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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
Stahn Expected To Lash Greek Aid Proposal
WALLGREN ASKED
 TO INTERVENE IN
 BIG FERRY STRIKE

SEATTLE, March 15-tP-G Guber- material intervention into the par alayzing Puget Sound @erry tie-up was sought today by some of the 10000 commuters who use the fer ries, but no immediate settlement of the dispute was in sight.
 The Northwestern Washington Community Council, which claimed representation of thousands of com muters, called on Governor Wallgren for immediate intervention.
 Cancellation Service Commissioner Albin L. Peterson said he was work ing to arrange another meeting be- tween representatives of the Puget Sound Navigation Co, which oper- ates g ferries, and striking members of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association The strike at midnight Thursday came after a deadlock in negotiations over a new working agreement.
 The company in a statement Thursday charged the union re fused" to accept no-strike, mo- lockout and arbitration clause de- manded by the company for a new contract. The union issued no state ment concerning the strike.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
FRENCH AIR LINER HITS
 SNOWY PEAK
Plane ExpIodes-No Trace of B Persons Aboard,
 Including 4 Americans

PARIS, Marcn 15-tFl-Searcn parties reported today that an ava lanche of snow had covered the wreckage of an Air France liner, which crashed into a cliff and ex- ploded yesterday on the treacher- ous slope of Mount Moucherolle in the French Alps There was no trace of the IS passengers, four of whom were Americans, or of the five crewmen.
 Ground parties messaged to the company's Lyon office that fear of starting a new snow slide on the 4,000-foot mountain kept them from digging to examine the wreckage, which they reached after wading through two feet of newly fallen snow
 The plane, two-engine DC-3, left Nice yesterday for Paris. It crashed into the mountain on it's southern slope and then slid back down into a valley, the company spokesman said. The site of the wreck is in the neighborhood of Chateau Bernard, 25 miles south of Grenoble.
 The company said the four Am erican passengers were:
 Edwin Mantz soldier returning to Germany from vacation.
 MT Anfossi, Of New York City.
 MT. Farber, an American whose official residence was in Paris.
 Mrs. Muller, whose address and first name were not availble.
 All the crew members were French.
 The company said two Dutch and two Swedish passengers were
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
TRY ROAD BLOCKS, MORE POLICE, TO
 HALTL. A. KILLING

LOS ANGELES, March 15.--iRl- The police department revived a road block system today and an ncuneed plans to add 250 officers in efforts to crush crime wave which started with the mutilation killing of Elizabeth (Black Dahlia) Short, Jan. IS.
 Chief of police C. B. Horrall an nounced the addition of policemen whileT his assistant, Joseph Reed, briefSd the department on the blockade plan
 Surprised motorists at seven mainy intersections found them selves stopped last night as police teams halted and checked all auto mobiles. Uniformed patrolmen, ra- dio cars and motorcycle officers worked in the teams, while detec- tives stood by at stations.
 Any suspicious cars or occupants were detained for further investi- gation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
Truman off On Fishing
 Trip Today

KEY WEST, Fla, March 15.-lP President Truman, a smiling vacationer in a tan sports slack suit and a long-billed cap, went oeep sea fishing ten miles off the Florida Keys today.
 Virtually his entire staff went along in two crash boats, the Dol phin and the Sandy, provided by the Naval submarine base where MT. Truman has been resting, since Wednesday.
 He has not yet talked with Sec retary of State George c. Marshall on his address to Congress this week which drew sharp criticism from the Soviet official press be- cause of his advocacy of support of Greece and Turkey in their re- sistance to Communism.
 The President maintained silence on blast by the newspaper Iz- veStia accusing the United States of interfering in the internal affairs of other nations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
GUNMAN NAMED FOR SHOOTING
 OF P0LICEM E N

VANCOUVER, B. C., March 15.-- R-Harry Medos, p, was named by a coroner's jury yesterday as the gunman who shot and killed police officers Charles Boyes and George Ledingham in gun-battle Feb. 26
 The jury held that bullets fired from a revolver in the hands of Harry Medos" caused the deaths after hearing detective Percy Alan Hoare identify Medos as the gum man who shot and killed Boyes. Hoare was wounded in the fight.
 J. F. c. B. Vance, police scientist, testified that both officers were killed by the same gun. MedoS and William Henderson, IT, are charged with the murder of the officers. Douglas Carter, Is, third member of the group, was shot and killed by Hoare during the battle on the False Creek flats.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
NEW OFFICERS ARE
 ELECTED BY vFW

At a well attended meeting of the Taku Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. held at the Post Hall on Seward Street on Friday night, new officers were elected for the coming year as fol- lows:
 Hunt Gruening, Commander, Vernon Metcalfe, Senior Vice-Com- mander; Edward P. Chester, Jr,, Junior Commanders Harold R. Brown, Quartermaster; Charles T. Smith. Judge Advocate: William Cawley, Chaplain; George Gombert, Surgeon; and Eckley Guerin, Trus- tee for a three-year term.
 Commander elect Gruening an- nounced that the appointive off cers would be named at the first regular meeting of the Post in April, at which time the officers elected last night will be installed.
 Post Commander Harold E. Mayo stated that a special meeting of the Pest would be held on Friday eve ming, March 2l, for the purpose of conducting an initiation for several new members who have joined i'll recent weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
GOVT. BLAMED
 FOR BOUNCING GRAIN PRICES
Exchange Official Replies to Demand for Boost
 ed Margins

CHICAGO, March l5. - IR = A Commodity Exchange officials charge that "unpredictable govern ment actions" are causing the wide fluctuations in grain futures prices today confronted government offic- ials who blamed speculation and asked that margins be boosted.
 The request, sent yesterday to the nations three major grain exchanges in Chicago, Kansas City, and Min neapolis, brought quick reply from Walter Scott of Kansas City, Presi- dent of the National Association of Commodity Exchanges and Allied Trades, Inc.
 "The high prices that are ruling today are directly due to govern ment policies and activities that have brought about conditions that the entire grain trade views with concern and alarm" Scott declared in a statement issued by the asso- ciation's headquarters in New York.
 Only one exchange, at Minneap- olis, took action yesterday to follow the governments request. The Chi cago Board of Trade met but lacked a quorum.
 At Kansas City, an official of the exchange there said the board may meet today or Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
DOLLAR OF
 CANADIANS
 IN SLUMP

NEW YORK, March 15.-tR- The Canadian dollar today was quoted at discount of 6A percent, or 9375, unchanged from Fridays quotation, the lowest reported since last July.
 Banking authorities said there was no official explanation for this downward trend in the cur rency, but the decline coincided with rumors in Wall Street that further revaluation was in store.
 Liquidation of long positions, it was said by bankers, may have been caused by sales of Canadian securities by investors in the United States for which they were paid in Dominion currency
 On July last, the Canadian government begged it's dollar at par with the American dollar, It had been fixed at a 10 percent discount.
 Compared with last Saturdays quotation, the Canadian dollar to- day showed a loss of 1as cents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
ENGLISH MINERS TO START NEW
 FIvE-DAY WEEK

LONDON March 15.-lR Bri- tain will introduce the five-day week in her newly nationalized coal mines May 5
 Details of an agreement between the National Miners Union and the Government Coal Board, announc- ed today, include:
 1.-Fiveday, 3714 hour week for tace workers, exclusive of travel time from the pithead, and a work week of five days and 421a hours for surface employees.
 2.-Payment of a days wage to hourly workers in lieu of the sixth day and of 16 percent of their weekly average to piece workers, to be called a bonus"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
COASTAL AIRLINES
 FLIES q PERSONS
 ONE FLIGHT FRIDAY

Alaska Coastal Airlines carried total of 21 persons. on one flight schedule yesterday from Juneau to Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan and return.
 Southbound passengers were as follows. to Petersburg, j. E. Con- cannon, George Jasper and Jim Dinner; to Wrangell. Bert Mckay and Evelyn Mather; to Ketchikan. R. Livingstone, from Petersburg to Ketchikan, MT and Mrs. Bob Moor ing and A. Wikan; from Wrangell to Ketchikan, Brooks Hanford, Roy Selfridge and George Armstrong.
 From Ketchikan to Wrangell. John Martin; from Ketchikan to Juneau, Vern Albright, F. M. Ty- voll, J. Fitzmauriee, c. Mattson. Al Daniels, John Olofson and Louis Anderson; from Petersburg to Ju- neau, Alex Reid.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
The w ashingt ion Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON


 WASHINGTON = The man who supplied large part of the fire works at the closed-door Senate Republican "gripe" caucus was not one of the Is rebel Republican freshmen who had demanded a greater voice in party councils, but Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts.
 Lodge had Senators Bob Taft of Ohio and Kenneth Wherry of Ne braska squirming as he assailed party spokesmen for making prom ises" impossible to fulfill and es- pecially for proposing that rent controls he abolished.
 One of the promises" Lodge re- ferred to was the ill-fated COP prediction, later disavowed by most Republican leaders, that taxes could be cut 20 percent across-the- -board Senate leaders replied to Lodge that this blunder had been made chiefly by Ways and Means Chairman Harold Knutson of Min nesota, who shot off his mouth pre- maturely.
 Well, no one is making any promises or commitments for me and no one has been authorized to do so," declared the young Massachusetts Senator who was reelected to the Senate after serv- ing in the Army. I'll do my own talking"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
BIG ICE BRIDGE
 ACROSS HAVANA
 TO BE BLASTED

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 15. -tR-Residents of Fairbanks were warned today to keep their win dows open, tape plate glass win dows and otherwise prepare for a big blast March 19
 On that date, announced Lieut.. Col Walter J. Preston, Jr., the Army plans to blow up big rein forced ice bridge across the Panama River, built to carry tanks and big guns during recent Task Force Fri gid tests.
 Logs were piled on the ice and water poured over them when the bridge was made. Preston said the first blast would be timed for 10 am, with two others following if necessary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
FIVE OTHERS MAY SEEK U. 5. HELP, MONEY
Program to Curb Commun- ism May Eventually
 Cost Billion Dollars
By ALEX H. SINGLETON

WASHINGTON, March 15.-tR- Key legislators predicted today at least five more countries may ask for aid under the administrations program to curb the spread of Com munism among war weakened na- tions near the Russian borders.
 They said Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Hungary and Palestine are likely to call for help soon either in the form of credit or cash grants.
 Including $4Oo, 100000 which Presi- dent Truman has urged Congress to provide fer Greece and Turkey, and millions more for relief elsewhere in Europe and China, the ultimate cost of the overall policy may be well over S1 ,000,OO0, 900, the Congress members estimated.
 They said these are probable de- velopments:
 l. Congressional approval-Some- what later than the administration goal of Mar 31-of MT. Truman's re- quest for funds to help Greece and Turkey withstand Communistic pressure, plus authority to send them military and civilian missions.
 (The House of Commons approved yesterday 100000 supplement- ary appropriation to wind up British aid in Greece by March 31. Hector McNeil, Minister of State, said Brit ain is most anxious that the United Nations Commission now in Greece make some recommendation of a permanent or permanent kind' for the country's>futurela .es4.
 2. Possible inclusion of clause to make the fund flexible-giving the chief executive wide discretion as to whether it should be used for direct grants or loans, and where, when and how it should be spent, subject to a detailed accounting to Congress.
 3. A move to slow down action on tax cuts until the foreign situation has become clarified. This took shape yesterday when Rep Dough- ton D. N. e., ranking minority member of the tax-fixing House Ways and Means Committee, warn ed of dark clouds hanging over the world"
 4. Insistent demands, particular ly from the newly Repub lican majority, for a long range blue print of the administrations foreign policy. COP members want to know not only plans for the southern Mediterranean but else where in the world in such spots as Korea, Manchuria, Poland and Germany.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
ON.
 PEACE TREATY.
 FOR GERMANY.
China Talks Ruled 0uf- Surprise Proposal by
 Molofov SpeluIated
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER


 MOSCOW, March 15-lR-Rus- sia and tEe Western Powers were deadlccked today in the Deputy Forej,vn Ministers conference on the issue of Soviet claims to Ger man assets and Albanian partici- patton in the framing of the Ger man peace treaty.
 Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marshall summoned It. Gen. Lu- cius D. Clay, the American mili- tary governor of Germany to come to Moscow at once as chief ad- wiser to the American delegation at the Council of Foreign Min isters sessions.
 Some Western diplomats specu- lated that Soviet Foreign Minis ter Molotov might spring surprise proposal on German economic is sues when the subject comes be- fore the council early next week.
 The situation brought about by Molotov's efforts to arrange talks on the Chinese crisis boiled again. The Chinese embassy formally mo- tified Marshall and British For eign Secretary Ernest Bevin the Chinese government cannot take part in or agree to" Molotov's sug- gested formal talks on China, to which Marshall has insisted he would not agree without Chinese participation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
TWO POLICEMEN
 IN JAIL AS AIDES
 TO R0BBER GANG

PROVIDENCE, R. l.. March 15.- 1.-Two young Providence police Llen charged with being inside" tipsters for notorious gang of Rhode Island robbers are, held for the grand jury in total bail of $l90000,
 The two patrolmen--George B. Harris, B, and George L. Conway, Severe among five men held in sn aggregate of almost a half mil lion dollars bail as the aftermath of an investigation that begun with the staying of three robbers in a gun fight with police during a weekend burglary of roadside restaurant.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
B FLOWN HERE BY
 PA; 14FL0WN OUT

Pan American Airways complet- ed all regularly scheduled flights in and out of Juneau yesterday and reported the following pass engers carried:
 Seattle to Juneau: Ernest Van Erman, Mrs. Mary Widner, Ann Saver, Albert Hall, George Neth- ercott, Paul Wilson, Tony Zitz.
 Ketchikan to Juneau George Mulkey.
 Fairbanks to Juneau: Robert G Patton, Nada Patton.
 Whitehorse to Juneau: Lillian F. Swanson, Paul Westfall, Donald Westfall
 Juneau to Seattle. J. J. Stock CT, Martha MacKinnon, Lois E Cleveland, Earl Cleveland, Lorraine Workman, Evelyn Mallory, Cora King, Tom Morgan, John Me- Cormick, Ross Peterson, Lucille Peterson, Richard Borden.
 Juneau to Fairbanks: Ben Brown, Timothy Bennett.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
SENATE ACCEPTS
 TWO MORE BILLS

By unanimous consent, the AL aska Senate yesterday afternoon suspended rules to permit intro duction of two new bills present. ed by Senator Edward D. Coffey. The Stenate's bill total was thus boosted to equal that of the House, an unparalleled occurrence. The House has 116 bills; the Senate has 1l5 bills all it's own and one substitute for a House Bill.
 The two measures that came into the Senate yesterday are:
 s. B. IA, by the Senate's Com mittee on Banks and Banking, which makes several public pro- testing amendments to the Terri tory's banking laws. Among the amendments proposed by the bill are Substitution of the Attorney General for the Governor on the Banking Board; requirement of 30 percent paid in capital surplus; requirement. of S25,00O surety bond for bank directors and $5000 bond for bank employees; severe re- strictions on loans to bank em- ployees. It also would set mis- demeanor penalties for negligence on the part of members of the Banking Board
 s. B. 115, by Coffey-Would clarify present statutes regarding extended coverage for riots on in- surance policies.
 Both bills were referred to the Judiciary Committee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
VFW AUXILIARY ELECTS OFFICERS
 FOR COMING YEAR

The Ladies Auxiliary of the Vet crans of Foreign Wars held it's election of new officers for the ensuing year last night at the home of Mrs Lorraine Mix.
 Elected to office were: Corinne Sherman, President; Lucille Ma honey, Senior Vice-President; Bon nie Jo Gronroos, Junior Vice-Pres- ident: Faith Stewart, Treasurer Rhea Smith, Chaplain; Patricia Mayo, Conductress; Marie Fontaine, Guard and Lorraine Mix, Betty Mccormick end Jamie Paredes, Trustees. Betty Gruening is Secre- tary of the organization.
 Plans for entertaining VFW members who will be here in April to attend the National Encamp- ment were discussed at last nights meeting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
STEAMER MOVEMENT5
Square Sinnet in port.

Square Sinnet in port.
 Northern Voyager, freighter from Seattle, due Monday
 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver March IS.
 Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle March 20 Due in Juneau March 23. Going west will call at Cordova. Valdez, Port San Juan and Seward Southbound calls at Valdez, Cordova, Juneau, Ketchi- kan.
 Tongass scheduled to sail from Seattle March 20.
 Sailors Splice scheduled to sail from Seattle March 2l
 Denali scheduled southbound from westward about March 20.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
TRUMAN PLAN
 IS UNDER FIRE, RED PAPERS
Com m unist Pravda Charges Policy of Im-
 periaIisf Expansion
By EDDY GILMORE

MOSCOW, March 15.-tR- Prime Minister Stalin is likely to speak his mind to U. S Secretary of State Marshall on President Truman's proposed plans to aid Greece and Turkey when the Soviet leader receives the Ameri- can Secretary an event which may occur at any time now.
 No Soviet leader thus far has made public statement on the Presidents declaration, but the Russians certainly must believe that Marshall played guiding part in shaping the Presidents policy.
 Two of the most important news papers in the Soviet Union-the Communist party newspaper Pray da and the government organ, Izvestia, have lashed out at the Truman plan Both newspapers dis played a frankness rarely employ ed in commenting upon actions of the head of a great state.
 Pravda took up the subject at great length today in an attack similar to the arguments employ ed yesterday by Izvestia. Dele gates to the Four-Power Foreign Ministers conference read at breakfast charge in Pravda, or gan of the Communist party's Moscow central committee. that the Truman policy did not serve the cause of peace and security and that in the proposal "a pol icy. of imperialist expansion is re- vealed under the guise of charity"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
bLANkEE PRIMARY
 NOW LAW

When Alaskans next go to the polls to vote in a primary election, they will be confronted with a single ballot bearing the names of all parties, from them they can choose as they see fit.
 The Blanket Primary law is now an enactment of the Eighteenth Legislature Approval by the Cover nor has been announced, for H. B. II, the measure written in response to the overwhelming endorsement of the blanket primary system by voters on the referendum question at the last General Election.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
WE CUT TAXES NOW OR NEVER
 SAYS kNUT50N

WASHINGTON, March 15.-tR- Rep. Knutson (R-Minn), today re- lected Democratic demands to hold off tax-cutting until the world sit uation clarifies, declaring:
 If we don't cut taxes now we'll never cut taxes
 Knutson predicted the House Ways and Means Committee, of which he is chairman, will back him up next week by approving his bill to slash income taxes 20 per cent across the board.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
ITS LAST DAY
 FOR FILING OF
 INCOME TAX

Have you filed that income tax return?
 This is the last day for doing it.
 Mailed returns will be accepted as on time if postmarked before midnight tonight.
 Late returns are subject to penalty.
 John A. Nyman, Deputy Collector in Juneau, and his staff will be on the job until 5 o'clock this after noon in the office in the Federal building.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
Public Tea Will
 Honor Godings dt
 Governor $ House

MT. William Goding, new field official for the U. s. Department of Commerce, will be honored with Mrs. Goding at an afternoon tea on Sunday, March 23, at the Governors House.
 The tea will be from o'clock until o'clock and all those who would like to meet MT. and Mrs. Goding, especially the members of the Territorial Legislature, are in- vited. No written invitations have been sent
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
GOLD CREEK UPPING

Annually bothersome Gold Creek, swollen by continuing rains and melting snows, was still at a high level this morning There has been no serious caving of the bank so far, but rock was dumped by Street Department crews late yesterday at one point near the Home Grocery as precautionary measure.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
BALDWIN REBUFFED

On the whole, the COP Senate caucus proved a healthy experience in democracy, during which several young Republicans made 1t clear that they weren't going to be step- ped on by the party bosses.
 Though all newsmen were barred, it can be reported that the meet ing opened with a brief discussion of the letter which Connecticuts new Senator Baldwin and Is other newcomers sent to COP Chairman Carroll Reece complaining of Re- publican leadership. Veteran Sena-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
GOING OUT

Paul WeStfall and brother D. E. Westlall, both from Portland Ore gon, were registered last night at the Baranof Hotel on their return trip to the States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
TWO FROM PETERSBURG

L. P. Apple and Alex Reid, both from Petersburg, have arrived in Juneau and are registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
TWO FROM ANCHORAGE

C. A. Mattsen and Joseph l.. Fitzmaurice, from Anchorage, have arrived in Juneau after a trip to Ketchikan and are registered at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
USPHS WORKER HERE

Erma l. Parr, with the United States Public Health Service at Bethesda, Maryland, is at the Bar anof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
FAIRBANKS COUPLE HERE

MT. and Mrs. R. C. Patton of Fairbanks, enroute to Seattle, re- gistered last night as guests of the Baranof Hotel,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-15
GOOD RECRUITING

TOKYO, = Edward M Brown lee travelled 5000 miles to join the U. S. Army
 Brownlee, IT, came to Japan to join his father, Capt. J. H. Brown lee, three months later he enlisted.
 He has another distinction. He has drawn only overseas pay.