The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 14, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SIS " [— = ———————— VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,629 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _ “PRICE TEN CENTS INCOME TAX BILL IS PASSED BY SENATE President Makes 'Homestead Bill Threatens Ruthless Exploifation of | ASKS STEEL, COAL TO NOT RAISE PRICES Declares Wage Sefflement Is Now Badly Mis- | represented WASHINGTON, July 14—P—| President Truman appealed to coal and steel producers today to wait until “a fair test” has been made of the effects of the coal wage settlement before making any price increases. The President, in a said the effect of the wage settle- ment “is badly misrepresented by: the bare statement that it amounts to an increase of about 45 cents| per hour in wages of miners.” “ “It is only reasonable to as : coal and steel producers to wait un- | til a fair test has been made of| the actual effects of the wage ad-! vance under conditions of maxi- mum productions,” the President| asserted. i “If prices are raised at once, and, a wave of increases in related! prices upsets our economy, we ne er will know what would have hap-; (Continued on Page Etght) | -—— statement, | The Washington! Merry - Go-Round| By DREW_Ph-.'Al’.SON I WASHINGTON - There've been | considerable charges and counter-| charges - that CIO council Lee Pressman = ghost-wrote the hot White-House veto message on the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill. Truth is| that he had no direct hand in writ-1 ing the message, though some of ' his words did creep in. ¥ Inside fact is that the bristling | veto message was composed by1 White House assistant Clark CIlif- ford with the help of two princ: pal contributors, William S. Tyson, Solicitor of the Labor Department, | and Paul Herzog, Chairman of the Naticnal Labor Relations Board. @ However, both Tyson and Herzog! wrote analyses of the labor bill for! Clifford’s guidance. And these were strikingly similar to an analysis; written by CIO's Pressman. This| _ Southeast KRUG- ASKS FOR KENAI PEN. ROAD 'Bill for $11 Milllion High- way Would Tie Anchor- age fo Rich Area WASHINGTON, July 14—®—S:c- retary of the Interior Krug has asked Congress to authorize a 75 mile highway to connect the Ke- nai Peninsula in Alaska with the Territorial road system. He filed with the House clerk a bill which would authorize the $11,- 000,000 road and make the appro- priation ) The Kenai Peninsula, he said, is “one of the richest areas of Alas- ka.” ~ It approximately 9,000 square miles, and contains 200,000 acres of valuaBle“farmand forest land, he added. Construction of the highway al- so would make it possible to aban- don the Alaska rail line from Sew- ard to the Eastern end of Turn- again Arm which, he said, “has been en uneccnomic operation.” The proposed highway would ex- tend from Anchorage to the Sew- ard-Hope road on the Peninsula. | > KAISER, WHO TOOK SHOTS AT SENATOR, ORDERED,HOSPITAL Sentto Instii_uiion for Men- fal Observation and | Examination ; WASHINGTON, July 14—(#—Dis- is probably why certain phraseology | charged former Capitol policeman that cropped up in the final White | wyjjjam 1, Kaiser, who fired two| House draft of the labor.message . jneffective shots at Sen. John B.| was attricuted to Pressman. igricker (R-O) last Saturday, has| Further inside fact is that Clif-| ... idered to a hospital for| ford requested the opinions of sev-; eral other individuals outside the [T ! observation and examina- | government, including William Leis- ! G 2 M 5 r LS y uni- erson, former Chairman of the Ci'l;}]leJ::;deex E‘lvl:l ;ueg‘e:ay whneu National Labor Relations Board.! o ¥ ] | A | Kaiser was arrai erate However, Leiserson is plenty peev-.K"“fl was arraigned on charges ed because Clifford rejected his! of & ault with intent to kill and views—after secking .them. |ca): jing 8 deadly ‘weapon. | A confidential memorandum Leis. | She continued the case for 30] erson sent Clifford was only m"dly‘day.s pending Kaiser's examination., critical of the Taft-Hartley Bill| She instructed officers to turn and indorsed several provisions of the legislation, including the ban on jurisdictional strikes, as neces- sary steps in management-labor re- jations. Leiserson tells friends that, while he couldn't indorse the whole bill, in his opinion, some parts of it were; good. In any case, the former La-! tor Board head privately declares! that some of the hot language Clifford wrote into the message! rhould have been “toned down.” BASHFUL ABOUT WIVES Anyone in aviation will tell you that there’s nothing bashful about Maj. Alexander de Seversky when it comes to airplane design. Re- peatedly, before Pearl Harbor, he bearded and badgered Gen. Hap Arnold ot build long-range pursuit! plane, put armor around flying fortresses. When it comes to Kkiss- ing his wife in public, however, Seversky belongs to the old school. As Seversky called at the White House recently to receive the Har- mon Trophy for outstanding avia- tion service from the President, news photographers learned that it was a double red-letter day for the Rus-' sian-born aircraft designer. Sev- ersky and his lovely blonde wife (Continued on Page Four) i lic . Military ‘prison’s. population went to | out. An investigation is underway, he| _ Kaiser over to Gallinger Hospital physicians for observation. Kaiser, a native of Columbus, o.! was held without bond. | Judge Ready explained she was denying bond because of the na- ture of her order. | The case against Kaiser was dis- posed of for the time being in less than two minutes. 1 FT. LEAVENWORTH . PRISONERS QUIET: BACK TO ROUTINE FT LEAVENWORTH, Kas., July 14—(M—Quiet prevailed and regular routine was carried on at the U. S. disciplinary barracks today follow- ing a disturbance yesterday orig- inating among 18 inmates recently brought ' here from Fitzsimmons General Hospital in Denver. Maj. Henry C. Triesler, Jr., Pub- Information officer, said the mess as pusual this morning and that regular work lines were sen!l said. \way by individuals and found the&ri 21 KILLED IN PLANECRASH Alaska Foresls': IN FLORIDA iCraft Cuts 300-foot Swath Through Scrub Pines Last week a committee of the U S. House of Representatives recom- mended the passage of H. R. 4059 the “Alaska Veterans' Homestead- ing Act as Ploughs {0 Earth If this legislation is adopted it} o L would block the plans for unmad-; MELBOURNE, Fla., July 14.—(#— iate development of the forests of Twenty-one persons were Killed yes- utheast Alaska by large DUlDjyerdqy in the crash of a DC-3 charts and paper companies and probably i, g airliner in swampy wastelands | «])('1‘1 the way to ‘u ruthless ex- near here, and today 12 renminedf ploitation of Alaska’s forests to tkfr unidenfied mainly because of a detriment of not only the Terri- ;o;pusion of Spanish names. | tory of Alaska, but the entire na-j ‘mpe geath toll was expected 0 tion. Not only would a valuable: .oun with two of the 13 injured | resource be destroyed, but the “a']un the “critical” list. tion would be deprived of an addi- tional source for scarce pulp for newsprint at a time when the supply is the lowest in history and other pulp producing areas cannot be found. N. J. to Miami with 36 persons aboard—a crew of five and 31 home- bound Puerto Ricans—cut a 300-foot, swath through the scrub pine six miles from this Florida east coast The old Timber and Stone Act,|town as it ploughed to earth shortly | enacted by Congress in 1878, allow-! after 4:30 a. m. ed anyone to patent timber claims; The plane had last been of 160 acres from the public do-ffrom as it passed over Jacksonvilie, main ug payment of $2.50 Der|pia after leaving Augusta, Ga. acre. As this was long before the National Forests had Leen with- drawn from the public domain, the Lest and most heavily of the Puerto Ricans, a number of 2 whom were young children carried timbered { i, the arms of parents and not list- lands of the West were then OPen eq as passengers, and the inability The utilization of the} to purchase. of the survivors to speak English, timber to any appreciable extent:pampered identification of the dead. | . One [ by the individual owner was Im-| g, children escaped injur; practicable, and millions of acres;y.s a poy, Jose Rodriquiz, 3, whose so patented were sold for a song mother, Pura Rodriguiz, is not ex- to large lumber corporations who pected to live . She has 12 broken consolidated them into immenselpones The other child was Ellen blocks. These lands were thenfaceydo 5, logged, -and being privately owned.: Besides Pura Rodriquiz, the other no restraints were placed on thej,acenger on the critical list is Car- logging methods employed, the de-:men Rodriquiz who has a broken gree of utilization practiced, thejpaep. leaving of seed trees to l‘efores(! Among the dead were the pilot, the areas, and the protection °[|Capt. Henry Hein, 36, of Houston, cut-over lands from fire. Result The result has been that the on-| ginal fine forests have been de- R vestated on most of the vast acre- age that went out of public own- ership under the Timber and Stone i ‘Sovernors of } Act. : Thirteen years later, in 1891, the! N |. M I /Paul MacKinnon, formerly of Ro- chester, N. Y. Timber and Stone Act was rcpealedi and the best of the remaining pub~i licly owned timber of the Western! States, a meagre portion and dccid-; | edly of lower quality, was placed in ' ke the then newly estatlished Forest| Reserves which later became the National Forests. The law requires B — that the timber of these National; SALT LAKE CITY, July 14—(#— Forests be harvested as a crop, and: The Nation's Governors, awaiting the forest in all ways managed soja first hand report on internation that it will continue to be produc-E developments by Secretary of State! tive of lumber, pulp and other wood j Marshall, heard demands today that products for all time. !zhe Federal Government yield some In addition to giving away public: of its taxing powers. timber under the Timber and{ With Marshall scheduled for a Stone Act, 160-acre homesteads! major foreign policy speech at a could likewise be alienated at that{state dinner tonight, Gov. Thomas time from the public domain with!J. Herbert, Ohio Republican, told a minimum of development and|his colleagues at the opening ses- with little regard to the suitability|sion oi the Annual Conference that ! of the land for farming. Conse-!too much taxing in Washington is quently, millions of acres of valu-!destroying local responsibility. able timberland were taken up this| way into the huge blocked holdings 3Y (3o (e hgs Blox STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska Safe Then 7 Aleutian, from Seattle, scheduled But the destruction of the public|to arrive at 8 o'clock tomorrow |timberlands in those days did Not; morning and sails westward at 11 extend to the then remote forests ,clock in the, forenoon. of Southeastern Alaska, and WEen| princess Louise scheduled to sail the National Forest lpenod ca(mhe from Vancouver 9 p.m. Wednesday along, the forests throughout the; paranof scheduled to sail from length.and l:!jmadth of this 100 bY| geattle 10 am. Saturday. 400 mile region were fflk?“] ‘"“: Palisana from Sitka scheduled to @l‘»le ?fi‘l]:e"_::‘ FO}‘;':; [;y:;e:‘ee;: ';‘&5 jarrive at 8 o'clock tomorrow morn- intact. ither ha " |ing to load fis B ted by fire through the carelessness miri‘r’we:s N::ln;orscthh;iz:fl:u u_f ihe mmevr 'L“l;g;;“orr::;m:{rive at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning smtce‘ atlhem?:z:t“-:m“ P from Skagway and sails South one natur: ' o r r ¥ The ful:'lunate result is that ncw,’ho:l‘a;::fl;;nios‘;g‘)“‘ Radunled ¢ when America’s demand for timber| & i o BReonec. 0 e oatrunning the” supply, especial- | 8rrive Southbound tomorrow after- ly with respect to timber suitable "% for pulp and paper, there remains intact in Southeastern Alaska some 85 billion board feet of fine virgin hemlock and spruce which is ad- mirably suited and primarily \'nlu-‘ ar- >, — - VICTORIA IN PORT Alaska Steamship Company’s ven- erable ship Victoria, now carrying able for newsprint and higher; g:nilts ;[ paper? I senger vessel, arrived in One million tons of newsprint | Vesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock. per year can be fed into the United States market from this source for- ever, if the forests are harvested as a crop. tied up at the Cold Storage dock to unload freight. The Victoria wus scheduled to sail at 3 o'clock this (Continued O;l‘Pflye Five) |\ultm'nuom The plane, enroute frem Newark, heard ; Similarity in the Spanish namss { {Tex, and the co-pilot, Roderick . ! [ | I i ( | | ) | | 1 | | i i ' i | imen’s Union “in an effort to resist Congress on July 26. | Crowd Strains IoSeel Defendants Curious spectators, jamming a stairway leading to the Santa Ana, Calif., courtroom where Leuise Overell and her sweetheart, George Gollum, are on trial for murder, stare at the defendants as they arrive for a court session. The 18-year-old heircss is at center nearest camera, with Gellum, wearing black suit and spectacles, following. > INDUSTRY IN Fall Session EAST, WEST HAWAIINOW Of Congress IN SPLIT THREATENED Unnecessary AT PARIS wasuinaTon, July 14 — o Soviet Union, Enlarging POSSIbIe Sh u ' d own In , Senator Vandenberg (R.-Mich.) said | today President Truman and leaders Trade Relafions, SfaflS on New Drive labor FIeIdS May FG"OW lof the Republican' Congress have | "D A H |agreed that no special session of | Plneapple S"Ike Congress need be held this fall. | After a conference of the Congres — BULLETIN Paris, July 14— (® —France, The | sional “Big Six” with Mr. Truman, Britain, Italy, Norway and The | | Nectherland: were chosen by the 16-nation Rules Committee as memters of the Executive Com- mittee to supervise the opera- ticn ¢! the Marshall proposal , HONOLULU, July 14. — (M greater part of Hawaii’s industry | vandenberg told reporters: faced possible shutdown today as ! 1. Mr. Truman gave 1.s personai | striking, pineapple wurker.-s‘pre;)m'a-d assurance he would not hold up his b9 .BSK support from all 'I(’rm,““al tax reduction bill veto message, m: units of the CIO International|,.jer «not to interfere in any way Longshoremen’s and Warehouse- | iy, tne adjournment schedule” of Appeal To Two Industries MEASURE NOW GOES 0 TRUMAN i { Chief Executive Will Cer- ~ tainly Veto Legisla- f tion Promptly i WASHINGTON, July 14—® . The | Senate passed the $4,000,000,000 In- |come Tax Reduction Bill today, ;sending it to the White House where a certain veto awaits it. The vote was 60 to 32 which was two short of the {wo-thirds margin the supporters of the cut would have to run up in order to make the bill law over President Tru- man’s objections. Three Senators were absent— Wagner (D-NY), ill at his home; Tobey (R-NH), in New Hampshire at the bedside of his ailing wife, jand Elhert Thomas (D-Utah), en- route to the Capital after attending an International Labor Conference at Geneva, Switzerland. The Hcuse has already cleared the bill by a margin cf nearly 3 to one. The crucial test will come, pos- isibly later this week, when the | two Houses will vote on Truman's expected veto. Senators have re- ceived renewed assurances from the President that. the, bill. would be returned promptly. FIRSTPACK REPORT IS '~ GIVEN OUT Seattle, July 14.—P—Two can- neries at Chignik, on the Alaska Feninsula, had packed 115,609 lcases of salman of which 115,405 |were reds, through July 5, largest of any Alaska area, first salmon ipack reports disclose. | The division of commercial fish- eries, Department of the Interior, issued these outside pack reports: Alaska Peninsula South Side, five jcanneries, 76920 cases; Kodlak, |nine, 30311; Cook Inlet, 13, 32,732; :;Prlnce William Sound, Resurrection | Bay, one, 731; Copper River, eight, ““R"'l')""l"y&'v;‘;ck:‘;"luv” tersitor. | 2 The grouv agreed it would be! for European recovery. 134,160; Central Alaska total, 38 i A IR all but impossible” to get legisla- PR, ! 2 { jal representative, said “full and im- s j canneries, 290,492 cases. pres , 5 E tion this sion admitting (By THE ASYO D PRESS) . mediate support” of other units e S Yakutat, one cannery, 2239; . 5 406,02) of Eurone’s disylec Weekend developments in both | western, one, 769; Eastern, two, sugar workers and longshoremen— |y, 0 ynited States as Mr. Truman ' trade and military fields dramatiz- |403. wrangell, two, 3,119; Southeast would be sought at a meeting of 4 .\ cqnested. ed a rift between the East and | the ILWU Territorial Committee 10- s 1 o plan for European recon- | West over the Paris conference!mnsn 'ojil_w' o day. s ctruction emerges from the current plans for economic cooperation. : _His statement followed a predic- p, o conference on the Marshall | The Soviet Union—having J\ml SIO(K ouo'l’A“ouS tion by F:edcral Conciliator Nathan .n the Senate Foreign Relations enlarged her trade relations with P: Fel.n:emgor» that the four-day mittee, headed by Vandenberg, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia—ap- NEW YORK, July 14 — Closing pineapple strike “will sooner or be called back late in the Fears concerned that Scandinavian |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine later affect the sugar industry. commerce might be tied up wnhlsluck today is 5%, American Can . year. “The net'result,” he advised Sec- | vt that of other Western nations. Y, 1 iss- t retary of Labor Schwellenbach, “Will | g vz S| rations. 93's, Anaconda 38', Curtiss-Wrigh! ~ = wesaw The Moscow Communist newspap- i 5, International Harvester 95, Ken- Iness. Fruit still in the fields is es- i i \ | freight after long years as a I“*-\'{‘luwlng nominations for postmaster Juneau | ships in Alaska She lay anchored in the channcl /M. Young, Haines; Lilly V. Clark, made in from two to four weeks. until 8 o'clock this morning, then!Nenana. | Iregistered at the Baranof Hotel, be to throttle substantially all major ler, Pravd accus ) , ecdnomic activities of the Terri- | ‘;' Fl\'lz\ X accused the United | necott 47, New York Central 167, | {States of trying to hinder Swed-|Northern Pacific 20%, U. S. Steel tory. i |en, Norway and Denmark—among |76, Pound $4.02%. Peinsinger, who sald he would 'the 16 nations represented in Paris| Sales today were 1,660,000 shares. Ronald L. Giilis, leave for San Francisco today, told {—from developing “normal rela- newsmen the ILWU and Pineapple | W |tions” with Eastern Europe and to Industry had almost reached agree- | ! dominate their economy. ment in their wage dispute, only to | On the other hand, Russia made draw apart. | new barter trade moves on her own “This is the first time I've ever ! !with two neighbors which followed had a contract settled and then " the Soviet Union in boycotting the watched it blow up in my face,” he Paris talks. added. : ) i B riEY Russia Makes Move The struck pineapple firms alone FAIRBANKS, July 14, M—| A new five-year Russian-Czecho- represent 2 $65,000,000-a-year busi- Granted permission to make 2 S€C- g ovak trade pact calls for an im- ond attemot to climb 20270-f000 pegigte and vast increase in the timated at $40,000,000. ,high Mt. McKinley, Gordon Her- exchange of goods. o oo @ S reid, 22, of Santa Monica, Calif,| ypger o Russian-Bulgarian agree- 1_"'“ Saturday with two other eX-GI'yoh “announced in Sofia, Bulgeria Retha Young foBe (iummnimscionses ok o vl end st procuct, - | y P cluding a large amount of tobacco, A Frank Mills, 20, of Cincinnati, and |, the Soviet Union in exchange Haines Postmaster mcy puub. 2. Boston, complete o munutactured goods. cotton ana e party. All are students at the | . pe,. fs iy University of Alaska. | o s ’ WASHINGTON, July. 15—®— Herreid was the }‘eadvr of a group m.p;::;:::‘l;;, lx:ni‘;g;x’.h:;: G’;ifi.:?-?;g The Senate has approved the fol- which was balked in an attempt 10| Greek government said its ‘fi:l: fheorpz?xt lc“l::m‘)‘e“’"”_’r by the were driving back an expeditionary spne r € W0 | force of 1,000 men, including “parts Candle; Retha estimated the round trip would bey ¢ . international brigade,” which (had struck across the border from | Albania. Anti-Demeeratic Plan Enver Hoxha, Albania’s — e —_———— FROM PETERSBURG FROM ANCHORAGE Anne L. Ogilvie of Anchorage is' la' guest at e | Mrs. Marie Loy of Petersburg is| the Hotel Juneau, | Gen (Continued on Fage Eight) troops | | Averages today are as follows: Industrials 185.63, Rails 49.84, Utili- ties 35.88. ACTIVE RISE TODAY Steels, rails and rail equipment paced a broad, active rise on the | stock market today. Prices gained 1 to more than 2 points, lifting the general average to a new high since Feb. 11. Vol- ume was the best since May 19 and | dealings exceeding the million-share mark for the 9th consecutive trad- ling day. { Impetus for the rise stemmed largely from the market itself. | When laggard rails narrowed the | gap from the high of the year, new demand came into all other sec- | tions. — SOUTH FOR TWO MONTHS | Mrs. Milton Furness and her two children, Milton Jr., and Ann, flew {South via Pan American Airways on Saturday. They will visit Mrs. { Purness’ sister, Mrs. A. E. Sven- sson in Everett, Wash. They plan to be gone two months,