The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 13, 1948, Page 1

* VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,989 JU “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS — RIOTING IN BERLIN ORDERED BY RUSSIANS TEXAS VOTE PRIMARY IN TTWATCHED | WASH. STATE BY TRUMAN| WILL BE HOT Demo Forte;l—ope fo Stem Dixie Revolt-GOP Is Given Severe Jolt By JACK BELL (Associated Press Political Writer) President Truman’s supporters counted today on a victory in Texas tomorrow to offset the spreading revolt that threatens 'to keep him off several Dixie state ballots. Truman forces were primed for an effort to squash an attempt of States Rights backers to seéize con- trol of the party machinery at a state - convention. The States Rights party already has qualified electors for Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Caro- lina and Gov. Fielding Wright of Mississippi. They will contest the Tru Barkley ticket for Texas' 23 el 1 votes—sixth largest bloc in he nation—even if they can't win control of the party machin- ery. : The 'Truman camp made no man- gecret of the fact that it would|two of seven candidates for the ke a Texas victory to counteract last week's setback in Louslens. The State Party Committee's ac- tion there in ruling Mr. Truman off.. the . ballot._brought threats of a suit from the Democratic Na- tiohal Committee as well as retal- iation against the Louisiana poli- ticlans involved. William_Primm, Jr.;-aaststant - 40! National Chairman J. Howard Mc- Grath, called the Louisiana ac- tion “flagrantly dishonest and iraudulent.” Republicans watched this intra- party struggle with glee. Trouble for GOP But McGrath gave the Republi- cans something new to answer in a charge yesterday that they had “welehed” on price-sypport promis- es to the farmers. - He said the GOP controlled Con- gress had passed a bill granting the Commedity Credit Corporation a federal charter but had refused|and indorsing more extensive use| to permit it to increase its stor- age facllitfes. = Henry A, Wallace, meanwhile, indicated plans to join in the agri-lfirst vice-president; Dr. Ray Coffin, | culture arguments. Progressive par- ty headquarters said he will con- fer ‘with party " farm ‘leaders in Chicago where he will speak Tues- day night. Wallace lashed out anew at Mr. Truman last night in 'a Baltimore address, saying that the President was “inconsistent” in firing him from the Cabinet for a foreign policy address which he said Mr. Truman previously had approved. Maine Voting While the Presidential campaign gathered steam, Maine’s, voters turned out today for the year’s first general élection. Politicians will be totaling up the expected -Republicen. ‘majority in that northeastern state today for any indication it may give on No- vember's national outcome. Like the other states, Maine vot- Senate as the first woman to be elected to, a full six-year term without having previously served as an appointee. Other Primaries A half dozen primaries tomorrow may give some hint of how the political winds are blowing across the nation. . In Washington State, Gov. Mon Waligren, close personal friend of Mr. Truman, is seeking renomina- tion. Minnesota, Michigan, New Hamp- shire and Massachuseits also have primaries in which there is little national interest. In Vermont, Gov. Ernest W. Gibeon, who has CIO support— rare for a Republican—is seeking renomination in & primary battle with Lt. Gov. Lee E. Emeyson. Iflm mwm tied up Princess - Louise scheduled . to sal] from Vancouyer Wednesday. Princess - Norsh™ due in Juneau at 8 oclock, Big Batfle Is Over Candi- date ‘for Democrafic Governor (By The Associated Press) A few hours of political slug- ging remain to candidates before a predicted 650,000 Washington voters go to the polls for tomor- row’s hotly fought primary elec- tion. Nominations for all state offices land for all six Congressional {berths are up, but the big battle ;is being waged for the Democratic |nomlnauon for Governor. | Wallgren wound up a swing laround the state with a prediction of a primary victory “which in some sections of the state will reach landslide proportions.” Dan Martin, Clarence D.s son and campaign manager, was equal- | lec- |ly certain that his dad would win. ! While those two have been at each other's throats, another ex- | i State Sen. Jehn T. McCutcheon are Republican -nominasion. Langlie claims both Martin and Iw.lhren would give the same kind of administration. ‘Progressive party leaders met last {night to pick State Treasurer Rus- {sell Fluent as their nominee for| i Governor - and 'Sen. Thomas: C. Rabbitt for -Lieutenant Governor. p “meets’in @ ting onvehtion” tomorfow" to* rm these two and the rest of the {slate. IDR. CARTER PRESIDENT, MEDICOS ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 13— 1 Dr. C. C. Carter of Juneau was| elected president of the Territorial {Medical Association at a business )session Friday afternoon. The group {II.BO drew up a resolution favoring of the Blue Cross Hospital Plan. { Other officers elected included Dr. Arthur- John Schaitle, Fairbanks, I | Anchorage, second vice-president, and Dr. William Blanton, Juneau, secretary-treasurer. ' The group decided to hold it next annual convention at Juneau. They avill meet either in March or April of 1949. 1. 5. NAVAL PLANE MISSING IN CANADA OTTAWA, Sept. 13.—P—An Am- erican naval plane bearing 'Capt. Benjamin Scott Custer, naval at-, tache of the U. S. Embassy in Ot- tawa, and four others, is missing to- day in the bleak country of northern Manitoca. The'U. S, Embassy said Capt. Sir Robert Stirling-Hamilton, naval ad- visor to the British High Commis-| *|sioner, at Ottawa, also is aboard. The ‘plane’ left Churchill, Man., Sunday morning for The Pas, Man., and Ottawa. The Washington Merry - Go -Round Bv DREW PE. N - (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.) { I' ASHINGTON— Detroi*s . Ma= conic Temple, in which Harold Stassen delivered the GOP reply to President Truman last week, seats 5,500 people. But about 3,000 were -all Republican leaders could muster for the occasion. Michigan’s GOP leader, who was supposed to drum up & crowd for Stassen, is Arthur Summerfield, one of the largest Chevrole: deal- ers in the world. Summerfield helped Jead the stop-Dewey move- nent at Philadelphia, but ‘hat probably was not the rsason he|meetings in - Juneau Wednesday e failed to drum up a crowd last week. Resl fact is that Summertield -is now under investigation by a Fed- eral Grand Jury and ‘has become et e l (Continued on Pgge Foury ELECTED| CASE OF RUSSIAN TEACHERS CLOSED, U. §. TELLS RUSS Soviet Prole_s?s_ Are Turned . Down-Emphatic Notes i Sent Soviet Union | WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—®— {The United States again has turned |down Soviet protests in the case jot the runaway school teachers and {now “considers the matter closed.” | | The State Department disclosed | today that Secretary Marshall last FIGHTING IN INDIA UNDER abad Invaded for Pur pose Restoring Order NEW DELHI, Sept. 13.—~Ub—iné dian troops invaded the 1 state of Hyderabad from all 4 Princely Stale of Hydl§ Thursday sent the Soviet Embassy a |today. The declared purpose vlu}é note in which he rejected: (1) A Russian request for “free and unobstructed access” to the |teachers, Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, {and Michael Samarin, (3) Soviet charges that the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation and {the Tolstoy Foundation, an anti- | communist organization, had com- mitted fllegal acts in the case. | “It is & matter exclusively for the |determination’ of Mrs. Kasenkina land Mr. Samarin whether they will |see the representatives of the Soviet |government,” Marshall wrote. The teachers currently are under protection of the American govern- ment gfter refusing to return to the Soviet Union. Mrs. Kasenkina is in a New York hospital recovering from injuries suffered when she hlmped! from the third floor of the Russian i | | !sttempt to escape. ‘ | | | \ { 0 TEXAS, Dallas Oil Man, Recently I Visitor in Alaska, Bels |~ $20,000 on Plan DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 13.—(®—The Dallas oilman who bet $20,000 that he could bring three Eskimo wom- en back to Texas says “We've al- ready got 'em and they're coming down with a chaperone.” L. Let¢Horne, president of the Horne Oil Company, said the Eski- mos willing to come to Texas to settle his bet had been found in Alaska. ) “My pilot in Seattle, Lew Leach, is awaiting word from me to buy a new plane and bring those Eskimos down here,” Horne said. “And they are gonna ke down in the Blackstone Hotel at Bort Worth by Wednesday. “I don't know how or where Leach got them, but they're all about 18 years old and they'll be here with their chaperone.” Horne' explained that recently had gone up to Alaska on vacation and “foned some friends back home to ask them what they wanted me to bring them back.” The friends—more oilmen in Houston, San Antonio, Midland and Waco, Horne said—all got together and bet him $20,000 he couldn’t bring the Eskimos to Texas. g i i 1 1’ "RELIEF SHIP” NOW ASKED BY ALASKANS SAYS PORTLAND MAN PORTLAND, Sept. 13—(®—Hill- { i l ter of Commerce president, said to- day that Alaskans had asked him to organize a “relief ship” of ‘supplies. Just back from a trip to Alaska, Luedemann said people there are fearful a prolonged maritinie strike would deprive them of food stocks. He sald they would like a supply ship now while the weather is still good. i i ————— PATROLMEN TO -ARRIVE . ON BOARD MONTEREY The MS Mon:erey, captained by Jack Westfall, left today for Haines to ‘pick up 25 passengers, Who came over the Highway to attend the three-day meeting of the Alaska Highway Patrol, which will begin i morning. . Traveling with the party are Mrs. E. L. Bartlett and her two daughters. Delegate E. L. Bartlett is at present in Anchorage. The Bartlett ly drove out from Washington, D. C., last month. ESKIMOS. s , s o . § f manded.w pleblsctte to detarmine the | erabad. The - state Is) the size of Minnesota and in south| central India and surrounded by In- ! restore order. headed with tanks and armared and covered with air support, ad vanced swiftly, mostly against neg+i * governmeént | i ligible -opposition, statement indicates. a A Madras dispatch said Xndh‘ forces striking from the East, ad% vanced 40 miles to within possibl 60 miles of Hyderabad eity, state capital. The first Indian communique said; her troops made “steady progress itk The Dominion soldiers, spear i all sectors.” The bulletin said sevs eral columns of undisclosed strength penetrated the state. Indian planes operated over Hy- derabad all day against what the communique said were military ob- Jectives, India asserted disorder is rife private armies such as the ka's. The state and dominion b: in consulate in what she said was an ;Hyderabad and that the fabulously | {rich Nizam had refused to disband, been at odds for mopths begause the sir India. future of Hyd dian territory. The invasion was launched wuhsnl 48 hours of the death of Gov. Gen. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the founder of !me partition of Indla. New Delhll sources said they expected Jinnah's, death to ease differences betweeny f Pakistan and the main force India and Pakistan, ICancer Aftack NEW YORK, Sept. u‘-—lm—‘Mrs.i iH. W. Peterson of Billings, Mont., in National Deputy Commander of the American Cancer Society, leaders an attack on cancer Alaska 24. STOCK QUOTATIONS tral 16%, U. 8. Steel 78%, Pound $4.03%. ities 34.57. e e 0o 6000 0600 . ¢ WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period In Juneau— Maximum, 65; minimum, 44. At Airport— Maximum, 59; minimum, 37. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly clear. Not much change in temperature to- night and Tuesday. Gusty northeasterly winds. PRECIPITATION ® . . . . In Juneau — None; since Sept. 1, 9.16 inches; since July 1, 2148 inches. At Afrport — None; since Sept. 1, 6 inches; since July 1, 1431 inches. J rtiaed i Osman the (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today in Planned is due to arrive in Juneau, Alaska, he | tomorrow to discuss with health in She will go to Anchorage about Sept. 20 and Fairbanks about Sept. { NEW YORK, Sept. 13—P—Clos- ! ing quotations today of American Can is 821, Anaconda 36, Curtiss- Wright 10, International Harvester 27%, Kennecott 56, New York Cen- Northern Pacific 21%,, Sales today were 080,000 shares.| Averages today are as follows: man Luedemanm, Portland Cham-|industriais 17938, rails -50.72, util-|° . . . . . '!wflt are quiet as the strike went|companied the family and immedi- PROBE INJURIES OF MOVIE STAR | FILM STAR RITA JOHNSON, (picture above) famed for her portrayal of sophisticates, has taken a turn for the worse, at- tendants at St. Vincent's Hos- pital, Hollywood, reported Sep- tember 10, after an investigation was launched to determine how she suffered head and body in- juries that have left her in a state of coma since the night of September 6. Her brother, Wil- yiam Johnson, of Chicago, de- manded the probe after learning that mpysterious circumstances surrounded the star’s collapse. (International Soundphoto) 1 | | i i | ') l} \'] | AMERICATS FARM GIRL ATLANTIC CITY, N, J., Sept. 13.| —iP—Beatrice Shopp, 18-year-old Miss America of 1948, heads for her Minnesota farm home today, where ' she will spend a few days before! lcoming to New York to start her! |new career. | { In a breath-taking weekend, the| | baby-faced brunette, who “loves to clean fish,” won $16,000 in con-| Itracts and scholarships by outclass-1 {ing 54 other beauteous contestants. ] She says she’ll have a few days |t the four-acre family homestead | ito think over all the offers that have come her way as the beauty of the year. ¢ It's all a far cry from the Hop- ‘kins, Minn., farm, where Beatrice,| nicknamed “Bebe,” says she tends! about 100 chickens, drives tractor | |and helps her mother in the kitehen. yine # The little girl from the” farm, who neither smokes nor drinks, says |she won't consider ‘marriage until ]"1 am 24 or 25 years old.” NEXT MOVEIN . COAST_STRIKE ISUPTO ARM Bri’dfiés anfiiher Union| Leaders Must Sign Non- Communist Affidavifs aaons 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13—h— Striking west coast maritime unions and employers today awaited the H t U i ;otfand to work military cargoes and employers refused “if it requires dealing with Communist party line| ilabor leaders.” I ! The Army has said only that its |cargoes must and will move. Waterfronts up and down the into its 12th day. i | Harry Bridges, president of the} CIO iongshoremen, had offered to resume negotiations but the Water- front Employers Association refused unless Bridges and other union lead- ers sign’ non-communist affidavits under the Taft-Hartley Act. Union leaders have fgnored the Act and declined to sign such statements. i il 3 _CALIFORNIANS HERE Californians staying at the Bar- anof Hotel are L. C. Shaver of; 8an Francisco and George E. Peter- ' here from Cordova, and is a guesttions which he hopes would zoom | |ut the Baranof. son of Richmond, Calif. | | strike since April 22 in a dispute ‘recommended the action in {pliance with j tonal dispute with the AFL lto be assigned to*jobs immediately. | [the strike started. |next meeting of the Committee will STRIKERS |1st Violence AT BOEING | In Strike of RETURNING| 0il Workers Thousands Mill Around;Two Shots Fired af Truck~ Gates This Morning | AFL Maintenance Men Going Back to Jobs Cross CIO Picket Lines 13—P—Thous-, SAN PEDRO, Calif,, Sept. 13.— {(M—Two shots were fired at a gaso- line truck early today, one bullet piercing the radiator, in what po- lice said was the first violence of the CIO oil workers' 10-day strike. Driver Eugene C. Peach, 34, Lyn- wood, said his truck was parked at the loading rack of an independent refinery when a car came down the highway and stopped. Two shots over wages and seniority rights. were fired, he sald, and the auto No cases of physical violence !left. One bullet struck the radiator 'and the other went wild. SEATTLE, Sept. ands of returning-to-work strikers milled at the gates of the Boeing Airplane Company this morning. The strikers officially ended their walkout by reporting back under the eyes of largé squads of uni- formed police. Members of the Aeronautical Me- chanics Union (Ind) have been on were reported but police said the strikers heckled and booed non-| FPolice said the shooting occurred strikers. at 4:45 am. { Meantime more than 1000 AFL maintenance men passed through CIO picket lines in the first mass return to work of the 10-day old California oil refinery workers’ More than 2000 strikers were lined up by 6:15 a. m., an hour and 15 minutes, before the plant| usually starts operations. Observers estimated 4,500 to 5,500 filled the entrances to the plant [Stike: by 7:20 a, m. e The Aeromechanics voted to call of “scab” and jeers greeted i |the caravan of automobiles carrying . 11,400 workers into the Richmond, off. the strike at a meeting Friday i " 4 night. Union officers. said they'C®lif. plant of the Standard Ol com- | Company but the only semblance of . iolence was a rock bounced off an recommendations of ¥ a trial examiner of the National | Labor Relations Board. { ”’ }:n“:;do: n::ur.: g ‘The mechanics, however, appear- ed to be headed for a jurisdics sters umion. | | Dive Beck,’ executive! vice tion of a Teamster-chart, ion to, seek memberships 0 workers. in all hourly cutnw? at Boeing's. ¢ Boeing sent out appeals to strikers to return to work 3 when requested to do so by tele< grams. Strikers were divided into lines today, permitting those with tele~ grams calling them back to work |Year. Y Their financial report for the i first eight months of 1048 were fil- calls were being processed in ot.her!"’ today with the Clerk of the lines. {House. Only the southern States The company said it had sent|Rights group failed to report. out telegrams to 2,200 strikers call~ ing them to work immediately. ‘The union claimed a membershlp( of 14,800 members at Boeing when TON, Sept. 13.—1P - enry A. Wallace's Pro- group, all political parties ‘the Socialist party have op- i financially in’the red this Those without immediate work {mittee listed the heaviest expendi tures and the largest operating de- ficit but a bank balance kept the {Democrats out of the red. H The Wallacites ended the period iyith the largest reported deficit. The Democratic National Com- ! mittee reported receipts of $541,470 |nnd expenditures of $838,712 dur- ing the eight months. But they with a balance ALASKA FIELD COMMITTEE T0 1 istarted the year MEET, JUNEAU 1 | $315,367. The Republican National Com- Space for Federal offices in the Territory and a housing M‘DII’IIHIIHCW how much of the $115896 are two of the priority projects of|deficit was covered by cash on the Alaska Field Committee, #cejhand at the start of the yeaf cording to Kenneth J. Kadow, di< Two reports were filed by C. B. rector of the Alaska Field Statf of}Baldwin, Wallace’s campaign man- the Department of the Interior, who jager. One of them listed contribu- returned to Juneau Saturday. The|tions of $451,124 to the National Wallace for President Committee and expenditures of $670,383, WALLACE 0 CARRY 3 PACIFIC COAST STATES IS CLAIM NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—(M—Hen- The Alaska Field Committee, [ty A. Wallace's campaign manager whose membership includes the!said today the Progressive party heads of all Department of Interior |Presidential candidate will-carry the agencies in Alaska, held its organi-|states of California, Oregon and be held in, Juneau on October 7. At this meeting a detailed budget and program will be formulated for the Interior Department in Alaska for the next six years. In an etfort to interest prlvnte! capital interests in investing in Al- aska, Kadow met with financiers. He reports that he discoyered a great deal of interest among finan- clal interests in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. ® { Army’s next move—after the unions|zational meeting in Anchorage last | Washington in addition to other states which he did not name. “I expect Mr. Wallace to carry those states because we have real month. Mrs. Kadow and three children, Kenneth Ward, Patricia Ann and Sandra Lynn arrived with Mr, Ka- dow on Saturday. They are residing | tional campaign manager for the at the Bess Cross home on Gold|Progressive party, said at a news Belt Avenue. “Mutt”, their dog, ac-|conference. Asked how he thought Wallace would fare in other states, Baldwin sald: ately after his arrival, proceeded to get lost for a few hours. 3 Mrs, Carl D'Epiro, whose husband { “Wallace will carry more states, is Administrative Assistant to Mr4{but I won't specify any others right Kadow, arrived last week. Mr. and |now.” Mrs. D'Epiro are residing in an 7 apartment in Judge George Folta’s| PARIS — France’s new Premier, home. Henri Queuille, has ordered his Miss Helen Maslanka of Rochester, | Ministers not \to leave Paris for New York, has been appointed Ka-|two months. He_ is fighting infla- dow’s secretary. Miss Maslanka Ar-‘tlon. unstable wages and prices rived last week. and strikes. Gen. Charles de - —— Gaulle said Prance had ‘“incap- Mrs, Nellle Huywer Is vlnmncllhle" government. He wants elec- > him into control. The Democratic National Cmn-I wr mittes said it took in $525,455 and | spent $641,351. The report did not} strength there,” C. B. Baldwin, na-, COMMIES ARETOLD, GO TOIT "X-Day" Is Reported Sel i by Soviets - No Settle- ment Blockade Crisis By RICHARD KASISCHKE BERLIN, Sept. 13.~-—A libers tal Democratic newspaper here said today “X-Day" for achieving Com- munist seizure of Berlin has been fixed for some time after the | November Presidential eléections in the United States. The newspaper Montagseche as- serted the Russians have given German Communists orders to step up riotous demonstrations to selze control of the city because Moscow wants no Four-Power settlement of the 80-day-old blockade crisis. A highly informed source in Moscow said last night resumption of Four-Power talks there on the Berlin crisis §s “quite likely” this week. The informant made this prediction after the return to the Russian capital of Francois Sey- doux, political and diplomatic ad- viser to Lt. Gen, Joseph Pierre ixuenu. French Military Governor }in Germany. , Until “X-Day,"” = Montagsecho said, the Communists aim to “seize 'nvery opportunity ‘to' promote riots, “strikes and demonstrations” to wor- isen the local political situation. . ! Some 120,000 Germans assembled the Russian sector of Berlin i {city's. streets in .. of Tanother march on the Allied Con- {trol_Authority Bullding in the U. 8., sector, but no disorders were reported. ¢ v SBITUATION IS TENSE [ WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—P— | President Truman reviewed the (tense international situation today {with' Secretary of State Marshall. i officials would not | discuss it afterwards. The Cabinet Junched at the White House. After that the Presi- |dent conferred with Marshall. The two usually meet Monday nd Thursday and are in contact ‘by telephone on other days. PLANS FOR HYDRO PLANT APPROVED; SURVEYS HERE Approval of the design and es- timate of costs for construction of the jpropesed Eklunta hydro- electric plant 33 miles out of An- chorage has been received, J. M. Morgan, director of the Alaska Investigation Office of the U. 8. Bureau of Reclamation said today. Morgan returned Sunday from Denver, Colo., where he submitted plans to Chief Engineer McCellan jof the U. 8. Reclamation Bureau. { Approval of plans by the Bureau and granting of a) r tions by the Blst Congress must still be effected before construc- tion on the proposed project can begin, Morgan said. “We contemplate,” Morgan said, “that funds will be made available by Congress to initiate construction on or before April 1, 1949.” The Eklutna project, to be locat- ed out of Anchorage on the Palm- er Highway, includes a diversion {dam by means of a four-mile, nine- Ifoot tunnel irom Lake Eklutna to |the site of the hydroelectric sta- tion. Ultimate capacity of the s tion would be about 30,000 'kilo- watts, Morgan sald. Preliminary reconnaissance for the development of Dorothy Lake, south of Taku Inlet, was complet- {ed September 4, Morgan said. Since |mnv. time forces have been estab- iluhed with necessary gear and leq\llnmem for field surveys at the i Dorothy. Lake site. i TField forces are investigating the { feasibility of constructing a hydro- eleetric plant south of Taku Inlet at an 2,415 foot elevation to supply power for the Juneau area. The contemplated station would have an ultimate capacity of between 25000 and. 30,000 kilowatts. B o FROM ARIZONA Brazel: of Phoenix, i Pat Ariz., is 2 guest at the Barhnof Hotel,