The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL, LXXIIL, NO. 11,232 Truman’s Housin U. S. LOSES PROTESTON TRADE PACT Five Times Premier of Spain Dies REPUBLICAN YOUNGSTERS IN ACTION | | | | | | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ' ) " 19 s 27, 1949 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 27 NEW VETS MEASURE COMES UP| | i ————— oy MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Woodenface Champ Here Tomorrow g Bill Gets House Action LONG-RANGE MEASURE 1§ GIVENE00ST Br't i dA " S' { MADRID, Spain, June 27.—_¢M - By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, June 27— | - 1 1ain an fgen ina |gn‘-Alejaudro Lerroux, 83, five times| WASHINGTON, June 27—® — Having successfully rammed £ President Truman's big, long-range Five Year 'I‘rade A ree | Premier of Republican Spain, died |Demanding full partnership in | through the Hoyse a $65,000,000,000 }* lousing bill cleared“its first major i g “ |early this morning. | party atfairs, young Republicans veterans pensions bill, Rep. Rankin [* | hurdles in the House today. Three n' Wh t" M The family announced that Ler-|today pushed their own "elder! (D-Miss) is now getting ready a t proposed substitutes were beaten in me L a eans roux, who had proclaimed his az-|statesmen"—fellows over 36—to the bonus bill that may cost almost} * rapid order nosticism throughout his life, re-|forefront of office-seeker: ! that much. The House first defeateq 137 t BUENOS AIRES, June 27—®—!turned to the Catholic Church and| The obstreperous youngsters, who'! He won't say when he will pre- 90 and 110 to 78, titutes by Britain and Argentina signed alreceived the sacrament on his!closed a National Convention in sent it to the House Veterans Com-} Rep. Davis (D-Ga) and Rep five-year trade agreement today | deathbed. He will be buried in|sSalt Lake City last weekend by |mittee, of which he is chairman, Coudert (R«NY) that, while pro- thus ignoring United States ob-|Madrid’s Catholic cemetery. | electing’ John Tope, Detroit, Mich., 'but he indicated he may .seek ac- viding tunds for city slum clear- jections to the pact. Lerroux was reported ill in Lis-|as their new chairman, have their | tion this session. ance, would have Larred funds foi The signing was done in the pre- sence of President Juan D. Peron, his wife and a group of high offi- cials in the White Salon of Govern- ment House. Sir John Balfour, Britain's Am- bon, Portugal, in 1945. He had been | in exil there since the civil war In 1947, Generalissimo Franco gave| | him permission to return to Spain. i A life-long Republican he had | been exiled several times by King political knives out for the GOP| “old guard.” ers apparently extends from GOP‘ Naticnal Chairman Hugh D. Scott | Jr. on down the line. Servicemen would get $3 for each |day of military life, $4 for those | Opposition to present party lead- | spent overseas, with a maximum payment of $9,000. The bill's cost has been estimated all the way from $14,000,000,000 to $60,000,000,- | puklicly-owned housin, The the House killed a substitute by 10 Republican | embodied most of the provisi jof Mr. Truman's program, but pro- | pesed to go further with a pro- 50, that bassador to Argentina, and four|Alfonso XIII. Each time he re-| In fact the convention thought ! 000. id ‘gram of govermmweat low interest, Ministers who form the Argentine|turned, his power as chief of the|so little of what it called “finan-| Some members of the committee| ; long term loans for vate con- National Economic Council signed |radical Republican party grewicially wasteful, essentially unco- |said privately there will be no more struction of 386,000 d inits the Spanish and English copies. | greater. | operative and generally useless” mecjor veterans benefits approved ook RIS American businessmen believe the| Lerroux was as suuugly opposed | policies of Ben Whitehurst, Na-|this session. “In view of the na- { two-way pact will cut off one of|to Socialism and Communism as he|tional Speakers Bureau Director, | tional economy,” said one, “it'st BOARD UNFREEZES their important South American was to the monarchy, and for this|that it howled overwhelming ap- |time to stop.” ! | # markets. The United States claims |reason, left-wing groups prevented|proval for a formal resnlution de-| But Rankin wants the bonus; the pact violates the spirit-of free | his election as President of the|manding his ouster. | money—*“adjusted compensation”— { Sso ooo FOR USE competitive international trade.| Republic after the throne was over-| Scott himself told reporters that|to take care of almost all G. I | Sel { ' American officials fear it 'might | turned in 1931, rival candidates for the young Re- | beneiits. i . I" AlASKA HOUSiNG keep United States oil and x‘armfi‘ Five times, however, he was nam- | publican Chairmanship were trying| He has held up legislation to ex- | Peter Dyer (center) will be in Juncau temorrow aboard the rrin_uhn l(l:':hlc;n a;::‘w‘lvl;"ln::‘!“ll::ler:” | machinery off the Argentine! ed Premier tc try to run Spain on|fo “put the kiss of death” on op-|tend “52-20" G. I jobless pay| topnotcher in an event preceding the baseball gam: tomorrow night. Dyer has s e o5 market. ! a middle-of-the-road basis. { ponents by accusing each other of | (Which expires July 25) terming woodenface event for the second time in a row of the feature spfmsnrfll by the Seattle Times .orm.“ &b asmdaliG B oRrORcL N P Under the agreement, Britain will | | ceing Scott's favorites. jsuch payments “rocking cha\rl years. Dyer is pictured above with Manager Jo-Jo White of the Seattle Rainiers (left) and Manager | Alaski s i - ot Adbiitebvabion. supply the bulk of Argentina’s im-| Kelly of the Los Angeles Angels following his winning of the championship. Pleture is by Times statf Tope, a dark horse, was touted money." | Territorial offfcials resumed their The benus | bill, Rankin said, I CANADIANS | ports. These would range Irom! as an “independent” candidate. He| | photographer Howard J. Vallentyne, Jr., and published by courtesy of the Seattle Times through arrange- |, fiyijjes in the “cold storage’ much needed oil and coal to auto- | won by a small margin over|“Would deduct {rom the adjusted: ... by Robert L. Twiss, sporting writer. Lusiness. mobiles and in return, Britain | Laughlin E. Waters, California|compensation all this sit-downj " ', "~~~ | On presentation of obligations would get from Argentina an esti-| | legislator, who certainly was ac-|money, and on-the-job training and ‘ . |already controcted for by the mated 300,000 tons of meat plus | ceptable to Scott. college benefits. That way it womdl Gov or H.ORID A | AR e At tha cereals and other items. The convention then electedl"::p“;x:e"‘gs &lllfi'u trwibg & ' . ’a y I y * {Board “unfroge” $50000 of the | & X rer (D-Ohio rying tof] g o ; | Loutse Replogle of Montana as co- | FieP: Fiber (- OWlo) e Lying tof wms (nlfoam‘ |$750,000 appropriation put on fice jchairman. Miss Replogle snowed i o | last week. FISHERIES GROUP IS BACK FROM WESTWARD George Kelez, supervisor of fish- eries for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, arrived Saturday from Seattle, and plans to leave to- morrow for Bristol Bay. There, he will manage the req salmon fish- eries until July 25, the end of the season in that area. Three F.W.S. officials made 2 trip to the Westward last week. Clarence J. Rhode, regional rector, took Frank Hynes and Clay Scudder of the fisheries di- vision to Yakutat, where they put in a weir installation. With Clarence L. Anderson, new ‘Territorial Director | of Fisheries, Rhode went on to Cordova, where they conferred with Ira Rothwell, | chairman of the Alaska Fisheries Commission. The party returned Saturday. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 27.—#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 90%, Anaconda 26%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, Interhational Harvest- er 24%, Kennecott 42%, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 13, U. 8. Steel 21%, Pound $4.02%. Sales today were 670,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 166.79, rails 43.24, util- ities 34.48. A The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON [Copyright. 1949, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) ASHINGTON— Ex-Speaker Joe Martin and Rep. Jesse Wolcott of Michigan, Great friend of the real {0 Quebec. His party is Canada’s| | nearest equivalent tp the Republi- estate lobby, got unexpected opposi- tion at the secret Republican cau- cus against the housing bui. Two insurgents, Reps. Frances Bolton of Ohio and Dick Welch of California, upset the serenity of the meeting by bluntly anncuncing they would support slum clearance and low-cost rental construction. As the closed-door session began, Martin announced that many peo- ple in his ctate (Massachusetis) didn‘t wart the governmert te go into the home-building bus.ress “Well, the pecyle out in my coun- try don't feel that way,” asserted Welch, who comes from San Fran- cisco. “They think it’s the respon- |the election today They presum-, sibility of the federal government to relieve the housing shortage, not Boston.” ‘Wolcott made one of his pat speeches, wildly declaiming the pub- (Continued on Page Four) di-| “INELECTION By BEN BASSETT TORONTO, June 27—(M—Ballot boxes from the Yukon to New- i foundland held the fate of Louis | St. Laurent and his Liberal party ;govemment today. { In a national election, Canadians | will decide whether to keep the | Licerals in power, or to end their {14-year rule of the country and jcall in a Progressive Conservative | regime headed by George Drew. The party that wins control of {the most House of Commons seats | names the Prime Minister. St. Laurent holds the job now. A variety of factors made the outcome doubtful until the trend | under Miss ‘Arléne Jones of Wash- iington, an employee of Scott’s Na- itionnl Committee. | In their resolutions, the young- !slers displayed a tendency to go |somewhat further on social weltare !than their elders, but mot so far |as to endorse President Truman's | proposal for universal health in- | surance. i | | | | Cordova Newspaper Taking His Vacation SEATTLE, June 27— (#— Pub- lisher Everett H. Pettijohn of Cor- Publisher in South | of the kalloting begins to show late | tonight. A big question mark was Quebec province, which elects 73] of the 262 House of Commons mem- | bers. | St. Laurent comes from Quebec | and is one of the French-Canadians who make up most of its popula- dova was here during the weekend on his first trip “outside” since he went to Alaska 17 years ago. ..Cordova is without its tri-weekly newspaper. When Pettijohn is cn a vacation, it, means the staff is vacationing. Because, as he ex- plained it, “I'm the editor, pub- headed for San Francisco to visit their daughter and son-in-law. vincial Premier, * and Camillien Houde, Mayor of Canada’s biggest city, Montreal. They pictured the| St. Laurent government as a | | I tion. But two of the leading poli- | lisher, linotype opem‘t‘,or, P!'hl"fl'-‘;5 raised in their big-time radio ticians in Quebec backed Drew.|pressman and janitor.’ promotion. They are Maurice Duplessis, Pro-} Pettijoon and his wife werej | i tures, on: a petition to .faree the jobless-pay extension out of Ran. kin's committee. { Similar legislation now is bemg’ ! considered by the Senate Labor; | Committee. N | The bonus would be in addition to | a $72 a month, old-age pension bill | which, despite Administration op- | | position, was passed earlier this' |month. It is not expected to be! | approved by the Senate. | S | {LIONS RADIO SHOW i ] | T0 PROMOTE FUNDS - FOR HEATED POOL i With ringing telephone bells amd |ringing cash register bells the Ju- reau Lions Club hopes to ring the bell for $2,000 in three nights ot money-ralsing radio programs be- ginning tonight at 6:30 over KINY. Warm-water swimming in the Evergreen Bowl pool is the Lions| kig objective, with plans to put a| roof over the pool if enough money All telephone sutscribers will be: fair play for Lions “assessors” who | plan to pick a number trom . the| directory, call the phone holder! for a contribution. Four Lions wm! PALO ALTO PALO ALTO, Calif,, June 27—# Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, who earned eminence as an educator, in government service, in medicine and as a humanitarian, died yes- terday of heart disease. He was; 74.| The tall, Lincolnesque physician | was President of Stanford Univer- sity 27 years and its Chnncerr\ since 1943. ! As Secretary of the Tnterior in the cabinet of Herbert Hoover, a lifelong friend, he battled for con- servation, for better housing and better care for Indians. As a medical man, he fouglt medical costs, illiteracy, syphilis, quackery and inferior medical schools. He founded the California Physi- cians’ Service—the model for pre- paid voluntary health plans in """l country. He served as President bothi of the American Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Associ ation. 3 Funeral services will be held ar 11 a.m. Tuesday in Stanford Me- |threat to Quebec interests. i Drew himself campaigned aggres- Isively in Quebec. Some bystanders i speculated that he likely won votes there but in hooking up with Duplessis and Houde may have lost some in English-speaking ‘areas ielsewhere, Voters in Ontario and other provinces ‘may recall that while Drew was wounded with Canadian forces overseas in 1916, Duplessis and Houde fought a draft for the Armed Services in World War II (Houde was locked up for four years after he spoke against National Registration of man- power.) Drew is 55 and a former Premier cans of the United States. St. Laurent, 67, is the political heir ot W. L. Mackenzie King, who left the Prime Ministry tecause of ill health last August. i party, somewhat New Dealish in lt:end. has backed social security measures and promised more if re- turned to power. In the last House of Commons, dissolved in April, the Liberals held 125 seats against a combined op- | position of 119. Under Canadian law the Liberals could have held on {until August, 1950. Instead they | exercised their prerogative to call ably considered it better to put itheir fate up to the voters now than at a later time when Canada may be less prosperous. tree native to North America. St. Laurent’s Liberal! ‘There are about 20 species of ash | COMMUNISTS LOSE AT POLLS, BELGIUM (By Associated Press) Tabulation of about 70 percent of 5,000,000 votes cast in Belgium’s Parliamentary election made it} clear there would be no referendum on the possible return of exiled; King Leopold. The Social Christian party, only pro-Leopold group, had received | 444 percent of the ballots counted. ‘This, however, was far short of the absolute majority the party had campaigned for. The election re- turns also indicated a smashing de- feat for the Communists, who lost at least one-fourth of their 1947 support. The voting was held yes- terday. Stork Expeded in | Tyrone Power Home | | 1 | | HOLLYWOOD, June 27—(M—Ty- rone Power and his actress wife,| Linda Christian, are expecting a baby in January, his studio has an- nounced. I | GAME TONIGHT The Legion and Elks are schedul- ed to meet tonight at 6:39 o'cloek | in the first game of the second half | of the Juneau Baseball League’s schedule. Tomorrow night the Elks sit in on the half-hour program as;morial church, judges to determine how deep the “assessee” should dig into his jeans for cash to assist in the community project. All radio listeners will be eavex—i P dropping when Lions moderator,! & Vern Metcalfe, and the four judges » get the final word from the citizen 0 0 0 0 0 . WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 a.m. PST. on the other end of the wire. Once ' i s the deal s closed fleet-footed Boy| g o Juncau—Maximum, 49; 2y Scouts from Troop 614 will go out o At Alrp(v)rt-'MaxAmum. 50: to collect the money and remrnl. mifiimum, 4 ! to ring it up on the Swimming Pooll io:izc AST Cash Register. ba s Judges for tonight's show will| g ra- be Burke Riley, Art Hedges, Pete| o ,:::r.;“::l :gwe;:g::::pcm_‘ Wood and Gerald Williams. Tomor- night. Increasing cloudiness with light rain and high- est temperature about 54 on ‘Tuesday. ‘PRECIPITATION row night Milton Furness, D. L.| o Appelgate, Mac Kay- Malcolm and, o Dr. J. O. Rude will act as judges,| with Harry Sperling, George Dan-| o I ner, Don OC. Foster and Billl g (past 24 hours endink 7:30 a m. today Matheny on the program Wednes-|o Seind =47 inches; dsy night. e since June 1, 6.00 inches; | ST ® since July 1, 11839 inches F P ' Ik ® At Airport — .10 inches; I - ® since Jume 1, 4:30 inches; o"r ower a s i. since July 1, 68.25 inches. . e 0000 c00®s 0000000000000 00 00 OnGermanyArefo *--........ Resume Tomorrow| CAPT. HAWLEY AND WIFE ARE HERE FOR FISHIN BERLIN, June 27.—(—The Al-| When Capt. Dick Hawley, Pan lies announced today four power|American Airways pilot, heard gnat" talks on Germany will be revwedlum were biting at Tee Harbor,| tomorrow afternoon. The five-week-|he arranged for a holiday in Ju- long rail strike which has imposed meau. ‘With Mrs. Hawley, Capt a virtual second blockade on Ber-| Hawley arrived by Pan American, “PASSES ON, Named VFW | (ommander Two Juneau Men Are Also Elected fo Office at Fairbanks Meeting Gray Tilly, member of Fairbanks Golden Heart Post 3629 of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, was elected Commander of the VFW Alaska Department at the convention held last week in Fairbanks. He succeeds John ™ McLaue¢hlin of Juneau. Other newly-elected Department officers are: Senior Vice Command- er, Allen Marcum, Juneau; Junior Vice Cor .nander, George Sullivan, Nenana; Quartermaster, Glen Hunt- er, Anchorage; Judge Advocate, Joe Fennell, Juneau; Surgeon, Glen Payne, Seward; Chaplain, Capt. Selzer, Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage. Twelve resolutions in all were adopted. In addition to defen: national guard and riverboat se vice, the VFW adopted the follow- ing points as part of their 1949- 50 policy: Resolutions Adopted 1. Setting up a service officer lany educator, observed her 69th| in the ofiice of the regional VA|yirthday today and issue & mes- | director. 2. Encourgsing veteran employ-|There is no age to the spirit.”| | ment, 3. Boosting veteran allowances. 4. Supporting veterans’ housin bill. 5. Encouraging more VA contact work in field. 6. Making public records uennin—‘ ing to veterans more easily avall-]representative for the Department | able to them. 7. Extending work in veterans’ af- fairs. 8. Providing more housing for veterans. 9. Developing agriculture in Alas- ka by making available army equip- ment for use in clearing ground. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive 1 p, m. tomorrow, sailing west at 9 p. m. Princess Kathleen from Vancouv- er scheduled to arrive at 3 p.m. Prince George scheduled to sail (from Varcouver tomorrow at 8 p.m. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday, 8 p.m. BEAUTY; NO "OBEY' 14 LOS ANGELES, June-27.—(M— Governer Fuller Warren of Florida +and his pretty sun-tanned Califor- Barbara Jeanne Manning, 23, softly spoke the words “I do” for the Governor in a late afternoon candle lit ceremony at Westwood Communtiy Church yesterday. | There were 200 fashionably dress- 'ed guests inside the church, and {a crowd of informally dressed cur- {ious on the outside as the silver- haired 43-year old governor and the bride recited their vows. i A Lutheran minister, thé Rev. |A. J. Scldan, officiated, omitting the [ word “obey” from the ceremony. The church, lavishly decorated with flowers, formed a colorful set- | ting for the uniting of a Florida governor and a California beauty. But outside the sky was leaden gray with not even a trace ¢’ sun- shine. I Helen Kellar Is Sixty-nine Today; Messaq&ls Issued EASTON, Conn., June 27—(®— Helen Kellar, famed blind author sage—"I do not feel any age yet. Greetings came to her from all nver the world. HBPINTZLEMAN GOING TO WESTWARD, INTERIOR B. Frank Hem:seman, | Alaska | of Agriculture, plans to go to An- chorage tomorrow for several De- partment conferences. Then he goes to Fairbanks, where he will be among the honor guests at the IPresldent Emeritus Day ceremonies Friday honoring Dr. Charles E. Bunnell. Heintzleman expects to be |back in Juneau Saturday. His meetings to the westward are, | with representatives of the Rural | | Electrification; Agriculture Re- | search and Farmers' Home Admin- | istrations; the Soil Conservation | | Service and the Bureau of Entom- | iology and Plant Quarantine. Heintzleman also is Regional For- ester for Alaskay | | ARTHUR JENNINGS, 68, ! ‘ DIES AT ST. ANN'S | | Arthur Jennings, 68, died at St. | ria bride are honeymooning today. | E. Glen Wilder, AXLA, executive director, presented the case for Alaska housing, showing that estab- lishment of the 'ferriforial pro- gram is necessary before the ex- pected Congressional appropriation [of $15,000,000 can be obtained. Any appropriations for the | 21aska Development Board beyond {acministration expense and com- 1n‘.1tments already made were (frozen. Ralph Prowne, acting man- | oger of the Development Board oX- i fice, said today he canrot estimate 'what that”sum may be. | George Sundiorg, executive | assistant to the Governor and con- | sultant to' the Board, is enroute |irom Washington, D.C. BERLIN AIRLIFT HAS BIRTHDAY; NO ‘OBSERVANCE TAKEN y | BERLIN, June 27--A-—The air- {1ifr had its first birthday yesterday, {but no party. The 235,314th flight--a C-84 fly- {ing toxcar—landed five tons of !steel wool and textiles at Tempel- | hot Airport at exactly noon. ! It was unloaded without Y [muny and took off for its hom® base. The airlift lands an average 8200 tons in Berlin every day so effeciently that nobody pays much attention t6 it. Lt. Michael B. Seeley, 30, ot Bakersfield, Calif, agd Lt. W. R. Blackburn, 29, of Myrtle Creek, Ore, flew the anniversary flight and didn't even know it until re- COPLON TRIAL IS ENDED; ARGUMENTS | cop WASHINGTON, June 27. —(P— Testimony ended foday in Judith Coplon’s espionage trial and Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves promptly denied a defense motion for a di- cted verdict of aeguittal Prosecuting and defense attorneys will make their final arguments to- morrow. MRS. SEAL JOINS HUSBAND FOR TRIP OVER SE ALASKA Mrs. Robert Seal, whose husband is on the business statf of The Alaska Weekly, ‘mrrived by Pan American today and will accompany Aleutian scheduled ,w sail rromfAnn‘l Hospital Sunday at 5 a.m | Mr. Seal on a buxiness trip through Seattle Saturday. He was born in New Castle, Eng- | southeast Alaska. Mr. Seal is Denali scheduled to sail from Se- |land, and had resided in Sitka prior | Juneau after a trip through the attle Thursday. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- to his hospitalization here. Funeral arrangements will be! Westward and Interior Alaska with Earle W. Knight, publisher of The lin is schedulgd ‘to end in the{plane today for several days fish-'rive at 7 a. m. tomorrow, and sails made by the Charles W. Carter Alsska Weckly. The Seals form- | are scheduled to meet the Moose. morning. ing out of Juneau. south one hour later at 8 a. m. | Mortuary. ) erly lived in Ketchikan,