The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1947, Page 2

g PAGE TWO 'NO CONTRACT, NO NEGOTIATIONS ON WORK,' DECLARE FISHING RESUMED; STEEL WORKERS CNE AGREEMENT ON SCOOTER MAN IN SEATILE ON HIS WAY T0 ALASKA CHAMBER DELAYS TAKING STAND ON - SEATT Rotund v BURGH EAT A 7 Making { F Action by the Juneau Cnamb ; \ry pre-se D. A. Gre Ha gen, Texas. of Commerce on the special 1€ K pletec Rio Grande Valley 10 jative committee’s report- on ti & t 1 1 tic I 1 his tr le scooter partlett bill providing " statehoc e ted 1 awled that he had for Alaska was delayed again tt { Worke i discouraging re- week, while members look cver ar 1 Conei es of being the otkor report offered to the Chan \» ] 4 1 to / ka on rer this ncon by the Rev. Robe ‘ oline-propelled Treat This report will be mimeograp! Texas, her trip from pooch” and fore the next meeting X ded dispa d cuc d in parate nwhile, indications ward d C a month were - that the present congre \ iv- P ) 1¢ Id e eacher and sional hearing on the Alask { 1 rd v il field who said he want- ctatehood bill would be ended b fore the Juneau Chamber ctand. Thz mous hocd nd possibly a “bit said high- had dis- s that it o travel the Alaska might not_be it on his takes i aska Chamber did vote y for the approval “in principle” at will continue for way workers. - v borrowing line oft \[GHABLE (ASE of canni today Baranof taken in Hotel, 1945, tiny which amounts sl R Excuse for A 1 r improve- . of aboriginal rights, conservat ouslt’ p Yoeta S'eallflg 2 of fisheries, and land withdraw B C s a specially s for military purpeses in Alask: t, n backed produce Apr. 17—p— The lengthy letter on the fish- c d and put into sentenced to €ries will be published in full i wd Y 3 Kk case permits ¢ Suaturday’s Daily Alaska Empire > > o tod P i v to. ‘aleal i ted to instruct ti » vV 3 p : % otteitoty Bok 8¢ c write to Eacretar from a h offertory box, gave or BQDY 0" 3 RA“.'.Y L ed PV & Krug, th anking him for his int H offering to St. An- ©St in the prcbiems presented by ihd o0 BB got the '-w‘-l (:i?yl;"“‘“l‘f: Concerning the qgucsion oi the BB Bailey, whs fished out e o nonay Settlement of aboriginal _rig! “ Gl gl £ \j‘;}\ 1y it -f't Secretary Krug said the Depar 4 . : ) o St. Anth €t MC ment is attempting to remedy C cown ¥ sh Groc 1 I tter through a four-fold p m: > o B e gram } D ‘ v 3 Nall S!ave labor 1. Whenever possibls, to ur i : cttlement of claims by litigation 4\‘\ Nie n ) in the conrts Alaska C Airiine General (on"ded 2. Through enactment of H i « 4 190, Bartlett bill previding for f v < gotiated agreements and settleme: ke : el - . NBERG, Germany, APl of claims with nativ T h « B v !» 1IN One ers of the 3 By enactment of further I i Y ¢ ‘ iy Luftw Marshal jglation authorizing edministrative Y [ 1 C : was coen- cn after Ecarings by the Inter D ) : 4 re- ior Department, these decisions » » ® ing subject to court revisw B d our worrow and the 4 By pushing at once . € A ¥ s a death ')leall settlements with regard to i We ¥ uth' Stre € € 1 suitable for pulp an paper sit past, tw D in Southeast of slave In ancther retar rs The Tri- d the Department’s p 4 P! r crime. gned to provide for N 4 pe - - censervation and g ) c. kB h ficheries of Alaska . sations o uniom. No Announcement .ot R er F posed coopzcration in viclators e o v nea -a woce OF EnGAQEMERT oF (o fureries cepiatons " ek Princess Elizabeth I - > o LEGIONNALRES PLAN TO . KE TR'P TO HOON.AH v Tl ROYAL TRAIN April 17.—® ing ia es in the British Roy- » L al househeld termed “absolute non- : m s today Ottawa report i : Linc enga 1 of Princess ¢ i would be announced on ¢ 3 Monday, her 21st birthday EYiges vy 1 h There will be 1o such announce- Comn Vaino ment the informants said. The cers ¢ new Legion P Qu! in (hhc Gowl, NTIAGO, C. 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COMPLETELY REPADDED OF -TOWN ORDERS GIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION STATEHCODREPORT ed and distributed to members be- unani- of state meeting in the Gold Room of the reiterating . actio fcyd gronmumeement AT BERT'S HERE DIves unique o . e R b were read, relating to the questio ne- for Hotel. ROBES and HOUSECOATS THE DAILY ALASKA F _VlPIRE——JUNEAU ALASKA uced as a new member. He is the new Juneau agent for the CPR. guest was Perry Hillery, Iulm- er Juneau resident now with ns' Administration in An— >oe HEAT WAVE ON PACIFIC COAST; | NO SPRING, EAST (By THE OCIATED PRESS) s the Pacific northwesi and Cal- ornia lolled in a heat wave, most of the rest cf the nation waited patiently today fcr spring to come. Seattle’s maximum yesterday was 03 degrees; Portland had 81. Californians flocked to the beach- es as the mercury hit highs rang- ng up to 95 at Fresno, some 20 degrees above normal for the date. On the opposite edge of the coun- try, residents of Greenville, Me., dug out aiter eight inches of fresh snow fell overnight, and other New England areas reported considers; able snowfall, including two inches at Bangor, Me,, and two at Mount Washington, N. H. Snow also was reported in Minot, N. D, Minneapolis, Syracuse and Canton, X ,——— ‘Alaska Shipping {Problem Hinges .On Big Issue SEATTLE, April 17—(®—Alaska's maritime shipping problem will re- main unsolved until ship operators and their employees arrive at “some _itform of stability in their uneasy |relations,” Sen. Warren G. Mag- _ nuson (D-Wash) said last night He told tks Propeller Club that the recurrent tieup of Alaska ves- sels during labor negotiations must Le halted before a workable pro- gram to save the Territory’s ship- ping can be worked out. —————— M. K. COMPANY OFFICIAL Jel Noonan, cfficial of the Morrison-Knudson Company, In- corporated, at Seattle, flew to Ju- neau yesterday and registered at the Baranof Hotel - - - SITKA PILOT OVERNIGHTS R. B. “Bud” Brown, Alaska Coastal Airlines pilot at Sitka, re- gistered last night at the Barancf R — THEATER MAN HERE H.'J. Bergren, from Medford, Oregon, arrived in Juneau yester- day by Pan American Airways from Seattle to work with Homer Garvin on the improvements to the Cari- tel Theatre. Chenille Robes 12 to 20 Sizes Fot Teen Agers Rayon Taffeta Housecoats Lace Trimmed Negligees from $4.95 10 $12.95 Some formery priced as high as $19.95 STEVENS' i ""The House of Swansdown”’ l S(ENES OF - DESOLATION, - TEXAS CiTY (Conttnuea from the great danger Bul wnh the po- lice herding them out, the exodus may really start today. About the Liberty ship High Fly- t'r which blew up in the middle cf the night: There is no explanation vet why she was permitted to re- main at the docks with her poten- tially explosive cargo—unless it was because of the danger of the over- whelming flames all around. But | there were 400 rescue workers near- 'by,, and all except 50 men were ordered out just before she blew apart. The ship burned away from its' moorings and drifted against Page Ume dollar Monsanto Cu.m.cal plant. White pillars sticking up from the wreckage bear a startling resemb- another ve: the SS Wilson B. lance to row upon row ol military Keene Then she exploded. graves. i At the end, the High Fiyer sar- denically lived up to her name. Ac- Waves Swallcw Ships A light wind is rippling Galves- ton Bay. But there is no trace of COrding to eye-witnesses, she went the two ships which blew up. The UP lke a giant rocket. Onc man waves have swallowed their re- Said a mammoth black cloud bil- mains, completely, lowed 2,000 teet into the night sky That's what Texas City looks —# cloud laced with flame. Red- like from the air today. | hot steel arched over the cy, and {fragments pinged on the pave- ments. In the dock area, the jagged | pieces were falling like rain, An- other man said the blast ripped the buttons off his jacket, while a piece of flying steel cut the leg of a man standing right alongside. A Red Cross nurse helped him fix a tour- niquet. Her head was bleeding, bui she paid no attenticn to herself. There are many such stories from Texas City—practically all of them nerve-chattering. But occa- sionally, there is one with a less tragic tohe. For example: J. E. Kent, a police sergeant from Hou- Meanwhile the casualty toll con- tinues to flicker up and down. Four hundred persons are known to be dead. Their bodies have been recovered and are stacked in grue- some dis-array in the high school gymnasium which still contains the wilted decorations of a school party. A Texas City medical officer es- timates the dead at 650; the Red Cross at somewWhere between 700 and 800. But none really knows, of |course. Only a comparatively small inumber of the 800 persons who worked in the vast Monsanto Com- pany plant have been found. And there is a general fear that the ston, was directing traffic near the iatalities may number more than docks when one of the ships blew cne thousand. up. It's the same sort of guess work T slid under a car,” he said. THURSDAY, APRIL 17, I 947 DAVID SPERLING TAKES EXAM FOR NAVAL ACADEMY David Sperling, Juneau ®High School student, is taking an en- trance examination today for the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Sperling, the son of Harry Sperling, U. S. Forest Service offi- cial, was named by Congressional Delegate E. L. Bartlett as second alternate in the Territory for the Naval Academy last year. Since that time, the principal candidate has fajled to qualify and Sperling has been moved up to first alternate. The examination, which takes three cCays, is being held in the Territorial Senate Chambers. Sperling, 18 years old, is in this year graduating class from Ju- neau High School. o TATOM HERE OVERNIGHT Stanley Tatom of Fairbanks, who acted as spokesman for the delega- tion from that city which went to Washington, D. C., %o protest the Alaska shipping situation, passed through Juneau on his way back to Fairbanks. Tatom arrived yesterday from Seattle with Pan American Air- ways, stayed overnight at the Bar- anof Hotel and left this morning. gl SN HYGIENE IN PORT Territorial Health Jepartment ship M. S. Hygiene arrived ih Ju- neau last cvening at 7 o'clock from Metlakatla and Ketchikan. Skip- per Lynn Crosby is expecting to sail again tomorrow or the follow- ing day for Haines and Skagway. regarding the injured. There av, “The cnpcussicn cost‘ me most of about 400 badly hurt persons what hair T had left. hespitals in the nearby cities of | — Galveston and Houston, alone. But it is believed that thé over-all to- tal of injured may reach 3,000. Texas City is being quarantined. Only military personnel, police, and relief workers were permitted to remain in the city last night. And the police ve orders not to per- mit anybody, except those on offi- or essential business to come today. i min Sizes 1 te 4 cial in People In Daze Sizes 3 to 12 Thousands of homeless pex'sons were evacuated from Texas City auring the night by Army trucks, s <, special trains, and automo- | Yet if the number of refu- in Houston is any in- thousands must still re- main in the danger zone. 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