The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 2, 1948, Page 1

" A & VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,903 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” : ~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDA:\V': JUNE 2, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 'Columbia River Flood Crest Passing T To Sea MILITARY BUDGET IS SUBMITTED Is Biggest g(elime Re-| quest in Nation's History ~"Alarming Menace” BULLETIN — WASHINGTON, June 2—~M—A record peace- time Army-Air Force appropri- ation bill was whisked through the House today and sent to the Senate. The measure pro- vides $6,509,939,000 for the two services for the new fiscal year starting July 1. The passage vote was 346 to 2. The two votes against the bill were by Reps. Marcantonio and Isacson, both of the Ameri- can Labor Party, New York. By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, June 2.—(®—The biggest peacetime military budget in the nation’s history hit the House floor for the Army, Navy and Air Force. The appropriations committee at the same time released tesumony wari§1g of the “alarming menace” of Soviet military might and dis- closing that the United States fleet now in the Mediterranean is there for twe reasons: First, to sérve as a warning to Soviet Union not to try to overrun any of the free countries of Eu- rope. Second, to be ready to remove American forces if worst came to ‘worst. Adm. Louis E. Denfeld, chief of SS (Fiite Guard) oificers died on | “explanatiofis.” Naval Operations/. told ;the com. mittee just two weeks ago that the Mediterranean fleet of one car- today—$10,196,672,253 | Trumanls | Picking Up Delegates (By The Associated Press) President Truman's bid for an- other term faced new trouble from the south today. But elsewhere, | his campaign picked up strength. Alabama voters yesterday picked Inine more delegates pledged to !walk out of the Democratic Na- tional Convention if Mr. Truman is nominated or if his civil rights proposals are put into the party platform. Five others similarly pledged previously had been named, giving anti-Truman Democrats control of the state's 24-man delegation. In Maryland, however, a state Democratic convention instructed delegatés to cast their 20 votes for Mr. Truman as long as he appears to have a chance to win. The con- venticn decided to back Maryland’s senior Senator, Millard E. Tydings, for the Vice-Presidential nomina- tion. The President also picked up 54 more convention votes in Califor- nia. This put his total pledged and claimed votes to 589—just 29 short of the 618 needed for nomi- nation. | PIERIERROE PRI FIENDISH GERMAN! DOCTORS STRUNG UP 'AMERICAN GALLOWS ! LANDSBERG, Germany, June 2.| —(®—Seven German doctors and Awnarican tidng. gy vars | erimes. ' o M FOUR WEEK PALESTINE ARMISTICE Arab Natioflccepi with "Explanations” - Israel with "Assumptions” (By The Assoclated Press) BULLETIN—LAKE SUCCESS, June 2.—P—The United Na- tions Security’ Council late to- day instructed its Palestine mediator to set the day and hour of a Jewish-Arab cease- fire. It suggested the four- weeks armistice should begin within three days. Arab nations accepted with “ex- planations” today the United Na- | tions’ proposal for a four-week armistice in Palestine. The reply made plain the Arab belief there is no chance of lasting peace while the Jewish state of Israel exists. Israel previously had accepted with “assumptions.” One of these was that unlimited immigration, including men of fighting age, should continue during the armis- tice. The Arabs specified that continued Jewish immigration would constitute a grave threat to the Arab countries. Scattered combat was reported in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Pales- tine pending a cease fire time, which the U. N. had not yet set. The Arab reply did not make clear! whether the Arab acceptance of| the armistice is conditional on the United Nations' agreeing to their, The Avabs lertr the time of the cease fire to hel decided. ' 'The Jéws had set 3 p. m.! 'Radar Nel ~ PEOPLE CLING TO HOUSETOPS IN VANPORT FLOOD SRS Residents of Vanport, war built town near Portland, Ore., stand marooned atop their homes while debris filled water swirls through their in- undated cny » wirephnw. WARNE REOUESTING LARGER FUNDS FOR For Coast TERR. DEVELOPMENT FISHING DISPUTE A | RPO RT PRICE AND HOURS, a1 convova-eoes. BUILDING HiGH WATER CONTINUING ONRAMPAGE Clatskanie Area Is Now Threatened - Search for | - Dead-Murky Shroud | By WILLIAM PHIPPS | PORTLAND, June 2—(P— The Columbia flood crest bore down on the Clatskanle area today im | its rampage to the Pacific Ocean. The river Japped less than three ' inches from dike top and was go- ing higher, 3 Four huadred civilian volunteers struggled to heighten the nine dikes in the threatened area two-thirds of the way down tho 102-mile bar- ricaded stretch between Portland and the sea. Behind the hard-pressed earth- works is the town of Clatskanie. ilts population of about 1,000 has heen evacuated. So have residents in other districts of the area. U. 8. Army engineers described the situation in the Clatskanie area as ‘“critical.” And it put the same label on five other areas, ex- tending as far upriver as Portland where the crest passed yesterday. But nowhere was the margin be- | tween safety and destruction as |narrow as the cryptic “freeboard, | two-tenths of a foot” reported by the engineers around Clatskanie. | The flood crest has passed the major cities—Portland, Oregon's metropolis; and Vancouver and | Longview on the Washington side | of the state-separating river. These | communities, and many others, dre trymg now to get back to normal. It will be a long haul. An esti- They were convicted of Killing { )eslerda) conditional upon a sim- rier, three cruisers and 10 destroy-iand maiming thousands in brutal ers could be augmented quickly. (A 12 ship task force headed by the carrier Kearsarge left Norfolk, Va., late yesterday to relieve the vessels now on duty in the Medi- terranean.) 1medical experiments in Nazi con- centration camps. Their victims | were inmates of the camps. ! They were the first to be hang- ed of 25 Germans sentenced to death by U. S. war crimes courts ‘into Jewish and Arab states has at Neurnberg. All walked firmly to death on, two black gallows in the court yard} of the prison where Adolf Hitler Discussing the use of U. S. ships| in foreign waters, Denfeld declared: | “Not only is the presence of our} ships in certain troubled spots of i November and warring in the open ilar Arab order. g The “explanations” specified matl any solution partitioning Palestine no chance of success. This is Lhe' very point over which. both sides have been skirmishing since late in; since May 15, when the British mandate ended. The Arabs also' stressed Jewish immigration as a WASHINGTON, June 2—(M- | William E. Warne, Assistant Secre- | tary of the Interior, asked a Senate | Appropriations subcommittee today WASHINGTON, June 2—#—Rep.|to increase funds for Alaska next Vinson (D-Ga.) introduced today a|Year to $60,994,651. The House has bill to authorize construction of a|voted $52981819 radar net along the coasts of thel The $60,000000 figure is the United States and Alaska. amount proposed by President Tru- The legislation, he said in a state- | man's budget. The current year’s ment, “will enable the air force to| appropriation was $31,549,863. Of Alaska | CORDOVA, Alaska, June 2—P— The first red salmon flowed into Cordova canneries yesterday after settlement of a fish price and work- ling hours dispute. Agreement was reached between the Copper River and Prince Wil- liam Sound Cannery Workers' Union and the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc. The dispute of the cannery workers and of the Cordova district fisheries the world today a clear indication to would-be troublemakers of our determination to maintain peace; it is also the means, and the only means we possess, where- by . we may act swiftly to prevent the overrunning of cmicel areas by and enemy . . . Two separaie approprh:fion bill: —given top priority for immediate action—provide $6,509,939,000 for the! wrote “Mein Kampf” while confin- ed there after his Mu*ich putsch 25 years ago. i The executions went off with-| fout a hitch. i Four of those hanged were doc- tors. The court—headed by Judge Walter Beals of the Washingston tate Supreme Court—which con- victed them, said they had pervert- ed their science into a murderous practice on helpless living persons. jattacked Negba, south of Tel Aviv, peril and asked to be allowed to provide adequate aircraft warning| Warne told the subcommittee the cooperate with the U. N. to super- installations in the United tes vise compliance with the cease fire.|2nd Alaska.” It has air force ap- Prolonged debate, during which!Proval, he added. ‘iighting will continue, appeared tor be in prospect. The Jews said Egyptian troops |would be approximately $160,000 060 Vinson said, plus $4,000,000 to buy property on which the stations would be located. Asserting it will take five years| ito complete, Vinson said: and bombed Hulda, general area. A Artillery, mortar and automat-! ic weapons exploded through Jeru-: in the same The cost of the radar equipment | “delay | tat this time is dangerous to the se-| increased appropriation is needed /union over fish prices delayed the to develop the territory as rapidly Start of canning operations two 1as possicle. ! weeks. “Our future relationships in the| The fishermen settled on the price Pacific with Japan, Korea and Rus- & week ago when they came down sia will be of utmost importance to, from $1 to 75 cents for reds. The |the nation and the world,” Warne Packers had offered 65. said. A longer work week guarantee for | “And in those reld[](ynsh]pk Alas- for resident workers was the stumb- | ka occupies a pivotal role.” ling tlock in negotiations with the He said the department is receiv- |cannery workers, They had asked the Army and the Air Forces and, st . $3,686,733.250 for the Navy for the{ The experiments described in year starting July 1. Their combined total is $505,000,- 000 greater than the Services are; spending this year and more than three times as much as the regular 1941 budgets for the armed forces. The Washington! Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, D’:“'she Bell Syndicate, ASHINGTON— The American people don’t realize it, but an av~ erage of twenty tons of contami- nated food is sold to the public every day in the year because the Food.and Drug Administration has lost ‘its authority to seize goods that spoil after reaching their destination. What is even more alarming, the Government also has been stopped from confiscating deteriorated drugs unless it can be proved that the drugs lost their potency before de- livery. For patients who may need a drug such as penicillin, this could mean the difference between life and death. The Government was stripped of its power to seize spoiled goods by a decree of the Ninth Circuit: Appeals Court in San Francisco when the Phelps-Dodge Company, a copper-mining firm, challenged the Government's authority to con- fiscate some macaroni that had spoiled in company warehouses af- ter shipment from Colorado to Arizona. The Circuit Court upheld Phelpl— Dedge, ruled that the Government's authority ended after the goods (Continued on Page Four) court included high altitude experi- ments. in which human guinea pigs were crushed and strangled. { There also were malaria, mustard 1gas and sterilization tests which| killed many—most of them dying in agony. Gen, Karl Brandt, 43, the top medical officer of the Nazi state, |was the first to die. He omnce | boasted: “There is one German the Ameri- cans will never hang.” He was once Hitler’'s personal physician. {PAN AMERICAN BRINGS 33 IN FROM SEATTLE Pan American flights yesterday brought 33 passengers from Seattle to Juneau and departed from here with.ten as foliows: From Seattle: Jack Wolfe and infant Larry, Harriet Wolfe, Ed Stiinger and infant Mark, Betty Stringer, Stanley Harris, Clifton Melling, Roy Johnson, ' Claus Syre.| Judy Hageman, Charles Tiftany, Reeves Palmers, Anita Palmers, Ray Palmers, Halsey and Hilda Lovejoy.! Julius and Julia Hopp, Elizabeth Phillips, John McGregor, C. P. Lam- bert, Glenn Trueblood. [ Percy Hanson, Charles Adams, { William Millett, Douglas Thesenuitz, John Hood, Joe Ridgeway. Alvin Gregor, Gordon Sandvig,| Orville Sandvig, Joseph Jensen. ‘To Annette: Arthur Skinner. To Seattle: John Eglsaer, Mrs. Earl Hunter, Francis Caldwell, Louie Blanchi, Lyle White, Betty Norton and child, Thomas Burchett and wife. e .. TAYLOR ON TRIP | Ike P. Taylor, Chief Engineer of ithe Alaska Road Commission, left ! here Monday for the Interior on his annual field trip and expects) to be gone for about six weeks. [Loses Ouf in : |ruled in a divorce suit here. | Central 16%, Northern Pacific 25, |U. S. Steel 80%, Pound $4.03%. ‘!ities 35.60. salem while both sides awaited a! cease fire order to become effec-| tive. Egyptian troops were but 14| miles south of Tel Aviv. Theyl were reported shelling Rehovot, 12 miles from the Israeli center. Vindictive Wife Divorce Suit ! MIAMI, Fla., June 2—(®—A cam- paign by his former wife caused the; resignation recently of William D. Pawley as U. S. Ambassador to Bra- zil, Circuit Judge George E. Holt Holt yesterday dismissed Mrs. Annie Hahr Pawley’s separate main- tenance suit and upheld Pauléy's Cuban divorce. In his 11-page opinion Holt said Pawley is not a resident of Florida, as Mrs. Pawley contended, and that evidence disclosed he gave his for- mer wife $170,000 after his divorce, although the Cuban divorce made no alimony provision. ‘The court said Pawley “was’ sub- jected to one of the most humilia- ting” experiences one in great public life can endure—a vindictive wife— for no reason at all except to satisfy her own impossible desire.” S e STOCE SUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 2—(#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 88, Anaconda 40%. Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvest- er 98%, Kennecott 58%, New York Sales today were 1,290,000 shares, Averages today are as follows: industrials 191.32, rails 60.92, util- {O. T. Finney, Art Walker, Al Seeley | 'at the Hotel Juneau. mated 10,000 homes were swept ,.Awny by the rampaging river. The entue city of Vanport was destroy- ¢ ud Dikes were washed out. Com- Only five disseniing vuies were' munications were disrupted. Trans- cast in yesterday's special vity elec-{ portation was crippled. Hundreds tign on a proposed $50,000 revenue|of square miles lay under a murky bond issue for the construction of(shroud of water that will remain an Airport Administration Bm]ding] for days and weeks. Out of 199 baliots cast, including one, The fight now is against dis- absentee vote, 194 persons voted in|ease, to search for the dead, to favor of the proposition. bring i1amilies back together again, Officials for the election to feed and clothe those who lost Miss Nell McCloskey, Mrs. Dewey | everything, to supply temporary Baker, Mrs. Bert Lybeck, Mrs. H. housing. L. McDonald and Mrs. C. E. Naghel. ! -+ | 'NORLAND RETURNS T0 FISHING BANK APPROVED were 59,000 HOMELESS PORTLAND, June 2—{®—Pacific | Northwest floods have ]elspelhnpl 59,000 persons homeless Tor dis- located. The Columbia has driven out an estimated 50,000 in four The halibut fisher Norland is| States, the Fraser in British Colum- curity of the nation.” |ing hundreds of applications for for a 200-hour guarantee for the i i : e i e L 1 e homesteads in the territory and red season. The A. §. I offered 160. Scheduled to come off the Northern | me 9-°_°° s preparation must be made to meet Settlement was for 175. cmmercial ways today after her atest Red Cross estimates are i Cannery workers scttled for a 20- Survey Inspection following being 45,000 in Idaho, Washington and um influx of settlers, 23 ARRIVE; 28 LEAVE e WITH ALASKA COASTAL + « « « o « « « o . * WEATHER REPORT Alaska CDfl%tfll flights yesterday | ® (U, 8. WEATHER BUREAU) brought in 23 and departed from|® Temperatures for Z4- -hour period Juneau with 28 passengers as fol- ® ending 7:30 th:s morning lows: e In Juneau— Maximum, 52; From Ketchikan: ® minimum, 44. Harry Halvonson; At Airport—Maximum, O. Fikzgerald, Jack Mason and Ric! n- minimum, 43. Herb Warner, 53; ard Cox; from Haines: Loren Ho- FORECAST werter; from Gustavus: Joseph © (Junicau #nd Vicinity) Daigle; from Pelican: T. R. Van e Variable cloudiness tonight Wert. | and Thursday. Highest tem- From Hoonah: Pat Daniels, e perature near 62 degrees on Evelyn Rhea, H. Daniels and Willie Williams; from Tulsequah: R. Ma- son, S. Sawchuck and J. Burgess. e (Past 24 bours ending /:30 a.m. today From Sitka: Iris Johnson, Esther e In Juneau .26 inches; Johnson, Mildred Norris, Arne Do- @ since June .15 inches; ‘Thursday. PRECIPITATION : rum, Horace Marks; from Angoon: e since July 1, 87.88 inches. Sophie and Katherine Johnsm\ to e At Airport -— .04 inches; Taku Lodge: M. Wells, e since Juneel, 105 inches; o Since July 1, 43.08 inches. To Tulsequah: R. Lingenfelter, J G. Jorgensen; to Pelican: F. Ful- quillo, Steve Gunzon and Dick Westfall; to Hoonah: Olaf Aase and C. Nelson; to Haines: Signe Ho- mer; to Skagway: Larry Lindstrom ‘To Ketchikan: Ernie Whitehead, o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 e i i Presbyterians Eled Negro to and C. McAllister; to Sitka: T.! Reeves, Anita and Roy Palmers; to ‘Tenakee: Mr. Hartman, Walter| Hellan and Sam Asp; to Hawk In-| let: Ralph Thompson. | oS, el MARRIED YESTERDAY i SEATTLE, June 2—(P—A negro was elected to the General Council! of the Presbyterian Church in the James Goenett, Jr., and Rachel | {U. 8. A. for the first time today. Dick, both of Juneau, were mar- The church’s 160th general as- ried here yesterday by U. S. Com- sembly bestowed the recognition on missioner Felix Gray. Charles Gam- | Municipal Judge Herbert E. Millen ble and Priscilla Morgan witnessed of Philadelphia, He will be one of the ceremony. \approximately 30 members on the — eee planning and supervisory body. ALEENOGIK VISITORS Mr. and Mrs, Donald Ford nnd‘ son of Aleknogik, Alaska, are guests| ticing attorney and former Assis- partment of Public Safety. General (oulmlj | Judge Millen is a long-time prac- an | Feefed near Pelican several days ago |Coming off the reef with tut slight damage, it was only necessary to |replace four small sections of bot- tom planking which were chewed |by the reef. No settlement has beeri reached| ¥enny Junge, skipper of the Nor- for the silver salmon pack. The land, said the cutter Wachusett did union is offering 200 hours. The ® masterful job when taking her packers are oflering 100. | from the reef. o ‘The Norland. expects to return to JNEAU CHAMBER T COMMERCE 10 SEE | » GLACIER BAY PIX SOROPTIMIST CLUB MEET The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce will not meet tomorrow ncon | Bubble in the Gold Room of the Baranof |tel- : Hotel. | Of special interest to members The busine$s matter for discus-“‘“” be the initiation and the com- sion will be the future tourists de-|Pletion of Laura MacMillan’s re- velopments, and colored slides of POrt on the bond conference. the Glacier Bay area from the li-| All members are urged to braries of E. K. Geruin and Ffunkile““ this meeting. | Eean. Frank Heintzleman will com- | i e R ment on me Glacier Bay pruj(-zr ‘ VISITING FELIX TONERS - Mrs. Elizabeth Toner and daugh- ! | ter Bernadette from Germantown, i SIEAMER MOVEMENIS :Pa, arrived in Juneau yesterday { | via Pan American. Mrs. Toner and George Washington, on maiden | daughter are the mother and sis- trip from Seattle, due to arrive 3 ter of Felix Toner. The visitors m. tomorrow. will be the summer guests of the Princess Louise scheduled to sail| Teners at 408 Gold Street. from Vancouver 9 tonight. eyt~ Alaska scheduled to sail UP FROM TACOMA Seattle 10 a. m. tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. H. Jones from Ta- | Princess Norah scheduled to sail|coma are presently in Juneau and | from Vancouver June 5. |staying at the Baranof Hotel .cent hourly pay increase after original demand of 25. There is no change over last year's 180- hgur work guarantee for the pink salmon | |season, which opens 10 days later this year. ‘The Soroptimist Club will hold | their regular business meeting to- | morrow noon on the Terrace of the Room in the Baranof Ho- from | | Baranof scheduled to sail from ey ity Seattle June 5. | TO COMPLE' ROAD Aleutian scheduled southbound William Fromholtz and a U. S. late Sunday or early Monda) | Forest Service crew left ‘here today - KETCHIKAN VlslTORh work on the East Yakutat George Astel and T. R. (,urnslwhlch was destroyed last road, year. Gastineau Hotel, | weather conditions, at- { for Yakutat where they will finish| Oregon. These do not include Mon- tana or those evacuated yesterday along the lower Columbia in Ore- gon and Washington. FLOOD FUND REQUEST WASHINGTON, June 2. —P— Senator Cain (R-Wash) announc- ed today Congress will be asked tomorrow to appropriate $50,000,000 immediately for r&construction of public facilities destroyed by the 1loods. | He told a reporter most of the (money will be required in the Pac- ific Northwest, where it is estimat- fed the rampaging Columbia River has destroyed nearly $70,000,000 of public facilities. e MRS. JOHN McCORMICK BACK FROM WESTWARD Mrs. John McCormick returned yesterday from the Westward where she has been on official business and calls for the National Ladies | Auxiliary to the Veterans of For- eign Wars, Mrs. McCormick is National Deputy Chief of Staff for | the organization. | While to the Westward she visit- ed Kodlak, Wasilla, Anchorage and | Seward. At Seward she instituted {a new Auxillary and installed the | ofticers. In Anchorage, Mrs. McCormick |stated that people were coming in ‘by the hundreds and not finding | nousing available are living in tents land other makeshift places. She }alao said she contacted many form- er Juneauites there, and among them were Mr. and Mrs. George | A. Lingo, Mr. and Mrs. A. B, “Cot" Hayes and Claire Fish. The latter [ tant Director of Philadelphia’s De- from Ketchikan are guests at the| Work had been held up by poor'is now employed with the Pacific Northern Airlines.