The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 13, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = VOL. LXIV., NO. 10,578 jUN!;AU ALASKA, TUESDA\ MAY 13, 1947 MLMB[ R A ssocmrw PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SENATE PASSES BILL TO CURB STRIKES Skinner Plans No Reply In Rate Case Petition SHIP LINE PLANNING NO ANSWER " SOVIET LOSES ;IN PALESTINE INQUIRY MOVE Threatened A rab With- drawal lgnored by UN Political Committes ( | | | Increases Go Into Effect on \ May 21 Unless Action Taken by MC | | | | | | | | By MAX HARRELSON i SEATTLE, May 13—®—G. W.| ol DTy ] Skinner, President of the Alaska | mxg, SUL_CF.SSU n Y., 'r;la,\A _131;5 Steamship Company, said today '“;.lk“mnn)‘:A a wreatene ral political committee of | that he did not believe that the | company would make any answer | the United Nations Assembly today | to the protest filed yesterday by| | defeated a Soviet move to have a the Governor of Alas and Attor- | UN Palestine inquiry commission | draft propesals for immediate in-: ney General Ralph Rivers of Al-| aska against proposed freight rate! increases dependence of the Holy Land. i The vote was 26 against the Rus- : The Alaska officials asked that! sian measure, 15 in favor, with 12 the incre be suspended pend- | abstentions and two absences. ing a hearing on them. The re- y This meant that the inquiry com- ! quest was filed in Washington! FUTURE KING — This picture of Princess Sibylla and mission would be given a free hand with the Maritime Commission. | her baby, Prince Carl Gustaf, only son of the late Prince Gustaf to consider all possible solutions of “Unless we get different inform- | Ad‘;“ of &Wl"df‘nyr\\'h:)hllofildhis lircKin an aerplane ‘acddest. Wfl: the Palestinc problem without any 2 3 " oY made on the tot’s first birthday anniversary. A great-grandson of : special reference to the inde) i- F s 1 er| 2 g : 5 special reference to the independ ation from Washington,” Skinn Sweden’s 89-year-old monarch, King Gustav V, Carl Gustaf is in |+ ooy | ! said, “I do not believe any ans-| ence guestion i direct linc lo the throne. 7 e wer will be necessary PRI ! The vote came after Faris EI£ “The members of the Maritime Khory, Syrian delegate, said out-; President May‘ side the chamber that the Arab del- | egations were considering the pos sibility of walking out of the spes Commission understand the sjtua- tion.” Unless suspended by the Com- SCHACHTIS mission, the rate increases will go| ,ial assembly in protest against a| into effect in the Alaska trade! cmajority stand on the Palesunci May 21. The three steamship ome o as a question. companies filing them said the| El Khoury, a leading spokesman ' for the five Arab states in the UN, | told newsmen that if trend in the deliberation of the 'mbly’s pclitical committee con- tinued, the Arabs would adopt a | policy of *“non-cooperation” with the work ‘of the proposed UN Pa ,tine inquiry commission. He said | the Arab delegates might * even {leave the Assembly. freight rate increases amount .to| 35 -percent. Territory officials, on the other hand, say they amount to| 43 percent. —— . $50,000,000DEAL TOSTABILIZEU.S., | MEXICO EXCHANGE NAZI (OURI During Augusi Former‘German Financial Secrefary J.A. Krug Makes Wizard Sentenced to ~ Statement of Plans for 8 Years in Prison Truman for Summer WASHINGTON, this of El Khoury specified that ! eventuality was in the process jalmar Schacht, German finan- Secretary e Interior 'y A Pl ; WASHINGTON, ‘May' 19— ciat- wacard whe wes. shaared ~of|satd after o White! Hovae. call e ol s The United States and Mexico to-|war crimes charges by the Inter-day that an Alaskan trip this sum- | R R St e r A s day announced the signing of & national Military Tribunal at mer is definitely on President Tru- shitig el oy p‘m;“, # $50,000000 financial agreement to Nuernberg seven months ago, was man’s schedule if Congress ad-, ;"7\ o o™ 0" Dotion o the stabilize the dollar-peso rate of convicted as a major Nazi offen- journs in time to allow him to ook “h\del;ex\dloncn“ R exchange between the two coun- der by a German denazification reach the Territory by mid-AUBUSt. i Feemy B o o 22 tries. court today and sentenced to eight| His report folloved an an-'Siructions to be given the inquiry A joint announcement, made years imprisonment. nouncement that the President will SCTmmission. ) simultaneously in Washington ahd! The verdict was announced by travel to Charlottesville, Va, July! ZReference to the United Na- Mexico City, said the U. S. will|Court President Fritz Lenz in a4 to address the Thomas Jeffer-,!ons charter in those instructions. purchase $50,000000 worth of Mex- packed courtroom in the commun- son Memorial Foundation. The gL 2O ican pesos during the next four fiy singing hall where the former President also has scheduled a! FIVE POWERS BARRED years beginning July 1, this vear. Nazi finance minist and reichs- jsummer trip to Canada | LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., May 13. The announcement said the bank president has been on trial| Krug talked over the plans with, _p rpe political committee of the agreement was reached during for six weeks. The 70-year-old Mr. Truman and Alaska's Gover-!ypited Nations Assembly voted 13 President Aleman’s visit to the Schacht heard the verdict in stun- nor. He told reporters afterwards to 11 late today to bar the five big United States earlier this month. ned silence, his face drawn and that if the President can get away powers from membership on a UN —_— | white. in time to reach Alaska by the pgjaciine inouiry commission. The court ordered the coniisca- first two or lhro(_- weeks of AUg-: mpa committee previously \,ozvrl ;Llon of all of Schacht's remain- ust he plans to’go. After '.hal‘,,6 to 6 against a Soviet proposal e as lngton ling personal fortune, officially es- time, he said, the weather is un- 'to make the membership of. the | |timated at 1,190,000 marks ‘5_11 - | comfortable. - Paléstine comimisalon . the: sanis as Merry - Go-Roun w0, = e or 000 s “iourmment. o conrese s now (oS Sl Gy i - ' marks. tentatively set for July 31. ! cluding the big five. . 5 Pl e = e The President, Krug said, wants P RS A G I to see as much of Al |can, if he makes the other places, hopes to visit Ju By DREW PEARSON “ AlASI(A COASTAL COMMISSION ON | I WASHINGTON It didn’t make | g neau, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Nom Far North. first dinner party after retuxmng S | from Moscow, and the guest list| indicates that some old wounds are | 30 ON MONDAY SI(IRTS (OMING the present | i P. M. General Is Indicated {House Inveshgahon Aim- ed fo Divorce Office, Dem. Nat. Com. WASHINGTON, Speaker Martin day a pending may lead to a divo) Postmaster General cratic National Cor “There ought to told reporter The House s for action on ing the Service Committee matters in its field. would be required findings to the and submit any * for legislation” it able. “Running a a bill: said “and (R~ House investigation schedule Postoifice May 12 —(P— Mass) said to- rce between the and the Demo- mmittee. be one,” Martin this week a resolution di- and Civil to investigate The committee to report its present Congress commendations considers desir- ion-dollar busi- iness ought to be a full-time job,” | Martin the government ought not to finance political trips around the country of official Postoff] business.” - under the guise ice Department SHOTDOWN ON ST REET IN DETROIT EFFORTS MAY 20 Murder May Be Linked Io: healed. | T F H . The dinner was held in the home | Alaska Coastal Airlines reprl;rwd ! WASHINGTON, May 13—(® SmaShmg of Gam- Nelson Rockefeller has loaned | flights yesterday to Petersburg,| DOWN 'S REPOR"’ Secretary Marshall today accepted : : Marshall. Guests included: General| Wrangell, Ketchikan, Sitka, Hawk| y e Lt gl Mmf’\m‘ bllng Syndlta'e Bedell $mith, U. S. Ambassador to|Inlet, Tenakee, Angoon and Hoo-| — ’ ;Mololu‘v on the Korean situation ' Moscow; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mc-|nah. l SHAWNEE-ON-DELAWARE, Pa,iand agreed fo resume Soviet-| DETROIT, May 13.—(P- Fred ‘A Cloy, former Assistant Secretary of, Passengers from Juneau fo Pet-|\ 5™ b 1o o0 (it this fall | American negotiations May 20 aim- | Baraky, 33-year-old minor police ‘War, now head of the World Bank; | ersburg were J. Rothacher and Les will make obsolste B0 Percent “f’ed at setting up a unified provis-|character and once - convicted and last but not least, the l'olmer}CvxovP to Ketchikan, William Paul the wardrobe of American women,!ional government for all Korea. |gambler, was shot down in the Secretary of State and Mrs. Byrnes. |Jr., Fred Wolf, Evy Michaelson, S8 Mk ‘Gordnn, Bresiasnt o the‘ Marshall's action was disclosed eet today in a slaying reminis- There was.a time when shrewd, \Maxquuxdt and G. McDonald; from likeable Jimmy Byrnes would not Wrangell to Juneau, Joe Pettigrew have sat down comfortably with and Mrs. Walter Stutte; from Pet- General Marshall. The discomfiture | ersburg to Jjuneau, Norman Ban-| Linder Coy women’s specialty store |by the State Department in pub- | of Cleveland. lishing the text of his latest com- ! Gordon ske before 100 textile ;Munications to the Soviet foreign tarted thi e year ago]lield. | manufacturers. executive, admlnxs-\Mf;‘:‘" on l:en Korean issue. started more an one i A trators and technologists. H is note, delivered this morn-! when Byrnes came back from his| From Juneau to' Sitka, Mr. and 55 {88, i B, ling to Molotov, said Marshall own mission to Moscow—after a Mrs. J. L. Jeffery, Bill Hixon, Mrs. | failure no worse than Marshall's—,D. McGraw, Mr. and Mrs. Frank| and was welcomed by a barrage of Tilson; to Hawk Inlet, Hans Floe criticism from some of President|from Sitka to Angoon, Mrs. Mary Truman’s immediate staff. Severall Willis; from Sitka to Juneau, Ralph iinstructing Lt. Gen. John R iHodge, American occupation com- | mander to make immediate prep-‘ rations for reconvening a Joint | Sovnet American commission in 1910 Millionaire Dies in New Yor of them, led by Admiral Leahy,! Young Sr. and D. W. Hager; from Seoul, Korean capital. | urged Truman to drop Byrnes and Tenakee to Juneau, R. O. Kemp; The Commission’s efforts to| replace him with General Marshall | from Hoonah, Jim Keehn. | NEW YORK, May 13—(P—Rich- [reach agreement broke up last| as Secretary of State. In fact a |ard Rowland, who as early as 1910 {May. Korea currently is admin-| “EAMER MOVEMENIS |had become a millionaire in the [istered through separate American | in China, on a secret War Depart- | film industry, died yesterday at|8nd Russian occupation zones. ment code so that it would not Princess Louise is scheduled wwme age of 65. Marshall's note accepted assur- be seen by the State Department, | arrive from Vancouver tonight at| ances given last week by Molotov asking Marshall to be available. |7:15 o'clock and sails for Skagway {to the effect that all major poli- Premature publicity, however, |t 11:30 o'clock. sulfric! tical elements in Korea and not Sailor’s Splice scheduled to was lirst discov-!merely pro-Communist groups, will from Scattle May 20. ,lu- consulted in the negotiations. message was sent to Marshall, then | ’ >+ ‘ The process of making sail facid from sulfur lered in 1735, {Continued on Page Four) il q ning era Officials expr end crackdown in 000,000 gambling roots deep in the cit; Nine bullets wer | Baraky’: y by |costed him and woman companion g alley and bar. of Detroit’s roaring rum run- of the 1920s. ssed fears that his {murder may be linked to a week- which officers jsiclaimed to have smashed an $8.- syndicate with underworld pumped into e a man who ac- an unidentified outside a howl- R N MORE HALIBU T LANDED Three halibut boats landed their catches today Storage. Tne at the Rel Juneau Cold liance, under Adam Greenwald, brought in 14,000 pounds; the George Dalton, Everett Buchanan, pounds, Washington, 16,000 pounds; under and brought in 4,500 DAFFODI L G IR L'S_Louette Knovles, Carolyn Kirkpatrick and May Van Olstine, (left to right) Washington state “farmerettes,” wander through an early field of acre upon acre of daffodils on the Van Zonneveld bulb farm near Orting, xShowdown On Boost in Govern Geis Opposi t REDH EA D_margo Woode, ition; Bill fo Up Commissioner’s Pay 1 BIG LABOR MEASIIRE 1S PUT ACROSS Leglslahon Goes to Con- ference with Tough One from House WAS}{INGTON MRV 1 —P— The Senate today passed its big labor bill designed to curb strikes and halt many union practices. The vote on final passage was 68 to 24. The margin is sufficient “(n override any possible Presiden- tial veto. ‘The far-reaching measure, |nounced by organized labor Eut generally endorsed by many in- dustrialists, now goes to conference for compromise with a tougher bill approved by the House. Then the compromise version |will go to the White House, pro- I bably late this month. Shortly before the final vote the | Senate rejected 73 to 19 a substi- tute bill drafted by a group of democrats who regarded it as the kind of legislation Mr. Truman | would sign. Critics, called it a “Milk and water” bill. Senator Taft (Ohio), chairman of the Senate's Republican poliey and labor committee, led the fight | | | ( [ [ [ | | de- or's Pay ve i for the bill adopted. WASHINGTOR, May 18—~ "B the House Labor Bl and | After the Interior Department’s; the bill passed by the Senate in- endorsement ‘of ‘an : increase from elude the following: $10,008. to $I5000 iin ¥he salky 1. Outiaw the closed shop, un- of Territorial governors yesterday,| . . Bods. ; . Chairman Crawford (R-Mich) of |¢" Which the ol Py union members. the House Territories subcommittee 2. Permit the more common un- declared: b, “I'l have to be sold on -thisiOm 500D When & m“"‘"“f pr k:h'“' ¥ c t. ni sho Bl I have no sympathy for prow| NOIKerS, VO, Joe it Cilioh i agreements authorize employers to posals to r laries of Federal |jeTe Ttots Bk o cat, ht the officials above that of members of Cof oSG b N ion short- Congress where the responsibilities o . are no greater. Iy therestu, i 3. Prohibit jurisdictional strikes The increase proposal applies 0,4 cecondary boycotts, A juris- governors of Alaska, Hawali, Puer- 4.0, oo PHE oo, B0 My results to Rico and the Virgin Tslands.'n = " 00 Lol hions. aver rwin W. Stiverman, chiel of the|yyio, ‘snould do certain work. A Division of Territories, brought the seccndary. boycott is a union at- endorsement of the Interior De-'f’ %o hit indirectly at an em- partment, which was supported h""'piu\'cr by forcing other employers Delegates Bartlett of Alaska and b 'qml 'deuhug with him. 2 Farrington of Hawaii - i “ 4. Authorize the government to The subcommittee will consider injunctions to block of stave e(‘k W Suritier g B e national emergency strikes, Crawford, meantime, announced as & coal or steel tie-up. appointment of three attorney- é\'en‘te a‘ i Taduiat uedta> members of the subcommittee to " tion agency independent of the study a bill providing incre i . " “ - Labor Department. compensation for U. S. Commis- 6. Make unions liable for unfair sioners in Alaska. 3 TR e The three. members, Reps, Engle a0or practices. Employers already and ° (D-Calif), Taylor (R-NY) Dawson (R-Utah), will confer with Bartlett on the proposal. The bill would increase the commissioners’ maximum compen- sation from $3,000 to $5,000 a year E uch 5. 7. Require unions to register and file financial reports annually. 8. Make unions subject to suit lin federal court for violation of contract, 9. Prohibit employer collection red-haired newcomer fo the |0 b collected irom fees abd ,ynion dues unless workers give films, strikes a pin-up pose in a PIOFCE @ Buaraateed he g | their consent in writing. two-plece swimming sult. of ko a month for 46 of the 10; Mde crpiovere Bt any o skan commissioners. i b oy B > i, i Bartlett estimated the nxxcrpuw'z‘:";‘cn"“ bargain..collectively with Fo" 'l'housand Are cost would not exceed $100,000 a | “}T Glikrittn aslorees it y ypar. dom of speech in dealing with Laid Off; Shorfage Of Steel Is Cause DETROIT, tion was halted or May 13—(P—Produc- curtailed in at| iy o employees so long as their state- threatening nor R I- I G. 1mean are neither u Ing s Ive“ ‘m:écwgutlaw union otercion of i igns. On Vet's Vacation "o i = "con the National Labor Relations Board 13—(m— for elections to determine which WASHINGTON, M'n least a dozen of Michigan’s big. Tpe veterans Administratioh said Upion shall représent their workers. automotive plants today as a steel'yoq.o that veterans attending| 14 Deny collective bargaining shortage cut off work for some 40, gohool under the GI bill may not 'iBhts to a union if any officer 000 employees. use unemployment allowances as could “reasonably be regarded” as S g summer vacation pay between ® C“’l"}:'f“"“‘ or, 7% 8. Commupisl STOCK OUOIAHONS Achaol, termg */The Houss bill goes much furih- | The agency said only veterans| = o SR actively seeking and willing to take | than the 2 NEW YORK, May 13—Closing 450 GUNANIS WOk may TetuIly os | POIRES quotation of Alaska Juneau mine cept the allowance. Even then, the TR stock today 1¢°4, American Can 90, \eteran is not eligible for unem- Anaconda 35, Curtiss-Wright 4%, piovme 0ot LB o€ ”"""’“’B".I. pERM"""NG International Harvester 79':, Ken- ¢ which hLe receives \‘ubslsl.oncc‘ necott 43%, New York Central 13%, | 310 ances under the education and llouon SALES Io Northern Pacific 147, U. S. Steel | training provisions of the GI bill. 65%, Pound $4.02% St T Sales today were 1,210,000 shares. Merrill-Lynch averages today are | as follows: industrials 167.34, rails| 4217, utilities 33.38. STOCKS DROP NEW YORK, May 13.—(®—The | sharpest decline in nearly a month dropped the stock market to a new | low point for the year today. Loss- es of $1 to more than §3 a share were numerous, i | tery. SPRI(-\I)Z RITES TO ~ INDIANS APPROVED BE HELD T()“()IH(()“' ast rites (n:' Wl]lmm Sprigade WASH]NGTON, May 13.—(P— 1-year-old resident who passedLegislation to permit sale of liquor way Sunday evening, will be held to Indians residing outside reser- tomorrow afternoon in the chapel ! vations was approved today by the of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. House Public Lands Committee. Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman will| Rep. Clair Engle (D-Calif) tried preside at the services, and inter-|to substitute another bill to repeal ment will be in Evergreen Ceme- | all laws applying to sale of liquor | to Indians. It was defeated, [