The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 16, 1947, Page 1

Fo “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ( VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,760 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1947 " MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS . BIG THREE Economic - WORKINGON Proposals " NEW PLANS Economic Cgfiélidation of I Western Germany | Measure Introduced Now Indicated by Senatg Com. e By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—(P— LONDON, Dec. 16 —(®—The Uni- The Senate Banking Committee to- s ted States, Britain and France day approved a three-poit Republi- (s worked today on tentative plans, can anti-inflation bill. 1 for ecomomic consolidation of = The action kept the way open at Western Germany, whose industrial least in the Senate for further con- y potential may be a major factor sideration of measures to check t in the European recovery pro- the rising cost of living. ] gram. Any acticn in the House ap- ] Diplomatic sources said the fail- | peared a slim possib.lity after yes- ure of the conference of Foreign | 's vote turning down the Minsters will intensify efforts to | bill speed the reconstruction of West-! The Banking Committee’s ap- 8 tern Germany. Eastern Germany proval was by voice vote at the end of a hearing at which Senator Taft (Ohio), chairman of the is occupied by Russia. L > Exploratory conversations will begin at a dinner tonight, given | GOP Senate Policy Committee, ap- » by French Foreign Minister Georg- | pealed for fast action es Bidault, who told a news con- Taft told the committee that if ference that he would a a!the Senate gives unanimous ap- m.er of the three zones of proval, the measure can be call- Western Germany providing it was 'cr up for debate there starting profitable to France. Bidault said | tCcmorrow { he made the dinner engagement He added that the Demociats ! with Secretary oi State Marshall cculd block this if they wanted P a week ago to, and that such action probably : While Soviet Foreign Minister V. would eliminate any chance for e M. Molotov was enroute to Moscow, |action in the House before the ’ diplomatic sources in London said | Friday adjournment goal. 1 U. S. Secretary of State Marshall, Taft had tcld reporters eariler : would start the first of a series of that he had no agreement with ‘ Western Power discussion on the House leaders for action there. unification of the Western Reich B wit French Foreign Minister i Georges Bidault 3 The breakdown of the Big Four i talks ruled out any Four- Power | i organization of all Germany in the ‘ immediate future. Marshall was understood to have put his advisors on German affairs | Sw E pT Bv g to work at once drafting recom- mendations which he might hand v to Bidault as tentative plans for merging the French zone of Ger- i many with the American and Br"-i ish zones. He will dine tonight with | Bidault, who said France would ac- | ‘Bv The Asso cept a merger if it were profitable.! Colder weather spread over pmus Some U. S. diplomats thought it jof the North Central and s ctions | possible that Marshal, Bidault and of the South today, with temper- Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Sec- atures droppmg below the freezing vetary, might plan a Big Three | ms as far south as Vicksburg, neeting. M. ippi. ' Russian reaction to the confer-; Sub-zero ence, thus far restricted to press ; comment, blamed the breakdown |of Wisconsin on the Western Powers. W In Moscow the newspaper Izvestia | Minn., on the Canadian border. charged the Western Powers had, The mercury fell to an even 32 hamstrung the conference while! | —freezing—at Nashville, Tenn., “trying to lay the responsibility on |and Fort Worth, Texas; dropped - the Soviet Union.” | to 31 at Greenwood, Miss.; and to| 7,30 at Vickshurg | reported an early morning low of 125 and in Arkansas, Fort Smith’s The w asnlngton | minimum was 26 and Little Rock’s Merry - Go-Round by LREW PEARSON ated Press) marks were general The lowest reading (Conunued "age Two) ->e Hcauesn snow was in lower Mich gan, Northwestern Ohio 1and Eastern Indiana. Light falls {were reported in upper Michigan, | the Eastern Dakotas and over the » | Rockies. 4 WASHINGTON — Here is MOre| Rain fell southward to the Gulf about the 800 U. S. paratroopers Coast and eastward to the Atlantic, shot down by our own troops OVe'| while Maine reported snow. Tem- ‘ Sicily and the Army's attempt NOt| peratures were reported slightly h to rectify the error, but to Punishhelow normal in the Pacific Coast officers who wanted to correct the | |states. High on yesterday's weath- causes of this tragedy. |er map was 78 at Miami. One of the men who took part| yibe SN in this Sicilian airborne infantry | SHUT-INS TO HAVE i cperation and was lucky enough | to live through it was Lt. Col. Da-! . vid Laux. Afterward, he directed | his energies toward making sure| IRA"SPORIAIION L4 that future Army transports carry-| ‘ ing paratroopers were equipped XMAS pROGRAM L84 with self-sealing gasoline tanks sO they could not be shot down SO | easily by anti-aircraft fire Al por the first time, everyone is transport Carrying paratr0oPers going to attend the Community must necessarily fly low and slow; | | Christmas program, which will be | therefore, it is an easy target {f0Mpelq on Sundev afternoon at 2 the ground, no matter who is fir- igelock at the 20th Century The- ing. And the planes shot dOWN atre All elderly people, shut-ins and over Sicily had no seli-sealing|disabled children will be given tanks, armor plate or any Other|transportation to the theatre so protection whatscever. they may enjoy the holiday festivi- However, when Laux was oppos- | ties. ed on better protection for these | Anyone knowing of people who planes, he finally wrote a letter require transportation are asked to direct to Secretary of War Stim-|send in names, addresses and phone ! son, who turned the letter over lnumbers to Mrs. Don C. Foster, P. to one of the officers opposing O. Box 795, City. If late or rushed, Laux on self-sealing tanks—Gen. they mav phone Mrs. Foster directly Barney Giles. And Giles immed- |at Black 369. iately ordered Laux to Alaska. | No one will want to miss the top- A day or two later, after Col. notch entertainment that the Ju- Laux had arrived in Alaska, Glles neau Weman's Club has planned for followed him up with an amaz- |the afterncon. A play will be pre- ‘ ing 600-word telegram, which, if [sented under the direction of Rich- — e ard Peter and there will be tradi- jtional Christmas music. (Conunued on Page "Four) throughout Minnesota and in parts | s 11 below at International Falls, | parts of | WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—®— SEATTLE, Dec. 16.—(P—Why the; HONOLULU, Dec. 16—®— The | A leader the Army's Reserve Army transport Clarksdale Victory|Army tanker El Caney—her rud- Officers declared today this coun-, was 25 miles off course when she | der ripped loose and propeller try is “making faces at Russia” went aground on Hivpa Island, Brit- | damaged by heavy seas—was in w;m neither the military force ish Columbia, November 24, with a|peril today in the stormy North nor military planning to back it loss to 49 lives remained unanswered | Pacific, south of the Aleutians. up as a Coast Guard Board of Investi-| Ships in the area were going Briz. Gen. E. A. Evans, execu- gation adjourned late yesterday. [to her aid tive director of the Reserve Offi- The hearing will be resumed when | The Hawailan Sea Frontier re- ‘ers Association, told reporters the Clair E. Driscoll of Los Angeles, one ported that the vessel, enroute Vs delenses are suffering ©f the vessel's two third mates, re- from Yokohama to Seattle w.th a from poor leadership “at the Pen- covers sufficiently from immersion |crew of 45, radioed her first dis- tagon”—headquarters of the new foot to leave a Ketchikan hospital tress call early Tuesday (Western Nat.onal Defense Department. and come to Seattle. Aleutians Time) at a point 550 He said at a news conference he Testimony of the three other Sur-imiles southwest of Adak. and other reserve offices are ready ViVOrs was taken vesterday —_— to tell Congressional committees Although defects in the ship’s| (Distr messages recelved in that radio direction finder and fatho- seattle placed El Caney's position 1. The manpower of the Army meter prevented obtaining accur-,a¢ 458 miles south of Attu, in the is declining “at an alarming rate” Ate bearings and checking them be- | pjeutian group. The Coast Guard because the volunteer system of foré the freighter went aground, jeported that the Bolster, a Navy recruiting has failed Henry H. Wolfe, second mate and | jyage vessel, was dispatched to 2. The Nat.onal Guaid, navigator, said none of the officers iy, rescue from Adak and the i ¢d to have 680,000 men ready for NOUEh it possible that they could geamship Thomas J. Lyons, in ARMY TANKER | ! Speeding fo Ship's Assistance ing of Army Transport Clarksdale Victory | | be o far off course the vicinity, was asked to proceed any “mobilization day” emergency, ? + 1] actually has only 200,000 “poorly o Wolfe ;.n.l the radio direction to the scene and stand by.) equipp i i f’“‘l’) “‘)‘ - A”B‘"‘; The tanker was enroute to Se- 3 of the organiz- s DO e o they were|Attle in ballast. It skipper is : you could get together auguctin san Francisco STE X\ ot nas gt ot Fan 20 percent of the men in an emer- ' Third Officer William Rasmus- Francisco. — e - sen said the vessel developed a said that in the organ- .5 ro and acted as if she had! i reserve only one out of LVe yyuek g jog about 20 minutes be- | the 500,000 cfficers and only g srounding. one out of 24 among the 680,000 . Lo » Lot car s S {enlisted ‘men have received any but received no reports from him | instructicns on what to do in a re the wreck,” the officer de- ' national emergency. clared. “When we struck, the look- ' n ras B R R Jout reported to the bridge. I believe SPECULATORS ARE - THREATENED WITH - USEOF SUBPOENAS poena to i market | names j ers, | obtain | | | i clared. Soviet Jones, make E. Stassen Senator |a reporter propriations access to the:names of large trad- Ministers Conference to reach an he will seek a subpoena list either Okxlahcma City ;ernm"m records or from mdwmual‘ |omkt-|s “If we can't get it the easy way from the government, the long way and get it from the g p m (EST). { brokers,” the Michigan Senator de- rationed The government newspaper vestia acclaimed the occasion with | an editorial declaring: “Money reform and the aboiition of raticning are ardently approv- ed by all our great people. Soviet people see in the historical measures of the Communist party and the government a way toward strengthening of new growth the people’s welfare.” WAGE BOOST FOR | CIVIL SERVICE EMP. PROVIDED IN BIL WASHINGTON, An $800 incremse in the basic sal- | - ary rate of all Civil Service em- | ployees and a boost of 40 cenats an | hour for those government work- ers on an hourly basis was pro- posed today in a bill introduced n Congress by Rep. Homer R. the further WASHINGTON, { Senators may answer administration the any public speculators claims of Ferguson the ——— MOSCOW, Dec. items at State and Dee Jist which includes “government insiders.” (R-Mich) that if the Senate Ap- Committee we - - IRUSSIA’S BANKS, STORES OPEN 10 [ucwscws NEWEST EX(HMIGE‘P[ANES CRASH IN 16. —-(M—Russ)as banks and stores opened today to orderly early morning crowds and began the well-organized exchange of new rubles for old and the sale j of food, clothing and other u“_iSLven Naval airmen were Kkilled | lower R-Wash. Dec. with a of grain' is denied from can take he { dutie: awake and performing his NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—#—The | tell of dead in the collision of two (tankers —yesterday off Curacao, Dutch West Indies, 1¢ to eight | * |today with 12 persons still report- |ed missing. message from Puerto Rico )} Guard headquarters to New said that eight bodies had | breught x(khole and that & | Coast MARSHALL T0" fach RADIO‘:::: . of the ;cutd were des seriously injured. Timed at 5:3¢4 a. m., the message WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. — (P Secretary of State Marshall plans a declared that the Venezuelan tank- er Tucupita, a converted LST, was report to the nation Friday night on failure of the Big Four Foreign | 16— sub- 1erusa! H Harold | the told a total loss. She carried a crew lof 36, including two women. The Los Pozos, a 5810-ton Ar- | gentine tanker, was reported drift- ’ (ing in a north westerly direction. | C(usl Guardsmen said “she may | be salvaged.” However, the vessel | . was still afire and little hope was 1t 'held for the remaining crew mem-; bers. The Captain of the Los| Marshall is expected to arrive P0z0s (unidentiiied) was listed as! jfrom London Friday in President dead. She carried a crew of 34. | { Truman’s plane, the Sacred Cow.! = R 5 { ‘He made a similar report on his !return last April from the Moscow Fcrcxgu Ministers Conference which to gov- agreement on a European +settlement. State Department officials said "nday that tentative arrangements are being made for a 20-minv radio address to begin promptly peace Nearly Two Million/ Japanese Searching For Habitable Homes: i TOKYO, Dec. 16. (P—Kyodo | | News Agency took a look at this | prostrate nation today in the third | 'today when a Corsair fighter plane l\:;rr:f:;."m(c the surrender, and Ob'{ : 1 and a patrol bomber cartying a|“.one minion, 600,000 persons are | crew of seven collided in the air th bloodshot ayes for ! land crashed at the Norfolk Naval|Scrching with bloodshot cyes MIDAIR; 7 KILLED Va., NORFOLK, Dec. 16.—(P—| prices. Iz- J Air Station. 3 P 2 A survey by the agency showed N_m'al spokesmen said v,hp_ Cor- }19,000 families are living in shacks The ;Sair, attached to the Aircrafli ;g more than 2,000 families in air Carrier Coral Sea, collided With|,,iq shelters in Tokyo. Destroyed by the right wing of the bomber, at- tached to Amphibious Group Three. the | The Corsair caught fire and of | Pilot burned to death. | B ALASKA COASTAL MAKES| AIMS AT HEAD, ONE FLIGHT VESTERDAY gyt ET MISSES Due to bad weather, only one | ——— |trip was made by Alaska Coastal| PHILADELPHIA, Dec. ,yesterday. Mrs. A. B. Hicks was Detective Sgt. Charles Beckman re- picked up at Hoonah and nmuv,m‘poned today a six foot, 200 pound to Juneau. blind street peddler fatally shot his house-keeper because he obeyed “a sudden impulse.” Beckman said the William Neithamer, 37, then at- tempted suicide in the darkened North Philadelphia apartment, but missed with a hullet that he had aimed at his head. fire bombs were 769,000 homes, and | an additional 207,000 were torn the [qown for firebreaks. | e e — | | 16.—P— -ee WASHINGTON — Former Gov- ernor Alf M. Landon of Kansas quoted President Truman today as saying he wants Congress to guar- antee operation of the long-range European recovery plan for at least four years. | cause SLASH MADE IN FOREIGN AID PROGRAM ’MANPOWER ‘Shlp Wreck "U.S.ARMYIS | Remaining IN PERIL IN ByGOPers DECLINING BigMystery NORTH PACIFIC Three-Point Anti-Inflation Coun!ry Mamng Faces at Teshmony Given in Sink- Vesselsfrom Aleutian Base"ADw(E- GIVENTO Russia” and Can't Back ; It Up Is Clalm ‘ Living - Cost Le Doomed, Spedial Session; ~ Demos B SEATTLE C. C. COM. | BY ALASKA'S GOV.. SEATTLE, Dec. 16.—/— ‘The Jovernor of Alaska told the Alaska cmmittee ol the Seattle Chamber »f Commerce yesterday that it :ould remove irritations between che city and Alaska if the Cham- ser would follow the example of seattle’s city government and en- lorse statehood for the Territory. The Governor also asked the Chamber and the city to back | egislation now pending in Con- ress to amend the “Jones” ship- ing act in order to enable Can- dian flag vessels to serve Alaska. Seattle steamship companies, he ,aid, have a monopoly on water- sorne transportation and this should be ended. He said that hree Seattle companies now serve he Territory, but two of them re under a wingle ownership and we trying to drive the third one ut of the trade the Terri- ory The Alaska with Governor commend- :«d Mayor Willidm F. Devin, who vas present, for improving rela- ions between Seattle and Al A uring a trip through the Terri- ory last June. “Ycu cannot too often send us >mssaries like your Mayor Devin,” he Governor declared. He recommended a Seattle Chamber declaraticn of policy stat- ng that it will support all feasi- sle means of new transportation outes to the Territory from any- where in the United States or Canada. He said that if new ‘ransportation routes can be open- , the Territory will grow more -apidly, and Seattle will continue to get the lion's share of the trade. B 12-YEAR-OLD YOIJTH ub('(' us The crashed plane was discover- | ed by Maj. Raymond E. Johnson!® "NEVER LIKED" HER LAS ANIMAS, Colo, Dec. 16.—(® —A lZ—yenr-uld Las Animas youth who “never lked” his sister, last night signed a conferssion he shot her to death with a ritle as she sat in the living room of their home, Sheriff L. E. Brookshire re- ported. l He said the boy, Jimmy Melton, confessed he had pumped five |slugs from a .22 caliber rifle into his sister, Phyliis Marie, 16, be- “she was always nagging me \bout bringing in the fuel.” PSR i Buddhafor Chamberlain LONDON, Dec. 16—#—Winston Churchill was bequeathed a seat- fed, cross-legged Buddha, brought by the late Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton | (from a deserted Burmese temp. le near Mandalay, under the terms!| of Hamilton’s will published today.! The will said: “In the worst stress of politics vand when the heathen most do rage, a glance at the placid fea- tures of this emblem of dlvmny| will help hnn to ks-op sm)lmu ( OMMISSIONER - | FOR BASEBALL IN | ALASKA NAMED #—Global Taylor Spink ST. LOUIS, Dec Commissioner J. G 16 vendor, today announced the appointment |13%, Northern Pacific 207« of William P. Mulcahy of Anchor- age as National Baseball Congress Commissioner to have jurisdiction over non-professional baseball in Alaska. jthe threatened closing of Ameri- gislafion for (UT FROM Voting solidly, House Democrats inflation bill Major.ty leaders Debts, Other. Nations | living legislation in the special | up 202 votes for the bill to 188 The House Appropriations Com- GOP procedure which barred all'aid program and s'ashed from Not a Democrat strayed from and relief in occupied areas. posed substitute for President Tru- France, Italy and Austria compar- Leader Halleck of Indiana told re-| Nothing was recommended lation beiore the special sv\-mn President Truman legislation ap- is very doubtful tries and China. Mr. Truman had | lock GOP Move BIG FUND g 1 mashed a Republican drive mr'BeIiei Expressed Ameri' | promptly predicted it now will be | session, By WILLIAX‘;ITARBOGAST against, a two-thirds majority | mittee today made an $88,000,000 amendments—requiring that the | $480,000,000 to $230,000,000 a fund the ranks, and 26 Republicans' It sent to the House floor a man’s own anti-inflation program. e¢d with the $597,000,000 the ad- porters that he regards it impos- China. adjoufns this week. Speaker Mar- | proving a $597,000,000 program of Immediately after the vote was called Congress into special ses- MIlI.IONS WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, —®— sudden passage of a GOP anti-| . . cans Tired of Paying impossible” to pass any cost-of- | Although the Republ.cans pllv(l‘: WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—#— was required for passage under slashcut in the emergency foreign bill win or lose “as 1s.” !the Army asked for government joined them in opposing the pro- bill providing $509,000,000 aid for After the vote, House Republican 'ministration asked sible to pass any living-cost leg Oniy yesterday, Congress sent to tin of Massachusetts - agreed 1t help to the three European coun- inounced in the House chamber,'sion Nov. 17 and asked $597,000,000 a “limited price recontrol bill” to heip France. Italy and Austria sponsored by four cabinet mem- get through the winter and re- bers was made public by Repre- sist Communism. sentative Patman (D-Texas). { The bill sent to the Pres.dent He put into the Congressioral only gave Congressicnal approval Record a letter sign®i by re- for the idea of aid and set $597.- tary Kruz of the Interior, Secre- 000,000 as the maximum which tary of Agriculture Anderson, Sec- cculd be provided. Separate legis- retary of Commerce Harriman and lation was requred to provide the Secrets oi Labor Schwellenbach funds. That is the hll the com= preposing wholesale price controls, mittee has now recommended. with possible retail controls if the| In its action on the foreign aid wholesale restrictions do not work. bill, the Appropriations Committee - left China out completely, and provided less. than had been re- WEATHER plANE | quested in aid for France and Italy. Smd Commitee Chairman John 1‘- ber of New York: “The American people think they lare being taxed to prov.de relief Ito foreign vict.ms of war. It makes |no sence for the United States to S. Air Force headquarters announc |give France and Italy 8§ million ed today that an American weath- dolldrs so that they can pay their er plane, missing since last night | debts to" other nations on a local flight, had been found o S 3 near Nierstein in the French oc-| cupation zone with both its accu-|* pants dead in the wreckage. CRASHES; 2 DEAD, WIESBADEN, Dec. 16.—(®— U. ® & 0 6 . s w0 e 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period landed his|® Ending 6:30 o'Clock This Morning e In Juneau—Maximum 39; e minimum 32. e At Alrpori~—Maximum 39; minimum 31 . WEATHER FORECAST of Minneapolis, who light L-5 observation plane beside le identity of the dead air. men was withheld pending notifi cation of relatives ° (Juneau and Vicinity) — e - } e Variable cloudiness and STUDENTS OF U. ¢ coer tomont ana weanes- ALASKA PROTEST e below freezing. | PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 v.n. today) e "'o ANY (los‘“fi‘- In Juneau— 105 inches; ® since Dec. 1, 4.04 inches; |® since July 1, 5758 inches. FAIRBANK, Alaska, Dec. 16— (M— The Associated Students of|e Dec. 1, 185 inches; since the University of Alaska voted at!e July 1, 33.89 inches. a4 mass meeting Saturday to writele ®© e e o o o @ Congressional leaders and protest At Airport—35 inches: since STEAMER MOVEMENTS Aleutian, from Seattle, in port and scheduled to sail westward at 4:30 this afternoon. Coastal Rambler, from Seattle, due to arrive at 11 tonight. ca’s most northern college betore | scheol year's end because of | ilack of funds. The 322 students include 173 vet- crans representing 32 states and ll'e District of Columbia. e eee " " Clove Hitch, from Seattle, due KEY MONEY" 1§ |»ici ™% Denall Mheduled to sail from DEMANDED, TOKYO 5% Sword Knot scheduled to sail | from Seattile Dec. 26. | Alaska in port and scheduled to STOCKTON, yd]“, Dec. 16 | ka‘lve persons perished yesterday | sail south at 4 this afternoon. in a cottage fire with heat so! Princess Norah scheduled to ar- intense neighbors could only stand |rive from Skagway at 7 o'clock aside and hear three dying chil- tomorrow morning and sails south dren cry: “Mommy Mommy!” one hour later. The dead were: Mrs Earline | - >eoes | Scott, 27; her daughters, Beverly ! T A Ann, 7, Glenda Matiene, 5, and | FOLICE COURT NEWS Brenda Fay, 3, and Mrs. Scott’s sis- | ter, . Lamoine Mays, 14 Eight drunk cases were disposed of yesterday afternoon ana this | morning by City Magistrate Will- iam A. Holzheimer. S'o_(K afiaAIloNS Willlam Hewitt, Charlie Ander- NEW YORK, Dec. 16. — Closing | ; lquotation of Alaska Juneau mine iS00 and Carl Sundquist were all stock today is 3%, American Cdn\wnlmced to serve 10 days in the 180, Anaconda 34's, Curtiss-Wright |CIty Jall. 4%, International Harve 87% John A. Larsen received a 30 |Kennecott 46%, New York Centrar| day suspended sentence.. Bill Han- U. s.|lon was fined $35 and also receiv- ed a 10 day suspended sentence. Frank Brown was fined $25 and Harry Olds forfeited $50 bail. A case against Joseph LaPier was dism’ssed. | Steel 7614, Pound $4.03, Sales wda\\‘ were 1,800,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: | Industrials, 179.49; rails, 49.32; utili- | ties, 33.03.