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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-28
BUILDING PERMIT

A building permit to remodel the Vim Building on Second and Sew ard streets as an addition to the Alaska Music Supply Company has been issued to Bill Hixson, owner of the building. The estimated cost of remodeling. is s2,5oo- The con- tractors are Triplette and Dalziel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-28
B JULIE I l N }

WASHINGTON-P Tru- man said today Secretary of State Byrnes has his full support in pres- sing for immediate consideration of the Iranian dispute before the United Nations Security Council.
 TERRAIN = An Iranian general staff officer said today the govern ment had ordered the army not to reenter territory evacuated by the Russians. He said the order had called a halt to general staff plans to reoccupy northern garrison posts.
 WASHINGTON-P Tru- man today signed separate bills appropriating s5.459,091484 for gov ernment agencies, with the Veter- ans Administration getting more than $4,000 100000 of the money.
 WASHINGTON = Selective Ser vice Director Lewis B. Hershey told Congress today the draft law must be extended if the army is to get the 100000 men it needs in the next 12 months
 WASHINGTON -- A division of United States destroyer escorts will return home from the Pacific next month by way of the Suez Canal, course which will take them through the automatically troubled waters of the Mediterranean.
 WASHINGTON = The Admins tration has no plans for seizing the soft coal mines. This was announc- ed by President Truman at his news conference.
 WILMINGTON, Calf. = Howard Hughes $2O,OOO,OOO all-wood flying boat, with a capacity of 750 per- sons, is to be launched in San Diego Bay early this summer.
 MANILA-Seven american sol- diers were killed and two injured m the crash of a CAT transport plane in the southern Luzon Moun- tains Saturday in which Il Fili- pinos also perished.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-28
CUSTER BILL ALLEGATIONS
 GIVEN REPLY
Governor Faces Critics from Stand in Upper
 Chamber Today

Gov. Ernest Gruening did not disappoint jammed-full Senate gall leries this morning galleries which included the full membership of the House of Representatives, re- cesssd in anticipation of hearing the Governor reply to charges brought against him in connection with discussion of Senate Memorial No. One.
 Fifteen minutes past the II o'clock hour set, Senate President Edward D. Coffey announced that the Senate was ready to receive Gov. Gruening, who appeared few minutes later.
 By way of opening remark, Gov. Gruening stated that he Is glad to be accorded the usual privilege of being present at his own execution. He said he had come only to answer questions of those Senators who might like to hear his version of circumstances charged against him.
 SItymishinc
 From there on, this mornings meeting was almost entirely skirmishing between Senator N. w. Walker, author of the Memorial asking the Governors immediate removal. and His Excellency."
 None of the principal charges levelled at the Gruening scalp in the Senate session yesterday after noon were aired this morning this mornings events rather resembling the feeling out'' process of the or- ening rounds of a championship prize fight.
 Walker endeavored to take the Governor to task regarding criti- cisms of the Senate made in the famed Green Book" He was read- fly and ably answered by the wit ness; the impression created being that the Green Book" charges cit- ed are mainly matter of view point.
 Denial Made
 One charge Gov. Gruening flatly denied: That contained in the affi- davit of William Horsman, known as Doc silvers." which was pub lished (unsigned) in the Empire some time ago and which was read in the Senate yesterday by Presi- dent Coffey.
 The Governor charged the Hors- man tale of being called to the Governors office for discussion of politics was made up out of whole cloth' by man convicted of forg- cry in Idaho and since jailed here. That's the type of man. GOV. Gruening said, that the Empire Istooped to-" in order to publish. without checking its veracity. an unsigned accusation.
 Asked why he did not press charge of perjury against Hors- man, Gruening stated that, after he had cooled off, it did not seem worth while; that it's part of the job to be thick-skinned
 Letter Cited
 The Governor cited letter from two Alaska Trollers union officials Ito show that Horsman could not have come to the Governors office at the time said on union business because the union requires two ot it's officers to be present at any such time. Besides. Gruening add ed. he was in Sitka on the day re- ferred to and saw no fishermen on the day before or the day after. Walker devoted much time to circumstances of polio case con- cerning the son of a Matanuska family. for whom, he said. the Governor had ordered Territorial funds disbursed though the mother of the boy had not complied with U. s. Public Health Service in structions with the result that na- tional matching funds were not re- ceived by the local health agency. No Apology
 Gov. Gruening retold the tale Ls.-. -
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-28
Alaska Juneau Has
 Decline in kei loss

SAN FRANCISCO. March 2e.-- Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com pany reports decline in net loss from s280,1S0 in 1914 to slo3,643 in 1945.
 President c. A. Norris said it was too early to tell when labor and materials conditions would permit resumption of mining ct Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-28
JERUsALEM-The British.

REPRESENTATIVES, Baitish-Am- erican Inquiry Commission and it's chief secretaries flew today to Lausanne, Switzerland, to begin deliberations on the 17th report to be made by an official body on Palestine in the last quarter cen- t,iry.
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The W ashington Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-That the Tru- man Cabinet is not looking for war in the near future, despite warlike talk, was indicated at a secret session of the Senate Mili- tary Affairs Committee last week.
 When Secretary of State Byrnes and Secretary of War Patterson testified in favor of an extension of the .Selective Service Act, the figures they presented on planned strength of the army and navy were exactly the same as those presented early in January. In oth- CT words, they proposed an army of barely over a million men by July of 1947.
 The Senators had expected that because of the complicated inter national situation a larger army would be asked for, but the War and State Departments made no such request. When one Senator asked how it happened that there was no emergency planning, Sec retary Byrnes refused to answer. He passed the question to Secre- tary Patterson, who also did not reply.
 WALLACE SPEECH CENSORED
 It wasn't supposed to be known outside the Cabinet, but Henry Wallace's speech at the Jackson Day dinner was censored-by Pres ident Truman himself. Wallace had one line in his speech which he thought would answer Republican critics. It read:
 Abraham Lincoln was not a member of our party. But he was certainly fellow traveller"
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-07
DISPUTE ARISES
 OVER UN0 SITE

LONDON, Feb. 2. - Russia and China expressed their approval to- day of the Stanford Greenwich Westchester area of Connecticut and New York as permanent head quarters of the United Nations, but France asked long delay and q reconsideration of New York city as the interim site.
 French representative J. Fouques Dupurc said, in a continuance of last nights debate in the perman- ent headquarters committee, that the decision should be postponed until September or next year,
 Huge foreign colonies i'll New York city and the fact that it is the biggest city in the United States might present problems if 1t were the interim site Dupurc said,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-07
"Bush Pilot" Archie Ferguson Afraid
 To Travel on Wafer

SEATTLE, Feb 7-Archie Fer guson, the famed, irrepressible bush pilot from Kotzebue, Alaska, now visiting in Seattle, has been flying so long he's afraid to travel on the water.
 In fact lie doesn't think he'll even take a ride in his own new boat, now under construction at Bel lingham for the mail run between Nome and St. Michael, he said.
 Nope" he grinned, T don't trust those things. If I can't fly, I'll stay home
 Ferguson has sold his commer- cial air line. which served the areas about Kotzebue and Nome and the Seward Peninsula, but has kept a plane for personal use. On his Seattle trip, his third venture outside in 35 years. he flew his craft to Fairbanks and came the rest of the way by commercial aii transport.
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By Murlin Spencer

TOKYO, Feb. 7.-Lt. Gen. To- moyuki Yamashita, his last hope for clemency denied by General MacArthur, must die secretly like a common criminal on the gallows in Manila-the city his trapped sol diers raped pillaged and burned.
 Gen. Macarthur, as final review ing authority, today upheld the death sentence imposed on Yama- shita by a military commission in Manila, and ordered that his one time adversary meet his doom stripped of uniform, decorations and other appurtenances signifying membership in the military pro- fession"
 It. Gen. Wilhelm D. Styer, act ing on MacArthur's orders, Will carry out the execution secretly and then announce it. Newspaper
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-07

 PLANS OF
 U. S. NAVY
Two Fleets of 319 Fighting Ships to Be Fiji for
 Instant Action

WASHINGTON, Feb 7.-The Navy revealed today it's postwar blueprint for the nations first line of defense-a fleet of 319 fighting ships fit for instant action" and ready to launch sky armada of 3,627 planes.
 The biggest force would be allo- cated to the Pacific where a conl- bat force of 176 warships is plan ned. The Atlantic detachment would muster 13 men-of-war.
 Behind these main operating forces would te two formidable re- serve fleets in standby conditions ready to be mobilized swiftly should changing world conditions necessi- tate endorsements.
 The Pacific and Atlantic fleets will be sub divided into half a dozen or more units, active, ready reserve, laid-up fleets, each with numerical designations.
 The program, including the selection of specific ships for active duty, was outlined in the annual report of Secretary of the Navy Forrestal to President Truman. Its effective date was set for com- pletion of demobilization next fall
 Here are the Navy plans for the postwar fleets.
 Pacific-Nine carriers; nine eS- cort carriers; two 45,000 ton battle ships, 20 cruisers, 81 destroyers; 16 destroyer escorts; 39 submarines In ready reserve-Two carriers; three 35,C00 ton battleships; eight cruis- CTS; 18 destroyers.
 Atlantic-Four carriers; four es- cort carriers; two -Af. 900 ton battle ships; eight cruisLfs; 54 destroyers; 20 destroyer escorts; 51 submarines In ready reserve-Three carriers; three 35,000 ton battleships; 10 cruisers; 22 destroyers; four des- troyer escorts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-07
l5 I]NACC0UNTED FOR IN YUKON WRECK
Hiqh School Girl Is One of
 Heroines of Yukon Wreck;
 Survivors Landed af Seward

SEWARD, Alaska. Feb. 7-Weary, wind-chapped survivors of the wreck of the liner Yukon reach ed Seward in large groups through out yesterday aboard rescue vessels. bringing stories of heroism and narrow escapes during the nearly three days they spent aboard the doomed ship.
 Married men among the late ar rivals searched through the town for wives and children taken off the Yukon first by the rescue craft.
 The Coast Guard said the Alaska Steamship Company, in Seattle, hopes to have the families of all survivors notified of their rescue by noon or evening today.
 The towns taxicabs and many private cars shuttled from the dock to. hospitals, hotels and private
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-07
FOOD CRISIS IS AppARENT, SAYS TRUMAN
Cuts Made in American Consumption Emergency
 Rules Are 10 Be Drafted

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Ameri- rans = called upon today to share their bread lest millions starve oyerseas-actually may eat better than ever before, for a time.
 Their own bread will be dark, and they may find less whiskey and beer, but there should be tenn porary jump in pork, beef, poultry, eggs and some dairy products.
 How long this richer diet may last hinges on the weather-spring and summer rains and fall frosts. For a bad crop season could well whittle down supplies of animal products to a point where ration- ing might be necessary late in the year
 President Truman, in a statement declaring the world faces a food cricis which may be the worst in modern times" has ordered govern ment agencies to draft emergency rules to cut consumption of wheat at home so that mass starvation abroad may be averted
 The cuts in American consump- tion will take these forms:
 l. Millers will be required to convert a larger portion of each bushel of wheat into flour This flour will be dark in color, less tasty and less suitable for cakes pies and other pastries. But it will take fewer bushels of wheat to meet American bread. and pastry needs.
 2. The use of wheat in making whiskey and beer will be forbid den. Also the use of other grains for these beverages will be reduced There was no immediate indica- tion what effect this will have on current supplies.
 3. Farmers will be asked to feed less wheat and other grains to live stock. MT. Truman directed the Agriculture Department to develop programs to pare down livestock production until grain supplies be- come plentiful.
 The Presidential action was made necessary largely by the fact that Americans-and American livestock have eaten more wheat since the last harvest than the government had planned.
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0 N E MO
 BIG ISSUE
 BEFORE UN0
Make Claims Against British in lndo-
 nesid-Counier Charge
BY JAcK SMITH

LONDON, Feb. 7-The United Nations Security Council, it's first crisis passed with the solution of the Russian British dispute over Greece, moved on today to consid- eration of the Soviet Ukraine charge that British troops in Indonesia were endangering the peace.
 High officials said privately that this controversy might be "an even tougher diplomatic nut to crack than was Russia's allegation that the British were jeopardizing world security by maintaining forces in Greece.
 In the background Of the In- donesian controversy, however, was the Soviet Unions policy calling for the independence of colonial peo- pies. Opponents of British action in Java have charged that British forces were being used to keep the Indonesians under Dutch domina- tion.
 The British on the other hand, have insisted that their forces were in Indonesia on the orders of the Allied combined chiefs of staff and that their only purpose was to pre- serve order while Japanese troops were removed and Allied internees and prisoners of war were rescued.
 The British case had the backing of the Netherlands government.
 Despite the difficulties of the Indonesian case. the Council faced it with one distinct advantage, and tbat was the experience they had gained in settling the Greek dis pute without splitting the unity of the big powers.
 The Russians yielded on every major charge against Britain as the Council resolved the Greek crisis last night. Andrei vishinsky, Sov- jet Vice Commisar of Foreign Af- fairs, announced he would not in- sist on Council statement saying that British forces should be with drawn from Greece immediately or that they were endangering world peace, as he had originally de- manded.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-07
The W ashing ion
 Merry -Go Round
B,. DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON being kept under wraps so far, but Secretary of State Byrnes is planning a unique step in handling American foreign relations. He will soon es- tablish a three-way Cabinet Con- mittee. consisting of the. Secretary os War, the Secretary of the Navy and himself, to guide U s. policy abroad.
 Hitherto. the Secretary of State himself, under the direction of the President, has always handled for eiqn policy Conferences. were held with other Cabinet heads when necessary, and, during the year or SO before Pearl Harbor, the Army and Navy. almost more than the State Department, dictated U. s. policy toward Japan.
 However, never before has there been an official Cabinet Commit tee to advise on foreign policy such as that now being worked out by BylneS
 One reason behind the move is the fact that American policy now hinges more and more on the To- cation of U. s. troops abroad. The State and War Departments, for instance, must work closely to- eether regarding the occupation of Germany Likewise in Japan.
 Another reason is the fact that Secretary Byrnes is personally close to Secretary of War Patter- son and Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, and probably can get support for his ideas.
 Note-When FDR was alive. he dominated foreign affairs. Having lived abroad and travelled exten- slyely, he made virtually all major
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JAPANESE VIEWPOINT

TOKYO, Feb. 1.-Two top-rank- ing Japanese generals today term ed the sentencing of It. Gen. To- moyuki Yamashita to be hanged in disgrace brutal"
 It. Gen. Yoshio Kozuki said that execution of General MacArthur's order that Yamashita be stripped of all military trappings for the gallows would have "a deep effect upon the Japanese people" but they would accept the verdict without trouble owing to the situation
 However 1t. Gen. Mamoru Hara, next highest ranking officer in that ministry. said there might be de- monstrations. He speculated that the people might consider that the verdict carried things too far
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-07

homes With the arrivals Red Cross and Army doctors and nurses were on the dock to render first aid as the ships arrived.
 Doreen Ryan, IT, was the favorite heroine of many They said the Anchorage, Alaska, high school Senior refused to get into life boat with her stepbrother Steph- ems. 8, insisting that her mother take the place. She remained aboard with her stepfather, R. H. Brown.
 Later, they said, she wrapped her arms and clothing abound Q crewman, Ken Ransom, who had been pulled from the sea. Doreen arrived on one of the rescue craft, but Brown had not arrived at a late hour yesterday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-07
Browder Charged
 Win Desefii0n by
 Communist Party

NEW YORK. Feb. Earl Brow der, former head of the Communist party in America. was charged to- day by the organizations national board with desertion of "Commun- ist duties and responsibilities" and threatened with expulsion from party ranks.
 The national board announced last night that it would recom- mend his expulsion at the party's national committee meeting here next Tuesday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-07

KETCHIKAN. Alaska, Feb. IT. Thirty-two persons were unaccount- cd for when rescue vessels brought to Seward the last known load of survivors from the wrecked liner Yukon last night. and today the crew and passenger lists were be- ing checked and rechecked to learn the names of the missing. All Seward watched the sea for signs of any struggling small craft which might come in with some or all of the g.
 The rescuers had found no bodies and had removed the last of the Yukon's crew and passengers from the grounded. broken vessel and from the nearby shore. When the mercy craft unloaded their last group of survivors at Seward and count was made the Coast Guard said 465 had been carried to saf- : ety.
 i The passengers and crew. accord ling to lists announced by the Alas ka Steamship Company and the Army numbered 497
 The Coast Guard report from Seward said it was not known as yet whether all the crewmen and passengers listed actually had been aboard when the Yukon sailed Sum- day night from Seward, seven hours before she ran aground on the storm beaten rocks in Johnstone Bay.
 All SllrptporS Rescued The cutter Onondaga, it's crew dead tired after more than 48 hours of battle with the sea and snow and wind messaged late yes terday that all survivors had been rescued and the Yukon abandoned There had been reports from res lcued passengers and crewmen that casualties had been seen. but none ,o of these could be verified. Three crewmen pulled from the water by a tug after the Yukon broke in two Monday night. said they thought several were lost, one man estimating sthe number at 20 or more. One passenger said he had been told three bodies were recovered.
 Repeatedly the Coast Guards messages from the scene said there were no reports of casualties from l, the rescue ships and no bodies had been found
 Taken From Beach I Last to be taken aboard the On ondaga and the other craft were some 100 persons who had manag- ed to reach the narrow strip of beach beneath barren, 5,000-fcot Il high cliff. A pilot who carried pie lures from Anchorage to Seattle yesterday said the temperature at the disaster scene was down near zero and the people on the beach must have been whipped by spray 1 from the towering waves. l How anyone could survive long 1 in that water don't know" he said
 ceward opened it's doors to the survivors. Its few taxicabs and private cars rallied at the docks to take the arrivals to hotels and private homes after they were checked by crew of Army doc ! tors and nurses and Red Cross workers.
 The steamer Alaska was due ear- ly this morning to carry tke sur vivors to Seattle. destination of the ill-fated Yukon.
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Holiday for 6O.OOO School Children Of
 N. Louis ls Ended

ST. LOUIS. Feb. TIA holiday for 6o,O00 of St. Louis a0,0o0 school children was over today with the settlement of a three-day strike of about 400 custodians and matrons which had closed 100 of the 'l29 public schools here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-07
PROPERTY SALES

Transactions of real property re- corded here during the past week are: From Hector J. Plant to Jesse O. Bostwick, house and lot on Ba- sin Road; from Allan P. Fortney to Clay H. Bowman. two houses and lot on Willoughby avenue.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-07
SURVIVORS
 AT SEWARD
 RE(HECkED
Believed Missing May Be Aboard Other Graft En-
 gagged in Rescue Work

Seattle. Feb. !. ---The Alaska Steamship Co, recapitulating crew and pas senger lists on the wrecked Iin- CT Yukon, announced this af- ternoGn that hut IS were unac- counted for. They listed them as eight military personnel, five civilians and two members of the crew. Those unreported previously tetalled 32.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-07
STORY OF
 WRECK IS
 NOW TOLD
Graphic Description Given by Woman Passenger
 Aboard Yukon

Editors Note-The following graphic description of the Yukon wreck was obtained from Mrs. Gilliard Sherin of Am ohorage. who with her hus- band and son, was enroute to make a new home in Clinton. Wash.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-07

MAN llIka, IGD. tf--LL. iCii- NNdoo haru Homma, who has accepted full moral responsibility for the -3ataan march of death, was de- scribed today by his wife as so gentle that he summed hunting as a sport.
 Homma, charged with responsi- nility for the horrible deaths of e7,00o Americans and Filipinos in his short tenure as commander of the Philippines, bent and conytilsed with tears as his pretty wife testi- fled:
 T am proud of the fact am the wife of General Homma. have une daughter and my one wish is that some day she will marry a man like the general
 A tear glistening in her own eye, the tiny kimono-clad Japanese wo- man animatedly and earnestly tes- tified that Homma thrice tried. ito make peace''-after the fall of Ranking, when he pleaded that un- less peace was restored immediately "it will be disastrous" after Han kcw fell, and again when the Ku- niako Koiso cabinet was formed af- ter the loss of Saipan-"but he did not succeed"
 The generals heavy shoulders
  convulsed and he bent low over the defense counsel's table, a handker- chief at his eyes, as his wife for 20 years attempted to refute CO., pious prosecution testimony de- scribing the death march and other horrors.