The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 22, 1946, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” YHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL K GOPY e Sr———— VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,174 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GOVE SHORT SAYS HE IS MADE "SCAPEGOAT' Talks Out PI_eHy on Pearl | Harbor Attack-Flays War Department WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. — Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short contended today that the War Department in four years of silence had attempted tu single him out as “the scape poat for the disaster” at Pearl Ha bor. In a 13,000-word statement plac- ed before the Senate-House Inve tigating Committee, the retired Hawaiian Army Commeander said his superior officers in Washington had “passed the buck” to him until the Congressional inquiry the revelation of facts.” Short asserted the War Depart- ment had “four years to admit” it should have acted before Dec. 7, 1941, on his Nov. 27 report that he nad alerted his troops only against sabotage. But the first such mission of responsibilit chall, former Chief of Staff, and Lt. Gen. L. T. Gerow, former War Plans head, in the current hea ings. Testifies In Public “forced | | | it | i “ad- | he said, | came from Gen. George C. Mar-| NMENT MAY SEIZE MEAT PLANTS NAVY HERO REUNITED WITH FAMILY | MADE FAMOUS by his classic radio message in 1942, “Sighted sub, sank | same,” Navy Lt. D. F. Mason is shown as he met his wife and daughter Florence on their arrival at Pearl Harbor aboard the Navy hospital ship ' Consolation. Mason is now based at a Naval air station in Hawaii. On air patrol in the North Atlantie, he | This was the first time the 65- vear-old general has had an op-;— portunity to testify in public. Re-| cords of his previous testimony be- fore the Roberts Commission and Army Inquiry Boards already have UNO GIVEN been released by the Committee. Short followed closely the line| he had taken previously in making these contentions in his statement. 1. He was not given the informa- tion from intercepted Japanese messages by which he said the War Department “knew definitely at 9] p.m., December 6th, that the hour, had struck and that war was at, hand.” Hits At Marshall i 2. If General Marshall felt there! were security reasons why he could | not be given this information, he : should have‘directed specifically as | 2 KNOTTY Gefs Honor, straddling it with two depth bombs. U. S. Navy photo. ghted a submarine and dived on it, counting PRAISEFOR PRESIDENT, CRITICISM Congress Inclined fo Agree! with Truman on Some Is§ues, Against Others WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. — Con- gress seemed inclined today to sup- port some extension of priee con- trols and to keep taxes at a high level. But the remainder of Presi- aent Truman's domestic legisla- tive program provoked as much criticism as praise. Republicans sparked the criti- cism, with Senator Bridges (R- N.H. observing to reporters that the President's 30,000-word re- of Administration aims ought to be labelled “a message on the sorry state of the Union.” On the other hand Senator Mead (D-N.Y.) commented that the Pres- ident’s economic proposals are “sound and necessary.” Not all comment, however, lowed party lines. Among 25 requests in his state the union message yesterday, Truman asked for a full year's fol- of Mr. extension of price controls. The re- | ction was mixed on this but most legislators who were ed about it said they thought some HERE 1S WILBERT FLEURY, ice of his country, Fleury carned $352 per month as a private®first ¢ life, he returned to his mail carrier job at §200 per month very obvious in the picture above, which shows Fleury with his wife a BIG CUT IN SALARY GREETS HIM AS CIVILIAN of Detroit, who has just been released from the Army., While in the serv- The reason for his former high salary is ACTION IS THREAT IN BIG STRIKE | |Workers Are7\§reeable fo | Move-NoDevelopments in Steel Walkout (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The White Mouse acknowledged 1mdny that Government seizure of | the strike-bound meat industry was {under consideration but emphasiz- {ed no similar proposal was being |'studied yet for the steel walkout. | Press Secretary Charles G. Ross teld a news conference there might be some developments in the meat strike today, “The matter of selz | ure has been under consideration | he said. ’ After emphasizing that his re- warks did “not refer {o steel,” Ross made public a letter in which Pres- ident Truman instructed the steel | Fact-Finding Board to continue its | “study of Governmental data” and “remain available for further con- cultation.” | A Government official who de- clined to be quoted said leaders of the striking CIO packinghouse | workers were in Washington to dis- {cuss Government selzure with Sec- vetary of Labor Schwellenbach. lass. After returning to civilian and 13 children. (International) | curbs must be retained to prevent , runaway inflation. Senator Ball (R-Minn.) suggested that a “sane” program be adopted (International) 'MARSHALL MEETS Final Showdown in Steel Fact-Finding Legislation i The. House Labor Committee, | meantime, approved a modified version of President Truman's pro- Juneau Man PROBLEMS Heroic Work Russia Obj(ecTs}o British in Greece, Java-iranian Issue fo Front all-out alert ‘as he did on a false alarm in 1940. | (BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER) | LONDON, . 22—A full-scale itest of the ability of the great powers {to cooperate within the United Na- (Conl‘i;lued on. Pa;[ Tritrew from Soviet requests that the Secur- The w a Sh i n g ion 2 tions organization developed today Merry -G_o- Round By DRFW PEARSON | WASHINGTON — Undercover op- | position to the British loan is much' greater on Capitol Hill than Ad-| rainistration leaders realize, Many | ——including some good Democrats— i feel that Mr. Truman's negotiators should have tied up the loan with British commitments not to criminate against us when it comes to politics and trade. Here is one behind-the-scenes il- iustration which makes Congress- dis- | ity Council investigate and take neasures against the maintenance of British troops in Greece and Java. Officials privately agreed that ithis move by delegates representing the Soviet Union and the Ukraine, coupled withr earlier charges made by Iran against the Russians, had ended the honeymoon period of the UNO. American delegates were playing down talk of a crisis in the world | peace agency, but it was apparent i the organization was confronted with some of the toughest problems it could be asked to meet. Some Ameri- cans said privately that the United - Gold Life Saving Medal, one of the WASHINGTON i, 22 —Comdr. Glenn L. Rollins of the Coast Guard today was presented the highest Leroism. awards for | peace-time,; i | | raises | under which price increases of po: !sibly 5 per cent would be allowed to make up for some of the wage that have been granted. “We'd better do that rather than it on t a blowup,” Ball asserted. SOVIET AGENCY BLASTS OUT IN ALL DIRECTIONS thie lid s tight that we haved« aps U. S.mifary Com- mand in Korea - Hits Korean Government The medal was presented by Sec- | R retary of the Treasury Fred Vinson | It was in recognition of the! Commander's service as leader of a | party which rescued 18 shipwreck- ed seamen off the coast of Alaska: By “Bddle’ Gilioss in the winter of 1938. ! MOSCOW, Jan. 22—The official Rollins, & native of Salem, Ore, | o .ot aooe Agency Tass teday ac- o Teeldent of West Hyattsville,| oused the United States Military Three other GCoast Guardsmen COWimand in Southern Korea of Rliate (b’d flsm o !’m?;]i:nspiring “reactionary” protests Participated in the rescue willi o056t the Moscow Conference of receive silver Lifesaving Medals. Foreign Ministers. They are Lt. Eugene I Brown, '™ y, . qispatch from Heijo, Korea, Commanding Officer of the Coast| .o ascailed the “yeactionary Guard Base at Seattle, Anthony| . ... o s ‘W. Thomas of Detroit, and Howard | {‘:;:";ly OLB?‘?YL;:;"?)“K::“ af\l)t:-S:lr]): Hayes of Juneau, Alaska. | viet propaganda campaign and for Howard Hayes now lives attacking the decision of the Un in: Douglas, having recently moved ;ed States, Russia and Great Br #n fromhis home on the Glacter | 20 {0 8¢ UD @ five-year try Highway. ' ship in Korea. et S ‘The dispatch then said: CHIANG IN TALK, e chingse AFraiRs Negofiations i New Armistice Commission Meeting-Makes Pro- posals on Truce BY SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Jan. 22.—General Marshall scheduled a conference { with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek today — reportedly on truce viol | tions- hile China's new armis | commission at Peiping directed op- posing troops to withdraw promptly at least 20 miles from points of com- bat. The principal purpose cof the American envoy's visit to Shanghai the past week-end was to see truce teams dispatched to Kiangsu and Honan Provinces, a member of his staff said. Prevention of further truce violations was reported among topics he was to discuss with Chiang | today. Executive headquarters of the new armistice commission at Peiping has jordered both Communist and GO jernment forces in zones of conflict ito withdraw at least 20 miles, or one |full day’s march, Associated Precs Correspondent Spencer Davis report- ed. As soon as the forces break off i fighting and are separated, the new directive specifies, they are to retire THE NEW DIME { | { i I | | 1 Cracks Whip; Fight Is On posal for fact-finding boards, but ls.ulpped the agencies of the auth- oritiy the President had requested to subpoena witnesses, books and (1ecords. | The approved legislation also el- !lminated a seetion banning strikes | for 30 days while the boards study | the disputes, | b g | The Committee rejected, 13 to 5, i BY DREW PEARSON | the exact version of the Fact-Find- i WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, Final ing Bill requested by Mr. Truman chowdown in the steel negotiations|and approved the modified version |came after 48 howrs of bizarre 10 to 8. White House negotiations during| In the third largest labor dis- | part of which Phil Murray and! pute, the strike of 200,000 CIO | Ben Fairless did nothing but read!eclectrical appliance workers, Sec- | the newspapers, and during which | retary of Iabor Schwellenbach ap- | President the pointed two Government mediators. | miiddle of a family ar be- They are Willlam H. Davis, former tween conservative liberal | Chairman of the War Labor Board, braintrusters fand Arthur 8. Meyer, Chairman of Some advisers wanted him to re- | the New York State Mediation frain from taking sides, urged that ' Board. | be let labor and the steel Industry | The two went into session with Lattle it out. Reconversion boss officials of the General Electric John Snyder was in this group. and Westinghouse Companies and Other advisers argued that a|the striking CIO United Electrical hands-off attitude meant throwing | Workers. the nation into a long and serious strike with an eventual victory for. In Detroit, the Detroit News said capital and a low wage for indus- the Ford Motor Company would try. They wanted Truman to inter- offer the CIO United Auto Workers vene. Postmaster General Bob Han- 1 unother wage increase soon, prob- | negan was the leader of this group. ! ably parnllelni President Truman's Trumen followed Hannegan's ad- | 16'% cents hourly ihcrease propos- vice, but only after seme of the'al in the steel dispute. This was (most peculiar negotiating even |denied later by Ford. | reen inside the White House. | Ford has increased its offers to Play-By-Play 17'% cents, within 2 cents of ths Here is a play-by-play nceount of Union’s reduced demands: | what happened. | As the Meat Fact-Finding Board assembled in Chicago for public fold: Truman Truman was tug-of-w and in Ford Case States a { vas vi into a i - " snen boiling mad. Bietes apparandy. was moutg 1nto o “Here the behavior of the Amer-|to the positions they held on the .. o 00 When Phil Murray postponed the |middle man position between Rus- The Export-Import Bank gave g a and Britain. Territorial ican Command in Southern Korea the design on the I night of January 13—the time the new REocsevelt dime that has steel strike one week at Trumans learings today on the strike of | request, he had heard the President 263,000 AFL and CIO packinghouse truce originally was designed to be- come effective, Stories of truce violations—con-~ firmed and unconfirmed—continued to deluge headquarters, Davis re-| ported, and American Army and| Marine planes were busy scattering' cease-fire leaflets throughout the| Greece, Jan. 11, a loan of $25,000,- 000. But before advancing the money, the State Department call- €d in Greek Ambassador Cimon P. Diamantopoulos, and administered on oral spanking because his Gov- ernment did not respect the fifth astonishes one. It has assumed a position of inspiring reacummx-;i demonstrations against the decn-! sions of the Moscow conference of | Foreign Ministers in which, as is| known, the Government of the| United States participated.” | | The dispatch also attacked what say | workers, there were reports the Ad- “Phil, your offer seems reason- Ministration planned to offer some able. I want you to give me one lest minute new price increase to week to make Fairless settle this|avold taking over the meat plants. thing. That’s why I'm asking you! The first effects of the paralyz- [1o postpone the strike.” | ing steel strike began to be felt as Three days later (Jan. 16) Mur- fhe country's biggest work stop- Tough Problems Both the Iranian appeal against [Russia and the Soviet appeal against Britain were based on Article 35 of the United Nations charter and both called for action by the 1l1-member | Security Council. The Russian- rolled off the line at the Phila- delphia mint and is now in cir- culation. The designer was Joln R. Sinnock, chiéf engraver at the mint. Delegates Seek Voting Right WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. — Con- gressional Representatives of the «ir freedom. { The fifth air freedom gives for- eign planes the right to pick up| passengers in’ transit. In m.heri words, an American plane flying from ‘Italy to Egypt could stop inl Greece and pick up passengers. Al- though this was agreed at the Chi- cago Air Convention, Greece does not adhere to the fifth air freedom. Ambassador Diamantopoulos, when spanked, replied: “But, gentlemen, don’t you real- ize that the British required us to co this. The British run Greece. (British troops still oecupy th: country). We would gladly give the United States exclusive air rights| in Greece. But we can't while un- der Britain.” In the end, the State Department | okayed the $25,000,000 Export-Im- | port Bank loan, though simultan- ! eously demanding Gregk fiscal re-| forms. Real fact, however, is thas| British case, however, is the fir: volving two of the Security Council’s five permanent members. The Russian complaints, filed with | legislation before the Security Council late last night,' accused Britain of endangering world peace and interfering with the in- ternal affairs of Greece and Java. Neither British nor American dele- gates had any fon-\@armng of the Russian action. Some British au- thorities speculated that the Rus- sians acted to build a counter-fire against the Iranian charges on the |theory that Britain was backing Iran. Some American experts said they saw a possibility that Russia suspected the United Nations of tak- ing a basically anti-Russian line and was moving to force a showdown. The British cabinet met early this afternoon to discuss the Russian pro- tests. Nothing To Fear A British spokesman said that the the, Greeks are now obliged to pay | British government felt it had “noth- PBritish banks about one-third of ing to fear or be ashamed of, and their total revenue—most of this |certainly nothing to conceal” con- going to the Hambro Bank, run by cerning its actions and policies in Winston Churchill's close friend, Greece and Indonesia. X Charles Hambro. | He pointed out that the British If the British were to relax on government already had said it ——— e 5 (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Six) | Puerto ‘yestcrdnv for Seattle on a buying icoast to Los Angeles if travel con Nation’s Territories and Island Pos- sessions want the right to vote on committees of which they are members. Delegate Bartlett of Alaska, Del- egate’ Farrington of Hawaii and Resident Commissioner Pinero of Rico have requested a change in House rules to permit them the right. Bartlett announced the action today. The Delegates and the Resident Commissioner now have a voice in committees but no vote. - e — ROMANCE LOS ANGELES,—At 93, Dowron Halsey Winslow is still pretty chip-! per—enough to get married again.| A widower, he and Mary Doro- thea Larson went to nearby Santa Ana for their marriage license. The | bride-to-be is a mere 62. MR S L A TEVENS SOUTH MRS, Mrs. Jessie Stevens left by plane trip for the Jones-Stevens Shop, and plans to continue on down the ditions permit, called “the counterfeit govern- ment of Kim Koo and Sin Mas Ri,” declaring that their activity is “directed against hampering the decisions of the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers on Korea, on starting a civil war (inside the country and on inflaming hostility toward . the Soviet Union.” (Kim Koo is President of the Kor- ean Provisional Government.) ATCin Alaska Being Reduced EDMONTON, Alta., Jan. 22.—Col Lehigh Hunt said today only 1,039 enlisted men and 437 officers re- mained in the Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command, U. 8. A. A F., with a further reduction schedul- ed for February 1. Col. Hunt, assistant chief of staff in charge of personnel to Brig. Gen. Dale V. Gaffney, said that after Feb. 1, “Only a small numbef of enlisted personnel will remain.” i five Provipces of North and Central | China. They have showered some 215000 on 31 towns and were scheduled to distribute many more ALASKAN URBACH e IS GIVEN MEDAL STOCK QUOTATIONS ' AT WHITE HOUSE | NEW YORK, Jan. 22—Olosing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| —_— stock today is 9!i, American Can| WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—This 1100%, American Power and Light | week’s edition of the Georgetown |18%, Anaconda 46!, Common-|(Colo.) Courier will be a little late | wealth and Southern 3%, Curtiss- recause the editor had a date at | Wright 8%, International Harvest- the White House. {er 94, Kennecott 51%, Jones-| Editor and Publisher C. H. Randall 45%, New York was one of 54 Selective Service Board Northern Pacific members who were chosen by lot to Steel 87%, Pound receive medals from President Tru- man yesterday in recognition of the work of the draft coards. He rep- resented Colorado at the White House ceremony. “I won't have a chance to see much of Washington,” Randall told NUPTIALS a reporter upon his arrival. “I can Miss Frances Jean Stuz, of Les not stay more than a day or two. Angeles, Calif and James Elva You see, I get out the Courier by Jones of Chicago, 111, were united myself, and if I'm not there it does in marriage Friday, Jan. 18, by the not get out.” Rev. Willis R. Booth. | Draft Bog | Laughlin ~ Steel | Central | 33%, ! Rl WS, | s4.031. Sales today were 1,530,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are ag follows: industrials 197.35, rails 66.24, utilities 40 ! - - STUZ-JON and Roy A, Mercer. |seward, Alaska. rd members here for the! cide?” Murray asked Fairless, Their attendants were Ethel Ask | ceremony included Leon Urbach, of ray and Fairless arrived at the page closed steel-making end fa- White House for their second meet- | bricating plants and affected con- ing. | struction, railroads and public util. Truman immediately delivered a | ities. p | stinging demand that the strike| Steel production dropped to less i threat be ended promptly in the than five percent of capacity, a i national interest. He asked no #3-year low. As strikers took up questions, but told the U. S. Steel picket lines in plants in 20 states chief and the CIO leader to go|cnly two instances of violence, into the Cabinet Room and get|both in Ohio, were reported. started. ———— Reading The Newspapers | Secretary of Labor Schwellen- A'omi( me Ias' tach and Labor Adviser Steelman | then sat down with' the two men,' pl SM mlk | Schwellenbach asking Fairless if " ans n |he had any new proposal for| SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22—Rear | breaking the deadlock. Fairless re- Admiral Russell 8. Berkey, head of | plied that his company’s position the Navy's Civil Liaison section, sald | remained the same. The offer stood &t & press conference that full plans | at 15 cents an hour increase, Fair- Would be announced in Washington |less said, no more. Schwellenbach @bout Feb. 4 for a test of the effect put the same question,to Murray, ©f an tomic bomb on a fleet of who replied that he couldn't drop Ships. lower than 19% cents an hour,| Construction of new naval vessels Schwellenbach then left the room, is being delayed as much as possible, |told the two men to get together. Berkey said, until the atomic bomb | A few minutes later Steelman also tests are completed. He said ¢he | walked out. ‘fie‘mt;lem of m was p:;; e Fr e i L atel ‘Well, what -did you fellows ‘:z_],alm-etlecu gt mmmm be carried by currents tn other (Et;ntim}cd ;nPnyeva:J) areas of the sea.