The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 10, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,755 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PLANE CRASHES IN ICY WILDERNESS GOP Gives " Fire Rages in Gasoline Eank ‘ARABS JEWS PROPOSALS DRAFTED BY 4 lEADERSa Four-Point Plan Is Reply,f to Broad Powers Ask- | ed by President | WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—#—, Republican Congressional lead: r\: agreed today on a four-point anti- i inflation program for enactment during the present session of Con- gress, Senator Taft of Ohio, chairman | of the Committee, and House Republican, Leader Halleck of Indiana, an- rounced the program provides for: 1. Voluntary industry-wide agree- ments to hold living costs in line.| Anti-trust laws would be set aside tempcrarily ior such agreements, | and the administration would be given money to promote such a program. 2. Continuation and expansion of export controls. ! 3. Increase, from 25 percent to, percent the gold reserves re- quired behind currency issued by! Federal Reserve Banks; and in-| crease frdm 25 to 35 percent the gold reserves that Federal Reserve Banks must carry to support the| deposits ¢f commercial banks. i 4. Contro over vital transpor- tation facilities, such as boxcars. The Republicans drafted their program as a reply to President Truman's request for broad pow- ers to resume rationing and price contrels if the administration should decide they are necessary. A draft of a bill covering most 40 of the President’s requests was pre- | (Continued on Page Five) - e The Washington Merry - Go-Round By LREW PEARSON i WASHINGTON — It's unwritten | tradition that freshmen Scxmlors‘ shall be seen and not heard. The present crop, however, is getting more and more restless under Taft leadership, and is clamoring for a bigger voice in party councils. As a result, first termers went into a recent huddle around the dinner table at the Metropolitan Club. After a three-hour, nip-and-tuck session, they agreed to meet to- gether one evening each week, and present their views afterward to older Senators at the Republican policy committee. It was also de- cided to keep the conferences secret from the press, but Montana's Sen ‘ ator Zales Ecton caustically re-| marked, “I suppose we'll see a full account in Drew Pearson’s col-| umn.” | Actually it has been the custom | for Senate newcomers to lunch to-| gether once a week, but this has| been more social than business. | The new plan to take a full eve-| ning and settle down to a senous‘ exchange of ideas was urged byl Connecticut's enterprising Senator | Ray Baldwin. “We must work out our ideas| together, and present them to thel leadership,” he declared. This would not cause a cleavage between the freshmen and old-timers, he argued, since a fair cross section of Senate opinion is represented among the freshmen Republicans. This was soon demonstrated when Minnesota’s frank Senator | Ed Thye, ex-Governor and poul- try farmer, compared the Repub- lican party to a man with one end of a rope around his neck and the other tied tp a horse. This is no time, he warned, to swat the horse on the rump. Thye reierred to the dilemma in | which the President’s price pro- gram left the Republicans. The best politics, he suggested, would | be to give Truman the powers he | asks and let him hang himself. (Continued. on Page Four) Senate Republican Steering | | ports, the ongress Anti-Inflation Program P Billowing eleuds of smcke and giant balls of fire rise from a blazing sterage gasoline tark at the Standard Oil Company refinery at El Segundo, Calif., after least one man. # Wirephoto. an expiosion blew the tank apart, killing at Sanfa Claus REDS TAKE Again Comes MONEY OUT SEATTLE Dec. 10.—(@ The | custem of Christmas ships for Al- {aska will be revived this year, af- ter a 10-year lapse With a Santa Claus to distribute candy, fruit and nuts to children and sprays of holly to their moth- ers, a show will be .put on at each port, officials said. The Steamship Co. will have two such ships for Southwestern Alaska Square Knot sailing De- cember 18 and the Denali two days later, and the Alaska of the North- land Transportation Co. will sail Dec. 23 for Stutheafl Alaska ports. lEWIS SAYS 0Il CONVERSION, 46, CAUSED SHORTAGE WASHINGTOwN, Dec. John L. Lewis, United Mine Work- ers chief, teday blamed oil short- ages in some parts of the nation on a shift frem coal to oil for fuel after the miners strike in late 1946. He told Senators it became a ‘popular expression” that the min- ers should be punished and the cil industry and equipment dealers Alaska” 10.—R—| Aboard Ships OF GERMANY Marshall Charges Russia Taking Five Million in Assets from Zone LONDON, Dec. 10.—(#—Secretary ate Marshall charged tonight that Russia is taking assets from Eastern Germany at- a rate of more than $500,000,000 yearly and he demanded that the withdraw- als be halted effective January 1. Marshall told the Couacil of Foreign Ministers: 'he United States is not pre- d to agree to any program of reparations from current produc- tion as a price 1or the unification of Germany. The rehabilitation nf Germany, he sdid, covery. | | | is vital (8 Eufopean re- came . In an apparent effort to parted from this suburban " ARE GIVENt UI.TIMMUMI Severe Measures Be Tak-i en Unless Communal | Strife Is Ended (By The Asscciated Press) " The British threatened Palestin- jan Arabs and Jews today with sever> measures unless they ended al striie which has re- 127 deaths in the Holy 255 in the whole Middle East since the United Nations voted to partition the mandate. Foreign Minister Fadhil Jamali of Iraq said in New York a “gen- eral struggle” would begin in Palestine when the British, who surrender their mandate May 15, pull cut in August “Pla are being made over there now for the fight” he said, re- ferring apparently to the Arab League meeting in Cairo. The Arab League leaders were talking of Holy War and invasion of Pal- cstine by armies of the seven near- by Arab states when the British leave. the comm in sulted Land en Minister Faisal Al Saud audi Arabia said in Cairo he ‘personally would hate -to attend. any further meetings of the United Nations.” Arabs attacked Gevulot in the southern Palestinian Desert and killed six Jews. Police drove them ofi. An Arab house in Karatiya was blewn up and four Arabs were killed. Two heavy explosions jar- red Haifa. An uneasy dalm settled over the Tel Aviv-Jaffa border bat- ile area where the British imposed a curfew Palestine property losses in the 11 days of riots were estimated at $10,000,000. Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham, High Commissioner of Palestine, issued the warring to the opposing fac- tions but did not disclose the na- ture of the severe measures he had in mind e R (UB FLIERS END WORLD TRIP TODAY TETERBORO, N. J,, Dec. 10.—® —Cliff Evans and George Truman landed their two pint-sized, 100- horsepower flivver planes at Teter- boro airport at 10:10 a. m. toda; ending a leisurely 25,000 mile globe-circling flight unigue in the history of aviation. The two former army pilots in as casually as they de- com- force a showdown, the American mercial airport on Aug. 9, They, Secretary declared: “If we cannot take this economic | 123 days to show that it could be Out when decision, which is of immediate vi- | tal significance, then we are v\asL-_UE“ with a cruising speed of 105 had been collapsing rapidly. no miles per hour. ing our time when there is time to waste. had flown around the earth in| done in little fabric-covered air- A flight of fighter planes es- “I feel that we are entitled to corted the two pilots on the final| a positive, Mr. Molotov now to the question | raised in paragraph 22. The paragraph to which he re- ferred the Soviet Foreign Minister is a section of a British proposal | which would give Germany recov- lery and achievement of self-suffi- | ciency | Crisler, “made a Roman holiday out of Now, he said, there is a short- rage of oil. Lewis appeared befcre a Senate Commerce Subcommittee investi- |gating 1uel supplies and distribu- tion. - e OLDTIMER DIES | Hugh Sawyer, pioneer resident | of Alaska and Ketchikan, died at the PFirst City following an extend- ed illness. He joined the Klondike ‘rush then turned to fishing and {later to logging ——.—— FROM PETERSBURG A. L. Leighton of Petersburg is | stopping at the Baranof Hotel. pricrity over any repara- om German production. - e ticns f NEW YORK — Herbert “Fritz" who tutored Michigan's Wolverines through an undefeated- untied season into the Rose Bowl, teday was named “Coach of the Year” in the New York World- Telegram’s annual poll. e i WASHINGTON — A spokesman | ifer the Commercial Telegraphers Union (AFL said today that a Christmas-season strike against Western Union Telegraph Company “seems inevitable.” clear-cut answer from |1ap from Harrisburg, Pa. - - WITH PORT CHILKOOT CO. Carl Heinmiller of the Port Chil- kch Company at Haines is stop-| !ping at the Gastineau. Not Ho Enough Divorce from Clergyman BALTIMORE, Dec. 10.—#—Tes- timony that her clergyman hus-| band kept the parsonage at a tem- ! perature of less than 60 degrees | and told her to “put on a sweat-| er, rcbe and long underwear,” won a divorce for Mrs. Nettie S. Philips. Mrs. Philips told Judge Edwin | T. Dickerson in Circuit Court she | married the Rev. Euclid Philips in Deer Irapped by Fallen Foe ¥ 3 4 *K T ¥ » - ke starvatien, bounded off, apparently unhurt. Mother of Four Children Drowns, Washing Machme FOR ALASKA MIAMI, Fltl Dec. 10.—(®- An autopsy revealed that Mrs. Neta Swingel, 37-year-cld mother of four children, drowned in a wash- ing spell at Mrs. ered machine following a fainting her suburban home Swingel's body was discov- yesterday by her husband, Oliver, who found her collapsed ]uv(vr the machine, her head sub- lmPlL.lfl and . swaying with the | agitators, ized { “She evidently fainted, her head | and shoulders fell into the machine, Bow fo Government's Ul- ana ‘then she drowned.” said . timatum Ending Month | Jickion Memert sompar. wio of General Strikes ‘\Hl(l' | performed the autopsy at the re- By REMBERT JAMES ; v B PARIS, Dec. 10—#—A month " . of labor strife end Communist- on the deadiine of a government ultimatum, and foreign diplomats said France could count now on at least a month of Industrial en ena e peace to patch ‘up the damage. The Ccmmunist-dominated Gen- St eral Cenferedation oi Labor (CGT) WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — (P— bowed to the government's demand President Truman has nominated last night-and ordered the strikers Maj. Gen. Clifton B. Cates to be back cn the government’s terms Commandant of the Marine Corps of settlement. with the rank of General. About 1,500,000 workers still were ‘The nomination is for a four-year the settlement was term dating from Jan. 1, 1948. reached, but the strike movement ' Other nominations sent to the Be- Senate: tween 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 men, Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Watson, to be Lieutenant General while serv- ing as Commanding General of the were idle at its peak. The foreign diplomats said they |expected a new Communist on- Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific slaught on the nation’s economy be-' Vice Admiral John L. McCrea to iore bolstering American aid might hold that rank while serving as De- make such an attack too late to puty Commander in Chief of the be effective. Pacific Fleet. Rear Admiral Arthur C. Miles to (Continued on Page Eight) |\ "vi.. Admiral while holding the position of Chief of the Material | Division, Office of the Under Secre- I e e s tary of the Navy. - -ee CDA MEE] The business meeting of the Catholic Daughters of America was held last evening at the Parish | Hall Many important items of |interest for the coming year were 1944, and had to leave discussed and it was decided to months later when she hold initiation of new members at November, him two Victor in a fight with ancther buck, this deer found himself trapped in a tangle of antlers and facing | A Three men found him near Columbia, SD., and pried him loose with crowbars. His adyersary had died of a brcken back. Watching the buck struggle to free himseif are Danny Shaefer and Marilyn ivemn of Columbia. ® Wirephoto. f Who ' Alaskan |quest of the Dade County sherift’s Gannery Workers Union (CIO). i 29 KILLED AS PLANE ~ GOES DOWN A I.C Transpori Crashes | Soon After Takeoff-Res- cue Parties to Scene ! WESTOVER FIELD, Mass., Dec. |10—4®—A big ATC transport plane carrying 2910 crew members and |19 military passengers—crashed and | burned just before midnight in the icy wilderness north of Goose Bay, i Labrador. The number of survivors , —of any—was unknown. y From the air, one man could be {seen in the center of the wreckage | waving his arms “Whether he is one of the sur- Ivivors or a member of the ground | rescue crew sent out from the Goose | Bay Airfield is unkncwn,” a spokes- {man at the Air Transport Command \ headquarters here said. i The big plane—equivalent of the DC-4 type planes used by commer- i cial airlines crashed about eight | miles north of Goose Bay just after |a takeoff on an unscheduled flight {from the Labrador Airfield to West- L iover Field with mail and cargo. small reconnaissance plane ! spotted the lone figure in the wreck- |age. The main ground rescue party | was reported in Goose River, near 'me sceneé. Whether the man at the Acmsh was an adyance member of the rescue group is not known. N E w u N l o N A light Nordyn Norseman — a npl.me used by Canadian bush pilots is hélving direct the rescuers lmn\mg over the rugged snowy coun- j tryside. The deer g (ANNERYMEN FOUR ARMY Pefifion Filed wilh NLRB] ME“ DEAD Because of Strife Torn ' ; IN FLAMES (01 CWu {Fire Razes Two - Story Frame Barracks - Six thcers Injured PINE CAMP, N. Y., Dec. 10— a certification ! Four Army officers assigned to “Ex- election came from the Seafood ;ercise Snowdrop” winter maneuvers Workers' Union (Ind., which is|Wwere burned to death early today headed by Cornelio N. Briones, form- {in a fire which razed a two-story er business representative of Local jframe barracks at this northern No. 7. Briones said his union has'Ne‘” York military reservation. complied with the Taft-Hartley Act | Six other officers were injured, by filing non-Communist affidavits (one of them severely burned. and other reports, while Local No., The death count rose to four when 7 has not the body of an officer, reported The move is one of many expect- | missing earlier, was recovered. ed in the Pacific Northwest and { Eight others leaped to safety from Alaskan maritime and fishing in- |first and second-story windows of dustries, with their numerous unions [ the flaming barracks. Cause of the and jurisdictional conflicts. fire was not determined Robert ~ Kenney, International | Army authorities planned to evac- Representative of the Food and To- |uate five of the injured by plane to bacco Workers' Union, parent or- {Murphv General Hospital at Wal- ganization of Local No. 7, charged | tham, Mass. The sixth was in criti- that the new union is “industry- |cal condition at the camp hospital dominated; we are going to charge | here that before the NLRB.” “‘he Army withheld identities of Briones denied any tie-up with |the officers killed pending notifica- either «mpluym or the AFL jtion of the next of kin. SEATTLE, Dec. 10.—®-A new independent union has filed ¢ pou-| tion with the National Labor Rll.l-] tions Board here in an attempt to wrest control of 3,300 non-resident salmon cannery workers from strife-torn Local No. % of the | | The petition for - s The winter maneuvers, “Exercise ticipating in the four-month train- 1 ing session are men and officers of NEW YORK, Dec. 10 Closing | Ninth Air Force troops and troop quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |carrier command personnel, all Anaconda 33';, Curtiss-Wright 5, |bat Bmuaunn International Harvester 87%, Ken- | Northern Pacific 19%, U. S s(mlNURSE" S(HOOl WIll 75'%, Pound $4.03', Snowdrop,” began here Nov. 1, Par- STOCK QUOTATIONS | ithe famed 82nd Airborne Division, stock today is 3%, American Can 79. | comprising the 505th Airborne Com-~ necott 45'%, New York Central 13! Sals. todiay were CLOSE FRIDAY, DEC. 19, 1,120,000 shares. | , dustrile, 17135; rals, §‘~f'fi{;“"\.,’.i‘..{ INSIHD OF DEC. 12 ties, 32.87 1 S eee - | Due to protests r.om parents, the FROM HIDDEN FALLS Inursery school at the Governor's contracted a sever cold and sore the social meeting on January 27 Frank W. Barr of Hidden Falls'House will remain open until De- throat. The next regular meeting will be|is registered at the Juneau Hotel. cember 19, rather than close this She testified the Reverend Philips a very short session on December >> coming Friday as previously an- sat around the ho “in h?s ov “.!.! HERE FROM FAIRBANKS nounced. coat and mufiler around, his n R - | - — The school will remain eclesed The parsonage and | suppl.ed by, SAN FRANCISCO GUEST Al Allen of . San Francisco staying at the Hotel Juneau and rubbers.” heat, she said, were the parish. is | wor th Hotel Juneau. J. J. Rivers and of Fairbanks Ira P. are Farns- from Friday, December 19 to Thurs- the day, January 1, according to present plans, at