The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 20, 1947, Page 1

Extensive Search Made For RCAF . i HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,712 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1947 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT§ _—————— BRISTLING DEFENSES LINING ARCTIC . SanRafael's CRAFTIS MISSING, 9 ABOARD | Plane Disappears. During Storm Last Saturday in | British Columbia VANCOUVER, B. C, Oct. 20.—# | —Flying low over the mountainous regions of British Columbia, North- ern Washington and Idaho, are nearly a score of planes seeking trace of a Royal Canadian Air Force B-25 bomber. It is reported ; nine persons are aboard. | The search is under direction of | Air Commodore John L. Plant of | the 12 Canadian Air Group. Plant | is directing the search by radio| from cne of the search craft. Flying club and other civilian planes are assisting in the search. A plane load of passengers from Edmonton, Alta., will go aloft to-| morrow if the plane is not found in' tcday’s search. They will carry! emergency equipment and dump over the wreckage when sighted | o - X to assist survivors. | Oldtime Marin County residents The plane, enroute from Calgary,| the arnual cclorful series of festi Fiesta Week gathered recently to set plans for als, barbecues, bonfires and street Alta,, to Penticton, B. C., wasfear-, dancing that marks a San Rafael Fiesta. The celebration will include €d to have crashed in the rugged‘ Canadian Rockies during a storm Saturday. It was last heard from) at 3:50 p.m. PST Saturday by Coast | the Senorita’s coronation ball, a ¢ closing day. Pictures are twe of th twins Muriel and Joan Satmary. Guard radiomen at Westport, _ ‘Wash. who were unable to fix its| positia 1. | reported it was winds in ceiling zero weather 100 miles east of Penticton. i Aboard the plane were seven| crewmen and two passengers, one a woman. The passengers were! identified only as a Mr. and Mrs.‘j Knight, operators of a Penticton! hotel. They are believed to have! hitched a ride with the RCAF fli-| - ers. The missing plane is an air sur- vey aircraft and its crew was at-| tached to the photo survey unit of! Rockclifie Field, Ottawa. — e — HERE FROM CHATHAM ing at the Gastineau. 8. w. Grent of Dawson city 15| Oeneral’s Candidates Far FROM WASHINGTON, D. C. | IS WINNER stopping al he Gastine: Hotel. . sy ok ow in Lead as Result of O. E. Leed of Washington, D. C., ! Bill McCoy of Chatham is slfly-' IN FRAN(E FROM DAWSON CITY G 4450 r N . Sunday’s Election is registered at the Baranof. | ! PARIS, Oct. 20—(P—Candidates e i The wash'n ionincmmated by Gen. Charles de 1 g |Gaulle’s six-month-old rally of the iFrPnch people (RPF) were leading Merry - Go - Bound {in 29 t::;yor 37 major municipa \ities as returns from yes iterday’s balloting rolled in |all over France. fron By DREW PEARSON s i WASHINGTON—One of the most stantial lead over all other parties, important treasures of war infor-lincluding the Communists, in the mation in existence are the Nazi|early returns. files seized by the U. S. Army after “There's no doubt about it, de it entered Germany. The Nazis Gaulle has won,” said Maurice were methodical keepers of records, | Schuman, parliamentary leader of and almost everything they did,|the popular Republican movement ranging irem conferences with Hit- ' (MRP) ler to actions by deputy fuehrers,'in yesterday’s was faithfully recorded and filed | RPF, although leading the Com- away. |munists, did not appear to have In the opinion of Secretary of dented Communist voting strength the Army Kenneth Royall, these in any substantial amount. papers, which throw significant| Running on an anti-Communist light on how we can avoid war in platform, and competing in a the future, should be made avail- French election for the first time, able to the American people. Am- | RPF was averaging between 38 and erican soldiers gave their blood to|40 percent of the total vote, as capture them, and Royall has tried}agmml 26 to 28 percent for the to persuade the State Department|Communist, 19 percent for the to open the files to the public. (Sccialists and less than 10 percent However, Wall Street banker Bob | for MRP. Lovett, Acting Secretary of State, | < feels otherwise. And following his | usual hush-hush policy, these re-| vealing papers have been kept se- cret. This column, however, has been 'last able to obtain one sensational Nazi,leaving there in 1930, and before document giving the minutes of |locating permanently in Anchorage the meeting at which Hitler's ad- |had practiced in other Alaskan lo- visers plotted the master-plan for | calities. . the extermination of European | £ i - ol Jews. The meeting was held on Jan. FROM FAIRBANKS Mr. and Mrs. Sutton of Fair- banks are staying at the Gastineau. voting. DeGaulle’s e, - DR. COUTTS DIES Dr. Artus W. Coutts, 49, Alaskan suddenly at his Anchorage home (Continued on Page Five) De Gaulle’s party held a sub-| which lost ground heavily' | dentist for the past 17 years, died' week. He was from Juneau,' hildren’s costume parade, a “Span- ish Market” with games and exhibits and a spectacular parade on e principal participants, San Rafael Lo s e e e M@kKing of Recordings By Musicians Is Banned; May Prove as Boomerang CHICAGO, Oct. 20.—(#—James C. Petrillo’s newest edict, banning again the making of recordings by his 225,000 AFL musicians aflter December 31, was being measured from all angles today for the shape of things to come in the radio and entertainment fields. The head of the American Fed- eration of musicians issued the new directive Saturda declaring that the members of the union were |“destroying themselves” by sup- plying their own competition in |the form of recordings.” | “There wiil never be any more | pHonograph records or transcrip- |ticns made by members of the mu- !sicians union,” he said, adding that ‘“unles: a (radio) program has live music to offer, there won't be any music.” The order was received in various segments of the radio-recording ndustry with mixed feelings. Band Leader Ted Weems said it might “boomerang on musicians of this country and result in pop- ular favorites being replaced by foreigners,” and in California a spokesman for one recording com- pany suggested the making of mas- ter records might be shifted to Mexico. “We've been expecting t * said one spokesman for a leading rec- ording company. ‘“The whole in- dustry has been recording like crazy for several months.” He added that most of the major rec- lord companies have an accumula- tion of master records “sufficient (to keep thefn going for years.” | “We feel that in the final an- alysis it will be the American peo- ple who will determine what they will hear and when and how they will hear it,” said Mark Woods, president of the American Broad- casting Company. ‘“Americans love |music,” he added, "and no indivi- |dual can deprive them of it for long.” e GROSS FAMILY TRAVELS Zalmain Gross, Mrs. Gross and three children Skagway and Sitka, returning on the Alaska to their Juneau home. At ST L5 ROUND TRIP ON ALASKA | Mrs. Etta Bringdale made the ju‘und trip to Skagway and Sitka then to Juneau aboard the Alaska. made the trip tol HISTORY IS MADE, ALASKA RAILROADING ; i ‘Streamliner Operates from! | Anchorage to Fairbanks ; -Big Celebration By MARK KNIGHT | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 20.— (M—The “Aurcra,” the Alaska Rflll-! Ircad’s diesel-motored streamliner, | ended its inaugural run from An- |chorage here yesterday, marking a new phase in Alaska transportation history. i | Passengers irom Anchorage metj 86 guests from Fairbanks at the; Mount McKinley Park Hotel Sat-! urday night for a “gay Nineties” ball that will survive in the mem-' ory of every guest. i There were costumes from Fifllli Avenue, New York, shops, Seattle} and elsewhere and many evidenced | the ingenuous craftsmanship of Al-' aska's picneer women. There were a plentiful numberl of Sourdoughs among the 250 cele- | brants and they didn’t come to loukl momentarily and retire. . For example there was Art Lutro, | bewhiskered (not false), Ruhyl Miner, President of the Pioneers 'cf Alaska; Archie Lewis, conductor of the “Aurora,” with the railroad! through its 25-year history and{ Capt. A. E. Lathrop, famed for hi: steamboating activities in gold ru: days and a legion of current enter prises. These and other veterans } were on the ballroom floof when it Mus’ °| ea en e enses closed at 4 am. Guests from Anchorage slept in} vesterday ~while the Fairbanks! [] group entrained on the “Aurora’| ec ares omml ee us at 9 am., to wind up the inaugural Back from European Trip run to Fairbanks. ASHINGTON, Oct. 20—P—A Sk A momentous day in Alaska his 80th anniverary of the American purchase of the Territory few hours' flying time—a far cry from do; 32 days! One of their four-engine Douglas DC-4s was photographed Glacier, near Juneau. (Pan American World Airways Photo). Ceremonies similar to the ones ! Alaska pride in the streamliner) | congressional committee has ve- in this epochal period of Territorial | mediete action on . the Marshall held in Anchorage Saturday were was best epitomized by a lady from {turned from an European inspec- d E | Plan for aid to Europe “or a sim- admiration for the re)uven-f |ilar plan.” dted -Alaska Bailroad and e gen-i | The committee consists of nine { | neld when the train arrived here. Seward who said: “This represent: ; the greatest forward step Alaskans have taken entirely by themselves Ition trip with a demand eral manager, Col. John P. Johnson, | members of the ‘House Appropria- was apparent on every hand. ] pART (lAIM |tions and Armed Services Com- Among the notable guests was| mittees and is headed by Rep Juan Trippe, President of Pan Am- [ |Short (R-Mo). They had been erican Airways, on a survey of pos- ! | abroad six weeks. sibilities for expansion of Alaska The Army plane carrying them arrived one day behind schedule, due to engine trouble near Ber- muda Talk at Luncheon Ses- ™. service. s maugurat run was | LOF Inverchapel Gives observance of the 80th anniversary ! of the United States purchase of | ail the approved by by Short. a statement Alaska from Russia. A 4 4 St o SR | sion in $t. Louis committee cautioned against weak- f { b *ening United States defen: sa : ! By SAM DAWCON ing it is “convinced that until ro l(a a e ! ST LOUIS., Oet, 20.—®—Brit- woild conditions become more ain's Ambassador to the United 5%@ ilized, the Uniled States must States hit back today at “a wi strong on land, sea and air H spread impression” that Britons “To further weaken our defenses I S ermu a “are not doing enough, that we NOW would invite national disas- lare sitting back on our hands|ter,” the statement added. i : 2 b i o L LasiEale HAMILTON, Bermuda, Oct. 20.— ! with our mouths wide open waiting (P—Winds estimated at 90 miles}fm" you to fill them.” ; an hour beat against Bermuda und' “This is not £o,” Lord Inver- - _ churned heavy seas today as the|chapel said in a speech prepared BOY Is BRUIAL[Y for luncheon center of a tropical hurricane mov- “Europe session” of 1”““"“‘;5 wele "l’pf"'"”.d' lars. battered body of eight-year-old | Telephone and electric wires were; .ppjs sum, measured on the tasis|Rocby Moore launched provincial downed by torrential yain accom-|of national wealth, is equivalent'pglice today-on an all-ou search panying the wind. Palms and ce 14 or 15 billion dollars|for the’ slayer jdars bent to the gale, depositing;paig out by you." | The boy's body was found by an- many of their branches in the S S e other youngster last night, -more streets. Many workmen were unable | MER ON VISIT than 48 hours after he was last to reach their jobs. i — |seen early Friday leaving for The yacht Zephyr, which won| joe Ulmer, who left Ketchikan 23 school. The body was in a depres- the last race in the Amorita Cup years ago for the Interior, Is Vis-'sion in the ground, covered with series last season. was dismasted | jting the First City. Ulmer is min- pushes. at its anchorage in the Royal Ber-ing near Fairbanks. He is a past IR DY Y muda Yacht Club. | President of the Ketchikan Pio- FBI CHANGES b e R .5, 2 reers Igloo. Manning C. Clements, assistant 3-STORY LADDER TRUCK The Anchorage Fire Department' special agent in charge of the An- chorage office of the FBI, will leave B — TURKEYS IN ALASKA has placed an order for a 3-story| IR Alaska for a post with the FBI ladder truck and delivery is ex-| Perry O. Epperly believes he has office in Miami, Fla, Lee O pected in February. made the first serious attempts at!Teague, special agent in charge e T MR Jl‘alflnx turkeys in Alaska. On his announces. Clements is scheduled The Philippines have seven pri- | farm, three miles south of Anchor- to leave Anchorage Oct. 25. He will vate universities of recognized age, he now has 225 of the goblers ke succeeded by George R. Fletch- standing. iand expects to market them soon. er, ) i PAA Celebrates Anniversary tory was commemorated Saturday, October 18, when Alaskan observed ‘he from Russia. Alaska celebrated another anniversary—inauguration cf the first regular o) Pan American World Airways. Today, PAA Clippers connect major Alask « team day:, when a trip between Fairbanks and Juneau took ‘recently flying over Mendenhall REDS SEEK im-! led north, 75 miles off the British the xopen'ipgddn::: of “:9 National . o ats I 1 Foreign rade onvention. | otony. Somegusts veached 100} Tz ingeea we nave seceived| §1 AINe BODY FOUND L ‘large credits from you and the| /] {dne h\u?: ek expected w‘Canadmnsa we have paid out to {come within 50 miles of Bermuda|p,.o56 and war shattered areas of VANCOUVEK, B. C. Oct. 20 before continuing out to sea. NO|iyo mast some three billion dol- (A—The discovery of the brutally' Just 15 years ago last month, perated transport service by cities with the States in a (ONTROL OF HOLLYWOOD Producer Ii;n;es Several Men as Picture Probe Opens, Washington WASHING JON, oct. 20 —(P— Sam Wood, veleran Hollywood producer and director, said today “a tight, disciplined group of Com- munist par members and party liners” is seeking to gain control of unions and guilds in the movie capital. He made this assertion in a state- ment given reporters as he took Bomber NETWORK OF AIR FORCE IS REVEALED ‘North Alask_a_l)efense Line | Extended Through In- tegrated System WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—(®—The P Air Force is projecting a bristling network of defenses in strategically critical Alaska, an integrated sys- tem including such installations as radar warning stations, under- ground command posts and fighter | fields. An official summary :ssued by the i Air Force high command lifted a jcorner of the curtain on USAF ac- | tivities on the Arctic frontier dur- {ing the last year. i Twelve months of flights by Al- | aska-based squadrons making aerial }aludlfs. weather flights and con- ducting training operations, said ! the statement, “have proved that USAF units can fly anywhere in the Polar regions during any sea- son of the year.” Ranging out from American ter- { Titory over no-man’s land, aircraft ‘of the 46th Reconnaissance Squa- |dron have made more than 100 ! tlights “over the geographic North \Pole and its immediate vicinity,” the statement disclosed. i The squadron was sent to Alaska 1in June, 1946, to “observe and pho- | tomap the Alaskan area for the ! strategic location of defense com- ponents.” These components, the statement d, “included an inter-dependent tem of early warning sites (ra- dar), fighter bases and under- around fighter control centers with | Necessary facilities for cold weather | testing of heavy bombardment un- ;u-" (such units are made up of 1 B-29 and newer models of ultra- i long range bomb carrying aireraft). i New Bases Built { The Air Force statement did not tsay how far these defense projects ;I:ud been advanced, but Army en- gineers and the Air Force have been authorized, so far, to spend more than $75,000,000 in Alaska. In ! nddition to announced construction !program for Ladd Field, mile 26 have been unconfirmed but unde- nied reports of new bases being built on the Arctic Ocean rim of Alaska and Canada. The USAF reported that valuable | geographichy, navigational and { weather discoveries had been made ‘duru\p, the Arctic operations, in- !cluding the fact that there are the witness stand at the inquiry, ‘hree magnetic North Poles instead by the House Committee on un- American activities'as to Commun- ist activities in Hollywood. Before Wood was L. Warner of Warner Brothers had testified that people “with un- American leaning” have infiltrat- ed the movie industry. But War- ner declined under questioning to say these people are Communists. | The producers were the - initial witnesses as the committee open- ed hearings which may continue for three weeks. Spectators filled the 400-seat House caucus room and movie lights of news reels cameramen flooded the scene Wood .said Communist effort: to gain control of Hollywood work ers have been going on for 10 years. “If they had succeeded in that aim, they would have achieved their ultimate objective—control of the contents of pictures,” he said Wcod told the committee under oath that Communists have “tried Lut failed” to infiltrate into the screen directors guild of which he is a member. “Our most serious tiae,’ he said, was when “John Cromwell and others . tried to steer us into the Red river.” Asked by committee investiga- tor Robert E. Stripling to name the “others” Wood said they in- cluded Irving Pichel, Edward Dmy- tryk, Frank Tuttle and a four di- rector whose name he could not recall Wood said “all but a few hundred of the 35,000 motion picture work- ers are as loyal and patriotic Americans as are to be found any- \where in this country.” called, Jack (A magnetic pole is the ordinary of one. ipoint toward which an magnetic compass turns.) | The Poles are located in an elip- | tically shaped area with the major pole on Prince of Wales Island, in- stead of the long-reported positior at the lower tip of Bothia Penin- sula. There are local poles on Both- jurst Island and Bothia Peninsula, | the statement said. Ploneering The pioneering 46th Reconnais- ,sance Squadron, which has flown more than 5,000 hours and 1,000,000 miles since its arrival in the the- ter, has been fcllowed by other inits including the 57th Fighter Group, the B54th Troop Carrier uadron, the 415th Night Fighter Squadron and the 10th Rescue Squadron. They were sent to Alaska either for operational duty or on training missions. (These are in ad- dition to several squadrons of B-29 hombers which have made rotation- jal training missions to the theater). In addition to surveying for the idelense sites, the reconnaissance squadrons have carried on two. lother projects—exploratory flights ! for establishing regularly scheduled ’ull' transport service; photo-map- ping, in ccoperation with the Navy, .of a 35000 square-mile area “to determine the possibility of oil for- mations.” (This presumably may be a reference to the exploration for oil begun by the Navy during the war in the region of Point Barrow.) ' Possible Attack i The Air Force news announce- {ment served to implement testi- (Continued on Page Etght