The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 29, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _ VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,566 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDA} APRIL 29, 1947 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = PLANE MISSING WITH FIFTEEN ABOARD U.S. Serves Sharp Notice On Soviet Union RECOVERY IN EUROPE IS TO RE SPEEDED up Secrefary of State Marshall | Discloses Important Move Taken By EDWARD E. BOMAR WASHINGTON, April 29—#— The United States served notice on Russia today that this country will drive ahead with steps to help; speed Europe’s recovery without awaiting the Big-Power “comprom- ise of exhaustion” foreseen by Pre- mier Stalin Secretary of State Marshall dis- closed the Soviet leader's sugges- tion and the American reply in a plain-spoken report to the na- tion last night on the dissention-| torn Moscow foreign ministers con-[ ference. Stalin told him at their secret Kremlin meeting two weeks ago, Marshall said, powers might be able to com- promise all their major differences,’ “after they had exhausted them- selves in dispute.” In his delayed report, the cabinet officer put the blame squarely on Russia for the failure of the for-' eign ministers to agree on a peace; treaty for Austria and the outlines of one for Germany, and; declared: “The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.” ‘I believe that action cannot await compromise through exhaus- tion,” Marshall went on, “what-j ever action is possible to meet these pressing problems must be taken without delay.” The Secretary did not elaborate' on the point. ¢ — .- SETON THOMPSON SUCCEEDS BOWERS, FISH AND WILDLIF WASHINGTON, Apu] 29 —(P— The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today the appointment of Seton H. Thompson as chief of } the Division of Alaska Fisheres, with headquarters at Chicago. Thompson assistant chief of the division since 1931, succeeds Ward T. Bower, who resigned recently.: He has studied Alaskan fish .md shellfish since 1926. He attended the University of: ‘Washington and Stanford. - - - ® ®© o 0 o o 0 0 o o 0o ®* WEATHER REPORT * e Temperatures fo: 24-Hour e e Period Ending T:ou 0'Clock . This Morning. o . . . In Juneau—Maximum, 47; @ ® minimum, 39. . . At Airport—Maximum, 48; e ® minimum, 39. . . . . WEATHER FORECAST & . (Jumeau aad Vieiaity) . . L] Mostly cloudy with rain e e showers and little change in o’ e temperature tonight and e e Wednesday. Southeaster- e o ly winds 15 m.p.h. H PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours endig 7:30 a.m. today) ® e In Juneau — .18 inches; ®| e since April 1, 7.05 inches; e e since July 1, 85.53 inches. . . At Airport — .04 inches; e e since April 1, 354 inches; ® e since July 1, 53.62 inches. . . . . e - . . L L » £l —— e —— Aleutian, from Seattle, due Fri- day. Northern Voyager, from Seattle, due April 30. Princess Louise scheduled to sail! from Vancouver April 30. Palisano scheduled to snu from| Seattle May 2. Square Sinnet scheduled to sail! from Seattle May 2. that the Big Four, rough i 8 HATCHERIES T0 BE CLOSED; FUNDS HAVE BEEN CUT 640 ( Colonels To Be Demoted WASHINGTON, April 29, V—M’v— |The Army today ordered 640 col-| MaflY Emp|0yees toBe D|S' onels demoted to lieutenant culuncm charged - Ketchikan Lab May Remain VERN enecu\e July 1 The wholesale reduction in mnk app]led to both air and ground ol- ,chvh but not including the medi-| cal or chaplain corps, is designed By HAUGLAND to lower the number of colonels, WASHINGTON, April 29.—(P— !during the fiscal year 1948 to The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Ser- 5,620, ) vice estimaled today it will have ln Of the total to be demoted, 588 close eight instead of 18 fish hatch- will be regular army and 52 "U“"vn under House-proposed appro- |regular army. Forty-three will be' priations for 1948. |air officers. s | Albert M. Day, Director of the A general exception to the de-jgeryice told a reporter the hatch-| !motion order will be made in €ases o5 to be closed will not be de- of officers who previously Were tormineq until after Senate action' MORE SHIPS [VFW MEET “ASSIGNED TO | ALASKALINES 'Operafors Are Now Await- ing Contracts from ! Maritime Com. : SEATTLE, April 29.—M—Alaska| |ship lineups were being bolstered Itoday as operators awaited arrival 40i Maritime Commission contracts, for resumption of private service. | Additional freighters have been lallocated the three companies se: - | 15 NOW ON FINAL DAY ‘Resolufions Adopted on| | Wide Range of Subjecis - ~Officers Elected i | Juneau men were elected this afternoon to four of the seven elec- tive offices of the Alaska Depart-| ment of the Veterans of Foreign {Wars, Sitka, Nenang, and Fair-| banks were. each represented by one elective officer after the final| |reduced in the general reduc- ;o the House Appropriations bill. | ing Alaska. The vessels will be op-"“““‘ i jtion last year. .| 'The alternative to closing some erated under general agency of the| VFW officers for Aiaska Wuring The names of the colonels af-ly . havies Day said, would be to companies until the new program the coming year were as follows: |fected will not be ready for pub- ...te ayl of them on a,custodial goes into effect then they will be| Department Commander: Harold lication until about the middle of ' . hoGe w0 wasteful and in-|used in the companies pnvmejE Mayo, Juneau ;June | efficient action we do mot propose | charter fleets. Department Senior Vlc(‘—Cum»: v |5 taier ! Meanwhile, the Alaska Steamship{mander: John T. McLaughlin,| | g~ Other Fish and Wildlife Seivice!Company has taken delivery injJuncau. g STOCK QUOTAIIONS officials said that the agency also|Portland of the S S Harold D.j Department Junior Vice-Com- = {will have to close two mobile trail- | Whitehead, a Liberty ship, and is| fRnder: John Kyan, Ritks. [ NEW YORK, April 20—Closingler laboratories based at Seattle, |scheduled fo bring up the Cape Department Judge Advocate: quotation of Alaska Juneau mine!and that the laboratories at Seattle Victory from Olympia today. The Charles T. Smith, Juneau | ock today is 4%, American Can!and Ketchikan, Alaska, announced!latter was operated by Alaska| DePartment Quartermaster - Ad- 90, Anaconde 35%, Curtiss-Wright'last week as facing closure, pro-;Steam last summer. ;J“gf“ Allan M“f(‘;mv _Ju"flf}U-E_ i /5, International Harvester 80':, bably will be retained. | The MS Grommet Reefer, one- fpg“mmfNChap ain: Rev. x»; | Kennecott 441, New York Central| Day estimated that the agency,time Alaska “relief” ship during "O;)'(.pa:{:f,g;n Pt ol LT S {14%, Northern Pacific 16%, U. S. will have to dissolve three of its|the maritime strike, has been allo- ' *PEFHIER PEEBCOR: - : Steel 68%, Pound $4.02%. {10 cooperative units for training|cated to" Alaska Transportation “q o 'new department officers Sales today were 840,000 shares.i personnel in wildlife management ! Company.: Shell go on berth! o= ihconed ino their offices| Merrill-Lynch averages today are and research, and will have to dis- loading Army cargo. p S it i | as follows: industrials 168.70, rails '44.69, utilities 33.80. wildlife management, | trained technicians. Because the appropriation for Al- - .- aska fur seal migratory studies sti- iThe waShinglon pul;nm that Lhe wofk be romplel}»d 'Merry - Go- Round, aiconinued i hgve to be discontinued altogether, t linvolved | the Director added. The study area t By DREW PLARSON is so great that nothing WASHINGTON — Today John L.| & Y&4& including 28 he explained. - whether the nations industry, just {after escaping steel, motor and jrubber strikes, will suffer a para- ihzing coal shutdown. Lewis goes ipto the conference Tlme Now mhat he has long urged—turning the mines back to private industry| PITTSTON, Pa., April 29.—(#— I_euecme June 30. ‘Rcs)dems of Pittston are finding ! % this daylight saving time business | Second, Lewis is not in good‘mun confusing. {per” man in the past year lhroughd“ms banks and post offices oper- three strikes called by him. The g¢0 on “fast time. miners lost 59 days last spring; 17| city council agreed to miners’ re- days in November and December guests that it operate on Standard and about two weeks this SPring.|Time and-public schools followed | ,Lewis and the coal operators tee; off to a discussion which will decide M. " '\eny much on the spot. First, the \(:mernment is now doing exactly shape with his own men. They' mpe city is ofiicially on Eastern {have lost a total of around sgoa‘smndard Time while the business iin other words, they lost all they!: {along—but parochial pupils are go- | { could have made by increased wag- ing to classes on daylight time | jes—and then some. schedules ! Lewis, therefore, has to stag dramatic move to recapture Lhe Fo u R ALASKA" IN jcomplete confidence of his ‘men To that end he is demandmg\ |a program the operators will never | wgmnl 1, ten cents royalty on each| jton of coal mined (with the S‘MT RAIN'ER SUNDAY icents present royalty, the welfare fund is now $20,000,000; 2, con- tinued mine safety committees; SEATTLE, April 29—®—The en- 3, present pay of $75 for a 54-hOUr'|yyy jigts for the annual Silver| week to be continued for a 40-hour|gyis championships, to te run Sat-| week. |urday and Sunday on Mt. Rainier, | While the operators will give the close tonight at midnight and the jsame 15 cents an hour raise Now|draw for places is set tentatively .granted in steel, motors and othcr\rm. Wednesday. |industries, they won't yield on the( Four Alaskans from the Anchor- 'heavy increase demanded by Lewis. 1“5 ‘Ski Club were expected to be Yet Lewis' influence is slipping among the entrants. They are so badly that he is certain to fl’”flugh Bauer, Chuck Hightower, to stand pat for spectacular new|Gene Brady and Joe Young SILVER SKI EVENT AT! i gains, Result may be that the min- | 1e€ls again will lose more while on| r i strike than from increased wages— D S B l pen |while the country suifers another » 'ose | Dies in Walla Walla MOSCOW DIARY Notes from a Moscow d]plcmahc‘ WALLA WALLA, Wash, April diary—During the final days of the 29 —(#—Dr, Stephen B. L. Pen- conference, General Marshall wnsirose, 82, President-emeritus of shown a cartoon by David Low of Whitman College, died this morn- the London Evening Standard de—‘mg at his Walla Walla home af- jpicting three of the Big Four at|ter a long illness. the conference table. The fourthi ———— Marshall, was entering the door.! AT THE GASTINEAU A flunkey announces: “The Secre-, {tary of the United States,” where-| SiX men cmployed with the P. Z. upon in walks Marshall dressed in Harris Company, gperating the the skirt and stockings of a Greek Hawk Inlet Cannery are registered ! soldier. . . .IMarshall was so amused | 8¢ the Gastineau. They are John [ that he asked Low for the original |Sundholm, John Thompson, T. e |Conrad, George Moore, Melvin San- | (Continued on Page Four) |ders and E. McCorkle. charge 3¢ employees in the field of | conclusive could be accomplished in i IThursdsy Northland Transportation Com- pany has been assigned as general | agent for the freighters Coastal Rider and Flemish Knot. Both will (be brought up from San Francisco 'and fitted out for the Alaska run. The Harold D. Whitehead, ex- |pected to be in Seattle today, is tentatively set to start loading early next week for Bristol Bay cannery ports. The Cape Victory will make ‘her first trip of the season about |May 20, going to Kodiak Island | ports. NICK BEZ IEllS ABOUT OPERATION | . OF CANNING SHIP 'Declares He Is * "Right in | Middle” of Deal-Two' 2 Sides Shooting 1 i WASHINGTON, April 29. {Nick Bez of Seattle declared y ,terdny he is “right in the middle on his deal to operate the govern- !ment-financed floating cannery '“Pacinc Explorer.” On one hand, he told a House Fisheries Subcommittee, is the Re- | construction Finance Corporation insisting on “getting $1.04 back for every dollar invested.” On the other 1s the Fish and Wildlife Service wanting all kinds of scientific in- formation needed in the fish busi- ness. “They're both right,” he asserted, “Put I come right in the middle, with people shooting at me from all directions in the country.” Bez was the last witness in a four-day hearing by the subcom- { mittee on complaints of southern California tuna fisheries that the Pacific Explorer is operating in | well-explored waters off Costa Rica in unfair competition with existing private industry. Max Hersh, attorney for the Re- construction Finance Corporation, jtold the House Fisheries Subcom-| mittee that Bez has agreed to an 'amendmem in the contract to pro-| { vide for operation of the ship “pri- marily in the Bering Sed and ad- jacent waters of the Pacific ocean.” | The amendment substitutes the| term “adjacent waters” for “other waters.” es- ———-——— SELBYS RETURN 'BY PAA | Mr. and Mrs. Tom Selby, fmmerl owners of the Miner Publishing| Company, were among PAA )flane‘ passengers over the weekend, re- jturning from several weeks vaca- tioning in the States. \ e In temperate climates all snak%l hibernate. I __lissues. Unanimous passage was a | properly screening 'local labor market, was also urged led emergency clause, was directed | |of the United States in any future immediately b the VFW National Senior Vice- Cummander-in-Chief, Ray H. Bran-, naman, of Denver, Colo. The Encampment city for next; year will be selected during this alternoon. | e i Delegates to the Second Annual; Encampment of the Veterans of |Foreign Wars, Alaska Department, moved into the final day of their schedule today, with every pros-| pect of completing their business by | |adjournment. time, late this after-| {noon. H ‘This morning’s session’'was taken lup largely with resolutions, 14 of, |which received approval, with one voted down Tonight at 7 o'clock the Dele-| |gates and their auxiliaries will, gather at the Salmon Creek; Country Club for the Grand Ban-' lquet and Ball, final activity of the| Encampment. Resolutions Adopted Leading among the 15 resolution: which had come up before the ses- sion are several on vital Territorial | corded a resolution urging immed: iate construction of 5,000 units of | permanent housing in Alaska, to b financed by the Federal gover ment and managed by city govern ments or local housing authorities. Also unanimously passed 'was a resolution requesting the National VFW legislative committee to work against the discontinuance of the Alaska Railroad between Seward and Portage, and to ask that it be! rehabilitated and reconditioned. Outside Labor Hit i The practice of transporting out- | side labor to Alaska for military construction projects, without first | the available altered. This resolution was to be! sent to the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior and Labor, to Dele- gate Bartlelt, to the various con-! struction unions, and to contrac- tors. Another resolution, with an add- to the U. S. Senate Subcommittee on the Department of the Interior,: asking that funds to operate the Seward Sanatorium be restored toi the bill from which they were cut | last week. | More Defense Bases Urging greater National attention | to Alaska as the key to the defense war was a resolution endorsing further efforts in the establish-; ment of mcre permanent military | and naval defense bases in thel | Territory. This resolution was also! passed unanimously. | Universal military training was endorsed in & resolution which re-| commends a minimum of slx\ | honths minimum service for al]i (Continued on Fage !President M&Res Plea fo !peace is “the maintenance of sub- Nenana River Holding Sol Runnm PRICE CUTS AGAIN URGED BY TRUMAN tary Power Needed Business Men - Mili- WASHINGTON, April 29.—(P—| | President Truman told the U. 8. 'Chamber of Commerce today ‘“a! pressing task of all businessmen is to reduce prices wherever possible at all levels while steadily in-| creasing production.” \ This reiteration of Mr. Tru-! man's repeated assertion that pri-| ces must go down if the nation is to avoid serious inflation and de- pression came before 2,000 dele-| gates to the Chamber's 35th nn—i nual convention. | In a message prepared for de-' Jlivery by Presidential Aide John R. Steelman, Mr. Truman said hf ;part: “ “It is indeed fitting that you have chosen, at this particular moment in our nation’s history, the convention theme of ‘Paths to Free- dom and Plenty’ Our free demo- cratic way of life runs no risk of successful challenge so long as all of us pull together—labor, agri- culture, business and finance, and the government.” One of Mr. Truman’s cabinet officers, Secretary of the Navy !'Forrestal, told the delegates earl- ier the Lkest present contribution this country can make to world istantial military powel “We know,” he said, “the United States cannot indefinitely support a military establishment costing over $11,000,000,000 a ymn. 30 per- jcent of our total budget.” e TRANSATLANTIC AIR RECORD IS CUT ONCE MORE (P com- e, April 2 th SHANNON, The United States held mercial flight speed record be- tween Gander, Nfld, and Shan- non Airport again after an Ameri- can plane cut by five minutes the one-day-old mark made on Satur- day by the British. The new rec- ord of five hours and 23 minutes was set by the Pan American Con- stellation Invincible. Eight days ago a speed record of five hours and 55 minutes was established by Pan American Air- ways. Saturday three trans- Atlantic planes bettered that time, with a British Overseas Airways Constellation, piloted by O. P. Jones /setting a mark of five hours 28 minutes. Strong tail winds helped set Sun- day's record, said the pilot, Alpheus O. Powell, 30, of New Hyde Park, INoY. - Giant Alaska Crab \Canner Coming North SEATTLE, Aprii 29.—(®—The nvw 140-foot trawler Deep Sea, designed and equipped to catch, process, } quick-freeze and package king crab, 'is scheduled to depart tonight for the Bering Sea haunts of the giant Alaska crab. During the two month’s trip, it/ 1is hoped to catch 200,000 pounds of | which 95 percent will be king crab | and the remainder sole and lemon| sole, according to Lowell Wak.e-‘ field, President of the Deep Sea| Trawlers, Inc., owners. The craft was constructed by | Birchfield Boiler, Inc., of Tacoma. Is Still SHIP DOWN id; Waferls ~ WHEN NEAR gon Either Side, VANCOUVER NENANA, Alaska, April 29.— ] | 1b;‘p¢clnl Dlspnltlch :: Empire) Che(ks in 3 Minutes BefOfe The river is s holding solid. | . Some. water is running on o | Landing - No Clues - Wide Search Starts of the ice on.either side of the river. Some small holes are worn through but they are very Lafemsih o BULLETIN, Vancouver, Aprta The Nenana river is open at | 29 ;) Pplanes of two nations the mouth but not cutting | joined today in the search for much. a trans-Canada Airlines trans- port which vanished with 15 persens, 12 passengers and b 3 crewmen, aboard shortly be- The payoff will be at least ; fore midnight, a few minutes $140,000. before it was scheduled to | reach the Vancouver airport. g .L.lnd, sea and air rescue Vels Wonl | [ e Gef Checks it e i e May Firsi No Funds N;\; Available' | | | was a possibility, however, that | the slick might be from oil But Delay Will Only 5 Be Few Days dumped from fish boats. It was near Steveston, the home port of many fishing craft. U. S, | WASHXNGTON Apnl 29.—(M— (A Trans-Canada Air Lines plane The Veterans Administration said,with 15 persons aboard disappear- today it will be unable to send out;ed today on a flight from Leth- Oldtimers claim it will lasf at | least seven days more as the river is very low. Coast Guard planes dispatched from Port Angeles, Wash., are combing the San Juan Island area south of the border for any clues. VANCOUVER, B. €. April 29— monthly checks due tomorrow to.bridge, Alta. to Vancouver. There more than 2,780,000 veterans re-|Wwere absolutely no clues as to its ceiving unemployment or educa-, Whereabouts, although the plane— tional allowances. It said the funds|a C-56 transport -checked in by Congress appropriated for that pur- radio only three minutes before pose are exnausted. (it was schedued to land here last “The delay is expected to be of |night at 11:16 p. m. (PST). short duration since additional| At that time, the Northwestern funds for | Air Command said, the plane re- this purpose are carried . i the deficiency appropriation Ported it was on the west leg of bill currently before Congress and the Vancouver radio range and was should be available within a few Preparing to some in from 1000 Iplane has not been heard from The payments have been averag- | P ing $260,000,000 or more a month, ;®nce. There was no Americans ‘ aboard. o Eleven planes took off from Van- WRONG lABElS 0" |daybreak to search for the twin- engined Lodestar. Four of them TEXAS Cllv SHIP were R.CAF. craft. It was feared the plane may have el sy said Mrs. A. Newberry, a Nanai- GALVESTON, Tex., April 29.—( mo resident. “Then there was si- —William T. Butler of Washing-|lence.” ton, civilian advisor to the Coast! Other residents reported hear- day that, in his opinion, ammonl Bob Stewart, president of the ium nitrate handled at Texas City Nanaimo Free Press, heard it at was not labeled in accordance with'12:15 a. m. water shipment regulations, | “It was flying low and its en- nitrate comes under the class of noise. They were loud, and then oxidizing material, Butler said 100- wlhey Inded s pound sacks were labeled as fe \ 5 i tilizer and then as ammonium ni-! been reversed, he said. Asked by a reporter if ammon- | ium nitrate is explosive, Butlerr o“ REI.IEF Fums shrugged and answered: “This v exploded on a ship. In view of SOME (ou“mlfl what happened at Texas City, I can’t say it usnt an exPluslvc WASHINGTON, April 29.—#® |The House voted tentatively to- DEFI(IE"(Y Blll {to all countries whose govern- iments are under Russian domina- |tioh unless they agree to strict United States supervision. Mem- lARGE AMOU“I”WWOO{) fund to $200,000,000. WASHINGTON, April 29—m—| The money is intended for use The House Appropriations Commit- |in $iX European areas and China ‘tee approved a $30,000 fund today |'D 1947 and 1948. days,” an announcement added. | 1€€Y altitude for a landing. The couver and Nanaimo airports at I plunged into the Strait of Georgia. y | “I heard a.sound like thunder,” i Guard on explosives, said here to- Ing the plane, just off the coast. Pointing out, that ammonium,gines were making a peculiar trate. These words should nave'HOUSE pu‘l‘s CURB the first time in history that it has day to deny American relief aid INTRODUCED; FOR ’ bers voted tentatively to cut the for a Justics Department attempt| The House accepted an amend- to collect perhaps $2,000,000,000 of |™Ment by Rep. Jonkman (R-Mich) freight refunds from 964 rmhonds fto trim fthe total and limit lts The money was included in a|USe to 1947. : 1$95,478,658 miscellaneous upprupm | ‘The genate Foreign Relations [tion bill to meet deficlencies in|Committee unanimously approved feids for e mcal-leg"’“"o" authorizing $350,000,000 jrelief for five European areas and ) China. various agency year ending June 30. ‘The bill provides $600,000 to in- | stall temporary radar landing sys- tems at 20 airport terminals, CUNNINGHAMS LEAVE Other allotments approved in- cluded: « The Rex Cunninghams left yes- Indian Health Service, $500000;,terday for their new assignment United States participation in Unit- |at Annette Island. Cunningham is ed Nations organization, $4,195347; | head of Airways at that place for Postoffice Department, $60,382,000. |Pan American Airways.