The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 27, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,949 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1948 NDED BY TRU MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE CONTROL DEM NEW ACTION BY RUSSIANS NEAR BERLIN Reported Increasing Fight- | er Plane Strength-U. S. Also Makes Move (By The Associated Press) The Russians were reported by German newspapers today to be increasing substantially their fighter plane strength near Berlin. The dispatches said also that large Soviet summary army maneuvers are taking place in the Russian-Zone province of Thuringia. Great 62-ton Joseph Stalin IIT tanks, perhaps the heavies in the world, were taking part. The U. 8. too is increasing its air power in Germany. BERLIN—Inside blockaded Berlin, the confused Germans had two po- lice chiefs. The city government fired Paul Markgraf as “undemo- cratic, in-German. and uncoopera- tive.” The Russians ordered that his anti-Communist successor, Jo- hannas = Stumm, be dismissed. Markgraf, schooled in Communist lore after surrendering at Stalin- grad, has fired several hundred Ber- lin policemen and been accused of conniving with the Russians in the . . ong4 A Q. Willoughby, Sani JAMES P. DAVIS COMING HERE ON TERRITORY TOUR irector of Division of Ter- ritories, Inferior Dept., Arrives Tomorrow James P. Davis, Director of Ter- ritories for the Department of the Interior, is due to arrive in Juneau tomorrow via PNA from Anchorage, D ! U. S. Territories, is making his first Alaska inspection since appointment to his new position. He will visit with Governor Gruen- ing and other Interior Department officials during his visit in Juneau. P. 0. Officials | Coming North | On Inspedtion SEATTLE, July 27—(M—Robert S. Burgess, Deputy Second Assistant Postmaster General, arrived !sume this week to start a survey of Alaskan mail service. | Acconipanied by A. D. Lawrence of (Seattle, General Superintendent of |the 13th Railway Mail Service Divi Davis, former OPA Director for in! USE S. E. ALASKA TIMBER NOW, IS RECOMMENDATION | Howard Hopkins, Assistant Chief of Forest Service, | Visits Juneau Howard Hopkins, Assistant Chief of the U. 8. Forest Service in Wash- ington, D. C., said today that the U. S. Department of Agriculture is vitally interested in the use and; utilization of Southeast Alaska tim- ber. Hopkins arrived here yesterday from Ketchikan on a three weeks in- spection of Alaska. He will remain in the Juneau area this week and then go to the Westward on Sunday. He said that the Federal Govern- |menr. is fully aware of the folly of letting timber stand idle. The Forest |Service official recommended that the forests be used as much as possitle. He said that conservation of re- sources can still be practiced by use of the sustained yield program. Hop- kins also declared that salmon} spawning streams can be preserved ARMY PLANS FOR ALASKA ANNOUNCED Bulk of Combat Forces to Be Withdrawn by Cold Weather Time WASHINGTON, July 27—P— Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Deputy Chief of Staff, said today the army plans to withdraw the bulk of its combat troops from Alaska when cold weather sets in. Lack of adequate housing is the reason, he said. Collins and Assistant Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray have just returned from a two-week in- spection trip to Alaska. Together they held an informal news con- ference. Gray said $76,083,000 recently appropriated will enable new army and Air Force housing to be built. But Collins added it would be three years before adequate hous< and scenery protected despite ac- tive timber cutting. Hopkins, who has been with the Forest Service for the past 25 years, management problems. {Plane Bound for | three months, he said. ing would be ready. The construcs tion season in Alaska is only about Army representatives have told . i is primarily concerned with 1and|gongress that the U. S. now has labout 7,000 combat and service troops in Alaska and proposes to (increase this to 15,000 under the "expamian program. This does not include Air Force strength. Supply troops will be left in H CAB INSPECTOR, P. 0. INSPECTOR TO MT. TAMGASS Made at Scene of Fatal PAA Plane Crash } More U. S. Mail has been re- covered from Mount Tamgass, on Annette Island, where a PAA Clip- | per crashed last October with fatal results for its crew and passengers. The mail was recovered this week by PAA volunteers whd climbed to the crash scene on the mountain. U. S. Postal Inspector Robert B. Clifton left here today to join CAB Examiner Fred B. Powell, of An- chorage, who passed through here yesterday enroute to Annette. The two will also ascend the rugged m?:maln where the giant DC-4 came to its end. Clifton will make a final inspec- tion for mail and Powell will attempt Ito find turther evidence which may {lead to determining the cause of the accident. llni;m;fll Is Murdered; -2 M@ Held Final lnsp'ed—ion Is to Be| Comments On Message By Truman Democrats STygfiood Pres- enfation of Problems- GOP Say Political WASHINGTON, July 27— Republican Congressional leaders jumped on President Truman's message today as purely political. | There was talk of adjournment within two weeks of the special session Mr, Truman called on housing and cost-of-living legisla- tion. Rep. Allen (R-Ill), chairman of the Rules Committee, openly fav- |ored that course. Rep. Hugh D. Scott, (Pa) who was named chairman of the Repub- lican National Committee June 26 with the backing of Gov. Thomas |E. Dewey, GOP Presidential candi- |date, commented: { “The President has failed com-| a national emergency which would | {Justify his action,in convening an extraordinary session of Congress | in the .middle of a political cam- paign. His failure to establish the | existence of such an emergency ! confirms the impression, already! 1 well established, that his motive in| calling the special session was| polities and a particularly cheap brand of politics at that . . . " pletely to establish the existence of i " — PRICE TEN CENTS. President Makes R&fllésl On Congress for Averting "Another Great Depression’ By ERNEST B. VACCARO WASHINGTON, July 27—P— President Truman today demanded limited price control and an ex- cess profits tax to help check the rising cost of living and avert “an- other great depression.” A depression, he said, would scuttel “the world’s hope for a lasting peace.” ‘The President coupled a reiter- ated plea for power to hold wages in line with his price control recommendation and he personally conironted the politically hostile 80th Congress with six other pro- posed brakes on spending, among them a return to credit restrictions and standby rationing authority. Commumists Watch U, S. “The Communists, both here and abroad, are counting on our pres- perity turning into a de- " the Chief Executive de- —or will—put the brakes on high prices. They are counting on an economic collapse in this country.” That, he said, “would cut the ground from under the free nations of Europe.” If the President felt any con- cern (ver the differences existing ketween himself and the Congress, he concealed it in his appearance | said. “We need it now, not a year | from now." i Six Brakes Requested In addition to selective price- | wage controls and a return to the excess tax at a rate he did not dis- close, the President asked Con- | gress to: | 1. Restore consumer credit con- trols—such as those which speci- iied down payments and the time in which installment purchases must be paid off. | 2. Arm the Federal Reserve Board with more power to regulate “inflationary bank credit.” 3. Grant him power to regulate speculation on the commodity ex- changes. 4. Grant him power to impose allocation and inventory control over ‘“scarce commodities which | basically affect essential produc- tion of the cost of living,” the same term he used for his price control proposal. 5. Strengthen controls over rent th adequate gppropriations for forcement to prevent “further un- warranted rent increases.” 6. Give him standby power to ration “those few products in short supply which vitally affect the health and welfare . . ." He said that unless further shortages oc- cur, this authority “might not have to be used at all.” Alaska in Crash; kidnapping of over 5000 Germans. | g ancicco, Regional Air Mail Super- wphe (80d criticisms. As he entered the | SERLTED e Y Ly mmhlvm' Burgess will spend a week 1House chamber and walked down Alaska, Collins said. Testing of | equipment under severe cold condi- | The President asked authority i sen. T - : VANCO g ., July 27—®"' n. Tary, (R-Ohlo), said: 'UVER, Wash., July to limit wages only where they —A union business agent was found [ President's message is full of in- l accuracies and omissions on ‘the visiting all major Alaskan cities actions blocked rail traffic into lnd!‘mgby Afr “."u‘ from the Russian Zone of Germany | plockade, in retaliation for, the I g the Russians imposed ‘& ith ago on Berlin. A Nethetlands Govern: ment spokesman expressed regret. ftan, B. C. Burgess came here from Washing- ! Pilot Not Injured: ,EDMQNTON, Al July 21— N Murin wf S, T es-1 i caped unln}ured yesterday when a| light airplane he was piloting to! Ttions will continue. The General told a questioner he hHere last night and two men were Subjects of high noted no tension in the Alaskan area over any possible war. shot and beaten to death east of muestioning taday. .. .. .4 K. Lord, Clark County Sheriff’s IDeputy, said papers belonging to, {willlam ©O. Fischer, 53, Portland, prices and, housing. It would take six months . ‘This only emphasizes the fact that ly and nodded to acquaintances. He wore a light blue summer suit, black and white shoes, and a blue tie. He acknowledgéd in a formal !the center aisle, he smiled broad-| would “force a break in a price 1 ceiling” 5 ! No War ““Aslde” Trom “Yefer Communists here and abroa¢ the session is called solely for poli- |MAnner the applause which con-|counting on an American depress |tinued until he began to speak. '|COURT REACHES ITS iAlaska crashed near High Prairie,( th 1 {Lusiness pgent for the Master, Mates | tical purposes.” .Alta., 200 air-miles northwest of (and Pilots Union of Portland, were| Rep. Spence (D-Ky): “I think it fon, Mr. Truman made no direcy Adhering to his usual custom, the | aerence to this country's straine 25-YEAR-OLDS 10 B LONDON—The Western Powers, decided in a conference at London | | here. The plane was wrecked. DECISION ON 10J0, to send their ambassadors to Foreign : Minister V. M. Molotov to dellverl OTHER DEFE"D A"TS personally proposals for seftling the Berlin crisis, a diplomatic official said. i TOKYO, July 27—®—The Inter- {national War Crimes Court in Tokyo sreached a decision in the case of | wartime premier Hideki Tojo and 24 other defendants, The court will start work on the judgment early next month. HN IS FRANKFURT—The Western Pow- ers approved an agreement with German politicians to set up a gov- ernment in Western Geérmany and call a constituent assembly Sept. 1. .- No details of the crash were avail- able. There is no airport in the HMigh Prairie area. , Unconfirmed reports said Martin ;was taking the single engine air- craft from the United States to Fairbanks, Alaska. %FOREST SERVICE | RESEARCH CENTER STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 27.—(P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American can 85%, Anaconda 37%, Curtiss- Wright 11%, International Harvest- er 31%, Kennecott 59, New York Central i7%, Northern Pacific 24, U. S. Steel 80%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 870,000 shares. {LORETTA KEITHAHN IS| NEAR ARMY DOCK 'HOME AFTER WONDERFUL! ‘PROCESSED FIRST, HERSHEY REPORTS WASHINGTON, July 27.—(P— Director of Selective Service Gen- ieral Lewis Hershey spent mo,—g!the Evergreen Highway at Skama-ispeech in the intefests of all the {than an hour with members of the Senate and House committees to- day. Later he told newsmen that ap- proximately 5,000,000 men will be processed in the first six months of the program, beginning with the : i found in a car stopped last night be-!is a good presentation of the prob- cause it had no license plates. Lord said the car's occupants were [Donnld Lewis Lillard, Los Angeles,! ,and Harold Raymond Coe, 17, Ca- mas, Washington. They - were held‘ lwnhout formal charge. | | Pischer's body was found beside i nia, 40 miles east of here. His car was found in Portland today. His |wife said he left three days ago to |drive to Umatilla, Ore.,, where he {was to picj up a boat and pilot it ‘to Portland. [ { | Lord said the body apparently hnd[ lain in the roadside bushes for \Senator Robertson lems we must solve now for the; future prosperity and happiness of | the people. We must stop this| inflation or suffer a serious de- pression,” " Rep. McCormack (D-Mass): w1t | Mr. Truman's left, were silent. effective and courageous i is an people.” DEWEY GIVES ORDER WASHINGTON, July 27—#—| (R-Wyo) said! President read his message. It was typewritten, triple-spe ced, and bound in a loose-leaf folder. The Democrats, seated on his right, began applauding early in the speech. The Republicans, on Mr. Truman addressed a joint meeting of the Senate and House on the second day of the special session he called in the heat of a presidential campaign year. Byt his language was far more restrained than it was on his west-| ern tour, or in his acceptance today that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, {speech to the Democratic National GOP Presidential candidate, had|ccenvention. Then he referred re- |vmnou, WASHINGTON Reporting a wonderful trip, Miss Loretta Kethahn, Queen of Ju- neau’s 4th of July celebration, has returned from Seattle, via Pan 1American World Airways. Queen }Lorenn was given a trip to Se- The newly formed Alaska P‘oreni”'ye" olds and working down‘ Research Center will locate its Ju-|through those in 22-year neau office in the Forest Service brackets. 74 crewhouse, opposite the Forest Ser-| Chairman Gurney (R-SD) of the {vice warehouse near the Juneau|Senate Armed Services committee Army Engineers Dock, it was an-lsaid that the system established nounced today by Ray F. Taylor,lby the Selective Service Board forl, director of the project. ithe selection of draftees is “fair al 88€ ishot in the chest and his head was battered. M—A hitchhiking sailor, AWOL| from San Diego, Calif., confessed bout two days. Fischer had been! SLAYER CONFESSES VANCOUVER, Wash, July 27.—i Tattle with all expenses paid as an Averages today are as follows: industrials 186.09, rails 61.33, util- ities 35.39. p The Washington Merry- ,Gi -Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicats, Ine,) 'ASHINGTON— What few peo- ple, even inside the ' Republican Party, fully realize is that the men at the head of the GOP ticket -are far ‘ahead of the Republican Con- gress which is now meeting in special_session. - The real truth is that Dewey and Warren have much more in common with Harry Truman when it comes to domestic legislation than the Republi- can Party which “nominated them. If there is to be 8 Republican adminjstration next January, there- fore, this special session is the time for the voters to watch their Con- gressmen. They can then go to the polls in November in an ef- fort to give the next administra- tion a workaable instead of the present erm of mis- fits and diehards. All you have fo do is look at the record to see how far ahead of Congress are the two top candi- dates on the Republican ticket. Here is their record: Y DEWEY-WARREN RECORD Minimum Wages: Dewey—Ex tended minimumn wages to 500,000 retall workers previonsly not cov- | llw-rd for winning the honor. | Loretta visited with relatives in Seattle, Yakima, Shelton, and Tenino. She flew to Yakima and returned to the coast in a car over Ithe Naches Pass in the Cascade | Mountains. She said that the trip over the pass was beautiful. Miss Keithahn, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Keithahn, is jemployed by the Warfield Drug Store. In September, she will enter her senior year of high school. {PASADO MANANA IS IN PORT NORTHBOUND With 1 tourists aboard, the Yacht Pasado Manana arrived here north- bound yesterday and plans to con- tinue to Skagway and other points today. Passengers include Mrs. Edna Davidson, Marilee and Myrna D. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Allen, Mr. and Mrs. E. 8. Bennett, Mr. and Mrs, M. Dean, Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Larson; all of California; R. Barby, Alice, Otto and Boardman Barby of and the Elmer ' Mor- gans of rado. Skipper Einar Haugep said the 96-foot yacht will return north again on August 13. DON FOSTER APPOINTED 10 ALASKA COMMITTEE Don C. roster, Director of the Alaska Native Service, has been ap- pointed to represent his agency onithe Russians protested Amer\can| the Inter-departmental Committee, which has been formed to correlate all work of the Department of In- terior agencies to program work for the next six years. R. Brust bas been iter. Taylor said that it will take several | and in accordance with the Act.” weeks to alter the building so that| his office can use it. In the mean- { time, he will work out of the Re- glonal Forest Service office in the Federal Building. | | HERMAN RUOTSALA, WEST JUNEAU RESIDENT; DIES Herman Ruotsala, ploneer resident of Alaska, passed away in his sleep last evening at his home in West Junesu. Mr. Ruotsala, who was 76 at the time of his death, was born in Pinland. He came to Alaska in 1904 to work at the Treadwell Mine. He had also engaged in fishing and prospecting. 3 Mr. Ruotsala i§ survived by his {brother, Alfred Rudtsala, a niece, Mrs. Helmi Sarnisto, énd a nephew, Bert Ruotsala. Funeéral arrange- ments will te annousiced at a later date. 12 TREATIES ARE MADE BY RUSS IN EASTERN EUROPE WASHINGTON, July 27—(#—The U. 8. State Department noted that Russia and her Eastern Europe sat- ellites have formed a tight network of 22 interlacing treaties against “aggression.” More are being written. All this has been taking place while support to Western Europe. ¢ e - THREE FROM SEATTLE Three Seattleites are guests at{over Brisbane tonight, lighting up|{with Secretary of the Baranof Hotel. They are R. J. Mrs. Myrtle Smith, Chairman Andrews (R-NY) of the House group concurred. Draft headquarters estimated last night that of the 578,000 non-vet- erans in the 23-to-25 group only about 40,000 or 50,000 are quali- fied for service. Since the army is expected to call for around 30,000 a month it appeared the bulk of inductees will come later from the younger groups. French Assembly Gives Go Ahead Sign fo Cabinet PARIS, July 27.—®— The Na- ticnal Assembly today voted 330 to 191 its willingness to let the new cabinet of Premier Andre Marie begin working on France's grave problems at once. No formal vote of confidence was demanded by the Moderate Conservative Premier, but the Deputies realized they were vot- ing for or against the government. Marie would find it difficult to continue if he were voted down in his first appearance before the Assembly as Premier. e Meteor Lights Up City; Big Exploslons Follow | BRISBANE, Australia, July 27— P—A meteor streaked northward the city. Shortly after it dis- appointed as the alternate to Fos-) Newbury, Charles Prankland and|appeared heavy explosions wer heard which shook houses here today that he and a companion beat and shot a union business| lagent whose body was found on a! . IWALL STREETHAS | COMMENT ABOUT | TRUMAN'S PLANS .' NEW YORK, July 27—P—Wall Street apd the business community believes the effect of President Truman's legislative proposals would be bad, but they don't expect to see them passed by Congress. Their action day was three-fold: 1. We approve many of his ob- Jjectives, but we denounce the meanu( to those objectives. ol 2 We would be scared to death if we thought Congress would pass the major points of his program. 3. Many of our businesses would ! o |10t be touched by the proposals, Ibut the effect on the others would be bad. STEAMER MOVEMENTS $ highway near here, Sheriff aoben' E. Brady said. H The sailor is Donald Lewis Lil- lard, 23, Los Angeles. The victim was Willlam O. Pischer, 53, of Portland, Ore., business agent for the Master, Mates and Pilots’ Union of Portland. Lillard named Har- told Raymond Coe, 17, of Camas, ‘Wuh., as his companion. ———— WEATHER REPORT (U, 8, WEATHER BUREAU) ‘Temperatures for 24-hour period ending 7:30 this moming In Juneau— Maximum, 72; minimum, 49. At Airport— Maximum, 73; minimum, 48. FOREUAST (Juneau und Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with occa- sional light rain tonight and Wednesday. Not much change in temperature. PRECIPITATION (Past 34 bours ending 7:30 &.m. today In Juneau — .09 inches; since July 1, 4.62 inches. At Airport — .07 inches; ® since July 1, .3.02 inches. e ® @ ¢ o 0 ¢« % o o o|to arrive at 6 tonight. .- . L] @ . i 000000000 e000000000e VO | | ! A Gov. Ernest Gruening and Rear|way at 10:50 p. m. Admiral Joseph Stika, Commander | Freighter Victoria, from Seattle, of the 13th Coast Guard District,|due about 9 of 10 tonight. are scheduled to arrive in Juneau this evening at 6 o'clock aboard!from Vancouver July 28. - a Coast Guard plane from Anchor- age. Gov. Gruening has visited | Seattle July 29. the Treasury| Baranof schedulea ‘o sail from John W. Snyder and conferred with i Seattle July 3i. ® Coast Guard investigating com-' Palisana scheduled southbound mittee for the past several days. tomorrow. Il | 1 advised Republican Congressional | peatedly to the Republican-control- {leaders “to stay around a week or so and then go home.” Robertson told reporters that Senator Taft (R-Ohio), carried the Dewey message to a closed-door meeting today of the Senate Re- publican Policy Committee. Robertson and other Senators left this meeting predicting that Con- gress would adjourn within two weeks. lel 80th Congress as one of the worst in the nation’s history. Coniro: Trogram ‘The President did not spell out the details of his price control program. He left that a question to be discussed in an administra- tion bill promised later this week —perhaps tomorrow. But he did say the contyols should be authorized for “scarce commodities which basically affect essential industrial production or the cost of living.” That would seem to mean things like steel and meat. Even before he spoke, GOP lead- ers made clear that Mr. Truman could pin no real hope for action on more than one or two minor points in his message. Housing Issue The Chief Executive hit hardest at the rising cost of living. But he led off by saying that an- other crying need is for more and cheaper housing. So he called again ‘for passage of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill to meet the “acute” housing short- age. “This is the bill we need,” he STORES ARE 10 CLOSE ied relations with ‘Russia. But he did"assert that: « “In these tense days, when our strength is being tested all over the world, it would be reckless folly if we failed to act against inflation.” The President devoted only 9 single paragraph in his 3,000-wor.. address to *“ upon Congress’ ,the controversial civil rights pro- gram he sent to Capitol Hill last February. More Requests Made As he said he would, the Chief Executive also asked the special session for: " 1. A new Displaced Persons bill to provide for the admission of some 400,000 of Europe’s war refugees into this country during the next four years, instead of 202,000 in the two years as pro- vided in a bill passed at the last session. He asked that Congress wipe out “discriminations” in the current law. He has sald it would operate unfairly against Jewish and Catholic displgced persons. 2. A Federal-aid to education bill to provide $300,000,000 annual- ly to states for education. 3. Approval of a $65,000,000 loan for the construction of a perman- ent United Nations headquarters in New York City. 4. Senate ratification of the In- ternational Wheat Agreement. He sald this would guaratitee Amerl- can farmers an annual export mar- ket of 185,000,000 bushels of wheat at a fair price (@ maximum of $2 a bushel) diuripg the next five years. 5. Restoration -~ of $56,000,000 trimmed from propesed appropria- tions at the last session fof power and reclamation projects, including a Tennessee Valley Authority steam generating plant at New Johnson- ville. 6. A “more equitable and real- istic” pay bill for Pederal em- ployees. i ALL DAY SATURDAY FOR SALMON DERB ‘The. provident housewive who de- for the weekend will do well to reason? All food merchants, particularly, have decided to observe the procla- son, and close for Saturday's Sal- in the residential areas. Thus, the usual weekly food an- nouncements which ordinarily ap- pear on Thursday will be presented tomorrow in the Empire. 7. A bill raising the present 40- cent minimum wage to “at least 75 cents an-hour.” Old Age Retirement Legislation increasing “by at least 50 percent” the benefits under Aleutian from Seattle scheduled sires to have her larder well filled|the old-age retirement provisions of the Social Security Law. He Princess Louise, from Vancouver,|gart right now in stocking up else|Said the age at which women esn GRUENING BACK TONIGHT |scheduled to arrive at 5 o'clock (she may like “Old Mother !Biubl:nrd" receive benefits should be lowered this afternoon and salls for Skag-|and find the cupboard bare. The!from 65 to 60 years, and he again asked extension of coverage ' to groups not now included. J The President took note of the Prifcess Norah scheduled to sallimation of Mayor Waino Hendrick«| GOP cry of ‘“politics” that went |up in response to his special Alaska scheduled to sail from!mon Derby. This includes the stores |sion call. “High prices”” he said, “are taking ‘time off’ for the “High prices are not waiting til the mext session of the gress,” he declared.