The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — — ————— VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,946 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U. S. FORCES WILL REMAIN IN BERLIN 3 American Supe Aid Algerian Girl's U. S. Entry SCOUTING FLIGHT IS UNDERWAY Craft Will P;s_Over Alas-| ka After Refueling at Elmendorf Field By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON, July 23.—P— Three American Superfortresses are off on a round-the-world scouting flight to see whether big bombers could use fields and facilities in distant parts of the world should trouble come some day. The second stop of the trio of B-20's was scheduled today at La- gens Air Base in the Azores, which the United States uses under an agreement with Portugal. The bombers, taking off from their home base at Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, Ariz., stopped MacDill, Florida, yesterday after- ncon for fuel, then headed east- ward out across the Atlantic. The flight is the third project- ed globe-cireling trip for Supe! fortress but drastically scaled down from the original plan. In October, 1946, Air Secretary Symington announced to a news cenference that “if the State De- partment approves, the Air Force will send a group of B-29's on flight around the world. This flight will compare with around the world | voyages by the American fleet.” One of the most notable round the world fleet cruises was at the turn of the century and was in- tended frankly as a demonstration ol American power. Obviously rememwering that, State Department definitely not approve Symington’s idea and the flight plan was shelved. Last May three B-29's took off, eastbound, on another projected globe-girdling flight. This time, they reached the middle east but encountered diplomatic tions about flying over areas and turned back. From the Azores, bombers are scheduled Whellus Field, near bya. From there, refueling stops will be made at Ceylon, the Philip- pines, Japan, Elmendorf Field, An- chorage, Alaska, and thus back to base at Tucson. Arrival at Tucson is set for the moming of Augus! 5. B FROM PA&ADENA Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jung are among the new arrivals at the Baranof. The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON the certain the to fly Tripoli, to Li- (Copyright, 1948, I;y ':"hc Bell Byndicate, ne. ASHINGTON— Most important factor influencing the dynamite- laden Berlin situation is that throughout most of Europe the Russians are losing out. This is what makes Berlin even more dangerous—for the Russians cannot afford to backdown. To do so would be a mortal blow to their prestige in all of Europe. It would mean even more cracks in the Iron Curtain. A nation that is winning can af- ford to be magnanimous, but a na- tion that is losing, can't. And government leaders who are des- perate, are dangerous. In addition to the Tito revolt, here are some of the signs mdlcat—, ing that the Soviet's alleged far- flung empire is beginningto crack up: Bulgaria—George Dimitrov, Com- munist leader of Bulgaria, is so afraid the long arm of Moscow will reach him that he doesn't go outside his home without an armed guard. Poland—Rusian altempts to communize the farms are stirring (Continued on Page Four) at|_ al did | complica- | three | | | o “I AM ZEE PRISONER,” Miss Y brought her from Bonne, Algeria. to marry Joseph Allen Taylor, of Chamber flying her to the west. (OMMIE WITNESS RUNOUT Former UWF_eIIow Teach | er OQusted at Hearing- | Disorder Is Created SEATTLE, July 2'}—4‘?‘»-‘\ former University of Washington leuhm;,‘ fellow was removed from the v\lt~v ness stand at the legislature's Un American Activities Committee hear- | ing this morning after a shouted | exchange with the chairman Philip H. Davis was ejected for shouting repeatedly for his attorney, | who previously was barred from the | hearing chambe: | “Take him out,” Committee Chair- man Albert F. Canwell of Spokane | ordered, unable to silence Davis with his pounding gravel The 39-year-old ex-teacher was the first witness called at the start of the fifth-day session, which was |expected to end the current hear-| ing Davis previously had been lal)cled‘ a Communist Party member Lty his! father, S. P. Davis, an elderly inva-| lid whose home is at Burlington, ! Wash. He said in a deposition to the | committee his son formerly was en- I gaged in Communist activities at| Bellingham High School, Whitman | {College and Bellingham Norman School, now Western Washington 1 [ i i | { Collegc 14 FLY 10 FAIRBANKS Fourteen passengers flew to S(at-‘ tle yesterday via PAA Clippers | which took 14 others to Fairbanks from Juneau. Leaving for the south were Betty Bonnett, O. F. Benecke, Rolande | Ballantyne, Rod Tisdale, Rebecca | Barkley, Vera Schultz, Vernon Stev- | ens, Mrs. Eleanor Hale and child, Jack Tenneson, R. W. Hawley, Doris Philips, Ed Aitmiller and Dewey | Cooper. | Leaving for Fairbanks were Wil- | {liam Maxey, Belle Burkholder, Bill Kirby, Charles Aubert, Raymond | Bolton, E. T. McCarthy, Gloria and Clara Davis, Ruth Akridge, Shirley Thayer, Jack Salsbury, Harold Sy‘4 fert, Laura Kennedy and Mrs. Guy Vincent. Galen Biery went to Annette and ‘ | David Johnson left for Whitehorse. | ADMIRAL JOHNSON HERE Admiral S Johnson, USCG, | (Ret.) and his wife are round-| | trip passengers on the Alaska. Ad- miral and Mrs. Johnson | Carlson while the ship was in port. They make their home at! | Moss Beach, Calif. first trip to the Territory. the Italian freighter Montello docked at Gloucester, N. J., The comely girl came to his country to meet her, asking the Chamber of Commerce loaned her (International photo) PAA TAKES 14 SOUTH; ° vette Marie, 18, told reporters as which Idaho Falls, Ida. He was unable of Commerce to aid him. The $500 to pay her bond, and are Army Flier Blamed for U.N. Bomb War - Worfi;& Ex - Army‘ Pilot Wanted fo “"Wake | Up™ Assembly By GEORGE W. CORNELL LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., July 23 — An ex-Army flier, worried | !about a new war, was sought mduy as the pilot who dived at United Nations Headquarters and dmpped , & missile which exploded harmlessly nearby. The U. N. Trusteeship Council was | in session when the missile. believed by police to be a home-made bomb, went off yesterday near the ground about 400 feet from the entrance of | the central U. N. building. The blast was heard a mile away. A plane answering the description | of the one from which the missile \was dropped landed a short time later at La Guardia Field. Its pilot, wno identified himself as Stephen J. Supina, 36, a former B-17 turret gunner of Willington, | Conn. left the field. Police sent out a 13-state alarm i for Supina on a felony charge of malicious mischief. At Ashford, Conn, Supina’s brother, former Connecticut State Represcmauw Thomas Supina, Jr., said “Steve has been pretty upset, eeing the world on the edge of an- other war He said used a to his brother may have “signal flare” in an attempt “wake up the United Nations.” SURRENDERS NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 23— —A man who identified himself as Stephen J. Supina, sought as the pilet who dropped a missile near United Nations Headquarters, sur- rendered himself today in the ne: room of the New Haven Registe; He was turned over to Detectives Robert Mulhern and George Hines of the New Haven Police for ques- nomng . TONGASS HIGHWAY BIDS ARE OPENED; WILL BE REFUSED The R. J. Sommers Construction ‘Co of Juneau, was the low bidder | poration vesterday on proposed highway im- ! provements to the Tongass Highway near Ketchikan. It offered to do the work for $335933.70 but the visited | Public Roads Administration says | with Commander and Mrs. E. V. ‘n will recommend rejection of the | bld as being too high. Other bidders were Stock and This was lhflrlGrove of Anchorage, $336,767 and | from Louisville, Ky., C. H. Keil, Juneau, $347,957.70. FOOD PRICE NOW BREAKS ALLRECORDS Paul Porter Id bei Inform- ation for Anfi-Inflation Bill for Truman July 23—(P—The | cost-of-living index struck an all- time high on’ June 15, with food prices jreaching 'fayord-shattering 1elels, the Bureau of Labor Statis- tics reported today. The index representing retail pri- |ces of goods and services bought by ! | moderate income families in large| hit 171.7 percent of the 1935- average. ISREADY FOR Wallace Arrives in Phila- delphia - Greeted by Campalgn Leaders By JA(,K BELL PHILADELPHIA, July 23.- Henry A. Wallace arrived here day and told cheering backers his Third Party Presidential c dacy that they are making history “This convention great turning point of this party, the and the world,” he As the record-smashing living cost | ara] hundred party leaders, dele- |figures were disclosed, President|gates and party workers who greet- | Trumen drove ahead With Prepara-|eq him at the Pennsylvania Rail- [tion of recommendations he Will| . oq'c Broad Street station with | make to Congress Tuesday for deal-| shouts and party campaign songs {ing with inflation and rising prices. | Stepping from the tmin, Wal- | 'The White House announced MI.|jace declared chances of his party | Truman’s appointment of Paul A {in the coming election “are fine.” Porter as a Special Assistant to the “The New President to help with preparation ot |\ /\" 4 te) this convention. |anti-inflation legislation gy Wordson that,": Ne. aatd. Porter, the last chief of the War- The crowd carried banners and hmw Office of Price Administration, | placards hailing Wallace and Sen- will serve on a temporary, non-|ator Glen H. Taylor, of Idaho, his |salaried basis. The White House|vVice Presidential running mate. said his job will be to co-ordinate| The placards displayed such slo- |information to be given Congress'gans as: (in tehalf of the anti-inflation bill Had enough milk at 25 cents a | being drafted quart?” The BLS index on living “People Before Profits!” covering the period up to June % e A R Repeal the Draft Now. ufuull) runs about five weeks Wallace's’ artival marks the i Rhe gurtertieHie’ levels mal launching of the first serio - attempt since 1924 to cut acro Demccratic and Republican wuh A: Lhnd candidate for WASHINGTON, | P to- of world | 1 | will in mark a history Mark costs, 15, be- | 1 { i 130 PERSONS ARRIVE BY MASKA (OASTAl! | Alnd 9,000, ()OU for lh(‘ \U'.e total| Thirty passengers aum-d and 42| jikely to be amassed by Wallace left with Alaska Coastal flights yes- anq his running mate, Senator’ terday as follows: | Glen Taylor. From Pelican: George Beandry, M. | crap, Mayo and wife and Mrs. Irene Reed.| The convention opens tonight. From Chichagof: B. D. Stewart > From Tulsequah: W. Wolnek, George Washington, from Seattle, the ticket | Sr., and about 4,- In (hat lm)’ ago era, of Robert M. LaFollette, Burmn K. Whrelur got E and| Irene Sa- from Vancouver at 7 p. m. to- T K to sail| sail from to sail from scheduled southbound| - ® o0 e 0 o s 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) ‘Temperatures for 24-hour period ending 7:30 this morning In Juneau— Maximum, 53; minimum, 50. At Airport— Maximum, 53; minimum, 51. FOREUCAST (Juneau und Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with light rain showers tonight and Saturday. Lowest tempera- ture tomorrow morning near 50 and the highest tomor- row afternoon around 56 PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau .84 inches; since July 1, 3.73 inches At Airport 67 inches; since July 1, 250 inches. Charles Bart- | From Skagway: the Rev. G From Haines: Steve Casto Frank Holder. due at 5 p. m. today and sails at }mbla Prince George From Gustavus: John Goetz. scheduled to arrive From Sitka: George Josepl Sailors Splice, scheduled Carrol, T. Whiteside and ! from Seattle Saturday. From Turner Lake: M. Tyner, D.|Seattle Saturday Williams, T. Woodridge and B. F.| Princess Louise, scheduled | From Superior Packing: D. Ba Princess Norah scheduled to sail| ter, J. Tenneson, Jr., and D. Zamor-{from Vancouver July 28. To Sitka: S, T. Zurn, Alice Rob-|geattle July 29 erts, S. Mik, Fred Oldfield and H‘ Baranof scheduled to arrive To Tenakee: Russ Hermann. | Corsair scheduled southbound on morra. | Palisana Tuesday. To Petersturg: A. M. Dalen. & To Ketchikan: W. Thompson and | To Gustavus: Mrs. E. Jones, W. Lehman and wife and Larry Leh-| i To Excursion Inlet lett and E. Hitt. Margaret Comby. To Haines: Fred McRae. To Tulsequah: J. Campbell, J. Strachan, J. Trumble and J. Wei Kinley, the Rev. Betts and Willilam Phillips. Gallant and Connie Rasmussen. | From Excursion Inlet 10:45 for Skagway | From Ketchikan: 8. J. Ford | MOrrow. (‘Haskx, Aleutian scheduled to | Dunn | sail from Vancouver Saturday. ra. Alaska scheduled to Rice. | southbound at 7 a. m. Monday. T Superior Packing: D. M. Za- | Monday. To Hood Bay: Fred Krisp A, E. Lowe. e man To Skagway: Jack Molyneaux and: To Tenakee: Mike Gavrel To Hoonah: Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Mc- - .- MILL CLOSES TWO DAYS | Due to a burned-out bearing in| the edger, the Juneau Spruce Cor- closed its sawmill today (for a two-day period for repairs, to the edger and other machinery, needing slight re-adjustment since|e the mill's re-opening. . — > ! FOUR FROM LOUISVILLE NO BALL GAME Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Corvert,| Because of weather Barbara Court and Nancy Mickle there will be no ball game tonight. | are new ar- A Legion-Douglas game had been lnul.s at the Baranof Hotel, {’slated. e o o 0o 0 o - CONVENTION Party will make things | for-» » erstwhile Idaho Demo- | peq;, giscussed as a possible candi-| #6cecccccsecscccccscscsccce conditions, | rforts Off On World Flight THIRD PARTY Reign of Terror, in Which T Killedin 1 EISENHOWER, DEWEY HAVE (ONFEREN(E 'Surprise Meetlng Takes| Place-Foreign Situa- tion Is Discussed By HENRY LEADER PAWLING, N. Y, July 23 {Gov. Thomas E. Dewey (o and |Dwight D. Eisenhower discussed i eritical” an situation surprise conference here today Eisenhower, President of Columbia | University, came to Pawling at Dew- | ey's reques hey discusse; |pean affairs and our military estab- | 'lishment,” an aide of Governor| |Dewey said. : The visit of the World War II} Allied Supreme Commander in Eu-|{ rope preceded By one day the sched- | uled conference here by Gov. Dewey ywith Senator Arthur H. Vanden- |berg and John Foster Dulles to dis- |cuss the foreign situation in general and the Berlin crisis in detail | Dewey had made no prior an-' nouncement of the LLsunhum. con- | Gen ‘lh(" at | | terence. “Ike"” and Mrs. Eisenhower motored from New York City this morning iThey had lunch with the Governor| and Mrs. Dewey and were to return llate today { It was understood that Dewey |sought Eisentower's viws parti- u\nlml\ on the Central Europear | situation. Eisenhower, | National prior to the Political Convention, ent had {date by both Republicans ad Demo- ats. He made- clear, however, that | !he would not accept either. - - PIONEER MOVIE "MAN, DAVID WARK GRIFFITH, 1S DEAD ‘Made "Birth of a Nation” -Discovered Many Film Stars i | | HOLLYWOOD, Juiy 23—(®—Da- {vid Waik Griftith, 73, pioneer movie |and star-maker, is dead Best known for his discovery of Mary Pickford and his famous “The \(Birth of a Nation,” Griftith 1been Inactive in pictures for many legend of his early | years, but the days never died He was stricken ill Wednesday night in his hotel suite and taken {to the hospital yesterday, suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage In the early days of motion pic- tures, Griffith ploneered in lavish productious, innovations in photo- graphy and tailored scenarios to fit idealistic themes. His “Birth of |a Nation” is still generally regarded as one of the greatest movies During the quarter century when he was most active in films, Gritfith was credited with discovering or | developing many top stars such as Mary Pickford, Dorothy and Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Lionel Barrymore, | Douglas Fairbanks, Mabel Normand Vdnd Mack Sinnett Griffith developed such film tech- niques as the close-up, the flashback and soft-focus photography In recent years ment. R PETRICH LEAVES J. T. Petrich, Assistant Collector of Customs, left on the Alaska for | Ketchikan. He is making a routine inspection trip and will return to jJuncau i ten duys In Wild Flurry ofi Bullels lin the had | he lived in retire- | U.S. STAYS IN BERLIN, SAYS (LAY Lva “{”{“{“ o "”i“ B—ip— Amencan Mllliary Gov- rorized Ohio with seven siayimes| @ROF iN Germany fo Return to Post 4 Days, Ends | | in the last 14 days, hit the end of | their crime car today at a Van Wert county police road block. | |One way dying, shot between the eyes, and the other captured Two pelice officers were wound- led in the wild flurry rifle and pistol shots C. West, 24-year-old (By The associated Press) Gen. Lucius D. Clay declared to- day U. S. Forces in Germany can and will carry out the American in- tention to stay in blockaded Berlin. | The American Military Governor ed reformatory parolee from|made the statement to House For- sbu W. Va, described as eign Affairs Committeemen and “gun happy” member of the|then went to the White House for pair, was shot between the |another secret session with President | (Truman. He returns to Berlin to- | His partner, 22-year-old Robert |night | M. Daniels of Columbus, put up his| Hope increased in Washington hands and surrendered—and then!that the crisis, provoked by Russia | confessed all of the kill- 27 days ago in closing rail, road and |ings which have kept the midwest|barge access to Berlin, could be sol~ ived without war. with four| approsched. | WASHINGTON-—President Tru- for a rcy-|man’s assertion that he considers |excellent the chances of achieving came | €ventual world peace appeared to be blaz- | tased in part on the hope that Rus- van (Sia Wwill co-operate with the West- Wert policeman, went down with a [6F POWers in their avowed Inten- tion of seeking a settlement short bullet in his chest. Frank A. Friemoth, 55, county game 3’!0((‘&.-:0‘ war. It was noted that the So- tor, also féll" with a" BUlEE' in his | ¥iets thus far have refraineq from Brofat ,m:. kmd of military action, even (of ‘accidental” sort. of Jame be- \ specta | Pa | the | bandit eyes seven i a two-weck turmoil A driveaway truck automobild’s aboard, The officers stopped it tine check The driver out of the cab, ing. Sgt. L of the truck an army rifle D.. Conn, 42, Blaze | Both officers, with Sheriff Roy | Shaffer, blazed away with their guns despite the wounds, and Ser geant Conn finally hit the drive | tetween the eyes with a machine | gun bullet. The driver was identi- tied as West As the 1iring ceased, crawled from one of tru on the driveaway, air. He said I iels, and the Highway he admitted he and Guns MOSCOW-—The Russian govern- ent newspaper Ivestia accused the Americans and British in Berlin of ‘making us® of the suffering of [human beings for low political pur- | poses.” H 3 | 2 mANl oAy LEAVE the four! nis hands| ., YASHINOION,, . July KiE: l‘)m; Gen. Lucius D, Clay, United States Fll‘wl :“d‘Mxllml\ Governor in Germany, left West l;mf\,v.x«hmunvn by plane late today committed the seven: killlngs. fol| $OF Dix'Bost it Beiihy {His pinns i Shich thes el s \n:‘nl. over| Scheduled to fly by way of Ber- o e St ‘(nu(hf;“l‘?n' Azores and Frankfurt, No trace of the regular driver' = U7 of the driveaway truck had been| OG0 Clay said before returning found, opening the possibility that| (© bi5 BESt that the Uniled States {he, too, may have bee B & D o mas haxe been & vietiml o e ‘betng delivered by sir e | Berlin threugh reinforcement of its |ileet of cargo planes. He told a news conference that “a substantial force” of huge C-54 transports will be added to the cargo planes now carrying supplies. of Tiffin, who| He said the air lift increase will in a car with|make it possible to deliver to the man tenta- | blockaded western sectors of Ber= Glenn Gsch-lin enough food and a minimum N of coal sufficient to meet the needs Navy veteran | was found | of the people there through next winter. FOR POST they tates the a End of Trail pair of gunmen hit the end trail only a few hours; had killed the last two' victims. farmer | The |of their fafter they of their {James Smith, as slain as he his wife nd another tively identified as lwind, a 24-year-old of Fremont, whose body early today The seven 25, Pontiac - the s launched 14 days ago by slaying ! Am-| [“(M found beside Gschwind's body.| HERE SOUTHBOUND Next on the list of victims was Frank Kerech, middle-aged tou The Alaska arrived here on her camp operator, at Flat Rocl ich | southbound trip at 4:15 o'clock yes- terday afternoon with 17 passengers {for Juneau and left for the south lat 8:35 last night taking nine from | here Paziengers arriving were: routed| From Sitka: Erna Taylor. and| From Haines: Larry DuBois and from their | Brooks Hanford. their nightclothes, ran-| Roundtrip from Juneau: Mrs sacked the residence to obtain Morrison and Gail Morrison shotgun, rifle and revolver, and From Seattle, around triangle run- then shot the three to death in mnml return to Juneau: H. G. Jung rain-swept cornfield The nude;and wife, Hazel Hawkinson, Ger- bedies of reformatory farm super- |trude Krehbeil, Della Krehbeil, Eli- intendent John Biebel, 50, his wif 'xmr Steel, W. H. Nicholson and wife, Nolanda, 52, and 21-year-old Phyl-| |Katie Vierira, Katherine Bustan- lis, her red hair done up in pin/| Lhur\ Rose Wilcox and Patricla curlers, were found hours later | Boyd - To Ketchikan: W. \W STOCK QUOTATIONS | = & car in their Ea which career Three Kidnaped, Slain Then the killers, after being seen momentarily in southeastern Ohio swept into the northern section and back to the Mansficld Reform- atory There, before a reformatery 21-year-old beds In dawr, official, daughter they his wife M. a Daly and John To Seattle: Miss Jen Krug, Anna- | mae Bumett and Lester Mongle. | To Petersburg: Mrs. E. A. McCul- NEW YORK, . Jul_y 23 —M—Clos- | lock, Mrs. W.,A. Anderson and Paul ing quotation of Alaska Juneau K Way mine stock today is 3%, American| e Can 84':, Anaconda 37, Curtiss-| WASHINGTONIANS HERE | Wright 11%, Internaticnal Harvest-| Here from Lind, Wash., on a er 327, Kennecott 577, New York|visit are Della and Gertrude Kreh- ’Cvnl al 17%, Northern Pacific 23%, biel, gu(»t at the Baranof Hotel. U. S. Steel 79%, Pound $4.03% oo een Smante: Sales today were 820,000 shares. FROM CALIFORNIA Averages today are as follow: Mr., and Mrs. W. H. Nicholson industrials 18531, rails 61.15, utii- of Tait, California, are in Juneau, ities 35.30 ‘n";.\!cltd at the Baranof Hotel,