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HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e ———— VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,684 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTJ S——— MARSHALL DEMANDS VETO RESTRI Florida’s East Coast Is Lashed By Hu CT rricane . e ) i i ! Gy | g USSRHAILED WIND SWEEPS Learning fo Fly 'FORRESTAL ~ " |USSR HAI NOW TOWARD ISBIG CHIEF ' TO ACCOUNT | ! MEXICO GULF OF DEFENSE 1 BEFORE U-N , i ¥ B o ! —— Residents Huddle in Shelt- :First Civilian Boss of Army, Machinery Urged for As- " ers - Planes Smashed | Navy, Air Forces Takes | sembly fo Step in When Like Fruit Baskets ’ Over-Takes Oath ‘ Council Hamstringed | e i ;J;“,Kis(“v’“‘é;fi?l;& Sf"?‘ "””;,T SECRETARY WARNS SMALL Florida’ asi the nation’s first Secretary of De- R it Rt oo - S S a COUNTRIES JEOPARDIZED rich truck-farming sectors of the i fl;\niorlrme:ce:o resident | i R : i t - ale shor after duties as Secretary of the Navy! e ™ i 2 3 i - - e | & oven Port. Lalglerdal hortly aft 8t noon today and took the onth| SUNNIN CIN |T HE SURF — Here are seven pretty reasons why summer visitors in | cused of Aggressnon iami inds 10! is new office from Fred & orida enjoy swi ing in the gulf. rls are kneeling in surf near St. Petersburg. | . In Miami and Palm Beach, winds R ORGt Tiktioe. ot b ol joy imming in tl 7: If. The Fl,l are kneeling f St. Petersburg, | Agams' Gree(e reached 110 to 120 miles per hour in punishing gusts, and torrents of tates, in a ceremony at the Navy | Department Faulkner Suif 'MARCH OF By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER rain lashed the area in swirling | The | | sheets. The Highway Patrol re- Byt ogplonarsepr o g, | | NEW YORK, Sept. 17—@—In a ported one death by electrocution. ! O eilag Bt "m uri;;fit c;m“ | | speech bristling with censure of ’ Miami Beach virtually was iso-| 'in ”‘m' deréns;* esl:nbhshm’*nl 8 1 " Russiz, Secretary of State George lated when two causeways fo the { High-ranking civilian leaders at= HE IAFT | | Nebioon Voo wtts « Setsments mainland were closed. Electric pow- | e . # 4 A dzd A aid i “with| r | 7 Nations today to make a “supreme » er and water were cut off, Several Senator Arthur Capper (R.-Kans.), in cockpit o‘f a plane at‘sllhurhan “(’H i 2e K‘.m y H‘U“s] effort” to break the word’s “deel persons were missing in the churn- | Hubla Valley, Va., near Washington, receives flight instructiens from | b7} ing -militasgugtiasls. < 1 | . | ening political and saomomic crisls” ing seas | Mrs. Pearl Robinson. The 82-year-cld publisher said he has joined 1}‘““2&' Gen hD‘”S“; % E&%e";fl’:" HE DE(lARES l T and save Grece from the “attacks” At West Palm Beach two houses | ¢he Congressional Flying Club of which Mrs. Robinson is chief in- s vE ’C"t‘l-:“g. ’:& ;imittzfl éme(f: I e amage‘ of its Balkan Communist nelghbors. went up in flames as a result of | gyuetor. Associated Press Photo. | Nayal Op‘(‘l‘aliuns:' per Gen: Call) With - undiplomatic bluntness, broken power lines. Ironically, one | iSpaqlz rommanc‘iin‘" Sisustal ‘n‘: —_— | . o S tI:/lzu"sl'mufln;r‘:;;:etll" Y\;Io;l;\;i;. .A‘: house belonged to a fireman. The | | fiind - 8 i e » . g . . . . o . ania an aria of “ e Red Cross, Teported between ”’miFOREST SERVICE SPE(UMIORS fids Air, Poross; tJeering Union' Leaders Chronicle Ediforial Insin- Two Million Workers in sepresiver acts aganst. Gresee and 20,000 huddled in emergoency ! { 1 had been. expected that, For-| i i Tyt > o v three. Russian vetoes helters at West. Paim Beach, alone. | L ha veen expecd e T May Project Senator | uales Criminal Com- | Ifaly Plan Demonstra- biocke Sectiity Council scion (o Hundreds of thousands up and (Alls FOR BIDS ireturn from Rio de Janeiro before . . P . . protect the country, then flung this b a e oy iy l {rtiin friy o oD e into Presi. Race plicity, IsAllegation | fion on Safurday sharp warning to the s5-nation u. e schools and cther public buildings. { | I The Navy official told a ”pau_: —_— | et N. Assembly: C. C. Clausen, a contractor, was ! 0“ pulp IlMB R\ ler that it had been decided before EN ROUTE TO SAN DIEGO Judgment of $10000 damages and| By FRANK BRUTTO Small States in Jeopardy grverely, Do i Lot b i i Mr. Truman left that the cere- WITH TAFT, Sept. IT=B SEnalor the turther sum of $10000 punitive) ROME, Sept. 17 (P—Ttalian Tl S oacinge ptand by when he stepped on one many ; 4 e g s aft (R.-Ohio) traveled s or E garid % | workers, come 2,000,000 of them al- s 4 mere spectator while a member ) electric wires lttering (e 5"“"“5‘;59(0“(1 BIOCk, Near Ket-| UNDER (OVERE‘,}:&C’ :;‘"lfh;e n’,'oe,l::hq ‘,‘;’;" “}IS an aerial look at the Colorado River ¢ °Xemplary damgages is asked by| 'l F5 B0 (0T ared today Of the United Nations is endangered Two trains carrying hurrricane re- | 5 | !all preliminary arrangements were Basin, leaving behind in Los An- local attorney H. L. Faulkner injp =" " . wide demonstration by attacks from abroad. If the fugees from the Lake Okeechobee | (hlkan Pu' '0 Sale— | completed and it was decided w‘geles the impression that jeering a civil action charging libel, filed|jext Sam,d“g against the high United Nations should fail to pro- region reached Marcy, Fla., safely ' : g . jose g 'm ahead with the change-over, Union picketers may go far toward i the District Court here todaycost of living tect the integrity of one small state, atter aiticutties st west' Pam | Bid Requirements Slight Price SIUMPS @S ihus"putting provisions of the new Brojecting him actively into the race ygaing; the co-defendants W. L Leaders said hundreds of thous- [he securlty of il smab sates Beach. They were consolidated for ' | inat;onal security act into effect at| fOF the 1948 Republican Presidential b i i s, HREregs .o OUS” would be pliced in jeopardy.” § i i . . 5 y @ t at ” 3 Baker and Journal Printing Com-,ands of union members would move ., movement to Sebring. { wasnvaron sepr. 17— Margin Hikes Confem- | ene cariest possivie time nomination. e enven. thiough. ~ Marshall laid before the assem- A dozen commercial planes were |, " Pt Vet ates Fgr.em. Sios { 5 M 0 A Introduced before a Republican P2DY. of Keichikan, Baker is nam-| %, 000 pRome’nnwsfiapeN v[;r- bly a seven-point action program, ] smashed like fruit baskets at Mmm"‘m;a- ']\sked bids on 1,500,000,000 plated bY Marke's | |gatharing as possibly “the best ed as iaiwor and Publisher and|j v dubbed the " demonstration, dramatitally reversing American TR o S fcumg feeh of -timber in the Tongass l STO(K OUOIMIONS | qualified man in the United States the Journal Printing Company 8S{a wmarch of hunger” and a “pre- POli€y on the veto issue and de- HSH I-ANDI"GS !Nanom;i Forest ;1 Ala: ; | (By The Associated Press) 1 ‘i:)r ?-esui]em,” Taft dmdxcated that xp;uk:li:};}ng Mca;po:;;inn ‘01 the!jude to revolution.” ntmndi:gn:;m:l thesuse;nblé set ‘utp ! The proposed sale is the second' The grain market at Chicago op- ] . © thought CIO and AFL pickets Ketchikan Alaska Chronicic. R G _ its owr full-time Security Commit- i Fish landings at the Juneau:of’rthatpa;ourt of timber announc- | ened stiady today and then slimpzd!. NEW ’L{(:_RK- Sremju”vi:m;,ilos[, who booed his entrance into the hall _The. action 1 ased upon the m( lfi:‘zptOfd'(hz’ll;{ggboimfli’;r tec to backstop the veto-ridden Cojd Storage this morning were ed by the Agriculture Department. as selling pressure developed, while-:::fileq:;;kwa)d;v 9 n; aAme“ce:“ might have lifted his political pros- same Chronicle led,'to'i:al. e ,Lhahm\lum Contaderation of Labor, Sefiumy Onuncelé. h the Isis, under John Martinson,|The timber is located in the gen- protests against hight food prices | gore ooi’ puoced ot ©C irtiss. | oo Vil b o b‘lr action| i Pletro Neni, pro-CommUNISt geayes. mow. gt "":; ‘tf t"fi‘:’d with 25,000 unds of salmon forieral vicinity of Ketchikan, Alaska.' echced across the nation. 'W i 5:1- y antmualhl-!arvesier‘ Associates have made no secre; 987 u\>l,‘ 1>e same de! ?1ldaxlt. |leader of the Socialist party, pub- “fl es‘ nflowv avors drastic 283 Alaska Coasl Fisheries; the pack-|The previous offer was for tim- The grain market selling was be- !le:zxpm:éc:new e e [of the fact that the Ohio Senator, bm\:eh.Tl.\fm earlier this \fcrk by licly denied that there would be ;‘ull;m] m'.the ve;,n by ell;?m:t,mg or Sampson, with 6000 pounds for'per in the Petersburg area. Jieved caused by the possibility of | Lot K 40, e ", |Who hieads the Senate's Republican "% 'Tr07 IORSER Mm. Mans)l 5 vollition, t entisafp liam, &1 Mcycin dooys - Sebastian-Stuart, and the Gambier,| rTpe servee said the salss were AN increase in margin requirements. | ol 71%. Pound $4.08%, | Policy Committee, is primarily in- Sen- MISD- MSREENOIAN puitye den- et o e e M l;-c Riaptiaments of; fas With 11,000 pounds for F. E. Booth.i . i 5 o | Staanwhiie - baltis ol ‘fhe. Chicsso | ™ eel 71%. _oun .03%.. |tent 'on this trip in finding out if 28¢5 but seeks only $10 personal; In a statel " o sald, ternational disputes. The veto could .e {part of its plan to establish five i 80| Sales today were 1,260,000 shares. - jamage—“because of the relative “Present strikes and those that then be used only on issues involv- Two_trollers, the Norfin under}, gy jarge paper mills in the Mercantile Exchange was % of af , s today ape sx folloWas T+ | bl oAy s ttnce, fot. Sibghon A he will follow” were “brought about Leo Wiess, and the 31-A-12 under,qo.itore . costing approximately cent to 3% cents a pound Iow""'j‘dusgrfi?fang’lsy rail:s 4;’8‘5’_ 5‘-1“;;: before he decides on his return to .;t:}ndlngs o]f3 n:e plaintiff m\.d ”?'nhy ol nns; nndgccunomlc ing forceful action against aggres- Glen Rice, each brought In about's30000000 each. At each site, it but live poultry was unchanged 10| s539 | Ohio whether to campaign actively ‘; e];'lf’a_l'(“ 5 "}]‘“r] e Fenlogar o i O S sors. A . 500 pounds of salmon for Sebatian-|iq" (e i will employ about two cents higher. | thes, 35,39. _ | for his party’s nomination, e 8, O B e vt g sl . B (Lo n Stuart. e S 3 2 ! e | Taft told an audience of Re- the alleged libel's not having “the/backed "only by Itallan orers,| He also called for immediate cre- 11,200 workers. Dependents and May Hike Margins TRADING HEAVY TODAY :publican organization members Jam- injurious effect on plaintiff’s busi- of all parties lation by the assembly of a Greek others are expected to create towns| pooo o T T U Boara | Stock sales crossed” the. million- | B B B T O T es Elks Mess which defendants maliciously| But he added = that Saturday's Border Commission—which Russia The w ashington‘or 6,000 or more. of Trade will decide tomorrow on;s‘hare mark today for the first ”"‘";Hau that a plcket line had given and dellberatgly intended"’; Lhcvde.muna‘tra‘lion .hvnc{ }:}een o.rganlzet‘i, had vetoed in the Security Council; ! Forest Service officials said the What action to take on a g""e’f“"i‘;‘;e,A;'s‘;lys:]'zeaf,‘slypgfes had their |}y, wperhaps the noisiest session 1 Monsen complaint sets forth. ‘:’3m’;fflli';’:"f‘s‘;;']i‘l""“m;:pg‘;“;‘:gcgfi; threw the Russian-American dead: ¢ Merry_Go_Bounfl timber offered for sale will keep biogt r:g:]e:tt. vf:r f.-.f',f::cifl,.il‘f'“‘ii The advance owstripped yester. | Dave had” Police Inspector An- Matter of Royalies and_ speculation.” Prices of some| (Continued on Page Eght) ko8 il ¥l G25-ton dally “capacliy OB SR jectured ding the |day’s substantial recovery and was | theny Collins estimated the picket The editorial cited as libelous inifoods have more than doubled in| S e ——— (& By DREW PEARSON {operating for 50 years. They added f,’,i‘f,iliffi’ifif. ‘;’:me"fird"i he; spread over a broad list. It reflected | i€ Was composed of 500 .union poth complaints Js entitled i- the last six morfths, 1 WASHINGTON — Words certain | lhat @bout 76 percent of e i fell 11 to 214 conts, with the Sep- |#n improved _technical position, | MEMPers: £ torlal Correspondence” and was| On strike today were atout SOVIET statesmen would like to forget! ., . i qer Sitka spruce, with tember contract quoted at 2.76%. which in turn attracted moderate | pllxh_hfheld in th.e Ketchikan ‘A.afki 1,000,000 farm laborers in northern (made during the OPA detates| o oo o aAlacka and West- Corn was 1% to 2 cents lower, Sep- | amounts of short covering. Chronicle—signed with the initials yialy, about 850,000 steelworkers in| A one year ago): Ol el P fember $2.61%, and oats were % to| ~Impressive leadership developed.MEAI SlluAIIo WLB—on Ecptember 8, 1947. The Mijlan, Turin and other cities, and Sen. Kenneth Wherry, Nebraska! : 2% cents lower, September $1.18. | s the session progressed. Such top- ifirst two paragraphs of the cditor- business and railroad office workers| Republican—“Taft! Taft! Every-| The sale area was described 8s In New York, the Board of Man- | Fanking issues as Du Pont, U. 8. I" (A“ADA WORSE ial, upon which the legal actions in some southern, central and body's always talking about what|within pulp timber allotments E,'agers of the New York Cocoa Ex- |Steel, .General Motors, Chrysler, | are based, are _conce?edenh l’O.V-;norl.hcrn Incalities. Taft has done to OPA. I'm the|F and G in the general vicinity change, Inc., agreed that effective |Union Carbide, Union Pacific, Am- A Altles paid by ¥ae SekeMilian Com- | 3 3 s PRI fellow- that knocked out meat con-}of Ketchikan. It said the climat® tomorrow margin requirements. Onlericnn Smelting, and Southern Pa- | 3 pany, pulishers -of ihe PWA'! trol, and I've done more to that|made logging practicable for ten cocoa futures should be doubled. s |Cific rose 1 to more than 2 points| ONTARIO, Ont. Sept. 17.—(P—A Writers (FICIOSCISOR | fOhilde T"‘AlASKA STEAMS lp bill than anybody else.” L] {months a year. Bave iR each. worsening meat situation confront- ' Alaska” written by Merle Colby. Rep. John Taber, New York Re- e e Activity centers on Schenley which |ed Canadians today, with 75 per The royalties are for sponsorship| (o GE‘I'S RAMB[ER . g publican—“OPA is at the present! time the chief promoter of infla-| tion.” | Senator Robert Taft, Ohio, Re- publican—“Prices somewhat higher than normal tend to increase pro- duction. We certainly should not! ioperation of large industrial pro- - Prospective puicnasers must file: vember 17 statements of financial responsibility, experience in making and distributing pulp and paper products or in the construction and In Washington, Rep. Bender (R.- {with the Forest Service before No- Ohio) said a buyers’ strike might | o o\ enothened. rose more than 2 points. Coal is- | U. S. Rubber cent of their normal supply cut off Of the Look by the late Governor by a strike that the Provincial Gov- of Alaska John W. Troy. be“?: ci':ss;l:‘cm(::i?ged%tl;efr‘::saoigained two points. Several stocks, g including Cooper-Bessemer, Bucy- something more than beware,” the i H C MR el STEMa T e Tad rus-Erie, Mullins Manufacturing. | angrese id, o ey 5" | United Aircraft, Grumman Aircraft, sary for the housewives of America Western Union, and Wheeling Steel FOR ALASKA ROUTE ernment called illegal. Mrs. Monse! 1 ! ) s. n is one of the daugh-! About 12,000 United Packinghouse ¢, of the late Governor Troy and | Workers of America (CIO) have pguiener is executor of the Troy stru:‘k, hlnmng‘ l;gel‘;::lons b 21 estate, (A full outline of the mat-| steamship Company has taken over Phcking plants in 16-cites: Iter of the royalties was given by|ihe former coastwise freighter | SEATTLE, Sept. }7.—(M—Alaska Vishinsky Withdraws Re- quest to Speak Before UN Assembly Today By MAX HARRELSON forse such a reduction of pricesiJ€cts: | to take the issue into their capable | .40 pow highs for the year and; However, the effects are not ex- | otomey Faulkner and Was Pub-| Goastal Rambler to replace the o ~| Persons who qualify will ke no- | hands once more with an old-fash- B as to interfere with more pro-: longer.‘ Epecled to be apparent in most jipoq iy The Empire in connec- | sunken Diamond Knot Preferred stocks had wide gains | centers before today. tion with the news account of thel p 3 b Pl i o S ews { The Rambler, formerly operated Republican—“I do not care to vote'them December 15 in Washington. the same e, ston, a rorpany more money f:: ihe oPA | Sealed bids also will be accepted Congressional committee investigat- ! Attorne: Faulkner’s com hml;smurday or Monday, according to FOR FAIRBANKS HOME | if ners ComPAInti; TNy, Baker, Vice-President and and the otHer agencies are thereiIust be accompanied by a certi- to determine YIREERE mEs Thing ! to keep businessmen from mamng“"’d check for $25,000. hoarded. The committee moved in | -, I'Alaaks for more than 43 yesrs..al . and Mrs. Bill Green flnleuneau continuously for more than Master of the vessel will be Capt. NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—(P—Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky today withdrew his re- quest to speak before the United Nations Assembly this afternoon fol- lowing the major U. S. policy speech of Secretary of State George C. Marshall. ” The Soviet Chief Delegate’s move was not explained, but it appeared Rep. Reid F. Murray, Wisconsin'tion bids will be received from Stocks Hoarded it ; markets in those issues. | B".I. GRH"S lHVE ‘?dflyr September 15.) will start loading for Seward either o a5 4 Chester Bowles!m““on of all bidders. Each bidinventories of several food producers SIEAMER MOVEME"TS | a rasident of the Territory of ship Company duction.” itified before December 1. Oral auc-'ioned buyers’ strike.” in several instances, reflecting thin —— > L i ey att. b Mg | i MR ogner, operafad and thus increase the dangers of but will be posted for the infor-!ing living costs prepared to seek el i states that the plaintiff has beeniGenenl e rie ol Alniks team: The successful bidder must show that direction after Malcolm Mc-| Alaska, schedulea to sail rmm" Mr. a profit.” Rpm Henry D. Larcade, Jr.|Within one year that he has im- Cabe, Executive Secretary of the|sSeattle during night, but no ad-{young son Gary have left Via'gp years and for more than 33 Charles N. Goodwin, former skipper |that Russia wanted time to study Louisiana Democrat—-(OPA) was Mediately available at least $8,000,- Massachusets Retail Grocers' Asso- |vices received up to 3 p. m. {Pan American Airways 0 Te- |eoiihne pao peen engaged contin-| Of the ill-fated Diamond Knot, | Marshall's. speech and perhaps get run in a high-handed, dictatorial(000 for plant construction and ciation, asserted that certain food | Princess Louise scheduled to sail| turn to their home ‘in Faif-ouqo™in the practice of law at|Which sank August 13 after col-|new instructions from Moscow. and discriminating manner, treat-|Other expenses. | supplies, particularly eggs and but- | from Vancouver 9 p. m. tonight./banks. They have been visiting In|jyneay and he has an extensive| lision with the Fenn Victory over There was no indication as to ing no& only the members of Con-| He also must qualify with the ter, were in the hands of specu-, Aleutian scheduled to sail from|Juneau for the past three w‘ek‘vprncuce and has always enjoyed“r"“g“e Point. when Vishinsky would make Russia’s gress bt the people of the coun-Federal Power Commission for a lators. {Seattle Saturday. {with Mrs. Green's mother, MIS.|y renutation for honesty and fair-| = R openihig policy declaration. try as 8 whole with disdain, dis- license to construct a power plant | e e Princess Norah, scheduled to sail|Anna Hougendobler and M“'jdealmg and has enjoyed for more| SEATTLEITES HERE Vishinsky asked the U. N. yester- respect and discourtesy.” Rep. Chase Woodhouse, Connect- jcut Democrat—“Let us have the (Continued on Page Four) | been accepted. {to carry out the program, for the mill and post $75000 with-! in seven days after his bid has' In event he fails he will forfeit the $100,000 total deposit. | TOURISTS ON BARANOF (from Yancouver Saturday. The tourist season to Alaska is, Square Sinnet scheduled to sail net over yet. The Baranof has 16 | from Seattle September 25. round trippers om the present Baranof, from Westward, sched- voyage. juled southbound Sunday. Registered at the Gastineau from | Seattle are, Mrs. Greta Vinson and daughters, Erich Ventur. and Jes- _ sie Rupard. From Blaine, Wash, is Alfred Stefenson. Green’s sister, Mrs. Fern wmmms llhm 40 years “the respect and con- Mr. Green will enter his junior|giaence "of g great majority of year at the University of Alaska,|members of the public and of those where he is majoring in Business| Administration, (Ccnt‘inued on fiaae Three) day to put his name on today’s list of speakers. Since then, however, word leaked out, that Marshall's speech would contain a slashing at- tack on Russia,