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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — —— - — VOL. LXVI,, NO. 10,613 PRICE TEN CENTS —_— " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1947 SENATE OVERRIDES LABOR BILL VETO Tornadoes, Floods, Blizzards Rage Sunday 15 PERSONS LOSELIVES IN FLOODS Hundreds Homeless-Cold Wave, Snow Deals Death ~Tornado in Nebraska By The Associated Press) Tornadoes, flash floods and howl- ing blizzards claimed at least 18 lives, left hundreds homeless and | trapped up vacationists in a swirling | snow stortn yesterday as a reception | to summer. i Hardest hit was Nebraska where | at least 15 were known to have: perished as a 12-foot wall of water | from an overflowing creek surged through the town of Cambridge at dawn, taking the 1,100 inhabitants by such surprise that they were unaware of the disaster until their homes were sent sprawling from their foundations. Die in Blizzard At Jeast three persons died in the | cold of the blizzard which left snow | drifts as much as 15 feet deep at ! Bear Tooth Pass between Yellow- | stone National Park, Wyo., and Red | Lodge, Mont. | The floods in several areas of | Nebraska followed cloudbursts which Brouight “ar’ esti “THEREs or more of rain at Burwell and Broken Bow. { Mayor Lloyd R. Richardson of | Cambridge said about 100 were | homeless there, and North Loup, in the north central part of the State, | was inundated. Streams through- out the State went out of their! banks. Ashland, in eastern Nebraska, | was flooded for the fourth time this | year. | v | | r { i Die in Floods i Nine persons were known to have | (Continued on Page Five) i The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | 1 WASHINGTON—In austere and | digniiled Supreme ! Court circles there is a situation which the Jus- | tices don’t talk about publicly, but. which is causing mingled embar- rassment, chuckles and resentment. It's the fact that one member of the Court is soldiering on the job. He is Justice Harold Burton of Ohio, who to date has written only three majority opinions during the entire year. This is the lowest out- | put in several years of Supreme | Court history, and Court attaches whisper—behind their hands—that | if Burton wasn't protected by the; “Supreme Court Union” he would have been reprimanded or jostled off the bench long ago. In contrast Justice William O. Douglas, even though sick for two ! months, has written 26 majority | opinions, while Justice Hugo Black also has written 26. ! Justice Burton, on the other | hand, seems to think that being oni the Supreme Court is not for the! purpose of handing down opinions | but to enjoy a continual round of | parties. There is scarcely a party oi: any importance in Washington | where he does not appear—includ- ing also some parties not so im-; portant. 1 Justice and Mrs. Burton were to be seen recently at the Afghanis-; tan reception—a country some pecple scarcely know exists—and when Ambassador Jawdat of Iraq entertained in honor of His Maj- esty, King Faisal of Iraq, the Jus- tice turned up to drink a toast. Whether it be a reception in honor of Ohio Congressmen, in this case| given by Burton himself, or a cock- : tail party to inspect a portrait of | ex-Attorney General Francis Biddle, | painted by his brother; or a tea| at the Czech Embassy, Justice Bur- | ten always seems to be there. H It’s got to be more than a joke around Washington. It’s come to the point that when Justice Hugo" Black leaves a dinner party at 10, pm. in order to go home and work ' on an opinion, guests pointedly re- ‘\ inued on Page Four) | i H (Cv;m SLIP FROM | the path of a car driven by Frank Dog Found 10 MilesatSea MANY BIG — i \ . Qil-rich Lands Under Sea '\ Belong fo Govi.—Rule- Against Pefrillo | WASHINGTON. June 23.—(#— !} The Supreme Court today upheld ‘.l the Federal government's claim to | | ownership of oil-rich lands lying under the sea off California’s coast. ! California, which has leased some | yof the land to oil operators, fought | the claim but lost 6-2. '| Winding up its session for this | term, the High Court also upheld | the constitutionality of the so-called | “anti-Petrillo law” and in a series of 5-4 decisions established import- i ' ant precedents as to trial rights of . | persons accused of crimes. C One of these upheld New York State's “blue ribbon jury” proce- dure. Another upheld the California {1 law which permits the prosecutor to . comment to the jury on the fact, if | the defendant does not take the | | stand. . Both these procedures had been attacked as violations of the consti- tution’s guarantee of trial by due | | . i _Fred Lindstrum holds @ cocker spaniel which he hauled out of the Process of law. . cean 16 mfice offsnore. Whils reimening JromOaaling Toanl, [, D ncone grupnyrm gyuiey, BVt > 2 ® ] 2 labor union officials convicted of Lindstrum investigated a “seal” and found it (o be a dog. Me {extorting money trom contractor couldn’t explain why the dog happened to be swimming 10 miles cut Dratested thes “blue- ribbon. jur They said it meant they were tried ~!by persons drawn from “the upper stratum of economic and social life. | They said they ~would have been tacquitted by a jury representing | a cross-section ot the public. They s were sentenced to terms of eight |and one-half to 16 years in prison each, In the California case, the court jaffirmed the murder conviction of iAdmu’al Dewey Adamson, a negro 3.\ccused of slaying Mrs. Stella i Blauvelt, a 64-year-old widow. He I did not take the witness stand and the prosecutor called the jury’s at- i tention to that fact. i The court ruled 5-3 that the anti- Petrillo law is constitutional. That act, openly aimed at practices by ! James C. Petrillo, head of the AFL D FROM BIG THREE 1065,B0YS TOCONFER LOSELIVES N PARIS Nine - Yea:?)ld Seattle ally Russia Finally Agrees fo Lads Drown in Separate | Meet Minister on Accidents Sunday Marshall Plan | Musicians Union, forbids using co- (By THE ASSOCIATID PRESS) LONDON., June 23.—(P—The for- | ersion to force radio stations to Two nine-year-old Seattle boys— ©i8n ministers of Soviet Russia, Brit- | hire more musicians than they 1 ain and France will meet in Pavis | need. son and Leon Wallace >wned in separate ay, one in Seattle n the waters below | Dam in Yakima Arthur Steve! Shores—were d accidents yes and the oth bumping Lake County. A third accident victim of the weekend was Emanuel Johnson, 75, of Mercer Island. Johnson was fa- tally irjured Saturday night, when according to State Patrolman D. L. La Lanne, he stepped suddenly into Petrillo was accused of forcing a Chicago station to hire extra em- away. > KING SALMON LANDED ‘Two 1ishing boats docked at the Juneau Cold Storage dock over the weekend with salmon for the Al- aska Coast Fisheries. The Apex No. 1, skippered by Peter Bond, brought in 3,000 pounds of king salmon and the Atka, under Captain Red Wil- liams, unloaded 600 pounds of kings. Friday to disc he Marsholi plan to pui Europe back on its feer Moscow, where official publiga- tions last week attacked Secretar7|held the law unconstitutional. of State Marshall’s proposals as .\n| The High Court’s decision means attempt to extend the Truman dof the Justice Department can go trine and “dollar diplomacy,” an-|ghead with efforts to prove Petrillo nounced today Soviet agreement to ! nas violated the law. have V. M. Molotov meet with Sl il A Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's | Georges Bidault. Bidault’s Jflicc}SAN FRAN(IS(O announced the three would convene | Friday, while in London Beyin told 0 S. Atkins, 28, professional football the House of Commons: uAKE ROCKED player. Atkins was not held. “I hope good results will follow.” ! i The body of young Stevenson was Bidault said the Russian agree- i recovered last night from a back-'ment to participate in the Lalks‘!Asggdeffigi?:ihqusiim;? :;; :n: water on the Harbor Island tide- “gives rise to hepe in a maftter dulatory type ;'ocked San Francisco flats. Witnesses said the boy ll_ell whu%l”wnuems the future of hum- and the surrounding area for about into the water from a log while anity. four minutes starting at 3:29 p.m tishing. | “The choice of Paris,” he told| pgry, vesterday but dam;e ‘”; Young Shores also slipped from members of the French Assembly.| onfined to a few broken \n;gmdo\‘\“\ a log, an unidentified fisherman |“will be dear and comforting to all 4" Giches folted from shelves. 3 told Yakima County Sheriff Bud Frenchmen.” | The quake, originating in“ Burleson. He told forest rangers the Today had been set by Bevin and | g, "anavens fault, was felt as boy “never came up” and that he Bidaylt as the deadline for Mos- | i gl - was unable to locate the body be- COW's answer to their invitation to | low the surface. a conference on the Marshall pro- Searchers equipped with grappling | Posals—a plan which, one State hooks brought to the scene from Department official has said, m: Yakima, 72 miles southeast, comb- | ¢all for $5000,000000 a year for ed the waters in an unsuccesstul Several years. effort to reécover the body. Russia’s note agreeing to the con- I SR B Gl 4 8 ference said Europe needed quick BIRTHDAY PARTY rehabilitation and that this task | Miss Dorothy Stevens entertain- Could be helped by the United cd a group of friends Sattrday eve- States, “whose production potentiali- | ties, far from declining, increased ning at the home of her parents, " Py N Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Stevens, in cel- | dUring the war. !}r;vaulibl::le;nsm:o'fd L e ebration of her twenty-first birth- 54 VTR i St e <3 AN day, which is today. | BURDICK ON INSPECTION MISS MAYHEW LEAVING A very enjoyable evening was Charles G. Burdick, Assistant Re-| ppico Melpa Mayhew will leave spent, and delicious refreshments gional Forester of the U. S. Forest) y neay for Seattle on board s Service, will visit Thayer Lake to-, morrow to inspect a proposed site were served. .- Princess Norah. Until today, she was with the Alaska office of the HERE FROM HOMER for a summer resort. He Wil re- meqoral Housin ‘ . Administrati in Elmer J, Christman artived from' turn to his office Wednesdu, . Adean ’ e Homer, over the weekend and is re-| i s 2 ————————— Registering ax the Gastineau are' FROM . PORTLAND Fitzpatrick, San Francisco,! Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Hurley and R. E. Simons Nemacolin, |P. F. White are registered at the gistered at the Hotel Juneau. | o S o i AOS 3 Ann FROM WHITEHORSE | calif.; Inez Fleming of Whitehorse, Y. Pa T, is registered at the Baranof. ‘Engelsen of Sitka, Bon, J | | i LABORBILL IS NOW IN U.S. LAWS Senate Overrides Veto by Vote of 68 to 25-Tru- man Loses to Taft WASHINGTON, June 23—(P— The Taft-Hartley Labor Bill be- 1 | ployees. A Chicago Federal Ju(lgv; south as Monterey Bay, 90 miles, | Barbara Jean Thompson and her /Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff. Food, Etc., SEN. PERATROVICH, FRED GRANT BOUND FOR NAT. CAPITAL Will Urge Changes in Pro- posed Bill on Sale of Alaska Timber A KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 23. {M—Territorial Sen. Frank Peratro- vieh of Klawock and Fred Grant of Hydaburg, Alaska, were enroute to | i Washinton, D. C.. by plane Sat- lurday to urge changes in a Hro- |posed bill permitting the sale of | Tongass National Forest timber to | paper manufacturers. Both will testify before Hous: and Senate Public Lands Commit- | tees. Peratrovich said before ghis de- i parture the measure should contain 'a clause listing the exact amount to be paid Indians from timber | | revenues under so-called “aboriginal | rights” provisions, | He added that Indians in the | Territory strongly favor the devel- |opment of new industries since they ;wm provide fuller employment among the native popuiation. Also in the delegation were Ter- ritorial Representatives Frank G. | Johmson, of Kake, and Andrew | Hope of Sitka. | 'RED (ROSS MEETING . TO'BE HELD THURSDAY | Because of a conflict with an- {other meeting, B. D. 'Stewart, ! Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Juneau Chapter, American iRed Cross, found it necessary today | to postpone tomorrow night’s sched- luled meeting of the Board until | ‘Thursday evening. The Board of Directors are now scheduled, he | #aid, to meet Thursday at 8 p.m. {in Room 12, Shattuck Bldg. - SOUTH ON BUSINESS Mr. and Mrs. Armand Duncan, owners of the Triangle Cleaner: (left by plane Saturday on a brief Ed Engdahl, Pelican 'and Ed'Baranof Hotel from Portland, Ore- | busines strip to Seattle. They ex- “mr to return in about a week. Pictured at a wedding reception in the officers beach club at Fort Monroe, Va,, are from left: the former at the Centavrian Church, (AP Phet) " - :America’snforeign Policy; Regarding Flow of Dollars, EXPLODES AT icame the Law of the Land today. The Senate overrode President Truman’s veto and his all-out op- ! " position, 68 to 25. This was six wore than the required two-thirds majority— more even than the Bill's support- ‘ers had expected. And the Chamber spurned a final ,‘nppeal which the President sent by Democratic Leader Barkley (Ky.) two hours before the rollcall. The President insisted that “this 1| dangerous legislation” will cut “ouv national unity” and so “render a “distinct disservice not only to this nation but to the world.” . Senator Taft (R-Ohio) told the tense Senate just Lefore it voted, thowever, that the GOP Congress svould “be 'held delinquent” if it failed to pass the bill. He shouted !that “unions today are big busi- !ness” and. ‘should have the same - R AR e 4 Vows new husband, Capt. John Eisenhower, and Mrs. and Gen. Dwight D. The reception followed the wedding ceremony of the junior Eisenhower ot el o s e R RN BIG TANKE i Truman’s Setback i The outcome was Mr. Truman's sharpest setback at the hands of the Republican-controlled Congress, lelected last November. : It was a tremendous victery for i{Taft. Widely mentioned as a pos- sible GOP Presidential candidate inext year, Taft sponsored the bill jwith Rep. Hartley (R-NJ.). W|lM'NGION, The Senate showdown found 20 Democrats going along with 48 Re- ‘ publicans to override, WASHINGTON, June 23, — (P— President Truman, going part way with Republican Senator Vanden- berg, called for outside help today in weighing Ameirca’s foreign aid policy with this country's ability to pay. | The Democratic Chief Executive | ] & fo Be Discussea | For uphold- | shyd. |ing the President and his veto were | I'f % H S 122 Democrats and three Republi- | cans—Senators Langer (N.D.), Ma- ca ! 0;"'6 arb?z ene o'{lone (Nev.) and Morse (Ore.). ity - Historic Ballot Ca allm'y Me"‘ | The full strength of the Senate i i was on hand for the historic bal Be leved Kll'ed ‘lot with the exceptions of Senator T 'Wagner (D-N.Y.), ill in New York: designated 19 leaders of business,| WILMINGTON, Calif., june 23__|$ennt0r Elbert Thomas (D-Utah), labor, agriculture, education ard|(P—At least two, and probably 14 Who is in Geneva, and Se"““‘; Bil- research as a “non-partisan” com- | men’ were dead today after a }10,-""’ (D-Miss.), who has n:t -ke: mittee to advise him on how much | 000,000 ship-explosion fire—Los An- the oath. Even if all of !hflln h.he help can ‘safely and wisely” be|geles Harbor's costliest calamity, Peen here ‘;‘d ‘:]0"“ to :P 0'1(:“_ sent abroad. which only fate and foresight ap- yeto it PONE heve Mage e The implication was plain; that|parently kept from becoming an- ' the United States may find it neces- | cther “Texas City." LDOS: ltl:wpl’i‘::t;:::lc);a:c;o::s lg:'f el l}’ "1“’"‘ d”‘“ ik d 1‘_" dolla The 11083-ton tanker Markay gde the Wagner act of 1935 and a d(‘w .“l;e “L;) materials to War-ijjew up with 2,940,000 gallons of pew era of lator-management re- “,;].;laf’(“x e gnsA L3 . |tuel in a triple explosion that raz- lations in America was born. Resprlllr o "‘]‘""';d”'l“_' OmeEStic | g goveral docks and—harbor auth-| Issue Up To Courts B g s sald—missed igniting huge| 1ts first phases seem bound to be ce . to every American,” said | % 3 st 9 Mr. Truman® announcement last | PEUCIOUM slorage tanks anly. be- marked by dispittes and Utigation Inight. and nerits most careful {“'" B U SANETRRle. Wines. ,as were those of the Wagner Act— stud Two bo! were recovered from'as unions and employers test out It was equally clear that the ! the narte: “tortly after the blast. jthe new act’s terms. The Supreme ‘Court in the end will have to de- i P " 3 1 6 Hours To Control ‘cide what many of them mean, as {strewn ‘wreckage of his domestic|°0M¢ 12 miles at sea—required six.even still is doing a decade after- legislative program. | hours to bring under control, wards Mr. Truman took the words “safe- | The harbor, since the Texas City' Provisions which the courts are |1y and wisely” from the call Van- |®saster, had been alerted for just likely to be asked to clarify par- :icnben; sounded 10 days ago for a [such a blast. Within moments fire ticularly are those dealing with President was making a final effort ALASKANS AT BARANOF g .. requipment rolled from as far distant |union security, damage labflity of :f:::mtlu olrml;r))er:e(:crta':: i:(::‘lfl:!e\sx;:ln j as downtown Los Angeles, 23 miles unions for jurisdictional strikes and | which this government Ca“‘ plan jts | @way, under an emergency disaster breach of contract, and ‘“unfair” | economic help to forelgn nations. |Pn, and fireboats raced out from practices by unions. { Long Beach. { The new law bans the closed i | As investigators began their probe 'shop, under which non-unionists | today, 12 men were listed as miss-{may not be hired, but permits the { 1 Bur Iar ing, with some 30 injured, 12 suf- union shop with certain restrie- | ficiently to be hospitalized. itions. In a union shop, non-union- | lists may be hired but then must Cause Undetermined !join up. | Cause of the explosion was unde-| The House last week overrode n everSE‘m'm"wd- but crew members charg- [the veto by a vote of 331 to 81. . d the operating company, Key-,; - i | stone Shipping Co., of Philadelphia | CHICAG O,June 23. — (P—The|with negligence. A company agent, | owner of a liquor store has asked | however, declared that “all ordin-' police to helpqhim find the night |ary precautions and many more”| The following Alaskans registered watchman who broke out of instead | were observed. {at the Baranof over the weekend: {of into his establishment. | : Mark Grsham. Yakutat; Heury ! The proprietor said he hired the| Wlian Anderson, division sup- | Reed, Fairbanks; Dero Hamolainier, 'night watchman with the under- | erintendent for Keystone, said in- Pelican; G. H. Laird and family, standing that he would be locked,"““"““"“ would be made at once Tenakee; Joyce Funkhouser, Craig; in the place from 2.a. m. closing but declined comment until “weiMrs, Gene Craig, Sitka and Monica hour until re-opening at 11 a. m. | account for everybody.” :l“enn‘ Pelersburg. Bput the watchman broke out by| At least 15 crew members were' el chopping a hole through the front|believed aboard tne Markay, which | OLIVER . TO TRAVEL door and with him went, the owm,-"had been loading high-octaine gas- = Frank L. Oliver, Assistant Terri- | said, $500 in eash and a quantity |oline, when the first blast split the torial Attorney General, will go to of merchandise. | 520-foot vessel at 2:05 am. (PST) | Fairbanks tomorrow in order to e e —— [ terday. Flames leaping 200 feet prosecute several cases of non-pay- FROM HOONAH lor more, engulfed the ship, and ment of the Territorial Veteran's Registered at the Baranof from|leaped across oil flows to the Am-'Tax. He expects 1o he gone about !erjcan President lines docks. la week, ' Hoonah is Frank Shotter,