The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,862 N “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”® JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Big Comba LEWIS, UMW ENTER PLEA OF INNOCENT Contempt of Court Case Starts in Washington- One Motion Denied WASHINGTON, April . 14 —(P— John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers today pleaded nocent of contempt of court the coal strike. Their formal pleas of “not guil- Dad t Forc dy Is Sure Busy Man STASSEN IS WINNERIN NEBRASKA Sweeping Wc?ory Scored in Primary-One Dark- horse Possibility By JACK BELL OMAHA April, 14.—(®—Tireless e Requested Yanks on Parade in Trieste | { By Gen.Bradley GREATER DEFENSE SOUGHT Head of Aran Wants Draft Bill to Increase Total Strength of U. S. WASHINGTON, April, 14— An Army of at least 12 regular in-, in| ty was made after District Judge; «7T. Alan Goldsborough overruled a | motion by Welly K. Hopkins, Lewis’ attorney, to dismiss the contempt citation. Hopkins cited the telegrams! Lewis sent to idle miners Monday telling them to go back to work.| He argued they showed Lcwis1 had complied with a court order served April 5 to call off the| strike. Lewis has insisted that he never called a strike—that it was a “vol- untary cessation” of work. i Immediately after Lewis plead-| ed “not guilty,” the govemmemi began presenting evidence. | - Government lawyers gave out aE list of six witnesses, some of them | obviously designed to show the! seriousness of the coal strike dur- ing the last four weeks. Two of the witnesses subpoenaed were John Ownes, secretary-treas- urer of the UMW, 'and William L. P. Burke, secretary of the trus- tees of the Miners’ Welfare Fund. The walkout was the result of a dispute over’ paymiént of “pensions from the welfare fund. The fund comes from a 10 cents a ton royal-! ty on coal mined. Lewis' back-to-work order of| Monday followed an agreement| granting $100 monthly pensions to] miners over age 62, The miners | were out for a week after the court| order for Lewis to end the strike| was served. ! | MINERS STAY OUT PITTSURGH, April 14—(®—More than half the nation’s 400,000 soft| coal miners, resisting a back-to- work movement, today waited to see “what happens to John L. Lew- is” before they return to the pits. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, stood trial in Feder- | al court today, for the second time in two years, on contempt of court | charges. The last time, before the same judge, T. Alan Goldsborough, he was fined $10,000 for failing to end a coal strike. - The UMW paid a $700,000 fine on the same charge. | i | BOTH SIDES REST WASHINGTON, April 14—P—! The government and theé defense rested their cases in the John L. Lewis contempt trial at 12:50 p. m. (PST) today. Lewis’ attorneys announced the defense would offer no evidence. So the defense rested immediately after the government said it had no more evidence to offer. i Judge T. Alan Goldsborough | overruled a motion by Léwis' Coun- cil, Welly K. Hopkins, to acquit Lewis and the United Mine Work- ers of the contempt of court charges. Hopkins argued that the gov- ernment’s evidence was “not suffi- cient to sustain either criminal or civil contempt beyond a reasonable doubt.” Goldsborough looked at the ceil- ing, then said: “The motion will have to be overruled.” Goldsborough over- ruled other technical motions. That left the case to be argued by attorneys before Goldsborough rules on whether Lewis is guilty or innocent of contempt. Hopkins said Lewis and the un- jon would waive argument. Golds- borough adjourned court until 7 a. m. (PST) tomorrow without any decision on arguments. Before the government rested, Lewis’ counsel won a point when | Goldshorough ruled out evidence about the mine workers’ policy of “No Contract, No Work.” - REBEKAHS LODGE Members of the Rebekah Lodge will meet tonight at 8 o'clock for a regular business session. Members of the Drill Team are also urged to attend for practice Harold E. Stassen lifted himself in- to the top rank of Republican Pres- (idential candidates today with a {sweeping victory in Nebraska's GOP primary. - { His clear-cut win clubbed Gov. { Thomas E. Dewey of New York into political submission for the second week in a row. Dewey was shut out in the April 6 Wisconsin primary . when Stassen won 19 of the State's; 127 nominating votes. | The former Minnesota governor’s victory bashed the prestige of Sen- ator Robert A. Taft. It built new Five thousand crack American fighting men paraded in full pack for an hour in Trieste before top American and Allied leaders in Army Day regalia recently. Saluiing the passing troops are Major General ;combat divisions was asked today |by General Omar N. Bradley. He | said Russia has more than 170 active | divisions right now | The Army Chief of Staff testified i before the House Armed Services | Committee in support of a draft bill |to raise the Army's total strength | from 542,000 men to 782,000, ‘ “Russia has over 170 divisions in being at the present time,” he told lthe committee, “and our intelligence |advises us they could raise that to |over 300 in less than 60 days. Then |there are about 95 divisions that |could comg, from the satellite coun- When his wife went to St. Paul's Bethesda Hospital'ss maternity ward, Contractor Bernard Borowski added househeld chores to his duties of supervising 11 workmen. Things went well until his dog “Queenie” had He had his hands full as he tried to keep (left to right) the 17-month-old twins Donna Mae and Diana, and Bernice, 4, and Bernard, Jr. 4, away from the litter. (® Wirephoto. 10 pups. BERLIN_(RASH, IS ABANDONED {Russians Fail fo Put in Ap- pearance-Infernation- al Situation (By The Associated Press) The tug-of-war between Russia and the West continued in Berlin. A British-Russian investigation of the collision of a British trans- port plane and a Soviet fighter Russian members o1 the commission failed to appear. The crash killed 15 persons. Hemisphere resumed their confer- ence in Bogota after an inter- ruption of five days caused by a bloody uprising for which U. S. Secretary of State Marshall blam- ed Communists. The Moscow ra- dio called the charge absurd. Be- | fore the conference is a resolution condemning Communism | Western Hemisphere. in the In Costa Rica Costa Rica's six-weeks-old civil war apparently neared its end in a rebel victory, Guatemala reports said Joe Figueres, rebel leader, has set up a provisional government in, Cartago, Costa Rica's second city. The U. S. State Depart- ment in Washington was advised last night that San Jose, the cap- ital, is threatened by rebel troops. Palestine Issue In the United Nations it appear- ed that the issue of military forces for Palestine would face the special U. N. Assembly session opening Friday. The five-nation Palestine Commission said last night troops regardless of whether partition is scrapped. The British surrender their League of Nations imandate May 15. Jews of the Holy Land have announced a Jewish govern- ment is ready to begin operating May 16. Arab leaders in Cairo repeated their demand that the U. N. dis- arm Haganah, the Jewish militia, as an Arab condition for a tiuce in Palestine. g The Holy Land echoed again to gunfire and mortar duels. Chinese Predictions In the Orient, high Chinese of- ficials predicted China’s Commun- ists will attempt this spring to cut off the government corridor in- to Manchuria and than swing south across the great wall for a smash against northern China. ——————————— FROM LOS ANGELES Evelyn Holaway and Martha Haste, both from Los Anegles, are in Juneau and staying at the aiter the lodge session. Baranof Hotel. April 5 was abandoned when the | The 21 nations of the Western | INVESTIGATION, (Jaims Russian Jef Planes 'KETCHIKAN DROUGHT 'NOW MOST SERIOUS; IS AT CRITICAL STAGE KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 14—/ |h—The wet city of Ketchikan where-a week without rain at this | season is a dry spell, continued to | suffer from “drought” today. Officials said the city’s water éup- ply for domestic use, fire protection |and power production is nearing |the critical stage. Unless relieved by rain soon, the Icondmun will be “very” serious, they added. Citizens were asked in newspaper Have Violated Alaskan Skies : | fires under the good-man-but-can’t- win theory that has dogged the Taft | campaign. It all but snutted out the dviug hopes of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s | supporters, But it left intact the darkhorse | possibilities of Senator Arthur Van-| | denberg, secure in fourth place in a race he spurned. Free-for-all Contest | The count in yesterday’s free-for- |all primary from 1399 of the | state’s 2,024 precincts was: Stassen 52,291, Dewey 39,368, Taft 13,381, Vandenberg 5215, MacAr- thur 4372, Warren 1,162, Martin | *iAlong with his victory in the free- ‘for-a.ll popularity contest, Stassen| | appeared likely to wrap up as a 41st| WATERVILLr, Me., April 14 Lirthday present the first-ballot | ~U. 8. Rep. Margaret C. Smith support at the Philadelphia con-| (R-Me) declared last night that vention at least 13 of the states 15 Russian jet planes “have violated delegates. | Alaskan skies.” i J Mrs. Smith, member of the House | | Armed Services Committee, made ' |ville Lions Club that the Adminis- | Dewey’s Chances On the basis of incomplete re-;‘ turns, Dewey had a chance to get| one delegate and another possible winner was unpledged. ! . These convention delegates were | elected in a primary that saw the Democrats choose a 12-vote delega~ | |tion and give President Truman a pat on the back. Truman Unopposed Mr. Truman, runging unopposed polled 24,099 votes in 1,114 precincts| in the 'Democratic popularity con-| test. Republicans renominated Sena- the statement in telling the Water- | tration “has not told the American ! people specifically what are the cri- tical threats” of the current world situation. “, ... the people have not been ' she said, “that the Russian ress and radio speak of Alaska as a part of Russia and that jet planes |have violated Alaskan skies.” he did not amplify. | In Washington reachable Air jvermit Conadian vessels Bryant E. Mccre, extreme left (against railing of platform), Ameri- can Commander, and Major General T. §. Airey, British Commander and Commanding General of the Angla-Ameriean zone of Trieste. General Airey is second from left. (International Soundpheto) CHANGEIN JONES ACT PROPOSED | i { | COMMIES MAY LOSE IN ITALY tries.” Bradley did not say how many di- visions the U. 8. Army has now, but members of his staff said there are akout nine “under-strength di- vigions” on paper. At the end of the war, Bradley said, the U. 8. had 90 ground divisions and 89 of them | Were oversess. His request for 12 regular divi- ;akms, to be backed up by six more from the National Guard and organ- ized reserves, is not a war pro- gram, Bradley said. He said this is the minimum he considers safe for the country to have. Would Permit Canadian | Russia Tosses Out Western , DGWGYNGW # Vessels to Carry Freight, Passengers, Alaska Ports WASHINGTON, April 14—#— A Senate committee was urged to- day to revise the maritime laws to to carry freight and passengers to and be- .ween Alaskan ports. The Senate Interstate and For- eizn Commerce Committee was con- sidering two bills to accomplish the plan. One would amend the Jones Act to permit American shippers to route goods for Alaska by way of a Canadian port and by Canadian vessels, This is now prohibited al- though such goods can be sent to a anauian port and s. ipped south to 'orce Headquarters officers, some would be necessary after May 15, advertisements to use water spar- ‘ingly and to%curtail use of electri- jcal appliances. planes had been over the Territory The city has had only two-hun- | they heard nothing about it. dreds of an inch of rain thismonth.| “And we asked specifically about Ketchikan averages 150 inches of‘xt," one of them told a reporter, jrain.a year. NORAH DOCKS TODAY; AIR LINE PILOTS| 17 ARE SOUTHBOUND 'BRI"G DAMAGE (ASE!B o'clock this morning and left I" WEEK 0lD SIRIKEAabout an hour later taking the - - i “followmg 17 passengers southward from Juneau: To Seattle: Mr. and Mrs. C. S. NEW YORK, April 14—@—The!Poole, Mrs. Jessie Stevens, Mrs | AFL Air Line Pilots Association has| Rae Hoopes, A. B. Hicks, and i’served notice of suit against Na- Lloyd Smith. itional Airlines, asking more than| To Vancouver: Mrs. William War- isl,ooo.ooo for damages allegedly suf- dell and son, G. M. Grant, T of whom had just returned from |Alaska, said that if any Russian old pilots’ strike. ,|son and Collin Hilton. ‘The union charges that the airline| To Prince Rupert: Mr. and Mrs violated the Railway Labor Act, Paul V. Holmes, A. A. MacLean broke a company-union agreement,iand Everett Bachelder. failed to cooperate with the Nanon-l‘ 1 Mediation Board and violated the | togs civn acronautis act. - PAA TUESDAY FLIGHTS BRING 15, TAKE NIN 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act. | A lawyer for the Pilots’ Associa- |tion said a summons was served on the airline yesterday, adding Lhat\r |vet been filed. | Pan American flights yesterday The union accused the airline of {prought in 15 and took out nine lactual papers in' the suit have not|passengers as. follows. ifered during the current 11-week-| Tutyko, F. Brandson, W. J. Bee- | 8 tor Kenneth Wherry, acting GOP Senate leader, and Gov. Val Peter- son. Democrats gave a long lead to fcrmer Rep. Terry Carpenter for | their Senatorial nomination. But it was Stassen, the untiring young fellow from Minnesota, who irode off with the political glory ja state where he himself had thought the outcome so doubttul he made only cautious pre-vote predic- tions of victory. Stassen sent the Republican or- eanization headed by Senator Hugh Butler (R-Neb) down to its worst defeat. Taft, supported by the group, never had a chance. Talt’s poor showing here may af- fect the outcome of the May 4 Ohio primary, where Stassen is trying to |take some of the state's 53 delegates |away from the Ohioan. Butler MacArthur No. Comment TOKYO, April 14— —General {MacArthur had no commept today on the Nebraska Presidential pre- |ference primary, in which he was | & poor fifth. | Only two major evening Japanese ! newspapers gave minor front page to stories of the balloting. went to press before returns | were. available. Editors of ‘two ma- [jor morning newspapers said the | returns would be given minor front ‘ page space. Both ing e sescicrment, she atiorney said. [ LONE RANGER'S BROTHER C(OMES BY PAC NORTHERN One lone passenger, Frank Fry, arrived in Juneau yesterday abodrd Pacific Northern, with flights tak- ing out the following 10 persons: To Yakuta: M. Bristol. Td Cordova: Vernon Joyer. To Anchorage: Bob Smith, J. Anderson, M. Koblyk, John Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. R. Moss, Earl Jones and Ivan Cousins, Jr. i From Seattle: Leonard Rolland,| |Jack Koby, Eugene Card, Almera | | Hilderbrand, Milton Furness, Will- | STEAMER MOVEMENTS 'iam and Betty Brunskill, N. C.| s | Bristol, Bob Smith, Helen Ottke,| Northern Voyager scheduled to, Helen Martin, Cyril Stuart, Gus|sail from Seattle Priday. Skinner, Mike Kobylk and Arthur! Aleutian scheduled to sail from Stallery. Seattle Saturday. To Seattle: Billy Converse, Jean| FPrincess Louise scheduled to sail ! Lien, Ralph Rivers, William Dore | from Vancouver April 20. and Steve Homer. Alaska scheduled southbound at To Ketchikan: Howard Annawalt|8 o'clock Thucsday night. and Henry Farrington. Baranof scheduled southbound To Fairbanks: Robert McManus.|Sunday. To Nome: Harold Foss. Aot i # SEATLE VISITOR l!r i | | | { . FROM MT. EDGECUMBE W. G. Brunskile, of Edge- is staying at the Baranof Hotel. of Hotel. a west coast port. The bill would amend an 1886 law forbidding for- | aign vessels to carry passengers be- | tween American ports. Senator Butler (R-Neb), who in- troduced the bill to amend the Jones Act, told the committee in a statement the law discriminates against Alaska. | | “After 27 years of operation under ihe Jones Act of 1920, he said, the carriers have 'failed to establish satisfactory Alaskan service, “If we are to encourage American settlers to go to Alaska, and thie we must do if we are to make Al- aska strategically strong, we must have adequate shipping at rates which will permit economic devel- opment.” Delegate Bartlett of Alaska told the committee the proposed changes in the law would aid development of Alaska. He and Malcomb Miller, representing the Territory, said the proposals would not take freight business from the American lines and would make it easier for Alas- kans to get goods they need quick- Iv and to travel between Alaskan ports, Representatives of the Seattle steamship companies now operating the Alaskan service were present to oppose the legislation. e i | | | JUNEAU LEAGUE WOMEN VOTERS, MEET TONIGHT The Juneau League of Women Voters will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the City Council Cham- bers. The business scheduled for the evening will be the adoption of the bylaws. All members are urg- ed to attend. R A 5 B HERE FROM KETCHIKAN Charles M. Marler, Harry Will- . Power Proposal-Blow fo Pro-Ifalians (By The Assoclated Press) The non-Communist Italian press said today Russia tossed aside all thought of a peaceful Communist victory in Italy’s elections by re- fusing to discuss a western power | proposal to return Trieste to the Italians, The Moscow radio announced re- jection of the proposed discussions| last night. The Russians also ap- parently ruled out a Yugoslav sug- cestion that Italy and Yugoslavia discuss the future of the free terri- tory. # The Soviet announcement came as a blow to pro-Italians' in Trieste. Some said a scheduled demonstra- tion of 50,000 persons tomorrow night to hail the western proposal may turn into an anti-Russian show. Others said the Soviet move was an advance acknowledgement of a Communist defeat in the Italian .elecnons Sunday and Monday. Il Messagero, rightest Rome news- paper which has been impartial inj its news reporting on the election campaign, said “there is no doubt that Christian Democracy will de- feat the Front (the Communist- dominated Popular Front) by sev- eral lengths.” The issue of the United States versus Russia in the Italian cam- paign was sharpened by Commun- ist blasts at U. 8. Ambassador James | C. Dunn, 1 Palmiro Togliatti, the Communist leadsr, filed a complaint with the Foreign Ministry about “continuous! intervention of foreign ambassadors in the election campaign.” FINANCIAL REPCRT FOR FIGHT TRIALS The financial statement for the boxing trials held April 8 has been submitted to and approved by the| local boxing commission. Total income was $1,247.30, with hall rent taking $250, the banquet and prizes for fight entries requir: ing $309, admission tax amounting ito $181.05, and miscellaneous bills "lnvclved ir? romoting the fights sap- \ped the till for $373.73. Miscellaneous expenditures consisted of such items as advertising and expendable sup- | plfes. | This leaves a balance of $133.52 | | | I "Heartened" ALBANY, N. Y, April 14.—P— Gov. Thomas E. Dewey said today he was “heartened” by his show- ing in the Nebraska Republican primary, in which he finished sec- ond to Harold E. Stassen. Dewey's executive assistant, James C. Hagerty, Indicated Dewey would continue his campaign for the Republican Presidental nomi- nation by making a trip to Oregon before that state’s May 21 primary. Seeks Suspension Mine Assessments For Aglher Year WASHINGTON, April 14.—P— Delegate Bartlett of Alaska said he will introduce a bill today to sus- pend assessment work on. Alaskan mining claims for another year from July 1, 1848, The guspension has been in ef- fect since early in the war anc Bartlett said that shortage of la- bor and high costs warranted ex- tending it another year. S T sl B e The Washington Merry- g_o_ -Round By DREW PEARSON | (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, nc.) ASHINGTON-— Secretary for Air Stuart Symington reverséd his stand on universal military train- ing when he faced the Senate Armed Services Committee behind closed doors the other day, and ‘mude a desperate plea instead for a strong air force. His boss, De- fense Secretary Forrestal, scowled on and said little. ) The meeting was of vital inter- est to every man who may have serve in the Armed Forces, and to every gther American concern- ed with the defense of his coun- try. For the first time in a re- cent Senate Committee hearing, Forrestal gave his subordinate, the head of the Air Forces, free reign to speak out. Symington made the most of it. which is to be applied on the cost of a fire escape at the recreation center. Anyone wishing additicnal infor- | Ever since the meeting of de- fense chiefs at Key West, it had been suspected that Navy and Army ground forces had held the air forces down in over-all defense iams and L. G. Duncan, all from mation is invited to contact either!planning. This was confirmed by Baranof Hotel, Mrs. Helen Martin from Seattle) cumbe is registered at the Baran-|Ketchikan, are in Juneau at the Red Mayo or Fritz Granere at the Recreation Center (Continued on Page Four)