The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1947, Page 1

[LONGSHOREMEN TIE UP JUNEAU Congressional Par A \i I THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e ——— ———— VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,648 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1947 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS * PRICE TEN CENTS PARTY OF 7 IS MAKING | ALASKA TRIP| » ty Due '0DOM FORCED AIR-FREIGHT BACK FROM LINE TOFLY | WORLD TRIP, AU PORT At Anchorage Tremendous Kenai Holocaust [DEADEINE AT Caused Heavy Wildlife Loss NOONTODAY; STRIKE ON Inspect Pro;o;d 38,000,- ' 000 Airport Site~En- i fertainment Plans | PBYTO HEREE Says James Affer Il!sl)edion Ailerons Jammed on Flight l Totem Air Service Inaugur-| -He Returns-Off Again | «afes Southeast Alaska ' Maybe Tomorrow Flights from Seattle By VERN HAUGLAND WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—(P—Mil- ton C. James, Assistant Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service said | today the big fish news from Alaska | |is the “rather good" Bristol Bay | salmon pack—1,400,000 cases, almost i | | | TESTIMONY No Settlemfikfli in Dispute-Longshorenven Make Statement The port of Juneau is tied up ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 5—® } —A party of seven touring Con- | gressmen and their aides, due to arrive here this afternoon to in- spect a proposed $8,000,000 Public Airport site, will be greeted by a large delegation of Anchorage businessmen. A public reception tonight, spon- i sored by the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, will be followed by 2 banquet Wednesday. Motor trips and fishing expedi- tions are planned during the group’s four-day stay. A trip to Fairbanks| Saturday and back Sunday even- ing also is scheduled. H Expected in the party are Reps. Lecnard W. Hall, New York; Hugh BERMUDA HON is the daughter of Mr. and The Washington B. Scott, Jr., Penn.; Henderson H., | Carson, Ohio; Virgil Chapman, M = G a R d Kentucky; Richard F. Harless, erry 0 Oun ‘: Arizona, and Dwight L. Rogers, ' s | Florida. | By DREW PLARSON | They will be accompanied by, Alaskan Delegate E. L. Bartlett. Their aides include Elton J. Lay-| WASHINGTON After the ! 5 e {smoke of congressional battle| ton, Clerk of the House Interstale. ciepreq, thousands of stunned vet- Foreign Commerce Committee; A erang searched the headlines for E. Stockburger, Andrew Stevenson.w(m_l of an expected increase in and Kurt Borchardt, of the Com-'ggents’ subsistence, —on-the-job mittee’s professional staff; Allan H. {ygining pay, plus promised auto- | Perley, Legislative Counsel, and mopjles for the blind and ampu- Col. Charles H. Wooley. itees. Hoth bills had passed the G o Senate by unanimous vote, had been hurriedly shoved through the ,House Veterans Affairs Committee. However, nothing happened. The | bills never passed. . Inside story is that GOP bosses {in the House quietly turned thumbs ,down on the veterans legislation. Strategy was plotted at a secret ymeeting of the Republican Steering Committee, where Indiana’s Major- lity Leader Charlie Halleck argued ithat the Republican party which Inad promised more economy than Iit had been able to legislate, could | not afford any more veterans bene- i fits—at least not this year. This caused a vigorous clash in- side Republican ranks. AVERT FORD “STRIKE IN LASTHOURS will Underlgla Seftlement of Dispute Under Taft- EYMOON — Mr. and liam C. Ford relax during their honeymoon at Cambridge Beaches, Bermuda. Ford is the grandson of the late Henry Ford. His bride ' CHICAGO, Aug. 5—@—William* (Bill) Odom, who took off on a pro-| jected around-the-world solo speed; [flight yesterday, was back on his, ihome airport today after having flown approximately one-sixth of the intended mileage. Shortly after passing over Hali-; fax, Nova Scotia, in his 4,000-horse power, twin-engined plane, the former British Ferry Command pi- lot said his ailerons jammed and he was forced to turn back. | He landed on the Chicago airport| i Mrs. Wil- i lat 11:55 Central Daylight Time last 1night, 9 hours and 24 minutes af- ;ter the take-off. He said he pro- .bably would leave again tomorrow iin another attempt to halve the round-the-world solo record of 186 hours set by the late Wiley Post iin the famed single-engined “Win-; {nie Mae"” monoplane in 1933. | The 27-year-old pilot said he i\ud | covered about one-sixth of the pro- ijected flight, or more than 3,000 imiles of his 19,600-mile route in w!the trip to Nova Scotia and back. | Although his take-off at 2:31.50 ip. m. yesterday appeared to ob- Mrs. Harvey Firestone, Jr. Sarin(j Wave Confinues in Parls_gl U.S BEATTLE, Aug. 5.—®—Using - geénuity and a war-surplus flying, t, three Seattle men this week will start a new air service from Seattle to the “airportless” mari- time region of Southeast Alaska. Ii the idea “pans” out, it will bring heavy air freight and passen- ger scrvice to Alaskan coastal vil- lages that have never seen any- thing larger than small pontoon planes, F. A. Davis, one of the backers of the venture, said today. “The present air freight lines are by-passing this area because there Iure practically no airports Lhere."_Gen Barney Giles, Deputy Air in,the area, checking the results of | Davis pointed out. “That's where we come in. We don’t need an airport-——we taxi right up to the beach.” Backers of the venture are Davis, who will handle the business en his brother, Newell Davis, who will be in charge of maintenance; and Wayne Campbell, chief pilot. The fitm is known as Totem Air Ser- vice, Inc. iy -gitoralt; <@ specially-con= wverted PBY5A, they bought from surplus Coast Guard stocks. Davis GIVENBY | double last year's catch. 1 | i | James, back from a tour of Al- by @ strike of Local 1-16, Inter- R EVEI-T‘BS““ fisheries, expiessed concern National Longshoremen and Ware- 3 at the destruction wrought by forest [ housemen’s = Union. fires along a 70-mile front on the | Deadline for a settlement of the sy | Kenai Peninsula, in the heart of Al- ;gre:;mns dispute had been set H H | aska’s big game country. y the union for noon today; and Demes Whl'e HOU(e In"u' “The fires destroyed hunderds of ,‘"heflx lfz o'clock was reached, the H | thousands of acres of timber, and |Men left work and the strike was ence Obfained Plane | iies iy smoke so wmick as to nait oo, Slipping_under the deadiine | airplane operations in the Anchor- |today by a few hours, the North- con'rads 'or Hughes inge area,” James told a reporter. land Transportation Company’s | "“we are particularly concerned [reighter Lucidor arrived in Ju- | WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—P—El- over the effect upon game animals, "€8U at 9:30 o'clock this morning. 'liott Roosevelt said today that' particularly moose. We have men; She unloaded cold storage sup- |plies, a few automobiles, and what 'Corps chief, wrote him during the the tremendous holocaust. Untll we Other cargo could be got off before war, labeling as “ridiculous” charges | have their reports, we can make no |100n, and sailed at 1 o'clock, tak- that White House influence obtain-| estimate of the wildlife loss.” ing with her the remainder of led plane contracts for Howard, James said the large Bristol Bay .some 300 tons of cargo destined for Hughes. | catch reflected a large escapement Dere. Previously, the tall son of the resulting from the suspension of | Alaska Steamship Company has |late President had asserted from | northern Alaska fishing in 1942, 1the Baranof due in at 6:30 p. m. the witness stand that his involv- | after the outbreak of war. The red !0da¥, but it is believed she has no ‘ment in a Senatorial investigation or sockeye salmon has a five-year |{Téight for Juneau. The long- of Hughes' contracts is directed at'life cycle. | shoremen, through BSecretary Alex |“smearing” his father's name. | By contrast, the pink salmon of | Laiti, have definitely stated that and. o i | In earlier the Gen~ Southeast Alaska has @ two-year ‘hey will handle mail, { e te War Investigating Committee,|cycle. Purthermore, Southeast Al |ship's. stores. on _the % R that |aska fisheries continued to operate Any other' American vessel. 3| during the war even after northern | Laiti also stated today, “Canad- a 1Roosevelt had acknowledged Northern. Midwest States Have Some Cold Air- Other Areas Swelter (By The Associated Press) An induction of cold air from |servers on the airport to be smooth iand easy, he reported upon his re- tturn that “I very nearly cracked lup.” He said that the heavy iload of 2,460 gallons of gasoline |“disturbed the _stability” of the !converted A-26 army bomber as he {lifted it into the air. i On his next attempt, he said, ihe would carry a lighter fuel load was a major in the army at An- chorage, his brother was in the Marine Corps, and Campbell is a former Navy pilot. The new airline will service Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan, iJuneau and smaller towns. The company will be able to fly can- nery workers diréct to their destin- ations, Davis points out. Howard Hughes had paid a $576.8: hotel bill for him in Decemter, iisheries were cut off. 11944, and Jack Frye, then head of “The Southeast Alaska run had { Trans-World Airlines which is con- barely started when I left,” James itrolled by Hughes, paid one of said. 1$850. | i that from fairly good to fair prospects. It was in that month Roosevelt and actress Faye Emer-| “All in all there is every likeli- ison were married. Roosevelt said hood for a total salmon pack for )the hotel bills were paid as wed- Alaska materially larger than last year but perhaps not greater than “It presented a varying picture' ‘nn ships can bring in anything,” |as the Canadian Pacitic vessels do not come under the contract now ;m dispute. Contract negotiations have been ‘golng on for some time between |the ILWU and the three Seattle !steamship. lines, Alaska Steamship |Company, Northland Transporta- ition Company, and Alaska Trans- Canada held some promise today, i of breaking up the three-dny'a"d make his first stop at Gander, 1 Newfoundland, instead of Paris. searing heat wave over the north-: ern midwest states. | —— .- | The Chicago weather bureau said' Later, the company plans to make charter runs on special hunt-! ing and fishing trips to Alaska. It| will make its first trip North on the Dakotas already had recejv-! Thursday, Davis said. . ed some relief from yesterday's| - e = i high readings of 100 degrees or! more and that Western Minnesota | i could expect at least moderately! lowering temperatures late this af-| ternoon or tonight. | Elsewhere, however, the weather| LA generally wculd be a continuation « FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 5v_4m‘ of the past two or three days with| _Geperal Eisenhower, U. S. Army WARRANT ISSUED FOR ARREST OF JOHN W. MEYER ' ding presents. “I believe on a strict interpre-| tation of the law, I might be repri- manded for accepting a wedding gift from Howard Hughes,” young| Roosevelt told the committee. seven planes and 14 patrol boats in The committee is inquiring into ' Territorial waters, he said, and re- the wartime award of ‘wnmvomlcenuy expanded its inter-district in plane contracts to Hughes and | 'adio communications. the part a - recommendation from a5 it b Roosevelt played in the ward of onc;‘ STO(K OUOIAHOHS Before the wedding gift R $22,000,000 contract. brougbt up, Roosevelt had: NEW YORK, Aug. 5 — Closing ! portation Company. Agreement has been reached on all contract provisions except one, which would absolve the ILWU lor its officials from any liahility (in case of a strike. This para- graph, which the ILWU is insisting jupon, the steamship companies will {not accept. ARRESTS OF the 10-year average.” ¥ James devoted most of his Alaskan ‘tour to the Anchorage, Kodiak and Bristol Bay areas. The agency has was 4 | Rules Chairman Leo Allen oked- ! i 1. Challenged John Meyer, Pub-| uotation of Alaska Juneau mine +iently refused to grant necessary irules to permit a vote on the vet- lerans' bills. But Massachusett's H?gley dabor Adt DETROIT, Aug. 5—#—The CIO United Auto Workers, in an agree-- cvhr_:l_southerly flow of hot air pre-|cpief of Staff, arrived yesterday for | vailing for at least another ?113 two-day inspection of the Army | bours. ~ Temperatures in Michi- sy porces' Cold Weather Experi- gan today were expected to climb'y,.,¢ station and other military in- (igarette Girl Accuses Pub- | gty man for Hughes, to say that goox today s 4%, American Can \Me.yex had ever ‘“procured” any go. Anaconda 35%, Curtiss-Wright iparty girls for him. Expense ac- i, = yniernational Harvester 88'%, JEWS FAIL T0 ment averting - their Ford Motor Co. strike ‘scheflyled for today, were givén a year's grace from strike damage suits under the Taft- Hartley labor law. This the" company agreed to in an eleventh-hour pact which serv- ed to “keep 107,000 production 1 workers on the job as @& nationwide walkout, set for -noon, was called off. imotherly Edith Nourse Rogers, the (chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, also a Republican, re- fused to be bullied. For. three days Ishe struggled to force the bills before the House. Stubbornly she ,jumped to her feet at every op- _portunity, demanding unanimous consent to proceed. But Speaker {Joe Martin shrugged her aside. Finally Mrs. Rogers buttonholed jboth Martin and Halleck in pri- above the highs of yesterday when | Grand Rapids reported a maximum | of 94, Detroit 89, and Sauite Ste. ,nq Nome before ending his acrial | Marie 87. ! ‘Temperatures ranging from Lhe; high 90s at many points to 111° degrees at Philips, 8. D., yesterday| Laked the already dry topsoil and| stallations in this area. He also will visit Point Barrow tour of Alaskan military bases. licity Man as Father of Her Baby NEW YORK, Aug. 5—P—Spec-| ial Sessions Justice Frederick L. | Mackenburg has signed a warrant |counts of Meyer, introduced in evi- gennecott, 45%, New York Central {dence, list payments to gitls for ;o " Nonthern Pacific 20%, U. S. !cnterminlng army officers, gov- Steel 73%, Pound $4.02%. !ernment officials and others. Sales today were 750,000 shares 2. Declared he knew nothing of Averages today are Ias Iollows“ a gift of nylon stockings by Meyer ;. iq1 183,08, Ralls 49.16, Utili- to actress Faye Emerson, the pres- .. . q-qq ent Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt. 3 i { END VIOLENCE (British Policeman Killed in ifor the arrest of John W. Meyer, . publicist for movie and aviation magnate Howard Hughes, on the ‘complaint of a night club ecigar- Lrought reports from some sections | that the corn crop was firing. ! of | Pierre, 8. D. had a high ' He accused the Republican Sena- tors on the committee of singling STOCKS GO HIGHER him out for inquiry because he is' Announcement of plans for mer- | a son of the late President Roose- ger of the recently organized St.| Bomb Blasted Building The agreement, under which ""lme trying ever: i 5 y 3 g 'y means of persua union and company will ““de"“elslon But it was no go. Slumping 110 degrees, and readings of 105! were reported at such widespread points as Velantine, Neb. Farge,| lette girl who says Meyer is the father of her six-month-old son. | velt. | Louis-San Francisco railroad with TR T {the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio brought in Jerusalem JERUSALEM, Aug. 5—~@— The mutually to settle their dispute growlixg irom the Act’s penalty provisions, protects the union for nl period of a year from the date a new contract is signed. Ford and the UAW agreed to , spend at least a year if necessary in order to secure a mutually sat- isfactory understanding of union linto a chair in the cloakroom, she muttered bitterly: “T don't know what to do. They don't give excuses. They just get jangry.” SLAPPING THE SPEAKER On the eve of the last session, 'the lady from Massachusetts made a last desperate plea. “I do not know how the mem- In Washington, Meyer, who has been testifying before the Senate. Most of the rest,of the nation,| WAXAHACHIE, Texas., Aug. 5—| . = ’ tinued to swelter today after many|negroes and two white men were' ooioine sridiculous” and “ig he! sections Teported high 90s and 100ikilled in Texas' worst 1947 autojyoabrcte pentolb G Yln )| or more Monday, with little re-|accident at dawn today when two. e iR Pathicls. Maples; thim | | 1 N. D, and Advance, Mo. lief in immediate sight. trucks collided on a slight curve! ik i fam, s, er model who has been a cigarette nta, Ga., and Meridian, near here. Six were injured. igirl at some of the most exclusive British arrested the mayors of the Jewish towns of Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Natanya and Petah Tiqva, I-nd jailed dozens of other Jewish St. Louis-San Francisco cammonig::?r‘f;:d ofticiall 1o d‘ e rose more than a point and "he‘cnmpalmi a Nmty : pl.“ ""t ;m preferred gained 3. Gulf, Mobile |7 PRER AEMOSS terrorism” But & Ohio common was unchanged A labor department building in {buying into stocks of the Frisco| | today and stimulated interest in all | Molorized Column oo s e oo H er. Kills 15 Strikers, | reported 100, Chattanooga, Tenn.,| The white men killed, neither! e on the fashionable East Side, 5; Little Rock, . 102; ) i Ve 105; Little Rock, Ark Mem- |identified yet, were the driver of|iq in her complaint that the! Forly Wounded :-; \ PARIS, Aug. 5—®—The French Another announcement was that the Street of the Prophets was and company privileges. A Joinli committee will seek this. [bers can go back and I do not tknow how I can go back” she o feried,” “and tell the veterans . . SmMER Mov!"ms ‘No, the Congress has passed mil- ; lions and millions of dollars for TR relief to foreign countries and nev- Baranof, from Seattle, westbound, | ", ynteq the cost but we are not scheduled to arrive at 6:30 0'clock| o g0 jegislation for the veterans this evening. because of the cost’ . . . I believe Alaska ccheduled to sall frOMiye jeagership will bring those Scattle today. . |bills for action tomorrow. I still Princess Louise scheculed to saillpgve faith. I do not believe that from Vancouver August 6 at Q:Iaith will be betrayed.” | p. m. But the session ended, and the Northern Voyager scheduled t0]pis were still bottled up in the sail from Seatile August 8. { Committee. Aleutian scheduled to sail from| At the height of the battle, Seattle Saturday. Washington’s AMVET post hap- Princess Norah, scheduled to sial from Vancouver Saturday. ——— pened to select Speaker Joe Mar- tin for an honorary life member- ship. Minority leader Sam Ray- burn was supposed to speak on Augn:fflg ::. :?:;:Cwfi last«"he same program, but a last min- mgmrby thewxn eau Police Depa: rt-'“u change kept him away, and| ment and lodged in the Gity Jai i e e . o on a charge of drunkenness. 7 i i AL AR i s 2 torfeited $25 bail this morning. (Continued on Page Four) phis, Tenn., 103; Vicksburg, Miss., 99 and Montgomery 98 in the * south. The Eastern Seaboard had tem- peratures in the 80s although warmer readings were forecast for today and tomorrow. In the Far West, Seattle had 71, Los Angeles 74, and San Francisco 84 Monday. Montana reported some cooling weather yesterday, with predictions of ccol temperatures along the HERE FROM GUSTAVUS Arriving yesterday by plane from Gustavus were Mrs. Jennie Parker, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. A. V. James. They are all guests at the Baranof Ho- tel while in Juneau. — SEATTLEITES HERE Hildegarde Mehline is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, registering trem Seattle, Wash, (a gasoline tank truck, and aj..; hitchhiker. ‘,cm]d o b TRUCK OPERATORS |THREE ARE SLAIN; CLOSE MINES AS | ONE OF VICTIMS MORE PAY ASKED' IS DECAPITATED WHITESBURG, Ky., Aug. 5,—! PRINCETON, Ind., Aug. 5.—®— (P—Four hundred operators idled Sheriff James G. McDonald report- their truck mines today in demand'ed today the slaying of Mr. and for higher prices for their coal Mrs. and put 6,000 union miners out of Nora Turpin at a country home +work temporarily. {two miles east of here in the Taft A mine operator, Luther Bates,. Town road. {said the Letcher Truck Mine Oper- All three had been shot and the |ators Association wanted more thanunmarried woman had been de- ithe customary $4 a ton for their capitated with a butcher knife. coal. Ramp owners who buy the, Roy Turpin, 48, brother of Miss ‘coal and resell it charge $5.75 to Turpin, was held in Gibson coun- (86 a ton, he contended. Ity jail, and the sheriff said Tur- ‘The miners are members of the pin verbally had admitted the ‘United Mine Workers. triple slaying. rm February 2, 1947. iporipeiasin 4 | | | i | | i i i Charles Bateman and Miss; iPress Agency said today 15 slflk-:u( the Chespeake & Ohio, which ers were killed and about 40 were will distribute as a dividend to its !wounded yesterday near Sfax, T“'}swckholder: all C. & O. holdings in |nisia, in a riot which followed an!the New York, Chicago & St. Louis iattack on an army motorized col-|(Nickel Plate). C. & O. common { umn. !moved up nearly a point but the : {common of, Nickel Plate lost a | point. Steel shares rose a point or more {in Bethlehem and U. S. Steel. | Youngstown gained nearly a point. Motors improved in reflection of 'the last-minute avoidance of to- | day's scheduled strike in the plants OSWEGO, N. ¥, Aug. 5—P—A Of the Ford Motor Co. Chrysler 0 was, Was up 1%. General Motors and run, Studebaker rose major fractions. - — — ALASKANS AT BARANOF {Engineer Is Run Over and Killed :By His Own Engine I | 57-year-old railroad engineer killed today when he was iover by his own engine in a tunnel| ;of the Delaware, Lackawanna and| Western Railroad. | Police report that John Carroll, Among the many guests at the Syracuse, was attempting to escape Baranof Hotel from other Alaska |from the cab of the locomotive as Cities are R. W. Thompson of Nak- steam started pouring from a nek; Fred Hanford, Wrangell; M. valve and fell under the moving C. Mathias, Craig, and Sam Asp, train. of Tenakee. blasted by a bomb which killed a i British policeman trying to re- move the explosivee Two others |were trapped in the debris, from (which arose a mushrooming smoke cloud. British troops investigated an (Arab report that six armed Jews ihad taken a Briton into an orange grove in the Tel Aviv area. An- {other unconfirmed report asserted that five British soldiers and their army vehicle were missing in the same area. | The arrest came after two weeks lof Jewish underground violence in ! Palestine during which two young | British Army sergeants were hang- ed and strangled to death on small trees near Natanya. VR 1 i L CAA MEN ARE HERE { L. R. Seely and J. C. Bowen, both of whom are with the CAA, have arrived here from Anchorage and are reglstered at the Baranof.