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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
Name Called Sifka Lad Is
 Murder Cause
Confession Tells Why Play. mate SIain-Lad Is
 Brought Here

Thirteen -year-old Chris. Didrick- son. part-Indian boy who has con- fessed to fatally stabbing his play mate "Dodo" because she called him "big Siwash' is now in the Federal jail here.
 With juvenile jurisdiction waived by the U. s. Commissioner at Sitka the boy has been bound over to face a grand jury on charge of murder in the first degree. He was landed here off the steamer North Sea by U. s. Marshal William T. Mahoney.
 It is disclosed that signed, writ ten confession to the stabbing of 11-year- Anna Marie Ward, daughter of the City Supervisor of Sitka, has been obtained from the lad.
 Details unfolded by the FBI agent who investigated the case and by U. s. Attorney Patrick J. Gilmore, Jr., are:
 The Ward and Didrickson homes are located next to each other on ID" street in Sitka. The lad and lass had long been playmates.
 "Dodo" was the boys pet name for the girl he is alleged to have killed
 The staying took place in the Did rickson house yard, at 7.30 o'clock Tuesday evening. The slayer then carried the pitiful body about 30 feet to the banks of Dog Creek, small stream between the Didrickson home and that of Billy Lawrence. the third of trio of playmates- It was Billy Lawrence who found the hacked little body at 11:30 o'clock the next morning.
 Anna Marie had gone into his yard to play, Chris Didrickson is reported to have confessed. In a fatal flash of words, she called him a 'big Siwash." He is said to have then immediately run into his home and returned with a pair of sharp scissors with which he stabbed the girl many times. Several of the stab wounds-and probably the first of them-passed thorugh the little vic- tim's heart, but she was stabbed many more times even after she had fallen dead.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
TRUMAN'5 LIFE
 IS THREATENED:
 MAN IN CUSTODY

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. The Secret Service reported today that "an alleged self proclaimed exc cutioner" is being held for Grand Jury action on charges of threaten ing the life of President Truman. This statement was in report on the services activities during the fiscal year which ended June 30. It did not give names, places or dates in the case.
 However, the service described the arrest and confinement of the ac- cused as the most significant" of its activities in protecting the Presi- dent.
 In the same report, the Secret Service predicted that mail thieves would try to make capital out of the 15,000,O00 cheeks and 12,O00,00O bonds to be sent to veterans for GI terminal leave pay.
 The service further reported "a moderate upturn in seizures of bogus bills and coins, the first increase in several years"
 The face value of the bogus bills and coins seized during the year was S74,263. against $68,324 in 1945.
 Forged checks received for inves- tigation numbered nearly 30,000 during the year, compared with 16,- 800 in the previous year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
New Charges
 Hurled Forth,
 MostowI Radio
PIdnis on Preparations List Are Being Ransaek-
 ed Is Claim

LONDON, Aug. - The Moscow Radio said today that plants on the separations list in the Ameri- can zone of Germany are being ransacked.
 A Tass report from Berlin, broad- cast by the Moscow Radio, said Facts have become public here testifying to the fact that in the American gene of occupation of Germany equipment of enterprises included by the Control Council in the list of objectives to be dis mantled as part of separations payments is being ransacked.
 AS a result" the Soviet News Agency report continued, many plants included in the separations list are now completely lacking in- dustrial equipment or possess wcithless separate units of incom- plete equipment"
 The account said all the equip ment at 10 aircraft plants, branches of the Messerschmitt Company iii the American zone, had "yanished.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
BOMBER IN
 CRASH; NO
 SURVIVORS

LONG BEACH, Calf, Aug. B. An Army Air Forces BPS medium bomber, groping for landing in an overcast, crashed in flames three miles southeast of the Army air \field early today, killing the five or six persons aboard. There were no survivors.
 Smoldering wreckage was scat tered over an area of about a qusrter-mile radius. Nearby resi- dents said there was a blinding flash and an explosion was heard.
 Army spokesmen said the bomb- CT was en route to Long Beach Army Air Field from Albuquerque, N. Mex
 It was the second crash of a military plane, without survivors, in Southern California in three days. A Navy PB4Y hit and ex- ploded near San Diego early Thurs day, killing 12 occupants, all mili- tary personnel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
VICTORY DAY PROCLAIMED
 BY TRUMAN

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-Presi- dent Truman today proclaimed Wednesday, August 14-anniversary of Japan's sslrrender-as Victory Day and directed the Flag be dis played on all government buildings. It will not be legal Federal holi- day however.
 He called upon the people to ob- serve the day as one of solemn commemoration of the devotion of the men and women by whose sacri- fices victory was achieved" He also asked that it be observed as a day "of prayer and of high resolve that the cause of justice, freedom, peace, and international good will shall be advanced with undiminished and un- remitting efforts, inspired by the valor of our heroes of the armed services"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
SENATOR'S 10 PRESS PROBE
 OVER RECESS
Mead Com miftee Will Standby for Month";
 Waiting for May

WASHINGTON, Aug. The Senate War Investigating Commit tee began a breather today along with the rest of Congress but post ed notice that its ferreting for wartime frauds will go on.
 Its formal warning that it is bent upon exposure of fraud in wartime spending in general and dishonesty on the part of public officials in particular climaxed a month of investigation into the complicated operations of a muni- tions combine
 While Congress expects to take the rest of the year off, the prob ing committee decided upon a month long recess of public hear ings except for an emergency"
 From sources close to the com mittee, it was learned that this phrase was inserted to cover the possibility that Rep. May D-Ky) would volunteer to appear before the committee to tell, under oath, of his intervention on behalf of the combine.
 May, whose counsel pleaded ill- ness on his behalf, has been ab- sent from Capitol Hill since his collapse on the eve of scheduled appearance before the committee. He has denied profiting person. ally through that intervention.
 The committee announcement on its plans for working during the Congressional recess came on the heels of the disclosure by Elisha Walker, New York investment banker, that he held a five-year- old unpaid $500O promissory note, signed by May.
 Walker informed the committee that he made the loan at the re- quest of Murray Carson, one of the combines promoters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
PLOT IS
 REVEALED

LUXEMBOURG, Aug. 3.-Albert Winghert, Luxembourg resistance leader, and two officers of the Gr9nd Duchy's midget army were reported in custody today in con- nectiCn with an alleged plot to over throw the government.
 Winghert and Lieutenants Krieps and Winter were said to have been arrested by police after discovery of reputed plot by half a dozen persons to seize power by force
 Winghert, who spent several months in a Nazi concentration camp during the German occupa- tion of Luxembourg is a Socialist schoolmaster. Krieps and Winter escaped from the country during the war and joined Luxembourg 2,000-man army formed in Britain
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
SPRAYING
 REPORTED
 ON YENAN
Communist Capital of Yen. an Attacked by Seven
 Government Planes

MARKING, Aug. 3-Gen. Chou En-Lai, chief Communist negotia tor in the crumbling peace talks said today he took a very serious view of the attack by seven gov ernment planes on the Communist capital of Yenan, declaring "this broadens the scope of the civil war" He received official woro |of yesterday's 20-minute bombing land strafing attack as he was con- ferring here with U. s. Presiden- tiaf Envoy George c. Marshall.
 The only hopeful sign in China's |darkening peace picture appeared in General Marshall's hurried de- fparture today for Ruling amid re- ports Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek, summering there, had found g solution to China's troubles.
 The message to General Chou from Yenan failed to mention cas- ualties, but Communist sources saiC a number of persons were killed and wounded.
 Meantime, at Tientsin, United States Marines who lost four o their number in gun battle witt Communists on the Peiping-Tient' sin road July 23, erected barricade' in front of important buildings anC increased guard strength agains possible further clashes.
 Marines were assigned four med ium tanks for use if needed tt keep the Peiping -Tientsin road open
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
NORTHWEST
 GETS BUSY
 ON FLYING
To Start Experim enta | Flights Over Great CirtIe
 Route 10 Orient Soon

SEATTLE, Aug. g. Northwest Airlines spokesmen said today the company would start experimental flights within 30 days to familiarize pilots and other personnel with the Great Circle Route to the Orient, granted VIVA by the Civil Aeronau- .ics Commission.
 Meantime, the Seattle Times said, Northwest may seek permission from the Russian government for stop overs in the Kurile Islands. If this request is not granted Adak or Attu will be used as stopping points. Ap- proximately 20 per cent of the Great Circle flights are expected to be nonstop from Anchorage to Tokyo.
 VIVA officials. who will meet here Monday to consider plans for the new route. said they would await full text of the CAA decision before answering request of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce for a state ment on whether the Seattle-An- chorage leg will be a main outlet or feeder line"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
(0NGRE5SMEN Suspension of TURN HOME 10 Yukon Captain FENCE FIXING Now Sustained
Negligence on Four Points Listed = Some Grew
 Members Censured

SEATTLE, Aug. 3. The Coast Guard announced today it's Com mandant, Adm. J. F. Farley, has upheld a Merchant Marine hearing unit decision suspending Capt. Chris E. Trondsen of the steamship Yu- kon, which went aground and broke up near Seward, Alaska, last Feb ruary with the loss of II lives.
 The commandant's decision was received by Commodore J. E. Stika 18th Coast Guard District Officer No further action will be taken against officers or crew, the Coast Guard said
 Admiral Farley said stranding ot the Yukon was caused by "negli- gence of the master" through failure to perform four acts: Hauling out to sea, using sounding equipment using a marine speed and distance indicator, and reducing speed under limited visibility.
 However, the Admiral said the Board of Investigation gave the matter of efficiency and conduct ot the Yukon's crew considerable at tention."
 Tt is regrettable, he added, that few members of the stewards de- partment should so conduct them selves as to reflect adversely upor the entire crew. There were reports of pilfering of passengers baggage which were grossly exaggerated, al though it appears that there was some petty thieyery.
 Admiral Farley said prompt actior by the Army and Coast Guard was responsible for reducing loss of life Captain Trondsen was "beached' for three months last spring ano placed on IS months suspension by the hearing unit Alaska Steamship Company officials said he had not yet been returned to command but is serving on the steamship Aleutian as a pilot.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
 Group Arrives
 Here This Aft.
Territory and Civic Groups Gear for Rate h.
 crease Onslaught

The national spotlight is to be focused in Juneau upon two of Alaska's prime prcblems-transpor- tation and fisheries--commen Monday when a committee of the U. s. House of Representa- tives' Committee on Merchant Ma rine and Fisheries opens at least two days of public inquiries here.
 The four House members com- prising the Subcommittee are ex- pected to arrive here between and o'clock this afternoon aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Haida. They are: Committee Chair man Henry M. Jackson Wash.), Rep. Schuyler Otis Bland (D-Va), Rep. Christian A. Herter -Mass) and Delegate E. L. Bartlett (D- Alaska Marvin Coles, general counsel to the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, accom- panies the group.
 Rep. Bland is Chairman of the full Committee, but in the hear ings here and later in Seattle will stand aside while Rep. Jackson presides over the Sub- Committee assigned to the Alaska inquiry.
 The hearings nere will seek an- swels from the people e Alaska to nine questions already stated. Five of them concerned with se- curing adequate shipping between Alaska and the States and the other four dealing with commer- cial fishing restrictions and con- seryation measures.
 Transportation Problem
 The first topic to be aired-on Monday, commencing at 10 o'clock am in the Senate Chamber of the Federal Building here-will be the transportation problem.
 Regarding that matter, includ- ing proposed increase of shipping rates, New York counsel David E. Scoll will appear on behalf of the Alaska Development Board. Attorney General Ralph J. Rivers will testify for the Territory also and representatives of several Chambers of Commerce in Alaska will likewise appear. Jack Fletch- CT and Homer Garvin have been designated to speak for the Ju- neau Chamber of Commerce. Ket- chikan attorney Wilfred Stump is to appear for the First City Cham Der and Jess Ballard for the Peters ourg Chamber of Commerce.
 The inquiry ree~. aing the fish cries is to begin Tuesday or at the conclusion of testimony upon the transportation issue.
 Following their arrival here this afternoon and before they get down to business on Monday, the Con- gressmen are to be entertained at a reception and dinner at the Governors House this afternoon and will be given their choice of fishing trips tomorrow. Mrs. Err nest Gruening has announced that the reception will be held between the hours of 5 o'clock and T o'clock, with the dinner to follow inn mediately. Both affairs are inyi- tational.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
TWO RUSSIAN
 SPIES ARE TURNED OVER
Serious Charges Are Made by U. 5. Intelligence
 Authorities

FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 3 The U. s. Army announces that two of three Russian soldiers, ar rested recently in Berlin as spies and later released to Soviet au- thorities, had forced German em- ployees of the U s. Army to hand over secret American documents.
 The announcement = issued from the office of Brig Gen. Edwin L. Sibert, U. s. Army Intelligence chief in Europe-followed charges that the three Soviet soldiers were treated like criminals while in American custody"
 The U. s. announcement said that the two Russian officers-Lt. Sedov and It. Shulkin-were ar rested in civilian clothes enroute into the American sector of Ber- lin:
 For engaging in clandestine ac- tivities in the U. s. sector of Ber- lin.
 For forcing German employees of the U. S. Army to deliver classi- fled documents and information about the r. S. Army and it's poli- cies.
 For possessing inadequate docu- ments authorizing their stay in the U. s. sector of Berlin"
 The third Russian taken into custody, Pvt. Kuznetzov, who was driving the two Soviet officers when they were seized at road block, was arrested for acting as an accessory to the illegal activities of Sedov and Shulkin,' the state ment said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
TRAINS HIT;
 79 PERSONS
 ARE INJURED

BAYONNE. N. J., Aug. 3-Two Central Railroad of New Jersey trains, carrying capacity commuter crowds augmented by weekenders bound for the Jersey shore, collid- ed last night before a mortified throng at the West 9th Street station here, killing one person and injuring at least 79 passengers.
 The accident, in which the Free hold Express telescoped into the rear of the Barnegat Express, oc- cured at the height of the con- muter rush.
 The dead is a man, Robert Hendershot of Wilkes Barre, Pa, fireman of the Freehold train, who was buried under tons of coal when his locomotive and tender overturned.
 Thirty mine of the injured were in Bayonne Hospital, two of them in critical condition.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
79th Congress Leaves Sev- eraI Items on White
 House Doorstep

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 Law makers shifted from the legislative to the political battlefields today as the 79th Congress went home expecting that it won't be back until after the November election, if ever.
 The vast majority of it's mem- bers, however, hoped individually to be on hand when the 80th Con- gress is called to order in Janu- ary. For most of them the op- portunity to get back home and hoe political gardens was what they had been waiting for months.
 Every House seat technically is at stake in November, although some of the contests already have been decided in Democratic pri- maries in the South. Thirty-slx Senate seats are to be filled, and there, too, some southern Demo- crats have cleared their voting hurdle
 The Senate bowed out with a humping 60 to vote approving a resolution authorizing the Presi- dent to deposit with the United Nations this country's agreement to abide by decisions of the World Court in matters pertaining to treaty interpretations, international law, breaches of international ob- legations, and separations.
 The scattering lawmakers of the Senate and House left other ma jor legislation on the White House doorstep, including a $2,636, ,289, ,00C appropriation bill carrying funds for enlisted mems furlough pay.
 Also approved in the last min- ute rush was a measure boosting old age benefit and other pay ments and freezing the Social Se- curity payroll tax until January, 1948, at the present level of per- cent on employers and employees.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
JUNEAU SUPPORT IS
 OFFICIALLY Q05ED;
 IT. COL. WISE LEAVES

It. Col Prentice L. Wise, District Auditor, Sixth Army Area, Seattle, and his assistant, Melvin F. Der sham, left on the North Sea for the States following final close out of the Juneau Support.
 Col. Wise said he had found &C., counts at the Support in perfect condition" and certificate to that effect would be issued to Maj. Ches- ter Wagner Commander of the Port, in the near future.
 Records are now being packed for shipment to the States and the Army will officially retire from all activities connected with Support in a few weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
HAWAI-! BASE IS
 LIABLE AZ EVER
 TO SNEAK PUNCH

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 = Sena- tor Hill D-Ala.) declared yester- day there is mo unity of command at Pearl Harbor" but the same organization for defense that ob- tained on Sunday, Dec. T, 194l, when the Japanese took the island bastion by surprise.
 We are right back where we started" he declared in a speech prepared for Senate delivery.
 General Hull commands the Ha- waiian department-the Army-he does not command the Navy.
 Admiral Hall commands the 14th Naval District-the Navy-he does not command the Army
 Hill spoke in favor of armed forces unification, an issue now admittedly dead for this session of Congress.
 As member of the Military Committee and ardent advocate of unification, Hill said he decided to lay the case for the legislation which never reached the Senate floor-before his colleagues as a result of an anti-unification speech delivered in the Chamber last week by Senator Hart (R- ConnD, retired Admiral.
 Hill said that Naval officers are toasting the failure of Congress to act on the legislation exactly as they would toast Navy football victory over the Army"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

PARIS.-(By Cable) The most important conversation of the en- tire Paris Conference occurred not in the gold -bedecked hall Of the Palace of Luxembourg, but in a private dining room when Jimmy Byrnes sat down with British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
 Significantly, they call in not treaty experts, but President Tru- mans special Palestine Commis- sioner, Henry Grady; and this IS what they talked about:
 Attlee proposed to Byrnes that England would play ball with the U. s. A. on the plan to unlfy Ger many, provided the U. $. A, m turn, would play ball with Britain on its plan to partition Palestine.
 At first, Byrnes winced at this trade. He told the mild-mannered Prime Minister of England quite frankly that he had direct orders from his boss in the White House against any partition of Palestine. He added, however, that he be- Iieved he could convince MT. Tru- man of the wisdom of the trade. Tentatively, therefore, Byrnes ac- cepted the Palestine Germany swap, subject to White House ap- proval.
 But he also asked Attlee to name a definite date for moving the Jews out of Europe. Attlee prom ised action by September and then nroceeded to put the heat on
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
ANCHORAGE FBI
 MAKES CAPTURE
 IN MURDER CASE

ANCHORAGE, Aug. 3.-The Fed eral Bureau of Investigation re- ported today it had arrested Almon J. Fuller and was holding him on an open charge in connection with the investigation of the death of Mrs. Jean Mackey, former Seattle woman, whose beaten body was found July 18 in the back of a truck.
 FBI agents, seeking Fuller for questioning, learned that he had been seen by an Alaska Railroad crew and flew to the scene in a Fish and Wildlife Service plane.
 They sighted him, made a land ing and caught him in brush near the tracks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
sTORK BUSY FRIDAY

The Stork was kept busy yes terday making two flights to St. Ann's Hospital, but it is reported that all are doing well-the moth CTS, the fathers, the girls and the stork.
 A baby girl weighing pounds g ounces was born to Mrs. Jerry Green yesterday morning at 8:30 o'clock Last evening at 8:20 o'clock Mrs. Lester Roberts gave birth to a pound ounce baby girl.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
FREE WEDDING

JEROME, Idaho, Aug 3 = The Northside Rodeo Association has offered a free wedding to the Jerome County couple who will volunteer to be married while astride merry-go-round horses at Wild West show here.
 A ring and wedding cake are in- cluded iE the offer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
ALA5kA AIRLINE5
 MECHANICS VOTE
 STRIKE ON AUG. {

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. B. Alaska Airlines mechanics voted yes terday to strike at g a. m. August 8 unless the company grants their g per cent wage increase demand.
 Officials of the Aircraft Workers Union said mail planes will not be affected, but the mechanics will refuse to service freight and pas senger planes. Negotiations are ex- pected to continue in an effort to avert the strike.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
POLICE CONTINUE
 HUNT FOR LISTER

Search continued here today for Ronald Lister, reported missing since Thursday afternoon.
 City Police Chief Leonard Will iamson today stated that police have checked report that Lister was seen in downtown Juneau yes terday morning. Traces so far un- covered indicate that Lister left the city heading up Mt Roberts, but later returned to town, Will iamson said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
REMOVAL PROPER

BERLIN, Aug. 3 - A high rep arations official in the American Military Government, commenting on Moscow charges that the Ameri- cans had ransacked factories in their zone allocated for separations, asserted today that all removals of equipment had been "in accord with the Potsdam Declaration"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03
FISH LANDINGS

The Vonja landed 5000 pounds of salmon and sold to Alaska Coast Fisheries. Her skipper iss Fred ForebeSe.
 The following seine boats have been in port during the last two days: Rosalyn. Barney, Bertie II, Dorothy D and Florence.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-03

RIO DE JANEIRO, tug. 3.-Gen. Eisenhower and his party touring Brazil left Belen today for Natal, where an overnight stop was plan ned. The party is due here at noon tomorrow,