The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 22, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — 0,920 VOL. LXVIIL, NO. | GOPCANDIDATE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS UNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS READY CASH FOR PROJECTS INNORTHLAND Contract AutTorily Also Is Given in Appropriations Passed by Congress By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, June 22—#—| The Congress which closed in a| rush of work Sunday approved ap- propriations of more than $200,000,- 000 for Alaska. Of the total $167,527,208 was cash and $46,454,000 was in contract au- thority. The amount does not in- clude miscellaneous appropriations | for various departments to run| their Alaskan offices. Those funds are allocated administratively. The Interior Department appro- priation bill, according to figures | compiled by Delegate Bartlett 4f Alaska, contained $37,22,757 in cash for the Territory and contract au- thority for $31,829,000. Contract autherity means work can be un-| dertaken to be paid for under fu-' ture appropriations. Tubereuw:s:s Ttems Those totals include: $4,180,962 for the Alaska Native Service and contract authority to build a 400~ bed tuberculosis sanitorium and four tuberculosis conirol centers; $52,000- Ao Cuart - st deiGaa e 8 mining experiment station; $225,000 for Alaska Game Commission; $10,- 442,400 for roads, plus contract au-| thority of $13,904,000; $17,000,000 in cash lor the Alaska Railroad and $12,000,000 contract authority. The War Department civil func- tions bill contained $2,842,000 for| dredging Wrangell Narrows and for the Alaska Communications System. | Geophysical Institute { The Agriculture Department | money measure gave the Terri- tory $998890 cash and $300,000 contract authority while the Fed-; eral Works Agency got $100,000 in | cash and $875,000 in contracts for| construction of a geophysical in- stitute at the University of Alaska.| Field offices of the Civil Aero- nautics Administration were allot- ted $100,000. The Coast and Geodetic Survey got approximately $2,000,000 for its work and the Customs Bureau $125,000 for Alaskan operations. Navy - Army The Navy was voted $14,600,000| for its investigations in the Arctic oil reserves. The Army was given $44,995,438 for its operations in the Territory the coming year, while the Civil Aeronautics Administration was giv- en $12,574,000 cash and the Fed- eral Security Administration was given $1,113,000. | (Continued on Page E£ix) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) PHILADELPHIA — The Repub- lican Party has always flirted with the idea of breaking the Solid South. It has also posed as the party of emancipation, the cham- pion of a square deal for the South. Yet when it comes to nominat- ing the most coveted prize in the Republican party, it treats South- ern delegates as so many pawns to be bartered back and forth across the counter. These are the delegates traditionally bought and paid for, who can tip the scales for or against the leading candi- date. Once back in 1928 enough Re- publicans got so indignant about| this barter of delegates that they held a Senate investigation of Her- bert Hoover’s southern purchases. \ Trouble Sta?ls_Ovef Land- {ment in Western Germany. | pected to veto in the United Nations ongress Votes Millions 4 High Sch "White' Delegation Approved; ‘Blacks’ May Make Appeal Direct to GOP Convention Floor PHILADELPHIA, June 22.—®—; The three-vote so-called Alaska | }"Whn:v' delegation headed by Hen-| {ry A. Benson, of Juneau, was ap- | | proved today by the Crcdemmls;‘ - JEWFORCES | ] Committee of the Republican con- vention Benson's group previously won a | [ sontest before the National Com- mittee. It is considered favorable 0 Gov. Themas E. Dewey, of New York, for President. The committee vote was not an-| nounced, but Edwin J. Jaeckle, a member from New York, said it was not unanimous. The Seattle Times correspondent it the convention said she was wdvised only five members of the {0-member Dewey-contreiled com- mittee voted in favor of seating the “Blacks" — the opponents of long-time National Committeeman Al White of Juneau. The opposition faction contended the “Whites” have dispensed with | istrict caucuses and precinct or- ganizations against the popular | will of Alaska Republicans. | Seated Delegation The seated delegation includ besides Benson, Julius C. Morr Anchorage, and Mrs. Jane Dors Fairbanks. The lesing “Black” contestants | were R: E. Robertson, Juneau at-| wirgey; Jack, Clawson, Anchorage,) and Cash “Cole, Juneau. They brought proxies from alternates| elected at- the recent Mount Mec-| Kinley Park convention. H After the setback, Robertson de- clared: “Once more it seems poli- tical expediency, not the merits of the case proved the deciding factor.” “Blacks” Present Case » ‘The Times correspondent said the | “Blacks” presented their case to the National Committee last Fri-| day and were turned down. With- in 24 hours, they appealed the com- | mittee’s decision. Horace Biack, Salt Lake ing of Cargo of Arms ~Threat Is Made (By The Associated, Press). Jews fought Jews over the forbid- den landing of arms in Palestine | Israel sent naval and land forces tc | Natanya, 18 miles north of Tel Aviv, to prevent landing of a éargo of arms for Irgun Zvai Leumi, a former Jewish underground force. Irgun saic some of its men were killed and warned Israel that unless it calls of: its army, “There will be opened & blood battle between the Jews.” The ship was moved overnight in- to Tel Aviv Bay and grounded there and, more fighting followed today. The importation of arms is for- hidden _undpr ghe Tinited Notjs truce, now in its second week. The Irgun action also violated orders of Israel. Israeli leaders were gravely concerned. r ATHENE—Greeks fought Greeks in the mountains near Albania. Greece moved three more divisions into its greatest offensive aginst Communist-led rebels ,and issued this order of the day: “Let the Grammos (mountains) be the grave of the Communists.” It was estimated 7,000 followers of Maikos Vafiades are being corked in | a rocky mountain pocket in a cam- paign which U. S. officers helped plan. City | the Alaska issues, argued their case | before the Credentials Committee yesterday. In an executive session today, | the committee sustained the Na- tional Committee’s action. ! May Appeal | Capt. Austin E. Lathrop of Fair-; banks, who was elected National Committeeman on the “Black” slate | said his group had not decided whether to make a further ap-| peal from the floor—the last re- course open at the convention. The controversy is attributable to the fact the Republican National Committee - has no rule requirin Territories to call caucuses before elections. The Lathrop group is| now seeking such a rule, the Times correspondent said. Robertson said “orthodox” Re- | publicans in Alaska have tried at the last five sessions of the Terri- torial Legislature to get a law mak- | ing popular precinct and district caucuses mandatory before all elec- BERLIN—Currency reform in| Western Germany spread economic paralysis in Berlin and the Russian occupation zone. The Russians ac- cordingly accepted a British pro- posal for a four-power talk on cur- rency changes in Berlin. | BERLIN—Marshal Vassily D. So- kolovsky, the Russian commander, wrote the three western commanders not to attempt to introduce their new currency in Berlin. He as- serted Berlin is part of the Soviet zone. The British commander, Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, challenged this | statement. ROME—The Cominform was re- ported. meeting in Czechoslovakia. It is the International Communist “In- formation Bureau,” made up of rep- resentatives from Russia, Italy, France, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hun- gary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland. They were believed reviewing their | tactics in view of their recent de-|"on% o “Each time,” he said, “the Whites feat in Italy and the western power | decision to set up a federal govem-'c"mbmm with Democrats to defeat |such a measure. GROMMET REEFER LOADING FREIGHT FOR ALASKA PORTS LAKE SUCCESS—Russia is ex-| today the American demand for Se- curity Council approval of the atomic control plan, DELHI, India—One of the n‘mel‘ men accused of killing Mohandas K. Gandhi decided to turn state evi- dence. The other eight, on trial at| SEATTLE, June 22—®—Cargo Delhi, dropped their juanty attitude. !for the next sailing of the SS Grom- N. V. Godse, a Poona editor, was|met Reefer to Southwestern Alaska named in the indictment as the ac-|will be accepted until June 24, offi- tual killer. cials of the Alaska Transportation Company said today. { Senate GENERAL VIEW OF THE AUTOMOBILE which carried Angeles during the early morning palm tree, killing the driver and three occupants, and critically injuring two others, blanket, is the body of Betty Maderas, 17, while the body of her escort and driver of The bodies of the pair were removed with the aid of acety- Spongberg, 19, lies under blanket lene torches. with terrific WOMAN FOR impact. SENATOR IN Representative Smith Is Lewis Wins First Triumph Pennsylvan Victory Over 3 Men for GOP Nomination PORTLAND, Me., June 22.—(® Attractive Rep. Margaret C. Smith won a thumping victory over three day gave John L. Lewis a *legal | Thomas E. Dewey got the first big for the Republican U. S. nomination yesterday. GOP endorsement in the Maine men tion. If tradition prevails this tember, Mrs. Smith will step into the seat of retiring majority floor leader White. Only one woman—Mrs. Hattie Caraway, Arkansas Democrat—ever was elected to the Senate. She first was appointed to succeed her late husband Mrs. Smith, 49, polled more votes than all three of her opponents- Gov. Horace Hildreth, former Gov. Sumner Sewell and Albion P. Bev- erage. (CONSCIENTIOUS O0BJECTOR ROUTED AT WHITE HOUSE Chained Himself to Banni- ster Until Hustled Out by Secret Service Agents WASHINGTON, June 22—#—A 33-year-old conscientious objector chained himself to a bannister in the White House today in protest against the draft. “Veto the Draft’ was painted on his white shirt. Secret Service agents quickly re- leased him and hustled him out of the White House into their headquarters across the street The Secret Service identified the man as James D. Peck, New York City. Agents said he had recently,|attle, scheduled to arrive 8 am. race in the Poughkeepsie regatta Federal C been released from the penitentiary at Danbury, where he had served a th ear Sep- | nn., S LOOKING FOR DELEGATES ool (elebrants Die in Aufo Crash | hours. The auto crossed over the at right Police deducted that Spongberg fell asleep at the wheel and struck rhe highway palm tree They were returning home from a graduation party Pension Plan, Coal Miners { | in Three Trips fo Justice Goldborough's Court June 22.—(P— Goldsborough to- WASHINGTON, Justice T. Alan go-ahead for his $100 monthly pension plan for miners. | Goldsborough dismissed a plea attorney who is conversant with primaries is almost equal to elec- |of Ezra Van Horn, trustee for op- erators on the United Mine Work- s’ jder to block payment | for retired miner The Judge said he preposal for payments. and proper For Lewis, it marked his first | triumph on three trips into Judge | Goldsborough's court. Twice before 'he had been there only to be fin- led for contempt of court for fail- jure to end walkouts i chedience | to Gnldsborough orders of pensions found the “reasonable | It was a dispute over pensions that brought about the costly six- | weeks strike last spring. The proposed tem of payments was gvolved by Lewis and Senator H. Styies Bridges (R-NH). Bridges kacame neutral member of the | Welfere Board and sided with Lew- | |is in setting up the plan. Van Horn refused to approve the | payments and went into court to| lask that it be declared illegal. The plan provides $i100 a month for UMW members who are 62 | years of age or older and who have | worked in the pits for at least 20 | years. Lewis and Bridges agreed to set | aside $5,000,000 of the $45,000,000 {fund to start the pension plan. R - | STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Prince George, from Vancouver, scheduled to arrive 7 tonight | Corsair scheduled to arrive at 11 ia. m. tomorrow. Freighter Sword Knot, from Se- | | tomorrow. ! George Washington, from Seattle, due 3 p. m. Thursday. ¢ high school graduates -o tragedy in Los highway and crashed headon into a BIG BREAK, 'MAINENOW s Approved (ONVENTION | Convention Welfare Fund, for a court or-| REPUBLICAN PLATFORM NOW READY | Will Be Submitted fo Con-| i i vention Tomorrow- | Planks Outlined | By MAX HALL PHILADELPHIA, June | Republican policy makers today completed a 1948 platform pledg- ing internationalism, a potent mili- | itary machine and civil rights for | all, ‘ The platform framers finally laid | the text before the country after | nearly week of writing, wrang | ling and revising The objective is votes a & to win as many in November. write 2 plat- for the same as possible | The Democrats will i form next month | purpose At left, under the vehicle, Roland Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge | of the GOP resolutions committee | will offer the 2400-word document | —shortest in the party's history. | to the national convention tomor- |row for approval Conventions | usually accept a platform without a fuss, Republican National Chair- man Carroll Reece today predicted “harmonious action.” ‘The platform, adopted by the ex- hausted resolutions committee at 12:10 a. m. today, was described by Lodge as” broad enough for any of the main Republican Presiden- tial hopefuls to stand upon. It deals with scores of highly centroversial topics, among them public housing, Israel, prices, and anti-Communist legislation. Foreign Policy Plank The foreign policy plank—dedi- cated to “the preservation of a free { America in a free world of free {men” and plumping had for “col- g]rclivc security against aggression” | bears the unmistakable marks of | Michigan’s Senator Arthur H. Van- derberg, a possible. darkhorse con- tender for the Presidential nomina- tion. It premises full recognition and economic aid to the new nation of Israel, ki (International Soundphoto) DEWEY GETS iaz Favorite Son Withdraws in Fav- or of New Yorker By JACK BELL PHILADELPHIA, June 22— break of the Republican National today when Pennsyl- vania’s favorite son, Senator Ed- ward Martin, suddenly withdrew in Dewey’s favor. How many of Pennsylvania's massive 73-vote delegation Martin !can carry with him was the big question. Asked this question, Mar-| tin said: | “I do not made | no estimate.” Seventy-two of the delegates have | been pledged to Martin | The chairman of the delegation, Gov. Duff, is reported to be for Senator Vandenberg first and then | for Senator Taft of Ohio, if Van- denberg seems unlikely to make the grade, The Martin statement came af- ter an hour-long conference of key Pennsylvania leaders, behind clos- ed doors. Martin also conferred with Dewey. It came as a big surprise. Earlier Dewey won another point on which there had been a lot of bkackstage maneuvering. It was announced that Arizona would Defense Plank The national defense plank says 'we propose” maintaining the Army, Navy and Air Force “to a degree whick: will insure our na- tional security.” On civil rights, the platform is not far different from President Truman’'s program which caused such an outery from southern Democrats. The Republicans prompt legislation to outlaw lynch- ing and to abolish the poll tax They opposed the idea of racial ‘segregauun in the Armed Forces. know. I have called for Communist Plank Here in brief is what the plat- form says about: . Communists—It pledges enact- ment of “such new legislation as may be necessary to expose the | uld | treasonable activities of Commun- yield to New York when the time|jsts and defeat their objective of came to make nominations. establishing here a godless dicta- That means Dewey'’s name will|torship controlled from abroad.” be the first to go beiore the con-| Elections—It favors a change in | vention. Alabama will pass whenithe method of electing Presidents | the alphabetical roll is called. |in order to “more exactly reflect - - o | the popular vote.” CREW RACES Alaska Statehood Among other things, the platform favors ‘“eventual statehood”, for Hawali,, Alaska and Puerto Rico i e , |and urges development of Alaskan POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 22.| communications and resourc —{#—The University of Washing-! rhe gtatehood position was a dis- ton Junior Varsity made it two In|gppointment to Alaska and Hawail, (& row for the Far Westerners on|potn of which sought inclusion of {the Hudson River this afternoon|an outright statehood declaration. |by winning the three-mile Jayvee PR STOCK QUOTATIONS {by over two lenghths, with Cali-| fornia second, and the Navy third. Earlier, the Washington Frosh | 22 —(P— For Work In Alaska BIG THREE - FIGHT FOR DELEGATES Dewey, Tafriiassen Mak- ing Struggle for Secur- ing Nomination-Others By JACK BELL CONVENTION HALL, PHILA- { DELPHIA, June 22—(P— The Re- | puklicans, whooping it up for vie- | tory in November, got their plat- ‘.Iurm all but finished today but | still were in a fog of uncertainty jover who {s to take his stand on |it as their choice for President. Many of the delegates who strag= |gled into this big hall for the second day's sessions had been up half the night or more in who-will- it-be conferences. Lines Drawn Tight But from all reports, these meet- |ings had served only to draw the :liut‘s tighter in the Dewey-Taft- Stassen struggle for the nomina- tion The “favorite son” candidates, | whose votes have got to be shak- jen Joose to preduce a winner, iwere sitting tight. They gave ev- |ery indication they intend to play |cagey and” make no moves until | there have been a couple of bal- {lots on the nomination. The convention’s resolutions com- {mittee came up.shortly after mid- night with ‘s draft of a proposed platform. It must get the formal approval of the convention, but ordinarily that is given without major argument. As party platforms go, this is cn the brief side, about 2400 words. And, as usual, it has a little something to offer for every- body. | | | Hunt Fer Delegates The third session of the conven- tien began at 10:22 am. (EST). The intensity of the delegate hunt was illustrated by the ac- tivity of Senator Robert A. Taft. Before the morning session of the convention, he conferred with the Missouri and Kansas delegations. Awalting him were conferences with the Wisconsin, Tennessee, Utah, New Jersey, Vermont, Iowa, Alabama and Hawail groups. Backers of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and of Harold E. Stassen were no less active. And friends of Senator Arthur Vandenberg and of Speaker Joe Martin were talk- ing up their men, bidding for sup- port for them as men the con- vention could unite behind. | | | Dia%2s i Shells With this blitz whistling around them, the men who irent for the hefty Perhsylvania, Massachusetts, | New Jersey and Illinois delegations [pulled further. bagk “into their | shells, By unspoken consent, they seem- led to be agreed that—with the probable exception of an Illinois turn for Taft—there will be no biz break for any of the top run- ners until & third roll call is reach- ed sometime Thursday. This development pleased Mich- igan delegates seeking to get Sen- ator Arthur Vandenberg's candidacy off the ground Keynote Speech { 1In his keynote speech last night, | Governor Green charged that the Democrats have lost the peace— (and that only the Republicans can win it back. The Illinois Governor accused the New Deal of appeasing Russia. He said: “The cold war |we face today is the lusty ehild of the New Deal's rendezvous with Communism,” Then former Congresswoman |Clare Booth Luce of Connecticut ;udded her invectives against the {administraticn. She said the Dem- ocratic party is a mish-mash of | p MANTLA—The Philippine House voted approval of amnesty for the 50,000 peasant guerrillas called the Hukbalahap. TOKYO—William Sebald, acting and chief of Gen. MacArthur's dip- !locatic# section, denied that U. S. build a mil According to the swern testimony before the Senate committee, Ben Davis Colored GOP National Com-! (Continued on Page Four) policy is to rel — e Mr. and Mrs. of Hoonah are in Juneau staying at the Hotel Juneau, U. 8. Political advisor for Japan| itant Japan. George B. Linn ‘The vessel arrived on Puget Sound Sunday with a cargo of frozen fish. Her ports of call on her northward voyage include Sitka, Valdez, Cor- !dova and Seward. ‘The vessel provides a five-day ser- |vice from Seattle and connects with the Alaska Railroad at Seward. —————— FROM PORTLAND W. W. Dunham from Portland, |Oregon, is visiting here and a Jguest at the Baranof Hotel, term as a conscientious objector. o s HERE FROM PELICAN Peli- the Mrs, Gene Torkilsen from can City, is registered at Baranof Hotel. LA D B FROM SALT LAKE G. W. Forrester from Salt City, Utah, is staying at the Bar- janoi Holel, CITY Lake | | ! Princess Loulse scheduled to bfi“‘captux‘cd the two-mile Freshman | from Vancouver 9 p.m. tOmMOIToW.|opener in nine minutes, forty-six | | Square Sinnet scheduled to sall and nine-tenth seconds, leading the |from Seattle June 24 | Navy across the line by two lengths. | Aleutian scheduled to sail fromn Next in line were Wisconson, Prin- | Seattle Saturday. | ceton, Cornell, Columbia, Rutgers,| | Princess Norah scheduled to sail Pennsylvania and Syracuse. from Vancouver Saturday. ! - Alaska southbound Thursday af- FROM PETERSBURG ternoen. Mrs, Anna McGilton, here from | Baranof southbound late Sunday Petersburg, is staying at the Gas- or early Monday, Jtineau Hotel, | . three warring factions, and these factions she named as—the Jim Crow Wing, the Moscow Wing, ahd the Pendergast Wing run by big city bosses. More Speeches During the convention hours to- NEW YORK, June 22.—(M—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%. American Can 867, Anaconda 39}, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvest-! er 32%, Kennecott 59%, New York Cem.ml 167, Northern Pacific 26,| 4,y speeches are scheduled by U. 8. Steel 80%, Pound $4.03%. |gengtor Kenneth Wherry of Ne- Sales today were 1410,000 shares.|; .ok Congresswoman Frances Averages today are as follows:|pojcy of Ohio, Senator Raymond industrials 189.66, rails 6176, util-!___ ities 35.70. (Continued un'mgv Five)