The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 7, 1947, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE T”H.‘” VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,701 WMBP R ASSOCIATE l) PRLbS PRICE TEN CENTS NATION’S FOOD SAVING PROGAM STARTS NLRB RULES | London Beauty Queen AFFIDAVITS == NOT NEEDED ' Denham Will Abide by 4-1 Decision on Non-Com- | munist Pledges } WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 —‘B—Tho’ National Labor Relations Board | ruled today that the Taft-Hartley | law does not require non-Commun- | ist affidavits from AFL and CIlO| op officers. Robert Denham, NLRB\ counsel, who had taken a contrary view, said he would abide by the soard’s decision. | Denham'’s stand removed the pus-‘ sibility of conflict between him and | the board in administration of the | law. This possibility had appeared | because the law gives Denham, | rather than the board, the final| rd as to what charges of unfair (Continued on Page Five) e The Washingtonf ; Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON [ Judges and children agree as Miss Jean Hodges passes in review during the civic week contest at which she was selected Queen of London’s Holdborn section. (# Wirephoto. WASHINGTON — When popular | French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault came to Washington last|— s Alaska Marfara Sealsking Sell for $123 Each; Highest much-loved Jimmie retired as Sec- retary of State. Their meeting re- called to. Bidault a conversation'he had with Byrnes about a year be- fore in Paris. Apropos of loans to France, Byrnes had complained: “Mr. Minister, the trouble with France is that Frenchmen won't I a| I|1 ds ears Bidault challenged this statement and Byrnes went on to explain: “Lock at your barbershopfi i ST. LOUIS, Oct. T--P— Large| They're not open all day Monday.” ‘M%kn Martara sealskins brought “Mr. Secretary,” replied the |$123 each Monday, highest price in French Foreign Minister, “we ‘?7 years, at the opening of the Frenchmen like ‘to be clean-shaven | | semi- Amuml auction at the Fouke at least one day a week, and fnl\ | Fur Company. A i that reason our barbershops stay | A fur company official said the| open all day Sunday. That is why Lf\ prices for large sealskins you couldn't get a shave on Mon- I"'w‘-” y resulted from longer coat pe The price last April was| £ skin Note — In 1937 Byrnes went to were 25440 Alaska® gseal] Europe as a delegate to the Inter- skins on sale Parliamentary Union. Stopping in L S5 ; Alaska Gmde“Says Wolves‘ and Coyofes Threat fo Other Game SEATTLE, Oct. 7.—(#—The plo- tection afforded by Alaska reserves { has increased the number of preda~v tory animals to the detriment nf‘ fur and game animals, Hobart M.| Wiseman, Alaska hunter and L,u'de‘ for 10 years, said today. “Packs of wolves and coyotes fol- low the game into the reserves andw there the predators are pmtected‘ as well as the game animals,” he ! stated. “Besides that, there are not | funds available to hire a large| (number of expert hunters to wage| France enroute he was impressed with the fact that the French clos- | ed their stores and offices at 11:30 a.m. Saturday and didn't open them | again until Tuesday. In Germany, on the other hand, everyone was working hard, with large placards | proclaiming “Joy in Work.” Byrnes went back and reported to FDR that in the eventual European war, France would be defeated. A “When I come back to this earth in a reincarhation,” says Jimmie Byrnes, “I would like to be a Par- isian. They are such delightful pecple.” But he also thinks no people can recover from war with- out working a full week. DEFEAT RUSS - ON FREEDOM OF PRESS Heated Wrangle in U. N. Committee Over Soviet Demands for Control VANISHING GOVERNMENT SERVANTS b 1 n ) Credit conscientious Kex\nt’lh‘“d\:v on. the predalors. | LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. T—®— g é iseman, who has specialized in The Soviet Union was decisively! , Secretary of the Army, for| ) sively Ropall, Se v y studying and hunting the Kod mki(l feated today in the first votes) hammering at one of the worst] weaknesses of Government today— the need of all-round, able man- bear and wolverine, spoke highly of {taken in a United Nations Assem- | the latter as a fighter. !bly committee on the Russian cam- “The wolverine is underrated,”|paign to “expose fascism and war- power. h e s 5 g | he declared. average ver- | mongers T afforts e Ever since the war ended, it has| g e ‘The _averag, wolver ‘o‘: i through offerts of the| been - increasingly difiaiilt for the ine weighs only 45 or 50 pounds,|worid press. s d yet he is one of the most vicious,| The votes, seven in all, came Government to draft good men for important positions. During the war, men from' every walk of life volunteered to come to Washington, but now—though in some respects the emergency is almost as serious —Government agencies literally | have to get- down on their knees and beg qualified executives to cunning and destructive of all Al- in the Assembly's Social Committee | aska animals. He can break a two-|at the end of a two-day procedural by-four in two bites and turn a | Wwrangle. It became so heatsd that! 1,500-pound bear.” |the committee changed its chair- | Wiseman, a former resident of man, Dr. Oscar Lange Poland | Sedro Wooley, Wash, picked up his| The Russians ti lost in this interest in Alaska wildlife in 1936 committee fight their demand that| when, with his wile and three|the Assembly instruct the rz;m-.- 5 | children, he went to Afognak Is {coming world conference on free- e B b ¢ /1and to teach Indian school. The Is- dom of information and of the| Norl:;ac:lgoli::; lal:! wg::;e Sb:cart:ta:)y |1and had been closed to hunting for |Press to commit the world press 40 years, he said. ito a campaign against “fascism” Royall pointed’ to this difficulty, Pour yeate labar ‘thas Tiibed iy and “war-mongers.” and urged not only businessmen,| i The Russians have been defeat- Kodiak and then to Cordova where | lab d far ¥ ve | sue ::::t uto:ha:i]r t:x::ltloe.t‘;e;s(;gvf:x‘:‘b”“‘ he and Mrs. Wiseman taugm"‘d on this issue before in the U. N. in the Indian school and he headed | ment | the Boy Scouts of e o : 5 { formation and of the Press. n the opinion of Wash on ob- e v servers, Rl;yall put his ;:gntger on‘ Back in the states for the last| de’?eh‘ew(\;r:)’i‘ :mvl:tl’ r;;m:t:‘j(e’: ‘;:: one of the most important factors ) Wiseman wants to return to},," o) and seven abstentions. in Government. No organization is ska next spring if he can find, 1t first voted on by sections. any better than the men in it someone interested in making au- wae e il By }7 ) thentic motion pictures of wild life. | He also wants to collect zoo speci- TRUMANESQUE SIMPLICITY MARRIED YESTERDAY Historians will never describe | 15 | Harry Truman as having the great b5 el | ‘Hans J. Gunderson and Dora ! radio appeal of his predecessor in FROM ANCHORAGE | Jchns, both of Juneau, were mar- the White House. But sometimes e |ried yesterday by U. S. Commis- The Rev. A. O. Ogegaard and | sicner Felix Gray. Both gave their when the President speaks im- Alan Brandes are registered at the |ages as legal. Jack Loser and Eli- Baranof. ) zabeth Wood ‘were witnesses. (Continued on Page Fous) |sub-commission on Freedom of In-‘ PLAN EFFORT 10 PREVENT - MEATFAMINE jAgricuHuré D’ept. to Call| for More Hogs in Gam- ble on Gram Supply | { WASHINGTON Oct. T.—M—| The agriculture Department is| | working on ways to keep the pres-| |ent grain emergency from creating| |a “meat famine” late next year and lin 1949 { | The plan as tentatively drawn| jcalls upon farmers to produce largs| |numbers of pigs next year on Lhe; | gamble that bounteous crops willf |relieve the feed grain shortage. | | The Department is concarned lover the possibility that the gove ernment’s food conservation pros; {gram, coupled with diminishing| cupplies and high prices of grain,' may lead farmers to make a sharpi | reduction next y in the produc-| tion of meat animals, particularly| . {EIORA, | 7The first day of school caused Eleanor Frey, a teacher of a Leonard, | At best, cfficials say, meal Pro- . yem for, left to right, Cayton, Cl [duction next year will be down Bl Gy voirold quadruplets are the chidren of Mr. and Mrs. ‘1:‘”:10 | Deneen ii"?mf‘"pfi:::l’ afrm and have five other brothers and sisters. # Photo. !given a continued high consumer | demand, there would be acute| LW. Baker General Manaqer ARSI A R }ATIlEE MAKES 0f Alaska Steamship Co., Has SWITCHES IN Resigned; With Firm 26 Years lABoR GovT SEATTLE, Oct. 7—#—Taking Seattle maritime circles completely by surprise, L. W. Baker, vice- president and general manager of ‘Shinwell Reportedly Giv- |Rlaska Steampship. Company, an- | nounced his resignation yesterday en Waf Mlms"y_fiafl_ WIll MIIN IN Baker, long a leading - figure in i Seattle-Alaska shipping, has been Ske" Moved Up v associated with the company for 48 ELECTION " He said he was ‘reluctant to TONDRNL o0, e Tt sever a relationship of such long R sesbseeriiors Y ship Company,” but that “as a T ruel minsster mmanve Shinwell. House Speaker Not Talk- tu e heavy responsiviiies s AL of ithe Tabok) FEEW, : and strain of duties, particularly trom his Cabinet in « targe seaic | ng, However, About |Gl tie war ana postwar pe jgovernmental shakeup. . jod,” he feels he must have | sninwell wi become war - Pres, Candidae % long and_ extended vacation be- B Job which geee et dacy Lty forc resuming any active business | Cabinet rank and_puts nim unde | LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7—— No announcement of a successor the immediate supervision of the goe.io joseph W. Martin (R- for the important post was made | Defense Minister, the Star said. = lnraeq) of the House of Represen- yesterday. but G. W. Skinner, own | " Attlee saw King George VI this| ool 0 0 P G Repub- ers of the ship lines, said one morning, apparently to go through jiane wili win in 1948 by a sur- probably would be mad: this week with the formality of receiving the |yrgnuic heavy majority.” o oo Py Sovereign’s assent to changes in the “ g i 2t o press conference here at the decision, but added that the Cabinet Ihe shed little li the company “for which Mr. Baker “The transfer of Mr. Shinwell is |Repurlican P! candidate has worked so long and bard can likely to be regarded as a triumpb will be. well appreciate his need for a for the moderate elements in the Martin declared he is not back- rest.” ! Cabinet,” said the Star, a Liberal ing any candidate for Presidential Baker Jointed Alaska Steam 26 newspaper. nomination, nor is he him B3 s aco this month, serving in Shinwell had Left Wing support candidate. various official capacities Lefore in Labor ranks and from Arthu Answering a query, Martin said beceminz general mana in Sep- Hcerner, Communist General Secre- jhe thought Gen. Eisenhower “is a femb 1939. He became vice-presi- tary of the Mineworkers Union, good man” but said h: had no. dent and gener 1 manager in Aug- | who called in a recent speech for |found any organized drive in Eis- ust, 1944 Attlee to leave Shinwell in the po- |enhower’s behalf. He Legan his steamship career I sition of Fuel Minister. He has been —_— _— with the old Pacific Alaska Nav- a storm center of the Cabinet, par- igation Company, the original Ad- ticularly during recurring crises in miral Line, in December, 1914; | Britain’s nationalized coal mines. starting as a stenographer for C.E Secrecy was maintained muund Flye, ger 1 freight and passenger | the long rumored changes in port- agent for the line in Seattle - VL folios and no official confirmation of the Star’s report could be ob- | tained immediately. The conservative Evening News | said Shinwell’s dismissal from the Cabinet was “a near certainty.” [The Star's political correspondent | also suggested that Shinwell's de- T0 FOLLOW HEAT WAVE RAILROADS GIVEN 10 PER CENT RAISE | puty in the Fuel Ministry, youthful By The Associated Press Hugh Gaitskell, might be moved— Octob, midsummer tempe T either into Shinwell's position Orltures over parts of the midwe: WASHINGTON, Oct. T.—#—The | some higher job. |were on the way out today, the!Dhation’s railrcads today got a new The Star described Gaitskell as!\weather burcau said, in forecasting |general 10 percent increase in “one of the successes among junior ‘g cool wave on its way from west- freight rates | ministers.” lern Canada 4 The Interstate Commerce Com- j - - Mild temperatures, however, con-| Mission, which granted the author- SIO(K ouo'l'A'I'lous ‘unuvd over the southern and east- itY specified exceptions to the ten percent increase in the case of coal, lern sections of the country. Temp- NEW YORK,' Oct. 7. — Closing|aratures dropped from the north|C¢oke and iron ore, on which boosts | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine'paciic coast across the northern ©f 10 to 11 cents per ton were |stock today is 4%, American Can pockies and in portions of the Da-|Branted ;87‘ Anaconda 35%, Curtiss-Wright |gotas and upper Mississippi Valley.| The higher rates may be made 5%, International Harvester 89%,| The Mercury climbed to a hot €ffective upon three days notice to ‘Kennecnu 45%, New York Centrallgs’ in Des Moines, Ia. Omana, the general public by each rail- |1414, Northern Pacific 21%, U S.|Neb, Phillipsburg, Kans road | Steel 727, Pound $4.03%. {Tulsa, Okla., Monday as the warm e | Sales today were 800,000 shares.|weather of last weekend continued INTENTION TO WED | Averages today are as follows: In Williston, N. D, however, yes- Gordon D. MacDonald and An- | industrials 180.02, rails 4895, utili- terday’s high was 47. The cooler neite Mae Shanks applied to U. S |ties 35.38. |weather was expected to spread Commissicner Felix G yesterday — > |over the northern sections of the for a marriage license. Both gave Carl F. Ohlson of Wrangell is north central states today and over Juneau as their residenee and their staying at the Baranof. the entire region tomorrow ages were listed as legal. Three Boys of Quads Pose Identity Problem re and Cleo Brown when they arrived with their sister Connie. The Nick Brewn, operators of a nearby 600-acre | IN FREIGHT RATES CAMPAIGN - UNDERWAY IN NATION One Hundred Percent Ob- servance s Expecled i When Plans Made PRESIDENT SETS PACE, "MEATLESS" TUESDAY Eqggless, Po;It-rerss Thurs- day Is Next-Industry Getting in Line WASHINGTON Oct. 7—(®—"Des- sertless” and “butterless” days have | been suggested to the Truman food | ccmmittee but the idea has been | shelved for the time being. Today | was meatless day, but is not gener- ally being observed because of too i short a notice. Althcugh offers of voluntary co- | operation in the drive to save an . | extra 100,000,000 bushels of grain | for Europe poured into the White | House, responsible officials said the ru:l real test of the program 8 “Eats” For Truman | yet to come. They sald the campaign still is too new to expect 100 percent pub- lic observance. The full effective- ‘ne\l\ of the drive can be gauged 'm\ly after every American has been [ *A R The President set the standard Thursday Noon [s Set for | which he expects the nation to fol- 3 low when the White House sched- | Walkout-Other Strikes uied cheese soutfle for lunch and 4 P | broiled salmon steak for dinner to- | Are Indicated day. (By The Associated Press) The West Coast of British Col- |1mprcssed with the importance of For eggiess and poultryless Thurs- umbia is threatened with a major| N. D., school to consider a number I'his efforts, officials said. day, the President will- have a luncheon of peppers stuffed with rice and mushrooms. The dinner will feature baked ham. tieup of its ground and water Y : . % n’nn‘spurlallun T The Malge ' in- |, D60 TRUEARA: Sonial Siiack: o ’kllll'(‘l’.\ Union has set Thursc h:gh PHOEE bore ity fiyst real fruits noon for its walkout from 36 Yhen the Kansas Oity, Chicago and coastwise vessels, and the Street MH\HL‘B‘DO“S fréin BXChYflHBES bsparnt Railwaymen's' Union will vote to-| ¢4 theil margin requirements on Immm\ on possible strike action.|STain future deals to a full one- | In addition, CIO packing house ‘hird | workers are strengthening their| The action was complete surren- threz-week old Dominion-wide | 4€f by the exchanges which pre- strike. They have announced plans vicusly had insisted that it was suf- ) picket independent meat plants, ficlent to raise margins only as ailroads, highways and some butch- | Brain prices went up. It came in r shops | the face of a direct threat by the President to clamp severe restric- Shipping officials say the threat- tions on grain trading if the ex- 'ned marine engineers strike will changes did not comply. The seven cut off all major transportation other major grain markets were to Vancouver Island and west coast | expected to follow suit soon. |t ports, including Alaska and Se- r attle | GRAIN MARGINS HIKED The threat of a street car and ous tie up extends from Van-/ WASHINGTON, Oct. 7—#—A couver to New Westminster and hike in margins on the nation’s big Victoria. grain exchanges at the insistence - e of the government today ushered in the first of President Truman’s n “meatless Tuesdays” to save food | ior Europe. The markets at Chicago, Kansas | City and Minneapolis doubled the | cash down payment on deals for | future delivery, as demanded by r - Tuesday | the President to curb what he call- ob d ed “gamblers in grain.” As the President's “waste less"” feed program moved out of the planning stage and into operation \White House Falls Right in Line —* Here's Menu | Dished Out Today there were these developments: 1.—The National Restaurant As- sociation pledged its members to serve no meat on Tuesdays and no poultry or eggs on Thursdays. 2.—Representatives of the distill- ing industry gathered for a meeting | here tomorrow to discuss the Presi- By The Associated Press |dent’s request for a 60-day shut- The nation observed its nm‘down “meatless Tuesday” today but wide compliance with President Tru-| FUnR 1. Moal Faniens man’s conservation request by res- 3.—Tha Agrlcu]!urfl] DeD“r"men!' taurants and hotels was not ex- | S¢€king to head off a “meat fa- pected before next Tuesday |mine” a year from now, talked of Many hotel and restaurant offi-| 25King farmers to plan for maxi- \cials explained that their menus) MUm hog production and gamble |that big crops next season will re- lieve the feed grain shortage. 4.—The United Nations food and agriculture organization predicted that more people will die of hun- ger next year than were killed in The White House went on the any year of the war, and that pre- ‘meatless Tuesday” menu with Sent shortages will continue beyond cheese souffle for the President’s|the 1948 harvests. luncheon and broiled salmon steak| 5-—The Agriculture Department for dinner. | disclosed it stepped up wheat pur- chases for export to 23,963,674 bush- is stop-|els last week compared with 9,089,- 880 bushels the week before. |were made up and their meat or- |ders placed with wholesalers too far ahead for full compliance to- day with the President's meat- less Tuesday request which was not made until last Sunday night - Mary Pullen of Skagway, ping at the Baranot i