The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 11, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” -/ VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,731 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1947 RUSS DEVELOP SAMPOE ATOMIC BOMB Armistice Day Observance Led By President THEME OF ;Fashion’s Darlings Display ~ MARSHALL | BOMB MADE DAYGIVEN ' Bosoms af Grand Opening, TESTIFIES | BY SOVIETS 10 NAIlONi Metropolitan Operafeason; ABOUT PLAN - IN SIBERIA =% ‘Twelve and One-half Lb. Explosive Set Off - Ex- ~ plosion Heard 20 Miles PARIS, Nov 11.—The extreme st newspaper L'Intransigeant declared in a disnateh from Prague tcday that Pussian scientists ex- iloded a smal! sampoe atom bomb 15t June in Siveria. The copyrichted article, written by John Griges, said one 12}~ ’ - !vound bomb ot a type being made "ope Ca'. t D’.e ¢ “Atomgradh” deep in Siberta, was exploded at 10 am. June 15 near the Amvr River, not far from Trkutsk. It ! the explosion was tieard for 20 miles. Top Soviet mil- tary men were reported among a rroup of 280 officidl witnesses. The account declared that the rust test was made after the “mo- mentary disgrace” of Peter Kapitza, awward-winning Soviet nuclear sei- ntist, who was replaced by Sergel Vavilov as head of the Soviet nu- | clear research organization, known e “Service 14C." (U. 8. Sen. Brlan McMahon &11?\/18[ R 7/A\SSOCIA'I’EI)»PRI'BS PRICE TEN CENTS " = — WASHINGTON, Nov. 11-—(P—| NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—®—Bo0s- gecretary of State Marshall testi- oms attracted more attention than|gi.q today it i | that Germany’s | br last night as '-l"" Metro-| c.onomy be restored to the point politan opera opened its 63rd sea-!whore jts people can become self- son with enough 100-watt diamonds | ¢, 6iting and contribute to Eur- 11 ,‘ fll:ll‘n:vxi:?\a audience to 1):xle1(w,.\ economy. i 1e house lig The Secrets Senate Foreien Truman and Other Speak-f]uS"(E SAYS ers Take Preparedness o Daystenoe (OURT RULING By The Associated Press i i & S s res| I' V. he “New Look™ was reflected Ir mz?l‘iegzy’fi:u‘:i;;gs ::f;h‘:‘,:::‘ 2+ number of daringly low cut eve-|tee he has doubt that propa- nd women v\ghu ave their lives ning dresses that brough wolf calls #anaa m ts will be made to it - 4 g5 w| from bystanders assembled the | convince the people of Europe that for the United States in times of rom bystanders assembled in g { 7 - el i v and on the streets to watch!any such rebmilding of Germany ere ‘e ’e i hion’s darlings parade into the! threatens France and Ttaly. | 4 throughout the country marking wond horseshoe tier. | But he expre i confidence that ; thé anniversary of the end ofl There were acres of white ermine| the United States, in administering | World War One, military and civ-: enough to smowblind a careless:a rcposed lo recovery pro-, ilian leaders stressed the theme of: man—subdued only by the tawny gram will be-ahle to overcome this | dness as facts.” preparedness as a means of in- simplicity of broad expanses of ex-!“perversion of Sioioh pea‘ce | pensive mink { Marshall brenght up the question | | F . ] o As is usual in the pomp of open-'of German econcmy after he had The President arranged to lay, r s At £ I | o wreath. ‘st tha tonl T2 the. 1in. | . WASHINGTON ing night at the old the cast|told the Senators that $60,000,000 known soldier in the traditional; Justice Jackson of Verdi's gaudy “The M {in ¢id will be needed for China be- ' Armistice Day memorial services' urdity” label today Jlayed second-fiddle to the spec-fore next July i. in addition to $2 ot AZiNGbST " Natlonkl” Oametefl |- o ome Couf { in splendor for the:597,000,000 for European countries i Detachments from the Army, - farmer buying of New York's social sea-|and occupation costs. This makes a | Navy and Marines were assigned! .o . MU heop : [ total of $2.657.000000 for all foreign | ' ver nt reguiations in the 4 s aniiidbe - musiol @id Brogrs N\ T to take part in the ceremonies ,_;“‘lf“’;‘ S It was less an event for musiciaid programs U'wough the first half | & S by the Attsrignn TR | Traerel Remstes lov than' one for style fans!of 1948, the Secretary said. i boLiggr: b gION.| 1o he farmer, Jackson said, were | oo e imbitiy | G | Speakers included Secretary of ; §ue. SaERRT oo e and those who enjoy the pageantry| “It is vital that the economy of | tHe Navy ot L., Bdllivan, James: t0 Tead c‘this: oMjinghesend dull| ot Syealsh. {Germany be vestored, keeping in| of State told the Relations Commit- ! no okservances in many cities; Jackson Speéks for Su- preme Court Minority on Crop Insurance The marked graves of tens of thous- 11.—® ands of our boys—of all races, colors slapped “an ab- on a ruling by colleagues that ygors Federal crop iIn- yickoft informed on g and creeds — and the monument to the Unknown Soldier are a constant challenge to all of us to fight un- flinchingly for unending peace. as F. O'Neil, National Commander of| FuPlication it is issued from Manhattan’s aging society dOW- mind protection against its rebuilds | the American Legion, and Mrs. Lee W. Hutton of Excelsior, Minn., the national president of the Legloni Auxiliary. Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall went to Philadelphia to speak in Independence Hall; Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, Com- mander of the Occupation Army in Japan, was featured speaker in ceremonies at Cincinnati, and Rear Admiral Oswald S. Colcloughm, Judge Advocate of the Navy, spoke at Scranton, Pa. Fleet Admiral Chester W. said in an Armistice Day state- ment that a “strong, well equip-, ped Army, Navy and Air Force” is necessary to assure Americans “That the peace gained for us by the heroic sacrifice of the men and women of both World Wars is preserved in the ideals for which they fought.” Nimitz " (Continued on Page Five) STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof, from Seattle, scheduled; to arrive at 1:30 this afternoon. | Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle this morning. ! Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver 9 tonight. Square Knot scheduled from Seattle Nov. 14, Denali scheduled “ to sail from) Seattle Nov. 15. | Ring Splice scheduled to sail from Seattle Nov. 20. The Washington Merry - Go-Round; By DREW PEARSON | ! to sail) (Editor’'s note: Drew Pearson teday awards lhe brass ring, good for one free ride on the Washington Merry-Go-Round to Governor Earl Warren of California, who is accompany- him on the Friendship Train.) Abcard the Vriendship Train—If ; the Republica:. National Conven- tien, seven short months “hence runs into’a deddlogk between Sen- | ator Taft and» Governor Dewey then a lot of Republicans may want to have a careful look at the presidential possibilities of a tall, tousle-haired gentlsman who is now Governor of California, And if enonzh Republicans de- cide that the country won't go for a military man in the White House —an Eisenhower or 2 MacArthur— | then Earl Warren, by all odds, ,would be their best bet as Repub- lican candidate for President. As you get to know Warren, yo can understand why so man, Democrats voted for him in 1942— so many, in fuct, that when War- ren was asked to explain how he i tri-motored piane owned by | Wicholson and pas: time to time in order to make sure whether anything has been promul- gated that aflects his rights, he would never tor he would never plant any crops.” Jackson wrote the 5-4 decision i which Frankfurter spcke for the majoril Justice Dougles joined in Jac son’s view. W ledge dissented without writing an opinion. nkfurter’s majority ruling d the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation nced not pay $3.960 to Meirill Brothers, farming firm in Bonneville County, Idaho, be- cause the faiure of a 1945 wheat get time to dissent to a K- a Federal argued that, under Crop Insurance 1ts contract with the Merrills, sprine wheat veseeded in| 400 acres of winter wheat acreage was not eligible for insurance The court m»jority agreed with this argument and said the govern- ment’s regulation was publicly list- ed in the “Federal Register’—a caily computation of government orders and regulations. | - — - THREE ABOARD WRECKED PLANE * RESCUED QUICKLY FAIRBANKS Alaska, Nov. 11.— (#—Three men ahoard a wrecked the Northern Consclidated Airlines were | brought safely to Fairbanks within | four hours of the time their craft crash-landed in snow dunes near Nenuna after failure of two en-| zines. The swift rescue of pilot Elmer engers Billy An- | arook, Bethel, and Frank Gregory, Joly Cross, was accomplished by ! two Nenana fiiers, Al Wright and| Roy Delaney, who set their small ski-equipped planes down within 500 yards of the demolished trans- port. None of tpe trio was injured. Nicholson st'd he was unable to explan the sudden engine trouble. ! He and his two nassengers prepared | today to resume their flight to Kus- kokwim River vnolats. e —— EXCHANGES CLOSED, IT'S ARMISTICE DAY NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—#-— | commodity and security exchanges; in this country and Canada were losed today in Armistice obser- ance, marking the anniversary of he end of World War One. Lon-! don exchanges were open. i - > - HERE FROM FORT GLENN Sgt. Gilbert Mai of Fort Glenn stopping at the Gastineau Hotel Justice ' walter le Black and Rut-|Watson, the busines each Southern Division ager, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,| was absent in Hot Springs, Ark,' for the second successive year, blll‘ dreds of of note—from, Broadway to Park Avenue. There were the Duchess of Tal-, leyrand; Argentine Ambassador Oscar Ivanissevich; Mr. and Mrs. Chrysler, Jr.; Thomas J.! machine man,; Mrs. Warren; chief U. S. Nations; | Swarthout ; and Frank!| others Watson; of the and Mrs. Austin, wife delegate to the United opera singers Gladys and Dorothy Kirstes Sinatra, who also - ROBINSON LEADS HOCKEY RANKS IN SCORING, ASSISTS: By The Associated Press ! Bill Robinson of the Seattle Iron-| men, Northern Division, pace-m;\k“‘ ets in the Pacific Coast hockey| league, today leading both| sections of the circuit in scoring| and assists { The Seattle wingman picked up! points on three goals and 10 assists last weck to boost his sea-, total to 24 points—twice as San Francisco’s Joe ans, individual leader in the South- Division Ron Pickell of Seattle and George | McDermid of San Francisco had the best goal keeper average in division. Armistice Day ‘contests tonight feature Tacoma’s first visit to the Southern Diyision this season. The Rockets, second place in the Northern Division, meet the Oak- and Oaks, third place in the section. { Second-place Fresno entertains; another ‘Northern Division team, the New Westminster Royals of Canada, and Portland goes to Vancouver. Tomorrow night, Tacoma goes to San Francisco, Southern’ Divis- ion leaders. The Shamrocks have| won seven, lost two; Tacoma has won five, lost four. Other Wednesday night contests| find Oakland at Los Angeles an Portland at Seattle. | - >es - | MRS. MAUD FILKINS IS | HOUSEGUEST OF HOMER | NORDLINGS FOR MONTH son many Mrs. Maud Filkins, the sister of | Mrs. Homer Novdling, is the house-l -uest of Mr. and Mrs, Nordling. This is the f it Mrs. Fllkins[ and Mrs. Nordling have had togeth- cr for six years. Mrs. Filkins, who is from River Falls, Wis, is spend-, wsiting M in S . Nordling and another | fle, [ sent { P—Cub plane 1 ing its war potential,” Mnralm“: caic, “Germany must be made self- | supporting and akle to contribute : need crop insurance, in the Lejeweled throng were hun-'i, the econorav of Europe.” i Apparently alluding to the pre-| failure of the major Allies to agree on a mture course in Ger- many, Marshall said that “the pre sent situation coesn’t require much description.” B e (ubFliers -Arein A?rj ANCHORAGF, Alaska, Nov. 11.— Clifford Evans an_took off from this . forenoon on lev of the round- the-world flicht which will carry them to Edmonton, thence into continental United States. The fliers were to go to Fair-| panks, thence down the Alaska ' Highway to Whitehorse for a sec- ond refueling stop. The fliers face low ceilings with falling snow and temperatures vanging from 25 degrees above to zero. "SiG" PAULSON | 1S FOUND DEAD. bt 1 FATRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 11.—(®), The body of Sigurd (Sig) Paul- son, 75, pioneer Alaska pro.pcv.'h.r; and George mendorf Fic'd e 1,500 mile {and discoverer of the famed Good-, | new Bay properties, was found Sun- day in his hoted room, where he! had been living since his health' began to fail several months -ago.| Dr. Paul B. Haggland, examining!} physician, said Paulson’s death| apparently was due to natural| CAUSES. ! Born in Aalsund, Norway, Paul {son worked in Australia and Brit-| | h Columbia as a miner and fish-| erman before joining the Klondike| |stampede in 1898. He operated the minutes after Dr | roadhouse Ophir in the Kuskflkwun‘l,‘)_ch.,m.m“n area for many years and was d‘mcmber of the Ophir Igloo, Pio- the audience for cont neers of Alaska { Funeral arrangements will be, completed on the arrival of his widow, Mrs. Marion Paulson, from' San Francisco. H - | ACIRESSRITA | GETS DIVORCE » has LOS ANGFELES, Nov. 11. Rita Hayworth wen a divorce from Orson Welles after testifyivz that her actor-di-| rector husbard did not want o S Iing the winter on the west coast,! make a home for her. The decree in the United States deal in motor was awarded in Superior Court in a briei hearine SUSPICIOUSLY FROM ABROAD Decision Must Be Made, 'WaIIace’Uarges Relief - ' came This anniversary of one war’s ending becomes even more gnificant when we also think in terms of the war which followed it. For each war is always bigger and more tragic than the last. We can create no more fitting memorial to all our war dead than the preservation of this world as a peaceful world in which their survivors can live in security. US. IS VIEWED'LAFOLLETTE, 8, MAY BE HEAD OF i However, Regarding Aid Agency WASHINGTON. Nov. 1l—(#— The nume of Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., figured prominently in specu- laticn today as the possible Direc- tor of this conntr projected mul- ?“1»" t_‘he 105“‘“’1‘_’5:‘"‘3"‘ of an b yi-billion dollns European aid pro- ernational relie! agency could oram clear the United S Oh Walaun- " 3 o apors s s Fioians d“'“;‘ ‘;h'g; ”"; :;,’“l‘l‘;f rhoice of personalities, however is viewed abroad, ary - a pe 3 3 & ) must be decided whether the last night. told an overflow crowd ..peq Marshall Plan is to be car- “r,_g&gte‘;“?y;:)wfi:’fi::; of dis. 1ied out by a nefy independnt agen- £ ; e 5 O @571 ey as pictured by President Tru- ki “‘ [trll‘e ,f“‘l‘]‘]“f“"h XF:ZB;"“‘/IZ}". man's Citizens Committee or under ;x,e‘_:de'l“;"f:nd‘?zabmm o er. saiq | direct control of the State Depart- . a p in his speech delivered under the ™' In favoring the new agency 8| sorshi e Progressive Citi- SR suknininn alituad ed by Secretary of Commerce Har- i ¢ Fimk sal that the director “International administration of /fimen Propose’ that 'Ae : relief could clear us of such charg- &1d board chairman bt wien vast s. It could lay the foundation POWers and vetpous 7 e decisive voice for genuine reconstruction ‘of En-| He would have the deck ice ropean economy.” on vital day-to-day decisions on His talk was the use of dollars, food and goods as weapons agrinst Communist ex- pansion—the “cold war” which the committee denounced as a ruth- less “drive to achieve world dom- ination.” For a first year starter th¢ Har- riman group said this country should plan to spend $3,750,000,000, including upwards of $3,000,000,000 in food and fuel grants that would not be repaid - > > HERE FROM SPOKANE Agency fo Allay Dis- | frust of America | PITTSBURGH,. Nov 11.—P- Producers Dropped WASHINGTON, Nov. Ep-aker Martin (R-Mass) der consicderation that he throw 11. uny it 50- can out contempt ducers Martin and Leste: Popper of M. Levin of New counsel for the ten men, the request during a one private hearing granted them the House Speaker. The contempt action Yo were men either refused to answer, gave what the committee ered unsatisfactory answers questions whether they were delivered a few Frank Kingdon, of the Progressive America, appealed to tutions from want to see Henry elected President.” Donations estimated at $5,000 in all were gathered but Wallace, who entered the auditorium while the fund collection” was in progress, took no part in the appeal and made no mention of being a Pres- idential candidate - - DOC WALKER HERE Territorial tenator Doc Walker to Juncau yesterday from Ketchikan and left for home via Coastal Airlines this morning. - - About 534,600 business bers. The ten were called as in the committee’s inquiry Communism in Hollywood Under usual procedure Congress is not in session, tempt recommendations from committee of the House go the Speaker who turns them to the U. 8. District Attorney prosecution If Congress is session, the recommendations put before the House for a Aviuments and Levin Citizens of “people who A. Wallace Popper argued Mr. and Mrs. Al J. Sartori of v 3 Martin 3pokane are staying at the Baran- 1. That : of. They atterded the Alaska Moose ¢ o "y 0" June ""“"4"“‘1"‘1”‘“- recommendations 70 0L R Attorney FROM KETCHIKAN ¥ Joseph A. Durgin and Mrs. J Talbot of Ketchikan registered the Baranof yesterday. should the to simply the concerns L ten vehicles or motor 3 bicles, for ve- services X = i (Continued on Page PFive) DISMISSAL OF europe proGraM CONTEMPTS IS SOUGHT NOW Want Adioih Against Hol- lywood Actors, Writers, . took un- today a request !N€ of | Wood Product Consress moves against 10 Holly- he was its head until his retirement wood writers, directors and pro- thiree year hour by, Mrs ini- 1y tiated by the House Committee on brothers, Edwird J. Shith, Port- Un-American Activities because the| land or!land, Neb., ar consid- to ‘Thursday. or/| have been Communist party mem- when con- a to over tor Alaska in are more vote, to committee’s District They contended he has power to do that and thus, in ef-| fect, squelch the moves against the; !tD=Conn, former head of the Sen- Late-House Atomic Energy Commis- sien, declared Jen. 27 he suspected Russta caveloping an atomic fission plan' bevond the Ural Mountains. He cited at the time a news report from the Soviet Unilon that Kapitza had been sent to Si- heria as punishment for some crime. McMahon sald it “seems obvious to me that a mcre hkely explanation » that Kapitza is now busily at vork behind tne Urals construct- !ing an atomic fission plant.”) * dismatch quoted as auth- information transmitted from w” to “confidential sources.” said he told Russian scientists consider the Soviet Union “five years bchind America” in de- velopment of production belt meth- ority — eee o | 'ALASKA PIONEER IS DEAD, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Nov 11—(®—Henry Somers Smith, Alaska pioneer and | later president nf Coast Wood Pro- ducts Comps in Seattle, died Mcnday after a long illness. He was 7. . Mrs. Smith was born in Mon- wmouth, Il He went to Alaska in ;298 and was in business in Fair- banks and in Dawson, Y. T, for years. Founding the Coast Company in Seattle, aso. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Washington Lenore Kirn Smith, at the family ~'home, made Smith, Los Angeles and Mrs. Gene two dwughters, Lenore C. A Graves, ‘Tokyo; three sisters, Owen Kelly Kirkwood, IlL; Herbert Gridley and Mrs, Har- er, botr of Villisca, Ia.; two Mus, and Menroe Smith, Grand Is- two granddaughters. Funeral sovvires will be held > — 200 Earth Shocks witnesses o [n Tanana Valley Since August 5 FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 11.— A publication by the University of has disclosed Alaska’s a Valley has been shaken by than 200 earthquakes since August 5. The student newspaper, Farthest-North Collegian, says the tremors were specially heavy in mid-October when they damaged the Alaska railroad and shattered ice in frozen rivers. The Collegian says the affected areas are in what is known as the “Tanana Fault Zone.” However, it adds that violent shocks are a \thing of the past because accumu- lated stresses are nearly in equili- |irtum Tana,