The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 10, 1948, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALl THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,832 ? JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - - e— ———— m——— — = Pa—— — - - — ] DEVIN IN i MASARYK Planning for SHIPPING 1 | | y IN LEAP N | LEAD IN { | 'NewProgram PROPOSALS | | | SEATTLE ~ TODEATH For Shipping ARE MADE % | i e | e —_— Incumbent Mayor Appears Foreign Minister, Return-| Alaska Shipping Men Now Two Alaska Lines Submit | . . . to Be Refurned to Of- | ed fo Post by Czech Com- | i Washington-Interim | Plans to Unfangle Serv- . ’ | ] . . | . . fice for Four Years | I munists, Takes Life ' ExpiresonJune 30 | - ice fo Northland | | e SEATTLE, March 10—®— In! | PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, March | WASHINGTON, March 10.- Thol SEATTLE, Wash., Mar. 10.—i#— the closest mayoralty election of 10.—”—Foaeign Minister Jan G. | imtvnm hipping program for Al= The Alaska Steamship Co. and the N the city’s modern history, Mayor Masaryk. leaped to his death this| aska expires June 30, and Alaska Northland Transpertation Co. today William F. Levin appeared today morning from a second floor wh\dnw“ | shipping men are now in Wash= anncunced submission to the Mari- to have been returned to office of the Foreign Office, officials in his! ington at the invitation and sug- | time. Commission of new proposals for a four-year term. Ministry said today. || westion of those who face the re- to straighten out the tangled work- Unaificial returns from the eit These officials confirmed that | sponsibility of determining a_fair ings of Alaska freight and passen- 657 precincts gave Devin a lead of the son of this nation’s f Pr?sl-‘ jand wuxkx;l)lu solution to the prob- | ger service 1,594 votes over his opponent, Allan dent ended his lifeijust 15 days after !lems involved One called for issuant Po:emy, former assplgtant Q.8 a Communist coup in which he wm] | 1 the Territory is to have un- jje convenle:\co and n:ccee&‘zry 3::: District Attorney. Unofficial totals’ ,returned to his post as one of the| ;ml(‘n‘u])te&l service a new Program | ificates in the Alaskan trade gave Devin 66614 votes to Pom- | few non-Communists in the Cabin-| must be worked out before June‘m‘}mwugh amendment to the inter- eroy's 65,020, | et. J | “The .interests of every indivi- | gtate Commerce Act te bring the Approximately 1,600 absentee bal- | , In London, Gen. Lev Prchala, | dudl, family and business in Alaska | Territory under the scope and y lots remain to be counted. ll‘fldfl)‘ of a Czech movement resis(-i are involved,” said Adih. F. A.ljurisdiction of the act, just as Although admitti that “Mr. ing the Communist regime in Pra- Zeusler, here representing the Al-|though it were a s § 54 Devin's efiecuon is mr:ficaled." Pom- gue, sald London exiles had henrdJ {aska Steamship Compan: “Alasku's1 "m:g C(,mn“”m!:mt:he'rhml eroy refused today to concede pos- :}h“t M“S“{]ylf “"13_5 "_‘":d“l‘” ‘F""‘_'l'l\; e iy > 3 prominence In the “-“““'““‘ z""'l‘”;weul on, should be empowered to g { ressure to bring him into line” with . T - . scheme must be considered also | jssne s X s“:‘Sllex :‘xfgli:‘!:bem councilmen seeking | the Communist Government. SCOUTS VISIT JAP X A 8 o from the standpoint of the secur-| I‘:‘ m:c:“,i?r“;‘;::::' Rihsise: of r i y | Informed of the reports that Mas-| commander of the Yokosuka, Japan, Naval Base, and Comdr. E. l}L Hale (seated) of M-\\_ Bedfo 166 6% sach Inatvidual“vf. ouk nn-’ a pu se of re-election were returned to office. L iyl had T A M Jife. Probst e iscuss (he workings of the Japanese war vessel Mikasa with a group of United States Cub ¥ |cargo vessels, the companies said They were Mrs. I F. Powel, M. L 4 ‘1“ ]‘2’ i e.",dli ,va '..:,1\-" Scouts during the boys' tour of the ship. The scouts are (left to right): Robert C. George, Luwton, tion. [they would agree to pay the sta- B. Mitchell, Robert H. Harlin, Al- ‘ e s s gl oW Bond Brown, Oklahoma City: Paul Sykes, West Point, N. Y., and Paul Scott, San Diego, Calif. e ©ation re. | titory sales price or such percen- fred R, Rochester, Dévid Levine| BLOSSOM S — Mary Lou ; Masaryk's last public appearance Comadr. Hale is an organizer of the Cub { movement in Japan. He is seated on one of the Mikasa's “The over-all transportation re-| Lo " blsy S ot b determin- and Frank J. Laube. fx;:ar?m:'l‘:in':fi):::::r lo,’.g:i: “‘;“ ”‘l”“‘[‘zld d‘::'n Sduase S:“d?"" big guns which are being removed from the ship during its demilitarization. The boys wear their :fl‘:“’;:""k:’lf, “":" ‘;‘XI::: :fildm:)ll\z ed the Alaska trade can support 2 S E when he atten a combined cele- e forms. 15t be ke r > IO ABond SR O 00 | Catalina Tsland, Calif. Lration of the 98th birthday anni- i program must be broad and well |88 8 capital base for rate making street lighting and $2500,000 for . versary of his late father and the| ~———— integrated providing adequate ser-|PUrposes. The companies are will- additional park and recreational| i30th anniversary of a battle in| | vice the year 'round for all of |18 to make these purchases with- facilities, also were successful. | (which Czech and Russian troops| Alaska, Duplication of seryice that|0ut further rate increases at least 3 { - { fought side by side. | - ewey s | would increase the cost to ship-!Until January, 1849, provided the 4 i L | Photographs taken then made him | pers should not be permitted. - |Purchase, price s not in excess "avy Alds Hu“d'eds i appear harassed, haggard and wor-| { u . “Furthermore, the program must ”{ $100,000 1or _""]‘ vessel of the PARTITION ISPLANNED, ' Winner in NEWRULING 555 Fos g =i = o ! ———.—— which will guarantee a continuity | trim adt. < 4 4 | | provision for expansion and am-i\:"‘. applicable only if they can Ex |03ion In (hlna‘ l | provement according to the needs|tcome effective h)_ May 1. | nl lof the Territory and its defense| In regard to passenger - vessels, WL | i activities. | the companies will agree to operate TSINGTAO, China, March 10.—® Rk 48 i S'I' I ll | N — - e “We are doing out best here in Presenl hfl“r& for J¥n. pear with- —The U. 8. Navy used all available | WETOHTKAN, Alaska, March 10, 2 s WASHINGTON, March 10—®— Washington to develop such a per- | €% er increases in the revenue facilities today to aid hundreds of UN Assembly Spomgmedl —(M—The Ketchikan Chronicle sai¢ GE!S S|X 0' hght De|egafeS The Civil Aeronautics Board ruled manent progressive steamship pro-|rte Structure, awaiting the out- injured in the tremendous explosion , £h | f y wie Alaska Territorial Fed- £ P E s R fl tcday that air cargo carriers be- gram for Alaska and we feel some | Come of a government planned of a Chinese ammunition storehouse D|fieren(es on Polm(al ! [eration of labor plans a stop- In rimary in uno tween Aiaska and the United States progiess is being made, We are |building program —a blast which killed at least 200 . o ‘work protest on April 13 if ‘Con? ith Si ] | maust-contine’itheir Sights 10 those -proceeding - on- the - premise-—that |- -When such -vessels arc available, Chinese. Future of Holy Lland ! |gress does not act by that time wiih Jfassen which have been authorized. the prosperity of the Alaska Steam- | the companies agree to purchase Estimates of the number injured i {on statehood legislation for the e The Board announced late last ship Company is dependent-on the|Cr charter them under an ar- ranged to 1,000. LAKE SUN‘T?, ,P»J 5 Territory. BY JAMES F. KING) year that because of the large de-| prosperity of Alaska, as it is, and | Fangement the economy of the In Nanking, Vice Adm. Oscar C. LAKESUCCESS, agarch 10—ih— Earmar Governor Of Min-| The paver saia APL unions CONGORD, N. I, March 102 mand for cargo service, it was son-{we wil continiie 19 PROmOC the | Territory can support and keep Badger, Commander of the U. 8. THe MACH-HE0 ]d“_‘l Sl soasen s ; | throughout Alaska planned to stop ~Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today sidering a general exemption from re-cstablisnment of ~the Alaska porticns of thelr old fleets in op- Western Pacific Fleet, said no Navy 28reement on Palestine Easiaowap-| nesoia Keeps R'ghf in | work between 11 a. m. and noon Won the first round in. the ballot standard regulations for U. 8. shipping industry on that basis,” | eration should this be necessary. personnel was injured in the explos- ”CZ‘C‘“F fi"“”_ to ;" crumbling. - { 4 | that day in an “Alaskan Tea Party” 20 fight for the Republican Presi-| Alaska operations. , o7 de | For the establishment of a ves- y, don. BT et b o e Thick of F|ghf demonstration dential nomination. Today’s announcement said the lsel replacement fund, the compan- The blast, of undetermined origin, S ETOTE FERERIEY Pt The AFL also endoréed hiring The New York Governor swept Board has decided against such F RMER A-I--IORNEY ies recommended that earnings in destroyed the three-story munitions SRC ACE CUHEE - CTIEIEOA Ul-time lobbyist to attend the six of the eight delegates in thelqn exemption. Had it been grant- o addition to capital recoveries be warehouse and 100 Chinese dwellings '}‘li he political future of the Holy, WASHINGTON, March 10.~M—| eyt Territorial Legh New Hampshire Presidential Pri- oq scheduled carriers could have | deposited in a tax-deferred replace- and damaged 400 others. The ware- LaRd. It was the shiarpest spit on New York's Gov. ' Thomas E. Dewey| The representative would miry yesterday—the first in the na- operated flights other than those GE“ER Al ARRESIED [ ment fund, with the possikility that house was ® half-mile from U, §, hie lssue buiween Bhe so POWers showed todéy he sill packs 8 siructed to ask the Legislature to 'ion in the 1048 campaign. called for in their certificates and | earnings irom off-shore operatiotis Navy ships tied up a'.‘ the docks. " s as I"' T \4 enh Ney ., potent political punch by capturing | .11 g cqastitutional . convention Showing strength in both rural tne jrregular or contract lines could [and the foregoing of dividends in The ammunition was intended for IF'_“;“U‘N A«-M‘;‘-“’“ plan t "‘“Ehlmx of eight Presidential delegate i send a Congressional delega- 47d urban areas, Dewey beat £ack nave set up regular flights be-| ON BRIBE (HARGES whole or part also might be used Government armies fighting the ¥/, T 5 U‘]":;m‘ Cetbal Cuals g YoUe8 0. New Hampshire. Ition to Washington if Congress the challenge of Harold E. Stas- (ween specified points without | i to swell the fund. Chinese Communists in Manchuria. X A Rwoilons hrunv}ng - O taliitg A8 remiitihg two | dces mot act on statehood by ad- n—only other announced Repub- wating for the usual certificates | - - MIDWEEK SERVICES United Naticns consultations. So far former Gov. Harold E. Stassen of | M, o <o AL b Damaaats 1n thelr pri| [ TSTEINENNE 1t e CpCCiR, AF former state official und h“‘FA"-uRE ‘ID (HI"A ’ AT MEMORIAL CHURCH the Arabs have boycotted every dis-. Minnesota Kept himself in the e R i onposed Prl"|investigation into the sufficlency |legal client were charged in Su-| cussion of the splitup scheme. The'thick of the race for the Republi- | Dokl iwns R eally favornd sularly scheduled air cargo (perior Court today with conspiring | w'll SEI SIAGE The mid-weekly service will be Jews dccept the plan to create Jew-ican nomination. i ac this Primari'«;ne- that politicians service between the states and|to bribe two Walla Walla county | held in Memorial Church this eve- j:h and Arab nations by next Oct. 1.; Politicians thus regarded the New held i}npcrmm from a psychological Alaska provided by Pan American |law enforcement ofiicers. e ' " ke ning at,7:30. The Rev. Charles The Jews oppose overtures to the|England result as pretty much of | 2 lAe‘wpomL ; Alewhye, WS Altlines i KR i seousnd men fre shmcy; woRlD w‘k I“ Lee Nelson will show colored pic- Russia has termed the moves|a standoff. They turned their eyes | The De:wov slate captured three Pacific Northern Airlines. Tt wlll!Mursh of Kelso, former assistant tures upon “The Life of Moses” worthless in view of past failures at'westward for the next battle—Wis-! BT dnidbates clocted at laruth o LHAE CRINE dcheduled SSr7ite | Mipta, MeEEEY Sensidl pod H0 ST many of which are reproductions conciliation {consin’s April 6 primary. s sheculd be authorized | Houghton of Bremerton } WASHINGTON, March 10.—P from master: artists. - - | There Dewey and Stassen take| | : o D | They were arrested yesterday by |Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault told the i {on Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who' | Walla Walla County Sheriff A. A.\House Forelgn Affairs Comiitles LEND - LEASE GUNS |3 o cone for e s BACK TURNED OM FINLAND DELEGATES = today thal milftars'wid o' Chita H 3 A his appeal as a positive candidate. | Ohe (of the two counts filed by would help stop “Russian aggression” e Washington e ‘New. Haimpohire. race long| L3 WALLACE: McGRATH "noN" Proscuting Atiomey _Albert N.lin Burope, ARE uSED Io Klll’ Is had been billed by Dewey sup-| 'l ( Do“ I WAN' Io Go.rBr:aford m;cr\lxxdnthzxm:n‘o: cun;! F"fhe tg\’rr‘ncr Commander of “‘the i 3 ! 5 1 ] spiring to adford into not | “Flyl ers” said faflure tor pro- Merry-Go Round porters as an indicator ot the New (peralions of Headquar!- TALKS FOR DEMOS T0 MOSCOW CONFAB'™ ez, Sumiing aws of e ida ekt to Ghinh will s iiRbly S COSTA RI(A REPORTI Gov. Charles M. Dale, one of mp’i rs -n Ja an Wi” Cf\"- ( ’ntm‘e with respect to operation of |set the stage for World War IIL" By DREW PEARSON o |six Dewey-pledged delegates elect- | ersi p s i i A various gambling games and de-| The “Flying Tigers” were a vol- | SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, March 10.| ed, labeled the outcome a “flatter- | 2 HELSINKI, Finland, March 10.— | ices. The second count s the | untecr force of fliers, mostly Ameri- Comseehe 1646 v 7o Bl Syndiate, —#-Otillo. Ulate Blanco, whose (ing tribute" {o the Governor. | tinue as Usual Reece Also Takes Shot De- - Severat members of Pinland's A, but has Shick as the one (o!inn. who fought with Ohina againat. Inc.) \election as President was annulled| Stassen’s supporters on the other | 4 P laring GOP H "N delegation to negotiate with Russia | have been bribed. g R P by Congress, cabled President Tru-| hand, insisted they were well satis- TOKYO, March 10.—P—Genera caring @S NO were reported today to have asked | The complaint said the gamesj / . Chennault is retired from ELAND, Fla. — Every nNews- man today that lend lease suppliesfied with collecting two Phflndel-'MaCA"'hur said today he would not o2 G h in vain to be relieved of their as- | Were to be located in a proposed the Army and heads a commercial paper man who takes a Winter ... “peing employed to kill Costaiphia convention ballots in an area |2llow the Presidential campaign to Mos(ow ng signment. |gambling club within the limits |avietion concern in China. He flew trip to Florida thinks he has to Rjcans.” where the middlewesterner was.mt,er!ers_: ‘\_vnth the occupation of They were appointed yesterday to ' 9 Walla Walla county. here to testify at the comml'lues justify the jaunt by Writing a PO- He signed the message “President-| little known in 1944 when Dewey|’2Pan: indicating he intends o 7e- prr AnEr oI March 10— Degotiate in Moscow in a Finnish-{ Marsh, who, has been engaged |hearings on the Administration’s re- erful “think” plece on the politi- elect of Costa Rica.” Congress de-;won the party nomination. {main aloof from campaign S. 3 Howard McGrath, Democratic Russian pact. |In private legal practice at Kelso (quest that Congress vote $570,000,000 cal, economic and social future of cided March 1 Ulate was elected by| One result of the New Englang| &S Public Relations officer Jssud wqpiong) Committée chairman, last Informants said the delegates told | since leaving the Attorney Gener- for aid to China. - that state—plus whether Senalor fraud. [primary_was to serve notice |2 tatament thah Machsthur's anc JeiBafges’ bix” party's back ool FISMERE MiUNG &, ERASIEN Soar ) &0 oftice In_September, was re-| Chennault's 35-yesr-old Chinese Claude Pepper will be re-elected. His cable to the U. S. Executive| Senator Robert A. Taft that Stas- | louncement of avalabiilty docs "W genry wallace. “did not under any circumstances {leased at Olympia o his own Wie accompafied him fo fhe Teats I am going to vary the technj- said: sen is to be reckonied with fn the|ChOnEe In the slighest the 9DV arroll Reece, Republican Na- Want to go to Moscow.” ecognizance. He said he was/&. que somewhat by Writing firsi I fake this opportunity to call| May 4 primary in the Ohio Sena-|b ouy O MRCINEER: BEUIETE 0 onall Committee Chairman, speak- The President is reported to have | “dumbfounded” at the charge| b, ORI about a fisherman. Then, if we your attention to the fact that arms|tor's home state. ‘*{1 RV, 00n 9“’:0"(“ “'(‘1" nev, § ing with McGrath at the Phila- cut them off with the remark: which he said he at first lh“un,hl*Amerkan M'h l"e have time, Il take up Claude supplied by the United States Gov-| N -G [RiciLes, WOEe. CREIrE: delphia Bulletin Forum, said that “There is no question of whether{Wwas cntirely a gag Pépper, the race problem, and the ernment for continental defense | Col. M. P. Echols, the PRO, said \, Flp Dl ity is a united You have any desire to do this or —i 4 high cost of sun-tan cream. are Pemz employed to kill.Costa Ri-|® ® @ ® o ®' 8 s e o e fthe General has nothing to add t0 |, e o Moscow wing.” that. This is a compulsory labor.” Span ln“eased n The fisherman’s name is Tom cans, placed i the hands of the!® A o |yesterday’s announcement, which he Fp loy i i i united Demo- The seven-man delegation is Ex'l‘h " ( I i 'l ; Flowesl, and 1 gorsider him some- Communist Party as the basis of a|® WEATHER REPORT e |made as “a private clueh ./ cratic party” would win the No- Pected to leave for Moscaw in about [ Omp ain y Rt ' ‘iracle man. He's the toup detat Gpproved by a majority{ ® (. & WEATHER BUREau o | 1In Shanshai Chinass officta) B0 oy goneral election, McGrath 10 days. ! pe"en' pa$| “ Y"- R person in history who's been ‘of Congress against the popular will] @ (Past 24 hours euding 7:20 am. toany @ | {78l Wews Agency said W b SOV harply criticised what he termed Tt ‘ leen Hne 0' SI | NEW YORK, iarch 10.—@— able to make me catch fish. expressed in the election of Feb. 8."| @ In Juneau— Maximum 37; o | dispateh: MacArthur recently told & T /B 0 SV Tl o atiem” of i l d 1 I er s ed to try to en- Dr. Carlos Lui Valverde, a Ulate, ® minimum, 217, o|bigh Chinese official his (Macr- e Jmpractical [berafss © STOCK TATION I Sl | Amecigen, A Ks R RERS Ber mdcs 109 el e el i {thur's) election as President “would Wallace. GUOTA STERLING, 1ll, March 10—(p|than they used to but they still tice catfish out of the Neosho leader of the Union Nacional oppo-|® At Airport— Maximum, 33; getanan Fasgent “A’ Henry Wallace can condemn Jng , L, March BO—"!arent doing as well as the h f ten back in sition party, was wounded fatally|e minimum, 6 te the best thing that could happen o R Rt 1R, O Balley reporied today to|SAD'LOGINE B NN 88 45 WEO e At R ave aspired to be a March 1in an exchange of fire when| s WEATHER FORECAST ® o Chiang Kai-shek" This oftical the bi-partisan foreizn poicy and New YORK, March 10.—Closing|the Sterling police that a spare fhe Meiropoltan Life Insurance K 1t vomamed an ambl, Government agents ttambced ] e (Juneau and Vieinity) o Cauoted as saving the General Offer Dothing more than ablect quotation of Alaska Juncau mine|tire and some clothing were stolen | ComPpany says. Sanispman.. J1SRMIEE W1 Ue ter his h i i ® | added, however, his election “would appeasement to the forces of God- stock today s 3%, American Can, from his automobile, He said the 10 1900, the average white male 5y tion nov.‘even re{mfle’ly ac_hieved. enter 1_, ome’,w 5 : Mdosluy .cloudy with snow e b & mivaide” less Communism,” McGrath said. 79% Anaconda 31%, Curtiss-Wright|car was parked in an alley. infant had 40 chances in 100 of In pursuit of this ambition I R o e |5 and lowest temperaturs neat @ | “rryece has been no indication of | NO party bearing the real re- 6. TdternAtional Harvester 84%. | Police fimed him $1 for illegal| Teaching the age of 65. Now, how- ““§° fif;;eda]n? s:l:tsso(::m cfif,d!fiif.? ; e d;e;mg onight and, Tyurs. :,MflcAnhur's views on any domestic ;Dflnsfl'ility of ‘government can Kennecott 45 1-2, New York Cen-|parking in an alley | ever, the company ¥eports his and under ki 8, . . S < United States problem. lout the national conscience 50 tral 13%, Northern Pacific 19, U. S.| - A i TN B | chances are 60 in a 100. from the Virgin Islands to Maine Divorce action against Waneta|e PRECIFYATION ol e P een in the States glibly, can excuse a foreign Dower Steel 68%, Pound $4.08% | In 1900, however, the average and from the Bahamas to the Galligher was fhed by ;ml‘;“u" ® (Pyst 3 hiours ending 7:30 a.m. 2daY @ | e 1937, 50 maekly, oan sbuse it S0 com-’ Sales today oo, aiiashe | NEW ACS MESSENGER | white female infant had 45 P, Chesapeake. From our front porch 8°6% % ' S i i b In Juneau— Trace; since ®| mopyo buzzed with speculation, pletely before an alien ideology.” Averages today are as follows: In-| v in 100 or reaching the same goal, in Maryland I can almost drop a :,_“ 1¥h°" &roun 01 incompati- | @ March 1, 173 inches; since ® | otwithstanding official emphasis on e - dustrials 16748, rails 4954, utilities| Louis Sorensen, graduate of Ju-|Now her chances are 75 in a 100, ung in}:o th;} Po'.on;n;:l. zuz la e e gz;‘;t;‘":’nzd g:v:l’:; ' J“:‘g’ X‘m’;f“ m:‘rh"- 2 ® | business as usual. YAKUTAT HEARING DATE 32 neau High School class of '47, has . — fish there for a full day (o s ’ 2 \ ~ Trace; since @ he newspaper Dai Ichi Shimbun A hearing will be held on April e —— accepted the position of messenger CORDOVA MESSENGERS time—and no luck. Other people‘gl’l‘i‘é""v‘; or ;‘:‘f’:“‘s"’fi:‘* T;‘; o March 1, 127 inches; since ) eaorialized: “Eighty million Jap~ 26 in U. 8, Court here before Judge FROM TULSEQUAH with the ACS here, and started his| Mr. and Mis. C. L. Buck i e i Vot [ e 1 ol il e July 1, 4556 inshes. ® | anese regret that they have no vote George W. Folta on & petition to A. MacDonald of Tulsequah is|new duties today under veteranln Juneau and are staying at » d ve: 160 06009 ¢ 0 0 0 ¢ oito give MacArthur.” incorporate the City of Yakutat. staying at the Baranof Hotel. ’messenger Jimmy Morrison. Baranof Hotel.