The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” E—————— VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,617 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1948 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 250,000 MEN AR 'Mystery Deepens About These Whizzing Objeds Seen Over Pacific N. W. TIEUPNOW THREAT AT KETCHIKAN 28 Seattle Halibut Boat Owners Bring Suit ARE HRED Againsl!nions FOR BEING DISlOYAl; aska, June 27.—A threatened | tieup of Ketchikan’s Cold Stor- age docks faded this afternoon after the sudden departure of three Seattle halibut boats in- volved in a dispute with the NORDLING RESIGNS | | AFTER THIRTY YRS. | WITH A, J. MINE CO. EISLER IS GIVEN YEAR INPRISON {Communist Is Also Fined $1,000 for Contempt of U. S. Congress | | Wellknown Electrical En- gineer Accepts Posi- tion with CAA Homer G. Nordling, who is as iwellknuwn in Juneau and Vk‘lnity‘l 1as the company he has been with| Wednesday by an Idaho flier to| —_ |for more than 30 years, has an- have been flying in formation over| WASHINGTON, June 27.—(P— nounced his resignation as Chief the Cascade Mountains. { Gerhart Eisler, Communist, today | Electrical Engineer of the Alaska One witness, E. H. Sprinkle of ;drew the maximum Federal Court | Juneau Gold Mining Company, and Eugene, Ore., produced a photograph | penalty of a year in prison and $1,- | his acceptance of a similar position last night of “flying objects” which |00 fine for contempt of Congress.;wilh the Civil Aeronautics Admin- he said he sighted from a Eugene Federal District Court Justice Al-|istration. hill June 18. Enlargements showed | exander Holtzoff passed the sen (By The Associated Press) The mystery of the “flying discs” deepened today as more Washington ! and Oregon residents stepped for- ward to back reports of the eerie saucerlike objects first reported | [ | | | | | | E NOW IDLE IN STRIKES War Department's Request For Cemetery in Alaska Is Rejected; Amount Tgo High SOFT COAL MINERS IN ~ STOPPAGE | WASHINGTON, June 27—P— | The War Departent reques m‘,f Other Workers Profest unds for cemeteries in awaii, | Puerto Rico and Alaska was reject- LADOr Law by Walk- ing Off Their Jobs | ed today by the House Appmprm-i LONG TIME RULE OVER JAPAN, PLAN | tions Committee, * | 1 Chairman Engel (R-Mich) of the | Military Appropriations Subcommit- (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) !tee made public a letter in which | New layoffs in key industries to- | he advised Secretary of War Pat- day followed in the wake of this |terson he considered the proposed | Week's work stoppages in the na- | expenditures “outrageously high.” | tion’s soft coal mines which have | He said the Department's esti- | made idle more than 250,000 work- | mates, submitted near the end of |€rs. his commitee’s hearings on a mon-| Stockpiles of coal have dwindled Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union. State Dep;rTmenl Em- | seven dots in the sky in what could | tence after denying a motion for ployees Let Out by "’Recent Action” | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 27— UP—Ketchikan was threatened to- day with a complete tieup of its cold storage docks, and possibly | |a Still another version, this time of night flight, was reported by be military formation. Archie Edes of Wenatchee. While | “No. | driving on the Moses Lake Highway !caun\r_\'. a new trial and a dramatic personal plea for mercy from Eisler, who has Leen described in Congress as the 1 Soviet Commissar” in this that he leaves the A. J., Nordling lslid. adding that he has always en- | joyed the mos* pieasant association there with his employers and fellow ! workers. He expects to be able to| maintain close contact with his! It is not entirely without regret 1 Ma(Anhur GiVeS His views | TOKYO, June 27. — (M—General |'ey bill for Army civil functions, in- | since mines started closing Monday cluded $7,000 for a flagpole, $50 flfas miners walked off their jobs in | foot for a fence and $7,600 an acre Protest of the Taft-Hartley law. | for topsoiling ‘Wil h all mines to close for a 10-day Engel also said there is no legis- | Vacation starting tomorrow there lative authority for appropriations Was no hope of adding to the stock- to Visiting American Newspapermen other port facilities as result of a| show cause order obtained in Fed- | WASHINGTON, June 27. — (P— The State Department announced last Friday night with his father| Eisler was convicted June 10 of friends here after he takes over his and family, Edes said he saw acontempt in refusing to take an new duties with the CAA, as the today that “at least ten” of its em- | ployees have been fired recently be- | cause of suspected disloyalty to | the United States government. Press Officer Lincoln White de- vscribed it as “a very recent action.” the Nordby, McKinley, Commando| White told reporters he was un- able to furnish additional details and Masonic { < | The show cause order is return- but it was understood the employees | able in court July 1. | The petition for injunction claim- ed the DSFU entered into an un-; lawiul conspiracy with the Inter-! eral court by 28 Seattle halibut boat owners. ‘The owners are seeking a per-| manent injunction against the Deep | Sea Fishermen’s Union, which h: been picketing four Seattle boats, were dismissed under Congressional | authority granted to the State De- | partment in its 1947 appropriations.i e |ground,” speeding object “descending in a {cath for testimony before the House ' Nordlings will continue to maintain | newpaper long slant X X X it looked like @ |committee on Un-American Acti-!the family home here. long, oval blue-white flame. “As we watched, it neared the| ground and when it was about 200 feet high it exploded. There was no blinding flash, but there were | great showers of sparks and piles | of flame seemed to hurtie to the ! o ntry instigated and encouraged | tunity to be back in Juneau rather | that he said. A “very bright, shiny object” was reported by Mrs. Dennie Howell of Salem, Ore, to have been seen | “tumbling” through the air last vities last February 6. In his plea for said he was a European anti-Fas- cist political refugee. He loudly pro- tested that he was “a victim of a witch-hunting hysteria in this by the Un-American Activities Committee.” >, Ancherage will be his headquart- leniency, Eisler 'ers, but the new job will entail a American bomber and fighter planes. good deal of traveling, making in- ! spection trips at various fields un- 'der the supervision of CAA, and !will no doubt give him the oppor- irequently. | Mr. and Mrs. Nordling will leave fSunday by plane for Anchorage, in | time to attend the American Legion ! Convention. He will remain there, |MacArthur told visiting American executives today | Japan should be “supervised” for “a :generallcn," perhaps with the aid of for cemeteries in Alaska or Puerto Piles Rico. Steel mills have curtailed opera- Engel said the War Department ‘ tions and there were layoffs of some asked $348,700 for the cemetery in | railroad crews. In Detroit, Chrysler | Alaska, or almost $60,000 for each | Corp.and the Briggs Manufacturing of the six acres to be developed in CO. announced plans to lay olf 28,- the 20 acre cemetery. 1500 workers because of a shortage Proposed expenditures he itemiz- Of steel ed included $7,000 for a flagpole, ©Officials of the CIO Marine and 1$52,500 for fencing at $50 a foot, Shipbuilding Workers Union pre- $14,000 for a temporary, shed-type dicted a tieup of all Atlantic and utility building and $45,600 for top- Gulf shipyards next week, making soiling, humus, fertilizer and seed- idle 120,000 workers. More than 40,- ing six acre: 000 members of the union went on that | The Allied Supreme Commander mentioned possible supervision by | the United Nations, but at the same |time, he was quoted as indicating a “great sweep of our air- power” from Okinawa bases could protect—or supervise—dJapan. That MacArthur meant American airpower was suggested by another istatement which hinted he favored strike yesterday against 10 east national Longshoremen’s and Ware- housemen’s Union to restrain the plaintiffs from fishing by prev ing them from obtaining ice, bait and other supplies. The complaint also charged pre- vention of Interstate Commerce be- cause the ITLWA bans its members STANDARDIZATION "OFU.S.-CANADIAN DEFENSES URGED (arl Marzani Sentenced fo | Tuesday. A week before, according {to Mrs. Howard K. Wheeler of Bremerton, she and her husband tsighl,ed three of the objects flying | | west about six o'clock in the eve- | ning i A Yakima woman, Mrs. Ethel ‘Wheelhouse, also reported sxghtingf !while Mrs. Nordling will return |some time next week. Prior to his departure Nordling .was the guest of honor at a din- | e Wednesday evening, at the Gla- kins, who is to be Nordling’s suc- cessor with the A. J. G M. Com- | wer Highway home of Earl Wat- United States retention of Okinawa and the Ryukyus, formerly part of the Japanese Empire. ‘The group of publishers and edi- \tors, here on the Pan American Ajrway§’ inaugural world flight, |spent there hours with the five-star | | commander. A member of the party --J. Loy Maloney, Managing Editor Chadwickfo Come North coast shipyards nine of them oper- ated by the Bethlehem Steel Co. ‘The walkout followed a breakdown lof contract negotiations involving wages and other issues. The one kright'spot on the labor front was at 8t. Louis where an agreement settling the two weeks 7ld strike which paralyzed public from performing their 1 k| | 4 € their usual WOTX) WASHINGTON, June 27. —#—| loading the boats. { e Claims Made jGen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told| The owners claimed the unions|COnEress today that if the United! used threats and {States has another war one of the| intimidation by | i i - first things the enemy will do is declaring the fish catches “hi -1 S & i e noucas strike through the air at the in- go.” They contended this violates | &) the newly pacsed Taft-Hartley labor‘:us"m] centers near the Great law and also the Sherman and | aces. Clay anti-trust acts. For that reason, the Army Chief| ! 4 . . % of Staff saig, it is vital to the| Their petition said no bonafide | of this country that Unite Isecurity ;‘l:’f;m‘:;sp:':z e kLol ;‘;‘;iswlm and Canadian armed forces| with the ILWU and it seeks to re- }’e PrEpRted 40 coopersle JORIED: | cover costs and disbursements in- | ge geclared emphatically, too curred through the DSFU action. |(p.i the Western Hemisphere| Peter N. Michaelson, member of |shoulg organize now for defense. | the Seattle DSFU executive com-| gisenhower testified before the, mittee, which has been directing the {gouse Foreign Affairs Committee | picketing, said the court action Will |jn support of legislation authoriz-! the ‘whatzits" Tuesday afternoon. They sped so fast she could not | count them and abruptly disap- | peared, she said. NAVY OFFICERS VISITING ALASKA STUDYING ARMY ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 27.— (# — High-ranking Naval officers ; conferred today at Fort Richard-} son with Maj. Gen. Howard A. Craig, Alaskan Army Commander, | on Territorial air facilities. ir Prison Term WASHINGTON, June 27. — (#— Carl A. Marzani, 35, Italian born er State Department suboffi- was sentenced today to one to three years in prison on a charge of hiding Communist Party affiliations in a Federal loyalty test. The sentence was imposed by Fed- eral District Court Judge Richmond B. Keech who refused to permit Marzani's release on bond pending an appeal. Marzani, a resident of Arlington, Va., was convicted May 22 on all 11 counts of an indictment. The maximum penalty that could have been assessed was 10 years' impris- ormy cial, pany.! | During the evening nearly all of | the “electrical gang” of the A. dropped in at the Watkins home,! to bid farewell and hest wishes to Nordling, and to present him with | a. “wonderful camera” as ‘a token of their regards, a gesture of friend- | ship which is deeply appreciated by | | the recipient. ! 'RUNNERS-UP IN - QUEEN CONTEST | i i | | of the Chicago Tribune -gave the Associated Press a report on Mac- Arthur's views on various phases of the occupation. While advocating generation-long supervision, MacArthur said he did | not believe the military occupation of any country should last fewer than three nor more than five years. | Little good could be accomplished in less than three years, he said, but he feared effects of an occupa- tion beyond five.years. ——e SAYS ALASKA IS transportation facilities was signed by officers of the Public Service i Company and the Transit Workers Past NafiohéTCommander SEATTLE, J;l)e 2:74-~‘M—Stephen FOR OSLO BY AIR Legion, will address the Alaska De- 5 | Commander Paul Griffith, who Was janq left Juneau yesterday via Pan Griffith announced in Los Angeles Sunderland, owner of the halibut fo Be at A. L. Conven- union. f g | - e eee - tion in Anchorage . . SUNDERLANDS OFF F. Chadwick of Seattle, Past Na- tional Commander of the American partment of the Legion at Anchor- glying all the way i Oslo, Nor- age Monday in place of National way Mr. and Mrs. John Sunder- ‘“fm’le to make a scheduled Alaska American Airways. This is the first trip because of illness. time in over 20 years that Mr, that Chadwick would fill the en- hoat, Viking, has been in the Old gagement. Country. His wife, Sina, left Nor- SHOWING GAINS ~ QVER-ADVERTISED force the union to remove its pick- 'jhg United States aid to standard- eonmem and $10,000 fine on each Chadwick said he planned to fly lway 17 years ago. The couple plan ets from the docks and place them jze the arms of all American na-| at street entrances thus blocking all piers, which would keep all dock- side workers off their jobs. Trouble May Spread He said similar action may be taken at other waterfront places, ! tions. - - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 27.—Closing !quotation of Alaska Juneau mine sueh as shipyards, if boats attempt |stock today is 4%, American Can to obtain services and supplies. 1927¢, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright | The plaintiffs are listed as: Ber- 4%, International Harvester 87%, | nard Hanson, Bernard A. Hanoun, | Kennecott 44, New York Central | Ole Knutson, Carl Sather, Nils Ped- | 15'%, Northern Pacific 17%, U. 8./ ersen, Harold Tofte, Einar Rice,|Steel 66, Pound $4.027%. George Eliasen, Hans Grytling, Lars| Sales today were 650,000 shares. R. Ness, Edwin Eliasen, Einar Ol-| Merrill-Lynch averages today are son, Harry Hanson, Einar Telnes,|as follows: industrials 176.54, rails| Sigurd Ness, Axel Davidsen, Nick |46.03, utilities 34.63. Ulbang, Earl Ulbang, Linas Jensen, | . Trygvu Mathisen, Nels Lee, Ole| Stocks were narrowly irregular Birkvold, Andrew Haram, Sig Hen-|today as investors watched the la- dricks, John Sellerite, Ivar Satero, bor front for new developments. | They will visit Ladd Field, near | { Fairbanks, then go ot Point Bar-| row and visit stations in the Aleu- | tians. 4 ’ | The visit is believed to be the |tirst time the Navy has sent rank-, ing officers to Alaska to study Army ;| as well as Navy defense problems. The officers include Vice Admiral John Dale Price, Commander, Na- | val Air Forces in the Pacific; Vice Admiral A. E. Montgdmery, Com- mander, Pacific’s First Task Fleet; | Rear Admiral William Keen Harril, Commander, Fleet' Aircraft on west coast, and 11 other Naval Air of- count. In a statement issued after the on the Queen contest up to early sentencing, Marzani reiterated his aftérnoon showed Cecelia Thibo- professions of inuocence and de- | Jdeau, American Legion candidate, clared the trial was a “travesty of still leading with 45,700 votes, close- Justice.” |1y followed by Betty Bonnett, Re- |cekah and Odd Fellows candidate, Fourth of July committe reports' LARGE CACHE IS LEF BY WASHBURN EXP. ON MOUNT McKINLEY | with 38,600 votes, and Ann Thomp- | ;san, who has 36,200. Ann is spon- | sored by the Central Labor Coun- cil, i | Standings of the other girls m'et las follows: | Pat Hogue Rotary, 15,700; Mari- | | lyn Merritt, Chamber of Commerce, | 10,600; Rdath Dawes, Parent Teach--| | ficers. IMORE MONEY IS | SEATTLE, June 27.—(®—The re- ) 2 | ers, 16,300; O'Ce , BPWC, cent Bradford Washburn Expedition | :r:wI-G ::?:mfdml.sen m:(x:::nm 14- 1 which climbed 20,270-foot Mounti'zbo, .Beny Lou Hared Yions. i2.- | McKinley in Alaska left “tremend-|j,0' cloite Rolta Sor(;pumlst:s 7 ous caches” of supplies on the peak’s 200; Harriet Maurstad, Teen-Age,| slopes, Robert W. Craig, 22, Univer- | 3700; Rosemary Doogan, VFW, no| e to Anchorage Sunday. He will bfl!m be gone nine months. Their accompanied by Lou Kessler, a Le- [son, Harold, who attends Juneau glonnaire friend. High School, will remuin bere. Many .A"iVing: No i st g The Sunderlands will make a HOUSII’Ig Fa(ll"les Wi“ Be (hinese non-stop flight to New York from Iseattle and from there board an- porTLAND, ore, June 21—#— Milllionaire on other plane to Oslo. From Oslo, Col. John P. Johnson, General $709.63 Check !Col. Johnson Claims Too |they will travel on a boat to Aane- sund, where they will visit their Manager of the Alaska Railroad, brethers and sisters. They will al- thinks Alaska has been nver-adver-‘ 3 |80 visit Mr. Sunderland’s mother. tised. | While in Norway, they will travel “The Territory is certainly our CLINTON, IiL, June'3T—P—A' "o, " estions of: the country last frontier,” he told the Portiand Ceck for $700.03 has been sent to Chamber of Commerce Foreign Hifle Eong, Chis. ta Miss | Wslix Taras” anarauis ‘;) 7 "t M. Wilcox, the amount of her share Tog8 bping Department o 5 glinton woman's estate. last night, “Cut 1 am of the opin-, “ne check in United States cur- 10n that it has been over-advemsed,luncy was mailed to her by the De- “There are as many as 300 Der-, it County treasurer, finally set- sons a day coming in, many of them | jyg ihe estate of Martha E. Hall. not equipped or prepared for What1oher heirs received their shares |also. A surprise farewell party was given for the Sunderlands at their home on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Harold Snaring and Mrs. Ole West- by were co-hostesses for the af- fair. A large cake decorated with an airplane and good-bye written Ole Jostal and Nels Farstad. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PLARSON WASHINGTON—It's no great se- cret that Harry Truman doesn’t like Henry Wallace—though few people realize how bitter he really | 1s. However, it was supposed to be| a secret that Henry made an indirect bid* for reconciliation with Harry just before his climatic speech in| Washington’s Potomac Park last week. Wallace had written one signifi- cant paragraph in his speech offer- ing his services to President Tru-! man or General Marshall to go to, Russia to try to patch up peace be- tween the two countries. | His plan was to offer whatever| good will he had with the Rus-! sians to try to iron out the snarls! in American-Russian relations and try ‘to get the two countries back on an eveh, amicable keel. But before delivering his speech, Wallace had his chief adviser, Har- old Young, sound out the White House as to how Truman might re- ceive the proposal. Word came back (Continued on Page Four) Steels held well in spite of cur- | tailed production on the heels of | the spreading coal walkout. Bethle- hem, Republic and Youngstown Steel & Tube were up smali am- ounts and U. S. Steel was easier. i DEED RZCORDED A house and lot in the Waynor Tract has been sold by David and | Ethel Burnett to Milton and Nancy ka Communications System curing: | Furness according to a deed filed in |the fiscal year starting July 1. the office of U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray. —————— GEORGE BROS. HAVE NEW UNDER-FOOTING Added to the list of local firms which have installed new asphalt tile floors is George Bros. Liquor Store, where the old wooden floor- {ing worn by years of customer trav- els has been attractively recovered by the Juneau Paint and Supply Co. - e, DC-4 OF AA HERE The first of five DC-4's recently acquired by the Alaska Airlines from the Capital Airlines was at the Juneau airport today enroute from Seattle to Fairbanks. The DC-4, a cargo plane, picked' up freight here which it will take to Fairbanks for the Birch-Johnson- Lytle Construction Co. The plane was piloted by John Thompson, ASKED FOR SIGNAL | CORPS IN ALASKA, WASHINGTON, June 27—P— | The House Appropriations Commit- i tee recommended today the Signal jCorps spend $1,804,000 on the Alas- | f:g'“o‘ Wehingloc, Saient, s‘"'j'repm*t; Lois -Nicholson, Rainbow, “We either had to bring all the |20900; Harviet Sienehouse Sy Army gear we took along with us wm S0, 8,000 n'orn d Lil‘ for experimental purposes back to| Vg of Moose, 3,600; an y Wright Field, or destroy it,” he ex- plained. “We buried terrific quan- tities of it.” As for food —, “You can't imagine the amounts 'We left behind.” g lo Craig, a philosophy student, re- i The smount is §$1,061,100 more turned here Wednesday but Wash- b ithan the System was allotted for#bum director of the New England |the current year and equals the Muséum of Natural History, is still President’s budget. A Alnskh £ ! “It now becomes necessary,” the | 5,6 camp at the 18,000-foot level committee said, “to envisage a sys- | . the peak is still occ\‘xpled by three tem of sufficient capacity to con- expedition members working on cos- | tinue its present duties and be ca- \mic ray experiments, which should | pable of serving an increased mili- 'po completed today or tomorrow. | tary population in time of peace gExplaining the over-supplies, he ‘and susceptible of conversion t0 gaig the party had to “provide a | military useé in time of emergency. ,wide margin of safety.” He recalled “Demands, which in a large part that he fell into a crevasse and was are self-supporting, are increasing an hour and three-guarters working from many sources and especially his way out, although roped to' from the Air Forces—military and others in the party. It never got civilan—that operate in the Terri- colder than 30 below because it was tory and require communications'a mild spring and as for difficulties | between airports and for weather he said “there are more difficult information.” | climbs.” i ——————— —————— TENAKEE MAN HERE ! FROM PORT TOWNSEND FROM WASILL A. Dermott O'Toole, Tenakee' From Port Townsend, Wash., A.| Mrs. Marion Young of the Fern merchant, is a guest at the Baranof J. Douglas is registered at the Bar- Mine at Wasilla is a guest at the Hotel. anof Hotel. Baranof Hotel. 2,500, . WEATHER REPORT Temperatare for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock ‘This Morning In Juneau—Maximum, 73; minimum, 50. At Airport—Maximum, 74; minimum, 45. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Fair and continued warm tonight and Saturday. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 vm. today) In Juneau None; since June 1, 3.41 inches; since July 1, 94.97 inches. At Airport — Trace; since June 1, 290 inches; since July 1, 60.48 inches. . . . . . . . e — Hhey_ meet. Some are selling their| giye years ago but the war made it turniture to get by, and I am afraid | ympossible to send the money to that some of them may freeze 0 Miss Wilcox in China. death next winter because of the| in Norweigian in it, centered the Irefreshment table Many lovely present were given to the Sunde:r- lands by their friends. Ann Maurstad, Sons of Norway,| When she gets the check she'll | have $7,096,300—in Chinese money. Sword Hitch due at Douglas at 8' g s e b REACH AGREEMENT, Frighten Alaskans Princess Louise, from Vancouver, | pE - - "S'ousl“mu.«kans are not worried about due Saturday afternoon or evenlnfl WAGES | (] | i Polar air attacks” Robert Ellis, Aleutian, from Seattle, due Mon- day. Sailors Splice scheduled to sail DETROIT. June 27—(M—The Ford Ketchikan Mayor and President of from Seattle today. | Motor Co. and the CIO United Au- 'the Ellis Airlines, said here. He Princess Norah scheduled to sail tomobile Workers’ Union reached an 5 helping convert a surplus Navy from Vancouver June 28. | agrecment today providing for a amphibian into a transport for his Alaska scheduled to arrive at 9, Wage increase of seven cents an hour company o'clock tonight and sails south and a pensioh plan instead of paid “we had such a scare when the ometime tomorrow morning. { holidays for some 120,000 production japs appeared on the Aleutians Baranof scheduled southbound | Workers. . we'd have to see enemy rockets to sometime tomorrow. | Richard T. Leonard, head of the pe frightened now,” ne said. disrtc T30 A | UAW-CIO Ford Division, said the L5 . DAPE ok TWO ARRESTS pension plan will cost the company pARjs Foreign Ministers of Two persons were arrested last| 200,000,000 the first year to bring pyssia, Great Britain and France |hight by City Police. Marquis W. Workers up to date, and $15000- started consideration today of an Bryson was booked for being drunk 000 a vear thereafter. It is the first guyropean Economic Recovery Pro- and disorderly and John W. Wilson, | 0ld age retirement plan to be imple- \gram linked with American aid. a fisherman, was hooked for being|mented in the automotive industry. There was no official indication of drunk. Leonard said the direct wage in- the Russian attitude toward the iAo crease plus the benefits of the pen- “Marshall Plan” but the British HERE FROM SITKA ision plan will make the increase and French have welcomed the John Sheward of Sitka, is regist- “over 15 cents am hour” to the proposal ot U. S. Secretary ot State ered atl the Hotel Juneau. )'workers. Marshall, ! serious lack of housing.” s | | LOS ANGELES, June 27.—(P-—