The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 22, 1946, Page 1

SATURDAY l P.M. Edition “ALL T THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition — VOL. LXVII., NO. 10,304 JUNH\U ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BOMBER IN CRASH AT ALEUTIAN That Knockout Blow by Louis HOBBS LABOR RACKETEERING BILL IS PASSED Capital Speafiies on Tru- man Veto of Union- | Opposed Measure | WASHINGTON, June 22—Con-| gress thrust a new dilemma upon| President Truman today in the| form of the so-called Hobbs “anti- racketeering” bill, long the target, of violent union criticism. Pass‘\_flv“ came on a voice vote ! ‘The Hobbs bill, which has been| bidding annually for passage since 1942, surprised everyone by whip- ping through the nate suddenly | and unexpectedly yesterday in the exact form already approved by the | House. Capitol Hill immediately buzzed with speculation whether Mr. Tru- man might veto it, just as he did the Case bill last week. The lat- ter included the Hobbs measure’s| provisions in identical language and | the Senate Judiciary Committee said such legislation would prevent “intererence with interstate com- merce by robbery and extortion.” ™o the June 11 Case bill veto, Mr, Truman said that while he was | “m tull accord with the objectives,” | Congress should expressly provide the measure “does not make it a felony to strike and picket peace- | fully and to take other legmmate‘ 'md peaceful concerted action.” (Conlmued on Page FEight) | Viclory Smile Jee Louis wears a bread smile as Yankee Stadium, retain his world he o e ew York, after he knocked ont Billy vyweight bexing crewn. (AP Wirephoto) in Conn to he walks to his dressing room The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON 1 WASHINGTON — A group of Cabineteers and White House ad— visers were gathered at the homc of Undersecretary of the Navy John Sullivan the other day, com- paring notes as to who was going to see the Louis-Conn fight in New York. ¥ It turned cut that the follo were going, and all taking the same} airplane to New York: Secretary | of the Treasury John W. Snyder; Secretary of Agriculture Clinton A.| Anderson; OPA Administrator Paul Porter; War Reconverter John Steelman; White House Press Sec- retaty Charles Ross; White House Personal Secretary Matt Connelly.| “What a chance for the pilot to pull the plug!” wise-cracked ex-| Cengressman Joe Casey of Massa- chusetts, now Vice President of| | | shot back OPA's Paul| nd become another Colin| RACE TRACKS VS. VET HOUSING Biggest scandal in the veterans’ housing program is the way non- | essential race tracks, roller coasters, | R.R. FREIGH ing i | meet what they called a I RATES GOING AN(HORAGE (- ¢ FLIGHT NOW IN WASHINGTON,D.C. PROBE STARTS IN EXPLOSION DALLAS HOTEL Firemen, Wreck Experfs| Dig in Rubble - Filled | i, Basement for Victims DALLAS, June 22 —Firemen and |wicex experts dug today in. the | rubble-filled basement of the | swank Baker Hotel with possibility they may uncover more the terrific explosion which yester- day took a known toll of seven: dead and 41 injured. | Explosions expert George M.| Kintz of the United States Bureau| of Mines said after a survey: “We can't tell a thing about the| ceuse yet. It takes time—the cause | may never be confirmed.” Fire Chief C. N. Penn called in! |Kintz and E. L. Mitchell of San| Antonio, representative of the Na-} tional Board of Fire Underwriters,| to assist in an exhaustive investi- gation. | The explosion was the third me jor hotel disaster in the nation in 16 days. First and wo was the flash fire | ‘-h.h swept Chicago’s hotel LaSalle early the morning of June 6, claim- | 60 lives and injuring more than 200, Four days later another early morning fire killed 17 persons in the Canfield Hotel, Dubuque, Towa. | | The explosion took place shortly | before nocn in a sub-basement ‘\'»l‘ou werkmen . were installing ye-iiv LOWEST LEVEL _1ru,clauan equipment. Ammouda -in huge quantities poured out of the basement and into the lobby and rooms. — .- India Inferim Up SHARPH_Y Charter Plane Pariy Pro-| GOV' Frammg Interstate Commerce Com- mission Gives Author- ization for Raise WASHINGTON, June 22. { nation’s freight rate bill will swecrve sharply upward next month, but OPA officials withheld judgment tcday as to the effect on living and business costs. Increases. in interstate freight rates and charges which will brir rail and water carriers, about $290,- 000,000 more in gross revenue on an annual basis were authorized late yesterday by the interstate commerce commission. And still larger boosts are in prospect. The commission announc- ld that a full hearing will be held/ “promptiy” en the carriers’ peti-| tion for a 25 percent rate hike to “eritical financial condition. The new freight rates, The " | erfective pagandizes Inland | Alrway Route | WASHI!\GTON, June 22 va-i neering a direct air route between the nation’s capital and Alaska, the | commercial plane from Lhc; ritery to land at the National Airport arrived yesterday, carrying delegation of 21 prominent Al-{ aska citizens and officials. l They were intent on convincingi | the government that it should in- sist that any air route approved to! the Orient or Asia should fly the !inland route from Minnesota wrough Edmonton, Canada to the| v and over the Aleutians to a or the Orient. i e party spent 23 hours and l7‘ ‘ruu\m in the air from Anchorage | |to Wagshington. Alaska Airlines flew | ‘m«\ plane from the Territory. It| jeft Anchorage last Wednesday ar’ |stops were made at aneaxmhs\ Minn., Fargo, N. D., Chicago, In-! | dianapolis and Cincinnati. i Before CAB Luw The question of authorizing air| Is fo Resume Nehru Moves Out of Kash- mir Dispute for Time Being Only ‘ NEW DELHI, June 22-—Jawah arlal Nehru, President-elect of the Congress Party, temporarily drop- ped his dispute with Kashmir au- thorities today. The controversy had resulted in widespread strikes and disturbances and the death of two persons. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Con- gress Party President, received a telegram from the spirited chief- tain-elect saying he was accepting Azad’s instructions to drop the dis- pute and return to Delhi, understanding that I come back to Kashmir.” Nehru was arrested Thursday in the Princely State of Kashmir victims of | “on the ¢ is Billy Cenn going dewn af )h is the referce. MEATPACKING Champion fo Neutral Corner IS AT ALL-TIME ‘Beef Steaks Are Reported Practically in.Class with Fricasseed Dodo (By The Ah O‘Ithd Press) Fresh meat, hard o get in wa time with rationing in effect, h: virtually vanished from most of the naticn’s pea ne dinner tables. With sl most of the big packers at an his- ! toric low ievel, the shortage of fresh | meat supplies is general throughout | the country. | One meat packing industry spokes- | man said the consumer supply of meat in legitimate cha was lower than at any time in history. Most of the packing plants, large and small, maintain skeleton ¥ ing cre Many plants have closed, Butcher shops in many cities re- main closed two or three days a week { Business at the big packing plants in Chicago and Kansas City, the nation's two largest meat centers, is at an all-time low. Since Monday Chicago packers re- ported slaughtering less than 4,000 le, the lowest in history and compared to more than 20,000 heads the same days las Armour, one of the b ers, has gest pac not slaughtered a beef ani- \ghtering operations of ' BASE ter receiving that t ks lo ln'x, on orders of Challeager Billy Conn ia the rific blow frem Leuis in the eighth round, a ncufral corner in Yankee Stadium, Referee Eddie Joseph after knccking out ith reund. BIG CRAFT "IN SMASH . ATSHEYMA LAl Personn‘;flboard Pre- sumed Lost - Ware- house Is Set Afire ANCHORAGE, Al&lkl. June 2 Al personnel aboard a B-24 bomber were presumed lost Monday when the airplane crashed inte the quartermaster warchouse at Shemya, in the Aleutians, headquarters of the Alaska Department reports. The total number aboard was not reported but the names of five victims were listed. None were from the north The report safd’ d esti- mated at $308,000 was done to the .warehouse by the crash and the rcsulung flm “ Eddie | STUMBLING BLOCK ] SEATTLE, June 22. — William Herbert Hutchinson of Great Bri- tain observed yesterday he had paid $2.35 in Seattle for a haircut and shampoo that would have cost him 70 cents in London and said he opposed an arbitrary minimum wage forthe world’s séamen be- cause of the great varlance in the value of money among the world's nations. Ship owners representing 15 na- tions joined in a bloc behind this line of reasoning as the minimum wage proposal stumbled in the Wage and Hour Committee of the World Maritime Conference. Hutchinson, a Workers’ Delegate, jadded that a “minimum scale” of {scme sort must be agreed upon, however, to avoid a possibility that an avaricious ship owner in a low- pay nation might exploit his work- ers. “It must be recognized,” said Richard Snedden, British ship own- er delegate, “that seamen's wages depend in the main upon the cost and standard of living in their re- spective countries and are related ito the ‘general level of wages in the shore. industries of the country concerned.” 'FOURTH ATOMIC 1 IS "TOMORROW" . i ABOARD THE USS MT. Mec- {KINLEY, June 21—(Via Navy |Radio - Delayed)—Maj. Gen. Will- iam E. Kepner, commander of fhe army’s atomic test operations, an- nounced today that Maj. Woodrow P. Swancutt's B-29 crew definitely had been assigned to drop the The Pittsburgh fighter and bowling alleys divert thousands| yi1y 1 on three days’ advance no-| of feet of precious lumber and car-|tco will continue until the com-| world’s fourth atomic bomb. The atomic task force commanders Wi mal thi k. Overating at capac- when he attempted to intervene routes to the Orieny has been be- | es. (AP Wirepheto) iies en the r:un.w his gltwcd fists over his ey the Civ y ics 2 r Na- the cattle slaughtering depart- nters’ time, which could be used fore the Civil Aeronautics Board|in agitation by the Kashmir Na- ity, the cattle slaughtering depart- ' ______ S o e s Gp; ;,eomes oK ‘Veteabs. fiesion Bigriindle: fe,"“‘“’" on the ;" two years. An examiner has| tional Conferende against Mahara- ment could dispose of 220 animals | : : : jdecided today thai “Queen Day, Alenc the. new of ,exm.mhed‘l’"’?““j Dercent iricrease. | recommended approval of the in-|jah Sir Hari Singh, wealthy Hindu an hour. Fred Schroen, Juke Logan, Will-jthe final dresa renearsal, would be £ 2 ruler of the overwhelmingly Mos- ——— lam Henley, Gladys Hawkins, For-held tomorrow, with the practice rdce tracks are those at Atlantic| In Cleveland, John J. Fitzpatrick, {land royte through Alaska. Sens | City and Monmouth, N. J, with eastern territory chairman of theators and Representatives from 11 the Arlington, Ill, track also at-‘Tnmc Executives Association, said | western states, opposed the route: Bum- bomb drop at the target battle- Ron- |ship Nevada scheduled for 10 a. m. luzumu time), 3 p. m. PST. Claudine Bumgartner, 125t Bumgartner, gartner, Sandra ald Bumgartner. lem State. Shortly afterward press dispatch- BRITISH ADMIT ARRIVE HERE BY les said Nehru had left for the ! tempting to-wangle some new re-|the railroads had hoped the com- | ond insisted the CAB select an air ; a 0 ! s ‘ 2 3 prath cons';rucgnon ang quite a battle mission would authorize the full|route to the Orient that would|Punjab on his way to Delhi, and ’pRE(AuTIONARY' | pAA FROM SouIH ‘”!P;N]l’m“k'\u '"’“"‘,‘ l?ee‘;[“ Ld(; mm’rl:;rmhig!:“ t,hem::l:’eurgluumo?ge:b‘ ) . % s Azad 55 mum ilcox, Bert Wells, Leonard | raging over the Tanforan Track increases in a single order, and| leave the United States in Seattle. | Azal announced that the Congres \ e St e sl “ o "called : GIETERE EIa Rt miinth near San Francisco. | The fight over rebuilding Tan- foran is an illustration of how en- crgetic race track owners and| sleepy eyed CPA officials cO-OPer|ijmmediately on what impact the| ate to give veterans' housing lhe‘ go-by. On April 26, a San Francisco| contractor filed a complaint with| CPA (Civilian Production Admin-; istration) that the Tanforan Race: track was getting carpenters by | advertising overtime and, as a re- | sult, his veterans’ housing pro_yects were at a standstill. CPA, however, ruled that Tanfor-‘ an was merely demolishing former | Navy construction, which it ruled! was permissible. About this time,| however, Tanforan applied for a new construction permit, and, ac-| cording to Guy Standifer, presl»y dent of the track, he was ericourag- | ed to go ahead by Ed Halloran, Re- | gional CPA Construction Mnnageri Halloran denies this, -but -Stand- | ifer testifies that Halloran was very i DRSS o TR & (Continued on Page Four) termed yesterday's decision “a | great disappointment to the rail-| | roads. The OPA declined to speculate increases would have on the stabili- | zation program. Director Paul Por- ter said he could not forecast be- fore Monday what effect, if any, the boosts will have on the prices of goods hauled by rail and water. — e 'COASTAL LINES ON DAILY HOPS Alaska Coastal Airlines flew tre following passengers yesterday: to Tenakee—S. Jackson, D. Holland, P. Jack, Mr. and Mrs., L. Hymis, M. Warfield, Mrs. S. O'Toole and 8. O'Toole; from Tenakee—Ed Egland, J. Tennison; to Sitka—C. Williams, A. Van Mavern, O. Benecke, C. Thompson, Ed Littlefield; from Sitka—Carl Thompson, | The party planned to discuss air| routes with President Truman and various government officials. They | will Wit New York before startin, home Tuesday, route at Milwaukee. i e, —— SWORD KNOT HERE; | The Alaska Transportation Com- pany freighter Sword Knot tied {up at Douglas at 8 a.m. yesterday moving over to Co. dock about 6 p.m. yesterday. Northbound, she brought no cold storage. The freighter is due to sail for Skagway before midnight. She will not stop here on her way south but will call at cannery ports enroute to Seattle. —_———ree—— FROM OREGON from Corvallis, Ore. She is staying stopping en-, DUE OUT TONIGHT| the Standard Oil] Florence Beaver has arrived here| Party’s Working Committee, stalled by Nehru’s absence, would conclude its deliberations on Britain’s plans or an interim government tomor- ToW. 'EIGHT COLLEGE EIGHTS POISED . FOR BIG EVEN? SEATTLE, June 22—Some 200- 1000 spectators are keeping one eve on the weather man and his half- way promise of clear skies and smooth water, as they wait for eight of the nation's top-flight college crews to launch their eight-carcd shells on Lake Washington at 5 o'clock this afternoon for the 2,000 meter International Regatta. ! Dopesters are pinning their repu- tations on Wisconsin’s undefeated Badgers to'take the measure of this Jat the Gastineau Hotel, stellar sprint field, TROOPS IK TRIESTE LONDON, June 22 ——A spokesman for the British Foreign Office ac-| knowledged today that there have been some precautignary troop movements in the area of Trieste occupied by British and American troops. But he said Yugnslav reports tha demarcation line would be mov- ed flve miles eastward. were “non- sense.” The Yygoslav press said yesterday | American and British concentra- tions were taking place near the! demarcation line in disputed Ven- ezia Giulia, that two British armor- ed divigions were on the move and t extensive military preparations were taking place. e GEORGE C. GAMMILL HERE George C. Gammill, of Prescott, Ore., is staying at the (,unneau ving his visit in this city. Pan American Airways mt-xrm flew the following passengers and from Seattle, Fairbanks dll(l Whitehorse: From. Seattle: Jack Erickson, Gordon Buethe, Irene Buethe, Myrtle Fellell, Mary Coxey, Sanan- tha Dearmond, Carl Stolberg, Mary Leighton, Garnett Leighton, Jose~ | 69 years old, t ' phine Staples, Lenora Cagley, Mary rcom at the (n)()s\ Apartments on; since the weather potential for good SN bombing was only 50 percent. The final practice was advanced ia day since it is planned for the AI. EAMOS IS Fou“o .support fleet to start getting up DEAD |" HIS Roo"’uteam for a move ,out of the lagoon Sunday to take up stations in the Al Eamos, ht nneth O'Harra |open ocean. believed to be about was tound dead in nis| SUIT nougm Vs, Heikkinen, Elsa Decker, Cora Lock- lower Franklin street this morn-| HAINES OFFICIALS hart, Nick Bez. ing shortly after 10 o'clock His | | Tuss ‘Walter, Andrew. Tuss, | Joe desth was attributed to “naturai! A 56coRd ‘damuge. astion bLased Givesn, Stanley. . Fétaman, - Robert|galises” by Dr. 0. C. Gatjer: inyeg. 25 MISAKIS SE Aulapiul sruest g |Baade, Joseph McCrae, Ole Mathi- Julius Rock- sen, Robert Burgner, well, William Thompson, George Larson, George Gammill, Maud George Murchild, Marjorie Cline, Fournier, Marvin Bowers. | From Whitehorse: Neoma Hill, |Gordon Hill, Jean Hill, Margaret |Hill, Jean Webb, Carol Stenrue. | To Seattle; Homer Murphy, Leo deceased’s ! Devenny, Dora Ferro, Robert Ferro, Elissa Feero, Pat Joyce, Don Lay- b lham Ralph Lloyd, Audrey Porter, ‘tigating doctor been filed in the District Court here by Attorney Willilam L. Paul, Jr., this against the City of Haines and its City Officials on behalf of client Don Statter. Statter's complaint sets forth that he was arrested at Haines, Apparently death cight hours pre- very of the body. A former resident of Wrangell and Ketchikan, Mr. Eamos had liv- ed in Juneau only a short while be- fore his death. He was a sign paint-'witvout warrant, on June 6, 1946, er by profession, and unmarried. lang was detained without being A will is said to leave all the charged or given opportunity to personal effects and post bond. money to a niece in Seattle. | Statter asks judgment of $10,000 The remains are at the Charles civil damages for harm to his repu- Carter Mortuary. tation, had come en or vious to the disc W