The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 15, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE v “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” " — g o = e — — - — — —— \ VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,682 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1947 PRICE TEN CENT] | DISCHARGE OF SHIP'S CARGO IBEGINS TODAY {lssues Left figemed Und- ALASKAMUST (SPECIAL OFficaLsays | WHITEHOUSE | ~ ALASKAN NEEDS BOOST TAXES SESSION, it e ruteo| HOPES SOUND SAYS BUTLER QUESTION . vextee, of e mierir! OUT CHANCES | Dept., Believes that Con- ! : ‘ HUBB'ES gressional Visits Help {Dewey Mo ‘ : | CHEERING No Baby-Sitter Nededr _ .. ve; Info New Senator Predicts Stafehood Truman Will Face Difficul- " in "Cerfainty Less fy in Making Decision | rne wemon of awsa nac England-Taft Heads for *| "er Agreement - No Ju- r . many needs and most of hese will 3 fhan 10 Years on Special Meet (b hcc™ st wao the stntement | Los Angeles SECTION neau Developments today of H. Rex Lee, Ass nt Di- | WASHINGTON. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. Sept.| Sept. 15.—(P— rector of the Division of Territories | (By The Associated Press) y B (P—Alaska will get statehood President Truman is due home of the Interior Department. I Two potential candidates for the KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 15.- “without too much delay,” Sena-|from Rio thi: week to face what|Wwas an overnight Juneau visitor and {1948 Republican Presidential nomi- | M—Longshoremen started unload- ing 156 tons of cargo from the ship was scheduled to leave for Seattle | nation moved into new territory to- ; ¢ | W . % i tor Hugh Butler of Nebraska pre-|/may be one of the most difficult via PAA this afternoon. He came to | day to sound out their chances. ilor's Splice here today after an dicted in an interview here Sat-|decisions of his Administration— 4 urday whether there should be a special! Alaska with the Senate Public Lands { Goyv. Themas E. Dewey of New jagreement was signed yesterday The Senators stopped off here session of Congr to provide'Committee but left it in the Interior | York invaded New England for the j | ending Alaska’s five-week-old wat- enroute to the United States af- emergency aid for Europe. to conduct his own investigation of | first time since his 1944 campaign. ‘*'l‘“"“l tieup. ter a trip to the northern Terri-| Chisf Executive's top ad-|T prial conditions. And, following Dewey's not-vet- The ship, which had been taken tory He is chairman of the visers appear to be split on the| Lee said that the recent visits by {cold footsteps in the West, Senator . (. north last week to Wrangell and U. S. Senate Committee .on Pub-|subject various Congressional Committees | Robert A. Taft of Ohio headed for § j 1 burg, returned to Ketchikan. 3 lic Lands. Secretary of State Marshall, now should do much to bring about aiLes Angeles and two important| ¢ ; b i agreement was signed be- “Statehood will come for Alaska in New York for the United Na-|better unders anding of the Alnskmllpuh(‘y speeches in his tour to “help| § 3 2 , | tween the CIO-International Long- #% in certainly less than 10 years— tions Assembly meeting, is expected situation and should help to secure {me make up my mind” whether to _ & '!:Imu-uwn‘a‘ and Warehousemen’s possibly from three to eight years,” to return as soon as possible after the aid it needs from the Federal {seek the nomination { 3 » : B | Union and officials of three steam- Senator Butler predicted. “It might Mr. Truman arrives on Saturday Government Officially, Dewey went to Spring- ! x 4 ,,' ship companies. 3 have come sooner if the Territory to present the State Department’s >> field, Mass., to attend the Eastarn #1 The longshoremen id they 2 had already worked out a general case in favor of a special session i States Exposition. Unofficially, the | § stru for a guaranteed minimum tax base like the other states have. call ANOIHER HomE trip threw him in contact with GOP | wage and protection from suit under “Alaska should see that a gen- Opponents of the State Depart- l(iuwnmx\ or their close aides from {[the Taft-Hartley Law. eral tax bill gets through at the ment’s view have been less out- COMM"’TEE Is ‘I’o eight Eastern Seaboard States, .|| Under the agreement the princi- next session of the legislature—a spoken than Marshall and Under- I Elsewhere there were reminders ipals will continue negotiations for tax bill that includes real and per- secretary Lovett, but word from {that other Republicans regard the s 30 days in an effort to settle two sonal property taxes. Alsaka has| Administration officials indicates (OME To AI'ASKA!"“"" Bb 4tiiT iWide opBr Y Thisee 1ok ] < ¢ points still at issue and if no set- i fi): to show that it can_ support (hat. two arguments may be ad- | cluded L 3 S5 carries her ten-month-old daughter, Kathleen “papoose- ”"',"“" hos b”f“ '.""(h' by “‘BF Hine / he more expensive form of state vanced: 1. A declaration by Senator Cap- + yvje” a5 she participated it preliminary judging at the ninth annual “Mrs. America” beauty contest at ipaiaddis A Wi /' government.” 1. That the European nations' [y co"gressmefl Exped_ per of Kansas that “All over the| paeod ey Lol t oy Bolnides, N g 8 sl s et 2 gty Federal mediation The Senator expressed the belief protably can pull through alone { nited ilates thboe tuvh WAOH AME L ~Poetior Auuaemsnt EAYs Eelantes, N. J. I THpM The questions still to be settled the development of Alaska and the until the Marshall Plan long-range ed in A|aska ThlS week ericans who look forward to the = are the Taft-Harley Law issue and ® northwest territories of Canada, recovery program can be put in- 1 possibility of helping elect” Gen [ the division of work between long- together with northern British to effect next year, and, IO Study Nat SB(UI’Ify | Dwight D. Eisenhower as President law sull Brou h' Here Ioda ‘Nlp pl T shoremen and sailors. Columbia and the Port of Prince| 2. That it would be potentially % ion a Republican ticket | However, the longshoremen agreed Rupert, could well go hand in'dangerous move for the President e 2. Predictions by two other GOP |not to claim' any work presently hand. Ito make for domestic political rea-| A subcommittee of the House For-| Senators, Ball of Minnesota and 1) " done by the sallors. SR R o eign Affairs Committee will visit Al- | MeCarthy of Wisconsin, that former (har es Ke'(hlk The strike was climaxed last week | e aska this week, according to Joseph | Goy, Harold E. Stassen of Minne- |+ an ron'( e’ | when the Sailor's Splice arrived and T. Flakne, Director of the Alaska{sota, the only avowed candidaté I Ketchikan . merchants their EAVIER Ax Branch, Division of Territories. The | will be a serfous contender at the M M s stores in retaliation -against. p H T ES visitors will represent the Subcom- {convention and that no candidate Edl'or w l Bak rWIIh l b I E strike and offered to unload ‘z: | e on National Security and is{will win the nomination on the first [ 1] I e w craft themselves. i FOR 5 N AZI * ON BRITISHERS cocce s mevsentatve Rt 5 |t 5 ‘ {("A seatle Harey Lews, Federa . : Chiperfield, of Tllinois. B —— —_— e —_— Conciliator, who attended confér- d ARE pREDl(TED‘ Flakne was scheduled to leave W. L. Baker, editor and pul)lhn-"‘ nt 1-’!"‘ “"-“‘n»“ “;““ ‘I‘-‘* going tences here, said the issue of the here today for "Whitehorse where ! er, and Journal Printing Company,|0n and sent its internal revenue inati raft-Hartley Law the major ques- | Wednesday. He will assist them mlSPAIN ENv Y of Ketchikan, publishing corpora- | 28€nts and the U. S. district at- Planned ASSBSSI"G"O“ 0' tion to be settled in mé' co?nfn. g g arranging an itinerary for their ! tion, of the Ketchikan Chronicle,;torney around to collect.” This, Slovakian Presidem |S negotiations. The union demand for lBaflk Of En Iand cashes Alaska tour. He did not know lare named defendants in an ac-|th¢ complaint confends, “contains 2 guaranteed minimum annual wage c . E d E g0 g whether or not the committee will tion for libel brought in the Dis-!the implication that the plainti(f FOiIed—Man A"eS'S was not pressed, Lewis said, and eremonies tn ra }Or P " f G |d R visit Juneau. E {tict Court here today by Helen Was: the recipient of funds to y the agreement was signed without it. " I F I d H ! ortion 0 0 e- Representative Bartel J. Johnson | Troy Monsen, of Juneau | which plaintiff knew she was not i . A aly, infana, Uflgary, % t D ” | of Michigan, is the only other Con- The complaint alleges that an entitled and that this statement ppAGUE, Sept. 15—@— The AWAIT FORD'S RETURN a B | . R . serves 10 vollars gressman of this committee who will it et et Doy~ 5. Juise, meliciona &ng defama-'giate of Slovakia announced to-| Local 1-16, ILWA, reported no - u ga”a, umania St make the trip. respondence” appearing in the| nd that the remainder gay ji had nipped a plot to over-!information concerning the reported o T | LONDOM Sept. 15 - (P—The Flakne returned here Saturday Katoh WA K ihies - clsbitole +pn | Of: tie statemen Ckives t1 Impli-| (hrow president Eduard Bmws"wlrlke settlement agreement reach- ’ PARIS, Sept. 15. (#—Formal | Bank of England has sold gold val- | from Ketchikan where he had been September 8, 1947, signed by ¢ .. jcation that plaintiff had sousht ' goyernment and assassinate him.ied yesterday in Ketchikan beyond peace comes tonight to the five |ued at $80000000 to the Federal | traveling with Senator Hugh Butler e fendant Baker with his initials| fe e 1 DS Tr‘.:“\:ox‘;xlpllxlxi:xw It eaid 00, riogleadsen; had herst | bl \0EHIE MERMERtEE RS et defeated European satellites of Nazi , ¥ 'k, the and other members of the Senate . . o ogg: sums 4 B aint gryested their representative there, Ge: e g e Tty i(x‘::‘:nnx(;iedN::da:mk “(‘Public Lands Committee. |Argenhna Only Nation of w::l 1m“m.m,‘h_ bt T IO (Eba K s oo and * ovakia's Interior Ministry satd{ord ¢ b signalized the end of am® era for |sale of £20,000.000 from zovernment | of Lomp Ylng n ciilated and distribubed for the xole $ 4 s i 4 B e in government employ. It added)Morning that any announcement by Italy, Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria reserves was the first transaction| purpose of maliciously injuring, de- Furpose Fas Bhort the plot was.broken by the con~| e 1081 WMl Awatl Bard'y ttukh . The deposit of documents ratify- $400,000000 of the $3,750,000.000 Am- - plaintift and her family and for|UIL sets forth terrorists who had served with a| Lispaiches rscelved in Juneau ing the peace treaties marked the |erican loan was frozen Aug. 20. | LAKE SUGCESS, S8nt 15--Uh— | the' purposs: b idamaging ber.vep-| . 00 ALAPUED g publication o, 0o Panger division in the war $4id the Ketchikan agresment cov- - iuml step iv” winding up I‘u.r those Bril‘ain at that time suspe\jdedi NEAR l The Dominican Republic today an- utation throughout the Territory ::’)‘l‘.\ll'“li[‘ex’:su'c plm‘p“t”;l of ma ;:4-‘ and later with German SS troops|Cr® .Junenu and the local long- > five sounfies the Wapwiich Ger-)the right. to convery sterling 4t} i { nounced it had withdrawn its Mini. of Alaska and in Seattle, Washing- |, oue (ORIINE BREEE . o o secking to quell the Slovak revolu- horemen will wotk ships just as many started eight years ago. dollars. { A | ster from Madrid in compliance with ton, and for the purpose of bring- | Upneen (\;lu.l 4:1. ddmag‘l,l:\' hfl. P ion. oon as the agreement has been 5 e B N | “Since we can't get dollars from {a 1946 United Nations Assembly ing contempt. and ridicule upon ",‘“A.’,“k‘ ‘f’“[’ ’f’;‘“ et feritory Lo : jratified at a meeting here. . NEW CITY CLERK AND the American loan we must draw on OME FR SI recommendation slapping at the plaintiff and injuring plamu)’ls‘“’ laska /;)x'nwr‘ .e“ ere and an- Officials ul. \l}n» National MmMry' - R - TREASURER, ANCHORAGE our gold. reserves,” the Treasury Franco regime in Spain. Lusiness, and is libelous per se. m“"’g'nfm,fum .am.g” i hilmm_ at I,l"' ,["w“m bw“f‘ AUCRSTINY | SIEAMER Mov!"ims s jman observed. | . The announcement on the eve of | Basis For Action "’;;f" hhaldbd (,",' ',%“um,".r 5:.??'“ f. dateziue onnether e, persans | Appointment of Ben W. Boeke| This action ' coincided with an, — it | Beftat im the cotuplajiisiane: Db biieg, Jons Teslionde i nt St S pa s Lannectad: WHeH Mt Cres by the Anchorage City Council as authoritative report that Prime| (by The Associated Press) { Argentina listed as the only U. N. first two paragraphs of the 1_\;)‘{) n’ lwr \\‘nlzit”drq,:mn -;]u(c. we F& :msucw»sr.ul“ngmb ut'lgmlph Baranof, from Seattle, scheduled new city clerk and treasurer, has| Minister Attlee soon would reshutfle | , %y " CBOCREN ™ as| member which has not complied torial objected to, upon which the S skl P R Aiciacer o MASTVE W sciite) QRIS EaREE A been announced there. He was|his Cabinet, and a prediction that | .. ,eading all the north cen-]With the majority recommendation libel action is based: :x ) s 1(\’ P\l.lyln;’::w I‘:‘ ri:n::;‘ : xu ““,‘41“"], I)(llx( n[\)k.l a’nd Jus-{ Alaska, scheduled to sail from named to fill the post left vacant Britain's already heavy taxes would |\ . “(iates today with the possi.lof e ations that il recall Ehetr - Ity RN Ll AT ks 8 1 e e BRs IOISER LAOROD, s e | Seattle tomarrow, P by Tom Downes' termination of be increased (his fall as a Dar pii.” (hat it might bring light{top level diplomats from Madrid. Troy was governor of Alaska, he‘:‘z( 4I’mnu:~‘ "; AR alative. ot i (i Princess Louise scheduled to sail v service: |against inflation. scattered frosts tonigh to morthern L L S was named official sponsor of o tPYNOE B R Td dafendant -rom Vancouver 9 p. m. Wednes- —_— | The Chancellor of the Exchequer, .. 4 central sections of Wisconsinl Merle Colby’s WPA Writers' Guide! g 00 lkll-‘E ‘rm‘x'iI(;r\ s day. i i ; ; g & 3 . 2 y of Alas Aleutian scheduled to sail f o in announcing the end of sterling ... wrinnesota. l ' d pl to Alaska. After he died, royal-'}.q (he infuriihy stfect on. plain. ‘ n scl 0 rom i 8 The W aShlngfon‘;‘:;“";g},‘;‘goo'},gg- Zol‘szs‘:;%ofizi‘;g;“‘ The Chicago weather bureau said New edian @NS ties on the book besan to acerue it " dness which defendants &;:ix: ?‘;;:g:r{ scheduled to ar | he 000, ,400,000,000) r v and were paid to the Troy estate, ..,.; o Lty 3 = k: s M d1wcrth of gold and other basic re- |, Moy g‘t;?azbolrfxg:;l:? p pa er pul Makin dhd BB T e | mallciously and delikerately ntended {rive from Skagway at 7:30 o'clock A el’l'Y- 0 - NLOUNE serves in addition to the loan re- ¢y o states and to the lower 40's p p LR Taxikner t Helrs, AMONE | o, ot ey PR igatlon 0 ‘omorrow morning and sails south IR |sources. generally elswhere in the Central ol | whom of course is Mrs. Helen Troy | or that sesson e me hourhl;ner as 8:30 o'clock. 1 By DREW PLARSON 1_.'1‘1-“: prcdlct,.mn of new taxes came ang ypper midwest. AUCKLANU, —(P— New Zea- Monsen, publisher of the Juneau gumage to herself at $10 I"RDM.AI.K‘A;; > | Srom. & guninment. Burce Maximum readings of 51 in|land’s government plans to estab-|Empire | ™ She asks also to. recover from' FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 16 Cari N S e By DREW PEARSON i Mot o Mo 1n Towa were in|lish State paper and pulp manu-| “The other day, the government|y. . qofendants punitive damages ®—Warren Steele, about 32 drown-| sy i registered e WASHINGTON—When President | ga agas prospect for the area today, the)facturing works at a cost of $22-|got wise to what was going on and y tne sum of $10,000, plus costs. ed Saturday night in the Chena|g P iy ST o) Truman walks down the gangplank w‘“lam Dou Ias o' | bureau said. 680,000. sent its internal revenue agents, packground and all pertinent River +/hen he backed his loaded oil AOLeL. RN from the USS Missouri this week, g | " Scattered showers with continued| Another big timber project has and the U. S. district attorneyifaers in (he matter were outlined truck too close to the stream inat-1o ¢ o 6 o » 0 00 0 0 0 @ +4 there will be dumped in his lap a| | warm weather was forecast for the|been announced by New Zealand around to collect. The bill total-ifor reporters today by Attorney tempting to turn around 4 L P4 none-toc-happy economic report| supreme (0"" No' !south, while the northeastern states{Forest Projects, which said it plan-|ed actout $2500, all told. The al- pauikner, who also stated: “With- His companiou, Bonnie Carr, of | o y r £ from his Council of Economic Ad-| i ;could expect fair and warmer fol- ned to spend $11,340,000 The‘lt:;‘ll(:)y unddihmrslx \m‘csvmb B-lin o few days, and as soon as Fairbanks, kicked out a window as | WEATHER REPORT : visers. | lowed by scattered showers. company said it would construct e ut defenseless. So, at lastiye hleadings can be prepared, he the truck sank into 15 feet of water ke BT The Council set up by Congress| (omlng 'o AIaSka The Rocky Mountain states would [a mill to produce 42000000 fect reports, they were digging up the|yy, R e ohthl aute P i i Thdloin 't fgdch ) bbbre. | FODDSRNS , Jon. MM 13 to take the nation’s business pulse! R {have partly cloudy and warmerjof timber a year, waste from the money and settling their AcCOUN'S'pepq)f against the Journal Print- Steele’s father, Bob is a|® Period Ending 7:30 oClock e i and report on how to head off| SEATTLE, Sept. 15—P—The re-|weather, the tureau said, with timber mill would feed pulp and|With Uncle Sam. Thke money was|ing company and Mr. Baker in former Postmaster of . Alaska. | T ‘This Morning . deprassions, is more alarmed than|cent illness of Supreme Court Jus- generally fair forecast for the west|paper mills which would be set up Supposed to have gone for public whicn pe will ask for both com- B L4 ln} Juneau—Maximum, 49; ¢+ ever over high prices and the in-|tice Willlam O. Douglas had com- |coast states. « ibeside it. welfare or relief purposes and not|pecatory and exemplary damages 4 & ® minimum, 45 3 . flation spiral. In fact, they are|pelled cancellation of a planned — e | e into the pockets of any Alaskanig, majicious libel.” Emil Hamisch Is S At Alpiic-axiaum, @ 8 so worried that they have been|trip to Ketchikan, Alaska, this { newspaper publishers. As yet, we| Incident Explained |2 minlpuiAs L) cons| i i | ¢ § i v |have seen nothing in the Empire . T o & H . WEATHER FORECAST . considering the drastic step of week for a briet fishing vacation, STOCK QUOTATIONS HRS'I‘ AlD (lASS ! g i Pirel Atorney Faulkners explanation. Winner So“’dough i ; o ¥ recommending reinstatement of Saul Haas, former District Collect- d {sout the lnglientl . L itealof he mater follows i 5 L N T price controls. lor ustoms, said. Sl T i .- rejereng ol 3 B “The late /. Troy, former - + This step has also been consid- Olfil:a:: hao:n also been indisposed| NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—(#—Clos- GEIS IIS VI(TI \portion of the editorial, the com- w,\:‘::m-m,:i J,::?.:k:& u,],?(g",,,r();\;x;?, flapjifk (0fl|eS| o Increasing cloudiness and e ered by members of the Trumaniand physicians advised against| 8 quotatioa of Alasks Juneau |plaint sets forth that the state-ljpey g5 will named me as exe-| > ® slightly warmer Tuesday. . Cabinet during his absence, and making the trip. They may make, Mine stock today,deiA', Ameriean | n ol |ment that royalties paid to thelo,ior of the estate. In December! _ PUVALL, Wash.. Sept 15 —M— | @ PRECIFYTATION . they are not at all happy about|a brief Oregon trip' instead. Mrs. C:n_: 86». Anucondav 34, Curms-{ MORRISVILLE, Vt. —®—Rest-/Troy estate were “parceled out by|jg4 4 cheque was sent me as Emil Hamisch, Duvall, toped 25| ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) @ 4 it. They feel that new price con-|Haas had planned to accompany Wright 5%, International Hflrvesler]ing from a trip up Elmore moun- Attorney H. L. (Bert) Faulkner ovecuior payable to “John W other entries yesterday in winning | ® In Juneau — .75 inches: @ trols never would get by Con-|them north. |8Y, Kennecott 45, New York Cen- !tain, group leader Richard Law-|to heirs, among whom of course ISlmyoy: from MacMillan Company the Sburdough Flapjack Contest e since Sept. 1, 9.13 inches;, ® x* gress, would only result in more s o Lo X e tral 147%, Northern Pacific 19%, U.{rence showed his 4-H club boys Mrs. Helen Troy Monsen, publish-|or New york one of ’I_“é“[ A small package of sourdough|e since July 1.2235 inches. . b Llack-marketing—unless accompan- 18 Steel 68'2, Pound $4.03. {how to bandage an injured ankle.jer of the Juneau Empire” is h'h(.imlhll*'hing ho"m‘ % thia vs‘ox‘l;l My flown from Anchorage. Alaska, Sat- | ® At Airport 69 inches; e jed by rationing. And nobody YAKIMA COUPLE HERE | Sales today were 500,000 sha A few minutes later the group put|and maliciously libelous !information at that time was that urday, served as a “starter” for the since Seot. 1, 532 inches; ® wants to have rationing come back. | Mr. and Mrs. George Martin of | Averages today are as follows: Tn- |the first aid demonstration fo good| Also charged to be false, malic-] Teptescnitad toyalties on a affair which was presided over by since July 1, 15.64 inches. . L Yakima are staying at the Hotel!dustrials, 175.38: rails, 47.70; utili- use. Lawrence sprained an ankic ious and defamatory - statements’' X ’ g ed Bruhn, Grand Master of the . ies, 3 on the downward hike Yin the editorial that “the govern- (Contirued op Page Fight) Cherry Creek ® 00 000V e (Continued on Page Four) J Junean