The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1946, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS L THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TH VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,337 A_\ AUGUST 1, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS =1 'LONGSHOREMEN WORKING IN JUNEAU orthwest Airlines TWO AIRROAD Thirty - Ninth Birthday GATEWAYS T0 Of Army Air Forces Is | Being (elebrated Today ALASKA OKED Mlaskan Carries Not Grant- ed Look-in on Terri- fory’s Air Business WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — The Civil Aercnautics Board today au- thorized Northwest Airlines and Pan American Airways to estab- lish new air routes to Alaska, the Orient, and Australia. Trans-World Air Lines also re- ceived an extension to its inter- national route which, in effect, es- tablishes a second United States flag round-the-world service. In its decision in the so-called Pacific case the board authorized two routes to the Orient. One goes via the Great Circle route across the North Patific into Tok- yo, Seoul, Shanghai and Manila, and the other across the Central Pacific via Honolulu, Midway, Tok- yo, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Seattle and Midwest Gateways The northern route will be op- erated via the Seattle gateway as well as via the Chicago-Min- neapolis-St. Paul gateway which also includes New York as a co- terminal point. Sun Francisco and Tos Angeles were designated as co-terminal points on the central route. This had the effect of establishing two new routes to Alaska—one from Se- attle and one from the Chicago gateway—as well as intra-Alaskan service from Juneau to Anchorage. Northwest Airlines was author- 1zed to operate over the Great Cir- cle Route via the North acific from both the Chicago and Seattle gate- weys., Northwest received authority to operate from the co-terminal points New York and Chicago via Edmonten, Canada, to Anchorage, Alaska, and from the terminal point Seattle to Anchorage and then beyond Anchorage to Tokyo, Shanghai and points in Manchuria and Eastern China to Manila. PAA Extends In South Pan American was authorized to extend its Central Pacific route frem Midway Island to Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and from Manila to Saigon, Singa- pore and Batavia and was granted the right to operate direct from Honolulu to Wake Island. Pan American’s present certificate on its Central Pacific route was further extended from Hong Kong /Canlmueddzm Page ;wnj The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON While Drew Pearson is in Paris, his secretary reports to him on what is happening back in the Nation’s Capital. Dear Boss:— Your sick cow is getting sicker. . . . Secretary Ickes did a good job for you on the first replace- ment broadcast. Frank Sinatra and General Omar Bradley follow. .. . Your pal, Congressman May, is still in hot water. Your black cat is still spending most of her day in the letter box on your desk. you at all — we do. politico who called you a commun- ist is being investigated by the Mead Committee. . . . The Atlanta radio station which had so much pressure brought on them not to carry your Ku Klux Klan broad- cast is now feeling happier. De- spite the threats of the Georgia Power Company, the final reaction in Atlanta was OK. Incidentally, mail on the KKK proadcast would do your heart good. 1 am saving all the letters until you get back; know you will want to read them. They came from all sorts of people, big and little, with—this surprised m Tot of fine letters from the south. though of course Bl e <088 (Continued on Page Four) SITKA GIRL [ " ISSTABBED | k T0 DEATH Fifteen Knife Wounds Are Found on Body of Lit- fle AnnaMarieWard | 1.—Fifteen chest and a two inch little SITKA, Alaska, Aug. knife wounds, stabs in back, 10 stabs within radius, caused the death of 10-year-old Anna Marie whose body was found yesterday forenoon in the small Dog Creek, WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — The Army Air Forces, which began with three men and no airplanes, celebrated its 39th birthday with a flourish in keeping with its war stature as the world’s might- iest. Some 400 of the thousands of combat aircraft left over from V-J Day turwed engines for sky re- views over many of the principal cities of the United States. Thirty B-29 Superfortresses were ordered out from their Okinawa bases for another flight over the| wartime target cities of Tol Yckohama, Hiroshima, and Osaka this time without bombs. President Truman accepted invitation to a dinner here which General Carl Spaatz, Force Commander, was host. Congratulations A telegram from Orville Wright, an at Air built the Army's stood out among brother Wilbur 1 aircraft, today | HOLD FEDERAL EXPENSES T0 VERY LOWEST Truman Issu;fiefler toDe- partment Heads to Beat Inflation WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — Presi- dent Truman today called on all Federal officials to keep public expenditures “at the lowest pos- sible level.” ! In a formal statement, Mr. Tru- man declared that reductions in Federal expenditures are impera- (tive in view of “the present in- | flationary situation.” | The President’s statement was contained in a letter to the heads of all executive departments and agencies. It said “We must do everything within | our power to reduce inflationary | pressures. One of the most effec- Ward, the pioneer aviator'who with his|tive means of doing this is to re= duce Federal expenditures.” | The President made his state- 100 yards from her home. There congratulations received by the Air(ment public at a news conference was no evidence of sex violation. Fol “Probably no military or- at which he announced he will The little girl, daughter of Sit- ganization ever had a smaller be- hold a news conference on the ka Supervisor Willlam Ward, had ginning or a more rapid growth,” | budget at the White House tomor- keen missing since Monday evening. After returning home from a trip downtown for ice cream, the child he said. The Air Forces, then the Aero- nautical Division of the Signal | The statement emphasized ~that | the nation’s present fiscal situa- left home -without haj.ar#@eat and «Gérps wes a year old when Wright | tion “is* & »most serious one.” was believed 10 be golug torVISit ity 1t Benjamin D. Foulois of | When she failed 10 ¢no Army as a passenger, success- | Substantial budget deficit in the a neighbor. “We are faced with a continued return, no great alarm was felt be- )y met the Army’s requirements | Present year," it continued. “Even cause of the habit of spending i, ‘3 gspeed test over a five-mile those Federal expenditures which overnight with friends. Yesterday morning when the little girl could not be found at any of the neighbors or friends, a search, organized, was immediately start- ed. The body, fully clothed, was found in Dog Creek, and was tak- en to a hospital to determine the cause of death. Heavy and continuous rainfall throughout Monday night had oblit- erated all foot prints. The crime is Lelieved to have been committed elsewhere and the body taken and thrown into Dcg course from Fort Myer to Alex- andria, Va. and return. First Military Plane Then, with Lt. Frank P. Lahm as a passenger, he set a world’s en- durance record of one hour and 12 minutes in the air. It was the first U. S. milita airplane. They have ceased trying now to see how long planes can be kept aleft but speed has been stepped | up to around 600 miles an hour ! for the mnew P-80 jet-propelled Lightning fighter. Tests are due to start this month cn a small ex- perimental XS-1 craft at Muroc Creek. 3 S < 4 An inquest is being held toda | Air Base, California, which is ex- Deputy U. §. Marsbal Frad pected ultimately to reach 1,500 ant has asked the Federal Bureau miles an hour at 80,000 feet. And of Investigation at Juneau to send the rocket era is just dawning. a representative here and it learned an agent is on the w is She doesn’t seem to miss; UN Headquarfers Now Transferred By Oflitial Ad GENEVA, Aug. i — In a brief ceremony today, Wladimir Moder- ow, personal representative of Tryg- ve Lie, United Nations General Sec- retary, and Sean Lester, General Secretary of the League of Na- | tions, signed documents transfer- ting the former peace organiza- | tion’s headquarters to the U. N. {Auto (rashes as {Traffic Code Being Discussed | LONDON, Aug. 1 An auto- !mobile being pursued by a police car at 70 miles an hour through London’s streets crashed through the- railings outside the houses of Parliament early today and hurtled down 12 feet onto the House of !person was Kkilled. The crash interrupted a Commons | code. long ————,——— AO-HOURWEEK NOW AT JALS U. S. Marshal William T. Ma- honey today announced that the guards and matrons in the Federal Jails of the First Division are to go on a 40-hour week, commencing accordance with an instruction of the Bureau of Prisons of the U. S.! |Department of Justice, FOOD SHIP GOES DOWN, COLLISION NEW YQORK, Aug. 1.—The new 8,258-ton freighter, the American Farmer, carrying six passengers, 51 crew members and 8500 tons of vitally needed food for Great Brit- ain, sank last night about 400 miles west of the English coast after being in a collision with the cattle ship William J. Riddle. The Riddle, a specially designed ship used in the war for carrying uncrated planes, radioed that she had rescued all aboard the Farm- er. A London dispatch said none | were injured. The Riddle was damaged at the waterline and her | speed was slowed to seven knots. | The London Dispatch said she was making for a British port and was expected to dock this week end. The U. S. Lines said the ship also S w“ Ker' e carried 7,811 bags of mail which | The West Virginia Commons ‘Speaker’s Green.” One is presumed to be lost. included and 3,000 tons of mixed foods, in- debate on the traffic ,,4ing evaporated and dried milk, ! dried eggs and lard: STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 1 — Closh—ng| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | I stock today is 7%, American Can | ation of $975,000 for construction 100’2, Anaconda 47%, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvest- er 96, Kennecott 57%, New York Central 23'., Northern Pacific 27, U. S. Steel 90':, Pound $4.03%. e—a next Monday. The step is taken in| Sales today were 830,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are 62.30, utilities 4154, Her cargo | 5,500 tons of buckwheat | follows: industrials 20226, rails! jare most necessary have the ef- | fect of increasing inflationary pres- s in the total national econ- disclosure of a solid front presen- tation by Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower and Adm. Chester W. Nim- itz against any further cuts in Ar- my and Navy budgets. ARSI S JACKSON IS TO TAKE POSITION, SUPREME COURT Prosecutor at German War Crimes Trial Is Due Back Tomorrow WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — Presi- dent Truman said today he ex- pects Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson to resume his duties on the Supreme Court upon his re- turn to the United States. Jackson, chief U. 8. Prosecutor at German war crimes trial in Nuern- berg, is due back in Washington tomorrow. Mr. Truman was asked at a news conference whether he expected to talk with Jackson about differ- ences on the Supreme Court, in- cluding Jackson’s disagreements with Justice Hugo Black. The President replied he expected to talk with Jackson about his du- ties in Germany. “Is he returning porter asked. Mr. Truman broke in, “Of course, he is returning, to his duties here. Why else,” the President asked, “would Jackson be coming home?” President Signs# Legislation for 6l af Fairbanks WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — Presi- dent Truman yesterday signed leg- islation authorizing the establish- ment of a geophysical institute at the University of Alaska. ‘The bill authorizes the appropri- a re- lof buildings and establishment of |the institute, which will carry on | research conducted during the war by the Army, the Navy and the | University. Actual funds for the work have Inot been appropriated and prob- ably will not be provided until next year, Will Fly North Pacific Public Drawing Must STRIKE OFF BUT COAST | ~ PORTS IDLE ‘Dock Work Mostly Tied Up. l _;sAlo%rgshoorz yIl3o;§es pGREAT WORTH " Mend Meelings | /itie Coast by continuing work stop- | pages | | The foremen in the principal coast ports voted to leave the strike call up to a coastwise negotiating {War Department Answers committee, but smips at berth re-| Crificism Being Cir- mained idle as a result of stop- % - gl i ulated in Alaska The waterfront employer’s asso- clation reported that only 10 or 12 of the usual 200 longshore crews were working in San Francisco yes- terday as a result of the absence of gang bosses. An employer|py (he Alaska Communication Sys- gpckesman said he did not Knew yen 1o the people of Alaska, the whether the bosses would returne y; Department feels the people ta_work later today . lof Alaska should be advised as to Dock foremen at Los Angeles last|ipe policies and objectives of the night voted to continue their stcp- | System. work mecting today although they o ! The Alaska Communication Sys- agreed to postpone striking V| continued working relief ships. | tem, drawing upon the experience Eniployers in San Francisco said 8Sained in more than 46 vears of fengshoremen who reported to work successful operation, is continuing but refused or were denjed work|t0 provide a high quality of ser- because of the absen of super-|vice at reasonable rates. Compar- vision would be discharged and able service and rates could not be woud not be paid for reporting, |Provided by private interests un- Trke CIO Longshcremen’s and der the unique conditions existing Warehousemen’s union said the|in this Territory. tosses voted for the proposad strike | after employers refused to recog- nize the union as bargaining agent Great distances, severe for some 1,000 ship, dock and walk- | conditions and peculiar magnet ing bosses along the coast | radio interference create problems The Waterfront Employers’ asco- |Which can be met only by the use iation said recognition of the un- of the best available equipment— jon as the bosses’ bargaining agent | installed, maintained and operated depended upon certification by the by an organization concerned more Take Place WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — In reply to criticism being circulated throughout the Territory of Alaska of facilities and services offered Ecencmic Fact climatic National Labor Relations Board, with adequate service than with and that the NLRB had not grant- | prefit. It is an economic fact that ed the union certification. | tolls from the commercial traffic i BT " | alone would not support this fal | flung arterial communication ANNOUN(EMENT IS | tem. Since its basic networks {must be operated anyway, as a MADE BY TRUMAN OF APPOINTMENTS | military necessity, it follows log- lically that additional capacity for commercial traffic can be provided at. rates which private ~interests could not appreach. Competitive ! private agencies, dividing the avail- | able commercial business, would be to higher rates or poorer . Furthermore, Alaska neces- terced sarily depends heavily upon radio Keen Johnson fo Labor De- fo State Deparfment |2c, Gieivis, ke Sheerens Only Scluticn A single larze agency, therefore, an egency h Govern- dent Truman announced today he %P #8CRCY e ot i ment and individual requirements is is appointing Keen Johnson, for- i mor Goversor of Kentucky, g he only solution to the Alaska T ersaaete of Labor Y. ®% communications problem. The President also told his news’ The Alaska Communication Sys- A 4 < tem does t pretend to be in- conference he is naming William : - b T L. Clayton Undersecretary of sml“rambm. Occasional errors are in- i oharen of economic affairs un.|evitable in the daily handling of e alfalrs un-f, o sands of messages, by any or- der new legislation he is prepared 3 to sign, ‘gamzalmn. Despite an unusual Johnson, president of the Dailyl‘“"g‘;?fie";,"‘ ":‘s""“e_l g;“ é"v%dfi' Register Publishing Co., of Rich-‘mn \lization, however; the System | mond, Ky., will be the first Under- has made every effort to maintain |secretary of Labor the department!'tS Ligh standards of service. All complaints as to service or rates has had since it was organized in| 1913, {are given careful consideration for One of the first objectives| h 5 s of Secretary of Labor Schwellen-|the Ppurpose of C?”?““"fh Srrons. bach when he assumed office July HERAOYIE < bBE and generally 1, 1945, was to reorganize the de-|YiC® An examination of rates has partment, creating additional as- WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — Presi-| e To this disclosed that those in the Alaska sistant secretaryships and setting ATe8 In many cases are below the up an administrative post as under- | pormal rate structures for similar secretary. service in the United States. ikl No Complaints the knowledge of or- . nization, no group has com- (ons‘e“a"ons |o [ plained of its service to the Alaska Communication System, the War Soon Be Batk in Ai' Department, or to the Federal | Communications Commission. — e | The Alaska Communication Sys- WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—An Air- | tem, formerly known as The Wash- line official predicted today lhatkmglon - Alaska Cable and Tele- the Lockheed Constellation pro-!graph System (WAMCATS), has bably will be back in service wuh-"pmvided the principal communica- in several weeks. The big four-|tions for the Territory since 1901. engined ships have been grounded|Operated the entire time by The since July 12 because of a u‘a!n»‘United States. Army Signal Corps, ing flight crash. Since then, con-|the organization struction changes have been agreed |primary peacetime mission the pro- upon by engineers of the Civil| vision of good commercial type Aeronautics Administration, heed Manufacturing and the airlines, Corporation 1 i (Continued on Page Five) ser-| Lock- | communications for both military fo Decide WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 A public drawing will be conducted to WAGE CLAIMS ARE PAID BUT Owner, Chilkoot Barracks WITH PROTEST Final Settlement of Meal determine which of two veterans hecomes the owner of cnioot| Py Issue fo Be Nego- Barracks, a historic aimy post in . Southeast Alaska on Lynn Canal, “a'ed af Seame near Juneau. (RS, The drawing, the dnterior De- . 2 £ partment announced teday, will m-i,hf,‘”"*:,:‘(’)“:‘f"(ll‘f’P";‘\'!‘nsk‘f“‘lui‘::l"?fi | held at Anchorage August 5. The property, aggregating about 400 acres and including buildings and equipment, was offered for sale for $100,000 plus an additional $5,000 for the water system after | being declared surplus to the Army. |Baranof here at 9 o'clock last eve- ning, after the Alaska Steamship Company had agreed to pay disput- wage claims, under protest. The breakoff of the longshore work stoppage hete came as a re- B sult of a meeting at Seattle yes- | Steve Larsson Homer and Ken- |tordqay of company officials with neth E. O'Harra, both veterans yaprecentatives of the War Ship- holding equal priority rights, sub- mitted the bids and each offered $10,500 for the 1 /10 down payment required. Under ‘the law, a drawing is necessary to decide the successful bidder. - ese CHINESE REDS ADMIT BATTLE WITHMARINES Communists—D—eny Truck Convoy Ambushed-Am- ericans Aggressors PEIPING, Aug. 1 — The Chinese Ccmmunists acknowledged today that regulars of the Eighth Com- munist Route Army fought United States Marines southeast of Peip- ing Monday, but contended it was not an ambush and tkat the Marines were the aggressors. The Marine Corps said three Marines were killed and 12 wound- ed when a Marine motor convoy was ambushed by 300 Chinese in a highway defile. The Marine Corps has refraine frem - identifying the attackers as Cemmunists but flatly described it | as an ambush. Headguarters added today. that 12 of the Chinese were | killed and an undetermined num- ber wounded when the Marines de- fended themselves Communist Version The official New China News Ageney and the official Communist radio at Yenan gave their version of the battle in 'a news dispatch ind broadeast today, asserting that |, 60 -Marines and 80 National ment soldiers “made a sur- attack” on Communist posi |tions near the village of Anping ! Menday, morning. | “Both sides suffered casualsies in | fighting which ensued when the | Eighth Route troops were forced !to resist. Towards afternoon, when {American reinforcements were rushed to the scene from Tient- sin, the Eighth Route troops with- !drew to avoid aggravating the clash,” Communist accounts said. Demand Withdrawal The Communist agencies then launched into a long reiteration of their demands that Americans withdraw from China entirely and | said, “We should demand an apol- iogy” and disciplinary action from the Marines for the Monday bat- | tle. | “The Marine Corps’ announcement ! said the number of Chinese wound- led was not known. It listed the |Marine dead as one officer and two enlisted men. | The officer was killed at the out- |set by a grenade hurled at his !command jeep. | The announcement explained that | patrols travel the Tientsin-Peiping highway regularly every third day |to protect the route for supply about Gov Stales | Peiping. executive headquarters in The Arabian desert is located in | Egypt, ping Administration and the U. 8. Conciliation Service and with Steve Glumaz, International Representa- |tive of the International Long- shoremen’s and Warehousemen's 'Union (CI0). | At that meeting, the company agreed to pay disputed wage claims involved in work performed for the |steamer Aleutian and Denali by two Juneau longshoremen who had ‘r]axmod penalty wage rates. Horace O. Adams, Alaska Lines Agent here, was immediately authorized by wire to pay the two claims under pro- test. ,‘ After their 9 p. m. start, long- shoremen then worked through the night and had the Baranof's car- go for Juneau unloaded in time for that ship to sail westward at 11 o'clock this morning. Unloading of the other Alaska liner which had been strike-bound here, th~ Alaska, is to commence at 7 o'clock this evening and the ship is expected to clear port by mid- night. Final settlement of the meal hour pay issue, which brought about the latest “job action” here, is ex- pected to be arrived at when new Alaska longshore contracts are ne- gotiated at Seattle. Negotiations are expected to commence shortly. | S ¢ 1 SEINE CREWS " CAUGHT FISHING CLOSED WATERS Masters and crews of two seine ‘boats, arrested on Tuesday for fishing for salmon within a closed .area at Port Frederick, pleaded guilty as charged here yesterday lafternoon before U. 8. Commission- er Felix Gray. Fines were ascessed as follows: Gilbert Hamilton, master of “the oat Ulitka, was fined $100, His crew members, L. Demond, C. Dur- gan, W. Knickbocker, Edward Ver- ney and Robert Ridley, were fined 1825 each. The Ulitka's catch of 82 chum salmon was confiscated. Royal James, master of the gas- Loat Loomis, also fined $100. Two members of his crew, James Garandt and Robert Paul, were each fined $50. The two other crew- men off the Loomis, A. N. Gay and I. J. Merculieff, were each fined $25. Sixty-five salmon were con- fiscated from the Loomis Fisheries Patrol Agent Donald McDonald made the arrests in both cases. \ e 'ARMS CACHE FOUND IN TEL AVIV IN CITY - WIDE SEARCH TEL AVIV, Palestine, Aug. 1— British Army Batallion G head- quarters, set up temporarily in a school for young boys, was found today to be sitting on top of the biggest arms ‘cache yet discovered in the city-wide search for terror- Jlsts. ! Thousands of rounds of ammuni- has had as its|COnVOYs to Marine forces at United tion, mortar bombs and hand gren- \ades and hundreds of rifles and |pistols have been found in sealed rooms below the main floor of the ;school building in the heart of this 'all-Jewish city. s e R