The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 4, 1946, Page 1

WUBRARY *ASHINGTON. D. @ (RETARY OF THE INTERIOR J. A. KRUG SAYS ABOUT ALASKA IN TODAY'S WASHINGTON MER READ WHAT THE DAILY A i LASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” === PRICE TEN CENTS == ——_| COAST SHIPPING IS STARTED HEATED FIGHT Sirike-Bound Bars Are FOUR-POWER | Model Plane Uses Jei Propulsion ~ MEN WALK OPENS FORNY Still Closed; Two Hotels COUNCIL T0 ~ OFF SHIPS EXECUTIVE Sfill Being Picketed MEET AGAIN! ON SOUND VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,365 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS TIE-UP OF L There is no change in the situa- made for arbitration talks with the Dewey, Sen. Mead Oppos-| ing Candidates-Lehman Pointed for Congress (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) A heated battle already under- way over the New York governor- ship moves into the formal stage tion regarding the strike of the | Bartenders Union and all bars are | closed to patronage, lights turned | off and doors locked. | The Baranof and Alaska hotels jare still picketed because they are open to the public and bars are under hotel management. Operators of bars have held sev- eral meetings, one lasting until Executive Committee of the Bar- F Trieste Stillfin Issue Be- tenders Union. | Walter P. Sharpe, Territorial Commissioner of Labor, is due to| return today or tomorrow from Ketchikan, and it is expected he will attempt mediation. PARIS, Sept. 4—The four-power Several unions have held meet-‘FOl'EiEH Ministers’ Council met for ings and unanimously supported the | the second time during the Paris Bartenders in their strike in which Peace conference today with Deputy they ask an increase in pay from Foreign Minister Vishinsky repre- fore 21 Nations at Peace Conference today with the Republican ®State 3 o'clock this morning, but no in- convention putting up Gov. Thomas vitation, as far as known, has been $12 to $15 a day. | senting the Russians. Soviet For- E: Dewey for another term and the —_ - — | eign Minster V. M. Mblotov was Democratic offering Senator James . H 144 F¥ not present when the meeting pe 'Police Kala rouse o1 10rrors - i ! A French Ministry official earlier Democratic leaders tapped form- er Gov. Herbert H. Lehman as the candidate to try to hold Mead's| Senate seat for their party in this Fall's elections. GOP chieftains set- tled on assembly leader Irving M.| Ives to oppose Lehman. Mead and Lehman were given the American Labor Party nomina- tions last night at its New York| convention. Carville Teaien In Nevada's primaries, Rep. Ber-i keley L. Bunker beat Senator E. P. Carville for the Democratic nomin- ation to the Senate. George Malone.i Reno engineer, won the Republican, nomination over a field of three. -@Gov. Vail Pittman defeated S. W. ‘Conwell for the Democratic nomin-| atien as-governor. Withrreturns i complete, Melvin Jepson led A. V. Tallman in a tight race for the) Republican nomination, The Dento- | crats nominated Secretary of State| Malcolm McEachin to the House.i He will be opposed by Charles Rus- | sell, Republican. South Carolina’s run-off primary gave J. Strom Thurmond, Edge-| tield lawyer, the Democratic nomin- | ation for governor—tantamount to election—over Dr. James C. Mc- Bitter Campaign | A bitter campaign between Mead | and Dewey was presaged by speech- es at the rival party conventions and by the implications the elec-| tion holds for the 1948 presidential election year. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, keynoting the Democratic convention at Al-‘ 5‘! . bany, gave a possible indication of | g the line the Democrats may take A SURPRISE RAID BY POLICE on a private nursing home in In- against Dewey. She said the “plans| dianapolis, Ind., disclosed a number of the twenty patients were and programs” of predecessor Dem-| shackled to their beds and to benches by chains and leather straps. This close-up shows the feet of one patient securely chained to the bench on which he lies (note padlock on left ankle). Mrs. Margaret Colvin, operator of this “House of Horrors,” has been charged with assault and battery and with malicious mayhem. féanl(uu;a{'on Faflfl:ma};t’) | | had said Molotov returned this |’ { morning and that the four Foreign| Ministers would meet to discuss | peace conference problems. Molotov left Paris Saturday. British sources said the meeting of Foreign Min- isters was requested by Vishinsky.: Senator Tora Connally (D-Tex.) | Chairman of the Senate Foreign‘ | Affairs Committee, told the peace | conference today that the Venezia ‘Giulia area of Italy “was a fertile | soil for war” and appealed for the| | nations to “forget hatreds and pre- | Judices.” | Meanwhile, without debate the| | Military Commission approved three | more articles of the Italian treaty | {which prohibit’ Ttaly from tratning’ German or Japanese aircraft tech-{) | nicians, manufacturing aircraft of | | German or Japanese design or oth- | erwise aiding the rearmament of (the two defeated powers. | | | The 21 nations attempting to! | write peace treaties for all the con- | quered nations of Europe save Ger- i many and Austria still grappled | with the" issue of Trieste and the | | Venezia Giulia area of Italy, cov-| : | eted by the Russian-influenced Yu-| ; R | | goslav gevernment of Marshal Tito. woMAN'S B Dv Czechoslovakia also in the Russian | FROM AIRBOAT | IS RECOVERED ative |ister, Jan Masaryk, backed Yugo- 1§lav1a‘s claim to Trieste today. e STOCK QUOTATIONS | i | NEW YORK, Sept. 4—Closing Plafle Debris Also Found' [quctanon of Alaska Juneau mine {] ey e e ameriean can: Near Prince Rupert- Search for Others | 192%, Anaconda 37, Curtiss-Wright i sphere, through her Foreign Min- 6%, International Harvester T78%, ! , Kennecott 45%, New York Central | | 18%, Northern Pacific 20%, United | states Steel 77%, Pound $4.03%. | VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 4—| 'Searchers are hunting for others’ Closing Dow-Jones averages: In-|of the passengers and crew of the| The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Ed. Note—While Drew Pear- son is on a brief vacation, his column will be written by sev- eral distinguished guest col- munists—today’s by J. A, “Cap” Krug, Secretary of the Interior, who has just returned from an extensive survey of Alaska.) HOPE HANGS HIGH 3-DAY AIR DEATH AS PUGET SOUND | TOLL IN FRANCE FISH RUN SLOWS HAS RISEN T0 BELLINGHAM, Wash,, Sept. 4— North Puget Sound salmon packers looked hopefully for - increased weekend deliveries of Sockeye while today’s deliveries fell below those' Airliner Hits Factory Roof on Take Off ‘ddstrials. 176.72 off 1.96; rails 52.44, flying boat Skeena Queen, now con- |off 0.17; utilities 36.12, off 0.21; 65 ceded to have crashed Saturday )stocks. 64.72, off 0.54. {night after returning from a [ Sales totaled 3,620,000 shares, the mercy flight to Stewart. The body most since May 21, 1940, compared of one of the passengers was found , |with 2,900,000 shares yesterday. yesterday in Chatham Sound just! 'Curb volume was 1,020,000 shares, 18 miles north of Prince Rupert. most since last May 28, against/The four crew members, a male 870,000 shares yesterday. Bond turn- | passenger and a three and cne half) |over of $8910,000, highest since year old girl still are missinz. The| is fthat of Mrs.| 000 yesterday. Stocks declined to new lows for mother. one year today in the first three- million share session since Jan. 28. | Prices fluctuated nervously, A i , - ed Twenty-one Killed When 5 o 3 omers i s St 000 e il 3 A large oil tank, believed frcm | the port wing of the missing planc.| BUILDER KEITH Eskimo Capfive Of Russian Soldiers, Is | Rgporl Made, Ketchikan In Publicity GOODWIN Ve KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 4.— Emery F. Tobin, editor of the Alaska Sportsman Magazine, said today he had received a letter from David Kaneveak, native Eskimo, re- | porting that he had been taken in- to custcdy by Russian soldiers op-i erating from the Diomede Island| |base, across the Bering sea from Mead Nome, and temporarily detained. ' Kaneveak wrote in his letter, which carried a U. 8. Army hospital postmark, that “I have been captive | by Russian soldiers from Big Dm-; mede Island. My f{riends first| though I was lost for there was no-| ibody with we when I was a cap- King, wartimz chief of Naval Oper- tive."” Tobin said he had no further in- formation on the incident. In another letter received by To- kin, Robert Mayokok, curio maker| of Wales, Alaska, said two boats of Siterians came across the Bering Strait not long ago. ->e FEARS EXPRESSED |, | BY FLIERS OVER POLE BLIND SPOT i (extrame left) of Les Angeles, Calif., explains the mechan- ics of his “Minijet,” one of the first model airplanes t) employ a jet propelled motor, to other model build- els at Philadelphia. Minijet, using a motor copied after that in the German buzz bomb, hit 90 miles an hour in a demonstration. (AP Wirephoto) ¢ ‘Canol Projed Again Breaks WaterfronlsTBe Picketed at 7 o'Clock Tomor- row Morning | | SEATTLE, Sept. 4—The Seattle | agent of the AFL-Sailors Union of the Pacific, whose men walked off approximately 50 ships in Puget Sound ports today, said that an an- | nouncement of the wage stabiliza- | tion Board to reopen the wage case came “too late.” Approximately 1,500 seamen left | their ships on Puget Sound, as a | fcrerunner of a planned all-coast maritime strike starting ‘tomorrow. The WSB action was disclosed at Washington. | “The only way to end the strike | |is for the Wage Stabilizatiin Board |to grant the wage increases it re- jected,” Ed Ccester, sub agent here, To Picket Waterfront Shipping lines rushed to remove perishables from ships as the strik- ing seamen, members of the Sail- ors Union of the Pacific and the 'Srnrarem' International Union, | AFL-affiliates, announced plans to | picket the entire waterfront at 7 Sengee @M. fOMOITOW. R mated 756 “active” ships were tled up here, of which between 40 and |60 will be affected. The others are |Army and Navy transports. About a dozen other “active” ships are lying in other Sound ports. e s BB : I VRS ET TR, Tie-Up To Be Costly M. G. Ringenberg, President of the Waterfront Employers of Wash- ington, estimated the tieup would cost business “millions of dollars in Seattle.” Shipments of oil and gaso- line, the bulk of which comes from California by water, will stop, he said, but dealers are well stocked. The lumber industry will be hard hit. Vessels sailing between here and Alaska ports will be permitted to complete their runs and return here, Ed Ccester, Seattle agent of the SUP, said. Ships running only in Alaska waters and plying be- tween Alaska ports, however, were Claim Made_S(;nate inves- tigators Refused Offic- ial Files on Issue WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—Chairman (D-NY) declares that Adm. Ernest J. King had refused the Senate War Investigating commit- tee access to the files of the joint chiefs of staff in connection with " the controversial Canol Project, IS0 to be tied up today, he added. In a statement issued through One employer source here esti- committee offices here, Mead said Mated that 15000 persons would be thrown cut of work after picket ations, had refused a request by lines are established. CIO-mari- Harry S. Truman, then chairman of time unions have their support of of the committee, to open the files, their rival unions’ walkout. King took the position in a letter to Mr. Truman Dec. 16, 1943, Mead WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. — The said, that the “national security Wage Stabilization Board agreed nghF be -endnngered" by commit- y,10"today to reopen the wage case tee efforts to determine why the y,,ciying 43000 AFL seamen, but joint chiefs of staff had ordered .. i+ had no definite assurance the cqmpleuon of the Canol oil Pro- 4 .+ o cirike on all coasts scheduled decb. in SOsEAdR. for tomorrow would be called off. In order to clear the matter up, wsB Chairman W. Willard Wirtz Mead said he will ask the commit- {14 a4 news conference the Board tee to “extend an invitation to Ad- naq voted five to nothing—with the miral King to appear in a public spr member not voting—to consi- TO REOPEN WAGE JASE hearing at the earliest pessible go. rehearing the case next Tues- date. day, Sept. 10, | In its fifth annual report Sat- The Board, on Aug. 23, had ap- of Monday and Tuesday. - — Naviga- Y, ®" | was brought to Prince Rupert by a mHONOLULU' Sept. 4. — Naviga-i,, 4,y the committee asserted King proved wage increases for AFL rs aboard the “Pacusan Dream- By J. A. KRUG WASHINGTON—A few days ago, f was walking down the wooden sidewalk of the Indian village of Metlakatla, Alaska. On either side, the evergreen branches of spruce and hemlock tossed in a stiff breeze fresh off the sea. In the distance rose mountain heights still bearing the snows of last winter. From the belfry of the white community ehurch chimed the soft and sol- emn strains of “America” and la- ter “America, the Beautiful.” It was an inspiring sight and sound. It made me proud to be an American and to have a part in the building of a great empire there in the nation’s farthest north and farthest west. Metlakatla was the last/of a doz- en Alaska communities visited on & trip which took me and some of my associates of the Interior De- partment 12,000 miles, half of it within the borders of the great territory of Alaska—an enormous and wonderful country. It is one- fifth as large as the United States. Alaska is the land of promise. It) is, an unspoiled sountry of great| opportunity. While it now has enly S _ * (Continued on Page Four) From Blaine came word that de- liveries at the Alaska Packers Asso- ciation plant at Semiahmoo drop- ped to 4,000 today although high winds of last night drove purse seiners to shelter from the Point Roberts fishing area. Columbia River packers, of Bel- lingham, received 14,000 fish, slight- 1y below deliveries of the two pre- vious days. The Friday Harbor Packing Comvany held nearly even. But there was a ray of hope from the Salmon banks. haul of 3,000 sockeye. KETCHIKAN AT CAPACITY KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 4— Salmon canneries here have been working at capacity since late last week, as the long awaited run of pink salmon has . shown up in strength. Practically every packer jhas been able to count 100,000 or Imere fish on hand daily. — - — GAUDET RETURNS Guy Gaudet, with the Juneau Motors, has returned to Juneau af- ter a visit of three months in east- ern Canada and elsewhere. ! One purse sein- | er was reported to have made a PARIS, Sept. 4—Twenty-one per- sons were killed in the crash of an Air France liner taking off from Paris for London today, bringing to 50 the total number of dead in French plane accidents in three | days. The- latest crash, which killed 17 of 21 passengers and three of the crew of five, occurred at 9:15 a.m. when the Paris-London liner failed to clear a factory roof at Le Bour- get, Air France announced. At the same flecting the many uncertainties that yesterday's plunge developed. At one time this morning a size- able recovery got started with the tape running late. It was followed by a decline and intermittent ral- lies so that around closing the market was above the worst of the day but fractions to 3 points under | the previous close. | Explanations included the foreign situation, fears of strikes, return Provincial police boat from Chat- ham Sound. Searchers reported it had been found 10 miles south of where the body of 24-year-old Mws. Dempsey was located. | The Police boat also found cushion floting in the water, be- lieved to be the kind used in the | plane. vt some or- carmints ana MILLIONS WILL BE time, the line con-|dividends, talk of an anti-inflation | SPENT IN ALASKA firmed the death of 17 passengers Policy involving higher taxes, un-| 'and five crew members when an- digested securities and refugee sell- | | other of its planes crashed just 16% Ing. hours before, 21 miles out of Cop-! The last two were given more| prominence today. It was estimated | ON AIRPORT WORK' | ANCHORAGE — A Federal pro- 1bcat" which will pioneer a Polar lair route from Hawaii to Cairo, iare sweating over a two-hour navi- | gational blind spot near the North [ Pole, The B-29 is expected to hop off this week. | After it passes over Pt. Barrow, | Alaska, the navigators figure they !will run into trouble keeping the heavily laden plane on its course. | Maj. J. T. Brothers of Knoxville, I Tenn., and Maj. N. P. Hays of Sen- {eca, Mo., are studying the naviga- i tional problems while the plane is being prepared for the flight. “We will be flying through the Arctic twilight after leaving Pt. Barrow,” Brothers said. “It will be had differed from the official posi- aple-bodied seamen of $17.50 a ition of the Navy and “used the high menth, the same as that approved loffice of the joint chiefs of statf june 15. For CIO National Mari- land the claim of military secrecy time Union members. |for the purpose of preventing the The AFL unions, however, had |Congress and the people from re- wop increases of $22.50 on the Pa- iquiring the discontinuance of a cific and $27.50 on the Atlantic and costly blunder by by a fellow offi- Guif coasts in previous negotiations OB i3 Y with the operators. King retorted in a statement The APL unions and employers |Sunday that this contention con- grenyously objected to the Board's istituted “a wilful distortion of the gecision which shaved $5 and $10 ‘facts-h . off the AFL wage concession nego- ! In his statement King said it had (jateq with their employers. |been made clear to the investigat- — ywiit; said the Board had no in- §ns committee fmd chairman that ¢, nation indicating that the strike lin signing certain papers he did 0 of possibly 100,000 AFL sea-going |“not for myself, but for the joit ypionists would be called off as the chiefs of staff as a group.” result of today’s action, ———— / 3 enhagen. o Three French airmen and four|the tctal of undigested securities— gram which will spend $10,000,000 too light to see the stars and to0| MRS, RODENBERG SOUTH | Thfi ifiairmx;n expls;ned that the French civilian passengers were Stocks and bonds offered this year in Alaska during the next seven | dark to see the sun,%so celestial bt Board had only agreed to consider navigation will be out. We will] Mrs. E. F. Rodenberg left for &t the Tuesday hearing whether to killed Monday when an Army plane but not fully sold to the public—|years for airport construction will crashed in a wood shortly after ranged between $100,000,000 and get under way probably by October taking off from the Villacoublay $500,000,000, Investment houses in|1, Kenneth S. Perry, eighth regional air base in Paris, for Grenoble. many instances have been forced superintendent of the airports. | A 21st victim of today’s crash to sell good listed securities to|branch of the Civil Aeronautics Was a workman killed by collapse’ Maintain their positions with large | Authority, said here. | of a roof of an'automobile radia-|inventories of new issues sapping Perry, who arrived here from' tor factory hit by the plane. their strength. | Washington, D. C., will administer g Teday’s selling - converged on|the program in the Territory and ‘West Virginia on'in.;v_. w“' high-priced issues where thin mar- known as Kanawhai' kets developed, | age. | have no reference or checkouts. Ev- erything will depend on our direc- | Seattle over the weekend via PAA rehear and possibly defer its Aug. to spend time visiting in that city. 23 decision. ticnal gyro. Nobody knows exactly The trip was Mrs. Rodenberg's s i ey what effect the magnetic pole will| first airplane ride. While in St- GIRL SCOUT MEETINGS have on that instrument.” attle, she plans to visit with her g - | sisters, Mrs. Ray McKnight and Regular Girl Scout meetings will An American armored division in| World War II could hurl 400000 | will establish his office at Anchor- pounds of ammunition in half an hour, Mrs, Marie Marshall In addition,' be resumed a week from Thursday, she will visit with Mrs. L. M. Ritter September 12, at the usual time' who has been vacationing in the and places, Mrs. C. C. Carter, Girl States for the last several months.' Scout head announced today. *