The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1947, Page 1

- s o+ said any 3 *~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” [—————— VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,561 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1947 “MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ——— WALLACE CALLS FOR CHANGED COURME Fight Starts To Block LOWERRATES Neighbor RUINOUS IS | | - (HARGE MADE Attorney Faulkner Says: Reduction Would Be . | Disastrousfo Industry | 23 —B— T WASHINGTON, April Fishery and canning industry presentatives asked the House Wa, and Means Committee yesterday to | block cuts in fish import duties ing negotiation of reciprocal \n\d:-l agreements. i They argued generally that pre- | sent duties are inadequate und“ lower rates would be “ruinous.” H. L. Faulkner, of Juneau, Alas- ka, representing the Association of Pacific Fisheries, Seattle, Wash, reduction in the present 25 percent tariff on canned salmon would be “disastrous.” 1 Lawrence J. Hart, Secretary of ' the Gloucester, (Mass) Fisheries| Association, said the 1939 trade; agreement with Canada fixed a one | and seven-eighths cent a pound | duty on filets up to a 15,000,000~ { pound quota and a two and one- (Centinued on Page Three) | | Eighteen tracters i acres in a single day. Solem was received in an accident. ® Photo. Theil;;iinbtong- e Merry- Go-Round PRESIDEN By DRE\VEARSON plANS '[RIP TOCANADA WASHINGTON—Most important | voting record in this decade—per- | haps several decades—was made | April 17 when 414 members of the House of Representatives stood up, to be counted for or against the| Hartley Labor Bill, thereby ringing | the death knell on the Wagner Act, \[ici tad and labor's Magna Charta ‘VISIt to Dominion About Chambers of Commerce, business 4 H i lobbies and union leaders will be ! June IO, !hen '0 Prm(e thumbing through the record vote! on that crucial bill for some time! ion Unlv- June 16 to come in order to decide whether' o : to support or oppose candidates for | WASH_INGTQN. April 23.—® re-election. So much heat was ap- T}-m White House said today plied on both sides and such sou‘_:Plesld[‘n[ Truman is planning a searching was experienced by con-"‘,:’: 1‘(‘]’ Canada—perhaps about scientious congressmen that one 9 & i Fred No‘.imn o Wz\.smngwn,; Presidential Secretary Charles G. died of worry Ross told newsmen a trip to Can- o ada and a visit to Princeton Uni- Careful scrutiny of ' the historic 20 5 3 Hufeton Iahor B, vote mVARYEto “epni-r| Yooty sane 16.:60. Tecalie a day 1] t thing st * igree constituted the President's LA H ‘only definite travel plans at this 1.—Of the 22 Républicans who had e the nerve to Quck theip leade"sl “\;‘d__ Ross declined to nail down offi- go down: the ype $gainsh the labor cially the time of the Canadian bill, the majority were War VEer-|.;," py; other sources indicated ans newly elected to Congress. {Mr. Truman will visit Ottawa 2—Of the 93 Democrats who de-| 10 June 10 serted their leaders and voted | "4t whether a summer visit against’ labor, asconsiderable num-ly, Alaska is tentatively on the ber had consistent New Deal re-precident's schedule, Ross assert- cords and heretofore had been con-lqq. sidered strong Rooseveltians. Men| «He has made no plans beyond like Lyndon Johnson, John Lyle(the Canadian trip. All reports on and Wright Patman of Texas, Bon-!the subject are extremely tenuous ner of North Carolina, Cooper and|and highly speculative.” Gore of Tennessee, all bolted the; e e Roosevelt-Truman platfohm and,i despite a certain veto by the Pres- | ident, voted against labor. ‘jEw Sp Reason, of course, was the fact DIS(USSION ON that anti-labor sentiment in thejr districts was too tough—which il lustrates labor leaders’ worst mi: take. Not only did they uverplay[ their hand, but when labor legisla- | tion came before Congress for cer- 0 G193 tain passage, they refused to go __,’;".,Ai{f ?;’lficisx:gn’; Yl'hfl)“‘l]pf‘ds along on even mild reforms. ’l'hey'elm,rg(,(l today over who will re overplayed their hand so badly that ice,t (heir interests at the sp some of their old friends figured it|pajegtine * session of the United meantpolitical suicide t0-SUPPOIt | Nations General Assembly. them. & ‘: The official Jewish Agency Palestine and the Hebrew Commit- SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS STICK [(c. of National Liberation made On the “other hand, a cousider-'riva] claims last night for able number of southern Democrats |yright to represent the Jews. from districts where labor is none\ Each filed a formal request with too popular stuck by their previous,secretary-General Trygve Lie ask- pro-labor Roosevelt records anding for designation.as the author- voted against the Hartley bill. The |jzed representative at the special people in Sam Rayburn’s Texas dis- /session. This action posed several for the trict, for instance, have no greatquestions for the Assembly. love for labor. But Sam stood up! Though the Jews be given an and was counted against Killing|opportunity to plead their case labor's Magna Charta. With him 'before the body, they would not be were such men as Ewing Thomason permitted to vote. of El Paso, Thomas of Houston,| Meanwhile, the Arab states lined Combs from Martin Dies’ old Texas (up solidly behind a proposal for district, Boggs of Louisiana, Lan-‘lmmediale consideration of Pales- tine’s independence at the special (Continued on Page Four) session opening Monday made quick work of Peter Solem’s plow problems at LaCrosse, Wash,, plowing the 350 that s Help Out Injured Farmer | GREEK BILL | BY SENATE Measure.}ms Floor of | EMIL HUI House Where Debate | RJA - Begins Next Week ‘BOOSHNG 23— L} For Alaska | | | ' | WASHINGTON, April ‘Undez attack as a “blank check, {the Administration’s $350,000,000 Foreign Relief bill bit the House!' \ {tlcor todey less than 24 hours after| Ithe Senite had sealed its approval| ERMI \ oric $400,000,000 program | . Greee ana munees ears! C. M. Grainger Tells of Ne- unism. | g g | “hene on e rener s arst| gOMiating with Groups ‘and the sharply-pared Interior D 4 S¥tient sporopriation nextpro-| - for Paper Mills |Lably wil delay House action onj Fass the Greek-Turkish aid program un-! \WASHINGTON, April 23.—(P— til some time next week Emil Hurja, writer and former res- The Senate passed that measure jqent of Alaska, told a House com- late yesterday by the top-heavyimittee today Russia hopes to re- ,vote of 67 to 23 after weeks Of gaiy jts standing in the Pacific unable to do the work himself because he was laid up with injuries Cuf in Indian Funds May (lose Government i More Far-Reaching than Hospital in This City ouse Measure - 0p- L posifionfrom(lO,AFL debglr in which opponents 1|h\i‘ll"xkn(l “yoices have been raised from ed it as a step toward war Withiyjme to time in the Soviet tradi- it will help preserve peace. | He was festifying before the e e |House Territories subcommittee i | “We should take Alaska into the | {“The international situation being I 'whm it is demands that we knit | lhold it in the closest association SENATE Now, “The American flag should be .planted in Alaska, and in Hawail :od their apprenticeship and areen- |titled to be admitted as full part- Russia- and its supporters "1‘“"‘"(‘3110!1 that Alaska by right is theirs.” which is econsidering a bill to give throtherhood of statehcod,” he said. our territory closely about us, and { possible. 1 i. . . “These Territories have serv- (ners in the American common- { wealth.” Hurja said that when the United | States purchased Alaska from Rus- Russians WASHINGTON, April 23. lcia 80 years ago many DAY”GHT SAVING william Zimmerman, jr, acting \wASHINGTON, April 23—@— ofjected and some still consider Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1.« week the ”‘U”:I(, approved its that Alaska should be under Soviet "ME ANNOU"(ED said yesterday appropriation euts yapor Bill—the toughest one ever Bovernment. | (] pr_‘"}:"l"'c‘_j b{ ‘H",‘J"’c ‘j”'“"”f‘e“ to get its OK. Today the Senate! He said the time is COT‘H% ‘:t’(‘)‘“ 1;“1)‘ xlesu] ;J»d 3: geru:n CU- i pLeginning debate on its L:\bm"A_l“- a ‘wlll be u}\ Im[pm vd:no;-u: | MANY lo(AlIIIES ailment in Indian education. measure, also plenty tough But ' Ping point on air routes connec g & The House appropriations com- .inough it fs considerably lessjthe United States and Europe. He P mittee has recommended cutting (o \eaching than the House Bill [said if Alaska is made a state the Letter pre- Indian Sq ce funds from $44,509,- in that 520 to $33,122,133 for the year be- ginning July 1 Zimmerman said such reductions even Senate opponents concede that, United States will be it may be sharpened up before fin- | pared to “hold i own al approval. ipart of the world. It's a dead General Switching of Clocks Will Take Place cinch that when Absentee Government : would force 00 Indian children 'p, .., i i s G 25 | ¥ | on Apl’ll 27 out of government schools. | PresiGiit SERATL gets the Greek-| . apcentee government,” he said, S S Turkish aid bill he will sfgn it into .oy cen” the piggest stumbling i ’.":"“i? e ket ot it There | iockc (o Alaska’s development” | are Iindications, nowever, hat ! ¢ aes r i on a partial basis. m;v ke angthm’ story when Mr"Fis(!:: o(?n:;:LKEXA ;::\:;t‘\::‘nll Clg:l‘ The Alaska Native Service, 3 : 5 Pemg iy e Agl 5 2 g 9 ervice, under gy gets the finished labor| iene % ked the committee to ced $469,000 cut, wi g ) . a proposed $469.000 cut, would have ;. Jys harsher than the one he' oy, control of the national for- hospitals could be maintained only (By THE OCIATED PRESS) The pattern of areas that will go lon daylight saving time April 27 will in places resemble a patchwork quilt, many communities having to close its 60-bed hospital at Ju- [.iieq and he may try to Kkill ; 3 exercised their option to differ|neau and its 30-ted hospital at:y vseh a veto B AT ests in the govemment. }r‘l;:n,w with their neighbors on whether}Tanana. | Nellle 88" GT0 nor the AFL{gl}slcd a y;l}an foil‘lr) (rl l:‘\ deli(m; i shange. Zimmerman said t ts mi bi : o . {where is was g our 's to make the time change | e n said the cuts might are taking any chances. The CIO T s i be aplied. 1o In general, the time change will be made on a statewide basis, with most of the states planning to re- require closing the Eklutna board-;; j,mparding the Senators with ing school at Seward, and all day:, . .orams pleading with them to schools where duplicate facilities Pt 5 4 The Forest Service Plans against the labor bill. L; Granger sald the Forest Service | Alaska. vote main’ on Standard time being are offered by the Territory. 3 x 5 “Rrid OnAs those in the south and west. I ———————— ‘::![‘ Erl:l’;fox:o JS}‘I““:\ ‘”l’:‘ a;dvz-rus-}"' negotiating with three groups While most areas making the SIA E ing to try to defeat the measure]Of inVestors to construct PARS and change will do so at 2 a. m. on| SS N KEEPING Iy raising a public storm against‘l’“]p mills in Alaska. He said that !Sunday, April -27, at least one—| lit. with one company. which he did not identify, negotiations have only one more point to hurdle, that of arranging the cost of the timber to meet competitive conditions in the Puget Sound ared. He said the government plans to give the companies contracts for 50 years with timber enough to sup- ply them forever on & sustained MUMONFOREIGN e r1s Giage POLICY OF U. 5. * \NTi - FLAGSTAD DEMONSTRATION| | Newburgh, N. Y.—will wait un®il May 27 to turn the clocks forward. i All but a dozen villages in New (York will go on daylight saving. | (Continued on Page Thre<) : e NOMINATIONS LONDON, Apiil 23.—(P—Harold E. Stassen, Republican leader who' isaid he is in Europe “to listen a lot (and y little”, declined an oppor- - 54 he stumpage BY pRESIDENTwumzy to broadcast here, it was| PHILADELPHi3, April za»tmgi:):ellc‘;b';f;iw D o B 4 said today at the offices of the!The aroma of stench bombs and; o provision for reappraisal of ! British Broadcasting Corporation, | boos filled the hallowed Academy| WASHINGTON, ~April 23 T ik oftAsd ax miH fims on|of MuLL Rt the Kirsten Plagstad|(ns ‘EigEstevery five yoRS i | President Truman tofay nominat-|the air as Henry A. Wallace had concert in what a music critic| P&k A iaikh Goind Hiftnc ed Brig. Gen. Raymond Whitcomb recently. todayitidigribed a8 /the: Pworst.|, CUBGEGE @8, Masis S0 Cll | Bliss to be Surgeon General of the! Stassen said he does not intend!demonstration” ever experienced ull‘m? Bbagk 1'000"_) ) ‘:‘"25 p"ce;n Army, with the rank ' of Major to discuss American Foreign policy|the academy £t A e 1 General here. [ The outbreak came at a con-|°f the “M““"“; C';";zf,’(‘;‘;m ek} | Bliss will succeed Maj. Gen. Nor- | —————— lcert given by the Norwegian so- m;’:::;d ;20'“- ot man Thomas Kirk, whose term ex- ano as pickets p:lm(led. bclux%- hood for Alaska at this time. He pires May 31 ormer ar en o the academy with signs reading:| - id he had been a miner, promot- The President also nominated “Flagstad preferred a Nazi rvglme;;‘r‘ and mow fs a cattle rancherl Col. Ellis Armstrong to succeed; n't play second fiddlel—stay ' Ceroqiay vicinity. He insist-| |Bliss as assistant to the Surgeon| }x-u " and “Artists are not above| General, with the rank of Erix;ufl} — judgment. We condemned Hnlex'!! > expense Of 'dier General. | GARRISON, N. Y. April 23— |We condemn Flagstad!” ,;" sfij‘;““go‘,,"e,:‘,f,?m”" i | Both nominations are for four-|(P—Lewis E. Lawes, 63, who for 21/ e | He said the Territory may be year terms. years was. warden at Sing Sing ALBERS MILLING CO. ready for statehood in ten years President Truman also nominat- prison at Ossing, N. Y. and was' REPRESENTATIVE HERE "W W% 0 all Alaskans want ed Undersecretary of State William one of the nation’s outstanding au-| Al D. Barker, representing the to see it get statehood eventually. L. Clayton to represent the United thorities on prison problems, died' Albers. Milling Company Seattle’ s N 4 States on the Economic Commis- early today at his home here. office, arrived here yesterday afte: sion for Europe. Lawes had been seriously ill for noon via Pacific Northern Airwa The commission was cslablis‘hed“d days. He died of a cerebral|irom Anchorage for a 10-day stay. /by the Eccnomic and Social Coun-| hemorrhage. He had retired from He is staying at the Baranof Ho- Jecil of the United Nations. ihis post as Sing Sing July 16, 1941, tcl ed there are not enough people| Sing S_ing Stricken SE ALASKANS HERE Leslie H. Grove of Craig, union | representative, and G Millice of Ketchikan are at the Baranof, Fish Imports D Bell Favors Statehood 'legislation as Matter 0f Defense for Nation WASHINGTON, April 23— ep. Bell (D-Mo), favors state- hood for Alaska, he said today. “I believe it is important as matter of national defens Bell, last year's chairman of the House Insular Affairs committee, told a reporter. “We should also pass legislation giving veterans the right to home- stead there. “The next attack on this country. if one comes, is liable to come from the Arctic. If Alaska is a well populated and defended state, there would be a degree of security we couldn't get otherwise.” He is in accord, he continued with the principle of legislation proposed by Reps Lemke (R-ND), and Peden (D-Okla), to give war veterans homestead privileges in Alaska. RIVERS GIVES VIE WASHINGTON, April P — Alaska’s Attorney General told a House Public Lands subcommittee yesterday the Territory has been deprived of much Federal-aid legis- lation it could enjoy under state- hood. Attorney - General Ralph Rivers cited agricultural experiment work as an example. Alaska was not included in the program at all until 1936, and then came in for a 50 percent share, he said. “As a result,” he declal “the Soviet government is far ahead of us in developing agriculture in Si- beria in a similar climate.” The subcommittee on territories, headed by Rep. Crawford (R- Mich) is conducting hearings on to grant statehood to 23 Alaska. -o 2 POLICEMEN SHOT T0 DEATH IN WILD CHASE Gun Battle Ee?ween Offic- ers, Young Man Takes Place Early A. M. PHILADELPHIA, April 23.—®— A 23-year-old youth shot two po- licemen to death in a street corner gun battle early today, Sgt. John J. Creedon reported. A detective officer who declined use of his name said the youth identified himself as Willlam Hal- lowell and that he was the adopted son of a Nortl:western Un.iversity proiessor. The spokesman said the youth, who was taken to Germantown Hospital with four gun stated that his mother was divorced from Dr. Alfred I. Hallowell, for- mer Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. The shooting followed a wild race through north Philadelphia .treets as two patrol cars chased Hallo- well in what Sgt. Creedon said was a stolen car. In Chicago, Dr was “too shocked” shooting Nurses said that Hallowell's mo- ther by adoption, child psychoio- gist Dr. Dorothy Kern Hallowell, went to his bedside and was told “Get away from here; I want to die alone. Hospital attendants said they ex- pected him to live. STOCK QUOTATIC Hallowell said he to discuss the QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 23.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4'c, American Can 92, Anaconda 37, Curtiss-Wright 5, International Harvester 82, Ken- necott 444, New York Central 15':, Northern Pacific 16';, U. S. Steel | 70'%, Pound $4.02'x Sales today were 700,000 shares. Merrill-Lynch averages today ave as follows: industrials 170.87. rails 45.26, utilities 34.29, wounds, | uty Cuts FORMER V-P CRITICIZES ~ US., RUSSIA | | Address Dear—es Cause for | Which Young Men Died ' Being Undermined By ED L. CAMPBELL PARIS, ' April 23.—»—Russia anc | the United States “have under- mined the solemn cause for which | their young men died,” Henry A. | Wallace said tonight. Declaring he had found in west- (ern Europe strong support for his world unity campaign, the former | American Vice-President, in an ad- "drv\\ prepared for a meeting spon- |sored by the American Veterans | Cemmittee, said both Russian Com- | munism and American capitalism | must change their present courses |if peace is to be preserved. | Appeals For Understanding | Appealing for conciliation | understanding, he asserted: | "I believe that toughness breeds | toughness and that both the Unit- ed States and Russia by their ac- tions have already undermined the solemn cause for which their young {men died | “T believe that the United States {Is committed -by her history to a | Democratic civilization of competi- [tive enterprisc at a time when imost of the rest of the world, at- |flicted by the misery of war and | scarcity, is moving towards Social- ism or Communism,” he said. Defends Repression believe Russia is committed by her history of centuries of | Czarist tyranny to the use of re- | pressive measures as an essential | element in holding the Soviets to- | gether until such time as an abun- |dance of consumers goods makes | possible the freedoms which mean so much to us in the west. Earlier in an interview, Wallace | declared that the Soviet Union | should get from 10 to 17 billions ot dollars worth of goods and ser- | vices under a $50,000,000,000 world | reconstruction program, in return | for which the Russlans should be requested to forego heavy repara- I'tions demands upon Germany. | - ee e — 'BROWNELL TALKS " WITH PRESIDENT ~ ONALASKAR.R. and 3 | WASHINGTON, April 23.—P— |Den Carlos Brownell of Seward, | Alaska, scught Presidential aid to- | day to prevent abandonment of the | southern end of the Alaskan rail- | road. | Brownell, a member of the Alas- (kan Territorial Senate and official | representative of the town of Sew- 'ard, said railroad repair funds ‘were | omitted from the Interior Depart- ment Appropriations bill. | Unless the railroad, now in the Ineed of repair is rehabilitated. i Brownell told reporters, the town jof Seward faces bankrubtcy with- out a highway route to the Alas- kan mainland Brownell said the President ex- pressed great sympathy and said he hoped he can visit Alaska in late summer. PSR e FIRE FOLLOW " EXPLOSION AT © FLORIDAPLANT | TAMPA, Fla.,, April 23.—®—Two persons were believed dead and a idozen were injured in an explosion !which set off a raging fire at the Florida Tar Products Company plant at Six Mile Creek near here today. The ftirst explosion occurred in an empty tank, where a welding |crew was working. In quick suc- |cession six tanks holding from /15,000 to 22,000 gallons of creosote were set off and flames swept 1mmu.gn the plant.