The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 13, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1947 ' MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,733 — Germans Are Warned Against Communism LABOR GOVT. TAX BUDGET IS ASSAILED' English Spefig Power Is Further Curbed by New Measure Infroduced GOV, HALTTRADE " WITH RUSS | SUGGESTED WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—®— Rep. Lodge (R-Conn) proposed to- |day that the United States should| |invoke economic sanctions against |Russia and her satellites. Secretary of Commerce Harriman gt | agreed immediately that this ov. 18.--P—Britons | cOUntry should cut off any ex- LONDION =1 ¥ | ports which would contribute to — STREETS OF "Foh b waecx| MARSEILLE VANCOUVER, B. C, Nov. 13.—| (P—Certificates of the master and! second mate o V. Gult Stream were suspended yesterday by the Department of Transport Commission as an aftermath to the vessel's grounding Oct. 11 with e oy i Issue Generl Strike Call Capt. J. E. Craddock, master, _'I'rouble S'ar's of the vessel which struck’ Dinner! Rock near Powell River, was sus- 13 — B — were MASTER, SECOND pended for six months, and the MARSEILLE, Nov. certificate of competency held by Trcops and mobile guards (0L WAVE IS PATROLLED ! tcday—the lowest mark in the na-; Communist Labor Leaders, — TALIAN s TURMOIL - SPREADS (By The Associated Press) The mercury plunged to 7 be- low zero in Grand Torks, N. D, tion this season—as cool weather spread over the eastern half of the | De Gasperi Government Is| country and into the south. | Eon oy ‘monos sessings - Assaulted by Rioting Reds cluded near zero at Bemidji, St.‘ —PO“(C on Fifing |.i|'|eS | Cloud and Duluth, in Minnesot Huron, S. D, and Jamestown, Far-| S go and Pembina n North Dakota.| NAPLES, Italy, Nov. 13.—# - Nashville, Tenn., reported 30 above, | Police fired on Communist was demonstrators here today as Ital EXT SAM CONVERSE 15 VICTIM OF PLANE CRASH SAN RAFAEL, Calif, Nov. 13— (P—Discovery of the wreckage of a | small plane with the body of Sam Converse of Juneau near Grass ey Lake, 20 miles Northwest of nville has been reported to the Sus of all classes grumbled today over terms of the Labor Government’s interim autumn budget calling for new curbs. on spending power to reduce inflationary buying, but) newspapers protested that the mea- | sures were not sufficiently severe.| Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh | Dalton's budget proposals, submit- | ted in the House of Commons yes- | terday, would affect rich and poor | alike. The budget demanded twice the military strength of the Soviet bloc. Harriman, former U. S. Ambas ador to Russia, told the House For- eign Affairs committee: “Export licenses can be used to invoke economic sanctions, bus 1 prefer persuasion. | “I don't think it would be proper | to attempt to shut off trade, but| I believe we should not ship our| materials which are a direct con- as big a slice of company earnings, higher purchase taxes and other revenues. | It also slapped taxes on dog rac- ing and icotball pool betting and upped the cost of a pint of beer one pence (two cents), “I don't expect this to be a pop- ular budget,” Dalton said last night in a radio address explaining the fiscal proposals to the British people. Dalton said the proposed reven- ues would mop up an additional $832,000,000 in annual surplus spend- ing power, estimated at around $3,- | 200,000,000. | Aboard The Friendship Train—| Lord Beaverbrook's Daily EXpress While the American people are greeted the proposals with the|working hard to save food and send | headline ‘“everything up (except it to Europe, a significant thing| smoke),” but many leading editor- |is happening behind the scenes| ial writers assailed them as halfway | with the big whiskey distillers. measures. { They would throw conniption fits Only the Laborite Daily Herald!if they knew outsiders had found | expressed outright approval, com-!out about it, but they are quietly | menting that the “measures which ! planning to send twenty field men | the government has taken 'so far'out to soften up editors and sell have prevented ‘that breakaway in- [them on ending the whiskey holi- flation’ which afflicts many other /day. The sales argument will be! countries.” (that President Truman double- | The Indevendent Times criticized | crossed the distillers, whereas, if | Dalton’s “half measures” for failure { anything, the big distillers did (and! tribution to the military strength; !of the'eastern European countries Harriman testified today he 'would favor stopping at once any American aid to a nation which might in the future come under the influence of Russia. The Washi ashington 'Merry - Go- Round by UREW PEARSON [ to, strike a note of urgency. lare doing) their best to double- cross him. | G | ; After attempting to soften up the ElE(IRI('IY I“ | newspapers, the big four of the dis- | tilling business plan to have a | greased-lightning bill introduced in SHORT Supplv | Congress to call off the “misguided” | Truman’s whiskey holiday. If suc- | FOR jApANESE!cessml, the distillers will then go| |back to using 8,500,000 bushels of | (grain per month—as they/did in| TOKYO, Nov. 13.—(®—The av_‘October—m' as much as they can] erage Japanese household will be)get away with. limited to 25 kilowatts of electricity| This columnist has now obtained monthly, effective Dec. 1, as Japani’a copy of the hitherto confidenual; hoards its meager supply of power.| Dropaganda bulletin prepared by | Small additional quantities will|Licensed Beverage . Industries and | be available to students, the sick,|the Distilled Spigits Institute. It| nurses, and families where birth,| makes interesting—and to anyone death or marriage occurs. Homes;who doesn’t know what's what— in areas of heavy snowfall will highly convincing reading. But it| be granted an additional 20 per-icarelully conceals the fact that just cent. 11 before the . whiskey holiday, distil- The. restrictions have led to a|lers were using grain at the rate of | brisk ‘market in generators, espec-!100,000,000 bushels a year. Inciden- ially among theatre, dancehall and | tally, this amount—100,000,000 bush- | geisha bouse operators. One JBpa-ie]s-—is just the amount we need tol nese bought a diesel generator make up the deficit of grain to| which formerly powered a subma-| Europe. i rine to turn the reels in his movie] One interesting statement made | house. Iin the distillers’ confidential propa- | B TR, iganda report is the amazing con- | ! tention that: . D|dn" Wan' Io Be | “Processing grain by beverage | | distillers leaves 100 percent of the | , | feeding value for beef, dairy cattle, | nown as Husband; |-v::c"wa sourry” , “ This is equivalent to saying that wne &'s Dlvo"e the distillers have learned the se- cret of making something from T {nothing—which they have not. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13.—(®— When they make whiskey they use Film producer Preston Sturges, 47, up entirely the most important second mate Ray Ketchum was |{called out to patrol the streets of land Chattanooga’s minimum GERMAN - PEOPLE ~ WARNED Official American Military | Government Radio Broadcast Is Given | BERLIN, Nov. 13.—#—Launch- }ing an official radio campaign lifted for four months. | Marseille today as Communist la- 37. Bowling Green, Ky., and Cin- wave of political turmoil ,xpl'(‘ul‘"l‘”\g“’“ f‘wld Army Ah_‘bxjse hy}axmnst Communism, a spokesman The first mate, Frank Peterson, por leaders issued a general strike cinnati, had lows of 26. southward. Several wounded were|the Susanville US Ranger statlon. |y, . american Military Govern- was reprimanded by the Commis- call following a day of rioting in| The cold air reached the east and bospitalized. A US Forest Ranger Ground,eni (o4 the German people to- sion for intoxication during the|which one person was fatally {Ncw England States, and drops in| Industrial Northern Italy, prom- |Party found Converse:s body and{,i;p¢ that Ccmmunism now threat- afterncon of the mishap. | wounded and six others hurt temperature were forecast for those | inently leftist, was quict but tense|Made the identiication UrOUSH| e (o englave them as Nazism S 5 - AT | While the Communists claimed regicns tonight and tomorrow. Be- after a week of violence and blood- | PAPErS found with him. The plane| .0 4iq. was a two passenger trainer. ADM. DENFELD WILL REPLACE | { | ! shoremen and members of the met- | M t81. build:ng and chemical workers | WASHINGTON, Nov. President Truman today announced the appointment of Adm. Louis E. tions. The President announced Den- ence. He said the new chief will when the latter steps out soon. Denfeld now is in command of the Pacific fleet. Named to the Navy's top-rank job at 56, Denfeld is the second youngest Chief of Naval Operations since the post was created 32 years ttgo. A native of Westboro, time personnel expert. Mass., | Unlike Nimitz, he will wear only admiral, he takes the four stars of a full his present rank, when over his new duties. WANTS TIGHT LiD CLAMPED ON NIGHT SPOTS,HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 13—The Chamber of Commerce wants a tight lid clamped on Hollywood night spots. John B. Kingsley, President of the Chamber, told the Los Angeles Police Commission yesterday that his organization will attempt to have every cafe, where there is dancing and entertainment, closed by Jan. 1. Kingsley referred to what he termed “notorious vice condi- ticn on Hollywood Boulevard.” 'Kramer Has Turned To Pro Tennis Now : LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13.—#— Big Jack Kramer looked out over {a mew world today with varying emoticns, but most of them were on the happy side. Happiest emotion, as a newly turned professional, was the pros- {their strike call had met a wide Jow freezing marks included 21 in shed in the Burgeoning assault \response among factory hands, in-!Burlington, Vt. 25 in Albany, N. Y.; from the left against Premier Al- | d:cations as the day advanced were 27 in Cencord, N. H., and 23 in El- cide de Gasperi’s Christian Demo- Exhat workers were sticking to their {kins, W. Va. Boston and Newark N.|cratic government. | He premised the Germans the | United States would agree to the Sam Converse, is a wellknown | political unification of a partition- jJuneau boy, about 18 or 19 years eq Germany only “in such a way Jobs except in trades in which their J. reported freezing marks of 32,| Naples police, in light armored|of age. He left Juneau about (WO a5 to forever eliminate the disre- 13—P—, 1 unions had ; strikes. Affected were all seamen, previcusly long= unicns. Some food packers also were reported out . All shipping m tne port was tied ,up by the strike, which began as a protest against an increase in |Denfeld as Chief of Naval Opera- street car fares and assumed broad- ier proportions following the arrest of four union demonstrators Mon- |feld's selection at a news confer- day. A meeting of the Rhone Delta {succeed Adm. Chester W. Nimitz central Council of Trade Unions was called lor tomorrow to decide ,whether to heed the Communist 'appeal for a general strike. An af- firmative decision would affect the cntire department—an area extend- ing along more than 60 miles of industrialized coastline and taking in the inland cities of Arles and Alx, At least a score of persons, in- cluding Mayor Carlini and assist- ant Mayor Pierre Milani, were in- ;Jured during yesterday's rioting. i Both officials, members of Gen. 1 Charles de Gauule’s Rally of the | French People (RPF) which oust- lecl the Communists in recent mun- !jcipal elections, were beaten by | Communist demonstrators and spent the night hospitalized in private clinics. Milani suffered painful head in- ?Juries and was denied visitors. { The most serious casualties oc- jcurred last night when, according ito accounts in the Moderate Press, { gangster elements operating some ,bars turned submachine guns on | demonstrators who were said to be | looting their establishments. - AO....--&.I.. i* WEATHER REPORT | ® Temperarure ror 24-Eour e Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning In Juneau—Maximum, 43; minimum, 38. At Airport—Maximum, 43; minimum, 38. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Variable cloudiness with scattered showers and cooler tonight and Friday. Lowest temperature tonight slight- ly below freezing. PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) ® ]o In Juneau — 43 inches; i® since Nov. 1, 589 inches; 1 ;mum reported in Washington, Pitts- 'the city where a demonstration bureh and Harrisburg, Pa. was held to protest against what The Federal Weather Bureau in|Socialists and Communists called Chicago reported snow flurries in|“neo-fascist” provocations in Milan the Great Lakes region, in the in- and elsewhere in the north. ,terior sections of northern New! Some demonstrators used tear England and in the northern Rock- !gas bombs against the police and, ies. There were showers in the far | were reported to have fired shots southwest and northwest Pacific in the air. \ coast | The demonstrators assembled in i Naples' Municipio Square and then marched through the main streets, attacking newspaper stands on the| way and ripping and burning rightist newspapers. At least two persons died in the north's week of violence. In Med-| iglia a man described as a mem- or (HINESE (" |ber of the rightist Uomo Qualun- 'que (Common Man) party had fir- ied into a leftist parade, killing one NANKING, Nov. I3~ Rem- ., 454 wounding two others. The nants of two Nationalist regiments y A fithn & trapped in the heart of smhklacn-‘g’;g‘:“fed Marcansy, beat ” wang by Chinese qommumsts "_'ho Protest meetings boiled over in now control the rail hub 172 mllesv(hree cities. In Milan, Communist southwest of Peiping have bezen gw"groups tioted for sevefi Nours Al en’ up for lost, a government om"Bolognu a bomb smashed windows u“!i Sgd t?;iay_ Wen-yi. informa- |1 Monarchist headquarters and uont'dir::im- e;;g thzeen;::li;:'ul D: crowds burned right wing news- fense Ministry, said reinrorc‘emems %‘::::)S'Q:;u:::;cir}ieg‘:s wr.‘cked‘ rushing to the rescue of the trap- ' ped men would be unable to save ! R G TWO REGIMENTS ISR T LR them from sure death., He said | 100,000 Communists under Gen. AI(O HIGH BIDDER | Nieh Yung-ching controlled all strategic corners of the city and' had cut all possible routes of es- cape. | Teng told a news conference the| (OASI FREIGHIER main body of government forces | was withdrawn from Shihkiach- | wang a month ago “for strnteg)-; SEATTLE, Nov. 13.—®— Alaska cal reasons,” leaving the city’s de- Transportation Company is high fense in the hands of the two regi-|bidder for one of five former Ger- ments, which originally totaled man ships taken by the United 10,000 men. States as war reparations. Earlier dispatches said the Reds' The company bid $111,450 for the had smashed ‘the last core of re-‘Empire Consequence, coastal-type istance in the city and had begun vessel built by the Germans just Much of before the war for Baltic service, |accogding to S. J. Swanson, vice- | president of the line. | Alaska Transportation also bid FOR FORMER NAZI | inoving out their booty. the city was in ruins. i iy <Ay : Former Mayor Who Ruled from Jug Is \freighters, the Empire Contyne, |but was low bidder on that vessel. ‘ The Maritime Commission is |studying the bids for all five of ( d.d ' A s the ships before concluding the an I a e galn salsey;}msén said the Empire Conse- | !quence, a 4,000 deadweight ton ves- | BOSTON, Nov. 13.—P—-Andrew se] with four hatches, is “well| iJ. (Bossy) Gillis, who once ran the adapted for Alaska service,” having {City of Newburyport irom a jail |“tween-decks cargo space and SPECIAL SERVICE ! special effort. 1$21,800 for another of the ex-Nazi FRE"(H (ITIZE"S ; ordered one degree lower than the mini-|cars, moved in on the heart of|months ago and was to purchase & gard of individual rights.” {plane in the states for his personal use. | “President Lincoln’s statement !that a nation cannot exist ‘half In Juneau are his parents, M. !glave and half free' is as applicable and Mrs. W. B. Converse, blulhcl"‘“, modern Germany and to the | George, and two sisters, Mrs. Le-| modern world as it was to 19th Roy West and Mrs. Viola Hansen.!century America,” he said. Converse attended the Juneau| Ant.-Campaign High School | The, speaker was Dr. Edward H. S e | Litchfield, Director of AMG's Civ- |1l Administration Division. His ad- | dress was the first in a series of | weekly breadcasts scheculed by | AMG in its anti-Communism cam- AWARDS GIVE“ BY | paign entitled “Freedom Versus SE( | Totalitarianism.” He spoke over the Y. ANDERSON American-controlled station here | and the American zone's radio net- { | work. A | . A H | Litchfield, a former educator ,Agenues in Alaska Cited | from Lansing, Mich., told the Ger- T . i mans that Communism stood for fOl’ DlS'lflglflShéd “the suppression of the individual Achievements |and the systematic denial of the basic rights of free men.” | WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—#— Methodology Secretary Anderson presented spec-, Vilhout mentloning the Russtans ial service awards today to 50 °F the administration of their oc- employees of the Agriculture De- Cupation zone of Germany directly, partment for distinguished and he described “Communist method- superior service in the fields of ©0l0gy” in the conduct of elections, agriculture, science, writing, pub-| Press control and perpetration of lics adminstration and heroic ac-!“government-sponsored kidnapings.” tion. Litchfield sald Communism The awards were presented in meant the suppression of free ex- special ceremonies which the de- | bression and “that part of the press partment plans to repeat in May which is oppesed to the govern- of each year hereafter to honor ment's views' and a ‘“one-party domination.” those receiving distin- In contrast, he said, it is the guished service awards was the, American aim to give the Germans Alaska Spruce Log Program, For-'freedom of expression and “free- est Service, Tongass Nationa] For: ‘dom irom fear that they may be est: for providing supplies ulfsnmchen away from their homes spruce for airplane construction'and families.” at a time of critical® shortage. [ “In a democratic society,” he | - > i said, “men do not lie in constant !fear of the policeman who comes ovER Iwo BIll'o“ lwnnnut warning, fear of long pri- Ison terms without trials, fear of j I" GO[D HORDED BY | systematic beatings without pro- Among lvocnlmn. fear of government-spon- isored kidnapings.” B {cell, was back in the political spot- | comparatively shallow draft.” {light today after promising “a hel- | - A net, French ecbnomist who is in charge of the French government's ireconstruction program, figures the pect of $50,000 as an income nexti, gince July 1, 47.55 inches. year—and maybe more, according|e s Ajrport — .08 inches; to tennis promoter - Jack Harris'|g o Nal\,r. 244 inches announcement in Chicago yester-|g since July 1, 29.60 inches. . . . . . . day. A As for leaving his throne as Am- erica’s No, 1 amateur, Kramer half- ! is free from the wife who testitied that “he didn't want to be known| as. a husband.” Mrs. Louise Sargent Sturges, 38, obtained an uncontested divorce yesterday, telling the court that! Sturges, also a writer, restaurateur and businessman, came home only | on Sunday evenings for parties for friends during a two-year period. | ———————— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 13. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4, American Can 85%, Anaconda 347%, Curtiss-Wright | 5%, International Harvester 88, Kennecott 48'%, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 19, U. 8. Steel 73%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 790,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 179.96, rails 46.57, utili- ties 34.33. ? single constituents of the grain— the starch or carbohydrate. content. This represents about 65 percent of the grain. Actualy, the only materials left over after distillaticn are the un- fermentable constituents of the or- iginal grain—ash, fiber and pro-| tein, While this is fed to cattle and does help the protein content of cattle feed. It represents only 30 percent of the feed’s value—not 100 percent as contended by the distil- lers. This is only a small part of the whiskey boys’ mumbo-jumbo pre- pared to make the unsuspecting public think that the whiskey holi- day should be revoked. Actually, the distillers have more than three years' supply of whiskey on hand, and they are more prosperous than ever. It will be interesting to see if the (Continued on Page Four) laughed and said: “America is well fixed for the next four or five years with a fine bunch of young amateurs, and it's probably lucky I'm getting out now.” ———.—— CITY GETS FIVE PIECES OF LAND AT TAX SALE No persons appeared at the Ju- neau City Hall yesterday to bid o3 12 parcels of land available at a sale of delinquent tax property. Seven of the original owners, how= ever, appeared at the last moment | and redeemed their lands by pay- ing their delinquent taxes. The City of Juneau ended up as owner of the remaining five pieces to which it will get clear title after a two year waiting period. The ori- ginal owners may yet redeem their land anytime during the two years by paying back taxes, assessments, penalties, interest and other items. luva campaign” if nominated. ! 19 Bradshaw Making i The former mayor was nominated yesterday with Mayor John M. Kel- | | lener. Kelleher polled 1,211 votes to | 11,114 for Gillis. The election will i be held Tuesday, Dec. 2. | During the first of his three | | terms—in 1928—Gillis was jailed S. E. Alaska Elks Official Visit fo jconcealed gold at $2 billion. The said the International Bank for Settlements estimates the hoarded gold at $3,400,000,000. Herter said he believes it would \be perfectly proper for foreign |countries to put up some of tneir |assets in the United States as col- STEAMER MOVEMENTS ‘for two months for clearing ‘trees Alaska, from Seattle, scheduled|in violation of a city ordinance to| to arrive Friday, then sails for #nake way for his now prosperous i Sitka, Haines and Skagway, chang-'gasoline station. He conducted the ing order of port calls. Jeity’s business irom his cell. Princess Louise, from Vancouver,' > —— due Friday afternoon or evening. | {Juneau Man Is. Square Knot scheduled to sail from Seattle Nov. 14. { «n trom! Arrested; Queer Denali scheduled to Seattle Nov. 15. { SKAGWAY, Alaska, Nov. 13.—® —Howard C. Bradshaw of Sitka, | District Deputy Grand Exalted Ru {ler, was here today to begin his | official tour of southeast Alaska | visiting Elks Lodges. Bradshaw's schedule included | Skagway, Wrangell, Petersburg and | Ketchikan. On Nov. | fly from| 21, he will Ring Splice scheduled to sail A“on (ha'ge | Ketchikan to Seattle to visit his {from Seattle Nov. 20. ! | Baranof, from west, scheduled| SPOKANE, Nov. 13.(#—Brownie ment. to arrive southbound on Sunday. Willard, Juneau, Alaska, yesterday o .was bound over to Superior Court it to Juneau Dec. 3. | ! RAINBOW GIRLS TO MEET {on first degree arson charges un- P —— | | 'der $5,000 bond. | BAD CHECK WRITER The Rainbow Girls will conduct|{ Reputy Prosecutor E. C. Rich-| their regular meeting and initiation ardson said Willard was accused of J. Baker was arrested by City on Saturday evening at 7:30 o'clock leaning an ironing board against Police last night and booked on a iln the Scottish Rite Temple. Fol- the door of a hotel room and set- charge of issuing a check without {lowing the meeting refreshments ting it afire after he had been funds. He was arraigned before City | will be served. All members are ejected from the room by its occu- Magistrate William A. Holzheimer | urged to attend. pants, this morning. Bond was set at $200. lateral far American e loans. WACHUSETT HUNTING USCG Cutter this afternoon shortly not been seen since. According to relatives Morgan, James Trelford ward Cheatham. Wachusett " HAINES BOAT WHICH MISSING SINCE TUES. sailed before 4 | wife who is there for medical treat- |o'clock to search for the boat 31-] | G-249, which left Haines on Tues-| Bradshaw planned an official vis- | day morning at 11 o'clock and has who re- }qupst.cd the search, those on board ithe vessel are Mr. and Mrs. A. B.| and Ed- e HERE FROM SEATTLE H. V. Davis of Seattle at the Baranof. is staying Rep. Herter (R-Mass) testified to- ll“EMA“ OF WEEK to $3400,000,000 in hidden gold among its citizens while pleading | - gl the nation from starving. iChuck “The Clutch” Bernarik, Herter told the House Foreign Chosen as lineman of the week in red in many a coach’s dream this fall—teautiful reveries in the case rand nightmares for epposing tactic- |ians. ! Twice Bednarik halted Virginia |scoring threats on the Penn one- in Penn’s yictory on the admission of both Virginia coach Art Guepe day that France has from $2 billion | for more American cash to keep, PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13.—P— | Affairs committee that Jean Mon-|!he Associated Press Poll, has star- 'of Penn mentor George Munger yard line and was the key factor and Munger. “I think we would have scored more than twice,” said Guepe. “In fact, T feel sure of it—except for ons man. That Bednarik! We knew he was good, but we didn't believe any .center in the country |was that good Said Munger: “Bednarik was not less than ter- {rific. He played one of the finest |games I've ever seen. You can't |show me a better center.” R HUNTING POOR “Pcor weather and poor hunting” | was the report today of five Ju- neau men who returned last night from a deer hunting expedition on board th Donjac to Pleasant Har- bor and Windfall Harbor. The men were Ellis C. Reynolds, Victor A. Power, Joseph Werner, Bert Caro and Rod Darnell. They returned Jwith a total of two bucks.