The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 4, 1947, Page 1

e pa— [ & ¢ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,673 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1947 ME \‘IBPR ASSOCIATED PRI‘SS NRICE TEN CENT" U.S. ARMY MEN HELD GOLD STRIKE MADE, YUKON FORT ST. JOHN, B. C., Sept. .4— Another tale of fabulous riches, of soiid gold nuggets valued at ;100 a pan strewn along river banks of the western Arctic, has come out of the North. Word of the gold strike was: brought here today by Ernest Max- well, a mining engineer, who said h had made a dangerous plane flight to verify the reports. Maxwell said he first heard about | the strike from Eskimos at Aklavik | who claimed they had found solid cld nuggets worth $100 a pan along the Firth River, 400 miles north of Dawson City, heart of the storied Klondike goldfields. The engineer did not confirm the | » Eskimos’ reports as to the size of | With the 55-nation General the nuggets, but said he had washed | Assembly gold along the Firth and its tribu- ;for what somz o ers chcose to|pe Laries. {call a make-or-brezk ion, Further word is expected from two | prospectors who left for the Firth two months ago and are due at Aklavik September 15. iaway, he told the Acsociat>d Pres The Firth River is in Yukon Ter- | today. ritory about ' 34 miles from the| Lie acknowledged that it Loundary of Alaska. impossible to forecast w - False Alarm | Child Kllled SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4.—®— Six-year-old John Fleishman heard ! fire engines approaching last night, # struck by a passing taxicab. He was dead on arrival at Alemany Emergency Hospital. Police term- ed the death of the boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. “an unavoidable agcident.” The fire enginess were nnswering a false alarm. B FISHING EXTENDED IN TWO DISTRI(TS, ‘Two more Southeast Alaska fish-| ing areas were reopened to com- mercial salmon fishing for a two, day period by Seton- H. Thomp-' son, Director of Alaska Fisheries for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Districts concerned are the Northern Section of Clarence ! Strait and South Prince of Wales Island. i { Final outfitt £ the The order is effective from 6\v\asmion:;‘;etl)dmgve?terdas p. m. tonight until 6 p. m. Friday, ienoen equipment aboard for a 60- Bepr 0 {day cperation. Included in the| b S 'mmplnx equipment needed VISITING JUNEAU Germain Bulike, of San Francisco, ' is rLgLchred al the Baranot Hotel. The Washmgton‘ Merry Go Round:pelsonally By ROBERT S. ALLEN (Editor's Note:— While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation, | the Washington Merry-Go- A Round is being written by his old partner, Robert S. Allen) | WASHINGTON—If certain ner Army politicos have their wa; able, conscientious Gen. Omar Brad- ley will be sidetracksd as General| Eisenhower’s successor and shunt-} ed off into a high-sounding but lesser job. The secret plan is to make Brad- | 17,400,000 cans of in- {bottom of Crescent Bay, west ‘;f‘necott 44%, New York Central 14'%, | a TRYGVE LIE HOPING END U.N.LOGJAM Is Confident General As-| sembly Session Will Wipe Out Some Difficulfies 4 LAKE SUCCESS, Sept Tr: the most venure as crucial periods in Sceretary-General of the United Nations with expre m(*dim.kv of the | recommend that in accordance with | IEast-West deadlock stalling inter-|the policies followed upon the ad- | Of hopes of an early break in national agreement, is confident at least some of difficulties Letween the es and Russia will be ) ®—|in each gve Lie is approaching one of |reserved for education purposes, to |authioritative American source said | his | be conveyed to the Territory of Al- | to wiped | and trails as has been done in our CHAMBERASKS | AMENDMENTTO STATEHOOD ACT The Juneau Chflmbt‘l of Com- | merce today adopted a recommen- dation for an amendment to the | pending bill which would make | Alaska a state. The proposed amend- ment would provide for the setting aside of five sections in each town- | shin for the Territory. It reads “We recommend that Section 4 of H. R. 206 be amended so as to pro- vide for not less than five sections township, igeluding those | aska for such future use as it may these sections. We also mission of all of Western States, | ! that where these sections fall within | subject to Forest Service ad- Lie | ministration with the proceeds from the | the resources going directly to the United | State for the construction of roads ‘Western States.” great deal of discussion other | a arose | Was | gver the adoption of the recommen- ther the | dation which originally related to a1l log-jam would be broken as early of the public domain, inside and out- as this fall, but he added a con- viction that “suddenly something \H“ happen.” Nearing the end cf his second year as the world's top inter- national civil servant, at 51-year- 'old Norwegian eventually will clear the U. N. to function " treaties path for top efficiency. Hungary, Finland. Buigaria, He is a supporter .of the Mar-| for “Eu- some difficulty on short notice in George . Fleishman, 'rope and said “the hopes of mil- arranging a dinner at the Salmon ; rest on receivingiCreek Country Club for the Cape-| ‘shall economic proposal lions of people” help. R DIAMOND KNOT CARGO SALVAGE STARTED TODAY 4—(P—The Foss| reports | that it dispatched a barge to the| \Strait of Juan De Fuca to under-| ake salvage of the $3,500,000 Cargo|Tpe Columbia ,of canned salmon aboard the sunk-|protective Union said that fisher-! TACOMA, Sept. 4 Tug and Barge Company jen_motorship S. S. Diamond Knot. | (undertaken in Puget Sound, are\ price. 'elccmc light plants, crawler cranes, \ SALMON SEEMS OK SEATTLE, Sept. 4—®— The {Port Angeles, are probaktly believes that sign- mg and ratification of all the peace the at He was greatly en-! couraged by Moscow's recent rati-| shed into the street and was fication of the pacts with Italy,|erate with Mayor Waino Hendrick- Rumania and!son in arranging entertainment for baTee 4o the highest With |geeking price contracts with can-| salmon at the| i side of the national forests, and it was contended that the Juneau | Chamber should not voice an opin- jon on land outside of the national forests. Allen Shattuck is to present the jadopted recommendation to Con- gressional committees holding hear- |ings in Juneau on statehood and other matters. i The Chamber also voted to coop- | the visiting Congressmen. Earlier this week the Mayor nad | | hart Committee. The club had previ- |ously donated dinners to the large \gmup of Outdoor Writers, Mayor Hendrickson said. COWMBIARIVER . FISHERMEN LOOK | FOR BIG FALLRUN Sept 4—P— ASTORIA, Ore., i Fishermen's | River Imen would sell fall saimon catches | bidder, instead of | nefies. ! The union discussed 13 cents a' for | pound as a price for the chinook lin D. Roosevelt, Jr., what Foss officials said is one of jceqqong starting Sept. 10, but did the American Legion's Housing Com- | —Rain the largest salvage operaticns ever ', i girect members to stay at that mittee was “stacked in favor of real ‘mans ‘estate interests” and characterized mnumain hike today. The fall salmon run is expected, ! NEW YORK, b“Dt 47“‘"‘(7105"15 and “principal errand boy” on Capi- | 15-minute speech quotation of Alaska Juneau mme. Aslock today is 4%, American Can € | g714, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright | Imernauona] Harvester 84, Ken- | ! Northern Pacific 19'z, U. S. Steelw 'still in perfect condition and should 69, Pound $4.03%%. in grocers’ the country in coming weeks, iMarine Surveyor's |said today. The cardboard packing uutous“.ies‘ 35.51 Alm\* deteriorated, somewhat han-| shelves throughout | representative | i Sales today were 870,000 shares. | Averages today are as follows: In- | dustrials, 177.27; rails, 48.19; utili- | | i Brifon Meant |Bevin's Redistribution What He Said | On Gold Plan i Proposal View as Part | of Marshall Formula | LONDON, Sept. 4 n An | that Foreign Secretary Ernest | Bevin's proposal for redistribution | lof the Fort Knox gold was, in the British view, to be an integral part the Marshall Plan for aiding | European economic recovery The informant said Bevin had | opening in two w ‘cks‘me National Forests, the land shall |made the suggestion informally in | an exchange with U. S. Ambassador | Lewis W. Douglas before announc- ing it publicly yesterdav at i(he| ‘Irade Union Congress in Southport In the course of a 70-minute talk | today with American Congressmen who are investigating economic con- ditions in Britain and western Eur- | ope, the Foreign Secretary gave sev- e more details of his proposal, this scurce added Bevin's elucidation of his proposal for redistributing U. S. gold stocks | | came in answer to a question from | one of the Congressmen and the informant said the Foreign Secre- tary made these points s provosal had the backing of | the British Government. He believed it was unhealthy and. unsound economics, out of harmony | {with the princivles of multilateral trade which the United States her- iself was urging, for one country o and not use them. | ‘There would be no lasting settle-l {ment of Europe's =conomic diffi- | {culties if continental recovery was: {to depend on never-ending U. . loans. Gold could become the basis of | v\()xld currency systems and every | nation should have access to it. i The informant said Bevin's eluci- | dation of his proposal was xecenedi 'somewhat skeptically” by the U. S. Congressmen. A member of lhe' delegation said “It just doesn't make | sense.” LEGION CHARGED WITH DESERTING AMERICAN VETS| | NEW YORK, Sepl 4 qn,,prank.‘ declares that | !the Legin convention's rejection 01 tol Hill for the National Association | |of Real Estate Boards. e, — | | 'LABOR LAW TEST AT POLLS OPENS IN PENNSYLVANIA | | eastward over | again HEAT WAVE HITS HIGH WEDNESDAY Schools Closed in Kansas, | Oklahoma-Stores Gave & Employees leaves | The Assoc alwl Press | The nation’s heat belt, center- ing in the southwest and extend- ing from the Dakotas to Texas, began to buckle today as a mass of tool air overspread the North- ern Rockies and started moving the northern tier By of states. smperatures whi scared into the 100's in Kans Missouri .and Oklahoma, were ex- pected to touch near the 100 mark today, but Federal forecast- ers expected near normal readings by tomorrow. They said the cool- er weather will ieach the upper and middle Mississippi Valley today and Great Lakes and Ohio Valley tomorrow. New records yesterday for the date were set in many communities in the heat belt yesterday. Manhattan, Kansas, reported an unofficial high of 117, while the weather said the hottest spot on its map was Concordia, Kansas, with a sizzling 112, Some schools closed in Oklahoma and Kansas and business firms allowed employees to go home early |because of the excessive heat Alva’s 114 was the top mark in the | Sooner state and a new record! |high for September of 1054 was 1huld most of the world's gold stocks | |set in Oklahoma City. Some of the hct spots in Kan- sas included Junction City, 113; Hays, 111; Topeka and Neodesha | 110; Kansas City 109, and Hut- inson and Wichita 198. Missouri’: marks were 109 at Kansas 107 at Springfield and 103 {top City, bureau |+ - |at Joplin. | Forecasters said tnere were scat- tered thundershowers | Northern Rockies across much |the Dakotas, Nebraska and western {Towa. They said temperatures in the eastern states and on the \\est <o.x.~l were near normal. S ee——— IT RAINS AT RIO 100; TRUMAN STAYS IN EMBASSY RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. thwarted President plans to take The President, who climbed 1,000 high pressure pumps and powerrul‘w be heavy. Fishermen say a|the Wagner-Ellender-Taft Housing feet up the Corcovado (Hunch- winches. \hmvv August run, lika the one Bill as a “desertion of the Ameri- back) Mountain yesterday, had From four to 12 divers will be g “nagt generally foreshadows acan veteran {hoped to don slacks, sport shirt directed by Arthur {go.q September catch. | Roosevelt, Chairman of the Na- {and heavy shoes for this morn- McCray of Seattle. Six huge an-| ————— tional Housing Committee of the ing’s expedition, his press secre- ichors will securs the barge over| A American Veterans Committee, saldflflry Charles G. Ros: id. the ship, which was sunk in Cres- | ‘Lhat under retiring National Cqm- When rain put a damper on ;'cent Bay in a collision August 13/ SIO(K 0"0“"0“; {mander Paul H. Griffith the Le-|his plans, Mr. Truman remained twith the steamer Fenn Vi:tory. | gxon had been the “mouthpiece” in the Embassy, working on his to te delivered to the Brazilian Congress tomor- lrow 2 p. m. EST). e — \VFW CONVENTION | TOLD THAT WAR IS POSSIBILITY goumpeers perums; 4 —(P—Ma) president “with two dia- ideologies try- in is certainly ly together” /ar comi dil al a U. S :;yeme growinci o 5 c‘r’éated ro|dicapping efforts to salvage thel | ALLENTOWN, Pa. Sept. 4—1M~ CLEVELAND, Sept. his purpose. This theatre would\”‘”'“ of the sunken freighter o ‘Repzesenv.suves of organized labor |Gen. Robert S. Beightler, ha PRk " jamond Knot, but cans already|® ® | have fired what union and political |of the War Personnel Board, de- include tHé continental U. S. and 'D r " .\ be comphThbile o SIS Aadibran: brou;.ht to the surface are in good; ®* WEATHER REPORT {leaders believe is the opening gun clared today that e comp: e to | hape, James Gow, of Alexander % ® 1 in a battle against the Taft-Hartley | metrically opposed ean and other foreign theatres. As ; |e Temperature for 24-Hour | Labor L. i theatre commander, Bradley would C"’“ Inc, said. {lamon: T, ing to live peaceful be junior to the chief of staf,i All Will be inspected by govern-|® Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock ®| Immediate object of the struggle la shunken world * e chief of s This Morning ® !is Pennsylvania's Eighth Congres-|a possibility.” inspectors. The salvage wo)k‘ ment the post he really wants and Is| In Juneau—Maximum, 50; i 1 District where .37-year-old | 1 t may take two months. Fifty n ‘smna e 2 :&i;‘;cflfi Braq. |thousand gallons of herring ofl| @ minimum, 4. _ ® | Franklin H. Lichtenwalter, Republi- ley, the A',.mv p;)lmcos would open ha already been pumped from @ At Airport—Maximum, 54; can Speaker of the House of Rep- iy y Pen - hks on the ship, sunk in a|® minimum, 44, resentatives, is opposing the candi- | the way to grab off the C/S prize. First choice on their list is tall, ambitious Gen. Mark. Clark, U. s, Ausust 13. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) jdacy of Phil H. Storch, 36-year-old | collision with the Fenn Victory on‘. | Democrat and President of the CIO The salmon cargo was| ® i d at $3,500,000. ‘e Mostly cloudy with oc- Lehigh Valley Newspaper Guild. 1 ;"a’?ma"der I aeRlys gning ’he:mluc t“..— o casional light rain and not W. J. Weil, Vice-President of the ¢ H (‘AKMOI)\{S GO SOUTH | ® much change in temperature | Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, BT»BTleiy ‘15 r:;)w m, _i:umpe b g le tonight and Friday. fat a political rally here called the ;{Z‘E ]::‘?:c f::m 3‘1; Vf’e':"n;‘s’fi Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carmody |® PRECIPITATION | district a “testing ground for the re- | Administration. He is Ellenhower's’““d small daughter Patricia flew [® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) peal" of the Taft-Hartley Labor | personal choice as his successor. south via Pan American yesterday. In Juneau — .10 Anches; Law. | At the time Eisenhower announc- MI: and Mrs. Carmody have been , ® since Sept. 1, 250 inches; —_———————— residing -in Juneau for two years since July 1, 15.72 inches. ARRIVE ON PAA ed his plan to retire from the Army in January to become presi- Mr. and Mrs. LaMont Meuwissen | of Chaska, Minn,, are registered at {02 inches; 125 inches At Airport — since Sept. 1, will make their future|® Mr. Carmody has | ® and they home in Seattle. Columbia Uni ¥ . :ioel?: :;wsme‘:nm h: hop::“‘g;fid]:; been chief dispatcher in Juneau for | ® since July 1, 11.57 inches. the Hotel Juneau. They arrived on - the Pan American Airways and has the Pan American plane from Seat- ee 000000000 tle yesterday. (Continued on Page Pour) been transferred | been | what | our Making the first principal ad- national encampnient of the Vet-| erans of Foreign Wars, Gen. Beight- ler declared “the greatest hops for a successful United Nations is a prepared United States.” The wartime commander of Ohio’s 37th Division told conven- tion delegates “it is irrefutable that we continue to exist in dangerous world. It is in which time and distance have so reduced that no matter his intentions, everyone is neighbor We should know a lot about what he is doing, and must make it a point to care what| Airlines, is making a survey trip of | he does, especially if he is in- clined to start wars” a world| mom the Cash on Hand Amounts fo 1 4P Tru- another jrants. | before the Territory was sure of its way equipment | poor financial slute |dress at the opening of the 48th|tional parks on their vacation. They | APTIVES BY SLAVS Doris Duke Weds Dominican DRAG THREE ~ | OVERBORDER ~ AT GUNPOINT Goto Relea;e—Three Others Held-All Are Defain- ed for Days TE, Sept. 4—#—Two U. officers and an enlisted !man sent into the Yugoslav occu- pied zone of Yugoslavia to nego- ‘tiate for the releass of three other ! American soldiers charged today they were “literally dragged” at !gunpoint across the Morgan Line ‘by Yugoslav soldiers, and then detained six days. | All six wers returned to Gorizia ters today. They said two other Americans, detained by the Yugoslavs in August, still were held in the Yugoslav zone. |‘ The first three enlisted men lwere detained after their truck & 3 f f made a wrong turn into the zone. They were halted at a Yugoslav loutpost. They arz T/5 Stephen G. Novotny, Uniontown, Pa.; Pfc. Richard L. Donnell, Mattoon, Il and T 5 Hasqno Keiji, Honolulu. Maj. Gen. Bryant Moore, 88th Division Commander, sent Capt. Clifford H. Shea, Randolph, Mass. Capt. Jacob D. Conrad, Lexington, {Ky. and T/3 Milan Borish, Den- ver, Colo., their interpreter, to ne- - i TRIE |S. Army headq A L2 ; Doris Duke, 34-year-cld Rubirosa, honorary char, “richest girl in the world,” and Porfirio e daffaires of the Dominican Republic in France, stand in the Dominican Consulate in Paris shortly after they |yotiate for return of the three. were married, August 31, by the Dominican Consul General in a | They said they were forced ky single ceremony. The bride is the former wife of James H. R. Crom- | Yugoslavs to cross the line di- well. It is the groom's third marriage. (AP Wirephoto via radio from '\ldh\g the British-American from Paris). \the Yugoslay zone of Venezia Gui- jlia, and were held at a Yugoslav jmilttary guardhonse. i, Tolgige. MacARTHUR 'S'nmpmms ARMED TOSTRIP JAPi MARINE ESCAPEES WAR N.ANTS| IN BEACH GUNPlAY SAN ONOFRE, Calif., Sept. 4.— “»1‘- Six escaped Marine Corps prisoners, armed with two carbine rifles, were cornered in heavy brush on a beach near here early today fand captured after 20 minutes of ‘gunpln,\z the State Highway Patrol { reported. . Highway patrolman BANK BALANCE OF TERRITORY IS STILL IN POOR STRAITS Commission Gives General | Powers to End War Goods Production Sept. $1,590,988.63 but Only $73,221.61 Available The Territory ()I Al-lflK(l had $73- | 22161 in its Treasury to meet gen- eral operating expenses as of August 131, according to a monthly financ Al Bisgard, statement issued today by Treasurer \ WASHINGTON, 4. y ; Oscar Olson. This amount is all|The 11-nation Far Eastern Com-vl“'.‘f’ was at the scene, b‘nld he be- that remains of a total of $1,590.- mission has ordered Gen. Douglas | ieved one prisoner was wounded. H‘ saild he did not know if the ners, who escaped from Camp Pmdh-tmx yesterday in a stolen truck, returned the fire of law en-" forcement. officers and military 1 polic Bisgard said the escaped men sighted walking down the ach by members of a Marine 988.63 actual cash in the bankhich | MacArthur to give what amounts {can be touched by the Territory for to a knock-out blow to all Japanese | general expenses, industry capable of being used for A total of $355,625.46 has been set|war purposes, it is announced. aside for meeting outstanding ws The Commission has ordered the! The balance of $1,162,141.56 destruction of all buildings, mach-} is reserved for special earmarked inery and equipment which muld‘ funds such as Veterans Administra used ‘only in the production of | tion, Motor Fuel Oil Tax, Teachers' war materials Retirement, Forest Reserve, Unem-| All other primary war facilities{¢ach patrol. When an order to et COmNAREITn” Bkt | which Dave e beacetimne, vilue DIt xas aiciled 7tiis M wmivil fon, Health, Old Age Assistance,|were ordered impounded and their|iDto brush at the foot of a bluff. University of Alaska and many machinery and equipment made! iBiquard estimatdd that some 40 off 5 were at tbe scene. He other minor funds. available for reparations. wis balance will enable the Ter-| Tke Commission also dumm.‘ d officers fired shots into the ,xbzuah from the top of the cliff to ritory to meet its monthly $70,000 trat any portion of we 7 payroll but will not permit it to pay industry which is excess to the( o'¢® 1lu-' prisoners out and cap- other obligations which have be2n peacetime needs of Japan be ma m(,u\l;tllmn { Police previously made but for which war- available for removal as repara-| fram ... seveea] - ManthE rants have not yet been issued. One tions {communities as well as sheriff's example of this, according to Olson,| The |officers and highway . patrolmien is the fuel and other supplies for were joined l}n the search for the flx schools in the interior which were includ prisorfers. The Provost Marshal's delivered during the summer montns als, ball offioe. By Gag PRodiston. snid S prisoners were members of a work- 1 y party at a staging area of ‘the vast Marine camp and that they caped yesterday by overpowering ds and stealing a trurk - D |GEVERS ARE LEAVING ; FOR EXTENDED TRIP Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Geyer will war-supporting industries spel out in detail. They iron and steel, light met- and roller bearings, rail- automotive, electric power, synthetic rubber, oil refin- ing and chemical. Also included were the merchant marine, fishing, whaling and cannery fleets. The Commission’s —drastic FROM VA(A"0N|NG strictions on the industrial omy of Japan were approved August 14. A divective based up- and Mrs. Stan Grummett and on this policy was forwarded to Roger and Michael, MacArthur the Supreme Com- returned to Juneau yesterday via mander for the Allied powers in Pan American Airways. Leaving Ju- Japan. re- econ- on Mr. their two sons, ' STEAMER MuVEMENTS | Alaska, from Seattle, due Friday stopped off at two dude | night or Saturday morning Grommet Reefer scheduled to sail peau in July, they shipped their car to Vancouver and drove to five 1 visited Banff, Lake Louise, Wat ton Lake, Yellowstone and Gla Park. They ranches, where Roger and Mike had a wonderful time riding horseback. from Seattle today They visited with Mrs. Grummett’s! Princess Lou scheduled to sail sister and brother-in-law, Dr. and ! from Vancouver 9 p.m. Saturday. Frincess Norah, from Skagway. scheduled to arrive at 8 a.m. Friday Mrs. Bruce Budge in Boise, and Mr. Grummet’s sister and brother-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. Norman C. Lowe and sails south one hour later at in Seattle. 9 am > | anof, from west, scheduled PNA OFFICIAL HERE * | southbound Sunday Harold A. Olsen, General Traffic - e Manager for the Pacific Northern FROM SITKA Mrs. William C. Charteris and 'the Territory. He will leave Juneau \lx‘s F. A. Herrick, of Sitka, are at today for Cordova, the Baranof Hotel leave tomorrow morning on the | Princess Norah on an extended va- Am\lmn trip in the States. In Seattle {they will stop briefly to visit their l(lmu.mfl and son-in-law, Mr. and iMrs. Joe Storms and their two lgmnduulmen. then they will pick up a new Plvmouth sedan and begin their tour of the United States. They will drive across northern iUniled States to New York, as far jsouth as Florida and return to the | West Coast via the Southern States. ! They will stop at the Mayo Clinic tin Rochester, Minn., where Mr. ! Geyer will receive medical attenton. 1 They plan to spend the winter months in Phoenix, Arizona and San Diego, Calif. The Geyers will re- turn to Juneau after the Christmas holidays,