The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” [ ———— VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,645 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRES—S PRICE TEN CENTS — “While.the land ‘wilt"be open {to many forms of entry, the great-| ] i —— - —— N ? ; ' AX-SLAYER | ~ Gels Congressional Help AlASI(A HWY. Fg Hughes Flymg Boat (enler of Investigation SEN. BUTLER L» s » : E - - i § ,.xgna‘-l CAPTURED TO SETTLERS| A ON PROBLEMS & i i 1 Taken Near Scene Where ‘InISer'lfir Dep'lA:Nlll 3gléwv \ Co;nmlTl:‘ee H‘e';dlag INonh i eltiement Alon ! rinr - Killed Two Men at | | ;'I > gd ; or fhree ¥ eeTS. n g e |2 | Drinking Party | lles of Roa { vestigation Trip By Vern Haugland | By CHARLES D. WATKINS RBAN i A . 1— | »l‘.;?:.s];sB'A “';:a?e?zskama‘;:im in| WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—®—The| WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. — (P—A modern history has ended with the i Interior Department today opened :S(’nntorlal committee is going to Tt of Yedr-old. Leon ? the land along the Alaska nghwnyl hold open house for Alaskans who % Mrnefner from Vancou-‘ |to settlement—with reservations want to discuss their problems— ! ash. e Bad "Nean sought and a word of caution. right in Alaska. e i | ‘The Department approved an ot= | That is what Chairman Butler, s bty ool | {der by the Bureau of Land Mans | (R.-Neb.) of the Public Lands Com- § o PRl g, O {agement opening to public use 338 | mittee, said he intends to do. e it miles of the highway—the 202-mile He left today on a trip that will R Muahal B e {main section from the Yukom, take him into Alaska for three Junies was wrested ten miles from | boundary tc the Juncture with| weeks, where he will study the prob- the camp in the wild Johnson River ! {the Richardson Highway leading{ ' lems confronting the Territory, area where the shooting occurred. {to Fairbanks and the 136-mile Gul- ! | Butler said he did not intend to Jones will be taken to Big Delta | lkam cutoff toward the coast. l | hold any formal committee hearings { he'wa-z cml.)loflbflti on an: | At the same time, the Bureau n in the Territory but at each stop, rmy construction projec |€aid initial settlements will be al= 3 4 % he and other members of the com- The two vicums were Donald R. i ilowed only at the most favornhle' The wartime contracts for the construction of the gigantic, eight-engined, plywood Hughes flying boat, imijttee will hold open house and Harris of Big Delta. and Carl {points, now being surveyed. War| shown in its graving dock cn the Long Beach, Calif., waterfront, were obtained after Henry Kaiser “put | visit with all who wish to talk with Annstrom, an Alaska trapper and {veterans will be given a 90-da¥; the heat of hell cn everybody in Washington,” according to the testimony of Sccretary of Interior Krug |them. L s {preference in consideration of ap={ pefore the Senate War Investigating Committee in Washington. i Photo. “I find that is the best way to get % ! plications. 1 TR Db T RS A VRN S ol SRS S S FOORETORS; acquainted with the problems of the i = | Nut £ gricultural | Territory,” Senator Butler said. m : The National House of Representatives passed legislation aimed to ; The Interior Department an-. “We want the folks up there to ! permit Mrs. Akito Tsukao Miller, Japanese born wife of Navy Lt. (ig) nouncement pointed out that isete] CIe n ls s realize they can:just drop in and | John J. Miller of Newport, R. I, to live permanently in the United |tlements along the highway wml talk with us. | i States, At prc;enz shc Is in this country on a six-month permit. |be commercial or recreational rm;h- A M Get It “Off Chests” ol n’ M@m“ g A e than agricultural. aid: ,;aj;‘IHRE ATENED Are Go| h AT AL Mu_y f “We want them to tell of um;' I : . B unburden. themselves hey have obm'w- to_particular i things this government is doing or ekt part of the restored area is [] SPOKANE, Aug. 1-—(P—Three ‘Tuber(ulos|s Dea'h Ra' | unsuited for agricultural home-! 1 ‘5 not doing and in fact get their men were killed and four ou'ners‘ !stead use. ! ~ompmnt,s ‘off their chests’.” | injured in a fire ";latz 5 s;\epm | “High elevations and adverse soil , | The committee's schedule was an- through the Swanson Hotel here | conditions make the raising of! nounced recently. this morning. Dead from asphyxiation are Will- - Among Alaska Nafives Is | money crops on the land doubtful.; | The distance from available mar-{ Exira Pre(;;rions Taken Are fo Learn—for Navy Just Butler will be accompanied by Senator Ecton (R.-Mont.), Watkins (laims He Has Picked Up! iam J. McCaney, 43, Spokane, ‘ketm centers is another .y . . . . ' (R.-Utah) and McFarland (D.-Ariz.) seevorcer “ang” Wil G H S (h D I flse totot e Al | by Authorities Over How fo Live in Arc- | Abouf 400 Nominating ind committee Cierk Hugh Butier. b i 804 B T ver a . . . Their famili | B s o e 3 e eavy, ays |cago OCIO . pemmer cemerment =i O Senator fic Weather Voles-Taft on Trip [Ts.a s sy o attgmpted (_escaper_ the flames, re- mbhshmem of houses, cabins, ho- PSSO i Prior to going to Alaska the llsl funtned uniGERUHER oc ' © ; Itels, camps, taverns, gasoline sta-| COLUMBUS, O, Aug. l—(®— WASI{INGTON, Aug. 1—P— (By The Associated Press) | L A S | FATRDANKS, Alaska, Aug, 1./ tions, and health and recreational Police disclosed today that Sena- Seven college scientists will go to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of Newl ’C"”“"“““""”‘ To) 1 The w asnlngion FA I | The death rate from tuberculosis |facilities. These will serve tourists tor John W. Bricker (R-Ohio) had Barrow, Alaska, soon to learn for York today (Friday) wound up al A !is nine times as great among Al-|and attract new enterprises to!received two threatening telephone the Navy how to live in Arctic western tour which friends con-} | 1ska’s native population and twice Alaska, the department said. calls yesterday and that as a re-|weather. fidently declare has increased hisi MerrY 0- Round as large among its white residents | FOT construction of the Alaskasult extraordinary precautions were| The scientists who will spend a backing for the 1948 Repubncan, » ( { ; b \as it is in the United States, Dr. Highway, the federal governmentitaken to guard him at the Re- year in Northern Alaska are: Dr.!presidential nomination. Anhur Bernstein, Chairman of the | Withdrew from public use a land publican rally here Jast night. |Laurence Irving, Dr. P. X. Schol-/ As the New Yorker's trflln; 1 | | By DREW PEARSON | tive-man team of medical specialists |Strip 40 miles wide, all along the = SRS a1, A0der, Dr. Erik Tetens Nielsen, Dr. reached Albany, associates told re- | i3y f k Count; | proposed route. Recently, a public; One ol e telephone calls, peigar Wennesland and Walter B. porters ; Ve i WASHINGTON—The "Hol]ywood‘ H HUGHES’C::: ;Tdo hElguny Hospital, Chi- Tand order sastored ail but five WHich police sakd’ they believed miagy wt the Department of Zoo- :lo.et:r;wtl:lu:!ée\;zrnmltefl;otv.:zl } beauty” probe of Howard Hughes', . He seid he based his statementMiles on each side of public do-|Were made by “cranks’ was made jogy, Syarthmore (Pa. College; first ballot in the GOP nominating| ' § airplane lobbying presents some in-: {on personal observation and a study | Main- to the Bricker home in SUbWbAN ang’ Dr. Amold R. Griffin and convention. It will require 547 to| | teresting contrasts. Benind _ this, §ymmons Goes Unserved-— ot Teritorial records. | The order approved today restores | upper Arlington a few hours bé- paymonq J. H. Hock, Department nominate: i battle of Senate witnesses is & {all of the remaining land except ‘fore the Senator was to take part|.¢ " 7,09 t C 1l University ! ' lot than meets the eye. {5 The, docloss SRigR norilY'ep Tep: ik tatewide dinner honoring | iy o._.orne MIVEISiY: They also made it clear they re-: OAtmz‘r):r: hea::inoi the wltnessy table | Mafl“fadurer AISO ASkS \’e‘f“““w“ akafg merican Med- | ;0;3 e m-lsenaalo; ?t:l::meA Taft (R-Ohio). oW R gard Senator Robert A. Taft "f‘.l.h v f E cal Association at the request of | Oho at this sta as the leadi ] is hard-hitting GOP Senator Brew-, | |The call was taken by the Sena- ol g ster of Maing—tough shrewd, an| for lnveSflgaflon Inégnor tsr:acxretarxvl(lrug ey | “This O,dl::l-'vmtsh:l::::uncemen(|tors mother-in-law, Mlli Maud A. HEI_lo OPERAIORS prospgoliye contender against| oy eierans fo U Of @ “ ! ince their arrival in Anchorage ey ! old h2andt n;lsmue-l:nve:titgauom. e {July 19, the group has visited s”g, said, “fulfills the government pledge 'Day, who reported that the caller D(XI') e R ! AIaSka Make SDeedY { —who not only preaches but prac-| WASHINGTON, Aug. 1—(F— |to the people of Alaska that the;sid: i" AN(HORAGE Meaoihe: ;s Hipingghogionn il jard, Bethel, Unalakleet, Nome, peop! €| probably will not go on the hust-| I7-Day AS(e'“ tices prohibition. man -Administration, is Secretary unable to serve a subpoena on In fact, Brewster !Michigan Senator Homer Ferguson! Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, wapproximately 8,300,000 acres of| “This time were gomng to get by a former capitol policeman. mg-; outside New York again this! lof Alaska students claimed today ! doesn’t even smoke. of the War Investigating Com- him.” — m. At the target end of the investi- |mittee, says that a United Btates | SERY iR EAOM, (Continued on Fage Eighti | Three weeks ago Senator Brick- N TR'KE IODA ar unless 1t appears that sup- ! d high P g g | The doctors told the Territorial | g ittt 4 pmt for 'Taft 'is meking: strong | LrBANKEY (AINES. A0S oo | gation, and high up e Tru-Marshal in Los Angeles has been|yregica] Association’s annual con- | 0 ler was fired upon in Washington P dvind 4 o g’t'l’l——'l'hree rugged ex~G.I. University | | teetotaller, and politically naive. Cap is something of a small-town koy first seeing the -bright lights! of Hollywood and Broadway. And, thought it looks as if Krug jbeen able to present the paper requiring Hughes' immediate ap-| pearance in Washington, In earlier developments in the | convention received a telegram from Washington, D. C., advising that a ,flupplpmental appropriation for such | funds had been defeated in the Sen- | !stock today is 4% ers office building. g ki AT CITY COUNCIL IS quctation of Alaska Juneau mine . American Can ! 91%, Anaconda 36'2, Curtiss Wright 4%, International Harvester 15, | Calls, Report | SEATTLE, Aug. 1—@— The |vention here that funds for hos- o‘l T . e - x v Neither D i Ol_t;ht; ll!;:fl(:fecz::“:s (f:pe)fifi;::é plane-maker Howard Hughes. E:f,}pltal beds and segregation of tuber- SIO(K 01‘“0"’ The other telephone call was Ie[ephone Serw(e le“ed ~aidml :rdw;\::gyn‘:x;u'l‘::tah::nxf! Shic- “asrithost botht® 6 bomwdrtia w‘bm serv:nc T Tt et n‘m"“‘“g by telephone, ll"e mas at cular patients were necessary . i3i- made to Bricker's law office in dite. ik anly: avowed candiixce Mount McKinley on record, and / pul , young, g told Ferguson that he had notipmuitaneously with this report, the| NEW YORK, Aug. 1——Closing | down-town Leveque-Lincoln Tow- On!y to Emergen(y {s former Governor Harold Stassen D€, first - scaling of the highest tNorth American peak for pure ad- 16 Msipnacte. !venture since 1932. The three who made a speely Tift Slaps Truman ¢ i17-day trek. from Wonder Lake Taft, endorsed by Ohio Republi-' N ®|Hughes contract investigation, ate, | Northern Pacific 20%, U. S. Steel one distance operator on ¢ans for the nomination, has ap-|Camp to the 20.270-foot peak and i fi meflz{“::l go:}:emshtn}:;n?vzitgg_“@?-‘or General Oliver, Echols tes-| The doctors will return to Chi-|74%, Pound $4.02%. n::kgnlmf iwfiwhbmge advised nounced he will decide after a fall|feturn were Gordon Herreid, 22, i nl‘i;“ - ni:xed Rt et tified in Washington that EIliott cago about August 10 after visiting| Sales today were 770,000 shares. MEEII"G '0“'6“]\1))15 morning she was unable to trip through the West. |Santa Maria, Calif.; Frank Mills, : ik bttt et m,Roosevelt had over-ruled the air gjtka, Juneau and Ketchikan. | ' Averages today are as follows: in- |complete telephone calls to An- He headed for a five-weeks Can- 20, Cincinnati, and Henry Daub, on. 4 tforce experts in backing extension| The Territorial convention con- |dustrials, 183.87; rails, 49.84; utilities, | chorage, Alaska, because of a strike adian vacation today after a ma- 23, Boston. the path of the bullets. i The real shooting involves: 1. { the old game of Democratic-Re- They were resting at the camp in McKinley National Park after itheir gruelling trip to the moun- of the Hughes contract for phot-|.jyded its meeting Wednesday with |35.80. mareconnaissance planes. Echols election of Anchorage as site of its {conceded -that the plane in aues- | pext year's convention. ! The City Assessor’s report “will of operators in the northern city. Jor political speech at a “Taft) ‘be one of the main items of busi-| The operator said she was ad- rally” attended by nearly 1300 Re- ness at tonight’s meeting of the vised telephone service went on publicans in Columbus last night. lRB,EGULAB.LY HIGHER eat-axing; and 2, a; i : g:sl::;i:xt]é n:tmggle gbetween twofmm Would e been: therarmys Officers elected were: A. Holmes| Stocks turned irregularly higher lcuy Council. Other topics of dis-|an emergency only basis at 10 p. m.| That address, perhaps baring the | tain top. approximately 42 miles great airlines for the most lucra- fastest if it could hit 485 miles|jonnson, Kodiak, President; Arthur | today after a forenoon price dip that | cussion will probably include the| (PST) last night. campaign line Taft would follow if) a%ay- per hour. |J. Schaible, Fairbanks, and Ray- [came when Bethlehem Steel lost|Juneau Spruce Corporation’s offer| (Earlier, members of the Inter- nominated, hammered at President’ The party made the climb with- tive travel routes in the world. The two airlines are: (1) Trans; World Airlines, owned by Howard Huges, which is battling for worldI routes with (3) Pan American, Airways. Pan American Airwaysi in turn has had as its chief Con- gressional spokesman, Senator Brewster, the man now turning the! heat on Howard Hughes' airplane contracts. ! GOP BACKED PAN AMERICAN Actually, the battle goes back a good many years, and if the Sen-: ate would ever consent to opening! the State Department’s confidential records back in the Hoover Admin- jstration, a story more important, though perhaps less sexy, would be jcert Associatien will hold an In Boston, Elliott said that make his statement on the whole situation wheh he appears to tes-! tify Monday. In Los Angeles, Hughes said that he will ask the Justice De- partment to investigate the rela-| tionship between Maine Senator Owen Brewster, Chairman of the investigating committee, and Pan American Airways. to drop the investigation of Hugh- es would agree to merge his Trans World Airlines with Pan American. ——e—— JCA MEETS TONIGHT The directors of the Juneau Con- im- hell | Earlier Hughes' +had charged that Brewster offered mond Coffin, Anchorage, Vice-Presi- dents; William P. Blanton, Juneau. Secretary-Treasurer. ——————— - STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Princess Nornh, from Vancouver, ! scheduled ‘to arrive Saturday af- ternoon or evening. Seattle 10 a.m. Saturday. Alaska <cheduled to sail from Seattle August 5. |from Vancouver August 6 at 9 'p. m. Northern Veyager scheduled to sail from Seattle August 8. | Bethlehem prompted buying else- ! i Trading was light, however, prin- i i {ing long weekend. Traders were re- Baranof scheduled to sail from | more than a point. A recovery in where and the list moved ahead in the final hour. cipally on account of the aproach- luctant to carry too-heavy commit- | ments in view of the unsettled for- |eign situation, particularly in the “Easc Indies and Palestine. i Another, and probably more im- | | portant factor, is the economic crisis | developing in Great Britain. A number of stocks were out- |the close, including Coca-Cola, up 15 to a new high. Cannon Mills, American Tobacco B, American ' Smelting, Johns-Manville, Unmn; to purchase the City Dock, and the|national Brotherhood of Electrical Truman’s Workers (AFL) in Anchorage had Policies. housing problem. Wendell P. Kay, W, Director of the Federal Public Housing Authority has asked Der-|crease offered by the city, and set foreign policy “befuddled.” mission to attend and discuss Lhis-n midnight deadline in their nego- that in last subject. i e ‘CAPTAIN HOSKINS -~ DIES IN SEATILE SEATTLE, Aug‘ 1.4lm—Funeral Princess Louise scheduled to sail standing in the upside just before |services were held here today for Capt. Alexander H. Hoskins, 54, Bel- lingham native and merchant mari- ner, who died Wednesday. Captain Hoskins was stricken with ]turned down a 5 percent wage in-| foreign and domestic Taft called the administration’s He said the domestic field Mr. iuations for increases ranging from Truman is “still dominated by the /17 to 19 percent. The walkout also was to affect|fused to cooperate with the ‘pnnclples of the CIO” and has re- Repub- operauon of all city power except! lican-controlled Congress. | pump lines, which would be m;\m-‘ |tained, the union said, to assure| |an adequate water supply —— .- TAKEN TO HOSPITAL City Police rushed W. W. Vernon, of Sitka, to St. Ann's Hospital shortly after 10 a.m. today when he | | was stricken with a series of epileptic | Senate He is statehood bill fits on a downtown street. _____ oo — Hawaiian Statehood Hearing, November: WASHINGTON, Aug. 1—M— A hearing on the Hawaiian will be held in| |out receiving any outside support from the air or ground. } Frank T. Been, Park Superinten- dent, said the climbers reported |reaching the summit July 29. He said the party was the smallest ever to achieve the feat. The party was the second to iscale the lofty~peak this year. The collegians were preceded by the extemively equipped and airplane- 'aided Bradford Washburn scien- tific party in June. It was the second attempt of jthe year for Herreid, the leader of the trio, who was a member of the collegian party which turned back late in June after one of the group suffered from altitude sickness at 14,000 feet. § ncovered. | pertant mecting in the Gold Room | 4 “Pan Ax‘nerican Airways started ' “f the Baranof Hotel at 8 o'clock| Aleutian, from west, scheduled to|Carbide and International Harvester | heart ailment three months ago | being treated by Dr. J. O. RudeIHawh next November. It was ex-| Herreid reported he suffered this evenire. President Ernest arrive southbound sometime Sun-|all had gains of a point or more |while serving with the Army Trans- who reported his condition as much 'pected to take from three days to a from the same sickness at 18,000 (Continued on Page Four) Ehlers will corduct the meeting. day. among the pivotals. ! port Service at Adak, Alaska. improved this afternoon, week. | (Continued on Page Two)