The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,283 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AGREEMENT MADE DEFEAT SEEN FORSTRIKER DRAFT EDICT Upper Chamber Agrees to Vote on Provision To- day Says Barkley The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Two distin- guished gentlemen stood at the air- port recently waiting for Secretary {of State Byrnes' plane. They wait- | ed for about ten minutes, but they did not speak. They were: gaunt, grey, elder statesman Bernard Bar- uch and red-haired, red-mustachio- |ed Undersecretary of State Dean!/ | Achescn. ( During the earlier part of the | | HIGH WATER IS SPREADING OUT INEAST Top At Least Ten Persons Are Drowned - Thousands Homeless-Damage (10 Maritime Strike Ranks Problem | SHOOTING OF WRANGELLITE Unions, Shipowners Call-| Mrs. McKowan Claims Hus- ed fo Conference—Com- ; band Drove Her fo Dis- | plete Tie-up Foreseen i traction with Threats | | | | NDING COAL STRIKE WIFE ADMITS | Memorial Day Services In Juneau fo Be Brief At Eveggreen‘(emelery; 'MINERS T0 BE ORDERED T0 60 BACK - Public observance on Memorial Day tomorrow will be quite modi- fied frcm previous years in Juneau. Instead of an address, etc, in some public place down town and a par- ade to the Alaska Steamship Dock | week, 'hey had been sitting bat-| (BY THE ASSOUIATED PRESE) WASHINGTON, May 29.—The; WRANGELL, Alaska, May 29.— where flowers are strewn on the tling in closed-door meetings at| WASHINGTON, May 20.—The Senate agreed today to vote by 5 p. m. (EST) on the question of Blair House, battling out the ques- tion of atomic energy, and they| did not find themselves in agree- Leaving death and destruction in threatened maritime strike took top Shooting here yesterday of H. C. water and taps sounded in memory owner of the |billing today in the government's drive to resolve all major labor disputes. “Téx” McKowan, Wrangell Telephone Company, took a new turn when McKowan, from its wake through north-central Pennsylvania and southern New York, the rampaging Susquehana | of the Navy and Coast Guard dead, | |the brief exercises will take place 'in Evergreen cemetery at 10:30 | torium at 10 o'clock tomorrow | morning, then march to the ceme- tery, via Calhoun Avenue. | The program at the cemetery will ' be opened with appropriate music, by the €ity Band, followed by an| address by the Rev. Robert Treat,, Announcement Made by Secrefary Krug Says Lewis Signs and the placing of a wreath at| WASHINGTON, May 29.—Inter- the foot of the flagpole, by Capt.ior Secretary Krug announced today Geoffrey Goss. A brief benediction will be spoken by the Rev. Treat, and the sounding of “Taps" will lan agreement the coal | strike, Krug told newsmen he and John ending knocking the draft-strikers pro- ment. That strike, if it comes off, would a hospital bed said: “I didn't do it.” vision from President Truman’s emergency labor legislation. The agreement, asked by major-|razing for a long time—obscured into cities and rich farmland. |River flood crest surged southward o'clock, Actually, the battle had been! ity leader Barkley (Ky), came amid | by secrecy plus public concentra- | indications by an Associated Presston upon strikes. Despite the lack | four others are poll that the Senate would not ac-|nf public attention, however, it is muddy waters, which started rising |a battle which may affect the fu-|rapidly Monday night after cept the draft provision. Barkley also obtained an agree-|tvre of every American. ment for a limitation of debate on the measure as a whole to 30 min- | Statesman Baruch delayed in ac-|000,000. Thousands are homeless. utes for each Senator. The battle began when elder | cepting President Truman's invita- ! cripple Amer; merchant marine,| Later today, Mrs. halt shipping from Atlantic, Paci-| Kowan was taken into custody after fic and gulf ports and prevent the,a sfatement in which she declared export of relief supplies for fam-| that she fired the shot which ser- ine areas abroad. (lously wounded her husband. Mrs. four Cemplete Coastal Tieup MgKowan gave herself up this days of almost continuous rains.! CIO marine unions said Loday:m-mng following a midnight talk Estimates of damage exceeded $3,- they expect the AFL to “respect|wifh a Wrangell Sentinel reporter jour picket lines” when they go onjtg whom she told the whole, true strike June 15 and thereby insure|story of the shooting. The reporter today after overflowing its banks At least 10 persons drowned and missing in the The U. S. weather bureau in Margaret Mc-' The Juneau City Band will as- !semble at the Grade School audi- conclude the program. The band will play at intervals during the ceremony. (Germans Convided of Fiendish Torfures Are L. Léwis had signed the contract, and that Lewis indicated he would order the United Mine Workers jback to work immediately. “The contract was just signed, gentlemen,” Krug saild quietly, “and coples will be released very short- Iy The announcement was made at the White House after the signing {in the presence of President Tru- complete coastal tieup of ship-|adyised confession and accompan- | In view of that agreement, he!+ion to become head of the Am-)Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s capital, a [ told the Senate, he would not insist| erican Delegation' to the Atomic|announced a crest of 317 feel a— on a night session or on meeting| commission. During that delay, |MOr® than nine feet above flood tomorrow, Memorial Day. The lim-| yndersecretary Acheson released “allevel — was veached at Wilkes- itation of debate assured Senate 8C- | ctatesmanlike report on the control barre and said the mjown, churning tion within a few days. atomic energy. It pointed out waters were near this peak at Sun- The House rules committee among other things, that "uraniumfl?.u_ry' m.“es d?wn i‘rem.l' The",‘ |hl<: recommended that the House be!935” a basic component of the| ™ " was seven feet .o\er its ?anr given an immediate opportunity o' atomic bomb, could be denatured N4 had cut the community o reject or accept without change the| for peacetime industrial and medi- | 000 Practically in two. Senate version of the Case Labor bill. cal use. A level of 225 feet was predict- ed for Harrisburg sometime tonight. !Streets there already were flooded ping. Harry Bridges, head of the CIO Longshoresmen’s union, made this comment to reporters as, with a coal settlement apparently at hand, Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach met with representatives of the unions and ship operators in an effort to avert the walkout. Expect New Proposals Joseph Curran, President of the CIO National Maritime Union, told' ’ie Mrs. McKowan to the office of i the Deputy U. S. Marshal when she surrendered. Mrs. McKowan declared her hus- hand had repeatedly threatened her life and the life of her small daughter; that he drank, abused .her and her daughter and finally {drove her to distraction. { i FLOOD HITS McKowan was shot with a .22- alibre rifle. The bullet entered the left eye and lodged in his head. o The procedure, if approved by the PERSONALITIES VS. ATOM a reporter on his arrival from TWOTOWNS Hung, Mass Executions | Krug said the agreement “settles | matters between the government | as operator of the bituminous coal - ymines and the United Mine Work- ers” He added: LANDSBERG, Germany, May 29., Mr. Lewis has just indicated he —Martin Gottfried Weiss, Com- Will order the miners back to work mandant of the Dachau concentra- ' immediately. tion camp where thousands of. “The contract will speak for ft- Europeans were tortured and put to self. It is comparatively simple death, was hanged this morning in and cleas Landsberg prison. Lewis, who had stood silent dur- in low-lying areas and more than When Baruch saw the Acheson ;o) fomilies have been evacuated. report, he hit the ceiling. Here was goma arterial highways bave been fa report on a matter he had also House itself, will give the mem- bers no choice on the various Sen- ate amendments except to take all New York that he expected the ‘ship operators to make some ‘‘new proposals” at the meeting. McKqwan is to be flown south to- (day. or tomorrow, for an operation' :to extract the bullet. Fourteen of his associates at ing Krug's announcement. said Dachau preceded him to the gal- Volume production would not be lows yesterday. achieved until Monday. of them or reject them all. If they are accepted the measure will go direct to the White House. been asked to study, and he didn't| {like it. Actually some scientists be- | {Jieve that if Acheson had waited DEFEAT ALMOST CERTAIN until two weeks after Baruch's ap- pointment and let Baruch release WASHINGTON, May 20.—Presi- the report, there would have been | dent Truman's strike-draft plan no argument. | faces almost certain defeat in the! As it happened, however, Bar- Senate if the coal dispute is settled, uch tried to hire Acheson’s experts, | auickly, an Associated Press poll. headed by Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer | showed today. (1 jand David Lilienthal, but they de-| Of 63 Senators willing to state;clined to serve, feeling that it their position, 45 said they are op- would put them in a position of posed to that section of the House- | having to accept all Baruch’s views. ' passed emergency bill which would:Bnruch then turned to his close empower the President to induct. friend, Financier John Hancock, | into the Army those who strike in who has the skill to make millions government-seized industries. Eigh- on Wall Street, but hitherto never teen Senators announced their sup- 'was renowned as an expert on port of the proposal. |atomic energy. | The Senators lined up against' Baruch also brought in other| the draft section of the emergency novice-experts, including able Fi- measure, passed by a dramatic 306 nancier Ferd Eberstadt and Fred to 13 House vote last Saturday, in- i Searles, a gold-mine operator clude 20 Democrats, 24 Republicans J. Morgan. Hitherto, these and one Progressive. They repre- shrinking violets have hid their! cut by rising waters. ——e———— U. 5. MAKES LARGELOAN TO FRANCE Presidents _T;l;nan, Gouin Also Make Agreement Regardin_g_ Credits WASHINGTON, May 29.—France for |turned with renewed vigor today to nour day, overtime adjustments and | !the job of getting back on her “If they don't,” Curran said. “It Violent Quarrel will be a cifficult situation, OGN tragndy: Docurred at- whottl I mean it. i midnight Monday, when McKowan Senator Radciitte (D-Md) told|returned home, the wife said. Fol- newsmen earlier, after a talk with:lowing a violent quarrel, Mrs. Me- President Truman, that the threat-' Kowan moved from the bedroom foned strike would not prevent op-jio the kitchen of their home, in an eration o( the nation’s merchant attempt to get some rest as she was marine shipping. {ill. She said her husband continued Radcliffe, chairman of a Senate ¢, quarrel and finally she picked |merchant, marine subcommmce.‘up the gun from the place in the was asked who would run the shibS| yitchen ‘where he kept it, fully {if = strike goes into effect June j5aded to “kill cats” She entered: 15, as scheduled. i the bedroom and fired and did not J Ships Going To Run | even know where she had hit her “The ships are going to Yun —|, qang until today when she was !you can bet on that,” Radcliffe ; Sakd - Adked . if I the govemmenwm ormed by the Sentinel reporter. | Life Threatened {would take them over, he said:| |“Somebody’s going to run them.” ! .M"s‘ McKowan had been in a Six other unions have ]oined‘h’ghly nervous state recently, be- |Curran’s NMU in demanding a 30 Cause of threats against her life by percent wage increase, an eight- her huslzand. She had appealed to law enjorcement authorities for retroactive pay. The seven unions protection, but was informed there sent a bloc and only three short of |atomic knowledge under a bushel. | a 48 majority, now that there is one vacaficy in the Senate. Moreover, there seemed fitt{(> doubt that if the coal dispute is settied and the industrial scene quiets even temporarily, the mar- gin for defeat of the draft provi- sion would be supplied from among | 14 Democrats and 11 Republicans| who decline to commit themselves ' publicly right now. - .. Reporters Turn Lumberjacks In Wenakhi WENATCHEE, Wash,, May 29.— The Wenatchee World assigned nearly all of its staff today to a| story that involved somewhat more| than taking notes and writing leads | —The World went into the forest! to cut the trees to make newsprint to print the story on. From Pubjisher Rufus Woods to| the youngest cub reporter, 15 mem- | bers of tke staff headed for Lake Wenatchee in the Cascade Moun- tains. Woods 'said be believed the| crew could cut enough logz in two| days to provide 40 teus of news-| print, which he hoped would tice the World over the present. short-| age. ALY L Wives and friefids of the World's workers went glong to cook the| meals for the reporters-turned- ]umber{; X o Engineer Named for {he demanded full authority to es- i tablish American atomic Street | These experts on Wall ticker tape then sat down to study the intricate problem of atomic en- | ergy. No wonder Baruch once com- ! plained fhat Hancock had to read through yards of reports to under-| standstand the subject. | Baruch next got into a pitched battle with the State Department and White House on his duties as| American Delegate to the Atomic| fect, backed by a loan of $1,370,000,- | claims about 200,000 members onWas nothing they could do unless 000 from the United States. 3,100 ships, more than two-thirds ' she preferred charges. Mrs. Mec- The two countries made a num- of them owned by the government, | Kowan is due to have a second ber of agreements in connection The other unions are the Ma,—n,e!clllld in about two months. with the credit arrangement which'GCooks and Stewards Association of | First reports of the incident in- resident ~Truman and French the Pacific; Pacific Coast Marine: Gicated McKowan's wound was Presicent Felix Gouin announced Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders and self-inflicted. Questioned yesterday jcintly last night. The loan talks Wipers Association; National Ma- following the shooting, the wife at began here 12 weeks ago. irine Engineers Beneficial Associa- that time said she did not know French officials _estimated the money would finance at least one year of their countrys four-year re- habilitation plan. In addition to the credit the Inland Boatmen's Union of International Long- and Warehousemen’s tion; the Pacific; shoremen’s | Union, and the American Commun- | ications Association. All are CIO Commission. Protesting to his old | ynited States promises these things: | affiliates. friend Jimmy Byrnes that he did| not want to be a messenger boy.] | policy | himself. But Byrnes and President| Truman turned thumbs down. Any agreement, they reminded Bernie,| would have to be ratified by the Senate, even though he was an El- to raise its tariffs on American| 1. To help France sell her goods bere. This might mean an ulti- mate reduction in American tar- iffs on French gcods. 2. An additional credit — of haps $25,000,000 — to buy al 750,000 tons of American shipping. France, in turn, pledged itself not per- boul i C. D. A. 10 COLLECT CHILDREN'S CLOTHING NEEDED AT HOLY CROSS Miss Loulse Walsh was last night | | der ‘Statesman. Thus continues the | products and joined with the United%welcomed into membership in the| Battle of the Atom—between the Elder Statesman and the new. States and Britain in their cam-, {paign to expand world trade through: lowered tariffs everywhere. | local Catholic Daughtesr of Ameri- ca, Court of the Little Flower 1243. with initiation ceremonies conducted | ,of any reason for her husband to attempt suicide, but that he had | threatened her life and the babies many times. Financial difficulties 'were at first thought to be the \cause of the supposed suicide at- {tempts UNDER INVESTIGATION The United States Attorney's of- fice in Juneeu revealed today that, upon being advised of McKowan's hospital-bed denial of the shoot- !ing this morning, that machinery | +had been set in motion to investi-, gate the affair—but now “it ap-| pears to have broken itself.” Whnc! | charge will be placed against Mrs. | ALASKA AREA ikl ES Bethel, Akiak, Also CAA Airfield Reported Under Water ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 29.— The northern Alaskan towns of Bethel and Akiak and a Civil Aer- onautics ~ Administration airfield were under water today, flooded by water backed up by an ice jam in the Kuskokwim river, Flood waters rose to a depth of four feet in the center of the small town of Bethel. Twenty CAA per- sonnel of the adjoining airfield were evacuated to higher ground. Across the river from the airfield ithe water reached the first.floor of the Northern Commercial Com- pany’s store and similarly flooded the Catholic Church. Three hundred residents were forced to take to the rooftops with whatever possesions they could carry at Akiak, 40 miles north of Bethel. The residents were report- ed in no danger. Motor launches afforded the only communications between the two towns. U. 8. army B-24 from the Aleutian air base at Shemya flew low over the great ice jam six miles down river from Bethel and dropped several «medium-heavy |bombs in an attempt to break up ithe ccngestion, but with no ap- oreciable effect. The floodwaters were reported to have reached their crest last night and today were slowly receding. e GAMES TODAY x /300,000 men, women. and children at | Of the $1,370,000,000 total, France |will get: | 1. A direct loan of $650,000,000. | The interest is 3 percent. It must ke repaid in 25 years. | 2. Credit for $720,000,000 more. The interest is 2 percent. ' This 'must be repaid in 35 years. 'FALLS FROM DOCK: GOP WHITE HOPE While the East and Middle West « (Continued on Page Four) e "NO PROGRESS" IN COOK INLET STRIKE SEATTLE, May' 29—Both sides McKowan is not yet known. McKowan was formerly a Ju- by Grand Regent Mrs. Walter Hel- | | lan. i During a brief business session a; the time by the Indian Service | a letter from the Sisters at Holy an electrician. He was later as-' Cross, Alaska, was read, telling of|cjgned to duty at the Wrangell In-| |a severe shortage of children’s cloth- ' iitute, following which he purchas- jIng there. The members decided|.q thé telephone utility in Wran- {to collect as much good used cloth-gml‘ ing as possible, including shoes and | underwear as well as outer cloth-/ fing; to send to Holy Cross. Anyone who has clothing of any i | ——— reported “no progress” today in an employer-union dispute which has| keld up fishing in Alaska's Cook Inlet area, where the king salmon season opened May 25. Bob Weimer, Cook Inlet agent of the Alaska ~Fishermen's Union | - BUT BRUISED ONLY ! Through extreme good fortune,! {cnly numerous bruises were suffer- | ed by Vic Anderson in an estimat-| ed 20-foot fall off the dock near; type to donate to this cause, is re i quested to leave it in, the entrance to Parish Hall Wednesday after- noon, June 5, and there will be committee members there from 1 o'clock to 4 o'clock to take care of the donations. The next meeting will be held | | | | TOWN T0 LOCK UP DOORS FOR | MEMORIAL DAY | Banks and nearly all other busi The following are scores of base- ball games played this afternoon in up to press time: American Washington 0; New York 4. National St. Louis 5; Chicago 2. New York 1; Brooklyn 5. STEAMER MOVEMENTS North Sea from Seattle scheduled Thé IW.A. claim that the booms to arrive Friday evening. Pfincess Louise scheduled to ar- rive frem Skagway at 8 o'clocl Friday morning and sails south a 9:30 o'clock. (CIO) said about 400 gillnett and|the City Float Beer Parlor last southbcund Monday or Tuesday. seire fishermen were idle awaiting a settlement on 1946 fish prices. evening. June 11, at which time ihstallation ness places, City, Territorial, Fed- Anderson has been hospitalizedof officers will ke held. This will eral offices and postoffice windows The Cook Inlet area includes Sel- New Alaska Eng. Dist. SEATTLE, May 20.—The Seattle District Army Engineers office an- nounced yesterday Col. James D. Lang, veteran of service in Alaska, has been appointed District En- gincer of the new Alaska Engineer dovia and Anchorage. Weimer and an was asking 39 cents a fish for red and silver salmon taken by fisher- men using independently owned gear, compared to 30-cents paid last Alaska Salmon | i Industry spckesman said the union |after treatment by Dr. W. M. | Whitehead, but his condition is de- clared not serious. City Police took| him to the hospital after he had crawled from the water by him- self. It is stated that he had been drinking. { be the last session before the sum- mer vacation, and a good attend- ance is anticipated. Tentative plans for the annual banquet which will open the fall sessions of the club in September were also made at last night’s meeting. Anderson landed in shallow water The serving of delicious refresh- District with beadquarters at An-|year. The Industry, they said, has'at the edge of the rock fill under/ments closed an enjoyable and in- ehorage, offered 36 cents, the dock. teresting evening, here will all te closed tomorrow, Memorial Day, one of five major holidays of the year. Drug stores will keep usual holi- day hours, while hotels, restaur-| ants and like businesses will be op- erating. Liquor establishments will open their doors at 1 o'clock p. m. ————— FROM MINNESOT, Carcline Hedrick and Elizabet! Seinburg, residents of Minneapolis, Minn., are staying at the Gastin- lumber already cut lasts. eau. e ,ee — W. K. LEISE HERE W. K. Leise of Bethel arrived The Empire will publish an enrlylhen yesterday. He is stopping at afternoon edition, the Gastineau Hotel, neau resident, being employed here ' the two Major Leagues as received | VANCOUVER, B.C., May 20— Sgped. | h plies many wes Weiss held hope for a reprieve until immediately before ‘his death, Will be Anotner 16-will be hanged todiy, verior completing the largest mass execu- He made his set tion ever conducted by the United ment shortly after 1 P. States army. } T, < ey i R All 28 were convicted by a U. 8., N Military War Crimes Court last December for murdering more than Dachau — once a synonym in Ger-, many for terror. The court heard ] ’ testimony that men were burned : alive at Dachau, that others were 5 i immersed in ice water, for ex- 3 4 JAPANESE . . Minority Groups Bluntly Told Democracy Not fo- Be Undermined perimentation and that thousands were beaten, i Over a narrowing three-hour per- iod yesterday one Nazi dropped through the trap of the twin black gallows every 15 minutes. Each walked up. the (13 steps alone and unaided. H Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, T74- year-old physicilan who had gained wide renown in pre-Nazi days, shuf- flad to the gallows trembling, but i regained his composure as the handman bound his feet in the shadow of the cell where Adolf Hitler wrote “Mein Kampf.” Asked if he cared to make a last statement, Schilling lifted his bearded chin in a defiant attitude. TOKYO, May 29.—The United States today bluntly warned minor- ity groups which seek to undermine democracy against attempting to or- ganize the Japanese. Just two weeks ago, it sald just as bluntly it does not want Communism in Japan. Both warnings came from George “Nein,” he snapped. “Schnell, bit-' archeson, Jr, American chairman te schnell.” (“No. Hurry, please o the Allled Council for Japan. He burry.”) itold the group: The hangman did. | “Wa do not want to see the Japa- . nese people onee more lined up in AFL Pulpmill e o o Workers Hold Logs Nof Hot itarism thought. | *“The Potsdam declaration calls for democracy in Japan. No matter how you spell democracy, you can- not make the word ‘totalitarianism’ ,out of its nine letters.” . His statement came as he ex- plained to the Council that he was unable to substantiate allegations _made in an unsigned Japanese May 1 Day message which charged that ‘“reactionary elements” had inter- (10 Picket Lines Disre- garded as Paper Plant Keeps On Going AFL Unionists at Powell River, B. C., Pulp and Paper Mill will dis- regard CIO-International Wood- workers of America picket lines placed on log booms at the plant. fered in the April elections and ,that some of General MacArthur’s directives had been flouted. | He said he received a second mes- | sage stating ‘the allegations were 1"stern facts.” = That message was Atcheson asserted by “known Communists” or persons “known to be under Communist ini- fluence.” o . STOCK QUOTATIONS Sohn Gherman, of Tecome, Wishe! iy TEMRLIS (S International fifth-vice-president of k tock today is 9, Al i ¢ the International o a e laghior, S Brotherhood of < 5 porat| 7%, American Can 102%, Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill work- Ar::c::x:l :D% ‘Commonwealth u:d | Alaska, from the west, scheduled €% Tepresenting employees at the gouinern 5%, Curtiss-Wright 8%, The AFL decision means that the Powell Rivere Mill, which sup- ! International Harvester 100%, Ken- necott 59%, New York Central 27%, Northern Pacifie 33%, United Cor- tern United sum poration 6%, U.'S. Pound $4.03'%. Sales today were 1,990,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 21250, rafls 67.87, utilities 43.75. - - It takes 1250 gallons of water to brew a keg of beer. Steel 91%, newspapers with newsprint, continue to function as long as Wet Logs Not “Hot” “Our position in this 'matter is and will be that any logs in the water or ready for shipment prior (Continued on Page Two)