The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1946, Page 1

it | I “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE / VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,364 — ] STRIKE CLOSES JUNEAU LIQUOR BARS Sailor Strike Will Commence Next Thurs NelsonWarns STALINPEALS KING GEORGE AFL SEAMEN WILL TIE UP GuardNeeded ALL COASTS Againsi Army Walkout Declared “"On"'- Unless WSB Reverses Wage Decision NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—A strike by an AFL seamen in protest over a Na- tional Wage Stabilization Board decision will begin Thursday on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Coasts, John Hawk, vice president of the Seafarers International Union, said today. Hawk and other union officials detailed at a news conference plans to “tie up all shipping.” The Wage Stabilization Board on August 29 rejected pay increases negotiated by the SIU and the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific with ghipowners. The two unions will seek support from Maritime workers ‘“regardless of their affiliation,” Hawk said. He declared that more than 89 percent of the SIU-SUP membership had cast ballots favoring a strike. Asked about the possibility of a settlement or a delay, Hawk replied: “The strike is on now—unless the W.S.B. reverses their decision.” (Continued on Page Two) et FARMERS' UNION IN ALBERTA WILL STAGE OWN STRIKE EDMONTON, Alberta, Sept. 3.— The Alterta Farmers' Union has set Friday as the start of a strike to withhold produce from the market to enforce demands for parity prices. The union explained today that parity meant that prices of farm products must be commen- surate with the prices of things farmers buy. Farmers, currently receiving $1.55 a bushel of wheat, asked a govern-; ment guarante> of no increased charges for machinery, oil and other tommodities. A similar strike 10 years age won a 25-cent. wheat price hike. The strike call came as the 97,000 farmers of Alberta were nearing the end of their best harvest in feur years. e — TheVWashington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Ed. Note—While Drew Pear- son is on a brief vacation, his column will be written by sever- al distinguished guest colum- nists—today’s by Postmaster Gen- cfal Robert E. Hannegan.) By ROBERT E. HANNEGAN WASHINGTON—In his inaugur- dl address of March 4, 1933, the late Franklin D. Roosevelt began his career as President of the United States by telling the people: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” In his last public address, which he had written to deliver on April 18, 1945, he ended that career by telling the people of America: “The only limit to our realiza- tion of tomorrow will be doubts of today.” In the first speech he was re- ferring to a crisis in our country. In the last, he was speaking of 4 crisis in the world. The war had not yet ended when Roosevelt wrote those words, but vietory was in sight. Therefore, when he used the phrase, “our doubts of toda: he was not re- ferring to the crisis of World War 1L I knew that then. I know it even better now. I have just re- (Continued on Page Four), estimated 94,000 to 100,000| .1 advertised our | {Economic, Social System | Imperiled, Former WPB Chief Advises WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Donald | M. Nelson hoisted a warning to- day for the nation to be on guard, |“not only in war but in peace,” | against widening military influ- ence. In his book, “Arsenal of Dem- ocracy” to be published this week, the former War Production Board chairman declares that the Army | largely “tock control” of the eivil- ian economy in 1944 after trying throughout the war to wrest that 1authority from him. Henceforth, Nelson wrote, the Army will cease to be a neglected ! step-child in peacetime and will | become “one of the most im- portant and influential branches of | our government.” | Clear Lesson Taught | “The lesson taught by these re- tinued, “our whole economic and soclal system will be in peril if it is controlled by the military men.” | Nelson tock note of the widely| 8 “production crisis” .of 1944, declaring that it was spurious but served to “divert attention from | cent years of war is clear,” he con- ! ;sml PRIVATEWAR VICTORY BELL !Kremlin's T}ileph Alone { Is Defeat of Japs-In E Soviet Version ! MOSCOW, Sept. 3.—The official | newspaper Pravda accused the |United States today of stripping Japan and also of seeking to re- juvenate that country into an Asnencan-ruled “watchdog against the peoples of the Far East.” “The comments were part of Rus- sia's observance of her V-J Day. From Prime Minister Stalin down, |no official press mention was made |of the American or British con- |tribution to the defeat of Japan. |No#* was there mention of the atémic bomb, two of which ex- \ploded at Hiroshima and Nagasaki .in the 1last days of the Oriental Iphase of the war. Russia declared war on Japan on August 8, 1945 and Japan sur- |rendered Sept. 2, after being at war with the United States since I Dec. 7, 1941. Pravda and other Russian new: papers took the line that Japan was dangerously strong and would have fought for years had not Russia entered that war. ¥ L L 1 Stalin’s crder of the day addres<- ad to the armed forces and the oxzR | the Army’s own miscalculations.” | “The record shows,” he wrote, “that in not a single instance— after the critical early period of [19427d1d an American fighting man | | at the front have to go without munitions because of any failure | in production. | Dangeroys Double Talk “The Army's deliberate attempt| create a contrary impression | was one of the most dangerous bits ;of double talk I ever heard of.” Nelsen contended that the heads, of the Army and Navy joined with | James F. Byrnes, then War Mob- | ilization Director, to remove him (4s WPB Chairman in 1943 and re- place him with Bernard M. Baruch. The attempt was thwarted, Nel- son said, when he got wind of the plan and promptly dismissed Ferdinand Eberstadt, a WPB Vice | Chairman who favored the Army's, t view and who was to have becomc! Barnch’s deputy. MUKDEN AREA IS SCENE OF LARGE SCALE FIGHTING PEIPING, Sept. 3—Chinese press; dispatches today reported large scale fighting had flared again in the Mukden area of Manchuria and a pror-Government Peiping news- paper, Social Welfare, foresaw a possible government assault on Communist-held Harbin. (In Tientsin, the anti-Commun- ist Catholic newspaper, Social Wel- fare, reported that Gen. Lin Piao,' commander of Communist forces in i Manchuria, called an urgent mili- [tary conference at Harbin. It said | the Communists were making in-| | | to { [ i | ;lense preparations to defend the | city.) Chinese dispatches said heavy| fighting occurred at Tungfeng and | Hailung, about 100 miles north- |east of Mukden. There were lesser | | battles at Anhan, Haicheng, Huh- sin, Peipiao, Faku and Kangping. | Detaiis were lacking. In Jehol Province, Government | troops made a 60-mile uninterrup- | ted advance northward from Yeh- poshou and occupied Kuheishui,! which is cnly 20 miles south of Chihfeng, one of the main Com- | munist centers in Jehol. R | RETURNS ON ALEUTIAN | After spending approximately six‘ weeks in the States on a business and pleasure trip, Mrs. Grace Wick- ersham returned to Juneau on the | Aleutian. While south she was able | 'to attend the Sourdough Reunion 'in San Francisco, | i the “toiling masses of ‘he Soviet Un- on" asserted: ‘One year ago trday, the Sovint people and their armed forces vic- toriously finished the war agalast imperialist Japan. oapan signed an act of unconditional surrender. The Soviet people and their wrmed for-es upheld this victory and with th.s victory rendered an €rormous con- tribution to the cause of achievirg peace in the world we ld,” Pravda, .n0 hpicce of the raling Communis; party, sawd’ “Disrzgaramg the erperience of history, American impesialists conut on the ri-1 of Japan—but = Japan subjetcd ( American ruie in the capam v .f o watch'oz against the wvcopl o of the Tar East.” — STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today 6, American Can 93, Anaconda 36'%, Curtiss-Wright 6, International Harvester 85, Kenne cott 447%, New York Central 18, Northern Pacific' 27%, United States Steel 77, Pound $4.08%. Sales today were 2,968,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 178.68, rails 52.61, utilities 36.32. Selling orders poured into the exchange today and the market had its worst break since before the outbreak of World War II with the loss in market values of listed | stocks topping $4,000,000,000. The decline carried the list down to a new low since mid-September, 1945 on the general average. Trad- ing was active with volume to 2 p.m. above 2,000,000 shares for the first time since Feb. 26 this year. The tickers were hard put to keep up with the volume, running be- hind several times, once lagging three minutes. All sections of the list were hard hit. In the pivotals extreme losses ranged to 17 points in Du Pont. Allied Chemical dropped 10. Santa Fe was down 9% points in rails where Union Pacific closed at 131, down 10%. & Chrysler, off 8% at’its low, closed at 97%, off 7%. General Motors was down 4%. U. S. Rubber and Goodyear were down more than 3 points each in the tire group. —— . ANDERSON APPEAL UP Appeal by Maude Anderson of Sitka, of her conviction here in 1945 on a White Slave charge, is |to be heard before the Ninth Cir- cuit Court of Appeals, sitting at Seattle, on September 16, United States Attorney Patrick J. Gil- more, Jr., disclosed today, (killed and 300 injured since Sun-| JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1946 _ MEMBER ASSOCIATE D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = GOING BACK, | GREECE LAND Wil Return fo Athens as,| | Result of Plebiscite | Held Sunday l LONDON, Sept. 3.—King George ' II of Greece, described by a con- ! fidant as “a very happy man" toda_\;', intends to return to Athens in two or three weeks, a government spokesman said, thus ending his second exile since 1924. The returns from Sunday’s plebi- | scite on the monarch's return to his throne were still running at better than two to one for King George and dispatches from Paris said Premier Constantine ‘Tsaldaris of Greece, now attending the Peace Conference, might confer with ihe King today or tomorrow. The influential Times, comment- ing editorially, viewed the results of the plebiscite as a signal for the withdrawal of British guardianship and the assumption by the Greek ! government of full responsibility for the peace and welfare of the country. | - >oe — ¢ BULLETINS PARIS Sceretary of State | James F. Byrnes will fly to Stutt- gart, Germany, Friday to deliver! what is expected to be an import- | ant speech on United States policy in Germany and possibly ‘about: world affairs learned tonight. FOUR WARN them wi b termenals cf netw are Robert, s are. still ‘at Navy and now an import-¢; air’ , cigareties, dealt in by global Mirror, 1946.) New Yord the comoditi New York De WORKERS ARE in general, it is BELGRADE —The Yugoslav gov- crnment announced today that it had asked the U. 8. State Depart- | ment on Aug. 30 to guarantee that no further flights would be mad(‘! over Yugoslavia by American planes | and charged that “continued”, flights had occurred since the American transport was shot down Aug. 19. CHICAGO — At least 312 per- sons were killed, including 225 in, traffic mishaps, as the nation eele- | brated its final extended holiday! of Reconversion Has Been Accomplished weekend of the summer. Home- | bound vacationists and tourists| L9 jammed most of the country's| WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—Presi- highways over the three-day Labor dent Truman, taking the lead in Day holiday and traffic fatalities|Praising labor's role in the first rpassed the estimate made by, 12 months of peace, said Saturday the National Safety Council. |night in a Labor Day statement | that “the largest part” of recon- !\-ersion has been acccmplished NEW YORK — A strike of mu-| “We can lock info the futire sicians in New York City NOW | today with ecnfide but h threatens to spread to other cities. | tranquility the Union Chief Petrillo says that with-!a message . issued from in a few days, bandsmen will walk ' House. out in 50 hotels in other cities—; hotels affillated with those struck | in New York. done,” the President goes to the workers of this great union’ of States and free people.” “We still have a big job to do, and a long way to go, to as BOSTON — General Dwight D. Eisenhower asserted today the| United States must struggle pa-|domestic prosperity and interna- tiently for the elimination of war|tional understanding necessary to through the United Nations even|Prevent depressions and war. But though at times ‘“patience wears|Wwe can do it if we keep in our thin,” minds constantly that people are Al our most important asset.” BOMBABY '— A communique 2 At e said today that 81 persons had been | kiled STEAMER MOVEMENTS lay in violent Hindu-Moslem riot- ing in this teeming city, where| new Communal fights flared early i this morning. due at 4:30 o’'clock this afternoon 3cheduled to sail for Skagway at CHICAGO - Officials of the; | CIO United Packinghouse Workers | said today that 200,000 members at 229 meat packing plants across 11:30 o'clock tonight. Princess Louise, scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday, Sep- he began work today by tackling the biggest headache in the history of the world — control of atomic energy. He is studying the prob-| lem of apointing five men to the Atomic Energy Comnussion — the vrobiem being to tind the right| five men, sail from Seattle September 6. to sail for various canneries some- time tomorrow. North: Sea scheduled to sail from Seattle September 6. Lucidore scheduled Seattle September 13 to sail from Army as kmnzrins of a glchal black market, are show arrested a few days agooone in Berlin and one i Pari ré cf;* CID said licutenant and now UNRRA manager in Shanghai; Lewis Warne xd David Wagner, father of th» qu: “Much of the credit for the job; Princess Norah, from Vancouver,! in this T mide Gut Mare Heing taken o xport business in Parls, wh e {fum venicil i rugs, stlks, black market which Army . PE Low ltalian Linked in Infernatiional Black Marke! BROTHERS ;nd their father, nam>d by Criminal Inyestigation Division cf the U. S sent photo, - CID men sald that two of 5, watches, clothing; cte,, were says it has smashed. (Picture copyright by iTruman SaysIargefi Part ltaly Claim on irieste Is Russ, Swedes Turn Down Hiable on grounds that it was the ! Countered by Enlarged ! Yugoslav Demand PARIS, Sept 3.—"Big Fc reccmmendations that the Ita army, navy and air force be lin to 297,£00 men—only a war-time strength—wore unanimcusly today by the commission of the 21-nation conference. Under the approved provisi Italy is permitted to have of 250000 (including 65,000 fracticn yur an fwed sace binieri), a navy cf 22,500 and airforce of 25,000 She is barred from possescion of aircraft carriers and her land air- force is restricted to 200 * fig and reconnaissance plan % additional 150 transpert ing planes. MINISTERS' DRAFT The mflitary commission the foreign ministers’ drafl the strength of the (state police) at 65,000 after slavia withdrew an limit the force to ACCEPTED P tting carabinieri Yu amendment 30,000. Without debate, the military cc mission adopted all but on naval limitation articles draft the foreign ministers’ council cluding one on Italian possessior aircraft carriers and sukm | Approval of “Big Four” | mendations ' to limit the I fleet to two battleships, four lers' and four destroyers and rec Ita. cr! pted to in- 1 of lian ui T ¢ e scheduled to saeil from!ggriction on other smaller warcral :‘h: t°h°“""LY will vote next week on tle September 7. Due in Juneau was delayed pending study of ber s e strike for new con-|geptember 10 enroute to Cordova,|French amendment to qualify the | acts. Valdez and Seward. | wording of the treaty Sword Knot. from Skagway, due| Yugoslav. delegates Ales Bebler WASHINGTON — The holiday is | sometime Thursday. {answered Italian claims for Trieste (over for President Truman, and| Northern Voyager, scheduled to|with a counter-claim for a greater | share of Venezia Giula and accused mier, of expressing “ruthless, he; |less cynicism” in ‘his speech | terday. PERMANENT PEACE THREAT Bebler tpld the Italian polit (Continued on Page Fight) Square Sinuet, in port, scheduled Iyanoe Bonomi, former Italian pre- art- yes- cal " United York end Shanghai, China, Standing (81t 15 Tght) ™ | A | New former fermer Na sitting Alfred ned headquart are ol | Hotel, da BARTENDERS IN DEMAND BETTER PAY | Picket Lines Are Esfablish- ed - Baranof Hotel i Is Hardest Hit BULLETIN — At press time this aflernoon therr was no change in the strike ue the bar- tenders, Owners ef the bars, according to W. K. Burford, Acting Chairman, were to meet at 2 o'clock. It is understood that several unions in Juneau have announced unanimous sup- port of the bartenders. STRIKE PICKET LINE Gtriking for a 25 percent pay vaise the Bartenders' Union, Local 869, on Sunday threw picket lines around nine bars and two hotels in the Gastineau Channel area. Strike-bound weére the Baranof the Alaska Hotel, Corbett's Bar, Triangle, Midget, Arctie, Capi- tol, Victory and Dreamland in Ju- neau and Mike's and Oasis Bar in Douglas. * Decision for strike was announc- ed at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon. and pickets were stationed before [Lars and cccektall Jounges ab: 8 p. 00 ‘The action followed a series of Pertenders’ meetings culminating ‘aturday night in final discussion and strike ultimatum concerning d to be SOVIET TELLS American Advice Con- | cerning Trade Pact MOSCOW, Sey Russia has rcjected American expression of concern relative to bilateral Soviet- | Swedish trade negotiations in a note in which the official Russian] news agency said the United States, 1d, in effect, to mind its own| ,. the sunced the cuoted the nc as saying that the news agency, icn last night of rejection Soviet Govern- ment—and it may be assumed the government of Sweden—are not inf ne cf consult on with the States Government on . the i advantage they will reap from trade question of the advantage or dis-| in effect, rejected the 3. note—in which the hope was pressed that Russia would not unde 1y cbligations in con- flicy with principles expressed in a mutual aid agreement concluded between the United States and Russia in 1942-—when her Foreign Offic announced last Saturday that a Swedish delegation would leave for Moscow tomorrow to re- ume 1n ations on & proposed five-year agreement with Russia.) e FRED CAVENAUGH HERE Fred Wa Cavenaugh, of Cathlemet, 1., 15 a new employee of Line- han and Clark’s Juneau Welding and Machine Shop, at 641 Wil- loughby. Cavenaugh is an and gasoline engine - - MAHONEY RETURNING expert diesel mechanic. U. 8. Marshal William T. Ma- ey was to return to his head~ quarters here from Ketchikan to- day, by air, bringing with him ‘three prisoners | worked for $10 a day. ‘he proposed pay raise in the new contract. FAY DEMAND ' The Bartenders' previous contract under which employees were paid $12 a day expired August 31. An- nouncement of “a pew and higher pay demand” was Issued by the Bartenders on the required *30 (day rotice” July 23, according to GIVEN PRAISE Arms Limit U. 5. TO MIND Rotert Smith, President of the lo- cal Bartenders Union. On August 16 the definite rate of $15 a day {for the new contract was announc- BY PRESIDENT IsApproved OWNBUSINESS ed to all bar and cocktail operators n the Gastineau Channel area, the Bartenders’' President said. At the Saturday afternoon meet- ing in the AFL Hall, Smith argued that the new pay demand was justi- lirst wage increase asked by the bartenders since the war. During the war bartenders in Juneau A yeer ago they asksd for and were granted establishment of the pre-war wage of $12 a day. OTHER WAGE SCALES Smith also quoted bartender wage scales in other Territorial cities and in the States as argument that the present pay demand was “not unreasonable. In Fairbanks bar- tenders receive $16 a day and in Nome $18. Bartenders in Seattle receive $13.50 and in San Francisco considerably more. He said that unjon members in Ketchikan and Juneau were paid less than in any other areas in Alaska. Although a majority of Juneau bar and cocktail operators have {been paying bartenders $15 a day, refused to make by putting it in Smith said they the rate official the contract, ‘WsSB CITED Jack Fletcher, Manager of the Baranof and Gastineau Hotels, said that cperators could not sign a contract with bartenders for $15 a day because the Wage Stabilization Board had in previous cases of sim- ilar nature refused to allow in- crease In wages to be passed on to the public and higher prices (undoubtedly would do so in the ]prcse-m situation. He said the {Board had ruled that such in- creases be paid “out of the opera- tors' pockets.” | When the bstrike was first an- nounced Fletcher stated that the Baranof Hotel angd Gastineau Ho- tel would be “foreed to close.” He further added that the union mem- \bers “are striking against the pub- flic this time and causing a whole- sale housing disaster.” Jack Kris- 'tan, manager of the Alaska Hotel agreed “there seems to be nothing we can do but close.” ESSENTIAL SERVICES OKAYED At that time the union had not | | (Continued on Page Fight)