The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 10, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” | —————— VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,704 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, ‘) 47 PRICE TEN CENTS LABOR LEADERS GIVEN SEVERE WALLOP ARAB. ARMIES| CLOSING IN ON PALESTINE Troops of Five Nations Move Quickly to Posi- tions on Frontiers - | | By CARTER L. DAVIDSON | BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 10 —The armies of five Arab nations | started moving today, translating| into action last night's Arab League resolutions calling on the An\b{ world to defend Palestine from| Zionism with men and money i The nation’s first Secretary of M U.S. First Defense Secrefary iional Defense, James V. Forrestal, War Office spokesmen in Le- of New York, is shcwn as he took the oath. The former Secretary of banon and Syria said troops of| the Navy is the first individual to head the Army and Navy depart- those two countries bordering on! ,ente and all allied agencies and forces. The new Secretary of Palestine had begun rolling at| . iiona) Defense is shown with tep members of his staff. Forrestal midnight and were “maneuvering”! near the frontier. was sworn in at a simple ceremony at the Navy Department, Wash- FAWLPOLICY BLASTED BY FISHERMEN jCordova Clal]nion Pro-! tests Int. Dept. Man- | agement in Alaska Oct. 10.~A— | the entire Alaska | District | in CORDOVA, Alaska | Fisheries are “virtually |(wnnmv of this and other areas,” the CIO Cordova said yesterday isheries Union vrotesting the Interior Depart- | | ment’s management of Alaska flsh-; leries at a fisheries regulations hear- | | | ing. ! In a formal statement, the unmn.l | with a membership of 1,080 smd! | that better enforcement agamst | { fisheries violations would help buunJ up the runs. Seton H. Thompson, | Troops of King Abdullah’s A““bT ington, D. C. (Left to right) Kenneth C. Royall, Secretary of the |18 W10 WS POt o & TORERR S Legion of Trans-Jordan, reputed-| Army-Des Secretary Forrestall; John L. Sullivan, Secretary of | 05 0 S R Dl e | ly the largest and best-equipped | Designate; W. Stuart S\‘minglun, (International photo) P | military force in the oil-rich| —— Saglpa s <) BT o R AR W | The statement said that Secre-| Middle East, started massing along tary Krug, in supporting the Sen-| the River Jordan in half a doz-| ate bill 1446 prepared by his De- s w2 1 Communist The Wasnmgton Diplomais in M G - erry-Go-Rount g anos Aires By DREW PEARSON But Yugoslavs Expelled from Chile Cannot Re- main in Argentina When Laval was entertained by | BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 10.—# Herbert Hoover back in the good |Two Yugoslav diplomats, due in old days when foreign visitors were Buencs Aires today after being ex- a novélty, white ties and cutaways pelled from Chile on charges of were trotted out, ornate state din- ' “Communist agitation,” will be ners were thrown, and the Capital |asked to leave Argentina if they stopped most of its other work to fail to quit the country voluntar- welcome the Premier of France. jily, a high government source an- Last week, however, the Capital |nounced bestirred itself hardly at all when| Reporters who boarded the train Georges Bidault, Foreign Minister |bringing the two —men—Andrej of France, arrived for a visit. For, Cunja, Charge D' Affaires at San today, France is the pivotal coun- | 'ag0. —ad 'Da!’b“" Jakasa, sec try in western Europe in combat- retary of the Yugoslav Legation ting communism. As France goes, | here—from Mendoza to Buenos so goes the rest of Europe. And | | Aires were unable find them the rosy-eheeked, slightly worried, 2S¢ night 2 energetic little man who visited Tigosliv legetion 3 Truman in the White House can men were on the Um‘u_ A neutral help swing the balance in Frenchid'plnm“““ Ao s lh.‘y‘ ?h‘ politics. g lappeared a short time after a No communiques wete issued BI_inouncer?em that they L»\\’m-\- ter Bidault’s visit, as was the case l’”..l;x{]l“le'f,dm:,r‘f":v,::gf; i after the Laval-Hoover conferences. | : el ¥ Nevertheless, it can be revealed that WASHINGTON—There was a Gay | when a visit of a high French of- ficial caused the Capital of the United States to turn handqprmgs— as, for instance, the pilgrimage of | the late Pierre Laval, then Prime| Minister of France. | to said the to ‘T:-xnmr_\' in order to board a ship, | okay,” -| IWO the Argentine official said.| WIND WREAKS HAVOCONIWG JIMA; 0 HURT Typhoon Causes Heavy! | Damage to Buildings | and Installafion JIMA, Oct. weary American servicemen andi their dependents emerged from storm shelters early this morning after 36 hours concealment from a vicious typhoon which howled across this battlefield island speeds reaching 170 miles an hour. | Correspondents flying here from | Japan found no casualties for in- juries among the servicemen and 4 depcndent families stationed 10.—P—~Wind- | at| to set up a leasing sys-| {tem for fish traps, was “governing |only for governing's sake.” | The Secretary’s letter with which | he transmitted the bill to the Sen- | ate, the union charged, “disowr lany interest in the social aspects jof the fisheries industry and indi-! cates that “conservation is his only | concern.” | “Why nave hearings at all, unless | there is a material and practical applwa.wn of regulations to benefit | people of the Territory?” thel 1>t‘m~mom asked. It pointed out that the last Territorial Legislature” memorialized Congress to hold up | the bill pending further study. - partment French Dollar ‘To Cellapse - ByNextWeek : here | But damage to instailations was| extensive. The winds smashed like giant hands on scores of Luildings, | ripped out the island's inner .com- munications system and ed the flagpole off Mt. Subibachi, {linked in history with the U. S Marines who captured this one- time Japanese bastion. Maj. ville, Tenn,, ing officer, |storm’s havoc the island’s® engineer- said ruefully that the! “sets us back at least snauzh- | Sveend W. Nielsen, Knox- Bidault made one particularly sig-| nificant suggestion to the Presi-| dent: namely, act as mediator in the ever-widen- ing dispute between Washington and Moscow. Bidault warned that the battle between Russia and the United States is hurting world re- | covery, suggested that France might be able to ease the tension. Bidault also turned down Secre- tary of State Marshall's proposal that France join its German oLcu~ pation zone with those United States and Great Bnlmn‘ The United States is anxious to, operate all three zones as one econ- omic unit, letting the Russians go‘ their own way in their own zone. | Bidault, low)ver, declined lol cooperate. He argued that if France | agreed to unite its occupation zone with the British and Americans now, it would only increase the tension between the capitalistic west and the communistic east. | ‘What he also had in mind un-| questionably was that such a mer- ger would raise political hob for him just before the November elec- tions. The Communists would yell their heads off and might win votes as the result of such a merger. Note—Bidault’s strongest plea to Truman was to obtain a few mil-! lion pounds of flour in order to: raise the French bread ration to| 300 grams before election day. As-| surances were given that France would get the flour. | UNDER THE DOME Anxious to be nonpartisan, the Citizens Food Committee tele- | phoned Albany, N. ¥, to tell Gov- ernor Dewey about their proposed voluntary food-rationing program. Dewey, however, was not available. Committee members asked if they could reach him the next day, but' (Continued on Page Four) that France might ¢ | spokesman added. I they take any other attitude,;six months,” would not be out of order to\mander, Col. Raleigh Macklin of / they will receive a suggestiongrawa, Kan was thankful that| 3 they should leave our coun-itne Joss was not greater but the island com- Y The typhoon struck hardest at He said neither had diplomatic|pyjgings on which maintenance immunity so far as Argentina was hucl been allowed to lag. Nearly ocnosthed half of Iwo Jima's buildings are “It should not be forgotten that|q,oncet huts, and the wind whip- they are accused of a crime aginwL Iped through some of them like a' lanother American state,” the, |giant can-opener while stomping olhm< flat. NO ASSISTANT FOR DISTRICT .- BRITAINTOGET | LOAN FROMSO. A. At e et 6 Tg, o | ATTORNEY YET e ™. sty | Gilmore Here for Week-! end Business Trip announced today. | from Ketchikan The agreement calls for an in-j terest payment in sterling at one- palf of one percent a year, with payment or refinancing after three | years. District Attorney more, Jr., who has returned to Ju- ineau for a short business trip, said !he has not been able to find a suc- NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Closing|cessor for Robert L. Boochever who quotation today of American Can!resigned October 1 to enter private is 86, Anaconda 35, Curtiss-Wright|law practice with the Juneau law 5%, International Harvester 89% ‘."mrn of Faulkner and Banfield. Kennecott 46'%, New York Central| 14%, Northern Pacific 20%, U. S‘ Steel 727, Pound $4.03%. i Sales today were 1,020,000 shares. ! — .- —— | STOCK QUOTATIONS the U. S. Department of Justice are attempting to find a qualified applicant for the position. Averages today are as follows:| Gilmore also reported that industrials 180.44, rails 48.68, utili-) Federal Grand Jury at Ketchikan ties 35.48. | finished its work yesterday and| A S w2 (TR !that the trial jury will begin work| on Monday. He will return there ! Sunday on board the Aleutian for NO HOLIDAY MONDAY Local banks, business houses, gov-| the remainder of the Fall court ernment offices and the U. 8. Post | term. Ofiice will not close their doors ey i FROM SITKA Pat Jackson and Thelma Lacey of Sitka are at the Gastineau. Monday in observance of Colum- bus Day which, this year, falls on a Sunday. atrick J. Gil-| Gilmore stated that both he and | the | State Departmem Stump-| | ed-France to Stop Pur- ! chase of Wheat, Coal WASHINGTON, Oct. — | The State Department admitted today that so far it is stumped for |a way to prevent a threatened col- [1apse of France's dollar purchasing { power within the next week. Herve Alphand, chief of economic |affairs for the French Foreign Min- istry, said his country will have to stop buying essential wheat, coal and fats around Oct. 15 unless out- 1<lde help is forthcoming immed- | | 1ately. } s RAILROADS UP FREIGHT BILL 10% MONDAY WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—®—| The railrcads gave notice today { that the new 10 percent general in- crease 1n freight rates will go mw‘ eifect Monday, Oct. 13. Revised rate schedules were hled \wlth the Interstate Commerce Com- ‘ ion and copies were posted in ‘1 lway freight depots over the ’ nation. ! In granting the increase last Tuesday the ICC directed the rail- |roads to give three days formal| | notice ‘o the public before starting | collection of the higher charges. The domestic water carriers in- jcluding coastal shippers, barge lines and operators on the Great Lakes, have not yet filed revised schedules. The ICC also told them jthey could raise 10 percent. | | The rate hike was granted by ICC as “emergency relief” to cover increased operating costs while the Zommission holds further hearings) on the railroad plea for permanent 27 percent increase in freight rates | oeran Engineer Killed in Rail Crash DERAILED BY ROCKS washed onto the track near Maryhill, Wash of a Spokane passenger train overturned, killing the engineer. and one of the ci hes. (International Soundphoto) SEIZE lARGE Romance Befween Louise OPIUM (A(HE; And Bud Over; She Sends Engagement Ring fo Him ON FREIGHTER Mounties Fi_nEfiS Pounds' in Winch on Dufch Ship, Vancouver VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 10—® Seizure of 415 pounds of opium, described as ‘“‘one of the largest hauls ever made in North America,” |today carried Royal Canadian | Mounted Police into secrecy- cloaked investigation. The contraband narcotics was found yesterday hidden in a winch iboard the Dutch freighter Man- now undergoing repairs at a North Vancouver drydock R. C. M. P. officials said the cache would be worth $46,650 on the le- gal market but would bring $4,648,- FOOD PROBER a the Shown SLAP DOWN: LEWIS AND 12 OTHERS AF of L Council Votes fo Eliminate Vice-Presi- dent "'Officers” SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10.—(#— Top AFL leaders slapped down a defiant John L. Lewis today by voting to strip him—and 12 other vice-presidents—of the “office” in the Federation by which he was able to bar the door of the Nation- al Labor Relations Board to 1,500 tiny local unions. | | | | engine and three baggage cars are two of the baggage cars | LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10.—(#—| The final blow to the romance of heiress Louise Overell, and George (Bud) Gollum was appar- ently struck yesterday as the heir- ess mailed her engagement ring; back to her former lover and co- defendant | The 18-year-old heiress packag- ed the ring with one of Gollum Navy dogtags and a small plas tic cross a chain, and address- ed it to-her 21-year-old ex- IIMICL‘ at the home of his mother. Gollum wasn't expected to get it immediately, however. He was| camping in the mountains, trying to forget the harrowing 19-week trial after which ‘he and Louise were acquitted of charges of murdering her parents. >o - | bor /the convention would adopt | tutional i two-thirds vote, 000 on the black market at the five grans THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Presi- No arrests have been made and, dent of Lever Brothers, of Cam- TAKES 43 pERSONS pending completion of the investi bridge, Mass,, Charles Luckman, & gation, few details surrounding the has been named by President probe were disclosed. The seizure recalled two others at Vancouver and in Seattle in recent months. A §125,000 cache was seized from the Dutch motor- ship Mapia by U. S. authorities in Seattle July 18 a few hours after | the vessel cleared from Vancouver, and in April Canadian authorities confiscated a $20,000 cache found aboard the British freighter Suva Wh(-'h it docked in Vancouver. - ® o 0.6~ s e 0 0 00 WEATHER REPORT ¢ Temperarure zor 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning In Juneau—Maximum, minimum, 42. At Airport— minimum, 40. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Viclnity) Mostly cloudy with light rain showers and not much change in temperature to- night and Saturday. South- easterly winds occasionally xm(mm, 20 miles per hour. PRECi¥ITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) - .03 inches; 145 inches; inches. 55 Maximum, 56; In Juneau since Oct since July 1, At Airport — Trace; since Oct. 92 inches; since July 1, 2274 inches. o0 e 000 000000 ; 9 325 COWLING OUTSIDE R. W. Cowling has left here for Detroit where he will confer with officials of the Chrysler Motor Corp. and will accept delivery of several new automobiles. Truman as head of a special citi- | IHURSDAY IRIPS zens' committee to work out a food censervation program. Luckman, | seated his desk in the Cam- bridge plant during pr (International photo) Alaska Coastal Airlines two flights from Juneau to Sitka with stops at Tenakee, Hood Ba, Hocnah and Fish Bay yesterday; to Petersburg, tehikan and Sunset Cove; Haines and Skagway and a and one to Lake at ss inter- view TROPICAL STORM IS FORMING OFF tc second to Haines, Hasselborg Passengers from Juneau to Sitka| were Mr. and Mrs. James Vrooman, FLOR'DA COAST Dean Stery, A. D. Wright, Frank Karls, Henri Dorm and L. C. Berg; to Tenakee, T T. Sperlock; (By The Associated Press) tc Hood Bay, Ethel Westfall and A tropical disturbance about 500 gy Nveaard: to Hoonah, R. Shep- miles from Miami in the north- yeq gng p. Hungerford western Caribbean Sea today was prom Juneau to threatening to mar the Indian panforg; to Sunset Cove summer weather prevailing through- geoper; to Lake Hasselborg out most of the country Hope, B. Ansell and Bill Tuttle M. Full reports cof the Caribbean plying from Juneau to Haines storm center were not available were Ted Lawrence, O. I. Lewis immediately, but forecasters at Mi-land J. Powell; from Juneau to aid it apparently had not Skagway, Marlene Chon, Col ped greatly as yet. Winds of Olson, S. Nelson, Alma Hendrick- 50 to 60 miles an hour were re- son, Ruth Fleming, Tom Dyer and ported near the center of the dis- F. M. Caldwell turbance, with heavy rain squalls| yppoung passengers to Juneau covefing an area extending 200 grom gitka were L. Hicks, Pa: miles to the north. There were in- jaekeon and Thelma Lacey; from reported Though not a himself, “red” sympathizer Lewis refused to sign the affidavit required by the Taft- Hartley Act disavowing Commun- ism. Unions whose officers don’t sign, cannot use the National La- Relations Board The little federal locals, with 300,000 members, need the NLRB's protective facilities most among the AFL's big family of unions. Their national “officers” are the council members. The 15-man council, over the opposition of Lewis, voted today to do away with the offices of vice- president, leaving only President William Green and Secretary- Treasurer George Meany as “offi- cers” of the Federation Lewis and his 12 vice-presiden- tial colleagues would become mere council rhembers, retaining their numerical order of seniority on that policygmaking body. One. council., . member predicted the proposal by a seven-eighths ma- {jority, but delegates whispered Ithey expected the militant Lewis to put up at least a token fight on the convention floor. A consti- amendment, requiring a is necessary to put the change in effect. Poultry, Eggs, Meat Are Now OnS.F.Menus (Golden Gate Restaurants Refuse to Observe Two Less Days Weekly SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10.—(®— Spokesmen for three hundred of San Francisco's larger eating plac- les served notice today they do not Wrangell, one| Petersburg, Dr.| George | intend to observe “meatless Tues- day” and eggless Thursday.” Members of the Golden Gate res- taurant Association declared in a resolution adopted last night that their patrons will get eggs, poultry and meat whenever ordered. They called the meatless and eggless |days dictatorial and ineificient as | tocd savers, The restaurateurs said they would |adhere to a conservative program based on a “waste not” appeal to diners and a trimming of the num- ber of items offered daily plus elimination of “frills.” The city's major hotels announc= ed they would abide by the vol- untary meatless-eggless program. . - SMALLEST PACK IN 'YEARS CREATES BIG DEMAND FOR SALMON SEATTLE, Oct. market demand for almon created by 10.—(P—Heavy Alaska pink the fact that dications the storm would increase goonah, D Hungerford, H. Erick-,this year’s pack totaled only 1.- in intensity. son and Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Sheak-, 712870 cases—the smallest in 20 . ley; from Tenakee, Andrew Jack |Years, Seattle salmon brokers re- MLAUGHLIN RETURNS From Kechikan to Juneau, Bud Ported today. John T. McLaughlin, of the Al- Urguhort; from Petersburg, A.| The firm of McGovern and Mc- aska UCC, has returned here from Bgaeon; from Skagway, O. Olsen, Govern, in a trade bulletin, said a conference: at Hot Springs, Ark, E. W. Falbert and one other n insatiable demand” continues ! for members of the UCC from all .- — [ for pink salmon, despite some re- over the U. 8. TANKER AT ANCHORAGE | liel from the Puget Sound pack of e —— - - 475,239 cases. , FROM FAIRBANKS Standard Oil Tanker W. S. Miller Meanwhile, the price for fresh Roy Frankhausen and Edward J. recently docked at Anchorage, the|cchoe salmon advanced to 34'% Listor of Fairbanks are registered first tanker to ever enter the port cents a pound to fishermen in Se- the Baranol, of Anchorage. attle, the bulletin said.