The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ——— - VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,754 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RATIONING PLAN PROPOSED BY GOVT. Urges Development Alaska Forest Resources Joe Hils SEN. MORSE OF OREGON TALKS OUT Alaska Nevl;rinl Needed Now-Small Papers May Be Forced to Close | WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—®—The <overnment should immediately de- velop forest resources in Alaska to provide sorely needed newsprint for American newspapers, Senator Morse (R.-Ore.) said today in a Senate speech “Unless cheaper newsprint is sup- | plied. several hundred small weekly | newspapers will have to cease pub- lication within a year,” Morse said “I call on the government to take immediate steps to develop a news- print industry in Alaska.” Morse said that the nation can' not have a free press unless it can obtain paper on which to print. He said: “The American newspapers are confronted with a monopoly where they must rely on foreign sources for much of their newsprint, “Paper combanies in Canada have announced increased prices for newsprint, the prices of which al- ready were outrageous. The Ameri- can publisher has no choice but to pay for he has no other place to get his paper. “The government should take im- mediate steps for development of Alaska and the newsprint sources there. That can supply a large percentage of the needs of Ameri- can publishers for years to come. The foreign sources are holding up our publishers economically with an economic gun.” Morse declared that under sci- entific forestry Alaska could supply newsprint in perpetuity. He said he hoped the time will come when the government. and Congress will real- ize “the importance of Alaska and stop sleeping at the switch.” | e e | WITH DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT | Neil J. O'Connell of the Douglas Aircraft Company of Santa Moni- ca, California, is at the Baranof Hotel. | | CHAMPION JC N. Y., challenge bout down for a count of seven with “Jerse: .- The Washington Merry - Go-Round By UREW PEARSON Madison Square Garden. L ARMY PLANES jaw in the ninth reund of their fiftesn-round match at retained the championship by a split decision after the fight went the limit. (anvas : LOUIS in fourtn round of Madison Square G also Negro, (International Soundphoto) y" Joe Walcott, ® Wirephota, GREE(E den, goes loms 'lagqed with Right Jersey Joe Walcott (right), challenger, lands a right on Joe Lo New York’s WASHINGTON — The gmatesnl love story since King Edward VIII of England gave up the throne of | England to marry Wally Simpson is now being fearfully hushed up‘ | by the Chinese government. ' § : It is the romance of Madame | Sun Yat-sen, widow of the found- er of the Chinese Republic, with an American Army captain, Ger- ald Tannebaum ‘of Baltimore ‘why the Chinese S0 worried over| this love match, it is necessary lo} realize the Madamie Sun is- the| Martha Washington of modern | Earth Safely with 18 Aboard—No Injuries China, venerated by Nationalists| and Communists alike. Her home| _Two planes carrying army per- and everything connected with her|sonnel and equipment used in has become something of a shring€|Alaskan maneuvers of the 2nd In- in the eyes of the Chinese peo- fantry Division have been forced ple. Therefore, the news that down by motor trouble without she had fallen in love with & |injury to occupants or damage to the craft, Army officials announc- ed here today. foreign soldier would be shattering, to Chinese public opinion. [ Madame Sun is also the sister-; Faulty carburetion in-law of Generalissimo Chiang sible for a forced Kai-shek, and the sister of Madame | Friday at Northway, Chiang. She is the second of the packet ship carryir famous Soong sisters and, married and a four man crew. Dr. Sun, founder of the Chinese| Lt. Col. Roy E. Moore, an ob- | Republic, when she was only 23.|server with the Fort Lewis troops She is now 55 and still one of the engaged in the maneuvers, said lhe‘ most beautiful women in China. lmst warning of danger came with | In high Kuomintang circles, the ringing of an emergency bell, Madame Sun is regarded as the;exhaust flashes from a faltering black sheep of the family, be- engine and a rapid loss of alti- cause she has long advocated peace tude. _ between the Kuomintang and the, “Soldiers who had experienced Communists—the same policy as| great difficulty during practidz that recommended by General Mar- | donning of parachutes were all shall. lleady to jump within 20 seconds Some high Ohinese privately'after the pilot’s order to prepare even call Madame Sun a Commun-lm jump had echoed through the ist, thcugh, becau-e oi her great|ship,” Colonel Moore said. Was respon- landing last of a C-82 14 soldiers (Continued qn Page Eight) (Centinued on Page Four) I omzzm' 'Pilot Bnngs Oné Craft to Ire of Senaors Aroused Over Secrecy of Athens Government BIG. DELTA, Alaska, Dec¢. 9.—(® WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. 2 (e Official Greek secrecy over the number of casualties in the cam- paign against Communist-led guer- rillas drew the iregof Senators to- day. The refusal of the Athens govern- ment to provide casualty lists to 'members of the Appropriations Cemmittee who toured Europe last fall was cited by some of the law- makers as indicating there has been little real fighting. They said the 125,000-man Greek |Army compares with about 15,00 guerrillas. Thi was one aspect of the Sen- ators’ findings which may touch off fireworks when the appropriations igroup is called upon to vote funds to finance long range foreign aid. Committee members told a in addition to further porter that, re- information on the anti-Communist | fighting in Greece, they want ex- lanations from administration of- ficials on these other widely separ- |ated developments: (Continued on Page - { Industrials, 177.49; rails, 47.40; utili- Five) RUSSIA, - FRANCE . -SPLI T Trade Talks Called Oll— Mission Ordered Home ~Another Is Ousted ! H (M —Soviet iRuhsla called off her irade talks with France today and accused the | French government of acts “hostile and contrary’ to the spirit of alli- {ance and mutual assistance” bes tween ihe iwo countries. { The Moscow radio broadcast the contents of a note handed to the yFrench Charge d’Affairs in Moscow {by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gousev in which the Russian decision on the trade talks was dis- closed. | | | | { LONDON, Dec. 9. — | Simultaneously Russia's note charged the French government Iwith *“unilaterally annulling” the | two-year-old repatriation agreement for the return of each other’s na- tionals, ordered the Russian Re- patriation Mission home irom |Francu and announced the expulsion ‘01’ the French Mission from Russia The Soviet Embassy in Paris an- Inounced earlier that the French { Repatriation Mission had been ord- iered to leave Russian territory at nee. — e, Below Zero ' Weather in | : Minnesola !Coldest Weather of Season i Hits Midwest-Coast ’ Is Normal | i (By The Associated Press) The coldest weather of the season | chilied parts of the Midwest today {as temperatures in some sections of Minnesota dropped to nearly 30 de- rees below zer The icy blasts from Canada, cen- tering in Minnesota, northern Towa nnd western Wisconsin, spread over ‘the entire Mississippi Valley and the i Great Lakes region southward over Texas and eastward across the north Atlantic Coast. ' Clear skies and an unbroken blanket of snow from 2 to 17 inches in depth were contributing factors to the sharp drop in temperatures reporting 1in the three-State area sub-zero temperatures. Minnesota communities reported the coldest weather, with Bemidji's 28 below in early morning hours the lowest. Other sub-zero reading in‘ anebota included 22 at Rocheste! 120 at Willmar and 11 at Minneapolis. | Wisconsin’s lowest reading was 18 at La Crosse and Mason City’s five | below wags the coldest in Towa. | A sleet storm was reported in parts of New England and New York State. Winds of 50 miles an | hour velocity swept over Oswego, N. | Y., and the storm delayed attempts f Coast Guardsmen to rescue sev- en men aboard one of the two tug- | boats grounded in the Lake Ontario harbor. Scattered light snow fell in the Rocky Mountain region and sections of the Dakotas and Nebraska and there was light rain in Georgia and along the Garolina coast. Tempera- tures on the Pacific Coast were re- | sorted slightly below normal. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 9. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 797, Anaconda 33, Curtiss-Wright ‘5. International Harvester 87%, Kennecott 45%, New York Central |12 %, Northern Pacific 19%, U. 8. Steel 139%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,000,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: | ties, 32.87. | white and Joe [— SOLDIERS LEA V E ITALY — Medical corpsmen carry a stretcher case aboard the U.s. Army (msport Gen. W. P. Richardson as some of the last American troops leave Italy. | merce Harriman, Prison Inmales on Hunger Strike, Profesting Meatless Iuesdays, Eggless Thursdays McNEIL ISLAND, Wash., Dec. —iP—Spreading of a “hunge strike” to all of the 1,018 inmates | in the main bullding of the Fed- eral penitentiary here, in protest | against meatless Tuesdays and egg- | less Thursdays, was reported to- day by Warden P. J. Squier. He said the dietary rebellion had not reached the 500 inmates in the second building on this island in Puget Sound, because “they ap- parently have not heard of it yet.' ted at a considerable Upwards of 250 Men Are diance trem the main butas Hurled 1o DO DY | oo tas:the manis: crs bor Peculiar Incident | coming monotonous is “entirely or- |derly,” the Warden said, with the |inmates resorting only to a cam- BOSTON, Dec. 9—(P—The $4, aign of ‘“passive resistance.” 000,000 former Navy tanker “Pona-| The demonstration began Sunday gansett” broke in half today at an night when about 250 inmates fail- East Boston pier—pitching upwards ed to appear’for their final meal. of 250 workmen to the decks. ! “I spoke over the prison radip last night and advised the inmates {they could select three representa- tives with whom I would be more than glad to discuss the problem (with a view to settlement of the difficulty the Warden said, but there had been no reply from the One man was injured cnu(allv and thirteen others were treated for | minor hurts. The 523-foot vessel was being con- verted to commercial use after serv- ing in the Pacific during the war as a fleet oiler. She was built in 1944 ;166 this morning—unless the sagds Sbop GRIIITE spread of the rebellion was the Both parts of the ship remained reply. afloat. A cleft eight feet wide at o o the d ok line narrowed toward the L T oo | - McNEIL ISLAND, Wash., Dec. 9.' As she buckled amidship with a rending sound, a huge spray of oily water shot high into the air. Chief Engineer Frank Cardua said at first he thought “something had struck us.” e e DON ADLER NAMES ASSISTANTS FOR CHRISTMAS SHIP ‘Alaska's Contribution of Supplies for Europe Be Handled in Seattle SEATTLE, Dec. 9.—(®— Don Ad- —The strike of more than 1,000 inmates at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary against food served on priscn tables ended at noon today | | when all prisoners 1zported for lumh Warden P. J. Squier reported. | “For the first time since the start ‘n{ the demonstration Sunday after- 'noon,’ Squier told The Associated | Press, “all of the inmates of the | institution ate their meal at noon ‘luddv “Conclusien of the mass passive demonstration against the ‘monot- oncus diet’ followed a meeting this morning of three inmates, chosen by fellow convicts, with me. | “Suggestfons were offered for the improvement of serving food and as | a result all resistance disappeared.” > ANS OFFICIALS TRAVEL Dr. George A. Dale and William i Fedlhms'rm' left for Mount Edge- ler, Alaska American Leglon offi- e mpe today on a ten-day trip to | cial who operates an “Outside” |y, on proposed projects at the buying service for Alaskans in Se-! gy Nlunlrjo :miu-nj institution | attle, today named several assis- gnere Dale, who is ANS Director tants to help him with Alaska’s o gqueation, will work on a pro- contribution to the NOrthwest gram of trajning veterans in mari- Christmas Ship, which will carny time knowledge. Featherstone, A: supplies to Europe. |sistant ANS Construction Engineer, | Adler was named by Lew Will- wiil go over plans for a proposed | iams, Secretary and Acting Gov- tannery. l ernor of Alaska, to head the com- e mittee gathering Alaskan contribu- INTENTION TO WED i tions for the ship. St Assisting Adler on the Alaska Joe L. Adair ‘and Marcelle Sainte | committee are Edmund C. Oldfin, Marie have applied to U. S. Com- | Earle W. Knight, Mrs. John W. missioner Felix Gray for a marriage E. Crosson. license, « Stars and Slnpes Not Used '+ " the ®ecescscscssnecccscnne a hearing on a mloume ~ PROGRAM ~ PROPOSED ‘Measure GTV;II {ongress . While Republicans Go | Ahead, Own Plans | W ASHlNCTDN Dvc §.—~(M—The +administation today submitted pro- posed legislation to Congress which | would permit the rationing of meat, |gasoline and other commodities | while Republicans went ahead with plans for their own substitute, anti- | inflation program. | A draft of a suggested measure to carry out the administration’s ideas | Was given a Senate Judiciary Sub- Under Secretary William C. Fos- ter, explaining it to the Senators, said it would permit the govern- ment to buy up the entire wheat crop if that was found to be ad- visable. Republican Congressional leaders ARMY pApER have declared There is not a chance ¥ ‘ that a broad grant of price control in\nd rationing vower will be given DENY “ARGE the administration, but are mapping their own attack on high prices. ‘ House Speaker Martin (R.-Mass.) { lold reporters saparate bills covering wo of the three points in a GOP substitute for President Truman's economic program will be taken up for MacArthur's Propa- | cariy next week” ™ ganda-"DamnAngry’ | & "OKYO, Dec. 9.—(P—Two “damn BR I NGS Sul' editors of Stars and Stripes | denied vigorouslv today L'hm‘gk‘si made in the New York Daily Work- er that General MacArthur is using | [ Army newspaper to give his troops “his distorted propaganda.” A lengthy page one editorial, first = ever published in Stars and Stripes, | was signed by Hanson H. Hathaway, | Mum\mna Edllor. and George W“ i Bt i sl i Wife of Seaman Who Lost Life Off Hippa Island Wants $100,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9— A | damage suit for $100,000 was filed “We are a damn angry news-|against the United States Govern- pape contifiued the editorial, | ment tcday as a result of the whose authors said it was written |breakup on Nov. 24 of the army on their own initiative, | transport Clarksdale Victory on “The American soldier in the Far | stcrm-battered Hippa Island off Fast, at whose morale the Daily | the Alaskan Codst. Forty-nine Worker is blasting in this attack |men lost their lives. Four seameri on his chief, is no sucker for such | were saved. Communist propaganda. l ‘Today’s suit was brought by Mrs. “Without doubt these (Daily!Lorraine Ruth Dehne, whose hus- Worker) charges stém from bholbank Eugene Dehne, 21-year-old typewriter of one or two former | seaman, was among the missing. Stars and Stripes staff members|She charged negligence in opera- who were dismissed and returned |tion of the ship. to the United States after a nega- Attorney Melvin Belli said 10 tive lovmy check.” ‘similar suits would be filed later PR Ithls week. ® 0 0 & v e e 00 0t WEATHER REPO) | This Morning MAY HGH"’ AG‘IN' U STATEMENT MADE fn Juneau—Maximum 38; minimum 32. At Airport—Maximum 37; minimum 32, WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—iP— Mostly cloudy with light e|1beé man who commanded an Ar- rain and not much change e|MY disciplinary ~barracks when in temperature tonight and + [Rocky Graziano served time_there Wednesday Increasing e 0day joined those who think the scutheasterly winds becom- ,lwmlds middleweight champion ing 15 to 20 mph tonight o should be allowed to fight again. The National Boxing Association (Past 24 hours ending 730 a.m. today) e |1 @ statement today quoted Col. In Juneau—.15 inches; since e |James P. Marley. retired, as say- July 1, 5479 inches o y “Doggone it, lians i It declared that neither Mac- | Arthur “nor any of his delegated | officers or civilian aides have ever dictated or tried to dictate what | Stars and Stripes in the Pacific should or should not print. PRECIPITATION At Airport—02 inches; since ® no one should dig Dec. 1, 073 inches; since e YP 8 man's past and hurl it at ® July 1, 3277 inches o him years later.” . o | Graziano was barred from box~ e © o &« o ® o e ofingin Tllinois after the State Ath- AR B | letic Commission learned that he RIVERS TO CONVENTION | had been sent to the Fort Leav-~ vy v enworth, Kansas, barracks for be- Territorial Attorney General|iDg& absent without leave during Ralph J. Rivers will leave here to- | the war and later given a dishon- morrow for Ketchikan to attend the | 0Table discharge from the Army. | First Division Democratic C.mwn-, Other members of the National tion andd to transact some business | BoXing Association (NBA) have connected with his office including | threatened similar action, although case before llmf“t‘"(’ has taken an official posi- Alaska Industrigl Board. | Hon. | committee by Secretary of Com-