The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 5, 1947, Page 1

Lo THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MBI R 5 I947 VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,726 _JUNEAU,. ALAbI\A Wl:DNl:Sl)A\, NOVE PRICE TEN CENTS KENTUCKY BACK IN DEMOCRATIC RANKS Charges Are Made At Alaska Rate Hearing SUNDBORG IS | " LABOR PARTY ROBINSONIS DEMOCRATS WITNESSIN LOSING HOLD NEW MAYOR ' RETURN IN TARIFF CASE INSCOTLAND IN'FRISCO KENTUCKY 'Municipal Elections Show VolersAlso Approve Large ‘Republic’afis Lose in Mis- . Continued Trend Away | Bonds - Will Refain | | sissippi-Municial EI- i from Socialism 5 Canle Car System | ections Split Even ottish ~ SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5-—# | (By The Associated Press) | z La- €an Francisco voters yest:rday | A series of party turnovers in {Lor party another jolting setback chose Judge Elmer E pmayoralty contes's and Kentucky's {in municipal elections yesterday. (Robinson as their new mayor, ap- lreturn to a Democratic administra- | "W.th resul's nearly complete, the proved $87,050900 in city improve- |tion stood out today from Tues- {Laborites had drepped a mnet of 65 ment Londs and overwhelmingly jday's off year elections. seats, losing 77 and winning twelve,authorized continued operation of | In Mississippi, where the elec- | new seat jthe bill-climbing cable cars ! on of a successor to the late Sen- |ator Theodore C. Bilbo drew na- They lost control of five coun-{ Robins defeated f h-term cils-to their oppon rely clung Congres anck R. Havenner tional attention. the apparent win- | Cites Incid;fig Aimed at Transportation Compan- ies Aided by Rivers LONDON, Nov voters handed Br n's (—Maritime Commission’s Al- rate hearing called at Territory's request ended this afterncon in the ninth day. | Attorneys given until December | 15 to fle briefs. Two examin- ers, who conducted the hearing on the interim rate increase will submit reports to ;\'larmmc iw C nd won and visor Chestr R ner as counting went on today was Commission for final rate revi- th 1 in two small cities MacPhee in the non-partisan may- Judge Jhn C. Stennis sion dec’sion. M and Selk oraity election. Complete ser Stennis, 46, who didn't stress the tuce issue on which Bilbo always compaigned, opened a lead of 4,- 000 votes over the next man in a field of five Democrats. The results continued, in a less ofiicial count gave Robinton 116 SRATILE. N A : ¢ ¢ dvastic way, the trend away from!937; Havenner 101408, and Mac- Wi b o = b Sccialism markedly demonstrated Phes 60,508 | Sundborg of the Alaska Develop- VINEYARD QUEEN — pat Tully "“‘“ her charm to | " "5 | cervative landslide in last! Punds from the 2 SEifhE s in- b rly grape harvest, | d : ment Board, testifying against in a California vineyard during the yearly grap | weeksnd’s English and Welsh bal-!largest over voted here—will fin Rank'n Runs Last terim agreement shipping rates £ § i 3 AT ns Las L S Rl for h councilmen. |effcrts to mode he city's mass Vite adiphon i yesterday likened steamship nowh- Electi o8 Scot-| transportatio: m. proyide for ran ongressman John # CEVR ¢ iy VARSI i3 A0, DIOYIC e Rankin, who had promised to “out- ariffs to “a wolf at the door ’ 8 e s e ] . Alails - Batik o bith il B everls “.,nul waa less exgiting than south, downtawn 1)JHMII‘L CERD ] 4 i ¢ S lilbo Bilbo" if elected, was run- Alasck Takiog & Wi L Ir s eur rea ur ‘Z:’ “L;U\")”‘(l r, reaching lis) poslk sieets, and _ inore e water, H RE E CENERATI o N s B Thres Habr yiabre géis ‘ning last. He did not give up his Sundborg was the ‘Territory’s | Siagpw . - B SRR erations rest at the Mamaroneck, N. Y., home of Ethel Barrymore, House seat to run for the Senate | There Laborites lost three voters decided to mother, | The mayoralty election though eep the who holds her grandson, John Drew Miglietta. Bab, ars run- Elhel Barrymore Miglietta, singer, is at right. buifeted by cross-currents of local ues, were such that both Demo- prineipal witn yesterday the seats but clung to a two-votz ma- cit antiquat Miritiing Confalsslon domplabst 1 En F) emgni 'ha' Dlamond O o RO e eighth day of its rate investigation ] ellmeh: ! administrators had proposed Ierats and. Republicans could find 1 here. | As in the English and Welsh T4-year old system in’ something to. cheer about i t s " on The inquiry s expected . to be H s {local elections, only one-third of JA¥or of modern .busscs. H . . concluded today. One of the Com- 1 e o RO | un re s o ar alnln Such things as this happened: one y i Ing us' o a( '0 |m ¥ cats were at ke S it ! Demos Oust Gopers | | t o i mission examiners, C. W. Robin- > - son, left for another hearing in Los ! i g | Democrats ousted Republicans Angeles yesterd: afternoon, leav- X ' and took contrcl of Indianapolis, e e y lentown, Pa., Niagara Falls, Pough- ;ilaska case. 2 IANYA BARB{'R perior J co Freund reached nd Schenectady, N. Y. It was scheduled to resume at i | back nearly ) years to old Ro-| i ey ::;:)‘;‘bg_";iti: A,:I::;:e?‘ c;::;:]‘:i 5. (p— C:ty hall in Waterbury, Conn, for series of charges purporting to Relations the first time since 1921 SHUTERRL High' pates Rre retards .Dvmurl‘ul.\ retained control of ing Alaska’s development. Cleveland and Republicans of Phil= He cited what he said were ac- tual instances in which prospec- tive new industries were ‘‘discour-’ aged” from sta’ting in the Terri- tory because “they knew they mulu not succeed in view of high trans portation costs. Sundborg said high shipping costs “tend to pyramid the cost of living in Alaska,” leading some Alaska merchants to use their “landed cests” as a basis for excessive price markups on vital commod | Witness Interrogated i At this point, Tra Ewers, counsel for Alaska Steamship Company and Northland Transportation Com- ans turned out Demo- ors in Hammond, Ind., en property age. i i He rul Miss Betty Sinclair, | AN(HORAGE il o WASHINGTON, ) » : ywood must re ; NEGHT HFFR The National Labor E nond ring former N 3 1 | vaved the way today for iunce, Russell O, Priebe, 46, real Given Rousing Welcome SAYS ACTRESS |incving out scores or even hun- | dreds of bargaining election cases #delphia involving unions whoss officers No Trend Indicated on't take the Taft-Hartley non- Thus there was ammunition for nist oath utisan claims trom each major On the heels of a decision to dis- party, but puzzling inconsistencies miss three petitions by unions of Icr anyone trying to discover any John L. Lewis, CIO President Phil- trend. ip Murray and the CIO Furniture At the White House, Presidential Workers, the Board began sifting Prets Seeretary Charles G. Ross, some 1900 other cases with a view first declined comment on the elec- \ere appropriate. tion results, but gave an emphatic. Just how many of these were “no" when asked if the White filed by unions which did not House was “unh.ppy” about them. comply with the non-Communist The Mississippi Senate race shar- provision will not be known until ed interest in yesterday’s off-year the Board treaches the bottom of state and municipal eclections with a pile of affidavits dumped in a return of the Kentucky governor- just befor: the deadline last Fri- ship to the Democratic fold after day ht four years of Republican rule at ter of policy, the Board Frankfort in dismissing the first three Demos In Sweep-Back ¥ it has to assume Democrats swent back into con- the Taft-Hartley Act is con- trol in this “borcer” state by eas- stitutional until the courts say jly electing U. S. Rep. Earle C. e Clements as Chief . Executive over 1 g lworkers, who filed Republican State Attorney General | one of those cases and have 21 gldoy §, Dummit and taking over scor est '.mm unless she chooses to! | . [ oy him $3600 tnstend. The udge| oy s on Arrival from Nak- BaAfs el i Ship Lands Safely on Farm nek-""Best on Trip” gagement ring was merely a sym- with Engine Afire on | i . . | ANC”OR"\(;E AI!. Nov. Training Flight lp—The round-the-world fiiers, Priebe sued to recover the ring| o | Gec rge Truman and Clifford Evans, and a $400 gold krooch and $2,890 !prepared today for the shortest But judge Freund ruled that thop of their world-girdling effort Miss Sinclair may ki miles. | e and brooch o N B The two former Army fliers, en-| oo I‘\'l‘““ e It landed in & tnyseq by their reception late yes- Wheat fleld were nursing Injuriesiterqay on arriving from the fish- | 3, kuu i hers who| €115 settlement at Naknek, Alaska, » nu\]\ml\\luf lm. others Who! anned® to fly from Elmendorf jjumped and the pilot and the co-|mo1d to Merrill Field, municipal plloc who sel the crippled DINC yirport pere, for servicing of their| ; b ;;’l‘]"e’ h‘(‘m‘“-; ':1’ ‘l‘w:_:”“‘“ arm tWo nianes. They flew the 300 miles ; g i ‘ g i T S . | Dere yesterday in their tiny Cub 5 i oL lbert J. Shower, command- | pianes in three hours, 35 minutes Th W t Tanya Barber, glamorous Penin- | ’m: officer of Spokane Army Air-(" Giuic leaders and Lieut, Gen. Na- e asnlng OI | suta hostess, hit the jackpot wrong field, where the big bomber was, than F. Twining, commanding gen- ' this time. In Oakland Superior ybased, said the ship was enroute gap of the Alaskan Armed Forces,| "0 [hnmo on a training flight from M -G -R (‘ Court she was cenvicted of selling i o seorgla, | STEcted them on thelr.e ap errY 0 oune {Warner _ Robins Fleld, ~Georgia.|the two said the reception was non-existent concessions at vari- TATER !when a motor started burning “best of the trip They will stay of troth—if the troth was bro- he ring went back to the do- b [ WILBUR, Wash, Nov. 5 | Two crew members who parachut-| D the cashy i from o burning B-20 bomber| to similar action w (Continued On Tage Two) — - i ous night spots. The short, dumpy (By The Associated Press) | ¢ A . By DRZW PEARSON aht sp & AhpH B T A Maj. D. H. Keller, Los ADNgeles. ;o pere an extra day to get a others pending, had asked the control of il f al- woman, known to the real estate ain fell over a wide section ofj ot " ang Maj. E. W. Arnold, of contrel of Louisville’s board of a 3 the country and show p L . Ol upood rest” before taking off Fri- Board to hold up until their 1aw- gey it vhest Gy B! r WASHINGTON — Army bress, and night life trade as “La Belle | 0 Ho - I:jo;l‘\’:a“““r; reported; geqgtle, co-pilot, told crew mem-|goo o aniatte Tsland, Southeast] G A A SIS Boln} ‘“;‘l"l_u‘" neumbent -lU\ imeon 2 hats are engaged ina little-known,| Silver,” was found guilty in Ala- gion and|ers 1o jump as rain and darkness| a1 cea They will attempt a non-| NN et i notyeligible: to; sucoes < mr'leh and Central Plains; . | vtaily important argument With meda County Superior Court on ' .(es today. Sjclosed in on the faltering plane g, fioht ~from there to Los| the Library of Congress over their | cight counts of grand theft, total- | Temperatures dropped to below! o r the crew had parachuted In-j 4,0, i acti i g 5 4 to rough cattle country, the plane R long practice of hushing up all | jng §26,000. She faces one to 10 | [rcezing early today In parts of| suommsy oo wrer Wibar it 1! DD R ‘ | documents — including records of | _ % Y R el e e ¥ ¥ ! Ay o vears on cach count—a sentence | Nebraska, North Dakota and Mon- oo smoking and landed. as (»MARABIAN OIL pRl(E i BN teenie et fubw 1 bt that can run from one fo 80 years, |lana and there were light falls of} lengine burst into flame. The [l s i snow in the latter two states and' .o side W dented ar i i ' even the blunders of the Civil RO | pePibem « Nevadsaud southera onLoasisiiey et jahicd - and "mln War are still classified in Army' because of a’ prier conviction. b So i propellers were smashed, but a wit- 3 . me of the cool sPots!pocc said the pilot and co-pilot files 8s “secret.” And when it| (International) Wera Sldnas “Nek i | " ol A ; . Miles City and!.yere e ! ” comes to the errors of World War | e lendive, Mont, 32; and Dickin-| 'cecy witiem “;X‘“‘kl‘“ » ’ Ex “AVAI. OFFICER‘ RENO, Nevaca — Former Actress T and World War II, brass | s 23 4 i oI bt i i il | N ows leaves 2 b u Army brass RANKIN DOESN'I‘ son, N, D, 23. C uffered 8 severe head cut | Joyce Matthews leaves courthouse i | The Kentucky governorship was and she is ineligible for probation 5 | 2 X?xlr‘.: ;\lz:::d;:cuss publication of vl“"clhi\m;?:vn M]x)\t““x:;:m;’da(l)(li'\ “::gl““*l Sgt. William Schafer receiv- WASHINGTON, Lov. 5.—@ after nIfL(in‘uN’(!l\mv...,..(n-:u.n ‘,'\vm, Senator Kilgore of West Virgin- GE'I' ONE VO'I'E QN e supoer, Missimtipl, Velley .andieq o shipder’ dilosiion in'‘para- | B E- Bodensehstx. | formen, Navy | ton Berle, yadia and stage com: gy : R Wi, b, Bl B i Lipe Cishs Jakes mpion :a\w:ud chuting. The other crew members lieutenant who helped negotiate: a, cdian, t -y s1d Mrs. Berle {1.4‘,:\[)().\, Nov. 5.—'M—Man- ATS Al' the Army to let him see its re- 16 ‘tHa Nofth ‘\'”flmll‘ ot Master Sgt. Robert C r}darks_ m. 1945 g:]n"xnmr»m 1l]l‘llllfll'lv.l()l"AI:nh- charging “mental cruclty.” She .l‘_u- er and Uz‘»:munn.un‘ two of ports on the Battle of the Bulge, 1 NEGRO SE(IION The mEX_mmv'‘_N”_dm_ L_“mbM].\‘k‘dwal Lake, Wash 3 Sgt. Paul lt.]m Cl.llllr‘\l’lnl':(v ..tA] m“\u .‘\gn-ed, serted, “He liked night life and 'm f‘,m\ lrr;ll largest cit ! which cost 60,000 American casual- - MOU} y J, Miss., Nov. 5. reached 87 ot San Antonio, for gt St o o e ; S ; g (iibliea . exdopl it B PR ties. However, the Army says no. YOE':w‘v)anfn\:?xL ;n!m R:nku,) the lupl marks on the weather map.; Seanlvng ,p‘.‘m'\ :‘(Uu“!d. e dlg;;;-ig:-l)y.x, speared before the u‘v.!") % ;x"'i ‘l(y t I”-- i "H.“w'”;“‘. ‘(““M:‘ "- R.kpml.“lfnh Bcks 3 o Simultaneously, some of the top was the only candidate in yester- Federal forécasters said da mo“ln‘l 5 \.HNM hm“.fi fieiore Senate W‘ Il”.{ (eatine °C t- F i i L 1' get “‘””““‘ s A e d-".mm “‘-“-“ B o -bt“e brass responsible for this error o 's Senatorial to get no temperatures in most sectigns »\ere"m \he ]\'\hw“:“:;“em o (t:-m,i: (-(,,‘:ll“-u’-l.\,:x \:\:::“;L\lxy:::;\,::v o’elg“ Ilms !0 “;{‘:,';f ";“;,':“:}1;,. on reservoirs fed :.’;;;:'\hm’\ d‘t‘l.i:;l:\‘|N”hfifiin.\;“;:’:; remain in places of responsibility. support at all in this all-negro expeeted to remain above normal iinto whether the Navy was chai by \dwater and both supply Democrats in special slgetiony” e essive prices for oil by the Simultaneously ulso, the Army is town ‘!Ill slightly lower than in the ]ast] o . L i 3 3 putting across a campaign for L. R. Collins, candidate of the few days Ale pas"y, Is F'red, vAmb an American Oil Company " k Be Heav.ly Taxed centers were less than one-third the 56th and 63rd Assembly dis- full due to a long summer drought tr Lipscomb piled up mllitary‘conscription under these Republican party, received one ot 3 ' RAMCO) B B "' h Gov that extended into autumn with P same officers. vote. CAA MEN HERE t Allhousand Men ol“ T.w former Naval officer v y " 's little appreciable rainfall a Letter than 2 to 1 victory to T> break this information| Forrest Jackson got a clear ma- |assistant manager of the Export — g win the seat in the 56th district strangle hold, the nation’s lead-|jority in the box with 35 votes Petitte, Allen D. Hulen, ‘ —_— Division of General Petrcleum Co LONDON, Noy. 5,—#--The House ARMY DENTIST HERF |over his Demoeratic opponent, Leo ing libraries have banded togeth-! Paul Johnson received 25, John sly. F. H. Fuqua, and A. 0 MILAN, Italy, Nov. 5—(®-Four poration, Los Angeles. The cor- of Commons has approved Tout e M. Strobel. Repubican G. Delbert Morris received more votes in the district than his two Demo- opponents, Joseph Desilv poration is a wholly owned sub- a record vote @& treasury.enabling Lt. R. W. McQuillan, dentist at sidiary of Socony-Vacuum which order imposing a. 75 percent tax F Richardson, is staying at the had obtained a 10 percent interest on forel tilms show in ( Baranof. He has been giving dental cr er with the Library of Congress Stennis four and William Colmer Johnson of the CAA in Anchorage|thousand workers in the b and hired a full-time attorney[un" are 1ezistered at the Baranof Hotel. | pastry -~ producing firm in Walter Greenwood; to work with| Jackson during his campaign had Fred G. Powell, with the CAB at Legan the fourth of a PP FHA — = e - 1mid he wanted to-lead in all pre- Anchorage, is also staying at the! called to protest the discharge of in ARMACO since the 1945 Navy Britain part of the government tiention to Army personnel at Ju- cial of the AFL Retail Clerks' Jontinu on Page Four) eineis but one—Mound Bayou. Baranof an emplovee who ate two pastrics. contract was negotiated campaign to save dollars neau and Sitka Union, and James E. Armstrong. I -