The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 16, 1947, Page 1

—r— ¢ i | SATURDAY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,658 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PR[CE TEN CENTS CHURCHILL WARNS BRITONS OF DISASTER NATIONWIDE SHIP STRIKE IN FEW DAYS'Cooperahon by Veerans, SIR IKE HELP AFL Spokesman Predicls; Coast fo Coast Tieup Before August 22 BALTIMORE, Aug. 16. — P—A nationwide shipping strike probably will be called in “the next couple of days,” spokesman for an AFL maritime union told a rally of 4,000 striking CIO shipyard workers last night. The prediction came from William | Baltimore Port Agent of the | Rentz, Seafarers International Union, which called a strike Tuesday night against the Isthmian Steamship Company. Other speakers addressing members of the International Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Work- ers of America (CIO) exhorted them to continue their 50-day-old waik- ; out. Rentz said, “We're going to hit everything on both coasts and tie everything up. It's likely that we 1| be out when the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act go into effect (Aug. 22) and we'll see what can and can't be done under this law.” Ross D. Blood, National Secretary- Treasurer for IUMSWA, told the: gathering that the companies “wouid like to cram the Taft-Hartley Act down our throats and pave the way against the entire labor movement. - CASE DISMISSED U. S. Commissioner Fehx Gray vesterday dismissed two elicnn‘ people from a charge of “cohabit- ing in a state of adultry.” The couple, Sally Jacobsen and Percy ! Johnson were arrested earlier this week and had posted $1,000 bond cach. Commissicner Gray ruled, at their preliminary hearing, that there was insufficient evidence for prosecution. ———————— MARRIAGE LICENSES Two couples have applied to U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray for a li- cense to marry. They are: Gsolge J. Nethercott and Norma B. and Kay Cummings and mel Pierce Cause. The last couple is from Whitehorse. ——————— FROM CALIFORNIA Mr. and Mrs. Byron Phillips and child of Hollywocd, California, are stopping at the Hotel Juneau. R PETERSBURG MAN HERE James E. Parky of Petersburg is staying at the Baranof Hotel. ——————— WILD LIFE MAN HERE E. P. Haddon of the Fish and| wildlife Service, Chicago, is reg- istered at the Baranof Hotel.- T The Washington: Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PLAR..ON By ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON One of the Congressional committees going to Europe has an unpublicized special{ mission that may prove very em-i Larrassing to the high brass in the War Department. The committee will look into the activities of Lt. Gen. John C H. Lee, Commander of the Medi terranean Theatre and his mgh- living staff. Reason for the committee's check | up are numerous complaints re- ceived by members of Congress from GI's serving in the theatre, and their parents. The latter have ‘teen particularly indignant. Burden of these complaints 1s that while Les and his staff are Jiving in lavish luxury, the enlist- ed men are ill-housed and ill-fed: and subjected to un-American per-| indignities and a Prussian The following sonal form of discipline. are some of the charges contain-| ed in the letters: That Lee has three private resi- dences—in Rome, Florence, and Viareggio, the last place, a resort town, out of bounds for GI's; that he also has for his exelusive use a small fleet of automobiles, a specially equipped C-47 transport plane,” and a special train. The (Continued on Page Four) the ; | . Nt S NWIDE EGAL ACTIoN BY |ALASKA GOV. AMERICAS | Wh ¥ " TERR- TO GET BACK | | VETS'BOARDLOAN 'ASKS TRUMAN Expeded for Early De- | i cision in Friendly Suit ,' At a meeling of the Board of | ! Administration here yesterday, | consideration wa iven to the irefusal of the Veterans’ Board to comply with the recent request of {the Board of Administration for |repaymr‘m to the general treasury jof $350,000.00 advanced in April of {1946 for commencement of the ! Veterans’ Loan and Bonus pro- {gram. Under the Veterans' Loan and Bonus Act, the amount shall be irepaid as soon as the revenues de- rived from the tax (gross sales and services tax) permit, but later than four years from the effective date of the Act (April i3, 1845). The tax has now pro- {duced approximately one and three-quarter million dollars. In making its demand, the |Board of Administration expres e(l regret that shortage of money ‘m the general fund to meet Terri- torial operating expenses compell- ‘ed action which would slow up [brnufies and loans to veterans. | In declining to make repay- ment, members of the Veterans’ {Board contended that in consider- ation of the number of Veterans' i applications, the amount of money ¥so far produced by the tax does not permit repayment, and it is lIur the Veterans' Board to decide. ! The Board of Administration, {deeming the issue a point of law for the court to decide, instructed 'the Treasurer and Attorney Gen- eral to bring appropriate legal | proceeding. Attorney General ‘Ralph Rivers stated that a man-, damus action would be filed im- mediately and that it was expected the Veterans’ Board would coope: ‘ate to obtain a decision as soon as possible. e ,————— SECOND SUIT ON DIAMOND ' KNOT SINKING Ameri(an-fi;v;aiian Com- pany Charged Operating | Fenn Victory Negligently | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16—®— | The American-Hawaiian Steamship ! \Company today faced a $2,500,000 |Mmmme libel action, brought by | the Libby, McNeill and Libby comn pany for the loss of 108.946 casei' yof salmon in the sinking of the| i Alaska motorship Diamond Knot Ilnat Wednesday. The Libby Company charged that ! the American-Hawaiian's freighter {Fenn Victory was operated negli- lgemly and at excessive speed whem }it collided with the Diamond Knot in a heavy pre-dawn fog in the | ‘Sn'ait of Juan de Fuca. Soon after the suit was filed, | {American - Hawailan brought a‘ ‘counter action asking that it be | ! exonerated of liability, or that its liability be limited to the value of | 'the Fenn Vlctux) placed at $950,- e | STEAMER MOVEMENTS Aleutian, due here southbound jearly Monday. | Northern Voyager, in Ketchikan| northbound. \ | Princess Louise, sails from Van- tcouver 9:30 tonight. | Baranof, sailed from Seattle ithis morning. | Alaska. scheduled to sail from | Seattle Tuesday. Princess Norah, due to sail from Wednesday evening. o — | DUFRESNE TO KETCHIKAN I | Vancouver | Prank Dufresne, Chief of Infor- mation for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was scheduled to travel to Ketchikan today in order to complete preparation for the ar- rival of the Outdoor Writers of America, who are scheduled to come there next week, enroute to Juneau, | the Telegram Urges Interven- tion in 12-Day-Old Tieup | WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 President Truman's intervention in the 12-day Alaska CIO longshore- men’s strike, which has closed the Juneau, Ketchikan and Seward! ports, is asked by the Territorial Governor. The Governor said he had been informed that Harry Bridges, head of the International Longshore- men's and Warehousemen'’s union, CIO, would aegree to appointment of a fact-finding board by Mr. Truman and would direct resump- tion of steamship service to Alaska if the board so ordered He said Bridge's stand was re- ported by Henry Clark of the Waterfront Employers’ ssociation, In a ‘telephone conversation from Ban Francisco. The ILWU leader made the state- ment at a San Francisco confer- ence with Alaska Steamship Com- pany representatives and Federal Conciliator Nathan Feinsinger, the Governor said he was told . by Clark. Major point at issue is the un- jon’s gemand for settlement of all disputes outside the framework of the Taft-Hartley Labor Law. The Governor's appeal for Mr. "Truman to intercede in the strike was made in a telegram to Oscar, Chapman, acting Secretary of the Interior, which stressed that the shipping tieup is delaying defense construction and the movement of ' badly-needed winter supplies to the interior. . FREIGHT STAYS ON Optimism for an early settlement |to the strike of Alaska longshore- men was seen today in an an- nouncement by Henry Green, Ju- neau agent of the Northland! ! Transportation Co. He announced that freight, destined for Juneau which the longshoremen refused to; unload when the S8 Alaska last called here,” will bhe left aboard the Alaska when it sails from Se- attle next Tuesday. Green said that | freight will be left“on board, by the instructions of Northland’s Seattle office, in the hopes thati strike will be settled by the time the Alaska returns to Juneau. Brdges and Local Disagree A difference in the demands ot the longshoremen was seen mday in unconfirmed reports that local! longshoremen have not asked for; and do not desire preference in| hiring over seamen for discharging | the Juneau cargo. In San Frantisco, Harr Bridges, ILWU chieftain, has de- manded that Alaska longshore men receive preference for unload-| mg ships over the seamen with whom the steamship companies have signed a previous agreement.: Local longshoremen arc report-| ed to have stated that they do not | have enough niembers to assume| !this responsibility. Authoritative | sources stated that the longshore-| men have not even been officially | advised of this demand and that| the only reason they are on stnke‘ is because of the clause s\hmh. |they have asked to relieve them of | !ways to give the City a knock‘_d.l liability in the event of a strike. | ——————— FORFEITS BAIL Lawrence Dick forfeited $35 bail| this morning in City Court. He was | arrested last night by City Police on a charge cf drunk and dis-| orderly conduct. \ —— - — AT BARANOF HOTEL | C. P. Finnigan and J. C. Finni- | gan of Seattle are registered at the Baranof Hotel. e e o o o o | having boat spaces available to telephone him it the Alaska* Travel Bureau, 646. There have been 11 re- quests for spaces for the Derby since yesterday after- noon, and more are coming in; but not one hoat opera- tor has reported as yet. s s 0000000 e lout that in spite of Council {Small Boat Harbor. ToMusT | '_f Brazil Dlplomai Elected - President of Conference, Calls for Safeguards QUITANDINHA, Brazil, Aug. 16. —(P—Brazil's Foreign Minister told the 20-nation Inter-American Con= ference today that if it failed to got up the ‘machinery to preserve ! continental peace, others ‘“less fit= ted to accomplish it will take .oury place.” } Raul Fernandes, 69-year-old dips lomat elected yesterday as Presl-‘ dent of the Conference, opened its ' second plenary session with an ap- | peal to the delegates for "snfe-i guards for the defense of indivi-} dual rights, liberty, justice and well being.” 5 * The conference was called” forj formulation of an Inter-American | defense treaty. A compromise | seemed in the making oy the issue of the vote needed to invoke lreatyl sanctions against an Aaggressor. Before the delegates assembled,, Ricardo Alfaro, Panama's Foreign' Minister, told a news conference | Panama would never recognize the' present government of Nicaragua,= and said it was “a certainty that Mexico, Guatemala, Venezula* and Bolivia will join Panama ln opposing the admissis cnference of any repl senmme except one from the rightful ‘lu.- araguan leader.” Hope for settlement of ing issue was raised last m[,hf when Secretary of State. Gewge, C.¢ Marshall told correspondents thr‘ United States, in response to a' Mexican compromise proposal, had! Wheat farmers of eastern Colorad in history is being harvested, not of cars and elevators to handle the ¢ “wheat rustlers” who drive up in trucks during the night and steal | grain piled c¢n the greund. at about $2 a bushel. guarding his wheat with -30 Frankle Maler Isfo Race in Derby Heat 4 | Ar:'gser::in,:: nlasndm sted that ‘.‘Juneau Champ Will Com-: i uné OUS Vi of treaty signa-i . ke | i oe” essary 1o put mio| pefe Against Michigan, | effect any measure against a na-| tion attacking any American re- | SOU"I Dakofa l_ads public. I | The, United States, on the other hand, has held that a two- lhlx(ls! AERON majority vote should be sufficient for all such measures. In last night's news confers however, Marshall said the U. while still recommending that two-thirds rule apply on most Vv Ohio, Aug. 16—I®- Soap Box Derby officials today a | signed Prank Maier of Juneau a | I place in the fourth heat of the All American Soap Box Derby Sun at Derby Downs. Frank will race {in the first lane, against Ken Fail- | iing of Flint, Mich., and Billy Rose nc S the jeties of sanctions, had agreed to accept the use of armed ‘,)I.u,ior Rapid City, S. D. Ii he wins| from this rule. the heat he will automatically ad- | y {vance to competition in another ‘heat. A i Frank and Mayor Waino Hen- Alr orl d drickson are among the most pop- 1] !ulm figures at -Soap Box Derby iheadquarters and will be in the PAA Pro poses Portable Temporary Structure- Cny Dock Is Salable S C 1 Edward ZT w k Kiil Enginemen cil Lluough a long session last eve- ning which was highlighted by an offer from Pan American Air-| PHILADELPHIA, Au 16—(P— | |down building for installation A%, penneylvania Rallré’ads second ::l‘fim‘:)‘;“’l‘g; A Ad-|greck in Philadelphia within 12 % | hours killed a passenger train en- I o" d(" !limelight again when they partici- s ere l y [urday night at the Akrcn Rubber | Bowl. Derby officials predict the {were taken on the course by Frank levery section of the nation and ]Canada. Completing his run, FPrank fgocd shape and I hope I win. I'm § certainly geing to do my best.” {pate in totem pole ceremonies Sat- race will be witnessed by more tand 134 other contestants frem {said: “I'm all set. My car’s in - e - Handling the gavel in the ab- sence from Juneau of M'vv,l?gli“lp ng?rb 1. 57, W | Waino Hendrickson, Nielsen and! HAleld, S0, WheehiY, N} {J., died at the ccntrols of his lo- the other Councilm 15 assed ok i en also PastEecomotive as it derailed and par-! the new Vagrancy Ordinance, No.{ . Qrnno {ttally overturned at 33rd and Mt.! 311, putting it into effect as of | fast :ight'g P Vernon Streets. The train had | Juneau’s shameful garbage dis- just reached the y from Cape {May, N. J. All passenger cars re- | posal situation was brought to the/ mained on the tracks and occu-! |fore again by a letter from the Chamber of Commerce, pointing pants escaped injury. 2 r(‘~? Another engineman was killed had and 26 passengers injured by the! e (minders, no improvements o |been noted. first wreck in which a crowded’ DE“BY DEpoT o| There was a renewal of commutor train and a backing lo-| Salmon Derby Space Allo- e Territorial Welfare Department ,comotive collided. | cator Phil Senour has issued e |Proposal to establish a Jjoint b b . an S.0.S. call for persons ‘supponed Welfare worker for Ju-| JOINS RFC STAFF neau; and plans were furtheréd on the problem of property rig and transfers necessary to Ccle retary to Leslie Yaw, president ot! |Seventh Street at Willoughby and the Twelfth Street alley near the Sheldon Jackson Junior College, at | Sitka, has accepted a position as! secretary to Wilford H. Johnson,! !field representative of the Recon- struction Finance Colpmauonsl inewly opened office in the deixal' Building. ! Also up for discussion were sev’ eral matters under tax asses ments, an application from Yellow (Continued on l-uve nmm Wheat Farmerson Warpalh ‘IN Farmers armed selves with rifles and shotguns fer 24-hour guard over thousands of bushels of wheat valued Photo shows Wheatfarmer R. E. Morhead | neau ;| figures carved upon the pole. lor terrifying as cne's own charac-| e mph |and experience. | Miss Helen D. Case, former sc'c.-‘g DICT TWELVE ‘ Munhons Manuladurers fo | | Go Before American 1 Court in Germany NUERNBERG, aug. 16 » }TWM\‘(‘ directors of the $2,500,000,- 1000 Krupp munitions combine, | which for 133 years has been sup- plying Germany with guns, were i [ | ties today for war crimes They are scheduled to trial next month In a 50-page bill presented to an all-American court, prosecutors | charged the giant steel and arma- {ment firm with waging aggressive | war, plundering peaceful countries and exploiting slave labor. Principal defendant under the m- dictment was Alfred Krupp Von | Bohlen Und Balbach, son of Ber- tha Krupp, after whom the glant | !canncn “Big Bertha” which shelled | Paris during World War I, was | named. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, Chief American prosecutor, said the U. S. would prove that Alfred Krupp jand his assoclates were Nazi party members, confidants of the Ges- tapo, supporters of Adolph Hitler, instigators of rearmament and vio- laters of the Versailles Treaty. Taylor carrying on the policies of his father, Gustav, who la now senile go on o, where one of the blggrst crops | niy are plagued with lack of grain rop but have also been victims of . (International Sonndphohu MAYOR EXPLAINS - TOTEM MEANINGS AT AKRON RITES &'ty sina oat { The indictment chmged that | | Krupp donated more than. $4,000,000 | Apiness of Symbohsm {0/ to Nast coiters. Taylor said evi-| Soap Box Ra(er Quah- dence would be presented showing an intimate relationship between | Krupp and the principal Nazi lead- hes Emphasued lers, including Fritz Sauckel, the| | Nazi labor boss who was hanged | For his (and Juneau's) part uu“"‘N"“"_“WW- ceremenies dedicating the Alaska | The indictment accused Krupp of spreading Nazi propaganda indian totem presented by the Ju- |aboard with personal Rotary Club to become a; letters and | | pamphlets outlining the Nazi view- permanent fixture at Derby Downs | point for foreign industry's per-! at Akron, Ohio, Juneau's Mayor Waino Hendrickson this evening | Usal will explain the significance of the| Tayler charged that Krupp par- lv.h”pfltvd in invasions and in crimes cemmitted against hundreds of Mayor Hendrickson's dedication | | thousands of slave laborers and remarks, based upon material as: sembled by Bdward L. Keithahn,|Plundered Austria, the Nethe curitor of the Alaska Territorial | Greece, Russia and Yugoslavia. Museum and Historical Library,| Indicted with Alfred Krupp were will be the feature of a uflremony!E“’”m Loeser, Karl Pfirsch, Max in Akron’s famed Rubber Bowl, Karl - Eberhardt, Henrich | on the eve of the All American |Korschan, Frederich Von Buelo, Scap Box Derby, which will be Henrich Lenmann, Hans Kupke, | run tcmorrow with Juneaw's (and|Eduard Houdremont, Erich Muel- Alaska’s 1947 Soap Box Champlon, |ler and Friedrich Janssen. Frankie Maler, competing. | All face possible death semenccb e Highlight of Mayor Hendrickson's dedication speech follov “The Juneau Rotary sists of four sections e e o e 0000000 WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock Totempo'e each sym- of something pertaining to This Morning Soap Box Derby. Beginning! In Juneau—Maximum, 57; at the tep, the pole displays the e minimum, 50. crest of the “Mountain Spirit” e At Airport—Maximum, 63; Yiek). Juneau boys grow up e minimum, 42. . other Alaskans surrounded by e WEATHER FORECAST challenzing obstacles mountains, e (Junean and Vielnity) hat beckon or threaten, hem in or e Occasional light rain and guard, are kind or cruel, beautiful | @ southeasterly winds 10 - 20 tonight followed by rain showers Sunday. tem- ter interprets or decides. To the light Derby Boys the Mountain Spirit i Not much change in inspiration, a kindly foster father| e perature. that takes them by the hand,| PRECIPITATION beckons them on to the summits of | @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) achievement—to the broad vistas| e In Juneau — Trace; since beyond. |® August 1, 273 inches; since “Everyone knows that the ‘Frog’ e July 1, 6.06 inches. has a jewel in its head. The ‘jew. At Airport — Trace; el' is an idea and the idea is the e since August 1, 157 inches; father of the act. Derby Boys first|e since July 1, 4.15 inches. conceive an idea or dream and then'e @ ¢ o @ ¢ © o 0 o o o through action, convert it into re-| ality. The result is a ‘Soap-Box'| that may one day win at Akron. It is a long ‘hop’ from Juneau to Akron but one of our boys makes| lit every year. “Beneath the frog is ‘Old Raven,’ facing ‘Young Raven’ Rav-| en is wisdom personified and here 138 (Lightning) plane was impound- | we have the youth receiving the\ benefit of his mentor's knowledge |€d by customs officials today two Old Raven may | | symbolize ‘the sponsor, the father, | Sounded an elert for planes that the Rotarian or even a former might be planning to ‘sneak out Dexby Boy in the role of coach or jof the country. The State De- | partment acted on what it describ- jn|ed as “rumors of the levu]uuonary | plotting in the Caribbean area.’ The pilot of the plane seized, Impound Pursuif Ship. 'Bound Ouf of Country TAMPA, F‘lfl.‘ Aug. 16—P—A P- Delby Boys thus learn early life the value of accumulated ex-| perience, respect for age, knowledge | and intelligence, the viewpoint of who was flying it from Santa Mon- | their elders, tolerance for the otheri‘“‘ Calif, to Miami, was not held. fellow's idea. A State Highway Patrolman said “The low man on the totempole |the ship was fully equipped ex- cept for machine guns. He added ((‘nnlmwdn Paqt Two) trnat it had auxiliary fuel tanks. KRUPPS | 1 LONDON, Aug indicted by United States authori-' accused Alfred Krupp of | nds, | weeks after the State Department ! WAR CHIEF SAYSLABOR GOVT. FAILS ,OpposiiionA Leader States Free Enferprise Only Solution for Britain 16.—(P—Winston ‘(,hurclull told the British people |tonight they could solve their !grave economic crisis only through a system of “free enterprise” and ‘as.smted acceptance of the labor (government’s program would mean national disaster. | In a political broadcast to the | nation, the leader of the Conser- vative opposition accused Prime Minister ~ Attlee's government of failing to solve the country's econ- omic crisis. “There can be no dispute about the Socialist failure or its grav- {ity,” he declared. | “The choice which lies beiore the I'British nation about the form of \n.s society is between a system of competitive selection and a system of compulsion,” the wartime Prime | Minister added. | “Both these forms of society are ‘hard The struggle for life is un- ‘censmg ‘There is no easy or plua- ant road. It will Le uphill all the [way. “But I am sure it is only by ipersonal effort, free enterprise and ingenuity, with all its risks and failures, with all its unequal ‘prlzes and rewards, that anything {like 47,000,000 people can lmiv [themselves alive on this small |1and, dependent as it is for all its ifood on selling high quality goods V.md rendering necessary services {to the rest of the world.” I RETURN CRITICISM PERTH, Scotland — British Fuel 1M|nlxter Emanuel Shinwell crit- licized Winston Churchill sharply, (calling him a “mischief maker." Said the fuel minister: “The {truth is that neither Mr. Chuchill nor the Tory party can produce a vestige of constructive policy that capable of helping the country out of its troubles.” e TOTAL OF 13 - MINERS NOW OUT SAFELY WHITEHAVEN, England, bruised miners, explosion which {trapped 107 in an undersea coal !mine, stumbled out alive today Aafter a 21-hour ordeal and raised |slight hopes for 50 miners still missing below. | The National Coal Board an- nounced earlier that the bodies of 54 men had been located and said lit had virtually given up hope |for the other 53. | The three blackened men emerg- jed from the mine, bringing to 13 |the total of known survivors. They itold officials they were some dis- tance away when the blast shat- tered the shaft of the 135-year-old mine stretching out several miles .under the firth of Solway. Cut off from the pithead, the | men scrambled to the mine’s {farthest reaches to avoid deadly |gas. They were met by rescuers as they made their way back, | hours later. | The Coal Board said 117 men, |rather than 121 as previously an- nounced, were in the mine. Ten miners escaped soon after the blast. The 135-year-old mine is located [just outside this grimy town of } | | Aug. | 16— (M—Three lcaught in an 120,000 in Cumberland county, in inorthwest Englgnd. The blagt was the fourth in British mines since the pits came | under public ownership last Jan. 1. The previous three killed 26 men. The biggest recent British mine disaster killed 58 at Stokes-on- ‘Trent in 1942, and the worst on record caused 436 deaths at Sen-’ thenydd, South Wales, in 1913. Whitehaven's worst blast was in 1919, when an explosion in the Wellington pit, near the William mine, killed 136 men.