The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 30, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,055 Hundreds Made Homeless By Coast Maritine Strike AIR LIFT TO ALASKA KEEPS UP CAB Grams—O_p;rating Per- mit fo Last atf Least to December 15 WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—®— The Civil Aeronautics Board today extended for another 15 days the special operating permit for airlines serving Alaska. ‘The action permits Pan American and Northwest Airlines to continue to operate between Seattle and| Alaska points not on regnlar! route certificates. It also allows air carriers which operate in Al- aska to continue to fly between Territorial points and Seattle, re- gardless of certificate limitations. The extension is until midnight, December 15 and is authorized in connection with the Coast mari- time stoppages. ! The last extension was granted in September and expires at mid- night tonight. (apmflsl Returns from Oversea Trip SEATTLE, Nov. 30.—®— Capt. Harry Ashurst, Veteran Alaska mar- | iner, is cack in Seattle after a four- ‘month visit to. his pative England, his first ety HOME“tn 40 yedre The Captain, who has sailed| for Alaska Steamsip Company out| of Secattle for 38 years, reports that riding those English trains is rough- er than sailing one of the Alaska Line’s ships through the Guilf of! Alaska. { Captain Ashurst was pilot on the Denali before he left for England! last summer. i The captain and his wife made| the crossing to England on the| Cunard White Star's Maurentani and returncd on the Meda. HORAN iS TO URGE! STATEHOOD; ALSO ALL-YEAR HIGHWAY WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—@— Rep. Horan (R.-Wash.) voiced hope that Alaska will win early state- hood, saying that should prove a boon to all forms of trade in the Northwest. He urged a start on construction of an all-year highway and a direct “ALL THE NEWS 'ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS VIEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Widow Enters Court for Hearing on Slaying Mrs. Josevhine Ferreri (sccnd from left), car-hop widow cf Jerome Ferreri, enters a Los Angeles, Calif., court for her preliminary hearing on a murder charge for the meat-cleaver slaying of her mate. Escort- ing her is Deputy Sheriff Marjoric Kellog. Directly behind Mrs. Ferreri is a co-defendant, Allan Adron, accused of shooting Ferreri. Seated in front row (leftto right) are Mrs. Josephine Covino, Ferreri’s sis- ter; Mrs. .Loretta Burgess, and Floy Smock. The latter two said they played prominent roles in Ferreri's Woman WdrIdDRAHEES ~ Greaf Falls Flier Is Offered ARE GIVEN Is Squaking, Two Positions BIG PARTY - Mail Routes MW?AM En- Army Throws Swank Affair Says,Delivé}Tfor Interior from Seattle Is All Wrong, Just So af Denver - Dales, Cor- | sages, Stars, Everything | DENVER, Colo., Nov. 30.—#®—| GREAT FALLS, Mont.,, Nov. 30. Colerado’s first postwar draftees | —®—Montana oificials are .miff- pinched themselves and wondered |ed by the Federal government's de- if this is the Army. | cision to route mail for Alaska by The Army threw them a swank|way of Seattle instead of Great party last night. It made them Falls. Cinderella Generals. Tough old| James J. Flaherty, Montana sergeants jumped at their com-|Chamber of Commerce President, mands. The Brass looked on and |said channelling through Seattle smiled. {“means that 85 per cent of Alaska- There were dates and bands' bound mail from the states must and songs and comedy. And there | fl’R\;(él more than 1,000 miles out of was fcod that never graced aits Wway.” of Edmonton have offered her tem- | Wartime chow line. { Flaherty said Postmaster Gen- porary accommodation in their | : i : | eral Jesse Donaldson has been in- home after reading of her plight | When it was all over, they went|yited to atiend a meeting in Great 3 back to warm hotel rooms in- 1ls at which tii b il-haul- and an oil company here also off- ! v : | Falls at whic| me the mail-haul ered ‘her & job as stenographer,. |S.cad of the cold tents of warlimeling contract, will be ciscussed. No Mrs. Morrow-Tai and her navi- induction centers. But today, they](mle has been set. gator vaabed Nov. SThoh dhe: AL head for Fort Ord, Calif, and the aska Highway at;out 230 miles realities of basic training. southeast of Fairbenks, Alaska.| gagement at Night Club, Anchorage-Good Pay | | \ 30— EDMONTON, Alta., Nov. —Michael Townsend, navigator for Mrs. Richarda Morrow-Tait on the British aviatrix’ attempted flight around the world, was to leave Ed-! monton today for Winnipeg and Montreal enroute home to England. Meanwhile, Mrs. Morrow-Tait, who still is stranded by lack of money to repair her plane, said she “will not abandon the flight| under any circumstances. Mr. and Mrs. “Wnitey” Wilson The Post Office Department has he Ar 7 's a|firm to truc 1 from Seattle, Townsend was brought to Ed-| ) oo by the numbers. The| “Alaska-bound mail from Mon- monton with Mrs. Morrow-Tait h . _ " A 22-page script for the affair was|tana and 40 other states lying when his foot became infected in .. =, B th and t of here, including Pasctiks where the two ‘fHers re-| 5 coush to suallow. 8 D-Da”huul m: e“;;t . ;/l ,eg e i 1t: 8 s as Minne- Satnad atter Bhe Catsh. {order. As one inductee put it:isuch metropolitan cities as . railroad route to the territory. Both are necessary, he said, to open up rich resources of Alaska and }n-g;-l vide transportation for important| defense outposts. ! - e —— | AT GASTINZAU | M. Carlson of Fairbanks regis- tered yesterday at the' Gastineau. The Washington! Merry - Go-Round | Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, R;Y'B'{'ha Bell Syndicate, ASHINGTON — Whether the old bosses like it or not, a new generation of Democratic leaders has emerged as a result of the Truman triumph. They include Senator Hubert Humphrey of Min- nesota, Governor-elect ~ Chester Bowles of Connecticut and Illin-| ois' Governor Adlai Stevenson—; plus. one unpublicized gentleman . who has inherited the leadership of the California Democratic par- ty with as much unpremediated forethought as a man tripping down a flight of stairs. He is State Senator Luckey of California. The Luckey political story is as George {“Wea weren't ‘exactly invited, We |apolis, Denver, Chicago and Dallas, “My biggest problem is obm'm.}woren'f exactly ordered. They | now must twavel approximately ing finances, not securing parts for [told us very nicely that we had 1172 miles out of its way in go- my plane,” the pretty aviatrix| to_go. It was all part of the ing via Seattle,” Flaherty said. said. ithings we had to do the day we| He said he understood “the ori- Mrs. Morrow-Tait said on arrival | Were inducted.” iginal call for bids on the haul Saturday she would take a job, There was a little of the old |asked for truck mail service out aska night club to raise enough!told to be on hand at 7 p. m. ThEE ST money to contifiue the flight. |party got underway 35 minutes as possible as quickly as possible| A so the extremely high wage rates paired them off with their dates. g s g Sreme e wee 10 Be Leased for It was reported earlier that!slated for induction, but six were : arrange for the parts but the| Nobody remembered to tell the Ten Years |o (AA plans were -cancelled and he now (8irls there were six spares. _ ford University. | brogram called it a “Grand March | i e !7." & slow stately. march to left | (P—The CAA has agreed to lease "center aisle in a column of twes %ay??}g ::]i;as;\" re;:::l' Mayor ‘Rod ;up to the stage and from there to W NEW YQRK, Nov. 30.—P—Clos-| The men pinned corsages, n]so~me" accompanied hu&jxj_the trip. ing quotation of Alaska Juneau courtesy of the Army on their| fie vt Can 79%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss- the men and gave them printed Wright 7%, International Harvest- 'commissions as General for the| | . ; . CLOSED; NO SKATING Central 12%, Northern Pacific 17%, ' = While 30 sergeants sat on the U. S. Steel 69%, Pound $4.03%. ofdance floor and. ate C rations, From the Admiralty Division of Averages today are as follows: | prime ribs, rissolle potatoes, peas, formation: industrials 17120, rails 5191, util-|galad, rolls and butter, ice cream, ! ‘The new Nugget Creek road going The party was all a part oflawarded a contract to an Alaska, return from)e 1000 MAY | SWING ON DECEMBER T That Is Seventh Annivers-| ary of Pearl Harbor- | Execution Delayed | TOKYO, Nov. 30.—(®— Wartime Premier Hideki Tojo and six other, top Japanese warmakers have won a delay from the hangman's noose. But there is still a chance they may be executed on December 7, f the seventh anniversary of Pearl H Harbor. i 1 MacArthur says he will, the man until the United , States Supreme Court has acted' on appeals by two of them i The Supreme Court is schedul-! ed to meet again on December 6. |'Sc, if the court rejects the appeal, {next Monday, then Japan's war- makers could be hanged on Tues- !dn}x December 7. | —— ., NEW GOVT. CISSETUP | - INBERLIN 1 ‘Communisls,—«A(iing on' [' Russian Orders, Elect 8 Mayor, Magisirate (By the Associated Press) i | | German Communists, who act at ‘.Rus%ia's pleasure, set up today a \separate “government” for blockad- | ed Berlin, Tt is opposed to the elect- * ed, anti - Communist government which will hold elect’ons in western Perlin. Sunday despite Communist and Russian boycotts. L | Th: Communist action virtually completed the division of the city: just when hope arose for a solution in the United Nations of a blockade the Russians imposed last June. ! The Reds set up their “govern- ment” at a rally called for what was termed “decisive measures for the protection of a United Berlin.” They elected their own mayor,| Friedrich Ebert, 54, namesake son; of the first German president under ithe Weimar Republic. Then they, lelected a magistrate for the city, igiving places to men long since dis- owned by other parties. i Argentine Foreign Minister Juan | Bramuglia got Russian acceptance) to a compromise Berlin plan pro-1 viding for a neutral commission of lexperts to handle technical and procedural phases of the conflict.: {The blockade itsell and Russian in-1 |sistence that only Soviet-backed | icurrency circvlate in Berlin arel the main issues. The Western Pow- ers accepted in principle. | American, British and French military governors tried in Frank-/ furt to settle differences over the, {occupation statute which will show | how much power the Western Ger- |man government is to have. French ifear of a strong Germany is the main obstacle. 1 —_————————— !..'I....G.. |® * WEATHER REPORT @ (U.'B. WEATHER BUREAU) ® Temperatures for 24-Hour Period . . . In Juneau— Maximum, 24; minimum, 14. At’ Afrport— Maximum, 19; minimum, 10. . . FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with snow to- night and Wednesday, clear Wednesday afternoon. Lowest temperature tonight nei 20 degrees. Easterly winds occasionally as high as 25 miles per hour. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today Building Is !last Floods In South (OID WAVE 90 Days Old with Four | HITS AREAS: Unions Still Involved Power Shorfage DervelopsA in Georgia-Tempera- turesKeep Dropping ve ratified a new worl SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. :30.—(®— Independent Marine remen late The West Coast Maritime Strike is| yesterday ordered their negot'ators| 95 days old today, with settlements|to continue talks with the Pacific yet to be reached between employ- | Ame! n Shipow Association ers and three ing unions. A until a complete “package deal” jurisd ctional question involving a|could be submitted to the workers| fourth union aiso rema:ned unde-!for approval. ' cided | Still to be negoliated, too, are| EHICAGO, Nov. 30.—#— Colder Only CIO longstoremen, whose PASA contracts with CIO Marne|weither moved into the flooded deadlocked negotiations precipitated Cooks and Stewards and the CIO|.ico¢ of the Southland today, .add= the long strike last September 2,|Radio Operators. 3 & X e i) ing further discomfort to the hun< " 2 | dreds made homeless by rain-flood=- 9 {ed rivers. les Dlv@r(ed | Skies were mostly clear over the flood regions of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, but temperatures in part of those and other south- ern states dropped. Readings in the 30's were reported in parts see, while Vicksburg, Miss, had a low of 28 today. Snow fell in some eastern areas yesterday, including New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The fall measured four inches in West- ern Maryland but crews of work- men kept the highways open. A power shortage developed in | Gecrgia dut to the flood watesr and mechanical failures. Tn Macon, Ga., the swollen Ocmulgee River dis- rupted operation of five of the city’s 10 pumping station filters and industries were ordered to halt using water. The Ocmulgee reach- ed a record 28 ieet and many fam- {ilies were evacuated. : A state-wide appeal was made by the Georgia Power Company for | [ its usefs to curtall electric con- sumption, Gasoline busses were substituted for electric- powered jtrackless trolleys. in - Atlanta, - KASILOF AGROUND, DRY BAY Coast Guard Cufter Unalga at Scene~No Immediate Danger {o Craft SEATTLE, Nov. 30.—(#—A Coast CHINA GOVT. WARNING | TROOPS ARE IS GIVEN |ozvue mtonms: About 140,7)6—0 Nalional-;Senaior Hill Intends to " MIL.HEADS ists Reported Surround- {- Raise Cain Until Uni- ed by Communists fication Is Real The cutter Unalga reported the (By Associated Press) Divorces involving two royal couples—Shah Reza Pahlevi and Em- press Fawzia, of Iron (left) and King Farouk and Queen Farida, of Egypt (right) were announced in a communique from the palace at Cairo, Egyt. # Wirephoto. | { i | | i ! jerew of elght was in no immed- Iiate danger, although winds of 40 to 50 miles an hour threatened to hinder rescue plans. The Seattle-bound Kasilof went ashore while towing a 100-ton Iscow. Earlier it had been report- ed on the rocks at Lituya Bay, | ) | WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. __m__lw miles southeast of Dry Bay. Chinese Communists trapped Serator Hill (D.-Ala.) warned the; arout 140,030 Nationalists troops mation's military chiefs today he 145 miles northwest of Nanking, intends to “raise cain until there greatly increasing the peril to thelis real unification of the Armed capital. Forces.” Beyond the encircled 12th Army| As a member of the Senate |40 Cape Spencer by the Coast Group, there is little to stop the|aArmed Services Committee, Hill Guard cutter Unalga and an Ari Communists short of the Yangtre|said, he will demand in the next|iyg js e River bank opposite Nanking. |Congress that the Army, Navy and'Juf,e,,u The U. 8. Embaesy sald navallajyr Force put aside their “petty / planes will start evacuating Ameri- | fighring” for the country’s good. can dependents from the city. | Th''2 . RGN AR A Y an interview pefore leaving |for Alabama, the Senator said: | “The time has come for Secretary| lof Defense Forrestal to knock some | ‘heads together, or if need be, to |knock some heads off, to ecarry out (the intent'ons of the law passed by |Congress to give us unification in! Jracn and not in fancy.” L vt o " By E H JUDGE HOLZHEIMER { Xxpiosion ) | Friends inquiring after thej WELCOMES VISITORS | i | health of Judge William A. Holz-; PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 30— yeimer Jearn that he again enter- An explosion shattered a frame cq si. Ann’s Hospital ten days a handful of cld cronies at his Lon- building and shook a large area|.g, gince returning to hid apart-|{don home in Byway-on-Fringe, of the waterfront industrial area ;g for a short time. Old friends ! Hyde Park. . BAghy but only one person|n, wish to make brief visits are|{ Churchill almost broke up a was injured. | welcome. {House of Commons sessions. IS COMING TO JUNEAU Coast Guard advices received by the Empire this afternoon is that {the grounded Kasilof has been re- {floated, the ship is being towed e Churchill 7{ Today LONDON, Nov. 30--®—Winston Churchill is 74 today. The wartime Prime Minister has received a flood of congratulatory messages and gifts, including Eooks, flowers, a huge cake and plenty of cigars. A fixture of his birthday, year in and year out, is a family party with offered her in an Anchorage, Al- | hurry-up-and-wait. The group was of Great Falls, not out of Seattle.” i i e gr “T have to make as much money |later. * A " A ' ld sergeant lined them up and | nne e ||' Ie in Alaska naturally interest me,”|USO and YWCA hostesses in for- Townsend would fly to Toronto to;turned down at the last moment, will return to his studies at Ox-| The couples marched in. The| ypqyagaTLA, Alaska, Nov. 30. o"S of dignitary guests table down‘me Annette Airfield for 10 years, . ! their designated tables.” Washington, D. C. Two council- mine stock today is 2%, American dates. The girls pinned stars On"uGGEI (REEK ROA er 27%, Kennecott 53%, New York!rijght. i i Sales today were 1,200,000 shares. hotel waiters served orange juice, the Forest Service comes this in- itles 32.60. {cake and coffee, to the face of the glacier, under| ® A port engineer suffered burns| The old Master of Parliament With the help of Judge and Mrklv“ of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennes- ' SNOW FALLS - to bring the craft ta - i fabulous as that of Jack and the - { Beanstalk. A year ago, Luckey was| | a successful ca’;uemngno living quiet- | FILES FOR DIVORCE ! ly outside Los Angeles. Today, 8s vice chairman of the Democratic party for, Southern California, he has succeeded Jimmy Roosevelt as (Continued on Page Four) There was a floor show. Then there was dancing. At midnight the band gave out on the face and hands and severe ! George W. Folta, Judge Holzheim-,mersly walked into the chamber in shock. The building erupted in a er's office and housekeeping belong-'his usual manner. But it was ball of fire as the blast shattered |ings were disposed of, as the Judge enough. !it into splinters, and, the impact had planued to retire soon anyway. Members trom all sides broke in- ® was felt over an area of four - o to a round of spontaneous cheers ® square miles. Nearby stacked lum-| Once he gets up and straightens that drowned out a Labor member ® ber caught :le, but firemen had | away, the pheasant flies faster than Who was questioning the Minister e the blaze unaer control in an hour.' the grouse of Town and Country planning. v 01 inches; 20.16 inches; 66.47 inches. At Airport — .15 inches; since Nov. 1, 10.88 inches; since July 1, 45.87 inches. In Juneau — since Nov. 1, since July 1, | construction only this fall, is not|® completed to ‘the point where it ® 2 loud |¢AM stand winter use. This road has!e® Robert Hartley filed suit in tie s been closed to traffic. le bangs with the eymbals. The par There is no skating ice in the re-'® District Court seeking divorce from, . Whi. Svax: 1T i Y i f | er. The girls went hOME. |y, 45 the snow fell too soon. Nor ® The scrgeants lined the men UD |y tpere he, until o thaw and later ® | Ethel B. Hartley on grounds of | | incompatibility. Their marriage was P A o | shouted “forward march” and took 'y o e 0 000 00 0 0 \them back to their rooms. $ ; February 8, 1946, in Juneau. | iwith @ roll of drums and 1