The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” WOL. LXVI, NO. 10,253 PASSENGER . ‘WARNINGTO [Rising Costs, Lo " FISHERMEN OF AMERICA Must Be ‘Constantly Alert fo Keep Nation in First Ranks CHICAGO, April 25.—American fishermen must be “constantly .alert” to keep the nation ranking first among world fish producers, | ‘Rep. Schuyler Otis Bland (D-Va) | chairman of the House Merchant et Marine and Fisheries committee,; wsaid today. | In an address prepared for the| first annual convention of the Na-| tional Fisheries Institute, Bland as- serted, “Heretofore, our American fishing products have been largely| sold within the United States. | “Since foreign producers are try-|L. Lewis, President of the AFL- ing to share our markets, the|United Mine Workers, insists the American fishing industry must be 400,000 striking bituminous workers constantly alert and be always on will continue their strike—outlast- COAL MINERS Lewis Declares Men Wil Not Refurn Unfil De- mands Are Met HAZLETON, Pa., April 25.—John its toes if we are to maintain ourling the mine operators—until con-| present position as the leading fish tract demands are met. producer of the world.” ! “It may be a week, a month ar He continued, “England is mak- even rix weeks” Lewis told the ing rapid progress in re-establish- cpening session of the Anthracite ing her fishing fleets. I am told Tri-District Scale convention, “but that Russia today has perhaps operations in the bituminous in- more factory and refrigevationidustry will continue to be stopped. ships than any nation. |Who can operate mines without Foreign Outlook | miners?” “Norway's fishing operations ar¢| The miners’ principal demand on being restored. Iceland, with 62 the operators is establishment of a new quick-freezing plants, is no health and welface fund to be longer finding ready sales in Br\t-;financed by the industry. ain, and is dumping its fish into] Spokesmen for stesl firms in the United States. Several foreign, Pittsburgh, however, reported rap- nations ntly hope to ex- idly shrinking coal reserves threat- eharige Hish " for " Ametican “ened complets - shutdown of many dollars. industrial plants unless the miners In ancther prepared address, J. return to the pits. L. Alphen of New York, President| a0 S of the Institute, said that “The! position in which we find ourselves| J Ap (HE ATS at present is a very favorable one.| We have a market considerably be- low the saturation point, and that| Maj. Matsuo Suicides in Cell-Caused Execution of 14 Americans means new business for all of us| practice, as many other food indus-, SHANGHAL, April 25—~Maj. Cho- tries have been obliged to do, of| cutting into our competitors’ terri- tories. | “Speedy and improved methodsi' of preservation have closed wide| gaps between consumer and the| producer. Air freight will reduce the distance in the postwar era! to an almost meaningless time;, and the universal acceptance of re-| dnjgerated distribution will meke it/ le to provide the highest ty at reasonable costs.” Worker Efficiency, Are Endangering Shipping ARE iETTLED JUNEAU, ALASKA, THU R 2 STRIKES AT ANCHORAGE wered | SAN FRANCISCO, April*25.—The iri ! enine mevcouesnpuing e ElECHTICIANS, Telephone is gravely “endangered by rising| Y'a costs and lowered worker efficien-| operators Re'u”l Stu— cy,” the Federal Fact = Finding| H Board was told by Gregory I-!m-x-i-' den's Are S"" ou' son, counsel for the ?ncmc Water- | front Employers’ Association. ! ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 26.—| | BEdward G. Dobrin, counsel for;High school students remained on the employers, said at the same|“strike” today seeking the ousting | meeting that Alaskan shipping|of Principal Chester Peterson, but trade “cannot continue.to be main- | the city’s electricians and telephone | | tained by private operators in the|operators went back to work us-} face of present conditions brought‘terday after two-day walkouts. 1 on by the rising costs and a de-; The schocl board gave students| |crease in workers' efficiency.” the choice of returning immediately | Investigate Demands to class or of being compelied to| The three-man Federal Board is have their parents personally re-| investigating the demands of Harry| quest readmittance today or later | Bridges' CIO longshoremen for alon. Mosc of the youngsters stayed | wage increase from $1.15 to $1.50 at home yesterday. | per hour. . The students protest the “strict- Testifying in rebuttal for the em-|ness” of Principal Peterson, which | loyers during the fourth day of|includes his objections to girls| the hearing, Harrison said: i wearing slacks. They also ask re-| “Today we cannot operate in the|instatement of three teachers| ilntercoast.al trade and make ends| whose contracts were not renewe meet. A comproinise agreement on wage | “It is nevessary that unit effi-|gemands settled the electrician’s jciency be restored in the handling|girixe atter a day long conference, | jof cargo. For years workers effl-/y,por Cnncillator Leonard Evans| |clency cn the West Comst Water-|g,id, The new wage scale was not | front has been declining. ‘The| announced. | whole history of the industry has| merms which settled the tele- been increased wages and lowered! ppone onerators’ strike were also | productivity.” { withheld. ‘ | Although the International Long-| 3 shoremens & Warehousemen’s Un-j don (ILWU) demands wage parity| 'with the $150 an hour prevailing s in New York, he said, the ILWU, | | WIN FIRST ROUND ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 25.- friking high school students won! RSDAY, APRIL 25, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNK TARIFFS | IS PROPOSAL FOR NATIONS Secrefary ByirnAes Will Pre-| sent Issues at Confer- ence in Paris WASHINGTON, April 25.—A pro- posal that all European countries junk their tariffs in a bid to speed economic recovery of the continent| has been drafted for Secrotary of State Byrnes to lay before his Paris collcagues. | The free trade agreement would extepd over a five-year period. Officials said the proposal is part of an overall plan which Byrnes took to Paris with him for today's cpening of the foreign ministers’ conference designed Big Power deadlock over European | peace settlements, | The plan, however, has divided the Secretary’s advisers. In sup-/| port of it are said to be Under-; retary of State Dean Acheson, Counselor Benjamin Oohen and | to break the| i In order to help the people of Juneau make their yards and homes presentable for Spring,—to make the City of Junepu spick and span,—I hereby proclaim April 27 to May 6 as Clean-Up Week, and call show their community spirit i every way possible. (Signed “Bonus Gal” Assistant Secretary Will Clayton Those described as opposed in: clude Assistant Secretary Jafnes| Dunn and Freeman Matthews, ch of the Department’s Office of ropean affairs. Those two and Co-| hen ‘are in Paris with Byrnes. | ‘The heart of the proposal is that a United Nations regional office | med at Geneva to include| Egropean economic council fune-| i g under the U. N. Economic, and 'Social Council, ‘which has upon all citizens of the City to n this matter and cooperate in ) W. E. HENDRICKSON, Mayor. CITY CLEAN-UP ON SATURDAY Will Conlinu—e_UmiI May 6 ~Mayor Lauds Native Village Clean-Up On Saturday morning Juneau will begin its city-wide Spring | cleaning with every resident and | organization including the Weather | Bureau asked to cooperate. | Mayor Waino Hendrickson said Ithe duties of the Weather Bureau would be minor. All he asked was plenty of sunshine and good wea- ther from Saturday until May 6, when the Clean-up week will close, leaving Juneau attics, basements, | garages, yard areas and all public land property shining with Sprln} cleanliness. It was assumed that the Weather Bureau . was agreeable to taking over this small duty. Sunshine breaking through the mist of Ju-' TO BE STARTED e PRICE TEN CENTS SHIPS FOR ALASKA HELD UP NO SAILINGS FROMSOUTH; - UNION ACTS {Freighters Are Cleared for North with Thousands of Tons Aboard SEATTLE, April 25.—Five ship sailings for Alaska ports with more than 16,000 tons of non-canneiy freight were listed today after an agreement was reached between op- erators and the ciriking CIO-Can- nery workers union, but the union still refused to “clear” passenger ships. be “If they were allowed to sall, the way would be open for the Ishipping of non-union cannery {workers north,” a. spokesman said. | Operators sald the ruling de- prived thousands of Alaska-bound passengers. of transportation. Set- itlement of & longshoremen’s strike {opened Alaska povts only last week |an¢r a three weeks' tie-up, dur- ing which supplies of fresh food land perishables were depleted and .had to be flown in by plane. - | The first sailing scheduled is the Tongass of the Alaska Transporta- {tion Company during today for ‘Haines, Skagway and Sitka with {1,000 tons of food: supplies, general merchandise and construction ment, and 12 passengers; N | Voyager at 6 p. m. Saturday for lxetchlhn. Juneay, Wfit l‘# Moy 4, !Hoonah with 2,600 Sword Knot, Saturday, 'ments preveiliing in New York. The only way that parity can be achiev- “will not accept in whole the agree- the first Tound of their fight todny{he :.'c‘é;‘ fie schoo] board_aunounced | *orngfiasic of the-@enevil Eotncil b o contracts to the o4 pe to tackle European econ- 4 three teachers who earlier this ed is to have New York adopt the week received notice they would! | Pacitic Coast agreement, . or for| i the Pacific Coast to adopt the New [0k Pe employed next year. York agreement in whole.” i y Frank P. Foisie, Waterfront Em-: 1he new wage scales on which ’pxoyers President, asserted that la- telephone operators’ and the City's| |bor treuble and work stoppages led i clectricians’ strikes were settled af-| iby the Bridges' union ware ,thel,"" two day walkouts, were announ- |Liggest factors in the rising long-|c6a today. | !shore accident rate “until lately! The electrical workers' wages, {when we have been able to reduce|range from $1.56 to $240 an hour| 'the rate greatly through the em-|(journeymen, $2.05) by a comprom Iployment of safety ergineers. |ise arrived at Tuesday midnigh 1 v L | Telephone operators’ pay il‘m SUM FOR {from $1.33 to $1.58 an hour. | range: o | HALIBUTCONTROL_ROXAS LEADS IS RECOMMENDED omic problems on a continent-wide basis instead of according to na- |tional political boundaries or the 'geography of river valleys and port Iccations. Four sub-agencies would handle (1)+fuel and power, (2) trade and industry, (3) transport of all sorts, and (4) food. et e SHARP CUT IN FLOUR, rters in New York. | MARION COLBY, New York song- stress, is the latest winner in a poll conducted by former GI writ~ ers and editors. Ex-veterans chose nean today was judged to be an inw i dicatfon of the Bureau's 'deciston| collected trash from house and yard on the sidewalk curb of their property. City trucks will tour the vicinity collecting debris every day during the week. Papers and maga- zines should be placed in a box or cther contalner, or tied with twine so the wind will not scatter them before the collection truck arrives, Bottles, cans, old = shoes, etc. Ketchikan, Juneau and Sitka with 4,000 tons of freight. i The North Bea of this company had been scheduled to sall May but the unions refused to passenger ship for Alaska freighter Square Sennett stituted. The North Sea should be placed in a box or piled as neatly as possible to facilitate the picking up process. Dead branches, leaves and all other win- ter accumulations of trash should be stacked. The Boy Scouts of Juneau have been asked to take over the clean- up job for city parking areas. The |Valdez and Cordova with cargo of 4,000 tons of food iThis vessel i8 the only one |duled for southwestern Alaska. f R e ! i O } WASHI:{GTON, April 25. — An PR_OSPE(T | IN ELECTION, her as ‘“The girl we'd most like to | get a8 a bonus” (International) Cub Scouts will clear branches, pa- | pers, and assembled debris from the | playgrounds at Gold and Piftn |98 |Government Now Pressing , Negotiations _between _the Union without having to resort to the:‘ 20 Matsuo, former legal adviser to 2PPToPriation of $39,700 to continue | oy R AR Streets, and Sixth and East Streets. the Pacific halibut allocation pro-| PIONEERS WILL | MEET TOMORROW| The Pioneets oi Alaska will hold| Matsuo was the second Japanese| the regular monthly meeting to-|to end his life there within & week. ! w night at 8 o'clock in the;Five days ago Gen. Rikichi Keedo,| The auxiliary top Japanese commander on For-| Fellows Hall. will also hold a session at the same The Washington the Japanese military governor of in his Ward Road jail cell. He used a noose fashionzd from strips of torn clothing. moso, died from taking poison. American war crimes officers said they had obtained statements from Matsuo implicating him as one of fthe Japanese responsible for the sham court trial and execution of 14 American fliers forced down in Formosa last June. g L Merry- @i -Round| ' RT OLSON, JR., By DREW PEARSON Note — Drew Pearson's Col- wmn today takes' the form of a Jetter te his younger sister, Mirs. Lockweed Fogg, Jr. of Wallingford Pa, on the occa- sion of the birth of a baby.) ‘Washington.— My dear sister: I don't know whether my family | appreciates my writing letters and| ,then publishing them in the news- ‘papers. My wife and daughter| ithink it is a terrible practice, and | ‘the latter raised cain when I for- got even to send her a carbon of what I sent out to 600 newspapers. Bhe thought I might at least have done her the courtesy of giving her a copy first. However, sometimes I can wri better when.I am talking to mem- _bers of my family, rather than put- ting things down on a cold, imper- sonal page. And today I have been | thinking about two important| events—one the fact that you have Just presented society with a new and charming daughter, and sec- ond, the fact that Jimmy Byrnes is! lltflnadn'nlhl’ullmyt‘pn’y" to begin writing a peace treaty. To the world, at.large, of course, (Continued on Page Fourj JUNEAU, AWARDED |Otsen, Jr, of Juneau, Alaska, has BRONZE STAR MEDAL SEATTLE, April 25—Herbert M. been awarded the - Bronze Star Medal “for meritorious achievement | in military operations against the enemy.” Olsen was staff sergeant of army medics and served two years in the China-Burma-India theatre, being assigned to the division surgeon’s section, Ailr Transport Command,! Calcutta, India. His principal duty was aiding in air evacuation of sick and wounded from Burma and China, Besides the Bronze Star, which he was awarded March 28, he hold battle participation stars for the China campaign (1944) and the Central Burma campaign (1945), plus the Distinguished Unit| Badge. o He was discharged at Pt. Lewis| on Januyary 8. His wife, now living in Seattle, will join her husband in Juneau in early May. R . UP FROM WRANGELL Mr. and Mrs. George Fabricius of Wrangell are guests at the Baranof. { Pormosa, hanged himself last night|8ram ti:ough the coming season was reco.pnended by the Senate iApx:u-m)rlnumm Committee yester- day. The Committee added the amount to an appropriation bill previously passed by the House. The money would go to the U. 8. Fish and Wildlife Service to ad- minister the halibut fishery control program. During the war the pro- {gram was handled by the Office of was discontinued last Oct. 29. The Committee explained that when the budget estimates for the fiscal year beginning next July 1 were prepared it was anticipated there would be no need to continue any of the fishery controls beyond June 30. “However,” the Committee's re- pert said, “the Fish and Wildlife Service has been requested by the OPA and by the Department of Agriculture to administer an allo- cation program for~Pacific halibut | during the season which begins May 1 and ends 1946." The $39,700 would be added to $5,000 previously allocated to the Office of Coordinator of Fisheries to carry the halibut program through November, the Committee reported. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW_ YORK, April 25.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine steck tcday is 87, Alleghany Cor- poration 6%, American Can 96, Anaconda 467, Commonwealth and Southern 4, Curtiss-Wright 7%, In- ternational Harvester 94%, Ken- necott 58%, New York Central 26%, Northern Paeific 29%, United Cor- poration 5%, U. 8. Steel 82%, Pound $4.08%. Sales today were 1,390,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages . today are as follows: industrials 204.60, rails 63.49, utuities 42.85. | the Coorcinator. of Fisheries, which | - PHILIPPINES |uel Roxas, who campaigned stren- ‘qusly for the Philippines Presi- |dency while incumbent Sergio Os- !mena sat silently in the palac forged into an 82,282 vote lead to night. Returns from 3,409 of 14,238 pre- cincts gave: Roxas 335,259. Osmenna 253,247, | ‘There still was no confirmation i Manila, April 25.—Colorful Man- | | Wheat Buying Program | ~To Dominate Market | WASHINGTON, April 25.—~Amer- | |icans may have to take a still harper cut in flour supplies than |the 25 percent reduction ordered {to make bread available for hun- ger sufferers abroad. This possibility arose today as thc, government pressed a wheat buy-| ing program which has the effect lof closing the market to cther unable to, buy sufficient wheat to meet its urgent export business, there is serious doubt that it would be able to release enough grain to millers to enable them to supply Americans with flour at even the reduced cistributicn level. CLARK PROTESTS RUSSIANS FIRED Mayor Hendrickson commended 'and the Alaska Salmon in November, | jof Osmena’s headquarters’ earlier | buyers, including millers and food iclaims that the rural vote would|processors, Grain thus obtained will give him the Presidency for the be used to help feed famine areas. Philippines’ first four years of in-| The government is in a position | dependence. | to dominate the wheat market be- — e, — cause it has been authorized-to pay ! farmers a 30-cent-a-bushel bonus Brookl'n mnager |over current market prices which jare at ceiling. levels. Other buyers A(q"med by Ju" {cannot meet the government of- | fer without violating OPA ' price | ceilings. 1 On Assault Charge ™™ souers timica | | As a result, millers are limited | NEW YORK, 0. | to supplies of wheat they have on Icher.vlgroouyn 3&?&2;1;1:‘)33,":0—‘““‘ Some have reported they |day was acquitted by an nll-mnle;:‘:Zew::‘g'gywmr;"l"};‘;fl;fi: f,:'.:: dury of o charee of second degree|, ;i ihelr supplies to 21 days’ requirements, if they have more than that amount. Stocks above the |assault against a 23-year-old ®odger | fan. fSporailTFEMififi' , ! Repo@ in Java government. jis the big question being asked by; | the -industry. \ Unless the millers can get sup-| AMSTERDAM, i1 25—Indone- 2 ¥ Apell, 20 mmoane | plies from the government, they! sian negotiators, declarin, that, oonlerenges with the Du':h g'm,_;wul be forced to shut down. ernment on Indonesian indepen-| May Resell dence demands had been virtually without result. left for Java today to report to Premier Sutan Sjah- rir of the unrecognized n republic. Sporadic fighting has been re- ported in Java during the negotia- tions. wheat' to millers to enable them to-operate after their current stocks run out and until new crop wheat becomes available in July. But with the government itself VIENNA. Avpril 25—Cen, Mark W. Clark has protested to the Rus- sians here the attack by feur Rus- sian fighter planes on a C-47 of the European April 21—the day before four fight- ers attacked another transport over the Tullin airport near Vienna. Two of the Russians fired upon the transport plane in the April 21 attack, but scored no hits, The transport, carrying only its crew, was attacked near Linz while it was on a regularly scheduled flight between Vienna and Munich, on time and within the corridor prescribed by the Russians, Clark’s headquarters said. The pilot, whose name was not wing flew so close that the crew- men were able to read the numbers on the fighters’ sides—54 and 99. e e THREE FROM HOONAH Robert E. Morgan, Don Under- -, E. D. GRIFFITH HERE E. D. Griffith, of Seattle, has ar- rived in Juneau. He i staying at the Baranof. 7 ON SECOND (-47 !Inc., employers’ group, were o highly the work done last week in, ternoon conetlia the Native Village Clean-Up Cam- 1A, this af b M paign under the direction of Henry Anderson, chairman. ! The drive was sponsored by the keting ships on Sound | Alaska Native Brotherhood and mlmm, supplies and :‘::t for the | Alaska Native Sisterhood. cannery. industry. ‘“Those two organizations con-| e et “The area is now spic and span. Truck loads of dead branches, pa- pers, bottles and broken glass have been removed, The success of the ANB and ANS's campaign should stimulate residents of Juneau pro- per to clean our city with the same enthusiasm and civic pride.” 10 m!m ALASKA SALMON job in clearing the Village,” the WASHINGTON, April 25.—Dele | Mayor said. ‘ { i gate Bartlett of Alaska said the Transport Service| igovernment has set aside 33 per- (cent of this year's Alaska salmon catch for export to foreign coun- tries. This is an order of the Agricul- ture Department, he said, adding that most of the exports would go {to the United Kingdom. with some MANY INJURED IN \ ILL. TRAIN WRECK i e s Kingiom, v oms —— East Indies. About 8,000 pounds will NAPERVILLE, Ill, April 25—igo to South American countries. Two fast passenger trains were Bartlett said apportionment of wrecked here today and Burling- the exported mu among foreign ton Railroaod officlals in Chicago countries would be governed by ,estimated 30 persons were killed in the combined food board composed ithe rear car of one of the trains. |of representatives of the United A Burlington official, who declin- Kingdom, Canada and the United '30 PERSONS DEAD, 21-day supply must be sold to lhe!dlsclosed, was flying at 4500 feet ed use of his name, forecast cas- States. % |when the Russians closed in. They ualties—dead and injured combined Bartlett said government . attor- Just what mills will do for wheat! made four rums, The two Soviet —would amount to 100. after their 21-day supply runs out| fighters which fired shots off the’ }neys declined to hazard a guess as to what action would be taken ¢on- scerning the Territory's one percent. ‘sales tax as applied to salmon A. H. McDonald, General Agent ing to foreign counmtries. He of the Alaska Steamship to the the question should be decided | westward with headquarters in An- the Alaskan Attorney General, and | chorage, arrived on the Princess added the ease undoubtedly would — e - McDONALDS HERE | Although officials have not said|wood and Jeanice M. Welch, all of ' Louise, accompanied by Mrs. Mc- be carried to higher cousts. 50, the government no doubt will Hoonah have arrived in Juneau.|Donald, and registered at the Bar- | |find it necessary to resell some|They are stopping at the Baranof. anof. They expect to fly westward | PR P U FOUR FROM ANCHORAGE Residents of Anchorage register- ing at the Baranof yesterday were: James Bain, ] i Willlam Pieldstead. today or tomorrow. > During the Middle Ages the Renaissance, wedding were set with gems. | and rings