The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 13, 1946, Page 1

'THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,296 MARINE STRIKE SETTLEMENT IS Linked in Jewel Theft UMBERTO IS EXILE BOUND FROM ITALY | King RepoTiai fo Have Abandoned Fight- Leaves Rome BULLETIN — Barcelona, Spain, June 13.—King Umberto, going into exile, arrived by plane from Italy at 8:50 o’clock tonight and joined his family. It is announced that before leaving home he issued a pro- clamation charging the Ital- ian Government with an ille- gal act in naming Premier Al- cide de Gaoperi as Provisional Chief of State while he was still occupying the Throne. ROME, June 13. — The Royal palace announced today that King Umberto had left Italy for exile in Portugal. A spokesman at the Quirinale Palace Press office said the King's four-engined Savoia Marchetti plane, which took off from the Champino Airport, would go “di- rect to Lisbon.” Thus the King ended his three- | day struggle with the cabinet over whether a Republic triumphed in a plebiscite: ten days ago. Earlier in the day, it had been reperted that the King would go to his estate near Pisa to await the Supreme Court’s ruling on plebiscite irregularities which, he contended, made the Court’s an- no\mern of a Republican vic- tory “Indefinite.” But the finality of the tearful farewells at the air- port indicated even before the of- ficial announcement that he was leaving Italian soil. Political Crisis The rejected Monarch’s moves| came as remier Alcide De Gasperi| i i Burlingame, Calif.,, in cennection | jewels from Kronberg castle. : awarding the Bronze Star to Maj. supply officer in Eurcpe. (AP Wirephoto) The Army anncunced the arrest of Maj. David F. Watson (right) of with the theft of the Hesse crown This picture shows Gen. Eisenhower Watscn last June for his work as a PROSECUTION 0FT0J0, WAR AIDES BEGUN 126 Leaders of Nipponese | Aggression View Chart- was granted new powers as Acting Chief of State in a tempornryi compromise solution of Italy's poli-! " tical crisis. Queen Maria Jose and her two children went to Portugal aboard an Italian cruiser last week, soon after it became apparent that Italy had voted to overthrow the Royal House of Savoy in favor of a Re- public. Umberto’s father, tired old| King Vittorio Emanuele III, went | into exile in Egypt on May clearing the throne for his son for a month. Earlier in the week, bloody riots had erupted in Naples, Taranto and Rome, provoked by Umberto’s K » reluctance to quit the throne until tions charging fraud in the election that deposed him. el —— IN FRUM SITKA Paul and Wallace Westfield ar- rived here from Sitka - yesterday. * They are registered at the Baranof Hotel, 'The Washington Merry-@-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee dis- covered in a secret session last week that Chairman Tom Connal- 1y of Texas and Michigan'’s GOP Senator Vandenberg didn't seem to Y -ing of Asian Gamble TOKYO, June 13—The men OPA SUPPOR LOBBY MOVES ON CONGRE Pressure Group Opposes “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = ] JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS C-OF-C HEARS OF ALASKA SHIPPING PROSPECTS AHEAD Atforney G;;e—ral Reports on Washington, D. C. Rate Hearing Addressing the Juneau Chamber of Commerce as principal speaker | at this week’s noon luncheon meet- ing today, Ralph J. Rivers, Attor- GIRL IN PINK DEATHPLUNGE wear Shorts, Also Takes ‘Fatal Leap WASHINGTON, June 13—A form- PANTIES TAKES| \Companion, Man in Under- | NEAR OUT RESTAURANT BRIDGES NOW ceuwg prices BEOBSERVED MAIN BALKER ISenate Recommendation, |N THIS (”YiAT U.S. 'I'ERMS Mainly Ignored-Increas- T . ed Costs Pass Along Elks Will Hold Annual'jongshore Head's Holdout wassvaToN, sune 11—oea| -Services af Night with | for Cent More May Public Invited , opened the way today for higher P . Bring on Tie-Up Flag Day will be observed in' FLAG DAY T0 | \OPA WON'T WIPE | Iros'.auram prices. i But in doing so, the Agency fol- 'lowed only in part a recommenda- ney General of Alaska, summar- ized developments at the recent Maritime Commission hearing in Washington, D. C., on Alaska ship 1ates at which he appeared on be- half of the Territory. Mr. Rivers' remarks—with only slight deletions—were as follows: Continuance of Case The U. 8. Maritime Commission rate hearing which I attended in Washington, D. C. was a continu- anée of the case which was start- er garage .owner and a 25-year-old |girl short story writer plunged to |thejr deaths 45 minutes apart early today from a ninth floor room of the Lafayette Hotel, two blocks {from the White House. ( ‘The girl, clad only in pink pant- \ies, Janded on the second floor roof |of the hotel dining room soon af- ter midnight. | The man, dressed in underwear | shorts, followed in a fatal leap after ed last November at Seattle. The |8 1oBg argument through the barri- petitioner, War Shipping Adminis- |caded door of his room with two tration, had directed the Steam- }pouoemen who sought to dissuade |tion of the Senate Banking Com-| mittee, which voted to wipe out ceil- | :lngs on meals made up of foods on (which there are no price controls. OPA issued an order which sim- ply allows new menu prices to re-| flect the full amount of any hlgher} costs stemming from the removal| of price ceilings on food items. | The order is effective ‘immediate- ly. but it will have little effect on| restaurant prices right away. The reason is that there are not many |old Glory floats. Juneau tomorrow the same as in all sections of the world over which It is requested by the Government that the flag be displayed on homes and busi- ness houses and elsewhere. In Juneau, the annual observance by the Elks will feature the day. The Elks will give their annual program in the Elks Hall tomorrow night at 8 o'clock and the pub- one hour observance. food items exempt from price con- trol at this time. The Juneau City Band will play in front of the Elks Hall shortly him. But OPA officials said the new before 8 o'clock and then take part WASHINGTON, June 13.—Mari- time negotiations shaped up closer to agreement today but Harry Bridges' West Coast longshoremen remained a major threat to seitic- ment before the strike deadline to- morrow at midnight. Grandville Conway, War Shipping Administrator, said a dispute re- mained over “the wording of four or five things.” However, one un- ' s Ilie is asked to participate in me'ion chief revealed privately that more than phrasing still | stake. was af Bridges' militant union was re- ported holding out for 1 cent, ship Companies as its agents to| g carry the burden of proving the| Oaptain Clyde N. Strange, assis- {need of an increase in freight tar- | tant chief of detectives, said the |iffs as a prerequisite to the return PARir Were Arthur D. Millison, 34, of the ships to the companies for estranged from his wife and the | private operation. Wages and other father of three, and Mrs. Gregory ! costs had gone up, labor slow-down |COX Mahoney, mother of a three practices had crept in, and the |YeAr old child, who had registered last Saturday as “Mr. and Mrs. ships had gotten badly run down | " because of intensive war use. {Arthur D. Millison, San Francisco. “As I reported after the Seattle { o s R hearing, the companies introduced exhibits showing costs of opern-{SAlMON pA(K |tion in 1939; postulated an equal| Y |amount of traffic for 1946; andi Lo ¥ projected cost. estimates based on {Three Central Districts Not jrevenue against those pm)sm,eg costs and coneluded that freight rates would have to be raised about | 100 percent to secure them com- ! pensable returns on their respec- tive investments. This would have | raised Alaska's freight bill at the rate of about $8,000,000 a yea:. Any Gettering of Bu- reau’s Omnipofence | Createa Crsis | “As you know, this created a cri- WASHINGTON, June 13—A con- (sis for Alaska. Even the steamship 11945 wage and other price levels. | The companies then measured 1939 Yet Canning—Copper River Trails {whom the Allies charge with having| ference claiming to represent 40,-!execunvas admitted that a 100 per- |flung the Pacific nations into war| 000,000 members of consumer and cent increase in rates would be ru- saw their ambitious bid for an em- labor organizations voted today to inous to all concemed. and that pire paraded before them on huge, ask President Truman to veto mejAlaska would go downhill instead | I icase before the International War, day as the prosecution opened its in Congress. | buffer state. Action at the Seattle The group coupled with that de-|hearing and subsequently succeed- 15-foot square, red-lined maps to- OPA legislation now taking shape of being developed into a strong, the Supreme Court ruled on peti-| | Crimes Tribunal. War-time Premier Hideki Tojo 9,/and 25 others who associated with| Asian gambleing the present price control hw}permmed OPA to complete its Al- him in the great watched intently as the maps charting Nippon’s expansion and col were unrolled. ‘Tojo, a worried-looking little man | cision a recommendation that Con- ed: g gress follow up a veto by: {7 =N getting a continuation ‘of 1. Adopting a resolution continu-|the case until last month. This lother causes holding up operations !in the Cook Inlet, Kodiak and Chig- {nik districts of the Central Division, |this season's salmon pack report covering the first three weeks of mark hit last year at this time. The great bulk of the fish so far Due in part to strike delays andl 'regulation means the cost of dining in the program in the hall. out probably will go up sharply if| B ceilings are stripped from meat.‘ [poultry, eggs and dairy products. ll RE IN AGAI" . hourly more than the 22 cents in- icrease proposed by the government A compromise, cutting the amount 'or retroactive pay going to the { stevodores, was &-making, but still )not made. X A Relaxed tension was evident, how- ever, as a full-dress negotiating session convened in midafterncon for what might be the showdown. A |The Senate Committee has recom- imended removal of these controls (Jduly 1. At present only a few fcod items| {come within the scope of this re-! ‘vlfed regulation. Celiings on lob-i " ARGES' isters and most kinds of fish have| {been removed, for example. This} TTIL < Labor Department official sald jmeans menu prices may be b““d‘lcs:,:dm ::' n"’:nr:u;?"m!‘;'“mc:h.: settlement might come this after- {on the cost of these items. re-arrested today on & mew secret|NON: tonight, or “maybe tomor- I ‘The restaurant changes went inbolhm“:t’m.m ohyn.r ing n’ W‘m"." .effect as government economists| ainst the Uh M'B iy | against e Uni tates. The true Key Unions Ready To Accept leaumnud that housewives’ costs for bill named Herl Kennedy, ‘major foods have climbed in recent ' dPM lethart, Kenr . q‘ Rven ‘lmwm {weeks at the rate of 485,000,000 oo fle Shipyard engineer, as izéd " for ‘striking, word Iyear " yh:v::s bexe" lm‘{uced bl;y Redin to came from reliable union eircles ‘ oq | ODtAIN information about the des< that the two key seagoing unions ‘h?:‘:};y}’"*' down thelr fISures|yroyer tender Yellowstone built here. 'directly involved—the CIO National ¥ <o R N D TR Allan Pomeroy, assistant District Maritime Union and the Indepen- !3125,000 000; a penny a quart for Attorney, said Kennedy, on vacation'dent Marine Firemen of the Pacif- 'milk and authorized price hikss| 2 CE.r;ndn, would be produced In fc Coast—were ready to take the {for butter and cheese—tzso.ooo,ooo;':‘;‘g”_g‘;‘:‘:s'fl:’d&“"vemmen° "'“‘1§°""“me"“ wage and work-week \general meat price increases which| Redin entéred & }lew lea ‘of 10-| e {became effective in April—$11,000,- B { The terms were, according to this | 000, | nocence today, and his atttorneys,’go;ree: A $17.50 monthly wage in- A |Tom E. Griffin, Seattle, and Irvin crease, overtime pay rate boosted to ) ! Goodman, Portland, issued a state- WASHINGTON, June 13. — The ness (Kennedy) happens to be not!yon” "eetc Of the Bissent 56, e Senate nas turned down anamend-'an American citizen but a Britah st en. b o ment to the OPA Extension Bill'subject. We were rather condident RO The amendment was rejected by that no American citizen could or| a roll call vote of 51 to 21. Negotiators and others talked would make a charge against Lieut- more freely than they have. CIO | packing totals less than half the! It has been proposed by Demo-| enant Redin.” President Philip Murray sald: with lined brows, studied each map| {with deep concentration. Each—on; its great frame above and behind| the rows of defendants—told a chapter of Japan’'s aggression and |decline over a decade and a half.| | At the start, Japan alone was out-| \lined in the blood-red paint. Thcni with the succeeding years the red’ stretched out to the mandated| islands, Manchuria, China, the| Philippines, Thailand, Burma, New| Guinea and the Malay Straits. lines shrunk as Japan lost the game | Then came the turn. The red| for empire. 'Tojo, without expression, turned from the final map and silently stared in his lap. Of all the defendants, only Ken- ji Doihara, who was Japan’s “Law- rence of Manchuria,” and Mamoru Shigemitsu, who signed the sur- have got along too well during render document for Japan aboard their recent peace trips abroad. the U.S.S. Missouri, paid scant at- The Committee” was debating the important St. Lawrence Waterway project which for 12 years has ygathered dust in a Committee pigeonhole. Connally is opposed to the St. Lawrence Waterway and complain- ed bitterly that the legislation is in the form of an international agreement, requiring a majority of both the House and Senate in or- der to become law, instead of the two-thirds necessary for a treaty. The gentleman from Texas knew, of course, that he could muster a v two-thirds vote to defeat a treaty. Senator Vandenberg listened to the fuming of his European travel- ling companion for a few moments then interrubted. “You know perfectly well it is proper to present this as an agree- ment,” said the 'Senator from Michigan. “Purthermore, I can re- member more than one occasion ol e s Blbo (b ey (Continued on Page Four) tention. Doihara shot a couple of quick glances at the Manchurian !maps and Shigemitsu looked not |at all. GROMYKO BLOCKS COMPROMISE PLAN, SPANISH QUESTION NEW YORK, June 13.—Soviet delegate A. Gromyko todzy express- |ed complete disagreement with a | compromise plan for the United Nations Security Council to refer | the Spanish question to the gener- |al assembly but did not at this point invoke his power of veto. The Council adjourned until Monday afternoon at 2:30 pm., EST., with the Spanish question still undecided. . without change; 2. Approving without change the llapse in Manchuria, China, south- OPA appropriation recommended | aska’s economist at the hearing. ‘east Asia and the South Pacific| by the Budget Bureau. | The conference was called by the | Emergency Committeg for price | centrol with which 32 national or- ganizations are affiliated. It met in the Senate Banking Committee room as the Senate itself resumed work on an OPA extension bill, with leaders aiming for a final vote before the day’s end. AMERICAN PRESS AGAIN SUBJECTED TOSOVIET WRATH Red Organ Expresses Ire at Comment on Argen- fine Relations | MOSCOW, June 13.—The govern- |ment newspaper Izvestia said today that certain sections of the Ameri- can press were becoming hysterical !over the recent announcement that | Argentina and the Soviet Union had agreed to establish diplomatic re- lations. Although the announcement was welcomed by most of the world’s democratic press, said Izvestia, “this step was met otherwise by that part of the press of the Uni- ted States which recently, in dis- cussing results of the Paris confer- ence, has increased its fictions about the ‘iron curtain’ seemingly hiding from the gaze of the West, all that's occurring in Eastern and South- eastern Europe. This portion of the . American press, Izvestia said, is only “yelling | [rea! attitude toward the indepen- ident South American republics.” ' —— e ——— MRS. ODOM LEAVES Mrs. Gertrude Odom, wife of O. M. Odom, left yesterday for An- chorage by Alaska Airlines, |this scason has been taken in the iaska survey, and enabled Don | Copper River district, but there the | O'Connor to act effectively as Al- {of the big 1945 season. “3—In prevailing upon the Re-| This | conversion Director to cause WSA by the Regional Office of the Fish {to continue the operation at exist-| and Wildlife Service, covering the ing rates beyond the original Pericd to June 8, inclusive with pack lags nearly 20,000 cases short | week’s report, issued here! | March 30th deadline—this at asav- |ing to Alaska shippers and ,con-} sumers of about three-quarters of | a million dollars per month since! i that time. ! “3_In prevailing upon WSA to| make its own analysis based on 1945 experience in lieu of the guess~| { work which the companies had in-| troduced at the Seattle hearing. | “What looked like an immediate | disaster last November does not now look so black. WSA will likely operate the ships at existing rates | comparative figures for last season for districts now open, is: SOUTHEAST ALASKA Yakutat—Reds 30 1-2 cases, kings| 214 cases; 1046 total 244 1-2 cases; 1945 total for comparative period 497 cases. CENTRAL ALASKA Copper River—Reds 32,584, kings 5350; 1946 total 37,934; 1945 total 57,300. Cook TInlet—No 1945 re- port; 1945 total 9,177. Kodiak—No 1946 report; 1945 total 20,813. Chig- !nik—No 1946 report; 1945 total 116. Totals for Central Alaska Divisions The new indictment covers and “Some issues need further clarifi- Oklahoma, who proposed that price | corrects the fourth count of the'cation.” Joseph Selly, Preyident of i controls be removed at once (mm;ofl.lnll indictment, cdismissed last'the CIO American Communications a long list of basic items. These in- imonth by District Jurge Lloyd L. Association (radio operators) spoke cluded timber, petroleum, cotton,|Black, because :t failed to name of “a few things to be cleared up milk, - livestock, tobacco, poultry, any person, and failed to state the yet.” fish, grain, peanuts, fruits and veg-;nnm of the person whom Redln} Extend Terms To AFL ctables. Also products made from was alleged to have “induced.” But word got out unofficially that them—such as cloth processed from| The Federal Bureau of Investiga- plans were afoot to have the ship- sheeps’ wool. In short, if the|tion here and Pomeroy declined to ping operators—pushed out of nego- Thomas amendments had not been comment on the part Kennedy :tiations yesterday when the govern- thrown cut, the OPA would have|played in the cast against H.edln,lmem took over—present a letter lost practically all its authority to| Friends described Kennedy as ato the WSA agreeing to apply the control prices except those involv-|resident of the University District | settlement terms immediately to ing rents and mineral products. |here, ahcut 53 years old, with ajunions other than those directly PSR S SR A |wife and four young children. They jaffected. These would include the % {eaid he was Scottish-born but had|AFL Seafarers’ Union, which is S'o(“ uuoIA"o"s |spent most of his adult life indealing with employers separately, NEW YCRK, June 134—Closing"‘mem“ and came here about four and two other unions here, the CIO i tation of Alaska Juneau mine|YeATS 880 F (Marine Cooks and Stewards and the. quotal 1 | stock today i$ 8%, Alleghany Cor-| 3 CIO Marine Engineers. whoce con- 2 tracts do not expire until Sept. 30. jcratic Senator Elmer Thomas of; 1 poration 7%, American Can 102%,| { Anaconda 48%, Commonwealth' and Southern 5%, Curtiss-Wright| 8%, International Harvester 101%, Lumdieck New Supl. ‘There seemed good reason for the prediction of a Federal conciliator that chances were “good” for setti:- for another six months at least,| o . 32,684, kings 5350; 1946 tot- during which time the postwar tur- moil might abate to some extent and some evidence of stabilization | make an appearance. Loss Not So Great “One of the reasons why WSA is not now so reluctant to continue the: operation is that its own an- alysis based on actual 1945 exper- ience shows that about a 15 percent | 1 | \ al 37,934; 1945 total 87,408, ALL DIVISIONS Totals for all Alaska—Reds 32,- 614 1-2, kings 5,564; 1946 total 38,- 178 1-2; 1945 total 87,903. Today's Laugh 0' Ahska S. S' (o. ment today. But the seven allied junions are pledged not to make iseparate settlement and if Bridges SEATTLE, June 13.—J. Fred Zum- | holds out, trouble could com: on dieck, labor relations manager for.al] coasts. ; the Alaska Steamship Co., will suc-! PSR ceed W. E. (Bill) Brown as super- NO ONE WANTS STRIKE intendent, effective Saturday, Gen-| SEATTLE, June 13.—The North- eral Manager L. W. Baker announc- 'west Committee for Maritime Unity, Kennecott 57, New York Central 28, Northern Pacific 34%, United' Corporation 6, U. 8. Steel 90%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,150,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are| as follows: industrials 210.56, rails| 68.32, utilities 42.95. ! ed today. in a statement to the press today about the ‘iron curtain’ to hide its| increase in freight rates and fares| PUEBLO, Colo, June 13.—A wo- would have entirely covered me“man customer called Grocer E. R. 1945 operation. {Jackson from bed to telephone at “Accordingly, if it were not for 1:30 a. m. to ask if he would save stoppages thus far caused by labor her a loaf of bread troubles, the prognosis for 1946/ Jackson reached his store at 5:30 would not be too bad. However, the |a. m. telephoned the woman’s management portion of the Alaska house and, after arousing her from operation shares with labor in slecp, gravely asked: ghowing no great standards of ef-| “What kind of bread did you ficiency, and the consumer has Want, whole wheat or white?” been paying for marked inefficien- | . P , Mr. Skinner, of | Riska srcaraney co. wmo - new NEW WSA Head to the steamship business, says that & For Alaska Shipping it has been many years since the rate schedule has been analyzed and overhauled as to individual| SEATTLE, June 13— Appoint- commodity rates and that the pre- ment of Worth Fowler, Seattle, to sent schedule of base rates is out be in charge of all War Shipping study made for WSA if directed to|the Alaska run, was announced by do so. Ithe WSA today. He formerly served “Thus it is apparent that WSAlthe WSA' as regional director in should rewrite the entire schedule|CPina; assistant regional director o in Guam, and director of the Alas- (Continued on Page Two) ka Division, of date, and that he would have a|Administration-operated vessels on| Brown, with the Line since 1909, |asserted “no one wants a strike, and a former general agent at Cor-., least of those people whose wages dova and Ketchikan, will take threelwm thus be terminated; but _ if lmumha vacation before returning'maritime workers are to enjoy in |to work as general freight and pas-!small part the standards by which cenger agent here. ;other Americans live, it appears 'Mary Lee Council, secretary to N Y e TR that strike action will be necessary |Delegate Bartlett of Alaska, and| ~CARNEGIES GO SOUTH | It recited also that “tre seven {Bartlett’s daughter, Doris Ann, will] ©. C. Carnegie, owner of the maritime unions of the Committee leave late this week to spend the|Juneau Florist Shop and popular for Maritime Unity agreed in con- summer in the Territory. They will| manager of the American Legion vention May 6 that all troop and go to Juneau. Miss Council has not | baseball team, has left for Seattle relief ships would be sailed, provid- visited her home since before the!for medical attention, accompanied ing fair and equitable 'worun‘n con- war. by Mrs. Carnegie. The length of |ditions prevail” and reiterated the time they will be away is indefin- pledge of the San Francisco con- ite, depending upon the condition vention of maritime unions to man of his nealth. (ships carrying relief cargo and R | troops. TANKER HERE ’ the tanker Dispatch arrived in port shortly before noon today and | ExHImm" B B L] L] tied up at the Standard Oil Dock. e ‘ HAGEN GOES WEST i In an exhibition baseball game | Treasurer; and Jack Pletcher,| Larry Hagen, Alaska Superin-'this afternoon at Copperstown, N. | Managing Director. tendent for Standard Oll, left for y, the New York Nationals de- Mr, Shyman returned to Anchor- Anchorage yesterday by Alaska Alr- feated the Boston Americans by & age yesterday by Alaska Airlines.lines, N score of 9 to 5. Leaving Washifiglon For Vacations Here WASHINGTON, June 13.—Miss | 1 - e — BARANOF HOTEL BOARD HOLD MEETING HERE Th annual board meeting of the { Baranof Hotel Company was held I this week following the arrival of | Al shyman, Vice-President of the company, from Anchorage. Also present were J. J. Meherin, Presi- dent; Wallis George, Secretary and ——————