The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1949, Page 1

e L L DR SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL LXXII., NO. 11,178 RED FORCES ARE AT GATES OF NANKING Warship's Wounded Removed MILLIONS T0 LOSE 1 HOUR OF SLEEPING Many Big Cities to Adopti Daylight Saving Time at 2 AM. Sunday . NEW YORK, April 23. (P—About | 50,000,000 Americans will be cheat- ed out of an hour’s sleep to- night with the advent of daylight savings time. Most of the big cities turn their | clocks ahead cne hour at 2 am. on sunday. Residents will have to wait until September 25 to get back their “lost hour.” At that time clocks go back an hour. The object of daylight savings time is to allow daytime workers to enjoy an added hour of day- light after the quitting whistle. For that reason it is most popu- lar in heavily-settled areas. Large cities going on “fast time” inciude Portland, Me., Boston, Pro idence, New York, Newark, Phil delphia, Pittshurgh, Baltimore, Washington, Cleveland, Chicago, In- dianapolis, St. Louis and Portland, Oregon. Seattle waits until June to change its clocks. Some cities that had daylight “* savings time a year ago have abandoned it this year. They in- clude Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Chattanooga and Nash- ville. Because farmers’ chores are not as closely hitched to the clock, most rural areas In the south, the middle west and far west shun the fast time. Radio networks have worked out a scheme of their own. Major shows will be switched ahead an hour in the east so they will be heard at the same time. In the west and south, they will be re- broadcast an hour later so resi- dents of those areas can hear them at the usual time. —— WEATHER REPORT (U. S. WEATKER BUREAU This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 am. PST. In Juneau— Maximum, 45; minimum, 37. At Airport— Maximum, 48; minimum, 36. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cloudy. Occasional light showers this afternoon and Sunday. Little change in temperature with high this afternoon at 48 and low tonight at 40. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau — .14 inches; since April 1, 785 inches; since July 1, 105.19 inches. At Airport — .11 inches; since April 1, 333 inches; ‘ since July 1, 59.73 inches. ©0 9000000000000 00000000000000 00 ©00000°0000000000000000sso0 ®© 06 000000 00 The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— There is a definite doctor shortage in the Army-Navy, though apparently not under some circumstances. Certain phases of the situation were illus- trated by a telephone call received by Col. James V. Cole, commanding officer of Ft. Myer, Va., shortly be- fore James Forrestal resigned as Secretary of Defense. Forrestal himself was on the tele- phone and asked Col. Cole to send a doctor. There's been an acci- dent,” he explained. A call from such an important personage as the Secretary of De- fense brought not one doctor but two. Colenel Cole summoned Col. William L. Thompson, chief surgeon of Ft. Myer, together with Capt. Allen Fulier, medical officer of the day. And they both hurried across the Potomac River to the Forrestal home where they found General and Mrs. Eisenhower with Secretary (Cununued on Page age Four) | workers will start voting next Fri- “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE &= — s, e JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1949 MEMBER A§§(1(“IATFD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Congressman i Killed in Crash the plane tc settle, tower. (P Wircphoto. jet fighter M. Coffey, an Air Reesrve pilat, was on a cross country proficiency flight. crach on the runway, cartwheel info a ravine and tear through a radio direction crashed at Albuqnerque. N. A partial power failure caused CANNERY WORKERS 10 VOTE Non-Residents to Decide Whether fo Switch from CI0 fo AFL 23— salmon SEATTLE, Apri resident Alaska {?— Non- cannery day on whether they want to switch to an AFL union as their bargain- ing agent. Thomas B. Graham, Jr., region- 1 director of the National Labor Relations Board, said the first vot- ing would run for two or three da He said the tentative plan Lalli for a voting day at approxi- mately two-week intervals through- out the summer labor recruiting s2ason. He made the announcement un- der the terms of an NLRB decis- ion which was released officially today. The NLRB announcement con- firmed the earlier report from un- ion sources that only the Alaska Fish Cannery Workers Union (AF- L) will be on the ballot. It wil ke a yes or no vote. Workers are to vote between the time they pass their physical ex- aminations and their departure for the north. The Board upheld the hearing officer’s ruling that the Food, To- bacco and Agricultural Workers Union (CIO) should be excluded from the ballot. The hearing offi- cer, Meiton Boyd, union had not shown cempliance with the Taft-Hartley Act, in- cluding officers’ signing of non- Communist afiidavits. The election order covers the 39 canneries with which the CIO un- ion heretofore has bargained as a unit through Alaska Salmon Indus- try, Inc. - 18 ARRIVE HERE ,ABOARD PAN AM Pan American Airways flights carried 21 . passengers yesterday: with 18 arriving and three leo,vlng!ments all articles costing under! as follows: From Seattle: Harold Sherley, Marion, Trawers, Ray Done, Bar- para Mill, R. Pullen, T. G. Curtiss, W. E. Garrett, T. Sillanpa, L. C.! Chqney, Roy Debritz, Ruth Debmz,l Glen Otten, Richard Bentley, Wil- liam Brown, John Davis, J. A. Mc- Kenna, From Annette: Irvin Cohen. To Seattle: Laurence Johnston, James Parrott and Marion William- son. STEAMIR MOVEMENTS | Marvin Cohen, Princess Louise from Vancouver due at 4 p.m. today, sailing for "~ Yukon River Sternwheelers Of Alaska R. R. Are Knocked said the Clo.lcomrol limit was 18 months. Be- Skagway at 10:45 p.m. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- ! attle today. Baranof scheduled southbound; Monday. Ouf by Planes Is Decision RELAX CREDIT CONTROL !nsfallmeni Buying to Be| Made Easier Begin- ning April 27 WASHINGTON, April 23.—(P— Beginning next Wednesday, in- stallment buyers will find eredit terms as easy as before the v or easier—unless sellers decide fo be stricter than the government requires. The Federal Reserve Board, tak-,; ing an admittedly inflationary- type action in the wake of recent business declines, terday it is relaxing credit con- rols for the second time in less han two months. The Board de- cided to: 1. Lengthen the present 2i- month time limit for paying off installment purchases of cars, tele- vision sets, furniture, etc, to 24 months effective April 27, (Before March 7, the Board's fore the war, Board studies show, “typical” terms allowed by dealers without controls were 12 months on radios, phonographs and used cars, 18 months on everything else.) 2. Cut the cash down payment to 10 per cent from the present 15 per cent for everything but J autes—for which it remains 33 1-3 i per cent. (Before March 7, the down pay- ment on most goods was 20 per|, cent. In uncontrolled prewar days, the “typical” allowance by dealers was the same as that lo be allowed under the newly relaxed terms, bothl~ or autos and other items.) 3. Exempt from control require- $100. At present, the exemption is for goods costing under $50. The Board's move to make con- trol terms as easy as, or easier than, the uncontrolled terms of prewar ways was expected to melt some of the Congressional opposi- tion to extending control powers | beyong June 30, when they are scheduled to expire. The conly goods still subject to credit controls are autos, cookstove: dishwashers, ironers, refrigerator: washing machines, air conditioners, radios, teievision sets, phonographs sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, furniture and rugs. ————— KETCHIKAN BUDGET A budget of $327,636.34 for a nine- month pericd, April 1 to Dece |31, has been adopted by the Ket ikan City Couneil.” was set at 20 mills, The tax announced yes- i l FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 23— (P—It looks like cargo planes hav knocked the old sternwheelers olear off the Yukon river. ‘That's the nostalgic conclusion contained in testimony that the Alaska Railroad is forwarding tq the Department of Interfor after hearings to decide what to do about the weather-beaten river fleet the government claims has been losing money for years. Despite a virtually unanimous plea of “don’t give up the fleet” uy remote villagers depending on |sumlrcr river shipments for their full year's supplies, all indications are that the government-operated radroad intends to abandon the } Yukon service after this season. The railroad has transshipped cargoes over its own from Nenana since 1923. More than a score of witnesses heard Col. John P. Johnson, Alaska Railroad general manager, declare that too many airplanes and too few outlying gold mines were driv- ing the picturisque Zut outmoded !:md uneconomical sternwheelers off e river. Before the war, heavy equipment| for isolated mining camps and food upplies for villages constituted the Lulk of the riverboats’ cargoes. Cur- |'alled mining operations and in- rcrLascd traffic by cargo planes landing on almost every river bar and moose pasture cut the average ason haul to an unprofitable 6,000 {tons yearly. Among witnesses this week were operators of smaller river naviga- tion companies who made tentative proposals to take over the railroad’s river hauls at rates ranging from $3 to $19 per ton above the $17 figure now charged to the most dis- tant peints. This would mean a minimum boost of up to $95 per |ton over the whole route ZLrom Seattle. I Ciyde Gordon, small boat opera- ltor, id it would require designing ial shallow-draft diesel tow- I bo: of about 400 tons capacity capacle of navigation and mecha- nized ¢o handling by a total cight men. i Queen” of the railroad’s ) fle e gingerbready old paddie- or “Nenana,” has a capacity »f 1,200 tons and requires a crew of 35. | Tre decision regarding the 1 Alaska Railroad river toats on the n has nothing to do Wwith the boats operated by the White tpa and Yukon railroad between Wwhitehorse and Dawson. These oats are the connecting link be- ween Whitehorse and the interior will be maintained in opera- {and on. PORERIENE NS (R FISHING BOATS ARRIVE The Oceanic owned by Ole Tom Ness tied up at the City Float iearly this morning from Seattle. The Arden owned by Olaf Larson tied up this morning in the small boat harbor, also from Seattle. It {is reported that the Glacier Bay, i swned by Severt Anderson, will be “.n from Seattle Monday. river craft| Westby and the Emma owned by | Work Stopped Big Carrier OnBuilding 'Sudden Cancellation 1s- sued by Secrefary of Defense Johnson _ WASHINGTON, April 23.—(®— Secretary of Defense Johnson to- day ordered the Navy to stop con- struction of its giant aircraft car- rier United States. The keel of the 65,000 ton flat- | top was laid at the Virginia yards of the Newport News Shipbuilding Corperation last Monday. Johnson said in a memorandum to Navy Secretary Sullivan that e acted to stop construction of the vessel after studying the views of the Joiut Chiefs of Staff and con- ferring with President Truman. Neither the President nor John- son had given any previous word as to whether the controversial carrier should be built. Johnson sent the following mem- orandum to Sullivan: “With further reference to the "| proposed aircraft carrier U, S. 8. United States, I have received the view of the Chiefs of Staff, and after careful considerat?on and dis- cussion of the matter with the +| President, I have reached the con- clusion that appropriate orders hould be issued discontinuing the construction of the vessel. “Aceordingly, you will issue such orders as may be required under the circumstances in order that construction may be tuscontinued at once at the least poss..fle cost to the government.” The Navy so far has spent about $6,000,000 on the preliminary en- gineering work for the carrier. The total estimated cost has risen from the original $124,000,000 to $189,- 060,000. The cost of cancelling the con- tract with the Newport News Ship- building Corporation could not be estimated immediately. Although the keel for the ship was laid last Monday, it was learned today that orders for sup- plies and parts were stopped about ten days ago. MARINES ENROUTE T0 CHINA LOS ANGELES, April 23—®— | The Cruisers Manchester and St. Paul are steaming today for Pa- cific stations with complements of Marines aboard. The Examiner says the warships, which sailed from here yesterday, are headed for China with “a large force of marines.” However, carrying cnly the normal comple- ments of leathernecks. Rear Adm. Thomas H. Binford, aboard the Manchester, said the vement is routine and that the ships are assigned to “Western Pa- COL. NOYES LEAVING FOR SOUTH TODAY Col. John R. Noyes, Alaska Road Commissioner, a Pacific Coast trip Wednesday on the Baranof, expects to again this week-end. annual meeting of the Pacific opens Monday in Bellingham. Then Colonel Noyes will go to ‘Washington, D.C., for the hearing of the Interfor Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Commit- tee. L ee——— NO TAX ON BOATS The city of Ketchikan will not assess and tax boats this year, ac- cording to action taken by the City Council. Boats will taxed under the new (erritorial property tax, and the city will attempt to secure a'refund, the!| Navy reported that the cruisers are cept Christian ways who returned’ from leave | He will fly to Seattle, hoping w‘ arrive in time to attend the semi-| | | Northwest Trade Association which | his home. el Chief Petty Officer Harry Greening is removed from the British destroyer Condort after its arrival in Shanghai with 16 wounded and 10 bedies aboard, 'he Consort engaged Chinese Communists in a running fight for 50 mile up the Yangtze River as it went to the aid of the British sloop Amethyst. It was not known if some of the dezd and wounded aboard the Consert were from the Amethyst. (P Wirephoto via radio from Shanghai. BULLHT LOOKING FOR WAR Declares Stm@le Coming| for Survival for United States HAMILTON, N. Y, Apri 23— (M—William C. Bullitt foresees war and a struggle for survival for the United States. The former U. 8. Ambassador to Russia and France asserted last night that since the end of World War Two it has been this nations practice “to entrust our foreign re- laticns to amateurs with good in- tentions and small knowledge of fact.” “It is tragically clear,” he said, “that war is coming to the United Statés.” The late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. and Harry Hopkins, as Secretary of Commexce, evolved a plan “to give Stalin everything he asked during the war, asking noth- ing in return,” Bullitt said. The aim, Bullitt added, was to persuade the Russian leader to ac- and demo- cratic principles. The result fis that the United States now faces a struggle “not for security but for survival,” he declared, MAN KILLED; WOMAN HELD RIVERSIDE, Calif.,, April 23.—(? —Sheriif's deputies today Mrs. Agnes E, Garnier, 53-year-old secrotary, on suspicion of murder- ing her employer, John E. Owen, 68, president of the National Apart- ment House Owners Association. Owen, 2 wealthy rancher and formerly of Detroit, was shot fat- ally last night in the bedroom of He died enroute to a hospital. Deputy Mel Vivion reported that Owen was shot once through the chest. Officers arrived at the palallal Jurupa Ranch in response {to'a call from Mrs. Garnier. Ay 3 ]uxt shot Johnny,” the deputy quoted ‘her as saying, bui she later added “it was an accident.” Deputy Coroner Seymar Cash said an inquest will be held. Lyle E. Bonn, CAA man from Amchorage, registered yesterday at the Baranof - Hotel, held § PLANE CRASH. TRIAL RULED AS MISTRIAL Mention ot_—a~n Insurance Company Causes Ac- fion, Seattle Judge SEATTLE, April 23—(#— An at- orney’s mention of an insurance company caused a $64,000 damage action against Alaska Airlines to be declared a mistrial by U. 8. District Judge John C. Bowen. The Judge said he based his rul- ing on his interpretation of pre- vious court opinions that mention before a jury that a defendant is insured is prejudicial. Bowen also ordered the cases of Raymond R. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tracey, plaintiff, sep- arated for a new trial, but set no trial date. The reference to an insurance company was made by Smith’s attorney. The suits were an outgrowth of an Alaska Afrlines plane crash in which nine persons were killed November 30, 1947. o BOARD WALKS BEING CONSTRUCTED AT TWO §. E. ALASKA PLACES Board walks in two Southeast Alaska locations are being installed under a cooperative arrangement Letween the WU.8. Forest Service and the Territorial Board of Road Commissioners. Alva W. Blackerby, Admiralty | Divigion - supervisor, represents the Forest Service. The board walk at Port Alexan- der is expected to he finished this week, the erew planning to move to Baranof Warm Sprinzs to make a similar installation Bill Promholz is construction foreman and John Mills of Douglas is in charge of the crew. e - DIVORCE SUITS FILED Gordon L. Stevenson, represent- ed by M. E. Monagle, has filed sult for divorce from Helen Eliz- abeth Stevenson, charging deser- tion, The couple was married in 1939 in St. Ignace, Mich. Ella Siverly, represented by How- ard D. Stabler, seeks a divorce from Lawrence William Siverly, and custedy of their year-old son, Lawrence William Siverly, 3rd, DEFENDERS. SURRENDER IS REPORT Big Railway_Station Out- side of Capital City Is Blown Up AMERICANS WARNED 10 LEAVE SHANGHAI |Communists Advancing Along Flaming Yangtze Without Resistance (By The Associated Press) Chinese Communist forces stand at the gates of Nanking today. The Central Chinese government has abandoned its capital and the city is a plum ripe for picking. The Red war machine rolled tri- umphantly across the Yangtze with literally nothing to stop it. De- meralized Nationalist troops sur= rendered on a wholesale scale. Four Natlonalist armies, totaling prob- ably 100,000 men, retreated south- ward. Befcre leaving Nanking, Nation- alist troops blew up the big rail- way station just outside the unde- fended walls of the capital. In- side, dooting was rampant. Negotia- tiens for turning the city over to the fast approaching Communists were under way. The Commun- ists ~were complete masters of the situation and could choese their -own time for entry. For the third time the Ameri- can consul ordered Americans to zet out of Shanghai. There were indications that Gen. Tang En-po, Nationalist command- er of the Nanking-Shanghai area, had sent his main Shanghai de- fense forces south. Communist pa- trols were less than 40 miles away from Shanghai, which is a hot-bed of wild rumors. Apparently nowhere along the {laming Yangtze was the thin Na- tionalist line ableto stem the Red tide. Canton was expected to be the refuge capital of the demoralized Nationalists. Premier Ho Ying-chin took over the Defense Ministry. The war news from China, in- cluding an unofficial announce- ment that Nanking had fallen to the Chinese Communists, brought wild cheering at the Communist- inspired “Werld Peace Congress” in Paris, In Dartmouth, England, an angry mob made things unpleasant for Britain’s Communist leader, Harry Pollitt. He had come to the city to discuss the Chinese Communist shelling of British warships in the Yangtze. He was pelted with bricks and other objects, took re- fuge in a building for a while, and left town in the early morning darkness. SCHOOL END NEAR; J-HIGH GRADUATION EXERCISES MAY 25 End of the school year for faculty and students is in sight. Only four more weeks of classes yet re- main. Graduation exercises are to be held May 25, with classes ending May 20. With sghool nearing closing dates, Superintendent of Schools Edwin C. Clark gave some informa- tion on next year's faculty. Two kindergarten and four full time first grade teachers will be on the elementary school staff next season. Mrs. Helen Wilson who has been teaching the third grade for the past two years will not be return- ing next year. 3 Two high school teachers who have been spending a year of ab- sence in Europe will be returning to the staff. Miss Margaret Malin will return to the faculty after a year in Nor- way. Miss Geraldine De Spiegelaere will join the staff again as history and girls physical education in- structor. For the past year has ‘she teen traveling in Germany and in Belgium, home of her grandparents.