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

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 11,001 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICl TEN CENTS WESTERN POWERS BREAK WITH HUS&IA Soviets “Hop Queen” of 1948 (hosn PLANE IN PRETTY SHIRLEY KIMB prize-winning hops from the U. S.. Hop Growets Amuon who selected her as “lflp Queen of 1948.” The whole thing is to publicize the. fagtAngs. 2 1 ot um;y.w-m Yrat ernpde pentn om Avp Pacific Coast. Axnternnnonnlv Three Esklmo Girls from Mi Edgecumbe in Seattle; Not So Sure About Quiside tlve Sexvlce for the natives of the | TTL —{M—Three | ana. 2 e Far North. SEATTLE, SEP( .25—“”— Three | i Eskimo girls, on their way from| They are going to Yakima to present a 4-H demonstration of ;:ai:k::o’{:l;e‘m(‘:iemml Washitslons three primitive methods of curing aren't too sure‘sa]mon they like the E “Outside.” Clara Siverly, 16, who has never, been out of Alaska before, said: “It's a mad rush. Everyone dashing aimlessly, it seems.” Alma Teetuk, 17, also making her first trip “Outside,” said the streetlights make things a little too methodical. ) omics teacher, Miss Louise Davis, s,observed “We could demonstrate how to use a pressure cooker. But we thought this would be a little nicer.” Sokolovsky Is Recalled To Moscow One of the three, Mary Ohkiaya, | 19, was in Seattle once before in 1941. Her comment: “r'd rather live in Alaska.” The three girls are from the‘ Mt. Edgecumbe School at Sitka,, newly established by the Alaska Na- | BERLIN, Sept. The Washmgton 0 Round British-licensed German press ser- vice today said Marshal Vassily Merry-G Sokolovsky, the Russian com- By DREW PEARSON Irm;;nder in Germany, had been re- !called to Moscow for consultation. (Copyright, 1948, by 'rne Bell Bnldlcnte."l'here was no official confirma- o ! tion. King George Is Going !o Wear Crown LONDON, Sept. 271.—P— King ASHINGTON— A great many, people have wondered whatever become of the Senate probe of Senator Elmer Thomas, Democrat of Oklahoma, which Senator Fer- guson, Republican of Michigan, be- gan with considerable fanfare lxstv winter. The start of the probe made newspaper headlines, then suddenly and mysteriously Senator Ferguson quit. He said absolutely nothing | more' about his Democratic col- Their chaperone and home econ-;’ 27.—(P— The| ~ (RASH AT YAKUTAT Pilot Allen Thomas Killed —One Crew Member, Passenger Uninjured Allen Thomas, an airplane pilot, | was killed in a crash landing at | yakutat Sunday evening. The plane was carrying only one passenger, | who was slightly wounded and one crew member who escaped injury. Brief reports on the accident were received by the CAA in Juneau to- day which stated that the Norseman plane was enroute from Anchorage | to Seattle. In attempting to land at Yaku- tat, the plane came into contact with some trees and made a crash landing. The Norseman single motor plane carries between eight to ten pas- | sengers but according to reports received here, there was only one passenger aboard. The company owning the plane is not listed in | the report. Norman J. O'Brien, Aeronautical (Standards Agent for the CAA, left Juneau for “Yakutat via Pacific Northern Airlines this afternoan. O'Brien will prepare a full xeport ' ! on_the accidenty ,submitted to | CAA ' headq s’ "t Anchorage | and Washington, D. C. O'Brien ex- pects to return to Juneau Wednes- day. FIRST BREAK, COAST STRIKE IS INDICATED| Independent Marine Fire- men'’s Union Ready fo Sign with Owners NEW SYMBOLS of American mili with the Air Force Day celebratior JET BOMBER LATEST FOR i ) AInurnatianal Soundphotosr i i i SAN FRANCISCG, Sept. 27—| (®—Pacific Shipowners today trled' to woo the Independent Mnrine Firemen's Union away from (our other striking West Coast Marltime Unions, all CIO. By ELTON C. FAY “We want a contract with your| \waSHINGTON, Sept. 27— union,” said an open letter fromn.m Air Force is making progress the Pacific American Shipowners’: toward solying one of its gravest! Association to ¥incent J. M“h“e"prohlemkflndmg & bomber that F“;'l"e"s U::::’" "l"'l?m;:" Wbl can escape from the darting speed | W o f attacking jet fighter: with responsible union leadership.|* * N htens. We believe that means you.” The fact that this tactical feat The shipowners also reiterated (has been accomplished at least their stand against further negotia- | once was disclosed officially over the weekend. Air Secretary S}m-‘ tions with unions whose leaders lhave refused to sign non-Commun-|ington made a brief and otherwise; unexplained reference in a New, ist affidavits. The second army ship loaded|York address to “the day the new; since the striké began made ready|jet bomber ran away from some jet to sail for the Orient today. The fighters.” first, the Tom Treanor, got off Saturday. They were loaded by { CIO longshoremen under a contract between the army and a stevedor- ing firm which does not belong to the Waterfront Employers’ Associa- tion. ed figures on the “designed’—that is, hoped for—speed of its experi- | mental jet bombers, it never hzd indicated the actual relation of those speeds to fighters until Sym- | ington’s terse comment. Among the jet hombers v.'lhw which the Air Force has been ex perimenting most extensively is vhe XB-47 Boeing light bomber. The Lockheed F-80 is the jet fighter ml most general use by the USAF Thus, the indications are thau Symington was talking about the —————— Pioneer REMAINSOF 11 tary might were shown to the public for the first time in conjunction 1s, Saturday, Sept. 18. Shown at the top is the Air Force's XF-89, new experimental all-weather jet fighter and successor to the famed P-61 “Black Widow” night - fighter, which has been underoging extensive tests at Murcc Air Force ba Army’s new 70-ton, fingertip-controlled tank built at the Detroit Arsenal. The Army considers the tank, shown in test maneuvers, as the best in the world. Speed and armament of both weapons are still secret. Shown in the lower picture is the 2 Mlssmg BOTH DEWEY Bob Sommers Jr. and Charles Mc- Clellan were found early this after- noon, after being lost in the vicinity ABOUT PEACE (By The Assvciated Press) ! The two high school boys went goat| The two major party Presidential hunting early Sunday morning and | candidates returned to 'did not return to town last evening. ' | campaigning today after a Sab-| A searching party, led by John | bath lull in which both made peace Osborn, veteran :Alaska guide, left |pleas. at daybreak this morning to hunt | for the two bovs and it was reported | than whether I'm President of me at press time that the boys had'United States,” President Truman | been found and were on their way told a dinner of Texas Democrats| back to town. jat San Antonlo last night. Both boys are students in Juneau ! |High School. Bob Sommers is the | Gov. Thomas E. Dewey said in! 'son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Sommers 'a statement a San Prancisco that of Juneau and Charles McClellan |America is united on the Paris |is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbertlpeflu front. He called for peace jof Mount McGinnis and Mount | Stroller White, sinte last evening. While the Air Force has publish- MecClellan of Kotzebue. Young Mc- | prayers in the face of the “grave| Clellan resides with the Rev. and icrisis in Berlin Mrs. W. R. Booeh in Juneau Both candidates shied away from — | outright politics in. their Sunday + utterances. But former speaker Sam Ray- burn, now Democratc leader of the ‘shlp would “make other nations [} eign policy.” VICTIMS, (47,5555 political 4 World peace is “more lmporum‘ ‘Huuse told the San Antonio dinner that a change in American leader-, | think we have weakened in our for- | DOUBLE VETO MAY BE USED Could Adopt Plan to Bar Admission of Berlin Crisis fo S. C. PARITS, Sept. 27— ®-—Russia may try to bar admission of the Berlin quarrel to the Security Council by using the double veto, a high East- ern delegate to the United Nations |said today. The double veto is a device de- { veloped by Russia. She has used it {three times in the Security Coun- cil in the Spanish, Greek Czechoslovakia cases Here is the way it might work in the Berlin dispute: Russia could vote to the Eecurity Council's and then argue that her vote was veto. If the other council members thallenge this, Russia would then use the veto again to override their challenge. Under the U. N. Charter, the veto does not avply to questions of procedure, but does apply if theri agenda negative lers over whether is pruce(lurfll FOUR POWERS' a question OUT OF BERLIN City Government Passes Resolution-Council Takes Action BERLIN, Sept. 27.—(#- Berlin’s City Government told the four c cupying powers today they should jout of Berlin if they cannot settle | { | ' mexr differences. Boys Found\TRUMAN TALK he proposal was in a resolution drufi.ed by the executive branch of the government and read to u meet- lng of the City Council by Acting Mayor Fredinand Friedensburg | The resolution asked, however. Ithat “so long as the occupation of Genmmy continues” Berlin should iremain under four-power control| :and that “no one power have any ‘more influence in Berlin than any lother.” FIRE BREAKS OUT, | FUSHON COAL MINES | PEIPING, Sepl. 27 ~(P Dis- | patches today said fires have brok- (en out at Fushun coal mines, 20 |m|les eas of Mukden. , They are the largest mines in the world. The fires were attributed to nat- jural causes and were raging in { seven plts open cut D e DEWEY IN PORTLAND » { PORTLAND, Ore 27 BY RUSSIANS and against admission of the issue | is a difference among the big pnw-;i TOLD 10 GET emand Control Over Air Corridors “New.S. Delense Weapons Are Unveiled CRISISIN (OLD WAR DEVELOPES Threat io__leernafiona! Peace Confained in Note from Kemlin SETTLEMENT 10 GO TO UNITED NATIONS [Dire Results Predicted- British Foreign Minister Makes Statement By The Associated Press The cold war got hotter today. ‘The Western Powe roke off ne- gotiations with Russia on the Berlin risis and decided to let the United | Nations have a try settling it. |Dmhmm.~ expressed fear the United |N¢unn~ might crack up over the issue. ! at Britain's Foreign § est Bevin, told the U. N in Paris that unless the Bast-West | quarrel is settled, it may meun the |end of the United Nations. Russia alone, he cried, will be responsible BB, o shugtlyz Atomit war-—~ FRATEE o, mbly diplomatic source tinued membe; is in grave doubt. May Wreck U, In Berlin, forelgn and Gerfan political circles s they do not expect the U. N, cax ive the Ber- lin problem. They also d they thought the issue will wreck the {U. N. Britain, France and the United States jointly broke off their secret negotiations with Russia yesterday, after receiving a note from the Kremlin in which the Russians, among other things, demanded corn- plete control over the air corridors |to Berlin — and thus the planes | which use them., in the U. N Bad Faith Accusation At midnight last night the three governments issued a 3,000-word note accusing the Soviet Union of bad faith in the Beriin talks, which had been going on since July 31, The note also charged Russin had cre- | ated threat international ace.” For this reason, tr said, ‘lh!V had decided to take the prob- em to the Security Council | In his speech, Bevin declared: to Black Fury “If the black fury, the incaleulable | disaster of atomic war, shonld fall upon us, all T can say is that one power, by refusing its cooperation in the control anc development of those great new forces for the good of humanity will alone be responsible for the evils which may he visited upon mankind If the United Nations what would place it? “If we 1wt proceed on a world basis as we had hoped, we must preceed on a regional basis.” To Remain in Berlin The Western Powers re-empha- sized their determination to remain is now the watchword of the West. is now the watcword of the West, | P s of the Alled air lift, now in its 100th dav, droned on over the Russian lugging ton after ton of to their zones of Berlin island deep in Russia’s zone. Bevir ment’s is destroyed Said Bevin: blockade supplies an also reiterated his govern- support for the Bernadotte plan for Palestine settle the claims of Arabs and Jews and urged its adoption in its entirety > X , Sept Mr. Truman sald “T slways wish|goy Thomas E. Dewey predicted '°“e thing, and that’s world peace.” {yo4ay that the American people. will iHe said substantially the same.cigge ranks” behind a strong firm (lausen league from Oklahoma—even look- I XB-47 and “attacking” F-80 jets.| 118 en ed embarrassed and changed the subject when the matter was men- tioned. The reason for FPerguson's sudden change of heart has now come to light. Senator Thomas did some investigating of his own regard- ing Senator Ferguson, then wrote him a personal letter threatening . to make these facts public: In particular, he dug into the connections of Senator Ferguson’s son-in-law, Charles R. Beltz, with the Chrysler Automobile Company, B R (Continued on Page Four) | George sent word to the boys at the Tower of London today to dust off the imperial crowr. He's go- ing to wear it for the first time in ten years at the opening of Parliament October 26. The decision for a full ceremon- ial apparently was taken with government consent in answer to campaign to get the country back to normal peacetime proceed- ings. This means all the Lords and Ladies must put on their ceremon- ial robes, which have been in moth balls since before the war. The XB-47 has six J-35 jet en-| gines, developing a total thrust nl. 24,000 pounds. In addition to the {jet engines, the bomber has 18] “Jato” rocket units which pro- duced an additional 18,000 pounds ‘of forward push when fired simul- taneously. SEATTLE, Sept. 27.—®—John J. Clausen, 79 years old, a pioneer Alaskan and Yukon Territory sold{ miner, died yesterday in his home| It was Ieurned however, that in| near Edmonds. running away” from the Mr. Clausen, born in Norway, fighters, the XD-47 did not mke\ went to Dawson, Y. T., in 1899. He | advantage of this auxiliary rocket lived several years in the Fairbanks ' power, named for its other use—a district before moving to Edmonds ' more powerful “jet assisted take | eight years ago. ‘!ofl e EDMONTON, Alberta, Sept. 27— (®—Bodies of 11 men killed when a C-47 crashed near far-north Lake |the famed Alamo. Tuchodi five yeasr ago will be sent | Dewey's statement said “We must to next of kin, U. S. Air Force offi- | stand together to strengthen the clals said today. |hands of those who speak and Wreckage of the crash about 45o,wurk for us and for the cause of ! /miles north of Edmonton was dis- Peace in Paris” covered last week by C. L. Fallart,| Dewey headed north into Oregon 125,000 people assembled in front of The remains are being flown to speeches scheduled at Portland this | Edmonton. All 11 victims, eight | afterncon and at Seattle tonight. !|Americans and three Canadians, T jwere identified by documents found | A gopher can dig a_hold about 'in thelr clothing. |three feet straight down. | thing in a nearlier talk before some ! foreign policy if he is elected Presi- | dent. Speaking to a crowd which over- flowed the 400-seat Civic Audi- torium in Portland, Ore., the Re- |pubht.nn Presidential nominee said he wants' the world to know there | |is no division in this country over {foreign policy, particularly with re- jet big game hunter from Elkton, Ore. jand Washington today with major. ference to the Berlin crisis D C. Chamberlain, CAA representa- tive from Anchorage, is a guest at ‘lhc Gastineau Hotel, STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK ‘-r'm 27 ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3'i, American Can 81'%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss Wright 9 International Harvi er 26%, Kennecott 53%, New Yor {Central 15%, Northern Paeific 194, U. S. Steel Pound $4.03%. Sales today e 1,210,000 shares. Av today are follows: industrials 176, rails 57.45, utilities 34.17. P—Clos- ki