The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 24, 1947, Page 1

| | THE DAILY ALASKA EMI’IRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = VOL. LXVI., NO. 10,690 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS TAFT HECKLED DEFENDING ABO| LA Truman Calls For General Food Discussion HIGH COST OF LIVING TAKEN UP { President S]Jm'hons (abi- net, Congressmen fo Discuss Crisis WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—(P— Prosident Truman summoned his! cakinet into special session to-! day and invited Congressional lead-| ers to the White House Monday to| Vdiscuss the general food situation at home and abroad An official told a cabinet discussion “general food situation,” reporter the involves the effect this may have on high cost of living in the UmL(-d States. The White House later formally ! announced the meeting, but did not elaborate on its purpose. Eben “Ayers, assistant press name them. However, it was learn- ed that Senators Taft, Vandenberg; (R-Mich), Bridges (R-NH), chair- man of the Senate Appropriations) (D-| committee; Senator Connally Texas) and House Speaker Joseph Martin (R-Mass) were among those who received invitations. The office of Senator Barkley (Ky), Democratic leader, was also tacted, but Barkley is in rope. con- Eu- The new attempts to cope with! ‘the high cost of living came as most grain and livestock prices declined at the major markets, and wholesale butter and e m ces continued to drift lower. NATIVE OF KODIAK DIES AT SAN DIEGO! SEATTLE, Sept. 24. — (#—John Roland Nelson, 48, a native of Ko- diak, Alaska ,and former resident of Seattle will be buried Saturday at Seattle's Evergreen Cemetery. He died last Friday in San Diego. Survivors include two brothers, | Oscar and Alfred Nelson, both of Kodiak. ‘The Washmgton Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON 4 By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON— A ted hot battle is being staged behind the! scenes between the State and the ¥Ireasury Departments on hand and the Export-Import Bank over loans to Europe. While the State and Treasury Departments have been scraping the bottom of the appropriations barrel looking for a few million ere and there to stop revolution %in Eurcpe, William McChesney Martin,” head of the Export-Im- port Bank, has been sitting on 0,000,000 already appropriated by Congress. However, rope a bad financial risk, says that if Congress wants .to give money away it should say so. As the heat got hot on the Ex- port-Import Bank last week, “Presi- ,dent Martin quietly left on *“an “extended tour ‘of Europe.” Presi- dent Truman may order him back to face the music. WARMY-NAVY STILL JEALOUS Now that he is boss of all the land, sea, and air forces, Defense; Secretary James Forrestal already is showing favoritism for his old! friends in the Navy. Forrestal is keeping only his Naval and Marine aides—Capt. Charles Buchanan, USN, and Capt. Edward Elder, USMC. The Ar- /my and Air Corps will not be rep-} resented. # Forrestal's public relations post has also been assigned to a Navy man, Capt. Robert Berry, who, himself, thinks the job should go S b "(Continued on Page Four) the | presum- ably including European relief and | the secretary, ; said members of both political par-! ties have been invited but did not| the| ~ Proposes New Design for American Flag ' which G. David Bollinger (above) of Washington, D. C., the designer believes | incorporates the spirit of the Latin metto, “E Pluribus Ur:um,” possibly had for its motivation the possible admission of the Territory of Hawaii as the 49th State, an event that would necessitate a change in the country’s flag. Bellinger's sketch suggests the 49 stars be combined so they form one huge star, as- suming, of ceurse, Hawaii becomes a State, which seems likely. (International Snundph»lu) Davis Named YUGOSlAVS GET NOTE A new design for Old Glory, PRINTERS - HAVEFIGHT To New Job WITHNLRB In Int. Dept. No-Contract Policy Chal- Becomes Direcor of Terri- lenged-Camplaint Fil- tories and Insular Told fo Siop Exceedmgly Dangerous’* Practice in Trieste Area FROM U. 5. Talt Passes Pickels U. N. VICTORY OVER RUSSIA SUPPORTS U.S. ‘Sovieis Block;d in Leader- | ship Contest by Series | of Test Votes [ p— LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 24 Battered and beaten by which no veto could 5= sia found herself today in a weak | minority position in her contest | with the United States for leader- Iship in the United Nations Assem- ;bl_\ i A series of | produced that ing majorities a majority R block, Assembly test votes result. Overwhelm- crushed Soviet op- i !position and placed firmly on the! | Assembly’s agenda for this session' |tha American-sponsored issues of Greece, Korea and a new veto-fres | Security agency. { Similarly, on an Argentine pro-' \posal supported by the United States for revision of the Italian! péace treaty, the Assembly voted: & to put the question on the agenda i |for future full concideration de-| pite .the fact that Russia ob-} jected and Britain and France took a hands-off attitnde Diplomatic autnorites said the meaning of the votes was highly important for the rest of this; Senmator Taft (R.-Ohie) (secohd’ffom right), co-author of the Tafi- session. They predicted that Rus-| Hartley labor law, passes pickets and their as he walks into & sia would gain little support for| meeting of the California State Bar Association at Sa nta Cruz, Calif., {her resolution to condemn ‘“”“""| where, in a speech, he asserted “the people do not propose to let “warmongering” in _the United| ion jeaders run the government of the United States.” Just ahead United States| 445 its program | of Taft is Senater James | ponent of the Taft-Hartley bill. States, but that the over easily (with briefca not unid Murray (D.-Ment.) Others are would put for action by the Asszmbly in the. face of Russian protests 1 | The political u)mmmm- of lhu T 1 As v agreed o to give top priority to the que ostion of admitting new mem-| a Ion s a“ s re s e bers —including ex-enemies—to the | United Nations. The issue has| brought widespread criticism of the! To Put Brakes on Credit; SENATOR IS BOOED; HAND 1S CRUSHED Snarling Demonstration at Seattle-Calls for Tax 4 Reduction i PR | By JACK BELL SEATTLE, Sept. 24.—(®—A snarl- ing, heckling demonstration, blamed by a GOP leader on “Communists,” prompted Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) to predict today that such protest methods would “help the Republi- cans win the next electior.” Tgnoring those of his listeners who booed lustily his defense of the Taft-Hartley Labor Act, the Ohio Senator called today for a reduction in taxes to help cut the hight cost of Tiving. Keeping a banaaged left hand care- fully at his side, Taft returned to a ion of major political issues after an unruly meeting last night in which the small minority of an audience overflowing a 2,100-seat auditorium noisily walked out dur- ing the Senator's denunciation of labor leaders who have criticized the new law. As the departing hecklers shout- ed: “We've had enough,” Taft, his frace grim, loudly: “The whole propaganda against the Taft-Harley Act relies on at- tempts to silence the arguments in favor of that act.” Booing Drowned Out The audience, preponderantly Re- publican, drowned in resounding cheers the booing and the cat-calls of those who were departing. Taft defended the labor law as a bill of rights to “protect individual employees, both union and non-un- ion members.” Although conceding that it has provisions to hobble “arbitrary” lab- or leaders, the Ohio Republican de- one| Martin considers Eu-} | ed-Hearing Slated Possessions VVAbH”V(:T()N bepf 24, — Secretary of Interior J. A. Kxug an- nounced today appointment of James P. Davis as Director of the interior Department’s Division of Territories and Insular Possessions. He succeeds Edwin G. Arnold. re- cently appointed Special Assistant to Krug on international matters. Davis has for many vears been with various Federal agencies, :n- cluding the Foerign Service, the Na- tional Recovery Administation and the OPA. He was an OPA price executive and a consultant on price and rationing controls in Canada, WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (P— ‘Robert N. Denham, General Counsel fof the National Labor Relations i Board, today challenged the no- | contract policy of the AFL Typo- {graphical Unicn as an unfair labor | practice under the Taft-Hartley Act A complaint by Denham against the International Union and Balti- { more Local No. 12 will be heard by a leglonal examiner in Baltimore 1 uacob L. Edelman, attorney rep- (resenting the Baltimore Local, lprcrmsed to battle the complamL v“cvely inch of the way.” | Denham accused the ITU and its |afl'i|mte of refusing “to bargain ! collectively in good faith” with 22 Baltimore printing firms organized as the Graphic Arts League. | The Taft-Hartley Act, for the first hme makes unions legally liable for unfair practices and defines refusal {to bargain as such a practice. In order to get around a provision {of the Taft-Hartley Act which bans i closed shops, the typographers have adopted a policy of posting in a place of employment the conditions junder which members will work. 1 The conditions may include a state- ment that they will work only with | printers who are ITU members. No contract is signed by the employer. { The Baltimore Local followed this ipolicy. The Graphic Arts League ! contended it constituted a refusal to bargain and 10 days ago asked | Denham to step in. | | siotk QUOTATIONS | { NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—(P—Clos- {ing quotation of Alaska Juneau | \mine stock today ‘s 4%, American | {Ccan 83, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-W.| Cuba, Bolivia, Chile and other South | American countries. He also was OPA Regional Ad- ministrator for the Territories and ' Possessions and later for the Atlanta region of eight southeastern States. His foreign service assignments include Marseille, Bangkok and Shanghai. ie is a graduate of Mercer Uni- versity, Macon, Ga. Davis will be sworn in as director at ceremonies in Krug's office to- | morrow noon. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Freighter Nortiern Voyager port. Square Sinnet scheduled to leave Seattle Thursday. Clove Hitch scheduled from Seattle Friday. in to sail Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. { Princess Louise scheduled to' sail from Vancouver 9 p. m. Sat- urday. Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle September 30. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 The United States government has called upon Yugoslavia to stop the “exceedingly dangerous” (dfacticp | of issuing ultimatums to British and | | American troops in the Trieste area because it is “likely | incidents leading to consequences.” Under Secre:ary of State Robert | Lovett told a news conference today that American Ambassador Caven- dish Cannon had expressed this view in a protest presented in Belgrade | on Monday. The American note referred to re- }cenl “irrespensible Yugoslav ac- tions” when Marshal Tito’s troops demanded “alterations” in the pro- visional boundary between the Brit- ish-United States zone of the Irce territory of Trieste and Yugoslavm Lovett said the United States be- | | lieves that such local disputes “must be resolved thruugh normal civilized r procedures.” e WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning In Juneau—Maximum, 58; minmum, 48 At Airport—Maximum, 55; minimum, 47. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday, with some light j® rain by Thursday afternoon. tem- 1® Not much change in e perature. »—| to precipitate | most serious | $000ccscsvccsccace ‘F-frr‘unt,v Council from the smalli |clared the bill does not prohibit and {nedlu'm nations. i .labor’s right to strike. Preferential treatment for the! Can Change Law In event “some provisions will not properly apply to particular situa- tions or particular industries,” Taft said a Congressional committee, controversial membership question was assured when the 5-nation! | committee at its initial meeting| {adopted a reshuffled agenda which, Postwar Inflation Is Here lalco lifted near the top of the| | WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. — (P— ready set up, “will invitel abor and Ilist some of the hottest issues be-' HOME DEFE“SE Comptroller of the Currency Preston management fo propose amend- fore the Assembly. | Delano said today “We are in the pents + ¢ or change provisions The admission of new members’ full swing of a postwar inflation which do not seem.to be working had been second on the provis- (oMMA"DER Is which is sev and dangerous” and g4 gs intended.” appealed to the nation’s banks to “ow pROPOSED help put on the brakes, | As supervisor of the national banking system, Delano urged State | banking commissioners to discourage “dangerous credit practices” by the 19,500 institutions which they over- He denied the new law is “slave 'labor” legislation, saying: “I do not believe that we can main- tain the system of free competition unless there is a right to strike when an agreement cannot be reach- ed. A prohibition of that right " He added: would lead to a completely regi- | We can use our influence and'pyented economy.” all our persuasive powers to prevent No Strike Ban undue expansion of credit in Taft asserted that a ban on the fields which contribute heav- | giyike would require the creation of a continuation of this visional agenda transmitted by the Assembly to the committee. Other ! questions given special priority in-: cluded a United States proposal; |for creation of a special interim’ B o i v o Secrefary of Defense For- ‘gandlsts. the Korean question and: resial Says Plan Be_ j ing Scruhmzed ‘the Itanan peflce lrealy DRY WEATHER IS an those ily toward | 1,, International Harvester 85, rive from Skagway at 5:30 Friday'e PREC!PITATION 'Kennecun 44';, New York Central morning, and sails south at 8!e (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) @ 1147, Northern Pacific 20%, U. S. ‘a m. g In Juneau — 01 inch; e [S',eel 69%, Pound $4.03'% | Aleutian scheduled southbound e since Sept. 1, 14.04 inches; o Sales today were ’»70000 shares. |from west next Sunday. lo since July 1, 27.26 inches. Averages today are as follows: In- | - -~ . At Airport trace; since e 176.37; rails, 47.94; utili-‘ WYLLER RETURNS |® Sept 1, 9 inches; since July e i Chris Wyller, Acting District En- (o 1, 19 32 ‘nches. e gmeer for the Public Roads Ad-|e ! ministration, returned on the Aleu-/e © o o o ¢ ¢ o 0 o o o tian from Ketchikan, where he has - been on a routine inspection trip. FR()M ALBUQUERQUE iy M i i KETCHIKAN VISITOR | Ruth Bush and Viola Shrodt. of VINDICATOR IN PORT | M. S. Vindicator, Odom and Com- | pany freighter under Capt. Lowman, | was unloading a cargo of approxi—’ mately 100 tons of vaired supplies in | | Juneau this morning for the loml‘ }Odom warehouse. i staying at the Gastineau, ping at the Baranof, Larry Lindstrom ,of Ketchikan, is | Albuquerque. New Mexico, are stop- | By ELTON C. FAY i u a government board to fix wages, ‘ FORE(AST 'I'EXAS _ WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (P~ inflation siral in which We Al hours and other working conditions. ‘ The proposal that a single military | caught .n.xl which has woven its Web rppig n turn, he said, would lead |commander be made responsible around us." | one party or the other to delay pro- EGo“ GAME SAI. for defense of the continental Delano’s remarks were prepared'cequre in the hope that “he might \ IL’nitcd States is mnder study by for a convention of the National get better tmtment from a govern- ! W the new unified high command Association of Supervisors of State pnant poard.” { PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 24.—®P— ! o, - ense Forres | 7 firtie tEa ot St it [Edh 7| Secretary of Defense Forre tal Banks. : | Government fixing of wages would ¥ Y told a news conference that the| Thomas W. Leggett, President of | hring price-fixin biineay |weather at the Texas-Oregon foot- bring prieg 6 and finally “regu 8 plan, prope several months ago|the association, also called for a ¢ distribution.” ball game here Saturday, and th " i {lation of disteitikion.” s, SRACRed. Joidtsd €1as a part of the Armed Forces tightening of credit, asserting that | previously Taft had been injured | suspicion grew that the Pacific | nification program, still is be- the “wild speculator and the under- ’ hCoflst is about to be embarrassed ! in the confullon of & rail station hin ling scrutinized but that no dee!capitalized promoter” will be wiped | gemonstration that Wilbur Zundel, again. ¢ cision has been reached out “when supply and demand come | pregident of the Young Men's Re- | Odd-makers were spoting Texas | e new national defense actnearer together. which they are sure publican Club had said “could only e "I poinis, g‘-"s‘"“’- Oregon's !\ voe nmo specific provision for to do.” s el AN i O e s g‘r'eg“n“; fact that |such o command, but it leaves thel oo | (Continued on Page Two! | e on had marked | .y open in a 'section covering | : for revenge from a 71-7 walloping ‘, i t > i i {inflicted in 1941. {ihe Joint :‘;”"f":r‘" _"“;‘i (”“ ML ( OF ( TO EN“R'AI“ 6 d S( kh ; % e ! commanders of v, 00! oich Does j ', " i ,‘;’(‘d A“" S"'“’,‘,P‘(""“] VH ADM. lHSpE(IoRS, " ' H ( |Jap loriurer ghigells 0Ly Froti of Have fo (ome : iduties of the staff, that section SEE COLORED SLIDES 1Tossed from Window Isays, includes the establishment From Scotland | T % pnitied - BEMDMRds 10 SERTA- Juneau Chamber of Commerce igic areas w| such unified com- o Bv Former Victim B e terest of na.|Ab its regular Thursday noon meet-| ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Sept. 24. | | tional <ecurici{" ling in the Gold Room of the Bar-|-(#—-Good Scotch doesn’t have to | MANILA, Sept. 24.—P—A Japa-! p, w‘me m“"‘uy quarters, this is anof Hotel tomorrow will be host to [come from Scotland, the National ‘new war crimes defendant Was|interpreted to mean that the <o | Ernest Lincoln and the members of Alcoholic Beverage Control Associa- {thrown out of a courtroom Win-icajleq “zone of the interior the Veterans Administration inspec- |tion was told vesterday. The U. 8. dow today by an aged, white- ‘meamng the hnental . U iteq | ton party now in Juneau version of the whiskey, according to ‘hd,,ed Filipino who identified the giates could be conside a The party consists of Dow E.;Lwal’ Weiner, is just as good. defendant as the man who order-|g aiegic area reguiring an overall Walker, chairman. Mr. Hicklum, | Weiner, a Peoria, Ill, distiller, ed him tortured in 1944. ot | Robert Haag, Mr. Bassler and Miss |told the association’s convention Japanese Capt. Shizuo Nakano, = | Quivey that the vital grain, water and peat \otn-red no resistance when Teo- Norman Banfield will show color- |used in Scotland is being matched |dorico Sarossario, former mayor of CANADIAN GUESTS ed slides to the Chamber, depicting |locally or duplicated chemically to Dasmarinas, Cavite, rushed acrcss —— scenes at Atlin, B. C., the Ice Cap, | produce a whiskey at least as good. |the courtroom and attacked. Na-| Dr. and Mis, L. V. Mason and Alaska Highwa 1d the highway| Scottish distillers, Weiner said, kano survived his trip through family of Toronto, Ontario, are stay- |from Prince Rupert to Jasper and |have no secret formula that can P 8 P ing at the Baranof Hotel, Banfl surpass the U, 8. product, the window