The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,563 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FR IDAY, APRIL 25, 1947 * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —_—— SHIPS ARE ALLOTED FOR ALASKA SERVICE SENATORS T0 SEEK REPORT BYMARSHALL Want fo Ge—tEdeown on F MARSHALL 1S NOW ON WAY HOME Secrefary of State Expected | CANNERY SHIPS COULD WORK ALL YEAR, SAYS BEL Plans Made for New Pa cific Industry, Canning of King Crab By VERN HAUGLAND U.S. Secretary Of State BARTLETT - CAN'T GET ANS RAISE WALLACETO MAKE TOUR OF NATION {Will Voice Views Express- ed in Europs-Discuss- To Undergo ‘Statehcod Hear (enduded; Quizzing ings Are Committee Reported (omip_g North ALASKA HAS WASHINGTON, April 25— | Hearings on statehood for Alaska ended yesterday with indications 30 VESSELS ARE T0 BE CHARTERED Iemporarygvi(e for 16 Month-Rate Increase . Although Told Hos- fo Make Report on | pitals fo Close Moscow Meeting Relations Between U. S. and Russia | no action wiil e taken on pending | legislation until committee mex - bers visit Aluska in the summ.ei WASHINGTON, April 25.—(®— INick Bez of Seattle said today the’ {government-owned floating cannery | Is Requested 1 es Jewish Issue WASHINGTON, April AP— Legislators called today for a first hand report on American-Russian! relations from Gen. George C. Marshall. Reports circulated on Capitol Hill that Dean Acheson, who as Undersecretary has shouldered! State Department burdens at home| since Marshall left ~Washington over six weeks ago, has insisted! anew that he be relieved of his! duties soon to return to private} law practice. If Acheson steps out in the next month or two, Robert Lovett, for- mer assistant Secretary of War for Air and a close associate of Mar-, shall, is regarded as a possible| successor. President Truman fended off all questions about the Moscow meet-; ing at his news conference yester-{ day, telling reporters to await Marshall's report. : But members of the Senate For-- eign Relations committee, with four; Balkan peace treaties before them,! indicated they want more detail! than they helieve Marshall will feel free to provide in any public address. .o — WageBoost Is Granted Auto Men | [ | | | i \ 1 i i | | i i i | New Agreement Between' Corporation and Union Being Signed Today DETROIT, April 25—®— The: CIO United Auto Workers settled; with General Motors Corp. last night for an 11': cent basic huur-| ly wage increase, but UAW pres-| ident Walter P. Reuther said the union had gained “a total econ- omic package well over 15 cents.”| ‘The new agreement—being pre-; pared for corporation and union! signatures today—was expected to set a pattern for the auto in-j dustry’s wage drive this year. i Under its terms 220,000 General Motors workers will get, in addi- tion to the hourly boost, pay Ior. six holidays which the corporationi said is equal to an additional 3% cents an hour, and new va-! cation benefits. HALIBUT FLEET S IDLING AT DOCKS; DISPUTE GOES ON SEATTLE, April 25.—P—A meet- ing of fishing vessel owners asso- ciation members and Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union representatives over the dispute involving catch- shares brought no settlement. The halibut boats should have started north this week to reach the Port- lock and Albatross banks and other fishing grounds by the season’s start, May 1. The two sides met with Conciliation Service Com- missioner Albin H. Peterson. Boats with names starting from “A” to “L” were to have begun! leaving Monday, with vessels from “M” to “Z” six days later. The operators have agreed to arbitrate the dispute, but the un-: jon has not yet taken ahy action, Peterson said. i ' 1 i i e - CASE OF SUICIDE Gail A. Harmon, recently found dead in his place of business at | Austria jof the spring season opening on | cents for MOSCOW, April 25.—(P—Secre-’ tary of State George C. Marshall| winged through European skies!| toward home today to report to the American people on Big Four negotiations which broke up last night in almost complete disagree- ment on the major issues involved in concluding peace treaties for and Germany. | “I am sorry that we did not make more progrs Marshall said just before boarding the four- engine plane which is scheduled to set him down in Washington to- morrow night, “but I imagine that| as we look back in the days ahead| we will see that much more was| done than we realized at the time.” 1 Marshall said he was not cer- tain when he would make his radio report, but that it probably would be sometime after Sunday night ON RADIO MONDAY WASHINGTON, April 25.—(®P— Secretary of State Marshall will | report to the nation on the Big| Four Foreign Ministers conference | i by radio Monday night from 8:30| [to 9 pm. (5:30 to 6 PST). i l The State Department announced | | this today. The address will be car- | ‘ried by the four major radio net- | works. | -+ FISH PRICES == AT ASTORIA AGREED T0 Season le Probably Open Next Wednesday Without Any Strike ASTORIA, Ore., April 25—(#— Fishermen and packers have agreed { | | (on prices for fish, and both sides | said today there was a good chance; | Wednesday without | lay. | The agreement on prices willl run to August 1. Negotiations will continue for the period after that.! These prices were recommended | by: the price committee for the| Columbia River Fishermen's Pro-| tective Association: i Twenty-three cents a pound for salmon and blueback. Thirteen and a half cents for steelhead after June 10, and six roe shad. have offered 20 cents for salmon for August a strike de- Packers a pound 1-10 and 10 to the en d of the season. D Japanese Observe ‘Babu Rusu’ Day in Toyko Next Sunday TOKYO, April will be “Babu Rusu Day” in Japan in honor of the great American hitter of “home runs.” The Japanese professional base- ball league made the announcement today. Japanese well remember Babe Ruth—“Babu Rusu” to them. | 25.—(M—Sunday | 175 cents from Augustofficially | i | which he operates—The . Paci Explorer—will free the Unit States from “back-door fishing. He said the vessel, now operat- ing off Costa Rica, already has demonstrated that the West Coast’ fishing boats, idle for many part of the year, can profitably be em- ployed the year around—and at great distances from home. If his plans materialize, Bez told reporters, the cannery ship this |summer may establish a new North| Pacific by Japan — crab. Bez said he has already started men and small vessels toward Al- aska to investigate the king crab situation in the Bering Sea Bez added that since crab pro- cessing must be done by hand, work will be slow. He said the Japa- nese crowded 800 crab-pickers on industry once monopolized the canning of Kking Pacific Explorer can't accommo- date more than 200 under American standards. Arch Ekdale of San Pedro told the House Fisheries subcommittee he believes the Fish and Wildlife Service thought the boat would be cperated for experimental pur- poses Instead of that, he said, it turn- ed into a commercial tuna fishing venture. He added that the Pacific | Exploration Co., which Bez heads, joffers more money for fish at the cannery than fishermen would receive through normal channels of trade. Philip M. Fairbanks, counsel for the Sun Harbor Packing Co., San|ace cowboy who confessed Kkiliing' Diego, contended the Reconstruc- tion Finance Authority exceeded he said was justified the grounds of scientific research. on He said the government, in con-iday after District Attorney Char-| |tracting to receive a percentage of les Swan in an unscheduled move, profits in rental for the boat, act- prise. He complained that the | Pacific Exploration Co. ‘had per-| |suaded two boats under contract!to the reduced charge. to fish for the San 'iego can- Explorer. - Russia Reporied In Frantic Move To Get Uranium MUNICH, April 25.—®—A Ger- man businessman who spent sev- eral weeks in the Russian zone as- serted today that Soviet engineers were turning a mountainous area of Saxony into a great mining re- gion in a “frantic search for uran- ium—key to the atom bomb. (American experts, speaking un- in Frankfurt, said the German’s statement was “possibly true,” but warned that his story might be a “plant. e ARMY OFFICER IN ' Lt. J. A. Chandler, from Anchor- age, has ariived in Juneau with Pacific Northern Airlines and is staying at the Baranof Hotel. — e ALASKANS AT BARANOF L. B. Maxwell from Cordova, Belle Charlebois and Perry E. Hil- leary from Anchorage, J. H. God- from Chatham Cannery, and Fred He visited the country with an Am- |8istered at the Baranof. erican all-star team in 1931. ————~—-—— IN JUNEAU FROM STATES New guests registering at the Baranof from the States include L. W. Sauer from San Francisco, i e THROUGH TO SEATTLE Lowell M. Puckett and Cecil A. Roley, both of Anchorage, flew to Juneau yesterday with Pacific Northern Airlines and stopped overnight at the Baranof Hotel.|three dog books and was promin- | Palmer, committed suicide accord-jand Frank Borys from Burralo;’l'hey were expected to leave today ing to the FBL | Airport at Buffalo, N. Y. for Seattle. WASHINGTON, April Delegate Bartlett of Alaska failed itoday in an effort to get {House to increase funds for the Interior Department appropriation bill for the Alaska Native service rom $3,250,000 to $4,069,000. ‘The larger amount was appro- priated for the current fiscal year. Bartlett told the House would force the closing of (Indian and private hospitals. | voice vote | The House Public Lands com- mittee approved Bartlett's bill to permit mining in navigable streams in Alaska. > SENSATIONAL | | ‘board their cannery ships, but thevMURDER ENDS | | 270 PRISO One-time Ace Cowboy Is Sent Up for Killing for Love of Red-head | VALE, Ore, April 25.—#—Alvin |Lee Williams, 23, the one-time wealthy W. D. Broadhurst, 51 {the love of a red-haired 40 lits legal authority in financing a old woman, today was just another ! | commercial fishing enterprise which |life-termer. His sentence was imposed by |Circuit Judge M. A. Biggs yester- asked that the murder charge ! first-degree to second-degree. Williams at once pleaded guilty | He confessed the shotgun slay of the seven-times-wedded woman, |Mrs. Gladys Lincoln Broadhurst, jwho won the love of the cowboy!Finlay said. “We've had too many lins, Mrs. H. Fraley, Nelson Aus-| |from the Broadhurst ranch near |here when he became her chauf- \feur last September. ! Two weeks later, they = went |Reno — {‘man. A month following—in Oc- {band was killed. Williams testified | 25 —P— the| the cut! some, His amendment was defeated by, PARIS, April 25.—(M—Henry A.’ i Wallace declared today that a Jew-| ish resistance movement in Pales-! tine has been necessary to “arouse! the conscience of the world.” Expressing faith that Britain | would solve the Holy Land prob- llem and hope that it l“earry out the original declaration,” the former Vice President told a |ference that “there can never be peace in the world until justice [has been done the Jewish people.” would' Balfour! American news con- l {said. “1 have never believed in! |force of arms or force of money.” +ean speaking tour here, today ap- {proved o tentative 15-date coast- | to-coast lecture schedule in the nited States. He said he would | !voice the views he expressed in Europe. | The tour will begin April 30 witl a nationwide broadcast. Tentative | idates for the remainder of the tour hnc{ude: May 16, Portland, Ore.:l ;May 19, Seattle. | | PROBEIS UNDERWAY IN TEXAS l | Someone Is Lying Declares | Official Conducting | Texas City Blast ! | GALVESTON, Texas, April 25.— |ually is a partner in the enter- against Williams be reduced from!(p—Rear Admiral Gordon T. Fin-' Colby, D. Colby, J |lay, chairman of the Coast Guard ,‘\mard investigating the Texas City | ,disaster, charged here today that ome of the witnesses appearing their testimony.” “It's apparent someone is lying,™ contradictions about too many i points.” | Finlay made 'confirming an his charge while announcement by |through a wedding ceremony inly. s. District Attorney Brian 8. Paul Brendible, R. the seventh for the wo- Odem of Houston that the Fed-:Braves and Sallie Paden; to Pe- .eral Government is investigating lof Federal criminal laws. The, EARTHQUAKE ALONG COAST {Reported Disturbance Yes- terday Between Ju- neau, Seward PHILADELPHIA, April 25.—(®— 2:43:30 p. m. (EST) and Juneau. RECORDED ,AT SEATTLE SEATTLE, April 25—(®— The today an earthquake of ‘“moder- ate intensity” was recorded some time yesterday on the seismograph Alaskn’s Covernor, the last wit- ness, said: : “My conviction 1s nol only that statehood for Alaska is desirable |and necessary at this time but only through statehood will Alaska be ! developed as a strategical place in | the defense and economy of our | country.” Chairman Crawford (R-Mich), of |the Territories Subcommittee con- | sidering measures to give Alaska |immediate statehood ended the | hearings without saying what action “I sympathize with the British'pranklin Institute reported it rec-|the committee might take. jand I deplore terrorism,” Wallace!orded a “moderate earthquake" at| Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska), told | vesterday, a reporter he thought action willl 13,150 miles frym Philadelphia, and Wallace, winding up his Europ-ijjkely in Alaska between Seward|members visit the Territory |be delayed until the committee | “I believe the territorial affairs of our government have been bad- |ly handled,” the Governor said, |“and the residents of our territor- (office of Dr. Howard Coombs at ies hurt.” h the University of Washington sakli Development Stopped He told the commitiee that the Territory is largely at the mercy jof the Interior Department and | WASHINGTON, Aprii 25—(f— !The Maritime Commission an- nounced today it has approved the forms ol contracts with three Al- askan steamship companies for a temporary commercial steamship service to the Territory. ‘The Commission. did not go into i the details of the contracts but ,said about 30 ships will be furnish- ed the companies at nominal char- ter hire, The temporary service is to re- place a government operated ser- vice begun during the war. It was operated by the War Shipping Ad- ministration and the Maritime Com- mission. When time came two months ago for the government to turn the ships back to the private companies they announced they would not resume it unless they |received an appreciable increase in i rates. 4 i i | | | Overall Rate Increase Gerald D. Morgan, Counsel for the Alaska Transportation Co., told a reporter the ¢ have kut. exact time and direetion Wwere that changes in administration and jpetitioned for new tariffs amount-" not obtained. The office explain-|in Secretaries of the Interior al-ling to an overall rate increase of ed that Dr. Coombs and his assis-|ways brought decided changes in |35 percent. He said the application tant were ill and unable to make readings. ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES FLIES 66 ON THURSDAY Alaska Coastal Airlines reported j}hnndlmg of the Territory's affairs and “some have stifled development i and checked progress” of the Ter- | ritory. | He declared that Alaskans have |no voice in | with two senators and a represen- |tative they would be represented when changes are proposed. He said the Territory has been | discriminated against in not belng. lgiven a share in Federal highway funds, in not getting its proportion- their affairs but that | was filed April 18 and will become effective in 30 days unless objec- { tions from Alaskans cause the Com- imission to suspend them pending a hearing. Delegate Bartlett of Al- aska said Alaska will ask that the proposed rates be suspended. ‘The new service will operate for about 16 months' while Congress studies means of furnishing Alaska with ® permanent service. | Morgan sald the companies hope {to put the new service into effect even flights dispaiched yester-lnte share of agriculture experi-!in early June or sooner. It will day, touching at Ketchikan, Wran-iment station funds or its shareireplace a government-operated ser- gell, Kake, Sitka, Patterson Bay,| of forest ressrve funds and land | vice begun during the war. It is Tenakee, Hoonah, Pelican City, Haines, Skagway and Tulsequah. !grant college nioney. He said air transportation had expected to continue for about 18 [ months pending action by Congress Passengers to Sitka were G. Mat- not been developed there as well}on the Alaskan shipping problem. Darre, P. Hol- land, S. J. Villeria, Darrell Naish, L. Peterson, Mrs. Combs, Jacobsen, Dr. Williams, Greeley Holcomb, Flessie Doolin and R. V7. ‘nel‘y to deliver fish to the Pacific|ing in the sensational earlier tri.al;‘bc(om the inquiry group “lied in Bolton. Returning from Sitka to Juneau were George Williams, Amy Mol- tin, Don Graham, B. Katten, Edith Ryan, N. McEachran, H. F. Carter and H. Farrington. Passengers to KetcHikan Martin, were Les tersburg, Hans Jensen; fromKetch- tober—Broadhurst, her sixth hus-|the disaster for possible violations!ikan to Juncau, F. Borys and, Em- bert Demmert; irom Wrangell, E. |the woman talked him. into it. The!hearing was recessed to Monday., Whitehead. {state said she planned it all to |get ahold of Broadhurst’s $146,- €00 fortune. The woman, convicted of first- }state prison, serving a life sen-| |tence. It is unlikely the pair will !ever meet, since men and women |are segregated there. A court ap- ;peal for her is pending. | (OLDTIME KLONDIKE! 'DOGSLED DRIVER IS KILLED, HOME BLAZE SEATTLE, April 25—~(®—Arthur T. Walden, oldtime Klondike dog- |sled driver, was killed when fire destroyed his home at Wonalancet, N. H,, March 26, according to word |ing from Ketchikan, Tex McCoyirecelved here yesterday. | Walden, 76, was renowned along |H. Story from Skagway are re-|the Yukon river as a driver. He | brought first word of the discovery | of gold into Circle City in 1898, and | started dogsled racing i Alaska in 1908. In 1926 he became chief driver |with Admiral Byrd on his first Antarctic expedition. He wrote ent in New England as a breeder of sled dogs. 1 During the morning Mayor J. C.| iTrahan of Texas City told the; |board that a lot of sight-seers were' \watching a fire aboard the: ploded disastrously in the town’s; | harbor, Trahan told the board that ex- | plosions and fires that wrecked his city last week claimed the lives of | '433 known dead. He said that 128( ipersons are missing. ‘Trahan's \known dead total is slightly larger |that the latest figure released by |the- American Red Cross. ¢ The Texas City mayor estimated |that property damage resulting | |from the explosions and fires| [would . total '$35,000,000 and that it would take two and one-half years to rebuild the city and re- store the productions facilities of| |its industrial plants. " STOCK QUOTATIONS : NEW YORK, April 25.—Closing . quotation of Alaska Juneau mine! stock today is 4'%, American Can 90%, Anaconda 36%, Curtiss- | Wright 5%, International Harvester 81, Kennecbtt 43%, New York Cen- tral 15, Northern Pacific 15%, U. 'S. Steél 687, Pound $4.02%. ; Sales today were 780,000 shares.i Merrill-Lynch averages today are 14485, utilities 3387, b Flown to Pelican City were C. Raatikainen and Mrs. Jacobsen; from Pelican City to Juneau, Don Chase, Mrs. E. Ojamenind, A. E. degree murder, already is in the|Grandcamp when the freighter ex-|watson and Mrs. C. Rivers; from Hoonah, George Anderson; from Tenakee, Sam ‘Asp; from Patterson Bay, K. Martin. Dr. C. E. Albrecht, Dr. Sapping- ton, Charles F. Chevillon and Ed P. Hruby were passengers to Haifies; 'Mrs. Ted Reynolds, G. Koffel and B. Morgan flew to Ju- neau. from Skagway. Tulsequah, B. C., passengers were J. McLean, E. Leake, F. Ridden, R. Wolverton and H. Weelie; return- ing 'to Juneau, E. Crawford. A load | of freight and baggage was also| flown to Tulsequah. PRISONER BROUGHT HERE Chief Flossie M. Doolin epu-!y 7U. S. Marshal went to Sitka yesterday and returned with a wo-' man prisoner, Amy Molline, who is to serve 130 days in the Juneau Federal Jail. She was sentenced by U. 8. Commissioner Ernest Dennis | for being drunk and disorderly. f e BOB ELLIS IN JUNEAU Bob Ellis, Mayor of Ketchikan and owner of Ellis Airlines, regis- {as follows: industrials 168.94, rails, tered last might with Mrs. Ellis at|Cooper, Juanita the Baranof Hotel. '{hews, Dora Johns, L. Colby, R.[as in the states. 1 More Taxation ! He reviewed “notoriously high” John | shipping rat-s, saying Alaskans pay | (freight bills on their supplies amounting to $8,000,000 a year. He isaid this sura may be doubled un- | der proposals of shipping compan- ies. | The Governor said the extra cost of statehood would be $7,000,000 ‘:nnd that the Territory can pay double that amount if necessary. |He said Alaskans pay few taxes now and would be able to pay more under statehood. ‘He asserted that defense of the ETerl'itory would be better provided (under statehood. He added that if | the armed forces had followed the advice of Alaskans and former Del- | egate Anthony J. Dimond, the Jap- lanese would never have been able to land on Kiska and Attu Islands. He said Dimond had urged a $100,- {000,000 apprcpriation to defend Al- ‘aska but the Navy had said $10,- 000,000 would do. | Byron E. Cowart, Staff Officer lin Alaska during the war, urged (the committee to provide adequate |defense in the Territory and said he believed it would be done bet- ter under statehood. 'PAN AMERICAN IN FROM FAIRBANKS, CONTINUES SOUTH Pan American Airways failed to |reach Juneau from Seattle yester- |day because of poor flying condi- |tions. A southbound flight from |Fairbanks came in, however, and |continued to Seattle. The following passengers reported: Fairbanks to Juneau: K. N. Neill, Clara Gaddie, Traynor William, Bernard Tanner, Arland Brwse. i Juneau to Annette: J. V. Ros- coe. Juneau were Seattle: Regnier, McKanna. Yvonne Peter to JIlnicki, Robert Ships Chafter Hire Morgan szid the contracts pro- vide the Commission will furnish l(governmen',-owned ships to the { companies at nominal charter hire, { The Commission will pay the ‘in- 'surnnce on them. i The operators will agree to fur- ! nish “economical and efficient” {service but will not start it until the new rates become effective. The operators are to receive ten percent of the profits before taxes |and assume all losses. On any pro- fits over that amount the Com- | mission will deduct the cost of in- surance and it and the company will divide the remainder, 75 per- cent going to the government and 25 percent to the operators. The Alaska Steamship Co., will | be allotted 17 vessels, four or five | company owned; the Alaska Trans- | portation Co. three, two govern- {ment owned, and the Northland Transpivtation Co. five, all govern- ment owned. | Morgan said it is understood the 1 Army will use the commercial ves- }sels to transport its goods to Alas~ \ ka. The form of the contracts was worked out by a House Subcom- mittee headed by Rep. Jackson- {(D-Wash) at a time when the ! steamship companies threatened to discontinue service to Alaska unless they received a rate increase. Protest Rate Increase Delegate Bartlett said Ralph Rivers, Attorney General of the Territory, will file a petition in a day or so asking the Commission to suspend the rates pending a hearing. { “I think the proposed increase {is entirely out of order,” Bartlett ‘said. “This is a fact especially in view of the substantial government jassistance to be furnished the com- \panies in the way of ships and in- surance. We shall ask the Commis~ |sion not to allow the increase. i e, Many of the walls in the ruins !or Pompeii and Hercualenum were jcovered with advertisements. 3 H ! { ! |