The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 21, 1948, Page 1

SATURDAY 1P.M. Editivn THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Py L PIRE SM’UIIDAY 1 P.M. Edition [———— VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,817 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY ZI, 1948 PRICE TEN LhNTS MEMBER ASSOCIATE I) PRESS MacARTHUR Dixie Rebels TOOBUSYTO ' Given Advice COME HOME By Sen. Byrd Touchy Political Decision ,-,c‘,?\‘?:“."‘i,“;‘,"d"“i;"'v,.i.‘;',’;dR ,,i‘]‘ll Democratic Party’s Dixie Rebels this Is Seflled by General |.cvicc " pos Himself in Statement |ooveer ar advice today | Pow der dry —— Byrd told WASHINGTON, Feb, 21—®—The South House Foreign Affairs Committee, 20ing before it cuts long-standing had a touchy political decision lifted political ties iu the argument over right out of its hands today by Gen. ! President Truman’s Civil Rights pro- Douglas MacArthur. | posals. he al's angled! “We must make a calm, delicerate' The General's name got ll\n,lul‘r‘ ; up in the Committee’s Aid-to-China cccision, on the basis of events as discussions yesterday when some ;U.m happen and then be prcpm‘m}' members suggested inviting him to; 0 80 through with it to the end, Washington to testify on Far East- he said SR ern proktlems. Byrd told a party gathering at That started an argument Con- | Ricamond, Va., Frid night that gressmen opposing the move said it the South won't stand for laws set- could be used as an attempt to mum ting up a fair employment practices; MacArthur for the GOP lexdmml (no race or color line) commission, nomination making lynching a Federal offense But others insisted that MacAr-;and banning poll taxes and race thur should be asked home from|separation. Japan to give valuable advice on how| But he added that it would be to help China overcome its Native time enough to decide what to do Communist armies: |if southerners should lose their fight The General settled the whole against enactment of such leg problem himself. He said he is too, tion by Congress fire—but keep a reporter he the to be sure where it is B— All Mrs. Carl Cd person was knocke unconscious in an automobile acci dent yesterday near the Alaska Ju- neau tramway when a cab, she was riding in, was hit by a skidding truck | coming down hill. Mrs. Casperson | was tak to - the Juneau Clinic where she was examined by Dr. Wwilliam Whitehead. He said that, 8 she had suffered from mild con- | dedication ceremony in its new cussion but would recover. quarters attended by many prom- The truck, driven by Ray Perkins, | | inent officials. The Governor was caused about $500 damage to lhk“l”c*l‘l as well as Mayor W. E cab, driven by Melvin Swanson. It | Hendrickson, Henry Roden, went out of control on the icy road | cilman George Jorgenson and many as it approached the cab going | oth uphill . | The Purity Bakery ‘luuu- five layer cake ¢ with the Moose emblem The Washington| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON busv to make the trip Several House members from 11 “While I deeply appreciate the; ! southern states have adopted a re- conticence reflected in the sugge ‘solution condemning the President’s tion I return to the United States Program to state views to the House Fu,.( The Southern Governors Confer-| eign Affairs Committee on the China ence cn Feb. 8 gave the Relief Plan,” he said in a Tokyo Dmocratic Headquarters 40 d to statement, “I hope the Committee ' tcss out the Civil Rights Program will not further the idea.” s T That seemed to settle the figh before 1t really got. going. Stock Exchanges A MacArthur man, meanwhile, an- nounced in Chicago that he is go- B (I d M d g to establish a national head- e ose 0" ay quarters in Washington for backers | i, of the General | NEW YORK, Feb. 21 The Chicagoan is Warren Wright,; demestic security and Lanker and former Illinois State narkets will be closed Monday Treasurer. observance of Washington's Birth- “The objective of me and MY day. Some livestock markets will friends,” he said, “is to create @ pe open as usual. popular demand for General Mac-| gyitish, Canadian and other for- Arthur that will compel the Republi-' etizht exchanges will be open can National Convention to nom-j SRR inate "him this summer.” i g NEW ICE-BREAKER i MRS. CASPERSON "~ \NNOUNCED BY (G . | i INJURED IN CAR | RIDAY | Coast Guard said today it has a new, vthrough Ixcld\ of solid ice 38 in-; d | ches deep, anJ windrows (piles of |troken ice) 25 feet deep in tests on the Great Lakes, It has propellors ,At both end. .- MOOSE DEDICATION Club night was The Juneau Moose i a officially opened last at donated embossed S e e R GOVERNOR TO CONVENTION Governor and Mrs. Gruening! rare scheduled to leave here Loday | weather permitting, for Mt. | Kinley National Park, where the 'vull attend the annual convention mf the Alaska Territorial Federa- Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, y“m of Labor. J - D | ALEXANDER’S Al)DREb ASHINGTON Is is consid-| Judge George F. Alexander, and ered more than significant that A'Ml‘s. Alexander, former Juneau res- crack reporter for the Clnclr‘nau idents announced today that they Times-Star, owned by the T"flihd\c a new address. They family, has’ left for Australia to now residing at 3421 NE Morris, | cover the route which General' Portland, Oregon. MacArthur tock on his northward —————— advance from Australia to the BOUND OVER Philippines | Hamy O. Jackson has been The reporter is Douglas M. Allen, | beund over to the Grand Jury by Jr. who leit for Australia early in: U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray January and is scheduled to hitlon two counts of forgery. His Korea and Japan around April 15, bail was increased to $2,000 from working his way through the $1,5500. He waived a Philippines and the battle-scarred hearing. Pacific Islands. ; —— Inside word is that Allen wiil do SENT TO PENITENTIARY a little quiet probing of certain! Harry Eskelson has been incidents surrounding MacArthur's campaign, which during the war were shrouded by censorship. One of these is the famous jungle man- sion which MacArthur had the Sea- bees build for him on a hill over- looking Hollandia. MacArthur aroused Navy resent- ment—at times, even bitterness— during his northward advance to the Philippines. And if he decides to become a Presidential candi- date, obviously it would not hurt his rival candidates, including Sen- ator Taft, to have certain hitherto censored iniormation told to the sen- Penitentiary by Judge George W. Folta in U. S. District Court. Es- kelson waived a Grand Jury indict- ment and pleaded guilty ceny by check. Tt RETURNS TO JUNEAU Sweden after an extended vaca- tion. He is registered at the Gas- tineau Hotel. e e FROM ANCHORAGE Lt. Col. J. R. Parker of the Al» aska District Engineers from An-' chorage is a guest at the Baranof Hotel (Continued on Page Four) yum wants sla- | commodity A“HING'IO"I th 21 -fl—’[ht" Coun- | ai are‘ preliminary ! tenced to 18 months in a Federal: to lar-; Richard Olson has returned from | MARKET REVIEW GIVEN Government's Labor De- . partment Analyzes Pres- ent Decline in Prices (P—~Wheat | | | | | NEW YORK. Feb. 21 lead a eral downward mong modities today. The was orderly, however, yand price changes atter the recent upset Hogs, cattle and lambs held nom- inelly steady in Chicago's big mar- ket No retail price changes of impor- tance came to light retailers tried to appraise the effect of the Feb. 4 crack in primary markets T'ra cks was almost at con decline in st g break in the commodity has reduced retail food average ol 3': percent from iary highs. Other cost- f-liv tems either clung to post- peaks or headed upward This the picture presented he government's Bureau of statistics in its first official report on the effect of the market slump on retail prices government study ' in 12 cities. sented a cross section picture of | erocery and meat prices between .the highs of mid-January and February 17 The big break in commodity n February 4 1e BLS réport stated 13 of the 20 1vod commodities showed de- clines. Five showed increases. Two —bread and navy beans—showed no change. The markets wal was by bor covered It repre- The 20 fc Biggest Drop The government bureau the biggest drops in pork chops, lard, bacon, eggs and lettuce. Pri- ces for fresh fruits and vegetables rose; “the report said. Price cuts have differed wide- ly between cities and between stores in the same city Some indepen- dent grocers said they cut some pri- ces to meet chajn store competi- tion, regardless of profit margins. And last night the Department of Agriculture at Washington at- tributed the price break in com- modity markets to these things Prices had gone too high in view ! of remaining supplies and in view of the fact that export purchases were largely out of the way Action o1 Congress requiring a crop year-end reseérve of 150,000,000 | bushels of wheat, which is almost double that of a year ago. Feeding of wheat so far icrop year has been lighter 1 had been expected. Market prices of grains were so high as to discourage feeding to livestock | January weather was favorable to the winter wheat crop, thus indi- cating a possible good crop which ,would help ease the shortage Marked improvement in ! prospects in other parts of i world. found this than crop the -. ‘Norah Here From South { t 1, The Princess Norah arrived in | Juneau at 7 o'clock last night with 22 passengers from the south. She | sailed for Skagway at 11:30 p. and will return Sunday southbound at 10 a. m. and leave at 1:30 p. fm i Passengers from neau were Frank Brandson, Peter J. Capewsky, J. A. Cherneff, Ar- thur M. Geyer, Marget Hendrick- ison, Bessie Mae Jund, Victoria A. { McDonald, Gustav R. Olsen, Sister Mary Berthelde. Ruth W. Thomas, Albert L. Zum- :wall. Verna Buckley, Merion Cass, 1 Zola Devlin, Ruth H. Helmes, | Thomas Murray, David W. McIn- | tyre, Rene J. Parminter, George F. Shaw, Leslie D. Watkin. Seattle to Ju- Wright. > oo MERION CASS RETURNS HOME FROM (OLLEGE Miss Merion Cass returned to her| march relatively small state | | | ,ed that the pri- From Prince Rupert, Herbert G.| | Alaska, |homc in Juneau aboard the Prin-| ! cess Norah. She has received her 'B. A. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. Miss Cass will remain in Ju- neau for a short time, possibly taking a position in one of the olfices here, {of Juneau, were married by | | Laredo enroute to Mexico City, BillProposed HEARING ON ALASKA CASE For Land for Alaska State NEXT TUESDAY .Deleqate Submits Amend- Curbing of Powers of In- ferior Department Will Be Discussed in Com. CHARLES WATKINS) TON, Feb. 21.—®-A legislation to curb the of the Interior Deparument cka will start Tuesday Lefore enate Subcommittee ments Regarding All Public Lands in North WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (®-— Amendments to the Alaska State- hood Bill to let the Territory select i 21,930,000 acres of land for the new powc was proposed yesterday Ly the ' 1r Interior Department. 18 The bill as prepared by Delegate | Bartlett of Alaska would have turned | all public lands over to the Territory' except land actually used by thej United States, National Park and" Monument lands and Na roleum Reserves. The Interior Department suggest-| formula used with thej latest States admitted to the Un-i Tne Senators also will be con- fon ke followed in Alaska. That Was'sidering a bill by Butler to turn te give the state four sections out of gyer to the territorial government all every 36, but amended to allaw Al-/qctiviiies now carried on in Alaska d‘k\ as a state to select the 21,930, 1y he Indian Bureau, except that 0O acres rather than tfollowing the {hespitals under the Bureau would checkerboard pattern by taking sec-!pe transferred to the Public Health tions. I Service. Tois formula, the Departmenti piher Butler said, would be fair to the new state pyp)ic Lands Committee, or Wat- in that it could select the best land.: g Jairman of the Indian Af- Of the total, 2100000 acres Will"fajrs Subcommittee, will conduct the be for schools, 430,000 for the Land’ hearings Grant University and 500000 for all| Tne Committee said seven Interior other purposes. | Department officials will oppose the The Interior report on the bill Wg- Jegisiation \ ed that it ke enacted as soon as pos- H cible. It said the people wanted,! Others listed to testify are: Isaac e well suited for statehood and de-,C. Sutton, Philadelphia, represent- serve the recognition of being made|ing the Indian Rights Assoelation,; a state. |Ruth M. Bronson, Secretary of the wep, Crawford (R-Mich) recessed National Congress of American In- @& hearing of the Territories Subcom-|dians; James E. Curry, counsel for mittee which was hearing testimony Indians of Southeast Alaska; Carl g on the bill until next Tuesday. At Loman, Nome, Alaska; G. R. Jack- that time the proposed amendments scn, Nome, and Representatives ol} to the measure will be considered. {the Chambers of Commerce from/ .o { Ketchikan and Juneau ! SHERLOCK MADE | st post apwurant | BOWLING vrw (I-UB HERE! The Friday Night Commercial jLeague occupied the alleys at the 1 Elks last night and the following are Sherlock was ap- |the scores: of Taku Post,’ S and T CLOTHING Wars, last 60 60 regular Post meet-; 171 1711 ing, by Commander Hunt Gruen- 149 149 ing Sherloc will replace Jack| 117 117 Brady who resigned and is 1M1 11 leaving the city Robert E. Rice was appointed to represent the VFW on the city- | wide Memorial Library Board. All members voted to make blood donations to the American Red Cross blood bank too replenish its depleted supply. An announcement was made of a Leap Year “Hard Times” party to be held in the Jeep Club next Saturday, February 28. Further d tails will be announced next week Commander Gruening also 1 minded members that nominations ! H. Nordenson 157 153 will be made at the next meet-:B. Ray 155 ing of the Post for new Post oifi-{T. Retallick 182 {F. Riendeau 116 PN 2N { CITY SNOW PLOW | INACTION TCDAY = e | A. Stunuk BY WASHIN 3 on The Indian Affairs group will hear itnesses on a resolution to repeal the Jaw under which the Department t up Alaskan Indian Reserva- The proposal, by Senators (R-Neb) and Watkins (R~ also would cancel reserva- already established. who heads the full William H pointed Adjutant Veterans of night at the 60 171 149 17 171 Hdcp. 0. Smithberg M. Funk F. Phelps B. Phelps 668 668 668 2 vs HOME GROCERY F. Barragar . 161 161 * C. Forsyth 105 157 M. Burke 168 127 |A. Burke 153 163 16 16 603 624 ARCTIC BAR Hdep. 69 69 69 130 182 132 cers 136 679 660 vs LUDWIG NELSONS Hardin 79 120 118 Bxgt!‘ 113 134 109 137 138 148 165 649 356 423 490, 453 City Street Department 169 man Bert Lybeck announces today that the City’s grader and other | snow removal equipment is in use| today. He said that all downtown strects will be cleared as well as} hill areas above Fourth Street and includi Gastineau Avenue. Autos will be left on the stre at their owner’s risk Lybeck said, e City the g 649 708 682 2039, THOMAS HARDWARE { Hdcp. 66 66 66 198] 111 111 131 354, 163 244 149 542i 124 92 146 362 164 163 151 478} |B. Smith ,.h'i Smith \\!N ‘Telequist cannot be responsible ,,‘C Brothers er should accidentally | o A damage an auto parked in the; ! 1 R e R S P VETERAN'S ADM'N vious snow clearing operations, e B ARMEE there have been instances of cars ¢ 3 Davlin 154 133 116 403; receiving slashed tires or damaged G. Cass 136 166 107 409' fenders and Lybeck desires t0i@’ avtenpacher = 155 168 128 451} avoid any repetition. lR. Hooper 126 140 136 402 - Pl;Ll( AN RESIDENTS i 71 197,i - i LAREDO, Tex., Feb. 21.—My. and | Mrs. Frank C. Mosher, of Pelican f are .vacationing in Mexi- They cleared the port of) 312, 673 591 BAILEY'S BAR Hdcp. 53 53 B Barrett 138 152 R. Mill 170 119 for | 7. pederson 149 115 163 427! a two weeks stay. They plan tolg Forsythe 128 168 173 469, visit various points of interest m1 | old Mexico before returning to thel 638 607 684 1929 ! States. 244 SANITARY MEAT Hdcp. 36 36 of Skag-'L, Holmquist 139 90 Townsend, | C. Forsythe 166 129 U. 8. W. Eddy 154 155 Commissioner Felix Gray at his A. Burke 156 174 home in Douglas last night. Wit- nesses were W. C. Auld and Grace | Wiley. i 53 157 138 159 447 co. 427) MARRIED AT Jchn way, DOUGLAS | E. Heidelberge and Mary Irene 108 330 430 421 503 36 101 135 112 173 557 651 1792 not 584 Average did howl FIGHTER DIES 3 ter 7 Charles in the 10th and 5 when he went to the { from Seattle today THAT sasoo MOMENT Chief of Pclice Milo Clouse, President of Terri- a eheek for $1500 from Earl 1 Channel Liquor Dealers Asso- In the rear is John L Treasurer of the Channel Liguor Dealers Buck Harris. Cleuse and Farris are new enroute over the Alaska In the abeve picture, receiving [ the Gastine: torial Ine Fe ciaticn. Sportsmen, , President an, Secretary Gastincan Association, and Here is the story: Highway bound for the big Sports Show in Chicago, to put Junezu on the map as the great center of game life in Scutheast Alaska and also to arouse gnthusiasm in sport fishing, ly the > It ccsts money to the Channel Liquor Dealers Association $1500 help finance the trip. The picture is the work of the Lu-EK's Photo Shop and was taken in Darnell's Sport Center, KNOCKED OUT; 70,000 MEN MEN NEEDED BYU.S.NAV WASHINGTON, Feo » Secretary Sullivan said today the Navy must recruit or reenlist 70,000 men before July 1 “That is the minimum we need to keen our ships and planes and shore stations ope: ' the Sec- retary said in a speech Upon these men, these these planzs depend to a larg tent cur security and the peace the world. We must not fail’ Sullivan said the men are needed because of short term now expiring - Law lo Quilaw Communists Is Junean Salmon the Gastineau espec by. make venture and quickly raised to CHICAGO, Feb. 21.-—-Sam Bar- oudi, 20, New York and Akron, light heaveyweight boxer, died in Col- umbus Hospital today, six hours®af- he was knocked out by Ezzard last round their bout Chicago stadium t night. He died without regain- g consciousness sicians had diag ury as a cerebral hem decided against immediate surgery He had been rushed to the hospital after firemen had failed to revive him in his dressing room The young boxer, who had engag- ed in 46 professional fights, was knocked out for the first last night panvas under 21 in »sed his in- ge but ik ships, and ex- of the withering attack Chazles, who is ranl challenger to the 175-1> - und title. « ® o v n e o 0 THER REPORT WEATHER BUREAU 720 a.m. today Maximum, 26; (Past 24 b In Juneau minimum, At Airport rvimum, 18 WEATHER FORECAST (Juncau and Vicinity) Snow teda slowly g to snow and rain mixed Sunday. Slowly tem- peratures WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. »n Rep. Nixon (R.-Calif.) precicted to- day ‘the House will agree on a law this year to éxpose American Com- munists. His House Un-American Activities Subecommittee closed hearings yes- terday on two bills. One would out- law the party, and the other would make Communists register publicly as agents of a forelgn power, House passage probably will be swift. he said. But, he added, he would not trv to guess whether the ate will follow suit We will explore the possibility of illegalizing the actual case-hardened Communist conspirators, Nixon said. 19. 24; Maximum chang- rising 15 1.06 7387 inche: inck: inches. inche: In Juneau since Feb. 1 since July 1 At Airport 40 since Reb.”1, .80 inche since July 1, 43.98 inche o o 0 0 . STEAMER MOVEMENTS Square Sinnet, from Seattle, duc late Sunday night or early Monday. Aleutian, frem Seattle, due on Tuesday. Clove ©ceeeves®evscetescen®® anne D Sen. Vandenherg Is Still Considered GOP Dark Horse rive at 10 a. m. Sunday and ¢ south at 1:30 p. m. Sunday EAST ORANGE, Baranof, from west scheduled | (P—U (: southbound Tuesday noon ore) s - - denberg VFW AWARD MONDAY best The Alaska L-:pariment of Vet- unite erans of Foreign Wars announced lead today that its long-awaited auto V. award will be made Monday at able 9:30 p. m. from the stage of the told 20th Century Theatre. The award meeti was originally scheduled to have' been made on January 30, but has been delayed by returns from the Anchorage Post Hitch schedul.d to sail N. J., Feb. 21. ne A. Morse (R- Arthur H. Van- (R-Mich) would be the presidential candidate to the Republican party and it to v this year. denberg “is the most desir- horse we have,” Morse American Brotherhood last night - IN FROM YAKUTAT Loy of Yakutat staying Baranof Hotel Senator dark an Ling is at the enlistments | Now in Making | A. Johnson, * TRUMANIN SAN JUAN; TALKS OUT Says Appoiniment, Island Born Governor, Aid to ' Self-Government SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Feb. 21 {M—President Truman told the people of Puerto Rico today that the | appcintment of an Island-born Gov- erncr was just ‘increasing measure of ment.” He greeted Gov. Jesus T. Pinero, his own appointe d others gath- ered ateSan Juan's Island Grande Airport in this fashion “Freedom is a word which is found in every language. Equality means more than mere political emancipa- tion. i “I have said to the Congress sev- eral times and I repeat it here— that the Puerto Rican people should rave the right to determine for themselves Puerto Rico's political re- lationship to the United States.” A full schedule was arranged for President Truman, from the moment of his arrival here in the “Sacred Cow"” frem Key West, Fla. Tonight the Presidential Williamsburg is due to ¢ to St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands tomorrow for an official visit with Gov. Willlam H. Hastie, former Washington Nezro law school dean; another of his appointees, and other high-ranking ofticials. He will visit St. Croix Monday. D e TWENTY PERSONS, INCLUDING WOMAN, EXECUTED IN ATHENS ATHENS, F‘eb 21, — (A-Twenty persons, ineluding a woman, were executed in Athens today. Nine were convicted by an Athens military tribunal Feb. 17 of being involved in «the killing of a police~ man and vlans to assassinate Greek political leade g The others were found guilty of having been members of a Com- munist execution squad which kill- ed hundreds of civilians near Athens in the 1944 civil war. D GOLD MEDAL TOURNEY STARTS HERE MONDAY ‘The Lions Club Gold Medal Bas- ketball Tournament will get under- way Monday, February 23, in the Juneau High School gym. The first game is scheduled for 1 p.n. There will be four games in the afternoon and three games are scheduled for Moncay evening starting at 7:30 o'clock. Twelve Southeast Alaska teams will be in action. Previous to the afterncon games the visitorsewill be entertained at the Lions Club weekly luncheon to Le held in the Gold Room of ‘ic Barancf Hotel. ARTS AND CRAFIS " EXHIBIT 0 HAVE ALL NEW DISPLAY With onlv three weeks remaining before the opening of the Fourth Annual Alaska Arts and Crafts Ex- hibit, its Board of Directors met last night at the Territorial Museum to perfect plans. According to Presi- dent Alice Brandebury, 2verything points to a hetter show than ever before. She said that many new and different tvges of art and craft work have been promised Expected exhibits include a dem- onstration of the silk sereen process of reproduction, commercial art dis- plays, furniture manufactured at Chilkoct and various examples of lapidary work by both amateurs and professionals. ‘The board said that there will be no ¢ld exhibits—everything on dis- play will be new and has never be- fore been shown. Wherever possible, the beard has insisted on the use of Alaskan materials and the Alaska motil. Anyene desiring information on the annal affair, is asked to contact Miss Brandebury >oo ENTION TO WED L. Hughes and Jeanne both of Juneau, ap- 8. Commissioner Felix v for a marriage li- step toward an self-govern- yacht INT Edward to U, vesterds plied Gray ‘ gense