The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 5, 1947, Page 2

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Suveys mode by leading hone ccanon )\m:{‘oun ] s were | ~ |month in Ketchikan, Juneau, An- SUNDBORG IS (Centinued from Page One) interruptec to observe that witness is blaming practices the steamship companies that peyond control of the pany, “the cn are lines.” compilations of Alaska lages of all three Seattle companies |frem May 29 to September 30 th year, which he said revealed “over- servicing’ in a very uneconomical way in Alaska ports.” He also charged that asserted “duplication” of oftice and ter- {minal facilitics in Alaska ports by |Alaska Steam and Northland |amounted to virtual “feather-bed- ding in the upper brackets of man- |agement,” becavse, he declared, ‘h are under common ownership. | Pcterson Test fies | The day's last witness was H. N. | Peterson, passenger traffic manager | for Alaska Steamship Company. He explair that weather conditions caused three ships to be in and cund the fisheries port of Pelican at approximately the same time. Peterscn also testified that pas senger ship revenues were cut by Maritime Union demands for more crew space which he said, had to €o! out of e-luxe passenger quarters. Later, by Ewe berg ing” of based on his own under examination and Stanley Long, Sund- id his references to “bunch- Cross observation and newspaper ol movement re- ports. He said he did not know which of the vessels were north- bound or southbound, nor amounts of cargo handled Asked by Ewert the Territ adequately by Maritime Ccrmmission if he did not feel rate re- gulations, Sundborg said “The carriers prevented m been Com- near from have never by the Maritime ion from getting pretty they wanted in rates trade Steamer Operaton John E. Richey, Labor Manager for the Alaska Steam- ship Company, testified today that labor costs of operating the steam-| ship Aleutian has increased 159.17| percent since 1939. | Under questioning by Ira Ewer counsel for the company, Riche said the cost rise had been re-{ flected throughout the fleet. The| montk ian were $19,83392 in 1939, com-| pared with $51,534.05 in September | 1947, subsistence allowance and overtime| |paid the crew for longshoring | | work | The Other Side . Henry A. Burd, professor (,r} arketing at the University of| Washington, told Commission ex- |aminers that steamship freight | irates are not a determining factor| lon prices in Alaska. He said he made a survey last/ |chorage and Fairbanks at the re-| quest of the Alaska Steamship | Company, one of three steamsh1p| {firms who are defendants in the | hearings. { “People in Alaska told me they| | believe the reason for the high costs in the Territory are that {freight rates are too high and that| | Alaskan merchants are making too much profit,” Burd said. “I found that few if any mer- chants in Alaska are profiteering and that freight rates are an in- consequental item in determining prices.” Figures Submitted The professor submitted figures to show that steamship freight costs on food sold in Fairbanks were 47 percent higher than on the same items in Ketchikan. The retail prices, however, was only 21 percent higher. | Burd said total cost of 24 identi- jcal food items was less than one pereent more in Juneau than in Ketchikan, although it cost 25 percent more to ship them several hundred miles northward to Ju- neau. He said he found toom condi- tions prevailing through the Terri- tory. He said there are so many| more things stimulating develop- ment than retarding it that the effect of freight rates is negligible Alaska you have inflation in the raw,” Burd continued. “There is tco much money being dumped into the Territory by the United | States government in comparison with the amount of materials ship- ped in.” |WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE— Without Calomel—And You'l! Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rarin’ to Go The liver should pour out about 2 pints of Juice into your bowels every day. If this is not flowing freely, your food may not digest. It may just decay in the bowels. Then £as blosts up your stomach. You get con- Stipated. You feel sour, sunk and the world Jooks pubk. g § 1¢ takes those mild, gentle Cartar's Littl Liver Piils to get these 2 pints of bile flo) ing froely to make you feel “up and u Get u package today. Effective in ma bile flow freely. Ask for Carter’s Little Liver Pills, 33¢ at any drugstore. 34 ship | Sundborg later submitted his own ship. voy- not hips in certain ports were j p pmmcwdi‘ igroup resumed hearings, interrupt- | | Relations| (.E. Wilson WATNESS IN! SaysTriedfo FLIGKT FROM TARIFF CASE Hali Hughes RED HUNGARY !Wariime Aircraft Produc- fion Head Claims Pres- sure Broughtto Bear WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—® 1 s E. Wilson said toda t tside pressure” in 1943 prevent- ed his efforts to stop construction! Howard Hughes' big flying boat| and what he termed a “silly” plan to build new photo rec ais- sance plane. | Because the 200-ton flying boat couldn’t be completed in time (o Felp the war effort, Wilson said he cancelled the contract “but it dian’t stick.” He the late President Roosevelt the which he is head lof the wartime aft production | koard. Among those who Lrought “out- aire side pressure” to bear in the War Production Board, Wilson named: (1) Henry J. Kaiscr, West Coast| ginally was asso- es in the contrac Jesse Jones, then chair- he Reconstruction Finance Corporation Likewise, Wilson said he oppos- ed plans of the Army to go ahead in 1943 with plans to give Hughes contract for 50 wooden recon- neissance planes because he did think there was time to de- velop a completely new plans2, added that in spite of WPB objection the Army went ahead and let a contract to Hughes for |100 1ather than 50 of the recon- naissance craft. This was cut back to three at the war's end. Wilson gave his answers under questioning by Chairman Ferguson In- the of a Senate War subcommittee as (R-Mich) vestigating er last August, into Hughes’' $40,- 000,000 worth of eontracts with the vernment | - L D. §. RELIEF SOCIETY WILL (ONDUCT BAZAAR, COOKED FOOD SALE The Relief Society of the Latter 1y Saints Church held their re- gular meeting Monday evening at Nielsen, theme of the die the the home of Theclogy W labor costs on the Aleut-|evening, led by Mrs. Delbert Hanks. asked Following the lesson period the time was spent working on articles {for the annual bazaar to be held sicnal arrest. Hi Richey said the figures include|November 15, at the Parson's Elec- ed the Communicts). tric Company n the Goldstein| i Building. | Many items, such as aprons, children’s clothing, pillow cases, luncheon sets, and miscellaneous articles will be featured at the ba- zaar. A cooked foed sale will also be sponsored by the Socie L gy FILIPINO COMMUNITY, LADIES’ AUXILIARY 10 HOLD MEETING TONIGHT Ths evening at 8 o'clock there will be a joint neeting/ of the Fil- ipino Community Club and the Filipino Ladies Auxiliary at Smil- | ey's Billiard Hall on South Frank- lin. Presidents Edward Bilardi and Mrs. Elizabeth Quinto urge every Filipino and every Filipino wife in Jureau to be prrsent at this meet- ing. Many important questions are to be decided and final action on sev- eral pending projects of great con- cern to the Filipino Community is to be taken at the meeting tonight. All arc most urgently asked to at- tend the meeting. ——.e————— TULSA, Okla—Senator Robert | Taft of Ohio says he can see no' significance in the outcome of| yesterday's off-year elections ln! several states. And he reaffirms| his belief that a Republican Pres-[ ident will be elected next year. { S e e e Try the want-ads for bargains!! | | \ PEEIFFER IN Anti - Comrhfinist Leader Escapes fo Austria-AP Secretary Is Held | An author- | today ~Zoltan the Hungarian | | { i i VIENNA, Nov itative source Pfeiffer, leader anti-Communist Independence Pa said of BATONIST _ .l&meric:n's‘i HERTER FAILS FIRST EFFORT, EUROPEAN AID House Committee Dis- agreeson Proposed Inde- pendent Relief Agency WASHINGTON, Not. 5. The special House Fcreign Committee failed in s first ef- ty, had fled to Austria to avoid| : S fort today to agree on a proposal what he considered immediate ar- :':’.,l,{.;‘nons‘::\;gzg:‘t::r’r’-i:t:;”;; for creation of an independent vest Ethel Stark, (above) who wields 2%€nCy to handle assistance to He was reported to have left| the Sbaton over the 80-piece EL":OPE- Hungary just os the Hungarian | Monireal Women's Symphony. However, Vice-Chairman Herter Parliament scheculed a debate on | — 'R-I\I_flfs) told reporters after a lifting his Parliamentary immunity. morning session that he hoped The Communist-dominated pulx-} r::embgrs would reach agresment tical police of Hungary accused | 0 (o s later in the day or tomorrow on Pfeiffer of ha g aided a friend his ‘plan for establishment of an “for a paper which said the| emergency foreign reconstruction friend had been in Hungary during | aufhority. a pericd when nolice said he actu-| nnoun(e _ The 19-man group, just back ally was “in the west,” meaning in | from a tour of Europe, also is at any country not under Soviet dom- | 4 cdds on Herter’'s recommendation ination. ] that Congress grant help to Eu- Under Hungarian law, nationals | y ovl e s rope without tying political strings whe were “in the west” and did| to the program. nct return by March, 1045, arej A The group hopes to have some subject to pristn sentences and loss of citizenship. Three cther rrominent Hungar- ian political leacers previously had | quit Hungary. Prime Minister Fer- | enc Nagy igred after having! left the country legally. Bela Varga, | former Speaker of the House. and | Supervision of Any Election in Korea Deszo Sulyok, former leader of the| LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 5.—iP— defunct Fresdom Party, also left | The Soviet bloc announced tod Hungary. t would boycott a United Nations ated in or Secretary to Korea of S Fleiffer has been at cdds with | gener spring the Ccmmunists and other left-! wing parties throughout his political career. ur {Russians Will Oppose UN supervise next te recommendations House Foreign Affairs committee before it meets with the Senate Forelgn Relations committee next monday to hear Secretary of Mar- shall outline his plan to bulwark ropean self-help program with American gcods and money. Because it was created specifi- cally to deal with the problem of global needs, the so-called Herter Committee’s final recommendations may fecrm the basis for House ac- tion on the Marshall plan or what- ever substitute program is suggested or countering Communism in Eu- rope. ready for the a B He was beaten and suffered a te the announced boycott, brain cencussion just before the|the tion 1 olitical committee Aug 31 election when a group of the United Nations oke up a political meeting. Pfeif- | voted 46 to 0, with four abstentions ier's entire party is under attack!in iavor of the U. S n a special c'ection court on|viet bloc refused to take part in the charges, filed by the Communist-|vote e extent of record- dominated coalition, of election fraud ott declaratior A Budapest dispatch last week | tri Z. Manuilsky quoted a well med Hungarian ying member of the political policz had told him the arrest of | Du of the Miss Elizabeth Pallos of Pittsburgh,!public as a member of the pro- American secretary for the Asso-| jected nation electicn commis- ed Press in Budapest was | sion for Korea with the Pfeiffer party ai-| The name of the Ukraine was in- fair. Pali has been held | -luded, however, in the membershiy incommunicado on undisclosed/|of » commission along with Aus- charges for eight day: | tralia, "Canada, China, El Salva- (The Hungarian Pecople’s Attorney Fra , India, Parliament waive Pfeiffer’s munity and prov last Parliamenta Friday to ¢ im- le for his prov party has oppos th the Bc . were cmitted = - - DIVORCE QUESTION TAKEN UP ATMEET, HOUSE OF BISHOPS WINSTON SALEM, N. C, Nov. !M—The House of Bishops of| Episcopal Church suggested lo-! day that any divorced member of | the church be authorized to ap-; ply to his resident bishop or the| eclesiastical authority of his dio-| cese for a judgment as to “his or| her marital status in the eyes of| the church.” | Taking the position that it has not legislative authority, the house adopted a resolution making the suggestion to the general conven- tion of the church. The resignations of seven bishops were submitted to the meeting, and were referred to a committee. | They included Bishop John D.| Bentley of Alaska, and Missionary | Bishop Alfred A. Gilman of Han- kow, China. the (above) an advisor to the United States delegation at the United Nations general assembly, has been named as the first U. S, ambassador to Pakistan, follow- ing admission of that nation to D n U. N. membership. FROM SITKA John Bishop of Sitka is staying Ukraine, n Foster iet. Re- United States from ENVOY _ paul H.sAlling, | - oo - Assembly plan. The SU: B U L l E T I N S SITKA, Alaska—A Sitka Cham- of Commerce was organized , ' hi last night with Harvey G. Brown as President and Herkert Giltert, Secretary. 1 ber COPENHAGEN—Premper Knud Kristensen presented the resigna- tion of his Agarian Cabinet today to King Frederik, who asked the , ministers tc carry on until a new Cabinet could be formed. CONCORD, N. H—Former Am- bassador John G. Winant, who chot himself after writing of the “growing disillusionment” of the rld, was buried in Blossom Hill Cemetery today. PARIS—The Cabinet began re- vamping France's basic economy today by withdrawing subsidies from coal and other industries, | hiking the retail price of coal and lifting price controls from a num- \ker of products. LONDON Winston Churchill spoke in the House of Commons tcday against a government bill to give Burma complete indepen- dence. In Churchill's words, the independence of Burma is only a prelude to the blood bath which |will soon begin, as it has in In- | dia. | LONDON-Prospects for a Brit- ish-Russian trade agreement have taken a turn for the better. A | government source in London says that the president of Britain's Board of Trade—Harold Wilson— probatly will return to Moscow this month to resume negotiations. i S LR FROM MINNEAPOLIS i Emily Berg of Minneapolis, Minn., ! is stopping at the Gastineau. - ! The United States has 161 na- hional forests with a total area of 181 million acres. at the Baranof Hotel. i SR A P S FROM FAIRBANKS ‘ John D. Hopkins of Fairbanks is stopping at the Baranof. FROM DALLAS ! H. H. James of Dallas, Texas, is | registered at the Baranof. | National Distill Kentucky Whiskey—A Blend * 86 You'll never be a hermit if you serve 0o HERMITAGE “For Generations—A Great Kentucky Favorite” s Products Corporation, New York, N. Y. ROUTE OF THE ) Proof + 5% Grain Neutral Spirits . 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