The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 24, 1949, Page 1

-production of nutritional foods, log- YOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,332 HALLENGE T0 RUSSIA BY TRUMAN Way to Ouflaw Afomic Bomb-Makes Speech By Egnept B. Vaccaro NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—(®—Pre- ident Truman challenged all na- jlons today to agree on a workable ay to outlaw the atomic bomb, as he alternative to man’s destruc- fion. Speaking against the background f Russia’s refusal to come into n agreement that the United Stat- s and other powers have endorsed Ar. Truman sajd: “To assure that atomic energy vill be devoted to man's welfare nd not to his destruction is a con- inuing challenge to all nations and 1 peoples.” It was his first foreign policy Heclaration since his Sept. 23 an- ouncement: ‘“We have evidence hat within recent weeks an atomic xplosion occurred in the US.SR." 'he President declared: “Ever since the first atomic wea- pon was developed, a major objec- tive of United States policy has been a system of international con- rol of atomic energy that wou!i assure effective pronibition of at- omic weapons, and at the same time would promote the peaceful lse of atomic energy by all na tions.” (Continued on Page 2) The Washingtm;, Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON Copyrignt, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.: ‘ASHINGTON— The last pres- sure group you would ever expect| to support President Truman’s fa't deal is the National Association of Manufacturers. In fact, if the powerful NAM says anything good about the White House, it's head- | line news. However, believe it or not, but the NAM is now sending its members a confidential analysis of the most controversial feature of the fair deal—the Brannan Farm Plan—putting it in a favorable light. T Without hysteria, the: NAM has | prepared a detailed, factual anal- ysis of the Brannan Plan, which is neither for nor against. But the | sum total of these facts is surpris. ingly pro-Brannan. Though not yet off the press, preview copies have been to sev- eral NAM members along with a| letter explaiding: “Many, even though they recognize the import- | ance of the Brannan Plan, never- theless found it too abstruse for ready understanding. To help rem- edy this the NAM research depart- ment has done a painstaking an- alysis of the plans, objectives, op- ations, etc.” Here then is what the NAM says about the Brannan Plan: “Qualified persons have pointed to several apparent advantages in using the Brannan Plan to support farm income. They emphasize its directness and simplicity of meth- od, fairness of the period 1939 to 1948 as a starting point for an in- come base or ‘yardstick,’ encour- ageuaent to continued high level lcal classification of storable and nonstorable farm products, ‘orderly marketing’ provisions, financial cov- erage of farm groups hitherto in- adequately provided for in farm programs, and its importance to na- tional security. Brannan Weaknesses “On the other hand, several weaknesses in the plan are ap- parent. These shortcomings mainly concern the objective of trying to narrow the gap between farm and nonfarm income, the price distor- tions present in the period of years selected as the starting point for an income base or ‘yardstick,’ the unsoundness of attempting to pro- ject these distortions into the fu- ture, the discretionary power to alter prices dictated by the pric- ing formulas of the plan, the lack of built-in flexibility in the pricing { r_esidehl Seeks Workable “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTH Princi @ » | | { First Lieut. Andrew E. Madsen, son said Mrs. Yvette Madsen, the (right) would be charged with murder. follewed a gay party. % Wirephoto. in Shooting i left) was shot and killed in his home in Frankfurt, Germany, and District Attorney Fred John- 26, young Air Force Lieutenants’ wife, Johnson said the shooting { FIGHTS WAY TO FREIGHTER B-17 Escapes Disaster Aft- er Dropping Medical Sup- plies in North Pacific ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 24— #—A perilous mercy mission by a B-17 Air Force bomkter nearly nded in disaster Saturday night then a downdraft caught the big plane above a storm-lashed freighter in the North ' Pacific. The pilot, Capt. Charles E. Hale of Winslow, Ind., reported later that the bomber, with eight men aboard, would have plunged into 0-foot icy waves if the four engines had not been at full power. The narrow escape of Hale and is crew was an instant after they had parachuted medical supplies at mast-high level to the freighter Catherine M. Goulandris, approxi- mately 100 miles south of Uminak Island in the Aleutians. The B-17 was dispatched from the Adak detachment of the 10th Rescue Squadron when the Gou- landris asked aid for a badly in- jure shilor. The man, not identified by the Orient-bound carge ship, was reported cut about the head MERCY PLANE ATTLEE CUTS FREE SERVICE 10 EASE CRISIS Defense Costs Pared-Med- ical Service Is No Longer Free By EDWARD CURTIS LONDON, Oct. 24—{P—Prime Minister Attlee slashed dollar spend- ing and defense costs and cut down on free medical services today tc| ease Britain's economic crisis. The Prime Minister laid before the House of Commons a program which will mean that some food costs for hungry, rationed Britons will rise. Attlee told the House of Commons he estimated cuts would save £280,- 000,000 ($784,000,000) in Britain's 1949-1950 budget. The budget total: £3,300,000. The British pound now is worth $2.80, It was devalued from $4.03 on Sept. 18. Attlee said £30,000,000 of the sav- ings will be in armed forces ex- oenses of this nation, which holds a key position in the west's Atlantic Pact defense plans. The leader of the Labor govern- mnent announced he had slapped a and suffering from severe shock. He | fee on the told and expensive pub- was hurt during the storm. {lic health service instituted by his DANGEROUS MISSION party in July, 1948. From now on, Headquarters here for the 10th|patients must pay a shilling (14 Rescue Squadron said Hale's plane | cents) for prescriptions. Hitherto uneau Man Accidently Shot, Ki SITUATION, 2 STRIKES, 15 GLOOMY No Apparent Progress To- | _ ward Break-President Is Not Infervening (By the Associated Press) Thickening gloom [ appeared to| have smothered today any hope for early peace in the nation's m-l, dustrial-crippling coal and steel | strikes. : § Nowhere was there any apparent | progress toward a break in either! b | of the two major disputes as unem- | ployment mounted and more and | |more industries became hubbledv! | “ome railroads prepared to curtail | train services because of dwindlng | zoal piles and layoffs continued in | ndustries dependent upon steel | supplies. t There was no indication that | President Trumdn had decided tol ntervene in either strike but| preading dislocations in the na- tion’s economy made such action|_ cem more and more likel { Charles G. Ross, the President’s| vress secretary, said, however, hel knew of no impending moves by the | White House in either the coal or steel strikes. He added that he had no imor-’ mation to justify weekend published | reports of early White House dc-| tion. = But out of the dismal week-end | idcve!upmenls came settlement of | |two other strikes—the 45-day tieup| of the Missouri Pacific railroad by| By JAGK [pDBN train and engine men and the 176-| FISHWHEEL, Alaska, Oct. 24— day walkout of stevedores at five|(#—Dozens of new prospectors— of six Hawaiian ports. |ama;zur and . profesional - con= But these settlements scarcely |tinued to pour into this scattered | dented the nation’s total of nearly |gold mining camp on the banks of 14000,000 idle workers which Secre-| the storied Yukon River today as might climb to 5,000,000 by Dec. 1| the list of claimstakers swelled past unless the steel and coal strikes the hundred mark. are settled meanwhile | There are tents lining the river | bank trom five miles up-stream to | three miles down-stream. The tem- | perature dropped to 15 degrees be- ‘(HAPEMDIES lo low zero last night. MEEI ToMoRRow‘ The men occupying the tents lit- !erally dropped from the sky upon| |this hitherto unprospected area !during the last three hectic day: | following disclosure that pea-sized | nuggets were found in a fishwheel |Ly Clifton Carrol, when he started 'to dismantle the device for the \ | The Chapeladies will meet Tues- day night (October 25) at T7:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Clyde | Hill. All members are requested to |attend as further plans will be made for the bazaar next month. | winter, e o6 e o o o o o o 3| The race to stake claims left, . e |Virtually no time for the main 1 WEATHER REPORT o | business at hand—the search for/ | (0. & WEATHER BUREAU) ~ » |EOId. That will come later. As al o | result, however, no one knows at! (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) good Alaska’s ¢ 31111; writing how iatest gold strike actually is. In Juneau-Maximum, 46: A few persons who have done minimum,' 40 |some panning report firsling Foiv “color,” which consists of minute At Airport—Maximum, 42: minimum, 36. | flakes of the precious metal with- { out ccmmercial value. Two 0f those FORECAST are Jim Brown and Jack White, s ' 20-mile bored through freezing ‘gale winds, fog and darkness for 420 miles, finally locating the Goulandris by radar. During the flight and instrument descent the bomber’'s wings iced badly and severe turbulence made the aircraft difficult to handle. When it_broke beneath the cloud bank it was less than 400 feet above the angry seas. Radar and radio contact guided the big plane to the freighter, five miles away. Bucking winds of 55 to 60 miles an hour and a stinging rain, Hale made one “pass” -over the tossing ship for the parachute drop at 9 pm. (PST). As the chute caught in the Gou- the downdraft. The pilot managed and headed for Uminak for a land- ing in the gale. Crewmen of the mercy plane were Hale, Lt. Murray C. Gilliam, Jackson, Tenn.; Lt. C. L. Matthews, navigator; Sgt. B. B. Cairns, radar operator; and Lts. Robert C. Buck- ley and T. J. Morris. Squadron headquarters listed only the home- towns of Hale and Gilliam. ATTEMPTED BURGLARY Police investigated an attempt to break into the Harbor Market, 909 West Tenth Street, early Sat- urday. A sharp instrpment had been empleyed in the attempt, and a six- formulas, and the practicability of again resorting to subsidies, pro- duction controls, marketing con- | (Continued - on Page Four) trance, prescriptions have been free. The Prime Minister also lopped millions from government adminis- tration expenses and eapital ex- penses for new buildings, hospitals, schools and public works. This economy program is the government’s first announcement of policy since it devalued the pound. The House of Commons will \ debate the program Wednesday and Thursday. HOSPITAL NOTES Six persons were admitted to St. Ann’s hospital over the weekend. They were: Carolyn Moses, Mrs. Al- landris’ stern rigging, the B-17 hit |, " cogley Prank Barr, Thomas| P. Newell, Edward Kibby, and Rob- ito pull up just above the waves,l. .. prisehojs, Nine persons were discharged from St. Ann's: Mrs. Robert Ellis, Mrs. Jean Sneed and baby boy, Lauder McVey, Fred Carrillo, Ri¢h- ard Sullivan, Jerry Willlams and Mrs. William Levar and baby boy. Mrs. Edith Hansen of Yakutat was admitted to the Government hospital and Phillip Sharclane of Hoonah was discharged. BAND PRACTICE AT EIGHT THIS EVENIN I The Juneau City Band will hold inch hole had been cut, police the regular weekly practfee tonlghtiu‘ 8. Steel 24%, Pound $2.80% said. However, the door was secur- at 8 o'clock in the Grade School‘ |ely fastened and the prowlers gave auditorium. Director Joseph Shot-| itime. for a good rehearsal, (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with occa- sional light rain tonight. Lowest temperature around 41 degrees. Cloudy with rain and highest temperature near 45 degrees Tuesday. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—.22 inches; esince Oct. 1, 10.63 inches; since July 1, 31.90 inches. At Airport — 21 inches; since Oct. 1, 4.94 inches; since July 1, 20.24 inches. . . . . ° ] . . . . . . . [ STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali from Seattle scheduled to |arrive tomorrow forenoon. | Baranof scheduled to sail from | Seattle Saturday. | Princess Louise scheduled to ar- :rive Wednesday morning at 7 |o'clock sails south two hours later lat 9 o'clock. " STOCK QUOTATIONS ‘Ing quotation of Alaska Juneau NEW YORK, Oct. 24—(#— Clos- | 1'cr,th originally from Bay City,| { Michigan, came to Fairbanks eight! months ago. Their claims are above | the point of Carrol's discovery. | Carrol’s fishwheel was located oft | the south river shore near the bank 5f a long narrow island now known {as Discovery Island, The twisting, | meandering river is about two miles {wide at this point, 20 miles south- east of Fort Yukon, and is split into eight channels by numerous islands and sandcars. The terrain is generally flat, and the area is laced by tiny lakes and countles: ! sloughs. On one oceasion 1 counted eight | planes on the ground and five in { the air waiting to land. Bush pilots |are making several trips daily to |the island. One flyer asserted that {a control tower is needed here |almost as much as a pick and shovel. | A light snow covered the whole | countryside last night with ground fog swirling amid the trees and around the prospectors’ tents. A | small cluster of tents on Discovery | Island are occupied by the holders of the 14 claims which the island encompasses and by new arrivals who have had no time to stake out | their own claims. | Old timers, of whom there are many here, brought along Yukon Arriva for Senfencing 'fortable in the chill night air. Each man is entitled to two Claims of 20 acres each. Staking a «elaim consists merely, of blazing the four corners and marking the claimant’s name and the post num- cer cn each blaze. Claims are being designated here by name or number, the numbers usually running in sequence. Those electing to name theirs use such names as “May Ann” or “Chief Luke,” the latter being the claim |held by the chief of the native village at Fort Yukon. Bush pilots Louis Soha and Ed- ward Toussaint charge $10 for the hop from Fort Yukon. ccoha made 11 round trips from Fort Yukon Saturday. The fare from Fairbanks is $90 round trip or $50 one way. ‘ The boom is also affecting busi- here. Evelyn Melville, pro- s of Fort Yukon Cafe, said ske ordered a month’s supply of food which she expeets the pros- pectors to consume within a week. Quiet-spoken Clifton Carrol, ness | whose discovery touched off the, {mele, summed up the thoughts of imany when he said: “I ¢on't know how good this is. | Nobody does yet. 1 know we found gold in the fishwheel, I know what {l hope we find in the ground.” SAFETY CHECK ON SITKA AUTOS ARE GIVEN IN REPORT The Highway Patrol and the Sitka City Police between Oct. 19 and Oct. 21 checked 116 cars out of a total of 122 registered in the ity. In this number 72 violation kets were issued, Faulty equip- ment reported was as follows: 23 cars had faulty headlights, 21 had no stop lights: 32 were without tail lights. 24 had no rear view mirror, 5 had faulty mufflers. 16 were with defective emergency brakes. 18 had poor foot brakes. 17 had faulty horns. 15 had no windshield wipers. 16 cars had only 1 license plate each, 28 had no driver’s license what- soever. 5 cars had foreign license plates to be renewed. After repairs are made, cards are | expected to be turned over to the | city police. The Chief of the Highway Patrol Handcuffed together and flanked by U. 8. Marshals, Eugene Dennis (second from left), General Secre- tary of the Communist Party and City Councilman Benjamin J. Davis, make way through crowd from prigson van to the New York Federal Building to receive sentences following their conviction along with nine others on charges of conspiracy to advocate the forcible overthrow of theé U. S. government. Each received five years imprisonment and $10,000 fine. » Wirephoto. (laim StakersRushfoNew AMERICAN Strike; Planes Crowd Air As New Iowq Springs Up DIPLOMATS MEETING Secref Slra-iéq—y Is Being Planned on East-West Cold7War By HAROLD K. MILKS LONDON, Oct, 24—u—American diplomats from behind the iron curtain began secret strategy talks teday on the East-West cold war. In their two-day conferences, the United States envoys to Russia and her satellite states may discuss: 1. The worsening feud between the Kremlin and Marshal Tito, of Yugoslavia. 2. Tendencies—if any—of “Tito- ism,” or revolt against Moscow, to spread to .other Russian satellites in Eastern Europe. 3. The church-state disputes in Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. CAA OFFICIALS ARE MEETING IN OKLA. OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct, 24—(P— Rain-filled skles over Oklahoma | City didn't stop Civil Aeronautics | A¢ministration officials from arriv- | ing from as far away as Anchorage | Alaska, and Honolulu. | The officials flew in for a four- | day series of CAA conferences to | begin tomorrow. The meetings are ‘lthz gemi-annual meeting of CAA lrcgicn \administrators and the non- !sc!‘ duled flyinz advisory commit- | tez’s annual session. The meeting will be the first held outside Washington, Diréctor Frec Lander of the CAA at Oklahoma City sald. 200 Reported illed in Train Wredk, Poland WARSAW, Poland, Oct, 24—(® Unofficial but reliable reports said today more than 200 persons were killed in a train wreck Saturday near Nowy Dwor, northwest of | Warsaw. Informants said the accident oc- the Danzig-Warsaw | | curred when Express left the rails on a curve.| Imine stock today is 3%, American |Can 957, Anaconda 28%, Curtiss- \erght 77, International Harvest- ler 27, Kennecott 47%, New York | Central 10%, Northern Paeific 14!, Sales teday were 1,240,000 shares Averages today are as follows: in- |up the attempt before gaining en- ner asks that all members report om dustrials 186.54, rails 48.53, utilitle: |38.43, toves—five gallon cans with dratt and his staff appreciate the fine vents for burning wood—along cooperation of the’Sitka Police and with sleeping bags, tools and grub. the local citizens if this safety Their shelters are comfortable gath- drive. lering places for prospectors who - are talking hourly of one subject— Bud Phelps, National Grocery gold. representative here, was called Others who came equipped only south to the bedside of his father, | with sleeping bags are not so com- who s ill in Yakima. Wash. | The locomotive and several passen- | ger cars turned over All official sources declined com- | ment. FROM VALDEZ Marcus Carlson Alaska Road Commission, is registered from Val- |dez at tbe Gastineau Hotel [ & lled Sunday WILLIS ROFF IS VICTIM OFSHOOTING Accident Occurs on Small Target Range - Shot Fired b_y Ei Kibby Willis W, Roff, 56, a longtime Juneau resident, died yesterday 2fternoon after being shot in the chest by a high-powered rifle. The accident occurred at about :45 p.n. at a small target range m the road north from the bridge n Douglas Island. The shot was red by Ed Kibby. Roff was bréught to Juneau by ibby, who was alded by two un- dentified men. Dr. Willlam White- ‘lead reported the men said Roff iad died immediately. The United States Attorney's of- ice here said the shooting was ap- »arently accidental. Further investigation of the ac- ident will be carried out by the Jnited States Marshal and the U. 3. Attorney's office. An inquest has been set for 2:30 »m. tomorrow, U. 8. Commissioner Gordon Gray sald today. Roff is survived by his wife, a son Dale in Juneau and a daugh- ter, Elaine, in an eastern college, 1s well as by two sisters, Mrs, El- sie Klenke of Juneau and Mrs. John A. Wandve of Ketchikan, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Helen E. Roff of Juneau, He was born in Brooks, Oregon n 1893. He came to Alaska at an :arly age and had been employed by the Public Roads Administra- tion here since April, 1987. He was 1 principal mechanic. wos killed in an airplane acoident in. 1945, KILLED IN ORIENTAL FASHION OAKLAND, Calif, Oct. 24.—(P— Police today sought the slayers of an Oakland pharmacist and his 21- year-old woman clerk who were ex- ecuted Oriental fashion before & rifled safe, Rcbert Savage, 40, and Mrs. Mar- jorie Ruth Wilson, mother of & two-year-old daughter, were made to kneel with their hands before their eyes. They then were shot ruthlessly through the head from {behind by 45 calibre pistols late Saturday night. The body of the attractive young Negro woman, & San Francisco City College graduate, fell - across her boss’s crumpled form. Police expressed belief they were killed by two persons, probably persons who knew them. 3 A total of 8612 was taken from he safe and cash register. CAROLYN MOSES DOING WELL AFTER ACCIDENT Carolyn Moses, 6, who suffered 1 trcken collar bone and bruises on hier head and face when struck by a delivery truck late Saturday af- ‘terncon‘ is doing well, according to St. Ann’s hospital officials. Carolyn was struck down after she darted from hetween parked cars on lower Franklin street Satur- day afternoon. Police termed the accident “unavoidable.” She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Moses of Hoonah. Verdict Refurned, 1-Hour Discussion, Speedbga_l Accident SACRAMENTO, Callf., Oct. 24— |M—A Federal jury today convicted | Cakland automobile dealer Phil | Davis of negligence in the speed- | boat accident on Lake Tahoe in | which 14-year-old Imogene Wittsche {lost both feet. | The jury of eight men and four | women brought In its verdict after 1.12‘» hour's deliberation. Roff's brother, Adrian’ V.. Roff, ...