The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 8, 1946, Page 1

SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,292 A PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1946 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS MARINE UNION MINERS BACK TOPITS ON NEXT MONDAY New ConiracTSigned Pro- viding Wage Increase, Health, Welfare Fund NEW YORK, June 8. — Penn- sylvania’s 75000 hard coal miners | will return to work in the anthracite | pits Monday under a new contract providing for an 184 cents an hour ! wage increase and a $2,700,000 health and welfare fund. I Their week-old strike ended late | yesterday when leaders of the an- . thracite operators and John LA" Lewis' AFL United Mine Workers | agreed on a new pact after nearly five weeks of negotiations. The welfare fund—whose cost is | based on last year’s production of | anthracite—will be financed by a | five cents a ton royalty on all hard coal mined. Tt was estimated that all the con- cessions—closely paralleiing those ! gained by the soft coal miners in': Mheir contract with the government ! —would cost the operators a total of $50,000,000 to $60,000,000 a year. But since the pact gives the min- ers virtually all of their demands | overwhelming approval was. pre- dicted. | Flee Flames Via Fire Escape i i Guests at Chicage’s LaSalle Hotel snake dewn a fire escape during early stages of a cenflagration which claimed 38 lives as it swept the downtown hostelry. Botiem of the picture is near the street level of the 20-story structure. (AP Photo) Wrong-Way Flier, 1joyoR PLACES KETCHIKAN'S BLUE Senale Candidale 10 HAVE ADDED = FOX CAFE IS NOW LOS ANCELES June 8.—On the RUN Bv (wumu New Water Franchise fo Be Restaurant Operators Open Put fo Voters on Tues- | Books to Prove They tion. ‘ day, July 23 (Can't Meef Demands ome county was 1,203 votes, out, But the one-time hero of a of nearly 750,000 cast for candi-' Juneau’s City Council last night KETCHIKAN, Alaska June 8.— wrong-way transatlantic flight will be on the November California bal- dates of all parties in the Sena- Voted in favor of tagging another The Culinary Workers Union has torial race. y lot as the Prohibition party’s can-! | | | digate for United States Senator. | Corrigan’s primary total in his, lof bars and liquor stores here. In of the Blue Fox Cafe, “to accom- H. A. JOHNSON ARRIVES addition barkeepers are to have 15 modate the public’ which hadn't H. A. Johnson of Elfin Cove is minutes leeway every night, in teen able to get a bite to eat in lo- staying at the Gastineau. {which to see that customers con- cal restaurants for four days. sume the drinks in front of them| Restaurant operators here closed . land to get the front doors locked. up shop Monday, saying they could The washlng‘ton By a five to none vote, the Coun- not meet the wage increase de- cil went on record to that effect, mands of the union. The operator ladopting a motion presented by Of the Blue Fox signed with the err Y = 0 o Oun Police Committee Chairman George|union and opened his doors Thurs- st |Jorgenson. The revised ordinance, 'day, b:nhlbmuu?;?gb:::i]?n {“:ZGS%L | whi sted | 2gains 8 { ¥ By DREW PEARSON [Fhich e commtee e e | . marshals were sent to collect the bR 'night’s session was not ready, so cash or shut down the shop. the Councilmen recorded themselyes| A short time later the union pre- in favor of the ordinancs when it ”‘“]“'" ‘kh‘:‘ marsha]sfwith a check u s K {Iman Ed and took over operations. atom bomb which may resolve °lh-‘%§;§gm:;s° :‘:: d]onfo'zfi;:fi? i[ The union also announced it had er international problems. He‘last evening’s meet laccepted an invitation by the opera- hopes, by his formula, to persuade | G cLisiE . 'tors to inspect their books, which the Russians to drop their veto, APParently in au ordinance-pass- " ouners claim will showthey power over every step the United ing mood, the Council stamped its| . " 2etorq to meet the union's f ies to make. This has aPproval on two other additions to s 10t s < Nations trie: e. the City code and indicated’ favor! ands for wage boosts of $2 to $3 ——— WASHINGTON — Elder States- man Bernard M. Baruch has work- ed out a formula for handling the de een the greatest single handicap a day {; future werld peace. -oy jof & fo“_‘"h- ) i 3 s Baruch plans to propose that the! New Franchise Voted atom be placed under an interna-| Passed through three offici YOUTH BEATEN T0 tional committee — provided no readings was a new franchise for member of that committee shall the Juneau Water Company; ex- ihour onto the weeknight operations anncunced it has becomé operator, PRE TRUMAN WILL| AIR POSITION' g ON CASE BtL Mednesda&?eadline for| Veto of Bitterly-Fought Labor Measure | [ (By Clair Johnson ) : WASHINGTON, June 8.—The| | White House said today President| i Truman will make known his posi-1 {tion on the Case labor disputes bili! |in a message to Congress, “whether | jor not he signs the bill.” | { Press Secretary Charles G. Ross| made this statement to newspaper- | men. He refused to say what the | President’s views are at this time. | Ross described as “cockeyed™ | capitol Hill reports that the Pres- ident was preparing alternative | messages, one in the event he makes up his mind to sign and the | other provided he wants to veto the legislation. {£- M. Truman stuck to his desk to- {day instead of taking a cru as ihas been his custom on weekends. Ross said the Case bill was pii- |marily responsible for him staying {on the job. The deadline for action on the bill by the President ends at mid-| | night Wednesday. Ross said there/ Iwould be no action today. | Before Ross met the press, key members of Congress had predicted {a Presidential message would ac- {company the decision on the Case} bill Guests on Upper Floors See Flames Below PRICE CONTROL "RULINGISCALLED VERY DANGEROUS WASEYNGTON, June 8—Four, | |members of the Senate Banking | committee asserted today that the ! amended Price Control extension| !bill not ready for Senate action “writes the death sentence for ei- fective price, wage and rent stabil- Gucsts on upper floors of the LaSalie Hotel in downtown Chieago, including a woman gesturing in center, are trapped on upper floors as tongues ¢f flame leap from windows, about street level at the start of a ation.” fire which swept the towering hotel, claiming at least 58 lives and injuring seme 200. (AP Photo) | Chairman Wagner (D-NY) was -—— x - s B L 1 UNSOLVED SLAYING | WAC, OFFICER MATE/MILLIONS OBSERVE NINE-MILE VICTORY (chell (D-Wash) in a minority re- ort. ELTEEEE T OF NEGRO LAID 10 ADMITGRAND THEFT HOODED KLANSMEN OF GERMAN JEWELRY, the immediate expiration of the ex-/ isting laws.” ! Price control expires the end of WASHINGTON, |this month unless Congress renews {it. The banking committee has completely revised the bill approv- ed by the house. Both versions |have been condemned by stabiliza- | \tion officials as dooming effective fprice control. |revived hooded order today, but A e A e nd Dragon Samuel Green dis- Flogging of Veferan Also s e ur| Laid at Door of KKK by Georgia Probe ATLANTA, June' 8.—A long-time |Klan buster laid a fatal stabbing land a fiogging at the door of the tain, who was seized with ker colon- | el husband in the theft of $1,500,000 |worth of jewelry from Kronberg Castle, Germany. | Two other suspects, a major still e on active duty and a former cor-, LONDON, June 8.--The normal poral, are under survillance, the life of London came to a virtual Department stated. standstill for nearly five hours today Col. A. C. Miller of the Provest while millions of persons cheered a Marshal General's office teld r2- nine-mile-long parade of war vic- | €} ! | (H'(Afio HOIEL claimed the connection. porters the WAC captain and Ler to epresenting the British Empire | “I'm net surprised,” said Green Dusband were arvested by military and most of its Allies. FIRE up Ilo 60 contemptuously. “T wouldn't be sur- authorities early Monday in the La The Victory Day observance was 1 H iy i Salle Ho! A Wartime Allies Refus- ing Parficipation prised even to see in the papers that Chi 0. This is the organized primarily to pay tribute they're blaming the LaSallc Hotel Séme hotel that was swopt by fire to the contributions of every dom- PARADE IN LONDON el e conicasonof a wa e S0Viet, Red Satellites, Only | RES FOR WALKOUT NOOPTIMISM AS DEADLINE - DRAWS NEAR §Wesl Coast AFL Seamen Win Fight for Immedi- | ate Negofiations WASHINGTON, June 8 - With time running out fast, CIO Union leaders and ship operators doggedly renewed their efforts to reach an agreement for averting the threat- i ened maritime strike next week. The start of this deadline week jalso found Joe Curran’s National Maritime Union (CIO), pressing ahead in preparations for the June 15 walkout, with its national coun- | cil planning another strategy meet- ing here during the day. The outlook engendered no hearty optimism, and the Navy methodically perfected its arrangements for op- erating vital merchant shipping if {the threatened tieup materializes. H Contraversy Complex Several uniohs—CIO, AFL and In- dependent - have begame involved } In the complex maritime labor con- | troversy. ‘The demand that eastern ship operators reduce the traditional 56-hour week for seamen on voyages still is the big Issue. That contentious question was argued over again at negotiations lasting far into last night and the Labor Department announced the opposing sides had talked about pas- isible ways of meeting the problem 1 by “compensatory time off.” ! AFL sea 0! t { headed hy parently won their fight to force an ‘immed)ate start of their own nego- tiations with the Pacific American ishlpowners Assoctation, They won ! it by voting to take 1o more ships {to sea for that group until nego- tiations were lrrnnllx i San Francisco Sessions A session accordingly was sched- tuled today in S8an Francisco, though tnot with the two main spokesmen for the shipownkrs assoclation. Those imen. President John B. Bryan and Attorney Gregory Harrison, were still in Washington for the negotia- tions with the Committee for Mari- time Unity. 7 Bryan told a . reBorter here: | “Lundeberg thinks ‘hif problem is paramount, and the CIO leaders think their problem is paramount.” | Bryan was asked which problem «he put first. * | “I think they are of equal im- portance,” he replied. “If we don't square tne two of them together, | we're In the soup.” ! e ————— 120 PASSENGERS FLY fwm, LINER JUNEAU Arriving yesterday with Alaska Airlines on the Starliner Juneau with Captain Larry Flahart, Flight Officer Larry Rogers and Steward- |€ss Marjorie Stevens were the fol- lowing passengers from Anchorage: Lorna Kubli and H. Bartel; from Cordova: L. H. Frohman and D. S. have a vetc. Decisions must be tending the principal terms of the! made a majority vote. |old ordinance for another 20 years Since the Russians are beside |With the inclusion of two new pro- themselves with eagerness to be a | Visions: member of any committe control-| 1—That the water company shall ling the atom, they probably will cither compensate the City in the giccept this non-veto provision, amount of 81,200 yearly or furnish If so, Saruch hopes to use it as'free water for City use. a precedent to show the Russians| 2—That the City of Juneau sh:;]ll ‘have first option to purchase the that the veto power should be; sirtis S e N, b_vwater system atvany time, ]dex;:}:ped i tegnnd o ol (O PR |price to be negotiated. NORTH CAROLINA STATESMAN‘d“e of va special eleg!.inxx ac- wl!l‘&‘h the new franchise will be submit- Freshman Senator Clyde Hoey of s 3 " 4 x 1 ted to the qualified voters of Ju North Caroline likes to preside over| oou. A .55 pereent ,majarity of the Senate when McKellar of Ten- 2 essee is ill lall qualified voters is required for e e 1€R Other OPROT approval. . 1t was stated that R. F. . !Lewis, water company owner-Pres] And he makes a most IMposing | jone “has agreed to pay the costs figure in the chair. A former gov-| ¢ tne special election. ernor of North Carolina, Hoeyi Also passed was the salary or- wears & swallow-tail coat and the|jinance for the ‘current fiscal year, flowing bow tie of the old-fashion- |uhich had its first reading at the ed politician. He looks every inch'i,q regular Council meeting. One & gajesman. amendment was moved last night by However, there Is one important |gouncilman Stan Grummett—to in- detail which the Senator from crease the monthly pay of the City North Carolina overlooks as he sits |pagistrate from $85 to $100—but gn the rostrom presiding over the!yas defeated by a two to three world’s most important deliberative | count. Voting in favor were body. He forgets that newsmen just, Grummett and Councilman R. H. above can look down from the:wxumms. The ordinance then went press gallery and.see what he is through final passage without reading. ¥ | changes. And believe it or not, during the Repeal Old Tax crubial debate over the Truman| Submitted by Mayor {Continued on Page Four) Waino (Con nn;-d n_n Page Si;I Tuesday, July 23, was set as the; | Stanley McCutcheon, | attorney - DEATH DEFENDING - LASS FROM RAPE | NEW YORK, June 8.—A 20-year-| lold youth was killed early today |tollowing a fierce but futile fight| lin Central Park with three mef, to |save his 18-year-old girl friand from rape, police reported. i Hyland. The girl, identified by police as Yvonne Kenny, was re- |ported to ke in serious condition at Mount Sinai Hospital. said the girl | Police |story: | She and Hyland were walking |along the east walk of the park |between 97th and 98th street, near {her home, when the men approach- jed and’ seized her. When Hyland, Iists swinging, came to her @idi“the |men turned on him and beét him. iThen they raped her and fled. | Police said the girl then mfi:ed (te the hospital and told authorities labout the attack. Hyland was found \lying on the walk and died shortly {after being taken to tke hospital. | - -ee- - told this STANLEY M'CUTCHEON HERE Anchorage and legislator, arrived here yesterday. He is staying at the Baranof, The youth was identified as Jack ! CHICAGO, June 8—The num- {ber of dead in Wednesday morn- ing’s La Salle Hotel fire rose to 60 today as a coroner’s jury investi- gation of the disaster was continued juntil next Friday. | Mrs. Ann Paluckis, 24, of Wau- |kegan, Ill, died in Henrotin Hos- pital this morning, about 72 hours after the blaze swept through the 22-story Loop hotel. At yesterday’s opening session of the coroner's jury there was con- flicting testimony on the time the | flames were discovered. l ———————— BAD FIRE SWEEPS - THROUGH LUMBER - YARD, MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE, June 8—More than {half of Milwaukee's fire fighting equipment was called out early to- day to fight a fire which swept a Iumber yard and a mainline street- car trestle in the Menomonie Val- ley, destroying nearly four million board feet of lumber. Fire Chief Edward Wischer esti- mated the loss at $300,000 exclusive of the damage to the trestle. .- — Balkan is derived from a Turk- ish word meaning mountain, fire in Chicago on us.” (less than 48 hours later wiih a loss i of 60 lives. Asslstal Attorn:ey Genaral Dan “We probably saved their lives," Duke sa_ld his undercover agents, Miller remarked. “They were on who infiltrated the Klan, reported one of the floors thet were burned the members of an inner “strong| ... |arm” group openly boasted of the Detailing the arrest of the WAC, |killing and flogging. Miller told a news confersnce: Duke, who prosecuted a series of | “At noon Monday she had con- flogzing cases in 1940 in East Point, | fessed her share. By 4 a. m. Tues- an Atlanta suburb, that led to ton- |day we had her share of the loot, viction of nine members of the Ku | which comprised about 26 to 59 Klux Klan, heads a current State percent of the amount stolen. probe into Klan activities. | “The colonel had the rest.” | The investigation was instigated | While asserting that “we do not |by Gov. Ellis Arnall who ordered ' have the jewelry the colonel ad- the State legal department to start |mitted having,” Miller indicated legal proceedings to try to revoke |that military authorities know where the Klan's charter. (it is. | Duke said the crimes his agents! {attributed to the inner Klan group, |ler said “we will grab them before the Kavalier Club, were the slaying |your stories ggt on the wire.” of a negro taxi driver and the flog- M RERA 80 TR | ging, by a band of nine men, of a REV' Mlsun ARRIVES HERE; SUCCEEDS FINK ear-old negro veteran, in Feb- The Rev. Clifford Allbutt, 8. J has arrived here from Fairbanks land will be pastor of the Catholic (Church of the Nativity succeed- 1Jng Rev. Louis J. Fink, transferred to Kodiak to take charge of the church and school there, s ot " FROM TODD r'u; The taxi driver, Porter Flournoy | Turner, was stabbed to death last August. The case has never been solved, e | FROM ANCHORAGE | ,Jean Voora, a resident of An- | chorage, is in town. She is staying | at the Baranof. o - The Suez Canal has no locks, {oll, of Todd, are in Juneaw, They ‘are guests at the Baranof, As to the two other suspects, Mil-} M. F. Stockard and E. W. Nich-‘ inion and colony and to honor the | Frohman. battle brotherhood of the United| On the return flight the follow- Nations. The parade reached the ing were flown to the Westward peak of its form along the famous |City: Robert K. Coote, Wallace R. Mall * before ' Buckingham Palace. !Jones, H. B. Palmer, Mrs. A. Judish, ‘There, the royal family, cabinet nndIAnthony Judish, Tom Gardner, parliamentary statesmen and other | Mrs. Virginia Dill, Mrs. Jennie Dill, dignitaries took the salute. Loretta Dill, Arlene Dill, William Men and women df some 30 lands | Klaney, Willie Peters, Grant Say- marched or rode past in war ve-|lor, Mary -Fix, Evelyn Pix, Bijlic hicles. At the conclusion, 300 RAF |Renshaw, Mrs. B. Johnson, B. John- planes swept low while the crowds |son, Mrs. B. Matson and Paul Dud- yelled and waved |ley. Among all the wartime® Allies, .. ented: s Bovit Unter, Yogoolovs 3 HALIBUT, SALMON and Poland. These had notified the uwm m! Iw‘v British government earlier that they would not send contingents. PRGN RS The following boats landed fish GIRL FOR JOHN YOUNGS (today: the Sebastian-Stuart pack- - {er Helen, skippered - Mr. and M Young are |1ace, 7,000 pounds olhk’m:m:;; i |the happy parents of a baby“,ul; Frank Olson’s Defiance, 22,000 j daughter, horn last evening at St.'pounds halibut, bought by Alaska Ann's Hospital. The little new-|Coastal Pisheries: Willle Marks' comer, who weighed sevén pounds,“new Anny, 8,000‘ pounds halibut, 14 ounces, has been named Caro-, also bought by ACF; Uandl, owned lyn Jean and joins a two and one- hy George Davis o(‘Anxnon‘ 13,000 half year old brother, Allen pounds of halibut, ACF; thf.: Bo’oth harles. | Pisheries buyer Elsie, owned by Don Both mother and baby are re- Milnes and skippered by Len Flesh- ported doing well. The proud fa-'er, 12,000 pounds halibut. ther is one of the firm of Young,! - —— McLean and Werner Agency. I FROM KETCHIKAN | - >oo—— — { Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Nelson, Mrs. i L. F. JAY HERE | A. C. Bryant, and Mrs. H. T. Stew- . L. F. Jay, of Fairbanks, is a guest art, all of Ketchikan, are staying +at the Baranof, at the Baranof, | . John i