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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” [ —— VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,625 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1947 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA TIMBER SALE GETS ongressmen | | PARIS MEET ] BIDS GIVEN | IS NIPPED TURNDOWNS, N GREECE Two Thousfl Arresfed in. i Communist Attemptfo Stage Revolution | M—The that BIG PLOT Romania, mgaria Will Not Join in Aid-fo- Europe Confab PARIS, July 9—M—Rumania re- Jjected today the British-French in-!government Greek more ATHENS, July 9. announced vitation to = Paris conference on ! than 2,000 persons were arrested in! the Marsholl aid-to-Europe pro-|the Athens area early today in] posal, and became the second na-Jraids aimed at stamping out tion in the Russian sphere to de-iCommunisz plot to stags a revo: cline the bid. Bulgaria’s rejection|lution and spread civil wal came late last night. | throughout the entire country. ! The Rumanian Cabinet issued a| Minister of Public Order anul-“ communique rejecting the invita-'eon Zervas said the zero hour : tion. jthe Communist stroke was to have In Moscow, meanwhile, the Soviet | been around 1 a. m. tomorrow when | press made no mention today of the !? tacks were to have- been staged conference, which will open in Par- i'bm““““m“*l}' in all part of Greece is Saturday. ringing the present mountain Associated Press Correspcndenl15”_“"“““ fare into urban cen-! Larry Allen reported from Warsaw . '®'S: | that Poland's Foreign Ofiice- pro- | Between 3,000 and 4,000 police, bably would deliver late tumgm,gendarmc.\ and soldiers staged the 3 e 9 ‘lightning raids betore dawn this rif nd French e B e ;morning, Zervas said. He added Embassies, giving the Poles’ decision ! 7 % 8 Ot £he. Ifyitation. He: sdded theps oot many imporient: Communists were indications that_the Poles JCE, O, G N 00T U might “accept with strong reserva- ..o i # H T Most of those arrested, he said,| In London, _“dB;‘“S? 30;”“::”:'#111 be taken to islands near Ath- ;Dokefn;an‘ sai ldorttshd-t;f c;‘ni"ens. while the investigating con- rnes evin woul attent ¢ th i tinues. ference but would leave most of the, " transport already has begun work of organizing European econ-|g, . yineleaders, Zervas added, will omic cooperation to government €X- yemain in Athens to await hear- perts 'ings. Those not implicated in the' IR % «plot will be released and others WANTS RUSSIA IN {probably will be exiled, officials WASHINGTON, July 9.—P—As- gaiq. sistant Secretary of State Norman| A jeftist who escaped arrest in Armour said today Russian partici- the first raids declared: “They're pation in the Paris conference on!making a clean sweep.” the Marshall European aid plan is much to be desired because the 1 —_—————— i more who join in, the better the conference cince taking over ns; ANNOUN(ES FIGHT [ sive. comments on the Marshall; He was asked for a statement DfZS'atemen' Made a' Spe(|a| tain and France called to draw up th(lals l President William Green told lead-' diplomatic chief of the department, { plan since it was announced byi the Americau government's attitude i (Continued on Page Two) i ers of 105 AFL unions today “we Armour, holding his first news: ! made one of the most comprehen- AGAINSI NEw lAw i Secretary Marshall a month ago. toward the conterence which Bri-i (onference of Union | The w a sh illg ion WASHINGTON, July 9.—(®—AFL a st Producion BLONDEIS | 0f Coal Is Given Spurt Ihousandsgffliners Back to Pits—Others Await Contract Signing N.Y.CITY Nude Body>Fo;nd in Apart- : ment - Blood-Stained | Towel in Mouth PITTSBURGH, July 9—#—Coal' NEW YORK, July 9 The production spurted today with nude body of a tall, blonde wo thousands of bituminous miners re- man whese identity was not im turning to the pits in northern|mediately learned, was found to-, {day in a West 57th Street apart- ment, police said, with a bed sheet knotted about the throat and a I Llood-stained towel in the mouth. A maid who discovered the body other thousands remained jay from the mines, pending local meetings to ratify the new con Some states reported high absen- teeism also was holding down pro- told police that the woman wasj duction. In addition, a large num- Known to her as Bessie K. True.| ber of southern mines still were idle, Luggase bearing the initials *B. K.} for| T Wwas found in the apartment. since operators accounting about 20 percent of normal px'uduc-l tion still had not reached agx'&‘e-’k“"“" ment wita the union on contract terms Pennsylvania counted about half s 100,000 miners on the job while in Illinois, the United Mine Work- ers headquarters said 75 percent of its 23,000 members were back at' -vork. The Illinois Coal Operators Association reported all mines in the state weve operating. Police said the woman was also| as Sheila other name. H stand within the apartment! i The maid, Laura Rayfield, \\‘l:rvI worked on a part-time basis, said she entered the apartment at 9 a. m, found a radio playing, ant ; 'then discovered the body, sprawl- In Ohio, about 14,000 of 16,000 cq on the bedroom floor. y i diggers in the eastern Ohio field ~ ppe pody was face up between trooped back to WOrk this morning twin peds. Her features had and the “:m‘"“"d“‘ was expected to peen peaten and an ambulance doc- | don helmets and caps before night- (4r who examined the body said she fall % thad been dcad for some time. 4 Production was spotty in West peputy Chief Edward J. Mullins, Virginia, normally the nation’s jj charge of West Side detectiv largest prodvcer. In the southern gajq one bed was not disturbed part of the state, only six mines put that there were brownish st | owned by the U. 8. Coal and Coke on the spread of the other and Co. and employing 2,500 were work-'that a sheet from it apparently| ing. The return to work was more had Lteen used in the strangulation. general in the northern section.| Over the state about 23,000 of 100,~ i | 000 miners were working. . H i In Alabama. two of 10 steel com- : pany-owned mines re-opened wday! ASKED .lo REPORT > ! with the day shift. About 870 min~i ers of 5,500 employed by the U. S.' Steel Corp. and Republic Steel were * back. All other pits were idle, | SOUTHERNERS ACCEPT ,Immedlaie Turn-in Is Re-{ WASHINGTON, July 9.—By un-| enimous agreement, Southern coul‘ operators have accepted the new bi- tumineus contract with the United' meni MBY B’e Made Mine Workers (AFL) and arranged = to sign immediately with John L,, All chairmen of organizations in! Lewis. {the recent Fourth of July queen The decision by the contest are requested to immediate- group followed yesterda ly turn in their reports, money and! unsold tickets, to Al Zenger at the | * quested So Final Setfle- | southern s action yform of lend-lease.” ITHIEVES STRANGLED, In New Mexico Was Just Harmless Weather Balloon LEND- LEASE FORBRITAIN | HINTED NOW Deputy P—rifie Minister | Morrison Makes Im- | portant Statement LONDON, July 9.—P—Parlia- Mannering to ment had a hint from the gu‘,e,.,,_§\\nnd target, used to determine the| other residents of the apartment ment today, only three days px.m”din’cnon and velocity of winds "‘Jmakes the trip, will go late house and had used at least one'to the Paris economic (.Omel.‘,"c(._;mgh that rerewal of United States lend- | poverty. “We cannot indetinitely go on im-| porting what we cannot pay for,” Deputy Prime Minister Herbert | Merrison said last night in House of! Commons economic debate. To' brX‘ng buying down to ability to pay,| ke declared, Britain would have to cut imports 25 percent and make “great adjustments” in production and standard of living. “The only remedy he said, “lies in devising some means whereby billions of gollars worth of North and South American pro- the Atlantic without the necessity for immediatae payment in the| {torm of an equal and opposite flow |field and Maj. Jesse A. Marcell of European goods.” | Observers noted the similarity be-| tween this proposal and wartime lend-lease. | i Of London's morning papers, only |reported the find to General Ra- v .° paoiric jthe ruling Labor party's Daily Her- 'mey and the object was flown Iy tain states, although not un jald refrained from criticizing gov- mediately to the army air field! ) after “several years.” 0“ '"(KE'I' SAlES jernment economic policy. The Com- |here. imunist Daily Worker said the pol-' icy “appears to kbe to drift until' the Americans come over HAVE T TOUGH IN RUSSIA SAYS COMMUNIQUE May Survey Alaska Timber That "Flying Disc”’ Found 00ST SEN.CAPEHART HOUSE COM. CONSIDERING GIVES OKEH Balloon ALASKA TRIP! 70 MEASURE T | i examination by the Army revenica ON€ Committee, Possibly, Passage of Legislation last night that a mysterious ob- 3 " et o o' Toney New e TWO, May Come for On- | Urged-Indian Rights ico ranch was a harmless high- [ altitude weather balloon—not a| 'he-SpO' Sufvey i Are Protected grounded flying disc. L { Fa Excitement was high in disc-| WASHINGTON, July 9.—@—An ks conscious Texas until Brig. Gen. on-the-gpot (‘Ongx‘nfl‘:l(‘)nul surv : by ol iy e House Agriculture Committee ap- 5| proved today legislation authoriz- N ing the Agriculture Department to #ell timber on Tongass National \ Forest of Alaska to pulp and paper Roger M. Ramey, commander of|of the possibilities of establishing the Eighth Air Forces with head-|three to five newsprint mills quarters here, cleared up the mys-|Alaska is being “seriously consid- tery. |ered,” Senator Capehart (R-Ind) The bundle of tinfoil, broken!giq today. i wood beams and rubber remnants of | Chairman of the Senate’s sp(’cml"n,}; e a balloon were sent here yesterday | 'SP rail inewsprint committee, he told a re: { that money legislation, which provides from the sale of the by army air transport in the wake porter he believes “a minimum” of of reports that it was a flying 500,000 tons of newsprint can b”[fz:?:mufl:;"ts: e ‘:‘“I'";' diso |produced annually from govern-| ") ISR OF AR ment-owned timberland in Suuth-:cmlmflm‘ to: aele <6 fie 18 w : | determined, was recommended to east Alaska. ' i s the House with only one minor e s it (amendment. in ' The Agricunure and Interior De- {Auqust or early in September nnd‘ t - {will invite a similar House com-|P& ments urged passage of the But the general said the objects {were the crushed remains of a R:\y‘ his committee, if altitudes. Warrant Officer Irving Newton, Homicide investigators said they lease before fall might be necessary forecaster at the Army Air FOICeS;iyee peaded by Rep. Clarence MeAsUre as it was introduced in found a cigar butt in a smoking!to.save Britain from unm-oductive“"Ca““"' station here, said “we "‘“C}Brown (R-Ohio) the House to permit quick Con- essional action tc establish up to five $30,000,000 paper mills in the T bl ‘ ? to go along., "lf“';l b“‘;l"“‘ they go much high-|pepresentatives of the Commerce er than the eye can see. land Agricultural Departments also | The weather pauvon was found i)l be included. ' W, several days ago in a desolate sec-| The principal FDOSe e | Charles F. rrannan, Assistant % . he said, d tion of New Mexico by a rancher, ;. bepm ~-%z;,ec5u§nameh-m.:,p:riSecretary of Apiculture, read to W. W. Brazill. He seid he didn't| .. coments for disposing of the;!he committee a letter irom the Pu- ‘?hé"kcm'mh Bl;?"'M"‘ \ln“t,“ ;‘elu"f;:tlgovernmem forests to private in-'2¢t Sound Pulp and Timber Com- |into Corona, N. M. last Sa Y!dqustry.” He added that private vany of Bellingl.am, Wash. urging €L and l)?nrd the “y'”l:‘,_di“ rl:po“;fi'fnewsprint companies have shown'auick action on the bill as written. .HP, 1eu‘1rnc.d to his fnnc 3 {“sufficient interest” to warrant a| The company sald it could not risk miles northwest of Roswell, and congressional survey. |establishing a paper mill in the recovered the wreckage of the bfll-.! Action by Congress on pendingi Territory if Indians were given pa- loon, which he had placed under ;oqiqaiion would be necessary be-|tents to any of the timber because some Lrush. |fore private interests could under-.it would entail too great an ex- Brazill hurried back to Roswell, take production, Capehart said, be-'Pense to purchase the timber rights. 0S| quction could be transferred across|Where he reported his find to the cauce of government ownership of A similar letter from the D. and. sheriff’s office. The sheriff called the Roswell ah_;me timber and because “a lot of F. Company of New York was read Indian claims would have Lol to the committee. '|be cleaned up,” Brannan dand Mastin G. White, 509th Bomb Group intelligence of-| "y o genator said production ! solicitor of the Interior Depart- ficer, was assigned to the case. ’ Col. William H. Blanchard, com- | manding officer of the bomb group, from “the hundreds of thousands|ment, testified the bill as written of acres” should suffice to take!protected the Indian rights by care of the newsprint needs of:holding the receipts from the sale Coast and Rock; the timber until the Indian rights are decided. They said en- {actment of the measure will not -3 e i " Current consumption of news-'prejudice the rights of the Indians "~ iprint in the United States, he|to a iair and reasonable settlement. |said, is about 4,000,000 tons a; _White told the committee the In- year, of which 80 percent is im-{dians had refused to waive their iported. He estimated that some'rights upon agreement to pay them 6,000,000 tons are needed to meet ten percent of the annual receipts jthe demand. | from the timber. He said the re- “The only solution we see at the!ceipts will amount to approximate- ‘moment for increasing United!jy $2000,000 a year. |States production is establishment of mills in Alaski said. Commander Gefs 8-Year Senienc Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEAREON WASHINGTON—Not many people will pever stop fighting until the by northern and midwestern opera- i Taft-Hartley labor law is erealcd’m?'s in granting Lewis' soft coal Empire office, so that final settle- | sand those who voted for it are de- miners a $13.05 basic daily wage ment may be made. Those in charge | 'and other roncessious — the best' will approciate the earliest possible Green spoke at the opening of |contract ever won by Lewis. | turnin. ia special conference of union offi-' Henry Warden, chief negotiator, Chairman of various concessions ! feated. to determine policy tuwm'd! invited to lunch at the White House , cials fail to show up. Most guests arrive ghead of time. In fact, Toots Shor, New York restaurateur and friend of Bob Hannegan, arrived for din- ner at the White House more than thirty minutus early. However, _Mrs. Ted ‘Thackrey, owner of the New York Post, failed to show up at the White House for lunch last w-ek under circumstanc- es which even had the FBI search- ing for her. 'the new labor law’s provisions. He| (said: “The Taft-Hartley act represents ta determined attack on the trade {union movement by our enemies. | It is an attempt to weaken unions and render them impotent so that the working people of the country {can be exploited.” Lewis and Green conferred last |night, presumably on the mine iworkers' new contract and its rela- e tion to the Taft-Hartley law. When Mis. Thackrey left Ne‘wi i atifiecd (RAN: Drabably willl York with her daughter, Sylvia| i A i :come up for discussion at the AFL Backer, no word had reached them: o 3 ; hey were to be invited to the;conference because “it 1:5 the first it gy major agreement negotiated since White Houge. 1q | passage of the Taft-Hartley act. It So wher. President Truman told o o5 provisions skirting some nis stafi to invite Mrs. Thackrey requirements of the law. and daughte: to lunch, the problem | 2l was to find them. Finally the White House called the FBI, and G-mean|R°H|To PlA“S were given the job of finding Mrs.| | Thackrey, who happened to be re- gistered at the Statler Hotel here. vls“I Io NOR'H i When G-mel called the hotel, how- { ever, the Statler, for some reason, pARIS OF JApA" did not admit that she was there.! ! Finally J. Edgar Hoover himself | Zeifiiy | took up the search, resorting to| TOKYO, July &—m—Emperur‘ | the simple expedient of telephoning |Hirohito has selected August 5, Broadway columnist Leonard Lyonsjduring the hottest part of the in New York. Lyons reported that summer, for the start of his pro- Mrs. Thackrey was registered at|jected 11-day visit to the six north- " 'the Statler. Having a lot to do injeastern perfectures of Japan. | Washington, she did not return to| The Emperor is making the trip her hotel until late. against the advice of his physicians | Meanwhile the President decreed 'in hopes of encouraging the farm- that he cou'dn’t wait, went ahead|ers in view of the critical food | with lunch. shortage. He will also visit the| Joban coal mines in Fukushima ! (Continued on Page Four) |prefecture for the first time. i Chaj Milliki - r | Is Still Seriously M|, coome, e comce. ‘or the Southern Coal Producers are also asked to make their report Assceiation, announced the decision and final settlement. to sign up. H — e I He said most of the 150,000 min- H ers employed by the 400 indivldun]:l“(OME IAX CUI produce 150,000,000 tons of coal a MEASURE BOOSTED year. | ! Only far western operators now‘ BY COM. or SE“AIE" e fed the $4,000,000,000 income tax cut g bill today in 43 minutes. ' (ondl“on o' E'ena: The vote was 10 to 3, with only southern companies could go bac to work tomorrow. These companies | are out of the fold, but they were X expected to sign shortly, too. | WASHINGTON, July 9.—(M—The| N, 1Senate Finance Committee approv-| | | Democratic Senators Barkley, van'l I.IlpeS(lI un(hanged.lLucas (IID’ and Connally (Texas),| y ,opposing the reduction which would | {take effect next January 1. of | imittee without the formality RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, July;hearings. The legislation, approv- 9.—M—Mme. Elena Lupescu, wholed by a whooping 302 to 112 mar- as a “deathbed marriage cere-jdentical with the original tax re- mony” to former King Carol of'duction measure vetoed by President Rumania last Thursday, was re- Truman, except that the effective ported in an unchanged condition|date is moved up from July 1, 1947 today and still seriously ill. to January 1, 1948. Mme. Ernest Urdarianu, wife of! The committee went into closed Carol's secretary, said: “Her con-idession at 9:14 a. m. (EST) and| dition is ‘unchanged over yester-|reached its decision as 9:47. - day, but she is much better than| Before the deciding vote, the on Monday. She cannot yet be;committee rejected, also 10 to 3, a considered out of danger, however,|substitute bill proposed by Senator and still seriously ill.” Lucas (D-IIl). ————— The Republican schedule for Sen- ' WISCONSIN ate action given the tax mea- sure right-of-way for considera- Mrs. R. G. MacDonald and Mar-|tjon as soon as the Army-Navy caret MacDonald of LaCross, Wis., unification bill is disposed of-—pos- are at the Baranof Hotel, sibly tomorrow. FROM MOSCOW, July 9.—(®—All news- gjghth Army commission to serve papers published today a rare com- eight years in prison for brutality munique from the Soviet prosecut- to prisoners. Jaku Suyenaga, civ- ing attorney warning thieves that jjjan doctor the camp, was sen- <tiff penalties awaited those steal- tenced to. four yea YOKOHAMA, July 9.—(M—Lt.| ———————— REQUEST TO BARTLETT Seiickiro Yoshitsugu, former com-| & mander of a Fukuoka war- prison! Ralph J. Rivers, Attorney-Gen- camp, today was sentenced by anj NI teral of Alaska, telegraphed Dele- t [y [ |gate E. L. Bartlett last night urg- ing Bartlett to use his full weight j1or the passage of the measure for ! The Elks and Teen-agers arethe general good of Alaska and for scheduled to meet at 6:30 o'clock!the national interest. tonight. The grounds are in good Rivers told Bartlett that he be- ing State and private property. The same accounts told of 12 persons sentenced to terms of five to 15 years in work camps for vio- lations. Among the sentences were 15 years for stealing fish from a| smoke factory; ten years for steal-‘ ing a fuse from a railroad car;! five years for a pickpoeket; five vears for theft of 90 pounds of po- tatoes and ten years for breaking| and entering Moscow apartments. HUNDLEY NAMED TRAFFIC MANAGER FORA.T. COMPANY SEATTLE, Jui~ bv—M®—E. 12 years, has been promoted to the office of traffic manager, it i announced. Before taking over a desk posi- earned a & tion in 1940, Hundley master’s license for “any ocean, any tonnage.” He pilot’s license for Alaskan wat-| ters. —— MARILYN JEWETT RETURNS After a three-week visit in Wash- mngton State, Miss Marilyn Jewett returned to Juneau via Pan Am- crican Airways yesterday afternoon. Miss Jewett was accompanied by Seattle, w.! | Hundley, associated with the Alaska; went through what was descx'xbedlgm in the House yesterday, is' Iransportation Co. for the past| also holds a ceremony a minesweeper which he, |navy as wer father, Leo J. Jewett, as far as| ~ - | condition i lieves the likelthood of tribal cccu- WIll (lAMp Dowu Tomorrow night, according to|pational rights to the plans has | Prexy Holzheimer, the postponed |ieen over emphasized by Warner 0“ RI(E HOARD'NG {game of June 24, Elks vs. Moose, Gardner, former Assistant Secre- { will he played. tary of the Interior Department. | - ->-oe — - {He pointed out that a previous IN pHIlepINE ISlES okt oy R SR T I I ) {court case. had held that such |* WEATHER REPORT rights were extinguished by the ® Temperature for 24-Hour treaty of cession. Rivers said: “If MANILA, July 9——The gov-/e Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock this decision is wrong, 70 years of ernment was reported today pre-. paring plans for the arrest of merchants hoarding rice in antici- shortages | . This Morning . In Juneau—Maximum, 54; ® minimum, 42. Congressional action, adverse ta such claims, has probably consti- | tuted extinguishment.” pation of rainy season . At Airport—Maximum, 55; “It is deplorable,” Rivers stated, /before next winter's crop is har-|e minimum, 49 e !“that the avowed policy of Secre- ‘vested. The price of the cereal has| o WEATHER FORECAST e [tary Krug to encourage pulp and {jumped 20 percent in the past 20| 4 (Juneau and Vicinity) e other development should be days. ;o Mostly cloudy with occa- e!thwarted by action within his own 5 v ¥ o LR ® sional light rain and not e department by the misleading of xas ® much change in tempera- e |Alaska Indians into opposing HJR 205." “Passage of such a | ® ture tonight and Thursday. . President Roxas | |® since July 1, 174 inche: . PRECIPITATION o! 1 e | would fulfill the long sought pulp ® development to the advantage of resolution ® ‘all groups in Alaska,” Rivers de- From “avy o' u. S. s At Airport — .12 inches; e|clared, “and would provide a fund Pr i |® since July 1, 157 inches. ®|jor the payment of native tribal i' e © e« @ o e o e claimsif and when they are estab- MANILA, July 9—(P—President Roxas - today accepted at a public| ;lished.” He stated that blocking of - eee—— SIE ‘MER MOVEME"TS pulp development in order to force ‘the recognition of the said claim Alaska, irom &atiie, scieduled to/is an ill advised strategy which the arrive Saturday. ‘l‘auve representatives have been Princess Norah scheduled to sailipersuaded to employ to the detri- from Vancouver 9 tonight. {ment of their own people in the Princess Louise scheduled to ar-;general Alaska picture. rive from Skagway Friday at 8 am.! and sails south one hour later at 9 am. Baranof, from west southbound Saturday. said was the first of 84 vessels/ which are being transferred to the new republic by the Uniled States| “one more indication of the feeling of friendship of the United States for the Philippines.” - A A N FROM RUPERT Mr. and Mrs. Charles Graham| of Prince Rupert, B. C. are regist- ered at the Baranof Hotel. HERE FROM WYOMING scheduled| Howard Dunlap of Casper, Wyo., 'is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.