The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 18, 1948, Page 1

E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = ] VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,839 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS UMT, DRAFT URGED BY FORRESTAL Want to.Add 350,000 Men to Strength T { | | WASHINGTON, March 18.—(P—| Secretary of Defensé Forrestal in- dicated today that the Forces want to add more than 350,000 men to their strength, bul did not say how maiy more. said a draft is the only way get them. Forrestal was before the Senate Armed Forces Committee suppor ing President Truman's plea for a revival of the draft and for uni- versal military training. He told the Senators he will ap- prove recommendations for in- creases in the authorized strength of the Army, Navy and Air For but would not make public iigures. The “authorized strength” of each service is a “ceiling” Congress has put on the number of men it can have. The present “ceiling” for Army, Air Force, Navy and Ma- rines adds up to 1,732,000 men. Actually, they have 1,392,000 men The draft is asked to get the men to needed to bring strength up to pre- sent ceilings. Under questioning, Forrestal also said: 1. If Russian forees decided to move into Germany or other parts of Europe the United States forces could not stop them. 2. There are less than 30,000 “use- able” army combat trcops in the United States at this time. Secretary of the Army Royall and Secretary of the Navy Sullivan were before the committee with Forrestal ‘They were not able to give definite answers to questions about how it is to operate a draft. e e % ey v e v 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU (Past 24 hours endiug 7:20 s.m. today In Juneau— Maximum, 36; minimum, 31. At Airport— Maximum, 35; minimum, 31. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Variable cloudiness tonight and Friday. Colder tonight with the lowest tempera- ture near 28 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. taday Armjpd | He ' the | Movie Actor Victor Mature and Berry, Pasadena, Calif., society marriage at Yuma, Ariz. Combat Planes Can Operate - Over Arcticl (ommander, Bomber Wingf; D6G MUSHERS 70 ATTEMPT RECOVERY OF CRASH VICTIMS ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 18. ~P—~Two A do mushers made plans today for a possible assault on rugged Mount Sanford and recovery ol the bodies of 30 plane crash victims. | a - Mature Marries Society Girl matren, are shown following their It was Mature’s third marriage. (® Photo. g | | | | | ) ) i head said last night the Naval Al RESERVEIS JUMP PLANE; READY NOW LAND SAFELY Fifty Carrié;s,dlé Squad- Parachute from Craft Over rons Can Hustle Out, Berlin - Come Down National Emergency in Russian Zone LONG BEACH, Calif., March 18— BERLIN (»—Rear Admiral Richard F. White- | Gen today when { America Mawch 18.—(P—Fig Taylor was injured he and seven arachuted from rlin Telford Reserve has more than 50 ca a in readivess in the event of a na- |47 over tional emergency. | Taylor, chief U. The Admiral, head of the Naval|war crimes in Germany, was Air Reserve Program, reviewed 3,000| brought to an army hospital suf- men at the Los Alamitos Naval Air|fering from a wrenched back and a Station. slight injury He landed in “Here we have 26 squadrons- five|a street in Russian occupied Terri~ air groups,” he said. “The men are . tory combat trained from the last war! .The and all they would need is a little trouble carrier training. Also here are palt:gjj At least one of the passengers, a 4? B hip developed engine plane squadrons and transports, woman, was reported to have been qualified to carry out their injured sions.” Taylor Whitehead explained the Navall perg ht mi to Nuern- here with was returning ol | after conferring KAlr Reserve Program embraced 233fGen. Lucius D. Clay, U. 8. Mili- his bride, Mrs. Dorothy Stanford ce (ap, Says ALINA, Kas., March 18, '—flfldB-! s have proved that bombers cahs operate over the Arctic ice cap, the commander of the 97th Bomb Wing d today. The fifteen B-20's of the 97th were he first fully-equippede ombat planes to fly over the North Pole. H The 97th is returning to the) Smckey Hill Air Base here from six months of training and tests in Al- aska. Most of the 1,700 men in the Wing have returned by air, and 500 are enroute by ship, 34 | Income Tax | sure today. Millikin said he hopes | squadrons which could be placed i tary Governor for Germany. service on 50 to 55 carriers now "} ‘mhe plane carried 10 persons, in- mothballs.” He said personnel ieluding the crew. The pilot and man the carriers could be drawlll.q.piloi stayed with the C-47 to from the Reser present slrength;mflko a forced landing rather than of 40,000, including 6,000 pilots. {abandon it over the city. % Ao Several passengers who landed in the Russian-occupied suburbs of Lichtenberg, reported they had been picked up by Russian sol- {Hiers taken to Soviet head- Fquarters. It was lJearned that Mrs. Taylor vas among those who bailed out. and Cufting Bill | e ~ IsTakenUp;B-29 BOMBER 'GOES CRASH WASHINGTON, March 18 —(®— ‘Thirty-two Republican Senators de= cided today to go ahead with the income tax cutting bill despite possible boosts in military expendi tures. s - ba Chairman Millikin (Colo) said the | GOP conference decided without | objection, to push for passage of ' a $4,800,000,000 reduction bill. 1 Senate debate begins on the mea- | Craft Cominréfiih for Land ing Hits Edge of Run- it can be concluded this week. | President Truman asked Congress way and BumS yesterday for a universal military - trajning law and temporary revi- | TAMPA, Fla March 18.—(® val of the draft. Millikin said the!Ten men were killed and four in- Republicans decided the present| jured early today when a B-29 from budget surplus is big enough 10| ihe Spokane, Wash., airbase crash- take care of any military spend-|ed and burned on landing at Mac- other | b 1 S. prosecutor ur’ ‘TEN KILLED ~ Support of "Henry Wallace, - His Communisis” in Nov. ROUNDUP ON ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT Reports Ifiafite Europe | Divided on Familiar Lines in Reaction (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) NEW YORK, March 18.—M—Pre- sident Truman says he would not accept the support of “Henry Wal- lace and his Communists’-—even if his refusal meant defeat in the Nov- ember election “If joining them or permitting them to join me is the price of vie- tory, I recommend defeat,” declared the President, who dropped Wallace from his Cabinet in 1946 Mr. Truman made the statement last night to 2500 persons at the annual dinner of the friendly sons of St. Patrick His challenge to “Wallace and his Communists” came near the end of a Foreign Policy speech in which /he reiterated his plea to Congress | for a temporary revival of the draft, universal military training and speedy Congressional approval of the Iuropean Recovery Pr said the fundamental purpese of his proposals is “to prevent P Departing from his prepared text, Mr. Truman said: “I do not want | | | | LONDON, March vided on fami reaction to Pr paredness speech. i Nea-Communist newspapers—and (officials who would talk--hailed. it|and I will not accept the political generally es a forthright statement | support of Henry Wallace and his in defense of freedom against Com- | Communists. There are days of high munism. orices for everything, but any price | Communist newspapers and radio|/or Hénry Wallace and his Com- stations for the most part took the|munists is too much for me to pay. line that it was threatening talk in- /[ do not want to buy.” | tended to create * r panic.” But| The President’s remarks concern- the Eastern press gave it little space. |ing Wallace brought cheers from the Moscow broadcast a Tass dispatch | St. Patrick’s Day gathering, which) from New York ving the Presi-| had just heard Francis Cardinal dent’s speech “h evoked anxiety|Spellman endorse the President's even among conservative American |recommendation for universal mili- politicians.” The Soviet news agency | tary training. ‘q\mh'cl Rep. Dewey Short (R-Mo) A talk on the subject “Wallace as decrying “an atmesphere of hys | answers Truman” already had been iteria,” and Henry A. Wallace as|schedtiled for Wallace on the ABC saying the speech was “a shameful | net work tonight at 7:45 p.m. (PST) call for world remobilization.” o ol oo oy 'RAILROADS ARE Helsinki. newspaper of Finland's | v Dow“ o“ (0“ Communist-dominated people'’s De- WASHINGTON, March 18 —(P— 18.—Europe di~ lines today in ite cnt Truman's pre- Russian-controlled newspapers I1a Berlin characterized the address as “firebrand talk” and a “panic [ I mocratic Party, said “Truman is |loading the guns—calls for universal military training and threatens with direct action.” The government today ordered a 25 ! The Budapest Communist news- | percent reduction in coal-burning ! paper Szabadnet said: | bassenger train service because of “The Turman speech is nothing | the coal mine shutdown. but a cheap electioneering trick.” The Office of Defense Transpor=- The London Foreign Office said|tation order is effective at mid- Britain “warmly welcomed” the Pre- [ night next Sunday, March 21 sident’s speech, “in particular the; It was issued under the wartime emphasis on the essentially defensive | powers which the ODT still retains. | character of the American Policy.” The agency said the step was Premier Themistokles Souphoulis}necessary because “railroad coal NAVALAIR 8AMERICANS Truman Flatly Rejeds Any’ “CONGRESS SPLIT ON PROPOSALS Truman's Su];esiions of | Checking Spread of Com- munism Checked Up By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, March 18.—®— Congress split down the middle oday on President Truman's plans lor bolstering the nation's military strength with universal training and revival of the draft. Party labels were lost in the shuffle as leaders divided over the two measures Mr. Truman said we needed to flex the muscles of a country that has become “the principle protector of the free world against Communism.” The upshot seemed to be a trend toward giving the President one— but not both--of the manpower caising laws. Universal military .raining looked like slightly the better bet although the cards are stacked against UMT in the House cight now. As a third step to halt the ag- jre: e march of “one nation’”— Russia—Mr. Truman also called for quick and final approval of the $5,300,000,000 Marshall Plan for duropean recovery. The Senate already has passed he bill. ‘And, within four hours f the President’s address to Con- sress, the House Foreign Affairs scmmittee stamped its okay on a similar program. General Agreement Congressional leaders in both major political camps agree on _ne thing—they want to do some- Ling to stop the spread of Com- munism across not only Europe but the world. But there the agreement stop- ped. Chairman Vandenberg (R-Mich) of the Senate Foreign: Relations Jommittee said that if this eoun- try does not now have the essen- | dals of national armed security | 'we must provide them by the most available immediate means.” Senator Talit of Ohio, a GOP Presidential candidate, indicated he may fight the draft as well as the UMT proposal which he long has opposed. Taft said he regretted that Mr. Truman had not pressed for “real unification of the armed forces” and for the world’s biggest air- force. | Plans for possible removal were| Col. Gecrge L. Robinson, 36, of Los | disclesed yesterday shortly after |Angeles, Commander of the 97th;ing required. | Dill Field here. of Greece, which has been getting | United States military aid, said in stockg today are considerably low- Support Air Force er than they have been on pre- pport - The air force idea found wide In Juneau—61 inches; since March 1, 3.06 inches; since July 1, 78.22 inches. vious occasions when stoppages In coal production have interferred with railroad operations.” o | wreaths were dropped on the cloud- |and veteran of 25 World War II| He said they also believe that ® ' cloaked mountain in tribute to the combat missions, talked about the|the surplus will provide a good- o | victims, | Arctic flights today before leaving|sized payment on the national e| Twer | debt, The four survivors were acmit- Athens the address constituted not ted to the base hospital. Their only hope but assurance given all| condition was described as “good” Peoples of the world that their free- | | support. In this connection, Senator Brew- ster (R-Me) told a reporter the At Airport— 35 - inches; since March 1, 1.89 inches; since July 1, 46.18 inches, . s e e 0 v . ve e o . . . . . . . . ) . ° . . . . . . . . . . ° —— . Machinists Mate Firsi Class Jo- seph A. Taylor has arrived here to joint the crew of the U.S.C.G. Cutter Wachusett. He was form- |flew as close to the crash scene as possible for the avrial funeral 5. Services were conducted for {all faiths "' The an e Airlin were Xkilled last a Northwert Orient °s plene, enroute froin Shang: stims | y-five persons were aboard {with his wife for her home in Jack- e | the Northwest Airlines DC-4 which { sonville, Fla., to absorb some sun-i |shine. ; “The tests were completed succe: }fully and the equipment was proved, ‘he said. “No special problems'were |found, although mnorthern lights | (Aurora Borealis)) upset magnetic | compasses so they were useless for! navigation.” i | { | REMAINS | The bomber was coming in for {a landing in a dense fog when it hit the edge of the runway at the southwest corner of the field, Capt. | George R. Byrnes, MacRill Field | public. informaticn oificer said. The big craft hit the ground, { bounced once, and then crashed |and’ burned. = Wreckage was scat- - OF WAR VETERAN BROUGHT The Bureau of Mines repol‘lcdl two days ago that coal stocks generally were at a dm\gmouslyl low level. At the time the ODT acted, the government was making other moves to end the work stoppage | which already has forced steel in-| | dustry to cut operations. Federal Conciliation Chief Cy-| dom and independence will be pro-; tected.” Czechoslovakia’s Communist press gave scant attention to the speech, | and much of that was reproachful. But the people showed a lively inter- 'est, Many listened eagerly to for- eign broadcasts. L President made a “significant omis- slon.” . “The Russians have no concept of a navy, being a great land mass,” Brewster said. “And they have no concern about an invas- ion, having resisted invasions for centuries. <Afr power is the only thing they understand—that has BACK TO HOMELAND erly a member of the crew of the|haj to St. Paul, crashed into a gla- | d U.S.C.G. Cutter Fir. { Flights of 3,500 miles over .the | tered over a wide area been demonstrated.” The W ashinéion Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (Copyright, ASHINGTON Despite de- nials of Sen. J. Howard McGrath that he has felt like resigning as chairman of the Democratic Na- tional Committee, McGrath several times has been near the boiling point. One occurred recently and took the form of a hot feud with none other than Secretary of National Defense Forrestal. On March 5' Forrestal phoned McGrath that he was appointing Russell J. Hopley of Omaha, pres- ident of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, as Director of Civilian Defense. Under direct or- ders from the White House, every Cabinet member is required to clear all job appointments with the chairman of the National Com- ‘mittee; This has been a rule of both Democratic and Republican administraticns for years. It is supposed to prevént political en- emies from being taken to the bosom of the family. Checking on Hopley, McGrath informed Forrestal that he was flatly opposed to the appointment. Not only was Hopley a Republican, but a big-business Republican who had bitterly fought labor up and down the state of Nebraska. In a war job, Hopley's appoint- (Continued on Page Four) Mount of et on the mountain 190 miles northeast {cial p t Sanford is | -y ] i North Pole from their ‘base at Blel-| 1po remaing of Lerdy Vestal, {rus S. Ching met with Ezra Van Horn, spokesman for the mine op- | SHIPMENT OF DIRT, But Chairman Gurney (R-SD), Senate Armed Forces Committee {son Field were made @during the Jacke Butler datkest part of the. long winter BASA 18 teast night, Robmson. said. | I ek Wb weather,” ‘he remarked, “is |not unusual on top of the world. |Just about like it is here. Only no | thundersterms. It was not a prob- | Anchorage. | The two mushers, {and Danny Ewan, p ltoday in Gu 5 jof the crash scene. | Butler, one of Alaska's most fa- | mous sled men and familiar with i 5 the crash area, said in Fairbanks| ihe believed the scene may be ac-| Although ‘temparatures as low as ac-| Rt o o v 40 below zero.on the ground and 75 Airlines officials and trained o £ aliconnieced, | | | | ‘ L 5 .. | the young Wing Commander said fmnumamgus expressed belief ““l'lplane.s were able to take off any | ier that it would be impossible to! /. bt ik Waidte time a mission was scheduled. Four i o | hours were required to warm up the i A {engines. | | Col. Robinsen credited success of Wea"hy w°man ls lthe tests-to indoctrination, training {and equipments. { =g | He had literal praise for ground | Dead’ Kansas (I'y {crews who changed engines on ramps | (at Eielson Field, near Fairbanks, KANSAS CITY, March 18— il temperatures as low as 35 degrees | Mrs. Margaret Sawyer Hill Davis, 55, €10 2€ro: reputedly one of the wealthiest wo- agflsor e {men in the country, died here today | . from a heart attack. SIEAME" MOVEME"“ Mrs. Davis, the widow of the late: igfiei?\turmaz‘}, I»lm: son of the rail-| .princess Norah scheduled to 5 h}won'v ames J. (Jim) Hill (g1 from Vancouver Friday. jand himself founder of the Texas aleytian scheduled to sail from { Company, - was married to Blevins|geatile Saturday. {Davis in Washington in 1946 at a| : X e | Baranof, from west, scheduled ger;rfluo;xznauended by Mrs, H""ryksoum Sunday. Mrs. Davis was left a fortune esti- | mated at $80,000,000 upon James N.| ADMIRALTY ACTION Hill's death in 1932. B In an Admiralty Action filed in NTICE CLASSES MEET |U. 8. District Court today, the The first in the new series of | Territory of Alaska ds libelant ask- | apprentice classes,* sponsored byled for a judgment against the‘ the Juneau Apprenticeship Coun-|vessel Nan B in the amount of | cil, will begin at 4 o'clock tonight|$9,202.55 plus interest and $750 a:-| i the ‘Juneau Airport and were met iand Judson Whittier of the Jr,, arrived in Juneau aboard. an Army Transport this afternoon at Soviets Sending Expedition Info Arclic by Plane MOSCOW, March 18—(#—A new by am hongrary ' delegation from the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion, cemposed oi Vernon Metcalf, Dan Mahoney VFW and Waino Hendrickson, Joe Thibo- deau and Alfred Znger, St. of the American Legion. medical research expedition into Col. T. C. Franks of the Ameri- the Arctic was reported today in can Graves Registration Section of | Izvestia, Soviet government news- Alaska and Master Sgt. W. N.|paper. Reichers were the acting honor| The story said a special staff guards, and Sgt. E. L. Taylor the|equipped with the latest medical military escort. | devices had left Archangel to fly Last rites will be held Sunday to Naryan Mar for a study among afternocn at the Charles W. Cart- far northern people. er Chapel Naryan Mar is beyond the Arc- R LAY STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 18— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 79%, Anaconda 32'%, Curtiss- Wright 6%, International Harvest- er 84%, Kennecott 46, New York Central 127, Northern Pacific 19';. U. 8. Steel 69%, Pound $4.03'; Sales today were 880,000 shares Averages today are a:d follow: industrials 166.92, rails 49.56, util- ities, 31.90. o e s DISARMED BY TRAIN | east of Archangel Fh it Tax Refurns from . Alaska Has Squire Puzzled, 2 Things TACOMA, March 18.—#—Wash- ington and Alaska residents either are richer—or earlier—this year. | Clark Squire, collector of internal | revenue, isn’t certain yet which is the case. Income tax collections from the district totaled $101,989,718 through yesterday, as compared with $93,- 098,053 for the same period last year, he reported. INDIANAPOLIS —I#— Thomas Delaney, detective for the Belt Railroad, saw a man lurking near a boxcar and called out. The| tic Circle, about 400 miles north-! in Room 1 of the Juneau High|torneys fees. The suit is over an i i Yy ees. 5 man fired at him once, then Scheol. These classes will be held jalleged $10,000 veterans loan and |stumbled and lost both his gun| each Tuesday, Wednesday and|was placed by Attorneys Faulkuér.’and his. right hand under the Collections of all in the district also are sald, from $150,518,978 in tederal t up, 1947 axes he to Thursday for the next eight weeks. | Banfieid and Boochever, wheels of a moving train, 1 $166,113,245 this year erators, and arranged to talk later with John L. Lewis, chief of the United Mines Worker g SRR T CANADIAN NAVAL PATROL PLANNED FOR WEST COAST said air power alone cannot guard bases and the shores of a contin- ent. He personally is sympathetic to the draft propcsal, he' told re- porters. House Com. Bloe Chairman Taber (R-NY) of the Appropriations Committee put the cost of a combined Draft-UMT program at $1500,000000 in the next year. But he said that would not affect the cutting plans. Meanwhile, Chairman Leo Allen (R-II) kept the House Rules Com- mittee’s lid tightly closed against letting UMT legislation reach the floor. A truining bill won ap- | proval of Andrews’ Armed Services Committee last year, but the Rules Committee has refused to put it on - SPECIAL KIND, IS - SENT TO BARROW SEATTLE, March 18.—if— A | special kind of dirt that makes a| | special kind of mud is being ship- | ped to Alaska Saturday aboard the | | steamer Aleutian. | The dirt comes from Merced, Calif., and is used in oil-drilling| VANCOUVER, B. C, Maych 18.— work. It is destined for t)\ei""‘*"/\ five-ship fleet—a cruiser, Navy's oil project at Point Barrow.|three destroyers’ and a frigate— EM”““’ with water, the earth jells' will patrol the west coast of Can- {into a substance, which, when: dada packed into a drill hole, aids in| The announcement was made { pumping cuttings and sediment to|Yyesterday by Vice-Admiral Harold the surface | T. Grant, chief of the Canadian | ! | The 2i-ton shipment is being|Naval Staff. He said the five ves-|'De House calendar. i | sent, north by the Arctic Contrac-|Sels are considered “standard | - "The President’s message doesn't |tors. It will be landed at Sew-|equipment” for the British Colum-|change a thing” Allen told re- ard, sent by rail to Fairbanks,|Dbla coast under the present vay‘pnrwri. | flown 0 Barrow, thien hauled by | establishment, Barpg & change of mind By | tractor sleds over the tundra to) - len's. commivtes, Shouk. A Gy the ofl well installations. | . | 8y to gel the UMT bl Heioe the A second shipment is .schedulcd‘verd,oux loses Hls HO“,:* is through 3 petition signed to leave soon on an Aldska Steam- ) by | by 18 members, ship Company freighter, Frank F I D C g Whitmer, traffic manager for Arc-| im amage asesee B \ i ' ' tic Contractors, said. | PARIS, March 18— Henri Ver- | I- ’ew llfl S 0 e - |doux lost today his 5,000,000-Franc | | ($16,000) damage suit over the film, | Be Ia“gh' S(hwk AT THE BOAT HARBOR | Monsieur Verdoux. ! ] Wty Verdoux is a young bank- clerk mev—— The Lady Jane from Seattle ar | with a small family. So is the mur-. NEW YORK, March 18.—(®—The rived at the boat harbor yesterday derous Henry Verdoux, as played]f"‘-‘v art of beer-brewing will be and will leave for Cordova Satur- py Charlie Chaplin in the film. itaught in the city’s public school day. She is owned by Mar!m' The rea] Verdoux sued Prench dis- | system. Anderson. tributors of the film and two Paris| The course, with three classes The Nuisance III, owned by moviz houses. The court ruled he| weekly, will open tonight at the Stan Thompson, came in from|would have to pay costs. ‘Broflklyn Evening Technical High Hocnah yesterday. { - | School. About 30 fledgling suds- ! The Avu owned by Mamn‘ 1 Leak from Cordova is m‘mukcrs, who must be 18 or older, Randall, is at the boat harbor hav- Juneau and staying at the Bar-|are expected to attend the class- new gas tanks installed, {anot Hotel Jes, the Board of Education says. ing