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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-25
ADVANCE INTANGIBLE 20.

Delegate Bartlett has been in- formed by the Post Office Depart ment that the third class post of- flee at Wrangell is to be advanced to second class status on July 1
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-25
NINE OTHERS ARE INJURED
 IN ACCIDENT
Car Loaded with Baseball Players Crashes Down
 Mountainside

SEATTLE, June 25.--Seven mem- bers of Spokanes Western Inter- national League Baseball Club met death last night in the flaming plunge of their chartered cross- state bus from the Snoqualinie Pass Highway four miles south of it's summit in the Cascade mourn tains
 The driver and eight other play CTS were injured. several critically. One survivor described the vic- tims as being scattered all over the hill"
 The identified dead are: First baseman Vic Picetti, of San Francisco, who formerly played with Oakland and was described as the most promising young player on the Pacific coast last season." He died enroute to 8 Seattle hos ,.Ial.
 George c. Risk. 27, infielder from Hillsboro, Ore. Frederick T. Martinez, an infield- CT from San Diego.
 Unidentified
 Four bodies were unidentified as they lay in the light of fliekering tcrches at the wreck scene last night, but the King County Cor oner said he believed they were. Manager Mel Cole of Wenatchee. Wash;
 Bob Kinnaman, former Washing ton State College pitcher from Brooklyn, Wash; Outfielder Bob James of Tempe, Ariz.;
 outfielder Bob Patterson of San Francisco.
 In Critical Condition
 Three of the casualties are re- ported in poor or critical condi- tion in hospitals. They are:
 Glen Berg. "A, of Spokane, the bus driver, who was burned se- verely; Christ Hartje, 30, San Francisco, one- time Brooklyn catch CT, severely burned George Lyn- den, Tensed, Idaho, pitcher, head injuries and burns.
 Others Injured
 The others injured are:
 Levi Mccormack, former Seattle and Portland outfielder, head in- juries; Richard Powers, Oakland Calif., head injuries and possible neck fracture; Erwin Konopka, Moscow, Idaho. former University of Idaho catcher, head injury; Benjamigaraghty, Livingston, N. J., formerly with Sacramento and In- dlanapolis, head decorations; Peter Barisoff. Los Angels. cuts and bruises (released from hospitaD; Darwin tGus) Hallbourg of Boston, burned on pitching hand and arms
 The accident, unexplained, oc- cured at 8 pm, as dusk was set- tli.lg. Hallbourg, who later caught ride across the mountains to FL lensburg, said the bus suddenly veered through the cable guard
  railing and caught fire as it start ed hurtling and rolling down the precipitous, rocky mountainside It went off on a straight stretch of road.
 Bus Lands Burning
 Estimates Of the distance of tine drop ranged from 3o0 to 500 feet. The burning bus landed upright. An hour later it was only twist cd steel skeleton.
 The more seriously injured had their clothes burned off and one witness said the scared skin on the worst cases was hanging loose.
 The fifth place Spokane Indians were enroute to Bremerton for series with the fourth place team from that Puget Sound city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-25

EIGHTH VICTIM DIES SEATTLE. June 25.--The death (Conttnued on Page Two3
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-25

fContinued or Page FourI
Evening star., 1946-11-13
Army Easing Wraps
On Nazi Scientists
sy ths Assoeicssd Pres,

The War Department is going to
lit some Of the secrecy surrounding
the work Of German scientists who
have been helping American air and
ground forces develop long-range
rockets and other new weapons.
A department announcement yes
terday said the Germans at Wright
Field (Ohio) headquarters for air
forces experiments, and at Fort
Bliss, Tex, an ordnance center,
could be interviewed and photo
graphed next week.
Dispatches and photographs, how
ever, win be subject to censorship
and held for release, probably early
in December.
Some l60 scientists were known 10
be working on various Army projects
last March. the last time the war
Department had anything ofYicial to
say about their presence in this
country.
Secretary Patterson disclosed then
the Army had combed over the quail
ifications Of some 5000 scientists in
the American occupied zone Of Ger
many and planned to bring over
about 40 others.
A substantial group has been at
work at White Sand IN. Mex.) Prov
Ing Ground, where some IS captured
Evening star., 1946-11-13
Threat Of Transit Strike
Diminishes in New York
BY tho Assoeicfses Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-Leaders of
the CIo Transport Workers Union
proceeded today with plans to poll
members tonight on a strike against
the city's unified transit system but
the threat Of a walkout diminished
in the face of new actions by mu-
nicipal agencies and other labor
groups.
Most important of the develop
ments yesterday was the unanimous
vote by the Board of Transporta-
tion giving the 5000 employees Of
the city's subways, elevated, bus and
trolley lines $6,000,000 in wage in
creases retroactive to July 1. The
increases will be paid within two
weeks.
Thus the last spark Of the money
issue in the threatened strike was
removed, leaving the TWU the
choice Of calling the strike on the
sole issue Of exclusive collective
bargaining rights or withdrawing
its strike threat-the third it has
made this year.
Mayor William O'Dwyer has ex-
pressed opposition to the TWU de-
mand for sole bargaining rights.
Another development was the
pledge by four AFL and independent
unions representing some of the
transit workers to support the may
or's position In the controversy, de.
claring ne had taken effective
steps" to meet the city's promises
to the transit employees.
Evening star., 1946-11-13
Student Nurse Missing
From Cleveland Hospital
By The Assoeiufsd Press

CLEVELAND, Nov, 13.-The dis
appearance Of Miss Joyce M. Garner
of Seville, Ohio, an attractive, 18-
year-old student nurse at Cleveland's
City Hospital, still puzzled police
and State authorities today.
Miss Garner boarded . train for
Cleveland Sunday night after SPEND
ing the week end at Ohio Univer-
sity in Athens. Since then she has
not been seen by her parents, friends
or associates at the hospital.
Detectives Robert p. Kinds and
Robert Gerrity said the girls par
ent's had not heard from her and
could offer no reason for her dis
appearance.
Miss Garner left Cleveland last
Saturday to attend the Baldwin
Wallace-O Ohio University football
game at Athens as the guest of
Richard Gorham, an Ohio Univer-
sity student and neighbor in Seville.
Mr.. Gorham said he put the girl
aboard q train for Cleveland at 7:l5
pm. Sunday. The train arrived here
at 1:30 am. Monday but Miss Gar
ner did not report to the hospital.
Charles T. Dolezal, hospital super
intendent, yesterday reported her to
the musings persons bureau.
Evening star., 1946-11-13
Higher Salary Scale
For U. 5. Diplomats
Takes Effect Today

A law passed by the last Con-
gress, reorganizing the American
Foreign Service and raising the pay
|of Ambassadors to q top OF $25. 900
q year. went into effect today.
Assistant Secretary Of State DOM
aid Russell said IN radio address
over the Columbia Broadcasting
System late yesterday that the new
law means I'VE will be able to pay
our personnel overseas salaries on
which they can live and do their
jobs.
Tn the past Mr.. Russell said,
"our representatives abroad have
often had to pay their own ex-
penses. As a consequence it has
sometimes been necessary for us to
select men with q view to personal
wealth. This has resulted In some
instances In the men best fitted for
the job not being available.
with the salaries now authorized,
and the allowances which we hope
the next Congress will appropriate.
this unfortunate situation win
largely be q thing Of the past"
Top salaries in the foreign serv-
Evening star., 1946-11-13
By The Associated Press

PEIPING, Nov. l3.-Chinese
police reported today that So priests
in the famous Taoist temple Paiyun-
kuan (White Cloud reyolted yes
terday and burned to death the
temples abbot and its Taoist lay
man on q huge bonfire.
The police related this story:
The priests accused the two men
OF violating Taoist regulations. They
smashed into the mems living quar-
ters and dragged them out to the
temple gate.
The priests beat the two men with
clubs, trussed them with the ropes
Hung them on q pile of firewood
doused them with gasoline and fired
the bier. Police found the totally
charred bodies more than an hour
later.
Twenty-seven Of the priests sur
rendered and the other nine were
turned over to police.
The abbot. An Shih-lin, was more
than so years old. The layman, Pal
Evening star., 1946-11-13
Meochom Gets Koreu
Post With Gen. Hodge

Stewart Meacham Of Los Angeles,
Calf, former regional director OF
the National I Abor relations Board,
has been appointed adviser on labor
problems to 1t. Gen. John r. Hodge,
commanding United States forces
in Korea.
The War Department made the
appointment on recommendation Of
the Labor Department, after Gen.
Hodge had requested some one COM
petent to pass on the intricate labor
problems he Is encountering during
the occupation OF Korea. Mr..
Meacham Joined the NLRB In 1887,
was promoted to assistant director
of the field division In Washington
in 1942 and. In 1914, he was named
regional director at Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1946-11-13

so don't blame him." Mr.. Regau
said In q suicide note police found
In the home. He did me favor
and the children can 60 to a Juyenils
f1ome.p
Capt. Enright said Mr.. Regan, an
interior decorator, had written that
he had planned to have his son
shoot him. He said he described
his action "as the only thing to
do Capt. Enright said MIR. Re-
gan's wife Caroline, 3S, had left
home nearly month ago and sued
for divorce.
Evening star., 1946-11-13
|36 7ooist Priests in Revolt
Burn to Death Abbot, Lnynon

Chin-yi, held no ofnciat title In the
temple.
Police said the priests related this
story today:
The priests cremated the abbo,
and layman because OF q decade-old
dispute over temple property.
Some told the police on surren-
dering I'VE have chosen to perish
together" None attempted to eludt
arrest.
The dispute predated japanese oc.
cupaticn Of Peiping. After the Allied
victory. the priests suei severa1
times to disposscss the abbot anc
layma1, but lost eacE suit.
Monday, the 50 priests gathered
and signed document announcing
10 crimes" they said tl,e pair com
mitted. They posted the document
at the temple gate. The charges In.
cluded unlawful selling Of temple
property, including sacrrd books and
sacrificial livestock ard illegal re-
lations with women"
White Cloud temple, just outside
Peiping's West Wall, Is one Of the
most magnificent In this city, which
possesses more temple, than. any
other in China.
Evening star., 1946-11-13
WyaftPondersAppeal
To Congress for Aid
On Housing Finances
by The As.oeiotsd Press

His loan battle with Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corp. in complete dis
agreement" Wilson Wyatt today
pondered an appeal to the new Re-
publican-dominated Congress for
Federal help In financing rental
housing projects.
An assistant to the housing ad-
ministrator said such an appeal Is
under study as part of Mr.. Wyatt,s
quest for new devices" to provide
rental homes and apartments and
Offset the expected rise in building
costs.
1t is possible that some new aids
70 private financing" may be asked
either as an amendment to the pend
Ing general housing bill or as sep
arate legislation.
Wyatt Awaits Cost Reports.
Mr.. Wyatt viii await reports on
cost trends before taking action, 1t
was stated. Some housing officials
believe, however, that the present
sales price limit on homes may have
to be increased from $4,000 to $12.-
600, as result Of SATURDAYS aboli-
ton Of all but few price and wage
ceilings.
This would put many homes be-
yond the reach Of veterans pocket
books and, housing agency of1cials
believe, would necessitate q drive for
more rental accommodations.
The pending housing measure,
usually called the Wagner -Ellender-.
Taft bill, is intended to provide L.
25o,000 homes in the next 10 years.
1t proposes that the Government
guarantee a reasonable profit to
companies erecting mass tenansy
projects, through insuring the profits
Of such operators,
Meanwhile, Mr.. Wyatt and George
e. Allen, an RFC director, entered
a new days negotiations completely
at loggerheads over Mr.. Wyatt's in
sistence that RFC grant up to $780,
000, 900 In loans for companies pio-
neering in the prefabricated housing
industry.
Nothing Settled.
The two went to the White House
yesterday to confer with President
Truman and Reconversion Director
Steelman. After As minutes they
emerged, and MIR. Allen told news
men:
There is complete disagreement
between Wyatt and Allen and moth
ing has been settled"
Mr.. Wyatt, right beside him, add
cd: THAT is a perfectly accurate
statement"
RFC has turned down most of the
loans recommended by Mr.. Wyatt,
Mr.. Allen said, because the lending
agency believes them to be "very
bad" The companies concerned,
he added, are not putting up enough
Of their own money.
Among those turned down are the
Lustron Corp. of Chicago, which
wants between $32, ,000, 900 and $52,-
1000; Higgins, Inc, of New Or
leans, $11,000.000, and Reliance
Homes, Inc, Of Lester. Pa, $15,-
100000.
VIII Continue Fight.
Mr.. Wyatt served notice that he
would continue his fight for Fed
eral financing, despite yesterdays
failure Of Mr.. Tuman's effort to
conciliate. ~
There is an emergency and We
need emergency loans, he tod -
porters. He said he and Mi. Alien]
would meet again today
On another phase of the housing
situation, Senator Wherry Of Me-
braska, the Republican whip, called
for removal Of rent ceilings. ne
told q reporter that the rent eun4|
troll issue may create one o. th1]
first breaks between the new Con-
gress and the Truman administra-
ton.
Evening star., 1946-11-13

Ice have been $17.5O0 for Ambassa-
dors and 10000 for Ministers. The
new law provides pay ranging from
$4,000 to $25, 900, depending on Inn
portance Of the mission. Salaries
of lower-ranking diplomats also are
increased.
The new law also sets up 4 pro-
motion program similar to the Navy
under which foreign service ON
GERS who fail to win promotion will
be retired from the service.
Evening star., 1946-11-13
Futher Shoots Himself
After Son, II. Refuses
By ihs Assoeiafsd Pres.

CHICAGO. Nov. 13.-John Regan
10, who police said shot himself
after his son James, II, had re-
fused to obey his request to pull
the trigger Of q shotgun he placed
against his chest, was in critical
condition In Cook County Hospital
today.
Police Capt. John Enright said
Mr. Regan, father Of five children
and estranged from his wife, had
absolved James OF ony response
bility for the shooting.
i told Jim 1t was a play gun.
Evening star., 1946-11-13

Nazi va rockets have been fired to
heights as great as 100 miles.
The War Department said those
at Wright Field would be available
for interviews and photographs No
vember 1919 and that Fort Bliss
would be open for the purpose Mo-
vember 20-21.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
On the.ReCOrd
By Dorothy Thompson

From Mr., Molotov's speech il is ahun-
dainty clear that the Soviets realize the
strength Of German national feeling
and intend to play it as a trump caro-.
The speeches of the German Communist
leaders and of the free German Com
rittee in Moscow have all held forth
promises of free" and strong Ger
many. revived under the Russian aegis
Actually, however it can make little
difference whether Germany is hanged
drawn and quartered, or burnt at the
stake. The Russian program is. while
PLAYING to the German national spirit,
to bring the whole country into the Rus
sian economic and defense orbit And
Mr. Molotov does not propose to change
anything in principle
First, Russia alone is asking 10000
100000 reparations without even pre-
senting statement of what she has al
ready taken from the truncated and
devastated country. The only way Ger
many could possibly deliver any such
sum is to work for generations for the
Russians furnishing slave labor, both in
German factories and in Russia proper.
Then, the Russians want to be in on
the Ruhr "interna tionalization," and
lLiIS dCSp4Lt LIlt 1dIj 1iidG tllS "IlOl6 Ol
German eastern industry is already in
the hands of Russia and her satellites.
without any participation by Western
Allies. The combination of reparations
and Ruhr participation will mean COM
prehenslve economic control of the
whole industrial life of Germany
Sr,,i
istration is to be created. but MI
Molotov hastens TO add that 1T will
take a number of years to check UP on
what this new German government
represents and whether it is trust
worthy" This simply means. as we have
plenty OF examples in Eastern Europe
TO prove. that there will never be
Trustworthy" German government until
it is one on the model of Titos or
Beiruts
There is not the slightest possibility
that a truly democratic. that is to say
truly representative government. can
ever develop in Germany under the con-
ditions proposed by Mr.. Molotoy. They
are not propositions for peace. Only
ne says, when We become satisfied that
the new German government is able to
cope with these tasks. and is really
honestly fulfilling them in practice, can
we speak seriously of concluding peace
treaty with Germany
No government can settle down and
gain strength and authority under such
a vague and intermnable prospect. 1t
is proposal for continuing chaos And
I am sorry to discover what seems
similar idea in Mr.. Byrnes letter.
released by the Bell Syndicate, Incp
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Mr.. Mays Rights
Congressional in

Congressional Investigations are
seldom, If ever, conducted under
the concept of judicial fairness
outlined by Chairman May of the
House Military Affairs Committee as
a condition of his acceptance of the
Mead committees invitation to
testify What Mr.. May is asking, In
effect is the right" to appear before
the committee not as sworn wit
ness taking the stand to answer
questions but as an investigator
himself, assisted by counsel of his
own choosing, summoning witnesses
for his own cross examination and
presenting evidence of his own selec-
ton.
If Mr.. May were on trial in
court of law his right to such pro-
cedure would be unquestioned. But
the Mead committee is not court
and Mr.. May is not on trial. His
reluctance to appear as witness
on the grounds outlined in his let
ters to Senator Mead Is not likely to
create much sympathy from the
ordinary people who are not men,
bers of Congress. The rights" he
claims are not enjoyed by ordinary
people. They can either come and
testify Of their own free will or,
as in the past, take the choice
between inviting contempt proceed
ings or standing on their rights
under the Constitution not to in
criminate themselves. The contrast
between the rights claimed by Mr..
May as a member of Congress and
the lack of such rights for the
ordinary citizen is striking one,
not apt to make the ordinary citizen
shed any tears for Mr. May.
Granted that congressional in
vestigatlons are often unjust In the
Impressions they seek to create,
there is only one course open to
the citizen who, having nothing to
conceal, is invited to testify. And
that, Of course. is to appear and,
secure in the knowledge Of his own
good conduct, tell his story Mr..
May has injured his own cause by
assuming an attitude which Is
difficult to reconcile with that Of
a man who has nothing to conceal.
Evening star., 1946-07-15

Our capacity to be repeatedly aston
ished by the Russians is the most aston
ishing thing about us.
The Russian proposals concerning
Germany are consistent with the policy
they have followed from the beginning
A policy which has been repeatedly
stated by Stalin-and Molotov-and has
been crossed by us. suspect 10 the great
satisfaction of the Russians
During the first world war had occa-
sion TO discuss the future of Germany in
an of the-record conversation with a
person high enough in our Government
to know exactly the situation with the
Soviet Union. He favored, at that time.
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Germany, and
argued that this would be unWise, and
in the long run unsuccessful, unless the
separate states were reintegrated into a
European confederation. My informant.
however, answered that at any rate my
argument was unrealistic, because the
Russians were inSistent on German dis
memberment. l asked whether the Rus
slams were insistent that we insist, or
whether they were really insisting them
selves For I had read no statement of
Stain or Molotov. or Of anyone except
the entirely unimportant Ilya Ehren-
burg, which indicated that the Russians
were in favor Of any such version of a
hard peace" as we were putting for
ward. II looked to me then, and there
after. as though the Russians were anX
ious that the Western Allies should
make all the boners possible in regard
to Germany in order that the Germans
should throw themselves into a Welcom-
ing Soviet embrace.
When the Morgenthau plan emerged
at the time of the Quebec Conference,
and apparently became, in substance, a
foundation of American policy, this col
umn attacked it and has done so ever
since. Now it is attacked by Mr.. Molo-
tov, but until now American Commu-
nists and fellow travellers have pinned
the label of "German-lover" and soft
peace on every American, who, like
Molotov, has said that the attempt to
agrarianize the most highly developed
industrial country of Europe could lead
to the breakdown of the whole European
economy and was rank idiocy.
suppose there are people who know
there are many who pretend to, any
hoW-Why. and under what pressures.
President Roosevelt scrapped the State
Departments relatively enlightened
memorandum on Germany, which he
had previously okaved, in favor of the
Morgenthau criticisms, after Mr.. Nor
genthaus first visit to the front.
At any rate, Mr.. Morgenthaus fan
tastic concepts laid the basic ''princi-
pals for the Potsdam program. which
PLAYED straight into Soviet hands.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
One Of the Greatest Crises

From tn. London Daily Telegraph and Morn
tns Post
Until the last few weeks people in
Britain have tended to take for granted
as something remote. the world shortage
OF food A letter from the Prime Min
lister to the head of every local authority
IN the country brings home the truth
to the individual citizen 1t is our duty
to save food and to grow food to the
utmost extent, to help the world survive.
IN Mr.. Attlee's words, One of the great
est food crises in history" There is
natural tendency, when We have made
so many sacrifices. to feel that if anv
one goes hungry it should be not our
own people, but some stranger-and for
preference those who were our enemies.
But they are in fact already hungry
and many of them starving. In the
absence OF further effort by countries
which have food, millions of men.
women and children will starve to death
as surely as men, women and children
starved to death in concentration camps,
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Not Assistant Secretary

To III. Editor Of The star
Permit me to correct misstatement
which has appeared in the news columns
several times. It has been stated that
Murray w. Carson, whose affairs cur
rently are under senatorial investiga-
ton. served as Assistant Secretary of
Labor under the Hoover administration.
During the Hoover administration the
First Assistant Secretary of Labor was
Robe Carl White: the Second Assistant
Secretary was the late w. w Husband.
Assistants to the Secretary were William
N. Smelser and the undersigned At no
time was Murray w. Carson an Assist
ant Secretary of Labor.
In 1881 and 1882 Murray w Carson
was on the rolls as an inspector or IN
vestigator, paid out OF the appropriation
for the enforcement of the Alien Con-
tract Labor Exclusion Provision of the
immigration Act of 1917. 1t is true that
he went about the country and frequent
ly informed newsmen that he was an
Assistant Secretary of Labor. This was
matter of self-advertisement entirely.
PETER F. SNYDER.