The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1946, Page 1

i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —_— VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,272 27 DIE IN JUNEAU, ALASKA, l@ SDAY, MAY 16, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CHARTERED AIRLINER CRASH "0 (HANGEIN | canapa's NE‘W‘C?O.V‘ERNOR GE | & | Govt. Seizu;;f Railroads May Avert Nationwide Walkout Saturday (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRRESS) President Truman asked John L. Lewis and the soft coal operators today to submit their dispute to arbitration as the revived peace &« . talks seeking to avert a nationwide| yop.HATTED FIELD MARSHAL Viscount Alexander is sho: the Royal Canadian Air Force Guard of Honor as he entered the ! Parliament Building in Ottawa, Canada, for his installation as the new railroad strike Saturday ended in an apparent deadlock. Lewis and Charles O'Neill, rep-| Governor General of the British dominion. hprecedenled Request Made; Man Wanisfo Jein His Wife in Leprosarium resenting the soft coal operators,| will give Mr. Truman their decis-| jon on his coal dispute arbitration proposal at 2:30 p. m. (PST) today. The chief executive made his sug- gestion at a morning conference in the White House with the two men. | Mr. Truman said the two told him | STOCK QUOTATIONS neraL (Sfrike of | Loggersin ~ B.C.(alled Result Maf arlail News- | print Production, Also | Fishing Operations VICTORIA, B. C., May 16.—A log- gers’ strike which took 37,000 work- off the job in British Colum- i yesterday threatened to close !mills producing newsprint for many {large United States newpapers with- lin a month and curtail fishing op- erations. Spokesmen at the Powell River Paper Company in Vancouter would say only that the strike “ultimate- ly” would affect production, but wn inspecting (International) had about three weeks supply of !logs on hand. The Province pro- duces about 1,000 tons of newsprint daily. Idleress for 10,000 in the fishing indutry was in prospect until or- ders for 3,500,000 boxes filled. Labor leaders said the strike was the opening gun in a general drive for wage increases and predicted that 80,000 would be SAN FRANCISCO, May 16— A out of work in a week or 10 days. tall ruddy Army officer, determ-| The Intcrnational Woodworkers ined to spend the remaining years of America (CIO) originally de- of his life by the side of his wife manded a wage boost of 25 cents in a Carville, La., Leprosarium, was an hour and went on strike when undaunted today by unofticial word treir offer to cut that to 18 cents from Carville that his request pro- was refused. Operators had offer- bably would be denied. led 12 1-2 cents. The length of the This possible set-back came &S work weck and other considerations friends of 65-year-old Maj. Hans also0 were in dispute. George Hornbostel, a veteran of an effort to compel megiation Atwo wars, pushed his petition D upder wars Weshington. - Surgeon . Generallpy “Chjef Justice Gordon Sloan of Thomas Parran was among those yhe British Columbia Supreme with whom the probably unpreced- court, who recommended such ac- ented request was taken up. tion to the Labor Ministry in Otta- Mrs. Hornbestel, who is 52, de- yq, veloped skin trouble while she and her husband, an Army Engineer, o 3 e Rl were prisoners of the Japanese at SYREBE: AXFROLR /BEREAD Santo Tomas in Manila. However,, VANCOUVER, B. C, May 16— physicians at San Franeisco Hospn-‘The strike of British Columbia log- al where she is in isolation, believe 8ers and sawmill workers, although she contracted the disease long be- only one day old, began today to fore, probably while doing research affect other industries in the Pro- work with her husband amond the vince. Polynesian peoples. They point out! Deepsea ships scheduled for that leprosy usually does not mani- loading here late this month have fest itself until from five to 20 been advised by cable that no lum- years after expcsure. Although she ber will be available if the walk- suspected leprosy while at Santo out continues. Tomas, the confirmation was ob- Towboat men who pull the log tained here only a week ago. becms down the coast to mills have Major Hornbostel has no doubts encugh to keep them going until about his decision to join his wife Tuesday but after that about 1,200 at the leper colony. 'in that industry will be idle. “I don't consider myself any Meanwhile special dispatches martyr by asking to be with her from Ottawa to Vancouver newspa- as long as we both shall live,” he pers ' quoted Federal Labor De- NEWSPAPERS HIT SEATTLE, May 16.—The Seattle Times, itself dependent on British Columbia paper mills, today fore- cast a serious newsprint shortage ishould the Province’s loggers' strike said. “I'd be unhappy without partment officials as saying they her and she'd be unhappy without will take no action until they re- me, and that’s all there is to it.” |celve the report of Chief Justice T | Gordon Sloan whose 11th hour | conciliation attempts failed. ECONOMIC BLOCS ! “Harold Pritchett, District Presi- ‘dent of the International Wood- | workers of America (CIO—CCL), w’ll BE RES“lT 'said today that “the camps are out {solid,” The IWA ordered the strike OF BR'I'SH loA |after failure to obtain a satisfactory | working agreement with logging —_— ‘and sawmill operators. WASHINGTON, May 16.—Secre-! Officials of the huge Powell Riv- of the Treasury Vinson agreed er Company which supplies news- that the $3,750,000,000 British loan, print to newspapers through the for a time at least, would result in | United States and Canada said the world economic blocs Brlmh-Am-lcompnny whose employees are not erican on cne side and Russian on!affected by the strike will continue the other. 4 ! to operate so long as raw materials However, he expressed hope that|are available. the agreement ultimately would! !ease all economic conflicts. | Appearing before the House! { Banking Committee on the loan legislation, Vinson was asked this' | question by Rep. Crawford (R- Mich.) : other sources said the pulp mms: could be! lakor Jaws WS @ik they felt, after overnight confer- ence with their associates, that the coal negotiations up to now had completely broken down and that further discussion was useless. | Representatives of the brother- hoods of Trainmen and Locomotive =7 3 A 23 Engineers said the railroad nego- tiations had ‘“broken down” after !> they offered a modified wage in- L A crease proposal and the carriers re- Jjected it. ' In the railroad development, A. F.! Solo“s pLAN Whitney, President of the Brother-' hood of Railroad Trainmen, said! the nationwide work stoppage of 250,000 trainmen and locomotive en- HEA[TH A(TS giheers was still set for 1 p. m. PST Saturday. s i Whitney and Alvanley -Johnston, o ope ey o head of the Engineers Union, told head of the Engineers Unior. vosa Stand of New Cl0 Govern- (Continued on Page Eight) | men, Umon DraW' NIRRT e 5. . . g ing Refaliation The WHShlngionx WASHINGTON, May 16.—Senate opponents of additional labor dis- MerrY'GO'Round“’"'” legislation talked today of proposing that every industry en- S gaged in interstate commerce be By DREW PEARSON required to inaugurate workers’ health plans. WASHINGTON—T‘“ War Dc-‘ “We pare considering such an partment is now closing down one mengment as well as several oth- of the most unique wartime ar-iepg which will be disclosed in du¢ :‘;ffi::e"c‘:une;;r am;%istgfiw::g;g course,” Senator Pepper (D-Fla.) ey s told reporters. station located right inside the pepper is leading the floor fight Pel’jltfatf:; 3“‘2;25me PR 8 now'against proposals which he con- tends wo i i de- fiiked it possitie 1 JAIL HE is] e s B i o e giory of this Russian radio trans-| gory virtually all the score of pro- mitter. posed amendments to the labor Shortly after the USA and the commiitee’s bill providing chiefly gsi‘;s b"cax‘;l ?x::;svth':: if“:’;:fi for a strengthened Federal media- BODASRY « TN tion service. not able to communicate to Mos-| ne Senate's week-long preoccu- cow. Apparently the Embassy did pagion with labor matters develop- not trust American or British com- | eq 4 new facet, meanwhile, with a munications channels. Moreover, Jbi-partisan move to deny govern- under the Federal Communications ‘men; workers the right to belong Act tl:y 1:0 lg;::;t:o; ::t‘l};o (::::‘gsn,m a union that permits strike ac- . som " | tion. mitter in the United States. Re-| gycn g provision was attached by “‘vfl‘;:‘g sets can be used, but "m}the Senate Appropriations Com- sspoing. mittee to a bill carrying funds for When this. problem was placed the Agriculture Department. Sen- before President Roosevelt, he de- | ;i Russell (D-Ga.) and Wherry cided to cut red tape—and the 1aw | (vep ) the Republican whip, told by establishing & Russian l'adm;re):vorters a similar clause will be station :ig¥t ):?SL‘:; ";’;mv?;s 's:t):l-l | inserted in all future supply bills. fi;:t:;fnm‘n :lchen locited ihsiae the; They said the action grew out of fi‘ N e no one knew|the ~newly-formed CIO . United piagon " Ballding | Public Workers of America which about the transmitter except the pyccon gaiq “claimed the right to Army, and it was sworn to military | sirike and at the same time con- mj{;fi'e fore the Russians were giv- |Gemned the Americans and British en a special section. of the Penta-{ RorchmpE o, pallclon; gon Building which: they alone oan~; trolled. Russian guards policed this . section night, And ‘day; No American | was allowed! inside. A total of 70} Russian officers and men staffed | this extra-territorial area. It was| as if a small section of American; NEW YORK. May 16—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8'2, Alleghany Cor- “Instead of three economic blocs, aren’t we in effect creating two economic blees, with Anglo-Am- erican capitalism on one side and s0il were set aside, subject to So-|Poration 6%, American Can 95', Russian Communism on the other?” viet jurisdiction and law. This arrangement has continued since the war—up until this week, when the Russian radio transmitter is supposed to close down. TRUMAN LADIES AND { PROTOCOL } Probably the President don't know too much about it, but Mrs. an and daughter Margaret poked a finger into the State De- partment the other day and tried to tell Secretary James Byrnes how | he should run one phase of Amer- ican diplomacy. They wanted a special friend of theirs, Stanley Woodward, appointed Chief = of Protocol. (Continued on Page Four) Anaconda 46%, Commonwealth and Southern 4%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, Vinson replied: “As I see it we must take this ‘;Impmational Harvester 94, Kenne- gityation as it is. The British oc- icott 57%, New York Central 25%, cupy a unique, *a key, position -in | Northern Pacific 30%, United Cor-|worid trade. About 75 percent of {poration 5%, U. 8. Steel 8%, world trade is in the British and | Pound $4.03 | American area. If there can be an Sales today were 1,140,000 shares.! ypderstanding on currency and | Dow, Jones averages today are trade practices in that area, one |as follows: industrials 206.17, rails might hope it will extend further 163.96, utilities 42.86. and encompass more than 75 per- i i L ey | FROM KETCHIKAN L Mr. and Mrs. R. Wheat have ar- | rived here from Ketchikan. They; WASHINGTON—President Tru- | are registered at the Baranof. jman told a news conference today .o {he would order the nation’s rail- MRS. WOOD ARRIVES {rcads taken over by the govern- Mrs’ K. L. Wood and son arrived ment if the labor-management dis- at the Baranof. * Jurday strike deadline, | continue long. ‘The paper quoted Frank Webster, | Seattle Star Business Manager, as !saying “if the strike goes on long enfugh, we’ll all be out of busi- iness.” Gecrge Russell, Tribune Business Manager, said “if the strike continues more than a week, we are going to have to do something drastic in cutting the size of our paper—as much as 50 percent to start.” | g et Tacoma News- VANCE G. BROWN HERE | Vance G. Brown, a resident of | Anchorage, is in town. He is stop- | ping at the Baranof. | S A WASHINGTON—President Tru- coal dispute. FISHERMEN - TWOAREAS ~ Hotb oyt 2,100 BristhB—ay, Cook In-| | let Workers Want Price | | Demands Met | SEATTLE, May 16.—Alaska sal- mon fishermen in the Bristol Bay | and Cook Inlet areas will not be- gin fishing until price demands are | met, Seattle leaders of the Alaska | Fishermen's Union (CIO) said yes- | ‘terduy, adding that 700 fishermen !due to leave here Monday for Bris- | tol Bay would not sail unless con-! fracts are signed with the Alaska | | Salmon Industry, Inc. Bristol Bay has 2,000 fishermen and Cook Inlet 700, the report said.| Fred Scheel, Vice President of the | International Fishermen and Al-| lied Workers of America (CIO),! with which the AF.U. is affiliated, | said agreement had ‘“practically”| bé n reached at Bristol Bay but! that fishermen there would not start cperations Until Cook Inlet demands were met. Alaska Salmon Industry officials said negotiations were being held up until the return of Judge W. A. Amold, head of the employers’ group, who is in Alaska on other union negotiations. i HITLER PROMISED B the San Francisco ccmpany of “T! Sen Francisco. wood producer, PARIS PEACE MEET MAKES One Aim Was fo Rid Coun- Only Agreement on Com- ' fry of "Shackles of Ver- ' mission to Study Ger- sailles” Is Claim man Disarming | i NUERNBERG, May 16. — Adolf y b PARIS, May 16—The four-pow- 2’”“ p‘:"‘:e:i the German High o poreign Ministers Council spent cmmand that as soon as he o0k ynree hours in almost fruitless dis- office he would “rid the country of . .cion of Germany today and pre- the shackles of Versailles” and pared to adjourn later in the eve- build an armed force for use as a " ning until June 15, when they gx’i::c"llh::;po'f;ng::ndtw‘::m““l again will attack the unsettled (d roblems of 3 Raeder told the International proble 5,0 i % Military Tribuial that the Fuehr- Soviet "Foreign Minister V. M. er's attitude was made plain at a Molotov agreed to an American dinner in February, 1933, arranged proposal to send a four-power com- to permit Hitler to meet the Ger- Mission to all four gones, of Ger- man generals and admirals, He MAny to investigate the state of laid down the dictum that the en- Geiman disarmament, can informant said. e ] P tire pelicy of the Reich was to be 5 his one-man show, the witness' But this proposal was thrown said out by U. S. Secretary of State “He said the Wehrmacht was not James F. Byrnes several days ago to be used in situations of domestic to counter a Soviet objection to unrest, that he would have other Byrnes' offer of a 25-year four- forces for that,” the Admiral con- POWer mutual assistance pact to tinued. guarantee the continued disarma- “He assured the Wehrmacht of ment of Germany, At that time quict development to prevent the Mclotov had objected that Ger- Reich from becoming the football Mmany’s recent state of disarma- of other nations—that it could de- ment should be studied before such vote its entire time to that.” a pact was considered, and Byrnes e i e had propcsed the commission. Today British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin finally registered 5 Lenden’s approval of the pact pro- FRoM MAN(H“R'A: France already has accepted the | proposal. sl | I posal, and said Prime Minister | Atlee would make a statement in Nanking Officials Make| ea Reports Buf No Formal |z ton | the House of Commons in London on the question later in the day. CONFERENCE ENDS PARIS, May 16.—The four-power Minister conference end- ied tonight with the delegates plan- ning to meet again June 15. Moscow Sfatement | "z the finai session the ministers —_— | initialed revised Italian armistice NANKING, May 16. — Chinese, terms, American gquarters said. Vice Ministers of Foreign Affairs! U. 8. Secretary of State James Liu Chieh said today he had been'F. Byrnes planned to leave Paris informed that all Russian troops for the United States at noon to- had been withdrawn from Man- morrow, accompanied by Senators Play's Leads Are Married 'K. T. Stevens (right), 25, who plays the leading feminine role in Marlowe, 35, (left) the male member of the cast were married in Mrs. Marlowe is the daughter of Sam Wood, Holly- Vivian Vance, other member of the play's cast of three, was a witness, (AP Wirephoto) H an Ameri- PLANE GOES DOWNEARLY Burns on Creek Bank= Remains Battered ! RICHMOND, Va,, May 16—Twen~ ;ty-hv:ven persons were killed today i in the crash of a southbound char- tered airliner which ran into trouble a few minutes after its | takeoff from Byrd airport near Richmond and plunged into a rain- drenched stand of pine wbods in a vain attempt to return to the field. The twin-engine Viking airliner !came to grief in the heavy over- cast about 1:10 am., plowed through the trees and burned on | the soggy banks of Doran Creeck Flionly a few thousand yards from |\ the airport. The airliner left Newark, N. J. early last night for Atlanta. It pui into Richmond and took off again ) 8bout 12:30 a.m. in heavy weath- er. The ceiling at the airport was fluctuating hetween zero and 200 {feet and visibility was one mile he Voice of the Turtle,” and Hugh ! when she took off. it , 22 dmi ) 27 Bodies Found The CAA said the plane carried I (24 passengers in addition to the | - ipllot and - co-pilot but 27 bodies | ! were brought out of the woods | from the crash and sent to five } {Richmond funeral homes. Identifi- . ¢ ,cation was difficult but it appear- | % ted the victims were 21 men, three J v . 5 | women and three sesiih ] | {1y was De ;i [ Normal Operation i Vi t An alrline offiélal said normally ! # {the operation had been in trans- Federal Union Proposal s porting merchant seamen trom the b ¢ 1 East coas! the Gulf coast. This Submitted Embracing {tted in with an identitication |card found in a charred wallet giv- Fu" Independen(y jing the name “Frederick J. Spargo, !Ensign, U. S, Maritime Service.” LONDON, May 16.—A slx-poimv'rh' eard showed Spargo born Oc- plan for a Federal Union of India tober 9, 1924 but gave no address. was announced in the House of The plane went down in a rural Commons today by Prime Minister Section six miles southeast of Rich- Attlee. Imond in heavy woods which sur- Published as a Government white round the large airport area. Its paper, the plan was drawn up by a nhose and engines lay about 15 feet three-man cabinet mission to In- from bubbling Doran Creek. dia following its unsuccessful nego-; Vertical Dive uaticns for Indian leaders them- It apparently was in an almost selves to formulate a plan for In- vertical dive when it struck be- dian independence and an interim, cause the dense stand of timber government to rule while the new showed damage in only a limited constitution was being drafted and'area. Three bodies were hurled adopted. iacross the creek but only one es- The plan set forth these six/caped being badly burned. points: The battered remains of at laa 1. Establishment of a Federal, three children could be seen. Union of India embracing both what | is known as British India and the! 600 princely states of India. 2. A central executive ARMY BOMBER CRASHES FAIRFAX, Calif., May 16.—Two branch men were killed and six were in- and an all-India legislature. ! jured critically when a four-en- 3. All other subjects of govern-igine army bomber plane ran out ment—the residuary power—to be ' of fuel and erashed near here early vested in the provinces. today. 4. The princely states also t0, Three of ured ietain all powers not cecad to the ¢, the Anmsu}zipu.] ':un:‘tfi union. | Hamilton field, but the others were 5. Permission for the provinces o, badly hurt they could not be to form regional groups which llke-}mo"d from the scene. wise would have executive branches ' Blood plasma was 'rushed from and Jegisiatutes. | Hamilton field and administered in 6. Inclusion in both the union|efforts to save their lives. and regional constitutions provis- | The B-17, enroute from Los An- ions under which any provincial . geles, crashed into a hillside threé legislature could, by majority vote,!miles west of Fairfax. call for reconsideration of the con-! stitution after the first 10 years lnngHlp S'E ! ,at intervals of 10 years afterward., — o ! p 1 " BEACHED OVER PRICE CEILINGS ON| SOME FisH ReMovED, MEATDUMPING lof the War Shipping Administra- WASHINGTON, May 16--Deputy tion Food Control, :nnouneed the OPA Administrator Geoffrey .Baker discharge today of a steward aboard today authorized the statement the tanker New Hope, from which that price ceilings will be removed, ‘1000 pounds of meat yesterday churia, Tom Connally and Arthur H. Van- includes denberg and their wives. STEAMER MOVEMENTS “I would think Dairen,” Liu said. | Presumably Port Arthur would not be affected. It becomes a So-| viet Naval base under the Chinese- | | Russian treaty. ! Liu reported that Moscow had rive fr Skagway at 8 o'clock yvet to reply. formally to the Chi-|Friday morning and sails south at nese ‘government regarding the 9:30 o'clock. withdrawal, | Alaska scheduled to sail this from Princess Louise scheduled to ar-' on fresh and canned man says he will seize the coal| “informal” offictal mines if necessary, but that he is| here from Yakutat. They are guests pute is not settled before the Sat-'still hopeful of a settlement of the’ He said the information came from Gen. Tung Yen-ping, head of the Chinese Military Mission in | Viadivostok, who had received an notification. The study of geography of the moon is known as selenography. | Seattle May 23. | North Sea scheduled to return | from sitka, southbound, sometime | Somorow night. ! E. B. HECHT ARRIVES Freighter Square Sennett due to, i arrive tomorrow morning. E. B. Hecht has arrived here Baranof, now to westward, not to from Waseca, Minn. He is stopping return to Juneau southbound. iat “the Hotel Juneau. ghrimp and on scallops also will be removed, the official said. -ee - effective Monday, on most fresh!was tossed into garbage cans and and frozen fish. 4 | Baker's office said ceilings will be retained on only four or five species. P Another OPA official who asked to remain anonymous said those re- maining under price control are!' halibut, salmon, tuna, sardines and pilchards. Ceilings later recovered by Federal meat in- spectors. He said the steward asserted he had been advised by his predeces- sor that the meat had been Fed- erally inspected and condemned. “It had nct been inspected, and while some of it was tainted, it's not a matter for unqualified persons to determine,” Brown added. W. A. Duthie, WSA food con- trol director, was aboard the-vessel again today continuing his investi- gations with a view to asking the Federal Bureau of Investigation to charge those responsible with de~ struction of government property, Brown said. .