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

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LXVI, NO. 10,718 \L \l ASKA MONDA\ ()LTOBl"R ’/ l‘)47 PRI(L TLN CI;NTS CONTINUE SEARCH FOR MISSING PLANE Oil Slick Reported Found Between 2 Islands DE GAULLE HITS OUT IN FRANCE Wanis Dissolufion of Na-| tional Assembly-Calls for New Elections PARIS, Oct. 27.—(P—Charles De Gaulle called today for dissolution of France's National Assembly and new general elections, and was promptly attacked by the Commun- charges of seeking to set reactionary dictatorship.” sserted that the results of municipal elections which were begun throughout France last Sun- day and completed yesterday prov- ed that Parliament no longer I presents the people and called for new voting laws to enable the na- tional legislature to have a herent majority.” Still incomplete returns on voting in cities, towns and villages of yes- terday and last Sunday showed the Socialists and radical-Socialists a dominant factor in small communi- ties, despite inroads made by De Gaulle'’s Rally of the French Peuple | ! | | | | (Continued on Page Thw') — - — The Wasnington Merry - Go- Round, By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — One criticism that used tc be leveled at the Roos- ovelt Admiristration was that the pation’s leadership came entirely fram Washington. The people of the USA, it was said, got into the had habit »f sitting on their hands, doing nothing for themselves. Whether true or f hualthy signs are now apparent that the American people are g cavable of ncting on their own. One of them is the Friendship Tiain. With no help from the gov- ernment whatscever—though with hearty White House approval—it has now ieen decided that the friendship Train will definitely roll It will leave Los Angeles on or ahout Nov. 5, with an engine, a coboose and a koxcar to collect d from {he plain people of Am- erica for the stricken people of Western Europe. The first stop will be Bakersfield, where it is hoped another boxcar will be added, and so on across the continent. Judging from the response from all sorts of people—including rail- road presidents, housewives, farm- irs—a thundering demonstration of the generosity of America will roll across the great plains, showing the ‘people of Europe that help n their hour of need comes not from clesed-door diplomatic conferences but from the heart of America some COULD ONLY HAPPEN HERE And most important of all is the fact that the Friendship Train is| almost entirely spontaneous. It the sort of thing that couldn't hap- pen in Russia, because in Russia it is only a handful of men who de- cide whether wheat shall move to France, and then go out and col- lect what they need from the Rus- sian peasants. And when the Russian people are able to start a spontaneous friend] movement such as this, then there will no longer be any danger of war between our two countries. Al- 8o, if the people of Western Europe | get ‘the full signiiicance of this| American generosity, there won't be any doubt as to whose side they | will be on. That, of course one big reason for the Friendship Train, and why newsreels of the train will be shown in European theatres, and why the French and Italian embassies are working on the idea of meeting the |, food shipments on the other side | with two European “friendship trains” to carry the cargoes from the French and Itallan seaports through Italy and France. To get just a partial idea of how (Continued on Page Four) | tie |ley ling Chinese Mass Wedding Unifes 250 Couples A mass wedding of 250 Chinese couples was held in Nanki as the “double tenth” October 10th is China’s 35th naticn iversary of the founding of the Republic by Dr. Sun Yet Sen. The program was in keeping with the national program of austerity and was pre- sided over by May ational Assembly Anditorium of Nanking. This is the sixth and Jargest mass wedding in China's history. The brides are pictured as they sat on one side of the aisle with th (International) ESI(IMO AT HEARINGS ON WACHUSETT BARROW IN ALASKA RATES JOINS SEARCH MONEY NOW START TODAY LOSTAIRCRAFT Earning $20'Per Day Cash' Steamship Com'panies, Al- Left Juneau S'unday After- Freighting U. S. Navy aske Represented in noon - Is Cruising, In- Supplies Inland Controversial Issue specting A!l Objects "TLE, ter Wachu- hasinto the highly controversial st Comdr. E. V. Carlson, an Bar- ship rates Letween Puget the call to search for the north and Alaska will open here at 2 p.iMissing PAA plane and left Juneau m. today with steam companies | Sunday afternoon at 5:15 o'cloc and Alaska being represented |Dave Webster, reporter on t The rate hearings, expected to|EmPpire staff, is aboard to give re- last_approximately 10 days, will beSults of the rch conducted by Robert Furness The Wachusett proceeded C. Robinson, Examiners for the Point Retreat and south through Maritime. Comssissing: Chatham Strait hearing radio re- : ports of a plane southbound in From information | fisclosed . ati B O 8 B O ot the Learings they hope to draw Up! g ooic ’\'M’; caltad 1ot hip a plan for permanent Alaska ser A rare et ? vice to take effect after the in-: . LA \",'“ I‘“”,“ terim rate schedule granted lastip oo roo g summer expires next June | M’“”’W $ish Representing the Alaska Trans-j ..o jooociooteq portation Company will Attor-| e $7tha Sapinon had'Dey Albert E. Stephen and Stanley |, o0 e 3 . B. Long of Seattle, and Ira Ewers| e e , % | At 8 c'clock Washington, D. C. will rey Lof = broceeded [sent the Alaska Steamship Com.|Proceeded into Seymour Garal and the Northland Trans-i 5 G o b search plane at 8:45 p sight- e COmPANY. momist: Clar-|®d and investigated suspicious i ts in high snow covered ridge ance Kuntze, attorney, and Thom-|1°*'S 0 uc poveped e ouard. speotal agsistant,|S0Uth of Windham Bay with no ill represent the Commission. His cWe i then proceaded. . to q"”km” for. tid imadeis {Tyee and north toward Hoonah. aking € > - contended PARENTS OF BABY BOY summer is rapidly Ih(" - grooms in corresponding’ seats across from them. The sett, JARD, Alaska, Oct P s ool Coast Guard Cut The white man’s “prosper waved its wand over Point row, Alaska’s most fartherly community. Capt 27 Salenjus of the Alaska Na- Charles th Star, veteran Service boat now returning its annual trip north, said that the communit n numkerir almost 600 h forsaken traditional fishing whaling to work for the U Navy, freighting supplies to the inland base whére the Navy is seek- | ing oil The skins day- “One earn the Captain The North Star, its cargo of several deer carcasses, has as passengers 21 young Eskimos enroute to schools at Sitka and Wrangell. The vessel has made seven trips Alagkdn waters this summer: to Sitka, one to Atka, and an- to Barrow. It probably will for the winter when it'3 Seattle, Capt. Salenjus said - 1 GIRLS LOST ON MOUNTAINS FOUND DEAD 'A FE, N. M., Oct. 27.—{P ate Police Chief Hubert Beas- reported by radio today that Los Alamos atomic energy secretaries lost on Truchas both had been found dead that their bodies were be- brought to Santa Fe to be and U tive from today tives ) and the a end oup, Natives, ). and cash who formerly fish, now earn Salenjus said. told me he in the last related Wachu ob- with own- $20 night, the suspicious Bay area ed a be ye: this morning, we into Seymour Canal and in addition to hundred rein in five other up reaches ot lhl cost cf living in the Territory, will ibe Ralph Rivers, Alaska Attorney-| General. Assisting him will be Malcolm Miller, Washington, D. C., attorney, and Donld J. O'Connor, economist. Under the Ithe three Proud grandparents again are !Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Lagergren. They received word that a son was born ice plan to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lagergren companies, 1d the'Bremerton on October The fi Santa Anna Steamship Company!ther, who was born and raised in of Seattle, were chartered ships|juneau, is now an engineer for the by the government at a dollar a Bremerton Navy Yards. This is the year, to take over services which, g; son for the Earl Lagergrens the government operated during|nry and Mrs. Milton Lagergren the = war. six children. -+ DONJA( T0 MAKE LYNN CANAL TRIP BB L3 ‘The Donjac will ]v;ivo for Haines afternoon INDIANAPOLI Oct. 27— and Skagway tomorrow morni Beasley's report confirmed an Admiral W. H. P. Blandy said to-|frcm Auk Bay in place of the Es- iio message’ picked wup! day it is “devoutly” hoped that|tebeth, 1e Los Alamos Security Office nomic help alone: will save Eur-|{ A bus will leave Juneau for Auk - from Communism but “we must | Bay at 6:15 a.m. tomorrow. forget that aggressors under- -, armed strength better than| argument.” | interim ser SANT have D 'Admiral Says Armed Strength Is Beffer to reach Santa Fe this| two project Peak and Capt reported expected e ope | never and any other PARIS —/#— Andre Mutter, puty of the extreme rightist publican Liberty party (PRY), placed a bill in the National Assembly hopper which would ban the Communist party of France, De- Re- has FROM WRANGELL F. Ohlson, of Wrang a sawmill there Baranof HERE FROM Ahi‘ll()RA(iE: B. Webber of Anchorage is re at the Gastineau Hotel, i Col. O receiver of Jing the C is stay- Jpistered at ] & | J | { { {M.w;‘ Island and { ! south of |kan /Funter Bay, { P—The { foats to a spot where an oil FIRST CLUE IN MISSING PLANE CASE ‘Coast Guard Rushing Ves-) sels to Reporfed Loca- | tion, Ketchikan Area KETCHIKAN, Alaska, 27 Coast Guard Oct ished between | Island miss- 5 sighted at ncon today Annette clue to the an Clipper officials meanwhile denjed a report reulating in Ketchikan that plane and survivors had been sighted on Pergy Island, about fifteen miles Annette, Coast Guard has ils and two amphibians of Ellis Airlines and Army craft combing this area Ellis Airlines has commercial flights by air and the turned over all planes r the missing plane. ‘Five amateur pilots tér weather to take off Three land parties have also been! lu(ul in case the plane is sight- sibility Pan ast Gard of Ameri own the all The plani suspended all from Ketchi- Webber Field to search waited bet- > LOCAL SHIPS EALLOUT FOR SEARCH Alaska Coastal Airlines; Planes Flying Over Wide Area Today The Alaska Coastal Airlines went “all out” today in the search for the missing Pan American Air- ways plane. All commercial busi- ness was taboced and six planes, all personnel with observers alboard, roared out this morning at daybreak to make an search of all sections between Ju- neau and Ketchikan Yesterday when word was ceived, a plane tocok off piloted by Ray Renshaw and Bud Brown with PAA observers aboard and reached Five Finger Light House but was forced back by high wind and low visibility At daybreak this Grumman piloted by took off and flew down the side of Admiralty Island, follow- ing the range course of the Peters- burg Range down Clarence Strait to Annette Island. After searching both sides of the Annette Range, they checked in at Ketchikan, main organization center of the search. Flying with were Roy Condon, Dean Williams, and Jerry McCarthy of PAA and Pros Ganty of Hoonah Second flight out was a Grum- man, piloted by Bud Brown, that, searched the main land side nl Stephens Passage down to Peters-| burg, Wrangell and checking in ‘AI Ketchikan re- morning Ray Renshaw east Funter Bay Report Gruening in Lotkhmvd flew out to investigate a report made Ly .hunters at Funter Bay that plane was heard at c'clot Sunday afternoon Re- turning at noon without :,xghtmp anything, he took off again at o'clock for Hcod Bay, An'zoun Branaof, Chatham, and Todd on the west coast of Admiralty Is- and To investigate a report made by the Fish and Wildlife boat, that lights were seen last evening in the vicinity of Halibut Point, Carl Bloomgquist in Grumman took off this morning for the Sitka are, Enroute he investigated Whitestone and Tenakee Hunt a a a Freshwater Bay (Continued on Page Two) three! slick | wreckage | intensive | alfrem Renshaw | P (rew Passengers On (CAPT. MONSEN M|ssmg PAAPlane IS PILOT OF CAPT. MONSEN .2 PAA CLIPPER WELLKNOW/N pee 1 BN AS AIRMAN The| ican an- here ATTLE, of sing by Oct the mn PAA | Crew N. Monsen, wWashington Hotel, Seattle. L. A. Foster, 1st Officer, sity District, Seattle C. A. Dunwoody, Flight 2004 Pacific Highway S Mary S. Chic Purser, Olive Way, Seattle. Helen Darrah, Stewardess, 17th Ave. N, Seattle. Passengers Phillips, 507 11th occupants Pan plane m nounced as ) Capt. Alf Univer- Bound Craft Improving weather conditions aided widespread land, sea and air ch today for a four-engined Pan American World Airways Clip- per plane with 18 aboard that dis- -|appeared Sunday near Ketchikan (ina rain and windstorm which lashed the Southeast Alaska coast s The first arch plane, Coast | Guard Gruman, left Ketchikan's | Annette Island airport at 7:15 a |m Visibility was good in the | Ketchikan area, with the wind 18 Imiles an hour and decreasing | Crewmen of another Pan Ameri- an DC-4 which arrived at Se- 2209 Garrett attle from Alaska early today said |they circled the Annette Island 'area in darkness without sighting tany flares.’ The plane was quick- ily refueled to return novth with W..a PAA search party headed by | Capt. Ralph Savory, Chief Pilot of (the Airlines’ Alaskan Division + Lt. Comdr. Edward Chester, Alde to Alaska’s Gov. Ernest Gruening, )\us placed in charge of the co- ated search here Planes from Ketehikan scan the Admiralty Is.and area, {where one report residents Seattle B“md;hvmd an airplane circling for some Wallace 'time Sunday Rev. Shank| The 44-passenger transport, Ketchikan for{which™ was only 13 pas- of a mission. sengers, including one infant, and {a crew of five, disappeared yester- MRS. MARY CHIDIAC day after radioing the Annette Mrs. Mary Chidiac, purser aboard |Airport at 1:44 p. m. (PST) that the fll-fated Pan American Afr-i ‘extreme turbulence” prevented a ways plane missing between Isnmlv‘“‘“""”’l“( d instrument landing. and Juneau, is well known in Se-1 GUsts of 40 miles an hour were attle and in Blaine. Her husband:being recorded then at the Annette is President of the Chidiac Trad-!ficld, 12 - slles from Ketchikan, ing Corporation, an import and)Winds gradually inc export firm, and her father is a the day untll they deputy collector of customs (miles an hour by 9:30 p p | Hopes that the PAA Clipper SALLY RICHARDS ,may have survived the storm and Sally Richards, listed as (made an emergency landing hung senzer on the missing plane lon the reputation of the pilot, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Capt. Alf Monsen, of Juneau, one jamin Richards of Ely, Minn. Rich- Alaska’s test known bush fliers ards s superintendent of the he Joined Pan American’s Zenits Iron Ore Mine, a Pickands- Division in 1932 Mather property Miss Richards, a civilian in Alaska about 26 y Engineer, Seattle 1562 a | SEATTLE. Oct 502 1f Monsen, American sing entoute Juneau, was best known bush of the Territory's ts. 21. P —Capt. the pilot of Airways DC-4 from one of pilots first Pan mi | Sam Ave, attle. The Rev plane £ attle | Alaska and one airmail pi A resident of Alaska since youth, he went to the Territory in 1917 las an employee of the Alaska Rail- road began flying in 1928 He with F American when that company tought the firm he worked for, Pacific In- ternational Airways, in 19 He now rates as a Master Pilot, the joldest and most expel ced pilot on Pan American’s Alaskan Divis- {ion Wesley Monsen, .uml himself a co-pilot for Pan i American on the Alaska run, said |Lhe missing plane's co-pilot, L. A. i (Todd) Foster, had almost as much lexperience as his father i The son and a brother anxiously await news with (Helen Monsen, daughter of the ilate Gov. John Troy of Alaska, and |publisher of the Daily Alaska Em- ipire at Juneau. She and Captain {Monsen were married in 1941 e SPECIAL PLANES SEARCH . SEATTLE, Oct. 27— Pan Am- lerican Airways prepared to send two planes to Alaska today to join in the search for the PAA L | missing since Sunday with 18 per- 'sons aboard. Willis Shank, 613 Se: board Bldg., Seattle. Sally Richards, Ely, Minn Warnick, Ketchikan Robbk, Juneau Robb, Juneau, Robb, infant, Juneau Brostrom, 212-R 4th Ave,, Wyo Knockemus, Wyo Hoonah, Juneau, Fairbanks 1512 5th Hubert John Pe; Jill Robert Chevenne, George heyenne, nest Felton, Scott Murphy Lizett Dorsh, Frank Twohy, Seattle and Jjoined Alaska. Ave,, the Captain's son THE REV. SHANK The Rey. Willis R. Shank, one of the padsengers aboard the Pan American Airways plane mlxhlng, over Southeast Alaska, is Seattle! Director of the Youth for Christ Movement A member of Youth for Langmade, said the was on his way to tonight's dedication Albert Mrs were to the Christ of a ' a pas- is the; Ben- | iof ! Lefore i Alaska Last Report Monsen said in his k was heading into the storm to and is a graduate of the University J\mum approximately 230 miles of Minnesota, friends in Ely said.| orthwatd His pmm,' had gasoline She attended the wedding of her .““,mh to last until 8:40 p. m. trother, Benjamin Richards, Jr., i\ Lisappearance of the Clipper Seattle several days ago. Talisman” with the greatest num- o |ber of persons aboard of any civ- lilian plane yet reported missing in Alaska set into motion one of the Territory's largest and most | widespread searches. Bomkers und a long-r: trans- port from Air Force bases at An- in Rochester, N. Y. and with Mrs.|chorage and Fairbanks took off Robl’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.jfor Annette fleld W. Spiesterbach of Everett, Wash.; Three Coast Guard Cutters put Mr. and Mrs! Robb have made out from Southeast Alaska ports their home in Juneau since Jan- late Sunday and were to extend uary 2, 1946. Their daughter, Jill,|their operations during the day. was born in Juneau and is now| vessels of the Alaska For- 10 months old. Robb is an air-;e ervice and two planes and craft communicator with the Civil » ships of the Fish and Wild- Aeronautics Administration at thel ervice were ordered to join Juneau Airport. During World hunt today War 1I, he served in the U | Cannery boatls were Navy for three years and was sta-|be on the lookout for tione Guam Mr. and Mrs.|of the miss Clipper. Robb are both 23 years of age. (ging camps were asked Mrs. Robb is the niece of Del!clues. Miller of Douglas | Ten light comb the Annette, from San here, DC-3, sent and refueled Gordon F. Flight Operatic jon, and t and Bert formerly Al- | A PAA | Francisco iried Capt q| Manager oi jthe line's ! Captains Mur Lein, the aska pilots. The cther Alaska ta return flight headed by 1C f Pilot nurse last report is ars old e two | arrived for ! plane a DC-4 and was readied with a search party apt. . Ralph Savory ! of the PAA Alaska Di- vis.on. In Savory’s group were Capt Herman Joslyn, co-pilot; Charles A ! Huntley, PAA Communications Su- | perintendent for the Alaska region, jand Emerson Bassett, operations 1 Superintendent JOHN R. ROBBS Mrs, John R. Robb and daugliter Jill were returning month's vacation in the They visited with M. Robl’s mother, Mrs. Helen Robb Mr infant from States. and N a > (CUB PLANES HELD DOWN - BY WEATHER \ the alerted to any trace and log- for any on planes were scheduled area within 40 miles and six other planes SCOTT MURPHY tof Among the residents of Juneau'will range farther out under the aboard the missing Pan American|direction of the Coast Guard planz, is Scott Murphy, 50, of the| Three planes of the 10th Rescue Murphy and Murphy real estatelsquadron are to search the air- and public accounting office. * |ways from Gustavus to Annette Mr. and Mrs. Murphy left for a|Island acation to tle October They visited with broth-| and Mrs, Murphy left Long | | Two in take itians over 27 the | TOKYO, Oct | Americans circling llight planes were ' Shemya globe una the weather off for in today because of bad [the North Pacific | Pilots George Truman Angeles and Clifford Evan. Washington, D. C., remained Chitose Army Air Base on aido, Japan's northernmost They said they hoped o to take off * tomorrow planned to stop enroute moro, on Hokkaido's eastern Two "B-17 Flying Fortresses take turns convoying the plane of the 1500 Others Join Search (In Seattle the Coast Guard announced it had requested that ach, Calif., last urday B-17 be f{lown from San Fran- She planned to visit with her cisco to aid in the hunt; and mother and her daughter, Kather-'that the Royal Canadian Airforce ine, age 21, and to attend the Girllat Vancouver, B. C. had offered WO geout’s National Convention being the services of a Hudson bomber.) Ne- peld at Long Beach from Novemter! Sheldon Simmons, famed Alaskan UP. 4 to November 7 {bush pilot now flying for Alaska '-“‘1" Mrs T. R. Van Coastal Airlines out of Juneau, and little 2 e miles on his of at Hok- island be The at er, B |a able Wert etary Moat (Continued on Page Five) (Conttnued un Page Twg)