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The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
Husband of Joan Bennett to Face Trial for Shooiinq

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, Dec. Is -R-The district attorney says he will prosecute movie producer Wal ter Wanger for felonious assault despite any efforts that may be made to prevent him being tried for shooting the agent of his &C., tress wife. Joan Bennett.
 Prosecutor s. Ernest Roll, taking cognizance of reports that the agent Jennings Lang, might decline to actively prosecute Wanger, issued this statement:
 "If the police sign complaint, and Chief Clinton Anderson says he will, this office will prosecute the case regardless of the desires of the participants"
 May File Complaint
 Roll said the complaint may be flied today.
 He said he had warned Lang's attorney, Oliver Schwab, that his client would be moved to the Los Angeles General Hospital prison ward if the district attorneys depu- ties were prevented from talking to Lang.
 An appointment was agreed upon afterward, Roll added, for the dep uties to visit Lang today in his hospital room, to take an official statement from him.
 Lang Progresses
 Lang, shot in the groin, was pro- gressing satisfactorily in a hospital. He underwent surgery Thursday night, a few hours after he was shot while he talked to Miss Ben nett in a parking lot.
 Shortly after his arrest, Wanger blamed Lang for what he said was a change in Miss Bennett's atti- tude toward him. and Chief Ander- son quoted the producer: T shot Lang because he broke up my home"
 The 41-year- Miss Bennett insisted her relationship with her agent vas strictly business and she said that If Walter thinks there was any romance f. he is mis- taken"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
Strike Threat Is Ahmed ai Pan American

NEW YORK, Dec. 15-tR-The CIO Transport Workers Union (TWUD has called for a strike Monday against the Pan American World Airways in wage dispute.
 However, both the company and a federal conciliator say as far as they are concerned the case still is in mediation
 The TWU's strike threat was made when wage talks broke down last night. James Horst. director of the unions air transport unit, Local 20, said the company was bargain ing in bad faith"
 The strike announcement appar- ently caught the airline and fed era1 mediator George McSwan by surprise. The union said $500 ground and flight service employees would walk out, tieing up Pan Americans overseas service from Calcutta to Japan" / But the union said the airlift to Korea would not be affected. Pan American operates some hospital planes and also carries troops to and from the battle area.
 Scheduled to be tied up are the airline's terminals at New York, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle and Brownsville, Texas.
 The unions wage demands diff fered for various categories.
 For example, the TWU asked IS cents an hour more for maintenance employees while the company of fered nine cents. The union de- scribed as inadequate" what it said was an offer for a $5 month increase for flight personnel, in- cluding stewardesses.
 Present pay rates were not avail able
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
President pIans 0usling Dishonest Fed. Officials
By ED CREAGH

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15-- lR = President Truman, who said nine months ago. his administration was made up of honorable men, puts the finishing touches today to a new broom program of sweeping out of- ficials who have betrayed his trust.
 Announcement of the detailed program was expected by today al- though there may be some delay.
 Whenever it comes, it appeared certain that strapping Federal Judge Thomas F. Murphy of New York, famed as the prosecutor of Alger Hiss and as police rackets buster, would be offered a key role.
 The generously mustached Murphy had an unpublished appointment with Mir. Truman yesterday but a snowstorm prevented his flying here. The latest unofficial word was that he would see the Presi- dent today or Monday.
 In New York Murphy said re- port that he had agreed to serve on an anti-corruption commission was "a million miles from the truth"
 He would not comment on when he would see MT. Truman.
 Indications are multiplying that, barring last minute change, the Presidents program will take the form of setting up an independent body with power to investigate and perhaps prosecute.
 One of it's jobs definitely will be to clear the names of government officials - MT Truman says they form the great majority-who are honest and who tend to their jobs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
Margoi Hoppin Gefs Hoppin' Mad ai
 Anchorage Council

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. l5- R-The Anchorage City Council has voted to drop a $3,070 item for the Territorial Welfare Department from the city's 1852 budget.
 The vote was 5 to after a hot debate at the weekly session.
 The majority members argued that city taxpayers already pay territorial taxes for the support Of the welfare department and should not have to ante again via the city.
 Mrs. Margot Hoppin, the lone council member for the appropria- ton, got hoppin' mad and told the council majority: This is the least giving city I have ever seen. There is great deal of personal charity, but none by the city"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
pAA 10 Fly IgIoo and Store 10 Fairbanks

The office force at Pan American Airways is not in the storage busi- ness, they explain as they leap over and around mannikins, furs, fix lures and furniture.
 Were merely moving store by air" they reply to passengers questions.
 The entire shipment of the Mar tin Victor Furs amounts to approx imately $500 pounds that is being flown from here to Fairbanks by PAA. The cost of the operation to the shipper is around $350
 There are a few wisecracks be- ing made about shipping a large igloo that was used for atmosphere in the store here. Quipped one, they could build the real thing up in Fairbanks these days"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
KAY NELSON BACK

Kay Nelson, proprietor of the Baranof Gift Shop. has returned from a two-months trip Outside for medical attention and rest She visited friends and relatives in Oklahoma, Kansas and California. Mrs. George Haen has been in charge of the shop during Mrs. Nell sons absence.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
Funeral Services for
 John Carlson Monday

Funeral services for John Carl son will be held Monday afternoon at 2 pm. in the Carter Chapel.
 The Rev. G. H. Hillerman will de- liver the eulogy. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Pallbearers are to be Rel Larsen, George Johnson, M. Lisby, Gus Anderson, William Baumberg. A. J. Bucking- ham.
 MT. Carlson came to Alaska in 1907 and had lived in the Gastineau Channel area since then. He had had hoat shop in Juneau. He had he had lived on Marmion Island at south end of Douglas Island.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
Democrat Convention
 In Harmony
Troublesome Report
 Whipped Info Shape. Ap- proved; Doyle Honored

SITKA, Alaska, Dec. 15-(Special Dispatch to Empire) Disgruntled Democrats who had sympathized with James Nolan's threatened walkout were back in the fold before the Sitka divisional con- vention ended Friday night.
 The tone of the convention turn ed from pickering to banter as soon as the controversial nominat- ing committee report was approved after a number of halts, huddles and revisions. It was this report, naming the divisional and central committee and the delegates to the Territorial convention .that had brought the threat of mutiny in Democratic ranks here.
 step By Step Fight
 The fight on this report was a step by step one with pro- -adminis- 'tration forces making down the line concessions to bring back harmony, Iut nominations from the floor were blocked by the committees willingness to make changes.
 Peter Wood, head of the com- mittee, and the remainder of the committee trudged wearily in and out of a back room of the Sitka Elks Club in order to whip the re- port into shape acceptable to ob- jectors. But the report was finally approved without further dissen- sion and Dan Doyle. Sitka mayor, was named as the new divisional chairman. And before the con- vcntion ended Friday at midnight. pro forces had proposed a rising vote of thanks to retiring divisional ,hairman James Nolan and anti forces had proposed the same for he work of Coy, Ernest Gruening.
 2f Plank Platform
 The path for the platform and resolutions committee headed by Ken Bowman proved smoother but not without bumps. However, after a minimum of squabbling, few changes were recommended in the crescent 21 plank platform. Present national and territorial administra- tions were endorsed as were sec- tions asking for statehood and el- ection of Alaska's governor by pop- ular vote.
 Eight resolutions were adopted. One of the notable ones asked for territorial control of forests in AL aska within the national forests. 1t read that such forests subject to commercial use should be given to the state at such time as state hood is granted to Alaska. It also stated that pending statehood, leg lslation should be introduced giv- ing control, administration and benefits from utilization of south- cast Alaska forests to Territory.
 Another important resolution promised a study of the Workmens Compensation law to arrive at monthly payments instead of pre- sent lump sum payments and to provide for safety incentives.
 Long applause sounded in a thanks to convention chairman Frank Peratrovich and to the Sit- ka delegation and the city of Sitka for hospitality to the convention.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
JUNEAU LIBRARY IN
 STEAMSHIP PUBLICATION

The Alaska Liner, house organ published by the Alaska Steamship Go. carries sketch of the Juneau Memorial Library in this months issue together with paragraph on the dedication. The steamship company contributed s1,000 toward the fund drive for funds to con- struct the building.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
Ship Movements

Denali scheduled southbound at noon Sunday. e
 Baranof scheduled to arrive northbound Friday.
 Freighter Cassiar in port.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
GOA CHRISTMAS PARTY

The GOA will hold their annual Christmas party. Tuesday. Decem- Der 18 at pm. in the Parish hall. Members will have an exchange of gifts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
Controversy Over Wages To Westward

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 15-- Ri-A threat to file charge of unfair labor practices with the Ma tlonal La bcr Relations Board against the Associated General Con- tractors unless that group resumes wage talks with the AFL Carpen- ters' union was issued yesterday by union spokesmen.
 At the same time the carpenters declared emphatically they will not settle for a 25 cent hourly wage hike agreed upon in negotiations at Seattle between the ACC and eight AFL unions affiliated with the con- struction industry.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
Tax Scandals 10
 Be pIaeed Before Fed. Grand Jury
By B. L. LIVINGSTONE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15-IRi-It is now up to a federal grand jury to sift fact from fiction in the amaz- ing and conflicting stories studding a House investigation of federal tax scandals.
 This was apparent today as mem bers of House Ways and Means subcommittee-learned by a lengthy hearings highlighted by everything from mink coats to half-million- dollar "shakedowns" ns"-temporarily closed up shop for the holidays.
 A federal grand jury is due soon to pick ID where the committee left off.
 Eliminate Wrongdoers
 And President Truman may an- nounce today a broad program to eliminate government wrongdoers- a program he returned to Washing ton from vacation to develop in the wake of the tax scandals.
 Chairman King D-Calif) ordered the transcript of testimony sent to the Justice Department last week. He did so after Abraham Teitel- baum, Chicago attorney, named Bert Master and Frank Nathan, two Floridans, as engineers of purported $5O0,O0O "shakedown' at tempt on the claim they could fix the tax troubles.
 Both Nathan and Master de- nounced Teitelbaum's story as 'lies," and Nathan charged he was the victim of a ''frame-up"
 Intrigue-Mystery
 The committee called a halt to it's inquiry last night after labor ing for three weeks to penetrate a thick fog of intrigue and mystery spreading through Washington'S top officialdom and the haunts of the influence peddlers and deal CTS"
 One thing is certain Someone is lying" said King.
 The final day of hearings wound up much like they started-in a furry of "frame-up" charges, den- ials, stories of mysterious telephone calls and evidence of lavish favors bestowed on government officials.
 While the hearings ended on an inconclusive note, King emphasized the committee was not through. Later-though possibly not for some months-he hopes to tie up the loose ends.
 Meanwhile, the committee will lay the groundwork for it's January ses- sions. These are scheduled for San Francisco on irregularities rocking the northern California Internal Revenue office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
WEATHER REPORT GU. s. WEATHER BUREAU Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending at 4:3O AM. Today At Airport: Maximum, 30; Minimum, 21.
F o R E c A S T

. (Juneau and Vicinity ( . Partly cloudy tonight and { . Sunday with occasional gusty { . northeasterly winds. Low tenn ( . perature tonight around 20 de- {
 . grees. High Sunday near 25 . degrees. . PRE- C'IP TION . CPast "A hours ending 7:30 am. today { . At Airport - 013 inches. . since July 1-19.91 inches.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15

OUT OF HOSPITAL
 Alex Johnson of Gustavus is stop ping at the Baranof Hotel. He has been here for disqualification.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-15
Figures Ridiculous

James Swan, local attorney rep resenting the carpenters, said it is ridiculous to assume carpenters will settle for any figure that will put their wage scale on the same level as that of a common laborer."
 He said scarpenters are skilled workers, just as plumbers and elec- tricians are skilled workers"
 At talks in Anchorage last month the carpenters asked an hourly wage of $3.70 to apply to all parts of Alaska. The current pay is $314 except in Southeast Alaska where it is $280.
 Fight to Continue
 We haven't changed our figures any" Swan said after hearing of the Seattle settlement, nor have we changed in our determination to obtain better working and living conditions in construction camps
 The ACC earlier had asked car penters and culinary workers to give them until Jan. to study demands made at November talks. The unions replied by giving the ACC a 10-day ultimatum to come to terms. Later the unions agreed to wait until the Seattle parleys ended but would expect the ACC to resume negotiations immediately after ward The culinary workers did not make public their demands. Contracts with both unions expire Jan. l.
Evening star., 1951-09-21
81 Million Forgery Charged
To Jap Wife Of US. Captain
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, Sept. 21.-The Japa-
nese wife of an American Army
captain was charged with forgery
today in Occupation Provost
Court.
She is accused of forging IA bills
of exchange in Japanese bank.
The aggregate sum was $50 mil
lion yen, which is 81, 100000 at the
legal rate of exchange.
The woman, who is the wife of
Capt. Thomas E. Wood, surren-
dered voluntarily and was released
Immediately on her own recogni-
zance.
Capt. Wood, from Des Moines,
is stationed at Yokohama. They
were married February II, 1851.
The alleged forgeries took place In
August. 1850.
Originally indicted by japanese
courts, Mrs. Wood held that the
Japanese courts had no juriSdic-
ton because she was the wife OF
an occupation officer. The Tokyo
District Court upheld her motion
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, SUI
'preme commander Of the occupa-
Ition. then authorized the Occupa-
Ition Court to assume Jurisdiction
No trial date has been set.
Evening star., 1951-09-21
Church Council Seeks
Headquarters Site
Free Of Racial Bars
BY the Associeied Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-The
National Council of the Churches
of Christ in the U. S. A., looking
for possible sites for a permanent
headquarters. says it will not con-
slider cities where racial discrimi-
nation is practiced.
Harold E. Stassen, president of
the University of Pennsylvania
and chairman of the Councils
committee to pick a location. yes
terday said freedom from racial
prejudice must be of tremendous
basic consideration" in the site
selection
He specified he was talking not
only of discrimination in hotels,
but also in community activities
Twelve cities have asked to be
picked for the site. They are New
York. Chicago. Cincinnati, Cleve-
land, Columbus. Pittsburgh. Wyck-
of, N. j., and Evansville. Fort
Wayne, Indianapolis, Muncie ano
South Bend, Ind
Yesterdays committee session
was described as preliminary" II
was adjourned until November 30
when the committee will meet
with the Councils general board
in Atlanta, Ga.
The National Council made
known today that in picking a
headquarters city it will mot give
Evening star., 1951-09-21
|Af,746 Bid Received
For Work at 18Th and
independence S.W.

The District has received a low
bid of $41,746 to straighten out
the intersection of Fifteenth
street and independence avenue
S.W.
Fifteenth street now approaches
Independence avenue from the
north at an angle, and motorists
must jog along the avenue to get
back on Fifteenth.
Highway Director j. N. Robert
son said the streets will be re-
arranged into a normal inter-
section. He said the work will
start as soon as contract is ap-
proved, and will take about 80
days.
Realignment Asked.
District officials have proposed
that the National Capital Parks
Service realign and relocate Fiji
teenth street between Constitu-
ton avenue and Independence
avenue to provide direct con-
nection past the Washington
Monument.
The proposal is part of an over
all plan to smooth out the traffic
flow in the Fourteenth street Mall
area, especially in the approaches
to the highway bridges.
Several Projects Approved.
The Commissioners yesterday
approved channelizations and
other street work at several loca-
tionS in the city this fall.
They inlude projects at North
Capitol street and New Hampshire
.avenue, Thirteenth street and
Michigan avenue NE, Sixteenth
and Irving streets NV, Connecti-
cut avenue and Porter street NV,
Seventh and M streets and Maine
avenue S.W., New York avenue
and L street NV, and on the
east side of Connecticut avenue
NV. from L to DeSales streets.
The work will cost about STE, 900.
Evening star., 1951-09-21
British Parties Rush
Campaign Platforms
And Political Talks
BY the Asseeia,sd Press

LONDON. Sept. 21.- British
party strategists toiled over policy
statements today in an attempt to
hammer out platforms for the Oc-
tober rs elections before the week
end.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
makes his first campaign speech
tomorrow at a Scottish Labor Par
ty conference.
At about the same time Winston
Churchill and his Conservative
Party aides will hold their first
formal campaign session to COM
plete the party's statement Of elec-
Ition aims to the people. Most of
it has been drafted by r. A. But
Ter, who was education minister
in Mr.. Churchill's wartime coali-
ton cabinet and now is one of
the Tory brain trust.
Big Business Role Charged.
The election campaign was al
ready in vigorous progress with
newspaper editorials sounding
battlecries.
But the Sharpest attack came
from Labor Party Secretary Nor
gan Phillips, who charged that
yesterdays quick upsurge in the
stock market proved big business
was throwing in vast financial
resources to end labor's socialist
rule.
Values of stocks increased mil
lions of pounds in city trading
Companies that would benefit
from unseating Labor and its
Evening star., 1951-09-21
Delegates Tour Cunudu

OTTAWA. Sept. 81 (P).-Dele-
gates of four Atlantic alliance
countries visit Canadian military
establishments today on two
day tour arranged by the Cana
dian government. Defense min
listers Of the Netherlands and Nor
way, the chief of the Italian gen.
eral staff, and the Portuguese
military attache headed their
delegations on plane trips to in
spect military camps.
Evening star., 1951-09-21

naturalization policies after six
years of rule shared heaviest in
the buying advance.
A proposed dividend freeze
might never go into effect If the
labor party was beaten and textile
brewing and industrial issues led
in the buying.
Stock market brokers quickly
laid odds Of 4 to 6 that the
Conservatives would win. Such
gambling is legal in Britain.
Churchill to Limit Speeches.
Mr.. Phillips Immediately show
cred Labor Party units, trade
union members of Parliament and
Labor candidates with postal cards
charging that the boom tipped
the Tory Party's hand.
He said it showed that their
vast financial resources-backed
by the big business interests of
Evening star., 1951-09-21

consideration to the availability
of gifts of buildings, facilities, and
so forth"
Presently the council employs
525 persons and occupies approx
imately $4,000 square feet of Office
space at an annual cost of about
$154,822. 1t has offices in New
York, Chicago. Washington, At
lanta and Fort Worth.
Evening star., 1951-09-21

the city Financial DISTRICT of
London-will be fully extended in
an all-out effort to defeat the
Labor government"
Conservative Party headquarters
In London began shipping out
bales Of literature to be- distributed
to voters.
1t was understood that Mr..
Churchill, nearing his 77th birth
day. would not stump the country
as he did in 1945. Instead, he
would make only brief trips to
provincial big cities.
Evening star., 1951-09-21
Hovunu Club Strike Ends

HAVANA, Cuba. Sept. 81 (P).-
A strike of employees of Havana's
fashionable beach and country
clubs ended yesterday. The walk
out had ranged from one to six
weeks in various clubs.
Evening star., 1951-09-21
Doctors Session

BALTIMORE, Sept. 81 (P.-
Some 500 Maryland doctors are
expected here October 4 for the
third annual assembly of the
Maryland Academy of General
Practice.
Evening star., 1951-01-01

Midway, II II q S''S'""''"e '"'
victory in World War II, the re-
turn of peaceful conditions, the
buildup of a new war and finally
the aggression which-as always
caught us flat-footed and un-
prepared to undertake the tasks
which war imposes.
Then as now we were just be-
ginning to establish the controls
which a war economy makes
necessary and just getting started
with the draft which at its peak
built us a fighting force of Is
million men and women. Then as
now we could not see how our
future would be shaped and the
manner in which our effort was
to develop.
But there is one striking
difference between the circum-
stances in which we started to
fight in 1912 and the circum-
stances in which we are fighting
today. BY January. 1912. the lines
were pretty clearly drawn as far
as the belligerents themselves
were concerned.
Issue Was Clearly Drawn.
On January 2 of that year 26
nations signed the first United
Nations declaration which bound
them into a united fighting force.
On the other side were three
aggressors-Germany. Italy and
Japan-and their satellites. The
issue was clearly drawn and the
antagonists were tightly bound on
their respective sides, for better
or worse.
Today, however, we find our
selves struggling to bring about
wartime unity and military pre-
paredness. not only within our
own country but also among all
those nations which stand outside
the Soviet bloc and whose in
terest it is to see law-breakers
promptly and effectively punished.
We have a formal United Ma
tions, which grew out of that mil
itary alliance founded nine years