The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1946, Page 1

| third floor, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” - VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,446 _PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, AL A“KA MONDAY D C MR[ ]9 !‘)46 SHIPPING TIE-UP AT SEATTLE IS ENDED 11PERSONS KILLED IN HOTEL FIRE - Gasoline Flames Start Dus-:, astrous Blaze in Sas- | katoon in Canada Dec. the (S fire SASKATOON, Sask., Gasoline flames which | chief said “moved like a solid wall”| | swiftly turned the Barry Hotel in-| were © in Sat dig- nding, got the first call to an inferno before dawn Sunday.| aster which was the nation’s most igning of an agreement killing 11 persons and injuring 18.| costly hotel conflagratior L (betwzen whterfront employers and The fire was the worst in Sas-| Three names added to the | three AFL\unicns shortly before 9 | katchewan history and the worst mw‘ de: st. Mrs. ge D. Burch, ' ja. m. cndkd a crippling, 69-day | canada since the Queen's Hotel fire ! 20, o died of | tieup of the Puget Sound port in Halifax in 1939 when 28 died. | | juries suflered when she fell 10 | retukned two weeks after A can of gascline, inexplicably, to a canvas canopy when an {tr= pencral settlement opened other placed beside the kitchen range.| d rope of bed linen breke: i Pacific Coast | . through the appeared to h caused the holo- ref C. C. Styron said most s ulx)u of new contracts, includ- cause. Fred Fries, a waiter, said of the deaths resulted from !ing 15-cents-an-hour wage increases, the cock called him to t he kitchen, phyxiation because wke and with tlh> Checkers' Association, the where he found the gas range blaz- fumes had no way to ape from Foremen's Union and the Interna- ing and the can of gascline shoot- the ilng £ | tional Longshoremen Association. ing flames eight feet high. Styron said carbon dioxide gas * { Work probably will get undsr way Fries grabbed the gasoling ca pressure in the corridors and rooms ':'fm;,‘! r‘n"-\: 11‘;‘»6-‘“““;:-»-“.). full swing, M. and tried to run into the street prevented to scme the ‘\{' ‘\lf]-:(ll UI:}- !f-\ldvm of the with it but bumped into a frigh- ad of flames but ter- Bl g rent Employers Association, tened cusiomer. The can fell and vific toll _of lile by smothering said rolled ints/ the hotel lobby. Some- | guests in their rcoms a4 p i .'Hfs almest impossiuie to get un- one else fried to kick it out through | The fire chief vents T'wo at {he Winecolf Hotel in Atlanta hang cuti an upper story dow as flames leap frem win- jder way today b > the Long- the dcfs, but the draft from a. in the elevator taircase dews di v bedcw them. Water from fire hests sl up the side of the blazing building. (AP Wire- ;shoremen’s hiring hall was closed large ejectric fan semt the flam>s and from the halls would have al- phots 3 s yesterday " spiralling inward, Fries said within lcwed the gas to escape. How- { H> called the Association’s allo- a minute of the last fumtle, “all ever, he added, the open pas o caticns committee together to decide hell broke locse” and the fire was ways would have to be fire s _ 8 5 3 A (what work in this ship-crowded beyond control. 4 ; to prev the spread of f{lames. ‘g 63! our‘; an S own - iport would be done first and to no- Acting Fire Chief E. Clark order- Lns is o general view of the Winceoff Hotel in Atlanta en the e — tify umion biring halls of its re- ed fighters to “forget the building; ~ mMmerning after the fire Firemen and rescuc workers were still search- | quests. 111’|'n~ isn't any doubt but thers are livas to be saved. ing ihe wreckage for dead. ‘that we will give Alaska ships Firemen ted every one of the u Ing In a mon Gr crs scme preference,” he said 87 rcoms wkile the blaze still burn- x Alaska Sailings ed and found “four or five people : Spokesmen for stzamship lines wandering around in dazed condi- all o ors 4 l serving - Alagka, whigh has ELeen tion.” Bome guosts jumped saf2- , 1 a a ompensa 'on ase {bitterly ‘Hit by tne long teun A Hmmgh depieted supplies and de- 1y from the second and top third fa Santy aiilies The weahs er was mild. Others made escape by ropes of sheets and blankets Some jumped through the rotunda skylight. One man. SPEEDiNG UP LEWIS CASE taking a bath on the reached the bathreom General View of Hotel Fire DEATHLIST STEAMERSTO © ATATLANTA . COME NORTH REACHES 120. DURING WEEK Many Victims of Hotel Fire - Agreement Between Em- ploydrs, Three Unions, Is Fire Were Asphyxiated Declares Fire Chief | Reathed This Morning . Dec. 8 e for almost im- Guests | fapped he Winecoff climbed ' to " s multiple investigations death 5 Sia pendence on such driblets as could GoOnTrial | WABHINGTON, Dee. 9 The y\f: 4 . be carried by airplanes, trucks and i COAl FIEI_DS MEV! M'NES A('l' | Supreme Court ruled today that VI('OTY Ove; Lewis MGY»'““” boats, said the first of the : | two groups of salmon cannery work- . . " four probably could be loaded and F0 u Pt | g s Discourage Strikes in |dispatched by thie snd of the week. Iul {fits of the Alaska Unemployment fifth vessel will also be available but that a third Labor Pidum—Brighter To- cor Other Key Industries mpensation law !as soon as the present cargo is dis= cha; windown and hung h'cmlit by his it day than for Months NMA (ONFERE“(EU:ITM)) is. £ arged. hands until firemen reached him. "l & Chief Justice Vinson delivered v N I o Lunding of the Alaska can start Georse Huner, the night. porte Both Sides fo Make Argu- Charged with Conducting Semp Dark Sools Lo e ot Bt o TN, s TP 2 gy (Wmord O B AR B EAUN said the -vear-old hotel's fire The Alaska act disqualifies fre sovernment : p e % Company spokesman said. S systom. aia ot work ena Ments on January 14- Brutal Experiments P Delegates Also Go on Rec b, e L SR e e . el 75 Ships Tied Up that he shouted the alarm in the Oth 0 . Mad Li Vidi By The Associated Press o " who i unemployed because of a ' tries today in the wake of its vie-| ToP€ Ctummer checker businecs upper halls er plnlOnS aqae on Live vicims The nation's labor picture today Ord for Re eal Of sor dispute tory over John L. Lewls in the ®t?0t. said the doeks would be The hot2]l was sold for $120,000 a e S SR g Sy was the brightest in months. p The ry workers were hired coalstrike SR manned immediately after thz sign- week ago. ; 2 gh NUERNBERG, Dec, 0—Brig. Gen. Most of John L. Lewis 400,000 Two Labor Acts out cofi San Francisco to work in' Officials opened the drive in the |i08 WA -BHOrty belugigiven o - oeo . almost unprecedented speed, the pyeo i ravlor demanded today AFL Unite b5c) W e, 5 : I N he | ajicka vecsels, Seventy-five ships Supreme Court teday tock over for| > ) nited Mine Workers were 4 three localities in Al The hepe that the Administration’s i aieh i ‘[, B shape i e O e Lo | that 28 men and a woman charged | digging soit coal again efter the cpopng pee o ska Packers Associ- handling of the mine shutdown 1AVe been ldle. throughout the Den!al fo Repo"s etoenot, case pele:tws ahgs, Sties| TA0L oduting eyl Nad medl aramatie ending of ihelr Ii-day ERpRRIE. mon Company, and might persuade other unions to seek j 150y, Watertront tioup. Ao ey A : iments ve s be walkout which threatened collapse : 1 mning Company, peaceful settlement of ls € s- p ‘?gonnd bis union were fined $3510- | ;o ;demned as murderers who poi- of the naticnal economy. : f\,x "’h,'d“h_“"l' Gk s m'” RE R otiaticns In San : Ax]n v‘l:.:l‘l"ul::(ll\l.:’.‘;I(L.bl::- {pute was .regched Eaturday . WeeR Made by a“erson b ag bunpee| SCTEd the entire German medical' In Rockford, IlL, 960 workmen LTom IOH S Some Sax: IR 00 or a working agreement pginful punitive measures i withdrawal of an employer demand i} The Justices agrced te by-pass I on under Adolf Hitler. y y % ~ years from the te of first pro- : ¥ . Jfor scle right to decide on hiring 3 the U. S. Court of Appeals and PO % t1‘l : at the ‘J. I Case Co,, idle for near- SN SaUockted ‘today. by {940 on. Negotiations The initial no-strike pledge ef- | ¢ Rrcallgi 1| 3 Also by Elsenhowef E2t kg Jamumey 14, for hears | (g Taylor-openied g SRNA! cly o vRdE) SARRAIDAGE foi WBEK At ks nd the workers filed claims fort was directed at the public,” coubemer eed Mer ing arguments by both sides. Lewis high-ranking Nazi doctors in the Russell King, President of the CIO B ") with the Alaska Uncmployment utility field. Representatives of Pekgg < and Mptle G 45 heNGy —_— O miiad Mine Workers were| Same court where Hermann Goer- United Aufo Workers local at the | Cempensdtion Commission unicns and management in th President of the Employers WASHINGTON, D¢, 9=Secte~tiin it contempt for ignbring oy i, Joachit. Von Ribbeniropogud i equipment b sald the The Commission decided the gas, gt and municioal e L e tary of War Patterson and General | gictiiot court order intendes to JP€T Naz ringleaders were sen-'union agreed to a general 18 cent: workers ve disqualitied from (ransportatior industries were sum- YAnE QL aipaiDEt B B Dwight D. Eisenhower joined . ioient tnhe 17-day coal strike tenced to death last October. All an hour increase. Lcnefiis eight week period, moned to 4 meeting to consider & ! rn e ' handle” disagreements asserting that the United States has * 1), ; cessicn marked by important aded innccent. Of , four Case plants struck last The U Cirveuit Court in San plan for voluntary arbitrgtion ol‘.mm l}{rmg and other matters had supplied neither atom bombs 1Oy vicione the court also: Ini .sharp, bitter tones, the Am- Dec. 26, only the dispute at Ra- | Pranolin; Tl ar. & appen by. disniles: Wiitions Tkt o aitikans | o ra UL G ARN SOl fissionable material to Great Bril- | apreaq to review a Packard, crican prosecutor cutlined his case cine, Wis, was still on. g the w h th ince the The conference was arranged by | s Hastaland . SEEueo0T ain or any other country. Moior Gompany oass imvolving the o an ll-Amerisan court and as-' The Allis-Chalmers' Bosion plant ., st agreé-| 8 Labor Department Adylsbry Come | oo s ianys JNorth Sea had -steam s B gy Yight of foremen o join unions Serted: “The Third Reich died of was in production for the firs i ) and mittce composed of re {Up Sodey a0d WhL ai ot oY and bargain collectively with em-.its own n The defendants, time since April 30 following an Pt plants, of ‘the AFL, CIO, National Ass ko CR e S The Washington»oe= ., . i o MerrY_Go_ROUde“"’me" from the jury invalidated the indictment against two l2aders of the “I Am Religious” organiza- -+ DRE AR ‘tion in California. by DREW PEARSON 3. Refused 8 to 0 to disturb a decisicn of the Federal Communi-| |cations Commission in refusing @ i licerise for station WOKO at Al- shal talin's | . :mnni:m;mmfi;a ’fif‘,’;hir sibbmlk.:ba"*‘" It held that the court’s judg- H:a suffered a heart attack some- Tet should not be substituted for § h istrative authority by time in November and is now rest- ;_gcfl(lmln strative authority of the WASHINGTON Diplomatic dispatches from Moscow indicate ing in the Crimea. B O This fact has been made the sub- ject of an official report to thc‘uN‘ON'S powER is State Department. This last heart attack is the| second suffered by the man who| lIMITED BY (ouR! has so long ruled Russia. Last winter he also had to go to the Crimea to recuperate from an ill- ness. Stalin is now 67 years old, but has crammed more diversified lile and hardship into those years than any other world leade Imprisoned and exiled to Siberia eight times, the years have tak- en their toll, and Stalin was Lot play-acting when he held up Churchili and Truman by staying! in bed one day at Potsdam. 1t is generally expected that Fu eign Minister Molotov will suecaed Stalin. Note—The experience of all' Amn- erican negotiators, from Rooseveit to Jimmy Byrnes, is that Stalin is much casier to do business with| IN UPHOLDING NiB WASHINGTOUN, Dec. 9.—The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the National Labor Rela- tions Board in limiting a union’s power to have an employee fired! from a closed shop. A Labor Relations Board official said the Board has erdered the em-: ployes reinstated and obtained court enforcement of its order. | The union was the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers. This union called for the discharge of an em- ployee by the Portland, Oregon. Jumber mills after a bargaining election when a CIO union was de- featd. Under the court ruling, the, Iworker—who was on the opposing . side in the voting—keeps his job (Continiued on Page Four) ly, ciation of Manufacturers and U. S. d that Chamber agreement reached with the CIO LOADI X ted to at poison- buted to that poison AT PORTLAND i { ted Electrical Workers. hie b} of Commerce, > P . ks = 'he victims o1 thelr crimes are! 1he CIO Packinghouse Worl fair lator practices the Alaska Salmon Company had Additional “peace meetings'”’ “H;(,i o{{»\l‘.“zikilfr'.,t)g‘:f{;’“{ numbered in hundreds of thous-and the Cucahy Packing Company <pe acsociaticn also asked exciu- * edcd noc o send a fishing ex- lother industries where strikes could {=enop ‘due ’u‘ - for iR lég}zh::\ Ands Taylor fold the court. “A,4ere expected to sign a New York sion of the metal mining industry Fedition to + in 1940 and imperil the naticnal cconomy are'‘eritory Saturday, was being pitsd bhandful only are still alive; few contract in Chicago today.” Pre- from the Washington stat ; tuled, therefcre, that its employees planned socn by the committee, {yp on the dock tntxl-ny‘h el of the survivors will appear in this| ¥icusly, the Union had laid plans jay and enactment of a are entitled to benefits of Alaska’s Which functions tndgr auspices oi| L. Comdr. E. P. Chester, the courtroom.’ for strike action against Cudahymetal mining safety code Unemployment Compensaticn law. the Labor Dej \ ! Alaskan Governor's aide who came The. General. declared the group)and other major packers. lacislatiing) It upheld the Commission’s find- 1 nceded pri-‘here to' grrange” the . relief ship- operated directly under Heinrich' Puget Sound’s 69-day maritime| Cpposition was also voiced to the 8 that workers of the other two Vi fle that the Admin-‘ment, sald the loading would begin Hiboler ang the ‘aried forocs.and | tie-up’ ended Rl S e the Companies .are disqualified from ist ns stand against Lewls may |as coon as sufficlent cargo 15 ready subjected Poles, Russians and Jews But the labor picture had some of Mines at Washington these beneiits for the eight-week di 1ge another round of strike: the docks. VSUIH&‘ treight (:s\|:< Yo fafal experiments under high|dark spofs, icluding s Collagh and: loss of s idens period in the steel, automobile and similar ill expected in Y ? altitude conditions, to ' sub-zéro| Threat of a repetition of the ity by reducing it to the status of Y ST Jor indu: which have con-! With the Seattls maritime strike freczing, to poison injections, and‘usboat strike which earlier this a mere department in the College t agreements ending in the{scitled this ship will be the enly to cnforced drinking of sea water, Year ticd up New York's huge har- of neering.” sanla Xt few ‘months tone to sail from here to .A];u:k.x_ He declared the hearing was not bor traffic. ; H g S These fllt-:utrr noted that as long|Chester said it should be loaded mbrely a murder trial: that 1ts real| Closing *of igll ‘public schools in pu"i as the Smith-Connally War Labor:and 1eady to depart by Saturday® Jurpose was to show the German | Pawtucket, R. T, following a strike (DA I_!NEN HAMPEP . Disputes Act remains in effect,|Tt will stop at Cordova Valdez, people the experiments he outlined | threat by’most of city’s 430 teach- » o e Dmnei’ President Truman has the power to ' Seward, Seldovia and Kodiak i Were “fact and niot: Tabisk ers. AWARD (ARD PAP]“! e s or industries where Chester said settlement of the > a e P SEATTLE any, 5, wouldn't Strikes are in progress or threat- tle area strike would mean NEARLY 100 SKIERS IS TOMORROW XIGHT cat nis dinver ened i “real relief for the Alaskans.” He | P Then his mother and father, Mr ty Mo said he would ask Seattle shipping FRANKPRICEIS | HITTRAILONSUNDAY ... .o oo o so s 0 Mo L fomaso st Sants SERIOUSLY LL ot oo ey o e G VRO STOCK QUOTATIONS £ i S ¥ Close to 100 skiers were present Catholie Daughters of Amer- ? onriood little boys Who €A%/, NEW IYORK, Dec. 8 — Closiug 'would nican onl Sl b at the Slalom hill during Satur- ica to be given tomorrow evening 7. ';nn o s Juneau mine ( ksl gt QRGE SO0 RO vitak S"KA Hosp“A day and Sinday to enjoy the new|at & o'clock dh Parisn Hall will ke, 1 5 liomano went {pto the ktich- Amerioan Can ' ol PRI MONe S5 e Dish o snow fall. Saturdays proved to be another of those enjoyable airs o 8 pped on the family. SaBta g7 Angeonda 41, Curtiss-Wright| e the. better day with the fempera- with something of interest for ev- ooriy CUMflt they had and 6',, Intomational Harvester 175, TONGASS T0 § SITKA, Alaska, Dec. 9.—Frank ture Leing much more favorable eryone, according to committec QUSRS She fapped ¢ l,“m window. wecott 50%, New. Yark Central: pe A".k” o hisdilros Price, native leader, fisherman and |for enjoyable skiing. members in charge of games and Lenny looked, shriked and hid )9 Northern Pacific R T ie Alasks Tranaporistion. S Republican Representative-elect to| The outdoor committee wishes to refreshments. {adefhapttle; . When his o 1 Pound $4.027, Renyistngunces the TSNS N fhe Territorial Legislature, fs “ser-|thank all ‘those. who helped ftake| There will be tables of bridge, o1t Dis plate was clean Billes L5y ‘were 2,640,000 ‘shikres. (o morr EEpcde e MBS jously ill,” his attending physician, the ski tow up Saturday, and plans pinochle and whist with prizes for B Dow, Jonks. gverages (oday. are e n oo LA (6 NSUKATRCHS Dr. William C. Charteris, disclosed to have the Lft in operation by next hoth men and women, and a cordial UNHAPPY ENDING a5 Thlows:, Indystiisls. VIBTD, Talls one 4L SRiBEoad o BN teday. iweekend. A marked improvement invitation is extended to those who 2.67, utilities 36 i AP Price had been ill at his home in cooperation in respect to skiers may not care akout cards to come LOS ANGELES Short short The market registered gains up he damage caused .- e Lor three days before being moved 'packing the trail with skies on the'for the hamper award and for re- story from the classified ads and down teday on the strength o :-mi-»u;v\“1;‘ r;v‘:‘”sl(J tbzi o U-pcf to the Pioncers' Home Hospital. /uphfll climb freshments “For of the coal strike settlement timated st 4300000800 AeEciais} dale: Unused wedding gown.”