The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 18, 1948, Page 1

* VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,917 DRAFTBILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE Amendment-Lloaded Measure Goes fo Senate -To Face Filibuster WASHINGTON, June 18—®— The House today passed a delay- ed-action draft bill which would not draft anyone be¢ ore next Feb. 1 The roll call vote on final pas- sage was 283 to 130. The amendment-loaded measure now goes to the Senate. There it faces a possible filibuster that may kill it unless Congress returns after the political conventions. The Schate passed a aifferent bill last week. It provided for an immediate draft for two years of service. The House bill calls for one year of service, with nobody to be in- ducted before next Feb. 1. Then they would be drafted only by or- der of the President. Induction ages in both bills are 19 through 25. The threat of a Senate filibuster —talking the bill to death—came from Senator Glen Taylor. (D- Idsho), who is a running mate with Henry A. Wallace on a third party ticket. Taylor’s threat brought a quick promise from Senator Taft (R- ©Ohio) to bring Congress back this summer to hammer out some sort of a draft law. Before voting to pass the bill, the House beat down a motion by Rep. Philbly (D-Mass) b seuddhe measure back to its Armed Services Committee. ~This more, which would have killed the bill, was de- feated 283 to 125 on a roll call vote. The measure goes to the Senate for concurrence in House amend- ments. If the Senate refuses to agree, then the bill will go to a conference committee to comprom- ise differences. Senator Wherry (R-Neb), acting majority leader, expressed confi- dence the Senate can “break any one-man filibuster on the drafi” and go through with plans to ad-| journ Saturday night. i Mayor of Sealflefo | Fly fo Anchorage SEATTLE, June 18—{®—Mayor William F. Devin plans to fly to Anchorage Monday to participate| in a civic luncheon there ‘Tues: day in connection with the" cele- bration of the 50th anniversary of the Alaska gold rush. He will return Wednesday. Oscar Olson from Taku Inlet is a Juneau visitor and a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. The Washington Merry-Eg—Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.) (Editor's Note— The character and prospects of Harold Stas- sen are analyzed by Drew Pearson today in his series of columns on GOP candidates.) ASHINGTON— Whether Har- old i wins or not—and he probably won't—he has done a great service to the Republican party. When other candidates were be- ing coy, and while certain leaders were saying they did not want to be President, the refreshing Mr. Stassen announced that he was one who wanted to be President and proceeded to go out and hustle for it. Furthermore, he made other candidates hustle. Result was more scrutiny of candidates, more pub- lic thinking about the Republican nomination than in any other re- cent Presidential year.® For this alone, the American people owe Mr. Stassen a large vote of thanks. The Stassen campaign today is dragging. His campaign chest, once amply’' supplied, is now re- {(Continued on Page Four) DR.FLORA IS KILLED IN CRASH Prominent —A—nchora ge Physician, Brother-in- Law, Are Victims ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 18. —P—Dr. Leroy W. Flora, 41, prom- | inent Anchorage physician, and his brother-in-law, Cliff Odden, were killed instantly last night when their plane crashed shortly after a takeoff. The crash occurred about two miles from Lake Hood, on the out- skirts of Anchorage. The two| men were enroute for Big Lake, {where Dr. Flora owned a cabin. Flames from the exploding plane spread to the dry wooded area in-, to which the craft crashed. Firée- men from Pt. Richardson and An- chorage were called to exlinguish’ the blaze. Cause of the crash was not de- termined. Flora, a graduate of the Univer- sity of Minnesota, came to Alaska in 1930 and practiced in Palmer beiore coming to Anchorage in 1041. His wife and two small children were at Lake Hood with his mother | iwhen the plane took off. i~ DR. ALBRECHTBACK ' 'FROM SUCCESSFUL | MISSION FOR FUNDS | i l Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Territorialj YCommissioner of Health, returned| home yesterday after a business trip to Washington, D. C. He made me: return trip via the Alaska Highway and was accompanied by Manley Sweazey, Northern Life Insurance frenresentative. Dr. Albrecht said the weather and | the road conditions along the high- way were very good and that lodges and gasoline stations were adequate. | The commissioner went to the cap- ! ital to speak for an appropriation in excess of one million dollars for | the Territory’s health program. The measure was passed by Congress. With this fund, the commissioner said, Alaska’s public health ser- vices can be intensified by the U. S. Public Health Service and the Ter- ritorial Department of Health, The program includes special emphasis| on Tuberculosis control; venereal disease control, sanitation and en- gineering and furthering of Public| Health Nursing Services. The pro-' gram calls for considerable scienti-, fic investigation Work,;mdré laboras | tory facilities and nutritien. studies. | i Dr. Albrecht.said he found no op-| 'posi'uan but ‘rather fall @doperation on the part of ‘Congress arid P!deral| agencies in dssisting dm the Terri- tory’s health problems. Other legis- lation pertinent to the health of[ Alaska is tefore Congress and may be passed before the close of the }session, the doctor indicated. When further word, is received, the com- missioner will make an announce- ment. Mine Assessment Work Suspended i For One More Year WASHINGTON, June 18—P— Legislation waiving the require- ment for development work on mining claims for one year has been signed by President Truman. The White House notified the iSenate today of the President’s ap- proval. The bill suspends a law requiring that $100 worth of] “assessment work” be done during| jthe present fiscal year on each mining claim on public lands. | - GRANDSON IS BORN Mrs. Harley J. Turner, of Juneau was notified yesterday that her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Turner, of Anchorage, became the parents of a boy baby weigh- ing 6 pounds and 4 ounces, on June 15. No name has yet been given the new arrival. e FROM KETCHIKAN Ralph Ohman from Ketchikan was in Juneau yesterday, and regis- ltered at the Baranof Hotel. | Wilderness @0 00ce00cvcsscscec0ssves Ve “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE — MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDA_Y, JUNE 18, 1948 ey 3 Fugitives Are (aptured At Fairbanks Message or@ndbar Tells of Crash of Plane- Search for Pilot FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 18.— (M—Their scrawled message on a River sandbar: “SOS Pilot Dead lead three fugitives back to jail here yesterday. The message informed author- ities that Robert Whisler, 25, had crashed to his death after having spotted the escaped trio earlier in a motorboat. The fugitives, meanwhile, had taken to the mosquito-infested brush. The sandbar clue was enough to put searchers success- fully back on their trail. Their half-naked bodies were splotched with blood spots from bites of the big Tanana River mos- quitoes when they finally were taken. Two of them were without shirts. The other had no pants. U. S. Marshal Stanley Nichols identified the trio as John B. Shelton and Jack Brown, held on burglary charges, and Morris Albert, awaiting trial on forgery and other charges. It was the sec- ond escape and re-capture within a week for the first two. Whisler's crashed plane was iound in the river. A search was on for the body. .- MAY DELAY FISHING IN BRISTOL BAY Stalemate Reached Be-i tween Industry, Fisher- | men Over Salmon Price | SEATTLE, June 18.—®—A stale- mate between the Alaska Salmon: Industry, Inc., and the CIO Alaska | Fishermen’s Union over prices to be paid fishermen for salmon caught in-Bristol Bay, Alaska, may delay the start of the season, scheduled for June 25. 1 Oscar Anderson, business agent for the fishermen, confirmed here today that the union had rejected an offer of 30 cents for red salmon, $1.30 for kings over 15 pounds and 14 cents for chums. - Anderson said the union wants| 32 cents for reds, $1.50 for kings! over 15 pounds and 18 cents for | chums. He declared the union| would not accept anything less. | W. C. Arnold, managing director of the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., said he had received this in- formation unofficially from Ander- son, but that the official request is to come from San Franciso un- ion offices. About 2,000 fishermen are af- fected, 1,000 from the United States and the remainder Alaska resi- i dents. ——— — ® & o © 9 °* 0 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT * (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) . ‘Temperatures for 24-hour period ¢ ending 7:30 this morning In Juneau— Maximum 76; minimum, 57. At Airport— Maximum, 83; minimum, 53. FORECAST (Juncau und. Vicinity) Mostly fair tonight, being partly cloudy Saturday. Low- est temperature tonight 56; highest tomorrow 72. PRECIPITATION (Past 34 hours ending 7:30 a.m. tods; In Juneau City — None; since Juhe 1, 2.90 inches; since July 1, 88.66 inches, At the Airport —— None; since June 1, 184 inches; since July 1, 83387 inches. e & o o 8 0 0 o o et - HELENA AT STORAGE WITH KING SALMON The Helena, skippered by Carl ‘Weidman, brought in 700 pounds of king salmon yesterday at Juneau Celd Storage which was taken l around Icy Straits, ‘er, Jr, of Westmont, Il guided his ship ‘four miles between two hills. He was scarcely 30 feet INVESTIGATE PLANE CRASH; CLUE SEARCH Only Charred Remains of Airliner Found-Forty- Three Met Death MT. CARMEL, Pa., June 18.—® —Charred pieces ttered over a coal-blackened hillside were the only visible remains today of @ huge airliner that carried 43 per- sons to fiefy death. Investigators scratched through the wreckage of the United Air- lines DC-6 that plunged earthward yesterday afternoon in an attempt- ed emergency landing. One of its motors had caught fire, In New York City, the air- line said it still “had not the slightest inkling” as to the cause of the crash. Vietims included famed Holly- wood-Broadway theatrical produc- er Earl Carroll; Mrs. Jack Oakie, divorced wife of the motion picture actor; of Carroll's theatre restaurant show, and Henry L. Jackson, men’'s fashion editor of Collier's maga- zine. Witnesses said the giant craft, manned by a crew of four for its 12-hour flight from San Diego, Calif., to New York, apparently tried to pancake safely on a black, hill of coal dust and water near this eastern Pennsylvania anthra- cite coal town. The craft limped at half-speed into a valley dotted with anthra- cite collieries. Capt. George Warn- above the ground. Stunned miners saw the nose of the plane veer upward, too late. It shattered against a 60,000-vor power line and exploded. Bodies, baggage and plane parts were strewn everywhere. “The whole scene was like a living hell,” said eyewitness Harry Stibitz. “Flames and smoke flew about 90 feet in the air.” The tragedy was the fourth worst plane crash in domestic airline history. The three others were last actress Beryl Wallace, star | ' FOR ALASKAISPUT | . Helicopter Comes fo Juneau | i i i 3 3 ! it} of the most unusia: cargo siipments flown to A helicopter, one Alaska by Pan American Clipper, was snapped as it hovered over the giant DC-4 at Seattle, just before landing. Chief Pilot Ralph Savory watched a little dubiously as ’copter pilot Carl Brady flew the strange-looking flying machine overhead. It was dis-assembled and flown in Pan American’s cargo-clipper to Juneau. The helicopter was reassembled here and made flights | over Juneau. i - | WIFEIS BATTERED 10 DEATH i 1’Four-Year-OI—dGirl Nearly| Suffers Same Fate- Crime Revealed SETTLEMENT PLAN { . FORTH, INT. DEPT. | WASHINGTON, June 18— ®—The | cnterior Department has asked leg- | islation to encourage group settle- | ‘ment of public lands in Alaska. Acting Secretary C. Girard Da- vidson says in a letter to the Senate {that national security requires a (“strong and expanding population” | {in the northernmost territory. i He submitted a draft of proposed legislation which he said would fa- | tains. cilitate settlement of about 2,000,000 acres. It would encourage family sized farms in agricultural areas but would | iallow a settler to lease 16 acres of | year—53 died at Port Deposit, Md.; | 52 at Bryce Canyon, Utah, and 50; in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Moun- | EVERETT, Wash., June 18—(®— A former Oklahoma farmer and air- cratt worker led sheriff’s officers! early today to the bludgeoned body | lu. 8. for \PEACE OFFENSIVE IS BREAKING OUT OVER EAST. EUROPE (By The Associated Press) American officials expressed deep interest foday in what appeared to be a Soviet peace offensive breaking out over Eastern Europe. They were skeptical that the Rus- sians and their Communist allies intend to make any important con- cessions on problems splitting the West and East. Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky, Russian military governor for Ger many, ment on German currency reform is “completely possible.” Other “peace offensive” came from Yugoslavia and Bulgar- ia. Yugoslavia offered to settle UGMC claims. Bulgaria said she is willing to talk about swapping diplomats with Greece, against which the Red Balkan states, have been snarling. - Russia’s acceptance of an American proposal for a ten- nation Danube shipping conference also was regarded as part of the Soviet plan. American officials - guessed Rus- sia might be trying to build a pro-peace record ahead of the fall meeting of the U. N. General Assembly in Paris or trying to re- gain lost prestige. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 18.—(®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 87%, Anaconda 40, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvest- er 33%, Kennecott 59'%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 25%, U. S. Steel 81%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,250,000 shares. Averages today are as follows industrials 191.64, rails 61.27, util- ities 35.86. said a four-power agree-| | moves !grazing land for each acre of cul-;0f his wife and his battered, .«u_ll-! Itivated or pasture land in his home- |living 4-year-old daughter on a cliff | stead: {south of here. I"'A farmer would be entitled to a| The husband and father led oiii-{ | dwelling. site in thé group commu- |cers to the scene, and. sheriff. Tom nity contemplated for each area. Warnock’s Shout over the . cliff} Veterans or groups with a sizable | brought & weak, childish “help”| veteran = membership | woulg', have |from a ledge below. preference fn ‘taking 'up the new| Warnogk identitied the father und‘ ‘lands. {husband, as Wayne L. Williams, i The legislation - would' authorize |about 30. Willlams said he and his | agricultural loans for a 40-year term | family came from their home “‘near at 3'zpercent by the Department of | Tulsa” less than a week ago. Agriculture and 15 year loans at the Discovery of the 27-year-old wo- !same intrest rate by the Recon-‘.mnn-s body and the injured. child Istruction Finance Corporation for culminated a seach that lasted far i tusiness properties into the night after a suspicious sis- | Access roads ter of Williams, with whom he and and community !docks would be built by the govern-|njs family were staying in Seattle, |ment “in aid of settlement,” without |had called Seattle police. | cost, to the community and a “limited ! portion” of the farm land would bi _Wurnock said Williams freely ad- cleared and leveled without cost to|Mitted Jast night the bludgeoning of give the homesteaders a start. his wife and child, expressing the; { RN belief both were dead. Warnock said the man apparently was too con- fused to find the death site last night CITY COUNCILTO | 7 The sheriff said Williams said this pouDER 5189 500 morning that he believed he could 1 lead officers to the spot. He did so by | a country road after one false start. Bm SIREEI woRK " The woman's body and the bat- I ‘lered child were found 6n'a ledge,l ot i s 0 The City Council will ponder :"k‘l:"],‘i’;l’:;';gorpn‘g‘:m‘e’gu"d FRER. 25 |the problem at its meeting tonight | my, tihy girl, with a ‘gash laying |of what to do with a bid of u”"l bare her 'skull from thé nose across 504.82: on proposed City street AM-yine (G5 of her head, was sitting provements when Juneau voters au- whimpering on a log, only two or thorized only $150,000 for the WOrk. three feet from the edge of a sheér| The bid, made by the Lytle and;cnu which dropped off to railroad Green Construction Co., ~of ~Des | tracks atout 50 feet below. The ledge Moines, Iowa, was revealed today. | was only six to eight feet wide. ‘lt was the only offer received Ior} The mother was beaten almost be- jthe work. | yond recognitien about the head and SN face. . | CANADIAN ¥ACIFIC | sheritt warnock said Williams s SCHEDULE, RESUMED |64 of having quarreled continually | | with his' wife yesterday before and D. H. E. McLean, Juneau pass- | during their drive to the isolated enger agent for the Canadian Pa-'spot. The sheriff quoted him as say- cific Railway, received word today | ing the fatal quarrel stemmed from that the company’s main line and | hig desire for ‘a divorce and her re- | Kettle Valley passenger service was | fusal to agree to one; he said she; |resumed efiective June 16, with | was always “crabby.” {trains leaving at 5:50, 7:15 and > {ious ermy DEWEY PICKS UP 25 MORE DELEGATES (laims Made bi New York- er's Manager-Stassen, Taft Combination PHILADELPHIA, June 18—(®— Herbert Brownell, manager for Gov- ernor Thomas E. Dewey, claimed to- day the New Yorkers had picked up 25 additional delegates since yester- day for the Republican presidential romination. “This makes us more confident that we will have more votes on the first ballot than any other candi- date,” Brownell told a news confer- ence. The Dewey manager said the over- night gains came from three states which he would not name. He declined to say how many votes Dewey is expected to poll on the in- itial roll call “If you pick up 25 delegates a day, you'll te in pretty good shape” a| reporter remarked. h “We are in pretty good shape,” Brownell replied Meanwhile pre-convention confer-| ences between supporters of Senator Robert A. Taft and Harold E. Stas- | sen brought forth reports of a pos-j sible deal U. S. FLEET OF JETS | 10 BE SENT, EUROPE! WASHINGTON, * June' 18— ! The United States is doubling its fighter plane strength in Europe, Air Force officials said today. This will be done by shifting a unit of jet planes from Panama | to Germany That unit—the 36th Fighter Wing ' now stationed at Albrook Field in| {the Canal Zone—will leave about August 15, At present there is only one group (about 75 planes) of P-47j World War II type conventional ‘engine fighters based in Germany.‘ The double Moreover, 36th Fighter that occupation it will mean that thel the first time will have an organized force of modern jet interceptors in that troubler area.! (Russia is known to have a num- Wing will| strength, ber of jet fighters in her air force.) An_ Air Force spokesman said that transfer of the Fighter, Wing should be viewed as “part of a formal training policy.” i LAR(;E ORDER IS NOW PLACED BY ARMY AR FORCE| WASHINGTON, June 18— The Air Force has ordered 28 mammoth troop and cargo transports as run- ning mates for its long range bom- ioers. Each can carry 222 fully equipped troops or a 256-ton payload 2,400 miles without refueling, The new sky freighters, known as C-124's, are two and a half times the size of the familiar C-54's used| during the war. Patterned somwhat after the Navy's famons L&Y .landing ships, the C-124 has a built-in nose ramp which. can be drorjed to bring aboard or unload such heavy nqutp-' ment as tanks, field guns, bulldozers and other material needed for the building and defense of advanced bases The plane also can be converted into a hospital craft to carry 123 stretcher patients, 45 walkmg' wounded and 15 nurses. Alasl(a A;fi;y F&sls ‘ Will Be Inspected | In Coming Month WASHINGTON, June 18.—P— Assistant Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray and Gen. J. Lawton Collins, deputy Chief of Staff, visit Alaska next month, inspecting var- posts including - Fort Richardson, Big Delto, Nome, Adak 45 p. m. from Vancouver. ~ The FROM PATTERSON BAY service was diseontinued because| Mrs. S8am Coften, here from Pat- |tersen Bay, is a guest at the “ul' the Fraser River flood. and Whittier. WHITE DELEGATION VOTED T0 BE SEATE CONTEST OF ALASKANS IS DISMISSED GOP Natio-n;I‘ Committee Has Turbulent Session -3 Decisions Made PHILADELPHIA, June 18.—(®— The Republican National Committee voted in a turbulent three and a half hour closed session today to dismiss a contest involving dele- gates from Alaska. Similar action was decided in contests also involving two sets of delegates from Mississippi and South Carolina, The so-called “regular” delega- tions headed by Henry A. Benson, of Alaska; Perry Howard of Mis- sissippi; and J. Bates Gerald of South Carolina were ordered seat- ed. Earlier backers of Governor Thomas E. Dewey won a first- round victory in a battle with sup- iporters of Sen. Robert A. Taft over Georgia's 16 GOP Presiden- tial nominating votes. ‘The Republican National Com- mittee, in its first pre-convention decisive move, voted 48 to 44 to seat a Georgia delegation headed by W. R. Tucker. The delega- (tion largely supports Dewey. The vote denied seats to a dele- gation headed by Roy G. Foster, supporting Taft, Backers of the Ohio Senator said, however, the committee’s decision will be ap- pealed to the credentials commit~ tee, Campaign managers for Taft ‘and Dewey both -claimed that. the two candidates have obtained addi- tional delegate strength, A Taft backer said the Ohio Senator has been assured of “thir- ty to sixty” more votes from un- expected sources. Dewey's spokesman, Herbert E; Brownell, claimed 25 more votes than the New York Governor pre- sumably had yesterday. Anita Garnick, this afiernoon, received a radiogram from Albert White, stating the entire delega-~ tion represented by Benson was voted seated unanimously. Benson, J. C. Morris and Mrs. Jane Dorsh composed the delegation chosen at the recent Sitka convention, but whether all are to be in attendance at the convention is not definitely known. ‘The contesting delegation was composed of Jack Clawson, R. E. Robertson and Cash Cole. MaiorMfist’e_rT-ol Bird World Solved; Nests Foy, Alaska WASHINGTON, June 18—(P— After a 163-year hunt, science has found the nesting place of the bristle-thighed curlew. Its nests have been found near Mountain Valley, Alaska. This solves a major mystery of the bird world. The curlew is the only North American bird whose nests never had been found. The big news was wired to Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, by Dr. Arthur A. Allen of Cornell University, who found the nest. The curlew winters in the South Seas. Tts flute-like cry sounds like its name. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah, from. Vancouver, due Saturday afternoon or eve- ning. Alaska, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive Monday.. ‘Baranof scheduled to sail frem Seattle tomorrow. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver June 23. Square Sinnev scheduled to sail from Seattle June 24. Aleutian southbound late Sunday or early Monday. PR L SIR HUBERT LEAVES Sir Hubert Wilkins, famed polar explorer, left here this afternoon with Col. Patrick D. Baird, Can- adian Director of the Arctic In-~ stitute of North America, via PNA for Yakutat to complete arrange- ments for the Institute's expedi- \Iuon to Seward Glacier.