The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 23, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” o B — . VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,689 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1947 PRESS PRICE TEN CENTJ MEMBER ASSOCIATED NEW ATTACK MADE BY RUSSIA ON U.S. ¥ " I R \The Washington/’ ! |Teacher Is “Kept | | 'V After School” ‘ 0w roo snruny | ,M G R d! er (oo f A i Merry - uo-nounc For Two H [ . | : By DREW PEARSON | e '] | 7 : ! 3 ! PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 23—~ | L WASHINGTON — Don't be fool- | Miss Betty Johnson, 38-) ! | |od by all the hurrah, hullabaloo| teacher at the Taggart Elcmen: 8 !and Yeadlines now coming out of |tary school, was “kept after school” | El " Jthe Justice Department’s ~Anti- |for two hours and not one small { R Trust Division. Actually, the rash s [fry was on hand to witness the o { R H H anti-trust suits splashed H | situation. ¥ Army Officer, Two Enlisted ot »»pxexe st now s Bride Is Shot Down af Start | il sinon semuinca wsir{ Senator, Democratic Op- |k Lanches Now Men Foued Across jmuch. Most of them were pre- Of Se(Ofld Honeymoon jclasses yesterday to mark papers % i .y it o i and failed to notice the builaing| - pONENts Enliven Trans- Broadside After Appeal Border at GUnpOim |energetic Weldell Berge, predeces- _Slayer Suicides [custodian had locked all doors. : ; ! lsor of the new anti-trust chief | The teacher telepnoned palice| confinental Word Battle L by Lie for Peace Fails Kot Soithett ——— {when she realized her predica-| H TRIESTE, Sept. 23—®—United ~ Take for instance, indictment| RIDGELAND, 8. C., Sept. 23. M ment. Two patrolmen arrived and| 2 —— « States - army, . headquarters inior real estate boards. Fourtcen| ~The “"Good Liick” Mrs. John E.|produced a ladder, but Miss Jonn-;sfflfium WI:;}: pIA,{T-n ']? NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—(#—Rus- Trieste today demanded the re-lmonths ago, this same suit was| Curtis expected a “friend” to wish son refused to make the 25-foot FC"C = i, SN e -‘_f"': sia launched a new broadside against turn of an American officer and|yecommended to Altorney Gener-| her on her second honeymoon was a descent from a first floor window. | )(-“f_";i_fld G mhn. Bemodaty the United States today after Secre- two ehlisted men Who, It 5 said,!ny sor Glark by Berge but Clatk|blast of pistol fire It left her dead | A search produced the janitor|Sfficlals at long range foday en- tary-General Trygve Lie in an ex- were taken captive by Yugoslavs!yetceq it. Tangling with the real|On the Coastal Highway where her and his | A e e I traordinary appeal called on the while on mounted patrol duty onlestate boys at that time wasn't|Army Captain husband and her ]‘H; tey: Jawe: by Benstor: Tatl (R bitterly quarreling big powers to the Trieste free territory frontier|poninar - two-year-old son, Buddy, looked on o RO b bury their differences in the interest yesterday and “forced across thel Now that President Truman has|Aghast | & !"f 01“‘0_ i‘“f‘““ “’1‘: n “(P‘"E' of peace among the United Nations. border at gunpoint.” {thrown the harpoon into the real| The “friend” was a handsome, | v;“l_"‘ é)”a‘mq ze:l:‘svlv:ll;r "lh::s f:;l; i Andrel Y. Vishinsky, Soviet De- An official report issued DbY|uctate lobby, however, the Justice|27-year-old police officer, Dennis e et e e by Gael s’ 1liva iplny Foreijgn Minister, opened his Leadquarters of U. S. troops inipepartment has dusted off Berge's|J: Counihan, of the Chatham Coun- - MenirrehBipl ot “"(‘1‘1"1 [ new offensive by charging Secretary Trieste said the missing men were |14 month old case and brought an ty (Georgia) Homicide Squad. Mus. | JCIOnER ‘ct th"“ i, ?r it of State Marshall gave an “incor- patrolling near the sector where! jqictment Curtis met him in Savannah while fotor, that the nex B epublican | irect” explanation of the Big Power Yugoslavs last week tried to force} Even so. the indictment doesn’t divorced from her husband, whom {Rungtess lf“l‘" S “""”‘i | deadlock on Korean independence. their way into the free termitorY. Imean much. For prosent Anti-| She remarried yesterday. \”“H e | | He then assailed Marshall—who The army announcement identi- |y g Division chair-warmers pull- A coroner’s jury found last night [i# This Wit provide a new chap-| was sitting before him-for sup- fied the tria as First Lt. Willlam!oq punches. They indicted no in-| that Counihan after savagely pump- !ter in a continuing tlflns(tul\(‘m-; {porting U. N. consideration of Van Atten, East Orange, N. J.|qividual real estate men, only the ing seven bullets into Mrs. Curtis, jental battle of words between Taft| recommendations for revision of the Pic. Earl G. Hendrick, Jr., A"““g“;mnl estate boards, and you “can't| took his own life with two shots in 2 ;anq Democratic opponents since Ll\e{ Ttalian peace treaty. Vishinsky ton, Va. and Pfc. Glen A. Meyer,'send a board or corporation to| the chest. i | Ohioan began a western sentiment- || charged that any action on this Edgeley, N. D. jail. That's why real estate mo- _Captain Curtis told the jury how Peasam Leader Bfld FOe O'nsoundmg tour 10 days ago. | {question was a violation of the U. Van Atten was caught in a Yu-'gmS aren't really worried the policeman pursued them as they 2 ! Traveling toward Seattle and a | N. charter, goslay ambush in July, 1046, on the i~ Giner recent cases pulled out of left Savannah on their wedding | (Communist Pafly Pays | major speech on the labor law| Vishinsky spoke as the 53-nation road tetween Goriza and Trieste,jtyo Berge hat are “Eastman Tech- trip \f'nl\ their voung son. He said s - | there tonight, Taft flccuseq Sena- || General A:\xmmbly began debate on the army report said. His driver’picoi prepared 18 months ago, Counihan waved them down after with hfe Today ftors Lucas (D-L) and O'Mahon- | § 1ts formidable'sgenda, which slready was killed and he and an enlisted [51q the tire price-fixing conspir- they had crossed into South Caro- ' ey (D-Wyo) in a statement last| Chil Butoher ' Wokks a M 5 Healy of Chicago {had been approved by the assem- man were wounded. b o b G _'lina. He wanted to drive on. he ¢ % aight of “calling names” instead of hicago Butcher Barney Barth and Mrs, Anne He o ¥ - ALY, PiSutied (D, pie R0 AU SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. 23.—(P— | compare stocks of food that §5 wo bly's 14-nation” Steering Commiittes The official army account of{oehir important case—still not out added, but his wife said: ) “Wait. He just wants to speak rday’s occurrence is as fol-} e 701 & i of the hat—is against Wall Street's < He probably wants to tell us investment bankers. This case 'O US s he report of the incident c“me:wa.s all set to go when Wendell good bye and wish us good luck. from the other two members of the ipargs resigned, but six months Curtis said he shook hands with patrol, Pfc. Edicon T. Lenhart, °f|hnve dragged by with nothing | Counihan, who at first §poke cor- Southbury, Conn, and Pvt. George happening. “dially enough. Then, he’added, the E. Perry, Fort Thomas, Ky. who officer jerked open the car door, dashed to the 351st Regimental ripped the orchid corsage from the headquarters with the news. ‘ CHIEF DUSTER SONNETT bride’s grey traveling suit and start- “While leading his patrol along! The man who has teen dustinged firing. the frontier, Van Atten sighted aioff old Berge cases and dolling. “Never leave here with Curtis,” he Yugoslav patrol with whom he and{them up with flashy headlines is quoted Counihan as exclaiming. his men had talked before and ap-iamijable, uninspired John Sonnett IR VT peared to be on good terms. Van _the only man who ever licked Atten and two enlisted men dis-1jonn L. Lewis but go no credit 16 NA‘I'O“S SEEK mounted and approached the{for it Sonnett, who dresses like toundary on foot. la poem—but doesn’t zct like one U. 5. AID OR LOOK “They were seen talking with the!_handled the Supreme Court in- Yugeslavs at a distance of 30 to 35! nction against Lewis and Nt~ feet from the Yugoslavs. Then ually expects to go up to wall! To (ATASTROPHE they were seeti to go forward while{sirect. There he has been prom-| the Yugoslavs pointed rifles atijseq a legal job representing Jim them.” Forrestal's old banking firm, Dillon,| ny_+ { ! Rend. Price Under Marshall Plan { During | Sonnett was v o eemeary of| for Recovery Set Info aide to Secretary c ARNOLD OUT, jthe Navy Forrestal, which makes 0y lic a bir embamassing to ooz, Billions of Dollars " (the long-delayed anti-trust t B Street firms. In addition John tions seeking Marshall Plan aid said | Cahill, under whom Sonnett once|the American people must decide worked, is now defending Dillon,|whether Europe can recover, and Read. !set the price at $19,330,000,000 for { So life is no bed of forget-me- the years 1948 through 1951. AL il e inots for Johnny Sonnn‘u. Never-‘ The alterantive, they said, is . H {theless, he swears he’ll prosecute;catrasrophe. Change Made in Director- jnis oii wan'Street triends — and.riatys’ Foreign Minister Storza 2 ivici H ! said that nation would have a revo- t £ | I d P GOP PUBLICITY SEARCH [the Italian people get bread. ories, Island Fos. The Republican National Com-| Representatives of the western {mittee isn't shouting it from the|Euorpean nations, winding up their WASHINGTON, Sept. 23—®—!housetops, but, looking around for|Russian-boycotted meetings, signed An Interior Department officialja high-powered new publicity man,'a report pledging themselves to a said today James P. Davies, form-{it finally approached Hal Leyshom,)program of self-help but declaring: er head of OPA’s Territorial Di-|executive editor cf Jim Cox’s Mi- “In the last anlaysis the external vision, is expected to ke appoint-;ami News, offered him $25,000. | means of recovery can in the largest ed Director of the Division of{ Flattered, but amused, Leyshom'measure come only from the United Territories and Island Possessions.|replied: | States, which has by its assistance The official, who asked that his| "I suppos> you realize that Iin the last two years already rescued name not be used, said Davies is{work for Governor Cox, who was| Europe from collapse and chaos. scheduled to replace Edwin Arn-|Democratic candidate for Presi-| # ¢ * The American people ,through old, appointed yesterday as special RS R s | their government and their Con- assistant to Secretary of the In- igress, will consider this program 4 e e——— terior J. A. Krug to advise on and determine whether the means certain international aspects of | the work of the Interior Depart-, Y ment. ’ {perhaps he will. can be found to supply those needs. There is a possibility, the offi- On their decision will depend wheth- er Europe can achieve economic sta- bility and thereby be enabled to cial said, that Davies will be ap- 3 make her full contribution to the pointed before Undersecretary of IS NAM E D Io ‘welfnre of the world.” the Interior Oscar Chapman leaves —_——————— Sept. 29 for Puerto Rico and the; i Virin sands 1 FREIGHT RATES ARNOLD'S NEW POSITION |TION WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—®— BOOS‘I’ED BY (pR Edwin G. Arnold, Director of the 5 Division of Territories and Island — | SEATTLE, Sept. Possessions, has been appointed| WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. — P — |percent increase in freight special assistant to the Secretary|President Truman today appointed |on Canadian Pacific Railway ves- of Interior to advise on certain{Gordon fGray, Winston-Salem, N. C,, Isels plying between Vancouver, B. international spects of the work of :publisher, to be Assistant Secretary |C., Vancouver Island and the Interior. Department. {of the Army. British Columbia ports is announc- Secretary of the Interior Krug| Gray is President of the Piedmont led by George H. Baillie, also named Arnold as the Interior! Publishing Company which publish- | pacific region Vice president Department member of the Inter-|es the Winston-Salem Journal and |the line. national Social Policy committee,, Twin-City Sentinel and operates succeeding former Assistant Sec-:radxu station WSJS. { retary Warner W. Gardner. * | He is a North Carolina State Sen- | A successor to Arnold, who re-'ator. Gray volunteeerd and became | cently represented the Interior De-‘:an Army private in May, 1942. partment at the Internationali He rose to the rank of Captain Trade Organization meeting in'after serving at the Tactical Head- coastal fleet for overhauling. -, FROM ANCHORAGE the Geneva, Switzerland, is expected quarters of the 12th Army Group to ke announced within a few in Europe and was mustered out in Ernie Saukko, of Anchorage, is days. 1945, staying at the Baranof, other | Nikola Petkov, Peasant leader and foe of the Communist Party, was hanged at 12:15 a.m. today in Sofia's Central Prison on charges of plot= ting against Bulgaria announcement said. Both the United States and Brit- ain, denouncing his conviction as a miscarriage of justice, had urged the Soviet Union to participate in a Big Power review of Petkov's case, 'but the Russians declined on grounds that this would would be |interference in Bulgaria’s internal affairs. Bulgaria likewise rejected a series of British and American protests. The United States suggested that the Bulgarians, by trying Petkov, had placed themselves on trial be- fore the bar of world opinion .posed Aug. 16, was rejected last !Thursday. The 54-year-old leader | of the opposition Agrarian Party de- nied the government’s charge that | he plotted a coup d’etat by armed ' force. | Evidently resigned to death, Pet- (kov. i1z his prison cell. described his case simply as a prolongation of “what has already happened to Hungary,”. where the Communists | throttled the opposition after charg- | .ing the existence of a plot against | | the government. U. 8. PROTEST WASHINGTON, Sept. The United States accused Bulgar- ia today of violating “clementary principles of justice and the dights |of man” in hanging Nikola Pet- ikov. The State Department said in a |formal statement that his trial and |conviction was a “travesty on jus- tice.” It said. the trial was only one of “a series of measul un- dertaken by the Communits-dom- |inated Fatherland Front govern- ment to remove from the Bul- |garian scene all save a purely 23.—P Ineminal opposition and to consoli-| ;daw. despite its professions to the contrary, a totalitarian form of government.” Irade—Associalions In Seattle, Portland To Be _In_vesligaled i SEATTLE, Sept. 23.—(#—The Se- | l x 23—® A 30 attle office of the Antitrust Divi- rates sion has received orders from the | Attorney General’s office in Wash- ngton to survey an unspecified umber of trade associations in | Seattle and Portland in connection new |with the Justice Department's in-|e for ! vestigation of high food prices. “This will not in any way reflect Discontinuance of the night boat|upon the association we investigate,” | ® service between Seattle and Van-|said A. L. Carr, acting head bf the | ® couver, effective Sept. 28, also was|Seatle Antitrust Division office. “We | ® announced. The shutdown will per-|only want to determine what influ- | ® mit withdrawal of other vessels of lence if any, these associations ma the general price structure B FROM SELDOVIA Rassmussen, of Seldovia, is at the Baranof, i have in a guest Communist=it, «wreck” price controls. countrolled. government, aff amc,iufr Petkov's appeal to the Supreme !, Court from the death penalty, im- ' joffering any solution to the high {cost of living problem. | Lucas, in a statement which| ‘iO'Mnhuney joined, said Taft had |led the fight in the 79th Congress chases today. In 1941 the assortm: three dozen eggs, three (inch and pork chops. ‘Wirephoto. i Ay The Ohioan, who heads the Sen- |ate policy committee, replied it was !a Democratic Congress “which re-| 1Iused to enact an OPA Lill in ex- jactly the form demanded by Mr. Por- | | (Chester) Bowles, Mr. (Paul) der and the CIO.” j T II ' (l d e s nonod, JUNCAU IFONETS 1OF LIOSE chosen Presidenial candidates land political leaders for labor pro-| nouncements, Seattle greets Sen.| |Robert A. Taft, co-author of the| Taft-Hartley Lakor Act, late | to-| !day for a major talk tonight on| { (Special to The Empire) his nationwide tour ¢ Republican leaders predicted a, grrga Alaska, Sept. 23.—At the tanding room™ only attendance g erjes regulations hearing here at his Eagles Auditorium appear- nfongay morning, Sitka trollers al- ance at 8 p. m. His speech Will|, o without exception opposed do- te broadcast nationally (NBO sta-|;,g away with the closed trolling tions). KOMO, Seattle, will broad- se,sop in the area from Cape Spen- |cast a transcription at 10:20 p. m. ;o0 45 yakutat, with most favoring ’T? larg: }g]xjoup Pindsd to greel | permanent closure of that section | PASL o lis party on their ar-iyaween Jce Cape and Lituya Bay, rival by train at 4:35 p. m. They| wpicn they hold is a nursery ground |will go directly to the Washington g tne pulk of figh taken there arz ;Slfl[fl Press Club for an informal ¢y immature kings. reception S i 3 A SRS SRR This stand contlcts with troller expressions at the Juneau hearing STEAMER MOVEMENTS """\, , i The trollers also sought Fish and » | wildlife influence for modification | Aleutian, from Seattle, gOIIE of the halibut regulations to put west, scheduled to arrive at 4:30 yrojlers on even terms with black o'clock this afternoon. cod fishermen so far as retaining Princess’ Norah, from Vancouver, paliput caught incidentally. |scheduled to arrive at 8 o'clock geine fishermen at the hearing | tonight. ‘generally . favored an earlier open- | Northern- Voyager scheduled (0 ing date for the entire Southeast |arrive from Seattle tOMOITOW Alaska area, with a definitely stated | morning. season length to permit fori | Square Sinnet scheduled to leave aqyance plans for the | Seattle Thursday. The proposed August 9 general | Clove Hitch scheduled to sailigpening was tagged “plenty late {from Seattle Friday. iby Andrew Hope, principal spokes- | Baranof scheduled to sail from man for the seiner group. ISeame Saturday. | Princess Louise scheduled to! Trap Héliday |sail from Vancouver 9 p. m. Sat-| Hope also proposed that trap op- |urday. ierators consent to a five-year holi- | Alaska ‘in port and scheduled | day of their operations in Icy Strait 'to sail south at 10 o'clock lomghx,‘and Chatham Strait, which he felt | ——————— would restore pink salmon runs ; there without such drastic action as | | | At Airport--Maximum, 55; e |stricted to resident boats which minimum, 49. ® would be bonded WEATHER FORECAST o Uniform Opening Dates (Junesu and Vielnity) ® | A definite season length was also Mostly cloudy with inter- mittent very light rain to- | ® night and Wednesday. Not © @ 00000 000 00 0 % mplete closure next year which b ® [the Fish and Wildlife Service has * WEATHER REPORT ® |listed as a possibility unless an | ® learly escapement is secured and |® Temperature for 24-Hour @ runs develop by the time of .the i® Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock @ opening date. = This Morning ® A similar proposal was wired here . In Juneau—Maximum, 54; @ by Hoonah fishermen, who asked a ® minimum, 50. ® itrap ban In 1948 with seining re- . . . . . ® advocated by Jack Conway, who ® lfavors a longer season with longer ® |weekly closed periods to allow uni- ® much change in temperature. @ |form escapement through the fish- PRECIPITATION ® [ing season. (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) @ Seiners generally opposed the 6 In Juneau — 129 inches; @ {p.m. openings, and favored uniform since Sept. 1, 1403 inches; ® lopenmg dates for all of Southeast since July 1, 27.25 inches. ® Alas/a. The seiners also wanted the At Airport — 082 inches; e . . . (fall fishing season advanced, hold- | ® since Sept. 1, 9 inches; since ing that fish quality is poor during | ® July 1, 1932 inches. | the present late October open period I ' e | Trollers felt that this vy S . |j®® 00 000 ® o o o o jperimental open fishing ter, a dozen eggs, one thin round steak and seven pork chops. Sitka Trollers Differ with 2 | over Soviet opposition on some sec- tions. He demanded exclusion of the items on Korea and Italy. Friendly Relations? Warren R. Austin, No. 2 U. 8. delegate, veplied by-citing Article 1 of the U. N. charter which calls for the development of friendly rela- { tlons among nations. “Let's keep our sights lifted to those high points,” he said. Referring to Vishinsky's charge (that the United States was re- ponsible for the stalemate over Korea, Austin sald: “It's not who's right—but what's ent included two pounds of butter, ould buy in 1941 and what it pur- a half thick) round steaks and 15 l | In 1947 the assortment has shrunk to one pound of but- » declared, “must show its capacity to o P do things and not expose itself as only after September 20 is a for- | a perfectly futile organization.” ward step. It was proposed that in Austin took the floor shortly after 1948 regulations submitted here by | Marshall had left the chamber at Alaska Fisheries Division Chief | the conclusion of Vishinsky’s speech. Seton Thompson for the Fish and ; — wildlife Service remain unchanged from the proposuls presented at Juneau [ ] . Season in New Regulations, . l “The General Assembly,” Austin - - Soviets Lose Again The assembly then overrode So- viet opposition to approve inclusion of an Argentine proposal to consider recommenadtions for revision of the sia’s Andrel ¥. Vishinsky late today 'S o F F E R E D clusion of the Greek-Balkan ques- with 9 abstentions. SEATTLE, Sepr. 23, (P—Shipping [the Soviet bloc voted against the cent wage increase, Capt. G. W. LOSES HIS FIGHT NEW YORK, Sept. 23 —(®-—Rus- ‘Iusl a vigorous battle to bar discus- | sion of the Korean question and the Italian peace treaty in the United Nations Assembly. ‘ The assembly also approved in- jtion in the agenda, with only Rus- sia and five Slav satellites voting against it. The vote was 36 to 6, 1 The propesal on Korea, sponsored by the United States, was included ‘m the assembly’s agenda by a vote i of 14 to 6, with seven abstentions. Only Russia and other members of operators have offered the West proposal. Coast Division of the AFL Masters, | Mates and Pilots Union a five per Barnhart, Seattle agent of the union, said today. No action has been taken by the Negotiation Com- mittee, he said. The contract ex-|Italian treaty. The vote was 22 to pires Sept. 30. "L with 19 abstentions, D Ethiopia and Belgium joined the Slav group in voting against the Ttalian treaty item. The United FORRESTALNOWIN [S:hr"shs ix 5:"it HIS NEW PGSITIOH; (e i e e 1 HONORS EXTENDED n major issues during the current session. It came after Russia had disregarded a plea by U. N. Secre- tary-General Trygve Lie for peace WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 Amid ceremonies traditionally a coded a departing Seeretary of the | Navy, James V. Forrestal left the among the Big Powers. B L B Navy Department today and as Sec- retary of Defense took over his new STOCK ATIONS headquarters in the Army'’s Penta- NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—(#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau gon Building. mine stock today is 4%, American The Navy Band played and an Honor Guard of Marines and Sail- | Can 82':, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss- Wright 5'z, International Harvester ors stood at attention as Forrestal 83%, Kennecott "44%, New York left the Navy Building where he |Central 14%, Northern Paecifie 199, | served as Undersecretary and Secre- i U. S. Stesl 69, Pound $4.03';. tary since 1940. Sales today were 880,000 shares. - >so Averages today are as follows: In~ HERE FROM SEATTLE dustrials, 176.05: rails, 47.51; utili- — 1 ties, 35.03. A. Little, of Seattle, is at the Ba anof Hotel. Also registered is Gor- don Seland of the same city. BN W B FROM BELL HAM L. A. Rankin and O. Oakerum of Bellingham, are stopping at the Baranof, g SELLING FLURRY The Stock Exchange suddenly went into. a selling flurry near the close today. Losses of $1 to $2.50 a shre hit some leading stocks. Brok- ers were at a loss to account for the selling pressure,