The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” == | VOL. LXVI., NO. 10,227 _ RUSSOHRAN TENSION REP ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _ PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1946 — T LT —————— S ———————eeg et UNO SECURITY COUNCIL HAS ISE(RET PACT - REVEALED AT LARGER ISSUES | ARE UNSETTLED IN CONFERENCE %Veterans'fill Still Has| SENATE KILLS S. E. ALASKA UNIV. BRANCH, Fly “Bee Line fe Orieni mwe REP. TAYLOR HITS EMPIRE - IN REMARKS ORTED EASING RED ARMY IS LEAVING FROM | FIRST iiEETING! NAZITRIAL Optimism Prevails with| Truman Promising Full | Ruled Out Evidence of U. S. Cooperation \ Germany Treaty NEW YORK, March 26—The UNO| NUERNBER Germany, March Security Council has opened its|25.—An objection by the Russian first meeting in its new quarters | prosecutor prevented counsel for! at Hunter College. Rudolf Hess from reading into the The history-making conference|court records today excerpts from was called to order at 2:31 p. m. what he called a secret treaty con- Eastern time, by Dr. Quo Tai-chi cluded by Germany and Russia of China, President of the Coun-|three days before the Nazi attack cil. The meeting opened on a high on Poland. note. of optimism, and with Presi-| The lawyer asserted before the dent Truman's promise of full International Military Tribunal that American cooperation. |the alleged treaty fixed spheres of In a message read to the Council |influnce in eastern Europe and by Secretary of State James Byrnes, that details were contained in an Mr. Truman said the American|affidavit submitted by Dr. Friedrich people will do all the can to main- | Gaus, former German ambassador Russian Counsel Wants| Rocky Road Ahead-Free Conference Next Step | The Alaska Senate this morning heard the report of its Conference Committee on S.B. 9, the Veterans Aid Act—then filed the report for| future reference. i Meantime, President Edward D. |Coffey is expected to take the next !step toward reaching inter-house | |agreement and name a Free Con-' ference Committee this afternoon.| {The Free Conference group willl i |have power to write new amend-| !ments to the bill. ‘r Though no agreement was reach- led on fundamentals in the joint| (conference already held, the re- {port read today indicated that only {a few large issues could not be, 1 compromised. Walker Reconsideration! Delays Final Action Until Tomorrow Nome Senator University Regent, O. D. Cochran, pealed college ‘| bells and sent their echoes reverbrat- ing off the craifs above Ketchikan at the Alaska Senate's session this morning. But, though the Nome Senator jerected visionary “spires and domes towering into the silvery mists” above the First City, he followed up by knocking the props oubt tromi under any claim that a Southeast| Alaska Extension of the University, of Alaska is justificd now. “Pre=| mature,” he labeled the measure! {under consideration—Senator N. R. Walker's bill to appropriate $150,000 & ! This globe, with its marked-in air rcutes, shows the great variation in distance between the San Francisco-Honolulu-Midway prewar route to the Orient, and the great circle route from the Seattie gate- tain peace, and he added that all to Moscow. the United Nations must remain; united, working together for peace | and freedom as they fought for it} during the war. | Secretary Byrnes added a few words of his own after reading Mr. | Truman’s message. The nations, | said Byrnes, first must try to settle their difference among themselves,, but failing this, must bring their grievances before the Security Coun-) cil. For, continued Byrnes, “No na-! tion has the right to take the law| into its own hands.” Soviet Prosecutor R. A. Rudenko jumped up to object to the reading of “surprise documents” before they were translated and submitted to the prosecution. “I don’t know what kind of doc- uments he is talking about,” Ru- denko said. “It sounds like hearsay to me.” When Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence sustained the objection, Hess' lawyer countered with: “In that case I must ask permis-' |sion to call Soviet Foreign Commis- House amendments agreed to by for creation of a southern branch; {a majority of Senate conferees B. 32. i i were: ! Taken to a vote, the bili failed| 1—The Veterans Board shall in- to pass the Senate by a 6 to 10! 1 8. With today's session given over car Molotov to establish if this to formalities, delegates kept their| agreement was not actually con-! fingers crossed as they awalbed;c]udgd," further word on the dispute between; One provision of the alleged Iran and Russia. The Iranian case socret agreement, the attorney said, will be discussed by the Council to- "was that Germany “declared itself morrow. But the atmosphere was uninterested in threc Baltic states— one of confidence~mspired by the Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia— announced withdrawal of Russian —and Finland.” Troops from Iran. The continued; The tribunal ignored that request presence of Red Army forces in and the galleries tittered. Iran had been at the root of thel ————————— controversy. | { The opening session lasted 51;$m ("E(K Ups minutes. 2 ccoroe wiry | RED CROSS FUND GUS GISSBERG WI { | A check to the American Red EMPLOYMENT OFFICE| | Cross ior $500 from the Alaska Gus Gissberg, recently discharg-|Light and Power Company has would automatically limit business MArks against the measure by 4 Gop cong |reply to a charge of being "obau‘uc-‘mu “would ed World War II Veteran, has en- | considerably boosted both the to- tered the services of the United tal donations to date, and the spir- States Employment Service as in- its of the committee in charge of terviewer. Mr. Gissberg is well "ac- | the drive, according to an an- quainted with Alaska. He was em- nouncement by Miss Elsie Werner,| 5 Deletion of the provision that to be said against his pet bill,| hottern of probable Democratic at- neither home and farm nor busi- Walker carried the Senate session pacp in the ployed one year in Juneau, 1937.!chairman of the BPWC commit- attended the University of Alaska, tee. 21, years, 1938-40, and was Per-, More than $300 was received at sonnel Manager for the Livengood the theatre booths over the week- Placers, Inc., at Livengood, Alaska. Gissberg is marriéd and has two children. Mrs. Gissberg is the form- er Claudia Kearney of Juneau, to whom he was married in February 1942, a donation of $100 from H. L. Faulkner and $75 from the Capi- tol Theatre. | the business district and to assist; end, Miss Werner said, as well as| ‘clud(- a majority of World War II jveterans. | 2—That a set interest |vets loans of 4 percent per annum jbe established. 3—That a vet may qualify for a (loan by returning any bonus re- \ceived. 4—That vets injured in. line of |duty with less than one year's ser-| |vice are qualified lor loans. i 5—That vets qualified for bonuses lshall have returned to Alaska with intention of remaining Lere or, if {not returned, shall have had five ;years residence in the Territory {prior to induction. t | House amendments to which the |Senate’s conference delegation would : not agree are: 1—Increasing education loans to a 1$5,000 top limit. : |2—Increasing business loans to a $20,000 top limit. i 3—Increasing the total of conferees was reached on a $10,000 lceiling for this provision; which| iloans to that amount likewise). | 4—Confirmation of Board mem-| ibers in joint session of the two ;chambers. ness loans may be made to more! ;than 80 percent of the appral.scdl ivalue of the security offered. i raising (the gross sales and exports | tax) be stricken from the bill. 1 T—That an original appropriation ; More volunteers to help canvass [of three and one-half million dol-{message as saying the SE. branch, lars be made. : |vote. Walker voted against his! 1own measure then gave immediate | rate on notice of reconsideration, deferring=————"""" !final disposition until tomorrow. “Fantastic’ i . Adding their voices against SB.! 132 were Senators Allen . Shattuck, |Frank Whaley, Frank Gordon and! ;Don Carlos Brownell. Shattuck termed “fantastic” the thought of ! establishing two universitics for! 80,000 people while the regular school system is in neced of greatly | increased facilities. He charged Lhc; proposition would be ‘“suicide" for | the present University at Fairbanks. | Gordon stated that he for once heartily concurs with Senators Shat- tuck and Whaley, in the view that ! it's better to have one real univer- city than two half-ones. Brownell referred to Walker as the “Ketchi- | kan Senator who constantly amaz- | es.” Walker is now trying, Brown-! a1 <1l said, to get the Senate to ignore publicans lashed out today \loans at one time to one vet to the report of the survey which tary of Commerce Wallace for what (a $20,000 top limit (though it was|Walker himself worked into the one of them described as “an ef- istated that agreement between the aPPropriations bill at the last ses- fort to tangle American foreign pol-| sion. Cochran prefaced his lengthy re-| tionist” brought by a radio critic. Walker On Defense After hearing everything that was‘; well into the noon hour as he spoke | in its defense. The criticisms of Shattuck and Whaley he dismiaed! 6—That all provisions for revenue '35 coming from men who had even mark_prefacing the annual Jack- voted against appropriations to| {keep the parent university alive. He | quoted Governor Ernest Gruening's is needed. way (center black line), over which Pan American Constellation clip- pers will be flying special charter UNRRA passengers. The charter flights out of Seattle, to take place in the near future, will save 2,000 miles round tip, as compared with the San Francisco route to Shanghai. GOPRESENTS BC-3 CLIPPER IS FLYING TO ADAK, TALK MADE paa couipment SEATTLE, March 25---Pan Am- ericdn Airways announced today that a DC-3 clipper departed Se- attle Sunday for Adak, Alaska, to prepare for a Eéries of charter Bfl" Smkes Ba(k a’ cab' | flights to be launched between the inet Member-Pepper | o\’ i v oadea wih com- Rises to Defense plete equipment mnecessary to es- tablish a base for operations on | this last outpost on the Great Cir- 25.- cle Route between Seattle and the t £ far East. The charter flights were arranged to transport United Na- tions relief and rehabilitation ex- perts to Shanghai. The initial charter flight sched- uled for yesterday will follow the long “dog-leg” route from San Francisco via Honolulu and Mid- way island and will return without passengers via Tokyo, Adak and Seattle to survey the northern route. Succeeding flights with UNRRA passengers will then be flown over the direct course from Seattle. Planes to be used will be 300-mile- per-hour Constellation Clippers. STOCK EU'OOIAIIONS WASHINGTON, March Re- e- icy in partisan politics.” Wallace’s | declaration that a jonal victory next| ave a gravely disturb- ing etfect on the whole internation- al situation” was regarded by min- ority party lawmakers as setting the appreaching election | Ball (R-Minn) struck back at the cabinet member's re- son Day dinner speech by Presi- dent Truman here Saturday night, —that if the Republicans win in] November “the traditional isola- jtionist policies would inevitably lead The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON ‘WASHINGTON—Photographs ta- ken of Winston Churchill placing a wreath on the tomb of Franklin Roosevelt at Hyde Park showed him serene and poised. Mrs. Roose- velt stood equally calm in the background. However, real fact is that all was not harmony between the two when the Ex-Prime Minister made the pilgrimage to the grave of his old friend of wartime days. At just about the time the photo- graph was being taken, it hnppened| that Mrs. Roosevelt was telling Churchill exactly what she thought of his speech at Fulton, Mo. What she said was not friendly. Mrs. Roosevell was definitely critical of the way Churchill un-! dermined the principles of the Unit- ed Nations in his speech. Always a | |one that owing to the very short! !in the theatre booths would be greatly appreciated by the com-| mittee, who wish to remind every-i iume left to complete the drive the | cooperation of all is needed. MR., MRS. JOHN (ROSS. ENTERTAIN YESTERDAY AT OPEN HOUSE PARTY Approximately 120 guests called at the newly-purchased home of Mr. and Mrs. John Milton Cross yesterday - afternoon when the couple entertained with their first “open house” reception. Mr .and Mrs. Cross make their permanent home in Deering, but will maintain their new home on Gold Belt Avenue for vacation stop-overs and- business trips to the capital city. Mrs. Cross a representative from the second district, is in Juneau| at present for the Extraordinary! Session of the Territorial Legisla- ture . Others, he tried to answer by ‘pointing out that the bill has; {been amended to leave entirely in) ithe discretion of the Board of Re-! Atomic Research Secrels Sought by | Moscofla’sl March MONTREAL, March 25.—Mos-| cow was after Canada’s atomic re-| search secrets at least as early as last March—five months before the atomic bomb exploded against Japan —according to documents submitted | as evidence in the Canadian gov- ernment’s spy trial. The Russian, Igor Gouzenko, said the documents were taken from a; safe in the Soviet embassy at Ot-! tawa. U The documents form the basis, of much of the case against Can-| adian government employees accus- ed of turning over to Russia scientific secrets and other war-| time confidential data. { Gouzenko, young -former code| clerk of the Soviet embassy, fled) to the Canadian government with | | |pointments to Territorial ‘ran. Death March of lady who believes saying what she feels, the widow of the late Presi- dent said in effect that Churchill was “desecrating the ideals for which my husband gave his life. “Perhaps it’s just as well,” she said, “that he is not alive today to see how you have turned against his principles.” Note — Mrs. Roosevelt has fre- quently differed with Churchill. Shé* was vigorous in urging that England do something about India during the war, believing that if the Indian people were promised independence, it would save lives and shorten " hostilities. At .one e e e _ (Continued on Page Four) e FiOM THE STATES Arrivals from the States regist- ering at the Baranof over the weekend were: Mr. and Mrs, A. V. | Chapman, Jr., Denver, Colo.; Wal- ter Lowery, Seattle; Mr. and Mrs, Martin Victor, Jr.; and family, Highland Park, Ill, and Mrs. Mer~ ritt D. Boyle and daughter, Se- attle. A s i SEVEN ANCHORAGE VISITORS Anchorage residents registering at the Baranof during the week- end were: A. V. Collar, B. C. Ruth- erford, A. B. Hanfield, Mr. and Perry, and Willis Davidson. the documents last September. He iwas the only witness in the second day of the hearing to determine whether the government has a suf- ficient case for trial of Fred Rose, Communist member of the Canad- | ian parliament accused as a con- spirator. - e - GETS I YFAR | | McROBERTS b Richard McRoberts, pleading guilty to a charge of violating the Selective Service Act, was sentenc- ed to serve one year in the Feder- al’ jail at Juneau when arraigned Mrs. E. B. Coppinger, George C. this morning before Judge J. W.;Galvao, demonstrating that a canal Kehoe in Federal Court. gents when the branch is estab- lished. The answer made to him; on that point was that the bill takes | away the Regents power to decide “if” the branch is to be established. Voting for Senate Bill 32 were Senators Butrovich, Green, Gun-| dersen, McCutcheon, Nerland and| Coffey. | Action on confirmation of six ap- boards and offices, to have been a special order of business in the Senate this morning. was deferred until tomor- row at the request of Senator Coch- i ! 1U.S. Airmen To Be Avenged: STUTTGART, Germany, March 25~—Fivé Germans have been sen- tenced to hang for forcing seven American fliers into a death march in 1944 on the Baltic Island of Borkum. Eight other Germans ac- cused in connection with the atro- city were given prison terms by the military government court, and one other was acquitted. The American fliers were beaten and finally shot to death after a. long march in the sun during which they were submitted to var- fous indignities. o T L R S In 1550 a book was published ) by a Portuguese navigator, Antonio: could be cut at Panama. i foreign policy {to world disester.” False Issuc “Wallace not only i false issue but he is grave danger of tan in pa a { & very ng American san politics |—and in my opinion that would be tragic,” Ball told a reporter. But Senator Pepper (D-Fla) said he believed Wallacz was “on sound grounds in his statements on what! NEW YORK, March 25.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock ‘today is 9%, Alleghany Cor- | peration 6%, American Can 97%, Anaconda 47, Curtiss-Wright 8%, International Harvester 90, Kenne- cott 55':, New York Central 28%, Northern Pacific 80%, United Cor- poraticn U. 8. Steel Pound $4.03 Sales today were 1,640,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages tcday are 85%, {tion of a Republican Congress.” would be the meaning of the elec- as follows: Industrials 200.55, rails 64.73, utilities 41.59. “In foreign policy,” the Florida Senator asserted, “there would be| an inevitable retracing of our steps, PRICES SATURDAY Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- |toward. power politics and exces-| negy mine stock Saturday was 9%, sive nationalism, which in the last Y | Alleghany Corporation 6c, Amerl- anulxnu is isolationism. | can Can 6%, Anaconda 46%, Cur- Jingoism “The same spirit and point of view which makes the Republicans prefer the few over the many leads to that’ excessive nationalism and jingoism in foreign policy which| |has characterized essentially every Republican administration in the memory of living people.” Republicans generally dismissed as none of their %ffair Mr. Truman’s call for party harmony and Wal-/ tiss-Wright 8', International Har- vester 89, Kennecott 55, New York Central 27'%, Northern Pacific 29, United Corporation 57, U, 8. Steel 83%, Pound $4.03%. Sales Saturday shares Dow, Jones averages Saturday were as follows: industrials 198.09, rails 63.19, utilities 41.17. AAARBAE - o AR were 590,000 |cabinet member said were lace’s attack on Democrats the doing “great harm” to their party by join- ing “in a coalition against pro- gress.” ——————— STEAMER!EVEMEHIS | Columbia, from Seattle, wes bound, scheduled to arrive late to-| W. Averell Harriman, former am- morrow afternoon or evening. bassador to Russia, will succeed North Sea scheduled to sail from Winant as ambassador to London. Seattle tomorrow. | ettt Princess Norah scheduled to sail| When a Roman slave was al- from Vancouver Friday. llowed his liberty he recelved a Aleutian scheduled to, sail from cap, a white vest, and a ring of Seattle Saturday. iron, Harriman Going fo London 9§_u.s. Amb. WASHINGTON, March 25.—Pres- ident Truman announces that John J. Winant will be American rep- resentative of the United Nations | | | | ! | i - economic and social council. \Orator Extolls Self as i Champion of Labor- { Raps Walter Sharpe | Unanimous passage of the Sen- ate’s version of the Green-Shattuck Workmen’s Compensation bill in the Territorial House this morning prompted production of a lengthy verbal painting by Rep. Warren A, Tayler in which the following fig- ures appeared: | (1) Labor Commissioner Walter P. Sharpe as “a liar” and “a twen- ty-two carat labor fink, morally |and otherwise unfit for his job.” ! (2 The Alaska Empire as “an (at its worst”. (3) Warren A. Taylor as labor’s champion. | Taylor, whose attempts (o substi- | tute his rival compensation measure | (H.B. 50) for the AFL-CiO-endorsed Green-Shattuck bill failed last week, gave the following account of (his experiences with Juneau labor jsince arrival here for the curfent extraordinary session: | Shortly after the legislature con- {vened Taylor was approached by “a |bectie-browed bruiser” who invited him to a labor meeting (the joint | AFL-CIO meeting held here in AFL Ihall March 8). | “Howled Down” | At the meeting Taylor was sub- {jected to *rude treatment” and came to the conclusion, he said, that the meeting was “packed” after he {had been “howled down” by lahor lgroups who went on record for the | Green-Shattuck bill. (At that meet- ‘Hng Taylor reportedly agreed to sup- port the Green-Shattuck bill if la- {bor went on record for it). i Later, “in all sincerity” (laylor introduced his rival H.B. 50, where- !upon his “motives were impugned in the local paper” and “given the wrong interpretation.” { Concluding the account went on to say his motives like- {wise had been “impugned” by Com- Imission Sharpe, who together with Sen. Joe Green and Rep. Curtis Shattuck drew up-the Green-Shat- tuck bill along lines recommended iby Alaska labor groups and, the U. 8. Department of Labor. Taylor's Views As evidence that Sharpe should \be removed f[rom office, Taylor (submitted the following: (1) Sharpe made a trip to An- chorage with the purpose, Taylor charged, of blocking Sen. Steye {McCutcheon’s election. ; (2) Sharpe failed to attend a | specified national labor convention iand failed to appear in Fairbanks during a specified strike of culin- ary workers: (3) Sharpe submitted “a weak, puerile” report to the 1945 legis- lative session. i \ Taylor also quoted from a letter! ,assertedly * written by Sharpe to! {a Mr. Muldoon of Fairbanks, which Iread in part: “Taylor is making a {fine record and should be hanged on the strength of it.” | ‘Taylor wound up by offering Sharpe “a chance to make some- thing of it.” He did not further |clarify either his charges or his’ Ichallenge, but he paused in his {brushwork long enough to admit| |that the Green-Shattuck bill was, highly advantageous to labor and| to describe it as “a far step in ad- {vance.” | Real Business i Prior to Taylor's remarks the !House amended 8.B. 1 (the Senate’s' i compensation bill) to strike the 45- day clause which would allow em- | ployers to waive injury covarage (for the first 45 days of the em- i pleye2's service. With other amend- ments of a miinor value the bill passed, 21-0. Reps. Fred Hanford and Stanley McCutcheon were ab-, !sent from the voting. Also passed was the Senate’s fish "trap levy, S.B. 28 with a section in- \serted to earmark the revenue for ithe veterans’. revolving fund until sthe $3,500,000 goal has been reach- ed, at which time the tax collec- | tions would revert to the Territorial treasury. ‘Two post-deadline arrivals, from | [the Senate, admitted to the House by suspension of rules, were: | 8.B. 20, relating to the Pioneers’ jHome, which was referred to the committee on Territorial Institu- tions. | SB. 27, to appropriate $32,574.83 for the Territorial Department ol Health, to Ways and Means. example of prostituted journaltm' Taylor | ‘Broadeast from Moscow | Asserts Troop Evacuation |- Already Completed LONDON, March 25--A Russian announcement that Red Army troops are withdrawing from Iran drew approval today from unoffi- clal British sources, who said the statement, if borne out by actual ‘perrnrmancs, would be a satisfactory (answer to Britain's recent protest |to Moscow. The announcement was made last night by the Moscow radio, which said: “Evacuation of Soviet troops from |the reglons of Meshed, Shahrud !and Samnan, which started Mareh 12, is already completed. “The evacuation of remaining Boviet troops started on March 24, according to an agreement with the Iranian government. The So- !viet command of Soviet troops in Iran Lelieves that the complets |evacuation of Soviet troops will |be concluded within fiva to six weeks if nothing unforeseen hap- pens.” Report From Tehran A dispatch from Tehran, filed |approximately nine hours before the |broadcast was recorded here, quoted |Premier Ahmed Qavam of Iran as saying that “up to the present we hava no offietal reports of So- viet troop movements out of Iran,” | Qavam reports. that direct nego- tiations were. still srmm . Rusfla and indicated that the next moves were up to Russia or to the Security Council of the United Na- tions which meets today in New York. | The Premier had indicated Satur- day, however, that the withdrawal might come soon. | TrQop Movements A delayed dispatch filed Friday from Tehran quoted a highly re- sponsible source there a3 saying Russian troops “in great numbers” continued to pass through Tabriz, capital of semi-autonomous Iranian Azerbaijan, toward the Iranian towns of Mianeh to the southeast and Miyanduab and Khoi to the west, This source said. that official es- timates of Russian strength in Iran (had been boosted to nearly 100,000, - \ i TENSION EASED | MOSCOW, March 25.—A Tass an- nournicement that Red Army forces are withdrawing from Iran brought from well-informed foreign diplo- matic observers today the predic- tion that the entire Iranian-Rus- sian question would shortly ke settled to the satisfaction of both countries. . These oktervers acclaimed the ‘Tass announcement as +a healthy . The development, coupled with the news that the Red Army is also withdrawing from Man- churia, was given wide publicity and contributed to a general easing of tension. JREESGE s S ——— SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR SEDLAUK REVOKED Lewis J. Sedlauk, arraigned before Judge J. W. Kehoe in Federal Court this morning on a motion for re- vocaticn of suspended sentence, was sentenced to one year's imprison- ment in the Federal jail at Juneau. Sedlauk, previously convicted on eight forged check counts, had becn given a suspended sentence of one year on each count with sentences to run concurrently. Suspension of Sedlauk’s sentence |was - revoked following a recent {forged check case in which he was involved. SCHOOL BANDMASTER ARRIVES IN JUNEAU Joseph M. Shofner, who is to be director of the School Band, ar- |rived on the Tongass accompanied by Mrs. Shofner, and he entered on his duties this morning. The Shofners are guests at the Baranof and are looking for an apartment. Anyone knowing a va= cancy are asked to inform Supt. A. B, Phillips, TROUBLE AREA *