The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 11, 1947, Page 1

) (v ¥ o SATURDAY SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition 1P.M. Edition THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,474 £ PRICE TEN CENTS MUNITION PROFITS ARE TO BE PROBED Opposition to Slashing Budget Developing ARMY-NAVY [FED. CONCILIATOR Combining of LEWIS, UNW VOLCANO (Profection for Alaska BIGSCALE MERGER IS vt wiiason Labor Bills APPEAR IN ' ONLUION FromBombslsUrgedby INQUIRYIS BIG ISSUE Is Proposal HIGH COURT SPOUTING Former A.L.Commander COMING UP | | | Pro- bomb: Jan. 11 ainst N FRANCISCO, m for Alaska an. 11 1 g [Effected Settlement of (i | Seward Ship Strike-An- e ; Cutfing of Appropriations omiblican loa Might Impair Na- tional Defense WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Strong bi-partisan opposition to bLudget slashings that might impair secur- ity developed today as Army-Navy merger advocates seized on the President’s spending estimate as a good argument for consolidating the armed services. The merger move gathered mo- mentum as Republican financial managers, talking of sharp reduc- tion in Mr. Truma $37,500.000,000 budget for the fiscal year startin next July 1, looked hungrily at projected outlay of for the forces. a ©On both sides of Capiol Hill the | nearing | , GOP leadership seemed agreement that $3,500,000,000 be about as much as Congress c hope. to pare from the President estimate. Chairman Taber (R-NY) of the House appropriations commit said the total can be reduced “at least three cr four billions.” This is the amount. Chairman Taft of Ohio of the GOP Senate steerin committee has said he thinks ca Le “squeezed out.” Taber told reporters his conten- tion that appropriations can be cut to slightly over $29,000,000,000 had been widely taken to mean he in- may n tended a slash of some $8,000,000,-| 000 in the budget total. He said he referred only to new appropriations and that the budget provides for spending seveial billions in carry- over funds. If the Republicans are going to make good their promise to take a big bite out of the President’s, t figures, they conceded, they m do considerable nipping on Army and Navy funds which account for about 30 percent of the total. “Substantial, cuts” in military spending were foreseen by Rep. Engel lR-MAch\}nighl in Anchorage, and voting on | nost problems in Alaska if the Army and the Navy are merged. Engel, who will head the appro- priations sub-committee l\andling} Army funds, told reporters that ev- en without a merger large cuts $11,000,000,000 | honest-to-goodnesg | " other at Anchorage Albin L. Peterson, Federal Con- | ciliator, and Leonard Evans of the Territorial Department of Labor, | returned to Juneau from Anchorage vesterday after laboring as third { parties in two labor disputes. | Petel | Republican leaders jtoward the idea of leaned today combining two jor three of their labor bills into one| |big package. | Members of the Senate Labor |Committee said privately that the brief hearing planned for the No 1 bill on the schedule, the Ball-|Lewis and the United Mine Workers | senate| Aocart Government's In- junction in Coal Strike Void WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—John L son conferred last night and | Taft-Smith bill, now may be com-|told the Supreme Court today that Mighty Mayron Looks Ominous According ‘ to Daring Fliers By JAMES HALSHEMA | ABOARD US. ARMY WEATHER ? MAYON VOLCANO, Mayon Voleano | PLANE OV M 11 | today with Henry Benson, Com- bined with the hearings on other | the govenment's no-strike injunc- |Jan. hty missioner of Labor, working out a|proposals such as: tion in the soft coal dispute was!lcoks ominot A haze of grey- plan of mutual cooperation b..,! 1. The far-reaching bill to abol-| veid pink smcke streams out of her cone | tween the Federal Conciliation'ish industry-wide bargaining. in-| Attorney for Lewis and the union ;to cover a 100-mile section of i Service and the Territorial De- |troduced yesterday by Senator Ball|filed a brief before the high courtlsoutheast Luzon partment of Labor. | (R-Minn). Ball said of this pro-|contending that Congress had bar-| Mayon, a volcano that has erupt- | Peterson’s job in Seward was!posal that it would prevent indus- red the issuance of restraining ed frequently in the past 100 yea |try-wide strikes, and under it “cer-|orders against unions {Eolls with smoke and lava | | the arbitration of the dispute over the unloading of ships at that port. the | In settlement, a tempora horemen sacrificed their ontention that the second hatch a ship being unloaded should manned entirely by longshore- men n Seward Longshoremen to the Na- tional Labor Relations Board for ‘exclusive bargaining rights for all e, employees of the Alaska Steamship | | Company engaged in loading and | unloading sels in Seward. { In its effect, the granting of the : petition by the NLRB would mean he de ion of Seward at a terminal port Commenting on the agreement, Commissioner ~of Labor Benson | stated that Peterson should be giv- en credit for preventing a possibly erious tie-up of shipping at Sew- lard. He complimented also the | CIO Longshoremen for their sa ‘rifice of the point on which the ! disagreement hung, and giving up | the Public Health Department gave temporarily two jobs on the ship | by longshoremen. Carpenter’s Strike Peters that in the second strike, that of the Anchorage carpenters, there | ment, | the proposed settlement in which ! both sides have made concessions.: The agreement between Federal | Conciliation Service and the Terri- | torial Department of Lakor is be- | ing worked out on the same basis' was reached whereby the tainly John L. wis would not be an absolute dictator.” 2. Proposals to outlaw | forms of the closad shop. 3. Proposals to change the W jner Act in order to give employ ers a better kargaining position howing a rge num- various The idea of The government also filad a brief, larguing that Lewis and the union should have obeyed the Federal | District Court's order not to strike la November regardless of the | court’s authority to issue such a directive Lewis and the union were found Only a trained voleanologist could {predict whether Mayon is ready to |blow her top this time, but the |fact that her cone of boiling rock | |is still int seems ominous to | weather obscrvers aboard this plane. | It might go at any time | | Myon burst into activity Wednes- 2 MISSING ON FLIGHT ARE SAFE Early Report; Said Howard Hughes, Movie Actor Gary Grant Lost HUSTON, Tex., Jan. 11 Noah Dietrich, President of the Hughes Tool Company, said today that Howard Hughes and Cary Grant, movie actor, reported missing on a flight from Dayton, O., to Amaril- (ber of labor law changes into cne guilty of contempt of court for vio- fday night, sending a ball of fire o n is ade . o t h S . lo, Tex., are safe. A petition is to be made by the iy pag peen favored all along by lating restraining orders issued by ihurtling skyward. Two Navy fliers| House Republican leaders Two jor three huge omnibus bills have (been introduced in' the House. CRIPPLED CHILDREN IS ALASKA PROBLEM SAYS BPW SPEAKER | Members | Professtonal | of the Business and Womens Club held | their regular business - luncheon | meeting yesterday in the Gold | Room. Miss Dorothy Whitney of jan interesting discussion on the which they contend should be held | subject of the crippled children's|jo the following 33 passengers: | association in Alaska, She was in |Judge T. Alan Goldsborough and were fined a total of $3,510,000. The Supreme Court next Tuesday will hear oral arguments from each/lage of 5000, and side on the issues. Lewis called off the soft codl !strike December 7, after a 17-day j shutdown. - - 'Norah Here - From South The Princess Norah arrived'in ‘Junenu at 10 p.n. last night, bring- I Mr., and Mrs. Frank Buckn Ce- |who preceded this flight said a| !small stream of lava is coursing| {down ' toward Pipog, a fishing vil-| might carry to! {the vieinity of the town | The pilot of this C-47 tranaport.‘ | gt Rohory A Harrls™ Dayton, ©., banked within 200 yards of the ;harp-pointed, red hot, mile and (half peak of this mighty mountain ! | which dominates Bicol Peninsula Mayon's cone-shaped crown glowing like coals in a blast fur- nace. Ominously, Mayon has no Icrater. Craters come only a violent eruption. 3 Steam, smoke and clouds prevent- ed all but a brief glimpse of May- is on's cone itimes as closely as he dared | commanding officer of the | clined | bomber after | and as Harris circled it four| Fifth | Dietrich said Hughes changed his @ plans after leaving Wright Field at Dayton in a B-23 bomber, but de- to say where he went, or to give any other information Hughes, Los Angeles and Texas capitalist, owns the Hughes Tool Compapy. v EARLY REPORT DAYTON, O, Jan. 11-—The Air faterial Command at Wright Field reported today that a B-23 Army carrying Howard Hughes movie actor Cary Grant is missing on a flight from Dayton to Amarillo, Texas. The Army said that planes both from Wright Field and City Muni- cipal airport were searching for Capt. O. H. True, Irwin, Pa,|the missing craft. i The last report from Hughes was i Anchorage at the time the ass0-jasee C. Collins, Erma Douglas, Levi | Weather Squadron of the 12th Air|at 6:49 pm, (EST) yesterday in a ciation was established in that city | day be a member of this group. The speaker said that next ininyg g McDonald, Malcom Sharp. Way down the north was a good chance for early agree-line to victims of tuberculosis, crip- | welfare circles. recently and is now hanging in the lobby of the Baranof next to the other civic emblems. The plaque The plaque for the BPW arrived ! Duckworth, Harley Edwards, Holand n and gvans both ielt]and hopes that Juneau may One!ponander, Mrs. B. Jaegal and child, break in the clouds that incande: John Lunn, Emily Mullen, Mr. and Claudia Smith, Bertha Smith, The union is meeting to- | pled children are one of the fore-!pao Wwolf, Thor Goodman, Doro- $pilling down all | thy Spence, Ida Stein, Neil Tay | lor, Gordon Dase, Ray Doyle, Don- jald Campbell, James Gardner, Peter { IIniecki. Hohn Mennie, Hector MacDonald, | Ann McDowell, Campbeli McDow- could be made “without sacrificing. as essential national defense.” is in effect in the State of Washington, modified to meet the “But I want one dollar of na-jparticular administrative set-up in! tional defense for cvery dollar: Alaska. spent,” Engel added. | It provides for the exchange of - - eee - information between the two or- LOS ANGELES — Fifteen hun—“ ganizations, in order to keep ahead dred veterans spent the night in|°f developments in the labor dis- MacArthur Park in a “big s]gep‘!puu* field. The second provision demonstration - against insufficient| inges upon the first. The Bu- housing. (reaus agree to step in wherever o ¥ 34 - METE NN | possible in advance of any work stoppage, and participate in the The w aShingion peaceful settlement between the in- Merry - Go-Round terested parties to the dispute. By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Every White House caller these days comes out of the inner sanctum remarking on how well and high - spirited | President Truman looks. Expecting | him to appear bowed and discour- aged by the weight of his office, they remark: “He doesn't seem to have a care; in the world.” i Even during the middle of the coal strike, when Truman Cabinet members worried sick over the ec- i ! Third provision is for mutual as- sistance in putes, so that if one office has need of aid or considers partici- pation by the other organization | would help toward early settlement lof the dispute, it would be forth- coming immediately. With * this cooperative service working agreement between the Conciliation Service and the De- partment of Labor, it will be pos- sible in many instances where con- ciliation is applied for in advance of an open break between workers peaceably and without work stop- pages. onomic consequences to the coun- L | B e try, White House callers came out| WwASHINGTON — Sectetasy . ot to report that the President seemed |war Robert P. Patterson today to be in fine fettle agreed to study the possibility of round disk bearing the initials “N.|eonard Turnbull, Julius Nageman. has a wood backbround With a ey youis Trimble, George Trimble, | the handling of dis- | and employers to settle disputes | One unoificial explanation is that, since November, the President feels that the Republicans have re- moved - part of the responsibility of leadership from his shoulders. releasing part of the San Fran- |cisco Presidio for housing sites, but | he told Congressmen the War De- partment regarded the area as one of its “most important army bases.” Flot.B, P.W." Business discussed at the meet- | ing included the Sun Valley, Idaho National convention of BPW which will take place next summer. The i Juneau Chapter plans to send a delegate to this convention. VALENTNE TEA T0 BE GIVEN AT The regular monthly meeting of Holy Trinity Guild was held last evening at the home of Mrs. Alice Brown, the Secretary-Treasurer, in the Assembly Apartments with the meeting presided over by Mrs. Jack Guerin. The chief order of busi- ness was the decision by the Guild to hold their annual Valentine’s Tea on Saturday afternoon, Febru- ary 15, in the Holy Trinity Parish Hall. Full details about commit- tees for the Tea arrangements will be made at the next regular meet- ing to be held on February 7, at the home of Mrs. George Tuttle in | Douglas with Mrs. James Welling- ton as co-hoste | The program for the evening was | ‘thc subject of some of the econo- {mic problems in | the church is doing to combat these i problems. Mrs. Edna Polley ex- | I TRINITY GUILD! |a discussion led by the Rector on| India and what! pressed great interest in the study ! | She s d in port for six hours, .leaving in a snow storm that pre- ivailed throughout the entire night, at 5:30 o'cleck this morning. ! The Norah carried 18 passengers {from Juneau to Skagway: Mr. and | Mrs. Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Pag (ler, Pauline Takernille, Nina Tab- |ernille, E. E. Rasmuson, Frank | Perille, Hall Jackson, Thomas B | Dennison, L. Lindstrum, Fred Paul, | C. A. Carroll, J. Hvisdock, B. Field, | Mrs. Field, V. W. James and L. | Smith. The Norah is scheduled to ar- jrive back in Juneau, and leaves | again at 8:30 Sunday morning, but | because of weather conditions, she may be a few hours late. smmgmov:fi"ims Alaska, from night tonight. Sword Knot, from Seattle, duc tomorrow. Sailor Splice, from Seattle, due | Monday. } North Sea scheduled to have sail- ed from Seattle yesterday. No re- | port. Tongass scheduled to | Seattle today. | Aleutian scheduled to | Seattle January 17. Baranof shceduled to ESeame January 24. Princess Norah, from Skagway, i scheduled to arrive and sail south at 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning. | | | Seattle, due mid- i sail from sail from sail from orce, said he could see through a S- | cent lava had rolled at least half- tern slope. ! apparently was sides of that In fact, lava cylindrical crown At intervals, when cumulus clouds | covered the summit, black smoke! and fine ash penetrated through Ithem like heavy black smoke from! an oil fire. | A careful check eight other volcanoes Letween Mayon and Ma- Inila, 200 miles north, showed no evidence of activity in them. Pres- ident Roxas sent a volcano expert and an otserver to investigate ! The Manila Times said peopl (the vicinity, having survived a war ithat leveled their homes, are tak- {ing Mayon's activity in stride. | - of e in| | Helicoplers For Alaska i | GREAT FALLS, Mont. Jan. 11.— !Two helicopters, which will be used by army infantry units in Alaska, will be taken North in two large army cargo planes due to make cold weather tests in the Arctic. The | transports, twin-engine C-82 Fair- |childs, arrived at Great Falls on { Thursday from Wright Field, Day- S | 'PNA BRINGS IN 11, " TANES TEN 10 WEST | |, Arriving in Juneau yesterday Troop 623, sponsored by the Holy | giile from Anchorage aboard a PN Air-| Trinity Episcopal Church, should|gom skagway: F. H. Story, C. A liner were eleven passengers as; follows: Rich Dalton, Marvin Nel-{ !son, Sig Olson, Dorothy Sweeney,' Louis R. Shultz, L. E. Evans, Albin| routine check when the plane was over Indianapolis. The Municipal airport here said at 11:30 a.m. today that no word had been received from the plane > MASONS, STARS T0 INSTALL OFFICERS AT MONDAY MEET Monday evening at 8 o'clock will see the annual recurrence of the Joint Installation Ceremonies of the Masons and Stars, when the oificers of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147 and Juneau Chapter No. 7, Ord- er of Eastern Stars will be install- ed for the ensuing year The Masons will cpen their lodge in ed Communication at 7:30 o'clock and hold a short business meeting, and at 8 o'clock their officers will be installed by the re- tiring Master, M. L. MacSpadden, assisted by H. D. Stabler as Install- ing Marshal. After the Masonic Ceremony has been completed the officers for the Stars will be installed by Past Worthy Matron, Mildred Martin, assisted by Lucille Lawrence as In- stalling Marshal Both ceremonies are public that invited non-Masons and Stars may attend. Refreshments will be served in the Scottish Rite Temple tdining room after the ceremonies. Shames, Jr., D e BOYS WANTED All boys 12 to 15 years of age { wishing to join the new Boy Scout| page, immediately so they members Of can the sign up become Charter Troop. All boys interested in joining Denali, from westward, scheduled | Peterson, M. H. Kerns, Sam Styles, should see Scoutmaster Bob Booch- 1, Angoon, Roy ever, Room 519 in the Federal Senate Re;ul)]i(ans War Investigating Commit- tee Plans Action | tec {“from the top of the world,” was| urged by Warren H. Atherton,| former National Commander of the American Legion, in a speach be-| fore the Commonweaith Club. He termed the Territory “our bulwark ~WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Repub- against international storm.” licans, planning a big-scale probe Atherton also decried the man-|of munition profits, charted strat- ner in which Alaskan affairs have egy today for continuing the spec- been handled ial Senate war investigating com- We must quit treating Al:\ak;\‘mhlm- despite opposition of Demo- las a stepchild to be worked to the cratic Senators. [bone for our own advantage while| Chairman Brewster (R-Me) neglecting her education, her feel-|scheduled a conference with Sena- ings and her growth . . . the gov- tor Gurney (R-8D), head of the ernment must revamp the ancient, w Armed Services committee outworn restrictions of the Depart- | which some Democrats contend ment of the Interior to encourage should take over the work of the individual settlement in Alaska's special inquiry group which was vich and fertile valleys. Special in-|under President Truman’s chalr- ducements must be offered to manship when he was in the Sen- enable pioneer business men to get'ate. v on their feet,” he said. Brewster already has conferred Atherton visited every important with other Republican members of military kase in the Territory dur- the special committee so that, as \ing & recent 10,000-mile air force be put it, “we can present a third inspection tour. ‘front on policy” when the matter ! { These GOP Senators expect that | ! Gurney will fall in line with party | plans and yield any claim the Arm- N E Tydings of Maryland and Hay- IN MI life of the war inquiry unit and ional .rmrganlzauon act is designed [ Brewster replied he was “loathe Petroleum Shale Pit S !vestigating committee because they men frantically sought today 1o oy, Police reports that tbe burning flames, were denied today by an| Standty rescue workers at the| > comes up for a vote In the Senate, | ed. Services .committee - might have den of Arizona protested against i s i the small business committee. ‘HerOi( E“OHS '0 ReS(ue 1to eliminate special committees, It I'to believe” that the Democrats op- WEST CALDER, Scotland. Jan. feared disclosures “it * may * make rescue 15 mineworkers trapped in portion of the shaft was sealed off,! official of Scottish Oils, Limited,; pithead, however, went through > i > HEAVY TAX ONALASKA probably Monday. TR Apm Ito conduet war mvestigations. | The issue came up in the Senate ¥ ‘day when Democratic Sena- Republican efforts to continue the Trey argued that the Congress- Thos ein Fl amin g |does not tan them, however | ipesed continuance of the war in- 11—More than 250 miners and fi'e-) woulq embarrass the administra- a flaming petroleum shale pit H leaving the 14 men to die in the| which operates the pit. | practice drills with heaps of sand- | bags, preparing to seal the burning in| level if nece to prevent the flames from spreading to the vest| of the oil-seeping. formation Weeping wives and children of the 14 trapped men, all but two of whom were married and have fam- ilies, watched the practice, knowing that all hope for the men will ke gone when the practicing workers and the piles of tandbags begin; descending the mine | Company officials announced that “a further effort” will be made to rescue the men before the sealing loff order is passed into the pit One miner was killed, one injured | and 38 escaped - when an explo- |sion roared in the mine last nigh t - ALASKA COASIAL ON FLIGHTS ON FRIDA The four Alaska Coastal All’]mfl'si yesterday brought in 24 passengers | | [the following from Sitka: George| Gus George, RUUI} Renner, Farl Albrecht, Ellis Rey- | nolds, Dianne Teckell, Jack Jackson | and D. A, Naish; from Hoonah: Al-; fred Shaftestad, Willie Ross, Fran- cis Phillips, Sally Phillips and Billy | | Phillips; from Petersburg: S. C , Jack G. Bormty, Herb sby and the Rev. Webster; Carrol and John Kvisdock { ;Alberla Prov TRUCKERS ine ik ial Govt. Charges Cent a Ton, Highway Freighters GREAT FALLS, Mont., Jan. 11 ~-Bob Darling, vice president of the Great Falls Chamber of Com- !merce, said two Great Falls busi- nessmen had confirmed reports a tax of one cent a ton mile is be- ing levied by the Alberta Provincial government on truckers freighting supplies to Alaska Darling declared the assessment was made when the truckers failed to buy Provincial license plates, costing from $235 to $385 for large trucks. He said the businessmen told him a fes of $161 was charged for two trucks which recently trans- ported 18,000 pounds of beef from Great Falls to Fairbanks over the Alaska Highway. e CONDITION OF BABE RUIH IS o and Jom Kikdoek ) SATISFACTORY Juneau. Two leaving for Sitka were| NEW YORK, Jan. 11-—The con- Jack Johnson and Sid Thompson; | dition of Babe Ruth still was satis- Peratrovich; to| factory, attaches at the French Marvin and Ray| Hospital reported early today Hoonah: Doris |pmgram for the year which is the isubject of “India” and will luad( MOSCOW — Field Marshal Lord | the discussion at the next meeting. Montgomery left for home by plane Her subject will be “Women in | to arrive tomorrow or early Monday. | A- E. Lathrop, and Leskesen. NNEE LB | Leaving Juneau yesterday aboard Building or SAN FRANCISCO — A convert-| the liner were | ed single-engined army training Cladys Newell and son, Bonnie Agency. No matter what he does, it can’t be right in GOP eyes; therefore, he might well be philosophical about it. PP — Keith Wildes, Assist- Bolton, and to Tenakec: Octer! The fornier Home Run King has 10 passengers:|ant Scoutmaster in the Shattuck|Martin, J. Blanc, Mack Emerson, been in the hospital since Nov. 26 |Robert Holden, Granville Olson, D. and underwent a serious neck op- | Another explanation is that, since |tcday after a triumphal visit, cli- India.” plane piloted by Thomas Fortune Smith, A Lorenzo, Wallace Tyk-| Several boys & igned up and E. Rice and Joe Burdette eration last Monday November, Truman feels he is ,,owmafi_ed by two meetings with Prime| Refreshments were served by the |Ryan 1V, son of a millionaire- Ward, John Fanning, Mrs. Joe Bird, the Troop is expected to begin PES H - longer under any obligation to car- | Minister Stalin who he said looked hostess and a short social hour | sportsman aviator, crashed into and children, Frank Marshall, H. P.jmeetings next week. For definite For frankfurters used in the| Don Diego de Vargas headed the e e ——— [fine and apparently was in excel- followed the adjournment of the | fog-blanketed San Francisco Bay | Noggle, George Skannes and Castle,| meeting date in time, be sure t0 United States 490000 miles of cas- reconquest of New Mexico in 1693 (Continued on Page Four) |lent health meeting early today. all tor Anchorage. | See Scoutmasters ling are needed yearly. after the Pueblo Rebellion of 1680,