The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 11, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALl THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,833 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSD\\ MARCH 11, 1948 GLOBAL AFFAIRS TENSE Mil i!ary_!);/elopmems Reported in ""Very Seri- out” World Situation By ELTON C. FAY (A Military Affairs Reporter) WASHINGTON, March 11—/ Military developments in the United States reflect the ‘very, very serious” world situation noted by Secretary of State Marshall. High command conferences . . .| new weapons . . . quests for mili- | tary manpower . . Congression- al warnings' against cutting de- fense funds. All these coincided' today with Marshall's grave sum- mation of the trend of global af- fairs, { But just as the Secretary \'oiced! an implied plea to the American people yesterday to keep cool, other top officials in both the diplo-! matic and military branches of the government took pains to{ stress this: All efforts to build up the United States’ armed might are aimed solely at guarding against aggres-i sive attack. 3 Secretary of Defense Forrestal | told a news conference yesterday that it is not the nature of demo- | cracies, “particularly this democra- | cy,” to plan a war dellberate))n{ But the United States is determ- ined to put its military house inj order. ' } Here are some of the latest ef-} forts: { High Command: Forrestal has' ordered the joint chiefs of staff to meet with him and tell him where they disagree about what. service should do what in a war. 1 Weapons: While making ready for further tests of atomic weapons! in the Pacific, the military has | tegun experinients in ’ California+ with the world’s: biggest standard explosive bomb—a 21-ton missle. The Navy stressing more and more the role of carrier-borne | aviation in its fleet, proposes to! build a giant 80,000-ton flattop. Such a carrier could make pos-‘ sible new and even harder-striking task forces. ! Manpower: A new effort to pushl universal military training through Congress is underway. i STOCK QUOTATIONS | 1 NEW YORK, March 11—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can| 79%, Anaconda 31, Curtiss-Wright ! | \ | | | | | | | I | confidence ineventual world peace | Truman Declares (onii&énce In Evenfual World Peace s Shaken; Talks fo Reporle!s | | red that confidence WASHINGTON, March 11.—®--| Mr. Truman also President Truman said today his| porters: The United States is opposed td has been somewhat shaken by re- | including”any Communists in the cent developments abroad. { Chinese government. He said the He told his weekly news confer-| United States is opposed to par- ence that he still clings to<his con- | ticipation Communists in the fidence in eventual peace, but_the | Chinese government or developments have somewhat mar- | else if it can help. told the re- MacARTHUR CANDIDACY 1S OPPOSED Former Servicemen Stu- | dents in Five Cities Are Forming Groups CHICAGO, March 11.—(®—Form- anywhere | er servicemen and students in five | cities have announced formation of| | crganizations ‘“against MacArthur’ | —opposing the possible Presidential | candidacy of Gen. Douglas MacAr= | thur, i esman for the ‘“veterans In Chicago, Paul Berger, 24, spok- against ARRIVES TWELVE DIE, PLANE CRASH AT CHICAGO| | 1 52 | CHICAGO, March 11.—@@—A Del- '"{TH CHA M P — Mrs. Reginald and herinternational grand champion Alsatian police dog, Major, arrive in New York aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth ‘from Lon- don, Mrs, Woods was en route to Vancouver, B. C. COLD WAVE 5%, International Harvester 84,2 Airlines DC-4 plane crashed and; Kennecott 45%, U. S. Steel 68 1-2, burned explosively late last night New York Central 13%, Northern!® few seconds after it took off from Pacific Railroad 18%, Pound “_mh',chicago's Municpal Airport. Twelvc‘ Sales today. were 900,000 shares. |ot 13 aboard were killed. Averages today are as follows: In-| The only survivor was a 33 year- dustrials 167.24, rails 49.58, utilities ©ld mother whose seven-year-old son 32.02. perished in the fiery wreckage. She MacArthur” club, said if the move| | |gains enough impetus “a national | non-political club will be founded | The five-star General announced mi / Tokyo Monday that he is available for nomination for the Presidency. Cities included St. Louis, Denver,| Boston, Pittsburgh and Dallas, Tex., Berger said. i The Chicago club, Berger said, 'opposes MacArthur's candidacy {0 | such reasons as: “MacArthur's gen eral aloofness from the American public; his use of violence when troops under his command dispersed the veterans bonus march in 1032; | the censorship of the press in Mac- | Arthur's command in Japan, and the | | inadvisability of having any military | man—and especially General Mac- | Arthur—in the White House." TRUMAN ASKS MORE MONEY FOR EUROPE | | 1 * ‘Requests Fifty-five Million Dollar Appropriafion from Congress Woods ! i | WASHINGTON, Mar.in il—®— | President Truman (oday asked| | Congress for an additional $55,000,- MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS === e i | | i i 1 Russ Zone of Influence Advances in Wes! N GERMAN) | | | The increasing pressure exerted on tense Europe by the advance of the Russian influence and growing anti-Seviet feelings is dividing the continent into three great blocs, which are pictured on this may. The Russian bloc, made up of the USSR and her sateliltes, newest of which is Czechoslovkia, is shown in black, indicated by No. 3. The anti-Soviet countries of the West—Britain, Fra and Lusembourg, indicated by No. 1, are now meeting to discuss a The Seandinavian countries to th s, e north, indicated by Ne. 2—Norway e, Belgium, Holland “Western Union,” form another. , Sweden and Denmark—which are becoming more suspicions and unfriendly to the Soviet as it increases demand on Finland. Finland's fate remains undetermined while she p?lulers the Red propesal of a military pact. Italy, it is feared, also soon may be in the Russian zome of influence and pres- forms the third bloc. (International) sure. Stolen ~ Explosives Used fo Wreck Jewish Building, .le_rusale 1000 to help tide western Europe lnvcr until the European recovery | plan is enacted. Congress voted $540,000,000 tem- perary aid last fall, including $18,- MANY AREAS““OO‘OM or Oy | It was expected .then that this | money would last untfl the Mar- isha';l Plan was passed. But in a letter to Speaker Mar-| | UNIQUE WAY | | Lowest March Tempera- tures Reported in Sev- | tin (R-Mass), President Truman I said: “Events which have taken place in Europe during recent weeks do not permit us with safety or eral Snowbound Stafes | }prudence to risk a break in the (:{3?{ T;‘i ASKSIOC!A;EED PRESS‘;} !supply flow at this moment.” ecord breaking eold came on tp| 4y the Capitol, Republican mem- of the House Foreign Af- MEYERS RESTS HIS CASE IN i | WASHING 1N, marcn il—#— Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers rested |his case today without calling a :single witness in defense of a charge jthat he induced a business associate (BY JAMES LONG) JERUSALEM, March 11.—(®~The closely guarded Jewish agency build- ing was badly damaged by an' ex- plosion today soon after a car tly- ing an American Flag was seen en- tering its courtyard The Jewish Agency, the official organization for the Palestine Jewry, said nine persons were killed and 89 injured. Up to 500 persons were in the building and 50 or 60 were in the right wing, which was the worst shattered. Jews in the building at the time said the automobile with the Am- erican Flag entered the courtyard through the guarded gate with two | \ | This latter group BASES IN-PA 'NORTHWEST NOT 50 HOT SAYS CLARK fHave Install | Lacking in Manpower, Trained Units FORT LEWIS, March 11L—(®— Gen. Mark W. Clark today des- cribed Pacific Northwest bases un- |der his Sixth Army Command as | “pretty dilapidated.” | “We have the installations, but ! we are woefully lacking in man- power and trained units,”” he de- clared in an interview during an inspection visit to Fort Lewis. Asked how many men and planes | |and how much army would be |needed to prepare the region ade- | quately against any attack, the| General replied: i “Ii we had the manpower which ! | l CIFIC] ations But Are| i | Alaska, GOVERNOR ‘OPPOSES ANS MOVE Chamber oTC—om merce Hears Report on Pro- posed Change The Juneau Chamber of Com-= merce heard a brief discussion to- day from Norman C. Banfield and the Governor of Alaska on the pro- posed move of the Alaska Native Service offices from Juneau to Anchorage. Banfield, who had in- vestigated the matter for the Chamber, recommended that no | further action be taken until Don | C. Foster, ANS General Superin- tendent, returns here from Wash- ington, D. C. | Banfield said that his investi- | gation found that the Native Ser-* | vice activities are now primarily concentrated in the Interior and (along the Arctic slope. He said | that it now operates only nine i schools and two hospitals in SE | Alaska and feels that the move to | Anchorage would give it a more central location for its work. He said, however, that nothing has been decided although - such action is under consideration. He | pointed out that it must be ap- fpruvc-d by the Secretary of the ! Interior and the U. S. Bureau jof the Budget and may even re- {quire special Congressional legisla~ | tion. | If such a move is made, Banfield | explained, ANS will maintain a | field office for SE Alaska at Sitka { Where an Assistan¢ General Super-~ | intendent would be in charge. Higher Living Costs | Banfield declared that the only | objection that he could see to such a move would be the incon- ______|venlence to ANS employees who | would be forced to move out of their present quarters for the high- er living costs at-Anchorage.. . He pointed out that many of the upper bracketed employees would be forced to sell their Juneau | homes for which they paid from | 8,000 to $15,000 to purchase homes | at Anchorage ranging in price from $15,000 to $25,000. The lower bracketed eémployees would be re= quired to pay higher rents and all concerned would find it necessary to stay in high-priced hotels until they could find suitable living ac~ commodations. Banfield emphasized that_ the moving threat is not a “bogey” but is an actual possibility. Cham- ber President Burr Johnson said that the Chamber wogld not inters fere with the move, Governor Opposed At this time, the Governor of who was present at the luncheon, rose to his feet and stated that he opposes the removal of any government agency from the Capital City. He declared that he would do everything in his power to prevent this and any { |screamed hysterically for her child|of heavy snows to plague the Central} babs ;as she was pulled from the Ilamcs.g;?i]nd ng}twesiem portion of the na-| .0 o mittee went into a "”“‘"‘1“’ The woman, Mrs. Tripolino Meo,; tion ay. (huddle over foreign aid. It was "universal military training would | other move. | provide and the National Guard| The Governor stated that such a strength, | move would be 4 great ineon- — e — — FROM DENVER lie to a Senate Committee, men inside. The men parked the car, Attorneys for the retired Air Force Walked out past the guard and drove were up to full E. Sutton of Denver is register- | ed at.the Baranot Hotel. The Washington| Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, | Inc.) 1 ASHINGTON — It has now been nearly four years since Demo- cratic party moguls met at a secret White House dinner and persuaded Franklin Roosevelt to accept Sena- tor Truman of Missouri as Vice- President. They knew then, of course, that the chances of FDR's living through the next four years were slim. Present at the dinner were Ed Flynn of the Bronx, Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago, Mayor Hague of Jersey City, and $ob Hannegan. Today, almost the same Democrat- . ic moguls eonvene ‘at the White! House... And.. despite; ;this week’s anpouncemeng t “Truman is a candidate, they still hope they can deftly dislodge from office the man they put in. They know in advance that this will not be easy—for two reasons: 1, the embarrassment of breaking the news to Truman; 2, finding another candidate who can win. Two years ago all this would have been easy., At that time,' Truman himself was saying he did | not want to be President. But} no man likes to retreat under fire, and Truman's ideas on this are, well illustrated by the staunch (Continued on Page Four) of Suburban Oak Lawn, Il1, suffered | The coldest March temperatures| gisclosed afterward that one thing {they had been promised first place Iumt would move up one place in severe burns, Both of her legs and!in the history of Weather Bureau both of her arms were broken. |records hit several states. These in- All four members of the crew \'\'L‘I‘e‘clu(led Kansas, already snowbound killed. by blizzards, Minnesota and Iowa. Tha plane was bound for Mjami,!The coldest readings for this date Fla. 1t splashed into an orange-col- in March were recorded in many | ored, flamfng mass on a nearby other states. Sub-zero marks were prairie at 10:58 p.m. From a height|recorded as far south as the Texas of 500 to 1,000 feet, during a snow Panhandle and New Mexico. flurry, witnesses said. 7 | In Kansas, highways already were It was Delta’s first, accident In piocked, schools .were closed and lscheduled operations since 1934. Last' aoute gas shortages reported during year the airlines received a special the worst March blizzard-on record. citation from the National Safety mpree cities—McPherson, ‘Hays and Council. | Concordia—were isolated for hours. | This' heavy snowfall also hampered | Missouri and Oklahoma. | Among Kansas cities reporting re- }mrd March lows ‘were Hayes, -23, Garden City -22, and Dodge City, -15. |1t was -15 at Tarkio,/ Mo., and -3 at Parade Going o . MISS M(GOVG"IS | Springfield in Southern Missouri. i ! Further South, Roswell, N, M., had NEWARK, N. J, March 11—® _5 and Amarillo, Tex,, -3. —The McGoverns say theyll Nnof The coldest spot on the Chicago be marching at the tail end of the weather Bureau map was Bemidji, St. Patrick’s parade again this, Minn., with -36. Minneapolis and St. year. Frank McGovern, leader of lhe;cn record. Grand Forks, N, D., re- Association of 250 members, said ported -33. | e | JUNEAU LAW FIRM . HAS 3 MEMBERS NOW The wellknown law firm of | Paulkner and Barfield has a third | member now. Robert Boochever, | formerly Assistant United States Attorney, First Division, has be- come a member of the firm, which will now be known ac Faulkner, Banfield and Boochever, BRGRA 205 e HERE FROM SITKA Dan H. Moller of Sitka is stay- ing at the Baranof Hotel. - §1. Palrick’s Day in the parade after consenting to the tail end position in 1947. Parade officials, however, said they had agreed only that each line. McGovern said it was not enough and announced last night he was withdrawing his Associa- tion from the parade. “No McGovern,” he said, “ever finished last two years in a row.” A B SPUH! ISLAND VISITOR E. Weschenfelder of Spuhn Island is in Juneau and staying at the Baranof Hotel. | Paul had -26, the coldest March day | | the? talked over was whether to | broaden aid programs and allow |sending of guns and weapons to jany country. Rep. Vorys (R-Ohio), chairman at the closed door con- ierence, told newsmen the pr ! posal included “any place where” i conditions arise similar to those in Greece, Turkey and China. That is, anywhere that Communists threaten. He said the Republican group— |a majority of the Foreign Affairs Committee—reached no definite de- cision. Without referring to the summa- ition by Marshall of Communist- }mduced “terror” abroad and rising {“passions” at home, Senator Wherry (R-Neb) said of the recoy- ery plan debate: “We will finish up here Satur- day night without a doublt.” Wherry is the acting Republican floor leader. s ' PACIFIC NORTHERN BRINGS 16, TAKES 5 Pacific Northern flights yetserday brought 16 to Juneau and took out five persons as follows: From Anchorage: Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Mustard, L. A. Sturm, W. | Kobsata, Dave Tewkesbury, Mar- Jjorie Smith and Ruben Laumer. From Cordova: F. E. Sutton and R. Sutton, (n) Kibre, and (n) Leh- to. To Yakutat: Wm. Featherstone. To Anchorage: O. Lovestead, Ed Swanson, Wilma A. Sibona, and Gustavus Olsen. acting | officer laid the groundwork, how lever, for a plea for the General's {outright acquittal | This plea to the court was to be {based on a contention that the Sen- ate group which inquired into Mey~ |ers’ business affairs last fall was = | legal. Thae only evidence placed before | the Federa) Jury in defense of Mey- lers was a series of Senate Resolu- tions creating the Senate War In- vestigating ‘Committee. - e Martial Law ' Now Decreed, |+ BY CARTER L. DAVIDSON) IN NORTHERN PALESTINE, March 11—(#—Martial law has been |decreed. in all Northern Palestine, Bey Al Kaukji, Arab Commander. “Every order from this headquar- ters will now become the law of the land (Northern Palestine) and military alike,” Fawzi Bey de- clared in his order last night His headquarters said prisons now are being establish in the mountain top village where Fawzi Bey set up his command. Several persons al- ready have been arrested and are awaiting trial before military courts, which officers said will begin sit- ting soon in all major towns and cit- ies of the Northern Holy Land No. Palestine effective at dawn today, by Fawzi away in a waiting taxicab, the wit- nesses said. The building caught fire after the blast. | The gate guards said that because |the car showed the American Flag and the occupants “seemed English jor American type: they let it in | without a careful check | A source in Haganah, the Jewish agency’s militia, said examination of wreckage indicated the automo- bile was that of United States Con- sul General Robert B. Macatee, sto- len yesterday. The tuilding, finished in the late ! twenties, housed all archives of the agency and the most important re- | 1 Gold Brick Winner {Has fo Sell It; Law Says Can’t Keep It TORONTO, March 11—® -Mary |Richardson, 21, is the proud new owner of a gold brick—an honest-to- goodness gold brick. She won it as a door prize last night at the annual convention of |the Prospectors and Developers As- sociation. It weighs 348 cunces and ic valued at about $120. The catch is—she for civil|CAN't keep it. She has to sell it t0 cumstances. the Government, that’s the law. - e MISSISSIPPI VISITOR | Mrs. K. H. Winbonne of “dmn, Miss., is staying at { Baranof Hotel. | - HOONAH VISITORS Mys. Ione Felton and Mrs. Ed Kelly, both of Hoonah are stay- ing dt the Baranof Hotel Meri- the | units that would be the answer.” venience because he believed that A 17-gun salute greeted the lGEu(’rul upon his arrival at the| post where he served as a lieut-| enant colonel from 1937 to 1940. | - ! ‘STRIKES IN AUSTRIA NOW THREATENED By G. K. :lODENFIELD VIENNA, March 11—®—Inform- ed government sources said today that a wave of Communist-in- spired strikes is expected through- out Austria next week. Informants said the Commun- ists are expected. to bring about work stoppages through groups similar to the “action committees” of Czechoslovakia (In Czechoslovakia action com- mittees were set up before and after the Communjsts gained con- trol of the government. They are| composed of strong party members. They have been given the job of purging national life of opposition to the Communists.) Minister of Interior Oskar Hel- mer already has publicly warned the Communists that such groups are ilegal and may be punished under Austrian law in certain cir- . STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah, from Vancouver, scheduled to arrive Friday. Grommet Reefer, from Seattle, | due Saturday. Baranof scheduled Seattle Saturday. Denali, from west, southbound March 18. to sail from scheduled | Administration, b the centralization of government offices is quite important to the economical and efficient operation of the government. The Governor declared that An- | chorage is not more central than Juneau. He said that he believes that Juneau should be the Capital because much money has been in- vested here to make it so. Banfield rose once more to de- clare that if one government of- fice leaves here, others will follow. He pointed out that if the Native | Service should move to Anchorage, then most others would also leave because the Federal Disbursing | Office would almost be forced to Bo because of the large government payrclls there which would then include ANS, the Civil Aeronauties the Weather Bur- eau and the Federal Bureau of Investigatjon, - GROMYKO MAKES ANOTHER THREAT NEW YORK, Mu:cir 11.—P—Rus- sia threatened today to walk out of the big power Palestine talks if the Jews and Arabs were invited to take part in the discussions. * Russia’s Andrei A. Gromyko re- uffed a new American attempt to call the Arabs of Palestine and the Jewish Agency before the big pow- er conferees. Gromyko said he could not partic ipate if the Jewish and Arab rep sentatives or the UN Palestine C mission were brought in for tation. He said Jewish-Arab