The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 22, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — " VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,250 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DISCH SHIDEHARA, CABINET IN RESIGNATION Action Said fo Be Neces-| sary to Stabilize Jap Polifical Crisis BY RUSSEL BRINES TOKYO, April 22—Premier*Ki- juro Shidehara and his cabinet re- signed in a group tonight nder | pressure from the leading political] parties, who were expected to join the deposed prime minister in form- ing a new cabinet. All ministers agreed to the resiz- nation after Shidehara and Cabine! Secretary Wataru Narashi exp'ain- ed to them that this action w “necessary to stabilize the politic situation,” Narashi said in announc- ing the decision. Shidehara became premier six| meonths ago after a series of poli- tieal shakeups which followed the surrender of Japan. The action, predicted since no party succeeded in gaining a ma-| jority in the April 12 election, came after a series of political maneuv- ers so complex that they dazzled) the ordinary Japanese and left the makeup of the next government obscure. Resignation Accepted The 74-year-old Premier took his| resignation to the Imperial Palace shortly after after 7 p. m. (Tokyo, time). { Emperor Hirobito accepted it in| a cne-hour audience but followed| witly. the f{raditional practice of asking Shidehara to remain in of- fice until his successor could be appointed. Foreign Minister Shegreu Yoshida conveyed the resignation decision to General MacArthur previously through one of Suprem: Headquart- er's staff officers. i Quit Under Fire | This first full-time occupation cabinet, appointed soon affir the surrender, ended its six months reign under fire from all but one political party, all Tokyy *Tews- papers, most trade unions and oth- er organizations. Criticism has been almost con- stant the past four months over! the cabinet’s difficulties ‘connected with living under rehabilitation conditions. 1 Blame for the livelihood prob-! lems and growing distrust of what! was called a “do nothing” cabinet were the basic factors in Shide- hara's downfall. et AUTHOR J. COX HERE Author J. Cox, Covena, Calif., has arrived here. He is staying at| the Baranof. ———— i BATAVIA—Indonesian sources re- | ported today that the evacuation of | some 200,000 Japanese from Java's #nterior began this morning. i | The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Ladies of the Cabinet are really practicing what their husbends preach regarding ‘he saving of food for Europe. Ever since President Truman urged that the American people eat the equi- valent of a European ration two days a week, Cabinet wives have heen studyinz menus. Mrs. Clinton Anderson, whose Secretary-of-Agriculture husband is one of the hardest-working of the food conservers, has given permis- sion to publish one of her menus. It provides 1,540 calories—the equi-| valent of a European ration—as; compared with the nermal diet of | 3600 calories. | Here it ir, with tre number of calories listed after each item of | food: | Breakfast—Glass of orange juice (75); bowl of cereal (100); milk! for cereal (85); half a pint of | milk or cocoa (170)—total, 430. Lunch—Half-a-cup of thick soup or chowder (150); vegetable salad; without ofl in dressing (75); muf- fin (75); baked custard (100); half-| a-pint of miik +(170);—total, 570. | Dinner—Poultry, fish or meat (150); potato (large serving) (150); ereen vegetable (peas, beans, greens or broccoli) (40 raw vegetable " (Continued on Page Four) jwill plunge once more e E— SIGN OF THE T IM ES_Mrs. Virginta Rost, Detroit hcusewife, took this means of trying to fend off inquiries from house hunters while she did her spring cleaning. Army Engineering Postwar Program in Alaska Opening Many Good Paying Posilions < SEATTLE, April 22-—~Veterans BIG pRoBLEM and non-veterans may chcose from Army Engineers announces. Open at Ft. Richardson, Anck orage, are these expected civil ser- vice positions which offer a 25 per Issue Following Positions open at Ft. Richardson NEW YORK, April 22—The Uni-lcn an hourly wage basis include ted Nations Security Council has'radar repairmen, $1.46; heat treat two major question marks con-|$141; iate consideration of the Russian-! Construction men with hourly Iranian case. |salaries needed at Nome are car- Upon a solution of that problem,|penters, $146; plumbers $1.50; elec- at least for the time being, theltricians, $1.50; and civil engineer, the council will accede to a vigor-|hourly rates, needed at Shemya are ous demand by Russia that it drop|a fuel storage superintendent, $1.94; Iran forthwith from iis agenda. The and carpsnter foremen, $1.62. Iranians have formally withdrawn| ——————— nine . Alaskan locations for posi- tions in the new Army Engineer postwar construction program in Alaska, the Seattle District U. 8. AT MEET'NG cent greoss bonus in addition to the annual salary listed: mechani- . cal engineers $3,640; x-ray techni- tal cian, $3320; electrical engineer, Program Calls for Decision &igsn: * “srenstecturai enginesrs, H H $3,640; architectural, eclectrical and Iran Case with SpflfllSh structural draftsmen, $2650; en- neering aides, $1,902 axd $2,100; and computers, $2,320. fronting it his week. One is gen system servicer, $131: senior whether to drop the Russian-Iran-|e€lectr ,'$1.50; electrician lineman, jan case now; the other is Franco $158; aircraft sheetmetal repair- Spain. man and manufacturer, $145. That is the order the cases are] Needed with annual salary listed slated to come up. The Council|including 25 percent bonus are will end a long Easter we d | lithographic plateman, $2,900; litho- recess tomorrow at 3 p. m. (EST) S with its program calling for immed-{and blue print operators $2,625. aven-delegate world peace agency|$3,640; annual salary plus 25 pore into the |cent. Spanish situation. { Needed in the Aleutians at Ft. It appears there is little murchlemL Amchitka, Attu, Adak and than a formality left to the Iran-|Ft. Randall at hourly rates are car- ian problem, unless scme delegates| penters, $1.50; plumbers, $1.68, and choosz to make long addresses to,electricians, $1.68. support their actions. In addition to carpenters, plumb- The problem, in brief, is whether fers and electricians at A'cutian the complaint against Russia which o they lodged in London last JanuA; K 0“0““0"5 |ary 18. The Russians have r2port- led an agreement with Iran and {hav> demanded that the council cease making Iran its business. poration 7', American Can 98%%, But the council apparently willl anaconda 477, Commonwealth and |sustain its action of April 4 inigouthern 4%, Curtiss-Wright T, |shelying the case until May 6, al|rntematicnal Harvester 95%, Ken- stock today is 9, Alleghany Cor- |whether ~Russia has completely| Northern Pacific 30%, United Cor- levacuated Iran as Russia promised.|poration 5%, U. S. Steel 84%, e B | Pound $4.03%. oxygen plant operator, oxy-! aphic press operatoers, photostate, which time it expects a YePOrtinecoty 59, New York Central 27%,| RUSSIANS OPEN FIRE U.S. PLANE Four Fighters Take Shofs at ! Army Transport Land- ing Near Vienna VIENNA, April 22—Four Rus-| | sian fighter planes made runs'on a; U. 8. Army C-47 transport and ! fired from two to four 37 millime- | ter shots off the plane’s wing today* {as it came into the U. 8. Army | airport at Tullen, just outside VI» { enna. Airmen at the field identified the | fighters as P-39s furnished to Rus- {sla by American lend-lease. The| | four followed the transport right| {to the field, leaving only after it had touched ground. The C-47 was | |on a test run and carried no pas- | { sengers, | Because the airport is inside the |R an cccupstion zone, the Rus- a ! sians have prescribed strict regula- | tions for the operation of American aircraft. However, the pilot said he| was within the 10-mile area round | the airfield prescribed for American | yplanes by the Russians when the | fighters appeared. 1946 SWIM | ACTION DEMANDED { WASHINGTON, April 22—Sena-|~—~ tor Bridges (R-NH) declared lodsyl |that “irresponsible” attacks by Rug- sian fliers on American planes must istcp and called on government o |ficials to take action on the late: | incident. 2 { | Bridges told wie Senate he as in-/ formed an American transport plane flying near Vienna, within a' zone in which such flights are per- mitted, had been attacksd and fir-| ed upen by four Russian .Jfghters.. “Thes2 incidents, occurring one after the other, have got to stop,” Bridges shouted. “It is up to the United States government to see that they do stop. This irrespon- |sible attacking of American boys! land American planes just can't | keep on.” i | i Four Foreig;n_idinisters fo Meet in Paris-Great Issue af Stake (BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER) WASHINGTON, April 22.—Secre- .tar of State Byrnes sets out for {Paris tomorrow and another try at world peace-making, gravely aware /by his own account of the possi- bilities of failure. The secretary is slated to reach 'Paris in amp'e time to btegin on | Thirsday a series of critical con- ferences with Foreign Ministers Mo~ .o Food Drive - Will Start ~ MayTwelv Every berson in U. S. Wil | Be Asked to Contribute jand Bidault of | Some of Byrne and advisers are talking of this meeting as a possible turning point in’ the history of World War II. They suggest that actually it v e |would mark the end of efforts by | | Britain, (Russia and the United ! n Lates' campa|g“ States to work harmoniously to set g |up European peace settlements and WASHINGTON. April 22—EVery t; pujld tha Unitd Nations into a | person in the d States will b":powcrtul agency for maintaining asked to take a direct part in help- the peace once it is created. ;mg feed people in starving lands| Spheres of Influence under a nation-wide food contribu-| ghould this happen, and Byrnes !tion plan oullined today. |himself is reported tc have indi- |~ ‘Secretary of Commerce Henry cated the possibility of a meeting |the “Emergency Food Collection” to the Senat> Foreign Relations i Wallace will serve as Chairman of |committee last Friday, it probably | campaign, which begins May 12 would result in open and unlimited | “with every comimunity mobilized.” creation of spheres of influence — This country’s people will be re- 'something the United States thus | quested to contribute “either food far has opposed whereier possible. |canned in tin or money to buy!Also it would lick America and France. | focd,” Wallace said in a statement Britain even more tightly in com-| NEW YORK, April 22.—Clnslng‘ quotation of Alaska Juneau mine, accepting the chairmanship. imon interests and policies than Local chairmen in the recent Vic- they now are. |tory Clothing Collection in 19,597| 1In fact, even if tb | cities and towns will be asked to do not cevelop, the Paris confei | serve in the food drive. lence may sce the United 8tates - - imaking one of its strongest moves 2 PRIS lin defense of Britain’s Empire in- terests. There are increasing evidences-— {among them grave American con- cern over Russ s position in Iran SUITS —marki THIS WEEK |lotev of Russie, Bevin of Britain " closest associates extremes, nned Salmon Induslry Issues Statement About Present Strik PORTANT e of 10 The following explanatory state- ment has been issued at Seattle by | W. C. Arnold, Managing :Director of the Alaska Salmon {ndmry; Inc.: “In order tai all Sldskieof the nery Workers and the Alaska Sal- mon Industry may be presented to the people of Alaska we have is- sued th following statement to the Associated and United Press and alsp wired same to all daily news- pepers in A.aska: . “The 2.0 Cannery Worker~' Un- ion claims to be on strike against the Alaska Salmon Industry and | has picketed the Seattle watertront | where commercial steamships are loading for Alaska. The facts are as foliows: . “(1)—The strike, if there Le a strike, is in direct violation of an existing and unexpired contract which provides for an automatic raise in wages to compensate for increased living costs. The contraet guarantees pay scales, working con- ditions and union security equal or better than enjoyed by any cannery workers anywhere in the world. “(2)—Contracts with similar pro- visions as to expiration and auto- matic pay increases are in effect with all of the major unions, both AFL and CIO whose members are employed in the Alaska canneries, “All cther such unjons including Alaska Fishermens' Union, Mach- inists’ Union, Carpenters’ Union, Radio Operators’ Union have agieed to go north this season un- der these centracts. “3)—No members of the CIO Cannery Workers’ Union are pre- sently employed by the industry and will not be fer another twenty or thirty days. Most of the work- ers in this group do not leave for Alaska until June or July. Eighty percent of the union membership is now in California working in the asparagus and lettuce fields and will not arrive in Seattle for gome weeks. “(4)—The effect of the picket line is to withhold critical food | | | | | | supplies and other. needed cargo frem the people of Alaska. If the picket line continues it will re- sult in serious curtailment of the Alaska Salmon production, one- third of which has been ordered {set aside for government use and distribution among the starving peoples of the world. “(5)—Further delay "in the re- controversy bétween {he CIO Can-! ng the return of two-way stretch swim suits, these Los Angeles models demonstrated some of the newest styles. Left to right, Robin Wood, Phyllis Young, Marjorie Saunderson, Angela Fo:sler, Mary Lou Bennett, Betty Maire, Sylvia Morrison, Jean Chester, Connie Cezon, Mary Talent, Linda Cornell and Shirley Bright. ANCHORAGE HAS MORE - TROUBLES Restaurant Empioyees Ouf . -Also Elediricians and . < - A ANCHORAGE, Aliska, April 33— More strike groubles. piled up today en Anchorage citizens, who kegan to recover Saturday ifrom a long- choremen’s strike only to have res- taurant employees walk out in de- !mand for increased pay. | Electricians and telephone op- crators went on strike this morn- ing, alsc to enforez demands for higher wages. Three telephone girls remained on duty during the day to answer emergency calls while city street department workers were manning the city's electrical system to pre- vent water ‘pumps from going dead. Officials said operations of the lighting system will “continue until something goes wrong, then there will be no maintenance crews to 1cpair the damage. The electricians are asking $2.10 an hour instead of the present $1.75. |The city 1is offering them $1.98. The phone girls have company offer for an of 25 cents an hour. BULLETINS increase rejected a ARGE FREIGHT FROM NORTH SEA UNLOADING BIG CARGO, CITY DOCK Longshoremen Work Here ~ Mixup in Orders Is Cause Brief Delay BULLETIN—At 2:30 o’clock this afternoon, all troubles were reported eliminated and as scon as a longshore crew could be assembled, discharging of freight from the North Sea would proceed at 7 o'clock to- night, George Ford, TLWU delegate, brought word from Ketchikan that scnt Juneau’s longshore- men back on the job unloading the North Sea. The steamship will sail early tomorrow “if she is unloaded by then,” company spokesmen said. Ford arrived from Ketchikan at 2:15 pm. today. ! Juneau's ILWU longshoremen | abruptly stopped unloading the Northland Transportation Com- i pany's North Sea at 8:00 a.m. today after seven and cne-half hours' work, although the 19 day water- ! front strike was reported settled Saturday, A picket line has been thrown around the dock. Hank Green, Northland agent here, said the company had signed Ag! its . did not {uniloading. but presumed the - I page was cansed by some errer. | notification which he described hs 1a “techmicality.” ! Prior to the 8:30 am. stoppage { union membeis unloaded approxi- ’mltuly 70 tons of a 600 ton cargo, ‘including meat, eggs, butter, vege- | tables, cement, plaster and mls- {cellaneous items, Merchants who ,were on the waterfront before 8:30 {am. today were able to pick up i their goods, but there have been 'no store pick-ups or deliveries since. | At Ketchikan, the Taku is re- | ported in an Associated Press dis- i patch to have been discharged last Saturday. | To the westward, at Seward, the | Clove Hill and Victoria were to be | docked and freight discharged. Four Army transports were also 'at Seward to be discharged. LONGSHORE AGREEMENT Ai Ketchikan, last Saturday, i Steve Glumaz, International Long- ¢shoremen’s and Warehousemen's {Union (CIO) ' representative, and Lester O. Gore, representing the Waterfront Employers, issued a joind statement today announcing an agreement had been reached to end | | MADRID--Spain’s Public Works | the Joj M.Xmster denies the Spanish Gov-‘i u; w:.mz.p.;:,‘f :‘:-‘ t"h.:.,:‘_“ ernment was a threat to- world’ The agreement provided for a peace and said that the Franco, K wage scale of $1.32 an hour for regime interiaed to remain in pow- igiraight time -and: $1.98 for over- er regardless of any action taken time, retroactive to April 1. by the United Nations, even econ- cmic sanctions. f LONDON—Lord Keynes, 62-year- old international financier who was one of the principal negotiators for Britain's proposed $4,400,000,000 loan from the U. S, now pending in . Washington, died yesterday after a heart attack at his home in Sussex. OTTAWA—Canada has decided to make available a further 5,000, 000 bushels of oats and about 2,- 500,000 bushels of lower grade wheat for relief of the world food shortage. LONDON—The Moscow radio, in 1a renewed attack on Turkey, as- !serts that nine-tenths of Turkish In the mean‘tlme the question as to whether wage increases and weo wenefits granted Pacific coast longshoremen should apply to Alaska longshore workers and i be retroactive to October 1, 1944, | will be submitted to arbitration. Dr. Vern Mund of Seattle was uamed arbiirator with authority to set all times for filing of any briefs or statements which the longshore- men or employers desire to file, Steamers Start Loading Following the announcement of 1 the longshore strike agreement, the IAluh Steamship Company an- | nhounced Saturday that three ships, ithe Cordova, Denali and Columbia | would begin -loading immediately. The Cordova, verthed at pler 56, will deliver her freight in Kodiak i Lodge, Jr., fo Seek ! Sales today were 1,210,000 shares. !as follows: industrials 207.99, rails utilities 43.76. Dow, Jones averages today are; GUNS, GRENADES STAGE RIOT; USE | urtil the Red Army began to g€l sumption of = shippin, F3 B g to Alaska out — that American otficlals CUr-que to the tactics of the CIO Can- ;en:ly regard th2 B:‘&‘J-}VE:‘F"?"nery Workers will increase the system as one of the bulwarks offsnefion which already exists be- jwill seek his fifth term. SeiinU. §. Senale . BOSTON, April 22—Henry Catot; Lodge, Jr, who resigned in the| . seco%)d year of his sefond term as|Deau mine stock Saturday was 9%, U. S. Senator to enter the army in| 1944, has announced his candidacy for that seat in this year's election. He will be running against Sena- ter ‘David I. Walsh (D) 73-year- old veteran chairman of the Een- ate Naval Affairs committee, who PRICES SATURDAY can Can 99, Anaconda 49, Common- wealth and Southern 4%, Curtiss- | Wright 7%, International Harvester 95%, Kennecott 59%, New York ‘Cemral 28%, Northern Pacific 30%, kUmzed Corporation 5%, U. 8. Steel 85, Pound $4.03%. ———————— Sales Saturday were 770,000 E. J. ASSELIN ARRIVES shares. E. J. Asselin of Skagway has ar- Dow, Jones averages Saturday rived and is registered at the Bar-|were as follows: industrials 208.06, anof, rails 65.37, utilities 43.75. Closing quotation of Alaska Ju-| | Alleghany Corporation 7%, Ameri-| world order which the United States cannot afford to have weak- ened at an strategic peint i MILAN, Italy, April 22—A mob| of 2500 rioting prisoners armed {with light machine guns and hand grenades held control of the Vit- | tore jail here today. | ‘Ten guards were taken as host- lgaes . when the prisoners started their revolt yesterday. They call- ed upon Milanese Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster to act as inter- mediary. Police and army units surround-| technical area telephone office. ed the jail, where 20 persons were! He reported to the non-commis- reported wounded. Many of the|sioned officer in charge of the of- prisoners are being held on politi-|fice, T-Sgt. Nellie M. Rushing— lcal charges. his daughter. o HER TURM NO LOS ALAMOS, N. M.—Sgt. Randolph Rushing, army signal | corps, arrived ‘at the Los Alamos | atomic bomb project to work in the tween the people of Alaska and | the non-resident cannery workers i controlled by unions with head- I quarters in Seattle.” ‘Associated Press Members Meeting NEW YORK, April 22—Members (of the Associated Press gathered for their annual meeting today, ush- ering in a week of activity for the 'netion’s newspaper executives. exports during the war were used i 4 |0 supply the Nazis, !;’:,‘;‘,};",f""‘ NP9 Joving o il | LONDON—A U. S. Army Court- ‘_w,mk?;'::"nl::‘x At {martial has convicted Staff S8t jnculg ports. and is scheduled to Jumes M. Jones of Muskogee, Okla., sail April 26. The Columbia berth- cn three specificalions charging eq ot Pier 50, will go to Cordova, simple assault on American army . yvaldes Seward and Prince William prisoners at the Lichfield Deten- | gound cannery ports and is posted tion Camp and sentenced him t0 g, gai April 24, Any additional | six months at hard labor. cargo for/the'Odlumbia will be e WASHINGTON—Secretary of the' "e;: ':’Ll:!oo:::‘fl::nnnnoed that the Interior Krug says the soft coal Baranof will sall May } for Ketch- strike has cost the nation 31,652000 jxan Juneau, Yakutat, Cordova, tons of coal or more of a 1085 than valdez and Seward and.the Lakina lim all 1945 work stoppages. Krug !, 27 sland noted in a statement that the 1845 c:.: Inlet ::,:ndhk : by i loss due to strike’ was 29981000 _ . - tons. (Continued on Page Eight) l