The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 8, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXII., NO. 11,037 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” s JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1948 - s \1BER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Settlement Coast Strike Claimed To Be Near Ihls Is How Dewey Received 'You Lose’ News Warrens Can Still Smile Gov. Earl Warren, defeated Repu bers of his family at breakfast in blican Vi a San Francisco hotel. NO CLUES TO LOST PLANES PAC. COAST AIR SEARCH polices win Be haped Search by Over- 40 Crafl Fruitless-Faint Signals | Followed-Radio Silence SEATTLE, Nov. 8.—(#—Radio si- lence and the absence of any ground clues brought dwindling hopes today | for the safety of 38 persons aboard | Alaska Airlines plane which was re- | Thomas E. Dewey that he has no the ported missing between Cape Spen- plans to step down as titular GOP three planes missing along North Pacific seaboard. Discouraging reports came in yes- PLANES ARE BASED HERE Coast Guard, A Army Join in| ice-Presidential candidate pours coffe for some smiling mem- And the Governor can still smile, to right: Dorothy, Nina, Warren, Mrs. Warren and Virginin. » erepho(o‘ INCOME TAX | CUT BILL IS (OMING UP Expeded—fiuman will Urge Revision of Meas- ure Pass_ed by GOP WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—P— Rep. Eberharter (D-Pa.) said today he looks for President Truman to urge a revision of the 1948 income tax cut. The idea, said Eberharter, would |be to pass more of the savin3s along to low income groups hy yupper brackets. framing House ways and means i { Truman will revive his excess prof- its tax proposal advisers are known to take a dim view of such a move because of its possible effect on busin: There has teen considerable spee- | ulation that before Mr. Truman | x5 reaches any definite decision on .husincs.s taxes he may renew his! lplea to ind try to lower prices H S(RAMB[E STARTS 57 - | REPUBLICAN PARTY. too. Left Lout an excess profits tax dmmg his campaign. But he took several husky swipes at the income tax cut bill which the 80th Congress wrote into law over his veto. Hg called it a “rich man’s” bill. Eberharter did not say what sort' of revisions he thinks Mr. Truman ‘has .n mind. But in his own tax re-, duction proposal early this year,} {the President suggested that each irerson be allowed a $40 “cost of liv- ing” tax cut—a plan that would for Minority in Congress Looking Toward 1952 WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—P—A scramble for Republican party lead- | boosting the levies for those in the | Eberharter, a member of the tax- committee, also predicted that Mr., However, tome of the President’s| Search for Missing DC'3-14 Aboard eship — with Harold E. Stassen Jamong those taking part—apparent- il Six Coast Guard and Army planes |ly "is in the making as an after- are using the Juneau Airport as math of last Tuesday’s election. make the percentage saving big for ‘low-income people but tiny for those in the high brackets. EXCESS PROFITS TAX search ‘headquarters for the Pacific cer and Annette Island on Novem- ber 4. Comdr. William H. Snyder Gov.| The President estimated the cost lof his plan at $3,200,000,000. He proposed that amount be made up, defeat by an excess profits tax. In any event, the White House Despite an assertion by head, his second straight for the presidency may leave him terday from 19 search planes seeking |of the Coast Guard Air Station at |little to say about future Republi-/bas sent word around to the various nine crewmen of a U. S. Navy pa- trol bomber that vanished Thursday | oyer Vancouver Island, off the Brit- ish Columbia coast. Prospects had seemed brightest | of finding at least some of these | men alive. Weak radio signals pick- | ed up in the past two days were | traced to the west side of the big island. Port Angeles and Comdr. Robert Shunk of the Annette Island Air | Base are directing the air search. | | John Bowan of the CAA is ground co-ordinator for the search. | The planes left the field at ’). o'clock this morning and were | searching the shore line of Admir- alty Island. Because of limited nclbmty none of the planes were | can policies. { Government departments that they These policies largely will be shap—f;’;{: h"‘: d“’ !”°"'-l"“d with “a hard ed by the Republican minority inl B\e:igetu Igflecrgrwinmm asai. Spwreas ; : ltold reporters about it after a talk There such familiar figures asiwith Mr. Truman last Saturday. He Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, of |saiq he and the President went over {Michigan, Senator Robert A. Taft|fung requests for his departments of Ohio, Senator Kenneth Wherry g agencies, and in most cases {of Nebraska, House Speaker Joseph |qecided to hold the amounts below | But all search missions were fruit- |able to search above 1800 feet. The | W- Martin, Jr, of Massachusetts and | y,oce Gongress voted for this year. less and listening posts said there‘ were no more faint calls. i DIM SIGNALS The Coast Guard cutter Winona cruised up and down Tahsis Inlet, from which the signals appeared to | (Continued on Page Two) The Washington| Merry - Go- Round' Bv DREW PEARSON (Gopyright, 1948, by The Bell Exndicate, | ASHINGTON—On November | 9, an interesting case comes up in the U. S. Court of the District | of Columbia. The case is U. 8. vs. American Bosch and involves a deal whereby the Dulles law firm drew up an agreement hiding the American | Bosch Factory in Springfield, Mass. | under Swedish ownership shortly before the war. This concealed its true Nazi ownership in order to avoid seizure by the U. S. Gov- ernment. The case is loaded with dyna- mite, and three U. 8. Judges so far have shied away as if it was going to explode in their hands. Judge Edward Tamm refused to hear the case because, as former FBI assistant director, he had probed American Bosch. Timorous Judge Matt McGuire refused to hear the case for reasons best known to; himself. His remark, however was significant. “Father, Son and Holy Ghost couldn't get me to hear this case,” remarked Judge McGuire. Presiding Judge Bolitha Laws also declined to sit, on the ground that he had prosecuted American Bosch in World War I for the same thing. “I know them too well,” he said, “and would be inclined to consider (Continued on Page Four) iOn yesterday's flights all mountain planes reported back to the field at noon because of weather conditions. | tops were obscured by a heavy-fog. Comdr. Snyder said today that | there is a possibility that the plane might have gone into the water, | but it is more possible that it hit a mountain peak. The non-sched< uled airlines plane carried 14 pas- sengers. Snyder said that the plancs will stay here until the search is { completed. The search is confined {to the DC-3 and the planes will | search between Cape Spencer and | | Annette Island. Army planes in the search are a IE 17, a PBY5Z and a DC-3. Comdr. Snyder is piloting a PBY5A, Comdr. 1 |Shunk a JRF and Lt. Comdr. Mc- | Mullan from the Coast Guard base | {at San Francisco is flying a B-17. RESIGNATION OF JAPANESE CABINET, VIORKERS' DEMAND TOKYO, Nov. 8—(P—An esti-}| | mated, 3,000 government workers‘ weday demanded the immediate re- | signation of the cabinet. i The union men accused the cab- inet of thinking of only party benefits. The government workers demand- ed a wage of 7,300 yen a month. Twenty workers began a sitdown protest on the steps of the Pre-v mier’s residence. - COAL INVESTIGATION T. R. Jolley, mining engineer in charge of a coal investigation for the Bureau of Mines, has recessed his work in the Matanuska Valley, and will spend a short time look-, ing over Southeast Alaska coal deposits. He arrived yesterday! from Anchorage. ] ' Inow for the Republican presldenuall | win of Connecticut, Leverett Salton- i lows: ‘Typhoon "Rifa" s ' Floor Leader Charles A. Halleck, of | Indiana, will be in the saddle. But none of these is a standout ‘Webb did not say which agencies were involved, but he did make clear that the military services were not among them. Largely because nomination in distant 1952. jof stepped-up defense planning, Instead, some of the Reputlicanthere haye been predictions that | politicians who have caught their {next year's budget may run some; wind after the surprise drubbing |$3,000,000,000 above the $42000,- A given them by the Democrats are 000000 outlay projected for the pres- : beginning to look outside the formal jent government year ending next: congressional leadership. June 30 1 Those catching their eye include men like Stassen, Senators Irving M. Ives of New York, William Know- land of California, Raymond Bald- | FOREST FIRE | SPREADS IN CALIF. AREA acuation Ordered of All Residents from Silv- | erado Canyon L SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 8.—(® Evacuation of all residents from Silverago Canyon, an area of some stall and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., of‘ Mascachusetts. and Homer Fergu- son of Michigan. Rep. Clarence Brown of Ohio is mentioned among | House members. POPULAR VOTE WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.— i turns from 135,460 vonng plnoas out of 141,046 in the nation showed today the vote for President as fol- |Ev 1 Truman H Dewey Wallace Thurmond Total 23,671,479 21,544,105 1,116,390 1,006,363 47,338,337 e eee jordered today as the Orange County | brush fire spread wildly, fanned by 50-mile an hour winds.’ Four buses and several large trucks were sent from El Toro ma- rine base to remove persons from the area. The State Division of Forestry, reporting the situation as the “most| serious yet,” said hundreds of pro- fessional and volunteer firehghms were on the lines. Last week, more than 28,000 acres{ Reporled Passing | Info China Sea MANILA, Nov. 8. —(®—Pacific ty- {phoon “Rita” after a feint toW-|o¢ brush and grazing lands were! ard the Northern Philippines, head- ed westward north of Luzon and is expected to pass into the China Sea tomorrow. —————— Winds up to 70 miles an hour| G. W. Ragsdale of Cordova were reported at its center. | staying at the Gastineau Hotel. |burned over in a two-day fire. Only | three cabins were lost. There were; no deaths. | is Governor Thoma: Roosevelt Hotel, and his mother, New York Cit, Dewey and membe Mrs. George Dewey. Left to right are: Thomas E. 16; ® Wirephoto. Congratulate Barkley Friends and cld neighbors arrive Ky., to congratulate Serator Alben W. (third from left) Grandchildren Dcrothy Ann, resuits. of the callers, Barkley at the Barkley home in Paducah, Barkley over the election pesed for a picture with some 5, and Alben, III, 4, had to gel into the picture, (® Wire, pholo Mamed in Prisen (eremony | stock ovoraTioNs | NEW YORK, Nov. 8. Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3. American Can 80%, Anaconda 35, Curtis: Wright 9%, International Harvest- 500 iarge homes and estates, wasier 28%, Kennecott 56, New York ;. 5 19-hour Central 14%, Northern Pacific 18, U. 8. Steel 76, Pound $4.03':. Sales toaay were 1,130,000 shares. Averages today are as follow: industrials 178.19, rails 56.56, util- jities 33.78. —————— - — \FOG CRIPPLES LIFT AT BERLIN (By Associated Press) Fog crippled the airlift to block- aded Berlin for 15 hours. A Dan- \ish newspaper reported a Russian military plape had crashed in northern Greenland. ' On Friday, Dies in Electric (hairEarIy Teday for Murder BELLEFONTE, Pa., Nov. | David P. Taranow, 23-year-old con- victed slayer who was married in a prison ceremony last Friday, died in the electric chair early today. Taranow was driven to the Central Prison here last night after spend- honeymoon holding ,hands with his bride—auburn-hair- 'ed Stella Nbto of Brooklyn, N. Y. in the warden’s office at Broad- meadows Prison, Media, Pa., where they were married. The ceremony was performed by {a prison guard who is also justice !of the peace. Present were Tara- | now's parents and his n‘ne-months- old daughter, child of the girl he married Taranow, a New Yorker, was sen- tenced to die in the electric chair for the holdup-slaving of Francis L. Devin, July 9, 1947. A three-judge court said the slaying was “coldly planned” and “coldly exzecuted” by Taranow, who had been picked up by Devon as a hitchhiker, amily listen to election return Mrs. Dewey; | WASHINGTON, i | campbell, 8—P—" - $40,000 in fines, or both STRIKERS . EMPLOYERS MAKE MOVE lAgree fo Formula for Ne- gotiations Which May " Ends Walkout SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8.--{#— A formula for reopening negotia- tions held promise today of quick settlement in the 67-day West Coast maritime strike. Resumption of negotiatione fawaits the arrival of national CIC representatives from Washington. Employers and strikers agreed last night on a formula which they said they hoped not only would end the strike but would insure water- front peace in the future. The jagreement called for the national CIO to participate. The national CIO and the San | Francisco Employers Councli would underwrite any accord negotiators might reach the agreement said, and act as a check on future disputes | that might threaten strikes or lock- ‘outs. The CIO would in effect police its local unions and the Council its waterfront-employer members. (Tha Council is a general organization covering all lines of business here, not just shipping firms.) Two-Way Peace Plan Leaders of the CIO longshore- jmen, CIO marine cooks and stew- 'nrds and waterfront employers all ~approved and .Jinitialed the two- !way peace plan last night. Tlree jother unions are involved in the \strike but are not likely to present _Obstacles -to a epastwise return to work. Negotiators must reach their own Isettlement of the present strike; :the agreement provides only a for- imula for resuming the negotiations. {But it does add that if no settle- Imenz is reached in 10 days, union Nov. 8. (P— |members must vote on the =m- |Rep. 3. Parnell Thomas (R-NJ), {ployers' last offer. | chairman of the House Un-Ameri- New Agreement can Activities Committee, was in-; A public statement by the unions dicted today on charges of conspit- noted that shipowners were drep- ing to pad the payroll of his con- Ping their previous insistence thta | gressional office. union leaders sign non-Communism | His former secretary, Miss Helen!i?‘“""’ under the Taft-Hartley was charged jointly wit Wi by & Sedetal :l_n“; Jur&' ok The new agreement specifies that The jury has been investigating in rut‘.lurf dlispuus the employer!fl published chaiges of payroll irreg- |°°““° will not give its suppory | ularities in Thomas' office. He was ('O &Y Smployer. unioss. g e called last week to testify but aa-}(’)’btif;e d“cg““:"c';l d:;;:g:f:f g:_::‘ ‘; |clined to do s 25 { S “:,m:" v jaction “which may result in a strike | The indictment accused Thomas O o g DRy, She S jand Miss Campbell of conspiri 10 e ey s MIDRE W e b PIrINg f1ocal unions unless they likewise had to maintain fictitious employees m,g,un due notice of—and obtained | Thomas' House office so the salar- ICIO avvroval of—any union “inten~ ies paid to these persons could beluon to smke » | routed into Thomas' bankbook. in their suite at the John, 13; Gov. Dewey INDICT PARNELL THOMAS, Grand Jury Ads on Charge; of Conspiring fo Pad His PayroII 08 George Morris Fay, U. S, Dlfi~ trict Attorney, said the Court was| notified that Thomas will uppenr' Tuesday of next week for uumxn- ment Fay said the trial, under nx)rmnl | The indictment formally Lhnrged Thomas and Miss Campbell with a | | conspiracy “to defraud the Unn,ed’ States of its money and property.” | At his Allendale, N. J. home, | Thomas said “I have nothing to ;say at all at this moment.” He b |said he might have a statement { later. | The committee headed by Thom- 1as was In the spotlight throughout L the year in its investigations into Communist and subversive activ- ities during and since the war, TOKYO, Nov. 8—#—The Army | Re-clected Tuesday isaid tonight it has cancelled some | Thomas was re-elected last Tues- jpassenger sailings from Japan and dayv However, he will lose his|Okinawa to speed the evacuation of chairmanship when Democrats take |American dependents from Com- control of Congress in January. !munist threatened China. The conspiracy was alleged to| Col. Harold Eastwood, allied head- have run from Jan, 1, 1940 to Jan. (quarters’ transportation officer, said | 30, {945 military personnel due for leave in Miss Campbell was accused only |the Uniteq States or permanent of the alleged conspiracy. Thomas |return there would have to wait was charged with conspiracy and!while the movement from China is also with a series of overt acts in|being handled. the filing of allegedly false claims. ; PPt Trial In January Court oificials said that convic- tion on all charges against Thomas | a t would carry a possible maximum sentence of 32 years in prison, I S p R A ' s E D procedures, could not take pluce K songa before January. i TOKYO, Nov. 8P Joseph B. The indictment charges Thomas | Keenan, chief prosecutor at the with 34 “overt acts,” that is specific,War Crimes Trial of Japanese lead- instances of wrongdoing \ers, told Japanese newsmen today Bl |that President Truman was pleased \with the way General MacArthur CHICAGO — A research scien- had handled the occupation. tist believes America's rate of Keenan, just back from the Unit- atomgic bomb production threatens ed Statés and a visit with the Pres- to exhaust this country’s entire ident, said Mr. Truman bad ex- uranium reserves in 30 years. pressed a desire to meet MacArthur.