The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1946, Page 1

| 1 i | 1 | 1 f | SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition —_— S “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE | SATURDAY L 1 P.M. Edition J _— 1946 MEMBE VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,404 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 "R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTE =iy OPEN WARFARE THREAT IN SHIP STRIKE ——ih Secretary Byrnes Charts U.S. Foreign Course Princess Louise Will (allHere; Agreement | PATIENTBUT COUNCILOK'S FIRM POLICY PURCHASE OF IS DIRECTED. ELECTRIC (0. 'Report on Paris Conference AEL&P Proposal Accepted: Affirms Hope for Without Discussion- | Just Peace Streets Condemned W ASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Secre- City ownership of the electric 3 2 s utility stem here came a step ry of State Byrnes pointed the v A Bty Y closer last night when the City United States along a “patient but firm"” foreign policy course with Russia today, declaring that this country will neither yield to all de- Council, by a 5 to 0 vote, accepted | the propesal of the Alaska Electric| Light and Power Company ¢iving| mands of other nations nor expect the City of Juneau an option \u:—‘[ them to yield to all of ours til April 1, 1947, to buy cut the ; “the con- company's utility holdings for Vcicing concern over > Of tinued if not increasing tension be- ‘54‘/’3»00‘{ i tween us and the Soviet Union’” ccording to the terms of the ‘Byfnes urged rejection of the | Fesolution submitted by the light thoughts that “make armed conflict |COMPany and last evening adopted inevitable.” by the Council, previous rate or- “It is entirely possible,’ he said dinances will be repealed and a In a radio report last night on the COmPromise rate schedule o Paris conference, “the failure or in- “Ih“l‘_“"* ohiB AN per MWh ability of the Soviet leaders to rid 1‘"; t“”’{ 100 1\(‘;“ of Ay ) themselves of that belief lies at k‘*’)‘ WSke D f"lli-) ha! «em pet) the very root of our difficulties” XWh off winter light usage per His address, obviously aimed at,MONth In excess of 100 kwh. The Moscow 8s well as his home aud-|Council is to take first detion on ience, acknowledged Byrne's distvess ' the new rate ordinance s next over war talk which is “throttling |Mmeeting, but the slightly lowered| tho economic recovery of Europe,”|'ate Will go into effect on Novem- but affirmed his hope that a jus ber 1 peace can be attained without one- Court Aetion Dropped ¢ided concessions. It is also agreed that all Court Byrnes said this nation will stand |Proceedings pertaining to the rate “frrevecably” behind the ht of |reductions enacted by the preced- | every people to organize their econ- 1ing Council will be dropped. If the: omic and political destiny through {purchase terms are ratified by :m-: the freest possible expression of;voters on or befors April 1, thej their collective wil {0ity will have 180 days after that Patient But Firm date in which to complete payment “In following those policies we {in full. No action was taken last| have been criticized at time for pe- | night toward setting a date for re-| ing too ‘soft” and at times for be- | ferring the purchase to the voters iMs too ‘tough’ I dislike both|APril 1, 1847 is however, the date terms. Neither describes our earnest of the‘ next regular City (‘I(’('L)on,; offorts to be patient but firm” | Holdings to be transferred to the; Wallace commented later: “After.City under the option include all| listening to the speech of the Secre- AEL&P real estate, water rights,| tary of State I am more certain Shop tools, line materials and re-| than ever that we must adopt a | Pair stoc! Reserved from this, veal American foreign policy. I am sale are items of merchandise off- glad that he has progressed since ered for sale in the company’s re- his Stuttgart speech (warning Ger-tail storg here. In a supplementary, many must be neither ‘pawn orloffer. the company suggested it partner' in any power struggle be-|Would be willing also to sell out its| Bhcen East and West). | merchandise at an additional price “I sincerely Lope that Iurlhcl"yet to be fixed. The Council, how-| progress will be made and that the ever, did not act upon that supple-, Bebretary of State will eventually|Mentary offer. A realize that the American people| Acceptance of the AEL&P propos- demand justice, good neighborliness al Was moved by Councilman R. H.| and peace in the world.” Williams and was seconded by| Byrnes expressed “pewilderment” | Councilman James Larskx}. ’1_"11&- at Russian accusations that the|Vote was taken without dlscusslonf United States “enriched itself dur-!|in the climactic action of the eve- | ing the war” and now seeks “to cn_?mng. Councilman Henry Sully was | slave Europe economically.” inot present when the utility vote| “Coming from any state theseiWas laken. ! chargfas u'?uld be fegren.ahle fjo us,”, R el 1 Hie sald. “They are par%\c\umly -] Immediately after the vote, form- | grettable when they are made t;y:cr BIAbOr, Ebncat. Dareobs. who iat) the Soviet government to whom 8 W sianrhesded the move o take) advanced more than ten billion dol- | jar off winter-month N the light company, compli-| Jars of lend lease during the WAr|menieq the Council on its handling: and with whom we want to be(of negotiations with the utility| friendly in time of peace. {company. From the larger than Concessions To Peace Turning to Soviet-dominated Yu- goslavia, which walked out of’the conference in protest against Yugo- {usual audience, Parsons added that he hopes the present administra- | tion will now go ahead and ar-| range for a bond issue to cover the purchase, so that the voters |will be presented with the com-! plete proposition including the| sts of financil The Washington|= e ., iwill now have to establish a finan- Merry - Go- Round |cial rating and a survey to accom- By DREW PEARSON (CantinuE;; Page Two) | plish that will take time. There- |for, he said, it is advisable for the Council ta take immediate action S on it ‘WASHINGTON — Henry Wallace | s a mild, soft-spoken }unprofane Mayor Wajno Hepdcgkson jom- | e d;}s\_ he swear, no 1sed that a committee to look nto| matt‘er ox pro\.'oked How’evergthm side of the matter will he Whrias whdimiie: visitag In . his|omcd in the near, future. apd. pre; i g A MZ his few |lminary steps taken. City Attor- cliss-words when it was announced " do.ax: Sdt;blex‘ :iuggg;‘;‘tvdWl ndl. that Averell Harriman was the b coonure be discussed wi ey ked 1 h s A. Btuart. Mr. Stuart, special Util- | i pmr EC - replace him as S€C- | jties Engineer under the Parsons’ oy o omm.elce. administration, is now acting for! “That - - - " exclaimed the €X-lthe City of Sitka Secretary of Commerce. “He's the | woedings. one who torpoed the San l-"ranci;co‘: Library Strip Bought Cdplerence. And they want a Sec-| Before taking up the utility mat retary of Commerce who will Keep | ter, the Council last night dispos His nose out of foreign affairs!” | ¢t 'various other items of business. _ Note 1—‘—Wnllace was referring t0 incjuging approval of purchase fiom | Harriman's secret press conferences tn. Memorial Library Board of a at San Francisco where he fed .anoular strip of the library lot,| hewsmen vigorous anti-Soviet re- |t pe Fourth in smilar pro-! used for widening (Continued on Page Fn[in') A_((,‘;m/imml on Page Fight) | vacant | the | whether | which depressed prices about $25 a | | prices, BULLETINS WASHINGTON Secretary of State James F. Byrnes is revealed to have received the personal praise of President Truman for his peace conefernce report to the nation, but | his speech was soon followed by Russian criticism of American for- | eign policy PITTSBURGH STALINMAY | STRIKE NOW (OME OVER; NEARINGEND IT'S RUMOR WRIGHT FIELD, Ohio — Brig (BY. THE ASSOCIATI) (KRS Gen. Marvin E. Gross, 46, Com-| An end of the crippling 26-day- mandant of the Army Air e |cld Pittsburgh power strike appear Institute of Technology, was killed |€d today as a possibility when the last night when the P-80 jet plane head of the 0 striking Inda2pen- dent Unionists said be believed they "Highly Placed Informant’ atHalifax Makes Report | of Proposed Visit Forc | Quot- | he was piloting cracked up near Brookville, Kentucky would vote tomerrow to arbitrate S the dispute HALIFAX, N. S, Oct. 19 WASHINGTON—There is plenty| George L. Mueller, President of ing a “highly placed informant,” the of the Independent ociation of | Halifax Chronicle said today that meat in the butcher shops this Duquesne Light Employees, ¢ - | Premicr Stalin may visit the United weekend but housewives are re- fusing to buy on occount of the|€d that opinion before depart States and possibly Canada, early in high prices. The butchers report|for Washington to discuss strike!November X buyers’ strikes in New Yor! 7ash- | issues with Secretary of Labor Although the report was without ington, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Dallas, | Schwellenbach s n, the Chronicle sald a Birmingham, San Francisco, Se-! Commenting on a gencral mem- sujte aboard the liner Aquitania is| attle, and Minneapolis bership meeting set for tomorrow, ‘to Le prepared for the Russian Pre- he said, “it appears the members mier and that he will be aboard the LONDON The Moscow radio | Will vote for arbitration big shiv on her next westward trip charged today a few hours after| The union, whose strke hasifrom Britain Secretary of State James F. Byrnes' | Dampered preduction in the na- - The Aquitania will proceed direct criticism of Russia that American |tion’s steel capital and interfered | to New York from the United King- foreign policy was dictated by a with public transportation, pre- dom on her next um'. reaching “jar-reaching plan to establish viously rejected arbitration of 11 there about vember the d; United States domination over the Major dssues, including a demand |after the Big Four Foreign Ministe Sthole worla ™ for a 20 percent wage boost which are scneduled to open a conference. ficir: would bring the average base pay| An official of the Cunard White WASHINGTON—Gen. Eisenhow- t0 $141 an hour. Star Line, the Aquitania oper- er is expected to arrive this after- | o i oihe sl Mors, sald no“plasenier st wi noon from Europe flying home In the first effort to rettle their available here but t l:(: n‘mdvr— from Germany by way of theiQispute in more than a week, theistood some “special part were to CIO Marine Engineers and Atlantic | be carried and Gulf Ccast ship operators re- | sumed negotiations in New York AND THERE YOU ARE hotel rooms_today in. ,the OVernment-sponsored ““f* ali.d| LONDON, Ogt. 19. — A Halifay nation’s capital, vacated because of |2t breaking down the 19-day t’lf:'()lm:m: le report that Russian Pre the strike of bellhops, chamber- STiPPINg tieup on all H_rlu 18 l“mfw*- mier Stalin would travel to the maids, and other employees now in. Washington ‘Thursday | United States aboard the Aquitania | kil & B Hauler’s Strike Ends next month was greeted with skep- | w:‘;,mglu' “;wzd we;:k llll‘.»ls of| Restocking of some empty relail | ticism in Londen diplomatic circles ashington's JeBCing "NOSMIICS: " lfood store shelves in New York, today | was in prospect after contract haul- A Foreign Office spokesman broke | ers for 625 foor chain stores reached ' ingo an unfinished request for in- settlements with AFL teamsters who | fopmation about it with “You mean | have been on strike for 49 days. that Canadian story about Stalin,| Still unsettled, however, were truck- |1 suppose. Well, we've had no in- | {ing strikes affecting 82 stores in|formation at all about it. | |New York and New Jersey. The don't you try the Russian Embassy | settlement terms granted drivers a|or 10 Downing Street? 131 cents an hour wage increase and| Ten Downing Street’s \])UkL‘SH\fl“‘ |shorter work week. They had been was spending the weekend in the| getting $64 for a 44 hour weck country. His secretary said: “I'm {afraid I can’t help, but it's really an | interesting rumor.” The young woman in the Ru Embassy's press office said: {have had no news of it, thank you. - - and Bermuda. | WASHINGTON—There arve 5,0001 down NEW YORK rman-born Teo- doro Erdmann Erich Lau, who be- came an Argentine citizen during war, was held in $50,000 bail today as the alleged paymaster of a Nazi spy ring to climax five years of watchiul waiting by the FBI. —A freighter load- coal for American forces remained at her pier to- day. Striking deck officers and en- e gineers refused to take the veaael;pAN AMERI(AN 0" out. The reason they gave was that the captain of the {.cighter was not ! a union man. | FRIDAY FllGHTS BERLIN—More than 20-million residents cf Berlin will vote in the il municipal election tomorrow. And| FPan American Airways yesleruny;IHOMAS Dull one United States official, L)euten-‘?"w tl)}:\lrollf)wll\g DBRSSSHBOrS 4D S1k) r 2 : .| from this city: a1 sptlonel’ Tous G]’zfg:_el:'"w‘,']‘[‘_* From Seattle: Joe Reldi, Harold pIONEER’ GOES BALTIMOR! ed with overseas “we ! | American Military i i 5 i o ‘ says th: he electi Al s | Gra; ernice Gray, Lydia ogg. | 4 aFLfac e b KL ehow |/ erne Smart, Ruth Bader, George / the voters prefer eastern g "piabeth Fleek, Olaf Xav- yesterday or western concepts of democracy. | N p-({ i o iier, Charles Swanson, Harry Cov-| i (ington, Don Van Brocklin, Eunice| " N Y (01""0" Ex(“ Drager, Carlotta Drager, Cortland| Thomas Dull, long-time resident, sl s . {Drager, Irene Frazee, Benice Lip- Of Juneall, passed aw 1 pert, Twila Westfall,” Curtis Met-|at 5:20 p. m. in St. Ann’s Hoepital (I_OSED IODAY AS 'calf. |He was just a week past his T4th From Fairbanks: Norman Stine, |birthday, having been born Oct. 11, nsylvania To Seattle: Dorothy Killewich, 11872 in Springtown. Pex pRI(ES IN SluMp |Irene McKinley, Jerry McKinley,| Dull came to Juneau from Penn- _Jessie Trimble, Hovil Husted, Alpha/sylvania in 1899, and has made his e Qe _19'"?'_9 NeW'iiusted, Albert Flesher, Frank|home here since except for a short d:; cotton market was closed to- jonoq 'Ray Harris, Fred Rinken-|time in the Dawson country. He G |berger, Anna Holden, Mrs. George was employed first by the Juapla, SI‘D:LCi;w:\ l_dnot (md OPEIII _f‘)r "Vm"_EBalpgzor, Muriel Fryer, Bert Ens»l(;nld Mining company, in lower anmounced shortly oatre inon Was'ley, Mrs. Maude Voigt, Jimmy|Gold Creek basin, then for a num-| shortly before the sche-|yoi [ber of years he worked with Rob-| duled opening. 2 | S . Sy 5 To Ketchikan: William Gaunt, ert Keeny on his pile driver. Dur-| Similar action was taken by the| , iteh . , i S has b New Orleans and Chicago cmmml“r:-d Keeley; to Whitehorse, Alex-|ing the past few years he has been exchanges ender Hayes, Olive Norman; lulcmmg for his property in Juneau. B Harry Weingarten, Mar-| pull was married to Maud Saum ‘The board of managers of | A 5 % ‘ % gere the | garet Smith, William Stuart and(e, December 18, 1926, and his New York exchange in a statement : said, “it is the opinion of the VP8 Répgihin Iwidow survives him. Also he has a |brother and a sister living in e e N L board that such action would best ! 4 serve the interests of the public| | Springtown, Pennsylvania | | Dull was a member of Igloo No. | 6, Pioneers of Alaska { STRIKE, ASTORIA g 7 ¥ |ing. and will be announced later and the exchange.” Closing of the exchanges for one Funeral arrangements are IS ENDED TODAY ___~ “°~ There has been considerable | e dt ’SET".EMENT OF peculation as to causes of the| ASTORIA, Ore, Oct. 19. - The | day followed a break in the market harp slump. Among reasons ad- | bottom fishing fleet strike was over | vanced by brokers were statements |today with union demands unsatis- | SHIP SIRIKE Now that cotton prices had risen too|fied nih and e e for an sasus- | e over travies' von—isn | JRGED, NEW BASIS ment, that speculative holding were | ing boat crewmen—who went on 14 i being liquidated and that a cau- strike October 3, voted yesterday to tious attitude had developed both |abandon efforts to get Seattle prices | because of the possibility of de- for bottom fish established here ontrol of Textiles and uncertain|The prices remain the same as be- business conditions. | fore the strike. The Agriculture Department ye: - - - terday said it is investigating the 'Three divorces have been granted decline to determine whether there by Judge Kehoe at Ketchikan. They has been a move to manipulate were to Aileen Page from Robert following a statement by Page, Jr.; Helen Warner from Na- Senator Elmer Thomas (D-Okla) than Warner and Carolyn Mac- that a “bear raid” caused the dl‘op.‘lsaac from Charles Maclsaac, | Fairbanks: bale from the close of trading on' Tuesday until yesterday's close. VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 19.— Governor Wallgren has wired Presi- dent Truman he believes the mari- time strike should be settled on the basis of union demands in view of the lifting of many OPA controls, his assistant, Jack Gorrie, said to- day Rep. Savage (D-Wash) was among others who joined the Gov- ernor in urging such a settlement |when meat was comparatively e: Is Rep "KLONDIKE KATE" WILL COME NORTH BEND, Ore., Oct. 19.—~The “Klcn- dike Kate” of Alaskan gold rush days is flying to Dawson next week fearful her husband has met with misadventure in the rugged Yukon countr Mrs. John Matson, a Bend resi- dent, said she had kbeen expecting bher husband to come down from his cabin on Matson Creek for the winter. But no word has come from him, she-said, and the icy con- ditions of the northern country should have sent him out long be- fore now. Mrs. Matson said she last heard from her husband in a letter dated February, with a pestscript written in April ————— JEWEL THIEVES FILCH 2 RINGS, WINDSOR WATCH Gits of King Edward VIl Among Robbery Loot- CID Operatives Out LONDON, Oct. 19.—Two rings giv- en to the Duke of Windsor by his grandfather, King Edward VII, were among the jewelry stolen from the Duke and Duchess Wednesday night, police disclosed tcday. A gold watch belonging to the Duke also was stolen. The watch and rings were In the Duchess jewel case, which was discarded by the thieves on a golf course ad- joining the Earl of Dudley Ed- nam Lodge. The value of the Duke's jewslry was included in the $80,000 estimate of the loss, made yesterday by Lon- list don assessors who compiled a of the stolen articles. The gems moestly sapphires, diamonds and aquamerines belonging to the Duch- BS vere taken from hor bedrcom t the Earl's lodge. otland Yard sent its least rown opcratives into the financial district’s Hatton Garde: where sidewalk traders deal in thousands of dellars wo! of preclous ston every day. Yard men interviewed dozens of known criminals and jewel “fences.” Meanwhile, the Duke lodged a claim for £20,000 (880,000) for the ewels under a Lloyd’s insurance pelicy. - D SEPTEMBER EATS INTO STOCKS OF FROZEN SEAFOOD WASHINGTON Oct 19.—The Fish and Wildlife Service said to- day stocks of frozen fish and shell- fish declined 5,000,000 pounds dur- ing September —sharply reversing the upward trend for thz season. During the same perfod last year, sy holdings » come by, frozen fish increased 18,000,000 pounds Because of an unusual consump-| tion of fresh fish, the Servigs ported, only 27,084,400 pounds were frozen during September, compared with 37,940,331 in ‘August and 33- 256,812 in September, 1945 Frozen fish holdings Oct. 1 total- ed 147415555 pounds. They con- sisted of 125,011,866 pounds of salt water fish, 8,774,057 pounds of lak> and river fish, and 13,629,812 pounds of shellfish oried Reached ‘ Well, Juneau is to get back on ship lanes The Ca Pacific steamer will call at this port both north and southbound | | Late yesterday, Charles W. Young | Canadian Pacific agent in Juneau | received word from his Vancouver office that Jur longshoremer have agreed to handle Canadian I ships. The firmed heads. The Princess Louise is scheduled tc leave Vancouver Monday night, Qc- tober 21, at 9 o'clock and should arrive at Juneau Thursday after- noon or evening Juneau merchants burned up th radio communications lpst night in vlacing orders for deliveries on the Princess Louise B CURFEWFO JEW AREA, JERUSALEM JERUSALEM, Oct. 19.—Military officiais imposed a strict house curfew—6:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. daily —on Jewish sections of Jerusalem today because of a rious recru- , descence of Jewish rders after darkness.” also been longshore action has by local con unicr dis The curfew order, elfective today was signed commander d by Brig. R. H. Bower, of the Jerusalem civil ordered all persons residing within districts specifiea by streets bounding the Jewist quarters “to remain in their home: unless in possession of a specia curfew pass. Bower's statement recest days one British police in- spector, two British soldiers anc one British airman have been mur- dered and a British Colonel, twc British soldiers, a British airman and an Arab civilian injured” by activities of extremists St and aid that “i D B. ('S SOCKEYE " SWARMS FILLING THOMPSON RIVER VANCCUVerg, B. C., Oct. 19 British Columbia’s sockeye swarm are getting through the Thompsor River and on toward their ancien spawning grounds, the Adams Riv- er, in number sufficient to give thc team a tosy hus for miles, it wa reported yesterday The Hell's Gate fishways are success, sald observers just returne: from a survey of the upper waters The verdict wes endorsed herc by A. L. Hager, chaiman of th International Pacific Sockeye com- | mission. He expressed great satis- faction over the fine escapement o | fish this season | The observers found the clear | tlue waters of the Thompson bi- | cted by a never-ending, swirling ribbon of red sockeye. | They dyed the water for miles along the stretch of the river where | the motor trail runs close beside ! the stream between Lytton and | Spence’s bridge. | Along the banks, Indian camps | dotted the bush. The braves dip- ped salmon frem the water, the squaws dressed them, and the (hv—r ing racks bloomed with the rosy | hue of thousands of sockeye. - - ARRESTED | Alice Saxon was arrested here| this morning by Deputy U. S. Mar- | shal Walter G. Hellan on a char~: [ ing intoxicating liquors with- Qut an appropriate Territorial li-{ cense, It is alleged by complaning witness Herman Collier that accused sold him two bottles cf | at the La Casa, 447 South | Franklin street, on October 16, for which she charged him 75 cents each | | tations, cfficials said here NEW DISPUTE. -~ ON STATTLE WATERFRONT Office Persontiel Blocked from Going fo Work- Charges Hurled TTLE, Oct. 19; SE - Tension nounted along the strike-bound ieattle waterfront today in the vake of a new dispute over clear- mee of office personnel at two leeks. Charges and counter-charges of cpen warfare” were issued by strik- ng union leaders and ship oper- it The CIO Northwest Committee for writime Unity sald in a statement st night that “evemts of the past 'w days indicate open warfare is bout to be declared on the striking micns the Pacific American hipowners’ Assocfation.” M. G. Ringenberg, President of he Washington Waterfront Em- Tovers Association, replied bluntly, It's the unions that have declared rar on the ship operators and wat- rfront employers.” Charge Made This sharp interchange followed losely a charge by steamship oper- tors that CMU pickets at the Luck- nbach Steamship Company's pler j refused to let office workers ross their lines Friday, and took~ milar action Thursday against the tfice staff at the American-Ha- ralian Steamship Company’s pier 30. Although Frank Jenkins, CMU learance Chairman, said thé pickets 1erely had asked the clerical work- vs to get a clearance pass “for nutual protection of all concerned,” Ungenberg declared that “police rotection will be asked. if neces- ary, to get our office people into heir offices.” Stoppage by Unions Meanwhile, further repercussions vere heard to the threat by Col. #enton S. Jacobs, Commanding Of- icer of the Seattle Port of Em- »arkation, to recommend closing the rmy port facilities unless local nions cooperate with military ship- ing .ieeds The Seattle chapter of the Army ransportation Association, com- osed cof former officers in the -ansportation corps and civilians, ndorsed Col. Jacobs’ stand as “cour- gecus."” As a lahor spokesman, Ed. Coester, seattle agent for the AFL Sailors Inion of the Pacific, branded the nove as “typical of the anti-labar wtitude of port of embarkation of- cials since the beginning of the | var TRY TO D TIE-UP WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, The Var Department joined efforts with \rmy officials at Seattle today to ry to end a partial tie-up of ship- 1wents to overseas troops through he Seattle Port of Embarkation. Brig. Gen. Paul F, Yount, Assist- nt Chief of Transportation, sched- ded a telephone conference with Jol. Fenton 8. Jacobs, Port Com- over the reported refusal ){ union port workers to load cer- ain Army cargo. Army officials already have con- ferred with Harry Bridges, head of he International Longshoremen's Union (CIO), but they declined to indicate whether he plans to inter- ene. A statement sald the War De- artment was “not considering and s receifed no recommendation” or closing the port Any developments from the nego- will be announced by Colonel Jacobs The statement said the War De- Jartment confirmed that the CIO Commit for Maritime Unity at the port of embarkation “has re- fused to load any Army cargo ex- cept food., medical supplies, mail, clothing, baggage and post ex- change supplies.’ “The union has refused to load or provide crews for ships under time the 'charter to the Army carrying Army rgo,” the War Department said. ‘hey are. however, providing crews for ships whelly owned or operated by the Army carrying the above 50, ¥