The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” i VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,667 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ULP SUBCOMMITTEE ENROUTE NORTH Farben Heads | OnTrial Io.ri Breeding War Accusation of 24 Directors AMERICAN LEGION IN NEW YORK Thousands Move Info City | for Annual Convention Sets Precedent Starting Tomorrow NUERNBERG, Germany. Aug.. NEW YORK, Aug. 27 (P—Ameri- | 27—P— A four-man U. S. Court!can Legionnaires by the thousands opening the war crimes trial of|moved on New York today while | 24 directors of the million dollar |their leaders, busy as mess sergeants | 1. G. Farben Chemical Trust, heard juyst before chow time, sought o the prosecution charge today that shape uo the serious matters that they delibertly fostered Adolf Hit-|will be laved before the 29th con- ler's wars of aggression for their!vention opening tomorrow after- own profit. noon. | And further than that, Brig. Gen.| state delegations began to ]‘Uldi Telford Taylor told the court, they caucuses to decide which wav to| would breed a new war if they gotithrow their votes for National Com- another chance. mander, and standing committees | “These are the men who made’continued work on resolutions to 2o war possible, and they did it be- pefore the convention, which con- cause they wanted to conquer,”; tinues through Sunday. Some of the said Taylor, United States chief’ committee sessions, particularly that of counsel for war crimes !on housing, developed lively discus- “These men were governed DY sjons yesterday of Huge Chemical Trust | the same unquenchatle thirst for| power that for years has gripped and distorted the minds of the military caste and many other leading Germans. Their long- range objective was . . . ultimate- ly Farben's domination of the chemical industry of the workl “What these men did was done with the utmost dceliberation and would, I venture to surmisz, be repeated if the opportunity should recur.” The ‘defendants were the men who ran I. G. Farben—its official name is I. G. Farten Industrie Atktiengesellschaft—which' 1s the world’s biggest chemical combine, and allegedly used it as a tool for Nazi conquest. Twenty-one of the 24 pleaded innocent on arraign- ment August 14. For their trial, which may es- tablish an important precedznt by holding industrialists as well as political and military leaders re- sponsible for plotting aggression, the Farben officials sat in the same dock where Hermann Goer- ing and his Nazi colleagues Wwor2 tried. “We are not trying them for be- ing Nazis,” Gen. Taylor declared cmphatically, “nor because they ex-i ercised great power and control great wealth. i “The indictment accuses these; men of major responsibility ror-: visiting upon mankind the mast: catastrophic war in buman his- 1 tory,” he asserted. "It accusesi them of wholesale ens)a\'cmcnt.I plunder and murder.” - FIRE ALARXI LAST NIGHT An overheated stove was quickly conquered by the Juncau Volun- teer Fire Department last night at 8:35 o'clock, when it answered a 1-7 alarm at 425 South Franklin: Early arrivals not concerned with these matters were reminding New York, host to the Legion 10 years ago, what to exvect when things get rolling. One group squirted water pistols at girl passersby; another evoied startled screams, using the | same targets, with a cane that de- livered an electric shock. A Floridan paraded with ear muffs. A Denver group showed up with a bison calf for Mayor William O’Dwyer, who yesterday was given a life membership in the 40 and 8,| Legion fun organization, ‘The 40 and 8 will hold its parade | traction will be Miss Pam Camp, 20 and blonde, who will compete as | “Miss Arkansas” in the Atlantic City | Beauty Contest. She was aboard | the special train on which the Arkansas delegation arrived ioday. The main Legion parade will be Saturday. The Legion’s National Defense ! Cemmittee was told by Rep. Harry | L. Towe (R.-N. J.) that “consider- able opposition” could be expected | for his bill in Congress to provide ! a six-month basie training period for all American youth - .- 3 PUGET SOUND FISHERMEN HAVE TROUBLE, JAPAN " Instructors”” Given Repri- 1 mands for Fishing With- out Proper Okeh 21. {M— Three j ers TOKYO, Aug. !Puget Sound fishermen now serv-! ting as “instructor fishermen” on| The Washington! Merry - Go- Round By ROBERT O. ALLEN Street. aboard three Shanghai-based ve: sels which the U. S. 24th Division | Headquarters at Kokura said today 'had been reprimanded for fishing in Japanese waters without Allied ! headquarters’ permission. The men were Mel Carlson, Bel-| Are You Yellin g About Rain? Just Look What SARDINES ON COAST VANISH ‘California Loses Big Indus try-Scientists Are So Far Stumped STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal, Aug. 27—»— The once sardine has—with almost suddenness—vanished from the Pacific grounds. Barely two teemed by waters. Today they have all but di appeared, baffling commercial sai dine fishermen and canners. plentif Coast sardin coast: years ago tke millions in To commercial interests in Cali- is a $65,000,000 headache fornia, it —and the symptoms appear disa; trous to the industry at this point the vanishing sardine The cold, hard fact mystery of the has scientists stumped to date. They are convinced that problem created in the Coast fishing industry is that by peditions. | Here at Stanford University, the| U. 8. Fish and Wildlife Servi | bas set up investigating hoadquart- under O. E. Sette, Chief of the Service's South Pacific investigal tions and director of the agency study of the sardine problem Sette explained today that wh researchers need to know now, is the ocean spawns. conditions which exist t areas where the in ST BUSINESS LEADERS CENSURED WASHINGTON, Aug. z7. — (P | Senator O'Mahoney (D.-Wyo.) said | today that some steel industry lead- |ers are showing the same belief in the eventual breakdown of capi ! talism as Premier Stalin of Russia. the this coun- toard UNRRA fishing boats werei“y'.s business leaders should be ox- | | panding production and tapping an |ury” models. Sunday, the Ford con- | “American market that has not yet | Instead of boosting prices, Senator told reporters, been scratched.” O'Mahoney is a member of the, Joint Committee on the Econom | Report, which already has conduct- | |ed hearings into the state of this id, New York City | (By The Associated Press) Near normal weather, with sea- sonable temperatures, prevailed over Ryan Refutes | HeOriginated | . 3chool Mess ! X Federal Participation Pro- | i To Resume Water Classic (CAPEHART ~ PARTY IS ~ PLANING Senators fo inspect Site for startiing| mysteriously | fishing | most of the country today. i ‘The cool air which broke the Mid- west’s pretracted heat wave Monday, pushed into the north Atlantic | States yesterday, ending three days | ¥ of hot weather. L Territoria: © ssione ¢f Edu- | Thunderstorms preceded the mass | eation James C. Ryan today de- | of cool air into the Eastern States. | clared that Congressional action to | An ciectrical rain and hail storm | force the Federal government to ( struck New York City and a score | withdraw from education of Alaska | |ur persons were injured. Basements | Natives could not reasonably have ! - | were flooded, telephone service in-|stemmed from statements be made | {terrupted and subway service was |before Congressmen or from pro- | {disrupted. The fall measured 3.44 posal of the Territorial Board of | finches and temperatures dropped ! Education for consolidation of the | from a record of 91 for the date to| two present school systems. | 167 in less than two hours, | Al proposals coming from the | About 20 persons were injured in : Territory, of which he has knm\-(‘ ull @ rush by sengers to flee iwo | ledge, were emphatically tied to the “'|street cars which were struck by proviso that the Federal govern- !lightning. A dozen bolts struck the ment share costs on a dollar-match- Empire State Building, but there ing basis, Ryan stated. Any infer- ! was no damage, ence that the Territory is now in Federal forecasters position adequately to accommodate vision of All Merg- | er Offers } in Chicago Proposed New Indus- try in Alaska | SEATTLE, Aug. 27— Three | members of a U. S. Senate news- | print subcommittee left for Alaska by air today to inspect the Ton- | gass National Forest, site of a pro- | posed pulp paper Industry in the | Territory. Headed by Sen. Homer E. Cape- | hatt (R-Ind), the group included | Senators Harry P. Cain (R-Wash) ; Allen J. Ellender (D-La) and | James Montgomery, publisher of the New Albany, Ind., Tribune, | who will serve as technical ad- viser. ‘The Alaska pulp industry, Sena- tor Capehart sald, has a potential output of 1,000,000 tons of pulp a | year. He said the publishing in- o Nl the Pacific the tomorrow night and one of its at-|seaqy decreass of catches can only ke solved by deep-sea scientific ex- sardine | es qu"“m there was no indication of an immediate return of excessive heat to the Midwest or Eastern States. They said, however, readings in the | 90's were expected in the South from the Carolinas into the Gulf States 1and into Texa Advanced Car Tags Sef for Rest of Year {Round of i\u&) Price In- creases Completed-May Go Higher in 1948 r- S ce t- 8 at to more than $225 added to the price-tags of new passenger cars manufactured throughout the auto industry producers indicated today that the line woujd hold for the rest of the year. But prospective buyers, eyeing the | price boosts announced yesterday by i the Ford Motor Co. and Studebaker ICorp.‘ to complete the round of in- creases, wondered if the many i changes contemplated for 1948 mod- lels would send the cost of their new | cars still higher. Studebaker, last of the makers to |mark up prices, announced from | South Bend, Ind., last night that 350 to $115 would be added to its car and jtruck models. The action followed by only a few hours a Ford announcement of in- creases ranging from $86 to $229 on Lincoln, Mercury and so-called “lux- T cern. which earlier in the year had 'cut its prices, announced boosts of $62 to $90 on Ford standard models. Other recent hikes—all attributed increased manufacturing and ic | to material costs—include: country’s business health and which | Chevrolet—$57 to $70 on standard DETROIT, Aug. 27.—(P—With $45 | the Native school children in the schools of the Territorial system | would be far-fetched, was Ryan’s position. 1 i The Department of the Interior’s ! inference of such Congressional ln»i tent was expressed here yesterday by i Assistant Secretary of Interior Wil- liam B. Warne. In toady’s issue, ; The Empire editorially quotes from | a letter written by Williard W. Beat- 1 | ty, director of education of the In- | terior Department’s Office of Indian Affairs. Beattye charges that: H “All of the. agitation looking to- !ward merging of the Pederal and { | Territorial schools, especially in Southeastern Alaska, originated with | Governor Gruening, the Territorial | ! Board of Education, and Commis- sioner Ryan.” Beatty's letter is in reply to the following expression by the Juneau | Public School Board in protest to , closing of the Alaska Native Service | School here, signed by R. E. Rob- | ertson, president of the local school beard “Dear Mr. Beatty: | “Your letter of the 24th ultimo to General Superintendent Don C. Fos- ter of the Alaska Native Service was brought to our attention by Mr. | | Foster forwarding a copy of it to Dr. | ! Joseph O. Rude, one of the members | of our Board. I assume you are; { familiar with our letter of the 3rd i ultimo to Dr. Dale of your Service, which we believe is self-explanatory. . While we have no inclination to, in {fact we doubt that the law would authorize or the public approve our taking any action calculated to force ‘ :Indian children into a Parochial . school of any denomination, yet ap- | I parently vou do not realize that we {do not have the facilities or the | | finances to assume the burden of | taking over the education of the 80 | X |2 SEA DUTY—Esther Williams, swim and film star, will be the sea goddess for boys and girls te pray to in the first postwar resumption September 7 of the spectacular national championshin marathon aquaplane race frem Santa Catalina Island acress the ocean channel to 44-mile distant Redondo, Manhattan and Hermosa beaches, Miss Williams is shown disporting in the waves aboard an aquaplane. The event this year will be under auspices of the Aquaplane Race Associa- tien of Hermosa Beach. Photo by Ted Sierks, Arrival of Oufdoor Wrifers Delayed; Fesfivities Sef for This Evening Are_lfo;lppned = | Maryland. Member of the board, OWAA; chairman of juvenile ac- tivities for the Maryland State Game and Fish Protective Asso- ciation; executive Brotherhood of Jungle Cock; out: door columnist for the Towson Un- jon News; sportsman, wildlife ar- tist and author of outdoor Looks. | Peter C. Chambliss, Severna Park, Also, the banquet sc led for'Maryland. Outdoor columnist for this evening at the Salmon Creek the Baltimore Sunpapers Country Club has been put over Mrs. Peter C. Chambliss, active until 8 o'clock, pm., Thursday. cutdoorswoman (accompanying her Postponement was requested by bLusband). the writers in a message received A one-day postponement of wel- coming festiyities for the Outdoor | Writers Assoclation of America Wi announced today by local commit. tees. The Chamber of Commerc reception for the writers will now be held in the Gold Room of the Bar- anof Hotel at 5 c'clock tomorrow | afternoon, instead cf today { Lou Klewer, Toledo, Onio. Out- ‘| Senator director of the| °"h mps chflc:lrer; o mdi“"tb':‘md by C-of-C President Simpson Mac- e, 3“::""““" D o Tndion School, | Kipnon from Frank Dufresne who {SEiRnded J ouE J\Riesl ?n v L taveling with the OWAA conven- “Even if the admission of a large | columnist for trhe Toledo Well known tauthor of outdcor books. ties 'ty. lgroup of children of Indian blood { " P4 Vivian Gray, Cleveland, Ohio. The message reported that 08 Gutqoor columnist for the Cleve- |into our schools would not actually 9 discriminate against the white chil- | 21d icebergs in the steamer chan- y,pq plain Dealer; will make mov- idren by lowering the educational {Nels delayed departure from Peters- . poityre of the trip for distri- | standards which we otherwise main- { P8 until 5 o'clock this morning pyijo, by his paper tain, yet neither the city nor we are {20d that the several boats bringing \ g Ackerman, Washington, D {prepared or have the finances to | the Writers herewill now not arrive | 4pq Miami, Florida. — Member at Juneau until 7 o'clock this eve- | egitorial staff of magagine “Out- door Blade. institute such substandard schools, angley and| dustry of this country now con- | sumes 4,200,000 tons of pulp an- | nually, and nreeds a minimum of |5,000000 tons to meet all re- | quirements, “We must find an additional |supply of pulp,” he said, pointing ‘out that 80 percent of present pulp | requirements must bo imported. i “There are three ways in which the government may be able to \help development of a pulp in- | dustry for Alaska,” the subcommit- tez chairman said. “These are | through the development of power resources, the . building of small Icities which will be needed near |me mills, and the helping solve Alaska’'s transportation problems.” Cain said building of permanent industries such as pulp mills would improve Alaska's chan- ices for statehood. | Senator Ellender, a member of the commission created by Con- igress to study effectivencss of the | Taft-Hartley Act, sald he would investigate lakbor trouble while in Alaska. Sen. James E. Murray (D-Mont) lanother subcommittee member, was scheduled to make the trip, but did not arrive at the airport by jthe time the plane left. The Senators were met at the airport by Mayor W. E. Hendrick- 'son of Juneau, who accompanied !them to Ketchikan. The subcommittee members will view a part of the Alaska forest resources from the deck of a Coast Guard Cutter, which will take them from Ketchikan to Juneau. UNAMERICAN (OM. CALLS WITNESSES ~ FOR INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, Aug. 27—(#— Chairman Thomas (R-NH) of the House Committc2 on Un-American Activities announces Sumner Welles, former Undersecretary of jsta(e‘ has been subpoenaed to ex- ‘plain how Hanns Eisler, Hollywood musician, obtained papers to en- lingham; Frank Pascka, Everett;| (Editor's Note: While Drew and Chauncey Vaughn, Port Or- Pearson is on a brief vacation The Washington ~ Merry-Go- ichard. Round is teing written by his | The vessels, American-built, 85- old partner, Robert S. Allen.) ]toot diesel seiners, were apprehend- ter and remain in the United States. Subpoenas also have been issued, for the appearance of former Am- plans a nationwide inquiry this fall | iinto rising prices. | Taking note of reports that Rus- sian leaders are counting upon a de- | models; $170 on station wagons. Plymouth—$75 to $85 on popular models; $130 on “special deluxe” station wagon. which we are convinced would be |Ning—or later. Th? Wpiber ”_‘"‘l Was | qoors'’; { necessary in justice both to the In- I”‘? have left Petersburg last mid-'ynoi0n Star on the trip; well known night. |authority on Atlantic coastal| | dian and white children; in fact, our s 3 | 1 { budget was made up in May prior to| Consultation upon other OWAA |gume fishes; free lance writer and|he said, will represent the Wash- WASHINGTON—The U. 8. Bur- rau of Mines will shortly issue a] report on the July 24 mine dis-] aster at West Frankford, I, that: will leave John L. Lewis dangling| on one of the shakiest limbs of| his turbulent career. Twenty-seven coal miners were| Kkilled in this tragedy, caused by a, gas explosion. Howard Lewis, ) brother of John L. is superinten- dent of this mine. John L. was in nearby Indianapolis when the; disaster occurred, and rushed to West Frankford where he immed- jately went into a huddle with his, brother and United Mine Worker and state officials. ! But, despiter Lewis' searing de-: nunciation of the earlier Central- ia, Ill, mine disaster as “mass murder,” he was strangely placa-, tory concerning this one. ! Out of the huddle came a public pronouncement that the lmgedyi was “an act of God.” | UMW moguls and state officials went to gitat lengths to white- wash the disaster. Chairman Har- (Continued on_Page Four) ed, the Army said, by two destroy- ers of the British-American Naval Support Group, off Kyushu, south- most Japanese home island. The vessels were ordered out of the| Japanese area. | —ee OWA TO BE GUESTS AT CHAMBER MEET Members of the Outdoor Writers Association of America have been invited to attend tomorrow’s regular weekly luncheon meeting of the Ju- neau Chamber of Commerce in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. No other business for this week’s meeting is contemplated. ———,— — MAYOR HENDRICKSON DUE Juneau's Mayor Waino E. Hend- rickson is expected to return here teday by PAA from Akron, Ohio, where he attended the National Soap Box Derby. — EMPLOYED BY UCC Mrs. Bonnie Aman, of Douglas, has joined the local staff of the Alaska Unemployment Compensa- tion Commission in the Goldstein Building. pression to give Communism stronger ed: “Steel executives who are unwill- | |ing to expand steel capacity to meet | perfectly obvious demands seem to | entertain the same doubts about the | capability of the capitalists system | that are expressed by .Mr. Stalin.” e ® 0 0.0 00 0 00 0 00 DERBY DEPOT One additional boat has registered with the Alaska Travel Bureau for the Sal- mon Derby, and is able to take four additional strip fishermen besides those al- ready signed up. There are now on file ac- commodations for 60 strip fishermen, Phil Senour stated this afternoon. No accommo- dations are available, how- ever, for trolling a| Hudson—$45 to $96; Cadillac—$66 ! foothold in the United |to $168; Packard—$92 to $200. | States and other capitalistic coun- | | tries, the Wyoming Senator declar- Industry observers indicated that extensive re-tooling planned for 1948 models probably would run into mil- lions of dollars and might mean further advances in retail prices next year. \FACE LIFTING FOR JUNEAU CITY HALL { The Juneau City Hall was being | redecorated today by the McClellan | Decorators. The company is paint- ing thé walls of the City Council ® | Chambers, City Clerk’s office, May~ ® | or's office and the hallways. A closet’ in the rear of the Council Chambers has been removed in order to en- large the room. ST ADMIRALTY SUIT An admiralty suit was filed in U. S. District Court here today by the Juneau Marine Co. against the ves- (sel Apex No. 1. The plaintiff asks for the amount of $594.13 as the bal- ance due it from an original obliga- tion of $1,555.85. The suit was plac- ® cd by Attorney Joseph A, McLean es0cesscsccce knowledge of your, to us, unexpect- ed, astonishing change of policy. “As a matter of fact, the Juneau Public Schools are crowded at the | present time. We estimate that each of the first, second and third grades {will have an attendance of at least {70 pupils and will require at least 3 {teachers, | “Undoubtedly the larger number of your Indian children either be- leause of age or intellectual level would be pupils in the lower grades. For us to attempt to operate the Indian school as you have would undoubtedly subject us to great cri- ticism. We do not make this state- ment in a critical manner, but, as you must realize, if the Juneau Pub- lic School Board told the parents of Indian children that their children must attend a different school than ithe white children attend and in a two-room school wherein the courses | of 8 grades are attempted to be' taught, probably every Juneau In-i dian parent would accuse us of dis- crimination in violation of the non- | discrimination law. “Purthermore, if we - required " (Continued on Page Three) convention plans will be held upon. guthor, arrival of the writers and announce- | Bg), Hines, Columbus, Ohio. Well ment of them will be made later. |gnown wildlife artist and illustra- Following are members of the ¢, gig the illustrating for Frank group of writers arriving for the Dyfresne’s “Alaska’s Animals and OWAA convention this week: Kivéer: an thia' eaitorisl statf oo James W. Stuber, Sidney, Ohio. yne «Ohijp Conservationist,” pub- Secretary of the OWAA; memLer jjsheq hy the Ohio State Depart- of the staff of the Ohio Conserva- ment of Conservation; will repre- fon Department; representing the gong the Columbus Dispatch for the Associated Press and the Ohlo State ¢y, Journal. Herman P. J. Hammond Brown, 19 East Lex- west Virginia. Publisher of the ington Street, Baltimore, Mary- wayne County (W. Va. News; land. President of the OWAA;incsigent of the Standard Print- founder and Honorary Life Presi-|jng anq Publishing Company of dent of the Brotherhood of the pyntington, West Virginia, which Jungle Cock; originator and vice- ghecializes in gun books; well president of the Flying Fisher- ynown sportsman and free men’s Club; secretary of the League yyjtep of Maryland Sportsmen; editcr of) yoy williams, Chattanooga, Tenn. “Outdoors Unlimited”, official or- pounder and former president of gan of the OWAA; one of the ype nnessee Outdoor Writers founders and reglonal vice-presi- pggociation; one of the founders dent of the Chesapeake Bay Fish- 54 president of the Tennessee ing Fair Association; outdoor col- cgnservation League; national rep- umnist for the News-Post and ytation as a rod maker; outdoor the Sunday American, Hearst news-/columnist for the Chattanooga papers in Balitmore; will represent qimes: vico-president of the OW- Infternational News Service on the trip. Dean, Huntington, Joseph W, Brooks, Baltimore, | (Continued on Page Five) lance | | George Messersmith, |bassador to Argentina, and sever- |al other present and former gov- Jernment officials as part of an in- | vestigation of alleged “Communis~ tic influences” in the motion pic- | ture industry Thomas sald Eisler, whom he identified as coming to this coun- try from Austria, will be the first |witness when the committee opers 'is inquiry here Sept. 24. " STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—P—Clos- |ing quotation of Alaska Juneau 'mine stock today is 47s, American Can 90, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss- Wright 5%, International Harvester 85%, Kennecott 45's, New York Central 14'z, Northern Pacific 20, | U. S. Steel 70, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 480,000 shares. Average today are as follows: in- dustrials, 177.88; rails, 48.28; utili- | ties, 35.41. - —eee — | AT HOTEL T. P. Armour of Tacoma is stop- ping at the Baranof Hotel,