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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
pres. TRUMAN.
NAMES SIX TO.
NEW OFFICES.
Maj. Gen. W. H. Draper Is
Underseuetary Of War
S Others 10 keyiSpots

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2sAlRl-
President Truman today named
Maj Gen William H. Draper, of
Scarsdale, N Y, as Undersecre-
tary of War and announced his
choice of five Others for key
positions in the new unified de-
Tense setup.
/ The White House said Mr.. Tru-
man had selected the following
officials for the new defense es-
adjustment and their appoint
ments will be formally announced
when Forrestal takes the oath:
Arthur M Hill, of Charleston,
w Va, now chairman of the Board
of the Atlantic Greyhound Cor
poration, as chairman of the Ma
tional Security Resources Board
Sidney w. Smuers, a native of
Dayton, o, and retired Rear Adj
miral, as Executive Secretary of
the National Security Council. He
is a former director of Central
Intelligence Agency and is now
engaged in private business with
firms in Atlanta and st. Louis.
Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoet-
ter, a native of ST Louis, as Di-
rector of the Central Intelligence
Agency He occupies that posi-
ton under the present setup of the
& Armed Forces
/ Thomas j. Hargrave, President
of the Eastman Kodak Co., as
chairman of the Munitions Board.
Mai. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther,
native of Platte Center, Nebr.,
! whose home is now in Omaha, as
Director of the joint staff of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. The White
House said this appointment was
made by the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and the President merely announc-
/ ed it for them.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
TAME BOMB OF
ATOMIC ENERGY
NOW DEVELOPED
Scientific Purposes Are Ex-
planned : Gives Close
Study of Neutrons
lBy The Associated Press

Scientists Of the Atomic Energy
Commission have produced q civil
lied version of the atom bomb for
purposes Of peace-time study.
The tame" atomic bofnb-as they
call it--doesn't go off with a blind
ing flash and there's no devastating
explosion. Instead, it gives off a
steady stream Of fast neutrons, and
it doesn't get any hotter than a
kitchen oven
Thus, the scientists are now in a
position to get closer look at those
fast-moving neutrons or nuclear
bullets which break loose with the
splitting of the atom. The expert
ments are expected to contribute
greatly to the development Of atomic
energy for industrial uses.
Of course, there are plenty of fast
neutrons flying around every Time
you set off real atomic bomb But
in the first atomic bomb test in the
New Mexico desert scientists didn't
have much of a chance to see how
The neutronS were acting.
The tame bomb derives its energy
from plutonium-a man-made ele-
ment-instead Of from the element
Uranium, which occurs in nature.
The project is in successful opera
ton right now at Atomic Commits
sion Laboratory at Los Alamos, New
Mexico, with husband and wife
team, DR.. and Mrs. Davis B. Hall,
supervising
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
ITALY PEACE
pA(T0kEHED
BY RUSSIANS

LONDON, Aug 29.-tR- The
Moscow radio announced tonight
that the Praesidium of the Su-
preme Soviet of the USER. had
issued a decree ratifying the peace
treaty with Italy
Other Moscow radio announce
ments, heard in London by the
Soviet monitor, said the Praesid-
ium also had ratified the peace
treaties with Rumania, Hungary
and Bulgaria.
Russia was the last of the Big
Four to approve the Italian peace
treatry drafted last year in Paris
The action of the Soviet body
paves the way for formal ending
of hostilities against italy, one
time Axis partner
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29


at the scene, and two young men
are said to have been seen running
to a Packard car just before The OK
plosion The police theory is that
it was a home made bomb, deliber-
ately planted in the city hall court
yard.
at Eoonlille, gasoline engines
frem a strip coal mine are providing
emergency electric power for the
citys water system. Normal electric
service was knocked out last night
by boiler explosion in the city's
100000 power plant. This morning
the whole community of 5000 was
without lights or electric power.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
HINES sketches
: ARE FEATURE OF
WRITER'S DINNER

Approximately 35 outdoor Writ
ers of America we're guests at the
Salmon Creek Country Club last
evening at a banquet attended also
by nearly 300 local residents who
hosted themselves.
With good time for everyone
the main object, ceremonies were
held tc a minimum. After a
brief welcome by Territorial Sports
mans Association President Milo
Clouse,. briefly responded to by
Frank Dufrense and j. Hammond
Brown, president Of the OWAA
the spotlight was put on illustra-
tor Bob Hines.
Hines had rapt audience as he
completed a series of rapid black
and white sketches including rep
RESERVATIONS of: A polar bear at
lacking a ribbon seal, a brown bear
"a mountain goat, caribou and
Charlie Gilham's retriever J-Bird
The climax drawing was taken
from the cover Illustration of the
new Gillian book, Raw North,
pioturing starving sled dogs. Per-
haps Hines best received sketch
was that of a wood duck.
Prior to the banquet at the
Country Club, the writer's wera
guests of the Juneau Chamber OF
Commerce at a cocktail reception
in the Gold Room of the Baranoi
Hotel Quite a number of Chamber
members and ladies were on hanc
, for the pouring.
With adverse weather still hold
ing most of the writers close tt
their typewriters, with no fishing
to write about, a few harder
visitors have managed to get line
wet. A party that tried salmon
fishing yesterday at Tee Harbo,
returned with a number of small
Cohoes, of which only the largest
taken by Richard W. Wood, being
displayed as an entry in the specia
writer's derby
| Another group that made tr.
at Tee Harbor this morning wa
turned back by rough water
Fest reports came from a part.
of eight that went to Taku Lodg
yesterday, returning today enthus
iastic over accommodations, enter
tainment, scenery and fishing. An
other group of eight went to TAXI
Lodge this morning and other late
groups are planning on a day a
the river resort.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
Hitch mixers
SHOOT YOUNG
COUPLE, OHIO

OMAHA, Aug 29.-tR-Two
khaki-clad hitchhikers were sought
today in the deaths of Mr. and
Mrs. r. L. May, End, prominent
Arlington, Va, couple, whose re-
turn from Colorado vacation
enccd here in death by gunshot.
The young couple, whose bodies
were found in ood-spattered
bushes on Omaha's far western
outskirts yesterday, are Believed
to have picked up the hitehhik-
ers at Grand Island, Neb., about
$50 miles west of here.
Their fully clothed bodies, both
with .38 caliber revolver shots
through the head, were found
early yesterday by two small boys
investigating blood stains along the
highway. Their money was gone
and thers apparently had been an
attempt to rsinove all identifica-
ton.
1t. Robert Beers Of the Nebraska
Safety. Patrol, said a Grand Island
filling station attendant refnein-
Tered refueling a 1947 Chrysler
answering the description of the
May car The driver, resembling
May, displayed a sizeable roll OF
bills when paying for the gasoline
a young man in army Uniform
came into the station and Struck
UP a conversation with the car
driver, 1t. Beers said. Before the
ear left the uniformed man and
another, also in uniform, climbed
into the rear seat.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
SALVAGE ATTEMPT
0N5ALM0N CARGO
OF SUNKEN VESSEL

SEATTLE, Aug. 2S.-tR-Divers
started cutting through the hull
Of the sunken freighter Diamond
Knot today in an attempt to sal
wage the vessels cargo of Alasks
canned salmon. The Foss Launch
and Tug Company, salvors, report
ed the ship was lying on her star
beard side in atout 100 feet O.
water in the Strait of Juan d.
Fuoa, where she sank August IS
after a collision with the freightel
Fem Victory.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
DICK LINDLEY RETURNS

Dick Lindley, 11-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs w. 3. Lindley, return
ed TO Juneau yesterday via Pan Am
erican Always. He spent the sum-
mer visiting his grandparents in San
Diego, Calf.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
BANK Is ROBBED IN
SWEET HOME, ORE;
men NOT CAUGHT

SWEET HOME, Ore, Aug. 90
R-Two men held up the bank OF
Sweet Home today and escaped
with an undetermined amount of
cash. State Police at Portland say
the bandits fled in a black sedan
on the Santiam Pass highway af-
ter sweeping money off counter
and forcing employees to open the
vault.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
OR WHAT HAVE YOU

LONDON-tR From the CLASH
fled advertising columns of the
Times Flank musquash coat, Of
fers Gas; pure silk trimmed white
fur, fabric skating froek, f8 los;
fit slim S #. 7 in. WANTED, Twin
folding pram.'
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
SHIPS SETS RECORD

BELEM, Brazil-tR- The ship
Bloomington Victory which just
arrived here made what shipping
circles here said was new record
Between New York and Belem.
The ship came in seven days ana
% hours.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
VIOLENT BLASTS
SHAKE TWO AREAS
lBy The Associated Press

There were two violent explosions
last night-o,,e in Cambridge, Mas
sachuestts and one in Boonville, In
diana.
At Cambridge, 20 windows in the
city hall were shattered by blast
of mysterious origin, and other
buildings in the neighborhood were
shaken. Police found several pieces
of metal and a length of frayed rope
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
MARRIAGE LICENSES

The following persons have APP
piled to U. S. Commissioner Felix
Gray for marriage licenses:
Phillip H Nelson, boat employee
of the U. S. Army Engineers, and
Pauline Wick, waitress.
Gene j. Martin, Alaska Communi-
cations System, and Doris Crawford,
cashier.
All are Juneau residents.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
cANBERRA, Australia-lR-cit-

ing natives CT New Guinea and
Papua for their war services,
Prime Minister Joseph B. Chiefley
said that those serving with the
Australian military forces would
be paid a war gratuity.
The payment, he said, would be
on a monthly basis for services
after Pearl Harbor, and would in
clude men in the auxiliary serv-
ices.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
TROPHY WITHOUT HONOR

TREDEGAR, Wales-lR- When
offered flag captured in Burma
the British Legion rejected it be-
cause "the japanese were not
worthy fees
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29

Some cases of heart trouble and
arthritis may be cured by vita
min shortage.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
AT HOTEL JUNEAU

George B. Linn Of Hoolah is stay
ing at the Hotel Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29

MURPHYSBORO. IIl.--A teach
or at nearby Campbell Hill High
School this year is G. E. Goforth.
His boss is his son, Gene - the
high school principal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
BILATERAL TRADE
PACTS FOR GREAT
BRITAIN LOOMING

LONDON, Feb. rs. -(P- Cabi-
net and treasury sources predicted
today that Britain's dwindling re-
sources of borrowed dollars would
force her to sign bilat
eral trade pacts with eastern Euro
pean nations.
The informants described this
shaping policy as inevitable"
and dictated by necessity.
1t would mean that Britain was
seeking to shift her dependence
for much food, tobacco and other
supplies from the United States and
Canada, where dollar payment is
called for, to Europe where either
sterling or British products would
be acceptable.
Therefore Britain's "dollar prob
lem" eventually would become an
American problem if this country
continued progressively to decrease
u. S. imports, the informants said,
because Britain is one Of the Unit
ed States biggest customers.
Britain, the ource continued,
has no intention of asking the U.
S. for a relaxation of the $780,
900, 600 loan agreement.
If any relief was sought it would
possibly call for periodic" soft
ening of one clause (article nine)
which bars either country from
maintaining or imposing discrimi-
natory import restrictions on the
other, they said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
SEARCH CONTINUES
FOR LOST PLANE
Alaskan Air Command SAYS
BIG With Crew Oh
IL Missing

ELMENDORF FIELD, Alaska.
Feb. 26.-(P-Search planes fan
ned westward from this anchorage
army sir base today. scanning the
Alaska peninsula wilderness for an
Alaskan air command B-29 Super
fortress missing since Monday with
a crew of IL.
The plane vanished on the same
day II creWmen from another B-29
were rescued from the ice pack or
the northwest coast of Greenland,
where the aircraft had GRASSLAND.
ed after being blown off it's course
on a training flight from Laid
Field, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Brig. Gen. Joseph H. Atkinson,
commanding general of the Alaska
Air Command, said the Elmendorf,
based Superfortress - also on a
training mission ~ last reported it
was near Bruin Pass on the main.
land peninsula north of Kodiak
Its gasoline supply, ne said, should
have lasted until 800 a. m. yester,
day, and the plane was declared
missing as of that hour.
Temperatures in the peninsula
area ranged around So above zero
today, with fair visibility, but the
region is subject to sudden storms
and frequent fog.
The Bruin Pass region is near
the famed Valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes, scene of volcanic activity,
set aside in 1918 as Katmai Nat
ional monument.
Names of missing crewmen we're
withheld temporarily.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
PROBE OF STATE
REDS REQUESTED
Bonner Seeks Investigation
OF Communist Activity
In N. E.

WASHINGTON, Feb. &c. (P) -
Rep. Bonner (D-NC) said today
communist activities in Mort h
Carolina will be looked into by
the House Unamerican Activities
committee you can be sure"
Bonner told a reporter he request
ed this committee, of which he is
a member, Ito conduct an investi-
cation of an advertisement in some
North Carolina newspapers, signed
by Sam Hall, chairman of the
Carolina district Communist Party,
U. S. entitled "a program to win a
better life for the people of North
Carolina"
January 10 Bonner inserted the
advertisement in the Congressional
Record and told the House the
advertisement purports to be polit-
ical advertising. Its purpose is to
stir up trouble. 1t is purely COM
munistic propaganda"
February Is Rep. Redden O-NC>
also asked the committee ito ex-
anime Sam Hall, of Winston-Salem,
N. c., about his communistic activ-
tiles in America"
Bonner said today in an inter-
view. 1.-The same procedure ap-
parently is being followed by COM
munist leaders in North Carolina
as in the various states in con-
junction with the national COM
munist movement and the inter-
national communist movement. ]
asked for investigation of COM
munists in North Carolina because
that is my state"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
CIVIL SERVICE
MEETS TONIGHT
Decision On Police Chief
Appointment Expected
AT Session

A decision of the appointment of
SGT. P. J. Parish as chief of the
Wilmington police department is
due to be reached at a meeting
OF the local Civil Service Commits
sion tonight at eight o'clock.
Four members of the commits
sion are expected to be on hand
to act on the recommendation OF
the city council, with N. S. Has
kett, chairman of the board, con-
fined to a Rocky Mount hospital
with heart trouble.
Meanwhile, Parish was reported
to be in a satisfactory condition
by attaches of James Walker
Memorial hospital.
He was taken to the institution
Monday shortly after lunch re-
portedly suffering from a heart
condition. Latest reports, how
ever, attribute his illness to acute
indigestion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
ALL SCHOOLS IN
BUFFALO CLOSED
Largest Teacher Strike In
U. S. History Affects
$1,000 Youths

BUFFALO. N. Y, Feb. 2e. -
PE Buffalo's II, 0OO-pupil educa.
ton system staggered to a COM
plete shutdown tonight from the
effects of a salary strike of 2,4O0 of
its 1850 teachers.
The board of education, in it's
third stormy session within SO
hours, declared a state of emer-
gency and school Superintendent
Robert T. Bapst Immediately an
nounced that the 10 schools still
open today would not reopen.
The three-day-old strike, largest
in U. S. history, already had closed
10 schools.
The boards action followed a
renewed appeal by Mayor Bernard
]. Dowd for intervention by New
York state officials.
Many principals of the Is elemen-
tary schools that had remained
open testified before the board that
pickets had instilled fear in the
children and had encouraged them
to stay away or to make condi-
tons difficult for working teachers.
Berten B. Bean, associate sup
erlntendent in charge of element
airy schools, told the board non
striking teachers were attempt
ing to work under absolutely i'm
possible conditions in the strike"
Meanwhile, the Transfers Joint
Council of Buffalo and vicinity
(AFL) considered cutting off coal
and food deliveries to the Is
schools, which are picketed by
striking members of the Buffalo
Teachers Federation independently
Lafayette, one of the two high
schools kept in operation since the
start of the strike, was closed this
morning, after a union driver re-
fused to deliver a truck-load OF
badly-needed coal.
Mounting tension on the part OF
the strikers also was considered,
authorities said.
Mayor Dowd threw up his hands
at the teachers demands for a
81, 400 S $4,000 permanent salary
scale and warned New York state
education Commissioner Francis +.
ISpaulding that the trouble" here
was too fraught with disaster to
the state to permit the matter to
drift in the casual temporizing
hands of your local agency"
The state administration, pressed
from all sides for increased teach
er pay, has promised that Cover
nor Thomas E. Dewey's education
committee will submit a permanent
salary program this week.
No state action, however, has
been taken in the Buffalo strike.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
AFL CHIEF Sees
CHANGES IN LAW
Green Clashes With Hoff.
man During Labor Hear
ing. Yesterday

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2e (P,
AL President William Green
shouted today under hot-and-heavy
questlonlng by republican con-
gIessmen that he was willing" for
congress to assure free speech for
employers and to have unions req.
lister and file financial reports.
The pink-cheeked 73-year-old
Green, appearing before the house
labor committee, continued tn on
pose nearly all of the labor leg
islation before Congress.
He insisted that Congress keen
out of jurisdiction strikes, shout
ing: You can't outlaw them. It's
impossible. Listen to mel"
Here's what he conceded under
relentless questioning by Rep.
Hoffman (R-Mich.), after saying
again and again he had no sug,
gestions for legislation:
l. Nov wait! I'm willing that
the Wagner Act be changed 50
that the employer can engage in
free speech" (The act now saws
an employer a put his side OF
any question before his employees
but not in any way that involves
coercion or threats of reprisals.
Employers have often said admin
istrative rulings under this clause
have deprived them of free
speech.)
2. son financial reports OF
unions, we're willing" Green ex-
planned later he meant public re-
ports by national unions, but not
by local unions because the fl
nancial information might help EN-.
ployers in bargaining against the
locals.)
8. eff it's a matter OF union reg
istration, licensed, on a volun-
tary basis. we have no objections
(He apparently didn't mean to
support bills which would compe.
unions to register.)
Later, Green stormed at Rep,
Gwinn (R-NY> that the congress
man is less interested in the &C.
complishments of labor than in
"belly-aches' against it and pass,
ing laws to make workers "crim-
mails"
Quieter labor developments in
Congress today included:
l. The house, by a 248-29 vote,
gave it's labor committee the power
to subpoena witnesses in an in
vestigation of what committee
Chairman Hartley GRIND called
"vicious union racketeering."
Rep. Marcantonio (AMN-Labor-
N.Y. said the inquiry is "another
labor-busting movement"
2. Chairman Taft (R-Ohio) of
the senate labor committee said
the national labor relations board
ought to settle jurisdictional dis
putes - quarrels between unions
within the ALL and within the CLIO.
Taft took this position after Vim
cent F. Morreale, general coun-
sci of the ALL Hod Carriers union,
testified against government set
Element of inter-union squabples.
3. The Rev. Jerome L. Toner,
labor relations professor at st.
Martins College, Lacey, Wash,
told the senate group the closed
shop (Which requires hiring OF
union members only is "democ-
racy in action under majority
rule" He opposed Senator BARS
(R-Minn) bill to outlaw the var
ious forms of closed shop.
AS Green took the witness char
before the house committee, ne
read a long statement saving the
s.real purpose behind labor law
proposals is to destroy unions.
He said pending bills would pro-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
CARRIERS FETED
At SUPPER MEET
plans To Reorganize As
,ociation Completed
Here Last Night

seventy carriers of the
,,s,ning Star and Wilmington
n0 attended a supper meeting
New tbe Friendly cafeteria last
night.
following the supper a round
t1o discussion was held en- the
WV "sio,s problems of the young
"u.ohants." Wallace E.. Pruett,
l'lsa',lation manager of the papers
T. steadman Wick, city circu-
' .n manager spoke to the boys
+be proper delivery of their
papers, co-N.
Ariers association was discussed
length and the carriers voted
reactivate the association. OF
s,ars will be elected at the
,Sarcb meeting. All future meet
,.as will be conducted by the car
lars themselves, with the clrcu-
,.+;on department members act
ira in advisory capacities.
plans for athletic teams were
.,so discussed at length and the
ssrri4rs voted to participate in
sariolls sports events this sum-
nner.
prrett said the supper meeting
xilI be a regular monthly fea-
sro of the carrier association.
Henderson, Melvin Atkin-
nm and C. M. Lee. district man.
.Sarc of the papers attended and
roke briefly to the boys.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
INTER-AMERICAN
MILITARY PLAN
GAINS SUPPORT

WASHINGTON. Feb. 20 R}-
Chairman Vandenberg (R-Mich)
OF the senate foreign relations
committee threw his support today
behind legislation aimed at stand
ardizing armed forces of the west
ern hemisphere.
An aide told a reporter that
Vandenberg '.favors immediate
enactment" of a bill with that
goal.
The measure would enable the
United States to sponsor standard
ization of military equipment.
training and organization of armed
forces of the American republics.
Senator George (D-Ga), a mem
Der of the committee, told a re-
porter he will introduce the inter
American military cooperation"
probably Friday.
Originally the program was call
ed the Truman plan"
President Truman requested it's
passage in a special message to
Congress last April.