The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 7, 1946, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL JARY ey SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition — “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE | SATURDAY | 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXVII., NO. 10,368 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, bLPTLMBhR/ ‘)4(; p MLMB[;R ASSO( MFH) l R 235 PRICE TEN CENTS VER-ALL STRIKE THREATENS NATION PERSONNEL ABOARD 2 i(A—NAmAN NAVY SHIPS ARE IN PORT PPAT 4 1 s Cruiser Uganda is in command: Craft Reach Channel Last| . Cin” xommert & adums. other |officers aboard are: Cdr. E. W, ! Finch-Noyes, Lt. Cdr <At A J. Dotk [Ae TR G Prewer, L. A B Will Walkout Cosh, Lt. S. G. Moore, Lt . H.! WHAT'S DOING [Boggild, Lt. 4. 1i M. Siater, Lt.. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 7.— | E. J. Semmens, Lt. R. M. Greene, Lt. A. B. C. German Visiting hcurs abeard navy ships from 2 to 5 o’clock this afternoon and Sunday. J Open house at American Le- gion Dugout in charge of Ameri- can Legion Auxiliary this after- noon. Lt. A. J. Tanner, Lt. J. M. Stew. |art, Sub Lt. A. B. Torrie, Sub Ll |K. R. Crombie, Sub Lt. G. R. Mac- | Farlane, Sub Lt. R. B. Coupar; Cdr. Reception in social rooms of |J- MacGillivray, Lt. F. Harley, Lt. Methodist Church this afternoon , |9 R- E: Clark. Lt. G. H. Somers, Lt Lt. A. H Kerley. and Monday. |G. C. Stewart, Open house at Teen-Age Club | A.syg §. B. McLean, Surg. Lt. afternoons and evenings to 11:45 | p . Jones; A-Inst. Lt. Cdr. J. C p. m. | Mark, Inst. Lt. D. C. McLean, A- Trips to Mendenhall Glacier, |cqr D. K. M. Graham, A-Lt. Cdr arrangements to be made B [ Gaynor, Lt. J. D, Agnew, Lt. through Royal Blue Cab Com- (A p 1zard, Sub Lt. S. M. Chalu, pany. {Lt. Cdr. B. E. Miles Lt. B. F. Gut-' Tonight at 9 o'clock, officers | (o meon. of the two ships will be enter- tained at a dance at the Gov- Ord. Lt. O. W. Bennett, Prob ernor’s House under the auspices | A-Ord. Sub Lt. W. Onysko, Prob of the American Woman's Vol- |A-Ord. Sub Lt. G. D. Spergel| untary Services. |Chaplain I. R. McLean, Chaplain Tonight from 9:30 to 12 mid- i"I O. P. Hossie, Captain N. A. night, complimentary dance to | Butcher. Navy men in Elks' Ballroom, Gnr. R. Freeman, Gnr. F. C. sponsored by Business and Pro- | Short, A-Gnr. W. Dow, A-Gnr. E fessional Wemen’s Club. A. MacFaydean, Wt. Eng. L. R.i |Johns, Wt. Eng. H. F. Hindle, Wt.| |Eng. J. F. Millen, W.CO. P. E.; | Palmer, Wt. Radio Officer J. R.! | Willdey, Wt. Elec. N. R. Banfield, |Commd. Ord. Officer A. J. Young, |Wt. Shpt. A, E. R, Down, Following are ,the midshipmen: J. B. Tucker, T. F. J. Roberts, G Sunday — Services in all churches in Juneau. Baseball game being arranged for Sunday afternoon between Uganda and Juneau players. After a fog-bound delay of sev- eral hours, the Canadian Cruiser Tyanidd dind éstort,” Desoyer Cres- 3. T Martin, N. | cent, vessels of His Majesty's Royal Fisey, J. Fisher, W. Hannah, A. Canadian Navy, yesterday at 7 p.m. Hunter, G. C. Hyatt, D. MeCrim- steamed into Gastineau Channel Mon, J. I MeGibbon, J. P. R. Ni- and anchored, and approximately COlls, and R. Wisener. an hour later tied up at the A-J Mine dock. The ships were offi-| , OFFICEKS ON CRESCENT cially greeted by Mayor Waino Officers aboard the destroyer Hendrickson and Comdr. Edward Crescent, escorting the Canadian Chester, Naval Aide to the Gov-!cruiser Uganda during her present ernor. cruise in Alaskan waters, are as The Uganda, under the command fellows: of Capt. Kenneth Adams, has Lieutenant Gommander C. P. aboard a complement of 60 officers Nixon, in command; Lieutenant D. and 700 men. The destroyer, skip- M. Waters, Executive Officer; Lt. pered by Lt. Comdr. C. P. Nixon is H. McGregor, Lt. H. Howley, Lt. M. manned by 10 officers and 190 men O. Jones, Lt. C. F. Pratt, Lt. J. W. are aboard. | Greene, Sub-Lt. P. May, Sub-Lt On Training Cruise W. G. Hunt, Surgeon Lt. R. Boyce; On a training cruise for all rates Mr. J. R. Turner, Engineer Offi- including officer candidates, mid- cer; Mr. S. A. Ridge, Gunner; Mr. shipmen, seamen, stokers, cooks, E. D. .Robbins, Gunner; Midship- ete., the two ships arrived from man S. M. Connell and Mr. R. P. Kcediak and Dutch Harbor and are Mylrea, Bos'n. enroute to their home base at Es-| R e quimalt, B. C., just outside of VlC- toria via Prince Rupert. They will Ne Me Eber | Uganda Crew spend five days in this port durmg which officers and crew members (Continued on Page E(vht/ The Washmgton Merry - Go- Round‘ Abeard Shlp’ 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- umnists—today’s ‘by John Ed- gar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation). } J Canadian battle cruiser Uganda ‘has a new member of her crew since she left Kodiak a few days ‘ago His name is Fritz, and ac- cording to the best description of him, Fritz is a cross between a Si- | berian husky and- a Spitz. It might | be said that he is black and brown, .IB JOHN EDGAR HOOVER but he's mostly brown, and sort of Y {a tan color. WASHINGTON—The great ma-| jority of the American public has! Fritz was presented v one of the S eiiieced ‘e’ FBI 5s.'8 puely) ToW nemiers while the ship was B atic fore. utiifseR "t énfore| R Bort” 8t Kodiak, and Is being Federal Criminal Laws and to Bt [aRER 20uth jo. Erince Rupetk: aiyl guard the internal security of the possibly a new home in British | Columbia. No, there are no regu- ;nio‘n wmt')e"hf ;e:dm:fl tgz ;é;'llauons against taking dogs aboard gD Dow e ship as mascots. Of course, if it under the direction of the Presi- wars a- EhOiak ‘Vear there: might d;:: ;uf;:s;;;r:s}:::;: u:::gmv::;id,possmlv be some slight objections R it sralve 16 rkation throUt| Ly & Hosdog: ke ity i wel, out the entire Western Hemisphere O™ and for coordinating efforts to| combat sabotage and espionage im all the countries of the Caribbean,| Central and South America. H As a result of the cooperation| between the FBI and local -law| enforcement agencies in these coun- | tries, no foreign-inspired sshotage 8 oecurred and enemy espionage ef-| €Y forts were completely curbed through | +house. out all the Americas. | A customer slipped into a tele-! The Germans were amply Sup_‘phonc booth and called police. plied with funds for their work| When the officers arrived, These were received in. part from |Stranger explained: the sale of Rueckwander marks ml % mens e S N Ty FALSE ALARM! CHICAGO,—Plunking two fist- |er announced, ‘this is bandit mon- the' {Cnntlnm’d on Page mn and quarter jackpots,” VISITORS AND ITALY ‘Stoppage of ‘ Works Looms " AtAnchorage .Bufldmg Trades Want Ad- ! justment of Wages or The Anchorage Building Trades { Council said today a work stoppage (\t\huh would affect all building ac- {tivity here would be called Sept. 27 unless favorable action was ob- tained from the Wage Stabilization | Board on requested inereases in | Vi scales. { Council President Felton Griffin, | announcing the decision, said the | | strike action was voted after repeat- ;*d requests for wage adjustments \ had been directed to the WSB for ]m(- past year. He added individual {members of the council petitioned the board for action | The ccuncil, he said, asks t& | wages here be fixed with a differ- tial over the Pacific Coast States “which would consider an estimated cent higher cost of living 150 per here The propesed strike would affect { members of the plumbers, steam- | \fitters, carpenters, electricians, ] painters, sheet metal workers, team- stgrs and operating Lngmtma unions. D AUSTRIA IN ACCORD Two Coumnes Sign Agree- {ment on South Tyrol { IsReport in Paris | { i | PARIS, Sept. 7.—Alcide de Gas- iperi, Italian’ Premier, and Dr. Karl Gruber, Austrian Foreign Minister, iannounced today that they had signed an agreement settling the differences between their two coun- \tries over the south Tyrol. | A conference commission of the ‘peace conference, meanwhile, de- |ferred action on a proposal for a lCcmt of Human Right. Samuel {Rieber, representing the United States, said that the court plan should be considered by the United instead of by the Peace ' I Nations { Conference. I The Rumanian political and territorial commission approved | ifour articles of the Rumanian ‘ueaL} draft requiring registration of pre-war bilateral treaties involv- ing the Balkan country. Under the Italo-Austrian agree- imen the South Tyrol remains Ital- ian, but regional autonomy will be granted to German-speaking in- habitants of the Bolzano and Tren- |to provinces. German-speaking in- habitants of Italian South Tyrol will of rights with Italians, including! education in their mother tongue. Decision to postpone action on ithe human rights court proposal| {came after H. F. Whitlam, Aus- tralian delegate, urged that the court be established to fulfill the promises made in the Atlantic| Charter. “The Whitlam, Atlantic Charter,” sai “is the common constitu } principles respected.” | 'MITSCHER HAS | OPERATICN; IS ' RESTING EASY { VALETTA, Malta, Sept. 7.—Ad- Imlral Marc A. Mitscher, operated on | fulls gf coins on the bar, the stang- i ror appendicitis yesterday dt Malta’s | ~Bxghx Naval Hospital, passed a rest- ' and ordered drinks for the! {less night but was resting somewhat | this morning, hospital au-| easiex ithorities said today. f Mitscher, 59-year-old acting com- ,mander-in-chief of the U. S. At- lanuc Fleet, was seized while con- ean naval commander-in-chief, |some time be granted complete equality | tion of all peoples everywhere. We | (should create organs to make these FARMERS GO ON STRIKE IN ALBERTA Day Delivery Stoppage —Roads Plckeled EDMONTON, Alm Sept. 7—~The! Alberta Farmers Union called out| 20,000 of its members on a 30-day | delivery strike early today and - by| Sunrise farmer pickets took up| pesitions on Alkberta roadways to halt movement of all farm produce 20,000 Caled Out on 30- | to market. | 8 The union said it called the strike in an attempt to force the Domin-| icn Government to appoint a fact- {finding board on parity prices. also at and had caution- “vio- Pickets appeared elevators, creameries yards. Union leader: ed the farmers against any lence.” | A few hours before the strike started, Premier E. C. Manning- ur- gently requested Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King for federal ac-!| tion on the farmers’ demands. Pre- vious attempts to reach an agree- ment between the farmers and gov- crnment officials ended in a dead- lock. | | grain | stock- | — e Third Aomic Test Delayed WASHINGTON, Sapt. T.— Pl?sx- dent Pruman has pastponed indefs {iitely the proposed third atomic| bomb test at Bikini. A statement issued by the White | House said test “C” planned as a (](Lp water detonation, should not be conducted in the near future in view of the successful completion (of the first two tests and the great jamount of information obtained |from them. ‘This test was to have been held next year. The action was taken by the President on recommendation of his advisers on this subject, the' announcement said e ETC ARMY TRACK MEET SHOTPUT RECORD BROKEN BERLIN, Sepi. 7—Husky Ed Quirk, a technician fifth grade in the U. S. Army, broke the Eu- |ropean theatre shot put record with a toss of 50 feet 4.2 inches today in the United Nations’ Armed Forc- les track and field meet. The former University of Mis- |couri athlete wiped out the old ETO .y Shattered wre nesr Flko, Nav, killing 21 persen: parents and baby brother were among the vic Sole Plane (rash Survivor TRUCETEAM IS BOMBED BY CHINESE Sino - American Truce Headquarters Make Pro- festto Chiang Kai-Shek PEIPING, . Sept T.~Informed cources at Sinc-American truce headquarters teday said U. S. offi- cials ceuld be expected to protest strongly to Chiang Kai-shek over ‘the bombing of a truce team near Chengteh and the reported wound- ing of three Americans. The Chinese government's air ferce “all along has been a thorn in the side” of executive head- quarters, the source said “Theoretically, the should obey agreements made by tripartite headquarters, but actually, it never has. Tripartite headquart- ers comprises U. 8., Chinese gov- air force rnment and Chinese Communist| representativ Unconfirmed Chinese Communist | reports placed = casualties in the| Chengteh bombing at 20—includ-' ing three Yanks wounded, one ~(-J'-} liously, and four Communists Kill-| The team had evacuated Chengteh a day or two before Jehol province capital was captur-| that | ed by government forces, A rescue team prepared to fly to Chengteh today to attempt to' bring back the bombed and \mn- ed truce team. ; Col. John M. Fergugon, Wichita' record of *Bf s ‘““‘:‘ h‘“d 0| pa1l, Tex, headed the rescue team.| {early event of the meet which drew |,y 51490ked team was command- | more than 20,000 service men d"d‘ed by Col. J. H. Rustmeyer, L _} jClvilians to flag-decked OYMPIC/ enyorth, Kansas. Names of thel Stadium. nks reported wounded were not| Idents among the . spectators ever ,saw a show equal to the ope to-| {day, even in the 1936 Olympics. PR S B N.Y.PAPER IS SIE B¢ It is doubtful if the Berlin resi-: . E ble. . ) >oo——— SEATTLE UNSURE | WHETHER METEOR OR "SOMHHING" SEATTLE, Sep( {bright and v Kl There was a| “something” s. There ms, Peter Link, 2, Elko. T He HIS L DG ZION, I, was cnly Se Kilge was .zll l)mt remained ot this eh uivica one survivers, a (AP Wirephoto) keeps crying for MAN LOSES IFEIN | FIGHT pt. 7—1Two bulldogs fought last night and the ! tatiers of the youths then engaged old machinist Ruesch said the .owned by Moon’s son, v6 and a full grow Chris Moon's {by Harry front of in the Moon stopped the fight and, Ruesc in a fight resulting, Police Chief Alvin Ruesch said, in the death | teday of Howard Moon, Sr., 47-yes - uy @ bulldog puppy | Howard, Jr., n bulldog owned 1, 18, fought home. The elder h western Washington sky last night, said, slapped Christian. Anothe | NEW YORK, Sept. 7—The Daily |py¢ whether a meteor, burning air- Deighbor scuffled with Moon, who {Mirror appeared today Without ad-|craft or some other object was not, fell over a bicycle, but appeared | vertising or amusement news and in | getermined. . {uninjured | reduced size. {_ A motorist reported he saw a| Meanwhile, Reusch said, Chris- | In a note to its readers the paper #¢1,cn in the sky and falling de-,tian’s father, Timot steam- |said its action was taken because pris’ about 15 miles north of Shel- | fitter, was told that he elder Moon of the truckmen's strike in New ¢, At about the time time __.}had slapped his son. Christian went York City “and the consequent fail- |;ound 11:30 p. m. — the crew of a to Mocn's home and, the Police ure of the Mirror to receive news- pan.American Airways plane re,_ctmr said, after Moon admitted he \Dflm % ported it saw what appeared to be,had oped his son, Christian a meteor. Istruck him in the face. He fell to AR |the sidewalk and was knocked un- | conscious, dying later of a fr: MINE RENAMED | IS NOW TRUMAN | PRAGUE, Sept 7--The workers ‘and managers of the nationalized | | Concordia Coal Mine near Karlovy | Ime have decided to rename it the | one-armed bandits—'ferring- yesterday with Admiral Sir(H. S. Truman Mine. The mine is|at ths, Baranof Hotel slot machines. I hit the nickel, dime Algernon Willis, British Mediterran-'in a region liberated by American |route to Sitka for the coming school to their troops. In Juneau there was a good dis- { play of Northern Lights with many shooting stan i - TEA( HER TO SITKA Miss Dorothy M. Van Zante, al eacher at Sitka, has arrived here| from Los Angeles and is registered year tured skull. Moon was the jdren. Mr. and and childre Mr ar She is en-|this city enroute home with the C.AA D SITKA STOP- father of six chil- OVER GUE S Wallace V » stopping over from Anchor Sitka. Volz i n s in a hospital bed at Elko, Nev.,, where he was taken, the scle surviver ¢f a charfered transport plane which crashed Mcmmy,” boys’ } in | Volz ' 21 Persons Died in Wreck of Transport Plane SEAMEN IN NEW ACTION IS REPORT If Government Moves *Ships, Look Qut - Pres- | ent Walkout Complefe (By The Associated Press) A union threat to call on all or- ganized labor for an overall ni ticn-wide general strike if the gov- ernment moves “any of our ships, as it has threatened to do,” was voiced today by a union official as the world's greatest maritime fleet lay landlocked behind a ring of striking, picketing APL seamen. The threat was veoiced by Paul Hall, port agent of the striking Seafarer’s International Union (AFL) “If the government moves any of our ships as it has threatened to do,” Hall said, “we will call on all organized laben to come out with us for an over-all national general ALULES Prane wi Peter two-year-cld boy, strike. That means street car con= ductors, machinists and everybody else.” Hall explained ‘that an appeal for such a general strike would be made through variods local central labor councils, should the government at- tempt to move ships. 100 Percent Effective He said the seamen’s strike now was ports,” and added “we are in fine shape and prepared to strike from he on in." “We believe its effectiveness is beginning to tell and a complete seup will wlu our d,cmandl." Bdl “said, 'l‘hrtl! mde In his statement that the gov- cinment had threatened to move ships, Hall was referring to reports published Friday that Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach and top ad- ministration leaders conferred at the Department of War regarding mowing supplies to the armed fcre- €s. Pier sheds were dark behind clos- ed entrances and cargo booms were fixed tight as thousands of vessels and a hali million men were idle in the greatest maritime strike in history This was the picture as the strike of members of the Sailors Unlon of the Pacific and the Seafarers Inter- national Union entered its third day, and the second day of picket- ing. supplies Halted Transocean passenger traffic was suspendedt import and export of raw matewials vital to the nation’s mills and factories were halted; tons of relief cargo for Europe and Asia were tied up in 125 UNRRA ships. cne of the victims, SEVENDIE IN CUBAN AIR cRasH TRUCE 1S R Sousmon PAC. COAST Assistant Labor Secrefary tfo See Lundeberg- Threat by Green (Continued on Page Two) \ | e g | HAVANA, Cubt, pers including American, | i were killed last night in a crash of a Cuban E preso Aereo Interamer- icano pa nger plane on the out-| skirts of the town of Esperanza about six miles west of Santa Clara. Dispatches »aio e two-engined Lodestar plane four sengers and there crewmen, ¢ carrying pas- | she into a nall house outslde the town, while attempting to make landing when it ran out of fuel. a forced | | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7.—Har- ry Lundeberg, leader of the striking AFL ilors Union of the Pacific, said today AFL President Willlam Green told him the federdtion might withdraw Its representative on the Wage Stabilization Board but | Green dGeclaxed later “I did not give jout such a report,” | The West Coast leader, whose 8,~ |00 sailors have struck in protest to }a board decision cutting a nego- tiated wage increase, told newsmen had talked by telephone with The American killed was Henry | W. Mabry, Chief Inspector for the company. He came here several | months ago from the Lockheed Air- | | eraft factory at Burbank, Calif. - - TODAY'S STORY | SEATTLE, Sept. 7. of Br rto; Harold Kuett told a fish story yes-|he terday and had enough evidence at|Green who had assured him such hand to keep any doubters quiet.{a move was “under serious consid- The evidence was a 66-pound Tyee |eration.” almon caught by Mrs. Hilda Par ; Green declined in Washington to er of Bremerton in the Campbell |make further comment, River on Vancouver Island With the strike in its third day, Kuett said - he Parker and |Assistant Secrétary of Labor Phillip a third member of their party|Hannah, who flew here from Wash- hooked, fought and landed three |ington. scheduled a meeting with iimon almost | others weigher ‘The ) Lundeberg later attempt simultaneously 54 and 44 pounds, i the day in an to' arrange a truce, *100 percent effective in all .