The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 9, 1946, Page 1

" THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” "ALASKA EMPIRE "] VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,240 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SHIP OWNERS ARE SET TO ARBITRATE GROMYKO BACK IN COUNCIL ¥ CAA PROGRAM FOR IMPROVEMENTS 1 GIVEN REDUCTION Agency Plamany Instal- AR NAVIGATION FACILITIES FOR ALASKA QUTLINED Civil Aeronautics Budget| HOOVER IN ROME FOR FOOD SURVEY UNION OFFERS 10 DISCHARGE PERISHABLES Presented fo House i s 'Unloading of North Sea by Committee e , lations of Fields in Walks Calmly Into Gather- ing When Sessions Re- sumed in New York NEW YORK, April 9.—The United | Nations Security Council today took | up proposed changes in its rules of procedure at a session marked byi the return of the Russian delegate,| Andrei A. Gromyko, to the coun- | eil. | Gromyko calmly walked into the! Council chamber on the 13th day| of His boycott of the council for IIS“ discussion of the Iranian case.| iran was not on today’s agenda, al- though Gromyko has pending a de-| mand for complete dismissal of Lhe" case. Despite the routine natur2 of the agenda, the chamber was filled al-‘ most to capacity, perhaps in the ex- | pectation that the Iranian case, or/ Poland's announced intention to put the Spanish issue before the coun- ¢il would be taken up. i The council first took up rules one to five, marked by the proposal that sessions beheld at leasi once| every 14 days. ! Gromyko, speaking for the first time since he left the council on| March 27, commented that he had| no observations on the text but he suggested there be two periodic| meéetings a year. 1 S { DEEP SLASHES MADEINFUNDS 3 DEPARTMENTS. WASHINGTON, April 9. — De- manding elimination of what it called a “deeply entrenched . ; spending psychology” among Fed- | eral officials, the House Appro- priations Committee today recom- mended deep slashes in State,| Commerce and Justice Department| funds. 1 It sent to the House floor a $358,- 825,758 bill to finance the three de- partments and the Federal Judi- ciary for the fiscal year starting next July 1. The total represents SURRENDER 4 TRUMAN Truman inspects blooms on a starry magnolia tree. 144 (ap"lalhr;)p, Alaska’s Homegrown Millionaire, Observes Importani Dale OF BATAAN 'RECALLED Just Four Years Ago White Flag Was Displayed by U. S. Forces | | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 9.— Fifty years after sailing his own boat out of Seattle to seek a for. tune im Alaska, Capt. Austin' E. Lathrop, now in his 81st year, be- Alaska Sections WASHINGTON, April 9. — The fate of the Civil Aeronautics Ad- ministration’s instrument landing ipmgmm was left up to that agency ‘k‘dny as a 1947 budget cut of $10,- | 917,000 was recommended to Con- | gress. A CAA request for $16,608,692 to | install landing systems at 31 air- | ports through the country was con- | tained in a committee report on the | Ccmmerce Department Appropria- | tions Bill for next year. | The committee recommended a | reduction to $63,450,000 for the | CAA, but left it to the agency to idctermiue how its funds will be |spent. The CAA had asked for { $74,367,000. Included in the list for proposed ! installation in 1947 was the field at Cordova, Alaska. In addition, the CAA asked for | $447,000 to install approach-light !lanes on a number of airports. | Among them were six fields in Al- ! aska—at Big Delta, Gulkana, Gus- tavus, Hemer and Naknek, and Ne- nana. R U. 5. ARMY - TRANSPORT lieves that opportunity is knocking, louder in the Territory than it was when he came north. Opportunity’s- knoek -is a sound that “Cap” Lathrop knows well. While gthers scrambled for gold, he devoted himself to proyiding pio- | { neers -with transportatfon, enter- Munist headquarters reported today | tainment, housing and heat, He is that a U. S. Army transport plane now known as Alaska’s only home- CArrying Gen. Yeh Ting, former! | grown millionaire. | when he saw it first in 1896, Cap-| | tain Lathrop hesitates to recom- | day for Yenan, Communist head-| Although he is convinced that Alaska has more to offer now than ~ MISSING pgeriHarbor CHUNGKING, April 9. — Com- commander of the Communist new i Fourth Army and other parfy lnd-i jets to Yenan is missing. ¢ The plane left Chungking yester- BATAAN PENINSULA, April 9—'mend it to the young men of today. ! quarters, with 14 passengers. A small car flying a white i flag! He believes most of them are not‘ ; carried American officers to the|willing to “get their hands in and, 'écent international labor confer-| Japanese lines four years ago to- rough it.” day to surrender this fog-shrouded peninsula—where General MacAr- anniversary of his departure for| outnumbered, | the north by outlining the finish- | 8ates Wang Jo-pei and Chin Po- | outgunned forces upset the whole|ing touches of his latest- project, a KU, members of the recent political | a I3 percent cut {rom budget es-gmeiaple of Japanese conquest.' '$500000 theater, which will open consultation thur’s stand with Lathrop observed today the 50th Deng Fa, Chinese delegate to the ence in Paris, was one of the pas- sengers. Others besides Yeh were dele- conference steering WASHINGTON, April 9. — Im- | provement of air navigation facili- ties in Alaska during the fiscal !year starting July 1 was outlined to the House Appropriations Com- mittee during hearings on the Civil Aeronautics budget. i The testimony was made public | | today when the Commerce Depart- | ment’ Appropriation Bill, which in- i cludes Civil Aeronautics expendi- | tures, was introduced in the House. | Officials of the Civil Aeronautics | Administration testified it was planned to provide two new emer- | geney landing fields at Sand Point "on Popof Island between Kodiak and Dutch Harbor and at Shung- (nak on the mainland. They said| ;they already have 13 emergency landing fields in the Territory.! They said they planned to install! | eight engine generators at stations! !at Annette Island, Cordova, Gal- ! | ena, Gulkana, Kodiak, McGrath, | ! Shungnak and Tanana. e | | The officials testified they ex- ‘vectcd a big increase in air travel lin the Territory and would install | | beacon lights between Juneau and ! Gustayus. They said the CAA! would + install water supply and | sewers at 25 of 43 stations in Al- aska. In addition they said they| plan to construct access roads mj stations on Woody Island, North Duteh Island and Kenal which | | would total a little over five miles. ! 4 & PrebingOnce More Sarted 'Winston Churchill Warned - [DRioPut Japanon | ‘ Anxious Seat | ;ston Churchill pressed the late FORMER PRESIDENT Herbert Hoover | , Honorary Chairman of the Famine Disaster Commission, is pictured as he arrived in Rome where he will survey the food situation. He is escorted from his plane by Lt. Gen. John C, H. Lee, ETO commander. Woman Dog fa 5 .(hlur‘n!tiranal Ruqiophg!o) . ndier, Alaska, Is. e - ¥ . A & Tied Up by S. . Srike SEATTLE, April 9.—Natalie Ju- bin, whose “lifetime ambition” has Green Stuffs Awaits Reply from Seattle Greens-hungry Juneau was to- day waiting on word from Seattle that might break the deadlock which has kept the steamer North Sea moored at the City Dock here, her hold jammed with undischarged tons of perishable and other food- stuffs for this City. Fresh.hope that at least the per- ishable cargo- of the North Sea might be unloaded here very soon rose with the following statement from Juneau Local 16, whose strike has tied up Alaska's water-borne commerce. Unload Perishables This announcement was made by the local union to the Empire to- day: “Baily Alaska Empire: “At a meeting of the ILWU Lo- cal 16, at Juneau, Alaska, the mem- bership went on record to unload the perishables on the North Se which is now in port, provided, dock operators and comply with tite $1.32 base pay, which was decision of the' War Labor “The action taken by the was transmitted, last evening, to agent of the Ww tion Co., who stated he w wire the Seattle offices for further in- structions iy - a5 ““Unlodding o) fiénce as soon as glrecelved from WU, Local 18, mittee.)" ™ | 3 Awaits Seaitle Reply Henry Green, Northland ~Trans- portation Co. agent in Juneau, stat- ed this afternoon that he is still afa | B IG FouR T ’been to go to Alaska, sald today awaiting a W’v from the Seattle | she feared she might have to har- | headquarters of . company, HAVE SESSION THIS MONTH WASHINOT(‘);._‘ADMI 9,_wm.forneS Mikes PlanS for cid, N. Y., and sled dogs have been ness her nine dogs and make the| trip overland, with or without! snow. i Natalie, along with her seven malamutes and two Siberian hus-! kies, is stranded here by the shlp-! ping tieup stemming from the Al- aska longshore strike. ! She is 24, her home is Lake Pll-i her hobby since she was 10, nld[ his The offer made by the union group here is in line with reported action of other ILWU locals’ at Ketchikan and Sitke where, usually reliable advices declare, the steam- ers Taku and North Sea were dis+ charged of perishables for those ports without paysent of the $1.32 scale, At the same time possibility of a break in the situation here became known, dispatches from Ketchikan Meetingof Foreign Ministers in Paris iMlsa Jubin. Raising malamutes and {taking tourists on sled trips helped !put hér through high school, she reported. ) “I intend to spend about five years in Alaska,” she said, “work- ing with the dogs, doing research on the Alaska malamute and per- haps getting into social service wortk, “I'd rather take a trip with the dogs, camp, hunt and fish than go to mcvies or night clubs. I think timates but a $40,510,759 boost overi To thousands of Filipinos hud-|scon in Anchorage. committee, and members of thelxjjpmsmeng Roosevelt as early as oirseny year Sige. |dling fearfuly by forbidden radios,| The only large scale industrialist families. | February, 1841, to “instill in Japan | {and to the rest of the world, came | who makes his permanent home in Search planes are seeking the anxiety” that a move toward Sing-| Th w h_ | these words on April 9, 1942, Alaska, Lathrop owns or holds the | transport, which last was reported apore would mean war with the, e Washington , .. “.. .. with heads bloody but un- |controlling interest in Alaska's|in the vicinity of Sian. Names of | ynited States. they have ylelded to su- largest coal mine, two theaters in| the missing plane’s crew were not| | perior force and numbers. . . .The Fairbanks and one each in Cordova | announced. errY- Go-Roun |world will long remember the epic!and Anchorage, apartment houses| ? il |struggle that Filipino and Ameri-|in Fairbanks and Cordova, Ameri-ilRAoul [Roops By DREW PEARSON can forces put up in the jungle|ca’s farthest north daily newspaper, | WASHINGTON—There was more ———— .fastnesses and along the rugged|the Fairbanks News-Miner and the! ‘Fnirbanks radio station, KFAR.: ARE REPORIED plain talking than was generally; 1 |indicated that & solution for the |whale strike situation is being ap- {proached there. } Ketchikan Proposal An Assoclated Press report de- jclares: “The Ketchikan Waterfront { Employers Association was awaiting | today ~acpeptance ' or rejection by {local longshoremen of the . latest {proposal to end the current dock dispute. “The employers proposed that the WASHINGTON, Aprii 8. — The srnis was disclosed today 8s the|ypited States threw.its diplomatic xem;‘?e-!lal'.lse committee xmcstlgat-:wc‘gm today bshind & double-bar- ‘l)rlrf' w:apfi:v:na;fikd:éhns::v‘: ;::;‘ { reled drive to speed peace for much " of Eurcpe and harmony for the |ered from State Department “"d‘mnerma: ¥ ‘wg:;l{;‘;:;;r‘:fi;n comminee‘ This, in brief, is the situation: hon; | Europe—barring unexpected de- (counsel, put them into the record:\'ell,pmen(s, Secretary “of State ‘coast of Bataan. “For what sustained them. reported last week when half a hundred House Democrats met be- hind closed doors to discuss an ar- ticle in the Democratic Digest at- tacking Democrats who voted for thé Anti-Labor Case Bill. If any Republican had- been allowed jto be present, he would have figured the 1948 election was already in the D‘ie-hard Representative Roger | €. Slaughter of Missouri, who re- presents President Truman's. home district, summed up the *general sentiment when he shouted: “I'm damned if T'll ever clear my Demo- cratic position with Henry Wallace, the Pacific Northwest or the New York East Side.” What Slaughter was raving about was an article written by Mrs. Jane Heldt in the Democratic Digest. She was later dismissed, but despite that, Slaughter made it clear he considered his fellow-Mis- sourian, Bob Hannegan, responsible. The offending . sentence which started - so much tooth-gnashing among Dixie Democrats read: “Let { was a force more than physical. It {was -the force of unconquerable | faith, “Bataan has fallen, but the spirit | that made it stand—a beacon to all the liberty-loving people of the werld—cannot fail.” The words came from “the voice of freedom,” the radio on still-em- | battled Corregidor. They were writ- Eten by Capt. Salvador P. Lopez, | former executive officer on Gen. | Jonathan Wainwright's staff. {with the Manila Post—whose pages I recently heralded the death before jan American firing squad of Lt. | Gen. Masaharu Homma, curt con- queror of both Bataan and Corre- | gidor. | Manila papers today reprinted | Lopez' historic 1942 radio announce- | ment, although there were no for- mal commemoration ceremonies. ———.e— Famities of Army I banks and vice president of the University of Alaska Board of Re- gents. ;Adm.-"BuII" Halsey | Is Taken fo Hospifal; | Resting Comfortably | Admiral Willlam F. (Bul) Halsey, Jr., 65, was resting comfortably in | Philadelphia Naval Hospital early ‘mday suffering from an ‘“upper | respiratory infection,” the Navy announced. Halsey, who had been suffering | for several days “with symptoms of |a common cold is in very good con- | dition,” Capt. Howard H. Mont- | gomery, Commanding Officer of the hospital ‘said. “There appears no cause for alarm,” Montgomery added. Halsey recently was appointed ~ ONMOVEMENT BY GEORGE PALMER when the committee reopened its hearings. Concern Expresseu One document was a message Byrnes will meet in Paris April 25 | with Foreign Ministers Molotov of | Russia, Bevin of Britain and Bi- dauit of France in a critical ses- | KIRKUK, Iraq; April 7—(Delay- from the then British Prime Min- g which may determine when jed)—This oil-field town in north-|ister to Mr. Roosevelt dated Feb.| (ho projected, 21-nation Eurcpean lern Iraq has been the scene of un-| 15, 1041, expressing concern that| neace conference can begin. |usual military activity for the past on special trains for undisclosed | destinations. i i The first contingent of soldiers ]pulled into the station yesterday.| 3mercial buses. | The troop trains were composed |of passenger coaches and military| | equipment. | ! Tribal Uprising | There was no announcement as to the ultimate destination of the| troops, but it was learned that at| least two brigades had been deploy- led near the Iran frontier within :the last few days. | Authorities appeared reluctant to discuss the maneuvers, but it is noj |secret that at this time of year— {when snows are thawing along the | i | | “the Japanese mean to make war ® |two days, with Iraq troops arriving/cn us, or to do something which would compel us to make war on them, during the next few weeks or months.” “There’ are some,” to make war against both your country and mine. Although it is (Continued on Page Three) e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 9.—Closing | quotation of Alaska Junepu mine | stock today is 87%, Alleghany Cor-| peration 6%, American Can 98, What Is At Stake At stake in turn are final treat- ies which will permit full restora-| | tion of sovereignty to the European | countries once allied with Nazi ClLurchill ad-|Germany—Italy, Bulgaria, Ruman- unanimously last night: a recom- | Lopez now is back at his old job| pyyADELPHIA, April 9.—Fleet|Additional units arrived today and | ded, “who consider that in Japan's | j5 Hun:ary ani’d pmfmd‘ | {drove off in‘long columns of com- | present mood she would have no)| Americas—This country, in effect, | hesitation to entertain an attempt|is extending the olive branch to Federal government abolish = the | | Col. Juan D. Peron, Argentina's | “strong man” and President-elect. |my personal belief that the Odds;'rhc gesture is a bid to end two p47 | years of intermittent bickering and ' Chairman of the Ohio Marketing | restore hemisphere solidarity, back- | ed up by a Pan American defense treaty. | | . Byrnes disclosed these new devel- |opments at a news conference late | yesterday. Big Four Meeting He announced that Molotov and | Bevin had accepted his suggestion | mendation for a May 1 farm strike Alaska will be my kind of country.” 300 FARMERS | NEWARK, O, April 9—Some 300 { Licking County farmers approved in 'support of demands that thei Office of Price. Adminisiration | (OPA). Clark Rader of Newark, Vice- Asscclation, sald strike strategy | would call for “100 percent plant-! ing with farmers withholding their produce from the market.” - SPY CASE WILL BE PUSHED ON ~ OKEH STRIKE|sove Sggeston that - pionage Charge Be Dropped Turned Down WASHINGTON, April 9.—Attor- ney General Tom Clark said today . the Government will proceed with its case against Russian Licut. Ni- colai G: Redin despite a Soviet sug- gestion that the esplonage charges be dropped. “The charges against Lt. Redin iresulted from an intensive investi- gation,” Clark told a reporter. “The evidence is sufficiently strong for jthe case to be prosecuted. The gov- 'Hearings on Yukon ernment will proceed with its ease.” Redin, a 29-year-old naval offi- cer, was seized by the FBI at Port- land, Ore, March 26, on espionage charges. Men SoonLeaving | Wreck Concluded; Vice President of Pnn-AmencunAlr-‘mgged frontier mountain areas— Anaconda 47%, Commonwealth and | t Big Four P Minatars | ways trans-Pacific service and was| tha ig Foul ‘oreign your representative know that the Southern 4%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, passage of the restrictive Case Bill was a vote against the American people.” 3 The meeting “was called by Slaughter and seven other reac- tionaries, including Howard W. Smith .f Virginia, Thomas ‘' G. Abernethy of Mississippi, Graham A, Barden of North Carolina, Lyle A, Boren of Oklahoma, Harold H. Earthman of Tennessee, Ed Gros- sett of Texas and Charles E. Mc- Kenzie of Louisiana, Even before —_— (Continued on Page Four) On Overseas Trips WASHINGTON, April 9. — The first families to join American Army troops in Europe will sail from New York aboard the Army transport, the Thomas H. Barry, on April 18, - FROM SITKA Mrs, Earl Shumett of Sitka has arrived in Juneau- and is staying at the Baranof, officials are most alert for possible | to assume his new job on retire- | ment from the Navy. | i e e e JUNEAU CITY BAND ~ PRACTICES TONIGHT The regular weekly practice of the new Juneau City Band will be held tonight at 8 o'clock sharp in the Grade School Auditorium. | Several new members are expected jfo join the organization tonight. tribal uprisings. | Likewise, a possible factor may !be reports that Kurds have attack- ed Iranian garrisons at Sardasht, !Baneh and Saqqiz. These towns are |directly east of the Iran-Iraq bor-| der. Meanwbile, a prominent Kurdish spokesman said in an interview that “What we need is to have a United Nations committee come out here and investigate the conditions, hear our. complaints and study Kurdish problems impartially.” International Harvester 97%, Ken- necott 56%, New York Central 27% Northern Pacific 3 United Cor- poration 6, U. 8. Steel 86%, Pound $4.03%, Sales today were 1,710,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today were as follows: industrials 208.03, rails 64.27, utilities 43.13. .. HOOPES RETURN HOME Representative Robert Hoopes and wife have left Juneau via PAA | plane for their home in, Fairbanks. - |meet in Paris some two weeks ihence in an effort to break the | present deadlock over drafts of ‘pmpcsed peace treaties. Bidault is | expected to follow suit. Then Byrnes issued a statement | which said the United States would “welcome” Argentina’s participation !in the Pan American defense treaty }M the Peron government would ful-| fill its hemisphere commitments, | including . its pledge to eliminate! “Axis influences.” (Continued on Page Three) (G Board Goes South | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 9.— The Coast Guard Board which has been sifting evidence regarding the (wreck of the steamer Yukon, has left for Seattle after completing hearings here. The Board took evidence in Ju- | | Washington officials, who ask>d |anonymity, told reporters the Soviet {Union had sent its suggestion through ordinary diplomatic chan- nels. It was not a flat request that the case be dropped, they said. Instead, i expressed the opinion that on the basis of current evi- dence the charge was not justifisd and asked whether this government neau last Saturday and will now | submit findings to the Coast Guard jHeadquarters in Washington, D. C. conclude hearings in Seattle, thnn: expected to proceed with the case. The FBI- warrant charged Redin with inducing an unnamed person to give him data on the US.S. Yel- lowstone, a destroyer tender.