The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 9, 1948, Page 1

[ VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,909 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THF TIME” ’\ll MBl R ASb()L[ATLD PRLSb m— PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESD\Y. JUNE 9, 1948 = — = 'COLUMBIA RIVER FLOOD AGAIN CRITICAL | Aid Of Congress Wredkage of Flying Wing REPUBLICANS EXPIRATION OFTEMPORARY PLAN LOOMS Tollefson Announcers Ef- forts Be Made for High Up Authority Action By CHARLES D. HAWKINS WASHINGTON, June 9.—M— The temporary plan for operating steamship service be allowed to expire June 30 The law enacted a year ago al- lowed the Maritime Commission to charter Government-owned ships to ship operators at a dollar year with the Government paying the insurance. Rep. Weichel (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee, told a reporter today that extension law is not needed. His committee would have to approve an exten- ston. He sald the commission has un- | til next February 28 authority to institute geperal agency operation of steamships to Alaska as was| done during the war or can charter | ships to the Alaska operator at| . percent of their value under the | ship sales law. Temporary Plan At the time the temporary pian for Alaskan ojeratieds, was adopts’ ed the authority of the commis-| sion to institute general agency op- eration of charter vessels had ex- pired, Weichel said. Since that time the authority was renewed by Congress until the end of next F‘eb< ruary. General agency operation is lhat in which the commission designates | certain operators to use govern- ment-owned ships, pays them the/ cost of the operation and takes the profits for the government. Weichel's statement was made after the Senate Commerce Com- mittee had approved extension of the temporary Alaska next February 28. The legisiation is the same as that approved by the House Mer- chant Marine Subcommittee but not yet approved by the full House committee. Operators’ Contention Ship operators have contended that it they charter ships from the government it will cause an in- crease in rates to the Territorv to provide for, the additional cost of | chartering as compared to the cost under operation of the dollar-a- | year ships. Weichel said one criticism of the (Cominu;d on é;Agej“‘;éJ The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.) ASHINGTON — Here is how carefully Republican leaders in the House of -Representatives watched the Housing bill in order to keep it bottled up in Wolcott's Banking and Currency Committee. To get it out of committee, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, Democrat of California, was pushing a discharge petition which would force the committee to discharge the bill. Walking over to the Speaker's table last week, GOP Congressman Les Arends of Illinois checked over the list of Housing bill signers, then whisp- ered to GOP leader Halleck of In- diana. Together they beckoned to GOP Congressman Boggs of Delaware, asked why he had signed the Housing petition. Boggs protested that he hadn't signed. Arends had made a mistake. Louisiana, a Democrat, signed. All of which musuabes how the Republican leadership gave categor- ical orders to Republican Congress- men not to be for Housing—de-| (Continued on Page Four) to Alaska may‘ of the temporary law until| It was Boggs of | who had | after flying for over an hour on members. could not be determined immedie damage. (International Smmdpho Just Tragedy of | SHOWN ABOVE IS THE WREC Flying Wing jet bcmber which carshed and burned at Muroc, Calif., was confined to an area of approxiately 300 feet. KAGE of the four-engined YB-49 a secret flight, killing all five crew Flames almost completely destroyed the wxeckage, which Cause of the crash ately because of the extent of the to) War - | The attack came But Litfle Jewish Boy | VIdlm Knew HisFale 2 PRISONER - UPRISINGS }Shoriage of Cookies Start First Trouble-Every- [ thing Quiet Now | —IP—State Penitentiary w! Lick on a normal basis to- |day, Warden Tom Smith said, af- ter two prisoner uprisings within 24 hours. { Both were caused by food short- |agss, and both were controlled | wittiout bodily violence. First of the two disturbances oc- curred Sunday night when a sholt |age of cookies caused ’ur prisoners to throw dXshes and other utensils during the e\enmg | meal. Monday night, about 25 mma!es rushed into the kitchen after one' had thrown a bowl of potato sa]ad at a guard in the dining room. Some of the equipment was smash- | ed and food was spilled around the kitchen. Smith said no other inmates joined the Kkitchen rioters after He said the trouble was caused by a shortage of meat and pota- toes for the meal. Flood conditiohs in the Northwest have prevented normal rail and truck deliveries, |lhe supermtendem repuned BILL TO ELECT ALASKA GOVERNOR WASHINGTON, June 9. — (# — Delegate Bartlett of Alaska intro- duced today a bill to permit the Territory to elect its Governor next fall, The Alaskan Governor now is appointed by the Presidem - COOTIES TO MEET | Sourdough Puptent No. 4, Mili- tary Order of the Cootie, will hold its regular monthly meeting this Friday at the VFW Jeep Club. The | Cooties will also hold an election |of officers and an initiation of ! candidates at this meeting 'OVERFOOD WALLA WALLA, Wash., June 9.' activities , additional guards were called. | IS NOW INTRODUCED| By CARTER L. DAVIDSON JERUSALEM, Tue:day, June 8— (P—It had seemed incongruous in the first place to hear a little Jew- ish boy about nine whistling “Only | Five Minutes More.” He strolled along in tennis shoes, shorts and a blue blouse. An Arab mortar salvo began. Five of them fell 30 yards away and the little boy and I-—-the only persons/ on the street high wall. and hit the street only away from us. Lucky, I thought, lonly an incendiary. | Then I heard, the little boy scream once and go quiet. I sprinted to him land saw a pool of blood. | “Where are you hit?” He answered calml; to die.” There were flecks of blood in the mutn which appeared on his lips. A | Haganah staff car raced down the| i street. I stopped it. We loaded the |little boy into the car. He didn't cry. ‘I am going | We hurried him to the hospital. The | inurses and doctors worked on him jtut soon stopped. | He was dead. i ————————— FIGHT TONIGHT IS - POSTPONED; RAIN NEWARK, N. J., June 9.—(#— Ram forced postponement today of the middleweight title fight be- |tween Rock Graziano and Tony ‘zme. scheduled .tonight at Ruppert | Stadium. The fight will be heid tomorrow night in the same ring. | JUNEAU HIGH SCHOOL " PHYSICAL TRAINING INSTRUCTOR ARRIVES Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Garett, {formerly of Marysville, Missouri, ar- irived here late yesterday evening to .mnke their residence at the Fosbee { Apartments. Garrett is the new physieal in- |structor at the Juneau High School | |and will also be the supervisor at ithe Evergreen Bowl during the sum- mer months. SO A A INTENTION TO WED Donald F. Hungerford, of the Veterans Administration, and Char- {lotte Ann Lewis, of the Alaska Na- ;uve Service, both of Juneau, have |lix Gray for a marriage license. i g ! ELKS MEET TONIGHT Juneau Lodge No. 420, B. P. O. Elks will hold its regular meeting itonight at 8 o'clock. All mem- bers and visiting Elks are asked [to attend ~—lay flat alongside a | The sixth one fell short| 10 yards| ‘applied to U. 8. Commisioner Fe-| UNDER ATTACK BY PRESIDENT | | | | | | ‘Truman Flays Opposition Mémbers in Congress— | Talks Straight Out By ERNEST B. VACCARO H | ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN EN-E Asked In Alaska Ship Case Umvemly Displays Anti-American (ampaign FRASER RIVER SIIUMION IS :MSO SERIOUS ‘Eastern Barriers Getting Softer - Grim Picture Is Now Presented 9.—M—The Rivers cut PORTLAND, June Cclumbla and Fraser | deeper tcday into soggy dikes on the Pacific Northwest's far-flung |ROUTE TO SPOKANE, Wash, | June 9.—M—President Truman to- | |day challenged the Republicans to | keep Congress in session until price ‘control housing and farm bills are | | passed. He madc a slashing attack on the Republican Congressional lead- | ership, mentioning the opposition | | party for the first time since he | |left Washington last Thursday on| a western tour. in an address | Butte, Mont., last night. | It stripped the last traces of ‘non-political” atmosphere from the President’s western clmpfl'n tour. The President charged that cofi gress under Republican domination, had wrecked price control, stymied | the housing program, virtually akbelished the labor department, tried to tear up the employment a(l of 1946, torn the budget apart, yand pracuced “economy in the - | verse.” Congress weakened the Labor De- partment, Mr. Truman declared,| |aiter the Republicans had said in! their platform ‘“they were going to |make a strong Labor Department.” | The Republican platform, he add- |ed, "“is lh(- platform of the Con- | 8ress now.” | “One of our candidates for Pws- ident has said the best way to cun— | trot prices was. not to buy,” Truman said. He did not xdum() the candidate, but added: “I guc‘.\‘ he would let you starve. I dun( |know. I am not in that class.” 1 The President will be the guest |at Olympia tonight and tomorrow | | of Gov. Mon C. Wallgren, frequent- | ‘ly talked of as a candidate for| | the Democratic Vlcc-Prexldvn(mU nomination. | Mr. Truman got out of bed at] Missoula, Mona., and clad in pa-' | jamas and robe, greeted the crowd | |that met his train. i | “I understand it was announced | that I would speak here. I am| ‘sorry I had gone to bed,” he apol- {ogized. “But, I though I would let| |you see what I lcok like, even if| 1 donL have on my clothes. BUS SERVICE OVER | at ALASKA HIGHWAY | NOW ESTABLISHED SEATTLE, June 9—M—Like a bus trip to Alaska? The service is available up the Alaska Highway now. Northwest Greyhound Lines |letter to its agents, suggests, ever, that travelers be advised not | to wear their Best clothes A Northwest Greyhound official | explained that the line does not ioperate to Alaska; it only seils tick- ets for the trip. Greyhound buses carry passengers to Eastport, Idaho.| Western Canadian Greyhound car- ries them on ‘o Edmonton, Alta | Prom there, the company official |said: “The service is disconnected That means you travel by dav and |stop over by might. in a lmw-i ‘The passenger | (must psy Zor his own meals and {rooms along the route.” | Canadian Coachways takes the travelers to Dawson Creek. Another Canadian carrier fills the gap into Yukon Territory. From Whitehorse, both O'Harra and University Bus | Lines operate into Alaska. i i The fare to Fairbanks is $116.05, plus tax and plus room and board along the way. It's $140.60 to An- ciiorage on the same basis. The Greyhound official said re- ports to date in this first month of | operation have shown the bus serv- (ice running on schedule i ] | vited labor to protest the Taft-Hart- * ilcod front. The situation grew more critical by the hour. A new breakthrough in the lower valley of the Columbia drowned Puget Island. Other earthen bar- | riers along the swollen river's 100~ mile stretch run from Portland to | the Pacitic were getting softer, | saturated - by 21 days of watery assault. U. S. Army engineers called their condition “very ecriti= cal.” Canadian Navy forces stood by for evacuation of critical sectors along the Fraser where the river collides with high tides coming in from the sea. Here the grim picture for Qregen, Washington, Idaho, Mon- tana and British Columbia: Thirty dead. Vanport, war hous- ing city near Portland, yielded two | more bodies yesterday. This brought is PICTURES ABOVE ARE EXHIBITS of woodcuts and cartoons: on display at St. Jehn's University, in | th2 total of known dead to four Shanghai, China, part of an anti-American campaizn by students to protest U. S. aid to Japan. Below |in the Memorial Day disaster which #fe-shown U. S: emblems with twe flags, German: and. Japanese, with the legend claiming. the U. 8, ig ) Wiped ouf the city of 18,700. supporting Chinese enemics. Dr. J. Leightson Stuart, American Ambassador to China, flatly denied | Hundreds still missing. ‘The Red Cross reported 390 persons unac- counted for since the ilooding of ¢ Vanport. The number was decreas- ing, however. It was 7156 Monday, 545 yesterday. Sixty thousand homeless. The number may be higher now due to student charges that the U. E. (International photo) IRUMAN N CLNTON ANDERSON ARMISTICE is “fostering restoration of Japanese military and economic imperialism.” " MORE SWATS or DEMO SENToR PROPOSAL e o o min o the total at perhaps 5 . | sources put ALBUQUERQUE, June 9.~ | $140,000,000, but thousands of acres Clinton Anderson, the former Agri- {0 Oregon, Washington snd. Beitiah culture Secretary, is piling up a :Culumbm have gone under since g substantial lead for the Demo- £ a7y then. Floodwaters now cover about 650 square miles in the U. 8. sec- tor alone—more than Lalf the area iof Rhode Islaad, cratic nomination for Senator from | New Mexico. So it looks as though |in the November election is will be | one ex-cabinet member against an- Ad a' PO”S other ex-cabinet member in the ! New Mexico Senatorial race: Ander- —_— son, the Democrat, vs. Patrick Hur- By DOUGLAS CORNELL | ley, the Republican who used to be ! ENROUTE WITH TRUMAN ‘ SLcretarv of War, 1Also Invites Labor fo Pro- test to Taft-Hartley ‘Jews, Arabs Agree Uncon- ditionally to Truce-Ef- | .. fective Tomorrow | s (CRIPPLED KILLER Arab states accepted uncondition- THROUGH WASHINGTON, June 9 sy - ok |ally today the United Nations' ar- —(@-President Truman made a mistice proposal for Palestine, the WIll SERVE lIFE Llistering attack on the Republican ® © @ ® ¢ & # 209 Foreign Minister of Trans-Jordan ( —dominated Congress today and in WEATHEK REPORT | said, | {0 8- WRATMER, BUREAD) Loke Success—Authoritative Jew-| SEATTLE, Juhe ‘9-(@—Crippled, ley Act at the polls in, November, | ® Temperatures for 24-hour period @ i1, sources gaid Isvael had also ac- [28-year-old, Ralph Shelton faced a “This s the worst Congress we|® ending 7:30 thy murnlng_ cepted uneonditionally the United ;sentence of life imprisonment to- | bave had since the first one met,” In Juneau— Maximum, 62; ®|Ngiione cease fire order day for the robbery-killing of his me Presifent told a reporter at Lis| minimum, 44, The fermal Jewish reply was ex- |former service station employer. train in €pokane, Wash ® At Alrport— Maximum, %63; pected. momentarily from Tel Aviv,| Shelton, who formerly lived in This jab, the sharpest yet deliv- ® minimum, m_ ; | which Arab planes bombed heavily | Wolf Creek, Tenn,, was found guil= ered cn his cross-country trip, fol-| e FORECASTY during the marning President |ty 1ast night of first degree murder. lowed the remark in a Spokane!® (Juncatw. and Vicinity) Chaim Wiezmann of 1 said in |The Superior Court jury recommend- Civic celebration speech that people ® Increasing cloudiness to- Parls: “We are, in general, dis-|ed against the death penalty, mak- deserved a continuance of the pres-'e night and Thursday., High- posed o accept & truce” ong a life sentence manadatory. ent Congress if they failed to act'® est temperature Thursday (An NBC broadca from Tel He said he shot his former em- | in November ® near 72 degree \viv said Israel accepted the truce |Ployer, Ray Arnold, in a panic when unscheduled PRECIPITATION And at an appear- unconditionally. It said Foreign |the latter fought back after being ance before the National Convention (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. L0da ® | Nriicior Moshe Shertok announced ‘h” on the head with a hammer. The of the Communication Workers of | In Juneau City None this in a 1,000-word communique.) |defense contended Shelton wanted America, independent, in Spokane since Jufe 1, 290 inches; 1 The truce is to start at 10 pan.| {money for medical treatment of his vhe said of the Taft-Hartley Labor e since July 1, 88.66 inches, ®!poyp tomorow (Thursday) ! informity. |Law: {8 | At'the Alrport —— None; The iormal Arab reply was hand- | TR “Your only remedy is November.|e since June 1, 184 inches; ®|cq 1o the U. N. mediator at Cairo| 1048, and if you continue that law e since July 1, 53.67 inches e Ten s e AL VD STOCK QUOTATIONS in effect, this is your fault and.not's e e ® o o o o o ® | .00 g piatinr L mi:e. k‘:ecausw i didn't “nx’\‘l ;' 5 ¢ - Wiezmann said Isracl would ae-| NEW YORK, June 9.——Clos- eaving Spokane to visit Grand P g i b i g quotatiol s ¢ flooding Columbia River can be con- | s e ok 4 . Anac % 55- a Congress that oelieves with Dan- | i eda gt iy u':::]‘::,,‘"f',“.,'“f; ;.‘.";‘,mlf’w.,.k Central 16%, Northerti Pacific iel Webster that the West “is no| pr o skl Of 8T8 o Palestine. | Acrgy o4 | . Mrs. William Lavery and MIS. qpae can bek beginning.” 25, U, S. Steel 81%(, Pound $4.03%. 00d. Marshie Lavery of the Lavery Alt~| Heave casualtiss - were believed |, ‘Sales today were 1,870,000 shares. i | ways operating from Fairbanks, ar- |, have resulted from the Tel| Averages tcday are as follo SMMER MOVEMEN’S ‘rnvcd in Juneau aboard the Baranof | aviy bombing. - Explosives were | NAustrials 19256, rails 6125, Gtil- H last night, returning from winter-| . itered around the Jewish uty”“‘s 35,18 George Washingion scheduled to|ing in the States, and are “'u“t"‘mllu-r than concentrated sail hom Seattle 3 p.m. tomorrow.|at the Baranof Hotel single target. Bgyptian planes | Prince George scheduled to sail| Mr. Lavery is expected in Ju- pomped the Tel Aviv wate munmAIRlINER (RASHES from Vancouver tomorrow evening.neau about Saturday to join Nis!guring the night. They claimed to| Aleutian scheduled 0 sail trom wife and mother for the tretun i o oes of vouss ana| 15 REPORTED KILLED Seattle Saturday trip to Fairbanks by plang | attackea g | Princess Louise scheduled to sail| Commenting relative " to visiting| peace be held as Is-| from Vancouver Saturday. in the States, Mrs. Lavery said | { tanbul or on the Island of Rhudea: TUXTLA GUTXERREZ. Mexico, Alaska scheduled southbouna she saw so many Alaskans \«hllq 8 R June 9.—M—Fifteen persons were sometime tomorrow p. m {in ©-attle she was hardly con-| reported killed yesterday when an Princess Norah scheduled to ar-|scious of being Outside bpea\kmgt HERE FROM SEATTLE airliner crashed yesterday ‘while rive at 8 a.m. Priday and sails'of the trip up, Mrs. Lavery said| C. R. Johnsene, Mr. and Mrs. F. making a forced landing at La Per- south one hour later | e voyage to Juneau was espec- | K. Dent, F. Carter, Wagner la Ranch near Pichucalco. Three Baranof southbound late Sunday lally enjoyable and that their “sun-land Gil Rich, from S are at/of the dead were brought here to- + early Monday hine” atay in Juneau is lkewise, the Baranof Hotel | day.