The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 16, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV[., NO. 10,169 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDN[;SD'\\ JANUARY 16, |946 — | MEMBER ASSOCIATLD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 268,000 MEAT PACKERS OUT ON STRIKE Ammsmou OF ATLANTIC BASES URGED Magnuson Says Question| Should Be Raised Before || British Loan Approved WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Senator Magnusen (D-Wash) called today for acquisition of some British-owned island bases in connection with any! loan to England, thus spreading to/ both oceans current discussions of fu- ture American outposts. Magnuson's comment to a re- porter came in the wake of Presi- dent Truman’s declaration that this | country intends to retain exclusive | control over any former Japanese | . islands it needs for security in the Pacific. 1 The Chief Executive told his news | conference that other Japanese own- ed or mandated islands will be plac- | ed under United Nations trustee- ship. He added that po decision has| keen reached on just what bases l.th‘ country wants to keep by itself un-{ der exclusive trusteeship. i Permanent Development | Mr. Truman's words backed up ar- | guments of American military and| naval officials who long have urg- ed permanent development of a chain of island bases from the Aleut- ians in the north to Manus in the| south. | The President’s assertion also amounted to a virtual directive to| the American delegation to the! United Nations assembly in London.| Magnuson, however, said this coun- try should go even further now tow- ard getting the bases it needs both in the Atlantic and the Pagific — and whether they belong to enemyj of ally. | Now a member of the Senate naval | committee, he said the question of | acquiring British bases “essential to | our defences—either on a perman- | ent or long-term lease basis—should ke raised before the proposed $3,750,- | 000,000 loan to Britain is apprcved.‘ e Mrs. Hutchings in South, France Bound | SEATTLE, Jan. 16.—Mrs. 'I'homasw Hutchings of Juneau, Alaska, who‘ started to France seven years ago, is| resuming her journey. She arrived by air enroute to New York, London ; and Paris. A war bride in 1919, she started | home for a visit in 1939 and was stopped by outbreak of the second World War. H The Washington Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Most of Presi- dent Truman’s appointments are very brief. Senators get 15 minutes with him. Congressman get from five to 15 minutes. Cabinet mem- bers frequently get only 15 min- utes. So this week eyebrows went up when the White House bulletin board listed OPA Administrator Chester Bowles for a_full hour. with President Truman. Observers knew | that the heat was on to increase the price of steel, ‘and ‘sell to in-i flation’s No. 1 enemy on giving the Nation its first big ‘inflationary shot in the arm. When Bowles 'entered the Presi- dent’s office, the die was already cast. Truman had decided that| steel prices were going up. His job i was to sell the idea to Bowles, Truman himself had been sold by his old friend, Reconversion Czar|formerly grand master of ceremon-| |centative John Snyder of St. Louis, who in} turn had been wined and dined | by the steel people in Pittsburgh. Chester Bowles also had talked | with Big Steel leadérs. His talks were far more energetic, more per- suasive than Snyder's. Bowles once ran one of the best advertis- ing firms in the Nation, is an ex- cellent salesman. All his salesman- ship was turned on Big Steel lead- ers. “You are going to have a bxggLr margin of profit than you realize,” | he told them. You are now working | ‘44 hours in the mills and 52 hou“sj L (Continued on Page Four) QUEEN §MacARIHUR | IS PRAISED FOR WORK 'Committee Making Tour of | Orient Satisfied with Jap Cooperafion |for the Houge Naval Afhns suh- committee touring the Orient said ! |today the group was ‘“‘quite aston- Winsome Patricia Vaniver (above) New York model, offers her royal smile after having been sclected to reign as Queen of the Press Photographers’ Ball, which will be held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, Feb. 1. She was se- lected from a group of models by | four members cf the Press Pho- tographers’ Association who acted as jndxes (AP erephomi RUSS DELEGATION MEETS IN SEQUL WITH AMERICANS Significant Conference s Held - To Determine Govt. for Koreans SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 16.—A Rus-, sian delegation, led by Tall, smart- ly uniformed generals, opened a sig- Inificant conference today with Amer- | ican officials on the future of this country with 30,000,000, after cross- {ing the 38th parallel for the first | time into the U. S. occupation zone. | Korea is under Allied control after its liberation from Japan. At the request of the Russians, who arrived yesterday, news releases will be limited to point communi- iques, The first task, as set fofth at the recent Moscow conference of foreign {ministers, will ke to agree upon a sound economic foundation for Kor- ea, meshing the industralized north zone held by the Russians and the agricultural south zone of the Ameri- cans, ISHIWATA PURGED FROM JAPANGOVT TOKYO, Jan. Arthur’s political purge directive to- day forced the resignation of Sotaro Ishiwata, former imperial hold minister who controlled the emperor’s purse. Ishiwata, 53, Iormerly was finance minister under ex-Premier Hideki Tojo and was reported to have been active in the imperial rule hssistance assoclatiqn. He was appointed house- | hold minister in 1944. He was the first member of the reached Government - Communist rected the release of Donald Hicks, | truce, were reported today to the, emperor’s staff forced to resign by. MacArthur’s Jan. 4 order for,the ouster of all ultra-nationalists from the government. Viscount Yoshitami Matsudaira, ies at the palace, succeeded Ishi- wata, 22 Killed; Brmsh Transport Crashes MARSEILLE, France, Jan. 16— At least 22 persons were killed last | night when a British transpor\ | plane carrying former British pri-| soners of war from Singapore| crashed into the hills near this| | Mediterranean port during a snow storm, 16.—General Mac-| house-| |ished to note the wholehearted co-| | operation of all the Japanese people” \ with General MacArthur in,working |out ocupation problems. | Rep. G. J. Bates (R-Mass), in statement issued after the sub-| committee conferred with the Su- (preme Commander, declared “We |werz very much impressed with the |General and were amazed at the problems confronting him. “We are satisfied that he is handl- !ing the problems in such a way that he has the situation well in hand.” Ore thing that appealed to us very strongly, was that the Japanese people, who have been ruled by feud- al groups for generations in a state of slavery and who—through these, {zudal groups—were brought to their| present state, are now being afforded anwpportunity to own the land upon {which mey m« » P An(horage I(Idnap (ase Peters Ouf; Jensenls Roleased ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan, 16,— Henry Jensen has been released from custody when the United States Commissiorer ruled there is no prob- able cause for holding him for the Grand jury on a kidnap charge. Jencen has been in federal hands since taking the baby daughter of |Evelyn Dulah from her home in her mnt!‘ 1's. absence. The episode was apparently ramlly attalr a - 'CONQUERED JAPAN ISLANDS WILL BE RETAINED BY U. §. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Presi- dent Truman says this government’s policy regarding conquered Japa- nese Islands will be in favor of re- taining those we need and placing the others under a United Nations collective trusteeship. He told his news conference that those islands this country feels it should retain would be placed under an individusl trusteeship of this country under this plan, but that the UNO would have to authorize this as well as the other trustee- |ships. A reporter asked the Preudem how long the United States would |keep the islands it needed and the !President replied as long as we need- |ed them. TRUCE VIOLATED IN NORTH CHINA. BY NEW CLASHE iports of armed clashes in Nerthi {China, in violation of the recently political consultation conference. The reports were made by Gen. ’Chang Chun, governor of sxechwan Province and the government repre— on General Marshall’s truce committee which last week ‘fcrmally arrived at a peace pact. | Chou En-lai, Communist tepre- |cenative on the committee, ;hoth he and Chang “are worried by ‘reporLs of continued fighting.” Chang announced that three-man ccmmittee, projected under an Oct. ’10 Kuomintang (Nationalist) party- | Communist agreement to reorganize |tke Chinese army, had been formed and kelf its first meeting yesterday. - FROM ANCHORAGE | Three Anchorage residents re- gistered at the Baranof yesterday. They were Dick Bussaneclk, R. H. Chamberlain, Mundro Saseen, | | his | | thorough, over-all understanding of | CHUNGKING, Jan. 16—New ré-| said’ PICKET LINES | LANSFORD, Jan. 16.—War: veterans picketed every mine in the Panther Valley teday in what @ iSpOkFSmEln for the ex GIs called a “battle for jobs. The 6,000 anthracite miners in the area refused to cross the picket lines |and went home About 65 veterans started out at 5:30 a. m. In Lansford, many wear- ‘mg uniforms and carrying banners ‘saymg ‘We can’t live on promises”, “We fought for the U.S.A. and now we're discarded,” Home for What?’ Mines in the area, including those at Tamaqua, Coaldale and Lansford, are operated by the Lehigh Naviga- | tion Coal Company and Edison An-| thracite Coal Company. VONSCHIRACHIS | TABBED AS CHIEF | OF DEPORTATION, ‘Can’t Live on Promlses | and ""Welcome Home 3 for What?” and “Welcome Leader of Hifler's Yo ulhf | Movement Gof Rid of | | Tens of Thousands NUERNBERG, Jan. 16—Baldur von Schirach, leader of Hitler's Youth! Movement, was blamed today for 'hc' deportation to Poland of 60,00 Vlcnna| Jews, many destined for Nazi 1ai urd(‘r mills, in testimony presented to the| International war crimes tribunal. American Assistant Prorecutor; Capt. Drexel A. Sprecher of Inde- | pendence, Wis., read to the court von | {Echirach’s own declaration that as, 195 (had driven “tens of thousands unon‘ tens of thousands of Jews into thL\ ghetto of the east.” i French prosecutors, meanwhile, put} the finishing touches to their case and were ready to begin presenta-| tions of evidence against the 22 de- | fendants tomorrow. American and; British prosecutors hurried to com- ! plete testimony against Arthur Eeyss-Inquart, former Netherlands! Gauleiter; Wilhelm Frick, former protector of Bohemia and Moravia; and Hans Fritzsche, former deputy propaganda minister. Completion of those cases still would leave three other defendants— Rudolf Hess, Franz von Papen, and Constantin von Neurath, former foreign minister, to be disposed of, | but prosecutors decided these could be sandwiched in during the next four or five weeks, which the French | and Russians estimate they will re-| tqui <, 1 . (CONVICTION OF 61 NOT UPHELD; ORDERS RELEASE SCRANTON, Pa., Jan. 16.—An| American soldier, convicted by army ¢court martial of raping a girl in |Corry, England, and sentenced to 25 |years in prison, has been m'dered: freed by a Faderal judge. i Judge John Biggs, Jr., of the U. S Third District Court of Appeals, di- Kingston, N. Y., GI from the Feder- al Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., on grounds the soldier was convicted illegally. The jurist, in a 39-page opinion, ruled Hicks was not permitted to cross-examine witnesses at this trial |which was in violation of the Ar-| ticles of War. Record Fur Calch Marked Up, Sitka SITKA, Alaska, Jan. 16—A newl record for value in fur catches in Scutheast Alaska was marked up by | four local trappers when mey‘ brought in nearly $11,000 worth of | furs, including 380 mink and 28 land otter at the end of the 30-day sea- | son, ;lhe United Nations St | difficult situation Geiman Priscnas of war await assignment to quarters aboard the transport Carlisle at Seattle, Wash., which will take them heme via the Panama Canal. U. 8. soldiers. (AP Wirephoto) WAR VETS IN) GermanplsonersoiWarleave from Seaftle The ro Aleufian Construction Workers (laim They New Duedor 0f Health For Alaska WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—The National ‘Tuberculosis Association announced today the appointment Nazi district leader of Vienna he of Miss Lois Jund, a native of Day- ton, Ohio, as director of health edu- cation in Alaska. Formerly executive secretary to the Arlington, Va., tuberculosis associa- von, Miss Jund will be stationed at Juneau and will work under the Territorial Health Department She is a graduate of Wellesley College and received her masters de- gree in public health from the Yale medical school in 1944. She will neave of the North February 1. - [RAN THREATENS MORE TROUBLES PEACE MEETING (By John M. Highiower) LONDON, Jan. 16.—Iran is con- sidering an “immediate” appeal to Coun- cil for help in settling her disa- greement with Soviet Russia over the Azerbaijan autoncmy move- ment, the Chief TUNO delegation said today. Seyed Hassan Taquizadeh, Iran- ian ambassador to London, said he had received new instructions from Tehran last night after his speech before the General Assembly, in which he declared the issue would not be placed before the UNO at | present, Another member of the Iranian delegation, former Foreign Minister Nasrullah Entezam, said the new instructions called for an immed- | iate appeal to the Security Coun- cil, which holds its first session to- | morrow. The Iranian developments, shap- ing up as a critical test case for the Peace Agency, overshadowed all other UNO activities and con- fronted Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs and chief Russian delegate, with a to tackle upon his expected arrival tomorrow. ———-— ABSENT-MINDED GREAT FALLS, Mont.—A pass- erby noticed smoke pouring from a corner mailbox and called fire- men. Mail in the box was damaged little, but the question annoying postal authorities is who used the "box as an ash tray? of the Iranian’ SEATTLE, Jml | filed suit for $185,000 damages in | Superior Court here on complaints the men were illegally retained in Army stockades on several Aleutian Islands. Five construction companies were ‘They were | named as defendants. The Morrison-Knudsen Company, | 8. Birch and Sons Construction Co,, | { The Guy S. Atkinson Co., The Pu- get Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., and the Macco Construction Co. U. 8. and Army legal officials re- presented the defendants, explain- ing that the construction contracts were on a cost-plus basis and.any damages would be added to the fixed fee paid by the Government. Col. 8. W. Waddell, resident en- gineer at Amchitka, testified the men were placed in casual camps for reasons of military security and control until transportation was available, the complaints said the men were detained in Army stock- ades from 10 to 60 days after their work was completed. - > Cordova Woman Meels Death in Flaming Cabin CORDOVA, Alaska, Jan. 16.—Lena Nachtan, 66-year-old native woman, died early yesterday in a flaming cabin that caught fire, Lloyd Brown reported, when he struck a match to light a pressure lamp without re- alizing that gasoline had been spill- ed when the lamp was filled. Viola Gregorief and Derothy Hol- land were burned severely and are in the community hospital here. The cabin was a mile from water mains and rescuz efforts of natives llving nearby were futile, Priorifies for Vels, Surplus Properties WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. — Ser- vicemen and veterans abroad were granted priority today to buy Army and Navy surplus goods overseas. Liquidation Commissioner Thom- as B. McCabe announced that the veterans and servicemen would get preference over all purchasers ex- cept Government agencies, on goods either for personal use or for establishment and operation of their own business abroad. Members of the Armed Forces may bring their purchases back to this country for their personal use, but not for resale. Veterans may not bring the goods back even for | their personal use. 16. — Thir!oexu | civilian construction workers have | Castbound rail space for KIMMEL ON STAND; LIFE INDUSTRY IS NOW TIED UP OVERNATION [Leadersto Co?er in Wash- ington - Electrical Workers Still Out (By The Associated Press) A natlonwide strike started today in the meat packing industry but leaders of the 268,000 union work- ers involved agreed to confer in Washington tomorrow with Secre- tary of Labor Schwellenbach In Government efforts to halt the walkout. Schwellenbach coupled his invi- tation to a conference with an eleventh hour plea for postpone- ment of the walkout last night. However, leaders of the Butcher Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen said the request came too late to call off the strike but agreed to attend the confer- ence. Similar acceptance came to- day from leaders of the CIO Unit~ { ed packinghouse workers. “The strike, which threatened to put most of the Nation oh a meat- less diet within a week and ser- iously deplete feed stocks on farms where livestock already is fattened for market, was called one minute after midnight in plants across the Nation to support union demands for a pay increase. In Full Force At 11 am. today, the CIO said Were Held, Stockades THREATENED Rear Admiral Gives His s Story Regarding Pearl ; Harbor Warnings WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, Pacific Fleet Commander when the Japa- nese struck Pearl Harbor, disclosed today he had received letters threat- ening his life after he returned to this country. Telling his story of the disaster at the first public hearing he has been afforded, Kimmell gave a Senate- House investigating committee cor- respondence in which he related that such Jetters reached him daily early in 1942. He felt then, that his “cru- cifixion before the public has about reached the limit.” He also told the committee: 1—The Army and Navy in lenlli co-operated to a “higher degree”: than in many other areas. 2—But, he didn't know that the Army had alerted only against sabo- tage just before the Dec. 7, 1941, at-/ tack. 3—He futilely opposed the prewar transfer of a battleship division from | the Pacific to the Atlantic, and, carried to * President Roosevelt a protest against the proposed shift-| ing of a second division, 4—The Navy recommended throw- | ing Japanese spies in Hawail “in the Jjug” but the Army objected. Kimmel told the committee he thought that Lt. Gen. Walter Short, Army Chief in Hawaii, had only;| “cne kind of an alert.” “What kind do you think he had?"” asked Committet Counsel Seth Rich-] ardson. “To put his people on the alert, »} Kimmel replied shortly. Hz explained that on Nov. 27, 1941, after Short had received a war wam- ing message from Washington, he‘ had been told the Army had gone on the alert. ((OASTAL AIRLINES FLIES 20 ON TRIPS On trips to and from Juneau yes- terday and today Alaska Coastal Airlines flew the following passeng- ers: Today to Sitka: Wallace Westfall, Lewls Levy, and Jack Torveian. Yesterday to Hoonah: John Olson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hanson, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Sharrett, and George Dalton; from Sitka: William C. Aik~ en, Don Martin, Armondo Arce, and C. Anklam; from Ketchikan, R. E.| Mitchell, Lewis Levy; from Peters- burg, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Clifton. I A R Rk i SITKANS HERE Sitka visitors registering at the Baranof are: Joe Abby, D. P. Martin, and W. C. Aikin. | tinghouse, the strike was in full force, with all its 193,000 members out in 140 plants across the Notiori. Some 75,- volved 30,000 60,000 AFL members in the retail trade were not Involved. Supplies A survey across the Nation show- ed meat ,supplies on hand were | sutficlent to last from about one to seven cays, Receipts at prinei- pal liveslock merkets have been down sharply for the lut mell days. A report of violence came from Swift and Company's Kansas City, Kan., plant where an independent union is not on strike. E. E. Phelps, General Manager, charged he was hauled from his car Ly 25 or 30 ' pickets, beaten and forced to get a permit to enter the plant. The unions are seeking wage in- creases up to 17% cents an hour and the packers have offered Ti cents. Second Huge Strike The work stoppage in the meat industry was the second huge strike !in two days, and came less than 24 hours after a walkout by some 200,000 CIO electrical workers in 79 plants of General Electric, Wes- and General Motors Electrical Division. Mass picketing, reported in 69 commanities, for the most part was without incident except at Chica- go where 33 strikers were seized by police outside a Westinghouse plant. Demands The union struck in support of demands for a $2 a day wage in- crease and the walkout, affecting 100,000 at General Electric plants, 75,000 at Westinghouse and 25,000 General Motors employees, also made idie tens of thousands of white collar workers not affiliated with the union. While Government officials hop- jed for an end of the packinghouse strike, they got yeady to meet with CIO President p Murray and Benjamin Fairless, Pruidzm of U. S. Steel Corporation, in an attempt to halt a strike of 800,000 steel- workers scheduled for next Mon- day. Steel Workers Idle After their meeting Saturday to discuss the wage dispute the steel (Continued on Page Two) 7 STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 9%, American Can 105%, American Power and Light 15%, Anacbnda 48%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvest- er 98%, Jones-Laughlin Steel 47%, Kennecott 54%, New York Central 35%, Northern Pacific 35%, U. S. Steel 89%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 2,100,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 203.78, rafls 67.14, utilities 40.28.