The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 3, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,261 _————————————— JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1946 MEMB ER ASSOCIATED PRESS = e PRICE TEN CENTS STRIKE OF MINERS PARALYZING NATION 'Alcatraz Prisoners Stage Murde '2AREDEAD, JOHNGREEN Biglottery | ISELECTED To Finance BOOKED SOLID - 13INJURED, & Bazookas Being Used On Resisters on Second Day of "Rock” Disorder — San Francisco, Marines attacked a in Alcatraz Island pri- son with 60 mm. mortars today in an attempt to drive inte fhe open a group of convicts who had killed two guards and then barricaded themselves in a cell block. Four or five of the mortars were emplaced in shrubbery down the rocky cliff near the island’s water line, and Mar- ines started lobbing the shells through windows into the ver- itable pillbox the conviets had shaped for themselves. From nearby Benecia Arsen- al the Army dispatched a truck, under fast police escort, carrying an assortment of heavy weapons for use by Al- catraz Federal guards. From San Quentin State Pri- son Warden Clinton T. Duffy @i-patched eleven of his most ‘experienced guards. fo--the sistance ' of the embattled guards at the island prison in San Francisco Bay. Twelve guards from the Fed- eral correctional institution at Englewoed, Colo, left by plane to help put down the bloody riot. They were ordered to the scene by James V. Bennett, Director of the Burean of Pri- sons, in Washington. Five guards were flying from Leavenworth Prison in Kansas to lend their assistance. The Marines lanted 83 men on the island, sending in 23 more today to assist beleaguer- ed guards, and a shipment of grenades and “shape charges” as well. The charges, a war de- vice, cam _demolish concrete structures. Marine police reported to headquarters by radio from the " (Continued on Page Eight) The Washington Merry- Gg -Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Around every President always rages a battle of courtiers, all trying to get close to the throne. Harry Truman is no exception. Around Rooscvelt, hottest rival- ry was between “Harry the Hop” Hopkins and “Tommy the Cork” Corcoran, hoth at one time close | to FDR, both good friends with each other. Then the two fell apart, and gradually Harry euchered Tommy out of the White House picture. Today the same old personal battle to stay close to thé throne is going on over Truman. The unpublicized struggle is taking BIG BREAK HEAD OFPAF 'Succeeds Archie Shiels Who Becomes Chairman Executive Committee BELLINGHAM, Wash,, May 3.— John A. Green, Director and for: mer Vice President of the People’s National Bank, Seattle, was named | President of Pacific American Fish- | eries at the annual stockholders | meeting here yesterday. | Green succeeds Archie W. Shiels head of the company since 193Z,| | who was elected Chairman of the| Executive Committee of the Board | of Directors. Philip MacBride, Seattle attorney, {was reelected Chairman of the Board. Stanley G. Tarrant, General | Superintendent, was elevated to | Vice President in charge of Alaska | operations, and H. V. Leverett was | named Secretary-Treasurer. e .— 'HOLY LAND MAY | . ERUPT ANY TIME, {Problem ofialestinei | | Mounting Swiftly Toward | | Crisis Over Ultimatum LONDON, May 3.—A Reuters { | dispatch from Cairo quoted Abdul| cretary ' |Rahman Assam Pasha, General of the Arab League, to- “mght as saying “Proposals are be- | 'ing made in Arab quarters” to de- jclare Palestine a battie zone and proclaim a holy war. | ! LonpoO™, | problem of swiftly toward a crisis today amid !\\'ammgs from Arab leaders that ithe Holy Land might erupt in bloody strife if recommendations lof the Fritish-American inquiry —The explosive mountzd — ‘committee are adopted. The powerful Arab Higher Com- mittee in Jerusalem called a one- 'day general strike of Arabs for to- /day to protest against the inquiry ccmmittee’s report and handed the British High Commissioner “the {next thing to an ultimatum” stat- ing that Arabs would prepare all ymeans “to resume the national {struggle” unless the report is re- 1 jected. !League, Abdul Rahman Azzam had been informed that the “ulti- matum” demanded abandonment of the inquiry committee’s recommen- "dations “or all Arabs in Palestine Iwill begin their war immediately.” In response to a question as to whether the members of the~league —Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Sau- ldl‘ Arabia, Transjordan and Yemen j—Would join the Arabs of Palestine |in their struggle against the re- ‘port, which includes a recommen- dation for immediate migration of 100,000 homeless European Jews to Palestine, Azzam Pasha replied: “Naturally they will, but we have | The Secretary General of the Arab Pasha, declared in Cairo that he| | BondSales Russia Annroanflces Domes- tic Loan for Restoration of Her Economy LONDON, May 3.—Soviet Rus- ia will float a domestic loan of 20,000,000,000 rubles (nominally $3,- 774,000,000) for restoration and de- velopment of her economy, to be repaid from the proceeds of a lot- tery. The Moscow radio announced | the loan today. The lottery will be based on the serial numbers of 20-year tax-free bonds which Finance Minister Ar- seny G. Zverev urged Russians to buy. The bonds can be bought only by Russian citizens and the lottery winnings, with prizes ranging up to 50,000 rubles ($9,435 for each 100 ruble bond, aiso will be exempt (irom taxes, said Zverev who de- clared the huge loan was needed to ‘heal the wounds of war and speedily restore the Soviet econ- omy.” > DRAMATIC START AT JAP TRIAL Tojo Gets -Sgpped Twice on Top of Bald Pate- . Commotion Caused TOKYO, May 3.—Two lusty slaps on the top of Hideki Tojo's glist- ening bald head by a capricious co- | defendant startled the courtroom | tnis afternoon as 28 Japanese heard themselves accused of having ! plunged the Pacific into a war of greed. | The playful smacks were onl part of the antics of Shumei Oka- wa, who long advocated an aggres- sive war to drive the White races from Asia. i Shouting gibberish that even the | Japanese said they could not un- 1 derstand, Okawa had to be pulled | forcibly from the couttroom by | American military police at an af- ternoon recess. As clerks droned through the i lengthy indictments in both Eng- lish and Japanese at the nine-jus- | tice International Tribunal’s first session, Okawa—once an official of {the Manchurian Railway—prayed | with gestures and' unbuttoned his | hlouse to bare his thin chest. Then, with a cunning grin, he learned forward and slapped the unsuspecting Tojo on his shaven head. The smack echoed in the audi-' torium, crowded with sober-faced' officials and spectators. The shock- | ed former Premier looked up guick- Jy from the copy of the indictment he had been studying, then turned | | | i ALASKA SHIPS UP INTO JULY Dozen More—V_essels,CouId Be Used But None Are Available SEATTLE, May 3.—President G. W. Skinner of the Alaska Steam- ship Company said last night all ings of the dozen or so passen- ger vessels serving Alaska are book- ed well into July and “there are| no (additional) vessels available that would be suitable for the Al- agka run.” Shipping men said at least a do- zen more ships could be used, but inone are being built. They said re- cent strikes added to the conges- | ticn, but present vessels would have | been unable to meet the demand at | any rate. | Airlines, too, are swamped with ' demands for transportation to the| Territory. ; ALASKA AIRLINES IN WITH 11; 30 6O OUT Arriving with Alaska Airlines yesterday from Anchorage were the following passengers: G. L. Gilbert,! Raymond Hughes, D. T. Davis, Mrs. Greany and infant, Irene Dupont, L. M. Martens, Karl Bassler, Cap- tain Geoffrey Goss, and Milton Munter; from Yakutat: Pearl Ellis. On the return flights, the fol- wowing were flown to Anchorage: C. Bell, Irene Bell, Tony Kelso, R.| B. Early, Mrs. R. B. Early, Mrs. G. Greer, W. Swenson, John Van | Ginhoven, D. A. Cook, Mrs .D. A.| Cook, Earl Dodge, Dick Ernst, Lou | Levy, Lloyd Herrle, Joe Karna, Lawrence Mousseau, Bernard E.| Estebrook, Carl Hallback, George | B. Powell, Blue Willsey, C. New-! baur, and Harold F. McCoy; to Cordova: Pat Whitney, and Rev. O. V. Aadland; to Yakutat: John Sounson, Lewis Peterson, R. E.| Johnson, J. W. Wilson, and A. Kel- zey; to Fairbanks: Anna Bailje. 51 PASSENGERS ARE FLOWN NORTH BY PAA On trips to and from Juneau yes- terday, Pan American Airways flew the following passengers: From Seattle: Mildred Cook, Duane Cook, Edith Olson, Mrs. Irene Stewart, Bruce Baxter, Earl Brown, Mrs. Melita Day, Rev. Mun- lin Day, Constance Ericson, Paul Sorenson, Archie Metcalfe, Mrs. Mattie Joslyn, John Van Glnhov-\ en, Wald Swenson, Virginia Smith. William Middleton, Ernest Peter- son, Richard Miller, Albert Hale, Marvin Remlinger, August Briener,| Earl Jensen, Emil Svenson, J.| French, James Harney, Clyde White, Paul Clymer. James Welsh, Paul Brown, Clif- ford Junken, August Smith, John omar, Donald Paulson, J. Parke, Gene Scheerer, Egil Ramberg, Har- old Davis, Harold Dolph, William | Harper, Thomas Sherman, Harry: Lown. ) Iver Vick, Henning Lovegreen,| Clarence Parker, Gunner Johanson, ) { | {Presidenl Has Flare-Up | With Reporters During | WALKERTO ‘SEE JUNEAU REPRESENTED Says Unless Dawes Elected He'll Resign His Senate Seat Senatoy - Morman R. Walker of Ketchikan this morning informed The Empire that if Dr. L. P. Dawes of Juneau is not elected to the Territorial Senate in the gen- eral election next October he will WASHINGTON, May 3.—Presi- | dent Truman's sudden news con- ference flare-up set Washington buzzing today with more talk than | did his delay in naming a new | Chief Justice Yesterday's meeting with the| press, in the crowded White House oval room office, ended with the usual, “thank you, Mr. President,” after the Chief Executive: | 1.—Sharply criticized one re- porter for his line' of questioning | on the red hot Army-Navy issue. 2—~Told another, but with a emile, it was none of his business what happened at a secret cabinet session Wednesday. | These developments came shortly | atter Mr. Truman opened his week- | ous RAIL TIEUP ISNEARING IS CLAIM Demands for Increased Wages Must Be Met Say Three Brotherhoods CHICAGO, May 3.—Three unions of railroad operating workers to-| day notified management of de- mands for wage increases of $1.20 a day additional to the boost of $1.28 ordered by an arbitration | | hoard last month. Unless a satisfactory settlement can be reached, the unions said,| a strike vote will be taken amnnx} the unions’ rank and file and a strike will “actually occur.” | Announcement of the new de- ly conference by saying he had no| mands was made in a joint state- announcements to make. ment by Carl J. Goff, Cleveland, Many had come expecting to istant President of the Brother- learn the name of a successor to: hood of Locomotive Firemen and the late Chief Justice Harlan F.|Enginemen; Harry W. Fraser, Ce- Stone both as head of the Supreme | dar Rapids, Ia., President of the Court and as one of its nine mem- | Order of Railway Conductors, and | in The' Empire which stated that 3 !the defeat of Curtis Shattuck for/ointments, the President, replied | tough on resign as senator to allow a can- didate from the northern end of the division to be elected, provid- ing the candidate does not have the support of Governor Gruening. Senator Walker's statement was issued after reading an editorial bers. Last Sunday White House re- | porters gained the firm impression that the choice already had been made and might be announced | early in the week. { To an early: question, ‘Whether | he had decided on the court ap- senatorial nomination was With @ crisp, no comment. Sunsaty: sinde: # wouldz Later, under further guestioning, he said he still is trying to find probably mean that Juneau would 3 wse @ seat in the Senate. Said|the right man for the job. Just, he Senator Walker said, as he is trying to find the| “Regarding your editorial of May:ngm three men for the Economic | the place between two of the Presi- dent’s closest friends—George Al-|not reached the stage of fighting len of Mississippi and Bob Hanne- |yet.” gan of Missouri. ' Like Hopkins and Corcoran, these | two were once good friends. It was Hannegan who put George Allen LT SRR Twelfth Victim of in the White House to act as his personal representative and keep his finger on political moves. To- day, however, the only thing they have in common is their individual affection for Harry Truman. In fact the breach has become s0 wide . that George Allen played 4 big part in fomenting the Dixie mocratic revolt against Hanne- an. George, who is one of the most likeable men in Washington and keeps the President in stitches with his amusing stories, has hosts of friends among the right-wing Democrats. He speaks their lan- guage, and quietly, though glee- fully, he stirred up the pot of nessee:. Alabama, Kentucky, North | yesterday with freight, (Continued on Page Four) - Smallpox Is Dead In Seattle Hospital SEATTLE, May 3.—The 12th vie- | tim of smallpox in the Seattle- King county outbreak, George Clay- ton, 51, died early today, six days after being admitted to Harbor- view Hospital. The hospital still has nine cases, ;thx'ec still on the “critical” list. e i Seven states are visible from the| top of Lookout Mountain in Ten- | | | | | Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,| Virginia and Tennessee. and looked at the man in the row James Graham, David Clark, Mun- | behind him with a sad, understand- |qy Johnson, Karl Lindholm, Dean| | ing smile. iCook; from Annette: Carl Jones. Lt. Col. S. Kenworthy, in charge|{ To Fairbanks: Mary Kenny, Jo- of guarding the defendanfs, grab-|seph Colle, Jimmy Henry. ibecl Okawa and settled him firmly| To Seattle: Hans Simonsen, Ver- 1in his seat, just as he had done/non Maxfield, Ethel Marsh, George| earlier, when he buttoned the pri- |Marsh, Gerald Gilbert, David Da-| I i |1 to the effect that the election re- | tough for Juneau, I! heartily concur. If Dr. L. P. Dawes 15 not elected in October I will resign as senator to allow a can- didate from the north end of the division to be elected, provided he has not got the support of the Governor.” | Senator Walker yesterday was' quoted by the Ketchikan Chronicle | as stating he would resign if it' looked like the Governor would!| control the Legislature after the| general election in October. Sena- tor Walker has long believed that the First Division senate seats should be split evenly between the sults- look inorthern and scuthern halves of the division. If both Frank Pera- trovich of Klawock and Andy Gun- dersen of Ketchikan are elected in October it would give the southern half of the division three senate seats to the northern hall’s one seat. — e Boundary Dispuies 0f Two Nations Are * Put Up, Paris Meet LOS ANGELITES | | PARIS, May 3.—Representnnves' of Italy and Yugoslavia ' stated' their cases before the Council of Forefgn Ministers today on their disputed boundary. | The Yugoslay case was present-| ed by Deputy Premier Edward| /Kardelj and Foreign Minister Stan- oje Simic. Premier Alcide de Gas-| peri spoke for the Italians. High ranking delegates to the, four-power conference expressed; the opinion that, barring some spectacular and completely un- forseen (evelopment, there was little hope that any peace treaties' would be agreed upon at this ses-| sion, Council to administer the recentiy ' enacted Maximum Employment Law. VFW T0 ENTERTAIN LADIES AT SOCIAL MEETING TONIGHT Members of the V.F.W., Taku Post, will hold an open meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in the VFW Hall with wives and girl friends, of members as especlally invited, guests. Purpose of the meeting is to al-! low the “fem.tine contingent” of the V.F.W. w become acquainted —and also to get helpful hints from them concerning redecoration of the club rooms. rhe meeting will open with short business s2ssion followed by a social hour during which refresh- ments will be served. Members of the refreshment committee are: | John McLaughlin, chairman; Jack Walker and Vernon Matealfe. _— . AFOOT; STRIKE | HALTS CARRIERS LOS ANGELES, May 3.—Public transportation in this widespread metropolis was paralyzed early to-| day when approximately 4,000 mo- tormen, conductors, bus drivers and maintenance men went on strike for higher wages. Streetcars and buses of the Los Angeles Transit and Motor Coach Lines, principal public carriers, roll- ed to a stov in carbarns and gar- ages. Union officials said there would be no picketing and that | | | employees had been instructed to soner’s shirt. As the court recessed and photo- graphers streaked onto the floor Okawa again resoundingly slappéd tne glistening head as Tojo busied himself with his papers. Tojo just grinned. SQUARE SENNETT | LEAVES SEATTLE The Northland ~ Transportation| Company’s freighter, Square Sah- nett sailed from Seattle at noon ‘The ship will stop at Sitka on the way north before coming to Juneau. |vis, Raymond . Hughes, Irene pont, Leonard Martens, Georgia Trant, Betty Trant. To Whitehorse: Lawrence Cashen. e 0o e ve 0 e e TIDE TABLE MAY 4 tide 3:25 a.m., 19.9 ft. tide 10:02 a.m., -3.7 ft. tide 16:23 p.m, 160 ft. tide 22:04 pm.,, 22 ft. High Low High Low Du-| Milton Hunter, John Nevins, Henry Wat-| kins, Prancis Staten, Ken Edwards, Wallin Forrest, {“go home and stay there” in order STO(K ouo'IvA"o"S | that any possible violence might | be averted. & NEW YORK, May 3. — Closing A. E. GLOVER RETURNS quotation of Alaska Juneau mine! A. E. Glover, Regional Engineer | stock today is 8'., Alleghany Cor-|with the U. S. Forest Service, has | poration 6%, American Can 93%,ireturned to Juneau, after a three- # | Anaconda 46%, Commonwealth and | weeks business trip to Ketchikan, ® Southern 4, Curtiss-Wright 7%, In- >oe ® ternational Harvester 92, Kennecott OFF FOR BANKS ® 57%, New York Central 26', Nor-| Ole Birkvold arrived last night e thern Pacific 29%, United Corpor-| from Seattle aboard his halibuter e ation 5%, U. S. Steel 82% Pound Constitution and will sail late to- ° $4.03%. |day for the banks. o | Sales today were 1,010,000 shares. | - e Dow, Jones averages today are! Elmer A. Osterberg, of Seattle, BFCT S &l ® 'as follows: industrials 203.25, rails has arrive in Juneauy. He Is stay- ® 339, utilities 4311, ing at the Gastineait Thomas C. Cashen, Buffalo, N. ¥, President of the Switchmen’s Union of North America. The action followed by 24 hours the walkout of ‘representatives of two other of the “Big Five" oper- ating brotherhoods from a ence with aimed at forestalling a strike of May 18. RRTRAFFIC ISREDUCED \ BY ORDERS Passenger Service fo Bei Cut-General Embargo | on Cerfain Freight | WASHINGTON. May 3.—The Of- fice of Defense Transportation to- day ordered a 50 percent reduction | in passenger service by coal humxng‘ censerve dwindling coal supplies. From May 10 to May 15 pas- senger service will be reduced 25 percent from the mileage operated on April 1. Railroads were further directed to cancel reservations where neces- | sary and “to take such other ac- tlon as may be necessary to carry out the terms and purpose of this order.” ODT last night had clamped a| general embargo on freight ship-| ments with certain exceptions and! had ordered a minimum 25 percent cut, effective May 10, in passenger! service on coal-burning railroads. ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson told a reporter today that “any railroad which finds it necessary, has my permission to put these re- ductions into effect before May 10 and to go deeper.” The drastic curtailment of rail- road service caused President Tru- man to voice open alarm over the situation created by the prolonged soft coal strike. Approximately three-quarters of the nation’s pas- senger ‘mileage relies on coal. = - | 000 00 e o0 LR WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 6:30 0’Clock This Morning e o 0 In Juneau—Maximum, 63; minimum, 36, At Airport—Maximum, 65; minimum, 32. | } 1 i i | WEATHER FORECAST ! (Juneau and Vicinity) | Fair tonight and Saturday, eontinued warmer Sunday. | The members present Riot GIVEN BLOW BY WALKOUT Railroads, Mns Stes! Plans Suffering Coal Nonproduction Railroads, utilities and the steel industry—vital to the nation's peacetime reconversion—were hit harder than ever tdday by the py- ramiding {ll effects of the 33-day- old soft coal strike. This is how the absence of 418,~ 000 miners from the pits in 25 states crippled coal-dependent op- erations: Railroads—The Office of Defense Transportation orders a sweeping embargo on freight shipments and a 25 percent slash in passenger ser- vice on coal-burning lines, effec- tive May 10. Utilities—Low stockpiles of coal bring the prospect of worss “brown- out” restrictions than existed dur- ing the war to highly-industralized jurban centers, ineluding New York. Chicago and . Detroit. a state of emergency declared. In Chicago, A;dyhyl hem Steel ! trainmen. and’ engineers called for Steel corporations, two of the na- tion's top producers. As the number of workers idied in coal-consuming industries near- ed the 69,000 mark, gloomy predie- tions of compléte or partial shut- ,downs came from nearly every in- . dustrial state, A A i Veis' Board - Meeling; 4 In Juneau, Four members of the recently ap- pointed Territorial Veterans Board met today for a morning and af- ternoon session in the Federal Building. The fifth and final member of the Board, John M. Cross, of Deer- Ilocomotives, effective May 15, to ing, representing the Second Di- vision, is delayed in transit and has not yet arrived in Juneau. No official business was conduct- ed today pending Cross' arrival discussed general aspects of the work to be done during the five or six day conference, but took no action on any measures. The conference meetings will be devoted to appointing a Territorial Commissioner and setting up rules and regulations governing the ad- ministration of the loans and bonuses provided under the Terri- torial Veterans Bill enacted at the Special Session of the legislature. Princess Louise, from the south, scheduled to arrive tomorrow after- nocn or evening. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- attle May 4 going direct to west- ward but returning to Juneau southbound. North Sea scheduled to sail from Seattle May 7. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle May 8 for Ketchikan and Juneau, then westward points. L - — NEW CANNERY TO BE BUILT, COOK INLET Earl Forsythe, whose barge has been tied up at the city float for several weeks, is reported, now in Los Angeles buying equipment for the forthcoming fishing season. PForsythe will take cannery equip- inent belonging to several Juneau stockholders for a new cannery to be built on Cook Inlet. —— FUNTER BAY VISITORS J. P. Childers and L. T. Perry, ® 0 e v 00000080 of Funter Bay, are guests at the Hotel Juneau,