The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1946, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,372 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e PRICE TEN CENTS LANTO END MARITIME TIE-UP PROMISED | (OMMUNIST ACTIVITY IN U. 5. EXPECTED Nation's Legae—rs Feel Firm Link Exists from Kremlin ! fo Reds Everywhere By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER (AP Diplomatic Reporter) WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—De-| spite Russia’s wartime dissolution | of the Comintern, the United States | still takes it for grantéd that there is a firm link between the Kremlin and Communists everywhere. Hence diplomatic authorities say | this government is aware of the: » Possibility that the Soviet Union| might seek to bring about strong: Communist agitation within the United States should the tensions, between Moscow and Washington | continue to build up. | Serving to highlight this phase of American foreign policy think- ' ing is the speech Dmitri Manuilsky | made before the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday. Manuilsky, Foreign Minister of the Soviet Ukraine and one-time head of the Comintern, declared it| is time to “put an end” to the idea | that Communists have no influ-) cice throughout the world. he said “the masses in all coun- tries” had an opportunity to looki He'll Get All Equip- the Communists over during Lhej meni Needed war and now are “expressing to{ them Shelr Confidence. ! DENVER, Sept. 12—Secrelary of Otiicials here regard this defense Kt A y R 1 Interior Krug said yesterday “we're of non-Russian Communists as AR ok oir S ott toc mik she extraordinarily frank _statement | e Ads B day on pass, vet. In addition. there was KRUG INTENT THAT | ALASKA RAILROAD WILL BE FIXED UP is | ' i | aront- et ofliimt- PR Whout T A0kA JRilFoRc. BECK n ghapo™ St - : = “getting the stuff we need to do it.” <y d‘b“_vo!‘ib Y CUTC_‘:“D“' } While Krug was enroute to Den- {ver to address a convention of the s 'h E d {American Mining Congress, his i ou ern n |asked “first refusal” rights on sur- plus Army railroad equipment in s I A behalf of the Alaskan road. daimon 1 - reas riding priority, the Secretary de- clased “we're not worried about j priorities. We have the complete e o p e n e | support of the Army and the War Regarding the shipment of steel The Fish and Wildlife Service to- rails: from this country to Yugo- days announce that the Clarence SiVia, Krug commented: seribed in Sections 3278 and 227.9,|Shipped to foreign countries, but and South Prince of Wales Ishmd{x bave noshing do about “’“}: district, as described in Section 228.8 | The AI”S{“‘ Railroad comes under are reopened to commercial salmon | MY department and we will have tember 12 to 6 p.m. September 14.(We Deed to fix it up.” 52 - e - THOMASES GO SOUTH SENAIORS MAY Mr. J. C. Thomas and Mrs. Thomas of the Thomas Hardware IAKE looK Al‘ company left on the Aleutian for a visit to the States. M Go-R g d! Committee Hears Adverse erry-uo-nouna! festimony Regarding By pREW PEARSON | Military Occupation WASHINGTON—Inside fact on| waASHINGTON, Sept. 12— A both the AFL and the CIO mari-{ihis country’s military government time unions could have had a $22.5flhn Germany reportedly is under menthly increase as early as last|consigeration by the Senate War between two powerful labor leaders! A member disclosed privately to- —Harry Bridges of the West Coastigay that the committee received longshoremen and Joe Curran of [testimony in a recent closed door ithe Maritime Union. session regarding alleged irregular- May Secretary of labor Schwellen—lncularly with respect to fraterniz- dach and Granville Conway, War|ation. { Shipping Administrator, had a talkl An unidentified witness question- representative for Curran's CIO fcan zone was said to have compared maritime union. Both agreed that{them unfavorably with the German the seamen were entitled to a sub- {occupation of France during the figure of $30 a month was men-} This testimony, as yet uncorrobor- tioned, with time-and-a-half for [ated by any others acquainted with| work over 48 hours. the situation, was regarded as only Haddock later sent a telegram ipreliminary information, and other g this, and to his amazement got, ! a hot wire back from Bridges tell- imade on undertakng the inquiry. ing Haddock to mind his own busi-| Meanwhile, Senator Brewster (R-| ness. Bridges even told Haddock |Me) approved Mean's decision yes-| Gonway and inform them to @isre- |Rep. Andrew J. May (D-Ky) to ap-| gard their previous conversation. pear before the group the week of | ,This Haddock did. Sept. 25 to testify about his con- — ineetions with the Garsson muni- Later, when the CIO maritime' Mead said when May “is able to, strike was called, public reaction testify in a hearing in Washington | flared. The railroad strike had oc- without injury to his health, committee will then arrange for watvisuals wl mhom MusouE gy, SAARAINAL. he, mrasiit mpTricd. 4 aides in Washington said he had Asked if this ccnstituted an over- | Assets Administration.” Strait District, all Sections, as de-| 'Of course, equipment is being fishing from 3 o'clock p.m. Sep- no trouble getting the equipment iy w D GERMANY RULE The Wa : the jumbled maritime strike is that sweeping inquiry into operations of June if there hadn’t been friction|ypyestigating committee. What happened was that last jties among occupation troops, par- with Hoyt Haddock, Washingtonied about conditions in the Ameri- stantial wage boost. The tentative jwar. to both Bridges and Curran report- members said additional facts will to go back to Schwellenbach and!terda# sidetracking the proposal of | LABOR RETREATS { tions, combine. | hearing.” {Continued on Page Four) WHENEVER YOU FEEL that things are getting kind of t Wilson, Wounded in Germany, Wilson is a patient at H r : he found his wife (right) missing and his children (with wi ¢ an eviction notice served on him after he arrived. TROUBLES PILE UP FOR WOUNDED VETERAN ough, consider for PAA Asks for Thirteen-City !Interior Se@ry Is Sure‘overiand I_Ink Salmon Worker Migration Applicaiiofig for Transcon- tinental Routes Filed with CAB MIAMI, Fla, “Sept. continental and eother long non- stop routes to link 13 American cities have been asked by Pan American World Airways. Application for the routes was tiled in' Washington yesterday with the Civil Aeronautics Beard, the PAA said here, and 430-mile an bour. Republic Rainbows and 340- mile an-hour Boeing Stratocruisers would ke used 12.—Trans- Cities ocn the propesed routes are New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Chicago, Detreit, Miami, New Orleans, Hous- ton, Seattle, San Franeisco and Los Angeles. Rus;fll;{i;al Says U.S.Navy On Offensive American Politics Tending Toward World Rule, Says Red Writer MOSCOW, Sept. 12.—Read Adm Schwede wrote in Pravda today that the United States fleet was by no means designated for ful- {ilment of a defensive task, but bears clear ‘expression of an of- fensive character.” “The strivings of the United States for formation bases through- out the entire world show ever in- creasing tendencies in American polities towards world rule,” - the article concluded. “Experiences of the past war sufficiently showed that, under contemporary condi- tions, such a kind of politics is doomed’ to bankruptey.” The Admiral said ‘the United States had pushed its line of de- fense 6,000 to 7,500 miles from American territory and asdbrted that the U. S. was maintining “huge air bases” in Iceland, Greenland and the Faroes.” “It is quite revealing that in the project of plans for American con- trol over former Japanese mandated islands, control by the United Na- \be sought before any decision is|tions Orgsnization must not be ex-| tended over them,” the writer said. “Thus the United States ing to maintain secret bases.” e ——— POSTPONES DEPARTURE Jack Hensen, associate editor of flhe Port Angeles, Wash, Evening News, man Wi after an absence of 23 years, p poned his departure from former Alaskan newspaper- ho is revisiting this area last md'ruesn‘ay to next Saturday when he'or community “Because he's the firmer than other sections a|will retwrn home via Pan Amen-}nnly butcher in town and every-' some of the utility preferreds gain- can Airways plane, alloran General Hospital, When he came home the other BODIES OF 5 FLIERS COME 10 HOMELAND Hushed Throng at Capital i Line of Duty"” ‘ WASHINGTON, Sept. | bedies of five American flie down by Yugoslav fighters in the tapital by plane today (n} receive the nation’s last tribute and honors. i In a brief ceremony after the! army transport landed at the Na- i tional Airport with the flag-draped coffins, Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee told a hushed throng,of hundreds that the five airmen “fell in the line of duty.” Then the caskets one by one, dowr long ramp from the plane to hea for removal to the Arlington National Cemetery. ‘The bedies will lie in an amphi- heatre, near the tomb of the un- 'SOUTHEAST FISH WILL FLY SOUTH pistricr peputy GIVES ADVICE ON ELKS VISIT HERE District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Norman C. Banfield made All Air Carriers R his official visit to Juneat Lodge SEATTLE, Sept. 12 Eighteen no, 420, BPOE, of which he is hundred Southeast Alaska salmon- past Exalted Ruler, at last night's cannery workers will be flown 19 first regular Fall meeting of the Seattle should the njaritime strike iocal<9odge. centinue beyond the ‘end of the After witnessing initiation of a week. officials of the Alaska Sal- class of candidates and other rit- mon Industry, Inc., announced t0- yal work performed by the lodge day. officers with participation of a fair Such a sudden deluge of requests attendance of lodge members, the for non-scheduled and charter op- District Deputy delivered a well erations to Ketchikan and other received talk in which he impart- Southeast Alaska centers would tax ed friendly and constructive criti- every piece of available equipment cism of the conduct and orting a 8 tew moments the case of Pfc. John hom he is pictured) alone with their (International Soundphoto) were wheeled, Expected fo Overtax in the Pacific Northwest, air of- of lodge affairs. ficials reported. The meeting was followed by Workers alreauy are two weeks Serving of food and other refresh- later in the n than usual, one Ments in the lodge hall. industry spokesman pointed out, gl 5 P because of government extensions SIA'I'EHOOD MEE]’I” of the canning season. “1f we don’'t fly tie men out as soon as possible after the close of the season, which we expect around IS HELD LAST NIGHT Five new members were elected Told Airmen “Fellin !} Miss California Crowned ¥ Boule- vard District, is crewned Miss California by Actor Gig Young in Hol- lywoed. She wen title cver 21 ocmpetitors. (AP Wirephoto) Miss Buferd, whe failed to win any of the prelimin cempets- . Lians at Atlantio Oity, was lnter crowned Miss Amvrica, 1946, An eight wecks movie confract at $500 a weck awaits her in California and che also won the Atlantic City Beauty Contest Pageant top award of ,000 scholarship. Miss Buferd fermerly lived in Seattle and attended high schoal there. ARABS REJECT Ausiria Feels FEDERALIZING Stalin’s Lash OF PALESTINE « remlin Backs Up High-, Handed Demand with | WHITE HOUSE STRIDES INTO STRIKE MESS Steelman Takes Over After WSB Refuses to Budge On Wage Decision 'RECONVERSION DIRECTOR 'HAS TWO COURSES OPEN 'Board Stand Termed Threat | fo Entire American Labor Movement | BULLETIN — Washingfon, Sept. 12—~President Truman spid a few minutes after 1 p.m. (PST) today that a statement which will provide a basis for settling the vast maritime strike { will be issued within the hour, | Mr. Truman made this known at a news conference. But he added that it will not be an anncuncement of a final settle- ment by Stabilization Director John R. Steelman. Askcd whether Steelman's statemen! would constitute a government plan for ending the criopling strike, Mr. Truman | said it will have to s)eak for itself, Mr. Truman said there would | be no departure from 8OV~ b P T T ke stabilization policy in the state- | ment, and he bmphasized his | rejection of that idea by the | lirmness of his tone. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hopes reivizec [or sciuidon of the trike of AFL maritime workers to- | day with a White House announce- ment that the President has ordered | Reconversion Director John R. Steelman to try to work out a set- tlement. ‘The strike, which New York City authorities said had delayed move- ment of nearly $200,000,000 worth of shipping in that harbor alone, s going into its eighth day. eelman stepped into the crisis Harry Lundeberg, AFL maritime | | | this Saturday, we'll have to find to the Gastineau Channel State- H H H | strike leader, called on 80,000 AFL o e bt tovd 19 12 he Gasuneau Channel Sute- [)elay Decried by Spokes- Sentence fo Siberia | fuwmn "workers in the. Pacitic them.” night in the Council Rooms of the —_— "Northwest to come out on sym- The workers are scattered in 25 city Hall, men, Independe“(e VIENNA, Sept. 12—In a move bathy strike. He said he expected canneries from Icy Straits south to| They were: Mrs. Roy Peratrovich, 'S Demanded challenging the Austrian govern- hem to walk off the job at 8 a.m. Ketchikan Cash Cole, Mrs. Ernest Gruening, . ment's autherity, the Russians sen-| (PST) tomorrow. Rl 7 . Mrs. Mildred Hermann, and s tenced 70-year-old D Karl Wil- “It’s up to Mr. Steelnan to make & Vukovich. LONDON, Sept. 12~A British heim last night to two years inja decision, probably in the course Mysgery in Dea"l °I President Jack Wilson preside said several Arab League “iberia for disobeying a Soviet, Of the day,” the President’s Press at the meeting, with Thelma Eng- o - o0 oo porecing confer. O'd€r to dissolves Austrian Settle- | S tary, Charles G. Ross, told . strom as Vice-President. Secretary BRET N AN ent Association which he headed. ' newsmen in Washington. Vancouver Teen-ager R e wone on acion eree empastcnty reetes today " U U S i g taken by the Central Committee at th: British-American experts’ plan y. government, had disregarded the The Wage Stabilization Board— -5 Anchorage for publication and d federalization cf the Holy Land. Soviet dissolution order cn the in- Which last night refused to yield VANCOUVER, Sept. 12—A mys- tribution of George Sundto: AL least two Arab speakers ob- structions of the government pend-|l0 high pressure from the ship- terlous death of s teen-age Cana: statehood report. jected that the plan meant that ing the outcome of its appeal to ©ing industry and a half millior. dian youth has baffled police. The| Methods of obtaining the widest {/ i o qo-wo for their “brethern the Allied council against what, Strike-idle maritime workers—went vicim was 18-year-old Thomas possible distribution of the state- ;" "'yl Land” would be delay- (he Ausirians regarded as Russian|ito conference with Steelman to Mitchell, apparently killed in the hood report were discussed sale o inae i % urilateral action xplain its pesition, discharge of a hand grenade. Mit- of statehood buttons was author- chell's badly torn body was found ized. ‘The meeting was termin- 48 Toreign Secretary Ernest Bev- pe gignificance of the Soviet in an isclated lane in the Mount ated with an open forum session ‘I sat chain-smcking and tapping g.n appeared to be far-reach- Pleasant district. Police say death during which questions from the the big round-table with his pencil yng gince there is hardly an em- was caused by some sort of a blast, however, no bomb fragments of any kind have been found and there' was no smell of cordite, contained in most all explosives. were answered by Sundborg. | NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Istock teday is American Can 87’2, Anaconda 37%, Curtiss-Wright 6'<, Internati-fial Harvester 80, Kennecott 43'z, New York Central 17%, Northern Pacific 20%, United States Steel 71, Pound $4.03%. | Sales today were 1,990,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are |as follows: industrials 17170, rails | 50.36, utilities floor Pclice say they are working on a suicide theory. However, 'the boy's parents have steadfastly de- nied such a possibility. The father, Thcmas Mitchell, Senior, believes it is a case of murder. He told police that his son was recently in the best of spirits and that his son would not have been able to buy or obtain explosives. e | Automobile shares fell to new| lows for the vear today on rl:(‘ux--‘ No Meat fo Sell rence of labor troubles and their BIII ASkS opA ‘o weakness -unsettled the L;enera]] & 2 stock market list after a firm, quiet | Give Prices fo Read opening. \ Volume fell off in all sections CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—The single compared with the previous s(—‘s@mn“ is striv-| butcher of a small town in south-|which had periods of such activity | Fe! leastern Towa sent the following that the tape lagged as much as |letter to Earl W. Clark, Regional 4 minutes behind the actual mar-| |OPA Administrator. | ket. | “You have failed to send me re-| Lowest prices of the day were ! tail ceiling price list on meats for recorded in the morning. Some sup- {groups 1 and 2. T haven't anything port developed later and prices 'to sell, but if you send me a price rose above the lows. Enough regis-| ost- | list Tl have something to read.” tcred declines to bring losses into|)n the T | Clark declined to name the man most of the averages. Utilities held | bolly would know him,” ed 3 points or more, one Arab repr Palestine’s independence should be QUOTATIONS ™" ™ FSA LOAN PROGRAM and|of the amount which has cor cried that ntative ployee cf the Austrian government but who disregards one Russian crder or another on instructions, pending s2ttlement of disputed points - The Austrian Settlement Associa- |tion was set up by the government FOR AlASKA SM All to administer Austrian properties wkich the Nazis seized, largely from - Jews, after the Anschluss, and WASHINGTON, sSept. 12 The turned over to German tenants. - Farm Security Administration said in a statement today it was unable to make many rural rehabilitation farm ownership loans to farmers of Alaska because most of the farms were obtained through home- steading and the agency could not| obtain first mortgages on the land| as required by law. (ATTORNEYS LEAVE FOR APPEAL CASE MONDAY, SEATTLE Steelman has two courses, ROSS said. “One obviously 1s to approve the iinding of the Wage Stabilization Beard and fight it out, with all at that implies,” Ross said. | “The other is to agree with the ! Maritime Commission—and the un- ons and the industry—as against ithe WSB “Those are the alternative Threat To All Labor Leaders of striking AFL seamen denounced as a “thrept to the en- ire labor movement of the United { Statcs” the decision of the Wage Board in standing pat on its earl- [ fer ruling denying them wage hikes | above these won by CIO seamen. | Pledging a “fight to the bittez lend,” they promised to carry out | ‘plans to secure the support of the | entire U. S. labor movement—in- cluding AFL, CIO and independent |t | 1t sald, however, that 20 PSA re-| Un\Led» States Attarney ].«U'lckl\lnx(?nh to aid us in our fight to Kabhitating foans tofsline 531800"]' Gilmere, Jr., was to leave Ju-|regain the right of free collective b0 "‘“m i5 :M‘;N“ tasiiers d'ur_xneau by PAA today for Seattle,|bargaining which the WSB action : - s | where he will appear for the Gov-|has denied us.” ing the year ended last June 30.| o on pefore the Ninth Circuit r of them, amounting to $7,500 . |Court of Appeals, on the appeal were made to World War IT vet-| \ S = 1of the case of the United States erans. Since the beginning of the; vs. Maude Anderson, convicted Sit- program, 70 Alaska farmers have| White Slaver. tought equipment, livestock and ' other items needed to operate their| Juneau attorney R. E. Robertson farms with FSA-supervised credit. is to appear before the Circuit In all, $130,177 has been loaned’ Court in Seattle next Monday also, tory and the borrowers to argue Mrs. Anderson’s appeal. have paid back $40,144 or 77 percent| Gilmore will remain in Seattle ¢ due.jon other business for a few days In addition, they paid $6,217 in m-imllowlng the hearing on the appeal, terest tbefore returning to Juneau, Coastal Repercussions | The WSB decision breught im- | mediate repercussions along the | strike-torn ccastal ports of the na- ticn where the world's greatest ‘mau’l'!me fleet lay virtually immo- bilized behind & chain of picketing seamen The Marine Firemen, Oilers, Wi~ pers and Watertenders Union, an | independent organization, announc- ed its 15,000 members throughout (Continued on Page Right)