The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 22, 1947, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” B — o VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,636 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1947 * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Y 2 MEN ARE MUR enator Taf t 10 FEEL OUT PUBLIC OVER | CANDIDACY Trip Also fo Test Reaction to Republican-Con- frolled Congress By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, July 22—(®— Senator Taft said today he will have to make a western speaking i trip to test reaction to the Re- publican-controlled Congress before he decides finally whether to seek | the 1948 GOP presidential nomi- nation. The Ohio Senator will discuss Congress’ record when he makes the principal address at a home- | coming dinner for Ohio Senate and House Republicans to be given by! the party’s State Committee at) Columbus July 31. i This is looked upon in some; quarters as the start of a Taft-| for-President campaign inasmuch as a national radio hookup will be provided. In fact, most Ohio poiticians ex- pect the State Committee to en- dorse Taft formally as the state’s favorite son a week or so later, with Senator Bricker simultaneous-} 1y btowing out of the race in favor: of his senior colleague. Such al committee move would put Taft in| the presidential contest automati-! cally. Decision Later But Talt told a reporter that hej doesn't want to make any person-| al decision until he has gone west in September after an August va-| cation in Canada. | Thus far the Ohio Senator has, three definite speaking dates on} the Pacific coast, one of them non-' political. He said he will appear! with some other members of Con- gress on a discussion panel of the! American Bar Association meetingi (Continued on Page Five) The Washingioni Merry -_Gfl- Round By DREW PHAREON WASHINGTON—One of the most unusual statements made on the Senate floor in several weeks came; from Ohio’s statuesque Senator | Bricker after President Truman denounced the real-estate lobby. | Waving his arms, he told Senate! colleagues that Truman had ln-' dulged in the cheapest kind of | demagoguery. In contrast, Bricker's colleague from Ohio, Bob Tatt, who knows i | | what the ceal-estate lobby did to|cnce report Friday and the Sen-|man's first economic report to Con- the Taft-Eliender Housing Act, re-l marked that he wouldn't mind in-| vestigating the lobby himself. Fur- | thermore, everyone who knows his -way around any part of Washing- ton reslizes: that the real-estate| lobby is one of the most pow operating in the Cepital’s cocktail lounges. But what a great many | people do not realize is that Sen-l o LOOKS LIKE C farm near Spearman, Economic Analysis Made OD CROP — Harry Kelly sits in his car in a w Tex. The stand indicates why farmers of the section predict a record harvest heat field on his, TERRITORY By Truman Given Approval; Assets, , Also Shortcomings SHARES IN ARMY BILL LEGISLATION jthe Territory by the DENOUNCED BY BARTLETT Delegate Calls “Vicious Pending Authorization for Research By CEARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, July 22—(®-- Delegate Bartlett of Alaska de- nounced today as a “vicious piece of legislation” the pending author- ization oi $144,940 for agriculture research in the Territory with the provision that the Agriculture De- partment take over the work now dene by the University of Alaska. The compromise 1948 agriculture appropriations bill carries the mon- ey and says the Department shall take over the work done by the University and any unexpended funds it now has on hand. That money includes Federal and Territcrial funds appropriated for the agriculture station operated for University, " Bartlett said. The House agreed to the confer- | propesals contained in Mr. Tru- elor quarters, barracks and utilities.; ate debated it yesterday. Vicious Legislation “I think this one of the most ! SR AR'}?“;”";" WASHINGTON, July 22.—@— Auly 22— o $9950060,000 army construetion | President Truman’s analysis of program in the United States and | £merica’s economic assets and gah,a9 was approved today by the shortccmings drew general Praise po,co Armed Service Committee: today from a Republican and Dem-, 1y ceng to the House for action { By MARVIN L. WASHINGTON, cerat cn the Congressional €om- o il geked by the War Depart- mittee seeking an anu-deprcssmn‘mem to do $100,000 worth of tormula building in this country, including | sizing up the Chicf Executive's §35000,000 for emergency projects. Ispecial mid-year report which | The pjll would limit the cost of ccupled a description of “unprece- Army officers’ quarters both in dented prosperity” with a call for |this country and abroad to $14,500 | greater efforts against inflation, for those above the rank of cap- | Senator Flanders (R-Vt) told & re- |tain and $12500 for captains and | porter: lisutenants, i and large, it looks like a | good, careful job. I think the most | The projects include the follow- important thing the President said ing in Alaska: /is that the food price and SUPPY | ypjgtier, Alaska—Development of ;:tunu‘un merits ' the most careful port, $5,332.217; army airfield at watching, |mile 26, near Fairtanks, Alaska,— “I am afraid 1 uon't quile agree |family quarters, bachelor quarters, with him that there is no ground barracks, operational quarters, hos- ;Im‘ general alarm now. There is. pital, community buildings and | The President should make an ap- utilities, $20,794,850, of which $11,- peal to the people now for ‘strict ' 94,850 authorized to be expend- | ccenemy’ in the use of food, and ed during year ending July 1, ! not wait, as he sugzests, for real 1948; Fort Richardson-Elmendorf | shertages.” !Field, Alaska—iamily quarters, Senator Myers (D-Pa) said in a bachelor quarters, barracks, stor- separate interview: that Mr. Tru- 38e ~ communications systems man “has emphasized once again School, motor pool and ulities, the necessity for affirmative action | $10,190,375. to stabilize our high level of pros- aAqak Army Base anc auriieid, perity on a solid feundation.” | Aleutian Islands—tamily quarters Declaring he is in “full accord”pgrracks, communications systems, ) with the President’s general recom- | anq utiiities, $4,334,600; Army Aii- mendaticns, Myers added that “un- fije]d, Fort Yukon, Alaska—estab: fortunately Congress up to now has jishment of igher field with nec | given little attention” to similar essary operat.onal equipment, baci- $4,160,950; Army Airnield, Nenana, gress last January. | Alaska opeiational equipment, Both Myers and Flanders are Larracks, and utilities, $505,500. | members of the joint committee uni Adak, Army Communications DERED NEAR FAIRBA DUTCH GO " ASHORE ON JAVALAND {First Amphifi)us Opera- tion Since End of World War Il BULLETIN — Batavia, July 22~(M—Dutch forces stabbed deeper inte Indonesian Repub- J lican territory at a half dozen | points tonight as Indonesan reports told of stiffening re- sistance. Fighting was reported in pro- | | KENAI FIRE " IS CHECKED, ONE FRONT Army Engineers af Scene| for Two Weeks Are Being Withdrawn | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 22— | —With the gigantic Kenal Pen- {insula forest fire apparently check- {ed on its northern front, the Army ltoday began witndrawing Fort | Richardson engineers who have {been on the fire lines for nearly BATAVIA, culy 22.—(M—Indone- tWo weeks. isian sources said today Dutch| A protective fire block has been {troops who stormed ashore on the!completed around the fishing vil- inorth and east coasts of Java yes-|lage of Kenai and the settlement |Lsrday had Leen engaged in heavy|is believed out of danger unless a {I)ghtlng. The Dutch, reporting!wind shift sends embers over the jall abjectives. reached .jn. the op- bulldozed gap. ieration, said resistance was “less| Forty-twd ‘men were returned {than expected.” { here today from that area; but new { A Dutch army communique|detachments and supplies were dis- placed Dutch casualties yesterday;patchcd to battle spot fires near +at 150 dead and wounded. {the rim of the encircling strip. | President Soekarno of the In-| No reports were received on pro- |dunesian Republic announced that gress of the huge blaze on the | former Premier Sutan Sjahrir had|southern and western fronts, where ‘I)elt Java on a mission to exp[ain.‘n was slowly advancing yesterday. ithe Republic's position abroad. — e i (Arriving in Singapore, Sjah-| gress around Prcbolinggo, an important East Java port and an anchor ¢f the Dutch beach- head along the northeast ceastal road. The beachhead — established by American - trained Dutch Marine: in amphibious landings —now_stretched east from the Probolinggo area to Pandji for a distance cf some 70 miles. | | !rir said he would visit the Umtedi States, India and Australia on his| mission.) A Royal Netherlands Navy com- ' munique said landing craft of the| 'navy and warships disembarked | ‘troops at Banjoewangi on the East| !Coast of Java and at Pasir Putuh| on the north coast. It was the | first amphibious operation since| jthe end of World War II. {Dutch Arnly communique said the ! Itroops gained initial objectives and! | made additional advances. A severe five-hour engageme: Agreement [s Reached in | | | | | nt H 1 lin the Padang sector of Sumatra | San Francisco - Loco- ‘yesterday and other classes on] 5 {that isiand were reported by an mofives Steamed Up ,Indonesian Army communique. The | {Bulletin also said that on Sunday | 'two Dutch warships off Merak on the extreme western tip of Java ywere shelled by Indonesian mor- tars and left the area after suf- . fering damage. ———— GAME TODAY With the grounds in fair condi- SAN FRANCISCO, July 22—P —A strike by the Brotherhood of' {locomotive Engineers which immo-| bilized the Western lines of the :Southern Pacific Railroad ended early today six hours’and 45 minutes after it began. Thirty-nine minutes later the irst of hundreds of locomotives' -idled by the brief strike puffed' Iback into service. It was a switch engine in the roalroad's Oakland, i jticn and no drizzle in the air at g . Calif., yards. 3 o'clock this afterncon, it looked D & as if tnere would be a scheduled | L. B. MoDonids Fouthere g lific: vice president in charge of| vicious pieces of legislation af-|the economic Teport, set UP t0!geryice Station, Aleutian Islands—ball game between the Legion and | .o tions, announced at 12:45 a. fecting Alaska which has ever been passed by the Congress of the erful! United States,” Bartlett said in aj llsmtement, “It is an abrogation of terday, the President urged amung"fiuyzgo; Big Delta, ACS Station, ome rule and local responsibility.” other things that prices be cut'alaska—$57,410; “The University of Alaska is a|and wages increaserl where profits station, Alaska—family quarters, | h ‘study White House findings ““driamfly quarters, operational build- | make 1ts own soundings. |ings, garages and utilities, $950,050; In the survey he submitted yes- | anchorage, Alaska ACS Station— Ketchikan ACS |Elks starting at 6:30 o'clock to- ( an’ agredment with | night. One however tan never tell;n}:'('; \;Sl:x: ;fitreac:sdein netgouu- Wwhat the weather will do between (jong which had continued in ses- 3 pm. and game time tonight. |son after the walkout began yes- R B lterday at 6 p. m. WISCONSIN FAMILY HERE | Shortly afterward P. O. Peter- (The following special report, dispatched 'ast night, has been recgived by the Empire from Juneau attorney Norman Ban- field, now ‘n Washington re- presenting this city and other Southeast Alaska communities in support of legislation auth- | orzing the sale of timber for pulp mill=) | | By NORMAN BANFIELD WASHINGTON, July 21. — The telegrams from R.. E. Robertson, Juneau attorney; Walter P.Sharpe, former commissioner of labor, and William R. Carter, editor of the Empire, were appreciated by Sena- tor Langer of North Dakota who | has agreed to reconsider his objec- tion to the pulp legislation after reading telegrams from the city councils and chambers of commerce authorizing me to represent Juneau, Petersburg, Douglas and Sitka. NK S estern Speaking Tour Timber Legislation May Come fo Vofe in Senate Today; Langer iq supporf BY QIiFI(ERS AXE SLAYER IS SOUGHT Crime Witnessed by Indian i -One Body Identified as Carl Olmstead FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 22~ (M—A bald truck driver is the ob- ject of a widespread manhunt by Territorial officers teday as they sought to locate the slayer of two persons whose mutilated bodies were found Sunday near the Little Gerstle River 20 miles southeast of Fairbanks. One of the victims was identified as Carl Olmstead, 63, longtime trapper in the area. The other man was not identified. U. S. Marshall Stanley J. Nichols, who termed the slaylngs a “grue- some axe murder,” said the bodies were found by an Indian, Frank Feliz, after he saw one man leap 1 i Constant and effective help on:into a panel delivery truck and a this legislation is being received Seccnd run into the nearby woods. from Senators Cain and Magnuson | Felix, held as a material witness, of Washington and Delegate Bart-'Sald the driver was bald and had lett, as well as Public Lands Com- blood stains on his clothing. He mittee employees, making it pos_'could not describe the man he said sible for long discussions between William Bates and Robert Jern- berg of Ketehikan, myself, Senators Butler, Langer, and Chairman O’Mahoney. | Former Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Indian attorney James Curry who claims to repre- sent the natives of Alaska have given a very large nymber of Sen- etors the impression that the na- tives have exclusive rights to the | timber as on Indian reservations, and that this legislation would be a seizure by eminent domain with- {out prior payment of compensation. It is almost impossible, because of the mad, last-minute scramble before adjournment to see Senators Hatch, Thomas, Moore, Morse and others who have the impression the sale of timber would be a land grab. Final action on the legislation has been promised by Senator Ro- kert Taft, and a vote may be taken Tuesday (today). The much discussed Lemke Bill passed the House on the unanimous ccnsent calendar, but was too late In Juneau, Chamber of Com- merce Secretary, the Rev. Robert | Webb, received a telegram from | Benator Magnuson stating that the timber violation is on the calendar for acticn be- fore adjournment. Pelenhil’rifiéi' Gel School Building Now WASHINGTON, July 22—P— A bill sent to the Senate floor for action would permit the gov- ernment to transfer a school build- ing at Petersburg, Alaska, to that municipality. ST0CX QUOTATIONS and Watkins Chavez, ! to get into the Senate which makes |it a dead issue this year. of Washington , ,fled into the forest. LONEGUNMAN PERPETRATED 6 MASSAGRE 'Survivor of Tragedy at . Rangoon Assassinations Gives His Version By DOUGLAS LACKERSTEEN RANGOON, Burma, July 22—# —Finance Minister U Mya, a sur- Ivlvor of the assassination Satur- ;day in which seven top Burmese lleaders were slain, said today a {line gunman invaded the minis- terial council chamber and calmly perpetrated the crime. Thakin Nu, successor to the (murdered N Aung San as deputy chairman of the Governor's Execu- tive Council, said Aung San learn- 'ed two months earlier that a “terrorist murder plot” was being ;readied but discredited the reports. He said the de facto leader of ithe Burma government did not be- lieve anyone in the country would «plot against his life. | U Saw! former ,premier whom fthe British ousted and jailed on |charges of collaboration with the !Japane.se. and 19 assistants were ‘placed under arrest soon after the | assassinations. I Speaking to a new conference, U Mya gave this first eye witness account of the murders: “One lohe gunman advanced si- lently without speaking upon the council table and aimed steadily at Aung San, Within a few ator Bricker is hand-in-gldve with | 1and-grant college'in exactly the are high. Profits are high, he said, | cperational building and utilities,| J. H. Sandstrom and family of son, ‘general chairman of the| feet of the table, he. halted the' lobby—in fact, a part of it. 'sgme sense as are similar institu-|in “many cases.” 1$114,160; Cathedral Bluff ACS,Entiat, Wis., are stopping at mefammernuod of Locomotive En- “Then he omnéd fire swun‘s‘ t’hu Bricker is a director of thetions in the United States proper,| o 0 i BB !Station, Alaska — $56.160; Fort{Baranof Hotel. {gineers, announced “an agreement lgun leftward and continued firing Buckeye State Building and Loan|and all of us know that Congress GUILTY, APPEALS [Randall ACS Station (Cold Bay),| —————————— Ihas been signed and the strike] NEW YORK, July 22—CIOSING |, oo seated on the left of ‘Association of Columbus, afiiliated |Would never seck to move in such| caroll Wall, former fisiing boat | Alaska--$58,410. HERE FROM WASHINGTON |indefinitely postponed while the!quotation of Alaska Juneau mine;,,ng gap with the powerful U. S. Savings *and Loan League, which employs Morton Bodfish to carry on one of | the most effective and astute real- estate and housing ~lobbies in Washington. It is estimated that this outfit spends eround half a million dollars a year lobbying. Furthermore, one of the recent confidentigl bulletins issued by the Morton Bodiish lobby gleefully boasted that Senator Bricker was cne of their members and pointed to the fact that Bricker had oblig- ingly introduced four bills to help out. This confidential bulletin, of course, was not supposed tor fall into the hands of the press. But it makes highly interesting reading. Equally interesting is another fact. Bricker was’not elected a di- rector of the Buckeye State Build- iz el ee Yo et ARG ¥ (Continued on Page Four) a fashion concerning land grant i colleges in the states. captain, was found euilty yester- N, P ; |day by U. S. Commissioner Felix | Not only does this bill divest Gray on a charge of careless use !the authorities of the URIVersity| of firearms. He wes given a choice Eur Alaska of_au control with respect}of a $50 fine or 26 days in jail. yfo the agriculture research Dro-| zpery White, attorney for the ac- gram but it high-handedly asserts| cuse: man, immediately gave oral |gress over the Territory by seeking gioner's decision. Wall was charged to take out of the Territorial trea-’wm‘ having pointed a pistol at his sury funds apropriated by the Ter-| joymer employer, Leslie H. Grove, fritorial Legislature for agriculture| ¢ junequ. research at the university and give this money to the Secretary 'of Agriculture ror expenditure. George Olin Evans, 55, laborer, Fantastic ’was given a 30 day suspended jail “It is fantastic that such a pro-|sentence today by City Magistrate iposal should ever have been made. William A. Holzheimer. He was ar- i .the language which finally rested for being drunk. The sus- | appears in the bill is proof enough | pension was given with the proviso that politically the Territory is ab-;that he leave the City. solutely at the mercy of any man. Ernest D. Zylstra was also or small group of men in Congress; found guilty of being drunk and 2 (Continued on Page »ir) | was fined $25 by Judge Holzheimer. AR POLILE COURT NEWS ' the supreme authority of the Con- |\ tice of appeal of the Commis- | Juneau ACS Station, Alaska—| M. C. James of Washington, 1. $56,510; Northway ACS Station,|C., is a guest at the Baranof Ho- Alaska—$56,160; Naknek ACS Sta-jtel. tion, Alaska—family quarters, op- ‘erational buildings, garage and} utilities, $79,760; Skagway ACS/ Station, Alaska—family quarters, operational bpuilding and utilities, $107450; Lena Point ACS Station, | Alaska—opérational building, quar- ters and utilities, $46,000; ACS sta- jtion between Haines and Juneau.!and Mrs. Louis Heinz of Tenakee {Alaska, (location to be determin-|arc guests at the Baranof Hotel. ed)—operational buildings, quart- ——-—— —- ers and utilities, $46,000. OAKSMITH HERE Bethel ACS Station, Alaska—op-i Jerry Oaksmith of Seattle is re- |erational buildings, $30,000; Kodiak ) gistered at the Baranof Hotel. He ' |ACS Station, ~Alaska—operational|flew in from Anchorage via the | | buildings, $14,420; Nome ACS Sta-|Pacific Northern Airlines. : tion, Alaska—family quarters, op- —————— i |erational building and utilities, $77.- PORTLAND MEN HERE i 644; Sitka ACS Station, Alaska Jack Bess and J. H. Baker of | cperational building and garage,| Portland, Ore., are staying at the ‘33,800. iBlmnoi Hotel. e e — HERE FROM DETROIT I E. G. Mistele and N. J. Patterson of Detroit, Mich., are registered | at the Baranof Hotel. { e, { TENAKEE PEOPLE HERE ! Sam Asp, canneryman, and Mr.| { | i remaining issues are settled by di- rect negotiations with the rail roads.” ——plp STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive at 4:30 o'clock this after- noon. . Princess Norah, from Vancouver, | scheduled to arrive at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon and sails for Skag- way at 11 o'clock. Square Sinnett, from Seattle, due sometime tomorrow. Alaska, from Seattle, due Satur- day. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle July 26. Princess Louise scheduled to sailland daughter, Elizabeth are guests, from Vancouver July 26. stock today is 5, American Can 91%, Anaconda 37, Curtiss-Wright 4%, International Harvester 89%, Kennecott 47, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 21%, U. S Steel 74, Pound $4.02%. Averages today are as follows: industrials 18358, rails 50.38, utili- ties 35.49. ——————— APPLY FOR LICENSE Erling O. Oswald, 22, Juneau, and Beverly June Poffenroth, 19, Endi- Commissioner Felix Gray for a marriage license. - FROM PENNSYLVANIA Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Boyle !at the Baranof Hotel. They arrived Sales today were 780,000 shares.! cett, Wash., have applied to U. s.. “As Aung San’fell and the gun- man turned his attention to the others further from me, I seized [the opportunity to escape. I leap- -led for the doorway, pulled down {the bolt and ran from the room. ! “There was no _guard at the idoor. The executive council so far [hns never been guarded. The only ipolice at the secretariate that day {were the traffic men at the | gates.” g e R REV. CONWELL SOUTH The Rev. James Conwell, 8. J. ]tlew south yesterday via Pan Am- ierxcan Airways to attend the fun- Ieral of Bishop Walter J. Fitzger- ald, 8. J., which will be held in ¢ Spokane on Thursday morning. il SITKA MAN HERE Lucidor scheduled to sail 'lmmxycs'.erduy on the Pan American |Ernie Carter of Sitka is a guest Seattle July 29. Airways plane. ,at the Baranof Hotel.