The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 8, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” [ ——__-— VOL. LXVI., NO. 10,624 ; JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1947 * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Ep—— NATION-WIDE COAL STRIKE AVERTE PLANS FOR BLOCKING RECESSION Ceiling on Vfiges, Indus- trial Profits Suggest- ed in Three Reports | WASHINGTON, July 8—(®—The, National Grange suggested today! that labor and major industriall firms agree on a program of vol-! untary ceilings on wages and prof-, its as a step toward lower prices. ! The farm organization made lhm! proposal as the American Federa- tion of Labor declared that “the| feast and famine policy of indus-| try” has pushed prices and profits| lo the brink of an economic re-| cession. The Grange and the AFL laid| down their views in separate| statements prepared for the joint: Congressional committee on econo- | mic report, This group is study-; ing suggestions on how to prevent | boom and bust swings of the na-! tion’s economy. Albert S. Goss, Master Grange, told the committee: “If labor and industry in a num- ber of America’s largest industrial concerns would agree upon a pro- gram in which a ceiling would be placed on wages, and a ceiling on industrial profits, with all margins above such ceiling divided betwesn labor, industrial ownership and the public in the form of lower prices —with a major part of the saving of the| | [ NOTED TRAVELER — President Truman looks the picture of a man who gets around as he leaves an automobile at Fairfax airport on a recent visit to Kansas City. 'Terrilory of Alaska Is Broke; Report Made by Treasurer Oscar Olson WILD ANIMAL CIRCUS TRAIN ~Elephants Drag Away Wreckage HUBBARD, Nebr, July 8—(®— {Eight cars of Clydé Beatty's 15-car |circus train were derailed in the early-morning darkness today, kill- ling one circus worker and injur- ing at least six. | The accident happened on the | Northeast outskirts of this village (as the circus billed as “The World’s ‘Greatest Wild Animal” show was |enroute from last night's Sioux City, Ia, showing to an engage- Iment at Norfolk, Neb., tonight. Beatty himself was one of the |first out of the wrecked train. He assigned several of the elephants to dragging away torn ties and rails! and pulling in replacements. His cargo, he said, includes the “larg- est fiercest mixed group of savage jungle-bred male and female tigers I have ever handled.” animals, most of them in the fore- part of the train which stayed on the tracks, did not escape their cages. PERFORMERS JUMP A number of the performers jumped to safety as the train be- 'gan to leave the tracks. The man killed was John C. Fisher, 40, Lewiston, Pa., assistant {boss canvasman. His head and IS DERAILED Accident Occurs Early AM. But the| AMERICAN ' LEAGUE IN WIN2TO 1 'Defeat National League in! All-Star Game Played Today in Chicago | CHICAGO, July 8—(»—~The Am- AppRovED BY | erican League, pecking away with ! |an eight-hit attack and ringing the | N | | t ' bell with its pinch-hitters, continued its All-Star mastery over the Na- \Soviets, However, Intent on Blocking United tional League by coming from be- States Plan {hind for a 2-1 victory before a istanding room crowd of 41,123 at ! Wrigley Field today. ! Score by Tnnings ! ! . R HE LAKE SUCCESS, July 8 —/®—The | United Nations Security Council to- {day approved an American blue- | print for arms reduction discussions | despite a Russian warning that the | American L. 000 001 100—2 8 0‘ | National L. 000 100 000—1 5 1 | plan would bring a collapse of arms | regulation efforts. Newhouser, Shea (4), Masterson | (1), Page 8, and Rosar; Blackwell, | {Brechen (4), Sain (7), Spahn (8) The vote was 9 to 0, with Russia !and Poland abstaining. | In view of Russia’s firm stand :and Cooper. (7) and Masi (8).. |against the U. S. plan it had been | believed she might invoke the Big Power veto to block it, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko gave his warn- ing before the United Nations Se- curity Council in a new effort to | revive the Soviet working plan 0! which already had been rejected by 0ithe Commission for Conventional 'Flying Saucers’ In North Carel Box Score AMERICAN AB I |Kell (Detroit) 3b | Johnson (N. Y.) 3b | Lewis (Wash.) rf | Appling (Chicago)* | Henrich (N. Y. rf | Willlams (Boston) 1f. | DiMaggio (N. Y. cf .. | Boudreau (Cleve.) ss { McQuill, (N. Y) 1b | Gordon (Cleveand) 2b Doerr (Boston) 2b . Rosar (Phil.) ¢ Newhouser (Det.) p Have Now Seen Mysfery Discs Are Spotted ina; 43 States ' AGREEMENT IS SIGNED BY LEWIS Miners Obtained-Back to Work Signal WASHINGTON, Juiy o—iii—An agreement averting a nation-wide isoft coal strike was signed today ‘by John L. Lewis and a majority of the bituminous operators. In announcing the signing, Lewis told a news conference that it is “reasonable to assume” the entire ]mdustry will accept the agreement 1within a few days. More than half of Lewis' 400,000 |United Mine Workers are covered by agreements thus far signed by Northern Commercial Operators, steel companies and mine owners in the west and midwest. WHAT IT MEANS For the workers, it means the highest pay in history and the right to work when “willing and able.” : For the public, it means higher North Carolina joined the axsc';‘;::,uf:’{f;‘:’ :::erp?s‘:,l,fln’:s :::: parade. ? !day provided in the contract. For the fivst time the discs Were | The miners originally were sched- reported whirling through the at- yjed to return to the pits early to- mosphere over Asheville in western 'qay at the end of a 10-day vaca- North Carolina and over Greens- tion. But they stayed away pend- boro and Raleigh in the North cen- ing word from Lewis that the wage tral portion, ' agreement—completed last night— As reports continued to pour in had been formally signed. from all over the nation, tabulators ran the tally of states in which BACK TO WORK SIGNAL (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) BUL! IN — ROSWELL, N. M., July 8.—P—Army Air Force announced a flying disc found on ranch near Roswell and is now in Army possession. Lt. Warren Haught, Public Informa- tion Officer of Roswell Army Air Field, said a rancher found the disc and turned it over to the Intelligence Office of 509th (Atomic) Bomb Group of Eighth Air Force which “‘subsequently loaned it to higher headquart- ers.” Haught said the object was found last week but the rancher lacked a telephone and stored it until he could contact a sheriff. Haught descibed the disc as a “flying dject” but gave no other description. Name and address of the rancher who found it were withheld. i ! | | : | | , | : i i 1 America’s “iyulg saucer” jag reei- <a on today. Stiff necks and goggle eyes were the order of the day. Sky watchers was a new profession. going toward reduction in price: our inflationary spiral would soon The Territory of Alaske is broke |chest were crushed by the heavy! |double wheels of “a circus fruck’ which rolled over him as he slept| Shga (N. Y) p Spence (Wash.)** 0! Armaments. 0! His challenge was taken up l the saucers had been seen to 43. Observers in the District of Colum- As soon as the various operators signed, UMW headquarters sent out be put in reverse.” Goss said the “interests of the public would be served if some method of economic regulation such as this should be adopted, rather than expending so much effort to regulate monopoly and profiteering through punitive measures.” Matthew Woll, an AFL Vice Pres- jdent, expounded his organization’s views. He said: The AFL is convinced that the feast and famine policy of Ameri- can industry which in general has allowed prices and profits to climb to such unprecedented heights that consumer buying power is danger- ously lagging, will inevitably lead to economic rezession unless cor- rective action is taken immediate- g e — FORFEITS $25 BAIL Jok.n Spencer Shotter, of Hoonah, ! {and renewed her the American aid to Greece under {not pay any more warrants until! RUSSIA PRESENTS OWN SOLUTION TO' BALKAN DISORDERS Claims Greece Guilty of Fo- menting Disorders with Russ Safellites LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., July 8.— (P—Russia tcday demanded United Nations acticn to get all foreign military wversonnel out of Greece efforts to place UN supervision. These were major points in the resolution £rviet Deputy Foreign today or least within $20,000 of having no money in the bank for general operations This fact was revealed today by the June 30th report of Territorial Treasurer Oscar G. Olson which stated that the current bank bal- ance of the Territory is $19,797.41 after money ior outstanding war- rants and svecial funds has been deducted froni the actual balance of | $962,315.65. This figure represents a decrease of $600,000 from the Territorial | bank balance of last year at this \came time and decrease of $1,- 300,000 from 1945. | Outstanding warrants | other $554,000 Treasurer Olson said that he will | more money is in the bank and he | predicted that chances for much forfeited $25 bail this morning in; Minister Andrei A. Gromyko laid | more money are slim. He explained City Police Court. He was arrested 1ast night and charged with being drunk. before the Security Council his lution for the Balkan disorders. The Scviet delegate of provoking disorders with the demanded | |that the Council find Greece guilty | that most of the larger tax reven- jues have already been collected ior the year. A statement by the Territorial |Board of Administration is expect- represent | $388,000 and earmarked funds an- The Washington Merry- Go- Round ‘bnma, Buigaria and Yugoslavm—‘week as a result of their meeting {and make a long series of recom- cn Monday of last week. The Gov- | mendations to the Greek govern-|ernor's office said today that a | ment to end the disturbances. | statement has been prepared and ! Gromyko's proposals clashed di-|will be made public at that time By DREW PLARECN rectly with the findings of the!saying what the Territory will do Balkan investigating commission 'about the shortage of funds. i { WASHINGTON. — The Govern- |and with a resolution offered by the | | three Soviet Balkan satellites—Al-|ed to be released on Friday of this ' ment probe into dapper Bugsy Sieg- | United States proposing a UN Com ol, slain Nevada gangster, reveals) tnat he had some amazing contacts, | high and low, bizarre and unique.| He raised money in all sorts of in-| teresting places, some upparenuy‘ trom his giri friend, Virginia Hill, | and at one time several years ago | from Charles Ward, one of the| leading businessmen of the north- west. % In 1938, U S. agents, then in-| vestigating Siegel, found that he| had received $20,000 from Ward, | now head of Brown and Bigelow, wellknown St. Paul, Minn,, station- | ery firm. The money was accom-, panied by =2 letter telling Siegel]ator Jenner (R-Ind) contended to- | all Ward could raise |day that “the high command in the | that this was at the time. Later Ward sent Siegel | a check for $80,000, raising the Lotsll payment ‘ ‘to '$100,000. Apparently Ward was not anxious to hide the! transaction, cr he would no made the payment by check. Asked by this columnist about the cedure, Jenner offered what he said , M piyments, Mr. Ward said that hej had Yorrowed some money from| Siegel and was paying it back. | Though it illustrates Siegel's far- not figuring in the current investi- | Jation. 1‘ MISSION TO PARIS However, what does arouse the| curiosity of Government agents is martial in the European theatre.” neau today, on board the Ranger the departure of Virginia Hill, to- gether with a Chinese woman doc- (Continued on Page Four) mission to watch over the trouble zone. A majority of the Commission found Albania, Yugoslavia and Bul- garia to blame for the disorders. — -, JENNER DEMAND EXAMINATION OF MILITARY. TRIALS 'HOUSE PASSES BiL 10 CUTINCOMETAX WITH 3-1 MAJORITY WASHINGTON, July 8—(®—The | House passed today the Republican- | backed bill to cut income taxes by $4,000,000,000 annually for 49,000,000 | taxpayers, beginning January 1. | The vote was 302 to 112, or more than the two-thirds majority need- in a sleeping bag atop a flat car. | The animals took the accident calmly although some of the 40 lions and tigers roared a bit and the elephants trumpeted as they; went about their strange task of dragging rails and ties. About 560 feet of the single-track rail line was torn up. william Antes, publicity director for the circus, estimated damage “at least $100,000.” This includes the loss from shows scheduled at Norfolk, Neb., tonight,and Fremont, Neb., tomorrow night, now cancell- ed. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 8. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5'%, American Can 92, Anaconda 36}z, Curtiss-Wright Internatic:e) Harvester 92'%, Kennecott 447%. ~xew York Central 16, Northerr. Pacific 19%, U. S. Steel 71%, Pound $4.02%. Sales today were 1,390,000 shares. Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follows: industrials 182.66, rails ' 4857, utilities 35.67. ACTIVE BUYING STARTS Agreement between Northern 'Mine Operators and the United | Mine Workers on a one-year con- | tract brought active buying into the | stock market, today. The list climbed {1 to more than & points to the best | general level since March. Trading | was the most active since May 19. ! Steels led the rise with Youngs- ltown Sheet & Tube, U. S. Steel, | Acme, Follansbee and Bethlehem lall up a point or more. Ralls were :up a point or more in Santa Fe, i Norfolk & Western, Union Pacific jand Southern Railway. | Ol improved fractionally making 119‘" highs in Barnsdall, Atlantic | Refining and Pure Oil. Chrysler, at 115, was up more than a point to |a 1947 high. Mack Trucks rose more WASHINGTCY, culy 8—(®—Sen- | oq to override a Presidentil veto.|than a poinc and General Motors European theater is stacking cou against deferdants in courts-m tial.” In a letter to Secretary of War was B mitte documentary proof that: “Prisoners are not being per- d to employ either civilian or | military counsel of their own choice ! flnng associates, this payment ;s‘in the preparation and presentation |in the of their defense.” 2. “Every effort is being inade to prevent attorneys who were con- ! | nected with the infamous Lichfield | Prison case to practice in courts e HERE.’ FROM SITKA Henry Moy of Sitka is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. e WSCS WILL MEET | The afternoon circle of the Meth odist Women's Society of Christian t have Patterson demanding a full inves- Service will meet tcmorrow after- | | tigation of Army military trial pro- noon at 2 o'clock at the home of rs. Jack Popejoy, 633 Pranklin. | Mrs. Andrew Rokinson, chairman |of the circle announced that the {afternoon will be spent in sewing for the bazaar. All ladies interested church are welcome. Bl SP OS2 TRAIL CREW LEAVES Forest Service trail crew left Ju- 110, for the west coast of Chichagof | Island. They will do trail mainten- ance work in that area. The crew fiw‘ll be gone about thre: weeks. William Fromholtz and a U. S. | was up a major fraction. e, . . . . L] L WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning In Juncau—Maximum, 53; minimum, 49. At Airport—Maximum, 54; minimum, 49. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and .Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with occa- sional light rain and not much change in temperature tonight and Wednesday. PRECIPITATION (Bast 24 hours ending 7:30 1.m. today’ In Juneau — .31 inches; since July 1, 153 inches. At Airport — .14 inches; since July 1, 145 inches. . . . . S e o { { | - | | Masterson (Wash.) p | Page (N. Y. p 0 promptly by French Delegate Alex- O iandre Parodi and U. S. representa- tive Hershal V. Johnson, who an- 11 nounced their opposition to any sub- { stitute for the American plan. Gromyko insisted that no pro- gram for arms regulation could suc- A lceed unless the plan was linked 0 directly with an absolute prohibi- tion of atomic weapons. A S R L0S ANGELES HAS ANCTHER MYSTERY STRANGLING CASE Woman's Battered Body| Found Almost in Sha- dows of Cijy Hall LOS ANGELES, July 8—(®—The 0 battered, strangled body of a woman | 0 identified as Mrs. Rosenda Mon- | — dragon, 20, was found today almost 9 in the shadows of the City Hall. | Det. Lieut. Robert Lohrman said | her nude bodv was covered with | bruises and lacerations. He reportad Summary that identification was. made ‘rom Errors—Sain. Runs batted in— fingerprints taken at the time of Mize, Spence. Two-base hits—Wil- an arrest for intoxication 15 mnnth;} liams, Gordon. Home run—Miz2. 2ago. S R s s U8 W R 035 cocoeco~oocoococo~oocod S A nEEeh s e W e &l codcomoccve~wwo~ool Totas —Singled ‘or iewis in uixth. —Singled for Shea in seventh. NATIONAL AB \H' Walker (Phil.) cf Pafko (Chicago) cf F./Walker (Brook. rf Marshal (N. Y. rf ! Cooper N. Y. ¢ | Edwards (Brook.) ¢ | cavarretta (Chi) 1b {Mize (N. Y.) 1b iMasi (Boston) ¢ slaughter (St. L.) 1f ' Gustine (Pitts.) 3b | Kurowski (St. L.) 3b | Marion (St. L.) ss Reese (Brook.) ss Verban (Phi.) 2b | Stanky (Brook.) 2b Blackwell (Cin.) p Haas (Cin.) ‘Brechcen (St. L) p 'Sain (Boston) p { Musial (St. L. Spahn (Boston) p Rowe (Phil.) R H | 0! 0 0 COOCOCCHOCOOOHROOOONOOOCO O coccoccoomnmoococococoon~nawNN =0 Ttoals 1 527 °—Singled for Blackwell in 3rd. —Grounded out for Sain in 7th *—Flied out for Spahn in 9th. bia and Canada also said they had the signal for the back to work cighted the mysterious objects. imove in those operators’ mines. The only states whose skies were Still to accept the pact are the still elear of the discs were Nevada, Southern Operators, who refused to North Dakota, Mississippi, New participate in industry-wide nego- Hampshire and Rhode Island. !tiations, and scattered operators Explanatiors. Take your choice: in the Midwest and West. Com- they were radio controlled flying bined, they represent slightly more missiles sent aloft by U. S. military than 40 percent of total soft coal scientists. Or they were merely production. iight reflected from wing tanks of | “INTERESTING” PACT jett;przgellid pl“;‘es' Or-— Lewis said the pact would be T; \l';v ‘;:‘” OF ayre, “interesting” because it is the first e orld Inventors Congress negotiated since passage of what posted $1,000 for delivery of a fly- 'he scathingly described as the ing disc to the exposition which wrart Slave Law,” a reference to opens in Lo< Angeles on July 11. 'the Taft-Hartley bill putting new Could they be spotted by radar? i estrictions on unions. A spokesman for the Army Air. Discussing that law, Lewis ac- Forces said in Washington that no cyceq the Republican party of attempt had been made to spot -selling out to finance and indus- t!’:e spinning, flying, whirling, sta- try” for contributions to the 1946 tionary discs because there was not'congressional campaign which gave enough equipment to blanket the'jt control of Congress. nation. "One thing about a Republican Lt. Col. Harry W. Schaefer of the Congress,” Lewis said, “they stay Wisconsin Civil Air Patrol announc- 'pought.” ed in Milwaukee his group planned to conduct a series of mass flights in hopes of learning something, Stolen base—Doerr. Double play— Reese, Spanky, and Mize. Earned runs—American 1, Naticnals 1. Left on bases—Americans 6, Nationals 8. Bases on balls—off Shea 2 (Slaugh- ter, Mize; off Spahn 1 (DiMaggio); off Masterson 1 (Marshall); off Page 1 (Reese). Strikeouts—by Blackwell 4 (Kell, Williams, Boudreau, Gor- 'don); by Newhouser 2( Cooper, H. |Waker); by Breechen 2 (McQuinn, Kell); by Shea 2 (Marshall, Kurow- ski; by Sain 1 (Rosar); by Master- son 2 (Reese, Cavarretta) ; by Spahn 1 (Henrich). k Pitching Summary Blackwell—no runs, 1 hit, in 3 in- | nings; Brecheen—1 run, 5 hits, in 3; | sain—1 run, 2 hits, in 1; Spahn—no | runs, no hits, in 2. | Newhouser—no runms, ‘1 hit in 3; Shea—1 run, 3 hits, in 3; Masterson | —no runs, no hits, in 1 2/3; Page— | no runs, 1 hit, in 1 2/3. Wild pitch—Blackwell. Passed ball Cooper. Winning pitcher—Shea. Losing pitcher—Sain. Umpires—Conlan (NL) plate-3b; Boyer (AL) 1b-2b; Henline (NL) 2b- | 1b; Passarrel (AL) 3b-plate. Time of game—2 hours, 19 min- utes. Attendance—41,123. | —dlr DEED RECORDED A deed has been recorded in the o | office of U. S. Commissioner Felix | canneries. | Gray for the sale of a house and lot in the Seatter Tract from George and Isabel Jorgenson to ‘Feux and Elizabeth Hakkinen. A postal clerk found the young Mexican's body on North Main ! treet, where officers said it ap-| | parently had been tossed from a | 160,000 CASES OF ' SALMON ARE TAKEN SOUTH, 2 VESSELS: SEATTLE, July 8—M—Return- |ing from voyages to the Bristol Bay | 'and Prince William Sound areas, two Alaska Steamship Co. vessels | arrived on Puget Sound late yester- \day with approximately 160,000 cases | of salmon in their holds. ! The SS Cape Victory which left |Seattle June 14 with workers and supplies for Bristol Bay canneries, brought back approximately 60,000 cases of canned salmon. She began | unloading at Bellingham last night and will discharge more of her cargo |at Semishmoo near Blaine before returning to Seattle, company of- ficials said. The other vessel, the Coastal | Monarch, returned with cargo of 1100,000 cases of salmon from Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak and Anchorage PRS-/ LA HERE FROM BARANOF | Mrs. Corbett Shipp of Baranof, about the flying objects. Searching for an answer, Caspar W. Ooms, the Patent Commissioner, said he did not think any of the 3,000,000 patents on file in his of- fice held the explanation to the saucers. e, — RUSS TANKER NOW OVERDUE AT SAN PEDRO | Phillips, of Van Nuys, Calif., when jed FLY INJURED MAN FROM WINDHAM BAY | sax rmancisco, suy s—n— {The Coast Guard began a search {today for a Russian tanker, the { Apsharon, overdue on a voyage !from Petroplavosk to San Pedro. Ben Axman, injured yesterday afternoon at Windham Bay by an accidental gun shot, wsa brought | to St. Ann's Hospital for medical| Officials of Amtorg, Soviet trad- treatment early today in a U. S {ing agency, requested the search Coast Guard amphibious plane. The (,yesterday when they were unable to plane, piloted by Lt. E. P. Kropf, {radio the vessel, which was due at | was authorized to nmiake an emer- | iSan Pedro July 5. gency flight to bring the wounded| C08St Guard Capt. 8. P. Swice- man here. !good said he did not believe the Axman, from Los Angeles, wui:hip was in trouble, explaining the | yes: crossing Windham Bay in a small vessel is slow and may have been boat with a companion, Barney |delayed. Its radio may be out of ' commission, he added. the accident occurred. He went for- ward on the boat to get an oil can FUNERAI, SERVKB from under a tarpaulin and knock- | HELD FOR CARLSON a loaded .22 calibre rifle ovfl'l when looking for the can. The rifle | ety oy discharged when it hit the deck| 1.t rites ior Peter Carlson, 30- and a b\{lle}: emer'ed Axman’s 'omi year resident of the Territory, were arm near the wrist and exXited near peiy ot 2 pam. today in the Chas. the elbow. ,W. Carter Mortuary chapel. Dr. John Clements gave AXman ' carison died in Douglas last Fri- treatment upon his arrival here. gay after an illness of several Axman and Phillips came to Alaska eeks. He has been living in Alas- three weeks ago seeking a business ks since 1896. or employment. | The Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman The accident took place at 2 pm.'gave the eulogy with Elks ritualis- yesterday in a boat which the two tic services also being conducted. men had borrowed from Ray Moore. | Two selections were sung by Ernst MRNG B it AT Ehler, FROM FAIRBANKS 3 Pallbearers were Al Zenger, Sr, John Krugness, Sr., Leslie Iversen, Josephine Checknite of Fairbanks Vernon Joyer, Knute Nystom ar- *Alaska, is at the Baranof Hotel. is a guest al the Baranof Hotel. Arvid Anderson. *