The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,178 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS UNCLE SAM TAKES OVER MEAT INDUSTRY 4 MILLION ROADWORK SEATTLE, Jan. 26—Nearly four million doilars for road construc- tion and maintenance in Alaska was asked in President Truman’s| i’ 1946 buogef, the Washington Bu-| | reau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce reports. Of this amount, $2,850,000 is for| new construction as follows: 125 milss from Kenai Lake to Homer on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula; 155 miles on Richardson | i:zighway linking Valdez and Fair- banks; 115 miles from Eagle to Tanecross west of Dawson, and 12| mles from Anchorage to Potter. A total of $1,440,400 has been re- | quested for maintegance. 1 LD A COASTAL AIRLINES MAKING FLIGHTS Alaske Coastal Airlines today | flew the following passengers to | Siuka and Hoonah. To Sitka—Bob Paxton, Hennessey, U. E. Blankenship, ©Charles Whittemore, Fred Bryant, | iex L. Pinor and Phillip Williams. ‘Io Hoonah—James Houston and | Sergius Sheakley. ., MRS. M. G. BROOM HERE Frank i i { Mrs. M. G. Broom of Fairbanks 15 a guest at the Baranof. B S The Washingien' Merry - Go - Round | By DRFW PEARSON i —_— i WASHINGTON — Playing hide- | and scek with the Senate continues | tp be ure of Washington's tavorite‘ pastimes. Here is the story of one ! game & told by GOP Ferguson of | Michigen. ¥ The Mead Committee was in-| specting the U. S. Naval Base at’ Sah Juan, Puerto Rico. The place | LEWIS, UMW WARNINGIS i | PIN-UP POSE_Photos of Patricla Vaniver, New York model, have been sent to thousands of servicemen throughout the world for inclusion in their pin-up collections. i NOWRETURN SOUNDEDBY TO AFLFOLD ADM. NIMITZ | "Lookout, CI0” Is Admon-;Declares If World War Ill| ishment Made af Meet- Comes U. 5. Will Be ‘ ing in Florida First Attacked t MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 26.—Return of WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Fleet John L. Lewis to the American Fed- | Admiral Chester W. Nimitz de- eration of Labor was regarded by clared today that if there i AFL leaders today as good for them woic war III the aggressor's first but bad for the CIO. | move will be a smash at the United | Lewis left the AFL 10 years ago Stales. { in the row over his formation of the| “Two world wars have shown; committee for industrial organiza- | beyond dispute that the United | tion. In 1942, he quit the CIO, and i yesterday he completed the circuit States is the real barrier to any-| oue dreaming of conquest,” he said | by taking his United Mine Workers He { al in an address prepared for the Women's Patriotic Conference on | for the Territory in the election to SAYSALASKA | B SHOULD GET STATEHOOD, That Is If Pe_ti)l—e Vote Fav-b orably on Question Declares Angell | WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—If the peuple of Alaska voie for statehood be held in September, Rep. Anselll Angell, a member of the House Cerrstor Subcommittee which in- vestigated conditions in Alaska last suimmer, said: “It the voters of the Territory at the election next fall approve the stotehood proposal, I think Congress should grant it. It seemed 1o me Alaska is ready for state- hond and able to assume its place with other states of the union.” Augell said the Subcommittee's L L AIRBORNE DIVI report weuld not be ready for sev- ] days because it was impossibls ii a few days ago to get trans-| = He added that the Subcommittee ! u R G E S R A I S E and the full committee had not: vet voted on statehood for the Ter- SIlvER 1 29 the other members of the ] " Subcommittee felt toward the pro- csal. I URGED TO SETTLE '™ ; THEIR TR OUBlB‘ ing Convention Makes ! Sirong Demand | ! DENVER, Jan. 26.—~A campaign i an ounce won -support today from "m,?'e_s Governnlen' ED. Worth Clark, former Idaho sena- Will Step In e 5 ‘speaker of the Colorado Mining As- INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 26.—U. 8.!gociation’s convention, said in his Attorney General Tom Clark, who prepared speech: s of the hearings held in Al-| ritory. He said he did not know ho INDUSTRY, LABOR | R ¥aynote Speaker of Min- Afiorney General CIark In-!m raise the price of eilver to $1.29 | Clark, a Democrat and keynote believes the “big men” of both busi- ~ “we ought to use every effort to Iness and labor have too much power, | enact legislation now pending before SION HOM E—_Members of the renowned 82nd Airborne Division display signs naming the battle fields where they fought as they arrive in New York. was immaculate. Every shoe was back to the parent federation. shined, every jeep polished, not a paid dues for 600,000 members. speck could be seen on a barrack| The man with the bristling brows fleor, The Senators were impressed. | who came up from the Iowa coa! At cirner that evening, Senators | pits was welcomed back to the Fed- wrere entertained by gracious Capt.|eration at the mid-winter session of R. H. Baker, the Commanding Of- 'the executive council yesterday. He ficer. Suddenly Senator Ferguson !was given the vacancy on the 15- fel: a mess boy slip something into 'man council and was appointed 13th his lap. The mess boy was an en- |vice president. listed man and what he handed the Serator from Michigan were Return Helpful One of the AFL’s most influential the special instructions issued by |leaders who was not always a friend Capt. Baker ordering the base to|of the miners' boss, said his return pe prepared for the Senators’ ar-(to the Federation probably “is going rival | Captain Baker -had not missed a | thing. He even ordered a rehearsal of entertainment ceremony for the Senators. | \ EVEN CLEAN UNDERWEAR ) “There will be an' officer sta-| tioned et the entrance of the main | office building,” read the order, “to conduct the party through the main office for inspection. This officer will be Lieutenant Sampson who will take immediate steps to «nsure that the entrance to the| biulding and- the office itself is| troroughly cleaned and shipshape. The chiet clerk will assist in this. *Captain of the Yard is to issue | order, immediately to clean up all areas of the yard and suthority is herebr given to use any and all eulisted men and civilians in the amount necessary to accomplish this purpose. “Uniferms for officers and men will be the working uniform unless otherwise specified. Officers are cautioned to - wear clean khaki (grays may .be worn if khaki not available). Enlisted men on duty will wear clean dungarees, blue spirts, and white hats. Shoes will be polished. Black socks will be! worn, Clean underwear will be wern. “Inspection of the barracks will be held at 1300 by Lieutenant Cor- cor:n, who will serve advance no- tice that the place is to be imma- culate at that time. Noon meal will be served at 1100 and all hands will eat at that hour in order to' pro- vide time for policing the kitchens and the barracks. wnnc Transportation Officer will inspect all motor vehicles of the! yard to- the end that they are washed and as presentable as pos- - {Continued on Page Four) lwuntry," to be very helpful.” He suggested there were “still quite a few CIO union members who have a feeling of respect for Lewis and might follow him back to the AFL.” Another top AFL leader remark- d: “Lookout, CIO!” May Be AFL Head A third "AFL leader, one of the most far-sighted on the executive council, suggested that Lewis event- ually might become head of the Fed- 2 eration, succeeding to the post now held by Green. The Federation will hold its first convention in two years in Chicago next October. 3 En route here to formally accept the seat, Lewis declared in Mobile, Ala,, last night that reaffiliation of of major magnitude with far-reach- ing consequences to Labor and the PRI Wbl ) STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof, in port from west, scheduled to sail south at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- rive from Skagway at 8 o'clock Sun- day morning and sails south two hours later. National Defense. *I'he Kaiser iearned it no less thoroughly than Mussolini and Hit- | ler and Tojo. If ever there is a| next time, the United States will ! be fitst on the list, ! “It we can be crushed, the cur- renc of conquest may well engulf | the world. But if we have at hand the strength we need, the attempt | will almost certainly not be made.”| ‘The Navy’s Chief of Operations serted that the rush to demobilize doing what all our enemies is could not do—cutting away the| very bone and muscle of our armed ! forces.” FISHERMEN MAKE| 'RECOMMENDATIONS; (CONVENTION ENDED | | | SEATTLE, Jan. 26—A resolution | calling for the extermination of sea lions and hair seals as destroyers of |fish was adopted yesterday by the| International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America (CIO) at the; closing session of their 1946 conven- {the UMW with the AFL was “a step tion. | The Union voted to meet next year at San Pedro, California. | i In another resolution the repre- sentatives of the Union’s 22,000 | members favored the stab.ization of | ifish conservation programs on thej ! Pacific coast. They voted to partic- ipate in conferences due soon on al tri-state pact. ~ |- Other resolutions called for thel placing of a physician and a dentist in the Bristol Bay area, and urged .cooperation with industry in a co- urges them to settle their differences !or the government “will step in.” “And when it steps in it will not | Congress to compel the treasury to |do what we all thought it was oblig- ed to do when we passed the silver Federal Aid fo Alaska Necessary, Says Ickes In His Annual Repor and tourists are headed for Alaska, wnich is unprepared for them, and tae Government should aid the | tary of the Interior Ickes says in | i1s annval report to the President. | The secretary predicted an influx | of dischdrged service i seeking permanent homes and a parks. “Unfortunately,” he said, “Alaska ffi | is unprepared for both. It is clear ail kinds, housing and economic | gpportunities are inadequate.” a Federal responsibility and re- i guircs prompt, generous and intel- | WASHINGTON, Jan. Z&—Setlln‘l' | Territory in making ready, Secre-: personnel host of visitors to Alaska's scenie that at present roads, utilities of | “The development of Alaska is, AFL WORKERS RETURN; CI0 HOLDING OUT | | Question of Uhion Wage Demands During .Oc- | cupation Is Raised (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Uncle Sam has taken over the struck packinghouses but the ques- tion of meat in the butchershop iand the refrigerator remains up in the air. Fifty thousand AFI meat workers are beginning the trek back to work, but whethe 193,000 CIO workers will resume operations remains in doubt. Short'y after midnight, a CIO strategy committee in Chicago de- | “lared: “our picket lines stay up regardless of the seizure” A sporesman added that the commit- | tee had no plans for further night [ mzetings. However, the solid CIO front was broken at one point. Fifteen min- utes before the 12:01 am. seigure +deacline, a CIO local at National 'Stoukynrfls. Illinois — across thé Mississippi from St. Louis Missouri |--nulled down its cordon at the Aumour plant. The local president, Jerome Scaglione, sald he assumed the 1,700 workers will go back to work. But he added: ' “we won't [ know for sure until later today.” | Dispatches from Denver and [ Omaha tell a different meat workers in those said to be 100 per cent 1 decision not to back . | st ol stary. CIO clties are behind the {to the peckinghouses without surance from the Government ‘the union’s wage demands will be put into effect during Federal oc- capation. Last right Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson, whose depart- | ment is conducting the seizure, promised that he will apply for immediate approval of whatever Ipay recommendation is made by !the Presidential fact-finding board onmeat. The CIO United Packing- house Workers' President, Lewis Clarg, announced his union’s deci- sion to stay out and asserted that be wearing patent leather sUppers,, purchase act of 1934. Namely, to either,” Clark declared last night in | puy all offered domestically-produc- lative and Executive branches of the seizure order was a “complete the Government,” Ickes asserted. |double cross a speech before the Indiana Bar Association. He continued: “Disputes cannot be settled with a stroke of the pen, because we have never given power like that to any- ed silver at,$1.29 per ounce until the | total treasury stores of silver equal- ed one-quarter of the total of the combined treasury stocks of silver (and gold.” All the territorial areas—Alaska, Pawaii, Puerto Rico and the Vir- gin lslands—are trylng “to estab- lisn a more workable formula for their political relationship with the ligent support of both the Legis- H Steel Btrike | 1vs all quiet f the six-day-old sreel strike. What activity there is has been in words. The latest out- burst is from E. M. Voorhees, Chair- one’s pen, and we never shall.” Senator McCarran (D-Nev) also strikes were resulting in “too much kicking around of the public. You ican be sure your government will Earlier, he told newsmen current | urged the $1.29 silver price when he |spoke at the gold and silver ban- !quet of the convention last night. He said the producer was “penaliz- confinental United States,” Secre- | man of the U. 8. Steel Finance vary Ickes also reports. put an end to that.” e e jed” by the difference between the 1$1.29 per ounce price that silver wa . |curried on the treasury’s books and American Soldiers s et i e pi | In Germany Swallow Doses of Propaganda| | gold mining industry got “an awful slap” when it was shut down during the war and he belicved the mine owners should be reimbursed as a matter of “principle.” WIESBADEN, Germany, Jan26. —Nineteen per cent of 1,700 men questioned last fall in a U. S. Army poll of American troops stationed in Germany believe the Germans had Harold Glasser, assistant direct- or of the division of monetary re- some justification for starting the war. ‘We should support these 2% mnillen American citizens who are trying to evolve a sounder rela- tiunship with us and who are, in «licet, giving us the opportunity to maintain our leadership as a pro- gressive nation,” said Ickes, ‘. e - JAPAN'S FISHING VALENTINE— screen actress, Jean O’'Donnell, wears a hat with a Si. Valentine’s day motif, 1OKYO, Jan. 28.—General Mac- | Arthur's Headquarters charged Ja- panese Government and fishery of- ficials today with a systematic campaign to break out of fishing | areas assigned Japan since sur- | render and to regain gradually a semblance of their former domin- aat fishing empire. Li. Col. Hubert G. Schenck, chief cf MacArthur's natural resources isec:lun, revealed the Japanese have |su‘ummed six requests for revision i of fishing areps. Four were denied. TOKYO, Jan, 26.—Cieneral Mac-! 'While the Japanese plead for | | | search of the Treasury Department, said in a prepared address he saw “little prospect of restoring gold to dcmestic circulation in this coun- try or in Europe. It is to the in- terest of every country to have its ‘The poll, said to represent a cross-| gog avafl;‘blz;‘ when "cede‘:' ur section of the U. S. troops in Ger-| i “g s chance of &8 n {to the old “automatic gold standard’ many, was not officially released! . 7 for publication, but was made avail- | Glasser said, “The problem of the able by a tht;roughly fluthoruanvg"u'“'e is to secure the same stabil- actizee ity which we had under the auto- i matic gold standard under present (In Washington a War Depart- | conditions.” | ment spokesman said that polls were | i~ | taken to ascertain the degree to which enemy propagandd had been absorbed, so that counter measures could be effected.) Authorities said the poll indicated an amazing lack of knowledge of the causes of war and tended to show that in some cases U. 8. soldiers had , Washinmon-Alaik} Income, Excess | Profits Increases TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 26—De- Arthur today decorated Gen. Walter | Krueger, retiring Commander of the Sixth Army, with the Distinguished | Service Cross and an Oak Leaf| Cluster to his Distinguished Service Medal. & It was MacArthur's 66th birthday | and Krueger's 65th. MacArthur re- extensions in order to increase their home food supply of sea pro- ducts,” Schenck said, “some of the requests are too far from the home isiands, there can be no question tout their produce would be used on the world market.” | southbound. | ordinated educational program to Yukon scheduled to sail from nyomote wider consumption of fish. Seattle today and should arrive on Tuesday. | ot sune s “vonng ut seons-| JEN ARE INITIATED BY LODGE OF MOOSE kan, Wrangell, Petersburg Juneau, Sitka, Woman's Bay, then to Port| Williams, Sitka, but nof Juneau, | At the regular weekly meeting of Northern Voyager scheduled to thg Moose lodge last night, ten sail from Seattle January 31. |men were initiated into the order. | Margaret Shafer scheduled- to' sail from Seattle January 31. | FEOM BUTTE, MONT. North Sea, from Sitka, scheduled| IMilo Milasevich and Nick Bajo- toarrive late tonight on southbound vich of Butte, Mont. are guests at trip. thc Gestineau, swallowed large doses of propaganda |;.sits of income and excess profits of the type once served up by Jo-|tazes yesterday amounted to $3,- | district since Jan. 1 to $27,003,278.24, | according to Clark Squire, Internal MARLBORO, Mass.—Three mice' per cent over collections for thz gave several men a break in a ny»‘u"rupondmg period last year. It from a truck, the women scamp- | vius in Washington-Alaska, On-l ered—and the men, made of braver gon, Idaho and Montana for the! seph Goebbels. |523,469.83, bringing the total col- Tt ST | tections in the Washington-Alaska "“.0“ SIAMPEDE | Revenue Collector. —_— The total is an increase of 10 lon hosiery line. When the rodents also is $250,000 more than the total escaped from a box being unloaded | invome and ‘excess profits collec- stuff, just moved up to the head.cn*ire fiscal year of 1940 when the of the lhne, combined total was $26,752,079.41. called that they been comrades in arms more tH&n 40 years and |, s said: A decree of divorce was issued “No army in military history ever | in District Court, here this morn- had a greater leader than General|ing by Judge J. W. Kehoe, to Mary Krueger, and no army ever had a|C. Pinkley, of Juneau from Rex record of accomplishment greater| Pinkley. Mrs. Pinkley was adjudged than that of the Sixth Army.” custody of the couple's minor child. The Sixth Army led the long drive i XA S from Australia to the Philippines SALE ORDER SIGNED and is being inactivated today at Kyoto. DYVORCE GRANTED judge J. W. Kehoe, yesterday af- Leruoon signed an order in District Court here approving a petition of the City of Petersburg for sale of \ax delinquent property. i R ‘Whether parrots ever know what they are talking about is not abso- lutely certain. { Committee. He says CIO President | vhitp Murray was all wrong in as- serting that the steel corporation will get paid 67 million dollars by the Government if big steel only | brcaks even this year. Voorhees ciaims the company won't get one ved cent under that condition. Tlere cre other labor develop- 1 ments: there is a persistent story {in Detroit that Chrysler has offer- led the United Auto-Workers an '8 and one-half cent hourly wage - AREAS RESTRICTED |- | The APL is all aglow over the relurn to the fold of John L. Lewls and something ke 600,000 mine workers. One AFL leader puts it | this way: “Look out, cro” Congressional Views A On the Congressional side of the laber pleture, the Senate Labor Committee has held a dramatic sesson in which just about every- body came in for a share of blame in the current industrial strife. Senator Wayne Morse, of Oregon, ]mud the G-M strike looks to him as if both sides “simply want to slug it out” without any interfer- ence frem Congress. Morse bases th's on testimony given yumflly by G-M President C. E. Wilson, {and R. J. Thomas, President of tho ClO Auteworkers. Thomas suggest. ed that Congress—if it desires to do !wmelhlnc about the strikes—should Ilnvuuute what he called a “gen- lerai conspiracy to destroy labor { unions.” Thomas also called for re- peal of the tax rebate laws for corporations whose 1946 profits drop below pre-war levels, On his part, Wilson sald higher { wages mean higher prices. Senator ! Alien Elender, of Louisiana, asked Wilson how high prices would have to go to compensate for a 30 per-