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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NE LL THE TIME” 2 n 4. e ——————————— VOL. LXVE, NO. 10,610 INTERIM AGREEMENT IN Labor Bill Message Goes to TRUMANS SILENT ON DECISION iy President Confronted by Sharply - Conflicting Views on Action i \ b | WASHINGTON, June 19. — (P—| President Truman worked behind | closed doors today on the message he will send Congress tomorrow an- ; nouncing his decision on the union- curbing labor bill. Presidential Secretary Charles G.! Ross and White House aides gave | no indication whether Mr. Truman | has decided to sign or veto the| Taft-Hartley legislation. Ross declined to be drawn out by reporters’ questions as to Mr. Tru- man'’s likely action. He did say the | message to Congress may be avail- able around noon tomorrow, but added that he wouldn't even “guar- antee” the time. Mr. Truman, who must act on the bill by tomorrow midnight—other wise it will become law without hi signature—has been confronted by sharply-conflicting views*within his ! own party as to the step he should take. The President refused to listen to a Southern Demotrat appeal for him to sign the.bill, . . Col. Marion Rusiwon, Democratic National Committeeman from Mont- gomery, Ala., raised the question at a White House conference in the course of which he asked Mr. Tru- man to approve the legislation. A Democratic Party official told | reporters Mr. Truman cut short this i line of discussion. The official said | Mr. Truman remarked that he will | make his own decision on the basis, of an analysis he is now studying.' The President, this official added, | told the Democrats that he had not listened to the labor people or to the anti-labor people during the controversy over the bill, and that he wasn't going to discuss his course with the Democratic delegation. BRIGGS IS AFTERTWO KNOT SHIPS i | ¢ i | i The Briggs Steamship Corpora- tion of Juneau, has wired the Mari- | time Commission requesting it turn | over to the comvany two Knot class ships for use in its Alaska opera- tions. Philip C. Briggs, President, said the company, which recently began serving Southeast Alaska from Prince Rupert, hopes to obtain sub- sidies and insurance concessions ! similar to those granted three Se- | attle carriers recently. He said that the line serves South- | cast Alaska with rates 44 per cent | under Seattle rates. I > { clear The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—President Tru- man has selected Norman Armour, cne of the top career diplomats of the country, as his new Assistant Secretary of State in charge of La- tin-American affairs. Armour’s selection is regarded throughout Latin America as a ges- ture of reconciliation toward Presi- dent Peron of Argentina, inasmuch as Armour previously served as Am- érican envoy in the Argentime and is wellknown and liked in that coun- try. Regardless of Latin-American re* | action, however, Armour is consid-| ered* one of the ablest of American diplomats, with no political leanings one way or the other except as a (Continued on Page Four) Union. i Blcndo and beautecus Sue was greeted by Roy lina, Calif., on the oc fornia paradiseland. Dixieland Cotton Feslival. sicn of her She editor of the Memphis, Tenn., ISSUE PUT DIRECTLY TORUSSIA France, Great Britain Give Soviets Until Monday fo Make Answer PARIS, June l {M—France and Great Britain have given Ru until Menday to decide whether she | ! wants to participate in a collective effort to put postwar Europe back on its economic feet with American | help—or see contintental reconstruc- tion organized without the Soviet They sent a note to Moscow last ‘night inviting Soviet Foreign Min- | ister V. M. Molotov to meet with French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and British Foreign Sec- retary Ernest Bevin during the week of June 23 concerning steps to implement the European recov- ery plan suggested by U. S. Secre- tary of State George C. Marshall. The note was dispatched after a two-day Bidault-Bevin meeting here at which, the two said in a joint statement, they welcomed “with the greatest satisfaction” the ideas ex- pressed by Marshall in a speech at Harvard University June 5. Their joint message to Moscow proposed that the megting of the thee Foreign Ministers be held in a “convenient” place to be agreed upon, but one well-informed British source said the note made it quite that London or Paris would be considered mosl convenient. Earthquake Regisfered WESTON, M June 19.—#— A “moderately strong” earthquake possibly in China or in the China | | Sea—was recordea at the Weston College seismograph station at 2:- 53:22 a.m. Linehan, S. J., seismologist reported today. The quake was about 7,520 miles from Weston, in a northwestern di- rection, Linehan said. .- —— FROM MINNEAPOLIS Lionel Watson is in Juneau and | lis a guest at the Hotel JuneauCouncil will be held tomorrow night | tineau Hotel. during a stay here. He is registered from Minneapolis, Donegan, of the Southland's “Miss Dixic Bell of 1947” contest, it shown as she Taylor (right), Mayor of Avaion, Santa Cata- The contest was in previo Filmland, having been conveyed to Hollywood by American Airlines. Chaperone for Miss Donegan cn the tour was Ida Clemens, fashion Daily (ummemml Appml JUNEAU, ALASKA THURSDM JUNE 19, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRlCE TEN CENTS SHIP DIy SOVIET VETO OFU.S. PLAN IS EXPECTED U. N. Arms Commission! Turns Down Russian Proposal LAKE SUCCESS, June | Russian veto of he U. S. plan for ! tackling world arms reduction would | Nations disarmament efforts. The possibility of a Russian veto | | was raised after the U.N. conven- | tional armaments commission yes: terday aproved and forwarded the| | Us. working plan to the Security! | Council and then voted down a So- | | viet proposal which would )mve* {linked disposal of atomic \wapm\s‘ | with the question of comenuom\lK | arms. Following this step, Sov.et Deputy | Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko ; | snid adoption of the U.S. proposals | | woula lead to collapse of U.N. ef-| | forts to regulate and control roduc- | tion of arms | “The separation of arms mmm-“ | tion and prohibition of atomic wea- | | pons is contrary to the (December, | 14, 1946) General Assembly resolu- |tion,” he declared. “It will comu~l tute an obstacle-to the future wwk' ‘nr the arms commission and to the | Security Council. It will involve v.he | collapse of the method to imple-' :mcm the General Assembly resolu- {tion concerning the general regula- uou of armaments and armed Iorc- ‘cs and all its consequences.” Asked by newsmen later if his \sl itement meant he would not at- 19, of Memphis, Tenn., winner | | it to that offshere Cali- nection with the annual had spent five days in recent v CLAIMS RUSSIA OFFERED NAZIS PEACE IN 194 Secref Mission Reporled in| Liberty Magazine Arfi- ‘t(‘nd any more meetings of the| (Ie by Dr S(hwarl armaments commission, Gromyko [rephnd. | “I have nothing mcre to say.” NEW \()iK “June 19. — (m—An)| e article in Liberty magazine, titled . “A Secret Russian Mission that Al- i | 19— (e i | Delegates to the United Nations | | were reported agreed today that a |, | mean a virtual end to the United [} ‘Maker Declares Car “'Bet- most Changed H says that | Russia suggested a separate peace |to Germany in January, 1943, at a STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 19.—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | time when the Germans had been | |thrown back at Stalingrad and | stock today is 5'., American Can! |Rommel had suffered setbacks in|92'¢, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright | | Atrica. | 4%, International Harvester 88':, Appearing today in the July 5! issue of the magazine, the article| was written by Dr. Paul Schwarg, | 1membcr of the German Foreign Service for 20 years before the| |Nazis came to power, who became | |an American citizen and served in the O.S.S. during the war, and Guy‘ Richards, Washington reporter. | New York Central Kennecott 44'%, 14, Northern Pacific 17%, Steel 68, Pound $4.02%. Sales today were 1,010,000 shares. Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follows: industrials 176.15, rails 45.43, utilities 34.45. Steel and automobile issues today SESSION OF DI ET — General view of a session of the Japanese dict as it met in Tokyo with members chosen in the recent “democratized” elections. U.S. Terrlbly Weak in Defense; Fads Stated, Backed Up by Flgures | the U, 8. Army 2u to 1. In addition, he declared, the Rus- DESTRU(TIVE, SWEEPING ON sians have “over 10,000" airplanes ‘And “we cannot man 4,000 aireraft 1 : ; | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 19.~ | | C ollins said that in case of trouble (s _gopped by the Kenai Peninsula quired as Fighters— Other Fires | in Europe the U. S. forces thei BY Fu(KER“‘Mv so smail that they could ea: ? blaze, which, it is estimated, has already burned over an area of 224 | ily be overrun.” | square miles, a series of forest fires! | He estimated that Russia s “ca-cast a cloud of smoke over much of | vhble of putting 200 divisicns in the western Alaska today. | tield, have them in the iield right| Bill Wallace, Alaska Fire Control !now,” compared with ten divisions Service Ranger, said at least 500 in the whole U. 8. Army. “Russia’s satellites in Europe’ ter, Safer than Ever "could blaze. Lack of funds has made it KENAIBLAZE: 7 Five Hundred Men Pe-‘ He said men should be fighting the Kenai! PUTE Congress Frida FOUR - DAY STALEMATE IS BROKEN 'Plan Announced fo Keep Boats Moving Pending Contract Settlement SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.—(®— An interim agreement to keep west 'corm ships moving while negotia- tions for a new contract continue was reached today by the Pacific American Shipowners Association and holdout maritime unions. Announcement of the agreement | was made by Nathan P. Feinsinger, |.~puclul Labor Department trouble shooter, after a series of confer- ences with chipowners and repre- sentatives of the CIO Cooks and Stewards Union and CIO-WCA radiomen. Effect of the agreement was to break the four-day stalemate that threatened to throttle all shipping n the west coast through refusal of cooks and radiomen to sign on until they obtained a contract. Situation Earlier ‘This morning it was announced the deadline for capcellation of ex- {isting contracts by either unions or lemplcyers was reached today with {no change in the stalemate that threnl.ens to halt Pacific coast mlr- ‘operations. <t sattlement of the three-day tieup tof Atlantic and. Gulf shipping, an- | nounced in New York early in the {day, had no imediate effect on | the continuing west coast negotia- | tions. The agreement between the CIO west coast maritime committee and | the employers specified that if con- tracts with all five CIO maritime unions were not agreed upon by IJune 15 either side could after |three days cancel the pacts already signed. That time limit was passed at midnight last night with neither side commenting. Cancellation could The article said that under Lht'i]cd the stock market into new high Russian proposal, Germany was to! territory since April 10 with vol- give the Soviets a free hand behind | | ume picking up and the list broad- {a line roughly from Riga, on the ‘cn]ng | Baltic to the Dardanelies and aid| Chrysler featured its section with Russia if she attacked Turkey and 'a gain of more than 2 points to a Russia was to start immediately “to |new high for the year. General! |supply quantities of raw materials, | Motors rose more than a point.| including oil and manganese, bo‘atudebakel rose more than a point help sustain fhe German war effort i and eased a trifle from the high. ' elsewhere.” | Hudson and Willys-Overland gain- | The negotiations were ended hy‘ed fractions. Gains of more than a Russia, the article said, in the be- | point each came into Bethlehem lief Germany had let word of them gtee], U. §. Steel, ACD Youngs- spread so far there was danger the | town Sheet & Tube. offer might come to ahe altentluni Aiding the market was relaxation | of Russia’s allies, then planning lhe.o, pressure on American Telephone | invasion of France. !and Packard. Telephone touched a Similar Russian negotiations, in|pew Jow since 1943 at 149%, and | the fall of 1943, were mentioned | hon came back more than half briefly during the Nuernberg trial. | way from its 214 point loss at that | State Department officials in| oo packard, which had been | Washington said they had “no in- | hammered to a new low on heavy : formation on the subject whatever” ‘ i ik and other official informants there "q"‘da' on yesterdey, gained slight 1 said a search of German state pap- | ers brought to this country made no reference to such an early peace | offer. Ramaad shares registered gai ranging to a point but their average | | was depressed by a 3-point loss in| vme volatile Norfolk & Western. , Mercantiles generally were better. 1 e oM s ANDERSONS FROM GUSTAVUS : S A AR { i WASHINGTON—The Command- | er of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral| Louis E. Denfeld, declared mday that Russia is operating what he| Mr. and Mrs. R. described as a considerable number | Gustavus arrived . Andersen of | in the Capital | Denfeld tolds a news conference the Gastineau Hotel during their) that the Russian Paci‘’c Navy in- (stay. cluded destroyers but no aircraft | carriers. | i | ——— JAMES FROM MONTANA Mr. and Mrs. J B. James arriv- 1ed from Kalespiu, Montana, yes! session of the City|day and are registered at the Gas- James is emplovul at 8 o'clock. Only routine buslness‘ by the Sommer‘s Construction Com- | is coming up, it is said. pany. B COUNCIL MEETS FRIDAY | A regular | parts Has Been Buili” CHICAGO, June 19.—(#—The new Tucker automobile, scribed by its makers, the Tucker Corporati®h, as “the {irst completely new auto- mobile in 50 years,” was brought out for unveiling today. Auto dealers and distributors were invited to the huge Tuck plant for the first showing of the Preston Tucker, 44-year-old designer and head of the vs his model is a afer car than ever has car by and Leen built.” The company announced that the car, with a 2800 pound shipping weight, a wheel base of 128 inches and standing 60% inches higR, has 4 150-horsepower airplane type en- gine located in the rear. The com- pany also said t the c stop in 240 feet while traveling 90 miles an hour and at moderate |speed can travel abot 35 miles on a gallon of gasoline. iy Tucker has said the Tucker car will eliminate “approximately 800 now used in conventional models,” including the fly wheel, ring gear, clutch and clutch me- chanism, “universai joint and drive shaft. s g 'VANCOUVER VOTES T0 CLOSE STORES EVERY WEDNESDAY VANCOUVER B C June 19 | A—Decision on compulsory, all-day Wednesday closing of retail stores 'here received a decisive “yes” vote from voters. Plebiscite returns show- ed 20,317 in favor with 12051 op- (EST), the Rev. Daniel of submarines in the North Pacific. | City yesterday and are guests of 'posed. Although voters signified their approval, all-day Wednesday clos- ing will still require action on the part of the City Council to become legal. The plebiscite was merely a poll of citizens' opinion. - FAMILY AT JUNEAU E. W. Qasgrove and his family are registered at the Hotel Juneau irom Seattle, provide another 100 divisions “I simply cite these as examples the fact that we are terribly of practically impossible for the AFCS, to recruit fire fighters. As the fire continued to sweep{ tie up the coast completely. The two unions not signed are the CIO Marine Cooks and Stew- weak tcday,” the War Department through valuable timber tracts and jards and the American Communi- Information Chief said in a spgech prepared for a convention of the Reserve Officers Association. “In” all smrum in all logle,” Cellins said, ituation now, and take the neces- sary steps to meet what might hap- pen to us. We can't deal in pro- babilities any longer “This was cne of the mistakes made prior to Pearl Harbor. People said the Japs couldn't attack us, but they did. Tcaay other nations in the wcrld are capable of attack- ing us.” ? He said attack mizhi come by long-range eaircrait strikes across the Polar Cap and might include atom bombing and bacteriological warfare. -ee Sevenfeen Executed ATHENS, June 19. AwA’L-Seven-. teen men convicted of treason and murder were executed today in ti he | uurlvm(l ol a Greek prison on‘ gina Island. Most of the men, Lxenuled by firing squads, were con- | | victed as traitors Three who died | were’ Communists sentenced for' murders. - BABY. BORN TO FORMER RESIDENTS | \'E“' Juneau friends of Mr. and Mrs. | Millard W. Carnes, former residents, learned this week of the birth of a baby girl to' “Bonnie And Mirk” on June 3. The new member of the family, whese name is Janis Myel, weighed seven pounds,nine and three quarter ounces. She joins a brother, Roger, who was born in Juneau in 1243, The Carnes now are residents | of Pocatello, Idaho, where he oper- ates one of a chain of music stores | belonging to his father. During | the war Mr. «. 5. Weather Bureau here, | the Palmer district, 16 minor blazes | were raging in the Fairbanks region ! | radical groups and elements in re- | { President Truman today nominated [ man, into the moose reserve, R. R. Rob- inson, chief of the AFCS, was in- | formed in Juneau by Jack O'Connor ! of the Fish and Wildlife Service, frem the Kenai National Mocse Re- serve Fund to battle the flames. Robinson estimated the fire has; already destroyed 60,000 acres of % some cf the best timber in the game | reserve has cost the lives o!. many moose and other wild game in j the reserve Other fires in the Territory were} net go serious. A fire near Fort | Richardson, which has covered 500. acres, was believed controlled by a | buildozed line about two miles from | the station hospital. Six fires were being | battled in and smaller nrcx xmar Anchorage. ' REECE HITS OUT AT DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION SPOKANE, Wash., June 19—P— | B. Carroll Reece, National Chair- man for the Republican Party, de- | clared last night the Democratic Administration and Party “over the past 14 years have playgd ball with | | wurn for the political support which | these groups were able to supply.” The Party leader, speaking at a Republican banquet, added that he was "nul accusing President Tru- r his immediate advisers, of | any umscloua purpose to subvert cur form of government or to de- stroy our economic systemi Mr. Truman, I am sure, is no more of ! a Communist than I am.” l s A MG f PLUMBS BACK cations Association (radio opera- tors). On West, Gulf Coasts The four-day old maritime sit- “we must review our that $5,000 had been made avaflable | down strike was settled on the At- lantic and Guli cbasts when nego- tiators for CIO seamen accepted a five percent wage increase offer. Negotiations still were underway on the Pacific coast, but union spckesmen in New York said a pat- tern had heen set for complete set- ; tlement of the tieup of American- flag ships. Rank and file members of Atlan- tic and Gull coast unions were to vote on ratifications of the new 1 contract at 2 p.m. (EDT) today and ‘le.ldms said acceptance was certain. Despite earlier pledges to stick ;}.‘ontlnued on Page Five) — e — 1 NOMINATIONS OF IMPORTANCE - MADE BY TRUMAN {Wilson to B;Eief of Turk- ish Aid-Saltzman for State Department 19.—(D— WASHINGTON, June Edwin C. Wilson, Ambassador to Turkey, to be chief of the Ameri- can Mission under the $10,000,000 Turkish aid program. The nomination, which had been expected, was sent to the Senate along with the appointment of Charles E. Saltzman, Vice-President of the New York Stock Exchange, as an Assistant Secretary of State. Wilson, a native of Palatka, Fla., and a veteran diplomat, will handle Dr. came here on thc and Mrs. C. E. Plumb, who| Louise made a Carnes was with the round trip to Sitka yesterday and prugmm are again registered at the Baranof.' the Turkish aid job in addition to his duties as Ambassador. The Tur- kish aid is part of a $400,000,000 to bulwark Turkey and Greece against Communism,