The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 26, 1947, Page 1

A v ‘M | | HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,692 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1947 Ml MBER ASSO(IATI £D PRESS 59 PRICE TEN GENTS SEN. TAFT GIVES FOREIGN POLICY V CREDIT BUYER RESISTANCE IN PRICE EASING Scattered Reports of Low- ering Prices on Butter, Eggs, Fresh Meats Assoc By The ated Press Some high-flying food price were losing altitude in scattere cities throughout the countries to- day, and buyer resistance was credited with halting the upward price spiral in several of the lirs | In Washington, Senator Fland-| ers (R-VT), chairman of a joint Congressional subcommittes inves-| tigating the high prices of food and be less what speculation” Flanders said rec his committee had clothing, said Congress would asked to “apply controls” un- commodity exchanges curtail he described cessive in grains and foods. quiries by failed to dis- close any evidences of profiteer- ing by food retailers, whole- salers or distributors, and that he believed “we will have to move back toward the commodity ex- changes and the farmers.” Flanders' suggestion two wezKks ago for a 100 percent margin quirement on all grain ions caused a sharp price drop on the Chicago Board of Trade.| As Chicago, New York, Phila- delphia, Kansas City and Denver reported retail butter price drops from a week ago ranging up to 13 cents a pound, Dun and Brad- street reported that buying of lux- ury items had decreased throughout the nation. There were also scat- tered reports of drops in the re- tail prices of eggs and fresh meats. l(‘onlmued on Paa( Tweo! B The Washington| Merry - Go- Round B DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON newsmen travelling Truman on the battleship Missouri wrote anything about it, None of the over censorship of the press What the Navy wanted censored| was not a military secret, but the fact that the battleship was equip- ped with a ladies toilet, tain details of Father Neptune’s; initiation of “Polliwogs” when the Missouri crossed the Equator. The four newsmen on whom the Navy frowned were: hard-punch- s ing Windsor Booth of Time Mag-| azine; erudite Charles P. Trussell| of the New York Times; United Press correspondent Merriman | Smith; and Joe Short of the! Baltimore Sun. Crossing-the-Equator ceremonies had been prepared by the ship’s crew long in advance—in fact when they rented $400 worth of costumes back in Norfolk, Va. For days,| also, those sailors previously ini- v#tiated had been whittling pad- dles and shillelaghs, gloating over| uninitiated victims. So the cere- mony was rought. It was even rough for one of the top White House dignitaries, John Steelman, who was dumped abruptly back- ward, eight feet, into a pool of water. Steelman, however, took it like a sport. plus cer- SAILORS GET ROUGH For the 1,000 gobs who never before had crossed the Equato! it was even rougher.. They under- went “mock” surgical operations with electrically charged knives on| an operating table. ducked until they yelled “Royal Shellback!” And they had to run the gauntlet of 50 to 300 fellow 4 sailors armed with paddles and canvas bags of water. Decks got slippery. Men car- eened and fell. Finally' the party got so rough, the Captain cal™ the entire show off. But in the melee, several men got hurt the Navy claimed 16; Booth of Time magazine claimed 18. It was this and other realistic reporting of the initiation rough house that brought the Navy's y demand of censorship. When the newsmen balked, lethargic’ White 4 House Secretary Charlie Ross cali- Ileuflued mu Puvc rouu re-| transact- | with President but they; had quite a battls with the Navy, They were| Dog Reumles 'Dead’ Man, W|le GREEN CALLS ‘s FOR GREATER ‘ PRODUCTION ; AF of L PreSIdent Calls on . Truman fo Discuss Program i 4 f‘ | WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. —(P— * & |willlam Green, American tion of Labor President, for increased preduction | i to check carry out President Truman'’s “waste jess” food program to help hungry Europeans. Saying “full production is the remedy for high prices,” the AFL leader appealed for joint coopera- tion by labor and management to achieve greater output. Green talked with reporters after calling on Mr. Truman at the White House, but said he had not discussed the food and price program with the President. He is a member of Mr, Truman's Citizens' Food Commit- | tee. Another White House caller who also is a member of the food com- mittee was Albert S. Goss, Master . (right) reported dead by the of the National Grange. War Department after a trcop ship torpedoing by the Japanese in Goss told reporters after seeing i 1943, was reunited with his wife Marye, 46, of Utica, N. ¥., in Sac- | Mr. Truman that “we may have to | ramento, Calif., after Lyons snotted Judy, 12-year-old Pomeranian have some Congressional prodding if the voluntary food conservation | program does not work. He did not | elaborate on the points, but added ' that he does not know whether the ! problem can be scived without call- ing a bpu‘lal session of (,ul\gl est. .t i HOLDUP; Apologize WouD-BE WiFE KILLER, VICTIM ~ ADEAD For Seizure ARERECOVERING ‘Band of Hebrew- Speaking ThreeCaphveUS Soldlers U.Ss. Marshal PIacesGuard ' Gunmen Stage Sireet . fo Be Released, State | Over Loren H. Hancock '~ Robbery, Tel Aviv Department Told at St. Ann’s Hospifal 26.—(P— BELGRADE, Sept. 26.—(P—YUgo- | Loren H. Hancock and his ex- slavia apologized formally for the ' wife Kirsten, are both reported to- izure by Yugoslay troops of three gay to be improving rapidly at St U. 8. soldiers on the Trieste frontier | onn's Hospital from serious gunshot Monday, and announced all three ' wounds inflicted Wednesday evening would be released today. |by Hancoek on her and himself The Yugoslav Foreign Office noti- Dr. William Whitehead stated that Yugoslavs and followed the dog to her mistress. DARING JERLSALEM er\ A band of Hebrew speaking gunmen 'killed four British constables in the busy streets of downtown Tel |Aviv today during a daring arm- ored car holdup which netted the rotbers $180,000. ! Federa- | today called | soaring living costs at home and help | HOOVER DID - NOTSAY T, HEASSERTS Takes Exception fo Maga- | | zine Article About What ' Started U.S.-Jap War | NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—(#. Ibert Hoover says that he was mis- lquoted by a magazine writer who wrcte that the former President told him this country “would never | have been attacked by the Japanese it wé had not given them provoca- | tion.” Hoover, Blossom, Magazine, Her- in a letter to Sumner N. editor of the American suggested last night that !since the article in the September issue of the magazine had been quoted in the pr the statement | “requires specific correction.” The former President said that |the writer, Sidney Shalett, “must (have confused this with statements from interviews with someone else, las not enlv would T not have made I'such an indictment of a whole na- tion including myself, but also it is | a contradiction to many other dlaces | where I am on public record.” In Washington, Shalett said Lhat Ne statement was made to me by Mr. Hoover, and the quotation rx- tacty as T wrote it appears in my notebook. I am quite sure, however, that Mr. Hoover is perfectly sincere |in his statement that he did not say it.” At fsmmmlsnmv TOEND MANDATE ¢ ~ RULE, PALESTINE Problem Placed Right in' | Lap of United Nations— | | Declaration Made it | LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 26.—(® Britain announced today that she! decided to end her 25-year mandate rule over Palestine if thel | United Nations failed to find a| settlement of the Holy Land prob- | | | | f | OLICY VIEWS Sues Cver Cover Girl Contest OHIO MAN e HITS OUT ATRUSSIA ‘Would Ban Soviets from from International Af- fairsBecause of Tactics By JACR DHLL PORTLAND, Ore, pt. 26.—M Republican politicians of Wash= ington and Oregon credited Sena- itor Taft (R-Ohio) today with only an outside chance to obtain more ! than scattering support among 'xhv two states’ 31 delegates to the 'GOP nominating convention mnext |ve tonight at a Republican meeting in Ore., has been holding ,conferences with leaders of the two states in between a series of speeches topped by last night's proposal in Tacoma that the United States take the lead “to perfect a United Nations” without Russia. His appearance in Tacoma was accompanied by the picketing to which he has become accustomed Taft, who talks | Young Gearbart, Francisco beach. $49,000 h relaxes on a San Supreme Court for Mrs, Patricia Brauner She had filed suit in ) ve) i |4 1 Jersey i ew against Harry Canover, head of a New York model agency, and David ibut without the noisy display en- A. Nolan, Business Manager of St. James Theatre, Ashbury Park, |countered at Seattle. About 60 placard-bearing pickets marched arging Canover failed to give her a seven-year modeling s, shé says, grand prize in a series of cover girl jin a circle, singing but orderly twhile Taft entered unnoticed by ithe stage entrance, He told the Tacoma World Af- Council that if Russia con- {tinues to make it “difficult” to operate the present international ,organization in the interests of peace and Justice, “1. believe we 'should proceed ‘without Russia to perfect a United Nations that will foperate in & limited field” ‘We have perfected such an or- Sept. 26.--M—Og- ganization with the Latin-Ameri- rsen of Vancouve B. ., can nations which may serve as an ated in a hospital here for example to the rest of the world,” he said were inflicted on the Ohio Senator declared in a / when he was attacked hv speech setting out the full outline ,of his views on International n(- Fisheries Research Insti- tute Experts Conducting Surveyl, S.E. Alaska " Photo. Miner Slapped Down by anzly Bear In Hospital TAGGED; H {fairs K car L was t wounds Tuesd: gri eRr said he was hiking out; | from the Leitch Gold Mines head- quarters on the Unuk River to P catch a plane when he met a bear Political pulse-taking trip, Taft'’s and ker cub at & tend In the trail,i€xposition of his forelgn policy | The mother grizaly slapped him [Views left bim definitely in the down, took three bites at his head|CAmp of Senator Arthur Vanden- and then herded her cub "w“y:brrg (R-Mich), chief Republican |The injured miner made his way|eXponent of the bipartisan foreign, to an isolated cabin where he|PoMCY: found a first aid kit. Other miners| I fact, Taff proposed that the outward bound arrived later for United States follow what he call- the reidezvous with the platle and 84 ‘IFhe - ‘Vangsoberg . Flan'® - a ifairs ‘ Considered one of the most im- ortant addresses of his western Larsen | They took $600,000 from the close- fied U. S. Ambassador Cavendish hoth are expected to recover. lem acceptable to both Jews and |y guarded car outside Barclay’s Cannon of the impending release of ~ Further details surrounding the | Arabs, | \assisted Larsen. ‘!"““"“l .wnh‘d(}elmm?;‘," ’"':::‘c:“:(: Bank but dropped one bag of the menand sent him the apology. |case were revealed today by officers | SEATTLE, Sept. 26—®—Twenty, Pan American said he umm-dl“h“ g :fi:n of Jeanind money containing $420,000 during' The U. S. S:=te Department an- | Who are conducting the investiga-| The Colonial Secretary Arthur {{housand salmon, taken at random his scheduled Thursday flight to M“'“‘", e st ieal s |their getaway in a white jeep. 'mounced last night it. was taking tion. According to their testimony, Creech-Jones, advised the Generallfrom traps all the way from Cape Scattle because of his condition f”:"‘"‘mf !: mfm,‘ harsell’ | A Jewish policeman was wound- up the case of the captive soldiers Hancock made an attempt at :.‘A-*“m:;‘g'* ";5‘“‘“;;’“ ”"l‘{"s”‘"f Chakon to Cape Fox in Southeast' - | kit only ong way in whieh ‘od in the gunfighting which ac- With the Yugoslay Government, reconciliation with his divorced wife | COmmittee that the problem oI Alaska, have been given a new Fac Piopc be effectively con- | fter demands by British-American just prior to the shooting and was €Nforeing any unpopular settle-|jease on life by the Fisheries Re- 14 [ 1 | Oy, a companied the holdup and a bank 2 o, hia t 'would have'.to be handled'searc s {trolled,” he declared. “That is to lofficial was smashed in the face authorities in irieste for the r Taladiad, 'J:E"”,l. e idee ael o S EREd TRATARI &0 I les Ie |ooatra the production of a lim- Five Jews who were passing byls'ms' it ,mczfl‘";; Or‘;fl“’:l ‘l""‘:e;w iy sl i Ll e TR Y AR e i :’II\L' Vandenberg plan proposes that |were injured, two' seriously, dur-! Headquarters of American forces | < = DHOS: B8 6 PO O Pl S Rn e St s B thE ‘ ahuleh we stay in Germany indefinitely, T el 4 gings | claration that Britain would be the first step in a si ar study " ing e exchange of shots. ‘1‘,‘ e announced | g 0 iown while the house was |ready to pull out on a fixed date,'of Alaska salmon migration un- n rage !es but ““’»"1 i Jeeree ‘J'”}'}“fl:";‘;:)‘&y Pol s s uesday that the Americans, an | ' ; veigh nst the possi |been wounded fforced doross the ffontier at gun- |DSF NOme. they become involved.fnijchafios of the Ui . Cnding & dustry, AT tional WPA” the Ohio Senator | "The attack ;,n s ekt e by Tuapelave a8, they. ups | A svument-over thezecmollistin Mol Sccevialy HG TR AR . (The il Ofiibing condusiad | LG iy "St;u‘r( )zsm #-Two sl.;- gt s e ¢ < dp P i T oty ts ; which was followed by the shooting. |ar rabs. by Dr. William F. Thompson, who &% ildren, each 18 months old, 1 i 2 BRI e e SR Z’::l‘“j“” to talk o the Border \ Mo Tor i rold bartender “hax| Oresehodones alab, ‘detiated that|completed s Mimilan Work for the died In separate mishaps here yes- Fasn “’k’mu"lr":,‘i fi‘:fl: ‘:f,o"lz::g e r:,’;‘enby‘";{g;’: ool p,.:.'f s en were Lt, William Van |been formally charged with assault |Britain was ready to surrender halibut industry several years azo terday ‘;‘Ul’ S e iy ceded by the bursting. of a bomb Atten, East Orange, N. J., Pfc. Rary | VAh Intent to kill, wound or matm. \her' Lesgue of Nailons mandate| Already many,af 4he salmon & Anthony Arthur, son of Mr, and |Lo pay for goods shipped from the oo s Paletmion . Beonomic G. Hendrick, Jr., Arlifigton, Va., and | 11U8 afternoen; U, 8- Marshall Wil- jover, ‘the strife-torn Holy Landfged during the two month perlod;aty Bernard Arthur, choked td{United Btates: |28 p e the Pic. Glen A, Meyer, Edgerley, N. D. {lam T. Mahoney placed a 24-hour regardless of the nature of the'have turned up in other traps some ... & bits o aiile. s i R S { Corporation buildings across the ¢ * 7 71 guard over Hancock at the hospital | Assembly’s final decisions. idistance away, members of the|g: o 8 biie oF spcfe. T bay Istreet. This apparently was in- until he, can be removed to the| A British At n ; Fifty ce diod, ‘a8 Dis. fathier, an Assoalaiad |tended to distract attention from { Bt ritish spokesman made it party reported ty cents is pald pocg (ejetype op or, rushed him | | Federal Jail. The guarding has been |clear that the question of term-'for each tagged fish reported. |the holdup. MA"SON plEADS kst oy sl e e e ol s g, S reported: 1o a doctars office in neighbor »I o+ BTN | since Wednesday night. xuon of withdrawing entirely from ! g Gill. - daughter | Il"- IS To BE P B LA S |Palestine were separate matters REINDEER MEAT Hq-” x”«l (;II ¢ SALErIer ‘.‘! Nf""l i SE"]‘E"(ED SA"' | | % vl IS SENI SOUIH the Duwamish River. The baby sl { 9 " G |tine in a different status after 5 \ . . *\e WEATHER REPORT 2 ine mandate was ended it Arab- Fpr o isodlrid bl | S SEI ‘» Alr Tonlghl Roy E. Manson. 27, waived ale Temperature for 24-Hour e |sc' P agreement could be YeAch-| gpaodTLE, Sept. 26—(P— The on the Seattle-Tacoma highway I | Federal Grand Jury indictment|{® Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock ® | ' o United Nations trusteeship! first shipment of frozen reindeer P ) g this morning in U. 8. District|® This Morning o o : .| meat—about 30,000 pounds—since ¥ WASHINGTON, Sept. 26— Court on a charge of assault with|® In Juneau—Maximum, 56; e ey, 7 0 PIACEl o “winter is enroute here today This Was No ATC Trflnspor' Makes 3,- President Truman will make a & dangerous weapon. He was then| ® minimum, 44. . Vi G SO R s {from Nunivak Island It was 100 M“ H. ht G ' four-minute radio address tonight|arraigned and entered a plea of ® At Airport—Maximum, 57; e | [scheduled to arrive in Blaine to-| Moviz Scene ! -Mile rligni, brea { annual Community 8uilty. Federal Judge George W.|® minimum, 46 o S 0 0 o S |day aboard the Alaska Steamship i . . B e ‘The address, at Folta set time for the pronounce-|® WEATHER FORECAST o TOCK QUOTATIONS |oons “reiciiter Terminai Knot. Either; 'Twas Real E Circle, in 15 Hours 6:53 (PST), will be broadcast by ment of sentence as 10 a. m. to- @ (Juneau and Vielnity) ‘I — | The shipment, which consists of o WL lall networks. | MOrrow. ; Cloudy with occasional light o; NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—(—Clos- (377 carcasses, is being brought to/ ‘ BAKERBF’(ELD Calit, Sept. 26. —————— Manson ¥ accused of knifing| ® rain and not much change e |ing quotation of Alaska Juneau |Seattle by the Alaska Native Ser-\ L0OS ANGELES, Sept. 26. (#—-|—#—The U. 8. Air Transport his wife, Dixie, in an altercation ® in temperature tonight and e mine stock today is 4%, American vice. | “This 1sn't acting, chum—this isn't {Command announced an ATC C- | S“AMER MOVEME“TS ihex-c last month. Later, follow-|® Saturday. o /Can 821, Anaconda 34'y, Curtiss-| part of my job,” sobbed Greer Gar- |54 four-engine transport has set |ing his arrest, he made an un-|® PREC! ATION e | Wright 5%, International Harvester | son outside the courtroom where 'a record of 15 hours for the 3100- successful attempt to take his own|® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) e |84'%, Kennecott 43%, New Ymk pllb"She[ Shows she had just won a divorce 1mm| mile Great Circle flight from Clove Hitch acheduled to sflil‘hfc in the Juneau Federal Jail by, e In Juneau — .05 inches; e |Central 14%. Northern Pacific 20, | Actor Richard Ney {Chitose, Japan to Anchorage, from Seattle today. using a razor blade. e since Sept. 1. 18.04 inches; e |U. S. Steel 69, Pound $4.03% | Mean o' Br vil | The red-haired actress, whose | Alaska. Baranof scheduled to sail frcm| e ® since July 1, 2732 inches. o | Sales today were 640,000 shares. | e y composure on and off the screen! The previous record of 18 hours Seattle Saturday. i LUCIDOR IN PORT L At Airport .02 inches; -‘ Averages today are as follows: In-| BILLINGS, Mont, — (#—Shortest has seldom been noticeable ruf- was set by Northwest Airlines, Princess Louise scheduled to, M. S. Lucidor, under Capt. Oscar | ® since Sepot. 1, 9.02 inches; e dustrials, 174.84; rails, 47.44; utili- speech of the Montana Press Asso- fled, nearly broke down on the wit- 'also with a C-34, the ATC's East- sail from Vancouver 9 p. m. Sat-|Peterson, Northland Transportation | e since July 1. 19.34 inches. o |ties, 35.03. ciation meeting was made by C. J. ness stand as she testified lern Pacific Wing Headquarters urday. | Company, is in port today loading|® @ ¢ @ @ » & ¢ o o o o o SRS Doherty, Missoula publisher assign- “I tried continually to smoothing ' here said. Alaska scheduled to sail from|six carloads of frozen fish at the — - | OREGON VISITOR ed the subject “What ean we expect r at home, but he made, Pilot on the record ATC flight, Seattle September 30. |Juneau Cold Storage. The Lucidor IN TOWN - - |in printing equipment?" Mumpl«lrd Sept 8, was Capt. Aleutian scheduled southbound |is expected to sail for the south late' R. A. Neuman, of McMinnville,| J. W. Clayton. of Salem, Ore., is| His full text: she dashed, weeping, from Frank T. Hager, stationed at from west next Sunday, this afternoon, Ore, is registered at the Baranof. | slopping at the Baranof, “Nothing,” the courtroom. ATC's Great Fulls, Mont, base,