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

samn 1 P.M. Editi VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 1 ,024 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ] THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1948 MENBER ASSOCIATED PRESS L————==n PRICE TEN CENTS HEARING ON COMMUNISM IS PICKETED TRUMAN IS ON WEEKEND TALKTOUR Goes Back Home, Then! Starts Out Again Sunday -Dewey Has Head Cold (By The Associated Press) President Truman took his polit-| ical prospecting to Pennsylvania| mine areas today as Gov. Thomas E. | Dc\\ey tried to shake off a cold in! Albany before starting his cam-\ paign windup Tuesday } Headed for a major addl‘e.~s in| Pittsburgh- tonight, . Truman faced a day-long ]onrney mrough the mountain stronghold of John L. | Lewis, boss cf the United Mme1 Workers, who has Leen outspoken; in opposition to the Democralic; presidential candidate. In a speech | at Scranton, he asked miners to help | block GOP plans “to crush organized | labor.” He will return to Washington be- | fore setting out again Sunday night | on his final campaign swing to Chi- | cago, Cleveland, Boston, New YoxkK and way stations. Dewey will not begin his unal‘, vote tour until Monday midnigh whei: he heads for the same big‘ cities. The Republican presidential con-; didate returned to Albany last night | suffering from a head cold whlclw he told a party rally in New York | was 50 bad he couldn’t hear hlm%elf\ speak. While in New York-he had | made two major speeches, plus talks yestertay to workers at party head- quarters, Dewey told his supporters to “look ahead four yenrs" and close out the present election drive without “vi- tuperation and abuse.” He said the, Democrats may resort to tactics of i “desperation” in the next few days.! If the Republicans can win the election, he said, “without creating | artificial divisions, without creating hatreds * * ¢ we can so unite our, people * * * that we can mobilize the enormous strength of our coun- try for the most precious cause on! earth—that of the peace of the, world.” CONTROL OF PRICES IS PLEA MADE LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23.—P— Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder says the time may be near when the Federal government should apply price controls. i He said at a press con(erencei that the most effective way to stop | inflation is to check the rise ol. commodity prices. If voluntary efforts to check soar-" ing prices proves ‘ineffective, he| declared, “then government acuafi should be applied by all means.” { He added we are pressing close to| the danger point. The,Washin_gion ‘Merry - Go - Round . Bv DREW PEARSON (Cobnllhl. 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) CHICAGO— Out here in the Middle West, farm voters have be- gun to learn something about the big Washington lobbies and what they did to the 80th Congress. The farmers learned the hard way— and they aren't too happy about it. For the lobbies have helped to send the price of corn skidding to un- | comfortable lows. Most interesting thing about the big grain lobby is that its back- stage operators were largely Ar- gentines and Prench refugees.! ‘Working behind-the-scenes through American stooges, they put the fol- lowing two vital provisions through the 80th Congress. 1. Prohibited the government from acquiring more storage space for wheat and corn purchased at! parity prices from farmers. Since | the government is barred from renting additional storage for the bumper crop, it can’t buy all of the; grain now going to market, andi | g A e e (Continued on Page Four) | United States and Canada are ex- | pected in the next few weeks to be- i pledging full | anti-Communist nations of Western . the broad | Brussels | for Juice for Warren REPUBLICAN VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Governor Earl Warren of California arrived at Miami to address the American Legion National Convention. He was presented with this king size glass of Florida orange juice. “.lis daughter, Virginia (behind him) is theer to give him some encoumgemem 'Woman cn Operating Table ~ In Hospital Is Killed by Explosion of Anesthefic Gas HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 23: —An explosion U.S.- CANADA EXPECTED T0 DRAFTPACT WI” Be Lalled North At- lantic Pledge of Full Military Aid (By The Associated Press) | Vugrinec, at the Harr tendent Wek today. Two anesthetics burg hospital, Superin- Miss I/slightly injured in the blast, kept on working, Kohlhaas said. The surgeon, Dr. Norman P. Shep- ller‘ and his assistant, Dr. EA Davies, were uninjured. I |dren, was undergoing an abdominal peration. Kohlhaas said the operation was about completed at the time of the Mrs. Vugrinec was blast. However, {still under anesthetic. ‘She apparently died of shock, ihe added, Paris informants said today the gin drafting a North Atlantic pact military aid to the five-nation Brussels Union. The alliance would link the U. S. | |was being used, he said. explosion but we believe it mus land Canada in formal treaty re- 3 |have been from static electricity,” lationships with Britain, France g ninaas added. “We {and the Benelux countries—Bel- gium, The Netherlands and Luxem- bourg. Uutimately the concepi may be extended to take in other | faulty.’ POLAR BEAR SET AFIRE; and Southern Europe. American informants indicated outlines of a North Atlantic alliance already exists. | They predicted the actual draft-, ing of the treaty will begin soon after the U. S. election Nov. 2.} The outsome of the election is not | expected to affect the plan, it was said, as both the Republican rand Democratic parties have com- mitted, themselves in principle to, |backing the Brussels Western Eu- ropean Union. The North Atlantic Alliance expected to commit the Unite States and Canada to build up the; air, land and sea forces of the powers with arms and equipment. The pact also will call standardization of equipment and training and create a seven- | nation unified military strategic command under an American com- ° mander in chief. One major consideration remains. | How will such a treaty fare in the United States Congress? SEATTLE, Oct. 23.—(® motorship Polar Bear, proud vet- jg; €ran of many an Arctic adventure, d ended her career in a final glory! blaze yesterday. She was set afire as scrap and sank in 60 fathoms Sound. As the Margnita, (once a supply, ship irr an Arctic expedition of Vilhjalmur Stefans- of Father Bernard R. Hubbard, {“The Glacier Priest,” stranded on | {the Katmai River in Alaska. | She went aground on a reef off i Kodiak Island in 1935. Her own- The inquest into the uncumstan- er, Art Legaza, went north ces of the death of Mrs. thl]hwnal age her. | Thomas will be held at 10 o'clock | the rocks only Monday morning in the U. 8. Com- ! deep water. missioner’s Court, Commissioner | Felix Gray presiding. | A fishing vessel in later Mrs. Thomas' body was found in!the Polar Bear finally ; the Gastineau Channel the a!lu-‘the ignominy of becoming noon of October 12. Ah.u ge. THOMAS INQUEST MONDAY to see her sink in was finally raised again. yea a (M passed a of anesthetic gas!which, apparently killed Mrs. Annabarbara were over, 59, on the operating table | drivers’ Metz and Miss Doiores Cartier, were; director but Thomas parl: The accident occurred yesterday {as the woman, mother of five chil- 14cn of the winter tourist; A combination of gas and ether “We don't know the cause of theibut: st imaintain this unfair discrimination have no knowledge that our mechanism was CAREER ENDS| The in Puget the vessel wasiman Rechristened the Polar Bear in! 1931, she broke into the news again {in 1932 when she rescued the party toiey 41.8 percent; He pulled her off Two years later she| suffered’ Varren [GERMAN WARN Eleanor Roosevelt Tel Them Sovietism Must: Not Be Nazism STUTTGART, Germany, Oct. 2! day told a meeting of German wom- Nazism, In‘a speech prepared for dzuvgry in German to a meeting sponisored by the League of Women . Physi cians, the widow of America’s War= t'me president declared Sov! must not be allowed to “carry.y any of the same methods W] created the fear and hatred uf other systems.” to Nazism and Fascism. “The words Nazism and Faseism will forever be looked upon horror by the free people of the jlowea to fill the vacuum,” he de~ clared, adding, “If a system is good ler peoples to their need, not Iposed by foreign pressure.” '$10 — FLORIDA TAKES SWAT AT ALASKA DRIVERS im- i | i | | | ka said, in effect, to the State of {Florida | It happenel Like this: The Executive Board of the Flor-| tida Department of Public Safel resolution September when all the “whereas meant that no reciprocal Iculede continental United States, er §. Kohlhaas said!including territories. i In today'’s mail went a letter to in Tallahascee. Frank A. Metcalf, ighway Engineer and Alaska wrote, in ln |Highway Patrol chief, To ke a driver of an auto- moblle in Alaska, one must be a 'renl expert. Your state is the mec- our Ter- | iritory that of the summer tourist. “After he has covered the width of the continental United States and the difficult terrain of the Al- can Highway, a person holding » | Florida license should be sufll(n’m- iy experienced to navigate our dif- #icult roads. “The opposite should hold if it is still your intent.on true, to . |against the citizens of Al be advised that in the future all cars Learing Florida licenses will be es- pecially checked at our houndary and a charge of $10 be made before permission for entrance—which has never been done before against citizen of Florida or any other State m _the Umon o Poll Roundup Of Newspapers (By The Associated Press) Results of the latest newspaper polls in the presidential race fol- low: i ’includmg 27 upstate counties and 39 New York City Assembly dis- tricts) Dewey 49.7 percent; Tru- | 43.0; Wallace 17.3. Chicago Tribune (53 cities down- state Illinois plus Chicago): Dew- ey 27,028 votes; Truman 23,496 votes; Wallace 1,631 Chicago Sun-Times including Cook-Chicago) 12,038 votes; Truman, 11,077, Wal- lace 440. (20 counties, | { lot poll New Castle County, Dela- } ware, including Wilmington): Dew- Truman 176 per- undecid- cent; others two percent; jed 29.8 percent. Spokane, Wash., Spokesman-Re- (for Ravelli, Lake, Sanders, | Lincoln, Flathead and Missoula cour in northern Montana) Dewey, 59.7 percent; Truman, 37.3 Wallace, 2.8 | view —_(®—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to- ' en that Sovietism must not be'al- | lowed to fill the vacuum 1éft"by|i She was merrfitz - with | world and Sovietism must not be al-, !let it be voluntary adopted by oth=1{ “So there!"” the Territory of Alas- | licenses would be honored! Territorial | New York Daily News (statewide, | Dewey. | studies papers; Andrei Y. were uscles | s as long 2 STEPUPS Alaska Airlines Double Upon nghis North SEATTLE, Oct. 3. —(P—Alaska | Airhnes expects 'to fly at least 600,- 000 pounds of cargo to Alaska dur- ing October, Ed. Hudson, vice presi- Frances H. N. Kirkman, Safety Department dent in charge of Pacific Northwest loperations, said today. During the first 20 /month, the line took days of the more than 400,000 pounds of emergency cargo _ northward, maittaining a minimum of two flights a day. »n American World Airways an- nounced last week also that it ex- | pected to fly 600,000 pounds of car- g0 to the Territory during October Otner air lines serving Alaska out of Seattle reported stepped-up de- mands for cargo space as a result of the maritime strike. Alaska_Airlines schedules its car- o flights from Paine Field. - - us. Ambassador fo Cuba Won't Talk on Plot Agamsl Him ST. PAUL, Mlnn. Oct. 23—~ Robert Butler, United States Am- bassador to Cuba, would not com- ment on a reported plot in Ha- vana against him and the Mexican Ambassador. The Cuban government said I st night it hnd taken “precautionary | measures” after newspapers quot- ed Sen. Jose Aleman as saying |he had learned of threats against, | the lives of Butler and Benito Co- quet, “Any comment will have to come from the State Department,” sald Butler. > DIVORCE ACTION Juanita Ora Rodriguez has ‘ed suit for divorce from James C | Rodriguez, on grounds of | patibility. She asks return |her maiden name, Juanita | Brown.. ber 31; 1840 in Calif., and have been since December 20, 1945 - - NORTH STAR DUE Ora Santa Barbara, {Pan Americ;n_A-irways and‘u : | vision gave the Democrats Dmitri (center), Sooviet Deputy Forcign tes decl DEMOCRATS TAKE LEAD IN FOURTH FATRBANKS, Ala Oct. 23— | Straggling returns from the outlying precincts of the Fourth Di-! he lead » !for one more seat in the Territorial | incom- tion The couple married Octo- Prix Legislature. It increased the balance for thej lewer house to 19 Democrats and five Republicans, compared to the| Republican edge of 13-11 in the 1846 election. On returns from 50 of 65 pre- cinets, Republican Walter Calhoun dropped out of the list of the five leaaers for the five seats from the division. Warren Taylor, Demo- crat, who had been trailing behind the five leaders, moved into fourth place, with 1751. Calhoun had 1669. The cnly Republican left among the five was A. F. (Jo2) Coble, in fifth place with 1704, The three Democratic leaders were | Glea D. Franklin, 2141 ssie Dale, 1911, and Frank Angerman, 1819. In the Senate race, Frank Barr. Democrat, took the lead over incum- ment John Butrovich, Jr., Republi- can, 2249 to 2203. Both were elected as their oppcm nts were far behind D s FINAL RITES FOR PFC. DGOGAN WILL - BE HELD MONDAY Solemn Requiem Mass will be cel- ebrated for Pfc. Theodore Doogan on Mondav morning at 9 o'clock in fil- the Catholic Church of the Nativity. Pfc. Doogan was killed in heroic ac- on Leyte Island in the Phil- of jppine Campaign The remains will arrive on the; cess Louise. An honor guard formed by memkters of the Veterans separated of Foreign Wars fill escort the body from the dock fo the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. Lt. Comdr. Edward P. Chester of the Governor's oftice, The MS North Star is scheduled and Mayor Waino Hendrickson will at 2 o'clock and will sail almost immediately for Seattle. The North will Star is returning from her annual Doozan Arctic voyage to Point Barrow. The Hjalmer freight Joe Reidi, passengers will g0, to, and Rudy Pusich ship s dischel’ging here but a few aboard. no - FROM (‘ALIF()I!\I\ Charles F. Hamlin of San'Mateo, Calif,, is at the Baranof Hotel i Philadelphia Inquirer (1,500 Ddrlto arrive in Juneau this afternoon accompany the honor guard. service of- Pfc They are Gerald Cashen, Douglas Wah- Pallbearers for the final be life-long friends from Dougle Savikko, Jack Mills, - AT JUNEAU HOTEL Mrs, Anne Adams came in last night from Ketchikan and is stay- ing at the Juneau Hotel. Manuilsky Refledtions on a Serious Sifuation Faces of United Nations delegates appear to mirror gravencss of the matter before the Security Coun- cil in Paris as they listen to debate on the Berlin crisis. Yishinsky lips, while Sir Alexander Cadogan (right), of the Unjtel Kingdom, leans over with an intent look. council heard delegates of France, Britain and the United * as the Berlin Blockade continues. # Wirephoto, (left), Ukraine delegate, Minister, puts his fingers to his The e further negotiat, Russia AIRLIFTTO Separa!e Administration Is ALASKA GETS Proposed, Fishing, Wildlife; Ban on Indian Reservafions SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23.—(P— Separate Federal administrations for commercial fishing and wild- lite is recommended in a Pacific Fisheries conference resolution, Both are now under the same ad- ministration. The conference, which ended last night was uattended by delegate: of fishermen’s unions, boat owners, packers and allied proces ler Freeman, Seattle publish | the industrial journal, Pacific Fisherman, was re-clected chair- man. Delegates also asked in the reso- lution that the fisheries be plac- ed under a federal agency where they would be free from what they termed domination by reclamation, | water power and Indian Service, Another resolution asked that the present federal dam projects on streams supporting commereial fisheries be developed to their fullest extent. before further pro- jects which may be destructive to fisheries are undertaken As an cxample, delegates pointed | the Grand Coulee power in-: liation on the Columbia. They' d the installation is pa tial and should be completed be- |fore other dams. are constructed | downstream The delegates requested that Indian Service be reorganized. They ,want to restrain it from further extension of Alaska Indian reserva- tions which the delegates held to ke destructive of free development of the, fisheries and other indus- l.rlul uppurlunny in the Territory - ”TWIN" PARKING METERS SLATED FOR ANCHORAGE Alaska, Oct parking to only ANCHORAGE, M—A new “twin’ will be tried out in front Federal Building here soon I( will stand between two cars, lhu\ cutting the number of required meters in half C Manager Don Wilson they could be placed along Fourth Avenue and present meters moved to Fifth Avenue in an effort to improve the street’s appearance. .o HSU HSIU-CHIH IS SENTENCED TO PRISON, LIFE PELJING, Oct. 22 chih, who was mayor during the Japanese was sentenced to today on conviction of ing with the cnemy 23 meter of the] of Peiping occupation, imprisonment collaborat- the | sald | ® (M—Hsu Hsiu-| ONEDAY STAND IS HOT ONE {Threat of Contempt of Con- gress Made - Heated Debates Take Place | SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23— | The Congressional investigation of |communism in West Coast maritime unions was in recess today after a tumultous -one-day stand. Strik'ng maritime union memters picketed the hearing, which resulted |in a threat of contempt action (aganst two union leaders—and ¢ six-weeks recess, | Reps. Charles J. Kersten (R-Wis.) and ©. C. Fisher (D-Tex. of the i House Labor and Education subcom- (mittee conducted the hearing. At the conclusion, Kersten said bhe would recommend acton for |contempt of Congress be filed against Hugh-Bryson, head of the CIO maritime cooks union, and David Jenkins, Californin labor scheol director. Neither would answer tlon: “Are you now, or been a member | Party?" Both entered long and heated de- |bates with the Congressmen in a rambunctious session in which two attorneys attempting to represent !Jenkins were ejectad. Thirtcen persons the Congressmen wished to question—including Pres. Harry Bridges and four other long- shoremen’s union leaders—-ignored the hearing. | After.Kersten had-announced the 'recess of the originally scheduled two-day session, the longshore une ion sald Bridges and his subordi- nates had planned to attend today. Previously, tre union had de- clared that Bridges was tied up in efforts to obtain a “quick solu- tion” to the West Coast shipping strike and had not received a sub- poena. There was no move toward’ | | | the ques- | have you ever of the Communist settle- " ment of the strike—now in its 52nd day, - AIR FORCE T0 PUT POSTWAR PLANES UP FOR SALE SOON WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 —(P— The United States soon will offer jet fighters andl other post-war military planes for sale to at least some American republics, it was learned today. The planes. to be made available are the FP-80 Lockheed Shooting Star, F-84 Republic Thunderjet, F- kuz North American “Twin” Mus- tang, and the C-82 Fairchild Pac- ket, a troop carrier transport. Both the State Department and the Air Force will make a formal { statement soon. Release of military aircraft must (be approved by the Air Force on Itwo counts: (1) whether sale of { planes elsewhere will interfere with ithe production schedule of the 1An Force, and (2) whether such .\alu would compremise security All American steamers tied up by coastwide strike | not reported \pluhuhl\ will : STEAMER MOVEMENTS | | Vancouvel time but about 9 from press arrive at R s v oo wc o0 e WEATHER REPORT - (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) @ Temperatures for 24-Hour Period (® In Juneau Maximum, 46; minimum, 40. At Alrport— Maximum, minimum, 40. FORECAST (Juneau and Viclnity) Mostly cloudy with occa- sional light rain this after- noon and Sundey. Highest temperature near 46 degrees this afternoon PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau 57 inches; since Oct 12,52 inches; since July 41.43 inches. At Airport 31 inches since Oct. 7.2 inches; since July 1, 2791 inches. . 44; | 1 1, 1, 1 @0 000000 cc0000%00000®r0 0