The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 10, 1947, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE WHY WHISTLE? Mistlestop isial o Well-timed arrival of an old friend! Long a favorite among women whose busy feet welcome its dependable fit, its fine I. Miller workmanship $15.95 M Reheends Co QUALITY SINCE /88T INDIA ON WARBASIS BY DECREE Prime Minister Takes Drastic Stand in Face of - Communal Massacres NEW DELHI, Sept. 10. — (®— Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of the month-old Dominion of In- dia, pledged government measures ‘on a war basis” today to cope with communal massacres blamed for 1,000 Delai deaths in three days. In a radio speech last night, Nehru declared that such measures which he did not detail — were necessary in the face of a situation he called “analogous to war.” He said the “serious crisis” (hreatened the future of India He declared, however, military still were “masters of the situation” and shortly would be “mcre the masters.” His address followed reports from police and Army authorities that the rioting let up somewhat yesterday, but gqun- fire still resounded through the dominion’s capital and its older sis- ter city Sikhs and Hindus in predomi- nantly Hindu India have been kill- ing Moslems in retaliation for the slaughter of members cof their re- ligious communities in the Moslem Dominion of Pakistan. Official sources estimated ‘the dead in New and Old Delhi at 1,000 in the three days ended yesterday. One civil official said the killed and wounded might run un to 10,000 The butchery and attendant burning and looting have paralyzed the life of the twin cities and sent thousands of their 300,000 or so Moeslems fleeing toward Pakistan 300 miies away, carrying their chil- dren and goods. The Moslem exodus followed an inpouring of Sikh and Hindu re- fugees from Pakistan. e———— MINING OFFICIAL VISITS G. D. Jermain, of the U. S. Bu- reau of Mines in Washington, D. C., arrived here yesterday via PAA and is staying at the Baranof Hotel. He is the Assistant Chief of the Mining Branch and is in the Territory to familiarize himself with mining con- ditions in Alaska. He will leave for that the Nome tomorrow to meet with Rob- ert Sanford, Acting Chief of the Alaska Rranch. SAM ASP LEAVES Sam Asp, Superintendent of e pictures in New Zealand Mot “flicks called the | | | | Mrs. Monte H. Hayward, of Fort Tenakee Cannery, was an outgoing | Richardson, is registered at the Gas- passenger on the Pan American Air- ways plane for Seattle yesterday Olga Kentsl, of Phoenix, Arizona, AT THE GASTINEAU tineau Hotel 2 e i VISITOR FROM ARIZONA is at the Gastineau Hotel. U. S. DEPAR MENT OF COMMERCE, JUNEAU, AL..SZA WEATHER BULLETIN DATA FOR 24 HOURS Max. temp. | last Station 24 hrs* | Anchorage 56 Burrow S4 Bethel 55 Cordova 49 Dawson 54 Edmonton 62 Fairbanks 54 Haines 52 Havre 3 Juneau Airport 54 Ketchikan 56 Kodiak 49 Kctzebue 49 Los Angeles 8 McGrath 51 Nome 51 Northway 58 Petersburg 54 Portland 67 Prince George 57 Prince Rupert 57 Seattle 67 Sitka 53 | Whitehorse 53 Yakutat 51 temp. 44 30 44 44 43 37 TODAY temp. Precip. 44 01 33 ‘Trace 42 Trace 49 61 12 48 By 31 Trace 51 12 46 50 35 52 1.47 44 12 59 0 39 .09 37 Trace 39 01 50 24 47 06 39 04 54 50 02 51 124 46 Trace 48 91 *—(4:30 a. m. yesterday to 4:30 a. m. voday) WEATHER SYNOPSIS: The storm which was located in Bristol Bay“ i i ernment urged the British recon- sesterday merning has moved into the Gulf of Alaska this morning and | SToor 0t H¥EE S0 taiho0n- | beccme very intense. | Lowest 4:30 am. 24hIs. \DED AT 4:30 A, M., 120TH MERIDIAN TIME Weather at | 'AFL Top Men Warn of New Pay Demands {Pressure for Higher Wages ! | Cerfain to Mount with Living Cost CHICAGO, Sept. 1W0.—® The AFL executive council hinted to-{ day that a third round of post-! war wage demands could be ex-| pected if the cost of living con- | tinues to mount | Wage boosts wers granted to most - major unions in the first | year after V-J Day. Generally, ! |they amounted to about 18% cents an hour. A second increase,| ranging from 11 to 15': cents hourly was passed on to most kig unions this spring and sum-/ { mer i The 16 top AFL officers said| tl:2 wage hikes were inadequate, |to keep pace with prices. i “Inflation has mnow assumed alarming proportions,” | |cil said. *“The purchasing {of the wage-earna dollar has been cut in half since the war. |Food prces are now bursting i through th2 roof. Economists are | predicting dollar a dozen cggs and {dollar a pound butter. Meat is |going to be more scarce and more expensive. Substitute foods, ke- | cause of inoreasing demand, Wil |also shoot upward. | “Unless the cost of living |is | promptly reduced and stabiiized, !pressure for higher wages is cor- |tain to mount.” | AFL President William Guicen \sald restoration of the OPA was jout of the question, as was a spec- |ial session of Congress to clamp ew controls on some commodit- sed by a CIO com- power advocated, instead: i revision of our | foreign export commitments, lim- iting help wunder the Marshall |Plan to thos2 nations “willing to cooperate with us for the pres- ervation of world peac2.” 2 Encouragement of The council 1. Immediat< nereased industrial and agricultural produc- | tion. 3. Expansion of transportation facilitiss to move the increased production. The railroad car shortage is the |chief obstacle to transportation, | Green said, and railroads should be |cnabled to acquire new roliing | stock. — .- - JEW ACTION OF “BRITISH IS NOT APPROVEDBY US. B " Urged Reconsideration | Regarding ‘Exodus’ Inci- dent But of No Avail 4:30 am. Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cloudy Showers WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. — (P Secretary of State Marshall disclos- !ed that the United States futility | urged the British government o “e- Drizzle * | consider its decision to ssnd’thv Clear 14,400 “exodus” Jews back to Ger- many. Ctouty | In a news conference comment, ls‘:iol:vers | Marshall revealed strong American | disapproval of the British action. g | Three shiploads of the Jews, seek- Cloudy |ing to enter Palestine on the “exo- Cloudy :dus‘ of 1947" were turned back and Cloudy :lhell' disembarkation at Hamburg ' Pt. Cloudy was completed yescerdn_y. | Pt. Clou dy | Marshall said American officials Cl;)udy | had been keenly aware of the un-' Pt. Cloudy | fortunate results 'vhich‘would fol- cléar | low from the British decision to un- Cloud: ‘Ioad the Jews at Hamburg. Cm'y | The British had to use force to re- Rain | move some of them. : h Cloudy | Their final dispesition is still un- Shosiens | settled and some are reported an a? The storm front is near the coast of Southeast | Alaska this morning and continues to move eastward. Southeasterly |, . only available housing was in | reclose the pericd to eva | hunger strike. i Marshall aid the American gov- | The British revlied, he said, that | winds as high as 44 miles per hour were reported at Five Finger Light | Germany. and rain was falling along the coast from Dixon Entrance to the Kenai Peninsula However, Marshall added that a A mass of cold air moving southward over the Bering Sea Prenoh offer of ‘admittarice whs still ' has penetrated as far eastward as Kodiak Island this morning and it open and that Jewish refugees there- | appears that it will move across the Gulf of Alaska during the next 24 Rain has also fallen during the vast 24 hours at mest stations | long in Germany hours. | fore need mot necessarily remam} over the remainder of Alaska and the northwestern portion of the United | Thunderstorms were reported over the northern Plains States and some snow fell over northwestern M“kfl‘mmm ml and at higher elevations in the mountains along the ‘Washington-Brit- | | States and western Canada. ish Columbia border. few stations over northern Alaska this morning. slightly below normal over Southeast Alaska yesterday. { from 44 to 57 degrees along the coast from Puget Sound to the Guif of | Funeral | Alaska this morning. MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Below freezing temperatures were reported at a | ‘Temperatures were They ranged | Reports from Marine Stations at 1:30 P. M. today Station Cape Spencer Eldred Rock Drizzle PoMit Retreat Cloudy ! Five Finger Light Rain Lincoln Rock Drizzle Guard Island Drizzle Cape Decision Rain Weather Drizzle-Fog 54 Temp. 54 57 54 58 58 56 Dir. and Vel. (Sea Oondition) be held tomorrow at 2 p. m. Height of Waves the Charles W. Carter Chapel, un- WIND SW 12 SSW 35 SSE 15 SSE 28 SSE 26 SSE 26 SSE 29 3 feet 4 feet 38 feet 5 feet 3 feet 4 feet 3 feet WILL BE TOMORROW i services for Willlam C. | Donaldson, stream watchman on | Taku river who passed away Mon- day in St. Ann's Hospital, will in der the auspices of Mt. Juneau‘ !Lodge No. 147, Masonic Order. [ The Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman | will give the eulogy, and Ernest Ehler will render two solos. Pall- | bearers are M. L. MacSpadden.' |A. E. Goetz, E. C. Sweeney, J. J MARINE FORECAST FOR THE PERIOD ENDING THURSDAY Fargher, R. R. Hermann and E. C. EVENING : Protected waters of Southeast Alaska and the outside waters, | Whitesel. Dixon Entrance to Yakutat—southeriy to southeasterly winds 20 to 30 | miles per hour occasionally increasnig to near 40 miles per hour. Slowly sing winds over the entire area tonight and Thursday. Rain over de the entire area. Interment is to be in Roseburg, Oregon. The Masonic Lodge Is to be formally opened for the cere- mony tomorrow ‘at 1:15 p. m. the coun-'_ IN “loop,” flutte BIG SCALE CLEANU Calgary, Albertz, get the SEALASKA GETS FiSH EXTENSION King Salmofix’il! Be Per- miited fc Be Caught Dur- ing 25-Day Period A rela in Scu tod; f ing regulations ka was announced al Office of the heast Al e Regior U and Wildlife Sarvice Setcn <. Thomvson. Director of the Alaska Fisherics of the Fish and Wildlife Service, has given his okay on onl; fishermen to trolling for k commercial saliy dur- ing the usual closed period from 6 a.m., Sept. 20 to 6 p.m., Oct. 15 The agency reported that an agreement has been worked out with all fish buyers and commercial Tish- ermen to abide by the provisions of the opening of this additional fish- ing period. No cohoes or any other type of fish, exceot kings, may be caught and these must be taken by trolling imethods only. A violation of the agreement, Thompson declared, will result in a complete withdrawal of the opening order. He said that if anyone is discovered not living un to the pro- visions set down, all fishermen will suffer because he will be forced to yone. St LIGTEN Faculty Reception Gold Room, Tonight The Retarians and Rotary Ann will honer the ‘faculty of the Ju- neau Public Schools at an informal reception which will be bheld in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel tonight at 8 o'clock. During the evening slides will be sho by Edward Keithahn, Mr. Keithabn and Harold Foss are in general charge of the recption SCOTTISH RITE RITE REUNION OPENS Juneau Scottish Rite Bodies com- menced their four-day reunion this afternoon at the temvle. The work of conferring the degrees from the Fourth through the Thirty-second | will be in progress every evening for e balance of the week. There will be a dinner served for “LOO P’ _Tame pigeons, JUNEAU, ALASKA r from the sky in g P — Reproductions of prehis sir annual cleanuy at the hands of CHOSEN_joan E (above) of Wheeling was picked as Miss West Virginia in a beauty pageant held at Moundsville, step 8 o'clock th: secend deg - o DAVID CANTHLLION KONORED AT PARTY With threc largs candles on his cake, David Cantillion, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Cantillion, celebrat- ed his b! ay this afternoon. A small party was held at the home of Mrs. Kenncth Junge on Eleventh Street, with Mrs. Cantillion frionds attending the party were Suzanne Gunst, Susan Cooley, Trygve Hermann and Car- cl Ann Cunningt ent were Mrs. Edwin Gunst, Mrs. Rex Hermann, Mrs. Altert Cooley and Mrs. Fred Cunningham. e ———— Night fliers frequently take Vi- tamin A-rich diets for improved visicn, . tember m. Mothers pres-| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1947 il’ .ng girl scrubbers. JUNEAL CHAMBER HOST TOMORROW 10 SEHATE (OM,, 1. 5. H. OFFICERS Chamber of Com- old their weekly lunch- Room of the Bar- 2 1 tomorrow noon. Guests of at the luncheon will be members of the Senate Lands Com- ee and Captain and command- of the U. S. 8. Buck. e meeting a veport will ng given be by Norman Banfield on his disc on with Capt. Williams of the CPA last evening, - e B U iz !n E ]’ I N S WASHINGTON The Interstate Commerce Commission today ruled an immediate freight rate for railroads by an an- that shippers opposed to will be heard before action will be taken. The TUnited n announced to- a 12-noint program to in- coal production. It es the American government an equal voiee with the British in run- ning ¢he Ruhr min LONDON — The British Foreign Office announces the Allied peace treaties with the five former Axis satellite States would be ratified formally in Paris and Moscow Sep- —The Greek Parliament an overwhelming vote of e to the new co on gov- ernment headed by Liberal “Party r Themistokles Sophoulis. T voie w 279 to 2. NEVERS yawned b ed th to f nee—Jean Jolineau today when inform- wife had given birth plets. He already was ihe of one set of triplets, two sets and seven other children. s 17 in all. E—The name of the Arch- 0p of, New York, Prancis Cardi- nal Spellman, cropped up in an ac- ,ccunt by an Italian news agency to- The agency said that Pope Pius is expected to nominate Cardi- nal Spellman shertly as Vatican Secretary of tate. "WASHINGTON — The General Accounting Office in Washington aid today that it has uncovered | nine new cases of fraud in the set- {tlement of terminated war con- | tracts. These cases are in addition t}: 79 listed earlier by the office. AUGMENTED (PR ALASKA SERVICE PLANS ARE TOLD |Capt. Williams Says Prin- cess Kathleen fo Come on Run ir 1949 | | Scutheast Alaska will have a new janc enlarged Canadian Pacific steamshiv service beginning in the spring of 1949, with the transfer o the Alaska run of the Princess ) Kathieen, 300-passenger vessel now on the triangle run betw2en Seat- tle, Vancouver and Victoria. The announcement was made by Capt. O, J. Williams, Manager of the B. C. Coast Service, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, at = meeting held in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel last evening and attended by representative Juneau businessmen. The Princess Kathleen will be ve- leased for Skagway and Yukon serv- ice following the arrival of two | 6,000-ton turbo-electric vessels at | present under construction in Eng- | land. This will mean a great deal to the | residents of Alaska and the Yukon, ifl ted Cant. Williams, as the Prin- cess Kathleen has space for 36 o | 40 automobiles as well as her 300 deluxe and first class bassenger ac- commodations. |+ Plans call for the acceptance of reservations for both north and southbound sailings of the Princess Kathleen in 1949 during next year Automobiles are to be carried be- low on the automiobile deck, and will be driven on board, using dock elevators which will be available at beth Skagway and Vancouver. ‘The problem posed last night was that of providing elevator facilities to handle loading and unloading of cars at Juneau and intermediate ports. The people of Alaska have lonz requested additional service, Capt Williams said, and now that Can- adian Pacific has made definite plans for such service on a sched- uled basis, it is un to the residents to provide the necessray landing facilities. The new service wil be operated with the utmost care for the com- fort and pleasurs of the iraveling public, stated Cant. Williams, an ad- vantage to which Canadian Pacific customers have become accustomed and have grown to anticipate. A discussion of the docking situa- tion in Juncau was launched aften Capt. Williams' talk, and possible solutions advanced to make pro- vision for the handling of auto- mobiles, either on an elevator or a special barge or foat. The Princess Norah and Princess Louise will continue on the Alaska run as thev are at present, with the Kathleen as an additional service. FE WO P Y FIREMEN SEARCH RUINS OF VESSEL BLASTDESTROYED PITTSBURGH, Sept. 10—#— Firtemen today resumed a grim search among , the blackened em- Lers of the once proud steamer “Island Queczn" for victims of th2 explosion-fire whose toll of dead and missing is counted at 21. Thirteen of the 17 persons in- jured in the blast which rockad Pittsburgh’s “Golden Triangle” yesterday werz still under treat- ment in hospitals. Efforts to recover the bodies were tempered with caution as the charred hulk of the five-deck steamer sank deeper intc the muddied waters of her Mononga- hela River berth. | Once, firemen were crdered from the boat because the hull was shifting and threatzned to break sideways as it slipped into deeper water. Only the top deck was still visible and it was belived that many of the victims wounld remain |locked in the river's bottom. | Firemen expressed belief the hull would have to be raised be- fore all the bodies could ke recov- ered. River Patrolman Louis Morgan announced he would drag the river today for bodies, while couniy officials and the Coast |Guard start investigations. | Federal Employees Banquet on Sept. 17 The banquet in honor of 30th anniversary of the National Fed- (eraticn of Faderal Employees will |be held a week from today, Wed- nesday, September 17, at the €Salmon Creek Country Club. Forms are being circulated in the offices today in order to arrange for res- crvations. All Federal employees and their friends are invited to at- tend the banquet, regardless of whether they are members or not. e, WASHINGTON — Army Chief of Staff General Dwight ‘Eisenhower has voiced hope that no Americans will be attracted into spending their hard-earned dollars running him for President. That was one of his comments today when he was asked about the formation of organizations to draft him for the Présidentia .'mce. rd P o P>