The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1946, Page 1

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LXVIL, NO. 10,248 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SALMON INDUSIRY \ » & \ . to finish its job on the battered| Tpe yoll call vote on passage was|world food crisis delayed an order Crimes only recently became known|ed doors to have the United Na- OPA TAKES BEATING IN HOUSE BILL Lawmakers Approve Leg- | ing far-reaching changes in the OPA legislation, Bowles took the | Administration’s fight to the people. | In a radio address last night he {went over amendments approved land proposed and concluded: | “The total additional burden toj {our collective family budgets would |amount to billions upon billions of !dollars; the share of the average |family would amount to many| | hundreds of dollars during th2 com- | |ing year." | wasmaron, apm 15—tne DAAIOCk Exists Between, | House voted overwhelmingly today‘ R 000 W MEASURES | poLaND TEsTIFiEs ARE ASKED?AdmiIs Terrible Atrocifies- Declares He Feels "Terrible” | 0 BE STRIKEBOUND RUSSIA IS LOSER IN U.N. FIGHT Iran Isue fo Continue on| | | WAGE ISSUE UNSETTLED IN SEATTLE Negotiations Continuing ito continue OPA for nine months,| British, Canadian, Am- NURNBERG, April 18— The anxf Agenda—DEbate on But Big Tie-Up Now islation Drastically Limiting Powers trator, Paul Porter, said would |wreck price control. It was one of but in a form the OPA adminis-| governor of German-occupied Po-| y Spain 10 Sfafl “land. told the International Mlli«! |tary Tribunal today that “I feel p S Sy | erican Restrictions | ] | | i Ihreilgned WASHINGTON, April House squared off defiantly today CPA bill after hammering the day- lights out of most of the mea- sure's key provisions. Undeterred by dismay over their bandiwork, re- bellious lawmakers were called in- the stamp of final approval on the drastically curtailed legislation to | President Truman’s worst legislative | 18.~The gecaats since he entered the White | British-Canadian-American House a year ago. 1355 to 42. The house, mesting at 10 a. m. o hours earlier than usual, toss- y | tw Administration eq the amendment-ridden bill over| w‘mcicounlries met yesterday at another|this trial, T have gained an in- President Tru-!©f & long series of meetings of the |sight into what was committed in to session two hours early to put|pg, hopes fer “much better re_’ccmhjned food board. But they fail- {the way of terrible atrocities. Ito the Eenate, House said today where the [ sults.” Asked at a news conference if the WASHINGTON, April 18 — A| dead- | {lock today over ways to ease the! | which will put this nation | | diet of less bread and flour. | on a | Representatives of ine three| ‘cq again to agree on what each| should do in the way of contribut- keep the price control agency in ex-|cpjef Executive had any comment|ing wheat and flour to famine- istence after June 30. With the legislation in con- trol of Republicans, aided by a con- to make, the reply was: | “Not for print.” | Asked if the President was going | stricken aneas | | Secretary of Agriculture Ander- | | son has ready an order to cut Am- | tingent of Democrats, here’s what .i, 4, anything about it?” Press, erican supplies of flour 25 percent,! the House has done to OPA—sub- Ject to Senate concurrence: : call vote that OPA's new life span beyend June 30 shall be no more than nine months. 2. Ordered scrapping of the government’s $2,000,000,000 annual subsidy program, used to hold down| food- costs. | 3. Wrote in a “cost-plus” plan requiring OPA to fix prices so as| to guarantee each manufacturer| and distributor, including retailers,| a “reasonable profit” on each item produced and handled. 4. Wrote in a forced-liquida- tion formula, whereby OPA - would be required to Iift price ceflings! on any commodities whose output| attains a rate equivalent to 1941.| 5. Repealed OPA's maximum | average price order, known as MAP, Secretary Ross replied: 2 hopes for much better re- | elaboratc. | A bloc of Democrats, chiefly 1but he is withholding his signature | pending further efforts of the three | Decreed on a 209 to 189 roll g i the Senate.” He did not countries to agree on joint relief ef- | | forts, | The American government is tak- ’ NEW YORK, April 18. — Soviet Russida was reported today to have these | lest a ‘strenuous battle behind clos- terrible guilt within me” for the; atrocities of the Nazi regime. Claiming that some of to him, Frank declared from the|tions Security Council's procedure ( witness stand: ;expens rule against further con- “Speaking from the .depths ol sideration of the Iranian case. my emotion, after five months ofi As the Council prepared to meet ‘at 3 gm., Eastern Standard Time, ! ‘the Committee of experts on rules I and procedure was said by inform- feel terrible guilt within me.” |ed quarters to be split eight to! Speaking in a loud, clear voice,|three, with the majority holding Frank held the court with his can-!that the case could legally be kept did admissions of guilt as ke VI on the agenda. tually threw himself upon its| The Council was expected to re- mercey. | sume ‘its debate on the controver- He freely admitted the Nazl gg) Spanish question at the opening crimes against the Jews and his| e the session, while the experts | share of the guilt in those C”m“lccmplewd drafting majority and ! —a guilt which he said would “not| minority reports, expressing the ke erased in thousands of years.” Cor ttee's s g \ - 2 mmittee plit opinion on the Did you participate in the de-ln,n question, | THIS YOUNG MAN—2%-year-old Dennis Klein of Jersey City, N. J.— was full of pep, vim and vigor when he started to break ground for a victory garden. But that old devil Spring Fever was lurking in the vicinity and Dinny just had time surrendered unconditionally to the sandman. to park his rake and hoe before he (International) SEATTLE, April 18.~The $5 000 Alaska salmon canning indus- try will be strikebound at midnight Saturday, the Alaska Cannery Werkers Union (CIO) announced last night. Although spokeésmen for the Al- aska Salmon Industry, Inc., said negotiations were continuing daily, President Prudencio P. Mori of the Union's Seattle local said the nego- tiations were at an end and ‘“fur ther attempts are useless in view of the employers’ refusal to discuss our demands for a 30 percent wage increase.” “Our members will not go north to the canneries until their pre- sent 60 cent hourly wage is brought up to 89 cents,” Mori said. He said union membership dropped to 2,600 during the war but i* was rising struction of the Jews?” his attor-| from the south, combined with Re- ing the position that the major |ney asked. | publicans yesterday to” so amend|burden is falling upon this country ¢ the bill that Chester Bowles, econ-|and that Canada and Great Bri-| 1 say yes!” Frank replied. *T/ omic stabilizer, said the House had|tain could contribute more than|C2nnot allow it before my con-, started “a joy ride toward econcmic|they have offered. |science that responsibility for this, disaster.” | It is the official view here m“!should be handed to small people “Murdered- OPA” | both Britain and Canada could cut |#lone. I never installed concentra- | tion camps for Jews, but if Adolf lier, S deeper into their rese: - Earlier, the House refused on a B Serves and re-| o turned over that dreadful This was expected to open the! way for a renewed floor fight. 1 Meafwhile, Sir Alexander Cado- gan, British delegate, was scheduled | to lead off in the Spanish debate with an assault on some of Lhe! arguments advanced yesterday by! Polish delegate Oscar Lange in his: (COAL ISSUE again to Its pre-war figure of 3,700. [ .| 'The first large group cf cannery | | workers usually leaves for Alaska | by the middle of May, Morl sajd all | operations, including vessels pre- DEADLOCKED ROARING IN 2= {870 to 20 roll call vete to shelve duce their own consumption fur-, {the continuation bill, rejecting a|ther. motion by Rep. Rankin (D—Mtss); Meanwhile, as the White House | to send it back to the banking announced that President Truman heommittee. {will discuss the food Crisis in a ra- responsibility to people of his, it must be mine too.” | plea that members of the United Natlons break diplomatic relations 'y with Franco Spain. AT oS | going home _after wajting nine days ~ +for- resumption of “contract -nego- plies, would be picketed after the WASHINGTON, April 18.—Bitum- | (H Am“m front labor " had * pledgéd support of the strike action. A. L. Petefson, ¢ L, Unite/t Stgh Before the final vote was taken, dio address at 7:15 pm. (EST) to- | Rep. Sabath (D-IlI) 80-year-old | morrow night, the Chief Executive's dean of the House, shouted to his| Famine Emergency Committee call- colleagues: jed upon the government to adopt BARTLETT WANTS. MINERAL LEASING “You have murdered OPA!" | still more rigid food conservation Ouch! See What A Salad Costs i | workers. tbroke off the negotiations on April vice, said he Wiis conferring wit principals in the dispute and ed to bring representatives of ‘union and the Alaska Salmon In- Saturday deadline and that water- ous coal operators today notified ) | ¢ ) ey 7 datlons with he United Mine' Communists Capfure Hofel {@ecretary Schwellenbach they are’ —Fate of Two Ameri-- UMW President John L. Lewis {10, declaring further conversation dustry, Inc. togéther. Approximate- |ly 3500 members of seven locals cans Unknown CHUNGKING, April 18—The fate| of an American officer and his facturers to produce low cost cloth-if the agency collapses because of | s i !here and in Alaska are ipvolved. PROTEST ON PRICE | i | by which the agency requires manu-| OpA Chief Porter estimated that|measures. i | i A(I Fok AlASKA \A' An‘h““e \weuld be “futile” because the oper- | ANCHORAGE, Ala: s 'ators refused to commit themselves | | . Alaska, April 18.\on his mine safety and health and WASHINGTON, April 18—Pay-|_A housewife newly ‘arrived from'(;;"msv: firid o3 y bl E | congressional amendment, consumer 6. Prohibits OPA from interfer- ing with normal profit or discount margins of retailers and whole- salers on “reconversion items” such as automobiles, refrigerators and _ radios. A committec of 63 House mem- bers, organized to “fight inflation” issued a statement declaring OPA iprices might skyrocket as much asWIDE"ED pROGRAM | | d '50 percent over present levels. | Final Passage Vote | On final passage by the House, 1205 Democrats, 148 Republicans and IS INAUGURATED FOR ment to Alaska of 37 1-2 percent of |the States ordered the ingredients| government receipts from the min- for one standard sized salad yes- eral leasing act in the Territory is/terday without asking the prices proposed in a bill"offered by Dele-|and wound u; The operators told Schwellenbach hey would return to Washington {immediatély at his call, but said it p by paying $1620 .a550ared futile for members of the | SEATTLE, 18, — Deelaring pilot was hidden by the smoke of|¢hat salmon lm::un are not get~ battle in Changchun today as cr:‘“ng a fair share of the revenue Chinese Gommunist forces captur- ed the Yamato Hotel, whers the produced . by . WK £ Ihdusty. - Sy {two mincr party members voted for |the bill. Opposing were 34 Re- ipublicans and eight Democrats. | Bowles termed the measure “im-| GERMANY'S YOUTH gate Bartlett of Alaska. | Under the present law States re-| |ccive this percentage of receipts» 'but Alaska is not given the same men's strike for higher pay and for the dish. With Alaskan ports closed to in- coming produce by a longshore- committes to remain in Washington two had been staying. since there was no indication there, Destroyed telephone communica-| would be any change in the situa-'tions made impossible a check into | tion.” ithe fate of the two—Maj. Robert | Fishermen's Cooperative Associa~ tion of Washington' today demand- ed that the Office of Price Admii- istration, Washington, D. C., “do had been “scuttled by an unholy|possiple” after a 35-minute confer- FRANKFURT, April 18. — Gen.!privilege. retroactive pay, bananas cost 75! | something immediately to corredt alliance of paid lobbyists.” It also asserted that those who voted for the “guaranteed profits” amendment it he would resign in tke event it|ed his genérals to promote the “are pawning the people’s future for passes both houses in its present, growth of non-military German the favor of profiteers.” Even while the House was Vot-'say however, that he did not see to stamp out Nazi underground '-’*I“what could be done” to main-|movements. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—American diplo- mats literally burnt up the wires between New York, Washingtin and Teheran to prevent Iran from withdrawing its dispute from the Security Council agenda. But they faced a tough customer and they got nowhere. U. 8. diplomats were interested in the all-important problem of strengthening " the United Nations and building up machinery for world peace. Iran, on the other hand, was interested in escaping with its hide reasonably intact. All last week, U. S. diplomats tried to show Iranian officials that the issue was bigger than just a fracas in a dusty desert country. First, the U. 8. Charge D’'Affaires in Teheran called on Premier Ghav- am and urged that Iran keep its dispute before the United Nations | until Russian troops were with- drawn May 6. Premier Ghavam, however, was quite frank in admitting he was ready to yield to the Russians. He 'said that if Iran didn't withdraw | its case from the United Nations, | all the good work Iran had done to soothe would be undone. He appealed to the United States to understand Iran’s position in the matter. Af- ter some argument, however, finally agreed that he would delay giving instructions to Ambassador Ala in New York until he received further word from Secretary of| State James Byrnes. Simultaneously, Ed. Stettinius in New York talked to Ambassador Ala in order .to stiffen his back- bone. Ala, however, needed no stif- fening. His backbone—at that time e e e (Continued on Page Four) lence with the President. | Joseph T. McNarney, Commanding | Bartlett also introduced legisla-'cents per ‘pound, lettuce 75 cents; | Asked by White House reporters U. S. forces in Europe, has direct-|tion to amend the Alaska Railroad per pound, tomatoes $1.10 each and | |fcrm, he would not say. {tain price controls under it. | As to whether there was any dis- gcussion of a veto with the Presi- !dent, he told reporters he could not say. “We want price control,” he de- {clared. “Price control would be im- possible as the bill stands now.” 'New Court of ' “Infernational | Justice Staris i THE HAGUE, April 18.—A new {Court of International Justice |came into being today at the seat of the old World Court, and Jose Guerrero of El Salvador, President, expressed hope fhe new tribunal would succeed. The black-robed, white-bibbed Justices, representing 14 of members of the. United Nations, {teok their oaths of office in a cere- !mony at the Peace Palace at the the | Hague only a few hours before the| He did|youth groups in a measure designed 'of 55 years after having worked merce announced it was contract-| | At the same time, United Staies! | Military Governors were ordered | ,to take acticn to insure that all| | Nazi sport, military and semi-mii- | | tary athletic organizations are bm-! ken up. An American intelligence spokes- ! (man said the inauguration of v.hef expanded program of youth acti-| | vities was designed to attract Ger- | | man youth away from remnants of | | the Hitler youth movement and the | !underground “Edelweiss Pirates” | ! organizaticn. ——————— [COASTAL AIRLINES CARRIES FIFTY-FOUR * | | PASSENGERS ON TRIPS| | Alaska Coastal Airlines flew the| following passengers yesterday: to; Hoonah: J. Felton, Emma Felton, | Mr. and Mrs. Harry Douglas, Frank | Williams, Miss H. Douglas, G. D.| | Towle, Julia Marvin, 8. C. Rude, Francis Johnson. i | | Inorth over the Alaska Highway! | taining permission from Canadian pressed opposition retirement act to provide employees cucumkers the same. $ can retire voluntarily at the ag3| The Junior Chamber of Com-| for the road 30 yeafs. | TWO ARRIVE IN ANCHORAGE VIA i ALASKA HWAY poy sy pRoposaL e g s GETC TURN DOWN | Claytgon and Charles Woodward, overseas war veterans have arrived? BY BR'I DElEG A"'E in a pick-up truck after driving . 1 ‘ing the operators of many small {eraft with a view to bringing perish- |able foods to Alaska. Freight planen‘ rare flying in some supplies and the strikers have given permission for| some fishing craft to carry produce! inorth. i | | { through Canada. ! NEW YORK, April 18—Sir Alex- They met no difficulty in ob-|ander Cadogan, British delegate, ex- today to the authorities at Edmonton, Alta., to'Polish proposal for a concerted[ use the road, they said. Four other break in diplomatic relations with parties, one with three children, Franco Spain as the United Nd-! also secured permission to use me!!lons Security Council resumed de-| highway. {bate on that controversial subject. The brothers decided to come to| Britain thus line¢ up beside the Alaska, they said, because of strikes Netherlands in opposing Polnnd'a! and “unrest” pn the east coast. |demand. Poland thus far has thei —_— (support of the Mexican and French| Syrians \far made against the Spanish gov- BULLETINS WASHINGTON—President Tru- man will go out into the Atlantic Mohday to review maneuvers of a carrier task force of the Atlantic fleet. NEW YORKE-—Ia ore of the big- gest corporate breakups in history, the North American Company, a billicn dellar holding company, an- nounced today a propesal to distri- bute ail of its holdings except tee Union Electric Company of Mis- souri and the Ilinois Power Com- pany. WASHINGTON — An emergency fact-finding board today recom- mended to President Truman a 16- cent hourly wage increase and changes in working rules for more than 200,000 railroad engineers and trainmen. WASHINGTON—OPA today rais- ed retail price ceiling on new re- frigerators by four percent over March, 1942 levels to offset higher production costs. The agency grant- ed manufacturers an eight percent increase, which it sald will be re- flected in full at retail. {B. Rigg of Chicago, assistant mili-| tary attache, and M-Sgt. Clayton !Pond of Portland, Oregon. % \} | News of the capturé¢ of the hotel {from government forces came in ,fragmentary dispatch sent from the embattled city by Associated Press| Correspondent Tom Masterson, cut! off there with four other cor | pendents. | As General Marshall, special U. 'S. envoy, flew here in a supreme effort to bring peace to Manchur-; ia, gunfire roared through the! streets of Changchun. Commun- ist forces threatened to overwhelm completely the small National garri- ron {ighting from sandbag defenses in the center of the city. Govern-| yment planes dropped urgen:iy-} needed ammunition to the beseiged| force. o | Marshall headed for Chungking efter receiving reports on the Man-| churian situation durinz a brief| stopover at Pelping enroute from the United States. ‘Foundation af Warm Springs Benefitted By FDR's lnsurance; League of Nations, of which the oldi World Court was a part, was to|. > Tom Hoonah: Frank Johnson, V. L. Logan, H. Antrim, Margaret| | delegates on the Council. { (ehbra'e ‘ “I cannot admit that the case so Freedom from All | ernment has established a threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or | | NEW YORK, Ap:l 18—The bt i B | the situation.” The fishermen told the OPA that salmon prices are out of line—that they receive an average of 18 cents a pound for troll-caught salmon while the retail price is averaging 43 cents a pound. The fishermen _|charge that OPA js discriminating in favor of the wholesaler. Five years before the war, sal- mon sold £ per: more than the next est-pri fish. At the present salmon is' only !about § percent higher than hali- but and 8 percent lower than Tuna, the fishermen’ say. “We risk our lives and a $10,000 boat and equipment for salmon that brings us 18 cents a pound,” said a spokesman for the Pisher- men’s Cooperative Association. “The salmon fishermen won't strike. They just quit and get out’ of the business.” CANADA COMMITS 2 MORE FOR TRIAL ON SPY CASE CHARGES OTTAWA, April 18.—Two Mon- trecal men accused of supplying wartime secrets to Russia have | Warms Springs Foundation has re- its Russian relations expire at Geneva. |Zinn, Crester Zinn. e e T | To Skagway: Don Foster, Ralph NO-HOST DINNER T0 | 52 Skasvay Don 1 Occupation Troops HONOR NEW VA MEN ifeich, Dr. Spavley, Dr. Smith. From Skagway: Don Foster,l DAMASCUS, April, 18—Syrians Ralph Mize, E. A. Clayton, J. E, celebrated today the freedom of | Helfeich, Dr. Snaviey, Dr. Smith.|their country from foreign occupa- SAI“RDAY \EVENING To Sitka: Henry Moy, W. Donald-i“m‘ troops for the first time since J. E. Hel- |priate to ask now for a collective |severance of diplomatic relations, |Cadogan said. lact of aggression and 1 do mnoti | tkerefore consider that it is appro-; — e 'Wrangell Narrows | celved $560,000 from life insurance been committed for trial by Mag- | policies carried on the late Presi-istrate Glenn Sfrike on charges of dent Roosevelt, Executive Secretary viclating Canada’s efficial Secrets Raymond Taylor of the Founda- Act. £ tion said today. They are H. 8. Gerson, 43, for- | mer official of the Canadian Mun- itions Department; and M. S. Improvements Are On Govt. Schedule Lowering of Food | WASHINGTON, April 18. — A Nightingale, former communica- tions expert of the RCAF, the fifth he | H scn, Wm. Bates, Wallace Westfall,| the beginning of the Christian era. { A no-host dinner honoring Col.‘c‘ Shattuck, Esther Bailey, A. M.| Thousands of cheering spectators D. M. Shute, Deputy Administrator, Beegle. Veterans Administration from| prom Sitka: Mrs. V. Burk, Mr.|m1mll’)' forces in celebration of | Branch Office No. 11, Seattle, and ang Mrs. N. E. Thompson, R. J.|final evacuation of British and William A. Wells, Coordinator and |creel, Lt. Com. V. Carrier, Thelma | French troops at midnight Mon- Planning Officer, will be given in!ajpertson. tday. the Baranof Gold Room Saturday| To Wrangell: evening at 7 o’clock. ‘ GEORGE TO KETCHIKAN All veterans on Gastineau Chan-!w, Penrod, George Dale; to Peters-| Wallis George, of the Juneau nel are especially invited to attend.|purg, Charles H. Huhn, P. A. }lan-’Cold Storage Co., flew to Ketchikan Anyone planning to attend isigen, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Lyons; to|today, asked to contact any of the follow- | Ketchikan: Mr. and Mrs. C. D.| George, who returned from a ing for reservatidns; Waino Hen-|swanson; from Ketchikan: Mrs.|business trip to Seattle Tuesday, is drickson, Al Zenger, Joe Thibodeau | Dick Jameson, Roy Anderson, L. due back from Ketchikan by the or Anthony Karnes. Peterson and Mary Hodgman. end of the week. Charlie Jenkins; A g from Wrangell: W. W. Beatty, Max ) witnessed the big parade of Arab! STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 18.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 9', Alleghany Cor-| { peration 7, American Can 99%, An- aconda 47%, Commonwealth and Scuthern 4%, -Curtiss-Wright 7', International Harvester 95, Kenne- cott 58%, New York Central 28%, Northern Pacific 31%, United Cor- poration 5%, U. S. Steel 85% | Pound $4.03%. Sdles today were 1,500,000 shares., Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 20831, rails’ 65.26, utilivies 43.43. Senate-House Conference Commit- tee, after weeks of deliberation, compromised yesterday at a $333,- 000,000 figure on recommended ap- propriations for War Department Civil funetions, chiefly navigation } b Rations in Area in i i e ~ Germany Explained' (v oe wit and flood control. | MOSCOW, April 18.—An Izvestia "mm' um ;7 R Committee revisions (figures in correspondent who has been tour-~ | The City Council will meet to- parenthesis are appropriations in ing the American zone of Germany the bill as passed by the Bermlm‘todny attributed the recent lower- included: {ing of food rations for Germans in | morrow night at 8 o'clock in the Rivers and Harbors: Wrangell the area to failure by American|City Hall chambers. Mayor Waino Narrows, Alaska, $500,000 ($1,000,- | authorities and landowners them- | Hendrickson says city appointments 000). iselves to exploit large tracts of |will be made as the most import- Early House and Senate action arable land in the region of Ba-'ant business to come before the - is expected on the report. varia. session.