The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 11, 1947, Page 1

| EARTH i i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” === VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,653 T JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BREWSTER | 1S CALLED (OWARDLY Hughes Flings Charge When Plane Contract Inquiry Adjourned | f WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—P—| The Senate inquiry into Howard Hughes' plane contracts was ad-| journed today until fall, and Hugh-| es declared it was called off be- cause Senator Brewster (R-Me) was “too cowardly” to continue their fight. Hughes made this charge in aj statement read to newsreel cam-| eramen after the Senate War !n-‘l vestigating Committee had abrupt- edly adjourned its inquiry into his $40,000,000 wartime plane contracts | until November 17 Brewster is chairman of the full committee. i Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) the chairman of a subcommittee con- ducting the hearings, announced that the group decided on the de- lay because John W. Meyer, Hugh- es’ party-throwing publicity could not be located for further testimony on his expense accounts. With Brewster vacationing in Maine, Hugkes said that the com-' mittee had fought a “losing Lattle against public opinion.” Brewster and Hughes, million- aire Hollywood plane builder, ex- changed charges before the com- mittee in testimony last week. With both under oath, Hughes charged and Brewster denied that, the Senator offered last winter to call off the inquiry if Hughes would agree to a merger of the Trans World Airlines with Pan! American Airways. BREWSTER LAUGHS AUGUSTA, Me., Aug. 11.—®— Senator “Owen Brewster (R-Me) laughed today when advised tha Howard Hughes had declared in| Washington that Brewster was “too’ cowardly” to continue their verbal| " (Continued on Page Two) L The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PLARSON WASHINGTON It won't be announced for some time, but Postmaster General Bob Hanne- gan, who had more to do with putting Harry Trumar in the| White House than any other one man, has decided to yield to his doctors and to Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder. He will resign effective Nov. 1. Replacing him as Chairman of the Democratic National Commit- tee will be Clinton Anderson, now| Secretary of Agriculture. ‘There has been no decision as to who! AISAPUD W, W S A DIES FROM FALL }" ‘ 'PRIME NEED'iFamed SkagWay Woman,[ 1 Owner of Museum, Dies on Saturday i Mrs. Harriet S. Pullen, colorful? !figure of the Skagway gold rush ‘Idm , died Saturday at Skagway fol« tlowing a two weeks illness caused by | P—a broken hip she received in a fall. | 1s | Mrs. Pullen would have been 87 years | to-|01d_on Wednesday { The Skagway pioneer was owner Of{of the world famous Pullen House | !and Museum at Skagway which dis- ! and | played most of the lore of the gold { rush days. She and her museum are | the subject of an article in a cur-| 'Sen. Cain Endorses String | _ of Airports Up Coast : | Into Territory WASFP]NGTQN, Aug. 1. |One of this country's prime nee Senator Cain (R-Wash) ‘d,n,\x “adequate development | the pulp industry in Alaska.” “The country needs Alaska needs full development of | said is paper i - % 4 o thiy dndusyc Cain said. 'Ix:‘nl issue of LOOK magazine 1 Senator Cain said that he and She wa e . roug| RULER — King_Paul of ..m:»;”n- i oes ~xrakmy. an Alas- i :d‘s, NeHkOar ,“;';‘u;ho:n: Greece wears the bemedaled gislators 8 +the world and has many friends in | the adv Juneau. She is survived by a son, | airport or{ Royal Pullen, of South Dakota, and | kan trip “will consider arility of a government uniform of a field marshal of the Army. The king, who is com- mander of the Army, Navy and | S0 in Alaska—that is new ones toja granddaughter, Mary Pullen, of Air Forces, is 46 years old. be established.” |Skagway, and eight great grand- e i The ESenator endorsed a “string|chijldren. | of airports from San Francisco up Funeral services were held at % i the West Coast and into Alaska"{skagway vesterday under the aus« ! but stressed that they should be pices of the Eastern Star and the used for commercial purposes asiinterment was in a private plot. in plANE REPORIED well as for defense. the rear of the,Pullen House on the After the Alaskan trip, Sena- sjge of a mountain H tor Cain said, he will go to Bu-| Mrys. Pullen arrived in Skagway in| rope to look into the displaced per-/1897 and worked for a time as a son problem. cook. She then drove a team of pLape? i “I think we should do our|four horses on the route from Skag- | IWO Hu nters DIS(OVer share in bringing properly qual-iway to the summit of White Pass: ified displaced persons to this|Later, she operated a restaurant. Rust-Encrusted [_anding country—especially thoze who coul it e s oty aid in labor. However, there are| gEymg=—: > Gear Near Seward cthers who might better be left! S ENVOY |N where they are. We will look into! i ) eyl that thoroughly.” | 1] [] g SEWARD, Alaska, Aug. 11—#— 5 A Chamber of Commerce Commit- i i tee headed by R, C. Ingram hag ] ! j of the plane earlier concluded to be 1 1 MAY FINANCE INDIES PEACE that of missing Dr. Ray Bannister ' and Harold Roth. | Doubts were raised when it was found that the tire and tube on, the landing gear were of war sur- i 5 i ¢ Plus make while bills showed that ! Bannister had purchased tires and tubes from Goodyear. Thus posi- tive identification aw check with an Anchorage tire dealer. SEWARD, Alaska, (Special to the Empire—delayed) Two Seward men on a hunting and fishing trip have cracked one of the mysteries of Alaska flying. The two, D. Ground, Seward baker and his cousin Carl Graham, discovered | the right-side landing gear of the nation commission in a directive | plane missing since last December, covering Japan's foreign trade pol- 26, with Dr. Ray Bannister and Harold Roth aboard. The discovery made on the beach at Cains Head, nine miles south of Seward, Friday afternoon. They immediately reported their find to the search committee headed by Roll Ingram, who, with a party of men including Mrs. Bannister’s brother, examined the landing gear and the spot where it was found. Positive identifica- tion of the landing gear Ban- nister’s was made by Vern “Tiny Trakowski, an airman who was |, .IAP REVIVA”Uneasy Trucé:tfintinues in‘ { Pocket War - Roads | WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—~#— ( Found Ba"i(aded The Far Eastern Commission rul-; ed in a policy decision pubmhed{ s today that an Allied-seized stock| BATAVIA, Java, Aug. 11— of Japanese gold and jewels valued 'g “concul General Walter A, Foote at more than $137,000,000 might be | onferred today in Jogjakarta with used to help finance a revival offnqoesian Republican President Japan's - peace eoonginy, { Soekarno and leading cabinet mem- The ruling was made by the 11-1peps iy an effort to restore peace to the East Indies. He flew there and back to Ba- | icies for the immediate future. | gl # ’ tavia today in an American Naval ]2)? ;’;‘;m;ie\::]‘:t L?;;;r:]xguik:';:;(plan(‘. Informed sources said he Be dletosad of on iEbarations. |rad requested clarification of the & B0 b 1 Republican reply to a U. S. offer | of its good oifices in settling the pocket war, pended a week ago ‘u. S. wlll ASK {by an une truce, between the { Natives and the Dutch. Foote sald | A((OUNIING or it was “a very good trip.’ Both sides asserted the other krad committed truce violations. The shooting began in earncst on July 20 after the collapse of negotiations 11.—@—tfor an interim order until the is- ~ BRITISH FUNDS | WASHINGTON, Aug. Wins Coveled Title e sy “MISS LOS ANGELES COUNTY OF 1947" — brown-eyed, auburn- “Raired’ Marilyn Davidsopn, 18-yéar-old “Miss Alhambra,” spopsored by the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce, recently won the coveted title at Ocean Park. She was sclected from ameng 29 top contestants at the first annual county beauty pageant spcnsored by the Santa Monica Junicr Chamber of Commerce. City on Labor Day for the Miss Amcric: Miss Davidson will compete at Atlantic " title. Her measurements are: Height, 5 feet, 9'c inches; bust, 35 inches; waist, 25 inches; hips, 35 inches; thigh, 20 inches; caif, 13! “JUNEAU IS TOM 0LsoN I 1948 SITE, CONVENTION Associated Boards of Trade, B. C., Pick Alaska City PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., (De- layed)—The Associated Boards of Trade of Central British Columbia held last week four to one to hold its next annual convention in Ju- neau, Alaska. will be Postmaster General, but thoroughly familiar with Bannis- , "ajerican demand for a full|{lands could achieve independence| This was an unprecedented in- M. Mead of] Chairman of | James former ex-Senator New York, ter’s plane. Other fishermen who had visi how Britain is)under the Dutch Crown. | explanation of AP photographer Max Desfors, spending her $3,750,000,000 loan will} cident — a foreign organization holding its convention on Ameri- the Post Office Committee, is un- the area repoit the landing ear, .o.nont British delegates coming|Wwho flew with the diplomat, said can soil. In another unprecedented der consideration. | With Hannegan will also step, out Democratic executive director ping from a broken line seems to| Gael Sullivan, who though step-!indicate that the gear had reccnt]y;th15 sort of comprehensive state- ping on some Democratic toes, has done more to pep up the Demo- cratic National Committee than anyone since 1944. Hannegan has made Leahy Clinic in Boston. ! eration was made more difficult| by a gall-bladder complication and| was not entirely successful. | Meanwhile, and though .absent most ‘of the time, Hannegan has been the last remaining vigorous; pro-Roosevelt man in the Cabi- net: He has consistently feught for Roosevelt’s New Deal policies,! has argued that if the Democratic party swung to the right it would only become an echo of Republi-| canism. In this, he has been Vig-|;,, qcoqcinle spot on beautiful, rug- | are grief- | orously opposed inside the Cabinet| by Secretary of the Treasury Sny- der, representative of the conser-| vative right. The two have been| Litter opponents, with their en-| mity not confined to politics | Of late, thanks to Hnnnegan'sl absence, it is reported that Sny- der has the inside track, and that needling from some of the anti- Hannegan clique around the White — o (Continued on Page Four) was not on the beach a few aays previcusly. Hydraulic oil still drip- become detached from the bplane, although the condition of the rust- encrusted gear seems to indicate long immersion in salt water. The repeated | tire, still inflated, causes the Eeal“dallar Tesources. efforts to improve his health and to float with a small area above last winter underwent an opera- water, tests have proved, so it iS Thursday by Hugh Dalton, Chan-{® Ltion for high blood pressure at the|jelieved the gear could have drift-|cellor of the Exchequerer, is re- The op-ied some distance to where it was!garded by authorities as not suffi- found. A slide on a cliff near the wat- edge is to ke examined for irplane parts on theory that per- 2ps the plane hit the cliff and dropped into the water, which reaches a 600 foot depth shortly off shore. Mrs. Bannister and Mrs. Roth, who have maintained hope all through the long months that their husbands might be alive in some el ged Kenai Peninsula, stricken at the find. Mrs. Roth is planning to return to her hceme in Minnesota after the birth of a baby due this month. A gl - — COUPLES FROM WHITEHORSE Mr. and Mrs. James Porter and family, residents of Whitehorse, Y. T., have come to Juneau over the weekend, and are registered puests of the Hotel Juneau. here to discuss their worsening financial plight. Officials said today they need !slblc Dutch attack. ! ment before they can agree to re- — > — irelax any of the loan agreement provisions in manner to help | Britain to save her disappearing ¢ WEATHER REPORT Temperarure for 24-Hour ’. . The report given parliament last . . . This Morning In Juneau—Maximum, €9; minimum, 46. At Airport—Maximum, 69; minimum, 41. i- . |ciently detailed to provide an ac-;® (curate picture of where the moneyl!® {has gone. . WEATHER FORECAST ¢ | 5 . (Juneau and Viejuity) . i . 'o Increasing cloudiness to- e | ® night becoming mostly clou- ‘Ford Mo'or (0. ® dy and cooler Tuesday. Oc- @ | ® casional light rain or drizzle e . - (alls Workers |; = : PRECIPITATION . ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) & . In Juneau — None; since @ | Back fo Posis| g ® August 1, 199 inches; since DETROIT, Aug. ll.v—lM—TheI' July 1, 532 inches. 2 Ford Motor Company recalled 32,-|® At Airport — None; since © 000 workers to their jobs today,| August 1, 1.00 inches; since ending a three-day layoff causad;® July 1, 358 inches. ” Iby a parts shortage, blamed byi' ol S0 B g I T B officials on the continuing strike; A it at Murray Corp., of America. LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 11—# Another 19,000 employess in the|Premier Nokrashy Pasha of Egvp! Wednesday. lead to bloodshed and violence cher, as second vice-president. Five for the 1948 convention, invitations were submitted but the ed early in the convention and the e Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock e popular sentiment moved tumccun;,m“‘ the capital of Alaska next year. It is estimated that next year’s convention will require accommo- STOCK QUOTATIONS ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4, American Can 88%, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss-Wright 4'%, International <Harvester 85%, Kennecott 43';, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 19, U. S. Steel T1%, Pound $4.02%. Sales today were 720,000 shares. Averages today are: Industrials, 178.99; rails, 47.92; utilities, 35.35. - >oo——— ROOFING SALESMAN HERE Ford Rouge, Highland Park and|today warned the United Nations ing materials salesman for Hydro-|and their sympathy. branch assembly plants remained |Security Council that failuse to get|tex Industries, is registered at the'recently returned from Seattle. Ol- | turned today to the White House. dampened by an official report to- as|idle. They were to return to work British troops out of Egypt may Hotel Juneau while contacting lo- son had been in Juneau for the past He was accompanied by Mrs. Tru- day that corn erop prospects con- cal ' contractors inches, and weight, 130 pounds. Photo shews Marilyn Buferd, “Miss America of 1946,” crowning the alluring Alhambra entrant. - VICTIM IN AUK ~ LAKE ACCIDENT | Tom Olson, 58, died yesterday afterncon by drowning in the wat- ers of Auk Lake despite the efforts of his son-in-law, Larry Trambitas. and another man, Warren Haines, to rescue him. Olson, who lived on |the Glacier Highway, across from the lake, apparently fell overboard while trying to start his outboard motor on his skiff. Trambitas and Haines saw Olson floundering in the water and went to his rescue. The drowning man, in his struggle, grasped Haines and al- most pulled him down with him Haines, in order to save his own iie, kicked Olson locse and then he and Trambitas made another effort to save the drowning man. He CLED IN JUST OVER THREE DAY 2 QUESTIONED | 0DOM GLOBAL ™ St Cast HOP SMASHES ALL RECORDS Killer SougH'A}fer Discov ery of Dismembered | BodyinAsh@an World-Circling Solo Pilot | DETROIT, Aug. 1L The Announces He Will {head and legs of a young woman » were found by police today two I[y It Agam !blocks from an alley ashcan| where other parts of her (hrm.rm-‘ CHICAGO, _A—u? 11—(P—Pllot {bered Lody were discovered Sun-|pioa im0 0T et he L vould try it again after setting a | Wrapped in cloth, the remaining parts of the body were located Le- Ihind house by police after |new record for the fastest trip a jaround the world. a I painstaking - search of a six-block|, The 37 year-old -veteran ‘Syes ;\,q e area (broke all previous globe circling | The victim was identified by ':CA“"?“ s htll' lb“z:‘d fhe D:“:;“ {scars on the torso as Mrs. Jean|®iPort control tower yesterday l}[r\\'\rd Treaki, about 20 just 73 hours, five minutes and 11 i R o 8 s . | A junk dealer found one section [Seconds: after leaving Chlcnzlo jof the body, from the waist to the|Thursday on his 19,645 mile solo {knees, bundled in a blankat Sun-|tiP “The good Lord was taking care of me for a while last night,” Odom aid, explaining that he had dozed off from fatigue over the moun- | tains of Western Canada and awoke {to find himseli flashing toward a 19,000 foot mountain peak. Despite failure of an automatic pilot, lack of gas near the end of the trip, and extreme weariness, Odem, with his converted Army A-26 bomber, the Reynolds Bomb- shell, broke all existing records. These included the former solo record set in 1933 by the late Wiley { Whitman said Harold Kitchen,' Post, of 186 hours and 49 minutes, 132, and the womans hustand,'and the previous flight of the Harry Treaki, 50, were being held BRombshell with Odom, Milton Rey- \without charge for questioning in nolds, Chicago pen manufacturer, I(lu,\' morning. The upper part,| wrapped in a grey bedspread and| [ Stutrad. Hato':a shopping bag, W {discovered shortly after in a ga { bage receptacle. | Senior Inspector John O. Whit man of the homicide said the wo- !nmn might have been tortured te-| | fore she was slain. He said there| i\\'en punctured wounds on the| chest and marks on the right arm Uindicating she had been tisd up.| {He added the body had been “ex- | pertly” dismembered, apparently | {with a knife. ithe gruesome slaying. lend 1light engineer T, Carroll Sal- i B B e BTN lee, which- made the trip in 78 i (hours, 55 minutes last April. ‘THI’RS‘ s“l | Odom’s average speed for the H I flight, ineluding nine hours dnd 50 1 {minutes on the ground, was ap- f_ | proximately 269 miles an hour; but ]‘ 0" FOR ( RN during the 63 hours and 15 minutes of flying time he averaged 310.50 | ' miles per hour. ; By Tho. ‘Asagclited Erkss o i) o mankUARIEY g i i o . é ! manager, sald the youthful airman ; SHAtele. TRIN WRESIE, c proRpect ), fQF w]:uldg Pnte: the B:ndix Air Races ¥ 4 g el 5 \‘mng another [zk_rbul flight in late { In the corn belt no raln Was o pe. with scientists and news- in any immediate sight except mer-abbstd for scattered showers in west-| ern and centinl \Nebsaaks I thely, he DU AR Jouk dwo. doch {next day or two, the U. 8. Weather jBurcau said Some scattered ;showers fell Sunday in the Dako-, tas and southwest and some light rain was expected today in the (Pacific Northwest, New Mexico {and "Arizona. | { Although forest fires still raged in Idaho and California they were' under control with little prospects {of showers to douse them. Louis- hnna fire fighters also could ex-, jpect no help from rain, as the; {routh remained hot and virtually; | rainless, forecasters said R | \GOVERNMENT 10 " ASK JAIL TERMS "IN TRUST CASES ] CHICAGO, Aug. 11—MP—U. S. ivman sdid it had been his ambi- tion to circle the globe ever since he met Wiley Post in 1933 in Tulsa, when Odom was 13 years old. Post gave him an autographed piece of the fabric of his record setting single-engined plane, the Winnie Mae. Early yesterday Odom paid hom- age to Post by leaving the frag- ment, attached to a small wreath, <t the Anchorage, Alaska, airfield, in tribute to the earlier record smasher. Post died in a 1936 plane rash with Will Rogers at Pt. Bar- | row, Alaska. -o e — Prellfileaso! | No - He Shoofs Wliilo Death COUDERSPORT, Pa., Aug. 11— senk, however, before they could |Attorney General Tom Clark, say-!yp "4 37_vear-old woodchopper said country's]the roads leading to the Republi- move, the rules were suspended to|get another hold on him, can capital were choked with bar- elect a delegate from the Juneau ricades thrown up against a pos- Chamber of Commerce, Jack Flet-| shore. The two men, with the as- sistance of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Car- rigan and others, recovered the body B o Juneau bandwagon had been start-|in asout 20 minutes and brought him to shore for artificial respira- Howard Dilg and Frank {Heinke, of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department, brought an in- | halator to the scene and worked o Gatlons in Juneau for several hun- over Olson’s body for an hour and o dred persons from British Colum- g half without success. Ccuid Not Swim The body was taken to the Charles | W. Carter Mortuary where it is | waiting for instructions from Mrs. | Olson, in Vancouver, Wash., as to |burial. In addition to his wife and | Mrs. Trambitas, Olson is also sur- | vived by two sons, Carroll and Arlin, {both of Vancouver, [ The accident took place at 4 p. m. | He was reported as being unable to swim. Dr. Willlam P, Blanton, who was also called to the scene, pro- nounced Olson dead. Trambitas today expressed his i gratitude to the many unidentified - { bystamders who also assisted in the | resCue attempts. year and a half, | He said that he Ben H. Iverson of Seattle, roof- | wanted to thank them for their help He had only | mountain lodge “Shangri-La,” re- | of meat production next year were [ing there are “some groups among us who are trying to restrict or sist on both pail sentences and heavy fines in anti-trust cases in| the future. < ing the Fraternal Order annual convention, Clark, ‘we must pass on to the! youth of the nation the pricesless, gift of free enterprise under our' democratic system.” ‘I | “Certain ideologies,” he said, ad- '\'ance strange theories that claim ‘the state should create opportun-, jity, initiative and skill merely by the order of some bureaucrat. It is no crime to make money. It is a crime to cqrner the money| market, or, in other words, to| restrict or monopolize trade. | “The anti-trust laws carry a| |jail sentence of one year besides| heavy fines and from now on {we shall insist on both. The pres- fent tendency must be cured. We| shall use these laws to protect| America from those who are sol |greedy that they would destroy our| ‘system itself.” EAS N IR WASHINGTON, ~Aug. 11—(#— President Truman, refreshed after! l'a week-end in the Presidential| man he shot his wife to death in their one-room cabin because she in- Olson drowned in about 10 feet i monopolize trade,” declared today “ " o7 |sisted say “pretty please,” Dep- |of water approximately 25 feet from {the Department of Justice will m-'u‘:y S;::nfly(:nle ;urler reponepd oday. Butler said the husband, George Henry Chapman, said in a state- ment he shot his wife, Minnie, 37, in the head and heart last night with a .22 calibre pistol. SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES MAN VISITS JUNEAU Harry Jarvinen, passenger sales 1epresentative for the Scandingvian Airlines System, Inc., of Norway, Denmark and Sweden, has been a Juneau visitor, leaving today for Anchorage and Fairbanks on an Alaska trip inspecting tourist pos- sibilities. The company’s United States headquarters are in New York, but Jarvinen is to open a Seattle office for the convenience of Pacific Northwest and Alaska tourists this fall. e WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—®— Government hopes for a high level tinue unfavorable,