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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ’ [ VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,524 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS m— Urges Outlawing R 6.P.McNEAR ‘SENATO POPE SAYS NATIONS SENATORS mmusr GIVE UP SOME MORE LOCKED sovegeioN RicHTs Associated Press) VATICAN CITY, March 11 b — {On the eve of the eighth anni- * . . | versary of his coronation, Pope Walker Assails Publisher, | 5. xir oid the assoelated ress )’ today that nations must surrender Commentator - Barn ' . TR Bill Still “Out | fohlaved | The development of destructive The Alaska Senate again wasjatomic weapons, with the total war doing most of its business behind they threaten, should persuade the closed doors yesterday afternoonleaders of nations of their obliga- | just and \ lasting peace is to be and this morning. Two “Executive|tion to reach agreements insuring |iously the Provincial government | Railroad and central figure of a - Sessions” saw Auditor Frank Boyle | peace, he said. and accountant Leo Lazetti called| In the last year—the first entire in_as “star chamber” witnesses. year of the Pope's reign in which The Senators locked their door|there was no declared warfare— vesterday afternoon shortly after there has been no marked improve- 4:30 o'clock, after returning from ment in the world’'s outlook for a welcome to Miss Fairbanks of|peace, he said 1947 and after extending court-| The Pontiff evidently was preoc- esies of the floor to the Queen and cupied over the prospects for the her Court. Senator N. R. Walk- yoceow conference of Foreign Min- er. took the chair as the closed!jioro " yhich opened yesterday. He ;;‘:‘Af-n corTlmenc‘ed—u.zml P‘rtimfh’"fj nodded assent to comment that the land returned {rom escorting| cicumgtances of the conference's Bl e beginning did not augur well for This morning, the Senate had its| .= Rl RTs the ahabivg earliest meeting of the session,j0ld achievements in the shaping convening at 9 o'clock and mmng“'r peace behind barred portals until 10:30; o'clock. Back in regular open, meeting, the Senate argued long TaSk For(e over voting to rescind action de- feating the “Barns BIill", Rep. Heinie Snider's H. B. 14 Pruu-‘ R dent, Nerland ruled Walker's motion | e'urns Io to rescind out of order because of| a previous motion to that effect the day before, by Senator Don . Carlos Brownell, which failed to a 'e obtain the two-thirds vote Ner- land ruled n y to carry it at that time { LADD FIELD, fairbanks, March S al appeals wers taken from,1l.—(®—The forced march 10-hour Nerland ruling, with the chairireturn of a heavy mechanized col- finally winning out—leaving the wmn of Task For Frigidette, on “A and B” barns discarded. the last lap of 150-mile Arctic Measure Passed jtrek with full equipment, has Rep. Maurice Johnson's measure brought Task Force Frigid's winter to clarify ownership in areas pro- exercises near an end posed to be annexed to cities, H.! At the point where the mobile B. 88, was passed unanimously to-|force was re-supplied by air, the day. Also passed was S. J. M. 25,)column was split and the tanks by Coffey, l:l)skmg that Russia be and heavy vehicles ordered return- warned away from Bristol Bay. ©d here, making the distance in The long measure to regulate in-:10 hours. surance rates, H. B 4, was read;mschamzed “weasels,” carrying in- through but not acted upon and:fantry, rgced couthward in search efforts to advance S. B. 105—pro-,0of the “enemy,” and then turned viding for “experience rating cred- and returned the 67 miles here in its” for employers contributing (18 hours without mishap. to the Unemployment Compensa-| During a helicopter contact tion Fund—fell short by one vote, flight, Capt. Kenworthy Doak, of carrying that measure over to Round Oak, S. C., reported seeing Third Reading in regular order:moose and caribou near the col- when the body meets again after umn, apparently undisturbed. the trip to Sitka. | Col. Paul V. Kane, Corvallis, While a majority of the Senate;Ore., commanding officer of Task is away to \Sitka for the biennialiForce Frigid, expressed satisfac- Pioneers'’ Home inspection trip, tion at the results of the mis- those solons still in town willjsion. meet tomorrow afternoon at 2 Only a few tests remain o'clock for a roll call. The main made before the March 15 dead- body is expected back in time line and then preparations will for a session Thursday. jhegm to return the entire task In other action this morning, force party to the United States the Senate concurred to Minor|about April 15. House amendments to S. B. 19, S S requiring candidates for political 'I'H Ev SS 500 lB office to file oaths of their gualifi- I OEIO;EAYI'H RD . Y (Continued on Pug; »T) The Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PLARSON WASHINGTON—John L. Lewis‘pfiwer. | icrete, has reported the theft of la gasoline auxiliary motor under Tom Mix, of Ready-Mix | strange circumstances from the {Ready Mix plant on Glacier High- yway just outside of Juneau. missing was discovered seemed to have a premonition as 0 from the top floor of the plant| Valued at $200] Mrs. the motor had been bolted to thej what the Supreme Court had in'yesterday morning. store for him. Shortly before the Court’s decision, the big, beetle-|fioor as a spare browed mine worker boss made alpelt for a conveyer some of their sovereign rights if a The light column of 50 to be! i i I The Wisconsin air-cooled motor, Norman irated at from three to six horse-| 'AMERICAN FIRM IS INTERESTED IN B. C. RAIL LINK SEATTLE, March 11.—®—Talk of the frequently dicussed railroad to Alaska was enlivened again to- day with reports that an Ameri-| can company has made a formal, written offer to buy the Provin-\ cially-owned Pacific Great East- ern Raiflway and extend it into the| Peace River country and to Fair-| banks, Alaska | { The reports were published in Ithe Seattle P Intelligencer. It | added, however, there was no indi- {cation in Victoria, as to how ser- | iwas viewing the offer. | | Premier John Hart would notj | comment on the report, but earl- |ier yesterday had informed Glenn Carrington, of the Alaska Com-| mittee of the Seattle Chamber of | Commerce, that his government| had not granted an option on the ‘Pacific Great Eastern nor discuss-! led land grants with any promo-| | ters. | | The Post-Intelligencer said thej | promoters are the Canadian-Am-' |erican Railroad and Development | Company, a Delaware corporation| incorporated two years ago It| | reportedly has the backing of | several large Eastern underwriting | firms and banks. The 347-mile long Pacific Great| tern runs from the head of| |Howe Sound, 40 miles from Van-, | couver, to Quesnel, B. C, 80 miles| | from Prince George. It has| long been regarded a valuable| |“link” in any proposed railroad from the Pacific Northwest to Alaska. as D i | 'NIMITZ APPROVING STATEHOOD, HAWAIl { WASHINGTON, March 11.—®--| | Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, | 1 Chief of Naval Operations, said to- {day he could see “no objection from a military or naval stand- I point to the Hawaiian Islands 'achieving statehood.” “Before World War II,” Nimitz llnld the House Public Lands Com- i mittee, “I entertained some doubt as to the loyalty of American cit- izens of Japanese ancestry in the event of war with Japan. From [my observations during World War {11, T no longer have that doubt.” Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska) ' asked if there was any reason why statehood would impair defense. “I shouldn’t think so,” Nimitz re- 1 plied. { i | | | ' i - - DENALI FROM SOUTH; MAKING SITKA TRIP Alaska Steamship Company had | itwo steamers in Juneau today. { They were the Denali,arrivingat? to'clock this morning, and the Aleu- jtian from the Westward at 11 io'clock. The Denali is scheduled to the jslands. ‘sail at 4 o'clock this afternoon for not yet announced their verdict. 'HOUSE PASSES CHILD BENEFIT SHOT DOWN increas it o N S'I' R E E 'l' After siaughtering the Admints {trator General Bill, which would| have allowed Alaskans to elect their own executive officers for the administration of Territorial laws, the House of Representa- tives this morning killed H.J.M. 24.[ which sought to have an Alaskan named as Federal governor of the| Territory when the term of the Rep. Tollefson (R-Wash), said to- present incumbent expires. day he had asked the Reconstruc- The memorial suggested Senator tion Finance Corporation to ex- Norman R. Walker of Ketchikan plain the terms of its agreement as @& potential candidate for the |position. During the brief dhcus':seaulp, Wash., after complaints |sion before the roll was called,/that the company was engaged in |Rep. McCutcheon asked if there weren't others in the Territory fls\yseurch well qualified for the position as| Tollefson, chairman of a House |Walker, and suggested Senators| Merchant Marine subcommittee, {Nerland and Coffey. Rep. Hoopes,isaid Southern California fisher- Jauthor of the bill, said he had|men had complained that the jasked the two Senators and that. “Pacific Explorer,” a floating can- they did not feel qualified for the nery, instead of doing research line, was shot down by a shotgun office {in the Southern Pacific, was en- Hikat about 400 fest Trom AISIHOIE The final vote on the m(‘lnkbl‘m]}gugcd in commercial tuna fishing e Laf e |was 11 for, 13 against passage. off Costa Rica, and was offering in the fashionable Central Bluff | residential district | The House this morning went|$2 more a l(.)n for tuna than the Three witnesses said they saw an | hcdcr extensively into the ques- prevailing price. automobile speeding away ‘after me‘llon J nid o daperdit ohildren | The REO, Tvllafsatoin a re- anot was fired Howavef, pollcajigiiect Which bue, Benate cx-iporter, advanced the company 43.- 8 v - |amined at some leng R Tyene T B0 declaxcd “Ilhodies reached opposite —conclu- |agreement provided that Nick Bez, dow't see how McNear could haveigons powever. The Senate kill-|Seattle, chief of the profect, would been shot from an automobileaq 3 measure which would In-|receive $25000 a year; the oper- He said two other witnesses in @ |eyegee the benefits; the House ating manager $20,000 yearly, and position to the street downipgcced a similar bill this morning|the sales manager $15,000 yearly which the car would have sped did by g vote of 14-10 The California ' Fish Canners not see an automobile | | Association of Terminal Island, " anm:«‘rnu_ld be found who saw B et b |Calif., contended that when the he shot fired 8 s ! 12 ast ; Y Flood said McNear apparently | Welfare Department, appeared Ehmp was. R eI, It walked ss the street, about 100 fore the House to testify on feet, before he collapsed on his Bill, H. B. 99, which would back on an 18-inch coping beside {cI®ase maximum benefits to the sidewalk. Flood said police 'instead of $25 for the first child| found his walking cane on the op-'in one family, and to $20 instead’ posite side of the street and be- of $15 for additional childrgn mé lieved he had Leen shot there. Dr. the same family ng industry. Robert. Sutton, who resided nearby, COsi to the Territory of these, "} i N 2 . { “It now develops that the Pacific and two Bradley University .\lu-"‘“‘_'t‘:‘;‘:'* ‘:O‘llldb Ii?n :‘:OLHM:H:)].:I)?&IEXDIM” is off the coast of Costa dents who reside with him, said \fl’:d ‘T:e" FP;‘;‘I‘B; ém-emymentim“' engaged in extensive fishing they saw an automobile speeding !53¢ 4 ‘ operations for various species of away after they had heard the|Dears about 55 percent of n“!Tuna"' R Grlitomilans it "Nne shot and “several groar present cost of the program, he ¥ & {vessel has entered the most desir- s B R | aid,gfng m"mb""h, $1350 of 'o e waters, and moreover the Pac- w 5 present maximum payments. L — 'RESEARCH SHIP IN COMMERCIAL FISHING TRADE Financed Vessel Compet- ailroad Executive Assas- sinated-In Labor Dis- pute Five Years PEORIA, 111, I\‘{.\x'ch 11 —P— George P. McNear, Jr., President of the Toledo, Peoria and Western By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, March 11— bloody dispute with railroad unions for more than five yea was shot to death last night while taking a walk near his home. The 55-year old executive, who since 1941 had defied 13 railroad brotherhoods which currently are engaged in one of the nation’s longest major strikes against his see Maynard On Stand be- thelihe North Pacific and Bering Sea {from May to October each year and spend the winters in research work and seeking new fishing grounds in the Southern Pacific for the benefit of the entire fish- | there would be no! . g |to the fishermen above the present incease in Federal participation| . 3 i e nners by $2000 a if the maximum is raised. Dricy melilby, Eantiece by: & i «ton and has created a serious com- Maynard explained that the A i i ve to the private number of children cared for un- p«um: pm.bmn v off th X;, oif der the .program has increased|commercial industry off the Pacific Coast.” |from about 100 to 500 since July 1| “on " o L i Company said 11945, and estimated that between ; - 4 850 ‘apd 2000 children will require’ ‘DAL if the Pacific Explorer is & such_assistanc, during the coming Soeer'y thay TuRtreds oF 1one b bu’nfnum. s bo f\';”d‘_ N b‘ln('ne.s in San Diego and San Pedro between five and six percent offuy"pe tagen by the Pacific Ex- [Ste NI B e Terinty. !plorer to the Columbia River Pack- ers Association in Oregon to be canned at their convenience.” He| rer has increased the price admilted that lm,mc Explorer has increased the p: HONOLULU, Mar. 11.—®—Hon- olulu regained almost a wartime atmosphere today as the city pre- pared to welcome 15,000 sailors from the Navy's Pacific Maneuvers. The nded yesterday with a| Asked by Rep. Hoopes as to his strike at Pearl Har- present status as Welfare Director, bor and Army shore installations. iMn_\'nard said that the Welfare Gunnery practice at sea yester- Board has been reappointing him day afternoon concluded the man-|from meeting to meeting only. Ask-! euvers and the 38 warships steam- oq about the biennial report of his|Bez head of the Pacific Explor- ed toward their Pearl Harbor an-|office, he said that it is now be-|ation Company of Seattle, said chorage. ling prepared and that while he as- |today Rep. Tollefson (R-Wash) Hawail’s defenders said their land | cymes that it will be available to|Was “misinformed” concerning op- based aircraft had “sunk” all three (h. Legislators before the end of|erations of “The Pacific Explorer,” attacking carriers and had “Very the present session, he cannot say ' floating cannety now operating off thoroughly chewed up” the carriers’ f,r certain that it will be. |Costa Rica. planes launched for the blow at| Three other bills passed by the! Tollefson said in Washington to- Umpires, however, have pouse this morning were \day he had asked the RFC to | Senate Substitute for H. B 75,"9xplain terms of its agreement BEZ INTERVIEWED SEATTLE, March 11.—(®— Nick with the Pacific Exploration Cn." ‘The two 750,000 to outfit the ship, and the' he | WOS understood it would work in 3RD BRUTAL KILLING IN Charge that Nick Bez' RFC- I_OS ANGH.ES | ing with Private Industry (Body of Woman, Nearly ™, 1 Nude, Head Beaten Found, RR Tracks | LOS ANGELES, March 11— The body of a Los Angeles woman, nearly nude and beaten about the |-head, was found early today along !the Santa Fe Railroad tracks at section a short distance from the j civic center. It was the third brutal killing of a4 woman here in two months. The cases of Elizabeth Short, 22, Med- | ford, Mass,, film hopeful known as the “Black Dahlia,” whose battered, | bisected body was found in a lot Jan. 15, and of Mrs, Jeanne T. {French, 45, nurse and aviatrix whose body, obscenely inscribed , With lipstick, was found Feb. 10, are still unsolved Detective Lieut. Charles King said fingerprints identified the vie- | (tim today as Evelyn Winters, 37,' alias Victoria Windham, musi- n whose police record showed two arrests on charges of resorting, (one for intoxication and another driving an automobile for | intoxicated. a ANOTHER BRUTAL KILLING !‘ LOS ANGELES, March 11.—(D- An electric light cord twined about her neck, the body of a red-haired }Wflmill\ —tentatively identified as a | restaurant cashier in nearby Hynes i—~was found on a river bank today !—the days second victim of a bru- I'tal feminine slaying. | A few hours earlier, the body of ta former movie studio legal expert, (knifed, bludgeoned and ravished, ! was discovered in the city's indus- i trial district, a few blocks from the ! city Hal. : Sheriff’s Inspector Norris Stens- land said the river bank victim | was tentatively identified as Patri- cia De Var, about 45, of Clearwater “Hl‘ said Japanes works in a mustard field made the discovery. ' The body was clad in a quilted blue (and white bathrobe, twisted as if in 1a struggle. Nearby were a pillow tand pillowslip. Fresh tire marks ! were found on a nearby road. i Her death brought to four the list | of unsolved feminine slayings since !Jan. 15— Including the “Black Dahlia” mutilation. .- 5 MEN TRAPPED IN DEBRIS CEASE TALK ASRESCUERS NEAR | CINCINNATI, March 11.—(f- | Five men trapped under the debris jof a five-story building which col- i | | Sitka, then return to Juneau before | Ope Marine pilot, as yet uniden-|yhich will bring marine workersWith the Seattle company, after|lapsed today, early this afternoon 1is scheduled to sail south at 10 ‘o'clock tonight. 7 ! Disembarking in Juneau from the | | Denali were the following passeng- ' ers from Seattle; Barbara Alvstad, De Roux, Harold Roe, Harry W. Anderson, Julian Hagen and L. Zegarra; from Ketchikan, Ben Brown, B. H. Iverson, Mr. and | William Robinson, K. G.' Sherry and J. J. White. | From Wrangell, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Borch and W. E. Donald- | | { ment Compensation Act. The bill/ests complaihed that the Pacific TINY PLANES DROP BOMBS |4 previously been passed by the Explorer was engaged in commer- ABOARD U. S. S. TACONIC IN House, but was then redrafted in cial fishing instead of research CARIBBEAN, March 10—®—(De-|the Senate and passed by that| Bez said in an interview that the layed) —The mock battle of Culebra pody. It now goes to the Governor |ship was leased by the Pacific Ex- Island opened today as carried-bas- | for approyal. i ploration Company from the RFC ed aircraft taking part in Atlantic, H. B. 108, requiring that fleet maneuvers dive-bombed a pen- Territorial boards, agencies or com-|the Pacific.” He said “catching insula of the hilly coral island, 18 mjssions hold open meetings when‘flsh" is the primary purpose of the miles east of Puerto Rico. | adopting rules and regulations ap-|enterprise, but that the government The little planes up among h* piicable to the general fleecy clouds peeled off again and passed by a vote of 18-4, with 2 again from the clouds into dives.| aphsent. have two technicians and a Navy man aboard and any information all | to “engage in fishing any place mI public. | provided in the lease that it could significant, rather plaintive talk be- Some person or persons unknown:son; from Petersburg, John L.|Little flashes of light and puffs fore a hush-hush dinner given to varius Senators and Congressmen by Kingman Brewster, Massachu- apparently enterzd the plant, which it is impossiblg to complete- |ly lock up, with the intent and setts bluestocking tax lobbyist. |purpose of taking that particular Forgetting certain wellknown!piece of machinery. Nothing else tactics by which he put rival un-|was removed except the 500 pound ions out of business, and how he|motor, which is believed to have twice called a strike during the|been carried down one flight of war, Lewis complained that the|stairs and then lowered with Government was oppressive, and|block and tackle to the ground. urged his Senatorial hearers to get! back to “free enterprise.” {anyone who sees a motor match- Sen. Albert Hawkes of New Jer-)ing the description, or sey, former president of the U. S.ijed the sale of such a motor, is Chamber of Commerce, made a|asked by the Ready Mix to con- brief reply, tartly reminding Lewis tact the Juneau City Police. that it was up to labor leaders [“}FAIREKEK‘S‘»MK" IS AT . DEAD, PLANE CRASH help save the American free-enter-| prise system. Allegedly the dinner was given in| FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 11. honor of ex-Democratic Senator|—#—The bodies of Arnold Lorent- Burt Wheeler of Montana, one of jzen, 37, part owner of a flying Lewis’ most intimate friends. Lewis |school here, and T-Sgt. Mack Olin is the man who persuaded the!Martin, 34, Jacksonville, Fla., have Anaconda Copper Co. to support!been recovered from the wrecked Wheeler when Burt was in danger Plane in which they died Saturday. Lorentzen was the father of a two- day-old daughter. i e | WHEELER HONORED AT (Continued on Page Four) | Although the motor was insured,' is offer-| Bahrt, Mary Boothby, J. E. Con-|of smoke on the palm fringed island cannon, Earl Forsythe, Mrs. George 'marked their bomb hits. | Gillespie, Mr, and Mrs. William I.| Officers here say the native folk " Greinier, D. T. Johnson, George oD the island are not concerned King, Hermann Keuriger, George atout this bombardment. It is an | Lane and Joe and Pete McNulty. |8nnual affair with them. It brings [busme%s and nobody ever gets hurt. e | WASHINGTON — A sugar m_:g:eplbeombing area itself is cleared ot ople. :du.stry spokesman testified before! g (RN e STOCK QUOTATIONS |a House committee that decontrol! of sugar now would send prices! skyrocketing. He said decontrol would send the price of sugar up to 20 cents a pound. It is now| NEW YORK, March 11.—Closing Inine cents. The committee is;duotation of Alaska Juneau mine | considering a bill to continue the|Stock today is 5%, American Can |sugar controls until March 31, 1948. 93%, Anaconda 39, Curtiss-Wright | Ry i H International Harvester 80, | wasHINGTON Congressmen| Kennecott 45, New York Central |heard testimony that China and|!8%. Northern Pacific 19, U. S the Philippines are re-selling to,Steel 71%, Pound $4.02%. {American speculators at “knock-| Sales today were 1,190,000 shares Idown prices” heavy construction| Averages today are as follows equipment given to them by the|industrials 173.83, rails 4841, utili- United States. | ties 35.74. e - > LONDON — The British House| CALIFORNIA COUPLE HERE of Commons continued its debate; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Senger, of on the economic crisis in that San Francisco, arrived in Juneau country today, and the accent was on the Princess Norah and are re- on ‘the shortage of labor. gistered at’ the Baranof Hotel. H. B.' 109, requiring that Terri- torial agencies which handle funds other than those appropriated by the Legislature be required to furnish biennial statements receipts and disbursements. H. B. 114, making a forcement of them. The House adjourned shortly be- fore 1 p. m. today until 2 p. m. to- morrow, when the few members who have not gone to Sitka will report for roll call. Fourteen or 15 members of the House expected to make the Sitka trip on the De- nali, which was to sail at 4 p. m. today and return early Thursday morning. i TOM SELBYS SOUTHBOUND ON VACATION JOURNEY Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Selby will be southbound passengers aboard the Princess Norah Wednesday on long-planned vacation. They wil! | have an automobile awaiting them in Seattle, drive to Minnesota and back before their return north in May in time to open their fishing resort at Tee Harbor this summer. of | minor ! change in wording in the laws re-| lating to liquor licenses and en-| ai ithey get is to become public prop- erty for benefit of the fishing in- dustry. He contended the project also would benefit Amerjcan fish- ing by opening up wafers where Americans do not ordinarily oper- ate. > STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Denali, from the south, in port, and scheduled to sail for Sitka at 4 o'clock this afternoon | Square Sinnet, from the south, |due about the end of this week Northern Voyager scheduled to sail from Seattle March 12. Aleutian, from the west. in port 10 { | | fand scheduled to sail south at jc'clock tonight. { rive from Skagway at 8 o'clock to- morrow morning and sails south at 9 o'clock. I R : LOWN ¥ROM FAIRBANKS Mr. and Mrs. Ross Peterson ar- rived in Juneau by Pan American Airways from Fairbanks and are registered at the Baranof Princess Norah scheduled to ar-; Con-| Sailing Westward. The Aleutian tified, was lost at sea off Hawall. jn Alaska under the Unemploy-'Southern California fishing inter- ceased talking to firemen, who were tearing through twisted steel, crumbled bricks and spintered wood [to reach them. Three and a half hours after the structure crashed with a roar that shook surrounding buildings in the downtown bottoms area, firemen sawed their way through fallen timbers to rescue Sam Ostrov, own- er of the building. Fire chief Barney J. Houston ex- pressed doubt the trapped men |could be reached in time to save [ their lives. The fire chief estimated the | workers must burrow through 30 feet of debris to reach the next of | the imprisoned men A second man was removed four hours after the structure crashed through fallen i timbers | Roy Bell, 35 to reach > 'TWO COME T0 JUNEAU - FOR VISIT WITH THREE ! Mrs. Ellis K. Reischl and her | sister, Miss Jean McCormack, ar- !wlll spend a week in Juneau visit ing their sisters Mrs. Lee Lucas, |Miss Joan McCormack and Miss | Shirley McCormack. -ee — MEETING W The afterncon circle of the Wo- men’s Soclety of Christian Service will be held tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. A. ". Alter Channel Apartments, No. 6. as rescue workers sawed their way | rived on the Princess Norah. They ed Party In United States COMMUNISTS ARE TARGETS OF SECY. - SCHWELLENBACH WASHINGTON, March 11.—®— Secretary of Labor Lewis D chwellenbach urged today that |the Communist party be outlawed the United States. e made the proposal in testi- /mony before the House Labor com- mittee. The committee is consid- {ering labor reform bills. These |include a proposal by Rep. Gerald {W. Landis. R, Ind, to amend the ‘Wagner Act to bar Communists ilrom holding office in trade un- ions. Schwellenbach said {amendment “does | the Landis not go far commercial f{ishing instead of rv»!um-mm,,u,, Street in the industrial | enough.” He called for a complew 'ban on the Communist party. He |said he saw no reason why Com- | munists should be allowed to run either for political or trade union office when their purpose is “to destroy this government.” | Schwellenbach revealed that six !people In his department hav‘e jbeen discharged for being Reds, but, he added, the government . has a hard job ferreting them out |pecause it is almost impossible to learn when a man is a Commun- ist D s SCHWELLENBACH FEARS NEW LAWS " MAY CAUSE CHAOS By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, March 11-—#® Secretary of Labor Schwellen- bach predicted today that strikes ithis year will be “drastically re- duced” but he declared that major labor law changes might foster ‘“strife” and “chaos” in- stead. The process of free collective bargaining, dormant during the war, are being re-learned, Sec'y. | Schwellenbach told the House La- bor Committee. He said it may be asserted safe- ly “that the number of stoppages in 1947 will be drastically reduc- ed from the number that occur- red in 1946." In another statement prepared for the committee, Paul M. Her- zog, chairman of the National La- bor Relations Board, said Congress may get “mounting industrial strife” rather than greater indus- trial peace if it tampers with the Wagner Act ‘That is the law guaranteeing workers the right to | bargain collectively. Both government labor experts were on the witness list at hear- ings on a pile of bills proposing broad changes in labor laws. Both took repeated pot-shots at the pro- posals and called for emphasis on around-the-tahle bargaining to lcurb industriz! unrest. 7 LI o L e ‘Anchorage Man Is ~ Rolled in Seattle; Iumsllg, Oregon OREGON CITY, Ore, March 11. —I(M—Deputy Sheriff J. E. Shobe sald today a man arrested in a | home here wearing only a suit of long underwear had identified him- self as Robert John Prizer, 28, An- chorage, Alaska. The deputy said Prizer was dis- covered hiding in a second floor | bedroom closet when Mrs. Thomas Thompkins returned home from an | Oregon coast vacation trip. Prizer was quoted as saying he broke into | the house because he was wet and jcold and wanted to find some warm clothing. He said he was “rolled” in Seattle and lost $3,200 lafter coming from the Territory. 3 PV LONDON ‘The Moscow radio «aid the Big Four ministers have W8I to examine a proposal by Secretary of State George C. Mar- !shall for curtailment of occupa- tion forces in Europe at their next (meeting. e — President Signs |Extension, Wartime \Excise Tax Rafes WASHINGTON, March 11.—(®— President Truman today signed legislation extending the wartime excise tax rates. The legislation continues indefin- ‘nely the high wartime levies on such items as liquor, furs, jewelry and cosmetics, and for transporta- Jtion and telephone services.