The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1948, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,865 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURD/\Y. APRIL 17, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS s PRICE TEN CENTS Proposal Territory Can't Ye! Afford Statehood, Dedlare Executives 0fTwo Newspapers in Alaska FOREIGN AID SUPPLIES TO 3 COUNTRIES Food, Coal, Efc., Be Ship- ped lfaly, France and The Netherlands WASHINGTON, April On the eve of the Itallan elections, the economic cooperation admin- istration said today that $20,424,000 more in food, coal and other com-i‘ modities will be shipped to that| country, France and the Nether- lands. Paul G. Hoffman, ECA chief, said these shipments will be in addition to $37,877,000 in aid authorized for the three countries earlier this week. comes from the new European re- covery program. Hoffman listed these allotments; to the three countries under the; shipping schedule: To France: Coal, $5,658,000; wheat flour, $5,650,000. To Italy: Coal, $6,000,000; whe'lt flour, $1,130,000; Soya flour, $410,- 000; rolled oats, $562,000. To The Netherlands: Wheat, $1,- 014,000. The total for France is 511308- 000, and to Italy $8,102,000. The Western Powers, meanwhile, have made a third demand on Russia for a yes-or-no answer on | 17—P— The money for purchases | ARABS, JEWS | ORDERED T0 STOP FIGHT : UNSC Lays Down Six Spedi- | fic Truce Directives fo Two Factions LARRY | | By HAUCK LAKE SUCCESS, April 17.—#®— The United Nations Security Coun- cil today told the Jews and Arabs |to stop fighting in Palestine, but there is no’ indication either fac- |tion will abide by the order. The Council laid down six specif- ic truce directives to the two fac- tions but at the last minute kill- \ed a provision to send a U. N. ‘Ccmmxsswn to the Holy Land to check on compliance. The final vote came at 2:19 a. 1m. (EST) after five and a halr | hours of debate and paragraph-oby- | paragraph balloting. The emer- |gency night session started only the question of returning Trieste| s few hours after adjournment of to Italy. | the first meeting of a special Gen- Just six hours before the’ formal | epa) Assembly sessicn on the Pales- wind-up of the Italian campaign,'tine problem. in which the Communists are bid-| Russia refused to support the ding for control, the United States.|truyce proposal, but Andrei A. Britaih and France in effect called | Gromyko withheld his Big-Power cn Moscow yesterday to quit stall- ing over their proposal to tunm Trieste back to Italy. The Western demand served as a final reminder to millions of Italians voting Sunday that Rus-| sia blocks the way to the border city’s return. The closing stroke climaxed a long series of measures aimed at' winning friends for western demo- cracy in the strategic nation. The Washington Merry - G_o- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — In maneuvers over Great Britain, the Air Force| has demonstrated its ability to slip| a bombing mission of B-29 super- fortresses through the equivalent of Russia’s defenses. Lt. Gen. Curtis LeMay, Air Force chief in Europe, arranged with the Royal Air Force to send a mock mission against Britain’s tight in- tercepter and radar net. Because of long experience during the war, the British net is supposed to. be the most efficient in the worlds However, the B-29s not only broke “ through to their tagget, but most of them were never detected. Secret of the American success was altitude. The big forts flew| in a ceiling of 35000 feet. As a result of the maneuvers, Air Force strategists are convinced that the “iron curtain” around the Soviet could never stop a high- flying mission of B-29s, especially since Rissia’s defenses are stretch- ed out over thousands of miles, compared to area defended by Britain. i Note—The joint British-American maneuvers were pulled oif by Gen- eral LeMay without orders from ‘Washington. MacARTHUR'S TRIUMPHAL TOUR Generai MacArthur’'s political boosters dre trying to find a way to revive their hero’s battered pop- ularity. Despite the drubbing Mac- Arthur received in California, Wis- consin and Nebraska, Congressman A. L. Miller of Nebraska says: “MacArthur did not quit at Bataan, and he is still a very live candi- date now. I am amazed that any- one should count the General out.” Next move being urged by Mac- Arthur’s -friends is his immediate return to the United States for a hero's ovation. If MacArthur flies “(Continued on Page Four) the relatively small| |veto and abstained. The Soviet kraine joined Russia as usual. | This made the final ballot 9 to 0. The truce terms direct the Jews |and Arabs to end all military ac- tivities, violence, terrorism and | sabotage; reirain from bringing in- to Palestine armed bands and | fighting personnel; stop import- ing weapons and war materials, and cease all political activity. S AL DON FOSTER GIVES ILLUSTRATED TALK, P-TA MEET MONDAY | The most widely scattered school |system of the United States will be discussed by Don Foster, Superin- endent of the Alaska Native Ser- vice, in an illustrated lecture at the P-TA meeting Monday, April 19, at 8 pm. in the High School Study Hall. Kodachrome slides will be used. Other phases of life in the far north will also be shown including sod houses, fur seals, reindeer, dog teams land other interesting subjects. | An added attraction will be vocal selections by a group of boys and girls from the High School chorus under the direction of Miss Monica Farley. The program will include, “The Old Oaken Bucket,” “Juanita” and “Stars of the Summer Night.” ‘The business meeting will include the election of officers so all mem- {bers are urged to attend. Refreshments will be served at the close of the meenng PAN AMERICAN HEAD . EXPECTED IN JUNEAU | i i , Capt. Harold E. Gray, Alaska di- vision manager for Pan American Airways, is expected in Juneau Mon- day on an inspection trip of Alaska bases to determine the company’s |ability to handle the summer peak | Nome, Fairbanks, Whitehorse, neau and Ketchikan on his trip. A pioneer over-ocean pilot, Capt. Gray joined Pan American in 1929, helped to establish the Latin Ameri- can routes, and pioneered the com- Ju- [traffic load. Capt, Gray will visit| By VERN HAUGLAND WASHINGTON, April 17—P—| Two Alaska newspaper executives said today they feel tne Territory cannot yet afford statehood. The expenses which statehood in- olves would force an almost con- | fiscatory tax burden upon Alaskans, said M Helen Troy Monsen uneau, and Miss Miriam Dickey, Fairbanks. The high taxes a state govern- | ment would require would drive ! off investcrs at a time when out- side capital is particularly essen- tial for development of a pulp paper industry and other Alaskan ventures, they told a reporter. Mrs. Monsen, daughter of a form- er Territorial Governor, is lisher of the Daily Alaskan Empire at Juneau Miss Dickey, Executive Secrctary to Alaska's millionaire A. E. La- throp, night Sun Broadcasting Co., and its radio stations—KFAR at Fair- banks and KENI, to be opened May 2 at Anchorage—and of the Tanana | E |5 E | Publishing Co., and its publication, | the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. They will sail from New York, City Thursday, on the Queen Mary, fcr several months' in Europe. In Washington they attended a Senate Territories = Subcommittee hearing on proposed Hawalian statehood legislation. “We heard a lot of testimony | dealing in generalities about the blessings of statehood, but not; one witness presented a factual cost estimate bkalancing the prob- able expense and other dhadvan-‘hfive received the base of $2 per hour | tages against the prospective bene- fits,” Mrs. Monsen commented. Miss Dickey added: “We want statehood when we can achieve it proudly and suc- cessfully, not when we would be inviting bankruptcy. When we get more people and more capital, statehood will come naturally.” JOHNSON DEMANDS ECONOMY MEASURES CTY GOVERNMENT City Council fo Hold Special Meet on Applications for City Positions Strict economy in the City ad- ministration was urged last night by Councilman W. Burr Johnson at the regular meeting of the Ju- neau City Council. The subject arose when Councilman James Larsen, of the City Police Com-, mittee, recommended the appoint-’ ment of two new patrolmen to full existing vacancies. Johnscn said that many cuts will have to be made this year in ev- . ery City Department including the Police. He explained, as Chairman of the Finance Committee, that: costs have risen whilé the Cltysl income has not increased from last year. He said that the City barely got by last year and. ‘wiil face considerable difficulty in breaking even during the year. The appointment of the proposed two new patrolmen, William H. | Sherlock and Frank Cavanaugh, was postponed until next week when the Council will hold a spec- ial meeting to consider applications | for all City positions. Applicants are requested to submit their ap- plications by Tuesday evening to City Clerk C. L. Popejoy. Acting Police Chief Walter O. Sinn revegled that all meri in the Department have geen working without days off for some time. He said that a total of approximately 60 days off has now been accumu- lated. Councilman v recommended that all City Police~ pub- | is an official of the Mid-| next Edward Nielsen |active in establishing Pan Ameri- can’s ground operations connecting pany's Atlantic circuuit. He was a«lso, men ke fingerprinted and Sinn consented to this procedure. City Cleanup Week Seattle with Ketchikan and Juneau. Mayor Hendrickson announced He was appointed division mamagerl that the Juneau Chamber of Com- with headquarters in S8an Francisco| merce will assist the City in con- in Nov. 1947, ducting Cleanup Week from April Other company executives from 24 to May 3. At the same time, San Francisco touring Alaska on|the Council recommended publiciz- routine inspection are Capt. Gordon ing the City Ordinance on gar- F. Maxwell, Richard Campbell and{ __ = Frank Hull. (Continued On rage Two) CARPENTERS TURNDOWN ~ EMPLOYERS 'Union Rejefiecommen- i dation of Own Nego- fiating Committee The Juneau Local of the AFL Carpenters and Joiners of America ' \rejected the action of its Negotiating | Committee last night and refused to |accept an offer by the Juneau Con- |tractors and Employers Association. The union’s Negotiating Com- | mittee had recommended acceptance of the Association offer which, ac- cording to reliable sources, was al- |most exactly what the union had ’c‘em‘mded when it quit work on | March 31. The Association was in- {formed of the union action at a | special noon meeting today. Union President Ear] Estepp re- signed from the Negotiating Com- mittee after the union failed to sup= port him vn the proposed agreement. The offer made by the Association contained considerable concessions |on its part although the carpenters | | had given very little. Under the proposed agreement, the entire AFL Juneau Building Trades Council would use the wage Iscales of June 1947 as a basis for computing the costs of living every three months. The index would be added or subtracted from this scale in fractions of five percent, Would Pay $2.20 Hourly 'ing index, which is 13.3 percent over (June 1947, according to the agree- | ment of the Negotiating Commit- tee, the union carpenters would plus 20 cents for a total $2.20 per | hour. The balance of 6.6 cents would | |be included in the next adjustment |of wages. The carpenters had asked | | for $2.25 per hour with the contrac- | itors first offering $2.06':per hour. ‘ A statement on possible action of | kthe Association could not be had/ \Bt press time but some observers pre- | dicted that they would not make| jany further attempts to negotiate| |until the carpenters come down in their demands. The opinion expressed by the car- penters at their meeting was that they will hold out for a base pay of $2.25 now with cost-of-living ad- ! justments made from that scale JACK HAYES WILL LEAVE MONDAY; | NEW ASSIGNMENT Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hayes are on board the Baranof on Monday. Hayes, who has been the Resident FBI Agent in Juneau for the past |the states. He has been in Alaska | for four years with the FBL Their infant daughter, Mary, will accompany them to their new home. Hayes has been a member of the FBI since 1942. He and Mrs. Hayes |um leave many mendfi here CTY COUNCIL NAMES OFFICIALS FOR BOTH OF APRIL ELECTIONS Election otficials for the next two elections were appointed by the Ju- regular meeting. For the Territorial Primary Elec- tions on Tuesday, April 27, the offi- cials for three precincts are as fol- lows: No. 1—Judges: Mrs. Donald Hanebury, Mrs. C. E. Rice and Mrs. \Edwin Sutton. Clerks: The Rev. Wil- lis R. Booth and the Rev. Robert Treat. No. 2.—Judges: Mrs. Bert Lybeck, Mrs. H. L. McDonald and Mrs. C. E. Naghel. Clerks: Miss Nell McClos- key and the Rev. G, Herbert Hiller- man. No. 3—Judges: Mrs. Beatrice Al- begoff, Mrs. Robert Burns and Mrs. Gudmond Jensen. Clerks: Mrs. Dew= ey Baker and Grant Baldwin. For the Special City Election on the proposed bond issue, Thursday, April 29, there will be only one pre- cinet. It will be located in the City Hall. Officials are as follows: Judges: Mrs. Donald Hanebury, Based on the present cost of liv-| {two years, is being" transferred to| neau City Council last mgm at its} ardU S Agal i s In this air | speed of 619 miles an hour. MANN 15 10 WRITE UPALASKA SEATTLE, April 17—(®—Dr. Eric Mann, professor and lecturer, left | here today aboard the S. S. Aleutian ito find out how the Alaska “man- | in-the-street” ! { | developments that “may change the | i face” of the Territory. | "He Will use the material he gath- |ers in his month-long stay for a | serfes of 120 lectures in the United | States on Alaska. Dr. Mann said before his departure that he consi but of “tremendous | portance.” “It will some day be one of the i world'’s key spots,” he asserted ANS IS T0 RE-OPEN ' BOARDING SCHOOL NEAR ANCHCRAGE strategic im- Accommodating Child- ren of B Patients ‘The Eklutna Bearding School is to be re-opened by the Alaska Native | Service according to plans announc- ed today by Don C. Foster, General Superintendent of ANS, The school, located 23 miles from Anchorage, 'was closed in 1946 but Foster feels {that a new plant should be con- structed and the school reactivated. | He explained that children, of tuberculosis sanatorium patients, will become welfare cases because i them. Foster declared that the school which would accommodate 400 children, will prove an ideal solution to such problems. request for necessary funds in his 1850 budget reguirements. he is considering several sites in the vicinity of Anchorage for a propos- ed new government hospital and sanatorium. He said there were some excellent sites within the city as well as near Palmer. GILLISPIE T0 BUILD G. E. Gillespie, the Juneau| Bhoe Repair Shop, has recently pur- of feels about coming | | ers the Territory not only romantic | gFoster Explr..ns Need for| scheduled to leave here permanently | Foster said that he will include a| The ANS head also reported that | AUK BAY RESIDENCE ew, four of the Air Force's P-84 Thunderjets roar across the sky in piggy-back formation. The 14th Fighter Wing of the First Air Force is the first to be supplied with these jets which attain an air The group is to guard the northeast approaches to the United States | against air attack. (International Soundphoto) Bristol Bay “Fish Season Open June 25, Five Sailings of Freighl 1 Scheduled for May and Early June ! | ANOIHER RULING - ABOUT SHIPMENTS ALASKA FREIGHT| 13 Connors, Collector {that instructions had just been re- {ceived to the effect that shippers declarations are not required cov- tering commodities shipped by air- {craft ‘| States. Recent legislation provided | i(cr elimination of such declarations | when goods moved by vessel and | the present ruling covering aircraft has the effect of discontinuing such vessel and air movements 1 1 iexpense of both shippers and trans-, portation cumpames each year. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Aleutian scheduled to | Seattle today, due Tuesday. Princess Louise scheduled to ‘sail from Vancouver April 20. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- attle April 22. Baranof scheduled southbound early Monday morning D JUDGE HOLZHEIMER LEAVING HOSPITAL TODAY FOR HIS Judge Willlam Holzheimer is SEATTLE, April 17.—(®—With the It was announced today by James| of Customs, | from Alaska to the United| sail from HOME nst Air Atfack i | { BOAT HARBOR DISCUSSED BY CITY COUNCIL Juneau's Small Boat Harbor problems occupied considerable time at last night's regular meeting of | |the Juneau City Council. In order to permit access to the. prupuwi enlargement of the Boat arbor, Councilman James Larsen's proposal was passed that the city jconstruct a sidewalk in the Waynor 1Add.non as far as the City limits, in trade for two access roads to the {new harbor. One road . would bej a(l feet: wide and thé other 35 feet| in width. The access would be grant- ed by the Juneau Realty Co. | Councilman Edward Nielsen re- | |ported that he will investigate the | possibility of installing coin-operat- | ed electric power meters at the Har- bor for the convenience of boats. He said that the City may experi- meht with thig, idea on one or two {floats before maklng a complete in- | stallation. ! The Council approved the recom- |mendation of Councilman Joe| Thibodeau for the purchase of three | i2-man hand pumps to be used us] | tire-tighting equipment at the Boat ! Harbor. t A complaint on the dumping of garbuge and other refuse at the |Harbor was heard from the audi- ence. The speaker recommended |that an investigation be made ot] persons dumping garbage and other | scraps there. City Street Departmentl | Foreman Bert Lybeck reported !hal] l | opening of the salmon season in | Bristol Bay set for June 25, five sailings for that district were an-| unced today ty the Alaska Steam- ship Company. { The motorships Rose Knot and | Square Knot, are scheduled out May 8, the steamer Edmond Mallet May 115 and the steamer Peter J. McGuire {June 1. The fifth vessel, the steamer Cape Victory is tentatively set to sail June 10. inew garbage cans are to be installed fon each float Monday. Bend Issue Discusscd Mayor W. E. Hendrickson was au- thorized by the Council to take steps | City bond issue which will be ;zul{ speak over KINY on the subject Om of the bond issue discussion ! Con!lnue-d on Pnge Three) | LM T SR Made To Build Railroad To Alaska Thundenels Gu INVOLVES EASTERN CAPITAL :Government Assistance fo Be Asked-Seattle Man Announces Plan SEATTLE, Apnl 17—P—A Se- attle civil engineer said he repred sents an eastern syndicate which hopes to obtain from Congress within a few weeks financlal as- sistance toward the bullding of a railroad to Alaska. The engineer, Willis T. Batchel- ler, who made preliminary engin- eering studies of Grand Coulee Dam for Washington state, said the plan is for the syndicate to build part of the road and the government the remainder. He said that before eastern capi- talists are prepared to put up a planned $200,000,000, the American and Canadian governments must | brovide $375,000,000. He reported he has conferred with both the American and Can- adian governments on a number { of occasions since last summer. He sdidt he believes a bill providing for funds will be introduced shortly in Congress. Batcheller, President of a Se- attle firm of copsulting engineers ‘benrmg his name, said he expects to see preliminary work started this mid-summer on the line north from Prince George, B. C, to | Fairbanks. The eastern capitalists, he said, would put up the money to pur- chase and rehabilitate the provin- cially owned Pacific Great Eastern Railway of British Columbia and to extend it into Vancouver on the southern end and irom Quensel on to Sifton Pass on the northern end, Before this could ke done, he said, the American and Canadian governments must provide $375,- 000,000 to extend the line as a military defense measure from Sif- ton Pass to Fairbanks, Alaska. The plan of the eastern capital- Ists, according to Batcheller, pro- vides for branches of the road from Finley Forks into the Peace River block, terminating at Hudson Hope, B. C, and Dawson Creek, B. C. The government-financed portion of the system would also provide yfor a branch between Whitehorse and Norman, Northeast Territory, bisecting the main line near the Junction of the Pelly and Ross Rivers, - .o BUCKY HARRIS BA(K {FROM LECTURE TRIP THROUGHOUT STATES Bucky Harris, Secreiary of the- Alaska Sportsman’s Assoclation, re- turned to Juneau yesterday after touring the states for better than two months on a trip designed to attract more tourist trade to the Territory. Harris said that outside interest in Alaska is much greater than he ori- shippers declarations in case of huth"‘" publicizing the proposed $275,000 | ginally thought, and that response to his lectures was a fair indication before the voters on April 29. He{that the Terri; It was estimated that the elimina- he Territory would see an in- {parents would be unable to care for - of these declarations will save| Was instructed to issue a detailed |creased number of tourists this sum- | thousands of dollars of time and Statement to the Empire and to|mer. Harris explained that outside interest is.nct conlined to one field, but includes hunting, fishing, pho- tography and travel. After leaving the sports show in Chicago, Harrls visited more than |22 states from coast to coast when | lecturing to both business and sports chased four Forest Service bulldmgs: leaving 8t. Ann's Hospital this af- located at Auk Lake which he plans| ternoon and will return to his! to tear down and transport the|home in the Klein building. He is! lumber and fixtures to the old Spaulding place a mile distant on Auk Bay where he intends to build a home, Gillespie plans salvaging opera- derway about June 1. | now sulficiently recovered from | his recent {illness. D o o ANCHORAGE VISITORS Bill Wand, T. H. Dugan, —— |Sutton. Clerks: The Rev. Willis R.! construction of the new place un- Thornson, from Anchorage, aré at e Booth and the Rev. Robert Treat. the Baranof Hotel. Vir-| Mrs. C. E. Rice and Mrs. Edwin|tions immediately and hopes to have ginia Donaho and Mr. and Mrs. E| . . . 8 {* WEATHER REPORT e |"%cciations. le (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU o | Harris said that more than 600,- | @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:20 a.m. today @ |000 DErsons were contacted at the {l In Juneau— Maximum, 47; e]Chicago and Seattle Sports Shows {® minimum, 5. o |and the lectures. | ® At Airport— Maximum, 41; e |® minimum, 32. . "E"A"A '(E . WEATHER FORECAST . ® | (Juneau and Vieinity) . ® Continued cloudy with snow @ In private advices received by the e flurries this afternoon and © Empire from Nenana, dated April | ® tonight, clearing Sunday 12, it looked like a May ice breakup. |® Lowest temperature tonight ©(On the night of the 1lth, it was ® near freezing ® (down to zero and snowing. During . PRECIPITATION ® !the day it was freezing. ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 & m. today @ i —— ® In Juneau— .07 inches; e WILLIAMS TO ANCHORAGE “n since April 1, .18 inches; e Acting Governor Lew M. Will- i® since July 1, 8L15 hes. | o !iams will leave here tomorrow for 1® At the Airport-— 06 hes; o Anchorage where he will appear ® since April 1, 1 inches; e)as a witness in the lawsuit con- ® since July 1, 4853 inches. e cerning adjusted credit ratings for e employers coming under the Un~ » ® e » v ¢ employment Compensation Act. D A