The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 14, 1946, Page 1

i ¥ i i i i i [ i s N AL JABRARY "4+ HINGTON. D. & SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,374 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1946 ——— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - ———— ] AFL SPLITS WITH CI0 ON SEA STRIKE TIME NOW TO Cabinet Split SHOW ALASKA| Over Foreign NW GOODWILL ' Policies Seen Portland’s Mayor Calls for}Republican;VTew Wallace Leadership Toward ! Speech as Truman Statehood Goal Political Blunder SEATTLE, Sept. 14—The Asiatic WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. — Re- and Alaskans markets are ripe for|publicans accused President Tru- expansion, Portland’s Mayor Earl!man today of angling for political Riley believes, advocating a con-|advantage on the issue of Ameri- certed Pacific Northwest drive for|can relations with Russia and in- better transportation to service those { vited him to chocse between Sec- markets. retary of State Byrnes and Secre- Calling for a more optimistic ap- | tarv of Commerce Wallace as his proach, the Chairman of Pacific|expconent of foreign policy. Northwest United (PNU) told a Se-; As attle Chamber of Commerce group | of criticism, there were widening yesterday this region should take ! repercussions elsewhere from the the lead in getting statehood for| President’s prior approval of Wal- Alaska and improved land com-(lace’s Thursday night plea, at a munications along with it. New York political meeting, for a Mayor Riley recently returned|softer policy toward Russia and from a flying trip to Alaska. He|his endorsement of the sphere-of- said: “It is time we prove to Alaska ( influence idea previously repudiat- | that we are, interested in getting|ed by Byrnes. ; her out of her colonial position.l These were developments: This region should take the lead in! 1 ¢ became clear that Mr. Tru- helping Alaska reach statehood.” man has a full-sized Cabinet split | As for Asia, he said the Chinese | cver foreign policy on his hands. are already learning to eat wheat| 2 some “and the Pacific Northwest certain- | was evidenced at the State Depar! ly has a lot of wheat to sell.” Hejment. Undersecretary Will L. Cla said China would need machineryi on told a news conference the of all kinds and it was a challenge | wajlace speeh was not cleared with | to this area to deveolp its steel| he Department and that it was! industry. _ynot quite clear to him just what An outlet for the Northwest fruit] he president intended by his ap- industry was offered in the form|proval Any clarification, he said,| of refrigerator ship cargoes to Japan, | would have to come from Mr, Tru- | all of which presently are clearing { ., ; from California ports. “With the House Military Affairs Committee just out of Alaska ad- vocating a road into Alaska for national defense, the time is cer-, tainly ripe for turning 40 years of | talk into a few months of action,” he declared. uncertainty over policy 3. In London, a spokesman said | the British Foreign Office was; warticularly surpriséd “at Wallace’s | criticism of “British imperialism.” | Radio commentators there took that note and also criticized Wallace’; warning against lose identification of Americ: foreigr olicy with | Proposing industrial development that O;CG;::[ Bri.:agh: PPy { of the Pacific Northwest to supply "hene : was i o 'doubt - from thi] e Kt A the de. | RePublicans’ reaction that they be- verything we need for the de-}eyeq Mr, Truman had, from the velopment is here if we can get the S p coking coal in British Columbia and ! gfiil:‘;c::l ialidpolnt adg s jmhjor (et Sendtors Brewster heads the Republican Senatorial campaign committee, said: “The President apparently didn’t recognize that he had a Secretary of State when he approved Wal- lace’s speech.” — e - \ | Hospifalized for 1 First Time at 102, Wanls Pipe FITCHBURG, Mass., Sept. 14.—! Mrs. Mary Morin, 102, hospitalized | for the first time in her life, would be a pretty restless patient without her briar pipe, Burbank Hospital nurses said today. ‘Recovering from a fractured hip, Mrs. Morin puffs away as she plans! to celebrate her 103rd birthday,l Nov. 8. “Been smoking ever since I got a toothache 25 years ago,” she said. The Washingion! Mgrry -Go-Bound y DREW PEARSON PARIS, Sept. 14. — Albania de-; WASHINGTON — For years the . { American Federation of Labor has]manded a share of Italy’s. surplus traditionally refrained from political war material before the Military| entanglements. It has supported i neither the Democratic nor the|ence todas. &4 SRS Republican party in a national elec- | C0l- Hysnil Kapo o DI aadi tion, but has backed individual{Peen expected to oppose Greek de- l:'i.nr‘lldntes on the basis of mehlmands for northern Epirus. Instead labor records. he turned his attack against Italy, Astute Sam Gompers pioneeredland declared Albania expected to this policy. He always contended | B¢ counted as a full-fledged Ally that the Federation's business was I;vhen B_ruam, FEAuse, Russia_ar}di “trade unionism, not politics,” and the United States allocate distri-| warned against alignments with|Pution of Italian ships and arms pither major political party. i that she is not allowed to kegp un- “We will support our friends and|der the peace treaty. He said Al- defeat our enemies,” he used w(bama expected her share without e % having to put in a special request » . | Sharply, U. S. Gen. Jesmond D.! bez:“?:fl;s“:::n;g: li::;l roggzt‘i;:si}ialmer rejoined that “we do not| but the next AFL convention, open-“p‘"’p“e to geb (the Big Four) b s T -Chicagd: o0 Oct.ober"l mflylgemcr until this request is mad B it eno, A move: s sécretly Kapo declared his country's se- Ai’oot in Afi top councils to se“euruy demanded a further reduc- up a political unit similar to the “",i_‘h‘" ::;““;;lfrzg‘l’ s‘:{:‘“fi"‘mu 5 CIO's Political Action Committee.| T B ban Y agy PRt yoaoian. of e Sohere 18] V. Alexander, Britain’s Pirst the gentleman who contributed half PR i dgres, Adn‘flrnlty Natt thia i1l P lect | 4 :,;;{ at::l (;ih??;;:chue:“g v?e:z:ll ' Military Commission’s meeting -yes- | Willkie in 1940—John L. Lewis. [ terday when it voted to give Alban-| AFL insiders profess not to know & @ full hearing, b_‘_" he deme‘_i, exactly what Lewis is after. But|today that he had “walked out.”, there is more than a suspicion that | He said in London “I was called he is trying to build a poht‘icallaway to keep an appointment and! machine to promote himself for a left the debate in the usual way. place on the GOP 1948 Presidential ' TR e R Cleopatra was of Greek ances- (Continued on Page Four) SURPLUSSES Peace Conference Toid De- mands for Stafus as | Full Ally try and Egyptian only by birth GOP members loosed blasts g ee-Wothy Blanhcard was the hit of a Les Angeles fash- ion show with this bathing cos- She stitched 75 yards of silver sequins on her swim suit to make it really “see worthy.” (AP Wirephoto) Pretty Mary (above), tume, PARIS DOUBTS U.S.FOREIGN POLICY UNITY ®xe, wno Russians Jubilant Over ‘Wallace Speech-Byrnes Was Not Consulted PARTS, Sept. 14.—Senator Arthur, H. Vandenberg called for unity on | American foreign policy today, de-| AlBANIANS | claring “we can only cooperate with | | | one Secretary of State at a time “Rightly or wrongly, Paris | doubtful of this unity this morn- move to ‘ wANT ITALY | can, adviser to Secretary of State'army has announced it will issue i ing,” said the Michigan Republi- Byrnes at the peace conference. His statement, issued by the U. S. delegation, apparently was de- signed as an answer to the Thurs- day night speech by Secretary of Commerce Wallace. In that speech, | President Truman said he ed, Wallace appeared to dif- spects from American as outlined by which appi fer in some r foreign policy said Byrnes had not been consulted fore or after its delivery. Vandenberg said: “The authority of American for- Rightly or wrongly, Paris is doubt- 1ul of this unity this morning. A delegation spokesman told re- por I don't know if it represents the Secretary’s views or not.” Russian circles at the peace con- ference made no attempt, mean- while, to conceal their jubilance over the Wallace speech, but seem- ‘ed puzzled as to how such an ap- parent disagreement within the U. S. government over foreign policy 600D AND BAD 14—R. F. ILLAHEE Ore., Sept. jand R. 8. Christie, of Grants Pass, | Ore., can't decide whether Friday a hot time in the delivery room at the 13th is unlucky or not. Flying from Diamond Lake, they their light plane became low on gas. In searching for an emergency landing field they came down the soup in hilly country—but broke out over a large pasture off the North Umpgua River and landed without mishap, “That's the Senator’s own state-' {ment. He has a right to make one. end the wierdest, most profitable FIRE RAGES INHOTEL IN - EARLY MORN 'One Man Is Killed, Nine " Persons Injured Crific- [ ally in Hot Springs IiOT SPRINGS, Ark., Sept. 14 One man was killed and nine other sons were injured critically early in a spectacular fire that de- stroyed the 75-room Great Northerr Hetel Kjohn Baima, 51, Detrcit, Michi- gan, a veteran of World War I died after falling from the thirc flecr as firemen rushed a ladder t hi: d. He was clinging to a window ledge, but lost his hold before he could ke “eached. iremen were unable to enter the scorching remains of the 75-room brick structure to search for bcdies of any others who may have lest their lives. Cause of the blaze and the portion of the building in which it began were undetermined The fire breke out at 12:50 a. m after mcst of the guests, number of which is unknown, had retired Many of the building’s occupants, some scantily clad in night clothes, | leaped into firemen’s nets and others climbed down ladders. Flames shot as high as 75 feet into the air and walls of the build- |mg caved in at 2:30 a.m. In addition to the hotel, several busines on the ground floor of the building were destroyed. The hotel, about 50 years old and one of the resort cify’s oldest land-, rmarks, Was located near the heart 1of Hot ‘Springs. U.§. fiili?ary Acts to Curb - Black Market Scrip Payofiesigned fo Halt Gls" Profitable Joyride-Just Hope FRANKFURT, Sep.. -4—in smash black marketing y American soldiers, the U. S |serip next Tuesday in lieu of Allied |marks as the legal tender in all post exchanges and other military establishments in the American zone of Germany. Unofficial reports said that mil- lions of dollars obtained through |black market operations have been !sent back to the states by Ameri- |can soldiers and civilians in the a strict currency control system ! about the Wallace speech either be- the flow of illicit dollars to the U S. has been greatly retarded, but under the®scrip system, it is ex- \pected that even that leak will be Commission of the Peace Confer-,€ign policy is dependent upon the | plugged. | degree of American unity behind it.! Acting simultaneously in Rome {to curb military black marketing, 'U. 8. army authorities decared a |72-hour moratorium on virtually (all soldier’'s financial transactions. Thus, army officials hoped, would Jjoyride any GI every hoped to find. But most of the GIs have proved | their ingenuity too often to permit | of much official smugness. “I'm curious to see how they |beat this one,” mused one fiscal ex- | pert. - e — {could be permitted to come mto:DEllvERY ROOM AFIRE; DOCTORS COMPLETE DUTY SEATTLE, Sept. 14—There was | St. Luke's hospital last night when a short circuit ignited gas from a | met bad luck by flying into fog and!lcose pipe while doctors attempted gtu deliver a six-pound boy. The unflustered doctors removed | | with lareeny and 20 lashes in 1944 the mother to an adjoining room | where the delivery was performed, while firemen extinguished the flames next door. | | | Byrnes. Peace conference sources ' past 18 months. Recently, under | aide to the President; Admiral Gle P & . probability, the “schoclmaster,” sl man’s heok, scmewhere off Berm picture sent to all aguariums in th PRESIDENT MIXES VACATIONING WITH B T ——————p the nation’s Chief Executive, now on an eighteen-day vacation. " THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS O(FISH)AL IT ISN'T EVERY FISH that gets caught by a President. Particularly a President who admits he's engaged in some USINESS e . | e PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN is shown as he and members of his party conferred with Vice Admiral Sir Irving Glennie, commander in chief of the American and dential yacht Williamsburg in Bermuda waters. West Indies station, during the Britisher’s visit to the Presi- The conferees are (1. to r.): Capt. James H. Foskett, naval nnie; President Truman and Maj. Gen. Harry Vaugha'n, mil!(ary aide to (Internatioral Soundphoto} . JAP OFFICER TESTIFIES TO & (ANNIBALISM Flesh of American Prison- er Eaten by Group at Macabre Feast - 5\ % : P T GUAM, Sept. 14.-A Japanese Navy officer tostified at a war crimes trial today that he ate the flesh of an American prisoner. An- other said he was ordered to execute the American, but botch- ed the task and had to have aid. Lt. Cmdr. Ichiro Shihoda told a U. S. military commission that he ate the flesh at a saki ty in a 12 by 18 foot cave on Chichi Jima, id that all of the half-dozen present, including Vice Adm Mori, participated in the Kunzio feast Lt. (jg) Cmdr. Miys were present, ate any flesh. All three agreed that army Maj. Sueo Matoba, one of 14 defendants |accused of murder, cannibalism and neglect of duty, brought the flesh Ito the cave | Lt (jg) Minor Hiyashi testified that he was ordered by Navy Capt Miyake Iijima and Lt i Kenji sald they but denied that they “lazy fishing So, in all hown dangling on President Tru- uda, would like to have the above HURRICANE WARNINGS MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 14—Northeast storm warnings were ordered up along the Atlantic coast from Cape Hatteras to Block Island today as a isevere tropical hurricane believed [to pack 100 mile winds, roared northeastward over the Atiantic. The center or the fast-moving storm was reported by the Federal Storm Warning Service to be 320 miles east of Cape Hatteras at 10:15 am., EST. “Continued northeastward move- ment is indicated today and to- i night,” said the storm forecasters. ! i Vi TR TAKES 10 LASHES, ONE YEAR PRISON DOVER, Del, Sept. 14. — Leroy Smith, 29-year-old-Dover man, will receive 10 lashes at the Kent Coun- ty jail whipping post Friday rather tence. Warden J. Freeman Clark, who will administer the punishment, said Smith was given the choice of two year term or of se the one year and receiving 10 lashes. | It will be the third time Smith | has been lashed. He received 10 {iashes in 1942 when he was charged | charged with breaking and entry. He'! began his one-year sentence yesterday alfter being convicted of Mother and child were doing fine,/ larceny, than serve a two-year prison sen-| ving | e United States. U. 8. Navy photo. |Shizue Yoshii “to cut (execute) the! 85 ! Jriconer” on Feb. 24, 1945. “This mbarrassed me,” he said. “I went to Captain Yoshii's quarters nd protested ‘I cannot cut a hu- {man being’ but the Captain replied I'vou know what will happen to MRS. CHURCHILL 15 INJURED IN . you if you do not obey the order BOA'I’ A((IDEN"‘ of a superior officer. | “I did not like it, but I accept- — {2d the ord ' BERN, Switzerland, Sept. 14— Hiyashi said he was a radar man, Mrs. Winston Churchill, wife of unskilld in the use of the sword.| Britain's wartime Prime Minister, tectified that Yoshii instructed was injured slightly yesterday in a|“im “nct to pul too much power speedboat accident on Lake Geneva, into the strike, else I may cut my- A member of the household said she |sell. T saluted the prisoner and | would be “obliged to rest for a few|cut, but T made a slip and back- | days " led out.” e ek | Hiyashi sajd Lt. (jg) Shinichi An exchange telegraph dispatch|Matsutani, another defendant, com- 3 5 i .« |Pleted the execution Lo eneva said Mrs. | to ndon from Geneva said T eyl Churchill had suffered a “slight; cencussion of the brain” when lm,lIGH"‘ERAGE RA'E speedhoat in which she was riding | made a sharp turn and she was| | thrown against the side of the boat. | HEAR'NG SE'I' FOR | The dispatch said, however, that “her condition is in no way ser-| ious.” Her daughter was riding with her at the time. | The U. S. Maritime Comnmission | Churchill's office in London re-|pae advised the Governor's Office ‘portm the injuries as “slight bruis- | pere that a h aring scheduled to 8. be held on lighterage rates within | Alaska has been set to open in the | District Court chamber, at Nome, (at 10 o’'clock a.m., September 26. Examiner for the proceeding will - i'be F. J. Horan. Affected are ship- HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Sept. 14.—!to-shore rates at Bering Sea coastal Mrs. Doris Hobson's dog Duffy rates communiti an extra ration of hard-to-get| hamburger | Mrs. Hobson discovered the dia- mond in her engagement ring was missing after a shopping trip. Her bhusband and three sisters accom- panied her a futile search and returned home gloomily. Dufiy was there to greet them {but he had something wrong with one foct. Wedged in the paw was ) the missing diamond, > - | RETRIEVER - RECEPTION Juneau Post, American Legion will honor its 1946 Gastineau Channel Champion basball team at a recepticn accompanied by special entertainment and refreshments, at the Legion Dugout here Monday eve- ning All war veterans of the Channel area e invited to join in the festivities. The reception commer at 8 o'clock, BALL MONDAY NOME ON SEPT. 26 ALL PORTS ~ STILL ARE THROTILED NMU Termed "Commy” Group-New York Picket Line Is Punclured | | Pl | (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRES§) | The nation’s shipping remalns itied-up as tight as ever, but the |issue has now become a clear-cut demand for more pay on the part of the CIO National Maritime un- fon; the strike against the gove: ment is over and so is the shevi- lived comradeship of the AFL and | CIO unionists | CIO seamen today shouldered the prolonged shipping strike, but i.n one instance AFL longshoremen, who had supported fellow AFL mariners until their walkout end- ed yesterday, crossed CIO picket iines. | About 30 members of the Inter- |national Longshoremen's Associa= tion walked through a National Maritime Union picket line at a New York City pler. There was no disturbance. | However, about 200 longshoremen ‘at the pier refused to go to work, !despite 1ILA President Joseph R. 'Ryar’s plea that: “There's no need here for a pick- et line. Come on, if you want a day's pay, go in and get it." Ryan termed the NMU a Commy group” and said: Just Pretense “They know they're going to get the _;a” raises -<- -. They're just (irying ' to pretend . they're getting something for the men, something that was won by the AFL unions.” Asked if he would confer with NMU head, Joseph Curran, the longskoremen's leader sald, “you can't do anything with Commun- ist groups.” In Baltimore, “CIO Willlam Rentz, port agent for the AFL Seafarers International Union, which with the AFL Sailors of the Pacific, end- ed its nationwide strike, said that AFL seamen in the Maryland port weuld respect picket lines “for the time being.” His announcement came several hours after Paul Hall, port agent in New York for the SIU-SUP, said in announcing the end of the AFL strike, that AFL members would re- fuse to cross CIO picket lines. AFL Pickets Withdrawn AFL withdrew all its East and Gulf Ccast pickets last with this announcement: operators informed us of The Coast night “The vr'mnli;med on Péqe Two) g DRl FIREMEN IN OWNSSTRIKE AT SEATILE Independent Maritime Group Is Supported by | AFL Sailors Union | SEATTLE, Sept. 14.—The strike cn Seattle’s waterfront went into its |tenth dav today, with the Marine | Firemen’s Union announcing it was | carrying on its strike independently |of the CIO and the Committee for | Maritime Unity. The firemen’s strike committee notified the Northwest CMU head- ‘qllmlm.\ it wished its name removed |f'om CMU letterheads and that it ‘mu not wish to be responsible for | any CMU-incurred expenses. “This fall we will vote on whether | to affiliate with the CMU or remain | independent, and until such time we |wish to be quoted as being an in- lependent organigation,” Chairmai, | Charles W. Post said. . | APL seamen of the Sailors Union jof the Pacific will respect picket lines of the independent firemen, | Ed Coester, Seattle SUP leader said, but he omitted mention of CMU | picket lines. | The SUP strike was at an end, but ‘cm unions were picketing. | Only troopships, bona fide relief ships and military installations were functioning along Puget Sound’s paralyzed waterfronts,