The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 25, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMfPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” [ VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,615 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, jUNh 25, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS WORK STOPPAGES SLOWING UP INDUSTRY MARSHALL PLAN GOES UP, PARIS Three Foreian_Minisiers fo Discuss Proposal-Snyd- er Gives Views WASHINGTON, June 25—®— Secretary of Treasury Snyder m;\de plain today that he does not vi(‘w the Marshall plan for European re- covery as giving foreign countries | a blenk check on the United States for what they need. Snyder told a news conference that Secretary of State Marshall has not extended an implied invi- tation to other countries to tell this nation what they need or want. “My interpretation is that he is| asking them to make a self-inven- tory and see what they can do for themselves,” Snyder Meanwhile, Marshall said at an- other news conference that he does | not plan to have a representative attend the talks of British, French | and Russian Foreign Ministers con- cerning his European recovery pro- gram. These discussions are sched- uled to begin in Paris Friday. Asked whether he plans to have an observer there,” Marshall said| he does not. He flatly declined to give out any more information now about these proposals. When a quesuanex re- | ferred to the program as “your proposal” Marshall interrupted quickly to say the reporter meant the American government proposal. SENATE GIVES NAVY FUNDS TO MAINTA! NEAR NORMAL FORCE HONOLULU. Jl‘ue 25.—(M—Adm. Louis E. Denefeld said yesterday | that Senate restoration of $157,000,- 000 tentatively slashed from the Navy budget by the House of Re- presentatives will permit the fleet to maintain a nearly normal force: in the Pacific. Had the House cut gone through, the Fleet's Commander in Chief said, one carrier, two cruisers, eight ' destroyers and about five submar- nes would have been trimmed from the Navy's Pacific strength. The Admiral returned today from cm{ermces in Wa<hulgmn R e “ORGANS FROM SITKA Mr. and Mrs. Glenn H. Morgan of Drevious reports that Washington | Gen, Dwignt D. Eisenhower, who| Sitka are guests at the Baranof Hotel. ——————— HERE FROM ELFIN COVE George Williams of Elfin Cove is registered at the Baranof Hotel. - R ~HERE FROM KETCHIKAN E. B, Whitmarsh of Ketchikan is registered at the Baranof Hotel. The Washlngion Merry-Eo_-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—A study of the Latin American press indicates that public opinion has been lukewarm toward President Truman’s proposal for Pan,American standardization of arms, equipment and military training methods. This, coupled with the decision to sell arms to Argentina was what caused the exit of Spruille Braden as Assistant Secretary of Stste. Braden was vi-| gorously opposed to the arms pl‘o» gram. All dispatches out of Washington on this question have been promin- cntly displayed by Argentine, Braz- ilian, Chilean, Uruguayan and Peru- vian newspapers, and editorial com- ment in publications controlled by or favorable to the respective gov- ernments has been largely sympath- | etic but the opposition press in each of these countries has attacked | 1he plan more or less vigorously. Principle objections cited are: (1) Even if the materiel is sold by the| T, S. at cost or less, the outlay would be a severe strain on infla-| tion-ridden South American econ- | omies; (2) renewal of the request for cuch legislation just now looks (Continued on Page Four) _ told reporters., |Couple Married 54 \Years Die in \Each Other's Arms NORTH TRURO Ma June 25 ]_w After 54 years of married life John E. Rogers, 77, and his wife, |Ellen, 80, died in each others arms |vesterday of heart attacks | Dr. Daniel H. Diebert said Mr Rogers suffered the first attack and shock caused the husband to lcollapse seconds later. It was her 80(]1 tirthday. ———r - AID-EUROPE PLAN GIVEN HARD SWAT {Russian Communist Organ | Pravda Hits Out at ‘ U. S. Proposal LONDON, June 25—(—Pravda, *the Communist Party organ in Rus- sia, dashed cold water today on the warm. friendly feeling which has | encompassed Europe since the Sov- jet Union accepted lagt Sunday a British-French invitation to talk | about the Marshall aid-Europe plan With Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov reportedly scheduled | to leave tomorrow for Paris, where ! the three-power talks will get under | way Friday, Pravda said no self- respecting European nation could accept the Marshall proposals if ac- }cmrancn meant American interfer- |ence in the internal afiairs of those I nations. It said the business world of the rUml(d Sates was trying, through !the Marshall program, “to weaken | the ripening economic ecrisis” in | America, and declared that if Am- erican aid to Europe under the plan was conditioned on the “Greek- Turkish sample” it was doomed to | failure. Undersecretary of State William L. Clayton continued his confer- lences on world economic affairs with Prime Minister Attlee, Bri- | tish Foreign Secretary Ernest Bev- 1in and Sir Stafford Cripps, Pres' dent of the Board of Trade. U. ! Ambassador Lewis W. Douglas alsu attended the talks today. One high British government source said Britain would defer fin- al decision on cutting her buying . program in the United States “at !least until the full scope possibili- .ues ot the Marshall aid-Europe plan | emerge.” This apparently was in answer to | was expressing “concern” that such | i curtailment might amount to dis- | | crimination against American goods, { which is prohibited under the terms !of the loan agreefnent of 1946. WIDOWED SECOND " TIME BY CRASHES| | HAVERH]LL Mnss June 25—@ |—Mrs. Anthony F. Walker was left |widowed for a second time today |by the crash of airplanes. Her 22-year-old husband died |yesterday in a crash which also |took the life of Arthur C. Belmer, |22, student pilot of this city. Her| \first husband, T-Sgt. Bernard O'- ‘Donneu was killed in a crash in Florida during the early stages of |the war. |to take flying training under the !GI Bill of Rights. Walker and the former Doris Brooks were mar- ried last April 16, 800 MECHANICS IN REPAIR SHOPS IN SEATILE STRIKE SEATTLE, June 25—(P—A strike | of 800 mechanics closed 40 automo- bile dealers’ repair shops here today. | Members of the Automotive Ma- | chinists’ Union Lodge 289 (Ind) re- jected a 15-cent-an-hour wage in- | crease offer by the Seattle Auto- | motive Dealers Association. The un- lion asked a 25-cent increase, or |$175 an hour. Not affected by the strike are ap- proximately 300 lndependent repair shops in Seattle. Belmer, a veteran, had arranged| 5.A. NATIONS T0 RECEIVE - NAVY SHIPS U.s. Cruisers fo Be Furnish- | { edCountries forMu- | ‘ tual Security | WASHINGTON, June 25- Secretary of the Navy For |today confirmed plans to furnish ! qn\rlh American nations with mod- | vrn U. S. Warships as part of '\I Western Hemisphere policy of co-| upomrmn for mutual security “It is the intention of the Navy Department to substitute newer U. | S. Naval vessels for the obsorere] Itypes of our neighbors,” Forrestal | said. “This substitution is proposed | on an approximately equal tonnage | basis X X X." | He did not tell exactly what| types of vessels this country pro-i posed to furnish but said in a statement read Lefore the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the| Navy “has been holding in reserve for transfer certain Naval whizh are in excess of our present defense requirements.” ! | (Two weeks ago, the Associated Press reported the existence of a memorandum from Forrestal to Secretary of State Marshall saying |the Navy is prepared to transfer four light cruisers and 117 smaller vessels to Latin American. | (The cruisers are the Nashville, the Phoenix, the Boise and the St Louis.) | Forrestal's testimony today was| in support_of, legislation provid- | ing for military cooperation be- tween the American Republics, in-| cluding standardization of arma- ments. Marshall and Secretary of | War Patterson previously urged m enactment. EISENHOWER | 10 BE HEAD, COLUMBIAU {Army Chief of Staff fo Be| Relieved - Bradley May Be Successor 25.—(P— | WASHINGTON, June {led Allied armies to victery in North | |Africa and Europe, will become| rPresrde.n of Columbia University | when he is relieved as Army Chief | ;of Staif, probakly early next year.| | Gen. Omar N. Bradley, the Vet- {erans Administrator, was regarded | i',odny as Eisenhower’s likely suc-| {cessor in the Army's top job. Eisenhower also has been elected | a member of the University’s Board | of Trustees. As President, he suc- ceeds Nicholas Murray Butler, who | retired in 1945. | Associates of the five-star Gen-| eral say he has discussed his de- parture from the service with Pres- ident Truman and Secretary of War 1 Patterson, but without submitting a formal request for release. A War Department announce- ment of Eisenhower's plans said,| however, that he has taken the| Columbia post “with the approval| of the President of the United| States and Secretary of War” effec- tive “at such time as his superiors | may release him from active duty | in the Army.” | The statement added that “with no radical change in the current outlook it should be sometime dur- | ing the first half of 1948.” | Under a Congressional Act, Eisen- | hower will continue as a five-star General for life with pay of around | $15,000 a year. Columbia is expected | to pay him additional comperisa- | tion running into five figures an-| nually. Of the University’s 29,000 stu-/ dents, approximately halt are ex-| GI's. | i - e — HERE FROM SITKA | Mrs. Ruth Charteris and Jean Carter from Sitka are registered at| the Baranof. ———o——— HERE FROM SEATTLE C. 8. Cummins of Seattle is re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel. vessels | ¢ Frre Devaslales Harbor Area Followmg Tanker Explosron i Black cclumns of smoke rise from the burning tanker Mackay as fireboa across channel from ill-fated vessel. were twe dr.xd 12 missing and abeut $10,f 000000 damflgv (AP “lr(‘ph( to) Terminal Deslroyed by Fire Affer Blast STATE DEPT. SAYS TREATY IS VIOLATED Rumanra Is Charged with Deliberate Suppression, Democratic Elements WASHINGTON, June 25.—(® The United States protested sharp- ly to the Rumanian government to- day against the “arbitrary arrest without warrant or charge” of “hundreds” of opposition party members and others. A note said that the arrests ap- peared to represent ‘“a deliberate effort at the suppression or ter- roristic intimidation of democratic elements” opposing the present | Communist-dominated regime. The State Department made pub- lic the note which Roy M. Mel- bourne, Acting United States re- presentative at Bucharest, has been instructed to deliver to the Ruman- li2n For eign Minister. The note said that the arrests appeared to violate formal assur- ances given by Rumanian officials that public liberties would be safe- guarded. It said further that “such evident deprivation of the most elemental human rights and funda- mental freedoms” conilicted with terms of the Rumanian peace treaty. This treaty has been signed by the Rumanian government and ra- tified by the United States. Those arrested, the note said, are being held “in prisons and concen- tration camps under reportedly de- plorable conditions.” The Rumanian Minister of Inter- ior said May 6 that the arrests were necessary to preserve internal order ———————— STOCK QUOTATICNS NEW YORK, June 25—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5, American Can 92’ Anaconda 34Y%, Curtiss-Wright 4 International Harvester 87%, Ken- {necott 43%, New York Central 14 Northern Pacific 17%, U. 8. Steel |66%, Pound $4.02% Sales today were 830,000 shares. Merrill-Lynch averages today aic as follows: industrials 17573, rail 45.67, utilities 34.50. —_— e — KING SALMON LANDED The Helena, under Skipper Carl Wiedman, was the only fishing boat to dock at the Juneau Cold Storage with fish. She brought in 800 pounds of king salmon for the Al- aska Coastal Fisheries. “4 8 Wirephnm) GIANT MHEOR FELL, SIBERIA, IN FEBRUARY Official Report Received from Moscow-Craters Were (reated FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., June 25—/ —Dr. H. H. Nininger, Director of the American Meteorite Museum near here, says he has received offieial veriticavion from the Meteorite Committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, that a meteor- ite of great size fell near vostok, Siberia, Feb. 12. The communication was the first official, scienific verificatior, Dr. Nininger said Dr. Nininger said he was advised that the size of the meteorite was estimated at several tons; 30 crat- ers, the largest 80 feet i diameter and 28 feet aeen, were formed, and “considerable” forest was burned. Smoke rises from fire-torturcd walls of American President” Lincs’ passenger and freight terminal in Los Angeles harbor after an explosion wrecked a tankar =zcress the channcl at Wilmington, Calif. Viadi- | throw water ¢n a burning pier at Wilmington, Calif.,, which was Firemen succeeded in keeping fismes from big fuel sterage tanks in fereground. Early damage estimates | (AP "HAPPY BIRTHDAY - 10 YOU" BOOMED | AT HEAVY CHAMP LOS ANGELES, June 25—P— JTen thousand fight fanssang “Hap- ‘py Birthday ‘To You” to ex-heavy- weigm champion Jack Dempsey at the Olympic Auditorium last night. Dempsey, blushing and obviously flustered at the booming chorus, was presented by Al Jolson. Jolson annonced that it was Jack’s 37th birthday. Dempsey re-| torted that he was only 32. In reality, it was the old champ’s 52nd birthday, and a cake with' lighted candles was presented in the | ¢, me.’ ring. Griffith, whose home is in Union- town, Pa., said he would be unable %0 make official visits scheduled in ALASKATRIP OF GRIFFITH IS CANCELLED HOLLYWOOD, Junz 25, — (P— Paul Griffith, National vommander of the American Legion, announces that he has cancelled speaking en- gagements for 10 days to two weeks on doctors’ orders. “I wouldn't say I'm ill,” Gnlmb commented, “I'm just worn out. ———— PLAN ASCENT OF MT. WADDINGTON | CHILLIWACK g C., June 25.- The Alaska stevedoring Co. Ine. (P—Fifteen hundred pounds of sup- has filed articles of incorporation ' plies were dropped on Tiederman ! With Territorial Auditor Frank A. Glacier yesterday by the Cascade ‘Boyle. The ccmpany, which is in Air Service in preparation for the | planned ascent of 13,600-foot Mount | Waddington this summer by nine members of the Harvard Mountain- eers, + | aska over the Fourth of July. S W A NEW CORPORATION by John Anderson, Robert A. Baker and Jeremiah E. Noonan. There are the firm having a0 par value, | The doclom say take it easy for a | { Oregon and Washington, or to Al- | business at Anchorage, was formed | 100,000 shares of common stock in; THOUSANDS OF MINERS NOW IDLE Forty Thousand Shipyard Workers Are Threat- ening fo Strike (By The Associated' Press) Work stoppages made idle at least 176,000 soft coal miners and threat- aned a slowup in steel, railroad and other coal-using industries today fcllowing enactment of the nation’s new labor bill. Less than 24 hours after enact- ment of the Taft-Hartley labor law miners began leaving their jobs in 10 States. In Washington the Na- tional Coal Association, an operators { group, said a full-scale nation-wide strike appeared to be developing apparently in “clear violation” of the new law. In other labor developments since | enactment of the labor act, a strike {of 40,000 shipyard workers threat- ened and Omaha’s big Union Stock- yards Company are virtually idle | following a strike of packinghouse workers, ) In Washington, the Justice De- partment sought to determine whetlier the 176,000 miners left their jobs freely or upon advice of leaders of the AFL-United Mine Workers Union, There appeared some evidence that the walkouts were breaking up with the return of 50 workers at a mine in Monogalia County, W. Va., and a prediction by a UMW leader Tn West Virginta where 31,000 ‘were |idle, that half that number would |end their stoppage today. However, with 400,000 soft coal I iminers scheduled to start a 10-day |vacation at midnight Friday. there . {appeared no indication that the men !who left their jobs in protest of the |new labot act would go back to } | work before that time. Government control of the pits ends on June ]30 and there was no sign of revived contract talks between John L. | Lewis, UMW President, and oper- | ators. | ,oe - | WAR SURPLUS PlANTS SOLD TO ALASKA RR | DENVER, June 25. — (P — The | Forge Building at the Denver Fed- { eral Center, built at a cost of $883,- 1330 for the former Denver Ord- ’nnnce Plant, has been sold to the { Alaska Railroad, the War Assets | Administration announced today. The structure, to be dismantled :nnd shipped to Ancliorage, will be ‘used as a machine shop and round- ! house by the railroad wiich is op- | erated by the Department of Inter- | for. | 'The WAA also announced sale to ! the railroad of government power | plant equipment at the Internation- | al Mineral and Chemicals Corpora- | tion, Carlsbad, N. M. The equip- |mcnt originally cost $592,000. Other items located in the Denver reilon also were sold to the rail- road by WAA. mterllls from both installations 1 be shipped in 60 railroad cars to Seattle and will be sent from | there by boat. i ‘o ‘Marble Bust of President fo Be In Senate Wing | WASHINGTON, June 25.—(@— | The Senate Rules Committee voted today to appropriate $2,500 to place a marble bust of President Truman |in the Senate wing of the Capitol. | The bust was commissioned when ! Mr. Truman was Vice-President. > — | HERE FROM WRANGELL Claude Berg of Wrangell is re- gistered at the Gastineau Hotel. B0 0 o e COAST GUARDSMAN HERE August Klingelboth with the U. 8. Coast Guard in Ketchikan is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.