The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —_ VOL. LXXI., NO. 11,031 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1948 A jon} M 1BER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 90 MILLIO British Car Has "Everything” & Tkis Alvis special sports tourer, a British made auto, appears to have “everything.” In addition to the blende model, the racy car has a portable bar built into the left-hand door. shown at a London aute exposition, has a number of mechanical feature, too. # Wirephoto. Oh yes, the car, ISREAL NOW Alaska 'Has IN CONTROL, Arrived’ Says N.PALESTINE Chrm. Kadow | FAIRBANKS, Nov. 1.—(P— econcmy richer than the gold treas- ures of the past will follow the de Follows Two-Day Blitz-| Sou‘h A'so Reponed jof the Interior Dpartment’s Alaska {field committee, told the city council ‘and planning commission in a week- lend peptalk He recommended the housing bot- Israel L'urnl..ol]ed all dmm:ll.m‘neuuk be broken by immediate con- Palestine after a two day blitz ). 000 of temporary housing for U. N. observers said the Jews in-|g . q jap0. 2 vaded Lebanon. The Lebanese de-| g, jtoq these points in support of nied this. The Arab “Liberation |q ™" bt " Army” of Fawi Pasha Al Kaukll| Alaska is the last domestic source a force of 5000 men, was broken,|ne 1) metals the United States is with “hundreds killed and hundreds .je ting in industrial stockpiles taken prisoner,” a Jewish spokes-| 1t pas two of the world’s best man said. bydroelectric The campaigns made a mockery|chemical industries will move any- { The Federal government is ready The w ashingtonm spend two billion dollars in the MEITY -(Go-Round donr atwsca v {he. nc.) of a letter to his daughter on the question of how she should of the United Nations truce. {where on earth where they can find ‘next few years in the Territory— Pv DREW PEARSON (Editor’s Note: Drew Pearson’s vote.) (By The Associated Press) - U, 5. MILITARY IN CHINA WILL BE REORGANIZED | NANKING, Nov. 1.—#—Reorgan- ization of the American military ad- visory groups in China--army, navy and air—into a joint United States 'military advisory group, was an- om.' wunced today. Maj. Gen. David G. and seasoned political hand like | BAIT, head of the army group, was P s joint director. hs “,flhxnalned joint 3 zg:l: fi:::h:;-e ‘;’i‘:f":ls:‘: { The announcement said Brig. Gen. (Charles E. Thomas, Rear Admiral Sometimes a seasoned political, Francis P. Old, and Col. John C. observer tends to size up an elec-|Daly. respectively, head the air, tion the same way a couple of [Ravy and combined service sections. doctors discuss an important surgi-| A spokesman said the change had cal operation. They become so im- o (‘unpectlfm with the current mil- mersed in the technicalities that|itary situation in China but was an they forget the patients are hu- ‘»'lmema] reorganization started some man beings, and that elections are months ago to bring acout greater a clash between several million junification and smoother human beings to pick another hu- Nation among the various branches. | - e e —_— man being as their leader. s a technician I would say that FROM FAIRBANKS e Sk £ Fred O. Matson of Gustavus is staying at the Gastineau Hotel. e | cheap power. but even without this adrenali (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, I column today takes the form | ‘Washington Mrs. George Arnold, Los Angeles, Calif. Dear Daughter: It is difficult, even for an | | 4 ! (Continued on Page Four) | An! with people sites—and electro-i coordi- | NAVY BOAT WITH MAIL HITS REEF ‘Alaska Bound Craft Aground Dall Rock- | Vessels Standing by SEATTLE, Nov. 1.—®—The Cu‘:\\l! Guard reported today four vessels are attempting to haul the Navy | tug Mahopac oft a reef on the Brit- |ish Columbia Const. ! | The vessel went aground on Dall | | Rock in Seaforth Channel Saturday akoul 160 miles southeast of Prince | Rupert, en route to Alaska. She is; ireported to have two small holes, ‘but is in pretty good shape. | The Coast Guard cutter has re-| {moved several tons of mail from the 1 Mabopac, | Also on hand are two Canadian Salvage tugs, and the tug Barbara Fose. Coast Guard headquarters said | {the arrival of a navy tug from Bremerton was expected momen- | tarily | The crew of three officers |38 men is still aboard STRANGE REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT DEMOCRATIC Check marks in Senate in 81st Congress. T and & ® 4. one Democratic, one Republican. —whether Republican day Chart. KILLS 20 | g 4 t | DONORA, Pa, Nov. L—@d—\| |Chemists studied their test tubes| today looking for the cause of the | mysterious malady which took the} lives of 20 elderly people in 36/ hour H The malady struck this Mononga- | i hela river industrial town of 13,500 | \late last Friday as a smothering mixture of fog and smoke lay lowa | over the valley for the third straight | {day. | ! Saturday the town's eight doctors | !were Lesieged by calls from asthma'( land cardiac sufferers. Before mid- | Inight 14 men and four women hud] .died. Two other men died Sunday. : Nearby hospitals were jammed ! finding it hard m" ibreathe. An emergency aid station : iwas set up and hurried calls went D jout for oxygen equipment. ' Y | A doctor estimated the town'’s // medical men treated between 400 % yand 500 cases. | | The Donora zinc works of the| American Steel and Wire Company, closed and plant superintendent M,l {N. Neale said they would remain |} |so until it was determined whether ; jthe fumes and smoke given off by the smelter furnaces had anything! fto do with the conditions. | - eee - { { RED STAR PLANE IS REPCRTED FLYING ;'OVER ALASKA TOWN i i REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT DEMOCRATIC IFOR BIG LINER The post- SEATTLE, Nov. 1.—(—An Alas- 1P kan merchant said Saturday that an 5 airplane bearing a red. star was today seen flying low over his home vil-:Poned until Dec. 1, the opening of lage last August. bids for the construcuon of a new Jobn T. Emel, owner of ‘the Ber-|¢gs G or. de! ey Uiy iratig. ‘Commaniy,: sad Lhe.Wa.UOO,OOU passenger liner, destined plane appeared over the town u(l Alakanuk, 300 miles southeast of Nome, last August. Emel, postmaster of the town, said delay was granted to give ship- WASHINGTON, Nov Maritime Commission to be the largest ever built in the United States. The Commission said the 30-day he was in a boat at the time and yards more time to study specifica- saw the ship flying at about 1,000%tons of the 48,000-ton superliner feet. The sun was in his eyes, hejdesigned to ply the Atlantic as said, and he could see only that it|fast as Britain’s Queen Eliza- resembled a B-29 beth and Queen Mary. He added, however, that two resi-| The proposed craft, which will dents of the village told him Lhey‘take 30 months *to build, will be saw a red star on the fuselage and{Operated by the United States Lines red painted on theyplane's tail and P wing tip. He said the two were a fisherman and a native girl. woMA" FlIER The plane circled low, Emel said, jand then flew north up the Yukon! | TOKYO, Nov. 1.—(#—Bad weather Iyesterday caused Mrs. Richard Mor- rivez. {row-Tait to postpone her Pacific i R 5 N . |Family of Seven Die ROME, Nov. 1.—(®--A family ox;flxght takeoff from Chitose, Hok- 1seven was reported entombed mday;kaxdo, until tomorrow. The British | Inlandslide, ltaly by a landslide which engulfed a aviatyix, on a leisurely flight around house at Posillipo, near Naples. ithe world in.a single-engine plane, 3 Dispatches said the family las:embled at the bier of the mother. b3 | ns 12 hours after her takcoff. i 3 icate 31 States where voting Tuesday y-two Senators are to be elected; Louisiana votes for two. Heavier check mark denote States where political leaders expect some close contests as Democrats, with 45 Senators now, scek to pick up four seats in effort to gain a majority. (white half) v's election in the other 17 States. Maine elected a Republican Scnator in Check marks denote 32 States which will elect Governors Tuesday. incumbents, with Republican incumbents in white. with a Republican, Frederick G. Payne, elected, (P Wirephoto Chart. - LONGSHOREMEN was hopes to reach Shemya in the Aleu- i will determine makeup and party control of States partly shaded denote those now with Check marks in such Statcs indicate the seat involved in the election or Democratic (shaded half). No MALADY | Governbtihips al Stake in 32 States PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1.—® Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R-Mich.) ’ will be honored here Armistice D;wi as the “citizen of the United States who in 1948 has done the most to- ward the establishment of a pe manent peace.” Vandenberg was named yesterday | as the recipient of the 1948 Reserve Officers’ Association award, estab- lished last year and won then by Secretary of State George Mar- shail. SEATTLE SHIPS SEATTLE, Nov. 1.—(#-—CIO long- shoremen began unloading the ves- sels of the Alaska Transportation | Company today as the result of an agreement with the company. Work started on the Sword Knot and Clove Hitch and will get under- way later on the George Washing- ton. The vessels are loaded with salmon and general cargo ‘The vessels have been tied up be- cause of the maritime strike. The company said recently that it is suspending operations indetinitely STEAMER MOVEMENTS All American steamers tied by coastwide strike. Princess Louise, from V: up wcouver, due tomorrow afternoon or evenify. ' Senate seat is involved in Tues- September. (P Wirephoto Skaded States indicate Democratic Maine’s gubernatorial election was held September 13, MCPOSTPONES Honorsfor LEAD TAKES OPENING BIDS Vandenberg JUMP; IS AT | HIGH RECORD NEW YORK, Nov. —(M— Lead | jumped two cents a pound to ajsovereignty. of 21% leading new all-time record high cents a pound, set by seller of the heavy metal. American Smelting and Refining Co., advanced the price, confirm- ing weeks of rumors that another price hike was in the making. Pope' Méi;; Ad&ress, VATICAN CITY, Nov. 1—® Pone Pius XII reaffirmed the Roman Catholic church’s opposi- tion to totalitarianism He spoke to 1000 auto workers from Turin and Rome, at the sum- mer Apostolic palace at Castel Gan- dolfo. The Pope assailed those who in “declaring that their own system is the only one truly ‘social,’ do- not defend the personal dignity ot the worke; tive capacity a simple object of which society disposes at its will.” He said religion is the true guar- antee of the “dignity of the work- er,” e A large neon sign b ed on the Duncan Church at Metlakatla, N EXPEGTED TO VOTE TUESDAY Contrel of U. S. Senafe at Stake Predictions } 'Are Made On Election i ) | A (By The Assccated Press) | Election eve—as usual—tinds the; major presidential candidates con- | Bo'h candida'es Al’e CO"' fident of victory. | fidem“figh' fOf Sea's i President Truman, speaking in in House, Senaie 5t. Louis Saturday night, said the TRUMAN AND DEWEY MAKE PLEA, VOTE | people, through the Democratic| |party, “are going to win th.s elec- | tion.” Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the Re- publican nominee, told New York City audiences it was the “eve of victory” for the GOP. | Truman has predicted a vote of 60,000,000. He says a heavy vote alway: | (By The Associated Press) Harry 8. Truman and Thom.s Edmund Dewey came to the fork in the Presidential trail today. Tomorrow the people will beckon one of them on. The Democrat who holds the i good news for the Democrat-| wWhite House lease and the Repub- ic pi ¢ lican who holds high hope of Hercert Brownell, Jr., GOP cams | ing it planned only the cus- paigt: manager, looks for a 52,000,000 | tomary get out and vote appeals turnout with a margin of at least|for tonight's windup to a long 13,000,000 for Dewey. 'und exhausting campaign. Gov. J. Strom Thurmond, States’ ypwards of 50,000,000 citizens are Rights cand.date, predicted his tick- | expected to. visit the polls. They et will receive “millions of votes”| wijl decide, among other things, and prevent either Truman or Dew | which party will control the next ey from enacting an anti-lob dis-| congress—and especially the Sen- cr'mination law. | ate g 1! to be elected 32; yvictory” as he closed out his cam- |paign in New York’s Madison | Square Garden—the city where he rose to fame as a racket-busting district attorney. Candidate At Home Dewey then went to his Pawling, T | Second Try For Dewey . i For Dewey it a second try— tand the first time the Republican Elecllon a' iParty has left its banner in the ‘hands of a defeated candidate. The . New York Governor lost a 3.596,000 i 'popular vote ~ decision to “the an(e {champ” in 1944. But Pranklin De- lano Roosevelt's fourth term vie- i % tory in the elcctoral college was a (By The Assoclated Press) !‘whuppmg 432 to 99. Polls close as e y a8 1 p. m, For Truman it is an uphill race P. S. T, in some parts of the east, to win in his own right the man-'. cand at 8 pm, P. § in Wash-|tle that fell upon him-—as he put. | ington ‘and Oregen it—with “the whole weight of the Estimated registtation—Over 66,- moon abd stars and all the planets” 000,000. {when Rcosevelt died April 12, 1945. Estimated vote-—Over 51,000,000.: From the heights of popularity Voting precincts—More than 135~ in the months that followed, Tru- 000. man had to put down reellion Senators can- in his own party last summer. He didates 95. was not completely successful. ! Representatives to be elected 432; Poll Takers Disputed candidates 962 But the President stoutly disputes Governors to be elected 32; can- ' the poll takers who show Dewey far didates 100 (in the lead. Even without the votes (Maine elected a Republican' he will lose in the south to | Senator, Governor, and three House States' Right Democrat J. Strom members Sept. 13, making 33 Sen- Thurmond and elswhere the Pro- ate «two in Louisiana), 33 govern-' gressive Party . candidate Henry orships, and 435 House seats being Wallace, Truman insisted in bis filled this year.) campaign windup that he is going > S to win, & ' “The north, the south, the east ‘I‘URKEY DOESN']’ and the west are falling into line,” ‘ _ ‘he declaved at St. Louis Saturday ' | night. | FEAR wAR w'IH | For his part, Dewey too was con- !'fident. = He spoke of “the eve of RUSSIA, REPORT Nov. 1P War ! The Turkish people worried over! SEATTLE, with Russia? Imen'l particnlarly but make of his produc-, been plac- Memorial ! industrials 189.76, ‘Tthe prospect ! That was the report given by Laurence S. Moore, retired' press attache with the U. 8. Em-| bassy at Ankara, Turkey. He said| he is surprised at the “state of| nervgs" in this country regarding the dangers of a war between lh(vj‘ {Boviet Union and the West | Mogre, formerly in the Balkan| |section of the Office of War In-| (formation, predicted that Turkey. | would “fight to the death” against | lany Russian attempt to destroy its { In Seattle to visit a brother, Moore said he plans to return to Turkey in the near future. — e | | 1 iHallowe’en Prank . Cuts Porfland Power foot fir tree across a major power! line in Portland last night. It} shut off the electric supply for a large residential area. One radio! station (KGW) was put off the| air, and the Council Crest trolley| line was immobilized ceee —— | ST0CK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Nov, 1.—(@—Clos-| ing quotation of Alaska Juneau| mine stock today is 3'.. American| {Can 82':, Anaconda 38's, Curtiss-| iWnum 104, International Harve: er 30':, Kennecott 60%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 214, U. S. Steel 84'i, Pound $4.03"%;. | Averages today are as follows: r 6197, util- itles <35.72, ‘ here! i -lin Y, farm to rest until he re- turns to New York late today to vote and await the outcome. Truman went on home to Inde- pendence, Mo. He will cast his ballot and follow the returns there, but only until an early bedtime. While the Presidency is the big Issue tomorrow, the Senate battle commands nearly us much atten- tion. The Republicans, who smashed 14 years of Democratic rule of Con- gress in the 1946 ofi-year elections, now hold the upper hand in the Senate by only a 51 to 45 margin. Thirty-two seats are at stake. And in 11 pivotal states the races !are so close that politicians do not rule out the possibility of an un- precedented 48 to 48 tie Much At Stake result would leave the vote on party line issues Such & deciding |up to the Vice President—Califor- { By The Associated Pres i UNI.OADING Iwo 1,0% Au'o workers A ;-la}]l(m “‘en :\rt:‘]ll: toppl‘:;s; 120- | (Continued on Page Three) - - AMERICAN IS BLUDGEONED TO DEATH IN VIENNA (By The Associated Press) In Vienna, officials said four Russian soldiers bludgeoned to death Irving Ross. American otfi- cial of the -Economic Cooperation Administration. Ross was killed the Russian zone of Vienna, ! where he went to visit an Austrian girl. The, Russians kept the girl in- . Sales today were 1220000 shares.|communicado. + An Austrian police official said the slaying was “the most brutal I have ever seen.” \