The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 19, 1947, Page 1

s THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” P — g VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,660 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TU[:SDA\. AUGUST l9 1947 PRICh TEN CENTS THREE TRAPPED IN B. C. MINE TUNNEL *[MURDER IN FIRST | . DEGREE CHARGED; | FAIRBANKS DEATH FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 19—(# | A warrant charging first degree { in connection with the fa- WEST COAST PORT TIEUP THREATENED | mur der tal shooting Sunday of Harry C SR ‘ o Montana” Weiselman, 41, was ser- { 1 Walking Bosses AGain | e esterany upon meere c.(10Tpedo Plant Blast] ' lewisMay Objet Rescue Squad Battles Hager, 38-year-old bartender and . 0 i | Figure in Longshore ' foreee: sior s he 1uv i « nowi- | Wrecks Hospital, Orphan- | wasmmaron, aw 1-m—' Deadly Methane Fumes T [ tal bed i . . [ CIO lceal unicns were told today ! ; Difficulties Hage is being treated for o vui-| 0@, Residential Seclor (mat Natonal tavor mewsons in Gallant Effort —_— let wound in his leg, but is ex-' | | Board services will be barred to SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19.—®—|pected to be sufficiently recovered CADIZ, Spain, Aug. 19 !them unless every member of the pIONEER, B. C. Aug. 19—P—A The threat of a West Coast ship-|to leave the hospital within a few ;jMore than 400 persons were esti- |51-man CIO Executive Board gggo-foot-long tunnel, filled with ping tie-up was posed today by days. (mated by newspapermen here to-| | swears he is not a Communist | deadly methane gas, today held the the CIO longshoremen over the Police Chief George Norton said day to have been killed and sev- | Similarly, no AFL union can pe-'fate of three miners trapped 500 walking boss issue when the Taft-|Hager told authorities he fired in eral thousand injured when a | tition for a collective bargaining feet pelow ground in the Pacific Hartley labor act becomes effective self-defense after Weiselman came to Spanish naval torpedo plant ex- | election or bring an unfalr 1abor, Great Eastern mine about two miles Friday. "0 yoking for Mari- ' Ploded last night, wrecking a rcs- | practice charge against an employ ; d . ¥, his hctel room looking ari PIoy- south of this meuntainous British The International Longshore- chi Gilbe: vearc) tavern em- |idential section, an orphanage, a jer unless each of the 15 members | ¢, " E chi Gilbert, 35-yearcld 1 L olumbia gold mining center. men's and Warehousemen’s Union| picyee. Miss Gibert was questioned | hospital and a factory | of the Federation’s Executive Coun-{ Ajthough mine officials held lit- issued a statement saying the Pac-!overnight by Police and FBI nts| First estimates of damage were | jcil files a non-Communist affi- (e hope that the entombed men ific Coast Waterfront Employers' ang released placsd at - 19,0000 anvlt | would be found alive, a specially- Association “has determined to Or-| Weiselman, formerly of Phillips,{ The mnearby residential district i . Norman N. Denham, NLRB Gen- tyained, four-man rescue squad der all ship, dock and Walking|mMont, was employed on various!Was Wrecked A sixteen-year-old boy won the classic Snowbird Race, the twelfth annual renewal of the world’s largest 3‘.,1,, Counsel, handed down this de- | continucd efforts to force its way bosses out of the union under Pain| oy’ construction works here, | Resuling fires destroyed the yachting event at Newport Harbor, Calif. Photo shows the Snowbirds skimming off the Newport Harbor |cision as he issued the affidavit through the narrow, fume-filled of discharge, or to require the s R e P T (Echevarrieta and Larrinaga ship-| gheres. One hundred and forty-three of the tiny sailboats were entered. Here, the craft spread out as the (uxm.s required under terms of the . o | vard Y - tunnel in a daring bid to bring the union to expel them” when the [ \amaged ang e besan. They raced over a s-mile course, aided brisk breeze. Photo shows only a sector of the | Taft-Hartley Labor Law which g0€s men to the surface. aclLt :Jicroxx:celsthe;lflf;::Imcmauuml E FR'END 7\\.. :O“Ti\,,m,‘,‘:‘;e”:,f:,';“,]‘:,':“ 'l‘,"‘; race. Yachtsmen 10 to 60 years of age participated in the colorful water event but the winner was m'l“l furll et L‘) l';“dd‘ b Trapped by an explosion that n y | a roug! B| R e e a The forms, Denham told report- Nirough 8 b Longshoremen’s and Warehouse- i ancient ‘,”!L“_\ of 30.0[,01_ which \kx[)[:t Gil Kraemer, 16, (International nundpholm | ermi eruabh e aiyrih Mwes: ol AR xw:.)lp:d througl e mine yesterday men’s union memkers locked out s left without water, electricity | ~~ land CIO International and Local ; : 3 al o aly Vernon Sanford Wright, 40, Van- because of union membership| .\n(! railroad or higl commun- [ i . Officers” if those organizations cou:‘::-m" anford g would establish picket lines which]| umnn\ o an e 'n want to use the Board and its fa- g er Geor undoubtedly would be respected No Clue Left to Cause otittisn ’ . s In ‘DAlexundsl mc,c«gge Geils, 24, of o L 3, te he 1 o rummondville, Que. by longshoremen under the coast! { So complete was the ruin of the FOUND GUIIJY OF The chain must be complete Noyman Henry Ryan, 29, Halifax longshore agreement.” |Naval Arsenal, situated about two gt |from the top down,” the NLRB ine 1s Tookted. th tie Brides Frank P. Foisie, WEA president, miles from central Cadiz, that no on ' Ion o \hrn(-m] Gotiraab Ma et ] I\fa mine is located in the rld,gle said the employers have decided iclue was left to the cause of the HUMAN“'Y (RlMES i g ““. i b er-vl dmuct.ubout 120 miles north nothing yet as to dismissal of any | disaster. | Hgibar on it Aba ke f o ancouver walking bosses. “If there is any —— t The force of the explosion crack- i -—»—»H . " ¥ w“‘ w‘“w“d" C“’f:;;‘]‘u":i‘q "';;: :: Tw 1~lm hn!uht the pom;nx i ; 7 A 21z g . sell-g st. s forced the oxygen - equip) tieup it will be because of CIO {ed buildings in the heart of Cadiz mlra I“ =Ty e o i longshore action,” he added. Se(f&iflry Hdl’l’lman G”m' street cars were derailed, and the Medl(al Of“(er 'EId Fu”y lm“nl):u()kl!)x:;:erll“gufu;ih P’[fi”fi;fi: ;‘9-\"-‘“9 squad, flown t; !hé Een‘i “The i - 2" the huge deo: f the Cadsz cathe- H i rom the Nanaimo, B. C. coal m\:‘/lvfl:f e "“:lox‘:mofs‘;\xxkr 'mem- Iy Warns of Atomic {dral el i i 1(1:11\;‘\ by Responstb|ef0r Worth- N ng('}ls U'nunl ded of this by Lglda 1 - VRIGHINEL IR, g s ] : : | . ’ WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—®—| Denham, reminded of this by re-* the surface after they had worked bers will quite their jobs, but we: Y i The explosion came at 10 p. m ; > u e after 'y have peen told they wil be tred., Refaliation Trump !last night. Goodyear Head Terms less EXpe”mems The condlon O N e ire sy et LT 1 BV e i ! ” I X g—considered “seri- tives, if there are any, are obvious.” | en foot tunnel. They and the union stand ready| el ; Summer Colony Hard Hit Er t J. King—considere (by seven to do anything possitle to prevent: SEATTLE, Aug. 19—(®—Soviet! The heaviest casudlties and dam- CONSP"GCY A“ega“on BS ¥ NUERNBERG, Aug. 19~iB—An ous” by the Navy Yesterday—has, ~As for the APL; there have been RS- a coast tieup, Including ‘arbitra-'Russin had grim warning today'age were believad in the summer l P t American war crimes tribunal to- not changed during the last 24 reorts that John L. Lewis, although | e W AL b i rocrie IOEE Rolowr Shd vl R U"e[y repos @fOUS ~ |day convicted Dr. Carl Brandt, hcurs, Bethesda Naval Hospital re-|a vigorous anti-Communist, might loc‘l S"R'ms The walking bosses are striking, iriends, Commerce Secretary W. San Severiano, which is near the el Adolph Hitler’s I)<‘l.\.r“m| physician, ported this morning, ‘wunh!)kl his affidavit as a matter the Luckenbach Steamship ©0. for' Averell Harriman, that the Democ- - submarine naval. hage'in. the neck! NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—P—Fed- of “full responsibility” in the pe The 68-year-old wartime head of of principle. As President of the recognition of the ILWU as their rgeies of the world still hold the of the narrow peninsula eral charges that makers of 90 per- formance of Nazi medical experi- the Navy has been in Bethesda United Mine Workers and an AFL (o bargaining agent, and have tied UP trump card of atomic retaliation' Spanish authorities announceq C¢ht Of the nation's tires have ments on concentraticn camp vic- since last Friday with “slight evi- | Vice President, Lewls is a link ' s here. | e o i lEaniah, UL INOU, etivet (for 13, veardiito fix|tims. . dence of a mild stroke. ~ |the AFL chain ) (OlD SIOR‘GE — B0 o TRbottantiley Soaddit bottire salnmia) ualties. Re-. ices will be fought “to the limit,” The four-man court, headed The Hospital's morning bulletin| Ajnough several of the larger | p p most of the injure : : P i : A k p k |cleared in advance by the State they saw had been cut by fiying Said E. J. Thomas, President of """‘”“ :V““"‘SB"“"‘ “’c”“" ‘;’“5“(; ""‘“L" i ; gy | IO unions have indicated they A } 4 b ®iG rear Tire & or oton State Supreme Court, foun “Admira ing passed a restful ¥ 4 e { | Department in Washington, the or were bruisad by falling Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. ington ta ne C plan to snub the recrganized NLRB, laska Packers Typoarieot Jno Wasubfbn. ihe, ¥ faling | GO it muming the 43-vear-old §. §. (Hllie Guard) night. No change in his condi- |imang of the miheee mmee rescins ' €MpOrary Agreement Re- MGuiat ] S 9 defends s filed late General gullty of crimes against tion.” ST night ‘that “Soviet Imperialism” is' 1he Jerez de La Frontera radio 12 defendants was filed late ye 3 no policy decision on this issue or c o SaleS n Slllmp menace fo the peace of the | stavien e oot prontera radlo, ergay “in Federal District. Court humanity as charged by the prose- e —— on the Taft‘Hartley Act itself. POffe(“Y overs flIY ol ipanon, oo Mmiles fo the north.ior the southern district of Newcution, which had accused him of Thete srv 43 010 el [ SAN FRANGCISGO, Aug. 19— Then with grave and pointed em- i d‘:'k*&i‘i"‘ “‘“’"“"”1‘" ’[f“‘ York. It quickly brought denials killing hundreds of thousands of RE“EF lN SIGHI | o Y | Small Craft ) . v g by ” a4 g r octors, nurs2s and medi- 1 r v id hu i “wort? g'" i iati aid: ‘ from the tiremakers, who id that human guinea pigs in “worthless’ | Alaska Packers Association today Phasis he said: cines. i ‘ Sz : e g Sooricd’ second GUAGE Wales 8o {10 thls’Atomic A6 $Nern 15 001" Ambulanoess CRUKH Riom war | r0 Fiiges mow are. st of below experiments i FOR SU“,SIZI[ED i First possible crack in Juneau's tallcd $969341 compared with §1,- protection against retaliation by| Ambulances and rescue teams " one dhomas s e | ABERNIE NesLpne B8 5 SOEaeRNs shippthy ' UEip 7By the . TR 000,415 1ry im ik Sl d6r ipan 6. | Ourability o 18nnch @ It “wire ‘arriving. Tiom ab far nst 8|ty oD, TOPUAS sald. 0teiNs, aflis whoimads Up he . (B Hells s Longshoromien's Aud. YPRre- This brought sales and operating mediate strong-aerial retaliation is Malaga, west from Huelva, and ntim “”w'flf‘],?u'\ President of GHLSoIDRC TV, as I e o MlDWE ]I housemerts Rilliy ounts Mg, S revenues for the first half of the the greatest possible deterrent’ noith from Sevilla, Gw"!mm.r'?h锑r TR [GRAN deenubrl S8 S ‘”““y with. the Fegort of an: - year to $3575546 against $5443,- against the use of military force by The population of the San Sev- L“"A‘”\”‘lln "‘o d;]“( 5'4 ;r; S 300-page judgment i nouncement by the Juneau local 906 in the first six months of last other jeriano district, which received the pelow pr x e And the sutt! - TBIMCE was (38 Tt hotviction _(By The Associated Press) {that a temporary agreement had Vear, Harriman's publicly - announced | full force of the dosion: | wes! CO0W. Pre-wir IGVEISSAnc, ihe SWL. t5 be ‘announcen At 'the. rute nt From Digb R S Bocky -‘l“\l“' b een signed with the Juneau Cold el B ) stand is a direct about face from about equally divided tetween sum-| o' Go3ent make sens which the court was proceeding tein slope another cold front was Sturngv : nis attitude at the time he Was mer vacation transients and work. ~OP the basis of present lVIng with the reading of the judgment Sliding lazlly eastward toward the Wallis George of the Cold Stor- Th w n 10 ambassader to Russia. Then he ers. costs as compared with 1941, the it apboared likely that the detailed hot and parched midwest today 'nge confirmed this moming that e as lng /hoped cooperation with the Soviet{ Many prominent persons who Price of tires is down almost 54 seeount of its findings would not with possible CropsgRylving rains. AN iu.n agreement had been sigred, bu[t | Union would bring a long period |live in chalets along the peninsula PEr¢ent” O'Neil ;:"‘"’N ed that U completed until temorrow after- {‘*]‘100 _l?;‘& sc; J{p*“} i vauld mnke'llllu (ur‘tlmrmzmx:;:_. erryv -0 - LOUNC of peacciwt readjustment after the |coast were expected to ke among | The Vil sult —charged thal yoop, how tnis cold push witl act or Bt Columbia Minist It is generally understood, r o oo g Yo dntured Technicolor Motion Picture Corp L S ed Thurs. how much rain it will bring," the T olumbia Minis| el' ever, that the agreement applies T 2 PSR S Eduardo Calleja de La Cuesta, 300 Eastman Kodak Co, conspired g0 g Gen. a sor, Chicago Wrather . Bureau said, G F {only to small, independent vessels, By DREW PHARSON i president of the Council of .t eive Technicolor & conopoly yy°g progocuthr, had asked death 80ding that a decided relief from ives Forecast fo and is entirely of a temporary AllIE § {was reported injured slightly, o0 the processing of Kodak's col- o 0 gefendants the high 90 and 100 degrce tem- # nature, for the purpose of getting By ROBERT S. ALLEN 1 Bomes ot e e Sy, lor film. The sult directs cancel- “p € SO TN L pranay Peratures’ dppeared a certainty Trade Meetlng }ish moving to the markets in the WASHINGTON — The Washing- fvwas axpected at the Echc\'ar ieta lation of their contract and ri Whs: ., dipBotly T snsible for high for most of the plains states with- o o tates; and will be replaced im- ton Merry-Go-Round today re- FoR jAPA" W|ll hipyards. The new naval training 1€8se of the process to the whole, it ds' aud freuiie expestments; *_ 48 hours. : SEATTLE, Aug. 19.—(P—Canada's| mediately by any agreement signed peats one of its oldest and most ‘sbip, Juan de Austria, which w industry on a royalty-free ba g i R el N The forecaster said the alr rans-continental railroads now ap- i Seattle between the steamship gratitying prachices.; MEEI 'I'OM |about ready for launching, wi Neither Technicolor nor Kodak B Frc #5 B o on tests ©10f20 into Montana and 1daho pear highly receptive today ]o,m|companles and the union. It bestows its brass ring for dis- \desno'md by fire. Many smaller made any comment on the suil frem which many victims died. from Canada about midnight and gequisition of the Pacific Great - e,e— —— tinguished, enlightened and cour- = & o s it was expected to spread into the pastern railroad and its extension | ageous service. The" honor goes to a group of working newspaper men. These» members of the working press are not “big name” person- alities in the usual sense of that word. Some are syndicated. But except for their bylines, none are widely known persopally to their TCKYO, Aug. 19— The Al-; (lied Council for Japan is slated| tomorrow with William J. Sebald acting for Ambassador | |George Atcheson, Jr., missing and} |presumed dead in a Pacific plane, crash, It will be the ecouncil'sj (39th session. | Sebald was a counselor to At- ;‘;fld:::mm'f:ey are not that Kind | peion “wno was council chau-man' > Also absent from the meetin They don't make news; they re-|uy vo \ nMacMahon Balf Bncg-' port it — honebtl:{'.’hwu;dfeogi‘ly 'lish Commonwealth delegate who! tifir;fi:‘;lfin:;gta:dmz PRtstay E“resigned Sunday. Tom Eckersley! sl f Australi To their readers, the bylines of :i Bilinle, s cxpocted g, repipes these newsmen are an unfailing ¥ The Russian delegate, trade mark of integrity and relia- |Kuzma Derevyanko, who was call- | bt!}zexe o St nev\smen’ed to Moscow recenty, will be re-| e 1 < like them all over the U. S. Men {placed. Ay Mal: Cea. A B Vighfi-| and women who, day in and day, out, quietly and modestly fight/ the good fight to get the news) and to print it. That's why the| working press of the U. 8. is the! finest in the world. Also, why it! is one of the greatest glories of Lt. Gen. There on the are no official agenda. - e matters Occasionally, one of these “un- ; knowns” wins momentary pubhc . f o ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Aug. 19— og! f me particularly | 3 Teogoior Tor 08 _ o P—A Fort Richardson soldier i feat. But the great! ::x:;:;:gm:‘ them, like doug:b;delCWHEd Sunday in Green Lake, an in the lines, slug it out doggedly Army recreational area, when a and valiantly day after day with cance cverturned in 10 feet of wat- no other acclaim than the inner|®r. the Army said today. Tdentity of the victim was withheld pend- (Continued on Page Four) |ing notification of next of kin SOLDIER DROWNS . EXPLOSIONIN 1FI:ghI of Snowbirds atNewport Harbor, Calif. SPAIN; DEATH & TOTAL GREAT i boats also burned. e — TRUMAN SHIFTS | AIDES TO SPEED ACTION ON D-PS et - D otas by tonight,-and into Min- nescta and Nebraska by tomorrow. Within 48 hours, he added, the whole Great Lakes region should have temperatures at least 15 de- grees under today's high readings. The accompanying rain, the bur- eau said, might turn out to be only FBI Man Describes Crash of Bomber CHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 19 (P—Manning Clements, Federal | MORE LEEWAY IN AIRCRAFT BUYING IS RECOMMENDED Bureau of Investigation agent here scattered showers, but it might e and one of eight persons who o WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—®— alco—just possibly—be a general WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—(®— a week before had been re President Truman’s air coordinating drought” breaker for a consider- President Truman today announced |from the Bering Sea following the committee recommends that the gple coction of the north-central a shift in three top level admin- crash of a PBY near St. George military services be given greater anq northern plains states. istration assignments designed to!Island, said today he witnessed freedom to plan their airplane; peanwhile, no relief was in sight spced up federal action on thelthe B-17 crash which tock the lives buying several years ahead for virtually all the remainder of European displaced persons prob-iof eight Army men Saturday near This would mean lifting, so far the' nation, sweltering again from lem. | Cold Bay. are Army and Navy plane pro- g recurring hot blast that has! Ugo Carusi, now Commissioner' Clements said he and other sur- grams are concerned, the restric- spared generally only the Atlantic the earlier crash v > tions falling on government agen: cies from the fact that Congress! of Immigration and Naturalization, vivors of was appointed a special assistant|being flown here from the island and Pacific Throughout most of the region Coast states. {in the Justice Department to take|in a C-47 and were keing accom- appropriates only one year’s funds from the Appalachian to the Rocky ;full charge of a survey of alllpanied by the ill-fated Superfort- at a time Mountains, temperatures in the 90s| .phases of the displaced personsre: The committee—composed Of ‘or ghove appeared certain to be Cl government officials made this pro- posal in a report to the President roblem, including resettlement | Landing first at Cold Bay, The shift involves the resigna- ments said he watched the bomb- repeated today and tomorrow, the weather Lureau said . . ° . . . tion of Watson B. Miller as Feder- er attempt to land in heavy fog. on present aviation policies. It AR - L4 . :al Security Administrator and his|The lefty wing dipped, the plane also expressed a new opposition FORMER PASTOR HERE e Derby with Phil Senour at ® appulmmen! as Commissioner of made a slight turn to the left and to limiting American overseas air Visiting in Juneau this week iS| NEW YORK, Aug 19.—(P—Clos- | ® the Alaska Travel Bureau e Naturalization and Immigration to!crashed into a small hill operations to a single air line the Rev, Clifford Allbutt, S. J., Who | jng quotation of Alaska Juneau® Office in the lobby of the o succeed Carusi. | Alaska Air Command official Mr. Truman turned the report is the formetr pastor of the Church mine stock today is 5, American Can | ® Baranof Hotel. L Mr. Truman named Oscar Ross said names of the victims would over to his new temporary air pol- of the Nativity. Since leaving Ju-|g7:;, Anaconda 37's, Curtiss-Wright ® With 39 registrations tun- e Ewing, former assistant chairman|be released at 8 p. m. (PST) to- icy commission. This is a civil- neau, the Rev. Allbutt has been as- |44, International Harvester 87,!® ed in so far, Senour now e of the Democratic National Com-|night. A {ian group he recently appointed signed to both Fairbanks and An-|Kennecott 45%, New York Central | ® has a net of 25 available e mittee, to replace Miller as Federal | B to advise on aviation policies. chorage. He.is mow being trans- 147, Northern Pacific 20%, U. S.!® boat spaces still remaining. o Security Administrator. | DOCTOR HERE | - i ferred to St. Aloysius Church in|Steel 727%, Pound $4.02°. e The boats include three o The changes were announced by, Dr. Robert L. Garrett of 1Los' ARMY OFFICER HERE Spokane. The Rev. Allbutt plans to | Sales today were 600,000 shar s e small trollers and two large @ Presidential Secretary Charles G,'Angele California, is at the Buar-| Lt. Col. Brundick of Fort Rich- leave Juneau next Sunday on the| Today averages: Industrial, ® vessels. . Ross at a news conference, Yanof Hotel 'ardsen is at the Baranof Hotel S. S. Baranof. 1179.75; rails, 49.15; tilities, 35.62, e e 00 P 900 00 continued | NON-COMMUNIST N Ouths Reouep Liflle- Hope Is o uniow Heaos| S1ill Held for No Adion by MR8 Unless Enfombed Trio | Affidavits Are Filed- e e e s e £ FORIERRNIE M |of Public Works, said yesterday at (om “fli 'o MAKE PLANS ON PULP SALE the Pacific’ Northwest Trade Asso- Dana Parkinson, of the U. 8. lelation meeting. i Carson said the railway, owned' |by the British Columbia govern-: Forest Service in Washington, D. iC., arrived here yesterday to be- |zln preparations for the sale of ment, is an ideal instrument tol ypulp timber lands in Southeastern protect Alaska, and predicted 'its) eventual extension to the Territory. The line runs from Squamish ‘.g;‘ V}::vcv;uj;:ur;(:" ‘,:n:“:; 3::3: Alaska. He will organize the op- nell, B. C ration and the mechanics of the Th : ypulp sales for the Forest Service. e Minister was one of wvewl.Pnrkmwn is with the Opera 1epeakers to touch on Alaska dur |and Management Branch of For | h g ng the first day of the Assocla- ll‘\L Sarvlos headqusrkrs tion’s two-day meeting e ¥z Numerous speakers attrituted | —— |Alaska’s present shipping dehm. P S S and problems to labor controversies which are not solvable, they said,| {without approval of Harry Bridges.|, ,ee - - STOCK QUOTATIONS DERBY DEPOT Boats totaling accommo- | dations for 64 fishermen reg- ! istered today-for the Salmon I