The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 3, 1948, Page 1

VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,878 “ALL THE NEWS THE DAILY ALASKA ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDA\ MAY 3, 1948 MhMB R AbeClATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Two Year Draft Measure Is Now Proposed OHI0 VOTES IN PRIMARY ON TUESDAY Taft and Stassen Wind Up| State Campaign in Bat- fle for Delegates (By The Associated Press) | Senator Robert A. Taft and Ha- | rold E. Stassen wind up their Ohio lelegate battle today amid signs that the cutcome may sway early| GOP pr:sidential “alloting at Phila- delphia. Both candidates planned last hour appeals over state-wide radio hook- ups tonight in their contest over 23 of Ohio's 53 presidential nominating votes, Both camps expressed confidence in the results when upwards of 700,000 Republicans go to the polls in tomorrow's primary. DURING WEEKEND Rhode, Ralston and Ball] Arrive in Juneauon | Service Business clsence J. Rhoae, Regional Di-| i sector-of the U S. Fist: #nd Wis, life Service, returned here over the weekend from Anchorage. He will spend about a week in Juneau be-| fore returning to the Westward and| wind up his affairs there before re- maining permanently in his new of-| fice. | George B. Kelez, Fisheries Man- agement Supervisor, will leave here within a few days to take care ol‘ official business in Seattle. Dan Ralston, newly appointed Lm Enforcement Supervisor, also drmed‘ over the weekend with Mrs. Ralston I Ralston, who is a former Juneau Police Chief and Territorial High- way Patrolman, will reside at the 20th Century Apartments, John N. Ball, Chief of Operations of the Wildlife Refuge Branch, ar- rived here from Washington, D. C to participate in military land res-j ervations hearings here. | G i - VIA HOLDS BUSINESS | MEETING SUNDAY EVE The Vanderbilt Improvement As-| sociation met at the Salmon Creek | Country Club Sunday evening for a tusiness and banquet. Several matters in regard to road‘ improvements relative to the popu- lace of Glacier Highway residents were completed. The Washingion‘ Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON—Two years have now passed since this column ex- posed the fact that Senator EIl- mer Thomas of Oklahoma was gambling on the commodity market while makfhg Senate speeches cal- culated to influence the market. The story at that time was vig- orously denied. And since Senators believe each other rather than a mere newspaperman, naturally they did nothing about it. However, six months have now ‘passed since Senator Thomas braz- enly réversed his denial and pub- licly admitted that he had been speculating. As a result, a Sen- ate subcommittee supposedly has been investigating Senator Thomas. But nothing has happened. Not a peep has home out of the Senate committee. Reams of additional information regarding Thomas’ amazing deals in cotton, silver, and the weird characters with whom he gambled, have now been furn- ished Senator Ferguson of Michi- gan, chairman of the subcommit- tee. Ferguson is an able Senator. B sl Db 0 iy 2 (Continued on Page Four) SPRINGC HARBINGERS — Pretty Joan Layion of New York enjoys blooming dogwoods at Lakewood ARABS WAIT ON ATTACK, PALESTINE (By the Associated Press) | The Jewish army Haganah in-| sisted today that armies of Syria and Lebanon have invaded north- ern Palestine, but an AP report- er touring the frontier found no sign of an attack. The Arabs de- nied there had been an invasion and said it was unlikely the Arabs would strike until May 15, when Great Britain abandons her League of Nations mandate. Palestine enjoyed peace for the moment. Armed truces were in effect in Jerusalem and Jaffa, | focal points of battle last week. | The British landed 1,000 troops in | Haifa to deal with what they call- |ed a “seriously deteriorated” sit- uation. The British cruiser New- castle patrolled off Jafia. The United Nations resumed talk on emergency measures to save Pales- tine. Arab refugees streaming from Palestine were critical of their {leaders. Scme said it looked like (a case of “too little and too late.” | They said the once vaunted Yar- muk army of Fawzi Bey Al Kauk- ji really never numbered more than 3,000 troops. They said the | Jews had 60,000 or more trained | troops, 23,000 of them wartime vet- jed of an 30,000. invasion army of only KEYNOTER Gov. Dwight H. Ureca (above) of Illinois was named temporary chairman and keynoter of the June Republican convention in Phllallelphia. ® Pheto. BIGPLANES DISPLAYED them VConglE%i‘ poiled 2,131 votes. R. H. | The nation’s major meat pack-|Stock, Republican seeking the post, j ers, meanwhile, reported some suc- wpolled 396. Both automatically get | cess in their back-to-werk drive,|their party’s nomination and will| but the CIO meat handlers unionloppose each other in the gencr'fl said its members were hnldmy,mlec-mn because they had no opposi-| | firm {tion in the primary. | Members the National (Rail-| Flection officials sald it may be iiation Board resumed |three weeks before all fourtn divi- s in Chicago, designed |Sion returns are in from the far-| [to avert a strike of some 190,000 |flung precincts railrcad workers set for May 11. | With 36 of the division’s 65 pre- | ! aMediator Douglass said |¢incts reported, including the ci'y of | I beth railroad labor and manage- Fairtanks, this was the lineup tor ! ment remain too far apart on |Other offices: t | i | BY RUSSIA WASHINGTON, May 3—®—The| »ig, four-engined planes that Rus-| sia put on display over the weekend | may provide a new insight into neri airborne army equipment. Military experts here await the' arrival of more detailed reports from United States diplomatic observers at the May Day Parade before an- alyzing what the Red Air Force put out for show. It is likely that at least some ol the big planes were the Soviet Tu-70, an aircraft bearing close resemblance to the American B-29. The assumption has been that the Russians copied many of the fea- ures of five B-29's known to have been forced down in Soviet-con-! trolled areas during the war, Photographs of the Tu-70 indl- cate it may be a hybrid transport bomber. .- LEGION DINNER Juneau Post N. 4, of the Ameri- can Legion, will meet in the Dug- out at 6:30 o'clock tonight for a special dinner. The feed will be followed by a short business meet- ing. {an effort to narrow down the wage | walkout ASST. SECRETARY WM. WARNE, OTHER OFFICIALS ON VISIT | Meetings, Hearings for Int. Dept. Executive | Many Federal Government offi- clals arrived here over the weekend in connection with the Juneau visit of William E. Warne, Assistant Sec- retary of the Interior. Col. J. P. Johnson, General Mana- ger of the Alaska Railroad, and his Executive Assistant, Larry R. Moore, came here from Anchorage. Lowell M. Puckett, Regional Di- réctor of the Bureau of Land Man- agement, also came here from Anch- | orage to confer with Secretary ;h'n(- James F. Doyle, Bureau of | d Management Attorney, came here from Portland, Ore John N. Ball, Chief of Operations of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Ser- Washington, D. C. | A heavy schedule of conferences is scheduled for Warne and the |other officials during their stay in| Juneau This morning, vice for a survey of reindeer conditions and a census of those animals to be made after July 1 by the Native Ser- vice. Don C. Foster, ANS Superin-| {erans in Haganah. The Arabs talk-|tendent, explained that efforts will| be made to rehabilitate the 1em~. deer industry. This afternoon, ¢A conferenc Warne attended |duneau Lion’s Club at noon tor | luncheon. Big Vole in ' 4th Division By Democrals FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 3—(# ‘With three-fourths of the fourth IKES o I,UZ SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK The Associated Press) (By Territorial Administrative posts con- | Strikes in both have been sei|tinued to draw a heavier vote than for nest week, but last minute in the Republican Primary. | efforts being waged to stave! E. L. Bartlett, present delegate to off Attorney General—J. Gerald Wil-| liam, Democrat, 1,245 votes, and Al- is es of a threatened strike for n to call a joint meeting. Since 2 R Thursday he has been meeting |Ter J. Peterson, Republican 1057.| with the disputants separately in Both are automatically nominated Auditor:—Frank Boyle, incumbent, | leading Harry B. Deland 1461 to 390 for the Democratic nomination. | Republican Albert Goetz, automati-| cally nominated, 521. | Highway Engineer—Donald Mac-| Donald II leading incumbent Frank | Metcalf for the Democratic party nomination 1,724 to 494. Republican iIra Farnsworth, automatically nom- | inated, drew 521. ‘ Leaders in the divisional races| for party nominations for two Sen- | ate and five House seats are: Senate—Democrats, Frank Barr| and Jesse Lander; Republicans, John | Butrovich and Clarence Woofter. i House—Democrats, Essie Dale, | Warren Taylor, Frank Angerman,| Glen Franklin, Robert Hoopes; Re-| publicans, A. F. Coble, George Mis- | covich, Walter Calhoun, Lawrence ‘Meath a.nd Alden ‘Wilbur, | BARANOF SOUTHBOUND | WITH 13 PASSENGERS The Baranof, steaming southward, iarrived, in Juneau this morning at 10 o'clock with six passengers for here and left an hour and a half later for Seattle with 13 persons from |Juneau on board as follows: From Cordova: H. Gerstman. From Seward: Leonard Lauri, Mrs. Bessie Quinto and child, and; Fred and, Albert Vailletti. | To Seattle: Mrs. Alma Carlson, and rules issues and avert the! <~y TRUCE IS SOUGHT BY RED CROSS LAKE SUCCESS, May 3-+/®— Britain told the United Nations to- day that the International Red Cross is trying to negotiate a Jewish-Arab truce fqr Jerusalem. The British report was made at a secret session of the U. N. trustee- ship council by J. Fletcher-Cooke, British Palestiie expert. He said an announcement might be made in Jerusalem late today if the Jews and Arabs agree to the truce. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise, from Vancouver, scheduled to arrive at 5 o'clock this afternoon, sailing for Skagway at 11 p. m. Aleutian, from Seattle, schedul- ed to arrive at 8 or 9 o'clock to- morrow morning. !Mrs. Ann DeLong, Mrs. George| Alaska, scheduled to sail !romxsmmtdt and K. Schmidt, Mrs. Wil-{ Seattle Thursday. /lard Jones, T. C. Hammerson, Mr. Baranof scheduled to sail from and Mrs. C. Mueller, J.. D. Stover iand John Tale. Beattle Saturday. Labor-management relations en- divislon’s ties tn. £ip A1 [ e iod oy | din's o B a1y -t ailroad and automotive indus- | {£8 .Ocm - AR aves for their party’s nomination for |1ast night. Twisters hit in Missouri, “0 o009 00000000000 0 Ve ™4 This evering, he will atiend a pui- lic meeting of the Juneau City | Councu in the Council Chambers. 'omorrc w, most of the visiting officials will ke present at hearings, in the Senate, on land reservations by the Army, Air Force and Navy in the Aleutians. | At noon, Secretary Warne will be the luncheon guest of the Rotary Club. Tomorrow evening, Warne will be guest of honor at a no-host din- ner in the Baranof Hotel. The public is invited to attend but reservations |must be made not later than noon tomorrow at the City Hall or the Baranof Hotel. The dinner, which| |Legins at 8 p.m., will cost $2.50 per | plate. | Wednesday, Warne will leave here on a tour of SE Alaska poin 21 ARE DEAD; 160 INJURED BYTORNADOES (By The Associated Press) Tornadoes and violent windstorms | whipped, across seven states over the weekend, killing at least 21 persons and injuring more than 160. Property damage was estimated i | the millions. West Virginia and Kentucky com- munities were lashed by tornadoes | | | | n Cklahoma and Kansas Saturday.| High winds and, heavy rains occurred in Indiana and Illinois The death toll by states: West Virginia: six; Kentucky: four; Oklahoma: five; Missouri: three; Kansas two: Illincis: one. > ® e 0 s 0000 WEATHER REPORT (U, 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-hour period ending 7:30 this morning In Juneau— Maximum, 47; minimum 33. At Airport— Maximum, 27; minimum, 29. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Variable cloudiness with very, light rain showers to- night. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau— Trace; since July 1, 8144 inches. At Airport—Trace; July 1, 4875 inches. e e s 0 e woeow — e POTTERY CLUB MEETING since Te®ee®ecscsvcccessen vice Refuge Branch, came here nom, Warne met with | officials of the Alaska Native Ser-| and concluded arrangements, vice and the Fish and Wildlite Ser- of all Interior Depart-| ment officials in this area at the; |R. Arfeneault, 34 years old, of B}cat-k Decision on Colored Persons lOwnmg Homes in Whife Areas Heavy Schedule of Pubhc“Handed Down by H|ghesl Court iS ELECTIVE SERVICEISUP TO CONGRESS | [ w \"th(.'mN May 3.—P— f MOTHER OF YEAR |+ V37500 o et o House Commiftee Reports lh«wnui cou enforcement of re- . » Lemictive real estate agreements| 0N New Bill-Up for De- which bar persons from all-white | nelghborhoods because of “race or bate Next Week color.’ || chtet Justice Viuson wroie wo| WASHINGTON, May 5.—(— ‘(\pml(,ns upholding in full the|pne House Armed Services Com- rights, of colored property OWNers.|mittee today eapproved 28 to 5 & ‘()ue opinion dealt with state court “ actions, the other with Federal court cases. Justices Jackson, Reed and Rut- ledge took mno part in the case. Joining with Vinson were Justices Black, Frankfurter, Douglas, Mur- phy and Burton - Opinion of Justices The six Justices at the same time refused to declare that Such restrictive agreements are them- selves invalid. Vinson wrote that 50 long as the agreements are voluntarily adhered to, without en- forcement assistance by Federal or state courts, they violate no law. In the case of state courts, Vin- scn said the “historical context in which the 14th amendment became a part of the constitution” must not be forgotten The decisions were given on ap- | | | peals filed on behalf of colored families in St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D. C. The families | : were | Mrs. Helen Gartside Hines, 60, | sews in her home at Springfield, L. Mrs. Hines was named “Am- barred by court injunctions from living in houses which they purchased in white neighborhoods. The court.also in effect upheld i erican Mether of the Year” by |2 decision that top movie com- | the American Mothers Committee ~Panics must pay heavy damages of the Gelden Rule: Foundation. | (0F refusing to license their best: features for first-run showing - by @ Pheto. an independent theatre. GOV. DEWEY - IN OREGON FOR VOTES Movie Case Decision The decision gave $375,000 dam- ages to William Goldman, opera- tor of the Erlanger Theatre in Philadelphia. The Supreme Court recused to review it, thus permit- ting it to stand unchanged despite !legal attacks by the leading mo- tion picture firms. In appealing to the Supreme Court, these firms said more than| 60 similar suite are pending against ! them. Many millions of dollars ere involved. PORTLAND, May While L g 31— |bled for neutral sideline positions, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey set out to- (day on an intensive quest for Ore- \gons Republican Presidential P !mary preference May 21 It was a clear-cur race. The cm\‘ | other contender was Harold A. %m\- sen of Minnesota, Sen. Taylor Is Arrested Dewey set a fast pace ior his first day—a tempo unlikely to be 4 n Alabama slowed during the ensuing three| weeks of campaigning which will! |take him the length and breadth of | J Oregon, and with side jaunts into| , WASHINGTON, May 3 7'.4"- | Senator Taylor of Idaho told lh(‘ Washingten. On the outcome he s was staking his political prestige | enate today he doubts he would be against Stassen. \nuve if he had let himself be pro- T s e !voked into “talking back” to police| |after his arrest in Birmingham, Ala. Taylor said two police officers, (Ap] Bkow" (REW'taklng him to jail, drove through open country and along a lonely| | road. CF TUGBOAT, GET, HONORS FROM ARMY SEATTLE, Wagh. May 3—®—TIt! was a hice piece of work performed ‘lby Capt. Neal H. Brown and his| Army tugboat crew in rescuing all| “It was obvious they had taken ,n detour, just hoping I would pro-| voke something.” he said. If he had made any move toward | |Tesisting the officers, Taylor said,| “I am not sure L would be here| today. In fact, I am not sure I‘ would be alive today.” Taylor, Vice Presidential candi-| |date of Henry A, Wallace's new par- hands from another Army craft ¢ H stranded off Mantague Island nmdy ‘:’“Shme" ed on a disorderly con- | Alaskan waters ri itly. uct charge. Police said he tried to |enter a Southern Negro Youth (un- {ference meeting through a door| tle skipper and his crew have re-|MArked “Negroes” and violated seg- | ceived official commendation irom |FeRation laws. He was freed on bail|, Lt. Col. Vancel R. Beck, transpor- |1 @ trail tomorrow. | tation officer, U. 8. Army, Alaska.| The rescixe kouk’fl;:c April 5. (Ru'“’i’if wR"ERS NORTHLAND TRANS. 10 DISCUSS POETRY\ SUED BY EMPLOYEE |...c:’.coichi s 750 ek n ?A"' FOR INJURY TO BACK' cluh rooms of the Town Hall Rec- SEATTLE, May 3 And for their “coolness and “ef- ficiency” in doing the job, the Seat-| | | | Tonight is Poetry night, and verse (M—Harmedas | writers, whether members or not, are invited to attend for a discus- tle, has filed suit in United States|sion of verse forms and analysis to District Court against the Northland | today’s poetry. Take your poetry to Transportation Comparty and its |read. A new program for short story | cfficers seeking $15250 for a back ! writers will be started tonight, and| injury received February 22 when!all writers are urged to be present. The Pottery Club will meet on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Club rooms in the Town Hnll' Recreation Center. he fell from a gangplank of lhe‘ oy merchant vessel Palisana at Whit-| VANCOUVER VISITOR tier, Alaska. Arfeneault was employed as a wi-|is in Juneau and staying at the {per in the engine room. | Baranof Hotel. leading Oregon Republicans scram- ' ! | | determined by the President. reation Center, the A. B. Hall. | J. A. Robertson from Vancouver, ! two-year draft bill. | The vote puts the issue for selec- | tive service formally before Con- gress for the first time since the war. 5 Before voting, the committee heard Secretary of Defense For- restal call the measure “excellent.” “There is an immediate and im- perative demand 'for something to aygment. the size of our armed forces,” he said. ‘“This bill pro- vides it.” The five committee members voting against the bill were Reps. Short (R-Mo.,), Bishop (R-IIL), Philbin (D-Mass), Havenner (D- Calif.), and Hefferman (D-NY.). Regula: Service Draft ‘The House bill provides only & ‘I(n' a draft for regular service. Andrews has been assured by House leaders that the biill will be called up for debate next week. These are the bill's principal pro- visions: 1. It would raise the total auth- orized . manpower of the Armed | Forces to 2,005882—Army 837,000, (Alr Force 502000, and Navy and | Marine Corps 666,882. The present | total strength is 1,384,500. 2..Men from 18 through 30 | would be registered, with ~those from 19 through 25 liable for two I years' service. Men in the 19-26 group could enlist voluntarily in the regular army for two years {but in no other service. | Most Vets Exempt 3. Most veterans would be ex- empt from service, but those under 31 would have to register. 4. Industrial plants could be |seized by the government if they \xerused to give top priorities to armament orders, or if they did not provide equipment at what the | Secretary of Defense considered reasonable prices. 5. Doctors up to 45 years old could be drafted for two years' /| service. 6. Ministers, divinity students ,and some consclentious objectors jwould be exempt from service. 7. Deferments for schooling, de- pendency and occupation would be 8. The law would expire two years after lt went mw effect. HOWARD BRUCE NOMINATED FOR POSITION ON EC WASHINGTON, May 3P Howard Bruce of Maryland was nominated today to be Deputy Ad- ministrator for Economic Coopera- tion. Bruce is a Baltimore industrial- ist. He was for 14 yedrs a mem- ber of the Demccratic National Committee from Maryland. Bruce would work under Paul | Hoffman, Administrator of the |agency which handles the Europ- ean recovery program. Bruce now is chairman of the | Board of the Worthington Pump |and Machinery Corporation, and chairman of the Maryland Dry Dock Company of Baltimore and a director of numerous other cor- porations. He was awarded the distinguish- ed service medal for his services during the last war in which he aened in the Army Service Forces. one time he was director of matenel STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 3.—(®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau ‘mlne stock today is 3%, American ‘Can 86%, Anaconda 36%, Curtiss- Wright 8, International Harvester 185, Kennecott 55, New York | Central 16%, Northern Pacific 24, U. S. Steel 76, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,150,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: Industrials 191.09, rails 59.08, util- ities 34.17.