The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 29, 1947, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRASRRRED W SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition —_— VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,746 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS KRUG GETS VIEWS ON ALASKA PROBLEMS Breakers 20 Feel High Hit Army Transport Wrecked on Hippa Island Last Monday KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 29 (M—Breakers fully 20 feet high swept over the deck where the life- jacketed crew of the Clarksdale Victory assembled, clinging to what- TAFT SWINGS | HIS SUPPORT, EUROPE AID But Opposes Any Long NATIVE SERVICE Range Underwriting of World's Deficits SUBMITS BUDGET ever they could, and the hurtling i OF 5 511 000 water pulled men looss, one by WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—#— 1] [} one, Henry M. Wolfe, second mate, Senator Taft (R-Ohio) threw his said/ here. Alaska Naii;e—Servi(e Will | Increase Health, Educa- | fion Program 1948-49 support today behind the $597,000,- 000 winter aid bill for western Eu- rope, but served notice that he is against any long range =attempi at “underwriting the world's defic- tour survivors of 53 on the army ansport after it grounded las called the ship’s last minutes. He its” with dollars. | He told a reporter the winter and three other men were washed i ¢ | ashore. « His home is in Oakland, aid bill, limited to food, fuel and . i s 5 The Alaska Native Service has Califor 3 er 4 Aus- alifornia. Tertljier fox Binich Jtal; anc [ requested over five and a half mil- He T tria, is all right because it will q e went off watch at 8 p. m, help those countries go to work.” on dollars from the Federal Gov- : . ernment to spend on various Alas- He predicted the Senate Will ap- o prove the measure next week a(.:ka\ projects in the fiscal year begin- ter its Saturday-Sunday recess. ‘ning July 1, 1948 This was reveal- But the Ohioan, who is chair- ed teday by Don C. Foster, ANS man of the Senate GOP Policy General Superintendent, who re- turned here Thursday via PAA Committee, and an announc candidate for his party’s Presiden- from Washington, D. C., where he had been conferring with Bureau tial nomination, said he opposes what he called a State Departmentof the Budget and superior offi- policy of trying to “solve the fi- cials on budget plans and other nancial difficulties of every gov-jANS matters. | ernment.” During his Washington visit, Fos- Without mentioning the Marshall ter was called on by Department plan by name, he said no suchief the Interior officials to assist in policy should be carried forward | various developments pertaining to into a long-range recovery program the Alaska Indian situation. He was called into conferences regarding the Alaska pulp timber problem, the Kake and Kasaan villages con- tracts with a New York timber con- cern. the establishment of reserva- | tions to settle aboriginal claims and the sale or lease of the An- nette Island airport by the Metla- katla Indians to the Federal Gov- ernment he said, and was lying in his bunk reading when he felt the ship hit by breakers on one side and big swells on the other. Third Officer William M. Rasmus- sen, Modesto, Calif., had already called Capt. Gerald R. Laugesen nd, Calif. Rasmussen was also saved, but Captain Laugesen was lost ‘The engines were ordered rever ed and the ship’s course change but as Wolfe began taking sound ings, he said, he felt the ship strike, and soon saw fuel on the water. “1 knew then off,” he said. Captain Laugesen ordered him to send an SOS and he did so, but the radio antenna was lost when the ship broke in two. The crew put on life jackets, and the breakers washed over the deck The broken after section of the ship was shifted by the heavy seas up near the bow before he himself was swept overboard. He narrow- ly mis ing caught in a backwash, oil we wouldn't get nations would receive $16 llion to $20 billion of assistance from this country to encouragej them in a program of self-help by| mutual cooperation, - It is expect- ed to reach Congress atout Dec. 8. PRESIDENT'S DC-6 TAKEN n Norma! Budget On the subject of the 1949 ANS Budget, Foster revealed that he had requested the “normal” amount of b : 1$4,000,000 plus a supplementary |25 then able to swim and | budget of $1511,000. The four mil- | 500 | @ "~| The bodies of four men had been lion dollar figure, he said, would and crawl permit the Native Service to reop- TeooRsell and RS Ouas Tl [Py the Ne H P~ |ters still patrolled the Hippa en its day schools which have been | i oo I closed this year but only in locali-| s 2 i ties where there are not any Terri- GOPers Seek ‘Show Down, ~ Truman Plans " Get Specifi? Concerning Anti-Inflation Powers g, | torial schcol i | His normal budget, Foster also Awa" Changes 'O Be Made stated, will permit filing the pre- Be(ause 0' Re(ent |sent 15 vacant nursing positions and 2 will provide for an increase in the ANS private hospitalization pro- A((lden's gram which has been discontinued. |1t will atso, he said, increase the SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 29. number of beds for tuberculosis pa- —(P—President Truman's personalitients by 50 at the Mount Edge- plane, the Independence, a DC-6, cympe Sanatorium. was at the Douglas Aircraft plant| W g here today awaiting any changes| fs"”;'“"'"“l' b“‘('l"‘:‘r 1 which may be recommended for :110’50 ‘;DIJ e(.ne‘/ma BRCRE 0. $1,- all planes of this type because of |t O - neter Baig; willdolde: the the recent Bryce Cangon, Utah,!first year portion of a five year and Gallup, N. M., mishaps involv- Alaska rehabilitation program pro- < = pesed by Interior Secretary Julius ing DC-6s. The President’s pilot, Lt. Col.A- Krug. It will consist of $720000 Asked Congress Henry Myers, brought the plane to be spent on the construction of | 2 b 1 20 new school buildings. Ten of . here yesterday. Myers plans to WASHINGTON, Nov. 29—(®— thase will b i v g . 20— return to Washington todap to these will be erected where there'g, ..o Republicans demanded today take the President to Florida in!'are now no schools and the other the Sacred Cow, a DC-4, for al10 will be built to replace existing : 4 buildings short vacation. e flation powers it wants from Con- The Civil Aeronautics Board is, Annther $475,000, said Foster, will ,occ 3 : studying the DC-6 problem and“be used to construct a new tubercu-} Senator Taft (R-Ohio), chairman that the Truman administration “get specific” about the anti-in- may make recommendations for|losis sanatorium at Mount Edge- | s (he Senate-House Economic changes. |cumbe and $176,000 more Will be!committee, told a reporter he is ————o—— — |spent to help support the Seward o,,oceq to writing any blank |Snnator|um, The sum of $105000 check legislation setting up pow- FoRMER ju“EAu {has been requested, he said, to ful- 'o; for example, to earmark scarce |fill the ANS share for various fees'materials for essential uses. GIR[ Is vl(llM of {und architectural and other plans Byt the Ohioan said he might imr a cooperative development at pe willing to have possibly 10 per- |Anchorage where a proposed 700 cent of the steel production set YAK“TAI (RAS |bed hospital may be constructed. |aside for priority requirements, | Gaet o :HS Hospital i |such as box cars. | 2 Anchorage project, explain-| Taft expressel he opinion that M:s. Betty Jean Carter, 2L O0€ oq Poter, will contain 400 beds 17 | the Risis ol el of the passengers killed in thel, oo o AN patients with the other 'any general authority to allocate Thanksgiving Day crash of a Col-l350 apportioned to various Federal to cover more ground than Con- umbia Air Cargo plane at Yakutal,|governyment employees including gress intended—and would do so was a Juneau resident for several|yn. ajaska Railroad, Civil Aeron-|“very promptly.” montks. Mrs. Carter then MisS|oyiics Authority and the US Mari-| Senator Watkins (R-Utah), a Betty Jean Weir, was employed yime Commission for use of sailors. member of the joint committee, here by the Public Roads AdminiS™ | pe ¢aiq that the Federal Hospital said it is time for the adminis- tration and was one of the mMOI€ p,..4 has already approved the!tration to “get specific” about plans popular members of the youngel ANg part of the hospital but has'to carry out President Truman's set. |not yvet reached a decision pertain- 10-point cost of living program. She came to J‘f“e““ from Port-{;o t; its use by other government, “The government officials who lana, Ore., on Nov. 18, 1946 and|.ocncies If the hospital is approv- | have testified before our commit- left here, April 4, 1947, to accept tee seem bo have only a general idea of what they want and they ! have talked only in terms of broad | powers,” Watkins remarked. R MRS. LUCAS RETURNS “ E ed, it has been proposed that the a position with the Birch-Johnson- | yj s pyplic Health Service handle Lytl» Construcm?n Co. at Fau’banks.im operation and supervision with Shz i S:)md ‘:g::::’ ofc'g‘ C“s 1 funds being contributed by the var- and was the da r. an . “ 3 governmental agencies involv- Mrs. Francis S. Welr of Portland. (o 8 HRORy Mrs. Carter had been married | qp. «innlemental budget : E T only five weeks at the time of her‘\ PP g equest E to 1 Fair. | 2150 contains $25,000 as the ANS . g:g:{h. tih;oyt‘;:ngnf:uo rde:":; Sp:m;‘shsre in the operation of the Terri- |daughter Linda . returned nks |torial Health Dept. vessel M. S.EWrangell on the stgamer ; Alaska. the holidsys with her Rushend and| gygiene; 5,000 83 1ts hare in the | They have been isiting with Mis, parents. Her husband, A. T. Carter, |, o ntion of a trailer unit and an- |Lucas’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo is a constructiof foreman for B-J-L % o M, e | McCormack there for the past three at Ladd Field. (Continued on Page Six) Mrs. Lee Lucas apd her young weeks. Recovering comfortably in the|the wages of 13,000,000 Americans | Joast Guard infirmary, Wolfe, one| Monday night on Hippa Island, re-| He rushed to the bridge where, ed a jagged rock, before be-. from ! \ 1 | 1 CLIMBS UP IN 2 WEEKS Wholesale Prices, Refail| . Sales, Even Wages | ~ Reaching Peaks | 29. —M— i and | WASHINGTON | Wholesale prices, Nov retail sales all have climbed higher during the | past tew weeks. | Figures from two government agencies yesterday showed | 1—The prices of wholesale goods | hit a new postwar peak during the ' week up in a cloud of smoke near Stockton, Cal., recentl ad swepl cross the highway ing asparagus patch at the side of the a Stockton rancher, and his wife, Joaquina, 48. (In(ernational) |time record of May 1920 2 —About 13,000,000 workers in ufacturing plants earned an av- terage of $50.97 a week in October, | et STRIKING — Girls Marry; IN FRANCE FelonyCharge s 3 \in October about $700,000,000 over I'the figure for September and about | $1,100.000,000 over the mark for October, 1946, The wage and wholesale price fi- gures, both from the Bureau of La- ‘bor statistics, were peaks hit after | weeks o! steady rising § i - ->->e Premier Schuman Asks for In Love for Seven Years— , - Power to Crack Down Marry Because "“No "SAHARA TAKES LIFE On All Aqifafors Other Way to Live” OF FRE“(H GE"ERA[RS;?S‘Z wuman asked the Nation- e tormer doege vomen who ‘: tP—Two former college women who } {al Assembly today for power u;"“*“‘.‘“"“d_ ““"‘w“l Valley ‘Z’\ ”{;_ y'.‘:‘”f | PARIS, crack down on agitators for strikes|'anCh as “Mr. and Mr Mren Minist or sabotage “by speeches, writing|Were free on $750 bail each today {General Leclerc, Fi or tracts.” |after their arraignment on three armored warfare leader, was He said he wanted this right|felony charges growing out of their led in an airplane crash in for six months time as he pleaded/June wedding. !Sahara Desert for power to help him fight a They entered no plea i Air Secretary Andre Maroselli strangling wave of Communist-in-|Peore Justice of the Peace lsaid his plane crashed 20 miles spired strikes throughout France |Fulwider, who set Dec. 11 for {from Colombia, 200 miles south of The Assembly's committee on Preliminary hearing. i lOoran and near the Algeria-Mor-|Civil and Criminal Law immediate-| District Attorney® Charles Nfu occo. border. 1t was in Africa thatily approved the government bills,|G0ldrick said Thelma ‘Walter, 2T, {Leclerc first gained fame in the 26 to 13, and sent them to ahd her girl. frignd “husband.y war against Germany and Italy/ |Assembly, which s expected to Marietta Cook, 36, told him they It was understood that 12 per-|consider them later in the day. |had fallen in love seven years ago sons were aboard the plane and' Approval would give the govern-| While roommates at the Univer- tthat all were burned to death ment a weapon against newspapers Sity of/ California and had decided Leclerc, lately Inspector General encouraging the strikes, which 0N marriage because “we couldn’t Iof French North African Forces, have made more than 2,000,000 figure out any other way to live French workers idle. Miss Cook has been doing ranch Government employees found WOork and Miss Walter has been of “agitation” would be dis- 'AIRPLANE CRASH IN Noy. - @fsiR-—Premier Nov 29. announced (#—The Air tonight that famous kill- the i yesterday L. E their the to { headed a French division in the iy rmy’s drive against . B Rediagn teaching the Sonoma Valley the Germa at | i o PR 1 under the measures, Key Union High School. They were well, industries, including electric power, liked. An FBI agent recently vis- HELSINKI SIRIKE railroads, and wire communica- ited to the ranch to learn why| | tions, are nationalized and their 'D““ld Warten” had no draft) employees work for the govern- record. i E“DS AFTERZDAYS =y | The two women were charged H e b 3 4 The powers asked by Schuman with making a false marriage affi- | HELSINKI, Finland, Nov. 29— A0 DUETS CREC o W until davit, conspiring to violate laws | —A strike of more than 40,000 gov- Fouid, T o prohibiting masquerading as & ernment employees, which tied up ° 5 i member of the opposite sex tur‘ communications, railroads, plane The proposed law provides six lewd purposes and impersonation| and ships and closed schools for ‘months' to five years' imprison- in order to marry. i ment, and fines of 1,000 to 500,000 - francs (88 to $4,000) for those who | use violence to bring about a M"."'ARV 'I'AKES ! ‘cessation of work.” | | Schuman demanded a ‘“complete i revision” of the laws of sabotage. OVER l" GE"ERAL | STRIKE IN MILAN He tock cognizance of yesterday's two days, was called off today. Konsti Jarnefet, chairman of the {organizatan of Finland's civil ser- Ivants, announced the end of the lstnkc by radio, saying: “During the two days the sf lasted the organization has found out what disastrous consequences a continued strike may have for the country.” | As Schuman spoke, more than a Earlier reports said the govem-‘thtrd of the nation’s 6,000,000 ment had been planning Army con- jorganized workers were on strike for strikers, who sought and government forces were eject- ing strikers from rail centers gnd other strongholds they had seized. Schuman, also asked the Assembly to reorganize part of the French security forces and to pass a new law giving added protection to non- strikers. PoA T P T report that sabotage was on the incraase. ROME, Nov. 29—P—Milan’s| military garrison took control of that city and province today as thousands of workers demonstrated in a one-day general strike which' crippled transportation. The commander of the garrison in Milan, Italy’s second ecity, in-| formed the government at Rome) that troops were taking over civil functions. scription more pay. Tre strikers walked out at mid-| night Tuesday to enforce demands ' for higher pay. Municipal workers | threatened to strike on Dec. 20. ——————— . Two Alaskans Given the! . A SKA COASIAI_ . Labor organizations called i lA I strike, quickly followed by leftist- ] 'h|"'.|hlrd Degrees led demonstrations to protest the SEATTLE, Nov. 20.—®-—Twenty- HORT DAY. national government’s removal of two Washington State Masons and v Ettore Troilo as Prefect at Milan, two from Alaska hold newly-be-, The Mayor, Antonio Greppi, re- stowed honors in the Ancient and o"lv 3 FlIGHIS signed in sympathy and dispatches, | to Rome newspapers said 160 Com- Accepted Scottish Rite Masons the Thirty-Third Degree (honor- munist and Socialist mayors over ary). Alaska Coastal Airlines made the province also had quit their| | The honor was conferred Wed- only three flights yesterday, stop- posts. { nesday night by the Grand Com-|ping at Hoonah and Ketchikan. | — .- | mander, Southern Jurisdiction,| Jimmy St. Clair was flown John H. Cowles of Washington, D. from Juneau to Hoonah, A. Hicks C., who has held his position zs|!rom Hoonah to Juneau, and Lorris head of Scottish Rite Masons in|Linge from Ketchikan to Juneau. STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Alaska, from Seattle, in port Due to sail for Sitka and Skagway the south and west for 26 years. ; —— - at 11 o'clock tonight, returning Those receiving the degree in-| POLICE COURT NEWS southbound Tuesday morning. { cluded: Herbert A. Holmes, Ev. Denali scheduled to sall (rom Se-| ;eret‘.; William McCush, Bellingham;‘ E. A. Stice forfeited $25 bail in attle today and should arrive here ‘Mark M. Moulton, Kennewick; Police Court this morning aiter Tuesday. | James Earl Stone, Kelso; William| being arrested on a drunk charge.| Princess Norah scheduled to sali| Wilkening, Olympia; Frank H.[Edward C. Dick was arrested this from Vancouver Dec. 2. | Mapleton, Fairbanks, Alaska; and morring by City Police and booked = Baranof, from west, scheduled Norvin W. Leéwis, Nome, Alaska. |for d:rorderly conduct. southbound Monday afternoon. \ . t A man and his wife were burned te death and 18 persons hurt when five automobiles and two buses viled The accident occurred as dense smoke from a burn- , reducing visibility to zero. 5 ”:11‘:;““ hN;‘ ! HHT“': ‘1"9"2’6". was blocked for two hours while rural fire departments poured water 59.2 ereen izher an in y & 2 o and taly 48 percent below the ali | burned so furiously several of their twisted frames were welded together. scurce said the Arabs had decided | oo EVERYTHING | Two Dieas CarsPile Up in Smoke Filled Road '35 GroupS: WILL AIR OPINIONS Meetings Scheduled Next Week-Forest Sales, Lands for Vets | | | i WASHINGTON, Nov. 29—(®— Representatives of 35 conservation {grovns will give Secretary of the | Interior Krug and his aides their | views next week on major contro- | versial questions, including the pro- posals to dispose of large tracts of Traffic on the wrecked vehicles, which | Alaskan forest and agricultural la 0 ar erans The dead were Pedro Yroz, 50, | @4 w0 war veterans, | Krug, in inviting the groups to send delegates to the conference Monday and Tuesday, pointed out that the Tuterior Department chiefs, |in tiavels throughout the west and in the territories in recent months, have obtained the of many | Individuals and industries. At this meeting, he explained, he wants to get the other side of the picture—the viewpoint of those who are opposed to use of resources for dual or commercial ends subjects on the program SPLIT OVER PALESTINE PARTITION { otn tinclude | Indian hunting, fishing and graz- Bitter Fight Breaks Qut in "§,nehie | sesutatons. Surprise Move Made | DAUGHTER IS bitter fight over the “Soviet-Amer- ican” plan to partition Palestine split wide open today as a result | of Columbia’s surprise move yester- day to defer final United Nations | As the United Nations Assembly was called back into session after: — 24-hour recess, Colombian dele- {Missing Two Days-"Visit- ing Friends” Is Excuse for Disappearance gate Dr. Alfonso Lopez was report- ed to have lined up strong suppor including the Arab-led anti-parti- ticnists for his plan or delerment | | se Arab countries met secretly | ,,.’\1 m;;l‘\; t\‘mtl v‘w;‘v '\,W\(,d, u..: n}:i’f‘ NEW YORK, Nov. 20—(P—Wal- ot R j‘,:" o -*";“j’ ‘l"‘}““d;da E. Winchell, 20-year-old daugh- ed this alternoon. One iniorme \ter of Walter Winchell, who had ol the object of a wide police to take “too stiff” an attitude |go,ren since she was reported p,:m_ in the proklem but that they had |jno wednesday, was back home to- not yet decided whether to offer a day, Ernest Cuneo, attorney for propesal on theiwr own account. !the Winchell family, announced. This was taken as evidence of an| cuneo, who asked the Missing apparent move by the Arabs to be |pergons Bureau of the Police De= more open to conciliation. Hereto- |partment to cancel the alarm for fore they have been adamant| miss Winchell, said she had been igainst any proposal except thelr {.yisiting friends” and was “back demand for a single independent home again.” He did not elabor- Arabic nation in the Holy Land ate. Miss Winchell’s disappearance |was reported to police by her |mother, Mrs. June Winchell, who |said her actress daughter was ili. In Hollywood, her columnist father |said several doctors had ordered seob1- Biseldbrt: Cawhldo: iArsunia | IRIBRCIA haspiaiteiing D8 TH |daughter. The nature of her ill- of Brazil already had predicted ness was not disclosed. semi-privately that partition would Miss Winchell, who used the stage be approved 3 name of Toni Eden, has appeared Action on both the Colombian |y three Broadway shows. i proposal and the partition plan wasi PR theu side-tracked when the Assem- not The Colombian proposal for de- lay was laid before the Assembly late vesterday at Flushing Meadow Park when most delegates thought they were finally at the point of voting on the partition plan. As- bly approved a surprise French| motion for a 24-hour recess so that | a final effort at conciliation could | be made between Arab anti-parti- tionists and Zionists favoring a‘ d ] . pattern for the Holy Land umtiplane M|SSIn . | would establish Jewish and Arab [} nations. concneiome 21 Aboard PAA CRASH HEARING IN SEATTLE ON DEC- 3 Craft Lost on Flight from Tier | Pisa, Italy to Frank- furt, Germany WASHINGTON, Nov. 20— A hearing will be held by the Civil Aercnautics Board in Seattle next Wednesday on the Oct. 26 crash ’ 4 of a Pan American World Arways, FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov. 20. plane near the peak of Mt. Tamgas,| ~/P—A United States Airforces Annette Island, Alaska. Robery W.|C-47 transport plane with 21 per- sons akoard is missing on a flight Crisp, Chief of the CAB hearing and report section, will preside,|{rom Pisa, Italy. to Prankfurt, Air- Thirteen passengers and five crew force headquarters at Wiesbaden announced today The plane mav be down in the Frankfurt area, headquarters said. he ship was carrying 17 passen- members were killed in the crash Wreckage of the four-engined Clip- per is expected to be hidden by snow and inaccessible until next o R gers and four crewmen. TS It left Pisa shortly after noon, . German time, yesterday and was to The United States produced have reached the Frankfurt air nearly 45 percent of all combat base about six hours later, An intensive aerial search is uns der way. munitions produced by all partici-| pants in World War II in 1944.