The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 25, 1946, Page 1

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LXVIL, NO. 10,383 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEW DEMANDS IN MARITIME DISPUTE BURNED OUT WRECKAGE BELGIAN AIRLINER START MADE [Power Strike FORSOLVING Showdown Is HOME NEEDS loomflg Now Extensive Small House Contempt Arrest of Union Project Believed Gen- | Boss Brings General erally Feasible Tie-Up Threat Juneau's newly-organized Eme PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25—A show- gency Housing Committee, at its down neared today in an Allegheny second meeting last evening in thecounty court rcom on Pittsturgh's City Council Chambers, made a/power strike, amid hints frora CIO start toward solving the home ! unionists of a possible general strik building problem, and prepared to|call in the~ city unless the leader implement the slogan, “There canlof the power unipn is freec from be no vacant houses in Juneau.” | jail, where he was lodged last night On the long range problem of |for contempt of court home building, committe members A three-judge court was preparing discussed the possibility of a large|to act on its warning to nine sirike scale projects -of small homes. A|leaders that they also would plan was suggested whereby 20/contempt charges unless the units would be built around a park is called off. area, with a top cost of $7,500 for| Meanwhile, the executive two-bedroom houses of simple de- strike board jof East Pittsburgh local of sign. With the saving in driveways, | United Electrical Radio and Mach- water lines and sewers in such aline Workers Union asked the CIC- the meeting was (Continued on Page Two) REEL The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON layout, and a maximum cost of $650 | Steel City Industrial Counci!, -ep- for lot development, the plan was|resenting 200,000 workers, to hold a considered feasible. | meeting at which the board raid Private Enterprise {it would present a resolution ask The project would be handled by jing “a general CIO strike if Mue.ler a local construction concern as ais still in jail” private enterprise, co-ordingted by! No time for the Emergeéncy Housing Commit- | suggested tee. Burr Johnson was requested to| The power strike, called in spite continue study of the project’s pos- of an injunction against it, was sibilities. {still on this afterncon. The con- In discussing the land situation,tempt conviction was for calling it was stated that there exists in|of the strike yesterday in the face Juneau two tracts that would beiai an injunction against it suitable for. development of 20| - - — housing units or more, and other siminr ncts 1 Dougins. - | SKINNER, BAKER Val Poor, Douglas répresentative, 3 1 told of an 85-acre tract owned by (WI"G NOR'H. the City of Douglas. About 60 lots, " are considered suitable for building, | and Douglas would be interested in| TouRlsT SIUDY seeing development of the tract with | water mains, streets and sewers in —— exchange for property deeds. | SEATTLE. Sept. 25.—G. W. Skin- Pre-Fabrication Costly iner, President, and L. W. Baker, Pre-fabricated houses were also General Manager of the Alaska discussed. The general opinion was |Steamship Company, will leave that after transportation and in- Seattle Sunday in a station wagon stallation costs they would prove as|for Anchorage, via Spokane, Banff, expensive as, and less desirable than|Calgary, Edmonton, Dawson Creek, custom built homes. Whitehorse and Fairbanks. The biggest problem facing the| They will study the possibilities committee, once a general project in future tourist travel combining js decided upon, will be locating the motorcar and steamship between interested parties who would be able |here and Alaska. Mrs, Skinner will to finance building their own homed accompany them. through regular channels. It was' ., — pointed out that three methods oi[ financing are available for veter-'(HARlES TESREAU ans who wish to have homes bullt.! L The money could be borrowed pri- FAMOUS HuRlER IS vately, or owned; or it could be ¥ obtained through‘a Territorial vet-| erans’ loan, or through a bank loan DEAD AI N H HoME with an FHA or veteran guarantee.| ol Arn effort is being started to ge%‘ HANOVER, N, H. Sept. 25— |Charles M. (Jeff) Tesreau, pitching |contemporary of the late Christy {Mathewson on the New York | Giants pre-World War I champion- Ishnp team, died here last night. | He was stricken last Friday with !a stroke that paralyzed his right |side and vocal chords as he was fishing ipreparing to leave on a | jaunt. WASHINGTON—Though it never — e — flared openly, there was a nearjzslm Employees brush between 'Secretary of Com-| merce Wallace and Secretary of | 0 K R -I d State Byrnes last year. " n o,ean al roa Wallace was speaking at a small| z dinner given by the National Com-| A o ' S' k mittee to abolish the poll tax. Hel re “ on " e has always felt vigorously about the | BT - poll tax and believed the United | SEOUL, Sept. 25—A strike of hould do a better job 125,000 employees immobilized all op- Stateffls cd racy at home pe- | erations of the government owned ‘;‘:::aunf’re:;‘]‘:‘ A oh aboat | South Koreo National Railway to- Eemacragy vabrosd.m ll-tax din-| The workers demanded labor laws ne‘:t ;‘:;l::::_ O;flarli pi:l:)thridge Dr;idemical with those for factories the Louisville Courier-Journal was ::ldNS;:: If:;eal;osalfl’:‘n::“;zffi in the Balkans investigating the &X° |qaj1y rice ration doubled. South tent to which Russia permittediy .., js agministered by U. S. oc- the | 11946, but was delayed GERMANY SETS ACID TEST OF STALIN STAND {Two WaysVOBén for Russ to Demonstrate Coop- | erative Intent | WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Ger- Imany appears today to pose the jacid test for Prime Minister Stalin’s |prediction of cooperation between Western powers and Russia | Diplomatic authorities say that' insofar as Stalin’s latest statement “Iun-slmduws a determined effort to get along with Western powers fhe key issue this fall is certain to be Ithe future of the German nation | With many other problems now under attack at the Paris peace | conference, the foreign ministers of the United States, Great Brit- ain, Russia and France tentatively (pect to get to the German issue jin a new Four Power meeting soon lafter the Paris sessions wind up Even before that, there are at least two Wi according to eri- can authoriti in which the Rus- |stans might find an opportunity to go along toward achieving what Stalin calls “the demilitarization and democratization of Germany.”| One of these is the Amecricen plan—thus far accepted only by the British—for handling Germany as an economic unit The other bears directly on the demilitarization question and arises !from the fact that American offi- cials have numerous report: . that the Russians are operating a var- iety of armament factories in their zone of Germany. ALASKA Al A AIRLINES AGAIN FLIES HERE FROM ANCHORAGE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 25.— Daily flights between Ancherage and Juneau by Alaska Airlines have been resumed as a result of a re- cent decision by the CAB, it was announced by Marshall C. Hoppin, President, Alaska Airlines. An Air Carrier Operating Certificate for this route has been granted by the CAA as a part of their program |to certificate the routes of schedul- (ed air carriers. | Alaska Airlines requested cer- tification of all its routes in Jun in the ce: tification of the Anchorage-Juneau! portion of its route because of the original decision of the CAB in the! {Pacific Case, which required that the operation of this route be Qis- |continued as of August 20. Alaska Airlines has operated the Anchor- jage-Juneau porticn of their large network of routes throughout Alas- ka since 1943. Daily flights will be operated, which will provide direct connec- tions with Pan American Airways at Juneau for Seattle and other | points Outside. A new low rate |of $$12600 from Anchorage to | Seattle has been placed in effect. 'DOPE ABOUT THAT ~ RACE, NAT. LEAGUE | | NEW YORK, Sept, 25—The St. Louis Cardinals, who now lead the | Brooklyn Dodgers by a full game |in the tight National League pen- inant race, can clinch the cham- ! pionship by taking all of their four iremaining contests or insure a tie by winning three of them. { The Dodgers, also with four| games still to play, could win them The wreckage of the Belgian trans-Atlantic airliner that crashed on it . flizhit from Brusscls to ) s wings crumpled by the force of the plane’s imp: nd lock up at a plane foundland. The fuselage is gutted by fire Two men stand a short distance from the wreck and et cverhead. Twenty-seven of the Photo made by Asseciated Press Photographer John Rconcy. (AP Photo) BULLETINS CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Dominiean Republ A moderate earthquake was felt by many persons here about 5 a.m: today, no damage was reported. BOSTON—House majori leader John McCormack today called for suspension of price controls on meat and other scarce foods for 60 days. CLEVELAND The Chicago White Sox defeated Bob Feller and the Cleveland Indians 4 to 1 today but the Trike fireballer whiffed 10 batters for a season total of 337 and now is only seven strikeouts removed frem breaking Rube Wad- dell's listed record of 343. NEW YORK—Mrs. Ethel D, Ja- cobs’ Stymie won the Manhattan | Handicap at Belmont today to be- come the third horse in turf histor; to boost his earnings over the $400,- 000 mark. PEIPING—Two important Gov- ernment military coniferences were held here within the last 24 hours but officials would not say that the pattle for Kalgan, Communist stronghold in Chahar Province was in progress. SEATTLE—Sockeye salmon fish- ing closed in Puget Sound at noon today to permit escapement of fish to the Fraser River watershed. The closure was ordered at the request of the Internatiohal Salmon Fisher- ies Commission. CHICAGO--The Saddle and Sir- loin Club, located in the world’s largest stockyards and renowned for the size and quality of its steaks, was serving eggs and fish today. NEW YORK — Champion Tony Zale and challenger Rocky Gra iano were reported “in perfect shape” today as they completed training, with light gymnasium ex- ercises, for their world middleweight title fight at Yankee Stadium Fri- day night. WASHINGTON—Henry A. Wal- democracy there. Prompted by this' ., o¢ion officials; North Korea bylall and still wind up in second lace has decided finally today to and by the discussion over the W“‘Russlans. tax, Wallace spoke out bitterly. L SRR R “Jimmie Byrnes,” he §nid‘ "wouldi 4 7 do a whole lot better, if he wams,“o (ommenl G|ven f By President on to make a report on democracy, if} He called. Mark Ethridge back from | the Balkans and sent him to South! Carolina.” “ The remark never got into the| newspapers, but it did spread sub- rosa around Washington until fin-| » ally it reached the President's ears., WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Pres- Truman was so worried that he|idential Press Secretary Charles G. called Wallace and asked him to Ross told reporters today there was make every effort to keep his re- no comment from the White House mark from being circulated. lon Prime Minister Stalin's state- Wallace said he would do his best, ment yesterday concerning pros- and carried out his promise. On|pects of war and peace. Ross was ~— |asked for reaction at a news con- _ (Continued on Page Four) J ference Slalin’sgla!emenl‘ place if the Cards .do not lose again. If the Cardinals lose two the Dodgers must win four to take| {the pennant, or three to tie. R ‘Dreamboal’ Flight Is Again Posiponed: | HONOLULU, Sept. 25—Unfavor-| |able weather forced postponement | {of today's scheduled take-off of| | the Superfort “Pacusan Dreamhuflt"! jon its nonstop Polar flight to] aid the take-off probably would be made in the next two or three days. campaign for the Democratic party with an eye on the 1948 and 1962 Presidential elections. His asso- ciates revealed that Wallace Iis ready and willing to speak for De- mocratic congressional candidates in the current campaign despite his discharge from the Cabinet. TOKYO—The Pacific Air Com- mand today apnounced the appoint- ment of Brig. Gen. Winslow C. Morse of Redlands, Calif., as Com- manding Officer of the 20th Fight- er Wing, stationed on Guam. Morse Cairo. Col. C. S. Irvine, the pilot,| Was wartime wing commander of him for removal of price the ChineseAmerican composite wing of the 14th Air Force in China FIRERAGES O TANKER; MANBURNED Doctor Rushed fo Stricken Ship on Crashboat of Coast Guard N. C., Sept. 25.— tanker Benning- aboard dead and missing, neared WILMINGTO?R The fire-stricken ton, with four three reported ‘}'ul.[hp(;rl today, after picking up a a Coast Guard crash burned doctor from boat to treat severely man The Bennington sent out an ur- gent appeal for aid when fire broke out and an explosion followed while the 10,172-ton vessel was 185 miles ofi Charleston, S. C. The crash boat from the Oak Is- land ation said the tanker would make Southport around noon: It gave no information, however, on the status of the fire whith had been reported burning in the fore- the ship as it raced for port at 17 knots an hour. Dr. Harold Thomas of Wilming- ton was put aboard the vessel by the Coast Guard boat. He began treating the burned man but not decide immediately whether end him ashore in the crash boat or leave him cn the until the ship docked After dropping medical supplies on the 10,172-ton tanker, a PBY amphibian plane from Cherry Point, N. C., proceeded to the scene cf the explosion to search for the three missing - persons. - Pritehlncreases on Farm Produds Now Over Says Anderson ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Sept S a ot Agriculture P. Anderson says that in general the time of price increases for farm products under the new price con- trol law is behind us. a part of did ¢ Bennington 3 | | {61, 25.1 Clinton 48, | 1861, Anaconda 38%, RADIOACTIVITY SUSPECTED ON COAST VESSELS About 75 ghips Immedi- ately Placed in Quaran- tins-Were at Bikini WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—About 75 ships, mestly berthed on the West Coast and at Pearl Harbor, e suspected of dangerous radio- activity as a result of the Bikini atom bomb tests, the joint Army- Navy task force announced today. The announcement said there is no danger to anyone not working cn the ships, nor are harbors or docking facilities affectede All repair or maintenance work on ths vessels has been suspended until radiological experts can carry, out decontamination work To the surprise ol test officials radioactive residue was found salt water pipes and condensers of artiving on the West Coast An immediate quarantine of all vessels affected was ordered 1 special safety schcol has been set up in Washing‘on to train officers quickly for decontamination duty. hips afiected bertéd at Los An- Harbor the Guam discovered that radio- existed {rom every hip that entered Bikini’lageon af- ter the second atom bomb explo- sion on July 25. STOCK QUOTATIONS 25.-—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can Curtiss-Wright International Harvester 77%, Kennecott 45%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 18’ U. S Steel 70%, Pound $4.03 Sales today were 1,800,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 172.95, rails utilities 34 San Francisco, and at Pearl ad left Bikini for to Feattl that b were when it was tivity danger Or TODAY'S MARKET Stocks extended yesterday's by from 1 to 5 points in a mod- rise The present ceilings, he said in a* erately active session today nationwide ‘broadcast last night, are sufficient to stimulate produc- tion. Boosts — announced as he was spcaking—for oils made of cotton- seed, soy beans, corn and peanuts, ind for cotton linters “are the last” of the adjustments in view now, Anderson reported as he left the microphone. Anderson did not deal with plans the meat industry to petition control farmers’ hope "of r with the reports of holding their produce in inigher prices was considered since it reflected confidence in the market’s ability to resist pressure, Industrials sumed the leadership and the rails added substantial gains. - FisH LANDINGS The Western, skippered by Carl Layerberg, brought in 7,000 pounds of black cod and halibut yesterday afternoon to the Cold Storage, and sold to Alaska Coast Fisheries. No hoats arrived today ‘The largely rebound technical ew York lies in the wood ainst the trees it struck as it crashed. in J LUNDEBERG IS ASKING MORE PAY :Asks Raisé "Across the Board""-MEBA Vofes to Strike Sept. 30 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25.—A new demand by Harry Lundeberg, whose AFL-sailors union of the Pacific began: the maritime strike later carried on by the CIO, con- ironted shipowners and the Mari- time Commission today in the midst of efforts to get the ships golng again A reliable source said that Lun- deberg was demanding that $1.10 an hour overtime be paid his men “across the board;” that west coast shipowners had rejected the de- mand as something out of their {hands; and that the Maritime { Commission in Washington had "been notified of the development. nder the old contract, there was provision for $1 an hour over- (time for SUP men earning less than {8200 a month. Under the award of Federal Arbitrator James L. Fly, j this provisfon was left while anoth- ter added of $1.25 an hour over- | t ime lor those earning more ti 44 aboard the plane were killed. |ga00. ¥ moxe, S a near Gander, New- 25 is Want Contract Signed ing into apother conference with | representatives of the Pacific-Amer- 2 Ix.c_nn Shipowners Association that Before the session with Lunde- !berg, PASA officlals debated whe- AT TRIBUNA[S-nmmn at the request of Secretary !flnnuum'fld no decision immediately. | Lundeberg said as the talks were { last night until today ithat his men would not sign on (II SeeS POSSIble A(' | The AFL saflors are not on strike lbul have not returned to their ships since they voted to end a TOKYO, Sept Owen Cun-|lines along the waterfront. ningham, one of the defense attor-| neys in the International War MEBA VOTES STRIKE fense lawyers today “the same Puz-|port members of the Marine En- there: ‘How can we reconcile ”‘F;tCIO' ! , which h; 5 of the Democracies? jrooms of virtually all the American torney, just returned from Nuern-iaiely g to 1 to strike after the by where he conferred WIthi ... 04100 of contracts with shij im Von Ribbentrop in 5('&“"!'(,“4““5. Sept. 30, a spokesman ,0': Tokyo client, Hiroshi Oshima, form-{ v er ambassador to Germany i “rhf' “,'"k"” Yhoohins vl £ Speaking of the introduction m—‘rf;,h:'m(":::"’:;";fisoonze;zmn?' 5 5, ers in Russo-German pact to divide Po-! . ool {1t announced that Lewis B. ‘;‘ Cunningham said ~ |schwellenbach, Secretary of Labor, on the one hand Russia Was haq asked the union to attend a e warfare a crime; on the other | i ; morn . e o TR ""(.-w.::lu and that it had been ac a crime thus created. It did et { Lundeberg ‘said today before go- s men would not return to the black and white.” ther to send a spokesman to Wash- |of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach but . | continued Tokyo Trials Defense Coun- {ships until the agreement is signed. quittal for Schacht twalkout only to find CIO picket Crimes trial here, told fellow de-| NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—New York zle e t Nuernberg as does|gineers’ Beneficial Association Cunningham, a Des Moines al-imarchant marine, voted approxi- of evidence to help his “‘““‘m‘”‘MEBA announced today. to the Nuernberg evidence of a . 25 ports. uthor of a law making aggres- conference in Washington Friday not make sense and does . IN SEATTLE ! SEATTLE, Sept. 25.—Four Alaska uld be one of the Prosecu-|Steamship Company ships — the the c against former| penali, Victorfa, Terminal Knot Premier Tojo and others, he con-lang Baranof—were discharging car- tinued He declared that Russial,, here today but two Alaska prosccuting Japan for planning | pransportation Company vessels— to divide China, and yet Russla at|ine Tongass and Palisana—were Yalta agreed to divide China. (Pre-; yapi6 to unload cargo because o: umably, he referred to the Yalta| a lack of sailors approval of the Sino-Soviet treaty! fibrs to move them'io iving Ru: joint control mu,‘“"num.p giving Russia joint control ? 8 The Alaska St y Chint of the South Manchurian| [he Alaska Steamship Company vailway, a 30-year lease of Port Ar-| e ' o VN8 ”'“‘g;‘ for the Oduna, Ithur and declaring Dairen an open, P*pec 12 o aturday for Bris- port under joint Sin con- | ay. Cargo also Is being ac- trol.) icepted for the Victoria with de- C ! parture for Nome posted for Sat- | urday night N er is it good logic that Ru sia {tors in Soviet is >-re the Nucrnberg war crimes! cases, in which a decision due inyone is acquitted, I predict he| M will be Hjalmar Schacht,” Hnlors‘lS'a'e o' Selge | Minister Von irath has a pretty | an & fair chance of acquittal, and Diplo- | 'S Sal d . vadaor, i > ! SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador. Flowu 'I'o NoRIH‘SwI 25—This Central American |today in a general strike of work- SEATTLE, Sept. 25.—A new first ers, merchants and students de- ed yesterday with the flight of| The National Assembly decreed dairy feed from Seattle to Cordova the state of seige yesterday as the The feed was tflown for Vina other elements of the population | Young, Alaska dairy operator, as a and froze industry and transporta- soon, Cunningham speculated: “If; finance expert. “Former Foreign mat Von Papen, also.” : Result of Strike country was under a state of seige |in Alaska aviation was establish- manding political changes. by Cordova Airlines strike, started by students, spread to Iyesult of the maritime strike tion throughout El Salvador,