The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 20, 1947, Page 1

| 3 y SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition [ — VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,687 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1947 “MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTI | FLOODS FOLLOW GALE AT NEW ORLEANS 'LaGuardia Passes Away In Sleep This A.M. In Wake of Hurricane Above is the scene along the debris littered beach at Palm Beach, Fla., after the hllrritz\ne had vassed over the city. The West Palm Beach skyline is in the background. Citrus growers in southern Florida cstimate their probable damage in the millions of d cllars, while truck gardeners in the Lake Okeechobee region were badly beaten by terrific winds and scythe-like rains. (AP Wirephoto) Hurricane Wrecked Bulldmgs Wreckage is piled high amid palm trees and hurricane-wrecked buildings at West Palm Belch, Fla., as hl;h winds in the wake of the hurricane lash this Florida east coast city (AP erephoto) The W ashmgion Merry - Go- Round Rv DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — The full Tru- man cabinet is converging on Washington® for the first time in many weeks to be on hand when the President arrives to face some of the most important problems of his entire administration. Secretary of State Marshall will return briefly from New York; Secretary of Agriculture Ander- son will fly from New Mexico; even Postmaster General Hanne- gan, long absent because of ill- ness, will be on deck. Biggest problems to be decided are: 1.'Shall a special session of Congress be called to back up the Marshall -plan? 2. Will rationing and price con- trol be necessary to feed Eu- rope? When the President goes the rounds of his Catinet, first to be called on will be the man on his jmmediate right—the Secretary of State. Marshall's views already have been cabled to Truman in Brazil, are well known to the pub- lic. He believes Europe is lost to! |us unless a special session of Congress votes immediate funds and food. But the Sth man Truman wil' as he makes the Cabi- net's round, will give him some stimulating ideas along different lines. He is tall, lean Secretary of Agriculture Anderson who is just as persuasive at Cabinet meetings as he once was as an insurance call on, man. Anderson, a New Mexican. cattle rancher, whose jcb it is to stand up for the American farmer, has collected significant figures show- ing what the American farmer al- ready has done for Europe. In August, ped Europe the 'stupendous total of 1,800000 tons of wheat as against 400,000 tons in the same |month last year. “However, when Europe got this wheat,” Anderson told Agriculture Department associates the other day, “they went on an eating binge. As soon as they get wheat from us, more. They don’t store it for win- ter, when they will need it most.” LET EUROPE HELP HERSELF In addition, Anderson has an- alyzed to his associates three other /Continued on Pm Four) he will probably tell Cab-| inet colleagues, U. S. farmers ship-| they eat it up and yell for| Inleresl Boosled By Government on 1-year Certificales WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—(P— The Government today boosted the interest yield on its one-year cer- tificates of indebtedness to one percent from the seven-eighths of one percent rate which has pre- vailed for a number of years. The Treasury said it would offer issue of one-, next Monday an year, one percent ecertificates in exchange for the entirety of a $1,439,563,000 issue ©of one-year, seventh-eighth certificates matur- ing October 1. This action follows the recent trend of slowly rising interest rates for government and private secur-| ities. —r——— HERE FROM DETROIT Bill Everett and George Mcl..eod,! from Detroit, Michigan, are at the Baranof Hotel. ————— FROM SAN FRANCISCO A. Brooks. of San Francisco, is' | stopping at the Baranof, "THREETIM N.Y.MAYOR PASSES AWAY | Been in Coma Since Tuesday Night 20. (A—Fio- NEW YORK, Sept. last June when he underwent an ;operation which disclosed an curable pancreas condition The announcement of his death his successor as chief executive of New York, Mayor er. City, {lost a great, patriotic ;O‘Dwyer said. He added: | “T fully believe that his unself- |ish devotion to | his untiring and energetic {to promote public welfare ftributed to a great extent jfailing health which bin death today." { Dies In Sleep ! LaGuardia died in his sleep, Dr. George Baehr, jsaid. l When LaGuardia died at 7:22] a. m., his wife, their two children,! Erik, 15, and Jean, 18, and Mrs. {LaGuardia’s sister, Miss Elsie Fish- ler were at the bedside. { The diminutive ra Guardia—he twas five feet, three inches—was ia rough and ready exponent of the i“get tough” school of politics. lcaustic tongue was noted for its iwhiplash agility in exchanges with (political enemies as well as for lits fluency in foreign languages i In his campaigns and during his iyears in office he addressed na- l:tonal groups in New York in their| | native language—Italian, German, 1French, Yiddish or Yugoslav. | Awarded Medal | Known to New Yorkers as “The| Little Flower,” “Butch” or “The iHat"—the latter deriving from the citizen,” efforts con- to th | distinctive type of headgear he preferred—LaGuardia the first reform mayor this city ever re- 2lected. i LaGuardia became Director Gen-| eral of the United Nations Relief iand Rehabilitation Administration itoward the end of his mayoral tenure. For his work with |UNRRA he was awarded the tion’s highest civil decoration, na- the Medal of Merit, and President Truman said then that he had earned the “gratitude of millions i by starvation.” i Born In New York The son of an Italian vrdnt (Canlmhed on Pav( Two) BRITISHPLAN ' T0 SELL MORE - GOLD STOCKS LONDON, Sept. 20.—Britain will sell more of her gold store, Chan- H cellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton isaid today, and probably will ex- 1change more sterling for dollars. | His statement came today amid | these developments in the economic crisis: 1. The government acknowledged {that Britain's balance of trade grew | worse in August, despite the drive | for additfonal exports. 2. Prime Minister Eamon de| *Valera of Eire conferred with Brit- ish Cabinet members in trade and dollar talks affecting relations be- tween Britain and Erie, which ha pledged to support the pound sterl- ing. §3 | Fiery Political Leader Had irello H. LaGuardia, 64, three times| mayor of New York and former | Director General of UNRRA, died today. The fiery political leader had {been in a coma since Tuesday night when he collapsed at his home.. !His health had teen failing since in-| brought an immediate tricute from! William O'Dwy-| “In his death the people of the; the State and Nation have the people and, culminated attending physician, | His ! Lhe;‘ in the world who were threatened he was born in New Yorkf PROBLEMS ARE FACING PRESIDENT Truman, Ba?in Washing- fon, Calls Staff for Noon Meehng W4 %HINGTON Sepl 20.—(A— |President Truman returned to; Washington from his 20-day trip to Brazil today and immediately icalled the White House staff to |meet at noon (Eastern Standard |1mwx to discuss the important; business which accumulated in his| |abeence | | The Presidential yacht Williams-, burg docked at the Washington Navy Yard, and after a few| minutes getting luggage ashore, the President, Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret walked down! the gangplanks to walting auto-, mobiles. The yacht bore party up the Potomac River fromi Norfolk, Va., where the members |disembarked yesterday from the | battleship Missouri in their re- turn from Rio de Janeiro. ! The President remarked to those on the dock, “You don’t know how ,to - appreciate your own country| 'til yeu are away.” ~potting a newsreel cameraman ' the Presidential |whom he knew, he smiled and' !said: “We missed you on this' trip. Where have you been; out | i\nLh Taft?” | The President was referring toj the western trip of Senator Taft; (R~Ohio) . i Mr. Truman faces the task of' charting his course on of ternational friction and the rising cost of living. i One of the first questions iac- ling the Chief Executive after his| Rio journey was whether to call a'Then as the bear came up to him, sidsred to be serious land worried each foot in suce : fishermen, Fisherman - Hunter Is I(nocked NEW ORLEANS Down, Gnawed George Harju lucky to be alive himself after considers today, {a spine-tingling experience wrest- iling with wounded brown bear Wednesday in meadow country near Pleasant Bay in Seymour Canal The a bear, which Harju esti- |mated may have weighed as much jas ‘by 1500 pounds, was finally killed Waino Seppanen with let in its head at range after seven previous shots had failed to down the monster, Harju told the story, lying on a couch in his home, with dages on his left foot and above the right ankle where the bear {had grabbed him with his teeth| sion like a dog would a bone. Both Harju and Seppanen are Harju on the troller Helen, and Seppanen on the troll- er Gowan. They left Juneau early in the week, deciding to take some time off hunting for deer. Harju was about 78 or 100 feet] in the lead, going through heavy underbrush between small open meadows, when he first saw the bear coming toward him along (the trail. Bear Charges “Hey Seppy!" he called, ‘here comes a bear!” And at his call ".he bear charged, from what Har- ‘ju estimates could not havé been ‘more than 50 feet away, perhaps bear’s - face. as little as 35 feet. He fired three shots 300 H&H magnum at which was rolling and from side to side as it came toward him. The first shot bear in the left side of its mouth, from his, the bear, of the decrease in cutlery. One of his shots apparently miss- ,ed, and one went into the body. a bul-|the brush to his aid, Harju reach-! point-blank | ban- | swaying | struck the by Brown Bear STILL GROGGY was the last shot ‘m.d ‘although one slug was sLlll‘ in his gun, for the bear swung at! him with both forepaws and sent F his rifle spinning through the air to land muzzle first in some mud 15 feet away. | Calling once more to who was making his way loods Rage After Hurri- cane-Property Damage Runs Info Millions his NEW ORLEANS Sept. 20.—(P— haq Hurricane-groggy New Orleans grimly battled serious floods today the 1l-day-old tropical storm Lorn in the Atlantic moved beyond Shreveport with fitful gusts and rains, Seppanen, | through ed for the hunting knife at |belt, but that one time it |been left on board the boat a8 Harju Knocked Down The bear knocked Harju down, hard, leaving a terrific bruise high heavy on his right leg. Then Harju, on There were unconfirmed reports 'his back, tried to kick the bear of at least a dozen deaths, but only {In the face, and the brownie one known fatality was officially grabted his right ankle in its recognized. The body of an elderly mouth and began gnawing and man, dressed in denim dungarees, shaking his head back and forth, was thrown ashore yesterday morn- growling. ing near Gulfport at the storm’s Seppanen was on the scene by peak. then, and trying to place a killing property damage will run into the |shot in the bear. But he was un- milljons, a hurried survey revealed. able to hit a vital spot in the ani- Lake Borgne backed into Bayuo mal because of the danger of Bjenvenue, broke through a rail- shooting Harju. road embankment and flooded a sizeable section of eastern New Or- Kicks Bear In Face leans. “Don’t worry about hittinng me,” cried Harju, “get in close and 2,000 Evacuated 'shoot him before he kills me" Police said 2,000 had been evacu- !And Seppanen did, stepping up ated from an area 25 blocks long and with his 30.06 as Harju rolled over 16 blocks wide now under water. and stuck his left- foot: into . the There were no -estimates of its A final shot in the depth. bear's brain finished it, and the The storm, brute fell heavily on top of Har- U8 AOnH,, R Ak Bk Shrevepen . and moved northwest into Texas and Oklahoma, was nothing like the In spite of his injuries, Haju terrific, 100-mile terror that struck In spite of his injuries, Harju the coast yesterday. was able to walk all the way to Winds had slackened to about 40 the beach, his heavy boots punc- and 50 miles an hour. Rain was problems ' taking out several teeth and pro-|tured and torn by the tear's fangs. heavy. No damage was reported in emergency aid to Europe, in- Lably saving Harju's foot because Bill Hellein gave first aid to Har- the Shreveport area. the animal's ju, and accompanied him back to | Juneau with his troller Elliot Dozen Deaths Dr. J. O. Rude is attending to Reporter James H. Gillis of the the injuries, which are not con- Times-Picayune in a communication filed from Gulfport, Miss., via Naval Ispecial session of Congress to deal Harju fired again, but the shot| “I'm lucky that I'm alive,” said Reserve radio last night said there with assistance for Europe. lonly creased the left side of the Harju, “and if ‘Seppy’ hadn't been Were unconfirted reports of at least Underscoring the importance at-'bear's neck. there, T wouldn't be.” a dozen deaths from drowning and ached to Europe's plight, Secretary —_— ———— o AL A5 3 - other causes, of State Marshall arranged to' % " ¥ No bodies have been recovered, leave a meeting of the United N‘a | 11‘1‘1: 'l:f;‘;;:n,f":n:;é'.‘; 2::(113"1‘; of :w ;md but added five were known ‘uons‘ ;?s; mdty :;: New't:l(o:kmotln. Motoring to Reno today, Taft r;‘sse :rennd in the Pass Christian, ;“1 \S“C rzab‘]’ ‘e ‘l“v‘:_ me°Pms planned to address a Republican ~ qy m‘;‘r“ 4 . TOWEL EEeRl 10 & | group tonight, not only on the re- oastal area was isolat- ident his special session views. ed. Communications still were dif- Marshall has already Stated his: DEPRESSION clamation issue but on the Taft- y0,)4 this morning | Hartley Law, of which he was co- ” i belief that there is a crisis which! cannot wait until the scheduled re-| convening of Congress in Janu-;| ary. ' FARMER RECEIVES 70 CENTS OF EACH | DOLLAR FOR MEAT WASHINGTON, Sept, 20.—®—| | The farmer is getting about 70 cents of every dollar the consumer spends cents in 1939, the last pre-war year, ]‘ Agriculture Department figures; show. The department said, however, |that it has little definite informa- tion as to how the remaining 30 |cents is divided among others who | share in the dollar, such as thel commission agents, who handle live- | stock sales, the packer, the whole- | saler, and the relafler MYSTERY ESCAPE AT STATE PRISON BOSTON, Sept. 20—(P— Three| men, including a lifer and twol {long-term prisoners, escaped mys-! ‘terlously from the heavily fortified Charlestown State Prison early to- |day and two were recaptured |shortly afterward within a half} {mile of the institution. Warden Francis J. E. Lanagan; said they got out of their cell in; .some mysterious manner, made, their way to a roof, dropped to a <prlmn yard and scaled a 22-foot wall, | — e — One American company recently | filled an Icelandic order for 120| miilion fish I hooks. | POSSIBILITY ‘Motors to Reno After Price| Level Warning Speech in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20.— —Senator Taft (R-Ohio) headed for Reno and a formal speech on the reclamation issue today after immi- | now for meat compared with 51 [geclaring in San Francisco he felt a depression may be directly be-| hind prevalent high prices. The Ohio Senator, who has been the object of Democratic National Committee criticism because of his part last year in remodeling the OPA law, told reporters that “if this price level remains, the cor ditions might bring a depression,” adding: “We have escaped the 1920 type, but we are not past the kind that came 10 years after the last war." In a cost-of-living speech be- fore the Commonwealth Club ye: jterday Taft, who heads the Sen- ate= Republican policy committee, said this country should level off both wages and prices at from 50 to 60 percent of the point they reached in 1939. The speech-—regarded by associates as one of the most im- iportant Taft plans to make on a western swing designed him a feeling of sentiment in this part of the country on his pros- pects for the 1948 Republican presldentlnl nomination—apparent- ly was not considered a complete success by some of his ~pvk1s- 1 men. They conceded Taft may have left himself open for new and vigorous Democratic criticism by, his to give ‘uuthm NO BUMPS, ' MAYBE 50 Do you remember when it's win-| ter Fires Break Out At least 20 persons were treated here for minor injuries resulting | from the storm. Most were cut by i1lying glass or hit by debris sailing through the air. The Central Fire Station said that between 200 and 300 fires were extinguished yester- day and last night. Most were blamed on broken electric connec- tions and falling wires. ‘The Weather Bureau said the hur- and the steps on the Fourth ricane in its dying convulsions would M street side of the Federal Building make its way with rain and squalls g2t icy and one is liable to sHp into southern Arkansas and that by and go tump? | this afternoon the winds should Well, two hand-rails have been have diminished to 25 to 35 miles |erected, on the steps, for per-'per hour with rain confined to sonal safeguards. | Arkansas and portions of adjacent Also, do 'you remember the little States. lake that always formed at the bottom of the steps on the Seward | Six Killed 400 Injured street side of the Federal Build-| With seven already reported dead ing? Well, workers are blasting in southern Florida in the wake of out the pavement there and may- the storm, a meager radio report be there won't Le any little lake received by a ham operator in Jack- there any more. |son, Miss., from the Naval Reserve But the Devil's Slide, that part Station at Gulfport, Miss., told of of the sidewalk from Fifth Street Dbeing killed by the storm in the to the aforementioned steps re- | Gulfport-Biloxi area and some 400 mains. So what? | being injured. S PN— Only bare information was ob- fISH I.AND'"GS {tainable, but the victure in that gulf ol {resort was grim. Battered houses, plintered boats and first aid work- At the Juneau Cold Storage this ers driving themselves through the morning, S. A. Stevens on the! DIght toadminister first aid by flash- packer Wanderer brought in 20,000!light to some 400 injured collected pounds of salmon for Sebastian-|in the Naval Reserve Armory at |Stuart. Yesterday afternoon, the|Gulfport. Allanah, under Fred Brandes, Jr,| And, as an aftermath of the hur- ricane. a tornado rose at Apalachi- cola, Fla., cutting a 250-foot wide swath for three miles through that northwest Florida town. One hun- dred were injured, 14 seriously {enough to require hospitalization. From Biloxi westward to New Or- leans information poured in by every conceivable means which indicated that region was a mass of wrecked houses. ruined vacation cottages. de- stroyed crops and boats staved in from stem to stern. brought 1600 lbs. for Alaska Coast; Fisheries and Roger Bailey on the troller Janice landed 1,200 pounds for Sebnsuan Stuart. D IN TOWN | Alvin Goodale with PAA, and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hannel of Ket- chikan are stopping at the Baraonf — e, than 175000 forest fires every year in the United More occur States,