The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 4, 1947, Page 1

{ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,725 : JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUhSDA\.NO\P]BH{4 Nl\u»l?Ab%XlATH)PRlS\ : PRK};TENCENTS ARNOLD TESTIFIES AT RATE HEARING John Winant Sends Bullet Into His Head SINGLE SHOI Declares MacArthur Plans HARRY RACE Marshall Receives Freedom Award ASI DIRECTOR ENDS LIFE OF Triumphal Returnfo U.S. LEADS TRIP, | GIVES VIEWS, FORMER AMB. In Spring fo Capfure GOP = (RASH SCENE | iRME HEARING Suicide Is Beadiiasad by Prendenhal NomlnalloniKekhlkan Man fo Bring| Declares Much Alaska | Medical Examiner-Had — g OUfA?ngY ISIL ::epr:am | Buillntes?J l?engDlve;t- Been in lll-health (UB FHERS : g B : e ' ed fo Prince Ruper altimore Sun today | ¢ | eneral Douglas MacArthur! gETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 4 ming “a triumphal return to g Harry Race, Ketchikan drug- CONCORD, N. H. Nov. 4—@ Is ple v John G. Winant, 58, former Amba: | United States” next spring t0 fgigt led a civilian party of six up sador to the Court of St. James. apture the Republican nomina- mamgas Mcuntain today to bring | |‘““ for President in 1948. |the body of Capt. Alf N. Monsen committed suicide last night by # The story was written by Robert iy Ketchikan. is a longtime friend -of :husu‘;ll;i lf‘,’,r?;e”:“:’,‘nu:‘e 13151?“1‘?[:2]: | B. Cochrane, former chief of the a long i ¢ Belgium pistol. | Sunpapers Tokyo Bureau en, body was one of | His private secretary, J. Bertard | It said: “Private advices fromthe first dug from the snow. A Teulon, said in a statement issued W | Tokyo received wd'f:\ -\:\.;h A‘Hml.\ second civilian party of five, led iy, ke 5 = that General Douglas MacArthur by Dick Borch, veteran outdoor: :\B,,l:} (,‘,f’f";‘,f“::.‘_,‘T,‘;fi‘i'i;‘”}ufx‘,‘“‘:”‘fi“‘Wea!her For(es Truman, | will be a candidate for the Rv])ub-’nmn, will scale the peak today at lican nomination for Pre in | the request of Robert Cliftcn, postal ‘The man- director of Alaska Salmon In- | dustry, Inc, declared at the Alaska | shipping rate hearing here yester- an increasing flow of the | industry’s traffic is being diverted | through United States - financed 1[7( rt facilities at Prince Rupert, B c | Indicating surprise at the testi- {mony by A. 8. I. Managing Director !W. C. Aronld, one of the Maritime | Commission examiners, C. W. Rob- the bedroom where his body was | discovered. The ctner, a 32 German Evans fo Turn Back o 10s inspector, (o brin out cight or nine | ingon, asked: 74 HiA at Mac- | sacks : cau maj Luger, apparently had been thrown . It is definitely known that Mac- | P o! Leha and Junea ; Do you mean that the United against the wall when he couldn’t nghi fo Afl(h0fage Arthur plans his retwrn . . in | left on the mountain under a tarp. | States government spent $75.000,000 find ammunition s 1or M | Mes '“‘"‘”]" e ““l’"'“ "‘.”': ‘on a Canadian port” during the Teulon said thet Winant had not BULLETIN — Anchorage, Al- e story said this “is an open j Personnel 1|‘f‘, ‘1‘“ “f‘ l:‘f”f‘j ;']‘“ | war? been I good e sioce ths sum: asks, Nov. A—P—The ownd. secrct n the Jupanesecuplal| R viriully stalemted by e T s i s mer, but that he had continued thc-World fliers, George Tru- and the “main topic ol conversa n:“ ‘-’ ]‘“ ]"‘ ;‘ days’ efforts to bribg 1 Divert to Prince Rupert work on his memoirs, even com- ~—man and Clifford Evans left across occupation dinner tables. "“U “bf )(;‘““’ ke R | *“To avoid paying the high freight pleting a section of the second vol-| Naknek at 12:05 p.m. (PST) However, taboo has been placed| —=° (“(;”:; 1”“ tor g 'il |rates to Seattle” he said, “much ume yesterday. teday on a 300-mile flight to against such discussicns within 2\:‘:1 "Q'.l"‘f.’“\v \:jl.\‘\lv“,\h(.v"b“,‘,“.,,‘.,; traffic from the Ketchikan area is Dipl Unoonesiony Aushamis add ho bnp, ekt S “l‘,(, f most Allled newsmen,”; ) ctte Field and cancel a formal {being diverted through Prince Rup- He. ate, Junchs,Jowmmalis, - tut, blance. SIp eXUNEEL feoamite, b . | the erew of |InGUITY. A Coast Guard plane drop- Secretary of State George C. Marshall (Ieft) receives the annual Freedom Award of Freedom House from | ert the western terminus of the had dmno]x selv;‘d lmi.hls r.ntf;n. lNo here about 3 p.m. 1. (‘;,,’“":,‘,‘: ;\‘n m«“;;(lnp-‘nH ;,m,‘nd another 3,000 feet of rope . Buruch right), last year's recipient, at a dinner at the Hotel Commodore in New York, At {Canadian National Railway. ::51 ifi“diél::“arl;'eéo :).:::‘e)a‘bosr ::11 5% aleitelt To” vetih, $9. Whts ;(,..,,‘x‘vl"“"“ supplies to the mountain Harry D. Gideonse, President of Freedom House which was observing its sixth anniversary | “l Is. as L"hrfl‘-m- l:, ‘l\flt C;:‘::: s 3 ., E ‘ ot E : s onch: who foaled = ship east from Prince rt, hour after the diplomat had fireq| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 48 poymanently next spring and that| :1;0 m_dkfl‘l‘_,:m"\d ?"X'(‘lh)'“‘::’:"l L M Photo. {rather than from Seabtle.” the fatal shot info his head. He dia A Sudden worsening of the MacArthur’s pilot, Elmer ‘Red’ Mc-' 10" B0 B ied over a half S 545, R P £ i e | The week-long hearing, over last forced round-the-world fliers George pyide, has aiready sold his automo- Truman and Clificrd Evans to turn pie Alli eWADRDEr OOrTes- back late yesterday to Naknek, s ";l“:d ik b g “X’“l (found a half mile from the ? pondent with delivery set for April | .0 They said" the > Was ; L Isummer's per cent interim rate | (omm n ! !increase was expected to 2nd today. Dr. James W. Jameson was admin- 1 Another witness late yesterday where they had taken off at 4:09 Skvo's’ latbars ais: MacATihrirs | | believed istering to him. gascling went nb i s aul® eaclosiarn the steamship lines to the Mre. Winant, who was notified in | P4 (PST) for Anchorage. delay in retwning to the United{pue that impact of hitting the ! { Territory of “wasteful competition.” New York of his death, arrived at| 1€ brief announcement that the gigtes, like other war commanders |pouitain was responsible for scat- EI.E(TIONS | In(ome Tax | ASK MORE IThe witness for the Territory, Don- Concord airport in a state of col- (W0 Cub plane pilots were return- who were feted in parades and |yering plane lmlf: Bemohors nid i | jald J. O’Connor, Washington, D. C., lapse in a chartered plane early NS to Naknek, at the base of the pypjic ceremonies shortly after the | there was little chance of any bodies conomist, accused the lines of mak- today. She went immediately to the | Alaska Penminsula, was made by way ended, was dictated deliberately | reqching Annetie Wednesday. t » m\; extra voyages when the same family home. {Army authorities at Elmendorf ,, , master-strategy which had the | i i e u( Ions | amount of cargo could be carried on Proncunced Suicide | Field about the time they were eX- Republican nomination as its goal mu - rips. Medical referee’ Clarence E. But- ! pn-c}« d. to um\c_h- re. “MacArthur, they say 00 fine | { He said that in some Jvessels terfield pronounced Winant a sui- | l\“‘“ 'wbl"d‘j:\ of mnr.(-:;lgn encoun- 4 tactician to allow any bration | o i = U ‘w)]hu, ly>!:(~cu S(-l.u(lv and Ahwkr; cide and said he had shot himself ''¢d by Truman an Vans Were of nis Pacific victories to be wa sted | IR s A : | WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 —ia were loaded to only 17 per cent of while alonte in a bedroom of one or‘c':“u”"? “(‘ ““" Army "?1:‘1’:“ Out- jn a non-election year M|55|55|PD| (:hOOS"lg Sen' {majority of a rni'mln advisory Experis Be ' IefveN nlonS’L.l!“‘:L‘ll.\' rx\um --mv:n‘-r mm;ml“l';’“"i his sons. A single shot had been |Sid€ the fac poor weather pre- 3 i committee on taxatlon recom- !make such a practice prohibitive. tiseil from (hs PeiBad o vented them irom completing their ! { ator‘Kemu(ky GOVEINOr |foneq tosy s reduction tn tn- Won't Aim for New i Scheduled Service 300-mile three-hour Naknek-Ai- DECLINES TO COMMENT | | Arnold responded’ that “reduced & Bl i . . dividual income tax rates for all, H > . Notification _went to two son S ) Other Voting in States Sin “due resara for the cost of Wage Increases oo, o hervies wouldity affeet not regain consciousness, passing | away while his personal physician, mile area and a woman’s pur John, Jr., of Princeton, N. J, and | chorase hop TOKYO, No i u Rivington, a student at Oxford,! s R i acArthur declined comment to- | i living of those in the lower income WAL o d i [the salmon industry. The lifeblood England, and a daughter, Mrs. Car- | ddy on a Baltimore Sun story which | (By The Associaied Press) jeroups.” _WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—UP—[of Alaska depends on scheduled los de Velando of Lima, Peru. | said he would seek’the Republican i MikdIsippI VOLERe T RoGNE. ok atie But Matthew Woll, AFL official Some Labor 501-"‘“1!\'i'xlfl‘”-* 1““k!| service. Tramp l:'ervme would drive i : | { at: eside Xt year i §ersiighooas. B saip- abor ber of the 10-man for unicns to -oncentrate on old|Alaska into bankruptey.” Miss Irene Mason, secretary to the nomination for President next year , e TR A T Sl and labor mem] : ) i 4 In refusing to.comment the Gen- 7ORK, Nov A— The cessor to the late Senator Theodore g)oy;, took exception to the age pensions and similar venefits| Discussing the trend toward thr.ce-governor of New Hampshire, of the U. S A”m trans- G eral adnered to his policy of si Bilbo, and tae border state of " e hird o ot * 3 offi i % tecommendations. vather than a third round of post-|Prince Rupert shipping by the in- told officials he had been suffering . 5 3 iport Charles A. Stafford radioed Kentucky decides a hard fought Ty majority of nine and Woll war wage hoosts when current on-) dustre: AHETE SR “mental and physical fatigue,” lence on recurring reports that he'po. Ty T mer T os braved smlioes et iy S e majority o : 1 war we t { dustry, £ 3 ’ o ! ool G o iyl 3 campaign for governor in today’s filed separate reports with the tracts come up for renewal | “The industr 's cannery tenders might bid 1or Presidential office WOUE AR Orol aATRAR iald 1 Tn' addition. Ol Goeatieer strong winds in a lifeboat to res- two major off year elections House Ways and Means Commit-. Most of the big contracts won't{are good towboats. With war sur- the Winant home, said he “seemed 1 addition, Col. R. McCormick, ‘oo the 31-man crew of the Portu- F he: selection of three U.ly & . . iy ¥ -y das T n ! " P, ‘where, selection ! ce which created the study group, expire until after wua 1. In|plus s being sold for a fraction to be in low spirit: | publisher of the Chicago Tribune, igyece - schooner Maria Carlota, S P GRS SortTi i sariplag 3 { g z oL ;- 8 ; I8 E A 6 b , S. Representatives to fill vacancies headed by Roswell Magill, former the meantime, the session of Con-jof their original cost, canners are Hear No Shot here cn a tour of the Orient, told a ,““Lh sent an SOS last night re- ¥: 2 | S ‘ 3 Th A iy i Nbath " | reporter the Presidential subject | 5 8 n New York, Indiana and Ohlo unders of the Treasury, gress starting November 17 will beusing them to tew an increasing ey said iHayaREatAMng Bhot but A . jporting it was sinking in mid- shared interest with scores of races Neither report was immediately asked by President Truman to doamount of canned salmon to Prince were attracted by the thump of was not discussed during his recent | atlantic. for city, county and state offices. m public in full omethir 1bout rising prices. ‘uu;m for trans: mpuwm thus bod; ——— conference with the Allied Supreme | he 250 , " 3 = A 2 o VAIANY L Jo8 2 MOk 3 ab S| 2 e Winant's ly. £ E | The message from Capt. Gunnar politicians generally said little - What Cc s does—or does not |avoiding paylng freight charges on Winant returned to private life | Cemmander, {Van Rosen of Brooklyn, master could he expected to develop in the Aoi—ch last December when he asked Pres- MecCormick, who previously had of the Stafford, said his crewmen .. B Lxiaal S e ¢ that score 1s certain to have | Alaskan ships.” on the forthcoming la- | Arnold challenged earlier testi- ment negotiations. Both | mony that the canning industry i (f‘ontlnued 0n —age Two) | m Statemem_lssues lr:t"(:‘l)(“l‘bltl‘c :llllll‘d::)}::[ £ ‘dxdla:: hl:; :‘l:: take ]un the crew of the stricken However, injection of the Taft- i ' the AFL and CIO are protesting|was in a favored rate position en R e Pl publican ticket, s : vessel. Haktiey © obui Tl Sie ¥ it el 10 M lliON "ONS Sitiopa : “ | rigiee) # 4 e fartley Labor Law as an issue a jitterly asainst soaring living costs, |the Alaska shipping routes. Th W i t [ Are Set Forth n}ncxfl::Q tl.:uml-] O:l‘ :xlll?l lzllacAl Van Rosen said the three-masted g interest to the Kentucky guber- W but thu the top leadership ap-| He said northbound salmon in- e asnlng OIl it 1l phurgidnot IR R schooner Was set afire by the de-|,atorial race beiween Rep, Earle pears to have accepted the view | dustry freight rates were increased | | | parting crew. His message Was re- - clements, Democrat, and Sta that ancther pay rise would only b,.!mm 35 to 50 per cent last spring. jceived at the New York Port of Ayiorney General Eldon S, Dum- . more tlationars ,uml southbound rates were increas- Merry_Go_Roun | WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—& b e 3 ) i 4 = |The United States, in a new for- FAIRBANKS MM Embarkation. mit, Republican i s So for the present most unions |€d in excess of 50 per cent. He said eign policy statement, bluntly ac- - ~.-— Has Union Backing WASHINGTON Moy el Aril seem to have decided to apply pres- they now 65 to 70 per cent above ON CHRISTMAS TRIP ! The world’s supplies of bread cer- ih b e ath <o catfowie: 40 GRAMIUN " mabe, NAMED Io HI “ The ME Prigiiit pirktie Biah and | i T wAg.YOted ARRtiat the cals are 10000000 tons short of Sure on Congress for action ““] the pro-war oue ate in_efforts to establish peace. | votidnite” Bervine CraBad - icwm )“‘_:. Taft-Hartley Act, ran with union' & 500 0 4 to maintain Prices as the best way to hold th - WASHINGTON — This columnist| The document, which sets forth ) ie l“‘ o e om RNEreé p.cking. At the last minute Sen- o atinia. i o . B,,.‘, Orr,| €conomic, ground. The CIO .uml has just received a letter from Ro- | nation’s position on postwar vo DEPT JoB pst: pight-enroute o, the WAL cega acley \ (D)), I Banate: minority | RECSERY TRUORE RIEESAT H0VE ' out yester wita an appeal to Au[ o T K kert W. Stratton, 3509 Almeda road, problems, declares: i . Islands with Christmas supplies. | gy’ aceq n whirlwind cam-|OiTector-general of. the food andl . "5 Ll bl ot 1T vt b : [irtie Penguin. srbived ieve Gukiday B ; cam- . ulture organization of the Uni-|€ity and state industrial union| : 1—Russia is to blame for the —_ i . +baign on behalf of his party col- X councils to ask Congress members ' “When, you receive this letter, I|tailure of the United Nations “to .’ . night with 'Milton (J. Purness, Br. | ,ge bt s B, Mony for restorat f pri t : u M § BRI . DU SN e : s or restoration of price controls, | litias Ly |fa .3 ons fF as its only passenger. He had been | "t o willie Reou .| “The situation” he said, “can ) ' U e GBB - enting il 1 ro. |2 e trulis o peace and Vielerans of Foreign Wars |, " e weers Vacucion to.the |, Simech S, Wills Republican €0v- , ey “only by an increabein, atioting of some it . aio- D I State: e e Bniad by i3 LY 4 ota orld foc roduction. The CAtious of scarce supplies i ceived by any columnist, ‘some of 2_The soviets have failed to, |gkes Lead for Better |5 o |four years ago, was not eligible to :“‘f :‘"“t\’,u_h’" R ol | Te ‘AL Nk shtl 1t wants Con- it containing crank warnings and make good on wartime commit-| STUART IN TOWN | T okt onie. malnlv from the recLgress to erdek down on “mono-| NEw FORK: Novi ¢o .t ideas which are ignored. But be- ments for the demilitarization and, - [@ff. Hos ||a||zahon 4 p P { To replace Bilio in the Senate, R o, e e Jnoliend whidtd Tt Waaeitions Ex- il 0% 4o o R PR S R S T e e W. T. Stuart of Ketchikan is re- habilitation and agriculture in the ko S X7 INew York Stock and Curb Ex- tained interesting information about | 3-The USSR is mainly interest-! sl F Gt % ;Nu'vd at the Gastineau Hotel. ' lC()"“n“.rd on Page Three) ‘:'::Aj—fll>\‘.|\'.“1v'rl ;‘v‘l“:‘\‘uh;’(‘l(dl ({:;t}u: {(Continusd .On Page. Two) changes, (?Allllill Market "f'd other a famous Wadbington lobbyist, Ied in getting “maximum repara-| ray S. ’nlh, ur ‘airbanks, wa; he expansion of the u velog FEp commodity exchanges here closed ielected Department Junior Vice- ed countries today. election day, but grain and telephoned to Houston to see whe- |tions” from Germany and in set- i { Commander of the Veterans of{ |. Sir John explained that be- a e M s o e oty 5 oo g o0 om0 v ) A apiea) leg"m fo Back o bVl e 5 STEAMER MOVEMENTS He had. The Houston papers car-| These and similar charges, most|ii8 of the Alaska Department ‘(:(;‘,{ especlally in Europe, “:,4,;,7', ; ried a nctation that Robert W. of them previously aired by gov- Council of Administration. Tilly, . . - R .15:;,3»0,000 m?i ml’»nu(u‘v xx:'. - S Stratton was found dead, a 48 re- |ornment leaders, are summed up,¥ho is Commander of. the Golden| u I l 10s8 o Stevest o decresse i volver by his side. lin a statement entitled "aspecs‘H""” Post, VFW, at Fairbanks, wu{ p o Im' nves lga Ion’ oread v.md cereal umthr compar- The rest of this unhappy story of current American foreign pol succeed John Ryan, formerly of “_‘ \-x:l.x ;u.ooo.oun tons _estimat d! Jumper Hitch, scheduled to sail e pertains to John Monroe, famous as |issued yesterday. Fifty thousand Sitka, who has left the Tewritory, the Geneva FAO conference in'fom Seattle Nov. 6 for Ketchikan,| James Derranback and A. W. the lobbyist in the red house on R copics are being prepared for pub-| In order to secure better hospi- Hu"ywood (ommunlsls Beptembes, Juneau and Sewa | Weods of Tulsequah, B. C., are i 9 . — Baranof schedule Street. Three years ago this col-jlic distribution. | talization facilities in the Territo to sail fromlstopping at the Gastineau. | SEATTLE GUES Seattle November 8 umn exposed Monroe’s lobbying—! “A basic aim of the United: the Council.also authorized Depart- | | i how he entertained the Jate Secte. |States,” the report says, “is to Mment Commander Harold E. Mayo,| MANCHESTER, N. H. Nov. 4—# N Alaska scheduled to sail from| HERE FROM SITKA tary of the Navy Frank Knox, Sen- press for the necessary treaty 0f Douglas, to appoint a committee| —James E. O'Neil, National Com- He said in a broadcast over ABC' The following Vi ttle Nov. 11. korik of Sitka is stopping livestock markets in Chicago and the cotton market in New Orleans were open, as well as grain mar- Sword Knot scheduled |kets throughout the country attle at 7 vnl'v('ki I augie- s FROM POLARIS TAKU MINE itors from Se- Se; ators Brewster of Maine, Austin of |settlements which will permit the 'J take the lead in a campalgn with | mander of the American Legior st night that the Legion favors attle are registered at the Baranof Princess Louise scheduled to ar > Gastineau. Vermont, Chavez of Mew Mexico, |Withdrawal of occupation troops. that Dbjective. ; {says the organization will “battle outlawing the Communist Party in Thomas L. McNeuso, William Traf- rive from Skagway Thursday - | to the limit any effort aimed at ./ ton, Herb Lawrence, Albert Stew- am. sailing south one hour together with high-ranking Army-|from Germany, Austria, Korea and| The Council concluded its bus Navy officers; also how he was a|Japan and enable all nations of ness vesterday .and the members | dissolving” the House Committee — __lthe world to return as soon as departed for their homes through-'investigating Communism in Holly- (Continued on Pmc Four) possible to a peacetime basis,” i““‘ the Territory. wood, in-American Activities this country and stu sehind the House Com nds “resolutely t 9 am, { B Colette und W. Draper of San from west, scheduled Francisco are staying at the Gas- ind Sunday, tinesu with the A. J. Heinz Co., and Kuhn, new chef at the, Da 101 outhb