The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 7, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,907 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” » JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 7 ,1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = New Flood Crest Hits Along Co Third Republican Convention Meels at Mt. McKinley Park; Speaklor90%,AIaska Gopers FIGHTING GOING ON, HOLY LAND Two Warrirflaiions Giv- en Proposal for Peace by UN Mediator (By The Associated Press) The warring Arab states and Is- rael received from the United Na- tions mediator today his proposal for peace in Palestine. It's up to them to accept or re- ject. The main difference was over immigration. The Jews had “assumed” in their qualified ac- ceptance last week that unlimited migration would be allowed dur- ing the arms embargo, even of men of fighting age. The Arabs, in their “explanations,” said no such thing. Fighting went on. The Israeli cabinet was report- ed sharply split over acceptance of a compromise proposed by Count Folke Bernadotte, the U. N.'s mer- chant of peace. paper said Bernadotte previously had said he understood the Arabs would allow 500 Jews to immi- grate during the iruce. The re- port said the Arabs insisted on keeping the 90,000 Jews in modern Jerusalem under siege and the Jews demanded that the road to Jerusalem from Tev Aviv be re- opened. Bernadotte himself kept silence, saying his plan is “confidential” Arab ufpiomats i Cairo were cal' ed to a discussior of the plan. The Jewish citizenry had little népe the truce will be lasting. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska, from Seattle, to arrive at 6:30 tonight. Baranof, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive tomorrow forenoon.. scheduled Princess Norah, from Vancouvel.‘ scheduled to arrive tomorrow after- noon or early evening. Square Sinnet scheduled to sail from Seattle at 10 a.m. tomorrow. George Washington scheduled to sail from Seattle Thursday. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive at 8 a.m. tomorrow and sails south one hour later. - HARDIN TRANSFERRED Carl Hardin, former Juneau res- ident, arrived here Saturday from Sitka, and left for Point Barrow, where he will work as construction foreman for the Alaska Native Service on the erection of nurses and doctors quarters for the ANS. Hardin had been | Hospital there. working at Mt. Edgecumbe for the ANS. ANCHORAGE VISITORS Margo Freeman from Anchorage is staying at the Baranof Hotel.| The Washington four week armistice and An Arabic news- | 1 LEWIS IS BLASTING OPERATORS Opens Soft Coal Contract| Talks with Operators of Southern Mines WASHINGTON, June T—(®—John | i talks today—with a blast of denun- iciation at the operators. { He called them “fat cats . . nificently opulent. . and without restraint into the na- | tional purpose.” He made two points clear about any agreement replacing the con- tract expiring June 30¢ 1. The United Mine Workers have no wage proposals, but they “‘expect improvements.” 2. They want guarantees under the 1947 Miners' Welfare Fund which has paid out nothing because it is tied up in a legal dispute. He put the next move up to the operators. The will consider jany offer “which may persuade | yourselves to utf wis said. a ent with . mag- Tils was in wiish Lewis opened the negotiations. £ scurrdully toKi-4he-opcrators they had reduced collective bar- |gaining “to mockery.” { Other National labor ments: | Theflast of the nationwide strike by | 1CIO packinghouse workers collapsed today as union workers reported for work at seven plants of Wilson and Company after an 82-day walkout. In Philadelphia the president of the CIO Rubber Workers Union said a strike of 17,000 B. F. Goodrich Rub- fher Company employees is possible i“around July 11.” Wage talks broke off Saturday after failure to com- promise the union’s 30-cent-an-hour increase demand and the company’s offer of eight eents’ boost. Partial agreement on pay hike de- mands averted a street car strike in Los Angeles which had been set i { develop- |for last midnight. — e RAINBOW GIRLS TO GREET BETTY MINER AT AFFAIR TONIGHT Juneau Order of Rainbow for Girls will hold a special meeting to- night at 7:30 to greet Miss Betty Miner, Grand Worthy Advisor for Washington, Idaho and Alaska, and other visting members who arrived here today to pay an official visit. Initiation ceremouses will be con- ducted at the meeting by Miss Pa- Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) / ASHINGTON— It hasn't been publicized, but the census takers have unearthed the shocking fact that ten million American adults cannot read or write. Yet Congress, willing to spend billions to train young men for war, has bottled up the $300,000,000 aid-to-education bill to train young men and women for peace. Georgia’s Democratic Congress- man Don Wheeler has been beg- ging for 218 of his House mates to sign a discharge petition to force the federal-aid-to-education bill out of the Education and Labor Committee where it has been salted away by GOP leadership. But he has not been able to scrape up; more than 43 names! Chief obstacles are Speaker Joe Martin and majority leader Charlie Halleck, who have ordered the committee not to let the bill out. Also, they have passed word tG Re- publicans not to sign any discharge petition., So far only one Repub- lican has defied these orders — North Dakota’s Bill Lemkle, who (Continued on Page Four) tricia Balog, Worthy Advisor, as- sisted by Helen Isaak, Associate Ad- visor and Sheila MacSpadden, Char- iity, and other in the corps of offi- cers. The Rainbow Girl choir directed by Miss Claire Folta will take part in the program. Preceding the meeting, a dinner honoring the Grand Worthy Advisor, local and visiting members, mem- bers of the Advisory Board, will be held in the banquet room of the Scottish Rite Temple at 6:30 o'clock under the direction of Carson Law- rence, The exercises are open to Rain- bow Girls, members of the Order of Eastern Star and the Masons. Miss Miner has visited Fairbanks, Anchérage and Seward during her official trip. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June T7.—(P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock teday is 3%, American Can 87%, Anaconda 39, Curtiss- Wright 8, International Harvester 99%, Kennecott 56, New York Cen- tral 16, Northern Pacific 24%, U. S. Steel 78%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 930,000 shares. Averages today are as followt: industrials 190.13, rails 59.51, util- ities 35.30. i i L. Lewis opened soft coal contract . digging deep | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 7.—® —Alaska’s third Republican conven- tion this spring adjourned yester- | terday after a two-day meeting at | Mt. McKinley National Park. | Two of the conventions were or- ganized because of a controversy | over a convention called at Sitka | last month by Attorney Albert E.! | White, of Juneau. Delegates to the Mount McKinley ‘meellng labeled it “the first regu- | larly called Repubhcun convention in Alaska in 16 years” and endorsed | the program of the “anti-White™ group at the Sitka convention which broke away and held a meeting of its own. Thirty-nine elected delegates and 13 others carrying proxies, repre- senting a total from all four of the Territory’s ju- { dicial Divisions met at Mount Mc- 'Kmlcy‘ They claimed to speak for “not less than 90 percent of the bonafide Republicans of the Terri- tory.” Delegates Elected The following delegates were elected to the Philadelphia con- vention: Jack Clawson, Anchorage; Cash Cole, Juneau; R. E. Robertson, Juneau, and alternates, J. E. John- son, Ketchikan; John E. Manders, | Anchorage, and Maurice T. John- son, Fairbanks. Captain Austin E. Lathrop and Mrs. Louise P. Clegg, both of Fair- banks, were endorsed for National man. This is the same roster of dele- gotes and commtteéemen named by the Republican group which bolt- ed the Sitka conventions called hy the Alaska Central headed by White. This set of delegates, uninstruct-' ed, will seek recognition by the National Convention over the dele- gates elected by the “White” Re- publicans. Condemn Gruening Policies Resolutions adopted at the Mount McKinley gonvention condemned the policies of Gov. Ernest H. Gruening, and the appointment of | other than bona fide Alaskans to: Federal positions in the Territory; favored the election of the Terri-' torial Governor and set forth spe- cific procedures to be followed in calling Republican Territorial con- ventions. The resolutions criticizing Gruen- ing expressed disapproval of “his conduct of office under narrow | partisan attitudes by which he has I\'llmed the elected representatives of the people of Alaska and pub- lic mlsrepresenwd. through em- of Federal funds. the aclual political and economic sit- uations prevailing in Alaska.” Disapproval Of Bartlett Another resolution voiced disap- proval of attempts by Delegate E. L. Bartlett to block passage of legislation that would enable Alas- kans to elect their own Governor in 1950. E. B. Collins of Fairbanks serv- ed as Chairman of the McKinle; sessions; Jack Calvin of Sitka was secretary W\nd W. W. Laws of Nome, sergeant-at-arms. Maurice T. Johnson, sening as temporary chairman, termed the; Sitka convention of “White” Re- publicans a Punch and Judy show, lacking support by the rank and file members of the party in Al- | aska. He reiterated a complaint that the Sitka meeting was called. after the McKinley convention had been announced, without proper and sufficient notice to permit pre- cinct caucuses and set on a date when no boats were available to the convention site in a town lo- cated on an island in Southeast Alaskan waters. - e RETURNS TO JUNEAU Miss June Eliason, who resigned last fall from her position at the Alaska Road Commission office here, returned to Juneau via PAA Saturday to resume her former | job. Her pnrents, Mr. and Mrs. John Eliason, of Shelton, Wash., arrived on the Princess Louise Sat- urday and will visit here for two weeks. Miss Eliason will reside at the Klein Apartments. - e RETURNS FROM SCHOOL Yvonne “Bonnie” Keithahn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Keithahn, returned here via PAA Baturday from Washington State College at Pullman, Wash: i i 1 | { of 52 precincts? Committeeman and Cmnmitltewo-’ Committee | ito be held late today to complete i arrangements for the community i SAWMILL PICKETS CONTINUE Juneau Spruce Atforneys Notify NLRB of IWA Decision Pickets for Local 1-16, CIO In- ternational Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union, were still picketing the local sawmill of the Juneau Spruce Corporation today despite Saturday’s claim of Local M-271, CIO International Wood-~ workers of America, that all work at the mill belongs to the latter union. Commenting on the new develop- ments in the eight week eld dispute, Freeman Schultz, Executive Vice- President of Juneau Spruce.who ar- rived here last Friday, declared “Our Portland attorneys have been ad- vised of the action taken by the IWA and have taken steps to re- open our case with the National Labor Relations Board General {hope that the NLRB will take fa- |vorable action and thus prevent a permanent closing of our Juneau sawmill. “We are very appreciative for the efforts made by Mayor W. E. Hend- |rickson who has done much in ad- ivancing matters toward a possible |settlement, His interest and as- isistance have been very helpful. “We are also extremely gratified lat the decision reached by the IWA ;nnd hope that their action will prove to be a decisive slep mwm a solution of the dispute.” New Union Officers Virgil Burtz, IWA Assistant Re- search Director, left here Saturday afternoon via PAA to return to his Seattle headquarters. 1 william Flint, President of thej | Juneau IWA Local, also revealed to- day lhat several changes have been made in union offices because ofi{ the departure of a large number of its members from the City. Gordon S. Pederson remains Financial Sec- retary and Frank Gustaffson is still Recording Secretary. Changes include Edward Hughes, | now Vice-President; Jack Dalton, | Conductor; Nels Lee, Warden; Jo- seph J. Thomas, Bill Durance and| Willian Grisom, Trustees —eis— LIONS WILL ACT ON BEACH PROJECT AT MEET TONIGHT An impoctant meeting of the | Lions Club Board of Directors is { beach project at Douglas, President M. J. Furness told club members at their regular noon luncheon meeting in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel today. Work parties are to be chosen to start work immediately on the sani- tary facilities, tables, fire grates and other equipment. A, W. Blackerby, committee chairman, urged mem- bers to get ocut evenings to assist in the work. The board will determine tonight whether or ‘not the club will spon- sor a Fourth of July queen candi- date. Lions Club will join other civic organizations in selling tickets to the University of Washington Glee Club concerts here, one to be given this coming Sunday afternoon, an- other, an evening performance, June 25. All proceeds from the ticket sale will go to the Memorial Library fund. Tony Polet of Nome was a club guest today. He is enroute home after a visit to the States. He urged all Alaskans to pull together for the future development of this Territory, to forget minor differ- ences for the good of Alaska. He forecast a good business summer for | Nome, with several mining com- panies planning operations there. MOOSE PLAY ELKS BASEBALL TONIGHT Weather permitting, the Elks| and Moose will be at the ball park starting at 6:30 o'clock tonight. Yesterday's proposed doubleheader was called because of wet ground conditions. — e - GARVINE GO OUT Mr. and Mrs. Homer Garvin and daughter Sandra left via PAA over Counsel in Washington D. C. We!} { estimated the crowd which had a \Proposal fo Forbid Race TRUMANIN IDAHO ON WESTTOUR Advocates ‘Public Power, Reclamation Projects— Omaha Meehng Flop ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN EN- ROUTE TO SUN VALLEY, Idaho, June 7.—(P—President Truman en- tered Idaho today advocating publie power and reclamation prpjects against what he said was the op- position of some “who would put the welfare of a few promoters over the welfare of the people.” The Chief Executive told a train- side crowd at Pocatello that he hoped to get Congress to provide at least “some of the funds” neces- sary for the development of the Columbia River Basin and other projects. Mayor George Phillips, who came aboard the President’s private car, look at the President, his wife, and daughter, Margaret, at 500. “I'm out here to let you look! at me and then make up your minds about whether some of the| Sitka Pulp Project Is Launched; Incorporafion things they say about the Presi- dent are true,” Mr. Truman said, grinning at this audience. As the President pushed west- ward with his preconvention cam- paign, his aides sought to strengthen their advance planning | to assure maximum crowds for ma, appearances. They attributed the size of Sat- urday night's crowd of 2000 in: Omaha’s 10,000-seat Ak-Sar-Ben, Coliseum on failufe of a local ar-| rangements committee to give !ull! notice that the general public was invited. This explanation also was offered by Coliseum manager J. J. Isaac-| son at the time of Mr. Truman's| arrival for his farm pohcy speuh DRAFTBILL IS DEBATED IN SENATE ! [ | Segregation in Armed Service Voted Down WASHINGTON June 7.—®—The Senate, pressing toward action on! draft legislation, voted down uodnvl a proposal to forbid race segregation in the armed service. ‘The roll call vote was 67 to 7. The vote was not a direct test on how the Senate feels about race segregation. Senate leaders were confronted with the prospect of a filibuster from Southerners if the proposal was not sidetracked. They are anxious to get fina! ac- tion on the draft measure which, | as it stands, leaves to the Depart- | ment of Defense the question) whether the Army, Navy and Air Force are to have units of mixed races. A Senator Langer (R.-N.D.) offered an amendment to prohibit discrimi- nation or segregation because of race, color or religion in assign- ments or induction into the Armed Services. It was tabled on a motion by Chairman Gurney (R.-S.D.) of the Armed Services Committee. The motion was not debatable. BASEBALL POSSIBLE WITH SITKA SQUADS M. P. Mullaney, President of the Gastineau gnsebau League, today re- ceived a letter from Cecil C. Mc- Clain, Secretary of the Sitka Base- ball Commission, proposing a three game series here on July 4th in which Juneau clubs would play an! all-star aggregate from Sitka. Mc- Clain further suggested that a team from Juneau should visit Sitka for a series on Labor Day. Mullaney said the possibility of arranging such a series will be dis- !give him the Pres the weekend for a business and pleasure trip in the states of sev- eral weeks duration. cussed at a.meeting of baseballers to be held here at the first opportu- nity. 1. lumbia River Truman Starts 18-State Tour DIKES ARE PRESIDENT TRUMAN IS SHOW! 18-State transcontinental speakin ment officials bade the Presiden Truman as he waves from platform of the train. Soundphoto) | | 'N LEAVING WASHINGTON on an g tour. Top cabinet and govern- t farewell. Photo show President (International Arlules Are Filed Today| PRESIDENT BENES HAS RESIGNED PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, June ~M—Ill and exhausted, Presi- dent Eudard Benes resigned today rather than approve a new consti- tution drawn up by the Commun- ists. Benes, 64, had served as Presi- dent 11 years, in two terms, and his present term had five years to j run. ! Premier Klement Gottwald's office announced the Cabinet accepted the resignation and voted to con- nue Benes' Presidential salary and ntial home at Lany. He resigned once before—in 1938 after ~the Munich conference Lrought the German invasion—but reassumed the Presidency in’Lon- don July 1, 1940. He iirst became President in December, 1935, af- ter Thegas G. Masaryk resigned because of age and illness. Benes had been Masaryk’s foreign min- ister 17 years and helped him found the Czecheslovakia Republic. The constitution was adopted May ‘9 by a purged, Communist- dominated parliament. If the Pres- ident refused to sign it today, it would have to be adopted again by the new ‘parjiament. Three months ago Masaryk’'s son, Jan, Benes' foreign minister, was found dead—a suicide; the Com- munist government said. That fol- lowed the Communist coup in Feb- ruary which sharply reduced Benes’ powers. - LEGION MEETS TONIGHT Juneau Post No. 4, of the Ameri-' can Legion, will hold its regular weekly meeting at 8 o'clock tonight in the Legion Dugout. bers and visiting Legionnaires are invited to attend. —— e .FROM WASHINGTON, D. C. C. G. Belote and L. E. Mack, both from Washington, D. C., are staying at the Gastineau Hotel. e HERE FROM SITKA Russell Hart from Sitka is in Juneau and staying at the Baranof Hotel, HERE FROM TULSA Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Parker from Tulsa, Okla., are visiting Juneau and guests at thé Baranof Hotel —— Dick Wallin and Willlam Read, from Seattie, are registered at Jr., | the Gastineau Hotel. All mem- | Articles of “incorporation are be-! ing filed today for the Alaska In-l dustrial and Engineering Curpm.l» Ition. The Company has been capi- talized at $250,000, and has for its immediate objective the launching of the Sitka pulp project. Incorpora- |tors for the new organization are Bernhard B.Mullen and H. L. Faulk-| ner of Juneau, and Roy W. Jolnson of Seattle. During the ensuing summer| months the company will conduct timber cruises on pulptimber allot- ments B and H of the Tongass Na- tional Forest plus engineering and | power surveys in the immediate vi- |cinity of Sitka. Following comple- tion of this work it is expectéd a formal request shall be made of the| U. 8. Forest Service to establish a tidding date for the pulptimber units n that area A group of prominent Belgian in- dustrialists, headed by Mr. Charles Semal of New York have entered actively into the project. Mr. Semal visited Juneau and Sitka during March in the company of Mr. Mullen and Mr. Johnson, Initially it is plan- ned to construct at Sitka a mill pro-| ducing 150 tons of dissoving or ray-: on pulp daily. - > 'YUKON WITH 40,000 POUNDS OF HALIBUT More than 65,600 pounds of hali= kbut was landed at Juneau Cold Storage over the weekend by the following boats: The Yukon was in with 40,000 pounds, the Fern II with 21,000 and the Sunset, skippered by Andy Frederickson with 6,000 pounds. The fish went at between 17 and 178 for medium and between 160 and 166 cents a pound for large, with chix remaining constant- at eight cents a pound. They were taken by Brighton, Engstrom Broth- ers, and Boo!h Flshenes ALASKAN SCENES ARE ON DISPLAY AT BARANOF An automatic slide projector has| been installed in the lobby of the Baranof Hotel by Royal O'Reilly, proprietor of Taku Lodge, in order to display many Alaskan scenes of | |interest to visitors at the Hotel. The projector, which operdtes automatically, displays color slides \enlarged which change every few |seconds. It will be maintained by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce Information Bureau under Henry| Harmon in the Hotel H | Slides will be furnished by the U.| | 8. Forest Service and by others who | have tourist attractions. The pro- jector was loaned by O'Reilly to; benetit all persons interested. | | REPORTED WEAKENING Engineers Rushed o Vari- ous Areas-60,000 Now Said to Be Homeless BULLETIN — VANCOUVER, B.C., June 7.—#—The Fraser River struck a new Dblow at Valley residents tcday when it ripped out the 75-foot wooden south span of the Mission bridge. 22 The sole remaining bridge spanning the river between Vanccuver and Hope, 100 miles east, is at New Westminster, PORTLAND, June 7-®— The Army today threw a fresh engin- eering field command against the raging Columbia River. It was a desperate attempt to hold the weak- ening 100-mile dike front from Portland to the Pacific. Twenty-six officers of the Army Engineer Corps rushed to critical points in heavily barricaded lower valley as the great river built up pressure with its second flood wave in a week. The reinforcements, including five Lieutenant Colonels, flew in during the night from Fort Belvoir, Va, The time was' huge: Prevent expansion of the flood toll by the Columbia and Fraser Rivers in Oregon, Washingten, Idaho, Montana and Canada's Brit- ish Columbia—26 dead, 52 mi about 60,000 homeless, da) Tof {pethaps $149, Mm B The new flood- crest was deep into the glready hard +it indus- short, the task trial area ‘around Portland and Vancouver, across the Columbia in Washington. The weather teamed with the river. 8o did the sea. Thermometers soared to seasonal highs throughout the Northwest Sunday—80 degrees and above in the mountains where the snowpack melted fast and streamed down to add new waters to tributaries of the Columbia. And this was the day of the sea- son's highest tide. - eee——— WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) ‘Temperatures for Z4-hour period ending 7:30 this morning In Juneau— Maximum, 58; minimum, 46 At Airport— Maximum, 57; minimum, 45. FORECAST (Juncau und Vicinity) Variable cloudiness tonight and Tuesday, Highest tem- perature Tuesday near 62 de- grees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau — .16 inches; since June 1, 187 inches; since July 1, 88.44 inches. At Airport — 20 inches; since June 1, 1:79 [nches; e since July 1, 53.82 inches, . ® o 0 0600 00 00 R e 2 MEN ARRESIED ILLEGAL HALIBUT FISHING CHARGE Two men were arrested Saturday by the U. 8. Fish and Wildlife Ser- vice and charged with illegal hali- Lut fishing, The pair, Andy Frede- rickson and Ted Lammers, of the Loat Sunset, were arrainged before U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray and pleaded not guilty. They asked for a jury trial and were released on their personal re- cognizance. They will be represnted by attorney Howard D. Stabler. Trial was set for 10 a.m. tomorrow. Clay Scudder, of the Fish and | Wildlife Service. who signed the com- plaint, accused them of fishing in Chatham Strait for halibut wkich is a closed area. e - FROM VANCOUVER, B.C. A. D. MacGilicray from Vancouv- er, B. C, is a guest at the Gastin- eau Hof SEATTLE VISITORS Warren Nuits and R. M. Winslow, both visitors from Seattle, are at {the Baranof Hotel.