The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 5, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— VOL. LXVI, NO. 10, 598 Ml;MB[- R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSD AY, JUNE 5, I947 TRUMAN LAMBASTY SENATOR ROBT. TAFT CHARGES ARE MADE FROM | BOTH SIDES Bndges West Coast Ship- | owners Break Silence on Negotiations TREAS. DEPT. ~ PERMITSSALE | OF RAwooLn, Designer, Model to Wed | Miners May Now Sell Ore in Natural State for Domestic Use , ; i . i i | i SAN FRANCISCO, June 5—/P— WASHINGTON, June 5—(#— Harry Bridges and West Coast | Rep. Engle (D-Calif) said today he Shipowners explosively broke a | has been advised by the Treasury tense public silence today over | Department that gold in its natur: negotiations aimed at avoiding an- «n state may be bought and sold | Efforts Made To Avoid Shipping Strike Junel5 'OHIO MAN'S PHILOSOPHY IS OLD IDEA President Resenfs Recent Assertions-Discusses Other Matters WASHINGTON, June 5.—P— President Truman today called the economic philosophy of Senator Taft (R-Ohio) the “old idea of ! boom and bust.” He read to a news conference a before, if not more important. other shipping strike on June 15. | for domestic use without a license. Each charged the other with bad “The cifect of this 1\‘1‘hng,lcl:“.nglc: 1,000 aricsteteient. oiiees: Ay faith, said in a statement, “is to give a! f,aus“c, ol i ooy 1o Bridges' CIO Maritime Commit-, iree market for domestic gold in its Y, Yart thas “APEBEnEY H9. CR tee, which he heads, said the Ship- natural state—gold which has not . ":f"l and tha .geiiiewstion S5 owners were resolved to “lock out” | I |been melted, smclted, refined orj ;“:xdunmz talk of keeping prices the Unions rather than extend . . ! @ ' otherwise treated by heating or by | own In favor of heavy spending contracts a rand mediate " yyour Florell, zs, New York hat designer, and his favorite model, |chemical or electric process ! ‘“bl'v;"_m that will keep them up. “slight wage increases” being asked | ywonqy Russell, 24, are pictured s they announced in Hollywoed they Lt e ok 4 i { | Mr Truman said thé administra- by *“a couple of the unions [ will be married in P: (AP Phcto) he Treastly cuys and el SN : 4 |tion did not urge the Greek-Turk- The Shipowners countered with! ; 3 3 53 Il f’“b“_\”“""“*”t';' :l hl;\ lf";’(‘jl; ROYAL BRIDL E PATH — King Georxe VI of En:lnnd and his daughfers, Princess | 1Sh aid program to bring prices the assertion that such an exten- _l”‘”“ Y. Deeved ’ 1..: e Ellnbelh and Prineess Margaret, go for a horseback ride in Windsor Great Park. |down, but rather to extend aid to sion was offered the unions on [] L] " \\» iether in its natural state or - starving millions and to “set up a Memorial Day. Their statement n I l ( a ' I 0 n treated, could be sold only to the, ‘bulwark against totalitarian ag- suggested that anything else, such Treasury. i » gression.” as wage increases, ('unstllul(’d; ; “With rising costs of material a a(e ' o' upporl r plA i He reiterated his plea for vol- something new injected by Bridges and labor, many gold operators untary price reductions and sald without their knowledge. OUII OFFICE o' Army Nav have been unable to make a profit ithey are as important now as ever I I Bridges, Chairman of the five-, at this figure, and it is well known ' union committee, said “all work’ that gold is commanding a much on the ships and waterfronts” will; STAIE DEP'I' | ! higher price in foreign countrics cease unless labor contracts \\ele s aln er er and in the black market in this renewed by that date. (‘ounlry ! He denied reports of a settle-. may be possible in view of | nient um interpretation by the Treasury | “One of the unions, the Marine Engineers, is asking for a six per cent wage increase,” he said. “It looks like some adjustment will be for gold miners legitimately to u‘fl]- ize a higher price for their plodut.t {as long as 't s sold in its natural plEA MADE Resignaiion Is Announced Senator Roberlson Says by President-in Ar- Don’t Fool Ourselves state.” front Employers Association offer-' the resignation of Spruille Braden the pending Army-Navy unification | necessary before it can be said, R i If safely that a settlement is .in! gen'ma Tmuble Abom !men“ons | e sight.” | 5 L o | i The unions wanted all contractsi WASHINGTON. June 5 p— | WASHINGTON, June 5. [ig : extended until 1948, but the Water-: President Truman has announced Senator Robertson (R.-Wyo.) says i ed to extend them only until Sept. as Assistant Secretary of State bill actually would merge the two 30 when their AFL contracts ex-| Braden is a former Ambassador services. i IN EUROPE pire. to Argentina and long was at the 'Tts merger legislation, pure and A ! AL S | center of controversy within the ad- simple,” the Wyoming lawmaker told [ a reporter. about that.” | Robertson is a member of the Sen- GOES TO ANCHORAGE . ministration over United States-Ar- “Let’s not fool ourscl\'es1 Mrs. John Monagle left by plane Sentine wlanm:; i today enroute to Anchorage to join There have been reports that he 4 of her husband for a few weeks. The Wanted to leave the department but ate Armed Services Committee Monagles' two children. John Jr, Was waiting until the outcome of the Which in his absence yesterday ap- and Joan. safla’’on the steamér;Siffercrices ‘With Argenfing. . Thess RI9Xed e BIN bysiila to 0. yote, Alaska Tuesday and will spend the diferences were pretty well ironed He said he \\nuld have voted against Alaska Tueadsy and wil spend the. CUeioncss Tore PR B0 TS the measure Grim Hunt in Cold Wafers, 3 e: an and gentine ! It mmul(\ for unmmu«m of the ! and vicinity. President Truman and ArL.umn e ey s, naiil Joveis: s | - ELUDE SApREMOL 13 - | SHlP WRE(KSec MarsnaHPledgesHeIp ; to Couniries Attempt- ing Own Recovery CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Juine 5@ O S T |~ Diplomats look today for Argen- Secre! ary of National Security. The | Secretary of State Marshall called ALASKANS AT BARANOF o h W 0 stul in its long bid | bill says specifically that there shall Now Underway upon the countries of Europe today Among the Alaskans r tering |y oot United States arms, now that be N0 merger, a provision upon {to work cut together a great new at the Baranof Hotel yesterday (o (wo countries have quit glaring Which the Navy insisted. FORT WILLIAM, Ont., June 5 | P'OSTam of reccnstruction. : were Marie Idem from Petersbwrg, .. e another 2 ; But Rcbertson contended that (P—Search was renewed today in He promise¢ American economic Mr. and Mrs. Justis J. Stanter from ;" phec say that sale of American Mine lines of the bill are merger | the cold waters of Lake Superior for | 2¢Stance ar< support “so far as may be pjactical.” and it doe Anchorage and Miss Louise M. Da- 1't take a lawyer military equipment to the Buenos line ten missing bodies of victims who | Anid at the same time he pledzed vis frim Sitka. ‘A,r% government is one of three figure it out.” perished when the Canadian freight- 8 b S o S TR ' major developments likely to follow | The House Armed Services group'er Emveror sank early yesterday;'l¢ United States to oppose “any There are between 15 and 20 yesterday's White House conference lready has voted to open hearings morning on jutting rocks of Islv"“"e“““"m which maneuvers = to different species of birch tree in ya_establishing formal good rela- On the proposal. They probably will | Royale |block the recovery of other coun- the United States. ‘mms be started in about two weeks. Twelve crew members: were be- | tries.” > |lieved downed, while 21 others who Without naming y foreign amaged b o b ey uit ttdhoats country or party, Marshall declared or, stmmble atop the rocks were res- the outline of an address pre- ued by the Coast Guard cutter \u.ned for a meeting of the Harvard melmll v { Alumni Association Threatening weather forced a de-| “Governments, political parties or tin The Washmglon Merry - Go- Roun (]ARMY SUPPW U. S.,Argenlmato ‘ Be More Friendly b, {lay in the grim hunt for victims&8roups which seek to perpetuate By DREW P)LARbON 1 , WASHINGTON, June 5.—(P— | yesterday afternoon after the bodies human misery in order to profit A ong Congressicnal support is de- |of two women—Mrs. Joseph Toba- | therefram . palitcally or otherwise encounter the opposition of the veloping for a friendhier U. S. policy | chuk, 30, of Fort William, and Mrs. toward Argentina and prompt ac- }Edna Schultz of Owen Sound, Ont. | United States. permanent inter- | —had been taken from the water. Marshall did WASHINGTON Despite h:s cighty-one years of age, popular SENT SENATE: not specify how Senator Arthur Capper is quite al tion in draiting a | s gay dog. At debutante dances, he 15| American defense pact The Canada Steamship Lines, |much money the American govern- almost as active as the boys va-! s | The resignation of Assistant Sec- owner of the ill-fated ship that was | ment intends to make available but June — ! retary of State Spruille Braden |Ccarrying iron ore to the lower lakes, | s2id Europe must have “substantial However, the venerable Senator| The House has passed and sent to was hailed by many Congressmen announced Northern Engineering : additional help” during the next does not number alcohol among his | the Senate a $5280982,423 Army a step toward closer relations|Company's vessel, Coastal Queen,!three to four years or “face econ- vices. He comes from theSupply bill after adding $40,000.000 with Juan Peron’s Argentine goy- | had been commissioned to renew the | omic, social and political deteriora- cationing from Yale and Halvaxdl Not only is Capper a teetotaller! mincr prohibition state of Kansas ahd|!0 funds for airplane purchases. ernment. search for another woman and nine | tion of a very grave character. lives up to the letter of the law The action was taken by unanimous — - men. | The Cabinet officer’s call for a both in spirit and in name. voice vote . Although there was practically no | joint effort by European countries As it left the House, the bill was ewsp’"" orlage hopc that any of the missing crew | to develop n reconsruction blue- but he has recently introduced a bill $435:809,077, or 7.6 percent below |could be alive after long exposure | print represented the first step of to prohibit liquor advertising in ! the President’s budget estimates; H l db E "on the nort_hexn lake, the Coastal | the neéw State Department ap- interstate commerce. This would ' 10r new appropriations for the War e pe y qulpmen Queen carried three small power | progch to the problem of world- force radio stations, most newspa- Depan‘menl during the fiscal year| I boats to scour the bleak headlands | wide rehabilitation pers and all national magazines to beginning July 1. WASHINGTON, June 5.—P—|of Isle Royale, a remote ndumml\ The Secretary declared “our pol- turn down all beer, wine, and liquor| The $40.000000 increase in new Rep. Clarence J. Brown, (R-0), park. {icy 1is directed not against any advertising. plane funds was the only change said today that cooperation of in- e G Icountry or doctrine but against “The other day, however, Senator f;‘]“d" in the b‘;g dh‘(‘ t‘l;(;sz);u;'oed dustries Nu)vlllyingl t‘qt:)mmtm to, nun;, poverty, desperation -and hat sum was added to ,000,000 newsprint mills has been w:y‘ p ' I p ' ‘Lllfl()\ g?pé;ni:; ‘W:\e):f:r:;ndfigm;luf pf:rl-| which the House Approprl.xuons’he]p(ul" in Congressional efforts ls(a or'a aymen { — e — ticularly relish. It was signed b}‘Commmen had recommended forlv.o eliminate the newsprint shortage. | FAIG BOUND OVER Louis Levand, publisher of the Wi- | that purpose. | Brown, Chairman of a House ALBANY, N. Y, June 5—P—) L chita Beacon, who accepts no h-‘ R T committee investigating the short-!|City Treasurer Frank J. O'Brien| Ray Faig was bound over to the quor advertising and has publicly | HERE FROM THE EAST age of newsprint and paper, said received in the mail a check for Federal Grand Jury yesterday af- pledged that he will accept none | T ““ a committee’ hearing: 18100, marked “money for stolen termoon by U. 8. Commissioner Two from eastern states were “As a result of that cooperation, time.” Felix Gray at a preliminary hear even if the Kansas dry laws should be repealed. Levand has been wag- ing a war against Kansas hoolleg- registered yesterday at the Baranof I believe we will be able to get this | | Hotel. They are Mrs. Calla Louise | i tings Paig, arrested May 19 and charged with burglary, is accused ! “Scmeone must have taken the shortage licked months ahead of|time off to go fishing and his con- ers and the corfupt Republican ' !Engle from Middleburgh, N. Y. what we originally thought.” | science bothered him,” O'Brien said.| 0f the “alleged theft of a watch 8 fand Don Horter from Brookline,| He did not ampliy the state-|“But for $100, he must have done|!rom the Star Bakery. Bail was re- (Continued on Page Four) Mass. Iment, w lot of fishing.” duced from $2,000 to $1,000. Truman for Reelectino; is Hedgmg Aboul Thlrd Parly ISOUTLINED 3 RALEIGH, N. C., June 5.— Heniy Wallace, asked at a pres: conference today if he would sup- port President Truman for reelec- ion, hesitated and said: “that de- pends on—I would say, ‘no. The former Vice President is to make an address here tonight and the press conference this morning was held at the home of Josephus Daniels, publisher of the Raleigh News and Observs and a former Cabinet members. Wallace, who has been crusading vigoro y against the “be firm with Russia” aspects of President Tru- man's foreign policy, had been askec earlier if he planned to lead in the forming of a third party, a.d he replied: “I'm doing everything I can to make the Democratic Party a Lib- cral Party. Ii the Democratic Party becomes a war party, a party of re- acticn and depression, then I'll no longer be a Democrat.” Asked if he would suppurt Republican Party, Wallace said “I can't imagine myself cam- paigning for a Republican under any circumstanc the He then mc™ified this statement by saying that ke might “make a slight reserdation” about applying this to Harold E. Stassen, the for- mer Governor of Minnesota and Oregon’s Republican Senator Wi Morse. s STOCK QUOTATION: NEW YORK Junv 5.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4's, American Can 90z, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss-Wright 4%, International Harvester 81, Kennecott 43'«, New York Central 13, Northern Pacific 15 U. S. Steel 64'2, Pound $4.02% Sales today were 520,000 shares Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follows: industrials 169.42, rails, 43.56, uiilities 33.07. Stock prices turned narrowly ir- regular today in one of the slow- est sessions in almost a year. The small turn-over reflected Wall Street’ reluctance to make commit- ments while the tax bill is awaiting Presidential action. R | DERRICK IS NAMED STEWARD TAKU POST John C [)Plrlt'k has been pointed Club Steward of the Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, by Post Commander Hunt W Gruening Derrick was formerly with the U. S. Public Health Ser- vice in Waskington, D. €., and is 2 member of the Saranac Lake, N. Y. post of the VFW. He will assume his new duties tomorrow. ap- Taku Fifty Americans fo ' * were notffied today that they will * able to claim’ that bit FOR PA(IFI(f Wl” Be on Tnangle Basis, Guam, Cavite and Alaska Included | HONOLULU, T. H, June 5.-—4M-—-! Future U. S. Navy operations in the ! Pacific will be based on a Pearl Harbor-Guam-Alaska triangle, with'| Guam replacing Pearl Harbor as! the Navy's advance base, the Hon- Mr. Truman covered a wide range of foreign and domestic subjects during the. conference. . He began by naming Dwight Gris- wold, former Republican governor of Nebraska, as administrator of the Greek aid program, and Rich- ard F. Allen, former Red Cross official, as field director of the $350,000,000 program of relief for seven European countries and China. Then he read the statement on Taft and went on, largely in re- sponse to questions, to these other jmatters: Foreign 1--The President, in response to a question, described the Commun- ist coup in Hungary as an outrage. He added the State Department is olulu Advertiser reported today. The newspaper survey of military | affairs in the Pacific said that a 12,500-man Naval force now sta- tioned on Guam slightly outnum- | bers present Naval personnel in Hawaii The survey said that Hawali has been made the key supporting bnsel and nerve center of the Naval tri-| angle by construction of installa- | tions for supply, storage, repair| and communications. making a complete investigation DOW. 2.—Argentina—The President said | George Messersmith, American Am- 'passador to Argentina, hascomplet- led his temporary mission in Buenos Aires and describett the mission as successful. He could not say when Messersmith would return and said his future is undetermined at this time. The President said the United States is now on iriendly terms . with Argentina. Temporary installations on Guam | are bemg caanged to permanent | installations in a five-year program, | the report said. The Advertiser said the new set- up follows the dispersal policy of | the postwar Navy which intends “never again to find Guam unde- fended, Cavite helpless, Alaska un- occupied and all our defense eggs in the Pearl Harbor basket.” Ceee - Met British Royalty | During Mext Week| LONDON, June 5.—(P—Some 50! American debutantes and matrons | meet the Royal Family in the gar- dens of Buckingham, Palace next Tuesday, and thus forever after be | of pre-war | soclal magic—"presented at court Most of the 50 took calmly the fact that they will be the first Am- ericans to gain the distinction since the war, { - BPWC IS TO MEET ATNOON TOMORROW | The Business and Professional Women's Club will hold its regu- | lar business-luncheon meeting Fri- | day in the Gold Room of the Bar- | anof | George Rogers, Administrative As- | sistant to the Governor, will speak , on the shivping situation, and pupils irom Dorothy Roff’s dancing school will entertain the members. Domestic Affairs 1.—Mr. Truman said the investi- gation of alleged vote frauds in | Kansas City, Mo., should be carried through to its logical conclusion. He said no gne can condone vote frauds, adding this is the gravest crime in a democracy. 2—He said Charles R Savage, Dcmocratic candidate for Congress in next Saturday's speclal election in the Third District of Washing- ton, was nominated by the Demo- cratic Party and will have the sup- port of the Democratic National Committee. 3.—The President refused to give any advance tip on what his action will be on the tax and labor bills el ——— STEAMER MOVEMENTS from Vancouver Princess Louise, | scheduled to arrive Saturday after- noon or evening. Northern Voyager scheduled to rail from Seattle June 6. Baranof scheduled to sail from i seattle June 6 calling at Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez and Sew- jard. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver June 7. Aleutian scheduled to sail from - | Seattle June 13. Square Sinnet scheduled to sail from Seattle June 13. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- |attle June 17 on Southeast Alaska route. R HERE FROM SEATTLE Seattle folk registering as guests of the Baranof Hotel yesterday were Dan Noonan, salesman, G. Lee Lewis, Edward M. Seidenverg and W. F. Janes. John R. Davis from Tacoma is also at the Baranof,