The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 3, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA E “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” IRE p— VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,826 JUNEAU,, ALASKA, WEDI\!: SDAY, VIARCH 3 I948 DEWEY GETS IN ON FOUR PRIMARIES To Make Effon fo Prove! Getting Ability Out- side New York (BY JACK BELL) WASHINGTON, March 3. 4 the GOP Presidential nomination | chips down on three primary bat- tles in an effort to prove his vote| getting ability is not limited to ‘\l('\\ York. Friends here said Dewey’s bid for the Gop Presidential nomination will hinge largely on the results of! primaries in New Hampshire March 9, Wisconsin April 6 and Oregon May | 21 | If the New York Governor ‘\n‘ top these three contests, he will 1 claim to cross-country strength—in | New England, the Midwest and the Far West. He will press this as an argument at the June convention Dewey has given new indications that he intends to fight actively! for the nomination. He told an Al bany news conference yesterday that| he hopes to accept some speaking engagements soon. None of these, however, is likely tc take him into either New Hamp- shire or Wisconsin before the vote in those states. Meanwhile, the name of Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower bounced back intc the political talk—this time as a possitle Democratic Presidential nominee. Eisenhower last month de- clar~d himself out of the running for the GOP' nomination. But friends who accompanied Gov J. Strom Thirmond of South Car- olina to Washington said the Dixie Executive would .iike to see the Democrats pick the retired Chiel of Staff, in preference to President 'n-uman VISITS GOLD FET GOVERNOR OF Husband Also Father of Her Baby Boy RS T Ala., March 3.—(- An A a court was asked today to d Gov. James E. Folsom Al KA S S Su ES | the lawful husband of a her-haired FOR YUKON’S loss. 30-3 orcee and the father g 'of her baby boy. ASKS $1,500,000 .. r 4 in made these pleas. Both charged Folsom the common law hus- band of Christine - Putman SEATTLE, March 3—tp— Al gome, and the father of her suit seeking $1,500000 for the 1085 9 ponin-gld James Douglas of the steamer Yukon was filed "one petition was filed by the against the government in district. ipher who i she is also known court yesterday by the Alaska g npys, Christine Johnston. Friends Steamship Company, said she divorced Johnston several The vessel struck a rocky reef yo,.¢ a0 off the Kenai Peninsula Feb. 41" pogom, a six-foot, eight inch 1946, and broke in two. Ten of i yiqower with two children, was en- the 496 persons aboard were lost youie to Washington when the in dile Wreoky suits were filed. He .is 39. SBle oM contends in s ac- A colorful and vigorous cam- tion that the ship was in use as pgigner Folsom is a candidate for a requisitioned vessel. The govern- | ipe pemocratic Presidential ment, it says, was liable for alilj i, loss, but has failed to pay the| cumpanyj-flclmm pleyed LR Friends WNAA MEETS TONIGHT i The Juneau Unit of the Woman's National Aeronautical Association | will hold a regular meeting to- | night at 8 o'clock at the home of | Mrs. Mdrvm thstan 923 D Street. The Washmgton Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON 1948, CUL circuit court here Fol- Johnston fermerly was em- in a Birmingham hotel described, her as an at- red-head. BLAMES POLITICAL WASHINGTON, March Gov. James E. Folsom of Alaba itoday blamed politics for the fil eof court suits nami him as ti father of a { baby ~son. Tha Governdr, here for a Con- gressional hearing, told reporters “I am in a pclitical campaien in Alabema. I have had to face can (Copyright, is March this type of tactics in other n first few months Harry '[‘rumlm;lASI CONIlNGENI One term was enough; he wanted great deal mcre weight with Harry | —The last contingent of troops At that time, however, Tru-|ing the day yesterday with 175, run again, believed he was the winter at Big Delta in Alaska, to somewhat reversed. Today ‘New Bili Put in by and can't be persuaded to bow out. 3.—p who was the first to propose his { paigns. That all I have to s on that subject.” by The Bell Syndicate, | S g 3 nc.) WASH!NGTON During the spent in the White House, he kept! L insisting to friends that he did not XERCISE Y want to run for a second term. to get back ‘to his old love—being | IS ENROUTE SOUIH a Senator from Missouri Mrs, Truman—who carries a! McCHORD FXELD March 3P than most people suspect—felt ex- | from reise Yukon" are expect- actly the same way, possibly more ed to return here toda 0. | Twelve C-82 planes arrived dur- man's close friends and political | cfficers and men of the Second) leaders felt just the opposite. Fhey Infantry Division. were determined that he should ' The maneuyers were staged this only ¢candidate with whom the | test military equipment under Arc- Democrats would win. | tic conditions. Now, however, the situation T 0 e | political leaders aesperately don't | want Truman ,to run, but are afraid he has t‘le bit in his teeth! D l ' B " ' Bob Hannegan, the man who eegae a’ e two years repeatedly denied that g b Truman would not run again and WASHINGTON name publicly for re-election, now privately sorry he ever made the suggestion, js| By Delegate Bartlett ® | To place territories on the {footing as states in judicial 1 |view of rejected Civil Aeronautic Board applications, (D-Alaska) : (Continued on Page Four) Aprings, Calif., and his burig, Susie, Calif. They participated in the celebration of the centennial of , James Marshall's discovery CHECKMATE ON ALABAMAILS B E I N G Su E D Vandenberg Flafly Rejects Lo - Proposal for New In- 'Red-head Wanis Him as‘ | mate I could net acree t nom- 30-year-old divorcee’s New bills and resolutions include: | same | sail -« hxrlm Long of Dumund pause to of g rest near Coloma, old. COMMUNISM 1S | ; TURKED DOWN Geis Warning ternational Agency WASHINGTON, Senator Vand |1y rejected today a propos: |a new international ag Communism in the world a new chap- orld,” ter £ teld th e council by four amendmer I-mmpmn re Vandenbe: ends “in the g of Cor to accept commit on the a vote sal to set up offered to the ress, March 3. enberg the can Senators as to the oyery program id it was drawn up. by Senator Ball (R-Minn) and his|Ing & e last few minutes.” ‘What overwhelms me is the ask 24 hours notice, formula which would after the polls opened United States on of foreign Vandenberg declared Vandenberg, te Foreign Relations Committee, such uld permit other countries | M United States m'o war, the 1st it nator wil the United MAD \'U.A o the South Kong today at PST). icng Kong west The tremor Apparently th becat and m eigh re reported about the same time from Baguio, posi Ball Chairman of ition that any i (R-Minn) States in a March 3 f moderately Sea 5:13 p. at m is 800 miles nor sted three seconds, hocks | . two moderate 'quakes ere were after. t seconds durat north of Manila. CLEVELAND RECORDING CLEVELAND, earthquake es to the northwest was record- “strong” ed today on ! John Carroll Rev. Henry rector the was possible ol Alaska tered at a second wav shu}n lasted for about two hours. Baranof, ¢ de to arrive at 1:30: March 3.— about B— the seismograph University. F. Birkenhauer, cbservatory, said the tremor 15 e m.(PST) 1:39:49 a. a. at - - i STEAMER MOVEMENTS aLhLdul» om Seattle, 6:30 tonight. | MacARTHUR (R-Mich) flat- s # place to set up through the force of federal bayonets cy to check- a supreme ! County officials Senate $5,300,000,000 | ter their parade they burned a 15- to war| countries, the ' people of nm. country 'to become author al for the United States > the lead in setting up a su- pre me council apart from the United icns had urged Congress to ask President to invite other nations “pledge " to halt the “steady EARTHOUAKE strong | hearings on McCabe's fitnc was held here and acr China Hong ' Boar4 of Governors. (1:13 5, occurred ‘on this deal, Mr. in Kamchatka in the vicinity of authority whatever for such action,} The first wave was regis- ordered the and | bombers by cutting TOOBUSYTO (OME HOME WASHINGTON, March 3.—i®-— Gen. Douglas MacArthur said to- day he can't return home to testify | on China’s need for aid, but Congress {should not “underrate” the need or their impertance. | The American Commander in Tok- yo cabled the House Foreign Affairs’ Committee: “A free, independent and peace- ful, and friendly China is of pro- {found importance to the peace of the world.” ! The Committee had sent him a re- quest for his opinions on the pend- {ing proposals for China aid. | Making public MacArthur's reply. the Committee disclosed also that Gen, Claire Chennault, former com-| manding officer of the Flying Tig- ers, has cabled he will return from Crina to discuss the aid program. Chennault is now in commercial | aviation in China and has married a Chinese girl - "Blood Will Flow": South Interpreted by diplomatic ebse: (A—Tne Georgia Ku teld robed and hooded members of the crganization that “blood will tlow" in the South if the Negro tak- t the side of white men Grand Dragon of the Klux Klan last night to the Sheffield, troubled Middle Eost treuble in British Honduras. Islands, ¢ff southern Argentina, » Dr. Samuel Green of Atlanta ad- dressed the Klansmen as they par- aded around the square of this Johnson Ccunty Seat on the eve of a Democratic Primary to name 10 he 300 Ku Kluxers participated demonstration. Af- Ahout an ! in the orderly ‘cu' cr on the courthouse lawn Negroes stayed away from the vot- oths today. Officials said 241 Negroes were eligible to vote at pol- !ling places at the County Court- house. None had appeared two hours OVERTIME PAY 1§ DENIED SEVEN MEN, CONSTRUCTION CASE M Sev- enth U. 8. Disirict court today de- nied overtime pay for seven war- { time construction workers, closing a two-year-old casc. The court held the iMdoyed cn Alaska d itk Green attacked President Tru- man'.x civil Rights Program, and said “the Klan will not permit the a mongrel rac He was the only unhooded an gt the demon\lx’nliun Senafor Tohey Faces Charges WASHINGTON, March 3.—P— Senator Tobey (R-NH) said toda; that Thomas B. McCabe order tails cut off 11 nearly new B-25 Ing granti workers time and l)omb( ‘to forestall bad publicity” a hait for hours worked over r sale to a private Chin- lamages equal to time. Vernon O, 1d Owen Birch and -Knudsen Ce A and - W. a C ad sued the Guy McCabe was in charge of war sur- k)n&on Co, and Raymond | plus sales abroad from 1984 to 1946. b W0 " o Setion Co. of the Board to replace Marriner S. Ec- McCabe’s handling of war turptus,, HiS First Fling 000/ The planes were sold tc a private, He continued: [6gbs at Miam! President Truman has said he PR, E plans, if McCabe is contirmed by the Promoier Loses cles. In the course of an approximately | Tobey said Brig. Gen. B. A, Johnson, | who was McCabe's Commissioner in, firm owned by T. L. Soong brother | T. V. Soong, Tobey “Testimony will be adduced that $42,106 he story | Klans- SEATTLE workers, projects, instance by the -te-portal act. Judge John Lowen said the defendants were not liabl ur r the r labor standards act d costs against the plaintiff deeision, nuilifid a 1948 rul- em- were 'otey made this charge' as the An Senate Banking Committee opened to be a Federai Reserve § S | member of the siter th- ion Senate, to name him Chairman of | Pleniy on " 110000-word statement reviewing i HARTFORD March 3. A|China, arranged the B e {im—Clarence (Kay) trowitz say at promoting a profes- } o Willie Pep- a0t Bremibr 1. | Humberto Sierra weight title res ai- | it ' when the newspapers broke McCabe, The Hartford film distributor With 10y ¢pe promotion costs were 39 'al,.mm a gross gate of $48,133, - "No Commeni” Says ILewis; Been Fishing arch 3 to town ‘no com- destruction of Lhucl the tails off.” - 'GIRL BABY IS BORN T0 | §-56. AND MRS. SODINI by A baby girl was born to SsglltB—Johh L ewis came und Mrs. Mario Sodini at 8:09 o'clock | yesterday and answered m| Sword Knot scheduled to sail|this morning at St. Anns' Hospitallment” even when asked il he has from Seattle Denali Seattle Princess frem scheduled Saturday. * Norah Vancouver Friday. to sail scheduled March 9. 1 weighing 6 pounds and 5 ounces.|been fishing She joins a little brother. ‘The United Mine s Presi- Sodini is attached to the ACS here,|dent is vacationing remate and Mrs. Sodini is the former Char-!Pine Island resort. ‘He had a sunburn lane Arnold, of this city that indicated long hours of tishing om Worker at the to rs in Washington, C. Task Force is heading from a Chinese port for the Middle h ed (tep) by the USS Llyed Thomas ‘and the destroyer U steaming through the C by the British Foreign Office to block any attempt by Other British wareraft aribbean American, Brifish §E‘Ips of War on Prowl C Laws Lewer photo 3 olizey (Palestine Area), sea Lo recently rushed for precise reasons as yet undisclesed. "Gl Jill" Is Flying North; Will Take Pari in Winter Carnival Held af Fairbanks EEATILE, March 3 Wilkerson, whese radioed and trans- ciited voice made her known to thousands of GI's during World War II, would travel to the ends of the rth for a ice man 1 that's what the blonde charmer from Hcl- lywood will do “I'm going to the top of the world,” she exclaimed as she stepped from a plane yesterda “The Navy's going to fly me to Point Barr And so it is. S travelling under the name of for the Armed Forces Radio Service, Miss Wilker~ son will go to Fairtan laska, by Pan American plane today to take part in Fairbanks' Annual Winter Carnival. Thousands of soldiers sta- tioned near Fairbanks voted for her (A—Martha | presence “Then the mete Point show there rsonnel, Navy plane will take Barrow and Il do a for Navy and civilian GI Jill expiained, I just hope they've got some cold in my size.” 3 her Seattle stop-over, Wilkerzen toc advantage of visit to drive to Madigan General Hospii F is last night where she entertained men in the wards Miss >+ ATHER REPORT g WEATH JREAU 20 am minitnum, 23 At Alrpcrt minimum 18, WEATHER FORECAST (huncau and Vielnity) » Maximum, 30; Vostly scloudy with occa- sional light snow flurries tonight and Thursday. Not with lowest tempera- 30 d East- occasionally as miles per howr TION 7:30 a1, today inche: inches; inches inches; inches; inches, o . ar ees since At Airport since March 1 since July, 1, 4434 e s 000 0 0 - - HULL RETURNS @eeceoeceeese0cs o8 0 EARLINE assistant to in the Blom- yesterday vacation in Earline Hull, dent Joyce D. Smith, ilding, returned three we Arizona Dr gren frem Phot a ok nix as a show of U shews British Honudras. “irrespensible elements” her 4 PRICE TEN CENTS RATES FOR FREIGHT 10 (OME DOWN Alaska Steamship Co. Makes Announcement-— Grocery liems Included Reduced freight rates on a num- {ber of commedities will take effect on statutory notice, the Alaska steamship Company announced to- day through local agent Horace Adams. “Of particular interest to house- | wives will be the reductions reflect- ed in grocery items through the eliminaticn- cf the optional weight | or measurement basis for nssessing - | charges thereon. | “Freight charges on such items | computed on a strictly * will be { weight basis effecting & saving on § | practically all groceries and an ap- . preciable saving on these items of {2 light bulky nature, 3 ‘In order to foster Alaska indus- speclal shingle rates are being irom Ketchikan and 1 to Seattle which will en- table the Alaska shingle mills to re- [turn to continuous production by participation in the sthteside mar- | ket. This will also help supply the Qu&\,,nfl s £ | stateside demand for this product. : b {The new shingle rate, Ketchikan {to Seattle, will be $1.75 per thous- “llld and from Wrangell, $1.85 per thousand, “Other Southeast Alaska indus- to benefit by rate revisions | force, an American Naval | iferaft carvier Valley Feige, | %8 Yy 2 TR ®™ . lare the bottlers and poultry rais- (center) have begun the long sea | o gpecial reduced rates on the 0-ton British ecruiser | pottles from Seattle to Ketchikan, been ordered ithere | wrangell, Petersburg, Juneauw, temala to cause Haines, Skagway and Sitka will be Falkland | instituted as will special rates on to the British-owned (International Phetos) imaz moss and poultry litter for { the Southeast Alaska ports. | “These reductions are in accord- BIG Bl ASI' lance with the Alaska S il freight wherever that is economi- 3 Building Is Also Wrecked When Truckload of | Dynamite Exploded | leally possible.” (BY CARTER L. It ha in G ! e s s, Norah Takes Nineteen Out The Princess Norah arrived in Juneau this morning southbound at 8 o'clock and sailed at 10 o'clock * with the following passengers for | Prince Rupert: E. A. Cote, M. Cox, P. Hoppe. For Vancouver: Colétti, W. R. Draper, Mrs, W. R. Draper, Master Bruce Barbeau, D. L. Barbeau, Mrs. D. L. Bar- beau, C. H. Dickenson, R. Lobb, Miss Louise Shelton, " Tvar John- sen, Mrs. Thelma George. DAVIDSON) JERUSALFM, Marcn 3.—(P—A truckload of dyn mnn was exploded in an Arab residential section of Haiia tod and police sald the| blast killed Arabs, Pol xtremist Jewish undergroun Stern Gang,! had taken ility for the tlaet | For Seattle: Master Delbert Several children were killed. It' Hanks, Miss’' Karen Hanks, Miss was the heaviest toll of life from a; Nancy Hanks, Infaut Hanks, Del- bomu] incident since the blast-|pert Hanks, Mrs. Delbert Hanks, ing of Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda mMys, E. L. Hunter, Arnold Fors- Street Feb, 22, in which 55 Jews were ! nang killed. The seven-sfory Salameh Building, ! ice station, | was wrecked, explosion also! crumpled the front half of a build- ing across the street housing the An-l of the Govéernment Wel- fare Office. A wide area was shaken by the explosion 5 Two of the dead were Arab police- | men, who were walking toward the nearby courts building | ‘The blast coincided with an an-| y 3 e noundement by Jerusalem police| 414 combat boots will have Y that an advance Partition Party wof|iich more ceiling room for thess the United Nations Secretariat had)digits. And as an added feas | arrived by air in the Holy Land.|ture the soles will be flattened They are to be quartered in Jeru-|!0 8ive -beiter traction.” salem To do this, the Army is chang- | Russia’s renewed support of Parti- | 1§ the last on which its oot~ tion and a stronger American stand|Wear is made. Master Ronald > > ""At Ease”" Sounded ‘By Army for Liftle Toes W“'x;“.‘\(rTON, March he Army tcday sounded | for little toes. It sald future service shoes 3 “at ease” of a - B. C. VISITOR Dickinsen of Vancouver, staying the Baranof helghtened prospect at Lake Success,| The last dates back to 1912 whel N. Y, for cutting Palestine into|the late Brig. Gen, Edward L. Jewish and Arab states {men imvented the icrm that A {bears his name. Now, after two wars, the Army " A . {has decided a change is in order | Fire Cails Will b furniah “iinoeaia Toot banti ' nd, incidentally, to make the e tire xhp;n‘unn. Poestenkill wants residents to fork over $50 | VANCOUVER B when they call for fire tighting | equipment and $25 each hour (. The contraci dispute wmm of use tied up seven deep-sea vessels here, | The department posted the rates and one at New w“gmm con- last night, declaring the town tinues to keep oa id shown “continued disre- total of 150 gard” of need for additional The vessels operate | funds lantic and Pacific ports of Canada. ‘The Shipowners Association of British Columbia declared Canadian O 'H crew costs are about double those of the United Kingdom and other maritime nations. B. C. s Hotel at