The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 6, 1946, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —— == OL. LXVII‘, NO. 10,367 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, I(H() MLMB[;R ASSOC TATE D PR}'Sb PRICE TEN CENTS = COASTAL PORTS OF NATIONS ARE FROZEN UNIFIED Prepare Alaska Maneuvers GERMANY PLANNED - Byrnes Makes. Important| Speech-Hits at Both Russia and France Y | STUTTGART, Germany, Sept. 6. —In an American statement of| policy, Secretary of State B_\-rncs! today called for a new vamnyi governed by the Germans them- selves and including not only the | Rhineland and Ruhr but probably also territory beyond the Oder river “provisionally” assigned to Po- land. “Recovery in Europe will be slow indeed if Germany is turned into a poor house,” Byrnes told German officials and American military leaders at the tank-guarded Staats Theater. The speech was broadcast in. German over all stations in the; U. 8., British and French zones of occupation, but no arrangements had been completed to send it over} the Russian stations. | For Unification ! Byrnes' prepared text outlined a | broad plan for eventual unification of the Germans under a national | council charged with drafting a| federal constitution for a *“United States of Germany.” | Byrnes' original text, distributed last night in Germany and at Washington, spoke of this constitu- | tion as being ‘for a “United States of Germany,” but Byrnes later| eliminated this phrase from the, text and omitted it in delivery. "The speech drew praise from the three minister-presidents of states in the .American zone, who ‘were | the principal German officials pre= | sent. They expressed hope, however, that Germany would not lose the TWO TEAMS OF OVER A THOUSAND MEN EACH at Fort Ord, Cal, are preparing to conduct simulated battle maneuvers in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, beginning in October. War Department ob- servers-have nlanned the test so they nay gather detailed “additional ifformation on performances of ground force equipment under winter conditions.” | Above; Colonel Paul A. Reichle (left), heading Task Force Frigid, wears a parka-type overcoat, whil Lieutenant B. Staser Saar—to which, Byrnes said, France | triey on parka-type jacket. (International) had a right. = (In Paris French officials ex-| pressed disappointment at Byrnes’ stand on leaving the Ruhr and Rhineland as part of Germany. There was a possibility Gen. Charles De Gaulle would reaffirm the French attitude in a speech Sunday.) Intentiens of U. S. Byrnes made plain the intention of the United States to continue indefinitely her interest in Euro-! pean affairs and emphasized that, “security forces probably will have to remain in Germany for a long period.” “I want no misunderstanding,’ Byrnes said. “We will not shirk our Plane (rash Is Caused by Fog, Belief SPOKKANEIS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING Power Plant Knocked Out Only Survivor, Two-Year- 0ld Boy, Cries for " ~Entire City Cut Off When Bolts Hit (Continued on Page.Five) | SPOKANE, Sep( 6—Lightning ELKO, Nev., Sept. 6.—Dense fog! |knocked out all but three of this 15 believed to have caused the he washin ion city's power plants last night, leay- crash of a trans-luxury ai g ing sections of the city in a total Which scattered 21 dead persor g blackout for 40 minutes and caus- Over 100 yards of a hill near here ing what power company officials erry - Go-Round escribed as ne of the most cld boy who today cried for his -2 isevers tiewps since the Northwest “mommy,” cne of the victims, By DREW PEARSOV power neol was formed.” After a preliminary investigation! | The entire city and some sur-,Of the disaster, T. R. Mitchell, i (Ed. Note—While Drew Pear- |rounding areas were cut off from Civil Aeronautics Board investiga- son is on a brief vacation, his {power for 20 minutes. Telephone tor from Oakland, Calif, said in- formally that fog was to blame fm the crash before dawn yesterday. column will be written by sev- ¢ral distinguished guest col- umnists — today's by Carroll Reece, Chairman of the Re- publican National Committee). |service was curtailed as carbon re- |lays in ‘telephone offices burned |out. Street and traffic lights went lout, and doctors completed opera- |tions and delivered children by {flashlight. Byy CARROLL REECE | Marshall Blair, superintendent of WASHINGTON — The American|ohorations for the Washington people are tired of being p“Shed\Watex Power Company, said light- # Four CAA officials continued the probe today. At a hospital here, Peter Link, 2, one of a family of four aboard the craft on its New York to San Fran- but spared the life of a two-year-) ,WARNING GIVEN BY ~ BRITAIN Will thdraw from Blg Four Agreement on | Trieste Unless Changed \ e | ! PARIS, Sept Great Britain warned the peace conference today that she would withdraw from the Big Four agreement on -division (:1‘ { Giulia if Trieste is not given a| ! genuine “international” status as a| free territory Charging tha | | | Yugosiavia is| {claiming “a very special position”! {in the administration of the dis-| puted Adriatic port, British delegate ! Hector McNeil said Britain would | “reconsider the whole agreement”| {if Trieste’s independence is im-| | paired | France, too, llied up with Britain opposing Yugoslav claims to 1 domination of Trieste, though in iless unequivocal language. Maurice Couve De Murville, the i French delegate, said his nation would “insist on a free territory as {the core of the whole situation. McNeil warned that “we’ll honor our bargain but if the statute is so changed as to impair the con- jcepticn of a free territory we will | have to reconsider our whole agree- {ment.” This was the first notice that any of the four-power foreign min- yisters council might not stand by their accords hammered out in 11 {months of negotiations. ‘ Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. {Molotov has insisted again and { again throughout the five-wéek peace conference that the four pow- | j ers resist unanimously any attempt jto change agreed sections of the ;treaty drafts and the council (al‘fnmed this solidarity again last !“eek Only yesterday the Soviet deputy Andrei Vishinsky supported Ilhv Trieste agreement although he said it was a “minimum” of justice | for Yugoslavia. ! - IMARSHALL GETS BUSY, CHINA MESS Flies to Conference with Two Leaders in Pres- ent Trouble NANKING, Sept. 6.—General Marshall flew to a conference with Chiang Kai-shek and Communist Gen. Chou En-lai sent an urgent dispatch to party headquarters at :Yenan today in stepped-up truce { moves. | Chou requested instructions re- galdmg ,a proposal by Marshall, o 15 specml envoy, and U. S. Am- bassadm Stuart to make every ef- fort to effect a military settlement if the Communists would agree to serve immediately upon a state council committee. | | Marshall spend to Kuling, where| | | ! .‘ 1 | !eral MacArthur | nationals re- . \|taining anything like | mal Stri RUSSIAN CHARGES REFUTED Claim MacArthur Refusing! Repatriation Ships- Soviets Started It TOK 'O, Sept. A Soviet spokesman charged today that Gen- had refused ships repatriation of Japanese from the "Port area and from North Korea Konstantin Popov, Soviet Em- bas8y press attache, told a press conference that an agreement had been reached for such repatriation and &at the Russians officially asked MacArthur for such ships. Howséver, ying out of the agree- ment “is being held up by the refu- sal of the Supréme Commander, Allied powers, to provide ships,” he asserted. U. S. Ambassador Atcheson, Jr., retorted, a few hours later, that Soviet refusal to in- clude prisoners of war among re- patrjptes broke down negotiations. for ‘the George C. aid Gen. Kuzma Derevyanko,’ ,Soviel: member of the Allied Coun- cil, “made it known he was not authorized to discuss the repatria- tion of any but Japanese civilians . he did not wish to proceed ¢ ing repatriation problems a whole, involving the hundreds of thousands of Japanese prisoners of war in Soviet hands. “It was made known to ihe So- |viet member that we had shipping readily available to effect the patriation.” re- eee NATION'S PORK, BEEF SUPPLIES DWINDLING NOW (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) A week of the lowest receipts on record left beef eaters throughout today pork and the nation the supplies they desire after next week Some meat men observed “would not even be lunch meats” available in retail channels. Pack- ing plants began laying off wo: ers or closing down entirely this week. It was expected many butcher shops might do likewise in weeks to come for lack of any- thing to sell. Traders said the slim meat receipts resulted either cause producers had cleaned ouf their supply at the high prices pre- vailing during the lapse of OPA ceilings in July and August, or else there cisco trip and the only sunwox,mn plane must land on a soggy Wwere refusing to market at the new ike of Bartenders Is Ended; PayRaisedfo $14 A Day: Bars Now Opened Arthur) mlh the discussion of the remain-| livestock ! with . glum preospects of ob-; PICKETS AT SHIPYARDS IN SEATTLE The strike of the Junsau Bar- e ke ot toe w5 Fist Fights Reported af One c'clock last Sunday afternoor )- tember 1, when the bar. operators P'a(e - Maska Shlp' refused to grant a raise in daily : pay from 812 to 815, endea e 130 Ping Suspended o'clock this morning with the un- | ion’s acceptance of the arbitrated| SEATTLE, Sept. 6—Sailors un- $14 a day pay scale made by the'ion strike s nen announced to- bar operators. day that all Seattle yards where Following the arrival of Walter|Union-manne were being P. Sharpe, Territorial Commission-|repaired were d today, but er of Labor, negotiations between|that yards engag in new con- Jthe bartenders and the the bar Struction were nct affected by the operators begain at 5 p. m. yes-|AFL-Union’s strike ‘u-m;u with an offer described as| Fist fights were reported at the !“more than $12 but less than $147 iz Todd Shipyard Corp, when {made by the operators to the union |pickets appeared and made 2,000 {From then until 1:30 a. m. today Yard employees idle Yard offi- |proposals and counter-proposals |cials said work stopped on 12 ships were shuttled between the separate!including two army troopships and meeting places of the two groups.|!W0 naval vessels. Yesterday had The final offer of $14 was accepted |halted wotk of 500 men on 20 ves- sels in the Lake Union Drydock & Machine Works plant by union vote at that time. In addition to the new pay raise [the union received the concession| Pickets were withdrawn from the of three holidays, New Year's La- Harbor Island Plant of the Pudget bor Day and Christmas at time and | Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., & haif? when the union ascertained that This morning the eleven Gas-|only tioopships, manped by non-| tineau Channel establishments|unionists, were in that yard i which have been strike-bound since| Fifty ships are reported idle on 1 p. m. Sunday were all open and|Pudget Sound because of the sail- all facilities operating. All picket, Ors’ strike. —All shipping to Alaska lines were withdrawn. |Is suspended i D s Besides reopening registration for new occupants, the Bananof Hotel opened its coffee shop, Iris Room,! Gold Room and bar to employees The Bubble Room will be open to night for the first time since the strike began. Picket lines have;| prevented waitresses. janitors; main- | tenance men; eftertainers, cooks, gte., from crossing inte the hotel. No CIO of AFL union member may | cross such lines without losing his card The Baranof’s public dining rooms | have officfally opened. Govemmem Wage' Price. At the Alaska Hotel this morn= it i ing chambermaids were busy clean Sfabmzahon Involved in Present Crisis ing rooms and bartenders were bu making preparations to reopen me bar at 1 p. m. All public facilities, including the hotel’s restaurant| = e g i <. 3 !would be in operation by 2 p. m.| VWASHINGTON, Sept: 6—Some It atternoon. Jack Kriyan. Alas. |federal labor officials are frank- Mkan Htel naineeriaid |ly worried that the AFL maritime (i Mike's” Do, cocktail lounge Strike may shatter what' remains land cafe, opened the bar at 1 p. m. of government wage and price sta- land restaurant facilities at 5 p. m. '“”_‘f; P 7 {The establishment had closed down Wy \is e LouBERG, JRd vl |immediately on recelpt of tue Strik: we have had," one high of-| 'union’s striks ultimatum Sunday. ,l':‘ “"f‘:l“ i G AR e official, who asked that he pZ:i(n‘f)?Z:;n'vl'nall;:;g:;):sl}‘:r(;lll‘: not be quoted by name, pointed 8, FOHB ¢ BO%out that the walkout is, directed \bars in Juneau. { at an adverse decl Stabilization Bos the employers ion of the Wage and not against pleaded along d who By nightfall the liquor industry will be operating as usual in both Juneau-and Bouglas, with the unions for approval of a Mr. Sharpe said he would return bigher wage increase than the/ to Ketchikan to complete his work Board was willing to authorize in advisory capacity to the Retail| The view of some officials is that Clerks and employers there as scon if the Board’s decisions are to be as be received word from his office Cverruled by strikes, then wag tion is gone and with it in that city. The Commissioner stakilization - ARMY FOOD SHIPMENTS ARE HALTED puh.';\ was W price } ing with thesz two groups in negotia- a tion of new contract when he was recalled to this city for med- icn between the bartenders and bar cperators. - - DISABLED VETS SAY KEEP ATOM lic servants. called for his “memmy” as he slept |airfied, to lay the Communists’|ceiling levels. BOMB AS SE(REI }fl‘y”‘ire"i’mffi’{ b::‘:lbg deceived by Emg ab”,"“e"”‘:““““c"’”;:‘ POV fitfully. The child, apparently un- [position before Chiang and attempt| The sharp drop in livestock trad- | ; T ety niy ™ {bs i ‘whom they have reposed .ncP between Grand Coulee Dam harmed, was found crying in alto draw “something definite” from ing came as the Office of Price i | WASHINGTON, Sept. 6-— The Beblic trust: They ‘are tired of be-|" = ooec oo L clump of brush by ope of the first|him on the government’s attitude|Administration ~ amnounced 1| popTy ANt “ore. Sept. 6.Tne| WA Department said today the i tfered political bribes of the:| perscrs to reach the wreck scene,[toward a nation-wide cease-fire| Washington new retail ceilings foriy, " o' g oig keep the secrecy of maritime strike had halted food Lk Y 3 o t. imost meats would be increased P and other shipments to American own money. They are tired of liv- His parents, Mr. and Mis. Paul, 8greement. sl |the atom bomb, adopt compulsory |y oo™ o murone and rtially ing in a perpetual state of phony No So OUIEI IN Edward Link of Brooklyn, N. Y., —— - —— |about 3.)4‘—Cents a poufu{ k‘l%.me.thc military training and unify its: . plyred shi‘;m({m« Z" L Pfl a }‘ emergency. They are tired of seeing and their other child, two-month- , June ceilings, yet below current con-{, .04 “forces, delegates to the Na- -A“ g lv_ P ) & fo -A;.m_ d-earned dol- | old Ellen, were killed in the $%oa Olers eglflfa'lon sumer prices S dntion ‘bl ihe DIASHIRA]. LY AR Tvoen. Bast: A6d i 7o of Lhel” har ' The ceilings are to go into effect |Gulf Coast ports are tied up “like engined— converted C-47 on their| fourth anniversary. All but three of the passengers; lars decreased by a spend-thrift Administration which for fourteen, (most of them peacetime (DY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) H years years) has spent more than it had| Things are still far from quiet in were hurled from the plane and to spend. |Greece, where a tense nation awaits scatiered over a 100 yard area where the craft slid to rest on a hillside before bursting into flame. -~ - ALBACORE TUNA " Americans are tired of paying|the return of King George the Sec- unnecessarily high taxes to support ond from exile. a profligate and stupid bureaquL)‘ In the latest major flareup be- operating on the theory so elegantly tween Royalists and left-wing bands, | phrased by one of its chief expo- three sailors on a Greek mine nents that the people are “too sweeper were killed by mortar damned dumb” to understand what shells. The Greek government said their bureaucratic chaperons were the shells were fired from shore deing. They are tired of seeing the batteries operated by Communists policies of the government of the in the Gulf of Volos. Five shells United States dictated by a group exploded aboard the vessel. of | counterfeit “liberals” who are; In other political clashes, Greek actually exponents of an alien and trcops fought a ten-hour battle radical totalitarian philosophy of Wwith left-wind bands near Volos and government and some of whom two soldiers were killed and six have been exceedingly dilatory, to, 'were wounded. The official story is 'that the troops were attacked by a band of three hundred leftists, ASTORIA, Ore., Sept. 6—As v.'th the Columbia's August salmon run, the albacore tuna delivery here is the lowest in history, the Wildlife Service said today. The 1946 season has yielded 2,719,- — (Continued on Page Four) last year, RUN LOWEST YET: |Cards Recognized for ,Admlflance info B. C. SEATTLE, Sept. 6.—Brmsh CO!- iumbia may not be aware of it, but in the opinion of Brace Shorett,| chief registration: clerk in the city icomptreller’s office, a desire to visit the Canadian Province is mak-‘ ing itself apparent in Seattle's reg- | lstrauon of voters. “We've had many people come m the last few weeks who said they! wanted to register so they can have ‘one of those little slips wmch |says you're a voter,' Shorett de- ] clared. ‘The “little slips” are recognized 487 pounds, compared with 6,290,075 by Canadian immigration officials the newspaper were taken into cus- as evidence of U, 8. citizenship. | Tuesday. CEMREES G S T e 'U.S. ARMY ORDERS 3 NEWSPAPERS IN American Veterans voted yesterday.! Principal business remaining be- fore the group today was selection of new officers and the 1947 con- vention city. In other resolutions mended by the natioual defenselyov. oo T Lo committes the veterans asked ban- ‘xmmwme Capbigdonk ning shipment of strategic suppnes e to beligerent or aggressive n‘u\ons, all the rest,” an official told a re- iporter, ~ From the Pacific Coast, reports to the Transportation Corps!| {said that some troopships and re- dngeramr vessels were being load- TeCOM- leg ~ Qverseas theaters —currently supply so no| | tish, (National Guard expansion, maln- tenance of a strong merchant ma~ AN "-l me EI( SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 6.—U S.'rine, and inclusion of a disabl?'l Army headquarters today Annoum,-‘vuuun with combat experience in' JACKSON, Minn For years 'ed suspension of three Leftist news- !the U. S. peace conference delega- E. H. Nicholas, Jackson county at- papers for “endangering the secur- tion |torney has been trying to get some- | [ | ity of the United States army for-| - O vm— one to cut down the 60-year old ces in Korea.” i R. R. PULLEN SOUTH cottonwood tree that towered over The statement did not dAburate, —_ | his home. A strong wind came| on the security threat. An unde-| R.R. Pullen, Ialhbr of W. 8. Pul‘uxlung and toppled the tree But | termined number of employees of(len, who has been visiting here for Nicholas now is having trouble| several weeks, left for the south about gettting the uprooted tree today, aboard the Princess Norah, removed from in front of his home. COMPLETE TIEUP IS REPORTED Greatest Ma?iTime Strike in History Takes Place- Picket Lines Active (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The greaiest marliime strike in history spread through the nation's coastal ports today, freezing the port of New York, the country's busicst harbor into “complete par- alysis.” the U. S. Maritime Com- mission announced and practically all ports everywhere. The Commission’s statement came about three hours after the striking AFL Seafarers International Union and the Sailors Union of the Paci- fic established picket lines along the extensive waterfront. The Commission listed 344 vessels of all natious tied up in New York by the strike. This varied with a union claim that 534 craft of all types were stranded in New York and 2534 on three coasts. A Commission survey said 705 ships of all flags were immobilized in ports from Portland, Me., to Savannah, Ga. Of these, the Com- mission said 548 were American and 157 were of forelgn registry. Spokesmen for the striking AFL Seafarers International Union and the Sailors Union of the Paelfic in New York said 534 ships were tied up at New York, 350 in other At- lantic coast ports, 450 in Gulf ports | and 1200 in West Coast ports. national . Tiepp A pu&lh ot an international tieup was hinted in a bulletin issu- ed from strike headquarters in New York. It said “expressions of support” had been received from “all over the world” including Bri- Danish, Swedish, Norse and Greek seamen. Au estimated 90,000 sailors packed their gear and walked off ships yesterday to protest a Wage Stabil- | izaticn Board order denying them a | full wage increase won in recent contract negotiations. One Appeal Made The action was followed by an tappeal by the Matitime Commis- sion to participants in the strike to keep refrigerating machinery aboard ships in operation “to prevent spoil- age of thousands of tons of perish- able food.” In telegrams to heads of the two Maritime Unions involved in the strike, Vice Admiral W. W. Smith, Chairman of the Commission, said: “In view of the world-wide shor- tage of food, we request your union to give immediate assurance that provisions will ‘be made for such operation as may be necessary to protect valuable refrigerated food stuffs which would have to be re- placed from civilian stores already criticaly shor Various sources, mostly union, | reported more than 600 vessels were ded up at U, S. ports. 400,000 Workers Out Neerly 400,000 workers, including dock employees, tugboat operators and CIO seamen, said they would honor picket lines. The Pacific American Shipown- Association sent a telegram to President Truman, calling upon him for actien. . J. B. Bryan, President of the Pacitic American Shipowners’ As- ! sociated, declared that a few days of the strike would result in a “major disaster” for the shipping industry. Other shipping owners said im- perts of scarce items such as sugar and bananas would end. They pre- dicted the strike would have far- reaching effects on American in- dustry by choking off raw material | imports and the export of finished products. Embargo One of the first vesults of the (Continued on Page Two) - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6'4, American Can 92 Anaccnda 39's, Curtiss-Wright International Harvester 81%, New York Central 19, Northern | Pacific 217, United States Steel 8%, Pound $4.03%. Sales toaay were 1,670,000 shares, Dow, Jones averages today are las follows: industrials 17996, rails 15311, tilities 36.60,