The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 9, 1947, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” \ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE e s VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,703 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —— MARINE ENGINEERS STRIKE IS AVE ants Alaska To Be TWO ARRESTS, * FOR THEFT OFi J. A. PADWAY, TEEN AG Wit | REP. DAWSON | MAKES PLEASUDDENLY FOR DEFENSES TR1CKEN Recent Visitor Also Dis- General Counsel of AFL| cusses Changes for Dies Affer Violent Attack | | Statehood ‘ on Taft-Hartley Adt | 9_7\_,?;41' SAN FRANC_IQ. Oct. 9. o] t. A T O tany sald Today|Death of 56-year-old Joseph A. T e beolutely imperative” that|Fadway, General Counsel of the N i e |American Federation of Labor, spend more! G threw the AFL convention into| ska and money for defenses in Al4s ;stunncd grief today and delayed | make it “a real fortress.” | o A “If Russia should attack us it a prospective showdown over John would be through the northern|L: Lewis ""‘“-:lal to sign a non-| area,” Dawson told & reporter. I Communist oath. | think we should spend less money| Padway was fatally stricken mid-| ve in build-,Way in a long and violer ‘helphxlg fursla]t;l:n?ie;re‘g:es in the|on the Taft-Hartley act on the ;‘5—,“3‘; o 5 | convention platform yesterday. He‘ £ i !died less than eight hours later VS from hear- | Dawson, just back frol ot rnil |in Stanford Hospital, i S| anting state- Ingssin, Alaska:op. ETOFURe 1700 delegates and AFL leaders who | Territory, told a re- ho:flertoh;lledoes nov.) believe the had cheered his remarks without | E?ea is ready to become a state knowing he had sustained a stroke, from a financial standpoint. ‘on the speaker’s platform. ! The chunky attorney, inill-health added, however, he was more; I B ifor some time, also seemed unaware | in favor of statehood than before he visited the Territory with ai&fonthe H?“zl;:::r lLk‘ild Y:SOUC[OH;‘“;. House Public Lands Committee. | . secracke <0 “I haven't definitely made up clumsiness in twice knocking the my mind but Alaska should evem--mad“’ Tmmdw&k sneakerls sta}:lfid._‘ i ' Daw-,and stoppe ing only when i 3 ““,:‘Vs,?;’ Eiven Jate g |California Pederation President | Sixteen-year-old Doris CA:duson - = { insi vante | Olcott (above) said in Chancery w i eople want John Shelly insisted he wanted to ) 3 i e n;zi,"fi sfiu:;mufi LSe ques- |make an announcement. Padway| Court at Newark, N. J., that she o rwmeir financial ability w{mtruduced Shelley. | doesn't want to return to her 50- pon pt why wel Then the British-born labor| year-cd husband, George Olcott, support statehood they ask y i S 4 !lawyer slumped in a chair, (00K (hg had scught her release from don’t let them worry about that. “And, they may be right.” |several of his high-blood-pressure! . yainine school on a habeas PHOTOS iAIOM 'FBI Agenis]aii Two Form- er Army Photograph- ers at Los Alamos ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. Oct. 9. i—\P—Federal agents who have beer ‘prubmg thefts of confidential mat ter from the Los Alamos atomic project nabbed two more suspects | yesterday—and at the same time Irevealed the investigaticn also has covered a highly secret weapons ‘px-o)ocl outside of Albuquerque. | Complaints filed immediately af- | | 1 | | ter the simultaneous arrests 85 miles apart in New Mexico accus- ed George Wellington Thompson, '38, formerly of Greenwood, Miss., jof taking classified photographs (from toth the Army's Sandia base lhere and the Atom Laboratory; jand Ernest Lawrence Paporelic, 29, [formerly of Union City, N. J., of ‘stealing half a dozen Los Alamos pictures, { The two were \Federal Bureau of Investigation as ,former army photographers at Los Alamos, where the first atom {bomb was assembled. After his 1discharge, Thompson was a eivil (service employee for a time at Sandia. | Arraigned in Santa Fe, Thomp- Ison pleaded guilty to the Los Ala- imcs thefts but denied taking any photos from the base here. Papor: ello's hearing in Albuquerque w Made Into Real identified by the RTE ortress Twins Are Born fo Twin Sisters | | i | | | { % L] Sl Twin sisters, Mrs. Arthur Karr and Mrs. Dal Bee Nichols, both of Tulsa, Okla., gave birth to twins on the same day and a son and daughter in each case. The mothers, attended by the same doctor, share the same rocm at Hillerest Lying-In Hospital in Tulsa. Here the babies grandmother, Mrs. Walter Bresh- ers of Springfield, Mo., (center) admires her daughters’ new children. From left are Phillip Calvin, Mrs. " Karr, and Phyllis Carol; Mrs. Breshers; Grady Lee, Mrs. ‘Nichcls and Elaine Bee. () Wirephoto. B.C.COASTAL 'VESSELS 10 | BEOPERATED i.WaIkoui, gc_fiéduled foi Noon Today, Is Off- Louise Salls Tonight VANCOUVER, B. C. Oct. 9.—(#— i Reports that the strike of British | Columbia Coastal Marine Engineers ‘mikht “still be called” were denied i today by Denis Heard, National 'Pmsxden' of the Marine Engineers | Assoclation (IFL) I\ “As far as I am concerned, the strike has definitely been averted,” {he told' the Canadian press. “A | settlement has been reached on | | wages and hours, the two main ! pomnts in dispute. | LOUISE TO SAIL i D. H. E. MacLean, local agent for «the Canadian Pacific, has received |a radiogram frcm his headquarters "office in Vancouver stating that, in connection with the threatened marine strike, “you may advise all " concerned that there will be no in- I terruption to this service.” ¢« This undoubtedly has reference ;to the Southeast Alaska service land means thé Princess Louise will | sall tonight at 9 o'clock, as sched- ! uled. | The strike of the marine engi- neers was scheduled for noon today. » e b scicisien She was returned to clo0BoYCOTT (Chain of Sub-Surface At Wkerat He sald other members of the|Pills, dropped a glass of water, and | corpus writ. committee were more in favor of grabbed for his fluttering papers. P the school. (# Wirephoto. {continued until next Monday, al Tcmedishe, siatabacd. | Finally, his friend Daniel J.} ™€ 8¢100% 7 7 e ST 313;‘"@ bl e o o 8k o “I might vote for it now,” Daw.i;‘::;g;ed hei;;iomor u::e ;I;)E:\n(l;tlt:;:] i | Bonds of both were fixed at i °°““““etd' ayers are in favor floor that Padway’s report on the| | $1000." Tiomuban. i) §eid > in The non-taxp: -ylmon i gnjdvlegal fight over the Act be record- | o ‘mg Santa Fe city jail, where FBI gl b jands the, 23 it in fear|ed. Padway was then half-carried | |sald a doctor attended him for {mnmg _mtere§lstfip}zflosle:“ps !fmm the platform to a waiting 'ngrvous indigestion shortly after| T, WAL INCHERee e load | autcmobile. Few of the delegates, {his arreste. Paporello was lodged “Some folks there want to loa s xpe e {in the county jail here, His at- B 17 e | President William Green, visibly | JECERey S (ue SRR R 10, B Honst mcxest:e: taxes of “the local|shaken when informed of the at-| {range bond today. apd exnep Bae Good. Itorney’s passing, said: “Judge| people will not ke increase “What Alaska needs is a tax base. “If the people there paid taxes comparable to those paid by the Chilean Govt. gg; ppices e AS FRST EGGLESS broader |Padway died as he lived, fighting for the cause of labor. | | Two Yugos_I;v— Diplomats OF NLRB IS | on Their Association with NLRB BOSTON, Oct. boycott of the National Labor Re- 9.—M—The CIO CRUMBLING 41 010 Unions will vote B]G' TROPICAL Volcanoes TYPHOON HITS Discovered North of Aleufians; | SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9.—(P— | A chain of sub-surface volcanoe: | north of the Aleutians, long sus | pected by mariners, has been dis- | covered and charted, Capt. F. S. Borden of the U. 8. Coast and Geo- | detic Survey, said here. | The chain was found during a six-month's survey by the U. S. S. Pioncer which he commanded. War- PROTESTING 60 DAY SHUTDOWN Distillery Workers Object to Holiday for Grain Conservation | WASHINGTON, Oct. 9—P—A | laber protest against a projected (60-day holiday from liquor distill- {ing threw a new obstacle today in | i | | i |lations Board was crumbling fast the path of the grain conservation time ele S T people of the United States in each . GEN. MacARTHUR state they would have no dlfflcul-‘ . at . e e | Adting for New Red In- Voman e e weieves v WANTS JAPANESE DAY IS OBSERVED' TINY IWO JIMA today. ronics developments were | | i | [ Dawson said_he believed i ternational Deported z statehood bill will bsdpu.éhe 'L}{ | (By The Associated Press) ‘ i ommits gg pri i the House Prub:)x‘c" lg:n; (i RURA'. pol'([ SANTIAGO, Chila, Oct, 9—@— Fgg pr cllmbed. today m, bl_?; tee next year, i to‘ |Two Yugoslav diplomats, accused | Wholesale markets as the nation’s “It is hopeless for ill&l beed| |by the Chilean government of fo-|consumers observed the first egg- 9 o g —(—General | !es: lass b o expect the statehood b | TOKYO, -Oct,” 8- Gcncmlfmenhng‘ on orders from home, a|less and poultryless Thursday re Communist campaign against | United States and hemisphere sol-, enacted at the next session. There|nacarthur has authorized creation is not time enough for it to be o 5 30,000-man national rural po- the quested Ly President Truman in the campaign to save food for Eu- enacted.” {lice force in Japan to fill the gap e 'rope. I oS idarity, were expelled from Chile 2 - {left by the prohibition of armed |;c&TN. B B | Compliance with the cggless and FROM PELICAN | forces. { icial statements said the!Doultryless request—as with the| f Peli isstay- | g | An official stateme: said 3 Wb L. O. Jacobsen of Pelican isstay- | gjmultaneously, MacArthur ord- |, = o1 A qei Cunja, Yugoslay,first meatless Tuesday—was report- ing el the Bstinest. |ered the government to take im-|oparpe DAffaires, and Dalitor Ja- ©d Spotty. Some restaurants re- | mediate steps to decentralize pre-|ioc.” cocretary of the YugoslaviPorted compliance, but many others |sent Tokyo control over the na-|peoaiion in Buenos Aires, a visitor |Said they served eggs if the cuso- ! tion’s law enforcement agencies | Santiago—were acting for the!mer requested them. Others said {in |and to prevent resurrection Communist imema“onaflorders for bacon and sausage as The Washington o o new | g ok d lice state.” { s in Belgradi d had| substitutes on the breakfast | e jmenu increassd. | tained in a letter to Premier Tetsu| «A Intensify and coordinate a| Fgg Prices advanced fully a cent The CIO convention here next week is almost certain to avoid any policy that would encourage a con- tinuation of the boycott. Instead, the convention will make a strenuous attack on the Taft- Hartley Labor Law, but will state that each of the 41 CIO unions must decide for itself whether to file ccmplaints and petitions be- fore the reorganized NLRB under the new law. Reporters learned that the top officers of the CIO, President, Sec- retary-Treasurer, and Vice Presi- dents, came to an agreement last night on the general substance of a policy statement on CIO use of the NLRB. This agreement will go before the 52-member executive board to- Winds Up o 160 MPH Flat- ten Buildings, Endanger Service Personnel GUAM, Oct. 9.—(P—A devastat- ing tropical typhoon which “sat | down” on tiny Iwo Jima leveled some kuildings and left others lit- tle more than twisted steel and woed, a faint radio message pick- ed up by the Coast Guard station here reperted today. The message, heard this after- noon, was the first communication from the volcanic island 800 miles north of Guam in more than sev- en hours, | & big help in locating the chain. Q move which most industry officials accepted as inevitable. The largest in the chain, is a Mo . s | sub-sea mountain rising 6,000 feet! An AFL distillery workers' un- from the ccean bed to within 360! '00 Official, Johnne ~McKiernan, isaid in Frankfurt, Ky, he anti- | fect of the surface of the sea. It is 30 miles northwest of Kiska. The small Aleutian Island of Buldir is the only peak in the chain (that breaks the surface of the sea. et ANCHORAGE WANTS SPECIAL SESSI0 OF LEGISLATURE | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 9.— (cipates the organization will seek 'a meeting with Chairman Charles }Luckman of the Citizens Food | Committee to protest the move. © He estimates 100,000 persons [wculd be thrown out of work by | the holiday, and said, “Charity | should begin at home.” A 50 per- {cent shutdown for a 120-day per- [iod would be preferable from the ‘workers standpoint, McKiernan said. ‘ As a prominent industry official Iprecucuad a 60-day shutdown will jstart about Oct. 25, there were i these other repercussions: (M—The Anchorage City Council at! 1 __Tax experts figured the gov- | Katayama. The government snid: | appropriate legislation was being | WASHINGTON. — Edwin Nourse, | prepared for presentation to the | Chairman of the Council of ECON-|cyprent Diet (Parliament) session. omic Ir\!d;‘skeflrsv_ils, qun:fla ezm;;m;f; The present legal limit for Ja- man. It is his job, as defin | pan’s police is 94,000 men. Act of Congress, to advise the Pre- | i B By DREW PEARSON > | | | Ito join Soviet strategy against the| campaign against the United States|® dozen at New York and Chicago of American in order to induce|Wholesale markets. Extra fancy the greater democratic elementsjheavyweight white brought 66 to 167 cents a dozen in New York, and western democracies. {U. S. extras No. 2 sold at 58 to B. “Attack the policy of con-|60 cents in Chicago. tinental defense. | Some poultry prices, however, It contained no word of how a special meeting yesterday asked|ernment could lose as much as some 300 Army, Airforce and Cnast"-hf" Governor of Alaska to call a|$472,536,000 in liquor taxes. The Guard men and their dependents |special ion of the Territorial | estimate is based on last year's fared in the lashing storm. | Legislature immediately to ('tmsxder‘ production figures for November ‘The typhoon brought sustained |new tax measures. !'and December and assumes a con- winds of 150 miles an hour, with| Council members blamed (hf?_linuaucn of present levies. The tax gusts up to 160 miles, the message |city's financial troubles on the City | loss would not be immediate, since morrow, and then to the conven- tion which opens Monday. o NORMAL WEATHER sident on the economic state of the | nation, in order to avoid depression. | As such, he makes monthly reports, | and last week presented a full- dress report to the entire Cabinet. | “C. Develop a plan of sabotage of production, either by means of slowing work or causing strikes and conflicts in industries 1aw materials.” 1 MARITIME UNION | Cunja and Jakasa were taken by pmducmgl dropped a cent in the Chicago {wholesale market. Roasters sold as 27 to 21 cents a pound, steady |to a cent lower. Roasters sold at 27 to 31 cents a pound, steady to a cent lower, and fowl at 25 cents said. It reported a large quonset| Government’s lack of power to raise hut and one barracks building com- | mongy. They said they had the full pletely leveled and said damage to' backing of the Anchorage Cham- cthers was severe ber of Commerce and that “all the Water damage was described GENERAL ACROSS MOST OF COUNTRY as ' cities” in Alaska were in “the same | According to word leaking out of the Cabinet meeting, Nourse, for! the first time, was categoric and 4 definite that something .should be' NEW YORK, 0:“; ?;*I‘x””—" k7 e done about the danger of inflation |solution calling “for "all possible f, c, . \nignight that President! HSH u"DmGs —or the results might be serious|steps toward. . . the es‘““shm.emicahriex Gonzalez Videla had noti-| indeed. He had warned of this be-!"‘ one big union” in the maritime fied President Juan D. Peron of : i - g fore, but last week he laid it on |industry bore the approval today of | oygenting of his action to “coun-; E. O. Swanson of Eifin Cove the line. | delegates to the sixth bl_enmal €oN- i 4orpalance the energetically revol- brgught in 1,500 pounds of kings Nourse did not recommend any |vention of the CIO National Mari-{,yionary plan of the Communist|this morning to the Juneau Cold one concrete ciurse to stop infla- | time Union. {party” and that Peron had .n- Storage on board the packer Elfin tion, but threw out several alter-| The industry has CIO, AFL and)fyrmed Gonzalez Videla that he Il The salmon went to Alaska natives, among them using the laws | independent unions.. =~ would take the necessary steps to, Coast Fisnerles. already passed by Congress to re-i “Unity in the maritime industry|.gefend Argentine sovereignty.” gulate inflation. is absolutely essential due to the| officials said Foreign Minister’ Chilean coal miners, now entering Attorney General Tom Clark |jungle of 32 craft unions, which|yergara Donoso told the Yugoslavs,'its fifth day, to a Communist promptly spoke up to inform the|allows the shipowners ‘to carry out|they had “scriously Infringed the:revolutionary plot” instigated by Cabinet that a battery of legal |their wrecking strategy and dis-|pospitality of our country and,a Russian satellite. The miners powers already existed for meeting|Fupt our economic and political |acted against its independence with,say they want more money. One the crisis. He promised to study!Program,” said the “statement of|subversive aims. % _ lgroup of the miners rejected last economic policy” adopted late yes-| Government authorities enrher:mgm a government offer of 30 to (Continued om Page Four) terday by the delegates, ihad attributed a strike of 16,000‘40 percent increases. AIM OF Cl0 NMU| automobile to Mendoza, Argentina, in line with a downturn of a {just across the border. {cent and a half yesterday. It was announced officially just}® R S great fix.” TA?"W::;efzzi::fdm?ec‘:;mry The Navy relayed earlier reports| Spokesmen said they believed a was near normal today, with he_‘that the great Pacific storm was |special legislative session should low freezing temperatures report.| SIttNg right down on top of the |memorialize Congress to authorize ed in only one section—lower island.” |cities to levy a U‘nf' percent sales Michigan. i e tax. Councilman Chris Poulsen es- Temperatures also dipped during the night over other sections of the midwest and eastward to the Atlantic Coast and the New Eng- land stats. The coolest spot was Cadillac, Mich., with a reading of 25. Warmer weather for the Rocky Mountain and plains states was reported and higher temperatures also were forecast for most of the north central region. Rain was re- ported along the North Pacific Coast and in parts of West Vir- ginia, Virginia and North Carolina ~ Is Robbed in Seattle Man from Fairbanks SEATTLE, Oct 9.—IM—Morris Schwartz, who said he arrived here yesterday from Fairbanks, reported to police the theft of $700 in trav- elers’ checks from his Yesler Way hotel room early today. He said an unidentified man entered his room Schwartz was here enroute from an Alaskan construction job to his Chicago home. jl;muted that such a tax would give ! Anchorage a $250,000 additional in- | come - e FROM SITKA The following visitors from Sitka are registered at the Baranot Frank J. Karls, A. D. Wright and Arne Dorum. - > - NEW LIQUQR LICENSE Lawrence DuBois has filed appli- cation with the Clerk of the U. S. District Court here for a retail li- quor license cn S. Franklin St. taxes are pald as stocks are with- drawn from storage. It could con- ceivably be made up by increased | production later on. 2.—Industry officials said there j will be little or no effect, so far as liquor consumers are concerned, “trcm the holiday aimed at saving | upwards of 10,000,000 bushels of | grain. ——— e - | STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Princess Louise scheduled to {sail from Vancouver 9 tonight. | Northern Voyager, scheduled to sail from Seattle October 10. { Baranof scheduled to sail from | Seattle October 11. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- attle October 14. { Terminal Knot scheduled to sail from Seattle Oct. 14 for Juneau, | Ketchikan and Seward. ! Aleutian, from west, scheduled southbound 8 a. m. Sundey.