The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 18, 1947, Page 1

P i ) Y 3 e ———) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” M VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,685 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1947 ) PRESS MEMBER ASSOCIATEL PRICE, TEN CENTI STORM AIMS NEW BLOW AT F Jones Act Will Be Capehart Bill Tar SENATOR WILL OFFER CHANGE INCARGO LAW Indianian Says U. S. Govt. Should Improve Ship Serv- ice, If Operators Won't By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—®— Senator Capehart (R-Ind) said today he intends to introduce leg- islation to amend the Jones Act, and thereby permit 5= sels to engage in intercoastal trade foreign in Alaska, Back from investigating Alaskan prospects for newsprint produc- tion and from holding - hearings on proposed airports at Anchor- age and Fairbanks, Capehart told a reporter: “I am in favor of doing all we can to help American shipping, but not at the expense of the American people. The . present steamship service | to Alaska is poor and if it is not improved the government should provide the service required. “If private interests won't give the nceded service, the govern- ment should.” The Jones Act prohibits foreign vessels - from engaging in coastal trade ‘between American ports and its repeal would enable Canadian vessels to furnish ser- vice between Alaskan ports. Big, Wide, Deep, , High Capehart said he was astonish- ed at the immensity of Alaska. “It is big, wide, deep and high,” the Senator said. “I think the government should build roads to Alaska, even if they go through Canada. “Ib can be done, and the Terri- tory s eititled to an adequate wransporiation system.” vhe Senator said he favored statchood for the Territory and as- serted the people of the Terri{ur,\" want it, but that “vested inter- ests” oppose. He said is should be granted from the standpoint of national interest. “I think it is high time we do what should have been done long ago,” Capehart said. “All of the resources of the Territory have been taken out of Alaska and nothing returned. “We should see to it now that part of the national resources of Proved bothersome to'Juneau resi-| the Territory go for the tenefit of its people.” He said this could be through heavier taxation of (Continued on Page Efght) The Washingto Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON done By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — When Harry Truman gets away from ‘“govern- ment by cronies” and acts on' his! own, he wusually rings the bell. When he acts hastily “on the ad- vice of cronies,” he frequently gets his feet wet—and the nation's, too That is one deduction drawn from the present woes of White House radio adviser J. Leonard Reinsch. Last spring, Reinsch, an appli- cant for a radio station in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, was turned down by the Federal Communications Com- mission. |3hortly thereafter. Commissiojr Ray Wakefield, Re- publican, 0 voted against Rein sch and Cincinnati station, found, hinfSelf out of a job. The ‘White house had- withdrawn Mr. Wakefield’s nam o ment. 81 I dyeRpoint Eburner by the strong draft cre- Y 1 by the high temperature of In his place was appointned! 24 P’ 4 Congressman, Robert Jones meg|the flames. This applies to only merely a Republican, but a strong-|2 SMall percentage of the total} ly isolationist Republican, with a amount consumed by the burner record of having voted against but is nevertheless a sufficient Roosevelt-Truman foreign policies| 2MOUnt 1© pmve‘bothersome,, th before and aft 2 o At b AP Al Renr) Haxyg FROM WHITEHORSE Lor. Others ex-Speaker Sam spmething to do with Jones’ pointment. apparently realized little of what (Continued on Page Four) ap- FC-| besides Reinsch—notably | Rayburn—had, But Truman himself;| 'SENATOR FLAYS " COAL INDUSTRY ~ "MUNICH" PACT Il LaGuardia FOOD PRICE . In "Downward’, RESTRAINTS . INCREASING i Government Controls May %Trend, A S I eep Follow If'Appeasement’ ) of Lewis Is Copied H Bl | WASHINGTON, Sept | Senator Flanders (R-Vt) &eclarad |today that if industry as a whole copies the “appeasement” of John (L. Lewis by coal and steel men, 18.—(P— | | | | NEW Mayor of NYC YORK, Sept. 18.—»—Fior- the government “will be forced to ello H. LaGuardia, 64, is in a “down- step in” with controls over wages, ward” tr end in his grave illness, his !Pl'ic?n and profits. physician reported today, as New | The New England manufacturer Yorkers prayed at the request of and lawmaker said there was an 'Dwyer for the '“ominous parallel]” between “the jittle man who was the City's Mayor 1 Munich pact with the Nazis” and for 12 years. Dr. George Baehr said the former the contract which the United Mine Workers won from northern mine owners and the U. S. Steel Corporation | In each case, he asserted in an ‘adtlress prepared for the economic institute of the United !States _Chamber of o itoo high a price to be repeated.” ! Flanders, who heads one of three ESenale»Hnuse subcommittees , vestigating high prices in ,sections of the country, said that !those business men who now are | “charging - what the market will !bear" are building up a threat of i“losses and bankruptey in the fu- intensp LT S e pdner said, #wil) anot only- hasten the ;coming’ o 4@ depression, but also greatly increass its severity.’ t -, SAWMILL HOPES - FLYING SAWDUST ' WILL STOP SOON 'New Equipment Is Flown ' from States fo Combat Re- ! sults of Increased Qutput Juneau’s flying sawdust problem iwill be answered in a few days if promised efforts of the Juneau !Spruce Corporation are E. S..Hawkins, manager, |the company has made a special teffort to prevent future recurrences of the flying sawdust which have Idenfs. i A new additional screen for . mill's sawdust burner arrived here the|this week and will be installed on| jSunday. The new {brought in by airplane siderable expense, Hawkins said, Iin order to stop the situation as isoon as possible. | The flying sawdust has ’dbcomfurt to many, and Hawkins i screen was stated that if the new screen does not answer the problem, he will |take other .measures to combat ithe sawdust. | Cause of the flying sawdust is directly due to the recent addition jof a night shift at the sawmill (He explained that the increased production of the second |leaves more waste than can norm- ally be consumed by the mill's toilers. The extra !waste must be burned in a sawdus outside and this |creates the flying sawdust. !large screen covers the top of the burner to prevent sawdust from lescaping but because¢ of the large jamount to be burned, the one |screen does not do a satisfac- tory job and for that reason the inew screen will be added in 1hopes of cutting down the amount | of sawdust which escapes. The sawdust is forced out of tha | burner is wha | C. Racher of Whitehorse, Y. T. 'is registered at the Baranof Hotel Wagner's first great success in the operatic field was based on a |bcok by the Englishman, Bulwer Lytton, “Rienzi,” the; Mayor UNRRA The gen the immediate second unpredictable and Director General of “again is in a deep sleep. | eral trend is downward and outcome is as yet An operation performed on La- operable Dr. Bael Commerce, Guardia June 18 “confirmed a pre- peace has been purchased, but at vious clinical diagnosis of an in condition in the pancrea: hr, said. LaGuardia col- in- japsed Tuesday night and has re- various mained at his home. UNIFICATION “"Who O DEFENSE ' SPEEDED UPINEW DEFENSE le General Interna- i fional Situation” Brings Radioed Orders WASHINGTON, This country’s new unified defense ) machinery | abruptly from Pr ‘The in: ept. 18 »— went into operation today on radioed orders sident Truman. structions sent by the Presi- ! dent from the battleship bearing him hemewar Conference on Western Hemisphere ! successful, becuf’x(_\' came ai a surprise to many said that top-rank officials. rd from the Rio de Janeiro | Mr. Truman himself said his de- cision to in as Secretary of Defense yester- {a day instead of awaiting the Chief | | Executiv I national ay, con at con_\plaxmtinn issued by the Nav) This word, arriving have James Forrestal sworn e’'s return, as originally the | Planned, was because of the inter- { situation. late in the trasted with an earlier ex- {said that prior to Mr. Truman’s de- | parture for Brazil it had been de- |cided ¥orrestal would be sworn in Leen of About September 15 “or after the President’s return, unless all pre- liminary col | | { whole g | Nations, arrangements had been mpleted earlier.” Presidential | Charles G. Ross said the Chief Ex- | e lecutive was thinking only of “the| e eneral international situa-{ e Press Secretary That general situation includes!e Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock crew such problems as diplomatic argu-{e | ments with Russia United be- in the conflicting interests accumulated | tween the Soviet Union and the | i 4| western powers in the Balkans and{ e ‘minimum, 39. ¢! elsewhere, this country’s reiterated | o A Pledge to aid democracies in resist- ing Communist aggression and the United military Maj. called t ‘peace t military drawals a puklican GORIZIA, Gen. SEWARD W States’ strength. — n General sharply depleted Wants Increased Armed S!reng|h| Italy, Sept. 18.—(P— Giulio Ernesto Cappa for revision of the reaty to increase Italian strength, as Allied with- from the Italo-Yugoslav oday frontier left his men facing mel Yugoslavs alone. >-oe— convention. l CALLED FOR {0'Dwyer Asks Prayers for|Cabinet May Lower Grain Little Flower, 12-Year | Exports Ceiling, Hif at | Price Speculators { WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — #— jBad news for grain speculators shaped up in two branches of the I government today amid mounting concern over food and other prices. Ou Capitol Hill, Chairman Hope (R.-Kas.) of the House Agriculture { Committee, declared that unless the i { nation’s commodity exchanges them- LANDSLIDES | ~ NIPHORROR {Flood (rests from Typhoon | i Disasted Drive Resi- i danfsOutof Tokyo | | TOKYO, Sept. 18. — (#—Floods | | drove Japanese from five densel | populated districts of Tokyo today |in the wake of a typhoon disaster | land even higher crests were feared | | Which has caused an estimated 3,- | 564 casualties. | | American troops in assault boats | rescued thousands of refugees from | ANTS CONVENTION | Seward Republicans have put in bid for the next Territorial Re- i selves apply the brakes to the kind | roeftops and dikes on the flooded | blamed for skyrocketing plain east of Tokvo. Air Force planes then Congress “should | dropped food to some of those be- | | and must” impose its own restraints. | yond reach of boats. | Within the administration, Presi- | /The Army was in the field for the dent Truman's Cabinet Committeée second American disaster relief op- | on ¥ood appears headed for a de- |eration of the occupation one cision to clamp a sharply lower ceil- | which challenged its resources as ing on grain exports for the months fmuch as last year's major earth- immediately ahead. Officials believe | quake in southern Japan. such a step would take some of the | ~As the muddy water swirled wind out of the speculative sails. ;thmugh the northern and castern Hope's call for a slow-down in districts of Tokvo, the First Cavalry | ‘uruiu speculation topped a four- Division reported new floods of se- point program he cutlined in a rious proportions were expected to | | {statement pointing to the "possi- bility of ruinous inflation at hame and want, starvation and political chaos abroad.” - hit the city shortly. | Upstream, landslides added to the | horrors of four days of lashing yaing and floods. A First Cavalry | %1 observer at Kumagaya, 50 miles | !northwest of Tokyo, reported light | but threatening rainfall was begin- | ning there in that heart of the disaster ‘zone Kyodo News Agency and the news- paper Yomiuri said that farther north, Mu\wt Akagi in Gumma Pre- !(OI II IAN D IS fectlire let8o with slides of tons of | lRouNDED OUI | rock, mud and sand and buriéd most | lof Tako and two nearby villages, | killing 182 Japanese and injuring Yomiuri said out of 600 houses in | !'Tako, 112 collapsed and the rest 18— United | Were covered with mud and sand. t | Huge boulders slid down in an aval- anche on the villages. - ——— WASHINGTON, Sept. iThe top command of the {States’ new defense departmen fwas rounded out today as the sec-| retaries for Navy and Air wel ! sworn into office I Taking the oath administered by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, W. Stuart Symington becam: the na-| tion’s first Secretary for Air amd| ’Yuhn L. Sullivan took over as| | Secretary of the Navy, a post to, lwh\(:h he was elevated from Un-, ersecretary. RADAR EQUIPMENT INSTALLED ON ALL ALASKA §. 5. SHIPS { James V. Forrestal, former Navy SEATTLE, Sept. 18.—(®— ith | 'Scm"clar,\'. took the oath as Sccre-{m,, entire Alaska passenger fleet| itary of Defense and head of thelnow equipped with radar, Alaska funified Armed Forces yesterday!steamship Company officials re-| irullowmg radioed instructions from|ported today that the 77-year-old, President ~ Truman aboard the steamer Victoria is the first| battleship Missouri. |treighter to get the war-developed| ' The sudden decision by Mr. Tru-|safety equipment under its radar, man to put provisions of the new|jnstallation program. \ national security act into effect at| It's keeping the old girl of the once was ascribed to the inter-|North Pacific flest right up to! national situation. |date. The venerable Victoria is G e Y {generally conceded to be one of | {the oldest, if not the oldest, iron| steamship still plying in commer-| lcial trade. It was built in Scot-| 'land in 1870. [ The passenger ship Denali sails| tomorrow on her first trip under| |the protection of radar, and the | Aleutian will make her radar de- I{but Saturday. The Baranof is on {her second trip with radar ! Northland Transportation Com- |pany’s S.S. Alaska was the fir of the passenger ships to be equip- WEATHER REPORT 24-Hour i Temperature for This Morning . In Juneau—Maximum, 50; ® minimum, 43. _ At Airport—Maximum, 52; WEATHER FORECAST io (Juneau and Vielnity) 4 5 Cloudy ‘with rain showers ped with the device which shipping & fonight. Bain ads southesstl officials expect to reduce greatly| 5 any AT st 48 mliae ) {the hazards of Alaska shipping i |® hour Friday. Slightly cooler. RS e DT o | e PRECIPITATION | + vast 20 rours mmarag 150 am. woasrs o | STEAMER MOVEMENTS o In Juneau 0.23 inches; e e since Sept. 2, 938 inches; Alaska, from Seattle, scheduled. |to arrive Saturday. Princess Louise, from Vancouver,; |scheduled to arrive Saturday af-| ternoon or evening. | Northern Voyager scheduled mi @0 000 0 0 00 0 8 o o arrive Tuesday. i AT THE GASTINEAU ] Aleutian scheduled to sail from John Thompson and Ivan Stens- | Seattle Saturday. | kog of Seattle are stopping at the! Princess Norah, scheduled to sail Gastineau Hotel. \from Vancouver Saturday. Square Sinnet scheduled from Seattle September 25 Baranof, from Westward, sched- !uled southbound Sunday. | -oe | e since July 1, 2260 inches, At Airport — 0.03 inches since Sept. 1, 5.38; inches; since July 1, 15.70 inches. to sail| | FROM BAY CITY Edward Holinsky of San Francisco is at the Baranof Hotel. | i e e e—— HERE FROM MIDWEST j VISITING JUNEAU { Maynard Burns of Highland, 111 } Pauline Patvin of Ketchikan is at | at the Baranof Hotel. | the Baranof Hotel. | | is stopping |life, and be free while you're still 1947 "Miss America of Beautiful Barbara Jo Walker, alias “Miss Memphis,” is newly chosen “Miss America of 1947." Seletcicn by judges was almest unanimous and gave the South its first winner of the beauty and talent contest. Miss Walker is a hazel-eyed brunette, 5 feet 7 inches in height. She is 21 years of age and a senior at Memphis State College. Her ambiten is to cbtain a master’s degree in college. (International photo) Swain Backs TAFTBLAMES Yachi Death TRUMANFOR Guilt Denial HIGH PRICES Bud Gollum Joins Overell Ohio Senafor Expecled o . Make Important Talk Heiress in Denying at San Francisco Hand in Murder LULLETIN — SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 18.—P—The de- fense rested its part of the 17- ~—IM Senator T | BOULDER CITY, Nev., Sept. 18. "aft (R.-Ohio) puts (Supplies in all hurricane areas. |a brief inspection of the Colorado River development behind him today ; the lower west coast of Florida LORIDA et Monster Rips Across Play, . Farming Area ‘Vulnerable West Coast | Boarding Up Before Advancing Hurricane \PRESIDENT PROCLAIMS STATE OfiiMilGfl_l(Y {100-MPH Winds Forecast fo Slam Low-Lying Sec- tor About Midnight PENSACOLA, Fla, Sept. 18-—M ~Frightened residents boarded up homes and businass buildings along Florida’s vulneratle West Coast ibefore an advancing hurricane, {and Gov. Millard Caldwell's office tennounced that President Truman {had declared a state of emergency !in Florida. | The announcement came a few hours after the weather bareau !disc)omd the treacherous tropi- lul storm had curved sharply af- yler inflicting multi-million dollar b e R - - { Yesterday, the unpredictable, un- feontrollable monster ripped a path of destruct across Florida's most ! famous playground and farming section. It roared inland with { 120-mile winds between Miami tand Palm Beach and emerged into jthe gulf near Fort Myers with iscarcely-diminisked veloeity. Weather advisories placed the storm roughly 60 miles off the mouth of Tampa Bay at 11:30 a. m. (EST) and forecasts indicated {it would slam into the low-lying | western Florida about midnight, between Pensacola and St. Marks, and winds up to 100-MPH were anticipated. Civilians in the danger area were being moved to reinforced buildings and beach residents fled to town. Seven Cuban fishing vessels land- ed at Alligator Point as their crews shelter. Tallahassee resi- ldents with beach homes rushed from the capital batten down ¢ \:lmr cottages. i Distribute . Relief { Truman's emergency proclama- tion enables the Federal Works Administration . to distribute reliet 1sought to Hurricane winds which mauled yroek Overell murder trial 2t iin anticivation of what may be the!last night diminished to _gale one witness described finding a | Citical speech, in San Frangisco strength today, but continued to O e Al In Wattee | tomorrow, of his Western sentiment- (hamper tratispartation apd com: e & " . plumbing tou munication, :;i;"t;:L':_;',';::;(,’.‘:”h::‘l“‘t::: | Before the Commonweaith cibb) In Atlanta, the Federal Reserve : there. where the late Wendell L.|Banks —announced that _credits discussed using dynamite to kill fish. bern in 1940, R | > hottest issue of the aign—the high cost of living. In major speeche ered on this By FRANK FRAWLEY i SANTA ANA, Calif, Sept. 18.—| (P—George Gollum has joined his co-defendant, heiress Louise Over- ell, in denying from the witness the blame for rocketing aboard their palatial yacht His denial came not as a direct question, but as a description of a conversation he had with Sher- e 'Philip Angus Hebb iff Jar Musick shortly after his Passes Away, Seatll T said Musick came 1o nis jan| P @SS AWAY, Jedllle cell and told him | AL, “We,have found the dynamite re-| SEATTLE, Sept. 18.—¥—Philip ceipt. We've got the goods on|Angus Hebb, 79, who claimed to be you. If you plead guilty you'll get!one of the first group of white men | to pole up the Tanana River when | he formed a geld mining expedition | If you don't you'll attorneys will be ars.” a young man be dead and your riding around in new Gollum continued “I told Sheriff Musick that Lou- ise and I did not commit any murder.” in Alaska, died Su heart attack. He spent 12 years Alaska, before returning here 1909 to become building tractor. The widow and a son he survive ay after a > PINEST P NEW SWITCHBOARD FOR FAIRBANKS NEW COMMANDER TAKES OVER AT BAS| T KODIAK | Willkie's Presidential campaign was | Taft will speak on what he has predicted may become 1948 cam- already deliv- sion to the West, the Ohio Senator has laid most of 4 | sky |)ri(-¢-s| stand that he Killed her parents at the door of President Truman. con- would be extended to finance re- placement of storm-damaged prop- erty and would be exempt from usual consumer-credit controls. At Montgomery, Ala., Governor James Folsom offered all aid to Florida, and ordered 12 Alabama Highway Patrolmen into the threatened storm area for disas- ter duty. The Red Cross and other agencies braced for the newest blow. . | STOCK OUOTATIONS NEW Yov Sept. 18.—(P—Clas- ing quotatiou of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5, American Can 84':, Anaconda 35';. Curtiss-Wright 5%, International Harvester 32%, Kennecott 464, New York Central 15, Northern Pacific 20%, U. 8: Feel 75"\, Pound $4.02 15/16 Sales today were 940,000 shares. i Averages today are as follows: In- {dustrials, 178.29; rails, 48.69; utili- ties, 35.16. a in in STOCKS LOWER - | Stocks were lower today in mod- PROMISED | erate trading, bonds were irregular and U. 8. Government bonds did Rear Admiral A. E. Montgomery,| The Fairbanks City Council has)unot trade. London stocks were also USN, a veteran of 39 rs withlapproved of the loan of a manual' irregular. the navy, has relived Rear Admir-!switchboard offered by the Auto- ————— al F. A. Daubin, USN, as command- matic Sales Company and the, The northerly record of any bird er of the base at Kodiak and as board will be cemmander of the Alaskan Sea the states, and telephone Frontier promised by December 1, air freighted from|is about 350 miles from the pele, service | where the Ivory Gull has been i found,