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

SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition J THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL SATIJBDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXVII.,NO 10,321 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATU RDAY, IUI\ 13, 1946 MEMBER ASSOC[M S5 D PRI PRICE TEN C b AFL Sailors, [Longshoremen (10 Dockmen In Showdown Harry Lundeberg Chal- Stop -Work Meets Called at lenges Bridges Unionfo | Seattle and Portland | San-Francisco Bout | Monday on Back Pay SAN FRANCISCO, July 13—With| SEATTLE, Jll]\' 13 —A charge uf the AFL Soilors’ Union of the PB-‘ “stalling”—cimphatically denied by cific challenging CIO longshoremen | the Waterfront Employers’ Associa- to a showdown fight, a special re- | tion—was leveled last night by “i presentative of the Labor Depart-|CIO longshoremen'’s union spokes-| ment todav opened an investigation man who announced at the same| of the jurisdictional dispute whlch‘umo the union would tie up Puget| is idling scips on both coasts. {buund shiopirg Monday in [)l()le\! Harry Lundeberg, Secretary of G. E. Flwell, local secretary of | the AFL Unioi, last night told the!the International Longshoremen’s | ) 8an Francirco Central Labor Coun- |and Warehcusemen’s Union, said | cil (AFL) that 3,000 dock workers would stop work | “If the International Longshore-|to hold a mass meeting and discuss men’s and Warehousemen’s Union|the alleged ay in payment of (CIQ) refuses to work one ship|retroactive wace increases. manned by AFL sailors in San| Speakine for the employers, M.| Francisco, we'll close the port of| G. Ringenber said immediate San Francisco tight. payment was physical impos- 4 “Then weil see who can fight it|sibility” cue to the immense ’ out the longest.” {amount of office work involved. The dispute broke out at Coos| The payracnt totaling about $2,- Bay, Ore., when Harry Bridges in-| 000,000 for area, were approved $gtructed his CIO longshoremen not|iast August by the War Labor to unload &n American Pacific| Board, are retrcactive from Oct. Shipping Company vessel, and has! 1, 1944 to October of last year. since spread to the east coast. | Meanwhile, Portland Oregon In San Pcdro, some 200 dock|longshoremen also have scheduled foremen— members of the CIO a 10 am. stop-work meeting for longshoremen’s union—have voted| Monday. Leaders say the stoppage to strike August first. They assert|was voted when the men were ad- that recent wage increases were|vised that retioactive pay increase not propoctionate to those granted|checks due Monday would not be longshoremei. handed out that day. The Committee for maritime| —_— . upity, of which the ILWU is & member, has charged west coast ship owneis with plotting with Lundeberg to give his union “total jurisdiction” on all west coast ships. 20 WOMEN KIDNAPED Hukbalahaps Are Raising Disturbances in One Section, Philippines (Conlmued on Page Two} The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON i | | | | WASHINGTON—Those who sat on the inside of the Erie Basin Metals Procucts, office during the heyday of its lush war orders rack- et say that so:ne amazing telephone conversations {ook place. Usually thc name of the com- pany's Congressional godfather, | TARLUC, Luzon, P. I, July 13.— Twenty Filipino women were kid- napred today at the nearby village of Mayantoc Bay by an armed band which Philippine Army Military Po- lice identified as members of the peasant irregular guerrilla organiza- tion, the Hukbalahaps. Representalive May of Kentucky, was not mentioned over the phone —though his name was frequently mentioned in private talks around The military police said the kid- naping was apparently an aftermath of the clash between MPs and Huks near the village July 9 when 38 Huks the office. Instead May’s code name iand one MP were slain. Unable to «Yiechel” was used on the tele-|provide a motive for the mass ab- phone. Or at cther times he Was|ductions, the MP officials speculated referred to as “our friend.” it might have resulted from an at- Here is how May’s name slipped |tempt to “recruit” camp cooks and into one very incriminating tele- | workers. phone conversation. Joseph Free-| pigtraught Provincial officials said man of the Washington office Was|they had good hopes the women phoning the main production office | would not be physically mistreated. in Batavia, Ill, and after talking t0| Meanwhile, at Lubao to the south- Henry Gersson regarding SOmMe |wayd in Pampanga Province, a technical matters, Freeman asked|ploody clash between the Huks and to be switchcd to the accountingla group of MPs reinforced with Hurl Stalling (Charge in NWi department” civilian guards went into it second “What about that piece of pa-|day. per?” he asked Reliable - reports of _yesterday's | “What do you mean?” the chief| accountant replied. fighting said an entire detachment of 50 civilian guards had been slain. | Bdbby Soxer Ideal SHAPELY film star Janel Blair cools off in an outdoor setting after learn= ing that the Bobby Soxers of Amere ica had selected her as one of their ten ideal women. She tas chosen because of her “beauty, charm and musical talent.” (International) LASTACTIN SHIP STRIKE ISONTODAY . Final formalities winding up the American lines longshore strike here were ng place shortly be- fore noon today, when representa- tives of Local 16, International Longshorenien’s and Warehouse- | men'’s Urion (CIO) met with agents of the Alaska Transporta- tion Company and Northland Transportation Company. The agents of the two ship com- panies have now received notice of War Shipping Administration ap- proval of Seattle-signed agree- ments—sirular to the notice re- ceived yesterday by the Alaska Line agent against that company. Following this meeting with the longshore delegation, Northland Transportation Company Agent Henry Green disclosed that the Juneau local has signified its in- tention cargo for steamer North Sea which is due southbounu from Sitka this eve- ning to work the - Byrnes Now Home Bound PARIS, July 13. — Secretary of left by plane today for on. He told newsmen; i that he interds to- urge that an-| held as socn as the European peace Freeman hesitated a minute, | There was no estimate.of casualties other Foreign Ministers meeting b then said: suffered by the Hukbalahaps. | “You know that thousand| MPs started using mortars today : conference is over. against the entrenched peasants who are equipped with .50-caliber | machineguns. ¥ dollars for Yieche “Oh, that went in the mail yes- terday,” was tne reply. GODFATHER MAY On another occasion, Congress- man May himself called the Wash- ington office of Erie Basin. Usually | he was most discreet in talking on the phone, but this time Erie Basin | employees surmised he was tnlkmg{ 1 from a pay station, for, after talk-| Manila that final surrender notices ing about various matters, he | were being prepared for distribution abruptly said: |to all Hukbalahap bands and that “Say, what three | unless the ultimatum was accepted, thousand dollars | “large scale action” would be taken. Mr. Freeman replied that it] B ¥ Sl would be along in a couple of days.| TAKE A GAMBLE On another occasion, Congress-| BUFFALO, N. Y. — Joseph Hoare Huks surrounded and that their sur- render was but a matter of time. Lubao is about 10 miles southwest | of San Fernando, Provincial capital. | The Philippine Army reported in » about that man May phoned to ask for Free-) man and was told by Louis Sarelas,| Maj. Tiburcio Ballestros, Pam- | panga Province Provost Marshal, re- | ported the MPs and guards had the | | newsmen, It is Bv:nes intention to advo-| cate a biz-four ministers meeting| before the United Nations meeting now scheduled for September 23. Byrnes reviewed the Council’s work at the Paris meeting for and commented that he believes internationalization of Tri- este will be 4 good experiment in| international cooperation, COASTAL GLACIER ON MAIDEN TRIP The Coastal Navigation Company’s M. S. Coastal Glacier, on her maid- en trip, arrived at 2:30 a. m. today with the following passengers for ! then in charge of the Washlngmn} office: probably knows what a Sphygmo-|Juneau: ¢ “Freeman’s up in New York mak-|méter is today, but he said he did|Arnes from Petersburg, Al Johnson ing us a lot of money.” |no May became very indignant at] ibought it yesterday at a police auc-| this. “I beg your pardon,” he said, tion of unclaimed property. and hung up. Hoare, .a bartender, outbid all When May was next in the of-|others with 75 cents to obtain it. fice personaily, he apoligized to| He didn't know why he bid on the —_— Sphygmomete\ a device for check-! eu B LS 74 i (Continued on Page Four) ing the pulse beat, t know what it was when heland L. T. Boyer from Wrangell, jand Mr. Abbott and Miss Eliza- beth White from Ketchikan. She sailed at 4 a. m. for Haines and Skagway, and will arrive late today at Auk Kay to disembark| Skagway passengers and pick up Sitka passengers, which terminated the strike| New York on| C. E. Adams and Olaf}| 4 Ship Firms (harged With Strike Blame Longshoremen Charge: Empire Misinforms;Oper- ators Broke Agreement | Forty businessmen and yachtsmen | of Juneau last night heard Juneau Local 16, International Longshore- | men’s and Warehousemen's Union (CIO), present its first statement of the longshoremen’s position in! the port dispute just ended. ' Opening declaration of the un on! delegation, made by Secretary Don McCammon, was however, that the |strike here was not ended—as far as three of the four major ship! lines were concerned. Stating that | the primary purpose of the long- shoremen in being represented at| the “merchants’ meeting” was to, correct “misinformation” spread by | the Empire (The Daily Alaska Em- pire), McCammon said that settle- ment had then been reached onl\' with the Alaska Steamship Com- pany; but it was expected that agents here for the lehl'md Transportation Company and the Alaska Transportation Company would scon receive word from the head offices which would automati- ' cally end the strike against those two companies also. Empire Attacked MOVIE LOVELIES studio in protest, their agent sa Left to right, Marie Wilson, Judy Cook, Darleen De Mos, NO BODICE BARBARITY/ , against wea ey *PROTEST' —_Five girls carrying signs picket a Hollywood movie ng old-fashioned, steel-ribbed corsels in a iew Norma Brown, Suzanne Ridgeway. film, After holding out for a time the film producer gave in to them. BRIT. LOAN CrackdownOn REDINTRIAL INHOUSE Jap Bullying MOVESINTO SHOWDOWN ByU.S. Troops FINAL STAGE cordings Introduced But | | They're Jumbled SEATTLE, age-consp! July al of Soviet naval | More forceful in attach cn the {mapkie; v . Lot 16e_Pacedart Final Vote Expeded Dur- Misconduct by ObJedton- Whlspermg Wire”" Re- 1lD years he has been reviewing Em- 'ng Day_Opmlons on able Mmor"y Hn by pire accounts pertaining to labor, g o o wiew, forevers v Megsure Given - OccupationalGeneral there has been half-a-dozen un- i f:lhh‘;m,:,; half-truths and WIODE | o \cpINGTON, July 13. — This| TOKYO, July 13. — The crack- v AR s s showdown day for that loan to down by Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eich- The longshoremen laid before the Britain, A final House wote is ex- | elberger oa the “drunken bullies” meeting copies of the “Ketchikan Agreement,” which settled the pre- |vious Alaska longshore strike which ended in April of this year; of Prof. Vernon A. Mund’s findings as arbitrator of non-negotiated issues in that dispute; and of correspon- dence with the Alaska Company—which, McCammon said, show the facts of the late strike. Asked if the settlement reached with the Alaska Line today “in- {cludes everything?” McCammon re- !plied affirmatively, but to another inquiry added: “Until September.” New Contract Refused In answer to a question why September? McCammon said that time has been set in notifications for negotiation of new with the ship lines and dock oper- contracts Steamship pected on the proposal to bolster British finances with $3,750,000,000 American doliars. And on the out- come of that vote, declare those who favor. the loan, will depend whether the United States or Rus- sia to be the world political leader. On the other side of the fence, critics of the loan proposal say that Russia might regard it as an unfriendly act The Democratic Senator Texas, Speaker Sam Rayburn, lieves that he knows how the House will vote. He has predicted ratifi- cation by .rom 20 to 50 votes. But the latest poils taken of House members saowed these figures: 188 for the loan: 163 against it, and 82| who have not made up their minds, or are not available for nose-count- is from of the American occupation forces in Japan highlights a subject which [} been a major disturbance to occupation officials—the behavior of American soldiers in Japan. Indicative of the proportions of the disturbance is the fact that the ghth Army Commander saw fit o release his letter for publication after havi part cf his 0 zssembled 1100ps be- | Majority Above Repro: It was stressed that the conduct Lieutenant Nicolai move into a new G. Redin phase today. The defense finaly has what H calls the “harmless” FBI “whisper- ing wire” recordings of mnvvlsn- fiohé Between Redih: sad siteyasdl engineer Herbsrt G. Kennedy. The recordings were made in Kenned, home and the engineer has testified | that he sold the Russian officer made the subject a ' secrets about the USS destroyer ten- | Fourth of July address der Yellowstone. The “whispering wire” | were plaved in court yesterday ! But the rccord apparently offered lof the majority of the occupation|Only & Jumwble of sound, with little personnel has been above reproach,; | but the ol jectionable minority have | assaulted wonien, maliciously beat- len men, stolen, engaged in black market operations and by Japanese ators. There is no present con- ing. The & already has “”th(-n' “deliperate bullying :\tll}ud tract, he elaborated. The long- proved the- 1 by a vote of 46| have made the Japanese suspicio :‘ ::':r:;t‘nal::;};z::ednr‘;}:o:lg;(;ml.h‘ to 34 1 of the dem.oc li(_\.Wl"li(.Il :)ux troo S oitnase VRAES mmim that ex.| Republican representative I;m-fi*“l \'”]”‘“"’_ d” ‘:,'l’l‘z“;“l' e it a2 i ths tace of opera. €t Dirksens amendment to the| :)) t "('1 _““L 5 ”1 el ebs”f‘-” i A 5 PEra- || oan bill is expected to provide the me drunken, slovenly bully can |tor's refusals to negotiate new firsh teute b ALPADEtE todhy. Dirk- | neutralize the good impression contracts. The old contracts pro- g ® 8 » 4 v LI e v’i’ded ST w:rk t"rmstmigh(p e fen has proposed that Britain put | made by a dozen fine soldiers. |thrown open to new negotiations |at any time after expiration, upon 30 days notice. That notice, he said, has several times been given by the union. Now, the longshore- |men want new contracts with t operators by the September date, or —there was no ‘“or” stated. Charging that the real cause of| ithe latest strike was ship opera- tors’ refusal to abide by the terms f the “Ketchikan agreement,” Ford | pointed out that agreement provided |that any Pacific Coast settlements | pertaining to pay were automati- cally to be extended to Alaska workers. . Agreement Broken up collateral for any cash that i advanced her. —————— R.H.WEYERHAEUSER, OF LUMBER FAMILY, - DIES, ST. PAUL HOME ST. PAUL, Minn dolph M. Weyerhaeus famous Iumber fam! day of a heart ailment. Weyerhaeuser, President of Pot- late Forests, Inc., of Lewiston, July 13—Ru- r, 78, of the died yester- Wives Dictressed Yot only | distressed he objecticnable > been with the m san wives who have arvived re- | e en sharply eritical ; ops Who subject them to thm\ and howls when they ap- pear cn the streets. The sight of American uoops openly fraternizing with Japanese women likewise has been censured by the American 7omen. In this connection, it should be i noted that not only enlisted men are seen ir. the company of Japan- ese women, Cfficers of high rank may be seen driving kimonoed Japanese women in their cars. | A new coastwise agreement was Idaho, was a director in a number Ireached (at San Francisco, 1ast|or jiyge firms, among them the| _ Huse Troperty Thefts {month )which provided a 22 cents | yornern Pacific Rallway, the Wey-| There Is no way to check the an hour increase in the base Pay onieuser Timber Company and | theft of govirnment property by ‘xate for longshoremen. Operators on the Pacific Coast immediately |began paying that new rate, but— |despite what they had agreed at | Ketchikan—the Alaska ship opera- Itors refused to. Result: Longshore- men Below have been receiving a base rate of $1.37 per hour while Alaska longshoremen have been paid only $1.32 per hour; that in face of custom decreeing that Alaska long- | shoremen receive higher pay. That operator refusal to agree to pay the added 22 cents an hour awarded Pacific Coast longshore- men precipitated the strike, Ford charged. Dock operators were not |involved, he said, because they im- ‘medmtely agreed to pay the $1.54 per hour base scale and have been Weyerhaeuser Sales Company. Among survivors are two cousins, Davis Weyerhaeuser and J. P. Weyerhaeuser of Tacoma. Funeral services have been set for Monday. R HEALTH COUNCIL TO MEET MONDAY A special meeung of the Juneau Health Council will be held Monday night at 8 o'clock in Room 218, Territorial Health Buiiding, to con- sider plans for moving to new quarters. The special session has been called y M M. O. Johnson who yester- stressed the need for a full soldiers, but some ldea of the mer- chandising activities of the occu- pation forces can be gained from the fact that $35,000,000 more dol- lars have been sent to the United States by tioops in Japan than has been paid to the soldiers in wages. The sale of American rations, clothing and automobile on the mon. excuse the troops’ misconduct on the grounds of youth, According to headquarters records the average age is about 23 ye Sole boat landing fish today was !paylfxghlt n;fl:«efi A}l]askalDock dCox:‘nr; attendance at the meetjng. Mem- | the Alaska Coastal Fisheries' pack- L AP T4 o g P A‘_‘h.,,\ur the Health Council are rep- | °r Elfin 1I, skippered by E. O. TEROROLIND RBATY. AT AT o resentatives of the various Juneau|Swanson, - which delivered 50,000 ) (Continued on Page Tto, organizations, pounds of salmon, supplies | black market is not uncom- | Some officers have attempted to' understandable. All testmony in the case has been completed and now the de- fense and the prosecution are pre- paring thewr final arguments. And it is ecstimated the case may run into late Monday or Tuesday of next week or none oi i D s THREE ALARM | . FIRE, BOSTON EOSTON, July 13.-Two decom- missioned escort carriers were dam- aged today in a three-alarm fire which burned 50 yards of a dock in the Navy Yard Annex at South Boston. The blaze started on the dock near the carriers Manila Bay and i Marcus Island. Plate buckled on both vessels. The fire was brought under con- trol by the combined efforts of 25 pieces of land apparatus from the Boston Fire Department, City and Coast Guard fire boats and Navy personnel. - e WARREN KNAPE CHECKER CHAMP, TEEN - AGE (LUB Warren Krnp\- is the Teen-Age Club checker champion of Gas- tineau Channel Playing brilliantly throughout the tournament, Knape won the title last night at the Teen-Age Club house when he defeated Jeff Pegues in the finals, two games to one. Of the 28 contestants who started the tournament, Knape unquestion- ably proved himself champion but he was given a hard battle by Pegues, one of the youngest mem- bers of the club, and a hard fought i match resulted 13.—The esplon- | wmv recordings | SENATE PASSES OPA REVIVAL MEASURE CEILINGS OF JUNE 30 ARE RE-INSTATED Bill Appeafs Too Far Strip- ped for President Tru- man fo Accept WASHINGTON, July 13.—The House has received from the Sen- ate an OPA revival bill which has been stripped of almost as many major price controls as it promised to restore. Final passage in the Senate came early this morning. Apparently the measure Is iamended far beyond the bounds which would permit President Tru- man to accept it. In the House, [the bill is likely to receive a quick push toward a Senate-House confer- ence committee, where administra- tion leaders hope to rewrite it from top to bottom. As passed by the Senate, the new OPA bill would extend the agency one year and restore price control ceilings as of June 30. It would reinstate rent controls, with a pro- vision that states take over in rent control where they have adequate laws. However, the bill prohibits price controls over meat, poultry, eggs, butter, cheese, milk, or other dairy products, cottonseed, soy beans, igrain, livestock or poultry feed, and all forms of tobacco. Petroleum ‘wnuld have no ceiling as long as supply meets domestic needs. - D 1Negros Face Poll-Purging By Georgians i White Consplracy Led by Talmadge Seen in 20,- 000 BIacksChaHenged l ATLANTA, July 13.—Hundreds of negroes who have registered for the first time are being purged from i the voting lines in Georgia a scant ! few days before the Democratic primary. Negro leaders estimate that 20,000 negroes have been challenged. Any citizen can challenge a registrant. Th negro leaders charge a conspir- wcy, saying no wihie persons are being challenged Hearings before Boards of Reg- Nm s-—which act as courts in these nnmxs are geing on in many 5. In some counties few 1egroes have been disqualified; in sthers, the challenged registrants wo been written off the books in ! /\buu\ 120,000 negroes are reg- “uerp(l to vote in Georgia for the st time; by far the biggest pros- pective negro vote any Southern state has been faced with this year. Yet it is only about a ninth of the otal registration and about a third »f Georgia's population is negro. The challengers are generally ! identified as supporters of Red- gallused Gene Talmadge, seeking a fourth term in the Governor’s man- sion on a platform of “white su- | orema and “restoration of the |“lme primary.” In a campaign address yesterday, Talmadge took cognizance of warn- lings from U. S. District Attorneys 1 against illegal purging of negroes’ names by asking: “What is it but intimidation when nited States Attorneys continually issue warnings of what they are going to do?” > TWO MORE POUND DWELLERS NETTED Two more unlicensed dogs have |been impounded here by “Mr. X" 'in his second day of dog-snagging !'nctivil_\'; picked up on July 10, and jdoomed Monday night unless re- deemed before that time. The new pound tenants, Juneau's anonymous bane of dogdom des- cribes as: One small long-haired, bewhisk- ered dog, shaggy, grey color. One large-sized “husky” blackish-grey, long hair, male,