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

VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,916 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1948 ALL THE TIME” B MhMB R ASSOCIATED PRESS _PRICE TEN CENTS 3 KILLED IN FLAMING PLANE CRASH Six Convention Delegale Disputes, Induding Alaska, GoBefore 6. 0. P. Nat. Com. DEWEY IS INDICATED AS CHOICE GOP Deleg;fl;s and Parly Leaders Look fo New Yorker to Win By JACK BELL PHILADELPHIA, June 17— Harold E. Stassen conceded today he will be third man on the first Presidental nominating ballot at the GOP convention opening here Monday. But the former Minnesota Gov- ernor told a news conference short- ly after his arrival he remains confident he will win the nomina- tion by the ninth ballot. “I am here to lead the liberal and younger forces of the Repub- FISHERMEN TURNDOWN FISH PRICE ASTORIA, Ore, June 17—®—| Alaska fishermen have rejected can- ners' salmon price offer and a union spokesman said it might mean “indefinite delay” in the Alaska fishing season opening. PHILADELPHIA, June 17—#— The Republican National Commit- | tee was summoned to sit today as a jury in six convention delegate | disputes. The contests involve delegations from Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland, Mississippi, District of Columbia and Alaska. The contentions of both sides in each case have already been ! considered by the 40-man contest | committee, of which Attorney Ezra R. Whitla of Couer d'Alene, Idaho, "is chairman. The findings of Whitla’s com- mittee will be referred to the full national committee today for de- cision. The rulings of the nation- The spokesman, who asked that al committee may be appealed to his name not be used, said members the convention credentials commit- ‘Delegale IRECORDBY CONGRESS ONVETOES Override Tme Thumbs Down by Truman Dur- ing Past Four Days WASHINGTON, June 17.—R— Congress made history today by passing major legisiation over Pres- ident Truman's veto for the third time in four days. The No. 3 bill is one letting railroads make rate agreements of a kind now barred by anti-trust laws. Final action was completed by the House. The Senate overrode the veto 63 to 25 yesterday. The House vote was 297 to 102. This was 31 votes more than the two-thirds needed to make the | BY [RACE ISSUE | BREAKS OUT 6.0.P. MEET Southerners Protest None of Them Assigned on Civil Rights Plank PLATFORM PHILADELPHIA, June 17—(®-— The race igsue broke in the Republi- can platform committee today as a delegate from Texas protested that no Southerner had been assigned 1o the subcommittee that will write the GOP plank on civil rights. Marion Schulte, Spokane, was elected one of the com- s two vice chairmen. Orville Bullington, Wichita Falls, arose in the committee session to tell Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., that “the south is more Tex., Truman Haile PRESIDENT HARRY 8. TRUMAN immediately after his arrival in Berkeley shortly afternoon, Saturday, June 12. He was driven directly Faculty Grove. With him, in the din Berkeley waves as he sits in an automobile | to the University of California car, were (center) Roberi Gordon and Lieutenant PROMINENT PERSONS IN FIERY DEATH Airliner Hitsfigh Tension Wire - Bodies Strewn Over Wide Section MT. CARMEL, Pa., June 17.—f Forty-three persons, including Earl Carroll, famous theatrical producer, died in the flaming wreckage of a United Airlines DC-6 today. The plane was bound from San Diego, Calif., to New York. It crashed into a high tension wire carrying 60,000 volts and “com- pletely disintegrated,” eyewitness- es said. Also aboard the plane was Mrs, | Jack Oakie, divorced wife of the film comedian, and actress Beryl Wallace. The Airline said all three Sproul, President of the University of California, Governor Goodwin Knight. (International) of the Alaska Fishermen's Union tee with a lurther appeal permit- voted at Astoria, Seattle, San Fran- ted from the floor of the conven- cisco and Portland to reject the tion if a dissatisfied delegate so lican party in a fight to win” Stassen said iinterested in this question than any- {thing else” He demanded that a were “presumed lost.” Mrs. Oakfe is the former Venita Varden, an measure law over Mr. Trumans objections. Stassen said he thinks it is “a close question“ whether Gov. Tom E. Dewey of New York or Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio will be in! the lead on the first convention | roll call. Stassen was asked how he views!| the possible candidacy of Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan. ' Vandenberg is being boomed in! certain quarters as a dark horse' candidate in the event of a dead-| lock. “I .consider Sen. Vandenberg to be one of the outstanding states- men . of the Republican party,”| Stassen said. 1 “I make no attempt to anticipate ; what his moves will be in this copvention.” Close associates of Senator Van- :'nberg said that unless he changes hjs plan, he will permit the Prefi- idential voting to take its course without any statement from him. Vandenberg’s position in the nominating contest was among thel principal topics of conversation as price offer. He said it was: 30 cents each for reds and cohoes, $1.30 each for kings, 14': cents each for chums and 7% cents each for pinks. The spokesman said the union had asked 32 cents for reds and com- parable increases for the other sal- around two sets of delegates, one|security mon. The offered price is about 20 per cent atove that paid last year. The offer was from the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc, canners’ group. They had planned to fly fishermen to Alaska for opening of the salmon season late this month GUNSHOT VICTIM 5 | FLOWN T0 JUNEAU | FOR MEDICAL Al of Friday last night| Nels C. Nielsen, Jr, Harbor, Wash., was shot fon the troller Virgin, of Seattle, St‘with chooses. Whitla said the recognition of Negroes is an issue in Mississippi and South Carolina contests. The Alaska dispute centers named by the Republican Central Committee of Alaska and the sec- ond chosen by the Republican Clubs. O G WA TIN MINE DEAL IN - ALASKA UNFOLDED | IN FEDERAL COURT/ The story of a proposed ten million dollar corporation to operate a tin {mine in Alaska has been unfolded at federal court here. Constantion Riccardi is charged transporting both the | NEWARK, N. J, Jumié 17—@—! illegally across, Congressional officials said three , vetoes slapped down within a week is a record not equalled by any! other Congress. | Earlier this |knocked down vetoes of a social bill and an appropria- tion bill transierring the United States Employment Service from the Labor Department to the Fed- eral Security Agency. Both now jare law, along with the railroad bill. The rate bill was the 137th Mr. Truman has vetoed since he be- jcame President. Most of them | minor measures. { He vetoed 76 bills during the; 79th (1945-46) Congress in which| the Democrats had a majority, andl all stuck. .¢L» week Congress i were | Frilz Kuhn | [ southern delegate be put on the civil rights committee. Lodge, a Massachusetts Senator, told the 104-member platform group that it was in order for mem- bers to swap their committee assign- ments. Mrs. Agnes Jones Gillford, South Orange, N. J., immediately an- nounced that she would yield her civil rights committee post to Bull- ington. Mrs. Gillford took his place | on another subcommittee. This dramatic development oc- curred shortly after the platform committee had organized, electing Lodge as its chairman and designa- ting nine subcommittees to conduct hearings én party platform planks. A group of Republican women proposed ;a foreign policy plank j {subporting. the Ufited Nations and decurlng the GOP favors “the U. 8. !joining the Union of the Western European Slales (HUR(H PRESIDENT { Draft Bill Is Changed, House Vote Would Put Off Enlisting Until After Jan. 31- Senate Filibuster WASHINGTON, June 17— The House voted today to pu orr drafting any men for the armed! services until after next Jan, 31. Working away on its draft bill, it accepted an amendment by Rep. Shafer (R.-Mich.) which would | [ Oakie in 1945, actress who was divorced from Friends said they had become reconciled but had not vet remarried. A seript of the Gary Moore “Take It or Leave It" show broadcast each Sunday night over NBC was found on the plane, but an NBC spokesman in New York said he was ‘“certain” Moore was not on the plane. No Sign Of Life Ed Darlington of radio station WCNR at nearby Bloomsburg said: “There was no sign of life and apparently everyone was kills ed.” Darlington §8id the plane crash- ed into a trnndomrr on a high tension wire at 12:41 _P. m,, Eastern G‘lndlrd Time. - A clock “at the Midvalley Colliery of thé Jeddo- Highland Ooal Company stopped iat that time, its wires cut by the crackup. The plane's logbook, found near the scene of the crash in a thick- ly wocded area, identified the plane’s pilot as Captain George Warner of Chicago. The steward- have this effect: The draft law would go on the statute books, but with a provision delegates moved in for the 23d try of the Republican party to Latuya Bay and was flown to Ju- state lines $18,000 worth of furnlture; neau this noon by Pilot Bud Brown Lelonging to Princess Doris Farid-| Recaplured FRANCE E APPROVES neminate a President. There were many in this flag-| bedecked convention city, however,| who felt that it is about all over' but the shouting. Their view— and it was expressed widely by dil;gates and party leaders—is that Dewey is in such a commanding; position that he never will be head- ed in the voting. — $ GRANDSON IS BORN ,Mus. Crystal Jenne, juneau Post- muter, was notified today that her sop-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mr. David F. Kenney, became the parents of a 5 pound 11 ounce boy in Seattle on Monday. He was named David Charles Kenney. et INTENTION TO WED Lawrence E. Chantry, of the U. S, Coast Guard Cutter Wachusett, apd Shirley V. Heine, of the U. 8, Weather Bureau, have applied to U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray| for a marriage license. ! ; e Washington rry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) t i (Copyrisht, of Alaska Coastal Airlines with As-jes Sultaneh. Yesterday he testified sistant Surgeon James Gilbert of| the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Wa- chusett. Nielsen was injured in the throat when he attempted to place a .22 cal. pistol in his belt and it slipped to the deck of his vessel where it lexploded. He was rushed to St. Ann’s Hospital here, on arrival, for treat- ment by Dr. J. O. Rude who said that the man’s condition was not serious. sl FI0a P SN ® & & & ¢ ® & 0 o o o * WEATHER REPORT °* ° (U. 8, WEATHER BUREAU) . @ Temperatures for 24-hour period ending 7:30 this morning In Juneau— Maximum, 81; minimum, 54. At Airport— Maximum, 82; minimum, 49, FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Continued fair tonight and Friday with lowest tempera- ture tonight 55 and high- est tomorrow 80. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau City — None since June 1, 290 inches; since July 1, 88.66 inches, At the Airport —— None; since June 1, 184 inches; since July 1, 53.87 inches. ® o 0o o 0o 0 o 0 0 0 —,t————— .(Editor's Note: Senator Arthur Vandenberg, No. 1 dark horse of the Republican Party today is analyzed in Drew Pearson’s 'columns on GOP candidates for President.) ASHINGTON—After the Cleve- land GOP convention finished nominating Alf Landon for Presi- dent in 1936, they looked round anxiously for a good Vice-Presi- dential running-mate. Colonel Ber- tie McCormick of The Chicago Tribune, joining in the search, dropped into see Senator Arthur Vahdenberg of Michigan to pro- pose putting his name’ in, nomina- fion. “Let me ask you one question,” replied Vandenberg. “How ‘would you like to be vice-president of anything?” “The matter was dropped. Much to, McCormick’s disgust, his rival, Col. Frank Knox, Chicago publish- ér, was nominated instead. At that time Vandenberg was a staunch isolationist and the apple MRS. McKINNON HOME Mrs. Addie McKinnon returned home on the Aleutian this week after visiting her brother and family of Richland, and two sis-| ters in Seattle for the past month. She will resume, her duties - as switchboard operator at the Fed- eral Building June 28. ——————— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 17.—(®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 32, American Can 87%, Anaconda 397%, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvest- er 33%, Kennecott 587, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 26, U. S. Steel 81%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,520,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 192.15, rails 61.38, util- {ities 35.88. - e — YAKUTAT VISITORS Calvin Ward and Phyllis Ward, both from Yakutat, are now in Ju- of Colonel McCoimick's eye. To- (Continued on Page Four) | neau, | Hotel. registered at the Baranof | that at one time he and the Princess | considered forming the tin mining: venture. Riccardi, an Arizona rancher, that in 1946, the Princess agreed \ band’s relatives in Paris for the mine project after she had checked the an agreement with property owners |cess he thought her husband’s rela- tives would accept. | Riccardi | with the Princess went on the down- grade and he learned the furnish- ings she had given him for his iArizona ranch house were not con- sidered by her to be a gift. INTERIOR SEARCH FOR 2 PRISONERS WHO BREAK JAIL FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 17.(® —Air Force helicopters, private planes and river boats were pressed into service by posses yesterday in a search for two prisoners who es- caped for the second time in a week from the Fairbanks Federal xJail Also being sought with them was a native of this area who, author- ities said, would be able to guide the two men over the mosquito infested Tanana River wilderness. | Marshal Stanley Nichols identi- fied the two as John.B. Shelton and Jack Brown, held on burg- lary charges. The third man, he said was Morris Albert, who was awaiting trial on charges of forg- ery, driving a car without per- mission of the owner and resisting arrest. Nichols said a private pilot and residents reported seeing three men in an outboard motorboat on the Chena River. A car was found abandoned along the river. But posses scouring the area on land and from the air failed to locate the motorboat. Shelton and Brown were cap- tured only a few hours after their first escape a week ago. e ———— FROM ANCHORAGE A. B. Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Peterson and daughter, J. C. Pferrer, all here from Anchorage, are now guests at the Baranof Hotel. said to raise $5,00000 from her hus-| status of the mine. He said he made of the mine which he told the Prin-| said later his romance: MUNICH, Germany, June 17— FED ER Al GOVT. I“ "M—Fritz Kuhn, German-American iBund leader, was recaptured to- day, Munich Public Safety officiais disclosed. Kuhn escaped from the German | internment camp at Dachu under| mysterious circumstances Feb. 4. {The camp director, Anton Zirn- |gibl, was dismissed as a result. Kuhn had been awaiting trial beiore a German denazification | court. He was convicted in absen-!| tia April 20 and sentenced to 10 years at hard labor as a “major {Nazi offender.” Kuhn was captured in the French zone town of Bernkastel, near Trier, by German police. Suspicion was aroused when he{ opplied for a chemlsl.s license. Sulmdy Bill for. Shipping fo Alaska Is‘ Given Com. Approval WASHINGTON, June i7 WL—A lbxll to extend the present subsidized | i steamship service to Alaska until} Feb. 28 was approved today oy me: Senate Commerce Committee. Its chances of passage before Con- gress quits Saturday aren't very good. It the Senate passes the bill, rits supporters nope it may be passed also by the House over the opposition of Chairman Weichel (R-Ohio) of the House Merchant Marine Com- mittee. He has refused to permit his committee to consider similar legislation. The present service is operated by ! three Seattle companies with govern- owned ships chartered to them by jthe Maritime Commission at a dol- lar a year. The law authorizing this expires June 30. i 'WESTERN GERMANY {trolled internationally, but remain a By The Associated Press France approved by a thin eight- vote margin today the plan to es- tablish a federal government in Western Germany. The count in the National Assembly was 300 to 286, with 26 absentions. The plan envisages semi-indepen- dence for the U. S, British and French occupation zones. The Ruhr's industries and mines will be con- part of Germany. Occupation armies will stay indetinitely until peace isi assured. The U, Netherlands and Luxembourg al- ready had approved. Russia, pro testing the plan violated the tatter- ed Potsdam agreement, was opposed, us were French Communists and ex- wreme nghusts SEDAS RN P Large Estate Is Left By Oscar Nicholscn SEATTLE, June 17.—(P— Oscar Nicholson of Seattle, who died May 29 in Petersburg, Alaska, lefl| an estate valued at $190,000, pro- I bate proceedings disclosed yester-} day. About $65,000 is under the juris- diction of Washingtort courts, and the balance—a salmorn cannery an residence near Petersburg—will be probated in Alaska. He left the entire estate to his wife and two children. L Marifime Industries S., Britain, Belgium, the | EDWIN SIMS Harry C. Browne (above) of Bos- ton, Mass., former actor and radio executive, was elected new Presi- dent of The Mother Church of the Flrv Church of Christy Scien- tist, at the annual meeting held in Beston. (P Photo. PASSES AWAY SAGINAW, Mich,, | Edwin W. Sims, 78, for many years a prominent attorney in phlc.uu, New York and Washingtoft, uhed Wednesday, 1 He suffereth f] heart duacki; foh-{ lowing' an_operation ' He 'served as solicitor for the Department of Commerce and La- sor in 1905 and 1906. As a result 1of his investigation in the Bering 3ea, he drew up bi)ls taxing salmon and seal fisheries. When enacted they were credited with providing Alaska with greately increased revenues through taxation. i P - MEN GET TRAILERS TO BEAT ALASXA HOME SHORTAGE |al adjournment, now set.for Satur-} June 17—P— porters told him Sepator Taylun JURY, SHOOTING CASE | Sgt. Joseph Oliverson, 20, was bound |day on a charge of negligent homi- that none of the draft machinery would start rolling before Jan. 31.1 Registrations and inductions would { begin then only if the President de- cided there had not been enough i volunteers for the armed services and a draft was needed. Across the Capitol, talk was cir- culating in Senate cloakrooms that | a filibuster might be launched in an effort to kill final action on any! draft legislation before Congression- day . On that, Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) said the Republican leadership fs! “certainly not” going to let the draft | bill be killed by a filibuster, Taft made his remgrks after re- (D.-Idaho) had said he plans tot talk at Jength on the draft measure , When_ it »t(,;etuxied to the Senate: {from the House Shifer's enfiment, was approv- ed by tHe Hole. on a standing vo!el of 125 o 90. i i S e SGT. OLIVERSON 1S BOUND OVER GRAND SEWARD, Alaska, June 17—(M— over to the Grand Jury here yester- cide in connection with the fatal wounding of Roberta Smith, 35, near the summit of Marathon Mountain June 8. The dead woman was on a hike | with a companion, Valdeda Bryant, ' RANTOU, L, June 17—M—TWO |5 gy the time. Both women were ] {Alr Force officers start out from pempers of the Jesse Lee Orpban- ‘ here today on a 21-day, 4,167-mile | age staff here. trailer trip to beat the Alaskan! “A¢ 5 hearing before Special Com- | housing shortage. missioner Annie B. Southard, the Major Jack Buckley., Olney, Iil, g aier was released without bail in | |- Gef Whaling License i 1 Sixteen Bills Are Signed by Truman; Include Nome Work KANSAS CITY, June 17—#— President Truman signed 16 bills| upn his arrival in Independence late ‘Wednesday. They included: 18.1025, providing for construction of | California station. Now Maritime shore protective works at Nome, Industries is the only U. S. opera- Alaska. | tor. WASHINGTON, June 17.—(P— Maritime Industries, Fields Land- +ing, Calif.—recipients last year “of | the nation’s first and only post- war whaling license—has renewed’ its license again this year, the Fish and Wildlife Service said to- day. Before the war there were two whaling stations in Alaska and an ! American whaling ship in the An-| |tarctic, in addition to the Nortbern | and Capt. Olen Colaw; Paxton, Ill, were stationed here at Chanute Field until five months ago. Then | | they were tra sferred to Fort Rich- ardson, Anchorage, Alaska. | Because of high rents and lack of quarters, they could not take their families with them This week the two flew back to Chanute, | bought two trailers and start to-| morrow on a trip by motor that| will take them over the Alcan Highway. Their families two children and | la wite apiece—w!ll go with them. [The treilers will go on a Jot al- ady purchased in Anchorage. i !States Marshal Irvin Metcalf told custody of the Army. Oliverson from Franklin, Idaho, told officers at the time that he fired at the woman, mistaking her for a bear, from a distances of from five to six hundred yards. United the court an investigation indicated | the fatal shot was fired from a dis- tance of 442 yards. - LOUIS VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. John Janes, G.| McNulty and Mr, and Mrs. M. J.| Lucas, from St. Louis, Mo, are ST. 'staying at the Baranof Hotel. jor ess was listed as Lorena Berg, ad- dress not known. Bodies Strewn Around Darlington 1said repcf'ts from eyewitnesses said ‘“there were be- tween 35 and 40 bodies strewn all over the place.” A reporter for the Bloomshurg Press said the plane apparently exploded from the electrical charge. He said bodies, arms and legs were strewn over an area of 200 to 300 feet after the plane carom- ed into a hill not far from the transformer. More than an acre of brush was burned by the blazing wreckage. The reporter said no bodies were in the plane “because there just isn't anything ieft of the plane.” ,ee - Seek Revocation of Paroles of Former "(apone Mob’ Gang WASHINGTON, June 17—(®—The House Expenditures Committee rec- cmmended today that paroles of four former memters of the “Capone Mob” in Chicago be revolked. The Committee said the paroles were “improvidently granted” and should be revoked because of “frauds ulent concealment of the facts.” The men named are Louis Cam- pagna, Charles Gioe, Philip d’Andrea and Paul DeLucia, alias Ricca. ‘They were released on parole Aug. 11, 1947 after having served three and one half years of 10-year isentences for violation of the anti- racketeering laws. DeLucia, one of the four, was re- arrested in Chicago today for parole Violation. Princess Norah, from Vancouver, {due Saturday afternoon or eve- ning. Alaska, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive Monday. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive at 8 a. m. tomorrow and sails south at 10 a. m. Aleutian southbound late Sunday early Monday. g SEATTLE VISITORS G. Autry, John Corrie and H. E. Athérson, from Seattle, are guests at the Baranof Hotel.