The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,167 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 14 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e U PRICE TEN CENTS STRIKE SITUATION IN " Mrs. Mansfeldt Enlers ONGRESS IS IN SESSION; GETS ORDERS Truman Regquests Leaders| to Expediate Action- Pending Legislation WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—The 79th Congress began its second session at noon (EST) today with a request to its leaders by President Truman to expedite action on his unfinished legislative program. Acting House Speaker McCormack of Massachusetts told reporters the President declared at a White House conference with Congressional iead- ers that he was “very anxious” for | early action on his legislative pro- gram. o White House Discussion MeCormack said the entire pro- gram was discussed at the White House in a general way, and the strike situation was reviewed. He quoted the President as believ- ing early action imperative on his' proposal for a law setting up fact—} finding boards to handle major labor i controversies and providing for a 30- | day cooling off period before strikes| L Prison BES® | visiop., ol Sl .‘i‘ BUSINESS - BLACKOUT, ARGENTINA |Close Dowm Commerce for 72 Hours Follows Govt. Order BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 14—A vir- tual blackout of commerce and in- | " |dustry covered Argentina today at o W‘ i | or groceries. | | 4 ! the start of a 72-hour closedown | called by the nation’s business lead-| ere. ! The shutdown was in protest w{ the military government's refusal to modify a decree ordering wage in- creases and year end bonuses for workers | Although transportation function-' ed within the city of Buenos Aires and suburban trains of the British operated normally, other activities came to virtual standstill. There were no deliveries of bread The butchers Associa- tion announced shops were open to- day but would close tomorrow. Milk was delivered. The government promised no one would be deprived of “articles of wairls b i I Lo mwed der relasation after their Rese Bowl victory over Southern Califernia, these three Alabama U. 5. IMPROVING Alabama Slarsr MeetShe TELEPHONE OPERATORS RETURNING Equipmenlw_orkers Call 0ff Walkout-Steel Strike Postponed One Week (By The Assoclated Press) The nation's disrupted telephone service returned to normal in most places today after striking equipment workers called off their picket lines and the National Federation of Tele- phone workers postponed the call for a nationwide strike for 30 days. i The Federation, .an independent | organization, yesterday ordered a na- | tionwide telephone strike for today, | but quickly postponed it for 30 days 'to permit members to vote on the question under provisions of the Smith-Connally act. To Withdraw Pickets At the same time the Federation | requested its striking affiliate, the | Association of Communications Equipment workers, to call off its strike, withdraw picket lines which | telephone operators had refused to |cross in many citles, and turn the dispute over to the parent organiza- Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt (center) talks with a reporter before en- Prime "“esf“ tering the gate of Tehachapi State (Calif.) Prison for Women to begin serving an indeterminate sentence for the San Francisco slaying of Mrs. Vada Martin, a nurse. Policewoman is at right. (AP Wirephoto) P o 0 Left to right: Vaughn Man- | | s chat with a ccunle of Hollywcod shewgirls at Earl Carrcll's night club. an, Jim Corbitt, Loretta Swanson and Tom Whiteey. (AP Wirephoto) tion. The equipment workers complied this morning and telephone opera- tors returned to their jobs in most take effect. | Got To Act Now | Senator Eastland (D-Miss) told re- porters he would seek immediate Senate action on the fact-finding' legislation asked by the President. “We've either got to get out some strike legislation or surrender the country to the CIO,” he said. As the lawmakers reconvened, Mr. | Truman sent them a recommenda- | tion that. appropriations and con-; tract authorizations be cut back byl $5,021,887,483. ! This would be in addition to $50,- ! 845,409,169 in recissions approved by ! Congress near the close of the last session. i Eastland said he planned a dis- cussion of strikes on the Senate floor. | EARTHQUAKE IN ALASKA | WESTON, Mass., Jan. 14—The Rev. Daniel Linehan, S. J,, seismologist at | ‘Weston College, estimated yesterday | that “very strong” earth tremors re- corded Saturday at approximately 3,400 miles distant occurred ‘“some- where in, Alaska between Kodiak Island and Seward.” The first shock was timed at Wes- ton at 3:34:20 p. m. (EST) and Dr. Linehan said the tremors lasted about three hours. “f don't know if they were off- shore or on land," he said. Between Kodiak and Seward, on the south- ern coast of Alaska, is a stretch of more than 300 miles. FELT IN CORDOVA CORDOVA, Alaska, Jan. 14—An earthquake which swayed utility wires, knocked pictures off walls and opened a crack in a concrete building was felt here at 9:28 a. m. Saturday. The sharpest period of the quake lasted for about 30 sec- onds. CUTTER McLANE PROBING CLUES T0 LOST PLANE Discovery of floating articles thought possibly connected with the missing Privateer plane missing since November 30 on a flight from Kodiak | to Seattle called the Coast Guard Cutter McLane from port here this week end. The McLane sailed under orders from District CG headquarters at| Ketchikan to investigate the dis- covery, made by a trapper, Vernon | Ccol, off the west coast of Long| island, of a rubber seat cover, a| parka and an oar. 1t is thought the objects might be clues to the fate of the plane‘, lost with six Navy officers and 19 men aboard. Which of five “Long Lslands” listed in Southeast Alaska. is referred to is not stated. I ——————— FROM VANCOUVER | | Mrs. H. A. Masters of Vancouver, B. C., has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at Hotel Juneau, ELECTION of three new to comply with General MacArthur’s ;dxrecnvos—kept Emperor Hirohito tup until thé unappeased Tokyn press leveled la fresh barrage of criticism today at the aged, ailing Premier Kijuro IN JAPAN Be (andidale§ GOLD MINERS INMARCH Re-election Invested - Crificism Is Expressed TOKYO, Jan. 14—The investiture cabinet ministers midnight last night, but Shidehara. The investiture, delayed 12 hours without explanation, came shortly after MacArthur's announcement that he had authorized the holding !tcr March 15 | Sempachi Soejima replaces Ken- {zo Matsumura as Minister of Agri- culture and Forestry in the cabinet, ireshuffled to comply with MacAr- !thur’s political-purge directives; Chuzo Mitsuchi replaces both Home | Minister . Kentijiro Horikiri and Transportation Minister Takao Tan- 'aka: and Yoshishige Abe succeeds { Education Minister Tamon Maeda. Other new faces: Chief Cabinet | Secretary Wataru Narahashi and | Akiyochi Tajiri, his deputy. All metropolitan newspapers re- mained bitterly critical, and some said others of the old cabinet may also be replaced, including San- kuro Ogaswara, Minister of Com- merce and Industry. The national election has been tentatively scheduled for late this month, but Kyodo news agency had | forecast a two-month postponement lin order to allow the weeding out beforehand of ultra-nationalist poli- {ticlans who were the targets of Mac- Arthur’s recent “pudge” decrees. The policy-making Far East com- mission continued its investigation of the occupation scene today, and scheduled a discussion of war crimes | matters with Allied legal authorities on January 24. e Pan American fo Resume Service fo France_foI Month lIhree New Eaanet Officers = {of a national election any time af-| | | | Bartleit Is fo | | | | | | Alaska’s Delegate in Congress, L. (Bob) Bartlett, today stated his intention to seek re-election, according to an Associated Press dispatch to The Empire from Wash- | ington, D. C. Delegate Bartlett, now serving his first term in Congress as successor to present District Judge Anthony | J. Dimond, is to file on the Demo- | cratic ticket for the April primaries. He was clecteds to his present two- year term at the General Election! of 1944. i Prior to his election as this Ter- ritory’s official representative in | the National Capital, Delegate Bart- | 1ott held the pest of Secretary of ! Alaska. | e eee DOUBLEDUTY SPRINGFIELD, Ill,—A long line formed outside a store selling ny- lon hose, so policeman John Nolan was assigned to help keep order. Nolan kept one foot in the line | { | i i ing i ol ?Homesleading Lands UNO BREAKS In States Gone; Vels Toldfo Comeo Alaska LONDONMEET FOR ALASKA WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—Here's good news for Alaska miners. The Interfor Department reports that the Army will speed the release of equipment needed by the mining in- dustry dnd full production is ex-! pected by next, summer. An esti- mated $2,000,000 in equipment will be available to the miners. It will include bulldozers, tractors, dredges, cranes and other equipment. The Department says the Army will declare such items as surplus as soon as possible so that Alaska mining may resume its prewar stat- us. | Before hostilities began, the min- industry was second only to fisheries in economic importance. The war, however, cut the output 'ALEUT LANGUAGE' BOOK ISSUED BY INTERIOR DEPT Is Fruit of "Succession of Studies”” Over Period of 125 Years 14,.— The announces WASHINGTON, Jan Interior: Department of more than 20-million dollars an- nually to about one-third, owing to manpower shortage. The mining industry employs over 6,000 persons. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska sailing from Seattle Sat- urday night, is scheduled to arrive publication of the first book to| deal with the language used by na- tives of tie Aleutian Islands. Secretary Ickes said “The Aleut Language,” released to- day under Interior Department sponsorship, is the fruit of “a suc- cession of stud by three excep- tional scholars over a period of nearly 125 years.” They Were Ivan Veniaminov, a while directing traffic, and bought | tomorrow. Goes to Sitka, returning | guggian Orthodox priest in Alaska a pair for his wife. - - MR., MRS. KELLY LEAVE Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Kelly left on the steamer Princess Norah, en- route to Seattle. He has been with the Office of Price Administration here since 1942, as Board Executive of the War Price and Rationing Board for Alaska, During their stay in Juneavu, Mrs. Kelly was active in many community projects, being especial- ly interested in the work of the Catholic Daughters of America. e RESTAURANTEUR WEDS Flerentine A. Yanson, operator of Yanson’s Cafe here, was married | yesterday in Douglas to Irene Bax- ter, who has been working as a waitress in Yanson’s restaurant. The wedding ceremony was per- formed by U. S. Commissioner Fe- | lix Gray at his home. Attendants to the couple were Clell J. Lloyd and Mrs, Bernalda Diaz. MRS. ROBERTS TO DENVER Mrs. Wm. Roberts, daughter of Mrs. Bess Winn, with her two children, Elizabeth and William Jr., left on the steamer Princess Norah after spending the past year in Jurreau. They will join Mr. Roberts, a mining engineer, at Denver, Col- WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. — Pan orado. American World Airways announc- ed today it will resume daily ser- vice to France on Feb. 15, using land type 47-passenger planes. Pan American discontinued e MARY JO YCE GOES SOUTH Miss Mary Joyce sailed for Van-' couver, B. C,, on the steamer Prin- its cess Norah, on a combined business civilian service to France in 1939 and pleasure trip. after the outbreak of -war. - .- Some 300 species of birds are found in Fgypt. LILLIAN -, CONVERSE HERE Lillian Converse of Taku Harbor | is a puest at the Hotel Junean, here southbound. Baranof, from Seattle, Wednesday. Yukon, southbound from the west, due maybe tomorrow. No definite word at 3 p. m. today. Taku scheduled to sail sfrom Se- attle January 16. Princess Norah scheduled to sail frem Vancouver January 22. Tongass scheduled to sail from Seattle about January 26. ALY RS e il due who was the first to reduce the | Aleut tongue to writing, Richard Henry Geoghegan, Tri$h linguist and philologist, and Miss Fredericka I. | Martin of New York, who inher- | ited Geoghegan’s material on his death in 1943 and who edited the | final text. | “The Aleut language provides an | alphabet in Roman characters sim- |ilar to those used in English” |Ickes' announcement said, “al- | though, due to unusual diacritical FLOOR BURNED, A. M. FIRE ion it wos nocessary to make new Fire, believed starting from an‘de“an and castings of several of over-heated wood-burning stove, i, Jetters that are distinctive from burned a small hole thrz').ugh the any other known language. second-story floor of the “Baranof “The Aleut language is in struc- Villa” rooming house at Second p arid Sapand biveati 1 nis | ture purely Eskimoid, although it eets early this ;o g5 strongly differentiated as to morning. Flames had just commenced to spread between the flor and the ceiling below when the Juneau Vol- unteer Fire Department, called at 1:10 o'clock a.m., arrived and soon had the last flickers extinguished. The Department was called by A. M. Uggen, owner of the Alaska Music Supply Co. store on the main floor of the building directly below. Mr. Uggen today reported i absolutely no damage to his store stock. The small amount of water seeping through to the music store ll by the firemen. » The fire was in the room of Mrs. Mary Jernberg. S e SULLYS GO SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Sully, owners of Sully's Bakery, left on th | steamer Princess Norah, on a b ness trip to Seattle and vicinity. They expect to be away several weeks, -/the United Nations |be almost a distinct tongue. It is considered of exceptional value to' philologists, archeologists and an- thropologists in studies of the early migrations of the first people to come to the American contin- ent from Asia by way of the Bering Straits and the Aleutian Islands.” e | Eleanor Roosevelt Plans Visit, Russia LONDON, Jan. 14—Mrs. Elean- |or Roosevelt said today she intend- ed to visit Russia some time after assembly ad- |journs, but declared she was unde- cided as to the exact time of her |departure. | Her duties as a delegate to the |M¢mbly were expected to keep her {in London for at least six more | weeks. was caught by tarpaulins spread “ WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—Ex- | servicemen who are bent on home- |steading are being advised to try | their hand in Alaska. ‘ General land office records show | that while Alaska still has public! |land galore, the day of good free land for farming in the continental | United States apparently is gone.! Virtually all the land for farming— except that which may be included |in reclamation projects—has been }takem During the fiscal year that | ended June 30, 1944, only 284 home- stead claims were recorded. ings, exclusive of forest reserves and parks, have been whittled down to a mere 168,236,447 acres, an area approximately the size of the state of Texas. For the most part it is mineral rights. | | ter the first World War large num- | bers of soldiers homeseteaded on !the public doman, but the General | Land Office doesn't expect any such rush this time. At the same time, another public lands question appeared to ke shap- ing up in Congress. The Senate Public Lands commit- ee has before it a bill to transfer 10,000,000 acres of public domain in New Mexico to the state for the kenefit of certain of its institutions. Indications are that the committee will act upon the measure shortly (after the holiday recess, with pros- pects that it will be amended to allow for similar transfers in other states. Lemands are even being made by some western interests that all pub- lic domain lands be turned over by the Federal government to the var- ious states. NUDE, HEADLESS BODY OF WOMAN 1S DISCOVERED SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Jan. 14.—With a yellow bobby sock their only apparent clue, police sought to- day to establish the identity of a nude, headless body of a woman— minus both arms and one leg—found pertially buried behind a chicken coop seven miles from here. Police Chief Patrick F. Rox said he had reason to Lelieve that the body, found yesterday, was that of 20-year-old Louise DeChants, missing from her Saratoga Springs home since last Wednesday. Joseph De Chants, 23, brother of the missing girl, said that “Louise was wearing a yellow sock when she left home.” All in all, the public’s land hold-- the book, | ROW used for graging, or leased for' After the Civil War and again af- DEADLOCK IN | Yugoslavia Elected fo Final Vacancy on Council —New Proposals BULLETIN — LONDON, Jan. 14. — Secretary Byrnes called upon the United Nations As- sembly today to ‘“approve promptly” the creation of a special commission ¢n control of atomic energy and to pledge land, sea and air forces to a world police force. Opening the first general pol- icy debate in the assembly, the Secretary of State pledged full cooperation of the United States in the new world organization. He spoke after the assembly breke a deadlock over the 18th and final seat on its important economic and social couneil. By JOHN M. HICHTOWER LONDON, Jan. 14—The United Nations general assembly broke a deadlock over the 18th seat on its economic and social council today and moved toward a broad-scale de- bate on policy, led off by U. 8. Sec- retary of State James F. Byrnes in a speech expected to raise the issue of atomic energy control. Yugoslavia was elected to the fi- nal vacancy on the economic and social council after New Zealand withdrew. Neither country had re- celved the necessary two-third ma- jority in voting Saturday in which 17 members were selected. places, restoring normal long dis- tance and local service, where dis- ruptions had occurred. 1. A government fact-finding committee’s basis for settlement of the General Motors strike, once re- jected by the corporation, was ac- !cepted by CIO United Auto Work- |ers representatives. T szagfim re- |turning to normal after the CIO de- ‘layed its planned walkout until next ‘Sundny midnight while wage nego- tiations continue, | 3. A spokesman for the CIO | Electrical workers union sald a strike |tomorrow of 200,000 employees of | Westinghouse, General Electric and General Motors will not be postpon- ed. y 4. A government concilator ex- | pressed hope a meat. industry strike |set for Wednesday, could be avert- | veloping for stiff union-control legis- lation. ° ¥ s The UAW-CIO gave General Mo- tors Corp. until January 21 to re- consider its rejection of the fact- finders' ations, announc- in git would accept the recommend- }ed 17% per cent raise. The union's General Motors council declared it would revert to its original 30 per |cent demand unless GM changed its mind within the time limit. STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Closing quotation of Alaska Junesu mine stock today is 9%, American Can | 105, American. Power and Light 115%, Anaconda 38%, Curtiss Wright 8%, International Harvest- | er- 100, Jones, Laughlin Steel 47%, | Kennecott 54%, New York Central | 84%, Northern. Pacific 35%, U. B. | Steel 89%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 2,740,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are ! . Later this week UNO will hmi:‘flli'”fifiim"‘%,"m‘ 015, rafls pokesmen of many others of the| 51 member nations, including Brit- ish Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Mandated Territories British sources_ said Bevin prob- ably would offer to place Britain's e PRICES SATURDAY Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock Saturday was 9%, American Can 104, Americant Power mandated territories from the first World War—including Paj2stine— under a new United Nations trustee- ship system. Other United Nations sources said, however, that the offer might be| (Continued on Page Eight) i e PILOT IS BURNED T0 DEATH, CRASH WICHITA, Kansas, Jan. 14— Charles E. Price, 48, chief test pilot| for ths Culver Aircraft Co. here, was burned to death and Howard R. Bryns, 33, chief of Culver’s ex- perimental department, was drag- ged free but died later from burns in the crash of a new Culver ex- perimental plane yesterday near the | Culver plant north of the city. The and Light 14%, Apaconda 47%, Curtiss Wright 8, International Harvester 97%, Jones, Laughlin Steel 45%, Kennecott 52%, New York Central 33%, Northern Paci- fic 35, U. 8. Steel 86%, Pound $4.03%. Sales Saturday were 1,250,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages Saturday were as follows: industrials 199.44, rails 64.83, utilities 39.81. S e DIVORCES FILED Alice Bell, of Juneau, vs. Bennie C. Bell, of Juneau, an action in di- vorce, has been filed here with the Clerk of the U. 8. District Court. The couple, married on November 5, 1943, has no children. The plain- tiff asks title to their four-unit tidelands home here, which she claims she individually purchased, also its fi | | > The sock was on the one leg that plane fell from a height of less than A maghine gun was first. fired was left on the torso. 1100 feet. from an airplane in flight in 1912,