The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 12, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXII, NO. 11,041 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1948 N’ "MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ———————— PRICE TEN CENTS FORMER JAP WARLORDS ARE CONVICTED REDS ARE PREPARING FOR WAR American Elegate Says Doctor, Pslol in {Emergency Flight Aids Burned Woman SITKA, Alaska, Nov. 12—(P—A doctor’s mercy flight against heavy weather brought a critically burn- There Can Be No Dis- ! armament at Present ;ed woman from her isolated home to a hospital here today. (By The Associa(ed Press) | Western delegation sources at the, "np.o pichard Robinson, 21, was reported near death in Mt. Edge- United Nations said Russia hss‘ started another “propaganda pence‘cumbe Hospital. She was burned when a stove exploded'in her cabin offensive” around the world. Plain-spoken Frederick H. O5-lg; patterson Bay, 60 miles north- born accused Russia before the U.gest of here. N. Political Committee of prepar-| p,. Philip A. Moore and James ing tor war. The American dele- peipnart, Alaska Coastal Airlines gate sald there can be no disarm- ot made the flight in a small ament until Russia stops threaten- | | plane in weather which had gound- ing the world with Communist 8g-|eq planes for two days in South- | guession. | east Alaska. They were nearly forced BREMERTON, Wash.,, Nov. 12— (P—A Naval attack cargo ship was' reported to have sailed from the| naval ammunition depot near here | two days ago with a large cargo of. small arms ammunition for China. The Bremerton Sun and the Se-| attle Post-Intelligencer both report-‘ ed the sailing. The newspapers said the shipment was reportedly bound‘ for China. Naval sources refused to. comment, ! The newspapers said loading into naval attack transports at the naval | depot at nearby Bangor have been carried on the last eight days on a; two-zhift basis with 150 men em-| Osborn said U. S. representatives pack twice. Dr. Moore gave first in Russia noted some improve- aiq treatment at the scene before ment after the war, but this has mrs Robinson was flown out. production is going into war pro- duction.” He said the “shrill government propaganda” is being used to prepare the Russians for war. There is evidence, he went, (AMP GUARDS ARE “a warped, twisted view of con-‘ HANGED l" MUNI(H ditions outside the Soviet' union.” Osborn, a specialist on atomic | questions, accused Russia specifi- | Convicted of Exterminating governments, forcefully annexing territory, obstructing peace tremies,: rejecting atomic control and using 28 vetoes in the U. N. Security TOI"Ufe MethOdS Council. A Polish delegate replied ! charge that the U. S. is preparing |Fifteen former guards at the Mau- for aggression. thausen concentration camp were e 1L v, R | hanged today for slaying more than 4,600 wartime inmates, including 47 A R M s 0 R British and A, erican airmen. 'American war crimes court of ex- ( H I N A A R E .ing, beating, trampling, drowning, suffocatmn and m]ecuom i l Round-the-World Avtatrix Plans o Take Air To- day for Anchorage slackened ‘“because so much Soviet [FORMER GERMAN | on, that some Russian leaders hold : cally of destroying representative | Inmates by Various by repeating the ramiliar Russiunf They had been convicted by an ‘terminating inmates by various COLD BAY, Alaska, Nov. 12— Direct Charge Against Russia Hurled by Secrefary of State MUNICH, Germany, Nov, 12.—#— | methods, including shooting, hang- | I ployed. The cargo of the first ship was listed at 1,800 tons of .30 and 45 caliber ammunition. The Post- Intelligencer also quoted its Wash-. ington Bureau as saying that the cons'gnment was known to include 42 P-47 fighter planes. Both Chinese and American sources in Washington have report- | ed that the first major shipment of I guns and ammunition to m:u the Communist sweep; in Manchuria was nearly ready for departure. The report has not been confirmed officially. ——— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—(®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau ' mine stock today is 2%, American —After ‘completing her flight up the Aleutian Island chain with a 700- |mile hop from Adak to this “end- of-the-line” community, a British round-the-world aviatrix planned today to continue to Anchorage. Mrs, Richard Morrow-Tait and navigator, Michael Townsend, ar- rived here in their single-engined plane shortly after 5 p.m., Pacific |standard time yesterday. They plan to fly across Canada and eventually across the Atlantic back to England. The estimated departure time for Anchorage's Merrill Field was a.m. today, Bering time (10 am. Anchorage time). The nekt sched- {uled stop would be Whitehorse, ¥ T The second-hand former R.AF. Can 80%, Anacorida 33%, Curtiss-|plan. was accompanied here from Wright 7%, International Harvest- lAdak, by a 10th Rescue Squadron er 267%, Kennecott 53%, New Yorklg_l-, Y Central 13%, Northern Pacific 17%,[ 1t was Mrs. Morrow-Tait's 19tk U. S. Steel 12%, Pound $4.03%.Istof on ner hazardous 86-day trip Sales today were 1,110,000 shares.|from Britain. Averages today are as follows:| She said she hoped to reach Mon- industrials 173.93, rails 53.90, util-(trea] for her Noy. 22 birthday cele- ities 32.79. bration, Ml’st.hMorrov‘J-'fai: anld To\;ms;ng_ The W ashing oD | s b s Merry - Go- Round | journey was from Japan to Shemya, Bv DREW PEARS()N at the end of the Aleutians, where they landed with only a half hour’s (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc. WAS' fuel supply. . Mrs. Morrow-Tait said she is fi- HINGTON— Memo to Con-| J. Parnell Thomas, nancing the flight herself “to see the world and see how the other Chairman of the Un-American Activities Committee: half lives.” She' descrited the military escort Although this ‘column first ex~ posed your un-American activity planes from Japan and along the in taking salary kickbacks trom | Aleutians as “very comforting.” IR < AL (Continued on Page Four) ' IN ON ACA Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carlson of | Sitka came in yesterday on Alaska Coastal at the Baranof Hotel. ! | PARIS, Nu\'. 12 —IP— Secretary of State George C. Marsnall de- clared today the Russians are carrying on' a propaganda peace | offensive hoping to weaken the position of the United States. Marshall told a news conierence 1 Russian propaganda in the United Nations Assembly has not been suc- cessful. He said the great majority (of nations in theé U. N. have lined | up solidly in their opinions on the world situation. X The Secretary said the Moscow i reaction to published suggestions {that Prime Minister Stalin and President Truman confer on world | problems is one of the propaganda' peace efforts. Such peace elforts are very dang- erous because everyone sincerely | lwam; peace, but not everyone - wants mere propaganda for peace,, fMarshall said. | { We (the United States) are rep- | resented as being war mongers, but | | what we want is peace, he said.! Marshall said the propaganda | peace offensive was designed pri- marily to exploit the world’s desire for oeace iy Air Lift to Alaska Shows 1 i lof the Hawaii ‘plovers council will attempt to in-| MARITIME CHIEFS IN CONFERENCE [May Settle Iss—ues Which Started Coast Walkout on September 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12.—#— Maritime employers and laborers today begin a schedule of daily ne- gotiation sessions which both sides expect to end the West Coast's long waterfront strike. A/ joint announcement after yes- terday's preliminary conference said morning, afteroon and night ses- sions will be held if necessary to settle the issues which started the strike September 2. Chief negotiator for the employ- ers is Dwight C. Steele, President Employers’ Council. He replaces Frank P. Foisie, Presi- dent of the Waterfront Employers’ Association, and a longtime foe of | CIO longshore chief Harry Bridges. Bridges remains the spokesman for| his union, but national CIO officials will participate in the meetings 1 underwrite any settlement reauhed Similarly, the San Francisco em-| Gen. Omar Bradley ington, D. are (left to right) Malcolm Muir, board, Chase Natonal Bank; Gen. Ohio Railroad; Arthur Hay United Mine Workers. (P sure against any employer-caused ! work stoppage in the future The strike involves four marit mev unions besides the longshoremen. . Big Increase SEATTLE, Nov. 12.—{#--Despite rumors of an early settlement to ! the lengthy Pacific Coast maritime ! strike, tonnage hauled by air lines to Alaska still is increasing daily, ' spokesman said today. { Alaska Airlines has called in two additional DC-4 transports to help handle the heavy loads of food and |supplies being flown to Anchorage | and other cities in the Territory. Pacific Northern Airlines omcxalsf said volume of cargo, especially foods, is increasing steadily. The firm has pressed all available air- | 'craft into the emergency air lift. l Pan American World Airways of- | 1 ficials reported heavy demands for i cargo space on all of the firm’s| northbound flights R R. BARGE IS HUNG UP IN |(ROSS SOUND SEATTLE, Nov. 12.—1M~An Al- aska Railroad barge which ran around on the Territory’s south-! eastern coast Monday apparently is hung up “forward and amid- ships” on an underwater pinnacle, the Coast Guard says. I A message from the Coast Gunrd! Cutter Hemiock said a new at- | tempf was made to free the bargey at high ‘tide. Making the effort was. the Seattle tug Christine Foss, | which was towing the barge when is was swept ashore. The Hemlock’s message said the weather was “making up from the southwest,” forcing abandonment of the job for the day. The crew of the barge was removed shortly after the grounding of the cratt.! MEMORIAL TO FDR BE UNVEILED TODAY, WESTMINSTER ABBEY LONDON, Nov. 12—(®—The sec- ond memorial to the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated this year in London, will be unveiled in Westminster Abbey today. The specially designed plaque is a more modest symbol of remem- crance than the heroic statue un- veiled in Grosvenor Square last April by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. It will, however, te an unusually significant memorial in that the late president will be the first head of a foreign state ever 'so honored in Westminster Abbey. Furthermore, )the plaque will occupy the last re- maining niche in the Abbey. The Roosevelt niche is above Lhe | Airlines and are guests{roll of honor of civilian casualties' pol in the last war, 'PORT ALEXANDER The longshoremen seek a wage boost of 15 cents to $1.82 an hour, uml ‘other Lencms > — BIG TALK - UNDERWAY, KEY WEST IS HIT BY STORM; DOCK WRECKED' A letter from Mayor George G. Laing of Port Alexander to Frank | | A. Metcalf, Territorial Highway | Engineer, describes the damage in one of the worst storms that any one can remember.” He commented that work on the seaplne float would have to await complenon of repairs due to the | recent storm. It took out 200 feet of sidewalk jand 125 feet of -cribbing on the, i bulkhead that holds the street in.| Several hundred yards of fill were | washed away., So was the pipeline Itrestle, and water was over the szreet its entire length. Private property loss was heavy: | i f | | {Top Demo Leaders Holding! Conference with Truman By ERNEST B. VACCARO KEY WEST, Fla, Nov. 12— —Three members of President| Truman’s top Democratic command ' e h letel !interrupted their conferences wit Pio W omiE BOck s comp oiely | the Chief Executive today for a fly- out, the bakery and scow each a| ol itotal loss; meat market washed out | Ing trip to Havana. ; | i—total loss, and several smaller Senator Alten W. Barkley, the | Vice President-elect; Senator J. losses. Howard McGrath, Democratic Na | ticnal Chairman; and Leslie (Cigaretes s Banned, Biifle, director of the Senate Dem- | ocratic Policy Committee, p]nnned (third from left), C., at the Pentagon Building for orientation confercnces on naticnal defense. |be fired and pairiotic burgher: {marshal its poets and singers Army Chief of Staff, talks with Newsweek magazine precident; Wi Bradley; Robert R. Ysung, board Bnllsh (ommonweallh fo Have Great Time on Birth Princess Elizabeth’s Baby FOR EUROPE By RUS‘!ELL LANDSTRO\‘I LONDON, Nov. 12.—(#—Thne birth | of Princess Elizabeth’s baby ex- |pected ths weckend—will be hailed | throughout the British Common- wealth with music, flag waving and a flood of good wishes. In the homeland, city will with city in Scotland, Ulster and Wales. Fittingly Edinburgh from whose name Philip takes his duke- dom, has planned an elaborate cele- | tration. Fireworks will be set off and the skirling of bagpipes will be heard in the picturesque streets. From the peak of the tallest hill in Edinburgh a great red rocket will| VoW its fiery tail will be seen as far away as Glasgow, miles to the west, Wales will parade its soldiers, , and fire salvoes. The Navy, Army and Royal Air Force here and overseas have been crdered to unfurl flags, march in review and fire salutes. In Buckingham Palace all readiness for 'he Isirth * NORTH ATI.ANTIC is in | vie Leaders Attend Defense Conference the first group to arrive in Wash- In the group nthrop Aldrich, chairman of the chairman of the Chesapeake and | Sulzberger, publisher, New York Times, and John L. Lewis, president of the ephoto. GOP MAY BACK ARMS Vandenberg in Favor of Helping Western Eur- By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Nov. w—A new GOP pledge to help friendly na- tions regain their feet defensively raised administration ‘hopes today | for Républican backing of the forth- coming rms-1¢ rope program. In a declaration aimed pointedly at Moscow, Senator Vandenberg of Michigan put his fellow congres-| sional Republicans on record—as nearly as any one man can-—in fav- |or of helping Western Burope to de- | |fend itself The M'chigan Senator, who steps down in January as chairman of the' Senate Foreign Relations Commit. tee, told the Reserye Officers A sociation in Philadelphia last night: “While never neglecting prudent conservation of our own resourc we shall aid other friendly, inds ! pendent nations to stand on their jown feet in defense of their own | ‘Il'etdom Western civilization shall| jsurvive.” i 12. { ment, 1 Chinese Province NANKING, Nov. ettes were banned in the northwest- ern Chinese province of Ningsia today. Gov. Ma Hung-kwie banned them | under an austerity program. He gave dealers 15 days to get their stocks out of the desert province. Foreign tourists may smoke ci- garettes if they bring their own. Kentucky City Has Fitth Chief of Police in Three Monlhs EVARTS, Ky, Nov. I12—®— Mayor Elihu Bailey announced to- day that the City Council has hired a new police chief, its fifth in a little more than three months. “Combs is his last name,” Mayor Bailey said. “I never got his first name. He is from Jackson, Ey. If he’s not a good man he won't stay. Maybe he ‘won't stay, even if he is good.” The new police chief succeeds 12 ~—IP—Cigar- | |to be gone only a few hours, how-‘[ (-vex | McGrath flew here from Wash- | |ington yesterday to step up (hP‘ ! pace of discussions looking to a re- organization of the administra- tion. | He weuld not comment on what recommendations he had in mind,| ‘but told reporters he beiieved Lhr:‘ ! President would forgive the “ven- | ial” sins by Democratic omcmls,! (Continued on Page Two) | ! | *Reasons Given staying until the the Mayor it known One of the chiefs was “Abe is just new man gets here,” said. “He sure wants he is just temporary.” previgus four police shot and killed. Sellers, who took the job Oct.| 13, said he resigned, however, be- | cause a man he arrested here had | | been released from jail without | posting bond. The three previous chiefs were |the ambassadors of six nations and | Undersecretary of State | Defense | Denmark and Iceland. Irelana also | group would send ‘m(mlh. Here, a formal defensc trea- | George Sellers, who announced his | Albert Smith, who resigned August, resignation ~ yesterday: Sellers re-|2; E. J. Baumgardner, who served signed while in jail at nearbyslrem Aug. 9 until he was shot to Harlan on a charge of drunken-|death Sept. 14; and H. M. Collier, | ness. | who served from Sept. 27 to Oct. Mayor Bailey said his brother, | 1L Abe Bailey, will serve as acting| Collier wes quoted by the Mayor lice ciiief until Sellers’ successor | as saying he resigned because he iarrives. ) didn't want to get shot. DEFENSE pAfl IS WARNING BY VANDENBERG | | Vandenberg put this warning to' NOW [N MAKING! Moscow on top of another assertion: That it would be a dangerous mis- {calculat'on for the Kremlin to be-| lieve that President Truman’s elec-! tion means any softening in Amer-! ican opposition to further Russian expansion. While he did not specifically promise support of any military aid plan, Vandenberg's statement seem- ed to represent a step beyond the! point he was willing—or able—to, reach in his United Nations resolu- et tion which the Republican-controll- At present. plans for the .l\.r'unuu}Ed F'ma,w AJIpU, 154 dyune. Treaty would elugn the RESOLUTION PLEDGES | |United sStates and Canada v .y the, That iesolution “pledged only: five nations united under the Brus- | “Progréssive development of re- sels alliance, These are L.itain,|8ional and other collective arrange- | France, the Netherlands, Pc gium ments for individual and collective land Luxemboyrg. self-defense in accordance with the However, there is talk of purposes, principles and provisions {five or six “other nations of the (United Nations) charter. |the proposed defense treary (Continued on Page Two) H would be TItaly, Portugal, (By* The Asstociated Press) Western diplomats scon will de- cide whether 13 instead of seven nations should be included in the original North Atlantic Defense| Pact. The quest'on will be threshed out at a meeting in Washington. Taking part in the session will be Pobert n mmg join These Norway, BATILE IS STILL RAGING IN SUCHOW AREA IN CHINA! (By The A.\wualed Press) In China Government troops were reported taking the upper hand, at; least temporarily, in & decisive bat- ! tle 200 miles from Nanking in the|® Suchow area. Communists were said ' ® in field dispatches. to be giving ® ground on the flanks. Chinese air ® support was credited with turning'e® the tide for the moment. The bat-!® tle, reported engaging 1,000,000 men,, ® was perhaps the largest in China'sle history. e ‘ may be included. Countries joining the defense delegates to full-scale conference some tine next |ty would be drawn up. Eaci nation would pledge to help the ¢ hers in the event of nn attack. Mrs. Ealon Passes, Away in New Jersey PLAINFIELD, N J., Nov. 12—® -—Mrs. Winifred Eaton, 74, wife of Rep. Charles A. Eaton, died today at Muhlenberg hospital, She had been ill for some time and in the hospital since election day. T0J0 WILL HANG FOR HIS CRIME Six Others fo Meef Deafh on Gallows - Many Sentenced fo Life (By The Associated Press) Hideki Tojo, whose folly was to lead Japan to a ‘'war of ruin with the United States, was sentenced today to hang as a war criminal, An international court, which had sat two and a half years in the longest criminal trial recorded, . ordered six other top Japanese war leaders sent to the gallows with Tojo. Sixteen got lite imprison- one 20 -years and another seven. All the 25 defendants were convicted. Tojo, with a wan smile, bowed politely to the court, as did most of the others. ‘The Japanese war trial sentences at a glance | | | To Hang Hideki Tojo, wartime Premier. Gen. Kenji Deihara, Manchur- !an plotter. Koki Horota, fermer Premier. Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, War Min- ! ister, Gen. Heitaro Kimura, Manchur- ian army chief. Gen. Iwane Matsui, at |npe of Nanking. Gen. Akiro Muto, Chief af burf in Philippines. Life Imprisonment Gen. Sadao Araki, War Minister. Col. Kingoro Hashimoto, sank the U.S.S. Panay, b Field Marshal Shunroku Hata, commander in China. Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, form- commander !er Premier, ope fo Defend Self « » Naoki Hoshino, Tojo's chief plan= Okinorl Kaya, Finance Minister. Marquis Kochi Kido, Emperor's adviser. Gen. mier. Gen. Jiro Minami, War Minister. Adm, Takasumi Oka, Navy Bur- eau Director. Gen. Hirvoshi Oshima, Ambassa-~ dor to Germany. Lt. Gen. Kenryo Sato, Military Affairs Bureau Chief. Adm, Shigetaro Shimada, Kuniki Koiso, former Pre- Navy ,Chief of Staff. Toshio to Italy. Lt. Gen, adviser. Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu, {mander in Manchuria. 20 Years Imprisonment Shigenori Togo, Foreign Minis- ter Seven Years Imprisonment Mamoru Shigemitsu, signer surrender. Plane Takes Plunge, 7 of 8 Are Dead LIVERPOOL, England, Nov. 12.— (P—A twin-engined plane carrying six passengers and a crew of two plunged into the Hersey tidal basin last night and sank. All buf one of the eight persons aboard are be- lieved to have been killed. AT b e Shiratori, Ambassador Teiichi Suzuki, Tojo\ com= of Forresial In London LONDON, Nov, 12—-#— U. S. Defense Secretary James V. Forres- ital arrived in London from Paris | by plane today for hurried confer- |ences with Prime Minister Attlee |and U. S. military representatives. He is expected to go to Berlin tomorrow, ——— ® 0 ¢ 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 o0 TIDE TABLE NOVEMBER 13 Low tide, 5:38 am. 33. ft. High tide, 11:53 am., 16.2 ft.» Low tide 18:15 pm. 18 f*. e [ LIS IR I R Y