The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 31, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASK_A EMZPIRE “ALL THE NEWS AII TIII TMIF" [ ——— VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,722 PRICE TEN CENTS PAA PLANE WRECKAGE IS FOUND RATE HEARING) 1 s oy WHATHELP CENTERING ON' s 10 EUROPE SALMONRATES WILL MEAN J.D. Nelsonon Stand Ask- | Will Be Choice Belween| ed to Expldin Differ- | L ! flation, Says Crawford ence in Two Tariffs Higher Prices, Great In- | SEATTLE, Oct. 31.—(®— The im- WASHINGTON i i ¥ Oct 3. —P— ortance of Alaska canned salmon § y 3 ¥ Z 9 fmnic to steamship cargo revenues ; ? Ip for JEnrope’ camrime _ll“"‘j‘ was described by J. D. Nelson, cuney wiiC et ‘»“;‘f'_”v"":“:;::‘, traffic manager, at the Mnnlm'v i ““ i b 1 Commission rate hearing. i . 3 " P Nelson, on the stand most of | . yesterday afternoon under Cross examination by Territorial repre- sentatives, was asked to explain why Alaska fisheries products are carried for $14 a ton while gro- ceries and other commercial pro- ducts move under an average rate ] of $27 a ton o : ! “Salmon moves under a special ¢ 1 industry rate because it is one of £ i the Territory’s chief products,” he said. “Without cannery busine b i the commercial shipping rates probably v { Minn) would have to be 100 percent high- Knutscn e writing Ways a Canned salmon, he said, com- tee had been petepd “.1 hice :” “f..me ,;ou,‘m American housewives can take a bound cargo movement” and Can- .onseryation tip from Gloria Wha nery supplies are an important len, popular Walter Thornton pm-‘ northtound item at certain season- yp'model, who carefully recloses Pre announced determing al periods. the s\axed paper wrapper on a loaf | to make tax-cutting a top pri Malcolm Miller, one of bread immediately after' prepar- | issue before aress. Tertitory s counsel, said ing her “between exercige” snack. T.¢t alse favors lower income ference between cannery Reclosing protects the freshness of | jeyics put he declined to forecast ; the loaf, prevents waste, and lends 2 0r Ebeva and commercial commedity ews ccnference yesterday just 3 o support to President Truman’s ' Hant e 4 Kera® rhight ot | were “unfair differentials. WSave Food for Europe” program, | When the lawmakers mig g J. D. Nelson, tariff chief for the Qne slice of bread saved by each 2rcund to a reduction bill. Alaska Steamship Company, testi- housewife, says the U. S. Depart- Crawford, however, asserted that | fied at a Marine Commission Alaska mant of Agriculture, means a na- it no longer is a question of cut- freight rate hearing today that tional saving of one million pounds ting taxes but of hiking them. “slightly under three percent” of P the firm's gross freight revenues T oo UL S (R[D" A 10 0CTOBER LIFTEDNOV.1: “no support” from government agencies who prosecute pilferage 31.—Id— installment | higner same time, Senator O'Ma- ! (D-Wyo) called for a new! profits levy as one approach : to the twin problem Congress will confront mnext month of curbing ! high prices at heme while working out a multi-billion-dollar European recovery program A Republican leadershij on whether to press reduction bill at the jon was delayed, illness of Rep. the oney § | exc ) decision ! third tax »vember 17 meanwhile, by Knutson (R- the tax- | Means Commit- heduled to confer ; tor Taft (Ohio), | the Senate’s GOP Policy Ccmmittee, on the Minnesotan's Chairman of of the the dif- freight rates cases. Donald Wallace, Tacoma Cham- ber of Commerce traffic manager, | questioned Nelson atout cargo loss- es. | He declared that his company has no objection to using Whittier N as a port of cargo discharge rath- , | WASHINGTON, Oct er than Seward, when and if facil-| Ski@s Gray Rain Falls in Eesier terms for many ities for handling civilian cargo in <5 iyers are expected as controls | i Many Sections Affer ‘Whittier become available. over consumer credit follow price Weeks of Sunshine Ul Cargo handling facilities in Whit- iceilings off the statute books at tier now are owned and opeml&d‘ midnight tomorrow night. by the U. S. Army Engineers | The amount of down payments Norman C. Stines, attorney rep- and the number of months to pay resenting the Fairbanks Chamber will be strictly up to the seller for Commerce, interrogated Nelson. the first time in six years { R s sections of the country to-| Some confusion prevailed at FROM ANCHORAGE making a dull setting for a ! over the precise timing of the farewell sto October, which left in piration of controls because of un- its climatic wake nearly four weeks certainty over the meaning of the of sunshine and mild temperatures. | Congressicnal resolution calling for | Rain fell over scattered areas, in |their end “after Nov. 1.” i some eastern states and new Eng- Federal |larnd, parts of the mldwest and | said that 3 lalong the n hwest Pacific st. i The Washinglon zome e sornwes: Pacitc coust | mionignt onignt Merry - Go- Round near normal over most of the gjfferent interpretations by Federal' By DREW PEARSON "ate Press) es were gray and rain fell in o in oi first ex- L. R. Seely and Clarence Walters of Anchorage are registered at the Baranof. i officia’ss thus Reserve the resolution country although the mercury ! Reges banks, | Texas yesterday. led Heaviest falls of rain |inches at Kansas Ci Mo., 167 inches at Des Moines, Ia. The rains in Missouri, Towa and parts of Nebraska were regarded as bene- ticial to the winter wheat crop clal position. 211 and were B0 ey WASHINGTON — Out in Pekin, Tllinois, there is a poorar section of the city with neat little fences set-, ting off gardens in which grow, not PlANE C(RASH iN " OREGON IS NOW :Dead Pilo Cliff Hogue Said to Have Been Penalized KLAMATH An inv that Ol(‘ gon’s today umx;huu'um | tors A CAA Hogue, Falls H e math death Secretary President twice for tions. E. S. Leach rtland tk $10 (xmxgt C\hmxm.l Hogue, first | Ketchikan Flying Service convicted tonight as the deadline.|one of them improper maintenance tions in the light of jof the plane Inspector private set was e they said midnight | his |cl'mbed into the 90s in parts of | qomorrow would be the final offi- [days in 1941 | without 'WAR CRIMINALS ARE' GOkrEd SHOP' ColdenStat iCE TR CONSUMER PICKET LINE Candlestick Cove housing project in San Franci s ranging from 6 to 12 years, Lo, protest a pr 'Fairbanks Plane Wreckage Sighted; Craft is Believed fo Have Burned; 4 Occupants FAIRBANKS, Alaska, ~Hope waned today for foup oc¢-| cupants down plane INVESTIGATED = the An small bush camp They for Violations FALLS, Oct. 31 estigation of the plane the wiped out the St of {the chief officials was by Civil Aeronautics and The Ad- no state to back official that 42 pilot reported the veteran Kla- who flew to his gon’s Governor and St ) bec ed - weasel with of ate had violating C/ her - Creek the senfor CAA inspect Portland district, said of at Hogue was fined ent after a crash-landing | father ew, Ore. that killed from Sollins, 17, Willow Ranch the 1943 lkl’ In by the plane Alaska violations- hen employed of four said Hogue lost pilot’s license for 60 after being convict flight instruction instructor’s Leach giving a flight - > rties Army pilots at mountain P wreckage small hillside press- ' partially sigy investiga- A fi tracked abandon over | patched receiving addition headed of a of sce plan were to pilots man 30 and yest those nest is Er plane’s Territorial the to word of the crash. to and cattle carried Edmundson and Jack Warren, ployees of the Placer by Patty. .- 'TENTH SCREEN WRITER CITED ;- le'ulmil since mountain Fairbanks converged k mining camp, crash h helicopter flown established a base repe Palmer slope flew yesterday craft at burned of life in the vic crew snow-weasel the miles terrain when the machine dowxup- mechanical dog day from Ladd Field trouble Oct. 31 small amphibious Saturday on a slope 65 rescue on Palmer 15 miles from and by Creek move tows at dawn low and apparently high speed Th vesterday ard the today over the struck ity | an Army | was forced and hike| difficult of vehicle of second team was dis- wailir at Palmer Patty, Sr., father pilot and promin- mining man. The pilot's wife flew Fairbanks af C the Lioyd P cm- Gold opera- the pilot, Merle and l W crash miles | ¢ 6,000-foot mark of 8,900-foot Cucamor two | of Fairbanks | ra A Arthur, reported | ¢ and, reported | g, | 200-ton foo ship n flowers, but vegetables. Even before the'wartime vogue for victory gar- dens, these irugal residents of Pe- kin wasted no space on lawns and scenery. there came brash, on! American community, to Congress 16 years ago, boyish Everett Dirksen, elected the Republican ticket despite the| Rcosevelt landslide. In Washington, Dirksen has worked just as hard as his neighbors, gradually g,lmnn’ until he is now one of the respect-| ed leaders of the GOP Congress. | Last summer, Dirksen went back to the land of his forebears, this’ time as Chairman of a joint Con- gressicnal Committee on the Armed | Services. In Germany and Austria his Committee held hearings. Some- times acting as interpreter, Dirk-_ sen lstened to all sides, called in {lowed clear From this isolationist German-| . .. . ma) for most parts of the Soviet bloc demanded of October. The cloudy weather and rain in many areas, including the New Eng- land sectior € burned country The Pacific ever Octobers skies since reported on record. ) where for two weel the first northwi one cf the >-se - forest t area, wettest | member and temper: fires fol- ures how- STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska, to arrive and sail at from Seattle Princess L from Vancou Denali scheduled to sail from Se- ab: from for 1at 11 o'clock. Sword Knot Seattle, 7:15 o'clock toda; tise ver 9 tonight U. S. Army officers, U. S. civillans, |attle Saturday at 10 am. anybody who wanted t6 help pre-| Jumper Hitch sent the picture of what was going from Seattle Nov. 6 for Ketchikan, |ing that on in Germany. In fact, Dirksen Page “Four) (Continued on Juneau and Baranof, southbound cheduled Seward from West, Sunday to scheduled | plied tonight was aimed Skagway and Sitka | power: eduled to sailiand said that scheduled to sail | sailla British counter-proposal scheduled should be governed by the princi- off the eastern coast of the Is SHIELDED BY ENG., Typhoon U.'S., REDS CLAIM, : T,m% Is Ragl“ WASHIN(-.(V)Ai Two more Hollywood screen writers have been cited for contempt by a House un-American Activities Sub- committee, bringing to 10 the num- bex AP today that| i the United menu; Assembly re-I MANILA. Oct. verse a decision of its f@l : logal committee and ap-, Phoon which swept across the cen- i . Yead prove a rejected Yugoslav proposal ‘“i ]P‘h-{ppfix.‘j_ 1.:\1”,w q:u} ad (whiéh in effect accusgs the United|8nd heavy damage in its wake, by- ron el R \h"‘]dmgi]m“rd Manila to the south today iy i and headed toward the China The United States promptly re-j At7pm. (6 am, EST), the Phil- that the Yugoslav proposal | iPPiie Weather Bureau placed the i 30 miles scuth of Manila having the western| tyPhoon over ‘“political dissi- and said it was moving west-north- than war criminals| West. Typhoon signal No. 10, indi- from its investigators apmo\nl of the mea- cating imminent danger, remained evidence that the men isure would be “a gross injustice.” Doisted in Manila, however. been affiliated with the The Yugoslav resolution recently, The lashing gale heavily damaged Party. was voted down 35 to 7, with eight two cities sank cne ship and beach- Like the ntions, by the legal commit- ed three others nesses took the stand that the com- which then went on to approve Reports rom Iloilo, Panay Is- mittee had no right assert- land, said five persons were drown- ticns akout political beliefs criminals €d when the mctor launch Alfor > o II sank near the Gigar SAM ASP HERE Sam Asp of T ee is stopping at the Baranof NEW YORK, Oct. 31 31 P—A ty- they refused to answers to ques- are or when s or no” ns wether they been Communists. As in the eight previous cas the committee presented were ulv(l at turn {dents” rather cited have Communist others cited, tee, ‘trials of war and traitors, like all other trials, ples of justice, law and evidence.” Thursday FORCONTEMPT - t living in the ice rise in ice cream cones. FIVE FLIERS, U.S. ARMY, DIE, CRASH MARCH FIELD Calif,, The Army planned today Lo launch an investigation into the of an A-26 bomber which the lives of five fliers Bedies were to be removed irom the strewn wreckage at about the Mount ga, one of the higher peaks rugged San Bernardino March Field search party evidence of an explosion victims identified by the Oct. 31 ost the ted he Army John L. Crouch, pilot, Port Tex.. Capt. Bartholomew Tenore, Bronxville, N. Y.; Lt. Muller, Paterson, N. J.; T. Mobley, Biggs Field; Pyt Kyle, El Paso, Tex P HOW. HUGHES' Maj Wilkert GIANT PLANE T0 TAXI SUN. LOS n the ANGEDES, eve of a Oct. 31,—(P-— reopening con- gressional inquiry, Howard Hughes lans to make a big splash The wealthy planemaker said his flying boat with the 320- wingspread will undergo water €sts. The Brewster committee’s are slated to reopen on \’Knnu y Hughes—emphasizing that the probably will not fly until ext spring- -announced that trac- ors and tugs will haul the winged from its dock and on Sun- he personally will cruise the harkor on taxi tests, i speeds up to 80 miles an are expected to produce data on airflow and water characteris- ics of the behemoth. Flying the claims Hughes, “will be .hkl' 1ing to fly all over again.” -es - our U.S Bnhsh Quakers have |y t ; 1947 had been testimony igeates and British organizations of of finding Friends (Quakers) Friends I the Wit~ the It il accused. B st Awarded Noble Prize oct. 31.—® nounced Prize for to United O, Nobel onight the Norway, committee Nobel Peace awarded The American with and which British recipients are the Service Committee, eadquarters in Philadelphia London Service Council, s the headquarters of the to ask ques- Quakers The two n European have worked relief. . D Lorin E. Phinney of Ke »gratered at the ‘Baranof, together chikan is CRASHED SHIP DISCOVERED ON MT. TAMGAS; IS BURIED IN SNOW; NO LIFE IS SEEN; RESCUE PARTIES TO SCENE KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 31.—(»—The smashed, burned wreckage of Pan American World vs Clipper that crashed on a Seattle-Juneau flight Sunday was found today amid indications that the 18 persons aboard were killed instantly. 'he four-engine airliner struck the snow-covered top of Annette Island’s highest peak, 3,600-foot Mount Tamgas. Ground parties set out for the scene promptly, with the prospect of slow progress against rough and soggy terrain and hecavy timber and underbrush. The first were expected to reach the site some time during the afternoon. Pan American search leaders reported there were sev- eral signs of fire and no sign of life at the spot where the ig plane apparently was imbedded in the snow. It carried five ecrew members and 13 passengers, including an infant. All Killed Instantly After flying over the wreckage, Wesley Monsen, son of the pilot on the ill-fated airliner, d “apparently all had been killed instantly He was one of ral fliers who confirmed ident tion of the wreckage after its discovery by Coast Guard airmen. The pilot of the crashed clipper was Alf N. Monsen, veteran of many years of Alaska “bush” flying before he joined Pan American’s Alaska Division in 1932. Young Mon- sen, who often flew with him as a co-pilot, joined the search for the missing plane yesterday. Wreckage Spotted The Coast Guard reported the wreckage was spotted at 8:45 A. M. (Pacific Standard Time) as clearing weather gave view of Mount Tamgus for the t time in five days of previously fruitless searching by air, land and sea. The wreckage was within 200 feet of the top of the peak’s north side, indicating the pilet had swung around after his final report that he was going on to Juneau be- ‘cause extreme turbulence prevented his scheduled landing at Annette Field. The ¢ 1 site is about miles east of the field. Monsen was flying on instruments because of the poor visibility as he came in over Annette. Ground Parties Organized Several ground parties were organized to pierce the wild- erness to the mountain top. A Civil Aeronautics Administra- tion party flew a seaplane to a small lake near the foot of the mountain and planned to proceed afoot. Another group left the beach. Pan American o under Capt. rdon F. xwell, of San Franciseco, Manager of Flight Operations in the Pacific-Alaska Division, organized a 14-man party and a party of Army mountaineers was recruited in Juneau. Death of the 18 would make it the worst air disaster in the histc of commercial flying over the hazardous Alaska Territory. It was the first crash of a four-engine commer- cial plane in Alaska, ~ Pan American had had only three previous crashes with passengers in its 15 years of operat- ing in the north. Two of them were during the high-pressure wartime period as a military carrier. Chris Weitzel, 26, of Lakewood, N. J., piloted the Coast Guard plane which discovered the wreckage. ANNOUNCEMENT ~ MANY AGENCIES OF PLANE FATE ~ TOOK PART IN BRINGS RELIEF PLANE SEARCH A great feeling of relief was felt here today when it was an- nounced that wreckage of the miss- ing airliner had been discovered The relief came to break the strain and tenseness which had existed since KINY first broad- cast news of the plane’s disappear- ance last Sunday When it was windows of the Empire and over the radio today that the plane had bLeen found. the many anxious relatives and friends were ready to accept the final facts and, as a result, were freed from any doubt as to the fate 3 ne’s occupants. Local officials tified relatives and crew of wreckage, One Air Force B-17 and the (Cont muvd on seve als, The plane of the search for the missing and its occupants was one most intensive hunts in the history of aviation Two hours after the plane was last heard, Sunday afternoon, and 30 min- utes after it swas overdue at Ju- neau, the search had begun Many planes, and boats, of all descriptions, joined in the five day hunt in an effort to locate the lost airliner in a dramatic and sustain- ed effort to bring aid to any possible survivors. The exact num- ber of people, planes and boats, taking part, will probably never be known First to enter the search on Sunday afternoon were all planes and ships of the U. 8. Coast Guard in Southeast Alaska They were followed by boats and planes of the U. 8. Fish and Wildlife Service announcea in the and KINY of immediately no- the passengers finding of the of the two P.l’(' F. -’u ) (Continued on Page Eight )