The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 15, 1947, Page 1

"HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" ———— | JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY; OCTOBER 15, 1947 MI:MB 'R AbSOClA'l ED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS {/OL. LXVL, NO. 10,708 RUSSIA’S MILITARY POSITION REVEALED Lewis Calls Names At Big A.F.L. Convention 'Salem Woman in 15th Divorce SHORESIDE OPERATIONSIN ALASKA SHIPPING TO BE ~ STUDIED; PROBER ON WAY |- i ,, | SEATTLE, Oct. 15.—(P—Felix W.| . : | Isherwood, Jr, member of the ospl a a ‘lxecun\‘v staff of Willlams, Di- i mond and Co., of San Francisco, | | - Seward May . ‘Ie(lhu shoreside operations in| ; | Alaska shipping. The survey was| ! m—deud by the Maritime Commis- HISTORIC OUTBURST AT MEET ewis Is Stripped of Vice-% Presidency-Another Big | Baitle Breaks Out ¢ (RSG5 | SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15.—(P— ohn L. Lewis, stripped of ‘a vice-| saled from Seattle yesterda on! ‘Lh(‘ steamship Alaska ready for a (ompxeu- survey of conditions af- residency in the AFL after an| rl;tol:i:‘ t;‘?l\:\lb}l‘l;‘;:ra‘:,lunf:flf:]:‘;m\llel:égl Me] chant Marine and Fisheries! : e . ion’s g ‘Co'mrxl.m | rs, taced still another battle today | Under the terms of his con- wANS Owes $75,000 fo In- ver his miscellaneous collection of & cr nions in Mine Workers' District| sion, ‘I‘:l:z\,\:.ll:dM;;m;::finitn;ml:;‘ ofinderneath the current of bit-‘ Sh'u"on and Cafl i Pay— ‘undellak* a comprehensive survey | e of all conditions affecting dockage, erness which swept the 66th an i 40 Paflenfs |nV0lved wharfage, warehousing, lizhterage, lual convention was the growing stevedoring and other rt activ- hreat that Lewis still might take i 4 .no 4 s e m-t ST : Ath his GOOHN Tnftelt | "WWASHINGTON, - (Oct, i+15,—~M—: PR T AlRRKN: IS HHININL - repor| walk with his f ni back his findings and recommen- fine Workers over the District 50 | The Methodist Hospital at Seward, ‘e, K8 CACHED Bt T8 A RtisVerey: |Alaska, may be forced to close in ;&;‘"‘ R Al YUY 4§ o . ! ltwo wecks unless the Indian Ser- . | His organizers have been step- S8 e . v il . ivice pays its debt to the institu- Before sailing for Alaska; Isher-| hing on a lot of toes within the Pederation, even since his return wood held a conference with Rear| | tion, Delegate Bartleit reported to- 3 1 | Admiral Zeusler assistant to the| lo the AFL in January 1946 | day. But anti-Lewis forces, checred { He said the Indian Service with-| {President of the Alaska Sm‘m‘}‘lp‘ the ease with which their over- {drew ils patients sometime ago Company. Admiral Zeusler said Iy S ' FORTV—}I‘AR OLD MRS. BETTY DUNLAVY of Oregon's capital | wh & f funds for the Isherwood will observe loading and| helming numbers set down the when it ran out of funds for the . 8 A | MW ;;reudem. yesterday, went city is suing for her 15th divorce! Mrs. Dunlavy hastens to tell news- | purpose. This resulted, he said, unloading operations in Ketchi-/ 2 2 men that she married the same man five times, “leaving only ten -from rejection by the Senate of a Kan, Petersburg, Wrangell, Juneau| ght in with. plans (0. BHEK fhe and Sitka while a passenger on 1$176,000 s i ble: it Dis- others.” Her first adventure in the field of marital enterprise was item in a deficiency ap- { :ircl{d‘;;mx;orsequ:bmiu:;;hwmch' in 1924, she said, and it ended six months later. She married her !Ppropriation bill at the last ses- the Alaska. Then he will 80 l?w e could not control. | current ex-husband in 1946 and is now seeking divorce on grounds (Sion of Congress. ; w‘rfi: b?l” pl::e slfl aVr:ldtZ, Cordova, | The fight was due to 6ome over| of cruelty and inhuman treatment. She asks to be deelared full owner | Daitlett said the Service still R D i antlioting” refollitions.. offersd. by | op the eAting houss ihe dnd’ Dunlavy Have beed opérating, The |07CS, the hodpiial "§GS00; Frhe { majority of the resolutlons cOM- muchly married Salem woman is shown preparing breakfast but not :{;‘i:[;;::l Flz;l;'g’é(enle;::{;;lfdc.::l;fi | ‘Siie.cril:iecadgihnby? aF‘reI;nggu'f:z for her husband. (International Soundphoto) ;man nl’”nm Mz“thodisc an/h .mr.s etal Trades deparfiment. and a 3 ,grmzp which operates |:c };@sp‘ .alff Ininority represented by Thomas TH Bk fand Elwyn Swetman, President o :r]:r)led}; s.ecpretary-ueas:rer of the BYRNES SAYS ‘H'gh lIVIIIg (OS'S r\;: Bgv;:nu; lfi(z?;dhl:a‘x;;lle: <3:\Ei W|ll Go B olds s i R L o B Defe"mg Marrlaqe, Indian Service pays its bill the hospital will be forced to closz in {two weeks. It has no alternative. {1t now has 40 patients. Bartlett said the Indian Service, irst convention speech yesterday, tinging the leadership into fight- ood by calling them ‘imellectu-‘ DOUB'I'S NEED Beauly freaiments 10 SOU]’H‘\ hlly fat and stately asses,” and| LOS ANGLLE Oct. 15.—(M—; hdding: i The high cost of living is defer-!the TL’":'}LOTY “““d 'het M;?”;OG“:: “On this issue I don't think the| ring marriag 1t's caleo raising|OTRBTESRMON, BOARE (GUY b e ederation has a head. I think, hob with girls’ teauty lp‘.ymgnul‘»\hn‘ which tu"%pcr;tn the tn;‘)s; WI"A"emp' '0 Ge' l.meup S st grown uj and: and vie-goi pita e reported, however, tha t;ule]c‘;d;vel:-’.]"s i : ey ’”'rhr\nox‘ol:mg::fi- was given at a officials of the Indian Service are on Dixieland Delegales The issue he referred to was ' joint Cong onal m‘m,aa“n,.makmg a last effort to rearrange (Continued on Page %) Behe\,es Russians Can Be/committee yesterday by Mrs, w.itheir funds in hope of making fo GOP Convemlon ————— L. Stanton, California legislative Some available for the hospital, but | Handled ” U S P[‘e- member of the Y. W. C. A. Ithat the outlook is not encourag- ~WASHINGTON, Oct. 15— SIOCK 0“0““0"5 i She said a survey of 160 working 8- Dixie Republicans had ad\/anm ———.r—— that the Presidential girls showed that on their average! notice today pared to Be Firm Nf‘x Yi‘:x’x’lasif;('.,‘}:é;flfi:z |salary of $150 a month they'd had candidates are coming on an open | huotation = a% mericin Can s ORI e p i to cut down on meat-protein foods, hunt for support amang the_ 200~ vy Amdaym;i 357, Curtiss-Wright 'er Secretary of State James P.|U¢auty treatments, clothes, movies pdd ‘apeatess & Aosebai S0IE A8 ? z‘lnt::rf:tmnal \I:Iarvester 9’ Byrnes, saying he does “not b’elurve‘ ""d £xen "’,“di"“v‘ s dema.! care. ‘a'l]l“ ?;':0252‘ ::filf:m‘;‘(,'; s ennecott 467, New York Central the Red Army would try to hold f P,"le"“’"f’, s, ex jnave .de. Harold E. Stassen announced that 43, Northern Pacific 21%, U. S. permanently to all of Eastern Ger-| esged . pinstiagau Degaig vof | Lving| IS le he is heading ‘south in Novemt Steel T5%, Pound $4.03%. |many," declared, however, that the COSiS” she sald. =~ [ for Fieeches AR cafiferfipex Sales loday were 1,930,000 shares. UmLcd States must be prepared to | Litle Rock, Ark., Dallas, New| Averages today are as follows: \ “take measures of last resort” to ; Orleans, Gulfport, Miss., St Petars- | hndustrials 183.28, rails 49.71, utili- | restore peace to Europe. HollvwooD STUDIO; burg, Fla, and Orlando, Fla. His move may be matched soon by a| |decision by Senator Taft (R-Ohio) | to travel in the same direction. i Taft generally is conceded strong Bl'ewefS Fresen' Grain support among the southern dele- ‘ In his newly published memoirs, | Byrnes describes the inauguration 3 | is “tough” 1 'thR-' The Washington o i i "o e v London in 1945 and| ies 35.93. AAFIRE; FLAMES ARE| 'PROPERLY RECORDED Ministers in E - d ays in a discussion of the rea- . igates. Backers said he can be | Merry GO Roun :om for the policy: HOLLYWOOD, OL 15.—B—| COHSCI'VB'IOH Program cuumed on to try to offset Stas. t' i . \sen’s attempts to break into thi By DREW PEARSON l “We shoud not #% starting whatly hC TN o egentry about| 10 Food Committee |ivea, “which win furnisn about! we are not prepared to finish . . . WASHING1GN—Poor food czar| 7 ") ¢ yelieve the Soviet Union|d fire at Twentieth Century-Fox, sharley Likman gets it going and““” force us to take measures of |Studios vesterday. Four studio oming. First he is roasted by thelkm resort. (It) Will not remain | emplovees and three city firemen iquor -istiilers, the hotel and res- from the peace conference| Autrnxedr’ burns or smoke exhaus- tzurant men; and now he gets it in the future of Germany) and tion, 12 companies 'foughF the | he neck from Senators. Eight of |y\uciolate itself from the rest blaze and the studio estimated them—Republicans — sat down t0 . 6 world. |damage at $200,000. lunch with him last week and.| “If it should, I do not pelieve, A huge backdrop, 58 by 220 feet, R . i % 4 3 anwhile the committee, having led by Oregon’s Wayne Morse and '\ " peq Army would try to hold causht fire originally and fell into eased the rules for “meatless Tues- innesota’s Ea Thye, raised cain permanently all of Bastern Ger- an artificial ~ lake during Lhe’ i s blaze. to encourage use of such by- labout poultryless Thursdays. | many However, if I misjudge There was one Hollywood touch: products as liver and kidneys on |one-fifth of those eligible to ' VoL lon the momination of a Presidi -! tial candiate at next June's Phil-| adelphia convention. | The Ohio Senator obviously is| depending on a backlog of south- rern votes to help boost his total in the early balloting, where Gov.| Thomas E. Dewey apparently will have the advantage of a solid 97 votes from New York plus those he claims elsewhere. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—/P—Re- presentatives of the nation’s brew- ing industry came up today with a grain conservation program they hope will be satisfactory to the Cit- izens Food Committee. |away fon Before the stormy, closed-door ipem and they do go to the point i % cession was over, however, tough- :;r“;,‘;,y: ng E:sm.“ b.;;, ermany, and Cameramen, ready to film a scene, '.hal!l da)h(;tf the wgek, al;m":‘ls;‘: e pided Luckman won the indorse—‘ul‘,;n; % security Coucil dircctive Photographed the fire instead for :::nell:;ds :hxsnklsn upoacy"beu};r and Ml N i ment, of all elght, SeOdlERWILhot |1o withdraw occupation foreeh M9 E)::bub:; r 1 ownens POVE faster w:a{y to save gra'm » N!m“l 'o e"re | agreeing *o any basic changes in|must be prepared to assume the Bt Al o e o it his “waste less—eat less" program. opligations cleerly \ull s | ne gl b B G I“ Mld De(ember‘ Sena or Morse, former dean of pe o feel that this is an ironclad e > pro- i the Oiegon University law school,| In an interview in Spartanburg, Go w " c ' ect » i that “I v a ren an ’glam and ‘tiot siipleet fo- ehange, E DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 15.—# wut alro somcthing of an expert g (¢, Byrnes declared 4 2 , (ome Norlh 'or Blg The brewers planned to outline ooy s 4mirs) Chester Nimitz has| that then on chickens, did most of the talk-'certainly believe our policy should o tooted 5 thelz . grain-seviog. iceas, o, finck announced that he will retire from| with ing. continue to be firmness | § " “You obviously were unaware of |patience, with the emphasis on/ -:;:‘"a::“{;‘i f.ze,zi;'o:;;fyp?u;;fis active naval duty in mid-Decem- | some economic facts when you|firmness E I AI k R R “ e e asked the American public to do| Byrnes said in his Look, entitled | ven on as a ol | tial red}‘““”_‘ m_thedusel of wheat "\ said he would be avail-! “Speaking Frankly,” that “The | And. com for heer ang e, !able for any service the President without eggs and poultry one day “I'm for feeding — e United States wants no scparalej OLYMPIA, Oct. 15.—®—Govern- ml;,ht desire except that he would| week,” he said. 3 ; ;:urope and I am sure all my Re-|pea but “if it is not possible or Wallgren said today he will not TAYLOR GOES SOUTH inot accept a diplomalic a,lpullll" ant to see you |to secure the cooperation of all be able to accept an invitation to _ 4 ment. e ’ | Ike P. Taylor, Chief Engineer of | Admiral Nimitz said he had states. we should seek to enlist the attend dedication of streamliner :rtn?l:‘xp:(l)\‘:: :?chp}::tsl;x:u:u:losg:flaxd of as many as are willing to service between Anchorage and the Alaska Road Commission, left recommended a successor as Chief cultural economy. jein in the task.” | Fairbanks October 18, He declar-(via PAA yesterday for Washington, of Naval Operations, but that he "It seems to me that this is a S T A L PN led, however, that “it is lmpol-‘D C. where he will confer with was not at liberty to disclose his| very poor time to ask people to FROM KEFCHIKAN tant that good relationships be-|Interior Department officials. He identity. | - Allen Salice of Ketchikan is tween Washington and Alaska be|expects to be absent about two| The Admiral plans to live on (Continued on Page Four) stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. [built up.” | weeks. West Coast. I | T ! Coast Guard announced. They join-'was read, statin "Miss Stardust’ Makes Her Bow LOOKING UP AT YOU APPEALINGLY is lovely 17-year-old Joan Murray of Harrison, N. Y., who was crowned “Miss Stardust of 1947, at a colorful ceremony October 11. “Miss Stardust” gets $500 in cash, a nationwide tour and a vacation in New York. Atop which they also won for their lady friend a year's modeling contract. (International Soundphoto) 'Dancing Daddy Awaiting Senfence for Negleding To Dlvorce Many Wive [ LOS ANGELES, Gcrul(l J. O'Neill, ‘\m«l('\ who was che i was | L,le(t.xu, to divoree today on three ‘lwaumv sentence umnt, of bigamy. The 51-year-old movie extra and \ tandin, who removed his toupee | the “dancing his wives, for his trial, was convicted by Su- FLYING BOAT'])m)m Judge Edward R. Brand| \Lfloldn on testimony of brids O'Neill ca who said ed on his ro- | mancing on dance hall floors he state alleged O'Neill was a daddy” to eight women ‘Daring Mid - Aflantic Res-;"“fm(m« cue in Heavy Seas Wins Commendation |amy term Mrs. Margaret Beeler Williams of | Long Beach, Calif, who testified |she married O'Neill in Las Vegas 4 I Nev., in 1945, said she never lear NEW YORK, Oct. 15—P—SIXty~) 4 1oy he really spelled his name. nine men, women and children|“pet U R DO en Ashley, | were safe tcday aboard a COAst|p.ipeq to O'Neill last June, said | | Guard cutter which rescued them iy ot ne”oee ‘my “feets but | [frcm a huge flying boat ditched in' . yoo oot to Yuma, Ariz., “he mid-Atlantic. They survived an or- .4 neglected to buy a wedding | eal of mountainous waves and ter- r of imminent death. men |ring, so we had to use a little one | of mine.” She said she obtained an Seventeen and one woman |annulment after cne week. rode a life raft perilously to safe-| Mrs. Julia Twitchell also was al ty from the plane to the Coast|Mrs. O'Neill and another, Mrs.| Guard cutter Bibb as dawn broke Stella Frank, wasn't in court but on the gale-whipped Atlantic, the|her preliminary hearing testimony they weren't di~ ed 51 fellow passengers and crew- vorced kecaus rry dn.nl have | men of the big Bermuda Sky Queen lany money to pay for it.” which settled near the cutter yes-| Judge Brand, who heard the case terday when fuel ran low 'iwnhoul a jury, set Friday for sen- The Bibb's skipper, Capt. Paul|tencing, dismissed one count, B. Cronk, radioed that the cutter|yolving Mrs. Gertrude H. Brant, | was leveling her guns to destroy|who said she and O'Neill went to| the flying boat so it would not bl"Ti\l]umm, Mex., May 25, 1946, and a “menace to navigation.” |received a pink slip showing they | The rescued, reportedly suffering|had paid $30 for a license. She said ! nothing more than shock and expo-|she had destroyed the slip after sure, will b2 sped to Argentia, New-|her love for him cooled. foundland—about 820 miles to the| O’Neill, who said he had a “mys- west—arriving Friday | tic charm” for women, blew a Kiss Harrowing Experience !to his latest lady friend as he was With a masterly understatement | taken back to jail. / of the harrowing experiences of his - - orewmen and the rescued, Capt. Cronk said tersely, “we feel veryj much xeuewd that this experience MRS. CARK LEAVE Mrs. Gene H. Carr, former secre- |tary to the late W. Leonard Smith, is over.” He reported that Lt. (jg. Clar-| Territorial Highway and Aviation ence S. Hall of Avon. Mass, who|Ensineer, left here on board the Bibb | Princess Louise to return to the tes. She has been in Juneau since Nov. 1946 and is a former became a father while the was on weather patrol, “last night had the pleasure of rescuing a baby Inot much older than his. He got | member cof the Empire staff. Her quite a jolt out of it.” plans are indefinite as yet but she expects to spend the winter at! (Continued on Page Five) Spokane, Wash. Oct. 15 —&—| ged with ne- | in-| ARMY GIVES INFORMATION 'ABOUTRUSSIA Soviet Union Could Launch Attack in Any Direction ~"Heartland"" Bases | WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—(#—The U. S. Army, in an official bulletin | for troops, said today that Rus- | siaoccupies an advantageous mili- | tary position for launching attacks in any direction, The publication, “Armed Forces Talk,” is one of a series used in troop information and education | programs. y Today's issue was devoted to a discussion of “geopolitics of the So- viet Union” in which the Army em- phasized the importance of “inter- national Communist activities” in influencing the political affairs of l'other nations. | “The huge land base is favorable | to the Scviets offensively,” the bul- {letin said in weighing the military | position of Russia. “They could ‘lnt‘]mle an attack in almost any | direction, toward Europe, China, or \by air across the Polar regions. | “Some characteristics of thisland | mass are unfavorable in the mili- | tary sense. To defend their borders {the Soviets must provide forces at | widely scattered. points, thus weak- jening their defensive strength at |any one point.” | Russia, the bulletin said, now controls the so-called “heartland” |of the Eurasian continent. It re- called that one of the early Euro- pean geopoliticians reasoned that whichever nation dominated a cer- Ham land, lying partly in Europe land partly in Asia, would be able Ncumually to control the whole V&mld ‘ The bulletin added that “more i recent geopolitical theory speaks of two heartlands,” one in Russia and another l'x Norh America. (LAYTON QUITTING HIS JOB Steps Down a“smUnder Sec- | refary of State Depart- ment-To Stand By | WASHINGTQN Oct. 15.—(M— {Willilam L. Clayton quit today as Undersecrtary of State for Econ- omic Affairs, but agreed to stand 1l. He previcusly served a big- | by as an unpaid adviser to the Secretary of State. His wife's health was given |by Clayton as the reason for his |resignation, effective at the close of business today. | President Truman, accepting the |resignation with reluctance, ex- pressed ‘“great satisfaction” over Clayton's assurance of his will- ingness to return to public service if Mrs. Clayton's health im- proves sufficiently to permit him {to do so. Clayton wrote Mr, Truman on October 7: ‘For at least three or four years Mrs. Clayton has been very anx- fous, for reasons of health, to re- tirn to our home in Houston. “Endeavoring to meet her wish- es, I have on several occasions, starting as far back as four years ago, tendered my resignation.” | Mr. Truman told Clayton that his letter left Wm “no alternative but to acquiece.” - e —— ZACH FAMILY SOUTH Mrs, Larry Zach, wife of the Ju- |neau District Forest Ranger, left here this morning on board the S. | S. Princess Loulse to spend an ex- Jtended vacation at Woodburn, Ore. She was accompanied by their |three children.