The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 10, 1948, Page 1

SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition HE DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MPIRE SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition — - S [ VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,859 JUNEAU ALASKA, SATURI)\\ APRIL 10, 1948 f\’l[ MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LUMBER MILL CLOSED TODAY BY DISPUTE 100 Killed, 200 Injured In Bogota Revolt CITY CENTER SET ABLAZE: ALSOLOOTED Situation Reported Under| Control-American Group | Faces Food Shortage BOGOTA, Colembia, April 10.— (#—Revolutionary rioting early today in the burning and looted center of Bogota. A Presi- dential statement said forces of the} conservative government controlled | the situation. | Delegates to the ninth Interna-| tional Conference of American States still were cooped up in their headquarters, facing a shortage of | food. The newspaper El Tiempo said 100 were killed and 200 were in- jured in the revolt which flared suddenly yesterday with the assass- ination of the Liberal party lead- er. Some 35 buildings were put to the torch by a howling mob. Gun Battle A gun battle rag last night | near the U. S. Ei y, and a, series of fires broke out in the building which houses the Embassy. The fires were quelled and Embassy staff did building. As dawn came, gangs still roam- ed the streets, setting new fires Shooting broke out sporadically, pbut by 6 a. m. the streets were almost deserted, Those who re- mained poked around the remains in the looted, burned shops. No police or troops were seen on the main streets. Apparently they still were confined to the area of the Presidential palace. Americans Safe (Secretary of State Marshall R L R R The Washingion| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Ed. Note—Tms is the second of Drew Pearson's columns on the feud between the Navy and the Air Forces.) (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — Long before the Senate Armed Services Com- mittee this week summoned Secre- tary of Defense Forrestal and Sec- retary of Air Symington to hear their opposing views on air power, the Navy—which Forrestal favors— had secretly circulated a memo to Congressmen claiming that the Navy should be the sole deliverer of the atomic bomb against the} enemy. In other words, the old Army- Navy battle supposed to have been stopped by unification is hotter than ever. The first part of this secret memo was published in this column yesterday. the Navy was in danger cf be- coming obsolete, and that it should assume a new offensive role for itself —that of dropping the atomic bomb, The A-bomb, it was ar- gued, should be carried by an air- plane carrier close to enemy shores, then catapulted in special Navy bombers fcr the last-leg 1light over enemy territory. In the final installment of the| the | not leave tlie| It pointed out that! [and his American staff in Bognl\\ V | | subsided | i l | | | i i i i i i | foreign correspondents, { building | the rioting started. Newspaper men | parts for the Inter-American Conference | all are safe, the Secretary reported | by telephone to Washington last night.) The large plaza south of the U Embassy was ablaze last niglu gun battle raged nearby. revolution followed the assassination yesterday of a Lib- al leader and resulted in the ~(‘V'm§1 up of a Liberal Junta. The government of President Marmno Ospina Perez is mainly conserva- tive One American, diplomatic courier, among those hurt. Regain Control Earlier last night President Ma .iano Ospina Perez said forces ol he Conservative government were | regaining control of the situation. The President issued a communi-| que accusing Communists of incit .ng the uprising. He said steps aad heen taken to restore order. (Diplomatic dispatches reaching the State Department in Washing- .on reported Communists appear-| ed to be abetting the revolution and helping attempts to provoke a strike. (Diplomatic officials in Wash- .ngton scanned Bogota reports to- day to determine just what role the | Jommunists are playing in the revolution. (Washington diplomatic ities said the Communist party and a ‘The Powell, reported John was author- in Colombia has about 8,000 members.) | Revolution Spreading Revolutionary leaders claimed che revolution was spreading .hroughout the country. Earlier n the day the Liberals proclaim- d their own government. (Parts of this story were re- ceived in the iorm of a joint dispatch sent from Bogota by 10| including | Joseph F. McEvoy of the Associat-| ed Press, and received by the State | Department in Washington. Other portions came direct from Bogota oy commercial channels and still others were relayed by the Asso- ciated Press Bureau venezuela.) Killed On street Last night the conservatives re- sccupied a radio station the ;urgents had heid. ment forces firing from the towers Jf the cathedral killed 14 persons on Carrera Septima Street. Delegates to the ninth Pan | American conference in the Capitol left the building when still inside were endangered when of the structure were set Jire. MALTIAL LAW GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, —(M—A radio station at in Southern Colombia, April broade an announcement today that Pres- | ident Mariano Ospina Perez has| declared martial law throughout { Colombia. The broadcast said a 7 pm.| curfew has been ordered by the! Colombia army. The order was attributed to Col. Gustavo Rojas.| commander of the army in the Department of Caldas. Traffic is prohibited after the curfew hour' without military permission. — e, e 0 s 0 000 0 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU (Past 24 hours ending 7:20 a.m. today In Juneau— Maximum, 51; minimum, 31. At Airport— Maximum, 48; minimum, 24. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Viecinily) Mostly fair but with some high cloudiness this after- noon and Sunday, with low- est temperature tonight near freezing. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau City— since April 1, .02 inches 10. | Pereira, | st | 14 OFFICERS ARE TO HANG FOR MURDERS Senfence Passed at Neurn- berg - Other Elite Guards to Prison [ NUERNBERG, Germany, April | 10.—(A—Fourteen officers of the SS (Elite Guard) were sentenced tcday to hang ior at least a mil- lion killings. The sentences wound up the biggest murder trial in his- tory. The men were leudrr.\ the “Einsatz Commandcf.” These were special extermination squads _\Ln! into Russia to do away with pecple classified by the Nazis as cially undesirable Two other men drew life terms. }Anumer five were sent to prison | for lesser terms ranging down to 110 years. Sentence was pronounced hy Judge Michael A. Musmanno of | Pittsburgh, presiding over a three- man court, at the end of a trial | lasting seven months. Maj. Gen. Otto Ohlendorf |was one of those sentenced to death. He admitted in | that his Einsatz group killed 90,000 | Jews. Maj Heinz Schubert was an- »()Lher of the condemned. He claim- ed distant Schubert, composer of the “Unfin- ..<hed Symphony” and other well- known Wworks. Crash; Forly Five Injured 10.—D— of Caracas, | n- Otner govern- | DALLAS, Texas, Forty-five persons were injured, five critically, in the head-on | crash of two interurbans just north of Vickery in Dallas county at 17:55 a. m. today. Destroyer Mayrant, Atom Bomb Target, I; Sunk by Gunfire PEARL HARBOR, April 10—® | —Pacific Fleet headquarters an- | nounced yesterday that the des- troyed Mayrant, another of the | Bikini atom bomb targets, was sunk | April 3 off Kwajalein by destroyer | gunfire. | Nine other Bikini target ships ! previously had been. scuttled. All | were deemed useless because of | radioactivity and deterioration. April | :| ABSENTEE SARDINE WILL BE BROUGHT BACK T0 PACIFIC LOS ANGELES, April 10.—®—A ,tri—state study has been proposed | to bring back the absentee sardine to Pacific Coast waters, | California, Washington and Ore- |gon experts—from state agencies land commercial fisheries—will be- gin investigation at once, Califor- nia officials said. Expert consen- |sus to date has it the sardine whns just been virtually fished out. the trial} relationship to Franz} EMPLOYERS TURNDOWN CARPENTERS Confractors Meeing Is A'-: E tended by Representa- tives of 25 Local Firms Negotiations between local car- penters and the Juneau Contractors and Employers Association went in- to reverse today as the result of an ) Association meeting at the Elks Club last night. The Association members were told by their attorney that it would be illegal for them to bargain with the Juneau Local of the AFL Car- penters Union because that union has not been certified by the Na- tional Labor Relations Board. It was explained that each em- ployer would be subject to a max- mum penalty of $100,000 by the Federal Government if he should enter into a collective bargaining agreement without first receiving approval from the NLRB. It was pointed out, however, that the carpenters could continue to work under their old contract which expired on March 31. This agree- ment would remain in effect until |NLRB certification had been re- ceived. At that time, negotiations could be resumed, Have Fixed Income The meeting was attended by re- presentatives of 25 business {ir: n Juneau who discussed the gener- al labor picture of the community. It was pointed out that the com- munity income is more or less fix- ed because it is derived only from Government payrolls and the wages of Juneau Spruce Corporation em- ployees at the present time. It was stated that the latter pay- oll 1s already considered quite high and there is little likelihood of an increase at the local sawmill. The company’s present labor dispute, it was also pointed out, is not help- ing to stabilize local economy. The group decided that it would not be a good thing for Juneau if unions are granted wage increases {at this time because the people, !lncreases in prices which would have to ke made in order i~ allow for wage hikes. The employers, them- selves, said they personall had nothing to lose by an increas sumer, Increase Not Necessary Several other arguments we: so advanced for not granting increases at present, Several gro- cerymen, who were present, said that while the cost of living index went up 13 percent from June 1947 to January 1948, the local food pric- es had decreased in Juneau 8 per- cent in the first three months of this year which has almost can- celled last year's rise. e al- wage The Territorial World War II Veterans Sales Tax wil] expire on June 30, they said, which will mean a one percent reduction in costs to the consumer. The new cuts in the Federal Income Tax will also bene- fit the average person as well as new reductions in freight rates be- tween Alaska and the States. All of these items, it was pointed i for the average person and it is, {wage increases at the present time, they declared. Sympathy With Spruce The group also declared its sym- pathy with the Juneau Spruce Cor- poration management and offered to assist, if possible, in helping the company through its present diffi- Navy's secret memo, it is claimed that the Air Forces should now be relegated to the job of defend-| ing the USA. The B-29s which| pounded Germany and Japan tow- ard the end of the last war, ac- cording to the Navy, should now be virtually grounded, with offen- sive fighting left to the Navy. The United States, argues the Navy, has now become like Eng- land in 1938, and must resort to, a net of interceptor planes over its shores to keep off the enemy. Concluding portions of the Navy's since July 1, 80.99 inches. At the Airport— None; since April 1, .11 inches; since July 1, 48.51- inches. : CCMMUNIST COUP IS : REPORTED SCOTCHED ® ® 0 e+ e w6 0 0 0 s today they had scotched an at- | tempted Communist coup. MAI“E DEMO(RATS They said it was coordinated with PLEDGED, TRUMAN .simuar moves in other countries | aimed at interfering with the inter- AUGUSTA, Me., April 10.—#— Maine Democrats today pledged American conference at Bogota, Colombia. their 10 National Convention votes to President Truman. It was pointed out that the com-| {pany had done much for the com- munity and is undeserving of its present labor difficulties. A committee is being appoin to meet with the Juneau AFL Build- group, and Employers Association to ae-| - e first city to be lighted by electric- ity. (Continued on Page Four) ihg, April 19, themselves, cannot afford to pay the ° it would be passed on to the con- the wreckage out, provide more take home pay three therefore, not necessary to grant O culties, which it labelled as unfair.| ted ' died here today. ing Trades Council and explain the for some time. His sister, situation of the contractors to that A. Walker, |said he suffered from diabetes, The possibility of expanding the hardening of the nine member Juneau Contractors heart disease. commodate other businessmen was frem 1915 to 1919. Sunbury, Pennsylvania, was the|discussed and is expected to be peinted Federal acted upon at their annual meet- Eastern District of U. S. Bomber, World's Largest, in Flight Consclidated Vultee B-36, world’s largest bomber, is shown in flight from Washington; D. C. span of 230 feet, length of 163 feet, and in taxi position is approximately 47 feet high, Six 28-cylinder Pratt, Whitney Wasp Major engines, which total 18,000 horsepower, four-story building. power the plane. Bomber exceeds speed of 300 m.p.h. miles, or maximum bomb load of 72,000 pounds on shorter range. ARMY PILOT Surprise Is IS KILLED | Now Sprung IN lANDINGi In Coal Slnke Leader of Fmt from Elm- Neufral Member of Group endorf Field Downed Named-Seftlement of ~Engine Trouble Trouble Expected ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 10.i WASHINGTON, April —{®—The pilot of a P-51 fighter | fouse Speaker Martin plane was killed yesterday when| alled John L. Lewis and Ezm he crashed into the waters of Cook | Van Horn, operators’ representa- Inlet while attempting an «‘m-‘r-; ive, into a special conference to- gency landing. |day in an effort to settle the 27- His name was not immediately | day-old coal strike. After the ses- released by his base at Elmendorf|sion, Martin spredicted an early | Field. ; settlement of the dispute, | | The Alr Force announcement| Mart, ~who became an . unex- sajd the pilot, leader of a flight|P¢cted peacemaker in_the tangle,| out on & routine maneuver, had|38id Lewis and Van Horn quick- called his wingman and told mml‘yu*‘g’eed g 5‘)“““" Bridges (B- he was having engine trouble, He |NH) fo be & third, or neutral, | said he would try to land on a member of the Board of Trustees small strip on Fire Island. for the miners’ pension fund { The wingman said the plane feil| hA dispute over payments “"ml ito the water while circling the ‘n¢ pension fund led to the walk strip. The tail of the plane re-| tout of miners March 15 The | mained out of the water. A barge|B08rd has been without a lhlrdl rrew took the pilot's body out of | member since January, when | Thomas Murray of New York re- mlm\ed The' absence of a neu-| | tral member has been cited as one | reason tor failure to reach an ! agreemer* Martin told reporters that agree- KE"I wlll opE" o“unrms cn the member has been the “great difficulty.” As chairman of the MAY 2, ANCHORAGE .. i m. ( meeting EST) tomorrow Lewis ANCHORAGE, Aprll 10 and Martin agreed nml} Capt. Austin E. Lathrop, pioneer {a settlement on the pension l=~uv‘ Alaska industrialist and president\n"gm be threshed ocut within 48| of the Midnight Sun Broadcasting | HOUIs. ; \ Co., announced today radio stallon[ ‘And then, Lewis told reporters: ! KENI, Anchorage, would begin op-|“I think it is a reasonable as- eration May 2. i sumption the men will return Captain Lathrop has operated | Work." station KFAR, Fairbanks, since 1939.| Asked whether he expecls The builder said the new station, | difficulties in reaching an under- using the entire third floor of La._standing on the pension question, throp’s new Fourth Avenue Theatre| Van "Horn said: “We will. have to building, cost approximately $400,-|take that up when we get to it.” 000, The transmitter building is a| The surprise turn in the coal -story modernistic conuete]btrlke cadie as the government and steel structure at the mouth |called for surveys of fuel stocks at | f Chester Creek, two miles south- | power plants in the light of rap- west of Anchorage, Its 315-foot high | idly dwind/ing supplies | lower.s rises hom tidewater. —_———————— | ccw Mother s Barred From Ever Seeing Baby Born in Jail LOS ANGELES, Apr. 10—(#—Mrs. Shirleen Kunin, convicted slayer of her two-year-old daughter, was ordered barred today from ever again seeing her month-old son, born while she awaited trial. The same bar, Superior Judge A. A. Scott ruled, applies to Mrs. Ku- nin’s kustand, Lawrence, a 27 3ear ~old Beverly Hills salesman, The Juvenile Court Judge ordered and can carry 10— | (R-Mass) e,—— - i Trustees, for 10 a ~P— any FEDERM. JUDGE IN | OKLAHOMA DEAD SHERMAN, Texas, April 10— —Federal Judge R. L. wnmms, |79, former governor of Oklahoma, | He had been in a hospital here Mrs. Paul Washington, D. C., arteries and of Oklahoma He was ap- Judge for the Oklahoma in 1919. His home is Durant, Okla. He was Governor of his court., | dent 1 inently for ! dential candidate. the boy, Steven Dale, made a ward It has wing- nearly equal to bomb lead of 10,000 pounds 10,000 (International Sonundphoto) EISENHOWER MAKES LAST STATEMENT Meant Every y Word in Let- ter Removing Himself from Nominatior | [ WASHINGTON, April Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said today he “meant every word” in his statement of January 23 taking | himself out of the Presidential nominating picture. The retired Army Chief of Staff talked with reporters as he left a conierence on defense with Presi- Truman. Asked for a direct statement on the Presidency, Ike said he did not talk politics with Mr. Truman. He added: “I made up my mind to say no- thing more. 1 wrote a letter and meant every word of it. “I told my aides they could do the talking fromp now on I'm not talking any more. I it doesn’t do any good.” Eisenhower, in a letter to a New Hempshire publisher last Jan. 23, said he could not accept a Presi- | dential nomination. He said his | decision to “completely” remove hlmxell from the political scene was “definite and positive,” find That letter was written at a time Ike was the Republican’ Since then Eisenhower has been | talked of for the Democratic nom- ination. The General, who takes over as June, was in uniform as he called cn the President for a 30- minute talk. ->e Pleasure Travel To Orient by Air Opened fo Tourists ST. PAUL, Minn., Apr. 10.—(®— | Northwest Airlines said today it had | been advised that the State Depart- ment has relaxed restrictions on ! pleasure travel to the Philippines | China, and vi-| and in Shanghai, ‘ cinity and that the countries now | will be open to tourists. Under the new setup, R. O. Buu- { winkel, Vice-President in charge of traffic for Northwest Airlines, said passports and visas will be issued to travelers on pleasure trips. Travel since the war has been restricted to business and official government missions. Northwest Airlines is now oper- | ating tiree round trio flights a week to tne Orient and the company in- intends to add a ourth flight in the |near future, Ludwinkel said. 10.—#— | being mentioned - prom- ' Presi- | ILWU TIES - UPJUNEAU SPRUCE (0. 'Sawmill Workers Vote fo Respect Longshore- ~ men Picket Liqes Over 200 people are unemploy- y’r\rl today because of a picket line {in front of the Juneau Spruce | Corporation sawmill here. The . picket line was established by Local | 1-16, International Longshoremen | and Warehousemen's Union because :mv company's management had ‘refused to negotiate with them for Jurisdiction over “the loading of | lumber barges. | The pickets were respected by members of Local M-271, interna- ! tional Woodworkers of America ! who, at present, havg a contract | for all union labor at the sawmill. vAv. a special meeting last night, | the TWA Local voted to support the ILWU Local in its efforts. In the meantime E. S. Hawkins, company manager, announced that Juneau Spruce had filed charges of uniair labor practices against the ILWU this morning in Seattle with the National Labor Relations Board. He said that the company may also file a court suit against the { longshoremen's union for costs of {the loss “of*'operation caused by the pickets. This, said Hawkins, ! would amount to approximately EU‘UOO per day the mill is closed. i Will Close Plant Hawkins also declared: “I feel | that, since this operation has not been profitable so far, it will pro- bably be advisable to shut this | plant dewn permanently if the strike continues for more than 130 days.” In the meantime, Hawkins and {mill foremen are continuing to | complett the loading of a barge | containing lumber to be shipped to | Seattle. Another barge, containing !lumber for Prince Rupert, B. C, is scheduled to leave here tomor- thW { He said the mill now employs 217 persons, of which 15 are ofiice {employees, executives and foremen who are not affected by the dis- | pute, ‘The Hayes and Whitely Logging Co. was also forced to ‘suxpend operations because of the !dispute. That company employs 10 men. The Reid Logging Co. |is expected to follow suit. Both companys sell their -entire out- ‘put to Juneau_Spruce. | Hawkins said that he will furn- ish work for any person wishing. (to cross the ILWU picket lines and work. ILWU Claims Jurisdiction | The longshoremen issued a state- imcm today declaring that Hawkins had refused to negotiate with | them at any time or have anything “0 do with them. { The union said it would main- to! president of Columbia Uiiversity | tain its picket line until “Such Hn !u:ne as the mill management met 'with the union and a satisfactory | agreement to all parties concern- |ed was reached.” They pointed out that they had | performed the disputed duties for almost eleven years. The longshore- men said that they had held a ccntract with the Juneau Lumber Mill, Inc., previous owner of the plant, until August 1, 1947, for loading and unloading all water- borne freight at the mill. The longshoremen also claim that the dispute c#hnot be labelled as {a Jjurisdictional dispute by virtue of the fact that the sawmill work- jers did not cross their picket lines, They pointed out that if the IWA nad chosen to ignore the ILWU pickets, a jurisdictional dispute (Continued on Page Eight) > .- STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska, fro:.. Seattle, scheduled to arrive 8 a. m. Monday. Princess Norah, from Vancouver, is due Monday, Baranof scheduled to sail from eattle today. | Aleutian scheduled southbound > pm. Sunday.