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THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE [ VOL. LXVIL., NO. 10,627 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1947 MLMBhR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DUST-LADEN WINDS HIT IN NORTHWESI f | | 5 BIG CITY PHYSICIANS ARE COMING American M;(TkaIAssocia ‘Agreed Appropriation Bill Army Makes Disclosure | tion Sending Hand-Pick- ed Corps fo Alaska By VER'\' "Al'(:HLA\I) WASHINGTON, July 11. — (P— The American Medicai Association is about to give hand-picked big- city physicians a taste of country doctoring in such places as Alaska, Puerto Rico and the western Indian reservations. The first group — five top staff | men from the Cook County Hospital at Chicago—will take off from Min- neapolis July 19 for Alaska. The specialists, taking with them a port- | able hespital, will spend a month | in the Territory. They will diagnose, | prescribe and treat as many sick Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts as pos- sible. Next fall, other carefully-chosen | physicians will visit Indian reserva- tions of the West, starting probably with the Arizona Navajo tribes in September. Dr. William A. Mcrgan, promi- nent Lexington physician, explamed‘ to a reporter: ] “A great many of these sick peu-‘ ple never see a doctor, live in areas | with no medical facilities whatever “The medical association will go in, work with the Pubhc Health offices where they are avail- able, and will attempt to do some- thing concrete about medical and surgical attention for these under-, privileged groups. | “We will send outstanding men ! from our best hospitals. The Leams‘ that visit the reservations, for ex- ample, may be chosen from San| Francisco, Ann Arbor, Mich,, or the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. This is planned as a continuing project—the only kind that can be| really useful. Mme teams will be sent out next year.” Dr. Morgan is Executive Secre- tary of a medical association ad- visory committee, set up at the re- quest of Secretary of the Interior Krug, to survey health problems in the Territories and Island Posses- sions, and in Indian areas. 1 \ | | | The committee also selects the and increased revenue from Sta"eiz inflatio 0 infla n," teams that will sample the rugged | life of the country doctor in the remote areas. Its other membels. all doctors, are R. L. Sensenich, | South Bend, Ind., Elmer L. Hender- | son, Louisville, Ky., William F.. Braasch, Rochester, Minn, and George F. Lull, Morris Fishbein and | E. E. Irons, Chicago. 5 The first team will set out from Anchorage, Alaska, to treat tuber-w culosis-ridden natives in such com- | munities as Tanana, Point Barrow, | Kotzebue and Bethel as well as m. Nome, Juneau and Anchorage. Fairbanks Scoufer, Paris Bound, Wanls | To See Ball Game | SEATTLE, July 11.—(®—Rich-| ard Woodward, 14, of Fairbanks,! Alaska, went out to Woodland Park| to see a Polar bear, the second hel had ever glimpsed, and admitted he | would much rather see a baseball | pame. Richard is tound for Paris and the Boy Scout Jamboree. Seattle had no baseball to offer, but he had| hopes of seeing a major league game in the East. As for Ellen, the bem. she was no more impressed by Richard than | he by her. She waved one lan- guid paw and went to sleep. ALASKA MINER DIES FROM HIT BY AUTO! SEATTLE, July 11.—®—Gustav Johanson, 70, retired carpenter and Alaska miner, died last aight of injuries received when hit by, an automobile Saturday. He lived at the St. Vincent’s Home for the Aged. Marvin J. Reed, 30, Ken’, who gave himself up to police Moudey and confessed he was the dv Coroner John P. Brill, Jr, said was charged then -with reckless and hit-run driving. It was Se- attle's 21st traffic death this year, compared with 45 the same mre last year, | | lwill be passed on to you and the BIG SUM | ALLOWED FORNAVY Planned Now Calls for Over Four Billion Dollars WASHINGTON, July 11.—P— | Senator Saltonstall (R-Mass) d | today a Senate-House conference committee has agreed on a Navy |appropriation bill allowing expendi- Iture of “just over four biilion dol- lars” in the current fiscal year. He said House conferees have agreed to accept part of Senate in- creases that will allow the Na 395,000 men and 42,000 officers dur- ing the 12-month period beginning last July 1. He said the compromise also provides $78,000,000 contract auth- ority for purchase of new naval aircraft for anti-submarine patrol and reconnaissance. Saltonstall told reporters: “I think that this will give us the numbers of men, ships and air- craft needed for an effective fight-, ing navy during the next year. The cuts will delay some of the ultra-| modernization plans such as in-| creased radar instaliation: ————— - " HUGE SUM IS SOUGHT BY JAPANESE GOVT.; DIET IS STAGGERED TOKYO, July 11.—#—The Jap- anese government staggered the diet | (parliament) today with a request { for 100,000,000,C00 yen ($2,000,000,- 1000) in special appropriations—vir- ttually duplicating the size of the| | present budget. Officials agreed to prune the lo- tal but insisted the rising spiral of : government costs and other expen-; ditures necessitated what would be an all-time record outlay in Japan. The diet is talking now of grant- ing 60,000,000,630 yen ($1,200,000.000) i lof the special appropriations, which | the government says it can balance | by heavy taxation on new fortunes monopolies. - OLSON GIRLS SOUTH Carol and Claire Qlson, daughters | of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Olson, left | z\bonrd the Princess Louise. They |will visit their grandmother, Mrs. Joseph Cohen in Nampa, Idaho,! jand will spend about a month in! {the States ! e ee— ‘The Washmgton 'Merry - Go- Round By DREW P):.AP.SON WASHINGTON — A friend vis-| iting President Truman recentlyfi remarked on a portrait of Ben-| jamm Franklin over the door of ihis study. The President, | | who | has got himself into quite a con- troversy with art critics over his condemnation of the State Depart- ment's modern art exhibit, looked at the portrait appraisingly and| explained. | “De Gaulle sent it to me. Pro-| bably he took it from some French | lart collection and I suppose xt‘ really should go ktack to a Paris| museum where the French people| could enjoy it. Must be worth| $100,000. A woman who was in| love with Franklin in Paris had it painted while hc was ambassador there” . | “Mr. President,” replied the friend—and he happened to be a/ friend who had known the Presi-| dent well before he became Presi- | dent—"“Franklin was not only a great man, but a very human man. When you look up at that portrait I know that some of his qualities| American people will be the better for it. So don’t send it back to a French museum.” “MAN IN RED HOUSE ON R STREET” Believe it or not, but John Mon- | roe, famous “man in the red house on R. Street,” who entertained ad- mirals, generals and senators to help get war contracts, is back at (Continued on Page Four) Y BIG SUM [Supply Base At Whittier Is When Asking for Funds for Development \VAbHX\I(v’lON Julv 11. (g | The Army has disclosed plans for !dev elopment ply base at Whittier, Alaska. Brigadier General J. S. Bragdon told a House Armed Services Sub- ' committee approximately $3,000,000 worth of construction is underway at Whittier and an additional $5,- 32,277 is needed for Bragdon said the development is being undertaken to shorten Hm railroad haul between ice-free waters and Anchorage Seward now is a major bi Bragdon said the railroad haul between the coast and Portage \v‘uuld be 54 miles shorter if \Vhll-| and that the railroad | to negotiate than tier is used, would be easier the one running through mountains | between Seward and Portage. The general said he was advised | that rehabilitation of the Seward- | Portage railroad would cost approxi- mately $4,000,000. Bragdon also urgd the commit- tee to approve expenditure of $2,- 021,118 to begin construction of an Army base at Mile 26, near Fair- banks. The Army also asked approval of $2,730,000 for construction on its 'Aaska Communications System, and recommended an allotment of $10,- | 1190375 for development of Fort Richardson-Elmendorf Field $20,694,850 for construction at Ladd | Field. (ONTINUE DEBATE IN SENATE TODAY ON TAX CUT BILL| VVASHINGTON July today that approval of a $4,000,000,- 000 income Lax cut would * | quickly challenged by Senator M- ternational brigad £ likin (R-Colo). i g Millikin, manager of the tax re- duction bill under debate in the Senate for the second day, Fulbright : “I should like to oppose MOStignce the Greek army offensive Was gorsair, of a $26,000,000 sup-| the current | supply | and | LESS MEAT NEXT YEAR NOW SEEN Be Accompanied by Higher Prices 11 g pect today | less meat i WASHINGTON, July - | The nation faces the pr of possibly 10 per cent | by early 1948 Such a reduction would be ac- companied by higher prices if con- sumer demand continues strong. These vossibilities are based on an Agriculture Department crop report forecasting a sharp drop in corn cron as a result of one of the | worst planting seasons on record. The corn crop—which is the basic |raw material for meat, dairy and | the | Reduction of 'iupply Will|Assistant to_G;;/ernor Says’ [ I | poultry products—was forecast at 2,612,809,000 bushels. This compares ! with last year’s record of 3,287,927, 1000 the government’s goal of 3,000,- 000,000 bushels and a ten-year aver- age of 2,639,927,000. . MBS 2 GREEK TROOPS IN MOUNTAIN BATILE | | . WITH GUERRILLAS I | ed-Communist State on Border ATHENS, July 11— The Greek igeneral staff said in a communique today that Greek troops, despite stiff resistance, were pushing west- {ward 4,000 guerrillas who were at- Lcmptmg to seize territory near Al- |rillas were fighting along a piteh- led battle line in 6,000-foot lof Mt. Grammos, 15 miles from the Alb'mian border. War Minister chge Stratos said the rebel aim gress since June 27. |of Split. | The rebels wore reported offering !fortified points for the first time stiff Resistance Encounter- | o ) informants said tne guer-| S1@AM Schooners Pend- peaks, 1P~ was to establish a Communist ‘state. CIO longshoremen, upheld in their Senator Fulbright (D-Ark) argued| Tpe struggles had been in pro- contention that no contract with It is centeresd-lumber-carrying steamer ‘add fuel|gy mijes southwest of Kastoria, War remain " but his contention Was njinjster George Stratos said an in- Off their strike and went into nego- 2,500 had tiation sessions today with Water- been spotted in thé Yugoslav port, 'tront Employers. told | yotermined resistance from behind coastwise trade, starting at 5 p. m icreated as I understand during the SMITH QUITS GOVERNMENT POST HERE | | Job " Needless Expen- MAR"N DOES diture of Funds” No-l- w ANT ]-0 BEPRESIDENT - Charles T. Sm\lh Executive As-' sistant with the Governor's Office, \ has submitted his resignation to Gov. Erpest Gruening from Rock- ford, Illinois, where he is now on \ leave. He plans to re-enter tho" practice of law. i . 1 In submitting his rcslgnalnon.lspeaker Of HOUSG Nex’ ml Smith said: “Although I have been informed that there have been no drastic cur- tailments in the appropriation for the Governor’s Office as far as sal- Line-Measure Goes | to White House ' jaries for pn;rsonncl are concerned, I’ WwASHINGTON, July 11 /P— do not hesitate to recommend that : jogpen, W, Martin, Jr., prominent| {the position of Exccutive Assistant, [pachelor politician of North Attle-| . e boro, Mass., earnestly expressed the| late war, be abolished at this time. | popd today that President Tru-| {Having held the position for the'mun will continue to “enjoy the best | {past fifteen months, I am of the|f health.” § | opinion that the greatly decreased | pe 63-year-old Republican | volume of work coming to the Gov-"gpeaker of the House had a special | ernor’s Office since the end of the reason: “I don't want to be presi- war makes the office of Executive |gent.” Assistant no longer necessary, and! pHe made his views known in “|‘ : | that it is now a needless expenditure interview after the House sent to of Jpublic funds. 'Mr. Truman a bill placing thej Smith is Judge Advocate for the Speaker next in line for the| Veterans of Foreign Wars, Depart- ment of Alaska. D LONGSHOREMEN ithe offices of both President and| Vice-President. | ! Since there presently is no Vice-| iPresident, Mr. Truman’s signature ion the new legislation which he ‘himself requested (would make Martin “next in line.” COAST SIRIKE e really mean it when I say that | IS (AllED OFF I don’t want to be President,” Martin said. “I sincerely hope that Men Resume Work on' andcm Truman will finish out tl\e rest of his term.” Mr. Truman's present %erm has about a year and a half to run. e, — 'ROOSEVELT HOPED - HEWOULD LOSEIN | 1940, SAYS FARLEY ing Negohahons SAN FRANCISCO, July 11— schooners in force, last night Lalled. ‘Former Democrahc Na- tional Chairman Re- veals FDR Desires 11.—P— The longshoremen had s'.ru(:k' nine schooners engaged in Pacific! ‘ One was the 5000-ton co‘mal\ at Port Townsend, Wash. ' WASHINGTOL, July hesrtily the theory that in fear of '(aiteq April 9 The COMMUNIQUC 1o Joad several thousand tons of Franklin D. Roosevelt asked mem- | inflation we have the right to take 5 o & said two more fortifisd points had paner for San Francico and the tax-payer's| teen taken and that the army cap- {pocket on the theory that we can Y 4P~ Angeles. !spend it better than he can.’ money out of Senator Morse (R-Ore) introduc- led eight amendments to the mea- !sure, including a proposal for a tax cut which would take effect only after Congress or the Presi- dent determined that employment and production were declining. President Truman has given ad- notice that he intends to vance {veto the bill and Senator Lucas of Tllinois, Democratic whip, said to- day the Senate would sustain the President’s action. " FIRE - FIGHTING FLEET FORMING SEATTLE, July direction of Fish and Wildlife |Service leaders, a fire-fighting ex-/ pedition of small boats manned by Alaska Salmon Industry was being assembled on the Kenai River in Alaska today to aid in fighting the huge forest fire there, {W. C. Arnold, managing director of |the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., said. Attempts will be made to stop the flames where they .endanger sal- mon spawning areas, he said. The {boats are equipped with high- speed | pumps and the river is navigatle for some distance. The expedition should get under way today, he said after talking with leaders at Kenai - —— INGLEWOOD, Calif.—Two youths were arrested today on charges of starting a grass and brush fire that burned down 18 homes and left more than 200 persons home- less in the Chatsworth area July 4. workers | itured 10,000 rounds of ammunition, 115 cases of hand grenades, 13 mor- itars and a “great” number of rifles. NUDE, TRUSSED BODY ™" == (OF DIVORCEE FOUND, ‘OHIO CHURCH YARD |iff Leroy Retterer said-today two !dnorcee in a rural near here early today. | Sheriff Retterer identified the |victim as Mrs. Zora Gerbes who was dxvolced four years ago, POLICE LOCATE 'DEPOSIT BOX OF NEW YORK, July 11—(®—A bank safety deposit box maintained by |49-year-old Sheila Mannering, slain | actress, contained $8,100 in ca 182,200 in war bonds and an undis- closed amount of jewelry, police announced today. Detectives continued questioning persons whose names were found in the woman's address books, but no promising leads appeared to have developed. | More than 300 persons have been .quizzed, but no arrests Jhave been \made. e AT HOTEL JUNEAU R V. Loften of Tenakee is reg- istercc at the Hotel Juneau, MARION, O, July 11.—(®—Sher- 9214, Anaconda 38, Curtiss-Wright ! brothers found the nearly nude and e 7%, rope-trussed body of a 25-year-old| Northern Pacific 19%, U. S. Steel|to pray I will be defeated” churchyard 75 Pound $4.02% | ' as follows: Industrials 84.82, Rails |Marion, mother of three children 49.21, Utilities 35.96. ON KENAI RIVER 11.—(M—Under ; SLAIN ACTRESS Los ters of his family to vote for him for a third term in 1940, but also ‘told them to pray that he would| be defeated, James A. Farley re- ported today. The former Democratic national| chairman, in the last of a series| 'of articles in Collier's on why he| Eroke with Roosevelt, said the New Deal president tcld him of his de- Four hours later, Clark Kerr, waterfront arbitrator, ruled that no contract existed and ordered the men to resume work this morning. pending negotiations. STOCK QUOTATIONS 'sive to losc at a conference July o 26, 1940. That was shortly after NEW YORK, July 11 — Closing | Roosevelt won a third nomination er Farley's protests. “Jim,” Farley reported the Pres- ident as saying, “I've told the fam- ily T want them to vote for me, but ! 1 also told them I wanted lhem‘ quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | ovi stock today is 5%, American Can} , Internatioal Harvester 94, Ken- | New York Central 16'%, “That is the best {could happen to you,” ihe replied seriously, “and I'm not| certain it won't happen. If any-| lone considers this one a walkaway ! ihe is crazy.” : thing lhat“ Sales today were 1,590,000 shares. " Farley sald Merrill-Lynch averages today are - ' Mlaska Steamship ' Company Gets Two | Freighlers from MC, STOCKS ADVANCE Stocks advanced 1 to more than | 2 points today under the leader- ship of Industrial shares, which climbed to the highest level since August. Trading improved. All sections of the list were up with steels showing the best over- all gains. Advances ranged to more than 2 points in U. S. Steel and Youngstown was up 1 and! A h Jo:flio'::gbxlldfl :i:l::s ‘::0:9d up with ‘wday the acquisition of two cargo;| icarriers within the last 10 days| Chrysler rising more than 3 points \from the U. S. Maritime Commis- ' 10 & 1947 top and General MOtrs 'yo, " yng said one, the Ring Splice, | up a point. Matk trucks gained oo )oaqing cannery supplies and| |aska Steamship Company u.porv.ed, more than a point. lwould sail for Alaska Sdturday[ Renewed rumors of a hike in the ponine, ruying price for gold, although de-{ o, the return voyage she will nied officially, have brought buy-'carry a full cargo of Bristol Bay| ing into gold shases, where Home- .anned salmon. stake was up 2%. Mid- Connnentl The other vessel is the leeltyl Patroleum Corp. advanced more gieamer Edmond Mallet; and she! than 2 points to a new high. Lion wi join the fleet now handling oil, up 1, and Phillips, up nearly a the salmon pack, leaving on ner! voint, also made new highs. Su- first northward voyage July 14 or| perior Oil of California gained 4. 15 Truman to Make Mid-Year Report, Economic Qutlook, In Message fo (ongress ! debcnau ( { { | \"A“llIN(jTUN July 11— President Truman today decided to send Congress within the next ten | days a special mid-year report on the economic outlook, including the possible effect of John L. Lewis' new coal wage gains on living dential Secretary Charles G.| Ross said this was decided at a meeting of Mr. Truman with his cabinet. He said the conce the meeting was that there has been ! “a tendency to exaggerate the im- portance of the coal settlement on the overall wage picture.” “Of course, if prices should go up| as a result, that would be a matter ‘uf concern,” Ross added ->-oo— FINLAND IS TTHREJECT, PARIS MEH‘ PARIS, July 11 — (® — Finland joined all the other states in the Russian orbit tonight in rejecting Presidency in case of vacancies inlinvitations to the Parls Economic ! completing a cleavage | Conierence, between Eastern and Western Eur- ope. A Helsinki broadeast announced the Finnish cabinet’s 11th hour de- i automatieally dision and sald 4 comminique was; forthcoming later. The Moscow ra- dio said this morning the Finnish, cabinet had rejected the bid, and | that the decision was unanimous. The talks on the Marshall pro: posal for American-backed ald in European reconstruction will open | | tomorrow at 11 am. |with Britain and France as the Luonsmmg nations. Fourteen nations have accepled the invitation Seven others—Yugoslavia, Poland, Roumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Al- bania and Czechoslovakia—have re- jrcted it. e e ARMY AIRPORT AT - MILE 26 TO HAVE BIG B-36 HANGAR! ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 11.— |(m—A stee hanagar with a span of | 300 feet, covering an entire city Dr. Charles M. Spofford of Boston told the Anchorage Post of the So- clety of American Engineers. Other sveakers included Dr. Karl Terzaghi, Harvard lecturer, and | Bradford Washburn. The latter dis- cussed the scientific purposes of his recent climb of Mt. McKinley. John C. Hooper was installed as the post’s new President, succeeding |Col. James D. Lang. SEARCH YOSEMITE FOR HUSBAND IN TRUNK SLAYING| SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif, July 1.—(M—Search for middle-aged but Morley V. King, wanted for questioning in the unexplained {trunk slaying of his 48-year-old | Turkish-born wife, centered in Yo- semite National Park and eastward toward Reno today. King's wife, Helen, described as a Portuguese countess, was found strangled and stuffed in a trunk SEATTLE, July 11—/ -The Al-|beneath King's hnl.el-l'eflnuran( on Wednesday. Sheriff Murray C. Hmhnv\a) dis- closed the license number of ngs car was registered Tuesday noon | at the south gate of the park in Marisposa County Park Rangers; take the license numbers of cars lentering the park as a routine pro- | cedure. The 46-year-old restaurant own- ier, one-time seaman and minor New Orleans night life figure, dropped from sight early Tuesday. —————— KAKE MAN HERE Harold C. Miller of Kake is at the Gastineau Hotel, nsus of | (56 am, EST) | to the conference. ! DAMAGE T0 PROPERTY RUNS HIGH Wheai Flelds Shattered- Fires Started by Light- ning-Bldgs. Unroofed (By THE ASSOCIATED PRE3S) Dust-laden winds, ranging in | velocity to a reported 65 miles an |hour, swep® over southeastein Washington and part of Oregon iate yesterday, leveling trees anda utilily | poles, unroofing buildings and shat- ’tmng hundreds of acres of ripcn- ed wheat. The storm, brief in its duration, | but overwhelming in its intensity, extcnded from Pendleton, Ore., fo | Spokane and westward over a vast | section of eastern Washington. No casualties or injuries were re- {ported, but property damage ran hlg Walla Waila county weoi among ithe hardest nit. Grain n.en esti- mated a ppssible 3,000 acres of wheat were shattered by dust need- les. Another 100 acres of wheat was set afire by lightning near the | Whitman Monument. Two miles west of Walla Walla, a fallen power line started a grass {fire which destroyed the house and barn of C. Nelson. Two cars were smashed in a garage when falling trees crashed ‘mw the building. - | A freight car was blowrn |the tracks at Lowden. AANNETTE ISLAND INDIANS FINANCE OWN POWER SITE Mellakatla]fiian Council | Makes Plans fo Install " Hydro-ElectricPlant The village oi izetlakatla will soon | have its own power plant if present plans are carried out. This was re- ! vealed today by the visit in Juneau |of John Smith and James Evans, imembers of the Metlakatla Council !of Indians. The tribal leaders are Ihere to confer with Alaska Native |Service officials on other matters land to go over plans for the pro- posed power system. Smith and Evans said that thelr !power will be developed from a | hydro-electric plant and will serve the Metlakatla village, cannery and | from | block, will be erected at Mile 26 near | a new sawmill which is in the plan- | Fairbanks to house B-36 bombers, qnnx stage. They are also nego- |tiating with CAA officials in the hopes of selling power to the gov- ernment for its operation of the Annette Island airfield. Estimated cost of the power plant is about $500,000. It is being de- signad by Waller and Hubbell, a Seattle engineering firm. While conferring with the Alaska Native Service, the Metlakatlans also made arrangements with ANS ‘G?neral Superintendent Don Foster {to assume half of the educational expenses at Metlakatla next year. "In the past, the Indians have only paid for the salaries of one teacher and one special assistant In the future, under the new agreement, they will pay for half of all ex- penses at the school. The Council agreed also to pay the salary of a Pubic Health Service |nurse at Metlakatla. Foster saluted the Indians for |their initiative in assuming more responsibility. He said the agree- ment means a saving to ANS and the Federal Government of approxi- mately $10,000 per year., EGYPTIAN GOV, ~ ASKS REMOVAL OF BRITISH TROOPS LAKE SUCCESS, July 11. — (#- ‘MRypt demanded formally today that the United Nations Security Council order “immediate and total” withdrawal of all British troops from Egypt and the Sudan. At the same time the Council was asked to terminate the present Brit- ish “regime” in the Sudan, which {long has been a source of friction between Egypt and Britain,

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