The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 22, 1946, Page 1

1 | 4 | i i 1 | I | | Siould continue THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVII, NO. 10,406 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUI:SDA\ 0( [OB[ R 22, I‘H() MEV PRICE TEN CENTS’ LEWIS HURLS CHALLENGES AT U.S. GOVT. ENGINEERS, | OPERATORS, 'SIGNING UP One Issue—in—Maritime !'Strike Ended After 22- | Day-0ld Walkout NEW YORK, Oct Marine Engineers and Gulf Coast hip operators today sighed a contract to settle their 22-day old maritime walkout but| the strike of deck officers and li-| censed ship personnel continued mj Fottle up virtually all American shipping. Signing of the contract| between the ship operators and, the Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso- clation was announced by U. S| Conciliator Frederick Livingston af- ter 13!': hours of negotiations | But before the shipping tieup| on the East and Gulf Coasts comes | to an end the pact must be rati fied by both the union member- ship and the 44 shipping com-, panies and representatives of ag- ents and operators. Also the ship operators and the other union involved in the strike. AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots- who adjourned a long negotiating session to 3:30 am. today—also must come to terms. Masters seek a 30 percent increase and closed shop. West Coast Strike Bound This would leave the West Coast still strikebound. The unicns are to negotiate with West Coast ship- ping interests after concluding / talks with the East and Gulf Coast, operators. ‘Arthur Coco, secretary of the En-| gineers’ strike committée, sajd ‘it was expected that the union’s na- tional membership of 18,000 in 24 ports on three coasts will have voted on the question of ratifying the new contract by Thursday mor- ning. Union voting will be held in New York tomorrow, he said Recommendations E. P. Trainer, chairman of the Marine Engineers negotiation com- mittee, who signed the contract for the union, said he would reccm- mend to the general membership that they ratify the agreement. ' Lawrence Kammet, MEBA pub- licity representative, since the AFL organization still negotiating and the Engineers for a settlement, to respect MMP Sandra’s Dream Ride --- True A promise comes true for tiny Sandra Lee, 6, and she gets a real lift Enjoying a ride with Cewboy Star Roy Rogers on his famous r Sandra Lee is the envy cf all the Kkids in her school. from it. horse, Tri; Several menths ago, Sandra wasn’t geing to scheol, being a vietim of leukemia. Rogers, hearing of Sandra’s malady, paid her a visit and, in exchange for her promise to get well fast, gave her this perfect ride. Sandra is reperted “greatly improved” by the dectors attend- EARLY REMOVAL, BIG COAST FLOUR CEILING, IS FISH CASE "now moicare ! N (0 u RT Grain Alowances Boosted , fo Whiskey, Beer, Ale Dismissal Refused in Suit Makers by Govt. of California Assn. OVID A. MARTIN BUYERS ;A RESIST | PRICES Definite Move Shown Over Nation Especially on | Meat Products THE PRESS) ASSGCIATED The growth of definite buyer re-i sistance to meat prices that have' spurted to an extreme of $150 a4 pound was shown teday in a heavy " majority of the key cities covered in a nation-blanketing survey. At the end of the first full week ; of uncontrolled r t prices, a spot check of 48 cities by the Associated Press produced a scoreboard that read like this Red meat has come back in sharply improved to ample quan- tities on the counters of 39 com- munities: in nine others—six of them in the east—meat is still carce to non-existent Prices have risen everywhere, in a few cases little or even less than the Federal subsidy that van- ished with OPA control, but in cne-third of the 48 cities prices of $1 a pound more have been chalk- ed up for choice cuts. Resistance to these prices has appeared in degrees ranging from beyond the muttering stage to ac- organized picketing in 34 of cities; in others the risen that citizens had resist 10 cities this either been el ive in chopping down the topmost prices, or has given promise of doing so within a few days | In 43 of the 48 cities both soap and shortening were markedly scarce and in 39 of them toilet tis- was anything but readily ob- s tainable. - - - FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS GIVEN KNOCKOUT SWAT Spending le-l_ts Fixed by Truman May Curtail plaint nothing In ance has as to le resist- sue icket lines. 1 H g £ - . en pTerm: of the contract wers with Agamst Union b _fim GTON, Oct - The| |mpr0vemenls lor, p“’s‘de“‘. of the Ameriean' san FRANCISCO, Oct. 22 — payars today in a step pointing to By EARL BERKLEY Merchant Marine Institute, repre- Federal District Judge Michael J. removal of OPA ceilings cn senting the operators, pending no- Roche today refused to dismiss an Fifa ‘,w;j Breikiast 1o WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—Flood tification of the union membershid anti-trust suit against the Inter- restaurant industry mean- COntrol and navigation programs and ship operating companies national - Fishermen and Allied wpie petitioned both OPA and the Sicwed down to a walk today n B ) A Workers of America and its Cali- pgricuiture Department for an end the face of spending limits fixed ] t fornia locals. to ceilings on all meals and drinks|PY President Truman’s economy or- 1he was lng O m denying the union's motion gpyeq 1 ouble. aaking Hlacas | der : for dismissal, Judge Roche rant-| Upder the relaxed grain order, A newly’ authorized " $600,000,000 Merry_Go_ROund ed 20 days for filing an answer giciiliers will get about 16 per cent 0Utay for public works does not i .b‘]f“"; placing the suit on the trial more in October and later months dml"" “(’J walerWay projacts, offi~ i oo Fom | calendar. and . brewers W e cials sai By DREW PEARSON The suit was brought last March i‘l;:reu ul‘ 1‘,);t:{ o ;?,‘Es:wmh; The flood control ceiling set a (Ed. Note—Drew rearson to- by the California Fisheries Associ- Restrictions imposed last . winter Week ago stands at’ $130,000000 for day continues his revelation of ation, which alleged that it Was oy (he use of wheat by breakfast!the 12 months ending next June important excerpts from the forced to sign a contract to bBUY foq and other food manufacturers and the limitation on navigation suppressed - Rogge report on . fish only from union members and ;1o were lifted. except in the case Proiects remains at $90,000,000. Nazi activities in the United [that this violated the anti-trust ¢ 100, millers. Flour distribution| Cfficials made no promise that States early in the war.) law will be kept at the rate in cffect|these allowances would be raised WASHINGTON—Hermann Goer- ing was depressed and sullen short- | Jy before he cheated the Allied gallows. But when interviewed some, time earlier by John Rogge and Justice Department officials on his| ntempts to sway American public opinion, he was frank and full of | braggadocio. Gladly would he have speuv $150,000,000 to defeat Roosevelt in| 1940, Goering said. During the same interview he boasted that he once| considered having a sign hung 11 his office reading: “No business transacted here un- less the amount involved is more than $10,000,000.” The only thing Goering quibbled | about when he told Justice Depart-| ment agents of Nazi attempts to defeat Roosevelt through John L. Lewis, was that he would not have paid as little as $3,000,000 to do the job. It was Lewis’ close friend, W. R. Davis, then engaged in selling Mex- ican oil to the German navy, who went to Berlin after the war start- ed in 1939 and discussed the whole strategy with Goering. ' “Davis talked to me about John| L. Lewis and that one ought to yeach an agreement with him,” Goering told Justice Department | (Continned on Page Four) | |expected =to clash over The union, with headquarters in Seattle, sought dismissal on the grounds that ‘it was a cooperative and therefore not in violation of the anti-trust 14\\ since the wheat shortage crisic of last winter Officials said the decision to grant distillers, brewers and focd manufacturers more grain reflected the greatly improved domestic sup-| WORlD DIPLOMAIS ply situation, bolstered by record | | crops They added privately that thej MAKE plANS FOR Agriculiure Department and OPA are working on an order which will lift price controls from flour, MEET IoMoRRow semolina, farina, bread, breakfast foods and other bakery products. NEW YOHA Oct, 22 ~Diplomats' The order can be expected with- from over the world called their in a day or so, the officials said, staffs and advisers into last-minute despite the Agriculture Depart- conferences today to shape the poli- ment’s action late,yesterday deny- cies they will present in the meet- ings of the general assembly of the United Nations which opens to- morrow in Flushing Meadow Park with President Truman as the wel- coming speaker. by the baking industry. - Daniel Upthegrove | ] Most delegations already weore D -S " S' k settled in overcrowded New York Ies' u ers ro e hotels, but late-comers still were a ng by air from far parts of ST. LOUIS, Oct. 32 — Daniel; ithe globe. Among those due to ar- Upthegrdve, 175, former chief ex- rive tcday were two prospective an- Jan ecutive officer and corporate pre: dent of the St. Louis Southwest- ern Railway Line (Cotton Belt Marshall Prime Mi of the Union v !st. Luke’s Hospital following a who are stroke last Friday. He retired Sept.| at- 115 after 50 years serviceé with the Cotton Belt tagomst& — Field Christiaan Smuts, and Foreign Minister of South Africa, and Mr lakshmp Pandit of Ind the ment of Indians in South Afri ing a decontrol petition submitted' They said only that water pro-| jects ‘are being reviewed. Legislative proponents of such programs continued to agitate for a sharp increase in the $220,000,- 1000 ceiling, which is less than half the $500,000,000 appropriated by! | Congress. | S - | la most important part CANADA lIBERAlS | MAY LOSE LOWER HOUSE CONTROL OTTAWA, O(‘L 22 — Prime Min-| ister MacKenzie King’s Liberal| Government was reduced to a two- [ seat majority in the House of| Commons today and faced a pos- sible upset in future elections to)| fill two vacant seats. | Progressive Conservatives gained!' both seats in yesterday’s by-elec- ticns, leaving a House line-up of 124 Liberals, one of whom is the {non-voting Speaker, to 122 opposi- tien membe A by-election will| | probably be scheduled soon to fill Railroad), died here early today at|a Richelieu-Vercheres seat vacated|that they hold vacated apartment$ Francisco v ,by death. A Montreal-Cartier by'. |election will be necessary if Com- munist Fred Rose loses his appeal on his conviction of espionage. | shculd be further | ir 13 Dic in Wyomi ng_PIane lragédy ;SOH COAL - STRIKE IS - NEWTHREAT Four Hundred Thousand | Miners Are Involved in ¢ Proposed Walkout | WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—John Lewis, has tossed the threat of a new soft coal strike at the Tru- man administration today, hinting | broadly at new wage demands and charging the government with breach of contract Lew'" new challenge, ending ‘Iu'nx!. six months of comparative silence, could mean a walkout of the nation’s 400,000 soft-coal miners by Nov. 20—on the icy edge of win- of a L the crash The plane was the the crash, died enroute n-law, Lkilled in during a blinding snowstcrm t Cheyenne, Wyo,, but hecause of after were Ten passengers and three cre NATS Air Transpcrtation Service plane near Lar Wye., enrcute from Oakland, Cal, to Chicage and had scheduled a stop storm was forced to attempt gency landing. Twe mie, an ¢ persons, alive . T i hing his attack with sud- ; s Ak - |den iy, the United Mine Work- ¥ {ors’ union boss accused the gov- B R I T I S H (ongra'uh'lom 'o (REDIIS OF {crnment of contract breaches re- | ulting in “the loss of millions of Ala!l(afls 'rom Krug ! follars due to the mine workers.” 4 i In a letter to Secretary of In- potl( I ES On .“a'eh(md vo'e U S ARE [0 | tevior J. A. Krug yesterday, Lewis \\.v manded that nogotiations for a '(\mpll'ltl\ new contract begin by The Governor's office this morn- | November 1, and coupled with it a ing receive @ re fr Secretary eceived a wire from creta; |[ln“u to tear up the existing con- rior Julius Krug in which i lh ent visitor to Alaska e e recent vis aska con- © to Ala Krug, reached at Amarillo, Tex., gratulated the Territory in its .|..“,,,, an inspection trip, exp: —— statehcod vote this month and '\h(nkh ‘u ;..l“,, ,,N\l:m,\“e“m pledged his aid toward obtaining by ¥ Secrefary of State Byrnes, States Policy, Answer- | ing Questions g WASHINGTON, Foreign Secretary Bevin Declares Potsdam Agree- ment Should Stand 22~ “The government has not breach- _‘(l its contract with the United | Mine Worker: he declared. o ave already suggested to Mr, Lewis arbitration on these (disput- ed) points. . “The government's contract with full statehocd rights for Alaska The wire read as follows: “Alaska 1s to be congratulated on the deci- sion expressed through popular bal- lot of a desire to obtain self ernment. Please - extend to people my earnest wish that Alaska lh(' JONDON, Oct. Oct. 22.-—Secre- Foreign Sec- retuiy Ernest Bevin declared today cyooi sratehood soon. T will lend '8¥¥ ©f State Byrnes indicated to-ithe United Mine Workers covers that “we must elther have the Pot~ .\ o" 0 ccune cuinort in attaining 989 that the United States will notwages, hours &nd working condi- dam agreement observed as a whole . wd ; extend credits to countries which | tions during the period of govern- and in the order of those decisions T = might regard such credits as a;ment operations. It does not pro- or we must have a new agreement. move toward enslaving them econ-| vide for reopening of the cntract Opening a two-day debate in cmically. (Lo revise wages or hours.” the House of Commons on foreign Bymmes told a ntws conference,{ Krug disclosed that he and Lewis policy, Bevin declared that an in answer to questions about can-(had a heated discussion in his of- “agreement cn Germany is at once | cellaticn of a $40,000,000 credit to| fice last Saturday morning. He al- the touchstone of the relations a Czechoslovakia, thot this govern-!so asserted that in his opinion ameng the four powers and our op- ment will give preference in loans|some of the wildcat coal strikes pertunity to build a lasting peace [ to: I constituted a breach of contract in and security for the world.” 3 1 mtries needing such loans. | the part ol the miners. He expressed “almost complete 2—Governments which are} e agreement” with U. S. Secretary of WRE(K SEEN friendly to the United States. | DEMAND UNWARRANTED State Byrnes' pronouncements on Byrnes' mention of economic en-{ WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—Capt. the future of Gern in his X slavement referred to a charge N. H. Collisson, Federal Coal Mines Stuttgart speech and added that, ANCHORAGE, Oct. 22.—Word is made at the Paris peace conference | Administrator, told John L. Lewis “equally, we welcome Marshal Sta- awaited here today from a rescue by Russia’s Deputy Foreign Min-, teday his demand for reopening lin's statement.” party which is working its way to- ister, Andrie Vishinsky, which was,the wage contract of soft coal min- Bevin opposed Russian demands ward a wrecked Belanca float plane lauded by delegates from Czech-fers is “clearly unwarranted.” on Turkey for the Dardanelles. He sighted near Rainy Pass, 140 miles ikin and other eastern Euro-{ Nevertheless, Collisson said at a declared e will not desert northwest of Anchorage. pean countries. news conference he is willing to Greece,” and said “we wish to see The plane, owned by Alaska Air- Vishinsky accused this country of | discuss arbitration on whether Persia (Iran) free irom foreign lines, left here Saturday with pilot practicing “dollar diploma and | agreement between Lewis and the interference. William Henry Kelly and two pas- of attempting to enslave tern { government, under which the mines He said Great Britain had no scngers. It was not known whether Eurcpean countries through loans,}are now operating, can be opened military interest nor “any narrow the two passengers, whose names In answer to a direct question|legally national interest” in Trieste, where were not known, had been landed Byines maintained that the State} PO he said British interest 5 purely at Fairwell Lake, their destinati Department does not havi gener- j cne of international trade.” He ex-'before the crash al policy of denying aid to mm.u-m‘"MB MAY IAKE pressed hope that Britisn troops Pilcts passing over the wreck alleged to be within the Russian could be withdrawn frem both Til- said they were unable to detect any sphere while granting it to nations A(“o IN IWA este and Greece. ign cf ch have supported American N Voicing British desires about >vo bjcctives I international confer-i v FIVE CAA EMPLOYEES “he - We wish to see established fivst A r ] ASHINGTON,. P B political conditizns il 5. Diphtheria Aboard | wasimaronou m — e sure the world agai Ger { iong 3 SR man reversion to dictatorship or ]‘ 'R I d. )’f'““l Mecistion Bf"“d 1 SEHaig any revival of German aggressive plANE GOES (RASH ranspo’ epo’ @@ [ering possible intervention i the ? itwo-day-old strike of pilots whieh poliey. 4 has halted Trans World Airline All Aboard Are Held ! {tlights at home and abroad. Presidential Press Secretary NEW YURK oct Troops Charles G, Ross emphasized at a and civilians are being held aboard news conference that the White the transport George Washington'House itself has not entered into here because of an outbreak of lthe wage dispute. but simply has four cases of diphtherla during the jbeen advised that the Board is | vessel’s crossing from Bremerhaven.:studying the case. He added that | - Ihe did not know what that agency {might do. STOCK QUOTATIONS | & cne sume NEW YORK, Oct. 22. ~— Closing|efnment selzure quotation of Alaska Juneau mine|TWA system stock today is 5%, American Can |Cussed - 824, Anaconda 38'%, Curtiss-Wright| Otherwise, there was no sign of 6, International Harvester 73, Ken-|® break in the deadlock over the ott 457, New York Central 151, |PAY Increase demands of the AFL | Northern Pacific 19%, U. S swnl‘p‘l“[‘ who now earn about $1,000 707, Pound $4.03! \monm]y Sales ‘ today were Dow, Jones averages as tollows: industrials 47.68, utilities 34.80. Stocks were lower in quiet ing. Bonds were irregularly lower | Curbstocks e irregularly lower. 'U. 8. Government bonds were low- er. Commenting on the economic fu-| ture of Germany, he warned thal Britain was not prepared to carry cut parts of the Potsdam agree- employes returned here yesterday ment “unfavorable to us’ while with only slight injuries when their cther parts were left unfulfilled. |twin-engined plane was demolished “It is our considered view,” helin a crash at Manley Hot Sprit caid, “that German industry has/ The craft crashed into trees to play in'the end of the runway. whole of European economy, CAA officials here said a is not our intention that it'Pination of frost on win crippled, except field and a down draft may ofar as it might endanger secur-'been responsible.” All passengers rage. ANCHCRAG Five Civil Ae! s Authoril Oct naut at “com- soft have the and it time, he id gov- of the world-wide has not been dis- were from An- Ll e jet Sealtle Aparlmenl SOLDIER HICSWA House Owners Plan | T0 SPEND 30 YRS. New Fight on OPA " N McNEIL ISLAND One hundred| WASHINGTON, Oct Seattle apartment house Operators private Joseph E. Hicswa, have turned down a suggestion that ington, N. J., will they “iorce” a lifting of OPA ren-|court martial prison tal ceilings by shutting off heat McNeil Island, Wash., and refuse collection, but accepted War Department says an alternate proposal last mflhl‘ Hiiswa, who 1s 21, arrived at San erday from Japan instead of re-renting them {whers he was convicted of killing| Prices to retailers, The action was taken at a meet-|two Japanese civilians. President tons, 88, prints 87. Eges, ing sponsored by Pioneer Apart-|Truman commuted the original selling prices, grade A ment Group, Inc, death sentence to 30 years 611, medium 541 -55! > |Jap Convided of ' Murdering Two | R flmy Fliers 870,000 \h:ut-.\ today are 171.25, rails 22—Army trad- of Wall- serve a 30-year sentence at prison, the GUAM, Oct, 22.—-Sgt. Masayoshi Takano today was convicted by a U. S. Military Commission of mur- dering two American army iliers on wholesale Chichi in the Bonin Islands Aug. 7. large 59':- 1944, and was sentenced to ne years imprisonment, | BUTTER-EGG SEATTLE, Oct PRICES 22 Butter, 93 score, car-