The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 30, 1946, Page 1

e THE DAILY ATLASKA EMPIRE [rre- “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,284 _——————— JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ____PRICE TEN CENTS CENTS NEW MIGH WATERS INEASTERN AREA RECEDE Lie in Once Flood-Bound " Towns Goes Slowly Back to Normalcy HARRISBURG, Pa, May 30— Murky flcod waters receded slowly n Pennsylvania and lower New | York today leaving behind a de- bris-littered devastation that took at least 11 lives and caused prop- erty and crop losSes expected to ex- ceed $3,000,000. Fed by foui days of continuous| spring rains, the Susquehanna and | Alteghany Rivers and their tribu- taries had boiled over Monday in| the worst flood since 1936. Thousands were made temporar- ily hemeless as the waters spilled into residential and business areas| of scores of communities. Today life in once flood-bound tewns re-| turned slowly to normaley. Williamsport, Pa., and Elmira, N. Y., were the two spots hit hardest by the racing waters of the Sus- quehanna, while the small com- munity of Eldred, Pa., bore the brunt of the onslaught from the muddy Alleghany. Bradford and Port Alleghany in the Kkeystone state also dug out from the muck and mud deposited by the western river. | High-wheeled Army trucks mov ed through the streets,of Willilams- | port today replacing the boats that had traversed the city’'s main streets since Tuesday. The trucks brought in supplies and helped to haul out water=logged: erchandise” from stores caught in the rush of | water that at one time -covered; two-thirds of the city. - e, Suicidesin DeathRow MCcALESTER, Okla, May 30.— Deputy Warden Raymond Raines said today Stanley Steen, convict scheduled to die in the electric chair shortly after midnight, had committed suicide in death row. - PHILLIPS GOING SOUTH | Supt. of Schools A. B. Phillips| and Mrs. Phillips will leave on the| steamer Princess Louise tomorrow to vacation for an indefinite period in Seattle and vicinity. Mr. Phillips will go on to California to visit for a few days with his son, Ro- bert, who is attending Stanford| University. - — { The Washmgtonj Merry - Go-Round - By DREW PEARSON | WASHINGTON-—Though dwarf- ed by the labor news over the; last weekend, last Saturday’s clos-, ed-door session of - the . Senate Banking and Currency Committee, | which - virtually buried price con-’ trol, was just as significant. I opened the way to. vastly increases food costs, the very thing labor has | been striking against. Senator Ernest McFarland, Ari zona Democrat, sprang a surprise when he offered his amendments | to the stabilization act provxding‘ for the dropping of all price con- irols on meat, poultry, and dairy products. A day earlier, the Com-' mittee had accepted Senator Taft’ LAB 0 Wants Her Baby Now Mrs, Marjori Ashe, 20, who ran away from Illinois Central Hospital in Chicago because she was afraid her new baby son was NOT cute, smiles in Chicago as she helds the baby at her home after she re- turned and decided “He is cute. cute dimple\ » CASE AWAITS UNSC ACTION Official Request fo Invoke Charter NEW YORK, May 30.—A spokes- man for Trygve Lie, United Nations Secretary General, said today Lie would not put before the U. N. | Security Council a Siamese alle- | gation that French soldiers have seized Siamese territory in ‘“un- | justified aggression.” The spcucainan pointed out that the .case could be brought up by any member of the Security Coun- cil who desired to do so but there had been no word from any Coun- {cil member that such action would be taken. It was recalled, however, that a British Foreign Office spokesman said in London yesterday that Bri- fain ‘would support Siam in plac- ¢ ing the border dispute before the' Security Council. The United Nations spokesman explained that the Siamese tele- | gram galled attention to French | “attacks” and asked Lie's “sym- pathy, your assistance and coopera- | tion” but did not invoke the United Nations charter. Therefore, he went jon, Lié did not regard the letter as officially asking the Council to take action, . Comment from delegates to the Council was reserved but their taffs were studying the matter to!' etermine what action would be | taken, Court Rules*fii;e—rifi On Strike Are Not 'Enfitled UC Benefifs COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 30.- ~The proposal for a special “decontrol | Ohio supreme court holds that coal board” for gradually removing price regulations on various products. and it was thought that this would | be satisfactory to the cattle pleadJ ers. | Iowa’s Senator Bourke Hicken- miners on strike are not entitled to unemployment compensation | benefits. The decision was in an action brought by Chalmers Baker and other miners employed by the Pow- Look, he has nice big eyes and SIAMBORDER } BILLION UP "IN PRICES ON DAIRY STUFFS !Leffer fo Se_cr_e_tary Lie Not Whipping (ream Banned in Drive fo Increase Butter Production . WASHINGTON, May 30. — The government jolted housewives to- day with a $250,000,000-a-year price poost for dairy products—and pre- dicted still another sharp hike if Cengress cuts subsidies. Stabilization Director Chester Bowles estimated that the public will pay a quarter of a billion dol- s more for food annually as the result of price increases of one it a quart for s a pound for buiter and ap-| proximately six cents & pound for | cheddar cheese. Bowles announced 1ast night that the new prices will become effec- ive early in June. The exact| amount of the increases witl be fix- ed when the date is set. The Stabilization Chief also di-| rected OPA and the Agriculture Department to institute controls on | the use of butterfat in the hope of reasing butter production. These | icontrols include a ban on the sale of whipping cream effective July 1, and establishment of price ceil-! !ings on bulk cream for the first time. [PRESIDENT ON " HOLIDAY TRIP DOWN POTOMAC WASHINGTON, May 380.—Presi- ‘dem Truman, members of his fam- ily and his visiting in-laws board- ed the White House yacht William- burg today for a cruise on the Po- tomac River. They planned to have lunch eboard, spend the afternoon on the river and return to the White House before dinner. milk, about 11‘ FISH CREWS 10 SAIL FOR BRISTOL BAY Kodiak Fishe;rhen Set to Strike Saturday for Higher Prices SIATTLE, May 30x~Th(‘ CI0- aska Fishermen's Union an- nounces it has agreed to permit {scme 1,500 fishermen to sail for Bristol Bay, Alaska, if the action 1s approved by union headquarters !in San Francisco. The Cook Inlet Saturday, but all operations are | tied up by the controversy. The Bristol Bay season opens June 25.| At the same time as the Seattle | announcement, news came from | | the United Fishermen of Alaska Union that some 700 fishermen in| jthe EKodiak area had set 6 am.| Gaturday as the deadline for a also in a quest for higher fish prices. Some 20 prices are in-| ed in the disputes, varying ac- | cording to variety of fish and own- ip of gear used. i Two ships in Seattle and one at ria, Oregon, have been held up | |more than a week as the fisher- imen backed up a demand by fel- low workers at Cook Inlet for price increases. The Bristol Bay workers settled one price dispute | earlier this year. WRANGELL MAN IS FLOWN OUT: IN POOR SHAPE SEATTLE, May 30—Harvey C. McKowan, 45, was flown to-Seattle from Wrangell, Alaska, last night' with critical bullet wounds in his head. He was accompanied on the flight by Miss Marinie Lovett,! ‘Wrangell nurse. 1A private plane took the injured man from Wrangell to Ketchikan where he was placed on a Pan American plane and brought to Seattle. He was rushed to Swedish Hospital, where his condition was said to be “very critical.” The U. 8. Marshal at Wrangell reported yesterday McKowan was (shot by his wife who then sur- Irendered to him. The marshal said Mrs, McKowan told him her hus- band abused her and thieatened her life and that of her small daughter. | P U5 MRS. McCKOWAN RELEASED WRANGELL, Alaska, May 30— {Mrs. Margaret McKowan, who yes- terday admitted she had fired the 1shon which critically wounded her husband, H. C. McKowan, owner |of the Wrangell Telephone Com- pany, yesterday afternoon was re- leased from ‘Federal jail here on |the recommendation of Dr. Alvin |'T. Nelson, and removed to Bishop Rowe Hospital where she is rest- ing and under obseryation for a few days. She is expecting a baby |in two months. Several local business people have volunteered to go her bond follow- ing release from the hospital. McKowan was flown to Seattle )ycaterdly, to the Swedish Hospital {where he will undergo an operation to remove a .22-calibre bullet from hls head §FISHING FLEET NOW PICKETING HARBORS : IN 50. CALIFORNIA | LOS ANGELES, May 30—Fishing !fleet boats have begun picketing every Southern California harbor |from Santa Barbara to San Diego in an attempt to force wholesale icdealers to sign a minimum price agreement. ® | The CIO fishermen’s union said 'the picketing would close harbors |to locally caught fish but would season opened ‘Chances Dim for Progress |Russia go far beyond even the ma- Gen. "Ike" Visits Chiang at Nanking g | 1 MARSHALL, President Truman’s special envoy to China, Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chicf of Staff, U. 8. Army, chat in living roem of Generalissimo’s home in Nanking, China, duving General Eisenhower’s recent visit to the Chinese capital. General Eisenhower has just told a joke to interpreter, seated beside cameraman, and it is being trenslated to General Chiang. The four later lunch>d cuno'hel Hopeol Soviet MOTERUSH Policy SWI"':] IN AXE MURDER *flnde!y Jolte GENERAL GEORGE C. ‘Memorial Day ! ‘Labor Pidure | Much Brighler - New Strikes Theatemng, However - Hard Coal Miners Going Out NEWPORT, 'lm of “Wight, maw ek May~ 80.—The mother of six child- ven was charged with murder to- day and a prosecutor said she kill- ed her husband with an axe after telling him, “I don’t wish you to write to your mistress in front of me.” The presecutor told Magistrate's Court that Mrs. Eva Gladys Lane, | 31, hacked her husband, Stanley, [ When Paris Confer- ence Reconvenes WASHINGTON, May 30—Ameri- can hopes for an about-face in Russian foreign policy during the Paris Foreign Ministers Conference recess appear: today to have suffer- ed a rude jolt. That is one construction widely 2d on Foreign Minister Molo- statement concerning failure of the Forezign Ministers thus far to break their deadlocks on European peace settlements. Tre Paris mesting, which recessed two weeks ago today, scheduled to reconvene June 15. But unless brighter prospects de- velop in the last half of the inter- mission, chances for any real pro- gress are extremely thin. Moreover, American officials con- cede that the snarl in peacemaking —which is essentially. a reflection of the bad relations among the United States, Russia and Britain— also’shows up on the affairs of the United Nations. And since tbe United Nations is charged with preserving peace, with preventing an atomic war and with limiting armaments, the prob- lems mow confronting Secretary of State Byrnes in his relations with was is - FROM THE STATES jor issues he faces in trying to make a Europena peace. Byrnes told the House Foreign Affairs committee yesterday that it is the purpose of the United States government to seek limitation of arms. Officials do not consider this possible, - however,. until the world bas been brought to a point in which the great powers are able to work out all their problems within the Unltcd Nations frame- work. Very Limited Optimism Byrnes and his advisers came back from Paris with very limited optimism - about making progress when they return in mid-Jurz for further meetings with Mololov,‘ Foreign Minister Bevin of Britain and Foreign Minister Bidault of France. They pegged their things primarily: 36, in their kitchen because he (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) wrote to another woman asking for The soft coal strike settlement money and attempted to grab his brought a bright picture to the tors, the prosecutor said, that “my big drop in the number of idi¢ six children would have to go with- workers but there were new and out food” if he had gotten her tbreatening strikes. i ->> .eircers on the Hudson and Man- hattan Railroad, an electric all- IE"AKEE Bou“D passenger line carrying 115,000 per- PA(“ER Do(KED Ncnhem New Jersey started today. 20,000 soft coal miners re- The Point Augusta, fish packr:r .lved orders from John L. Lewls' sylvaniag anthracite miners were here tomorrow for Tenakee to work "~ 2 for the Superior Packing Co. there. ":‘;’dl“l::’ :" x“;::"’llym“_““ w;)rak":': Skippered by Capt. Larry Jack- CHent tonignt a ot tors. The United Mine Workers from Seattle on her first seasonal A advised the anthracite operators the f’::’) lThc cannery Hgs Yo open union could not agree to an exten- cause of the Memorial Day holiday the miners did not work today. Fact-Finding Board Created ered- at the Baranof yesterday trainment 4 the 35 RHA M Tine vere: A. W. Tov, Omaha, Neb.; F. ., 0 1ocq than 12 hours after Pres- | Fletcher, Seattle; Tom C. Sterne, ident Trumen’s order creating & J. Frederick Palmer, Waukesha, ! the dispute and report in 30 days.' Wis.; Mary M. Malmsten, Seattle; Although under the rallway h-‘ Lois D. Ritchie, Marcus, Iowa, ‘bor act a strike may legally not ! FROM IAIRBANKS ! Presidential order, no penalties are vt provided if one is called. H. Moller, Mrs. Charles Pres- " ynion 1agders sajid the walkout Smith, Jr, all residents of Fair-! i banks, arrived here yesterday. They " are registered at the Bardnof. ""Y ("AS l‘I(HES e | PAYS VISIT T0 JUNEAU Mrs. William R. Carter and her| 1t was neither a tornado nor) 10 - day - old daughter Katharine painacle Bill the Sailor which Elisabeth were discharged from St. gescended upon the Empire office, and now are at their home in the joseph Latches, all 300 pounds of Casey-Shattuck Addition. him, who arrived armed with a' et e huge scrapbook to uphold his claim Isobel Miller, a resident of Haines cratic campaign committee who |is a guest at the Baranof. hitch-hiked from California to 4 S 500 . R 5 Washington, D. C. in the 1940 wife’s handbag. She told investiga- labor front today and indicated a' money. ; 4 i A strike bv 500 trainmen and en- fons daily between New York and owned by John Tennyson, will leave 0 80 back to work, 76000 Penn-| son, the boat arrived late Tuesday of tkeir contract with the opera- sion of the present contract. Be- Residents from the States regist- Tt walkout.by the engineers ln(’ Tacoma, Wash.; B. Sears, Seattle; .. ynqing hoard to investigate | DA T take place within 30 days after the| ton and two children, and Clifford (Continued on Page Eight) | LEAVES HOSPITAL i Ann’s Hospital yesterday afternoon yesterday, but only “Tiny” Charles ISOBEL MILLER HERE of being the “one-man” Demo- GEORGE B. POWELL HERE | progidential election campaign. hopes on two mm | “ LEGISLATION DOUBTFUL CASE STRIKE CONTROL BILL BIG QUESTION Soft Coal Séfl_lemenl Takes Heat Off Congress- - Blowever Seen By William T. Peacock WASHINGTON, May 30.—Hedg- ing with a couple of “ifs,” some Congress members began to specu- late today that the capitol storm aver strikes may not produce a i single new labor, law. The hotly-disputed draft section :already has been ripped out of President Truman's emergency bill. There were too many uncertain- ties for flat predictions, but the possibility of a complete blowover was being widely if privately talk- ed. Settlement of the soft coal «trike obviously has taken off the main heat, Case Veto Is Big “If" The big “ifs” are: 1-~Whether President Truman signs into law the Case strike con- trol bill which a thumping 230 to | 106 House vote sent to him yester- . day. Several Democrats have said he will veto it. ~Whether the threatened June | 15 maritime strike develops a new “crisis.” On the Case bill, the President s getting conflicting advice from Jegislators and others and mean- while is keeping his own counsel, Eecretury nf ubor mvellmhch old he Ilm eho\l.h to override a veto | (two-thirds are needed), but the Senlhel last Saturday was not. Chairman Murray (D-Mont) of the Senate Labor Committee, who frankly wants a veto, predicted the Senate would sustain Mr. Truman if he takes that course. Lawmakers génerally agréed that . developments ‘in the maritime dis- pute are bound up with the future of the President’s emergency bill. The Senate by a 70 to 13 vote late yesterday cut out what some legislators consider the heart of the bill—the provision for drafting into the Army those. who strike against government-seized plants. Democratic leader Barkley (Ky) told reporters that whether the maritime dispute is settled “will determine my course” when the fenate goes back to work on the measure tomorrow, Maritime Dispute Pivotal Barkley said there were reasons to believe the dispute might be r.emed by then and that if it is he Page EWM) TRUMAN REJECTS FDR INHERITANCE SAYS MORGENTHAU 'Ex-Cabinefeer Assalls De- parture from Roose- velt Policies WASHINGTON, May 30.—Henry Morgenthau, Jr., says President ‘Truman, by proposing a draft of labor, has disclosed his decision “to make an open and final rejection of the Roosevelt inheritance.” And. the voters, he declares, should “cleanse” from the House many of the Representatives who went -along with the President’s demand. The former Secretary of the | Treasury asserted in a biting radio address last night that Mr. Tru- man’s Saturday speech to a joint sessicn of Congress was “an out- right declaration that his methods, his policies and his purposes are ,totally different from those of the George B. Powell of Anchorage A chief steward in the Maritime man to whom he actually owes the lmenu from northern waters. Ap- would Kkeep the promise which has arrived here. He is staying a: gorvice, Latches says 31 years in Presidency.” | proximately 1500 fishermen belong Byrnes said he made last Decem-’the Baranof. |that service has taken him through The speech, he added, was “only Grands'and (o“apse to the union. ber and overrule Molotov'’s opposi- | itwo world wars and several times the logical outcome of a whole ser- minimum-price agreement is tion to Byrnes proposed 25-year, around the world. Now he s think- fes of disastrous decisions extend- I r o S( {necessary, the union said, to sta- treaty to keep Germany disarmed. 1ing of settling down perhaps on ing over the past year. "lu es ver o’e'bum the pay of the fishermen,| 2. That world public opmmn‘ Mrs, Ethan Nelson (Anita Porter) a homestead to the Westward, but “The inflationary conditions be put in and then it will open the work” by any group to enforce cer- who share in the catch. Whole- since it is essential to Russia’s as- | and her three young sons, Bert, he also wants to do a little pros- 'which are the underlying cause of gates for exempting a dozen other|tain demands upon an employer| DETROIT, May 30.—More than'salers claim such an agreement pirations for international leader- Paul and Larry, arrived on the pecting for gold on the side. istrikes and economic dislocations products.” |mmtntuted a strike and those a score of persons were injured lut,iwould violate anti-trust laws and ship, would persuade’ the Russians steamer Princess Louise and will' He arrived in Juneap on the today have their roots in the Barkley was not impressed by Pparticipating in the work stoppage night when a grandstand collapsed b. illegal because it would bar take .what the American said spend the summer here at the home steemer Alaska, and his stay in Lhoughtless haste with which Mr. ~ therefore were not entitled to un- at ceremonies opening the automo- them from dealing outside Lh:‘\\nu]d be a more cooperative line'of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. the city is rgther indefinite, he Truman permitted many wartime (Continued on Page Four) emplogyment compensation, Itive golden jubilez, union, Paris. Porter, says. controls to be scrapped.” looper, though a Republican, was hatan Mining Co., to collect com- | 'have no effect on. overland ship- 1. That Prime Minister Stalin one of McFarland’s chief support- pensation during the mine work! ers, {stoppage of March 31, to April 29, “It is best to vote this amend- 1941, after their contract explred ment in Committee,” he said in the| The court, reversing an ap) semt session, “because if we go to court decision held that “couecnve tHe floor without it, it's certain to and concerted discontinuance of | - ,e——— D HERE FOR SUMMER