The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 5, 1946, Page 1

" THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,289 SCORES OF LIV Judy Gels WARREN OUT IN FRONT IN | CALIFORNIA| Primaries Imale Renom- ination of Incumbent Congress Members (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Republican Governor Earl War- ren, seeking another term as Cal- ifornia% Chief Executive, was out|j in front for both the Republican and Democratic nominations on the basis of returns today from Tuesday's primary balloting. Senator William F. Knowland, another California Republican who | hoped to be selected by both politi- | cal organizations, ran far ahead in his own party's Senatorial pri-. mary but trailed former U. S.I Representative Will Rogers, Jr., for| the Democratic endorsement. 1 Elsewhere in the five states which held primaries yesterday: | 1. Democratic Senator ~Dennis Chavez of New Mexico held a slight lead for renomination over } Gov. John J. Dempsey. i 2. Political novice war veteran, giant James E. Folsom, won the Democratic nomination and hence for practical purposes the election as Governor of Alabama. Hoffman Beaten | 3. Former Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey was beat- At her studic Judy Garland may of her daughter Liza, who's doing first picture. film director. (AP Photo) 4. The Republican Governor oii South Dakota was defeated. | 5, Renomination of _incumpent|' s ani Senators and most Represenfatives | In California ¥ California’s’ law permit candid- ates to file in both party primar- s primary, returns from 6,687 of the Ipme“ er state’s 15,192 precincts gave War- ren 267,300 and Democratic Attor- ' ney General Robert Kenny 28304 ew roposa Democratic voting showed Warren | leading Kenny 225,132 to 182,386. | 4 Kenny was backed by tne CIO- H H PAC while Warren was favored by compromlse Deals WI'h e Four Poins of Marine The Republican Senatorial pri- mary returns from 6,484 precincts save Knowland 149,072; Roglers i 3 WASHINGTON, June 5. — West 26202. On the Democratic ticket CO8st ship operators today offered with 6,147 precincts reporting, it 2. new compromise proposal to the was Rogers 156,447, Knowland 94,- Marine Firemen's Union in a fresh 033 and Patterson 77,297. * o5 mid-Jun€é maritime strike on all coasts. I ::nfifi;nge:;:i oy de As this move brightened the nac 1 | prospec ett] t fliati Rev, Wialer A Bobolet. Meibister L r oot ousesiEmeny, coRElaton of ‘the Memorial Presbyterian yc)jeveq it “too early” for the gov- < ernment- to step in with its own Rell was married to Alfred James o(ijement propgsal Fawcett. Both are Juneau resi-| «gut may vill later.” i dents. Attending the couple were, aybe ‘we will later.” War Frances Laurence and Francis G'_in the ‘day-long negotiations be- tween the country’s shiplines and the seven-union, CIO-dominated committee for maritime unity. en off in a comeback attempt. was indicated in all sections. ‘p [ 8 o, PacicLoas In the Republican gubernatorial reports from 6,342 precincts in the the AFL State Executive Commit- [P Union’s Demand 68,990 and Rep. Ellis E. Patterson attempt to head off the threatened — Director Edgar L. Warren said he Church, here June 1, Letha Ellen ren told reporters during a break Chafe. Second Billing GREAT (CIRCLE FLIGHT PLANS' ‘R'égular Freifil and Mail| * Service Across North Pacific Slated ! ; SAN FRANCISCO, June 5—The | Army Air Transport Command an- nounced today it would begin re- Igular freight and mail flights tn! Japan via the North Pacifie's Great Circle Route June 15. Brig. Gen. D. C. Strother, Com- | mander of the West Coast wing of |the ATC's Pacific Divisien, sakd,l {one regular flight would be made |every day via Anchorage, Alaska, land Adak in the Aleutians clipping {about 12 hours from the present | crossing time, “Coming East, with favorable | | winds, flights of less than 24 hours | {will be fairly common,” he said,i | “making it possible to leave Tokyo on a Saturday and reach the U. 8.4 |the same day, by gaining a day { ing the International Date-| 1 | i The big Douglas C-54s will take | off from the Fairfield-Suisun Army ! | Air’ Base near the northeastern- | !most arm of San Francisco Bay, | | nop 632 miles to Seattle, 1,368 to | Anchorage, 1,185 to Adak and then | 12400 to Tokyo. They will fly at an | = be a big mcvie star, but she says | ducted. In front row (1. to r.) ar she's strietly a bit player at her home in Hollywood since the arrival | her best to steal the scene in her Liza’s father and Judy’s husband is Vincent Minnelli, | NEW MOVES IN 22-DAY OLD B. C. LOGGER STRIKE | ¥ Union Eases Oat Arbitrafor, altitude of around 9,000 to 10,000 feet. 1 An alternate route, to be used! when more weather information is, available, would skip Anchorage,! making a direct flight' of 2480 Jniles from Seattle to Adak. General Strother’s’ announcement accorded much credit for opening the new route tq exploratory work | and flights by Col. James W.: Chapman Jr., of Austin, Tex., west | coast Wing Operations Chief. { General Strother said demobili-y { {zation of weather observers,and | forecasters had crippled forecasts at the northern bases and before | JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ES LOST IN ATC REVEALS, ¥ MEMBERS OF THE SPECIAL TRIBUNAL which will try the war-timie Premier Hideki Tojo and twenty-seven other Jap militarist leaders, are shown at the Ministry of War in Tokyo, Japan, where the trials will be con= : Lord Patrick, United Kingdom; Justice John P. Higgins, United States; Sir u-Ao-mei, China and Justice I. M, Zaryanov, Russia, In the back row are: William Flood Webb, Australi; Justice E. Stuart McDougall, Canad: Justice A H. Northeroft, of New Zea‘xland. This is their first group photograph. (International Soundphoto) i Bread LinesLengthening JUDGES WHO WILL TRY JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS rofessor B. V. A. Roling, Netherland: " Across Nation as Wheal Shorfage Becomes Acute | CHICAGO, June 5—Bread lines were forming in most of the na- HOTEL FIRE 58 PERSONS AREKNOWN TO BE DEAD 'Many Suffocated by Smioke ' While Asleep in Bed- Five Extra Alarms CHICAGO, June 5.—At ‘least 58 versons were killed—many suffo- cated in their beds without being | awakened — today in an early imm’l\ing fire that swept through ‘!hu 22-story La Salle Hotel in the | heart of Chicago's loop district. | Fire dgpartment sources estimat- ed about 200 persons were injured. The first alarm was turned in at 1 12:35 am., when most of the 1,100 guests had retired for the night. [Wilhln 10 minutes the first three | floors w== engulfed in flames and | both of the main street exits from | the 37-year-old hostelry were im- | passable. Five Extra Alarms % | Five extra alarms were soundefl {and more than 300 firemen battled {lhe blaze bringing it under control jabout 3:30 a.m. | Most of those who were burned had been housed on the third, fourth and sixth floors. About the |sixth floor, smoke and panic claimed their victims. At least 10 persons dled as they leaped from their rcoms and fell to the street or in a courtway. s; Henri Reimburger, France and SEA FORCES DIGGING FOR SHIP CREWS Maritime STrfi&e Parleys Of the 53 bodles which overflow- ed the County morgue—37 were listed as unidentified. On many of the bodies there were only a few 10 ARMED FORCES [tion's stores and bakeries as the country experienced its worst wheat | shertage, but the Millers Nnmfinal‘ TRUMAN ACTS R_E(ON( ILE ‘;ed:::;m:v predictea P g tuo, Hours for Semn | However, Herman Steen, exeoutive| WASHINGTON, Juné ‘5.—The secretary of the Federation, said Coast Guard, as well as the Navy, “This is the worst week the millers counted its manpower toddy as the will have” and added that from 80 big question—"Will there be a mari- to 90 percent of the nation’s {lour time strike June 15?" — loomed Imills will shut down for lack of over Washington. f | wheat to grind into flour. | The Coast Guard sent out stop Explosions Heard escaped the orders on discharges which It later Fire Marshal Michael Corrigan, | fragments of burned clothing, | which led 3 | Mest were., or robes. In addition three unidentified bodies—those of two young boys and a woman—had not been re- moved from St. Luke's Hospital to the morgue 12 hours’ after the blaze, Hang ‘on Reduced | the alternate route could be used, |either weather reporting vessels | | would have to be stationed on each ! | side of Adak or weather reporting | -Will Act Today on | Single Chief of Staf Issue Now Scratched from | Scarcely any city | pinch. However, two factors pointed to an upturn. They were the new | winter wheat crop, running 25 pre- oxplained applied only to regular °alling the fire the worst In his personnel in over-manned ratings 30 Years of experiénce and “one who had been allowed to apply for Of the hardest to explain," sald discharge before their enlistment firemen had heard ithree explo- | Recommendations | VANCOUVER, June 5—A sur- prise meeting between Labor Min-| ister George Pearson and Harold Pritchett, union leader, in the 22- day-old strike of 35000 wood- workers. | The meeting ' came after Mr. Pritchett had advised Chief Justice | Gordon Sloan, government - ap- pointed arbitrator, that the union | o longer desired him to act in efforts to settle the dispute. A un- ion spokesman said, however, this" did not mean rejection of the jur-| ists settlement proposals—15-cents-| an-hour pay increase, 44-hour week | and union security. ' Acceptance or rejection of these recommendations by the union will vot be announced until late this afternoon. — e — | The WEEHEg fon Terms of the offer were not dis- i aircraft make periodic flights west- ward from Adak. ————— URGES PRESIDENT 10 GIVE VETO 10 | LABOR MEASURE Sabath Claims Disputes Will Not Not Elimin- ate Strikes WASHINGTON, June 5.—Chair- man Sabath (D-III) of the House | | | |Rules committee counseled Presi-|Navy merger disagreement was dis- the ! dent Truman today to veto Case labor disputes bill. | cent above expectations, coming in terms were up. |slons, spacéd about & minute and !in Texas and Oklahoma; and a CG Discharging Reservists |2 half apart, were heard preceding plan by the Department of Agri-' This affects approximately 2,000 discovery of the fire. culture to divert some foreign re- out of a total Coast Guard strength Merger Plans WASHINGTON, June 5—The proposal for a single chizf of staff over the armed forces was report- ed the first casualty today, as President Truman personally un- dertook to reconcile Army-Navy merger differences. The single chief of staff proposal was strongly plugged by the Army but Congressional circles heard re- ports the President had decided against it, removing it from fur- ther consideration in merger plans. A Senator who declined use of his name told a reporter it is his information that Mr. Truman has sided with the /Navy on this partic- ular issue. The fact that Mr. Truman is tak- ing over the job of resclving Army- John Flanagan, Chief House De- lief wheat stocks to the most acute of 24,000 in ratings now above their| fective at the La Salle, said the bread shortage areas. authorized peacetime levels. The fire started in the No, 5 elevator | Steen predicted: the shortage Coast Guard said reservists are con-'shaft. He quoted Detective Edward would we considerably rel d by tinuing to be discharged as hefore. | McNamara as saying th&t the op- mid-to-late July as more of the Naval stations were reporting erator of the No. § elevator rushed new winter crop reaches the mills. |to headquarters on the number of nto the lobby and sald there was He said, however, “government men on hand with cargo-vessel ex- fire in his pit. red tape,” shipping the grain from perience, Several persons with fire ex- elevators to mills, getting the right! There was no secret among offi-' tinguishers went to the reported “blend” for brzad flour, and de- cials that if the joint strike of CIO location of-the fire, and the fire livering the flour to bakers, all seamen and dock workers takes department was summoned, arriv- would require a time lag of two or place, the government will have a ing in five or six minutes. | President Truman has promised to way the fire spread,” McNamara | With the strike date only ten|then on, everything was chaos.” |days off, weary union men and, Coroner A. L. Brodie called an closed after a 90-minute conference yesterday between the President, Secrctary of Navy _Forrzestal and | |closed. President John B. Bryan of the Pacific American Shipown- ers Association said it “dealt with | everything”—in other words, the entire four-point demand levied on employers by the Independent Fire- men’s Union. — - — Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Erudite Senator | Vandenberg of Michigan not only| has been doing a good job on For-! eign Relations, but he takes it— SEAMEN'S STRIKE Northwest Air Will Get 2 No. Pacific Roufes | “sabath told White House report- jers that he had urged the Prcsi-: dent to let a Senate-House com-{ White House Press Secretary mittee study the whole question of {Charles G. Ross reported Mr. Tru- l1abor legislation for a few months{man termed it “a very construc- |and “agree on a sane bill for peace |tive session.” jand harmony between labor and| Neovertheless, Forrestal was re- 'porlvd sticking by the Navy's con- Secrctary of War Patterson. management.” He said he told Mr. Truman: ! “The Case bill is a bill that will{ not eliminate strikes, will not help{ industry and may create morei tention that two departments, with separate cabinet members, .should be maintained instead of the single department of common defense more weeks. |problem finding qualified men to Appalling Fire 'Spread - >->s - cperate the merchant fleet as “But it was simply appalling the SIRAY pauloou do. |said. “In a twinkling the whole o Argue 56-Hour Week | lobby was a mass of flames. From ‘.\hxp operators gathered again at|jnquest this morning, and said he the Labor Departme: 1 { (G ASEAR(HINfi el partment for more woyld use prominent hotel man- KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jure 5.-— The Ceast Guard attempted tcday to trace the source of a PBY pon- jtoon found on the shore of Forres- ter Island, off the West Coast of Prince of = Wales Island, -carrying the serial number 252-259. | Fishermen found the ; the high water mark. A few pieces argument on whether the 56-hour| ,pers and engineers for members week can be reduced for men at|.f the jury. seq. | i ; gl i Firemen and volunteers rushed The seamen's work-weck has be-|into the hotel, to control the blaze, ,come the nub of the whole dispute|,ng assist the guests from the —virtually swallowing up the q“”":bufldmg. Smoke and heat rushed tion cf basic wage increases. These ' have been demanded but dlscu&sed‘m o, yhper. See Stirugh e pontoon | among drift logs a few feet above the CIO National Maritime Union| |very little to date. Labor Department officials said !was no longer insisting on overtime They refused | elevator shafts, permeating all the halls and filling the rooms. On the fourth foor, seven bodies were found in a crawling position. The victims had been headed toward a trouble than anything else. isuggested in a bill sponsored byiof plane wreckage were near the\pfly above 40 hours. As for the President’s reaction,|Chairman Elbert D. Thomas (D- water's edge. The cutter Cyane to describe the new union position. the Congressman said merely that|Utah) of the Senate Military Com- | brought the pontoon here today. Neither side would be quoted be- fire escape; and had been over- | i i {come on the way. Thompson said that unless the i ance Dope on Award- | CAB Denies Decision EVERETT, Wash, June 5—Re- presentative Jackson ‘of Washing- ton said he “understood” North- west Airlines was to, be awarded the Nerth Pacific Orient air route by Civil Aeronautics Board with alternate lines, one across Canada, | v | of the Presbyterian Church, USA., {government takes some action tO ipo other via the Pacific Northwest. | stop strike-breaking activities, the styike is likely to spread to both the' He told newsmen he had no of-| , ficial word of such award buf his: ! Information came from Washington | sources. Under the expected nward,vwm.k in Syria and is an gtuacuvm"m” . ! he said, one of the lines would be ! jof the Martha Society, Friday af-:M ‘Poole, onme is necessary to the other. Talk- | “Well, we're getting along pret- M AY SPRE AD WEST “What do you mean?” VANCOUVER, B. C. bJune 5—! next GOP nominee. “If all BOES|tne AFL Labor Courcil herd there| men’s strike may spread to the! I can’t answer to my wife's satis- T've threatened to divorce her if pacific and the Atlantic coasts. run again for Senator, he won't be | wide negotiaticns July 1 with deep and himself — seriously. Perhapsi 1 . | ing to @ friend the other day, the | ON GREAT lAKES 7 Michigan Senator opined: | Rep Ja(kson lees Ad ty well now that we have a Re- publican foreign policy.” | “Well, analyze it for yourself,"% James Thom i | d pson, Vice-President of shot back the man who may be the ihe Canadian Seamen’s Union, told hack to my now somewhat famous is a danger the Great Lakes sea- speech of January 1945." Note—Van claims he is getting|yest coast. | bored with politics. “One question faction,” he says, “is why I'm run- ning for re-election (as Senator). she asks me again.” (The answer,| A the same time he revealed that of course, is that if Van doesn’t| his group plans to open nation- in the trial heats for Presldenw.]sea shipping companies for wage!' increases and clesed shop condi-| by way of Chicago or St. Paul via! “he was very glad to see me.” MARTHA SOCIETY T HEAR TALK FRIDAY BY MISSION WORKER ! Miss Carolyn Mathews of Chi- cago, Secretary of Women’s Work 1 ] will speak at the regular meeting | ternoon, June 7, at 1:30 o'clock. ! Miss Mathews has done mission | and enthusiastic speaker, and it is’ hoped every woman of the North- mittee and Senators Hill (A-Ala) and Austin (R-Vt). (OASTAL AIRLINES ON HOPS YESTERDAY Alaska Coastal Airlines flew the jollowing yesterday: to Ketchikan, S. Smith, D. R. Carlson, J. King, N. Haley, W. Sharpe; to Peters- No such plane has ever beén an- 'nounced lost in the immediate area. ! IDENTIFICATION DOUBTFUL Naval Air Station sources at |Seattle said it was doubtful if the| }serial number on the pontoon was |sufficient evidence to identify the plane, as such records are usually not kept. { | | BUILDING PERMIT cause Secretary of Labor Schwellen-’ |bach has demanded of them a pledge not to talk about the bar- ‘galnlng sessions. | - eee | STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, June 5—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | |stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor-| {poration 67, American Can 99',4,( Anaconda 48'i, Commonwealth and | | On a glass canopy were found the bodies of a mother and her |child, arms banding one another. Both were burned beyond recog- nition. A The figures of many persons ap- | peared in windows, as if they were planning to leap. Even as flame and smoke menaced those in the windows, firemen cautioned: “8Sit tight—we’ll get you out.” Rescue ladders were quickly rais- ed and more than 50 persons were hurg, 1. Forrest; Mrs. K. Stenslid,| One building permit was issued |Southern 5%, Curtiss-Wright 8'%, | rescued. Military police and shore J. Carter, Jr.; from here during the past weéek by City | International Harvester 100%, Ken- ' patrol members ‘blndod together Betty Stone, John, Engineer J. L. McNamara: To | necott 57%, New York Central! with police, firemen and other vol- - |owner and builder Earl A. Bass-|%, Northern Pacific 31%, United unteers to stretch nets in the Hoonah, J. Houston, Jeanne ford for construction of a garage;Cerporation 5%, U. S. Steel 89%, streets to catch those who chose Petersburg, s, To Edmenton, the other would extend| oy 1ight Church will take this RUSSIA’S ONE-TIME FRIEND | How tragically the Russian sit- uation has deteriorated is illus- trated by Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson. Once the Soviet's (Continued on Page Four) |north from Seattle to Anchorage thence across the so-called Great | Circle Route to the Orient. basin { In Washington however, a CAB Oscar H. Pedersen, a resident of ' official spokesman said as far as Angoon, is stopping at the Gas- he knew no decision has yet been tions. e PEDLRSEN. ARRIVES opportunity to meet and hear her. —_———ee - JOHN W. MALE HERE | John W. Male of Cordova arriv-| ed here yesterday. He is staying tineau I 1eached. at the Gastineau, Welsh, Earl Shortridge, H. Jack- tson; from Hooneh, P. S. Ganty, to | sitka, Mr. and Mrs. C. Whittmore, | 1j. Orsino, Sgt. J. Moon; from sitka, Mildred Judd, K. Elle, Mrs. Jack Krepps. e The horned toad is not a toad put a lizard. * and storage building for trucking at the corner of Ninth street and Capital avenue. The 40 iby 80 foot frame structure will i house a second-floor apartment ‘[alsn. Estimated cost is $6,000. Sub- contractors are Parsons Electric Co. and Juneau Plumbing and | Heating Co.* business, jPound $4.03%. |to leap. One woman was carried | Sales today were 1,170,000 shares.|down a fire escape by a fireman l Dow, Jones averages today are|and rushed to Passavant Hospital. las follows: industrials 200.78, rails' Almost on arrival, she gave birth 66.15, utilities 43.10. w0 a baby. i ————————— “If only some of them had not About 95 percent or 8500000 been panicked, they might have acres of the total land area of been saved,” said Fire Marshal California is under cultivation, Corrigan. |