The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 13, 1946, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,373 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDA Y, SEPTEMBER 13, 1946 PACHECKLES |Lucky Strike President | WALLACEFOR - RUSS SHAFTS - Ciwtonpesms N-W AIRLINES | Blasts Applauded | was “interrupted by booing andj heckling in White House-approved | i speech at a Madison Square Garden | rally last night where Senator —— | Claude Pepper (D-Fla) was ap- 2 | Fiaica tor attactms. oue s | COmpany Will Concentrate » e " on “Circle Tours” for the same side in many foreign and : H i‘domestic issues, spoke before an; Alr Tou”s's ‘nudience of 19,000 at a rally spon- jored by the National Citizens Pol-{ SEATTLE, Sept. 13.—Seeking to | itical Action Committee and the|bring an increased flow of air J Independent Citizens Commiltee | tourists through Seattle via Alaska, a:'ions. 1Civil Aeronautics Board for re- ' Wallace, who said the United|ductions in fares for routes affect- | States must adopt a clear and real- (ing Seattle, W. R. England, Seattle istic policy of its own to avoid an-traffic manager, reported last night ll other war, first was greeted by| “We are asking to reduce our hisses and hoots when he said heAlaskan fares to.a level comparable pro-Russian,” and added: . said. Truman’s Pelicy Too I 'The new schedule would cut one- “Just two days ago, when Presi- way fares between Seattle and | dent Truman read these words, he {Anchorage from $126 to $120, and | said they represented the policy of \round trip faces from $252 to $216. his administration.” England said the company would sia said, “her type of land reform,!its eastern stations. Under this industrial expropriation and sup-(Plan passengers flying to Anchor- pression of - basio -liberties offend age through' Edmouton and Twin | the groat majority of the people of | Cities would be encouraged to re- | the United States.” {turn via Seattle. At this point Wallace laid aside; He said the Douglas DC-4 trans- dering foreign policy.” The two men, who have been on} | of the Arts, Scignces and Profes- | Northwest Airlines will apply to the was “neither onti-British nor pm.‘tu airline fares within the con- British, neither anti-Russian nor|tinental United States” England Another round of heckling broke |concentrate on “circle tours” for ' out when Wallace, speaking of Rus- Passengers flying to Alaska from his text and declared: “Well, it's|Ports not being used by Northwest true outside New York City, as any 'On its Alaska runs would be re- gallup poll will show.” iplaced by faster Boeing Strato- He said British “imperialistic pol- ; CTuisers, probably about the middle | icy” in the Near East together withl"i 1947. | Soviet retaliation would lead the; s | (Can_linucd on Page T{%ree) i | Last Rites for Four | | Vidims of Plane Crash Held Today D - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ’swck today is 6'4, American Can 88', Anaconda 38%, Curtiss-Wright }6“. International Harvester 80%'%, | Kennecott 45%, New York Central ’l’l‘_-, Northern Pacific 20%, | Steel 72%, Pound $4.03'%:. Sales today were 1,710,000 shares. | SEATTLE, Sept. 13—Bodies of | three victims of the Alaska plane; Dow, Jones averages today are crash last Sunday were scheduled | as follows: industrials 173.39, rails to be flown to Seattle and Belling-!sl_oa, utilities 35.66. ‘ham today for burial. { Moves toward early settlement of The bodies off Capt. and Mrs.]the maritime and New York truck Marvin L. Pratt will be taken to,strikes today eliminated pressure Bellingham, while Lee Chesterfield, ! from the stock market and prices | Jr., will be buried in Seattle, { moved up fractions to more than 2 Graveside services will be held|points on curtailed volume. in Anchorage for John Campbell, | At the highest, the averages had | fourth victim of the crash five wiped out about half the losses | miles north of Nome. suffered early in the week. Today’s rise was much less vigorous than the one of Wednesday when the .The w a. s h i n g ion ! g];l;kEt- made its best gain in nearly Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—It is no accident | that the AFL, not the CIO, is in |'the strike headlines today. | In the first place, CIO chief Phil The reduction in volume was con- sidered a healthy indication for the market in that it reflected, tem- porarily at least, an end of the recent liquidation. American Telephone, an outsand- ing strong spot, gained nearly 4 points. Leading steels gained a point or more. Chrysler oiled the | Murray held a secret meeting wnhé motors up with a gain of nearly‘ | his cohorts recently in which it}2 points and General Motors gained | was decided to postpone all major|one. Rails advanced with gains of ! strikes for the time being. In thea point or more in Santa Fe, Un- | setond place, certain AFL leaderslion Pacific and Norfolk & Western. | (though not the majority) are not!Utilities were active with prices || averse to a little labor ) | right now in order to defeat meler preferred spurted 5 points. | Democrats at the polls in Novem-| T i it R ufz'hree Alaskans on this group, with George Meany and1soard o' Gove’no's {Amer. Mining Congress They are playing close to the Re- publicans. Embarrassment of the Truman Administration was behind Lewis’| | Matt Woll tagging along behind. i DENVER, Sept. 13.—The new telegram to striking maritime lead- { Board of Governors of the Ameri-| er Harry Lundeberg, offering Unil-;Cfln Mining Congress’ Western Di- ed Mine Workers' cash to support|vision includes the following dis- AFL sailors. With Congress in re-!!rifl representatives: 2 cess, many AFL leaders also feel, Washington—Wray D. Farmin, there is no danger of reviving the!Spokane; Fred Wagner, Republic; Case Bill or passing other restric- G- H. Waterman, Seattle. " tive labor legislation. Incidentally| Alaska—P. R. Bradley, San Fran- it used to by the other way round; cisco; Roy B. Earling, Fairbanks; nameiy that labor wanted Congress Al Anderson, Fairbanks in session to keep a weather eye; BRSO on big business. Now strikes have a DEPUTY RETURNS better chance with Congress out of'r peputy U, 8, Marshal ! BYd session. CIO leaders have just the oppo- Thompson returned here yesterday by PAA after escorting prisoners to the States, (Continued on Page Four) Is Dead:; Spent Millions Advertising gigarelle‘ U. 8.§ trouble | higher. American and Foreign Pow- | MEAT, HOUSE VERY PRETTY | George (BY Meat NEW YORK, Sept. 13 Washington Hill, 61, who rose from| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) the scarcest food item a $5-a-week helper in his father’s in the nation's cupboard; hundreds tobacco firm to President of the of thousands of workers are unem- American Tobacco Company, died ployed in strike-hit ities, and the housing shortage has reached criti- {cal proportions in many commun- ities ‘These facts were disclosed in a nation-wide survey by the Associated Press. today at his fishing camp in Mata pedia, Quebec Province, Canada | Anncuncement of his death was { made here by the Company. He had been ill for a short time but the cause of death was not announced today conducted Hill. whose company popularized Samplings ‘of conditiens in cities Luc Strike cigarettes, made the from coast to coast also showed tobacco business his life work and that the family larder was short rose to become one of the highest of sugar, soaps, fats and oils, paid corporation executives in the/ In the housing field, public | nation, averaging more than $400,- housing authorities said they had 1000 annually for years as President. long waiting lists from applicants He earned $5 a week when he for practically non-existing living joined the company at the age of Quarters and that apartments were “impossible to find” in some places This is how the situation stack ed up in the varicus cities before the end of the AFL maritime strike on the West Coast and before the start of ths nation-wide strike of the CIO National Maritime Urion SEATTLE— Strikes, three, involv- ing 2,750 persons. Unemployment: State ag figures show 60,000 out of work in the entire state; Housing: Public housing authority director said that body has had a steady list of 2,400 applicants for project homes each month this year. PORTLAND, Ore—Strikes: Mari- time, affecting possibly 5,000 per- sons. Unemployment: USES esti- 20 and conce disclosed that his ary and bonuses netted him $6,500,- 000 between 1926, when he became President of the firm, and 1939. An advertising man at heart, Mr. Hill reputedly spent more mon- ey advertising a single product than anyone in history—around $200,- 000,000 by 1944. In a single year the advertising outlay was $20,000,- 000. S “As the result of my years of ex- perience in advertising I sincerely believe it to be a v great yet a | very simple science,” he once said “Reduced to its simplest terms, ad- | vertising is really nothing but salesmanship-in-print’ and during these more recent years, with the intreduction of the radio, ‘sales- mated 17,000 jobless. Foocs: Pork, ;munshlp-m-persun‘ as well.” lard and honey scarcest items. ———— Housing: Scarce, with apartments st imnpossible to find.” -ee - HEARING =~ Speeding Aut Hurtles Into Lake; 3 Dead BELLINGHAM, Wash,, Sept. 13. —A speeding automobile hurtled in- FISH SCHEDULED IN SENATE ROOM Frank W. Hynes, Regional Di- rector, Fish and Wildlife Service, announced today that the Senate Chamber, in the Federal and Terri- torial Building here, has been b Taks . Binstal AR tnd 1 selected as. the place for the hear- I:avv # ':n ‘_"";,“i:‘ m;z‘l‘"‘;“:’L :)Ksi ing on commercial fisheries regula- ¥y SRR s 3 S i jos RO o 9. e others were hurled free or kicked |tions scheduled here for Septem- | ber 20. The hearing here will be one of a series conducted in all principal | fishing centers of Alaska to afford opportunity to fishermen, packers and others interested in commer- cial fishing in Alaska waters to ex- | press their views and be heard upon | |proposed changes in the regulations |for the following season. | | |their way out of the car and swam to shore. The dead: W. B. Cabe, 26, driver, stationed at Ault Field, Whidby Island, Wash.; J. L. Parker, 19, USS Lexingten, Bremerton, and K. L. Yill, 18, USS Lexington. Hospitalized here for severe cuts and shock were C. B. Parker, USS Lexington, J. L. Neil, 22, Ault Field, and F. H. Paulson, 21, Ault Field. The Ault Field sailors had pick- IRt ol B | (HINESE MESS IS 'ed up the three from the Lexing- ton a short time before and one The speedometer registered miles” when it went out of control, | | NANKING, sept. 13. — General | Marshall and the Chinese Govern- turned over and plunged into the ment today were reported cool to- lake, about 30 feet deep- at the ! ward a Communist request that the 'Point. U. S. Special Envoy reconvene his; committee to attempt to work out| a truce in China’s increasingly bit-| ter civil strife. ! Marshall was reported to have| informed the Communists, through U. S. Ambassador Stuart, that he is| | unenthusiastic because of the com- | mittee’s inability in the past to | restore peace. The committee is| made up of Marshall, Communist Chou En-lai and Government re- presentative Gen. Hsu Yung-chang | Both Stuart and Marshall ex-| = - Pest fo Cut Down Husky Grid Squad tended anew the Government sug-} SEATTLE, Sept. 13.—After to- | gestion that the Communists help day's football practice, Coach Ralph frame a coalition state and coun-|(Pest) Welch expects to have bhis lcil and allow the committee of bulky University of Washington | three concurrently to consider ways down to workable proportions of 50 |of halting the conflict. The Reds to 60 players. The balance of the | consistently have declined to nego-!large squad will be relegated to the |tiate unless Chiang promised to “B” squad, which will have a lorder a nation-wide armistice as schedule of its own and from which soon as an agreement was reached.|a promising player will have a CHESTER, ill.—Miss Marie Mar- ;4 he sought a stand-out perform- 1len got out of bed and went to her|q. for the job against St. Mary's | chicken house to find out the rea- 'y, weeks from tomorrow. On the | son for the clucking and erowing i“‘klck'mg assignment Welch had Alf i the middje of the night. Hemstad, Dick Ottele, Larry Hatch. | The 85' year old woman found & Marshall Dallas and Fred Olson, | full grown oppossum killing one of with Hemstad and Olson holding | ner chickens. She grabbed the mar-|an edge. | auder by the neck and chopped orf\ PSSP W a— its head. Argentina is the second largest Then she dressed the slain chick-'south American country in both en and went back to bed, area and population, g3 ! |said the car would do 100 miles | STIll j I HAT an hour, one of the survivors said | - -ee - chance to graduate bacg ifc the | |varsity squad. | | HE“HOUSE BEDlAM ! Welch had his punters concen- trating on their specialty sterday YET AGAIN Security Council Termed Unfit fo Rule Trieste- USSR Bites Finland PARIS, Sept. 13.—An Australian delegate to the peace conference said today the United Nations Se- curity council was in disrepute through arbitrary use of the veto power, and should not be permit- ted to govern the proposed free territory of Trieste “The of the veto powar in the security council has been arbi- trary, irresponsible and dictator- ial, and has brought the council in- to disrepute throughout the world,” said Col. W. R. Hodgson, who has served as a delegate to the council “It ‘would make the Trieste port question a threat to world peace.” ‘To put the Trieste question into the hand of the security coun as suggested by the four-power foreign ministers council, “would insure making the plan unworkable,” Hodgson argued. He said Tri should be governed by a eoun representing the United States Great Britain, Soviet Russia, France | and three other nations. | Two of the 21-nation peace n- ference’s five political and terri- torial commissions—for Finland and for Rumania—completed their work yeste in the race to meet a| newly ablished Oct. 5 deadline for dpaiting peace treaties for Bul- gavia, :'inland, Hungary, Italy uudl o the military commission also wound up its work on the Ru-‘ manian pact i This means that the future Fin-| land and the future Rumania have| keen outlined, with Russia getting| Petsamo Province and Finland's only outlet to the Arctic Ocean;| and Rumania losing Bessarabia to, Russia and Southérn Dobruja to Bulgaria, but getting back Tran- | sylvania from Hunga the . Bal- kan changes under a 1940 Vienna | mapping job by the Axis partners. | - —ee—— v o TWO OTTOMAN : BANKSRAIDED IN PALESTINE JAFFA, Palestine, Sept. 13.—At least four persons were killed and four injured today when two armed bands, believed by police to be members of the Jewish Stern gang, raided the Ottoman banks in Tel Aviv and Jaffa, escaping with $6,- 000 from Tel Aviv. Twelve of the 15 attackers in the Arab city of Jaffa were appre- hended and all the $2,000 taken here was recovered from the ar- | rested Jews. All the casualties were in Jaffa. Both Tel Aviv and Jaffa were | placed under rigid curfew for an | indefinite period after the daring| | daylight robberies. | The simultaneous raids were stag-| |ed shortly before noon. Diversion- | incidents at Jaffa, synchronized 1 A with the attacks, included the firing of an oil drum in the street to block traffic, on exchange of fire, with pclice at a nearby subsluliun“ and 2 machine gun volley from a | moving automobile against an Arab crowd | Police said casualties included one Arab police officer, two Arab civ- |1lians and one Jewish raider killed, | 'and three arrested Jews wounded. An eyewitness said James Annett, English bank manager, also was! shot through the leg. | —————————— | ELWIN WRIGHT LEAVING j SOON FOR U. “’ASIHNGTON‘ Elwin Wright, 1946 graduate Qf’ the Juneau High School, will leave | on the Princess Norah next Tues- day for Seattle where he will enter his first year at the University of‘ Washington. | | HERE Lt. John , from Whit-| ‘Hrr, visited here yesterday wn.h‘ | Capt. L. W. Bucy, Officer-in-Charge | of the Juneau ACS. Hawkins is to| be the new Officer-in-Charge of| the Ketchikan Signal Corps. SOCIATED PRESS * PRICE TEN CENTS —_— — ] WRECKAGE OF A SWEDISH military reconnai G T » ance plane is shown on the ground near Vaggeryd, Sweden, after it had collided head on with one of the mysterious rockets which have been reported seen in tha flyers were instartly killed in the crash. Legion Past Commander . Thres (Indérnational Radiophoto) Atherion Declares His Support LONDOW'S FLAT SQUATTERS SET FOR LONG STAY Near Appr(iach to Violence as Bobbies Ride Herd on Sympathiezrs LONLON, “squatter” campaign appearance of an endurance con- est between police and hundred of invaders of vacant London Ilux ury flats today as the governmi drive to quell the Commur spired movement gathered mom tume after a slow start. 13.—London’s teok on Sept. in- The situation quieted duriug the ach the nearest in the five sion, when night after to violence squatter inva police herdsd 2,000 squati pathizers off the street occupied building without to anyone The incident tcok place m front of Abbey Ledge in St. John's W where appri ately 1500 s have taken over unoccupic infury ments which normally rent to 24 pounds (380 to $96) per we Both water and lights wer off in the building and squat hung pleading signs frem windows reading “we want waler, “we want bedding,” “do scmerh about us.” In the Duchess of Bedford Hous where the invasion started, squa ters set up a “food office” on ground floor to exchange bread units for points for other ration- foods. e eee POLICE SLAYER EXECUTED; ON FRIDAY, 13TH SALEM, Ore., Sept. 13.—Kenneth William Bailey, 27, was executed in the state's lethal gas chamber to- day—Friday the thirteenth—for the slaying of an Oregon State police- man Bajley went silently in the gas chamber, without making a state- ment. The gas pellets wers dropped into the room at 8:34 a. m., PST, and he was pronounced dead 8:37. State Police Sergeant T. R. Cham- bers was killed April 29, 1945, in a gun battle at an Ontario, schoolhouse, where he and another officer had cornered two fugitives, Bailey and Robert Duffy. Duffy was also Kkilled in the battle. The officers had gone in pursuit of the men alter they were seen in a stolen car, the ;n- at| Ore.,| for Siatehcod KETCHIKAN, Sept. 13.-—Natlonal | Vice Commander H. Dudle Swim told the Algska Amerigan Tegion | convention yesterday peace will not !remain permanent while part of the world is “‘enslaved under a dic- tatorship.” The iron boundaries around Rus- sin must be torn down so that its people can intermingle with the rest of the world and then “we can | throw diplomacy out of the win- {dow,” the Twin Falls, Ida., Legion- ‘nuire said. | “Russia do2s not dare to let its i people travel through the world to see how well we live, or how much he commented Commander War- National ] ifornia, | ren ton, starting a 10- a to report te the forthcoming Legicn conventicn at San Francisco, called “one of America's defen- frontiers” in another addre: he was working to aid > of Alaska statehcod. He is accompanied by Col. Perry Brown of Beaumont, Texas. Delegates from all over Alaska are attending the convention. The {morning cpening was postponed un- Itil ncon awaiting the arrival of plan: loads of delegates - - Tom Sunkel SefsRecord, Am.league | Alaska sive LOUISVILLE Ky, Sept. 13 Tom Sunkel, 35-y old St, Paul southpaw, pitched what is helieved 1to be the first no-hit, no-run game in the history of the American As- | sociation baseball playoffs when he set down the Louisville Colonels last night, 3 to 0. Sunkel’s masterpiece under the lights gave St. Paul its first win in the semi-final round of the Shaughnessy playoffs. Louisville on the first two games -ee Salmon (aught at (ordova Yesierday On L. A. Market Today CORDOV mon, fresh-caug. River Flats, left here at 4:10 p. m yesterday and arrived on the Los Angeles market at 7 a. m., tod: the first venture by a former army colonel, L. V. Castner, who has established the American Lines for speedy air shipment of the pro- ducts of Alaska and the States Yesterday's fish shipment totalled 5080 pounds 13.—Silver on the Copper ot .| WASHINGTON, Sept. WAGE BOARD OVERRULED ON SEA PAY AUSTRALIA | AFTER ‘GHOST' ROCKET HIT PLANE ( 10 MARlNE PICTURE NOT = OUTSPOKEN "% UNIONS TAKE STRIKE TURN Crippling ShibWTie-up Pro- | longed After AFL De- mands Are Met WASHINGTON, turnabout time Sept. 13.—A in the nationwide mari- dispute developed today as CIO unionists began walking out on strike and AFL seafaring men pledged their support, CIO maritime unions went on clrik2 today to enforce demands that they be granted the wage con- cessicns which the government yes- terday authorized for the AFL un- ions. The CIO strike action prolonged crippling shipping tie-up which ast week when the Sea- farer’'s International Unjon and the Sailors Union of the Pacifie, both AFL, walked out in protest against the wage stabilization board's re- frsal to approve wage increases $§ to $10 a month higher than those won by the CIO last June, The Board, in effect, was over- uled late yesterday by Reconversion Jirector John R. Steelman, who amended wage stabilization rules to permit the maritime commussion to pay wage scales on government- owned ships equal te those in effect on a substantial portion of private- ly owned ships. CI10 Hike Indicated Hope that the new tisup will be shortlived came this morning from Washington, . Fhe Labor Relations 'Ditector for the maritime commis- sion, J. Godfrey Butler, announced that he thought the commission would extend to the CIO ths same increases as were granted to the The CIO walkout became unani- mous at noon today when East Coast maritime workers joined their fellow members on the West Coast who struck at midnight. 1t appeared that the CIO Nation- Maritime Union and the other -going unionists affiliated with the committee for maritime unity 'could gain their higher. pay only after negotiating new contracts with the operators to supercede those signed just before their strike of last June was to have started. AWAITS DEVELOPMENTS 13.—The maritime commission met for two hours today but deferred action on the question of granting striking CIO seamen the same wage increas- es whbich ended the nine-day walk- out of AFL maritime unions. A spokesman said after the meet- ing t the commission was “awaiting developments.” It was indicated that the com- mi.ion was waiting to see whether {‘xm‘ CIO unions and East Coast {ship operators would negotiate agreements matching the AFL wage scale, BLASTS WSB (Continued OYTP-I;HC fxbo! | WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—The CONFLICT AT SEATTLENOW SEATTLE, Sep:. i3.—The Nation- |Maritime Union (CIQ) port agent, Jack Smith, early today dispatch- ed 600 men to picket ships manned {by CIO crews here, in support of la demand for “uniformity of pay for all the industry, at the high- est prevailing scale.” The Independent Union of Ma- rine Firemen also was to start I picketing in behalf of substantially ithe same wage demands as those approved yesterday te end the strike of the AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific. Smith said the AFL seamen would be asker for “the same sup- port we gave them.” The CIO Maritime leaders here |said that Puget Sound lumber mill {docks, whers struck ships are | berthed, would be picketed but that |efforts would be made to work out (with AFL lumber and sawmill | workers arrangements to continue mill operations. o)