The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1948, Page 1

'd F . L] ’ 1} B > e . X THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALl THE TIME” — VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,774 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1948 _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE.TEN CENTS NIGHT HOTEL CLERK AT ANCHORAGE SHOT TRAINS IN COLLISION: 14 KILLED Former Ambassador Listed Among Victims of Holi- day Tragedy in Mo. By LARRY HALL OTTERVILLE, Mo, Jan. 2 Alexander W. Weddell, former Ambassador to Spain and Argen- tina, and 13 other holiday travel- ere killed in the New Year's coliision of two passenger Day trains near this central Missouri town Approximately 12 persons were five of whom required tion. dead also included Mrs. Alex- W, Weddell and Frank M Ry identified as a Hollywood movie director, and his wife and three children The collision occurred during a heavy snowstorm while the Mis- souri Pacific’s “The Missourian” was traveling from St. Louis to Kan- sas City in two sections The engine of the second tion rammed into the rear Pullman of the first train, crushing the s0 completely that torches were used to cut the wreckage apart and remove the dead. All of those killed *were pants of the rear Pullman. The Weddells were enroute from their Richmond, Va., home to Tuc- Ariz. sec- occu- son, dipl¢matic = posts throughout the world, He began his State Depart- ment _career in 1907 when he be- came Secretary to the Minister to Denmark. He became Ambassador to Argentina in 1933 and served until 1939, then asked President Roosevelt for the post in Spain He served as Ambassador to Spai: until his retirement in 1942, FRCM SAsha 1 Mrs G. K. Williams ci Saskatoon staying at the Baranof. - The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Editor's Note: —Drew Pear- son today awards the Brass Ring for one firee ride on the Merry-Go-Round to the French- man who is trying to steer France on a middle-of-the- road course between the Com- munist left and the De Gaull- ist right — Premier Robert Schuman.) PARIS —(By Wireless)—Premier Robert Schuman, the foreign-born Frenchman who suddenly was call- ed upon to take over the helm of France in November, has now won much popular support that the De Gaullist forces are getting wor- ried. Gen. Charles De Gaulle had figured on letting Schuman con- tinue through the cold, lean months of winter—when more strikes are expected—and then take over in the spring. But now, Schuman is making such political headway that De Gaulle is report- ed planning a speaking tour to drum up more support for himself. The new Premier, who managed to settle the French strikes by get- ting tough with the Communists, was never heard of before in the US.A. and scarcely heard of even in his own country. The reason is that he is one of the most retiring of men. In France, although he lived in Paris for 28 years, he has never had a home of his own. He merely rented one room in the home of a friend, and when ele- vated to the all-important job of Finance Minister, one year ago, he picked out from the ornate and ostentatious Ministry Building only one small office for himself. All his life, Schuman has eaten in the restaurant of the Chamber of Deputies—which is about the same as having Speaker Joe Martin go up to the House of Represen- tatives restaurant for all his meals. Finally, the new Premier is man ot tew words. He makes few- er speeches in one year than most | Unofficial strike French Deputies make in a munth.] (Continued on fiéfiour) & Weddell, 71, had served in many ;1700 Men Sfrike " French Stevedores Unload o | Carrying a cargo of fo ship Train,” the vessel, “American Friendship, The food was sent by Havre, nee. MARTIN IN LIMELIGHT INPOLITICS Speaker of House Might Be Compromise as GOP Presidential Nominee DOUGLAS B. COR! WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—®— A drive to make House Speaker Joseph W. Martin the compromise Presidential nominee of the Republican party was launched today by Rep. Leo Allen (R-TI1) Allen ces of getting “cne in five." er knows of getting under up.” “All ers, “is anyone tion The cne-man chan- run’s nomination at d the Speak- campaign now ‘talk him appraised the He the way to he says,” Allen told report- that he doesn’t see how could refuse the nomina- chairman ot tne influential House Rules Committee said he ligures the Republican convention in Philadelphia this summer will supply an opening for Martin by following the pattern of 1940. That was the year when Gov Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio fought to a stand-off in the early rounds, allowing the late Wendell L. Willkie to snatch the nomination on the fifth ballot — e ——— \He Asked for It and He 'Sure Got It : DES MOINES, Jan. 2—(P—After | her husband, Jack Volk, petitioned | for more specific information on her separate maintenance suit, Mrs. Ann Volk of Mitchelville, filed a | District Court reply which includ- ed charges that: Her husband blew smoke in |face while she was ironing | - He shoved her out of bed and ;permitted the family's pet dog to {occupy the bed. He eavesdropped on ! concealed microphone. | - - her her by a Price of Mug of Tea Up One Cent; SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., Jan. 2.— a|P—A one-cent increase in the price 1of A muz of tea provoked a short, of 1,700 dock workers, delaying for an hour the sailing of the S.8. Mauretania for New York. INEAPLY 100 ARE KILLED - BY TWISTERS ‘Five States Riprped by Tor- | nadoes - Storms Cause Heavy Death Toll i (By The Associated Press) Winter's most damaging storms of ice and snow struck across the | Centr States and eastward into 'Friendship’ Food: /g s 1 Year's holiday after a series of tor nadoes ripped through five Southern States | The storms left a destruction in their wake. The prop- erty damage was expected to run into the millions. The death toll was near the 100 mark, not including the 20 persons who were killed by the twisters which struck in Dixie | More than 80 persons died in traf- fic accidents over the holiday period Fourteen persons were killed in a crash of two Missouri Pacific pas- T - . enger trains in a snow storm in odstuffs collected in a transcontinental tour of the United States by the “Friend- o O o) "0 s shewn being unloaded by French stevedores at Le e b PPN AR | ans as a gift to the French nation. through Louisiana, Arkansas, Ten- wiessee, Mississippi and Alabama in- jured 2 damaged 250 others. The freezing rain and snow, which yesterday centered near the Chicago area, continued today in many parts of the storm belt. The Weather Bu- Jewish Nurse FOREIGN AID i PROGRAM IS Is KI I | ed by (reaun. said the freezing rains today {extended over a narrow band from M lower Michigan across Lake Erie to Arab S“|pers leEN RAp‘suuth?n\ New England. Snow was expected to follow. ; | - - Americ Funeral Procession Is Also Senafor Brooks Wants No 1928 SLAYING IS Attacked in Mount of "Operadiion IFQathoIe" CONFESSED:FREES Olives Today in Handling Finances (ONW(TED MAN 3y CARTER L. DAVIDSON By JACK BELL JERUSALEM, Jan. 2—(P— Arab ~ WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—®—, snipers killed a Jewish nurse and Senator Brooks (R-II), one of the ' DES MOINES, Iu., Jan. 2—( sprayed a Jewish funeral proces-|severcst congressional critics of ad- | —Gov. Robert D. Blue says he has sion with bullets in the Mount ministration foreign policies, said been informed that Jake Bird, of Olives today, police said, as today he will head a group demand- scheduled to hang at the Washing- communal strife ignited by the ing that operation of the Mar- ton State penitentiary January 16 United Nations decision to parti- shall Plan be divorced from the for the Tacoma ax-slaying of two tion Palestine * continued for the State Department (wcmen, had coniessed to a 1928 34th day Breoks told a reporter he and slaying for which an Jowa man The unofiicial count of dead since others of like views intend to pr served 19 years of a life sen- Arab-Jewish violence erupted at the in the Senate for “business man- tence end of November mounted to 513, agement” of any European recov- The Governor did not state the including 251 Arabs and 230 Jews. ery funds that are voted. source of his information, but ord The Jewish nurse was aboard “If any other method is used, ered an immediate inquiry into thi a Hadassah Hospital bus which it will be simply ‘Operation rat- possibility that the Iowa prisoner, eve witnesses said was attacked on hole’,” Brooks declared | Clarence Lukehart, 40, is innocent Mount Scopus by Arabs using auto- I am in favor of the intelli- of the charge for which he was matic wi ons and grenades. Po- gent investment of American money convicted lice cpened fire on the Arabs and in Western Europe to get produc-| Lukehart, of ter Lake, Ta., captured the house from which tion. It must be done under the was sentenced to life imprisonment they had fired control of men who are engagedin 1928 for the murder of 8-year- A squad of Hagana men rushed in productive operation in Ameri-'old Harvey Boyd te the Scene and a three-cornered ca and not by hangers-on from| The Iowa prisoner and Bird battle between Jews, Arabs and po- government departments. served for 12 years in thes Ft.| lice ensued. One policeman W Brooks said he thinks leaders|Madison, Ia. penitentiary at the rcported wounded and both the {rom the fields of indust agri- | same time. Arabs and the Jews brought up culture and labor should be call- "% reinforcements before the battle €d in to organize the recovery pro- MORE CONFESSIONS ended gram, in much the same way they ! D were employed to get m?.;g achlel ) BELLA WALLA, Wash, Jan, 8 ; Sen% b Convicted murderer Jake Bird production going in the United e 16 Mew ¥ Day death States after the Pearl Harbor at- 4 : &P . :): s;v 'nzl41 uns: lu‘IM qu \)l?ymu; :;! 3 (the last 2 v s before his sched- Blll IS I“TRODU(ED Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) | 104 hanging at the State Peniten- unced today he has asked the g S By g BY pREM- S(HUMAN ),x:n\l'lpv\l- proposals that have i geoth for the ax slaying of Mrs. ! < B been "““," for the administration|ge tha Kludt at Tacoma, Wash., of the European recovery pro-iagmitted killing Mrs. Marie Man- gram ners, 81, at Pueblo, Colo., last Octo: “Communist Infilfration” in Zone ls Subject of New Probe on Spot Vandenberg said in a statement ‘ ber. He gave no details but prom- that the institution is expected t0|jceq to tell more later PARIS, Jan. 2. — (# — Premier Robert Schuman presented a new anti-inflation bill to the French National Assembly today and threatened to resign if any changes were voted in it. The bill was designed to rais about 120 billion francs — a billion dollars. Schuman decided to withdraw a previous anti-inflation bill approved by the assembly. That measure gave | SEATTLE, Jan. 2—#—The sec- |cnd sailing for Alaska Freight Ex press Corporation, the steel barge No. 719, towed by the seagoing tug El Sol, scheduled to leave Se- attle for Seward January 8, company officials announced. Cargo acceptance deadlines are today at 3 p. m. at Tacoma and next Tuesday in Seattle, announces L. B. DeLong, p! at ident of the new tions Committee, which he heads,!Byjietin, with Warden Tom Smith by mid-January. of the penitentiary present during notice he intends to head a group which will demand a “business” Da|e Is Se‘ 'or Se(ond 5| The Brookings institution is & Ah k B sa " e meooenes s = o Alagka Barge Sailing Frenchmen a choice of paving 150 | Sword Knot, from Seattle, due billion francs additional income tax | Sometime tonight. 'to help pay for a big reconstruction | Jumper Hitch scheduled to sail program and to drain off excess from Seattle January 3 the expected income from the bill |. Palisana, trom west, heduled § conon carrier fi by about a third. Deputies exempted | to arrive at 10 a. m. tomorrow. The tug El Sol is skippered by analyze these proposals and re-| Big was interviewed by Jim port to the Senate Foreign Rela- gehick of the Walla Walla Union- Vandenber; action came after|part of Jhe talk. Senator Brooks (R-Ill) had served | - e administration of proposed aid to 16 Western European nations. zation e — STEAMER MOVEMENTS or of investing the same amount in| Denali scheduled to sail from Se- government bonds. It was designed | attle tomorrow. purchasing power. ‘ Princess Norah, southbound Amendments in the chamber cut,9 o'clock tomorrow. several classes of French citizens Aleutian, from west, scheduled Capt. Ingvald A. Wick, a veteran ! from its provisions. southbound 8 a. m. Sunday. of Alaska waters. southern New England over the New | wide path of | 0, destroyed 240 homes and | Brookings Institution to survey the | B0 7ol oo sentenced | lheJ ( | r ANTI-SUICIDE-PA seclion of the stainles: TAX REDUCTION BILL IS COMING ~ UPIN CONGRES H SHINGTON, Jan 2. | Speaker Martin said today tax re- i duction will be one of the first matters to get attention when Congress convenes next Tuesday He told a news conference he expects the House to pass a “quick- tax cut bill this month said he doubted that | would also pass it this ! menth, but said the House action would put the White House on no- tice that tax legislation is on the jie” He Senate the SHOULD BE FILED i THIS MONTH, 1948 i New Year's greet- today by the Ju- i neau office of the Bureau of In- | ternal Revenue to local taxpayers. Chief Deputy Collector George W. Customary ings were issued | Osage suggested that taxpayers may now file their 1947 Income Tax returns and avoid the last minute rush before March 15. He also warned that persons earning more than $5500 annually should inquire at his office as to whether or not they are required to make an estimate of their 1948 income. Persons earning more than $100 annually which is not subjected to the Federal With- holding Tax must fill out an esti- | mate of 1948 income. Persons in both categories must filed their estimates by January 15 - I N BB I A} . . * WEATHER REPORT © . (U. 5. WEATHER BUREAU . ® Temperatures for 24-Hour Period @ ® Ending 6:30 0'Clock This Morni . . In Juneau— Maximum, 42; e ® minimum, 28 L ® At Airport— Maximum, 40; e ® minimum, 28 . . WEATHER FORECAS . o (Juneau and Vicinity) . | Variable cloudine with e | ® occasional light snow flurries e H tonight and Saturday.slight- e | ® ly eooler. . 1 L4 PRECIPITATION . (Past 24 hours ending 730 1m. taday) ® (® In Juneau 06 inches; @ |® since Jan. 1 25 inches; o | ® since July 1,, 6201 inches . ® At Airport 31 inches; e | ® since Jan. 1, 45 inches; |® since July 1, 3676 inches. e . . “« o o 2 o o o o o ——— i | HERE FROM TULSEQUAH Mrs. H. K. Richardson and J. F. Hutter of Tulsequah are registered at the Baranof Hotel steel parapet guard to be erected on the 86th floor observatory of the Empire State building, New York ity, as a barrier to would-be suicides, Cook Inlet Is Searched for Missing Bomber, No Trace; Five Siill Missing_ m Arclic ' 'W.P. HOLBEN IN HOSPITAL: IS CRITICAL Ordered fo " Give Me Your Money"'-Says "“Are You Kidding” - Is Shot | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 2.— #-—The United States Marshal says he is holding George Thomas Alden Whitaker pending further investigation of the New Year's Eve shooting of W. P. Holben, night clerk of the Westward Hotel. Hol- ben is reported in critical condi- tion at Providence Hospital Reconstructing the shooting, the | Marshal said a man approached the hotel desk with a rifle and ordered Holben to “give me your mone, RAPET — Workmen raise 3 Are you kidding?” Holben was quoted as saying. The clerk turn- ed to answer the telephone and the rifle clicked on an empty bar- rel. Another hotel official approached the intruder to warn him and the man thrust a loaded shell into the ritle and fired. Holben was hit in the stomach. The man fled The Marshal arrested Whitaker in & cabin a few miles from An- chorage. >ee - ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 2.—/® ST R l K E o“ An Army harbor vessel criss-cross- | ed waters of Cook Inlet near here today as vart of an expanding | search for an Air Forge B-29 Super- | Tfortress that VATIISHea Wednesday o | = few minutes after taking off fiom Elmendorf Field with nine crewmen aboard. The 150-foot Army transportation service vessel LT-822 arrived from s ) Kodiak uni command of Capt. | . o i Ray Haris Planes and ground | |WO Thirds of Transmission parties scanned the Point McKenzie Between U.S., Remaind- er of World Is Tied Up NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—(®—Union | Overseas Ccmmunication Workers went on strike at four cable com- panies today, tieing up an estimat- ed two-thirds cf their facilities for | transmissions between the United States and the rest of the world. The walkout, which involved some 3,500 employees, began at 12:01 a. m. (EST) and came while Federal conciliators still were at- ab| tempting to bridge differences be- {he | {Ween union and company negotia- i tions. The dispute stemmed from their area west of here all day yesterday | without finding a trace of the miss- | ing B-29 A bright flash seen in the plane's line of flight just after it left on a weather observation mission led searchers to fear it exploded and fell into Cook Inlet | Tenth Rescue Squadron officials, checking reports from all persons who saw the flash, placed its loca- tion as over mid-channel. Huge ice floats and a swift current slowed the harbor craft's search of the inlet | today Those Aboard Bomber The Air Transport Command Fairfield, Calif., from where weather observation B-29 came to Anchorage, identified the nine crew members today a failure to agree on provisions of Lt. Joseph Finkey, pilot, Man- | N€W contracts to replace those chester, N. H vhich expired last midnight. Lt. William Green, co-pilot, Gra- | _The companies are the Cables ha N. O Division of the Western Union Lt Paul Jdvdan, Hobart, Ind.; | Telesraph Company, Mackay Ra- Second Lt. Donald De Neau, Min- < di0 and Telegraph, Inc., the Com- neapolis; mercial Cable Company and All- M Sgt. James Matthew, Reading, America Cables Pa.: The unions are the CIO Ameri- T/Sgt. George Bessire Jr., Fort can Communications Association Collins, Colo and the Independent All-America Cables Employees Association,whose Cpl. Earl Domangue, Gibson, La.; §/Sgt. David Brown, Salisbury, members had voted to join the N. C.; :CIO union in strike action. i Sgt. Edward Decker, Alexandria, — Va. SERVICE MAINTAINED Meantime there was no word from ' NEW YORK, Jan. 2—#—Union the search for five men missing |employees of four overseas com- after the crash of another B-29 'munications companies went on north of Nome Dec. 23. Missing are the pilot and navigator of the plane unreported since they set out afoot to seek aid, and three members of a medical team who parachuted in rescue efforts. Six crew members of the crashed plane were rescued -s ALASKAN ARMY |strike early today but the firms |declared at noon that service was | being maintained without interrup- {tion by supervisory employees. The four companies handled two- thirds of the commercial communi- cation operations between the Uni- | ted States and the rest of the world MITCH ROCOVICH BOUND " OVER FOR GRAND JURY At a preuminary hearing Wed- nesday afternoon before U. S. Com- DEAD 'N HOTEl missioner Felix Gray, Mitchell Rocovich, of Juneau, was bound OKLAHOMA CITY, » over to the Federal Grand Jury Jan Pirst Lt Thomas O. Brown, 22, |00 two counts of grand larceny. Army pilot, was found dead yester- | His bond of $2.000 was continued. day in his room at a hotel for! Rocovich is accused of stealing transient air personnel at Tinker two guns from the Juneau-Young Field here | Hardware Co. in October. The officer’s home address was | - listed as Saginaw, Mich. He was| The Cape of Good Hope was stationed at Elmendorf Field, Fort |!lrst named “Cape of Storms” by Richardson, Alaska, with the 54th |€arly Portuguese navigators seek- Troop Carrier Squadron. {ing a sea route to India. The flier was at Tinker Field with | o his crew to take a C-54 airplane to| In hot chmates it is diffiduit to Elmendorf Field, Fort Richardson, | maintain organic matter in the Alaska. s0il because it decays so rapidly. | i