The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 2, 1947, Page 1

e . R RRE= . other, alternating each day. Taylor SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,646 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1947 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HUGHES HEARING BREAKS UP IN ROW PRESIDENT MAYTRAVEL 10 BRAZIL Report HasTIruman Mayi Attend Big Conference | in September | WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—(®—The White House today would neither confirm nor deny that President | Truman will attend the Inter- American Security Conference in Brazil but said his plans will be made known later. Press Secretary Charles G. Ross told reporters: “There will be an announcement later as to the President's plans.” He conceded the trip has been un- cer contemplation but would not| go beyond this. In Rio de Janerio, diplomats said | Mr. Truman and his wife and| daughter, Margaret, are expected there Sept 4, aboard the hame-i ship Missouri. Plans called for | him to close the conference which | begins Aug. 15, it was added. | U.S. SALESMAN IS ARRESTED FORHIS | OPINIONS OF REDS BUDAPEST, Hungary, Aug. 2—® —American sources said today that Stephen Thuransky, a U. 8. citizen who said he was an agent for the International Harvester Co., was arrested last night by armed Hun- garian Political Police at Balas- sagyarmat, on the Czechoslovak | border northeast of Budapest. The informants said the Ameri- can Legation had protested the arrest and was told by the Politi- cal Police that Thuransky had been arrested on “serious charges” of “undemocratic utterances” and would be brought to Budapest for trial. A representative of the American Legation said that although Thur-' ansky was an agent for Interna- tional Harvester, he had not been, able to make any sales during the last year and had established a general hauling company. A Legation representative who went to Balassagyarmat reported that the Police accused Thuransky of using a vulgar American expres- sion signifying what he thought should happen to Communism. - FROM ANCHORAGE Kenneth O'Harra of Anchorage is at the Baranof Hotel. Also reg- istered at the Hotel from Anchor- age is Beverly A. Green. The Washingion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PHAREON WASHINGTON — Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho, a former cow- boy vaudeville crooner, who has come to win the respect of his Senatorial colleagues, will take an unusual trip this summer, While some Senators will be junketing to Alaska or touring Europe, Taylor will ride horseback from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast. The Senator from Idaho candidly admits that it is a publicity stunt, but not for Taylor, for peace. Along the way, Taylor plans to speak for the United Nations and world cooperation. He has just helped introduce a bill to strengthen the United Nations and help eliminaté the veto power by which one nation can hold up the peace efforts of the rest of the world. Taylor feels that the Middle West is becoming isola-‘ tionst, is worried over the threat| of war, and wants to dramatize| the problem of peace. The Idaho Senator has planned to buy two horses in California and begin his trek east from the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francis- co. One horse will follow behind on a trailer, while he rides the says he plans to ride horseback every inch of the way, even in- cluding western deserts and Rocky Bt = T g R LA (Continued on Page Four) } Freedom Is His Wedding Gift Spencer Bonham, 35, and Lula Mae Croft, 18, are married at Redwood City, Caif., by Municipal Judge W. H. Thorpe. Bonham, in jail and serving a year's sentence for embezzlement, was given his freedom as a wedding present. He had 11 months more to serve. The bride is from San Antonio, Texas. (?) Photo TWO KILLED | AS BOMBER GOES CRASH Two Others Make Para- chute Jump Safely when Aircraft Cafches Fire McCHORD FIELD, Wash,, Aug. 2. —(®»—The pilot and co-pilot of an Air Force B-24 bomber based at Hamilton Field, Calif., were killed in a fiery crash yesterday and two ! other occupants of the aircraft were saved when they parachuted to earth. Coroner Gordon Quarnstrom of Cowlitz County, reported the dead were Capt. William L. Davidson, pilot, and Lt. Frank M. Brown, co- pilot. Davidson’s home address was not immediately available. ! Brown resided at Vallejo, Calif, | where his widow lives. C. T. Brown, and a sister, Len! Tucker, live in San Diego. | The aircraft, which encountered | fire and crashed near Kelso, Wash., | shortly after taking off on a night | flight to Hamilton Field. | Taff, a hitchhiker making his first plane flight, bailed out with- | out incident. Tech Sgt. WoodmxwIfiem0 said today that the Philip- Martin, Bessie Visaya, | D. Matthews, crew chief, was criti- | pine Republic has cooperated with cally injured. GOVERNOR RETURNS ILLEGAL GOLD SALES THRIVE IN ORIENT Black Mark—e“i in Bullion Does Boombing Business in Portuguese Colony MANILA, Aug. 2—(®—An national blackmarket dealing in millions of dollars worth of gold bullion and golden Mexican pesos destined for inflation-beset China inter: I AX-SLAYER | ARRAIGNED, . FAIRBANKS Calm During Reading of Murder Charges FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 2—# {—Heavily beared after 11 days in ‘Lhe wilderness on a diet of berries, { {birds and porcupines, Leon Winfield | Jones, 43, heard with outward calm , yesterday the murder charges ngahipt yhim for the ax slayings of two meft at an Indian camp July 20. Caught Thursday in Alaska’s most extensive modern manhunt, he stood uncommunicative as the charges were read before U. S. Commissioner Everett E. Smith. A preliminary hearing was set for Tuesday. s { The Big Delta military project carpenter was captured as he strol ed on the Alaska Highway 10 miles, from where Donald R. Harris, 33, and Carl Ahnstrom, 68-year-old trapper and prospector, were bashed to death with an ax after an Indian icamp drinking party. { special Deputy Bill Cough, one of I‘the many volunteers in the wide- Ispread manhunt, said Jones sub- imitted without resistance after | Gough recognized arm tattoos !l‘hrough a torn sleeve and gold jteeth as shown in a widely. dis- { tributed photograph. He said Jones was carrying a .22 lcaliber rifle. ipart of a porcupine in a blanket i { over his shoulder. Jones has worked on Alaska con- | (struction jobs for four months since {coming mnorth from Vancouver, {Wash., where his wife and four (children reside. | ALASKA COASTAL | AIRLINES CARRIES | 99 ON FRIDAY Alaska Coastal Airlines sent out {11 flights from Juneau yesterday making calls at Sitka, Pelican, Ex- cursion Inlet, Fish Bay, Chatham, ! Tenakee, Thomas Lake, Warm !‘Killer of_TWo Remains| He also was carrying | v | DUTCHARMY | - MOPPING UP JAVA FRONT Gaim New Gains South- | ward as UN Asks Hos- | filities to Cease | By Stanley Swinton { BATAVIA, Java, Aug. 2.—® ~The ' Dutch Army announcéd that mop- |ping up and consolidaticn were under way throughout Java today, ! |while in Sumatra they claimed new |gains in a drive southward on the (Medan front. These reports were contained in a |communique issued just after news reached this Dutch colonial capital | |that the United Nations Security | Council would ask both the Dutch is doing a thriving business on |Springs, Lake Hasselborg, H"""““"and the Indonesian Republic to Macao, Portuguese island colony at {Gustavus, Hawk Inlet, Haines, cease hostilities in progress since the mouth of the Canton River,iSkagway, Petersburg, Wrangell and July 20. | official Filipino sources said today. Chinese merchants, desperate for some readily convertible means of exchange, are paying stiff premi- 'ums to obtain the precious metal, these sources said. While members of monetary fund have world to the sought A brother, | keep the price of gold stabilized at | $35 a Troy iunce, Macao transac- tions run at a minimum of $51 an ounce. This premium has created |engine trouble according to Sgt.is golden flow toward Macao, where {Elmer L. Taff, a passenger, caught ' cpinese purchasers can obtain pos- session without fear of confisca- tion by the Chinese Government, which has banned private trading in gold. Finance Secretary Miguel Cua- ! world monetary fund members by | refusing to permit export of gold ‘lo Macao or any other point where {1t is definitely known that black- |"SPIRED BY HIS | market prices prevail. VISIT T0 HAWAII, Alaska’s Governor said this morn- ing that his trip to Hawaii was ex- | tremely beneficial from the point of | Statehood for the Territory. He said | that he and the Governor of Hawaii | were able to exchange ideas for the | furtherance of their common aim of statehood for the two Pacific terri- | tories. He said that Hawaii’s ac- | tions, thus far, are an inspiration | to Alaska in its fight to gain equal status with the 48 States. The Governor also was consider—’ ably impressed by the Naval Reserve | Officers Corps training program | which he witnessed on board the| battleship USS Iowa. The Iowa | transported him and other visiting | Governors on their trip to Hnwxui.. On board were 600 members of the | NROTC taking a training cruise. The Governor attended the an- | nual Governors' Conference in Salt | Lake City. | e —— | FROM BAY CITY Ed Ross and Don Marcus of San Francisco, are registered at the] Gastineau Hotel, (-54INAUGURATES AAF GREAT CIRCLE FLIGHTS TO TOKYO, GREAT FALLS, Aug. 2—P—A C-54 Skymaster left the Great Falls Airbase here yesterday on the Air Forces Inaugural great circle- flight to Tokyo, Col. John S. Chennault announced. The launching of the initial | Great Falls-Tokyo hop was made , on the 40th anniversary of the Air Forces and will be carried on as a weekly schedule. The flight left Great Falls at noon with three stops slated prior to reaching its destination. The stops enroute are Fort Nelson, An- chorage and Shemya. The last Peint is on the Aleutian chain. Estimated time for a round trip is 84 hours. ;B I LU SEATTLE MAN HERE Don Thompson of Seattle is at Mrs, P. the Hotel Juneau. { Ketchikan. i Passengers to Sitka were Mr. jand Mrs. Don Silva, E. E. Jen- i{sent, J. T. Potter, Louis Halsmith, |Harry Smith, Irvin Eaton, Nettie {Blair, Elwood Hunter, R. T. Little- ; field, E. Siliva, A. Rusch, Frank | Carls, Tom Morgan, Mr. and Mrs {J. J. Coan. | Flying to Pelican were L. Lane, ! K. Allan, A. Zingeris, G. E !Marllu. M. Gartin, H. Osmundson, | Mrs. A. E. Martin, and Jack Guck- ter; to Chatham, L. Elgin; to Ex- ‘,cursion Inlet, Al Sampson, G. Nav- |arro, Frank Menecis, Lucille Wil- ilis, Catherine Willis, Peter Olson ‘and C. Lowery. Flying to Hawk Inlet were Ruth Frank Sison jand Marlee Visaya; to Thomas iLnke. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Dribel- bis; to Gustavus, G. Carter; to Hoonah, Mrs. Shotter; to Tenakee, !J. Tennyson. Bound for Skagway were Ed |Scheck, Mr. and Mrs. James Jule- jatt, the Rev. Gallant and Joe Jastowski; for Ketchikan, Dan Krsul, Jim Ferrill and Joe Dier- gen; and for Petersburg, CIiff | Richmond h ! 1Inbound to Juneau from Sitka were C. L. Sischo, Oliver Col- by, Mrs. Ernest Dennis, George Jackson, Christine Sunde, Ole 'Sunde, Mrs. Pat Jackson, Irvin Eaton, Ethel Everett, Beverly Green, R. H. Norton. ‘Tom Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. J. J Coan, G. Oaksmith, Clarence Elia- son, George McMahon, Donald Donna Handy and Sharon Handy | From Pelican to Juneau, Mrs. 'Thompson, Mrs. R. L. Larte, R. E {Lynch and Mrs. Kenneth Millsed; ;from Excursion Inlet, Daniel | Campbell; from Warm Springs, Mr iand Mrs. Larry Higgins; from {Lake Hasselborg, Mr. and Mrs. Earl ! Bassford; from Hoonah, Hugh Doogan. | From Hawk Inlet, Thorvald Han-, W. Hixson; salmon packer Wanderer in to the Eroups of tenants had become ac- for Prince Rupert. sen; from Tencakee, lfrom Chatham, Bert Wilds; from {Haines, A. Marius and Edgar D. ‘Ross; from Wrangell, Rev. and 2 McConkey; from Ketch- ikan, Helen Case. | Wagner, Thea Donna Wagner, Mrs. | The republicans by their own ad- mission were anticipating intensifi~ cation of the Dutch push toward their capital of Jogjakarta in south | central Java. i A broadcast from Jogjakarata vesterday reported that the repub- lican high command had declarad the city and surroundings to be a military area and had ordered Lt. Gen. Oerip Soemoaharjo to direct preparations for a last-ditch de- fense. | The Netherlands Army’s com-" munique, in the first official report of any Indonesian Army surrenders to the Dutch, said 36 republican officers and men had voluntarily given up their arms at Lawang, above Malang, East Java. The Dutch said they captured 10 Germans and three Japanese at | Pematangsiantar, and four other Japanese in South Sumatra and West Java. | - STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norzh, from Vancouver, !scheduled to arrive at 2 o'clock this afternoon and sails for Skag-| way at 11:30 o'clock tonight, re- turning to Juneau sputhbound Tuesday a.m. Baranof from Seattle, due Tues- day. | Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle August 5. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver August 6 at . m. | Northern Voyager scheduled to sail from Seatile August 8. | | Aleutian, from west, scheduled to | arrive southbound sometime early Monday morning. ————— - FISH LANDINGS his | Sandy A. Stevens brought Juneau Cold Storage this morning !with 14,000 pounds for Sebastian- Stuart. Also ' landed today was 12,000 pounds of halibut by the Arden, under Olaf Larsen. CABLE CAR JOINS MOVIES — A 41-year-old cable car from San Francisco arrives in Hollywood for use in a movie set of the 1910 period. Left to right: Barbara Bel Geddes, Philip Dorn, Irene Dunne, who plays the lead in the film, and Director George Stevens. | FISHERMEN FROM BRISTOL BAY FLY SOUTH:G00D YEAR High Boat Tor—Season for Two Men Gives About 56,000 for Each SEATTLE, Aug. 2.—(M—The first | fishermen to return from the Bristol | Bay since the season closed July | 25, about 100 all together, Brrived‘ yesterday in two Alaska Airlines | planes. They fished for the Columbia Riv- ( er Packers, Axel Magnusson said, | and the company's high boat for the | one-month season brought in 41,000 | salmon, netting its two-man crew | about $6,000 apiece. | About 1,600 boats fished for all | operators and the season was one of the best in years, he said. - ALASKA STEAMERS | GET NEW DOCKING AT SEATTLE POR SEATTLE, Aug. 2—(®—The last remaining obstacle to the move by two Alaska steamship firms from antiquated piers on the waterfront to Pier 42, one of the most modern shipping terminals, was removed yes- terday. J. A. Early, Seattle Port Commission Secretary, announced. The Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration has approved the port’s plan to redeem approximately $2.- 000,600 of its revenuz bonds, he said. It will save approximately $750,000 in interest over the life of the bonds and permit the Alaska Steamship Co. and the Northland Transportation Co. to move their | quarters. - e BOYS SNOOZEIN | CAVE WITH BEAR | CUBS; FOUND OK. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 2.— (M—An overnight snooze this week in a cave with a family of bear cubs didn't faze 11-year-old Har- old Lewis and his brother, Fred, 9, except for a few scratches and minor bites being proudly displayed today by the younger boy. They had gone iishing on Kla- wock Creek Wednesday with their father, George Lewis, Jr., and wan- dered away. Thinking the young- sters had returned to their home in the Indian village of Klawock, Lewis did not begin a search for them until he had gone back to the settlement. The boys’ dog led a party to the cave where the two were found sleeping with the bears. Both customed to the housing situation./ e, . s ! GUSTAVUS MAN HERE { NOPHONE |this morning, SERVICE IN ANCHORAGE Power BmT Maintained for Private Homes and Business, However ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 2.—(® —The first day of a municipal work- | ers' strike left Anchorage without | phone service but power was being provided to homes and business houses despite the walkout of 61 members of the AFL International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. An answer was to be given today | to the City Council’s “final offer” | of a 20 pef cent hourly wage in- crease for telephone operators and 5 per cent boost for electricians. | The city's proposal was discussed at | a closed union meeting last night. The electricians who previously had demanded increases of 17 to 19 per cent, were joined by the tele- phone operators in their strike at midnight Thursday. Only one operator was on duty | today to handle emergency tele- phone calls. City officials said Lhei power plant would continue to func- | tion unless a breakdown occurs. - e, Sform Rages, | Bristol Bay; SEATTLE, Aug. 2. — (P—Alaska | Steamship Company officials report- | ed today that a sudden summer ; storm has brought loading of can- | {ned salmon aboard five vessels to a !standstill at Bristol Bay. The| | freighters are expected to be de-! |layed at least three days by the: unusual weather conditions. The freighter Victoria arrived in Seattle Friday with 70,000 cases of canned salmon from Prince William Sound points, i ks SOUTHEASTERN IN PORT EARLY TODAY 1 | Briggs Steamship Company's | Southeastern arrived in Juneau| bringing a carload of frozen meat from Great Falls, Montana, for Alaska Importing Company, a measurement ton ol; furniture, and one car. i The Southeastern is loading at| the Juneau Cold Storage two car-! loads of frozen fish and one car-| load of mildcure salmon. She will| sail from Juneau to Sitka, Pelican, Petessburg and Wrangell to pick up the remainder of a full cargo s i L G FROM BAY CITY QUESTIONS CAUSE BIG FLARE - UP Selective Deferments for Meyer Take Precedent Over War Confracs WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—(®—The Senate War Investigating Commit- tee's inquiry into a $40.000,000 wartime airplane contract award- ed Howard Hughes broke up n a row today over questions about selective service daferments for John W. Meyer, Hughes publicity man. The questioning arose after Mey- er had testified concerning ex- tensive night club entertaining for Elliott Roosevelt, son of the late President, who as an air force Col- cnel was head of a mission that recommended purchase of 100 air- planes from Hughes for photo-re- connaissance work in Europe. Tom H. Slack, attorney for Hughes, violently protested it was “impossible to get the truth” when Senator Cain (R-Wash.) suddenly turned the questions from cocktail parties and nylon stocking gifts to Meyer's wartime draft status. Meyer had been attempting to explain more than $165,000 worth of entertainment expenses in con- nection with the big airplane con- tracts awarded the Hughes com- pany. “Six Deferments” Quiz Suddenly Cain asked Meyer about what he termed Meyer's “six de- ferments” from &elective service. Slack broke in to protest that the Justice Department rather than a Congressional committee - should look into that issue. Meyer had little chance to ans- wer questions as Slack and Sen- ators Ferguson (R-Mich), Cain and finally Brewster (R-Me.) got into a wordy dispute about whether the Senate committee could allow all facts to be presented. Cain at one point asked Fergu- son to refer Meyer's entire draft record to the Justice Department. Regess to Monday Chairman Ferguson delayed & de- cision on this, saying that SI Liad asked that these records presented to the committee. “This is no place to get the truth,” Slack shouted. Ferguson rapped for order and then quickly announced a recess of the inquiry until Monday. Ferguson told reporters that Meyer is being held under sub- poena for all of next week, when both Elliott Roosevelt and Howard Hughes are scheduled to testify. Rocsevelt is due here Tuesday. Ferguson said he hopes Roosevelt can ‘“supply some answers” to questions to which Meyer may not be able to reply. He indicated, also, that Meyer will be kept on the stand while Hughes testitles. Hughes has said he will not agree to go on the stand with Meyer. Hughes announced in Los An- geles that he was going away for a4 week-end rest and that he plans to be here to take the stand Wed- nesday. Entertainment Meyer acknowledged to the Sen- ators that he spent $106 entartain- ing Roosevelt in a party of six at New York night clubs the day Roosevelt drafted a report recom- mending that the Government buy the Hughes planes. Meyer identified an expense voucher he had turned in for en- tertaining Roosevelt Aug. 20, 1943. Chairman Ferguson (R-Mich), said that was the same day Roose- velt drew up his report of a trip to Culver City, Calif., to inspect Hughes' photo - reconnaissance plane. Ferguson told the witness the Roosevelt report said, in effect, that Hughes’ plane was the only cne he had found in a nation-wide tour which met the specifications he had laid down for photo-recon- nraissance flying in Europe. The Committee heard testimony yesterday that Roosevelt’'s report uvpset previous unanimous rejection of the plane by Air Corps experts and resulted in the award of a $48,500,000 contract to Hughes for 100 planes. Meyer denied he had talked to | R. C. Hales of San Francisco, Alexander Dufresne of Gustavus Calif., is registered at the Hotel |Roosevelt about the plane, or its \1s registered at the Baranof Hotel. juneau. ! prototype, the D-2, a plywood ship.