The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1946, Page 1

HALIBUT MEN VOTE AGAINS - MacARTHUR ' Held Innocent After Six Years 1 » - v THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— ‘VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,247 REPLIES T0 CRITICISM Bluntly Tells Russia, Othersi of Four-Power Council, Where to Head In ‘ TOKYO, April 17.—General Mac-| Arthur replied to Russian criticism by bluntly telling the four-power | Allied council today that consid- eration of his past actions in ad-| ministering Japan was no part of | its job. 1 And his military government oifi-; cer asserted that Russia’s question-| ing of Allied occupation policy, Hwhether in good faith or not . . .| is a warning that success of the) occupation is threatened.” | MacArthur told the council in a written statement that its “respon-| sibility, being exclusively advisory| and consultative, does not involve a review of action heretofore taken in the administration of Japan.” Comply With, Purge His military government officer,| Hamby's trial was found to be Brig. Gen. Courtney Whitney, said! — - 2 | the Japanese government was com- plying with the purge directive “as | fast as consistent with occupation; ‘ | policies.” MacArthur also repliec to a Russian request that a new election | be held if an “undesirable”™ diet were chosen in last Wednesday's balloting. He indicated some suc-| cessful candidates would be inves-| figated further, and added: ¢ “It is essential.that,the Supreme Commander issue no statement and| P MR avoid any action which niight seem i . | fo bring pressure tor or against.any| C@ilings No. Higher than | particular party or group.” | Last Year Announced | for Alaska Cafches | government legislative acts and or- e | ders of the ministers and minis- Controls on sales .8of = Alaska tries at least 10 days prior to issu-!caught fish will be continued at| ance. “To require such delay of r{ncu no higher than thofie estab- the Japanese government,” he said, ished last season, according to a‘l “would but cause practical suspan statement ching today from the| sion of its administrative functions.” Alaska Office of Price Administra-| Russian charges that certain un- tion’s territorial headquarters at desirable persons were mnot being|Juneau. removed trom ‘office and that! In commenting on the statement, democratization of Japan was thus George Rogers, OPA's Territorial endangered, brought a brusque re- Price Executive, went on to exvlain. —— |“At th2 close of last season decon- !trol was under consideration when for 2 time it was felt that plentiful i supplies would cause easing of mar- The Washington, Merry - Go-Round ket and justify possible suspension By DREW PEARSON FREED FROM FRISON! mother and two sisters as he is rel | by the Governor after testimony o Ancther Request Rejected MacArthur also declined a reques for drafts of Imperial rescripts,| plEi S R T (Continued on Page Two) of ceilings. But since that time world shortages of focds ha {creased, particularly protein las fish and beef, making it neces- sary to continue fish price con- |trols for the present at least, or juntil market e: s can see an ;:VA;HISGTON = 1"5;;“5 "’33‘50“ end to the present shortage condi- why the Russians are pulling wires tjon » to have the capital of the United | Naticns moved back to sleepy Gen- ', : & - Mo g eva is that American public opinion ’]f;"_’l'yp::fe o T e has been too powerful a champlon | pioher percent over prewar levels §f pndlior nations. s |than in any similar products field, e gt ion el M o OO in favor of the Geneva transfer and .. hi[';)her §bac aiv':ra;e 19::2 can count on Jugoslavia, Czechoslo-|prices o fishermen in Alaska, it vakia, Pt?land and France. Hnwever,:mn be necessary for them to clear- they can’t count on the British, Who |1y establish any claims that op- once favored a European capital, erating costs have since increased but now are 100 percent sold that oyt of ratio with their increased American opinion is one of their|earnings before OPA can consider best allies. lany upward adjustment within the The Russians :lso can't count on|present price structure,” Rogers the Latin Americans, In the old|added. days, Pan-American diplomats lov-| ed lolling in Paris most of the time | ot <4 | and turning up in Geneva a few; FOUR FROM THE STATES | days of the week. Today, however, | Arrivals from tne States regist- Paris is one of the most uncomfort- | °ring at the Baranof yesterday sble places in the world, Geneva is| Were: Mary Widner, San Francisco, short of food, and New York is far| Calif.; Willard W. Beatty of the more pleasurable. U. 8. Indian Service, Chicago; C.| The Russians, Who originally fa-|H. McDonald, Seattle; C. H. Huhn, ! vored an American city as the U.|Jr. of the Show Supply Company,| N. Capital, now consider this a| Tacoma, Wash. serious mistake. They dislike the| SO o RS fact that American newspapers| SENTENCE SUSPENDED publish columns and columns of | James Speer, arraigned in Muni- i Vs ,T:g; p:}gethlzennmnmv and chey“’f disorderly conduct and destruc-| figure that American newsmen at!tion of private property, was sen- Geneva would sit drowsily in the|terced by Judge William Holzheim- Swiss cafes drinking beer, or spendj €r to a $20 fine and 20 days in Jm]‘l weekends in the Swiss Alps. { with sentence suspehded under or- In Europe, they also believe, m‘aer of good behavior, photographer or newspaper would; '_“”*—‘ have the energy to trail Ambassa- TREMBLE SENTENCED dor Gromyko on his famous and| In the case of the U. 8. vs. Ro- circuitous trip around New York bert E. Tremble, charged with lar-, city when he almost:stopped in at|Ceny by check, Judge J. W. Kehoe the Security Council meeting, but|Das sentenced the defendant to didn’t. | concurrent suspended sentences on If the Iranian question had been|¢dch of the seven counts against, As to justification of the present — et o—— | i i e P “(Continued on Page Four) |to five years. Loren Hamby, 20, after serving six years of a life sentence for murder. “pal is greeted by his aged leased frem Colorado State Prison He was pardoned f the chief prosecuticn witness in pably perjury frurman Id ' Take Fight Tg?eople Friendly Lawmakers fo Carry issues fo Defeat Cl0-PAC Demands WASHINGTON, April 17.—Signs appeared today that President Tru- man intends to carry his legislative nght to the people through friend- ly lawmakers as the CIO-PAC de- manded defeat for those who op- pese his program. Capitol Hill Democcrais speculat- ed that a White House conference yesterday with a half a dozen Sen- ators may have been the tipoff that the President is briefing members of Congress on his objec- tives in the hope they will bear down on those issues in their elec- | tion campaigns. The CIO Political Action Com- mittee’s cafl for the defeat of Dem- ocrats and Republicans who op- pese what it termed the “Peoples’ Program” came as southern Demo- crats who have no love for the la- bor-political organization arranged to caucus tonight. Leaders of the caucus move said they expect a committee to be formed to tell Chairman Robert E. Hannegan in unmistakable terms that they want the Democratic National Committee to support all party members, without regard to their views on legislation. That is precisely what the Politi- cal Action Committee made it plain it does not want. It said in a state- ment that voters ought to measure the record of every candidate against a 17-point program anl “cppose those who have forfeited the peoples’ confidence by their failure to act on the people’s in- terest.” Chairman Sidney Hillman toid { reporters the CIO-PAC hopes to be| a factor in “at least” 100 Congres- sicnal districts this fall, but he did not name any of them. TAKU TO BE TAKEN OFF ALASKA RUN The Taku, now tied up in Ketchi- on every move cipal Court yesterday on a Charge gan py the longshore. strike, will be| withdrawn from the Alaska route and replaced by the 338-foot Sword Knot, according to advices received here. The new vessel is sald to have arrived at Seattle ready to sail north when the strike is ended. The craft has a refrigerated capac- ity of 9830 cubic feat. PRI RGPS T IN FROM ANCHORAGE Mr. and Mrs. Neil ‘8. Tyons and Claude H. Marona, residents of him. The total sentence nmounted}Anchomge, are guests at the Bar-| anof Hotel. CHIEFTAIN OF ' BLOODREIGN FACES COURT | N { |Alfred Rosenberg, Phil- osopher of Nazi Regime, | Now Before Tribunal { { NUERNBERG, April Rosenberg, hitherto known as the “‘hilcsopher of the Nazi Party, was depicted by prosecutors before. the | International Military Tribunal to- | | day as the chief of a bloody ad- | ministration which sent millions of | | Russians to death or slave labor. | | Under cross-examination by U. 8. ! JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1946 17.—Alfred | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Will Give Up Babies | Prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd and Russian Prosecutor R. A. Rudenko, | | Rosenberg acknowledged that he} ! had ordered the conscription for slave labor for hundreds of thou-' sands of eastern Europeans and | that executives of his ministry | | were active directors of the exter-| mination of eastern European Jews. | The prosecutors presented docu- | ment after document taken from Rosenberg’s files which added to| the story of butchery of Jews—! 110,000 in two days in the city of Minsk alone, the prosecution said. | Rosenberg blamed his subordinates, including Gauleiter Eirch Koek. Rosenberg acknowledged that “terrible excesses” had been com- | mitted in carrying out the program | of slave labor conscription, but he| ‘suugm to justify himself with the| | assertion that “I always tried to ! alleviate the worst conditions.” | LA el L BULLETINS | WASHINGTON—President Tru- /nan today announced the appoint- ment of George V. Allen of Mary- | land, as Ambassador to Iran. He also told his news conference he was naming Edwin F. Stahton of California, to be Ambassador tc Siam. WASHINGTON—The State De- partment announced today that| | the government of Iran has given| |notice it intends to establish a blind censorship on outgoing news dispatches of foreign correspon-| dents there. | | ! WASHINGTON—President Tru- man told his news conference to- day that he would like to visit both /China and Japan during a tenta- tively planned trip to Manila thx:si summer for the inauguration of| Philippine independence. The Pres-| ident said that he had no plans for | & fishing trip to the Pacific coast, | but that he was seriously consider- | ing visiting Manila for the Philip-| | pine celebration, July 4. | | WARSAW—Capt. Roman T. Pier-| Inick (home address unavailable), S. Army officer stationed in Berlin, said today he was arrested, | ! detained and interrogated for five| | days by Russian officers “in Polish | uniforms” following a visit to his| | grandfather and other relatives in ‘!a village in central Poland. | WASHINGTON—Whittling away | at OPA, the House approved today | & proposal to wind up the agency’s | food subsidy program by the end of this year. The amendment would | !compel OPA to reduce subsidy payments by 25 percent each 45| days, getting out of the food sub-| | sidy business by January 1. - e - PROPERTY TRANSFERS ‘Three recent property transfers have been filed at the U. S. Com- missioner’s Office this week. Earl and Evelyn Crass sold a house and lot at Third and Gold streets to Glenn Parker. | Property on Fifth between Easi| and Harris Streets owned by Ann Roland has been sold to Robert Schoppert. Clarence Rhodes, owner aof aj house and lot at 516 Sixth street, has sold that property to Jack O’Connor. — e i FROM KETCHIKAN | Mack W. Speights, Jr., of the USCG at Ketchikan arrived here vesterday and registered at the | Baranof. - | HERE FROM HAINES Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Lowman, residents of Haines, have arrived and are staying at the Hotel Ju- neau. SUPPLY OF f Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Du Mar of Denver have offered twe cf their triplet daughters for adoption because * they cannot provide for them. Pictured left to right are Charlene Du Mar, aged 3, Mrs. Du Mar and the triplets, Ardith, Evalie and Marilyn. (AP Wirepehoto) / STAMPEDE IS PREDICTED BY Big Sefupin Juneau - For Alaska’s Offie, Vels' Adminisiration BULLETIN—Seattle, April 17. —Because of their inability to get scats on commercial lines e “Veterans Admimsieation |~ System Breaks Down officials arranged for a Navy | H H plane to take them north. They | n Na'w“ will take equipment for the Ju- | neau office with them. | WASHINGTON, April 17.—Price The plane will stop first at | Administrator Paul Porter said to- Ketchikan tc leave a represen- | day breakdown of the present price tative who will establish the control system can panic the na- contact office. | tion’s consumers into a “stampede” | of Scostly spending. The breakdown danger, he said, “is a real and frightening possi- bility.” There already 3 a rapidly spreading belief among business- men, Porter asserted in testimony prepared for the Senate Banking Com:mittee, that Congress “will either scuttle price control com- pletely or take action which will compel OPA to raise prices dras- tically.” Should that belief spread to the 'MEATNOW DWINDLES —_— I Saggiflg '0 Warflme Rd- al Alaska office at Juneau headed " tion Levels-Gloomy [o) mimeer, i co st up by the Qutlook Is Given | Veterans’ Administration on April (22, Deputy Administrator D. M. | Shute announced today. WASHINGTON, April 17. — The Nine key personnel, with the nec- nation’s meat supply is sagging to eseary records, will fly north Friday wartime ration levels and may stay there until early fall. This situation was disclosed by and the cffice will occupy about 6,500 square feet of space in the 'Goldstein Building there, he said. the Agriculture Department in a statement on how it will divide de- clining supplies during the April- A staff o? 21 persons Is planned at S consuming public, he added, “the June quarter among civilians, the armed forces, and needy areas | “Alaskans wl!l be employed in stampede will be on.” the Juneau office in all positions porter testified in the Senate wherf qualified personnel is avail- wing of the Capitol as the House abroad. jable,” Shute said, walled for votes on what to do The per capita civilian meat sup- mn:"’wfi’: :::gdugprxg :Cem:) lt‘:i gbcut the price agency. Consru: ply at least until July 1 is expected Veterana' ABmibAMHOR/So ot the sional friends of President Tru to be at annual average rate of e, Y “' U7 man were frankly alarmed over 2, |office "organized, but the glerks, ty- 132 pounds (cercass weight basis),” 0" © 0 stenographers will | be the outcome. as compared with the 147-pouni fl:ro'sz 100 sarcent ATadSE The Administration has been annual rate available during the A sub-Reglonal om;e ‘wm o sceking a full year extension be-. first three months of the year. opened later at Anchorage, and illlllle:ln(: 30 with present controls In 1943 when wartime meat Xa-|contact offices set us up At eft Intact. tioning was inaugurated, the aver- getchikan and Fairbanks. | —_———— age for civilian supplies was l”! Harold F. Dawes, formerly U. 8.’ pounds annually. |Commissioner at Petersburg, will SIEEL l"DuSIR This adverse forecast on :%e pe adjudication officer and chief meat outlook coincided with an ap- [attorney in the Reglonal office af- peal from Herbert H. Lehman for|ter several months of work in a remewal of consumer rationing Seattle branch and reglonal offi-' it this country is to meet its fa-|ces. ~ Several Alaskans will be e mine relief commitments abroad. (among those flying north Friday. Suppl[es of coal and Coke The former Director General'of| Karnes, 4 World War II veteran, A . UNRRA charged the government|was Territorial Commissioner of Dwmdlmg ok Opera. with “faulty planning and unrealis- | Education from 1933 to 1040 and fi g tic measures” in seeking to cope previously Superintendent of Schools "ons cufla]led with the world food crisis. He at Juneau. il said abandonment of rationing in| NEW YORK, April 17.—Dwind- s vt SIO(K ouol‘“o"s 'ling supplies of coal and coke will most unfortunate decision. force the steel industry to operate this country after V-J day was “a NEW YORK, April 17.—Closing cn a day to day basis by this week- i - | quotation of Alaska Juneay mine end, the Iron Age said today In 1M jOBS REPORIED | stock today is 9%, Alleghany Cor- & weekly survey. | Many steel makers, said the ma- | poration 7, , American Can 99%, rati opE"ED AlEuIIA“SlAmwndn 46, Commonwealth and gazine, have gambled on the | Southern 4%, Curtiss-Wright 7', chance the coal strike would be | International Harvester 95%, Ken- settled in time to prevent a drauu; 2, a, ril 17.:pecott 57%, New York Central 28%, shutdown in the industry, an —";:f fififi?fiénf]:ffixée Ah‘:.‘rie re- | Northern Pacific 31, United Cor- maintained a higher than expected ported there were 1024 job vacan-| poration 5%, U. 8. Steel 84%, operating rate. cies and only 135 job seekers. Pound $4.03'%. | Another segment of the industry, The positions are scattered| Sales today were 1,530,000 shares. however, was forced to curtail op- thrcughout the Territory. Seven| Dow, Jones averages today are erations further. ; hundred jobs are open in the|as follows: industrials 207.93, rails Continuation of the strike, “which Aleutians, which most veterans of |64.85, utilities 43.11. [ DOV, Sy likely,” according to gervice on the islands refuse to con- —_————— | the trade publication, will force sider, the Office said yesterday. | EDWARD SARABIA ARRIVES !lm] operations lower next week, There are a large number of| Edward Sarabla has arrived here, In the meantime, ingot output this job opportunities for women, the!from Hoonah. He is registered a:;week remains at 79 percent of ca- report added. 'the Gastineau. pacity. o glha! Is, If Present Control| FACES SHUTDOWN| — - — " PRICE TEN CENTS T STRIKE WILLBEON FISHBANKS - |Offcials Say There Will Be No Walkout Over OPA Prices SEATTLE, April 17.—The halibut men of the Deepsea Fishermen's Union (Ind.) have voted 176 to 36 against a strike proposed as a pro- test of Office of Price Administra- ton refusal to raise halibut ceiling prices. Canadian fishermen were watch- ing the Seattle returns and were expected to follow the local lead. Strike votes were being taken at union branches in Ketchikan, Pe- tersburg and Juneau, Alaska, but their total could not affect “the Seattle decision, said union offi- clals. “Our men will be on the fishing vanks when the season opens May {1 said union secretary Harold Grotle. 1 The fishermen at a recent hear- ing asked an Increase of at least 20 percent in the ceilings of 17 cents a pound for mediym halibut and 16 cents for large and small Imh. They based the request on in- NO STRIKE - MW UNION |Alaska Organizafion I fo t Disregard Order from Seattle FTA-CIO | The Alaska Marine Workers' Un- ion has just had authoritative ad- vices on the present condition of cannery workers bargaining between |the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and jAllied Workers Union (CIO) and Alaska Salmon Industry as follows: 1—The controversy and strike is exclusively between CIO Local No. 7, which has members only in Seattle and vicinity, Alaska FTA- CIO locals are either being dis- regarded or are being given orders [to strike. | 2—Demands by FTA-CIO Local (No. 7 are: (a) Thirty percent in- ‘cruu in wages “stralght across the board” to catch up with cost of ,lving increases; (b) Forty hour |week and time and a half for over- time. | All locals of the Alaska Marine {Workers Union are being instruct- ;ed by radio to disregard the FTA- ;CIO April 21 strike and ofier 'it no aid, because FTA-CIO de- (mands are utterly useless to Alas- ka residents, and in fact, the call- jing of ‘a strike at this time great- ly damages planned improvements for bettering Alaskans’ housing and isanitation, as follows: i Minimum Guarantee l—Alaskans minftoum guarantee for a whole sceason’s work is 160 hours, or-$170 gross, whereas non- residents’ pay averages Ivtween two and three times as much. This terrible inequality will not be changed by a 80 percent increase {“straight across the board.” Further- imore, ASI is about to renew its IIDM offer to increase by 50 percent !thn pay of cannery workers in all the larger towns of Southeast Alas- ka. 2—As to the 40 hour week and time and a half for overtime, mod- ern high speed machinery has re- sulted in the past two years in vir- tually no work being done by res- idents over 40 hours weekly. AMWU officers have exgmined time state- ments at widely different points and .find that overtime averages 10 hours for the season.' The strike to secure overtime, if successful, would yield about $5 per person. 3—As to the strike itself, this or- s;:ll:t:lon believes that it will be extremely to improve- ments of housing accommodations and sanitary facilities. - These are badly needed at almost all isolated canneries and AMWU and its pre- " (Continucd on Page Eight) MAY FIRST * -