The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 26, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” [ VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,846 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDA\ V\lARCH 26, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Subs Reported Seen {Award Movie SIars 1947 Oscars HIT, MISS TORNADO KILLS 13 OKLAHOMA CITY, Mar. 26— M—A hit and miss tornado bounc- ed across central and eastern Ok- lahoma last night, leaving at least 13 persons dead. The storm hit mainly communities, in farm Eufaula, 40 miles east of Wetun- na, Boynton, 20 miles south of Muskogee, Checotah, a few miles northeast of Eufaula, and Sallisaw, about 20 miles west of Fort Smith, | Arkansas. The tornado first was reported at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, about 6 p. m. Eighty-four planes were destroyed or damaged there| by the twister. It moved gradually eastward, finally hitting Sallissaw, near the Arkansas border about 11 p. m. It was the second storm within a week to do major damage at Tinker Field. RPEE o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU (Past 24 hours ending 7:20 a.m. today In Juneau— Maximum, 32; minimum, 17. At Airport— minimum, 2. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneas and Vicinity) Fair and not quite so cold tonight. Partly cloudy and a little warmer Saturday. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In City of Juneau—None; since March 1, 443 inches; since July 1, 7958 inches. At the Airport— None; since March 1, 3.78 inches; since July 1, 48.07 inches. e s o vo o0 Maximum, 34; o> —— The Washlngton Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (Copyrignt, ASHINGTON— When benign Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rut- ledge put on his dinner jacket for a Wisconsin University alumni banquet in Washington recently, he didn’t realize that before the eve- ning was over he would find him- self in the middle of a hot political row over Gen. that almost broke up the dishes. The fireworks started when toast- master George Worthington, presi- | dent of Wisconsin’s D. C. alumni chapter, suddenly veered from a nostalgic speech on his #lma mater and began praising MacArthur. He | extolled the brass-hatted Presideny tial candidate as “that great, color- ful American we all love so much . That great champion of Demo- cracy who has done such an out- standing job in the Pacific.” Worthington had hardly finished when another Wisconsin alumnus in the read of the banquet hall Jjumped up. “I offer a resolution that the Washington chapter of the Wiscon- sin Alumni Association shall never again be used as a political plat- form for any Presidential candi- | date,” he shouted. There were several equally loud seconds and the meeting room soon | became a bedlam, with Worth- ington unable to restore order. Fi- nally scholarly Justice Rutledge, sit- ting next to the pro-MacArthur toastmaster, tried to restore order.| “This is most unfortunate,” de- clared the jurist. He didn't ex- plain whethew he was referring to the MacArthur speech or the reso- lution condemning it. However, the resolution was finally tabled, amid boos. Whereupon Worthing- ton arcse to “explain” his politi- cal comments, during which he again eulogized MacArthur and started a fresh outbreak. One heckler shouted: “If you're so strong for MacArthur, please explain his censorship policies in Japan. Is that Democracy?” Several others joined the chorus and were ruled “out of order” by Rutledge. Senator Alexander Wi- ley of Wisconsin finally gave a soothing sermon on brotherly love, quoting at length from scripture. (Continued on Page Feur) striking near Wetun- | ka, 75 miles east of Oklahoma City, | “e0000e®0ce00®0000eve e Douglas MacArthur | RUSSIAN PROPOSAL IN KOREA i Broadcast Qa(ing Estab- | lishment of Soviet- | Sponsored Govt. | | | | (BY ROY ROBERTS) SEOUL, March 26— (® —South| Korean political leaders today were invited to help establish a Soviet-| sponsored government of Korea. The Russian controlled radio at| | Pyongyang, headquarters of the | Russian occupation in- North Korea, | invited leaders of Rightist and Left- |ist and middle-of-the-road parties to a conference April 14. The broad- | cast was repeated twice | The United Nations hn: approved | plans for an election May 9 in Amer- ican Administered ‘South Kovea. It wanted to conduct a nationwide el- ection, to give Korea self govern-| ment. The Russians refused to let a2 UN Commission even enter North | Korea for preliminary discussions. Southe Korean political leaders have been sharply divided on the UN | election plan. Three times today, the Py(\ng.\'ang‘ radio broadcast its invitation to South Korea. The invitation was at- tributed to the People’s Commmee‘ of North Korea, which recently | announced preparations to set up |a Soviet-sponsored North Korean| | government—complete with a Red| |Star and Hammer Flag, and an| | Army. | The invitations were directed es-| pecially to South Korean politicians who oppose the UN election plan. | They were invited to meet at Py- ‘ ongyang April 14. The invitation was extended spe-| ifically to Kim Koo, chairman of the | | Korean Independence Party, and to| |other groups. | Kim Koo and other political lead- ers are opposing plans for the UN" | election on grounds it would parti- | tion Korea. | | The only step remaining in thej creation of a Soviet-sponsored “Dem- ocratic Peoples Republic of Korea"” | {is the adoption of a constitution.| ‘That has been under discussion in North Korea several weeks. Final Zconsideration was postponed re- Jcemly from mld March to mid- Apul | Plot Life ~ Of Mihai WASHINGTON, March 26.—(P— The State Department said today it has received ‘“reports of rumors | | for a plot against the life of King | Mihai of Rumania.” | It is “taking measures” to pro-| tect him against assassination, it | said. | Officials declined to say where | ithe reports came from, or what protective steps have been taken.| The 26-year-old deposed king is| visiting heré. — ., FORMER CAPTAIN OF ALASKA SHIPS | DIES IN SEATILE SEATTLE, March 26—(®—Funer-| al services for Capt. Oluf B. Ander- son, 83, vretired Seattle-Alaska mariner who died Tuesday, were to be held here at 1 p. m. today. Capt. Anderson commanded pas- | senger and freight ships between | Seattle and Alaskan ports until his retirement 20 years ago. ""Dangerous” Mental \Pafients in Escape ‘From N. Y. Hospilali NEW 'YORK, March 26—®—| ‘Three mental patients described by ! police as “dangercus” escaped early; today from Manhattan State Hos- pital on Ward’s Island in the East River. One was recaptured soon afterwards. A hospital guard was severely beaten after the three men had sawed through the steel bars of a| room. 1 tight controls on exports | ziamoring for tightened‘export con- |to Russia by private buyers. Smiling broadly at each cther are the best actress and actor of 1947, Loretta Young and Ronald Colman. Oscars which they hold between them for acting excellence in “The Farmer’s Daughter” for Miss Young, and “A Double Life” for Ronald (International Soundphoto) Colman. TIGHTENS CONTROLS, EXPORTS WASHINGTON, March President Fruman today 26.—(P— slapped of airplanes and airplane parts, classing them | with other war materials. The White House made public a Presidential proclamation revising effective April 15, the list of things which cannot be shipped from this | country except under special license. It designates as munitions such things as small arms and machine | guns and fire control equipment and range finders as well as aircraft. Congress members have b(en‘x trols since it was disclosed earlier this week that some airplane en- gines, sold by the Government as war surplus, were eventually sent The United States has stopped all exports to Russia and her satel- lites except materials the Army and | Navy say it is all right to send. Secretary of Commerce Harriman told a news conference today that this policy has been in effect since March 1. The purpose is to keep! from the Soviets and their puppets all materials which might contribute to their ar potential.” Harriman explained the Army and Navy in effect have a veto power over the Commerce Department’s issuance of licenses for exports to Russia. But Harriman declared that trade with Eastern Europe will contlnue as a way of “keeping the door open” | for Russia to conunue as a friendly nation. DELELICT MINES BEING SIGHTED OFF PAC. COAST SEATTLE, March 26.—(®—Dere- lict mines are keing sighted off the | Washington-Oregon Coast on the average of one a day, District Codst Guard Headquarters said today, Two expicsives reported yesterday increased the total to 25 for the first 25 days of March. Only two were seen in February, 10 in January. Ten of th€ Japanese mines seen this month have been destroyed. Latest reports placed one mine off Vanccuver Island and a secind 13 miles off Tillamook Head. Canad- ian and Coast Guard vessels-were to seek them out today. D F AND WL OFFICIALS TRAVEL Jack O'Connor, Game Manage- ment Chief, and Douglas Gray, Chief of the Aleutian Wildlife Re- fuge, of the U. §. Fish and Wild- life Service, left here today for a trip to the Westward, O’'Connor will be gone about two weeks. Gray is expected to return later, | Norway would ke willing to i MINER STRIKE T0 BE SPEEDED {Special Board Is to Workli | Fast to Place Facts Before President WASHINGTON, March 26—(P— The coal strike Inquiry Board decid- ed today to hold open hearings on i the miners pension dispute. It plan- |ned a fast schedule so as to speed a report to President Truman. John L. Lewis and coal operators | were summoned to the first public meeting at 2:30 p.m. (EST) today. The Board elected Judge Sherman Minton as chairman. | Minton said the three-man Board {intends to work steadily through| | the Easter holidays to speed its final | report. | All the Board has power to do is determine ‘what are facts in| i the dispute and report to the Presi-| | dent But such a report is necessary under the Taft-Hartley Labor Law ! | before the Government can turn to! ‘tm- coufts and seek an order for the | coal miners to stop their strike. Il President Truman indicated at a jnews conference yesterday that he will seek such a court order when hei {can. The Board resolved to hours a day if necessary” report to Mr. Truman The mine walkout, now in its 12th ’(’:\y grew out of a pension fight be- | tween Lewis and the soft coal oper- |ators. The walkout closed the industry <dowu tight, curtailed many indus- |tiull operators and caused Govern- | | ment-ordered cuts in railroad pas-| senger and freight service. | John L. Lewis, although asked to \.lppefll did not show up today at| |the first public meeting of the Pre- | quest-World Given Wammg i;fi:}z{.s coal strike tact-firding | e | JERUSALEM. March 26. _P—Thel Instead, Lewis sent the board a| |telegram which was delivered some Jewish Agency proposed today that | 10,000 Danish and Norwegian t time after the meeting tegan. It said 2 union representatives could not ap- now stationed in Germany be gh- | ed to Jerusalem to keep order after (heot d’;“y‘"ff;e‘c’“:us"c"“g‘irfit‘l“’:“ s‘::}(‘]’}‘ :l,“ British Maufate sbds gn May | being given to the legal questions | | | | | | i 1 i | | The two were awarded their WANTS 10,000 TROOPS SENT T0 JERUSALEM Jewish Agency Makes Re- “work 24 to get its LENTEN SERVICES TONIGHT mvolved 7 An Agencey spokesman said: it will ensure that Jerusalem at| least will be taken out of the conflict | area, no matter what measures may | jor may not be taken in respect m woRSHIpplNG AT | other Palestine areas. what may happen in Jerusalem RAIl oF AlIAR through no fault of the Jews if some- | thing 1o 0oy SATRO | MEARHA March 26— (% —The| gt . % it 3;“? L“* i" ;‘ t’slGood Friday religious observance at pokesman for the Holy Land's JEWS{neqppy Malolos was thrown into tur- British Mandate Government A British authority in L«mdun::fiethearb A At knclt ut WS A questioned whether Depmark and| “m, girl, Rosario Carlos, was sing- send i (iagion e h | ing troops to the Middle East at a time| 08 ‘Fasslon of Our Lord” when| lin the hs | give up the League of Nations Man- | g o glu;:“:;ymwt‘;ll‘“‘(’;rt he'Chapel,| date over Palestine May 15, and to Hin su}i’tor Sien’ dashed. throngh move all British troops from Pale- | o ¥ kX 8 g 1a crowd of dazed worshippers and! stine by Aug. 1. Evacuation operd-| i,phed her, He fled before anyone| tions already are under way. L been forwarded to the UN, an| e PR Agency spbkesman said. woman Pays "e’ —— .. GRUENING OPPOSED mm'rmmu BY HOME Gop (luB HARTFORD, conn, March 26— | office notified a woman that the The Nome Republican Club unani-|amount withheld from her wages mously passed a resolution oppos-|equalled exactly her 1947 income ing the reappointment and confir-|tax. mation of Ernest Gruening as Gov-| Therefore, she was advised, she ernor of Alaska. Right back came a check from has “from time to time demonstrat-| the woman. On the line reserved ed a dictatorial attitude towards the i for the amount was written citizens of Alaska and their duly("'None 2% titude has resulted- in lack of har- mony detrimental to the best in- terests of Alaska. | The resolution has been sent to| T (I l 1942 Senator Hugh Butler, chairman of | o ass o appointment. R ' Ki" d i B Sy | ecipients Kille MANILA, March 26—#—Seven- teen members of the 1942 class of Lenten Service will be held Vu:lv.he Philippine Military Academy byterian Church at 8 o'clock, at | this week—but only tearful relatives which time the Sacrament of Lhe|were there to receive them. Lord's Supper will be administer-| The entire class is dead- killed ed. All members of the congre-|in action on Bataan or in guerrilla gation and. friends are urged to be'fighting, or perished in Japanese “If something of this sort is drmo‘ S It is our duty to warn the wnrm and official Jewish adviser to the| | moil today—a jilted suitor killed his of worry at home. Britain plans to| o Tce Bullets ripped through a crack The Jewish Agency proposal has could pecover from the shock, |@—The Hartford Internal Revenue NOME, Alaska, March 26.- owed the government nothing. The resolution charges Gruening elected legislators” and such an <’(l~4 Dlplomas Granled , the committee now considering the | night in the Northern.Light Pres-|were awarded diplomas in Baguio present,” prison camps, jorder to right the wrong if such existed. Upon interviewing several of | those present, it was found that| | using different words and phrases, |apclogized several times throughtout | tion of the tubes could not be con- Holdup, Shooting in New York, Is Locafed, Arrested in Alaska SUNDBORG CHANGES HIS MIND ADB Consultant Has Loss of Memory on Apology | ‘On Pacific Off Alaska INOUIRY INTOMan Hunted for 15 Years for 3 REPORTS ARE MADE j FROM NAVY NEW YORK, March 26.—P— A By NELTON C. FAY 15-year search - that extended| (( Military Affairs Reporter) through several western states and| WASHINGTON, March 26.—®— into Mexico has ended with the! Alaska, this country's guardian out- arrest of a Brooklyn man in|pcst against attack over the pole, Alaska, Deputy Chief Inspector|is manned by only 7,000 soldiers William T. Whalen announced to- | and perhaps fewer than 100 fight= day er planes. The plan is to add 8,000 The prisoner, Jerome Body, 47, soldiers. Negro, alias Maurice Hill, is want-| This was a part of the military ed for questioning in the holdup and shocting of Richard Cardounel | picture sketched for Congress by the nation’s high command in its in 1933 in a Brooklyn hallway. !request for more men and more Whalen said Body had agreed tox money to be ready “if war comes.” return to Brooklyn and two de-; Not all the picture was dark. Sec- tectives are expected to arrive with | retary of Defense Forrestal sadd him April 5 | “this is no counsel of despair.” | Whalen and Detective Lt. Joseph| But there were grim touches. fo Juneau Chamber |regan gave this outiine of events| Like Porrestal's declaration that | since Cardounel was robbed of $300! “as a strictly military matter,” and died an hour after he was| America must halt Russian expan- George Sundborg, Alaska Develop- | ghat . | ston, ment Board Consultent, changed | a witness told police Body did| And like the assertion of Bec- his tune today following yester-|ine shooting, but a search failed |retary of the Navy Sullivan: day's public to the Juneau| o jceate him. His fingerprints and | “Recently submarines not belong- Chamber of Commerce for the in-|piciures were obtained from Man-|ing to any nation west of the ‘iron advertent release cf a publication |} a, headquarters. Copies were curtin’' have been sighted off our containing derogatory remarks | made, the Federal Bureau of In- | Shores” about ‘Juneau’s industrial possibil-|yestigation checked the prints nnd‘ Sullivan didn't say where or ities circulars were sent through the| Whose submarines had been sight- In a viclous wwack against his | country, led. But his meaning appeared former employers, the Daily Alaska| The trail led to Texas, Mcx£c0|“h"““R““5’“3 Empire, Sundborg released a spec- | ial statement which was broadcast on KINY earlier today. Sundborg! called yesterday’s Empire account| of the Chamber of Commerce meet- | ing “bad reporting” and declared “anyone who could interpret my re- | marks to the Chamber as a public | apology, should go back to school to learn the meaning of words.” Denies Apology ‘The ex-reporter denied his npul-‘ ogy which was made before about | 25 members of the Juneau Cham-| ber of Commerce at its regular| weekly meeting. The Empire, a.o- verify its reporter's accuracy, made a spot check of those present in | Sundborg had been quoted accur= ately throughout the lengthy re- port. Each witness testified that| Sundborg had used the phrase “I apologize for the pamphlet.” These witnesses, all reputable citizens of Juneau, also stated that Sundborg, the 20 minutes in which hé held the floor. Sundborg, however, refuses to ad- mit now that he did apologize, and insists that the article has merit. e Submerged Floafing Tubes Pronosed on * Pugef Sound, Lafer OLYMPIA, March . 26.—P—Long | range plans for submerged fioating | tubes to carry traffic between Se- attle and Bainbridge and Vashon Islands in Puget Sound were dis- closed yesterday by state officials. Charles N. Andrews, consulting engineer for the state toll bridge | authority who originated the pro- posal, said he knows of no other similar floating concrete structures in the world. Andrews stressed that construc- templated for some years. “We will have to have consider- able more development of Puget Sound before they will be feas'ble,” | he said. “We will probably see| ferries on Puget Sound for a lungI time yet.” - Murder Chargels | Placed Against Man Shooling Students NEW YORK, March 26—#— A first-degree murder indictment was‘ returned yesterday against Marko | L. Markovich, 65, charged with the street shooting of a Catholic school- boy last week. Markovich, quoted by authorities as saying he wanted “to kill Cath- ofics,” opened fire on a group of | Catholic school students, killing Thomas Brady, 16, and wounding six others, Three of the wounded students still are hospitalized. and California, but each check was too late, months ago information was re- celved that he might be in Se- attle, but®he couldn’t be found there. Seattie police suggested check-| ing Anchorage, Alaska, as a boat had sailed a short time before the! request was received to lock for | Body. A circular and. the prints wen‘ sent to Alaska, and Det. Sgt. Martin at Anchorage recalled thul, {a man answering the description | €d was not positive. had been arrested in a fight, and released only three days earl- ier. Investigation disclosed the man had gone to Aglak Island, in the| Aleutians, as a civilian employee of the Army. Martin informed | Army authorities of the search and | Body was arrvested and returned to Anchorege. Whalen ard Regan said they had | been advised Body admitted he had held up Cardounel, but denied the shooting. .- 'SHOOTING STARS' ARE ASSIGNED T0 ELMENDORF FIELD First Time Jel-Propelled! Fighter Planes Attached to Alaska Command ANCHORAGE, Alaska, —{M—An unannounced number of P-80 “Shooting Stars,” jet-propelled fighter planes, have been assigned to the 57th Fighter Group at Elmen-| March 26. |dori Field. Air Force spokesman said this is the first time jet planes have been actually attached to the Alaskan Air Command. A squadron of P- 80's was stationed at Ladd Field last winter for winterization tests. The spokesman said the switch from conventional type aircraft to jet planes was in line with Air Force policy of streamlining and modern- | izing its equipment ., STEAMER MOVEMENTS | .Alnska. from Seattle, due Mon-| day. ¥ Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Sgturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail | assistance of dependents and other activities of the Welfare program scheduled for 1948, the man had moved. Two | fined | Sighteq On Pacific And later another Navy official aid that three had been reported secn in the Pacific. One was 200 | miles off San Francisco, one off | the Aleutians and a third in an | island group 800 miles west of Hawali. An American airplane— | whether military or commercial | wasn't clear—made the report from | the Aleutians. Merchant ships re- ynor!ed the other two' instances. In | the case nearest San Francisco, the identification of the object sight- | Bembing Bases Secretary of Air Symington told | the Senate Armed Services com- | mittee that B-29s, equipped with a refueling service, could take off from such points as Alaska or La- | brador ‘bomb any part of Russia and return to American bases such | as the Philippines, Okinawa, Alas- ka or Labrador.” On _the other hand, Secretary of the Army Royall said: | “In case of any reasonably pos- 'sible War, no part of the Central Eurgsian land mass could be ef- iectively reached by strategic' homb- |ing from bases on or near the North American continent or from | bases in the Philippines, . . Even from any of the Atlantic island ! nations or from Japan and Alaska, frequent and intensive strategic bombing could touch only frag- mentary parts oi Central Eurasia.” (There has been widespread spec- ulation that Russia is moving a big part of her heavy industry east of the Urals, in Central Eurasia.) Symingten added to his testi- | mony about possible B-29 strikes |against Russia that such attacks “would not be decisive” unless { (| bases nearer the targets became available, Royall and Bradley both termed lairpower a major factor In war — ‘but they also said that a ground army of adequate size must be ready to move forward to seize and defend advance bases for air strikes |against any enemy. And the United States—in event of war—must expect the same Isualegy from the enemy, Royall | | emphasized. | He pointed to Alaska as being within “easy reach of air or air- | borne attack from other countries” and said from there “and other |land on or near this continent, an my could reach America by round-trip bombing.” . Troop Deployment General Bradley presented this ;tnble to show the deployment of the 542,000 men now in the Army and how they”would be deployed from Vancouver March 30. | under expansion into g 782,000-man Northern Voyager, scheduled to|Army: (sail from Seattle, April 2. Present Recom'’ed. Aleutian, from west, scheduled | Far East ..127,000 136,000 southbound Sunday night | Pacitic 9,000 9,000 ————— Alaska 7,000 15,000 DR. BUTLER ON KINY Europe 96,000 93,000 Trieste 5,000 5,000 The Juneau Womans' Club will | Caribbean 14,000 14,000 present Dr. Evelyn Butler, Super-|United States 284,470 510,000 visor of the Social Welfare De-| The Air Force tables included partment of the Alaska Native|Alaska, one fighter group, (about Service, over KINY Monday eve-|72 planes); one rescue squadron. ning, March 20, at 7 o'clock. —— O Dr. Butler will speak on the NOME VISITORS Steve Anderson of Nome is in Juneau and is at the Baranof Ho- tel