The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 22, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALl THE TIME” [ VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,791 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIAT ED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS EVIDENCE IS 45-Hour Work Week on CONFLICTING, MEEKS' CASE Witnesses at—V;riance with Previous Testimony- Bloody Garments The first testimony today in the re-trial of George Meeks. who was convicted of the murder ence Campbell in a trial held here two years ago, was Charles Bert Holland. Holland, assistant manager of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, testified that he con- versed with Meeks about 5 p. m cn December 8, in the cocmpany office. Meeks requested payment for his day's work, and Holland told him to contact Ralph Martin, who had hired the defendant without Hol- land’s knowledge. The witness produced a receipt from Meeks acknowledging pay- ment of $8 by the light company, | and stated that Martin had sub- mitted - it to him, then ier for reimbursement. The receipt was accepted as Government’s exhibit number 14. Included in previous exhibits are! the 15 $100.00 bills, which were placed in Behrend’s Bank by Rex Sunderland for Clarence Campbell. They are marked plaintiif's exhibit number 11. Holland maintained that former testimony by Ralph Martin, now deceased, to the effect that he (Holland) had, not been at the company office on Saturday after- neen, December 8, was incorrect. Lena Brown Called Lena Brown was the only other witness during the morning. She was living with Kelso Hartness in the Salo Rooms- on the Sunday evening when Meeks allegedly visit- ed them, and displayed “about $1800” in $100.00 bills. For the most part her testimony corroborated that of Hartness, al- though she was vague on many points, testifying that she had been ill on the occasion and did not pay much attention to the two men's conversation. (Continued on Page Eight) The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON by The Bell Syndicate. nc.) (Copyright, 1948, (Editor’s . Note: Today Drew Pearsop, discussing American- Russian problems, proposes one important way to beat the Russians at their own game in Europe.) ASHINGTON,—Clare Boothe 'WLuce. who can’t be accused of being remotely pro-Communist, once diagnosed the US.A.-USSR. tug-of-way as follows: “In the early part of the last the United States was a We had a Everybody century, young, rebel republic. new political idea. wanted to imitate us. “Today, Russia has come along with a newer political idea and assumed the political leadership of es Birch, Earl Draper, Gardner Sul-| Europe. We've got to get that leadership back.” Phony as the Communist politi- cal leadership is, Clare Luce is right. The Soviet ideology is new, has keen sold with great cleverness and has bamboozled a good many people. Furthermore it has sold Europe on at least one idea which is definitely worth while and which, without the Communist taint, could be the solution of the Euopean im- broglio. After World War I, I spent considerable time in the Balkans. At that time the hate between the peoples of that area was be- yond belief. To fllustrate: "I once tried to work ‘out a deal whereby the broken-down. locomotives of Yugoslavia would be repaired in of Clar- | the cash- | Overtime Pay Basis Is Plan fo Beaf Inflation [ Truman Considering |Reappoiniment of Alaska's Governor | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 22— (P—President Truman said to- day at a news conference he is considering the reappoint- | ment of Dr. Ernest Gruening 2s Governor of Alaska. He said | he will make an announce- | ment later. HOCVER EXPRESSES 'HIS VIEWS ABOUT RECOVERY, EUROPE President Truman Not in | Accord with Suggestion | Made, He Declares WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—P— | President Truman said today he is inot at all in accord with former | President Herbert Hoover's views that BEuropean recovery commit- ments should ke limited to 15 months and cut below $6,800,000,000. That is about all he would say when reporters sought comment at a news conference on the recom- mendations Mr. Hoover made yester- day to the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee Asked specifically for his reaction, 'he said he simply does not approve of Mr, Hoover's statement. | In response to another question, Mr. Truman said: He read the recommendations of |Bernard M. Baruch with pleasure and approves of those that are in by with his own European and mestic economic programs. Mr. Hoover suggested to the Sen- ate group a “constructive modifica- tion” of Mr. Truman’s program and got pledg of careful study from a tiio of Senators. - 18 PASSENGERS ARE FLOWN HERE BY PAA; 14 ARE FLOWN OUT Pan American Airways in flights yesterday carried 44 passengers as sfollows: | Seattle to Juncau: Charles Huni- |ley, Peggy Kolas, Will Tobey, Rich- ard Chamberlain, Dorothy Cham- {Lerlain, Susan Chamberlain, Mar- |guerite Lewis, Anthony Perez, Mad- line Perez Thomas Parks, Vera Parks, Infant Gail Parks, Chester Causey, Olie Murphy, Jerry McKinley, Patricia | Grove, William Meals. H. L. Sweeny, William Jorgenson, George Jorgenson, William Ekemo, Russel Morgan, Dean Miller, Eliza- Ibeth Altman, Ablert Burrell, Roy | Avrit, David Danielson, Maurice Haas. | Juneau to Seattle: Jessie Herrin, John Bangs, George Sadowski, Jam- |livan, Ray Smith, Adrian Kulpers, |Harold Stjern, R. H. Stock, Lou |Hudson, Cliff Berg, Frances Berg, |Arthur Peterson. Juneau to Annette: Carl Stolberg. | Whitehorse to Juneau: Lorraine | Singer. '3 Bodies of Wreck ' Vidims Recovered UNGA, Alaska, Jan. 22—(P— The bodies of three of four men |lost when a small skiff overturned last week in Popof Strait, west of | ered, the United States Commis- | sioner’s office reports. | Kodiak Island, have been recov-! the idle machine shops of Aus- tria in return for Yugeslav corn. Vienna was then starving. Corn in Yugoslavia was rotting. How- Those found were Brack Benge, | Brownsburg, Ind., mate of the ;Aleutian Mail, and Bernard An- ever, the Yugoslav government |derson and Reynolds Gilbert, both said they would rather. have no|of Squaw Harbor. John Gun- trains at all than feed the hated |derson, Sand Point, Alaska, was Austrians. |also lost. In no part of Southern Europe| Earlier last week, the Aleutian was this hatred worse than be-|Mail had gone aground on Uni- tween the Italians and Yugoslavs|mak Island and the 15 crew mem- around Trieste and Fiume. bers and passengers were rescued U. 8. OF BALKANS Two weeks ago I revisited this part of Europe.. There are still a and taken to Sand Point. e, FROM HOOD BAY R. E. Owens of Hood Bay | registered at the Baranof Hotel. | (Continued on Page Four) WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—P— AFL President William Green pro- | Pesed teday management and labor ' voluntarily up a 45-hour work weék on an overtime pay basis as a § meens of producing more goods | and helping to beat in ion. | The 74-year-old labor leader told | Senat> Banking Committee would consider the ex- tra work hours if Congress, ir twrn, would approve an effective | meens 1or halting the price spiral. This would include most of the 1C-peint anti-inflation program recommended to Congress by Pres-; ident Truman, except standby au- thority to control wages, Green said in a prepared statement | Green suggested an extra hour of work day. He told a re- perter that this would mean an increase from the present 40-hour | work week in most industries to 45| hcurs, with labor receiving time and one-half pay for the extra five hours OVER 3 THOUSAND ORDERED OUT OF | HOMES, FIRE ZONE, CHESTER, Pa. Jan. 22—(®—Fire swep: through the block-long garage; and offices of the Southern Pennsyl- | vania Bus Co., today wrecking 33 buses and causing a loss of $750,000.; The blaze was confined to the, building but the danger from 20 separate explosions was considered, so great that police ordered more than 3,000 persons from homes in| the midcity area P. T. Rellly, Viee President General Manager of the Compar who made the estimat said the fire app 3 when a bus being filled wit: line burst into flames aft plosion ACTRESS MEREDITH GIVEN LONG TERM, KIDNAPING (CASE set th that labor LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22—® Film actress Madge Meredith, her appeal for probation denied, was sentenced to five years to life in| Tehachapi Women's Institution to- | day on her conviction of kidnap- ing and assault. ‘ Miss Meredith, appearing spright- | ly and unrufiled in a gray tailored! suit, displayed no emotion as the| sentence was pronounced by Supex'-f icr Judge Charles W. Fricke. She | had no statement for reporters. t She was convicted of engineering | the kidnaping and beating of res- | tauranteur Nick Gianaclis, her| former adviser, and who claimed he was instrumental in getting her ! tarted on a film career. ! b 10 DA | DEFENSE IS MADE | - BY PETRILLO ON | BAN ON RECORDS | WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—(®—| An attorney for James C. Pemllo' said tcday that “disc jockeys” who play records on radio broadcasts; | earn as much as $185,000 a year | while the musicians who make the | recordings “fight for scraps.” | | Milton Diamond, general counsel ! for Petrillo's American Federation | | of Musicians, told the House La- | bor Committee that musicians in this country “potentially commit i suicide” when they permit their periormances to be recorded. Defending Petrillo’s ban on fur- ther record making by union mu- | sicians, Diamond said that at the | Federation’s last convention in{ June, 1947, the entire delegation of | all union locals “voted unanimous- ly” to halt recordings. Bars Are Pickefed; Customers Locked In ! PITTSBURGH, Jan. 22—(®—Ig- [ by the Coast Guard Cutter Cedar noring a picket line, 35 customers: torial Museum at 7:30 p. m. Fri- | walked into two struck bars. ' Sonjbody dkdn’t like A4t—and | padlocked the doors on the out- | mers out. | which !u...\ held up because “we were try- . j fired from the White Sands prov- Can 78'%, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss- PROPAGANDA BLOW HITS AT RUSSIA Top Secrels of ‘39 Friend-| ship Trealy Released by State Department WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—(®—The United States uncorked a major propaganda blow against Russia to-| Iday by officially revealing & Soviet, offer in 1940 to join the German-' Italian-Japanese Axis at a price Adolph Hitler refused to pay. Already the Government's infor- mation mouthpiece to the world,l the “Voice of America” shortwave! | radio, is pouring into Russia and the rest of Eurcpe the factual story told in a fat volume of long-szcret: German Foreign Office records sud-! denly published by the State De-| partment ! ‘The book's 362 pages disclose thei minutest details of the Moscow-Berlin honeymoon which began when the men who now rule; Russia negotia a non-aggression with Hitler and which ended; !with Hitler's treacherous attack on the Soviet Union June 22, 1941, It gives the word-by-word deals led to the 1939 Friendship Treaty as well as the texts of thel then top secret dditions under, which Germany and the Soviet Un-| fon carved Poland and Northeastern B R, Europe into spheres of influence or! B T DRUNING SHEARS 2 LEGISLATIONS Democrats Cut Tax Meas- ure, Republicans Slash- ing Truman’s Budget An artificial snow party in which Secretary of State Marshall said today that the bock disclosing sec- | ret agreements between Soviet Rus- da and Nazi Germany was ready fer release before the London Big rence in December, but' ach an agreement | 1, here for a with made the statement in a erview. The Secretary of d not comment on the ¢ published documents relations - ds WASHINGTON Jan 22—® Both Democratic and Republican Congressmen are preparing today to use the pruning shears—the Demo- crats on the GOP tax cutting biil and the Republicans on the Presi- Clay Makes Reporf, "ot , g - Democratic Representative Robert Ge,man S“uahonu Doughton of North Carolina has the 1] More Food Needed !job of pruning the tax measure. He is the ‘top minority member of the WASHINGTON, Jan. 22— Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American p,. y,wmaker his plan will Military Governor of ~Germany, gonoy the general lines of the Re- predicted today an early improve- publican bill 1 r than the sub- ment in the food supply situation gitiie acked by President Truman. which has touched off protest gogever, both Doughton and the strikes in the British and Ameri- Chajrman of the Ways and Means can occupation zomes, Committce, Harold Knutson, want To meet the crisis, he said, both pergonal exemptions increased from the military government and the five hundred to six hundred dol- German administration, “are tak- jays That would take approximate- ing vigorous measures.” He als0'ly gix million income persons told reporters it would help if from the tax rolls the United States would ship more’ paanwhile, the job of cutting the food to the occupied areas. Fresident’s budget is in the hand of the Senate-House Legislative o Budeet Committee That group ‘meets for irst organizatic 5es Rebulu Geman ;:::1“(0(;,1\3'“\ fir zation ses V-2 Rocket Goes e 4 Up fo 115 Miles . S . NEW K. Jan, 22.—(P—Clos- WHITE SANDS, N. M., Jan ing_ quotation of Alaska Juneau —P—A rebuilt German V-2 rocket Mife stock today is 3%, American S .-Soviet s he has drawn up es by only four But the says | Doughton a plan to ftr Lillien dolls R STOCK QUOTATIONS YOR/ ing grounds today set what public! Wright 51, International Harvester relations officers described as an 87'%, Kennecott 457, New York unoificial altitude record of 115 Central 137%, Northern Pacific miles. 18%, S. Steel, 73%, Pound $4.03%. U. S SR SNOW FALLS IN TAMPA ,FLORIDA TAMPA, Fla, Jan. 22-—%’—&! snowed here late last night. ! A 15-minute flurry of fine par-| ticles fell over the weather station| Alaska, from Se at Drew Field and five minutes)to arrive Frid: later small flakes began fallingiurday morning. in mid-town Tampa. The grountiQ Princess Norah scheduled to sail temperature was 55 degrees. jfrom Vancouver January 23. It was the sixth time this city, Coastal Rambler scheduled to sail has written into the weather rec- from Seattle January 23 ords: “Snow.” Sword Knot scheduled ——————— from Seattle January 23 ARTS, CRAFTS BOARD Aleutian scheduled to sail DIRECTORS TO MEET!SGE[!IE January 24. Denali, from west, southbound January 29 - FE WIELDER David Andrews, 25, was arrested | this morning by City Police and meet~, booked for assault with a dangerous Arts and weapon, He is accused of attack- Sales today were 1,000,000 shares Averages today are follows: | industrials 172.15, rails 50.01, util- ities' 32.38 ' | ¢ as > STEAMER MOVEMENTS night or Sat- to sail from scheduled The Alaskan Art and Craft, Inc., announces a meeting of the Board of Directors and of the Chairman i of the Work Shops at the Terri-! KN day, January 23. This is an important ing as plans for the is side. Police finally let the custo- ! Craft exhibit to be held March 12! ing Lucille Fawcett with a pocket, to 14 must be made. |‘l:mfe at 513 Willoughby Avenue. House Ways and Means Committee. | North Caro- ar! ttle, is scheduled | Snow Party Ends in Near Riotin 5. F. ice ground up to make snow Park turned into a near riot and 30 chiidren and two adults were treated for injuries. the miiling thousands of children can be seen engaged in “snowball” fights. #® Photo. iOI}(h! Just QGeI This ‘Women HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22—(#—A angle on the New Look came today | from designer Ilyana. She says wo- men dress that way to hide their taflure as wives and mothers, | Petticoats, ruffles, camisol cor- celets, padded hips, full bosoms and !tlannel nighties, she says, are noth- i but psychological symbols of modern women’s admission of fail- ure a female. Addressing a meeting of the Bev- erly Hills Chapter of War Wives, » Budapest-born Ilyana declared: he female sex is universally re- ing towa a great, swollen maternal image of the past. Clothes x symbols. Our mothers and mothers scem to hold the key Lo successful marriage and mother- thood far better than we, so like lit itle girls we are dressing up in their clothes ard pretending to te our own maternal forebears HIEEED e o 0 v v o a0 e « . WEATHER REPORT * (U. 5. WEATHER BUREAU (Past 24 hours en 30 a.m. today In Juneau- Maximum, 42; minimum, 32 At Airport— Maximum, 42; minimum, 32. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mogtly cloudy with occa- sional light rain tonight and Friday. Warmer tonight Southeasterly winds increas- ing occasionally to 20 mph e tonight. L4 PRECIPITATION | ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 A.m. taday {® In Juneau— .05 inches; ® since Jan. 1, 9.55 inches; ® since July 1 27 inche e At Airpor 03 inches since Jan. 1, 625 inches since July 1, 4256 inches. . . . ° . . . . . ° . I - 'HOGE NEW PRESIDENT TEEN AGE CLUB COUNCIL Henry Hogue is the newly elected president of the Council of the | local Teen-Age Club. ! To serve with him as his fellow officers are Val Poor of Douglas, vice-president Mrs. Sid Thompson secretary; and Fred Henning, treas- | urer. Selection of the new officers was | made at a meeting held last night by the Council, the group of Ju- neau and Douglas adults who act as trustees and advisors tothe teen | agers in the operation of their club. The other members of the Coun- jcil, in addition to the officers, are ! Norman Banfield, Jack Burford, Eckley Guerin, Mrs. Grant Logan and Mrs. Tom Morgan. e FROM. ANCHORAGE Paul Kijlsaas of Anchorage is registered at the Gastineau Hotel. . : :omy is boom and bust, 8 " HOT SHOTS ATRUSSIA BY BEVIN [British Foreign Secrefary Says Soviets Driving to Another War LONDON, Jan. 22.—(®-— Foreign Secretary Bevin said today that Soviet Russia is making a ruth- | less drive to dominate Europe, and !llmt this will lead inevitably to izmmhk‘l world war “We are driven sion,” Bevin told | Commons. | “The Marshall program has | brought to light vividly what must | have been undet the surfage all { the time.” Evolution of the Yalta decisions, Bevins told the House of Com- mcns “reveals a policy on the part |of the Soviet Union to use any | means in their power to get Com- | munist control of Eastern Europe and, as it now appears, in the west las well.” | “We have seen the game played jout in Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, # | and more recently in Rumania 4 | and, from iniormation in our pos- sesslon, other attempts may be | made elsewhere,” he said. | “Yet all the®evidence is that she |is not satisfied with this tremen- - — e —— ‘duus expansion. “It has been quite clear, I think, Slx AMERI(AN | that the Communist process goes {lllthl(ssly on in each country. It MISSIONARIES | therefore matters little how we | temporize and maybe appease, and | try to make arrangements.” \Are Flown fo Hankow After| | Trip by Mule. Donkey | Cart in No. China | | ‘24-Hour Walkout Is Called for by Bavarian Workers [ SHANGHAT -Ix_n. {M—Six | American missionaries have been| _The Bavarlan trade union feder- MUNICH, Germany, Jan. 22.—(® flown to safety in Hankow after gtion today called for a 24-hour making their way on foot, by walkout of virtually all workers mule and by donkey cart through'in Bavaria to begin tonight at mid- Chinese Communist territory in nignt mfr_m China. { The strike, protesting food shorts The group, 4 WO- | ages, could atfect nearly 1,000,000, men, flown from Chenghsien! oo workers in this American zone in a plane charatered by the Lu-|gtate. theran Mission to carry its Per-| About 200,000 workers staged a | sonnel from 15 threatened by!g4-hour strike yesterday in Nuern- !h}' Communists berg and Cologne. It was the larg- Two of the rescued missionaries est walkout in western Germany {are the Reversnd Ralph Benson since last April. of Hastings, Minnesota, and Dr.| The strike call will affect such Arthur Colberg o1 St. Paul, Minn. ' |arge cities as Munich, Nuernberg, The two missionaries hid under a | Augsburg, Regensburg, Wuerzbuxg’ pile of straw in'a peasant’s cart|and Coburg. % it passed through a group of! Trade union leaders arranged a Ccmmunist cavalrymen | broadcast to all union members Mvnn' four male mission- throughout Bavaria, appealing for aries made their to Chengh-'a strike between midnight Thurs- sien on muleback @nu by foot. |day and midnight Friday. | Dispatches s that three other o M Spe AR R to that conclu- the House of ancisco's Golden Gate Here some of in San F including four k early FOR JAPANESE NOW LINING UP WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—®— - YOUNG MEN URGED - T0 HELP COMBAT MATION'S THREATS ozt Bt , /made the center of an eventual Marshall Plan” for the Far East. | Some diplomatic authorities said | privately they regard this as among |the reasons for the newly stated VI‘Amerlcan determination to speed “{the time when Japan becomes self- United States | P Junior Chamber of Commerce in FipPOcting snd GAn ‘Mmake 1 CEEE Chattanocoga He was the main contsibrton..fo fhe. ocanaliif 80 peaker at o banquet honoring ten| oL iation” of the world. i tha maskid 'dumg' ‘adt € McCoy, American member, told the i The ¢ 4 iagk § | Far Eastern Commission the $350,- ¥ ormer Minnesota Governor icalied on the young men of this na-‘??o'o:oe:. );ear b.l:rt_ien"on Almeélic:ln tion to pioneer in new methods of AXD,Y ‘s. g fl.m gy . s ‘ |ian econcmy must be lifted. combating hoarding, profiteering, —— monopoly and excess speculation.!| |Btasten also urged young men to! Green Laughs af Senafors Talk on CHATTANOOGA. Tinn, Jan. 2 M—Presidential aspirant Harold Stassen has warned that the great- est danger to the nation's free econ- sen made that statement in speech before the ideologic. Stassen added that States must remain strong in a mili tary sense during these critical years, - MONA HARRIS BRIDE OF C. E. HURST | Mona Adlene Harris of Kansa: Cit, Mo, and Clifford E. Hurs ‘ul Yakutat tcok the vows today al Douglas, ‘The Rev. Robert 'the vows and witn 1. Brown and Mary Treat. |in the United S. Treat read!trate °s were Ella | fight for the fundamental concepts War with Russia of individual freedom and the rection of American weaknesses, and to accept the challenge of totalitar- ian competition—both economic and WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—iP— | AFL President William Green to- day disputed a Senator’s suggestion that the United States is drifting | toward war with Russia. | “There is no war sentiment” i Green told Senator A. Willis Rob- s ertson (D-Va) at a Senate Bank- t | ing Ccmmittee hearing. “We are t|against it and don't think there is 1 11:30 p, m. in the Methodist church much danger of war because all na- | tions, including Russia, are pros- now." “War within 10 to 15 years not 1only is a possibility but a probab=-