The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 17, 1946, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ] §Copy._. % e} THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE — ] _— VOL. LXVII., NO. 10,299 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LABOR PLATFORM | OFAVCIS DRAWNUP Vetera ns—Erqanization ; Adopts Constifution- | Officers Chosen | DES MOINES, June 17.—After three days and four nights of noisy | debate and electioneering, the Am- | erican Veterans Committee ended | its first national convention, but| there still were items on the agen- | la today that were undone or un-| decided. | 'Before adjourning Sunday the| organization hammered out a con-| stitution; complete, with pusslblev minor exceptions, a platform; re- elected Charles G. Bolte, New York City, as chairman; elected Gilbm‘ Harrison, Los Angeles, vice chair-| man, and named eight rcgional‘ vice chairmen. | Election tellers worked until early today counting the ballots cast in! the election of 16 members of the National Planning Committee who, with the regional vice chairman,| form the AVC governing body. { The question of a new name for the organization, scheduled for de- A cision at the convention, was not _ decided and may be settled by mail | ballots. Suggested alternatives l-mve1 been “American Veterans Citizens” and “World Veterans.” An organization exclusively iori World War II veterans, the AVC| announced it is seeking a member- | ship of 1,000,000, and Bolte said he believed AVC was “ready to furnish | | | SAILORS’ PIN-UPS — Norma Crieger (left) and Mary Bradley, film actresses, pose for a group of U. S. merchant -~ seamen making a tour of Hollywood movie lots. M MISTEACHING OF JAPANESE YOUTH LAID UPON T0J BRITISH PLA FOR INDIA IS : |Inspector, who was advis a leadership which will give it nu- mercial importance alongside the older veterans organizations.” Delegates voted down a platlorm‘ proposal which would have pledged | AVC to fight for a Federal bonus for World War II veterans unless Congress by March 1, 1947 passed legislation which would effectively | control prices, guarantee every cit-| izen a job, and provide low cost| housing for all. e — Plant Expansion Program is Given Outby Paper Firm PORTLAND, Ore., June 17.—~Work © at Camas, Wash, on the Crown| Zellerbach Corporation’s $11,000,000 plant expansion program will get, under way July 6, L. H. Hoffman, ~ Pportland contractor, said today. | The specialty paper plant to be BEING OKEHED war ioers Used schoos fo Inculcate Belief in Divine Mission TOKYO, June 17.—Japan’s war plotters used the schools to instill Congress Get Together in I"dependen(e Steps in Nipponése youth the idea their nation had a “divine mission” to i NEW DELHI, June 17.—Chances rule eastern Asia, a U. S. Marine |increased today that the dominant-, officer testified today as the first ly Hindu Congress party and the prosecution witness in the war Moslem League would accept the' crimes trial of former Premier Hi- i British cabinet plan for an interim deki Tojo and 27 other defendan Mosem Leégue and Hindu gevernment to rule the teeming 1t Col. Donald R. Nugent, Chief sub-continent in the transitory per- ¢f Supreme Headquarters Civil In- fod before independence. formation and Education Section, the Who taught in Japan before the Field Marshal 7 Viceroy, proposed that five Con- war, said Japanese students were gress representatives, five Moslem told that their nation eventually Leaguers and four representatives would dominate “the world under of smaller segments of India's mass 07¢ Y00f.” of 400,000,000 persons for the in- Tcjo leaned forward on his el- terim government to start function- boWs and stared fixedly at the wit- ing June 26. ne and seemed to showsan inter- Mohandas K. Gandhi, est for the first time since he went Lord Wavell, spiritual 3 e 0N trial before the International built: calls for a 66 by 100400“;’:3: Ois“f.epeff;:f;fi‘;s' :":f}' P Tribunal. 80 by 3 e k"“: l;lea::‘}:’]as‘;;ee:ndmao“m cost{‘happy" but the pro-Congress Hi: Nugent testified that Japanese ,‘3""1’"’50000“ dustan Times said, “There is every Dupils were put through field man- s i reasen for giving favorable consid- euvers, street fighting problems, : The Washington| - Merry- Go- Round , "By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Here is the lat-| est report on the inside doings oii the. Ku Klux Klan. - | At a secret meeting of Atlanta! * Klayern No. I, on June 3, Grand| Dragon Samuel Green spent most of his time denouncing Drew Pear- son; - Walter Winchell, The Atlantic Journal and The Atlanta Consti-| tution. The editor of the latter, Ralph McGill, he referred to as “Rosenwald” McGill. Grand Dragon Green, despite his | high-sounding title, is an obstetri- cian in private life, and does not look too imposing. He takes his work most seriously | however, and seemed much agi-| tated over the manner in which| the, Klan's activities had been un-| covered. In order to counteract the criti-| cism, the Grand Dragon proposed ! that. the various Klaverns solicit contributions to pay for a 30-min- ute nationwide hook-up over the| Atlanta Journal’s Radio Station| WSB in order to answer the Klan's crities. To this end he appointed Klansman Guiano as a committee of one to make the necessary ar- ' rangements. Green himself offered to put up any money necessary as a binder with the radio station. ° He proposed that the title of the radio talk be “Klan Kraft,” but (Continued on Page Four) eration” to Wavell's announcement. baycnet drills .and machinegun in- Dawn, official newspaper of the!struction. Moslem League, expressed the view ch teachings” Nugent said, that the British cabinet mission inculcated in them both ultrana- had “pulled a fast one” and asked tionalism and militarism, It taught “what guarantes is there even now them fanatical devotion to coun- that this ‘final’ decision . . . will' try and blind obedience tg, author- remain final?” Political writers in- It§." terpreted this widely as indicating| Dr. S. Nazumi, of the Defense the league would accept the pro-|Staff, sought to show by cross-ex- posed cabinet, barring further|amination that Nugent bad arriv- changes. Newspapers usually less|ed at his opinion by talking to than moderate on partisan issues|only a few Japanese gtudents. generally made favorable comments.' “When the response,” Nugent re- | plied, “is 100, percent the same op- {inion, it is apparent the opinion JEWEL ROBBERY * ™. _ PARTICIPANTS Publisher McCormick TAKEN OVERSEAS WASHINGTON, June '17. — Col.| Jack W. Durant and his WAC cap~i‘ tain wife, held in the Kronberg, Castle crown jewel case, left by] plane today in Army custody for Frankfurt, Germany. War Department officials said ! last week that the couple adrmned; HARRISBURG, Pa, June 17— removing to this country a fortune | Vance C. McCormick, publisher of in jewels and relics of the House | Harrisburg newspapers, an indus- of Hesse, Germany Royal family.|trialist and former chairman of the The treasure had been hidden in|Democratic National Committee, the basement of the old palace. [died yesterday. P Ay The couple had been held in the| A former mayor of Harrisburg Washington area since their arrest and Democratic candidate for the in Chicago two weeks 2go. governorship of Pennsylvania in Col. A. C. Miller of the Provost, 1914, McCormick retired from poli- Marshal’s office said soon after the‘ncs in recent years to publish the couple’s arrest in Chicago, that|Harrisburg Patriot and the Harris- formal charges against persons in-|burg Evening News. volved in the case would be brought in Germany. ciated Press, . Passes On ALASKA LINE (CANNERY SHIP INDISTRESS | Flooded-1,200 Pas- | LEGISLATION IS NOW BLOCKED sengers Taken Off A distress call from the freighter Santa Cruz late Friday resulted in| a Nevy PBY with a Navy diver and | assistants aboard being dispatched | from Kodiak Naval Air Station, it| was disclosed today by Lt. Comdr. | Howard Solloway, USCGR, Marine! d by wire | received here early Sunday. { The 7,000-ton freighter Santa Cruz| operated by the Alaska Steamship| | Company, is carrying 1,200 cannery | workers and supplies bound for| ristol Bay. She radioed for as-| sistance from a position at Squaw | Harbor, Shumagin Islands, some, 250 miles northeast of Dutch Har-! kor. The ship got into difficulty when a chief removed an undersea ' plate or manhole cover on a con-! denser and sea pressure prevented his replacing it or stopping the flow oi water. ‘The ship's captain immediately radioed Naval District Headquart-| ers for a diver to effect emer-! gency repairs and the PBY took!' cff in response at apprcximately( 6 o'clock p. m, Friday, but was forced by bad weather to remain | ‘overnight at Fort Randall and did not arrive at the ship until early | Saturday. Within a few hours after the ac-| cident oceurred, the captain was | obliged %o~ remove- all passerigers’ jand announced his intention to beach the vessel. However, a later | { dispatch reported that the Santa Cruz was at anchor in six fathoms of water, with her engine rooms flocded. The ship is reported to be in no danger, provided the weather remains calm. A Navy sawvage vessel, with pumps and gear, is standing by at the Kodiak Operating Base for |whatever further assistance the Santa Cruz may require. TO PICK UP PASSENGERS SEATTLE, June 17.—The 1200 . cannery workers which were taken off the freighter Santa Cruz Satur- ddy when the vessel's engine room was flooded, will be picked up by the freighter Cape Victory and tak- comment on in any way whatso-|and will sponsor talks on all Phfls'[\vere satisfied. en on the Bristol Bay. | | The Alaska Steamship Company | ‘reported here last night that the, | passengers were removed without mishap and the Santa Cruz crew iwould be able to repair the ves- |sel so that she could continue] | without assistance. BULLETINS NEW YORi.—Louis still rated a 12 to 5 favorite over Conn. Experts | pick Louis to win by a knockout.! Sid Feder, Associated Press boxing $writer picks Conn to dethrone Louis. i | SEATTLE — Interior Secretary !Julius A. Krug has arrived at the/ |Sand Point Naval Air Station in a {naval PBY from Orcas Island, in the San Juan Archipelago, where he | spent Sunday with Gov. Mon C.| Wallgren. | NEW YORK—The United Nations | ! Security Council adjourned today Iuntfl 11 a.m., PST tomorrow without | | taking action on the Spanish case. | « WASHINGTON—A Senate-House i Conference Committee tentatively |agreed today upon a nine-month extension of the draft until next| March 31 but remained deadlocked on the question of drafting teeng agers. . NEW YORK--Sir Alexander Cad- ogan, British delegate to the-United Nations Security Council, proposed ! today that the case of Franco Spain be deferred by the council to the UN General Assembly without any | jrecommendations for a break in diplomatic relations with Madrid. i SEATTLi:—ongsioremen resum- ' ed loading ships this morning as waterfront operations returned to normal aiter a two-day walkout of 6,000 CIO unionists. Four of the six unions had ratified terms of a Washington, D. C., national settle- ment. The Marine Engineers were to act today and ratification by mem- ibers.of the American Communica- clined 0 reveal where they had| He attended the Funeral Direct- for a better price. He was a member of the Asso-- tions Association will come from |gone, but it was reported they were ors Conference in Stanwood, Wash., San Francisco. cess behind the so-called ‘iron cur-! | | PRI . Chier Aviation s Mate Paul Rieboldt, 35, his wife, Mabel Calif., display their trailer home made from a plane fusclage bought at Wash. planc to his car and made the 3,000-mile cross count Macnins trip safely a Soviet Army JUNEAU BRANCH OF WNAA FORMED: OFFICERS ELECTED | | | Mrs. Hazel Hermann was elect- -COII(GH"&IEd “Rg? ; l I umore |ed president of the newly-formed > branch of the Women's National Aeronautics Association last week | at the Club’s organizational meet- {ing held in her home, | Other officers eleoted were: Sec- | retary, Mrs, Joe McLean and Treas- urer, Mrs. John Doolin. Eleven ' | members were present at the meet- | Troops in Germany Re- ported Put On Alert ime | | The club charter has been placed ' PARIS, Zure 17.—An official in formal application with national spokesman for the American dele- | headquarters anc is expected to be gation «fo the Foreign Ministers granted in August, Mrs. Hermann conference said today that a pub-, said. Officers elected at the re- lished mnewspaper story asserting cent meeting are temporary pend-‘ that American troops in Germany ing receipt of the charter. i may have been alerted because of Mrs. Hermann, elected in New American Y):(upation ! reported concentrations of Rus- Mexico last year to serve as one sian m troops in southeastern Ger- of the 10 national directors of vy was “based on rumors.” | WNAA during 1946-1947, explained re are all sorts of rumors| that the aim of the club is promo- flying around here,” the spokesman ' tion of aeronautical interest among said, “and that particular one is American women. The group will the kind that I do not want (o:mecv. monthly for dinner-meetings l'es of aviation and allied subjects. Any person who flies her own ever.” (A dispatch to the New York berger in Paris said: |is simply “civic-minded” and enthu- | slasticeabout bringing, aviation in- | formation to the attention of the (“A series of persistent and dis-| public is eligible to apply for mem- turbing reports that Red Army and Lersi Each application will be Soviet satellite troops were being!considered by the club’s Board of concentrated in the environs of Directors who will have final vote Yugoslavia was received by the on all memberships. United States delegation to the The next meeting will be held Foreign Minist Council yes-' July 2. Each member will be asked | to take a guest interested in learn- Red Troops Concentrated terday and tcday. (“The reports created a certain ing more details of the club and amount of anxiety, either that its planned Moscow might be trying to embark - - D cn a new type of pressure politics to cbtain peace settlements in ac-| A l x cordance with its own conceptions s ko Au ".IARY ' . MEETS TUESDAY; [} or that elements sceking discor among the four biz powers were tain’ of Europe it is difficult to! The regular social meeting of the get any exact confirmed details re-iAmerlcan Legion Auxiliary tomor- work. at work, Spread Anxiety (“Because of the difficulty of ac- A Home Is What You Make lf When Rieboldt received orders to report to the Philadelphia Naval Base, he hooked his trailer- | shown here, SETTLEMENT BIG STRIKE $TOPS MOVE | Situation %;y Much Bet- ' ter’”" Is Concensus— Coast Trouble WASHINGTON, . June 17.—Con- gressional friends of organized la- bor predicted today that settlement of the threatened maritime strike has blocked enactment of any “drastic legislation” this year. While some lawmakers still talk- led of pushing through a modified version of President Truman's Emergency Strike Control Bill, the Administration itself was obviously !relimt‘d over the fresh turn in in- | dustrial relations. In comment typical of those who oot . G usually espouse union viewpoints , and their son, James, 10, ¢f Oakland, |, Capitol Hill, Rep. Biemiller a surplus property sale in Seattle, - | (D-Wis) told a reporter: “settle- { ment of the maritime dispute takes away the ammunition of those try- ing to take away labor’s right with drastic legislation.” Biemiller said he believes he and his associates now can prevent pas- SHIP TIE-UP !sage of the Emergency Bill asked | by Mr. Truman. While the. labor situation gener- l ally is “very much better"—in the words of Howard T. Colvin, Assist- | i i (0NT|NUING fresh storm. ] { Fund Raising Campaign | e | The CIO-dominated committee i {for maritime unity undertook a ant Conciliation Service Director— the dark cloud held portents of a ‘Maritime Workers Stay Off saioos0 tund-rmisins " campaten | pointed_to the September 30 ex- ‘plruflon date of the contract cov- {ering Harry Bridges' west coast | longshoremen. dhdiirty | Bridges’ men came out with the : LRSS | smallest gains of any union in the m:fifn‘:gg;' Os;fip:m:,erl: l:()* ;‘x:;zxtrlkc-m‘erung settlement hammer- Toaded in Oregon harbors today astd oy 'by t?gsov‘::;m‘;:l?:;‘; CIO maritime workers stayed off |SOme Crews b last week, and the fiery Pacific their S 51 . j“bs. pending settenent of %) coast labor leader has made clear dispute called by failure of the! i - rhe went along only because his National maritime agreement to! specifically name a Portland union {opnteact has only, s more toag ‘| three months to run, Ernest Baker, president of thel > Portland area longshoremen, re-| he wesl, conte HEmmmaTeT o8 ’ s imanded a 35-cent an hour pay ported all unions affiliated wuhibcosl but settled for the 22 cents the Portland Maritime Unity Com-| mittee had agreed “not to go back recommended by a Presidential to work” until the cargo checkers‘r“‘-“ndmg bowsss | Al | ANTI-RACKETEERING RING WASHINGTON, June 17. — The Jobs Pending’ Settle- ment for Checkers He exnlained the National mari- time agreement failed to list the| | Times correspondent C. L. Sulz-|plane, is interested in flying, or| Oregon checkers, but had named Senate Judiciary Committee ap- California affiliate as receiving a Proved today the Hobbs “anti- 22-cent an hour increase. | racketeering ring” provision of the Russell Ferguson, manager of the Case Strike Control Bill vetoed by Waterfront Employers’ Association, | President Truman. called the work stoppage a “strike”| Chalrman McCarran (D-Neb) and reported employers would meet|8id no record was made of the teday to determine what to do re- (COmmittee vote but that it was !garding a unfon demand for a| ‘MOt unanimous.’, written promise to pay raises zlv-‘ The bill, sponsored by Rep. en California checkers, | Hobbs (D-Ala), passed the House ~ Kt | last December and since has been | bottled up in the Senate Judiclary SEATTLE STOP-WORK | Cemmittee. SEATTLE, June 17.-Capt. Her-| It would méke it a felony under in Strauss, representing the Mas- | Federal law for any one to inter- Mates and Pilots Union, Local | fére with movements of goods in 90, said today that 500 to 700 | interstate commerce ‘“by robbery {members of the union will hold a'or extortion.” | stop-work meeting at 1 p. m, tomor- | Violations would be punishable ' row in the old Labor Temple. iby fines up to $10,000 or impris- | No limit has been set on the|onment for up to 20 years. e 1 length of the meeting. - STOCK QUOTATIONS | “It is wages, hours and general NEW YORK, June 17.—Closing | working conditions,” Strauss said, | | “We do not like the way we are be- | garding these rumors, but they are row night is to be a party honor- ing Plshed around in our efforts to | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine sufficiently coordinated in and widespread in source to spread Poppy wreaths and also the girls more than a modicum of anxiety. |and boys who helped =ell the Amer- (“Nevertheless there is reason to ican Legion Memorial poppies, on believe that, as a result of such! Saturday, May 25. 'are in charge of the evening’s jentertainment and refreshments. l | A very brief business session will !be held at 8 o'clock, while the spec- ial guests are invited to go about |8:30 o'clock. IS BELIEVED T0 | BE ALASKA BOUND o\ cvuse ack SEATTLE, June 17-—Labor Sec-| FROM SOUTHLAND retary and Mrs. Lewis B. Schwellen- bach spirited themselves out of town, it was learned today at the Don Skuse of the Charles W. World Maritime Conferen¢e, to Carter Mortuary, returned Satur- which he is a government delegace,}day from a two-weeks business trip His séeretary and his family de-|to the state of Washington. enroute to Alaska by steamship. while south, time|ing all those who helped make Regotiate with the employers.” |stock today is 8&, Alleghany Cor- Menbérs of the union, an A. F. of | poration.7, American Can 103, An- L. affillate, will meet until the¥|,conda 48%, Commonwealth and decide what action should be taken, | gouthern 5%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, { Bteausy. sitd. | International Harvester 100, Ken- information as has been received,| All. members whose birthday| SRR gl | necott 581, New York Central 27%, United States regiments in Germany month is June are also cordially in- | | Northern Pacific 33, United Coi and some Allied troops in Italy|vited to be present to share the Bo' Smo'hered | poration 5%, U. S. Steel 90%, have been alerted and units pro- “birthday cake” honors, i . | Pound $4.03%. | tectively shifted, despite any offi- Mrs. George Gullufsen, Junior‘lo Deafll mn | Sales today were 1,020,000 shares. cial denials of such measurs”) |Activities Chairman, and rsvi A | Dow, Jones averages today are ——————— | James Sofoulis, Poppy Cl‘““'m"“~‘ne'"ge’a'°r ? !as follows: industrials 210.13, rails 68.22, utilities 42.81. “ ol KARNES ON TRIP A. E. Karnes, head of the Re- gional Office, Veterans Administra- tion, in Juneau, is expected to re- turn to his office from a business trip to Nome, Fairbanks, and An- chorage cn June 23, | Mr. Karnes left last week to make an official survey of veteran problems in !he'lnurlor. ROCHESTER, Pa, June 17.—Four year old James Sutton of Rochester |township climbed into an unused| |refrigerator on the back porch of! !this home yesterday. | Somehow, the door closed behind |him. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. |Frank Sutton, said a playmate or a {dog might have done it. i At suppertime, four hours later, |the door was opéned. The boy was {found dead, a victim of suffogation, Srerrrieliiton o | Mrs. Sutton said she had been! CLARK RETURN |vffered 85 for the broken refrig- —_— |erator, but refused it in the hope| Henry Clark, of the Alaska De- velopment Board, returned today “Why didn't we sell 1t?” said thelfrom a trip to the States. He is 5 ! brokenhearted father, now at Hotel Juneau.