The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 2, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY A VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,032 “ALL THE NEWS ASKA EMPIRE ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS e —— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS HEAVY VOTE IS BEING CAST IN NATION Plane Seen Flyi Alaska Not U.S. DEER HUNTER AT KETCHIKAN IS MISSING 12-Man Posse Searching for Eberhardt Wilde- Lost Since Sunday KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 2.— ng Over Russian But Out on Mi;sion‘ FAIRBANKS, Nov. 2.—(®—Have Russian planes been flying over the western tip of Alaska? Not that the Alaskan Air Command | knows about. | The Air Command issued a | matter-of-1act explanation today of |report that a four-engine plane iwnh red painted wing tips and tail had been seen last August over Alakanuk, 150 miles southeast of Nome. | That kind of a paint job is on most American military aircraft in Alaska, including B-29's which fre- | |quently fly the Bering Sea coast ion training missions. i S . | The reasons is easier spotting 7 = {in case of a crash. it BOOKSHOP IN RUINS—_A vomb-destroy. | An Alakanuk merchant, John T.| the portable stall and office of a dealer who | Emel, was quoted in Seattle as say- | !ing a red-tipped plane resembling ed building in the U. S. sector of Berlin shelters buys and sells bocks. | tle m'dwestern town where he start | township” voting precincts | Election af A Glance (By The Associated Press) Presideacy—Sought by Republi- | can. Thomas E. Dewey, Democratic | incumbent Harry S. Truman in a field of nine cther candidates. ; Senate—95 candidates compet- ing for 32 seats, with GOP's present majority in the balance. Present lineup: 51 Republicans, 45 Deémo- ‘CI‘CI(S. i House—432 places to be filled, 962 | candidates. Present lineup: 248 ST, | (By The Associated Press) Republicans, 187 Democrats, two| 54 thinor parties. | Good voting weather encouraged Governorships— 32 contests; lW.:m::zh:::mmd::cmlg b:rl"llm;t 3 |candidates. Present lineup: 24 Re- | pociaon Y ot for a | publicans, 24 Democrats resident and % new Congress. Smiling at friends and neighbors, * Total potential voters Heavy forenoon voting was re- the President walked into the BIU€|q1q and over)—95,000,000. ported from many industrial cities. in the| petimated Registration And good weather helps bring Memorial Hall gymnasium with Mrs. | 599 990, out a big farm vote. Truman and his daughter, Margaret| pgimated vote—Over For the country as a whole, it to cast his ballot. Voting precincts—Over 135,000, | " ay LT With mild temperatures. “How does it lcok to you?" a re- | "7 | There was some rain’in the cen- porter asked as the President leit !tral valleys, the Northern Rockies, his voting booth, !and the State of Washington. Truman Voles | It Straight And Smiles Wife, Daughter Also Cast| Ballots-President Sees Only Victory By ERNEET_B—, VACCARO INDEPENDENCE, Mo, Nov, 2. President Truman voted the straight Democratic ticket today in the lit- EXPECTED 50 MILLION WILL CAST BALLOTS Weather G'o~o;i in Indus- trial Cenfers, Also Farm - Districts~First Returns ed on-the road to the White House. (21 years Over 66,-! 51,000,000. | “I can't see anything but victory,” P—A 12-man posse left Ketchikan |, 'p_sg g circled over his village at daylight today to resume a search | He said two villagers for Eberhardt Wilde, who has been i AUSUSt missing on a deer hunt since Sun- day. The sawamill worker and logger was last seen atop Deer Mountain in mid-afternoon Sunday by other hunters. Nineteen searchers combed the area for the missing man yesterday without finding a trace of him. Fresh snow hampered the search. Residents of the town's outskirts reported hearing three shots at 11 pm. Sunday. Friends think it may have been a distress signal. They think he may have been injured in a fall. GUNPLAY REPORTED AT MINES Communists Fight with Government Forces in French Fields (By The Associated Press) Communist-led coal miners fought with government forces clearing struck mines in north- ern France. Gunplay was report- ed. Five police and a number of strikers were wounded by shots and grenades 20 miles southeast of Lillee. The government said sa- boteurs derailed two miners’ trains near Lens. A back-to-work move- ment was on. Th French regime said the movement would break the strike in this, its fifth, week. Communist union leaders called a 2-hour general strike in the Valenciennes -regior, but it was only partly successful. Dock work- ers walked out at Bordeau and seamen of 58 ships struck at Mar- seille, all at Communist orders. Beamen struck also at Sete, a Mediterranean port. The Washington| Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON {Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— Keeping - the Record Straight Department— The other day, in Oklahoma, P. Nelson | Deranian, counsel for the Senate Election subcommittee, let loose a blast against ex-Governor Bob Kerr, running as a Democrat for Senator, on the ground that he spent too much money in his pri-| mary. That Bob Kerr spent a fistful of money is probably cor- rect. However, to keep the record straight, let's look at some things on the other side of the picture. First, millionaire oilman Ed Moore, Republican, whose place Kerr is seeking, spent a young for- tune getting elected in 1942. Sec- ond, Mr. Deranian, together with Senator Jenner of Indiana, chair- | man of the Election Subcommittee, are not in a strong position to criticize others. Deranian, by a (Continued on Page Four) strange quirk, also reported seeing a red star on Walcfi Tfiesé flraws Ibffiiel | the fuselage, giving rise to the lrellef the plane was Russian. The Public Information office| of the 5001st Wing at Ladd Field | here denied any knowledge of the; incident, although Emel was saidi to have notified Army authorities. | Wing officers said a report of STANDINGIN IndicationHowPresidential = LINE, WASH. | Vofe Is Swinging infiNaIionl SIATEPOlle he replied. “What do you think?" He said he had voted the party, RECORD V | A vote going over 50,000,000 in | this 1st Presidential election would {be a record. The biggest vote in from “top to bottom” as he had! | the past was 49,820312 in 1940. 1t askea voters all over the country to! |fell nearly 2,000,000 under that do. i {four years ago when many Ameri- cans His press secretary, Charles S were overseas at war, Ross, said Mr. Truman planned to { The usual race among small pre- retire early tonight and “learn the| § A I icincts to be the first to report outcome” tomorrow morning i !their vote was won this time by th “Think I'll go to bed,” the Presi- Hart's Location, N. H. \dent went on. “You won't know any-| i First Trickling Returns that kind would have been given widest circulation in intelligence reports to all Alaska bases. - e - SOLDIER IS - KILLED AT ANCHORAGE Negro Is Fatally Shof by Woman When He Tries | | T060 WILL SOONKNOW " HIS FATE | TOKYO, Nov. 2—® -Hideki Tojo, {last of the Axis leaders who plotted {World War TI, will know his fate| {in the next few days. | . The international military tribun- ;al for the Far East announced to-| |day reading of the verdict in the| \war crimes trial of Tojo and 24| !other war leaders will begin Thurs- (By The Associated Press) Want to get a quick idea of how the presidential election may be going? Then keep an eye out for early returns from West Virginia and Maryland. West Virginia has backed presi= dential winners in 14 of the last 16 elections; Maryland in 13 of the last 16. Outside there is New those “border” states York which rode a iluaer only once (1816) in the last|nheavy voting during 16 elections. Three other states—Arizona, New Mexico and Idaho—also are good weather vanes, but their returns will lag because of their time zone location. For the Senate race keep a score- isheet on 11 states. Remember, the | ‘Republicans now have a 51 to 45 jedge. The Democrats need {more seats to tie it up, four seats A3 T to win control. l R | The 11 pivotal states and the | {party seat at stake: | Kentucky (R), Minnesota (R), \Montana (D), Oklahoma (R), West | Virginia (R), Wyoming (R), New | Mexico (D), Tennessee (D), Illin- 1ois (R), Towa (R), Colorado (D). Another test of voting sentiment will show up in the key guberna- fo Housebreak o | ; ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 2.—| The opinion and judgment runs {M—A Fort Richardson negro 'sol-|about 1500 pages, and its reading |dier was shot and killed last night jis expected to take from six to 10 iby Mrs. Richard Herd, about 70, as|days. 1 he tried to break into her home, po- | ilice reported. ‘ ! The woman, alone at the time,: |said an intruder had been about| |the home before and the man was | |breaking in the front door, police EMplovMENT torial races. Recommended b p ANADA,meters: Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, [ | Montana and Ten- |said. ] | She ordered him to stop and then | ] { Washington, The woman’s husband had ob-| | nnnre o tained the gun from a neighbor for| ! three | i |fired, she said. 1 The scldler crawled to the middle {of the street and was found there {by an off-duty policeman. the ?Rain Fails to Deter Voters |~ -Tallying of Results ! to Be Slow | R, | ! (By The Associated Press) | { #Washington state voters swarm- | ed to the polls at a record-break- {ing pace this morning. i From cities across the state came ; I reports of voters standing in line | when the polls opened and of the early: hours | | Officials were wary about pre- icting whether the early rush pre- saged a record general election vm.e| I”r whether it was a response to the | wide scale campaigns to get voters jout early and avold late hour con- ! gestion. Rain in some parts of western thing until tomorrow.” NAVY TANKER IS ADRIFT IN ALASKA GALE Second MisITafi fo Mission Santa Cruz-LST-649 Also Esabled Backers of Democratic President HIs Heavy in Big Industrial izarry s. Truman and Resspiics “ . | candida 5 e | (.emefS—GOP Makmg “l:uund‘l :;:m?t':m: i I:l::fly -:::X‘:. ' Contest in Texas in the first trickling returns. Hart's Location went ! for Dewey i e S and one for Truman. Franklin D. < (By The Associated Press) {Roosevelt carrjed the precinet 6-4 | Voting ‘was heavy aeross | country-~especially in big induss the over Dewey in 1944, | trial centers—in today’s Presiden- Carolina’s Smoky Mountains pap= I'tial election. 1ped in next—seven for Truman and ' . Signs pointed to a possible rec- Zero for Dewey. jord total of more than 50,000,000 VOtes there four yéars ago and | ballots, Roosevelt got eight. { Later today, the “X" marks of | . Wallace Votes | the voters were being compiled in- | .B"’""’ Farm precinct in south- to a few figures. Mostly they were €1 Florida reported four for Tru | too fragmentary to serve as real M&1 and two for States' Rights ! indicators |candidate J. Strom Thurmond. i First of the presidential' candi- | From Texas came reports that dates to get his own ballot into KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 2. wf Republicans were making a contest|the box was Henry A. Wallace. The {—The Navy tanker Mission Santa:of it in that normally overwhelm-' early-rising Progressive party can- Washington failed to deter the voters from turning out to cast their votes for President, Con- gressmen, Governor, and other state and local offices and a long list of state measures. Tallying of the results is ex- {pected to be slowed up after the |sage said. The tug was finally able!fis. President Roosevelt carried the {there would reach 310,000, 8 p. m. polls closing because of {the complicated ballot, the heavy for rudder repairs. vote and a judicial write-in in |King county which will slow-up the |sel Citrus prepared fo leave fromiypofficia) returns from 36 precincts |usual early returns from Seattle Petersburg and the Hemlock from|g.ye pewey 1868, Truman 1,404 and ! Cruz, in difficulty in the Gulf ofiingly Democratic state. The Hous-'didate put his vote in shortly after !Alaska last week when a boiler blew | ton Chronidle’s compilation of in-'8 a.n. (EST) at South Salem, N, 'out, was helplessly adrift today in a|complete returns from 113 of 170 Y. gale, the Coast Guard reported. The ! Harris county precincts gave Presi- Big Vote Baltimore tug Tillamook’s towline broke oflldem Truman 3820, Thomas E.| The early rush at Baltimore Cape Ommaney and the line fouled | Dewey 2939, and J. Strom Thur- brought predictions from election in the tug's propelier, a rad o mes-|mond 1,306. Henry A. Wallace had | cfficials that the total of ballots about county overwhelmingly four years: 25000 more than four years ago. ago. ! Such cities as Columbus, Akron, In Topeka, mcompxe“'{wPhllndalpma, and Newark also re- ported heavy voting, Along with a President, the vot- Dewey carried the €S are picking a Congress. to proceed toward Port Malmeshuryl Meantime, the Coast Guard ves- Kansas, Ketchikan to go to the tanker's aid. ! wallace 17. i Last week, the tanker enroute from voting machines. !way with an oil cargo, was able to| ‘lereep with a Coast Guard cutter es- county by a 3-2 ratio four years' Democrats and Republicans dis- . ‘gulf ports to Anchorage and Skag-h 0. | i And if you're interested ir |her, when he left her alone. She| OTTAWA, Nov. 2—(P—The Sta- ¥ rested in tistics Bureau reported today that | iindustrial employment reached an | iall-time high in Canada in 1947. |The report showed the general in- dex rose to 1879 per cent of the; 1926 average, 2.1 per cent higher, | than the previous mark, set in 1943. {The average wage was $36.15 a week. | FUR SEAL | was hospitalized today for shock. WARWAS 0 AYEARSAGO (By The Associated Press) There was one victory that defi- nitely wasn't in the bag when the United States chose a president the {last time. That was the Allied vic- wet vs. dry question, there is a major fight on in Kansas to re- peal the state’s 68-year-old prohibi- tion statute. THOMAS SAYS ITIS DEWEY i Y. PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 2. —Norman Thomas, Socialist candi- NAVY MALL SHIP PULLED ~ FROM REEF, VICTORIA, B. C.. Nov. 2.—A— The U. S. Navy tug Mahopac was wreed from a B. C. coast reef south of Ocean Falls shortly before noon today, it was reported by offi- cials of Pacific Salvage Co. Ltd, iattle from the last said the 327- cort into the safety of waters near Cape Spencer. The Tillamook was headed for Seattle with its tow. In another mishap, the LCT-649, w'th starboard engine disabled, was attempting to reach - shelter from 100 miles southwest of Dixon En- trance, the Coast Guard said. It was proceeding about four knots an hour. The Cutter Klamath, enroute to Seattle, was expected to arrive at its side late tomorrow afternoon. A radio message received at Se- | | foot ship, with a crew of 56 men, was believed to be in no danger. Formerly used ty the Army in an |puted up to thg end the complexion What the country-wide heavy“’r the Senate. vote meant was in dispute. ! It now has 51 Republicans and Democrats have contended a big| 45 Democrats. Republicans said vote would elect Truman they will hold control. Democrats Herbert Brownell, Jr., Dewey's|rePlied they will take over. campaign manager, said in New| BAITING upsets, the House would York that it looked like a record |5tay Republican. breaking vote and an overwhelm-| The tWo major candidates wound ing victory for Dewey and Gov,|UP their campaign drives in much Earl Warren, his Vice Presidential | 1€ ame language they used at running mate. ;the start last September. Both Brownell also said the Republi-|¥ere¢ on national radio hookups cans were counting on keeping |25t Pight. control of the Senate by at least| Vote, Candidates Urge the present margin of six seats. | But Truman broke away from The forenoon hours passed wllh-i"“" tradition that election eve out any reported disorder. But a|SPecches are confined to appeals to claim of ballot-box stuffing was! Bt Out and vote. He said at In- itory in World War II. whose tug Salvage King, took part made in Kentucky. Deputy Sher- dependence, Mo., that to continue On election day four years ago, fighting on the outskirts of Metz. The battle of the Bulge was still several weeks away. The Russian iarmy was - threatening Budapest, after a victory on the Danube. In the Pacific, ‘American planes |rocked Manila in the drive to re- capture the Philippines. The fight- ing for Leyte island was still on, and so was the campaign in Italy. The United Nations was some- thing that would come in that far- off post-war world. ‘War or no war, the United States held an election. And it's doing so again today. 'MARKETS CLOSED . ON ELECTION DAY NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—(M—Major security and commodity markets in the United States were closed the American Third Army wasg MIGRATION 15 STUDIED SEATTLE, Nov. 2—(P—Migration of the Alaska fur seals of the Pa- cific, will be studied "by a party of scientists of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, who sailed from Seattle today aboard the mo- . torship Black Douglas. | The vessel, which left the King County dock this afternoon, wlll: cruise to the central Aleutian Is-'| ilands, and then-to San Diego, Calif. | ‘The expedition will be in charge' of Victor B. Scheffer and Carl W. Kenyon, biologists of the Fish and| Wildlife Service. Specimens will be taken to determine the content of | the stomachs of seals in southern| waters. The Black Douglas will go| north by way of the Alaska Inside ‘ Passage and distribute supplies to stations of the Fish and Wildlife Service. ’ i l 'Alnska graves registration program, it was trasferred recently to the San Prancisco port of embarkation and was enroute to Shemya, in the Aleutians, with a cargo from San i Francisco. CHECK FORGERS | " PLEAD GUILTY | IN FAIRBANKS SEATTLE, Nov. 2.—@—Six per-| FREIGHI NORIH sons pleaded guilty in F’edcrnll Court yesterday to forging gov-| (By The Associated Press) I. ANCHORAGE, Nov. 2—(®—|ernment checks. They included. A military court in Communist;e James Wooten, president of AlaskaJames Love Dean, 36, of Seattle|Rumania sentenced 12 persons to|e Airlines, said today his company amd Anchorage, who admitted forg- | prison at hard labor for from 15|e had carried a record 5,000,000(ing an endorser's name on a gov-|years to life. They were accused|® pounds of freight during the past ernment check taken from a sea of plotting with American and e operating year. eaptain at Anchorage. British representatives to overthrow! e He attributed the high volume of — eee — ‘the government. Eleven were said | ® business to the two-month-old ito have confessed yesterday . West Coast maritime strike which | S“‘MER MOVEMH"S | Premier Hans Hedtoft sald Den-|e has halted most of Alaska's wa(erl‘ All American steamers tied up‘mark must be “prepared to meel]t borne commerge, by coastwide strike. ithe dangers threatening us" should e date for President, predicts that Gov. Dewey will win the election. Thomas said yesterday in a|_The Mahopac went aground on campaign speech that he wished Dall Rock, Seaforth Channel, Sat- Dewey “well for the sakeé of the! Urday while en route to Alaska. United States and for the sake of mankind.” e e ALASKA AIRLINES CARRIES RECORD | in the rescue operations. 1 - RUMANIA GOV, JAILS TWELVE FOR SEDITION come again. He said a @ f John it was D Y- found Neal said a ballot box | with 17 Democratic votes already | lodged in Clintonville precinct No. 3 opened. L R S Y WEATHER REP ORT (U. 8° WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period In Juneau— Maximum, 49; minimum, 39. At Airport— Maximum, 49; minimum, 37. FORECAS (Juneau and Vieinit Cloudy with rain southeasterly winds a T » and s high as 20-30 miles per hour to- night and Wednesda: so warm Wednesday. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today In Juneau since Nov. since July At Airport since Nov. since July 28 96 48.15 31 66 3273 H 1, 1, 1, y. Not inches; inches; inches. inches; inches inches. when | today for the national elections.| The 153-foot motorship is under| Wooten ‘said he believed, his line | Markets in Canada and Europe command of Capt. Clyde I. Dell,'now is the fourth largest cargo were open as usual. and carries a crew of 12 men. carrfer in the nation. Princess Louise, from Vancouver, war scheduled to arrive at 8:45 o'clock. Scandinavian alliance may be need- Has €0 tons of freight for Juneau. ed. ' his administration “is our best in- surance against going back to the dark days of 1932." “I believe, in particular, that i the industrial workers, the farmers jand the small business men of this jcountry can best protect them- I‘selveu against reaction and against {inflation through the Democratic | party.” i Dewey sgruck the “unity” note he i has sounded up and down the land. Said he from New York after a ‘pk-u to “vote regardless of how": Foremost Issue “The foremost issue rising clear and high above all others is wheth- er in this solemn hour the United States of America is going to be e & strong, united nation—a nation o that can meet the challenge of a o | dangerous world.” e ! There are nine other presiden- e tial candidates. But only two e'of them made news. One is Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina; the pther Hi A. Wallace. ; g Civil Rights Votes The Civil Rights revolt Thur- (Continued on Page Five) | | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Catalcochee ~ precinct i North . Dewey got two