The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 3, 1947, Page 1

-y - Sttt 'HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” T VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,749 . ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DE EMBER 3, 1947 'MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ARABS, JEWS FIGHTING FIGHTING TRUMAN'S GIVEN NATION 7~ PROGRAM Measures Pur'op‘osed fo Re- duce Living Cost-Ci0 | to Ask Wage Boost WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—P— An administration move to sub- mit its own bills on the most con- troversial parts of President Tru- man’s anti-inflation program and an impending CIO wage boost drive touched oft a new cost of living Lattle in Congress today. Although Senator Taft (R-Ohio) withheld comment until he has had a chance to study the legisla- tion involved, other Republicans made it plain that two promised measures covering the price-wage rationing and allocation field will tace prompt opposition. At the same time, the CIO an- nouncement that its unions Wil seek a “third round” of pay in- creases in negotiations beginning early next year was described as “expected” by some Republicans but they said this development will complicate ccngressional conside: tion of cost of living proposals Some Democrats on the other hand took the view that it might speed action on Capitol Hill However, CIO President Philip Murray said in announcing the new campaign late yesterday that he and his lieutenants look for no ac- tion by Congress during the spec- jal session to keep prices down. Meeting newsmen after a day- long session with his nine vice- presidents, the white-haired umon leader declared that the CIO determined to lighten the unbear— able economic burden which has Leen imposed upon the people.” “To this end,” the formal state-’ ment continued, “the CIO and its affiliated unions shall proceed through the process of collective bargaining to obtain substantial wage increases for the Amencanw workers to restore their loss in real incomes .surfcxed through in- flation And almost simultaneously with | Murray’s announcement, respon- sible administration officials dis- closed privately that two bills ha\e been drafted to: ® i 1. Provide for price-wags con-| trols as well as authority to ra- tion scarce cost of living items and critical materials, if voluntary price .- o tackle the Communism prob-| and distribution agreements can- not ke obtained. 2. Extend for two years the sec ond decontrol act of 1947 and! broaden it to include -controls and allocation powers over steel and jron, grains and transportation/ facilities. | —— FOREIGN LEGION ) FOR U. 5. ARMY | IS PLEA MADE Senator Brews'er Wants! Forces for Unifed Na- | tions Security Council | PORTLAND, Maine, Dec. 3. — | The United States should train vol- : unteer forces immediately for United | Nations Security Council duty in| Palestine, U. S. Senator Brewster | (R.-Me.) said today. | Brewster would have the volun-| teer group trained as a special seg- ment of the U. S. regular Army. | There is a “strong feeling in Con- | gress for the immediate preparauont of a security force—a foreign legion | —for action in the Middle East,” the | Senator said in an interview. He expressed belief that Russia would respond with troops if Jews in Palestine asked for help and the | Security Council was not ready to | step in. “No one could object to Russia’s | stepping in at such a time” he de- | clared. The Jewish War Veterans, Brew- | ster said, has offered to direct re- cruiting of volunteer forces for pos- sible duty in Palestine. e CUSTOMS MAN HERE Hillard F. Everson, with the U. 3. Customs at Sitka, is staying at the Baranof. PROGRAM IS BY NAM HEAD - Calls for Increased Pro- ducivity, Reduction in Spending, Taxes NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—(®— Earl Bunting, President of the National Association of Manufacturers, today called for increased productivity, emergency foreign relief in goods not dollars, and reductions in gov- ernment spending and income tax- es. His would pro- program, he said, “nuliify the administration’s posal to establish a ‘police state in America”; would assure main- tenance of the American living standard, and would make possible “'generous” foreign aid He also asked lator forego demands for general wage increases without increases in pro- ductivity, except in cases of gross inequities. “All feather-bedding rules should set aside,” he said, Il restrictions on individual pro- ductivity not essential to employee and health.” speech was the highlight of the opening of the ciation of Manufacturers Congress of American Industr which brought more than 3,000 in-; the| the Waldof-Astoria for! dustrialists from all country to three day scs‘iun -COMMIES LOSE JOBS IN HOLLYWOOD Two More Personalities Discharged Following Contempt Citation HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 3—#—Two more out of a job today as movie man- agzment and talent unions prepa over lem across the conference table| onight. Writers Dalton Trumbo and Les- I ten Cole were fired by Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer Studios, as of day. They were among the cited for contempt of Congress af 2 ter refusing to tell the House Un- | American Activies Committee ! whether they are or were Commun- ists. Producer Adrian Scott and Di- rector Edward Dmytryk of R-K-O and writer Ring Lardner, Jr., of Twentieth Century-Fox were dis- missed previously. The other five, free lancers without studio con- tracts, are writers Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, John Howard Law- ;son and Alvah Bessie, and Di- rector Herbert Biberman. The dismissals were in line with |an industry policy enunciated by Eric Johnson, President of the | Motion Picture Producers Associa-! tion, after a New York meeting. recent — e STOCK QUOTATIONS - Closing NEW YORK, Dec. 3. |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | steck today is 3%, American Can 61, Anaconda 34'%, Curtiss-Wright 5 Interndtional Harvester 88%, Ken- | necott 44%, New York Central 12'%, | Northern Pacific 18%, U. S. Steel 75%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 980,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: In- dustrials, ties, 32.19. >>o——— WITH ROAD COMMISSION Frances and Marie Whalen of ! Valdez arrived on the Alaska, and are staying at the Baranof Hotel. | Frances Whalen is employed wtih ; the Alaska Road Commission at Val- ; dez, but has been assigned to a week's temporary duty in the Ju- neau office. The sisters have been vacationing in Seattle, and will re- turn to Valdez next week. leaders to as well as' National Asso-| 52nd | Hollywood personalities were! yew.er-' 179.63; rails, 47.50; utili- PLANE CRASHE of Alaska Air Rescue workers prabe burning wre The piane was from Anch erashed others juries and burns, | | One of the four moicrs cf the Alaska / il | 8 [ ] | | ! | I i autemobile demolished in the crash at Seattle. s plane that c the Se Alaska, with ngers s » Wirephoto. incs plane is shown beside an P Wirephoto. : Firemen Fiéht Plane Blaze e el — 7 g i | { Firemen direct streams of water on crashed at Seattle. /) Wirephoto, - the Alacka Airlines plane that § IN LANDING AT SEATTLE tle-Tacoma airpert, d three crewmen aboard. iolished, Plane (rash | then overran the runway and Eight persens were killed, COAST GUARD AIR PATROL IS = NOW URGED Gen. Kennedy Wanis Ap- proaches to North Ameri- | @ to Be Under Guard | FORT WORTH, Tex., Dec. 37—(1!“ —Immediate creation of a radar | “Coast Guard Patrol of the Air, "1 to guard the approaches to North America is advocated in an inter- Vi by General George C. Ken-| ne Commanding General of lhe Strategic Air Command, only sensible thing to do in an un-‘ certain and disturbed world { [ The plain-spoken boss of Amor»‘ s world-ranging B-29s szotledl arthtound thinking wmch. inspzcts all ocean-i gmng that reach our country, veH s unguarded 10,000 poss ble‘ landing tields where a potential| enemy might land unchallenged an aircrait carrying atomic missiles| and an escort refueling ship.” at carefully ships “We new radar patrol planes| flying from Goose Bay, Labrador, to Alas and southward down| Loth con Kennedy insisted. - —— TRYGVELIEPLANS PALESTINE VISIT ~ DURING JANUARY LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. 3. — v Secretary-General Trygve Lie sald today that he planned to visit Pal- sstine and at the same time an nounced the appointment of Ralph J. Bunthe, United Nations Trustee- Iship Expert, as Principal Secretary | 'to the Five-Nation Commission ]whx(,h will supsrvise partitioning of | the Holy Land I Lie said he could stay in Palestine { “only a short time¥ He planned to !go there on a trip that will take Ihim to Burope early in January to | !survey prospects for holding the | | 1948 session of the. General As- | sembly somewhere in Europe i Bunche, who will head the secre- tariat attached bv the UN to the partition overseer group, is an Am- | erican negro who formerly worked for the U, S. State Department R . CAA MAN HERE George B. Lenner of the CAA in Anchorage is sloppmg at the Bar-| anof. | ‘(‘lxll |cause of the accident or to molve‘ ey similar formation ! determine s to the Panama Canal,”|div i not |deals are taken ! subcommittee I.00IJY BATTLES |PAA PLANE CRASH | USE MACHINE s Cutto GUNS, KNIVES: MANY KILLED TTLE, Dec. 3.—(® eronautics Board hearing on| the Pan American World Airway plane crash on Annette Island op-| ened today, a company official the urged inc sed weather observation| fachiies wions e i couse and MOr@ Threats Made as Lit- said Pan American “has been un- wie o i we mosanie, 11 Territory Is Being Ringed Around (By .\smciaied Press) Arabs and fought | battles with machine guns, knives, grenades and fire in the {No-Man's Land between Jaffa and | Tel Aviv in Hcly Land rioting over the decision of partiioning Pales- “If a system of weather ships tine. to that maintained during About 35 were counted dead on were operated, vital in- both sides, by unofficial estimates, which is nec to in two davs of communal warfare any logical theory as to its cause. iighteen persons perished in the Cctober 26 crash of the north- kound plane ! Capt. Gordon F. Maxwell, ager of flight operations for the| firm’s - Pacific-Alaska Division and first company representative to tes- tify, asserted. Jews bloody man- the war ‘muk- more accurate for s for throughout the country |Alaska would be available and' More threats to Palestine’s Jews would benetit operators of all air-'came from Arab nations ringing the yeraft in Alaska.” little country. In Cairo teachers of After explaining that the com: Al Lazhar University were attempt- pany was without clues to the cause ing to organize enlistments for a of the mishap, he added Holy War with the announced pur- Next summer, when it is possible pose of “driving the wolves” from again to examine the scene of the Palestine. accident and to explore thorough<| A yemper of the Jewish under- 1\“ the remaining parts of the groung myjtia, Hagana and a Jew- wreckage, it is hoped that addition- ;) physician were killed and five Al information will te collected|joys 5 policeman and four Hagana which will permit us definitely to ..., weré wounded in the Tel Aviv the cause. area these revorts said. Two Arabs The first witness was Fred Pow- were shot and wounded by British ell, accident investigator for the| troops in Jerusalem. Alaska region. His testimony wa % \ esterday’s casualti - devoted to action taken by BOV- ficial report were |: e;ndbyn:;w;a ernment agencies and search and’ wounded tescue groups after the plane was| 1, he second day of a three-day reported missing. He said he‘“y Arab protest strike against parti- new snow, prevented a detalled In- | ion the government clamped an vestigation by the C.AA. when the| 4,cunq.the-clock curfew on the No- bodies of the victims were recov-)mMan's Land border region between ued on Mount Tamgas. all-Jewish Tel Aviv and all-Arab or more wiinesses, in- Jaffa. A curfew on Arab districts rluduw Almkn residents who par-'of Jerusalem was continued another ticipated in (‘Al]('d the search, will be 24 hours. Several other Pan Ameri, Thousands of Jews and Arabs fled yees are expected to tes-| the trouble areas of Jerusalem as (Jewish sources predicted a rising tempo of violence. | Cairo police, swinging clubs for ,the first time in three days of dem- | onstrations, dispersed a crowd of WASHINGTON, Dec." 3,—-\.45AA; - o GOV' Keeps v,,mdenns shouting anti-American {and anti-British slogans before the {U. S. and British embassies. oo s a y ! Premier Jamil Mardam Bey of “;)na personally called at the U. 8. Legation in Damascus and apolo- Says Andrews Sunday by demonstrators protesting | partition. Gendarmes stood at sal- |ute while a new American flag was raised to replace one ripped down by rioters. FormerGAO Official Clalms 4 5 Not Certain SEATTLE LAST NIGHT; GOES WEST THIS A. M. {former official of the general ac- icounting office declared today the The Denali docked at Juneau at governmznr. keeps its books 5o bad- 11:15 last night from Seattle, y that “no one knows” whether n bringing 18 passengers from Seattle income last year. |from Seattle were: H. S. Axelson, T. Coleman Andrews, former di- Thelma Bakke, Hans Berg, Mrs. rector of the GAO corporate audits' Hans Berg, Mrs. F. Foran, F. D. ion, said that actually the Jensen, Mrs. E. Ness, R. J. Seil- “budget surplus” of $757,000,000 back, Mrs. R. J. Seilback, Eugene gized for the attack on the legation Budgel Surplis IS DpNALI ARRIVES FROM nad a surplus or a deficit in its and four from Ketchikan. Arrivals announced by the treasury when Tarr, Mrs. Sidney L. Voiles, Marie the 1947 fiscal year ended lnst Whalen, Frances Whelen, J. F. June 30 was “just a balance of| {Wendt, Mrs. J. F. Wendt, Jack B. cash.” ,Cunnlnxham, Jack Lund, Kino Mack. Even businesses which are broke Passengers froi e and operating at a deficit usually| Dale WgA;amsmml:ut:h(l}k\:Tbe::f: have some cash on hand, Andrews n.. m@ Guilbeault, and Florence said in a statement prepared for| Gy iiheault. a House executive expenditures| rpe penali sailed for the West- | subcommittee. iward at 5:30 this morning with Andrews said he was told that eight persons boarding at Juneau include billions of dollars of ;‘;jlef“;f"j'; M;;::Z lzil;:'c:n'se:; disbursements by the Army and i, Roseled Chapman, Lawrence Navy that were made prior to June Pagnac, Mrs. Lawrence Pagnac, 30 but were not reported to the i R B Gibson and Walter Treasury until later.” I Gdmbie. 3 The same was true, he added, of anpaid vouchers “covering more billions of dollars for goods and services purchased and used by the hundreds of departments agencies and other organizations of the government during the fiscal| year." | Andrews asked: Seattle Saturday. “How on earth can anyone say: Denali, from west, whether there was a surplus or a'Sunday. deficit for that year unless all - E gl into account?” | TAX LIENS RELEASED GAO official was called by the| The Juneau Office of the Bureau in a discussion of of Internal Revenue has released Lookkeeping practices by the Re-|tax liens against Robert E. Ferguson constructicn Finance Corporation and George J. Lane . The liens were as a prelude to a full dress inves- impesed because of alleged non-pay- tigation of government purchases ment of their 1943 Federal Income during the war. | Taxes. the supposed. budget surplus “did B STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah, from Vancouver, due Friday afternoon. Baranof scheduled to sail from southbound The the former first witness