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

SATURDA 1P.M. Edition “ALL THE NEWS 4 LL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,053 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS = MORE HELP FOR WORLD FLIERS NOW Wrecked Plane fo Be Tak-| en fo Fairbanks, Trucked to Edmonton-Breaks FATRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 274‘} (A—The Air Force and civilians have polled resources to help Mrs. Rich- arda Morrow=-Tate carry on in hm"‘ determination to complete a global | flight to her home in Britain | Yesterday's developmeénts prompt- | ed the British aviatrix to comment: | aiter a night of 40-below weather: “I can’t understand how it hap- pens that the kindest pecple in the | world live in the coldest place in| the_world.” { Mrs. Mrrow-Talt and her navi-| gator, Michael- Townsend, crash-| landed their single-engined plane last Sundny on an Alaska highway, | 235 miles southeast of Fairbanks.; Because the two were out of cash, the accident appeared to have| doomed the globe-circling flight to failure. But her hopes for its completion, perhaps in the spring, were revived by these development. Air Force maintenance crews pre- pared to leave for the scene to re- turn the wrecked plane, Thursday's Child, over 235 miles of highw to Fairbanks. Here, Jim Dodson, veteran busi flier, and now head of Consolidated Airlines, will disassemble the plane and load it on a truck for a 2,000 mile haul to Edmonten. Dodson said he and the truck owner, Alfred Ghezzi, Jr., will take care of thoe details at no cost “out of love for et bt 3 Six-year-old Linda Jeffery of FPryor, Okla, smiles goodbye to a nurse and doctors on leaving a Tulsa, Okla, hospital where she cpent two years ofter being badly burned in a trash fire. Linda underwent many opeartions, eight of them major, for replacement of her burned skin. Three of her brothers and sisters donated lin for her recovery. She'll return to the hospital in a few days, but doctos say her werst trials are over. # Wirephoto. RUSSIANS | | Rep. 1000 gap in the European aid pro- bill iD. Richards, 27, apparently doesn't FAST ACTION | PROM!ISED ON EUROPE AID Rep. Cannon, Appropria-= tions Chairman, fo Push Legislation WASHINGTO! Nov. 27— Cannon (D-Mo.) today prom-! 1,250,000, { sed swift action to fill a § gram. The veteran lawmaker is due to become chairman of the House] Appropriations Committee January | 3. That will put him in a position to give a powerful shove to an; expected administraton request for additional Marshall Plan funds. } President Truman foreshadowed | such a request yesterday in author-! izing Economic Cooperaton Admin- | jstretor Peul G. Hoffman to use the! entire $4,000,000,000 Europeen Re-: covery Fund by next April 2 instead . of making it last until July 1. The 80th Congress gave Mr, Tru- !man that option in finally ing the Foreign Aid appr That Was A Nov. 27.—(®—Aaron | ATLANTA, sive o boot for a toot. | Police early today found Richar citting ealmly in his stalled automo: (RACKDOWH MacKenzie Knig (right), who h hands in Ottawa, Ont., with his s Justice and leader ¢f the Lib FFICIALS i | Ay Y AR Rt Hc while Gov. General Viscoun uccessor (left) the i | Louis SAILORS MAKING DEMANDS Want (erIaTrr'lssues;' fo Be Seftled-Longshore- men Ballofing, Terms (By The Associated Press) Early resumption of normal ship- jping operations along the strike- | bound East and West Coasts hing- ed today on a vote among dock- workers on terms for ending the i costly work stoppages. The rank and file of the long- shoremen’s unions at ports along the two coasts started balloting on ratification of the agreement reach- ed between union oificials and em- ers. The outcome of the vot- was expected to be - disclosed tomorrow. Acceptance of the wage and oth- er terms would return some 92,000 workers to maritime jobs. Thous- ands of railroad and other work- ers, made idle by the vparalyzing . walkouts, also would ke called {back to work. More than 500 ships are tled tup at ports, those on the West Const since after the start of a strike on Sept. 2 by CIO long- shoremen and four other unions. The 6,000 AFL longshoremen at o5t Coast ports struck on Nov. 10. Wages are the chief issue in the disput ires | St. L t Alexande present Minister of ks on. (7 Wirephoto. CHINA WAR NEARS GATE Millions Are Lost The cost of the strikes runs l.n(u the millions of doliars. The MPecific American Shipowners esti- ‘mated the tieup on the Pacific oast, second longest in history, has cost about $344,000,000 in i an adventurous spirit.” The Air Force also put Mrs. Mor- row-Tait and Townsend abtoard a B-17 for a flight to Edmonton. From there Townsend plans to fly to Toronto and attempt to make ibile on a railroad crossing. & {ra‘ns were.held up. 1 Richards, said police, just ignored {the angry whistles. \ He was CONTIRMUE BEEFING trade. | ' ONH.S. FAD! “ Self-imposed "'Blackouts” | or NA“K|NG ‘The opposition nmo;xg the rank jand file accepting the terms de- {veloped yesterday at a meeting booked on a charge in Brooklyn. Those attending the | public drunkenness. ' arrangements for mew wings and landing gear, washed out in the crash landing. W Percival plant, which made their former RAF plane, is located there. Meanwkhile Mrs. Morrow-Tait made plans to accept the offer of Keith Capper to sing in his Anchorage, Alaska, night club to replenish her funds. She said she is determined to com- plete the flight but said it may e as long as next spring before her plane is flyable again. R SOPHOULIS IS DYING (By The Asscciated Press) Themistokles Sophoulis, Greece's 88-year-old premier, clung gr imly to a thread of life teday, seven hours after doctors abendoned all hope for him. The premier was stricken with two heart attacks this week and suf-| fered a relapse during the night. He | has received the last sacraments of | the Greek Orthodox Church. The 'Wasniihfigidn‘ Merry - Go- Round | Rv DREW PEARSON {Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, ne.) 'ASHINGTON—No. 1 upshot of the hour-long conference be- tween President Truman and Sec- retary of State Marshall was that Marshall agreed to. remain in the Cabinet for an “indefinite period” after January 20. Marshall tactfully reminded his| chief he hadn’t had a vacation in} years, except for a few days that he and Mrs. Marshall spent to-| gether in Honolulu following his' mission to China in 1947. He said| he needed a rest badly. | However, the man Who Truman’s proposed Vinson missian‘ to Moscow and who has thwarted Truman’s ideas on Palestine said| that he considered it his duty to} stay on the job “as long as you need me.” He added that he hoped this would not mean serving the full four years of Truman's term ol‘ office. The President quickly re-; sponded that this wouldn't be nec= essary. ! “But I can’t spare you mnow,” Truman said, in effect. 1 vetoed i (Continued on Page Four) iswitches from the National Broad- Makes Gen—aral Attack on UN's Commitfee Rs- port on Balkans (By The Associated Press) Russia launched a bitter attack in the General Assembly today on the United Nations Special Commit- tee on the Balkans report charging that the committee’s investigators were “amateur Sherlock Holmeses.” Fizhting against the committee’s| report, Scviet Deputy Foreign Min- fer Andre? Y, Vishinsky asserted the committee’s findings were based istortion, falsilication and bad faith. The commitiee has charged that avia, Albania and BEulgaria 2 the Comm Guerrillas Vishinsky said the UNECOB report only “presumes, as- sumes and considers it likely” that | Greece’s three northern neighbors | actively helped the rebels. DON'T GIVE LOVE i ACTRESS_0lga San Juan sits out scene on Hollywood studio lot to do slight repair job on heel of her shoe. ~ JACK BERNY |1 LETIERS 10 WLFE | 10 S9AL; DIVORCE LOS ANGELES, Wov. 27.—P— The moral of this story is: If you | | il RAD'O SHOW}wam to write love letters to a | sweetheart, don't have your wife i mail them | Mrs, Thelma Tapscott got a di- 97 —(P—Thne| Yoree yesterday from Robert A. w | Tapscott of Decatur, I, on just |those grounds. She said the enve- ilopes were addressed to a former fellow officer of Tapscott's in the | American Army of Occupation in Germany. But inside (she opened one) she said were letters speaking ardent love to a German miss known only Y T s e ol SRR L Ll leea, Ao eankay 000,000 involved in the deal. | “Maria, I want to go with you' 1t was not revealed in the CBS to the meon—not for some months, | announcement whether the move put for always.” involved u “capital gains” lifetime| ¢ which, Mrs. Tapscott said, in transaction under which Bennyieffect, bon voyage. would get a tig lump sum payment | o ks for sale of his services and his; Amusement Enterprises, Inc., as 2| JOHANNESBURG, Union of So Africa., Nov. 27—®— A tornado business, A CBS spokesman declined | | killed four persons and injured more | to say whether it was a “capital | gains” deal { than 100 last night in the Roode- Clyde Bolyan and M. D. Hut- port area of Orange Free State.| chens of Anchorage are registered Damage was estimated at about | at the Baranof, 34,610,000, NEW Sunday YORK, Nov night Jack Benny sho casting Company to the Columbia Broadcasting System next Janua Date for the move, which had been | expacted, was set yesterday. NBC > AT BARANOF FIFTH DEATH WARNING OF STORM The Weather Bureau i 2 | dej following advisory storm warning: Protected waters of Southeast Al- aska north of Petersburg—norther ly winds 60 to 75 miles per hour decreasing to 40 to 50 miles per hour Saturday. Protected waters of Southeast aska south of Petersburg and the o e waters, Dixon Entrance to Sitka — easterly to southe winds 30 to 50 miles per hour be- coming southerly to southwesterly winds 20 to 35 miles per hour to-| night. Outside waters, Sitka to Yakutat 3,1 —easterly to northeasterly winds 30 | dex to 40 miles per hour. i Cloudy with snow over most Southeast Alaska changing to rain un south of Petersburg. ————— s¢ th th bla |in Al | d . of joul PR . k] r . 8 i "FULEILMENT JAKE-BIPD HEX TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 27—They are talking more than ever to- day about the so-called Jake Bird! hex. Bird is an itinerant Negro! who was condemned to death last November. After sentence Was| passed, Bird made a challenging | statement. He sald: “All you guys to who had any- thing to do with this case are going to die before T do.” As though fulfilling what is now known as the Jake Bird hex; the fifth person associated with the case died yesterday. He was J. W. Selden, the lawyer who de- fended Bird. Like all the others, he was a victim of a heart at- tack. i Before the T5-year-old lawyer died, death claimed two police- men and the Court Clerk who fig- ured in the trial, as well as the| Judge who conducted it. | Jake, on the other hand. has stalled off his execution with an appeal to the State Supreme Court. He lost the appeal and is now awaiting the Supreme Court’s or- der for his resentence. urrows des- Some prairie dog b cend 14 or 15 feel, . . . . . ® ° ° . . . . ° ? ° ° ° . ° . ° . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 the studen: an Ava physici {met} i warned they blacked herself out 15 times fo Be Cause for Expul- sion, Says Principal AVA, 111, NOT'::“"W A hieh hoal pri pal has warned students ey will be 1 tpelled from s ey ‘continue the of ich he had or- red halted. The blackouts ciouts suffered by fliers x out of long, s In Chicage, Dr. Morris Fishtein iter of the Journal of the Medi- , termed the practice “mass psychological which occur among from time to time.” cials said in the | o used by some stu- yject kneels, breathes | 0 times, clasps hic ht nd his thumb, puff t his cheeks and holds his breath til he voes into an appar Principal J. H: Hammac .County Consolidated High col here said students had been | would he expeiled if| ey contmued practicing the fad.| Hammick said the practice came a head when a girl freshman Ava school nts, the erly about s tightlv a - . e s o cevcoee WEATHER REPORT (U 8 WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period In Juneau - minjmum, 3. At Airport— minimum, 3. Maximum, 6; Maximum, 6; .FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Mostly cloudy with snow his afternoon and Sunday ing udiness on Bunday aftern Cold temperature near 3 degrees with rising temperature to- night and Sunday. North- easterly winds with strong gusts. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juncau — Trace onl since Nov. 1, 20.04 inche since July 1, 6635 inches. At Afrport — Trace onl since Nov. 1, 1065 inche: since July 1, 45 inches. @0 eesece®ececcoc0scecetec e | Assistant Secretary of & E X O T C— Felice Ingersoll poses in an off-the-shoulder grilled peasant blovse she wore in a recent movie. §fill Echos LONDON. omi g ers was 1 coroner, W. Ben Purchas: held four ithout kodies. A direct hit killed n a puciic.shelter in 1940. he victims were unident oreparations for a memorial we started recently relatives sent Ten the names of four presumed victims. | in- the The Home Office ordered .an juest. The coroncr ruled that four died in the wre as & I ult of war operatio BLOCKADE DEADLOCK Even as hope for a compromis cttlement of the Berlin deadlo dwindled, an American i the United Etates a jden that the Soviet mark shoul be nsed in all of Berlin. The spokesman, Willard L. Tho & news o from agreement D g FROM PORTLAND Miss W, Johnson of Portland taying Baranof Hotel, 4 Am-—-Cne of the worst of the London led when the St. inquests 154 persons When | Btate, wmi hat the United | withdrawn ) to accept the | Moscow directives of August 30. Madame Chiang Kai-she: Plans Trip fo U. 5.-De- pariure Reporied Near meeting claimed to represent 13,000 mbers in 13 Brooklyn locals ‘tof the AFL International Long- | shoremen’s Association. In New York, Joseph P. Ryan, !ILA president, termed the Brook- (By The Associated Press) flyn action “an attempt by the In China, the battle for the ap-lcmmnunist party to becloud the proaches to Nanking spread over issues. He sald many at the meet- a 100-mile radius south of Suc- ing were not bona-fide union mem- how. From reports reaching Nan- bers. king it appeared that Nationalist | troops had ubgndoned their uld] On the West Coast, Harry L. tem of pesitional warfare, and Lundeberg, head oi the nonstrik- were slugging it out wherever they'ing AFL Sailers' Union of the cam: upen the Chinese Commun-|Pacific, said his union members ists. would not return to work until A government Tield general said;shipewners ‘honor our agreements.” | the Commuy have lost 230,000| The Waterfront Employers’ Assocla- 1 in the 19-day batile, Govern-ition has ratified a contract with 1t losses were reported at 95,000 the CIO longshoremen, the key men. These figures customarily|union among the five involved in are distorted by the Chinese. {the strike. Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife! Agreement has been reached be- f China's Pres i, made ready |tween the employers and the CIO {o leave for a visit to the UnitedMarine Engineers and early settle- ates. A Nanking dispatch said|ment is expected with the’ Fire- her departure time has not been|men, the Marine Cooks and Stew- announced but it m be within |ards and the Radio Operators. 48 hours. Presumably she is mak-| Demands by Lundeberg included ing the trip to solicit greater hclp'fl guarantee that the CIO long- for the hard-presscd Nationalist|shoremen will not use a new con- government. tract to infringe sailors’ cargo- - working right on coast-wise and Alagka ships, and wage hikes in line with any gains to be award- REGISTER PROVERTY 3 & 255" SURCHASED [N 1908, "~ 3 At 52 . TREASURER'S OFF!CE { (e { West Coast Sailors $ i’ of | e | SEATTLE, Nov. 21—@- Ed Coester, Seattle agent of the APL- {Sailors Union of the Pacific, said ihe had received word from Harry | Lundeberg, San Francisco, union president, to “disregard reports |that the (maritime) strike is ‘al- most over.'" “The West Coast maritime tie- up will not be over until various jonal issues now pending settled to the satisfaction of ou membership,” Cotester com- mented. He said those “issues” included the question of jurisdiction over Alaska ship steward department I personnel and the controversy be- tween AFL-Satlors and CIO-Long- shoremen over certain work on coastwise Alaska ships. The AFL-Sallors Union has peti- tioned for a National Labor Rela- {tions Board election to determine ! jurisdiction for Alaska ship stew- |aids department employees. The {CTO-Marine Cooks and Stewards . Mar- | Union claims jurisdiction. Olive! Officials of the Alaska Steam- fined 'ship Company, only remaining ship jine in the Seattle-Alaska trade, said the situation had “not yet been clarified” in regard to a cooks and stewards contract, According to advises recelved from, the Division of Reul Prope) istration, Treasurer's office, ritory of Alaska, all property utside of the city limits, purcha | ed before or during the year 1948, | must be registered before Decem- | ber 3i, 1948. Forms are to be made in duplicate and will be avail-| able at the office of the United tates Com sioner at Juneau. Foims are then returned to: Real Property Registration, District Land Office, Reom 39, Fedel Anchorage, Als | This is a Territorial law whichl | Larric alty for those who! not ter -ee e-| | { \ se | ck | 1 (o IN KETCHIKAN It is reported by the U, 8. hal's ofilce that Leon | Stephens, Ketchikan, was |8500 for the illegal sale of liquor, land keeping a bawdy bLouse. The arrest was made by Deputy Mar- fshal & 1 ngon is