The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 21, 1947, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ———— VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,740 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ZI: 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PLAN NEW SETUP FOR ALASKA SHIPPING Bradley Named As Next Army Chief NEW CHIEF OFVAALSO APPOINTED Speculaiiohfiéried as to When Eisenhower Will Take Retirement 21 —(P— named the WASHINGTON, Nov President Truman tod “Dcughboys’ General,” Omar Brad- | le; o0 be the next Army Chief of | Statf and appointed Carl R. G Jr, a Republican and railway exe- cutive to succeed Bradley as Vet-| erans Administrator. Mr. Truman thus started specula- | tion as to just when Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will quit as Ar Chief to assume his duties as Pre: ident of Columbia University. The President himself told a ne cenference he doesn't know whether Bradley's transfer will hurry Eisenhower’s retirement to civilian life. He said the reporters would have to ask the General about that Mr. Truman said General Brad- ley, Ccmmander of (.e 12th Army Group in Europe in the last war, will return to the Army Dec. 1 and start a survey of Army posts betore taking over Eisenhower's duties. New VA Head ., who is Vice President of the Chicago and Northwestern Rail- way, will succeed Bradley as head of the Veterans Administration Jan. 1. Gray was in charge of rail- way transportation in the Allied Eurcpean theatre during the wa and left the Army as a Major Gen- eral in September, 1945. Mr. Truman aiso announced: i The resignation of Robert M.| Littlejohn as War Assets Admin- istrator effective Nov. 28. Jess Lar- son, a deputy administrator, will take over that job. The President said Littlejohn has done a good job 1n a tough spot and his work will enable the WAA to begin li- quidation next June. | The appointment of Maj. Gen Clifton C. Cates to be Commandant | of the Marine Corps succeeding Gen. Alexander A. Vandergrift, who is retiring. | Dillon S. Myer is resigning as Conumissioner of the U. S. Housing Authority to take another govern- ment job. The President said Myer nas not decided yet which job he wants. o s In Fert Worth, Texas, Kiss LEON BLUM Communism Warring on French Democra(y (P —Pr er-| gnate Leon B told the Na-; tional Assembly today “Interna-| tional Communism has openly de-| |clared war on French Democra: and that “the Republic is in danger” also from Gen. Charles| De Gaulle’s right wing People’s, party The 5-year-old clared. Blum ito form ) PARIS, Nov. New Control Wanted Aside from these appointments, the President in response to ques- tioning said he wants the commo- dity exchanges controlled just as the de- | grave,” leader situation is Socialist { sought Assembly authority a government to replace that of Socialist Premiér Paul | Ramadier, who resigned Wednes- |day. As he spcke, a half million workers were on strike in critical industries throughout France and the labor situation hourly was |growing worse. | { All workers in Paris sfll_‘chemlcal building, leather, paper, lglass and pharmaceutical indus- tries planned a one-hour work stop- Py el page for this afternoon to demon- redined s Jeag 0. hO_PSlnT' Dm_‘.stra&e their sympathy with the ‘Z:;l: ;"e‘;se‘ g‘;:g’oesf‘;“‘;mzpe,s strikers throughout the nation and mittees W N s by |85 @ protest against the govern- needs, one group, dominated DBY .,en yse of troops in coping with McCarthy, stayed at home to delve the labor situation. into America’s No. 1 problem—the housing shortage. Their findings /310 of the 618 Assembly votes— | will joit some of the arch-conser-g,. gyenority to form a cabinet. He vatives who were in a hurry to tWn | oo verioin to be opposed by bot wartime economy back to private ipe thremc left and the extreme enterprise. i right Without mineing words the Joint| The Republic which we" identify| Committee on Housing will report|with the Fatherland is in danger,” t> Congress that the housing pro-| |Blum told the deputies. “Civ blem has proved too big for pri- ‘hbm public peace and peace vate enterprise alone. Even such jtself are menaced. hitherto outspoken champions ©of | ~The danger is double. On one, the real-estate interests as Joe¢ pand, intefnational Communism| McCarthy and New York’s Con- has openly declared war on French, gressman Ralph Gamble, wrested control of the Committee|has been away irom liberal Senator Charles!which has as its - objective, and! Tobey. of New Hampshire, will Joln!pcrbnp\ its only objective, in urging an emergency federal | separation of national w\ere;gn!yi housing program. Their eyes were from its fundamental traditions.” | onened by the cross-country hem-' Obviously he was referring to De| | (Continued on Page Six) - The Washington Merry - Go- Round by UREW PEARSON transport, ! WASHINGTON —Big, burly aror Joe MecCarthy of 'Wisconsin has suddenly got religion. He has Blum needed a simple majority| | | constituted in France| ngs. Gau]les proposals to revise the; Although the Committee’s find-| | constitution. ings have not been digested into a| “I have come here to sound the alarm,” the veteran said. (Continued on Page Four) | (R-Mass), (International photo) ] S Margaret Truman (left), daughter of President and Mrs. Truman, and an accomplished vecalist, is shown with General and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower preceding the unveiling of a staiue of the late Will Rogers. FRANCEIS JUNKETERS WARNEDBY URGE TREATY WITH JAPAN Declares International, Congressmen Would Re- fain Pacific Bases- Other Suggestions WASHINGTON, An early nd possible t retenti Alter !the a two-montk also urged: 1) the Chinese (2) Authority for Military Mission to, combat forces; (3) Development as a major Pacific (4) De-emphasis tary establishment (5) Retention of ithe American flag purposes, and (6) age at Pearl Nov. Harbor, on the h tour an Amy train the for str supply in the event of war. The chairman. tour with him were Hess (D-La), Norblad | Serivner, e (R-Ahio), (R-Ore), (R-IZansas) . Reps. re of ¢ naval bases was recommend- |ed today by a House Armed Service | subcommittee. along ! waist line of the world,” the, {group headed by Rep. Cole (R-NY) More and speedy help for government; erican Greek i of Truk Ato]l( naval base; of at Guam; Okinawa under mili- ategic Expansion of fuel oil stor- Hawaiian | tasc, so it can provide a years| subcommittee’s report sub- mitted to the full Armed committee was signed by Cole as| Those who made the Clason | Hebert Services ani STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. Alaska Juneau mine American Can quotation of stock today is 4%, 21.—C| losing . Anaconda 36%, Curtiss-Wright a‘ International Ker ecott 48%, 13 Northern Pacifi c 19%, who | pemocracy, On the other, a party | Steel 767, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 980,000 shares. | Harvester 87%%, New York Central U. s.! Averages today are as follows: ties 33. 93 CELE S a l'()RMER JUNEAU GIRL A girl baby was born on Novem- 'hold its, regular meeting in the to Mr. The mother is'o'clock tonight. No particularly im- snuesman'the former Else Lundell of Douglas, portant business is expected to ap=i 17-year-old {handwnvmg shifted the center of at Petersburg. 10 in Honolulu, . R. O. Mahan. be M and Juneau. the! industrials 182.62, rails 48.73, utili- and AIWsiIRoges’s Stafue Unvellmg 'GEN. MEYERS Re-elclgd Girl Scout Head | | i i MAINTAINS HE 1§ INNO(ENT'i 'Flustered by Senators Questions on Cadillac, False Affidavits WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—P— | Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers told | Senate investigators today he wasj i rised and “quite upset” in 1945} {to tind $26,000 of Ray A. Carnutt's ymcney in his bank account and { promptly told his wife to “get it i out i | curnutt is Meyers father-in-law, {the former bus driver who became ‘ production manager of Aviation Electric Company at $12,000 a year. | The Senate War Investigating Ccmmittee, now inquiring intoj Meyers' relations with the Dayton, i Ohto, concern developed earlier ‘this | week that $26,000 was deposited in| | Meyers’ acount shortly after Avia- !tion Electric paid Carnutt $28,000} in 1945 in settlement of a $12.000- ia-ycar employment contract run- ning through 1948 ] The ccmmittee turned. to Car-! inutt’s role after long cross-ques-] tici ng during which Meyer, red- aced, and a bit flustered, acknow-| ed that he had made two false, affidavits concerning use of th Cadillac automobile which other| W s said Aviation Electric {bought for him, but Meyers insists ' was ver his. Acknowledged that there was' ! douotful propriety in his penmmn;,! {B. H. Lamarre, as Meyers says, “’i 'p'n $10,000 costs of wdecolatml-.l tund furnishing Meyers’ Washing- ton apartment. | Told the Senators solemnly that ' he would welcome trial “by .mv" J forum” on the charges of fraud and | { corruption made before a Senate| I group. : Meyers insi 1 his basic story is true. | he bhelped Aviation Electric get: {started and lent money to it and! {Lamnne who became its President, i because Mrs. Lamarre was “my girl ! ifriend” with her hushand’s con-| | i | | i 21.—(P—| sent. peace treaty with Japan! MAKE MEYERS ('RAWI; WASHINGTON, Nov. 21— |Bleuut H. Lamarre told the Sonalu .War Investigation committee to-, | day he hopes it “will make General , Meyers crawl out of this room on| I nis belly like the snake that he i s e 00t v e ve e 0t * WEATHER REPORT » Temperature ror 24-Hour ® . Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning . In Juneau—Maximum, 39 {® minimum, 31. le At Airport—Maximum, 37; ® mmimum, 27. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Cloudy with rain and ® southeasterly winds 20 to ® 25 miles perhour tonight and ® Saturday. Warmer tonight. PRECIFITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) . In Juneau — .10 inches. ® since No. 1, 650 inches; ® since July 1, 48.16 inches. - At Airport — .10 inches; e smce Nov. 1, 299 inches; e since July 1, 30.15 inches. "o e e0 000000 | . le . ! ' | STEAMER MOVEMENTS Ring Splice scheduled from Seattle tomorrow. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver 9 tonight. Baranof scheduled to sail Seattle tomorrow. Alaska scheduled to | Seattle Nov. 25. Denali, from west, scheduled southbeund 10 a. m. Sunday. —ee—— CITY COU L TONIGHT i ? | sail, to from ' from| ' sail The Juneau City Council will Council Chambers beginning at 8 pear for action. | batten, closed on them late yester-:ci Broadlands or along the twisting, isted throughout that ' This is that{" | cheer i the rolling shou ' King” iof Eros the cupid god who stands | | London’s trademark, Piccadilly. ISHIPPING ~ MONOPOLY | C(HARGED Rep. Crawford Says Con- gress Must Solve Alaska Transportation Problem By CHARLES D. WATKI WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 | The special Alaska Transportation | Committee was told today by Rep. | Crawford (R-Mich) that Congress must solve the transportation pr | blems cf th rritory at the next | regular session. He added: “If this Congress can't find an sconomical way to solve the pro- blem and prevent the economic guillot'ning of the people of Alas- ka,” Crawiord said, “it ought to top and go home.” Crawford, chairman of a House FPubiic Lands Committee which held hearings on statehood iIn Alaska | last summer also argued that the | Tervitory should be granted state- | hcod. He sald Alaskan defenses {shouid be stremgthencd and added: ‘Russia can take it on short no- tice and use it against the United States.” A . Vaughn Ferguson, right, of Schenectady, N. Y., who was re- clected Nationzl President of Girls Scouts ¢f America at their annual convention at Leng Beach, Calif. Senior Scout Betty Reigart 16, of Alhambra, Calif., is shown congratulating Mrs. Ferguson at conven- tion, attended b) 2,000 delegates. llnlrrlmtimml Photo) Mis. € Royal Honeymooners Have Bacon, Eggs for Breakfasi; Big Celebration Is Ended Transportation Situation { | | Crawford said that the Maritime ROMSEY, Eng e —m—‘lhe spotlight from her Royal par- Princess Flizabeth and Philip, her ey { Cemmission, Congress, the Interior Prince, wed yesterda the tra-| put despite the entreaties of the. Department and the White House dition of a thousand years of Eng-!inhyong, Margaret did not appear n|all were partly to blame for per- ish pomp and circumstance, began!ine final balceny appearance of mitting a bad transportation situa- he “ever aiter’ days of their ROy~ jep father and mother. tion al romance today with one of ra- In Romsey, lttle was known! He said neitner water, air nor tioned Britain's rare treats—bacon gpout the immediate plans of the |joas transportation is adequate and and eggs for breakrast. | honeymooners, ir, indeed, they had | that the shippmg situation out of Outside their honeymoon retreat any detalled plans. | Seattle “borders on an absolute the day was almost springlike, with =~ Official functicns are largely out | monopoly.” soft breezes surprisingly rustling of tkeir way for the next several| “I am going to do my best to the foliage after a spell of cold. xs and their time will be their|pust up this combmation,” he said From the time the oaken door of |own, to ramble as they please over |in referring to the Seattle ship- Broadlands, estate of Earl Mount- ' the brick-walled 6,000-acre ostate| ping interests which serve the Ter- ritory. “Are we going to continue southern Eng-|to let these two or three companies 70 miles outside | hold this powe: over the Territory? Wants Canadian Ships Crawford said he intended to ask | iegislation to permit Canadian ships ,m serve the Territory. Rep. Jackson (D-Wash) luld him that the House Commit- m\ had tried to interest othel steamship companies in serving the Tennm) but only the Seattle com- panies wanted the job Congress, Crawford continued, “must act to prevent these sort of itnmg: and see to it that transpor- | tation: to Alaska is ample to meet |its needs at reasonable rates.” He said it would be impossible to sup- | port military operations without an | increase in population which could 'nut come until improved transpor- ys of hills. fenced by- 'land’s soft Just Casual Man | London. Two girls, delivering wedding | evening greetings from Romsey's' townspeople, said they saw nothing of the couple. But Philip's Navy, :mux c(np they whted wus tossed { hat ot a man who has come home \in the evening. ANNAPO[IS GRAD eople of piacid Rom-! Today the pi sey, a Hampshire market town a Ibit off the beaten paths of com- merce pursued their modest voca- tions with suppressed excitement over the prospective public appear- nee of the 2l-year-old bride and her 26-year-old husband at Rom-! sey Abbey religicus services next Sunday. Excitement Subsides In grey old London, the excite- ment subsided aiter p¥steraay’s Joyous celebration of the wedding. Sireet sweepers plied their brooms against litter left by multitudes who came in rain and gloom to the nervous maid as she drove to Westminster Abbey with her father, King George VI, and came away, smiling and waving, a wife with her handsome husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who was Lt. Philip Mountbatten, R. N. day, the Royal couple has been | - ! replying "“Green Bowl”" Secret So- ciety Officially Out of Existence WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—P— tation is available. The Navy today issued orders ban- 1 ning forever the 40-year-old An; napolis secret society known as the “Green Bowl,” because “rumor and spcculation” that members had the inside track tOrY. for premotions and high-ranking! jobs A Navy “memorandum to press” said there is no evidence that the group had any such in- fluence. But there added, an “adverse effect to a lim-|gave the committee an outline of a ited degree on service morale, be- plan of his company and cause of the fear of the potential-| Northland Transportation Company ities of an alleged self-serving|for setting up a permanent Alas- secret society. ikan steamship service. ‘The report said total of 156| The shipping service plan now is! naval and marinz officers now| before the Maritime Commission' on active duty belonged to the|for action. Green Bow!l in midshipmen days.| Governor Talks Armed Forces, an unofficial ser-| “At the present moment,” » vice publicatign, said recently 18| Governor of Alaska told the com- of we, want the of thes Admirals. ! mittee, ‘we are in the grip of want Margaret”| 4 yll-scale investigation of the moncpoly.” He said Gilbert W. Skin- brought-“‘no from the wide Green Bowl was ordered after|ner, President of the Alaska Steam- windows. iCapt. J. G. Crommelin, Jr., testi-|ship Company and co-owner of the When it became clear that the fieq pefore congressional com-‘Nu,u,lflnd Transportation great day was at an end, the mass- mijttee that it was an innocently-'pany was “the monopoly.” es drifted slowly away and some started organization “grown Vic-|" . think Seattle should not have' 150 romantic youths and their jous with the years’” Is 7 ) A a monopoly on the operations,” maids snake-danced about the base -> oo 3 ;(,ruenmg said. PILOT ARRIVES Murs. Trygve Hansen. of | are the proud boy born in St Single S8 Line Gitbert W. Skinner, its| Company, econcmical and can provide better ‘Lights Go Out Celebrants, clustered thickly around Buckingham Palace, lifted their voices till past midnight in unneeded pleas for one more bal-' | cony appearance of their Monfch. But the lights that flooded the Palace finally flicked off and all a and we sign NEW | traffic center | I never develop.” | Mr. and Exuberant youths even climbed ' Petersburg upon Eros but firm and patient of a baby bobbies sent them on quieter paths. Hosptal last evening. The bam,m serve all Alaska. It is now u»» Mischievous Margaret | tipped the seales at six pounds 14 I stricted to serving southwest The earlier scenes at the Palace ounces. | asks, ‘He also asked that projected Elizabeth’s mischievous| Trygve Hansen is a pilot for Al-jgieam and lehland be forcel to sister, whose happy aska Island Afrways, Inc., located amid the swirling PArents | g neportation Company Ann'’s | | of Seattle, plemented,” Or!Pmsldcnt of the Alaska Steamship aska which served the Terri- Transportation told the committee he be- necessary number | lieves that the best interests of Al- Structed passenger ska require operation of a single 'such the | steamship company for the Terri- 'rangement as the economy of the tory. He sald a single line is more Territory can support. the four present passenger vessels the ! Com-| “If the mununulmlu; / | policy continues to exist Alaska will (and Northland denied contentions Amxa lof Of Staff NEW SHIP - PROPOSAL SET FORTH Plan Is Givénfio Maritime Commission-Seek End- ing of Interim Service By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, Nov. 21—(@— The Maritime Commission had be- fore it today a proposal of the Alaska Steamship Company and the Northland Transportation Com- pany to s2t up a permanent ship- ping service to Alaska. During hearings this week Com- missioner Joseph K. Carson asked the companies to submit such a plan, The Commission then was con- sidering a petition of the Alaska Transportation Company to revise the interim agreement under which the three companies are serving Alaska. Alaska Steamship and Northland propose that Congress enact a law requiring certificates of public in- terest, convenience and necessity Loth common and contract carriers in the Alaska trade. Proposed Plan Their “proposed plan” says that Alaska Steamship and Northland will purchase the necessary number of war-built carge vesscls to serve the Alaska trade under certain conditions, including a requirement the plan be put into operation not later than May 1, 1948. They say they will pay for vessels purchased from the Commission at their statutory sales price or such percentage thereof as it is determ- ined the Territory can bear as a capital kase for rate making pur- poses. (Rates are determined by a company's capital investment.) Such reduced rates, if any, would apply only for vessels operated xclusively in commerce to and from Alaska. If, within five years the vessels are operated anywhere else, the purchaser would pay the Commis- sion an apportionment of the dif- ference between the statutory sales price and the actual price. After five years the vessels would become free vessels for all purposes at their purchase price for the Alaskan trade. « No Rate increase Steamship says it will continue to operate its passenger vessels to Alaska for two years without any increas: in rates pend- ing perfection of a passenger ship program such as was recommended this month by the President’s ad- visory committee on the Merchant | Marine. “When and if such passenger ship program is perfected and im- the plan says, “Al- Steamship and Northland will acquire the of newly con- vessels under charter ar- Alaske purchase and “Supplementing such new pas- had been, it service than several companies. He Senger vessels the company will continue to operate such of the for to the such period as | properly serve Alaska trade.” New L'ne Setup Albert E. Stephan, counsel for Alaska Transportation, made the | statement about his firm, and said: “We believe the Commission should at once revise the contract, require the consolidation of Alaska Steam and Northland, and permit Alaska Steam and Alaska Tran: portation to serve all of Alaska. His argument came at the con- cluding session of a two-day con- {ference called to consider a com- plaint of Alaska Transportation |against Northland. Officials of Alaska is necessary the needs of Steamship \of the other company, but also The Governor urged that Alaska'gaiq they were tired of the in= another terim service and wanted a return Scattle company, ke given the right to a purely commercial basis. Ccnsolidation Urged Ralph Rivers, Attorney General Alaska, criticized present op- 'rations and also urged consolida= t AConllm;e_d—-:m Page Five)