The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 18, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1946 MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS meeting of VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,325 'PROPOSED FOR TWO LEGISLATING NOW LEFT OF fi ing Without Pay Be- Silver, Women’s Equality|Clashes Along Yangize Neely (D-W Va) today introduced (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) NANKING, July 18—Rival Chin-|yearly “to meet the rising cost of bill in the Senate-House Confer-|the mighty Yangtze river loday! Both groups of workers recently for lack of a quorum as Senators|full scale civi! war. { employees are currently going antée women equal rights with men.| charged the government with “ag-| The $1,600,000,000 Post Office- ferees can get back to OPA they!ing rapidly into civil war.” ged in a Senate-House conference the price of silver. |ed that Communist armies instead | government-owned silver. Majority Leader, Alben Barkley.|Nanking and the great port of | ment which would permit prompt pearance at any afternoon session|; the Yangize unopposed,” Peng|to be paid Tuesday and Wednes- e e Continued on Page Two) | Chungking (war-time capital in orrl(lAl VIS"‘S‘ w to the summer capital | 'aumabl;; gave him the latest ac- vacation trip, is Walter Fubrer,! His heauquarters said oniy that, A ' H G b . Ausiravra is now in Juneau. Cordova, accompanied by Mss.| alissimo. Mershall is expected to| oo JIY A8 R o will go to Kelchikan next weekend, ed negotiations. |trian propeity for reparations, a bilsiness here with Southeast Man-|ing 1, lifile remained in China|AUSirian gcvermment, ‘the. Boviet [ S GROUPS, WORKERS NOW IN LULL cause Congress Jam Taking First Place Threaten Returnsof | | 1egislation t. coost salaries of Post- There is little prospect for agree-|ese government and Communist|living occasioned by the cessation ence Committee and clashes north of this vital ar-‘\l‘t‘cel\'c(l a $400 yearly boost, al- drifted away to debate a bill on a| Gen. Chou En-lai, leader of the| Without any pay at all as the re- That debate is being resumed to-|gressions” ond told a press confer-| Treasury Appropriation Bill, car- will try to break a week’s deadlock | Peng Hsuen-pei, Minister of In-|committee by a disagreement over Hopes for any action on OPA|yere marching from the north upon| Post Orfice officials said they Barkley announced that a Prior|spanehai | approval ‘¢t the bill. The Depart- to consider OPA. | declared, “we nad better start con- ' day. i western China.”) | Kremlin will at Kuling to confer with General- Visiting os many canneries as helcount of the deteriorating situa- Seattle Office Manager for the‘Marshall was accompanying Dr. | States Ambassador, who will pre-| Fuhrer and their son Peter and|return to Nunking within two or ected Uniled States and British then back to Seattle. | There was /an ominous quiet in| MET eutiiority eald GORE: ager Pete Giimore. | proper of last January’s Cease_flmjuccupauun authorities in Austria - CHINA PEACE post ofice Employees 6o WASHINGTON, July 18.—Rep. on Capitol Hill Civil War s | Office and Federal workers $500 ment today on a compromise OPA|armies were on the march along of Federal price controls.” Yesterday the meeting broke up|tery of Cnna posed a threat of though the nation’s 450,000 Postal constitutional amendment to guar-|Communist Delegation in Nanking,|sult of a iegisative jam. day. Furthermore, before the con-|ence “local conflicts are blossom-|rying postal payroll funds, is snag- over Senate-House differences on|formation, denied this and assert-|the price to be fixed for sale of were further dimmed by the Senate|tne Kangtze, clong whose banks lie| were “hopeful” of an early agree- engagement will prevent his ap-. .1f we permit them to advance ment’s emrvioyed were scheduled At yesterday's the | gidering moving the capital back to! —————— SM.MON I“DUSTRY | General Marshall, special U. S. | Envoy, issimo Chiaug Kai-shek and pre-| Sland pa' on can on a combined business and| tion. i Alaska Sa'mon Industry, Inc, Who John Leignton Stuart, new United Mr. Fuhier arrived here from sent his credentials to the Gener-| daughter Nancy. From here, they!three days to resume the deadlock-|lor ccnictions on selzure Of Aus Mr. Fuhrer is going over industry | Manchuria, but from reports pour-| In a lengthy note handed the | were said to have made it plain {agreement which Marshall hoped l”whaL there 15 no change in their — e The Washin ton;use as 2 foundation for a Per-|,ecent positicn in regard to seizure | manent peace.. of $22,000000 worth of Austrian G R d‘ Chou said fighting now was con-| Merry - Go- Round | | industrial plants and other prop- centrated north of Shanghai alxdj;m, cna;h\':::: b‘\' the G(,rxmgi“ ;‘{‘:;‘l’;:‘:' ‘gx )’;‘i‘:‘]‘;‘;"‘g 2 ':?:;i‘::{cl‘rr,lluving the Anschluss in 1938, . i i nynee SHSH The text c<f the note was not . Psidisens| c By DREW PEARSON |shaniung on the seaboard farthet| ayajighle in London but its essen- o OO upeh, WhiChiyia) points were known to author! WASHING1ON—It might be a)embraces Peiping and Tientsin, and tatiR SR hich: Tl dly ,};::(l:;v ill.‘l;:}t‘;‘g}‘{'Ieéheml:f‘znd‘)ft)&;;soum Sn:m»:l, just west of Hupeh. agreed with almost every point set E-awards handed down to manu: } facturing firms by the Army and MANUFA(IURERS Navy. Senator Mead's Committee STOP HOARDING - . inc | The United States disputed this slready has shown how wires were | interpretation. in the Allied Coun- pulled by top officials to get an E for the Erie Basin war profiteers | at the same time lesser Army offi-| clals, who kaew conditions first nother [ishy case occurred Whrn‘ VWASHING‘I'ON, July 18: — The| efl, erting that property forcibly the Na_\'y geve 1‘111 E tvo Natl@nflhthan Produetion Admimstmnonv(_0“! cated by the Germans after Industries when it un_d its amlmte.‘ has issued al. anu-h_oarding order | 1938 could 0t be classified as Ger- Durham Manufacturing Corpora-|to manufaciurers. It is designed t0/, ., yunder the Potsdam agree- | presentaticns. The coriroversy arose July 6 when the Soviet command in Aus- | tria anncunced the property in eastern Austiia had passed into Soviet owneiship along with all cther “German external assets” in ment., e COASTAL AIRLINES ON DAILY FLIGHTS 1 | Alaska Coastal Airlines flew the For some weeks, certain Sena-| . g tors - have been skilfully pulling| folowing yesierday? fo Focd, © M. ksta; i ill the Kilgore i - i e} pet jre; wirse ¢g Kill e 07| y. Alaca, P. Pascua; from Tenakee, mittee whi bin Qut hich has been probing| oo, "Hume, Lilly Hume, Vivian| : Nazi tiviLi d the link with!| ( r' A I R i, s e bk S e, 5 At 1o e OUNTOOM AT 1§ peek at what's in the Nazi files M® G RS0 o Bad; Jap Irhl a' Tokyo Posipone now makes it quite clear why Sen- e, ators are secretly battling so hard Trafton, B. frafton, Mr. and Mrs. to squelch Scnator Kilgore's in-|R. Patnode, H. Antrim, Margaret vestigation. Johns, A\x;g:-an gorhlela. AM;rn;:‘ oy _ | Cushing, M . Cropley, A. Davis, U. 8. Army and Justice Depart |, Shewman, G. Greenbank, Jerry| TOKYO, July 18, - The war crimes tria! of former Premier Tojo and 26 othcr high Japanese may not be resumned until next Monday. Sir Williarn YWebb, President of the NAZIS' TRE-PEARL HARBOR | being prosecuted by U. S. District| retail storcs. The CPA felt that | middle of tae trial, the Navy came hopes of gelting higher prices ln-j \ ber, so the N | raud when it gave ers, electric ranges, photographic|cf at least three quite severe earth- thermore, tle war was then over,'terials, The CPA also proposes to, this morning on the production. | American markets are adversely|logist at thc University said the the E award, coming at just the | direction. Time, the second shock came at TRAP | two shocks within a few minutes hand, were iccommending against| it ad don, were under indictment for war|take hard-to-get items out of fac- frauds. The company was actually tory stockrooms and put them into A s Attorney Alex Campbell at Fort!some manufacturers might hold Wayne, Ind., when right in the back their finished products in across with its E. ‘ter. | The trial had started in Novem-' The order includes washing ma-| y knew all about the‘;chmes‘ refrigerators, vacuum clean-| NEW YORK, July 18.—A series alleged war i the award on Dec. 17, 1945. Fur-|equipment and some building ma-|quake shoche were recorded early seismograph and there wus no need to give the!limit the amount of scarce con-|at Fordham University. company an incentive for further sumer goods now being exported if| The Rev. Joseph Lynch, seismo- However, someone in the Navy .affected. ishocks originated about 2,600 miles apparently pulled the wires, and | frem New York in an undetermined psychological moment, had a pow-| The first shock was felt at erful effect un the jury. ! 2:45:52 am. Eastern Daylight | 2:20:49 asu. There were several repetitions of the combination of of each other. wment officials have been extremely : busy intervicwing German officials,| Cushing. - from Hermann Goering down, and| TO Ketchikan, Don Foster, Ted| the results amazing. They show Haas, J. Aler, W. Blackerby, C. M.| various high-up American leaders|Archibald, k. Cowl, Mrs. R. Cow | : and businccsnien to be either woe- from Ketclukan, H. E. Gove, Hen-|Internationa! Tribunal for the Far fully naive or else deliberately vietta’ Krantz; to Pelican, A. Aus-|East, said the postponement was !ted, Mrs. C. Mason, C. Mason; to|necessary bccause the courtroom’s Hoonah R. lacPherson, air conditicning had broken down. PRSP BPSE B S s Wi (Continued on Page Four) torth in American and British re-’ :BRIDGESOUT, \TALMADGE | N AS CALIF. | IS IN LEAD - CIOHEADMAN' N GEORGIA ‘Announced Resignation s |Governor PiIe;Up Enough | f | Quickly Countermanded + Unit Votes fo Win But by Longshore Boss Not Popular Vote iR i AR | SAN FRANCISCO, July 18. — NTA, July 18.—The 11i‘l'dn»‘ H Bridges’ office today issued swuaz again in Georg a statement saying he had resigned | seems, sending Eugene Talmadge, | as Califor: CIO director, but{the defendecr of white supremacy,| contradicteq it half an hour later to the Goveinor's mansion for the | with the explanation it “had been|fourth time | |released from here erroneous " The returns are not all in from| “We have just contacted Mr.|yesterday’s Democratic primary Bridges in Washington and learned | the counting may last for hours| that he did not announce he wasiyet—and no one is conceding any- submitting his resignation,” an of-| thing, but ‘Talmadge’s apparent fice secretary said. lead is incieasing. The west coast longshore leader’s| The unit votes are what count in office had issued the following an-| Georgia and Talmadge has enough nouncement: ‘indicated unit votes to win, with “Harry Bridges ahnounced todaysome to spare. Yet 36-year-old| in Washington that he was today;James V. Carmichael is leading in! submitting resignation as Cali- the popular vote. | fornia CIO director to CIO Presi-| Georgia’s 159 counties, many of dent Philip Murray with the re- them tiny, have 410 unit votes. A quest that il:e resignation become candidate 15 elected with a major- effective iminediately. ‘ity‘ 206. 1he latest count puty | “In a statement made in Wash-| Talmadge ahead in 87 counties |ington he declared: ] with 220 univ votes. “‘I am submitting my resignn-! Carmichsel, backed by Gov. Ellis | tion in order that the state of Cal- | Arnall, the man who defeated Tal- ifornia may have two full-time|madge four years ago on a reform paid regional directors for CIO. |platform, led in 100 counties with “'My dutics as President of the :a unit vote of 234. International Longshoremen’s and' The popular vote was: | Warehouseman’s Union and of Co-,chael 206,052, Talmadge, Chairman for the Committee for!ex-Gov. E. D. Rivers, Meritime Unity do not permit me Hoke O'Kelley. 6,824, | to devote sufficient time to the! Riters led in eight counties with! work of a CIO Regional Director.’”| 18 umst . votes. O'’Kelley had no unit The San Francisco Chronicle voles. Carmi- 178,814; 36,973 and earlier had forecast Bridges' resig- | The returius were from 156 coun- nation, saying he had rejected di-|t Many of the counties appar- vided respousibility as California ently still had blocks of votes un- CIO Directcr, i reported. S e ! The primary—equivalent to the | ,time that negroes had voted,, in jgreat numbers in the deep south. *About 135,000 of them registered, and most voled. — ., THIS TIME - GOVG"IOISI'IIP | . . f . Out Foreign Financing "( S vres . = [] Until Next Year WASHINGTON, July 17.—Presi-| WASHINGTON, suly 18—Presi- dent Truman told his news con- out a $1,002,000,000 loan to Russia|cence today he would name a before next year, saying he had| i o . 2 4 no intention of asking Congr \s;”’:;;m a";;s" la: ql":;kli "“\‘ :"(l(‘“: ol at this session for more funds for nm\\'m::n Loc;e;\' ]1:110 ]:::‘;q :1 th ‘D foreign financing. ol sl e : ST On anotaer aspect foreign re-“mm “h?ul:éll:‘p?gx‘:,]?”h::‘ l::’ 1ations, Mg kuman endorsed Sec l\va\' occupied by the governorship jof Puerto Rico. He m name a the Parls Forelgn Ministers' con-io, eceor to former Gov. Rexford ference and also called attention toi(; Tugwell, now teaching ,"' the | the address of Senator Vandenberg ety of C“,,aé(, b Y AR ] | (R-Mich) ia the Senate on Tues-| b ol day. . s “rruman futher. sonemca POMINEN! Persons | that Senatcr Austin (R-Vt) would; ! be nominateG as ranking member Di ppe . Al ' I of the United States delegation tu', sa ar' er s the United Nations Assembly meet- | Sounded on (oas' SEATTLE, July 18.—The north- its hands full with two , election in Georgia—was the first! “ RUSSIA AT | Puerto Rico dent Truman todayevirtually duled {three-member economic advisory jcalled retary Byrnes' report Monday on i In a fast moving news conference | ling at New York Sept. 23. Austin| (has been designated as United| | States member of the United Na-| tions, effective next year. ! y 2 { west has mot;)h“ members of the delegation; .qiigations in the disappearance will be Chkairman Connally Tex) of the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee; Vandenberg, Mrs. ‘D-J‘L\ being conducted for Vice Presi- | dent Sidney Matz of Ex-Lax, In- corporated. Tne wealthy business Elea 1 ; - j corpora 3 nor Rousevelt, widow of thei,..ouiive .ias been unheard from |late President; and Ch““"“"‘“‘sume he lef. ten days ago on a ‘:g:f";f;g;?é'onfinia‘;“°“sc F‘”'{lrnghr from Ellensburg to Seattle. In the absence of either (he‘MMZ r:s tly:ng algne: A | President o0i Secretary of SLatu‘l,Avt, Rglla. une, !.hrec ‘Mdf” Byrmes, Mr. Trimes said. Austin |08V been alerted for a retired |will be in active charge of the :fl':ybg?‘l,zlg:]';li?w:;: ixz]i([le': ,::. 32:?2:0;; ::f;d:;dl;hfh‘e e | ther. Colonel H. C. K. Muhlenberg | Byrrias wéitic akbéna ;and his party left Seattle two | e Ty it ivweks ago for Los Angeles, but 1: SANDAL RITES TOMORROW :mled to arrive. i | Funeral services for Peter R.| | sandal who died July 14 will be | held tomoirow afternoon at 2 oclock in the Charles W. Carter | Mortuary. The Rev. G. Herbert | Hillerman !vices. Interment will | Evergreen Cemetery. [ LA L0 B | The Dominion of Canada has | greater area than continental Uni- had centered the sun’s rays on the ted States, upholstery, starting a fire, ik —Mmgnf | | REEDSPORT, Ore. — George the could have caused a small fire in; |the back ceat of his car. ! Then he discovered 'a gallon, be in e Asseinbly, the President said, | ;o prominent persons, An air search b HONG KONG, six a g¢lass jug of water he was carrying ed by winds, erally between 60 and 102 miles Redin Freed of Spy Charge Russian Naval Lieutenant Nicolai Redin and his pretty wife smile as the Seattle Federal jury acquits him cf the espionage and censpiracy charges. Redin, fellowing the verdict, thanked the seven men and five women and also Federal Judge Lloyd L. Black for the fair trial KLE HARRY OFFERS 19 STUMP FOR NEEDY DEMOS President Turns Thumbs Down, However, on Missouri Neighbor WASHINGTON, July 18. dent Truman said today ke will take the p stump for Dem- ocratic cong al candidates this pear, if he be of service He told his news ccenference, how ever, that no spec plans for speaking tour had been made. said he did not kiow whether would speak in New York Mr. Truman expressed oppesition rer one Democratic House Rep. Roger C. Slaughter Fifth Missouri District He has asked James Pe: Kansas City political leader, to port Enos Axtell, Slaughter's op- ponent, Mr. Truman said, add- ing that Pendergast would do so The President had no comment to mak2 on the defzat of Senator Wheeler (D-Mo: his race for nination inter- the Wheeler campaign letter defending Whaeler cha by his opponent was an enemy of railwey NO CRACKLE HO MORE IN NO. LIGHTS SEATTLE, Juiy 18—A scientist who conducted nearly five years' Arctic research said today he made himself \iy unpopular among Alaska sourdoughs by ving one c¢f their fondest beliefs—that the Aurcra Borealis crackles. Stuart Scaton, “arnegie Insti- tute reseaicih physicist, enroute back to Washingten, D. C. chuckled as he revorled: “We founu that Prest the Borealls or- iginates anywhere from 60 to 200 miles abcve the earth's surface. Theenoise sometimes heard when the Berealis oceurs, is in no way cnnected with the Borealis. The old timers up there were prett ut 1. They didn't like all—or me either.” This, Seaion said, was only one of the incicenial chseryations made by Carnecic scientists who ducted a vesearch program at the University of Alaska at request of War Navy de ments. Prime Vs learn Arc- cf He he outright iion of member of tk t dergast up- con- tie anG ol Mr. L be r o The most L can say abjut thi: aid, “is that we learned for the t time that the radio black- cuts do not cceur on a 1-to-1 ra- N e tio with the Borealis, Although we learned rauch, the surface of | S'I'O(K ou““\‘nons rescarch in the North only has) v been scratched.” ! NEW YORK, Juiy 18. — C Seaton e w-, quotation ¢f Alaska Juneau ernment work | stock todsy «, Alleghany Cor- vhich the institute has tcrminat-|poration 5, merican Can 96, An- ed “because this will beé one of the|accnda 46%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, most important factors in' the fu-!Internatior Harvester 9412, Ke: ture Great Circle aviation routes.” necctt 57%, New York Central 24', | Northern Paafic 29%, United Cor- O gt { peration , U,."8. Steel 907 Hong Kong Harbor Is == cso- | Sales today were 730,000 shares. " P 63.19, utilities 40.83. Six Vessels Wrecked' ) against he that he 1 labor. sing mine - -— FISH LANDIN Wwinds| Two boats landing fish today of | were Tom Ncss' Emma, with 19,000 102 miles an hour wrecked at leass | pounds of but and black cod, vessels of various sizes today bought by New England Fish Co; as a typhoon lashed Hong Kong|and Olaf Larsen’s Arden, with 27.- harbor. for three - hours. 000 pound:s cf halibut and black The typhoon moved tonight to cod, bougnt by Sebastian-Stuart the southwest, but heavy rains' Co. continued in this city. Many cs Taking July 18, reaching a maximum velocity oi. 1ce and bait teday in flooded streets. | Eldorado, all members of the Se- Officials said it was too early|attle halibut fleet due out to estimate the total damage caus-| Area IIT inuaediately. which ranged gen-| ot an. Hemlock trees more than years old have been found. 600 hour velocity. fox OCK STRIKE ENDS TOMORROW RETROACTIVE PAY SPEEDUP IS PROMISED iMeetings Slétéfi Today on "Paralyzed” Oregon, Los Angeles Ports SAN FRANCISCO, July 18. — Settlement of Seattle's shipping fieup and scheduled meetings of the Waterfront Employers Associa- tion here loday stiffened hopes of { solving labor trouble in four Pacific coast ports. At Seattle, 3,000 longshoremen have agrecd to resume work at 8 am. tomorrow, ending a four-day work stoprage over retroactive pay clemands. The Washington Water- front Empicye: Assoclation has agreed to bire more clerical help to speed up k ‘payments on wage increases The Ware rent Employers’ As- sociation in €an Francisco yester- | day signed & new contract with j*he CIO Inwernational Longshore- (men’s and Warehousemen's Union ; anting a 22 cents hourly wage in- crease recommended by a Presiden- i tial fact-finding board, and em- : ployers planned to meet today to consider thie Coos Bay, Ore., tieup jand alleged slow-downs at Portland jand Los Angeles. They claimed the i slow-dewns ‘were “practically par- palyzing the ports.” i The contiucr signed yesterday provides for zppointment of an ar- bitrator 0 settle the growing west ( coast waterlront disputes. Under ]m& terms, an impartial Pacific ‘Cous( empioyer-union chairman (will be seiected 'by both groups. | He would have the deciding vote 1 in any controversy involving water- front employees, OFFICES JUGGLED " INFEDERAL BLDG. | Shuffling new going on at the Federal Building here wil! end up with several Federal and Territor- ial agencies in new office quarters, it was disclosed today. Already moved are the U. S. Bur- eau of Mines and the Coast Guard Marine Inspection offices. The Mines Bureau moved up one story to the second floor quarters form- erly occupied by the Commission- er of Education—Rooms 216 and 220. The Coast Guard has shifted across the hall on the first floor to the old Mines rooms, 125 and 127. Into offices vacated by the Coast Guard will go the Territorial De- partment of Taxation and the FHA: The FHA to Room 129; the Tax Commissioner to Rooms 121, 125 and 109, across the hall from his present space. Around the corner to 117 and 119, when the Tax Commissioner moves out, will go the Alaska De- velopment Board; while dropping (nto its spot in Room 105 will be (Lonnie McIntosh's Treasury En- forcement Agencies. | That’s to be the office line-up ‘until December, when space will jhave to Le found for the Bureau jof Mines and Commissioner of Vet- .erans Affairs, so that the Legisla- |ture can gather in January. i C ee— - | {U.5. Famine Mission Relurn{ Eom India NEW YORK, July 18.—The five i member American Pamine Mission to India arrived today by plane, ending a four week tour which car- ,ried the group 30,000 miles to study conditions in the hunger stricken jareas of India. j The party, headed by Dr. Theo- dore W. Schiltz, Chairman of the Economics Lepartment of the Uni- versity of Chicago, will go to Wash- 'ington nex. week to report to Presi- {dent Trurian. 1 -ro—— } LEAF FOR LIFE BUFFALO, Wyo.—Roy Wilson re- will conduct the ser-| Marks cyuldn’t figure out what trucks, and Jeeps were abandoned were the Plaiinum, Frigidland and cognized a ‘wheel he saw rolling down a stecp canyon road in front of his truck and jumped. It. was la front whec! from his own truck. | A split second later, his load of logs shifted und crushed the driv- er's cab.