The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1947, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE [——————————— VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,611 e e JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1947 * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LABOR BILL Coast Ships Sail Under Employer- 200 VESSELS SHIPPING LEAVE PORT ~ TOALASKA UNDERPLAN RESUMING Summer RusTof Tourists, ) Wage Boosts Expeded fo| ! Be Made Following | Passengers Gets Under- Fast Sefflement | Way Once Again | : : 20 — B — SAN FRANCISCO, June 30—, SERCT DV B0 L T e Ships sailed from West Coast ports |, " " \j1cka appeared onn full today under an employer-union ! : 4 : truce while the two unions without | SWing today with three passenger contracts and some which had re-|2nd cargo ships posted to sail un- newed theirs for a year set their| €7 l_h" ‘E"T!)qmr'vdmwf STEhE sights on a five per cent wage in- | Coastwise maritime dispute. { | Several passengers who had crease won in the East. As a Labor Department trouble|Pooked to sail on the Alaska last shooter renewed the negotiations Tuesday had cancelled their re-, with two CIO unions, it became evi- | Servations, but a full passenger list dent that the Eastern settlement 0f Over 200 was expected to be, would have growing effects on the | abcard at sailing time at 10 am.,| West Coast. | the Northland Transportation Co.! Vincent Malone, whose independ- | said. The Baranof was posted to ent Marine Firemen recently signed |Sail at 9 pm. and the Denali at 10 an extension of contract for a year | P.m. tonight. the Alaska Steamship, without ‘wage changes, said trouble | Co. said. The Denali touches at! might be expected among his men | Ketchikan, then goes to the west- unless they received the same in-|Wward | crease as other unions. One California party, Mr. and Representatives of the CIO Ma.‘Ml'a. Paul J. Leavens and their; rine Beneficial Association, which four children who had cancelled | had sought a six per cent wage hike the Alaska sailing, heard news of then settled for a year’s oxtension the temporary coastwise settlement | minus wage changes, also indicated over their car radio while in Ta- they planned to demand the five coma yestercay afternoon and re- per cent increase. | turned here to board the A]aska.‘ The two CIO unions still with- | Others were expected .to do the; out contracts, the marine cooks and ' same when notified, the North-, the radio operators, are expected to |land Transportation Co. said. seek the same advances. | The Alaska Steamship Company's The cooks had refused to sign|mctor vessel. Souare Knot, was sailing articles, thus slowly paralyz- | posted to sail Saturday for Nome, ing shipping but yesterday’s truce!Teller and St. Lawrence ports. : meant release for 200 ships. | > i Cooks’ unions up and down thel : coast quickly ratified the truce at ARMY ]EI plA“E [ meetings. The radio operators’ nego- | | tiations committee had power to| 1 ratify it and did. [ RETAINS WORI.D ] Among features of the interim i agreement were: | 1 Work will continue under the old | SPEED RE(ORD ‘ contract, except that the provision | | for a new wage review this month'| R for the cooks will be suspended = MUROC, Calif., June 20.—(®—An | pending negotiations. ]Ar‘my jet plane, the P80-R, has re- i Any stewards shipping out before ‘gamed _the world speed record fm'l final agreement is reached will re- ithe United States—at 623.8 miles | ceive benefits of any new contract, | Pe hour. 8 H Negotiations will continue — until | Streaking but 50 feet above the they “result in agreement,” said jMojave Desert near Muroc Army | Nathan P. Feinsinger of the Labor | Alrfield, Col. Albert Boyd of* Ashe- | Department. iville, N. C., guided the Lockheed | e AN AN S }huilt fighter yesterday on four runs | B [lover a 186 mile (three kilometer) | M Ui B o0 Kb s THhe aveingn iopud . TA| is registered at the Gastineau Ho- |, Hryih Gloster Meteor jet plane | tel as a guest. She arrived ye“e"',Sept 7, 1946. day by JAne: |~ With the wind, the P-80-R reach- b 3144 ;ed speeds of 632.5 and 630.5 M.P.H. h w h : | The upwind runs were made at 617.1 ‘ e Washington o urs | | The records will not be official : Merry-Go_Roun‘]mnm certified by the Federation | < | Aeronautique International in Paris. T Official observers, however, pointed By DREW PLARSON {out that the new mark was made 3 jover the standard course and ac- WASHINGTON-—President Tru- |cording to all other international man has selected another Wall;spced rules. Street banker and military man to be the new Assistant Secretary of State in charge of rebuilding Ger- juRv ls SELE(IED many. He is Gen. Charles Saltzman, 4 | vice-president and secretary of the CAlIF YA(HI (ASE, New York Stock Exchange. ! . Because the new Undersecretary of State, Robert Lovett, is also a| SANTA ANA, Calif. June 20— Wall Street banker (Brown Broth- (#—After four weeks of legal stress ers-Harriman) and because of the and strain, a jury of six men and varicus other Wall Streeters in the:.«lx women has been selected to decide Truman Administration, the - ap-|whether Louise Overell, 18-year-old | pointment has been received with:heiress. and her college sweetheart, some criticism inside the Aminis-|George (Bud) Gollum, 21, are guilty tration. of murdering her parents. General Marshall, however, has; Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Overell| had a iendency to lean toward mil- | were killed before or in a dynamite | ifary men. General Saltzman, ajblast that biew their yacht to the| West Point eraduate, resigned from|bottom of Newport Harbor March the Army in 1930, reentered in 1940, | 15. ! and rose rapidly .to the rank nr} ———e———— brigadier general. His father, Maj. SENTENCED TO PRISON Gen. Charles Saltzman, spent his| | life in the Army, later being ap-! Nels Rowley and Hollace Mc- pointed by Roosevelt to the old Cammon were each sentenced to shipping board where he had an ex- serve three years in the Federal! cellent record. His son, the newly |Penitentiary today by U. S. District | selected Assistant Secretary of (Judge George W. Folta. The pair State, has been on leave from the|entered a guiity plea on Monday to New York Stock Exchange since he eharges of burglary earlier this year entered the Army |at Sitka. They waived mdictmem‘ Criticism of Wall Street appoint- |Py the Federal Grand Juty. ments to the State Department is A Ao e oS 1 vased not on anything against the| Because of the gulf stream, Ice- lland’s coastal climate is compar- able tp that of Washington, D.C. | (Continued on >;¢w Four) | Soviet position. { invitation and hoped he would be ! age Objections BEVIN WANTS Are Raised, ACTION NOW Unification ON RECOVERY WASHINGTON, June 20.—(P— 5 Rear Adm. Ellis M. Zacharias, re- tired, said today the Armed Ser- | vice Unification Bill “presents a| danger to us far greater than any | pussible enemy in the world today.” | appeared before the! ‘British Official Sounds Warning Which Is ! . Aimed af Russians | LONDON, June 20.—(P—British House Experditures Committee to oppose a bill to create a single Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin Cabinet Officer of National De-|vows that in launching a coopera- fense over separate departments of t effort for European economic the Army, Navy and Air Forces. recovery under the Marshall plan He opposed the unification bill he intends to brook no delays such on grounds it: | as tnose which stvmied the recent Permits too much military con- Foreign Ministers conference in trol of the country in time of war. Moscow. Eagerly awaiting a response from Fails to give proper recognition to the Marine Corps and Naval Russia to a joint British-French Aviation | request that the Soviet Union par- Provides no economy but will “add ticipate in drafting an aid-to-Eur- o to ope program, Bevin declared in the sh- | House of Commons last night that, hundreds of millions of dollar the cost of the defense est: ment without increasing security. e, {“the guiding principle I shall fol- low in any talks I have on this matter will be speed.” 1 holding up the economic recovery RUSSIANS ‘of Europe by the mess of proce- ;‘pampmumm which may go with it.” 2 . 'The British press gathered [\wm {the Llone of Bevin's speech that _ itended to go ahead with work un- g y lder the suggestions made two weeks UN Security Council Is fo C. Marshall—either with or without { Russian participation. . shlp for T”es'e lvard University that future Ameri- 'can dollars aid to Europe should, LAKE SUCCESS, June 20.—(#— be based on a continental program ! “I spent six weeks in Moscow ying to get a settlement,” he as- i serted. “I shall not be a party to ‘dure, terms of reference or all the i Britain and France definitely in- aga by Secretary of State George { Marshall said in a speech at Har- The United Nations Security Coun- |Outlining the economic requirements cil today overrode a Russian at-|Of the situation drawn up by “a tempt to block immediate consid-:number, if not all European na- | tions.” | i : eration of a Governor for Tri . The vote was 9 to 1, with France , abstaining. Russia was alone in copposing the British proposal to take the Trieste governorship out of the hands of the Big Four Powers and placing it on the council’s agenda. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko objected strenu- ously to the British proposal. He contended the council could not dis- cuss the selection of a Governor for the new internationalized territory until the Italian peace treaty was ratifi -4 by all the big powers con- cerned. 4 British Delegate Sir Alexander Cadogan promptly challenged the He said he was unable to ungderstand the basis for Gromyko’s argument. “There is no provision to bar dis- {slander against the Soviet Union.” ussion,” he said. (scheson declared Sunday that et ¢ o oM Russia was retarding world recov- | IlVIlahon 'o onal accord.) Visit Brazil | The article in Pravda, the Com-f munist Party newspaper, was the' Ipulicy in the Russian press. .- - ADAMS, BANFIELD OFF | | | ON COAST AUTO TR House conference with Mr. Truman. | PThree !:!ux?e»auiLes W on e | Martins told repor;:rs the Presi—gn_’lg‘cffiiou;:m tx:il:;y éz;u;':n:u:“f t hopes to go to Brazil “as soon B A dgay hdp g S0 spokane, Seattle, Portland and then i to Los Angeles, Calif. The three % are Mr. and Mrs. Arthur (Scotty) from Presider:t Eurico Gaspar Du-i 4 tra and that Mr. Truman acceptededams and attorney Norman H.| ; |Banfield. The latter's new auto is; it with the remark that he was very | . " pleased to go to Brazil. apboard the Louise and the party But White House aides, checked will leave the ship at Prince Rupert | 7 Y iand then start their travel south-; ;"” diilflelll'::{ 3:::&:: g,;’;;y rz;);)‘ir}ers | ward, going first to Jasper National | “The Presicent tod the Atmbassa- |21k Banft and Lake Loulse. then | b i T Aalibt i t.he'hmd for Spokane where they wxll‘ ap e PRy visit the former Juneau residents, " Mr. and Mrs, Jack Finlay. able to come. ! In Seattle the trio will be joined s ./ 6 RN by Mr. Banfield’s sister who will GAS COMPlAlu'I' continue with them to the Elks| {Convention in Portland, then south | e jto San Francisco and Los Angeles MISSOULA, Mont., June 20.—{# Returning north, they will visit Salt | —A Canadian motorist returned, |Lake City, berore hitting the high- ; { { Russian sources in London said Soviet Ambassador Georgi Zarubin left London secretly three or four days ago to discuss the Marshall ;propcsuls in Moscow. e e i SEVEREJABON 0.5, POLICYBY MOSCOW PAPER MOSCOW, June 20. — (#—The' | Communist newspaper Pravda to- day termed the Wesleyan speech jof retiring Undersecretary of State :Dean Acheson a “gross and rude! cl WASHINGTON, June 20.—(®P— President Truman today accepted an nvitation to visit Brazil soon. The President’s acceptance was announced by Brazilian Ambassador | H aid the invitation came | the engine of his car sputtering, jway for Prince Rupert again. They and complained about the gusoline expect to return to Juneau by sold him at a filling station earlier. August 1. . Investigating, the attendant found ' — hoses had been switched and a 400- | AT HOTEL JUNEAU gallen underground gasoline stor-| Mr. and Mrs J. Bergerson have #ank had been filled with |arrived from Seattle and are re- water, gistered at the Hotel Juneau. oo ,rivers at additional points. ; voted unanimously today for a $50,- in The fire had already leaped the Moose River at several spots and now is burning fiercely at the west end of Skilak Lake and is heading south. In its southern path are 25 miles of solid timber. R. R. Robinson, chief of the A. F. C. S, said he fears the fire will drive moose from the Kenai Moose Tleserve onto the Chickaloon flats where they won't find good feeding Rent Loniroi | { | KE " A | Now | N | | his chest, faces a new puzzler today ! : H —whether to let rent controls run : _Bu"ed In Unmark' Town on Peninsula ed Jungle Graves ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 20 7—1 The Senate completed Congres- | hanged last night for wartime atro- cities, on a gallows carefully hid- spreading Kenai Peninsula forest | proviso that ceilings can be lifted fire late yesterday took a sudden as much as 15 per cent if landlords The dead and their crimes: | Vice Adm. Koho Abe, onetime A brisk southwest wind was fan- struction curbs except in the case ning the fire as it continued its race of recreational type buildings, such | ines who raided Makin Island 11942 from submarines of the Alaska Fire Control Service, were battling to prevent the flames ordered the machinegun massacre of 98 Americans there late in the war DAMASCUS, June 20.—(®—Capt. | George Doole, Middle East Director to investigate the crash of one of its; Capt. Noboru Nakajima, who beat passenger planes yesterday in east- |an American flier to death on the ' Jout this month or sign an extension | (#—While most of the men folk orl‘siuuul action late yesterday on the ' den from vengeful Guamanians. shift and threatened the small com- |and tenants agree on a lease run- i Japanese Navy Commander in the through valuable timber. as theatres and bowling alleys. from leaping the Moose and Kenai and who personally beheaded one for Pan American World Airways, (ern Syria in which 15 of 36 persons | same island. i ki | AT H 3 H | WASHINGTON, June 20. — (#P— Wind Shifts Driving Forest! | bill roundly denounced by his hous- | GUAM, June 20. t){r- fishing village of Kenai were measure extending rent control | and their bodies interred in un- munity of 600 persons at the mouth 'ning through 1948. | Marshall Islands, who ordered the Alaska Road Commission workers, >oe plA"E (RASH | Rear Adm. Shigematsu Sakaibara, who escaped the machinegun blasts. arrived here today with an assistant jed American fliers on Chichi Jima ‘aboard were killed. Seaman {irst “class Kajl Shoji, U ] | President Truman, the labor bill off | PaY fOI’ wamme A'm(mes Fires Toward Fishing |ing aides. ese, from Admirals to private, were out on the fishing banks, the rapidly | through next February 29, with a | marked jungle greves. | of the Kenai River. | The bill also knocks out all con- | execution of nine of the U. S. Mar- directed by Bob Williams, official ! former commander on Wake, INVESTIGATED i Lt. Col. Kikuji Ito, who ordered and two vice-presidents of the firm land wko beheaded the corpses. Circumstances were largely un-;who killed and ate his fellow fu- | | Investigation of Finance Corporation Also Gets Unanimous Vote WASHINGTON, June The Senate g Kodiak fo Receive Direct Air Service SEATTLE, June 2(.——North- ern Airlines, Inc., contract air car- rier, started air freight service to- about Monday. Baranof, .from Seattle due Mon- day afternoon or evening. Alaska, trom Seattle, due Tues- day. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver June 25. Sailors Sphce scheduled to sail from Seattle June 27. Aleutian, from west, scheduled }sou(hbuund 7 pm. Saturday. grounds. Weary soldiers from Fort Rich- tpa¢ the plane messaged shortly be- | tion of Guam. ardson, with the aid of engineers'ore the crash that one of its en-| Superior private Kiyoshi Taka- and buudg,,ex:s were believed to have 'gines pad blown a cylinder head | hashi, also condemned for murder halted the soread of the fire towards | 4, t5at it was attempting to make | and cannibalism on liberated Guam, a fort hospital. They still held the |, eparations for a forced landing. blaze in check about two miles from The crash occurred in desolate des- The six were marched, one by the hospital. ert country near the Iraq border. ‘nne, from ambulances to an iso- The main part of the blaze in the | The dead were buried at the scene |]ated quonset warehouse in which Fort Richardson area was believed | 51,4 16 injured passengers were hos- ' gallows had been secretly install- curdbed through the use of fire pitalized in Beirut. ed. The Navy command had guard- breaks. | i ;ed carefully the place and hour of P | the execution. None but official wit- SENATE 'MEREDITH LOTZE OF |neses atiencea o R BANKING sitka ARRESTED ON COM. APPROVES CHARGE OF BURGLARY |CATHOLIC BISHOP - : i ! U. 8. Deputy Marshal Max Rogers | MOBBED IN vueo of Sitka has notified Marshal Wil- | !llam T. Mahoney of the arrest of | SlAv (oMMu“I" | Meredith Lotze on a charge of| burglary, according to the Marshal's —— L& office here . ! TRIESTE, June 20. — (P—Msgr, Lotze is accused of robbing the|Antonio Santin, 51-year-old Roman American Legion clubhouse of about | Catholic Bishop of Capodistria and $1,000 in cash, and other valuables. | Trieste, was confined to bed today }He has been bound over to thelas the result of a severe mauling . 20—®— | Grand Jury. ! he received at the hands of a mob Banking Committee | T {who attacked him yesterday at H odistria as he was about to lead 000 investigation of the Reconstruc- MEIHODISI (H"R(H ‘E agmnc'smnl;y procession ihrough tion Finance - Corporation. | the Yugoslav-occupied community, By the same vote, Senator Buck | plA"NING HlKE o“ Allledg military pszowzrnment :yu— (R-Del) tola reporters, the com- ’ thorities were reported to have mittee approved a resolution ex- lonGEsr DAY OF 41 %recommendud to ll:’e!r governments tending the life of RFC for one The Methodist Church is spon- . that diplomatic representations be year beyond June 30. soring two hikes for the evening of made to Yugoslavia over the inci- The House Banking Committee the longest day of the year, Satur-,dent, yesterday approved a two-year ex- day evening. The first group will tension of the lending agency, but'include those who want to “climb” voted to curtail its operations and|and is to the knoll above timber- to remove it from competition with'line on the Mt. Robert’s trail. Leav- private lending institutions. ’l'he‘ms trom the church at 6:30 o'clock Senate committee's resolution would | the group will plan to be “up” in| continue RFC without change. | time to eat from their sack lunches | - |and rest on the meadow before the | midnight service, leaving plenty of SEAI'I.E MAYOR time for the trail. The Rev. Treat, “Paswr, will be with this group. | The Young Aduit Fellowship will e i . I-EAVES IONIGHI {0 on an overnight hike with e Sl Bl 0" AlASKA Tnlp l:.leepmg bags, and plan toleavethe g n.' announced. The DC-3 twin- { Church about 7:30 p.m. Transpor- ” it 1o AK 5 of detiar engine transports will SEATTLE, June 20—(#—Accom- | 1 to the point of departure|gpes girect or by way of Anchor- “ p will be provided. Edith Moore is in - panying a party of¥Seattle business jaroe Sourdough pancakes for | 5¢ s e s L men and their wives, Mayor and‘breakla’st is on the menu. 11load factors, he said. Mrs. William F. Devin will leave| e M e dedabias; S R tonight on a three weeks' vacation | e g wip to_Alaska. . STOCK QUOTATIONS | STEAMER MOVEMENTS The party will sail on the Alaskai NEW YORK, .June 20.—Closing | o/ e Steamship Company’s Baranof with|guotation of Alaska Juneau mine| Southeastern, from Prince Rupert, stops scheduled at Ketchikan, Ju-lstock today fs 5%, American Canlin port. veatt and Seward. The party goes g1y, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright | Princess Norah, from Vancouver, to Anchorag~ over the Alaska Rail-141;, nternational Harvester 88'%,|due Saturday afternoon or evening. to Fairbanks, which is their, ulti- | gennecott 44%, New York Central mate destination. |14%, Northern Pacific 17%, U. S. T e Steel 68'%, Pound $4.02%. FIRESIDE GEYSERS | Sales today were 1,130,000 shares | Merrill-Lynch averages today are | DERBY, Conn., June mqutns follows: industrials 176.47, rails Several Derby housewives were |45.82, utilities 34.55. | startle® when their gas stoves be- | RO e | came water fountains. | McCALLUM HERE ! Investigation disclosed that heavy| John W. McCallum has arrived road building machinery had crack- | from Seattle and is registered as a ed water and gas mains. | guest of the Baranof Hotel, | —(P—Six Japan- | who | the fatal bayonetting of two down-' known here, but there were reports | gitives after the American llbera-_: make the Square Sinnet, from Seattle, due| VETOED; HOUSE OVERRIDES IT Truce LABORLAW 1S VETOED - BY TRUMAN ‘House, Aroused, Overrides | It, 331 to 83 - Action Now Up fo Senate WASHINGTON, June 20. President Truman vetoed today the Taft-Hartley bill tg,curb labor un- ions and an aroused House swiitly and overwhelmingly overrode the | veto. That put it up to the Senate to clinch the décision on whether the Ibill is to become law over the President’s disapproval: It will vote | late today or possibly tomorrow af- }ternoanA ‘The Senate is expected generally | to override the veto, but beth sides 'concede the vote will be close. With a two-to-one margin need- ed to override a veto, the House vote was 331 to 83. That was 55 more “ayes” than necessary. | In his big battle with Congress over the issue, Mr. Truman called in a group of leading Democratic Senators for a White House lunch- eon—presumably to talk over the veto. He also announced plans to g0 on the radio tonight and give ,the people directly his arguments against the bill: He ‘Will speak:over all networks at 6 pm, (PST). Senator Taft (R-Ohio), one of the measure's sponsors and Chair- man of the Senate Republican Pol- icy Committee, arranged to follow Mr. Truman at 6:45 p.m. with his side. He will speak over MBS. Truman'’s Message In a 5500 word message to the House, Mr. Truman laid down four ‘general and 32 specific points of opposition to the bill to check strikes and unions. He labelled it “unfair” and “unworkable.” He said 'it would promote strikes. The House listened while a clerk droned through the long message. | Then came the vote which smother- ed the veto under a deluge of both | Republican and Democratic votes. | That action did this: i 1. Propelled the labor issue @i- {rectly into the 1948 political cam- | 2. Erased whatever vestiges may paign. "have remained of White House- | Congress teamwork on domestic affairs, | Plain Defiance Carroll Reece, Republican Na- {tional Chairman called the veto a | “plain defiance of the will of the | American people” and an “open bid for a fifth term for the New Deal.” { Mr. Truman summed up his dis- | pleasure of the labor bill in five | terse sentences: i “The bill taken as a whole would reverse the basic direction of our ’ranonal labor policy, inject the | government into private economic !affairs on an unprecedented scale, and conflict with important prin- " (Continued on Page Five; i vt Lk Doccadbely | Blocks Senate Delay on Yole | WASHINGTON, June 20— Senator Morse (R-Ore) today block- ed a propossl that the Senate vote at 1 pm. (PST) tomorrow on Pres- jident Truman’s veto of the Taft- | Hartley labor bill. | Senator Wherry (Neb) assistant | Republican leader, immediately |'served notice that the Senate will stay in session the rest of the af- |ternoon for debate on -the veto | message and then go into a night | session. | Senate Democratic and Republi* i can leaders had reached agreement [to set 1 p.m. tomorrow as the time requiring lgnnnunoul agreement and for voting. Their proposal was offered as one | Morse's objection was enough to | bloek it. Morse argued the Senate should |study the veto message until early next week before voting.