The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,477 ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1947 < MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — HIGH WARTIME EXCISE RATES CONTINU Decis OPINION MAY BEDELAYED MANY WEEKS Some Inkling May Develop Saturday by Highest Tribunal in Land WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. — The nine highest jurists in this country today set about deciding whether the government had any legal right to hale John L. Lewis into court last November as a strike breaking gesture. It may be weeks before the Su- preme Court announces its find- ings, but the justices themselves may know by Saturday what the answer will be, along with the one to this second question: Will Lewis and his AFL United Mine Workers have to pay all or any of the $3510,000 in fines as- sessed against them for contempt of court? Saturday is tne day of the next regular conference of the nine jus- tices. If each has made up his mind by then, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson will assign one of them to write the Court’s opinion. That task usuaily requires several weeks. The Court’s next-opinion -day is Monday, but another will not be due until February 3. That is the earliest date a decision appears possible. The Tribunal wound up three hours of arguments on the historic case late yesterday. One Incident The only incident during the long and tense courtroom drama came less than five minutes before the | end. Justice Frankfurter was leading Assistant Attorney General John S. Sonnett through a series of ques- tions and answers about the legi: lative history of the Smith-Connal- ly War Labor Disputes Act, under which the government geized the soft coal pits last spring. Finally, went on, indicating that only five minutes of the attorney’s allotted time remained, Justice Jackson in- terrupted to tell Sonnett he thought the lawyer ought to take another point in his argument. “You better get on it and not de- vote any further time to the psy- choanalyzing of members of, Con- (Continued on };Zz;e The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Editors note—This is the third and last of Drew Pearson’s pen- etrating personality sketches of the new Secretary of State.) WASHINGTON—To get a full in- sight into the character of tire new Secretary of State, it is necessary to know something of General Mar- shall's latest experiences in China. Not many of his friends realize it, but Marshall for the most part enjoyed his, tour of duty in China. He told visitors that it gave him time to think. On the porch of his house in Nanking overlooking a flowery, walled in garden, Marshall sat and philosophized about the Orient. In the distance he could see teeming, centuries-old Nanking and the tomb of China's great modern reformer, Sun Yat-sen. Last summer, Marshall spent an evening talking with Postmaster General Bob Hannegan and As- sistant Secretary of War Stuart Symington, who had carried a highly confidential message to Marshall from Pfesident Truman telling him to prepare to succeed Jimmie Byrnes as Secretary of State. What Marshall said that night was significant. Geing back over his life, he de- scribed his first tour of duty in et R g e T T (Continued on Page Four) when the white signal| ion In Lew i | 1 v -] WILD WEST PAIR _ Western Movie Star Robert Ryan holds his 6-month-old son, Tim, who needs only a pair of | boots to be togged out in the latest thing in cowboy wear. Truman Takes Fling at White i | TROUBLE MAY B . SETTLED, REPORT | toHave Been Reached- — { Peterson Southbound | President Is Against Men ‘ SEATTLE, Jan. 15—Word was| Who Burn Crosses and | received today that a tentative agreement had been reached in the | jurisdictional shipping dispute at { Ketchikan which has threatened "Work Behind Sheets’ | the handli " that 't WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.--Presi- | the handling of cargo in that DOI% | qen, Truman spoke out _today | i i ] rosses” and men { known here, the report said it Agatast Shumned Crigses’ og who “worked behind sheets” in his would be submitted to Seattle heads of the disputants—the Sailors Un- {ion of the Pacific (AFL) and the CIO Longshoremen in Alaska. The i latter insisted upon taking over | winch driving jobs on all holds worked by their members. ! Federal Conciliator A. L. Peter- {son, who arranged the peace ne- gotiations, was reported enroute here from Ketchikan. |AFLV-PRES. SAYS U, 5. TRADE AIMS BEEN 'SABOTAGED' | { WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—Mat- {thew Woll, Vice President of the American Federation of Labor, as- iserted today the expressed aims of Ithe Administration’s reciprocal itrade program have been ‘“sabo- taged either consciously or other- wise.” Woll, who also is President of America's Wage Earner conference, spoke at final sessions of a hear- {ing on proposed new trade pacts with 18 foreign nations. The hear- ing was arranged by the committee | ion - for reciprocity information, Set UD¢ pyring his 1944 Vice Presiential by executive order to gather In-joampgign Mr. Truman made heat- formation for the tariff negotia-| ey denials when political opponents tae, |attempted to link him with the Klan. At that time he declared that he had fought the organiza- tion in Missouri. any race discrimination.” Charging his new civil rights | committee with responsibility for |finding means for strengthening | protection of minorit. the Presi- |dent said the country could very easily be faced with a situation like one he recalled in 1922 when he {was running for his first elective office—county judge of Jackson county, Missouri. “There was an organization in that county,” he said, “that met on hills and burned the crosses and | worked Lehind sheets.” Mr. Truman added: “There is a tendency in this country for that situation to de- velop again unless we do something tangitle to prevent it. “I don't want to see any race discrimination. I don't want to see any religious bigotry breakout in this country as I did then.” The President named no organ- ization by name today in referring {to burned crosses and white sheets. However, his statement recalled his previous criticism of the Ku Klux Klan, some of whose members have used the burning cross and the white robe in public demonstra- e ST R Branching H - e Tree |® SNOW PLOW WORKS; AUTOISTS WARNED | | | | TULSA, Okla. — Mrs. T. A. Bates| » Tonight at midnight, the jgave birth to a girl just 22 hours city snow plow will work on jafter her daughter, Mrs. D. R. Main, Seward and Franklin Martin, had borne’a boy. {® Streets, Front Street to the Today the Bates and Martins,| Sawmill and on all water- pond new Kinships, figured at front streets. Autoists are warned to do no parking un- til streets are plowed under penaity of being tagged, says ithe very simplest there was a new| grandson, sister, brother, aunt, nephew and sister-in-law — all ac- eecccccee quired in 22 hours, Chiet of Police, Leonard Mrs. Bates is 39, Mrs. Martin 22.| ® Williamson. The Bates have three additional ® ' children and the Martins one. ‘@ ® o o . ¢ o @ ¢ o o o Tentative Agreement Said | RObed Gallg! BI-PARTISAN - (ONFERENCE IS SLATED f o | New Congressional ‘Big | Six" Tomorrow R | WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Presi- dent Truman will hold his first bi- partisan legislative conierence with the new Congressional “Big Six” | tomorrow. The White House announced to- day that four Republican Congres- ‘sional leaders will meet with the: «a.m. (EST) tomorrow together with the Democratic minority leaders, Senator Barkley (Ky) and Rep. Rayburn. Rayburn yesterday told of the President’s decision to hold per- iodic legislative conferences with | the leaders of the Republican Con- gressional majority as well as the Democratic chieftains. Senator Vandenberg (Mich), the i president pro tempore of the Sen- ate; Senate majority leader White “| (Me), Speaker Martin (Mass), and }Housz- majority leader Halleck | (Ind), of the House will sit in on | the conferences. The “Big Six” replaces the Dem- ocratic “Big Four” who conferred every Monday morning with the ( President during the last session when the Democrats controlled both { Houses. The decision to invite the Repub- licans to the conferences was in |line with President Truman's ex- | pressed intention to find ways to Ecmperale with h)s “political oppo- ' sition on Capitol Hill.” g(anol ’I;r;i;d . i . bODS aiil| | | land had accepted office under Tal- WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Secre-| own home state of Missouri in as-itary of State Byrnes disclosed to-|office Griffin had set up for him serting that “I don’t want to see day that Canada has agreed to let|just off the main governor's re-; i ‘the United States junk and sell (piccemeal part of a $133,0,000,000! loil refinery and pipe line project Under a pact reached last Friday, {The United States may sell all or part of Canol Project No. 1 to the Canadian government, or other | buyers, remove what it can't sell,! or merely abandon it. The agreement, Byrnes said in al ireport to Congress, covers pipeline jrunnings from Normal Wells, | | Northwest Territory, to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, a refinery at iWhnehorm and related facilities. It does not cover Canol Projects {No. 2 3, and 4—systems set up to | distribute the refinery’s -finished | products—because the Army has not declared these surplus. Byrnes reported an investigation | discloded it is doubtful that “any| governmental or private agency will desire to acquire the pipeline and refinery for use in place.” ‘The Canol project was intended | by the joint chiefs of statf to de-| velop an oil field in northern Can- ada to supply fuel for an Alaskan iaerial offense against Japan. Thel offensive never materialized. The Senate war investigating committee denounced the enterprise in a report last fall as a “flam- ilng waste.” The committee said the ‘action of Admiral Ernest J. King and General Brehon Somervell of ithe joint staff in persisting with| the project was a “blot on the rec- jord of two otherwise able officers.” The report said sales will be made by sealed bids which will be| opened March 20, i STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 15—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can 93, Anaconda 38, Curtiss-Wright 5%, International Harvester 71, ! | Kennecott 46%, New York Central | is Case Truman Will Meet with: Amall, Talmadge, Claim- ' President at the White House at 10] Cold 2 GOVERNORS FIGHTING IT OUT, GEORGIA| ants to Office-Appoint | Adjt. Generals ' ATLANTA, Jan. 15—Rival claim-| ants to the governorship of Georgia established offices in the state capitol today and each immediately set up his own military department.| The claimants were Ellis Arnall, who has held the office for the past four years, and Herman Tal-| madge, who was named by the | legislature early today to the of- fice which his late father, Eugene| Talmadge, won in last November’s | general election. The elder Tal- !madge died last month. | Arnall refused to heed the ac- !tion of the legislature and in a jdramatic early morning encounter with Talmadge and in the face of ia yelling mob of Talmadge sup- porters refused to turn the office! over to him. Ag his first act upon arrival at this office today, Arnall named Col. R. W. Collins, commander of the State Guard, as Adjutant Gen- }erul to succeed Marvin Griffin, who lasi night was sworn in by Tal- w #ge as his Adjutant General Griffin formerly served under Ar- | nall { Then Arnall communicated with 'Secretary of War Patterson by tele- phone and asked Federal recogni- tion of Collins as a Brigadier Gen- | ,eral and the state’s Adjutant Gen- leral. Arnall declined to say whati \Patterson answered, but when he/ ‘hung up, he turned to newsmen : land said “this is the Adjutant Gen- 'eral,” pointing toward Collins. 't | (The State Guard was set up |durmg the war to function in place | |of the National Guard. Its demo- !bilization has awaited full reorgan-' ization of the National Guard.) Arnall said Griffin had resigned madge, “this pretender.” 1§ When Talmadge, who was in an ception room, heard of Arnall's call! to the Secretary of War, he told his| wartime white elephant—the c"“"‘icxecuuve secretary, Benton Odom, “block all communications.” ! Then Talmadge put in a tele-l__ to who earlier had left under protec-, tion of National Guardsmen, arriv-: ed shortly thereafter. Shortly after his arrival madge conferred with Griffin. S eee— - Weather | ;er Iit Iw Tal- Cirding Over Many Sedions By The Associated Press Colder weather moved in on the Great Lakes region and northern plains states overnight, and tem- peratures today were quite chilly, especially in the northern sections. Low readings included 10 below at Williston and Dickson, N. D, ; and temperatures in northern Min- nesota were below zero. Yester- day’s blizzard in that area had moved northward, and although some snow was reported, gale winds had diminished. Rain was falling this morning along the slope of the Appalachians from northern Georgia through New England, with some thunder- storms occurring. Light snow fell in otl Markedly colder weather had |re area with Fly, Nev., reporting a luwi of 20 below zero. Butte, Mont., had Steel 69%, Pound $4.03%. ¥ Sales today were 770,000 shares. | 47.58, utilities 35.84. night. Temperatures over 28 degrees. Up To Nine O T place ies thoughout the nation brought before the legislature terday calling for a full investiga-| tion into gambling, fixing of games and other unscrupulous pracmcesl sports. ed a bill that would impos: penalties on anyone convicted of employers insist, however, that the| bribing players to throw athletic! strike end before the new councill ¢ games. sented in ciated Press disclosed chusetts, Rhode Island, Ohio, Virginia Florida have in Nebraska and southwestern Iowa. | anti-bribe laws similar to those al- alongside a discredited trade union!by overspread the Rocky Mountainigan, Jersey and New York Ay =404 Z 0O — Nonnie, a baby kudu, or South African antelope, poses with its mother at Chicago's Brookfield zoo where it is a third-generation new- comer. Robert Bean, zoo director, said the baby is worth $1,000, ' LABOR GOVT. INBRITAIN | More Work;rs_Join inSym- pathy Sirike-Leaders Make Appeals LONDON, Jan. 15.~More than sands of stevedores and dockers | quit work today in sympathy walk- | outs, swelling to 40,000 or more the | number of persons idle in Lon- don’s mushrooming 10-day-old tran- ]spon strike. The new work stoppages, protest- ing the use of troops to replace | striking truck drivers for delivery }nl feod, came as negotiators hoped { for an early settlement of the truck | dispute, crux of an “unofficial” | strike which some labor partisans ! feared might upset the Labor Gov- | | ernment. | Union leaders appealed to the PIN-UP — mMyra Keck, model from Philadelphia, was chosen 1946 pin-up queen in a poll at New York City. phone call for United States Sen- | dock workers at a meeting this ator Richard B. Russell in Wash-| ) | morning to return to their jobs, but ! ington. NTI _B ' their speeches citing the striking Talmadge arrived at the capitol | truckers’ advice against further shortly after 9:30 a. m. and Arnall, | ':ympnlhy walkouts, were shouted | own. | | Strike leader J. E. Evans, in a| message to the 30,000 strikers, said | he hoped “some concrete proposals” would develop in union negotia- tions today and the Daily Herald, labor organ, said in a bold head- line: “Strike call-off likely today.”! At least 20,000 other union mem- | BILLS ARE COMING UP NEW YCRK, Jan 15. An pers—protesting use of troops to uption of legislative bilis against!deliver food supplies to London tempts of professional g:nmhlers:shops_pnpgmd to join the walk- . rig sporting events has takeniout if the new conferences fail. in numerous lawmaking bod-|The truck drivers want a 44-hour| | work week instead of 48 hours, two-week vacations and overtime pay instead of time off. | The public, which already has | missed most of one week's meat In Albany, resolution was | ves- | a both amateur and professional The New Jersey legislature receiv-'and employers empowered to re- severe | consider the strikers' demands. The | takes action. The council was established yes- | terday by obviously worried Labor Government ofiicials. One lnbor! member of Parliament, Tom O'Bri- jen, declared at a union meeting| The survey showed that Massa-|last night that the strike might | Pennsylvania, Colorado, bring the downfall of Labor’s first nnd; Majority Government. pass| “A Labor Government cannot last Similar legislation has been pre- at least a half a dozen her states, a survey by the Asso- been asked to ady in effect in Illinois, Michi- movement,” O'Brien California, Maryland, said. The | Labor Government and repudiate The new hills =re aftermatis of | trade union organizations and their | 15%, Northemn Pacific 18, U. S.|a frigid minimum of 34 below 1ast\the case involving Alvin J. Paris,|leaders at the same time.” convicted of attempting to fix the California | National football league champion- Dow, Jones averages today are)were freezing or below, except along | ship - game betv ®as follows: industrials 172.10, rails the coast. Fresno reported a low of !Bears and the New lon December 15. > ‘The average salinity of Great Utah, is almost six that of the 1 the Chicago'Salt Lake, York Giants times greater than ocean, THREATENED | “2,000 Thames lightermen and thou- | | | New | workers of Britain cannot have a Jurists IGOPERS TAKE FIRM STAND, TAX ISSUES |Strong Sentiment Express- ed on Cutting Down Indi- vidual Income Taxes By FRANCIS M. LE MAY WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—Repub- lican tax managers gave a green light today to legislation continu- ing indefinitely the high wartime excise rates on such things as li- | quor, furs and jewelry. I The surprise decision to head off an ‘automatic $1,500,000,000 roll- | back in levies July 1 brought GOP | lawmakers and President Truman eye to eye on the first major tax problem to confront the 80th Con- | gress. " But Republicans expressed renew- | ed determination to cut individual |’1ncome taxes 20 percent—a move strongly opposed by the President. { Chairman Knutson (R-Minn) said the House Ways and Means Committee may approve a bill con- tinuing the high excises at its first meeting on Friday. Such a quick step, he said, would erase business | uncertainty caused by consumers delaying purchases in anticipation of the" btherwise - automatie reduc- (tions six months hence. | The bill, to be offered by Rep. Grant (ReInd), “would remove the | incentive to stop buying in anti- cipation of tax cuts,” Knutson said. Moreover, he told newsmen, the centinued large collection of excise {revenues would make it easy for | the Republicans to slash individual income taxes by a fifth this year, |at a total estimated saving to M- {come earners of $3,350,000,000. | To Hold Budget Down { If Chairman Taber (R-NY) of | the House Appropriations Commit- | tee is correct in declaring “that the budget can be held down,” Knutson said, then: “A 20 percent tax reduction will be comparatively easy, and Lwe should be able to pay four or five I billions on the public debt.” Taber’s latest estimate fs that | “three to four billions" can be par- {ed from the President's $37,528,000,- 000 spending figure. The reversal of position came at the first meeting of GOP members of the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday, Continue Excise Rates Continuation of the excise rates would prevent these decreases: | Liquor—from $9 a proof gallon to $6. A reduction in the liquor rate alone would mean an $800,- 000,000 annual loss in revenue. Furs, jewelry, luggage, cosmetics {and theater tickets—from 20 per- cent to 10. Night clubs—from 20 percent to | Telephone bills — Long distance jcalls, from 25 percent to 20; local | service from 15 percent to 10. Transportation of persons—f{rom 15 percent to 10. | Knutson announced the joint ration because of the strike, placed | L0USe-Senate, 102-member Budget its hope for settlement in a new | government-sponsored joint indus- ! rial council of transport workers | Committee will meet Monday for |its first look at President Tru- man's 1948 fiscal estimate, prepara- | tory to writing its own ceiling on | Federal expenditure required by the Reorganization Act. Congressional > FFTEEN BOATS ARE UP FOR SALE, KODIAK Fifteen surplus boats located at |Kodiak are now on sale at the | Anchorage Surplus Property office. Negotiations will be carried on written or telegraphed bids until January 31st and sales lists may be obtained by contacting |that office. Each bid on the buoy boats, pick- et boats, tug boats, torpedo crane |barges and others available, must |ke accompanied by a ten percent |deposit, according to Donald R. | Wilson, Territorial Surplus Proper= ty officer.