The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 29, 1946, Page 1

[« . SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition “ALL THE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE EWS ALL THE TIME” Copy... oy SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition V%. EXVIL, NO. 10,310 TRUMAN VETOES OPA E BLAST--HISTORY'S BIGGEST TEST TRUMAN SEES |NEW LABOR LIVING COSTS | STORM IS UP 3 BILLION, President Pulls Figures Out | Nation's Waterfronts Are of Hat in Explanation of OPA Veto WASHINGTON, June 229. — The cost of a lower-priced automobile, President Truman said today in his OPA bill veto message, would jump by $225 to $250 if the bill became law. He gave other estimates of the cffect the bill would have, although ne added that to figure out exactly | the total cost would be like trying to estimate the cost of a fire about | 5y to sweep a city. Some of his estimates: Costs of building materials, ex- cluding lumber, would go up an average of 20 percent and ‘“com- pletely disrupt” the veterans' hous- Ing program. Steel ceilings up an average of $4 to $8 a ton. A 25 to 30 percent hike for wash- ing machines and refrigerators, 17 pércent for floor coverings, 16 per- cent for plumbing supplies, 13 per- cent for farm machinery. Clothing prices, the President said, are already too high but he figured they would rise an aver- age of 15 percent. This, he said, would add around $3,000,000,000 a year to living expenses of American families. These are only “preliminary es- 4 umates.of a few”. of the first- price boosts, he said. They do not take into consideration further increases on automobiles, for instance, after steel, tires, safety glass and other materials and parts have received their own increases, Mr. Truman added. There would be some major in- creases in foods immediately, the President went on. He said other foods would get increases that would go to processors, so that “the farmer is a victim of this bill.” —_————— HARRY STURROCK RETURNS Harry Sturrock was back be- hind the counter at Behrends this morning from a vacation in' the states. He returned with his family yésterday aboard a PAA plane. The Washington - Merry -Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—It is now get- the strategic bombing survey for;in Scandinavian countries for fish 2, No.3, and No. 4, will be sold ac- summit early in the century. Japan has not been made public. Inside reason is a vigorous back- stage tug-of-war between the Army basic question: “Which of them won the war in the Pacific?” The question secretly under de- iate is whether the Navy's carrier- baSed planes or the Army’s land- based plaves inflicted most damage on Japan. Mix=d up in the question also is whether Navy submarines or ‘Army air power did most to bring Japan to her knees. The two men appointec to battle out this question are Gen. Orvil A. Anderson of the Air Forces, and Adm. Ralph A. Ofstie of the Leyte Task Forces. Actually, they are merely the spokesmen for their superiors. What happened was that after the war with Germany, a strategic bombing survey headed by Frank- lin D'Olier and a group of ¢:ivmxms1 iraveled through Germany and re- ported on the damage done by U. 8. air raids. The report was not entirely pleasing to General “Hap” Arnold, tien head of the Air Forc- es, especially the section ' dealing with the raids on the Schweinfurt| Ball-Bearing works where 600 U. S. eirmen were lost in one raid, af- ter inflicting ineffective damage. Following the European report, therefore, the Army and Navy both teok a hand in the Japanese bomb- ing survey, pushing civilians partly out of the picture. SUBMARINES NO. 1 WEAPON Civilian members of the survey staff, however, have privately made {Continued on Page Four) MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS | | 4 | BREWING Again Threatened Over Schedule on Wages WASHINGTON, June 29.—A new labor storm brewed on the nation’s| | waterfrents today because ship op- |erators gave a higher wage boost to AFL seamen than to CIO sailors. | The CIO-dominated committee | for maritime unity already has an- | ytounced that it will “pre: forwardl for the same wages” Harrv Lunde- | | berg, presideni cf the AFL Sail- | ors Union of the Pacific, negotiat- | ed with west coast shippers. | | Lundeberg won a $22.50 monthly | pay boost for able-bodied seamen. Joseph Curran, whose CIO National | | Maritime Union is a CMU mem- | !ber, had less than two weeks ear- ;lmr settled for a $17.50 increase {for that type of deck worker. Both |the AFL and CIO won the same reductions in working hours. | Curran’'s terms already have been yapproved by the government, which owns most of the merchant marine | i Is. Lundeberg’s terms still must be approved by the War Ship- ping Administration and by the National Wage Stabilization Board. NEW-TYPE CANNERY 15 T0 SPECIALIZE N NORWEGIAN FOODS - Nels Stensland, operator of the North Pole bakery at Anchorage for the past 15 years, and a long-time iresident of the Territory, arrived in! Juneau yesterday afternoon to make official arrangements for opening| a specialized cannery in Petersburg. The new cannery buildings are already constructed on the public! dock at Petersburg and operation WARSAW, June 29—For the first is expected to start when the sal-|time in 11 years, approximately 11,- mon fishing season begins, about!0000C0 Poles will have an oppor- July 15. The cannery will special- tunity to vote tomorrow in a na- ize in Norwegian fish loaf (Fiske|ticnal referendum concluding a | pudding), hand-packed salmon and turbulent political campaign in herring, and numerous Norwegian Which the chief concern of the op- fish delicacies, using salmon and Position was whether the balloting various tyes of bottom fish. woudl be free and unfzttersd. The cannery, the first of its kind |in the Territory, will employ ap- SURPI_US pRopERIIES ing, together with military ment secured on test ship decks i { | OLES WILL | proximately 10 men at the time of {its opening. Machinery and equip- /ment now at the cannery will allow |for future expansion. and Navy which boils down to the| however, | i ‘The Norwegian specialties will re- |quire the use of ground fish, fish | spices, flour and milk, etc. These ingredients will be stored at the cannery. "FIRST-COME" BAS! | All of the motor vehiclgs and 1 BOMB ot instant of detonation creates giant cloud, extending downward with blast, mush- rooming into stratosphere. XTENSION BILL OLDMARU, " the battleship Ncvada, painted erange, is target for bom- bardi in B-29. Over score of ships are withint 1,000 yards of bullseye. | DEPTH of lagoon is [ {about 150 feet. |, ‘Soap Box Derby Drivers o Get iWheeIs Monday : | Wheels will be distributed at the +8 pam. Monday meeting of the Soap Box Derby drivers at the Luther- an Church. All drivers are urged to attend this most important meeting. — e FOOD IS DROPPED " T0 MOUNTAINEERS AT MT. ST. ELIAS ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 29.— Twelve hundred pounds of supplies were dropped by Army plane | Thursday to eight 'toiling up the rugged side of Mount St. Elias, the 18,008-foot high peak i Mr. Stensland has been experi- construction equipment whieh bas which has been conguered only ting close to a year since the end!menting for a number of yearswith alteady been offered to the Vet- gpce, of the war with Japan, and yet recipes and processcs used largely erans through Juneau Sales List No. ;preparanon, He will employ the | turn to Petersburg today at noon. {FROM SOUTH BY PAA Pan American Airways yesterday {flew the following passengers to and from this city: From Seattle: Ken Shudshift, {Kenneth Alexander, Marjorie Mc- Kean, Oswerd Hanson, Ludwig Nel- son, Peter Rietveld, Sandy Sturrock, {Harry Sturrock, Ann Grudon, Will- ijam Taylor, Jean Austin, Carol Jean Austin, Ann Austin. Dorothy Sturrock, Harold Koslos- ky, Helen Spliid, Bessie Evans, John Bejaul, Dauglas Hansen. Frank Evans, Florence Shannon, Robert Shannon, Florence - Kavie, Val Kavic, Frederick Dehart, John Dehart, Dan Nylander, Connie Da- {vis, Billie Hensley, Albert Tgenges, Theodore Jolley, Mathel Anderson, |Maynard Smith, John Wood, Chris Olson, Louis Bianchi, Frederick Frohbose. | From Fairbanks: Earl B. MeGin- |ty; from Whitehorse: Stanley Smith, Steve Dunk. ‘To Seattle: Lloyd Vankirk, Mar- ion Munson, Axel Anderson, Sam- uel Griffin, Isabel Griffin,’ Dewey Baker, Dorothy Baker, Bill Baker, | William Baker, Bert Paterson, Hen- ry Paterson, Carl Hoffman, Ruth Hoffman, Albert Koeppe, Minnie Brod, Ronald Carter, Harold Foss, Ruth Coffin. To Nome: Bess Cross; banks: Robert Young. to Fair- 37 PASSENGERS HERE cording to the sales cenditions on erty Office. This means that all |of those vehicles which have been previously offered to the Veterans {and which were being held for the | “set-aside” list will be sold on a | “first come, first served” basis be- ! ginning Wednesday, 8 a.m., July 3, 1946. ‘This equipment includes 2 Ford |Jeeps, 5 Cargo Truck, 1 1-12 dump truck, 2 flat bed trucks, 1 weapons jcarrier, 2 Allis Chalmers tractors with front end single drum winch-, es, 1 D-8 Tractor, with LeTourneau |bulldozer, and other vafied items }of construction equipment and trucks. | For further information contact the Surplus Property Office located on the Juneau Sub Port Area, Tele- phone No. 836. Velerans Are Being Taken, Sleigh Ride, Charge Advanced| that both the government and in-/ dustry have been taking veterans! for a sleigh ride. | A report issued in Chic: that a veteran was not entitled to| a full year's re-employment un-| less he had sufficient seniority. The ! committee urged the Legion to go| mediately. ‘The Duke of Abruzzi reached the; l The climbers, all members of the best of thess in his new cannery. the sales lists, it is announced by payvard Mountaineering Club, had The cannery operator was to re- Ray. Mathews of the Surplus Prob- compieted the first stage of their trek and marked the drop area by clearing a spot with tbeir s Capt. Roy L. Holdman, y.ot, 5. said ;the mountaineers traccd ihe let- ters “OK" in the snow with their skis after the drop. They had crossed the rugged | smaller mountains leading to the Canadian-Alaskan border mountain ‘and had reached their base camp! | [ mountaineers Scuth Seas fury, immediately fcllowing atomic blast, as vistalized Uy AP Newsfeature Artist Hank Batrow. The time for the historic atom bomb drop is as follows (depending on the weather) 9:30 a.m. Monday, July 1, Bikini time (5:30 pm., Sunday, Eastern Standard timc). The place Marshall Island Atoll of Bikini. 2 208aniles west of Henolulu, 2,600 mily, southeast of Toklo. The scene; Bikini Lagocn, about 10 miles wide by 25 miles long. The target—50 Waiships, including two old U, ppick SEATTLE, June 29.—More “typ- ically winter weather,” with heavy rains and temperatures between 50 the Puget ‘ to 60 was forecast for Sound area today, the result of the efforts of a block of moist air try- ing to push away the dry air which has Alaskans running around in sun suits and temperatures of up to 80 degrees at Fairbanks and 79 at Dawson, Yukon Territory. The weather bureau reported that 1.15 inches of rain fell at Bow Lake, site of the Tacoma-Se- attle airport, yesterday. Basements were flooded and some electric and clephone srviee disrupted by the ical stormn which hit this re- gion yesterday afternoon. D e PRINCESS DANCES 10 WEE HOURS AT "VICTORY BALL” EDINBURGH, June 29.-—Princess Elizibeth danced until 3 o'clock this morning at Scotland’s charity “Victory Ball,” for the benefit of the Queen’s Institute of District Nursing. ! Guests paid five guineas a head 21) instead of the regular half cwn admission the public dance 5. battleships and two old aircraft carriers. © TYPICAL WINTER * FOR SUNDODGING PUGET SOUNDERS AGENCY DIES, PRICE AND RENT (CONTROLS OFF AT MIDNIGHT TOMORROW IF VETO STANDS BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, June 29.—By a vote of 173 to override the veto and 142 to sustain, the Heuse has killed the amended-riddled OPA ex- tension bill and thus sustained the President’s veto. The vote failed to meet the required two-thirds of these voting to override the veto. The action meant that OPA will die at mid- night tomorrow, unless both the Senate and House adopt President Truman’s recommendation and pass a simple resolution to continue the price control agency as is. Many Congressmen doubted that such a resolu- would be approved. Sen. Robert A. Taft predicts the Senate will sustain Truman’s veto. Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley s the Senate will meet on Sunday regardless of what happens about the veto of the OPA extension bill. e tion J ' iR =2 8 SCIENTIFIC recording, photo devices housed in installations on islands of the atoll. s WASHINGTON, June 29.—President Truman today y vetoed the long-wrangled-over OPA extension bill, deseribing it as contradictory legislation which would be “impossible” to administer. The Senate had passed and sent the con- troversial price control bill to the President late yesterday, by a 47 to 23 vote. Truman’s 4,000-word veto message went to the House, which originated the bill, and that chamber prepared for a iprompt vote on the question of overriding or upholding the President. The rules permit one hour of debate after com- iplctin,n of the rcading of the message by a clerk. ! Death at Midnight ! Congressional leaders say the veto mcans the death of |all- price ‘control—including rent con after tomorrow imidnight. > But the President, in his veto measure, asked that Con- igress continue the present controls by passing a resolution EVERYTH|NG i which weuld hold for the time required to write a new bill. Senate Majority Leader Barkley told his ecolleagues yester- ay, however, that hopes for such an extension were an idle 1 | | dream. The President took the veto action which Chester Bowles - had urged, when he resigned as Economic Stabilizer in pro- | test against the watered-down bill. The President agreed |the measure was impossible. | “It would provide us with no real safeguards at all. It d start prices and costs climbing and keep them climb- It would start the value of the dollar falling and keep it falling. Far from helping production it would retard it. In the end this bill would lead to disaster,” he declared. Inflaiion, With or Without woul {ing. ABOARD USS APPALACHIAN AT BIKINI, June 29—All hands| concerned with “operation cross- | rcads” made ready today to evacu- ' ate Bikini Lagoon, leaving only z-| President Truman said the exténsion bill presented to ghost fleet of 50 old warships as,him by Congress offered no choice between stable prices and guinea pigs for the world’s fourth [inflation. It is a choice, he said, between inflation with a atie-hom. Expineipoy {statute and inflation without one. The bill, he asserted, Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, Com- | continues the government’s responsibility to stabilize the mander of the Atomic Task Force, {economy and at the same time it destroys the government’s is expected to announce tomorrow meorning (3 pm. teday—Saturday— PST) whether the bomb will be darcpped as scheduled about 9:30 a.m. Monday, Bikini time, That is 2:30 p.m. Sunday, PST. Blandy told foreign and scientific chservers today that “we can have the test any day when the sky is not mote than half covered with clouds.” He expressed confidence that cenditions would be favorable cithey cn Monday or “within the ceetlir three or four days.” He said there was a “50-50 chance” the atomic bomb would be dropped Monday as originally plan ned. Everything is ready. If the dec!-l slon is affirmative more than 30, 000 military personnel, scientists, correspondents and observers will start for areas of safety, leaving power to do so. The President will broadcast an explanation of his action ito the country at 10 o'clock P. M., today, Eastern Daylight { Time. ! Sheuld the House or Senate uphold today’s %eto, OPA ‘could survive after tomorrow night only through special (emergency legislation. H ih ll i - Stop Gap Asked Mr. Truman asked Congress to :;o;h;";m:::mz:‘:;:‘l‘wm of tak]a st](;p-gz:’p acu:;n lto keep con- He said he would have no objec- trols alive, by resolution, at once. o i Then, he said, the House and Sen- ;‘:Fl.‘:: t:ne B:j:‘l.lfm’zl;ovi:‘hnwl;:e 'ate should consider an extenslon cejlings wherever nece v, and of price control authority which yhere the production of A:woded (would provide “adequate assurance goods would be increased. jof completing a successful transi- ~ goonomiec Stabilization Director {tion to a sound peacetime econcmy.” Chester Bowles, who dramatically S“C;' “lme"s“‘l’i'rh" “:d{ should regigned last night after the Sen- icontain three chief provisions: o ! 1. An extension of the stabiliza- ::5" p:fiedwm:hw;:zm“‘:nu Ellnn laws for a full year. full of 1 - " { 2. Continued stabilization ull, ot intaMonasE: Shoshy HEaEe iat the foot of St. Elias, Holdman ja)c charge Edinburgh’s youth on * said. The piane is to return Monday ! and drop a second load of supplies at a point about 10,000 feet above sea level and the third and final drop is set for Friday—tentatively— at 12,000 feet. The Army's Tenth Rescue Squadron plans regular flights over the party carrying emergency supplies in case of need. The climbers can contact nearby planes by radio. Maynard Miller of Seattle heads the party. ——,ee - — ~EW SENIOR SANITARIAN ASSIGNED TO KETCHIKAN to Ketchikan and is now enroute to that station. The new sanitarian is from New | ———e—— FISH LANDINGS | Sole fish ‘landed this morning| in John Martinson's Isis. | weck nights. U. S., Russ MPs Are Paired Affer Vienna Inciden! VIENNA, June 29.~—Russian and American military policemen will kenceforth patrol their beats in pairs in the U. 8. Zone of Vienna, it was announced last night by the U. 8. Army, in an effort to avoid incidents such as that which occurred last Saturday when two ! CHICAGL, June 29.—The Na-i I Jack Adelson, new senior sani- American MP's were shot while at- tional Employment Committee of tarian for the Territorial Depart- !erqptlng to recover a stolen jeep the American Legion has charged ment of Health, has been assigned driven by Russian officers. ————————— KEN ALEXANDER RETURNS Kenneth Alexander, Manager of noted York and joins the Department P41 American Airways, rel.unied |a supreme court decision which held after five years in the U. S. Army. Ne'¢ vestérday by PAA from Se- attle e BESS CROSS LEAVES Bess Cross, Territorial legislator, after legislation to correct that im-| was 26,000 pounds of king salmon ieft for Nome yesterday by Pan ment of Public Weifare. They are duct prices to make possible the American Airways, 5ub- hajled the P o only skeleton crews in the lagoon |sidies on a scale sufficient to pre- i\ ";a:e:m;f“‘”“‘“ veto of the and on the islands of the atoll to vent serious increases in food pri- . make last-mirute adjustments on ces during the next six month, and Du:}:‘v;erl}; 913:::” m.p::l:em‘c:un:;i instrum’ents, cameras and recording 'to allow an orderly end of subsidies courags of President Truman veto- equipment, during the first half of next year. ing this impossible price control The old ships which will remain| 3. An expression of Congress- py . overnight in tne lagoon are Admir- [ional policy on ending price con-| poyias made his statement to al Blanay's flagship, the Mt. Mc-'f0ls and. subsidies. Mr. Truman (n, agociated Press just after he Kinley, and the Kenneth Whiting, (¢xpressed a liking for those provis-| a4 peen informed by his office an instrument ship which will be{lons in the measure he vetoed o tne president's veto. making a late check of its techni- |Which called for an orderly remov- .pne jssue now,” Bowles told a cal equipment. A few small boats @l of price controls and subsidies, yon,iter “is: Are we going to have will be left to cvacuate personnel. \""C'?‘ on :"‘Am"_,lmm are In short eorfective price control. At midnight there Will be only [* Mie Tromar s am confident Congress will o Mr. Truman said he would not 2 meet this 246 men left on the target ships object even to standards of de-con- ype pfe issue uzunuly' ':1 protect making final adjustments to instru- :‘trol‘lakmg off price cellings—of i ments which will record the heatispecific commodities as provided in Waae. ikt thet oo end light of ‘he biast and radlo-iihe extension bill, But he put this! A¢ the Offics of ‘War Mobiliza- activity created. by the mighty ex- on the condition that the standards yion' and. Reconversion, officials )yl‘nsion, And on the islands there are modified to make sure that in s iy pref‘erred Bat o e ill be 46 men setting recording the crucial next six months, cell- G4 that an expiration of ‘price equipment. ;ings do not have to be lifted where o P i controls would also me: X~ > {it is plain that serious price rises pleation of wd 5 b ':‘ s e MRS. THORENDAL ARRIVES |would result. ey - mn“phmu 8 | Production Is Goat 1 " M. A. T. Thorendal arrivedi The President made still another e“;n’il;:e lflr:lymwue”mmllu m';w, i here by plane this, week {rom Se-’pmnt in vetoing the compromise lattle to join her band who is price control measure: !chief accountant for the Depart-| This was, that adjustment of pro- Presidential order, under wage-price. policy, which say: Any emplover can raise wages all he wants but he SRR IS WG EE A T 805 living at the Hillcrest Apartments. maximum total production is one (Continued on Page Two)