The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 7, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,161 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1946 MEMB ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HALF MILLIO BYRNES OFF FOR LONDON UNO SESSION Stale Secrefary Confident| Many Knotty Questions Will Be Seftled WASHINGTON, Jan. T7.—After| nine busy days at home, Secretary of State Brynes leaves today for| London to attend the United Nations | assembly and tackle world problems | unsolved at Moscow. Among other things, Brynes will try to get: 1. An international agreement on | the Dardanalles question, thus eas- ing Russo-Turkish relations. | 2. Agreement for a Soviet-Brit-| ish-American commission to study | the complicated problems of oil-rich Iran. 3. British and Russian assurances that “full security” will be guaran- teed in operations of the United Na- tions Atomic Energy Commission. Confident Outlook Aides said Byrnes is confident UNO will get off to a good start, and that the wide area of agreement! achieved by the Big Three foreign ministers at Moscow can be expand- | ed to cover a few more knotty ques- | ‘THOUSAND PLAN Since returning from Moscow De- cember 29, Byrnes continued to push; OUII"NG jOBS toward solutions of international | (By The Associated Press) | | | | | ! | . problems. Subjects covered includ-| ed: Siam. The United States resum-/ ed relations with that country Sat-| urday, after sanctioning a war-end- ing agreement between Siam and 3 Britain. | Fourteen oil companies informed Palestine. The British-American government fact-finders today that committee to study the Jewish im- they prefered direct wage negotia- migration question and the plight tions with the CIO Oil Workers Un- of homeless European Jews schedul- ion as a threat or walkouts by 1,100,- ed its first public hearing at the 000 workers in other industries faced State Department. the nation. Chinese Situation { Only two oil companies appeared China. Before leaving, Byrnes as participants when the oil fact- studied reports from Gen. George C. finding panel reconvened in Wash- Marshall, indicating probability of ington after a 16-day recess. One an early end to China’s civil war cf them said it would present such and good possibility for an agree- evidence concerning ability to pay as ment at last between Nationalists is normally published in company and Communists. |financial statements. Fourteen Southeast Asia. Last night the ccmpanies said they were continuing U. S. announced its withdrawal from negotiations with the Union over de- the joint command of Lord Louis mands for a 30 per cent wage in- Mountbatten. Thus, this country, crease, which shared responsibility for the to Washingten. original" decision to send British] O. A. Knight, Union President, troops to Indo-China and the Dutch said direct negotiations were being East Indians as part of the Japa- hampered by company introduction gent Karl Renner. The recognition anaesthetic. nese surrender, no longer has any of “extraneous issues.” responsibility for the way in which | those operations are carried out. e inierim Agreement ! The Lehigh Foundries, Inc., of g | Easton, Pa., reported it had reach- ROBERT WHEELER HERE ied an interim agreement with the Robert Wheeler of Sitka is a'CIO Steelworkers to avert a strike guest at the Baranof. |against that company. The Union ‘has called an industry-wide strike i e SR : Iby 700,000 workers on Ji y 14 The Washington e Tumer. -t | | board has asked U. S. Steel Corpor- |ation and the Union to resume nego- tiations. The Union telegraphed the Merry - Go-Round but saw no need for going board that it has been ready since | September 11 to engage in collec-| —_—— BABY FEEDE R_gix-wecks-old Nancy Lee Bloom takes nourishment from a baby feeder invented by her father, Alan D. Bloom, a former Marine, at Los Angeles. He calls it a feederetic, Delicate Opera Performed on Plane Saves Woman's Life GOVERNMENT OF AUSTRIA IS GIVEN U. 5. APPROVAL WASHINGTON, Jan. 7—The Uni- ter States formally recognized the government of Austria today and expressed hope that the first nation engulfed by the Nazis soon would achieve democracy and complete in- dependence. Russia, Britain and France joined | this country in granting recognition to the Vienna regime headed by Chancellor Leopold Figl and Presi- does not affect the authority of the ‘Allied Council, which will continue to carry out “Allied objectives in Austria.” These objectives, the simultaneous announcement said, include “elim- inating Nazi influences and institu- tions in Austria, and assisting in the | reccnstruction of democratic life.” War Secrelary Making Tour of By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Since Franklin Roosevelt died, Jesse Jones has managed to stay on pretty good terms with Harry Truman. How- ever, Jesse certainly muffed the ball at a private dinner at which the President was guest of honor the other night. The dinner was given by Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Symington—he's the Surplus Property Administrator —and at the start of the meal Mr. Symington rose and proposed a toast to the President of the United States. Mrs. Symington then rose and proposed a toast to the First Lady. The guests then sat down and started eating. Suddenly, however, they heard a rattling at the end of the table. Someone was banging a fork against a plate. It was Jesse Jones demanding to be heard. Jones rose and said he, too, wanted tive bargaining but the record, shows that it has been the United Steel Corporation which has not en-" gaged in collective bargaining.” i There were no developments in the| TOKYO, Jan. 7—Secretary of threatened strike of 200,000 CIO War Patterson, making a two-day { Packing House Workers, who may be tour of northern Honshu, the main joined by 135000 AFL Meat Cutters jsland of Japan, has visited the in their demand for a 30 per cent famous mountain shrine city of wage increase. ' Nikko, where the United States Cl10 Walkout (Army has taken over the swanky there were no reported Kanaya Hotel as a rest camp for {changes in the proposed walkout G.I’'s. At the 300-year-old Toshi January 15 of 200,000 CIO United Temple he saw the famous Monkey Electrical Workers of General Elec-, Shrine, with its figures represent- | tric, General Motors and Westing- | ing “Hear-No-Evil, Speak-No-Evil, {house. See-No-Evil.” Patterson also saw CIO Union members already are two small Japanese girls perform on strike against General Motors and a sacred dance, and watched a |the Pittsburgh Plate Glass and the Buddhist bell-ringing ceremony. Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass compan-, After inspecting ...ikko, Patterson (des. +and his party left for Sendai President Frank J. Fitzsimmons of aboard Lt. Gen. Robert Eichel- the Independent Western Electric berger’s special train—the train Employees Association, telegraphed formerly used by the imperial Jap High Places ! Also, i ( HAWAIIANS GIVEN CHANCE T0 VOICE | HONOLULU, Jan | sional sub-committee called today | for the views of all Hawaiians on whether the territory should be- come the 49th state of the Union— and one woman resigned as Demo- cratic National Committeewoman in order to present more freely her emphatic “no.” The woman, Mrs. Alice Kamokila | Campbell, said thas she objected to statehood at this time because Hawaii's Oriental population, if it voted as a bloc, could hold poli- tical control. (More than 37 per | cent of Hawali’s 1940 population was of Japanese ancestry.) Proponents statehoed that there never has been voting in Hawali | Rep. Henry D. Larcade, Jr., (D- | La}, chairman of the Territorial | Affairs sub-committee, said “every ‘duzvn will be given an opportunity to be heard” at hearings opening today in the throne room of old Tolani palace. | 7—A Congres- of argue bloc R @! 'YAMASHITA'S CASE BEFORE HIGH COURT WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The case| of the convicted Jap war criminal| General Tomoyuki Yamashita, wlll‘,‘laSka Se(ond |E Bonds CUBAN RHUMBA B ban rhumba dancer, performs ato) panied by Armando Orefiche ( fion |Court. American army lawyers who |defended him at Manila seek to have his death sentence reversed. | The chief argument of the defense is that Yamashita was improperly[ cendemned to death by an American | WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — The Treasury Department has announced the official standings of the States, Territories and Island possessions in NACOGDOUCHES, Tex., Jan. T— A Red Cross disaster team from St. Louis joined local officials and relief agencies today in caring for the 500 families made homeless and ;more than 300 persons injured by {the tornadoes which tore across five east Texas counties Friday night. { Meanwhile, [ deaths yesterday. tilities reached 29. Robert Edson, Ked C: with four addition: the total of fa- ross director > irived yesterday from St. Louis to ! make a survey, estimated property damage at $2,600,000. This figure is ;llkely to be revised upward when “Ta survey of the damage to the pine forests of the counties is com- military commission in Manila. The v ¥ ‘de(rrnse attorneys will also contend Esvo;:_‘; M::;"‘Ignzhe o\‘{icl‘(;:cy Lg‘:l]t,.ed P tha. & general should not be held]g. ... made its E bond quota, The CHARLESTON, 8. C., Jan. 7—A morally responsible for all the ac-, cune) zone led the Territories, fol- delicate operation performed in a'tions of his troops. lowed by Alaska. North Dakota C-47 transport plane flying over The so-called Tiger of Manila Was was tops among the States, Alaska the Charleston Air Base last night, convicted of permitting atrocities [sales: 2 millions; quota: 1 million; was credited with saving the life quring Japanese army occupation of‘lm.m,nmgc ol B4, of an Army officer's wife. !the Philippines.. His lawyers already - BTN > The patient, Mrs. ~Margaret have told the Supreme Court that Garcia, wife of Capt. A. Garcia of | Yamashita was never accused of ac- | Miami, was being flown to Balti- tuslly orcering the atrocities. soo FAMI[IES ARE | more for an operation by a throat| golicitor General J. Howard Me- | specialist Grath is expected to argue that the | HOMELESS I" TEXAS With the plane 15 minutes out cypreme Court has no jurisdiction | 14 of Charleston, the flight nurse over the findings of an American i aboard notified the pilot that Mrs. mijjitary tribunal. ‘IORNADO vl(TIMS Garcia had stopped breathing. He This is the high court’s first en-! oo AL turned to fly back to the base|ccunter with the case of a convicted and enroute, Maj. A. Brislin, a ywar criminal. Its decision may de-! surgeon aboard the craft, per- cide the course of other war crimes; formed a tracheotomy—insertion of hearing under way or planned in a tube in the windpipe—without the Pacific area. One month ago today -— on the After the plane landed, Mrs. Fourth Anniversary of Pearl Har- Garcia was carried to the base bor—five-member American military hospital here, where her condition commission decreed death by hang- is reported “fair.” ing for the “Tiger of Malaya.” a0 The commission’s action was pre- 2 cedent-setting in International law, 'I ( H I in that Yamashita was condemned o' ompanles u"‘ for condoning uncounted atrocities D H i b FFB by his troops. “ RS g y . . . | WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Hearings Assasnna"on n were resumed today by the fact- * finding board in the oil wage disoute, | ( i R " but only two oil companies were a ro esu s 'n present. Fourteen other compan- . N pleted. fos ‘boyeotted the heartn. Big Demonsiration' e They said they preferred to deal IWARN“‘G ISSUED 1 | BY ADM. NIMITZ { . directly with the CI0, and reiterated | CAIRO, Jan. T—Ten persons are their objections to governmert eX-',,jer arrest today as a result of amination of tl}ehf earnings. ON€ qenonetrations last night in which oil company ‘executive declared that thousands of youths, marching in any. te petaees b ) and earnings 1o fynera] procession of assassi- would lead to a rigid government p,ieq genator Amin Osman Pasha, control of industry along the Fascist o oeeq for revolt against the patiern. | government. The demonstrators, shouting | “Down with (Premier) Nokrashi | Pasha,” hurled stones at the presi- dential palace before they were finally dispersed by club-swinging miral Chester Nimitz declared today |that everyone in the nation must |“work under the assumption that an emergency is imminent.” The new chief of Naval Operations made this point in an address to the |Army Industrial College. Nimitz policemen. declared that in the recent war, | Osman Pasha, Wafdist Senator| what he called a “great moral and former Finance Minister, died |strength” enabled this country to Abuses Are fo Be . . Flled "‘ COIIQYGSS early yesterday from three gun-|fight a delaying action which pro- shot wounds in the back, inflicted vided the United States time to pro- WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—A report 5iXx hours earlier in the crowded!dyce for its recovery. Added Nim- on what a subcommittee called Opera Square. Police arrested a|jtz: "Blue Discharges” iof the Midwest District, who ar-| ey r 1 | | D - v ELLE — Amalia Aguilar, Cu- p a piano at Los Angeles accom- left), conductor, and Chiquito, bongo drummer, The group is touring U. S. cities. BRITISH T0 EVACUATE ALL JAPS IN JAVA BATAVIA, Jan. T—Plans for the evacuation of all Japanese from Batavia and Sumatra were an- nounced today by British officials, who also disclosed that they had refused as unnecessary the services of 1,200 of 2,000 marines sent there by the Dutch Government. | The British announcement said that all Japanese would be re- moved from Java and sent to Ga- lang—a small uninhabited jungle island in the Riouw Archipelago of The Netherlands East Indies—to j e | AWOL Gls Pull '0ff Big Racket In Germany HERFORD, Germany, Jan. 7.—Six | American soldiers are held by mili- |tary authorities on charges of con- {ducting large-scale train thefts and {black market operations during the |past 18 months The soldiers, all AWOL, were ar- rested Jan. 1 in a luxuriously furn- |ished boxear, it is announced. Sev- |eral German girls were with them |at the time of the arrest. | Officials said the men, whose inames were not disclosed, had been await shipment to their homeland.| N DOLLAR FIRE, FAIRBANKS FOUR WOODEN BUILDINGS GO UP IN FLAMES Blaze Ra_g;s Saturday Night in 15 Degrees Below Zero Weather SIX BUSINESSES ARE WIPED OUT BY FIRE Exploding Ammunition Keep Firemen at Bay- Half of Town in Dark FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 7.—The |worst fire in 40 years destroyed four wooden business buildings in the heart of Fairbanks Saturday night, | causing a loss of over half a million ! dollars and wiping out one hardware store, two cocktail bars, one liquor ;.r.tnrc, barber shop and meat market | before the flames were controlled af- ter two hours work by the Fair- banks PFire Depaftment and Ladd Fleld PFiremen, alded by scores of volunteers. The fire raged~in 16 degrees be- low zero weather. Four other wooden buildings in the me block were saved when the path of the flames were blocked by the Empress Theatre, the first con- jcrete structure in Fairbanks. | The Lavery butlding, adjoining the |fire on the other side, housing seven | Lusinesses and several offices, was |saved by strenuous work, but with much damage to stock which ' moved &w Street, opposite the scene. The fire began from an unknown cause between the Patton Hardware Stere and Messa Bar. Exploding ammunition on the hardware shelves kept the firemen at bay and stray slugs broke three plate glass win- dows across the street while the flames spread rapidly and half the town was in darkness due to in- terruption in' electric circuits. No one was injured in the fierce fire. Businesses destroyed were the Pat- | on Hardware Store, Mecca Bar, Tav- ern Bar, Lavedly-Baliey Liquor Store, varber shop, and Waechter Bros, Meat Market, i R S 'TCHILDREN ESCAPE INJURIES AS FIRE DESTROYS 2 HOMES ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. T— 'Seven children narrowly escaped death or injury in two fires here. The infant son and daughter of Ralph Peters were rescued by ithelr mother, who was sleeping in the adjoining room. Awakened by the children's cries, she rushed WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Fleet, Ad-‘ abuses in connection with the so- 25-year-old suspect, reported to be “But even a valiant delaying ac- to propose a toast. Lifting msfPresldcnt Truman and Secretary of Japanese household. glass, he said: Labor Schwellenach requesting inter- | S e LS “] propose a toast to “Mrs. | vention in the strike of 17,000 Wes- | STO(K OUOTATIONS | Fiddlesticks,’ the mother of Mrs,!tem Electric workers “in the public| NEW YORK, Jan. 7 — Closing Truman.” | interest.” The telegram said the, less brash than|naticn wide disruption of telephone | quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine called “Blue Discharges” issued by the son of a high government|tion . . . may not afford us suffi- the army will be filed with Congress official, in connection with the|cient time to arm ourselves fully in this month by the House Military assassination. |tre event of another war. The de- committee. | The attack on Osman Pasha was mands will probably be immediate,” “Blue Discharges” are neither hon- the second within a year on the he said, “and to that end it is im- orale nor dishonorable and are so strongly pro-British. senator. iperuflvg that the eountry’s fighting R e e {services, the non-military govern- service.” designated because they are issued The ensuing silence would havestrike “threatens to blow up into al i stock today is 8%, American Can caused anyone Jesse to slide under the table. ‘ Obviously, he was referring to thi In New York, Mayor William!'$9'¢, American Power and Light O'Dwyer stepped into the proposed| 12%, Anaconda 43%, Curtiss-Wright of CIO American| 7%, International Harvester 92!z, remark made by the President’s OV mother, “Oh fiddlesticks,” when she'strike tomorrow | Association mem-| Kennecott 48'4, New York Central Westera Union' 32%, Northern Pacific 34%, United was asked to pose for the photo—'gomm“n_wfltlon; aphers. However, nobody at the bers against the s The Mayor! States Steel 80, Pound $4.03%. | Sales today were 1,230,000 shares. | table thought this was funny an‘Telegraph Company. y all. Nor did they think it funny conferred 11 hours yesterday wuh! that Jesse should get the Presi-|company and Union representatives,; Dow, Jones averages today are Ibut no details of the discussion'as follows: Industrials, 191.77; rails,! (Continued on Page Four) ' were reyealed 63.12; utilities, 28.03. on blue paper. They generally are OLSENS GO SOUTH issued, committee member said, to men found “incompatible” but who Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Olsen and| do not rate a dishonorable discharge, their youngest daughter are re- and make no reference to the char- turning to their home id Seattle acter of the man discharged. after a holiday visit to Wrangell, —t———— where Mr. Olsen is in the lumber R. H. ATWATER HERE production and brokerage business R. H. Atwater of Kdarney, Neb.|in connection with the Alaska is a guest at the Baranof, Pacific Spruce Co, mental agencies, the industrial ele- ments and the people in general work and plan more closely together than ever before.” Concluded Nimitz: “Plans must be so well developed that they can be put into operation literally over- night. I urge you to keep this dom- inant factor of timé before you con- stantly.” in and snatched her daughter from the burning crib and her son from the floor. The girl was slightly 3 burned, and the home destroyed. dropped off on siding and their con- An electric heater caused the fire, tents sold. | The five children of James Pef- I & > > |fers escaped from their burning 1 GS IN TEN |home when fire of an unknown | !origin started while both parents 4 ON TRIP FROM WEST were away. The father is still recovering from a plane crash on Oct. 18, when the plane he piloted | Pacific Northern Airlines’ plane went into the saswanuska River. |arrived here from Anchorage yester-' The Peffers' house was com- |day with Captain Joe Morris &nd pletely destroyed, as firemen were | First Officer Frank Mullin. unable to connect with the water | Incoming passengers were: Major Richard Chapin, Cappy Faroe, Rich- ard Peebles, K. Kendall, M, Mec- extension. Murray, L. D. Roach, and Clarine Van Grondelle; two passengers from Yakutat; cne from Cordova. On the return trip to Anchorage were: R. G. Oxenger, Harry Lucas, Hal Moore, Willlam Humphry, Doris Kendley, J. E. Lott: to Gustavus: posing as American Security Police |and arranging to have food cars |coupled on trains. Later, the offi- ials said, th> Jcaded cars were First Shipment of Raw Silk Since War Is Landed San Frandsco Paul Schnee. | - - | | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. T—More A (AT F'SH than 600 bales of raw silk from | China passed through the port here | this weekend on its way to eastern DENVER, Jan. 7—They had to United States mills—the first since fish McGee, the cat, out of an apart- the war began. The shipment ar- ment hopse chimney today. | rived cn a new American President rowling on the roof, he fell into Lines freighter, the S. S. President the chimney and stuck 15 feet down. Grant. It tock the fire department, Will-| iam B. Wheeler of the State Hu-| mane Bureau and T. E. Belcher, —_— whose son and daughter own McGee,| Mr. and Mrs, Don Underwood of hours to fish him out with a 16-foot Hoonah are ' registered at the ,pole with a hook attached. Baranof Hotel, # ——————— FROM HOONAH