The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 3, 1948, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 ¥.M. Edition “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE e SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition S VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,775 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BOMBER WRECKAGE FOUND ON GOOK INLET UNION IS Violated Unfair Labor Practice Under New Taft-Hartley Act Jan. 3. -The first union to be held guilty of an unfair labor practice under the Taft-Hartley Act pledged today to “fight the case all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court if necessary.” Herbert G. B. King, attorney for Local 74 of the AFL Carpente Union of Chattanooga, Tenn., said he will go the limit in opposing a ! ruling handed down here yesterday by J. J. Fitzpatrick. an examiner of the National Labor Relations Board F atrick held that Local 74 engaged in a secondary boycott, banned by the new labor law as an unfair labor practice, by calling strike of union carpenters when non-union flooring installers came to work along side them on a Chat- tanooga home remodeling job. The filing of unfair labor prac- tice charges was limited under the old Wagner Act to those against employers only. The Taft-Hartley law permitted them to be filed against unions ,too, for the first| time In another precedent-setting de- cision, Federal Judge Stephen W Brennan issued the first injunction under the Taft-Hartley law at Utica, N. Y., vesterday against Local 294, Truckers Union. | The injunction restrains the local from continuing six alleged unfair | labor practices—including one of so- | or requir- i WASHINGTON Rationing of FOUNDTO MeatIs Now UPHELD BY | BEGUILTY Possibility 600D VOTE \\AHHI]\GTON J'\n 3 —P—Am- ericans will be asking for meat ra- tioning by spring, Secretary of Ag- riculture Anderson said He told a radio audience (WOL- Mutual) that he does not know whose job it would be to prepare ration forms if Congr passes such ar m, but he said the Agricul- ture Department is preparing to do so if asked “I hope we won't have to ration anything except meat,” he said. “I believe rationing of this important food will have a strong effect on other food commedities and it will not be necessary to have any other controls.” U. 5. MARITIME COMMISSION IS AGAINST BILLS The U. S. Maritime Commission opposes favorable consideration by Congress of legislation which would relax the provisions of the Jones Act. its Chairman, Admiral W. W Smith, has informed Chairman Al- vin H. Weichel o1 the House Com- \ mittee on Merchant Marine and | Pisheries. Admiral Smith’s letter to Rep- esentative Wiechel on the subject indicate, however, that both the Interior Department and the Treas- Department have prepared r ports to Cong favoring the legislation. * claled “feather bedding,” The particular bills disapproved ing an emplover to pay for work not | o tyo Maritime Commission and performed—until the NLRB her y d by the Interior and the can decide if the local was “un- !Truxsux-y are H. R. 1032 and H. R. fair.” k | 2814, both introduced by Delegate Local 294 was accused of demand- | Bartiett early in 1947. The first ing that the Conway Express COM- : wiu1q permit Canadian or other pany of Pittstield, Mass., pav the | g oo “Coccons "t transport pas union an amount equal to the Wages | ¢;ocrs and merchandise betwee of a union member_ as penalty mr{AIaska ports or between Alaska allowing a non-union member 10| o, ang the States. The other duive & truck, fram N”’l Britain, { £5u1d remove the specific Jones S‘I’“\‘:“ to Cleveland, O, last Sep- |, giserimination against the G4t WY ITcrnlcry by amending Section 27 to make its provisions apply to all parts of the United States “in- Prominent Seward | i Businessman Dies | SEWARD, Aiaska, Jan. 3.—®P—| Requiem mass will be conducted | today for Tony Parich, Seward | business man and pioneer Alaskan, who died here Tuesday at the age of 68. Survivors include a brother, Sam, of Seward, and an-| other brother and a sister in Aus tria. | The Wa’s’l;i'hi;ioni Merry - Go - Round: By DREW PEARSON f BY DREV&II: PEARSON ? (In Europe) ROME—(By Wiraless)—I hcm‘! from heme that some editors are | bored with having me say nice things about people and think it's about time I began punching noses again. Despite that, however, I'm going to start the new year by | saying scmething else nice about a few people In fact, I want to rectify al couple of injustices. Shortly be- fore I left home I wrote a column referring to Army promotions in | which I pointed to the fact that! Gen. Manton S. Eddy, though only | a major general, had been pro- moted over the heads of several well-known lieutenant generals, the | inference being that he was pro-!Foreign Relations Committee, said | COCPeration and obtain cost figures moted because he was in charge' oi Army press relations. This in- | ference, T am now convinced, was wrong. While the Army does at- tach great importance to its press relations, General Eddy also had a great combat record and his pro- motion was not at all out of line! with this fine record. And while I am getting things off my chest, one diplomat I have criticized a lot in the past is Jimmy Dunn, now U. 8. Ambassa- to Italy. Regardless of the past, I have watched Jimmy work close up in Rome and there’s no (Continued on Pngéh‘l’wr) | Maritime Commission on { ished | Board by cluding Alaska” instead of “exclud- ing Alaska.” While not identical in language with 8. 1834, introduced last month by Senator Hugh Butler, the object and effect of the Bart- | lett bills would be the same. Dis- approval of them by the Maritime Commission forecasts similar dis- japproval of the Butler measure. Chairman Weichel requested the views and recommendations of the| H. R. | 1032 last January 23, and on H. R. 2814 were last March 28. The views submitted December 12 by | Admiral Smith in separate letters, which have been furn- Alaska Developmen! Delegate Bartlett. In each appears the language: “The Maritime Commission does not recommend favorable consideration of the bill.” copies of the R STUDY DEMANDED; ' ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MARSHALL PLA B\ JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. — (® — non-partisan survey of the Marshall | |Plan’s probable impact on the Am- erican economy was urged today by |Senator Wiley (R.-Wis.) Wiley, a member of the Senate he believes Chairman Vandenberg made a good move in asking the Brookings Institution for a report ‘on the best wav to administer the aid to 16 Western European nations. But he said he thinks the findings | of the privately financed research or- ganization should be broadened tu include “an estimate on how these proposed experts to foreign coun- tries are going to affect us at home. Vandenberg’s action also was ap- plauded by Senators Brooks (R.-Il.) and Taft (R.-Ohio), both critics of President Truman’s proposal for a | four-year, $17,000,000,000 outlay, and | Cartwright, Tacoma. A Navy vet-| The U.S. Weather Bureau vm.- since July 1, Speaker of the House Martin (R.- Mass.) SWEDISH CANCER SPECIALIST IS CALLED, MOSCOW Prof. Berven Summoned by Russian Authorities in "Serious Case” STOCKHOLM, Jan. 3.—(®—Prof |Elis Berven, Swedish cancer special- (15 Rationingol SCHUMANIS | 4 | 'French Premier Will De- mand Vote of Confi- dence or 'Will Quit — |ist and radiologist, left by plane PARIS, Jan. 3-(P—The Na- today for Moscow for “consultation tional Assembly upheld Premier on a serious cancer case.” Rcbert Schuman today against a| “I cannot tell vou who my patient combined Communist-De Gaullist |is because I don’t know myself yet,” attempt to modify the anti-infla- [Dr. Berven told newsmen. He re-| tion bill upon which he staked |ceived a cable request from ‘the his gevernment. The vote was 322 |Russian authorities.” to | Mrs. Berven said her husband had | The vote came on a proposed |no idea how long he might be in amendment to an article in the |Moscow. She added that his assist- | 125,000,000,000 franc ($1.000,000,000) |ance had been requested “not for the-franc tax bill dealing with taxation of small shopkeepers and craitsmen save. tion.” Dr. Berven, 62, is Chief Physician Schuman immediately announc- ed he was asking a vote of confi-| Before the war a Swedish brain | denze on five other amendments, |Surgeon, Prof. Herbert Olivecrona, and declared he would resign if the Was called to Moscow for consulta- article was not adopted intact aston under similar circumstances. Ra:Subhilbbed it |Later it developed that he had per- Under the Assembly rules, this,formed an operation on a high Soviet postponed further voting until on ! official Monday TR Schuman had summoned the VANDALS WhO BROKE WINDOWS, SKATERS' CABIN, ARE SOUGHT "orest Service officials are concerned over rec age to the aters Cabin at Men- denhall Lake A. W. Blackerby, Division Supervisor, said today that vandals broke into the cabin, parently last weekend and did con- Assembly into extraordinary session with the announcement he wanted | a vote of confidence on every pro- | posed major change ig the measure 1,000 CASUALTIES IN| GARRISON IN GREECE SIEGE, GOVERKMENT decp! siderable damage ATHENS, Jan. 3—(P— The Greek | ye gaid they had evidently taken War Ministry said today guerrilla ; cuh and knocked out 54 of the forces suffered more than 2000 capins 56 windows, including the casualties during their siege of | wiydow frames. The matter has the government garmison at Kon- |pecen turned over to the U. S. Mar- itsa, as opposed to 349 for the|gng) for investigation and Black- Nesonnl coraes: ferby said that persons, having in- War Minister George Stratos said | toymation, should contact the Mar- some 0 Communist rebels were killed, 1,500 wounded and 100 eap- tured in the fighting which began | on Ohristeses ey { Forest Service will be unable to Greek army losses, he said, were /jepair the damage in the future. eight officers and 51 men killed, | . explained that his funds are 21 o and 183 men wounded |jimiteq and, at the present rate, and 70 missing. The amy Jifted will soon expire. the siege New Year's Eve. e A reliable source said ~Queen Frederikent went to the Konitsa Slx Kllled in Freak Auto Collision, Tex. area today, where press dispatches said sporadic 1iiring by guerrillas continued in the heights around | the city, which the rebels wanted oo {as the capital for a Greek Com- (oppys CHRISTI, Tex., Jan, 3 munist state _(®—Six persons were killed here late last night when the automobile in which they were riding collided with one truck and bounced head-on into another. All were Latin-Ameri- SCHOOLS RESUME ON NEXT MONDAY 2" ™ =™ iy GOVERNOR TO CONFER }1r:ll;lay' is x‘ww 'ov:'irn amlcxw ;M wlTH FA'RBA"KS AND ANCHORAGE OFFICIALS | neau Public Schools will open again next Monday for all classes. of Alaska will to visit Anchor- . . | Alaska Airlines May (Change Mainfenance :: oo, e i o ‘B ' S "| | problems concerning the Territory Base from Seattle shals oifice. Blackerby also declared that un- . : less such vandalism ceases, The Governor leave tomorrow The Governor said today that he expects to discuss a special session of the Territorial Legisla- ture and many other matters, in- | cluding airport plans. He will also talk over prospective appointments |to vacancies on the Alaska De- velopment Board and the Board of Regents of the University of Alaska, and confer with Army offi- cials on defense problems. { GREAT FALLS, Mont., Jan. 3.— [®—Two officlals of the Alaska | Airlines said here today their com- /pany may transfer from Seattle to | Great Falls its maintenance base for aerial cargo shipments between | Anchorage, Alaska and U. S. points. | The contemplated shift was di: {closed by Ernest Hirt, Alaska Air- lines general distriet traffic man- ‘agu and Bert Kinsman, another ! traffic official of the line. They said they will seek of Alaska will be | conierence with Charles E. Bunnell, President of !he University. lI(ENSE DENIED 10 Tacoma Man Given | °“'?§,'f'}fi:£§?gm - Transfer, Anchorage , nenu has been denied by Federal| | SEATTLE, Jan. 3—IP—Northwest | judge George W. Folta. He declared | Alrlines announced today that however, that the application m | Pierce Cartwright, the University of Washington, had mebxuary 15, 1948. 1 been transferred to Anchorage from ' The application was made by Kar- the company’s Tacoma office. He danol(, Haloff and Bogatof. is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.| ———— to report back to their company. sran_-n he served four years OVEl‘seaSlorganjzed under the Department of during World War II. Agriculture July 1, 1891, an operation, but only for consulta- | of the Stockholm Radium Hospital. | ap- | the | The problems of the University | taken up at a| The 1948 liquor license applica- . a graduate of pe submitted without prejudice on | |WORST STORM OF WINTER SEASON '~ DIES OUT TODAY Crippling Cover of Ice and ; Snow in Eastern Area- | - Temperature Mild Associated Press) PROCLAMATION i - . WHEREAS The people of West- | ‘The season’s worts storm, which| o Eurone are in desperate need left a crippling cover of ice and: e go0q and clothing, and {snow over the eastern half of the| " \wHEREAS The Pacific North- jcountry, died out today western States have invited Alaska Only a few light snow flurries ¢, i5in them in a unified etfort in Maine remained of the temp- ¢, geng a Christmas Ship loaded | est which silenced communications, wity contributions of food and ihfll((d business and industry and clothing to these countries, and { disrupted transportation in com- WHEREAS It impractical to | munities from the Panhandle tO oy other than money from {the North Atlantio seaboard Alaska with which to purchase needed supplies; NOW, THEREFORE, 1 E. HENDRICKSON, Mayor City of Juneau, Alasl preclaim the week of January 3rd to January 10th as Christmas Ship Week, nate generously to this fund. (Signed) Waino E. Hendrickson Mayor of the City of Juneau Word has been received from the Pacific Northwest Christmas Ship Relief committee in Seattle, that the campaign will officially term- inate on January 10. Juneau falling behind other Alaskan cities in the Territorial contributions. and Mayor Waino Hendrickson has ask- ed everyone to get behind the campaign in its last week. Ketchi- kan Rotary Club headed up a cam- paign and collected $1,020 in cash Jeast 16 persons in the New Eng- Mayor Hendrickson said: “While Jand states and the New York . paw jyen solicited more often By The is the Appal- P of in re- section east of | achians faced a weekend of cl ing weather, but several days nsiderable cloudiness were prospect for the Great Lakes gion Temperatures scften the snow, enough to melt it, for the storm belt over the week end No further rain or snow was in sight, however { The WAINO of the mild enough to but not warm were predicted In Indiana, two days of heavy rains brought the threat of floods on the Wabash and White Rivers. Six families were evacuated in An- derson Highways in the path of the storm remained hazardous, and ice continued to strain trées and over-| hLead wires. The storm brought death to at! | wetropelitan - area. Other ‘*‘“‘1(; than usual during the past few! ities attributed to it were reported | monhs we all” realize that we in the midwest region are much more fortunate than Property damage was expected to total millions of dollars - - STOCK DEALINGS OF GRAHAM WILL BE PROBED NOW WM. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 »— A BSenate committee expects to receive so should make an effort to share {with these less fortunate people. Cash donations or checks can bvx mailed to the Christmas Ship Fund | in care of the City Clerk, P. O. Box 436, City Hall, or left there. - JOCKOLAS ViSIT VANCOUVER, SEAH[E Monday a full report on commodity M. and Mrs. William JOCK‘“F; transactions by President Truman's| Went south on the Norah this personal physician which are under imorning, and will visit in Van- FBI scrutiny. | couver and Seattle. They will see ! Senator Knowland (R.-Calif.), a Mrs. Jockola's sister and her hus member of an Appropriations Sub- [hand, Mr. and Mrs. Albert She committee investigating speculation, hramen, in Seattle. told reporters the records will be| Althcugh their plans are still| subpoened from the firm of Bache | incufinite they may alsa visi, | and Co., New York brokers to the | With Mr. Jorkola’s relatives in Cal- physician, Brig. Gen. Wallace H.jiornia. They will be gone for Graham. . | about three weeks. ! e Knowland said a summons caliing | on Bache and Co. to supply a copy | of Graham's account had been pre- jAMB pl"KERTo" o pared and will be issued as soon as AT(O ARRIVES HEREl 1 minor technical point is cleared | i up. | He first wants to find out, he ! James G. Pinkerton, assistant to| centinued, whether it must be signed | the chairman of the Board of the | by Chairman Bridges (R.-N. H.) of | Alaska Transportation Co., was al the full committee, by Chairman ! Juneau visitor today. He is mak-| Ferguson (R.-Mich. of the sub- ing an inspection tour of South- ccmmittee, or by any other member. | east Alaska ports on board the Knowland and Senator Brooks (R.-|Sword Knot. 111) are the only two subcommittee | Pinkerton, who mayntains his, members in the city. I headquarters in Ketchikan, 1 has promised tolponed that the Sword Knot is available at |loading 150,000 board feet of lum- Bache and Co. have the information its Washington branch by Monday, | ber today at the Juneau Spruce Knowland continued | Corporation. He expressed a de- ——— | sire that the local sawmill will isoon be able to package their : €% 05000 ® 00" lunber such as {s now done in| Kelchlkan He pointed out that\ b WEATHER REPORT o ;lhh makes loading three times as ® (U 8. WEATHER BUREAU) | fast and also gives a much cheap ® Temperatures for 34-Hour Period @ | o4’ grojone rate ® Ending 6:30 0'Clock This Morning @ g e R ® In Juneau— Maximum, 31; 0" C. Y. 0. OUTING ® minimum, 27 4 LR ® At Airport— Maximum, 31, ® | A Christmas outing at the Shrine minimum, 26 ® | of St. Therese was enjoyed by mem- WEATHER FORECAST @ pers of the Catholic Youth Organi- | (Junssn. and Vicinity) ® \zation. Fifteen boys and girls left with Variable cloudiness snow flurries this afterncon ® |town on Sunday, December 28, and | yreturned on Wednesday and report | and mostly cloudy with oc- @ |haying a wonderful time. With the ® .casional snow tonight and @ |group was Mrs. Bill Merriweather | ® Stnday, changing to snOw ® and the Rev. Leo Sweeney, S. J. |® or rain Sunday afternoon. e | } Warmer with southeasterly ! THANKS EXPRESSED -|® winds 15 to 20 miles per o/} = ® hour Sunday " The Sisters of St. Ann's wish PRECIPITATION ® to extend sincere and hearty (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 « . today) @ | thanks to their many friends who In Juneau— 0.16 inches; @ |so kindly and generously contri- | ® since Jan. 1, 045 inches; @ |puted to make Christmas and New | ® since July 1, 6217 inche: ®|Years a time of happiness and |® At Airport— 005 inches; | cheer for them and their patients. ® since Jan. 1, 050 inches; ® - B - 36.81 inches. ®| Every living thing produces en- ® zymes which help speed up chemi- . o . . * o o o o in living tissue. 'cal reactions a, do hereby and urge all citizens to do- | United States Fleef in Mediterranean Sea Will Be Strengthened at Once WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. — # — A group of Marines whose number the Navy decl to disclose will sail next Tuesday to strengthen U. S forces aboad the aircraft carvier Midway, three light cruisers and ten destroyers now stationed in the Mediterranean Sea ‘The cruiser Little Rock and two of the destrovers are based at ports in Greece, which this country has been trying to bolster against Com- munism encroachment. The other craft are in Italian waters The only clue to the size of the Marine force given in the Navy an- nouncement last night was that the men, all from the Second Division will make the trin on a “normal size transport of 12,000 to 15,000 tons | fully loaded.” They will leave from | Morehead, N. C I The men are being sent, the Navy said, for shipboard training and to | “restore the total personnel on | board to approximately the normal over-all complement” of the carriers |and ihree cruisers. Carrie in the Midway class nor- | mally carrv 2.200 men, including 100 Marines, and cruisers 1,000 men, of whom 50 are Marines. However, the Navy said American vy shins have been undermanned some time, apparently a hint that it would take more than the | ordinary number of Marines to bring the four shins uo to their “normal over-all complement.” ! The Navy turned aside questions whether it has plans to send addi- tional Marines or shivs to the Medi~ {terranean later. > (CANNERY SHIP IS the average person in Europe, and | ~ ONROCKS SEATTLE, Jan. 3.- Wind, | waves and ice cloaked the fate | today of the stricken cannery tend- jer Spencer, from which no word has been received since it radto- up on the rocks five miles east | cf Kanatak, across the Shelikof Strait from Kodiak Island on the Alaska Peninsula i Coast Guard headguarters here reported that the cutter Clover and a Navy tug both put out from Kodiak in answer to the distress call, but were turned back by the stormy weather and the weight of ice which gathered on the rig- \ging and decks of the two craft Weather permitting, they will at- tempt again today to reach the scene. The Spencer's silence does not necessarily mean it has gone down, the Coast Guard said. Under | severe icing conditions the tender may have been unable to transmit radio messages. The small craft near mid-day Dec. 31. The number of men aboard and the tender’s home port, ))avt‘ l\u! been learned. 'MARGARET TRUMAN REJECTS BIG OFFER FOR HER SINGING NEW YORK, Jan. 3—# Mar- |garet Truman, the President’s |daughter, has rejected with thanks |a $10,000 weekly offer to do her singing in a Times Square rest- aurant. | “Gosh, what she would have done {for business,” said Ralph Watkins after announcing last night the young concert singer had turned down his bid for an appearance at | the “Roval Chicken Roost.” WatKins {is one of the owners | Other plans prevented Miss Tru- |man from accepting, Watkins said |adding that he had even offered to change the name of the eating |place if the President”s daughter wished went aground - f HERE FROM SITKA Dick Avrit of Sitka is staying at the Baranof Hotel ed an SOS Dec. 31 it was breaking | 2 WHEELS, WING TANK ARE FOUND Belief Exprésfied Plane Ex- ploded-Definite Clue to Fate Is Established ANCHORAG! Discovery of Alaska, Jan. 3.—® two wheels, a wing tank and nose strut of a B-29 bomb- er on the beach of Knik Arm strengthend the belief of 10th Res- cue Squadron authorities today that a California - bound Superfortress which disappeared early Wednesday exploded over Cook Inlet. The scattered wreckage. found late vesterday, was the first definite clue to the fate of the big bomber and its crew of nine since a “blind- ing flash” was seen shortly after the takeoff for its home base at Fairfield, Suisan, Calif A helicopter pilot and his ob- server spotted the tank only two air miles from Elmendorf Field, big Air Force base near Anchorage. The struts were sighted half a mile along the beach Continue Arctic Search Meanwhile, intensive efforts are being mads to find the pilot and navigator of a B-29 which crashed Dec. 23 near the northern rim of the Seward Peninsula, 93 miles from Nome, and to locate the bodies of three paratroopers who are believed to have perished in attempting to reach the crash scene. Day and night flights are being continued by the Air Forces over ihe area between the wrecked Super- fortress and the Eskimo village of Shishmaref toward which the two crewmen set out. Six other mem- bers of the crew were rescued last Monday. Bodies of the Ladd Field, Fair- banks, doctor and two paratroopers eved to have been sighted Two dog team drivers, and another volun- teer from Nome were flown to the area yvesterday by “Bush” Pilot Munz to continue the search for the trio. are | from the air one an Eskimo, - - - MAN ARRESTED ON CHARGE VIOLATION WHITE SLAVE ACT Harry Keler, age about 40, was arrested at Ketchikan last night by a Deputy U. S. Magrshal as a result of a complaint filed here by the FBI charging him with violation of the White Slave Traffic Act Keler allegedly induced an 18- year-old Tacoma girl to travel with him from Tacoma to Juneau, where he claimed to have a six months' contract for his band at the Salmon Creek Country Club. The young girl was to be engaged as a vocalist Both travelled from Seattle to Juneau as man and wife on the ,Denali and were accompanied by another musician, Dan Neeleyl, also hired at Tacoma by Keler for the engagement at the Country Club. Upon arrival in Juneau on De- cember 23, Neeley determined that there was no job for them and that the management had never heard of Keler, or “Texas Slim,” as he called himself According to the young {vocalist Keler was then to take them to Fairbanks where he had “another connection.” They continued to live {at a local hotel, as man and wife, luntil last Wednesday when Keler disappeared. Through an investigation con- ducted by the Juneau Police De- partment, U. S. Marshal’s office and the FBI it was determined that “Texas Slim” was probablv on his wayv to Texas so arrangements were made for his arrest at Ketchikan. It is contemplated that he will be returned to Juneau for trial. D STEAMER MOVEMENTS - Jumper Hl!ch callcd from Seattle today. Denali scheduled to sail from Se- attle today. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver January 9. Palisana, from west, scheduled arrive tomorrow or Monday. Aleutian, from west, scheduled southbound Sunday forenoon. | to