The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 23, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,792 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRID ' MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AY, JANUARY 23, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS Eisenhower Is Not Candidate For President BITING COLD Miss Paris of '47in 1. 5. fo Wed WAVE HITTING STATES AGAIN lcy Blast Wming Across Country from Rockies fo Atlantic Coast (By The Asscciated Press) A severe cold wave, following the pattern of last week’s icy blasts, whipped across the country from the Rocky Mountains to the At- lantic seaboard today and crept toward the gulf ccast and the Car- olinas. The north central region bore the brunt of the biting cold. Tem- peratures in scme parts of the frigid Lelt tumbled to near 40| degrees below zero. The mercury, failed to rise above the zero mark, all day yesterday in parts of Min- resota and the Dakctas There were widespread reports of fuel shortages as the cold intensified The lowest readings in the area ! engulfed by sub-zero weather munl Nebraska to northern Missouri and northern Tllinois were in the | Red River Valley of the North. The sweeping cold air is pro- ducing sncw along the eastern! slopes of the Roekies and in parts | of Tennessee, Kentucky and Vir- ginia. Falls in middle and west- ern Tennessee measured from two | to three inches. | Seven inches of snow fell in! Flat Top, West Va; 5 inches in| Bowling Green, Ky.; 4 inches in St. Louis and two inches in Nash- ville, Tenn. Federal forecaster T. L. Jacob- sen in Chicago said the current| cold wave, from present indications, | will swing scuth and eastward and | start to moderate somewhat dur- | ing the next two days. He fore- | cast rising temperatures in the western plains states tomorrow and in the north central area Sun- day. BEVIN'S PROPOSAL GETS STRONG OKEH 23 —(®—Foreign | proposal | LONDON, Jan. Secretary Ernest Bevin's for a consolidation of Western Eu- ropean countries to stem Communist' expansion found quick and warm! support today in the French and Italian Governments. Leaders in Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg, spoke cautiously but favorably of the British diplomatic | move. Comment in Scandinavian| newspapers pointed up the reluc-! tance of Russian neighbors to com-| mit themselves to an outright cleav-i age between the East and West. { Government sources in tradition-| ally neutral Switzerland were not| enthusiastic about joining what one| official described as a bloc. 4 The Washington Merry - Go - Round | By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) | | ASHINGTON—It looks like| WEd Pauley has an innate and | uphappy faculty for leaving mud- dy tracks wherever he walks. He is now about to muddy up the financial life of another cabinet members, this time Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug. Krug, a former University of Wisconsin football star, has long hankered to get an interest in a professional football team, and .last summer worked out a deal! with William Levy, the Louis-| ville, Ky., department-store man, to purchase a 5 percent interest | in the Los Angeles Rams. It | cost him $7,500. ! The remaining interest in the| team is owned by Levy, with 20| percent, and the Reeves chain- store family, with 75 percent. i However, the Rams haven't; been making money. And the, Reeves family proposes selling one-half its share to Ed Pauley, which would give him 37! per- cent and virtual control. $ This in turn makes business partners out of Pauley and the cabinet member who has to pass \Continued on Page Four) Miss Kay Trevil, recenily chesen by her fiance, former Pfc. Ray Mack, ¢f Columbus, Ohio, on a Hoboken pier, after her arrival in New York Trevil, a mezzo-sopranc, a French variety troupe, managed raise $100,000 to donate to veterans’ hospitals. (# Wirephoto. said she will make a tour of the U. S. with CHANGE FOR - LIVING LAW {Demands Truman Meel Republican Plan Before Acting on Anti-Inflation ‘ | MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—(P— 4 |Serator Taft (R-Ohio) indicated today he may insist that President : ’Tuunnn reet the terms of the * | Republican cost-cf-living law before Cong acts on any more anti- inflation legislation The Ohio Senator, chairman of the Senate’s GOP policy committee, Incted that the measure which he steered through the special session of Ccngress last month lays down |a s'cp-by-step pattern for the ad- | ministration to follow in presenting |and new control proposals. | Taft told a repcrter he is “in- iclined to believe” the President | shculd be required to observe the ‘pncrdurc outlined, rather than to expect any final action on the | standby wage-price control and ra- 1 ‘ tioning bills now being consid- |ered by the Senate Banking Com- | mittee | | The law Taft menticned is the jone Mr. Truman in signing termed | “pititully inadequat to deal with |inflation. Tt provides for industry- | wide veluntary agreements designed to hcid down prices by dividing “Miss Paris of 194 embraced aboard the liner Westerdam. Miss by her husand in an attempt to Location ¢f Millions in Pirate Gold MAN IS HELD FOR 2 DEATHS NEAR SEATTLE Leads Officers fo Grave of Third Wife - No. 2's Fate Questioned SEATTLE, Jan 23—®—A 63- year-old retired merchant who calm- ly led officers to a shallow grave which held the body of his third wife was still being questioned early today about his second wife. Kitsap County Chief Criminal Deputy Dean Jones quoted neighbors as saying that the second wife of Roscoe Lee Hayton--the former Jarah Alice Lane—accompanied her husband on a vacation trip to West | Virginia more than two years ago and did not return. The body of Hayton's third wife, Mis. Ellen Buckingham Coyle Hay-| ton, 46-year-old Seattle woman who had been missing more than two weeks, was found yesterday in a, canvas bag buried under a few inch-| es of dirt beside a highway 50 miles north of here. i Chief of King County Detectives Adam Lyskoski said Hayton directed officers to the spot after admitting that he strangled his wife to deatn in their Seattle home. | Meanwhile, Kitsap County auth- oritizs joined those from King Coun- ty in Seattle in questioning Hayton akout the second wife. Jones said neightors reported the second wife disappeared about June, 1945. At that time, Jones said, the Haytons went to visit relatives in West Vir-| ginia. Hayton returned three weeks later without his wife. | A sworn statement in a Kitsap County probate action said the se- cond Mrs. Hayton died in Hunting- ton, W. Va, on or about Aug. 26, 1045. Jones said Huntington author- ities had no record of the death. Judge Frank Ryan of Bremerton said the properties left Hayton by his second wife’s will were never ordered distributed because “there was not sufficient proof of her death.” To Be Revealed, 2 Maps§ — {up scarce commodities. | SPENDING ~ PROGRAM LIMITED west pav BeAcH, Fa, Jan | OOP Senators, Ihroughf e o Gt s so-| Tait, Annbugge Lut in | Truman's Budget | day she has two maps showing the location of $76,000,000 in pirate gold and is seeking a contractor to re-| | cover the treasure. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—A)- RO-; Mrs. Bula Edmundson Croker, 64, publican Senators indicated today, widow of Richard C. Croker, said she | that $3,000,000,000 may be the top| owns the land where the maps show lamount they are willing to promise; the gold was buried in the years to cut out of President Truman's! 1781-1783 akout 40 miles from Pen- $39,669,000,000 budget. Is Reported sacola | Chairman Taft of Ohio called the i id the maps place the gold Senate’s GOP Policy Committee in- and other valuables in 25 feet of [to session (10 a.m. EST) to consider water in a bayou and she believes|the question. treasure is resting on the rock| Taft has said he thinks $3,000,000. om about 38 feet below the sur-i0oo0 can be lopped off proposed G face. | ernment expenditures for the fiscal | vear beginning July 1. But Chair- man Bridges (R-NH) of the Senate | Appropriations Committee is repre- |sented by friends as reluctant to go aleng with the pledge of even that amount because he fears Con- | gress may not be party to such a goal] when the time comes for voting the money. | Some House leaders, including Chairman Taber (R-NY) of the Ap- | propriations Committee, hav: called for a $5,000,000,000 slash. Bridges, however, is said to feel this tota !could be reached only by chopping |deeply into funds proposed for the| Security Council Resuming ‘suropean Economic: Recovery Pro-| Year - Long Hunt for ik G Decision of Problem | STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, van. 23—(#—Clos-| LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 23.v4.¢’1~'ing quotation of Alaska Juneau| The Security Council today resumes‘, mine stock today is 3%, American| its year-long quest for a Governor|Can 78%, Anaconda 33, Curtiss-! to run the free Territory of Trieste,| Wright 5, International Harvester | the Adriatic trouble spot which was ggi,, Kennecott 45%, New York internationalized by the Italian|Central 13%, Northern Pacific Peace Treaty. |18%. U. S. Steel 73, Pound $4.03%. After hearing officially that Ttaly| sales today were 790,000 shares. and Yugoslavia have been unable Lo: Averages today are as follows: agree on a man in direct talks, the jndstrials 171.97, rails 49.94, util-| 11 delegates take up where they left | jtios 3237, off several months ago—in oom-‘\ plete deadlock the problem had been referred to the two Govern-! ments after the earlier swlemate.j The United States hinted it will advance no new candidates in view| of a series of rebuffs from Russia in last year's Council discussions. ]All SE“TE"(E The American delegation was report- ed ‘o have taken the position that it would accept only “a strong man.”| Loren H. Hancock, 31-year-old Russia was understood still to be|former bartender, was sentenced by plugging for Auguste Buisserte, form-'Judge George W. Folta this after- er Belgian Minister of Interior, noon to serve six years in the Fed«| who already has been rejected by'eral Penitentiary. Hancock pleaded, the Western Powers. The U. S. and|guilty two weeks ago to a Federal Britain have submitted at least a|Grand Jury indictment of shooting Governor for Trieste Is Big Issue No | gram. i ! | LOREN HANCOCK GETS SIX - YEAR TAFTWANTS | U. . Submaines fo Go fo Turkey & 1'\\u.('ni(ed States powerful flect-typed submarines, the Blueback (left) and the Brill (right) are under repairs at Hunters' Peint naval shipyards in San Francisco preparatory to being supplied to Turkey as part of the U. S. pregram to strengthen that country against Soviet Russia, the Navy announced. (® Photo PlenfyofMeal ThisYear CHURCHILL i Indusiry Is Nof PutOn GIVES OUT Rationing, Price Ceilings WARNING . w ' T N ESS To P S | L. Blaine Liljenquust, !(vprcsenl.ing‘ the Western States Meat Packers| 7 Association, Inc., testified before the| LONPON. Jan. 23.—#--Winsion | Senate Banking Committee that | Churchill declared today Western Europe must unit such controls are “unworkable in S quickly and de- time of peace” and would swifty mand a showdown with Moscow be- | revive the black market. He added: |1or¢ the Russians develop atomic . . [l 2 weapons, possibly in a year 3 KaIIHOWSkI Says Defend-! “price controt and rationing treat| " pyen an Gty mihes b . # the symptoms of high prices with- ant Feared His Testimony out nitering the causgs. It demiand not guarantee that war wouldn't -Paid Him fo Leave WASHINGTON, b o~ western meat packers o1 congress| 98YS Western Europe Must teday that every butcher will have | . | meat to sell this year it the industry| Unite - Demand Show- {1s not subjected to rationing or dOWfl from RUSSla {come,” Churchill said, but: contibues high the only real CUre [ pelicve it would give the best to the high cost of meat is addi-|chance of preventing it and, if it tional production. » H ; came, w2 would have the best chance : | Both Liljenqufist and F. E. Mollln, of coming out of it alive. The Jury, which 1s now siiting to|Executive Secretary of tit Ameri-| i determine ‘whether or not George|can National Livestock Association,! Meeks is guilty of the slaying of |cmphasized to the Senators that' head and come to a settlement with STATEMENT GIVEN OUT ' BY GENERAL \Gives Two Reasons Con- | cerning Probable Nomi- | nation-Name,Primaries | WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—®— General Dwight D. Eisenhower said flatly today: “T (s owol available for and could not accept nomination to | high political office.”, | The Army Chief of Staff’s state- | ment referred to entry of his name in the New Hampshire Pres- idential primary March 9. “Ike" wrote Leonard V. Finder, puklisher of the Manchester Union- Leader, that for two reasons he had heretofore “refrained from making the bald statement that I would not accept nomination.” The first, Eisenhower said, was that such an expression would “smack of effrontery.” A second and deeper reason, the General added, was a ‘“persistent doubt that I could phrase a flat refusal without appearing to vio- late the concept of duty to coun- try which calls upon every good citizen to place no limitations up- ion his readiness to serve in any | designated capacity.” | His Convictions | In this ccnnection, Eisenhower | said it is his conviction that “un- ‘Xeu an individual feels some inner |ccmpulsion and special qualifica- | tions. to. enter the. | al arena ——which T to not—a refusal to do |s0 involves no violation of the ihl'hest standards of devotion to duty.” He continued: [ “It was only the possible mis- | Interpretation of my attitude that 'causrd me concern and so long as I could believe that mere de- !nial of political ambition would | brevent serfous misunderstanding |and misdirected effort, I was re- | luctant to say more.” | “It would seem almost super- | fluous for me to add that as long |as I live I shall hold myself in | instant readiness to respond to any call by the Government to mili- | tary duty.” | Name In Primaries ! Eisenhower is scheduled to go on terminal leave from the Army around February 15, and in June | “I believe the best chance of pre-| Will become President of Columbia | venting war is to bring matters to a| University, His name not only has been en- Clarence Campbell here in Decem-|the Nation's meat supply in 1948 yhe goviet Government befors it is| tered through a delegate slate in ber, 1945, yesterday heard John|will be 146 pounds a person, 20 g5 jate | Churchill to se Kalinowski, a carpenter, testify'pounds above the 1935-39 average'or commo chill told the House ns that the accused man had tried jalthough 10 pounds less than the wyou may be sure the present on several occasions to persuadeper capita consumption last yedr.'sieuation cannot last, There ,1'::' f,.‘ him to leave Juneau, because “he| The Committee, headed by Benat- grave dangers m‘m'“n, evf“ryfl\x;ny didn’t want me to testify againstior Tobey (R-NH), is considering yun on and pile up unL‘l‘] ml;nething him." President Truman's proposals f0F & hapnens and the matter passes Bfi He said that on Sunday morn-|10-point anti-inflation program in- of u sudden out of your control.” ing at 9:30 oclock Meeks woke, cluding rationing and price auth-' e Conservative Party Leader him up and offered him a drink, |Ority. caying that he got the whiskey| However, Senator Taft (R-Ohio), frem ‘s guy down the hall who|indicated today he may insist that had $2300.” |Mr. Truman carry out terms of the He met the man, whom he said |Republican anti-inflation law be= was Clarence Campbell, in Meek’s fore Congress acts on Administra- rcom. According to Kalinowsk tion proposal | >e—— endorsed the Labor Government's proposal for unification of Western Europe as a barrier to the spread of Communism. But he appealed to his political opponents to rise above party in fostering the plan: “In trying to make a United So- ance of the Arctic regions we must have aircratt and equipment capable of operating in sub-zero weather,” the Commanding General of the AMC said today in a speech deliv- ered before the Mobile Chamber of Commerce. “World War II taught us that our air force equipment must be capable of global operations. Ex- perience has shown us that heat and cold can become so important he said. In 42.76 inches. FBI Called On December 23, 19 the wit- ness testified that Meeks came to! his room and ‘said he would pay! his passage if he would get out of Juneau. Kalinowski called the FBL/! and on the following day accom- panied FBI agent Didelius to the Keystone Rooms. Didelius went to room number 8 adjoining Kal- . . . . ° . ® since July 1, . v o o 2 o e o o 0O e e e 0000 000 . JUNEAU HIGH WINS . -l ® According to brief word e (rom Sitka, the Juneau High e cagers won last night in the ® basketball game by a score e of 30 to 27. C:mptell obtained $3 in change| cialist Europe, you are on the same from Meeks for “a girl down the|® ® ® ® ® > * » ® @ 8 ® &l g5 trying to make a United hall” and then invited him to|® 0 ® Communist’ Europe.” have breakfast with him. {®* WEATHER REPORT ¢ e & A s The witness insisted that he lmd} . % “’“‘ W“*"""“‘1‘i;’“""m » taken a bath at about 9:30 and not | ® (Past 24 hours ending . e H e o bt v skt 030 and nct 2 o, 0.+ Maleriel Command | had testified. He said: “She w0u1d1: "Xiulr:li‘limmfil‘ IR : G. . be wrong if she said 6 oclock,” port— Ms y 883 B gp b' allhoughzhe later admitted that he|® m.x:x‘::fi:: T L Iven l ro eml did not know who_the witness al-|® 'E A8 & H fig not know wio, the winess wb 13 Ve e e+ Subzero Operations 4 mah or a woman. ® Mostly cloudy with occa- @ g, Kalinowskl also saw Meeks im- © sicnal light rain showers to- ® yoppy@ Ala, Jan: 23— (P— moediately after his fight with|® night and Saturday ® Gen. Joseph T. McNarney says the Peter Vincent on Sunday evening, PRECIPITATION ® At Materiel Command ' which 'hs and went with him to Blacky's Bar | ® (Past 24 boursending 7:30 a.m. 630y @ 000" oo arrome on “consider- for a drink at sometime after 10| In Juneau —A42 inches; @ gui econion gg tases in Alaska p. m. After cne drink he return-|® since Jan. 1, 997 inches ® o0 .4 operations in sub-zero ed to the Keystone Rooms and “A“lce ‘L‘;)y l.l 7“;?) m“h':’ : weather e rport— 20 inches; ¢ b Chg R : Meeks headed toward the sawmill, W e | R srcr 1 ‘Because of the growing import- . . . E . « . . . . . . . inowski's room, where he pre- sumably could overhear the con-|® that they mean the difference be- versation which ensued between|® ©® © ® ©® ® © ® ¢ ¢ ¢ @ tween victory and defeat. Meeks dnd the witness T 5 e SR T(;R | “A great many cold weather prob- ‘During the conversation, Meeks SKAGWAY VIS lems are still unsolved. It dozen names. Russia turned them all his 39-year-old ex-wife, Kirsten, down. with intent to kill, wound or maim. Wm. J. Swift of Skagway is regis- tered at the Hotel Juneau. the Air Materiel Command to find the answers.” (Continued On rage Two) is up to the first presidential primary of {the year in New Hampshire, but Republican supporters also entered {his name in the Oregon primary !in May. | Only yesterday some of his sup- porters announced they would | make an effort to put him in the California primary, also scheduled | for May. Eisenhower has been regarded as a leading “dark horse” for the 1948 Republican nomination for many months. Only this week members of the 1Republh:un National Committee meeting here had many huddles |over the so-called Eisenhower | threat. In another political development, the CIO split politically over | Henry Wallace's third party bid ]}lor the Presidency. | DEWEY'S OFFICE PLEASED | ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 23—®— | Governor Dewey's office obviously was jubilant today over General | Eisenhower’s statement removing | the Army Chief of Staff from the |race for the Republican Presi- | dential nomination. Dewey, who became an avowed | candidate a week ago, was in New York City. James C. Hagerty, Dewey's execu- tive assistant, said there would be no comment. -, . STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Alaska, from Seattle, is scheduled to arrive 7 a.m. tomorrow. | Princess Norah scheduled to sail {from Vancouver 9 tonight. | Coastal Rambler scheduled to sail from Seattle today. | Sword Knot scheduled to sail |from Seattle today. | Aleutian scheduled to sail from iSeame tomorrow morning. Denali, from west, scheduled southbound January 29.