The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1946, Page 1

A /7 THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” £ VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,251 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS CHIEF JUSTICE HARLAN STONE | DIES SUDDENLY DiSenter of U. S, Highest | Tribunal Stricken on Bench, Passes Away o WASHINGTON, April 23.—Chief MJustice Harlan F. Stone's sudden «jdeath cut the disagreeing Supreme Court to a seven-man tribunal to- day and stirred wide speculation on President Truman’s posslble; choice for the nation’s highest ju- | dicial place. ! The hard-working, 73-year-old | Stone fired two dissenting opinions ~@t his colleagues in a prolonged court’ session yesterday, then fal- | , tered over the first of three ma- | jority opinions he had prepared. | £ He paled and his first words trail- | ed off. i Dies Suddenly ! The court session was halted) abruptly. Dectors found Stone nau- seated. They said he had indiges- | tion. He was taken home. A few | hours later his secretary announced | { his death from “a massive cerebral hnemorrhage.” Mr. Truman, who learned of the Chief Justice’s death aboard the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roose- velt, termed it “a grievous loss to the country” and said he was “ter- | ribly shocked.” The President left Washington Sunday to observe na- val maneuvers off the Virginia coast. | The first wave of speculation ! *touched off by Stone’s death cen-| , tered oa the possibility that Mr.| Truman might designate a Repub- | 1, lican to fill the court vacancy but elevate one of the seven Democrats now on the bench to Chief Justice. Sugcessor o ¥ Among the latter, Assoclate Jus-' tices Willlam O. Douglas, Robert H. Jackson and Felix Frankfurter were mentioned most ‘prominently | and in that order. Other Democrats | DOLL COLLECT!ION — yackie Knowles holds two dolls from the Nettie Shyne collec~ i { tion, exhibited at the recent national antiques show IRW EXPRESS - THREATENED - BY STRIKE Nation Already Has 740,- 000 Idle as Result of Labor Disputes (BY THME ASSOCIATED PRESS) Siyty-five thousand employees of the ilway Express Agency, Inc., theig union president predicted to- day, Il strike at 12:01 a.m. Fri- day,fin a dispute over wages. He | said express service will be paralyz- {ed “unless some steps be taken immgdiately.” #sident George M. Harrison of | the AFL Brotherhood of Railway | cinngti that the trend of the strike | vote in progress since last Friday, indicated that “the employees are {in np mood to brook any further ALASKA SHIPPING TIED UP and Steamship Clerks, said in Cin- | Grbmyk‘o_o-me More Assails SIandng.S. Renewed bemands Made for Dropping Iran Case from UNSC Agenda | 1 | | { | NEW YORK, April 23.—Russia !charged today that “some mem- bers” of the United Nations Secur- BY PICKETS (laims Alaska Cargols [TONGASSONLY Not Discharged Because (IO‘ Pi(kelslnlerlerring'fon SAILING The following statement, sign- ed by W. C. Arnold, Managing Di- rector of the Canned Salmon In- dustry, Inc., was rcceived by the Empire today: “The Alaska Salmon Industry re- ceived word today that cargo is not being discharged in Southeast Alas- |ka ports because of a picket line established by the CIO Resident Cannery Workers of Southeast Alas- ka. “This is the first intimation to |the Industry that any dispute ex- |ists with reference to the CIO res- ident workers in the Southeast Alaska canneries. | “The contract Letween the in- dustry and these workers is still in |effect and provides for ah auto- ! matic increase in wages for the 1946 season. “No request or demand has been | | delay of settling their demands for ity Council “appear to doubt the made for a change in the terms | wage: increases.” son said the strike was or- in New York. idemfmr the company refused to KIDNAPING 1S Millionsof FEARED,ROXAS Children in GOES HIDING Nee@lfood Presidenliarc_andidate in Adviser to Herberf Hoover Philippines Skips as Makes His Report on Voters Go fo Polls European Conditions 23. — A MANILA, April rumor adviser to Herbert Hoover on child CAIRO, April 23—Maurice Pate,! | grant the 16 cents an hour wage incremse recently awarded railroad workérs by a national mediation board. He said the board would be advised of the union’s strike vote. WHEAT, CORN | i | The threat of the nationwide ! walkout was the major develop- | ment on the labor front as govern-' | ment, officials continued efforts to lARGE ONES settle the country’s main dispute, the strike of 400,000 soft coal min- ers. Leaders in the dispute appar- Optimistic Prediction Made Affer Survey of ently paid no heed to UNRRA's ap- peal for a partial resumption of coal production to help speed fam- ine shipments. The 23-Gay 'work stoppage by | the' AFL United Mine Workers has H 1 | made idle an additional 100,000 This Nation | workerst i reated ndusicis e i boosting the total idle because of WASHINGTON, April 23.—Under- | jabor disputes to about 740,000. secretary of Agriculture N. E. 7 on the bench are Hugo Black, who that he might be kidnaped sent now is first in seniority; smnley‘prcsideminl candidate Manuel Rox- F. Reed, Frank Murphy and Wiley as scurrying into hiding today as Rutledge. ‘nem'ly 3,000,000 Filipinos quietly Talk of Republican candidates elected leaders to guide them in the ; for the Tribunal usually started off first years of their independence. with the name of Secretary of War| The grounds of Roxas' residence Robert P. Patterson. | were ominous with machine guns The last job Stone completed on|and’a detachment of the Philip- the High Bench yesterday—the Pine army, but the city was unu- reading of a dissenting opinion— sually quiet. His secretary, Alfre- was symbolic of some of the court' do Jacinto, explained that Roxas work which won him greatest fame.' Was in hiding because he heard A prolific dissenter in his 21 years | “three men from the Province of food problems, said today that be- Dodd said today there is a “good| tween 20 and 30 million children|chance” that this year’s wheat and| in Europe urgently need food—“the!corn crops will be the largest in most poignant human problem in|the country’s history. Europe today.” Dodd, who is acquainted with| He estimated that two to three more farmers and agricultural ad-| Hundred million dollars are needed | justment ' agency committeemen for an adequate supplementary than perhaps any man in govern- {{seding program in Europe and ment, based his optimistic predlc-! ‘recommended that it consist of at tions on reports he has received| least one meal daily of 600 calories,|in recent weeks from all parts of | | Pate, a New York investment the country. | banker who headed the Polsh| He said the early spring season |child feeding program after the|had enabled farmers to get a fine | TOUGH FIGHT IS SEEN FO KUNGCHULING “verncny" of Russia and Iran and {assailed the United States position on the Iranian case as “illogical.” Vigorously renewing his coun~ try’s demand that the council drop the Iranian case immediately, An- drei A. Gromyke, Soviet delegate, said that “new attempts are being made to find reasons for keeping this case on the agenda.” He said attempts to keep the dis- pute on the agenda “are doomed to failure” and that these attempts are “likely to have the most ic- grettable conseguenc | The Russian delegate said that ‘the position taken by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr, U. 8. delegate, against Rt 'S Rme A\ Stettinius took " Gromyko and said that he again jwas unable to agree with the argu- ments set forth by Gromyko. | Stettinius said that the United | States delegation saw no need of Ireversing the council’s decision of April 4, by which the council agreed to selve the Iranian case until May 6. | He also expressed opposition to the resolution presented by Henri Bonnet, French delegate, which would have the U. N. secretary |gather information *for a council |report to the U. N. General Assem- bly next Sept. 3. | Stettinius said that the Bonnet iresolution would in effect reverse the decision of April-3 and drop of that contract. ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS SHIP POSTED Two Steamship Companies Make Statement on Future Schedules SEATTLE, April 23—The 88 Ton- gass wil sall Wednesday night or Thursday morning for Alaska with a |cargo of food supplies and 12 passengers, marking a resumption of shipping to the Territory after !a three weeks long strike by long- shoremen in Alaska. ‘The ship will discharge freight (at Ketchikan, Petersburg, Juneau, . Haines, Skagway and Sitka to re- lieve the Territory's serious short-, age of perishable foods. Some (perishables have been shipped north ;by air and fishing vessels were to carry small tonnages, A cannery workers strike, how- lever, brought a doubt that other | “There have been no negotiations ships would follow the Tongass and no request for negotlations. “The earliest canning date in Southeast Alaska is July 5 and it will be approximately 75 days be- fore any of these workers can go on the job. “The inference is clear that the dispute - which is preventing the discharge of vessels in Ketchikan and Juneau and possibly other Alaskan town was inspired by the International Officers of the Can- nery Workers in order to protect their untenable position in the port of Seattle where they are picketing commercial steamship lines with whom they bave Do contrayers STATEMENT ISSUED: {lued this afternoon by the repre- sentatives of the Alaska Marine Workers' Union which explains the !immediately, the Alaska Steam- ship Company and the Northland Transportation Cempany saying they planned no sallings until ,“pickets are removed from In front of our docks.” Demanding a wage increase of 30 percent, Alaska salmon cannery Wi rs here have picketed ships W carry cannery supplies. No progress has been reported in nego- tiagions, The strike began at mid- night Saturday. e present situation: * { i | “This Union, as successor to Alas- ka Salmon Purse Seiners Union (AFL) and Alaska Native Brother- hood, has all the rights, privileges and duties of the cannery wbrkers contracts of those two organiza- tions with Alaska Salmon Indus-' try, Inc, at all points In South- :eul Alaska. | | “Upon careful legal advice both in Seattle and Juneau, we consider that we are bound-by such con- {tracts until the cessation of hos- Govemmonfiooncv Gel- . ting Busy on Material: for Cheaper Suifs WASHINGTON, April 23.—The men's sult shortage moved up for top attention a8 the govern- ment counted on new ; : i ; Chinese Govt. First Army on the Bench, Stone had the per- | Bulacan” planned to kignap him. o 0% o B0, M hcu 4™ Current Istart on planting operations. Y i case trom the agends. emergency measures to help eaes haps unprecedented privelege of | Roxas, who 1s President of the seeing two of his dissenting opin- | Territorial Senate, earlier had con- ions later become the law of the!ceded that President Sergio Os- » land. | mena would win four provinces, but Opposed Salute claimed victory for himself by 300,~ In one of these he opposed the 000. child health and food conditions in Poland, Finland, Sweden, Nor- United States Netherlnuds,“grain producing countries must pro- | Eelgium, Denmark, Germany, Aus- duce bumper crops this yesr i way, England, the tria, Yugoslavia and Greece. Moves fo Meet Com- munisfs in Area CHUNGKING, April Food officials have said the| and other major, current famine conditions in the| 23. — The (tilities 1s proclaimed by President Truman, which proclamation has not yet occurred. Whilé we be- lieve that there are inequities in the contracts which both parties are now peacefully trying to reconcile, ———————— BULLETINS WASHINGTON—The 7,000,000th (Continued on Page Eight) “The worst conditions were found in Poland, which has the greatsst needs,” he said in a report sub- Reports reaching Malacanan Pal-| ace from throughout the islands said the situation was quiet as the {war-torn areas are to be averted! , ! 'next year. . | People’s Daily said today the van- | N s i s & |guard of the Government's First " American soldier to be discharged since May 12, 1945, was released yesterds:, ‘yet we will evidence our good union responsibility to Alaska and to our members by continuing to ob- Iserve the cannery workers contracts. another clothing scarcity—in low- cost cotton apparel. ‘The Civiliay, Production Admin- istration began analyzing reports from 80 manufacturers on why output of inexpensive suits fell nearly a million garments shy of the 3,500,000 goal set for the first three months of this year. | polls closed early tonight. mitted ‘to Hoover, honorary chair- | predieted bitter fighting would fol- | Prom this spot cheek, the agency i i 1 1 1 o The Washington Merry - Go- Round " By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Tnere was an important secret conference be- tween Secretary of State James Byrnes and four Senate leaders just before the State Department finally announced its change to a friendlier Argentine policy. “The four Senators were: Tom Connally of Texas, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee; Walter George of Georgia; ‘Wallace White, Senate Republican Leader; and Warren Austin of Ver- | mont, also Republican. In order to avoid the press, the meeting took place at Blair House, the mansion across from the State 4 partment reserved for entertain- visiting potentates. Secretary + Byrnes arrived especially armed for the fray. Thinking that the Sena- ‘' tors wanted to query him about Russia, he brought a portfolio fill- ed with Russian data. ‘When he started to talk on Rus- sia, however, Senator Connally stopped him. man of the U. S. Famine Eme Newspapers estimated that more { gency Committee. | than 70 percent of this city’s 100,-; v iOOO-plus registrants voted. He said in a press conference { Manila returns were expecied 10 that the situation in Germany is ibe complete by 3 a.m. Wednesday |practically the same as in Poland, { 2 pm. Tuesday, Eastern Standard |put added: “The Germans are ket- | Time), but some sources estimated iter organizers and are making the |it would require several days to best of what they get.” report results from distant islands! o — |of the sprawling archipelago. | i | e i | ‘Mussolini's Body Taken from Grave, "Unknown’ Persons MILAN, April 23—Milan Munici- | K I l I' S N I N E | pal authorities reported today thati | the body of Benito Mussolini was| SHANGHAI, April 23.—A 19-year- removed during the night from old seaman killed nine shipmates Maggiore Cemetery here by “un-|{and wounded a tenth in a berserk known” persons. |blaze of gunfire aboard an LST in An inquiry to ascertain the re-'the Yangtze River today, then sponsibility was underway. The dis- |stabbed himself. covery was made by workers who| The Navy announced that the |were in the cemetery to exhume sailor was L. B. Smith, seaman sec- | other bodies. lend class of Asheville, N. C. er’s grave in the cemetery soon bing ended, the Navy said, when {after his execution by part\sans"smnh was disarmed by an unnam- RUNS AMUCK, | Mussolini was buried in a paup-: ‘The orgy of shooting and stab-; Dls(lpll"[ F | Army had reached Kungchuling, it {low. Eighty thousand Communist i i troops are reported concentrated - CONGRESSMEN IS e e | The dispatch, which gave no de- tails, was dated Peiping, site of the | | BE'"G ADvo(A'EDisino-Amemnn truce headquarters {and source of much news of Man- Secrefary of Commerce churia, j Kungchuling is 40 miles south of | Wallace Makes Im- porfant Speech | 1sts, and is about 30 miles north of A QSupmxm, for which Government SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.—Scc- and Chinese Red armies are fight- retary of Commerce Henry A. Wal-{ing. Presumably, a portion of the lace reiterated his proposals for;First Army by-passed Szepingkai Democratic party diseipline and ad-1 to reach Kungchuling. vocated easier means for forcing] Meanwhile, the armed thrust of {bills to the House and Senate floors| Communists elsewhere - in rich 'in a speech here last night. | Manchuria, and peace parleys in ; The idea of party responsibility,| Chungking moved ahead, with no Wallace said, is 50 non-controversial | indication when either would reach |“that even Republicans have sub-|a climax, scribed to it.”” He attributed to! General Marshall continued his ‘[ormer Presidents Hoover and Cool-:‘euorg to achieve a truce, and |idge statements favoring such re-|awaited the reply of Chinese Com- sponsibility. {munists to his demand for proof Wallace's proposal last month|or retraction of their charge that {was that the Democratic party! American’ planes had attacked |should discipline its members in|them, {Congress for support of the party's| American Army, Navy and Mar- {legislative program caused a furore | ine headquarters said none of their |among elements of Congress, but|planes had been in the Szepingkai |the Secretary stuck by his guns f0r| area, where the Communists al- | party discipline last night. leged they had been strafed last I | }tnl recently captured by Commun- | | Chungehun, the Manchurian cnpi-’ MANAGUA, Nicaragua —Sixteen persons were reported killed last night when a TACA Airlines plane crashed and burned near Libertad, |50 miles east of here. } PUEBLO, Colo.—They grow ’em | tough in Pueblo. The city is build- ing additional fenecing at City Park in petting the lions. Chief Justice Harlan P. Stone will be held at 2 pm. (EST) Thursday iin the Washington Cathedral. Bur- 1al to be in a Washington cemetery, still to be selected, MANILA — Unofficial returns from 67 precincts out of more than 4,000 in Tuesday’s election gdve Manuel Roxas 6,317 and President Sergio Osmena 2,794 for the Presi- dency . of the Philippines. Manila apparently is giving Roxas a heavy lead. diclary Committee today approved House-passed legislation surrend- ering to the states any Federal claim to the tidelands and their oil deposits. The vote in Committee WASHINGTON—The Senate Ju- | ‘This, of course, includes claiming the benefit of the “escalator” clause providing for a 10 percent increase in 1946. | “All AMWU locals have been in- 'structed to disregard FTA-CIO picket lines wherever found, and to kegin pre-season work immed- fately. It is expected that such in the Ketchikan area but at other !points bona fide FTA-CIO ‘mem- gible. “The Alaska Marine Workers Union AFL is exclusively an Alas- ka Unjon working for the benefit of Alaska and its population.s A strike at this time is extremely damaging for it stops all cannery improvements in housing and sani- tation, such as are extensively need- ed and planned by canneries. A de- lay now is mot a delay of a few 'weeks but 1s a delay of a year. PTA-CIO striking at this time plac- es the entire burden on Alaskans land none on themselves.” —Wm. L. Paul, Jr. | et STOCK o_tgmlous' NEW YORK, April 23.—Closing | expects to learn in the next few days just what new steps may have to be taken to bring production up to schedule. A ‘The survey i8 being made at the insistence of Maj. Gen. Graves B. Erskine, chief of the Retraining ,and Re-employment Administra- ‘tlon. Recently Erskine contended to prevent visitors from persisting Policy will cause considerable clashthat many veterans had to tum ,down jobs because they could not find proper clothing. WASHINGTON—The funeral of bership 15 so small as to be negli-! On the cotton clothing front, tke government turned last night to & combination of price increases and ‘restoration of wartime production controls in the latest of a series _of actions to obtain more yarn and (fabrics for shirts, underwear, pa- jamas, drestes and work clothing. The aim, is a 80 percent increass /in output of low-cost garments. | OPA ordered reinstatement May 1 of a-spindle “freeze” which ap- iplies to machines producing more {than 20 percent of the nation's cotton yarn. Under the order, which had been dropped last Aug- ust, spindles diverted to output of iless essential yarn must be turred 'back to important types produced ,at the end of 1945. b l And to make it easier, OPA granted a five percent “incentive” increase in price ceilings for cot- was announced as 8 to 6 in favor quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ton yarn needed for inexpensive “Just a minute,” said the gentle- |near the Swiss border in April 1945. ed sailor, himself mortally wound-| He did not, however, reiterate ) wednesday and Friday. 1 man from Texas. “We want to talk| The bodies of Claretta Petacci,iedv and was floored by a metal specifically his earlier suggestion . et to you ibout Argentina.” his actress mistress, and five bench weided by Kenneth M. that Senators and Representatives IUR"A B ou]_ WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 23—/ of recommending the bill to the stock today is 9, Alleghany Cor- garments. Senate for floor consideration. | poration 6%, American Can 96,| e e e ‘Anacond: 47%, Commonwealth Andl ANNE HOPE IN TOWN ABSENTEE VOTING | Southern 4%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, | International Harvester 95%, Ken- Juneau voters in the Territorial necott 58%, New York Central 27%, Whereupon the Senators express- | henchmen who were executed at|Stalnecker, 18, seaman second class who oppose their own parties onj ed ‘the vigerous opinion that a con- the same time were buried near 0f Reading, Pa. Imajor legislation should be banned | stitutionally elected government i is grave. Brought to tke Navy hospital from seeking election on their par- Mrs. Anna Hope, a resident of i Argentina deserved U. S. recogni-| tion, and further intimated that if | the State Department didn't re-| sume full diplomatic relations there might be some vigorous statements on the Senate floor. -> - R. O. BROWN ARRIVES R. O. Brown, a resident of Cor- dova, arrived here yesterday. Dur- ing his visit in this city he is stay- ing at Hotel Juneau. (Crmlinu;ri‘r;l Page -Fourl | |ship Repose in Shanghai Harbor, ty tickets. Smith was given a 50-50 chance, “The most effective way to dis- ito survive three deep gashes in“(ipune a member who has turned the upper abdomen inflicted with his back upon his party is to deny |his own knife. |him committee appointments,” he A year ago girls at the Wilkes- Barre YMCA couldn't find enough male partners for their dancmg! class. Today the class was discontinued The LST 72, anchored far Yangtze from Shanghai. shooting occurred on the told a rally sponsired by the Na- up ~but not because of a man-power shortage. Of 72 registrants, only the tional Citizens Political Action com- five were girls. jmmee here. Primary Election who mnay not be in town on April 30 may cast an absentee vote at the U..S. Com- missioner’s Office, Commissioner Felix Gray says. done s0. itka, has arrived and is registered the Baranof. pRA . IS IR Y FROM ANNETTE ISLAND Northern Pacific 20%, United Cor- poration 5%, U. S. Steel 831, Pound $4.03%. | Sales today were 1,380,000 nnred Dow, Jones averages today were | A number of voters have already as Tollows: industrials 20731, rails Annette Island are guests at the 64.87, utilities 43.52. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Morrison of Baranof.