The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 27, 1948, Page 1

‘HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,899 BT | JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1948 THOUSANDS FLE JERUSALEM SHELLED BY ARAB FORCE Pace of Figfiag Reported Increasing Since Cease Fire Order Rejected (By The Associated Press) Arab shells pounded the Jews in old and new Jerusalem today while King Abdullah prayed at Moslem and Christian shines in the Holy City. His Trans-Jordan troops and Egyptians attacked on the south- ern outskirts of Jerusalem. They struck from much-exchanged Ra-] mat Rehel against the Katamon, Talpiyot, Mekor Haim and upper Bagaa regions of new Jerusalem.| Jews cornered in the old walled city were pressed even tighter. The pace of fighting appeared to increase since the rejection by Arabs yesterday of United Nations peace overtur The U. U. itself | was in a crisis, its potency chal-| lenged as never before. Abdullah commands the armies of Trans-Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Le- banon and Yemen. He made devo- tions at the Holy Sepulchre, Cav- alry and Mosque of Omar, shrme.s‘. of Christendom and Islam. He was cheered by 25,000 Arabs as he! toured cld Jerusalem within 300 yards of the beleaguered Jews. Arabs demolished more buildings; near the big Hurva Synagogue, where most Jews in the old city were holed up. Abdel Rahman Azzam, Secretary General of the Arab League said| 8 third of Israel's army of about| 45,000 well-trained troops, is in Jerusalem. He indicated Arab! strategy was to keep supply lmesi cut and beat the Jews into sub-| mission with shells, thirst and hunger rather than by house to house combat. U. S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas talked with British Foreign Secre- tary Ernest Bevin in London for. = &) SINGER — Gloria Jean, movie singer, wore this sheer, black lace negligee in a recent picture. 'MONKEY BOATS” CAUSING TROUBLE AT BRISTOL BAY Pre-Fishing Season Opera- tions Are Halted Over Deckhand Employment SEATTLE, May. 27 P—A dispute between, the QIO Alaska Fisher: men's Union and the Alaska Sal- mon Industry, Inc., has halted pre- iishing season operations at the Bristol Bay, Alaska, canneries. The controversy involves employ- ment of a deckhand on certain types of tenders during the fish- ing season. Abe Lehto, secretary of the Fish- BROADCASTS 'OF AMERICA " GETROAST Congressmévn An gered, Order Double-Barreled Investigation Be Made WASHINGTON, May 27—P— Angered. congressmen ordered a double-barreled investigation today into Voice of America troadcasts they say have libeled and misrep- resentec. the United States. Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.), the Republicans’ top investigator, will head one by the Senate. Rep. Chenoweth (R-Colo.) direct one for the House. Indignation, anger and amaze- ment were mixed in the Congres- sional reaction to diselose that the broadcasts have told the world such things as—“New England was | founded by hypocrisy and Texas by sin.' | Toe importance attached to the Imatter was emphasized by the fact tht Senator Vandenterg (R-Mich.), \the Senate’s presiding officer and chairman of its Foreign Relations will Committee, announced plans for the, Senate investigation. [ Vandenberg said he is “amazed” | by reports of the broadcasts. | "Simple broadcasts excerpts: | Nevada's two main cities compete i with each other because “people get imarried in Las Vegas and divorced in Reno.” Sample reaction: From Senator Hatch Drivel, nensense and | falsehoods.” ! From the National Broadcasting Comipany, -which harisd the pro- grams under contract with the de- ipartment: The writer who turned lout the scripts has been fired and ithe supervisor who reviewed them 'has been “relieved, of his post.” 1 (D-N.M.) : | | : 8 downright PRI, ST S ALASKA TRAFFIC | ermen’s Union, said today that the | MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS IR ———— Small Plane ' Crashes, Snow Pilot-Owner Kenneth Lok- i en, Rudolph Krsul Unin- jured-Walk from Scene A small, two place, airplane crashed into the side of an unnamed mountain peak on 6800 foot Mt. Wac around 6 p.m. yesterday but both occupants escaped uninjured. The plane, piloted and owned by Kenneth Loken, of Juneau, was partially wrecked at the 4,700 feet level of the 4,960 foot unnamed peak on the Southeast corner of the Lems on Creek Glacier. Loken and Rudolph Krsul had been dropping weather instrument§ jand supplies in the Lemon Creek {Glacier area in preparation for a I forthcoming expedition which will |explore the Glacier's possibilities hs a summer skiing area. | They had apparently become wrapped up in their work and for- got to keep a watch on flying cons lditions when they suddenly came face to face with the mountain, Loken saw that he couldn't maneu= |ver the plane out of the ditficulty, {so, ne picked out the easiest place to hit and landed his ship cn the ,snow. The plane suffered a broken | propeller and damage to one side of the float structure which had just been installed yesterday. | The two men walked down . thg (mcuntain and through the Salmon Creek area to the Glacier Highway and reported their mishap. In the meantime a U. S. Fish and Wilds i'\'en! looking for. them, after ‘were reported overdue, and sighted their Aeronca Chanfpion on the mountain, Before a search party could be organized, the two men had reported safely. Norman J. “Hap” O'Brien, head of the Civil Aeronautics Administra- tion, in Juneau, is investigating the accident on behalf of the Civil Aero- nautics Board. " Covered Peak !life Seatee, piloted by Robert Meeks, \QUISLING FRONT IS EXPOSED Paul Griffith Says U. S. Is ! Threatened by Greatest Fifth Column Ever WASHINGTO! An American Senators toda and seasoned Qu munist Front” United States. Paul Griffith, Past National Le- glon Commander, madé the state- ment before the Senate Judiclary Committee. He asked speedy Sen- late approval of the House-passed Mundt-Nixon bill to curb Commun- ists. “We have today in our midst the largest [fifth column of potential sples, saboteurs, demoralizers, trait- ors, and wreckers ever seen in modern times,” Griffith said He said the 100,000 “Quislings ‘gre aided and protected” by an “estimated million or more fellow travelers, sympathizers and dupes.” As the three-day hearing opened, Chairman Wiley (R-Wisc) ruled out “any political speeches"-—by Henry Wallace or anybody else, Wallace, jcandidate, had asked against the measure, May Legion leader told 100,000 trained slings in the Com- now threaten the to the Housc-passed measure. scheduled to appear before the | committee Saturday. He said in !Coeur d’'Alene, Ida. last night: { “I am going to those hearings jto uphold the old-fashioned, fun- damental principle of free speech.” - He is 'DREW PEARSON IS | NAMED TODAY AS . 'FATHER OF YEAR' 27.—A—| third party Presidential| testity | Wallace has repeatedly blasted | Athens for her son’s funeral. Pc shot through the head. The Greek ALASKANS MUST ASK RAILROADS FOR RATE CUTS l’ICC Makes?éply fo Re- | quests for Slashing of ' Rail-Water Tariff H By CHARLES D. WATKINS | WASHINGTON, May }Alasku interests wishing (freight rates should apply to the ‘railroads to give them benetit of Irate cuts on joint rail-water ship- [ments, the Interstate Commerce Commission says. 27— MRS. ADELAIDE POLK, MOTHE) let-riddled body was fond in Salonika Bay a younger son, Bill, just before she left LaGuardia Fi his body was found, hands and feet bound with twine. lower | R OF GEORGE POLK, whose bu- is shown saying goodby to d to fly to a week before He had been olk was missing for government is mak an intensive (International photo) RUSSIAN "~ PROTESTS REJECTED U. S Deniamerican Planes Interfere with Soviet Shipping : WASHINGTO, |The United, S has flatly re- |jected Russian protests claiming American airplanes have interferred May 27— 'FROM N.W.FLOODS . Mother Flies fo Polk Funeral WATER OVER DIKES; MANY FLEE HOMES Thousands fi&uated from One Section - Rivers Are Now Swollen (By The Associated Press) Several thousand persons, fled their hemes in the Richland-Pasco- Kennewick area of eastern Wash- gton today as flood waters lap- péd over dikes, 1looded several camps and threatened numerous others. Estimates of the evacuated persons varied widely. Benton County Sheriff Harry Cochrane reported earlier that 20,- 000 persons would be forced to move. Later reports by the sheriff's office, Kennewick city po- lice and State Patrol placed the figure closer to 5,000. The exodus covered an eight mile strip along the Columbia River |from Pasto to the mouth of the Yakima River. Both are at flood stage. number of Cleudburst A cloudburst avove iuiima last night increased the anxiety of riv- residents. Those of the evacuated smployed at the Hanford Atomic Energy plant were given passes and moved to a Government trail- ler camp at North Richland inside | the Hanford works. | Others took up temporary stands at a former Government trailer camp south of Kennewick. Trailer Camps Flooded Reports sald the Connell Trailer Camp in Paseo - was flooded. Across the river at Ken- newick, water poured into a second {camp early today. Meanwhile, the death toll in the flooded Pacific Northwest rose to seven yesterday as swollen riv- ers remained over the flood stage and gave little signs of receding. Women amnd children, elderly families I completely” " ) NEW' YORK, May 27.—Column- {ist Drew Pearson was named “The, Rep. Tolletson (R-Wash. r | | Father of the Year” at the annual|ly wrote the Commission that joint{ The State Department {Father's Day Award luncheon here |rail-water rates are permitted to|the U. S. reply to various Soviet| today. This is the first time a|Hawail, South America and the Far notes of protest was delivered to {newspaperman has won this dis-|East from Pacific coast ports at|the Russians by the American Em- iwith Eoviet shipping in the vn-mn,yI ¢ |of Japan persons and invalids were ordered 1t- |of Japa to leave Bonners Ferry, Idaho, where the Kootenai River has al- ready broken through dikes inun- dating thousands of acres of rich farm land. g the fourth time in five days. The |deckhand British cabinet met. A focal issue | precaution. was the fact that 37 British offi-| The industry failed to agree with! cers are serving in Abdullah’s Arab!the union on this point and Lehto | Legion. said members of the union now at The U. N. itself faced a grave!work in the Bristol Bay area have | SPEED, SEATILE SEATTLE, May 27—®— With PICKETED ALASKA export rates. These rates, he said,|bassy in Moscow Tuesday. crisis. The seven Arab nations re- F 2 | been called off the job because nO |, atic to Alaska showing its us- jected its cease fire order yester-|contract has been signed. day in a bold defiance of most of{ An estimated 400 to 500 pre-sea- the other nations of the world.!son employees have been working U .S. delegate said the situation|at the 10 or 11 Bristol Bay canner- lies. The season is scheduled to start June 25. The work under way now in- (Continued On_ Pa'e Two) — - jual speed-up, ships of the Alaska ! Steamship Company were moving| | tast today. The Denali, captained by Ben | Aspen, left Seattle }unly four days after getting in at 9 am,! The Washington! Merry - Go - Round| By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, tgl The Bell Syndicate, c.) | from her previous run to Alaska. The motorship Coastal Rambler, skippered by Henry Burns, was scheduled to depart at 5 p. m. only ifive days after reaching Seattle. Adding to a busy day at Pier 142, the Flemish Knot arrived from the North at 7 a. m. and the | Aleutian arrived just about the time the Denali pulled out. volves unloading of equipment for use at the cannerjes, all of which has to be lightered because there are no docks in the. affected area. Negotiations between the union and the industry are continuing. Oscar Anderson, Union business agent, said the men told to quit work include the messhouse em- 1 ployees who prepare and serve the iood for men employed in can- ASBHINGTON — For several days last month the House of Rep-| resentatives was tied up in the famous oleo-butter debate. It creat- ed a national sensation. The oleomargarine bill, pigeon- holed by the dairy interests in committee, was forced out by al petition signed by 218 Congressmen, | half of them from the South. Then | the debate started. For several days is raged, with full attendance on the House floor urged by both parties. The argument of the oleomargar- ine Congressmen was that they were battling for the housewife. But actually they werent. Many of them were battling because the powerful cottonseed lobby in the South had put on the heat. Cam- paign contributions, not housewives, | was the motivating force. nery operations. He explained the dispute is con- cerned with “monkey boats,” which are small, general-duty craft, used mainly to provide tows for fish- ing sailboats when tows are need- ed. He said the union instructed its men to cease work until an agree- ment is reached providing for two men on each “monkey boat.” Some customarily have one-man crews, he said. — e LOCAL BUS DRIVERS WILL FURNISH INFO 10 LOCAL TOURISTS Local bus drivers and taxi dri- Today, another sort of battle|yers will receive instruction tonight feet of lumber aboard. It will be delivered to Seward, together with an additional 200,000 |feet to be loaded at Ketchikan and Sitka. Also on her deck were a fleet of eleven 12-ton road grad- ers for the Alaska Road Commis- sion, and a 55-ton dragline power shovel booked for M. P. Munter Company, for use in Alaska Rail- road construction. Below decks |the Rambler carried cans and car- tons for the Salmon Industry, and general cargo. R \TRUMAN GETS N ' DIRECT WORD BY STALIN SINCE 45 WASHINGTON, May 27—®— The Coastal Rambler had 500,000 looms in the House of Representa- tives—only this time the situation is reversed. This time not only the housewife is involved, but her children, her husband, and the future of the American family. But this time, the Southern Con- gressmen who rushed in to sign the oleo petition aren’t signing up. Neither are the Republicans. For this time the petition has to do with housing. REAL-ESTATE LOBBY PIGEONHOLES The Taft-Ellinder-Wagner Hous- ing Act, stymied for two years, has now passed the ‘Senate, and is pigeonholed in the House Banking (Continued on Page Four) on information of interest to tour- ists. The information, pointing out ;statistics. history and scenic won- ders, will be furnished by Harry i Sperling, of the U. S. Forest Ser- vice at the request of Mrs. Bill Trimble of the Glacier Highway Bus Co. This will mark the first time that efforts have been made to | provide tourists with accurate in- formation from transportation com- panies. | President Truman said today that | he has had no communication from Premier Stalin since the “Big Three” conference at Potsdam in 1945. / He made this observation when a reporter asked him at a news con- ference if he had had any recent direct communication from the Russian leader. There have been rumors from Itime to time for months of over- itures from Russia for a Stalin-Tru- FROM HOOD BAY man meeting. E. R. Watson from Hood Bay is| - e {a guest at the Baranof Hotel. | IN FROM KETCHIKAN | - D | FROM VANCOUVER, B. C. Arthur Hale from Vancouver, B. is staying at the Baranof Hotel. Larry Lindstrom from Ketchi- kan is in Juneau and a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. C. SHIP T0 BE S0LD SEATTLE, May 27—(#—The 148- ifcot freighter Garland, which has |year following a labor dispute, has tives of the owners said today. The ship was picketed by Sailors iUnion ¢ the Pacitic after her iowners announced they planned to a cooperative basis with crew mem- bers as shareholders. | H. A Schurman, representing the iBerger Transportation Company, |owners of the 532-ton motorship, said that in view of present con- ditions in Alaska trade the company has decided to sell the vessel. The labor dispute, which origin- ally kept the vessel from operating, led to a court case in which the | was upheld. = - e o 00 v 0 ¢ 00 {* WEATHER REPORT . (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) ® Temperatures for Z4-hour period . ending 7:30 this morning e In Juneau— Maximum, 66; ® minimum, 47. ® At Airport— Maximum, 64; ® minimum, 46. . FORECAST . (Juneau and Vicinity) e Ountinued fair tonight and e Friday with afternoon tem- ® peratures 65-70 and the e night time temperatures 45- e 50 . PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todas ® e In Juneau City— Trace; ® ® since May 1, 499 inches ® .since July 1, 8643 inches. ® At the Airport— Trace; e since May 1, 322 inches; ® since July 1, 51.87 inches. ® & 0 & 0 0 0 0 0 0 BESS (ROSS HERE, GOING TO SEATTLE Mrs. Bess Cross arrived in Ju- neau yesterday, gave orders to {paint her residence on Gold Belt Avenue and may leave tomorrow for Seattle to return with her | Ridge Seminary. ] !tinction. Mr. Pearson was chosen | for the honor because of his! are 44 cents a hundred pounds on A statement released by the De- operate her in the Alaska trade on| Union’s right to picket the S)”M\ achievement with his vast “Inter- national Friendship Train” | Democracy Live” program. The' ’l‘,d his consistent fight against in- |tolerance and for good citizenship, | Drew Pearson played a large {part in the defeat of the Commun- ists in the recent -Italian elec- tion. One United States diplomat: s credits him with turning the tide iin this crucial test against] Communism. He started his pro- | |gram by revealing details of a Communist plot to take over Italy, called the roll of Italian Commun- ists and revealed where secret arms were cached. Mr. Pearson | followed this up with the Friend- ship Train and travelled with it| lacross the United States and into | Italy and France. He proposed to |the American people that they write letters to friends and rela- tives in Italy to combat Commun- 15t propaganda and a million ex- tra letters a week [lowed overseas. His Make-Democracy-Live radio program was short-waved to Italy with prizes for the best letters on democracy. Father's Day is June 20 and its theme this year is “Good Citizen- ship Begins At Home—Honor Dad, | ‘Buflder of our Children’s Future.” STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 27.—#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau | mine stock today is 4, American | |Can 87%, Anaconda 40%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvester (96, Kennecott 58%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 25, U. 8. Steel 79, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,830,000 shares. | Averages today are as follows: industrials 191.06, rails 60.87, util- ities 35.73. - - VA OFFICIAL VISITS James M. Hay, Field Supervisor {for the Claims Division of the Veterans Administration in Seattle, {is visiting the Juneau Regional VA office this week. He is sche- i Sunday. steel in carload lots while the same r pro-|Steel going to Alaska is charged | been tied up in Seattle more than a| o0y ang his activity in the “Make|$1:10 @ hundred pounds william E. Lee, cha:rman of the been put up for sale, representa- (ojaction Committee also recogniz-ICC, wrote Tollefson that the fact that “rail rate to Seattle is higher on traffic destined to Alaska than onl! traffic destined to the Orient and | other overseas points does not nec- | essarily indicate any unlawful dis- crimination.” Whether it is unlawful discrimi-| nation, he said, can only be deter- mined after a formal hearing ! Lee said if it eventually was deter- | mined to be unlawful discrimination | “The carriers would have the right | to remove that discrimination by in- reasing the rate to Seattle on the trafiic to the Orient rather than by reducing the rate on the Alas- kan traffic.” He added the railroads might vol- untarily make some reduction in rates to eattle on traffic for water movement to Alaska, “Although not down to the measurc of the export rates,” if Alaskan interests could convince them this would increase traffic. “If the carriers decline to act favorably on such a request, consid- eration could then be given by the Alaska interests to the filing of a formal complaint” with the Com misgion, he said Oleomargarine Bill WASHINGTON, ‘May 27— The Senate Pinance Committee to- day approved, 10 to 0, the House- passed oleo margarine tax repeal bill. Chairman wrote in an quire that public which serve colored margarin must post a sign saying so. He |said the vote on this amendment |was 10 to 2. | - FROM TULSEQUAH J. G. Jorgensen from Tulsequah | Millikin (R-Colo) amendment to re- eating places daughter Patsy, now at the Fulest;duled to leave on the Baranof onjis visiting in Juneau and swymg) iat the Gastineau Hotel. | partment sald the Soviets had ob- jected to more than 50 cases of jalleged interference with their com- !mercial shipping. The Department |said that neither in the Russian | notes nor in direct investigation by American authoritie: s there teen evidence of such interference The American reply was not given out in text form here but was sum- marized in the statement It said that Gen. Douglas ac Arthur as Supreme Allied Comman- der in Japan uses air, army and naval forces “tc prevent smuggling and illegal entry into Japan.” “Low flying within the limits of !safety in conducting this oft shore patrol is absclutely necessary for | recognition purposes,” the State De- |partment said in reporting on the note to Russia | .- - 'NORTHLAND TRANS, (0. 15 10 OPEN UPTOWN ' OFFICE IN SEATTLE Effective on June 1, The North- land Transportation Co., will have an upltown ticket office in Seattle, located at 417 University Street, jground fleor of the Olympic Hotel bullding and adjacent to the Metro- | politan Theatre. " The opening of the uptown ticket loffice will ke of a great benefit to {the traveling public as Alaska pas- |sengers will not be required to gol Gels Com, Approvall s i oas s i |checking baggage and boarding the |erfs unintentionally made detec- ships. | STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Grommet Reefer scheduled to sall from Seattle Friday. Aleutian scheduled to cattle Satul George Washington scheduled to sail from attle Monday, Alaska scheduled to arrive south- bound at 10:30 o'clock tonight. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive at 8 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing and salls south at 9:30 a.m. Baranof tcheduled southbound late Sunday or early Monday. sail from Warning Given A sound truck toured the city yesterday, giving the warning as the river threatened to burst into the streets. A late report lasy night said the river was still ris- ing. The city water supply was interrupted by a breaksin one of the main_dikes. { The seventh death was recorded at Lewiston, Idaho, where the body of a former army paratrooper, John Surry, 29, was found in the Clear- water River. IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Flood waters were sweeping acrcss British Columbia, causing damage estimated at $1,000,000 at Kimberley. Scores of familles were hemeless. A 100-foot section of railroad track was washed out at Salvous, where the Skeena River was eight feet higher than normal. One bridge was carried away Elsewhere, the Columbia reached 234 feet at Vancouver, Wash., it's highest stage in 15 years. TOKYO, YOKOHAMA FLOODED BY BOGUS 10 CERTIFICATES TOKYO, May 27 — 'Tokyo and Yokohama have been flooded the past few days with counter- feit $10 military certificates, occu- pation headquarters announced to- day, but added that the counterfeit- tion easy The money makers slipped in their spelling. “Millitary” and “Mlitary” appears on the counter- feit certificates. They never did | get it right. | — e, SEATTLE VISITORS W. H. Maxwell, J. Boyd, C. Cart-~ er, Ellie Frivold Jobn White, D. J. { Schmitt, Mrs. H. L. Bowers, Nona Lee Lutz, Vernon Paul Hitchcock and P. H. Ganty, registered from Seattle at the Baranof Hotel. - -oe — HERE FROM POLARIS i John Stinson, here from Polaris, /is a guest at the Baranol Hotel.