The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 16, 1947, Page 1

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LXVIL, NO. 10,607 ; MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS ————————y TRUMAN VETOES TAX R West Coast Shipping Shut m Ripe’ning fruil DEADLINE | EXTENDED 24 HOURS One Seagoing Union Re-: mains fo Sign Up-Ne- gotiations Progress | SAN FRANCISCO, June 16.—(#— The Pacific coast waterfront con- tinued to work today in spite of the | east coast maritime walkout, but the threat of an impending west coast shutdown developed from re- 1 | Blasts Rain fre - fusal of at least one seagoing union | i to sign sailing articles. i Under a “no contract no work” ! ultimatum, CIO cooks and stewards ' remained aboard vessels in Pacific ' coast ports but refused to sign on | for further work until an agreement | is reached with Pacific shipowner: Negotiations, however, were in pro- gress on a 24-hour extension. | The effect of this strategy, if con- ' tinued, would be to tie up all or a major portion of west coast ship- TiyIng 4t tree-top level, an Army icopter was pressed inta service in an effert to save the Santa Clara County, Calif,, cherry crop fol- lowing an unseascnable rain. The downdraft from the rotor blades blasted the rain from the ripening fruit, keeping it from splitting. ping without a “strike” being called. | Ships would be prevented from sail- ing if cooks do not sign. MARSHALL - OUTLINES ~ NEWMOVE Works Out Approach fo! Twin Threats in Europe | ' —Russia May Block It | By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER i ® Diplomatic Reporter ! WASHINGTON, June 16.—P— | Secretary of Statc Marshall and his top advisers have now worked out an approach to what they consider the twin threats of chaos and Com- | munism in Europe. | Their program will either unite much of that continent by this’® year's end or divide it worse than ever before—depending on Russian ! reaction. i Diplomatic officials say that if} Russia holds to her refusal to co- ! operate it almost certainly will force | the organization of western Europe alone into a sort of economic fed- eration. That would mean R Aa! and her eastern bloc of states would be cut off from any substantial; | American help. | DUCTION BILL own Unsetfie—c—l PRESIDEN SAYS BILL IS UNSAFE \Wrong Kind_;f Reduction | atWrong Time-No Re- lief Where Needed CAUSTIC REMARKS ON " VETOBY REP. KNUTSON |Is Cold-Blooded Politician -No Chance of Con- gressional Knockout WASHINGTON, June 16.—(®— President Truman vetoed today the $4,000,000,000 tax reduction bill, vir- jtually killing any possibility of a icut in income taxes this year. | The Republican-dominated Con- gress will vote on whether to pass [4 ENERATIONS OF BEARDS — Three generations of the Bensley family—Loau, Loren and Jack—sport luxurious beards grown for the Traverse City, Mich., centennial celebration. {the bill over the veto, but backers ol the legislation conceded they saw | no chance for success. Meanwhile negotiations were re- sumed between the shipowners and | the only two remaining unions which have not come to an agre ment for a year’s extension of their contracts. ‘ These are the CIO Cooks and Ra- ! diomen of the American Communi- ' cations Association. i Midnight Conference i Terms for the contract extension were reached in a post-midnight conference last night between the | Waterfront Employers of the Pa- cific and the CIO clerks, checkers and supercargogs Previous contract extension agreements were reached by Harry Bridges’ CIO longshore- men, the CIO Marine Engineers Beneiicial Association, and the un- | affiliated Marine Firemen. I In the meantime, the deadline for expiration pf maritime contracts passed with no ncticeable eifect on (Continued on Page Two) o P il The Washington! Merry - Go-Round, By DREW PlARSON WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marshall and his top aides have just concluded some signifi- cant secret meetings with represen- tatives of private organizations ina position to mold public opinion. | Purpose of the hush-hush three-day session was to sell the “Truman Doctrine” and defend the White House against Henry Wallace's crit- icism. ‘ Most of the State Departmem's| top officials were bitterly anti-Tru- i man—with the exception of Gener- | al Marshall and U.N. delegates | ‘Warren Austin. The others, includ- | i showed there was Paul. Mariani, spckesman for 50 crchardists, said the effort apparently saved the 250,000 crop. (AP Photo) PRAVAD - OPPOSES PROJECT Indicates Russia Nof Parti- cipate in Plan Made by Marshall MOSCOW, June of Statc Marshall's pro- posal for coordinated plans tospur European recovery. Foreign politi- cal observers said the commentary that the Soviet Union would parti- cipate in such a2 project. The Communist Party newspaper | said Marshall’s aid-for-Europe pro- posals,” despite their seemingly novelty,” merely extended the Tru- man doctrine, which it called an at- talks tomorrow on the U. S. pro- | % e “exert political pressure posals for,European reconstruction. | against them. tempt to with the aid of dollars—a program of interference in the affairs of other states.’ . A. J. Case Up Again ‘WASHINGTON, June 26. — (A — 16— —Pravda | .commented disparagingly today on | Secretary little likelihood | BRITISH ~ WILL AID U.S.PLAN Foreign Office Will Consult Russia Direct on Mar- shall’s Proposal LONDON, June 16.—(®—-A For- eign Office spokesman said today that Britain soon would consult di- rectly with Russia concerning U. S. Secretary of State George C. Mar- shall’s aid-Europe plan. He said initial contact weuld take ‘place through regular diplomatic channels. He added that he knew of no plan | for Foreign, Secretary Ernest Bevin (to go personally to Moscow in the | same way as he is going to Paris for France already has asked Russia for her views on how Europe should ’respond to the American suggestion. U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caf- fery conferred in Paris today with Premier Paul Ramadier for what |was described as a general survey ! of political and economic conditions in France. Embassay sources said | some discussion of the Marshall ' plan naturallv would be included in :mgh signing of the formal ratifica- | meeting. such a No Settlement Is- | “Open Door” Policy 1 Marshall is reported to hope this will not happen, that Russia will 'go along or at least permit some of the dominated countries to go |alopg with the American proposal for some kind of economic federa- ition -of Europe. His policy appar- ently is one of an “open door” to Russian coperation; if the door is {to be closed, Russia will have to close it. | However, the probability that she {will do so is considered here to be very great. Undersecretary of 'State |Dean Acheson said as much in a speech at Middletown, Conn., last ,night. He told a Wesleyan Univer- | sity commencement audience: | “The minority Communist regimes | (of eastern Europe) have acted to lcut the people off economically from the community of Europe, curtail their productivity, and to bind them to exclusive economic re- lations with the Soviet Union.” 3 Regimes Denounced While President Truman did not | comment directly on the problems !involved, he also took the occasion over the weekend to denounce three !of the regimes in eastern Europe, !those of Hungary, Rumania and | Bulgaria. He said they “not only ‘have disregarded the will of the i majority of .the people but have | resorted to measures of oppression { At the same time Mr. Truman ! praised the efforts of the Italians {who, he said, “are rebuilding with iand restoring their lost freedom.” ¢He promised continued American reliel to Italy. The occasion for his comments, | making a sharp distinction between leastern and western countries, wa: !tion of.the peace treaties with the | four countries. ————— their own labors a new democracy ' NO BARRING OF WALLACE FOR SPEECH ‘Judge Permits Him fo | Speak Tonight, Govern- ment-Owned Place WASHINGTON, June 16.—(®— Federal Justice James M. Proctor refused today to bar Henry A. Wal- lace from speaking at the goVern- ment-owned Watergate Amphithe- ater here today. | The judge rejccted a vetition from the Anti-Communist Associa- tion, headed by Rep. O'Konski (R- Wis), that he ordered Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug to deny Wallace use of the Watergate. Krug's department has jurisdic- tion over the Watergate, an outdoor theater in park lands near the Lincoln Memoria. ( “These matters ac rot fall wiih- in the judicial realm,” Justice Proc- tor commented in dismissing the petition. * O'’Konski left the court building with a declaration to reporters that he would take the matter up in Congress. { “I am gcing <o tell the member- | ship of Congress that until our gov- rnment takes a truly anti-Com- munist stand here at home that {we in Congress should refuse to ap- }prop'rtnte any money to fight Com- | munism abroad,” he said. Wallace, who is crusading against |the Truman foreign policy, ex- 1 { INT. DEPARTMENT " MEASUREPASSED % < 5 | wasHINGTON, J ] 7‘D S ‘lh pl | The Senate passed n‘;:es:;t ba(ck to! rl m' " ane |the House today a $21530,000 In- | " g8 | terior Department appropriations bill | (rash v'd'm’ was . Known in Alaska I pected to discuss his views on peace and perhaps also clarify his posi- (tion in the 1948 presidential cam- ‘: paign. | It requires a two-thirds vote to lenact a law over the President's disapproval. | Leaders said that can be mustered |in the House, which will vote to- Barfleff Is 7 LOSE LIVES Opposedio OVER WEKEND ™ - e House Bill IN ONE STATE "bious ill-apportioned, and risky ben- efits at the expense of a sound tax !policy and is, from the standpoint Bunnell Joins Delegate in Explosion, Autos, Horses Profesting Dept. Ag- Result in Fafalities riculture Control in Washington {of government finances unsafe.”, The President declared it offers WASHINGTON, June 16. D — Rep. Bartlett (D.-Alaska) has op- “the wrong kind of tax reduction, at the wrong time.” He added: Proposals for tax reduction must be examined in the light of sound and carefully related fiscal and | economic policies. Unless they are consistent with the demands of | posed House action in transferring to the Secretary of Agriculture “all | authority over the agricultural re- | | search program” in Alaska. [ (By THE aASSOCIATED PRESS) such policies, they should not be Explosions, automobiles and hors- | gpproved.” es took seven lives over the week- end in the state of Washington. Jack Miller, a Waitsburg jockey, died at Pomeroy from injurles re- ceived when he was crushed be- part, caustic. neath his falling horse in a Satur-! Rep. Knutson (R-Minn), author day race. In Seattle, eight-year-old of the measure and Chairman of - William Harry Pierce, Jr., fell from the House Ways and Means Com- | his pony and struck his head, suf- mittee, issuéd a statement saying concerning this kind of research in | fering fatal injuries. |“the President’s suggesting that we |the United States.” | A jackhamuner drilling near Cou- | Wait for tax reduction until next | That method, Bartiett said, is one'!le City struck a hole charged with YeUt 1s nothing but cold blooded of coopeartion between ihe Federal ; dynamite Saturday and the result- | POlitics.” Knutsor's obvious refer- | Government and the land grant col- | ing explosions killed. Noble J. Rora- | €¢e Was to the fact that 1948 is a leges. naugh, 49, of Enid, Okla., and Eflc!l’rflldentlnl election year. Dr. Charles E. Bunneil, President | W. Johnson, 63, Spokane. Earl Orn-| He declared that by the veto the of the University of Alaska, said}dorf of Route 1, Bremerton, was President demonstrated “a sad lack that the provision “besides being |critically injured by the blasts. ~ |Of understanding of the needs of unconscionable, unwarranted andj The automobile death toll am-'OUr economy. unreasonable . . . is unconstitutional | ounted to three, Mrs. Ellen Draney,| Carroll Reece, Republican Na- and also is void for indefinite- |44 of San Francisco, was killed |tional Chairman, said in a state- ness.” . .. | when her car struck a tree near Ment that “Mr. Trumian has com- “The disastrous effects of a pre- | Dayton, in Columbia County. Ver- Mitted his administration to con- cedent such as is now proposed must | dell Williamson, 24, of Sedro-Wool- | !inued support of the tax and tax, be averted, and the University of:ley, suffered fatal injuries when ‘Pend and spend, and elect and Alaska avpeals to the Senate for |his car struck a pole at Birch Bay, ¢lect philosophy of the now discre- | appropriate action to sustain its near Bellingham Critically hurt|dited New Deal.” | protest.” !was his companion, Daniel Lorch, What Vste Did Bartlett said the provision inter-Jr., 22, of Spokane. | feres with the rights of Alaskans| Ernest E. Jones, 3, of Pasco,l s i il b | rlmegidud - g to self-government at a time when died in Yakima of injuries re- f.on, 105 to 30 to e [they are seeking statehood. {in a collision with a dairy truck. | : PRpenr 1u. individ- Reaction Immediate Reaction from the bill's backers was immediate, and, for the most , Such a provision in the agricvl- (tural appropriations bill fcr next year, he told a Senate Appropria- |tions Subccmmittee, “seeks to alter what has become the settled method “It would be a sorry fiasco if our | right of local government in Alaska | were retarded rather than advanc- ed,” he continued. Bartlett said the bill's proposed appropriation of an additional $100.- 000 for research in Alaska is “in- | sufficient bait” because “a principle |is at stake here and a highly im- { portant one.” ceived Saturday when his car was Young Gaylord Walker, 10, of North Bend, was critically hurt |when a gun in the hands of an old- er brother was discharged accident- ally in a Seattle motor court. Earl Navin, King County license director, was feared drowned. He had gone on a fishing trip and his beached hkoat was found Saturday near Eglon in Kitsap County. jual income taxes, beginning July 1 | He told the Congress members {the time for tax reduction “will | come when general inflationary . pressures have ceased and the strue- | ture of prices is on a more stable basis than now prevails.” | “A time ot high employment and | high prices, wages, and profits, such as the present calls for a surplus in government revenue over ex- penditures and the application of a strike which has kept Seattle’s| 116,000 more new appropriations | halibut fleet idle since May 1. | than voted by the House. But Sen- | Union members voted Sunday to|ator Wherry (R.-Neb.) said $41,000,- | grant the owners 21 percent of the!000 of this increase is required to |catch, a boost of one percent over |cover operations that the House mis- year. The Association refused takenly had believed could be fin- t representing a 27 Der cent cut under | | President Truman's estimates. | | The revised measure carries $54.- | ! Dr. Courtney Smith, who was | Medical Director of the American | Red Cross, and who was one of the SITKA MEN PLEAD | GUILTY, BURGLARY. ‘ victims of the Cabital Airlines plane ] v r Leesburg, Va. Friday | | CHENE pRr LeceIIg, Hollace McCammos and Nels S. | ing Undersecretary Dean Achewni derson, pleaded behind-closed-doors ; The Supreme Court today directed for a real “get-tough policy.” Those | the U. S. District Court in Alaska | e b to whom they talked included the |to consider the effect of the portal- | Rea(hed in Hallbu' Daughters of the American Revolu- to-portal act on pay claims by em- | . mittee, National Conference of |Mining Company. ; | Ile.up a' Sea"le Christians and Jews, and the The claims arose in a dispute over | League of Women Voters. a split-day plan for paying wages. | TR Secretary Marshall teed off the | The Subreme Court recently refused| SEATTLE, June 16.—(@®—One half N | Sea Fishermen’s Union and the ily told of his/| ka,'l[‘::hdi]};fcu[v(l_:rsmlsv:cast\{dying foreign | Dearing filed by the firm. Fishing Vessel Owners’ Association :r.'girs - | s S | today, preventing the settlement of learned the story,” Marshall said.lMI“E ASSESSME"‘ “something entirely new develops! and I feel lost again. Why, there's( so much to learn and so little zimel i i d reduced its on what had hap- | SENATE 'I'o HOUSE to accept saying it ha 33393" Z;earym:lhlle 1 was siltirplg| | demand from 23 to 21% percent in the barber's chair getting my | : m {and that was the minimum. ¥ ki as| WASHINGTON, June 17. — —! e R Be S nair cut. Now the barber knows as PSR i ing on.” assessment work for one year, un- . Acheson wasted little time on til July 1, 1948, was approved today Sam and Edith Greensberg of Rich- niceties. The retiring Undersecretary, by the Senate. 'mc.;:id'MH‘ :- Go;s;mfl; ;)fne HEI:Y- 4 ica's _! The bill as passed by the House Wood, Mrs. Anna Eckard of Tkeley declared flatly that America’s en. AL ARy, and Mis, ¥.G. Osspenter “C.” The United States, ine said, is' Only in Alaska. The Senate amend- 1 n‘;c worried *about COm,;umsm as €d it to include the entire country. | that arrived in Juneau over the |1t now goes back to the House for Weekend and are registered at the (Continued on Page Four) action on the amendment. , Baranot. and Near East Director, Loy Hen- | * tion, Baptist Public Affairs Com- | ployees of the Alaska Juneau Gold i ith a friendly talk in|to consider the company’s case. It of one percent separated the Deep mesing - wigh o 14 {acted today on a petition for re- “Every time I think I've really|{ _ BILL GOES BACK, = to learn it in that Dean Acheson t - | Legislation to suspend mining claim DusiAsanY g1l AROV. WEREH BD I . A. A. Herschler of San Francisco, ! - i called for suspension of the work #ig - QERIERIEn WK SR |of Laguna Beach are Californians o '" night, was wellknown in Juneau and anced out of the department’s car- | throughout Alaska ryover from previous years' appro- | pe was at one time Assistant Ter- | pri S. | Printione. ! ritorial Health Officer at Nome, two | ey £ I years after receiving his degree at } FROM WALLA WALLA Ithe University of Oregon Medical | Bob Hager of Tacoma and H.genogl His bovhood home was {Smith of Walla Walla, Wash,, arc, gyerett, Wash., where he was a high | Buests of the Baranof Hotel while gohoo) football star. Smith was a ip dunean, veteran of World War I. | ————— 4 R s ot FROM ABERDEEN FROM SITKA | Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Morkey of | Vivian Sweetser of Sitka arrived | Aberdeen, Wash,, are in Juneau and in Juneau over the weekend and is jare registered at the Baranof Hotel. a guest at the Hotel Juneau. Rowley waived Grand Jury indic ment this morning and entered a plea of guilty in U. 8. District Court: here to an infomation filed by U €. District Attorney P. J. Gilmore. Jr. The pair is charged with burg- | lary and accused of a series of ' crimes in the vicinity of Sitka. They ' i were " arrested two weeks ago at Chichagof. ! Federal Judge George W. Folta | set Wednesday, at 10 a. m., as time ' for the pronouncing of sentenae for the two men. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 16.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today Is 5'., American Can 937, Anaconda 34'i, Curtiss-Wright 4'., Internationpl Harvester 87'%, Kennecott 44's, New York Central 3%, Northern Pacific 17%, U. S. Steel 67's, Pound $4.02%. Sales today were 990,000 shares. Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follo! industrials’ 173.83, rails 4521, utilities 34.18. - -ee GENAUX FROM EAST Charles M. Genaux of Washing- ton, D. C. is in Juneau and is re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel . all or much of this surplus to the reduction of the public debt.” He continued: Reasons For Veto “Continuing public confidence in |government finances depends upon such a policy. If the government !does not reduce the public debt 'during most active and inflationary periods, there is little prospect of material reduction at any time, and the country would, as a result be Iin a poorer position to extend sup- | ports to the economy should a sub- | sequent deflationary period devel- “ But beyond this general argument jany tax ‘cut now, Mr. Truman spec- 1755 (Cmntlmied on Page‘flv }