The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE 'EWS ALL THE TIME” - ———— VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,721 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1947 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —= GOV. SNELL IS KILLED IN PLANE CRAS 6. SKINNER TESTIFIES IN RATE CASE Says Regal_a—r .Shipping' Lines Threatened by Barge Service SEATTLE, Oct. 30.—(P—Gilbert| W. Skinner, President of the Al-| aska Steamship Company, asserted| that a proposed new barge service| 0 Alaska may threaten shipping| Testifying at a Maritime Com-| mission hearing yesterday on Al-; aska shipping rates, Skinner de-| jous competition and loss of rev enue” if the proposed barge ser-| g e s vice is a success. ! Questioned as to the nature of . the new operation, Skinner said it! barges were owned by Ocean ’1'<_)ws. Inc., but that the Alaska Freight Express would act as the operator. of steel and not self-propeiled, are covered eight-hatch carriers. | Skinner also said that small| unregulated boats, which he char-' acterized as “camouflage operations| Bl that have no rates on fle with ¢ Tempest Fighter Planes into the Southeast Alaska trade. b e oten auring e wree Are Thrown Info Battle Ketchikan and Juneau a year ago| and have been operating ever| . since,” NEW DELHI, Oct. 30.—#—In- Rate Determinator {dian forces have thrown Tempest The Commission is trying 1| fighter planes into battle in an at- increase it allowed under the in-|vasion irom Pakistan menacing ermim shipping agreement, which|Sprinagar, capital of Kashmif, New expites June 30, 1948, should be|Delhi, scurces said tonight. Territorial spokesmen contend!ihing stopping” the invaders, the that the rates are too high. The|informants said. steamship companies assert that! agilitary sources y troops, armed for continued operation. | with nothing heavier than machine Skinner , said that. there had:guns and mortars, were opposing been insufficient time, lines now serving the Territory. | clared his line would face -1 was his understanding that the| He added that the barges, made that have no rates on file with the| months tieup in the ports of] Mena(i“g Srinagar Skinner said. i determine if the 35 percent ratetempt to stem a three-pronged in- continued. { The fighter planes are “the only | estimated 2,000 the current rates are nNecessarygeasoned Indian partially | the invasion by Pathan tribesmen "WAR DEAD COME HOME _ some cemetery at Licge, Belgium, leave Antwerp aboard the Army transport Joseph V. Conuolly (above). 5,600 U. S, (Conspiracy ~ IsCharged ~ InBig Suit Attorney (%n_eral Brings Action Against 17 Invest- ment, Banking Firms WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—#—At- torney General Clark today an- nounced the filing of a civil anti- trust suit against 17 of the largest investment banking firms in New York. The suit charges a conspiracy to mcnopolize the handling of s curities issues. | In the Government olution of the Invest-| ment Bankers Association of American which maintains head-! quarters in Chicago. Clark told a news conference the suit is being filed in Federal war dead P from the EVTG ailitary MRS. T. J. PRESTON PASSES AWAY IN SLEEP, SON'S HOME Was One of Principals in First Presidential Mar- riage, White House BALTIMORE, Oct. 30.—(#-—Mrs. Thomas Jex Preston, Jr., 83, who married President Grover Cleveland in a White House ceremony when she was 22, died here in her sleep yesterday at the home of a son at the age of 83. Private funeral services and bur- ial will be held tomorrow in Prince- ten, N. J, her home for many years She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Folsom of Buffalo, N. Y. Her father and Mr. Cleveland were members of the same law firm when she was a child. When she was a student at Wells College and Cleveland was Gover- nor of New York, he started send- due to a second tieup this year in iy, cuperior numbers, armed with District Court for Southern Newing her flowers. Ketchikan and Juneau of SIX |poyitzers mountain guns and mor- weeks duration, to propefly judgeitnrs The Dominion of India sent whether the rates are reasonable|;, cipc o r and justified. State Army of 10,000. Three Seattle lines, the Alaska| qy. pngians, the informants —_——— !said, have been pushed back in the (Continued on Page Eight) Canailia 1 Railr 120 miles from the capital—a 12- { the hcstilities sparked by the deci- sion of Kashmir's ruler to accede ) to India. The Princely State’s popu- s n Railroad s s Belng Rehab|ll|a'edflation is predominantly Moslem. | Fifteen Royal Air Force Dakotas SEATTLE, Oct. 30—P— The|were expected to compiete evacua- Pacific Great Eastern Railway, tion today of from 200 to 250 Bri- tentatively moving northward from|tish civilians—mostly retired civil Vancouver, B. C. to the Peace servants, vacationists and children River and Alaska, has spent more| —from Kashmir. than a million dollars in the past! A Bombay dispatch said four air two years for rehabilitation and|lines—Air India, Air Services of new equipment, General Manager India, Mistri Airways and Ambica W. H. Tobey said at aVncouver airlines—suspended service from B. C. i Bombay because all planes were The railway, which now oper-icommandeered by India's govern- ates between Squamish and Ques- ment, nel, a distance’ of 347 miles, and| is connected with Vancouver by! passenger steamer and rail-barge| service, has become so popular with Washington State tourists in} recent years that it has had to expand its passenger service. The Wasnington ENTRAINS SUNDAY — > ONE DIVISION | McChord Field, Oct, 30.—(®—The /ARCTIC MANEUVERS: York | He described the suit as ‘“one in the history of the anti-trust laws.” i The complaint alleges that the 17| restrain unreasonably and | mile retreat since the outbreak of monopolize the securities business; .. in this country by restricting, con- trolling and fixing the channels |and methods of the price, terms, jand conditions upon which secur- 'ity issues are merchandised.” Securities Described | | The 'securities were descriced in 'the suit as covering ‘“stocks, notes, bonds, debentures, or other inter- est certificates.” | | The defendants have their prin-; ‘cipal offices in New York and; many smaller branch offices else-! where. They were named as: 1 | Morgan Standley and Company; iKuhn Loeb and Company; Eush; iman, Dillon and Company; Kid-| der, Peabody and Company; Gold-‘ man, Sachs and Company; Lehman | Brothers; Smith, Barney and Com-| 'pnny: Glore, Morgan and Com- |pany; White Weld and Company; | |Drexel and Company; The First ' Boston Corporation; Dillon, Read; land Company, Inc; Blyth and, |Company, Inc.; Harriman Ripley| land Company, Inc.; Stone and | Webster Securities Corporation; | Harris; Hall and Company, Inc.,| the the in in The romance culminated first Presidential marriage orce the Kashmir of the largest and most important|White House. The quiet event took place in the Blue Room on June 22, 1886. The Clevelands had five children, *, Kashmir valley to a point less than banking firms “have conspired to! four of whom survive. In 1913, five years after Mr. veland's death, Mrs. Cleveland married Preston, a retired profes- sor of archeology. They settled on the outskirts of Princeton and had lived there since. Her death leaves five living wi- dows of former Presidents. They are Mrs. Benjamin Harrison; Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. - SIX GUNMEN GET $110,000 PAYROLL BOSTON, Oct. 30.—(M—Six gun- men held up the B. F. Sturtevant Company in the Hyde Park district today, escaping with a $110,000 payroll. The Sturtevant Company is a division of the Westinghouse Cor- poration. Working methodically, two of the men entered the office of Wm. “! early DEMOPARTY 'NATIVES CAMPAIGNIS JOININ MAPPED QUT SEARCH { Things-Vice-Presiden- tial Talk Scarce WASHINGTON, | The Democratic sented by its Na | | | Forces, Hunt for Miss- in PAA Clipper Oct. 30 KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 30.- party as repre-| (M—Scutheast Alaska natives join- nal Committee, | €l with Coast Guard ground search- zave evidence today that it ~has!ing parties today and upwards of a cettled just about everything for{dozen planes were to resume at- its 1048 convention except who is|tempts to locate’ a missing Pan |to run for Vice-President. fAmerican World ~ Airw plane | At a one-day meeting yesterday,|with 18 aboard the committee unanimously pmkrd' Duke Island, lying south of An- ! Philadelphia for next summer's|nette Island, was one search area | neminating conclave and elected in:and planes flew as low as 100 feet 143 year old Senator J. Howard|over its beaches and inlets yester- ! McGrath of Rhode Island a new | day locking for the big ship which | National Chairman who favors disappeared Sunday. The plane’s non-partisan action on emergency | veteran pilot, Capt. Alf N. Monsen | legislation at the November 17 had reported extreme air turbu- | special session of 'Congress |lence as he neared Annette Island | Vice-Presidential talk was in-|Sunday afternoon. | rmal and Royal Canadian Air Force planes | (mfifind Navy PBY's, which have joined Pan American’s kig DC-3's and nu- merous small planes in the work searched other areas. The native village of Metlakatla a party of 15 men to wc scarce. Most members said it i to think about the No. 2| ‘spot But names heard include| ithose of Secretary of Defense| iJ:\mes V. Forrestal, a New Yorker; ! is Supreme Justice William O. Doug-| " |las of Washington State and Con-‘iflm;“ l:v): bea.c‘he.sqsmp:mn;:ll N {necticut; Gov. Mon C. Wallgren > onsen's 25-year-old son of Washington. and Gov. William | Wesley, also a pilot who hhd often {Preston Lane, Jr, or Maryland., |{10%n the Alaska route with. his | There undoubtedly will be oth. | father, flew north yesterday to take i jay | PALt in the search. ers, and none present yesterday would venture guess as to who! Paratroopers and mountain climb- might have the edge. Mr. Tru-| 'S are slaAndlnn by if needed for ‘LAn is represented as yet to make|87ound search. a choice. | Lt. Comdr, O. D. Weed, in charge {of search operations, said five air- Former Gov. John J. Dempsey craft are operating from Juneau, of New Mexico, National Commit-}and iive Coast Guard, two Navy, teeman for his state, told a re-|two RCAF, one CAA, two Fish and porter he had heard much talk|Wildlife Service, and two PAA of Forrestal. | planes from Annette Island near ‘Those mentioning Douglas said | here he is more or less favored byl An estimated 20 additional air- what they called “Democratic lib-'craft in Southeast Alaska are en- erals” A native of Mlllnflsolfl,igng(\d in the search. ‘Pouglas went to college in Wash-, Civilian volunteers, using Coast |ington State, later taught at Yale,| Guard and privately owned boats, and then became head of the are scouring beaches in the vicinity Federal Securities and Exchange|of Annette, |Commission tefore going on to thel A high speed Canadian crash Supreme Court bench. | boat, which arrived last night, is Westerncrs talked of Wallgren, | standing by. a former Senator and close friend| o of Mr. Truman. One committee| > officer said the name of Lan':,“ ja Hagerstown, Md., publisher, had; been mentioned favorably by some‘ - westerners who said he had made an impression at governors’ con-! ferences. Lane was elected to his| (first term as governor last No-! | vember. H McGrath, authorized to name| the convention date, said he thought it would be sometime af-! ter July 4 | " R HENRY BENTLEY DIES, FAIRBANKS j FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 30.— |M—Henry T. Bentley, 81, pioneer ment Public Relations official who | Alaska dairyman and one-time jssued the statement, said the Sec- | business associate of the late Alex-, retary had suifered a fainting spell | |ander Pantages, died yesterday af-|/but that he could not comment | ter a long illness. % further at this time on the nature \ Born in England, he operated a of the illness. restaurant in Los Angeles before| Krug was taken to his room at joining the Alaska gold rush. Later|the Westward Ho Hotel where twp 'he owned a restaurant here and!dcctors were called to attend him. started a dairy which now con-| The group’s President, Robert sists of a herd of 60 cows. He|w. sawyer, finished Krug's speech NI. KRUG FAINTS DURING TALK PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 30.—(®— +| Secretary of Interior Krug was said (to be “all right for the time being” shortly after he became suddenly ill today addressing the convention of the National Reclamation Asso- ciation. Carlton Skinner, Interior Depart- | WACHUSETT IS CONTINUING ON PLANE SEARCH Crewmen on Bridge Day and Night Searching Coastline The search for the lost PAA slane, now taking the Coast’ Guar utter Wachusett, Comdr. E. V. ‘arlson, to Lynn Canal, goes on s thoroughly weording to a Jave Webster, \board the cutter. On the bridge every minute of he day and night are two to four :rewmen besides the helmsman and juartermaster searching the shore- ines and mountains with binocu- ars and they do not miss any- hing. The Captain took the reporter side Tuesday and said he is proud if these boys who “would rather iee too much than too little.” The Wachusett may not locate he lost plane but it will not be o lack of efiort, says Webster. > SEARCH STILL GOES ON FOR MISSING DC- Unsettled Weather Condi- tions Hamper Opera- tions in This Area Unsettled weather conditions in he Juneau area continue to ham- ser aerial search operations for the 18 occupants of "the missing PAA Slipper Talisman During the night and early morn- ng hours, the cloudiness broke emporarily and Major T. J. Jack- son of the 10th Air-Sea Rescue squadron was able td*send out one 3-47 transport on a night flight n an attempt to sight possible lares or fires which might have seen lighted by the plane’s surviv- ns. Maj. Jackson, who is in charge f the northern sector of the wearch, has five of his own planes mnd two Fish and Wildlife Service Jlanes on constant patrol of the wea north of Petersburg. He ex- sected to complete the first cover- wge of his area sometime this af- srnoon and will send his men out ‘o scan the northern sector more closely on their second trip in or- der to make sure they have not missed any clues as to the fate of he missing airliner. All boats which were loaned by the Fish and Wildlife Service, and Forest Service are being returned .0 their regular duties. This also radiogram from Empire reporter wpplies to Army tugs in SE Alaska | which have likewise been ‘he search. Notice of this action was recelved ifrom Coast Guard wadquarters at Ketchikan oy Lt. Comdr. Edward P. Chester, who has been acting as liaison here between all agencies taking Jart in rescue operations. ->oo——— Stabbing Case at Fairbanks; Soldier Is Held fo Answer used in 1s on the first day, | today | '3 OTHERS ~ AREALSO " VICTIMS iTop Heads of Oregon’s ! Government Are Dead i asResult of Tragedy | KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Oct. 30, —IM—Bodies of Oregon's Gov. Earl Snell, the Secretary of State, Sen- ate President and their pilot were jtaken from the wreckage of their | private plane today | State Patrolman Mark Sullivan {told State Police here the bodies probably would reach the Klamath- | Lakeview highway at Bly, 50 miles 'northeast of here this afternoon. The bodies of Snell, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr, Senate _President Marshall Cornett and their pilot, CIliff Hogue of Klamath Falls, were reached shortly before 9 am. today after nearly 100 sear- jchers had stumbled through the rugged, heavily forested area at Dog 1 Lake, 70 miles east of here near Ilhq- Oregon - California border, . throughout the night without suc- { cess | Little hope for their survival had been held from the time the wreck- |age first was sighted from the air yesterday afternoon and the pilot isaid the small plane was “so dam- ;ng(‘d that no one could be alive." \ The tragedy removed both, the vhead of the State and his immed- iate successor, the President of the | Senate, and elected John H. Hall, )43. Portland attorney and Speaker of the House, to that office. The plane with the four aboard took off from here Tuesday night on a hunting trip and failed to reach Coleman Lake landing field, an hour’s flying time east. Yesterday planes were ordered sent out but decidedly inclement weather prevented any flying. Marshall Cornett is wellknown in Juneau and made many friends here when he attended the Rotary National Convention in Juneau in 1939 when he was District Rotary ! Governor of district 101, Hogue, Snell's pilot, has also flown in Southeast Alaska. He was with the Ketchikan Air Service as a pilot for two years prior to No- vember, 1945, | i | | 'MOTHER, DAUGHTER ARE BRUTALLY SLAIN IN TACOMA HOME TACOMA, Oct. 30.—A—A mother and her 18-year-old daughter were found brutally slain early today in (their South Side home and De- tective Lieut. Earl Cornelison said a 4b-year-old transient had orally confessed to the slaying { Cornelison identified the victims (as Mrs. Bertha Kludt, 53, a widow, and her daughter, Beverly June ,Kludt, 18, y Both women had been struck tbehind the head with a heavy in- | strument. Cornelison sald two officers, £. P. Sabutis and Evan Devies, were {called to the house when neighbors iheard screams. As they approach- |ed a man burst out the back door and passed i | was a Mason and member of the by reading from the Secretary’s Pioneers of Alaska. | manuseript. Two sons, George and Harrty,| 1n it Krug proposed a develop- Fairbanks, and a daughter, Helen,|ment which would place four mil- Bakersfield, Calif,, survive. Ilion acres of land under irrigation ARy 2 {by the end of the fiscal year .of 'Blind Men Stage e 2l g ilay 3 ‘Big Rally, Tokyo; ‘ Protest New Law 1 Engineer Service TOKYO, Oct. 30. — (P — Three- | (ompanies Wi“ Be | 'hundred blind men staged a rally! | before the Imperial Palace today to Irans'e"ed Alaska wasrnoro & s-n.| Raid on Shumchun | protect their rights to piactice BC“-; puncture. | Acupuncture involves treating pa-iTwo engineer service cumpanies.‘ HONGKONG, Oct. 30.—(P—Chin- tlents by puncturing them Withline s12g¢h ang 2120th, will bee€se sources said today Kwangtung needles and by stimulating blood |y, .,sferred from Fort Warren,| Province authorities were sending circulation. The blind men wanted 'ywy, (o Alaska before the end|reinforcements to Shumchun, on to make clear their opposition 10|, the year, the Air Force said|the British border. in view of re- proposed changes in the physicians’ | wednesday. | ports that 1,000 Communists plan- | Sabutis toward Davies, lwhu gave cha: i The man, Cornelison said, iden- tified himself as Jack Bird, was G ,cornered in a nearby clump of Field soldier, was charged yester-i, s ang subdued. Both offi- day with stabbing with intent mlcerx were cut during the struggle kill for a night club affray early‘.by' what they said was a large Sunday in which Leo Schlotfeldt.\ b ..” which the man po Bt g e an Express Company operator, waa{ 2 5 nrep | PUUs was cut in the back and ‘;‘ei:luuji‘s; ‘::u'fi:‘;:'m):in:j“ :_::I:}ll'Davxeh received badly cut hands. Monday, Suttle % from Columbus, | The Officers said they found the Ohio % e 7' bodies of the young girl and her 4 A {mother lying on the floor of the Communists Plan | Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct (P—Vernon H. Suttle, 21, 30.— Ladd' - eee — - -ee | STOCK QUOTATIONS , . NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4'., American Can 87%, Anaconda 337, Curtiss-Wright $'s, Internatlonal Harvester 87':, Kennecott 46%, New York Central 14, Northerh Pacific 19%, U. S. Steel 76%, Pound $4.03. Sales today were 1,390,000 shares. Averages ay are as follows: industrials 181.33, rails 46.55, utili~ ties 34.93. is (fantry Division soldiers who Willl Clark told reporters that some|®s, Went into an adjoining office Ihere Sunday and Monday aboard!during the last 10 years and that [eained at the wheel of the has decided to summon his joint {10 Bk, e Ainbe Sbout $14,357,000,000. |10 the paymaster’s office wore a {men and their equipment under paring to assist in preparation of high prices. the huge “flving toxcars” at 6 a.| SIEAMER MOVEME“IS Alaska, from Seattle, scheduled|seized the money and fled. will hear reports from Congression- |y .. "cet for 8 a. m. “Yukon” Company “A,” which has|sail from Seattle, October 30, for | ment. haustive study was done in the mont’s conscientious Senator Ralph‘and snow swept sides of Mount|Kodiak. Pat Rholin of Fort Klamath paper yet, but this column can re- | pront “thence to Fort Nelson, Can-| FPrincess Louise scheduled to sail | SEATTLE VISITOR —More than anything else food |attie saturday at 10 a.m. o law which would bar them from| 1i aqded there are no plans for|ned to seize the city and surround- FROM COPPER CENTER family budget goes for food, and | George F. Peterson of Copper|juneau and Seward. William A. Clayton ahd Jack T. medical regulations declared that'in process of formation and pre- Chinese guards and officers were {first contingent of the Second In- and Union Securities Corp. {Maryall, paymaster, and two oth- |participate in the division's Arctic|$20,000,000000 in securities hadlfixtgm;.ll)esur):c’zorat ‘:‘;dd"':;ele“:‘;‘;’t‘fi |maneuvers this winter will leave!zen issued in the United States! ¥ E WASHINGTON — Sengtor Tanigiant C-82 Packet planes enroute|the defendants managed the Saleslgeguwas; csr. Fie lof about 69 percent of the total,| One Of the palr who walked in- Committgc on. the Bongpo Report; The contingent, consisting of 250; aggregating B to Washington three days ahead of | burlap bag over his head. Maryall the special Sless‘;on t&:!revleleAmwwmmand of Lt Col. Jack F.| and five employees who were pre- erica’s No. lomestic problem— | i vi in load: board | Whilm. . Wil hegin 0iadiee - S0erd, the payroll were herded together, Taft, who hadn't much tme fOF|p Sunday, with initial takeoffs| {facing a wall. The pair then other than politics summer, f the 3,000-mil e 7 e‘w arrive 6 o'clock Friday night. The Sturtevant Company manu- al teams which probed the cost of | . giers are members of, Coastal Rambler scheduled to, factures air conditioning equip- living across the country. Most ex- ’ i i Yakutat, Port 3 just completed a four week pre-gKetchxkan, Juneau, t > east by a subcommittee, under Ver- 'lumnary period on the wind, rain|San Juan, Seward, Seldovia and FROM FORT KLAMATH Flanders. His important findings|painjer. | Sword Knot scheduled to sail|stcpping at the Baranof. have not been boiled down upon | e planes will fly to Great Falls,|from Seattle October 81 .- veal that he will stress the follow- . and finally land at Big Delta.|from Vancouver Friday at 9 p.m. Roy W. Johnson of Seattle is ing: R e _‘niy._.‘_g | Denali scheduled. to sail from Se- |staying at the Baranof Hotel. prices are keeping the cost of liv- Jumper Hitch, scheduled to sail HERE FROM ANCHORAGE 1the practice. |shifting from Fort Warren the ing customs posts. Three customs ing up. Normally one-third of the |from Seattle Nov. 6 for Ketchikan,| H. R. Baird, John E. Peterson,, Ofiicials in charge of changlnglgzm_h Aviation Engineers, a group|posts were raided Sunday and nine Center, Alaska, is staying at the; Baranof, from West, Jefford, all of Anchorage, are re- blind men cannot be trusted to dis- sently having hardly more than injured or held prisoner temporar- Baranof. \‘soulhbound Sunday. gistered at the Baranof. infect their instruments thoroughly. paper organization strength. Jily. scheduled (Continued on Page Four)