The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1946, Page 1

| LAST CHANCE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . — T VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,356 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, .;\UGUST 23, 1946 CHIANG OK'S "ITLOOKS LIKE POLAND CALLS ARG O S8 LONDON, Aug. 23.—A Polish Em- MEADPROBERS | TURN EYES ON _ PACIFIC COAST! WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Rested REJECTION OF ULTIMATUM 1§ FORCED DOWN YUGOSLAVIA'S FLYER TELLS PLAINTTOU.N. "CEASE FIRE" ‘YUGOSLAVS NOW COMING TO TERMS TIT0 ORDERS (OMPROMISE‘ ABOUT EVENT NOT U.S.AIMED ON U. S. CRAFT bassy spokesman accused Britain |after its joust with war contractors, | today of “open interference” in Po-'the Mead Investigating Committee HINTED, PARIS . Lynn, the Capitol arhitect. SEPTEMBER 30 jCoast Waferfront Employ- | ers Find Only Wage Demand Acceptable U, S. Wonld Be Trustee for Disputed Areas - Reds Hesitate fo Accept |land’s internal affairs. The British is casting suspicious glances at ac- Foreign Office responded that Lon- | tivities in certain west coast cities, ! | don’s financial accord with War-|including Seattle i |saw will not be ratified until nn-“ Chairman James Mead of New, Poles fulfill assurances of "Iroe‘\’ork announced in the nation’s, | general elections.” | Capital today he has authorized a | The Polish spokesman said a re- | subcommittee to hold public hear- icom. British note criticising the!ings in Seattle, Los Angeles andi Passible Course Sfill Open fo Tito-Report Not Substantiated {Pilot Misunderstood Sig-‘Study of Danube Shipping | nals—Af First Thought | Asked-Moscow-Western [ Aftackers British : Power Tension Shown | TRIESTE, Aug. 23.—The pilot of], NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—The Mos- “Satisfaction” Promised in Answer fo Ameri- can Ultimatum NANKING, Aug. 23.—Genemhs-; SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23.—The|conduct of the June National R(*-‘Sun Francisco. The group will' BULLETIN—PARIS, Aug. 23. L simo Chiang Kai-shek reportedly| Waterfront Employers Assoclation,|ferendum was “taking sides” with'probe maintenance of west coast| The official press agency Tan- |{he American transport plane that COW radio reported today that vw»-'HOPES FADE m approved today a “last chance”!in the face of a threatened coast-|opposition parties in Poland and Naval facilities, the type of surplus Jug said today that Premier | was forced down in Yugoslavia two slavia had filed a complaint against compromise plan to put all dis-|wide strike, told Pacific longshore-| was based on unsubstantiated “ru- war property being returned from Marshal Tito had decided to ‘ 4 A1y e the United States with the United p‘mm ME" puted areas in China under full|men today that a wage review | mors." | Pacific zones, and the standards! Teject the American ultimatum. |Weeks ago has told his story to|Nations Security Council, but the 5 American trusteeship pending a might be in order, but that other final seftlement with the Commun-|demands were unacceptable. id that he had | He took exception to the Br h|employed in destroying food from statement that British supervision decommissioned and returning |els. And simultaneously, the Unit- might decide all Communist-occu-; pied areas were disputed. i The Government source sald,! however, that the trusteeship pro- posal would extend to areas not clearly Communist or Government held, such as parts of Shuntung, Jehol and Chahar Provinces in the north and in north Kiangsu, cur- rently the scene of bitter fighting. This source described the plan employers group, notified « the union all its major demands either have been already | passed upon by government agen-|toric Kronberg Castle. cies, would violate other labor com- | mitments or are otherwise unac-| DETROIT—Automobile and truck | ceptable to the employers. He com- Plants in the United States and mented, however, that he agree with | Canada established a new post-war | the union that a review of wages| Production record last week. Ac- is in order. | cording to Ward's Automotive re- Pacific Coast longshoremen ge[}ports, the plants turned out 91,620. ed States Army revealed a new theft of Royal heirlooms from his- DOES FIRST ACTUAL JOB One Parag?a—p—h of ltaly Treaty Draft Approv- Anerican Envoy George . C. Mfil“!noflce today that labor unrest will shall he had “most réliable infor-|sweep the Pacific Coast unless the matfon” that Government ‘TOUPS‘NaMonnl Labor Relations Board ap- ficials news agency, CTK, issued a |calming statement saying that the zation of Yugoslav reserves. The of-' were planning to use poison gas in proves a single coastwide union for|rumor was unfounded and that it actual work on a draft peace doc- ument. the conference opened the Italian' political commission adopted the; ( | | i | 1 Nearly four weeks after|from Belgrade today The Tanjug dispatch appear- ed in four Paris newspapers to- Tito yesterday. “We are waiting for a mes- sage from the Ambassador right now,” a member of the Bel- grade Embassy Staff said. BULLETIN—London, Aug. 23 The Belgrade radio said tonight that the Yugoslav government “declines to acknowledge” the Amcrican ultimatum to Yugo- Press Agency said in a dispatch that Marshal Tito had decided United States ultimatum. newsmen in Trieste. He is Captain! 1wmmm Crombie of East Long- said the Yugoslav delegate to the U. N the note merely asked that economic and social council discu: One of the planes rocked its asked that the question be placed ! | wings, and Crombie says that after : “ on the agenda of the economic and| jhe landed, he was told that thisisoeia) council which is due to con-| i jwas an international signal mean- yone here again Sept. 11 ing to land. But in the American| 7ye United Nations confirmed | and British airforces, the pilot ""”'iLhnl such a letter had been received I tinued, it means assembly. TReiAygust 13 calling upon the econ-| planes kept circling and diving at gmic"and social council to study| him. At first he thought they were the question of Danube shipping. ! British planes, and he called “hello” | A spokesman for Lie said that he over the interphone radio, but there haq jreceived no | communication Ljubljana. He *began--soelrele 4, NeW instructions enroute from. his and it was then that he first real- 8overnment requesting that the to reject the ized he Was being fired upon. The Watter be moved from the econ- nded the Turkish ©mic and social council to the Se- burst of fire woun 3 leurity Council. \Doubt Expressed that Any ists. The - Association stand was .set‘!in November's general elections | ships. day, but the U. S. Embassy in | ncadow, Mas: 8 S ¥ § { | h sachuserts. He and his Sources which in the past have|forth in a letter to Harry Bridges,| would be necessary. [ Plans for the west coast hearings! Belgrade said over the tele- | the question of shipping on the| - ! fellow crewmen and passengers proved reliable said the plan had leader of the CIO International - eee | were made public in a telegram to! phene tonight that the dis- | z i Danube. been advanced by Chinese Govern- Longshoremen’s and Warehouse- : | Senator Hugh Mitchell, Chairman| - patch had not appeared in Bel- |reached Trieste last night after Dr. Andrija Stampar, Yugoslav. Qd fo Saffly ment quarters, but a Communist|men’s union. iuf a subcommittee probing the! grade, where the press has |being freed from their place of|delegate who also is députy chalr-; spokesman said it had yet to be Bridges hz.xs been vmpoxymcd to] inter-American highway project. “played down” the story of the |confinement in Ljubljana, ‘f‘m‘n.nr }lle p(tun(‘mm' .;md s‘m‘lnl BULLETIN — Washington, handed to his group. call a coastwide strike unless a con- i -eo —- difficulties between Yugoslavia | 3 i ouncil, said as far as he could| 4, 23 . s % | \ " | Crombie says that he could not .. ... ¢ \ i ug. 23, — Undersecretary of tract is reached by October 1. | and the United States. | recall” the note did not mention — ge.ee All Areas Disputed w ¢ & S | g | 5 Ui a3 understand the signals of the Yu-|\po yhjied States sps State Dean Acheson declined T e e his per- 1t looks like a strike on Sep-| BERLIN—The prosecution opened The Embassy in Belgrade de- | a0 oner planes which circled| ¢ Uiied States spacifically. at a news conference today to e spokesman gave -@s " temker 30 ‘is inevitable” a union | 0 clined to comment the re- 4 £ FILED TWO WEEKS AGO ¢ § it | 5l 10N 1its case today against = Captain v ent on the re- | ik he th ht he was! 1 say whether United States sonal view that the Communist| cpokesman said I ? | endi i around him as he thought he was| p. <4 he had filed the letter' Y & Un spokes sald. Kathleen Nash Durant in the theft| + port pending the receipt of |, . e Airpor | ’ e CUCN 48 hour ultimatum te ¥ command would hesitate to accept! 3 | §ikices from Ambassador Rich- | 0°Aring the Udine Airport, with Trygve Lie, U. N. Secretary-| um ugo- on the ground the Government! F. P. Foisie, president of tne of the $1,500,000 Hesse Crown Jew- Td PRI R; ohoambt Wil Plane Rocked Wings General, sbout ‘two Weeks ngo and slavia has been satisfied com- pletely by the release of a group of American airmen. Neither would he say whether the United States will present its case, involving two attacks by Yugoslay fighter planes on American transports, to the United Nations Security Coun- cil. Acheson ackmowledged there were grave fears over the safe- ty of the occupants of the > iviy |$1.37 an hour basic wage. | | slavia di “jts | Was 10 response. B Aa o AP as “the last chance” short of cwu‘ | lavia, contending that “its " rom Yugoslavia concerning a com- " I war, | PRAGUE, Czechoslavakia—Alarm | ed by SUb'GfOUp contents have become irrele- | At that time Crombie says he piaint with the Security Council. Plane shot down Monday near Poison Gas Again WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—The was spread throughout Prague to-| AL | vant.” | spotted a city below him which he { the summer home of Marshal " o CIO International Longshoremen'siday . .. .A false rumor that Mar-' paRiS, Aug. 23—The peace con- | - took to be Udine, his destination, NO NEW INSTRUCTIONS | Tite. Communist Gen. iwu Zu-lai told |and Warehousemen’s union served|shal Tito had ordered the mobili- ference today accomplished its first| PARIS, Aug. 23—The French but which later turned out to be Di. Stampar said he knew of no, But he emphasized that a f report. and explanation’ will | required in both cases. | BELGRADE, Aug. 23.—Premier future civil war offensives. {longshoremen and their “walking S = 5 M i d s {had been denied by all Yugoslav first paragraph of the preamble. | | passenger, and hit the tail assemb- Marshal Tito, having complied with He asked Marshall to present his posses,” e g Thic pesagraph names the mem- |, The State Department mote gave!ly, The Moscow radio, in a broadcast'an angry United States ultimatum strong protests against luch_ '_‘in-: The NLRB yesterday held its con-| |bers ‘m the econference Who wmiYugu:Im-iu 48 hours to release the| - Docided To Get Down 'heard in London, declared that demanding the release of seven in- humane Wa_irfarc to Genen?hssxmo‘cludmg hearing on an ILWU pro-| TACOMA — Longshoremen in ke signatories. occupants of two Army transport’ Crombie sent the co-pilot back Yugflfllflvm'hfld alleged specifically terned American, has given his air Chiang Kai-shek. Marshall is leav-|posal to join all West Coast long- planes brought down by Marshal {that the United States refused to force “the strictest orders” not to ing today for the summer capital | three Washington ports are unde- shoremen and their supervisors into cided whether they will join & Its option was facilitated by with- | drawal of a Yugoslav amendment Tito’s fighter planes. Part of this (Continued un Page Two) relinquish six Yugoslav passenger fire on foreign planes again, even at ‘Kuling to confer with Chiang a single union. The Pacific Coast Ly A i . ldemand was complied with yester- — e |ships and other vessels now an- {f they happen to fly over Yugo- after ineffectual talks with the Waterfront Employers Association |CORstise strike ¥ QIS ru c;“fd :‘,:‘a‘fh A’f,r,:s,:f?afey 1‘227:3:3 i ;;: day when nine occupants of one chored in the upper Danube. islavia without clenrnnyce. i chief Communist negotiator. opposes the move. ‘;(I:)Jr.! ;Septedmgel;t ’I“uw’;:i?n’;mvm-e Tl:;‘]mrngraph ;q docepted names all |Plane—seven Americans and two | Meanwhile, Security Council dele-| Tito also has assured U. S. Am- — e o——— - - on‘lve. A;‘IL lozzuhore portsv on the conference members, éxccp! Nor- {non-American passengers—were re- rea' a es gates watched closely developments bassador Richard C, Patterson that N leased an hour before U. S. Am- jon the U. N. ultimatum to the permission would be given Ameri- Elash! { 3t Race on T (apifol Hill Pacific coast. OPA DERRICKS CHICAGO — The CJO United Packinghouse Workers have filed 30-day strike mnotices against four |way, as signatories to the lLahan‘h treaty. This milestone was passed in the Italian political and territorial com-; mittee session marked by the first appearance of Sen. Tom Connally dor Richard C. Patterson con- ferred with Tito and delivered a copy of the ultimatum. One occupant, a Turkish captain, as not been released because he as: | Yugoslavs over shooting at U. S. planes. Grave tension between Moscow | Group Agrees ;und the western powers was re- flected, however, in a statement !can representatives to inspect both {U. 8. C-47 transports shot down by , Yugeslav pilots, the second demand in the ultimatum. One plane was downed near Ljubljana on August MORE pRI(ES &?}jor pacl;ers _d hSwU’;:‘) Armqur,-‘D-Tem in the American delega-|%25 wounded. In addition, the . H from the Brazilian delegate stern-'9 and the other near Bled last WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—An ex- rPx'e;adzntmRals: :-Ie{s.celnA e“;s'"f:; tion. five occupants of a second plane, l Irms ly denouncing Russia and “all her Monday. pert from the Fish and Wildlifei Service has completed a census of | wild animals on (easy, now) Capi- tol Hill. His finding: The Senate and| House office buildings, the Capitol| itselfl and the connecting tunnels| harbor 2,000,000 rats. The census taker was John Jones, rodent control technician. He has| called a council of war with Davld! The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | Paris Conference, writes an- other column on our iense re- lations with Russia and how Wwe can prevent our present {half percent. still hopes a strike can be avoided, | but that negotiations thus far with | “Lhe big four packers have shown no | progress. ! | . H WASHINGTON, Aug. 23—OPA| PORTLAND—Multnomah County! is rushing to meet a deadline for| Hospital attendants say the quad-! 'price increases required by lh“}l‘uplfls born yesterday to a Port-| new price law. Most of these i“'{land Negro woman—Jerry, Joe, creases must be in effect by 'U'iJcsse May and Josephine Tigher— | morrow. | are still alive and “all right” today. The latest boost announced today | g is an immediate retail increase, in| SAN DIEGO, CalU.—Producer! prices for tires for passenger .C”5~‘Geox-ge White has heen sentenced motorcycles, trucks and buses. The|ang fined for the hit and run raises average about two and °“e‘|dealhs of two newlyweds. The 52-! | year-old showman was given one| Earlier ,i“ the day, OPA grnutediye” in the county work camp and | retail price increases on several|fina.q $600. | kinds of bullding materials ranging| from one to three percent. | NASHVILLE, Tenn—Dwight O.| Progress bogged down on the sec- ond paragraph in a debate over the meaning of the words “declared,”} “undertook” and “unleashed.” Imi-i—a* fie | History Made | Cn Saturday NEW DELHI, Aug. 23.—Tomorrow is expected to be an historic day for the teeming myjllions in India Tomorrow, Viceroy Lord Wavell| PROTEST FLOOD | murder warrant today at McMinn-|the road to independence, after| ville, Tenn.,, 60 miles from Nash- Dearly two and one-half centuries | shot down in flames Aug. 19, are still unaccounted for and may have been Kkilled. The U. S. note further demand- ed the right for its representatives to “communicate with any of the occupants of the two planes who are still alive,” and reserved a de- cision on its future coure of action “in the light of the evidence then secured.” ‘The U. 8. demands therefore have not been fully complied with and Marshal Tito still is in position to reject them in part. He also may be in the technical position of be- ing able to reject them in toto by saying the nine occupants were released before the ultimatum was received and Yugoslavia intended to free them anyway. < In London the Yugoslav embassy girl, . was taken into custody on a|Which is intended to lead India On|yye “prench Press Agency. AL L e R FAIRBANKS ELKS | satellites,” including Yugoslavia, for (using wljat he called Nazi-Fascist | tactics. ‘Strikers Directed Back fo - Work Aboard Fi i T S UNION I DETROIT, Aug, 23—The CIO INDI(TED FOR FIXING PRICES National Maritime . Union directed its members to return to work aboard fiva vessels of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana today, fol- First Union Prosecution Under Anti-frust Laws Is Launched >>o— lowing ratification of an agreement celling for a work week of 48 hours at sea and 44 hours in port. Joseph Curran, NMU president, said the agreement had been rati-, fied by a majority of the 2,500 union members in 18 Great Lakes (Company today and will be sub- {mitted to the union memkership 36 of the CIO International Fish- |for ratification, Curran said. He ermen and Allied Workers of Amer- added that the NMU is “in consul-|ica and 15 of its officers and | To Give Satisfaction “The Yugoslav government has promised to give satisfaction,” U, S. embassy officials said after Pat- |terson’s two-hour conference at Bled 4_\'esterday with Tito concerning the fultimatum, which required satis- {faction within 48 hours with the |alternative of arraigning Yugoslavia Ibefore the United Nations. i Two American Graves Registra- luon representatives were scheduled lludny to inspect the scene of Mon- (day’s crash, amid indications that none of the five crew memters sur- (vived the fire and explosion which |occurred when the ship was forced down. Three Presumed Perished The Foreign Office earlier in the |week stated that two crew members 'pamchuled but Yugoslav military H Sy | carmen, 62-year-old grandfather and the official Yugoslav Press POI'S [ ) ; (050 Nbors e Joain ol accused of burning his wife to s scheduled to announce the {0t~ fxyency Tanjug said they knew no-| A similar agreement was reached | lauthorities told the U. S, Consul in P e bl e | . | mati ‘nment . {with the Bethlehem Transportation o i . DEMO SENA'ORS death for the love of a lfi-year-old|m3' on of an interim governmen thing of the report circulated by| PO | LOS ANGELES, Aug. za.—Local'z“red yesterday that no trace had keen found of them. The other three presumably perished. (The Belgrade radio, heard London, said the entire crew had in vitle: "of British rule. The Congress par- ) i dangerous drift toward war.) (0"]‘“0[ Sl ASH g st |ty has presented its slate of offi- tation with” with strike-bound mke\members were indicted by the Fed-|parachuted but could not be found. | | |cers to the Viceroy for his approv-| operators but declined to name|eral Grand Jury today on charges| ceven Americans and two Eu- WASHINGTON—There is reason ‘TENSE ]‘ROUBLE |al. H them. {of conspiracy to fix prices of freshiyopeans aboard the plane forced i | Meanwhile Calcutta ] is believe that at the end of the war, Soviet Russia looked forward to a virtual alliance with the Unit- ed States. The world’s two greatest powers, the Russians felt, had no conflicting interests, could work to- gether. Great Britain, the Russians figured, did not count. She was out of date, wiped up, finished. However, no two nations can run the world without reaping the m‘ will of the rest of the world and| eventual catastrophe. So, fortunate- ly, the United States did not be- come an ally of Russia. Unfortunately, however, we have' veered so far in the other direc- tion that foreign diplomats gener-| ally consider us not only an ally, of Great Britain but owned body | and soul by the charming gentle- men in the British Foreign Office.[trol committee. This not only snarls up our re-| lations with Russia, but lessens our effectiveness with other members of the United Nations. For it is by (Continued on Page Four) |ate President WASHINGTON, Aug. 23—A dis- pute of major proportions faced President Truman today over his budget revision. I | The President already has clash-| jEwISH (ENIER‘ ed verbally with Republicans on the economy issue, and now the Demo- crats are up in arms. They con-| HAIFA, Palestine, Aug. 23—There’s tend that Mr. Truman ordered aino relaxation in the tension at $300,000,000 slash in expenditures|Haifa, where unauthorized Jewish for flcod contrel, and rivers and!immigrants are being transhipped harbors projects for the fiscal years to Cyprus, and today one of the 1947 and 1948. !British transports, the Empire Hey- CONTINUING AT | is gradually returning to normal after days of | rioting between Moslems and Hin-{ dus. : ———————————— | INDUCTION EASED | FIRE ONCE MORE for the second time in as many years, fire has robbed the Fair- banks Elks lodge of its home. | The agreement with Bethlehemififih brought into Southern Cali- came as the NMU strike entered fornia ports its ninth day. A majority of Beth-; Willlam C. Dixon, in charge of lehem employees must ratify the!tke anti-trust division of the De- | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 23— agrecment before it becomes effec- partment of Jusice on the Pacific |tive. Coast, said it was the first time The NMU stood by its claim of the Department had challenged un- 1132 vessels idle as a result of the.ion tactics under the anti-trust laws. l" 'I'wo (lASSES; Flames which started in an up-|strike. The Lake Carriers’ Associa-| Defendants named included Jeff {stairs room of the Internationaltion at Cleveland contends that s a-|Kibre, San Francisco, International WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Selec tive Service headquarters RJas eas-;| Hotel shortly after 3 a. troyed the building, the Elks' headquarters, bar and The aroused Democrats are Sen-| wood, put to sea as a precautionied up on its induction program. idunce floor on the ground floor. Kenneth McKellar,fagamst possible Jewish sabotage. acting chairman John Overton of, A mysterious telephone call warn- | the Senate Commerce committee.]cd that the vessel would be blown| chairman Joseph Mansfield of thelup. On Weadnesday, another trans- House Rivers and Harbors commit-iport, the Empire Rival, had a tee, and Chairman William Whit-|large hole blown in her hull by! tington of the House Flood Con-isabuteurs who swam out at night.| : Rather than risk a repeat per- They describe the President’s ac-|formance, the Empire Heywood will! tion as, quote “an assumption of!cruise in the Mediterranean for sev- unwarranted and drastic power.” ‘The four have called for a na-|pleated on the island of Cyprus to tional protest, mieting in New'receive the 600 Jews that are on Orleans on September 20, hoard the vessel, Previously it had been announc-| ed that, starting on September 1 virtually all able-bodied men be- tween the ages of 19 and 29 would have to be inducted. Now the local draft boards have been told that home builders, col-, lege professors and executives critical transportation or produc-| tion fields may be deferred. The| es must obtain certificates from the Federal agencies concerned with their vocations, Only a shell of the structure re- mained today, and firemen con- tinued during the day to quench smoldering spots of debris. The extent of the loss was un- known, but thought heavy. The International was the third in!Fairbanks hotel hit by fire in the| ‘The Northern Lacey last three months. Hotel was destroyed and the eral days until facilities are com- men in these new deferment class- badly damaged by previous fires. The losses are doubly serigus be-| cause of the critical housing short- age in the city. . m. des- men are returning to struck vessels representative of the union, and} which housed|at a faster rate than they alk-officers of San Pedro, Santa Mon-| (The nine released men crossed |ica, Newport Beach and San Diego | units. 5 ! The led off >oe New Surplus Buying indictment, declaring the | |dependent business men who sell ' " |vented* California and six other | WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. — The|western states from receiving their |War Assets Administration has normal supply of fresh fish. ;gmnled exclusive buying rights to - - | veterans on more than a score ul‘\ Russian scientists have reported additional surplus items. These experimental growths of cotton in ! range from concrete mixers to cash|natural rose, lemon, brown and registers, green colors. members of the union are not lab- orers in the ordinary sense, but in-! | H al o z - ror. Rights for Veferans ;s inecoencensy warec| down August 9 were released from icustody an hour before Tito’s con- \ference with Patterson. They had ]been held in a Ljubljana hotel for almost two weeks. The other pas- senger, a Turkish captain, was re- ported recovering in a Ljubljana ‘hospital from wounds suffered by gunfire when the plane was down- ed. Nine Well Treated . the Morgan Line into Venezia Gui- ‘lia last night and were taken at fonce to U. S, 88th Headquarters in sorizia, Italy. They were reported in excellent physical condition and said they had been well treated while in custody.) y Marshal Tito disclosed his “cease fire” orders to his air force in re- sponse to a note sent him by two | American newspaper correspondents !—a representative of the Associdt- led Press and one of the New York | Times (Continued on i;aéa Twol«. E h 3