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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
WARNING GIVEN THAT CRITICAL
 ERA FACES U. }.

WASHINGTON, April 1l.-OR- Rep Angel, (R-Ore) said today the United States faces a critl- cal financial era and Uncle Sam is reaching the bottom of his fin ancial barrel and he cannot fi- nance the world"
 Angell issued his statement in a review of the proposed S400,- 00000 aid to Greece and Turkey
 He said it was realized in Con- gress that it is only the initial payment" and not only Greece and Turkey need help If the surge of Communism is kept back but most of the other smaller nations will be knocking at Uncle Sans doors for similar help"
 Congressional leaders, he said insisted that Congress go slow ln the Presidents program until they can determine just what will be required.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
FAULKNER MAKES PLEA 10 HOUSE
 COM. ON LANDS

WASHINGTON, April l1.-tR-H. L. Faulkner, of Juneau, Alaska, urged the House Public Lands Com mittee today to approve legislation extending the right to mine in the Territory to lands under waters of navigable rivers and streams.
 Faulkner told the committee pres ent laws give such rights to mine under waters of bays and inlets along their shores He asked that the law be amended to include the rivers.
 He said many of the so-called navigable rivers were merely small streams except for two weeks dur ing the spring when water was high.
 Joel Wolfsohn, associate director of the Bureau of Land Manage ment. testified the Interior De- partment favors the bill with amendments to protect fish and the Territory's future rights as a state to the beds of the rivers.
 Faulkner told the committee he represented the Alaska Mining As sociation. comprised largely of placer miners.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
THOUSANDS HOMELESS;
 1 B DE A D
injured List Grows 10 1905 Relief Stations
 Are Sci Up

WOODWARD. okla. April H. R-The tornado-lashed panhandle area of Texas and Oklahoma counted it's known dead at l32 and estimated the injured at 1905 as rescue crews searched for addition al casualties in the ruins of the hardest hit towns.
 The property loss, inflicted on the rich cattle and wheat area by the violent winds of Wednesday night and early Thursday. ran into the millions of dollars.
 Field Kitchens, emergency sta tions and other facilities were set up to care for the thousands of homeless. Bulldozers rumbled along through the debris-cluttered com munities clearing the wreckage.
 Relief supplies continued to move into the stricken area by plane. truck and train. Restoration of communication and power facilities was progressing
 
 This was the casualty toll as list ed by the Red Cross midwest area headquarters in St. Louis: Wood ward. 85 dead, 1000 or more in- jured Higgins, Tex, 34 dead, 232 injured, Gaizier, Tex, 13 dead 40 injured; White Horse, Okla, none dead, 30 injured; Gray county, Tex, none dead, three injured.
 Woodward, where 100 blocks of buildings were levelled. had more than 2,000 homeless out of a pop ulation of about $500.
 The property loss here was esti mated at more than S5.000,000 by Alex Geismar, vice-presidsnt of Woodward Bank.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
RUSS BLOCK GIVING SAAR
 TO FRANCE

MOSCOW, April 11--iR-Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov blocked tonight insistent attempts by France to get immediate approval by the Council of Foreign Ministers of an economic merger Of the Saar with France.
 U. s. Secretary of State Mar shall and British Foreign Secre- tary Ernest Bevin had agreed to the creation at once of a commission to work out details of such merger. Moltotov, however, under constant verbal pounding by the French Foreign Minister, George Bidault, repeated his insistance that the Soviet Union wanted time to think over the proposal.
 Molotov also told the four-power council that the Soviet Union op- posed the French proposal for an independent Ruhr. He said such step would amount to dismem- berment of Germany and create hostilities within the country.
 This led to an argument bring ing out additional more or less sec ret details of the Tehran and Yalta conferences.
 Molotov declared that at Yalta President Roosevelt had. put forth an idea for a five-part dismem- berment of Germany.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
NEW DEVICE TO
 AID AIR SAFETY
 DEMONSTRATED
TeIevision Radar Road. maps Will Keep Pilot
 Posted on Obstacles

CAMDEN, NJ, April II, R-Air safety took major step forward with disclosure of a television-ra- dar pictorial roadmap.'
 The new device known as Tele- ran was demonstrated for the first time before a group of newsmen at the Radio Corporation of Am erica plant here
 Dr. Douglas Ewing, manager of the Teleran Engineering Depart ment, explained how Teleran work ed.
 Tt will show in one clear pie ture," he asserted, where the pi- lot is in respect to some fixed point; where he wants to go; what other planes are in his vicinity at the same altitude; what weather problems are ahead and what ob stacles lie in front of him.
 RIGA Engineer Oren F. Jones said that five aircraft will be used in a demonstration over Washington this fall By 1850. he added, enough equipment may be installed to con- duct an Atlantic seaboard test.
 Teleran, said Jones, will aid com mercial flying by speeding up plane landings at airports through better contact between plane and control crews. In addition, he said, the de- vice will prevent air crashes by giving pilots clear view of fixed or moving obstacles at it's altitude at all times.
 A similar tclevision- -radar traffic control installation would be set up on the ground at airports. Ground crews thus would be able to guide the pilot through written instruc- tions inscribed on the airport map and flashed to the pilot aloft.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
GASCHAMBER ENDS
 S0RDID CAREER OF
 2-TIME MURDERE55

SAN QUENTIN, Calif., April II, R-Mrs. Louise Peete Judson, 59, was executed in San Quentin Pri- sons gas chamber today for the murder of benefactress to whom she had been paroled after serving Is years of a life sentence for an earlier staying
 Her execution-the second time California had exacted woman's life for crime-came eight years to the day after her release on parole from the sentence for her firSt murder.
 The chunky little woman had been convicted of two murders, had seen three husbands die by their own hands, and had lived to know that the husband of one of the murder victims died in mental hospital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
ALASKA VENTURE: ENDS IN TRAGEDY
 ON CALIF. COAST
Detroit Couple Headed North with Power Barge
 Lose Lives in Storm

SANTA ROSA, Calf, April H. R-An expedition to Alaska to open barge freight line with surplus military landing crafts ended in tragedy for Detroit couple off the northern California coast
 Francis Capshaw, 46 former De- troit chiropractor and auto sales man, and a woman identified as his wife, were drowned Wednesday when two barges sank during a narrowing night of fighting the pounding seas. Martin ErneStus of Dillingham;, Alaska, partner of the Capshaws in the venture to establish a barge freight service on the Newshagan River, was res cued by the Coast Guard.
 One of the party's barges was beached.
 Capshaw, who put his life's say ings into the plan, had been living at San Pablo for the last month while gathering equipment for the expedition and loading the three barges purchased from the govern ment.
 The barges, heavily loaded with lumber, fuel, lighting plants and other equipment for setting up business in Alaska, were linked by towlines when they left the San Francisco Bay at dawn Wednesday, hoping to reach Fort Bragg by nightfall
 Ernestus told coroner Vernon Silvershield that the towline from the larger barge to the two small CT craft had snapped just before darkness Wednesday night and that they were unable to pick it up All thnee were weary and seasick, he said but he managed to jump from the larger barge into one of the smaller ones. He started up the motor to head for shore, think ing Capshaw was following.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
MOSCOW TRUD TAKES SW Al AT U. }. POLICY
Declares Americans Push inq Out Weaker Bril-
 ish, Two Sections

MOSCOW, April l1.-R The trade union organ Trud asserted today that the new course of Amer ica's foreign policy has alarmed the progressive public of the Near East, who see in it design on the part of the United States to seize an economic, strategic posi- tion in the Near East and Medi- terranean Basin"
 Irud said the Americans were pushing out the weaker British
 The policy declared by Presi- dent Truman reflects the plans of aggressive American circles direct ed toward establishing a world hegemony of the U. s. A. It is known and has been confirmed more than once by history that such plans inevitably suffer iail- ure."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
PUBLIC CARRIER ROOF EXITS ARE
 URGED BY JURY

SEATTLE, April 11-R-A cor nor's jury probing Monday nights tragic bus crash on the Pacific Highway, has recommended in- stallation of emergency exits on the roofs of all passenger-ca carrying vehicles engaged in public service.
 Completing it's inquiry into the and an oil truck, the jury also recommended that public carriers be required to carry other emer- gency equipment. Nine persons, eight of them passengers, were kill ed when the bus and oil truck col lided and the bus plunged into the Duwamish River.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
Man Arrested in Anchorage Wanted
 On SeaitIe Charge

SEATTLE, April 1l.-lR-United States Atty Raymond E, Plum mer of Anchorage informed Seattle police yesterday that Larry Metcalf, about 35, arrested there on robbery charges for an SLIGO Yukon Club safe theft here, had agreed to waive extradition, Detective Cap tain Guy c. Vernon announced.
 A second man, Forman Polar, 22 was arrested on the same charges at Sacramento, Calf, on March 6, and returned here
 The two are accused of forcing two janitors into a back room on February 3, and then breaking open safe. Captain Vernon said. Metcalf also used the alias Leon- ard Morgenstern, the detective added.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-The Justice De- oartment probably won't announce it during the telephone strike, but it is working on very important case against the telephone com pany. It plans to bring one Of the most important antitrust suits in months against American Telephone and Telegraph and it's subsidiary, Western Electric.
 The facts which the Justice De- partment has developed are that AT and T. owns 98 percent of Western Electric. Western Electric, in turn, manufactures all equip ment for AT and Tits cables, telephone instruments, and every thing else. If an outside manu- facturer wants to sell equipment to AT. and T. it cannot do so-tne phone company buys only from its own subsidiary.
 Already the AT. and T. has a service monopoly of the tele- phones in the United States. In addition, through Western Elec- tric, it has manufacturing monopoly.
 A lot of companies manufactur- ing radio equipment would like to manufacture telephone equipment the Justice Department contends,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
OREGON LUMBER
 MILL NEGOTIATE
 FOR LOCAL MILL
Year Around Operation Is Contemplated if Deal
 Transacted

The Juneau Lumber ruills may soon te under new management and ownership if current negotia- tions between three Juneau visit ors and the present mill owners are successful.
 Henry Chaney, President of the Coos Bay Lumber Co, at Coos Bay, Oregon; Thomas Dant, partner in Dant and Russell, Portland, Ore, ship owners and lumber whole salers, and George Kirkland, of Baker Fentress Co. Chicago in- vestment company and operators Of several lumber concerns, ale in Ju- neau today to discuss the pros pective sale of the Juneau Lumber Mills, Inc, to a new company con- trolled by the firms they represent. The group already possesses an op- tion to buy the Juneau concern and is now negotiating an agreemen. which will be satisfactory to al. parties. Tkc option still has &p- proximately 30 days to run.
 Clancy, spoi>esnan Tor the group, said that if his concern takes over the Juneau Mill, it hopes to oper- ate through the year, or at least, as much of the year as it is pos sible to operate. He said that tentative plans also include enough work and employees to operate two shifts per day.
 Charles c. bG<aa,>., Assistant Re- gional Forester of the U s. Forest Service here said that he would be happy to see the group come into Juneau Burdick said that Chan ey's operating record at Coos Bay falls right in line with policies laid down by the Forest Service for cutting timber in this area He said that lumber men could cut over a billion board feet of timber per year in this area without hurt ing the perpetuity growth plans for timbered areas specified by the Forest Service.
 Chaney said that he likes the looks of Juneau and hopes that an arrangement can he completed for the sale He believes that there are excellent possibilities for the development of the lumber busi- ness here Clancy added that, if things pro gress satisfactorily enough, the new group, if it takes over the Juneau mill, will expand present facilities constantly until the saturation point is reached.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
PACKER GOES DOWN OFF VANCOUVER ISLE

PORT ALBERNI, B. C., April, II R--The Packer, Willing Slave. own ed by Canada Packers Ltd, found- cred and sank in Pachena Bay at the height of a storm Wednesday night, Provincial Police reported. The crew was reported to be safe at Ucluelt, B. c.
 Pachena Bay is near the entrance of Barkley Sound on Northern Van couver Island
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, April ll-CIosing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is Az American Can 92%, Anaconda 385s, Curtiss- Wright 5Ia, International Harvester 823i Kennecott 447s, New York Central 16, Northern Pacific l7la, U. S. Steel 699s, Pound $4027s
 Sales today were S50,o0o shares.
 Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follows; Industrials l7343, Rails 4672, Utilities 34.77.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
NFTWU Wants
 AT6T to Meet
 Face 10 Face
Union Will Go Direct 10 Truman If First Re-
 quest Is Refused
CBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

(By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 An unusual memorandum high lighted developments today as the nationwide telephone strike enter ed it's fifth day.
 The memorandum was handed to Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach by the telephone strike leaders. It had two main points.
 Che, the strike leaders asked for an immediate, face -to-face meet ing with the American Telephone and Telegraph Comany and the Labor Department, with newsmen on hand to cover it.
 And two, if this is refused, the union said it intends to go to Pres ident Truman with what was termed our complete story"
 AT and T had no immediate comment. Officials of the Nation al Federation of Telephone Work CTS are meeting with Schwellenbach today to discuss the proposal.
 According to a union spokes- man, the real purpose of the re- quest is to get the AT and T to play a direct role in the national bargaining. Thus far, local Bell system companies and AT and T divisions have been negotiating in with the 39 affiliated unions of the National Federation.
 Hopes for a quick settlement were given a jolt last night when draft of an agreement for long dis tance workers was given a cool re- ception by the union. Joseph Beirne, president of the NFTW, said the proposal did not conform with union policy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
Liaison Aircraff From Fairbanks
 Flying 10 Ft. Ord

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April II, tR Two ground. force liaison air craft enroute to Fort Ord, Calif., after participating in Task Force Frigid operations here this winter, reached Edmonton, Alberta, yester- day and were to continue their flight today, they advised Task Force headquarters.
 They expect to reach their des- tination next Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
U. S. POLICY SCRATCHED
 BY WALLACE
Former Vice. President De- ing America Great Dis
 service Says Senator


 LONDON. April II, Rl-Henry A. Wallace said tonight Britain could save the world from war by re- fusing to take sides between the United States and Russia.
 "If you show the way, all pro- gressive peoples can speak out be- fore it is too late for the princi- ples of a strong United Nations and world progress" the former Vice President told a meeting sponsored by the New Statesman and Ma tion.
 The New Statesman and Nation is a leftist weekly which has been an organ for the voice of labor party rebels against British foreign policy.
 Renewing his criticism of the Truman doctrine in the Middle East, Wallace said in his prepared text:
 T do not believe that there will be war this month or next month, but I do believe that continual tion of the present policy will set during the next few months rigid framework which will maintain a state of perpetual spiritual warfare which will, after time, produce depression in the United States, and eventually, a worldwide war
 T believe this is true also of the Russians. In the short term, a hard policy against Russia may be highly successful. In the long term, I don't see how it can heir peace.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
NO AGREEMENT kIN SIGHT OVER WAGES
 SALMON INDUSTRY

SEATTLE. April -tR-Alaska salmon cannery negotiations neared the critical stage today as the pre- season deadline approached with no agreement in sight.
 A series of conferences yester- day between employers representa- tives and Consolidation Commission CT Albin L. Peterson and the Un- ion Representatives produced mega tive results
 Two shiploads of cannery main tenance workers, originally schedul- ed to sail for Alaska last week, are being delayed by the dispute.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
Hawaiian Statehood
 Bill Is 10 Be Called
 From Com mittee

ON, April II, tR = Chairman Welch (R-CalifD of the House Public Lands Committee said today he will apply to .he Rules Committee next week for au- thority to can up the Hawaiian Statehood bill for House debate.
 Welch told a reporter there is some evidence of opposition to the bilE but expressed confidence that it will be passed by the House.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
DC As Now in SServiee fron, South : Juneau

First regular flight of Pan Am erican Airways new four engine DC-4 passenger planes to Juneau was made yesterday.
 Except for tomorrow, when a DC-3 will make the Seattle to Ju- neau flight, the run will be taken over completely by the larger and faster 42 passenger transports.
 A daily turn-around flight will be made between Seattle and Ju- neau, while the DC-3 planes will maintain the through schedule from Seattle to Fairbanks tenn porarily.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
kER05ENE STOVE
 ExpL0DE5; THREE
 PERSONS KILLED

TACOMA, April 11.-tR-A father and mother and their six-months- old son were killed last night in what police said was the explosion of a kerosene stove in their south end home.
 An unidentified motorist who saw the flames as he passed the house, gave first aid to the fath- CT, Bennie Mayer, who later died from the blast Mrs. Mayer and son, Arthur, were killed in the explosion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
INSURANCE MEN HERE;
 CONFER WITH MARLIN

Lorin G. Duncan. District Rep resentative of Southeast Alaska, and M A. Bodahl, Resident Repres- entative of Ketchikan, for North western Life Insurance Company, arrived in Juneau Tor a business conference with R. D. Martin, Gen. eral Agent for the Company.
 Duncan and Bodahl are making a tour of Southeast Alaska con- tacting the Representatives of Northwestern Life Insurance Com pany in the various towns. They are guests of the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
PERFORMS DISSERvICE

WASHINGTON, April ii, Hi = Senator Eastland (D-MissD told the Senate today that Henry A. Wallace is performing a great dis service to the American people" by speeches abroad opposing President Truman's Greek Turkey aid pro- gram.
 Wallace, Eastland declared "has attempted to induce friends anu allies of his country to desert her. y
 Saying that Wallace was invited to France by Communist leaders, Eastland added:
 NO American citizen has the moral right to conspire with for eign peoples in order to undermine and to weaken the hand of his country.
 "The least that can be said is that MT. Wallace is performing a grave disservice to the American people when he attempts to induce Great Britain to desert the United States and thereby force us to sail the perilous seas alone
 Eastland's reference was to Wal lace's expressed attitude that Brit ain should not take sides in diff ferences between the United States and Russia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
CONDEMNED MAN
 AWAITED END IN
 ELECTRIC CHAIR

NASHVILLE, Tenn. April H. tR-Alhert Duboise was executed this morning after sitting calmly in the electric chair for Is min utes while workmen repaired a broken power line.
 The prison electrician discov- cred the break after Duboise had Eeen strapped in the 31-year-old chair. He was executed for the staying of Albert Willis, a Murfree- buro taxicab driver
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
B JULIE 1 N }

ST. JOHNS, Nfld.,-D. I. Jack man, Delegate to the Newfound- land Convention, proposes that a Delegate be selected to interview the United States Government re- garding possible terms of admission as the 49th State.
 COPENHAGEN-A bulletin from Amalienborg Castle said the condl- tion of King Christian X is bet ter, but there still is some fatigue y The Monarch suffered heart at tack Easter Sunday.
 HELSINKI, Finland-The Gov ernment of Premier Mauno Pekkala resigned today in what was des- cribed here as purely domestic political crisis engendered by Fin lands postwar economic problems. Pekkala became Premier March A, 1946.
 LONDON-Bob Edwards, Assist ant General Secretary of the Brit ish Chemical Workers Union, said today that Atomic research workers in this country were becoming sex ually sterile and developing skin diseases.
 SAN FRANCISCO - Man-made Treasure Island is scene Of char red and water soaked ruins today as a spectacular half-million dollar fire destroyed five Navy buildings and much equipment.
 SEATTLE-Frank M Stakey, 33, has been convicted by a Superior Court jury of criminal assault ana six attempted assaults against Seattle women. Maximum penalty on each of the seven counts is 20 years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
SCHOONER ON WAY, C0DFI5HING BANKS

SEATTLE, April II, R-Towed to sea off Cape Flattery and bound for the Boring Codfishing banks, the three -masted schooner c. A. Thayer was Northward bound to- day. Capt Knute Pearson had a crew of 28 aboard The Thayer owned by Capt. J. E. Shields, loaded at Poulsbo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
HERE FROM OKLAHOMA

Three persons registered yester- day at the Baranof Hotel from Oklahoma City, Okla. They were s. c. Won Wedel, and MT. and Mrs. William E. Dodd.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
BERT PARKER HERE

Bert Parker from Gustavus ar rived in Juneau yesterday and is staying at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
OVER FROM SITKA

Mark Wrigley from Sitka arrived in Juneau yesterday and is at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
HERE FROM WRANGELL

R. A. Dotson from Wrangell is at the Gastineau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11
 WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures fo, 24-Hour Period Ending 7.ou O'Clock
 This Morning.

}, In Juneau Maximum, 45; } minimum, 3l.
 At Airport Maximum, 46, minimum, 30. , WEATHER FORECAST } tJuneau sAd vicihity) ? Cloudy with rain hegin- } ming tonight and continuing , Saturday. Warm tonight. , Colder Saturday night. D PREC iPITATION , tPast 24 hours end.rs 7:3o . n. today )
 , In Juneau CA inches;
 , since April l, .9l inchess , since July l, 79.39 inches. ? At Airport .01 inches. , since April l, ,54 inches; , since July l, SOAP inches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-11

The ricksha was invented by Jonothan Goble, who visited Japan in 1854 with Commodore Perry.
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