The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 28, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMZPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,719 JUNEAU. ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS FOLLOWING CLUES OFMISSINGPAA PLANE RATE CASE HEARINGS UNDERWAY : Opening Rmd Devoted to Financial Statement of . 5. Companies Alask: under today SEATTLE, Oct. 28.— a shipping rates were from a half dozen sides the continued hearings on continua- tion of the 35 percent freight rate increase granted last spring Opening round of the hearin vesterday was devoted to a discus sion of financial statements and ariffs of the Alaska Co., and Northland Transportation Co., with introduction ous files covering ations A third major line operating to the Territory, Alaska Transpor- tation Co., will also enter its files of operation. The 35 percent increase granted last spring when the gov ernment returned its wartime op- eration of Alaska shipping to pri- vate companies. It will expire next June 30 unless extended. Numerous opponents to the rate extension are expected to appear during the course of the hearings These include Alaska Development Board, official representative of the Territorial Government Board, which is represented by Atty. Gen Ralph J. Rivers; Fairbanks Cham- ber of Commerce, Alaska Miners' Association, California Congress of Industrial Organizations, ~Tacoma; Chamber of Commerce and the Se- attle Traffc Association. Military security prevents an ac- | curate forecast of Seattle-Alaska waterborne traffic, a Maritime Commission Board was told today as it continued hearings on wheth- er a 35 percent freight rate crease granted last spring should be continued Albert E. Stephan, attorney the Alaska Transportation Com- pany, pointed out that the Com- mission was considering opera- tions for peak months, April 3 September 30, 1947. was To project the flow of business; | over a year it is necessary to esti mate the traffic during the other] months, Stephan said, adding that | military authorities are unwilling to make public the amount traffic they expect in the future. Stephan suggested the Commis- sion itself might be able to get that information from military au- thorities. Capt. S. J. Swanson, dent and general manager of the Alaska Transportation Company introduced records of his company, i be today. Alaska Attorney General Ralph J. Rivers, in Seattle to direct the; Territory’s attack on high »\av‘r /Continued on Page Threz) The Wasmnglon Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—One of the great zhmgs about the American people is the way they rise to emergencies —cspecially to emergencies requir- ing generosity. If the people of | Europe fully understood this fact, I am sure there never would be| real danger of war in the future A friend of mine returning from Europe the other day said he vms impressed by the hustle and mater- | jalistic drive of the USA and made | the criticism that we were engros ed only in' the business of making | money. I think that I shall send Steamship | in- | 30 to| of | vice-presi- | fire,| as! U. S. Maritime Commission | of volumin-! the firm's oper- LOTS OF TURKEYS — Jim Mackinda lay dishes at Bluetop po! tential h Delegate Bartleft Takes Krug o Task for Making Reservafion for Hydaburg FOR SHEMYA SITUATION for | WASHINGT! Rep. Marion declared today can soidiers wounded by | Tricste area tain of sorship.” The led from a s Missour ON, T and the Near E “63 on by ainst the nce they Italian territor Trieste | goslavia. | state. incidents ian, Be: that hav e been Communists behing American recently x week tour - INTRIESTE IS SERIOUS‘ Congressman Claims Many U. S. Soldiers Killed by Communists 28.—M nnett . (R-Mo) many” Amer- killed or in the a ‘brass cur- military cen- Oct. return- of Europe . said there have the United moved bordering now in of armed Communists” States forces to the former on Yu- a free ag- is “These acts have resulted in the death or wo can soldier: statement |his Phome in ding of many Ameri- ¢ Bennett ed before Springfield, Mo added in a he left for i \have the names and identifications 10( the |by our militaj | { iwar, It iif, {no SaY. je bras$ curtain ry incidents as furnished me intelligence.” “In Europe they call is war and it will engulf the whole world, men outside of the Kremlin a ‘cold soon it how or of Am military censorship has done @ Imarkable job in keeping from the | American people the situation the ’ Baranof, frc at Tr riousness of .- om Emtllu STEAMER MOVEMENTS in port that friend copies of several hun-|and scheduled to sail westward at afterncon. dred letters I have received from all sorts of people, high and low, regarding the ided of a “Friendship Train” to collect food from the heart of America as a token of friendship to the people of Western | Europe. They are wonderful, heart-warm- ing letters, the kind that make you proud to be an American, the kind that remind you once again that in a democracy the people are ahead of their Government. In fact, these letters are so fine that they should not be read merely by me, but by millions. To that end, I am printing parts of them below as an inspir- (Continued on Page Four) ck saile today, c'cl Alaska a. m |58 1 ito arrive noon or Ring | duled NOXTOwW | Coastal |sail from Ketchikan, San Juan, | Kodfak Sword Splice, to arri Kno * Princ | from Vv Denali Jattle Saturday Lou here 1 evening this ed from and ate from ve t scheduled lise at at Rambler Seattle, Juneau, Seward, from Seattle October scheduled to neouver Friday scheduled to sail fronf Se- 10 October 30, Seattle at sck led after- is Friday Seattle, 10 a. m to- to for Yakutat, Port Seldovia and scheduled to sail 31. at 8 pm am sche-| I be By Bitt ett ri Interior reser tion A | of prov from Trea final Krug terior v Seeretary CHARI ll. rly attacking 1 Indian urg, Alaska ‘l)»Aer’w has Krug who a res officials tried Krug appr permit mills vation which w10 nt ide that scme the forests until Indian settled wa but Bartictt says ofiicials opposed it in of be W) ly I am full; port gate made the Th stand sale favc Indi want Re! ncuncement ment of Intericr wor to defeat ved establishment Alaska the held claims can be pported other O years old, urkey Farm necar proposal WATKINS WASHINGTON, Oct. 28— HOD 0ff from Japarese to ion Delegate informed that favor le; Bart- In- some the gisla- and income in the by In- ¢ against your ‘announced sup- of did not n the legislaticn.” r public e officials cn the ol timber resolution o of re people and th them or not,” ferring to the by the The Dele- me the offi today. who opposed Kru: authoriz- paper re the kind of people who are ations whether white Bartlett recent Interior mills in the people said. an- De- partment that Krug had proclaim- ed the rese: | whick vation h w later retracted into existence by the Interior Department as having been m o that ke—Bartlett said: 1y that 1 was @ the reservation sts tonished proposal had reached such a stage without con- sultation with interested indi a Dele- in A gate state he de laska or in Ccngress is a ment Delegate said the with the Alas gross under- iduals question of Indian reservations in the south- cast Alaska region was of vast im- portance to the people and the final the cconomy of the region. Thy represent | gion, ing He reservations, e Alaska Native has Bartlett continued: ng the Indians of the gone on record as oppos- said. cision will have much to do with Brotherhood, re- “Unhappily there remains a class of the who are people motivated best intentions in believe they and qualified to take the doubtless the the by world alone Indians by the hand and lead them t the | until pesit; pitialls of our they shall have achi ion with the white medern ol ugh oty d equal people. “So far as I know there has nev er far status he gress ol “E that reser | me heir been | history of the Interior an attempt previously in made reaching change without at lea Alaska Repre: what mphatically I in n va all in has an opportunity views known™ ntative ntemplated. wish to suggest mation creating any | the Territory signed until the Interior Depart- the whole Department to effect such a Alaska’s informing in Con- to make | he locks over some of .a big crop of Elmhurst, Hi. (CUB FLIERS ARE IN AR Base for 1,000-Mile Leg fo Aleutians TOKYO, Oct. 28.—®—The globe cireling Cub pilots, George Truman of Los Angeles and Clifiord Evans of Washington, D. C., left Nemuro fcr the Aleutians tonight on the most dangerous leg of their trip. Their takeoff was timed at 907 pm. (7:09 am, E ), from the her Hokkaido Airport. Their was Shemya, about 1,500 miles in the Aleutians. Far Eastern A Force, taking every precaution, dispatched two Flyi Forts, fully equipped for T e work, to accompany the lit- tle Cubs on most ol the flight to Shemya, the longest lap of the globe girdling journey uman and Evans finally aurived at Nemuro earlier after a flight of a little more than two hours from the U. S. Army’s Chit Air base on the other side of Hekkaido, Favorable winds cut their time for the 240 mile trip by | X ly an hour trom their estimated schedule. The fliers had been delayed by adverse weather in their short hop journey across Japan from south to north They leit the east coast of the United States three months ago on their leisurely trip. > GEN. VANDEGRIFT, MARINE, ASKS FOR RETIREMENT, JAN. . WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—M— Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, Com- mandant of the Marine Corps, an- nounced today he has asked to be retired from active duty January 1, 1948. He said in was certain Sullivan will made by letter. Vandegrift, * the first four-star General in the history of the ear-old Marine Corps, W ited Commandant on Jan- 1, 1944. He said he has been nsidering - ¥etiring for the past year. Vandegrift he bought burg, Va, a he would go there is placed on the -+ FROM PORT WAKEFIELD away The had today a statement Secretary of grant the thate hP the Navy request, told a house year reporter tha near Lynch- ago. He said to live when inactive list a Mr. and Mrs D. Byers and L Wakefield are staying J. H. Wakefield, R. C. Brown of Port at the Bar- anof | NEW - INSEARCH |+ in Hasselborg Area- NEW CLUE FORPLANE | Loud Crashifr@oise Heard Plane to Scene A nuew lead on the possible { whereabouts of 'the missing PAA{ plane was received at 9:30 o'clock | this morning when the halibut | boat, Escapade, of Sitka was con- | tagted by the Coast Guard Wachu- | sett off.Hoed Bay.' The skipper ¢f the escapade, Don {Martin, boarded the cutter, and {reported that a hunting party from Sitka heard a very loud crashing | e in the vicinity of the Hassel River and Fresh Water Falls at approximately 3 o'clock Sunday [afternoen Neil Anderson, merchant, and H Hodgins, dentist, were hunting the 1alls, about 12 miles east when they heard what ounded like tree lot louder.” J. | near fof Angoon Hodgins said falling only a Also aboard the Escapade was Tud Kettleson, prcminent Sit | businessman. The whole group is so | mh\cvd that the crash may have enn the missing plane, that they {are returning to investigate th area today Immeiately after report from the \V.uluhel\ an Alaska Coastal Air- jes plane took off for that area The plane which was piloted by Marvin Fenster had not radioed back by press time. | Word was also received late this ficrmeogn from Hunt Gruening, who'made the Alaska Coastal flight to Ketchikan today, that he was searching in the Rocky Pass area near Petersburg on his return flight to Juneau. : a -+ H INTERIOR PLANE IS MISSING WITH FOUR MEN ABOARDI Wreckage of Grumman,' Piloted By Ernest Patty, ! Jr., Believed Sighted FAIRBANKS, A]‘ ka, Oct. 28. P—Wreckage of a missing Grum-| British Princess and Fiance batten, pesed for this Nu.urc bham Palace. Their wedding has been set for Novemb 2 WRECKED WARERROR and and her fiance, the white drawing FISHERMEN ARE SAVED BY PATTON Spotted by Ellis Alrlmes Montgomefy Is Criticised, Plane When Making Seach for PAA Craft Vancouver. wrecked fisk durmg the i Pan Clipper, wer !from the Island south (m CusN G re L11|~ fm'mm plane. Oct. B. C. 1ing searc] American 8T southern of Ketchikan, inard age A S. Lombard owner coat son, jing This! nd the hew leng and Wadena :Kechikan aboard , Cutter ! The Coast Guard ]lmJ not bes=n reported | brief message tle the 28.—(M fishermen boat was h for a World Airways escued yesterday tip of Pe Alaska, whose sighted missing 1 reported was seen by an The two men, and L. A. Chais- crew of the were taken (o the Coast Guard the craft missing, did not y had een said men man Anmpllll\l(xn piloted by Ernest Stranded on the island wartime flier and son n!. a m‘()mml‘nl Alaska mining man,! was believed sighted yesterday at| the kead of Birch Creek, 80 mll(’b northeast of Fairbanks. A search plane was to leave for that area at dawn to-| day. Young Patty and three passen ers have been unreported sin they took off from Woodchopp Alaska, Saturday enroute here.| Wita him on the flight were M('l]u and Lloyd Edmundson and a lhnd' man named Warren. Bush Pilot George Thorson apul-{ ted the wreckage yesterday after-{ |noon while flying over the Birch |Creek headwater and said he jcould detect no signs of lif The planc was virtually demolished, m] Patty, Jr. had been working for his father, former Dean of the Univer- sity of Alaska’s School of Mines and now head of the Alluvial Golds and Gold Placers, Inc, a large \Vzmc’chopprr mining concern oo ‘SWITCHBOARD ON | FIRE; SERVICE IS CUT OFF FOR EIME; CONNFAUT\«ILIF Pa P—Fire Chief James L, of the Conneautville Volunteer Company - is ustomed to picking up the telephone and receiving ire report- but normally he to wait for the phone to first, Yesterday Chief Manross picked up his phone to make a call and; was informed by Mrs. Hilda Uher; the town's telephone operator, that switchboard was on fire was extinguished in| but four communities telephone service for i . Oct. 28.—| Manross | a has ring | her The, fire hort order, were without veral hours, iwith otherwise to comply with . . . ions.” | stock 814, Anaconda 35%, International 1 Kennecott 46%, {1412, Northern Steel - - /AIR CARRIERS ARE carriers, aft, A('llma\l!n s The “failur omic regulat Board ope announced ~chwuwSUSPENDED BY CAA; lREASONS ARE GIVEN ‘ff“ . reg large air- Civil rating by Administration, e to Arctic-Pacific, dard Alr the letters for similar Arnold Anchorage. sSkyways dale the filing ing of could yders. Air Airport, The Board stressed, of compliance rescind of an - charger by the the carriers tariffs and econ- Suspended were Inc., and Stan- file Cargo, Seattle. Suspension, of also ancellation registration, |was imposed on two other carriers| reasons Ser Alaska; Service, Ty They are Inc., Box 15, and Western Portland-Trout- outdale, Or howeve: affirmative with regu suspen vice, ations on or- - STOCK OUOTAIIONS NEW YOF today 5%, 6%, Sales Averages industrials ties 35.57 i Grac registered ‘at today today are -as I 18325, {K F]“.iquumu“n of Alaska is 44, / rican Ce Paeific Closing mine Oct 28 wu n Curtiss-Wright Harvester 88 New York Central 201, U. S Pound _ $4.03': W the sharc WS utili- ere 930,000 rails FROM McKinley of Wrangell Baranof, Two, fish- ! _ At i this | office SEARCHERS FOLLOWING UP 2 CLUES 'CIear Weather Aids in Hunt for Missing Plane- Slim Hopes Enfertained Oct. 28 v spurred KETCHIKAN, Alaska. Clearing weather to the two-nation search by sea and air for the Pan American World | Afrwavs airliner that disappeared with 18 persons Sunday near the | Alaska-Canadian border. Nearly a score of American and 1\4nm<hm airplanes and at least as | many boats were aged in a sys- tematic scanning of the island and | inlet-marked southeast Alaska re- gion Ccast Guard headquarters report- ed that search planes were checking lon two possible clues—a report of what might have been smoke on Dundas Island and the sighting from a Coast Guard vessel of what might possibly be wreckage near the south end of Annette Island, near where pilot Alf N. Monsen last reported that turbulent condi- tions balked his landing attempt. » Lieut. Philip Mount- m in Buckin 20. # Photo. Slim Hopes Search directors said both were slm hcpes. The Annette clue was based on the sighting of a hillside object of differing color from . the landscape. A Pan-«American plane | the Dundas Island” smoke report “("Hxlla\' and reported sighting only low fog, Fut a re-check was being made from the alr today. The | original smoke report was from an | aerial observer. Dundas is about 50 miles south of Ketchikan. A vongue report of flares possibly having keen sighted on Graham Is- land yuth of the Alaska-British Columbia boundary, remainéd un- confirmed. Weather Improves Weather improved sharply today. IS RELATED checked Barbs Direcfed at Top U. 5. Officers NEW YORK George S. Patton, time commander States Third. Army, icised Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery, -and also directed! The sun shone, the ceiling rose to barbs at top American officers in|about 4,000 feet, visiblity was 10 abridgamatibe of bl jour-| o 12 miles and there was no wind. published today. It was about as clear a fall day as In pungent, crisp phrases, Pat- this northern area normally can ton declared his belief the in| expect Europe would have been shorten-| Shuttling plane pilots and surface ed and thousands lives saved | vessels alike brought back a dis- but for “the momentous error of couraging “no clues” report after the which he blamed on beating a blanket path over the Monigomery's influence with ' 280-mile rcute from Ketchikan to SHEAF, Gen, Eiscnhower's head-|Juneau and return. quarters No 01 Slick Excerpts from the Three Coast Guard vessels radio- nal, written during the Third ed they were vnable to locate an Army’s campaizns, were published oil slick reportedly seen between posthumeusly in The Satur " Annette and Mary Islands, west of Evening Post They covered only' Ketchikan. the fighting in France and Ger-| The ill-fated DC-4 airliner dis- many appeared Sunday after radioing the Supporting some other Annette airport at 1:44 p.m. that officers and who have “cxtreme turbulence” prevented a written of the ird 1y's his- scheduled landing. acress France as far Much of the hope for the 13 pas- in August, 1944, Pat- sengers and five crewmen aboard ted his forces would have|wag pinned on the 19 years' Alaskan ross the Rhine in ten|flying experience of its captain, Alf not been for a change N Monsen, known as one of the implemented, in my | erritory’s best bush pilots before General Montgom-|going with PAA In 1932. SEARCH ABANDONED HERE Search fcr the missing Pan Am- erican World Airways plane with 18 aboard has been virtually abandon- ed in this northern sector of South- ast Alaska, with the hunt being concentrated in the Ketchikan-An- nette Island region. 5ix Alaska Coastal Airlines planes with observers aboard yesterday scanned every section of this north- Gen stormy war- of United vigorcusly erit-| Oct Jr an war n of informal jour- of rvers views ob: 1 it in strategy Th y-ninth of (1944) in my opinion the critical days in this war,” Pat- ton wrote. “It was evident at this time that there was no real threat against us ¢ 1 we did n allow to stopped by Imaginar enemies.” He reported ordering Verdun and Commercy tinued twe August one of! e was, as he attack th on con= when . - to me (Continued on Page Eight) gas we were! > to get that had not arrived.|® ®© © © eqe v « © ¢ 0 o first I thought it was a back-| e WEATHER REPORT handed way of slowing up the Temperature for 24-Hour hird Army. 1 dater found that Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock was not the c Lut that This Morning the delay was due to change of In Juneau-Maximum, plan by the High Commands, im- minimumn. 42 plgmented in my opion, by General At Alrport Montgomery minimum, 41. It was my opinion WEATHER FORECAST was the momentous error (Juneau wnd Vielnity) war.” Rain tonight and Wednes- day. Not much change in temperature. Southeasterly winds occasionally as high as 20 miles per hour tonight. PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todey) . In Juneau inches; of a 04 passenger on the missing Pan ® Since Oct. 1848 Inches e since July 1, American Clipper, informed her 41.49 inches he today that » has'® At Airport - Trace; since returned from California to Seattle,|® Oct. 1, 539 inches; since ind fly here via PAA tomor-1® July 1, 27.11 inches row LI I I B B B B B ‘Everything seemed rosy, suddenly it was reported that 140,000 gallons of . . . . this| o the| o 48; Maximum, 48; that of - 'MRS. SCOTT MURPHY ENROUTE BACK HOME Scott Murphy, wiie Mrs, 1, will