The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 15, 1947, Page 1

Woman Jumps To Death From Alaska Ship Truman's Minimum Wage Boost Recommendation | TURNSDOWN Gels Approval, 2 Parties ~ LEAPS FROM THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” o VOL. LXIV., NO. 10,580 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1947 “MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = ————— CANNERY NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN OFF 'BUILDING SLIDES " INTO EXCAVATION; 3 PERSONS KILLED | 5§ ALEUTIAN GOING SOUTH = Evlyn Rappjl_r;m Seward, r Also Injured in Crash’ in Elko’s Business | District ; Leaves Note fo Captain, | Erxo, wev. may 15—im ~Three| it 4 Ipersons ‘were killed and four in- | Am Sorry jured early today when a two- ! story brick apartment-business! building collapsed and crashed in-| to an adjoining excavation in El-“ ko's business district. Sheriff C. L. Smith of Elko| lcounty said the dead are tentative-| SEATTLE, May 15.—(®-—Sheriff Harlan S. Callahan said today that| the Alaska Steamship Company, notified him that a woman pas- senger aboard the steamship Aleu- ; '®"ly identified as Ralph i '?L“"‘Efa'%;’.,p“;;m vih:ls‘:;g Beatrice Nielsen, believed to be Ry g e Nielsen's sister, and Mrs. Robert! enroute here from Ke!chlkan.‘Nm_rb T,“;l Aleutian docked Tuesday| "poyert Norris, Mr. and Mrs. W.| R A. Sperry and their daughter, Mrs.' Capt. C. Nilsen, of the Aleutian, o .1 jones, suffered shock PALESTINE INQUIRY TO BE NEUTRAL United Nations Assembl Creales Commission Then Adjourns By MAX NEW YORK, May y HARRELSON 15.—M—The ‘neutral” commission ly created a Palestine inquiry to- 18-day extraordinary session at 1:57 p. m. (EDT). The vote on the whole Palestine resolution was 46 to 7, with gne abstention and one absent. Vot- TELEPHONE SYSTEMS EXPECTED BACK T0/ 'NORMAL BY MONDAY | ety iOperaiors in Two N. W.| | Sections Instructed to | | Return to Work SEATTLE, \May 15.—®—Wash-, {ington and northern Idaho tele-| |phone operations will be at their | pre-strike operation level by Mou-‘ day. i . This wls the conclusion of Arne Congress sent to the White House, | United Nations Assembly formal-|Gravem, regional field representa- today 11-nation tive ‘of the National Federation of $400,000,000 program | Telephone Workers, last night |ijons issued a statement asking' operators and employees to return; |to work Pickets have been withdrawn' {from all telephone company in-! and'ing against the measure were the |stallations, Gravem said 1 GREEK-TURK RELIEF BILL IS PASSED {Measure Sénfio President ~Truman Makes An- other Aid Request WASHINGTON, May 15.—(®P— authorizing a of financial aid to bulwark legislation and limited militar Nielsen, {day and then finally adjourned its shortly after heads of striking un- Greece and Turkey 4zainst Com-, munism. The House, and also the Sen- ate. quickly approved the bill between the House and Senate measures. On another bill to provide funds ARRIVES | | | (10- ASCWU - FINAL OFFER By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH ! WASHINGTON, May 15.—xm—-i | President Truman'’s boost-the-min- | imum-wage recommendation won | Republican as well as Democratic | H 2 But chances for action this year —_— appear dim. | SEATTLE, May 15.—(#—Contract Even among backers of the Chief | negotiations with the Alaska Sal- Exective's proposal there is contro-; mon Industries, Inc. have been bro- versy whether a new pay “floor” |ken off, the CIO-Alaska Salmon should be fixed at 65 cents an hour | Cannery Workers' Union Local 7, as urged by Mr. Truman, or at 55 announced last night. cents, 75 cents or some other fi-, Wendell Phillips, regional director gure. The present minimum is 40! for the unioa said the workers re- cents. It applies to all workers cov- ! jected what he termed a “final ered by the Wage-Hour Act, in|offer” by the industry and that no ,general those whose output moves | further meetings were scheduled. | across state lines. i “It is news to us that negotia- No Further Meetings Are Scheduled - Ties Up in a letter to the Coast Guard & ! ” | bruises Arab countries—Syria, Egypt, Le- The termination crder resulted for relief of six countries in Eu- ‘While this is: | tions are by - ;g;:”;;:;‘a:héfl;?';‘";a‘;gm: mz:(‘ ‘The sheriff said digging ('U“im"b:\mm Iraq, and Saud Arabia- and from a day of polling union mem- rope and Asia, President Truman, House-Senate (;::Cfl slmnrellflg:l: er, manager t" the‘ Al‘:’:kl;ers:l"n’:n > ; 2T ued in the wreckage, but it was be-|Turkey and Afghanistan. Siam ab- bers throughout the northwest, 'urged Congress again to vote the! v - A 2 & el class palslser_\gfr. kllel_t aflgl_o‘le pinned;, ced all occupants were P2 it iGravem said. The poll made it full $350,000,000 asked, saying “the; ;?,‘;':,l""[':,.’.:"f:f"'f':"‘rah{w?‘bh? dr?l if,l;d::,tfl[ :":i},:“,:,d :lhf'l;f m:,om“d m’r‘rl]emm;‘z rnead-el ; l:m i | counted for. The commission will be free to appear certain the union mem- peace of the world can be realized | [ty iw; b:l‘l’:‘ l:fi.g;:,l“.d ‘l:,i fon wan':; to !cnfin them :7{?‘ ‘:;:- 3 7 : SOMY:| w1 heard what sounded like aimake an on-the-spot investigation.'bership is willing to accept thelonly when people are free :irom | A ey hREniat o S ki 2 S;:‘;ta;?un:h:‘mEL 1;adfi;&h§§ ‘\;lxll‘l terrible hailstorm outside,” said. The deliberations wound up in|company’s latest settlement offerfthe fear of hunger.” | ;:;e(‘]l;;:::::: e il ‘m'i::;”.),e:_‘ew:d:;:w AUOUE 1 she ees 2 . e, Mrs. Sperry. “It kept gettingia series of rapid developments. l—a $4 a week increase for most | 1 oy i 4 yeR ;.alcase mm,y N,Ih's i SE" I kind of woke up rmd"a ;f;;s; ;nclud‘ed lfiitfmi‘;ute Arab employees. | M' 'Fx'\nman's Sppesl hod oo l’lho .blg i8n (e what (q ko shouy U:S‘,j Ganglliator Alin. Lo Peieh Rickards, 779 Sweeney St. SaN g,y yhe walls collapsing in on me.'protests against the Assembly's ac-| Although he warned that some|tained in a letter transmitting the| the many curbawhich are in. the|son tald he Fdped to elablish ol B s L {The next sensation I Mad I Was,tion and refusal of the five Arab union members may be unwillingjtenth quarterly report of UNRRA. ouse bill but not the Senate's: ajbasis to bring the two parties to- C_ap}am Nilggn 1 mald dthafl g suffocating from dust.” states to agree to an interim truce'to abide by the union’s decision, {1t reached the capitol as Se"".le} l?”"' blanket ban on md“""y'w‘de‘g“her again in the near future. waiter, Robert K. Arnold, found "y hugbang saia he was in ajin the Holy Land while the in- Oravem said “we are sure that And House conferees soughc to 10| collective bargaining, for example,; The Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc. the note. He estimated that the . ..~ . tne pujlding which re-,quiry commission studies the prob- Most of our people will go back solve differences in their respec-| jand an authorization for private|announced today a contract had Aleutian was somewhere between lto work.” !tive bills. The biggest point at cmployers to seek injunctions | been signed with the AFL-Alaska ‘laguinst some strikes and boycotts. The President’s minimum wage recommendation was contained in his message to Congress yesterday | approving the anti-portal pay bill. mained upright. Awakened by his'lems on the spot this summer j 4 i ,wife's screams, he leaped to heri A last Soviet-Slav effort to in-! The union statemant requested W},F:e m:te:x::;:n dlc?n‘:g::l;fd'kaid‘aid and fell 15 feet into the exca-'clude the five big powers in the 8 return to work not later than |V Miss Rapp boardgd the vessel at|'2ton: commission’s membership failed zo:n;rmal shift time, Monday, May| lupset the decision of the assem- 19. Ee booked to Seattle.| upset ¢ . N i ‘bly's 55-nation political committee | Cannery Workers' Union, affiliated with the/ Seafdrers “‘Interational Union, calling for a 12'% percent wage increase and 10 percent over- | time increase, Ketchikan and Point Light, B. C. iscue s the amount to be pro-| ided. : The joint commiiiee failed to| reach a compromise at initial talks, ' 'then scheduled an afternoon ses- BARGAINING BAN | NOW ; A(ING to Lar the major powers. 1 In its final form, the assembly’s| resolution gave the commission ai of Palestine on the same basis as sion. The House voted to cut the M— | fund to $200,000,000 but the Sen- favored providing the full SITUATION ELSEWHERE WASHINGTON, May 1 Additional settlements further nar-|ate |free hand to consider independence; rowed the nation’s phone strike to- amount. day as a new round of conferences The Senate approved yesterday, It got underway in the deadlocked 79 to 4, a bill to provide general‘ | In urging amendment ‘“now” for | the Wage-Hour Act to set a 65- | cent floor, Mr. Truman said: “It has become increasingly evi- ' {dent that the minimum wage of 40 icents an hour . . . is far from ade- . i The CIO-cispute threéatens to tie up major Alaska cannery opera- tions. SCHOOL AID “o‘l' IN(I.UDED IN | all other possible solutions | {left the way open, however, for'Western Electric tieup. relief for Austria, Greece, Hungary, - quate. , . " i | 7 | recommendations of indpendence! John Murray, Labor Department Italy, Poland, the free city of! ™ . i1 “— | The Senate approved an increase I.ABOR MEASURE }if the commission decided this|representative, was hopeful of new Trieste and China. This version,' Grisela Vandeneschen, redhead [to 65 cents last year, but the bill | G jwas best. |wage concessions from both the however, does not specifically, from Munich, stands on a ladder \died in the Ilouse. — — i :Weslem Electric, Bell Telephonn name the countries. The House| aboard the 8. S. Marine Marlin e i By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON, May 15—(®— Rep. Hartley (R-NJ) perdicted to- day that the labor legislation fin- | ally approved by Congress will not include a ban on industry»wide‘ bargaining. | The Chairman of the House, Labor committee made this pre-| diction to reporters after the first| LONDON, May 15.—®—Foreign meeting of a committee of House Secretary Ernest Bevin said today| Bevin Gives Views of Next | Coriference Scheduled ! in London - .ALASKA OVERTIME ' PAY CASE MAY BE (conference today (9 am. EST) and the State Department request- | HIT BY NEW LAW/ SEATTLE, May 15.—(®—The bill System affiliate, and the Associa-'bill does. " tion of Communications Equipment The Senate refused on a 64 to 19 Workers, representing 20,000 strik- vote to go along with the President ing workers. in trimming $150,000000 off the the President He summoned both sides to a$350,000000 which amid indications the two sides are ed. 4 closer together than at any time Chairman Vendenberg (R-Mich) since the strike began. of the Foreign Relations committee Negotiations also will be resumed | said the House approved amount in New York today between the|wouldn't meet the basic needs in members and Senators trying tolthat if relations between the East|signed yesterday by President Tru-| .o, .nv and another segment of | differences compromise in bills'and West were not improved at man outlawing portal-to-portal PaY | the union. |the November conference of Im‘eigni was used as the basis for a re- Greece, Italy and Austria until the next harvest. “It would be the same as throw- after its arrival in New York. The New York Daily News says in a copyrighted story that the fraulein is bound for Hollywocd to marry Peter Salm, wealthy son.of the late Count Ludwig Salm and the former Milicent Rogers. (# Photo. ADVISES 10 LOOK 10 SOUTH FOR PULP LEWIS PLANS NEW MOVE IN CONTRACTS FOR MINE WORKERS ) sy \Will Negofiate with Oper- | BEKILLED Orders Issued fo Strike Out Large Sum Scheduled © for Stafes ! alors for Separate | passed by the two chambers. ; i Separate talks also are slated | He said he expects this group 0 ministers, “no one can prophesy: quest in Federal court today ffll: here with the Western Electric N @ ten-foot rope to a man i Agreements | WASHINGTON, May 15.—(®— . decide also against including au-|what course the world will take.” {dismissal of a suit lnsfitl:;ed under | g Dloyees Association, which has drowning 15 feet offshore” he INSTEAD oF AlA KA The House Republican leadership i for private employers ;the Fair Lakor Standards Act in; 2 salk 1 ke $ X 3 t?“:féfi‘?éunmm{’ers againstp,iuns-i “I regard the London conference’ connection with Aleutian xs'lanfl‘mieloo me}:n L 21 plases k- | i WASHINGRON, M8y - Ml ‘;:ser:ept(g!:geu;:’;byormcot::rvxfit::uetg dictional strikes and secoridary ;in November, \;rith the issuesbnglwl,wm.k_ ;nem:)ltwagllze:;x:g.wem these sets OTHERS MAY SEEK AID | WASHINGTON, May 15. P—E. -Lllf;fmml;eé‘:tvivnns;e Bfiref,: mm\yL % kil a bill which would give States boycotts. {pretty clear before us, 03 Blootew | The case was filed by seven em-| Denver — The Mountain States| WASHINGTON. May 16--Prcsi- a. Charlion of New York advised wisn operators representing. aboyt 3300000 @ year in Federal aid for T R ltory." Bevin told the House ofiPlOvees, representing 80 claimants, ipederation of Telephone Workers|dent Truman declined to forecast Congress today to look to the deep 75 porcent of the nation’s soft coal |0 0% - Cm’!';mom lagainst the Guy F. Atkinson Com-!representing 9,000 workers in six t0d8y whether the $400,000,000 south, rather than to Alaska, for proquction, © 77| A high-ranking party member The waShlngion “On behalf of this nation 1ipany and involved $200,000 in over- I'states announced acceptance of a Greek-Turkish aid program will be new newsprint and paper supplies., " The Southern Coal Producers who does not want his name used iwill certainly work hard to try:time compeusation. 183-34 weekly wage increase offer {ollowed by similar administration| Charlton told a special HoUse pcegefation, which refused to g0 told reposters. the orders will be M 144 ‘GO'Round‘to reach conclusions, but this] Federal Judge Lioyd L. BIackipy the Mountain States Telephone APPeals for other countries. commities headed by Rep. OISt ilong on industey-wide. bargaining |oriar 1o s oo oo e Y = | settlement doesn't lie in the hands | (00K the dismissal motion under!g Telegraph Company, part of the TDR€ Greek: Turkish bill was pass- ence J. Biown (R-Ohio) that the yith Lewis' United Mine Workers, pledges to hold down government —_— RSON lof the British government alone.” advisement but directed that the|Bell System. ‘i ed by Congress today but the Pres- experience of the United States sopaq for seperate negotiations, Bp;!;dlinz- ‘s By DREW PEA i b | trial continue. Charl i |ident said it has not yet reached Forest Service in wood plantations —pewis replied that he wanted ajority Leader Halleck of In- y LG, | The creation of a new Germany| arleston, W. Va.—The Chesa- the south indicates the ad-! s WY he wanted ‘& diana, asked about the report, said | i i Ay i Tru-|Will “take a long time to realize,”| ‘WASHINGTON—President ! 'Bevln A Db by nadua: delav man is sending a speclal MESSABE| ;0 o0 will get worse rather Defense atiorney Rokert W. Gra- ham said that “it is our contention that the bill covers non-compen-|yorkers union settled a strike of D€F he will :peake and Potomac Telephone | Company and the communication | his desk for signature. Asked. at a news conference whe- recommend similar in ! visability of further studies in that area. chance to discuss the southerners'|.. Yequest With. his poliey cummmoe‘ there has been no determination g e jof the matter.” giving an answer. A subcommittee still is holding to Congress asking for authority to " o . sable time,” which he said Was in-i3200 phone workers in W Of id to bolster other countries’ Speaking for the Leesville-Ver-\ “mpoce’ major devel H p a i 2 ) est Virgin- | g | 4 e Jjor evelopments in i s arm and train our good neighbors ™[ . volved in the suit. He asserted that ! j i o against the spread of Communism, non parish chamber of commerce, ype 1ong-troubl 3 ihearings on the bill, he said, and 1 am” not one of those who ia on the basis of raises of $2 and Leesville, La.,, Charlton said: g-troubled coal mdustry\mey are “not just a gesture.” But in Latin America, including our ¥ 200d neighbor—Argentina wants to turn down the Potsdam not-s50-i P & agreement,” he added. “I am onej This arms program has a lot oé\o( those who wants to carry it out kinks that may not at first catch ., 5 phases without equivoca- the eye of the average Congress-j. . | man. It is a program which pre-| R t ‘ vious Republican administrations o e RN i wrestled with, and it was hoped | . . Jurisdiction Over - the Democrats had profited by there was no liability—“our pay was made in good faith and in compliance with directives of the War Department” — and that the court has no jurisdiction. SRS v 15 WY JUNEAU SAWMILL BUILDING HOUSES & 153 weekly. Union officials said, however,| they had no authority to order ;members to cross picket lines of the | :striking Western Electric workers. | i In St. Louis the Southwestern | Bell Telephone Company rejected a‘ union offer to accept a flat $4 'weekly wage increase for striking Mr. Truman said he will meet that situation when it arises. Mr. Truman said he has a man alone followed the planting pPrac-,aministrator. in mind to administer the Greek- tices of the United States Forest| Turkish aid program, but his choice Service, enough pulpwood would be !y, is reluctant 1o accept. The appointment will be an- nounced as quickly as he can get the man in whom he is interested. | “If half the forest lands of Texas produced to service the entire 1947 |needs of the entire south.” He referred to the current sug- |gestions that Alaskan forests be !developed to produce paper and were announced by Navy Capt. N. H. Collisson, Federal coal mines‘he also s8id: “Of course, we are not exactly hunting ways to spend more money. And many states have {done a lot in the last year for (their schools and teachers.” Rep. McCowen (R-Ohio), who introduced the Federal aid bill, |heads the subcommittee which has Lewis' agreement to negotiate a part of the industry repr sented an about face on his |vious insistance on industry-wide |bargaining, in_ line with a policy adopted ‘at the UMW convention tlast year. their lessons. s He did not identify the man. . . workers if the company would ar- | 7 i ys sk been holding heal 5 it f Back in the 1920's the present “ l h' [ B » u , WNEL Sl |pulpwood. and said surveys show|™ wrout of the nation's soft coal|Ce” g hearings on it for Secretary of the Navy, James For-| ome Ig erage H o" wx““" 'SI_E lun::x‘f fringe issues. Talks are con- there would be a production cost'y.ioc ave under soveriment ”p_,weoks. restal, then part of Dillon, Read,| | | i . h- idifferential of “conservatively $10|eration but must be restored tol A0St of the long list of witness- imermationa s, novea oor Requested fromMC; = s saviine nesene v Japs Bring Shipsfo 5o s o o™ ST DL ¢ ST e nctting many tenchers, Have : : | nen ) |lisson called the UMW chief and} : $20,000,000 to Bolivia which went to arm the Bolivian Army. The Bolivian people and even part of | WASHINGTON, May 15.—P— | the Bolivian Cabinet did not know iThe Maritime Commission had un- too much about this, but throughlider consideration today a plea a bribe (the more polite word IS that it take jurisdiction over rates “commission”) to the Minister of land fares in the Nome, Alaska,! Finance, the loan was put across. jighterage service—the barge trans- Incidentally, it has never been re- portation of goods from seagoing ager of the Juneau Spruce Cbr- poration, revealed today that the Juneau Sawmill is building four small houses this week for use by the families of key personnel at the company's logging camp Tuxukan Island. Hawkins said that the houses will be floated down to the camp, which is located off the| | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 15. — Closing \Quotation of Alaska Juneau mine 892, Anaconda 35', Curtiss-Wright 4%, International Harvester 80%, Kennecott 44%, Néw York Central Be Use_d_ in Alaska SEATTLE, May 15.—®—Japan-! on'stock today is 4, American Can ese crews of three Army transports were being transferred here today to the Army transport John C. Ainsworth to be returned to Japan. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Tongass, from Seaitle, due before noon tomorrow. | Aleutian scheduled to sail from {Seattle Saturday at 10 a. m. call- {ing at Ketchikan, Juneau, Yaku- tat, Cordova, Valdez and Seward. | ( -- ithe operators together several | weeks ago in the hope that would | 'produce a contract that would| javert a major strike when the pri- EVANS, ZUBOFF ON 'vate owners resume control. I"Spmm" mw’ f R e A AR | ! F | Leonard E. Evans, Deputy Com- 2 Children Are i missioner. ot _the Tereiioria}. D paid. ships to shore at Nome. iwest coast of Prince of Wales 13%, Northern Pacific 15, U. S. The transports will be used in Al-| “gajlors Splice scheduled to sail ? partment of Labor, and Cyril Zu- Most of the money went to Vick-| The Alaska Development Board,|Island. {Steel 66%, Pound $4.02%. aska, [from Seattle May 20. Su“o(a'ed F“-e boff, Labor Department Inspector, % ers, Ltd., British munitions firm,ia Territorial sagency which claims TR A, R { Sales today were 770,000 shares. The sailors have been manningi Alaska scheduled to sail from | 1] !left here this morning for Peters- though part went to pay German |the rates charged by the Lomen: military instructors to train Boli- Commercial Co., for the service, FORFEITS $25 BAIL | { Merrill-Lynch averages today are ias follows: U. 8. ships in the repatriation of |Seattle May 23, calling at Ketch- industrials 167.89, rails Japanese soldiers and civilians from |jkan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, |burg, Wrangell and Ketchikan. i LEWISTON, Idaho, May 15.- w| Evans will inspect labor condi- ) via to wage war on its neighbor,|are too high, contended the com-|{ George Paskevic of Tulsequah, 84:43_24‘ utilities 33.29. | Paeific islands. Sitka, Cordova, Valdez and Sew-.—Two children suffocated early!/tions in various industrial plants Paraguay. mission has authority to look into|C., forfeited $25 bail this morning | ——————— The men on the Ainsworth have ard. today when fire of unknown ori-lin the three Southeast Alka cit- That attack started in 1928. For-‘me company’s rates despite a com-iin City Court. He was arrested| The United States has about Not been ashore for four months| Princess Louise is scheduled to!gin swept through the family {ies, and Zuboff will look over the mission examiner’s finding that it;yesterday by City Police for being!four million annual cases of mala- and will return to Japan without sail south at 10 o'clock tomorrow| home of Mr. and Mrs. George working conditions in logging (Cantinued on Page Four) lacks that authority. 3 | drunk. 'ria with 4,000 deaths. J setting foot on U. S. soil. { morning. J | Stocker. camps in those areas.