The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1947, Page 1

VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,476 CONTEMPT CASE BEFORE HIGHEST COURT B e e e ' servative right. " memories, however, they will nlso! . the 2nd-front problem through the ‘ day to discuss “the whole air pic- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1947 "~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AIR CRASH PROBINGTO BE STARTED Senate Commerce Commil- tee Plans Investigation Reserve Col. Re-enlists as Sgl. LONDON MAY WORKERS N LEAVE JOBS ‘Protest Made in Use of | Troops Moving Strike- { bound Food Supplies —CAB Summoned , WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. — The| Senate Commerce Committee called | in the Civil Aeronautics Board to-| ture” in the light of recent crashes which some Congress members say have shaken public faith in com- mercial flying. Senator Brewster (R-Me), com-| mittee member, told reporters, “we have got to see if we can find out what the difficulty is.” | “The situation is destroying POP- ular confidence. There won't be| anybody flying if this keeps on.| People are getting afraid to fly and“ that’s a bad thing,” Brewster said.| He predicted a government air safety board separate from the CAB may be proposed, and another | committeemdr,, Senator Capehart (R-Ind), declared that such a mov “may be a necessity.” | This would remove crash investi- gation authority fromn the CAB, which also makes the rules for fly- | ing. 31 as a full colonel, is pictured as he dcnned his masteér sergeant’s blcuse after re-enlisting in that rank. He will be entitled to r!!t:e in | about two months on $225 per month. Had he retired as a reserve colcnel, he wculd have drawn no pay. He has been in ihe Army thirty-twe years. (International) BIG FOUR DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETINGINLONDON Start Work on German and | - " (Continued on l;uqe Five) R The Washington QUEEN — Nancy Barber, 18, of Orlando, Fla, is 1947 campus queen at the university of Florida at Gainesville. NO MORE BRASS—Robert J. Miller, who left the Army December | |England threatened by the spread- | ! By TOM WILLIAMS | LONDON, Jan. 14.—A mass meet- ing of London dock workers vot- ed today to join some 30,000 union | lakorers in a walkout protesting the use of troops to move food supplies ! help up by a nine-day strike of London truck drivers. The decision, which may effect all of London’s 24,000 organized dock workers, was reached at a 40-: minute noon hour meeting attended | by between 1,200 and 1,400 men who ignored appeals of union leaders to| remain at work { ‘With food distribution throughout ; ing walkouts, government offlcluls,‘ employers’ representatives and un- | ion leaders hurriedly set up fast- |moving machinery to negotiate a settlement. More ‘than 2,000 soldiers—angri- ly termed “blacklegs (strike break- | ers) in uniform” by the strikers— and 800 service vehicles meanwhile tegan their second day of lugging meat and other food to retailers serving 10,000,000 inhabitants of the Greater London area. i ‘With the soldiers taking over do- livery duties, food in limited - tities Legan re-appearing in n- | don shops that had been almost| drained of supplies during - the. work stoppage. 3 SENTENCED 10 DEATH FOR HIGH TREASON By LARRY ALLEN WARSAW, Jan. 14—A Polish H batten. daughter of Lord Louis SN, Free Brooms Handed 60Pers STEEL STRIKE SAYS LEWIS' COAL STRIKE WAS INSULT U, §. Attorney General Makes Argument Be- fore Supreme Court | BULLETIN ‘Washington, | Jan, 14.—Bupreme Court argu- ments on the appeal by John L. | Lewis and the United Mine | Workers from $3,510,000 in con- tempt fines were completed late today. It may be several weeks | before the High Tribunal rules. | WASHINGWUN, Jan. 14.-—Attor- ney General Tom C. Clark contend- led in the Supreme Court today |that John L. Lewis' courss in last | fall's soft coal strike was “an in- |sult to the United States itself.” Asking the high tribunal to up- hold the $3,510,000 in contempt ; i (fines imposed on Lewis and the . = [ A g United Mine Workers, Clark argued THEIR ENGCAGEMENT RUMORE D —prince Philip of Greece (left) and Princess the government sought only to Elizabeth of England (right), who persistent rumors say will be married, appear with Princess Mar- maintain governmental functions garet Rose (center) at Romsey Abbey, Hants, England. They attended the wedding of Patricia Mount- | when it turned to the courts for Mountbatten, to Capt. Lord Brabourne of the Colddream Guards an order agajnst a coal strike. When Lewis disregarded that ord- er, he said, it was a “contempt” that was an “insult” to the coun- try and that “compromises all law and invites mob rule.” “Surely,” Clark said, “government has the authority and the power to defend itself against destruction from within—as it has the duty to defend the country from de- !'struction from without.” “When that issue is involved no NOTICE FILED Contract Negofiation Open irove the law-—and this is a coun- Thursday g -,2 000 ‘try and government of laws. Workers Involved Clark led off for the government in a case expected to set far-reach- ing precedents in interpretations of laws applying to organized labor. PITTSBURGH, Jan. 14--CIO- United Steel Workers today an- |nounced 30-day strike notices .were | filed in Washington with the Na- One is whether the Norris-La- |Guardia Act, which has been on tional Labor Relations Board, Wage Stakilization Board and the De- Ithe statute books for many years, {ktars the government from seeking partment of Labor The action involved approximate- en injunction against a union. ly 720,000 workers at 700 plants, The law outlaws injunctions (ord- ers to do this, or not to do that) against unjons in labor disputes with private employers. Merry -_G_g- Roun By DREW PEARSON (Ed. note—This is the second of Drew Pearson’s columns giv- ing the background of the new Secretary of [ 'state, George C. Marshall.) Pecple Are Scared { In the House, Rep. Rivers (D- horritied and scared to death. If there is scmething wrong with the | thing should be done.” ¢ 1 H W. G. McGrath, General Man- AUStR”an Pea(e Ireahes Eastern Division, said in New York | eady for MOS(OW “uhere can be no question that the | tion mishaps has contributed to the F;Q“r Sty Piicign Mieiners WS- present air travel situation” He ted down today to do the spade- . o5 D8 treaties with British and| temporary lull in business activity. 4 ase Foredy o The airline safety figures from American quarters hopeful that the " itria would te ready for discussion |in Moscow in March. planned to welcome the diplomats of the United States, Russia and then leave the deputies to the five- ;week task of hearing Territorial idefeated countries and trying to (smooth out Big Four difference 1‘ Britain and the United State: were reported to have the drafts! |ready for study by the Russian and !French deputies. Some informed/ Byrnes, the toughest job facing new giaies would waive reparations Secretary of ‘State George Mar-/(laims against that nation’s totter relations with Russia. Ition centered around Russia's de-| When Marshall ‘'was Chief of imands. i Hitler marched into Russia, he many by at least six of her one- made the mistake of telling a press'time victims posed an immediate reach Moscow" in about six weeks.| Faced with such diplomatic stumb-/ While the estimate was informal ling blocks as economic unification, back to the Russians. Naturally, ai- |French insistence on ‘the economic so, they did not like it. absorption of the Saar, the deputies the Russians won’t relish General peace proposals for Germany and Marshall’s appointment as Secre-lreport to the Big Four Foreign| as a semi-military threat against| | them; and not only in Russia, but | ! kia and England, it will be con-| strued as a further move of the| I" su“lE IODAY SC), said the American pgople “are whole dog-goned set up, then some- ager of Trans World Airline’s | recent unfortunate series of avia-| LONDON, Jan. 14—The Big| blamed it mainly, however, on “a work on the German and Austrian blue print for an independent Aus- Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin France at the opening session and reparations claims against the two jover peace terms. |of tenative treaties on Austria WASHINGTON—As with Jimmie g5, 4ers expressed belief the United shall will be ironing out our snarled jng economy, but the biggest ques-| Staff in the fateful days of 1941 as' Territorial claims against Ger- conference that the Nazis would major problem for the deputies. and off-the-record, naturally it got Russian repatriation demands and The probabilities also are that were expected merely to survey tary of State. It will be inv.erprebediMlnlsters in Moscow March 10. i | in leftist France, Italy, Czechoslova- ‘ BARA“OF S(“ED“[ED : conservative USA toward the con- SEATTLE, Jan. 14—One of the vessels involved in a jurisdictional recall that it was Gen. Mm'shnll(,flBpute 8 | Bpyward, M”,ka' 2 |scheduled to dock here today. The who consistently urged a 2nd m’m*Bnl-nno( will bring in 281 passeng- across the English Channel, and who | e |ers and a cargo of canned salmon, backed up Stalin every inch of the 't zen fish anq general freight. way in his rows with Churchill | romorrow afternoon the Lakina Furthermore, it was Marshall Who ;s slataq to arrive from Kodiak af- cast the die with Stalin and against {tc; jts second start from that port.! Churchill in decreeing that the qne first time the Lakina nearly British and American armies should 'sank when only 20 miles out, but not go into the Balkans but through | managed to make it back to the! France. city dock where she was pumped If George Marshall had looked at out. Company officials said ap- parently crewmen neglected to close, eyes of a future Secretary of State some opening in the ship before! rather than a soldier, his present|departure. The Lakina is carrying job of ironing out the Balkans 25 pascengers, canned salmon, fish would be far easier. | joil and general cargo. ! | If the Russians have objective ! WASHINGTON—With the nation' | facing another coal strike deadlire ! |in only 11 weeks, the legal battle between the United Mine Workers | (AFL) and the Government reaches GENERALS RULE WORLD Actually, the chief risk incurred in Gen. Marshall’s appointment is not that he will be anti-Russian; because he will lean over backward to be fair. It is the danger that (Continued MI—F;’O Four) Court tomorrow. | CLOSED SHOP BILL NOW UP IN CONGRESS E By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH : WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—Sena-| tor McCarthy (R-Wis) proposed a “modified” closed shop bill today,! saying that legislation offered by, “un- Senator Ball (R-Minh.) is necessarily drasti McCarthy, a freshman Senator,| said in a statement;that his bill’ would provide ifor continuance cf[ closed and union shops but “with! restrictions that will modify them to prevent abuses.” Ball has proposed outlawing labor contracts which make union mem-| bership a condition of employment —as in the closed and union shops. ! McCarthy's proposal, as he out-| lined it, provides: “l—A modqiiied closea shopj would be mandatory after two- thirds of the employees voted for it by secret ballot at a supervised | election. “2—The modified closed shop| would be ‘open’ only to the extent! that anyone who is refused mem-| bership in a lakor union or who is expelled from membership in a un- ion would not be denied the right to work. “3.—Outlawing of the permit sys- | tem, whereby employees in a closed shop are denied unicn membership, | but forced to pay a fee to work.” With labor matters getting top consideration on Capitol Hill, Sen- ator Mose (R-Ore) urged that; Congress give Q‘r,st priority to “per- fecting” the agner Labor Act. Morse is a member of the Senate Labcr Committee who has split with Republican colleagues on labor policy. e In the dry season, camels drink a showdown before the Supreme about five gallons of water a day, a even when not working. military tribunal today sentenced Count Kawery Grocholski and two other men to death for high treason on charges they were members of an organization which sought to overthrow the Warsaw government by force. | During the trial, one of the de-| fendants testified that the British Ambassador to Poland had received state and military secrets from the underground organization, known as WIN. z Condemned with Grocholski were Waldemar Baczak, 24, former em- ployee of the Polish foreign minis- try, and Capt. Withold Kalicki, 36, of the Interior Security Corps. Dark-haired, attractive Chrystina Gavin, President, said on a visit here. He also said he was not aware of any other American railroad in- terests that might be considering @ development into the North Coun- try from the line's northern term- inus at Quesnel, B. C. “Certainly, we don’t want it,” he| said in reply to a reporter’s query. “Neither do I know of, any other western railroad which is currently interested in it.” A similar disclaimer of interest was made here last year on the part of the Northern Pacific Rail- road by C. E. Denney, President. The line has been considered in oft-recurring rumors as a start on railroad connection north to Alaska from the states. | whose contracts expire between Feb. |15 and April 1. The steel-workers Lewis' attorneys contend the law also applies to the government and that hence the miners’ union chief- BI-PARTISA handed Republican members of the Ei tative Bender, Republican (Ohio), who invited GOP members tc “sweep a the cobwebs which have cluttered up our thinking during the war years.” Left to right, Representatives Albert J. Engel cf Michigan, George H. Bender of Ohio, and Robert N CONDEMNED AN " FACES REPEAT WALK 10 CHAR Free brooms were Cengress by Represer TALHS PLAN ~ | subsidiaries of Union and U. 8. Steel are schadul- !Ld to open contract : ¢ tain was within his legal rights here Thursday when he ignored an order by U. 8. | Among basic firms named in the |District Judge T. Alan Goldsborough |strikes notices were Carnegie-Iilin-|8€ainst a strike. They said Golds- | ols, National Tube, Columbia Steel, borough had no right to issue the | American Steel and Wire, and Ten- | rder |nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad, all! T U. S. Steel Corp.;! f Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp., H 'AlMADGE e IS FIGHTING T0 Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Repub-| lican Steel Corp. | Philip Murray, President of the Steelworkers and of the CIO, said ' the filing of strike notices is a/ “mechanical procedure” and ahould" not be taken as an indication that| had with Democratic leaders last vear when his party controlled both houses. —— - PARIS, Jan. 14.—Socialist Vin- cent Auriol was elected President of the lower house of the French parliament today by a comfortable margin. A member of the Popular Republican movement, Vaugust Champetier De Ribes, was selected President of the upper hourse — but it was a close shave. The M- R-P candidate and his Communist opponent, George Marrane, each received 129 votes—but the form- er won out by virtue of seniority. Kosiorek, 22, the fourth defendant, - oy the, unjon plans 'ta strike if 8o} was sentenced to 10 years imprison- "'.‘ NEW IBERIA, T Yans AR ilm;.lmct is reached by expiration ment. » Lanky Willic Prancis is rubbing el- % ¢ . Another military court sentenced Y with death todsy but he's|. oy @ Bteel, considered the bell- ,l,v‘?‘n“AN”"iu"" ":n‘ l:‘.mulemn to death five members of the NSZ gy s right intere ‘.xl to find out if l Weihar ok dheuindusisy, willohe tog| 8 “(m:re.lh;rr“:hlce DOL hl: I;OI'XII-I i o PR O MG (B fitst to hear the United Steelwork- €' of his late father, pu cla underground organization on Chars-| wASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Presi- can die like the man [ thought I org e amnoumeed - demunds.| Lo the governorship of Georgia be- ]e:fl"Afi:;;':k;;z the Krakow prlsordent Truman has decided to call was.” | Negotiating conferences with other | fore the legislature today. o e Sthere wers. Civen | Republican Congressional leaders in| Francis, who once cheated the pasic steel tirms are being arrang-| A Toll-call vote of the combined {;ng pri.s.un wrem: s were g {for frequent consultations, FP2p.’ electric chair when a mechanical ed. ! House and Senate was expected to < Rayburn (D-Tex) said today after malfunction allowed him to walk| The Union has asked steel fabri- settle the bitter controversy over a White House call away from it alive, was singularly cators to extend their agreem-nis|succession, which has torn Georgia Grea' “or“lern “o, Rayburn, former speaker and NOW ¢gol when he learned that the until a contract has been w.iked|since death of red-gallussed Eugene | ;’Pffll" of the Democratic minor-!ynited States Supreme Court had out with “Big Steel.” Talmadge 23 days ago. . . ity in the House, said no date has' yyjeq him subject to another tripl ——— - - Herman Talmadge has argued he n'eres'e In uylng h“lr‘ set for the first bi-partisan. (; tne chair | is 1 entitled to legislative election conference. j : e | to his father’s term by virtue of an : ¢ Curat b president has in ming,| T aiways sort of wondered it TV WIARTIME TAX MAY | o e veton . ’ov'n( |ne Rayb told White Houss report-, Was @ brave ‘man,” the tall, cocoa- | o y R e ute pouse XOPOM"~ colored negro said in an interview Talmadge {althiul #s “insurance” [ers. is joint consultations with Re- 101 4 { BE EXIENDED Now ' sl s Tatiay dbd SEATLE, Jan. 14— The Great Publican and Democratic party lead- "5 a0 R | Lieut. Gov. elect M. E. Thomp- Northern Railway is not interested '8 in Congress. 3 j-“Naw T gues niaybe T'm gonusy - | son, Doctor of Philosophy and for- in purchasing the Provincially- }he&e conferences, Rayburn said, find cut. And I'm gonna find ouvt: WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—A de- mer educator, has contended the owned Pacific Great Eastern Rail-| Wil not be the ‘mgulm' Monday the hard way, boss, so there won't [cisjon that wartime tax rates on constitution never contemplated way in British Columbia, Frank J. Morning get-togethers the President be no doubt in my mind when I|liquor, furs, jewelery and some' guch alternative if a governor-elect leave. A lot of men never find out. other items should be extended in-!djed, and insists he should become A lot of men die still wondering if definitely was reported reached 0= acting governor pending the next they wa-vmc men they thought day at a meeting of Republican!general election in 1948. He would they was members of the tax-writing House| have succeeded automatically, had Told by his attorney, Bertrand S.‘Ways and Means committee { Talmadge lived to be inaugurated. De Blanc, that a motion will be| One member not to be| - et T iiled for another Supreme Court quoted by name a reporter | hearing, Francis said simply: the feeling was that continuation | SIO(K‘WIAHONS “Is the same thing. The same of these levies “may be necessary : R axes on! NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Closing old thi s t to die - (to grant a reduction in taxes on 2 P ld thing. A man’s got to die some g quotatibn- of Ak Hangait . time and I reckon my time has'individual incomes f plumb done come.” , | The extra rates imposed during|Stock today is 5', American Can SIS N |the war brought in about $1500,-|92%, Anaconda 38%, Curtiss-Wright 1000,000 a year. 5%, International Harvester T1, NEW YORK—Whitelaw Reid, son| president Truman urged in a Kennecott 46%, New York Centfal of the late Ogden Reid who died'message to Congress last week that|17%, Northern Pacific 18%, U. S. Jan. 3, assumed the editorship of the wartime rates be continued. | Steel 69%, Pound $4.03'. the New York Herald Tribune to-} —— e ] Sales today were 850,000 shares. day, succeeding his father as fifth| Methane, the most plentiful of all; Dow, Jones averages today are editor of the paper since founded gases is generated in marshes, in|as follows: industrials 17263, rails by Horace Greeley. sewers, and the human intestines, 48, utilities 36.03.