The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1948, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALl THE TIME” —_— . VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,773 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1. 1948 WMBLR ASSO( IA IH) PRLSS m— PRICE TEN CENTS Tuberculous In Flegged with At ANS Si "* FISH TRAP HEARINGS " SCHEDULED Attempt fo Be Made to Se- fle Controversial Ques- p tion in Alaska ‘ WASHINGT()}&;' VJm\ 1.—P— l ‘The first step intended to settle the controversial question of fish traps in Alaska will be taken this " month by two Congressional com- mittees. The Senate subcommittee on In- | terstate and Foreign Commerce ¢ headed by Senator Magnuson (D- Wash) and the House Fisheries subcommittee htaded by Rep. To leison (R-Wash) will hold hearings on an Intericr Department bill to revise the system of allocating fish traps in the Territory Senate hearings will start January 26 and these in the House January 29 | The question of reducing the number of traps held by big pack- ing fiims has been considered year [l after year until finally the Inter- jor Department got all interested parties 10" agree” to stbmit to Con- gress for final determination its proposal to solve the matter. . The legislation introduced in the , House and Senate last year pro- poses that all fish traps in the Territory must be leased from the government It would provide that persons and firms holding 20 or less 1lish traps could retain them; operators of from 20 to 30 traps could re- tain 90 percent of them; those with 30 to 40 could retain 80 per- cent; and those with 40 or more could retain 75 percent. All licenses would expire in years, not subject to renewal. The legislation proposes that at once the kiz packers would sur- render 42 trap sites These could be sold to the high- est bidder, with Alaskan villages. nati and residents being given priority. If no one in Alaska want- ed them, they would go to the highest bidder from outside. The licensees would pay [ » five o it the M .\ covernment a royalty equal to the »{ value of five percent of the catch ! on the first 500,009 salmon caught | and seven percent for all over o that amount. Trap site holders | could deduct Territorial taxes up to 50 percent of the royalty. The money the government receiv would be divided equally with the Territory. » - - ¢ "CHRISTMAS SHIP" . OF PAC.NORTHWEST SEATTLE, Jan. 1.—I®—Desig- . nation of the steamship Gretna Victory as the Pacific Northwest + “Christmas Ship” 1 is disclosed here. The 10,681-ton vessel, due here from Japan about January 26, will take on 50 carloads of food and / clothing in Seattle, Tacoma and Portland before its Kurcpean voy- age. Simultaneous with designation of the ship was the annouhcement * of the arrival of a Great Northern carload of food from Montana, in- to Europe’s needy cluding 100-pound sacks of flour, canned milk and cereals already packed for export. free Railroad. The shipment was hauled by the Great Northern LeRoy Taylor, formerly with the ] Juneau Subport, has joined the Re- gional office in Juneau of the U. S 8. Fish and Wildlife Service as assistant payroll clerk. He replaces Miss Margaret Mould, who resign- e ed and returned to her home at Coneord, Calif. dian Child Rubber Hose tka Sanaforium A report that a nurse at the Alaska Native Service tuberculosis sanitorium at Alice Island, Sitka ciplined a tuberculous Indian child by beating the boy with a ler of rubber hose was con- firmed yesterday by ANS General Superintendent Don C. Foster. The incident occurred some five or six months ago was re- »d to the Empire early this in a letter from a former ¢ of the ANS who was re- cently fired. Although the was severely reprimanded after the nurse reported to ANS ad- heads at Sitka, she was allowed to continue on the hespital staff until leaving of her own volition a few weeks ago. Foster said that the boy, Bill Gardener, was difficult to handle and the nurse lost her temper. He said that he was told that the hose used was a surgical hos How- ever, the former employee who said he witnessed the beating said the hose was of the “type which is used about a washroom for sluic- ing down the floor or for filling ets from a spigot.” His report stated that he entered the sanitorium and “was attracted by loud screams coming irom one of the wards, so I turned in that direction. As T stood in the hall, icoking into the ward, from which all the ncise was e¢oming, what I saw was hard to believe. A nurse was flogging one of the bed-ridden patients with a short length of rubber hose . He said that af she Qmnishea she went into the wash rocm where she left the hose, “I decid- ed to have a look at the patient realizing that I had no busi- ness in there. I came face to face with the nurse. She was red-faced and demanded to know what I was nd insisted I get out boy was still sobbing and The couldn't talk. She ripped back the red lad’s the the and showed she had mad covers welts bac me cn he to later his said that matter The reported superior. witness the Foster, who was al Sitka at the time, heard of the case at once and ordered the doctor in charge to examine the boy and also ordered that the nurse be reprimanded The former employee who re- ported the case said that at the time he thought that aiter report- ing the matter to the proper au- thorities he weuld do nothing more because he thought that any pub- would do the government's program an ipjury. How- stated, since that time he ched the conclusion that the greater injury would be done by withhelding the information. - D FLANDERS ASKS MEAT native , he RATIONING WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—#—Sen- ator Flanders (D.-Vt.) id today he plans to confer soon with Sec- retary of Agriculture Anderson in an attempt to line up big packers in support of meat rationing The Vermont lawmaker told a reporter that after talking with meat industry representatives he has no illusions about the difficulty | of winning them over, but he feels it is worth a tr Flanders for several weeks has been advocating rationing as the only way of coping with the meas shortage which the Agriculture De- (partment has predicted will deve! ,in the spring. Anderson, along with |President Truman, also has been Iplugging for stand-by power to ra- tion meat. > - ATHENS - Hard-driving Greek Army relief forces pressed within sight today of embattled Konitsa, where a weary thousand-man garri- son has been holding out since Chrisv,mas Day against furious at- |tacks by an estimated 5000 guer- “rillas. THRONGS - WELCOME NEWYEAR Revelry, Reverence Gree 1948-Note for Peace Is Sounded by Lie The of » Associated Press) jbyous throngs, the reverence of worshippers with prayer for world peace, the ber appeal of a United Nations' leader for accord among the great powers: in this contrasting, but! traditional, setting, the nation ob- sarved the advent of the new year As millions of merry-makers {rolicked and other millions jam- med churches, the appeal for in- ternaticnal was sounded by U. N. Seer General Trygve Lie, who gravel told a nationwide radio audience he was “disappoint- ed in the atest hope of all™ the hope that the major power would move ing A mcre N.s future earlier man who faith” in means of ye: said the ford anything But day’s sharply choked the to gaie general world the simple reason that we can't else.” y and Manhattan to the smallest toward an understand- on disputed issues optimistic had erday by President he organization on the struek | Tru- very note been had as peace, for af- leaned snow- accent from som- | Hangover ~ MANY DEAD ~ In Europe INTORNADO, . From War LOUISIANA LONDON Jan 1.—( Europe | |ustmans e 1o deaesfiy, o 30 Persons Report- with Scotch at $16 a fifth in Glas- | S ete o e | €0 Injured—Five Towns | welcome to the New Year was not | ool a0 gt mave neenc| i St Are Struck There were many in the ill-| clothed, poorly ied, chilly "FPO:(. < Jan, 1.—iM cf Europe whose New Year lisiana counted nearly a score aches were hangovers from a today after tornadoes tore which ended more than two years oht northwestern Louisiana ago. Facing an unc ain future | @nd southwestern Arkansas, strik- amid widening chasm dividing five towns and injuring some the st and West, they looked 200 persons. ward ecanomic aid un- | At least 15 bedies have been re- he Marshall Plan. ‘l red at Cotton Valley, a small oad town northeast of An unidentitied negro Genmans received 1948 in a mood | Ol and re of despair. Their trampled coun- | Shreveport. try, wrecked by the war, was split Was killed at Leton, La in two and there was no ‘prospect| A woman was fatally injured at for peace or prospe Dykesville, La., and an unidenti- Fighting continued in the moun- | fied negro was killed at Haynes- tains of Gr nd on the bloody | ¥l At Village, Ark., a school plains of Palestine serintendent was killed when a - > aioh schocl gymnasium was de- { )!’\l:(‘d twister also struck Gilmer, there were no deaths or injuries | teported there The funnel-shaped twister was I ‘Jn\t sighted south of Vanceville \M\ by Herman Jones of Bossier |@ity. He said he saw the funnel ‘(‘lp tcward the earth as he drove aleng a highway He abandoned h:.~ automobile for the comparative ety of a roadside ditch, he said, watched as the funnel sucked IS RESENTED i PLANE BELIEVED DOWN IN COOK INLET HAPRE el YeAe U.S. BOMBER DISAPPEARS, WESTWARD Flash that Lighted Sky May Be Clue - Was Directly West of Anchorage Alaska, Jan. l.— missing B-29 ANCHORAGE (P—Fear that a Superfortress and its nine crew- men may have fallen into the waters of Cook Inlet were express- ed today by a veteran Alaska coti- struction engineer. Cliff Lenihan, who said he was sitting with his wife in the lobby of a downtown hotel when the sky lighted up “like the glow from a neon sign,” placed the origin of the flash as directly west of the city about over mid-channel of the Inlet It the ings up,” the ne, but that build- lighted Was SHOWING @ sky was so bright on the street were he said nishes Quickly ng plane vanished with- its takeoff from yesterday morn- ing. It was enroute to Fairfield, Californi army air base, on a routine weather observation and reconnaissance flight, the Army Air Transport Command announc- ed in San Francisco. A fruitless aerial search was launched immediately after observ- The m in two minutes of Flmendorf Fleld hamlets, celebrating citizens roured Con?roversy Be'ween Amw & hotse ‘from néashy woods. B vy oo MintpuadBc 08 wmuitols greetings to 1948 {7 At that time, Jones said, the ported the flash on the plane's line Restrained only slightly by the FO[(e, Magazme Up '0 {tornado was cutting a swath about of ilight. It came only moments stushy remnants -of a record blank- S Gk feet wide. fler the B-20 sent an emergency of snow, New Yorkers set tme, - justice Depariment” ‘oM Heross Wooded < and : wll thntthe Ne, 3 angine. was. oul, their traditionally boisterous blow- L FAY the twister struck Cotton Valley A ground party also set out by out e L p_ alfrom the sonthwest, damaging AlASKA (A“Al 'I'o HAVE GONE (RAZY Army weasel on a round-about A police-estimated ~ throng of oo oo ) tween the Air Force Much of the business district trip to the area—50 miles to Palm- 5 ‘c0<11 ;.m _\';’dl'rll wu:l.flfl(l.flou ~ and a m s valodine Sk ne 1”7;111-1'1 it r.mn“ bm: 1..(>zx-nk.»“m(- A'D IN DEFENSE Eaitiss Ter and ‘[;u»’-)r.mn:.\; Kuhnn( 40 surged through Times Square and list ' 4 oq little ‘town again, this time from . miles to the Point McKenzie area. S ooce. Wifh (S ruae Lo pUDIAN. JrSOImAMOE, GOCMATIRS ¢ LR, Mt demoisine Residents of St. Paul Isle & fowia no trace of the crate the turn of midnight R o s 6 tods many homes gl o . { The apparent disaster raised o Fashionable night and supper ]”'r'x‘.t~l 1\)‘![ éf:::}(f.ilr.j(fi-l{uq to the “:"“‘“‘ Sam c’;»‘ le ";“““‘"‘; Z:“‘ SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 1 Discuiss lemg condl' 14 ‘”"' total of men missing, and clubs were jammed to the rafters ,gyern t's legs ranch for study | 200 persons are homeless and that p_ 7he Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard . { prebably dead, in two B-29 mis- spot With a $50 cover charge—!ecurity was concerned when the Alone will reach 200 vocates construction of a vital Arctic Tragedy turned away some 500 would-be ' pacazine Aviation Week printed a | <A check of hospitals in the canap so sufficient materials could SEATTLE, Jan. L—(P— Mr and| The pllot and navigator of an- customers just before midnight ‘tors 1ast month reporting that the 'Stricken area showed at least 170 yeqch the interior of Alaska for its Mis. H. J. Martin, here for the | other plane, Lts. Vern H. Amett — - sxperimental rocket plane XS-1 had have been treated for gefense “in case of conilict with Winter after two and a half years and Frederick She are being 3 ) = astel s at e Storm injuries. Jerther sig cn remote St Paul Island in the ' sought by dog sled and aerial gt G PROM-HDONSH ;\11\\\:;:(-,1(2\[1(1‘1 '.l/:r" B(::{“d hies . i \l:ll.)lll! “xliA;ll:‘ an interview at San- ' Pribilofs in the Bering Sea, have!search 600 miles to the northeast, o S Santy of Hoonah 15 Te815* " rne Air Force had declined to dis- ta Clava, Uitiveraity, said he would/10oked around the past'severalidays 85 Juiice REEA of Nome - HEHEE i i cuss the story in any form WARNE woRKING 20 to Washington, D. C. to lay his ,u.‘hx'm observe: ‘Im\'- n missing since Christmas Earlier, Secretary of Defense For- plan before Adm. Louis M. Den-| “Economically, the States have DAy, two days after their eight- < = restal had invoked security ul feld one crazy I man crew c ed, when they set The washlngion tions directed specifically at Kkee) ON pROGRAM FOR “I will advocate construction of =~ “A ddllar is worth only about jum afoot lor ‘an isolated Eskimo ing secret data on the Air For a vital canal 30 miles long, join-{30 cents in these parts.” ! village. high speed flight work AID FOR AlASKA ing the Yukon and Kuskokwim riv-| Now on St. Paul Island, where| Three parachutists who dropped Merry - Go - Round " e cae o o magazine. told a revorter a copy of ASHING = Jan A Sound,” Hubbard said Seal Division of the Fish and Wild- | believed dead Jush - pilot Bill WP the article was shown to an FBI mundml program for <|vu|upnnn' ipping thus could e the lfe Service, it's different Munz, who joined in the aerial By DREW ILAhS(J\ wgent before it was published of Alaska is being prepared for sub- ,,,(,Mm”.‘, the Kuskokw pass' ‘The nat wards of the gov- | rescue of six members of the crew NAPLES-(By Wireless) | There was no official immediately mission to the next session of Con- | through the canal into the Sound | tthment, aic ued all food except has reported sighting what he be- France, a lot of people on New ailable who could suggest what i into the inter of Al- | “Iancy groc 2s,” and a Govern- | lieves arve the bodies of two of the Yoar's Day domt ssy “Happy New|lne the Justice Department in- | “William E. Warne, / ssistant ment storekeeper comes around ev- | trio, and pessibly the third Year" any more. They say “fere’s Vestigation might follow. A volun- retary of the Interior told a reporter is our most important:€ry Monday and collects -e opina Sou. donit Nave ALy Worse tary censorshipicode, ggreed fo by today the Interdepartmental Com- t and a post which could be 1sts from the 12 white {hoping vou don't have any WorSe the nations press and radio, ended mittee on Alaska is working on the e o eontlict with Who are Federal employees. Thei3] pASSENGERS FLY words, thby aonit iegoadt things to with the Japanese surrender in 1945. program and hoves to be able to ‘Asia. The canal would: st t Mrs. Martin bought egas, i | Hl;:.ix(“n we u{l(l 31m}|‘dvllm' m:ld {nbn the {othtiar of Alaska. ~THE v.‘:\ 79 cents a pound { the big problem is to prevent that within the Territory, and in general hl“‘(‘, flasneaded. for the delemd®iSsd ‘o monthy for, &, house and |5k Cosatl Altlines yesterday Wil car from becoming another 1939 (lAIMS A‘I‘ pARADE. Sl ranhouemant of the Tarsitory'sits g y e Istops at Tenakee, Hoonah, Sitka, War is easy to start when ‘~en lose clomie aitnation sy AR A : o | Angoon, Hood Bay. Ketchikan, | hope. When they have nothing to i ke PN R 0 A 5 N A MR RROa COMRPLA; 0N u,r,lm.‘,,.“ and Petersburg e i & o g y dey g . 'EATHE GPORT aul,” Martin said gy - i lcse they take desperate gambles W Havine, ah interest in. Alnakd WEATHER REPORT Oroe I o while vou get a bank | Fassengers from Juneau to Hoo cm—“tm; px';mlt-m now facing the will be represented in the program § . '* i e s ment, look it over and then !MP ol B, :{““ Cooa Pina AS(:,:Z;'l;”“',"I::,::.’}’\;,";;",): PASADENA, Calif, Jan, 1@ ::;‘[‘lt;‘m‘:_\“‘f“::"':;V"‘ ”;]lfz_‘xf(i‘zl)fl‘xll’: . s 6:30 0'Clock Th o) A0RERR; Aot ‘ianey Jsgaln | :—\lml:n\‘f: e < -4 5 ¢ olors became a gigan- ; ; % o In Juneau- Maximum, 40; e M. Martin's observation was . g ¢ : ple that they must work just as —_ Colorado Street Rt cemimitiee. which hak. been ik PERRS i i s, | Hoonah to Juneau: M. P. 8. hard to win the peace as they did !¢ floral wonderland today Bk ¢ aince last Beptember ® minimum el i Y a- | Ganty, P. S. Ganty did to win victory in war | The 59th Tournament of Roses L ® At Airport— Maximum, 41; @ [ Zineau. fo'n Wik When war strikes, Congress | Parade “also found the famo ® minimum, 35 . o {Workman, Katherine Coyle. Cyril thyows. econdiniyiahe tne! whias; | street amed by 1.500,000 persons NE“‘HER ARABS . / IER FORECAST Zubot?, Max Rogers. P U. Hewles manner. People work long hours, | '1ving last night and in the pre- A T ® Cloudy ‘with light rains, e rwood, Lillizn Kitka, George See, kinds of sacrifices. Then, when the | Vantage points along the two-mile ® 30 mules an hour today and e y RUIT Angoon to Juneau: David Willard war is won,. Congress immediately | [OUte. Blankets, camp chairs, FIGHT 'S (lAIM ® Friday. L ci n e Juneaii o lbtahixan - B, Colgnide, | begins whittling down all important | Thermos bottles of coffce and ] 5 temperature . INDUSIRY |S (lAlM Fred Crisp, W. S. McKnight instruments ior winning the peace, SAndwiches were standard equip- NEW YORK, Jan. 1. —@#—'® PRECIPITATION o NV Ketchikan to Juneau: Jeanne {The State Department, just as/Ment with the earlybirds. Neither Arabs nor Jews want war- | @ (Past2 endin 1ay) @ Renshaw. {important to peace®a: the Army R A fare in the Holy Land, says Mayor ® In Juncau 25 inches; o WENATCHEE Jan, 1—ih Wrangell to Ketchikan: Dick and Navy are to war, gets its bud- Israel Rokach of the all Jewish ® since July 1, 6195 inches . relief from the new freight Brinck lget prundd; SusEieg ot toreanea. JUS'I' lIKE MOVIES- city of Tev Aviv, and “the present ® At Airport .1 . increase, described as “the| Ketchikan to Wrangell: T. Jacob- {Ean the few paltry dolla pent g | Arab attacks are the handiwork ® since July 1, 36.14 . \w that breaks the back of our son, Grace Willlams, Judy Page, Gil- {to tell European newspapers about | of hired hands directed by intrigu- /¢ e e & o @ . t Stry being sought 'bert Smith !the United States are pared away wRoY ROGERS 's WED ing poliucians D ! e industry | Petersburg to Juneau: Dave Dre- | by nickle-nursing Congressmen and “Palestine Jewry is not reluc- 2 ARMED BANDITS y 4 beldis. then, having chopped away all our | Io HIS lEAD'“G lAsztnn! to have a contlict or to enter cor growers’ rep- AP i:xnuum(-nl.a for keeping the peace | into open warfare with the Arabs” f' sertati Frank W e e e B ement reledand ROB BRAN(H BANK Taylor, Secretary of the Northwest BOH"G MERGER s few years later, we find. ouiselves; DAVIS, Okl 1A After ! !in his behalf by the Jewish Na- Horticultural Council, said ) at war. |more than 20 movies of p“vm‘_!nonal Fund of America VANCOUVE=, B. C.. Jan would leave for Washington today — { They have been trying to make |hero and heroine to each other Mayor Rokach came here to at- Two armed bandits, wearing m( o0 see what relief can be obtain- SEATTLE., Jan. 1—(#-Merger us forget now about the votes cast [Roy Rogers, cowhoy actor, and Dale (tend a Jewish National Fund con- | gleves and goggl held up the ed of the Boeing Aircraft Co. and against building defenses for Guam |Evans. his leading lady, made it of- *ference to be held the first week Granyille Street branch of the Im- > - Boeing Airplane Co. under the and have been trying to make their |ficial yesterday in a wedding cere- | in January. Accompanying him perial Bank of Canada yesterday FROM ANCHORAGE latter name, was announced fo- constituents back home forget mh{mom at the Flving L Ranch ovmndlwere his wife and Abraham Harz-|and escaped with an estimated John A. Gonnason of Anchor- day by company officials. The g e a by W L. Likens; Okiahomsa tle- { feld, .Palestine labor leader and $1,700 after herding three bank taying althe Baranof Ho- merger involves no changes in per- I!‘nnr(mwd on Page Four) ]nmn near here. eolonization expert workers into o vault i sodinch P