The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 10, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY AlL.: “ALL THE NEWS AEL THE TIME” SKA EMPIRE ————— VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,602 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1947 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PRESIDENT TRU Mount McKinley Tribune Celebrates 100th Anniversary Today ECHOES FROM | CereZercsccal. & s Chicage D PINNACLE ASCENDED, ATH TIME Expedition Reports Loss of | Valuable Equipment in 100-Mile Gale PORTLAND, Ore., June 10.—(P— A telegram from Alaska yesterday | told of the successful scaling of! 20,300-foot Mt. McKinley, North| America’s highest peak—the fourth | successful venture “in history. ! Mrs. Fred Hackett, Portland, said | she received the telegram from her son, Lt. Willlam D. Hackett, a, member of the Bradford Wflshbuml climbing party. She said the group scaled the last | pinnacle Saturday. Hackett repre- sented the Army Ground Forces on the expedition of the New England Museum of Natural History, led by Washburn. 1 Hackett reported valuable equi ment to be used for measuring cos- | mic radiation was lost when a 100- mile gale struck about the first of | June. The party at the time was, living in igloos on the mountain slopes. ' At St. Paul, Minn, Northwest; Airlines reported that it had re- | | i { ceived a radio. miessage-from the . o L ," i expedition asking it fo fly two crates of cosmic instruments to Al- . aska and that the plane would take off today for Ancherage. — e Louise Here Going South: The Princess Loulse arrived this morning at 8 o'clock from Skagway and sailed South at 9 o'clock a.m. with the following passengers.: E. W. Davis, Mrs. E. W. Davis and two children, Mrs. Helen Pet-. erson, Bob Peterson, Merril Peter- son, G. M. Fournier, Mrs. G. M Fournier, Mrs. E. 1. Blansett, M Helen Webster, Mrs. S. Fritchman Mary Pinkley, Miss Elsie Stebbin, Alex Kinneberg, Frank Lagace, Frank Lagace, Mrs. Dorothy Camp-; bell, Don Burrus, Mrs. Don Burrus,! Jean Burrus. S. Keyser, Miss Helen Johnson,| Miss Edna Stockton, John Kel]er- R. Mishkoff, J. Malmin, A. McIn- tosh, F. Seavington, A. B. Wright,' G. Bovich, H. Hendrickson. John Carter, Mrs. John Carter, Jr. CARMODYS RETURN Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carmody : and little daughter Patricia, re-! turned to Juneau via PAA plane yesterday, after spending the past. few weeks visiting in the states. e FROM WHITTIER Mr. and Mrs. Willis Graham from . Whittier, are registered at the Bar- anof Hotel. John Carter, ! i The Washingtoni Merry - Go- Round! By DREW PLARSON WASHING’I‘ONoPresment Tru- man got a barage of arguments to veto the labor bill the other day, but he made absolutely noj commitment. The barrage came) from three Democratic members oh the House Labor Committee—Re- presentatives John Lesinski o:‘ Michigan, Ray Madden of Indiana and Arthur Klein of New York— and the interesting clue they got ol auwars authica pnst ANN I\ SARY GREAT m NEWSPAPER aily Tribune ELECTION IN WASH. STATE | %4 PacEs " HOME Esllmaled VOLUME_CVI—N0. 1 TURDAY. JUNE 1o 007 TOUR_CPATSFAY_ O NORR THE TRIBIINE IS 100 YEA | Charge that Wallace Used " Savage Campaign as 7 AIR“NES E:fi.«‘.. \ TEGah | SorlofTria Balloon | ¢ wr AT ASKA (By The Associated Pres) | Echoes of the Washington Third | | District's special Congressional elec- | {#ion still were sounding today after | { the close race in which Republican lfl.usse‘l V. Meck of Hoquiam em,ed] ‘out former Rep. Charles Savage by | ! approximately 1300 ballots Satur- lday. Still to be counted are 1,700 | labsentee votes “It is my belief,” Mack said in a [statement from Hoquiam last night, i “that (Henry) Wallace entered the | 8avage caggaign with the sole pur- | pose of using Savaga's campaign as |& trial balloon to ascertain if the | | time was rive for launching a third Consolidation Given Ap- proval by CAB - No Monopoly (reated V\'ADHINOTON. June 0.—(P— The Civil Aercnautics Bnm'cl yes- terday authorized the consolidation of seven separate air carriers in| {9y, Wih, Willisce ot ita'head. southeast Alaska into a single op- President had said in Newark, N, J., {eration to be known as Northern| LINCOLN AND THE TRIBUNE: A GREAT AMERICAN 1ndex o the Contenniat HAHEMPMIIIWWUSINM Medills Mecting. with ‘Old Abe’ e g On June 10, 1847, The Cricago Tribune printed its first edition. only 400 copies, run off on a hand print- », ing press in a frontier town of 16,859 people. Chicago has a population of 3,505,000 and The Tribune | i has risen to a leading place in world journalism. It has the largest circulation of any standard sized 1,040,000 daily Last year it had the largest ad- | newspaper in the United States, 1,500,000 on Sunday. 851,982 lines. fprimed by the next largest Chicago newspaper. Tribune’s ngwspaper production plant is the largest i and most modern anywhere. Editor and Publisher of The Tribune is Col. Robert ER McCormick, grandson of Joseph Medill, BRISTOL BAY WILL FISH ON JUNE 23 iFishermen, Cannerymen Negotiate Agreement on Season’s Wages SEATTLE, June 10. — (#—In a coastwide vote, salmon fishermen accepted an employers’ wage offer ending a disbute which had threat- ened to delay the start of the fish- iing season in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska. Ratifjcation meetings weye held in was when the President remarked: ' Portland, San Francisco and Seattle “Well, I've always been a friend |by members of the Alaska Fisher- of labor and I still am a friend of | labor. That is a matter of record, before and during the time I was a member of the Senate, and since. However, labor hasn't always been | reasonable with me.” As an afterthought, the President | added: i “Labor will find after this ques-‘ (C ntinued on Page Four) men’s Union, a CIO affiliate. Oscar Anderson, Union Business ' Agent, who announced acceptance lof the agreement, said the offer would grant fishermen approximate- ly a 12 per cent increase in wages. He said the fishermen probably woud be flown té the fishing area, where the season starts June 23. The settlement cleared up the last of the major labor-management dis- U THE TRIBUNE IS BORN: HUMBLE START PROVIDES | A SPRINGBOARD 70 ITS WORLD PRE-EMINENCE 77 First Edition of 4] YSEPH ME ‘jm Only Chicago Pages Assembled | Barlier in the day the former Vice- ‘lhfll President Truman's foreign | Consolidated Airlines. ‘The Board’s decision was by a ' pour} had not been a campaign is- ' |sue. This, said Mack, was “absurd‘two to one vote, with two members | and an utter misstatement of facts.” | Bot participating. It sald President | A e American foreign policy was\’rruman approved the fiecision. nain and about the only issue| Clarence M. Young dissented, as- » sald the new Con- | S€rting that while the consolida- i tion ' “will probably promote the 'public interest,” the record did not ‘otone| Newspaper Ever 1o Reach 100 the ! 4 in the campaign,” ’('I‘[‘&:LAI’L Savage, speaking in Seattle, told {a rally sponsored by the “Defend Free Labor” committee that labor assets. ; !made “big gains” in the district, He raised the question of the ex- i despite his defeat. Savage lost by a !tent to which profits and losses of wider margin in his race last year the corporation must be considered ‘X\p(”“h[ the late Fred Norman. in fixing air mail pay, since only ! Savage denounced the Taft-Hart- one of the six small companies in- iley labor bill and suggested that volved holds a !labor urge President Truman to veto | authorizing the carrying of mail. {the measure. The meeting adopted| The Board's opinion said the a resolution to that effect, drafted combined cperation had assets to- {by former Rep. Hugh DeLacy. talling $510,000, with liabilities ag- S i o e DB Joseph Medill's Standard for Tribune Ideals et St % Fs At | “ar X b 'l oLy | founders of the Today, tion in America, Col, and The | freedom of the | putes which had threatened to tie up Alaska’s $60,000,000 salmon pack this year. Bristol Bay, rich i | salmon, has been called the “gold | mine” of the industry. Albin L. Peterson, Federal Con- | ciliator, who has aided the negotia- Lions, said only resident fishermen ‘and cannery workers in Southeast Alaska remain to make settlements with employers. however, does not open until next ,monm and he will go north if ‘needed Agreements had been reached ‘de lier in the Bristol Bay operations | with cannery workers, machinists, | carpenters and trap and tender men, } Later today, Peterson met with ‘ployex's in contract negotiations. >—-——— Two and One-half (Tons of Pofato Chips {Flown fo Fairbanks SEATTLE, June 10.—#—They didn’t say why Alaska needs so {many but the Northern Airlines re- vealed yesterday their cargo planes (had just delivered a full load, two |to Fairbanks. completely filled with the chips Pilot Russell Sehwartz and his co- pilot had to enter the cockpit through a small forward loading bateh, Y e ’LM—-.I& bl Lt Wl ot Bt S i Mo Pk o B e . T ] Vo f Ty | 0ok, bttt o LadhFTC v, b o Ko T I it o Soug i b _..‘-—-»-Hun-n-n-wu.—....u.umm—u editor and pubisher of The has been president of The 1911, and with his cousin, the ! helped to found the New York Daily News, a Tribune | affiliate which has the largest daily tabloid circula- nearly three million copies. i McCormick has been one of the principal vertising lincage of any newspaper in America, 32,- | leaders in defending freedom of the press in America This compares with 16,120,955 lines | and has served for many years as chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association, of the Associated Press, the world’s greatest cooperative | news service, which his grandfather, Joseph Medill, pmneex ihclped to found in 1864. P R 1 | gregating $190,000. | s | The corporation will issue 3,200 ‘NEw FIGhI shares of stock, of which Ray { Petersen Flying Service will receive 1,350 shares, Northern Airway; 11,000 shares; Northern Air Service, Soviet Warplanes Report- ed Backing Forces In- vading Sinkiang 500 shares; Walatka Air Service, !200 shares and Jim Dodson Air ‘The of- i ficial Central News Agency today Service, 150 shares. There are no other stockholders. Also involved in the consolida- tion are Gillam Air Lines and Bris- said government military sources | confirmed reports that outer Mon- | golian troops, supported by four So- iviet warplanes, invaded Sinkiang tol Bay Air Service. The Board said that the consoli- ! Provinee Thursday, % The agency said the Mongols had dation would not result in creating a monopoly because the merged | group must compete almost point WORK SIOPPAGES penetrated to a depth of more than opp oD 1200 miles and now were fighting | SI R uc"ou iClnué‘ae defense troops 200 'miles ERnEL ‘ SOFI COAI. M|“Es,nunhmt of Tihua. | WASHINGTON, June 10.—P— Tribune and one of the Party. Col. McCormick Tribune company .since } late Joseph M. Patterson, | Republican of the American committee NANKING, June 10.—(# He is a director |, " Sl eingy ress . P! Airlines and Pan American Airwa ———eo—— Four Are Confirmed all three of the larger Alaskan carriers, Pacific Northern, Alaska ly a similar report by semi-official |dent Truman's nomination of sources. | Dwight B. Griswold, former Ne-| IN MERGER ! support the stated valuation of the | route certificate N CANADA TODAY Scaled By Washburn Party Wrangell Farwest Cannery Destroyed by Fire with an | ST oed | (P—Fire of an undetermined urigm‘ broke out last night at 6:15 o'clock | Planned-To Make Ad- resuiting in almost total loss ol an! H cstimaea 150000 instatation, | . dressfo Parliament | tically all of the town's manpower| OTTAWA, June 10—(P—Presi- brought the fire under control after {dent Truman and his party arrived left of the cannery property was!'in a ll-car train to begin a three- the mess hall and bunkhouse. |day goodwill visit to Canada. This | port, moved from the mill dock to|States Presideft in the history of the scene of the fire and succeeded the two countries. 000 in trap equipment |and their daughter, Margaret, the The company was owned by Fred President arrived aboard the spec- A. R. Brueger. The sun broke through an over- Insurance COVC!’RR(’ is not known. Cfisl sky and a roar of SpOl“lnC' lly packed tnrong as Mr. Truman |stepped down from a red-plush (ernor-General, Viscount Harold { Alexander, Prime Minister Mac- | | & { q | | | EXECUTIVE'S $750,000 Loss | WRANGELL, Alaska, June 10. —‘Three.Day VGB—odwi" Visi' in the Wrangell Farwest Cannery Firemen with volunteers of prac-/ about one hour but all that w.,sfhcre at 11:30 o'clock this forenoon The steamer Grommet Reefer, in 15 the first such visit by a United in saving the dock and about $21,-| Accompanied by Mrs. Truman Buhrman, of Anacortes, Wash., und ial train from Washington. jous greeting went up from a close- M ESS I N |carpet to be welcomed by the Gov- 1kcnzlc King and other State Digni- 'mnhht the Trumans. will ge to the Government House for a State Dinner in the President's honor. The big event on Mr, m {tour will be his speech before the Clnudlan Parli tomorrow. - [ Mr. Truman was céneenmflu lonthat speech today—concentrat- New Moves Fouew COm',mg on an appeal to the nafions of 2 4 ] {the Western Hemisphere to live to- i munlsfS Sellllre Of :gelher in peace and harmony, He A !struck the same keynote in his Powel’ in Hu“gary Mexico City address, and he may P — ldevelop the theme further this year ( By The Associated Press) {on a planned visit to South Ameri§ Yugoslavia disclosed today that a ca. Bulgarian Military Mission was in Belgrade, broadening the scope of Balkan conferences which have de- Govmm M | veloped since the Communists seized | power in Hungary. H 'S (oMI"G wB' A Czechoslovak Military Mission | also was to arrive tomorrow in Pre- | | mier Marshal Tito's capital, already ALBANY, N. Y., June 10—MP— | host to a Rumanian delegation Governor Thomas Dewey is making headed by Communist Premier Petru a tour of the West next month, Groza. 'but, he says, he won't make any | The Bulgarians, Yugoslav infor- great effort to mend his political | mation authorities said, actually. ar- |fences. Dewey has been mentioned rived Saturday. The delay in the 'as a possible Republican candidate announcement was not explained. 'for President next year, and some { The-Czechoslovak mission ostensibly | otservers had held the view that ! was to make a 10-day tour of Yugo- he would use his Western trip to slavia. line up support among state GOP Groza waved .aside suggestions, in | leaders. a news conference last night that ' Dewey said today, however, that 'a Balkan federation, such as has he has no definite plans beyond been suggested by Tito, was in tHe attending the annual Governors’ making. | conference at Salt Lake City and But he said that the cultural and | visiting relatives and friends. The 5. economic cooperation between his Governor said he will not accept country and Yugoslavia eventually speaking engagements, and that he | would lead to, complete political co- ‘hfla no plans for conferring with ‘operation. party leaders With the Bulgarian mission was STOCK QUOTATIONS Lt. Gen. Zaharje Zahaijev, who, a Yugeslav announcement said, was | in Belgrade “for the Soviet Union.”| NEW YORK, June 10.—Closing The announcement gave no indica- | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ;tion of the purpose of the visit. | stock today is 4%, American Can | Hungary’s Parliament was sum- 91%, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss-Wright [moned into session as rumors per-|4'%, International Harvester 81, sisted that anti-Communist mem-!Kennecott 43's, New York Central | bers would denounce Premier Ferenc | 13%, Northern Pacific 16'x, U. 8 The season there, | to point with at least one if not The official report followed close- | The Senate confirmed ,today Presi- UNIONTOWN, Pa., June 10—F— miners protesting labor leglslatlon' before Congress spread to 22 mines Work stoppages among soft coal Nagly. Dispatches’ from Budapest sug- igested that the new Communist- Central News Agency reported in |braska Governor. as chief of the! la dispatch from Tihua that “bitter | Greek aid program. (fighting” was continuing between, Tt also confirmed, without oppo- native Sinkiang troops and the in- | sition, these other nominations: mdmg forces from the SOVle!v‘ ing its purge against dissident ele- dominated government was widen- | | Steel 654, Pound 84.02%. Bales today were 650,000 shares. Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follows: industrials 17111, rails | 43.42, utilities 33.50. Richard F Allen, Vice-President :sponsored Mongolian Republic. ;cf the American Red Cross, to be The dispatch, the agency said, ré- | field director of foreign relief pro- ported that warplanes acompanying employing 14,800 men today as: AFL-United Mine Workers officials | ments. ‘The Communist Jiewspaper | Szabadsag said the resistance cer-| Stocks made an irregular advance ‘tmcntez of nearly 200 persons, in- in a quiet session today. Industrial | Alaska herring fishermen and em- | pondered their strategy in the idle- ness they termed “unamthorized.” The stoppages were scattered | through the three counties that | comprise the heart of an extremely Irich southwestern Pennsylvania bi- | tuminous- section — Fayatte, Gree: ause of the great distances involved | and Washingtont nd the lack of readily available | | forces it was unlikely the govern- | Two mines voted to resume work | after being idle over the weekend.,fense forces to Sinkiang. the Monogolian cavalry and other | troops into Sinkiang strafed Chinese trcop concentrations and bombed and strafed civilians and towns in the invation's path. Military observers said that be- ment would dispatch adequate de- | grams. ;cludmg Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, | Norman Armour of New Jersey,|Roman Catholic Primate of Hun- | 'csreer diplomat, to be Assistant | ,gary, would be reviewed. The cer- | Secretary of State succeeding Spru- | tificates indicate the holders oppos- _‘“9 Braden. led the Germans during the war. ! Emmett O'Neal, former Kentucky | —— | Congressman, to succeed Paul V.| |McNutt as American Ambassador |to the Phulpplnes The Gastineau Hotel has regis- BEAUTY AID of Sitka; Elmer C. Daalman, L. E. Robinson, R. L. Mead, Parker Ne- REGISTERED AT GASTINEAU | ltered six guests including Lee Steers | gus and John Easley of Anchoruge,i and utility issues registered small |gains in their averages while rails Jsngged a trifle. Automobile, steel, oil, and copper shares firmed. Mer- | cantiles, tires and amusements were mixed. . Sugar shares were aided moder- !ately by approval of a bill to end rationing for household use of su- |gar. Pepsi-Cola lost a trifle while {Coca Cola gained nearly 2. New highs were dttained by jand one half tons, of potato chlpn‘ The cargo compartment was so| H. C. Frick Coke Co., employing 400, and the Kyle Mine of the same company employing 600. They ac- ffi)‘:’“'u'm; A C‘:z‘:j“e" daily produc-| pEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y. June installing an exhibit ata grocers’ \ 10.—®—Susie, a raccoon, is an out- ; convention, advocated use of his Among the closed mines was the cast from the Trailside Museums |product as one of the surest ways | world’s largest, the famed Robena where she was an attraction for two | for a woman to reduce her hips and | Mine of the Frick Company which years . waistline employs 1,800 miners and has a' She was freed yesterday in aI “It is a double morale builrer,” he normal daily production of 10,000 swamp eight miles away after mu- ' added. “She gets the twin satisfac- tons. Some of the other larger pits | seum attendants discovered she had | tion of cleanliness for her house and affected range from 2,000 to 7,000 slipped into a snake pit and had |streamlining her figure.” tons in output, killed nine blacksnakes. Beckler's line is brooms, | DALLAS, Tex., June 10.—(®-M. E. Beckler of Deshler, Neb.,, here | They were the Gates Mine of the| ——-—oe—— | SUSIE EXILED | jall employed by the CAA. [Standard Oll (N.J.), Texas Paciflc | { ANCHC E |Land Trust, and Gulf Oil. DuPont The following guests arrived from | T8 UP to’a net gain of more than Anchorage yesterday and are re- \“ point. Chrysler sold at 100% up | gistered at the Baranof Hotel. Jerry | R. Young, Edwatd L. Griffin and Philip H. Stern. el GRACE SCHMID HERE Grace K. Schmid from Laramie, Wyoming, is registered as a guest at the Baranof Hotel, w Garnick, George C. Roberts. Ted | “s net and up 2 from the day’s low. Mail order shares turned strong under the lead of Sears Roebuck. ——r Pt ’I'WO ELDERS HERE Elder Mervyn S. Bennion and 1Elder Keith E. Sohn of Portland, |Ore., are registered as guests at the Hotel Juneau,