The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 29, 1947, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE DAILY ALASKA E MPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1947 Store v‘lm Remain .F.V fonday 1, 1947 ] Fund for Cancer Rescarech. Durante. PRES. TRUMAW NAMES SIX T0. NEW OFFICES Maj. Gen. W. H. Draper Is' Undersecretary of War ~5 Others fo Key Spots 20 —P— ‘ e open again next week come in and sen us WASHINGTON, Aug Fresident Truman today named Maj. Gen. Willlam H. Draper, of sdale, N. ¥, Undersecre- as of War and announced his sice of five others for key ions in the new unified de- > setup. The Whit2z House said Mr. Tru-| man had selected the following| cfficials for the new defense es- tablishment and their appoint- ments will be formally announced when Forrestal takes the oath: Arthur M. Hill, of Charleston, . now chairman of the Board the Atlantic Greyhound Cor- as chairman of the Na- Security Resources Board. W. Smuers, a native of O, and retired Rear Ad- Executive Secretary of I Security Council. - He director of Central and is now is a former Intelligence Agency is y )2(1 0 engaged in private business with firms in Atlanta and St. Louis. 18587 Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoet- of poration, tional ,\, BRI QLUALITY S/.’) C‘._ ter, a native of St. Louis, as Di- e Y TEC of the Central Intelligence ——————= Agency. He occupies that posi- e tion under the pressnt setup of the Armed Forces Tromas J. Hargrave, President of the Eastman Kodak Co., as the Munitions Board. Alfred M. Gruenther, Platte Center, Nebr., whose h is now in Omaha, a | Director of the joint staff of the !Joint Chiefs of Staff. The White| House said this appointment was made by the Joint Chiefs of Staff]| and the President meraly 'mxvun(-i ed it for them iTALY PEACE - PACTOKEHED | ~ BYRUSSIANS of Sen. of i LONDON, Aug. 20—®— The Moscew radio announced tonight ! that the Praesidium of the Su- preme Soviet of the U.S.CR. had treaty with Italy. heard in London by the Soviet monitor, said the Praesid-{ |ium also had ratified the peace treaties with Rumania, Hungary | |and Bulgaria. | Russia was the last of the Big, Four to approve the Italian peace | treatry drafted last year in Paris. ments, dent Truman is shown &t the White Hodse s “io dreensi Moy | B R e e Sucict Boas| Eddie Gons, Miami, Fla., cf the American Legion-spon- | /G 80 B8 00 100 ol ending | ferum of nationai government The White House visit, of hostilities against Ttaly, a one- | August was the high 1t of the session. One hundred and two | {jme Axis partner. ‘teen age beys were delezates to the forum that.elected the 16-year- i old Chinesc-American lad as its leader. (Inte inese-A: 2 T ternational Soundphoto) BANK IS ROBBED I" 5 % | MARRIAGE LICENSES DICK LINDLEY RETURNS SWE“ HOME ORE o and radio profession in behalf ef Tr vision 6f tHe American Cancer Society, which was represented b¢ Dr. Lyell C. right, ave: Tyrone Power, Danny Kayé, Greer Garson, Dr. Kinney, Frahk Sinatra, Bob Hepe and Jimmy CALIFORNIA MAS RECEIVED 178 FIRST $100,003 ALLOCATION from the Darion Runych Memmotial It was presented by a grcup of representative leaders of the moti Presentaticn was made to the California di- easurer Walter Wincheil. PRIZE WINNER _ nirs, Jean Shoaf of Kirklyn, Pa., looks rather small alongside the 110-pound tarbon Sarasota county, Florida. It took tack GUERRILLAS CLASH WiTH U. 5. MARINES TSIANGTAO, China, Auz. 29. | —A small U. S. Marine landing dar c]a<hed with “hostile guerrllla mups 50 miles north of Tsmngmu night while searching Maxmc pilot forced to land on a ! beach during bad weather Wednes- d¢y. the Navy announced today. 'h¢ announcement said the guer- rmas presumably Communist, op- | ened fire, which the American :sroup returned. .The Marines suffered no ! casualties and withdrew before termining guerrilla lo: Before withdrawing, the Ameri- cans destroyed the plane. Two other airmen forced down Wednesday have since been rescued. issued a decree ratifying the peace qw gyst landed at sea near an Cauned salinon | American destroyer. The second was off Tsimo, 20 miles north of here. He was discovered by villagers who helped him to return. A search plane which spotted ihe third plane on the beach at Go Point was fired at by Chinese. The landing party was unable to learn anything about the pilot from un- armed Chinese in the neighborhood. Names of the three pilots were not disclosed. - VIOLENT BLASTS SHAKETWO AREAS (By The A\swciated Press) There were two violent explosions last night—cre in Cambridge, Mas- sachuestts and one in Boonville, In- diana. At Cambridge, 20 windows in th> city hall were shattered by a blast of mysterious origin, and other buildings in the neighborhood were Dick Lindley, 11-year-old son The fol Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Lindley, return- erican He spent the sum- | mer v his grandparents in San of the U. § Dieze SWEET HOME, Ore, Aug. 29.— Pauline Wick, s P & i ?—Two men held up the bank ot Gene J. Mart Communi- OR WHAT HAVE YOU veet Home today and escaped cations System, Crawford LONDON-—# From the classi-\with an undstermined amount of cashier. advertising cclumns of the cash. State Police at Portland say All are Juneau residents. Times: “Flank musquash coat, of- the bandits fled in a black sedap ? LT ers £45; pure silk trimmed whit on the Santiam Pass highway af- AT HOTEL JUNEAU fur, fabric skating frock, £8 10s.; ter sweeping money off a counter George B. Linn of Hoonah is stay- | fit slim 5 ft. 7 in. WANTED, Twin and forcing employees to open the ing at the Hotel Juneau. folding pram '\;mu_ shaken. in a tournament, | Police found several pieces’ of metal and a length of frayzd rope.' RUSS REFUSE APPROVALOF ATOMIC PLAN | LAKE SUCCE Aug. 29— | Renewing “monopoly” charges 1against the dUnited States, Soviet |Russia today resjected a group of proposals for setting up op- crating b intérnational atomic c:‘ntro] agency | This thade it virtually certain thit the sécond report of the Uni= ‘md’ Nations Atomic Ehergy Com- | mission to the Security Council due Sept. 15, would be submitted | with Russia again refusing to vots i A. Gromyko, Soviet dele- , told the commission’s political committee that the papers amount- |ed to the same thing as the ori ginal United States proposals for latemic control. He repcatd his iold charge that the United Stdtes |was trying to set up a mocnopoly {tavoring one mation—-obviously the iU, \ picture Kinney. Shown, left to o askaVeférans Board'lee theflolerr Treasurer THe Alusks World Wad Tt Vet- terans Board lost the first round !\ stérday | Terrftorial Legislature to get start- ed ih business. The Territory of | Alaska, through Treasurer Oscar | Clsch, was award | damus for the money by Federal | Judge George W. Folta in U. S District Court héfs The writ provides that money Lte paid back in two | stallments of $175,000 each with {the first payment due By January 131, 1948, and thc final payment by April 30, 1948. The Territory had 2sked for the mon ack in two installments but wa i the 1 | payment 3 'ond by October The Vets eppeal th that it is not the money to the Ter ury until a certain passed or until its collections of the Vets tax have reached a certain figure Norman Hal Ex:cutive fficer cf the Board, is consulting | with Board members before taking further action. — ... HINES SKETCHES ARE FEATURE OF immediately and the 30. to it contends to refund orial Treds- expacted he caught off first prize for medium weight | at th C a young men | Approximately 35 Outdoor are said to have been seen running jers of America were guests at the to a Packard c: ust before the ex- | Salmon Creek Country Club last {evcning at a banquet attended also by nearly 300 local residents who osted themselves. | With a good time for everyone nville, ine engines the: main object, ceremonies were io coal mine are providing held tc a ‘minimum. After a emergency electric pewer for the brief welcome by Territorial Sports- city’s water svstem. Normal electric yman’s Association President Milo service was knocked out last night Clouse, briefly respondsd to by by a boiler explosion in the city’s Frank Dufrense and J. Hammond $300,000 power plant. This morning ' Brown, president of the OWAA, the whole community of 5,000 was , spotlight was put on illustra- without lights or electric power. Bob Hines. g | |end white sketches including rep- SAI-VAGE ATIEMPT \resentations of: A polar bear at- k(.mkm;z a ribbon seal, a hrown bear, ONSALMON CARGO & ot "soa™" i " ‘Charlle Gilham’s retreiver J-Bird. The police theory is that ! nade bomb, deliber- ted in the city hall court- 1 it was ately fre tor Hines had a rapt audienc as he completed a series of rapid black 1Tne climax drawing was taken Irnm thu cover illustration of the Gilham book, “Raw North," SEATTLE, Aug. v —(#—Divers ;:uumng starving sled dogs. Per- started cutting through the hull' of the sunken freighter Diamond wos that of a wood duck. Knot today in an attempt to sal-| prior to the banquet_at _the, vage the vessel's cargo of Alaskal |Country Club, the writers were| The Foss Launchlguesis of the Juneau Chamber of, salvors, T€POT-|Gommerce at a cocktafl reception|_ haps Hines' best received sketch and Tug Company, Other Moscow radio 8nnounce-| .o, o4 to Tsingtao last night by a |€d.the shib was lying on her star-|in the Gold Room of the Baranof' | junk after muking a forced landing Pcard side in akout 100 feet °“Hotel Quite a number of Chamber water in the Strait of Juan De ymembers and ladies were on hand Fucd, where she sank August 13,'tor the pouring. after a collision with the frelghter| witn adverse weather still hold- Fenn Victary ing most of the writers close to ST IR R their typewriters, with no fishing TROPHY WITHOUT HONOR |4, wijte about, a few hardier TREDEGAR, Wales—(P— Whe"m\nors have managed to get linzs, offered a flag captured in Burma,| wer A party that tried salmon the British Legion rejectsd it be- fiching yesterday at Tee Harbor cause “the Japanes> were Nol roturned with a number of small worthy cohoes, taken by Richard W. Wood, being fees. MURPHYSGORO, 1 teach- cr at nearby Campbell Hill High|yriter's derby. School this year is G. E. Gl)f&')l'thl His boss is his son, Gene — the high scheol principal H e BERRA, Australia—{#—Cit- at Tee Harbor thi turned back by rcugh water. i Pngpua for their war services, Prime Minister Joseph B. Chiefley said that those serving with the Australian military forces would be paid a war gratuity. The payment, he said, would be lon a monthly basis for services | after Pear] Harbor, and would in- jelude men in the auxiliary serv- ices. the river resort. ———————— min shortage. attempts to keepj 1 $350,000 appropriated to it by the, ed a writ of man-| WRITERS' DINNER Writ- of which only the largest,| |displayed as an entry in the special Another group that made a try, morning was t reports came from a party of eight that went to Taku Lodgei xnu\.es of New Guinea and|yesierday, returning today enthus- iastic over accommcdations, enter- tainment, scenery and fishing. An- other group of eight went to Taku Lodge this morning and other later groups are planning on a day at Some cases of heart trouble and arthritis may be cured by vita- HITCH - HIKERS 'TAME BOMB OF SHOOT YOUNG Amfomggm (ouplE, OH Io Scientific Pl;r;(;ses Are Ex- plained - Gives Close Study of Neutrons (By The Associated Press) Scientists of the Atomic Energy Commmission have produced a civil- ized version of the atd bomb for pufposes 0f peace-timé study. The “tathe” atomic bothb—as chey call it—ddesn’t go off with a blind- ing flash and there's no devastating explesion. Instead, it gives off a steady stream ©f fast neutrons, and doesn't get ahy hottm than a kitchen oven. Thus, the scientists are now in a position to get a closer look at those fast-moving neutrons or nuclear bullets which break loose with thc OMAHA, Aug. 29—IP—Two |khaki-clad hitchhikers were sought |teday in the deaths of Mr. and Mre. R. L. May, 2nd, prominent | Arlington, Va. couple, whose re- turn from a Colorado vacation enc Here in death by gunshot The young coupl?, whose bodies were found ‘ffi blood-spattéred | lbvn.w on Omaha's far western lCutskirts yesterday, are Beligved | fto have pickéd ttp the hitbhhik- |ers at Grand Island, Neb; about| 150 miles t of here. Their fully clothed b with .38 calibel through the both shots it were found head, arly yesterday by two small boys investigating blocd stains along the high Their money wis gone {and ther> apparently had Heen dn fattempt to #imove all identitiéa- splitting of the atom. The experi- tion ments are expected to contribute ! Lt. Robert Bedts of the Nabfaska Breatly to the development of atomi |€afety, Patrol, said a Grand Island'efergy for industrial uses. (tilling station attendant rémefhi-| Of course, there are plenty fLered refutling a 1047 'Chryslér neutrens flving around every iime {answering the description bf the!you set off a real atomic bomb. But Mdy car. The driver, resémbling|in the first atomic bomb test in ihe |May, displayed a sizedble Toll ‘0f | New Mexico desert scientists didn't 'bills when paying for the gasolifie.|have much of a chance to see how A young man in army unliforth | the neutrons were acting. leame mto the tion an@l ‘strtck| The tame bomb derives its energy up a Cconversation with thé edar|from plutonium-—a man-made cle- |driver, Lt. Beers said. Beforé' th> ment—instead of from the clement lear left ‘ths uniformed méah afd!uranium, which octurs in nature, another, also in uniform, elmbed The project is in successful opera- into the rear seat tion right now at Atomic Commis- f i i e , Sion Laboratory at Los Alamos, New { | Mexico, with a husband and wife o Ip OR WRHERS {team, Dr. and Mrs. Davis B. Hall, \ stipervising TEIN m | o SHIPS SE RECORD E! BELEM, Brazil—®— The ship Bleomington Victory which s* Y & farrived here made what shippins rcles here said was a new record now meu.m" in Juneau is hlghughc [n(\. een New York and Belen ing its stay with a Salmon D“by\’rhw ship came in seven days and of its own. Though the prizes don't |55 run to automobiles and rowboats | they are still not to be sneezed at. { First orize to he awardzsd for the! largest king salmon caught by OWAA member is to be a beautiful Gruen wrist watch. This prize was ven by the PAA and flown up from New Yerk by J. D. Fessio. Encased | in gold the watch carriers all of the ! tops and time faces necessary for a captain of one of PAA’s great clip- pers. Engraved on the back is a| record that will be completed after the watch is awarded. “OWAA, Sal- moen Derby, Juneau, Alaska, Wgt. our NOTICE STARTING MONDAY, September First — the FIRST TRIP in the MORNING on the CITY BUS will be run TEN MINUTES EARLIER— leaving Bus Depot at 30 aa. mi instead of 7:40a.m. CITY BUS an Lbs. Ozs., presented by Pan Am- erican Airways.” First prize for the largest cohoe caught by a member of the OWAA will be a derby is plenty brown bear rug. The now in full swing with| of play for these awards.| prizes typical of Alaska, em poles, and other nick- | 1 be awarded for the small-l WHEN YOU ASK FOR BOURBON T Aok for Rentuckys Pineat Warege wanzmn Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey ® Pour yourself a glass of this great Kentucky whiskey and en- joy its rare smoothness, its rich bourbon flavor and mellow bou- quet. You will always drink it with pleasure, serve it with pride. 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