The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,784 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Score Rescued Fr RE - TRIAL OF MEEKS 10 START Convicled Knfia Slasher Is Given Another Chance in District Court George Harrison LOST FLIERS G ARE REPORTED FOUND, NOME to trial in U. S. District Court here tomorrow ior what may be his life. Meeks was convicted Body of One of Three Para- troopers, However, Is Still Unrecovered on March 9, 1946 of the first de- gree murder.of Clarence J. Camp- FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 14.- M—One of three paratroopers who bell Juneau on December 10, 1945. His case was remanded back to Juneau several weeks ago by the Ninth U. S. Circuit Court of Ap- peals for a re-trial, based on cer- tain irregularities in the original trial. Meeks was found guih)y E a jal in which ;i)mg]gDistrllfl i\l!}tm‘x!\ey P. J. Gil- made “z mmnl;:h( leap to the AL|| of e e bru-, six B-29 crash survivors two days it et e after Christmas still has not been found, Ladd Field authorities sald today. He is Lieut. Albert C. Kinney, Jr., Hardwick, Vt., medical officer at Ladd Field The frozen body paratrooper, found identifiad yesterday Cs whose sister, tal knife slashing of Campbell, a lives in Los Angeles. The body of 28-year-old Seattle construction worker who had been employed at Hoonah by the Alaska Construc- tion Co. Campbell’'s body was found near the unfinished home of Harold B. Foss on Evergreen Avenue in the upper pclncn of the Seattle ’I‘mui e Bengop SDLke. MLU::,\U;;?; Sgt. Santhell London, Kinta, Okla., Ores Bl Rotbery WO was recovered 10 days ago. A report at Nome, still uncon- firmed, said the bodies of Lieuts. Vi H. Arnett, Santa Ana, Calt., an Frederick E. Sheetz, Keyser, W, Va., pilot and navigator of the s en B-29, had been found nine miles from the crash scene. Six members of the plane’s to have been the motive for the were rescued. in of the second Saturday, was as T-5 Leon J Ruby Blackwell, crime after it was learned that approximately $2,300 in cash was missing from his person. Unidentified Bedy The body was unidentified for 24 hours until Harold Stjern, Sup- erintendent of the Alaska Con- struction Co. declared that it was that of Campbell Meeks had originally been in- terrogated during the investiga- | tion, but was not arrested until} Kelso B. Hartness accused him of trying to knife him also. Meeks was placed in jail on January B 1946 and charged with cutting Hartness with intent to kill, wound or maim. He was bound over to the Grand Jury on January 20,/ 1946. The Grand Jury later re-| crew - FIST FIGHTS IN ASSEMBLY IN FRANCE : Commumsts Resist Shelv The Washington ing of Right to Name Merry-Go-Round Vice-President By DREW PEARSON PARIS, Jan. 14.—(P—Communists - Y LA it |resumed a bitter fight today for the eyndicate, | Vice-Presidency of the French Na- 1948, by The Bell Svndicate, |, q) Agsembly, charging that at- Inc.) WASHINGTON — Notes From tempts to deprive the largest single Your Cabinet Correspondent: party in the Assembly of that post has | would be unconstitutional. The Agriculture Department submitted a detailed meat ration- Marcell Cachin, the Communist ing program, a bill to revive meat Interim Chairman of the Assembly controls. {who suspended the session yester-| Department experts worked out day when a majority of the deput-| a tentative program, based upon 'les attempted to deprive the Com- (Continued On rage T\m) — e (Copyright. f! 1’ the old OPA point system but de- munists of the Vice-Presidency, re-| for cheaper meat cuts. It wuuld‘mg Fear had been expressed that be administered and enforced by he might refuse to do so. The Com- wit he FBI on the prowl for serious all Assembly Offices. e 2 The session yesterday had ended The planners have taken special pains to weed out the irritations |and engaged in fist fights. The meet- a bad taste with the public. | the lights after non-Communist de-, The Agriculture plan is to ra- | puties 1elu&ed '0 leave. oils. Coupon books wouid be issued‘ by voluntary ration boards, but| | handpicked by Secretary Anderson | IUR“ED Dow“ BY for (hexr ability to get along with The « decision system was reached after close, | WASHINGTON. Jan, 14—M—| tem which regulates the money|senator Capehart (R-Ind) has turn-| that can be spent rather thanleq down a request that he substi-| purchased. The plan finally adopt- | woman from Alaska at the Republi- ed will cost heavily in coupons forcan National Committee meeting fewer points for the less tender| Mrs Margaret E. White of Juneau, cuts. The tendency would be to the Territory’s Republican Commit-| choice cuts, while hoosting cost of the lower-point cuts. Yet the entire month of January. price controls will not be neces- husbanu Albert, GOP Chairman for sary. \Lhe Territory, while he was in Al-| was skeptical of the meatless- egg-‘qbnlmes for development of new;-l less-poultryless days from the first, | print mills. i on a meat-rationing program sgv- he is unable to accept “the honorl eral weeks ago. He assigned the |because of prior commitments which | Charles Brannan and called for a |confer with A. E. Rasmuson of Skag- way, signed to create a greater demandlmnvemd its reorganization meet- the Agriculture Department, h | munists have threatened a boycott o: Hdlatiols ~and GBI markeling.‘m turmoil. Deputies shouted, sang which crept into the OPA and left ing was suspended by turning out] tion meat alone, mnot fats ALASKA PROXY IS the central directors would be | SENATOR CAPEHART| to use the pom‘\ | study of the British rationing sys-j | the amount of meat that can be ! tuts for the National Committee-| the tenderloin steaks but charge here Jan. 19 and 20. force price reductions for the teewoman, sent Capehart her proxy| Anderson feels that compulsory| The Senator met her and her The Agriculture Secretary, who aska last summer investigating pos-g quietly put his department to work | Capehart wrote Mrs. White that planning to Assistant Secretary |1 cannot change.” He said he will! Committeeman, about the proxy. (Continued on Page e Four) rick- | | $6,800,000,000 European Inferior Depariment Given Huge Budget for Work in ACQUIRED FOR Alaska; lfems Are llsled%AI.ASKA ROUTE; WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—@®—| An Interior Department official | said today President Truman’s new | budget requests $60,987,651 to be spent Alaska by the Interior| Department which, if approved,| will be the first step toward co- crdinating all government activities | in the Territory i William E. Warne, assistant Sec- retary a news conference that the budget included $38943651 for Department activities affecting the Territory, together with contract authorizations for $22,044,000. He said this compared with ap- propriations of $16,427,238 and con- tract authorization of $15,000,000 this year. Warne in said that if Congress ap- proves the requests, the Depart- ment will be able set up an Alaskan development staff to co- ordinate 2ll of its program in the Territory. This staff, he said, will be located in Alaska and here, and will seek to “bring Alaska closer to Washington.” Budget For Alaska He listed the money in the bud- wv for the Department for Alaska to $550,135 for the Secretary’s off- ice; $924,005, Bureau of Land Man- agement; $6,150,500, plus contract authorization of $6,400,000, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs; $150,000 ior the Reclamation Bureau to make general investigations which, he said, will include potential do- water supplies and power pecially at Eklutna Lake, near horage; $900,000 for the Geo-! al Survey; $641,000 for the! Mines; $1,053,982 for the Park ervice plus $2,- contract authorization; the Fish and Wild- $9,867,400 plus $6,944,- authorization for the | Al Ic Bureau of National 000,000 in $. 9,629 for life Service; 0 contract ' Alaska Road Commission and $15,- 000.000 plus contract authorization of $6,700,000 for the Alaska Rail-! xu.v(l " PET B 5 T RILLOIS ACQUITTED CHICAGO, Jan. 14—{®—James C. Petrillo today was acquitted on a charge of violating the Lea Act ich Congress passed to curb his board union powers. Federal Judge Walter J. Labuy, in his written opinion of eight pages, said “there is no evidence whatever iin the record to show that the de- fendant had knowledge of or informed of this case.” The Government alleged in its criminal case that Petrillo, head ot ithe AFL American Federation of Musicians, had violated the law by calling a strike to coerce station WAAF, Clncago to hire extra help. OBJECTS T0 TAKING FOREIGN HOLDINGS TO AID HELP PLAN {Treasury Secrelary Says| Cashin U.S. Needed fo | Defray Expenses | WASHINGTON, Jan. 1445\?' Secretary of the Treasury Snyder | today vigorously opposed requiring | the 16 Marshall Plan countries to | use their dollar holdings in this! country to help cover costs of thc d pro- gram. { “It would be folly” to force them to do so, the Secretary told the| Snyder said citizens of these; countries had about $4,800,000,000 in dollars assets on last June 30, but he added: It would be difficult to get cash | readily on most of these assets as| scme are already pledged for loans; | the Europeans need the funds lo‘ cover their normal trade and fi- nancial cperation; and their huld-l ings already are below a “safe” | Alaska's Republican Nauonal'amount needed to keep their own | age Dock, will return currencies steady, | underway. Was | py ANOTHER SHIP|ECONOMIC MESSAGE IS GIVEN 'Alaska Transportation Se- cures Large Freighter— Has 12-Knot Speed SEATTLE, Jan. 14—(®-—Acquisi- tion of the second ship within the | past week for Puget Sound and Alaska trade was a\nnouncl‘d!lh:u American prosperity is riding yesterday by the Alaska Transpor-'a “wave of inflation” toward the tation Company. | peril of a “serious” business slump. The ship is the 318-foot freight- Keying his second annual econ- er “Empire Consequence,” built in|cmic report to a renewed plea for Germany just before the war for|legislative power to cope with soar- use in the Baltic Sea, and acquir-|ing prices, the Chief Executive told | ed by the U. S. from England, who ; the-Republican-controlled Congress: took the vessel from the Nazis as war reparations |ly aware that inflation is the “The ship was constructed and dominant problem in our affairs. especially strengthened for ice x\nd‘ Mr. Truman used urgent words | cold water activity, and its 12-knot | in demanding once again the full speed and handling characteristics | ten-piece kit of anti-inflation tools made it ideal for work in the Terri- which the lawmakers refused him tery,” S. J. Swanson, vice presi- | during last fall's special session. He dent of the line, declared | asserted that standby price, wage The ship is now in New York and rationing authority are “need- and bids for her conversion will be jed] needed badly, and needed invited from both coasts. | promptly.” The company plans to equip the | ship with refrigerator space to | tion, arry that type of cargo as well| busin as extensive improvements to carry | possible, “foregoing a quick and a limited number of passengers.| dangerous exce profit in favor It has dead weight tonnage of [cf long-run stability.” 2973. i And he urged labor to be The passenger liner George | erate’ Washington was also recently ac- mands quired by {he ATC ior service to| Alaska ports. Power to Cope with Soaring Prices Jan. 4.—P— declared toda i | \ | WASHINGTON, President Truman the President called upon to cut prices wherever “mod- | taxes. > | ”amous Sourdough Of Alaska Passes Out on Last Trail Jan. -oee EISENHOWER MAY FORFEIT GOP SUPPORT Risks Repuman Backing If Fails to Disavow Presidential Draft CHICO, Cal., 14—P— A trunk full of clippings and the tranished keys to a dozen cities | were about all that was left today jan cldtime Alaskan sourdough who (rode a dog sled to fame and for- | tune in the long ago. Smith, 92, died yesterday, an | obscure cld man in a rest home. | But there was a time when he WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—(P— was toasted in Nome and Wash- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower may | ington, and his poke was full of risk any chance for the ultimate gold dust. backing of regular Republican nl'-j Back in 1905, on a $10,000 bet with ganizations in several states if hoilhe late sports promoter Tex fails to stamp out the independent 'Rickard, Smith started mushing a Presidential draft movement now |dog team from Nome to Washing- ton, D. C Two years later he completed the 8,000 mile trip. Rickard was in} Washington to pay off dent Teddy Roosevelt was there to greet him. Smith mushed on the Dawson Trail. He cnce won $21,000 in a husky sweepstakes race from Nome to Candle Creek and back—in 72 hours and 10 minutes. Eight years ago, bent Smith, a native of East Troy, Wis, came to Chico. He went to the California ghost town of Magaila to work a claim, but his luck had | run out. He entered the rest home in 1942 and lived out his days in the peace sunny town north f The Army Chief of Staff has said | il times that he has no in- in politics. But thus far he has not otherwise repudiated moves y the Draft Eisenhower League to put delegates into a number of GOP primaries. While this move has the back- ing in New Hampshire of Senator Charles Tobey, Eisenhower enthus- iasts elsewhere seem likely to be drawn from persons outside of and | often at odds with the regular GOP organizations in the states concern- ed. As a case in point, one Repub- lican in close touch with the sit-| uation said privately that Eisen- hower had a better-than-fair jand quiet of a small, chance for darkhorse support from !far from the roaring high tlw powerful Pennsylvania Repub- country he loved. |lican organization at the June| G Philadelphia convention. But, this party member added, the General | may forfeit that chance if he does 21 Survivors from i e ™ Flaming Transport steaMg ovements | Landed af Halifax ¥ | HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Jan, 14. Denali scheduled to sail !roml_m—'rwom) one survivors of the; | Seattle Saturday. iburned Army Transport Joseph V. Alaska scheduled to sail {rom !|Connolly will leave Halifax by plane | Se:mle Jan, 20. |later today for New York. In all, 27 Coustal Rambler scheduled to sail| survivors landed in Halifax from the, from Seattle Jan. 23. rescue ship Union Victory this morn- Princess Norah scheduled t0 ar-|ing Three injured men are being the |for the Committee session and for|Senate Foreign Relations commit-|rive at 4 o'clock this afternoon kept in Halifax for medical care | tee | A and sails south at 6 o'clock thisiand three others, also injured, will evening. be flown to Boston. Aleutian, from west, A message from a vessel standing southbound Sunday. by the Connolly ’ s says the Transport still is burning ROBERT EUGENE IN PORT fiercely. scheduled 1 R The Robert Eugene owned by MORNING FIRE CALL Fred Dahl and sons arrived from, An overheated motor in the Prince Rupert at 8 o'clock this Royal Cafe on Franklin caused a morning, and after loading a Laruoll 4 fire alarm 2% 2:67 a. m. today. of frozen fish at the Cold Stor-lThe Juneau Yolunteer Fire De- to Prince pahtment reported that no dam- Rupert this afternoon. age was visible. Truman Renews Plea for “The American people are keen- | In addition to Congressional ac- | in its third round wage de- | Nor did he yield any ground on | ic |to remind the world of Eli Smith, | adn Presi- | i with age, om Wrecked Alaska Craft 'Veterans Board Must Refund $350,000 fo PASSENGERS, CREW, TAKEN Alaska, Court Orders FROM BEACH BIG PLANS OUTLINED, AIR POLICY ‘Billions of Dollars Should Be Expended fo Make U. S. Ready for Attacks By JAMES J. STREBIG | ( Aviation Reporter) ; WASHINGTON, Jan® 14.—(P mission said today the government should add billions of dollars to| air power spending estimates to | create a force “capable of dealing | with a possible atomic attack this country” by January 1, 1953 A report by the five-man board | declared the air force presently | planned would be “inadequate” even for the intervening five years | It would be “hopelessly 1ing,” the report said, for the later period when it should be assumed ! that weapons in quantity and the equipment to deliver them in a sus- ‘[um(d attack on the United States | mainland. ‘The commission said plans should be expanded all along the line to| call for: i L An air | stead of printed. 2. Doubling the present total of 13,500 first line combat aircraft by { the end of 1949. | 3. A §1300,000,000 increase to ;b"m;: air force spending to $4,150,- 000,000 for the 1948 calendar year and to $5,450,000,000 for next year. { 4. An additional $192,000,000 {above budget estimates to modern- ize the Navy's air arm this year | and $319,000,000 more for the same “)ulpow in 1949, | “We believe,” the isaid, “that the United States | be secure in an ahsolute sense only if the institution of war itself lis abolished under a regime of {law.” force of 70 groups in- the 55 groups now blue- -e 20 JAPANESE MAY ESCAPE - FROMTRIALS | TOKYO, Jan. 14—®--Dismissal of war crimes charges against 20 lepnnesw—mrludmg five ministers i the Tojo Cabinet—has been re- { commended by Chief Prosecutor Jo- {seph B. Keenan, it was learned authoritatively today. Keenan declined to comment on the report, but neither would he deny he made the recommendation to the War Crimes section of the U. 3. Department of the Army in Wash- ington. -An informed source said Keenan's reasoning is that trial of the 20 de- fendants would be anti-climactic, |lengthy and expensive and would I necessitate a complete new tribunal, | ... | STOCK QUOTATIONS 1 NEW YORK, Jux\ 14.—(A— Cos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American |Can 78, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss- { Wright 5%, International Harvest- jer 897, Kennecott 47%, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 20, fU S. Steel 76'%, Pound $4.03%;. | Sales today were 230,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in Mid-Atlantic' industrials 17738, rails 5139, util-' lay in the execution so Bird could;Asscciation, pities 33.26, | e ee NEW JUNEAU RESIDENTS | Mrs. Barbara Granere and baby daughter arrived on the Prmcess Norah to foin her Fritz Granere, who is the business partner and associate of “Red” Mayo of the Town Hall Recreation Center. -| KETCHIKAN, President Truman’s air policy com- | on ! want- | “cther nations will have atom- husband, Mr.| o/ the Those Aboard Aleutian Mail Suffer Exposure- Barge Crew Taken Off SEATTLE, Jan. 4—®— Two more mid-winter rescues from | small Alaska steamers wrecked out to the “westward"—in waters west of Kodiak Island and along the SAN FRANCISCO, Jan The U. 8. Circuit Court peals yesterday upheld a decision | of the Alaska Territorial District | | Court ordering the Alaska World | War II Veterans Board to refund | to the Territory $350,000 which the Legislature gave the board m| 1946 The 14.—(P— of Ap-| Territory contended that the { Board, in A just, 1947, had $1,750,- | 000 cn account. The Board has'ajaska Peninsula—saved -upwards :bf'tu ordered to repay half of thelof 5 score of passengers and crew- |$350,000 by January 31, and the|members today. rest by April 30 In April, 1946, the Legislature| The 15 passengers and crewmen | established the Board to admin-|of the Aleutian .Mail, all suffering ister loans and bonuses to veter-|from exhaustion and exposure, were ans, the funds being derived n-(.m‘mkm. ofi the beach and the a sales and service tax. !'grounded vessel by a boat and sal- | vage crew late yesterday, the Coast EASES 'rrmu’romu, FINANCES | Guard cutter Cedar radioed. Alaska, Jan. 14.—@ | 3 —Alaska’s Governor said today the | The Aleutian Mall had grounded Circult Court of Appeals declsion | near Arch Point, on Unimak Island | returning $350,000 to the Territory's | €41y Monday, and the self-pro- {general fund from the Veteran's|Peled Army barge BSP-1921, turn- [ Commission will “ease the critical | I8 10 80 to its aid also ground- | condition -of . the ed and nearly met disaster. Float- land thereby |ing free, the barge's crew of ap- for a spec | preximately nine messaged at noon Lagtulature” (PST) yesterday that the craft The Governor sald his canvass|WOUId stay afloat only an hour {of four large Alaskan cities show- | OPE¢T ed very little genuine demand by LAter, however fishing vessels the public or legislators for a spec- | [°5Cu€d those aboard and headed fal session. for Kings Cove, on the Alaska He said Peninsula. The Army tug Bolster promised was to attempt to salvage the of Alaska enough money to com- | P2T8¢: plete 1948 operations and the| TWO salvage officers from the { Territcriel outlook is not so bleak | Cdar, Lieut. (g E. W. Jackson as at first believed. and Ensign Willlam Page, and a The Governor sdded.-the .Court | P08¢ F1eW. of _Vingent Sherman, | ruling, while helping temporarily ' ScAman 1-c; Russell E. Sparks, to relieve the Territory’s financial | Machinist’s mate 3-c; Thomas J, crisis, “lovels 4 further blow at our | CONNOY, pharmacist’s mate 3-c and veterans, whose opportunity to Frank H. Steinheiser, gunner’s mate secure loans undsr the Alaska Vet- | 3¢ made the rescue, the Cedar exan’s bill is further diminished and | "*%$8¢d- postponed public treasury | en the pressure 1 session of the Alaska business people have to lend the University ! i Mail, Beat Saved “This is most deplorable, since in! AJl the government mail was also view cof the last legislature's fail- rescued frem the beach, and the ure to increase of extend the vet- | aleutian Mail, a 263-ton wooden eran’s revolving fund, hundreds of | ship, was edged ofi the beach at them have been unable to secure high tide and taken in tow by the benefits to which this act entitled | Cedar for Sand Point, on Popof Is- them.” ?1and 50 miles away. DED- The Cedar’s skipper praised the “excellent seamanship” and rescue work by the boat and salvage crew. ! The Cedar and its tow left Arch | Point at 5:41 (PST) last night, the ; cutter messaged, and was to ar- ! | rive at Sand Point about 1 p. m. ! | today. | BE pROBED lieve of its tow, if it can arrive in time. The Aleutian Mail and the Federal Grand Jury Given vuwe bomn got into trouvte i an (area some 300 miles west of Ko- Instructions from Af- | diak. in approximately the same - | vicinity. 'orney Gene[al On New Years Eve, the cannery WASHINGTON, Jan. 14— #— Attornzy General Clark today ord- tender Spencer also went aground ered a Federal Grand Jury investi- in a driving snow storm near Kan- atak on the Alaska Peninsula, gation of lobbying in the District of Columbia. | northwest of Kodiak Island. All the crew and passengers, including The Attorney General gave his special Assistant, Irving R. Kaut- two women, one of them on a man, powers of a District Attorney wedding trip to marry the Spen- cer's skipper, were rescued by the and authorized him to go before the Grand Jury. Navy and Coast Guard after six Kaufman has been making an in- days on the beach, Earlier this winter, several oth- er vessels have gotten into trouble quiry into compliance with the lob- and required assistance in the bying registration act of 1946 . storm-tossed North Pacific south of That law requires that persons|the Aleutian Ch“‘" attempting to influence legislation must register with Congress and file| a statement showing who is paying them, Tug To Scene The Nnvy tug Mataco was order= led to the ald of the Cedar to re- RE(ORD MAKING IS THREATENED - Stay ot Exetuhon Is " Granted Slayer Bird DY PETRILLO BAN OLYMPIA, Jan. i4—# Washing- WASHINGTON, Jan. l4.—@®— ton’s Governor Wallgren has grant- James C. Petrillo's 14 day old “tor- ed a 60-day stay of execution for ever ban” on record making by his Jake Bird, the convicted slayer|AFL American Federation of Mu- scheduled hang early Priday Sicians threatens to “dwarf” the ra=- morning |dio manufacturing industry, an in- | The postponement was ordered |dustry representative contended to- shortly after Wallgren received a day. |telegram from ~Governor Dwight! Bond Geddes. Executive Vice Pre- |Green of Illinos. Green urged a de-|sident of the Radio Manufacturers declared in testimony |nelp clear up other unsolved slay-|Prepared for the House Labor Com- x'"g” ‘mme“ that widespread unemploy~ { Bird has confessed that he either| ment and bankruptey will follow if the Musicians Union Chief is not |committed or can clear up some 44 different slayings. |torced to retreat from his stand. | s to - -—,o—— ! FROM FAIRBANKS REBEKAH LODGE MZETS Gene Socher and Marshall Will-| The Rebekah Lodge will have its iam of Fairbanks are registered at|regular business meeting tonight in Gastineau. ithe IOOF Hall at 8 o'clock.