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

SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PSRRI SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition —_— VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,606 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS — ) "MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 50 BELIEVED KILLED IN PLANE CRASH No Settlement Made Yet SHIPOWNERS WALKOUT IS CONFIDENT, ' FORECAST BY (10 IS NOT PHILMURRAY SAN FRANCISCO, June 14.—(®— Confident of a Iast-minute settle- ment, shipowners’ negotiators went into contract talks with three Pa- cific coast unions today but the west coast CIO maritime committee spoke dolefully of another shipping | tieup upon expiration of contracts Sunday night. f A shipowner esman said (w0 of the five mi Pacific coast un- ions, the International Longshor men's und Warehousemen’s Union and the Marine Engineers, already had been signed and “we confident- | Iy hope to sign up the others before | the deadline.” The agreements call for a year’s extension oi contracts without wage changes. He said talks were on tap tods with the American Communications Association (radio officers), the Ships' Cooks and the Marine Fire- men, “with all of which we have made good progress in the past.” The firemen have taken a vote on extension of their contract but liave not announced the result. The west coast CIO maritime un- ion, embracing all five of the un- jons, told the public in full-page newspaper advertisements, however, that “unless the shipowners change their minds today or tomorrow. there will be no work in the m: time industry.” f & | NEW YORK, June 14 | the National i Harry - Bridges of | International Deadline 1dDTacide Fate of:! Coastwise Shipping + ing o Avoid Coast-to- Is Sunday Night ‘ Coast Tieup M—A U S. conciliator stepped into the na- tion’s shipping industry dispute to- ay with the hope of avoiding a coast-to-coast tieup which CIO President Philip Murray said “in all likelihood” would occur with a threatened walkout of five CIO maritime unions when their con- tracts expire Sunday midnight Murray promising the unions which represent 200,000 maritime workers the “support of the CIO,” forecast the walkout in Washing- ton last night. His statement toliowed a confer- ence with oificlals of the five un- ions, including Joseph Curran of Maritime Union and the West Coast Longshoreman’s and Warehouseinen's Union Conciliator Willilam Margolis was named to the case after Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach appealed to the uniens and the shipowners to continue under their present tracts until conciliation proceedings had been given an opportunity to settle the disagreement A maritime work stoppage would damage the American merchant marine seriously and “embarrass” the United States in carrying out foreign commitments, chwellen- bach told the disputan: con- 'WARNING GIVEN TO ~ WORKMEN Council Sends State- ment fo States KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 14.— p—The Ketchikan Central Labor Council (AFL) is sending to all ritime Unions ! ; U S Conci-liaibr Attempt- | Ketchikan Central Labor! | i | | | | Central Labor Councils and Building Trades Councils of the Western tates letters to discourage the un- employed from coming North unless they have jobs and have been as- sured living quarters. be a lot of advertising and publicity on numerous jobs in Alaska. Thi is more than serious since there are no jobs available.” Workers for all the trades have been arriving by plane, steamship and over the Alecan Highway, the' Council said. Missinfioi Is Found by Search Party MEDFORD, ore., June 14. Little Dorothy Sharp, three and a | half-year-old daughter of a Medford rancher, is none the worst today for ding a night huddled under a » -,of widespr “In less than 24 hours the ships will be dead, their steam down, their winches silent.” All five unions in the committee have pledged that none will report to work Monday unless all have signed contracts by that time. The prime rub appeared to hinge | on the marine cooks’ negotiations. IS RES(UED AI SEA The employers have ofiered to ex- { tend their contract one year, but the cooks want an immediate wage | FROM RUBBER RAFI FAIRBANKS Bov | - SCOUT GOING T0 | he had drifted six miles out to sea | s review. Late yesterday the cooks ! voted 10-1 to adopt a policy of “no | contract, no work.” I late yesterday. | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June The youth, James Edward, Jr., had | (P Fourteen-year-old Richard been located from the air before he | Woodward, who has never been out was taken aboard a Coast Guard of Alaska, had his name drawn . . Berlin Post Office . s Clogged with Giffs ' cutter. ‘from a hat yesterday to assure him A companion, Joseph Aiu, hadja trip to the Boy Scouts’ Interna- BERLIN—(®—A district postof- fice here had to move its letter and |been rescued earlier from a reef 'tional Peace Jamboree in Paris. package reception windows to an- Where he had taken refuge after He wil represent the Midnight other Luilding, because the post—!the raft had overturned in the|Sun District of the Boy Scouts, office itself was clogged with giftibreakers. Young Moore stayed with leaving Juy 8 for the University packages from abroad to Germans. | the raft and was carried to sea. 1of Montana where Pacific North- ——————— - I —— west Scouts will be schooled for the ; ‘ S ; }trip. e The WashingtonSaloon Keepers COAST GUARD WILL Merry-Go-Round| In Buffe fo Soon Y | Be EDUCE DISTR by vuew reawsow | Be Exclusive One WRUC S lSI{ Ry and!Usually informed sources report ithat the Coast Guard plans to re- |duce the number of its districts {from 17 fo 14 after this month They said plans call for con- Murray charged that the ship- rs had shown an “unwilling- ss” to bargain with union nego- tiators pending President Truman's| action on the Taft-Hartley labor bill, bush in the hilly Coleman Creek district, with only leaves for a cov- ering She was found yesterday by a i search party organized the previous |afternoon when the child failed to eturn from a jaunt to pick flowers and wild strawberries. -ee - HONOLULU, June 14.—(®—The 2 "15-year-old son of Brig. Gen. James 1 Edward Moore was rescued un- | harmed from a rubber raft on which | WASHINGTON —— Unfortunately| BUTTE, Mont.—(®—Butte more and more Congressmen these |its suburbs have 194 liquor selling days are concerned about getting establishments but a recently pass- re-elected, rather than public ser- ed Montana law’ sets 40 as the vice. One who takes a refreshing- |maximum number for the area. Hlidating (bhe TPourth District, st ly opposite position is young GOP| This doesn’t mean that any M'Philadelpma el Brted t yne Morse of Oregon|the present places need close but| i;‘:,a f;qw‘:'eek made ons of ihe L | York; ‘the Eleventh at Long Beach, no new licenses may be issued un-| O e . most statesmanlike speeches heard |til 155 places have shut down. |Cali with the Twelfth at San in the Senate in many months. | One man is reported to have | Francisco, and the Seventeenth at Even Morse’'s conservative foes! spent between $15,000 and $20,000 Ketchikan, Alaska, with the Thir- admitted it. in construction and equipment for | teenth at Seattle. ; The Oregonian’s topic was “vot-!a tavern he can't open. No official confirmation could be ing by conviction.” Explaining his! b . g rmE obtained immediately. vote against the Taft-Hartley labor The reason given for the planned bill, Morse said that it was not SOAP Box DERBY Bovs changes is the prospective reduc- contemplated by the founding fath- T0 MEET MONDAY EVE | appropriations. Until the appro- der the representative system, T EARTHQUAKES | SEATTLE, June 14—P—A severe| learthquake starting at 12:37 pam.| 0 rday and extending over a! ]wu-hum- period was recorded on | ythe University of Washington s2 mograph,~Howard A. Coombs, seis- mologist, reported. He estimated' ivhe distance at 6,500 miles, prob- |ub1y in a Southwest direction. | ! MANILA, June 1a—(P Reports i damage from a ser-. ties of earthquakes which shook ‘the East-central Philippines reach- xed Tacloban today from Northern and Eastern Leyte Province A new shock was felt in Tac- Joban today, but it was not intense.! i - - ' ON "COMMON (OLD" CASE IS REVERSED Ruling that a common cold, and its consequences, constityte an em- ! ployment ard only under special | | circumstances, U. S .District Judge George W. Folta yesterday revers- ied an earlier decision of the Al {Industrial Board which had p ously awarded $603.11 as workmen jcompensation to Steve Chutuk from {Libby, McNeill and Libby. | Judge Folta stated, in his opin- 'jon, that the fact that Chutuk had spent 30 minutes in a refrigerated room on overtime hours was not sufficient to warrant compensation Ibeing paid for an injury suffered :Irum exposure. | The AIB bhad earlier declared that complications from a cold, suf- fered by Chutuk, was sufficient ba- sis for his claim and awarded him {$603.11 plus interest, attorneys fees, ihospital expenses and medical fees ‘Lib y, McNeill and Libby, through its attorney, R. E. Robertson, ap- pealed the case to U. 8. District Court where Judge Folta reversed lthe Board's decision. = The Board was represented by Territorial At {torney Ralph Rivers and Chutuk {by William L. Paul, Jr. : 2 in s sy {GIRL VANISHES; .+ SEARCH STARTS | | BROOKINGS, Ore., June 14- | —Seventy-five men tramped throt a brushy wilderness along the north fork of southwest Oregon's Chetco River today in search of a 16-year- old Darlene Hogan, who vanished ! from her ranch home 12 miles north of here Thursday. Bob Hogan, her blind, goat i JET-POWERED ‘BANSHEE’ — 7The Navy's newest fivtéer plane, the Banshee, ! shown on a test flight, is powered by two jet engines, Top speed is ove TRUMANIS - AIRLINER STILLMUM HITS TOP, ON 2 BILLS. MOUNTAIN \Gives No InkTirig What He! Splatiered Wr;tkage Lo- cated-Searching Parties . Will Do Regarding Tax Measure, or on Labor Struggle to Scene WASHINGTON, June 14. — (P— | LEESBURG, Va. June 14. (P | President Truman, back from his | The splattered wreckage of a Capital |good will trip to Canada, kept mum y Ajrlines plane, missing since last ‘today on whether he will slap the | night, was located on a mountain | widely predicted veto on a bill to|top northwest of here today and icut income taxes $4,000,000,000 a|there appeared no hope any of the year. g 50 persons aboard had survived ~ He gave no inkling either of his| James Franklin, Maintenance Di- {intentions toward the less immedi- i rector for the airlines, sighted the {ate problem of the Taft-Hartley|wreckage from a small search plane. {labor bill, on which he is known o w1y jooks as though it exploded and ‘have recived conflicting advice | was torn all to pieces,” he scid. The from his counselors. wings are imbedded in the moun- Republican leaders in the House tain. |were so confident Mr. Tri Vi $ ihmien, ¥4 As for survivors, t¥ranklin said, 600 miles per hour, | reject the tax measure—he has f L ___lunttt Monday hight to sct—that) T _dont see how there could be. they went ahead with plans for a | Rescue parties were making their up A |vote Tuesday on a motion to over-; %ay through the brushy, rugged A BRI"GS 24 F R ride. This would be followed by a | OURtIY to the scene but it was ex- |similar attempt a few days later | pected to be hours before they cauld JUNEAU IRA“SFERSm the Senate, where chances for |T€A¢h -there and return. ’ |success are considered poor. The ship, flying from Chicago to | As for his decision of the labor }WAshington on & murky, rainswept 105 To p"A plA“B bill, which he must approve, reject | CUrse, went silent late yesterday | or permit t» become law without yipSfter Thaking & Foutine FAGICE SR | Pan American arnved irom se“.‘lslgnuture by Friday midnight, most | . tle yesterday, picking one Passenger'mem:e:;’;:); Cougtess Hrofessed to beiw o "“Night Seavch | up from Annette Island on the wny.“ When Lhe‘ President's special train * As the hours passed without furth- ! ought elev s s : ; . b Nortn " on e way 1o |rrived from Ottawa. last night he £ SFL RO 9 T Nl SO0 Beatile, Ldropped. . thiee passengaty, ¥ oL dhly tellTepariera: “1TE let you | o oo ehout tmqg area on the Vir- loff at Ketchikan. Following are the ' KIOW MY answer on the tax bill some ; o\, _west Virginia border | passengers and their destinations. | mic between now and Monday.” | A gochreak as these parties still |™ Juneau to Seattle—N, J. Bavard, BOth the House and Senate are. ... ..q'tne hills, Pranklin took off |Emily Mullen, Cliff Richmond, Ja- |20 @ Weekend recess. His reply i}y " 5yope “biane from Wineh oA o505 A . Itaken to mean Mr. Truman would | \* # lght plane from nohiwser, cinto Arizu, Maria Arizu, Dr. C. E. : | Va., and found the airliner by fol- [ Albrecht, Wendell Schneider, Della | chd, fis message to Capltol Hill i lowing its normal course. 1 cange with a station at Martinsburg, 'DECISION OF AIB { Warren, Mildred Hunt. | W. S. Wright, William Read !Kenneth Abodeely, A. Dermott O'- ! Toole. | Juneau to Ketchikan — Kenneth | Grimes, Earl Franklin, Jules Wine- ‘Monday. i kerg. { | Annette mussen. to From the North—B. D. Stewart, Margaret Kerchner, Agnes Hora |Eleanor Bangs, Ethel Sumner, Lo- well Sumner, James Hartman, Der- B w LOFTY_Pat Cannon really reaches for tomatoes in the garden of Bill Whitman of Miami Beach, Fla. Plants at- tained a héight of 14 fcet and were stiil going strong. to Juneau—Donald Ap- land, Mrs, Hunter, Milton Hunter, j."nmucl Bringhurst, Mrs. * Bring- hurst, Katherine Fitch, Jack Brooks “!'Vern Lee, H. M. Sampson, Steve attle Juneau—I. - A¢ B |is “no sound reason” why Mr. Tru- ! As the Chief Executive returned ' to the capital, the big debate over | the controversial bills had reached the bolling point. Chairman Taft (Ohio) of the Senate Republican Policy Commit- tee took to the air to declare there man should veto the tax bill. ARG (O S P FLAG DAY PROGRAM WILL BE GIVEN BY ELKS AT 8 TONIGHT | The big ship was a four-engine :plane of the type known to com- i mercial fliers as a DC-4. Like two ! other planes which crashed with heavy loss of 'life in the last 17 |dayx, it was a former Army plane—a , military C-54 converted to civilian use. Other Crashes Forty-two persons died May 29 in i the fiery crack-up of a similar plane jtaking off from La Guardia Field, iN. Y. The next day another plane {of the same type crashed near Port :Deposn. Maryland, killing 53. . i Investigations of both those crash- ies still are underway. Some indi- cations developed that a structural failure in the tail assembly caused ‘the Port Deposit disaster and the 2 MISSING PILOTS FOUND, COOK INLET; BOTH BALED OUT ANCHORAGE, Alask pilots of Army missing over 24 hours on a pr: tice flight from Elmendorf Field, were found alife yesterday by a float plane of the Tenth Air Force Rescue Squadren on the Northwest side of Knik Arm at the head of Cook Inlet. Both had suffered minor injuries when they bailed . out of their planes, an Alaska Air Command announcement said. No reason for their leaps was given nor were the names of the pilots released. —_— .- HEAVY FINE James Duncan, of Metlakatla, was fined $300 and sentenced to six months in jail yesterday by the U. S. Commissioner at Ketchikan. A ing to a telegram received to- The Elks will observe Flag Day, Army and Navy ordered their C-54's Franch, Leo Dietrich and Joe Mc- {onight at 8 o'clock in the Elks | temporarily grounding pending in- Fadden. |Hall to which the public is asked:SPection of this assmebly. ol Dassenges wefe Wans(erretito sttend. <This s an annusl.and| | Aboast' the Capital Alrlines shin ? an planes toiimportant event of Elkdom. Carliwere 47 passengers — one a 10- the Pacific Northern Airlines Hardin is Chairman of the Pro- A ‘c{ ot A e planes, who will fly them to Nak-|gram Committee. | enta-Rls IS, . DI, nek, the headquarters for the fish- ! three, pilot, co-pilot and hostess. ing flest in Bristol Bay. | The Juneau City Band will start{ Among the passengers was Dr. 4 RS the program with the Star Spangled ' Courtney Smith, for the past two Banner selection, Exalted Ruler|years Medical Director of the Am- | Victor Power and officers will give|erican Red Cross. He was return- !the introductory exercises, prayer!ing to his home in Washington from | Charles Dornberg, 34-year-old lab- | will be said by the Chaplain and the Red Cross National Convention orer, was fined $25 yesterday by City : the history of the flag will be giv-'in Cieveland. Magistrote William A. Holzhiemer. en by E. C. Reynolds, PER. | 2 He was arrested for being drunk. The band will then play a selec- VICTIM FROM JUNEAU William Fawcett, 23-year-old con- | tion, following which will be nlmr} SEATLE, June 14—(#—-Two Se- struction company employee, for-|service by the Esquire and offi-|attle persons were listed by Capital feited $25 bail this morning after [cers, an address by M. E. Monagle, | Airlines as among 50 passengers his arrest last night for being drunk. | PER, then closing with America,iaboflrd a four-engine transport that - - - |played by the band and sung by crashed last night on a flight from ONE FISH BOAT IN {the audience. | Chicago to Washington, D. C. They | Incidental music during the pro-|Were: Robert K. Garretsan, 51, a ! The Northern Queen was the only {gram will be by Hi Seaman. ibusm s broker, and a passenger for iboat that ynloaded fish today at - 2 e b NGO whom only the surname of Olery |the Juneau Cold Storage Dock, 8,- BARGE loAD or {was given. No one by the name of * RAIL EQUIPMENT | POLICE COURT NEWS 1200 pounds »f king salmon. Bkipper | Olery, however, is listed in the Seat- J C. A. Strand sold to Alaska Coastal tle telephone or city directories. A | Fisheries. | man named A. J. Olery left Juneau LA ia week ago by PAA airliner rretson said her husband Thursday by Northwest ->-oo— AT BARANOF day by U. S. Marshall William T.; Mahoney, Duncan was charged with being drunk and disorderly. i -~ lin town and are guests at the Bar- GOVERNOR HOMEBOUND - {anof Hotel during their stay in the Alaska’s Governor left Seattle on ' Capital City. the 8 a. m. Pan American Airways | - Mrs. M. Loy, Mrs. Helen - — ALASKANS HERE Fenn | 'and Harold Lee of Petersburg are | TIED UP, CHANNEL The tugboat Justice Foss of the Foss Tug and Barge Co., of Seattle, arrived here yesterday enroute to Seward with a barge load of new locomotives and tanker cars for use ] Mrs. G | left Seattle !Airlines and had transferred to | Captial Airlines at Chicago, en- route to visit her son, Robert H. Garretson, at Bethesda, Md. | MAY BE ATTORNEY O'LEARY The staff of the Juneau office of D — o priation sum is finally determined man in the Senate of the Unitedf tion by Congress in Coast Guard ers of our government that, un-! AT LUTHERAN CHURCH plane teday returning northbound ! [ X Pan American have checked pas- the effect of the changes . cannot States should vote in accordance be figured precisely, these sources | rancher father, said the girl left with the dictates of a majority as determined by a Gallup poll.” Rather, continued Morse, repre- sentative government Senator to assume the “solemn obligation” of voting for legisla- tion “he believes to be in the pub An important meeting of the Soap {Box Derby Boys Club will be hnld[ requires al Monday night at 7:30 o'clock at the | {Lutheran Church, and all boys in | the club are requested to attend. Entry blanks will be accepeted at | this meeting, it was announced, but isaid. - DIVORCE DISMISSED The divorce case of Grover M. ,Little vs. Elizabeth Little has been ‘W. Folta in U. S. District Court at dismissed by Federal Judge George ' i rest, hough he knows ]tlISa(mt:_s &S)f' :};’:t“ ntmmegm a major»ithis is the very last opportunity to the request of H. L. Faulkner. at- 2 . get in, as none will be accepted after | torney for the plaintiff. Defense at- Monday night torney was M, E. Monagle, " {Continued on Page Four) | the ranch house at 7 a.m. Thursday i to shepherd goats to a mountain | meadow 500 yards distant. > HERE FOR SUMMER o Miss Winona Monroe, who has ibeen attending the University of Alaska, has arrived home to spend the summer with her mother, My Minnie Monroe, alter several weeks in Washington D. C. - - FROM PETERSBURG Rose Haube, K. Hatlem and Egil and Sven Winther, all of Petersburg, are registered at the Gastineau Hotel, on the Alaska Railroad. The tugboat was forced to stop in senger lists but found no name of Juneau for repairs after bending a ; Clery but did find that James propellor, Wednesday, when she hit !_O'Lcury. who has been staying at banks, Ken Armstrong of Dilling- |a rock in Wrangell Narrows. The re- | the Hotel Juneau, did check out on ham and Frances C. Harper of |pairs will be made at the Juueau.a PAA plane Thursday and had an- ! Japonski Island. Subport drydock. Inounced he was going direct to | - e Persons traveling along the high- | Washington, D. C. O'Leary is well Three Alaskans came in yesterday | and are registered at the Barano | Hotel. They are Don Alder of Fair. Yot ipyem, Some species of penguin live as is derived from far north as the tropical Gala- [ pagos Islands. The name Arctic the Greek word for bear way got a glimpse of the rail out- fit and wondered if Juneau was to have a railroad system, | known here, having been disqualified during the Meek trial. Later he | went to the interior.