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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” [ VOL. LXVI., NO.10,609 12 ! JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1947 MT-MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TWO UNIONS HOLD UP SHIP SETTLEMENT President Preparing Message On Labor Bill + Truman Given Royal Welcome in Canada TRUMANTO GIVE VIEWS TOCONGRESS Statement Will Be Madet Whether Legislation Is i Signed or Vetoed | o | WASHINGTON, June 18— President Truman decided today !oi forego his weekly news conference to work on a message to Congress | on the Labor Union Control Bill.! Mr. Truman will send a message | to Congress Friday, regardless of | whether he signs or vetoes the bill. | Eben Ayers, Assistant Press Sec- . retary, said a heavy volume of mail continued to pour into the White House concerning the legislation “with a heavy majority favoring a . veto.” Ayers said the volume of communications about the measure is by far the greatest ever received by Mr. Truman on any single legis- lative issue or other controversy. Top Democratic and Republican | leaders have predicted that the House will vote to override in| event the President decides to veto the legislaticn. But they were un- certain of the outcome in the Sen- | ate. | Ayers estimated that 157,000 to 158,000 letters, -more than 500,000 cards and 25,000 telegrams had been | received through Monday. House ' Jeaders definitely expect a veto though President Truman told re-' porters at Princeton, N. J. yester- | day “I haver't made up my mind | yet.” He said he will send a message | to Congress Friday. Boeing Terminates: Contract for Building Supers for U. 5. Govl. SEATTLE, June 17.—(®—The Boe: ing Aircraft Company has termi. nated its Superfortress contract with the United States government after v building 2,766 of the Giant B-29s, 1t announces. The contract, drawn during the i war, ad called for production of 6,289 planes. BT | THORPE RITES TOMORROW | Funcre. arrargements have beenl made for Frederick J. Thorpe, whu; died recently at St. Ann’s Hospital. The services will be held tcmorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Charles W. Carter Chapel. The Rev. Robert | W. Webb will give the eulogy. In-| terment will be in the Evergreen | Cemetery. The Washington| Merry - Go-Round! By DREW PEARSON i WASHINGTOR — Leaders of the Chicago real estate industry have recently issued amazing advice to landlords—namely, that they should | deliberately disregard the law and raise rents regardless of government regulations. Real estate leaders point out— in a confidential bulletin not sup- posed to be read by the public—| that “the government is now rely- ing almost wholly on tenant en-; Iarccmen{ of rent control regula- tion.” ‘Therefore, Chlcago landlords are advised: “the only possibility for relief now seems to lie in the direc- tion of deliberate disregard for the‘ regulations.” The mfieruning is not ours. It's supplied by the Chicago realtors. They go on to hint one good way to help raise rents illegally is to get the Republican Congress to hold down Congressional approprigtions for the government agency replac- mg the OPA. “If the appropriation for OPA's, successor is held at low levels,” the confidential real estate letter ad-| (Continued on Page Four) ’New New Head Rofary Infernational iFood Conditions Described Ihere as comparable with those of flames. {dependent on official rations—will inext few morths. | { Presentation of the Rotary Wheel to the new President of Rotary International at the 38th annual convention in San Francisco, was made, as it has been for the last 12 years, by Lee Lovinger (left), of Salt Lake City, U. Recipieni was S. Kendrick Guermsey (right), insurance executive of Jacksonville, Fla. Guernsey takes over the reins July 1. Lovinger was assisted by another Salt Lake Rotarian leader, Glenn C. Culp. The President-elect is a veteran of World War I, a native Floridan and a charter member of Orlande, Fla., Rotary Club. Nearly 14,000 dclegates from all parts of the world were in attendance at the grent conclave in the Golden Gate City. | | Greal Forest Blaze Ragmg | On Kenai Peninsula; Game Seeks Refuge from Flames‘ o as Comparable with Those in Germany TOYKO, Jux thorities, describing food conditions unless feel the square miles, ravaged the Kenai FACE JAPAN =5 | | |he saw flames leaping 100 feet into | e 18—P—Alied -au- the entire peninsula would be swept Two sportsmen stalled in’ the officials said. Japanese will be the Skilak Lake area moved to the | The Government will resort to a during the summer, the Allied son. Delegate Bartlett reported yes- Peninsula’s rich spruce, 'herded ! many lakes. “The smoke is rising to 25,000 feet 1 [the air. | rain came to check the “pinch” of hunger in the Kenai River district by dense smoke able to supplement rations from southwest side of the river. Al-; “skip plan"—eliminating occasional| A new fire inl the Anchorage area sources said. ‘terday from Washington *“sdme | !sian tactics in Korea, Manchuria, | | the Balkane. Hungary, Australia| jand Germany—or the Communist, | Party policies throughout the wor.d" H ‘,pmpo;nls and with your estimate ‘am in agreement. !agree that peace must be sought | boldly on | lowing.” i | OPEN LETTER | T0 WALLACE | BY THOMAS, SocialistLeader Puts Tough 5 Question Plainly Before | Former Vice-President | NEW YORK, June 18.—®—So-| cialist leader Norman Thomas ask- ! ed Henry A. Waliace today in an open letter: “Do you reject the the- ory that Communist totalitarianism, using the Red Army and its other army, the international Communist movmnent is relent lessly, patlently |and boldly seek ng world power?” | Writing as chairman of the Pogt ' War World Council, Thomas con= tinued in a letter he made public: | “If you reject this theory, on what | grounds do you explain the Rus- | = Thomas, commenting on the for- | mer Vice-President's speech in! Washington Monday night, told him “with a great many of your specific | jof the value of a third party (but |not if it is Communist controlled) I! Emphatically, T/ better lines than thel Truman administration is now fol- “But I have grave doubts about your own program for peace,” { Thomas declared, adding that Wal- | lace might “possibly” remove some lof the doubts by answering his | questions. The New Republic maga- | zine which Wallace edits, said the letter had been received but Wal- lace had not seen it. ..o — i BUDGET CUT | IS "PHONY" | SAY DEMOS House Minoriiy Ciaim GOP | Economy Drive "Hope- | lessly Bogged Down’ WASHINGTON, June 18—‘55——‘ Democrats tossed out a set of fi- gures today to back up their clam\' that the Republican economy drive | |has “fuzzled and hopelessly bogged | ~ STATEHOOD OKEH [ jifle Is own.” Republican leaders, meanwhile, renewed their long dormant efforts | to nail down a Senate-House agree- | ment on just how much to try to; cut President Truman’s $37,500,000,- 000 budget for the fiscal year be- | ginning July 1. The House earlier this year run- mally promised to whack $6,000,- 000,000 off that spending esv.lmnlp but the Senate voted only a $4,500,- <000000 saving pledge. Democrats in both chambers con- | | tended at the time that each {x- | gure was far too high. H In the House minority party! members picked Rep. Gore (Tenn) of Republican cuts. Today as the House resumed dis- | cussions of the $8,167,869,027 inde- n | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 18— | ’ M — Smoke darkened the western | Alaska sky today as a great forest | N blazf-, covering an estimated 100! HU GER To droves of terrified game before it ! and forced the little animals of the | woods to seek refuge in the region’s' —so high we must fly around it,’ ol said Pilot Gentry Schuster of the | Seward Safeway Airways, adding‘ Terming it the “biggest fire I've | seen in seven years,” Pilot Ward! Gay of Sea Airmotive said he feared l The Weather Bureau said | Germany, declared today that the th»_:re was no indication of an enrly; people of Japan—especially those rainfall iwere flown out yesterday when a| The food situation will not result plane succeeded in making a land- in mass starvation, Meadquarters'ing. Other sportsmen camped in i blackmarket food stocks, mostly though the stream is 300 yards wide | food not turned over to the Gov-|it was feared the blaze might jump ernment by farmers. ‘it should a high wind arise. | rations—in an attempt to spread had covered 300 acres by last night, | evenly food supplies on hand and burning just two miles from the those which will become available General Hospital at Fort Richard- e, SEATTLE, June 18—®—When a |car is parked too long or in a re-| I<tricled zone the city impounds it {and the driver must call to get it back. ! When Mr. and Mrs. G. A. God- %i rey, Jr., met at the impounded rwindow in the city traffic bureau they stared a each other and chor- used: | money would be made available for | pendent offices appropriations bill, | the Alaska Fire Control Service (by | Gore claimed “bona fide” reductions |the Interior Department), although | to date total only $1,875,716,750. /it probably would be COnSldPerly1 Republicans are claiming more. } less thqn for the current fiscal | {than twice that much. ! year.” | Gore added in a lengthy state- | | women elected to the | Legislature since 1913, has been a patient in the Swedish Hospital here. | | Also patients are her sons, Eiton, {Jr., 12, apd Allan, 9. They plan to President Harry S. Truman shakes hands with Royal Canadian Mounted Pelice officer at the entrance to the American Embassy in Ottawa. he recently did in Mexico. (.ln wda, and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy. Truman Addresses ~anad|an Parllamenl The President made a three-day At right are His Excellency the Hon. Ray Atherton, American Ambassador to goodwill tour in Canada, much as President Truman of the United States at the microphones at Parliament in Ottawa as he addresses a Jjoint session of the Canadian Senate and Parliament. Alexlnder, Admilal Leahy, and FOR ALASKA, BUT THERE'S BIG BU {Mrs. Eiton Engs.rom of Ju- nau, Gives Her Views —Hospital Patient ~P—Sraze- | SEATTLE, June | hood would be a gma& help to Al- I a aska, Mrs. Elton Engstrom of Ju- |as their “bookkeeper” to keep track | oo coiq today, but she added a doubt that the Territory was ‘rich enough to pay the added expenses that statehcod would bring.” Mrs. Engstrom, one of the five ‘Ferritorial Acquitted WASHINGTON, June A secret court martial whlch lflsted 107 days acquitted Lt. Comdr. Ed- »\.ml N. Little of accusations lhal. | he maltreated fellow Americans in | camp. was {a Japanese prisoner of war The court martial, which closed to the .public at Little’s re-, | quest, heard 80 witnesses, The Navy nad identified the main | charges against the defendant as maltreatment of a person subject to his orders, conduct to the pre- judice of good order and discipline, and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. The Navy did not elaborate on its announcement of the aéquittal ver- dict last night. Allied heardquarters in Tokyo has disclosed that Little was mess offi- 'cer of a Japanese camp at Omuta. ment accompanied by several sets of | return to Juneau by air about| ! Jack O'Connor, Game Manage- |figures that “purely phony budget jyly 1, ment Superviser of the U. S. Fish | cut claims” huve reached a total of | “They really mean it when they and Wildlife Service said today that | $2,699,150,000. | say Alaska is a man's country,” said the $5,000 he offered to the Alaska ! BRI AR . -1 TR ,Mrs, Engstrom, recalling her cam- Fire Control to help fight the flre‘ PLUMBS FROM CHICO palgn by air for her seat in the has been acceoted. He said the, /money was authorized from refuge | |appropriations by J. Clark Salyer, Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Plumb of Chico, Calif., have arrived in Ju- “What? You, too?” 11[1 Chief of the Division of Wildlife The Godfreys are a two-car fam- 'Refuges of the Fish and Wildlife 1ly. Service. neau and are registered at the Hotel Juneau during their stay in the capital city. ' Legislature. - Jeannie M. Welsh, owner of the Tey Strait Packing Company, arrived | | Dodge of Hoonah are Then a Lieutenant, he was senior in rank among the prisoners and under prisoner of war conventions they were subject to his orders. - g Mrs, H. D. Dazlels and Mrs. W. H. | staying here. Seated at left are Prime Minister King, Viscount rles Rcss, Presidential Secretary, (AP Phcto) PILOT R. C. REEVE GIVEN AUTHORITY NEW AIR SERVICE May Operate for Five! Years Between Anchor- age, Aftu Island, Ec. 18 iP— Board ex- WASHINGTON, June Two Civil Aeronautics aminers have recommended Robert C. Reeve, doing business as Reeve Airways. be five years to operate passenger, car- go and mail services between An- | chorage, Alaska, and Attu Island by . way of Cold Bay, Dutch Harbor and Unmak, Atka, Amchitka and She- mya islands. They recomended also that he be permitted to operate irregular serv- | ices between any of these points and the Pribilof Islands. - SUZY WINN RETURNS Suzy Winn, daughter of Mrs. Bess year at Reed College in Portland. that | authorized for | MAY REACH AGREEMENT DURING DAY "Negoiiati'on_s—T;king Place at San Francisco-Medi- ator Is Hopeful | { SEATTLE June 18—(®—Cargo was | being discharged or loaded by a {dozen ships here today, while the question of whether they would be able to sail hinged on negotia- tions in San Francisco. Only one ship, the Alaska, is tied fup by failure of operators to reach i agreements with the Marine Cooks and Stewards' Union and the Am- erican Communications Association, both CIO unions. The next ship due to sail from |'Seattle for Alaska is the Denali, scheduled to depart tomorrow for Ketchikan, Yakutat, Seward and i Seldovia. 1 Fa TR NEGOTIATIONS PROCEED SAN FRANCISCO, June 18.—#— { A quick settlement of CIO differ- ences with west coast shipowners mdny, while only the first disrup- uve effects of a threatened ship- pinu paralysis were being felt, was ! predicted by a Labor Department ! trouble shooter. ! “I may be an incurable opuqn but I anticipate’a settlement “be- tween the two unions (the radio perators and the cooks-stewards) land the employers to result from ithis morning's meeting” said Na- | than Feinsinger. i He arrived only yesterday from IWnshlngton He wound up his first lday of efforts by saying that his i toughest problem appeared solved. | This was to get the marine cooks |and stewards and the shipowners to icome to terms. Without announc-’ !ing the details, Feinsinger said last Iulght this virtually was accomplish- {ed. E Ships Tied Up ; This union yesterday gave the 1 west coast its Iirst taste of a pos- | sible shipping tieup by refusing to sign sailing papers, in the absence jof a econtract to replace the one | expired June 15. As a consequence, 1 10 ships scheduled to leave for such { points as Yokohama, Alaska and 1 Honolulu, stayed in port at Van- couver, Wash., Seattle, San Fran- cisco and Los Angeles-Long Beach. Feinsinger scheduled both single ‘and joint meetings today with the , two unions and the employers. The ;cooks had represented their de- ;mands as embracing a year's re- jnewal of contract, minus wage i changes, but with an immediate | wage review. The latter condition i proved the initial stumbling block. { The radio operators (American ! Communications Association) - also ' sought a year's extension, the basis jof agreement which already has { netted the signing of 17 west coast ! contracts. But the union asked for | some changes in working condi- llons Feinsinger pointed up the import- Iance of a quick settlement saying e believed if today didn’'t wind up |the trouhle the situation “might .drag on for some time.” TANKER LINES’ DISPUTE NEW YORK, June 18.—(P—3et- (Continued on Fage Eignti |SPECIAL GUESTS AT " (HAMBER COMMERCE | MEETING TOMORROW ! i | The guests of the Pan Pacific Good Neighbor Tour, which is now visiting in Juneau, will be feted at the regular luncheon-meeting of the ! Juneau Chamber of Commerce to- { morrow, announced Charles W. Car- ter, Chairman of the Program Com- | mittee. ; Lloyd Olson, tour conductor and | secretary of Pan Pacific, will intro- duce the guests to the Chamber, and also will present William Krouse of Philadelphia, wellknown photogra- pher and lecturer, who is to address in Juneau and A Winn, returned aboard the Princess the Chamber. All members are urg- in Juneau yesterday and is staying | registered at the Baranof while Louise. Miss Winn is in her last ed to attend this meeting and hear at the Baranof Hotel. this distinguished lecturer.

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