The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 14, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,297 UNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1946 [o=—=—————— — ————— MARITIME DISPUTE DEEMED SETTLED TRUMAN STILL UNDECIDED ON OPA ACTVETO Administration Takes Stinging Defeat in Con- gress O@easure WASHINGTON, June 14.—Hand- ed a resounding defeat in Congress on the issue of price controls, President Truman left open today the question of whether he would veto the OPA Extension Bill. He decided to commit himself | when he was asked outright at his | news conference whether he would sign or disapprove the measure as| it passed the Senate last night. The Senate approved, 55 to 11, a | year's extension of OPA—shorn, however, of much authority and minus tne right to keep price con- trols on meat, eggs, milk, butter | ond chickens. I s el | GOES TO CONFERENCE | WASHINGYTON, June i4. — The House refused today to accept the Senate’s drastic curtailments on OPA extension and sent the bill to a Senate-House conference com- mittee for a “harmonizing” of dif- ferences. There was widespread doubt on Capitol Hill, however, that the con- ferees will be able to write a com- promise that will not run head-on into a Presidential veto. FOR PILFERING VESSEL'S CARGO SEWARD, Alaska, June 14. — Fines of $9 each were imposed on three crew members of the cargo freighter Clove Hitch here after they pleaded guilty to charges of pilfering merchandise from the vessel. Investigators said seventy - per- cent of the cartons containing shoes, clothing and ham, bacon and canned goods had been ripped open and pilfered. They said the ship's cargo was in the most damaged | state of any discharged at Seward in the last two years. —————— IN FOR SIXTY DAYS Turned over to Federal author- ities by City Police, on a charge of | being drunk, Frank Wilson, native, | pleaded guilty before U. 8. Com- missioner Felix Gray and was sen- tenced to 60 days in the Federal| Jail, The Washington STEELMAN NAMED AS SUCCESSOR T0 JOHN W, SNYDER, | | | WASHINGTON, June 13.—Presi- |dent Truman today announced he |was appointing John R. Stezlman| as Director of the Office of War! i Mobilization and Reconversion. ! | Steelman, a special assistant to |the President, will succeed John W. 1 Snyder, who has been nomh—mted: for Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Truman told his news con- ference that he had decided to con- | tinue the OWMR on the advice of | practically all members of his cab- inet as well as the OWMR advis- lory committee. 4 He previously had said that the OWMR would be gradually liquidat- ed since he believed most of the country’s reconversion problems had keen solved. et — Major Bowes Dies at Home RUMSON, N. J,, Jure 14—Death !halted today the spin of the “Wheel io! Fortune” that brought fame and |wealth to Major Edward Bowes, lhel Lespectacled, dry-voiced radio im- pressario, whose “All right, all ‘right,” became a household phrase, |died last night at his estate here on the eye of his 72nd birthday. Francis Cardinal Spellman ad- ministered the last rites of thej | Catholic church. There was no an- 1 nouncement of the immediate cause | of death. H | Born in San Francisco, where he | “'made and lost a fortune in the real} estate business, Bower rose to his | |greatest fame conducting a radio| amateur hour which in 1935 was |voted the most popular radio hour | | program, with an estimated 20,000,- 000 listeners a week. H ‘The program attracted tens of | ithousands of tyro entertainers to INew York City. So great was the y |pilgrimage that in 1935 the emer-( lgency relief bureau disclosed thst‘ 300 would-be entertainers were! stranded each week in New York. iAdion on Vinson Nomination Held | - Uplo Wednesday| WASHINGTON, June 14.—Action on the nomination of Fred M. Vin- son as Chief Justice of the United States today has been delayed un- til next Wednesday when two per- sons asked to be heard by a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. 1 | i i ] APPEAL I§ MADETO ITALIANS {Premier Asks Support for Republic as Situation Remains Tense U. . Delegates First af Paris Peace -Jlaking Britain, Americans Pre- pared for Showdown, | Red Emissaries | ins | PARIS, June 1lé.—Secretary of| ROME, June l4.—Premier Alcide State Byrnes was the first of the De Gasperi appealed to mngms to- Foreign Ministers to arrive today day to support the new Republic, for the fateful four power confer- |regardless of how they voted in last| ence which is expected to decide Week’s plebiscite. whether Europe will be united or| The Premier addressed the nation. divided into eastern and western by radio in an atmosphere of ten- spheres. |sion created by an acrimonious ex- MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS S aee—————————————— HAWAIIAN GROUP REDS THREAT BoutE norTH 10 TSINGTAO - NOW _lUllED BEATTLE, June 14. — A happy group of Hawalians and whites, whose leader claims descent from 'American Forces in Port Still on Alert But Ad- miral Not Perturbed Hawaiian Royalty, awaited sailing time for Alaska today in their re- converied LOT, now a combination hauseboat-fishing vessel-portable sawmill. | At the bow above the ramp dia- | “Hawaii’s getting awfully crowd-| TSINGTAO, June 14.—The like- ed,” the skipper's wife, Mrs. Al- lihood of a Communist attack on len H. Elston, explained. ‘We want Tsintao, where some ten thousand to go where’s there’s still oppor- or less U. S. Marines and Naval tunity.” | personnel are based, appeared to The group of some 20, including be lessening today, although the a 6-year-old Galfornia fruit farm- |American forces were still on the er and an 8-months-old child, ar- |alert. pers. swung from an improvised | clothes line, A-Bomb Ovens Producing for Peacelilne Use Atomic Maferials Earmark- ed for Science, Medi- cine and Industry OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 14.— The great shielded ovens that can | make atom bomb ingredients are| picneering today in a new job— producing materials earmarked to serve science, medicine and indus- | leaders, BRIDGES WILL TAKE 22-CENF - PAY INCREASE Navy Ready—intase Some Hitch Over Defails Starts Walkout WASHINGTON, June 14.—Union ship operators and gov- ernment mediators met today to jratify terms for ending the threat of a maritime strike at midnight. But until they actually signed, rived yesterday on their ship which | Following orders from Comfilunlst try in Deflce‘flme- ) |there was a chanceysome hitch over The Army's Manhattdn Engineer wording or details might develop District, creators of the world’s and that a walkout of sailors and V. M. Molotov was expected mo- | change between his government and mentarily from Moscow and Ernest King Umberto II, who reached Lis- Bevin was to arrive during the af-|bon today for his exile. ternoon, | A manifesto issued last night in Both Byrnes and Bevin have in- |Umberto’s name charged that the they had rechristened Mahina Hou, |headquarters to new Fourth Army or New Moon. It was bought as Field Commanders to abate the surplus property in Hawaii for $4,- |threat on the Nationalist-held 500. Shantung Peninsula seaport, the situation has quieted around the dicated the meeting starting to- cabinet had usurped the King's Ipowers in a “revolutionary gesm_re land added that he had left Italian !soil only to avoid civil war. A iroyal aide said Umberto would consider himself King pending a formal court ruling on the plebis- morrow night be the last attempt of the Foreign Ministers to resolve differences, and that the United States and Great Britain might ex- ecute separate peace treaties with defeated Eurcpean nations if they | jlumber strike. The Union delegates | i | are unable to agree \f/uh ftussi& | De Gasperi, in a 10-minute broad- Previous Foreign Ministers’ confer- cast, deplored “the tragedy of that ences in London, Moscow and Paris |man” — Umberto. De Gasperi said Zlnce the r::r have failed to pm';u‘mberto “compromised with the uce accords. dictatorship,” and had in the last Byrnes and his conferees, Sen.| ' regain Connally (D-Texas) and Sen.‘few months attempted to g Vandenberg (R-Mich) all declined “He is part of the national ca- comment. { | tastrophe,” De Gasperi said, assert- e — | ling an expiation was due from Um- | |berto, even as “we all must ex-i‘ BULLETINS = / w85 1, B A UMBERTS IV LisBON LISBON, June 14—Umberto II/ SEATTLE -- Herbert Kennedy, of Italy arrived today from Bar- has been indicted as the person cclona, where he spent his first| who allegedly gave lans of the night of exile. destroyer-tender USS Yellowstone! “I am most anxious to join my | to Russian Naval Lieutenant Nico- family,” he said. The Queen and | lai G. Redin. Itheir children reached Portugal| |earlier by sea. i | sentatives VICTORIA, B. C.—Loggers are| Italian legation repre: pouring into this city by truck ang met his plane and accompanied him | boat aimed at forcing the Canadian ({0 the house where his family “‘i |staying. Government to end the month old | Umberto, possibly Italy's last |King, thus followed his father into e, atad totodions . e RrOvinetsl [ ite by little more than a month. | King Vittorio Emanuele went w1 Egypt. Cabinet. The loggers want a 25- cent hourly increase, 40 hour week and union security. i | mfe?‘“o;“,fifg A %rog s nore to. PLAN ROUND TRIP ‘ ::y after an inspection yesterday | Bv (AR "o MI“". the Bonneville dam.. Tomorrow | VIA “MDA ROAD he will dedicate the Olympia Na-| tional Park in Western Washing- ton. | | Mr. and Mrs. Evan Wruck, their Ithree children, Sharon, 4, Gerald SE A'n'lE (_or_c 12, and Allan, nine months, and their {Ford sedan will sail for Haines to- night aboard the Tongass to motor Elston, who in peacetime com- | manded an Island tuna boat, is| i accompanied by his wife, their in- Ifant son, and four daughters by a previous marriage., Jack Bowers, | navigator, was a Navy Lieutenant in eommand of a PT boat during World War IL. He said’ he would be joined on the Alaska voyage by villages of Hsia-Chuang and Liu- Ting, 12 miles north, which control the port's water system. (Admiral Charles M. Cooke, Jr., Commander of the U, 8. Seventh Fleet, who briefly visited Tsingtao after conferring with General Mar- | shall at Nanking, returned to Shang- deadliest weapon, disclosed the production envisions ‘“nationwide distribution” of radioactive sub- stances made in the same furnaces that produced the heart of the A-bomb. Far-Reaching Importance And the great ovens, now pro: ducing limited quantities of thess humanitarian by-products of atom- | stevodores would sweep across the waterfronts, bottle up ports and main American salt water shipping. The Third Naval District in New announced the Navy had “taken preliminary steps” to order reservists to active duty to run overnment-owned merchant ships cast a strike occurred. But the biggest bar to a settle- York ic energy, are being geared for ment was removed when War Ship- | hig |Santa Clara, a fruit farmer. | logging contracts; hai last night. (Associated Press Correspondent !Spencer Moosa reported sources Guy O. Beedle, in whose name g)ocq to the American Admiral said the ship was bought, is a former|p. .o 1ot perturbed over the i Guardsman. His Eurasian rgngtao situation and under the Accompanies him. Others In-{ .y oymstances no decision was re- cliffe Louls Banta, who will handle quired on the question of reinforc- James Smith, yng the present Marine garrison or ship electrician; Jack Owens, radio | yithqrawing it. The Admiral made opetator; Hugh Opperman, engin- no public comment but conferred ety gn“ other men, women and with his staff in Shanghai, in what B e % ¥ *ud‘;,d:acrlbed as a routine daily The party expects 10 Incorporate meeting.) — i themselves as “Alaska Allied In-| yesterday, while tension was still dustries” on their arrival in the high Marines had prepared outskirt Territory, Elston said. They will'gefense positions around the air- fish, log and do constructon Work. port and on ridges north of Tsing- | “Who knows?” Elston said, hap- tao. pily. “We may even found our own —————— U.5.PROMISED "o tuwe Acin, ALL SUPPORT Labor Legislation 10 CHETNIKS WASHINGTON, June 14.—Presi-| dent Truman declined to comment | tcday on what action he might| BELGRADE, June 14.—Gen.{ take with respect to any future Draja Mihailcvic told the Yugoslav| labor legislation. | Military Court today that Col. Ro- The President was asked at a bert McDowell, of the American| father, Herbert A. Bowers, news conference if he would sign Military Mission, informed him in| the Army’s objective of “large scale” availability of products which they declared “may well have far-reaching importance in peace-time research in physics, chemistry, metallurgy and the med-i ical sciences.” Meanwhile, the Army announced that hospitals, universities, and similar institutions or groups could make immediate application mrI the small gquantities of materials available. A ‘“reasonable cnarge” will be made to “cover the out-of-pocket™ costs to the United States, the an- nouncement said. 7 ! Net Meet All Demands The announcement said that while present production would be | increased as rapidly as possible “it will probably be impossible to meet all the demands of the country un- til additional facilities are built specifically for (radioactive sub- stance) production. This is not conl:em;zhted in the immediate fu- ture.” i Declaring that approximately 100 different radioactive substances— materials that give off invisible rays—would be obtainable “in var- rying quantities,” from the atom | bomb” project, the War Department’s statement asserted: | “They will be used in two im- ' portant ways: i “First as tracer atoms or ‘trac- ers’ for following the course of ‘hls own 'temporary emergency bill {if it came to him with the Case | Labor Disputes bill attached as a { rider. Mr. Truman, who had vetoed | the Case bill Tuesday, said that he The men were Robert Gray Tay- | TOWEL-BEARER HERE TO LISTEN lor of Media, Pa., and Edwin J. Creel of Washington, D. C. Chairman McCarran (D-Nev) in- structed both to file statements and proof to support any objections by | noon Wednesday. Collecting Alaskan’s “gripes”| Taylor told newsmen: “I have against Seattle, Michael Dederer,| not questioned the integrity of MTr.|president of the Seattle Fur Ex- | to Minnesota via the newly-opened|Would follow the custom of not Haines road and Canadian high- | commenting until the legislation way. |reached his desk. | The Wrucks plan to return to } Juneau in August along the same | \ ————— - | } rowe: wruck ls emplored by e Compromise Near | Sauk Centre, Minn., is their ul-| 1944 “American youth is not fight-|atoms in chemical, biological and ing for Communism and does not'technical processes. want Communism in Yugoslavia.” <“And possibly second, after con- The bearded Chetnik chief lost siderable research, as therapeutic a tug of war with Marshal Tito| reatment agents for treatment of for control of Yugoslavia’s resist- | certain specifil diseases.” 3 ance forces and is now charged with treason and collaboration with INTERNATIONAL CONTROL the Germans. | NEW YORK, June 14. — The “McDowell told me America|United States in a history-making would suppert me and my KOVe”’l“pmnouncemEnt offered to day to ment and movement exclusively,” destroy its own store of atomic Mihailovic testified. | bombs and stop manufacturing He said that previously he had|them if an adequate ccntrol of ping Administrator Granville Con- way announced that Harry Bridges had agreed to take a 22-cents-an- hour pay raise for his CIO long- shoremen. Bridges had hela out for 23 cents. His union was allied in the Committee for Maritime Unity with six other committed to make no separate settlements. Conway told a House Labor Sub- committee investigating the mari- itime dispute that the president of . ernment. Mr. Truman told a news confer- ence the prospects for that were good. He said his information came from the Labor Department. A flat question whether he thought there would be a walkout, brought a reply that, no, he didn’t think there would be a shipping strike. Conway cautiously reported that “jt seems reasomable to me that it will be settled” this afternoon, ANCHORAGE T0 HAVE 200 NEW FAMILIES SOON ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 14. —Two hundred new families will ke brought here soon to settle on “Government Hill” across the tracks from the ecity, Col. John- Johnson, manager of the Alaska Railroad announces. He said married employees of the railroad would be housed at | the site, with Quonset huts as tem-. porary quarters. These later will be replaced with permanent homes. Johnson said the railroad plan- ned eventually to withdraw the land from the railroad reserve and sell the homesites to families W Vinson and I do not question it.”|change and chairman of the Alaska' He said he was interested generally |Committee of the Seattle Chamter in the integrity of the judiciary. jof Commerce, flew into Juneau on (the tail of the good weather todsy.; housed there. USSR BITES OFF planned to compromise with Tito's atomic energy is established under reside. ‘The trip is the result of | Partisans because he expected his|a preposed international authority. months of planning, as they first| WASHINGTON, June 14 ‘d T}:’ Russian backers to be “practical | Simultaneously, the United began to' think of making such ‘a | Senate-House deadlock over draft-. pcjjciang» States made it clear to an intently | Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON timate destination, where the fam-| ¢’ In 'een.Age D’a" ilies of both Mr. and Mrs. Wruck WASHINGTON—Some of those hg have sat inside Supreme Court ffidential conferences believe that two factors were behind Jus- tice Robeft Jackson's sudden flare- up against his associate, Justice Hugo Black. They are: 1. Jackson’s own érve-wracking job at Nuernberg id his keen disappointment over not being appointed Chief Justice; 2. A conspiracy by certain groups in the USA to nuffify the hard- hitting liberal opinions of Justice t people don't realize it, but Jackson has suffered thsee bitter political disappointments, and in one previous case he lashed back bit- terly—though privately—at a man who helped disappoint him. Disappointment No. 1 was when Jackson wanted to be Governor of New York. It was Roosevelt's idea that this would groom Jackson as the next White House incumbent. However, FDR couldn’t whip the New York politicians into line, so it was promised that Jackson would become Attorney General instead. This was Disappointment No. 2. For Frank Murphy, then defeated as Governor' of Michigan, was ap- pointed Attorney General instead. ckson never got over this, boiled T (Continued on Page Four) He is homebound after already hearing the plaints of Fairbanks| and Anchorage. 1 “I want Alaskans to let down ELECTRIC ASSN, MEEIS SUNDAY 'ma:d h;fr.s"nD;lde::rt ;:mfl::t z;: pre- A meeting of the Glacler High-leral “crying” sessions, this after- way Electric Association, Inc, re-{noon at the Baranof Hotel. centiy n;rmed cooperative proposing rural electrification for the Auk {Taylor fo Remain H At Vatican Until Bay-Tee Harbor area, has been call- ed for Sunday afternoon, June 16, at 2 o'clock p. m., it was disclosed today. trip last February. |ing teen-agers in peacetime ap- proached a compromise today. Senator Gurney (R-SD) said & bably would recommend drafting of | 18-year-olds only as a last resort, and with the additional provision 7 that they be barred from overseas Smith announced here todgy that| NO final agreement on this point | he has been advised that the Was reached at a two and a half| Haines cut-off to the Alaska High- |hour conference today but Senav.orl way is now open to traffic through|Gurney told a reporter the group | joint Congressional Committee pro- | Highway Engineer Leonard W, |duty until they reach 19. the summer months. - — COASTAL LINES HER NEW OFFICE WORKERS, FLY DAILY ROUTES . The new Alaska Coastal Airlines office employees are Geraldine Riggs, bookkeeper, and Barbara Grove, stenographer-secretary, both of Pasadena, Calif, who went to listening world there must be no veto power in any part of the frame-work it was proposing for the development and peaceful use of atomic energy. Bernard M. Baruch, United States representative, gave to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission at its first session and to the world for harnessing for peaceful pur- poses the giant force unleashed by sclence. the American plan' KUSHKAN SECTOR . OF AFGHANISTAN | MOSCOW, June 14—A new Rus- sian-Afghanistan treaty announced today allots to Russia the Kushkan area in the northwestern border of { Afghanistan bordering Iran. | Izvestia said the 1921 treaty on incorporation of the area into Af- * Two representatives of the Rural Electrification Administration, H. B. Bryan and E. L. Bennett, are to arrive in Juneau today or to- morrow in time to be present at the meeting, to give consideration to further development of the prv- ject. The two are coming here from Kodiak. Sunday’s meeting will be held at DeHart’s Store, at Auk Bay. — FROM HOONAH Mrs. Howard Erickson has arriv- ed from Hoonah. She is stopping |treaties had been written. & at the Gastineau. —_——————— FROM NEW JERSEY Joseph A. Wilson has arrived from Clifton, N. J., and is regist- ered at the Gastineau. - e TWO FROM PELICAN { group, we would no longer have an pea(e IS (e"aln Canadian and American Customs officials have already been station- | WASHINGTON, June 14—Myron from Canada and plans have been | O. Taylor will continue as the announced for thrice-weekly bus| President’s Ambassador to the Vat-|service between Haines and Fair-| ed at Haines to clear traffic to and | had agreed to meet again Monday forenoon. 4 STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 14.—Closing work early this week. Coastal flew the following pas- sengers yesterday: to Ketchikan, J. Alhodef; from Ketchikan, H. Crock- er, V. Tromliton, H. McRoberts, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sherlock; to In Washington, the President|ghanistan had “lost power.” The |sald at his news conference that treaty was signed by Foreign Min- |he had ndt seen Baruch’s actual jster V. M. Molotov and Saultan speech. But, Mr. fruman said, he Ahmed Khjn, Afghan Ambassador, land Secretary of State James F. to revise thé frontier in the wild Byrnes had given Baruch a direc- | region along the Amu Darya and tive on American policy and he Pyandzh rivers. ican until after world peace has been secured, Mr. Truman told his banks as soon as the road should be quotation of Alaska Juneau mine declared fit for use. stock today is 8%, Alleghany Cor-| Pelican, V. Rodriguez, Thomas Rod- riguez, A. Rodriguez, Mrs. B. Bra- rews conference today. He added that he recenty had in- formed a group of Protestant | clergymen that Taylow's tenure would continue until the peace .- — McNutt fo Be First Amb.,lhlllppines WASHINGTON, V. McNutt will be the first United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines. The designation was announced by President Truman who told a William C. Johnson has arrived |news conference that McNutt's After that, he said, he told the official representative at the Vat- ican. ——eto— WILLIAM JOHNSON HERE Mf. and Mrs. John Saare of Pel- -here from Petersburgh. He is stay- | nomination would go to the Sen- ican, are staying at the Gastineau. ing at the Baranof. ate today or tomorrow. poration 7, American Can 104%, mer, Miss D. Bramer, L. E. Evans, | Anaconda 47%, Commonwealth and | Andy Engstrom; from Pelican, J. imagined Baruch’s statement fol-| loweg it. — e, ——— June 14—Paul| Southern 5%, Curtiss-Wright 8%, | International Harvester 101%, Ken- | necott 56%, New York Central 28, Northern Pacific 33%, United Cor- poration 5%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today totalled | shares, | Dow, Jones averages today are |as follows: industrials 210.36, rails 168.02, "mtilities 42.83. Cautlous selling on fears of a maritime strike and some weekend 980,000 to the stock market today. Crawford, J. Soari, Mrs. F. Ells- worth; to Tulsequah, B. C, Mrs. H. Galloway, W. Galloway, R."Gal- loway, F. McPherson; from Tulse- quah, L. Sinclair, P. Forrest, B. Williams; to Sitka, J. Kiennof, C.‘ Wiedman, T. Byrne, C. Wright, F.| Bryant, M. Deveny, W. F. Stuart, L. Deveny; from Sitka, L. Berg, J./ K. Johanison, Lon Robinette, W. McIntyre, G. Dedrikoff; to Hoon- ah, A. Horton,'S. Howard; to Todd, profit taking brought irregularity|L. W. McWhorter, B, Sahieff, P.| Carl C. Macy, a resident of An- Schinoff, MARRIED HERE | Margaret Bennett, of Angoon, and , When Harold Laloskey's friends Charles Gamble, of Juneau, were lughed when he tried to tell about married here yesterday afternoon he big one that got away; he by U. S. Commissioner Pelix Gray.|Went on another fishing trip in The ceremony was performed at his | Homdoo Lake. Federal Building office. Witnesses And he came back with were Joseph C. Johnson and ms.lm- He had caught the Ruby Dumlao. ':l‘xdnlo‘;tow hpm’;"'-hl first g rea RN S hern CARL C. MACY HERE g‘l‘opmvelt.hellhlbl | fish from whose jaw his hook, leader and sinker still chorage, is staying at the Baranof. gled.