The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY A “ALL, THE NEWS 4LL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,268 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SA SOFT COAL MINERS FOOD SHIP AT KODIAK MOVES OUT Half of Shipment Aboard, Vessel as Result Over- time Pay Dispute KODIAK, Alaska, Mgy 11.—The! steamer Lakina, first food ship to| reach Kodiak since March 29, sailed | away yesterday with half of its hcal| . consignment still aboard as Kodiak residents watched hungerily from the ! dock. | The vessel stopped unloading | cargo when an overtime pay dispute arose between dock operators and | agents for the vessel—the former : > Molding that the ship's owners, should pay part of the overtime! wages earned by longshoremen after’ 4 p. m. and on weck-ends. | All the meat and most of the ¢ fresh garden foods destined for Ko- |/ diak remained aboard a§ the Lakina sailed. Its officers sald the ship would call at eannery ports and at- tempt to discharge the remainder of the cargo here later. ' longshore strike held up food [pments last month. | i | ELKS TO OBSERVE ‘1. mm’s DAY o“’ for Heisler since September 1, 1945. SUNDAY AFTERNOON - : b ONE OF SEVEN CONSCIENTIOUS OBJE! “guinea pigs” in a diet experiment at Gareth W. Heisler, of Etna Green, In tion” breakfast. It consists of apple oleomargarine, syrup, salt, pepper, §undly afternoon - at ‘2 o'elock,; the Elks will hold their annual| " Mother’s Day program’to which the public is invited. = The tribute to Mother will be giv-| en by Frank H. P. Rogers. A vo-:@ ! cal ensemble will give two musical! numbers and Claire Folta, Soprano,’ will sing “That Wonderful Mother of Mine”; Stanley LaRue, tenor,' will sing “Mother Machree”. H Exalted Ruler Ellis Reynolds, Es- quire Joz Sadlier, Lecturing Knight | Lou Hudson, Loyal Knight Claude| Carnegie, Leading Knight Victor, Power and Chaplain Dewey Baker| will give the Elks ritual. The vocal ensemble is uompcsed[ of Frances Bariow, Lois Hared,| Claire Folta, Patte Davis, Kather-| ine Stevens, Hazel Jameson, Jeanne ! Butts, Anna Barlow, and Lois Nich-: olson. | Mrs. Vernon F. McConnell is Director of Music and Joan Wolfe, ! accompanist. 1 e i WAISTLINE SOLUTION MISSOULA, Mont. — When Missoula resident stopped a build i ing contractor to tell him nails; were spilling from his truck, the' ! contractor phones police. Said the police: “Pick 'zm up.” The nail trail was a mile long. SINGER — Anita Gordon, 16, is a Hollywood high sehool stu- dent on weekdays. Sundays she sings on a radio program. She The Washington| Merry- Go- Round! By DR EBQEAKDOWN AT ‘WASHIN! e<Three. agol this month, this” colimsist, labor- ! ing under the impression that it | was the obligation of newspapers | to expose grafters, war profiteers | (By Joseph C. Goodwin) and other bamboozlers of the pub-! TEHRAN, May 11.—Members of lic, revealed certain strange things'the Azerbaijan delegation said to- that went on in the famous “Red |day negotiations with the Central House on R Street.” i Government had broken down and Shortly thereafter, the inmate of | they would return promptly to Ta- that house, one John Monroe, sued | priz, capital of the self-proclaimed this columnist for $1,000,000 With|autonomous state. # side suit against the Washington Post for $350,000. ! A spokesman of the Central Gov- The charges I brought agamsg.emment‘s Foreign Office denied 1 {that the negotiations were dead- Monroe at first might seem un-; believable: but he was one of the locked, but said “an announcement Mmbst - unbelievable mepressxbie"’f the friendly termination of the lobbyists ever seen in a city where,|conferences is expected.” lobbyists pounce out from the.pot-| A foreign source here, who is an ted palms of every cocktail lounge|eypert on Middle East affairs, said tract. ~ and where, today, one even OCCU-!ing¢ if the negotiations had broken | ples a confidential office next t0!qown it would be “very serious.” the President. | He said failure to settle the Azer- Monrce had, the gall to invite to: i5an problem might pose a his Red House on R Street the|.ipyeat of civil war.” then Secretary of the Navy, Frank | A Rnox; he invited Senators and, Congressmen, generals and admir-| als. What's more, he got away with ‘F. Gallegos of Albuquerque sent a it! They accepted his invitations.! check with a shoe order to a Free- He would put his feet up on a port, Me., manufacturer. He got it chair in the home of Adm. Ernest |back with this explanation: King, then top commander of the. “We are sorry to advice that we Navy, order Scotch, pick up the have discontinued all business out- side of the United <States for the (Continued on Page Four) present.” vitamins and some, maybe, blanks. This has been the average breakfast \also, has signed a movie con: TEHRAN SESSION VOLUNTEER FOR ‘sTARVATION’ DieT | BARTLETT GIVES ~ HIS VIEWS ABOUT i gl e 'Several Agencies fo Ge More than Usual-In- terest in North WASHINGTON, May 11. — Al-{ though expressing disappointment | over certain committee chang:&.. i Delegate Bartlett of Alaska mlnka‘, {the new Interior Department ap=i | propriaticn bill is “highly encourag- iin3” when compared with appro- priations for the ‘current and past fiscal years. i | Bartlett said in a statement that {the bill, now before the -House, reflects a decided interest in Al- ska on the part of Committee members. He said the Fish and Wildlife ‘! Service will have approximately $200,000 more available for Alaska fisheries and for game enforcement with a tctal of $994,245. i ‘The Alaska Native Service, he centinued, would get $838,000 more than it had this year and the Al- aska Road Commission have $600,-| 000 move than for the current year. Bartlett said he did not agree with the proposal that Alaska should put up 25 percent of the ccst of road surveys and new con- struetion. i “I am hopeful that either on the, floor of the House or in the Sen- ate some very badly needed in- creases in the bill will be allowed,” Bartlett said. “As it now stards the bi!l will provide for the expenditure in the Territory by the Interior Department of $7,827,828 for 1947 fiscal year compared with $5,% 936,745 for the current year, . .. | He sald:that while RE.Was:Gom | ~vineced that the entire amount ask-. ed for Alaska foad construction’ should have been allowed the com-/ mittee authorized start of the road from Kenai Lake to Homer and al road to connect the Alaska High- way with the 40-Mile District which were needed. I & § CTORS who volunteered to serve as Northwestern University, Chicago, d., is shown tucking in his “starva- sauce, corn meal mush, salt pork, and pills, some of which contain (International Soundpheto) HOUSE NOW Administration -Encourag- ed Over Passage by ALASKA NAVIGATION Senate by 46-34 SURVEYS APPROVED WASHINGTON, May 1.—Half its] WASHINGTON, May 11—Th2 battle won, the British loan will Navigation Improvements Bill ap- move over to the House today, facing proved by the House Rivers and another hard struggle with its ulti- | Harbors Committee today authoriz- mate fate very much in doubt. | es scores of surveys cf proposed pro- Administration forces, however, |jects by the Army Engineers in ad- see much encouragement from the dition to 60-odd construction auth- way the measure emerged victorious Orizations. from the Senate by a 46-34 vote' The surveys to determine the ad- vesterday after a month of bitter |Visakility of projects include: debate. . | Duwamish Waterway, Ore.; Shil- Eritain’s Prime Minister Attlee shole Bay, Ballard Locks, Seattle, was represented as “highly grati- | Wash.; Olympia Harbor, Wash.; De- fied” over the Senate's approval of |ception Pass, Skagit Bay, Wash.; the $3,750,000,000 loan. | Harbor at Angoon, Alaska; Channel But the House battle on tHe credit to connect Oliver Inlet and Seymour is still to come, and Chairman ! Canal, Alaska; Tcnakez Harbor, Spence (D.-Ky.) of the Banking Alaska; Harbor at Pelican, Alas- | Committee cleared the way for the ka; Harbor at Gustavus, Alaska; opening skirmishes by scheduling 'and harbor at Hydaburg, Alaska. | the start of public hearings before | 2l his group on Tuesday. These are | expected to take about tWo weeks. AU'I'o INDUSIRY SHOWS UP WELL, Extortion Charge AgainstLaborMan BUT FOR 1 WEEK ~utomobile and truck production in the United States and Canada this weelr was estimated by Ward's Automotive reports today at 70,225 units comparcd: with last week’s 537,060. Assemblies in the comparable DETROIT. May 1L—A warrant charging Business Agent James 'Hoffa with extortign in'.the AFL' | Teamsters Union drive to' organize {meat market and grecery store clerks was issued in Reeord’s Court ' itod‘—l}. Hoffa, who was in court when| the warrant was issued, was arrdign- | veek of 1941, last full year of pre-| |ed immediately. He stood mute to|war production totaled 132380 cars| {the charge and the court entered and trucks. {a plea of innocent for him, then| This week’s output represented |released him in $1,000 bond for a /a1 new postwar high level, but a {hearing May 28. sharp falling off was indicated next ! | The warrant was issued on com-|week with General Motors, Ford plaint of Martin Bonkovich, inde-|and Chrysler beginning a progres- ipendent dealer, ' who protested|sive shutdown due to the freight jagainst union organizing tactics in|embargo resulting from the coal the Teamsters' recently projected|strike. campaign among the clerks of 1,000' | Detroit stores. e —— i INT. APPRO. BLL| ‘*fi DAY, MAY 11, 1946 — MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS OING PRISON CAMP GOALWASTO HILL PEOPLE 31 Defenda—nt; Are Found % Guilty of Murdering ' 70,000 Persons | DACHAU, All 61 Mauthausen 0] atcrs S Germany, May Concentration Camp were convicted today of | torturing and killing thousands of | prifoners in that notorious exter- minktion center. They will be sen- | w:;:u Monday. | e U. S. Military Court of seven offigers deliberated only an hour in | reaghing the verdict after a six- week - trial. The testimony against the 61 in- cludied a decleration by a former até, Izak Gruenberg, that some ners were thrown into tory along with the dead. udant Hans Altfuldish, a pri- cempound commander, told the t that the camp’s goal was to I:q people and if the staff had re- 1 { “we ourselves would have :fiimo concentration camps and bly even have been Kkilled.” Lt. Col. William Denson, prose- ' cutor, declared “these men are re- sponsible for 70,000 deaths in @uthausen Concentration Camp fween 1932 and 1945.” e called for the conviction of eagh defendant as being “part of the design to beat and kill prison- ers,” regardless of whether each a§ proved to have committed urder individually. e MOLOTOV IN CLASH AGAIN WITH BYRNES Four-Power Conference s Split Over Repara- tions from lfaly PARIS, May 11.—U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes accepted teday the Soviet Union’s demand fcr $100,000,000 in reparations from Ttaly, but added conditions which led to a clash with Soveit Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov. This was reported by an American source, Almost the entire two-hour in- formal meeting of the Four-Power conference was devoted to the re- parations issue as the ministers continued their preview of disputed peints in Italian peace treaty pro- posals in efforts to narrow down the area of disagreement. Byrnes, accepting the Russian re- parations demand, was reported by the American scurce to have said these must be obtained cnly from: 1. Italian assets abroad. : 2. Excess industrial equipment in former munitions factories. | 3. Merchant shipping. l 4. Naval vessels. Molotov promptly disputed. the | last point. He said naval vessels were legitimate booty of war and| should be apportioned among the victorfous powers as such, and not | as reparations. } Byrnes retorted that booty could | be claimed® énly by those who had ! captured it, apd the Russians had | captured no Italian naval vesse]s.; - EDWARD CROWE FUNERAL MONDAY Funeral services for Edward Crowe, | pioneer' Douglas resident who died | vesterday in St. Ann’s Hospital, will | be held at 2 p. m. Monday in the | Charles W. Carter Mortuary chapel. The Rev. Willis R. Booth will con- duct services, to be held under the i defendants in the trial of | the BACK MONDAY 5._, BIGWALKOUT 1 GENERAL 'IKE’ VISITS BIRTHPLACE & o \ , ISSUSPENDED N BT B TWELVEDAYS | ; W Four Hundred Thousand { Miners Accept Propos- 1‘ als fo Return fo Pits (BY THE ASSDCIATED PRESS) Four hundred thousand soft coal | miners, whose strike of 40 days dis- |rupted all phases of the nation's | Industry and business, have been crdered back to their jobs next |Monday to work for 12 days under |a truce proposed by John L. Lewls, |AFL United Mine Workers Presi- |dent, and accépted by the bitumin~ |ous aparators. As Lewis and the operators pre- vred to begin a fresh series of | nogotiation - conferences, they car- Iried with them a request by Presi- | dent Truman to work out an agree- {ment on a new contract within the | next four or five days. ! Federal officials ,expressed hope that a permanent settlement of the country’s major labor dispute would be cffected within the time asked |by Mr. Truman, But the govern- ° ment pparently was not 1cady to relax major emergency iegulations which were imposed because of the fast-dwindling supplies of coal. With the miners back in the pits until May 25, when the truce ox- pires, an estimated 25,000°00 tons ,of coal could be produced. The < | i | FOR THE FIRST TIME in 54 years, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower returns to his birihplace in Denison, Tex., where he is shown smiling to the thou- sands of shouting Texans who came to cheer him. Some 40,000 visitors greeted “Tke” as he stepped from his plane. Eisenhower's family moved / | Solid Fuels Administration said from Denison shortly after he was born. (International Soundphoto) | ni'%::;on ‘will - remain. under Th UP 75 MILES RECORD TEST Was no to releass # 3 | Likewise, the Clvilian Production | Administration did not revoke or- !ders for brownouts and illuminat- ing gas rationing until “This ple- ture is a lot clearer.” A spokes- 'man for the agency said, “The sit« | uation still is ecritical.” Lewis' surprise proposal, which 'he sald was made to safeguard the “Lealth and security” of the na- ition was accepted by the operators !“upon the government's assurance that corresponding rellef in OPA prices will be given." NOTHING DOING JOHNSTOWN, Pa., May 11.—Offi- cials of one of twp Cambria county AFL-United Mine Workers Union locals, which have spurned a two- week truce in the 40 day soft coal strike, wired UMW chief John L. Lewis today that he was privileged 10 “Throw in the towel — but not for us.” The telegram signed by Michael Demchak, President of St. Michaels The radar guided proximity fuse Local 3648, and Allen Coryle, Local will be used to direct one of the secratary, said in part: giant rockets against the other, an .“Have we been chasing a will-o'- cificial said, in the current serles the-wisp for the last six weeks? We ol tests at the White Sands prov- think not. We have just begun to ing ground. fight. The miners who are suffer- Captur‘ed German Equip- ment Being Tried Out by Ordnance Experts | WHITE SANDS, N. M, May 11.— ‘A spectacular attempt to destroy lore German V-2 rocket with an- other in midair was mapped by Army Crdnance experts today in a isearch for a means of defense against atomic age long range guided missiles. | | T 4 GARTER — Movie starlet da Mary Tbarp weals her “wolf bait” garter, made by braiding the wearer’s hair, ng from silicosis have no truce The tests were begun yesterday iih death.” vhen a reassembled V-2 roared to 8 S a height estimated at 75 miles. Of- ¥ icia d this was an American record for an ascent by a man- "o SEW"‘ instrument, although possibly ' exczeded in recorded wartime tests I" los m by the Nazis. In cross-channel bombardment of London, however, - = V-25 mostly rose no higher than Im m /50 or 60 miles. J | pApER SHORTAGE | Ths American-developed VT, [0S ANGELES, May 11.—At odds proximity fuse played an important u., yntervention, as well as wages H"S "EwspApER iTole in the 1944-45 Battle Of the gnd hours, transit mansgement and Bulge in detonating shells which ya,4 wound up an all-night con- e exploded when a reflected radio PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 11.—The 'beam Jlocated their target — Von ::;:;eedalm:?-:' ::m:.d- X,,:.":“;: Pittsburgh Press published an ad- 'Rundstedt’s attacking Nazis. | would still be walking next week. less, eight-page paper today and in | ryenty-four additfonal V-2s re-| Street cars and buses of the Los a page announcement sald “this agempled from captured German Angeles Transit Lines -have been greatly abbreviated edition” was due equipment will be fired at intervals idle for more than a week. to the coal strike. ‘of about. week In efforts to learn Said D. D. MeClurg, President of “Our inventory of newsprint is S0 4)1 possible about the Nazi weapon|the AFL Transportation Union, dangerously low, that this greatly | preparatory to developing larger| whese %,000 operating employces abbreviated edition is necessary in gnq lenger-rangs American missiles. called !;e stribd: order to make the supply last as officials said it was entirely poss-| “Wa cannot get together. Wo long as possible,” the Scripps HOW- jple that one or more of these would want a decent comtract, a lving ard paper said. /reach an altitude of some 120 miles, wage, We will stay on the street The paper's Sunday edition also the extreme vertical rangs credited until we get it." il be curtailed to 2¢ black ana ‘¢ the V-2 i on Churchill Is | GRABUATION HELD wi white pages from the usual 60 and | will contain no display advertising. | M Color features, prepared in advance, | w'ns' | ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.—Isidore \ Killed in Germany s . NUERNBERG, May 11—Firing from ambush, unidentified assail+ ants last night shot and killed two United States soldiers who were rid- ing in a jeep near Nuernberg. The Army withheld names of the victims, Inoth’ shot: in the chest, - | will be carried auspices of Gastineaux Lodge 124, gl A DECORATED |F. & A. M, of Douglas, and will | giye the eulogy. Interment will fol- | PITTSBURGH — The little wo- BERLIN, May 11.—Gen. Josepll low in the Masonic plot in Ever- !man can save this for the next ar- T. McNarney was decorated with green Cemetery. |gument with hubby about who | the Order of Suvorov, First Class, Pallbearers will be William Spain, 'wrinkled that fender. in a ceremony at Soviet head- John Mills, A. Gair, Walter Heisel,| Police Superintendent Harvey Of the City of Amsterdam today. |their Fighth Grade diplomas: An- quarters in Potsdam today. The Edwin Sutton and A, E. Goetz Scott comes up with statistics show-, Churchill whq addressed the nette Widmark, Dorothy ~Brown, American Commander in Germany |Ernest Ehler will sing during the ling that in 1945 male drivers were Municipality, saild he was not Dorothea Benson and Agnes Cooday. was cited for “successful leadership scrvices. » involved in 4,665 Pittsburgh automo- | aware during the war of the hor-| Leonard C. Allen, Government of American forces against the| The family requests that no flow- !bile accident — and women motor-'rors which occurred in Amsterdam,'principal of Junéau and Douglas, common foe,” g crs be sent, ists in only 145. } especially to the Jews. spoke and distributed the diplomas. | | - ATGOVT. HOSPITAL {- A Awarded Gold Medal L In brief graduation exercises held AMSTERDAM, May 11.—Winston 'yesterday in the Government Hos- Churchill received the Gold Medal | pital the following girls received