The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,336 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31,1946 —— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —— ALASKA LINERS ARE DEADLOCKED HERE SOVIET CALLS ) FOR 2-THIRDS TREATY VOTES Molofov Says USSR Would| Atways Be Opposed to Simple Majority PARIS, July 31 — Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, in a speech | to the Paris Peace Conference to-| day, called upon democratic coun- tries of the world tb put an end to the Franco regime of Spain. “It is impossible to safeguard | peace,” said Molotov, “unless Fas- cism is destroyed.” The Coviet Foreign Minister | spoke after an appearance before | the conference rules committee at which he fought to establish a two- thirds majority voting rule for the conference of 21 nations, because,| he said, “If all decisions were by! simple majority, the U. 8. S. R. would be sure to find itself always| in the minority.” | He found qualified support in his | fight in U. S. Secretary of State| Byrnes, who, an American inform-| ant said, will propose tomorrow that a two-thirds majority vote be| necessary for approval of essen-| tial and substantive matters. | Addressing the conference, called | to confer on the peace that is to| be written in Europe with Ttaly,! Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and| Finland, Molotov said: ‘ Spain Is Dangerous | “If we have still to deal withi the question of the Fascist regime in Spain, then the time must not| be too distant when democrauc! countries will be able to help the)| Spanish people who groan under Franco's regime to put an end to this survival bred by Hitler and Mussolini which is dangerous to| the cause of peace.” He expressed fear that adoption | of a simple majority rule would‘ play the West against Eastern Europe. be expected to bring a flood of new “The conference should be inter-igocds into the market.” ested in preventing a play on votes| ‘“The eccnomy,” CETTING READY F DON'T GET EXCITED ON NEW GOODS Consumers Old Price Boosts Won't Quickly Supply Commodities WASHINGTON, July 31 — CPA boss John D. Small cautioned to- day against consumer hopes that impending price boosts might quickly fill shelves and showrooms with shiny new goods. Noting that the OPA Revival Act requires higher prices for many items, the Civilian Production Ad- ministrator said this alone “cannot and should be concerned with as-| too close to full production to al-| suring the authority of the recom-|low a significant overall increase mendations it is going to make,in output except through increased and not in attempting to set off man-hour productivity.” 12 countries against seven or| Civilian production this month eight countries. | probably has equaled the biggest No Play on Votes {month in history, December, 1941, “It should repudiate any play, the CPA chief reported, and topped on votes and see to it that the:by 3 percent the record for June, prestige of the conference and the | highest month since VJ-Day. authority of its decisions should not| The July estimate is tentail be undermined.” | Small told reporters in explaining Molotov predicted there was ev-|his June production report issued carrying out the plan is not forth-|creases for other bakery products. ery possibility the conference could | !ast night, but it is clear, he added, reach each termination with everythat national output is “approach proposal adopted by a two-thirds|ing the peak.” rule. The report showed better-than- “Is there any reason to believeiprewar production in June of that a decision reached by an 11-10 washing machines, vacuum clean- — | ers, electric irons, table-model ra- dios and gas ranges, as well as sub- stantial gains in refrigerators and electric ranges. B Imperialist Policy Is \Charged Against U.S. iBy Russ Newspaper MOSCOW, July 31 — A Russian !publlcalion has charged the United States with pursuing an imperial- |istic policy in the Far East with |the idea of turning Japan into a colonial possession. The assertion {was made in Bolshevik—the journal :of the policy-making central com- mittee of the Communist party. The editorial also declared that (Continued on Page Seven) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON PARIS—Eighteen years ago this month, I traveled with Frank B. Kellogg, then Secretary of State, to'a peace conference in Paris on which—like this conference—the people of the world placed great hope. At Paris, as Secretary Kel- logg signed his pact to outlaw war, the liftle people of the world who have to do the fighting and the dying when war comes rejoiced and were exceedingly glad. ‘They hoped—many were sure—that a new era of peace on earth end good will had flnally‘ come to stay. Frank B. Kellogg, of course, was; even | fashion what it called a system of platforms for economic expansion |in Europe. the world’s fair site in Flushing Meadow park, being prepared for the U. N, general assembly. Small added, “is | | American imperialists are trying to| ahead of his time. So was Henry| L. Stimson who followed him in| the State Department and who did his best to carry out the obliga-| tions of the Kellogg Pact. Worth- | while men always are ahead of| Radio Recepfion Is Factor in Valuation their time and progress always| has been a matter of the world]‘ trying to live up to the goals seti by other men ever since the days; of Christ. Of Property, Claim NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 31— However, the fact remains that A Connecticut state referee has rul- even while the ink was drying ont ed that favorable conditions for ra- the Kellogg Pact, Viscount Yasuya|dio and television reception are an Uchida, who signed it for Japan, element in real estate valuation. The knew that his war lords were con- [decision was accepted by a Superior spiring té seize Manchuria nndlcom Judge in what lawyers say later all China. And even while/is the legal recognition of the quality of radio reception as a fac- (Continued on Page Four) tor in property valuation. » L > OR U. N ._Exterior view of the New York City building at NEW PALESTINE ~ (LOTHING ' PROPOSKLMADE: ™ o e’ This increase on taoric, the mini- | mum required under the new price |control law, is expected to boost | cotton garments at least 10 percent, |an OPA official told a reporter pri. vately. Other OPA officials have esti- “We had hoped before the de-|mated that clothing increases may bate to receive from President Tru-‘\range from 15 to 20 percent, on |man his acceptance,” they said, top of price hikes for some ap- |“but we understand that he has parel granted earlier this week. decided to discuss it in detail with| Also in prospect, according to {the U. 8. expert delegation, who | those who know but who may not {are returning to Washington for be identified, are these other cost- | that purpose.” | of-living increases: Britain accepted the four-area! 1. A price boost of one to two proposal for troubled, bomb-torn | cents a can in price ceilings on | Palestine “as a basis for negotia-|corn, peas and tomatoes. | tion,” they said. | 2 A possible cent a loaf If United States assistance™ in for bread, with proportionate ~ FOUR-WAY SPLIT Admitted Situation So Se- IN(REASE rious that Solution L OPA Upping Ceilings on | LONDON, July 31 — The British Cerfain Canned GOOdS, government annocunced today that | Anglo-American experts proposed and leave to a Jewish province it-| WASHINGTON, July 31—Cotton self the problem of deciding hn\v‘clotmng prices headed up still fur- many of Europe’s homeless Jews!ther today as OPA agreed to raise “But the implementation of the|1g percent experts’ plan as a whole depends| upon United States cooperation,”| Mcrrison and Dominions Secretary Lord Addison in simultaneous an- nouncements in the House of Com- Brooks No Delay Ccffee and Cereals to split Palestine into four areas ST might migrate to the Holy Land. |textile ceilings an average of about said Acting Prime Minister Herbert mons and Lords. hike in- {coming “we shall have to recon-{ 3. A jump of eight to 10 cents a er the position, particularly as pound for coffee. | regards the economic and financial| 4. Higher ceilings cn several kinds | implications,” both declared, add-|of breakfast cereals. |ing pointedly: | On coffee and the three canned | “The situation in Palestine will| vegetables, preliminary decisions al- \ i 'r ;not brook delay.” | ready have been made against re- |storing the subsidies which werc | qujred to grant compensating price TEEN AGERS. | Increases to producers and sup- L) ’ | consumers. | - — P | IS ATTACKED Moving Mountain ; q NEW YORK, July 31 — Mary teen-aged boys who hurled rocks' BARENT, B. C, July 31.—For 25 |at her house, was found today in'years a mountain has obstructed {the basement of her 100-year-old Storekeeper William Kask's view of | battered, her mouth gagged and| Kask decided to move the moun- {her handa tied behind her back. [tain, or at least a part of it. He Firemen, answering an alarm hired a bulldozer as $15 an hour | e e | suspended July 1 when price con- | trols lapsed. ‘ Without subcidies, OPA is re- |pliers, who can pass them on to | To Get Ocean Vie | Heydrick, 85, who prayed for, | antique-filled home with her skull an ocean inlet. | that smcke was pouring out of the to cut 30 feet off a rise, and if he | second story window of her home can buy the whole hill, he plans {in Dean Street, Brooklyn, found to whittle off a 30-foot slice 1,300 |her. They reported the inside of feet long and 200 feet wide. her house was wrecked. | “I'll be worth it,” he said. Doctors at Jewish Hospital where| —————— she was taken, said the elderly| woman had been beaten and choked and was suffering from suffocation. Her condition is de- scribed as serious. e e——.— Paul Shoup Dies; lll Only Eight Days | LOS ANGELES, July 31 — Paul Shoup, 72, who rose from ticket Alaska Railroaders | i Can Enfer Polifics oz io pas” v s v WASHINGTON, July 31 — Con-|doors,” as he once phrased it, died |gressional action on a bill to per- Jast night of a heart ailment and mit employes of the Alaska Rail-| kidney complications, after eight road to participate in municipal! days' illness. ! political campaigns was completed | —eel e today when the House aceepted! Ernest Hemingway's father want- minor Senate amendments. The ed him to be a doctor, his mother bill now goes to the President. lwn.nted him to study the cello. [ | | U.S. OFFICERS ARE SET FREE BY RUSSIANS PARIS, July 31—Russia emerged today as the principal beneficiary e | {Two Are Held 27 Days on Allegation That They |v.i™errs s, “Fintana " and Wefe Sples |beaten German Balkan satellites |of their military power, redraw | —a |their frontiers and charge them at | BERLIN, July 31 — Capt. Har- least a billion dollars in repara- jold Cobin and Lt. George Wyatt, tions | American officers who were re-| The treaty drafts presented to {leased last night by the Russians, the 21-nation peace conference last | satd ‘tc they had been detained night by the Big Four agreed upon in the Soviet Occupation Zone for substantial increases for the Soviet 127 days on the allegation that Union, upon payment of $800,000,- Q:hey were spies. 1000 in reparations to Russia and | The two, who vanished almost a left Russia’s domination of East- {month ago cn an unauthorized trip ern Europe intact |into the Soviet Zone, said they had| In certain disputed sections of {been held for most of the 27 days the treaty drafts, however, it seem- {at Russian headquarters in Pots- d certain that the western pow- | dam ers intend to try to whittle down 1 C and Wyatt, who related Some of the Russian gains in the | their experiences at a press con- east, at least in economic matters. Wants Danube Free ference in the presence of U. S. |Ammy staff and intelligence offi-| The United States and Britain | cers, said the Russians had treated Want the vital Danube River opened them well but had questioned them 0 trade on a basis of complete ialmmr daily and at great length equality, while Russia wants noth- in an attempt to ascertain whether D& said in any of the treaties ithey were secret agents, about freedom of navigation on the Danube. The three western mem- Charged As Spies |bers of the Big Four also want At one time they were officially “most favored nation” status for all charged. with spies, and allied nations in commercial deal- |signed statements denying the ings with the five defeated nations, charges, they said. while Russia would exempt all The officers said they were ar- fields closed to private enterprise rested July 4 at Oranienburg, 20 nd would make exceptions for miles north of Berlin, where they Deighboring states. declared they went to try to visit' Under the proposed treaties— the former Nazi conceritration camp WhIich would eénd“the state of war at Sachsenhausen. Both asserted in Europe except for Germany and they were unaware of reports that Which would offer the five nations the Russians are now using that concerned an opportunity to enter camp for political prisoners. |the United Nations—none of the defeated nations would be allowed Black-Out Movement any bombing planes or submarines | They said they were moved to and would be required to guarantee Pcotsdam late the night of their fundamental human rights and to arrest, all their movements while bar Fascist activity. in custody being in completely| Military Vestige Only blacked-out automobiles. Through-| The military machines of all out their detention they were kept would be reduced to a vestige of separated and were questioned sep- power, and the treaty drafts direct- arately by the Russians.” Cobin, ed the five beaten countries to co- who was born in Russia, sald he cperate for the purpose of insur- was questioned entirely in Russian. ing against any German rearma- | Both men said they had re- ment in the future. The atom bomb peatedly requested the Russians to was not mentioned in the treaty notify ~ American authorities of drafts, but rocket bombs would be their whereabouts. outlawed. 3 The proposed treaties—286 pages Repeatedly Questioned in length—offered a peace to “They told us” Cobin added, yoy Rumania, Bulgaria, Finland { | where old Nazi party files and oth- er records are kept. “They kept trying to establish a chain of command between Lt. Col. AREGIVENWARNING tigating Adivities of = ‘ Organization ROME, July 31.—Alfredo Cardin- al Schuster, Archbishop of Milan, | WASHINGTON, July 31 — The has warned black marketeers they ;.40 Department disclosed today tion will be instituted against the by the Cardinal after the Prefect e - of the city had asked for his co- ;{rl::l if such violations are uncov: operation in the fight against the| G A plack market. | Evidence involving any violations “that they would do so, ‘when your ;.4 Hungary which was mild in Hans Helm, my chief in the Docu- ments Center, and Gen. Clay (Lt vkl’ill gemdlenledhthreh sacraments orlthat it is investigating Ku Klux the CRANNID. Danted, |Klan activities in seven states to SRR A A |of state laws will be turned over |to state authorities, if requested. identity has been established.” i Sy Cobin said he was repeatedly uestioned about his connection th the Berlin Dccuments Center, Gen. Lucius D. Clay) U. 8. Deputy Military Governor,” Cobin declared. et | | BLACK MARKETEERS Justice Depariment Inves- The warning, according to a Mi-| Abral Iaws Aré lan dispateh to Rome’s “Il Minuh"i;::tfi;my‘]:lfl?xmer PHERN 18w was contained in a letter to clergy-| £ SRR a0t g men of the Archdiocese, written | 0. Sopatiment-apld, oourt. B0 S H |S " | The investigation is being made 0“3 e‘“rl y |under the direction of the depart- . . |ment’s civil rights section in New B I II Is A I med al | York, Michigan, Tennessee, Florida, | California, Mississippi and Georgia. 0 However, complaints are being Alaska and Hawaii .- ceived from all parts of the coun- try about the resurgent Klan's ac- WASHINGTON, July 31.—Senator | tvities. The originators include in- Huffman, (D-Ohio) has obtained | dividuals, labor unions, civil rights adoption of an amendment to the|societies and other organizations. Social Security bill which would Some name dates, places and treat the Territories of Alaska and Perscns involved in alleged Klan Hawail as states for the purpose of |acts. ~All such complaints are determining what percentages they turned over to the FBI which should bear of the cost of grants to|makes investigations for the civil aged, blind and to dependent chil- | rights section. dren. Until reliable statistics on| The department expects a sharp income are received, they will share increase in Klan activity as a re- 505-50 with the Federal government. sult of Negro voting in Southern - e primaries, the dislocation of popu- | oreioh is derived from the In-|lations resulting from the war, con- dian word meaning place of plen-!gested living conditions and the ty. other aftermaths of war, Violation of Finland, Eic., PayOffasEverybody Pays Russia Under New Trealiesjl. INF'S AGENT tone and largely so in demands, ex- cept for reparations and upon Ttaly's empire and border real estate. The drafts offered little vital change in the troubled status quo —except for withdrawal of Russian occupation troops from the Balkans and British-American forces from Ttaly. Everybody Pays Russia Russia alone of the major pow- ers would win reparations—$100,- 000,000 from Italy, $300,000,000 each from Finland and Rumania, and $200,000,000 from Hungary. To the last however, the United entered some unpublish- vations, represented by a half-page scissored out of the treaty draft. Bulgaria's reparations have not been settled and the TItalian | figure is a partial one. Hungary ! would be required to pay another $100,000,000 to Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. On the other side of the financial ledger, the Russians objected to ¢lauses granting United Nations citizens full compensation for loss es incurred in defeated countries and proposed instead that com- pensation be limited to a third of the losses. Reds Object to Otitcr Claims The Soviet Union also objected to having assets of defeated na- tions in United Nations countries and Germany subject to seizure to meet U. S, Prench and British claims, and asked that such assets be restored to the beaten countries. Territorfal clauses in the five drafts also held advantage for Rus- sia. In the case of Italy, five small border slices would go to France, eastern Venezia Giulia would go to Yugoslavia, the Dodecanese Islands to Greece, the African colonies would meet some undecided fate, and the port of Trieste would be internationalized under United Na-! tions supervision. | Pre-Munich Borders { The starting point for the terri- torial changes for Italy—as well| as for Hungary—was the border line of Jan. 1, 1938—before Mun- ich—while for Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland, the changes were bas- ed on the frontiers of Jan. 1, 1841,! while the German-Soviet pact was still in force. ‘This meant Allied confirmation | of Rumania 1940 cession of Bess-| arabia to Russia—a cession which was withdrawn after Germany's in- varion of Russia—as well as of low- | er Dobruja to Bulgaria, and Fin-! land’s cessions to Russia in 1939, to which now is added the ice-free Arctic Sea outlet of Petsamo Pro- vince. Hungary is required to recognize the sub-Carpathian Ukraine as Soviet territory. 1 s — — SALARIES OF FED. JUDGES GET UPPING President fis Measure Benefitting 300 on Judicial Benches WASHINGTON, July 31 — Presi dent Truman today signed legisla. tion raising the salaries of the na- tion’s 300 federal judges by $5,000° a year. ! | [ ,than delay the ship, jattle, UNIONCHARGE 1S DENIED BY "Penalty PaHy Issue Nof . Newly Raised by | Steamship Company | it 4 Horace O. Adams, Alaska Steam- |ship Company Agent, today flatly | contradicted the contention of local | longshoremen that it has previous- .13' been Juneau port practice to | penalty meal time rates under the tccxul!(im\s now demanded by the ! longshoremen. | Stating that a careful check of company books had been made by i himself since the longshoremen re- | leased their statement yesterday, I'Adams declared there is only one instance where the penalty rate was paid under similar conditions and at that time the payment was made under protest, That instance concerned the ‘steamer Baranof also and occurred on a night last February when three men of the crew working the Baranof had previously worked at ship for the Northland Trans- portation Company. They demand- ed meal time pay beginning at 11 o'clock that evening and, rather the penalty time was then paid. Accompany- ing the payment, the following protest was sent by Adams to the Delegate of the local union: Paid Under Protest “We are paying the attached pay- roll, covering the SS Baranof, WSA-39, northbound, under pro- test, as we are not certain at this time whether Section Two of the Pacific Coast Longshore present agreement applies when working for more than one employer. “We are asking our Seattle of- fice for a ruling on this matter.” Date of the protest of payment was February 11, 1946. The ruling at that time received by Adams from the Alaska Steam- ship Company’s Seattle office de- clared: “It is our position as working rules | the Juneau longshore agreement as jwell as all other longshore con- tracts are predicated and functior on the basis of each individual em- ployer's relation with the men em- ployed on each particular job. Therefore, in the case of the Bar- anof, the longshoremen involved had worked only three hours at 11 p.m, eliminating any justifica- tion for the payment of a penalty meal hour for work performed between 11 p.m. and midnight un- der the contract or past nractices.” Referred to Seattls ¥ 7 In line with thal iwi..., by the Seattle office, when the preseas issue was raised concerning a long- choreman employed on the Aleu- tian ‘and another on the Denali, Adams referred the matter to Se- which replied that all in- creased costs must be approved by the War Shipping Administra- tion and that the Seattle Office had conferred with Steve Glumaz, International Representative for the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union CIO) and had renc'hed agreement with Glu- e d on Page Eight) e that insofar are concerned, (Continue IMISSING SITKA CHILD IS FOUND DEAD NEAR HOME SITKA, Alaska, July 31.—Anna Marie Ward, 10-year-old daughter of City Supervisor Bill Ward, miss- The raise blankets the federal ju- ing and hunted since 8 o'clock last diciary, from district judges to the P ight, was found dead this forenoon Chief Justice of the United States.'near Dog Creek, about 250 feet Thus, Chief Justice Vinson willlgpom her home. get $25,500 annually and the asso-| mqpe remains of the little girl clate justices $25,000. Pay of Cir-'were taken to the hospital to de- cuit court judges goes up to $17,- 500, and that of district judges to $15,000. | One constitutional effect of the bill is to ban appointment of pres- ent members of Congress to the federal judiciary until next Janu- ary, at the earliest. In the case of some Senators, they will have to wait as long as four and a half years—until their present terms expire—before be- coming eligible for any federal Jjudgeship, termine the cause of death. After the family and neighbors failed to find the child during the night-long search, a general alarm was sounded this morning and par- ties formed at 10 o'clock. ‘The body was discovered at 11:45 ‘o'clock this forencon by the little girl’s brother Harold. The child's relatives are her father, brothers, Frank and Harold; sister Mrs. Martha Ellis, and grand- parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Christy, all of Sitka. f »