The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 14, 1947, Page 1

T —— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LXIV., NO. 10,579 o JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1947 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS — ALASKA SHIP CONTRACTS ARE APPROVED MEASURE | PUTS CURB ON UNIONS Compromise_lfeing Work- ed Oui-President’s In- tentions Unknown By JACK BELL | WASHINGTON, May 14.—(®— Organized labor's influence with congress stands at its lowest point in more than a decade today. I There are strong indications that | stern ¢! s on union activity may | be written into law even over a| possible Presidential veto. | The 68 to 24 vote by which! the Senate yesterday approved its bill providing for extensive ragu- lation of organized labor’s activ-| ities almost exactly matched the percentage by which the House on| April 17 voted a much more strin- gent mensure. In the House, opponents cast/ 25.8 percent of the 308 to 107 vote.| In the Senate, they registered 26 percent. | This core of support, represent-| ing only about onc-fourth of the | membership of the two houses, marks a sharp decline from the| days when unions could stop in/| one house or the other almost any legislation they regarded as pri: ! tive. i Failing in that, they could mus-| ter the needed support to sustain a veto. This was demonstrated | when the House failed 11 months; ago to override President Truman's| veto of the Case Labor Disputes| bill. On that 255 to 133 tally, union supporters mustered several | more than the one-third-plus-on¢ of the votes they needed. The prospect that this expanded version of the Case finally will find its way into law books was enhanced—but the | by | no means assured—in the Senate’s| votes erday. | In the first place, a Senate- (Continued on Page Threz) > The Washington| Merry - Go-Round, By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—When this col-| umnist was young and new at the ! game, it always rankled to have | to admit making mistakes. With, the seasoning of the years, hawever,i he has found that it pays to admit | them. After all, human beings can’ be wronrg. | Just two years ago this month I, told the story of how Harry Tru-| man had fired Francis Biddle as| Attorney General because of his| deep-dyed loyalty to Kansas City's koss Pendergast and his resentment {mon Industry in the Cook Inlet! against Biddle for having opposed the appointment of several Pender- gast friends. Among other things, Biddle had reiused a parole to boss Pendergast, also had insisted on the | reappointment of Maurice Milli- gan—the U. S. District Anorney‘ who sent Pendergast to jail. Also, Biddle had held out against ap-| pointing Fred Canfield, Truman's| old sergeant in World War I, as| U. S. Marshal in Kansas City. Whereupon Truman, newly be- come President of the United States, fired Biddle without even the courtesy of talking to him per-} sonally. The story made Truman appear to be a very vengeful man. While it still has a deep loyalty to his Pen- dergast friends and also that hej fired Biddle, I am now convinced that it is not true, as previously reported, that the President nurses such deep grudges against those | moving secretly once more without gitch which has been tied up “1 who opposed his old Missouri co- horts. At any rate, some inside things|to find ports from which to sail unions seeking recognition fi'omiand monetary affairs, has! have happened recently which show that he is doing everything possible to undo any wrong he may have done to Biddle. TRUMAN SUPPORTS BIDDLE Last January, Mr. Truman sent (Continued on Page Four) {by the AF. of L, is true that Truman, LUCKY FISHERMAN — Arthur Peabody, New York angler, comes up with a nice haul in a tableau at the National Fisheries Institute convention in Manhattan. Mermaids are Jac- queline Joyce (left) and Paula Sharpe. Alaska Transporfation Is Necessary for Nat. Defense FISHERMEN QuIT .1.9. Ask for AFL—C—harier in Move to Settle Pres- ent Wage Dispute Seattle, May {M—Cook In- let fishermen have asked for an American Federation of Labor charter in the Seafarers’ Inter- national Union, according to Alaska 14, tofficials of the United Fishermen . | hostilities.” of Cook Inlet in Seattle yesterda Leo Hall, S.I.U. Alaska represen- tative, said he was advised by his Anchorage office = that Seldovia fishermen voted “100 percent” to withdraw from the Congress of Industrial ~ organization, Alaska Fishermen’s Union and affiliate with 4he A. F. of L. Spokesmen for the C.I.O. group in Seattle said they *had “not been informed of any such action” and declined to comment until they receive” official word from Alaska. The A.F. of L. Union has been jon strike against the Alaska Sal- (area over demand for a contract for collective bargaining rights. A National Labor Relations Board election has been requested but reported lack of funds by the N.LR.B. has held up the request. Hall said the strike would be called off when the union is as- sured an election will be held. There are more than 600 fisher- in that area. 1men 'Spring Brings On - Sceret Migration . Of Eu@gean Jews { BRENNER PASS, Italy, May 14. | —M—Jews of Central Europe are | passports across the Alpine frontier | between Austria and Italy, hoping ! for Palestine. | The arrival of 72 of them, all | without identification or permits, ,in the French zone of Austria her- ~alded last week the large scale re- lsumplion of their migration, stalled | during the winter by low temper- atures and deep SNOWs in the Al- pine passes. WASHINGTON, May 14—(P— Immediate solution of Alaska’ transportation problem in inter- ests of national defense was advo- cated today by Senator Magnuson (D-Wash). “The Alaskan transportation pro- blem is more serious now than it was a year 2go,” Magnuson told a reperter. “It's immediate improve- ment is vital to national defense and I know it has caused concern to high ofiicers of our armed forc- es. Magnuson said that not only an improved steamship service was re- quired to serve Alaska but -that |adequate road transportation must I be provided. “The present road to Alaska con- structed by the Army is not satis- factory and cannot meet the de- mands of heavy travel,” he said. “Also this road probably will not be ma ined by Canada, to which part of it was given at the end of Magnuson said he .had ‘“every reason to believe Russia is not ne- glecting development of transpor- tation arteries in Siberia.” { The Senator said he would talk during the day with the Governor of Alaska to go over Alaskan funds in the Interior Department appro- priation bill and “thoroughly” dis- cuss the transportation service to the Territory | —————— "Sfop Work' Method Starfed af Spokane To Get Wage Raise SPOKANE, May 14—(®—An es- itimated 400 workers from eight Spokane mills have left their jobs to touch off a series of Inland Empire ‘“stop work meetings” call- ed to emphasize demands of the CIO International Woodworkers of America for a 15 cent wage in- crease. CLOVE HITCH IS | SEATTLE, May Alaska Steamship, Company today that the freighter said Clove Sgldovia, Alaska, because of a jur- isdictional dispute between two !Salmon canning companies, gone to Snug Harkor. Company spokesmen said they !did not know whether the vessel idischarged her Seldovia cargo. The IClove Hitch was not directly con-'Ann Louise were returning passeng- | Louise from a one month vacation 'cerned in the dispute but was in-|ers aboard the steamer Princess 'rip in which he visited friends and |volved because of cannery equip-|Louise, after spending the winter relatives in Seattle, Dallas, Texas jment included in her cargo. OUT OF SELDOVIA. 14—P— The' NOW BANNED ] Legisi’afion‘“i;iSigned by I President-Asks Mini- mum Wage Raise | | WASHINGTON, | May 14.—P— ' President Truman signed into law ltoda:.' legislation banning portal *pay suits and sent Congress. a |fresh request that it raise the |minimum wage to 65 cents an hour. | In a message to the legislato ithe President: 1. Emphasized that he was Isigning the -portal bill because he believed it in “the interest of | economic stability” that both bu: |ness and the government be relie led of the potential liability for billions of dollars but he said | there were defects in the measure .and asked that Congress x'emedy; i them. ¥ 2. Asked again that Congress (raise the statutory minimum wage from 40 to 65 cents an hour. { 4. In effect, prodded business to reach wage agreements with, workers and reduce prices. i ! Mr. Truman said that with the luncertainity over the portal claims | ! i | i f tor, fakes along his motorbike, lashed to one of the metal floats on his li iremoved “current wage negotia- I tions -ean proceed more readily to | a satisfactory conclusion and busi- ness men will be atle to plan with rassurance for full production and lpri(‘(’ reductions.” “This,” he added, “will be of real tvalue to labor and mangement in the maintenance of a continued i high level of employment.” ! e, — 'BRIT. COLUMBIA - SUGGESTS DEAL ~ ONZHIGHWAYS SPOKANE, May 14— (®—E. C. i Carson, Minister of Public Works for the Province of British Col- jumbia, suggested before the Spo- kane chamber of Commerce yes- ,terday an exchange of rights te- ,tween Canada and the United \sta(es on two highways would ;it unnecessary for through 'to go through customs. He referred to the fact that travelers on the Haines Cutoff from American Territory to the Iconnection with the Alaska High-' {way must pass through Northwest- ern British Columbia. At the same time, he said, Brit- jish Columbia is anxious to build!| a victory highway which would dip .into Washington state to avmd‘ 1two Cascade summits in traveling iacross southern British Columbia.| LoveltIs Nominated | { WASHINGTON, May 14—(P—! | President Truman today formally | | nominated Robert A. Lovett to be} Undersecretary of State. | Lovett, a New York banker and | former Assistant Secretary of War, will take over the office when Dean Acheson leaves June 30 to return ! to private law practice. { The White House previously had| iannounced the change would be traffic i made. | Andrew N. Overby was nominated by President Truman to be United States executive director of the mternational monetary fund. Overby, now Special Assistant to! Secretary of the Treasury Snyder in charge of international financial is a New Yorker, ! 1 - e | MRS. HENNING RETURNS "Mrs. Fred Henning and daughter {munlhs in the south. | | ] | W NAVY JET — The FJ-1 fighter, a jet-propelled plane built for Navy carrier operations by North American Avi- ation, streaks through the air over California at a speed rated “well over 500 miles an hour.” Holdup Man Kill CAPTAIN OF HALIBUT Woman Who Tries | VESSEL IS ARRESTED | To Unmask Him FOR LAW VIOLATIO 1., May A sgcond U. 8. fishing vessel cap- 14. PEORIA, P—A which holdup man, angered because 8 Wo- (ain has been arrested for fishing Western Ele among other things make man vicim attempted to tear his jaw violations since the opening of held in the east. mask from his face, shot her fto death early today while she was parked with a man in an automo- bile in Bradley Park in the north- west section of Peoria. The dead woman was Mrs. Olive Baker, 26, wife of Marshall Baker, a brewery employee. iR B Former Jap Prison Guard Senfenced the halibut fishing season this year. Frank R. Hynes, Regional Director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife S vice reported today the halibut v sel Northern Queen w ham Island. The Northern Queen was caught by the Canadian patrol vessel Kit- imat trawling for halibut which is violation of the International fishing agreement. The law speci- fies that loig line fishing the only way in which halibut may he a taken. The Kitima: turned the To Hang Murder Northern Queen over to the U. S. ’ | Coast Guard and the craft was taken to Ketchikan. transportation when he arrives at his flight destination. RAPID TRANSIT—Ona trip from Shreveport to Minden, La., C. R. Conrad, airport opera- ght plane, to be sure of ground TELEPHONE STRIKE IN WEST ENDS Agreement; E;Sememem | Reported Reached- Workers Return SAN FRANCISCO, May 14.—(@— The National Federation of Tele- phone Workers' strike in the far west virtually was ended today. Agreement on settlement of the 37-day strike against the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company was reached last night. “This concludes, subject to the members’ ratification, the whole NFTW strike in the far west said U. 8. Conciliator Omar F. Hos. kins in announcing the agreement. Picket lines were withdrawn in San Francisco last night, A com- pany spokesman said he believed pickets remained only at some Western Electric Company plants. Negotiations for settlement of the ric strike are being Hoskins which coast said affects states, the agreement, the three Pacific Nevada, and part of s- Idaho, provided for wage increases! ed, May ©f $4 a week in metropolitan areas | 10, at Rose Spit, B. C., near Gra- and $3 in other areas—the same as | BYi88S Steamship Company wired those earlier. The non-discrimination clause, which had delayed agreement, was revised, Hoskins said, to provide that no former employee will. be denied reinstatement or be subject accepted by other unions Drastic Labor Legislation Now In Committee PORTAL PAYi SUITS ARE ACOMPANIES AREGRANTED ROUTERIGHTS Commission Also Denies . Petition for Suspen- sion of Rates | WASHINGTON, May I4.—(#— | The Maritime Commission an- | nounced today that it has approved ‘com.mcu: with four Seattle steam- I'ship lines for exclusive rights in | the Alaska shipping service despite from San Francisco, Los i and Portland, Ore, Cham- bers of Commerce. At the same time, the Commis- sion denied a petition by Alaska's | Governor to suspend freight rates nd passenger fares filed by three lof the four companies. This means these rates and fares, | which Alaska officials contend are i too high, will become eifective May 21 The Commission said public hear- ings on the rates will be held “at | the earliest practicable date.” The Seattle concerns whose ex- ]cluslve rights were confirmed are | the Alaska Steamship Co., North- {land Transportation Co. Alaska Transportation Co., and Santa Ana | Steamship Co. The contracts will run until June (30, 1948, a one year period after the government ceases operating | ships in the Alaska trade. | The Commission said the con- | tracts with the four lines were made | in accordance with special legisla~ tion by Congress to provide for temporary cperation of Alaska ser- vice until consideration can be giv- len to permanent operations. ! The Commission is to return to the four companies all vessels that were taken over for war service. It ! will charter to the companies gov- ernment-owned ships “as needed for the trade, including military requirements.” The contracts, the Commission said, will insure maintenance of about 30 vessels in cargo and pas- | senger operation, PR 7 A e 'BRIGGS SHIP IS - READY TO LEAVE | SOUTHERN PORT Philip J. Briggs, President of the tClaude J. Smith and the Junéau | Merchants Asscciation today that yhe plans to sail north from San | Francisco on his freighter South- eastern May 17. 5 The ship, said Briggs in the tele- 1gram, is now completely in shape to any other punitive action be_:iur service cn the Prince Rupert, cause of his participation in the|B: C- to Southeast Alaska run, and strike. | fully manned. Ratification of the agreemem’ The Southeastern will bring up must be completed and the em-|'© 450 tons of cargo from Seattle ployees must be back to work not °n the first trip, and the message YOKOHAMA, May 14.—#—Ha-| R T e | The U. S. Commissioner at Ketch- Jime ;onda, former Ff‘k“()k“ P kan found the Northern Queen’s son camp guard, was sentenced | today to be hanged by an Eighth Army Court. He was found guilty of contributing to the death of Cpl. William Ivarson, Seattle, and of cruelty to other Allied prisoners. - -~ iater than May 19, Hoskins said,|Stated that shippers wishing to get S 4 2 He said, however, many locals pro- | 3780 on the ship should contact T aster, Capt. Strand, guilty of the Bably. ‘woild 4 Y PO | Briggs in care of Talbot-Carroll violation and fined him $500 and y would ratify and retum to: . ; ordered confiscation of the catch,! WOk earlier than that. Company | COMPANY: Hie Sy, PobRk: The halibut catch in question, was SPokesmen said they expected most | e;llle.‘ stat sold by the U. S. Cusoms officer California workers to return today.' tigps. stated/that e o papiisite larly anxious on this trip to carry B arnoy aig B at Vancouver, B. C. and the re cargo for those merchants who will ted a trailer camp left at least 26 mainder of the fish ordered sold by the Commissioner in Ketchikan. Tornado Rips Info Another vessel, recently found 4 violating fishing regulations, was OI"o Town;]'wenly the Flying Shark which was dis- covered May 8 in possession of Six PefSOIIS Hu" halibut and having no halibut fish- ing license. The Ketchikan U. S. i | Commissioner fined Capt. Harold L. FINDLAY, O., May 14—#—A Swegle $100 and ordered the con- tornado thatv ripped through the fiscation of his catch of 4,780 castern edge of this city and wreck- pounds of fish valued at $1,010.57. LLSINGER ST — ‘ SINGER NAMED ersol injured toda i PR o e o FISH AGENT, SITKA Police and volunteer work: were combing the debris to ascertain k. Y it there were any more casualties,| Gomer Hilisinger, former aquatic e biologist in the Alaska Pink Sal-| FiLIX GRAY RETURNS mon investigations, has been ap-| pointed as the new Fisheries Man- | agement Agent,swith headquarter at Sitka. The announcement was | made today by Clay Scudder, Fish- | eries Management Supervisor of | the S. Fish and Wildlife Ser- and Los Angeles. v U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray returned to Juneau on the Princess U later be shipping through Prince Rupert. If there are shippers who | have cargo in Prince Rupert which NEW YORK, Mar x4.~chmnng“h9y should like the Southeastern quotation of Alaska Juneau mine !0 Pick up on its first voyage, stock today is 4%, American Can! SWith suggested today that they 89%, Anaconda 35, Curtiss-Wright/ contact Brigss by wire at once. 4%, International Harvester 793, No sailing date from Seattle was Kennecott 43%, New York Centra]|Mentioned in the telegram, but it 13', Northern Pacific 15, U. S, 1S Probable that it will not be be- Steel 65%, Pound $4.02% fore the end of next week. The Sales today were 1,050,000 shares. | SHiP Will call at Ketchikan, Wran- Merrill-Lynch averages today are | 8¢ll. Petersburg and Juneau. " TEAR JERKER as follows: industrials 166.65, rails| 43.07, utilities 33.34. | - PAT HOGUE WITH USFS - . —_— HAVERFORD, Pa., May 14.—(®— Miss Pat. Hogue, daughter of Mr.| A nurse at the home of J. Stanley and Mrs. Henry M. Hogue, has Reeve was groping in the dark for been given a temporary position as|a flashlight. clerk-typist in the oflices of the| She found an object of about the U. S. Forest Seérvice here. She willl right shape and size and pushed a be employed in the Division of | button—then bing! It was an old Operations, tear gas bomb. . STOC(K QUOTATIONS