The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 10, 1946, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —_— VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,293 SENATEGROUP LIBERAL WITH ALASKAFUNDS House Cufs in Budget Fig- ures Resfored-ANS fo Get Sjtk_a Base WASHINGTON, June 10. — The Senate Appropriations Committee, more generous to Alaska than the House had been last month, has voted for an extra $2,037,500 in the Interio: Department funds to be spent in the Territory during the coming year. It rejected House cuts to re- store to the Appropriation bill nearly all the sums asked for Al- askan purposes by the Budget Bu- reau for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Million-Half More for Roads Among changes in the Interior bill was an increase of $1,537,500 in funds for construction, repair, and , mamtenance of roads, tramways, ferries, bridges and trails in Alas- ka, boosting the voted by the House to $3,790,000. The bill provides that $250,000, of the amount, instead of the $72,- 000 approved by the House, should | be available for surveys for new construction, and that $2,300,000 could be used for new road con- struction, as compared with $1,020,- 000 carried in the House bill. .The Committee authorized the| Alaska Railroad to spend $400,000 for construction of facilities at Mc- Kinley National Park, and inserted in the National Parks Appropria- ,tion $250,000 for improving the| Glacier Bay National Monument. | Funds for the Alaska Native Ser- vice were increased from $3,084,- . 008 to $3,264,400. Japonski to ANS It also authorized the War and Navy Departments to transfer to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, with- out cost, the entire Sitka Naval| # Base on Japonski Island and the| Army installations on Charcoal and Alice Islands. | The Committee voted to strike out a clause imposed by the House requiring that Alaska put up $1 for | every $3 of Federal Highway Funds! it receives. The Committee said| such a provision “might largely nullify the appropriation” because | the Territory’s legislature had not indicated such action in setting up its two-year budget in 1945. The Committee quoted the Inter- jor Department as saying Alaska“is| (Continued on Page Five) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DRE@ARSON i WASHINGTON — A meeting of the Combined Food Board was in sit the representatives of foreign countries to decide how much fa- mine relief grain shall be sent to each country. 3 Belgium had just ‘been granted, an additional allocation of 160,000 tons of wheat, presumably, to feed | its starving children. However, toward the end of the meeting, the French delegate lean- ed over and said something to the Belgian delegate. He talked in a low voice in French. What he pro- ‘ posed was a swap whereby Belgium traded her 160,000 tons of wheat with France in exchange for French wine. The Belgian delegate agreed. So now the children of Belgium will not get the 160,000 tons of wheat— unless the gentlemen involved get worried over this column and # change their minds. They will also, of course, deny this story. But the French and Bel- gian delegates made one mistake. They did not know that an Am- erican member of the Combined Food Board seated beside them un-f derstood French. * The Budget Bureau has written a secret report on housing for vet- ! erans which is so hot, it sizzles. It | shows that despite all the fine pro- nouncements about homes lnmnd; of fox-holes, certain government agencies have permitted. scarce building materials to go to race (Continued on Page Four) $2,252,900 figure | o - P 4 PRINCE EUGEN. ...nu;m“ DD DESTROYER ss SUBMARINE APA ATTACK TRANSPORT LST LANDING SHIP TANK - 1C1 - LANDING CRAFT INFANTRY ARDC FLOATING DRYDOCYK LCT LANDING CRAFT TANK JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HOW ‘CROSSROADS’ FLEET WILL LOOK TO BOMBER L4 cm TRUMAN WILL |GIVE MESSAGE ON CASEBILL Congress Be Told Tuesday | Whether He Favors or ‘Will Veto Legislation | WASHINGTON, June 10.—Presi- dent Truman told his Congressional | leaders today he would send a mes- | sage to Congress tomorrow on the Case labor disputes bill, but appar- ently did not say whether he would | veto or sign it. | Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex) told‘ reporters after a 45-minute confer- ence with the Chief Executive at the White House: { “Whether it will be a veto or a message on approval we don't| know.” ‘ Rayburn disclosed that the Ad- ministration leadership will try to| get a fule in the House to send the President’'s own emergency strike controversial bill to a con- | ference of the two houses this | week, Each passed it in different| | torm, ] “It'is just a matter of awaiting | action on the Case bill,” Rayburn said. Rayburn, who waited to talk with reporters, said the President did mot say what action he con- templated c¢n the Case bill, and added, “he was not asked.” | SECRETARY OF LABOR Lewis with Joseph Curran (left), Preside longshoremen strike seheduled for Heads Boy Scouts LANDING CRAFT MECHANIZED BARGE | | 1 | | B. Schwellenbach (center) confers nt of the National Maritime Union, and Harry Bridges (right), head of the West Coast Longshoremen’s Union, in an effort to prevent a strike of maritime workers and June 15. NATIONS OF FAR | EAST ASK WORLD ' SHIPPING SHARE Argentine @gale Seat- ed af Seafile Conference | | Affer Questioning | CONGRESS EYEING MARITIME DISPUTE ‘Seek fo Forestall Strike BONUSES FOR EXTRA HOURS IS PROPOSAL House Subcommittee fo Go Forward with Inquiry Info Strike Threat WASHINGTON, June 10.—Feder- al conciliators in the maritime strike today suggested a cash bon- us system for paying for hours worked over a fixed limit within the present 56 hour week for sea- men. The new government plan was offered in a negotiating session be- tween representatives of east coast ship operators and the CIO Na- ticnal Maritime Union, biggest or- ganization in the seven unions af- fillated with the committee for maritime unity. * he C4U has called a nation- wide merchant marine strike for midnight Friday. The government move came after a House Labor Subcommittee, with an eye to the deadlocked Labor Department negotiations, decided o go ahead with hearings tomor- row in an effort to work out some Congressional solution to the cri- sis. After the start of the negotiating session, the Labor Department said: “If the parties indicate that they regard this as an appropriate me- thod of settiement of this probleml the discussion could then move to ‘ 1 1N DAPTED FROM THE OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT BLUEPRINT, this diagram shows how the assorted ships wi e :p under the Bikini bomber’s sights. The battleship Ne’undl, shown at center, has been painted red-orange, 16 DEATHS IN | SEATTLE, June 10.—China and|the question of the point at which |india today demanded s fair share|the extra payment should start and SIAMKING Ithe ruler of iuqunre miles and 18,000,000 subjects, was unanimously selected by an' session. This is the board on Which |eyra_ordinary session of the legis-| lature. {only three days ago, was expected _ltrip to the HOT HOUSING & {broadcast at 7 p. m. yesterday, and and will be the aiming point wher. the “Operation Crossroads” test. The * scores of craft to be used in the trial will be placed to prodticé varying the first agtomic bomb is dropped in ‘degrees of damage! The ofly official clue to the scale for the diagram is an authorized statement that “more than a score 91 _ships will be concen= trated within a circle of 1000 yards’ radius.” The legend explains the various abbreviations, (International) HEAD SHOT Boslon-bor;—l&Year-OId New Ruler of 18 Mil- lion Thai Subjects | DEAD FROM f | | BANGKOK, June 10.—Prince| Phumiophon Aduldet, 18, was nam-| ed King of Siam today while thi nation mourned the death of hi brother, 20-year-old King Ananda Mahidol, who was found oyal palace yesterday with a bul-| t wound Letween the eves | The new King, who will become| more than 200,000 The Siamese police director gen- leral told the legislature that An- anda’s death was accidental. Born In Boston Phumiphon Aduldet, the almost constant companion of his older brother, was born in Boston, Mass., while his father, the late Prince Mahidol of Songkhle, was studying at Harvard. A three-member council of reg- ency was named by the legislature to advise the new monarch. Pridi Phanomyong, reappointed Premier to be retained in that post. The young ruler Had been ill for two days and arose at 6 a. m. yesterday to take some medicine. Nothing was known of his actions| after that time, official sources said, and his body was discovered several hours later in the bed- room of the Barompinan Palace by a servant. On Eve of Trip to U. S. News of the death, which oc- jcurred on the eve of a projected United States, was was greeted by wails of grief from! a,crowd gathered in front of the| publicity building in Bangkok. Great crowds quickly gathered around the palace. The Queen Mother, Phraratananihsri Sangwan, an attractive woman in her forties who exerted a strong influence on the young King, was prostrate with grief, 1 Scientists’ P Choice PRESIDENT OF PAPER (OMPANY IS SHOT DOWN | William Whitcomb Murd- ered in His Office- Possible Clue Given 'DUBUQUE FIRE CATASTROPHE | |Second Disastrous Hofel | Conflagration Claim Owner, Mate | f DUBUQUE, Iowa, June 10.—The| ideath toll has now climbed to 16| A VETERAN LEADER in the Boy /in Sunday’s tragic 209-room hotel| Scouts of America since 1923, {fire here—Iowa’s worst in decades | Amory Houghton, 47, industrialist, in the| - BOSTON, June 10—William A, hotel “flash fire” within a few days. Whitcomb, 73, President of the g ¢ Great Northern Paper Company!Mr& William Canfield, 73, wife was shot to death in his office in|Of the hotel owner. Her husband, _the heart of the city today, and|William Canfield, Sr., was found police termed an unsigned contract dead vesterday in the ruins of his found on his desk a possible clue hotel. Mrs. Canfield died today of |third-degree burns. to d| . ;el:-e identity of his well dresse | The CanagitEE " sent s : through tbe basement under the donleh;v 4 :::nc&e:&::&gh;;:‘l’;;Canneld Hotel's deserted cocktail Walkins, “This contract would have l0unge. William Canfield, Jr, son been very beneficial to a certain of the owner and manager of the party if Whitcomb had signed it » | hostelry, discovered the beginning The latest victim to succumb is| swiftly | SCIENCE is usually associated with chemistry and such things, but there’s another side to it, as wit- ness this picture. Mary Belcher, of Birmingham, Alabama, shows why she was selected by Gulf Park Col~ | lege, Miss., and New York Museum of Science and Industry as the ideal American girl. (International) PAA Air Base af Anneffe Island Will Gel Butfer LIBERTY, Mo, June 10.—~The Tom G. Anderson dairy here has signed a contract to ship 25 pounds of butter weekly by air express to the Pan-American air base at An- nette, Alaska. CROQUET SET WANTED AT EVERGREEN BOW A croquet set' is needed at Ju- ‘Whitcomb was slain only seconds ‘after Sally Whittam, his secretary, admitted the killer to his private office and left the two men alone. ' His body was found face down on the floor and four discharged 32- jof the blaze and sped for an extin- {guisher, but before he could requrn |from the second floor, the ftlames were out of control. Guests were panic-stricken as) |smok2 and cuteries raised them \land the nation’s second disastrous of Corning, N. Y., was elected pres- |tains, that his was “a true trade | ident of the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, at the organiza- ! tion’s 36th annual meeting at St. | Louis, Mo. (International) CHINA GOV, 'SAYS TRUCE ‘WASBRO 1 from their beds in the carly-morn- : Gen Marsha” HOldS Se"et calibre cartridges were nearby. Hng houts. slayer as a man who came to the| . cory nets held by firemen below, office last week, representing him- ,..;.heq upon fire escapes before the Zegl:m" a Treasury Department . os of appalled watchers. s ——————— Although the slayer strolled un-l FROM THE STATES challenged ou'c of the Great North.-. Arrivals from the States register- ;:,r:er‘i?:‘:y ;D"‘:::;O;l:;" :i?c?t.”ng at the Baranof yesterday were ! |Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Beath, Harris- | their desks, and apparently left the |burg, Pa.; V. E. Anderson, Mr. and |building by an elevator, pollce‘ Mis. ithought he might have remained ‘[ln the nine-story structure. | Wash.; B. Martensen, James O'Bri- |en, Perry Huff, Larry Hagen, Se- They threw a cordon about the ,i1o. W, E, Thompson, Mohave, | |building, and with Miss Whittam, | cjifornio; Lt. Maynard M. Miller, scanned all who attempted to en-|p Malemaar, C. Malemaar, ter or leave.. | attle; i x | Calif.; Willlam A. Steimer, Los Angeles, Calif.; Darrél Root, Ski | Alhadeff, B. Martinsen, A. Shyman, [NOMINATION OF x5 - arics o Shomar | SYNDER OKEYED - = =t | | MISS GABRIELSON ON TRIP | WASHINGTON, June 10. — The| June Gabrielson, member of the jSenate Finance Committee today Governor's office staff, left on the \approved President Truman’s nom- M. S. Brown Bear Friday midnight !ination of John W. Snyder to be!for the Pribilof Islands. Miss Ga- ISecretnry of the Treasury. | brielson will .either accompany her Snyder succeeds Fred M. Vinson,! parents, Dr. and Mrs. Ira Gabriel- neau’s playground, the zvergreen! Bowl, according to Playground Di-|Who has been nominated for Chief son for the entire three-months rector Joseph Shofner. Many in-!Justice of the United States. quiries have been made by croguet; Chairman George (D-Ga) said the ship at some point next month fans who desire to play. Anyone the Committee’s action, taken at a| and return by plane to Juneau. with a set or knowing where one}closed session was unanimous. | e o e R RTINS may be secured, donation or pur- - NORTON ARRIVES chase, should notify Shofner at{ William IT was England’s only' F. Robert Norton, of Hoonah, is once, bachelor king. staying at the Gastineau, trip of the Brown Bear, or leave| Several perscns, unsblc‘: con'eren(e W”h com. Miss Whittam remembered the | " o ve themselves to leap into | munist Leader | | NANKING, June 10--U. 5. Gen- |eral Marshall and Comunist Gen. {Chou ‘En-lai today disciseed condi- |tions for permanen{ peace in China !while the government made new Icharges’ that Red Troops violated Alvin Anderson, Anacortes, the current truce by attacking sev- 15-16. }eral cities. | chou reported on weekend dis- cussions he held with party leaders Yenan |at Yenan headquarters, Se- | |decisions and < Chou’s conversation Geraldine Riggy, Pasodena,|yith Marshall were secret, as have| |been all recent negotiations. ‘The goyernment-controlled Cen- |tral News Agency charged'that 200 |National officers and men were killed or wounded as 12 communist | brigades assaulted government posi- itions at Dafa and Kiu rallway sta- ! tions, east of Yungki. | Yu Fei-peng, Minister of Com- | munications, also visited Marshall’s | headquarters to discuss restora- tion of communications, one of the a peace treaty. There was no indication when Marshall wéuld confer again with Chiang Kal-shek, whe personally is negotiating for the government. g RO £ In the Middle Ages, beer was the chief breakfast drink, government's three prerequisites w! {ot the world’s shipping tonnage, to permit them to compete in world | |trade, when spokesmen addressed ! la plenary session of the Inmn-! :tlonal Labor Organization’s Mnrl-i time conference here. | ‘ Mansukhlal ~ Atmaram Master, | |secretary of the Indian National | Shipowners Association, said Great| Britain and the United States must; |listen to China and India and{ lcther Far Eastern countries and !must heed the ILO principle that no nation can exercise a shipping mcnropoly without world disaster. Earlier, the conference’s workers |group had acccpted the utummentl of the Argenth worker delegnte,i Capt. Leandro ado Fazio, secre- tary of the Association of Sea Cap- 1unlon, not political and absolutely independent.” L In the absence of any formal pro- |tests to.ghe credentials committee, !the group decided to seat the Ar- gentianan worker delegate and his |advisers, | | Reporting on the workers' group| {clesed session, J. H. Oldenbroek, of the method, of payment,”. . The CMU unforis have demanded a 44-hour work week and have said they will go ahead with their strike unless some reduction from the 56- hour week is forthcoming. A Labor Department official told reporters the bonus payment plan is separate from the question of overtime pay, also raised by the union. e ————— PAULEY REPEATS "PROTEST AT RED BARRIER, KOREA Mission Excluded from Two Areas in Soviet-Sef- i fled Sector SEOUL, June 10.—Edwin W. the Netherlands, told newspapermen |Pauley today told newsmen “again |that Captain Fazio reiterated under, I register my protest” because his questioning that he had gone to |the conference at the request of' Argentine workers, and not as| “window dressing” for President’ ‘Curry Hofel fo Be Opened as Resort Just a_!!leekends ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 10— Ccl. John Johnson, general man- ager for the Alaska Railroad has announced the opening of the Curry Hotel as a weekend resort for Alaskans and will be held June { Special trains will take | Alaskans to the resort which will |be cperated on a non-profit basis. —————————— - STOCK QUOTATIONS e NEW YORK, June 10.—Closing {quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor- | poration 67, American Can 106, | Anaconda 48%, Commonwealth iflnd Southern 5%, Curtiss-Wright 1 8%, International Harvester 99%, Kennecott 57%, New York Central 267%, Northern Pacific 33, United Pound $4.03%. ! Sales today were 1,010,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are |as follows: industrials 210.68, rails ;66.86. utilities 43.05. | HANS FLOE HERE Hans Floe, cannery superintend- | ent at Hawk Inlet, arrived here yesterday. He is a guest at the Baranof, | }‘ statement. Corporation 5%, U. S. Steel 90%, reparations commission was ‘“not allowed to cover two areas” on its recent inspection of Russian-uccd- pied North Korea. “There was no discrepency in my We had fairly com- plete coverage” of heavy indusiry in three areas in which the mis- sion was permitted to check reports that the Soviet had removed some equipment. He declined further comment on |the mission’s reported impression that the Russians appeared to be establishing themselves permanent- jly in North Korea. HAND LOOMS NEEDED "FOR GIRL SCOUT USE Various types of handicraft are |done by the Girl Scouts during their summer camping season as ,well as throughout the year at their regular meetings, but one project planned for this summer is scmewhat handicapped by the lack of hand-looms (Weav-It or Jiffy Looms), it has been announced. These popular little looms are not at present avallable in the |shops, and if anyone has one she ,Would be wil to sell or loan to Mrs. Jack Plet for use by the Girl Scouts, it Would be very much appreciated. Please call Mrs. Fletcher, telephone 800, and If it is to be a loan, Mrs. Fletcher guar- antees the returh of the loom in good condition at the close of the camping season. e FRED COULSON HERE — Fred Coulson arrived here this weekend from Sitka. He is a guest at the Baranof. ¥