The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 12, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,295 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE | MARITIME STRIKE UP T MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Adequate Defensesin - Mlaska, Aleufians Is | Demanded bflowers POLITICAL TROUBLES PEARL HARBOR, June 12. — United States security demands the ! maintenance of adequate defenses in Alaska and the Aleutians, Adm. John H. Towers, Commander-in- Chief of the Pacific Fleet, told a news conference here. Towers and staff returned yes- | UP T0 VOTERS NOW TO START ONLABORLAW (Case Bill Backers Look for Public Clamor Against Truman’s Veto WASHINGTON, | | | | | June 12.—The 0 GOVERNMENT 7{! Least 17 Die in Hofel Fire PLANS MADE FOR ACTION ON ISSUES Seamen, However Make Ready for Long Struggle ~Curran’s Statement WASHINGTON, June 12—The FORESEEN terday from a 10,000-mile inspec- tion of North Pacific bases. “It certainly would not be wise for us to leave these islands open \Lo occupation by another country, | just as it would not be wise for us to leave the Marianas,” he said. | A joint Army-Navy board, Tow- | ers added, recently completed an Aleutians survey to determine 1 postwar defense needs in that area. CABINET OFFICER " DISAPPROVES ISA {ran out of gas today. Advocates parked await either (1) public clamor or (3) another major strike c {fore reneWing their efforts {a long-range, bill on | books. ! Leaders of the campaign report- ed they are hopeful that a “wave ;| of public reaction” may devalep| |against President Truman's veto of! the Case bill and the House's re-| {fusal to override him. They said that apparently only! {if such a demand develops, or if| v big tie-up occurs, can they! |muster the votes to guarantee en-! to get| the statute| |drive for a broad new labor law| themselves to| sis be- | i { { | i I i government is reported. ready to- day to offer its own terms for set- tling the threatened maritime strike, in effect taking negotiations out of operators’ hands.. This word came from a negotia- tor who has been active in opera- tor-union talks, He declined use of his name, but teld reporters it was his understanding that if shipping companies fail to accept the gov- ernment terms, the operators ex- \pect the government to order them into effect on its own vessels. These accounted for nearly 80 percent of the merchant marine. This means in effect, he said, that the War Shipping Administra- actment of a permanent regula tion has taken the negotiations out Butler Wins Renomination in Nebraska - Idaho Primary Results (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Senator Hugh A. Butler won re- | romination handily over Governor | Dwight Griswold in Nebraska yes-| terday to cloud Harold E. Stessen’s | prospects for the State’s Republi-| can convention votes in 1948. | 2 T e wrimary contese sen- SUPTEMe Court Explosion, ator Charles C. Gossett (D-Idaho) George E. Donart, supported by | 2 Gossett’s Democratic cmleag\,le,1 for Demosr Cla'm Senator Glen Taylor. | T Stassen, who helped write the| WASHINGTON, June 12.—Repub- San Francizeo charter, backed licans elatedly contended today that Griswold because he liked the!Democratic political prospects have three-term governor's demand |drepped to a new low. that America play a strong inter-| They cite the Supreme Court ex national role, and what he called|plcsion and the turmoil in majorit Griswold’s “progressive” views on!party ranks produced by Presid: | comestic issues. Butler is a first termer who vot- ed against lend-lease, the British lean, draft act extensicn, UNRRA and the Bretton Woods !inancial agreements. Griswold said Butler wanted to “sidetrack international- ism.” Stassen has a chance to regain in Minnesota’s July 8 Senatorial primary whatever prestige he lost in Nebraska yesterday. But its 1ather clear now that he cannot count. on Nebraska's 15 votes in the presidential nominating ~conven- tion. ik He is supporting Gov. Edward J. Thye against Senator Henrick Shipstead in the Minnesota con- test. Griswold conceded defeat when only about 8 percent of the 2,032 precinets had reported. Butler's margin remained about 2 to 1 as counting proceeded. On the Democratic Senatorial ticket state Senator John Mekota, endorsed by his party’s state con- vention, won over George Olsen, former bus boy who was nominated ifor governor in 1942. Rep. Henry Dworshak, veteran of four terms in the House, won the Republican Senatorial nomin- | ation easily. Richard H. Wells, Pocatello merchant, was second. Gov, Arnold Williams, Gossett’s Democratic successor in the state House, and Dr. C. A. Robins, Re- publican, won the gubernatorial nominations. D The tanker Kelly has arrived with freight for the Standard Oil Company. She is due out iate to- day or tomorrow. The Washington Merry -gg -Round By DREW REARSON WASHINGTON—Those who have studied Harry Truman over the years can't decide whether it is blind personal loyalty or some oth- ér bond which makes him go through hell and high water for the Tom Pendergasts, the James Vardamans, and the John Snyders. Obviously, it isn't just because they hail from Missouri. Truman | Truman’s veto of the Case labor Trons TALK IN SESSION | Democrats generally didn't want Un"ed S'a'e—s?o Flgh' B“" ito talk about tke political implica- :uons of either controversy. i | Their attitude was that while, ish Pfoposal for Shlp- neither could be regarded as help-! pmg Au'ho”ty |ful to party chances as a whole,! it’s a long time until the Novem-! SEATTLE, June 12.—Delegiates to the world maritime conference |ker elections and still longer until | the 1948 Presidential contest. i heard Secretary of Labor Schwel- | But Senator Taft of Ohio, chair- lmzm of the Republican Steering | Committee, told a reporter he feels. tory measure this year. | These views were expressed to |newsmen by both Democrat and | |Republican spokesmen for the bi- partison bloc which supported Lh" |Case bill and wants it or some| similar legislations enacted soon. They asked that their names not be used. — e (CHETNIKS ORDERS i8 the 55-year-cld four ‘Wirephoto) Firemen continue search of the Canfield Hetel, Dabugue, Icwa, where at least 17 persons meet death in a fire which virtually wiped out the interior of the 200-room structure last Sunday. In the foreground stery portien of the hotel, adjcined at the rear (right) by a six-story annex. (AP Owner's Wile Rescued CLARK AGAIN the Democrats haven't done them- selves any good. He added that the iissues involved are not likely to be lenbach warn yesterday that sucg," ¥ ” ‘ issues as the British workers pros wm mm AWAY | posal for an international shipping authority have no place in their session. The United States’ delegation plans to fight the British proposal lrorgotten by voting time. { | The attack by Justice Robert H. Jackson on Justice Hugo L. Black lin the “portal to portal” coal mine commmge on a point of order, Epay decision was widely regarded holding it has no place in this ses- |among lawmakers of both parties Sion:convened to set an interna- as a smudge on the sedate reputation ‘tional minimum wage and improve of the high court, which President Seamen’s living conditions. gl {Truman has just made eight to one An effort by the U. S. delegation | Democratic \Vinson as chief justice. e — cent of SPLIT EUROPE for able seamen was defeated by | a coaliticn of worker and govern- ment delegates at the wage and| hour committee meeting late yes- terday. & I Th British proposal for nm!ica-l tion by nine member countries of | | | { the international labor organiza-| | ticn, five of whom have at least ‘vp ARIS CONF AB 1,000,000 tons of shipping each, was i H approved. Brifain's Bevin Indicates He's Fed Up with Heg- ling Over Spoils BRITISH VIEWPOINT | SEATTLT, June 12—Warning that | delegates should not be influenced by “false optimism” into drafting international seamen’s labor stand- ards that could not be generally ber of the British parliament, out- | lined his government’s policy today at the World Maritime Con!erenoe: BOURNEMOUTH, Eng., June 12. herc. | —Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin International standards, if not! sdeclarvd in an address today that widely applied, are not worth the‘l | he wowd reject the immediate im- paper they are written on,” Strauss| | migration of 100,000 Jews to Pales- said. . tine, and would sign separate peace, The object of his government in treaties with defeated European the international labor organiza- inations if pending pkace negotia- tion’s maritime conference, he said, tions continued bogged down is “to buttress our country’s posi- among the four principal powers. tion by securing all maritime coun- He declared, moreover, that he tries fair wages and better living| would refuse to apply economic standard for seamen so that our| sanctions to Spain. | seamen will no longer be subject' Bevin's stand was taken in an to the threat of unfair competition {for declining to disqualify himself When it.comes before the resolution | by nominating Fred to require ratification by 50 per-| the shipping tonnage to| | make operative a minimum wage| - WITH COMMUNISTS | BELGRADE, Yugosiavia, June 12 —Gen. Draja Mihailovic testified |in the trial for his life today that a British mission to Yugoslavia in- | structed him to destroy the Par- tisan forces of Marshal Tito. The Chetnik leader, accused of treascn and collaboration with the Germans was on trial before a] three-man court established by the regime which Tito now heads as Premier. Tito returned on the op-/ ening day of the trial from two weeks of conferences in Mescow. Mihailovic, on the stand for the second day, described the relations of his underground troops with the | Germans during the occupation of Yugeslavia in 1943 as “not coop- eration but haphazard mutual bat-‘ tle.” | Mihailovic asked for a secret ses- sion on directives to bring out testi- mony on directives'he said he re- ceived from a British liaison mis-| sion attached to his headquarters. | The court refused and told him to| “speak cut here.” : laccepted, George P. Strauss, mem-| The defendant said British ColA; William Bailey, now attached to the British mission in Bulgaria, was at his headquarters. The pro- | secutor asked one question as to, what Bailey said. { “Col. Bailey said to liquidate the | Communists,” Mihailovic declared.' Mihailovic admitted under ques-. tioning that some of his Chetnik forces received ammunition front| the Italians. | He said that Chetnik morale was sometimes bad “because we were fighting each other.” Q—"“Against whom?” The ‘ormer Chetnik leader blam- ) i Mrs. William Canficld, Sr., whese 75-ycar-cld husband, owner of the Canfield Hotel, Dubugue, Ia, was killed in a tire which virtually wiped out the interior cf the 200-room structure, is being removed on a stretcher by firemen. ‘She died later. (AP Wirephcto) | PROJECTHEARINGS | |of employer hands. West Coast negotiators for the {operators planned to leave Wash- ‘Eington at 5 p. m. (EST) to report yback home on the situation, it was {learned. oty l They expected to have in their (hands before leaving the govern- jment’s proposal for averting the :strike of seven unions of the Pac- -Imc‘ Gulf and East coasts. Settlement Proposals Informants said . they : expected the proposition “tg boil down to about a 30 percent increase in pay,” PROTESTS RED: | | without any cut in the basic 56- | hour work week. | 5 ! Whether or not such a settle- | iment was acceptable to the opera- | «tors, the WSA could put it into ef- | R :fect by notifying the ship lines that ithe new conditions apply on all ! government-owned vessels. Re- iRussmn Plgnea HoldA Tar."""fii‘é’d'b‘“'h"f.'.'."h e, Re- | ge' Pr_ad“:e ’ v_er m- 'ce;rlor tny lzhfa lalen:!ly turn in 5 erican Airfield \events Frank J. Taylor, a spokes- man for ship operators, said that | VIENNA, June 12—Gen. |W. Clark, U. S. member of the Markime unions had rejected a new com- 'Allied Control Council for Austria,| |promise offer on the seamen’s work week. protested, twice today to the Russian {ccmmand ‘against target practice Iwhich Russian fighter planes held over the American airfield at Tullin, T during which a burst was fired ati;‘:‘g and bitter strike” will begin a'red flag atop the American radio| Friday midnight, as seheduled, un- less the seamen’s work-weck is cut | tower. or their pay boosted. | Col. Gen. Joseph Kufusov, com- | manding Russian officer in Vienna,; BOth appeared before a House f Labor subcommittee. during the absence of Marshal, {Tvan KS‘ Koney, said he had no! Taylor, chairman of the negotiat- | ing committee for the Atlantic and knowledge of the incident. Kur-. VSOV pr:mlsed an immediate inves- | GUlf Coast shippers, said the op- rsfany | erators proposed to give the seamen ; The first target practice over the'd day off with pay for each week field was held at 8:15 a. m. One|Worked at sea. Russian fighter towed a target| “Yet this new offer was turned Isleeve across the airfield, which|down by the NMU," Taylor testi- is on the outskirts of Vienna, and|™%™ four fighters fired two or three| "It 15 thus quite apparent that bursts each. Ithe union’s plea that the present One of the four fighters dived|Work-week (of 56 hours generally) down over the radio tower, Ameri-{iS ‘Inhumanly’ long and should be can officers said, and fired a burst |Shortened lacks sincerety,” he con: at the red flag atop the antennae,(tinued. “The union is perfectly U. 8. soldiers in a nearby shack|Willing for its men to = continue watched this. The firing lasted about | Working these hours if they receive two minutes. {extra compensation.” Three hours later eight more! Uncle Sém. Can, Pay | fighters appeared, with a nlmhl Taylor added that “perhaps Uncle |plane towing a sleeve. Two bursts|{Sam may be able to afford these | were heard, the firing lasting about {P€W COsts (proposed by the union) |one minute, This also oceurred di- | Put Private industry finds them pro- irectly over the field. No damage!mb“‘"f»” Plan 10 Strike Almost simultaneously, Joseph iCurran, President of the CIO Na- tional ' Maritime Unlon, said, “a STORMS IN EAST A-—"Against the Partisans.” ‘ \was reported from either incident.| He also declared that the opera- orTr FOR KAKE, HAINES | TAKE TOLL OF 4, appearance before the dominant by sweated labor.” Labor Party’s annual conference. He| Many labor delegates at the con- won an overwhelming conference ference have been advocating a sea- ed certain of his commanders for| the alleged cooperation of his| troops with Axis forces. { loyalty goes deeper than that. It | No American planes were in the!tors still are willing to submit the almost takes the form of a petty; lentire controversy to arbitration, vindictiveness—a tendency to wreak! vengeance on anyone who has op- posed an old Missouri crony. Tru- man takes out his vengeance on the public by putting that crony in a position o6f trust where the public must suffer without means of -retaliation—until next election. Thus, Harry Truman did when he be- came President of the States was to fire Maurice Milli- gan, the U. S. attorney who had jailed his friend Tom Pendergast. Milligan had only done his duty. But within a week after Truman stepped into the White House, Mil- ligan began lcoking for another Job. Next, Truman fired the Attorney General, Francis Biddle, who had stood up for Milligan and tried to keep him as U. S. attorney. More recently, some advisers pro- posed the appointment of Justice Frank lllll’lfl\( o be Chief Justice. (Continued on Page Four) one of the first things| United | | endorsement of his policies. The issue of the Council of For- eign Ministers in Paris next week, he said, will be whether Europe is to be split into eastern and western blocs. “I am not going to be a party to any design in strategy against Rus- sia,” Bevin went on. He called for conclusion of a | peace treaty with Austria and urg- gtruops from the Danube Basin. Declaring he had been asked | whether he would sign a separate ;peace treaty, Bevin said: i “I don't know what steps we | may take to get these treaties, but ! no one nation is going to keep me |in a state of war forever with oth- er countries.” B e e ANDREW ENGSTROM HERE Andrew Engstrom arrived here vesterday from Peljcan. He is stay- ing at the Gastineau, led the clearance of occupation | men’s minimum wage higher than |$64 monthly proposed by the ILO. e L JAP ADVERSAR " OF MacARTHUR, TERAUCH, DIES | ‘SINGAPORE, June 12. — Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, 77, | former Japanese War Minister and more recently Supreme Command- er of all Japanese forces in the southern regions, died of a cerebral ,hemorrhage today at his quarters 1in Johore, British southeast Asia | headquarters announced. * & Count Terauchi commanded the Japanese armies in north China lln the early stages of Japan's eam- ipaign of conquest there. He was identified in 1944 as Gen. MacAr- thur’s adversary in the Philippines, SET THIS MONTH DOMUCHDAMAGE >os — air at the time. | One of those whom he mentioned | by name was D. Jevdjevic, who is| ; £o 4l at present reported interned in| SEATTLE, june 12—Public hear- British territory and whom the &8 to discuss navigation im- Yugoslavia government. is seeking|Provements projects desired by re- to bring to trial as a war criminal.|Sidents of Kake and Haines, Alas- In a burst of feeling, Mihailovic| ka2, bave been set for 10 am. declared: | Thursday, June 27, at Kake and “It was my greatest mistake that ! 8m. Friday, June 28 at Haines, 1 did not set aside Jevdjevic. Ot all Cclonel Conrad P. H‘ar D:auu‘t the men in the organization, he did | Engineer, Seattle District U. 8. the worst things to me.” Army Engineers, announced today. ——- | The Kake and Haines assemblies uumnv PRKB lare a result of Congressional auth- T0 BE INCREASE rizations directing the Army En- | gineers to review previous reports |en these locations and to deter- | mine whether improvements are Local laundries have been grant- advisable at this time. led an increase in prices which will| ©Oral testimony will be accepted \amount to approximately 12 per- at both hearings but for accuracy |cent by the Office of Price Admin-|of record, all important facts and {istration, it has been apnounced. arsuments should be submitted in The new prices will go into effect writing either at the hearing or temorrow, with both laundries us-|mailed previously to the Seattle ing the same scale of charges, ac- District Engineer, 1400 Textile Tow- cording to the report, er, Seattle, (ALASKANS TO GET | the result of thunder storms which| WASHINGTON, June 12.~Presx-j beat courses of frequent hurricane'dent Truman has approved legisla- tion to pay members of the Yaku- | tat Cooperative Market of Alaska for loss of supplies in a fire which destroyed a government building at! | Yakutat. ! The members of the Cooperative had purchased ,supplies to last] through the winter and stored them in the building. Twenty-two | members will receive from $45 to $287 each. | The President also signed a bill authorizing payment of $164 to Dr.! Harry Bernstein, $547 to Madeline Borvick, $389 to Mrs. Clara K. Tru- | In Dutchess County, N. Y., util-'ly, for loss of personal effects when ities company officials said dam-|the physicians’ office and nurses’ (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) At least four persons are dead| velocity across southern New Eng- land, central and eastern New York and northern New Jersey last yes- terday. ‘The storms, which caused dam- age estimated at well over a million dollars, came up with sudden fury. Apparently hardest hit in New York state was Auburn, a city of 35000 population, where winds whipped to hurricane speed. Mayor Edward T. Boyle called "the storm, the worst in the city's history and estimated damage at $1,000,000. but the unions won't agree. (Continued on Page Two) Mother Succumbs fo Dread Blood Disease Aboard ll_a!y Airaaft LONG BEACH, Calif, June 12— |Mrs. Norma Jean Smalley, 21-year- old mother of three children, died yesterday aboard a Navy transport plane that was bringing her here from Seattle for treatment for mye- logenous leukemia, dread blood dis- case. With her on the plane were the children and her husband, Chief Warrant Officer Bud Smalley, USN. They broke the news of her death to her mother, Mrs. Adah Nelson, of Los Angeles, who was at the age was greater than from the 1938 quarters ‘at Barrow, Alaska, was Los Alamitos Naval Air Station, hurricane, destroyed by fire, waiting for the plane,