The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 11, 1946, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — —— = e— i ——— = — = ———— —_—— ] VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,371 LABOR UNREST SPREADIN TRUCE OF KAI-SHEK REJECTED ;Communists_—Tum Down | Proposal-China’s Civil Strife Mounts { NANKING, Sept. 11.—The Com- | munists today rejected Chiang Kai- |shek’s latest truce proposal as un- | satisfactory, dooming any immed- |iate hopes of a political settle- Congressional elections. ment of China’s mounting civil Secretary of Commerce Wallacé 3 | strife. hds served notice that he, for one, ey | General Marshall, U. S. special intends to raise it directly wheni |envoy, communicated the General- Ke makes a political speech in! |issimo’s undisclosed terms for a Néw York tomorrow. | nation-wide armistice in a two and He told reporters he will discuss a half hour conference with Gen. what he referred to as the Repub-| - |Chou En-lai, No. 2 Chinese Com- lidan contribution to peace after' munist. the first World War and the one /man Wang Ping-nan reported: the Republicans might make “after | | “We continue to demand uncon- this war—if they get a chance.” | ditional cease fire. We will not ac- Rumblings From GOP Camp cept any other conditions. Rumblings in the direction of situation remains serious.” making foreign policy an issue have The Communist reaction appear- come from the Republican camp. | ed to doom into discard the Stuart Senator Styles Bridges 1R-NH)]“ committee of five, which never sailed into administration policy | has met. U. S. Ambassador Stuart, toward Yugoslavia after Marshal| its chairman, had hoped to would Tito's airmen shot down an Ameri-| lay the groundwork for creation of can transport plane, Kkilling five, |an all-party state council. R i 1 | Communists refused to sit on this WORLD POLICY SEEN AS MAIN BALLOT ISSUE Wallace Will Assail GOP' Record in Foreign Affairs After World War | o ( (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Signs accumulated today that foreign policy, subordinated during | wartime political campaigns, may bécome a major issue in this fnll‘s‘ NEW CAREER Shapely Georgette Windsor, who aboayd it. | at 22 has already been a New ] e Carroll Reece, GOP National| york model and'a fashion design- |SOTTittee until the Generalissimo Chazirman, in a radio address at y .~ |promised to invoke an armistice ) a | or, is off to a new career. She’s |ne soon as it rehched an agree- Detroit yesterday * asserted that! _ as soon @ eal a gree: Shocratic Purty policias ate “aic. | Seed . long=term Hollywbed |ment. ¥ e | movie contract. (AP Wircphoto) | Coincidentally there were un- tated by an alien-minded clique.” | Missouri Republicans, in conven-’ cenfirmed reports of gizable air Then Communist spokes-| The | Pricof |NAZILOOT : Flourls 1S FOUND - GoingUp BY RAIDS; To Also Hike Sugar Cosi- Millions of Dollars Worth of Precious Stones, Controls Are Stripped 3 | Metals Dug Up ! from Many !tems { WASHINGTON, Sept. 11—~OPA| FRANKFURT, Sept. 11.—Surprise | | officials reported today that flour raids throughout the American and | prices will be boosted. Meantime, British occupation zones of Ger-| {the agency raised ceilings on work many have uncovered millions of| |gloves and window glass, stripped:douus worth of precious stones | }cunlmls from a score of other items and metals hidden by the Nazis| land got set to hike sugar prices. |shortly before Germany surrender-| | The agency officials, whd asked ed, United States army headquart-| | not to be named, told reporters the |ers announced today. ‘ | flour price increase is in the works| The diamonds, gold, silver and) | but declined to confirm or deny platinum found in the raids were | trade rumors that the advance wm]dxspersed in hiding places by the lamount to 20 cents per 100 pounds.|Nazi government agency, “Reichs-| Window glass prices were increas- |stelle Fuer Edelmetalle” (Reich| ed by 18 percent while the pricing|Agency for Precious Metals) in an, lof work gloves was placed under a attempt to keep them from falling| flexible formula, which permitted into Allied hands. | an immediate rise of three cents a' A #pokesman for the United] | pair. Razor blades, baby carriages States army intelligence division, and fountain pens were among the|said it was “conjectural but con- 'items eliminated from control. ceivable” that the board might have { |been designed to finance “a resur- 3 at inches tall, and Ann Shea majorette techniq FANCY STRUTTERS_ Marilyn Fox, 17, 5 feet 9 feet tall, demonstrate their drum Chicago's Soldier Field. M gence of German Nationalist move- | ments.” ,I-OSI WI'e OI | About $2500000 worth oi precious’ [ |stones and metals were found in| | {less than a fourth. of the total| | Nome Man Is |number of places raided, the | | spokesman said. | ! | A fotal of 367 different places | were raided in the two zones, and L] Info Hospilal; 5 . ' i Found In Jall the $2,500,000 yield came from the| | places to tabulate results. | u s urses s 0 first 79 tion at Jefterson City, adopted a! platform hitting at Communism BS. the nation’s greatest. peril and ds CONCERN IS FELT {activity at the Communists’ hither- | |to-deserted Yenan airfield, and of | a frustrated govermment plot to! —— SEATTLE, Sept:, . 11L—The _ob- scribing President Truman as lead- er of an administration which per- mitted growth of “this ungodly AT WHEREABOUTS | tack from without. s | O 3§!ER|(ANS;E, fir—' veilgsf;uzn.yeg::xmg‘ty By}i:cerfil:; Royal Canadia" Mounied‘ 'sen ower s approved a platform calling Mr. Truman a “distinguished Missour- ian” who “in the tradition of thei late President Roosevelt” is leading | the nation from a war economy to| a “sound and substantial peace} economy.” 1 Police at Whitehorse May Make Search | WHITEHORSE, Y. T, Sept. 11.— Mother Dies i | seize Harbin, Manchuria, by simul-!/ject of an almost Ceascless senrch: B Ul l E T l N S |taneous revolt from within an at- /by her husband since her disap- | One VictimQ;IIy Slugged }pearance July 31, Mrs. Dora Tahl,' 31, was found yesterday in the ' 1 by InVader-Se(Ond (eity jail. SEATTLE - American Federation | . Seriously Hurt The woman, whe told police she of Labor mariners on both coasts | \return to Nome, Alaska, was ar- INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. “will strike if necessary,” Ed Coester, | Seattle leader of the Sailors’ Union | Ivested Monday morning under an- | Of the Pacific and its affiliated Sea- | perta Green, 20, of Mt. Carmel, 111, icther name and booked on the | farers’ International Union, s.md to- nurse at the Robert W. Long Hos- icharge of being abroad at night.!dav to stop the flow of American pita], was slugged fatally and an- | "She said she had run out of Telief shipments to Yugoslavia or other nurse, Miss Betty Overdeer, {money in Seattle and had cut wood Other “totalitarian-controlled ports.” | 59, of Indianapolis, was injured in Snohomish county and held sy | seriously by a man who broke into {left their Vanport, Ore, home to WASHINGTON—Rep. Andrew .| the hospital early today. 11—Al-} SQUATTERS' LEADERS 10 - - BECHARGED 'Invasion of London’s Lux- - ury Homes Spreading | —AttleeCallsCabinet LONDON, Sept. 11.—The British government announced late today that criminal conspiracy charges were being considered against Com- munist organizers of a fast-spread- ing squatter invasion of vacant and private and government-leased dwellings. A statement from the residence G IN NATION (10 MARINERS MAY JOIN AFL SHIP WALKOUT ! ftime as Seamen De- g mand Full Reversal DETROIT AUTO PLANTS FEEL NEW WORK SORES Seaftle Labor Leader Calls on Congress fo Cease Bowing fo Bureaus | WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. — The CIO Maritime Unlon threatened today to join AFL seamen on strike unless the Wage Stabilization {Board reverses its denial of higher ipay for the AFL workers and also extends the same benefits to the CIO men. | President Joseph Curran of thn ,CIO Maritime group voiced the lthreat as WSB met to make i decision on a reversal and the CIO- ,dominated Committee for Maritime Unity held a strategy session. Along with these moves, there jwere these other capital develop- ments in the maritime crisis: ! Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross told reporters | there was “no news” and no White {House actfon on the strike, 2. The AFL formally demanded {that-the WSB- reverse its Awg: 23" decision that a wage increase for AFL seamen would have to be held i1to the $1750 monthly granted CIO | workers earlier. The AFL is holding out for WSB lapproval of the ship operators’ of- fer of $2250 extra for West Coast seamen and $2750 for East Coast. | 3. AFL President William Green ‘reportedly was polling the 15 mem- bers of the AFL executive coun- cil whether to withdraw its mem- ber from the WSB. The union has one of the labor members on the {board. 4. A demand for withdrawal of Candidate-picking for the Novem- ber tests goes on today with Rhode Island Democrats holding their nominating convention. Advance indications were that they would choose between Solicitor General J. Howard McGrath and Superior Court Judge Robert E. [Police expressed concern today fover the whereabouts of |Americans who late in July pene- jtrated the wild and little known (Nahani or three | ~ Early Today |three different jobs as a domestic. | Reunited with her carpenter hus- |band, John, she expressed readi-| w,; mhyestigating Committee today | of the hospital, ‘May's attorney informed the Senate Dr. John D. Van Nuys, Director said Miss Ozella ABILENE, Kas, Sept. 11— Mrs. ness to return to their home and q¢ parring “complications or re- | Allen, 30, a maid, told him she en- |Indian legend links with the mys-|of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, died ‘terious disappearance of 13 white (men in the last eight years. early today at her home. Mrs. Eisenhower died unexpect- “headless” valley, which Ida Stover Eisenhower, 84, mother five. children. lapses” his client will be able to | testify in a war contracts inquiry | countered the assailant when she |left her room after hearing a of Prime Minister Attlee said al o OO and AFL members was 'made by the AFL seamen's strike report on the situation had been!commmee which also urged a submitted to the director of public yr Ut HCH B180 8 sgwpmge""; presecutions. the WSB refuses to do an about “It is the duty of the police toface. take every step within the limits| NO CONFLICT ON SOUND But authorities said the party of 'edly atout 3:15 a. m. after com- A James Watt, Yakima, Wash., school 'plaining of a pain in her stomach. :nrr;:;fi:e:zn:?:ai?fi;rfiztebxf teacher, his wife and brother—in-lfler housekeeper and companion, a former Lieutenant Colonel of thc’llaw' oo gy At hm_lrs overdue Mrs. Trula ;B, Robinsos, sald. Mys At Borce, yesterday. The seat mwiirom a prospecting trip. Previous|Eisenhower woke up &t about 3 ! 3 ireports had said the party was a. m. asked for a glass of water, imore than 12 days overdue. |and then told Mrs. Robinson to “go CIEOR Inspector H. H. Cronkhite, head|back to bed. I'm all right.” {of the Whitehorse Division, Royal| Death was attributed to a heart jCanadian Mounted Police, told a attack. ireporter that if the party does not! Mrs. Eisenhower, who had not g appear at Northerly Watson Lake|keen ill, had taken two automobile Merr _GO_RO nd “within the next seven days, nec- rides only yesterday. Y u essary action will be taken.” | Milton S. Eisenhower, President Quinn, both former governors, for (Continued on Page Eight) i ! He said the party traveled up of Kansas State College, Manhattan, By DREW PEARSON ithe Alaska highway by car to Wat- a son, took charge of arrangements son Lake, then flew to Seaplane for the funeral and burial. DIl H ! here by September 25. | scream, She said the man was a US.WILLNOT ..o ... s | DENVER, Colo.—Secretary of In-| Miss Green died of a fractured i ) | | terior J. A. Krug said today that in- | Skull two hours after the attack. | 1crtasing demands for minerals and | Miss Overdeer was also hit on the | ia decreasing reserve has created a|head. She is in a critical condition. i serlous problem that deserves the Dr. Van Nuys said the man broke | | closest attention of industry and |into the hospital through a screen- | | government. In an address before |ed window about 3:30 this morning. | jthe American Mining Congress, | The man encountered Miss Green |Krug said that “our main purpose and slugged her, apparently with a is to devise means to assure the | club. . ! PARIS, Sept. 11. — The United‘uni“’d States mineral Sufflcienvcy Miss Overdeer found the }“-‘”’:?“ ‘F’-tates renounced today an: claim | 1OF all purposes and under all cir- |nurse end was bending over to aid | . A cumstances.” int’r when she too was slugged. |to reparations from Italy “in the Miss Ailen saw the assailant run |interests of international smbxllty.“‘ l'down a ccrridor. The man fed into |but its spokesman in the Italian| ISTANBUL—The Anatolla News = Al A o G | Economic . Commission said the | Agency denied officially today press corridor and . finglly éscaped of their resources to prevent breach- | es cf the law and they have been instructed to prevent further forc- ible entries,” the statement said. Catinet In Zpecial Session The cabinet was called into spec- ial session tomorrow to consider the cquatters situation. . A process server in black coat and striped trousers climbed through a ground floor window of Duchess cf Bedford House today and served an eviction notice on 1,000 squatters barrica luxury apartment block in London’s fashionable West End. ed within the building, al | SEATTLE, Sept. 11. — There will 'be no conflict or differences be- |tween the AFL seamen and CIC JI" the Puget Scund area during the tcurrent waterfront strike, it has {been announced by a CIO offi- |cial. { Burt Nelson, Seattle chairman of the Committee for Maritime Unity, {a CIO group, spoke after an offi- |cial of the AFL had said physical \force would be used, if necessary, to prevent the CIO's establishing picket lines during the strike. Nelson said: “We would be worse than fools to get mixed up in a (Today’s rclease of the Wash- fnglon-Merry-Go-Round failed Lake at the edge of the headless 1valley in the Northwest Territories in Washington, was expected He said General Eisephower, now in | United States did not propose to ! pour help into Italy only to have | reports published Monday that two | Turkish planes had been lost flyin on July 22. The three planned to|Abilene tomorrow afternoon. hike to the headwaters of Green| Besides General Eisenhower and River and down the river to Hyland | Milton Eisenhower, Mrs. Eisenhow- to reach the Empire, so a sub- stitution of the release is made. During Drew Pearson’s brief vacation, his column was writ- ten by several distinguished (low to the highway and Watson|Arthur B. Eisenhower, vice-presi- guest columnists. Here it ome |Lake. {dent of the Commerce Trust Com- that got tangled up in the mail | Concern over the whereabouts pany of Kansas City; Edgar N. and has just arrived. It was |Of the Watts party was first ex-|Risenhower of Tacoma, Wash, and written by Stuart Symington, pressed at Yakima when the Junior|Earl D. Eisenhower of Charleroi, Assistant Secretary of War for |High School teacher and former pennsylvania. Air, who has just returned from lAlasl(a. geologist failed to report for, . . Parade Hirohifo, & trip around the world. Editor) |school opening a week ago. | ; iz : : HO SED ON A RE- b c'éfi'fi-nfif_ny STUART §Make Him _AP°|°fllle: Then Oust Him | . e sross 5,000 Women Aided s WASHINGTON—A trip arcundi In Shlp lalllldlillgS| st Rkl {agi, weam-;y Japanese vitamin man- the world today is a journey of sadness, not only because one there- | # by has the o};;ponumty to view'. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—A list y¢qcturer, proposed today: what strategic bombing has done|f approximately 5,000 women Who! «py Emperior Hirohito to the to the homes and industrial heart{sponsored the launching of wartime | qpjteq States, Britain, Russia and of so many countries, but also be- | merchant vessels and received gifts china, to call on President Tru- cause, as the trip proceeds, one is:'anging from $25 to $2500 Was yan, prime Minister Attlee, Mar- more and more aware of the|made public today by the Maritime ghg) Stalin and ~Generalissimo mounting tension between great na- | Comumission. |Chiank Kai-shek and apologize for tions. | The 130-page report, prepared at japan for her part in World War There are many memories: The the request of the Senate War In-‘n‘ sinister beauty of the bomb ex- vestigating Committee, was based «Then, when he returns home— plosion in Bikini atoll, and the lat- o% information from shipbuilders. make him abdicate.” er four over those twisted wrecks Some of the builders declined,| Takagi told the army newspaper, that once were proud ships; the however, to report the type of gift stars and Stripes, he did not class- piety and sincerity in: the face of | OF its cost. |ify Hirohito as a war criminal, but His Holiness Pope Pius XI as he, One of the top gifts—a diamond held him responsible for those on spoke so earnestly of his hopes for | bracelet valued at $2516.75—Was trial for war crimes. peace and a better world; Justice given to Mrs. Willlam D. Leahy,| Takagi hasn't yet presented his Jackson remarking at Nuernburg:| Wife of Admiral Leahy, by the Sun suggestion to the one man who has —?‘_m—m——‘smpb“fldmz and Drydock Co, a say in the Emperor's doings— (Coni on Page Four) Chester, Pa. Geheral MacArthur. River, which they intended to fol-|er is survived by three other sons,| it go out as reparations to other over the Turkish-Russian iron | countries. | The spokesman, Willard Thorp, estimated that $20,000,000,000 of the United States’ total war cost of more than $335,000,000,000 could be attributed to the Italian campaign. | Since the war the United States@s soon as possible and put an end | has sent more than $1,000,000,000 to what -he called “unsatisfactory | worth of credits into Italy to help|conditions” caused by divided re- its civilian economy, he said, ag | sponsibility and “buck passing.” ! well as paying the Italian govem-} A ment more than $100,000000 for| WASHINGTON — Field Marshal Army occupation costs which it | Viscc unt Montgomery said today he might have demanded that Italy, believes the role of the atomic bomb | pay. [in warfare still remains to be work- ed out. A“u o" Ro(KS | peasement of Russia has “only help- i) led to build up the greatest totali- KETCHIKAN, Sept, 11—The|tarian state the world has ever Coast Guard yesterday reported ;he‘sren” and that “this nation is in fishing boat Attu was on the rocks|as much danger from abroad as be- and needing assistance eight miles|fore he war.” north of Narrow Point, Clarence! AT Strait, with its bow crushed. Its! NANKING, China — Communist crew of seven were reported aban- sources today charged that United doning the craft. The cutter Red- | States assistance in building up the wing was dispatched to the scene. |Chinese Navy was aimed at pre- The Attu, owned by Olaf Nygard, | paring the ground “for World | Seattle, sailed from there last week | War IIL” |for the Southeast Alaska fishing | banks. | MILAN-—A strike of government ————————— justice and taxation employees In ancient Rome, moldy bread |spread today from Milan to towns in was used to hasten the healing of |28 Provinces in a sudden surge of wounds, unrest in northern Italy. LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.—F. H. La Guardia, Director-General of U. N. 'R. R. A, called on the United Na- | tions Economic and Social Council ‘ COLUMBUS, 0.—Sen. Robert A. | Taft, R., O, charged today that the ! Democretic administration’s ap- |to ‘take .over the refugee problem | | thrcuzh the windcw by which he gained entrance. STABBED VICTIM CALM; SOLICITS OFFICIAL "PULL" PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 11.—Louis | Milean, 39, stopped pcliceman Jo- |and asked casually: | “Hey, will you pull this out of my back?” Auerwick said he saw a small wooden handle protruding from the man's back. He yanked unsuccess- fully at what Milean calmly told him was an icepick. Milean was rushed to Hahne- |internes were needed to pull loose a 3% inch pick from his spine. | Police said Milean told them an Indian girl, named Chichita had stabbed him. They added that Chi- chita Gorgiona, 27, was arrested on a charge of assault and battery. The girl, police said, was suffer- ing from a possible fracture of the lower jaw and claimed the stabbing was in self defense. —————— e When the patent system was es- tablished in the United States in 1790, the fee was $4. Secretary or|(lght with the very guys we are and a|supporting throughout the whole Etanley Henderson, the squatters’ committee !seph Auerwick on the street today! lcader of the Communist-sponsored movement to commandeer unused | dwellings, said he had been sum- |moned to appear in court next | Tuesday. 1 Squatters vs. Works Ministry “It is between us and the min- istry of works,” he added. “I don't fully understand it. I am now going to get legal advice.” "It looks as if we were supposed (to get out by next Tuesday.” Dcors of the apartment later were unbarred and a Communist spokesman said “the state of siege is now at an end.” The squatters had posted sen- tries behind barred doors to re- sist eviction efforts of the Labor government. { Court action to evict squatters ’,alm was taken at Birmingham, imann Hospital, where the combin-|where Sam Eackwell, Secretary of | ed efforts of the chief surgeon and the Midlands District Communist | !party said: “We will fight the | squatters case to the last ditch.” - oo — North Star, Supply - Ship, Is at Barrow |SS North Star, supply ship of the Alaska Native Service, dropped an- chor here Sunday with its annual icargo of supplies, BARROW, Alaska, Sept. 11.—The country in a strike.” | The AFL official, Ed Coester, of Ithe Sailors Union of the Pacific, {had replied %o reports the CIO \maritime group was considering Irse of picket lines. Coester issued another statement last night. The Seattle agent of the SUP de- manded that Congress “repudiate its contemptible surservience to the | executive.” i Coester described the current seamen’s strike as against “inter- \ference of a handful of grasping | bureaucrats seeking to justify their continuance in power by dictating to free labor and capital.” Coaster said this was unconstitutional and unamerican. He indicated the time |has come for a showdown with (What he called “cunning bureau- crats.” DECISION OF LIFETIME | WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—While {the Wage Stabilization Board is Imeeting behind closed doors on {what is being called the decision lof its lifetime—to give in or not ‘lu give in to pressure for higher wages in the maritime industry — (the industrial situation keeps get- [ting worse across the country. Another outbreak of labor dis- putes in the Detroit area has laid (off about 21,000 automobile induvs- try workers at the Hudson Motor (Continucd on Page Eightj =