The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 2, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,748 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS ———n FURY OF HOLY LAND ARABS MOUNTING INVESTIGATE | lke Confersith Successor PLANECRASH * AT SEATTLE Double-edge Probe Being Made-Two Victims Still | Hospitalized-8 Dead SEATTLE, Dec. 2.—®—A double- | edged investigation into the Sun-, day crash of an Alaska Airlines; transport, %nd the resulting death of eight persons, continued today with Leon Cuddlebach, regional chief of the Civil Aeronautics Ad- ministration, asserting that investi- gations have yet to determine: 1. Whether the plane landed ™ within a safe stopping distance & from the end of the runway; Gen. Dwight D. 2. Whether there was any func- 8. confers at the F tional failure of the large aircraft. (right) who has been named by President Truman to succeed Eisen- ik retiring Chi isenhower (left) { of Staff of the U. ntagon in Washington with Gen. Omar Bradley The plane, a DC-4 inbound from | hower. (P Photo. Alaska, overran the end of the % Seattle-Tacoma airport runway, plowed about 175 feet through mud and plunged over a sharp bank onto a passing automobile. Experiments, Tesls of fifomic Weapons Being Made, Souih Sea Island | WASHINGTON, Dec 2P Pilot James E. Farris, 37, of Se- attle, yesterday attributed the crash to failure of the plane’s hydraulic prakes. He said the plane “rolled like it was on a ked of ball-bear- ings” and then leaped a 60-foot embankment at the end of the air- port runway. { In Washington, the Civil Aero- 'WRECKED SHIP " HAD 53 ABOARD, NOT 51 AS LISTED Names of Two Others Are | Added to Those on (larksdale Victory SEATTLE, Dec. 2 P —Army Port of Embarkation officials re- ported today that they had been | advised that two Washington State men were aboard the Clarksdale Victory, in addition to the crew of 51, when it broke with the loss of 49 lives he night of Nov. 24 The men had been added to the casualty list previouslv, but their identities were not reported until today. The Army authorities said Ocean Tow, Inc. of Whittier, Al- aska, identified them as Martin W. Firth, 23 of 1205 E. 61st St., Ta- |coma, { Dallas W. Webb, 41, Ritz- ville, Wash Wives were listed as next of kin for both men. Mrs. Elsie Bess of Clark Fork, Idaho, was listed as Webb's sister. Ocean Tow, Inc., reported that both men had signed aboard the Clarksdale Victory as “workaway on the trip south The Coast Guard announced that search for victims has been ended. RING TO BE HELD P—Coast d Headquarters announced to- 1 hearing into the wreck of the Army transport Clarksdale Victory will be held ‘here at the request of the Army The hearing will begin as soon °s AT rdered the company as witnesses arrive fr asks : 4 stallations for experiments and ¢ be required to Stop R s e e i ‘hl":(]‘dl i D i e g 0k tests of atomic weapons are being 0St Guatd Distric _“-l"”l" be Cbg““; B ey Soka (Y~ | constructed on Eniwetok Atoll fn TR OF the IMvesHERtOR ot ::iodm%(\: fi;florcémexfi section as- the Pacific :;,“ \: 11 be “)(»“h,:,ll-n.,‘,,,t m:.l“»,::::: ’th arrier was providing A joint announcement from the b-] 3 e Souibiny wiiks g 1 ot et G S i State Departpielit, the: Atomic: En- behind the acctdent, with o view, %) B IR Yths “and ergy Commission and the Defense Ml of enhancing future safety af B iy Astwesl 8BRS . and Department said the Armed Forces % K“"l']““a‘ b i are carrying out the construction at, The Clarksdale Victory ran nchorage. | s i )mic Energy aground off Hippa Island on the 4 ig ad, ! the request of the Atomic Ene g pI | i 0o “Zh;hzge';:;efl;d; Commission northern British Columbia coast WO ol 5 8 8 : 2 aboard the plane continued to be Eniwetok is in the Marshall Is-|the night ot N_"l.* N hospitalized in critical condition. lands west of Guam. Before the i P war, Japan held a mandale over Captain Farris told his Istory to CAA investigators: United f | these islands. “The weather was closing in, but captured them in the drive I could see the Seattle-Tacoma, the central Pacific. 1 It is about 00 miles southwes®; airport plainly at 2,000 feet,” he! sgid. “I brought the plane down tc a perfect landing, but the biakes failed completely, and that | wis all there was to it. I did not/ Jaad through a hole in the fog as has been reported. I made a nor- mi approach and landing. | of Hawaii. The joint announcement said the installations are designed to pro- vide a suitable area for periments based on laboratory stud- ies of the Atomic.Energy Commis- sion. i crakes “The arei of the installations 9 tried to apply the trakes and <L puled the emergency which should will be closed as a safeguarding measure as provided for in the hare exploded the tires, but noth- ing happened. We just sat there United former Japanese mandated islands,” Nations agreement Tor the ess and watched the plane R ‘a sray, Jr., D e oun the mud and plunge| M. Gen. Carl B Gray, 3 fihe announcement stated. down the steep bank at the end {above) Chicago railway edsou~ It added that the United States é trport.” tive and industrialist, wus nam- | wj)l notify the United Nations Se- of ;he airpor O-pilot Dick Whitting, of An- ed new Veterans Administrator wity Council of this. chaage, Alaska, agreed with Far-; by President Truman. He will c tests to be_canw:l ”'“1, !)n: ris. assume his new duties on Jan, | statement said, will provide ue\\. “ was the brakes, not the land- 1, 1948. Gray succceds Gen. fundamental data and a broader Omar Bradley who will become Army Chief of Staff. (® Photo. ing, he paid. Sveral passengers claimed the plap landed through the fog 10, themiddle of the field, and alsoj maithey telt che breke ' - ATES INTERVIEWER 1S cal ondition are John Lathanan, IRANSFERRED; [[AVES 41, ¢ Fairbanks, Alaska, and Olivs facili- well ! nuelear fission” which will tate advances in peaceful as —— . as military uses of atomic energy. It said the construction program will consist of complete facilities | for the experiments, housing; util- communications, protective instrumentation circuits ities, structures, rand Marais; } ;;in: (:a;]; p;);vioc:sly was listed FOR KET(’“KA" IODAY and control and ob_servnuop posts. romiNenana, Alaska. Both were e T _Some wartime mxlltm_‘y installa- B In escaping the wrecked ! tfons will be rehabilitated, the e James Quinn, employee with the o), cement said, but gave no plan{ spokane, Alaska Territorial Employment |po oo many ‘persons will be M1 Leslie Howe of Service, left on the Alaska for Ket- % few hours! and whoi-husband died a few NOWSS{ ) wpere no nas been tra involved in the construction the later experiments. aitejthe aceident, 'was reported 2% ferred from the Juneau office. B e i “ungisfactory” condition 8t " Quinn has been in training here | Couy Hospital. ~She SWered; . ayoigt and will occuvy the JEI’ HGH‘I‘ER pllo‘l' sever head and face burns ition of interviewer in the Ket- e 7y R AT chikan office, where Jack Brounty is manager. Quinn came here from his home (s 0o~ H KILLED, FAIRBANKS e LR o in Chicago. He is a veteran of mE WEATHER '3"“;?_}53\" World War 11, having served in the ! < emperarure I0r 3 L Navy in the South Pacific. . pilot of a P- g eriod Ending 7:30 0'Cloc il ter, attached to the 94th Fighter This Morning Squadron, was killed In Juneau--Maximum, 43 i when his plane crashed inimum, 35. : At Airport—Maximum, 42; inimum, 34. STOCK QUOTATIONS i The NEW YORK, Dec. 2. — Imaking a landing approach. Closing | pilot’s name was withheld WEATHER FORECAST quotaticn of Ala Juneau mine B (Juneau and Vielnity) stock is 4, American Can* 80, | LIQUOR APPLICATIONS variable cloudiness and Anaconda 35%, Curtiss-Wright 5 A warning was issued today by Clerk of the U. S. District Court John Walmer to all prospective ap- plicants for 1948 Territorial liquor | licenses. He said that all applica- res. | tions must be filed with his office In- |ghtly cclder tonight and‘ ednesday. % PRECIPITATION 7:30 a.m. today) since International Harvester 88%, Ken- I necott 46%, New *York Central 1213, | Northern Pacitic 19%, U. S. Steel ., Pound $4.03%. | " sales today were 850,000 sha ! Averages today are as follow: Jt 24 hours endin In Juneau — Trace; 1, .01 inch; since July 1, be. 57 inches. |dustrials, 180.77; rails, 47.85: utili-| - . W Airport — Trace; since @ |tiqq 3307, i FROM EVERETT ¢. 1, .01 inch; since July 1, | i AL i o 05 inches. | The total world production of M. W. Sasseen, who givgs his | lcoal and oil combined is more dence as Everett, is staying at " two billion tons a y Baranof Hotel. ‘? ¢ o w o0 than field ex-| | understanding ot the phenomena of Senafor Tobey Calls Meyers HumanVermin Denounces Former Gen- eral’s Speculation in Government Bonds WASHINGTON, Deg. 2.—m— Senator Totey (R-NH) called Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers a “piec of human vermin" today in de- nouncing the retired Air Force officer’s wartime speculation in government bonds. ‘Tobey mentioned Meyers durir Senate Banking Committee hear ings on President Truman's pro- posals to regulate consumer and bank credit. Robert V. Fleming, President of the Riggs National Bank of Wash- ington, D. C., was the witness be- fore the committee. Tobey asked him what could be done to forestall tond speculation in the event ot another war. | Then referring to Meyers, Tobey | wanted to know whether “this piece |of human vermin who appeared in |this room two weeks ago” had roused Fleming's ire Fleming said Meyers had and (that the latter's bond speculation | would arouse the anger of “any | red-blaoded American.” The Senate War Investigating | Committee's inquiry into Meyers yesterday | Wartime dealings was held in the and burned’ panking committee’s hearing room.| one mile cast of Ladd Field while| Meyers, former deputy chief of Air| !Force Procurement, testified that ihe ‘and his wife bought $4,000,000 {worth of treasury bonds on margin land rolled up a $90,000 paper pro- | fit. | A Federal Grand Jury here con- |tinued, meantime, its explorations tof Myers' wartime bhusin deals Bleriot H. Lamarre, self-styled “dummy” president of a war con- not later than noon, Friday, Dec, 5. |tract firm he says was owned by| }Meyem. went before- it. | — eee- - FROM GLENALLEN | ~William Greer of Glenallen, Alaska is stopping at the Gas- jtincau Hotel WAGE BOOST UNLESS CUT CIN LIVING {Labor Secrefary Schwel- i lenbach Urges Adoption of Truman’s Program | WASHINGTON, ! Becretary of Labor Schwellenbach said today another postwar round of wage boosts is in prospect un- less Congress acts to cut the cost of living Dec 2 P Schwellenbach itol to Fack President Trumau's broad economic _controls program s increasing complaints came from |some Republican legislators that | the administration is not present- ing sufficiently specific legislative {proposals in that field | The Labor Secretary testified be- fore the House Banking Committee | while another Congressional group, |the Senate-House Economic Com- went to the cap- mittee, was hearing contentions from grain exchange men that the ! administration had unjustly singled jthem out for attack ! “The high prices of grain have been caused by unprecedented government purchase for export, rather than by speculation,” J. O. McClintock of the Chicago Board of Trade said McClintock objected to the ad- ministration’s request for power Lo increase the amount of margin or deliveries of nds ed | trading for future ;gram. ‘The administration cont jthat low margins have encoul | $pseulation. | Nothing Specific | Senator Wherry (R-Neb) was one of those contending the admin tration is not sufficiently specific atout what it wants as anti-in- flaticn measures, L He told reporters that Congress has received nothing but “vague | generalities” and declared Mr. Tru- | man should lay down concrete pro- posals “if he’s not just talking for political purposes.” . In a speech in Philadelphia last night, Senator Taft (R-Ohio) also dropped a broad hint or two that 'he thinks politics has figured in the administration’s economic pro- ! posals. Wage Centrel | When Congress convened |ident Truman outlined a 10-point anti-inflation program. This in- cluded authority for the stration to put on selective price and wage controls if it decides they are needed Cabinet now engaged more details of officers and others are in giving Congress what they have in mind On wages, Schwellenbach sug- gested a board be created to and report” when pressu developing for ~wage increases which might in turn force prices higher. He said he thought there be “very few cases” where curbs would be needed. Schwellenbach told would wage the House members he believes that organized, llabor will cooperate 'in an anti- inflation campaign “if given some real assurance that price rises will be checked.” i NO RECORDS—Jyames C. Petrillo, (above) president of | the American Federation of Mu- sicians, announced union musi- cians would make no kind of recordings after Dec. 3L i two weeks ago in special session, Pres- ! admin- ! ~ Marshall Realies London i L 4 Marshall (center) walks from his plane after flight from Washingten to attend Fcur Foreign Ministers. Marshall was Deuglas (left), U. 8, Ambassador to London, and rd (right) ¢f the Netherlands. #® Photo. GAME PROTECTION MI- McKINLEY PARK IS NOW DEMANDED Mountain Sheep Disap- pearing Bec.use or At- tack of Wolves Secretary of State George C. ! at Nertholl Airpert, Londor ! the present meeting of Big welcemed by L Prince Bernh y. cash down payment, required in' ‘The depletion of game animals in {Mount McKinley National Park, | Alaska, is a national tragedy re-| |quiring immediate action by the | Pederal government in the opin- ‘ion of Marshall McLean, an execu- tive of the Camp Fire Club of | America { Mountain sheep in the park have swindled from 5000 early in the {century and 1500 in 1 to less| |than 500 in 1945, chiefly because| of attacks by wolve McLean told an Interior Department conterence |of officers of 35 national wilderness| | conservation or anizations yester- |day 1 “we "mmz campaign to help these |make a comeback and to make | McKinley Park what it once was |the greatest big game preserve in America.” i Newton Drury, diréctor of Na- tional Parks, replied that steps are being taken and that a ground and air survey showed that the mountain sheep and caribou arg on the increase { ask the Interior Depart- D ‘Wants Diferential - Pay to Alaskans io | - BeExemptfromTax | WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—-@— of Alaska said Delegate Bartlett " 'WHITE MINK — 1h fuxurious stole for evening wear fashioned by Dein-Bacher oi w York out of white Kkohi- naor mink on a silk shell, {Alaska 1o Help i . | () today he is urging the Treasury| ‘lfl (hfiS!MES {to exempt from income tax the .percent differential paid to {Cheer fo Europe FeArL L Ganilyeas i ATaska I | Government workers there are ! SEATTLE, Dec. 2@ Alaska allowed the differential to meet {will_join the four Pacific North-|8 Digher cost of lving, Bartiett D said, but the Internal Revenue west states in sending a “Christ- gyreqy poid that the money is not mas Ship” of relief supplies toia cost-of-living allowance, but “in- Europe, Mayor William F. Devin creased pay given to induce em- was informed today by Territorial ployees to accept hazardous or iso- retary Lew William lated posts.” Willlams said Alaska may not Bartlett said the Civil Service be able to contribute much in the Commission had informed him the way of merchandise, due to .ship- differential resulted from an agree- ping difficulties, but can be counted meft” of various government agen- upon for sizeable cash donations cies and not, as contended by the which can be converted into food Internal Revenue Bureau, upon a here. d sion of the Comptroller Gen- The Governors of .Washington, | eral Oregon, Idaho and Montana had! It is on this basis, Bartlett said| agreed eatlier to enlist their state statement, that he is asking in the venture. Bureau to reverse its stand SHOOTING, WRECKING, BURNING Flames Ragué in Palestine- Shops Wrecked, Looted Over Partition Issue (By The As ted Press) The fury of Holy Land Arabs wainst the impending partition of Palestine erupted today in shooting, wrecking and burning throughout Jerusalem and boiled over in threat ind mass demonstrations in other parts of the Middle East Jews of Jerusalem counter attack- *d against the Arab mobs and struck Arab business quarters. ' Reports of the day's casualties in Palestine, Jerusalem, unconfirmed, totalled three Jews killed and 22 Jews and six Arabs injured. A pall of smoke hung over Jerusalem, where a number of buildings were in flam British forces, using ar- mored cars and Bren-gun carriers, braced themselves for new disorders in the current three-day Arab pro- test strike against the United Na- tions partition decision. A curfew was imposed on Arab quarters in Jerusalem United Nations' officials kept a slose wat¢h on developments, but there were no indieations in New York that action was planned to bring the disturbances before the Security Council Thousands of Egyptians demon- strated in Cairo against partition. They were promised an abundance of arms by Abdel Ramman Azzan Pasha,. Secretary General of the seven-nation Arab League. The demonstrators smashed windows of foreign-owned shops, wrecked post- 'rs advertising foreign movies and American soft drinks and shouted ‘We Want War.” The Syrian Chamber of Deputies authorized the government to pay a lirst 1m:tul]mrm of the equivalent f $920000 into an Arab League’ fund for the “liberation” of Pales- l‘mu. It referred to the National Ocfense Committee a measure for By VERN HAUGHLAND compulsory mili service. At WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—P— mob broke into Aleppo, Syria, a the Jewish quarters, attacking and burning At Baghdad, Iraq. business was at a standstill as demonstrators for the second day violentlv expressed their opposition to partitiop. They shout- ed slogans against the United States, Russia and other nations who voted in favor of the partition plan. In London, a British government source sald it is “safe to assume” Britain would aufforize at least a 50 per cent increase in the rate of legal Jewish immigration into Pal- estine between now and August 1, when British troops are scheduled {to leave the Holy Land. Britain to inaugurate immediately a|now admits 1,500 Jews a month into animals | Palestine. .- Turner, Power Romance Ain't HOLLYWOOD, Dec, 2.—# - The romance of Lana Turner and Ty- |rone Power is just a memory today. The famous twosome, whose names were linked for months talked things over following Ty- one’s return from a four-contin- ent air tour Sunday. The decis- fon, a studio spokesman announced last night, was to call it quits. Talk of the romance was given impetus when actress Turner Kiss- ed Power goodbye before he left 13 weeks ago on his tour, and she was waiting in New York when he re- turned Saturday. friends said. But Power skirted New York on his return to Hollywood. Miss Turner returned here!and they met Sun- day. Power and his wife, Annabella, huve been separated since Octo- Ler of 1945 and she announeed last weekend that she was willing eto give him a divorce. There was no comment on this from Power. Miss Turner formerly was mar- ried to musiclan Artie Shaw. They were divorced in 1940. - HERE FROM HAIN E. Oslin of Haines is at the Gastineau Hotel. registered