The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 27, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1946 VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,281 —_— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RAIL TRAFFIC RESUMED OVER NATION RECOMMENDS| Truman Talks fo Congress |TRAINS ARE RUSSIAWAVES RED FLAG AT BRITAIN, U. 5. Molofov CHaTges “Bloc” | . Aimed at Soviet Broke Up Paris Meeting MOSCOW, May 27. — Foreign ' Commissar V. M. Molotov asserted today that a United States and British “bloc” had waged an offen- sive against Russia at the four- power meeting of Foreign Ministers in Paris. He declared that the proposals; of Secretary of States James F.! Byrnes for writing European peace : treaties in the United Nations As- sembly if there was no agreement | this summer among the four lead- | ing nations, was contrary to decl-l sions made at the Potsdam confer- ence of President Truman, Prime’ Minister Attlee of Great Britain | and Premier Stalin. Russia, he said, would not be | forced into acceptance of British' and American proposals by “threats | and intimidation.” i “The prestige of the Security! Council (of the U-N) has already‘ been subjected to grave trials,” Fight Eviction Atfempt COOLING OFF PERIOD GETS SENATE OKEH %Ouick Action Is Taken on Recommendations by Truman WASHINGTON, May 27.—By top- heavy majorities, the Senate voted last Saturday afternoon to impose a 60-day cooling off period to prevent “quickie” strikes, and then swift- {ly accepted President Truman's iong-standing suggestion for crea- tion of fact-finding boards in la- bor disputes. | The vote on the cooling-off |amendment, by roll call, was 54 to 26. { Approval of the fact flndingi |board proposal came in a roll calt vote of 59 to 19. Both amendments apply to legis-: lation to curb strikes. TO PUSH LEGISLATION WASHINGTON, May 27.—Presi-| | dent Truman's legislative leaders |told him today they will try to { push through his draft-strikers la-| ! bor program but Republican Sena- ! | tors opened a drive for sharp re- visions. | | NAVYOPERATE ALASKA SHIPS House Subcommittee Sup-| ports New Approach fo Sea Traffic Tangle WASHINGTON, May 27—A House merchant marine subcommittee de-| cided today to support a request that the 1947 navy department ap- propriation bill provide for operat-| ing ships to Alaska. . The subcommittee, headed by Rep. Jackson (D-Wash), was told by wit- nesses at the start of a hearing on Alaska transportation problems that | the navy bill, as it passed the House, requires liquidation of the ‘War Shipping Administration, which has been operating the shipping on Dec. 31. Bpokesmen for the shipping com- pahies said they cannot resume nor- sured greater revenues from freight and passenger rate incresases, gov- ernment subsidies, or some other source. Alaska Special Case David E. Scholl, representing the Alaska Development Board, said Secretary of the Interior Julius Alaska | 'nil)] operations unless they are as-| President Truman, speaking before ) i joini session of Cengress in Wash- f {schedules were resumed, with OPERATEDAS STRIKE ENDS :Normal Schedules Report- ed - Seftlement Par- ficulars Announced WASHINGTON, May 27.—Follow- |ing agreement of last Saturday af- ternoon, rail traffie over the na- tion is reported today a; back to practically a normal status and the rallroad strike is over, for the time being, at least. Orders were issued late Saturdany for those on the walkout to reiurn and by late Saturday night yed schedules were being picked up. During Sunday almost compicie an traffic throughout the nation mov- ing today. Settlement Reported Last Saturday afternoon, John It Steelman, Labor Consultant to Pros- ident Truman, announced the rail- rcad strike had keen settled. Steelman said the settlement was on the basis of the propesal made by President Truman on May 22. The agresment, he said was a 16- cent an hour increase as recom- ington, asks authority te draft into armed forces all workers on strike against the government. He also asks criminal penalties for employ- ers and union leaders where men ignore presidential back-to-work Senate majority leader Barkley | KFug is suggesting that the Sen-| Molotov said in a full page state- | | (D-Ky) told reporters after .[nu Appropriations Committee | e) 4 % ment published in the official ' mended, by a fact-finding board, to be retroactive to Jan. 1, 1948, plus amend the Navy bill to “treat Alas-| {an adait gt o e newspaper Pravda, giving his view of the recent Paris meeting of Byrnes, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Z'rench Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and him- self, I “Pressure, Threats, Intimidation” | The suggestion.-that the United | Nations consider the draft of peace treaties, Molotov said, “is one more | attempt to break up the procedure Seated in their home here, from which neighbors are attempting to oust them, Mrs. Ann Fong and her Chinese-American war veteran husband, Herace, have filed an ipjunction suit at Oakland, Calif, in an attempt to prevent the custer, olaiming Mrs, Fong a$ “agn Ameri¢an citizen of white compleXion and blonde hair.” The suit also ¢laimed that Fong, by virtue of a 92-year-old Calilornia Supreme Court decision, was an American Indian and that effort to oust of concerted work which was estab-, him “will violate the 1776 Iroquois Nations Treaty and may start lished in recent years and to utilize| another war with the Indians.” methods of pressure, threats and 2 intimidation.” | | He declared that American and! British capital was trying to “sub-i { due” nations weakened by the war. He said that Britain and the' United States, “grouping themselves | in a bloc, gave the conference no chance of reaching an agreed de- cision” on ‘'the disposition of Ital- ian colonies® or on the matter of Ttaiian reparations. “Certainly no self-respecting Al- lied state will allow the will of an- i gther state to be imposed upon it,”: e ! & 3 Mootov conioea. | General Marshall in New President Makes His Plea Just Self-Respecting 4 % “The Sovie Union 15 sust one! MoVE fo Reopen Peace | for Authority in Per- clntly demonsirted s aease or| Negofiation Confab son fo Congress ciently demonstrated its desire for | coordinated actions with other H countries, both in time of war—| NANKING, May 27.—Chiang Kai-| WASHINGTON, May 27.—Presi- for the sake of an Allied Victory shek’s forces pushed north today dent Truman asked Congress last Fi toward a possible new battle with Saturday afternoon for authority to (Cmflmud o e ) 'Chinese Communists at Harbin, draft into the armed forces of the !Manchuria, while U. S. General United States all workers on strike 4 IMarshall prepared the groundwork against the government. The w aShlngion.}mr reopening of peace negotiations' The President also recommended Merry - Go- Round by the Ceneralissimo. By DREW PEARSON SOON Dispatches to independent and yiging criminal penalties against ipro-Government newspapers place employers and union leaders where \Government troops in the vicinity presidential requests for men to zof Tehhwei, 95 miles southwest of yetyrn to work in major industries Communist-held Harbin, Tehhwei 15 j5 jgnored. 60 miles northeast of Changchun, Manchurian 'capital city retaken sa:;(;x; “:2 co:rsjzl(‘))ft h’:e?:l::ng; m:l:; easily by Chaing'’s forces on Thurs- iloxu:e and ‘Senabe. M . nn: in charge of the Antitrust Division, [day as the Communists withdrew. | Ratoa " that thé l'lh strike had for additional information regard-| Recapture of Changchun and the been settled on the government’s ing the important question of renewal of direct negotiations bec s, Lotid ‘chosis Sreeted. his bringing labor unions under the |tween opposing factions brought © .- WASHINGTON—This column 18I indebted to Judge Thurman Arnold, former Assistant Attorney General IL WAR IN Truman Seeks | CHINA MAY BE Measures fo _Aj END (onlrid Labor 1 the Senate may continue night ses- | a six-month temporary statute pro-| Sherman Antitrust Act. ‘ Judge Arncld, who did more to eniforce the antitrust laws than any | one man in history, made four noteworthy attempts to prosecute labor unions as monopolies. First and wmost important was the Hutchinson case, brought against Big Bill Hutchinson, head of the AFL carpenters union, now, though not then, an intimate friend of Jobn L. Lewis. ! The Anheuser-Busch brewery in| St. Louis was erecting a new build- | ing, in the course of which some.| machinery was installed by mem- bers of the machinists union. Whereupon, the carpenters object- | ed. i Anheuser-Busch had enjoyed ex- cellent labor relations with all un- | jons, had a contract with the car- peénters providing for arbitration. However, the carpenters violated their contract and went on strike to break the machinists. I Result: Anheuser-Busch didn’t get their building built, and there was an attempted boycett of An. heuser-Busch beer by the carpen: ters all over the country. Thurman Arnold construed mn| 28 a monopolistic attempt by one ;| _ ¢l (Continued on Page Four) the optimistic prediction from the Peiping newspaper Hsin Min Pao that a general truce would be ar- ranged by Tuesday. All observers agreed, however, that imuch will depend upon Chiang's Tan rext move. He and Madame Chiang were expected to return today from conférence with Chiang’s generals at Mukden. “This is the turning point for the Government,” Wang Ping-nan, Communist leader told the Asso- ciated Press, “and it must now de- cide whether it witshe sto solve the Manchurian question’ peacefully or through continued civil war.” If the Government troops push teyond Changchun, he added, the Communists will interpret this as a sign the Government wishes to enlarge the civil strife, “in which case it is inevitable we should re- sist.” ————— BERLIN LEAVES Leonard Berlin left Juneau today for Seward aboard the Alaska. His ome is in Fairbanks. ———————— W. E. BLEAN ARRIVES gistered at the Gastineau. Mr. Truman saia the right of em-E ployess to strike against private em- | | ployers should be preserved. But he !declared there should be a long gz labor policy worked out, by a joint House-Senate committee espzcially created for the purpose, to see what can be done about |reducing strikes against private en- terprises. | Grim-visaged as he stood before the assembled legislators, Mr. Tru- man asked for legislation he said is “essential to the welfare of our ;people." | Maska King Salmon {To Be Served at Defroit Jubilee | SEATTLE, May 21.—Dinner {guests at the Automotive Jubilee in | Detroit tomorrow will eat Alaska; 'king salmon which left Ketchikan, Alaska, less than 48 hours before. The fish was flown out via Pan | White House conference that the legislative situation had been can-| vassed thoroughly with the Presi-| dent. Barkley was accompanied by Senator McKellar .(D-Tenn) “vem- | potary President of the Senate,’ Speaker ‘Rayburn’ of the House,, leader Mc- | !and House majority | Cormack (D-Mass). | While they were meeting, the Re- | | publican steering committee named |a five-man group headed by Sen- |ator Taft (R-Ohio) to draft am-| | endments to legislation passed by | the House shortly after Mr. Tru- {man addressed a joint session of | Congress Saturday. Plan Amendments “We think the bill should be ser- |jously amended,” Taft told report- | ers. “The Republican committee | will meet this afternoon to try to draft amendments.” | Taft previously had announced { personal opposition, contending the | were too broad. +Barkley told reporters that he ex- | pected “several” amendments to be! offered, a move he said is likely/ to delay any final disposal . until later in the week. He indicated | !sions in an effort to obtain early | action. i STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, May 27.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor-| | poration 7%, American Can 100%,| Anaconda 48%, Commonwealth and | | Southern 5%, Curtiss-Wright 8%, | International Harvester 100%, Ken-| necott 59, New York Central 26%,| Northern Pacific 32%, United Cor-| poration 5%, Northern Pacific 32%, | | 88%, Pound $4.03%. | Sales today were 1,720,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 209.42, rails 66.15, utilities 43.28. STOCK UPSWING market touched a new average peak for more than 15 years today with buying in virtually all departments | attributed to ending of the railway strike and hopes for quick settle- ment of the coal crisis. Closing gains ranged from a few cents to more than $2 a share. Large blocks of low-quoted utilities helped ex- pand volume. The Associated Press 60-stock average was up 60 cents at $81.10, highest level since March 27, 1931. It was the broadest mar- ket since mid-April, 1,021 issues ap- pearing. Of these, 652 advanced and 215 declined, Turnover of 1,720,000 shares was the best since May 10. BAD BOY YONKERS, N. Y. —“My boy is !Zeltlnz out of hand,” complained William G. Smith over the tele- phone to Yonkers police. | American Clipper, then transferred ;powers it granted the President |- NEW YORK, May 27.—The stock ' ka as a special case” at least until| July 1, 1847, Jackson asked Delegate E. lett “(D-Aaa) to prepare a state- ment i support of the suggestion to be presented to the Senate Com- mittee. Witnesses reviewed testimony be- | |fore a Maritime Commission rate hearing which ended Saturday. Ira| L. Ewers, counsel for the Alaska |Steamship Co., and the Northland Transportation Co., and 8. J. Swan-!| son, Vice-President of the Alaska Transportdtion Co. ‘conceded that| Alaska’s economy would be unable |to bear the rate increases they said | |are necessary to permit ships to operate without loss. Gov't. Provide New Ships Scholl, although declining to make specific recommendations, said he believed “the government will have to provide new ships” for the Alaska trade, since the carriers are " (Contintied on Page Two) — e HEARINGON ALASKA SEA RATES ENDS Three Companies Unwill- ing fo Take Back Ships Under Terms Now WASHINGTON, May 27.—Opera- United Corporation 5%, U. S. Steel tors of Alaska steamship lines told | the Maritime Commission they would not be willing to resume pri- vate operations of the lines under present conditions and rates. The statements were made by Ira |L. Ewers, counsel for the Alaska Steamship Co., and by the counsel for the Alaska Transportation Co., and the Northland Transportation Co., at the concluding session Sat- urday of the hearing on the appli- cation of the War Shipping Admin- istration for increased rates. Ewers said that on the basis of Shipping ~ Administration data, shcwing a loss of more than $2,- 000,000 in 1945 operations, the com- panies “do not believe, barring greatly changed conditions, the op- erators would be willing to resume private operations under prevailing rates.” | New Ships Are Out Gilbert W. Skinner, President of he Alaska Steamship Company, estified his company had given up plans to purchase three new pas- senger boats for the Alaskan ser- vice. He said unsettled labor con- dition§ and uncertain rates prompt- ed the decision. Skinner testified that if the com- th | pany put new passenger and !relght| Surprised patrolmen, prepared 0 | ships-om the run it would require|and Kentucky. |to an eastbound airliner at Seattle.| 8 juvenile problem, arrested Charlic , greater increase in rates for pas- W. E. Blean of Aberdeen, Wash,,'It is wrapped in special airtight|Smith on a disorderly conductsenger ships than the 80 percent arrived here yesterday. He is re-'containers and shipped without ice' charge. or refrigeration. 1 Charlie is 45; his father, 75. " (Continued on Page Eight) L. Bart-| [ | President. (AP Wirephoto) orders. Speaker of the Heuse Sam Rayburn (D.-Tex.) is behind the NEARLY.DEAD | | | STOP IN SOFT COAL MINING kg | Bulk of 400,000 Miners 0ff Job Despite Gov- ernment Operation (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESE) Soft coal mining by the United {Mine Workers came to an almost| dead-end stop today in the big coal| Jpxodur:ing states s the nation| |despite governmenfal operation of |the mines. Y | Reports frcm state after state— | Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ken-| | tucky, Illinois, Ohjo and Alabama— lin the major coal mining areas —| |showed the bulk of the 400,000 dig- (gers who are without a collective | bagaining contract, were remaining: |away from their jfobs. Troops Protect Workers A detachment of troops from |Camp Campbell, Ky, was sent to | Hopkins country coal = mine near i Madisonville, the Army said at 1Washlngton “for the protection of !emplo;'tes of t-e Pond River Col- iliery”." | At Columbys, Ohio, Major Rotert iH, Graham, Public Relations Officer for the Army’'s Fifth Seryice Com- mand, said troops would protect |miners who want to work. He quot- ed Maj. Gen. Robert B. Beighler, commander of Afmy t.oops in Ohio, | West Virginia, Kentucky, and In- .diana, as saying that if miners |“want to work we'll #te that they .get to work.” | Major Graham said Gen. Beight- ler had declared, the Army was as- |signed the jof = “of protecting | miners who want to work | Tors Strike List Again | This was to haye been the first |work day since eéxpiration; at Sat- urday midnight of a two-week truce, |declared by the union in the 42-day soft coal strike, to produce fue] for |efsential use. i A grim quiet spread over the |fields as the miners’ dispute came back into first place in the nation’s |strike list today. Intervention by | President Truman last night failed {to produce a settlement of the dis- {pute which has snagged on the issue of a welfare fund for the workers. { In Washington, the miners’ Pres- {ident, John L. Lewis, and Interior SBecretary Krug had the problem be- fore them. Workers who are members of the | Progressive Mine Workers Union continued at their jobs in Illinois | | | | SETTLEMENT SEEN NEAR | WASHINGTON, May 27—Federal (bontinuz; on‘ }:dqe mnh}l | terms laid down by the President. Truman Talk "ham Aciing’ | i i I Fonn | Oregon Senafor Says Rail! Strike End Known Be- | 1 fore Noon Safurday | WASHINGTON, May 21.—-Sena-!, tor Morse (R-Ore) told the Senate today President Truman put on “one of the cheapest exhibitions of | ham acting I have ever seen” in/ announcing to a joint session of Congress Saturday that the rail strike has ended. Morse broke into a denunciation of the President’s emergency legis- lation by Senator Downey (D-{ Calif) to assert that it was known at the White House before nooh ! Saturday that the rail strikers: were willing to go back to work on He noted that Mr. Truman had interrupted his address, in which he urged speedy action on the em- ergency legislation, to announce settlement of the strike. I Cheap Exhibition | “I think that was one of the! cheapest exhibjtions of ham acting I have ever seen,” Morse shouted. There was a burst of handclap- ping from spectators in crowded | galleries and Senator Huffmah | (D-Ohic},. then presiding officer, rapped loudly for order. Downey went ahead with his speech and a few minutes later: Senator Hatch (D-M) got the floor | fo protest Morse's remarks. He de- fnanded they be stricken from the record. Huffman announced that the re- marks would be stricken “without objection” but this was blocked by Morse who jumped up to protest. Wouid Repeat Remarks “If T can get the floor again I'll repeat them,” Morse said. Hatch, a close friend of Mr. Truman when the latter served in the Senate, said: “I don't think any Senator re- gardless of whatever party, has the right to eall the President of the United States a ham actor.” Hatch added that it was his in- formation that only “purely tenta- tive offers” had been made prior to Mr. Truman's appearance before Congress, Morse later told reporters, off the Senate floor, that he had ‘de- finite information from the broth- erhoods” that they had delivered to President Truman's advisers at the ‘White House before noon Saturday their acceptance of the terms upon which the strike finally was settled. ! .’ effective May 22, 1946, or a total of 18 1-2 cents an hour increase. Steelman sald “memoranda of :uoemt" had * been signed be- ween.. W b Présidents A. F. Whitney and Alvanley Johnston of the striking unions told reporters the Engin- eers and Trainmen were to be or- dered back to work immediately. Steelman said there will be a moratorium on changes in working rules for one year. In Cleveland indefinite postpone- ment of the rail strike by the Brotherhood of Rallroad Trainmen and Locomotive Engineers was an- nounced at 4:07 p. m. (EST) Sat- urday at-the organization head- quarters, SR R B.(. Hardrock Miners May Vofe fo Strike VANCOUVER, B. C. May 27—Re- commendation for calling a strike vote within 10 days among 2,500 British Columbia hardrock miners {if current negotiations for a 29- cent hourly wage increase, 40-hour week and union security are suc- cessful, was revealed last night. The announcement was made in a statement to locals in the pro- vince of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Work- ers (CIO-CCL) adopted at a dis- trict policy committee meeting here. The negotiations affect 15 B. C., mines, mainly gold producing. e "BEAT TRUMAN' IS PLAN OF WHITNEY WASHINGTON, May 27. — The | White House reported today Presi- |dent Truman had “no comment’ on the avowed intention of A. F. i Whitney to use the resources of his | trainmen brotherhood to defeal Mr. Truman for a second term. Before leaving for Cleveland last night after losing to Mr. Truman in the railroad strike, Whitney told a reporter his union had $47,000,000 in its treasury and he would use it 'all, if necessary to “beat Truman.” 'He said $2,500,000 had been set lx’nsld(‘ to oppose Copgressmen voting i for restrictive legislation. When he arrived in Cleveland, however, Whitney confined his re- marks to a $2,500,000 fund. He told reporters there: “We will spendly upward of two and a half milligit. But that won't be necessary. has defeated himself. By his action during the strike he signed his political death. ‘warrant.” e The Egyptiank invented the fish- ing hock.