The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 21, 1947, Page 1

1P.M. Edition HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition e VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,612 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1947 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —mm— LABOR BILL FIGHT STAGED IN SENATE S ontract Talks Start EMPLOYERS, | UNIONS IN CONFERENCE Ace Troublai-looler Now Working for Early Final Setflement : - SAN FRANCISCO, June 21—(®— Nathan P. Feinsinger, ace trouble-| shooter for the Labor Departmenl‘i went into contract talks at a con-| ference with two CIO unions and the Waterfront Employers today in} an attempt to transform the Pa-! cific Coast maritime truce into an! early final settlement. { Feinsinger, who negotiated the} temporary agreement which ended a lour-day tieup earlier in the week, | said that a final peace mAay re- quire “another day or two.” Contracts covering the two re- maining unions, the CIO Marine Cooks and Stewards and the Amer- ican Communications Association (the radio operators), are expected in general to parallel those signed: with East coast unions, including a | five percent wage raise and nine paid holidays a year. Maritime activity was back to normal today and the railroads again were moving shipments to | coast ports. A spokesman for the Waterfront | Employers said “headway has been't made in clearing the backlog of work resulting from the four-day | tieup and all ships are now sailing on schedule. i - - GILMORE TO KETCHIKAN U. S. Attorney P. J. Gilmore, Jr. | will leave on the Aleutian this eve- | ning for Ketchikan where he will | spend the next three weeks at the | court term there. Gilmore will also | visit his parents and many friends in his home city while there. e — The Washington Merry - Go- Round | i | By DREW PEARSON | WASHINGTON —Representative of three Senate committees had a | hard time ge'ting the Army to ad- mit much blame regarding the; £900,000,000 Russian occupation- | mark loss, but they did extract the ' admission that the War Department was making up its loss by convert- ing U. S. charitable contributions ' sent to ‘European refugees and dis- placed persons into occupation marks. It was New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, initiator of the Rus- sian currency probe, who drew out this admission. Having listened to; the Army’s story of how it loaned' the Russians our currency plates tof print paper occupation money, Bridges asked Assistant Secretary of | War .Howard C. Petersen: | “Having got yourself‘in that su-i 1 uation, it is clear that what you are deing is taking the charitable con- tributjons, the individual sending of money, the payment of German war ‘prisoners, all to get the War rtment out of the hole that somebody got it into by building up thid ‘situation. Is not that true?” “Tnat is correct,” admitted Peter- SHOTS !Simpson, 31, a Vancouver, Wash, "APPLE (ITY'S" QUEEN CONTEST o ~ FORSURE iTerritorial Senator Is in 'l for Town of Seward , Ko ) WASHINGTON, June 21 — () —| | {Don Carlos Brownell, a member of | |the Alaskan Senate, said today llel ihad registered as a Congressional {Lobbyist because of his activities |here to try to save the town of jSeward {rom extinction. f | Brownell told a reporter thatj {friends said he should register un-; der the Lobbyist Act since he l\asi & ‘been here 63 days trying to in- :J'.\u-me Congri to pass legisl;mun' which he says is needed to keep . Seward from being left without |land tranpsportation to the remain- der of Alaska. | The Alaska Railroad, which for- merly had its terminus at Seward! fand which led to the establish-! ‘ment of the town of 1,700 persons, | — ¥ Cock Inlet and has established ai Watsonville Sponsored by the {terminus on the Inlet. This would; Soroptomist Club, comely and ).,y Seward without ground trans- | shapely Miss Norma McMaster portation. i (above) seeks the title of “Fourth |" plane ‘for an $11,000000 road | of July Queen” for the two-day 'from Seward to connect with thej celebraticn in the Pajaro Valley {alcya Highway system now are' July 4-5. Miss McMasters is 18, |pefore the Budget Bureans and! a 5-foot, 5-inch, 123-pound, horse- i woman and her figure is said to K resemble that of last year's “ America,” according to Mrs | Brownell said ‘he expected the Bu- |reau would ask Congress shortly to approve the expenditure. \ The Senate Appropriations Com- .mittee in approving the Interior | Department appropriation bill wrote ! linto its report a clause requiring; {the Alaska Railroad to continue } ito serve Seward for two years, orl until the road is completed. i Brownell, former Mayor of Sew- | lard, said he was told hz must give, ‘an itemized account of all of his | expenses while here and who pays ! them and his salary. He said lhe| OUT;WOMAN divorced husband a few minutesi later, wresting a .38 caliber revolver from his hands. The Patrolman MURDERED! said Homer A, | BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jube 21. | ! —» — Gangland bullets late last! inight snuffed out the life of Ben- | | jamin (Bugsie) Siegel, 41-year-old gambler and one-time public enemy, ! 'as he sat quietly in a home here | :reading a newspaper. H Police Capt. William W. White machinist, told him: “I'm the guy that did it.” Simpson was booked at the Sno- homish city jail and later taken to the Everett jail by Sheriff Tom Warnock. He was held on an open charge. ‘| Washington Fighting | plans to abandon its line South of | | Naval Academy Grads Toss Hats napolis, Md., with mid SAYS U. 5. Oil TO RUSSIA IS ONLY NORMAL Congress Shows Concern Over Large Petroleum Shipments fo Siberia (R-Mich.) d he was concerned over the oil shipments in the facc of a reported petroleum shortage here. “There is nothing umugpal about a shipment of an estimated hall a million barrels of petroleum pr ucts to Siberia from West Coast ports. This is a normal seasonal movement. The volume concerned not of a huge magnitude,” Blais- dell testified. In Coast Ship Dispute oaths s cmsigns after getting diplomas from Secretary of N At the Snohomish General Hos- pital, Robert H. Cole, 53, a Bonne- ville Administration worker, was: unconscious and in a “fair” condi- said an unidentified gunman ?“eiuk.: Shafer {nterrupted to say “there ! o 4 up _to r;n Ogen wmdowf ‘sh.m“yvzwas nothing unusual about sending o flf:er S:iegre. and_a‘ party o rgendhfscrap iron and oil to-Japan in the o returne rom dining at an CeanN ! yo30s either.” The 194 members cf the graduating class of the U. S. Naval Academy fill hipmen's eaps at the traditional end of cmomencement exercises. They had taken vy Forestal. (AP Photo) ATHLEE CLAIMS HUMAN RIGHTS BEING DENIED BARNSLEY, England, June 21 (#—Prime Minister Attlee declared today that “human rights are de- nied and so-called Democratic gov- ernment is a travesty” in “several countries of Ea n Europe.’ “I am concerned that there should be people in this country, and people who profess to be So- Office of if precisely the same things were ... powdoin sails today for the Arc- | last question is easy, for it is ex-; I S K I l l E D;actly norplng. LS : ! |cialists, who appear to condone | b |things that are done by govern- Y < : WASHINGTON, June 21 (7— ments that call themselves Left, 10NE - T'ME \Thomas E. Blaisdell, Chief of the When they would protest vigorously SNOHOMISH, Wash., June 21—. @& ! Commerce Department’s m—A wild outburst of shots in a| o jInternal Trade, told Congress to- done by governments of the Righ ltl'auer camp killed Mrs. Anna Rose | iday that current United States ol Attlee said in a speech at a Miners Simpson, 23, and wounded her !shipments to Russia are “normal’ demonstration. father critically late yesterday and | Blaisdell was called to testify be-| “Freedom of *speech, freedom of State Patrolman Everett Olsen re- {fore a House Armed Service Sub-|conscience and personal frecdom ported he arrested the woman’s; committee after Chairman Shafer is the right of the individual whether he Worker is a Capitalist or a Conservative, a Liberal " the Premier declared. Wi the ialist " most pointed anti-Russian ment since he told the British Trade Union Congress last winter that the Soviet Government was building a “wall of ignorance” be- tween the Russian people and the West. | - > e o o o O =+ . WEATHER REPORT PRESIDENT, TAFT MAKE ~ AIRDEBATE Blistering Arguments For, { Against Labor Bill | Made Last Night WASHINGTON, June 21—(P— President’” Truman and Senator | |Taft (R-Ohio) laid before the na- . |tion in final round radio debates {last night their blistering argu- |ments for and against enacting the Taft-Hartley union control bill into law. | While the Senate was warming 'up for a rare and angry all-night . Isession, Mr. Truman took to the . (radio with a followup to his vetc message, overridden by the House. | Calling the bill “shocking” the "# | | President said it would increase in- | |dustrial strife, and sow “seeds of | |discord” that would impair the £ ' |country’s unity and strength. . He declared the measure was # | |“loaded,” and “filled with hidden - | |legal traps,” and said employers as iwell as unions would “regret the g 7 X _jday that it was conceived.” the air in Dahlgren Hall at An- | T e o6 the bill's authors, ireplied with a broadcast a half an i jhour later. : He said Mr. Truman had “com- ARCTICIS wifisies UNDERWAY yET0 OF WoOL Explorer MacMillan Off on T ARIFF BILL Iover that of House Democrats. 1 - Cruise to Study Green- | 'His veto message shows that he land Glaciers 'S HOPED I:OR &sows practically nothing about the |Bill itself,” Taft declared. BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Me., June | (M—The tough-timbered schoon- ‘ 21 WASHINGTON, June 2i. — (P— tic, bearing veteran explorer Don-|Two more controversial bills, for ald B. MacMillan and 15 shipmates“which opponents have urged Presi- who will study Greenland glaciers dential vetoes reached the White on a summer-long cruise. House today. Sydney, Nova Scotia, was the first predicted port of call for the! little two-master which also w visit Nain in Laborador before crosses Baffin Bay to Greenland’s| Western shere and heads North to Etah, eleven degrees from the pole. | The measures, dealing with tar- iffs and price support for wool and t, extending rent controls, were passed after stormy Congressional debate. ‘The wocl bill authorizes the Presi- dent to increase wool tariffs or im- Major aims of the expedition, Poc import limits whenever foreign sponsored by the Chicago Geogra- | Wool shipments endanger the domes- poical Society, was measurement 'iC Price support program for wool. under the direction of Northwest-|The Lill extends the support pro- crn University Geozrapher William |8ram ihreugh 1948. E. Powers of the speed of Umiama-, The seccnd measure extends Fed- Upernvie, Jacobshaven and Rink 'eral rent control until March 1, iers. {1948, and permits an increase in Another objective was first record- rents as much as 15 per cent if ings of Eskimo tribal music on ap-|landlords and tenants agree on a paratus to be operated by Miriam 'lease running through next year. Rent bill proponents believe the {Radio Stafion for lard, Alaska, tion this forenoon, gerson, Superintendent, sa: : — id. Seward Approved WASHINGTON, June 21—(®—| Smiley. The Communications Commission|gpots were fired, but when I looked yesterday granted a constructionigg giegel, I could see he had taken | permit for a' new radio station to! ot of them.” i the Alaska Broadcasting Co., Sew- Siegel who, White said, had been' 1340 Kilocycles, 250} a0tive in the sporting world in this year and 5,000,000 barrels in 1945 e COURT ADJOURNED in Juneau i Par h, fired through th ! ® Temperarure for 24-Hour Mrs, C. M. Tor- w;::fl::ac and fired throug he !' James H. Mayes, Commerce J)w-1 e Period Ending 7:30 o'Glock Look MacMillan, the explorer’s at-| £ % jpartment petroleum expert, said' g is Morning {tractive wife, who also will be ex- bo‘?if' ;;aéfeg?l“;s Shheogt,exl-::?;f:g tgzlhalf a million barrels of petroleum| g A _1 % pedition photographer on the voy paper on a divan. Beside him s“‘w_vre expor[evd durigg: May, but "" . In Juncau—Maximum, 52; age. did not know how much of it went it > - lone of the guests, Allen Smiley.lto Russia. Mayes said the Soviet ® minimum, 48. :ee:le known sporting world figure received 72,000 barrels from the : m;fln!m:j:c:; Maximum, 53; (Io A(w UNIONS 1 United States h i three 4 { . “I heard the glass scattering and |0 o o o yetm,e first three o \WEATHER FORECAST 1 ducked,” Captain White quoted "3l ot that exports fo|§ o, (umean snd Vienkr) GET CLOSED SHOP “I don’t know how many ip,,. were 2,500,000 - barrels la |® Continued cloudy with in- e termittent ra‘n this after- e noon and Sunday. Little i® change in temperature. e Southeasterly winds 10 to o 20 mph . PRECIPITATION - 5-YR. CONTRACTS | NEW YORK, June 21.—(M—The President will sign the measure, ! though perhaps reluctantly, be- |cause ctherwise there will be no Federal controls after July 1 when ime present law expires. | The White House said the Presi- !dent has until midnight, July 2, to act on both bills. - e - — 'BISHOP BRUCE . DIES SUDDENLY SENATORS DELAYING VETO VOTE Upper House in All-Day, All-Night Session-Ar- guments Continuing WASHINGTON, June 21. — (P— Frazzled Senators still were far from agreement today on fixing a time for a vote on President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley labor con- trol bille An end to their all-day, all-night wrangling was nowhere in sight after 24 hours of continuous session. As a small band of veto support- ers continued their desperate effort to delay a final judgment until | | next week, Senate Republican Lead- er White of Maine said an effort will be made to reach an agreement for a vote Monday. This announcement came after White conceded it would be vir- tually impossible to force a vote any- time tdday on the veto which the House easily overrode yesterday al- most immediately after it had ar- rived from the White House. Senator Morse (R.-Ore)., one of the group determined to delay a vote until the nation has time to react to Mr. Truman's radio address o last night supporting his veto message, still held the floor this morning, TP sisahis There was no opportunity for the Republican leaders, dead set in their hopes of overriding the veto and making the bill law, to dicker for a vote Monday until Morse quit talk- ing. ‘There was a possible chance that once Morse gave up the Senate might agree finally on White's pro- posal to vote Monday and 3o home for much-needed weekend rest. ° Senator Pepper (D.-Fla., like Morse an opponent of the ,bill, sarlier had tried a similar move, but the Republicans, aided by a number »f Democrats, smashed that effort, 50 to 14. Opponents have been hold- ing out to prevent a vote before Tuesday at the earliest. The White House said several hundred telegrams have been re- ceived in, response to Mr. Truman's veto message and his radio address of last night. Eben Ayes, Assisiani Press Secre- tary, told reporters the ratio was about 5 to 1 in support of the President’s stand. e — Tire Heiress Weds Today AKRON, O, June 21—(®—Tire heiress Martha Parke Firestone, a fair-haired 21-year-old girl with a happy smile, became the bride to- day of William Clay Ford, 22, grandson of the late Henry Ford. The socialite-studded event is ex- pected to be one of. the most elab- orate weddings of 1947. NORMANTHOMAS STOPS RUNNING AS CANDIDATE TAMIMENT, Pa., June 21—(®— {New York Herald Tribune says the | Watts, 5 p.m. to midnight. U. S District Court, sen. “And the only alternative '-Oi area for about ten years, once was. proceeding in the liquidation of designated as “public enemy” by | adjourned sine di terday aftcr- | ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 «m. today) @ | CIO Amalga d Clothi ‘Work: | ! | | adjou sine die yesterday after as ours ent m. taday) @ | malgamates othing Work- ) re. 21—(»—|Norman Thomas says he's thro ::oi;e hol:h;:gs as we n’\rerpxoceedms-i STEAMER MOVEMENTS * |Covernor Thomas E. Dewey of jnoon by Federal Judge George W.'e In Juneau — 20 inches; @ ers of America—in an effort to re- Bl;iiT;A:f,;Lg“b" J{"};”“f: o [ nltl he D o i cmdm‘f,: ask Congress for an appro-! : v is- i i e to e inche: 3§ : 4 o Mett ! ide ; ’ g3 PProz New York while the latter was Dis- i Folta. The court will move to ® since June 1, 287 inche tain the closed shop, which woulujm“d area of the Methodist Church, for President because “it isn't good be banned by the Taft-Hartley bill gieq- suddenly last night in his|for a man to run so many times." —has negotiated five-year exten- .o iment here. | “Two or three times is all right sicns of most of its current closed A physician called by Bishop/but after that it gets to be a ges- op contracts. | Baxter's wife arrived after he died!ture,” he told the 13th Annual Ec- The extended closed shop con- anq reported that preliminary L.,‘.“unumm and Social Institute last Thomas was the Socialist since July 1, 94.43 inches. At Airport — .07 inches; since June 1, 220 inches; o since July 1, 59.78 inches trict Attorney. | Ketchikan over the weekend and ternatives there are.” The slain man was a witness be- | will begin business on Tuesday He assured the Senators that the | Afternoon. |fore a New York Grand Jury that | Judge Folta end the court reporte Square Sinnet. from Seattle, due investigated New York’s Murder, | Miss Mildred Maynard, will les War Department did not intend to! | ask for, an appropriation. about Monday.” Inc. { here Monday; Clerk of the Court Princess Ncrah, from Vancouver, priation. Those are the only two al- scheduled to arrive at 2 o'clock this ! I The Assistant War Secretary also| Baranof, from Seattle due Mon- T e John Walmer will leave Sund e o o o o o o @ | tracts, the newspaper said, cover | g . I y S S v . 5 3 amination indicated death was due|night. stated that the decision to Lurn‘l"fi." afternoon or evening. ALASKANS AT BARANOF and District Attorney P. J. Gilmore, e 1300,000 of the union’s 350,000 mem- |to coronary thrombosis [candmate five times. Alaska, from Seattle, due Tues-, —— 'Jr., is leaving tonight. WOLFE BRi~NGS PLANE |bers, “with most of the remaining| As Bishop of the Portland mea,' i (s AR American currency plates over to the Russians for printing occupa- LANDED tion marks was made by the Trea- sury and State Departments. J. Marvin Wolfe, of Boise, Idaho, arrived here yesterday piloting a new Seabee amphibious airplane be- !longing to the U. S. Fisl and Wild- ‘ai!wl.ed by the bill's provisions.” (50,000 not involved because they Dr. Baxter was General Superimi KING SALMON are not engaged in interstate com- itendent of Methodist activities in merce and therefore would not be|QOregon, Washington, Idaho und| | Alaska. |0. Vionola, docked at the Cold Boyd Slatter of Skagway,EdBur-! The court will return to Juncau' nell of Point Barrow, A. E. Owensiin approximately three weeks. {of Ketchikan, Murray LaCour of ———.o——— FROM ANCHORAGE day. ! Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver June 25. ! sailors Sphce scheduled to sail Sitka, Dave Dishaw of Anchorage, The Anne Narie, skippered by A. \ | RUSSIANS DEMANDED PLATES from Sgattle June 27, 'C. Raatikanen of Pelican, Mrs.| Bernard Mason and Joseph Park iife Service. Wolfe, who is regula; >o> - | One of the most widely known Storage this morning and unloaded ] “A combined United states—Umt-" Aleugan, from west, scheduled |Gladys C. Wilson of Fairbanks and"are registered at the Hotel Juncau |lv assigned to the Fish and Wildlife | NEW YORKERS HERE !and popular leaders in Oregon ec-} 1,000 pounds of king salmon for the : ed Kingdem decision was taken 0 arrive at 8:30 o'clock tonight | Eleanor O'Reilly of Taku Lodge during their stay in the Capitol Service at Boise, will be temporarily | Donald Tayler and J. B. Purdy clesiastical circles, Dr. Baxter had| Alaska Coastal Fisheries, There and sails southbound at 10:30|are a few of the Alaskans regxsler-‘clty They arrived from Anchorace assigned to the Alaska Region for |arrived from New York and are been Methodist Bishop of the[were no other fishermen selling (Continued on Page Four) o'clock, cd at the Baranof Hotel, yesterday. |the cummer months registered at the Baranof Hotel. “Pm-r]un:l area since July 19, 1940, l’(nd:ny.