The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” [—— VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,665 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1947 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE, TEN CENTS PORT OF SEWARD WILL BE BY-PASSED LONGSHORE |AFL UNIONS Race Suicide UNION NOT | SIGNUNDER Coming Warns (RIMINMS'\ LABOR LAW Calif. Solon|S IN MAKING District ATomey Says iThree Alaslab—orts Renew Senate Probe Head, How- 'Present Strike Not Basis | Their Longshore | ever, Takes Cooler View | for Criminal Action’ Agreements | . on DP Admission Chances for the criminal prose-; The agreements signed last week| WASHINGTON, Aug. 25- 1.!"42 cution of striking local longshore-|between steamship operators and Senator Downey (D-Calif) said | men appear to be temporarily |members of the International today the United States stalemated by the lack of more con- |{Longshoremen’'s Association, AFL,|“serious menace of race suicide.” | crete information than is avail- |cover three Alaska ports and three| Hence, the California lawmaker | able at present. The action was Puget Sound ports. Additional demanded last week by the Juneau,formation received here today states thetic Chamber of Commerce in an ef-[that these longshoremen did fort to halt the present strike of |ask for any waiver of rights giv- rope's displaced nersons to President Truman's pro- faced a|Taft-Hartley labor law’s anti-Com= in- told a reporter, he is “very sympa-| not | posal to adimit some 400,000 of Eu‘i TEST OF TAFT) HARTLEY LAW 'NLRB Decide?ksue in Fav- or of Communist- Headed Union WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. — (P— The possibility of a quick test of the munist provisions arose today in a! National Labor Relations Board de-:l cision. The board ruled, 2 to 1, that the ! Geraldine Novelty Company, Inc., | of Gloversville, N. Y., must reinstate eight employees who were members | President Sees Marshall Off fo Brazil - ——— ILWU members in thres Alaskan{en the employers in the Taft-; Senator Revercomb (R-WVa), de- ports. Hartley Law. \clared in a separare 1uterview, of the CIO Fur and Leather Warl{-vl U. 8. 'District Attorney P. J,i In Alaska, longshore unions now however, that efforts are urder way |ers, and to cease and dissent fromy’| Gilmore, Jr. clarified the situa-lsigned up for another year are to “break down" this countrys|discriminating against them. 3§ tion this morning from a legal|those in Petersburg, Skagway and Pmmigration barriers and “thisi The decision was handed down | . standpoint. He said: “It appearsiKodiak. Puget Sound ports where must not happen.” |Aug. 21 the day before ihe Taft-| | that these facts and circumstances, {ILA unions have signed are - Revercomb is chsirman of a|Hartley law became fully operative surrounding the present or ex:s -lcomu. Port Angeles and Anacortes. special committee which plans to in its new provisions affecting the ing controversy, in no way consti-| Agreements with ILA foremen investigate Mr. Truman's propcsal National Labor Relations Board. tute a criminal violation of the Taft-Hartley labor law. If any facts would appear to constitute a violation, these should be brought to the attention of the U. S. At- torney’s office.” Gilmore gave assurance that if any evidence is subm.tted or ob- tained which would constitute a criminal violation of the Taft- Hartley law or any other Federal or Territorial slatute, the parties involved will be vigcrously prose- cuted. Private Attorneys Cencur Pricate attorneys, in Juneau, were also consulted today on what should be done to reetify the sit- uation. Most offhand comments were in a similar vein with that of Gilmore’s but other formal opin- ions are expected to be published within the next few days. Of those immediately available, former Dis- trict Attorney Howard D. Stabler expressed the opinion that “after a further study of the Taft-Hart- ley labor law, a criminal conspiracy " (Continued on Page Two) B NG, o S : : %5630.716.52. with the stations to] : DERBV D o % " L R ‘:J}e] loca'.e:l al: LenaTEumL usn the acier Highway, ane, Sunset p EPOT iPublic Needs More Real Goeci, ot s mama s | . — . : H {row Point | ? one waiomal vessl has 3 Protection Against 5ihce’et’ waies sna in- Glar- | ® registered with the Alaska e . . . en it. | e Travel Burcau in the lobby of e NallonWIde s'”kes | éfe:it:.: operations have Leen! ® the Baranof Hotel for the -I _— commenced already at the Lena ¢ Salmon Derby next Sunday. ® | (yASHINGTON, nug. 25.—— Point site, and camps will be erect- ® The boat can accommodate @ cpgjrman Hartley (R-NJ) of the!ed at Sunset Cove and Narrow| ® 16 persons for strip fishing. ® g, o Lanor Committee, said to-|Point soon. The VHF (very high) . There have been seven day the Taft-Hartley Act “does frequency) stations will be con-} e more applicants for space. ‘® {,t phave enough teeth in it to!Structed complete with all facilitie: ¢ Phil Senour reports that he @y, (he public real protection| Two similar stations are und © still has plenty of strip fish- ®1...inct nationwide strikes.” | construction by Sommers Construc- ® ing space, but no trolling ® | “Tp. co-author of the new labor|tion Company; one at North Dutch space at all. ® ! measure said he will try to have Island in Prince William Sound, ® ! Congress remedy the situation next and the other at Whittier. i ®e 0 00 000000000 | €. H. Keil, vice-president of the D The Washington Merry - Go- Round By ROBERT S. ALLEN (Editor's Note: While Pearson is on a brief vacation The Washington Merry-Go- Round is keing written by his old partner, Robert S Allen.) WASHINGTON James F. Byrnes, tigger-smart former Sec- retary of State now practicing law in Washington, has been following the Administration’s foreign policy with intense interest. ticularly true as regards relations with ‘Soviet Russia, with whom Byrnes' had protracted, and at times painful, encounters during a number of conferences. An old friend asked Byrnes if he though it was possible for the US. and the USSR. to reach a better understanding. This is Byrn- es' Teply: “I think it is, and this is my formula. Get people who believe that we can find a basis for work- ing with the Russians. Then sup- port these people to the limit. When they start getting discour- aged and synical, replace them with others who are confident that a solution can be found. “As is evident, such a program would take time, patience, brains and courage. But I believe it would work. I certainly think it would be worthwhile trying. War B (Continued on Page Four) tand checkers also were renewed at and other immigiation problems. The head of the Fur and Leather | these ports without change. He said his group will have spe: “Workers is Ben Gold, an avowed : CIO longshoremen, however, still ific recommendation ready for|Communist. | were holding out for contracts Congress after “we get al' the| The Taft-Hartley lJaw bars NLRB aid to unions, unless their officers ]which would absolve the unions facts” by means of putlic hearin { ‘(rom any liability under the new and a visit to the cccupied .coun- file affidavits disavowing Commun- | labor law, holding Juneau. Ketch- tries of Europe. |ist affiliations. The Senate authorized the com-| The crucial question presented in! I mittee inquiry in leu of actirg this case now is whether the board | The AFL longshore compliance immediately on & bill to authorize Will enforce its decision in the event | with the Taft-Hartley Act might the admission of 10€.000 Eur |the company refuses to put it into mean that AFL unions will move refugees a year, over a four vear laffect. In the absence of an afli-} ikan and other CIO Alaskan ports strikebound. jare not Communists, the board lmight take the view that the union has no standing under the Taft- | Hartley act and therefore might de- cline to press for enforcement. . If the board decided that the |union did not have standing on }Aug. 21 when the decision was jnanded down, and prior to that tracts for the striking CIO ports. available for the study. They could do so under the pro-| - tection of the new labor law and Ill such a move would saw the limb ‘sms out from nder the CIO locals in Alaska. ! —=—-—— | [NSTALL 3 C(AA to establish locals and sign con- period. A $50,000 fund was made davit declaring the union officers - (left) shakes hands with Secretary of State George President Truman in Washington before Marshall's take-off for the Western Hemisphere Conference in Brazil. With Secre- tary Marshall are Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R.-Mich. (second frem right) and U. N, Delegate War- ren R. Austin (right). (® Wirephoto THREE NATIONS HEATWAVE | e Teoumie i MID - WEST Drew lsatetyA ! ! Four new stations in the Civil! H NEEDED Aeronautics Administration’s VHF| jcommunications relay system have| !been contracted for with the R. J. Sommers Construction Company of | Juneau. 1 i | Total amount or the contract is iyear. 1 Hartley told reporters the mea- company, will be in direct charge {sure of necessity was a compromise | 0f all construction. It is planned | idocument, adding that its machin-|that work will be completed early; ery to stop strikes “does not goiin 1948. i1 PORT | ‘ta: enough.” —— Under the act the government isl authorized to obtain court Xn-‘w HERE LAST NIGHT Alaska Jjunctions against nation-wide | strikes endangering health and; | “At the very best,” Hartley said,| | when the offenses took place, then {LOCAL POLICE CHIEF | 'for the central and lower portions | VANISHING the company might appeal. 'Cool Air from Canada AIaSka'Here i Works to Good-Tropi- GOing Sou‘h ~ cal Storm Plays Out | (By The Associated Press) Northland Transportation Com-! The Mid-West's week-long heat pany’s Alaska arrived in Juneau this wave was vanishing toady in a flood afternoon at 1 o'clock from Sitka. of cool air from Canada which Disembarking here from Skagway brought rain to much of the parched were Zelma Harvey, Alice Storey, corn belt. D. C. Mackay and L. T. Lundin.! H. S. Kenny, Government Weath- Passengers to Juneau from Sitka er Forecaster at Chicago, said the were Miss Wilma Warther, Mr. and rainfall, ranging from very light to of Towa, south and eastern Nebraska. | northern and western Missouri, and northern Illinois and Indiana. Extensive showers were forecast and John McLean. - e - Jr., (OMPLIMENTS NAVIES Acting Juneau Police Chief Wal- ter Sinn today complimented crew members of the U.S.8. Nereus, US.S. Boarfish, U.S.S. Cabezon, US.S. Caiman, U.S.S. Chub and HMS. Kenya. He declared that their conduct during the visit of their ships in Juneau had been excel- lent. Sinn was very pleased with the good. kehavior of the visiting sailors. He also stated that the officers and men of Ltoth navies had been very cooperative in pre- of Illinois and Indiana today. | The rains had sharp repurcussions on the corn futures markets, Sep- tember quotations at Chicago break- +ing the limit of eizht cents before rallying slightly. Tropical Storm A howling tropical storm which caused widespread but generally Iminor property damage at Galves- ton, Tex., yesterday was playing it- self out in heavy rainfall today as a broad wedge of cool air poked east- ward across the morth central tes. r, it sture to most | Mrs. Dewey Baker, Dewey Baker, moderate, brought moisture {timing had no relation to the fall' jSharp Accug;l—g Note Sent | by U. §. Following . Govt.’s Collapse | WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—P— | The United States has formally accused Albania, Bulgaria and | Zugoslavia of supporting guer- Irilla warfare in Greece and declar- ed international action is to keep peace in the Balkans. These views were set forth in a State Department document leased within hours after news of the collapse of the Greek gov- ernment. There were indications, {nowever, that the statement had \been long prepared and that its the Maximos cabine. In fact, some officials said pri- {vately that they regarded the col- lapse of the Athens Government as presenting a welcome opportun- ity for the Greeks to set up a new and more efficlent regime which could, with continued American help, speed rcstoration of the coun- ry’s economy. The charges against the Greeks’ ‘Cgmmunit - dominated neighbors were leveled in a State Depart- | ment formal document bundling up reports of the United Nations group which earlier this year in- vestigated allegations the Northern | Greek frontier had Leen violated {had been violated by the, three | countries. of i | | | i needed | Tve-| “this only stalls a strike off for| Steamship ~ Company’s venting any unpleasant incidents.| Wristling aldng’at .10 70 miles | The statement said the UN docu- This is par-| |85 days. There may be some means of extending the injunc- stions for additional 85 day periods, but even this is doubtful.” The Labor Committee head said he plans to press for enactment; of the monopolistic strike section lof the original Hartley bill. i This provision failed to win Sen- ate approval and was discarded 11rom the final draft of the act, which tecame a law over President Truman’s veto. : 1 it defined as a monopolistic strike a walkout resulting from “any conspiracy, collusion or con- certed plan of action between em- ployees of competing employers” {where the employees are not repre- }senwd by the same union. | e UNDERWRITER SOUTH i Harry I. Lucas, chief underwriter 1for Alaska for the Federal Housing Administration, flew from Juneau |to the States Saturday by PAA! !plane. He is making an official 1 business trip and expects to remain \south about two weeks. - e DRYDENS ARE BACK T. F. Dryden, Principal of the Juneau Grade School, and Mrs, Dry- den returned from the south on the Princess Norah. {Baranof arrived in Juneau from an hour, the storm blew into Gal- | {the Westward last night at 11:30| veston and nelghhoring ‘Texas City (Wents clearly showed that “Al- i i RS. CASE RE ‘ ghboring v A |o'clock and sailed for Ketchi- | MrsMMargnret CMT‘Q:N;E Ju. |Vesterday aiternoon. Some homes‘.i‘l:l:;fl»o Br:llgar;:]d a:lx;t(imzuglrx:k:\c ff kan and Seattle at 12:30 a. m. neau school faculty, aceompanied by | WEré unroofed, house and store win- | Lisivn 4 iy _“hym Je | today. { i i Y ! dows blown in, and communication 64 an¥ cooperation® w B ARe her sen William, has returned on the Narah from the south where she spent the summer. >———— e e 000000000 vestigating group. R Disembarking here from Seward | were Helen Angus, Mr. and Mrs. | |H. Capden, Mrs. Rose Greigain,| IMr. and Mrs. R.'T. Kaufman, R.| R. Orne, Helen D. Smith and Mrs. | |3, Paredes. i Boarding the Baranof for Ket-| chikan were Mrs. L. Lane and| | Larry Roos. | | Sailing for Seattle were J. H.| (Lunn, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Winn,| |Grace H. Fisher, Mrs. George Gul- lufson, Shirley Robjnson, H. Nied, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Erickson, Mrs. K. J. Lee, Virginia Lee, Mr. and Mrs. D. Oune, Mr. and Mrs. |Carl Lewis, M. Englebertson, Jo-| seph C -~Whitney and Douglas| and power lines ripped down. . At Galveston, one man was killed | by 4lectric shock from a falling pow- | H H ' SQI i ‘(*r line and the three-man crew of | ea"ng S || {a small boat was feared lost. ! . Texas City, where 500 persons ' F i b k Sl y g | were killed in a ship explosion about | a r an s a ln | four months ago, appeared to have | suffered no extensive damage. SRy 17 S i 1 | ett E. Smith for Sept. 9. pA( | Hager was transferred this week- end to the Federal Jail from a hos- $40,000 ESTAT WEATHER REPORT Temperarure for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning In Juneau—Maximum, 56; minimum 50. At Airport—Maximum, 57; minimum, 31. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Cloudy with occasional light rain and not much change in FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 25.—(® i'A preliminary hearing on fil pital where he had been under guard | while being treated fo ra leg wound Gregg. temperature tonight and SEATTLE, Aug. 25—P—An es-;he claimed was received in a hotel PR ‘Tuesday. ® tats estimated at more than $40.- shooting August 17. ROGERS l.iAVE PRECIPITATION ® 000 was left by Bjarne Grondahl,' Hager was arrested after the gun- (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) ® (58 years old, part owner of ashot slaying of Harry C. (Montana) Mr .and Mrs. George Rogers were In Juneau — 31 inches; ® herring packing factory in Alaska, Weiselman, 41-year-old construction e |who died July 18, it was disclosed worker. e when his will was ontered for} e probate by Superior Judge Donald MRS. BERLIN IS HERE e A McDonald. The estate, which' Mrs. Margaret Berlin, of the Ju- e included his ness, stocks and neau Grade School staff, returned ® 'real estate, wa- feft to his widow, to Junéau over the weekend from o000 000 0 o o o Ida Karoline Grondahl the south by PAA. since August 1, 4.01 inches; since July 1, 7.34 inches. At ‘Airport — .30 inches: since August 1, 3.16 inches; since July 1, 5.74 inches. Seattle bound passengers by PAA Saturday. Rogers, formerly an OPA price executive here and more re- cently executive assistant to the Governor of Alaska, has accepted a graduate fellowship from Harvard University. ————— | degree murder charges against Her- | | bert G. Hager, Fgirbanks bartender, | i has been set by Commissioner Ever- | \New Southern . I ' Terminal for Alaska Route :Fire Island, Near Anchor- “ age, Announced as Sea- Land Transfer Point | l By VERN HAUGLAND i WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. — (#— (Frank Heintzleman, Chief of the {Alaska Forest Service, said today !Lhc Federal Government will call for bids October 1 on eight billjon board feet of pulp timber near ! Thomas Bay, Alaska. | Because of the huge investment {that would be involved—$30,000,000 to $40,000,000—~The Forest Service took the unusual step of calling for H al bids, the auction to be held here +1in the South Agriculture Building. 1| Candidates will be screened—be- | ! fore being allowed to take part in j|the auction—as to their financial ; resources, and knowledge of timber, y‘i water power and other operating [ § Icundmam in Southeast Alaska. . Each bid for the 50-year contract |must be accompanied by a bank jdraft or certified check for $25,000, :and the successful bidder must show ievldence that he has at least $8,- 000,000 for plant construction. Survey Party on Job i Secretary of the Interior Krug ——— {told reporters one U. 8. pulp paper | firm already has a survey party in ithe area and two other companies lhas survey teams on the way. U.5. SOLDIERS; 25 3NOTHARMED =25 i i 1. The opening to humestead set- | — "ucmem of 45,000 additional acres of | agricultural land in the Matanuska Trio Crosssed Korea De-ivsiex o e esieaces mer marcation by Mistake- Not Closely Questioned C. Marshall at the national airport i | @ Meanwhile Irwin W. Sliverman, { Acting Director of the Interior De- [ Ipartment’s Territories Division, i pointed out these additional indfca- | tions of forthcoming rapid develop+ tquarters of the present Matanuska | project. War veterans may start ap- Iplying Oct. 17, and the first grants [will be made six months later. Highway Tracts SEOUL, Korea, Aug. 25.—®—i 2. The opening of 2,750,000 acres Thres American soldiers, released!along the Alaska Highway for use unharmed by the Russians afterias tracts of five acres or less for 12 days detension in the Sovietihouses, camps, gasoline stations, res- zone, said today that guards with' turants, hotels and other facilities tommyguns accompanied them con-!to serve and entertain motorists in stantly, but that they were not|Alaska. Settlement on these small subjected to close questioning. tracts will begin Oct. 2. i : 7 | 3. Development of the Chilkoot \pz(:.e am:ficpg‘::e' fi::xlgir;l?el;:giw” Veterans settlement during the gt i past summer. One hundred families a railroad linking Seoul with the| Russian headquarters at .Pyungky-;behmg to the Alsska Caoperative G Company which purchased the former Army camp a mile from ang, were taken into Soviet uus-‘ tody August 12 at the village of| Yohyon-ni, inside the Russian zon‘e;fiah\es snd 4b miles. nocthiwesy .00 and wbout 40 miles northweat. of | Uoeny fac $106.:000, s I‘ JTI s A aid) hhi 4. Inauguration by Congress of a Beoul, They. wera released at theyu. coar 34000000 program for same spot Sunday afternoon, the rehabillthtidn of " the. Alaks L/6 Tommy F. Pugsley, Renton,iRaijlway. Wash.; Pfc. John D. Hopfe, Se-i 5 Increased agitation for state- attle, and Pfc. Geraold K. Getfen,|nood for Alaska. Port Chester, N. Y. told their} silverman said the Alaska Road ories to Intelligence Officers and|Commission is spending $3,753,000 then met news correspondents. (this year for development of a sys- The three said they walked into{tem of highways in the Homer-Sew- the Soviet zone inadvertently,jard area to stimulate agricultural through failure to see a marker!development of the Kenai Penin- at the 38th parallel—dividing line|sula. between the American and Sovie Abandon Seward occupation areas. They said they; He added that the Seward-An- believed a Korean xecnon«hand:chonge line, the most cxpensive had hung his coat over the mark-jpart of the Alaska Railroad to er. lmaxntnln‘ will be dismantled, and vessels from the south will proceed through the Cook Inlet to a new Soviet officers quest'oned them twice on their birthplaces, ages, and similar atters, and repeat-;railway terminal at Pire Island, oft edly asked them why they cross-iAnchorage. A railroad causeway ed the border, but never search-;will link Fire Island with Anchor- ed them or examined their wal-{age and the main line to Fairbanks. lets or personal papers, the mree’ “This will reduce the cost of sea told correspondents. transportatibn from Seattle by eli- -————— minating the need to unload cargoes at Seward,” Silverman said. “High SIO(K ouo'A"o“S |water transportation charges still | remain a major barrier toward rapid e development of the Territory.” e ———— STEAMER MOVEMENTS Aleutian, from Seattle, probably arriving early tomorrow afternoon. Princess Louise, scheduled to sail from Vancouver 9 p. m. Wednes- NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—®—Clos- | | ing quotation of Alaska Juneau | mine stock today is 47, American | Can 88%, Anaconda 36, Curtiss- Wright 5%, International Harvester 86, Kennecott 46':, New York Cen- | tral 14, Northern Pacific 19%, U. S. | Steel 697, Pound $4.02%. i Sales today were 810,000 shares. | Averages today are as follows: day. Industrials, 177.58; rails, 47.15; utili- | Baranof scheduled to sail from ties, 35.43 ! Seattle 10 a. m. Saturday. | ! Alaska In port and sails south | The Stock Market dropped today at 10 o'clock tonight. for the sixth consecutive Monday. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- The situation was blamed mainly on rive from Skagway at 8:30 to- 'skepticism concerning international morrow morning and sails south affairs, . one hour later.