The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 24, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” L —— VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,716 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1947_ JER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN _S__ELS THOUSANDS FLEE FROM FURIOUS FLAMES Truman To Give Congress 3 Point Program PRESIDENT WILL TELL HIS PLANS | | i i | Miss America Teaches Sunday School gy I Reasons for Calling Special Session Explained- | On Air Tonight WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—(FP— President Truman drafted a report to the nation today on his “com- pelling reasons” for ordering a snecial session of Congress Novem- ber 17 to meet a billion-dollar econ- omic emergency in Europe and to check “alarming” inflation at home. The Chief Executive is scheduled to broadcast the report over all na- tional radio networks at 10 o'clock, EST, tonight. Officials predicted that it will be a sweeping analysis of the critical economic conditions Mr. Truman sees this nation confronted with both here and abroad. It will set forth in detail what the Tresident himself called the “compelling reasons” for summon- ing the lawmakers back to Wash- ington seven weeks ahead of their regular January convening date. And it will furnish the background against which, (upon the actual convening), he will recommend a tnree-point program of action to the Republican-led Congress. Proclamation Given ! Mr. Truman made that much clear yesterday when, toward the close of a tensely active day, he read newsmen an announcement that he had just signed a special session proclamation. | It was less than an hour before the President had informed a con- ference of Republican and Demo- cratic Congressional leaders of his decision to take that action. Earl- | ier in the day he had met with h;g‘ Cabinet for 2 hours and 35 minutes —a record session for his Admin- istration. To the news conference he said he had given the Congressional | {Continued on Page iir) | STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle 10 a. m. tomorrow. | Alaska scheduled to sail Seattle October 28. | Coastal Rambler scheduled H sail from Seattle, October 30, for! Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat, San Juan, Kodiak. Sword Knot scheduled to sail from Seattle October 31. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive from Skagway 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning and sails south at 10 a. m. Aleutian, from Westward, sched- uled southbound Sunday forenoon.| The Washington| Merry-Go-Round! WASHINGTON—Inside story of | the alleged plot against the life ol‘ Eva Peron spotlight-conscious wife | of Argentina’s president, is some- | thing to make Hollywood's most | ingenious scenarists turn green wnh! professional envy. Ever since September 17, rumors, statements ' and denials have been flooding Buenos Aires in such a| contradictory confusion that the whole thing hegan to look like a pag. Payoff is that that’s exactly what it was—an elaborate, cock- eyed gag for which the Govern- ment fell, hook, line and sinker. Here is what happened: On the evening of September 15, a man walked into federal police headquarters in Buenos Aires and asked to see the chief, Gen. Arturo Bertoilo, former Argentine military attache in Washington. An inspec- tor first talked to the man briefly, then took him to Bertollo. The informant, who satisfactorily jdentified himself as a dues-paying |coming For the first time since she became Miss America of 1947, Barbara Jo Walker returned to her Spring- dale Methodist Church Sunday Schocl class at Memphis, Tenn., which as teacher she will again meet each Sunday morning. (P Wirepho! to. Anncunces H As Preside_ OCEAN-BORN HURRICANE HITS COAST Batters It& OufThen; Rides to New Section- | Boats Hit for Shelter VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 24.—'» —An ocean-born hurricane was battering itself out on the bleak,| rugged ranges of the Alaskan pan-, the Queen Charlotte islands off/ to the west coast of British Columbia. | terday's There were no immediate reports| port 0f damage from the 70-mile-an-|where Seward, Seldovia and hour winds that shook tiny fishing record talk at the Commonwealth|Sam Kellogg said the plane’s pilot, {villages on the islands some 225 Club last night. It was not learn- | Capt miles north of here before veering'ed immediately whether the spec-|tempting might cause any|fire broke out in the huge trans-| northward to the longer finger of Alaska that cuts ofi the ex-| treme northern section of B. C.} from the Pacific Ocean. | The main center of the storm trip through Missouri, Kansas, Ok- only one scheduled stop, at just missed the Queen Charlotte| islands, but ships at sea reportedi having passed through the storm gentiment-testing journey took him parture time was 8: {without difficulty, although sever-'12,000 miles through California and |ific Standard Time al were forced to reduce speed from | around 18 knots to eight knots be-| cause of rough seas. : Prince Rupert, B. C., just east of! (Continued on Page Five) GHOST TOWN IS NOW FOR SALE; BID BY GERMANS LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 24—! (#—The neighboring ghost mining| town of Rhyolite, which is for sale} has found bidders in 50 German; ex-soldiers who want to “start all| over.” } Mayor E. W. Cragin of Las Vegas| said he received a letter from, Erich Baewindt of Hamburg, of-| fering to pay $10,000 on terms for| the 50 war veterans whom he des-| cribed at jobless and homeless. | The Mayor declared that “wel-| such German pioneers would benefit the community and signify a human and Christian| act toward the poorest of the| Two women who own the aban- doned Rhyolite, once a bustling {Continued on Page Five) gold rush town, recently it for sale at. $25,000. " e Is in Race nfial (andidate WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—(7— Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohiof formally announced his candidacy | today for the 1948 Republican| Presidential nomination, describ- | ing the race as “wide ope | { | | | te Taft's Ty was long-expected formal contained in a letter Ohio Republican State Committee. The committee and other Ohiof BUmSA“eI’ FOI'(ed l_and_ | GOP groups him to | make the race had urged last July 31 1 The letter was written hefore| President Truman's announcement to Taft and other Congressional| leaders that he was calling a| | |special session of Congress Novem- { ber 17. ! Taft wrote Johnson that he; would keep speaking engagcments! already lined up but that after the Senate met he would be too busy| here to make a personal campaign | from 'handle today after sweeping across'for the nomination. ! The Senator hurried from yes-| White House conference to catch a plane for Cincinnati,; he delivered an off-the-| ial session call change in his speaking plans. | These have yet to be announced.| But Taft has been considering a| Arkansas His and possibly | September-October | lahoma, Texas. the Northwest States. i The Senator designated Rep.| Clarence J. Brown, Ohio’s Repub-| lican National Committeeman, asj his preconvention campaign man-' ager. | Taft told Johnson he has no “present intention” of entering any other state primaries because, he said, that would require an ac- tive personal campaign and more time and money “than are avail- able.” - JUNEAU HAS GOOD PRACTICE With 20 present, Director Alfred| Ventur put the Juneau City Band' members through a lively practice| last night in the Juneau Grade School auditorium. | Three former members appeared in the lineup last night and sever- al new recruits have indicated they will join the organization just 2s soon as the hunting season and | other outside sports are over. | Thursday nights have been select-| ed as the best night of the week for practice and it is indicated| that a band of between 30 and, CITY BAND | ized before many weeks. ) 'EXTRA AIRLINER CRASHES N FLAMES 1rm-d H. Johnson, chairman of mern ”ed Airlines Plane‘ ing with 50 Persons BULLETIN—Salt Lake City, Utah, Jct. 24.—(P—United Air- line oficials reported late this afternoon that all aboard the plane have been killed in the crash. SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 24— -A four-engine United Airlines plane carrying 46 passengers and a crew of four crashed and burn- ed today a mile from the Bryce Canyon airport in southern Utah United Airlines District Manager | was at- landing after E L. a MacMillen, forced port’s tail section. The craft was enroute from Los Angeles to New York and had Chi- enroute. cago, The scheduled Los Angeles de-| 35 a. m., Pac- The crash oc- curred about 1 p. m. - STOCK QUOTATIONS 24.—Closing NEW YORK, - Oct. | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | celebration of the Holy Eucharist today is 4', American Can Anaconda 35, Curtiss-Wright International Harvester 88% Kennecott 47%, New York Central 1412, Northern Pacific 20%, U. Steel 747, Pound $4.03%s. Sales today were 1,650,000 share: Averages today are as follows: stock 87%, 5, industrials 18254, rails 49.48, utili-| wes 35.25. - > ALES RETURN Dr. George Dale and Dr. Evelyn Butler returned home last night on board the S. S. Princess Louise from 2 one month vacation in Maine. Dr. Dale is the Director of Education for the Alaska Native Cervice and Dr. Butler is his as- sistant. In private life, Dr. Butler is Mrs, Dale. e SO JERMAIN RETURNS G. D. Jeimain, Chief of the Al- aska Division of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, returned here yesterday from a four weeks inspection and offered 35 musicians will be fully organ- . familiarization trip to mining areas | return in the Interior. 28KILLED, COLLISION "= OF TRAINS, {Over 100 Persons Report- i ed Injured - Complefe | § Silence, then Screams LONDON, 24.—— Two commuter-pac suburban electric| trains collided in a dense fog this| morning, killing at least 28 persons and infuring more than 100 others. Croydon Mayday Hospital, near- jest to the scene of the crash inj South Croydon, said it had receiv- ied’26 dead by 10:15 a. m. (GMT). |Croydon General Hospital received' two dead. ' Chief ambulance officer A. L. |Hill said all the more than 100 |casualties had been carried away lin 28 ambulances by 9:15, two hours| after the crash. N Railway officials said one of the; trains was probing its way slowly ,through the fog toward Souu; | Croydon when there suddenly was |a blinding flash and an explosion | Cet. |as a following train rammed into {the rear of the first i The last two coaches of the first train were thrown off the rails| land the two leading cars of the, husband, S/8gt. Ferguson, (right). in Japan. (following train were splintered, ' lsmashed and telescoped. There is| Robert, 11; Joann, 7; Clarance, 1; Fiyr lecomotive on thess commuter' () Wirephote. trains. ] Nearby residents said there was complete silence for a few moments after the crash and then they began to hear screams and cries for help coming through the swirl- ing fog. Climbing high, spiked hailings, the residents rushed to the scene: 'and saw passengers fighting their;| way from the wrecked carriages,; kicking out broken windows and! calling for help for the injured. Ambulances and fire engines; rushed to the scene but the latter| mened g mneetetFour SHill Missing After Collision, Fire, Off LAST SERVICtS BY , Fir THEREV. WEBB ON s | SUNDAY' 'I'UESDAY MONTEREY, Calif., Oct. 24.—(® —Thirty-five crew members of the burning, crash-damaged tanker Sparrow’s Point were rescued from ! life boats by the Coast Guard cut- ter Minnetonka early today. | Four other crew members still are ( missing, but the rescued captain !'said they may still be aboard th2 16,093-ton vessel. The Minnetonka, in a mesage to i the Coast Guard shore station here, !said the 35 were taken from two | life boats. One lifeboat with 14 men was picked up by the tanker Colina 'and the other by the Minnetonka | jwith 20 crewmen and the captain, H iwho asked to be returned to his Mrs. Joseph Ferguson of Ke 35 RESCUED OFF BURNING 0L TANKER | were 1 i i ' | i ship. | { A Richtield Oil Company tanker, the Sparrow’s Point caught fire forward of the bridge after a mid- night collision with the Canadian motorship Manx FPisher in foggy weather 15 miles off Point Sur on the central California coast. The lignthouse at Point Sur, 23 miles south of here, said the glow of the burning tanker could be seen plainly irem the shore. The Manx Fisher's captain ra- (diced to the Coast Guard in San afternoon for Seattle and Tennes- | Prancisco that his ship suffered |see and they will return to Wash- {only slight damage and intends to |ington State at the first of the|proceed to that port. year when he will be Rector of St., i | Paul's Parish in Bellingham. | Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fletcher wlleOllTI(Al MERGER join the Webbs in Seattle and plan ! REV. WEBB | The Rev. W. Robert Webb will iconduct his last Sunday services | this weekend at the Church of the { Holy Trinity in Juneau and at St. | Luke’s Church, Douglas. His last | | | | | will be on Tuesday morning, the} feast of St. Simon and St. Jude at | '8 oclock. The Webbs leave that |'to motor with them to Tennessee., The Rev. Webb will then leave the | /group and travel on to Washington, | D. C., where he is to attend a con-i ierence at the Cathedral of St. Pe- i ter And St Paul’ under the girece | 4 OME) (Ock. 24—(P—The Jettlst tion of ths Rev. Alec R. Vidler, D. action party, founded as an anti- D, warden of St. Deiniol’s Library, | 8sctst _ group, voted today fo Chester, England, and ‘editor of |2°GE - With.' the pro-Communist “Theology.” Following the confer- W'mfl of the Italian Socialist par- ence he will fill several speaking | engagements in Pennsylvania, Mary. land and Virginia, later returning to Tennessee. The Fletchers will go to their| {home in Porterville, Calif, nnvr“ IN TOWN | Thankgiving and the Webbs will W. E. Sandi of Ketchikan and to the ccast shortly after Joe Niemi of Sitka are staying at the Barancf. The merger adds 10 constituent assembly deputies to the leftist So- jclalist wing’s delegation of 64 e ceee | Christmas. Wash., (left) and nine children are greeted aboard ship on their arrival at Yokohama, Japan, by her The children are Arlene, 10; Donald, 12; Frederick, 6; Veteran Welcomes Brood RESORT IN MAINE IS WIPED OUT L Summer Playground of Rich Destroyed-People Evacuated by Land, Sea 'DAMAGE T0 RUINED MANSIONS 8 MILLION The family is largest yet to arrive Albert, 2; Gerald, 14, and Helen, 4. | 2% - e FROM SITKA J. J. Conway of Sitka is regist- for Time Being But BAR HARBOR, Me., Cct. 24 —(P of the rich, and six other commun- ities, were virtually wiped out to- |day as strong winds fanned wood- into fresh fury with the death toll already at nine and property dam- @ge mounting above $26,000,000. tion by land and sea—a peacetime Dunkerque—left Bar Harbor a de- ‘eerted town as 3,500 townsiolk fled { from 200, to 300 homes, including vy summer showplaces of the interna- ; tional society set. BARU(H SAYS Gov‘l' | Damage to the ruined mansions ] s, in this town alone was officially 'set at $8,000,000-—not counting the wASIED lIvES AN !)D.s.‘: of valuable art treasures and | furnishings they contained. MONEY IN WARTIME | .. . i | Sk "m 25 miles an hour throughout the i1egion this morning—gaining mo- : ! mentum all the time—the outlook Aged Adviser of Two Wars SaYS MiStakeS Of Hrs' | amount of rain in sight. : Light sprinkles are the best that rcan be expeced before at least Sat- [ —_ |view of meteorologists—to wet ! WASHINGTON, Oct. 24~ (M—, dqwn baked woodlands as the dry iBernard M. Baruch declared today(spell went into its 24th day. of dollars and months of time,checked In Bar Harbor, fears were were lost in World War IT because | expressed that perhaps it was only the government repeated the mob-' temporary. The 77-year-old adviser to Prcs-' “All we've done is stop the fire |idents told the Senate War Inves-|in the town,” said Selectman Seth tigating Committee the Armed, Libby. “A little more wind would plan “which would have ed! Three New England states— precious lives and the wasted:Maine, Massachusetts and New |wealth, but they were not permit-: Hampshire—were virtually on a “We were told this was a dif-iGuardsmen, Legionnaires and other ferent kind of war,” Baruch saul.'ummies were called out to fight “and none of that ‘old World W‘"llhe flames and care for the thou- { ot i Fires Uncontrolled Just before noon, between 12 and pRI(ES SluMp 115 fires were reported still roaring Pl Av 'where the loss already is placed at well above $500,000. In New Hampshire, shifting Irectly at the heart of the industrial ; p city of Rochester at the foot of the | (By The Associated Press) White Mountains. With the edge of Prices siumped sharply on the|the fire within two miles of that in reaction to President Truman’s; peing kept concentrated in the lvall for a special session of Con-|event they have to be evacuated. gress to combat inflation and soar Coast Guard To Aid ’ |ing living costs. Massachusetts' State Forester liower on the Chicago Board of | depends a lot on the weather and |'Trade and cotton futures opened,the winds—but if we held during |$155 to $3.25 a bale lower in New,the night in the teeth of those ! York winds I think we can hold any- {acked to require higher down pay-| Meanwhile, the Coast Guard cut- iments for speculative buying on!ter McCulloch bucked mountainous the grain exchanges and authorize | seas during the night after leaving the allocation of scarce commodi- | Boston to drop anchor at Bar Har- | grain prices. Cotton trad were | landing special crews and medical | repcrted fearing the free market | supplies | cotton might be affected by the . proposed program FROM SEATTLE $3.10 to $308 a bushel; corn WBS‘Ael‘ of Seattle are registered at the to 4% lower, December $2.28- Baranof. 226, and oats were 7% to 2% lower, December $1.19-1.18% HERE FROM KAKE !ered at the Baranof. Flora and Augusta Johnson, Mr.| ———ae———— ind Mrs. Robert B. Martin and| HERE FROM SEATTLE ! Patrick Bean all of Kake, are re- Jean Hildrebrand of Seattle is ~This fabled summer piayground land fires ravaging New England A spectacular all-night evacua- lin fright before flames that leveled As north winds blew up to a force {was grim with still no appreciable Were Repeated ,urday, and probably longer—in the “thousands of lives, extra billionsi While the raging flames were ilization errors of World War I 1§ Wind Could Raise Hell Services had a mobilization-day . raise a lot of hell.” ‘ted to be put into effect.” {war-time footing as Natidnal stuff' was wanted.” sands of refugees. out of control in Massachusetts, | : ! 0“ 2 Ex(HA“GESPAnds were driving the flames di- | grain and cotton exchanges today |city of 16,000, school children were | Wheat opened 2'% to 6% cents|Raymond J. Kenney said “our fate | Reports that Congress might be'thing.” ‘ties had a depressing effect onlpor at 9:15 a.m.,, preparatory to |" December wheat was quoted at! Ralph Lomen and J. Donald Ful- e | igictered at the Baranof. staying at the Gastineau,