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

1P.M. Editioa “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 1P.M. Edition —— o VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,818 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, | l'BRL» ARY 23, 1948 MLMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS o e oot PRICE TEN CENTS SKI TOURNEY HERE IS BIG SPORT EVENT Juneau, Anchorage Press Each Other for Honors ~Winners Given The Southeast Alaska Ski Cham- pionship races were completed yes- terday under perfect winter con- ditions. Anchorage and Juneau vied closely for honors, and Al Bystrom of Cordova put on a wonderful display as a one-man ski team. Approximately 300 spectators lin- ed the iinish line Sunday after- noon to see Capt. Bill Neidner of the Arctic Ski Club capture first place in the men’s downhill, close- ly followed by Al Bystrom of Cor- | dova and Alec Heddan of White- | horse, | Saturday had seen Dean Will-! jams win the major Slalom race with two fast runs for a total of 95.6 seconds. Capt. Neidner fin-! ished second with 109.7 and Cpl Kashuba third with 1114. In the Men’s Combined resuits, with total of 255.4 points, Capt. Neidner nosed out Dean wrlhama, gathered 2589 points, strom of Cordova closely fnllnwvrl with 262.9 points. [ Juneau Women Win H Juneau swept the women’s field ! Sheila MacSpadden, local Ju- | | | | | o) President Truman is shown as Day Dinner in Washington, D. C., as he addressed the Jefferson-Jackson night of February 19, his speech o i ~hoo i S/ | 3 s neau High School girl, upset dobe | oo preadeast throughout the naticn to listening Democrats of all in downhill, sec-! ond in slalom. She was closely pressed by Bonnie Randall v\)ln‘ took 1lirst in slalom and second in, downhill, and Mary Thibodeau, who | ran consistently throughout rhol tournament. Charles Smith of the Arctic Skl Club won both downhill and slalom * in the Men's Class B events, and was pushed by his teammates, Dick Johnson and Carl Evenson. Pat Oakes, Juneau High Schoolf girl, was outstanding in the Wn- men's Class B races by wmnmg the combined with a first in sla- ! lom and second in downhill. Jean- nette Hodgman of the Juneau Ski Club was second with first in| the downhill and second in the! slalom. Mrs. Sid Thompson c(.p-‘ tured third place. Cross Country In a marvelous exhibition of, cross country running, powerful Al; Bystrom, many times Alaska champion, covered the five mile| Hungry Mukden-Fami- course mn 28 minutes and 8 sec- gs comm” SUKIde onds to beat his nearest competi-l | By JOHN RODLRI(‘ inning firs in winning first hues. Truman called upon faiths to support the Demecerati reactionaries” Hotel. Jackson Dinner Committee. 'Big Guns Are [ramed on (Continued on Page Six) -oo— — The Washington: Merry-Go- Round‘ By DREW PEARSON ! { acccunts ' } TSINGTAO, China., February 23. ! —(M—Chinese Communist l:oo]h {wheeled their big guns clos IU‘:muh to shake hungry, hele'mum- ed Mukden today in their steady advance cn the heart of Man- churia. Military reporis and eye witness showed the desperate (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, | Plight ol the big industrial city Ine.) (Government sources in Peiping 5 {reported another grave setback— ASHINGTON — Hemy Wal- |, of Faku, 45 miles north lace’s thumping . victory in the o pykden. Its fall tightened the Bronx, hitherto a sureshot s"“"g“cmnmur st blockade of Mukden hold of the Democratic party, has, yng opened the war for Commun- put @ cold and clammy hand onljg gssaults from the north.) the November hopes of Democratrcr The Rev. N. O. Dahlsten, Ber- leaders. ,rien Springs, Mich., just arrived Also, it has brought to a boil- from Mukden, said whole familtes ing point all the inner-Democratic: tnere were commitling suicide for bitterness .against one Harry Tru-|jack of food. Month-old children man, and for the first time has|were being fed millet—a rough caused certain Democratic leaders | nanchurian cereal to decide that it was about timei ne Seventh Day Adventist mis- to look around for another 1948':‘0"5]\' said Mukden was shaking candidate. Hitherto, ~ Democratic leaders|He said the Communists evidently have merely been content to com- | ywill try to capture and hold Muk- plain under their breath aboutgen Truman. Even such staunch, true-, _other reports told of Commun- blue leaders as Senator Alben|ist attacks on a government air- Barkley of Kentucky and ex-|pase only a mile and a hali from Speaker Sam Rayburn have been!pnfukden. The Chinese air force sour. : {halted all its flights to Mukden, But now, with it quite appar-irThe U. §. State Department ad- ent that Henry Wallace can steal | yised all dependents of its con- votes even out from under' thejsylar personnel to leave there at nose of that versatile vetaran. Ed|gnce. Fiynn, long boss of the Bronx,| Fighting was reported in the the Democrats .are beginning to!sypurbs of Penki (Penhsihu), a figure that there's no use putting major source of Mukden’s coal their money on a losing horse. {supply. The coal mining center is | In other words, seme of 1119135 miles southeast of Mukden. The realistic leaders are figuring that|cCommunists already had cut the since they can’t win with Truman,!yajl line between the two points. they had better get someone who' (REATIVE WRITERS can To disavow the leader of their party at a time when he's alm| President of the United States, lcr] some Democrats is like preaching, atheism in the presence of the Pope. Not only isn't it done, but | it’s risky. It means that you lose patronage plums, get in Dutch with other party leaders, are call- ed an ingrate. On the other hand, more cour- ageous Democrats figure that it's \ Florence Theel will discuss the de- velopment of the short story plot tonight at the meeting of the Crea- tive Writers. The meeting will be held in the coungil chambers at the City Hall starting at 7:30 o'clock. Besides instructions, short stories will be analyzed and writers in the ‘group will read their work. (Continued on Page Four) ogressive Party at the in a year of challenge. as he made his major address to the nation from the Mayflower In left backround is Wilson Wyatt, Chairman of the Jefferson- (International Soundphoto) T0 MEET TONIGHT ‘sen. The baby, hiberals” of all pelitical polls against Awooden The Chief Executive is shown Juneau is nl»m\mg the mrrhmr.\ George Washington today. All business, except restaurants, suspended together with Federal, Territorial and City offices. ool / be dismissed during the mid-| on With the ski tourney over, .\pflrl-’ ing activities are centered in the week of the Gold Medal basketball tournament, starting this afternoon in the High Schoel gym with four scheduled and three more; BIG STEEL TO BE RAKED | BY GOPERS WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 —(P—An- Republicans may rake big steel over the coals this week for boost- g prices. The Senate-House Economic Com mittee has arranged to que,smon three “typical” steel executives at public hearings Thursday. Chairman Taft (R-Ohio) said bw steel, little steel and mdependenh | will be represented. He ruled out any | |rn the bombardment of big guns. rcmm atmosphere, | But there are signs that Taft| himself feels the steel industry may have put the Repuktlican Congress over a political barrel by boosting’ some prices after the lawmakers had voted to rely on veluntary action to keep down the cost of living. Some Republicans think that steel has given President Truman and the Demoerats a new argument for Government controls. They blame big steel primarily for the price jump. it came at a time when other commodities showed signs of leveling off. GIRL BABY IS BORN 70 ROBERT TOLLEFSENS Announcements have been receiv- ed in Juneau of the birth of a baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tollef- born January 19, named Ann Veronica, weighed six pounds and 7 ounces, and joins a brother Tommy, two years old. Tellefsen was Assistant District Attoimey here in 1944 and 1945. He is o vision of the Department of Justice m Washington, D. C.,, and is residing J in Arlington, Virginia. ' are in session but will prob-/ ow attorney in the Anti-Trust Di-| JEWISH SECTOR BOMBED Fifty-two Persons Killed- Jerusalem Paralyzed- Streets Patrolled JERUSALEM, Feb. 23.—P—Je- ! rusalem was virtually paralyzed today at gun-carrying Arabs, Brit- ., cns and Jews patrolled a city made bitter and tense by yesterday's hombing of the Jewish sector, which at least 52 persons died. Rescue workers clawing as | wreckage of two hotels, three | apartment houses and scores of shops along two blocks of Ben Yehuda Street extricated nine more bodies today, boosting to 52 the number of dead. At least 88 injured have been dug from the debris. Haganah workers at the scene said there possibly were more victims in the rubble. Arab leaders said their com- mandoes set oft the two truck- loads of explosives which caused the blast, but, Jews seemed con- vinced that the British were somehow responsible. .Nine Brit- ish soldiers were killed in retali- atory gun fighting after the ex- plosion and three Jews lost their lives. The death toll for the day | thus stood at 64. - 48 Killed, 68 Injured, COMMIES IN Juneau Taking !¢V Blasls ADVANCEIN Holiday Today MANCHURIA Severe Weather Is Blamed for Many Weekend Accrdems Abroad , | PARIS, Feb. 28. — (® — The icy fhand of winter was blamed today , for weekend accidents which killed l48 persons and injured 68 others in France and Switzerland. A bu | plane and a train were involved in | three separate mishaps. Near historic Utah Beach, on the | French Channel Coast, a huge new 90-passenger, six-engine flying boat plunged into the sea Saturday after- noon and police said they were sure all 19 persons aboard were dead Two bodigs, mangled beyond ‘rr*cogmuuu , washed ashore last e ! Onc official blamed the seaplane’s !loss on faulty de-icing equipment: | another said it had no de-icing | equipment. The craft was making an experimental run. Near Lyon, a bus carrying mem- ! bers of the Lyon cross country team vplum,ed into a river yesterday. Ter s athletes died. At Wadenswil, Switzerland, near i Zurich, at least 19 persons wers »kll!ed and 48 were hurt yesterday ! when a weekend ski train was de- 'railed and rammed into a three- I story building. Icy rails and faulty 'hrakes were blamed. e MANY BASKETBALL MEN AT BARAKOF The following baskettall players and their wives are registered at the | Baranof Hotel; Mr, and Mrs. E Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Erick- son, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Wasvick, Mr. and Mrs. John Mills, Mr. and IMrs. Nick Kosaken, Mr. and Mrs Lloyd Ward, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Christensen, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Joe J. Bolden. | Other players are J. E. Ballard i Peter M. Williams, Harold A. Taylor, )Backert, J. H. Williams, Ronald ! Forstad,» Norman Guthere, Tom At- | kinson, Nels Otteness, Neal MacDgn- jald, Ernest Enge, Tom Wanberg, Bill Johnson, Palmer Pederson, El- (don Hill, Irving Leask, Les Burdible. Art Olsen, Phillip C. Jeans, William H. Doucette, Harry Ludwigsen, Ver- non T. Heimdahl, Arthur Roswald b A R [ MOVE TO FAIRBANKS Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brady here over the weekend via the {PAA for Fairbanks, where they will make their home, Brady has {been employed by the Snow White Laundry and was Post Ad- ijutant of Taku Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. e e $ FROM BRISTOL BAY W. F. Schnieder of Bristol Bay is staying at the Baranof Hotel Romey Atkinson, Jeff David, Charles ¢ left | in the | Mrs. Michael Walker, of Syracuse, N. ing home from Syracuse General Proud Mother Drsplays Her 2 Sefs of Triplets Hospital. Mrs. Walker, at left, and Ann; Paul holding Martin Stewart, and Peter Holding Mary Cecelia. children, over and above this sextette! (International S undphnlo) ! year RENT CONTROL LAW DEMAND BY PRESIDENT Truman Asaongress for Stronger Measure, Fi- nancial Help Also WASHINGTON Feb, 23.-P— President 'Truman today urged a 14-month stronger rent control law along with extension of financial aid to home building. In r\ ~pN~1al message to Con- gress, . Truman asked that this emerg 'enc} action be coupled along i with a long-range housing program to produce 1,000,000 dwellings for the next decade. “We must adopt them together so that they may work together,” the Presidential message sald. “We a | must make orderly progress, not a staggering, uncertain series of i starts and halts.” is pictured with her two sets of triplets shortly after return- then, Patricia, holding Margaret The Walkers have three other | (ommumsls Try for Supreme TRUMANON | H Power in (zethoslovakra Govl; VISIT TO | TAFTISFOR MILITARY AID, CHINA Says Truman Assistance Plan Fails to Solve Real Problem in Orient DETROIT, Feb Taft (R-Ohio) today called American military help for China. He termed President Truman's $570,000 assistance plan a ‘“relief program” ,which “will completely fail to soive the problem” of Com- munist pressure. Taft said Secretary of State Marshall had been ‘“unwillingly ferced” into draiting the aid pro- gram sent to Congress last week. *The truth is,” Taft said in an address prepared for an Economic Club luncheon, “the Secretary Marshall does not like the Chinese and has no inierest in their prob- lems.” The Ohjo a candidate for the Republican Presidential nominaticn, said he considers the Far East as ultimately more im- portant to peace than Burope. Yet today in China, he centin- ucd, “we continue policy which threatens to undo in the Far Eas everything the Marshall Plan (for Eurcpean recovery) is trying to do in western Europe.” - R MRS. BORBRIDGE SR. PASSES ON SUNDAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS Mrs. John Borbridge, Sr., daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Cropley, r., passed away at the U. S. Gov- ernment Hospital in Juneau last night following a long illness. Mrs. Borbridge has been a hospital pat- ient for the past month, and was being treated for cancer She was born here in 1909 and her maiden name was Margaret June Cropley. She is survived by her husbapd who is a flerk at the Alaska Hotel, and a son, Theodore, 20, a student at Mount Edgecumbe. The body was taken to the Charles W, Carter Mortuary where funeral arrangements are pending. SRR e 13 —{M—Senator Senator LUNDIN RITES TUESDAY Last rites for Albert Lundin will ‘Ire held tomorrow afternoon at 2 jo'clock in the Charles W. Carter Chapel. Rev. G. H. Hillerman will give the eulogy. for ,0f Bivins, Bv A.l GOLDBERG PRAGUE, Feb. 23.—P—Commun- | ists bidding for supreme power put threu Security Police today before ‘all Czechoslovak government bufld- hlg\ and foreign embassies. Opposi- | tion speech was at least pnrl]v‘ stifled | Headquarters of the Czech Na- tional Socialist Party, one of three | which withdrew Friday from the | government coalition was ‘seized by police armed with sub machineguns. Czechoslovak nationals virtually | were frozen inside the country by a ;Mmhtry of Interior owrder requiring new stamps of approval on valid passports. Police, directed by Communists heading the Ministry of Interior, arrested notable foes of the Reds. Dr. Zdenek Marjanko, Ministry of Justice employee who involved a Communist in the perfume box bomb plot last iall against ihree ministers, was jailed. Police were looking for Dr. Viadi- mir Krajina, Secretary General of the National Socialist Party, who directed investigations that uncov- ered the bomb plot. They seized Zdenek Uhl, President of the Medi- cal Students’ Union, and Jiri Ptak, former head of the Engineers’ Union. The display o: -ims was the first since the poitical crisis started Fri- day night with the resignation of 12 anti-Cominunists ministers from the coalition of Premier Klement Gottwald, a Communist. President Eduard Benes was trying in con- ferences to save the situation. Communist controllers were in charge of radio and press centers in Slovakia. * e "Baby Befty" Passes Away NEW ORLEANS, Feb, 23.—M— “Baby Betty” Horrell, 750-pound sideshow entertainer, died in Foun- dation Hospital last night. It required six men to carry her into the hospital two weeks ago for treatment of an undisclosed ail- ment. Two hospital beds were bolt- ed together for her. “Baby Betty” was 39 years old. her home in Tampa, Fla - FORTY FLEE FLAMES ASBARRACKS BURN: RICHLAND, Wash., Feb. 23—(®— One man was dead and six persons were recovering from burns and in- Jjuries today as the result of a fire whicli drove 40 Atkinson and Jones Co., construction workers from their barracks here early Saturday. The dead man was A. C. Reynolds, 35,/ Tex. 'CUTTER WACHUSETT Tells of American Way of; Working for .Peace i and Prospenty CHHISTIANSTED St. Croix, Vir- | @in Islands, Feb. 23.—(P—President Truman declared today that re- nu\mL by Congress of the charter of the Virgin Islands Company is essential to stabilization of the eco- | nomy of these islands. ! He closed his good will visit lo'! these Caribbean possessions with a tour of St. Croix, largest of the Vir- gin Islands, and an official lunch- j ,eon, attended by Governor William H. Hastie and other local officials. The President intends to lenve! later in the day, aboard the Presi- dential yacht Willamsburg, for the naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba. j He is due there Wednesday. From Guantanamo he will fly to Key West, | Fla., for a nine-day vacation ] Saying that he had come here to “see for myself, what this part of our American family is doing to meet our common problems” the | President said in his prepared ad- | dress: “Here, of working together and prosperity will we can all enjoy.” The Virgin Islands Company, he| said, “is our greatest hope for the | stabilization of the economy of St. ‘roix.” A round of engagements y:stcrday at the mneighboring island of St. Thomas, with Negro Governor Wil- liam H. Hastie, brought to the fore , the hope of the islands’ dominantly | Negro population for help from the United States government. U A LR LR AR I know, our American way toward |)ence bring rr-sults l | i i SPEEDS T0 ANSWER CALL OF DISTRESS Wachu- i The U. 8. C. G. Cutter "sett left here at 1 a.m. today in ans-| wer to a distress call from the Point | Reyes, a small fishing vessel, in; trouble near Porcupine Island in Lisianski Strait west of Juneau. | The Point Reyes radioed that lli had burnt out a bearing in its en-! gine and was having trouble making headway against the surf. It request- (ed that help be dent. The Wachusett was expected to. reach the scene sometime this morn- | ing and should return to Juneau| sometime this evening i e ——— STEAMER MOVEMENTS | | Freighter Square Sinnet, from Seattle, in port | Aleutian, from Seattle, scheduled ! to arrive Monday forenoon. | Freighter Clove Hitch, from Se- attle, due Thursday morning. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Friday. i Baranof, from west, scheduled southbound at 8 o'clock tonight. i housing at Rent control expires February 29. { Republican leaders have agreed to push through a 30-day extension of the present law this week. This { Will give time for study of a bill pending in the Senate for a 14- month extension of ceilings to Ap- ril 30, 1949, on a modified basis. Mr. Truman asked for “more lower cost, both in the immediate future and for the {long run” i - - SIX PERISH IN FLAMES, HOUSE FIRE CAMBRIDOE, Miss. Feb. 23—# —Six persons in one family, four of them children, perished early today when flames swept their 16-room house on fashionable Brewster Street.® Police identified the dead as: , H. Alan Gregg, 40, a Harvard graduate of 1935; his wife, Ann, and their four children, Susan, 9; H. Al- an, Jr., 8; Peters, 3; and Thomas, ;10 months old. ‘The only one to escape as flames rngcn through the rambling three story wooden house was the family maid, Edna Roper, 29. She was in- (Jured critically, firemen said, when she apparently toppled through a second story window in trying to open it. At least a dozen firemen and the department’s fire chaplain, the Rev. | Thomas Tierney, were overcome at- tempting to rescue the trapped fam- ily. The whole inside of the house was 1 roaring inferno before the fire- men got there, Deputy Chief Henry Kilfoyle said. <. 13 Dog Teams Ready fo Race ASHTON, Idaho, Feb. 23.—P—A seven-dog team of Targhee hounds rated favorite’s spot today as this tiny Eastern Idaho community wait- ed the “come on" call for the 1948 All-American Dog Derby. Thirteen teams, eight in the Derby jand five in the Huskie race, are en- lr,ercd, Ten inches of new snow in yester- day’s storm brought smiles to Derby officials’ faces after a Saturday nighv rain softened the previously well-packed course. The town is crowded. Race offic- ials predicted 10,000 spectators would {watch the 10-mile Derby, scheduled *o start about 4 p.m., Mountain iStandard Time. A new Derby champion was as- sured. The five-times winner Everett Heseman withdrew his entry last iweek when his lead dog developed a {shoulder injury. That left the Targhee hounds of Austin Neeley of Drummond in the favorite’s spot. Neeley finished se- cond to Heseman in 1946 and again in 1947 e FROM SITKA W. H. Hills of Sitka is staying at the Gastineau Hotel. — KETCHIKAN VISITOR W. T. Stuart of Ketchikan is registered at the Gastineau Hotel. e e e-—— SEATTLE VISITORS R. Kearns and John Likness of Seattle are registered at the Bar- anof Hotel,