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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDA\ . JUNE 10, I948 ALL THE TIME" ’VlLMRl R ASQOUATLD PRL Sb PRICE TEN CENI'S Shipp GOVT. MAY TAKE OVER OPERATION Chairman Wé—ichel of M. M. C. Opposes Exten- tion of Present Plan By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, June 10.—{®— Rep: Tolleison (R-Wash) predicted today the government will have to operate steamship service to Alaska if the present temporary subsidized plan expires June 30. Tollefson said that if the law under which the service operates now dies the Maritithe Commmis- sion can charter ships to the pres- ent operators—three Seattle firms —or institute government operation, known as general agency opera-| tion. | Under the latter plan the com- | mission would assign vessels to the comp: to be operated on Gov- ernment aceount with the Commis- | sion responsible for all losses. | . The Representative said that dur- ing the last year of Government war time operation there was a loss of $4,000000 on the Alaska Service. H Expiration Of Law Indications grew today that che‘ present law, under which the gov- | ernment charter ships to the Se- | attle companies at a dollar a year and pays the insurance on the:! vessels, will be permitted to ex-| pire. This is Chairman due to opposition by ‘Weichel (R-Ohio) of the House Merchant Marine Com-' mittee to any extension of the present plan. Weichel says thej commission now has authority to operate the Alaska service. The Seattle companies, he said, have had 15 months in which to work out plans for private opera- | (Continued on Pas;_Sevén) = Bears Reporied Serious Menace | To Moose Calves SEWARD, Alaska June 5.—@— Hunting parties recently returned from the Kenai Peninsula report| bears outnumber moose about four to one and are becoming a serious; menace to moose calves. One party said it counted half a dozen brown bears and 120 black bears. One hunter in the party,| Dick Thomas, shot a brown bear which reached a height of 10% feet when he stood on his hind feet. | .- i The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by 'nu Bell Byndicate, Ine.) ASHINGTON— There are def— inite signs that James V. Forrestal, most powerful member of the Cab- inet and the man with the most influence around the White House, is slipping. He has definitely slip- ped with Congress, and he is also slipping somewhat with President Truman. There was a day when Forrestal could get anything he wanted from Harry Trumard. He used the tech- nique of telling Harry what a great man he was, how his policies were | absolutely right, that he didn'l' have to worry about re-election. But now those close to the Pres-| ident say he has wised up to theI fact that the charming Secretary | of Defense led him down a blind alley when he got him to reverse the United Nations on Palestine, and that a lot of Forrestal's other inot done badly,” Has Bought "$10,000 Wife" DAN WICKER, 37, above, a Florida tavern keeper and sportsman has won the heart of divorced hat check girl Mrs. Dorothy Lawler, who cffered herself for sale to any man who would provide $10,000, for a premarital gift. The 28-year-old divorcee said that she will leave for Florida to meet Wicker for the first time. She said the wedding would take place in Mexico “after we get better acquainted.” Mrs. Lawler is the mother of two children, Wicker is also divorced and the father of one child. Mrs. Lawler said that Wicker dem- onstrated his “terrific personality” in long distance telephone calls. He has already wired ‘her the $10,000. If he sells enough of the Lawler drinks, shown above, he might even get the $10,000 back. sfaighi IN COURTSHIP IS COOLING (OME BA(K —I(M—With no evidence of. the $10,- {600 she has asked for marriage, | Dorothy Lawlor’s courtship by Dan-! President Taken fo Task for Calling Congress “Worst"” in History ny Wicker was cooling today. After spending yesterday after- inoon ty herself in a hotel here, she |demanded of newsmen “who is this character anyway” in referring to) the Holly Hill Bar proprietor who linvited her here te talk over matri- (By The Associated Press) !mony. Other than.the plane ticket and the hotel suite he rented for Harold E. Stassen said today Pres- her, the 28-year-old divorcee said ident Truman made an ‘“unjustitied, unstatesmanlike” statment when he|€st evidence of having, the $10,000 termed this Congress the “worst” in|she had specified as a precondmcn history. of marriage. The Republican presidential as-| pirant gave the Senate Appropria-|the line and until I see that I don't tions Committee his opinion of the make any promises to anybody,” she President’s lashing of Congress on (8dded. a cross-country speaking trip. Stas-; sen was before the committee to op-' pose House cuts in the European | Recovery Program funds. | l Stassen had just said he thinks| Congress has made “one of the most | plANE (RASH constructive two years records in B e toreign policy of any Congress in {the history of our nation.” | On the House floor, Rep. Cleven-| ger (R-Ohio) said Congress then added.: “High tax Harry, like a nasty lit-| le gamin, has dipped his hands into the mud and dirt and plastered it all over our new buggy and dance:h FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 10 out of reach of the whip. Might well | —(#—The death of an enlisted man be there will be some Congress-|and his wife in the crash of their tanned Missouri Jackass hide on|privately owned airplane near the Christmas market—come Novem- ' Eagle Creek, 50 miles north of ber.” Fairbanks, was reported today by House Democratic leader Ray:urn, the Ladd Field Public Information jumped up at that. He told. Cleven- | Office. ger the use of such language toward The crash occurred Monday while “any President” was an “amazing|the couple was returning here from performance.” ‘Circu: Hot Springs. The bodies S { were recovered by a helicopter crew !of the Tenth Rescue Squadron. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Names of the two victims ,are withheld. Northern Voyager due in Douglas T 0 B 9:30 tonight. George - Washington scheduled to sail from Seattle 3 p. m. today. I "E DBIROYED Prince George scheduled to sall BA(KFIRE FlAMES frcm Vancouver 9 tonight, | Aleutian scheduled to sail from | PAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 10— Princess Louise scheduled to sail|__Carburetor backfire spread flames Seattle Saturday. from Vancouver Saturday. \which destroyed a single-engine Sword Knot scheduled to sail! plane of the Wien Alaska Airlines from Seattle Saturday. ! at Beaver, pilot Cliff Everts reported Alaska scheduled southbound 'here today. sometime after midnight. | Everts, who was returned here Princess Norah scheduled to ar- last night, said the fire occurred as rive at 8 a. m. tomorrow, sailing he readied the plane for a take-off south one hour latef® lto Fort Yukon. There were no in- Baranof southbound late Sunday juries. or early Monday. | —————— NP, s A S ) | FROM SAN FRANCISCO advice has had a hollow ring. et e A Y (Continued on Page Four) KETCHIKAN VISITORS Charles N. Royds from San Fran- ! Mr. and Mrs. John Ashbaugh are cisco, Calif., is now in Juneau and| * guests at the Hotel Juneau. staying at the Baranof Hotel. Wicker had not produced the slight- | “What I asked for was cash on JEWS, ARABS ARE ORDERED STOP KILLIN Troops - Defiance to | Truce Indicated | By The Associated Press | Arab ‘and Jewish troops in Pales ‘!mm were being ordered today o | stop killing each other, efféctive gt |10 pm. (PST) Thursday " | Only cauticus optimism was ex- | pressed around the United Nations |that the four-week armistice and | arms embargo would endure. There |was even less hone that, in four | weeks of wrangling on the JIsland of Rhodes, a formula for permanent |peace would emerge. | It was difficult to see how the | basic issue of partition could be re-| |solved, short of armed intervention | |by the U. N.—and that might lead | to even greater, world-wide con- flict Pt | “We have achieved only the first| |step,” Count Folke Bernadotte, the |U. N. Mediator, commented in Cario on the unconditional acceptances of | the truce by Israel arid the seven warring Arab states. Irgun Zvai Leumi, once the Jew- ish underground but now part ot Isragl's Army, rebuked its owd government for accepting the truce. ‘The outburst possibly is a prelude | [to Irgun defiance of the truce. Cairo said Egyptian Naval units| destroyed port installations at Na- hariya, 15 miles north of Haifa, Egyptian land troops attacked iwo settlements in south Central Pales- tine and planes' bombed Rehovot, 12 | miles wuthea% of Tcl Aviv. | MAYOR AND ILWU | HOLD MEETING IN SPRUCE DISPUTE! longshoren?e; Picket Ju- neau Spruce Corpora- tion for 62nd Day Union representatives met with Msyor Waino E. Hendrickson late | yeslemay afternoon at their request | in order to reject a back-to-work pmpoml made by the Mayor who! has been attempting to reach a settlement in the labor dispute! ‘ | [ Instructions Are Given fo Alaska. of the Alaska Gold Rush. The glee club will give its first concert in ARD! GlEE aus LEADER LABOR SECY. | PASSES ON, WASHINGTON Lewis B. Schwellenba(h with Federal Record, Dies-Long llness WASHINGTON, June 10—(P— Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach, 53, a former Sena- tor and Federal Judge, died early| today after a long illness. President Truman, a close rrmnd and lormer Senate colleague, Wi notified immediately. The Presi- dent is in Schwellenbach’s home state of Washington on & speaking tour, Mr. Truman received the ne at Olympia “with the deepest re gret.” He termed Schwellenbach | “a warm personal friend al Prof. Charles W. Lawrence will direct the Universtiy of Washing- ton Men's Glee Club on its tour of Alaska. Prof. Lawrence has been a member of the faculty of the University of Washington Schcol of Music since 1926. He is a graduate of the Oberlin Con- !which has tied up the Juneau Spruce Corporation sawmill for the past 62 days and thrown n[)pmxl»' mately 300 persons out of work. Present at the meeting were Verne Albright, International Rep-| resentative for Alaska of the CIO| International Longshoremen and | Warehcusemen’s Union; Chris Hen- | nings, CIO International Represen- tative for Alaska; John Olofson, Secretary of Local 100 of the CIO United Trollers Union and a mem- ber of the Alaska CIO Executive Council; Anthony Wukich, Presi- dent of Local 1-16, ILWU; and Clarence Hellonen and Sam Adams, 1 members of Local 1-16. Albright acted as prineipal | spokesman for the Longshoremen while Olofson purportedly spoke | for the CIO. In reference to the| j Mayor’s proposition, Albright said: “Acceptance of this proposal would | throw the ILWU open to raiding| throughout * the TerrCory.” He charged that the union had al-; ready rejected a similar proposal which he said was offered by the | company. He also charged that the| Mayor's proposal had likewise been | (worked out by the company in the| hopes of being able to file addi-| tional charges of unfair labor prac- | tices against his union with the Na- tional Labor Relatiorts Board When the Mayor asked him if the union could accept the rive- peint offer until the expiration of' the current IWA agreement, Al- bright said: “No, if we surrender-| ed cur claims even temporarily, we would lose them permanently.” ! Den’t Want Certificate When asked why their union dxd (Continued on Page Elgm.l | industrials 192.50, | | the Baranof Hotel. great Senator, a great Jud&& and | a greal Secretary of Labor.” ‘The White House .nmnuncvd | Schwellenbach passed away. He had besn Labor Department | ief si 30 5 | H H bedside at the time of his death. wl . ill Be Made in 1 Siaying of Polk The White House said death re- sulted from “cardiac failure which complicated his recent illness.” | WASHINGTON. june 10. — # Eugene Meyer, Board Chairman of Schwellenbach was a former Democratic Senator from Wash- the Washington Post, today accept- ed chairmanship of a finance com- ington State and Federal District | Court'Judg& He succeeded Fran- ces Perkins, one of the original, | mittee to provide funds for an in- quiry into the slaying of George Polk, members of the late Presideirt Polk, an American news corres- Roosevelt's cabinet | pondent and University of Alaska Schwellenbach was the first man in the history oi the Pacific North- graduate, was found slain in Greece under mysterlu\ls ‘cumstances. west ever to serve in, all three!| branches of the Federal goven ment: lawmaker, jurist and execu- tive, Few public of s have had »lighlning Ralses Havec Graduating Exercises, Omak such - varied experierce. —— e OMAK, Wash., June 10. » Omak High School seniors were STOCK OIJOTMIONS NEW YORK1 Jun(‘ 10, —‘M—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau to hold one more class session today —to exchange diplomas. servatory, Cleveland, Ohio, and the University of Washington. mine stock today 1s 37, American Can 87'%, Anaconda 397%, Curtiss” Wright 4, Kennecott 57%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pac- ific 259 U.S. Steel 81%, Pound $4,03%. Sales today were 1,700,000 shares. Averages today a as follows: rai'c 5185, util- ities 35.95. e FROM FAII!BA'\KS . Stephen Gregory from Fairbanks is a Juneau visitor and staying at for the diplomas, lightning struck a power line between nearby Okan- ogan and Brewster, In the dark- | ness which followed, Elis distributed the sheepskins from the wrong end of the alphabet, Here is the University of Washington Men's Glee Club which is on the way The club is being sent on the tour by Seat.le businessmen in observance of the gelden jubilee ik for an extended teur of Juneau, Sunday alternoon. ON WAY HOM! mg Service To Alaska Stzll Unsettled Smgmg Group (smmg fo Juneau TRUMANIS IN SEATTLE; GIVES TALK | Calls for Baftle with “Pri- vate Power Lobbyists” -Discusses Flood By ERNEST B. VACCARO SEATTLE, June 10—(#—President Truman called upon the Pacitic Northwest today to arm for “the toughest kind of a fight” in Con- gress to develop its river basins to | stop floods and provide cheap | power. He pledged his administration to battle along with Northwesterners “every step of the way” against “private power lobbyists” and “men of little faith” who do not trust such development. The President asserted Congress “threw us backward” by cutting river development appropriations last year and “year after year” has tlocked funds to provide trans- mission lines to distribute low-cost power from California’s Shasta Dam. , The shock of the tragedy of the disastrous Columbia River _flood, the President said, “should rein- iorce our détermination to build |the dams and othér structures needed” to esntiol the nation's riv- er basins, Mr. Truman's speech was prepar- ed for delivery under auspices of the Washington State Press Club at the Memorial Stadium after ! motoring from Olympia and cross- ing Puget Sound with Governor Mon €. Wallgren. ADDRESS AT BREMERTON BREMERTON, June 10.—(M— | President Truman told a shouting threng here today that “we must have” a national defense force for peace.” He described the truce between the Arabs and the Jews as “a | victory for the United Nations.” “I'm not on a political tour at this time—that's what the news- papers say, he said with a grin. He cbserved, however, that if a ;| President takes a walk it has “poli- James Klushkan, 28-year-old Tin- git Indian of Sitka ,is homeward | bound with the University of Washington Glee Club on the ex- | tended tour of Alaska in com- memoration of the 50th anniver- | sary of the Alaska Gold Rush. Klushkan as a youngster in Sitka | heard a Washington Glee Club and was much impressed. After being gtaduated from Sheldon | Jackson Migh School in Sitka he | Journeyed south to attend the Uni- | versity of Washington, with ambi- tions to make a place for himself on this year's glee club, A music majoer, Klushkan hopes 4o teach music in Sitka after graduation. e o o o ATHELK REPOKT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatires for Z4-hour period ending 7:30 th'. morning In Juneau— Maximum, 79; minimum, 47 Al Airport— Maximum, minimum, 42. FORECAST (Juticat. und Vieinity) Fair with considerable high cloudiness tonizht and Fri- day. Continued warm with highest temperature near 79 degrees Fridi PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours endirg /:30 a.m. today In Juneau City None; since Jutne 1, 290 inches; since July 1, 8866 inches, At the Airport None; since *June 1, 184 inches; since July 1, 53.87 inches o e o o 0 0 0 0 D e 1 eeeceecsvoencesescees e Ve As Principal David Ellis reached BACK TO OLD JOB | Hosemary Dcogan returned to her ioimer position in the Terri- [tnxlal Department - of . F{iucation |today after ‘a sojourn of several !months in the States. o b principals. tical significance.” 'HAWKINS QuITS AS TOP MAN AT JUNEAU SPRUCE Freeman Schultz Is Named New Execufive Vice- Pres., Manager E. S. Hawkins, Vice-President jand General Manager of the Jus neau Spruce Corporation, today an- nounced that he has resigned as general manager of the company {in order to devote more time to i specialized company assiguments and to take care of other person- al business. 'Hawkins will remain with the company as Vice-President and a member of .its Board of Directors. He will be in charge of company logging and tow boat operations. Freeman Schultz, formerly with the Coos Bay Lumber Company, has joined Juneau Spruce as Exe- cutive Vice-President and General Manager. He will take over on June 15 when Hawkins' resignation Lecomes effective. Hawkins will re- main in the Juneau head office of the company for an indefinite per- led in order to assist Schultz in taking over Hawkins is -also interested in an investment and promotion com- pany of which he is one of the An oifice will be open- Juneau and his residence | d will remain here, as he has great in . faith in the future of this area. | He has been unable to devote any |of his time to that company since | Juneau Spruce was formed on May '1, 1948, His investment company |puu§lwd the original - option - on {the Juneau sawmill and promoted ln\e present” company.