The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1947, Page 1

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LXVI,, NO. 10,661 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = ————— PRESIDENT SAYS TAXES MUST STAY UP ATTLEE SOON RESIGNS SAYS LONDON DALLY Report Is Eh_allenged by Prime Minister’'s Sec- ond in Command By TOM WILLIAMS LONDON, Aug. 20—®— The London Daily Mail said today that Prime Minister Attlee intended to resign “in the near future,” but the report was challenged by At- tlee's deputy, Herbert Morrison “I only saw it in one paper,”| Morrison told a news conference, “and, as far as I can see, the story does not know what it's talking about.” The Daily Mail, an independent conservative newspaper, said At- tlee intended to step out because of deteriorating health and ner- vous exhaustion, after the British- s o gl B | monthiy to approximately $32, has ,‘:’. lgs!_ Cl gigh i notified each pensioner that the criin: vase. | “legislature’s failure to provide g As Lord President of the Coun- cil, Morrison is second to Attlee in the organization of the Brit- ish government. F.rst Flat Report The Mail's front-page story, the first flat report published in Brit- ain that the Labor party Foreign Secretary Ernest as his successor. Attlee has been under of his leadership only last reportedly endorsed by a margin of but four votes his decision to delay steel nationalization Churchill Hinted Winston Churchill, the opposi-| tion leader, broadly suggested on the floor of the House of Com- mons Aug. 11 that Attlee might te | “discarded as lacking in color or for some other reason.” than that, on July 28, the Daily Mirror, an ardent supporter Socialism, called upon the Prime Minister to resign, suggesting as Bank of Wrangell vs. the Alaska Asiatic Lumber Mills, Inc. Parliament | action, all creditors of the concern, force him out if he did not leavelare invited to present their claims | {to Col. an alternative that rank and file Labor members of voluntarily. The cabinet held an extraordin-|been named receiver by the Coun.‘ ary session last Sunday, about; which all Cabinet Ministers have been silent since. Some authori-| tive informants said it was called/of Tenakee were registered at the - loan ! Baranof Hotel itileft for their home this morning. the Washington The Mail said to discuss revision talks. was at that meeting that Attlee|My Tenneson is superintendent of agreed to carry on until Lhose;me Tenakee Cannery. conversations had passed critical stages. ! The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON By ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON Insiders are wagering the British Labor Gov- ernment will ease its tax crack- down on U. S. movies. Reason for this optimism is a trump card US. film-makers | have been waving threateningly behind the scenes at the Attlee regime. This counterblow is a ban on the importation of British films mto the U. S. A.move of this kind would hit the British very hard. Last year, they derived $22,000,000 from U.S.| moviegoers; this year's estimate is around $30,000,000. The threatened ban idle gesture. The eight largest studios in Hollywood have urged such action on Eric Johnson, film czar, if the British government does not come to terms. The producers already have outlawed the export of pictures to England. ODD TEST Universal plaint among Govern- ment officials is -their inability to obtain “high-class personnel.” They are constantly wailing about being unable to persuade “good men” tol take Government jobs. : One very good reason for this difficulty is to be found in some of | the peculiar questions of a so-called “psychological test” required by e L R i AT AT BN Y (Contintued on Page Four) is not ani - (ONTINUING | i TRADE MEETING "Comtinental Security” Con- SEATTLE, Aug cif {in a {fore its two-day yesterday recommended to the ‘ Cash Cole, Chairman of the Pen- Canadian and American Govern-'sions Committee for the Pioneers ments that transportation facili-|of Alaska, Igloo No. 6, yesterday ties in the Northwest, Alaska, and |riled with the Department of Public | Yukon areas be improved with ‘ Welfare, 30 appeals as agent for as considerations cu; The plea for construction an try and % - = nce for any necessities.” - Cole, former auditor and member that Maynard, in ordering reduc- HONOLULU, leader Navy might quit, declared that “it was for some trace of Ambas said in usually well-informed cir-|Atchesnn, Jr., would be continued cles” that Attlee would nominate several days although it has aban- | Bevin doned hope of finding him alive. | The Hawaiian Sea Frontier's an- | heavy nouncement coincided with a prom- fire inside the Labor party for his ise by Brig. Gen. Fredetick V. H handling of the British economic Kimble to “go all the way back to| crisis and survived a severe test Tokyo” if neces week, cause of the plane crash in which when Labor memters of parliament Atcheson and nine others perished COURT ASKS FOR An order ror Earlier | claims to the receiver was signed vesterday of | by Federal Judge George W. Folta in Ethel Seaman of Vancouver, Bv:““h""gh unsubstantiated estimate explosion which killed three men MRl Ay {G, was an incoming passenger on Of 800 persons dead and 7000 in- at Pioneer, B. C., will be demand- CANNERY SUPT. HERE !&ne s. S. Princess Louise. She js'Jured in the Cadiz arsenal ex-led by the Mine, Mill and Smelter Mr. .and Mrs, John L. Tenneson | registered at the Baranof Hotel | Plosion. Workers' Union, Regional Director Earlier maximum estimates of Harvey Murphy said today. of Phoenix, Ariz, are st the Bar-|12a%¢ casuslty and demage est et ates in the blast which wreck- their|__ A Al R - ed parts of this port city, i unofficial observers on the . PENSIONERS' Rnsponianion. APPEALS ARE % FILED TODAY &8 siderations Urged in | : Seaftle Resolution | Cole Charges Welfare De- e 20m—me pa-, partment Cuts Are - o 1| Unauthorized Northwest resolution passed ic shortly be- session closed here | ol ‘“continental se- many old-age pensioners of Juneau. Henry Roden and William Paul, in effect ajJr., attorneys for Cole, charge in of highways identical appeals filed in all 30 d railways into the North coun-|cases that Russell Maynard, Direc- the coordination of tor Public Welfare, is “not au- ing sea and airways. thorized by law to omit paying as- in mind. resclution ity” was exist- | | tion of old age assistance from $60 equate funds to' make payments accordance with budgetary re- quirements of need heretofore in effect has made it necessary for I the Board of Public Welfare to re- trict the grant payments.” Aug. 20—(P—The O, . e vearch| The appeals filed by Cole ask : Eiraing ay the search| .. “ine amount of the pension| A British officer, armed ador Geo. | be restored. | Said Cole: “It is nonsense to ex- | pect our indigent pioneers to live! on the present payments of $32 to| (® Photo i Life, Death in Palestine | i a Stén gun, lcoks cautiously at the en- trance of a house in Behavia, Palgstine, as he passes the bedy of a man shot down as he rushed froni house carrying a hand grenade. British soldiers shot him four timeg before he could toss the grenade. |$40 monthly. It is simply impos- [tible. While the Department of | Public Welfare represents that i g > mputing the amount of pen- ary to find out U ary to find oub thej "y, 4y cluding part of the liv- ing ‘needs, that is not the way it is lis e i e LY 9 working out. The statute calls for |payment of ‘needs’ up to $60, | which is little: enough. But ob- | viously, ‘needs’ are all necessary; | and so how can our pioneers make | a choice among necessary things' land let other necessary things go? “The attitude of the Board is sheer nonsense, and is causing un- told sufiering, and in the end will | injure the health of our pion- | cers that much greater expense for ' hospital treatment will result over |what the Legislature is trying to By this | save now.” - ->>> - ! ARRIVES ON LOUISE CLAIMS AGAINST WRANGELL MILL the presentation of Explosion of Span- | ish Arsenal in U. 8. District Court the receivership case of the CADIZ, Spain, Aug. 20— High ‘official quarters were reported to- Otto F. Ohlson who has| - i FROM SOUTHW F. C. Moore and George Williams the dead had ranged around 500. last evening and T National offi run to $25,000,000. Outside the devastated much of the city including the main section, was recovering quick- ly and getting back to Lusiness. Electricity has been restord - — VNe _qby lo Joan - AIR CHARTER €0- Important Decision Deliv- | ered Here Affecting Airplane Services e | Judge George W. Folta today de- P |livered an oral opinion in the case of the Alaska Coastal Airlines vs. ;v.he Alaska Airplane Charter Co., ‘Rlld announced that he had found i | the defendant had been opera™ng as a common carrier and should 2 | be enjoined. The decision will be 4 | rendered in written form in U. S./® {at | District Court on Friday. » | The case, which has attracted ® ymuch interest in U. S. aviation|® circles, was brought by Alaska © | Coastal because it claimed that the | ® | charter airplane company was of-|® fering competition withbut benefit ' ® of a CAB certificate. Theedecision ! ® 1is expected to greatly affect almost | ® L S W e ra Wi K ; The former Joan Berry one time protege of Comedian Charles Chap- ‘811 charter airplane services. . lin, is shown in Pittsburgh, Pa., smiling down at her three-week-old PO G | . son, Russell Charles Seck, Jr. With her is four-year-old daughter, ; FROM MISSOURI : Carol Ann, subject of a court fight in which Chaplin was named as | . Dr. and Mrs. r rving 4 |® the child’s father. Miss Berry married Russell Seck ‘of Pittsburgh | gaughier of K:ns:s“’g";'\" B last year. P Wirephoto are staying at the Baranof Hotel. le 20. day to have made a preliminary day's Fairbanks; | puzzi, Skagway. Bodies from Tunnel Temporarily Off PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Aug. A full scale inquiry into Mon- Eastern Gold Mine Pacif; Death Tollin INQUIRY INTO CadizBlow Up B. (. DISASTER Placed at 800 IS DEMANDED Estimaied 7@0 Injured in ‘1 Attempts o Remove Three ! FORMER HEAD In Victoria, B. C, James Strang, to remove the safety equipment fals refused to re-|chief inspector of mines, said at- esti= ' tempts bodies of the three men trapped by the ex- but plosion, will be abandoned until scene pdditional speculated that the damage might ayailable is sStrang said that it had teen cstablished that the men were zones, dead. ALASKANS AT BARANOF HOTEL Alaskans registering at the Bar- and Mrs. IMabel —— e ————— FROM HOONAH Tone Felton of Hoonah is staying | Sarnoff, President of RCA. the Gastineau Hotel. - ® 00 00000 0 00 DERBY DEPOT No more boats have reg- istered since yesterday with the Alaska Travel Bureau in the lobby of the Baranof, which is handling space res- ervations ior the Salmon Derby. Three more persons reg- istered for spaces already available this morning, leav- ing a net of 22 boat spaces remaining. Senour states that he expects to fill all available space, and needs more bcat owners to regis- ter with him in the effort to accommodate all possible persons for Derby Day, Aug- ust 31. e 0000000 00 Frank | i anof Hotel yesterday were: AlASKA (OASIAl A. Nelson Jr., Mrs. Silas Glockle, Anchorge; Robert Bud, Petersburg; | | W|NS SU“’ FROM 'Mrs. W. L. Turner, Mrs. | ‘Hughes, Ketchikan; i Dick, Wrangell; James Grooms, | U. 8. | Albert Whittaker Jr., Lt. Charles| When he retired from active ser-|Anglo-American loan talks in Wash- | | Jerman, Ladd Field; Rhemy Berg.ivxce he became President of RCA 'ington. Ra- land seven years later was made | jis 'EUROPE NEEDS Congressman |TRUMANPUTS MORE URGENT TO MARSHALL I State Secrefary Tells Con- ! ference New World Uni- ity "Vastly Important’ QUITANDINHA, Brazil, Aug.20. | —IM—Secretary of State Marshall |told the Inter-American Confer- |ence today that Europe's economic recovery is vital to the Americas land takes precedence, because of its urgency, over needs of the | Western Hemisphere. | Further, in a plea for unity !among the 20 nations drafting a hemisphere defense agreement, I Marshall said new world unity is | “vastly important” to the future {of the old world “The results of our labors will demonstrate to all the world that ‘peopls. and nations, who realls want peace can have peace by liv- ing in an atmosphere of increasing cooperative acticn and good will,” he said. Responding to proposals for @ “Marshall Plan” for the Americas, the Secretary said the United States has assumed “unusually | heavy burdens” in a determined effort to meet minimum require- ments of war-devastated areas in Europe and Asia “now threatened with starvation and economic chaos.” Marshall continued: “In assuming this burden we have not lost sight of the economic | problems of the ‘Western Hemis- | iphere. At a matter of fact the economic réhabilitation of Europe vital to the economy of this ! hemisphere. “My government will continue to take up economic questions with its sister Republics and seek a sound basis for practical coopera- tion.” e — OF RCA DEAD ' ing’s Chief of Staff- Rose from Private RYE, N. Y., Aug. 20—P—Lt. Gen. James G. Barboard, retired, 81, an honorary chairman of the Board of Radio Corporation of America, died today at his home here Gen. Harboard had been ill only a short time. A native of Bloomington, Il Gen. Harboard rose from a private to a General officer of the U. S. Army and became Chief of Staff cf the first American expedition- ary force in France under General John J. Pershing in World War I. He also served as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army. Harboard had the unusual dis- Victor | tinction cf possessing the distin- Edward S. guished service medals of both the mitments pending something defi- Army and the U. S. Navy. | Chairman of the Board. On July 11 he resigned as Chair- man and was succeeded by David Har board was made Honorary Chair- man. JURY'S VERDICT " SAYS BARTENDER " 'IS RESPONSIBLE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 20—/ —A coroner’s jury returned a ver- dict yesterday finding Herbert G. Hager, 38, responsible for the death |of Harry C. “Montana” Weiselman, | who was shot to death Sunday in 'a Fairbanks hotel. | Hager, bartender and former pi- {lot, has been charged with first degree murder. Hager still is in a hospital with a leg wound he told police he re- ceived in an altercation with Wei- selman. He claimed he shot the latter in self defense. ! “The airplane has replaced | war | gether, !to Alaska in great numbers to re-| 'ceive delivery of American ito be flown across Siberla to the all Government agencles to squeeze Gen. HarborfdiNas Persh- Urges Alaska | FEDERAL COST ~ Fortification' AT37BILLION Head of House Group Sees 3Predids Budget Surplus at Particular Need for Year End - Sees No Develop_i‘rEAirporis | SeriousRecession | By FRANCIS M. LeMAY | ¢ STER! “ WASHINGTON, Aug. ZO—KM'-i (By o8 MG & ShEss) Calling’ Alaska America's potential| WASHINGTON, Aug. 20— President Truman said today Fed- {first line of defense in the event! of another war, Rep. Howell (R-|°ral spending this fiscal year will [TI) called today for its “intense"|fll only half a billion dollars short fortification ;of his original estimate despite the The head of a Congressional | Republican economy drive in Can- mission which surveyed the aviation : 57€SS facilities in the Northern Terri- But he forecast an nistoric $4,- tory, Howell noted to reporters 700,000,000 budget surplus next that Alaska lies along the near- June 30 est route between Russia and the! Mr. Truman gave the GOP-con- | United States, adding trolled Congress credit for cutting “We should do everything to $1,520,000,000 from the cost of gov- !develop our military .nitallations ernment. there | But the net result because of in- | “This is not a scare statement,, tervening factors, he declared, will I am not an alarmist. But this be a total outlay of an even $31,- is a sober statement in the light 000,000,000"instead of the $37,528,- of world conditions. Alaska now is 000,000 he predicted last January a strategic location.” ; before the Republican cost-cutters Sheuld Push Program ; got down to work. | Howell said the group of Con-, Double Warning | gressmen, just returned, found Furthermore, in the customary Ithe Army engaged in a broad pm_‘m:d-yenr budget review made pub- 'gram of training Air Force pilots !i¢ late today, Mr. Truman served to fly under Arctic conditions. This; !his double-barreled notice: “program, he said “should be push-: First—this country’s International jed to the utmost. +program, perhaps including the | Moreover, the Iinols member,|Marshall Plan for Eurepean recd\- iwho soon will leave Congress to ©Y: M8y run up eosts and trim become a Federal Court of Claims 'he record-breaking surplus. ' Second—Taxes must stay high. Judge, said he believes there is a The Chief Executive didn't use particular need to develop air-/ \ports and aviation generally in those words about taxes, but Alaska—for economic growth ~asj®aid-the surplus must be used - :reduce the national debt and stand the as a reserve “against emergencies, jdog team there,” he said. «“1f Whether at home or abroad.” Alaska is to develop, it must be Sees No Recession by airplane.” i The Government bases its high Howell said that during the income estimate, Mr. Truman sald, Russian airmen “had every|on “a continuance of employment, opportunity to look at our bases,prices and incomes close to their well as defense. in Alaska, but we had no oppor- | present levels throughout the fis- itunity to see their lcal year” In other words, the When the United States and administration sees no serious husi- Russia were battling Germany to- | ness recession which might reduce Russian airmen journeyed |tax collections before next June: Nevertheless, the President dis- planes closed that he has issued orders to fighting front. (their dollars. Made Easily Accessible | In preparing the next budget, he In this delivery system, Russiaisajd, administrators already have " tbeen instructed to “hold their 1949 i budget requests below the 1948 to- jtal” Actual dollar limits have been {imposed in some cases, he added. _____ | Budget Up to Date NEW YORK, Aug. 20. {P—Clos-} The mid-year budget review is ing quotation of Alaska Juneau;dmflg“ed to: bring up to daté the ! mine stock today is 5, American Can i b“vd?_"" message delivered to Con- 87%, Anaconda 31, Curtiss-Wright j8ress at the start of each sesslon. 4%, International Harvester 36,|In January, Mr. Truman forecast Kennecott 45'z, New York Central |Outlays of $37,528,000000 and in- 147, Northern Pacific 20%, U. 8, {come of $37,700,000,000. Instead, Steel 1%, Pound $4.02%. expenditures actually will be $37,- Sales today were 600,000 shares. | 000,000,000 and receipts will be $41,- Today's averages: Industrials, } 567,000,000, he estimated. 179.01; rails, 48.69; utilities, 35,61, { Mr. Truman did not refer speci- A5 !ncally to Republican claims of ec- STOCKS DECLINE jonomics ranging up to the $6,600,- NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Stocks had | 000,000 proclaimed by Senator an irregular decline today in theBridges (R-N.H.) as the total sav- slowest session in more than a year.|ing to taxpayers during the Con- The sluggishness reflected reluct- ; sressional session which closed last |ance of Wall Streeters to make com- | month. H But he gave this version of what Inite %1 the way of news from the {he said happened: | After the January budget esti- jmate, there were new appropria- Announcement that directors of |tions, additions of funds originally | American Telephone and Telegraph | intended for fiscal 1947, and a vari- had authorized a new $354,000,000 ety of other changes in Fedetal debenture issue had no immediate |accounts which raised the expén- results in the market, where thediture total to $38,520,000,000. point lower | e——— {Continued on Fage Eifl’_lil ———————— STOCK QUOTATIONS |capital stock was | prior to the disclosure. At the same | time the board maintained the n.zs]' LB o LB gy il {dividend that has been paid regu-|® larly since 1922. * WEATHER REPORT ¢ | In the leading groups price(® Temperature for 24-Hout o |changes were small with a few ex- |® Perlod Ending 7:30 o'Clock e | ceptions. 1 ® This Morning ® In the rails, Southern Railway |® In Juneau—Maximum, 64; ¢ and Nickel Plate preferred each lost | ® minimum 43. . more than a point but other leaders | ® At Alrport—Maximum, 66; @ | —Santa Fe, C and O and Baltimore | ¢ minimum, 38. e |and Ohio — were off only minor | amounts. |® WEATHER FORECAST . | Chrysler and General Motors each l . (Jusesn and Vielnhy) . | i Partly cloudy tonight and e had a small dip in the motor list. | ® Ignoring recent strength in gold |® Thursday. Not much change - shares in London where today there | ® in temperature. . was a heavy buying movement later [ ® PRECIPITATION . replaced by profit-taking, golds in | ® (Past 34 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) @ New York were down as much as a | ® In Juneau — None; since o point in Homestake Mining and Mc- ; ® August 1, 3.59 inches; since Intyre-Porcupine. e July 1, 892 inches. L Coca-Cola, a slow mover recently, : ® At Airport—None. Since e was up 3 points in one of the best ® August 1, 251 inches; since e advances. Hershey was up 1 to a ® July 1, 5.09. inches. . new high. Standard Oil (N. J.), lost ® . more than a point, e 0 00 0000000 00