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

et S | | | | %, | | T “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE — VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,399 CALL MARITIME STRIKE STRATEGY M JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, |946 Ml;MBl-R ASS ()UATFD PRl- 95 PRICE TEN CENTS = EET Truman To Broadcast On Meat Issue Tomght Blind Girl Sees for Flrsfllme Chilkoot Barracks Now fo necome (ooperative Town; Pioneer Selup Announced SHIP STRIKE 10 DISCUSS DOMESTIC SITUATION Beef Packing Industry Will Get Reply Also from Anderson (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) By a quarter after ten tonight, Eastern time, the country should krnow President Truman’s prescrip- tion for the meat shortage in par-| ticular and rocketing prices and wages in general. The President is due to broad- cast at 10 pm. (7 pm. PST) his diagnosis and remedy for the do- mestic situation. What he will say | is a closely-guarded White House secret, but there are the usual pre- | dictions and indications. One is that Mr. Truman may have chang- | ed his mind akout retaining price| controls on meat. The politicians and the meat in- terests, meanwhile, are deluging the President with advice—mostly caustic. The Republicans are yell- ing that his speech tonight is a political speech, and that they want 15 minutes free time on the radio networks to reply. They also are demanding that all meat controls be thrown out im- mediately—but in this they are be- ing joined by some of the leading Democrats, also. The Communists are calling the..scarcity ‘a plot by the monopolies to throw the No- vember election to the Republicans, and they want the government to seize all the cattle. The Western livestock men are warning Mr. Truman that he is playing with fire if he permits the importation of beet'frum Argentina. DECISION IS MADE WASHINGTON. Oct. 14. — The {Continued on Page Eivht/ The Washington| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Standard Oil of New Jersey recently took about 40 New York, Boston and Wash- ifigton newsmen on a junket to the oil fields of Texas and Louisiana.| While in Texas, the party visited thé giant King Ranch, largest in the United States, owned in part by Richard Kleburg, former Texas Corigressman. 'After extensive trips over the | milflon-acre cattle domain, where; the writers were shown every breed of cattle imaginable, methods of | raising, grazing, roping and brand- ing, an elaborate dinner was serv- | el 4t the 60-room, air-conditioned . ranch house. Good liquor flowed freely, and ¢ main dish was roast beef, the &’of which has not been seer in Eastern markets since 1939. At the conclusion of the Gargan- | tuan repast, there were brief talks | by the ranch foremen, followed by the “plece de resistance’ of the or- atory—an outspoken warning from ex-Congressman Kleberg that there would be a “famine of meat in all| the cities of the land if Washing- | ton and its crackpot theorists do not soon quit making a political | football of the American belly.” There is plenty of beef on the hoot on the ranges of the nation, Kléberg declared, but, he warned, i | tHe ‘cattlemen of the country arc determined that beef will remain | on the*range until it can move to | table market in a manner that is profi- and satisfactory to the ranchers. Asked later, by a visiting news- man, if he meant that cattle rais- ers were definitely striking, Kle- berg snapped, “Why not? Strikes are popular and seem to have the approval of the Administration.” Kleberg’s warning might be con- sidered the bluster of a defeated Congressman who is simply sore, but for the fact that he is regard ed by cattlemen as the “king pin” of the industry. He is withholding his beef, every (Continued on Page Four) Proposed Reservation Size at Point Barrow Is Opposed by Eskimos MoLoTOV RENEWS ATTACKS iSays Many Resulfs of Paris | Peace Conference Are [ "Unsatisfactory” PARIS, Oct. 14—Russian Foreign Mlmstcr V. M. Molotov today at- acked as ‘“unsatisfactory” many of the results of the Paris peace | conference, presaging a showdown ‘on leading issues in the four-power | foreign ministers’ New York meet- ling. Molotov, charging that the United IStates had dominated the confer- {ence, upheld the Soviet Union's right to $300,000,000 reparaticns from Finland—a figure soon after- ward ratified, over United States opposition, voiced by Senator Ar- thur H. Vandenberg. The Michigan Senator sought to reduce the repar- |ations figure to $200,000,000, but the conference voted this down 11 ito 5. { The United States, Canada, South | Africa, New Zealand and the Neth- lerlands voted against the repara- tions article, and Australia, Bel- gium, Brazil, Greece and Norway abstained. Many Ciauses Approved | | The conference previously had swiftly approved all political and military clauses of the Finnish | treaty, last of five to be drafted by the 21 nations in their 11 weeks of deliberations. The United States abstained from ivotlng on the territorial clauses by which Finland would cede territory including nickle mines and the | Arctic port of Petsamo to Russia. One clause to refer final disputes on treaty enforcement to the In- ternational Court of Justice was |carried 15 to 6 over opposition of ithe Russian-led Slav block, A ban {on atomic weapons for Finland was carried by the same vote. The conference voted 11 to 8 to make Finland pay 75 percent com- I’pensanon for United Nations prop- erty losses in her territory. The | United States and Slav states op- {posed the action. Vandenberg, ranking Republican imember of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, contended that Finland was unable to pay $300,000,000 in reparations, espec- ially in view of stipulations that commodities shipped for reparations could be marked up only 10 to 15 percent above 1938 prices. ———-———— Privale Hicswa , Homebound fo | Serve Senlente‘. YOKOHAMA, Oct. 14—Pvt. Jo-| seph E. Hicswa, 20-year-old con-| victed murderer of two Japanese, who twice escaped from military is enroute to the United, | prison, States to serve the 30-year sentence to which his original death sen- tence was commuted. Hicswa is from Wallington, N. J Two Transporls | Leave Yokohama Enroute fo Seatfle YOKOHAMA, Oct. 14— Two transports carrying 2922 home- | mound enlisted men and 80 offi- cers sailed over the weekend for Seattle. They were the Costa Rica Victory and the La Grande Victory. | kimo | tion of 750 square miles area tentatively proposed by the Alaska | BARROW, Alaska, Oct, 14. leaders oppose the propo size of a reservation for natives planned in this Arctc coast area. Seventy five natives man said they believed a res Service, was too large for a village reservation. The area would be too small, however, they said, to protect hunt- ing, fishing and trapping areas which Eskmos have used for gen- erations. The hearing was originally set for Fairbanks Oct. 10 but be of the distance and travel ¢ for | | Barrow natives, it was transferred | here. Atty. George Folta of the Alaska Native Service, Don Foster, General | Superintendent, and Mrs. Munel‘ Lowman, Secretary, flew here to attend. DEATH NEAR FOR ELEVEN attended a| | hearing Saturday and their spoke: | | | | | | | | | | Betty Goudy, H-year-old Artesian, S. D, farm gitl, looks out cf a windew of a Chicage hospital, able to see fcr the first time since birth. which a cornea from a st eychall. (AP Wircphote) Partial vision was mede pe ssible for her by an operation in porn baby was transplanted to her right NAZI HEADS Gen, Sfitweil KRUG FOR Conviced Men Have Less than 48 Hours fo Live ~Then Gallows (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Every tick of the clock is bx'mg- ing the 11 condemned Nazi war criminals closer to their doom. Le: than 48 hours of life remain for them. Julius Streicher seems to be one| of the few who shows no outward signs of kbeing affected by the ap-: proach of the hangman. In the | Nuernberg jail this morning, Streicher told a prison psychologist to be sure to deliver this message to the others who will die with him: “They must not be low,” he said; “they must be brave and strong.” Joachim Von Ribbentrop, and bent under his trial and the strain of waiting for death, is talk- |ing mostly about his war-time ex- periences as Hitler’s foreign min- ister. In conversations with doctors; jand other prison officials, he recall- ed how he gave British Ambassador Neville Henderson the brush-off the | night Germany attacked Poland. | |Ribbentrop also talked a great deal about. Germany's withdrawal from the League of Nations, claiming that he tried in vain to argue Hit- ler out of that. The trap doors on the gallows' will be sprung Wednesday, but |none of the condemned have yet been told exactly when they will | hang. FIVE-YEAR-OLD QUARREL NOW T0 BE SETTLED |Siam to Rei—ur_n Four Dis-: puted Provinces fo French Indochina BANGKOK, Siam, Oct. 14—Pre- mier Thamrong Nawasuwat an- nounces that the Siamese cabinet ihnd decided to return four disputed border provinces to French Indo- | china, ending a territorial quarrel of nearly five years standing. A special emergency meeting of | Parliament was called for this af- ternon to ratify the cabinet’s ac- tion. Approval was considered cer- tain, for the Premier said the mea- sure was backed by the leaders of both major political parties. gray| Passes Away In Hospifal Commander Who Took "Hell of a Beating” in Burma, Dies Saturday SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 14.] —Gen, Joseph W. Stilwell, 63, Com- mander of the Sixth Army, who re- coiled from a “hell of a beating” in Burma to help knock Japan Jout of the war, died last Saturday. The wiry General had an opera- iuon October 3 for a liver ailment believed contracted in the Burma (Jungles. His condition became crit-: ical October 9 and he grew pro- gressively weaker. i 'afternoon at Letterman General | Hospital ‘on the grounds of his Six- |th Army Headquarters here. Stilwell rareiy wore decorations, but the Army gave him on his death bed the one he said he most |coveted. It was the Combat In- fantryman’s Badge, which is award- Japs Could Be Licked i After the Allies took “a hell of a beating” in Burma in 1942, Gen. Joseph Warren Stilwell declared the Japanese were not “supermen” and could and would be Lhmwn out. He set about to prove his poml that a properly proportioned and properly equipped force was all that was needed. An official recapitulation in the summer of 1944 of the general's North Burma campaign during that year disclosed that more than 10,000 square miles of territory had !been recaptured and in excess of 20,000 Japanese killed. Much equip- ment the Allies lost in their 1942 |retreat was retaken and used against the now retreating enemy. Full General Stilwell, then a lieutenant gen- eral, was elevated to the tempor- ary rank of full general. A Senate Military Affairs Committee spokes- man described the promotion as a |reward for his success. “The gen- |eral is a remarkable man to have !endured what he has in Burma,” he added. But in the fall of 1944 General 1Stilwell suddenly was removed as United States commander in the | China-India-Burma theatre be- (Continued on Page T wo} | | Cor Death came at 12:48 Saturday ed only for extended fighting at * the front against the enemy. |8 STATEHOOD WITH BUT Is Reludani to Surrender Jurisdiction Over Sal- mon Industry SEATTLE, Oct. 14.—Secretary of the Interior Krug, on a Pacific st trip and his third visit here in a year, faid in an interview Eaturday he planned to join the Governor of Alaska in seeking ac- |tion by “appropriate congressional committees to bring Statchood to Alaska.” He indicated reluctance, however, teward relinquishment of his De- partment’s jurisdiction ovi the itory’s huge salmon industry. Krug said he believed that if Alaska is given statehood n, ‘hnuld be accorded the same ju tion ts over its fisheries and min- ources as thos2 of the wes- tern states with the exception of the salmon industry ions om .that industry, he should await final reports of special “Congressional committee, headed by Henry M. Jackson, be- caus> the scops of its operations and huge investments involved. - ANS HOSPITALS, | SCHOOLS TC GET | REINDEER MEA Oct. 14.—Southeast Alaska native schools and hospitals which have been hard hit by the meat shortage will soon, have their Jarders filled with rzindeer meat from Nunivak Island, Bering Sea. John J. Lichtenwalner, Depart- ment of the Interior office manager I said the motorship North Star, which has been delivering sup- plies to Indian villages and Arctic Coast points will call at Nunivak on the homeward voyage to complete' a cargo ‘of 90 tons of frozen rein- deer meat. Part will be discharged in South- east Alaska and the rest here on its arrival late next month The North Star was last report-| ed at Unalakleet, Norton Sound. Re- cently she visited Point Barrow to| put ashore winter supplies and avia- 1 tion gasoline for naval and CAAI personnel there, quotation xtr-ck today is 5 NEAR RIOT ATDOUGLAS | SUNDAY AM. Tear Gas Used When Ar- rest Attempted - City Hall Is Stormed | With tear gas scattering approxi- mately 150 patrons, and threats of bodily harm preventing an arrest by Dopglas Marshal Charles Atk Mike's Place in Douglas early Sun- e day morning narrowly aped be- | ing the scene of a wholesale viot, The trouble started when M'(k:\y Pusich refused to serve Sandy S ens a drink on the basis “he lv.nd already had enough.” The disap- pointed customer became ‘“obs.re- perous,” according to young Pusich | and after refusing to leave was, turned over to Marshal Atkins for forcible ejection. v With considerable trouble, the | marshal managed to get Stevens to the bottom of the stairway leading | to the ground floor division, when he was grabbed by another man | who, according to the marshal, re-‘ fused to break his “strangle huld" even when informed that Atkins| represented “the la In order to| break away, Atkins used his club. This brought another man into the | fracas who was immediately fol- | lowed by a third. Both men made a lunge at Atkins. | Uses Tear Gas uun “I bumped the second one on the | head with my club,” said Atkins, “and found about four or five more | closing in. There was nothing to| do but open up with the tear gas gun, which T did.” Wiih his assaiianrs foundering in the painful burst of tear gas, and weeping patrons leaving their $3 to $4 dinners on the table, Atkins made a dash for the City Hall a block ! away. In the City Clerk’s office of the | City Hall, he was reporting the | “pos le riot” to Douglas Council- men and U. S. Deputy Marshal Wal- | ter H(“dll at Juneau, when a str 1 of Dy suddenly pushed in the| front door and Atkins heard: | “He's in there telephoning. Let’s | go get him and beat his d———d brains out.” “Rioters” in Smash This was followed by a splintering of glass as the second door, which Atkins had locked, crashed in. The | large pane of glass which consti- tuted most of the door had been kicked in and through it Atkins saw what he estimates to have been (Continued on Page Eight) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 14—Closing of Alaska Juneau mine American Can %, Anaconda 37} Curtiss- anht 57, International Harvester 4%, Kennecott 45, New York Cen- tral 15%, Northern Pacific 18%, U S. Steel 697, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,290,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today ar as follows: industrials 169.86, rails 46.86, utilities 34.43. | .- FISH LANDINGS | Four boats landed large catches of black cod and halibut at the Cold Storage here over the week- end, but none of the fish had been sold by this morning. The boats were the Dixon, skippered by Emil Samuelson, with 11,000 pounds; Olaf Westby's Queen, with 15,000 pounds; the Fern II, skipper John Lowell, with 10,000 pounds; and the Defiance, skippered by Frank Ol- sen, with 10,000 pounds. | to establish a new town in Al | ing | senger ibe e {at least $2000 personal CLEVEL. ’\Nl) Oct. 14.—Planning aska, to be known as Port Chilkoot, in the Army's former Chilkoot Bar- racks 15 miles south of Skagway, a party of 0 was making ready today to start for the northland in wo weeks Organization of the colony is be- ing directed by Maj. Carl H. Hein- miller of Berea, Ohio, founder of | the Veterans Alaska Cooperative Co., which bought the fully equip- racks from the Interior De- »artment as surplus property for $105,000. He hopes to have a thriv- community established pring. Maj. Heinmiller, terminal leave from the Army af- ter six years service, revealed that all of the settlers, veterans and their families, have purchased a $100 share of common stock in the ccoperative, Eight hundred appli- cations have been received. The group proboses to operate a cceperative retail store and to aid members to get started in business. rhey have already purchased a tank landing craft and a five-pas- plane to help take in sup- who now is on plies. The leader said tnat eveniuaily the group hopes to start similar prcjects in Alaska. He added that ‘it \is a pioneering setup. It won't at the start but with two or three years we should have a thriving ccmmunity of a thousana amilies.” The cooperative will accept non- veterans as well as veterans. Each must invest in stock and must have capital. The ccoperative town will em- phasize in its early stages the de- velopment of a tourist and resort trade and serve as a communica- tions point for water and road traffic. Later the plans call for timbering, furniture manufacture and possibly crab and shrimp fish- ing. In the surplus property sale the barracks were originally bid in by Kenneth O'Harra of the O'Harra Bds Line in Alaska, after winning m a draw. The Department cf In- terior, however, ruled the bus op- erator did not qualihy under the rans’ small bu: 5 provisions and awarded cooperative. large operatc he mnlrimps to the -oe DREAMBOAT MAY TRY FOR RECORD CROSSING OCEAN PARIS, Oct. 14—The B-29 Pa- cusan Dreamboat may try for a new trans-Atlantic record tomorrow if the weather is favorable when the Superfortress takes off for Wash- ington. Col. C. S. Irvine, chief pilot, said today it would be impossible to set a new record if headwinds were against the long-range bomkter when it takes off at Orly Airfield early tomorrow. ‘The Dreamboat flew here today from Wieshaden, Germany, after a “top of the world” flight from Hono]ulu to Cairo, D New Move Agalnsl Jugoslav Catholics VATICAN CITY, Oct. 14.—The Congregation of the Council pro- |claimed today the excommunication of all Catholic Yugoslav officials who were connected “physically or morally” with the arrest and trial of Archbishop Alojzijec Stepinac. The Archbishop, convicted of war crimes by a Zagreb people’s court last week, is under sentence of 16 years' imprisonment with forced labor. There was no indication that the penalty of excommunication applied to Premier Marshal Tito. A pre- late said last week the Vatican had no information that Tito was, or lever had been, a Catholic. NEW ACTION IS TAKEN IN Bridges, Curran Summon- ed to Washingfon 14-Day-0ld Trouble WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Nego- tiators for the CIO-Marine En- gineers today called in Harry Bridges and Joseph Curran, co-chairmen cf the Committee for Maritime Unity, for a special strategy. meeting in the' 14-day-old shipping strike. The committee is dominated by CIO unions in the maritim2 field. The engineers, with the AFL Mas- ters, Mates and Pilots have been idle since October 1, tying up a large part of the merchant flget n all ports, Their principal demands mvolve union security and wages. A spokesman for the Engineers said that Bridges, President of the 10-Longshoremen, and Curran, head of the CIO National Maritime Unicn, were invited to Washington, “to tighten our pelicy.” There was no furtuer elaboraiion on the emergency meeting. Bridges was called from San Francisco and Curran from New York. The invitations went out after the engineers made a slight shift in tactics Friday night, less than 24 hours after the Eats and Gulf coasts operators walked out on the gov- ernment - sponsored conciliation meetings here. Resumption of those meetings with or without government par- ticipation, was expected in the next day or so. The CIO union offered to nego- tiate a separate contract with ,the Atlantic and Gulf ship owners if the Maritime Commission then would agree to put the terms into effect on its vessels in the Pacific. Before that, the union had been insisting that the commission make a prior commitment to blanket West Coast ships under any East Coast coutract the union might reach with the Eastern operators. Pacific operators have resisted the chief demand of both striking un- ions for preferential hiring of unicn members. The East and Gulf shipowners have had union security provisions in their contracts in the ;Brilish;;s’Mdy Have Something New, Whale Steaks LONDON, Oct. 14—The British dinner table may have simething new cn the menu before long— whale steaks. The London radio says that a whaling ship equipped with the plancs to spot schools of whales, a quick freezing plant, and scientists, is leaving Southampton tomorrow in quest of whale. According to some expel whale meat tastes an looks like beefsteak. Th government already is pre- paring recipes for British house- wives on how to cook the whale steaks. ., Macnnhur Conserves Army Mei in Japan TOKYO, Oct. 14—Gen. Douglas MacArthur today ordered a general tightening up on meat consump- tion by all U. S. Army personnel in the Pacific in the face of the sharp meat shortage in the United States. The action was taken to conserve stocks now on hand. Major com- mands were ordered to enforce ri- gid restrictions on the amount of fresh, smoked and canned meat rationed individuals. oo — | PARIS—The Peace Cchference wound up work tonight. Molotov will leave for New York tomorrow and Secretary Byrnes will follow Wednesday to attend the meeting of the United Nations Assembly ‘lccnvtning Oct. 23.