The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1948, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 1P.M. Edition “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,805 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1948 —— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS First Taku Wind In Years Hits Juneau To ( SABOTAGE SPREADS IN KOREA Warning Notices Sent fo | UN Commission fo Get Out of Country By ROY ROBERTS SEOUL, Korea, Feb. 7—®— Widespread sabotage of rail traffic and telegraph communication lines was reported today—incidents re- garded by U. S. authorities as pressure to force the United No- tions commission is leave Korea Handbills circulated throughout South Korea called for a general § strike. Two notices delivered to Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, U. S. Occupation Commander, warned of a three-day strike to force the commissicn’s departure. The commission voted yesterday to refer back to the U. N. Little Assembly the problem’ of conduct- ing elections preliminary to Korean independence. Russia's refusal to permit entry into North Korea has stumped the commission. The U. S. Army, which occupies South Korea, reported a 12-car train was. derailed about 30 miles east of Seoul, and that tracks were | damaged elsewhere in five places. Gauges, vales and drive rods wess | removed from 49 locomotives. 1 Telegraph lines from Seoul were cut in many places. 1 The army announced 22 persons | had been arrested. ! “All along,” said Hodge, “I've been expecting physicdl efforts to| sabotage the work of the commis- | sion.” H He added, however, that no lmop; alert was planned because “there is nothing to indicate that Kor- ean authorities ‘can’t handle the situation at present.” | Meanwhile, the commission went | into executive session to consult| with General Hodge. A commis- sicn spokesman said the group| had heard of the incidents but was | taking no cognizance of them. { Strike handbills were not signed, Gandhi Funeral Pyre Burns A souvenir hunter (right) scoops ashes from the burning funeral pyre of Mohandas K. Gandihi as the assassinated Indian leader is cremated in New Delhi. The pyre was made of sandalwood logs. Picture by Max Desfor, Associated Press staff photographer. ( Wirephoto by radio from London. DEVALERA Grain Prices SEN. TAFT LOSES OUT ATPOLLS Again foday CHARGES Party Majority in Parlia- ment Is Cut Down-May Keep Job, However DUBLIN, Feb, 7—(#—Eamon De Valera, Eire’s Pri | | Move Wildly élard and Flour Expected fo ! Undergo Widespread ‘ Drop Is Report NEW YORK, Feb. 7.--i®-Grain ime Minister for 16| prices moved wildly today with some | iyears, has lost his party majority in,evidence the market was digging in but there was at least one indica- | Parliament but is expected v keep) for a last-ditch stand after a three- tion that leftists were behind the incidents. A gang raided the Oriental Daily News, newspaper ofg the rightist Korean Democratic |in the new Dial (Parlian s job just the same His Fianna Fail Party) won only 66 of tk (Government he 147 seats ent) in last day tumble. | Grain contracts for nearby de- livery were again hammered down {but later deliveries at times man- party, and overturned type cases.|Wednesday's general election, com- | aged sizable gains. Corn was more Literature distributed in Seoul | plete returns showed today. demanded the immediate withdraw- al of United States and Russianing parties that had sought a coal-| the coufiscation |ition Government, won 76. The re-| elsewhere. cecupation troops, The combined opposition. includ- and redistribution of land, nation- maining five seats will be filled next alization of industry, release of Tuesday in a postponed election in “political priscners of power to the people.” i and transfer | Carlow and Kiikenny Counties. The Govermnent Party had 77 of No anti-American incidents were|138 Deputies in the old Parliament reported. | dissolved last fall. The new Dail meets Feb. 18 to h\'ulnerable to rapid-fire selling than | wheat. The resistance in grains spread Cotton advanced it New York and the stock market feebly edged ahead. The week’s heavy losses in grains and other commodities have already spread to the retail food counter. Announcements of lower prices for lard and flour were widespread {elect a Prime Minister. Opponents, The W ashinglon!md suppcrters agree Dz Valera and there. The declines were linked directly with action of grains, — - SOUTHERN GOVERNORS stands a good chance of reelection {by pulling the votes of some Inde-| Merry & Go_ Round!pendsm and National Labor Party! ‘Deputies. He needs 77 votes to win By DREW PEARSON Independents have 12, National La-; {bor four. & (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, | Ln€ Iri Independent, Dublin| Inc.) € id he would make a ¢ r Parliamentary control | leven if only temporary, so that he| ilong. He that in 1944 anex-; lcould call another election beforei | squeaking through to reslection the| | previous year. i B e———— | | ALASKA COASTAL | sion Will Do Regard- { (Ed. Note—Drew Pearson's col- umn today takes the form of a memo to Senator Ferguson of Michigan, chairman of the subccmmittee investigating Sen- ator Thomas and other grain speculators. Pearson was the first to expose Thomas' com- modity speculation, two years ago, at which time he was called a liar by the Oklahoma Senator.) | | HIESl’ FRIDAY ing Party Split ASHINGTON— Memo {0 Sen-| ajjcy Coastal made flights yes-| ey and pork products were cut here | MEETING No Indication What Ses- | ator Ferguson of Michigan: terday to the coastal cities and car- Believing in your sincere desh—e:ned 29 passengers. to get to the bottom of Senator| Thomas and his use of the Senate| for private = speculation, I am; sending you the results of my own investigation. They may furnish you with additional leads for your own probe. 1 think you will find that dur-)| ing most of Senator Thomas'| Juneau to Hoonah: P. Smith, Eli[ Sherciane, Langdon, Mike Chester. Margaret Rosen, Jim Juneau to Pelican: Mrs. M. Miller. Pelican to Juneau: Hermie John-' son. ! Juneau to Gustavus: W. A. Dennie. Gustavus to Juneau: Joseph Dayle. Funter Bay to Juneau: F. Peter- career in the U. S. Senate, he hasson. been active in the stock market| and has not hesitated to use his position of trust to influence the market. I suggest that you first| look into 128 shares of Cities Ser- vice stock held by the Senator around 1928. Following this, I suggest that you examine the Senator's dealing in silver and cotton in 1933. At around this time his son Wilfred was (Continued on Page Four) Tenakee to Juneau: Ned Nelson, Wayne Plumbley, E. J. Mervin, Juneau to Angoon: Walter Hellan. Angoon to Juneau: Walter Hellan, J. P. Wolfe, Fred Hucker, Robert Johnson. Juneau to Sitka: The Rev. Nevue, Lee Kerr, C. Whittemore, Louis Johnson, Elise Johnson, Jack Lokke, Kate Joseph. Sitka to Juneau: Ernest Gruening, ‘Wm. Lacey, Betty Didrickson, Ag- nes Didrickson, Don Foster. WAKULLA SPRINGS, Fla., {1—(®—The South’s Governors mov- {e“ calmly into a discussion of region. {al education today without mention- ing the explosive issue of a Demo-| | cratic Party sphit. After brief statemenis by Chair- {man William Preston Lane, Jr. of {Maryland and Gov. Millard Cald- well of Florida on the aims of re- I‘glonfll education, the conference went into executive session. ! The Governors gave no indication when or if they will consider a pro- posal to bolt the National Democrat- |ic Party. Gov. Feilding L. Wright of | Mississippi said he planned to re- |commend this action by the confer- ence. - 1 SISTERS FROM SITKA Elizabeth and Agnes Didrickson of Sitka are registered at the Baranof Hotel, i Feb. IS MAKING Accuses Democrafic Ad- (, ministration of Keep- ' ing Prices High WASHINGTON, Feb., 7.— Senator Taft (R-Ohio) accused the JDemocml.ic Administration today of la deliberate attempt to keep prices thigh for political reasons. The idea, he said, is to “create an lair of false prosperity” for the Pre- | sidential election campaign. | Taft told a reporter he can put \no other interpretation on the ad- vance announcement of Secretary of Agriculture Anderson that the Gov- |ernment plans soon to buy 50,000,000 | bushels of Wheat, | Anderson disclosed this at a news | conference Thursday after corn and { wheat had dropped the legal limit of 8 and 10 cents a bushel for two davs in a row. Usually the Government's buying {intentions are kept secret. | was followed by a brief rise in wheat | But yesterday's market closed with ithe legal limit drop for the third | consecutive da > e 0o 0 0 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU (Past 24 hours ending 7:20 a.m. today In Juneau— Maximum, 34 minimum, 20. At Airport— Maximum, 32; minimum, 22. : Slowly decreasing cloudi- ness this afternoon and Sunday with strong gusty nertheasterly winds. Cold- er with lowest temperature Sunday morning near 13 de- grees. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) PRECIPITATION (Pest 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. taday In City of Juneau—None; since Feb. 1, .10 inches; ince July 1, 7291 inches At the Afrport— None; since Feb. 1, .08 inches; since July 1, 43.26 inches. 2900000000000 00000000000600° 0o SRR | STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah, from Vancouver, Idue Monday. Aleutian, from Seattle, due Tues- day. Baranof, from west, scheduled southbound 10 a.m, Monday. - WHITEHORSE MAN HERE Gene Fabbi, of Whitehorse, Y. T, is staying at the Baranof Ho- tel. - INVESTIGATE day GUSTS HIT 90 MILES PER HOUR Windows ?BTo_ken, Lines Down-Weather Bureau Issues Warning Juneau was hit during the night and today with a Taku wind, the first in years, and although it was not accompanied by the oldtime severe temperature and icy snow, it {was a Taku sure enough. ! The Weather Bureau reports that {for seconds at a time the velocity {of the wind has hit from 80 to 90 j| | miles per hour. The Boy Scout Goal EISENHOWER IN FAREWELL T0 NEWSMEN {Says Army s Manpower Situation "Getting Seri- | | ous"-Write Memoirs | WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—(®— Gen, | Dwight D, Eisenhower told a fare-/ well news conference today that the manpower situation is "gel-: 5" He said something {must be done about it. | enhower spoke as Army Chief! aff shortly tefore turning meI iJob over to Gen. Omar N. Bradley. | Thd Army now is about 100,000 | under its proposed strength. As one‘ recruiting, | Army, |means of encouraging | Eisenhower suggested the |should give extra pay to men as-, isigned to some of the more undesir-| |able spots in the world. This would, be in addition to the 20 percent ex-| |tra given all troops on overseas as-| signment. | | { i | The Weather Bureau also issues a warning: Temperature may drop to 13 degrees above zero tonight and ! residents are warned to watch their iwuwr pipes. Many windows were broken and 'DURING THE PAST 38 YEARS 14,000,000 BOYS AND MEN signs were knocked down. Plate glass | MARCHED THROUGH THIS ARCH OF HONOR. | windows at the Baranof Gift Shop, Alaska Electric Light and Power Company and Teen-Age Club, Dar- 1 nell's were broken by the winds. St. Ann's Hospital also reported loss of a window. | Power and telephone lines were knocked down throughout the city. The power line, servicing the KINY transmitter at the Rock Dump, was cut and prevented broadcasting until 110:30 am. A short in the fire alarm !system at 6:15 a.m. was caused by a oroken line, . Eisenhower said his personal plans 1anex' leaving the job today include| a start on writing his memoirs dur- | e Yerbal Fireworks al Meeting In Seattle Over fhat Ciiy's Monopoly of Alaskan Trade Itary duty and prepares to go to work |as President of Columbia University. | |He disclosed that he has made an |agreement with a publishing firm' 7 wu | (Doubleday) to do his book for them. ' ‘The former Supreme Commander of Allied Forcas in Europe was ask-| ,ed what he considered the greatest | |moment of his military career. | { He replied that “the natural thing, RN a large hunk of a large Alaskan |©f the high winds raging across the By SPENCER MOOSA | ttade, instead of monopolizing the | watev. They were finally successful PEIPING, Fep, 7—P—~ steady relatively small $150,000,000 trade itin tying the dock temporarily to the worsening of the Chinese govern- controls now,” he said. |Juneau Spruce Corporation dock. ment's military position in Man- , His statement brought spirited re-fThe Engineers almost ran into churia was reported in pro-nation- | buttal from an Alaska Editor and an | trouble, also, at their mooring dol- aiist dispatches today. sfficial of an Alaska shipping line. Phins north of Juneau when lines These Communists successes were| William R. Carter, Editor of the|{at one end of a barge tied there acknowledged : | Alaska Dally Empire at Juneau, said troke loose. The damage was quickly Capture of Liacyang important | that “Seattle and Alaska are linked repaired and everything remained railway city 35 miles south of the|together by a firm tond of many!under control. big Manchurian city of Muken; | years. No other city has ever taken| The Methodist Church lost several Infiltration of Yingkow, the best |such a warm interest in us, and Al- shingles from its roof and the huge government port in Manchuria, { askans know it.” |canvas “Welcome” sign at Front and: | Admiral F. A, Zeusler, Assistant to|and Franklin was also blown down. Complete isolation of the govern- |the President of the Alaska Steam-| Many chimneys were blown from ment-held steel city of Ashan, 15|ship Co., declared no other city but | rocfs, windows in residences were miles south of Liaoyang on the Muk- | Seattle ever has been interested in|$mashed and homes as well as apart- den-Dairen railway. ving Alaska the service it receives,| Ments shook from the force of the The ncose around Mukden proper | During the discussion an unidenti-| wind. e | The most spectacular scene was SEATTLE, Feb. 7. (—Verbal the sight of the floating Army En- tireworks greeted the controversial|gineers drydock sailing full speed issue of Seattle’s virtual monopely across the Juneau harbor when it of Alaskan (iade when the subject|Lroke looke at 8" am: The drydock's ed at a Seattle Chamber ' hausers remained fast tut the dock, to which it was moored, was severely damaged. The drydock took several writer, told the meeting bits of piling with it on its voyage. [that both Seattle and Alaska would TWwo Army tugs {mmediately set benefit if the Territory was served out after the wandering unattended Ly many ports. |dock but were unable to bring it “Seattle would be better off with Lack to its original position because | would be to say it was when the sur-| rendgr instrument was signed,” but | addgd” that this“occasion had been anticipated and its value written off in advance. He meditated a moment, then he said: “I think the greatest moment was when I got the word that 82nd and 161st Afrborne Divisions had landed | on the Cherbourg Peninsula.” - as aiscu of Commerce session yesterday. Richard L. IXicuberger, Portland| | magazine i | SUSPECTS IN GANDHICASE 'Government Announceds . Investigation of State [ The announcement by Anderson| ® e e0 000 e®etose00ees000e®® aan Administation of Sikh NEW DELHI, Feb. 7. (#—The government announced tonight it is investigating the state administra- tion of a Sikh Maharajah for pes- sible comblicity in the Gandhi as- sassination. The official gazette said the Ma- harajah Tej Sing, and his Prime Minister, Dr. N. B. Khare, are di- rected temporarily to remain out- side their state, Alwar. This was ordered to permit the unimpaired investigation of alleged “support of connivance of the Alwar state administration” into the ac- tivities of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (National Volunteer Corps), and “its possible complicity in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and other serious crimes.” The RSSS is an extremist or- ganization, e —— Howfo Travel ~ AtNo Expense MEMPHIS, Tenn—®—If you're | enterprising, it's possible to take your wife on a year-long trip to the Iuopic.u at no expense. Catching their breath here before heading southward again, Mr. and |Mss. J. E. McBride, of Los Angeles. told how they diq it B In a small boat they traveled down the California coast. The boat was {#old in Mexico for “a big price.” With Hha! stake they went prospecting. The gravel deposits of British Gu- |iana paid off with atout 60 ounces |of‘gold and 250 carats of diamonds, McBride said. That balanced the books, was tightened with increasing heavy | fied Alaskan jumped to his feet and| The Weather Bureau forecasts for termed the Chamber's Trustees “a|this afterncon and Sunday strong bunch of shoe clerks." |gusty northeasterly winds. To this L. A. (Dinty) Moore, an agbp o o st times those in Shanghai, where in- |official of the Alaska Railroad, re-' flation has sent them to almost pro- | plied: ! | hibitive heights. { "It's too bad Alaska doesn't havz I In Anshan, many deaths were re- | more ‘shoe clerks' like the Seattle! attacks on Suchiatun, only seven miles away. The dispatches said prices in Mukden were roughly five ported from shortages of food and 'Chamber helping them the way in| fuel. Power lines there were cut. which the Seattlc Chamber hgs.” e s The pyrotechnics subsided soon! E. E ROBERTSON OFF [~ ™ FORSOUTH TO ATTEND ' SHANGHAI POLICE JASPER, Ark., Feb. 7.—P—Five | Air Forces personnel perished last REPUBLICAN MEETING FORCE = INCREASED; | E. Z. Rotertson is leaving Juneau { Sunday to attend a meeting of the RIOTS ARE FEARED {RepuLlicans of eleven western states, | night in the fiery crash of their {Hawaii and Alaska to be held at e plang in this Ozark Mountain coun- Denver, Colo., February 19 and 20., SHANGHAI, Feb, 7.—P—This try. He has several planks to be intro-| Chinese metropolis increased its po-| Th2 plane, a B-25, from Wright tduced at the convention as to Al- lce force by 1,000 men today be-|Field, O., struck the side of Round- aska. jcause of fears the worsening eco- top Mountain, two miles south of this ! present to the Republican National| Conventien at Philadelphia the de- sire of the West and to what they jwish in the Republican Platform upon which the next Republican |candidate for President will stand, {and also to organize the West for voting strength in November for the | Republican ticket. Robertson expecte about three weeks H — e - { GUSTAVUS VISITOR { J. E. Dagle of Gustavus | staying at the Baranof Hotel | — e FROM VANCOUV ; Louis E. Barrs of Vancouver. C., is registered at the Baranof Hotel. - LEVELOCK MAN HERE Nels Asleson of Levelock is stay- ing at the Gastineau Hotel, to be gone are | Angocn B.| riots, e MOTION DENIED A motion by the defense to sup- press evidence in the case of the six former crew members of the Coastal Rambler was denied yes- terday by Federal Judge George W. Folta for three of the men but action on the others is still pend- ing The sextet is charged on recelving stolen goods in interstate commerce R ASSAULT AND BATTERY Rcebert Johnson was arrested yesterday by " Deputy 8. Marshal Walter Hellan on charge of assault and battery his wife He entered a plea at u a of of | guilty before U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray and is being held in the Federal Jail in lieu of $500 bond pending sentence. The purpose of the meeting is to| Domic situation might result in new|isclated Northwest Arkansas County | Seat, and burst into flames. i (At Dayton, O., Wright Field Au- ‘thnrmes said the plane left there | yesterday with five men aboard— jone of them believed to be a Navy ‘\“hitchhiker"—-and that all five were dead. The plane was bound for Lit- | tle Rock) . | The rugged countryside was coated | with ice and rescue workers had to combat cold weather in reaching | the scene. | ‘The four identified victims listed | by Wright Field were from the Mid- | West and East | R GIRL SCOUT NEWS The Girl Scouts of Troop No. II 'met Thursday afternoon at the Luth- eran Church. We worked on our needlecraft badges. The meeting was dismissed at 4:30 o'clock. SU- ZANNE Miller, Reporter.