The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,639 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1947 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TWO CLUES IN FAIRBANKS AX SLAYING They reOffon WARTIME AND EMERGENCY LAWS ENDED! Truman Sign—s Repeal of 175 War-Powers, In- cluding GI Benefits WASHINGTON, July 25.—P—| President Truman today signed | legislation repealing some 175 war-| iime and emergency laws—now or| within one year—and putting stop- lates on veterans’ GI benefits. The measure leaves in effect scores of other war-powers statutes. In a satement, Mr. Truman said it is “not pessible” at this time to wipe out the whole list. The new legislation declares that insofar as certain acts of Congress | are concerned, “World War II, the| limited emergency, and the unlim- | ited emergency shall be construed as terminated and peace establish- ed.” But it specifically exempts cer-! tain laws which Congress and the | administration have agreed should| remain on the books. The resolu- tion was worked out by the Judi- ciary Committees of both Houses| and Attorney General Clark. Mr. Truman voiced hope for a| speedy end of the remaining emer- gency statutes, and asked Clark to (Continued o& Page Two) ALASKA VETS VOTE NOT T0 REPAY LOAN BY TERRITORY NOW KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 25.—| (P—Members of the World War II Alaska Veterans Commission voted’ 4-1 not to repay at once the 8350.- 000 borrowed last year from the | Territorial Treasury, Chairman R.| E. Ellis said here. | Repayment had been asked by the Alaska Board of Administration to offset the lack of adequate re- venue for the” balance of the bien- nium. i “We will not repay the money | voluntarily,” Ellis said, “but they | may iind some way to take it fromwy, the veterans.” Ellis said immediate repayment was opposed by the commission in view of the possible opening of the paper industry and other new pay- | rolls in Alaska. These, the commis- sion said, give veterans their besty chance in years to get into busi- ness. The Washingion| | Merry - Go- Round | By DREW PLAREON WASHINGTON—Chairman Fred Hartley of the House Labor Com- mittee was speechless the other morning when Rep. Ray Madden,! slow-talking Indiana Democrat, in- | terrupted a closed-door meeting of the Labor Committee to come to; the support of his Chairman. Hartley, who doesn't like Mad- den, had been discussing the CIO’s; open support for a victorious Dem- | ocratic Congressman in Baltimore. “I want to say something in de- fense of our Chairman,” Madden suddenly interrupted. There was immegiate silence, since Committee | members know how Madden and| Hartley %feel toward each other. “Every time he makes a state- ment about the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill. his co-sponsor, Senator Taft, takes issue with him,” continued | Madden. “When our Chairman de- cided the coal operators were vio- lating the law by their agreement| with Mr. Lewis, Senator Taft as| much as said our Chairman didn’t know what he was talking about. “Now. here’s this ecorrupt-prac- tices section—Senator Taft is ready to repeal it, but our Chairman still supports it. “I for one am tired of Senator Taft kicking our Chairmen around. I'm sure bur Chairman knows as much about that law as Senator Taft does.” Haftley by this time was grin- ning ~ broadly—but ‘he didn’t care e (Continued on Page Four) | | | 1 ) lattle for Women Sourdoughs Tell of Early Days on Trails; Are Atiending SOURDOUGH CONVENTION IN SEATTLE 'Over 500 Are Attending | Session Celebrating 50th Gold Anniversary | SEATTLE, July 25—(®—The old- | timers who knew Alaska when | “Chilkoot Pass” raged as a first| class cuss word are gathered in Se- | the International Sour- | |dough reunion, celebrating this | year the 50th anniversary of the arrival in Seattle of the good ship Portland and its famous “ton of gold.” Mayors W. H. Chase of Cordova | and C. A. (Pati Carroll of Skag-| way werz on hand when the re- gistration books opened and Mayor | Hjalmar Nordale of Fairbanksis ex- | | pected to attend. Telegrams of best | wishes from President Truman and | Gov. Earl Warren of California| gave the convention a flying start. Most of the activity will begin | today with the executive board | this morning. The Daughters of[ the Alaska-Yukon Pibneers and Ladies of the Golden North enter- tain women delegates at tea and | the men hold an afternoon get-to- gether to rehash old times. There | will be an oldtimers’ luncheon for | | those who were in Alaska and the | STRIFE IN 3 SECTIONS CONTINUES Seaftle Session By JACK HEWINS SEATTLE, July 25.—(®—There was no weaker sex on the trail of | '98. Chilkoot Pass? Sure, it discour- aged men and Kkilled horses—but Mrs. Emma A. McCain went over stine Are in Throes of Armed Violence (By WHE ASSOCTATRD PRESS) it twice. White Pass? Mrs. Ethel| Bt ’ ¥ Becker negotiated that when she © rife quo Indonesian, Greece was a little girl, going over in a|2Nd Palestine today. A - pack train with her mother and | Dutch armed forces, which start- two other children and riding the :Pd shooting when negotiations with . the Indonesian Republic failed last la Dawson by dog sled. | q st DD Wan, by oPe were declared by Dutch sources to | About he folks attending | out el Sl e 8 €| have isclated Central Java from the rice-producing east and the the International Sourdough reun- | 1west. The Indonesians said their ion here are women and a big per- | centage of them went into ¥ Army had entered a sector of ‘the! |Nerth Java port of Semarang. the Yuken at the height of the gold strike: re born there of pio-! ki e Lo ® Of PO/ ‘The Qreck government said a | guerrilla force of up to 1,500, using' neer parents. M ice Handley went to Daw- re; Allcd Habcia 9, | heavy artillery, was repelled after son in 1900 over White Pass, then on to . Faibariks, - Alaska, Whebe |80 BURCk on Grevens, 40 ‘Tiie s ltven fits 1908, “Couldn-t €8st fof the Albanian border. The get my husband (William Henry Greeks have asserted that the guarrillas came partly from Alban- y) e alo to the Handleh): i Lol i that Yugoslavia and Bul-| meeting. He hasn't heen ‘outside’ since he went up there on the trail of gold.” Mis. Elvina E. Morrow made the | | jaunt north in 1888, when she was a little girl. Her father, an engin-| |eer at Douglas, Alaska, met her and | organizations apparently were act- i test against the depor- her small brother when they arriv- |08 i Pro o T e o e Y aptain, | tation of 4500 Jews intercepted on the SS Exodus of 1947. Ten per- h { d rried in the ! ie:rng;resw i g | sons had been killed and 75 injur- Mrs. Becker can remember when {ed in nine days. Another refugee a small jar of pickles sold for s2‘shlp. with 400 Jews aboard was re- to- the” Tuktiry-starve %08] ecmrs'p""ed nearing Palestine with Bri- of anso:xu s i P | tish desuo\ers “on her track.” The morey, of course, was gold ‘ B 7] dust. The lure of it took Emma McCain on her second trip over | ia, and lars. | Sporadic acts of date, where underground Jewish {Indonesian, Greece, Pale-| !garia had been aiding the nregu~‘ violence con-} tinued in Palesting, a British man- MAY GIVEN SENTENCE 10 PRISON Garsson Brothers Also Are Sent Up as Result Con- viction Bribe Charges WASHINGTON July 25. 7(.%— Ex-Congressman Andrew J. May!' was sentenced today' to a term uf\ from eight months to two years in prison on charges of accepting $53,~ 634.07 in bribes while ha was war- E time chairman of the House Mili-; tary Affairs Committee. I The two men accused of paying ! JMay the bribes—munitions makers ! Murray and Henry Garsson—also | were given prison terms with al minimum of eight months and af maximum of two years. The maximum penalty that could have been imposed on each by Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut was |six years in prison and a fine o[ 1$30,000. | Mercy Asked | & The sentencing was delayed for | |mcre than two hours while the defendants’ lawyers pleaded for a new trial and May beseeched the court for mercy. i The 72-year-old iormer Kenluckyi (Democratic Congressman msistm‘lI that he had never taken “a single dime” dishonestly during his long “service in Congress. He told Schweinhaut: “I stand kefore the court today e with a clear, clean econscience. never violated a law as far as l know in the 72 years of my life. “I never received a dollar directly {or indirectly that was not honestly. esrned or justly due.” Garssons Sentenced May was convicted July 3 1ter an 1l-week long trial of accepnng\ $53, 63{ 07 in bribes from munitions | | and Miss Vera Rideout of Chelan, Just befcre leaving San Dicgo, C navigate the world. Pidgeon twice alone in the boat. (AP Wirephoto) b Harry Pidgeon, 78-year-old former Iowa farmer, his wife (center), ‘alif,, on an attempt to cirfum- Furor Over Official Shakeup . AtAnchorage Subsides; New World (rulse Wash,, sit on their 34-foot yawl previously sailed arcund the giobe |a MANHUNT IS SPURRED ON FIFTH DAY Blood-slain;d_l rousers Found in Shelter Cabin— ‘Thumbed' Ride, Report FAIRBANKS, Alaska July 25~ (M—A pair of blood-stained trou- sers and a report by a Sunnydale, Wash,, tourist that he had been “thumbed” for a ride by a man answering the description of a man wanted for the crazed ax- slaying of two men last Saturday, spurred Federal authorities today as Alaska’'s greatest manhunt of modern history went into its fifth day. The bloody trousers were found in a Tana River shelter cabin less than a day's walk from the Little Gerstle River Indian encampment where the bodies of Donald R. Harris, 33, and Carl Ahnstrom, 68, were found last Sunday. U. 8. Marshel Stanley J, Nichols said he was informed by Deputy Marshal Steve Mikulas that the trousers were found when the In- dian trapper who lives in the cabin returned from a trip. The cabin had been RQroken into and a pair of the trapper's own trousers tak- en, Mikulas said. At Tok Junction, 120 miles away on the Alaska Highway, Deputy Marshal Joe Tuttle said that Al- fred Dorner, Sunnydale, Wash., (tourist. had reported seeing a man | answering the description of the | suspected slayer. Dorner said the fman stepped from the brush on {Glenn Allen Highway, three miles from the junction of the Richard- son Highway and tried to thumb ride. The man stepped back into Yukon gold fields prior to 1900.|living and were glad to get back| A business session is set for Sat- |out again. But then came the gold | urday morning and a “gold ship”|strike cn the Yukon and I made | banquet Saturday night. Sunday!up my mind to go back. I went | the terrible Chilkoot. makers Murray and Henry Gars- son. The Garuson brothers were ! found guilty of giving the bribes ' for favors and, like May, came into ' Resmnahon Is Also Hinted ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 25. PLANE WRECK |of evidence the delegates will picnic in Seattle's Woodland Park. More than 500 pioneers are here. | Cenvention hosts are the Alaska-‘ Yukon Pionee'- and the auxiliaries. | EVIDENCE OF i ISLOCATED Seven - month Mystery of ! Crash on Mount Rainier Being Cleared Up LONGMIRE, Mt. Rainier Na- tional Park, July 25—P—A tat- tered fragment of a Marine’s uni- form, a weathered piece of service-; man’s health record and a few bits| iof wreckage ended last night the| | seven-month mystery over the! |fate of a Marine transport plane| which disappeared with 32 men‘ aboard. Members of a party of eight an-l ier National rangers found the bits high up near the | © 10,000-foot level of Mount Rain- ier's treacherous South Tahoma Glacier, and Navy officers said' there was no doubt about their: being from the long-missing plane, | which was lost from “a storm-| harassed formation on a San Die- | go-Seattle flight. The rangers camped last night, lat a base above the mile level and, planned to return today to the! | there were plenty of canned vege- |dancing for T had at Circle.” |BOARD SELECTED IN alone over Chilkoot. “1 worked in Wrigley's restau- rant, which was only a tent. Every meal was $2.50 and the customer | cculd order everything we had, but | sometimes it wasn’t much. Usually | “I went in first with Curly Mon- roe’s cutfit as a dancing girl in| 1895,” said Emma McCain. 'We‘ -Discovery Made by Wild- life Agent Hosea Sarber at Port Houghton went to Circle and barely made a ! “The main course usually was PETERSBURG, Alaska, July 25. eggs, when we had them; salmon | —(P—Porter Apple who for the with eggs when we had the sal- |past 20 years has lived on Roberts mon; moose with eggs when we had |Island at Port Houghton passed the moose. away alone at his home this week. “After he ate. the customer The body was found on Thursday shook out the gold dust payment |afternoon about 2 o'clotk by Wild-! into a triangular tray we called a 'life Agent Hosea Sarber and he ‘blower.” Then I weighed out $2.50 |had apparently been dead for about for the restaurant and if there was|two days. any left, .that was my tip. I made | $50 a week in salary and $25 a week Sarber had not noticed any- day in tips. It was lots better than {one around but did not attach any two-bits a dance, as:significance to the fact. On his re- jturn on Thursday he still saw no: Isigns of life about the place and ‘made the investigation which dis-' |closed that Apple was lying onthe bed clothed in his pajamas, ap- KET(HIK‘“ DISPUTE parently indicating that he died in | the night. A three man board has been set up in Ketchikan to arbltrate; :“;;e; ::)':Xt““‘; n.'enrby F"’EL:“"' a labor dispute there between lhe\fws 07 Mfei 7 b ::0 D'; New England Fish Co., and Local| nd notified a neighbor 2347 of the CIO Food, Tobacco and‘gling who. was P""p bw&hch.lng He | Agricultural Workers Uniog. en came to Pelersburg and ar-| d for Jack Mitchell to go to Attorney Lester Gore has been | TANgE #H- U named as representative of the‘Roberts Island to look after Apple's tables and potatoes, but little meat. | Passing the place earlier in the' court to hear their penalty. w0 peus e v 'TRUMAN DID NOT " g 1 2o ane con| PROMISEREMOVAL BUYING (ONTROLSf the Garssons or anybody else. “I never did a thing in Congress4 | | |that teday vexes my conscienne| “I stand here today on the mercy } of the court. If I go to jail my | srandensaren, il aropout ot} Says His Action Will Await, “Regardless of what has been) Oukome m cOngress on Extension said in the malicious press. . . I'm I : July 25.—(P— not guilty.” | S WASHINGTON, STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 25.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine 2 stock today is 5, American Can 94, gress does not approve their exten- Ansconda 381, Curtiss-Wright 4%, 990 % International Harvester 90%, Ken- | He has 0‘(“" ;:romxsed to take ac- | necott 34%, New York Central 16 tion, he said &t a news conference Northern Pacific 21%, U. §. Steel|¥len askec tout his plans. | 75%, Pound $4.02%. These ccntrels were imposed ori- | i President Truman said he has not | ipromised to remove controls over | installment buying in event Con-! —(®—All but two members of the | city’s 15-man police force were | back on the job today as the city-{ wide iuror over the abrupt dismis- | sal of City Manager Al Koenig and | Chief of Police Elmer Johansen' somewhat subsided. Both of the positions, vacated by the City Council because of dissatis- faction with their services, were filled temporarily. Mayor ' Francis Bowden named City Engineer Z. H. Tessendorf to |the City Manager post, and Lieut. | Patrick Quigley as Police Chief. | Tessendorf's salary in his dual! capacity was raised to $750 a menth. Both men accepted their new posts on a temporary basis' jonly. Possikility that a third resigna- | tion may be forthcoming was indi- | cated when Maycr Bowden denied | | that City Clerk Tom Downes also | had been displaced. Bowden admit- ted later, however, that the Coun-| Sales toduy were 1,570,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 186.39, rails 51.53, uzili- ties 35.96. e DECISION HANDED DOWN A previous decision of the Alaska !Industrial Board was affirmed to- 'day in U. S. District Court by Fed- | ;ginally during the war by a Pres- .y paq ywritten Downes, now vaca- the brush after the car passed, Dorner said. MINE BLAST IN ILLINOIS; 27 AREDEAD :Carbon Monoxide Gas Hampers Rescue Work Underground WEST FRANKFORT, Il., July "5—7(M—Twenty-aeven miners lost |their lives in an explosion yester- day in one of the state’s largest mines in the heart of the south- ern Illinois coal fields. Twenty-six of the approximate 200 miners at work in the diggings 1500 feet underground were found ‘dead about a mile and a half south Tidential order. They require at least tioning at Chicago, that it was {a one-third down payment When .gqeatisied with the City Trea- {m automobile, a refrigerator and‘h.m.[;,.S job" as done by Downes. lscm” other articles are purchased| plice Capt. Kenneth Parks re- on the installment Pll”‘ o istgned from the force in protest | Mr. Truman recently sent Con-|i, jonansen's resignation. Two' gress a message saying he thought oiney officers have announced they | the controls should be continued, | i quit next week. but felt that was a matter for Con- eral Judge George W. Folta. His|gress At that time, he said hel decision was handed down In theiyoulq take action if Congress did| company and Vern Albright was fur farm. chosen as the union tive on the board. Michael J. Haas, U. S. Depart-| representa- | Funeral arrangements are await- | |ing instructions from Juneau. Apple came to Alaska from North wCaroliua and all his known sur- appeal of Mrs. Kathleen Grant vs. the A'aska Industrial Board and Dave Milner in which she sought STEAMER MOVEMENTS not vote to continue them. {ment of Labor Representative, has been requested to act as the third | Viving relatives' are there. man and will go to Ketchikan next | Rl g 7 4 |week to assist in the mediation LEACH TO INTERIOR efforts. Truman Signs Bill Glen Leach, weiiknown travel- |ling man, left ior Fairbanks yester- day via Pan American Airways.| 'Mr Leach was the pymtechmcmn werkmen's compensation for theiyreteq at the time as meaning hel cdeath of her husband. The court}yoyld remove the controls if Con-| jruled that Milner did not have|gregs did not vote to extend them.| |sufficlent enough employees {0 |Tne Senate has voted for a modi- | come under the requirements offgieq continuation, but the House the Unemployment uomnenmtim,mls opposed. Act. ks ol But when reporters brought up A, the subject, Mr. Truman carefully | HERE FROM SPOKANE inted out that he had said he E. H. Hanson of Spokane is re-|woylq take action: He said that is| Congressional Block His phrase was generally inter- Clove Hitcii, from - Seattle, due tomorrow merning. Alaska from Seattle, scheduled to arrive at 6:30 o'clock tonight. Aleutian scheduled to sail from | Seattle 10 am. tomorrow. Princess Louise scheduled to sail| irem Vancouver 9 p.m. Saturday.| Princess Norah scheduled to sail! from Vancouver July 30. area where the plane apparently crashed into the face of a sheer 3,000-foot cliff. The tell-tale bits of evidence were found on the| WASHINGTON, July 25—(P— crevasse-torn glacier at the foot President Truman signed yesterday | of the precipice. a bill authorizing the Secretary of | Interior to reserve right-of-way for Capt. A. O. Rule, commander of the Sand Point Naval Air Station, roads, bridges, rail lines and simi- lar structures on all public lands said the rangers’' reports lndlcated‘ that the plane exploded, scatter-jin Alaska conveyed in the future ed wreckage and personnel over a'to individual citizens. et e wide area. - SEATTLEITES AT BARANOF CALIFORNIANS AT BARANOF Seattle people registering at the Californians registered at the Baranof Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. /M. Walker, A. G. Webb, W. E. Byron Davis, Fort Bragg; K. G.!Beamer, Victor K. Lipp, W. E. Bradley, Los Angeles; and Mr. and Stone, Aaron Gilman, Bert Gil- Mrs. A. E. Brown, Mill Valley. man and Walter Watson. Relafing fo Alaska' Baranof Hotei yestercay were John | {in charge of Juneau’s 4th of July fireworks dmplay glstered at the Baranof Hotel. Urged by | WASHINGTON, July 28 —P— (Rep. Lane (D-Mass) told the House a Congressional committee ought to make an immediate study of United States defenses in Alaska Reports have been received, ‘Lane said, that Russian “slave” Study of Alaska Delenses Represenlallve | 1aborers are bullding military es- tablishments in Siberia, across the Bering Sea from Alaska. “The Armed Forces must not be caught sleeping in Alaska as they.‘ he com-| _. were at Pearl Harbor,” mented. i Baranof, from west, is scheduled | an entirely different thing. |south sometime Sunday. He would not say what he would | — - do until Congress finally (hsposes;. of the matter so far as it is con- | FLY FROM TEXAS 1 lwrnedv he added. ! The quesLloning went on: | Ml and Mrs. Jack Hughes and i rchasing Quiz { their son, Charles, and Mr. and | |Mrs, Horace Holly and their “Have you given much considera- tion to Secretary (of Agncu]lurewd““’sh"" Maryana, all of Abilene, Anderson’s proposal for a world Texas, arrived here last night on 'Lrade organization whereby the their private airplane and regist- ! government would do their pur- ered at the Baranof Hotel. The chasing for grain and supplies for 8foup has been making a quick 'the Marshall plan?” plane trip through Alaska. They Mr. Truman replied that is under flew in via Edmonton and ‘ White- of the bottom of the shaft at the /main entrance to the Old Ben Coal Company's No. 8 mine. One of the five seriously burned and injured in the blast died today in a hospital. The bodies of all 25 had been brought to the surface early to- |day by rescue squads and were placed in an emergency morgue set up at the Central Junior High |School gymnasium. Relatives whou remained at the mine throughout ‘the night during rescue opera- {tions, sought to identify the vie- tims. | Work was hampered by carbon (monoxide gas and the last three bodies found were buried beneath coal and debris. Harold L. Walker, Ilinois di- rector of mines and minerals, said many of the bodies were badly burned, indicating, he said, a |tire had broken out following the explosion. The cause of the blast 'had not been determined. Air Force Day Be Observed Aug. 1 AtF. Richardson PR— ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 25— (P—Fort Richardson will observe (horse and are returning via the | coastal route. Both Hughes and Holly are automobile dealers. consideration. (Continued on Page >ir) Air Force Day Aug. 1 with ari open house, air shew and ground exhi- bits.