The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 11, 1948, Page 1

VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,911 Flood Waters Sw HOLY LAND BATTLING 1S CEASED Uneasy Peace Comes to Palestine as Four-Week Armistice Is Started (By The Associated Press) Uneasy peace came to Palestine today to the accompaniment of wailing air raid sirens in Tel Aviv and gun bursts in Jerusalem. The four-week armistice and arms embargo became effective at 10 p. m. PST last night. During the truce, Count Folke Bernadotte, U. N. mediator, will seek to resolve the great issue of partition. The Jews said the cease fire generally was observed several hours before the deadline. They announced a last minute bomb- ing of Damascus. The heaviest last minute fight- ing was around Latrun, where the, Arabs block the main Tel Aviv-| Jerusalem supply road. The Is- raelis claimed “important success- es” there. The Arab Legion of Trans-Jor- dan said the Jews broke the truce in Jerusalem within an hour, kill- ing an Arab soldier. Random shoot- ing echoed in the Holy City for six minutes after the armistice hour. Jewish mortars drummed the Arabs there for 70 minutes before the truce. Great Britain announced she would not recognize Israel during the truce. A spokesman said such recognition would be “a positive| act of intervention” favoring one side. | Born in war, the first Jewish na- tion since before the days of Christ had its first day of peace. Both sides were frozen in their mili- tary position. It was a day of burials of the slain, tending for the wounded and repairing thei havoc of war. i As peace descended, the Jews held their whole partition state ex- cept parts of the Negeb Desert in the south. In Arab Palestine,; they had Jaffa, a wedge between Tel Aviv and Latrun, nearly all| of modern Jerusalem and 1,200 square miles of western Galilee. They claimed 200 Arab villages. STOCE SuUTATIONS NEW YORK, June 11.—®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau, mine stock today is 37, American Can 83%, Anaconda 397%, Curtiss- Wright 8'i, Kennecott 57%, New York Central 16!z, Northern Pac- ific 25%, U. S. Steel 81!, Pound $4.03%, N Sales today were 1,520,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 192.96, rails 6164, util- ities ;35.98. The Washington Merry-Eg—Round By DREW PEARSON TCopyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) i | [ | ASHINGTON— Contact with the Eisenhower inner group has been maintained by Southern Sena- tors through Maj. Gen. Floyd Parks, retiring press relations chief ¢ for the Army . . . Most active pro- Eisenhower Senators are Maybank and Johnston of South Carolina, Robertson of Virginia, Sparkman and Hill of Alabama, and Pepper of Florida. . Jobuston's secretary, Jim Lever, used %o ‘be! &n’ Army crony of Ger:{r.nl :rks .. .‘tse;a- tor Kilgore of} /Virgin as thrown his wvig:! behind” Senator wster’s billito give ex-Presidents 3: salary and; puivileges of a Sena- tor for life, thinks it might held the “Truman situation.” . . . Miss- issippi's rootin’-tootin’ John Ran- kin is so worried over the Eisen- hower boom that he has started one of his preposterious wh‘sper-vl ing campaigns—to the effect that Tke is the son of a Jewish carpet- bagger who made money off the South in reconstruction days . Actually Eisenhower’s family came to this country several generations ago from Switzerland, settled in Kansas and Texas. Women are watching what Re- publicans do to ywo of their sex, B e STy sseremnd (Continued on Page Four) i THE DAILY A “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SKA EMPIRE —— 9 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1948 ¥ } N 7 4 = g M STEPPED-UP FIGHTERS — Four Mark IV Meteors, part of the Royal Air Force jet fighter group based near Norwich, England, move in formation during training flight. British claim the planes, equipped with new power units, are world’s fastest fighters. — SOFTCOAL (Charges Are FOREIGN AID | STRIKE IS Filedin Coast - FUND DEBATE INDICATED Marine Srike 15 STARTED | | | | “ SAN FRANCISCO, June 11—(®— | West Coast waterfront employers today again accused CIO Long- | shoremen of unfair labor practices. In a complaint filed with the Na- | tional Labor Relations Board Re- from U. §. Senate | glonal Office, the Watertront -Bm- | ployers Association of the Pacific] WASHINGTON, Jun; l;l.——m:t— oy . charged the Interpational Long- | Secretary of State Marshall assert- eds:;zl:::;,::g;;:i?u:;ég;‘; :(‘,‘2:;,‘ shoremen’s and Warehousemen's [ ed today that House cuts in funds Meanwhile repercussions of the last Union with: }wuu]d make ll?e European Xfcovely! coal strike jarred a segment of the (1) Refusing to bargain m“ec_lprngrm? a “calculated risk for automobile industry. tively with employers; (2) Refusing | failure. i With June 30 the expiration date to bargain on contract clauses mel He "ecfllsd "rl‘*:t when lh\? % of the presen: soft coal contract employers contend, violate the pres-|gram was devided, he said ‘h{ 1 John L. Lewis, boss of the United ent law; (3) Attempting to force the | Was 110 certainty it would return Mine Workers' Union and operators shipping industry to enter, into a { Eum}x‘( to economic h_eelth—thm: couldn’t agree on arrangements to contract in violation of the law it entailed a calculated risk. keep the mines open after the agree- Principal dispute revolves arow'.d| Marshall appeared before Sen-{ ment ends. the hiring of a dispatcher for the|ate Appropriations Committee hold- | General Motors Corporation an. Diring hall. The man now is a|ing hearings on the ERP funds; nounced that 200,000 of its workers Wnion appointed man. The employers, voted by the House. He and 0‘_”'”5‘ will be laid off for a week, beginning Want the dispatcher to be an impar-|are urging the Senate to increase 4 @ 3 th Monday. The company said the lay- tial party, | those funds and insist that e Marshall Profests fo Pro-| posed Cut-Seeks Aid No Accord Rgc—hed on Con- frac-6.M. Lays Off 200,000 Men (By The Associated Press) pro- Tlhclr berths when the explosion oc- { how much it cut is disputed, but some estimates run up to $2 billion. | ! House agree to the boost. offs could te blamed on steel short- | 5 e | ages resulting for the last coal strike. FIRE o“ HIGHWAY The House slached heavily the IHREATENS HOUSE Before Marshall, took up the; _— battle before the Senate group, | Assembly line workers in Ford | money the. administration says ?jl Motor Co., plants across the nation | needed for foreign aid. Exactly were in a one-day shut-down today. A fire at Mile 11 on the Glacier | Paul G. Hoffman, Economic Co-| nearly | operation Administrator, put m; some licks for the administration’s Ford officials said their lay-off of some 30,000 workers was caused by $200 Tor all of its cars effective June the homb of W. L. Smith. According | figures. b 14. The CIO-UAW accepted a 13- to the Admiralty Division, of the U. Hoffman, a Republican, told the In Pittsburgh, CIO President, bris. ithe actual amount authorized.” Philip Murray announced that the The debris fire was apparently out | e Fish Landing lack of production parts. Pay raises were announced b the Packard Motor Company simulta- Highway yesterday burned cent hourly wage increase. White S. Forest Service, which assisted in | Senators: collar workers at Packard were giv- fighting the fire, when it crossed on| “I believe it would be most un- en a nine per cent raise with a ceil- to National Forest lands, the blaze | wise and shortsighted to cut the, CIO would support the plannd Jure when Smith left in the morning :o; 15 strike of five maritime unions. (80 to work. It took off, however, “The CIO recognized, the just-'about noon but buildings and timber neously with price boosts of $75 to @ half acre of land and threatened ing of $20 monthly. was started by the burning of de-: appropriation for this year below ness of the struggle of the Maritime 'escaped damage. ‘The fire was sup- Unions to maintain the conditions ‘Pressed by Smith and neighbors with | they have fought for and won in re-| the help from »the Forest Service, cent years, including the hiring hal! ‘Highway residents and forest users practices,” Murray said. {are urged to be very careful with the — tuse of fire these days as humidity 0ff fo W_hlle Housei | WASHINGTON, June 11— The Senate approved legislation {has dropped dangerously low. The |yesterday to permit Canadian fish- MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ————— VESSEL HITS MINE; SCORES LOSE LIVES Danish Passenger Ship with 400 Passengers Down in 10 Minutes AALBORG, Denmark, June 11—(¥ “~A Danish passenger vessel carry- ing 400 persons struck a mine and sank in the Kattegat early today And at. mid-morning 150 of the passengers and crew members still were unaccounted for. . The vessel was the 1,668-ton steamer Kjoebenhavn, owned, ty the United Steamship Company (D. F. D. 8.). A company official said most of the passengers not accounted for must be feared drowned. The first vessel to reach shore from the scene of the disaster was the Danish tanker Dangulf Lube, which carried 13 severely wounded. Ambulances were waiting. The stricken vessel was traveling between Copenhagen and Aalborg when she hit the mine. Aalborg is northwest of Copenhagen across the Kattegat. The company said the ship went down in 10 minutes, four miles south | of ‘Aajborg Bay Lightship in the nortnern part of the Kattegat. Early | reports to the company, it said, in-| dicated only two lifeboats were low- ered before the vessel sank. A report from Aalborg said 28 members of the crew were rescued. Planes dropped lifebelts to passen- gers swimming in the sea, One official said about 200 of the | passengers probably were asleep in curred. When news of the disaster spread! in Copenhagen flags were lowered | halfmast on all ships in the harbor. Aalborg City is also in mourning. e DRAFT BILL NOW "MUST' FOR HOUSE By HOWARD DOBSON eep Over Portland’s Airport DIKE BREAKS: SECOND ONE ENDANGERED Valuable 10-Mile Finger of Lowlands Inundated- No Lives Reported Lost Loses Wife, But K@Pfi“i? (ogk PORTLAND, June 1i—(®— The raging Columbia River today rip- ped out a dike guarding Portland's $6,500,000 airport.” Floodwaters swept along a valuable 10-mile finger of lowlands eastward from the city's outskirts, By noon, U. S, Army engineers said, the 10,000-acre area will be | flooded and watér will be lapping |at a secondary dike protecting the ,$43,000,000 Reynolds Metals Com- /pany aluminum plant at Trout- | dale. Eight hundred men | battling to save this final barrier. Inside the doomed area were the s mile-square airport, four golf and country clubs, rich commercial farms and homes. They will be covered in spots by water 10 to 12 feet deep, the engineers said. Evacuation of the narrow strip— three-fourth to two miles wide— was ordered days ago. There is a possibility some residents might having returned despite the danger, {but Multnomah County. sheriff’s officers said they had no reports (of anyone being marooned. Coast | Guard and army crait are standing by. i Army engineers said a heavy i thundershower which drenched the Portland area last night g (have contiibited to the m'fi | Wenatshee's 12,000 residents hid lonly a single day's water |left when the Columbia River i buckled the floor of that central left, as a wife, but he keeps her as a cook. That was Superior Judge Arthur Crum’s ruling when Dunham, a rancher, made no contest against his wile’s divorce suit, but begged the court to order her to centinue to cock for him. “It's okay with me,” agreed the wife, explaining that they both live on a 160-acre ranch where she is a ranch cook. The nearest restaurant is 16 miles away. Mrs. Dunham stated that her husband had to get up so early for farm work that he was too tired to take her anywhere or even show any affection for her. Shown at right is Mrs, Cathy Edgley, a witness. (International Soundphoto) Truman fo Continue “"Pouring It On" Congress in Talks fo Be Made During Present Tripjsiicuc: &t ) —— 1 8umas Prairie in British Colum- By ERNEST B. VACCARO clear view from less than 2,000['1’"’ were ordered to flee as Fraser OLYMPIA, June 11—(#—Presi-| feat. River dikes weakened. dent Truman rcessed his bombard-| He saw Vancouver yards of Kafs- | The toll of known dead stood ment of Congress temporarily to-| o Shipbuilding Company umm.‘nt 35 in the more than three- day to fly over the Columbia RIV- | water, the inundated Jantzen Bes\chtw“k rampage. er flood area, but said he would| znq Portland Meadows race track! keep “pouring it of” until the No-| anq Portland-Columbia airport. MASS EVACUATION vember election. Healso soy/ the remains of a' VANCOUVER, B. C. June 11— His face flushed from campaign-|fow yoofs iloating around !(P—By the dim, wan light of ofl !lanterns and mist-clouded electric bulbs, 4,000 Sumas Prairie residents ienrly today bid goodbye to their ing by open car and his voice a trifle husky, the Chief Executive said he would carry his case from 'FRENCH DEBATING WASHINGTON, June nv_m_'cne end of the country to the ‘mme Fraser valley acres and House Republican leaders stamped |other and added: 1 ;struck out for higher ground and an emphdtic “must” today on en-} s | - w safety. i d : “Then if you people want to | Boonasssols- di actment of a peacetime draft law continué “§Hie policies ‘of the 80th| [ ponge- 50! kes on the Vedder next week. Encouraged by the whopping 78~ to-10 vote the Senate gave its selec- tive service revival bill, House sup- porters were confident of sending a finished measure to President Truman before adjournment. Speaker Martin (R-Mass) told reporters the House bill will be called to the floor Tuesday or Wednesday. He predicted it will pass with only one day of debate. This would contrast with six days and three nights of Senate ora- tory. House Rules Chairman Leo E. Allen (R-II) said his committee w1l meet Monday to vote the House measure “up or down.” The bill {has been awaiting Rules Committee clearance since May 7. icmul. 60 miles east of Vancouver, (were in imminent danger of col- [lapse, and flood control author- ities ordered the mass evacuation. — .- 1400 CANNERYMEN FOR BRISTOL BAY' LEAVING SEATTLE SEATTLE, June 11—(®—about 1, WESTERN GERMANY (By The Associated Press) A crucial debate was on in the French National Assembly over ac-; ceptance of the six-power plani to establish a federal government in Western Germany. The ex- | treme right and Communists assail- In off-the-cuff talks at Brem-| jed the plan. Observers forecast the President: | the talk dies down late to_mnrrow.‘ Called Congress The United States, Britain, Be1~] terest Congress.” gium, The Netherlands and Luxem-l = 5 | bourg already have approved. The Congress, that will be your funer- al” He made this statement last night before a crowd at Olympila’s | Sylvester Park at the end of a’f strenuous automobile tour in which' he blamed Congress for high prices, the housing shortage and lack of | interest in labor’s welfare. | | ! “special in- a Told the voters they should not ne “suckers” for a Congress which will be “a disgrace to this coun- try” if it fails to vote price, hous- ing and labor welfare laws. Said a lot of Congressmen were Russians and German Communists | 1 kept up a steady barrage against | the proposal. Washington— Sen.” Vandenberg, | the Michigan Republican, sought in 400 cannery workers are scheduled to leave Seattle at noon tomorrow for the Bristol Bay area on the Cape Victory. Atout 2,000 others will leave later for other Alaskan points. | listening “to the greatest gathering the Senate to pave the way for| Under a new agreement with the (Novel Senfence Is Forest Service warns that permits ing vessels to land tish at Alas- |are required for burning on National | kan ports. { ! @ © o c o » o o o olof lobbyists in Washington that 8. i sup- o { has ever been formed in this coun- B mililaty; Ana- palifioal. sup Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., the workers will receive pay boosts aver- Similar privilege is extended to American fishermen in Canadian Forest land. Said Larry Zack, District Ranger: Handed Out fo " " Dri | “It should be remembered that dam- | POrts. Bli(k o“' D"nke' {age from a fiie is the responsibility; The bill now goes to the White s a4 House. of the agency starting the fire.” Fires should be reported to the| Admiralty Division Office, of the Forest Service, in the Federal Build- ng. SEATTLE, June 11.—(®—The next time Ben Trigg “feels a drunk coming on” he must chain hlm-; self to a tree in his front yard: or spend six months in the county Jail. Justice of the Peace Evangeline! Btarr imposed the novel sentence yesterday after Trigg's wife testi- fied he beat her, while drinking at their home. Trigg testified he “blacks out” when intoxicated. His wife said he was a good husband, otherwise. Deputy Prosecutor J. Emmett Freelew suggested the chain idea, and’ Trigg agreed. The Justice went along with STEAMER MOVEMENTS | George Washington, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive 3 p. m. Sun- day. { Prince George, from Vancouver,! scheduled to arrive 3 p. m. Sunday. Aleutian scheduled to sail from; Seattle 9 a. m. tomorrow. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver 9 p. m. tomorrow. Sword Knot scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. Princess Norah, from Vancouver, scheduled to sail June 16. ELKS AND DOUGLAS | BASEBALL TONIGHT If the recent splurge of sunshine continues through today, the Elks and Douglas will see action at the tall park tonight beginning at 6:30 o'clock. It will be the third game this the Freeléy suggested the chain idea, a six-month jail sentence after finding Trigg guilty of third- degiee assault. — e — FROM YOUNGSTOWN, O. Paul Gauss, from Youngstown, week for Elks, having won Tuesday from the Legion by a 3-2 count and coming out on the short end last night with the Moose in a 4-3 game which proved one of the season’s best, Douglas lost Wednes- day to the Teen-Agers. The Legion and Moose are pres- Alaska, from Seattle, scheduled to sail June 17. Baranof southbound late Sunday or early Monday. e, — NEW YORK VISITOR Edith Agnew, a visitor from New WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) ‘Temperatures for Z4-hour period ending 7:30 th:s morning In Juneau— Maximum, 74; minimum, 49. At Airport— Maximum, 80; minimum, 42. FORECAST (Juncau -und Vicinity) Fair with some high cloudi- ness tonight. Not so warm with increasing high cloudi- ness and temperature near 75 degrees Saturday. . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R R N N N try.” (port to non-Communist Europe. A resolution he presented proposed |aging 144 percent over last year g U. S. participation in defense pacts E'“le;!: Manaoang, bnsmiu agent y " e S /e ver { al 7, Cannery Workers' and PROMISES EMERGENCY AID such as the ‘five-power Brussels (! accord, creation of an armed U.|Farm Laborers Union (CIO), an- TO FLOOD SUFFERERS nounced. N. force, universal regulation and PORTLAND, Ore, June 112 reduction of arms, and elimina- PO ~—President Truman told an ap- tion of the veto in the U. N plauding audience here today that every facility of the Federal Gov-' Lake Su:cess—The U. N. itseM ernment will be continuously avail- refused to act on Russla’s offer to able to help in the Northwest flood |send Soviet army observers into disaster. | Palestine. The Dutch hinted they would boycott debate on Indones- ia. The Security Council tackled Negolfillons on Marshall Plan Opened by U. §. “I Hope we ean pass a program ' under which these disastrous floods PRECIPITATION i X ,Atomic Energy Control, blocked for ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ | Will never happen again” he said.| ..\ months by Russian-U. S. dif-] WASHINGTON, June 11—(@P— ® In Juneau City — None; Mr. Truman said he hoped to|ferences. | The United States opened negotia- : :lul:cc: :;he ‘1, ;2; znccl:;s; sign before leaving this section, - itions today with the Marshall Plan y 1, X nches, an emergel resolution akin countries on agreements to govern : ;u thJe Mr;;on l:l";fle: 310,000‘00% M,ymm housing ",‘,u,‘df'nscoun Al AN(HORAGE American-Enropean recovery oper- since June 1, 1. nches; i ations. ® since July 1, 5387 inches. sysiable STt : RETURN HOME SUNDAY |*‘5r: 5.iiin Ambassador, Sir Oliv- ® o 0 0 ¢ 0 0 0 0 0 Earlier the President landed at It was announced this afternoon|er Franks, spent 75 minutes in the ——————. | Salem, Ore, after a personal in- that the Boy Scouts attending lheIflrs! meeting with Assistant Secre- BOB PHILLIPS COMING spection from his White House big doings at Anchorage will ree-/tary of State Willard Thorpe, the ] —_—— plane of the flood devastation in{turn to Juneau Sunday afternoon ' American negotiator. Bob Phillips, son of A. E.[the Columbia River valley. labout 3 o'clock. The Scouts aré| Franks said afterward: “We had Phillips, will return home by PAA tomorrow to spend the summer after completing his sixth year in Ohio, is currently visiting here, alently scheduled for the Sunday |York, is a guest at the Baranof guest at the Baranof Hotel. game. Hotel, medical school at Stanford Uni- versity. The President flew in the "In-{trom Juneau, Ketchikan and Sitka.|a satifactory first session. dependence” most of the way from ! - ‘were actually concerfied with "try- McChord Field near Tacoma atd HERE FROM SEATTLE ling to determine what differences 6,000 feet, but boke through the| Richard Dunn, here from Seattle, exist between us on the points overcast near Portland to get a is at the Gastineau Hotel of the agreement.” We