The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 6, 1946, Page 1

TANANAICEB THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,263 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1946 PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SUPPLIES OF VandegriffIs | COAL SHRINK | Fighting for OVER NATION - Sirike of 400,000 Miners| Force Over 70,000 | Info Idleness (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) As the strike of 400,000 soft coal miners entered its sixth week today (Monday), the: number of idle across the nation in coal-related industries exceeded 71,000. Shrinkage of coal supplies fore-| ed millions to realize the import- ance of the fuel in their daily lives. In Chicago, industries, business an shops were restricted to four hours’ operation daily, and the city's en- tertainment spots were blacked out, cxcept for restaurants, after 6 p.m. In Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., U. S. Steel's biggest subsidiary, slated operations this week at nine percent of capacity, Jower than at any point during the bottom depression year of 1932. Blow At Lewis Meanwhile, Congressional tem- pers mounted. A House Judiciary Subcommittee scheduled hearings on a bill to outlaw any form of special production payments to un- jons. Such a bill, if passed, would eliminate John L. Lewis' chief de- mand, which would provide a health and welfare fund for his miners through royalties paid on each ton of coal mined. Earlier, several Senators public- ly demanded government action to reopen the mines. Persons who attended -.the -last: four deys of contract hegotiations between the ceml operators and Lewis' AFL United Mine Workers said the miners’ chief has not said 2 word in the meetings, leaving all; discussion to his subordinates. Transportation Troubles ! Meanwhile, three communities in PRESIDENT-ELECT ROXAS IS COMING Marine Corps Four-Star G(Tn eral Says Force Knocked Out in Merger Bill | WASHINGTON, May 6. — Gen | Alexander A. Vandegrift came out (oast Guard, Police Boafs Patrol Alcatraz PRISONRIOT TAKES LIVES ~ OFFIVEMEN (Fifteen Are Wounded af Alcatraz - FBI Moves Info Scene Today | saN FrRANCISCO, May 6.—The {FBI moved into Alcatraz today to | fighting today to save his Marinecollect evidence against three sur- | Corps from the extinction he said vivors of |1s threatened for it in the pending | Army-Navy Merger Bill. The four-star Marine contended that the army “is de- {termined to reduce the ary ineffectiveness.” “And the merger bill in its pre- |sent form makes this | readily attainable,” Vandegrift de- Marine | d | Corps to a position of studied mil- | objective | ! the half-dozen conviects ’\\‘hosc deperate, vain break for f{ice- {dom brought a bloody, 36-hour siege General | 0f their cell-block and left five dead imen and 15 wounded. | Not a single prisoner escaped. The three may yet die — in San | Quentin's Green painted gas cham- ber. | “There is a good chance that evi- |dence will be sufficient to indict |clared in testimony prepared for|the surviving participants for mur- 1a closed session of the Senate Na- {val Committee. The text of |statement was made available | the Navy. A member of President Truman's informal Council of Military Elder Statesmen, the Marine Corps Com- mandant underlined the reminder that “the Marines are ready.” “If it came to a fight today,” he added, “I do not know who could replace them.” ! “At a time when the responsible . heads of other services are com- | plaining of disintegration of fight- ing power accompanied by problems of low morale and deterioration of | discipline,” Vandegrift declared, “I {can assure you that these condi- i tions are not existent in the Mar- ine Corps.” : BULLETINS WASHINGTON — The office of Defense Transportation today pro- hibited the movement of circus and carnival trains effective May 10, as 8 coal conservation measure. TEHRAN, Iran — Prince Firouz, Minister of Propaganda, said today that the Iranian government was “completely satisfied” that the Rus- sian evacuation would be completed ‘o U.S. VIA AI.ASK A; by midnight tonight. NEW YORK-—Directors of Gen- his | by said the the death penalty will be eral Motors Corp. teday cut the MANILA, May 6.—President-elect'dividend on the common stock to Manuel, Roxas and High Commis- 50 cents a share from 75 cents sioner Paul McNutt will visit To-|previously paid. The dividend is kyo, Adak and Seattle enroute to payable June 20 to holders of re- Washington, D C., the official itin- |cord May 17. erary disclosed today. They will| leave Manila by plane Wednesday afternoon. The Washingto Merry- Eg -Round| WASHINGTON—The “brownout” |is in effect at the White House on | President Truman's order, and if ,the ceal crisis gets worse the air n‘cnndinonmg system there will be turned off. 'WASHINGTON—President Tru- man asked Congress today for leg- |der,” asserted U. S. Attorney Dan- liel €. Deasy — and if it is, he demanded. Two Guns Involved Despite the fact there were only 'two guns in the entire group in- (volved in the furious battle, h added, “Where one of more par-/ ticipants (in a conspiracy to es- cape) actually killed someone, the others would be part of that con- |spiracy, and could be charged with murder.” The three surviving participants, said Warden James A. Johnston, |were Sam Shockley, 36, serving a {life term for kidnaping and rob- |kery in Oklahoma; Miran Edgar | Thompson, 29, serving 99 years for {kidnaping and life for killng a :Texas policeman;and" - Clarence Carnes, 19, Oklahoma desperado !serving 99 years for kidnaping and ‘murder. den James A. Johnston i guards. (AP Wirephoto) Three pedies Found Guards broks into the last dark utility corridor of the embattled! prison wing Saturday to find the Lodies of three others: Bernard Coy, 46, Louisville, Ky., bank robber who started the upris- ing by clambering up to a third- tier guards’ gallery and forcing his |way into it to slug ,and disarm Guard Bert Burch, was defiant to ¥ the last. Death caught him with TOKYC, May 6.—Hideki Tojo arms extended as though still grip- and 26 other wartime leaders of ping the rifle he had seized from Japan today entered staccato pleas the guard, of innocent to charges that they Also dead in the narrow, pipe- unleashed a war of aggression and filled passageway were: murder in the Pacific and were Joseph Paul Cretzer, 35, Los An- ordered to trial in June despite geles bank robber who assumed their counsel’s ‘protest that the in- command and carried on the fight terval is too short. furiously, despite his quick con- ‘The Far East Triounal, clusion that the break had failed which the 27 appeared for and “were as far from San first formal hearing, however. Francisco as ever!” convene again next Monday to Marvin F. Hubbard, 36, Tennessee permit the defense to renew its kidnaper, who had lived until Sat- empbatic challenge that the court urday morning—outlasting Coy and has no jurisdiction in the pend- Cretzer by one night. ing caces The rifle and pistol which Coy Tojo's attorney, Ichiro had wrested from Burch were lost no tims today in att. ng the found beside' the convicts, Tribunal. He charged that the court’s president, Sir William Webb OF INNOCENCE Aggression, Also Mur- der in Pacific Areas before their will Kiyose, Police and Coast Guard boats speed around ed a riot call saying convicts had machine guns and held most of the priscn cfficers in a cellblock. The riot of priscners was quelied during Friday night and Saturday morning following killing of three convicts, two guards and wounding of 14 other 10J9, OTHERS LEFTISTS | ENTER PLEAS - DEFEATED ‘Deny Char&?of War of Strong Vote_‘Ag_ainsl Com- | Alcatraz Island Penitentiary in San Franclsco Bay last Thursday BALKAN TREATIES WRLBEEUMMED BY FOR. MINISTERS IN FRAN(E‘DeadIock Exists on Italianf | Trealy So Program | Is Changed . PARLT, May 6.—Dsadlocked on the Italo-Yugeslay . frontier issue! !the Fereign Ministers Council in- ! structed its deputies today to start cxamination of the Balkan treaties, ' beginning with Rumania, an Am. delivering the sharpest setback to Crican informant said, | the Left Wing bloc sinca the liber- The four mumsters of Russia, ation of France, rejected a Com- Britain, France and the United mnnist-Socialist supported consti- States reviewed their pesition on tution in yesterday’s refersndum, the ltalian treaty and found the complete official ~returns showed cuestion of Trieste and the Italian- teday. oslav fronutier was the key dif- ilty. Thereupon U. B. Secretary cf the Interior indicated that the of Siates Byrnes proposed that the constitution was defeatzd by 1,170,- deputies be instructed to start work 497 votes. These figures, complete on Baikan treaties. for the 93 departments of France, Neither the Americans nor ncluding all three in North Africa, Russians would budge from munist-Socialist Sup- | ported Constitution By James M. Lonag PARIS, May 6—French voters the their stands on the Itallan treaty at the nst the Constitution 10,450,883 meeting today. For ths Constitution 9,280,396 ‘the U. S. secretary told his {hree Approximately 80 percent of colleagues, the informant said, that the registered voters participated. he is wil to accept either the Lefeat of -the proposal means peoposed Biiush or French rrontier Mid-Columbia River Val-| The task of finding new homes for REAKS AT NENANA SUNDAY BREAKUP AT 4:40 0'CLOCK IN AFTERNOON Three Companies, One In- G dividual Share Award of $108,000 The ice broke in the Tanana Riv- er in front of Nenana Sunday af< ternoon, May 5 at 4:40 o'clock aec- {cording to a bulletin received by the Empire from Pegge Parker of the News-Miner, Fairbanks. | The fortunate guessers are as fol- lows: C. R. Forsseld Co., of Fairbanks. I Lila Links. Co., of Anchorage. The Federal Eleven Oo, of An- chorage. Mike Johnson of Sitka, He is the sole claimant to . $27,000 ‘of the jaward which totals $108,000, | Fairbanks radio KFAR reporter, 'Ed Stevens, eye-witness, in a broadcast described the ice fjam, fcrmed Saturday night. A great | force of water jammed up behind the ice jam and finally broke i through the great chunks of ice !lhat swirled 'In muddy water in a ! torrent, moving the tripod down stream. 133,000 Make Guesses One hundred and thirty three jthousand guesses were made this jyear on the date of the ‘Tanana T ]brukup. e 2 } The gréatest number of:guesses {were made on May 3 when hours {end minutes for the breakup were more ] 30 FAMILIES 2 BURNEDOUT, -2 guesses Was A h ‘ed by approximately 59,000 guessers, 5. 6 and 7: Those dates ; ! The earliest was’ made by | the Charléy Goebel Co. for Feb- | ruary 7 and the latest by the Mary i (Jerde Co, for November 17, One hundred aud two tickets were rejected by the judges due to omission of names; 41 werg imarked April 31; 58 were not _ ! marked with either a.m, or p.m., 53 were improperly matrked; 24 were « | without designated months; 38 failed to show time; 15 were with- icut a day; 14 were blanks and s hree were void. A total of 343 0 famllies and rebuilding “"yglukels were rejected. business faced this mid-Columbia } Nenana Workers River Valley village this morning i All sarting s townspeople returned to nlvue';mmg w?;;nzl .“Mm,:: . ,:le::_ » few belongings -from the still graph‘lnu col;lpulnl lnd’ binding smoldering embers of the cnmmun-lthe books of gugsses, was done by # ; the town's people of Nenana. The There were no reports of ln]urles‘m”em committée is composed of afmong the evacuated men, women[uugo Frederick, Qeorge Ball, Hen- :na children, but volunteer Hed‘[ry Madden, Arthur Wright, George aides "at White Salmon,’ Jones Wash,, and Hood River, Ofe, aross| soor. Tom o . ninn Williams, Manager. < the viver, said almost every mmlly! Th 3 lassic had lost their belongings i the' o Soceing @ blarsdlig At BiSving fire whichiwiped L,eslabmhed in 1017 by members of. ‘l;u'e m:xpa'm;-: of )t,our neighb(;r-i—n‘e salp of AlcHEERNAS SIR 1 g (owda Joined: criwe’ ot "helNcnlnfl residents for séveral years rand later sold to adjoining com- Washington State Forestry Depart- ' kets now meont yesterday in saving a score Tuniten e e ey ba afternoon and Friday after War- ley Village Swept by Fire on Sunday UNDERWOOD, Wash., May 6.— that France will elect a new con- qnes betwecn Italy and. Yugcslavia stitusnt assembly June 2. This ,ui (hat acceplance of the Russian B " ascembly-will hame a new provis- ,cjcsal wouid violate the London 'CYCNUnS brush fires from reach-| “gince 1917 the earliest date the icnal government and draft an- . ,ucience decision to use the new '3 White Salmon, Wash., three . cov.o has occurred was April other proposed constitution for the iyintier on ethnic grounds. ©les east of here. Severaling io and the latest dute was Fouth Republic, Lyines’ proposal .of Saturday {arm buildings inside the brush | ou ({May 16 of last year. The Leftist-supported constitution yciq a plebiseite in the disputed re- d fire zone, set by sparks from Un-‘; would have established an all-pow- gion hetween the proposed American . {€rWeod buildings, were leveled but erful 4 Iisla.fion authorizing a program of i military collaboration with other }Amencan countries, “including the training, organization and equip-| { ment of the armed forces of those of outlying Underwood homes and :’::C;“:::n ?l‘u:l;'r‘:’t:vry‘ M.‘*.‘ ol E .- SIO(K 0“01‘“0“5 of Australia, has been so biased by his investigation of Japanesz atro- NEW YORK, May 6. — Closing |Cities in New Guinea that he can- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Dot judge fairly. stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor-| The motion was promptly denied {countries.” He transmitted the draft poration 6%, American Can 92, An-'after a ten-minute recess confer- jof a bill entitled “the Inter-A‘l.'neri— sconda 45%, Commonwealth and €nce. With Webb absent from the |ean Military Cooperation Act,” and | gouthern 4, Curtiss-Wright 7, In-discussion, eight of tre court’s oth- By DREW PEARSON (Ed Note—This is the first of a series of revealing columns by Drew Pearson giving the inside story of the lobbies now bat- tling against price control.) to Here Is Reference °, WASHINGTON—The back-stage | story of how certain key industries | lobbied to cut the heart out of| price control is one of the mostiWAR DEPARIM umazing in the long and turbulent Hfe of the nations Capital. Months | ago the campaign was carefully charted and thousands of: dollars have been spent in carrying it out.! Three industries spearheaded the | campaign — Cotton and- Woolen | ‘Pextiles; The National Association of Automobile Dealers; and The National Retail Dry Goods -Asso-| efation. A lot of other organizations imeluding The National Association | of Real Estate Board did some ex- tremely helpful rooting, but the| above three chiefly carried the ball.| The Congressmen who acted as their main spokesmen (or in some cases, puppets) were: 1. Senators Thomas of Oklahoma and Bankhead of Alabama who worked hand in glove with the raw cotton ' bloc and incidentally did some cotton speculating of their own on the side. Eastland of Mis- sissippi also did his part, though not so effectively. 2. Rep. Fred Hartley, New Jersey | Republican, who was the unofficial spokesman for The National Retail | Dry Goods Association. 3 Rep. Fred Crawford, Michigan (Continued on Page Four) asked its enactment. ENT PROGRAMIS GIVEN OUT BY PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, May, 6.—Presi- dent Truman today submitted to Congress a program calling for ex- “pendjtures by the War Department | in the next fiscal year totally $7,- 46,335,200. The President said the estimates contemplate maintenance of an army of 1,070,000 men and officers on June 30, 1947. This would com- | pare with 1,500,000 on June 30,! 11946. In addition to maintaining this |strength the estimates provide $500,000,000 for government and re- lief in occupied areas and $200,- 000,000 for the atomic service for- ! merly carried on by the Mfinhnnanl | Prcject. | ' WIITA ARRESTED | WAYNE Wayne Wiita, arrested on a charge of discrderly conduct today, ‘is ‘being held by Pederal authori- ties for observation, | ternational Harvester 90%, Kenne- €' ten justices ruled that no objec- | cott 56%, New York Central 25%,|lion to any member can be sus |as follows: industrials 200.65, rails | 63.06, utilities 42.55. | Northern Pacific 2%, United Cor- tained because the court’s f‘hfi"ffl[‘ ‘poranan 5%, U. S. Steel 824, provides Ll?at membels shall be of Pound $4.03% ‘MacArthurs choosing. | sales today were 1,000,000 shares. | RO s bt 2 TWO HALIBUT MEN I ! . - mces servmoax— SWEPT OVERBOARD; Closing quotation of Alaska Ju-| | neau mine stock last Saturday was BOIH I-OSE I.IVES i Alleghany Co¥poration 6%, | A { American Can 94, Anaconda 46%,| | Commonwealth and Southern 4i,! PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, May 6. | Curtiss-Wright 7%, International —Two Prince Rupert fishermen Harvester 92, Kennecott 56%, New |were washed overboard when a York Central 257%,Northern Pacific 'giant comber struck - their 45-foot | 29%, United Corporation 5%, Unit- ' halibut boat Saturday off the Queen | ed States Steel 82%, Pound $4.031.|Charlotte Islands. It is presumed Sales Saturday were 460,000 they drowned. | shares. The two crewmen—Andrew Sor- Dow, Jones averages Saturday|ensen 59, and Ragnar Frederick- | were as follows: industrials 202.52, S€n. 36, were swept off the boat af- | rails 6335, utilities 42.75. Vlter o sudden squall flew up. A } ORI |third member of ths crew, Gilbert | Eroick, saved his own life when he GAMB IoDAY Tmnnuged to grasp trailing fish nets las he was carried over the side. | There were no games scheduled| A dead engine prevented the i‘“ th2 National League today. {boat from going to x":s rescue of In the American League, scores Sorensen and Fredericksen. lof games played up to press time,| - > are as follows: ‘ | Boston 7; St. Louis 5. Sitka, has arrivel in Juneau. He { Chicago 2; New York 1, is staying at the Hotel Juneau. unicameral legislature, em- ,;9 Russian lines was not raised powered to appoint executive and . today’s meeting. | judicial branches of the gevern- BHEGES ment, i ' | The proposal was opposed bitter- u. S. INIERESIS 1 1y by the Conservative Popular Re- i blican Movement (MRP) and NEGOIIAIE FOR | her Right-wing parties, on the i grcunds i would give a virtual dictatorship to whatever faction won control of the Legislature. B HIGHWAY WEST OF ROCKIES IS URGED BY 2 GOVERNMENTS '~z .o VICTORIA, B. C., May 6—The' Mr. Carson refused to name the Pacific Northwest Trade Associa- American interests or the railroad tion, ending its convention here, they represent. To do so, he said, passed a resclution urging the would embarrass the government. Canadian government to join the He stated that American capital United Btates in construction of a representing' an American railroad highway waest of the Rockies to had sought during the last two conneet with the Yukon and Alaska. weeks to purchase the P.G.E It was introduced by Kemper Premier Hart, now in Ottawa, is Freéeman of Seattle, chairman of expected to negotiate with Cana- the Highways Committee, who said dian Pacific rallwa§ while in the a highway through British Columbia east, and was prepared to grant running north of Princs George that company a preference if they | VICTORIA, May 6--Hon. E. C. Carson, acting Premier of British Columbia, disclosed Lere that Amer- ican interests have' been negotiat- ing to purchase the Pacific Great Eastern railway “for further ex- tension into the 'Peace River coun-| |would open up the entire North-( were willing to meet the Americans | west avea. Richard Rinehart, u resident of | Prince Rupert {offer. ‘The next meeting of the Associa-| tion will be either at Vancouver or|American ‘capital had been trying . {0 buy the P.G. E. for two years. PURCHASE P.G.E. Mr. Carson further disclcsed that' three’ farm homes surrounded by Now, paste this in your hat for burning grass and brush were sav- |reference next year on Nenana lce cd. The fire jumped the White movements: Salmon River as a strong west| 1917—April 30 wind whipped through the narrow | 1918—May 11 >clumbia River gorge here. ‘;mo-—u-y 3 .. There was -3 officiai estimate of { 1020—May 11 . damage, but Hood River firemen!1921—May 11 .. raid totally damaged properties and 1922—May 12 ., belongings were valued at about|1923—May 9 5,000 to $100,000. A dozen homes|1924—May 11 .. 11925—May T .. ! 1926—April 26 11927—May 13 ... !1928—May 6 1929—May 5 . ' 1930—May 8 1931—May 10 were partially damaged. LEGION AUXILIARY MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT AT DUGOUT (223 The American Legion Auxillary 1934—April 30 will held the regular business meet- 1935—May 15 ing tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in 1936—April 30 the Legion Dugout, and all mem- 1937—May 12 bers are urged to attend. | 1938—May 6 . Plans for the annual Poppy Day 1939—April 29 . will “he completed, according to 1940—April 20 Mrs. James Sofoulis, Poppy Chair- 1941—May 3 . man, at this meeting. There will 1942—April 30 also be nomination of officers, with 1943—April 28 election to take place at the June 1944—May. ¢ .. . .. meeting, Mrs. Olaf Bodding, Presi-' 1945—May 16 . dent, has announced. . 1946—May 5 ... -> H Commicrcial buleer was first made in the United States in 1856 in Orange County, N. Y BEEEREERES SREBIBEBBERS vnvy;;uvvv.-nu BENE g 8 Arthur H. Riebau of Seattle is here and s at the Gastineau.