The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 8, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” [ VOL. LXIV., NO. 10,574 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PEACE COMING FORWORLD SAYS TRUMAN ral COMMUNSTS G, ARE HANDED | seutevp Founp S“H: BlOWS'Tmsted Piece of Mefal Is | Snagged-Search Goes Info New Area VAlNCOUVER B. C, Tribunal Qutlaws Party in " Brazil-Clubs Are Put ! !—A small, twisted piece of metal, X Under Padlocks fonassed” by fsnerman ‘m mur-| Be End of Strike irard Inlet, seven miles west of! RIO DE JANEIRO, May 8—(— Lions Gate bridge, was being —\aSHINGTON, May 8.—(P— The Brazilian government crack-|studied by technicians of theiq,ypany and union officials agreed | ed down hard on the Cnmmun’L\t!Tmns -Oanads Alilines and Rmal'!oduy to settle the strike of long| party today, with Federal police; Canadian Airforce today as algicrance operators for a pay hike| and troops padlocking 445 Gom- .pf)sslble .Cm‘e to the 10-day-old ;o oaping $440 a week and the munist clubs or cells to enforce aldlmpp@mnm ‘ff‘n TAC. liner oo o iment predicted a quick end decision by the Supreme Electoral nd 1ts 15 passengers and cleW-)¢, te whole coast-to-coast tele- g:;bz\;lnm O LY "“ Discovery of the metal, after a Phone tieup. The Tribunal approved, by a 3' iday of unsuccessful sweeping ;_md‘\ John J. Moran, President of the to 2 vote last night, a go\.emmemld""‘L operations off Gabriola American Union of Telephone petition asking that the Brazilian:siand, swung the search away workers, said the long distance | Communist party—one of the larg-|{Tom the island region toward Van- | walkout' would end as soon as "“i est in the Western Hemisphere— COUVEY: ! nine-member board okayed the set- be declared illegal and closed. Last| % e 4 tlement, possibly late today in New | election, in January, they party] Ymk polled about 800,000 votes. It elected 17 deputies and one senator in the Federal Congress, 18]~ ABOR Blll members of this capital's 50-mem- TOU(HED up ed to elect the governors of eigm‘ Brazilian states. was being announced, the Com- munists suffered another stiff blow. Brazil Workers Confederation and'genate voted today a tan on un- all labor unions affiliated with it jon controlled health and welfare Communist leaders referred sar- off on union dues. The vote was castically to the decision as “the 48 to 40. Getulio) Vargas. {labor legislation was a victory for BTt O T TR {Senator Taft (R-Ohio) after a ‘Senate killed, 44 to 43, a Taft- backed proposal to forbid industry- FISH REGU[AT 0 s extortion and attempts by unions 0" pUGET SouND‘m “shake down” employers. { Tests on other amendments are ber city council, 60 members of BY SENATE: President Eurico Gaspar -Dutra first step for Dutra’s continuation Adoption of the ban as an . wide bargaining. iahead before the Senate comes to various state legislatures and help-! Even as the Tribunal’s judgment suspended the Communist-supported! WASHINGTON, May 8.—\P—The for a period of six months. i1funds and the involuntaray check- in power like (former President sgmendment tc pending general (HA"GES MADE IN sharp reversal yesterday when the Today's amendment also outlaws 8—(®—Four @ final vote on the measure. SEATTLE, May changes in Puget Sound fishihg, RRSSEITR regulations were announced today by Milo Moore, State Director of | pARl'AMEN' ouI Fisheries. | The revisions: { Permit use of hand lines m‘ pEA(ETIME DRAFT commercial fishing; closes Sound area south of Dash Pomt‘ Blll u"rl"'sHED to otter trawl and beam trawl fishing for two years; legalizes' use of bottom fish pots; and es-! tahlishes the commercial perch'and bedraggled, Britain's season from August 15 to May legislators finally gave up and 15, one monch less than previously. went home today after. an all- EMBLEM CLUB 15 10 MEET THISEVENING 'night ‘ed to Prime Minister itroversial peacetime i, ‘The House of Commons voted 368 ,‘to 18 last night to accept a gov- 21-hour-long ‘sitting devot-' Attlee’s con- A regular meeting of the Em-iernment amendment cutting draf-! blem Club will be held this eve-ltee's service from 18 to 12 months. ning at 8 o'clock in the EIks|Winston Churchill angrily de- Hall. All members are request-inounced the cut as intended to ed to attend. i“placate* leftwing Laborites. Left- wingers welcomed it. Then the MP’s, responding to a, government call for speedy enact- .ment, began considering the bill i The Washington el b; lause thy t Merry - Go- Round jsize b s on i, oot A. V. Alexander| iDefense Minister proposed adjournment. By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Notes on the; Anniversary of an AxTnIsLice-—San;, ALASKA AIRPORI Francisco May 8, 1945: The United Nations being born. . . .Simultan-| WE ATHER S' A"o"S eously, the end of the war in Eur- ope. History in the making. 8.—A— lirious people, dizzy people. happy, people. .Auto horns and ncker, tape. Senator Tom Connally | saying, “The war is over” Am- i erican Legion vets in umiorm, old»‘ -er vets in gold-klie uniform: “Re-POrt projects will be dropped by .S member 1913 when you and I d,d‘the Civil Aeronautics Administra- this is Paris? We never thought it | tion should the proposed $70,000,000 would happen again.”. Sailors [ CUt in appropriations be approved, kissing pretty girls. Soldiers sing- | Commerce Secretary A. Averell ing. Secretary of State stemnius[m‘mmfi" disclosed yesterday dur- beaming. . . .A new union of na- N8 @ press conference. tions. The United Nations, .. .The| It would also mean dropping end of our traditional isolation, the, Plans for airport weather stations ! end of war. . . .We won't make the At _thesc Alaska points: same mistake we made after 1918, Big Delta, Gustavus, Kokrines,! This time America will stick with | Moses Point, Naknek, Nulatg, Nun- the other nations, stick and pltch"vak UnalaKieet and Yakutat. for peace. R0 < e Sailors kissing pretty girls, strange| ALASKANS AT BARANOF WASHINGTON, May girls. Texas Tom shaking ! " hands, slapping backs, pumping| Registering as guests of the Bar- | hands. “The war’s over in Europe. |anof Hotél from various points in . Senator Van-|Southeast Alaska are Miss Ruth Hitler’s finished.” . denberg beaming. . grinning. . . .Back on my desk, a (Continued.on Page Four) Mosher :of = Pelican, Mrs. Sigurd Jackson of Sitka and L. L. Med- hang of Excursion Inlet, May 8. —W i Twenty-one Pacific northwest air- 'Ed Stettinius Allee of. Skagway, Mrs. Frank C.| Long Distance ' Operators fo | | {One Phase_o? Telephone Tieup Is Agreed-May He said his 20,000 members still imight refuse to cross the picket lmv,\ of other unions in the Na- uunal Federation of Telephone | Workers who have been off the job since April 17. But John W. Gibson, Assistant Secretary of Labor, and Edgar L. Warren, Director of the U. S. Con- L iliation Service, declared: “With the settlement of this most |mponaul case, the other strikes between the Bell associated com- | panies and their unions should be quickly settled.” A. T. and T. is the parent cor- poration of the Bell System. An official of the NFTW éstimat- ed that 200,000 of the 287,000 mem- | bers of federation unions who walk- | ed out 31 days ago are still on strike. At the peak of the tieup| some 340,000 workers were idle, in- cluding non-members of NFTW af- filiates. MacARTHUP DENIES 'PROMISING FUTURE [DEFENSE OF JAPAN i i By RUSSELL BRINES { TOKYO, May |MacArthur gave the Japanese ' their first official assurance today; that the allies would protect them; 'unul a peace treaty is signed, but LONDON, May fl—“"—fled -eyed vigorously denied promising Lhathems of halting the march of Com- | “EarY.“the United States would under-! , munism, Secretary of State Mar- take future defense” of the coun- try. The Supreme Commander issued ! a special statement which ob- | conscription ' | viously referred to reports Zollow- | | Korean pmvram llng his meeting Tuesday with Em- peror Hirohito. ically mention the conference. Neither allied headquarters nor {Japanese government offici .would discuss ‘the matter Iurther MacArthur said the future de- fense of Japan would depend upon whe provisions in the peace treaty c e — WESTERN STATES GET TOGETHER T0 FIGHT FUND CUTS| SEATTLE, May B—t%Westem governors will appear in person be- lfore the Senate sub-committee on appropriutmns to demand that re- clamation funds, slashed by |House. itions. Eight governors and the repre- sentatives of two others agreed at quate money for reclamation and power development in the west to; the Senate. “We sincerely believe that con- tinued development of such wel- fare-producing and self-liquidating projects is not inconsistent with jthe commendable aim of the con- gress to effect economy in gov- jernment,” a formal statement said. > STEAMER MOVEMENTS Square Sinnet due about May 9. Palisana due May 10. Princess 'Louise is scheduled to sail from Vancouver May 10. | Aleutian scheduled sputhbound late Saturday. - Gef Pay Hike 8.—(M—General | He did not speclf-‘ the! be restored . to appropria-! a one-day cofference here yester-| jday to carry their appeal for ade-| (PRESIDENT AIDS | INDIAN SERVICE; | - ASKS MORE FUNDS 'Appropriation of $750,000 | Requested for Con- | version at Sitka | | WASHINGTON, May | President Truman sent to the Sen- |ate yesterday a that about $750,000 be 'apploprlatmm for the Indian Bur-j eau. This | converting /to a hospital and school for the Almk(\n N1(1\0= | 8.—(P— recommendation | added to include $715,000 for| Sitka Naval Base would the i i i i SHOWDOWN IN HOUSE Korea May ‘Be Next Coun-| fry on U. S. Attempt to Halt Communism By ALEX H. NGLETON WASHINGTON, May 8—(®—/ 1 An approaching administration plea for perhaps $75,000,000 to reinforce ; {southern Korea confronted Con- \gress today as the House entered the voting stage on its fight over | i helping Gregge and . Turkey reslst.1 { Communistic domination. { | After two full days spent in gen- eral discussion of the $400,000,000 { Greek-Turkish aid bill, the House fturned to specific proposals for re- | stricting the program and chang- \mg its terms. Chief among lheq ! amendments likely to be put to a showdown test before nightfall is| one to shift the burden to |he; ‘Umted Nations. To a hushed House near the close‘ 10i yesterday’s debate Democrauc‘ ‘ leader Rayburn of Texas cried out | lagainst a return to “isolationism.” In impassioned tones, he declar-| ed: “God help: us, God help this' {world, if we do not accept our re- | | sponsibility to help countries that do not want to be smothered by | Communism.” { Even as the House was weizhing the price and measuring the prob- lshall was telling a news comerem:el —his first since returning from| Moscow—that Congress would be! (asked very shortly to authorize a' 1 e - ATTLEE STRESSES | . DANGER OF WAR, CIVILIZED WORLD! LONDON, May 8—(®—Prime valsber Attlee supported in prin-| Iciple the idea of a world govern- !ment in a speech toéday under-| | scoring “the dangers to civulza- !mm of another world war.” Addressing a public meeting |sponsored by the United Nations Assn.. he said he wanted to see; |a relationship growing up between| ipeoples of all countries toward the U. N. similar to that which ex- ists in Great Britain between the| people and parliament. “The dangers to world civiliza-| jtion from another world war are; |greater today than they were be- iv,ween the wars,” he said. e ——— 'PRAY FOR RAIN IN TURKEY, TWO MEN DROWN IN FLOODS| ISTANBUL, Turkey, May 8—®| —Devout Moslem peasants prnyed‘ on the highest peaks today fori rain to break a spring drought| and great sheets of rain splashed the Anatolian plains. | The moisture, however,, may be too late to revive the parched wheat fields. The downpour in Ankara was so heavy that two men drowned when houses in low lying suburbs were flooded. i | food and shelter. 1. | was a brief military parade. i !Maritime Commission Too {rights would go to Seattle opera- 'ONCE MORE START | position today as ‘May L. ! 2ND V-EDAY OBSERVANCE NOT 50 HOT Europe Is acapied withi FI;nding Food, Shelter- HEI.I(OPTER ecognition Elsewh 9 MEN KILLED Eurgpe virtually ignored the sec- ond ann®ersary of V-E Day today in its preoccupation with finding The British War Office said no‘ Tt B beanten o toce Soomin: | Accident Oceurs in Midair | as Craft Is Landing ute commemorative broadcast. at Seattle | | Premier Paul Ramadier laid a| | wreath on the tomb of the Uu-i knowu Soldier in Paris and there American occupation troops ‘In| SEATTLE, May 8—(®—Civil | Berhn held a formal review with ' Aeronautics Administration officials 14,000 goldiers participating for 45 and representatives of the Central | minutés before members of the | Aircraft Company sought today to ,Ameriean community only. determine the cause of the midair, Italy observed the anniversary as explosion late )cfili‘rday of one of’ a holiday, but with little enthu- the company’s * helicopters over slasm. \Lake Union. Belgian Premier Paul- annSpamk Two men drowned when the | spoke out for world friendship. {plane plummeted into the lake. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia issued {They were identified as Angus E. an order of the day calling for a McArthur, 24, of Yakima, Wash,, military parade tomorrow. ‘lhe pilot, and Walter A. Storck, of Holland celebrated her libera- | Washington, D. C, a CAA em- | tion May 5. ployee. Their bodies have not s been recovered. i Eye witnesses said the plane ex-| |ploded at an altitude of about 250 .reeL while coming in for a land-| 'PROPOSED CHANGE ALASKA SHIPPING CASE IS DELAYED Reserve Ofiiters Meeting May 1210 | ~ Form Local Unit Busy to Consider Pro- | H { The Juneau Chupter of the Re-| Sop——— lmnctivated at an organizational WASHINGTON, May 8—\®— meeting here, May 12, according’ The Maritime Commission was un- to an announcement today from able today to give scheduled con- sideration to possible revision or abandonment of its formula under which exclusive Alaska |Charles T. Smith, |the national organization, taking steps to set up a local unit. shipping | Smith today extended an invita-' tion to reserve officers from all 'branches of the U. S. Armed For- ces, to attend the meeting and |the question further had to be learn about the Reserve Officers dropped, he said, because some Association which accepts as mem- commissioners had to appear at a'bers, reserve officers from male| Congressional Committee hearing. and female arms of all services. He said the meeting might be held| Smith, a reserve captain, listed tomorrow. three other reserve officers in Ju- The Commission recently propos- neau who are already members of | ed to charter ships at a nominal the national association. They are, a member of who is' tors, an Plans for official says. a meeting to go into rate to the prewar -operators in the !with their military rank: Lt. Col. trade, all of whom wefe located in Henry C. Harris, MC; 1st Lt Seattle, which has been the hub|Daniél W. Mahoney, QMC; and of U. S. terminus-Alaskan shipping | Capt. Joseph M. Shofner, Inf. lines. Applications for membership in Protests were leveled against this|the ROA have been made by the proposal, however, at San Fran- follewing Juneau men: Capt. Rich-! cisco, Los Angeles and Portland, ard H. Williams, DC; Capt.| Ore., because of “exclusive provi- Gecrge H. Matson, CE; Lt. Robert sions” in the proposed agreement L. Hooper, AC; Lt. Harold B. Gron- with Seattle operators. roos, Ord; Capt. Francis A. Stejer, o |CE; Lt, Dan H. Darnell, jr., AC; ,Col. Neil Fritchman, AC; Major | Maurice J. Whittier, Inf; Lt. Hunt- 11nglon 8. Gruening, AC; and Capt.' Ernest C. Rice, AC. EFFORIS Io END | Naval reserve officers mal ¢applicntmn for ROA memtelship HA”B“]‘ DISPUT lare: Capt. J. S. MacKinnon and' {Comdr. Howard H. Fischer. Smith said that the meeting will SEATTLE, May 8—®—In al formal statement, the Deep Sea Ibe held on Wednesday, May 14, at| 7:30 p. m, in Room 212, Gold- | Fishermen’s Union set forth its, negotiators re- stein Bldg. .- — {sumed efforts at an afternoon! meeting to settle a dispute which | SALVATIONARMY | has idled 200 halibut fishing boats| F D A and kept some 1,200 fishermen| in port since the season's start SHORI BY s]m A final reporb on the Salvation The distribution of shares of the catch and the payment of re- | quired taxes is a main point at! Canadian, Alaskan and Ore- | Army Maintenance Campaign shuws‘ issue. gon boats are already on thela total return of $3,850, according| banks. |to Brigadier C. O. Taylor. This is| “The ‘union feels that the boaz‘flofl short of the quota set, and' share of 20 percent of the. gross unless more funds come in many| stock is sufficient, as it has builnacflviues of the Salvation Army! 'up one of the largest industries in |nere may have to be curtailed, the union’s| Brig. Taylor said. | l ‘The budget was kept as fow as | “The Fishing Vessels Owners|pessible and still take care of Association wants the union now their many activities, leaving Brig.' to pay an additional 3 percent of Taylor in rather a quandary as to| the ;gross stocks for unemployment where to start cutting any more | insurance for the fishermen. As|corners. All parts of the pro- | this is an employers tax, we do\gram are important, he said, and/ not feel that we should pay thisiit would be with much regret that tax.” any of them would be eliminated. the Pacific Northwest,” statement said. Claims Seftlement of Vels in Alaska Would Block Development Plans Earling Ellingsen, Odio Martinsen, |sen, |Joe Gallagher, VIEWS GIVEN 'BYPRESIDENT ON BIRTHDAY WASHINGTON, May 8P C. M. Granger, Assistant Chief or e 0 8 aren - Service. saia National - Obstacles Sur- yesterday passage of legislation to settle veterans in Alaska wouldlmoun'ed-P”(e Reduction, block development of paper mills | in the Territory. Granger testified before v.he Houae Public Lands subcommit- tee which is considering a bill by, WASHINGTON, May 8—.P— Rep. Lemke (R-ND) to eslabllshrp"“‘de“‘ Truman told a birthday vetemm on farm, timber and other NeWs conference today that he is m\ufi of land in Alaska. Indivi-|certain that the world eventually {duals would be allowed from 640 Will achieve a lasting peace. to 1920 acres of timber land. | Summing up the two years since The Interior Department l;.“,_;he announced victory over Ger- [viously has reported that it is|Many May 8, 1845, Mr. Truman dnkcnng with unnamed interests Said the country has surmounted to build six large Alaskan paper Many obstacles and that he is con- mills at a cost of $30,000,000 each.|fident of its ability to survive oth- The mills have been described as| ®rs- providing a possible solution to a| Mr. Truman also touched on this Affairs at home, saying: | Military Trammg Needed shortage of newsprint in country. 1—He will try to get Congress Granger said the Forest Service !0 approve a universal military plans to grant each of the paper|t¥aining program before it ad- !mills timber right to 375000 to Journs this summer. 400,000 acres of the 16,000,000 acres| 2—His views on prices were ex- of forest availatle. pressed in his recent address to But if the Lemke bill is passed ' the Associated Press in New York and the veterans take up the tim- @nd he still is very much pleas- ber claims, he said: “The firms we €d With reaction to his call for are * negotiating with will throw,lower -prices. up their hands . . . and say ‘'we The President, who is 63 today, lare through’ because they cannot ™ade it clear that until peace is |operate without an assured sup- Consummated, he has no intention of withdrawing Myron C. Taylor as his personal envoy to the Vati- can. Mr. Truman was told that the *Prmdent of the Southern B-p- tist convention had complained that Taylor has not been with~ drawn and that the minister said he had been promised that Taylor ply of timber." - eee 61 PASSENGERS ARE FLOWN HERE BY PAA Pan American brought 61 pas- would be withdrawn when the sengers from Seattle yesterday and peace treaties were ready. itook six south from Juneau. Pas- The President said he thought (he had told the delegation of pro- Frank testing clergymen, who called on as follows: Mrs. |sengers were Seaitle to Juneau: Mo:hel Ludwig Medhaug, Max him last year, that he would with- Van Sandt, Campbell Church, Lee draw Taylor when peace had been Adamson, Axel Gunderson, Gust consummated. Jerstedt. S . R Esten Hockland, Ben Olner. Frank Olson, Olaf Johnson, Rob- lert Ridenour, Arthur Barker, John Makela, John Linden. Norman Colvik, Noble Mnssey. IS OPPOSED BY McCORD KANSAS CITY, May 8—M—An W Dantord.‘M“kan cattleman, Jack MecCord, isaid here today in an imter{idw that Alaska, eager as she is for | statehood, will not be ready for it juntil its higihways and communica- John Osterson, Fred Gush, Jack Ericksen. : | Ellis Butts, Ben Sobel, Don! Doran, George Packard, Charles Ewalk, Forrest Babcock, Fred Pas-’ SOW. Nat Goldthorpe, Barney Jacob- Carl Olsen, Harold Larsen,| Lillian Danford. Lois Gentes, Ann McBride, Frank ! 'Bragg, Jack Tennsson, Olaf OI- sen, Donald Johnson, Fred Hock-! Inson, | Cordon Maxwell, JAMES (ions are built up by the Pederal s t. Pat Birdgess, Robert Gordon, O., | governmen Vanluven, Max Farmer, Henry McCord stopped here for a brief Seins, Ray Dondle, Ervin Rohrer, visit with friends on his way back A. G. Brolin. to Alaska from Washington where John Loomer, O. Holum, Robert, 'he has been testifying before a Morrison, William Sharp, Paul St.| Congressional Committee on the John, Carl Anderson, Donovan Ja-| ' feasibility of statehood for Alaska. cobs, Bill Cook. “Our population today is too Juneau to Seattle: Charles Way-|Scarce for statehood,” he said. “In nor, Birger Martinson, Edward Ra- Order to create the improvements, cone, J. D. Green, Francis Roh- | tax rates would be too great a bur- llnger Olaf Au,dfll | den. We need roads for the devel- | opment of the Territory to a point | sufficient for the influx of people.” A AR T 'IR McCord leases and runs livestock M RG E uMA“ on two jslands, Chirikof and Sit- | kalidak, on the Alaskan peninsula. 0" (ONCERI S'I'AG | McCord left here by plane today [for Tulsa, Los Angeles and even- {tually the two Alaskan islands. PI'I'TSBURGH, May 8 — @& —| - ! Concert manager Thomas P. Beegle announced today that Margaret|® Truman, daughter of the President,' ® will make her first concert stage|® {appearance here May 20. | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 8. — Closing quotauon of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4, American Can 91 4, Anaconda 36, Curtiss-Wright 7%, International Harvester 82, Kennecott 44%, New York Central 14’4, Northern Pacific 157, U. S\ Steel 68%, Pound $4.02' Sales today were 670‘000 shares. Merrill-Lynch averages today are|® 2s follows: industrials 171.56, rails| 144.73, utilities 33.76. i e e (,AA EMPLOYEES HERE Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Seely, R. J. .1, 8631 inches. Petitte and N. C. Benter, all with ® At Airport — Trace; since the Civil Aeronautics Authority of-|® May 1, .33 inches; since July !fices at Anchorage are registered! 1, 5443 inches. at the Baranof Hotel. L do B WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock ‘This Morning In Juneau—Maximum, 64; minimum, 38. At Airport—Maximum, 65; minimum, 38. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Variable cloudiness tonight and Friday with occasional very light rains. Continued mild temperatures. PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 vm. taday) I In Juneau -—— None; since May 1, 49 inches; since July