The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1947, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” o= VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,663 EAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS — Y WESTERN POR (LESS MEAT AT TAFT-HARTLEY LABOR ACT IN EFFECT TODAY Ford Comp;y7 Agrees Ioj Union Shop Just | Under Deadline ‘ (By The Associated Press) The nation's labor unions got new set of rules today, the Taft- Hartley Act, and only seconds be- fore it went into effect at mid- night, 107,000 production workers/ and the Ford Motor Co. agresd to a contract clause for a union| shop, United Automobile Work- ers (CIO) thus bypassed a pro- vision of the law. H Rumitlings of a dock striks on the West Coast, and a move by the long-organized printers to ig- nore the new rules to a large ox-' tent, were other accompaniments to the advent of the sharply-de- bated new law. During the 60 days since lhe: law’s enactment by the 80th Con-! gress over President Truman’s veto, many unions had taken action sim-| ilar to that of the Ford Workers: In New York City, the Greater| New York CIO Council estimated that 19 percent of the 10,000 em-| ployers having contracts with 300 CIO locals there had signed one- year contract extensions before the deadline. | One of the Act's sponsors, Rep.' Hartley (R-NJ) last night at Chicago- urged management to take a advantage 6f its rights under the|g.. in jupeau is unable to offer a law and said that “wherever wi find a contract that violates the spirit of the law, we're going tol bring management as well as Labor to Washington and ask them ‘how! come?’ ” [ “Now that you've got an act that protects your rights, aren’t you willing to stand up and be count- ed and fight for this law?” Hart- ley asked in an address before zhefi National Food Distributors’ Asso-| ciation. | The Washington Merry - @ -Round By DREW PEARSON By ROBERT S. ALLEN | P R I TR T 17 S P S B T G O S LSS e STAT P USES USSR S | IN CONTROL Last week The Empire pub- lished by request a list of 25 longshorcmen. Some of these men protested that they were not in favor of the strike and that they did not belong to the union. As nearly as can be de- termined, the fellowing hand- ful of unicn men are the cnes responsible and the ones who control a werking list of aimost 100 longshoremen who have no say at all in union matters: Sam Adams, Alfred Burgo, S. K. Burt, Albert Clark, George Ford, M. 8. Gemoff, Gecerge Hamoff, C. K. Hellonen, George Henkel, Elmer Howerter, Alex Laiti, Herbert J. Lenz, Frank Luyckfasseel, Don L. McCammon, , Roy HL. Osborn, Walter Otis, Anton Pugel, George Wanchis, Anthony Waukich, DA CANNOT PROSECUTE STRIKERS: ! 3 N N N \ \ \ N \ N \ )\ \ } \ \ \ \ \ ) l} \ \ \ \ 3 \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ } } } ] ) \ \ \ \ \ \ \ ll \ \ \ \ \ The U. S. District Attorney’s of- {menus next HIGHER PRICES IS PREDICTION iOnly Weather Break for ' Corn Crop Can Give Relief of Shortage WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 | Unless good rains break the mid- ! western heat wave quickly, Ameri- jcan housewives may as well re- isign themselves to some meatless summer--and- possibly {much higher prices for what meat |they do get. . . 1|‘p~,l‘l yesterday showed that bad crop weather has cut corn pro- duction prospects to the lowest lev- el since the severe drought year ‘of 1936. And this year’s corn crop !will largely determine the size of {the nation’s meat supply in 1948. A smaller meat supply would hit (consumers hardest in the summer !since that 1s the season when ,lnehluck marketings normally drop (to their lowest level. The department said the heat jwave, which has gripped the mid- iwestern corn belt since late July, 'had cut corn prospects from 1770,000,000 on July 15 to 2,437,000,- 1000 bushels by August 15—a de- jcline of 333,000,000. The latest estimate did not take {into account damage which may thave been caused by "the hot ! weather since mid-august, or the ,possitility that the crop may be ‘of poor feeding and kgeping qual- 2,- {solution, at this time, for ending ity Much of i late due to a cool, the current strike of local longshore- { wet planting season, the crop will! men despite a resolution adopted ipe subject to frost before it has yesterday by the Juneau Chamber |fully matured and dried. of Commerce. District Attorney Pat- ! of the law just a day or two ago. Several factors enter in the al. The Dis- | trict Attorney’s office is an agency ;| leged violation of the law. ! rick J. Gilmore, Jr,, said today that ’ the law is still new and that his| The East and New England are! | office is studying its provisions. He.inext in line for the heat treat- | G, | |explained that he received his copy !ment, which has been dehydrating' for prosecution and not for investi- gation. If the law has been violated, evidence must be brought to the DA tute. | by the Federal Bureau of Investiga- | tion or private citizens who are in- | | terested in enforcement of the sta- | ‘The District Attorney must | {then decide whether or not a viola- | tion exists and if there is sufficient |evidence to secure a conviction. Aty WASHINGTON — To Eumpean-present. the resident FBI agent is the current uproar overt Lieut. Gen. John Lee is no sur- veterans, pomp-loving (“God-almighty”) notice. Three of the most notoriou: supply episodes of the war occur-|handling actual negotiations. If aj red under Lee as Chief of Supply of the European Theatre. One was the infamous “cigar- ette scandal.” For weeks, practi-| cally no cigarettes reached the out of the city on other work. If a violation of the law is dis- covered, it is more than likely that | price. It long has been a mysterythis would be discovered and prose- | i to them hcw he has escaped lic | cuted in Seattle or San Francisco | 2 HLeT he iR b and international | P Minnesota s representatives of the ILWU are | where regional violation were found to exist, is taking place. it | would be discovered where the action Another point brought up by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce fighting troops. Subsequent inves- Might backfire. The Chamber sug-} tigation revealed that the short- 8ested the formation of another | age was due to two causes: Huge,unlon which, under the Taft-Hartley ! pilfering and black marketing by; labor law could develop into a viola- supply personnel in the rear eche-!tion on the part of the employers. ;. of EAST 1S NEXT {the midwest and its corn crop for _ |five days, the weather bureau fore-|C: N. Goodwin icaster at Chicago said today { He predicted that fairly hot { weather—with temperatures in the ]fiigh 80s and low 90s—would em- brace the northeastern area by Sunday. At least three mere de {ing were ‘in store for the coun- y's mid-section, the forecaster Isa)dA with no certainty of a break ieven by Sunday. ! The death toll from causes in¢ duced by the Leat was reported to have reached 32 in Chicago since Monday night and 80 since Aug. 1. {There was one other death in the ys of bak- Ohio, three in Indiana and two About normal seasonal weather iprevailed on the Pacific Coast. ! — e { {CROSSON, SPROTT | COMPLETE FLYING TRIP TO INTERIOR Mr. and Mrs, Bearl Sprott, ovn- the yacht, “Breezin’ lons, and the failure of Lee's or-|It is illegal for the employer }Uirh,-gugh-v and Joe Crosson, pion- ganization to move to the front asist, advise, contribute to, or Inlee,. Ajaskan flier, returned to Ju- great quantities of cigarettes lying/any way aid the formation of alneay yesterday after a two-weeks in Normandy Dumps. Another incident was the break-| down in the delivery of 1944 competitive union. AR VG R Christmas mail to the troops. Un-| g der government urging to mail! early, over 125000 ‘sacks of mail piled up in Cherbourg, awaiting distribution. Additional thousands, of sacks were in the U. K: Gen-! eral Bradley vigorously urged Lee to get the mail moving. At that time there were plenty of trans-| port planes and trucks available But the mail didn't move. Then the fierce Battle of the Bulge cracked and every ounce of} available transportation was re-| quired to haul ammunition and other desperately needed battle supplies. As a result, the men in the lines went without the morale- boosting Christmas mail piled high in stacks at the rear. The third scandal was the failure to get shoe pacs, parkas, fur| gloves, snow camouflage and other winter-warfare equipment to the line units. As a result, thousands of casualties were sustained from frozen limbs, with a considerable proportion of these men perman-| ently disabled. . | Lucky Forward, forthcoming bare-knuckled history of Patton’s Third Army, reveals that when fContinued on Page Four) : DERBY DEPOT One more boat has register- ed with Phil Senour at the Alaska Travel Bureau for the Salmon Derby, but is filled al- ready. There have been three more registrations of persons desiring trolling space, Senour reported. More boat spaces are avail- able now than there are appli- cants, but all those applying for space desire to troll. Senour stated that he is sorely in need of boats to register with him which can accommodate a few people for trolling. Information is also urgently desired as to how many people will need transportation by bus between Juneau and Auk Bay and Tee Harbor on Derby Day. 0000000000 o REPRESENTATIVE HERE flying trip around the Territory. They travelled as far as the Arc- !‘no Circle in the private plane lnttached to the yacht. H — e ——— S KENYA DUE N ' TOMORROW, 1 P.M. HMS Kenya, British cruiser, is re- perted due to arrive in Juneau to- morrow at 1 pm. Captain Lennox Boswell is in command of the ship, which has States ports on a training cruise. The Kenya left England early in the jsummer, carrying a crew of 600 of- | ficers and men. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—(#-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau | mine stock today is 47%, American 'Can 921:, Anaconda 31's, Curtiss- | Wright 5%, International Harvester 187, Kennecott 46%, New York Cen- Itral 14%, Northern Pacific 20'%, U. Hal Fairhurst, representative for 'S. Steel 71%, Pound $4.02 13/16. the Marshall-Wells Company from Ketchikan, is staying at the Gas- tineau Hotel, Sales today were 580,000 shares. Today’s average: Industrials, 179.14; rails, 48.80; utilities, 35,78, state since Monday midnight; 21 in | been visiting United | | Ship Sinks After Collision at Sea i ! A special Agricultural department The motorship Diamend Knot (left), decks almost awash, and the Fenn Victory (right). with bow plunged into side of Diamond Knot, collided in a thick fog in Strails of Juan de Fuca. The Diamond Knot. car- rying a $3,000,000 cargo of canned salmon, sank after the Fenn Victory pulled clear. No one was injured in ihe collisien. ® Wirephoto from U. S. Navy. WHITE LIGHT CubanDemand NAVY GROUP FIRSTHINTOF Is Voted Down WINDING UP ~ SHIP CRASH At Conference POLAR TASK i | | | SEATTLE, Aug. 22— /P—Captain| of the Alaska ,Steamship Company vessel Diamond Knot told a Coast Guard investi- |gating board here that “the glow lof a white light” was the first he| saw of the freighter Fenn Victory| before the two ships collided in the| Strait of Juan de Fuca, Aug. 13. | “I ordered hard left rudder and full speed in an attempt to avoid collision,” Capt. Goodwin testitied, |“but it was impossible.” ! The veteran Alaska-run skipper 'told the three-man board that |“every possible action was taken after the collision to insure saf- ety of the vessel and her crew “I asked t master -of the Fenn | Victory to hold the bow of his 128 and was joined by the gubmar- |incs at Pearl Harkor. h Master of Sunken Diamond Argentina Surprises with ear te compietion ot a couise o i |which took them from San Diezo Knot Relates Colli- Request for Banon [to pean marmgr 1o Bering sea ¥ and as far north as the edge ot sion Events Armed Force the Arctic ice cap, a United States Pl s {Navy Task Unit consisting of the # . Submarine Tender U.S.S. Nereus ‘Mci!éfifi‘:rg;i%‘:fi)fli“:?{l’dfi:‘ifi;; ‘and fom; submarines arrived in Ju- L’iomand Lhai provisions for protec- {PeRt fd S8k Jaat. evening, i e ) Capt. L. H. Chappel is Commo- | tion of the vcunfmnc independence’ [dme of the Task Unit, which car- of Amc‘rican nations be written m"“;ries on its five ships about 1,000 & !;_2':';?({::’;:123;:2‘:{””} the 2. /€. Commanding the Nereus is nation Intm"’- Amc“c::anrEm»;s; Capt . B SANIL. The idurimy. ” CIENSC marines are the U.S.S. Caiman, Conference voted down the Pro- i comdr. N. D. Gage; . Chub, posal. Fiften mations voted against Comdr.. P W Bew| USS. the measure, which the United Cabezon, Comdr. O. C. Cole: and States has oposed, |the U. 8. 8. Boarfish, Comdr. Earlier, Argentina jolted the con- |5 'yt “Tyrper. | ference with a surprise move to bar | “pe Nereus is the Navy's newest :)(::finusi of_e:s‘;f)“edrrrgcc l:: c"":' {submarine tender, commissioned wmci)‘f{im“pli‘ere“ Within the {octoner 27, 1945, at Mare Island, 5 . 4 i | California. U. 5. WILL MAKE Iship in the side of the Diamond NEw EFFORI FOR Latest Type Subs {Knot in an attempt to keep thel All four submarines are of the vessel afloat.” “ 'latest type, and all were commis- Captain Goodwin said he ordered | DooMED BUI.GAR sioned during late 1944. During pumps started ‘immediately and! the last months of the war in |also asked for soundings in the —_— 11945, they operated in the South | bilges of the 5,525-ton sel, but H . and Central Pacific under Admiral the sank severar hours atier the! RUSSIAN Veto S10ps REVIEW Simes Fite, - commanding ot laccident with a $3,500,000 cargo of | . of sutmarines with the Sevent {canned samon e capian ia) Of Case by Allied Con- rcc: he had hoped to beach the Dia-! S 1 ! hey have been active since the lmond Knot. frol Commission cua’of the war, being witached to } “We didn't give up hope of sav- ~ S8 Ste the Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet, ling her until she went dow WASHINGTON, Aug. 22--/p— which is commanied by Rear ihe related. “The tugs still wers|TThe State Department said to- Admiral A. R. McCann. jattempting to beach the Diamond day it will protect directly to' |Knot when she was sinking.” \Bulgarian government leaders in are from Submarine Squadrons Hush N. Campbell, first officer,'a new effort to save the life of One, Five and -Seven, tased at and crew members were to testify!Nikola Petkov, top-ranking anti- ' Pearl Harbor., The Boarfish is later. Coast Guard officials said Communist leader under sentence from Squadron Three, attached to tl-c hearing “probatly will last sev- of death. the U. 8. 8. Sperry at San Diego. jeral days ) John Evarts Horner, U. 8. poli-i The present cruise was planned |tical representative in Sofia, will as a training program in |place before Vasil Kolanov, Bul- weather operations, and the visit CONFERE"(E HAS igarian Chief of State, the objectionto the polar ice cap took the ves- ito the death sentence imposed on sels beyond latitude 74 | Petkov last Saturday as a con- Comdr. Turner took the Boarfish DRAF[ (HARTER ispirator against the Communist-1in a dive beneath the ice cap, and {dominated Fatherland Front goy- remained in the vicinity at the FOR I"Il "RAD[ ernment. ledge of the cap with the Chub o The action will be taken in the for 10 days. il {face of rejection of United States| Investigated Arct'e and British demands for a review| The Nereus accompanied th GENEVA, Aug. 22 —(P—Delegates of the case by Rusnia's represen- Caiman and Cabezon back tow- of 17 nations unanimously adopt- tative on the Allied Control Com-,ard the Alaskan coast after 36 ed a draft charter today for the mission Decisions of the comm: hours at the face of the pack, and proposed international trade or-; Iganization, :‘sla's refusal ended possibility ofiand inlets as far as Kotzebue. Max Suetens of Belgoum, chair-{an Allied review of the case. | The Task Unit visited in Ber- man of the commission which pre-i Just what move thig country can;ing Sea at St. Paul Island, where {pared the charter, said some na- make to strengthen the new ap- personnel went ashore to observe tions which had made reserva ons|prqach is uncertain. Trade rela- sealing operations. A visit to were ready to withdraw their ob-|tions between the two nations are'Nome had been planned, but an Jjections, 'small for example, and the United |emergency message brought the The ' 4000-word charter, drawn|States does not have a weapon vessels 800 miles to the south to during seven months of negotia-/she has used in other mstances—;pamcipabs in an unsuccessful tions in %ondon, New York and that of relief food. {search for the lost PYB amphib- Geneva, is to be submitted 0 a| e |ian near Dutch Harbor. world conference at Havana in N'o-’ "ALIFORNIANS HERE | Northbound, the Nereus and her vember. If approved there, the! laccompanying submarines visited document, ‘designed as a Bill of| William F. Berry and E. S. Cum- at Adak in the Aleutians; and Rights for international trading,|mins of Seal Beach, ~California, they stopped briefly at Kodiak Le- will become effective, Jare staying at the Hotel Juneau. :lr)n- proceeding here southbound. degrees. | sion must be unanimous and Rus- spent some time investigating bays' SHUTDOWN LOOMIN 'EGYPTIANS RIOT, DEMAND BRITISH ~ REMOVAL, BLOOD "Down with America,” “Down with Brazil,” Say Demonstrators (COAST TIEUP INFEWDAYS 15 FORECAST Bridges Or(iér;Longshore- CAIRO, Auu? 22—, 'l‘lmnsundsi men '0 Begin P[epara- of | ing riotous Egyptians, some “down with Americi day against the {Nations Security trend of Council sions on this nation's dispute with | Britain, | Police seizad seven followers of [the Moslem brotherhood ! The acting Prime Minister, Ah- !med Khashaba, broadcast an ap- |peal “to every sincere patriot to help the government maintain or- der.” Tk Prime Minister, Mah moud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha, is at Lake Success pressing for Uni- | nated Nations action i The numter of demonstrators reached about 5000 at one time in Cairo. They reformed after they ‘were scattered by polica fire They demanded evacuation | British troops from Egypt I blood.” “Down with America, the trait- or!” demonstrators shouted. “Down with Brazil, the traitor Egypt de- |fies the Security Council. Egypt | defies the whole world!" | They called also for revenge on E“Lrailm'uu:v' Egyptian police.” More than 10 of the demonstra- (tors were reported wounded by | police fire as officers struggled to Ebrmg the throng under control | i ‘? QUAKE AT SIKH - REPRISAL RAIDS of “by . JULLUNDUR, India, Aug. 22.—P | —Fierce Sikh warriors, rising by {the thousands, were waging today what military authorities called a iruthless war of extermination :agshzst Moslems trapped east of {the Pakistan border. In 12 days of savagz fighting, |while the subcontinent was being |divided into the Dominions of In- (dia and Pakistan, military reports showed the bearded Sikhs raided rural villages populated wholly or partly by Mohammedans. Men, jwomen and children were slaugh- .tered by the hundreds. Shops and |homes were burned and pillaged. { No one knows how many have villages would be l2ft before the 18ikhs call their job complete. Military leaders expressed fear !that the reprisals committed by the Sikhs in payment for atro- cities committeed in areas where !Mohammedans are in majority would provoke a new wave of butchery of Sikhs and Hindus stranded in the Moslem Dominion jof Pakistan. Troops and civil authorities in Jullunder have been attempting to calm the people and end the ter- ror. The city has the appearance of one besieged during war. A curfew prevails. Tanks, trucks and The Caiman, Cabezon and Chub Patrol jeeps move among the de-| bris of the riots. |still are burning. Some buildings |the city. "were sniping from housetops cold|Moslems, and Moslems were snip-|did ing at Sikhs. | oo - | FROM CHATHAM | James E. Forsell of Chatham is | registered at the Bfranof Hotel. i D e o 0o 00 0000000 |* WEATHER REPORT e Temperatare for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning In Juneau—Maximum, 65; minimum, 45. At Airport—Maximum, T1; minimum, 43. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Fair but with increasing e high cloudiness tonight and e Saturday. Not much change in temperature. PRECIPITATION | . In Juneau — None; since e August 1, 3.59 inches; since o July 1, 6.92 inches. L At Airport—None. Since e August 1, 261 inches; since e July 1, 5.19 inches. . P e 000 0r 000 shout- clashed | | with police in demonstrations to-| United | discus- ! (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) @ | tions for Stoppage SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22— |#—Harry Bridges' - CIO longshore- men, charging Waterfront Employ- |ers were plotting under the new Taft-Hartley labor law to fire un- fon men in 16 categories, pre- dicted today a West Coast mari- time tieup “within a fow days."” Shippers Were considering with- holding of perishable cargoes un- jtil the situation clarified. The new law, effective at mid- night last night, says employers do not have to bargain with foremen or supervisory employees. The CIO International Long- (shoremen’'s and Warehousemen's Union said the Waterfront Em- ployers’ Assoclation has refused to bargain with unionized dock fore- men, known as walking bosses — rand it added: Would Be Signal ‘ “Lockout of the ship, dock and walking bosses would be the ship- {owners’ opeping gun in their plot to drive out of the unions all members who are judged by them to ke supervisory in capacity. This will include gang bosses, side- (runners, millwrights, chief mech- 'anics, head lockedmen, captains, mates, pilots, chief engineers and 'assistants, stewards, chief cooks, | radio operators; boatswains, super- icargoes, checkers and others who will be invested into supervisory | capacity.” | The Waterfront Employers Asso- clation remained silent. ILWU dock fovemen, now on |strike against the Luckenbach Steamship Company and the Out- er Harbor Wharf and Dock Com- pany, threatened to /spread picket lines to other ports and firms if foremen were discharged as the Inew law went into effect. | Not Vielation | An arbitrator ruled last week (that CIO longshoremen were not {violating their contract in observ~ ing such picket lines. The ILWU last night advised all longshore and ichecker locals “to begin full scale | preparations.” | Meanwhile, Michael J. McCar- { thy, secretary-treasurer of the {Pacitic Coast Customs and Freight b She departed from h‘"‘dlsd. Military records listed Lfim_‘flro:(ers‘ Association, said his or- thome port at San Diego on June y. one seemed to know how mm‘y‘gan zation was considering an em- ibargo on perishables pending clari- (fication of the situation. He said ithe Ascociation represented 75 ma- !jor Pacific Coast forwarding firms. | In Seattle, union officials an- {nouncad last night that AFL walk- |ing bosses wolld be covered by ex- tension for one year of existing {AFL waterfront contracts. Em- ployers confirmed the extension, {which applies to longshoremen in |Tacoma, Port Angeles and Ana- (cortes, and to walking bosses and checkers in all Washington State |ports north of the Columbia Riv- ler. (Seattle’s longshoremen are |CIO members.) 0. K. AT PORTLAND | PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 24— Two rifle shots sounded as this|-——The manager of the Waterfront reporter rode with troops m",uxh;!.mployaa Association here sald An officer said Sikhs|today that walking bosses would at!not be discharged here and that it not anticipate a marine tie- up. | R. E. Ferguson said employers would respect a local agreement with walking bosses which runs 'until 1948, | -ee STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska, due 11 p. m., from Se- attle, sails for Haines, Skagway and Sitka at 11:45 p. m. Princess Norah, due Northbound tomorrow afternoon. R. F. Follis, Standard Oil tank- er, due tomorrow morning. Baranof, due in Sunday evening from the Westward. Princess Louise, sailed for Van- couver 9 a. m. today; due to |depart Northtound from Van- |couver on Wednesday, August 27, Aleutian, scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. —_—————— DIVORCED Jean MacDonald Rice was grant- ed a divorce today in U. 8. Dis- trict “Court from Marvin K. Rice,