charles Morley, Stephen Turchyniak, Fred | Wall, George Wall, and John 8. Watson. i From Prince Rupert were Flor- ence, Dorothy, Roberta and Marie} Reese, and Francis R. Lagace. The Louise is due from Skagway tomorrow morning and sails south at 7:30 am. ——————————— | FAMED HANDLESS { WAR VET MISSES SERIOUS INJURY BRIMFIELD, Mass, June 9.—® —Harold Russell, handless World War II veteran who received an Oscar award for his acting in the motion picture “Best Years of Our Lives,” escaped serious injury yes- terday when the automobile in which he was riding skidded and over- turned. Russell was taken to a hospital where he was released after treat-| ment for head and facial lacera- tions. | John Hamill of Hudson, who vo- | lice said was the driver of the car, also was released after treatment for body bruises. JUDGE MANUEL CAMUS, 71, head of the 70,000 Boy Scouts in the Philippine Commonwealth, is shown as he was greeted on arrival in San Francisco recently aboard the American President. Lines’ SS General Gerdon, by a mass contingent of Bay Area Boy Scouts. Judge Camus will fly to Washington, D. C,, to receive the Silver Buffalo, highest Boy Scout award, from President Truman, for his long years of service { in crganizing and directing the Philippine Boy Scout movement, which is attributed highly for morale throughout the war era. Judge Camus then will go on to attend the International Boy Sc¢out Jamboree FRANCO R. V. MACK 1S WINNER IN WASHINGTON Republican Elected to Con- | | { 1 FRANCO | ArmourGels | ISSUES | Nomination """ DECREE Stafe Dept. Calls for National Refer-|Career Diplgrfiéi Is Succes-' endum on July 6-Re- ' sorfo Braden, Who Re- | gress Over Savage, [ furn of Monarchy signed Last Week , Backer of Wallace ‘MADRID, June 9.—(M—Generalis- WASHINGTON, June 9.—(P—/| OLYMPIA; Wash,, June 9.—P— |simo Francisco Franco decreed to- President Truman today nominated Russell V. Mack, Republican, ranked day a national referendum on his Norman Armour to be Assistant today as the newest addition to the' ‘regime and eventual return of the Secretary of State replacing Spru- Congress of the United States and ! monarchy—but no freedom of the ille Braden, who has resigned. | Charles Savage, Democrat, who had | press, speech, assembly or other| Armour a career diplomat, was the backing of Henry Wallace, re- facilities for discussion of the ques- ‘Ambussador to Argentina in 1939, mained an exCongressman after Sat- | tions involved. land his appointment is regarded as|urday’s sbecial election gave the G. | The vote, July 6, will be the first a gesture of good will toward that O.P.and the Hoguiam publisher the election in Spain since that held country. victory by 1,500 votes. February, 1936, under the Republic.| The White House announcement| Mack said he viewed hi election The referendum will be by “yes” that he will succeed Braden was as a decision by the people of Wash- | | | { or “no” vote on tife law of succes- |sion approved by ‘the Cortes (Par- {liament) Saturday. This law de- | clares Franco Chief of State and Spain a kingdom, and provides for | king or regent to succeed to pow- er in the event of the death or in- capacitation of Franco. Franco also made orally by Eben Ayers, press aide. Ayers did not specify that his duties will be exactly the same as those of Braden, but gave that im- plication. | Armour’s last post was Ambas dor to Spain. He has been in r tirement since Dec. 31, 1945. His home is Gladstone, N. J. | Braden was Assistant Secretary !for American Republic Affairs. He resigned last’ Wednesday after Mr. Truman’s announcement that he is | satisfied Aigentina has fuliilled her anti-Nazi commitments. Long at odds with Argentine of- ficlaldom, Braden was an exporent of a “firm"” American policy. ! .. o ington’s Third District to stand “solidly back of our nation's bi- partisan policy.” He succeeds the late Fred Norman, the Republican \who defeated Savage by 7,000 votes in the 1946 election. The loser accused the Republicans of resorting to “smear tactics to con- | fuse the voters” during the election in which the Wallace stand was played prominently by both parties. | He added, however, that the vote! indicated a trend “away from the backward Republican program.” In the primary election which sent the two into the finals the Demo- cratic vote was 29,000 and the Re- publican 17,000, Savage polling 17,- 000 and Mack 9,000, In Saturday’s | general election Mack polled an un- |is given the right to name his suc- "cessor in the event he retires. — .- — ~ GIVES VERDICT I 1i7GTON, J 5 — B— @ - bRl e t ] | official 32449 to SavageSs 30,939, Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Cour | | i e handed down a ruling on an insur- | Bl of the rict’s 607 pre- ance claim today which Justice plAN“ED SHUMAG'N ,cincts reported. Savage conceded Black declared opens the way for the | y {four hours atter the polls closed. home States of insurance companies ] t Of National Interest to (ARG Ahe ponirAds Lhe. Chmp: ‘ISLAN BY SEMA | The off-season election. watched i . Brite BRRRDIE A KO0 GO~ | [nationally for its possible indication ; i i | SEATTLE, June 9—\P—Organiza- of a trend, brought from House rous dissent, Black as- | ' A V,‘].:leda t‘{-:gfn?k::: c::fjsion “yiolates | tion of the Aleutian Cold Storage Democratic Leader McCormack .v.hc very constitution that it is our Company, which will build a plant (Mass.) an echo R luser's‘ Sig duty to interpret.” (at Sand Point in the Shumagin gestion that it reflected a gain for The ruling voided a $6,300 claim |Islands, center of the rich halibut | the party because the margin of Re- by heirs of Ford Shane, Rapid City, | [ishing grounds of western Alaska, | Publican victory was less than in S. D., against the United Commer- ;is announced by William Semar, 50 i cial T,imers 'of America, with |general manager of the Northland| ‘It is fair to assume,” McCormack home oftices in Columbus, Ohio, | Transportation Company. The new| added, “that Mr. Savage had some Justice Burton, who wrote the company has been capitalized at | beople voting aga.lnst him, because majority decision, held that a six- | $500,000. of extraneous issues, who would 2 have voted for another Democrat.” | Chairman Carroll Reece of the i Republican National Committee said | in Milwaukee the Mack triumph “repudiates the Democratic Party months (after death) limit on suits‘ N ST o GRS applied since the Ohio law permit- | RMNBOW G’Ru Io courts upheld the claim. H > o l of Washington and its radical sup- | Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Reid of| Rainbow Girls will meet Tuesday | WM;‘“V IO LR Parksville, Missouri, arrived on the night( June 10) at 7:30 o'clock at Vebidan BFAhs. Seek World Wex. of several weeks at the home of a special initiation at which time | o, 1tura) Lewis County, where Demo- their son-in-law and daughter, Dr.|they will exemplify the degrees for |cratic County Chairman James Bt { This is the last meeting before jgeolgies and political philosophies IN FROM ANCHORAGE | summer vacation and a good attend- | g0 which he stands.” inec of Anchorage, arrived here; Wiy = trict’s nine counties, including the over the weekend and are registered There are about 171 miillion acres, _ TORNADOES, FLOODS IN WIDE AREA High Wa!erS;eeps Along Mississippi River-Low- lands Inundated (By THE ASNOUIAIZD PRESS) Lowland residents along the mid- dle reaches of the Mississippi river were struck by flood waters today as the death toll in other wide- spread weekend floods and tornadoes mounted to at least 23. Damage to crops and city prop- erty was estimated in the millions of dollars. Ottumwa, hardest hit by floods, had seven of Iowa's 11 deaths as the Des Moines river receded from about one-third of the homes in the city of 32,000 population. Her- shel Loveless, director of rescue op- erations, said, however, that he ex- pected to find other bodies down- stream but added that he had “no idea” how many. The Mississippi, swollen by high water from the Des Moines, rolled on over thousands of acres of Il- linois and Missouri farm lands af- ter breaking six levies and flooding the village of Alexandria, Mo., and forcing more than 1,000 families to evacuate thelr lowland farm homes between Warsaw, Ill., and Hannibal, Mo,, yesterday. Mayor Merl Hamill of Alexandria said the stream appedréd to, have crested there with six inches of water in the main street. A 15-Block ared of Sharon, Pa., was leveled and five persons were killed by a tornado which ripped into western Pennsylvania late Sat- urday from Obhio. Red Cross officials estimated the storm damage in Sharon - at $660,- 000. HOLDING UP OPERATIONS, BRISTOL BAY Fishermen ;fi Employers Called Back Info Con- fract Negotiations SEATTLE, June 9—(M—Alaska salmon fishermen and employers were called back into contract ne- gotiations today by Albin L. Peter- son, Federal conciliator, in an at- tempt to reach a settlement so that operations can get underway when the season opens June 23 in.Bristol Bay. The fishermen, members of the Alaska Fishermen’s Union (CIO) last week rejected the latest offer of the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., employer group, in elections here, in Portland and San Fran- cisco. The offer included a 12% per- cent wage increase, a no-strike clause and other provisions. Peterson said he had called a | meeting for tomorrow between em- ployers and ‘ herring fishermen, members of the International Fish- ermen and Allied Workers’ Union (CIO). It is expected an offer from employers will be available to sub- mit to herring fishermen at a unica membership meeting tomorrow eve- ning. |COAST FISHERMEN FLY TO SHANGHAI TO AID CHINESE OAKLAND, Calif., June 9.—(P— Twenty fishermen from Seattle and San Pedro left yesterday on a Pan- Overseas Airways plane for Shang- hai to teach Chinese to operate purse seiners under sponsorship of the UNRRA. Robert Wedemeyer, POA Traffic Manager, said his company also was flying Chinese currency, printed in the United States ,to Shanghai. B35 65 bl Birmingham is England’s second ted such a limit. South Dakota! : INITIATE TUESDAY | HERE FROM MISSOURI it | port.” steamer Princess Louise for a Visit | the Scottish RitesTemple to conduct 'yoijed up his biggest margin in agri- and Mrs. W. P. Blanton. . { the Order of Eastern Star. | Sareault said he was “opposed to the Fred F. Lewis and Alfred S. Bab- ance is expected. Savage carried five of the dis- at the Baranof Hotel of land in Texas. ¢ (Continued on Page‘ul"fl largest city.