The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 12, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” jU\hAU ALASKA, WhDN[-SD AY, NOVEMBER 12, 1947 — 10,731 PRICE TEN CENTS A—— VOL. LXVIL, NO. TRUMAN TO DELIVER MESSAGE IN PERSON Big Southeast Alaska Timber Sale Reported HUGHES TAKES Two Verisons on Reporled SEVERE SWAT AtomicBomb Test Made by Russia in June in Siberia By ELTON C Kake, Kasaan aan Sell Out fo N. Y. Corporafion for 20 Million Dellars Is (Iaim AT WILLIAMS Hollywood Newlyweds WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—®—| 110 At bie protits By MEL PQST FAY Disslobiine SHAT: tyn. RIadkan: No-| oot ‘::ilu,:‘,l,lllm\hm el Dedares Senaior Ne&dlmg PARIS, Nov. 12—M—The Lon- WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—® tive villages have sold their claim- Plans Not Disclosed | ' GIR 'oc I don correspondent of the news- Many of the strange dispatches and o Himber g oh Tongnss Na-| igvs Beoeeis aid the eentracting) IIETBYRBYBHUCTO LOI- ghjee Autore wrole today the} 48 thunderous _speeches about _ tom tional Forest lands—lands which 5 rlose < ans ain ritish military circles, with bombs coming out of rope strikes B e e, company has ot disclosed its plavs | |oct Tgx NOt DUE. |whom ne claimed close contact, haa ofticiu Wasbington as_primasily poses to offer at auction Feb. 18— hateq it would cost $30,000,000 or information which made them pluc‘v Russian-inspired fishing expeditions Wik mads tofthy "by bhe ‘National|gsssono o' to estabiieh a. goutheast, WASHINGTON, “Nov. . l2--UR- ctedence dn anpther Faris bapitl 190 military information. Congress of American Indians. Alaska pulp timber plant on a com- | Howard Hughes yesterday accused X'PDUI” yesterday of a VSu\wl»;m‘m\ Nl\ involved “Pv“ informed au- The rights were purchased by the ynercially profitable scale. i Senate investigators of putting Isu'mu '"\[A last June 15 in Siberia. thorities said privately («»flu_\ is Timber Development Corporation of M Bronson said other Indian ‘Pressure” on Federal tax officials| The correspondent, J. R. Pech- propaganda, intended for lnml\. New York for $20,000,000 and the'yuiicinalities in Alaska are nego- [0 Assess about $6,000000 in add:- eral, asserted that his sources re- Russian consumption as well as for firm will, according to Mrs. Ruth | giating asreements similar to those ticnal taxes against him j garded ”_‘" story, which appeared the “cold war of nerves £ M. Bronson, secretary of the con-|.f Kake and Kasaan. There are 11 Bi the California movie I‘n the evening LInervm.\xum\m, as Terming the fishing le “ml,‘m gres tart logging up there right | yillages in the area, but the Inter- producer and plane designer mmi something practically certain. ;lfhl .Hundl)\' in 'nnp}m .m1 m: away. jor Department has ruled on the!the Senate committee inquiring into! Their attitude, Pecheral, con- S€NCe “.1"' o authorities sald 1t Lyle F. Watts, Chief of the U. S. pjghts of only three 'his wartime plane contracts that trasted sharply with “the ~kvpm-‘“‘2"' ke ‘»"\1 Wb o A Forest Service, said he had not Ruling By Ickes Senator Williams (R-Del) has said'ism of scientific circles in Great ; | Do ulsl b Mr-‘k"'\(| at 'A-\‘ u":; been infermed of the sale, but add- D'Arcy McNickle, attorney for the publicly the Commissioner of In- Britain” with which, he declared, W m‘-"g:l ,)( le e x'"ll)"u)n» \l\“r_ ed, “we will oppose it.” Office of Indian Affairs, said for- ' ternal Revenue has recommended 'the military sources were obliged :"‘“\*D"\g s r:‘\:\a»n u|m n xi -(nx;n.'v Watts said he has never heard mer Secretary of the Interior Ickes: the tax be ass [to_associate themselves publicly, | LB8: TUe EE S 12 KEL L0 MR ot the Timber: Development COr-|ruled 4n 1045, that the nelghbaring| That is nob true, Willlams de-j L'durore = go-De Gl SRR into circulation and then see oratio u”fl;(\l H\l“mu:\ S H\'d;lbm'::"l‘“‘“"' | published es last July insist- Whether it is deniec. or confirmed. Mrs, Bronsoh, said the concern’sand Kiawock owned slightly less| Looking straight at Willlams, he;ing that Russia had the atomic p ihe published SO New York representative is Henry | {nan 300,000 acres in the are added [ & firmation by any official of another Cohen. In New York Cohen could|c; 3,000,000 which they had claim-| “No doubt under your needling: Pecheral located the Siberian fac- pyyer the rumor-planter hopes to not be reached for comment ed by 1ight of aboriginal use and :he is going to act and is going to tory city of “Atomgrad, v’""““‘_’"e‘l glean some information | Forest Service To F'ght SholisAcy itry to collect the tax.’ 0 l’;‘l"’"“”("’:‘l““* sta! ““fh‘d In the case of the A-bomb, for The Forest Service chief said the «he Alaskan Indians wired Se Hughes erted the tax matter |25 beng at Oul )[‘)f;’ it o {‘i"‘ instance, Russia would like to [ Department will not permit cut- yetary of the Interior Krug a month hever should have been brought, :::.I ,l"[ \\K:K}: i (':‘:\ir:-:lilf‘x‘x:u::,tt - | ting or sale of timber outside the, ag that they intended to go ahead 'into the committee’s inquiry Into Jote S PRI pawRsE | 1. How much the United States k8 provisions of the Tongass Timber with the sale,” McNickle said {his $40000000 of wartime plane EHES L ad been KrOWs amout Russian progress or' 3 Act which stipulates that all re-| «The department wired back ask- | contracts. He said it was not rele- (\-\a"fle19'1 h:' S veitizatibu Uit lack of progress toward producing | ceipts from such sales, as contract-|ing them to withhold action while“""‘ , and he deglared: f taken in Germany to determine the ¥ atom bomb. (In the spy trade,i Hereen Actress Joyce Reynolds ed by the Forest Service, be held we tried to work out a reascnable “I consider it is outside pressure ‘]‘E\llm“on "“ cm_ma;" “_m;mw' this is “counter intelligence.” ! hold hands at the Unive in trust pending determination Of gegree of protection of Indian when a Senator tries to force the d(p(\nkmg ‘o Biasia r i 2. Any hint of United b“"%, division biology class. Indian ownership rights. rights under the Tongass Act.” Treasury Department to make a de-| R | progréss in improving its own tory. P Wirephoto. No bids were received when the mMcNickle said the Interior De- ¢ision ccntrary to what its deci-: bombs. | southeast Alaska timber was offered . artment has not yet seen the con- sicn would normally be.” ' ! Whether the United States or | for sale by the Forest Service 1ast|iracts nor been informed of the ' Hughes said Williams had stated (oNv‘(T | any other power has a workable] October. Several companies, how-gale. He said Indian villages have he (Hughes made $15,000,000 in' method of detecting an atomic | I( a ors lp ever, are known to have expressed | negotiated contracts for canneries Profits on which taxes were due. | bomi explosion that might be made interest in the February auction, ‘fm,d other developments, in the Denying that wa,\'d!rm-. Hu?h;’su MA F |in ;:me hidden corner of the! . N o ‘e ventur- Said he was “prepared to prove” he | wor The villages of Kake and Kasaan | ™ 0 T e R e ;{,","'l 400 - i ing mpomnon the idea is to pnn|~ were said by Mrs. Bronson to have i o % e e on WARTIME BOND DEAL ' the rumor where it will te stumbled signed separate contracts for $10,- ° Ty o e | WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—®—| (HARGES on by publications not nec rily | 000,000 each with the Timber De- s tag ¥ i dee sen. Bennett E. Meyers told Senate | friendly to the source | s ery ear velopment Corporation. She said VIEWPOINT IN JUNEAU investigators today of making a The instance of the m:.pamh’ the lumber is to be cut from lands In Juneau, the Reglonal Office "g4 000,000 wartime bond deal, and | —_— mmlm yesterday by the Paris' which official findings of the In- of the Forest Service estimated gajd he once bought aircarft stock i d | news-paper L'Intransigeant was cit-; ferior. Department afflrmed ss, be- |that; ab Dresent stumpage rates, the for 4 superior offirer :Rumanian Peasant Party ed as an example. The dispatch, CAUrchill Makeg Declara- lenging to the Kake and Kasaan | Kake-Kasaan sale would amount to Under oath before the Senate | < 3 telling of a purported test explo-: Natives. | approximately one sixth of all mer- ' war Investigating Committee, the | Leader leen Sol"ary sion of @ 12% pound atomic bomb | tion D u”ng Deba'e The New York concern, she said, chandisable timber in SE Alaska.'ietired Air Force officer said he | s p ‘near the Russian city of Irkutsk,! will finance the installation of cap- | Their estimate was based on the 'mnq nis wite beught government; ConfinementforLife !came to Lintransigeant from Ppra- on House of Lords ital ‘equipment by the two Indian |$20,000,000 figure because no official ponds on speculation after he had | gue where it was reported to have| municipalities, and will pay for the word advice of the sale has yet talked with' then Secretary of the: arrived through “confidential! | pAN Noy 1B Winston | lumber as it is cut. The Indian|been received. Treasury Morgenthau. He quoted BUCHAREST, Nov. 12 (P—Life sources” from Moscow. ](‘h;mh:ll' e, A D villages will employ Indian and 6 Gecrge Sundborg, Executive As-|the Secretary as saying he “didn't|imprisonment in solitary confine- e T e T | proaching, ve)‘v.no.\l to dictatorship white lumberjacks—with preferance |s'stant to the Governor, stated: "It see how I could go wrong.” ,mun the sentence imposed to- !j“ Brit under the Labor Gov- for Indians—at regular union wage | doesn't appear to me to be the or- (Morgenthau, asked about Mey- {day by a military tribunal on Juliu 3 JEWISH GIRLS jernment " derly way of going about disposing crs’ testimony, labelled it an “out- ! Maniu, Rumanian Peasant Party " i o {ef the .timber. We thought it had yight Jie.”) ' | leader. Maniu convicted on a ! The World War II Prime 1 The w asnlngton all been ‘taken care of under 205", As for the aircraft stock, Meyers | charge of high treason. There is 1 You"" ARE SHOI Uigncred the advice of his physic | He was referring to HR 205, other- 'sajd he purchased 100 shares of no death penalty in Rumania in to lead his Conservative Party’s wise known as the Tongass Timber Republic Aviation Corp. stock at peacetime DOWN GUN BA‘"’[E Lt in the House cf Commons errY- 0 - OUNE act. which was passed by both roughly around $1000" in his| The Rumaman Peasant leader s !against the Labor Government's RO f“‘:l‘:‘% of Congress at its last ses-' ;\amv -1013 Lrt_ c,(‘;): )Xlx'x:rCmEaI:*;riw“,, tried with 18 others on @ num- | Bl “\ilul;;(;\m-n the power of the House By DREW PEARSON i s ok 1 ;Or:;l:x eputy Chief of the 1b(ex 'ut.ih‘(np,ea.v Télesfebx}lllc‘l\lded‘ll\__ JERUSALEM, Nov. 12— '#Threc | : i ESE 5:.,2“.‘.],( ’X‘,ep";““v’“zum’l:‘nf l(f)s"]‘).]u:\.':w Jewxs: girls and a antlh W ,;. ;m-; & w1’m 18" aimed (;.1 ‘xh\].. iln[vlw ] ra ‘ ns. 92 ' - today 1] a e Wi ri- i chamber government a 1e dicta- the ¥riendship Train and muxl of IERRITORIA[ | icreign powers to overthrow his plm‘ hiia _p”“‘d ”1 Velsig at to: thh - WILK of peoble, et D:iayox' George Welsh of | Alaska, from Seattle, scheduledi { Sovernument. Maniy s 70 yEars “1({' underground Irgun Zvai Leumi | Churchill said. Grand Rapids, Mich, chairman of ‘0 airive Friday, then sails for SHIP pRoBlEM G2 ¥is SRiof mide, 10w Ml’jll;lf;'[j“ hideout. | “We are pproachiig very near the | Conference. of Mayors. Most |Sitk%. Haines and Skagway, chang-| ce P‘,p?m.m”l £ “?,D.h.‘m?m.,”,_, Two other young Jews Werejy, dictatorship in Britain—a dic- people don't realize it, but the maj Ing order of port calls. i ey P,"”" 550 A8, ’P_“ "K“.n ’ wounded in the encounter, between | gatcrship without either its crim- Princess Louise, from Vancouver, solitary confinement for life. e Raanana and Hezliya. ;“m“!‘ or eftiofenoy. ' ors of the United States have their own “union,” end George Welsh is the head of it. This unioh has quite a gilt-edged membership listy including Mayors William O'Dwyer of New York, Martin Kennelly of Chicago, Jo- seph Smith of Oakland and all the others. I have been kidding Mayor Welsh that his organization is real- | ly for the purpose of getting higher wages and preventing the electorate from kicking mayors out of office, but he claims it's merely to discuss the perennial headaches of city problems and see if something can't be done about them. Mayor Welsh is the only mem- ber of the five original founders of this “union™ still endorsed by his electorate and akle to do business at the same old stand. The mayors’ “‘union” duiing the depression was founded when most cities of the USA found themselves | empty treasuries, ' with breadlines, and desperation down almost every streetf. At that time, Mayor Welsh, a Re- publican, teamed up with several Democratic mayors and went to: ‘Washington to get help from- Pres- ident Herbert Hoover. They ex- (Continued on Pa ‘e Four) due Friday afterncon or evening. | | Square Knot ' scheduled to sail !from Seattle Nov. 14. Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Nov. 15. Ring Splice scheduled to sail from Seattle Nov. 20. Baranof, from west, scheduled to arrive southbound on Sunday. D < ANNOUNCE CHANGE IN ROUTE OF §S ALASKA | Northland Transportation Com- pany has announced that beginning with this voyage, the Alaska will call at Sitka first after Juneau, rather than Haines. Juneau to Sitka, then up to Haines, from there to Skagway and then; to Juneau. - e —— ATLANTIC CITY -—— Vice-Presi- dent R. J. Thomas of the United Automobile Workers was defeated mn his bid for reelection today at | the tion. back i union’s Atlantic’ City conven- | tion, A follower of UAW President dividend of $8 on common stock, | | ALASKA PACKERS | The ship will go directly from | HEARING IS SET WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—#—; A special House committee to in-| vestigate transportation pwblems' of Alaska will hold a public hear-; ing here November 20. H Rep. Tollefson (R-Wash) an-| nounced today Rep. Allen (R-Calif) ichairman of the committee, had! called the hearing. ‘Tollefson asked that the hearings be arranged so that witnesses for| shipping companies serving Alaska and representatives of the Terri- tory here for a Maritime Com-| imission hearing Nov. 19 could tes-| tify. - ,re——— i 'DECLARE NEW $8 | STOCK DIVIDEND NEW YORK, Nov. 12—~#—Di- rector of Alaska Packers Associa-t San Francisco, declared a properties of both will be confis- cated ' Neither Maniu nor Mihalache were in the courtroom when the sentences were read. The court di- ted that, because of the advanc- ed ages of the two principal defen- dants, they be held in solitary con- finement instead of at hard labor. - e — Alaska Army Is Renamed WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. The Army announces changes in namflx -but not in functions of four uf 1l~ overseas branches, effective Thc Al.uk,m Department, named “Headquarters, U. S. Army, Alaska,” in charge of all Army troops and installations in Alaska, including the Aleutians. The changes, the Army said, standardize the naming is re- are, of {Walter Reuther, Dick Gosser, was payable Dec. 10 to stock of |emrd‘"m\u'd elements outside the U. S. elected to the union post by a con- iderable majority. This brings the 1947 total compared with $5 for 1946, Dec. 1 to $11 »ex ‘The new names do not change isting unified commands, Military sources at Tel Aviv said, «,¢, free porn Englishman, what 10 Jews were captured in a raid|p . yoet is the sense of being on the isolated house where the |, ', 04y mercy or in anybody's Army was tipped the Irgun Was|, ... p it Hitler, or (Prime Min- conducting “armed exercises.” }ister) Attlpa.” A British police sergeant Was: — opuohill who will be 73 this killed and three other British po- 1), was ill with a cold and did lice u_m(:vrs were wounded “”";x,r,v appear at the start of the de- xbnachmenun fire while they sat in}, .. "p. cid his presence now front ‘of s cafe ‘on the KHUL.SW’X()',! ‘was under some protest from my main street of Haifa. Babrteis Ayei Rty &5 o ST i ‘ § ! MEASURE WILL PASS Wm. Cleveland Dies = ooox o, o e v to clip the ! bor Government’s ¢ Suddenly a' S“ka'" cager powers of House of Lords rolled steadily toward ful- i filment today despite Winston SITKA, Alaska, Nov. 12.—ip—'Churchil's cries of “dictatorship William Cleveland, 65-year-old Sit- The Government’s whacking ma- ority in the House of Commons ka business man, died suddenly on| the street in front of his store here| IHEAsUse the | trampled opposition to the {last night, 245 to 194, pushing today. Cleveland, who was born mn bill “!r(ll‘gll is decisive second read- Kansas, came to Alaska prior to'IDE and toward final enactment the ‘gold rush and mined in the The bill would reduce the time interior for many years, operated the Lords may delay legislation ap- the Russian Bell Curio Shop. proved by the House of Commons He came here about 20 years {rom two years to 12 months. Two ago. bor members, Ian Mikardo and He is survived by his widow; a Park offered the Commons sister, Mrs. Hazel Kirmse of Skag- today an amendment to cut this way. time still turther to six months and her new ; of California at Los Angeles extension She is majoring in psychology ties WPRESIDENT 10 ADDRESS - LAWMAKERS WiII Ask for Stop-Gap in European Relief, Curb 1 Home Inflation | WASHINGTON, Nov 12— President Truman will deliver a joint session of Congress in person Monday a message calling for stop-gap European relief aid and {tor inflation curbs at home. The White House said Mr. Tru- man will speak to members of the House and Senate in the House of Representatives Chamber at 1:30 p. m. (EST. Mr. ‘Truman continuing a round of conferences with repre- sentative of industry, agriculture and labor as he and his staff work on the special message The President called in M. W, | Thatcher of St. Paul, Minn, the president of the National Federa- tion of Grain Cooperatives, and other representatives of this group | Including James Hill of Pendleton, | Oregon He also had an appoint- ment with Earl O. Shreve, president of the United States Chamber of | Commerce, and Philip Murray, CIO husband Den Gallery, | president. | He italked earlier in the week {with Willlam Green, president of | the American Federation of Labor, jand on Monday with Earl Bunting, president of the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers. Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross said the discussions have been concerned with the whole food situation and aid to Europe. Ross sald he has no idea of the ilength of the President's speech to Congress Monday, that it is still |in the early draft stages. | The de n - to address the joint session Monday was announc= is and he in his- ed after an agreement with Con- SRR gressional leaders, - Hard Five-hour Flight Ex-' perienced on Way from An(horage DEMO( A"( - CONVENTION Alaska FAIRBANKS, Nov. A—-The way home finally lay suulh a n today for the ‘round the werld (i George Truman and rd vans, and their tiny]| s “The City of the Angels” | he City of Washington” | R h their hopes always horth- H gkok in late September, the| H two former Army pilots reached Big | July 121 At(ordlng io Dclta, Alaska highway point 90 1 higway point 90 Schadyle Announced miles scuthe y on a hard iive-hour flight from Anchors They planned to re- : their trip today ¥ ay's hop, they er » Alaska coastal mountaing range which Mount McKinley towers feet and after reaching the encountered strong head The winds forced them to Delta, after once settlement. They (PST) still lay Alaska — Nov. 12 week beginning Sunday, July sed 11, today was fixed for the 1948 Democratic National Convention to be held in Philadelphia The Republican National Conven- ition will be held in the same city and starts three weeks earlier on June 21. In fixing the date for the Demo- cratic meeting, Senator McGrath (D-RI®, National Chairman, said the Republican convention pro- bably will not close until the end of June. He added: “Holidays over Independence (ON, in 20,300 interior winds. turn back to Big ing over that ded at 3:45 pm Snow- covered ahead of them down the highway route, with Kuane Lake and Whitehorse, Y. T. each with/ landing fields, as possible stopover [pay, July 4, and the necessity for points on their way to Edmomton, | wes: Coast delegates’ travel time, Alta,, in their 100-horsepower |prought the selection of the week nes. Their \first United ates 'of July 11. Reception of "delegates may be Great Falls. Mont. will take place on Sunday. July schedules ind 11, in the afternoon and evening. at Iceland, crossing the At- The convention will open Monday . did they reach this far north ' July 12, on a schedule to be an- flight which has now covered nounced than 20,000 miles. They left N &N > Ldith Persson and son and F. M. S'I'O(K OUOIATIONS Lorentzen of Pelican City are stay=- ing at the Gastineau Hotel. e - e YORK ov. 12.--Closing | EDMONTON GUEST quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine Leo G. DeMers of Edmonton, Al- steck today is 4's, American Can berta is stopping at the Gastineau. 88%, Anaconda 35';, Curtiss-Wright - 5is, International Harvester 877, OREGON VISITORS Kennecott 48%, New York Central Albert Firchau and James Cubie 13% orthern Pacifi¢ 18 U. S. of Lebanon, Ore, aré at the Ju- Steel 74, Pound $4.03 neau Sales today were 900,000 Ave: day are industrials 181.04 3458 p la country point latest on a more Teterk - eee - FROM PELIU NEW D HERE FROM KODIAK George Evans of Kodiak is stay- the Baranof Hotel, shares. follows 9, utili- ing