The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 4, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,262 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1946 PRICE TEN CENTS ALCATRAZ Coal Strike Is “Hitting Hard, ~ Food Problem Steel Production Also Sag- ‘ ging-Steps Taken by Penn. Governor (By The Associated Press) While the 34-day-old soft coal strike continued to spread a creep- ing paralysis throughout the steel » Industry and seriously hamper rail- roads, Pennsylvania's ‘Governor Ed- Ward Martin made an effort today to ‘get enough coal mined to meet + '¥itdl public utility needs. ! Martin named three of his Cabinet fiembers to confer in Pittsburgh to- Way with four District Vice-Presi- deénits of the AFL - United Mine | Workers on whether coal cah be mitied for utilities servicing hospitals + MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ’ and other essential consumer:.. I & At Washington, J. A, Krug, Solid | § COMMUNIST Glim FORCES ARE P GIVEN ROUT Chinese Governmenij Troops Victorious in | Two-Day Battle ' (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESF) | Chinese army readquarters in‘ Mukden said today Government | ferees have routed 60,000 Commun- ist troops in a two-day battle for Penhsihcu, main Communist stronghold southeast of Mukden, It | said National troops inflicted 8,000 to 7,000 casualties. i Gen. Tu Li-ming, Government commander at Mukden, said the: battle began Wednesday and that| occupation of Penhsihou was com- pleted yesterday. He said the Na-| tional forces have thrust north- ward from Liaoyang. ¥ Meanwhile, Gen Chou En-lai, SOME THREE THOUSAND COA pse af Emp PRISON RIOTERY CEASE FIRING CARS, all empty, await termination of coal strike at Wiliamson, W. iy oal (ars NOSHOOTING 'FROM "ROCK' IS REPORTED :Guards RaisTladders fo | Peer Info Windows- Riot Believed Ended SAN FRANCISCO, May 4.--A re- ‘orter fer the Oakland Tribune said that while cruising around Alcatraz Tsland Prison today he saw several auards put long ladders to the win- i dows frem which convicts had been | shooting; that the guards peered +in the windows, and there was no | "hooting from inside. There had been no fire from the convicts since late yesterday. A clerk at the prison reported lat- | °r by telephone, however, he could not confirm reports the riot had j ended. He would say nothing more. 1 PRISONER'S THREAT number two Chinese Communist, reported in Nanking that the Rus- sians had withdrawn their diplo- bituminous coal ficlds. Loaded, these cars would hold approxi- | SEATTLE, May 4. — Joseph Paul reportedly a ringleader in Converting U. S. industry used 1,000,000 tons of bituminous coal daily before |C“'|Z" Fuels Administrator, declared in a ‘statement that the relief and re- Va., center of cne of the natlon's rick mately 150,000 tons of coal. MODEL FIRE ENGINE _ cChief Thad Fife of the Western Cartridge Co., East Alton, Ill, shows how he uses a ‘habilitation program for Europe is | *) ‘on the verge of collapse because of | the shortage of coal for transpor- | + ‘tation. | There is a grave possibility, he | saldl, that great quantities of food “will not reach starving people in the liberated nations in time to| avert an international catastrophe.” ! Meanwhile, the nation’s output of | ‘stéel—vital to peacetime reconver- sion-—dropped nearly six points to| “ 67.7 per cent of capacity this week.\ Tt Was the sixth straight week that | ... bréduction has sagged. | Fast-emptying fuél bins and lack | of steel from basic producers brought | ndditional sharp curtailments in! Guch steel-making centers as Buf: falo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and MacARTHUR meodel pumper and a miniature building, in which he can repro- duce actual fire conditions, for training his men. OPASHOCKED AT RISE IN PRICES OF MALE ATTIRE WASHINGTON, May 4. — OPA oN 1 NIPPON | embarrassed and surprised at in- ! austry reports that prices.for meén’'s | suits are rising, set out today to By Russell Brines ! learn whether it's true. TOKYO, May 4.—General Mac-| The agency launched an investi- Arthur today disqualified Ichiro gation of prices after removing a strike HOT BATILE ONCONTROL MEAT PRICE National' Farmers Union' Calls on Labor fo Help matic and railroad representatives from Manchuria, recognizing the tutility of attempting to operate the Changchun railroad jointly whith China while the civil war is vaging. A Communist spokesman at Am- erican Exacutive Headquarters in Peiping reported that five Ameri- can news correspondents, including Tom Masterson of the Associated Press, were scheduled to be evacu- ated from Changchun tomorrow. The spckesman said that Gen. Yeh Chien-yin, Communist Com- missicner, had been advised that the Changchun airport could not be put into condition to land a rescue plane earlier. The correspon- dents have been held in protective 0. 5. EMBASSY CLERK GETS IN WRONG, MOSCOW Charged with Committing "Hooligan--Acts Against Actress By REMBERT JAMES MOSCOW, May 4-—Waldo Ruess » Birmingham, and threatened to add , Hatoyama, one-time Fascist pro- | restriction which clothing produc- thousands to the more than _71.000:,,5,@;““5(, from ever holding pub- ers claim was blocking delivery to workers in coal-consuming indus- | lic office in Japan and thus furth- | retail stores of from 75 to 80 per- Oust Anderson By OVID A. MARTIN custody since Communists captur- ed Changehun April 16. Chou today held his first press f Hollywood, Calif., United States Embassy Clerk, received a summons teday to appear Wednesday in the the Alcatraz Prison uprising, fesolv- fed in 1940 to “make an escape at- ‘tempt some day and if he didn't i7et killed in the trying he would &ill himself,” Detective Capt. Rich- | ard Mahoney said here. . Cretzer, convicted of a Los An- | geles bank robbery in 1937, escaped + from McNeil Island Prison and fat- ally attacked a United States Mar- jshal in Tacoma. He was then sent |’ to Alcatraz, ! "He told us he couldn't stand liv- |ing at Alcatraz,” Mahoney recalled. “He sal , in_Sai P A B A o s O ‘city lights go on each evéning from his cell on the rock was too much.” DANCE MoLOTOV LINES UP ~ INFIGHT Opposes Three Nafions in | Dispute Over Cerfain : Borde[s;,?EurODe B ' G By Louis Nevin tries already idled by the coal short- | ey confused the country’s turbu- ‘age. |lent post-election problems. At the same time, railroad of-| MacArthur, obviously tired of the , ficials were working out arrange: | cent of suits being made. | “We are astounced,” OPA said in a statement last night, “by trade conference in Nanking, where he will resume peace conferences with WASHINGTON, May 4—The tu- mult over continued price controls Moscow City Prosecutor's office to | answer charges of committing “in- PARIS, May 4. — The Forelgn Ministers' Council heard state- General Marshall, American Envoy, for meat waxed hotter today as the INDOUGLAS solent acts” against an actress from ments on the disputed Italo-Yugo- " (Continued on Page Eight) The W;;l;ingion; Merry - Go- Round| ruitless, two-week political dead-!reports that the new pricing order | {lock, also gave the government of 15 causing increases of from 5 to resigned but still acting Premier 25 pere Shidehara a verbal spanking for dereliction of duty. It was learned tonight that be- fore MacArthur’s action, Shidehara unofficially had notified Emperor Hirohito that his resigned cabinet in prices of men’s suits.” This was a reference to a price adjustment OPA made in, March. At that time OPA said there would and Generalissimo Chiang Kai- | National Farmers Union called on shek. He said the withdrawal of the organized labor to join in a drive Russian representatives from Man- for the ocuster of Secretary of Agri- churia “worsen relations” between culture Anderson. the Soviets and Chinese. President Truman's emphatic de- > claration that the administration still price controls on meat and livestock | one of Moscow's State theatres. Ruess, whose home is on North Ardmore Ave., Hollywcod, Calif., de- clined to comment. He has been a member of the administrative staff of the embassy for two years and stands firmly for continued had been expecting to-leave soon | for home. He was nol arrested or ;had decided to offer the premier- | ship to Hatoyama. By DREW PEARSON —_— It was a shoulder shrugging ges- | WASHINGTON—Despite the fact| ture because the Premier, as well that Join L. Lewis is gradually as other official Japanese, were ctagnating the Nation and for one|well aware that Hatoyama’s dis- menth has not even deigned to give qualification was imminent. But > his detailed terms, to the mine Op- | they had failed to convirce the erators, AFL insiders concede that Liberal Party leader to bow cut he can write his own ticket about gracefully, fuking over the Presidency of the, AR Federation. However, once ?n h@t:lfllefxll}vrila:icns: :E:tSEIII-EMENI OF ‘shi:;xalfmg violet and wants to e: (AR SIRIKE IN L. A. FADEOUT % ’ 0 He has told close friends regent- 1y that he isn't interested in the AFL Presidency and has no inten- tion of becoming a candidate at| this year's convention in chlcuo.[ These friends add that Lewis & 3 a quick settlement of the Los An- wants to be “drafted” for the ’fi’br:geles bus and street car strike ap- A 90t this year, but in 1947. / |parently has faded and the 1,000,000 The strategy may change before tram customers most likely will be the convention, but present plans|yithout service until next week at for Chicago, are to continue Presi- |the earliest, deht Bill Green in office for one| Negotiations between Los Angeles Hiiore year, with the understanding | Transit Line officials and union that simultaneously he will an-|leaders ended abruptly late yester- pounce his retirement, effective in|day, with D. D, McClurg, President 17. lof the AFL Tranportation Union Before his recent return to Che‘lucnl declaring: “Wé walked out. Al"l. Lewis’ supporters had plan-/It's a deadlock. We're not going to ped to railroad his replacement of |meet again unless the company re- fi‘ri‘een t‘I:ll: )l;eart.loofiov;e\_'er, bcc:;l:;“questts t“ and appears willing to s Wo! e obvious a | negotiate.” at Green, who has bern President! siice December 19, 1924, they are| 1w hgreeable to postponing Lewis' | eiection for another year. The fact that Lewis has public opinion so overwhelmingly against him in the cdal strike may also have some- thing to do with it. 8 S — HALIBUT, SALMON CATCHES SOLD HERE | The Juneau Cold Storage report- |ed arrival of the following boats and dispcsal of their catches: One colleague boisterous Senator: 10 this morning, Floyd Epper- Theodore Bilbo doesn’t like toiSCH's Tern with 10,000 1bs. of hali- gle with is Delaware’s Senator but sold to Alaska Coastal Fish- Tunnell, who has a tongue cries; George Hargu's Mira, 1,100 n‘h a whip-lash when angered. The | Ibs kinz salmon, Sebastian-Stuart Mississippi chatterbox learned this] CO- the other day while heckling Tun-| Novman Rustad’s Starlight docked fiell during a speech on the return | vesterday with 900 lbs. of king sal- of surplus Lend-Lease from over-|Mmon wiich also went to ACF. seas. Due to sail for Cook Inlct today Bilbo interrupted at one peint to S Earl Forsythe’s cannery barge inguire if Tunnell had ever heard|loaded with equipment for a new of “Roosevelt's statement mm]Cook Inlet cannery owned by Ju- neau stockholders. The barge will (Continued on Page Four) unload and refurn to Juneau. WHIP-LASHING BILBO II veterans should take appatrently had no dampening effect, | asked to post any bail. i slav border from each of the four | ministers in a three-hour session | today, which indicated they were as far from solution of the prob- lem as they were last September in | London, A member of the American Del- | egation said the positions of the | four ministers on the border prob- ON TONIGHT Fire Department Is Giving 48th Annual Affair- The Farmers Union claimed that | Anderson had encouraged a “tre- mendous campaign” against meat price econtrols, and said further he was “principally responsible” for the country's current food shortages. Mr. Truman said Anderson saw eye to eye with him on the necessity for continued controls, but on be no general increase in men’s | Thus far there have been few if AI.ASKA A'Rll"B 0" in need of housing tain Larry Currie, Flight Officer | suit prices. The agency expected | higher prices for some manulac-'vEIERANS WHo turers, but it said these would be | offset L.y reductions for others. "EED Housl"fi any reductior but plenty of in-| creases, according to OPA’s indus- MUSI SIG“ u try reports. | e i | Juneau World War TRIP WEST WITH 18 i | Arriving yesterday on the Alagka Airlines Starliner Juneau with Cap- | i Copeland, Stewardess Janis Free- man were the following passengers ' | from Anchorage: ' Laura Brown, Ralph Lanza, John Ponchione, ! W. Shimmel, and Harold Boyd. | On the return flight, the follow- | ing were flown to Anchorage: Joe | Skorik, Herbert .Pratt, Lena Arte- | memko, J. E. Sherley, C. Malcolm, { Mrs. C. Malcolm, James FcDaniels, | iStanley Levine, Martha Sears, ' Bertha Shaw, and Bridget Dobson. | | To Fairbansk: Lloyd Strid, Mar- | |shnll Stringer, Paul Backwell, E. {N. Branch; to Yakutat: Gilbert |Jeynt, and Seymour Standish; to! | Cerdova: Mrs. V. Lane, | D FREEDOMOFAR | UPTORUSSIANS; ' QUESTIONS ASKED | | VIENNA, Austria, May 4—Gen. {to have asked Marshal Ivan S. Ko- nev, Russian commander in Aus-| {and for all, the question of free- idom of the zir for all Allied forces in Austria.” | request in reaffirming a protest| against one of a series of inci-! |dents in Austria in which Russian| planes harassed American aircraft.! American military sources said protests was “most disappointing.” ncte of the following: It is known that there are large number of World War IT vet- erans in Juneau desperately in nced of housing facilities. Officials of the Federal Housing Authority are now in Alaska mak- ing surveys to provide emergency housing for veterans and a hous- ing unit for veterans, only, can be provided for Juneau if the need is LOS ANGELES, May 4.—Hope of | Glenn Dewherst, Glenn H. Mercer, shown. A list of veteramns requiring hous- ing is .needed- urgently to prove this need, which may result in up to 50 additional housing units for Juneau veterans. All veterans in need of housing are asked to register at either of the following places: City Clerk’s Office in the City Hall. Joe Thibodeau, Commander, Am- erican Legion, Thibodeau’s Gro- cery. Harcld Mayo, Commander, Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, Baranof Hotel desk. Registration should be made not later than Monday. .- RED CROSS OFFICE CLOSED UNTIL TUESDAY The Red Cross Office in the Mark W. Clark was reported today Shattuck Building, will be clos2d form and recreation until Tuesday, or until the re- turn of Mrs. John McCormick, who C. Regional Representative, to Skagway on business connected with the Juneau Chapter of the Clark was said to have made the Red Cross, it has been announc-| ed. e FROM SEAGWAY Mr. and Mrs. Don Paul Balmont, Gastineau. tol Hill some lawmakers declared the Secretary of Agriculture had given them the impression he fav- ored removing meat ceilings if the black market situation does not clear 1p in 80 days. 4 PERMITS SOUGHT FOR 2 PROJECTS HERE, ARMY SAYS SEATTLE, ay 4—The Seattle District Army Engineers’ Office to- day announced receipt of eight ap- | plications for permits to cover con- |struction in navigable waters of Alaska. The projects and dat2s Ly which objections must be filed Alaska Fish & Farm Products, Ine, wharf, 20 by 40 feet, with |660-foct approach to Knik Arm, in connection with cold storage plant at Anchorage, ‘May 6. Northern Commercial Co., Seattle, 20 by 80 foot wharf, and rockfill bredkwater, Gastineau = Chann Juneau, May 232 4 Western Fisheries Co., Wharf ex- tensions at Company Cannery, Orca Inlet, Cordova, May 22. Pelican Cold Storage Co., sea- plane and smallboat floats, plat- hall, Lisian- ski Inlet, Pelican, May 23. Homer Coal Corp., coal-loading itria, “to discuss and settle, once accompanied Miss Helen Cass, AR.|trestle, 10 by 280 feet, with four mcoring dolphins on Homer Spit, Kachemak Bay, near Homer, May Dean C. Kasler, 60 by 100 foot |wharf addition, Wrangell Narrows, | May 29, i ‘ Herman Sandvik, 30 by 40 foot | wharf, Naknek, May 29. | L. H. Smith, Juneau dairyman, Konev's reply to one of a series of | residents of Skagway have arrived construct fill con tideflats, Gastin- two formal protests and two oral in Juneau. They are staying at the eau Channel, from G to 13th Streets, Junau, May 31. ‘members of embassy staffs The Moscow newspaper Trud, in | one of the few instances in which it has published police court news,! printed an account under the head- | line: 4 | “Hooligan Acts of an American Citizen.” | “Riding in an automobile with a | Soviet citizen, an aetress in one of | the Moscow State theatres,” the labor newspaper said, “a momber of the American Embassy in Mos- cow, Waldo Ruess,, pefmitted him- self a number of insoleMt hooli jacts fowards her, “Ruess’ hoolizan asts were stop- ped only after interference by a po- liceman, who hastened to the citi- zen’s cries for help. *In acecrdance with Soviet laws, Ruess will be brought up for crim- inal proceedings.” Foreign diplomats, legal aspects of the case. menting on said that in other countries customarily enjoyed diplo- matic immunity, but that the So- viets apparently had not extended this immunity to clerks and others who are not on the officiel diple- matic list. DESIGNATION OF "0PA DAY" BRINGS STUNT, HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD, May 4.—Members of the American Veterans Commit- tee early today suspended dummies (high on six lamp posts in various parts of Los Angeles and Holly- wood, with placards reading: “This Congressman committed political suicide. He voted against price control, sez AVC.” Dan Morris, an officer of the local AVC chapter, said today was designated as OPA Day throughout the nation by the AVC and that this was the method chosen by the Los Angeles Area Council to carry out the campaign here. Hollywood police received reports by telephone that a body was hanging from a_lamp post at Hol- lywoed and Vine and upon investi- gation found it was one of the cffigics, lem was unchanged. The American said there was no sign of agree- ment; with Russian Foreign Min- ister Vyacheslav M. Molotov lned up against his American, British' and French colleagues. A British source said Molotov described the border lines proposed by the other powers as punishment Is Worthy Event — The big entertainment event to- ,night is the 48th annual ball to be given by the Douglas Volunteer Fire Department 4n the High School Gym in Douglas and the public from both sides of the channel is asked to attend. ‘The ball is for the purpose of raising funds for maintenance of of Yugoslavia, a war-time ally. U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes denied this, saying that the :‘,:‘fix\g“;’:d ;’;:‘:: i ‘:‘: A;‘?""“:; the department in the way it should ‘(‘I‘Mln Flume, 18902 p(:\s:r: vx::;ea be mianikineds POl umacaL® papegl a s;‘;m‘ b .also sponsoring the Douglas Boy of new territory and 375,000 inhab-*geous, another worthy cause as to s why there should be liberal attend- Molotov, agreeing that Triute-‘mwcv was technically Italian, was report- ! ed to have demanded that the city' ne turned over to Yugoslavia be- cause it was an integral part of pA“l Sonm ue surrounding countryside which, ‘he held, was technically Yugoslav. | To SEE ABou' L ey g i . ¥ ‘ BASESINPACIFICARE! OPENING MINE BEING | " HANDI(AWED] Paul Scrensen, general manager 1 tof the Hirst-Chicl Mining Com- BY DEMOBILIZATION - Eniie b et !neau for several days and planned H to leave today to inspect the pro- Gen. Eisenhower Makes :5',ici" s "aurine H the war, with the view to reopen- Pom'ed S'a'ement '0 !!ns the mine which once employed { Mamla Newsmen 1100 men if it can be done. ! ki | Sorensen, who served as a ma- MANILA, May 4—The speed of {Jor in the U. 8. Army in Europe demobilization has seriously handi-|during the war, sald yesterday “it capped the maintenance of vitallis definitely our desire to reopen United States military bases in the (the mine. We are well fixed for Pacific, General Eisenhower said |supplies and equipment and could {oday. | start immediate operations - if the “There are millions of dollars |labor situation would permit. Ev- worth of equipment to be taken erything depends upon the avail- care of, and 1o one to take care ability of labop and the wages de- of it,” he sald at a press confer-|manded.” en { He will return to Juneau May T t Honolulu, for instance, the and will fly south several days la- entire Seventh Airforce is down tol ter to present his findings to the a strength of only 404 men. The|board of directors of the company. same general conditions apply” else-| Sorensen. wak. With. the Pirst whiere in the Pacific.” Army in Europe in engineering work 3 ki iand later, after the surrender, was FROM ANCHORAGE | with the American Military Gov- | Hazel Malcolm and Bernice Mell- | ernment in charge of mining for quist have arrived here from An-|the western military district with chorage. They gre staying at the headquarters at Marburg, Germany, Gastineau and lter at Kassel, Germany.