The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 29, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” [———-——— . VOL. LXVI.,, NO. 10,669 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1947 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS UNITED STAT U.5.MAKES | DEMAND IN KOREA CASE: : Calls for Four-Power Con-| ference fo Speed | Independence | WASHINGTON, Aug. b¢ The United States called for a four-power ‘conferencz speed Korean independence. The request was made in a new, note to Moscow saying that the present deadlock on a joint Ameri-} can commission to arrange for| a provisional government can not,! in this country’s opinion, con-|{ tinue, H “The United States government can not in good conscience be al party to such delay in the fulfill-{ ment of its commitment to Kor-; ean independence and proposes; that the four powers adhering to! the Moscow agreement meet to] consider how that agreement may! be speedily carried out,” the not2 said - e, NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—(H—Clos- | | ing quotation of Alaska Juneau ! | mine stock today is 5, American Can i ' 88, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss-Wright , International Harvester 36%, Kennecott 45, New York Central 15'%, Northern Pacific 20, U. S. Steel 69%, Pound $4.03. | Sales today were 580,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: In- | dustralials, 178.86; rails, 48.77; utili- ties, 35.50. | | 20—»—" today | m‘ i | i —— | FIRM NOTE AT CLOSING { The Stock Market closed today on ; a firm note as Wall Street prepared | for a three-day Labor Day weekend. i The New York Stock and Curb ex- | changes and all other leading secur- ity and commodity exchanges in the United States will remain closed to- { morrow and again on Monday. The Chicago Board of Trade which will operate normally tomorrow will re- | main closed Monday. Best gains today included 3'4 in Allied Chemical, 2% in Woodward | Iron, and 1% each in American | Telephone and Mack Truck. Motors, apart from Mack Truck, | . showed only minor advances in Chrysler, General Motors and Hud- ; son. Firestone rose nearly a point. ‘ U. S. Rubber and Goodrich were ! easier. ! Norfolk and Western ran up 5% and Nickel Plate 2. Santa Fe, South- ern and. B and O. were slightly higher. Steels were firm. R. H. Macy | and Homestake Mining were higher. — e CALIFORNIANS HERE Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Christoff-i erson of San Mateo are registered| at the Baranof Hotel. The —Vlmi;g tonk Merry- Go- Round. By ROBERT 5. ALLEN (Editor’s Note: While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation The Washington Merry-Go- ' Round is teing written by his old partner, Robert S. Allen.) {of Revillagigedo Island yesterday on {that admission of the Territory as Escapes Death Senfence Frau Tise Koch, 41, widow of the former commandant of Buchenwald, accused of collecting tattoced skins cf the concentration camp’s in- mates for lampshades, is watched by a U. S. Military Policeman in the Dachau, Germany, court as she is sentenced to life imprisonment. cials of the notcrious camp were sentenced to hang . 8. War Crimes Court. (AP Wirephoto via radioc from Frank- furt, Germany) 'ACS Operators Play Role 0f Samaritans; Get Relief In Quick Time for lll Man SENATORS VIEW PULP STANDS OF KETCHIKAN AREA vard Swain of Seldovia, aska, is alive today because two Alaska Communications System op- hospital in Seward for an appendi- citis operation. Sgt. Joseph Mauey, in Anchorage, was sending a message to Latouche by radiophone when the Latouche | operator broke in to sav a man there Capehart at Banquet Says Statehood for Alaska | o e, ticken vt what ap- 1 1 | peared to be acute appendicitis. fo Beneflf Nation | Maley located a doctor who list- ! ened to the symptoms by radiophone and confirmed the diagnosis. La- | touche, which is a fishing village 60 miles east of Seward, then asked (for a plane to fly Swain to An- |chorage. a 36-hour tour aboard a Coast Guard Maley contacted all Anchorage cutter. , |pilots available without locating a The tour started after Senator suitable plane to make the water Cepehart (R.-Ind.) told a gathering of 100 Ketchikan citizens at a special banquet for the committee that Al- askans are ready for statehood and KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 29.— (M—A Senate Newsprint Subcommit- tee viewed potential pulp mill sites and the vast pulp timber resources |Seward. Tch./Sgt. John Switzer, | ACS operator there, immediately began checking pilots and at last lo- |cated a float plane which was just taking off on a charter trip. At his request the pilot flew to Latouche and returned with Swain. The operation was performed four hours and a half after the first | message was received and Swain was reported “resting comfortably” at i the Seward hospital. a State will benefit the nation. Senator Ellender (D.-La.) told the group it is necessary for the gov- ! ernment to assist in housing, hos- pitals and education facilities o thwart inroads of Communism. Sen- ator Cain (R.-Wash.) is the third member of the subcommittee. The Senators, who arrived by air, are accompanied by James Mont- | Switzer, who had rounded up an gomery, publisher of the New Al-'ambulance and arranged for hos- bany, Ind., Tribune. | pital accommodations and a surgeon {while the rescue plane was making |its round trip. ESW PLAN GERMAN landing at Latouche, then called | A witness to the operation was | INDUSTRY AT LEVEL OF 1936 1 e (U. S., British Military Gov- | emors Raise Steel | By RICHARD KASISCHKE BERLIN, Aug. 29.—(M—A Western Germany with an industrial capacity | (about equal to 1936 was envisaged !today by the United States and Great Britain in a new level-of- |industry plan providing of annnal steel prdduction of 10,700,000 ingotl | tons. Under the plan, the U. S. and British zones, to relieve the burden ocn American and British taxpayers, | would produce 15 per cent more ex- ports than the same areas did in 1936- -three years before Germany started World War II—to bring in $2,000,000,000 a yea:. 4 | The new plan was a revision of | .the FTour-Power level-of-industry |and reparations agreement of i March, 1946. In announcing it, the | U. 8. and British Military Governors —Gen. Lucius D. Clay and Air Chief | | Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas—termed | | the low ceiling set in that agreement ! | “unrealistic.” Under the Four-Power plan, the "steel ceiling for all Germany was 15,800,000 tons. Under the British- American plan, the British and U. | S. zones alone would produce nearly | double ihat. i Disclosure of the plan followed by | two days the close of a six-day con- ference of the U. S., Britain and | France during which German indus- i try was discussed. 'Marshall Plan s Given Boost erators played the roles of long-dis- | tance samaritans to get him to a | 'Expresses Hope Europea . Self-Help Will Be Suc- . cessfully Carried Out WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—(#— {President Truman expressed hopz Itoday that the Marshall Plan for | European self-help will success- '!ully supplant direct aid of the Itype provided by the United Na- tions Relief and Rehabilitation | Administration. N In a letter transmitting to Con- igre& his report on UNRRA's wind- up operations during the first |quarter of this year, Mr. Truman said: “Long-term plans have been in- augurated by our Government un- |cer which it is hoped that devas- |tated countries will achieve econ- lomic health through cooperation among themselves and with such long-range help as the United States is able to give under prop- er international arrangements. | The mention of “proper” arrange- yments seemed to point up a news ;cun(erenoe statement Wednesday |by Undersecretary of State Rob- By Pfisidenl n Crowd at Soap Bex Derb TR R i A AIRPLANE (RASH " FATAL FOR TWO MEN AT YAKUTAT ‘J{mauite,-Ya_kuiaI Busi- | nessman Are Killed 1 | in A((iden' By VERN HAUGHLAND (® Special Washington : - WASHINGTON, Aug. | William J. Austin, of Juneau, and | pne Interior Department {O. 8. “Obe" Aseleson, of Yakutat,|y g,y tentative plans to | were both killed at 6 p.m. yesterday | o, ajj_weather seaport at Fire | !in the crash of a small Piper Cruiser Island, near Anchorage, Alaska. (airplane at Yakutat. The two men The port would supplement fac- |were ferrying the plane from the|jjijos st Whittier, Alaska, and | Yakutat beach to the Yakutat land- ing field after making some repairs. would partially replace Seward as | The plane had been on the beach||,iter la cargo-loading base when the | town ceases to become al |for several months due to motor |, trouble. hence. | terminal, possibly two years| Eyewitnesses said that the plane| 1n its annual report on Alaska. jwas flying at treetop level in high | projects, the Division of Territories {winds when it suddenly stalled and |saiq the Interior, Treasury dnd/ ,plummeted to the ground where it |wa, Departments agreed last | crashed and killed both occupants. |month upon a coordinated study ! Norman J. O'Brien, CAA Inspect- | of the feastbility of the venture. or at Juneau, said that CAA Head-| This survey will embrace studies quarters at Anchorage, is sending an | of tide and icing conditions in the | inspector to Yakutat today to inves- | yicinjty of Fire Island, which lies |tigate the crash and make a report. | off point Worontzoff, southeast of Austin, Chief Mechanic for Pan|anchorage,” thes report said. American Airways in Juneau, has|{ “The establishment of an all- lived here for the past two and a/|yeather port at Fire Island would {half years. He is survived by his/create an extra port for Whittier 1 widow and three children. Aseleson |in the event that facility becomes is a wellknown Yakutat busmess-iwO heavily loaded with army sup- man. He was the owner of the|pjies, plane in which the crash took place | Iy would also save some 64 as well as one other small plane and | miles of rail haul to Anchorage !a vacht. He used his planes and the | from Whittier and 120 miles from boat for hunting and fishing par-|seward.” o8y Irwin W. Silverman, as Acting | Don Skuse, of the Charles W. A r . { Director of the Territories Division, | Oagige) MorUAry WoRt-Tio Rk ek recently told the Associated Press [ w;"‘::tif‘]?;e;:?“‘o";:nf:{* to Teturn |y)e portage-Seward rafl line will e J be dismantled because it is the % | most expensive part of the Alaska MagEEAN.BACK. Railroad to maintain. ! | He said vessels from the south, | Kenyon MacLean, owner of Mac- | qopriveq of a rail link at Seward, :uafl M:!Laelr :Vfll’k-?a r;t:;nfm“’_“' could proceed through Cook Inlet nealls yeslaIioy ¥ erical ¢, 5 rail terminal to be built at Service | 29— — l disclosed | establish | i ‘ | | \ i SPIKE | A huge crowd lines the speedway at Akron, O., to witness the 10th running Box Derby. The winner was Kenn Holmboe of Charleston, West Va. (® Photo. Inferior Deparlménl’s Annual Report Tells of Progress in Terrifory y Down o -y \ of the All-American Soap habilitation program,” the report caid. New Highway Congress also authorized $1,505,~ 000 for 250 miles of new highways and $2,000,000 additional for high-~ way improvement and maintenance during fiscal year 1948. “This will include work vitally important Kenai on the Penin- sula and Livengood roads,” the re-‘ port said “Maintenance 'this next year will be performed on 2785 miles of road--995 miles for year-round use and 1,826 for summer use only.” The report described the forth- ceming October 1 auction of 8,000,000,000 board feet of pulp tim- ber near Thomas Bay as “one of the most significant developments” of the Territory's year. The 80th Congress passed a bill authorizing the Federal Govern- ment to sell timber to private in- dustry. “This development,” the cbserved, “presages the opening up of a vast pulp and paper industry for Southeastern Alaska which may eventually change the entire com- plexion of Alaska's economy.” Airbase Project “Great new airbase projects, ex- pansion of existing airfields and other kindred projects—many of a highly secret nature—all were con- tributing to changes of a radical design in the pattern of Alaska's social and economic structure.” Pointing to expenditures of more than $100,000,000 on the immed- iate army program — “with ex- pectancy of even greater sums yet to be spent”--the report said “the effects of the Army’s activities can- {portance jness. report i ARNED TO KEEP ARMED S IEISENHOWER | GIVES VIEWS - A.L.SESSION INo Threat of Global War -Make Any Aggressor Realize What's What NEW YORK, Aug. 20—(®-—Gen- eral of the Army Dwight D, Eisen- {hower, Army Chief of Staff, told ]Amonrnn Legionnaires today he (saw no immediate threat of & Iglobul war, but added that United States armedy forces should be yStrong enough to make an aggres- ‘sor realize war would “likely be |fought over his territory.” { The wartime leader of Allied armies said that “no great nation \is today in position deliberately ito provoke a long and exhaust- |ing conflict with any hope of gain.” Eisenhower spoke to massed tthousands of Leglonnaires at the |second session of thefr 20th annual convention in the 7lst Regiment Armory. Eisenhower c¢niphasized the im- of American prepared- “We must so gird ourselves,” de- iclared the General, “that a pre- !datory aggressor will be aware of jthe risks he -runs and will realize, ishould he provoke war, it will ilikely be fought over his territory.” ¢ He told the Logionnaires they | should be especially concerned about our air power. Said Elsen- I hower: | “Our geographic position makes ;nlr power a primary factor in our {defense and the best weapon for {quick retaliation.” ! The General commented on the ;clash of interests between the Uni- Ited States and Communist Russia. | “In my view,” he declared, “con- flicting political theories can exist (pcnce(ully in the same world, pro- vided there is no deliberate affort ;of the part of either to engage in junjust coercion or unwarranted jinterference against the other.” Voicing an appeal for national unity,” the General warned: | “All must work together—or leventually we will work under the «whip.” ! WARNING BY NIMITZ i NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—P—Fleet 'Admiral Chester W. Nimitz today 'asked the American Leglon to act ias a sentinel to see that no one Eranch of the armed forces is per- !mitted to decline to the point where it cannot carry out its Ishare of responsibility for nation- a1l security. i “The creation last month . . . of {a unified defense establishment is ;an important step towards the at- {tainment of the proper combina- ({tion of both military and civilian 'su'ength with clearly defined re- lsponsibilities,” Nimitz told the Le- t1gion's national convention. 4 He said he was convinced that if the Natlonal Security Act of 1947 “is administered in the spirit with which it was created, the ,Navy will not suffer any disadvan- tage, nor will national security be Jeopardized thereby.” “On the contrary,” Nimitz said, |“several important provisions. of |{the law immeasurably strengthen (that security by creating within :the national military establish- iment certain agencies charged ert A. Lovett that this country|AlrWays. He has been Outside on a|piie yland, which is to be join- p not be lost even upon the most|with the over: linat! £ |will extend aid only on the basis | business trio for the past two weeks, | o4 .0y Anchorage by & causeway. ' all coordination ol unimaginative Alaskan.” both civilian and military etfort." - WASHINGTON — Another dis- ! 1 quieting Greek ‘“crisis” is in thel works behind the scenes. ' The new hot potato will pro‘o-l atly be laid in the U. S. lap soon! . after the reerganized Greek Gov-‘ ernment takes office. The laying will be done by London. | Tre Attlee Government is quietly | preparing to pull out the bulk of its troops from Greece, and thus compel the U. S. to carry the bur- den of policing the strife-torn country as well as feeding and re- building it. The British have arqund 12,000 i/ troops in Greece; the U. S. only { a few hundred, chiefly specialists. The Attlee Government plans to! | | withdraw all but a token force, on the ground of poverty. Under the economy program announced by Exchequer Chancellor Hugh, Dalton, the British will demobil-i jze 80,000 men. A large portion' of them will come from Greece and JItaly. The British have 30,000 in the latter country. Chief reason for| last week's suddenly announced | | (Continued on Page Four) STEAMER MOVEMENTS | e, ‘Souvenir "Covers’ ' When Air Mail fo it <ot o v Japan Inauguraled Princess Norah scheduled to sail| from Vancouver 9 p. m. Saturday.| WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. — (P— Alaska scheduled to sail from Souvenir covers addressed for de- Seattle September 2. {livery in Japan will be accepted by Grommet Reefer scheduled to sail iposlmasters in Seattle and Anchor- from Seattle Sept. 4. | age, Alaska, in connection with the Aleutian, from west, scheduled |inauguration of air muail service to southbound Sunday. {Japan, the Post Office Department. —_———————— jsaid today. LUMBER MAN RETURNS | The service becomes ! September 5 Tom Morgan, President of the| T AN Columbia Lumber Mills, returned| LYNN JOHNS! RETURNS yesterday via Pan American Air-) ——— ways. He has been on a week’s| Lynn Johnson, ten-year-old business trip to Seattle and Port-|daughter of Mrs. Lucille Johnson, land. returned from a seven week's vaca- ition in the States via Pan Ameri- lcan Airways yesterday. Lynn visit- |ed her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Marietta J. Blazek, Rose Blazek|P. A. Kolander, in Seal Beach, and Eleanor Gunek of Ketchikan|Calif, and her uncle, William A. are stopping at the Baranof Hotel. Kclander, in Everett, Wash. Princess Louise, from Vancouver, scheduled to arrive Saturday after- noon or evening. Southeastern scheduled to sail from Seattle today. effective — - VISITING JUNEAU ! of a recovery plan, which is rea-|Vvisiting in both Portland and Se- | sonakle and realistic, In another reference to the 16-| nation Paris conference ‘on the lon American aid must diminish TWIN CITY TRIP T0 ALASKA POSTPONED | In a letter to the Juneau Chamber {of Commerce, the St. Paul Associa- | tion of Commerce has announced | that the visit of businessmen from | { the Twin Cities has been indefinitely | | postponed inasmuch as the men of | !the apparel industries are too busy | |at this time of the year designing and buying materials for the Christ- | mas and spring merchandise. } It is expected that the visit to Alaska will be made in the spring. | - eee | BUDGET MAN HERE ! | Miles Elias Myers of the Bureau of Budget at Washington, D. C., is staying at the Baranof Hotel. attle. {Marshall plan, Lovett said demands ® by next year. |® Seward Notified The annual report said both the i Alaska Railroad and the Interior ® | Department have notified the City of Seward that, barring a break- down of the line, the railroad will remain in operation on the 66-mile section from Seward to Portage for two more years. It added: “This, it is hoped, will be suffi- cient time in which to complete ® the motor ‘road from Seward to ® | Anchorage, thus insuring the peo- o ple of the former community that e they will not be totally cut oft e from passenger and freight com- e munication with the Interior when e Seward has been abandoned as e the southern terminus of the rail- e [road.” e| The railroad has been authorized e to spend $4,000,000 this year and e (to incur obligations totaling $15,- e 000,000, to be paid during the o |fiscal year of 1949. e “It was anticipated that a sim- e |ilar amount would be authorized o sinee July 1, 9.69 inches. e ' between 1949 and 1958, thus giving . ® |the railroad $34,000,000, in addition ®© e 0000 0 00 0 0 o o tothe surplus materials, for its re- & > o000 e e 0000000 * WEATHER REPORT e Temperature for 24-Hour e Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock . This Morning ! . In Juneau—Maximum, 60; | ® minimum, 50. | . At Airport—Maximum, 57; ® minimum, 52. . WEATHER FORECAST . (Juneau and Vicinity) . Rain and decreasing south- e easterly surface winds to- e night. Cloudy with occasional e showers and slightly warmer e Saturday. . PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) . In Juneau — 1.19 inches; e since August 1, 8.70 inches; o since July 1, 12.03 inches. . At Airport — .74 inghes; e since August 1, 7.11 inches; Airline developments of the past year—including establishment of Anchorage - Seattle, Anchorage - Minneapolis and U. S.-to-Orient schedules—the report placed An- chorage directly in the center of international air communication with the Far East and made it the most important air center in Alaska. “It is expected that this may lead to the establishment at An- chorage of a great new interna- tional airport which would be con- structed, maintained and operated by tke Civil Aeronautics Admin- istration,” the summary observed. A bill for an appropriation for such an airport was introduced in the 80th Congress, but has not been acted upon. Other developments of the year: Shipping Congress extended government subsidies, providing operators with government-owned vessels with free hull insurance and a rental of $1 a year, through June, 1948, with Interior Depart- ment approval. Over Department (Continued on Page i&j e 'MRS. EFFIE MILL " DIES IN NEVADA ' Mrs. Effie Mill, wife of Alex JMill, passed away at Reno, Nevada ‘on August 26 after an illness of {two months, according to word re- !cei\'ed in Juneau today. | Mrs. Mill is the daughter of Mrs. Maude McMullen of this eity. ishe had three children, Jessie, jHarry and Harrlet, and two grand- ‘children. Mrs, Otto Anderson, a Isister, and Willlam Alexander, her brother, reside in Juneau. The Mills were well known lo- ‘cally, and left here 20 years ago for Nevada, where Mr. Mills has been engaged in the mining in- dustry. JOSEAL T LA AT THE GASTINEAU Florence O. Eby of Anchorage is staying at the Gastineau Hotel. Mrs. E. J. Kane of Anchorege is also registered there.