The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 10, 1946, Page 1

E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,241 - JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SHIP STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE Mrs.Roosevelt Visits Namesake}REDIN MUST AFL RAISES CURTAIN ON CONVENTION Juneau Delegate Wins| Battle for Seat on Cre- dentials Group ANCHORAGE, April 10—(Spec-| ial to the Empire)—The largest labor convention held in the Terri- tory got underway here yesterday following a welcome address by newly-elected Mayor Francis Bow- den, who is also President of tihe Anchorage Retail Clerks Union, | Forty delegates are’ attending this annual convention of the Alaska Territorial Federation of Labor | (AFL). Frank Marshall, Federation Pres- | ident, made a brief opening speech | requesting the introduction of the ding Trades Union into the Al- Federation. The first skirmish occurred when Eugene Lockridge, of the Juneau Bartenders Local 869, moved that| the body resolve itself into a com- | mittee of the whole to consider; credentials of delegates. The mo-| tion was defeated, 21 to 17. Follow- | ing the vote, Ed M. Gilkey, delegate | of the Juneau Hotel and Restau-| rant Employees Local 871, protest- | ed Marshall’'s appointment of the | credentials committee. As a re- sult, Gilkey won a place on that/ important committee. | Another flurry was caused when| Gilkey requested that Senator Joe! Green be permitted to address the| convention. The request was based on Green's having been chairman of ‘the Senate's labor -committee during the recently-ended special | session of the Alaskd Legislature. | Louise Weaver Miller, of the, Ketchikan Teamsters local, pro-| tested Green’s appearance, saying | the constitution of the Federation of Labor does not permit intro-| duction of politics into the body. The arrangements committee con- ceded that room might be found | for Green before the ‘convention ends. | Territorial Commissioner of La-i bor Walter P. Sharpe spoke, point- | | | | Mrs. Eleanor Reosevelt visits wit Chaney) arrived in San Francisco to attend godmother. (AP Wirephoto) SEEK TRUCE | IN CHINA AS FIGHT RAGES Reds Using Arfillery Fire. on 40-Mile Strefch of Roadway truce-seeking committee of emplaned today for Mukden | | | { ! 10.—The three via FACE TRIAL ~ FIVE (OUNTS 'Government fo Prosecute Foreign Officer on Espionage Charge | PORTLAND, Ore, April 10.—Ni- l‘colal Gregorovich Redin, Russian| |naval lieutenant charged with es- | picnage against this country, agreed | | here today to return to Seattle for ; trial | | ~ Appearing before the U. 8. Com- | missioner for preliminary hearing, | the 29-year-old Russian declared “I| am absolutely innccent.” His at-| terney, Irvin Goodman, said he did | not object to removing, the case to | Seattle. f SEATTLE, April 10—America'’s, first postwar “spy” case reached a (new climax last night when a fed- {eral grand jury indicted Soviet Lt.| Nicolai Gregorovich Redin on five| counts a few hours after the State| | Department in Washington dlsclos-‘ ed it had rejected a Russian re- quest that the case be dropped. | The Soviet embassy made the re-| (quest April 6 on the ground that; Redin was innocent. The State Department replied the decision would be left with the Department |of Justice. | The grand jury indictments de-i clared Redin had obtained infor-| | mation concerning national defense, | |induced another to obtain plans pertaining to national defense and conspired to obtain and . transmity to a foreign government plans deal-' ing with national defense. Charges Made It charged the young Russian na-| val lieutenant had sought. the in-. | formation “with intent and reason| to believe that the information . . . was to be used to the injury of| h Mrs. Hershey Martin (right), and the latter’s two-month-old daughter, Anha Fleancr, named for the widow of the late President. Mrs. Roosevelt (Mayris the christening of the child as hor Jap Women Are (asting Thflr Yofes Flock to Polls from Farms, Big City Homes—Out- numbering Men TOKYO, April 10—Confounding all palitical prophets, the women vantage of a foreign nation, {wit, Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics.” in Washington the case apparently was the first in United States his-| tory in which the government had BIG LABOR Justice Department officials said equipment, was settled today. | - GOODBY PARIS, HELLO NEW YORK FOR Gl BRIDES AN AMERICAN MILITARY BAND gives a musical sendoff to a trainload of French war brides, about to pull out of a Paris slation for LeHavre where they embark for the T Something for | The Ladies, But Don’t Gef Excited ‘ STOPPAGE | ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, April 10| o |—A new “elastic nylon” was des-| : I S EN D E D |cribed today to the American| H | Chemical Soctety—but don't rush| \girls, it's still in the laboratory| tage. N { o e P e { Agreement Is Reached Be- |, i “sutic. . v, reporied tween CI0 Union and In- | that new-type nylon fibres hnd! | been produced, on an experlmentnl; H | scale, with “elastic properties ap-| fernational Harvester Siouiune mose of rusber” They said one form of the new (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) | fibre has an elasticity of 95 to 99 One of the country's major pro-| percent whereas nylon yarn of the the United States and to the ad- Icnged labor disputes, a strike by‘type now used in hosiery “has an (United States of America) are now to 30,000 CIO workers in plants of the elongation of only 15 to 25 per-| strike bound in ports of Alaska International Harvester Company, cent.” ‘ the nation’s biggest maker of farm | it MBI Company and union officials, in| | conferences with Labor Department | cfficials for the last 18 days seek- of Japan flocked from farms and prosecuted an officer of a forcign NORTH SEA'S GREEN STUFF ISUNLOADED \Operators Withdraw First Offer to Pay. $1.32 Base Wage Rafe » BULLETIN—SEATTLE, April 10.—In an effort to settle the Alaska lcngshore sthike, Ketch- ikan dock operators today were preparing another prcposal for presentation to the Interna- tional Lengshoremen and Ware- housemen’s Unien, according to | word received in Seattle. { Though it is stated that negotia- tions for settlement of the long- | shoremen's strike have collapsed, | Juneau today was enjoying some respite from her “greens famine” following unloading of the ‘“cool ‘room" cargo from the steamer | North Sea. | Only fresh fruits and vegetables | —about 25 tons of them—were dis- | charged from the Northland liner | by local longshoremen, who follow- !ed the lead set in Ketchikan and | Sitka in unloading the “perish- | ables.” The “cool room” was clean- |ed cut, but no refrigerated cargo S U. 8 (International) EMPLOYERS GIVE BACKGROUND FOR 1thnt loss of produce through spoil- lage during the over-long stay Higtory or the issues thet have aboard the North Sea a arisen betweon the Alaska locals ahout 20 percent, Lett ! of the ILWU and ship and d o et companies vesulting i Hed H o to . : of “ships of the three major com- Only one vessel now s panies plying to the Territory, 18 Alaska waters with m still concisely presented in the follow- undischarged—the Alaska Trans- ing statement released to Seattle portation Company vessel Taku, and Alaska newspapers by the em-|which has a considerable quantity ploying companies: of green stuffs aboard for Juneau “Vessels operated by these com- g4nd which has now returned to panies as General Agents for the Ketchikan from Skagway. She is War Shipping Administration expected to remain at Ketchikan indefinitely, Col Meanwhile, 1ast night at Seattle, Steve Glumaz, International Repre- sentative for the striking Interna- tional Longshoremen's and Ware- nousemen’s union (CIO), declared that proposed arbitration of the where the Jongshoremen are affil-| jated with the International Long: shoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union (CIO), including the princi- pal ports of Ketchikan, Juneau and Seward. This condition does not |or unfl-wflnhw as eggs |or meats, were ing up the advantages of the pro- ing to end the work stoppage which | started last January 21, agreed on| settlement terms today. An earlyj ratification of the terms by the! workers would enable them to re- turn to their jobs in 11 plants and | longshore strike in Alaska had col- lapsed at Ketchikan. (Ketchikan currently is the key port in strike negotiations. There the Ketchikan Waterfront Employers Association — ———— | peiping as the semiofficial Cen- from big-city homes to cast their| ed on Page Three) ltral News Agency reported a school first votes today in the nation’s|POWeT ‘;,‘ p;acenn;;’mmm |building housing pacification troops first postwar election. ! R,dmo her,“” in Portland, {was burned in the Manchuria cap-| By the end of the first hour,| Bfet iy Beboctil o 1 g ¥ i |Ore., awaiting a hearing at 10 a.! lital, Changchun. they outnumbered male voters in m. today before the U. S. Com- obtain in ports where the long- lshoremen are affillated with the imwmaumml Longshoremen’s As- | sociation (AFL). “The hourly pay in Alaska ports under the jur- (Cont The Washingion CONTINUES longshore rate of { Another Central News Agency surprisingly heavy turnouts in five | HoT ISSUE Fne o e | s missioner. He was arrested March 1 A presenting p owners Mer ry i Go 'Roundldis‘“wh' from Chinhsien, sa‘d‘?:ulal mdmm‘mm" 'mu';d the c"fi’ 126 by Federal Bureau of Investiga- f:i"mmemfimfifg"" ol badly, Dosae | Isdiction of the CIO eqials or ;"',local dock operators for all Alaska b | Comuiizts yere- making” o iacge | L NE, FUL SFEC S at e |iion ofticers who said he was about|, Government officials hailed the B {samds tiat o gHieeh AV POCS ROV post | | the jurisdiction of the AFL. This' " Giyvaz said the plans fell through | rate in CIO ports is $1.26% straight | when employers “'pllhdre'" an of- Russm s Proposal '0 Throw;nmc and $1.90 overtime (except a fer made early in the tie-up to pay i straight-time 1 $1.20 hy . V== !scale assault along the Pe,mng_lbnuths of Tokyo’s major wards in By DREW PEARSON | Mukden, railroad. It reported the increasing numbers. {Reds were using artillery fire. Many entered polling places with WASHINGTON — An important against a ' 40-mile stretch of the g‘t‘;‘es Sl"appe:udrw ;h?-fl;n backs. debate has been taking place road west of Shanhaikwan, Four|Others left children in impromp- { e among food experts inside the Ad-!steel bridges were. destroyed and|tu nurseries. In one big Tokyo h-‘::‘:d i::d n?e ;l:::&gemginasle Dt‘:: Terms Not D""’{"“d i i ministration regarding the use of |traffic was moving only between bOr ward, Shinagawa, a temporary| Agoe Bel: | PERRE tia. new bu:gr;?:l:;gi |to board a Soviet ship. isettlement and expressed hope it | The indictment was carried 1o would lead to agreements in labor Portland last night by Chief Assis- | disputes in other farm equipment| {tant U. S. Atty. Allan Pomeroy, plants. { penalties| uo time dispute. | Juneau only). In addition, | commencing at a minimum of IOi He sald the longshoremen had Judge John C. Bowen ordered an | close Horse meat for feeding Europe. jfuag! were not disclosed, Horse meat is a type of food| which Americans know little about.| Within Europe it is standard diet and certain countries especially | Prance and Belgium, have repeat- | edly informed’ the ‘United States that they would liké to buy more horse meat here. If two and a half | pillion pounds of horse meat could| be sold to Europe—which' is the, amount available in the US.A—it| ‘would take care of most of Europe’s | feeding problems and eliminate any need for U.S.A. rationing. Such a program has been urged by UNRRA officials and also by| some experts in the Army nndi Naby. However, the plan has rup| up against several snags, chiefly that of U. S. meat packers, The big packers don't want the American public to get the .idea that horse meat is processed in their plants. They fear that the suspicion would linger in the con- | sumers’ mind even after the emer- gency that horse meat might be| mixed with beef and pork. To get | around this, the Agriculture De- partment has been buying small amounts of horse meat from smal- ler meat packers, many of them| state-licensed. However, Harry| Reed, who does most of the meat procurement for UNRRA in the at the end of March and plans for|cause of Department of Agriculture leans 1,665 by the end of June and about Ilsland. near Puerto Rico, was blam- S00n. toward the big meat packers and they never have wanted small state packers to get into the inter-state| business. HORSE MEAT FEEDS Z0OS * Another source of opposition is expected to come from the many horse lovers throughout the coun- try who probably would claim that Peiping and Shanhalkwan and be-|DUrsery was overflowing with ba- tween Mukden and Suichung, the bies by 9 a. m., two hours after thel dispatch said. { polls opened. The committes, with substitutes; By 10 o’clock, 40 percent of all replacing all three original members |€ligible voters in rural Utsunomiya | will confer at truce headquarters community had cast ballots—with in Peiping before flying into Muk-(Women predominating. | den. Members are U. S. Lt. Gen.| There was no indication of| Alvan C. Gillem,. Jr., subbing fortrend. First reports of the ‘count | MOVEMENTS OF | Washington; Communist Gen. Chen ‘the northwest, anaounced ths fig-| e e (Continued on Page Four) General Marshall, who is expected to return to China soon - fromr Chih-chu for Gen. Chou En-lai, and Government Gen. Chin Teh-chun| for Gen Chen Cheng, who is ill. | Meantime, the Democratic league | invited Kuomintang (National par-| ty) and Communist leaders to a conference to discuss “down to earth” means of effecting a cessa- tion of civil strife in North China. e~ SEATILE BRANCH OFFICE OF VA IS BEING EXPANDED SEATTLE, April 10—The Seattle branch office of the Veterans Ad-| ministration, which had eight em-¢ ployees three months ago, had 22!}‘; 2,150 by June 30, 1947. D. M. Shute, deputy administra- tor who has charge of the seame‘ office and its regional offices in ures today and said the expansion was in line with the decentralization program inaugurated by Gen. Orhar, Bradley, Administrator. Branch and regicnal offices are located, he said, at strategic points in the northwest states and Alaska. are expected late Thursday. Political experts earlier had fore-! cast victory for Conservatives, but with no single party winning a majority of the 468 diet seats “i stake. ————— ’ SON OF FORMER COMMANDER ACS | KILLED BY BOMB| | SEATTLE, April 10—Lieut. Com- mander John H. Andrews, USN, 25, was one of nine navy men killed| when a bomb dropped ir practice, hit an airfield observation tower in} the Caribbean last Thursday, his| father, Col. Fred P. Andrews, retir-| ed former commanding officer of the Alaska Communications Sys- tem, says. An eryor in selecting a target be- overcast over Sulebra | ed for the accident by an investi-| gating board, Colonel Andrews was| notified. His widow, Priscilla, a son, Johs, Jr., 2, now at Norfolk, Va., a sister Jane, wife of Col. Ward H. Van Atta, stationed at Fort Bragg, N. C. and his mother also survive. Colonel Andrews retired March 11 from command of the Alaska Com- munications System, after heading the service since 1941, \by the New England Cannery nfi {arraignment for 2 p. m. Monday weeks ago the company and union Ehnd agreed on an 18 cents hourly wage increase which had tcen |recommended \by a fact-finding |board. The contract also provides {a 10 percent gencral wage hike in Seattle. announced, hopes faded for an ear- ly end of the 10-weeks old strike In the steadily-increasing 3"’:‘01 10,000 employees at the Ameri- traffic the following fishing eetcan Brass Company in Waterbury, movements are reported today: {Conn., as megotiations between un- The Eyak, powered scow owned|ion and management broke down. ‘rztrmctive to last October 1. | FlsHING FI_EE As the Harvester settlement was i . e | ‘The * 400,000 miners ,comprised Cordova, now at the Cold Storage gnout one-half of the 808,000 total Co. dock taking on gear and “hob- numper of workers idle throughout |ing” to sail for Cordova tOMOIfOW.|(he country because of labor dis- The Mayflower, skippered by pag Capt. Gus Swanson, left port re-| S cently and will be sable fishing for| 2 the next two weeks. .‘p R n Hi“ I The Norland, skippered by Cspt.} "n(e upe s Tom Sandirk, arrived last night| from seatie, where e serooner. R@Mamed Roosevelt had undergone repairs, { > o . The Cross Sound, new this year, pa'k. ]’"bu'e pald is taking on gear preparatory to| y sailing within the next few days." Capt. Severt Anderson is slupper»( PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, April 10 The Jeannette, sister ship to the _Acropolis Hill, which overlooks Cross Sound, is due from Evereu,fm.,. Rupert and its harbor, has Wash,, by April 25, at least. Merle been renamed Roosevelt Park in Rhodes owns the new boat. jmemory of former President Frank- The Ocenaic, owned by Capt. Ole|lin D. Roosevelt and to honor the Westby, is due from PemflbWK!Amerlcan soldiers who served here |during World War II. LT R PGS ! Mayor H. M. Daggett dedicated ON ROAD SURVEY |the park, just a few days from the —— | anniversary of President Roosevelt’s A. E. Glover, Regional Engineer death, last April 12, “in memory of for the U. S. Forest Service left|the great United States chicftain, here today for Ketchikan, expect- one of Canada's greatest friends.” ing to be gone about,three weeks, — - - At Ketchikan he will conduct road | FROM NEW YORK CITY surveys including groundwork for a projected Point Higgins Road| J. E. Jackman of New York City which will open up a considerable!is a guest at the Baranof durfhg number of homesites. his stay in this city. (BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER) | NEW YORK, April 10.—United Nations delegation officlals today forecast certain defeat for Russia’s proposal that the Security Council, throw out ‘the Iranian cas:, al- though a rough debate appeared in store with the United States end Britain opposing the Soviet Union. | Iran's opposition to the Russian! | proposal was announced omclnllyi to the council last night, but it] | probably will not tackle the issue luntil next Saturday or Monday. | Meanwhile council members ar-| jranged a closed session today to| {discuss the troublesomé questioh ! {of where U. N. headquarters should |be and, some officials said, to de- |cide on the date of the next meet- ling. { Delegates Dissatisfied | 'The headquarters question prom- ised a lively discussion, Several delegates say privately they are very dissatisfled with present ar- |rangements for meeting at Hunt- ler College in the Bronx, and con- sideration has been given to mov- ing the whole outfit to a huge mod- ern factory building at Lake Success on Long Island. i However, in the general atmo- sphere of restlessness produced by !the arguments over the relative merits of the Bronx and Long iIsland there has been some com- pletely informal talk about tak- ing the organization entirely away {from New York. | | Russian Demand The BSecurity Council received |formal notice of the Russian de- mand for dismissal of the Iranian 'case at the tag end of its meet- ing yesterday when President Quo | the )\ 7 (Continued on Page Two) | | cents per hour are pald for hand- agreed to return.to work pending ing various types of so-called pen- . o.o4ion ader ’ alty cargoes and 10 cents per h"“’l:::vm:s or‘lermbo p‘y"t.l:a l(;p;‘l::: for certain so-called skill classifl- | . cottlement was reached. cation of longshoremsn. “Lengshore work is performed at | various hcurs of the day and night, | :Z;Zr:::m?y !hr::!rec';l‘v‘:d l:hl::: including Sundays and l‘.ulldays.‘wenta concerning mmh-m The straight time rate is paid for has tied up all Alaska shipping. the first six hours of work between | Proposal Refused 8:00 am. and 5:00 pm,, Mondayl: Early this moming, the Gover- through Saturdays (unless a hon-|nm,.! Office here rwa'ivsd the fol- day, when the overtime rate 5 owing wire from Glumaz: paid), all other work is pald &b{ .y 0. proposal to accept em- overtime rate, except “"d"'ployen' offer of $1.33 straight time certain conditions when time and o $1.98 overtime payable immed- cne-half the overtime rate is pnld.'h"°xy and submit other matters in “For many years the Alaska rate dispute under War Labor Board was 10 cents straight time and 15 directive of August 18, 1045 to ar- cents overtime in excess of the rate , . coion pas peen m’uled by em- paid to longshoremen on the Paci- ployers. fic Coast (including the port of “ . Seattle). On May 23, 1943, Pacitie' | “ESubloyers ave now withdrawn Ccast longshoremen were receiving . your message of April 4. Employ- $1.10 straight time and $1.65 over- f ers in direct violation of agreement time and Alaska longshoremen were with Alaska longshoremen. receiving $1.20 straight time and " - ‘Union’s proposal to arbitrate $1.80 overtime., On that date the oiber . iesues oM 9.9 2 shipping. Union cannot accept em- attle scale to the present rate of > $126% stralght time and $190 DIoyers' counter propoeal of Apeil overtime, retroactive to October 1, 1944 in Ketchikan and to January 18, 1944 in Juneau and Seward, in accordance with a Directive Order of the War Labor Board pertaining| Emr l" b b e m seconice win FOF Anchorage (ome by Plane (Continued on Page Two) e the Directive Order. “On November 4, 1945 the rate for Pacific Coast Longshoremen was increased from $1.10 to $1.15] straight time and from $1.65 $1.72% overtime and on March 19, 1946, the increase was made retro-|American Alrways and active to October 1, 1944 in accord-|on to Anchorage by AL TR e L @TTL Alrlines, Pan-Air (Continued on Page Three) day. ¢ Also at Seattle, steamship operas