The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1947, Page 1

SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,693 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT] T0 FORCE “WARMONGER” ATTAC HANNEGAN. Parents Oppose QUITTING | ONOCT.29 To Old | YUGOSLAVS RELEASE3 AMERICANS U. S. Soldiers Rushed ati Gunpoint Over Border | Released-Apologize | Senator J—a-nTes Howard McGrath of R. I to Be Successor WASHINGTON, Sept. —P— Rokert E. Hannegan will resign Oct. 29 as chairman of the Dem- ocratic National Committee and will be succeeded by Senator James Howard McGrath of Rhode Island. Hannegan announced today that he is resigning because of health and that President Truman “in- dicated his approval” of McGrath. Ratification of the President's choice by the National Committee q b will be a formality. —Hannegan BELGIADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. remains as Postmaster General. (#— Three U. S. soldiers ar- McGrath told reporters he will rested at the Trieste frontier on accept the Democratic chairman- Monday wére released last night, ship and expects to “proceed on officials said today the theory that my task will be The U. S. Embassy has forward- to re-elect President Truman.” ed a note to the Yugoslav Foreign Hannegan called a meeting of MmL_:i y requesting information on the National Committee for Octo- the incident. ber 29, and said his resignation The Foieign Office announced will be effective as of that date vesterday that an oral apology had at 11 a. m. when the meeting been tendered the American Am-, starts. bassador, Cavendish Cannon, fol- simultaneously, the chairman an- lowing a_conference by Cannon nounced that Gael Sullivan, Execu- yesterday with Assistant Foreign tive Director and Vice-Chairman Minister Vladimir Velebit. of the committee, a former as-' The three men are First Lieut. sistant Postmaster General who has Willlam Van Atten, East Orange, | been exercising full power in Han- N. J.; Pfc. Earl G. Hendrick, Jr., negan’s absence, is resigning on Arlington, Va., and Pfc. Glen A. the same date, October 20. ; Meyer, Edgeley, N. D. McGrath will keep his Senate ST e e seat. 00 0000000 00 f Others have done so in the past ® WEATHER REPORT including Cordell Hull who served o as domestic chairman while a » member of the House in the early o twenties, and Senator Fess of Ohio e remained in the Senate while e heading the Republican commit- e tee. Iy McGrath is a former governor e of Rhode Island and one-time o Solicitor General of the United o States. He is 43. I STEAMER MOVEMENTS | I Baranof scoeduled to sail frcm @ Seattle today. e In Juneau — .04 inches; Princess Louise scheduled to ® since Sept. 1, 1413 inches; sail from Vancouver 9 tonight. |® since July 1, 2735 inches. Alaska scheduled to sail from @ At Airport — .03 inches; Seattle September '30. since Sept. 1, 9.05 inches; Aleutian scheduled southbound | since July 1, 19.37 inches. from west 4 a. m: Monday. jo o o0 ® o000 00 Temperature for 24-Hour e| Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock ‘This Morning In Juneau—Maximum, 56; minimum, 43. At Airport—Maximum, 54; minimum, 37. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Increasing cloudiness to- night, with rain by tomorrow afternoon. Warmer ionight. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) ] | | | 000c0e00c0000 0000000 3 Sedions of First Grade | To Old Native School, Moving clusion of the public hearing last wight, the School Board re- convened. In this session it was moved, seconded and passed that the fifth grade students of the Juneau schools be trans- ferred te the Willoughby Avenue | Immediately after the con- | i ] ¥ Girl Tells of Seeing Father Shoot Molher» ' PROGRAMFOR KON U.S. Democratic Chairman Will Resign Position SHOWDOWN FIGHT PLAN SOCIAL LEGIS. OF RUSSIA iUrges Billion Dollar Aid}Vishinsky,?aGng Appar- * for Health, Housing, ent Defeat, fo Make Education, Old Age Battle, UN Session PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 27.—{#— TAFTMAPPING LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 27.—P— School. The Superintendent was instructtd to employ a third fifth grade teacher, as this class was nearing the limit in size that could be efficiently handled. la powerful campaign to force early action by Congress on so-called “so- lcial” legislation was mapped today by Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) as an apparently integral part of his ex- Fighting from a tough minority position, Russia showed every evi- jdence today for forcing its “war- {monger” attack on the United States to a complete showdown in the United Nations while staving ‘The Washington Karen Ann Rosenberger, eight | Ipounds and ten ounces of baby girl, larrived at the St. Ann’s Hospital |at 41 minutes after 4 o'clock this morning. She is the firsf child for !ROSENBEIIGEILS ARE PARENTS Merry - Go-Round| 'her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rosenberger. Karen Ann’s maternal grandpar- |ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Forseen, !and her paternal grandparents, M. all re- By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — It's an il 1 wind that blows nobody good, ac- gording to Congressman John Rankin of Mississippi, now 1.‘m_'and Mrs. Peter Rosenberger, i : ning like a jackrabbit for the Sen-|side in St. Paul, Minn. ate seat of the late Theodore Bil-| Herman Rosenberger is employed bo. at the 20th Century Grocery. The The potentate of Tupelo has now Rosenberger home is at 900 Basin stooped so low as to make political Road. hay of the hurricane and the de- vastation it brought to his home state. Sunday, Rankin stayed glued to the radio :in his Washington yapartment, carefully noting ' the places damaged by floods and wind. By noon he had a sizeatle list of . stricken Mississippi towns. Théreupon he prepared a press release demanding that the Presi- dent call Congress into special session to aid the storm victims. Not content with giving this to| H —_—————— ANDERSONS SUUTH Mrs. George Anderson, and her "daughter Sylvia, will leave here on Monday on board the Aleutian for ! a trip to the States. They will spend !about three months in Portland, |Ore., visiting friends and relatives. At the conclusion of that time, Sylvia hopes to attend the Universitv of !Oregon at Eugene. She has been employed up to this time in the ot- fice of the Alaska Development Board. The Superintendent was also instructed that inasmuch as fifth grade students, rather than first grade students were to be transferred, it would not be nec- essary to set up a program for the serving of a hot dish at the Willoughby school, nor weuld it be necessary to operate any ad- ditional transportation for pupils of this age such as was under discussion when the first grade transferal was being considered. By a clamorous majority, 78 par-| ents attending a meeting called by! Juneau School Boardl last evening,! disapproved of the Board's decis-. ion to move the three sections of; the First Grade to the Willough-| by Avenue School. was raised when they made apub-; lic announcement last Tuesday | school. { Dr. Joseph Rude, President of the | School Board, presided at the meeting. He said the meeting had' been called so that the parents would know the various alterna-| tive plans that had been under | consideration and how the board | * had arrived at its ultimate decis-| 5 ion. He concluded by saying that' At the fishery regulations hearing anyone who had a better plan of yesterday, shrimp packers ask2d for action would be allowed to express: the reopening of Duncan Canal, lat- it. I er dates for the beginning and end- Edwin' C. Clark, Juneau's newi“‘g of the closed season and a superintendent of schools, stated ' change in the manner of measuring the position of the Board and | shrimp to determine legal size. said the problem was not whether: The shrimpers claim Duncan Can- the school would operate but “who!al does not differ from other shrimp would go?” He said that the'areas, and is not a svecial nursery native children couldn’t be return-, area, also that a closed season be- ed to the school because of the ginning two weeks later would better Alaskan Territorial non-fiscrim- | cover the spawning veriod of shrimp. inatory law. | Seiners asked that no arbitrary He said the first plan taken un-:dates be set for opening and ending der consideration was to take chil-ithe salmon season, proposing that dren from grades onme to six that:it be flexible af both ends with no lived in the vicinity, adding that fishing until after necessary escape- 7th and 8th grades weren’t consid- ment has been sssured. ered because they use the home Alternative Proposal sconomics and manual trainiig rpoc 4150 recommended as an al- facilities of the High School. Heloya4ive proposal to abolish of fish said if this were done it would require comktination Iup during closed periods, and spil- grades being in one class room.i ... emptied within 12 hours of the Another Plan beginning of any closed period. The next plan put forth was that 3 the first, second, and third graders' Seiners also request o p. m. closing who live in the vicinity, attend thej school. He said that the diffi- culty that arose then was that there would be a majority of na- tive children @n each grade. 1 Mr. Clark continued by saying| that the next solution would be to take an entire grade to that school, and the problem then arose ™ —which grade. Because the four- license be set, rev-es?.flhllshment of th, fifth and sixth grades use gymihatuhenes on prmc_ipnl Southeast facilities of the grade school, me‘Alaska streams, and similar tolerance Board rested its decision amongjOn taking ?mllbub to that allowed the first three grades. He said|Plack cod fishermen. concerning the second and third Remove Restrictions (Special to Empire) classes, two hours notice of openings;and ask that | copies of the regulations be furnish- led each boat before the beginning fof the season. Trollers say traps catch a large number of small kings, and ask 1 abolition on that ground. They also ask that a $100 non-resident fishing {times and 6 am. openings, with 48 | [ ! ¥ i ‘tmps. that spiller tunnels be pulled | | | | | The meeting was called by the' r«'m a ers N e'ners an | Board because of the protest that’ (] | w2t TrollersMade Appearanceat | transferred to the former nativei | Fish Hearing at P efersburg There was considerable discussion | of tye issue brought up in the after- | PETERSBURG, Alaska, Sept. 27— {1, .05 session at Craig Wednesday | of using salmon for bait and fur ranch feed. Craig fishermen nc- cused halibuters of taking salmon illegally for bait. Halibut fishermen say they take some salmon for bait during, the open season only, but they are un- opposed to objections suggesting a change in the statutes to prohibit the use of salmon as bait. Both trollers and halibut men here are aroused over the increasing her- ring reduction, and are asking that restrictions be placed upon herring fishermen to limit them to catching only for human consumption and balt. ONE KILLED, NINE HURT AS BRITISH TAKE JEWISH SHIP JERUSALEM, Sept. 27.-4"—One Jew was killed and nine others were injured today when British sailors boarded a refugee ship try- ing to crack the Palestine coastal blockade with approximately 450 persons aboard. The Jew slain was shot by a British sailor who “had been sur- 1ounded by a party of Jews bran- dishing crowkars,” a government spckesman said Two other Jews were Wounded by gunfire and a British sailor suffered a broken finger. - Beth Griswcld (center), 11, daughter of a Chicago policeman, points to her father, Frank (extreme right), as she tel's ccroner's jury she had seen him fatally shoot her mother, a saloon dice girl. recommended Griswcld to be held to the grand jury on a charge of murdering his wife. ® Photo. The jury HIGHWAY LAND FOR VETERANS [ ai——r Secrefary of Inferior Krug Makes Announcement on Homesteading B— Secretary of Interior Krug has ord- ered 2,750,000 acges of unsurveyed public lands in Alaska opened to homestead settlement by World War IT veterans effective October 2. The land lies along both sides of the Alaska Highway. Krug said that under reguiations, veterans’ priority on the land will extend to February 2, after which it will be subject to settlement by the general public. Priority rights for veterans al- ready have been bprovided in con- pected bid for the 1948 Hz—pub]icun’ ! presidential nomination. | Despite his forecast of opposition | by other Republicans, the Ohio Sen- ator stood committed today to lead ;a drive for legislation to expand off as long as possicle apparent defeat on such American-backed |1ssues as Greece and the veto. Andrel Y. Vishinsky, Russia’s deputy Foreign Minister, repeated old age assistance, increase unem- and expanded at a news confer- ployment comperisation, construct|ence the “warmongers” charges public housing and provide State- |be made before the Assembly on ! administered Federal aid for health | September 18. | and education. | Moreover, there were indications i All this, Taft told an audience of |that a firm Soviet position on | Republican Club members at Gear- |Palestine may now be emerging bart, Ore., last night, may cost the |Which would be critical of British Federal government $1,000,000,000 a |Policies but not necessarily in dis- | year. j2greement with the final decis- Conceding that the after-war |ions of the United States on this | budget situation may force a “mod- |issue, which is being handled by lest beginning,” nevertheless Taft |Secretary of State George C. Mar- |said he believes “the Republican |shall with extreme caution at the Party will and should proceed with | moment. these measures in the next sesson.” | As the 'Assembly's second week » |drew to a g'ose one thing had ibecome clear: Two weeks of debate and scores of speeches had pro- !duced no grounds for compromise on any of the major issues. The split between East and West was wider than ever. Among some delegations there was considerable {uncertainty as to whether the United Nations could te made to | work effectively on the principle jof universality—inclusion of all “peace-loving nations.” Vishinsky made clear at his news | conference yesterday that Russia jintcnds to press its “warmonger” |case to the limit. In a 3,000-word statement, Vish- that John Foster I | ALASKA COASTAL | AIRLINES FLIES 64 | | PERSONS FRIDAY Alaska Coastal Airlines ed regular flights (Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan, I'Sllka. Tenakze, Excursion Inlot, {Todd, Lake Hasselborg, Pelican, ll{(;(mnh, Chichagoff and Tulse- «quah. | ; Passengers to Ketchikan were, {Bill Baker, Mrs. Johnstone and:DSky asserted {Donna Johnstone; to Petersburg,|Dulles, & clos> -adviser of Mar- J. W. Clayton and Francis Lupin- Shall, “greatly influences” the lsky; to Sitka, Ingvald Poterson, foreign policy of the United States IMik= Johnson, Agnes Forbes, Mrs, And that the policies of Dulles Hennings. {would lead to war with Russia. All ! Don Foster, O. L. Kaiser, Walter| ‘instigators” of war, Vishinsky Sunden, Irving Dundas, Mrs. Ben|arsued, ought to be “enchained.” iSee, Mr. and Mrs. Tom See, Mrs.: TR ALASKA AVIATORS report- uk, Roy Avrit and Agnes Lokko.| From Juneau to Tenakze, J. J.| {Jackson, J. Jackson, Jr. Mary! nection with the homesteading of {G. Johnson and Anna Johnson; to surveyed tracts along the highway.|Excursion Inlet, Mr. and Mrs. F. A order of July 1, 1947, which Johnson, Mrs. C. Martin and Shir- made the lands along the A]uhkfl!fl‘y Johnson; to Hasselborg, Highway available for use under the jand Mrs. J. R. Hope; to Tuls Jackson, Fannie Ward, Sam Asp,| | - HELD FOR MONDAY | | The Civil Aeronautics Board, in | Washington, D, C., has taken ac- public lands laws, said that major part of the area is “unsuit- able for agricultural purposes.” Veterans must actually settle on the land to obtain title. However, they will be given up to two years credit for military service in meet- ing homestead residence require- ments. With maximum credits, it is possible for a veteran to establish his right to homestead by only seven months' residence. —>eo— BUILDING BOOM, POINT BARROW the | quah, Danielson, L. Gillies, A./ton on the docket case of the Grant and J, McDougal. |Alaska bush pilots but will not Inbound passengers to Juneflu‘release its decision until Monday and Ketchikan were H. Stone- 8t 3 p. m., EST. Word of the hauer and Mr. and Mrs. Gil Ham- 8ction was recelved here this ilton; from Petersburg, Phyllis| morning by Congressional Delegate Young, M. L. Frank and Duuy‘E- L. “Bob” Bartlett from his Norfin; from Sitka, Roy Avrit ‘Wflshinzlon office. and William Bates, James Kitka.| The action has threatened to put From Hoonah, Nellie and Robert ot of business all non-scheduled Hansen; from Pelican, Mrs. Ross|charter flying companies in Al- and G. C. Fulton; from Cl:tca’;ofl.‘“"k" The decision is being await- Harvey M. Moore and John Ro-|€d With considerable interest by kas; from Todd, E. W. Nicholl and the entire Territory. Mrs. Osman; and from Tulsequuhj voewtme g WIFE KNIFER IS SENTENCED T0 A | | here. grade, “It seems rather strange, The trollers also ask removal of logic that would cause you to favor | all restrictions on taking dolly var- | letting your child start at the Fi fth | den trout, a bounty on seagulls and | Street School here, go to the'sealions, and continuation of the RUSSIA“ MOTHER Willoughby School, then come back bounty on hair seals. | HAS oulmuplils i Gill netters cite hair seal as their | Text Book Question I principal problem on the Stikine | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 27.— . ® — Working by lantern light to | beat winter's arrival, Eskimos at | Barrow are engaged in the first | major building boom in many years at North America’s northernmost MAKE RESERVATIONS FOR PARTY RALLY All Democrats intercsted in DEMOCRATS MUST | at- | 5-YEAR TERM Roy E. Manson, 27, was sentenc- ed to serve five years in the Fed- #the press associations, Rankin telegraphed the statement to key WACHUSETT RETURNING River, estimating that there are He said that the advantages of USCG cutter Wachusett will ar- | = ¢ !placing the first graders there | from 600 to 1,000 seals in the river rive in Juneau this afternoon at 3 o'elock, according to word received ! this morning. The cutter, under | Comdr. E. V. Carlson, went to Se- attle recently to return a party of visitinig Congressmen. s A O ORDERED TO SHOW CAUSE The City of Skagway has been mewspapers in Mississippi. In addition, he wired.the may- ors of Mississippi towns, telling them of his demand on the White House. Monday, the ingenipus gentleman from Mississippi went even furth- er. He asked for an appoint- were that all the teachers would |area this year. They proposed a ON SIBERIAN FARM village. Twelve new homes are under con- struction and 28 others are being improved with new lumber brought tending the no-host banquet and|eral penitentiary by Federal Judge |Party Rally in honor of Delegate George W. Folta, this morning, in E. L. Bartlett next Tuesday night U. S. District Court here. He plead- must arrange for reservations no,ed guilty yesterday to a charge of | | be operating on the same time j @Overnment hunter as the best z:m-i i- | SWi j lem. schedule and that it would facili-|sWer td the problem. tate the transference of text books.| Bounty on Sealions | Soviet Agency Tass reported today The grade is divided into three! Halibut men are more conccrned]‘-, at a Russian woman had borne sections, and books are first used | With the 1-educnfm ar_the numbers | quintuplets, three boys apd two in one section and then in thelOf sealions, urging either that a|girls. It sald all five were de- next. “If we separated them, we ! bounty be placed on them or that |veloping normally and the young would have to buy books for all the government hunt them. mother, Khonda Tsyrenzhapova, LONDON, Sept. 27.—#— The nerth by Navy vessels in space al- |later than 11 o'clock Monday loted for civilian cargo. morning. 1t is the first new lumber received | The dinner will be at 7i30 o'clock by the natives since before the war, jat the Salmon Creek Country Club. but the Navy has previously given | Reservations may be made with the Eskimos scrap boards from the Mrs. John McCormick or Mrs. annual supply ships for Petroleum | Mike Haas, ment with President Truman to register his demand for a special|ordered to show cause by Federal | | gession. ‘Truman, however, had|Judge George W. Folta in a suit just stepped off the boat from Rio, | brought to U. S. District Court here “had already scheduled conferences|by John W. Pichotta who is chal- our new pupils or have them, transported back and forth.” | He said that the third factor was that the Fifth Street Schoo | All fishermen groups are much wa2s in good health. concerned with possible pulp mill damage to fisheries, and ask that mills be required to vurify their | waste before dumping into streams |in Tass added the mother was “of a Buriat Mongolian collective farm.” The Buriats are Mongols South Central Siberia, near lake Baikal, Reserve No. 4. - HERE FROM FRISCO J. Mclver and C. A. Barton, of | { IN TOW. . Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Johnson assault with a dangerous weapon (arising from the knifing of his |wite, Dixie, in an altercation here ‘last month. - e AMERICAN CITIZENS NOW Two persons have received U. S. ‘cmzemhip at naturalization pro- | ceedings in the U. S. District Court. | They are: Thora Thunes, former | Norwegian subject, and Marcus A. San Francisco, are stopping at the and son of Kake are registered at | Bacon, former citizen of the Philip- + Baranof. the Hotel Juneau. i Ilenging that City’s right to reduce (Continued on Page Four) electric light and power rates. (Continued on Page Eight) "or salt water. i | pines,