The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 11, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY AL _———————— VOL. LXVI., NO. 10,603 “ALL THE NEWS ;{LL THE TIME” SKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e PULP, PAPER MILL FOR ALASKA COMING President Sp U. 5. POLICY 15 OUTLINED BY TRUMAN Parliamenrfiflen "Good! Neighbor” Address by Executive Today NELSONTOSWING; MAGNUSON IS New ser atomic (SUB CRUISE DEATH WATCH IS ceop e FUND POPOSILSHADE " INTo) ARCTIC ANNOUNCED ' PLACEDONSLAYER | BY SOVIE iExeculive Clemendy Is De;!‘FOR U AlASKAlDirect Conflict with U. S. i nied for Man Convicted f Loty | Regarding Infernation- Floe! Will L N of Killing Jim Ellen 'Wants Appropriation of| al Inspections fleb 'f fia;’heD ear | What is. practically the last door | $45,000 Reverted from | rake success, suse 11— ar I(:g oMrld?july ur- i ce r r X o/ : ssia today offered the United tof escape for Austin Nelson, who Russia y { faces the noose here July 1, was shut AQTI(U"UI'e Depf. Nations a new set of atomic pro- 1 tight when U. S. District Attorney | J. Gilmore, Jr,, was notified by WASHINGTON, June Ip(m\ls which left the Soviet position PEARL HARBOR, June 11.—(#—. eaks To Canadians China Govl. -~ Prolesting | - Soviet Ad iOuter Moné_bh'_an Invasion | sl Ié . - of Sinkisn Provinte | wasmoromos, suse 1 = | WASHINGTON, June 11, — (P— | The Forest Service disclosed today i i Is Resented |t has taken the first concrete step | | NANKING, June 11.—®—A Chi- | | | | HEINTZLEMAN ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT T0 BE GIVEN T0 GROUP OF FINANCIERS Proposed $30,000,000 Deal Involves Sale of Eight Billion Feet of Timber with Plant fo Be Con- structed Near Petersburg-Actual Sale Now De- ken by Congre_ss House will hold it second hearing on the subject June 19. Timber Included "ae timber jncluded in the Peters- | burg contract includes 1500,000,000 11—M—|on the veto in direct conflict with _OTTAWA, June 11—M—Presi-inoniel Lyons, Pardon Attorney of |Senator Magnuson (D-Wash) asked |that of the United States but open- dent Truman told the Parliament of | o 17, 5. Department of Justice in|the Senate Subccmmittee on Agri-led a possibility of agreement over this northern “good neighbor” to- |y, chington, D. C., that President culture aypropriations today to|imternational inspections. day that the United States intended | yyman has denied Nelson’s petition | provide $45000 for the University| Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei to help those nations that want to g, Executive clemency and com-|of Alaska to ¢arry on agriculture|A. Gromyko, speaking before the live in peace, without coercion or mu¢ation of his sentence to life im- | research in the «Territory. |'UN Atomic Energy Commission af-| | intimidation. ! prisonment. The Senators and members of the! House of Commons stood and ap- judge Harry E. Pratt, April 22, to plauded as the President, attired in hang on the first day of July in | Nelson was sentenced by Federal University has been doing|ter a widely-publicized request for a | the work and the House in passing | special meeting, called for estab- the agriculture money bill for the lishment of a world commission to; year starting July 1 proposed that!carry cut “strict international cun-‘i Four Pacific fleet submarines and a sub-tender will leave Pearl Har- bor in mid-July for a two-months training cruise into Arctic waters, submarine force headquarters an- nounces. “The vessels will cruise in the | Bering and Chuckhee Seas and may , Ambassador in Moscow to protest near g9 as far north as Point Barrow ie cap, headquarters said. toward promoting an Alaskan pulp- | ‘nese Government spokesman, de- wood and newsprint industry. ‘c]aring “this is no ordinary frontier | incident,” charged Russia today with | partial responsibility for an outer Mongolian invasion of China's re- 'mote Sinkian Province. i | cubic feet, or which 75 per cent is The Service revealed details of 2 | western hemlock and more than 20 sample agreement it has prepared | per cent Sitka spruce, with small at the request of a group of West Coast and New York financiers, high Interior and Agriculture department officials said, for the sale of ecight | The Government instructed its|Dbillion board feet of pulp timber Petersburg, Wrangell and the incident to both the Soviet Thomas Bay, Alaska. government and to the outer Mnn-i Under the agreement the success- formal morning clothes, entered the ' juneau as a result of his conviction, | the funds be spent by the Agricul-|trol over all facilities” engaged in} YThis will be the second postwar | golian Minister there as the after- ful bidder must have at least $8,- House Chamber. “We intend to aid those who seek to live at peace with their neigh- bors, without coercing or being coerced. without intimidating or be- ing intimidated,” the President told the lawmakers. by a local jury, for {le first degree murder of groceryman Jim Ellen, December 22, 1946. The jury turned its verdict without a recom- mendation for mercy, which made the death senitence mandatory under ' existing laws. re- | ture Department for Alaskan re- | mining and production of atomic search, i energy. “This is a step backward,” Mag- nuson told a reporter. “The Uni-|proposed commission should oper- | versity has been cooperating heart-,ate “within the framework ol the| ily with the Department in research | Security Council” where Russia and { | work in the Territory and it should'the other four big powers hold the | rubmarine cruise into the area. Four lsnbnmrmes made the trip last year | carried a Mongol cavalry battalion|plant construction. However, he stipulated that (he{wnh“m a tender. This year the 50 miles intc China. vessels are expected to visit Adak Kodiak, Seward and Juneau. The vessels will be the tender math of a punitive campaign which ;000,000 immediately available for The financial | group was described as eager to sub- mit a bid. When bids can be asked depends on Congressional action on | Chang Yuan-cnhang, Foreign Of- i fice spokesman, gave no reasons| g why China was protesting directlyipendi"“ legislation. Frank Heintzleman, Chief of the He promised that American re-. Nereus and the submarine Boar-|to Moscow and declined comment | quantities of intermixed Alaska cedar and western red cedar. An | estimated 15 per cent may be found more available for manufacture into lumber, plywood, shingles or piling than as pulpwood. The area embraces about 400,000 acres of commercial timber out of an estimated 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 such acres in the Tongass Forest. Heintzleman said there are five or six other units in Southeast Alaska for which similar contracts might be written. They include one or two in the Juneau area, one near Sitka, and two in the Ketchikan area. sources would be used to promote world recovery by aiding those who are willing to make “the maximum contribution to the same cause.” Two red-coated Mounties, their hats on, stood at attention through- out the American President's®ad- dress. 5 St. Lawrence Project Mr. Truman called for comple- tion of the St. Lawrence project, which has long stirred controversy in the United States. The President’s reading of his address was interrupted repeatedly by applause. The Senators, seated in the aisle between the desks of the government and opposition members clapped their hands while the House of Commons members slapped their desks with their aands. Mr. Truman grinningly departed' from his prepared text to express appreciation of “political advice” from Prime Minister W. L. Mac- (Continued on Page Five) The Washingion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PKARSON WASHINGTON—Here is the in- side strategy Republican leaders in Congress have already cooked up if President Truman vetoes the tax bill—as he is sure to do. Late last week, House Republican 0. S. Marshal William T. Ma-|pe permitted to continue its work.|power of veto. Further, he said the iish, based at San Diego, and theion whether warplanes with Soviet|Alaskan Forest Service, told a re- honey, as custodian of the Federaly 1y gnows better what is required :proposed body would make 1eCcOM- | Gabezon, Camman and Kand Chub, Vail here, where Nelson is beiNg than can an official in the De-|mendations to the Council Onipaceq nere, kept, has placed a death watch| g ;iment in research work in the|“measures for prevention and sup- ' over the condemned man. This Move | reyytory and it should be permit- | pression in respect to viclators.” is customary, it was explained,!iq t5 continue its work. It knows| On inspections, Gromyko was not @ | whenever it appears that there is!peiter what is required than caniso clear and French delegate Alex- ,no possible chance of a change in| ., itricia) in the Department here{andre Parodi said in reply: | ithe sentence of .a doomed Person.i; \y,¢nington. The money ought| “A study of these proposals will' This s a precautionary measure| .. p. yestored to the University |enable us to see how far the Soviet{ ARGE SUM FOR ADAK IS SOUGHT Navy Requ& Over Mil- lion and Half Dollars for Construction WASHINGTON, June 11.—®— The Navy asked a House Armed Services Subcommittee today to au- thorize construction totaling $3,- 546,000 at he Naval operating base, Adak Alaska, and $14,675,000 at the Guam Naval supply center. Rear Admiral John J. Manning, chief of the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks, said the policy of ex- panding the bases outside contii ental United States has the appro- val of the point chiefs of staff. The Adak projects include two storage buildings, $2,560,000; a cold storage building, ice cream plant and milk facilities, $340,000; ship | repair facilities, $306,000, and a dis- pensary, $40,000. attempt to save Nelson from facing the hangman. Roden is in Seattle, | at present, but will return within the next week or ten days. McLean said today that no stone is being left unturned in the hope that new | ;evidence might be uncovered to give the defense grounds to make a higher court. SR ol - dfl'{e'thv bill waen it comes to the !]om-i Gromyko said that the proposed Jwa“"h o She peigines 85/8]] umc‘sv‘lm_ debat , commission, with internationally McLean have not yet given up their | production and stockpiling.” | The United States, which has Io BR'STOL BAY' sists on unlimited international in-/ | spections. ! N i g ran appeal to H e : | | ol i Within Next Week (|N ENTIRE NATION ! quotation of Alaska Juneau mine e ! : |stock today is 4%, American Can! SEATTLE, June 11.—(#—Delayed | { Kennecott 44 New York Central 14, Bay, Alaska, by plane last mghhlw}“‘:h Will have its fhst regularly ) Northern Pacific 17%, U. S. Steel|in order to be on hand for the|Scheduled commercial airline oper- re lices re fr ield, will Merrill-Lynch averages today are| Two plane loads of men left Boe- | 1163 there p Doalop e o as follows: industrials 174.67, rails ing Field during the night, the|P¢ "One of the natlons saie | Northern Airlines reported. Within | ithe next week approximately 500 i The Colonel,/genkial: manager.of in the Naknek area. the Port of Seattle, said the in- strument landing system known as | markings haz supported the Mongol | %0rter the quantity of timber cov- ‘attack, as reported by the official ered by the agreement would be i Central News Agency. Outer Mon- sufficient to maintain a newsprint i golia, however, is pro-Soviet. | plant production ?l 525 tons a day i The Mongols rode into Smkiung:“’" 50 years. Friday, apparently to attempt Lol Town Near Petersburg force the release of eight Mongo-| oging of the deal would mean lian aol{!iem held by the Chinese. tho expenditure of $30,000,000 to ’I‘_wo Chinese soldiers were reported 1$40,000,000 to build a pulp mill, pow- “ul_le_d and others wounded in the op plant and a town of 2,000 or 2,- jinitial assault on Peitashan. Chi- 500 16 miles east of Petersburg. nese sources said today a number of | The ample sale agresment pro- IMongols were killed when Chinese | yigés that the lowest bid acceptable { warplanes ordered to disperse the for pulv timber will be 85 cents per |clash inadvertently dropped bombs 190 cubic feet (slightly more Whan i one cord). Heintzleman said this is famong the invaders. +'lower than the prevailing price on { v QL S 4 | the Pacific Coast. ‘Two SIART | Bidders must also agree to pay i ;’Lhc following rates until July 1, 1960, H | for material to be manufactured for isale or sold in other forms than pADDl'NG ;pulp or its products: | §3 per 1,000 board feet log scale l | for spruce sawlogs, including high | i To jUNEAu | grade spruce logs intended for pulp | manufacture; $1.50 per 1,000 board | ]‘feet for cedar; $2 per 1,000 board i {feet for sawlogs of hemlock and | iother species; 1.5 cents per linear { SEATTLE, June 11.—(M—Bob Mil- | foot for piling or poles over 95 feet ler and Les Welch were paddling|jong: one cent per linear foot for ! { their 68-pound aluminum cano€ | piing or poles 95 feet or under. through Puget Sound today, bound |~ he rates are subject to readjust- jfor Alaska and “not in a hurry.” | ment by the Forest Service July 1, j "It might take us a week just 10| 1960, and at five-year intervals 'get out of Puget Sound,” said thereafter. Welch. The two University of Idaho | students said their destination was Call for Bids Juneau. | The Forest Service has decided to Both are war veterans. Miller, 24, ' call for oral bids, but will acept seal- learned to handle a canoe on the ! ed bids from approved bidders. The Irivers near his home town of Lew- |successful bidder, who must fihowl' 'iston, Maine, He wields the bow | Working capital or at least $8,000- Petersburg is 110 miles southeast of Juneau and 130 miles northwest of Ketchikan. Curry Disapproves James Curry, counsel for Indians in Southeast Alaska, urged the Sen- ate Committee not to approve bill to permit the Agriculture & partment to sell stumpage rights in the forests to paper mills. He said the Indians own part of the land and had heen found to be the owners by the Interior Depart- ment. He said the Forest Service in denying this ownership was “be- ing obstinate.” The Indians want to see the Territory developed, he said, but to permit the Forest Serv~ ice to sell the stumpage rights would take their property for private use of the paper industry. “In effect this bill,” he said, “is authorizing a condemnation of the property of the Indians. The law prohibits that.” Warner Gardner, Assistant Secre- tary of Interior, C. Mom Granger. Assistant Chief of the Forest Service and Delegate Bartlett of Alaska | urged the committee to approve the legislation. Gardner said that economic con- ditions are favorable to establish- "ment of the paper mills now but might ‘not be in another year. He said delay might prevent establish- ment of the industry in the Terri- wory. MRS. WASHBURN 1S FIRST WOMAN leaders were tipped off by White disclosure that Sen. George, (D-Ga) House contacts that the President had asked President Truman to sign would veto the tax bill, with a mes- | the tax biil. "taken to prevent possible IUemDIS ;.4 ¢ he committee does not see | Union will go ist the matter of ins | at escape or suicide. It means the o ¢ 5 Gone I will try to amend | spection.” { Dy ihe guianitine, deigHss Avor ————e——— recruited personnel, would have neys Henry Roden and Joseph A, | “access to any facilities for mining, been unbending in its stand against the veto in atomic matters, also in- i :BOW LAKE AIRPORT - - Five Hundred Are fo Be STOCK QUOTATIONS Airplaned fo Naknek 'TO BE ONE OF BEST NEW YORK, June 11.—Closing' 194, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright| by contract negotiations, salmop SEATTLE, June ii—#—The S(’: 43, International Harvester 84%, fishermen were rushed to Bristol | 2itle-Tacoma auport at Bow Lake, {672, Pound $4.02%. | opening of the fishing season Junelff‘im‘» Sept. 1, when Northwest Alr- | Sales ‘teday were 1,350,000 shares. | 23. lines moves its western regional of-| 4471, utilities 34.04. !weather fields,” Col. Warren D. Tt Lamport said today. i . { | Stocks climbed nearly a bllhon“fishermen will be flown to the idollars today, rising in response Lo‘Libb_V, McNeill and Libby canneries The fishermen, members of me,ILS has been installed and is un- Alaska Fishermen’s Union, xcceptedi der-going tests at Bow Lake and GCA (Ground-Controlled Approach) | ta 12 per cent wage boost Monday SEATTLE'S TAXI !kneeling on an air cushion. Welch, | 26, hails from Oroiino, Idaho, and | learned his rivercraft on the Clear- | |paddle and must make the trip 000—less than a third of the esti- mated total cost of the project— | must put up $100,000 at the time his oftfer is accepted. This is to serve ATOP MKINLEY SERVICE TIED UP; sage announcing that he would call| Although George indicated his A i is “scheduled for installation this| a special session of Congress in!Personal belief that the President | night. B oW 4 ;summer by the Civil Aeronautics | Administration. | water river and its rushing tribu- | @5 8 guarantee for a one-year option period in which the successful bid-, Explorer’s Wife with Party the North Fork. the tall for the purpose of drafting Planned to veto the measure, Wall | another tax bill gwving help to 10w.;Street was cheered by his apparent | bracket taxpayers, but none to the | reécognition of the need for lowered | high-brackets. tax rates. He said he thought a, Following this advice, certain key | veto would be a psychological blow | leaders of the House GOP steering |to businessmen and taxpayers gen-| committee and the Ways and Means erally. ol Committee neld a secret meeting,| Other favorable developments in-| GETS CAB OKEH, at which the following strategy was(cluded peaceful settlement of a SKAGWAY ROUIE devised : wage dispute et the Briggs Manu- {of the Hudson Motor Car Company Z ¢ i i jons| 11 —P—! (1) Knowing that they do notfacturing Company and indications| WASHINGTON, June 11. {plant at Detroit 4 tight f have the vctes to override a Tru- | that coal miners aredrifting back The Civil Aeronautics Board loday;?fl?:rvy :"aise. Al‘mutnl;{)m;gclol;:‘ro?‘ man veto—and thus pass the tax|to Wwork, lessening the posslbmty‘n’uthanzed ,l.hc Alaska C(xastlnl Air- duction workers refused to cross| bill over the President’s head—the|Of 8 soft coal walkout. \ ;lme.s to carry passengers, cargo and picket lines set up by the office GOP leaders decided to make no| All sections of the list moved mail between Juneau and SKagWay | . .i n and the company theh closed concerted fight for an overrider. {higher. The price rise seemed to|via Haines and Berners Bay for a}me factory. (2) The House GOP leadership|Parallel skyward shooting temper- seven-year period. Another strike broke out in the ALASKA COASTAL STRIKES I i . i | . DETROIT, June 11.—®—CIO of- I fice workers have forced a shutdown ‘atures as the mercury in New York The Board authorized the airline 700 DRIVERS 0UT SEATTLE, Yune 11. — (# — The city's taxicabs were idle today as 700 drivers remained away from work in a demand for higher wag- es—and among the non-working drivers were 54 owner-operators of Farwest Taxi, who said with a shrug that “we're striking against ourselves.” The drivers demand a minimum daily guarantee of $10 or 49 per- cent of each day’s fares, whichever is greater, a five-day week, eight- hour day and one week’s vacation with pay after one year of service tary, 4 PSS STEAMER MOVEMENTS Nortneri: Voyager, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive June 13. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Junz 13. Square S$innet scheduled to sail) from Seattle June 13. Sword Knot scheduled to from Seattle June 13. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver July 14. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- attle June 17 on Southeast Alaska ! | route. sail der will be permitted to qualify for |the final agreement. Heintzleman said the firm which wins the bid will have to spend from $300,000 to $500,00 in the first year,| merely on plans and surveys. He said the Forest Service hopes to conduct the sale as soon as possible 80 that much of this preliminary work may be accomplished this| summer, and actual construction may begin next year. If the sale if held early enough for surveys to begin this year, pro- duction may begin in 1950. Thus ithe 50-year contract would carry the r cf 2000. | Princess Norah scheduled to ar- | D% e vear ¢ may sit tight and not even offer a motion to override. In fact, if Suchicllmbed above 85 degrees to a near- to stop at Gustavus on the Juneau- a motion is offered, a group of Re- | record high. Upstate New York also Sitka route. publicans led by Representazivelsweltered, The Alaska Coastal and the Ellis Clarence Brown of Ohio will ac- Soft drinks, always a favorite in|air Transport was authorized tolgontinental strike was the first sit- | tually vote to sustain the President ot weather, had gains ranging tojcarry mail between Juneau and|qown in the industry in more than to further insure the death of their 8 points in Coca-Cola. Pepsi-Cola Ketchikan for one vear. Both also|ten years, and a company spokes- own tax bill rose a point and Nehi and Canada/were authorized to serve other!man said that the strike came after (3) But here is the payoff. If a Dry were (m_ctionany higher. | points not named in the regular{some production workers had been ' special session is called in the fall, Dow Chemical ran up 8 on plansiruuu‘s of other airlines provided the (disciplined for a refusal to work. the House Republican leaders plnnimr a 4-for-1 stock split. Allled points are not more than 25 miles, Union officials were not available to pass another tax bill, identical, Chemical ran up more than 2 off the regular course. ) for comment. with the one now before the Presi- i Points in the chemical group. | An agreement between the Alaska —— dent. Mercantile shares, reflecting in- Coastal and Ellis lines for sharing{ KIRKPATRICK FINED $200 Purpose of this strategy is to|dications that regulaflon—oonzrol-lbases and operation of flights and force Truman to veto the same bill | ing consumer credit—may be abol-‘schedules over the Juneau-Ketchi-' twice. iished, ran up as much as 2% points kan route was approved for one'd The GOP leaders feel it would iP Bloomingdale with Montgomery|year with the understanding the make excellent campaign material Ward up 2%. lines will present a “more satisfac- (Continued on -Page Four) | auto industry today—this one at the | Continental Motor Company which produces power plants for automo- biles, planes and marine craft. The | Robert Elton Kirkpatrick, tfaxi river, was fined $200 yesterday by !U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray. He { was convicted of selling liquor without a license following his ar- vest last week by City Police, +Gains in steels ranged to 2 points|tory solutior: to their problem"” rand more, lwithin that time. ; M1 “Kind of awed me — that's the, rive in port & a.m. Friday and salls | ;.4 time T've worked on a contract south one hour later. that far into the future,” Heintzle- ' Baranof, from west, scheduled|p,., caiq. | southbound about June 14. Up to Congress | T T = When the sale can be held de- | LABOR RECRUITER TO | pends upon the action of Congress BE HERE ON FRIDAY .., g joint resolution to authorize | Louis Akers, labor recruiter for|ihe Secretary of Agriculture to sell the Birch-Johnson-Lytle Construc-|gimper within the Tongass National tion Co., will not arrive in Juneau perest in Alaska while elaims of | until Friday, it was revealed todaYiAlukn Indians and other natives by Arthur A. Hedges, Director of |t such land and timber remain un- porter for the U. S. District Court|the Alaska Territorial Employment |determined. in the First Division and secretary | Service. He said that Akers will in-! Under that proposal, all receipts | to Judge George W. Folta, returmed | terview qualified applicants here | from such sales would be maintained ; here yesterday via PAA. She had!for employment on B-J-L work at|in a special treasury account until been absent for one month for|Anchorage and Fairbanks. land and timber rights are finally medical attentiop and a vacation., The interviews will take place,|settled.” The Senate Public Lands She visited Seattle, Portland and beginning Friday, at the local ATES | Subcommittee is conducting a hear- Los Angeles during her trip, office at 124 Marine Way, ing on the measure today, and thrl . and two weeks after two years. — e———— LOIS NICHOLSON NOW { WITH ¥&WL SERVICE| Miss Lois Nicholson, graduate of Juneau High School, has been em- ployed by the U. 8. Fish and Wild- | life Service officc here as a clerk- stenographer, — - eee MILDRED MAYNARD RETURNS Mildred K. Maynard, Court Re- | Safely Ascending Peak ~Top of America ! BOSTON, June 11.—(M—Explorer Bradford Washburn and his wife led six others of their expedition | to the top of Mt. McKinley in Al- aska—highest peak in North Am- j erica last Saturday, the New Eng- land Museum of National History . announces. | The climb to the towering 20,300 foot crag made Mrs. Washburn the | first woman in history to stand on the top of America. Washburn himself had made the ascent before. The newest trek to the topmost North America land climaxed two months of preparation by the ex- pedition sponsored by the museum for scientific data and for a major objective of establishing a cosmic ray station at.18,000 feet. With the Washburns were Robert Lance of Melrose, student at the University of New Hampshire, Army Lt. William Hackett of Camp Car- son, Colo.; William Eeke of Wood- ridge, NJ'J., Robert Prague of Se- attle; James Gale of Anchorage, Alaska; and George Browne of Hoss, Calif., expedition artist. The museum said its report came by radio from the mountain,