The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 12, 1947, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA TR S — i EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” [ VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,604 ' MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1947 COMMUNISTS START BALKAN TURMOLL S. E. Alaska Indians ngo ~ Speaker Slgns Tax Bill REJECTION OF ACTION REQUESTED James C>u7rr~y Presenls! (laims Before Subcom- ! mittee of Senate WASHINGTON, June 12—(P— Indians of southeast Alaska asked | a Senate Subcommittee on Public | Lands yesterday to reject a bill to| authorize sale of timber in Alaska ] ! [ | | \ | i | SHOWDOWN IS INDICATED IN EUROPE Russia and West Involved -U.S. May Adopt New TRUMAN ASKS FOR CONTROL ON CREDITS, ‘ Recommends Congress. Pass Bill Coniinuing i | ) Wartime Leglslahon ; Policies at Once % | ST WA%HINGTON Juno 12.—(R— (By The Associated Press) President Truman recommended A new Communist blow to non- Communists in southeastern Europe —expulsion of the hard core of the oppesition from Bulgaria's parlia- ment—was presented to the world today and growing indication that a today that Congress pass a bill per- | mitting continuance of controls on | consumer credit in peacetime. Unless Congress does this, Mr.| Truman said he plans to end the forests to large paper companies | A for establishment of paper anc sulp! SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (Rep., Mass) ' Present regulations, based on war-| Balkan showdown was impending mills. | signs the 4-billion dollar tax reduction bill which was adopted by the :time regulations. These 1'exulati0ns.[ between Russia and the West. James Curry, represeniing the, Senate with a 48 to 28 final passage vote. After being signed by | under executive order, fix t‘he size ! Britain, meanwhile, pressed for a Indians said they own 10 percent, Speaker Martin and Senate President Arthur Vandenberg (Rep, of down payment and fix the, Russian explanation of the upheaval 1 | Mich.), the bill went to the White House. length of time in which the balance | in the Hungarian government, de- spite a Russian rebuff charging of the 16,000,000 acres in the Ton- | gass National Forest. He argued’ that to permit the Agriculture DeA] partment to sell. their holdings would be confiscation of their prop- erty without cue process of law. He told the committee the Interior: Department already had ruled the Indians own 10 percent of the land.: RELIEF (AR “If this land 1s to be sold the‘ Indians should be permitted to sell it,” Curry said. “The paper mill op- ! erators should come to the Indians and buy their timber holdings.” Interior Department officials told the committee earlier that the In-, terior and Agriculture Departments propose to sell the timber for use' by five paper mills to a pulp paper industry in Alaska. They said each, mill would cost $25,000,000 to $50,- 000,000 and that at each mill a, town, as large as any now in the soldie; Save-the-Children Or- ganization Killed 12.—(4 VIENNA, June —Russian night Border Foray FIREDUPON Aiouses Chin BY SOVIETS Action Is Taken Vienna. Chief of Swedlsh Government Is Urged fo. fired on a Swedish relief lived and killed foray by due must be paid by installments. | These controls affect purchases of | such things as household goods, re- | Britain herself with interference in Hungarian internal affairs. Minister of State Hector McNeil told Parlia- ment ‘we are entitled to the in- formation” as a signer of the armis- tice agreement and a partner in a friendship treaty with Russia. In Budapest, a prominent member of Parliament denounced the new Communist-dominated regime. The | Hungarian Parliament was in tur- moil, with angry Communists shout- ing and jeering, as Freedom Party lead: r Deszo Sulyok urged the Small Holders Party to adopt Communist Board, which wields the controls on| |eration of controls in. peacetime. ; | Adopt Stronger Policy 'SEAL-CATCHERS 0 ; 6F EUROPEANS 3 OI: TRUMAN that terror relgned throughout the T instaliment-buying credit. Eccles |read the letter to the House Bank- ' Toward Sovief Union | | | i country. e i wen. PRIBILOF ISLANDS 'Secrelary of Stafe Mar- President Talks fo News|iston sia the Goies siaes wa TO RECEIVE BONUS shall's Plan Amplified ”‘b‘;‘;’“fr";‘: x:;?'sm:‘ig\:?b::::.e st.ated’ ‘THE RO E‘ K’ FROM A IR _— This picture of Alcatraz prison was made from a plane i & Tobter. (8 hRI A Eccle.s, over San Francisco Bay. Cell blocks' are upper right, beiween water tank and lighthouse. @ Chairman of the Federal Reserve! S S A 5 T A CHURCH PRESIDENT | |ing Committee. i | Eccles has asked the commmeev 0 pass a measure giving the Re-' RE v | | serve Board power to continue op- { [ ] tactics if it ever hoped to set up a democracy in Hungary. He charged ington said the United States was ic i stk reviewing the whole American policy cl ]l:e\;an:ngo(;lmc‘;valry:n:rln Co"—responden's on in southeastern Europe to determine what lines of future action might be Territory, would be established. ! mission car last The legislation would provide' Arne Carsson, Vienna Chief of the from pro-Soviet outer Mongolia . . . . that money received for the timber Swedish Save-the-Children Organ- brought demands on the Govern- I f AI I ' at News Conference i ; His Canadian Tflp ::"r’:ufi'”“l" than ‘the long series will be placed in the Treasury to'ization. ment of China today to adopt a' ncome 0 eUtS S '0 B I | v Fose ¥ | MONTEBELLO. Quebec, June 12.| other Cs;:;le:;lslsl'enz;:‘tl::u;)w nt:d ' ‘ n e be held until Congress can decide A Swedish Legation the question of Indian rights to the 'here described the shooting as a de- spokesman stronger policy toward Russia. WASHINGTON June 12.—P—| Boosted by Inferior De- !sccretary of stete Marshan saa | ik { —IM—President today that peace Truman declared : the world for past few years. Diplomatic authorities in Wash- The incident last week was dis- se Sale Of Tlmber land. plnmbl(‘ accident, and said no pr test would ke lodged with the Rus- Legislative Yuan, members said, as Ray Williams Is sians in Vienna. He added that a some sources viewed the fighting as ‘.ull report would be sent to the the fir: Swedish Foreign Office. Carlsson was kiiled by a riile ang Province under possibly Soviet- Belleved Drnwned ‘shnt fired by a Russian senny near stimulated demands for its auton-, I.he Czechoslovak border. . Thros- omy. nen Arneus, chief of (he SWPdlih Foreign Minister Wang Shih- In FO“Y'M“e Rlver was in- chieh told the Legislature that he l)ured slightly in the right hand by was “not unsympathetic” to their DAWSON, Y. T. June 12_[M4|f13mg glass. demands for a firmer attitude in Ray Williams, 65, who came to the: Carlsson’s wife and three-year- ' relatons with the USSR. és soon Yukon from Chicago last year w»nld son, viding in the back seat, as the Government determines its settle the estate of his brother, sescaped injury. ‘pflllcy ” he said, “it will be carried William A. Williams, was presumed| A Legation ofticial said Carisson Out with fortitude.” drowned here yesterday following was enroute from Hungary to Meanwhile, a spokesman for the reports from Alaskan authorities Czechoslovakia. At a Russian road- | National Defense Ministry rePOHEd that his rifle and sleeping bag were 'block he turned the car around, that Government troops had re-! found on a raft drifting on Fortyithen started back when the Rus- Captured Peitashan, Sinkiang city | Mile river, below Mosquito Forks.isian soldier shot from behind the Where the Mongols and OChinese Williams left here this spring to ' roadblock. forces clashed. It was retaken Sat- visit gold properties discovered by urday, a day after the Mongol in- his brother on Forty Mile river. HiS ha4 shouted for the car to stop Sl {relief mission to Austria, widow and g young 400 reside here. i pefore firing. Dr. Arneus said N0 0C- =~ p il 0 pove confirmed | cupaan of the car heard any shouts that the Soviets had trained and| {or had any reason to believe they | o quipped a “modern army” in outer The waShlngi()n"'“’““’ o e Mongolia, including a small “but; P es | surprisingly efficient” airforce. Merry-Go- Roun(‘IFMHER 0F o o 7 By DREW PHARSON | HGHT IS GWEN (Iomed °°e sh iy WASHINGTON—Attorney Gener- | 0se vercharg al Tom Clark was listening to a' S(Hool D'ploMA Fo[ Whlskey harrage of crmclsm from Republi-| ran Senators during the hearing, ROME, June 12.—(#—Rome police on the Kansas City vote scandals— ! CHICAGO, June 12. — (P—Allen | 3 announced today that the Hotel De | particularly criticism {rom the Jub-!gyiy 79, the father of eight chil- | Russie night club had been closed ior GOP Senator from Missourl, |y e, tecejved his elementary school | indefinitely for charging 5900 lire James Kem. Specifically, Kem ac-| giplomq at graduation exercises last | (526 at the official rate of ex- cused the Attorney General Of;nignt and told his teachers he plans change) for five jiggers of whiskey. | whitewashing Democrats. ’to enroll in high school next Sep- | ———e—— “Whitewashing!” snapped Clark.' tember. “Was it whitewashing when I pro-i officials at Phillips Evemng secuted the Democratic Congress-,genool said Smith had a perfect RAND Ju v w".l man from Massachusetts, Mayor attendance record for the four years Curley, and convicted him? Ihe has been enrolled. He attended | I"vEsI'G ATE RISE “And was it Wh“eW“hm; wher; classes two hours four evenings 1 prosecuted Congressman May of | weekly for 36 weeks. 1 Kentucky, another Democrat”con-l Smith, a retired odd jobs man, I" GASO['"E (osl tinued _Clark. “And was it white-'was born Dec. 5, 1867, at Tuskegee, WASHINGTON June Attorney General washing when I prosecuted an as- | Ala., of parents who had been slaves | sistant to President Roosevelt for|only a few years earlier. income-tax evasion? Is that what! S e you call whitewashmg Democrats?” | IRISH HEADAL‘HES l It is sometimes said among dm-\ lomats that relations between Ire- land and the USA are so salubrious that the only job of the American Minister to Ireland is to attend the (Continued on Page Four) ARRIVE BY PLANE Mrs. A. C. Johnson ana child, !Donald Hall, Vernon Huge, Dor-' othy D. Bilbo, Jack Conway and Roy Grover arrived in town and |are staying at the Baranof Hotel. They arrived via Alaska Coastal from Sitka. evidences of monopolistic activity. cents a gallon. ] 12—M— has a new addition to its fleet, ’wumament of the Merchants’ Tom C. Clark | the said today a Federal Grand Jury at|used for spraying mosquito areas tion that it is guaranteed on the Los Angeles will investigate mcrens-‘ ed gasocline prices in the mountain i states and Pacific coast area fo | Clark said that since price con- a bottle of DDT. trol on gasoline was removed last July, average prices in those areas have gone up approximately three jor Department to boost the income| Marshall made the proposal in a of Aleut seal-catchers on the Prib-.speech at Harvard University a lilof Islands ip the Bering Sea. | week ago. He. was bombarded with Oscar L. Chapman, Undersecre-!duestions about it at a news con- tary of the Interior, said wddylrflence today, his first since the that the 136 native sealers employed , SPeech. to attend the government's $100,-{ In his replies, the Secretary 000,000 seal herd—and to kill and K State disclosed that Winston skin the marketable animals—will| Churchills urging of a United receive 25 percent “cost of uvmgmb('\tes of Europe had influenced | bonus pending a full study of the!his developing the idea that the t)I methods by which they are com- | Europeans should work out their | pensated. ‘own economic recovery plans and An Interior Department sealing|that the United States should ex- |expert estimated that the average tend financial help to put them bonus will be $150 through. The sealers, in addition to thexr. He gave no estimate of how much small wages receive food, govemment expense, their pay for incidentals. ‘of billions of dollars a year The sealing season will begin latv‘”‘" next several y““ this month. The Fish and Wildlife | A Service estimates that the cnbch'llo 'NVES“GATE | skins. The record take was 90,000, in 1944 after two non-sealing years. ‘Last year’s catch was 64,523 skins, | 'a decrease of 12441 from the 1945/ INLABOR RANKS |¢d management of the Pribilof | |tur-seals in 1910, when the herd| WASHINGTON, June 12. -—— (P— had dwindled from more than 3,- | The House Committee on Unameri- 000,000 animals to 132,000. Last year : 2" Activities decided today to start |the seal population of the islands' hearings June 23 on what Chairman was 3,300,000 and this year it is es- 'timated &t 3,500,000, ythe larges!‘.m'm"m". of Communists into the number in more than 75 years. ,lmm Mnions, | "The government seiia its Pribilof | Witnesses, Thomas announced, will |furs twice a year, at auctions at {will range from 60,000 to 80,000 COMMUNISM IN ! ’I‘he Federal government assum- ' | Thomas (R.-N.J.), described as “in- \St Louis, Mo. | Workers Union from Bridgeport, | Conn,, Schenectady, N. Y., and New l\'ork By ‘Appkopgdflsirmlud P Evel) 1‘ | KANSAS CITY, June 12— | SEATTLE, Junc 12—M—Tne city | Rain for the annual dinner and golf As- sociation has become such a tradi- “Culicide.” The craft will be in Seattle’s navigable waters. Mrs. William F. Devin, the May-| For the fifth straight year a r's wife, christened the boat by downpour caught members on the !smncking it over the prow with course yesterday. |group’s yearly invitations. - e R FROM ELFIN COVE HERE FROM SKAGWAY Marguerite Butts and Bessie El- F. C. Mason of Skagway, is sga‘,. i'ott are at the Baranof, registering ing at the Hotel Juneau. {rom Elfin Cove. |be members of the CIO Electrical | shelter, | financial assistance might be re- Pecples The Russian soldier later said he g0 50 miles into Chinese ter- |health service and education at 'quired but other State Department|Guido Schmidt, the Aus They spend . officials have been talking in terms eign Minister before Anschluss, | his | proven. (above). of East Hebron, N. H., was elected President of the First Church of Christ Scientist, at the annual meeting in Bos- ton. (AP Photo) Dr. Schmldl Is Acquitfed VIENNA, June 12--i#—A Vienna Court today acquitted alian For- of OVer high treascn charges The five-man court ruled that charges accusing Schmidt of be- traying Chancellor Kurt Schusch- nigg and engineering the 1938 Aus- trian link with Germany to advance own interests had not been “It is not the place of this court to determine the rightness or wrongness of your pre-Aschluss foreign policy,” the court said. “Our task here is to determine the guilt or innocence of this one man.” - SIEAMER MOVEMENI‘ Nortneri: Voyager, scheduled to arrive tomorrow. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. Square Sinnet scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. Sword Knot scheduled to sail |trom Seattle tomorrow Princess Louise scheduled to sail| from Vancouver Saturday. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- | lattle June 17 on Southeast Alaska route. Princess Norah scheduled to ar-| rive in port 8 am. tomorrow and sails south 1 hour later. Baranof, from west, southbuund about June 14. B RAA’I IKANEN HERE Raatikanen, businessman scheduled K of Pelican City, arrived here via Al-{ aska Coastal and is staying at the| Hotel Baranof. from Seattle, | cussed at a closed meeting of the | itoday that when he proposed Euro- i|the beneiit of the pecples of the | . parimenISays Chapman pean nations get together on an | world is the joir go)t):l o, the gov- .;:g‘: citber ':;:fiur:;ge:rly: m:‘: ‘(umomu program he was thinking ', ernments of the United States and | hamstring Ameri¢an demands r:r a open manifestation that WASHINGTON, June 12— Of Russia and Great Britain as Canada. Big Three inquiry into the Col China is in danger of losing Sinki- |High prices are forcing the Inter-|Well as other nations. Mrs. Helen Chaffee Elwell, C. | Speaking to correspondents at!munist seizure of power in Heunnr:y— this resort center 45 miles from Ottawa after a luncheon at the Manor House o ihe Seigmovy Club; the President said that if perman-|{ The Bulgarian Parliament voted ent peace were not accomplished,!last night that 23 members of Nikola all the men who died in World War | Petkov's Agrarian Party had Te- II will have died in vain. {signed of their own volition and Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie | therefore ‘are no longer members of King, who stood by the President’s |the Grand National Assembly.” side and voiced his sentiments said | The Parliament acted on informa- the Canadian government echoed |tion from a government prosecutor the sentiments of the United States that the written resignations of the Chief Executive. 23 had been found in Petkov's priv- | The President said that United |ate papers, but the deputies, insist- | States’ understanding with Canada |ing this simply was routing party was greater as the result of his|Practice, declared in final pleas th-t and that, in either event, the United States in all probability would carry the case to the United Nations. visit. He said he hoped sincerely | ‘We do not resign.” that Canadians would repay the| FPetkov's Agrarians have made a visit. {total of about 90 members in the | Parliament. tinued, was as it was in his visit to Mexico—"to solidify the concept live on this continent. We want w’BROWN um lS |" do that for this hemisphere,” hl"l poRI GoI“G wB | whole world. Unless we can do that, I the President continued all the |died in vain.” ice boat, the Brown Bear, arrived The United States, 'he said, has|In Juneau at 1:30 a. m. today en- world for the benefit of all the|ltS master. Capt. Danlel Drotning, | peoples of the world. reported that the ship is carrying - eee — the westward. DE“IA[ DIFFI(“[IY | Included in the passenger list are OSWEGO, Kas., June 12. — (P— | who will engage in sealing activities hurting me like thunder,” a patient | pany has a contract with the Fed- of Dr, F. J. Faulkner said as he eral Government for seal fur work. ' Examination showed the patient Bear to Dutch Harbor and will con- was cutting a wisdom tooth beneath itact the M.S. Black Douglas at ——————— | Capt. Roy L. Cole, Fish and Wild- MRS. GANTY HERE |life Port Captain at Seattle is also Hoonah and is registered at the route to the Cook Inlet district for Baranof Hotel. | work in stream improvement. AT BARANOF lBrown Bear will be assigned to the | The Baranof Hotel has as a guest ! Bristol Bay area for the summer ‘ His objective in this visit, he con- | of iriendship of the peoples who said. “Then we must do it for the | men who died in both World Wars| The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv- but one view in mind—peace in the | FOute to Dutch Harbor and Naknek. | supplies and personnel for points to 12 employees of the Folke Fur Co., “Gosh, Doc, my false teeth arejon the Pribilof Islands. The com- crawled into the dentist’s chair. | These men will travel on the Brown his plate. | that point for transportation further. Mrs. P. S. Ganty has arrived from " on board the Brown Bear. He is en- I, 0 | Capt. Drotning said that the Harold Rodgers who is from Carl- season. He said that it was sched- ton, Oregon, also B. Frank from |uled to leave Juneau at 4:30 p. m. Washington, D. C. today. ' o e 1 s R FROM SEATTLE i IN FROM TULSEQUAH Larry Hagen and F. E. Gleason| C. H. King arrived from Tulse- of Seattle are registered as gum,‘qunh B. C. via Alaska Coastal and at the Baranof Hbtel. ‘ls staying at the Gastineau Hotel. 2 7