The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1948, Page 1

" THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,783 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDA\ ANUARY 13, 1948 Ml:MBl:R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRIC[: TEN CF.NTS Army Barge Reported ARMY, NAVY thmer Giving Straighi | 'WORKS ARE ANNOUNCED Plans Proposed Call for Big Improvements in Systems in Alaska WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.— Authorization for nearly half a billion dollars in military and nav- al public works was voted yester- day by the Senate and sent to the House. The legislation would provide for Army, Navy and Air Force hous-| ing and installations both within| and outside the continental United | States, but the money would have to be supplied in later legislation. Of Army and Air Force author izations, the Senate Armed Services committee said: “They are considered to be top- | priority items on the master plans for the development of permanent stations . . . " The extent of constructicn to be undertaken by the Armed Ser- vices under today's would be: Army and Air Force, within the continental United States, $100,000,- ooo; overseas, $120,000,000. Navy, within continental United States, $100,185,800; outside United States $139,769,400. The committee said it was not contemplated that appropriations would be made to the full extent of the authorization in any one year, except in the event of an emer- gency. Specific authorization in the bills included the following (family housing units, barracks and util- ities, unless otherwise noted): Plans For Alaska Whittier, Alaska: Port facilities, $5,332,277. Army Airfield at Mile 26, Fairbanks, $2,021,118 Ladd Field, quarters, facilities, hospital, community fac- ilities and utilities; $20,694,850. Fort Richardson-Elmendorf Field, quarters, storage facilities, com- munication facilities, school, motor pool facilities, and utilities, $10,- 190,375. Adak Army quarters, communications facilities and utilities, $4,334,600. Army Airfield, Fort Yukon; fight- er field, quarters, mess hall and utilities, $4,160,950. Army Airfield, Nenana; opera- tional facilities, barracks and util- ities, $505,000. Adak, ACS Station; erational buildings, utilities, $950,000. Anchorage ACS Station, $514,280. Big Delta ACS Station, $57,410. Ketchikan ACS Station, quarters, | near quarters, op- garages and operational buildin tilities, P nal gs and ul B8, | rack $114,160. (Continued on Page Five) The Washingion‘ Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (Copyright, WASHINGTON — Until he died last week, Charlie Michelson, one- time high priest of Democratic strategy, had sunk completely out of the public eye. There was a time when politi- | cians lined up outside his door, when Senators sought his help, when Cabinet members submitted their speeches to his seasoned eye in order to gauge public reaction, There had been a day when he helped steer Henry Wallace away from sensational publicity in | connection with an astrologist, and when he aided the then uncertain path of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the difficult days of 1932. But those days have been gone | sometime now, and in his latter | days Charlie Michelson was largely forgotten. The people who once scught his counsel came no longer to his door. and cnly a trained nurse legislation operational Base and Airfield, | Talk in Was PLENTY OF COAL IN ARCTIC FOR ALL LOCAL USE - Bureau of Mines Makes Report on Investigation | -How fo Get It | WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—M— Sufficient coal to meet the needs f Eskimo villages and government schools and hospitals along the Arctic Coast of Alaska can be pro- | duced there, the Bureau of Mines aid today. Engineers examined the coal de- posits in” Arctic Alaska the summer of 1946 and found several suit- able for development. They in- vestigated the Deering, Fairhaven, Point Lay and Wainwright areas. The Bureau said the engineers found two plans feasible for work- ing the coal deposits. To de- velop sources of coal at points nearest each village or group of villages, or stockpile coal in the. winter for barge movement to the ! villages in the summer. The plans, it continued, would | result in cheaper coal than when | is shipped from the United| id ihe mining should be done in the winter, owing to cli-| matic conaitions, and the mines| sealed in the summer to prevent ! thawing and subsequent roof falls. | B OLDTIMER OFDAWSON ~ PASSES ON SEATTLE, Jan. 13—®—Mrs. Al- {berta Edlund, 64, a resident of Al- ‘acka and Washington for 57 years land who lived at Dawson during the colorful gold rush days, died there Sunday following a long illness. | A native of Niles Valley, Penn., Mrs. Edlund came with her parents 'lu Washington when they home- |steaded in the Maple Valley in 1890. | In 1900 the family moved to Daw- ;son where her father, Vernon Eu-| lgene Ferry who had gone over thel | Chilkoot Pass in 1898 had establish- | jed mining claims on Domxmon; | After living there and at Indian| River roadhquse, the first station |out of Dawson, Mrs. Edlund became| a legal stenographer at Dawson, and | later worked as a courthouse re- | porter at Fairbanks. Surviving are a brother, Theo- idore (Ted) Ferry of Fairbanks, and' |a sister Miss Leah M. Ferry of | Hollywood, Calif. STEAMER MOVEMENTS | | Aleutian in port and sails west-| ward at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Clove Hitch, from Seattle, due| ‘Thursday. | Denali scheduled to sail from!| ’Seattle Saturday. Alaska scheduled to sail ! Seattle Jan, 20. Coastal Rambler scheduled to sail 1fmm Seattle Jan. 23. | Princess Norah scheduled to ar- 1rive from Skagway at 8 o'clock to- irom morrow morning and sails south; tone hour later at 9 o'clock. | | — - | |Railroad from [Puget Sound fo | |Fairbanks Proposed | | PORTLAND, Jan. 13.—(®— The ‘consuuctibn of a standard gauge | States Council's conference Ouflook of Alaska Game | game—within the past ers in rescue work. hinglon on WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—P— Wolves, airplanes and an influx of | what he described as trigger-happy h-seekers are ruining Alaska’s resources, Earl N. Ohmer, | man of the Alaska Game | Commission, said today. | Ohmer, a businessman of Peters- | burg, 100 miles. south of Juneau,| and a resident of Alaska 32 years,| flew to Washington to “bend the| ears of everycne in Congress” on | Territorial wildlife problems. Alaska gets $175,000 a year for | game law enforcement and Fish| and Wildlife administration—less than any state,” the grey-bearded, bespectacled Ohmer told reporter: “With $200,000 additional, we could just barely hold the line on our game resources. We could double our game law enforcement, | which now consists of seven offi- (cers for an area one-fifth the size 'of the United States “We could put on a real cam- paign to contro:r the greatly in- i creased depredations of wolves and coyotes, and we could make a scientisic study of our resources.” Alaska’s resources have "sllppf'd regarding big five or six! badly"—particularly ye Ohmer said. Caribou have decreased the most sericusly, from 1,000,000 to about 250,000; reindeer herds have di- minished to the point that “with- in a very short time what rein- deer are left will be mixed in with caribou and there won't be any 1eindeer herds left, as we know L Lhem NGM e l Commercial fisheries, most valu- able resource in the Territory, are very seriously depleted and decline noticeably every year. Alaska cans 500,000,000 pounds of pink salmon a year, more than 90 percent of | the U. S. salmon paczk. “Aside from wolves and coyotes, ’in'])l;nm’.\ and the Alaska Highway ha\p contributed to the decline by making Alaska easier to get 10" Ohmer said. - — - ARLINR IN (RASH IN STORM: IFive Killed in Amdent—‘ Twin-Engine DC-2 De- molished-No Fire WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—4.‘P’~ An Eastern Airlines plane with nine persons aboard crashed on| the outskirts of Washington dur- ing a rainstorm early today, kill- ing five and injuring four. The plane, enroute from Hous- ten, Texas, to Boston, plowed into a grove of trees on the Maryland ! side of the Potomac River a few miles from the National Airport| shortly after reporting it was com- | jing in for a landing. The twin-engine DC-3 was de- molished but there was no fire. ‘ Eastern Airlines said the cause| had not been determined, adding that the pilot checked in by ra-| dio at 4:27 a. m. EST, but [allcd. to make contact with the airport | control tower later as scheduled. | The dead were three passengers, the pilot and co-pilot. Three m-} jured passengers and the flight fll-l tendant were taken to Casuall)‘ Hospital in Washington. ‘ Rain, slush and muddy roads in the area hampered police and oth- e TEXTILE GROUP TO | MEET TOMORROW The Textile Group of the Alaska| Arts and Crafts, Inc., will hold the| first regular meeting of the ys.au-K Day after day passed | railway connecting Puget Sound|iomorrow, Wednesday, at 1 p.m. in nance more strikes in the British sat | | and Fairbanks, Alaska, was recom-|the basement of 921 D street. Mrs.|zone of Germany, the Communist opposite him as he played soli- | mended yesterday at the Western| gunice Nevin will be chairman of| Paper Volkszeitung reported today. | ‘Strike Fund Being FIGHT IS STARTING ONBUDGET |Republicans Plan fo Chop | Five Billion Dollars from Estimates WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—P— Republicans set out today to chop some $5,000,000,000 out of President Truman's $39,669,000000 budget for the year starting July 1 The Foreign Program appeared likely to be the main target of the {money saving drive A $5,000,000,000 slash was the ten- tative goal set by Chairman Taber (R-NY) pending a meeting of the Senate-House Budget Committee to |go over details of the unprecedented | peacetime spending estimate Mr. Truman sent to Congress yesterday. While Taber declined to specify just what items most likely would be singled out for cuts, he noted that the President’s estimate of ac- tual foreign aid outlays during the r and his requests for funds to projects not yet au- law run well over $5,- thorized by 1000,000,000. -+ > HEARING ON FISH TRAPS ON JAN. 26 WASHINGTON, Jan. 13— M — House and Senate subcommittees which had planned to consider sej arately late this month a bill to re- vise fish trap regulations for Alaska announced yesterday they will hold |a joint hearing on January 26 The Senate subcommittee of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce committee and the Salt Water Fish- eries subcommittee of the House | Merchant Marine and Fisheries com- mittee decided to hear the testi- mony in the joint hearirg. The Sen- ate group is headed by Senator Magnuson (D-Wash) and that ot the House by Rep. Tollefson (R- Wash) . The bill provides for reducing the number of fish traps in Alaska, al- !locating them under 15 year licenses and taking a share af the catch for division between the Government and the Territory. The measure pro- |vides the licenses issued under it shall not be renewable. o e S Brig. Gen. Graham ~ Gives Testimony In Stock Trading WASHINGTON, Jan. 13— Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham tes-' tified today that he got out of the | wheat market—except for one small trade—aiter President Truman criticized commodities speculators | last October. But he said he con- tinued to deal in cotton until De- cember 18. Under oath before the Senate | Appropriations Committee, the | President’s personal physician said, | too, that he assumed personal re- | sponsibility for the trades. Pre-| viously he had said publicly in a| | statement that his broker made commodity purchases for him with= out his knowledge. Graham told the committee that all of his dealings on the commod- ities exchanges, including cotton and cottonseed oil, were closed out December 18. Raised in British Lone in Germany | HAMBURG, Germany, Jan. 13— | (P—Funds are being built up to fi- The paper said money for the inithe afternoon meeting in the ab~! There were a few, however, who | Portland. sence of Mrs, H. Stonehouse. | support of stevedores who struck | stuck by the aging Michelson to' The Seattle delegates proposed| Feature of the program will be a|here last week was raised by fac- the very end, and most faithful that the railroad be Puilt via Ques-|talk on the Elements of Indian de-| tory workers throughout the zone. among them was a man who had | nel, B. C. and the Rocky Mountain [sign by E. L. Keithahn. Members| - taire. nothing to do with politics. Scarce- | Trench Route. and visitors are invited to attend| VISITOR FROM SITKA ¢ o ‘The Council represents Chnmbers(zms particularly interesting discus-| Fred Coulsen of Sitka, is staying of Commerce in 11 western states. sion. Ial the Baranof Hotel. (Continued on Page Four) 46 RESCUED FROM BLAZE SWEPT SHIP Survivors of Army Trans- port Dramatically Tak- en from Lifeboats NEW YORK, Jan. 13—(P— All! 46 survivors who abandoned the | Army’s flame-swept funeral trans-' evelopment BODY OF SECOND PARATROCPER IS FOUND IN ARCTIC port Joseph V. Connolly were safe 00sy sroand st afhas veseels at- | REINAINS LO(G'Ed by Es- ter a dramatic rescue from life- | beats in which they had tossed | kimo DOg Team Driver, for 11 hours in raging North At- lantic seas. Rescue of the 46—the Connolly’s 45 crewmen and its lone passenger | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 13— was completed last night after - Ladd Field authorities announce an all-day air and sea search for llhat the body of a second paratroop- the survivors who abandoned their |er was found Saturday by an Eski- blazing ship in a northeast gale|mo dog team driver seven miles from some 900 miles east of New York. |the wreckage of a B-29 bomber on The half-frozen men were pick-|the northern rim of the Seward ed up by the Army Transport Gen, ! Peninsula R. E. Callan and the Black Dia-| His identity was withheld pending mond Line'’s Union Victory which | notification of next of kin sped to the scene after intercept-| Previously, the Air Forces had lis ing the stricken Connolly’s calls|ed the names of the two missing for help earlier in the day. Long_,mmnb«-rs of the “chutist trio as Lt- range Air Force planes from Kind- [Albert C. Kinney, Ladd Field medi-| ley Field in Bermuda aided in the |Cal officer from Hardwick, V. and| e Leon J. Casey, Los Angeles e body of the third paratroop- Sgt Santhell London, Kinta, ' 7 Miles from Wreck Pt S er, | Okla., was recovered eight days ago n I |and has been flown to the States. | | The three men jumped to the aid jof the B-29 survivors four-days af- Iter it crashed 95 miles north of| | Nome. Six of the bomber’s crewmen | were rescued later, but no trace has| |been found of the Pilot and Navi-! |gator who set out toward an Esk- {imo villagé 80 mrilescaway.‘An aerial! Fas Ing and dog team ‘search for the missing airmen is being ‘continued. H | - e e States Life Has No Aflrac-‘ tion Now Without ]'AF'I‘ K | ( KS Peace, Love NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 13.—(® ON pRopoSAl —Mohandas K. Gandhi started a | life-endangering fast for wmmun- al peace in Delhi and India at ’RATION MEAT non-violence, frail and 78, rejected g last-minute appeals from Hindu,| WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—®— Sikh and Moslem delegations that |Sounding a key notc of Republican a. m., (12:30 A. M., Eastern Stan- dard Time) £ The Indian pamo( and prophet of | he give the people 15 days to re- opposition to meat rationing, Sen- store peace before beginning his ator Taft (Ohio) predicted today it fast. He received them in the gar- |Wwould revive black markets and lead den of a millionaire friend’s 1mme“0 even higher prices | here. | The Ohioan told a reporter that, “You must prefer Gandhi or law- !while he is not completely bamng lessness. You can't have both,’ | rationing or price controls, he does, delegation members said he told not believe that meat rationing| them in Hindustan. They added jWould work. | “Meat is the one thing most sus- <cc))llb]e to black market operations. {T am afraid that we would have a Irepetition of the time when cattle were killed widely on the farms| !instead of at the slaughtering hous- , with the hides and other by-pro- ucts being lost. i + | “Certainly the people who got! ‘beef through the black market ‘vould: [hme to pay éven higher prices for| it than they are now and a great many people would get practically hone at all.” he asserted life had no value nor attraction without peace and love. Prcmptly at 11 Gandhi pointed to the remnants of his breakfast ! of goat's milk and vegetables, from which he had beep eating sparing- ly, #nd said, “Take it away. Tt is| time.” d e e KOLBEN IS DEAD FROM WOUNDS, HOTELSHOQ"NG | |mprovemen| ol ’ Myemonsce, ansa s 15| Wrangell Narrows . Is Given Approval Eighth Air Force veteran who 1lew‘ {missions over Europe in his Army | bomber, died yesterday of wounds ! WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—p—' | Rep. Engel (R-Mich) has released ' received in a New Year's Eve hotel |a list of projects making up the lobby shooting. $547,060,000 budget estimate of the District Attorney Plimmer said he is preparing charges against George| Thomas Whitacre, 46, on probation from the Federal Prison at McNeiil| ATmy Engineers for flood control Island, Wash, Whitacre was arrest-| jand rivers and harbors construc- tion. ed for investigation soon after the| fatal Aooling, The remainder of the $663,219,000 Holben is survived by his widow, -An the budget for Army Engineers Marjorie Ann; a son, James, one !is for maintenance and operation and one half years of age; and his|©f the projects, Engel said. parents, Mr. and Mrs, Wilbur T.; Engel, chairman of the House Holben of Pittsburgh, Pa., who ar- Appropriations Subcommittee that rived here last week handles funds for waterways STOCK QUOTATIONS | mates are recommendations and subject to revision by the NEW YORK, .an. 13- Closing|mittee and Congress quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| The following are included in stock today is 3%, American Can 79, Engel’s list as making up the bud- Anaconda 33%, Curtiss-Wright 5,{8et estimates for construction work International Harvester | onl cott 47%, New York C Wrange!l | Northern Pacific 19%, 038,400. 75“1, Pound $4.03's Sales today were 950,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in-| Mr. and Mrs. Tarkilson and two| dustrials 177.50, rails 51.53, utilities children from Pelican are guests 33.42, _at the Baranof Hotel pro- 90, Kenne- ral 14%, U. s Stefi’ly Narrows, Alaska, $1,- - - FROM PELICAN Siates Conference, Porlland? 'ish and Jews will bring the Com "ECONOMIC PIRATE; * | sicians.” Sinking To Westward Problems Refarding Alaska CRAFTIS ON RESCUE ATTEMPT Presented at PORTLAND, Jan. 13.—(®—, Alfl\k- an development hinges on ‘1“““"Was Bound at Tlme to cation of Indian land title claims and improvement of the Alean and | (Gjve Aid fo Aleutian otherhighways and marine_ship- Mail X ping problems, spokesmen for the Territory told a Western smm{ ail at Unimak Council conference here yesterday. | A suggestion that only the more| SEATTLE, Jan. 13.—(f— Coast pepulous southeast portion of the | Guard headquarters announced to- Territory came from Ralph Lo-|day that a self-propelled Army men, Nome, chairman of the|barge with an unknown number Alaskan delegation of Chamber of |aboard, is reported sinking near Commerce officials. |the Alaska Peninsula. Lomen asserted the 50,000 whites | in the north could not support the | expense of adequate state govern- ment. His statement came as| Maycr Carl Velvestad of Peters- | turg, Alaska, urged the western Chambers of Commerce to support | statehood. Lomen said a state| The distress call from the barge could be created from the area|was reported only a short time af- south of the Yukon River and ter the Coast Guard said it had west of the 152nd meridian 'been expected to reach the Aleut- Other Alasl speakers blamed jan Mail at 3 a. m. the Indians for retarding the in- dustrial develcpment along th The Cutter Clover, which had heavily timbered region of the | been dispatched yesterday to pick inland passage shores. R. E. Rob-|UP the crew of the Aleutian Mail, ertson, Juneau attorney, said the|Was ordered diverted to the ald of Indian claims, resulting from an'the barge. Brevented ut lest lahi putp il [y B Wl o o v\lu‘bnshcd pulp mills | apout 40 miles southwest of Cold The Council voted to seek legi B e e it ion o R P '9]11’5' Alaska Peninsula, which reaches of the Secretary of Interlull]' wi; e e e i It was believed to have run m‘.‘:‘u.m;uit?-‘."d Indian reserva- | aground®because the distress call, S Bt s 3 las relayed to the district head- | quarters here from the Coast Guard at Ketchikan, mentioned 4 | being on--Phin- Point on Deer | Island, a tiny one south of the ive - Nation Body Starfs! for Third Time fo Work | Out Solution The Coast Guard said the barge, {the BSP-1927, ran into trouble | while enroute to the aid of the Aleutian Mail, which ran aground resterday morning on the south- tip of Unimak Island. A reportéd good in on the Aleut- the 11 seamen “no immediate The last report ‘-a Mail was that nbuard it were in danger." The Aleutian Mail radioed to the Ketchikan base that it had run | almost straight aground without serious damage or injury to any crew members. The cutter has been to reach it this morning. The Aleutian Mail is a wooden- hulled 263-ton craft. It was en- route from the Bering Sea to Sew- 4 3 ‘nrd The home port is Juneau. * jalso was in commnnd of ll it is gether for more secret dwcusslnns,mmm:d by a crew from Alaska and today as British and Zionist repre- Seattle. scheduled LAKE SUCCESS, Jen. 13.—(P— sentatives stood by awaiting bids to appear before the five-nation body. CUTTER TO SCENE Today's session (11 KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 13— organized last Fri was expect- P—A Coast Guard Cutter rushed ed to be confined largely to draft- Ktudny toward the scene where a ing & plan of work and ironing | Self-Propelled Army barge report- ous several preliminary problems,|®d it Was sinking after apparently Informed quarters said Moshe | Ditting @, small island south of on was | the third since the ¢ { Shertok, representative of the Jew- | the Alaska Peninsula while en- {ish Agency for Palestine, and foute to the aid of another | British representative, Sir Alex- 8rounded ship. There were believ- ander Cadogan would be called lat- | ¢d to ke nine to a dozen men er this week. The Arab Higher|aboard the barge. Committee for Palestine has al-| Coast Guard headquarters here ready indicated it would refuse to Said the’ cutter ~Cedar should |send a representative. |reach the BSP-1927 (barge, self- The consultations with the Brit- Propelled) this evening. The barge adioed early today that it was mission face to face with a series | Sinking about 40 miles southwest 'of major problems which now have | f Cold Bay, which is near the end | begun to take definite shape. Sher- of the Alaska Peninsula. ! tek cutlined some of these pmblema An Army rescue plane was re- in a news conference yesterday | ported hovering over the barge, and a British ‘n’ady to drop a lifeboat if one is ! dicated others. needed. D e | ‘The Army's Seattle Port of Em- pEIRIllo Is CAI_I_ED Barkatian: maf tillis cleiiiaie it spoke sman has in- ! posed the normal crew of the 86- Inol type barge, but reports re- ved here were that as many as a dn/vn lices might be at stake. ABOARD ALEUTIAN MAIL SEWARD, Alaska, Jan. 13.—®— — The Aleutian Mail went aground WAbHINGTON Jan. 13-—UP—'early yesterday on the southwest | Justin Miller, President of the Na-|tip of Unimak Island, the first tional Association of Broadcasters, in the Aleutian Chain. told the House Labor Committee; Those listed aboard the Mail, be- tcday that James C. Petrillo is anjsldrs Captain Petrich, are: “economic pirate” who has become| First Mate Benjamin “the American public’s symbol for| (hcmetown unavailable). bad unicn leadership.” ‘ Second Mate Emil Gunderson of Miiler testified that Petrillo,| Sanak through iron-clad control of the First Engineer American Federation of Musician:, | Seward. is seeking to destroy the xecord-, Second Engineer Jack Devereaux making industry by “uninventing!of Seward. the phonograph.” He said this is| Laurence Olson of Seward, the “hurting the real professional mu- | cook, and five deck hands includ- ing Ted Givens of Seattle, Ray- mond Gilbert of Unga, and Emil Anderson of Sanak. The names of the other two crewmen are not immediately available. BAD UNION LEADER Brack Allen Ostling of - o FROM KETCHIKAN Roger Elliott from Ketchikan is registered at the Baranof Hotel