The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 29, 1947, Page 1

| HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,694 ]-UNEAU. ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MINE EXPL Truman Un ODES UNDER U. S. DESTROYER KEY MEN - AREASKED | 70 CONFER Commiflees?fllouse, Sen- ate fo Meet-Make Re- port to President WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—# g President Truman today announc-! \“‘\‘ cd he 15 asking key House and| 7R Senate Committees to me2t as} } soon as possible on European aid, but said ke has not decided wheth-1{ er to call a spacial session of Con- ! gress this fall | an extraordin-! Mr. Truman told ary news conference that a do-| cision on calling Congress in session will depend largely on the findings' of the committee, which | he desires to meet “at the earliest! possible time.” | He asked for meetings of the appropriations committees, the, Senate Foreign Relations committee | and the House Foreign Affairs committee. FLYING CHILD—Little Claire Wittanin, two, has flown 30,000 miles Funds now available, the Presi-i by between Juneau and Seattle to undergo treatment for a crip- dent said, can carry Western Eu-| | pled hip. Here Claire, new on the road to recovery locks at pictures of rope up to Decemter 1 on what the book, “Little Steps,” with the help of Pan American Stewardesses he rescribed as a starvation basis.| yipginia Hart and Kathryze Byrne. (Pan American World Airways But, he said that $58,000,000 Will be! pygeo) . (Courtesy Seattlc Post-Intelligencer) needed to get Europe through thp1 s cold weather until next March. ! The President told reporters he: The above picture and the fol- coul o) sy, when W, oould-des] UNDBORG '[o lowing story appeared in yesterdas cide on the issue of a special ses-| f: . n vivm 28) Seattle Post- sion. He said, however, that the| '“‘ [Ifri-l(t‘\\(-r i SR J r 2 ul ind the funds! | 1o ere @ ttle ;:’vcxx\::m:a:ermw:y rm:n §y con- Girl Who Has Ridden the Most in; gressional action i | an Airplane,” it could easily be be- » A. < e stowed on tiny Claire Wittanen Mr. Trustase 18 Nt Hinoies it For the two-year-old daughter iately to the chairmen of the com-, mittees. Some of the memters me] now in Europe, he said, but he will request that they convene m, Washington as soon as convenient.' of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wittanen of Juneau, Alaska, has cover=d an, amazing 30,000 miles by air during her brief span of life. But Claire’s flights aboard PAY CHECKS Pan, 'HAIFA POLICE 'HQOBLOWNUP; ¢ | 4 10 ARE KILLED | | ! Jew Underground Boasls * t of Bombing Which ! Wounded 77 JERUSALEM. \l‘p\ 29.—(M—Ten persons were Killed an approximate- | ly wounded today when a District Police Headquarters in Haifa was | wrecked b a shattering bomb ex- ‘])lnfllun which Jewish underground agents boasted they had set off as | reprisal for the deportation of un- (certified Jewish immigrants. The d included three British® constables, four Arab policemen, a 16-year-old Arab girl and an Arab coffee vendor. Injured were 29 Brit- | ish constables of whom 13 were | eritically hurt 14 Jewish civilians and 11 Arab civiuans ' | Most of the injured civiliuns were | ! passengers on an intercity bus from | Jerusalem which was passing the . police headquarters when the ex- plu\l on occurred. Police said the bomb-a tar barrels |loaded with high explosives—was dumped from a truck backed up to ‘the wire barricade surrounding the “‘.;me station and dropped on an improvised ramp over the barvier. Rolling down the ramp and crash- 1g into the building, the barrel I | | | | \ exploded moments later with a roar T K R vhich shook the whole harbor area | | The truck, which vulled away just | | | before the blast, later was found Wllhdrawal of American’ damaged aircrait, apprixmately reclaimed. (# Photo. RED GOVT. i : abandoned in a nearby square. ! Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish under- + ground nn,.uumuon immediately headquarters announce that Harry ground organization, immediate’s - and Russian Occupation |ariin, amusements. editor of the | its ugems had carried out the attack | Memphis Commercial Appeal, has Troops, Spells Doom in retaliation for trans-shipment to ,Haumburg of the exodus 1947 Jew:. and the deportation to Cyprus of SEOUL, Sept. 29. 500 in this * Guild Elecls Harry Martin 1 OF CLOUDING As Prendem ISSUE IN U.N. {A—Am- er (C10) jon (®—Two South election return 29, Guild NEW YORK, Sept. ican Newspaper the basis of said 11485 Airplane Salvage Heap | been elected President of the Guild nearly complete ballots The United decided On }Calling Special Session THREE MEN ARE KILLED, ~ 7TINJURED Accident fo ~N-amvy Vessel . Takes Place Near 3 Trieste WASHI N()TON Sepl j 2. - B The Navy said a mine exploded |under the U. 8, destroyer Douglas H. Fox near Trieste at 3:20 am | (PST) today, killing three men and |injuring seven, International reper- ulx\h\n\ are oxpected. The blast wrecked the steering ,u ar of the late tvpe warship, flood- {ing all the after compartments and ‘lv.\\'uu: her dead in the water, dis- ;)\ul('hus reaching the Navy Depart- ment said. i A ter destroyer, the James C. .| Owens, and two tugs have gone to |the aid of the Fox which has two | doctors and five hospital corpsmen | aboard, Navy officials said the mine may { have been an old one, broken loose from an area not yet swept clear (of them since the war. The ex- plosion occurred 18 miles off Trieste, | dispaches from that Adriatic port said. The names of the, victims were not made public @t once. One of the men wounded was reported eritically | injured and the other wounded were |in serious condition. The Fox, which was on her way | from Venice, It to Trieste, is one of the most heavily armed of Ameri- U.S. Says Communists Try b etires” She o to Prevent S]udy of Bal- | teaving Noroflk, Va., July 21. kan Conflict Causes 3 | The alvage depot where the metals are 1 Air Station in Norfolk, Va. ACCUSE RUSS ‘The Fox's skipper is Commander ! Charles W. Travis, Annapolis, Md. A Sumner class destroyer, the Fox 29. was built in Seattle in 1944, dis- LAKE bUC(‘qu Sept P The President sald he believed { Ametican Glippess between Se- | refugees who reached Palestine Sat- Korean political leaders predict] A spokesman States today accused'places 2,300 tons and has a wartime that all who attended/fa ‘pe“““aovemor s New Execuive attle and Juneau have mot been|urday aboard the Afalpl. that withdrawal of American and Were cast and that 61 of the Guild's Russia and her satellites of tring complement of 315 men. meeting this_morning of Repub-! Accictant Will Receive 'picasure trips. e Russian occupation troops, suggest- 90 10cals, representing 94 percent|to divert attention from the real| ‘The full extént of the damage is lican and Democratic —congress-i When she came home from th ed last Friday by the Soviet, would ©f the total vote, had filed com- cause of the Balkan conflict by not known, but all compartments ional leaders, agreed on the ur-j Almaef $]0 000 Year nospital two vears ago, she cried, result in civil war and Commun- Plete reports. Results for all offi-| dragging in “irrelevant” questions aft of the after deck house were sent mature of ‘the Juropean crl-} ” more than any baby should. Her, ization of the country. v“\‘“""“l“']““'N‘; though -'|~ such us the Truman Doctrine and |fooded, the offielal dispatches said. 8ls. i BB arents ~h‘ o Seattle where Tm- )xed)cuon came from two ‘yet unofficial, the spokesman said llu- composition of the present T SIO(K QUOIA‘IONS ‘f’r‘]’(‘"'ézw(‘:imfx;‘f";fi;\k“““1:,“ . on. ko with a bone socket too small] BlAST AIMED anis’ bt FhelE SertiryreH Stng: :""'4’;‘; ';’:):“]h: "z;!l;‘;;d"‘:-"’dv““”‘:& "At the same time, the United operative,” and both screws dam- e i3 5%, ¥ . of for the hip bone man Rhee, rightist, and Kimm! ' 5 is onel ard states promised to make available!aged. | NEW YORK, Sept. zg_cmmg';‘z“;‘;u “f’m‘:f“l‘:p “:l;s“{:““é);“e"log' Then frequent trips L‘cgnn—cluseE Kui Sic, chairman of the South [Sh““‘:- * memh;"' ‘;!N‘lh“ VW;*“"l‘i'; to the United Nations Assembly| The flooding of all the after com- quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine ment Board in addition to his re- to 1,000 miles each way—from Ju-, Korea interim legislative asx.-m»,é’l{““”‘“:“ 9 S M€ land its 55-nation political com-|partments indicated that the mine -stock today is 4%, American Can' gular salary from the Federal gov- ' u to the Onhopedl_c Huspll'.\li‘ bly. T ;}’“F\I;‘".k‘ /e Imittee “every detail” of the Ameri- was extremely powerful and must | da 34%, Curtis S 3 in Seattle, where physicians at-| Russian Col. Gen. Terenty Shti-; Sam Eubanks, of Qaklanc, Uall®'can program to aid Greece have gone off very close under the £3%, Anacondn e i \ernment for his new position. The o 78 T aot” the ailment. ! Kou < Boviet Balakats th" EHE . lincumbent executive vice president, ters, axbdtt be“ Wright 5'%, International Harvester 3 % Sumdborg - explatried | pted to correc e ailment.| 0 elegate to the Jjoint et il o Herschel V. Johnson, U. S. dele- | St€rm, xvers eved u GRyerior sugSUDEROLE Eal She was placed in a heavy brace commission which failed in at-)Was re-elected. He recelved 6,368 85's, Kennecott 43%, New York this morning that the fee was vot- This.\k'(“(‘k thalsABUNY made .her ! tempts to prepare the way for|votes o 4815 for James Buchnam,|B8te: made these doclx—\nvnlulu be- Central 14%, Northern Pacific 20, ed by the Board members and Will'jo0 ™0 " seattel. 1t was ““'M thd sf I:I Bu”” S g B et Tor |0 Manchesiar, v/ fore the pelitical committee ait U. S. Steel 70, Pound $4.03. { continue. S S, | e 18IS rlay s that|" Ralph Novaki of Metroit, was re- | CRlling attention to what he called | Sales today were 740000 shares. | sundborg will -receive _salary R RO Craire i Hal for Statement on it |t it v, fracg| Gléoted. secretsTyiiaturer. s 8350 | (RToSY Calinnles’ ARWITH: the Dy Averages today are as follows:|of $7381.50 from the Federal gov- i ”"'w“ of '8 (vhm;, e Sey e Eias ot i i)e'rxnning of the YOS to 4,878 for G. K. Williams, led states by Russia and her satel- industrials 17676, rails 47.74, utili-| ermment which, with the fee from go.o " = : Fightin Men WhO Dflnk year, leaving Koreans to form their|0f Los Angeles. lites in connection with the Ameri-| ties 35.20. ‘the Territory, will bring his an- - g g lown government. | ->eo— d.{‘l ald rogram, IN KAMLOOPS bt R e nual earnings to $9,781.50, which is o= | Highly-placed Americans specu- ® ® ® ® ® » o © o 0.0 o o do not see how the Umk FROM FAIRBANKS only $2.21850 less than the $12,000 (AN']’ UNDERSIA“D | WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. — ®— lated the suggestion was designad;® WEATHER REPORT o Bepplc should be made to sutfer, Jack Allman of Fairbanks I5isalary he formerly received from {The Methodist Board of Temper- to keep the Korean issue from|e & o ;J'O'lm:mf declared, “simply because staying at the Baranof. the Territory when he was Gen- 'an(‘e let 1o 1 broadside at Ad- coming bhefore the Unitod Nations e Temperature for 24-Hour e "' Saviet government is not. able e <. % leral Manager of the Development WHY RUSSI‘"S A(I miral William F. (Bull) Halsey today and possibly indicated that the|e Period Ending 7:30 oClock e '° MMPUS¢ lta. aconomy on Greece.” | ] The w aShiIl ton‘Board, In addition to his two sal- for saying that “as a general rule, Russians believed North Korea ® This Morning . m‘"""”‘l“i‘*“'(‘ 'fi;']“‘.m"’]‘:‘('i”y "l'i:“"“'”‘z“; ) aries or fees, Sundborg will also be IN wAY THEY Do I never trust a fighting man who was ready to try to install a Red e In Juneau—138 inches; e until ed- | - g 1 eligible for the usual travelling ex- ,domn smoke or drink.” | government for the whole country. e minimum, 48. o | N€sday morning. Earlier the com-, 2 - Merrv_ Go _Bounflipenseb and per diem for trips while —— The board retorted that drinking - -oo e At Airport—Maximum, 55; ® ;‘"l"") had heard an a})m‘nl from Ffelgh' Plows IMO Ro(k -lon cfficial business. He can be makes men fight “in thousands of | e minimum, 48, o | France asking the United States to By DREW PEARSON ompansated for - travel expenses E1@@nor Speaks Qut f0isuoons evers dav. but we nave (o "\WEATIEN pomECAST o MOy demands ihat the Assembly Slide-Engineer, Brake- by both the Federal and Territorial o | never known it to make anyone fight a er OI . (Juneau and Vicinity) o | find the three Soviet Balkan satel WASHINGTON—The British Se-| governments. Newsman—-Posmon Some-- well.” | |® Rain and notmuchchange e lites guilty of aggression against | man, 3 |nd|a“s Dle cret Service, recognized as one of | Apswering the many inquiries on And if Halsey carried bourbon in temperature tonight and Greece. Johnson made no reference | the most efficient in the world, has ! how Sundborg, a non-veteran, was hme A|mosi |nspurab!e for his carrier pilots in the Pacific | e Tuesday. to the French appeal | just submitted a confidential and aple to secure housing at the Chan- jwhen he was Third Fleet Com- | an ' a e; PRECIPYPATION | In an avowed attempt to com-| KAMLOOPS, BC. Sept. 29—@ highly impcrtant report to the Bri-! pei Apartments, Mrs. Laura John-| 1 AgE ‘;UCCESS Sept. 20.—® ! mander, the board declared. he was | | o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todny, ¢ Promise the fight between Russia —Discovery of the todies of three tish Foreign Office regarding the |sc; *of the Alaska Housing Author- nrys Franklin D. Roosevelt says it | guilty of an }Um.shmu breach of i le In Juneau—1:38 inches: e and the United States over the hooky-playing Indian youths rais< inner debates of the Soviet Polit- ity which operates the local Fed- s impossible to anderstand why the | i naval discipline | & 5 o since Sept. 1, 1563 inches; e Bulk‘un problem, French Minister ed to five today the toll of Satur- buro—the 14-man council which|eral Housing project, issued an eX- Russians act as they do. Halsey, whose reflections on liquor | KETCHIKAN, Aiaska, Sept. 29 4 vos Jiily 1/ 9888 aohas of State Yvonne Delbos also ap- day’s crash of a Canadian Na- ) really rules Russia. planation cn that subject today. Mys. Roosevelt told a reporter appeared in a recent series of arti- | P—Territorial Senator Norman R. J At Airport—062 inches; pealed to the Soviet Union and its, tional railway locomotive and 59 This British report indicates that|gShe said that veterans are giVen that at times the difficulties -of cles in the Saturday Evening Post, [ Walker of Ketchikan said yesterday o since Sept. 1, 9.82 inches: satellites to cooperate toward seek- freight cars which plowed into a the Soviet Union has just made a . first priority for housing at the gealing with Soviet delegates to the [didnt even swing a gun turret he would nuBl Uli'l'flw Alaska Dele- | & since July 1, 2014 inches. ing a peaceful settlement rock slide Saturday 37 miles west historic decision, namely to give UP | project and that, when no veterans ynited Nations appear almost in- {when reporters found him in San gd‘te E. Lb arlnetth T R e el g Delbos spoke before the political of here. all pretense of friendship with the are on the waiting list, Federal superable. Francisco and told him what the |Ppr madrlesb fitr]iu\ t l] 80th lexresv 7 committee after hearing Greeces, The dead: United States. { employees are given second priority.! “Try you may, you mnnonf""““" was Sa'y‘{nL His answer w.n,?asse r:“/n 'avm]g “,P gx'uundv{mk {Deputy Premier Constantine Tsal- | Engineer Frank A. Brookall and The report, which goes into de-, Although there are approximately understand why they act as they No commen: : : ; nrwmlxk .;srk‘;.‘pu p p.lvp;xl)‘ndutuy MASKED GUNME“ | daris declare Greece's northern |brakeman George W. Shirley, both tail regarding the new Soviet policy | 4 thousand veterans waiting for do, even when you project yuursel!| Th? bo‘ar.ds nt.ta(-k m.led six col- o al lel Ad .uu:;nfm»e. 1;5 h::en-: neighbors Albania, Bulgaria and|0f Kamloops; Ambrose and Fran- also reveals: accommodations at the Channel, into the position their nation UC_Iumxlsflof its newspaper-size publica- ; tion o ‘elu;;:;ng Lu lx:ce hor on- { SIAGE HOlDup or | Yugoslavia—are boldly committing ¢is Alex of Shalath, B. C.; and 1. That Stalin apparently Was!yone were on the waiting list for a cupies.” tion *The Clipsheet, : Sfomional Delegate when 1he Seehe- | “acts of aggression” while the UN Leonard Major, Pavilion, B. C. reluctant to go along with the|nree pedroom apartment which — Mrs. Roosevelt, a nited State: Many of the great military men |ure permitting the sale of Tong Y seeks a solution George Hallmark, fireman, was change toward the USA but was sundborg needs for his large fam- | delegate to the U. N, said the Rus- the world has produced have been | National Forest timber to pulp mills | OHIO NIGHI([“B; LA hospitalized in “serious” condition et 1 Sundborg ne iaien Mve. . Geton aunear to be waiting for an- | notaoly abstemious,” the article said, appeared headed for rejection. i S“AMER MOVEMEN“ after being scalded by escaping “‘;“;_‘] i T e ily which ‘:;; UACH TN, FHDEROIS 5‘;“* d‘”m‘“m here to create pools | Maming Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart, Walker also told Secretary of Al- } steam Pt gt e I R pRd (e chilinh ot remeinas | Stonewmll Jackson, Sergeant Alvin|aska Lew Williams that failing| PAINESVILLE, Ohio, Sept. 20.— Baranof, from-Seattle, going west, The fast freight crashed into the PR Kt iod iy o O ey R omunism. - Bat d | ¥ork and Jimmy Doolittle. health might prevent him from |(P—Twelve masked bandits arm- scheduled to arrive at noon tomor- |slide as it rounded a bend in a P = ki St IN FROM HOONAH ‘L;;’:,“mfmm" e oouencey| “Alcohol.” it added, “is a deadly |seeking re-clection to the Territorial [ed with machine guns pushed their row. arron "t o o T :;.’,es(;l :LheNe” East. g ‘ Henry Moses of Hoonah arrived ¢, the world would be if the W: | menace to .ihe country’s .sareu"Senate. e | .. into an exclusive club near| Princess Louise, from Vancouver,i12 cars were derailed. Five of the 3. That Rusdia strategy in Europe {in Juneau Saturday evening and e, riemisphere was in such chaos w}_\elhm it is in the brmnfi of ad- ¥ o *0 o 43 ‘Pamesvme, Ohio, early today, and d\le; tumun‘-nw afternoon or evening. derailed cars contained new auto- feat the Marshall plan s registered at the Hotel Juneau. nat it could no longer expect food?” | Miral, general, or diplomat. GAMBLING GAMES CLOS! robbed patrons of cash, jewelry Square Sinnet scheduled io arrive mobiles, and were destroyed. PFive Wil e fo geient 1l o R ) Sl e RS2 i i land furs estimated at $200,000 in Thursday or Friday other cars which contained eggs. e sl i el Eighty-five percent of Puerto HERE FROM NEW YORK ! FROM ANCHORAGE The Anchmage Police have b"\“lv«lue The masked gunmen broke Alaska scheduled to sail from|were said to have survived the 2 e s b- | Rico’s 400,000 families have an an-| Arthur Hayman, {rom New York| Garrell E. Hupp and Lawrence|given free hand and will close alllinto the establishment, known as Seattle tomorrow {crash practically intact T st mf kvt i nual'lm-umo of less than $400 a City, is registered at the Hotel Ju- | Brighton of Anchorage are staying(gambling in the Cook Inlet Metro-|as the Mounds Club, just as a - Aleutian scheduled to sail lmnw An inquest into the deaths and “(Continued ”';,;6, Four) year neau, {at the Baranot polis, Jtloarshow was in progress. Seattle Saturday, lm.» crash was scheduled for today. 2 AN alia PG A e RIS R R w e W NN IRRER R R R s