The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” == S - o VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,654 PRICE TEN CENTS I JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1947 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS LIVING COSTS INVESTIGATION ORDERE Banker Named Lions' Head Given All Quf | Crisis Powers Conservativzapposifion Is Trampled by British Labor Party Majority LONDON, Aug. 12—(M—The House of Commons voted authori- zation to the Labor government| today to muster thz full resources ot Britain, incli/iing manpower | and industry, for the national re-; covery program. | The bill, passed 178 to 63 after| an entire night of debate, specifi-| cally gave the Attlee Administra-| tion extensive powers to direct the| management of labor and supplies’ so “the whole resources of thz| community are available for use/ and are used in a manner best calculated to serve the interests of the community.” { =z Chilkoot Colony Promofer Commends Congressman for Attlee Cabinel | i 1 | | | | | Fred W. Smith, Ventura, Cal., banker, was chosen International Presi- dent of the Lions at their closing session in San Francisco. He was elected without opposition and succeeds Clifford D. Pierce, of Mem- phis, Tenn. Melvin Jones, of Chicago, founder of the international crder, continues as Secretary General. (International) legislation as a “dictator bill." The vote, on the third and final read- 7(&0;!&;;4 on Pagomfl;'c'l — .- — The Washington' Alaska Sefflement Support By WILLIAM E TLOWELL | WASHINGTZY, Aaug. 12—iP— Merry - Go- Round : By DRE\V—;{SAI{SON Th head of a veterans group en- (Io UN|0N AIMS |gaged in developing a colony at L] v WASHINGTON—Vivacious, sew- Port Chilkoot in Alaska has com- AT A((EPIABI.E sational Sra. Eva Duarte De Per-|mended Rep. Crawford (R-Mich) for a slatement encouraging settiz- | "Ex' CONGRESS cn, wife of the Argentine Presi- dent, now has received decorations ment of the Territory from Dictator Franco and Pope' Crawford, Chairman Pius XTI, and has toured the capi- lands subcommittze of a pnhhr’ R, conciderine| Staa] Workers Change tals of many European countriss. statehcod for ‘Ala.skx, recently | During her tour, she conversed said Alaska “should be home-| 2 nightly by trans-Atlantic telephone | steaded, colonized and setiled as Stand on lgnorlng New with her husband in Buenos Aires. quickly as possitle.” v Aoparentls. she was worrled about | Burke Edwards, former Air Force| Labor Board Sef-up Peron’s political situation. In order Major, and president of the Port| Chil-\ PITTSBURGH, Aug. 12—®—The sale,| CIO United Steel Workers Union, {which earlier voted to ignore the for | Chilkoot Co., which bought to ensure maximum privacy surplus thess talks, Argentine communi- koot Barracks at a catlons officials used a special said in a statement: high-frequency, ultrashortwave ra-' “We need people who think as|Labor Board setup under the Taft- ! Crawford does and we arei Hartley Labor Law, now has open- dio-telephone circuit. Despite these Mr. precautions, the Merry-Go-Round' ctiing them.” a national driV herewith presents a verbatim ex- Some Arriving | ceptable Congre cerpt, in translation, from one of He said “some of the advance recent Labor Act. their conversations just before party” already have arrived at| Scme 520 of the Union's district Senora De Peron left Italy: iPort- Chilkoot, which is 75 miles cfficers and leaders met yester Eva: “I want to make a dona- north of Juneau, the Territorial' to map plans for a mass registr: tion to the families of the victims|Capital. He said he communicates tion drive and a campaign to col- in the munitions-ship explosion nightly via amateur radio with lect $1 voluntary contributions here; you know?” ;Martin A. Cordes, resident mana- from the 875,000 members. Peron: “Yes all right. Dojger at Port Chilkoot. Philip Murray, President of both whatever you like about that” | “Only Wadnesday the CIO and tb said, “Cordes reported a new par-; to to repeal the night,” he Eva: “Listen, I'm worried.” “there is nothing in the Taft- Peron: “Why?” ty had arrived with a four-year-'pgrtley law which prevents volun- Eva: “About going to France. old daughter and dog, via the Al- tary contributions.” They tell me it isn't safe.” aska Highway” The newest aITiv- ge added the money collected Peron: “No, no — don't worry. als were not identified would be kept apart from union Everything has been taken care! Harry B. Gauss, of the Interior fungs and “may or may not” be of.” Department's Burcau of Land ,.q (o make direct contributicns Eva: “But everyone here advises Management, said the Department ;, ., ates or parties me against it. They say it would is encouraging settlement of the ey o W) be very dangerous. I don’'t know.” Territory and is drawing atten- Peron: “I tell you everything tion to possibiiities for develop- STOUGH ON WAY 1 have been ment through use of cas along It's perfectly theé highway, recently released to public use. Highway Opportuni.ies has been arranged. assured personally. all right; you can go ahead.” Eva: “Well, then . . . listen, how! are matters there? Is everythingE “We are pointing out the possi- ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 12. going well?” | bilities of settlement but not nec- —(®—Raymowi B. Stough, di- Peron: “Yes, of course. Every- essarily homesteading,” Gauss told rector of the Alaska Office - of thing’s fine.” a reporter. “Homesteading re- the Civil Aeronautics Board, is en- Eva: “You are decelving me! quires some farming and the route to Washington, D. C., to at- tend an Aug. 18 hearing on opera- tions of non-scheduled air carriers. You keep saying that everything | farming opportunities are limited. is fine, but here they tell me that|Along the highway, though, there things are going very badly. You were opportunities for service sta- are deceiving me!” 5 tion and other activities.” Peron: “No, no! I am not de-‘ Edwards, too, noted these possi- ceiving you about anything. Don't | bilities. The property taken over let yourself be upset by stupid ru- by his company includes 400 acres mors without foundation. I am!'and 86 buildings. telling you the truth. Everything| “We have the makings of Al- is all right.” (aska’s greatest city,” he said. “We Eva: “Well, I hope so. I have |have the essentials of a complete Leen very worried . . .." |town situated on a peninsula Senora Peron had reason to be|with 100-foot deep fiords on either worried. The Argentine milimry‘bide, from which 4,000-foot peaks have teen watching her husband rise straight up. This natural set- carefully, have even been tapping | ting, plus the already installed his phone. | necessities for modern living, will make Port Chilkoot the economic SUMMARY ON MARSHALL and vacation center of America.” With General Marshall now inj He said inquiries had been ro- office six months, it is fair to|ceived “irom all over the country” summarize his abilities in the all- from doctors, nurses, school teach- | 'Record Budget Adopted by elect an Steelworkers, said | TO_V!ASHINGTON | Tax Rate ls Trusi Busters Voted at 20 To Hunt Price M ' \1 {re I | Mill Maximum ""(onspiracies * | Attorney General Clark :1 Names Food, Clothing, i Housing as Targets | WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—#— {Attorney General Clark today or- idered an {nvestigation of food, !clothing and housing prices. Juneau Council-Bonds May Be Tapped The Juneau City Council last night wound up its Board of Equal- zation sessions by adopting a bud- get cailing for record outlay of I 53 < | !b' 216.72 for the year Apri 1,1 | He instructed the Justice De- 1047 to March 31, 1948 ! par y | e s o i partment's anti-trust division to 1 0 meet the budget, the Council determine whether ‘conspiracies” set the tax rate at the statutory iexist “to maintain or to increase 'present prices in the food, cloth- and housing fields." Jail sentences, rather than mere- |1y fines, will be sought for any "violators, it was announced. i A Justice Department statement ;announcing Clark's action, said: minimum, 20 mills, and agreed to draw upan the City’s “nest egg" of $35,000 in bo: to make up any deficiencies t cannot be avoid- ed The bonds, earmarked some years { ! | | | | | L4 % ago by a previous .administration | § | for a new City Hall and left un-| ‘fi’; | “Such clonspiracies will be prose- | touched by intervening Councils, R cuted criminally and in those are not really expected to be cash- | ‘ > - |cases the Justice Department will led however. The Councilmen of.. % » g v |oppose acceptance by the courts iopted the budget as submitted | . L S - e 3 ‘of pleas of nolo contendere (no by the Finance Committee only ;B W fi" Vi 'contest), and upon conviction of ter noting a number of expendi- | ‘ ] e the defendants , the Department I'kely to be pared as nu-‘\ ! " S . BR4I% will recommend Jail sentences for | ~‘;‘\‘n”j{tn:‘m“|:‘:‘ . estimate of the| JORR Mever (foreground, tells a Senate subcommitt ee at Washington, D, C., about his wartime entertain- ':,l,‘:xm:::‘lv;?r‘:sl -;g;xr:?%;:t;x;f b e el Vit e G ot Roosevelt (ieft, background) as Elliott waits to testify in connection with the investigation |ations.” o 20 moil tevy was.totalled gt| iof Moward Hughes' wartime plane contracts, Seated beside Rcosevelt is a friend, Randolph Feltus of | The statement said the Investi- €402,376 by the Finance group, Of ' New York. (@ Wirephoto. igation follows a three-months that total $243,000 is anticipated| ™~ s i S e istudy of the present price situa- tion by assistant Attorney Gener- “3a0 par1y Move Siberia Projecied Now by USSR quent taxes, etc MOSCOW, Aug. 12—#--The Ru 2 lal John F. Sonnett who took x e“slve eve opmen o as ‘charge of the anti-trust division | {in May. - + Clark feels, it was added, that |“the soaring high prices now con- {Unuing in the .food,. clothing snd (housing fields, require that @ 'new and more vigorous approach be undertaken in these fields.” Also included in the income fig- ure and offsét by listing in the budget is the $76,000 bank loan on which the City has been operating William Gréein .Challenges prior te receipt of taxes for this ;i H i, year, R bl' N . N S R u | elans announced today a projected ' PG Reserve Created u i development of water power, conl,RoYAl GEM (‘SE This Council also made a de- ep ‘(ans'o omi | S!lENT A'[ w'ND and agricultural resources of Eas- |parture in setting up a deprecia- nate Sen_ Ta" |tern Siberia. i \ ; tion reserve with a $4,300 starter One major plan was to c(mstruct1 | Up ALASKA 'IOUR hydroelectric stations on the An- ! (gara River having outputs ten | | times greater than that of the re- | and providing an $3,000 fund for contingencics and an additional! 53,000 for tax refunds. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12— —The American Labor movement, FAMILY INTRIGUE The Council did not get around if it achieves unity, could developa ~M'CHORD FIELD, Wast., Aug 12| stored Dnieper dam, largest in Eu- {0 the budget until nearly mid- third political party—possibly 37.- - (P—Seven members of a Housé rope. The installations were plan- . night after spending the early part 000,060 strong—President Dar sl interstate and Foreijgn Commerce ned in the Lake Baikal rcgloniNo Amefltans |nV0|Ved So of the eveninz deciding on a num- Tobin told the AFL International Subcommittee, four aides and two. north of Irkutsk. | . o Erotherhood of Teamsters conven- other members of their party ar-| The announcement followed ArmY Tums A"alr ver mecting of leading engineers and (Continued on Page Five) | scientists at Irkutsk, where 140 re-| B | rived here by plane today after a quick inspection tour of Alaska. tion (As he spoke, creation of a third fo German Police party at a state-wide meeting in No newspaper interviews were perts on development projects were | IRUMAN FAM“_Y Los Angeles Aug. 24 was being granted, however. Rep. Evan How- studied £ By .YNN HEINZERLING | urged in letters to every labor ell (R-IIl), chairman, said the| A development of the Cherem-; BERLIN, Aug. 12—®—U. S. in- i SIG"S FOR '[Rlp e i California. Nine members group’s findings would not be made khovsky coal basin and increased vestigators today tabbed the case ! of a joint trade union committee public until their return to Wash- | agricultura] activity, particularlylof the missing royal jewels of not connected with the Teamsters ingten, D. C. ! cultivation of spring wheat, alsoPrincess Hermine, late widow of Dow" Io BRAl‘l signed the appeals. Hugh Bryson, Leaving the National Capital on- were planned. The scientists evis- |Kaiser Wilhelm 11, as a “dizzy Union of Marine C a week ago, the Committee in- aged clectric transport systems and , merry-go-round of family intri- National and Stewards, CIO, w chairman of the mov e 1y ) new industries as results of the;gue” and said the U. S. Army was {dropping the matter into the lap .1of the German police. named ment. ted a preposed site for an In- ternaticnal airport at Anchorage, WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—(®—The hydroelectric developments. r!mc; H;’Ju;? annu\lnc?;i kL)uclay that «por vears I nave Leen against Alaska, investigated the Territory’s S T R e e S0 e A i | President Truman will be accom- rty,” i shipping situation and visited sev- 28z o TEAN 1+ “We have tely determin- panied on his forthcoming trip to Ope:};': Lo dution O e ot ATELa ;. STOCK QUGTATIONS ica that no American is mnvolved in Brazil by Mrs. Truman and their .o vention yesterday, “but times The party is scheduled to leave NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—(M—Clos- | the disappearance of the jewels,” deughter, Margaret. are changing. T may change my in an Army C-54 at 8 am. today ing quotation of Alaska Juncau said O. R. Carlucci, head of the Charles G. Ross, Presidential mind But theic is no hope for a for Lcs Angeles, and after a brief mine stock today is 4%, American | Army's Criminal Investigating Di- Press Secretary, told reporters thal ¢nird party until the Labor move- stcp there continue on to Wash- Can 8), Anaconda 35%, Curtiss- vision, “and therefore we have no the President’s flying visit to Ri0 ment is cemented into one.” ington: Wright 41, International Harvester | 12sponsibility for pursuing the case de Janerio is still scheduled for AFL President William Green B VTRt SR 87, Kennecott 44, New York Central | any further.” “American authorities also drop- ped technical charges under which 15%. Northern Pacific 19%, U. S. Stecl 72, Pound $4.02%. iate August or early September, LARSONS BACK SOUTH but that the time of departure is told the convention he “challenzed J. E. the Republican National Ceav vet to be determined. tion to nominatz Robert A. Taft Mr. and Mis. John E. Larson Sales today were 690,000 shares. ithey were holding Fraulei Vera Mr. Truman plans to be in Bra- for the Presidency, so we can have »-atded the Princess Louise for ~Averages today are: Industrials, { Herbst, 39, attractive friend of i Prince Ferdinand. iHermlne's son, Ferdinand touched off the melo- MARKET FEELS BETTER dramatic investigation when he ! NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—A better told authorities that 29 pieces o. |all-around feeling in Wall Street {JeWelery —were missing from 8 prompted buying in stocks today and (Priceless collection which Fraulsin brought him from Her- the list moved forward fractions to | Herbst more than a point. mine’s home in the Soviet occu- One factor was the announcement | Pation zone last June. ¢ {of a sharply higher net income for | A search for the missing jewelry | Chrysler for the first half of 1947{Produced a glittering array of and declaration of a 50-cent divi- |JeWelry concealed in the apart- |dend on Rayonier, the first cince |Mments of Fredinand's friends and 1943 family, but falled to unearth any | A few stocks were up as much as |°f the missing treasure. two pofntse Chrysler and General | At one polnt Fraulein Herbst | Motors were up nearly a point. led investigators to the suite above | Bethlehem and U. S. Steel each |her apartment where g friend, at rose more than a point. (her request, exhibited a jeweled ! In the motion picture group, Para- |18 of Herniing's and five. other { mount and 20th Century Fox rose a | Valuable pieces. | point each. ! Later Princess Caroline, sister of | International Paper, Douglas, | Ferdinand. turned over about 3¢ i Shell, Union OIl, {pieces of royal jewelry which she Western Umon‘i) i | American Woolen, American Car & had concealed. in her apartmant, Foundry, International Harvester,! Scattle this morning. Mr. Larson is executive secretary for the Nor- thern Commercial Company at Seattle, and has been making an ! extensive trip through Alaska. 179.91; rails, 48.33; utilities, 35.44. 21 for the closing days of the Inter - American Defense Confer- ,ence. He will return to this coun- try with his family aboard the Battleship U. S. S. Missouri. a clear-cut issue in 1948." He that Taft would “suffer the wors defeat ever handed any candidate of a major party for the Presi- ! dency.” e | WINNS VISIT WINNS important, highly complicated job | ers, dairymen; laborers, farmers of Secretary of State. and ministers. ‘Allied Chemical and Libby-Owens- | One fear expressed at the time R o g | Pord were all up & point or more. !b "’g] ““dd “:’:ie 5‘:';“"" ’Wm- of Secretary Marshall's appointment | 9 o % | - e s e b !'brother and sister-in-law of o was that he might run the Statejb‘“‘Mo" Nng;:,“?ML IS HERE SAN JOSE PEOPLE iness Wwinn, have arrived in Ju- Department as a military organi- s i VISIT #LETCHERS "::;!“ for -b;r‘:dl.y visit. BMurdetta zation; forget that he was a diplo- 2 5 ! | Winn was in Juneau and was Tist nab & mlder: XE iRy puan | Btecle. “Oulberten. assistant | Professor and Mrs. Forrest Baird graduated from Juneau High School are accustomed to giving orders|Mmanager, Alaska Selmon Industry, |of san Jose, Calif, arrived here before World War I. and having them carried out; aInc. arrived here yesterday from {for a week’s stay today on the' Winn is a mining engineer, now diplomat cannot give orders to a|Seattle via Pan American Airways | Aleutian. They are visiting with located in Huntington Park, Calif. foreign country. lon a business trip for the indus- ! Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fletcher. Baird He arrived here by Pan American et He is staying at the Baranof PIN-UP PUPS _— Queenie, owned by Mrs. Helen Garceau of Chicago, looks over her 11 pups hanging in socks on line. Left $ed professor of music at San Airways, and Mrs. Winn arrived (Continued on Page Four) Hotel. ‘ to right: Dopey, Sleepy, Happy, Grumpy, Sncezy, Bashful, Doc, Eeney, Meeney, Myney, Moe. > 1 Jose State College. this morning on the Aleutian.