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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-05
MEXICAN OIL DEAL

Relationship between Davies and Pauley has been extremely close. Davies was Executive Vice Presi- dent of Standard Oil of California. Pauley sold him his own independ- ent oil company. Later, Pauley brought Davies to Washington, in- troduced him to Ickes, following which Davies became Ickes' De- putty Oil Administrator. He did a good job.
 However, State Department offi- cials say he continued to look out for Ed Pauley.
 When Pauley was trying to lob by his high-octane Mexican gaso- line plant through the Government, it had to pass the hurdle of Sec retary Ickes' Petroleum Adminis- tration. Davies okayed it-not only ,,kayed it, but pushed it vigorously. At first Ickes also gave it has bles- ring. The State Department, how ever. was vigorously opposed.
 Showdown came in secret ses- sion between Ickes, Davies, Da- vies aid, and the Assistant Secre- tarry of State Dean Acheson. The full story of this session was never really told at the Senate hearing. Acheson opened by giving Ickes a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-05
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON = Many Senators believe that the confirmation row over charming Ed Pauley as Under Secretary of the Navy has taken on new significance now that Sec retary Harold Ickes has offered Ralph Davies the job of Under Secretary of the Interior
 It happens that Davies and Ed Pauley are boom friends. Both are oil men. Both have followed the policy of "scratch-my- -back-Ill- scratch-yours." This is important.
 Recently, Secretary Ickes, who has a crusading record for guard ing the Nations resources, recom- mended to President Truman that naval oil reserves be transferred from the Navy to the Interior De- partment. It was just such trans fer by Albert K. Fall in the Hard ing Administration that resulted in the Teapot Dome oil scandal.
 No motive is attributed to the Jckes proposal except that of safe- guarding oil. In fact, some people consider it significant that his pro- posal happened to coincide, by luck or otherwise, with the nomination of oil man Pauley to be Under Secretary of the Navy.
 But what Senators consider im- portant is that, with Pauley's friend Ralph Davies offered the job of Under Secretary of the Interior, the Nays oil lands, no matter where they are located-in Interior or .Javy-will be partially under Paul. ey or friend of his.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-05
HOMMk TESTIFIES IN OWN DEFENSE
 AT MANILA TRIAL
Declares He Was Removed from Philippine Com
 mand by Tojo

MANILA, Feb. 5.-Lt. Gen. Ma saharu Homma testified at his war crimes trial today that he was re- moved from his Philippine com mand in August, 1942, because of pro- British tendencies and because he disagreed with ex-premier Hi deki Tojo
 Roughly speaking, there were two groups ill the army" said the defendant, who is charged with re- sponsibility for the deaths of 67,- Oc0 Americans and Filipinos.
 One was pro-German and the other pro- British. The latter, fost- ering liberal ideas, was in great minority. was supposed to head the latter group since I was the most senior officer. This was so, I believe, because I had my training in England and my association with the British people gave me broad outlook on life"
 Homma, testifying for the first time in his own behalf, said that he had incurred the disfavor of Tojo by objecting to the latter's appointment as Minister of War.
 He said Tojo was trained in Germany and headed the pro-Ger- man group.
 Homma pictured himself as an army chief who was not informed of all incidents under his command, did not appoint his staff officers and had no authority to remove them.
 It was obvious the defense was seeking to absolve him from his subordinates' actions
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-05
STRIKE CONTROL
 MEASURE GIVEN SWAT IN HOUSE
Drastic m end eni Is Knocked 0ut-N.Y. Ship
 ping Is Sill lied Up
(BY THE ASSOCIATED pREss)

The House has rejected the first major attempt to modify the new far-reaching strike control bill. On a voice vote, the House turned down an amendment to eliminate a ban on the use of boycotts in la hor disputes. One Congressman de- scribed the amendment as an effort to blow everything the people want rom the bill, and that without the ban on boycotts, jurisdictional dis putes would be condoned Undis- mayed by their first setback, op- ponents of the control bill are con- tinuing their efforts to tone it down or offer less drastic substi- tute
 A short time later the House agreed to ans amendment by Re- publican Representative Clare Hoff- man of Michigan. Under Hoffman's proposal, instead of denying the courts the power of injunction to enforce the boycott ban, the pen atty would be loss of bargaining rights for employees.
 N. Y. Shipping
 Shipping is still tied up in New York city's vast harbor by the strike of $500 tugboat workers The government appears ready to take over operations. Another New York city labor problem is threatened by the CIO order for general two-hour work stoppage in the metropolitan area next Monday in sympathy with the Western Union strike
 Housing Bill
 Back in Washington housin, bill is rapidly taking shape for House floor action. The House Banking Committee rejected today an administration proposal to put price ceilings on old houses, but left in the bill a provision for price controls on new houses. Pric- es of new homes are fixed some
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-05
"GIad 10 Be AIive," Say Three Survivors of Yukon
 Now in Seward Hospital
By ". M. HUNT Editor Of ,Se1Ddrd PCla1iS

SEWARD Alaska, Feb. 5.--Trag- edy struck tke steamer Yukon Mon day morning. Apart from it's tragic appearance on the shoreline of Fairfield Point the ventures of the trim vessel of the Alaska Steamship Go. and sometimes referred to as flagship of the fleet because of it's majestic name Yukon, seems to have come to an end, an end befitting the many years she has served.
 Robert Bassette, storekeeper of the ill-fated ship reports the incl dent in this manner: we are glad to be alive"
 Jack Reinho1d, staff sergeant in the Armed Forces of the United States, puts it this wey: We're glad to be alive"
 After thirty minutes in the water, seeing some of his comrades washed off the bow of the Yukon, Chas. D. Scrivener from his cot in the Seward General Hospital, reports I'm glad to be alive"
 From hospital beds in the local hospital, the trio tell this story with the reservations that are so pertinent to military status. They tell of their partners being washed ashore; not ashore but just into the water where the huge cliff ahead kept them from being rescued immediately.
 According to members of the trio, the mishap occurred about APO a. m. with the weather bad and the sea rough. A long vigil until day light merited nothing.
 The vessel foundered preparatory to breaking apart.
 No Hysterid
 According to this same trio no measure of hysteria was noticeable among the many passengers aboard the Yukon.
 Scrivener, assistant purser of the vessel. states that while he was watching waterspouts shoot 50 feet high and throw spray over his vessel, the passengers on board act ed with caution and sensed no fear for their safety at any time. And so it seems that some 20 odd men have have yet to be accounted for, while those who have been fortun- ate enough to survive retell story of their experiences on the ill-fated vessel.
 Their story is complete: Twenty cdd not accounted for. some 300- cdd who had no fear or hysteria, and the lack of shoreline; some thousand-odd thinking of these selfsame aboard
 Concensus of survivors sums up to this: To Major Leroy Berg. to the members of the efficient staff of the fleet of vessels sent out to contact those adrift, to those who in anyway assisted in this tragedy, tEeir thanks will be everlasting. Sur viving such an ordeal is most per- tinent in their most intimate thoughts.
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NEW ISSUE EXPLODED,
 UN0 MEET
Syria, Lebanon Ask With drawaI of British and
 French Forces
(BY JOHN Nj. H1GHrowER)

LONDON, Feb. 5.-Syria and Le- banon handed the United Nations Security Council new explosive issue today, asking withdrawal of all British and French troops from the Levant, while the Council still sought to unravel the tangle re- sulting from Russian attempt to use the veto power in the Soviet British disagreement over Greece.
 The veto issue, raised for the first time before the Council block ed action on the Greek question. It also required the Council to de- eide whether Britain and Russia could vote on the question of whether British troops in Greece were endangering world peace, as charged by Russia. The British
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-05
F0RTY-5EvEN FIRST TAKEN
 FROM WRECK
Women and Children Tak- en Down Ladders from
 Yukon-Abodrd Cutter

KETCHIKAN. Alaska, Feb. 5.-- The grounded liner Yukon broke in two under the buffeting of gale and wave last night after AT of the 406 persons aboard had been taken off by power boats operating from the Coast Guard Cutter Onondaga.
 The 47 were women and children.
 The Onondagas brief message about the breaking of the vessel, which ran aground in Johnstone Bay while outward bound from Seward to Seattle, carried no men, ton of loss of life.
 But the little l65-foot craft, fighting a combination of 45-mile wind, l5-foot waves and icy Alas kan darkness. said the weather seemed to be moderating slightly and the wind was shifting to a more favorable quarter. Aid Is Rushed
 In toward the bleak Kenai Pen- insula from many points of the compass surged other ships to aid the Onondnga, and the Arnly's great aircraft was to wing in from the extended Aleutian chain to lend a hand. Gen. Delos Emmons at Fort Richardson, near Anchor age. ordered all BIT flying Fort resses equipped with power rescue boats to join the life saving at- tempt
 The Onondagas report said the after part of the Yukon floundered free into the smashing waves and was rolling to starboard."
 Coast Guard headquarters at Se- attle said early today no additional information had been received, due chiefly to the difficulty of radio communications from Ketchikan to the Onondaga
 First Aid Train
 Meanwhile, a specially equipped first aid train was to leave An chorage at am. tPST), bound for Seward. some four hours distant. The train was loaded with Army food. clothing and medical supplies, with first aid crew of some 200 persons aboard.
 The train was being rushed to Seward in the event of arrival of survivors from the wreck.
 Several additional ships were ex- pected at the scene of the wreck within a matter Of hours" the Coast Guard reported.
 The 36o-foot steamer Yukon, built in Philadelphia in 1899. had been in the Alaska service for some 20 years She went aground on the rocky shore, 40 miles south of Sew ard carly yesterday. As soon as her distress calls were heard-about 6 am. (PST) yesterday-all craft in the vicinity were ordered to her aid. The Onondaga reached her shortly before pm. tPSI).
 Grim messages came from her captain, Chris P. Trondsen, who eaid at AS the liner was breaking up and that her engine room and No. 3 hold were floded She with stood the pounding of the seas. however, until darkness fell and until the Onondaga's boats removed the 47
 The attention of all Alaska is centered on the tragedy. The Army at Anchorage sent a transport plane loaded with doctors and nurses to Seward. 40 miles north of the grounded ship. to care for sur yivors
 There were some l85 officers and men from Fort Richardson, bound home for separation. and crew of l25 among the 496 aboard the Yu- kon when it left Seward
 The women and children were taken from the Yukon down rope ladders into power boats from the Coast Guard Cutter Onondaga without incident, although waves were rolling high.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-05
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Feb B. Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 1l7s, American Can 99ls. Anaconda 507s. Common wealth and Southern A., Curtiss- Wright IFS, International Harvest CT 97iz, Jones-Laughlin Steel 5c5s Kennecott 58, New York Central 34ls. Northern Pacific 345s. United Corporation 65s, U. 5. Steel 967s. Pound $403iz.
 Sales today were l.670,0O0 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 2066l, rails 6S28, utilities 41.25.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-05
CEDAR SENDS. REPORT FROM.
 WRECK SCENE.
Nine Graft Aiding in Res- cue Work-HeavY SweIIs
 and Surfs Prevailing

KETCHIKAN, Alaska. Feb, B. The Lighthouse tender Cedar wire lessed Coast Guard headquarters at P. M today that Fl persons had been removed from the wrecked steamship Yukon and that it was attempting to take off others with rafts, Army barges and motor whaleboats. It described the scene of the wreck where the Yukon piled up on the rocks Sunday night in heavy storm as Cape Fairfield, the western side of Johnstone Bay, southeast of Seward
 Nine vessels were at the scene to- day. The seas were running heavier than yesterday but visibility was improved, the Cedar added The Cedar was attempting to land brooches buoy equipment ashore, with which to land additional sur vivors, but swells and surf hampered operations.
 ouFVEFoIS dt ctWdTu
 EAliiet the cutter Onondaga ar rived at Seward with 47 women and children taken off the Yukon.
 Three men, landed earlier by the Army tug FS-241 after they were washed off the broken steamship, were also hospitalized at Seward.
 The Coast Guard buoy tender Cedar was aided by the Navy sal- wage ship Curb after the Onondaga steamed away with it's hysterical survivors. The freighter North Haven and Army transport Brig. Gen. M. c. Zalinski were nearby in Ellington Passage to take their turns at rescuing survivors. Seas were subsiding but there was a heavy snowstorm handicapping rescue work.
 Alaska to Scene
 Meantime the steamship Alaska, at Kodiak, was ordered to Seward to aid that little town in accom- modating survivors and to bring them to Seattle.
 The three men landed by the Army tug told interviewers at Sew ard there were 20 men unaccounted for among the 496 passengers and crew aboard the Yukon. The Coast Guard and the Alaska Steamship Company, which operated the Yukon for the War Shipping Ad- ministration. had no word of cas- ualties, and expressed doubts con- corning the report.
 Washed Overheard
 The three rescued from the 50- foot waves last midnight after they had been washed off the wreck and tossed against the rocks, were list ed as:
 Charles D. Scrivener, Assistant Purser, Seattle.
 Robert D. Bassette. Storekeeper, Seattle.
 Army Staff Sgt. Jack N. Rein hold. home address unlisted. Scrivener told an interviewer all aboard the Yukon might be safe, although a checkup after the ship broke in two indicated 20 to 30 pos sibly missing on the after part of the vessel. which floated free.
 Passengers Calm
 Scrivener said 50-foot seas broke over the foundered Yukon but said passengers were calm.
 Later, it was reported here, some of the women and children became
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BUSINESS TRIP HALTED

Mir. and Mrs. Leo Seidenyerg, of Seidenyerg's Clothing Store in An chorage. are among the passengers on the wrecked steamer Yukon. They were making buying trip to the States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-05
FROM OREGON

Mrs. Roy F. Pettyjohn of lone, Oregon. arrived In Juneau yester- day. She is staying at the Baranof.
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DOROTHY PERKINS HERE

Dorothy Perkins from Anchorage is stopping at the Baranof during her visit here.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Duke Choice Believed
Sian Of Democratic
Peace in ST. Marys
Spseioi Dispofeh 10 The Stor

LEONARDTOWN, Md, Aug. H.
Democratic party ranks in st
Marys County, for many years split
into two columns by a factional
dispute, today appear likely to be
closed through selection of Roland
B. Duke, ST., as campaign manager
for candidates of both factions.
Mr.. Duke has, observers say, kept
clear Of entanglements with the
party faction led by J. Allan Coad
and refrained from commitments to
the group headed by Philip H.
Dorsey.
Announcement Of his appoint
ment as party head was greeted
with widespread approval in Demo-
cratic circles. A letter released by
the partys candidates said in part:
with the best interests of the
Democratic party at heart, and
after due consideration by the Dem
ocratic candidates, Mr.. Roland B.
Duke, ST., Leonardtown, Md, has
been selected our campaign man
ager."
The letter was signed by J. Allan
Cecil, Joseph A. Mattingly, Oliver
Guyther, Charles J. Mattingly, Mat
thew w. Bailey, Frank Bailey. John
Hodges. Frank Raley, c. Benedict
Greenwell, Clarence Latham and
Resale Clarke.
Mr.. Dukes only comment was: II
will call upon all good Democrats to
put their shoulders to the wheel and
elect the entire Democratic ticket"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Marshall Hall Park 10 Hold
Annual Jousiing Contest
speeioT pispo,eh 10 The s,or

MARSHALL HALL, Md, Aug. 12-
The 6lst annual jousting contest
of horsemen of Southern Maryland
and Virginia will open at pm.
Wednesday at Marshall Hall Park.
The queen joust will be crowned
by the winning contestant in cere-
monies at 7:30 pm. State Senator
Joseph A. Wilmer of Charles Coun-
ty will speak.
In the event of rain, the tourna-
ment will be held the following
Wednesday.
A. D. Langley, Of Arlington. is
general manager of the tournament.
Other officials include: r. A. Hun
gerford and L. c. Addison, arrange
ments committee; Russell M. Pad
gett. chief marshal; John Sprague,
assistant marshal: P. A. Fleury,
starter; Harry Metcalfe. herald !;
Mrs. Harry Metcalfe and Mrs.
Gladys Cline, aids.
Judges are G. E. Wilson, Benja-
min Edelen, John Matthews, DR.
T. j. Higdon. p. D. Brown, Holland
Hawkins, William Whelan, Bruce
Shymansky, Brooke Matthews,
Brady Hupp, L. D. Love, Adrian
Fisher, w. L. Clark, George M.
Bartram, w. w. Ware, H. D. Hurst,
George G. Cooper, James A. Bur-
roughs and w. w. Winstead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
GreenbeIt GROUPS
Plan Housing Talks

Two Greenbelt organizations will
meet tomorrow to discuss housing
problems of the Federally owned
community.
A round table discussion by town
officials and civic leaders will be
conducted at $50 pm. in the Center
School on the subject of mutual
housing ownership by residents,
while the Greenbelt Consumer Sery-
ices board of directors will have a
special session with Federal Public
Housing officials over the negotia-
ton of a new lease covering the
towns 10 business establishments.
The speakers panel of the hous-
ing forum, which is open to the
public, will include George Bauer,
mayor; James T. Gobbel, town man.
ager; Councilmen Joseph Rogers,
John Allen Cain and Allen D. Nor
rison; Maj. A. c. Long, chairman
of the Mutual Housing Association !;
Abraham Chasanow, president of
the Center School PTA; William
Miller, treasurer of the AVG chap
ter, Benjamin Rosenzweig, Mrs.
Theodore Murray and Robert
Thomson.
Oliver Winston, general field
manager of FPHA. will attend the
Consumer Services meeting, accord
ing to Samuel F. Ashelman, general
manager
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Newport News Policeman
Killed Making Arrest
BY the Assoeiofed Press

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Aug. ll2.-
A 31-year-old patrolman was shot to
death here yesterday after he had
arrested two colored persons while
investigating robbery report.
Acting Chief of Police w. F..
Peach said the patrolman, Charles
Nelson Doughty, had responded to
a burglary call on the waterfront
here and had stopped colored man
and colored woman wearing mems
clothes.
Mr.. Doughty, the police chief
stated, was shot after he had placed
the two in his patrol car.
Mr.. Peach said Margaret jackson,
20, colored, was being held on a
charge of larceny and accessory to
murder. He said an intensive search
was under way for the man, who
fled after the shooting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Byrd's Orchard Picnic Sci
For Auq. 81 al Rosemont
SpecioI Dispotch 10 The stor

WINCHESTER, Va, Aug. H.
Senator Byrd's Office announced to-
day that the Senator's annual orch
ard picnic, which was suspended
during the war, will be resumed
August 81 on the Rosemont orchard
farm west of Berryville, Clarke
County.
The picnic, intended by Senator
Byrd to be meeting of apple
growers of Virginia and nearby
States for the exchange of infor-
nation, usually has an attendance
of around 1000.
During the forenoon visitors will
inspect Rosemont and adjacent
orchards, and the Byrd cooling and
packing plant at Berryville. The
picnic Lunch will be served in the
grove at noon by a Winchester
caterer.
During the afternoon there will
be speaking program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
1imonium Fair 10 Feature
National Angus Cattle Show
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

TIMONIUM, Md, Aug. IA
feature Of the postwar renewal OF
the Maryland State Fair here next
month will be a national Aberdeen
Angus cattle show at which $4,000
in cash prizes will be awarded, w
Alan MacGregor of Worton, Md.
show chairman, announced yester-
day.
The event will mark the frs,
Angus show with a national scope
since the war and is expected to at.
tract more than 500 entries from all
sections Of the country, Mr.. Mac
Gregor said.
The show will be held for one week
beginning Labor Day, September 2
and the State Fair will continue
through September IL.
A breeders banquet will be held in
Baltimore the night Of September 4
Championship judgings will take
place September 8 and 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-12
Jet Plane Sets
| Unofficial Mark
In Richmond Hop
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. IAN
Army jet-propelled P-80 Shooting
Star which streaked from Wright
Field (Ohio) to the Richmond Army
Air Base-a distance OF 1916 miles
by air-in IS minutes may have set
an unof1icial speed record Of 677.14
miles per hour, Army officers stated
yesterday.
Plotted by Maj. Gus Lindquist. the
plane checked out of Wright Field
at els am. Saturday and checked
in with the local control tower at
$50 am.
A Wright Field oficer said the
flight sounds like an unofficial
record" for such distance. Army
officers here said the ofncial worlds
speed record was 6l3 miles per hour.
Maj. Lindquist actually landed at
the field here ut 1880 am. after
having to circle the field for about
IS minutes to burn out the fuel in
his wings, an air base officer stated.