The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,651 “ALL THE NEWS PRESIDENT SIGNS PULP TIMB Navy SEARCH IS UNDERWAY | FOR CRAFT 15 Passengers, Five Crew- men Aboard Ship, Ko- | diak to Dufch Harbor by - | KODIAK, Alaska, Aug. 8—(®—| The wind-whipped waters along| the Alaska Peninsula and the ad-| jacent Aleutians today were the center of a second day’s air and| sea search for a missing Navy | PBY-5-A with 20 men aboard. | Seventeenth Naval District head- | quarters said the Kodiak-based | JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1947 ALL THE TIME” ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — BILL Plane Now Missing On Alaska Flight Declares Alaska Must Have Facilifies for Big Fleet of Bombers, Troop Carriers ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 8.—: stmeligadier Gen, Joseph H. At-! | kinson, commanding officer of the | Alaska Air Command, said that| | Alaska must have facilities to; !serve 500 heavy bombers, 500 long- range cargo troop carrier planes and 1,000 fighters. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 8— Lok, b DAl . hips that already exist, capable| Peninsula forest fire, which rav- o¢ carrying 400 troops fully equip- aged some 250,000 acres of spruce ped.” NO FREIGHT FOR ALASKA | PORTS NOW Vessels Won'_tCarry Goods Until Strike Is Settled ! G. W. Skinner, president of the, ! Alaska Steamship Company, an-| inounced today in Juneau that no further cargo will be loaded for any Alaska regular port of call un- til the present styike situation has been settled. " Skinner arriveu here this morn-’ ing, returning from the Westward where he has been working on . problems involved in the rail haul General Atkinson said the troop fierce carriers he had in mind were| NEW TAXES PROPOSED, ANCHORAGE, Trade (onlabi Made on Beer,;; 1948 Conven_lion May Bej; Held Here, Webb | Reports Levy to Be Liquor, Gasoline, Oil -Effective at Once ANCHORAGE, Alaska, —P—The City government, | Aug. 8. hard ; | | tax ordinances today to raise the annual convention of the Associated money for street improvements, a'Boards of Trade of Central British | ball park and a play-ground. Columbia for Juneau were bright | Measures passed Wednesday night ' yesterday afternoon when the con- | tax beer and malt 25 cents pervention voted removal of a clause | gasoline 1': cents a gallon and hibited the conventional meeting | oil five cents a quart, effective from being held outside of British | immediately. Columbia. plane, with 15 passengers and a and other forest lands, was des- crew of five, last reported by radio |cribed by two U. S. Fish and Wild- at 10:45 a. m. Wednesday. Itijife Service Refuge workers today said it was 150 miles from its! wdefinitely - benetietsl & Duteh Harbor destination, with : P e N0 enough gasoline for six hou‘.s;areas game—particuiarly moose.” flying. It had started the 600-| The two men, Richard Griffith mile flight at 6:25 a. m. ;and John Ball, both of Chicago, Searchers held the plane might have made a safe|the region from the air and on landing in sheltered waters along|land showed little evidence the route, with its radio damaged.| wildlife destruction But the Navy yesterday notified |parent injury to the soil. next of kin of Navy personnel that| “We feel that oniy a relatively they were missing. Names were small periion being withheld, it was reported, serve has been destroyed,” until all Army personnel kin were said. “From a game the hope that|said that an all-day inspection of of ! and no ap-| of the moose re- they | standpoint | e, Biy' pRSGINE, et o8 Cifi'r’n?fe’"r'fi?{m?; :;::x:ld be avail-| atle within three years.” MEYER FAILS T0 SHOW UP FOR HEARING ‘Howard Hu_g_figs Agrees lo| Make Private Papers the i f 1 { ment from Seward. The liguor tax is expected to! raise from $60,000 to $75,000 an- Prince Rupert Daily News and the | which will be earmarked Prince George Citizen, stated that | i | | The two snags holding up agree- between the longshoremen jnually, and steamship operators, he point- for the ball park and play-ground. there was no reason why the con- ed out, are: . ;the gas and oil tax should bring vention couldn’t be held in South A longshoremen demand for in-, in from $15000 to $40,000 which America if they wanted it there. sertion of a clause absolving them ' Will be spent for street improve-| Tne juneau detegation, supported irom any liability under the Taft- ments, Councilmen said. by the Ketchikan group, has urged Hartley Act, and; | Liquor dealers had previously ap- ,the convention to meet in Juneau, A longshoremen demand thag Proved a “‘}“"" tax by a 28 to 3|44 enthusiasm for the Alaska con- they be allowed to work all hatches | vote, Councilman L. McGee said.|vention is mounting on every oc- on vessels in port during unlond-i R e ! casion. | ing or loading. " IAlmA Co‘sl‘l The Alaska delegation has plug- | | ihave been confined to organization MOUNTS UP Over One Hundred Victims Reported as Cooling Off Period Starts By The REV. W. ROBERT WEBB | CHICAGO, Aug. 8—(®— Aller: WASHINGTON, PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, Aug. 8.— 112 heat deaths the midwest had Legislation under which a news- | pressed financially, looked to new|The prospects for securing the 1948 a cooling off period today. | Fever temperatures presisted how- ever, in the south. It was less warm in the east and northwest was almost too cool. The Chicago weatier bureau pre- jcase, hard liquor 25 cents a gallon,/from the constitution which p"”'[dkted scattered showers from the Rockies to New England ‘The 100-degree region included Mis- souri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklaho- Shreveport had 106 yesterday. Midwest tures were Washington, and in Idaho, in the 80s, Oregon, and llow 505 of last night were expect-; ed again tonight. BLACK DOUGLAS N PORT; SCIENTISTS, LIVE SEALS ABOARD i and eastern tempera- Juneau Gefs |HEAT WAVE . E. ALASKA BoostatB.C. DEATH TOLL MAY SECURE FIVE MILLS Claims of Alaska Indians Profected in Resolution Passed by Congress i i Aug. 8.-iP— |print industry may be established in Southeast Alaska was signed today by President Truman. It permits sale of timber in the | Tongass National Forest to news- jprint manufacturing companies. The Forest Service of the Agri- culture Department is given au- thority to provide the paper com- panies with a steady source of H. G. Perry, publisher of the'ms Texas and Louisiana where, Wood, harvested in the Tongass | preserve on a sustained yleld basis. Endorsing the bill before Con- | gress, Forest Service officlals es- timated it would open the way for construction of five $30,000,000 paper mills in Alaska. The For- ,est Service predicted each mill will ,create. a town of 6,000 or more { population. 3 { The bill stipulates that money from the sale of Tongass timber (will be held in the U, 8. Treas- jury until the claims of native In- idians to parts of the land are settled. Indians of Southeast Al- ;“““ have opposed the legislation. notified. |the fire was beneficial as it will| At the time of the plane’s lastiresult in the creation of additional | radio rt, visibility was about a|feeding grounds.” Available o Com. mile, gut it was bucking heavy! Principal damage was to spruce| head winds. | WASHINGTON, Aug. 8—(®— | providing that the sailors worl 1 i the hatches first, and if pot_enough | cailoys are available, the longshore- | { men fill in. The companies cannot ! tnna passage of resolutions dealing | i with” problems of relationship be- | At present, Skinner explail @ged Juneau with folders, banners | the steamship operators have s and favors, t 85 0" TH“RSDAY !cween varfous cities of British Co- - j{lumbia and, the dominion or pro- The Black Douglas of the Fish and Wild Life Service, has ar-; rived in Juneau from the Pribilof and other vegetation of no value gowarq Hughes agreed today to18ive in to the longshore demand ! 0DOM MAKES !Islands, enroute to Seattle. The, ‘Weather conditions in the area'as Moose food. Aspen, birch and forced a search plane from Kodiak other small shrubs are expected to to turn back once yesterday, but|sprout in the area shortly. it later joined the hunt. | The inspectors said they saw The PBY had participated in|ducks, swans and geese in several rescue missions itself. The section as well as fresh bear and last one was July 8 when it pickedmoose tracks. ———— STOCK QUOTATIONS from a trawler at sea. NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—(#—Closing OHLSON IS RECEIVER, WRANGELL SAWMILL Col. Otto F. Ohlson of Anchorage, former General Manager of the Al- aska Railroad, was appointed re- ceiver of the Wrangell Sawmill in | Sales today were 790,000 shares. the case against the Alaska Asiatic | Averages today are as follows: In- Lumber Mills at Wrangell by the | dustrials, 180.14; rails, 48.22; utilities, Bank of Wrangell. 135.55. His appcintment was announced | in the U. S. District Court today | by Judge George W. Folta. | { | i { 189%, Anaconda 355, Curtiss-Wright {4%, International Harvester 37, | Kennecott 14, New York Central | 14%, Northern Pacific 20, U. S. Steel 171, Pound $4.02%. {and a break on cotton took the spot- the A sharp rise in the grain market | | make available to the Senate War: | Investigating Committee his private | ipapers which Chairman Ferguson: | (R-Mich.) had ordered seized un-: ! der subpoena. The millionaire plane builder an- nounced his readiness to produce the papers when the Committee met this afternoon after a lunch-1 | eon recess. | In a forenoon session of the' | Committee’s hearings on /his MO.-: 000,000 warplane contracts, Hughes 1had steadfastly insisted he would jturn over only such papers as hisi attorney advised should be sur- rendered. Ferguson then issued the sub- poena for the papers, i As Hughes strode into the Com- mittee Room, accompanied by his | lawyer, Thomas Slack, for the be- | ginning of the afternoon session of | | testimeny, both Committee officigls ! and Hughes' attorneys said they | had been unable to locate Johnny‘i LONGSHORE ed contracts with sailors’ unions Most of the opening day sessions | Alaska Coastal Aiilines made 10;vincial governments. without violating agreements with | the sailors, he stated. flights yesterday, calling at many: A resolution submitted by the The strike so far has spread l()]‘pomls in Southeast Alaska from 'Alaska chambers of commerce will four ports in Alaska, and steam-|Skagway to Ketchikan. Their Probably he discussed today. ship officials are reluctant to risk ships carried a total of 85 passen-' carrying goods to other ports, es- ' gers: 1and the Provincial Legislative As- pecially perishables, since if these| Flying to Wrangell was Mrs. J.[Sembly are in attendance, as well as are spoiled the Alaska merchant’O. Rude; to Ketchikan, C. H. g8overnment officials. Alaska's Gov- must take the loss. Last year Ju- 'Kail; to Sitke, J. L. Brown, Max ernor is expected to arrive here for neau merchants suffered terrific| Rogers, Mike Lyons and Mr. Put-!an address on the final day. joss of this type as a result of 'nam; to Gustavus, Mrs. Parker, Mr. The Juneau delegation consists “quickie” longshore strikes. jand Mrs. R. E. Anderson, Mrs. | of myself, Jack Fletcher and Will P S iJones, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. White Goding. ‘and L. James. H ‘ | From Juneau to Skagway, Judge ' |Edward Freeman, :Rev. Edwr.rd!B u l l E I I N S Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. L. Cam-, pyne, and Mr. and Mrs. F. Mc-{ . Cartey; to Pelican, A Mattson and' [ONPON-— Britain's Socialist- Gene Hundley; to Excursion Inlet. gominated House of Commons has A. C. Adams, Paul Jackson and g;phroveq the government's sweep- John Reece. ¥ “ A | (ing ‘“crisis powers” bill, described To Tenakee, Mr. and Mrs. Rob- iy wington Churchill as “a blank spREAD'NGe“ Kemp, R. Offenbacher, Sam:check for totalitarian govern- iAsp and David Neuman; to Chat-! ..« ham, P. E. Nyhic; to Lake Hassel- borg, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Fellows.! BERIIN—Princess Hermine Von s | | STRIKE IS boat is under the command of Capt. Clyde Dell. Included in the {cargo are five live fur seals from Several members of Parliament St. Paul Island, which have been ' {donated to the zoo at San Diego,' California. The seals have had a comfortable trip so far, but from Seattle to San Diego, they will have a 50-pound block of ice tied to the top of each crate. On the beat is Dr. Victor Schef- fer, biologist with the Service who for the past two months has been studying the biology of the fur iseal in order to improve the man-, agement of the seal herd. He was aided in his work by Willlam B. Sholes, Karl W. Kenyon, and Bob Z. Brown, Dr. Scheffer makes a similar survey each summer. Also accompanying the party was Low- ell J. Mills of Colorado Springs, Colorado, who took movies of the animals. Dr. Scheffer said that a large part of their investigation is cen- FAST FLIGHT INTO CAIRO ‘Has Averaged About 285 * Miles an Hour, Including Aground, Since Takeoff CAIRO, Aug. 8—M—A third of the way around the world, Pilot William P. Odom reached Cairo to- night at 5:44 p.m. (10:44 am., East- ern Standard Time.) | The Roslyn, N. Y., airman, flying isolo in a converted A-26 bomber, was 21 hours 51 minutes out of Chi- cago, his starting point. He hoped ] 1light. away from stock today as the jshare list slipped down fractions to ! jaround a point in quiet trading.|jcity man for Hughes, failed to ap- | Corn futures, on the Chicago Board pear at the hearing today and, |of Trade ran up to an all-time high | perguson issued a subpoena for | - e——— The Washingion Meyer. Meyer, pudgy free-spending pub- {level. ! Three Other Ports Report- | ed Affected-Aleutian : Continued hot, dry weather |- Bans Freight Ilrm Sitka were Dr. Gehrig, Dr. German News Tulsequah passengers were R.[gchoenaich-Carolath, widow of McLeod, R. Willlams, T. Lobb, L. Geimany's last Kaiser, Wilhelm Clayton, L. Gingros, Mr. and MIs. 11 gjeq yesterday at Frankfurt- Olsen and Mrs. Schomdal. | Am-Oder, in the Russian zone of Inbound passengers to Juneau Germany, the Soviet-controlled Agency reported. tered around the problem of the to complete the circumnavigation right age and amount of seals to feat in 80 hours, beating the 186- hervest. This year they marked hour solo record set by Wiley Post 10,600 skins in order to study them 'in 1933. through the processing in St. Louis., Odom averaged about 315 miles They weighed and measured ani-;an hour on his flight from Paris, 'mals which they had tagged in where he set down earlier today | prompted the new corn buying, upi Slack told a reporter that the, Van Sandt, Don Foster, H. H. she was 60. 1941, in order to study growth rate.’ after an overseas hoo from Gander, Merry-@- Round ' By DREW PKARSON WASHINGTON — There was one thing Secretary of War Pat-| treson did not do before he retired which a lot of people around the War Department hoped he wouldi do — give Col. Bob Ginsburgh the; promotion long overdue him. Colonel Ginsburgh not only fought in two world wars, but did| something almost as difficult— | served as assistant to various sec- retaries of war and undgrsecretar-| jes. His last job was as executive; assistant to Patterson. { When Ginsburgh took ofer this| job, Patterson’s public relations had reached rock botton. Inter- viewed by GI's on Guam, shortly; after V-J Day, Patterson had shown them he knew absolutely nothing about demobilization and: every enlisted man in the Army seethed in protest. Morale sank! to a new low. Ginsburgh, then attached General MacArthur in Japan, mediately was transferred to staff of the Secretary of War. Al-| most immediately the change be-| gan. Not only did Patterson's press relations improve, but he be- came more human, more tolerant, made fewer mistakes. Some years, before, Ginsburgh| had worked for Pattterson, then Undersecretary of War, in boost- ing worker morale in war plants. Addressing thousands of meetings, e b beie % (Continued on Page Four) to! im-i the {year caused the cotton break. |automobile had they been ler officials said both men, Ernest Richmond Lumber Company, left|morning, all selling to Sebastian- !ment of a car belonging to Mike for hauling supplies 612 to 7'z cents a bushel. Incerase |agreement on the papers was cms:; in bale cotton production over last The local strike of the long- William P. Rogers, Committeeishoremen is reported today to have | | Counsel, will go ever Hughes' pri-|spread to Ketchikan, Wrangell {vate papers with Noah Dietrich,!and Seward. Bearing this report| head of the Hughes Tool COmpany, iout, an Associated Press dispatch | and any the Committee wants will{from Seattle says the steamer “no idea” T be made available. | Aleutian sailing for Alaska to- FA'lED Io T“RN Slack said he has morrow will have cargo only for where Meyer is. The latter wnsl ! | released from subpoena last night, | | ————— B i — 'RICHMOND GOES T0 HIDDEN FALLS WITH NEWLY BOUGHT BOAT 1 Cliff Ricamond, of the { i Cordova and Valdez because of; OVER (ASH Fou"D]when the previous subpoena ex-! TOW. | tratfic. lice officers, who said they would affected by the present strike, it| ) today under $10,000 bail after be-| the longshore strikes at Ketch-l ! ikan, Wrangell, Juneau and Sew-; pired, and Ferguson said he had|ard. . promised to be on hand today. Are Charged Wlfll Gl'and The issuance of the subpoena for {led by the longshoremen and the! Larceny-Held Under i $10 000 B -I Ferguson climaxed it by shouting| In Juneau, there is no change ’ dl “we are not going to argue withiin the strike situation. iyou.“ and then issuing the sub-{ The Princess Louise, due tomor-! have turned in $46,500 which they i 71 found in the rear of a wrecked FISH LANDINGS ing formally charged with grand| ‘ larceny. ' | Three trollers landed their catches Mail and baggage will be hand- Hughes' papers capped an angry : dispute will not . affect pessengel" | TACOMA, Aug. 8—(A—Twbd po-'poena. row from Vancouver, will not be; it wasn't counterfeit,” were held| CUf gt the Juneau Cold Storage this i Prosecutor Patrick Seele and oth- | Hyatt, 29, and Richard Floberg, (Juneau yesterday enroute to Hid-|stuart. They were Dan Sutphin on 26, had confessed to taking the den Falls, aboard the LCI Seathe 31-C-621, Chester Tuft on the money from the trunk compart- Shell which he recently purchased, Service, and Lester Weiss on the to Hidden |Mabel K. Each man brought in a Gig Harbor mncher.’hus. where he operates a saw- about 700 pounds of salmon. e e————— - mill. ‘ R | - e — LAKE SUCCESS—.The Nether-' MONAGLES ABOARD ALASKA LICENSE TO WED Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Monagie are | aboard the Alaska from Seattle. |lands government is reported ready| An application for a marriage They have bheen south for several to reject any plan for compulsorylicense has been made by Vernon’ weeks and attended the Elks con- arbitration of the Indonesian dis-|P. Lewis and Julia B. Johnson. both ' vention at Portland last month. ,bute. of Juneau. ' Kostelac, IKILLS CONTROL ‘that Congress did not follow the| Hill, H. H. Starling and Ed Bjeck-| R ager; from Petersburg, Don Davis;| 105 ANGELES— Reinforcements from Gustavus, L. Trump; from ,¢ y50 firefighters, parachuted to Hoonah, Jack Sorri, Mike Cooke\gongor peak in the Angeles Na- and ¥.'R. Norton. tional Forest, joined in the battle From Pelican to Juneau, s'ny|tod-y as the Big Tujunga Canyon| Jacobsen and James LAnCE oy, Drush and light timber fire raged tr’;;‘:'fr‘:l'l;equ:: s c" nMamen E{ é'uncontrollzd for its fourth day. and G. Brooks. BRI S jing at that Argentine city on the; | Paraguayan ' frontier reported rebels' lhad surrounded the Loyalist capi-| 1tal of Asuncion on the land side| and were in a position to bom-| kard the southern suburgs from river gunboats. | ON_ INSTALLMENT g,_ua_!A blackened and seared brick shell signed today surrounded several hundred | onlthuusand dollars’ worth of machin- | WASHINGTON, Aug. President Truman today legislation killing all controls installment buying November 1947, The President said he regretted |8l Products, Inc, plant last night. Company District Manager Roy recommendation of the Federal | Grant estimated the loss at $750,- Reserve Board and of the Council |000. | of Economic Advisers “by enacting! Cause of the blaze was not de- | legislation to provide for continu-|termined. Firemen said they be- | ing as long as necessary regula- lleved the fire originated near a. tion of consumer credit as n!drmi.n( room in the center of the means of helping to promote econ-, plant at 631 South Third West St. omic stability. i — | e | Funeral services for Otto Geisler, | SEATTLE—Capt. Andrew Muyer-! troller who died suddenly on Mon- | stuen, 73 years old, of Seattle,'a'day at Tenakee, will be held to- marine pilot widely known in|mOrrow aiternoon at 2 o'clock in| Puget Sound, Alaskan and coast-|the chapel of the Charles W. Car- al waters, died here Monday, ten ter Mortuary. Interment will be days after retiring from the sea. in Evergreen Cemetery. They collected 200 seal livers to conduct experiments as to their vitamin A content. In connection with a migration study on sea lions, 60 pups were tagged. Dr. Scheffer said that the har- vest which ended July 31, was very poor. As a method of conser- vation, all three-year-old males ed. The party will return to the Priblofs in September for another six weeks inspection trip, at which time they will mark the armpits of 20,000 seal pups. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska, from Seattle, due to ar- 1,jery and steel damaged when fire | rive at 9 o'clock tonight. razed the Armeq Drainage and Met- | Princess Louise, from Vancouver, due Saturday afternoon or evening. Northern Voyager scheduled to sail from Seattle August 13. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. from Vancouver Saturday. Baranof, from west, southbound on Sunday. e TWO FROM MONTANA Arthur J. Theis of Norris, Mon- tana, and E. P. Bloom of Missoula, are among guests registered at the Baranof. The latter js with the U. S. Forest Service. Princess Norah, scheduled to sail | Nfld. Tail winds were expected to ‘help him on the next leg, to Kara- ! chi, India. The 6-foot, 2-inch flier, 27 years yold, left Paris at 11:39 am., Cairo time (4:30 am. Eastern Standard | Time) after a stop of 91 minutes to take on 2.000 gallons of gasoline. He got 1200 gallons of gasoline in BUENOS AIRES — Dispatchesjwho had returned to the Islandsian hour's stopover last night at from Formosa say refugees nrrlv-|by the end of July were slaughter- Gander, his first landing after leav- ‘ing Chicago at 12:54 p.m., Eastern ,Standard Time yesterday. His flying time to Cairo was 19 | hours, 20 minutes. The trip here covered about 6,500 miles of the 19,- 1600-mile route he chartered around ! the world. He flew around the world {last April in 78 hours, 55% minutes —but not alone. Milton Reynolds, !Chicago manufacturer, and T. Car- !roll Salee, accompanied him then in !the same plane. } Odom looked fresh as he. climbed |out of the cockpit at Parouk Field .here. He said he had averaged about 285 miles an hour, including time aground, since he left Chicago. HOPS OFF CAIRO, Aug. 8—M—Pilot Wil- liam P. Odom, a third of the way {along on his effort to set a new solo i record around the world, left Cairo {today at 6:30 pm. (11:39 am., East- ern Standard Time) for Karachi, { India. —————— L. T. Trump has arrived from | Portland, Oregon, and is a guest at |the Baranot Hotel during his stay in Juneau.