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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “‘ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 11,027 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1948 Tanker Crippled | MORE LINES BY AIR I§ REQUESTED An(horageaB Hearing | Brings Out Necessity, Demands for Traffic ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 27—/ UP—A parade of witnesses kept up! a steady chant for increased air service to Alaska at Civil Aero- nautics Board hearings yesterday.“ § Carl Rentschler, President of the | Anchorage Junior Chamber of | Commerce, read a resolution from | his group criticizing Nurthwest} Airlines because Northwest “carries less than 20 percent of the trade, but has made no effort to obtn\nl additional business.” The fact that 15 non-scheduled airlines are op-! erating into Anchorage should| alone be enough to warrant more | certificated carriers, he said. George Sundborg, consultant for the Alaska Development Board, said his group wants to see an Alaskan carrier, made up of Alas- kans interested in the territory, get certificates. It is impossible for| the territory’s population to double | in the next 10 years without in-! creased air transport, he said. Two Cities Make Request s S o e “ \ P Wirephoto. Line of Defense Armed troops stand guard behind a barricade of cable reels at the Villiers pit at St. Etienne, France, during current strike of miners. | | family of Wrangell. | lon arms and legs, jumping trom a S flash fire engulfing the house, bes Mayor Ray Kohler of Fairbanks | presented the Board with City Council resolution calling for ad-| ditional service for Fairbanks for| routes to eastern mnnulncturersl and south to Oregon and Califor- nia. As high as 80 per cent of; the perishables brought to Fair-| banks come by air, he said. Mayor Gee Bettinger of Kodiak said his city has sufficient fraf-' fic to warrant direct service to the states. Kodiak residents spend half | a million dollars annually travel-; ing to Anchorage enroute to the states, he said. i “ . .. we have to go north to| go south,” the Mayor complained.| Alaska businessmen testified in, regard to the importance of air’ transport in moving their goods| and about their plans to send large | 13TOP NAI LEADERS ARE NOT GUILTY Continuea_on Page Fve | Acquiffed oTCHarges They BOTH COASTS Plotted to Start World Four-Year-Old Mysle}y | At Seattle Is Cleared Up War Number Two OF CANADATO ¥ | (By The Associated Press) | Thirteen top Nazi military lead- |ers have been acquitted of charges |that they plotted to start World War Two. They were acquitted | by ap American War Crimes court in on two BE FORTIFIE HALIFAX, N. S, Oct. 27.—(®— The Halifax Mail says Canad Nuernberg. Rulings east coast, stripped of its artillery | other counts will be handed down defenses after the second world later today. war, “soon is to be re-fortified with new, long-range, radar equip- per guns to meet the threat of war.” Army headquarters indicated that Coafstal units of the Reserve Force are to be expanded on both the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts. The Washington .Merry-G_o- Round ' Bv DREW PEARSON {Copyright, 1948, l;; 'll”hl Bell Syndicate, c. in Ottawa DREW PEARSON SAYS: Illinois Senatorial candidate Lieut. Col. Paul Douglas gets hit from left and right; No. 1 on famous FDE purge, Ex-Sen. Guy Gillette mak- ing strong comeback for re-elec- tion in Iowa; Sen. George Ma- Gill may be surprise winner in Kansas. Editor's Note—Drew Pearson is now on a political survey through the Middle West. ENROUTE THROUGH MID- WEST— Lieut. Col. Paul Douglas of Illinois, hard-hitting Democratic candidate for Senator, -is getting it from both the fascist right and the commie left. ‘The other day, GOP Congressman Pred Busbey, one of the Chicago Tribune’s trained seals, unleashed 2 diatribe at Douglas, calling him, a left-winger, a friend of the com- mies, and about every other politi- cal epithet he could think of. The blast was so unfair that Busbey's patron n‘lm. ‘The Tribune, pub- (Continued on Page Four) Artillery | After a nine-month trial, th Americart court ruled that the 13 military leaders had not drawn up {Nazi policy. On trial were three field marshals, five generals, one admiral and four lieutenant gener- |als. i The American court’s verdict said that the 13 Germans were not re- sponsible for the “planning, prep- aration and initiation and waging of war or the initiation of an in- vasion that international law de- {nounces as criminal.” The court ruled that the 13 mili- tary leaders were commanders and istaff officers below policy level. {The American tribunal said that fighting a war after it had been started is not an international i criminal act. Japanese fo ' Send Whalers TOKYO, Oct. zi.—(P—Two Jap- anese whaling expeditions will sail for the Antarctic next month. | One fleet, headed by the mother- |ship Hashidate Maru, will sail from {headed by the mothership Nisshin Maru, will leave Yokosuka the next |day, The expedition, the third since the end of the war, expects to take 135000 metric tons of whale meat land 20,000 metric tons of oil. —— IN FROM PETERSBURG i Robert F. Baxter of Petersburg lis at the Gastineau. ' To Antarclic Yokohama on Nov. 12. The other,' SEATTLE, Oct. 27—(P—The four-; | year-old mystery of the disappear- |ance of two Seattle morticians was | solved today 1 The remains of John F. Hennessy, |37, and Earl J. Carredy, 49, were !identified yesterday after their |car was hoisted from the Lake | Washington ship canal. The pair | vanished Thanksgiving night, 1944, {and had been the object of wide | | search and whier speculation. ‘flames. (range which '14:30 o'clock this morning. OIL STRI Striking CIO MEMB ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —_——= in Alaska Gulf Calisfor Help LIFE IN FIRE AT WRANGELL WRANGELL, Alaska, Oct. 27— (Spacial to Empire) —Erma Axberg, | 18, died in a fire early this morning that destroyed the home of her grandfather, Otto Feller, and his, Charges Are Made by Both (andidates - Wallace Also Slips One In (By The Associated Press) President Truman jand Gov. second-story window to escape the(Thomns E. Dewey drew farther apart by the hour today as the Democratic contender headed for | Boston and his Republican rival for | Cleveland Not only miles but widening dif- ferences of opinion separated the ” . i itwo presidential candidates as they| Fire Chief William Grant sald!pgiiieq gown the home stretch of | probable cause was a faulty oil}me campaign. | spread - oll _Iumea! Dewey told a packed Chicago| house, causing 8 giadium audience last night that| the Truman administration had | fallen to a “new low of mud-sling-| {in | M. Trumen meanwhile was tell- |ing a Cleveland rally that Dewey |was standing on a “record of false! ;pmnuses" compiled by the som; |Congress and previous Republican . ,administrations. i Wallace Joins In | | Hunry Wallace also joined in the. (exchange. He told a Madison Square ‘[Gnrden rally in New York that hi Progressive Party is the “most con- !servative” in the nation. He said he icould not “imagine a more wild-, ;eyed variety of radicalism than lhm’ of the old parties who recklessly, flirt with the terrible danger of ‘atomic war.” Wallace Party Hit Mr. Truman lit into the Wallace! party in yesterday's campaigning| !ncross Ohio. He said the Commun- | SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27.—(®— 'ists are backing the Progressives in| oil workers have hopes of taking enough votes from reached agreement with the Shell the Democrats to swing next week’s | Mis. Carol Feller, daughter-in- law of Otto Feller, received burns | | | | | reuer and minor turns. Otto Feller, Jr., escaped injury. Other members of the family were i not at home at the time, received cuts throughout the fore the Department was called at A heavy downpour helped prevent {the fire from spreading to other Luildings. The interior of the house, furnish- ings and personal effects are a com= plete loss which is partially covered by insurance. KE NEARS END, IS REPORT ‘Chemical Co., plant at nearby Pitts- election to the Republicans. | ! “The Communists Lelieve that a‘[ a weak nd that! burg. Union leaders declared it poinled;Repubncnn victory means the way to settlement of the 54-day 'United States,” he said. * old California tieup “possicly to-'is exactly what I think—we're to-| day "’ |gether on that.” ! Negotiations with four of the six| Then, taking a jibe at national | major companies affected continued 'polls showing Dewey in the lead, today. Mr. Truman said the “poll-happy”' i | Miss Agnes Zastoupil, a friend of Mrs. Hennessy, identified thei bodies and Fire Chief William Fitz- | | gerald said the car was identified as Hennessy's by the rusted h-] cense plates ) It was found by a diver while searching the canal for a possible | suicide victim. | e T i | | | Sad News Received By Keichikan Man KETCHIKAN, Ailaska, Oct. 27.— (M—On his arrival home after seven-weeks’ visit in the states, Clyde McGiilvray received a mes- sage that his 79-year-old father, William J. McGillvray, had died few hours earlier in Seattle. McGillyray and his wife had attended a reunion at Seattle at which his two brothers, Max and Clyde, Ketchikan, and Ivan, Bend, Ore, and his sister, Mrs. Goldie Shandel, Portland, and the fath- ‘er were togther the first time in 30 years. Mr. and Mrs. McGillvray visited; her relatives in Wisconsin dur-{ ing an eastern trip. { i Quinfs Are Bon; | Report Unconfirmed t KHARTOUM, Anglo - Egyptian Sudan, Oct. 27.—P—Sudan offi- 'cials are investigating a report that | quintuplets—all koys—were born to a nomadic tribeswoman 47 days| ago. Assistant District Ph. G. Balfour- | Paul id the report may be au- | thentic, but that officials have not' been able to locate the children | jor the mother. i Yugoslavia assailed the United | States and other Western Powers for their policy in Greece. Her | Deputy Foreitn Minister told the| U. N. political committee the U. S. is aiding Cseece only to obtain ! !a base on the approaches to Rus-j jsia. The committee had before it 4 resolution calling on Yugoslavia, | Bulgaria and Albania to stop fo-! menting Greek civil war by help-' ing the Communist rebels. N ———o———— At Los Angeles, Union President Republicans have rigged the samp- . O. A. Knight said the agreement ling of voters’ opinions i with Shell Chemical, a subsidiary! “Sleeping Polls” 1 of Shell Oil, covers 375 Workers.\ “Doctor” Dewey, he said, is pre- | who will return to work tomorrow iseribing ‘“sleeping poll intended ' morning for the first time since 'ty “|yl} the voters into sleeping on September 4. ‘election day.” | | - ROMANCE FIZZLES GIRL LOSESTRUMANAND An Eskimo, Not Alaskan, Is DEWEY NOW Sighted Surveying Point Lay FAR APART Area with Powerful Telescope NOME, Alaska, Oct, 27.—P the Point telescope, sighted atea with atout three of the Alaska Development said today. Browne visited the tiny surveying a powerful Board tic Circle on an economic survey of northwestern Alaska i He said that Bob Tuckfield, | Point Lay Eskimo and a a P |memter of the Alaska Eskimo guard, JACQUELINE DADOUNE, 23, former USO hostess in Paris, filed a $100,000 suit in Federal Court at Ashtabula, Ohio, against Rob- ert E. Taylor, 21, because he re- fused to marry her after she came here. She said he supplied her with $500 for her passage in Sep- tember, 1946, and she entered the country on an affidavit that he would marry her as soon as pos- sible, Taylor is currently a sopho- more at Purdue University. Court attaches said this was the first breach of promise suit to be filed in Federal Court within their memory. MILITARY - ALLIANCE LINED UP (Rv The Associcted Press) itold him of the incident. i The stranger was an Eskimo, short and dressed in “funny clothes,” and. definitely not an Alas- kan, Tuckfield said He had a “big telescope” looking the area over. ‘Tuckfield came across him while hunting back of the village and the stranger ran away when surprised in his activities. Eskimos of the village keeping a sharp lookout | strangers in the area. Similar reports stress the need |for speedy reactivation of the Eski- mo Guard, an organization affili- ated with the Alaska Territorial Guard during the recent war, | Browne said. Reactivation of the Territorial Guard has also been urged in other parts of Alaska. | Airplane landing strips should also be built along the coast north of the Seward Peninsula, Browne said, At present there is none be- |tween Kotzebue and Point Barrow, |a distance of more than 700 miles. | Civilian pilots are hesitant for that reascn on flying the route, now |baving to land on beaches or sand Lars. Construction of sueh strips at | Point Hope, Point Lay, Wainwright land Point Barrow would encourage |air travel over the route and thus ;establlsh a civilian air_patrol for the Arctic Coast, he said. Woman Flier - OnWorld Hop and was are for now other | An| Eskimo, not Alaskan, was reported Lay weeks ago Ralph Browne Eskimo | village 300 miles north of the Arec- former BOILER HAS GONE OUT IS REPORT Ship Reporflz?af Mercy of Storm - Unalga Said to Be at Scene (By The Associated Press) The Coast Guard at Seattle re- ports its Cutter Unalga reached the crippled tanker Mission Santa Cruz 100 miles west of Cape Spencer, Al- jaska, today and would attempt to |take the tanker in tow. | A radio message from the Unalga gave no details, tut the Coast Guard said the tanker apparently 'was in no present danger. The Unal- lga arrived at the scene about 8 am. (PST). 5 | Etforts were being made to send |a tug to assist the Unalga in getting Ithe Mission Santa Cruz to port. | The Ketchikan Coast Guard base 'received a message at 8 o'clock last night asking that a tug be sent to ald the vessel, because its con- densers were giving trouble, At that time the ship was 240 miles west of Cape Spencer. ‘Then, at 12:20 a.m. today the ‘Mmlon Santa Cruz reported that its (port boller had gone out and that (the starboard boiler might follow (at any time. The Santa Cruz re- lported her position as 130 miles west of Cape Spencer at that -time. Mariners pointed out that if her boilers ceased to operate the trans- ‘port would become a ‘“dead ship,” ;without electricity and at the mercy of the storm. Winds of from 35 to |45 miles-an-hour were predicted for (the area. . The Mission Santa Cruz carries in crew of 34 and Is 525 feet long. -The Coast Guard did not know’ ihow many passengers are aboard jnor where the Santa Cruz was | heading. JUNEAU TUG OUT The tug Santrina, of the Juneau Spruce Corporation, answering the call for assistance, left Junzau at Midnight and was expected to be | near the scene during this forenoon, (It is understood in Juneau the tank- ler was enroute to Skagway. -oo e - Peace Feeler 4 In his Chicago address, Dewey said the Democrats have been “openly sneering at the ancient ideal of a free and united people” while promoting “antagonism and prejudice” and spreading ‘fantastic |fears among our people.” | Asserting that the country “des- i In Coast Strike (perately needs new and better lead- 1 | A treaty of military alliance be- | tween the United States, Canada, Britain, France and the low coun-| tries is expected to go before the Senate within three months, Wash- { ington advices said today. U. S. Defense Department offi- cials already are working with the non-Communist European country laround the world in | 'SOUPY WEAT Just for Fun " " seancy, MISSING FLIER SEWARD, alasue, Oci. 27.—(P— Soupy weather yesterday prevented By, FRANK L. WHITE i TOKYO, Oct, 27.—tM—Mrs, Rlch-! ard Morrow-Tait says she’s flying a single-en-' | e “jus rove it be ; s mb,m(l Just to prove it can beyp yer search for Vietor (Whitey) done without babying. ‘Bar i i u | “Those American b who :hd}u \’,w;" 'tm’*“"“ since Sunday on lit had to have escorts on long|® Yakataga-Cordova flight, whose Has Appeared SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27— A possible peace feeler has appear- ed in the West Coast maritime strike, eight weeks old today ‘Talks between shipowners and the CIO marine engineers were begun yesterday through the efforts of the Federal Conciliation Service. They continued today and the union scheduled a special membership meeting tomorrow night. They were the first such talks since the strike began, The engineers are not officially on strike but their union is without a.contract and has agreed with the| four other unions in the strike that | “all sign or none sign.” .- 1 i LIAISON OFFICER FOR AIR FORCE IS SENT T0 ALASK ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 27.— (A—Capt. J. D. Stone has arrived to act as air force hnlsoq officer at- tached permanently to the Alaska; wing of the civil air patrol, Jack Carr, commanding off icer, an- nounced. He comes from the Pacific North- west and has worked with the CAP previously. Three link trainers, one here and the others at Fairbanks and Ketchikan, have been made available to theyAlaska wing. Territorial squadrons are now set; up at Nome, Fairbanks, Ketchikan, Juneau and Anchorage, and “flight”, | ’sma!ler units, will be set up at Sew- | ‘ard and Unalakleet. | ership in the cause of peace and freedom,” Dewey added: “We all know the sad record of the present administration. More than three years have passed since the end of the war and it has failed to win the peace. b/ Leahy fo Quit His Posifion INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 27.—(P— Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy expects to give up his job soon as Chief of Staft to President Tru- man. “The President has promised to release me this winter,” the Ad- miral, here for a Navy Day speech, said today. “I've served by sentence and I think I ought to get a parole,” he added. The Admiral said he will “do scme fishing” no matter who is elected President. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—(M—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, Can 82, Anaconda 37%, Curtiss- Wright 10%, International Harvest- er 30%, Kennecott 59%, New Yor® Central 16%, Northern Pacific 21%, U. 8. Steel 84%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 970,000 shares, Averages today are as follows: industrials 189.28, rails 6184, util- ities 35.40. American | i military experts on the program of mutual military help. The pro- gram would cost,the United States several billion dollars over the next iew years. This will be in addi- ition to the biilions being poured into Western Europe from the U. S. Treasury to support the Mar- {shall Plan. | Defense Pact | Foreign Ministers of the West- ern Eurcpean Alliance announced | last night they will ask a North | Atlantic defense pact with the| United States and Canada. It would be the first time in history the U. S. would be party to such a peace- time military accord. The formal steps to conclude the pact are expected to start soon after the | | jumps, you know,” said the red- haired Cambridge, England, house- ! wife, who learned io fly on week- ends. Mrs. Morrow-Tait, accompanied | by Navigator Michaek Townsend, landed her.British Proctor plane on' Haneda airfield here at 12:39 today (10 p.m., Tuesday, ES.T.), on a flight from Itazuki, Kyushu. They left Calcutta five days ago after a seven weeks wait for plane parts. The British flier plans to take off tomorrow for Chitose Airbase on Hokkalido, 325 miles north of Tokyo. From there they will make their longest over-water hop ot 1,778 miles to Shemya in the Aleutians. From Shemya: Anchorage, Alaska; | Presidential _ election Tuesday. | The British, French, Belgian, | Dutch and Luxembourg view was| that the pact would provide a pro- | gram of orderly, unhurried mih-i tary rearmament; slandnm)zauon“ }of military equipment and train- | ting, the development of a com-| mon, coordinated imperial and| Iloreugn policy in the middle and | |far east and Africa; and the evolu- | ‘uuu of a united air, land and sea | strategy under an American com- | mander. | Russia welded her satellites in! Eastern Europe into a similar, but | even tighter, military accord. In| the Russian camp are Poland, Hun- | gary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslav- ia, Albania, Czechoslovakia and in) part, Finland. Secretary of State Marshall and | !flnum Foreign Secretary Bevin/ went over the alliance talk and also mulled over the next Western Power move in the Berlin block- ade cris| —-e ! HERE FROM PELICAN N. W. Soule of Pelican f the Baranof Hotel. is at Whitehorse, Canada, and the North Atlantic route back to England, “if the weather permits.” They won't enter Stater unless forced to South conditions. ,e o - DETACHMENTS OF SOVIET ARMY ON MOVE FROM KOREA' MOSCOW, Oct. 27.—(M—The Sov-| et News Agency Tass reported in a dispatch from Pyongyang today that Soviet Army detachments are on| take the |their way out of Northern Korea. Reporting that this was the sec-' ond group of Red Army forces to qui* the communist dominated sec- tion of Korea, the agency said the | troops were hailed by the public tefore departure October 24. > HOTEL GUEST Mrs. Harold W. Rice of Sitka is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. | the United Atlantic route by - weather last radio message said he had only 20 minutes of gas left as ddrkness closed in, and his ‘compass was broken. Six planes, including two flying Fortresses and a PBY from the 10th Army Rescue Sguadron, Ane | chorage, covered a 200-mile area {in the vicinity of Cordova Mon- i day. 1 Barnett received his flight train- . ing here 18 months ago as a vet- | eran, REP. THOMAS SUMMONED FORPROBING Federal Grand Jury Wants fo Know About Handling of His Office_ Payroll WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—(®— Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R-NJ) has a post-election date with a federal grand jury here investigating charg- es of irregularities in the handling of his office payroll Thomas, who is seeking reelection to his seventh consecutive term, ac- cepted Attorney General Clark's in- vitation to testify but asked for the delay until Nov. 4 “to keep the mat- ter free of politics.” He is chairman of the House committee on Un- American Activities. District Attorney George Morris Fay announces that Thomas' re- quest had been granted.