The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 21, 1948, Page 1

OL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,919 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDA\. JUNE 21 ot 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GOP NATIONAL CONVENTION UNDERWAY Congress Quits In Long Drawn Out Windup ' FINAL MEET OF CONGRESS DREARY ONE TrumanGiv—e.nflanvMeas- ures Asked For-Others Fall in Last Hours . By DONALD SANDERS WASHINGTON, June 21—#®— Word-weary legislators today set about defending, or lambasting, the pre-convention record they fin- ished writing in yesterday's dreary dawn windup of the 80th Congress. Looking ahead to the November elections, Republicans asserted it was one of the best Congresses ever. Democrats ‘took up Presi- dent Truman’s cry that it was one of the worst in history. In No- vember the entire membership of I Attacker Is - Shot, Killed Mother of T_hr;e Children Held for Fafal Shoot- ing at Everett EVERETT, Wash,, June 21—(P— The mother of three small children was held in the county jail today in connection with the fatal shoot- ing Saturday of Wesley Ackerman, 27-year-old quarry worker. Ackerman died in a hospital Saturday night from a bullet wound in the chest and face. It was the 1ith Snohomish County slaying in 18 months. All but three were outside of the City of Everett. Sheriff Tom Warnock said Mrs. Walter Kempf, 30, of Sultan, told him she shot Ackerman when he attacked her. She said the attack cccurred, in her home while her husband was gone. The bullet hit Ackerman in the the House and one-third of the‘ches and ricocheted upwards. Senate come up for the yoters to| decide. GOP leaders in the final gruel- ling two days and nights had given Mr. Truman a few of the things he asked for: $6,030,710,228 for foreign aid, a peacetime draft of men 19 through 26 and—liter- ally in the final hour—a new sys- tem of farm price supports. One major bill for which there had still been last minute hepe did not make it. legislation was passed, although a very minor part of such a bill| squeezed through. Major Enactments Here are some of the major things which Congress did or did not do: It did enact: The global ‘foreign aid program and a $6,030,000,000 appropriation to finance it for the first year. A $4,800,000,000 income tax re- duction bill. The Taft-Hartley Labor Manage- ment Act. Unilication of the Armed Forces under a Secretary of Defense. A peacetime draft’ of men 19 through 25 for 21-month terms to bring the armed forces up to au- thorized strength of 2,005,882. The portal-to-portal pay bill, re- stricting claims for pay from the time a worker reached his place of work until he leaves it. A bill to permit the admission of 205,000 European war refugees to this country within the next two years. The Presidential succession bill, designating the Speaker of the House as next in line after the Vice-President. A Dhill freezing Social taxes at one percent. Bills That Failed It did not pass: Security (Continued on Page Three) The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON { (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicmd, ne) (Editor's Note—As the Repub- lican convention opens in Phil- adelphia, Drew Pearson con- cludes his series on GOP Re- publican candidate by focusing the spotlight today on dark- horse Governor Earl Warren of California.) PHILADELPHIA — If Republi- can leaders want to be sure of winning next November, if they want to carry a sizeable portion of the Democratic, pro-labor vote, the man this convention will fin- ally pick will be Governor Earl Warren of California. Of course, when GOP leaders sit down in the smoke-filled rooms, they are notorious for picking the man they want rather than the man the people want. So the mod- est Mr. Warren who has done no- thing about corralling delegates, may not win their favor. But history has proved that there is a large bloc of independent b s B AR e s Gy ,(‘Oontmued on Page Four) No general housing ! | { i 1 | ———————— FOREST FIRE NOW RAGING ONHIGHWAY | Blaze of @r Portions | Reported North of Whitehorse WHITEHORSE, Y. T, June 21. | —@—All available men and equip- ment were being used today to halt a forest fire, reported to be | of “major proportions,” which has raged for several days along the i Alaska Highway north of here. Communications lines near mile 1560 on the Highway between here and Watson Lake were interrupt- ed Saturday for nearly four hours. Airplanes were forced to detour be- cause of smoke. Another blaze four miles horth of Carcross threatened the White Pass and Yukon Railway line, it was reported. HIGHWAY IS OPEN EDMONTON, Alberta, June 21.— (P*~Western Canada Army Com- mand announced today the entire ! 'Alaska Highway is open to traffic despite a large forest fire along the northern end. Burning for several days a ma- jor fire at Mile 1016, north of Whitehorse, worsened over the weekend. All available men and equipment are being used to bring the fire under control. Yukon is experiencing its longest hot spell in years and unless heavy rain comes soon, it is feared much dam- age will result. Near Mile 560 on the Alaska Highway, between Watson Lake and Whitehorse, communication lines were interrupted for about Lfi hours Saturday. These have repaired. Aircraft were forced iv make wide detours because of dense smoke. .- — ® & 0 v v v " 0 0 0 o0 . . * WEATHER REPORT ° . (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) ° ‘Temperatures for 24-hour period e L] ending 7:30 this morning . ® In Juneau— Maximum 55; @ ® minimum, 48. L4 ® At Airport—Maximum 56; e ® minimum, 46. . . FORECAST L] ] (Juncau und Vicinity) . ® Variable cloudiness with an e ® occasional light rain shower e ® tonight and Tuesday. High- e ® est temperature near 60 de- e grees Tuesday. Kd . PRECIPITATION L ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ ® In Juneau — .06 inches; e ® since June 1, 260 inches; o ® since July 1, 93.83 inches. . ® At the Airport — Trace; e e since June 1, 214 inches; o' since July 1, 54.17 inches. . /ALABAMATO "PASS" FIRST ROLL CALL Supportersmewey Lose Attempt to Have Delega- tion Name New Yorker | FHILADELPHIA, June 21.—(M—| Supporters of Thomas E, Dewey of New York lost an attempt today to make sure his name will be the first placed before the Republican National Convention. | Alabama’s 14-vote delegation re- | fused by a 7-7 tie vote to yield to New York on the first roll call for the nomination of presidential can- didates. \ Dewey forces in Alabama who previously had claimed nine of the State’s 14 votes, sought to give their candidate a strategic advantage by having their delegation yield for his | { nomination. Alabama comes Tirst | on the roll call. Next come Arizona and Arkansas, both with uncommitted delegations, followed by California, committed to Gov. Earl Warren. Under present plans, Alabama {will ‘pass” on the first roll call. ALASKASHIP SERVICETO BE KEPT ON [MC, Steamsip Owners Must, ———— { Work Out Solution for { Transportation Problems WASHINGTON, June 21. — # — The Maritime Commission and steamship owners operating the present subsidized service to Alaska were under Congressional instruc- tions today to work out a solution | of the Territory’'s transportation preblems by next March 1. i In the past hours of the closing session Saturday, Senators from Washington State and Senator Capehart R.-Ind.) pulled out of the Congressional file of 8iscarded leg- islation a resolution by Senator, Cain (R.-Wash.) It was drawn to extend the life of the ship subsidy after June 30. Passed by voice vote after a sharp fight, it was rushed to the House, which approved it with- out change. Senator Wherry (R.-Neb.) Acting Majority Leader, called up -the measure, and Senators Cain and Magnuson (D.-Wash.) urged its passage. Senator Capehart joined them and told the Senate it was necessary to prevent chaos in Alaska after June 30. He said he was serving notice on the Maritime Commission and the operators that they must work out a reasonable solution of the Territory’s shipping problems before the extension expires. 1 Senator Langer (R.-N.D.), made an unsuccessful effort to limit.the extension to October of this year. On the House side, Chairman Weichel (R.-Ohio) of the Merchant Marine Committee, who had oppos- ed extension of the subsidy, accept- ed the Senate bill at the request of Rep. Tollefson (R.-Wash.) and Rep. Allen (R.Calif.) House ap- proval was also by voice vote. y LI e o 'BONANZA-VIKING DOCK AT STORAGE The Bonanza, skippered by R. A. Ringstad, docked at Juneau Cold Storage over the weekend with a 25,000 pound halibut catch which was taken by Alaska Coast Fisheries at 18.65 for medium, eight for chix and 17.75 centy§ a pound for large. The Sophia, headed by James Sharpe was in with 1,400 bounds king | salmon and the Viking, by John: Sunderland, tied up with an 8,000 pound black cod load which sold tan 10.55 cents a pound. She also hnd ® & 0o o o o o o o 91000 pounds halibut, Searchers Examine Wreckage UAlPIane (rash SCATTERED OVER HALF AN ACRE near Mount Carmel, 135 miles northwest of Philadelphia, Pa., were the wreckage of a United Air Lines DC-6 and its 39 passengers and four also died. Earl Carrcll and his leading lady, among the victims of the crash which occurred when the mighty ship, flying 30 feet over the ground in an attemtp to make a pancake landing on a hill of coal dust, struck a high tension wire transformer View mow< searchers examining the wreckage. (International boundphnmr and was blown to fragments -‘Dralling Math'inery fo Beryl Wallace and Mrs. Swing Info Adion When Presiden FORD OFFERS WAGE BOOST TO WORKERS Increase of 11 to 14 Cents an Hour Granfed fo 110,000 Employees DETROIT, June 21—(M— The Ford Motor Co., today offered an 11 to 14 cent an hour wage in- crease to its 110,000 CIO United | Auto. Workers. The proposal called for a 14-cent an hour boost to employees making $1.50 or more than hour. Those; making less than $1.50 would receive 11 cents an hour. Ford said this “erase many of the inequities our present wage structure.” in The union had asked Ford for a| The | 30 cent an hour increase. average wage now is slightly above $1.50 an hour. General Motors Corp., gave its 225,000 employees an recently 1 cent wage hike geared to the cost| of living. Chrysler Corp., handed out a 13-cent increase to its 90,- 000 workers. The 11-14 cent offer was the| first made by Ford since the union began its drive for a third round of postwar wage increases. e, COURT TOMORROW U. S. District Court will con- vene here at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow or the case of Frazier vs. Frazie) followed by Pichotta vs. of Skagway. the City The afternoon ses- .Ision will begin at 1:30 p.m. with Albert vs. Albert, followed by Pi- chotta vs. the City of Skagway. — .o FROM HOMER ‘W. H. Sparks and Lee Donelly, from Homer. are guests at the Gastineau Hotel. .- FROM WENATCHEE Mr. and Mrs. James D. Taylor from Wenatchee, Wash,, arrived here Saturday and registered at | the Baranof Hotel. system would ISlgns Measure WASHINGTON, June 21.—P— The nation’s military leaders were «| ready today to swing speedily in- to action building a 2-million man defense force—when President Tru-| man pushes the draft button. o Not until 90 days after Mr. Tru- man signs the Selective .\rnue revival bill can men—19 through| 25—be inducted into the armed | forces. But the defense chiefs were rush- ing plans to set machinery for the thousands of | peacetime draftees. Congress gave them over $14,000,000,000 to do the job of strengthening the Army, Navy and Air Force. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Army Chief of Staff, said passage of the ‘draxt bill is a long step “toward | | preventing foreign conflict.” | He told a news conference in Los \/\n;;elcs yesterday it will "back our leadership in the world and will | strengthen our ioreign policy.” As to the chances of an emer- "lnz‘y arising, Bradley said: “We're faced with the possibility .un;tmng might happen. No one “km,ws—unless it would be the 14 |men in the Kremlin.” {jor share of the defense billions Congress handed out and will get the largest number of men through | the peacetime draft. On the dollar score, the Army got $6,767,668,163, the Navy $4,749,- 1059,250. A $3,224,000,000 appropria- iuon to build the Air Force up to | 70 groups, also included funds for, the Army and Navy Military authorities have esti- mated it will take about $1,700,000,- 000 to draft and train the future| inductees. > - — DALE HOLLAND NOW * "IN CHEMICAL CORPS. Private Dale Holland recently |4th Infantry Division, Fort Ord,| |Calif, and is on orders for further duty in the Chemical Corps. He re- ceived a rating of Marksman with only 18 years of age nand has en- listed for a three year trick. Dale Holland is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Holland. He attended the Juneau High Schcol before going south and entering the armed for- ces. up the training| Bradley’s forces received the ma-f | completed a basic training program | |in Company G of the 12th Regiment, ;| the M-1 Rifle, The young Private is | [ | crew members. One infant aboard } Jack Oakie, all of Hollywood, were COMMIES OF GREECE SEEK HELP Greek Government Troops| | MoveinonThem- | Trouble in Berlin Y Bv The Associated Press | Greek Communists were reporlcd in‘ eading for help from Marshal Tito | ‘nl' Yugoslavia as 70,000 Greek Gov-| ernment troops moved in on them today. i ‘The greatest offensive in the guer- rilla war developed near the border of Albania. It was powered by six Greek Divisions, planes and artillery. |The campaign, planned in part by! U. 8. Miliary minds, aimed at exter- 'minating 7,000 Communists warring in the mountains against the gov~ { ernment. A dispatek from Kozane told of ‘an intercepted message from Markos | Vafiades, the Greek Communist ehief, asking Tito to succor him, One report said 1,000 guerrillas already have surrendered. BERLIN—The kussians, in Berlin and in Moscow, asserted that the: division of Western and Eastern |Germany is complete. The Western zone currency reform, replacing! highly inflatéd old money with new |at a rate still to be fixed, caused the Russians to charge another violation lof the Potsdam accord. | They halted an ‘American freight train at Marienborn, the zonal checkpoint. The train turned back when the Soviets insisted op a car by car search for money smuggler’s. { American atthorities stopped other freight trains rather than submit. (Conunued On Page Two) 'NATIONAL GUARD FLIER IS KILLED - IN PLANE CRASH FORT LEWIS, June 21.—®— A National Guard flier was killed lin the crash of his plane yester- day shortly after taking part in| Governor’s Day review. He was tentatively identified by | Fort Lewis authorities as 2nd Lt. | Richard Ambrose, a student at| | Gonzaga University. ! ‘The plane crashed during a land- ing at Gray Field after a forma-} is playil +Happy Days Are Here ‘Agnm." housands of Republicans, who iervently hope so, are flood- |ing into the giant arena where| they expect to name the next| President of the United States. | heads, are batteries of newsreel |and television cameras, The glass-| ed-in radio booths are at the trear of the hall, staring down the | long . vista. The band swings into another {maten. = ItE" “The » Monkey” this time, and what he does with his ! tail. | Picket Line On sidewalks in front of the hall, akout 50 pickets march. They | carry signs saying “Republican | | delegation—still | from Seattle June 24. | -uon flight over Gov. Mon C. Wall- jgren’s reviewing stand. ithe Baranof Hotel. BIG HALL | STARTING TOFILLUP Early Scene at Convention Hall of Republicans Is Colorful | s | By RELMAN MORIN | CONVENTION HALL, PHILA-| DELPHIA, June 21—(M—The band You are sitting beside the speak- ers platform. The blinding white light from | banks of flood lights beat down | from above. The four center aisles, | leading back through the hall from here are jammed with people, mill- ing among the signs that mark the| individual states, On either side of the first bal- conies, projecting out above their It's as long as a clty hall and it looks longer. convention is to| break strike.” Inside, where delegates mill dl)nul the floor, there is a sudden ex-| plosion of photographers’ flash! bulbs. The strategic Pennsylvania| uncommitted and the biggest prize in the hall— ,)u.\htd through to its chairs led | by Gov. James H. Duff and Sena- | tor Ed Martin, There is an answering burst| of light on the other side of t!l? hall. This time it's California,| lalmost as big and pledged to its | sandy-haired Governor, Earl war- | ren. “We have no second choice,”| the Californians insist. The galleries are slow in filling. This is a day of roamlities, main- ly. helping WFIL ONE DELEGATE LOST CHICAGO, June «i—M®— Thel South Dakota delegation to the/ | GOP National Convention lost a delegate along the way—a 77-year- old Indian chief. The Bureau of Missing Persons got a call from Philadelphia yes- terday that Chief William Spotted Crow’s baggage made it but he didn’t. The call came from Joseph Bot-| tum, State’s Attorney of Penning- ton, South Dakota. Bottum said the six-foot, 185-pound Indian didn't board the delegation’s train which leit Chicago Saturday morn- ing —,ee— STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska, from Seattle, in port and sails on triangle route at 11:30 to- night. | Prince George, from Vancouver,| scheduled to arrive tomorrow af=) ternoon or evening. Baranof, from Seattle, due pro-f bably tomorrow afternoon. Sword Knot from Seattle due| tomorrow. I George Washington, from Seattle, | due 3 p. m, Wednesday Corsair due Wednesday Princess Louise scheduled to sail| from Vancouver June 23. Square Sinnet scheduled to sall| Aleutian scheduled to. sail frova| | tral Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to nr-‘ rive at 7:30 a. m. tomorrow, sail- | ing south one hour later. - | FROM VANCOUVER, B. C. | | Ronald Sampson and Robert Da-! vey, both from Vancouver, B. C, are visiting Juneau and staying at 'REPUBLICANS - ARE MEETING, FIRST SESSION ‘Three Candidates Make Assertions as Conven- tion Formally Opened By JACK BELL CONVENTION HALL, PHILA- DELPHIA, June 21.—M— Re- publicans got their convention off. to. a flag-waving, band- blaring start today with the bat- tle for their Presidential nomina- tion still wide open. The first session was gavelel into order at 11 a. m. (EST) and recessed at 11:59 a. m., until 8 p. m. In between, there was the us- ual noliy show, the songs, the cratory, launching one of these once-every-four-years party com- claves. But behind this facade two things stood out: One is the general air of con- fidence that this is a Republi- can year — that this convention is naming the next President of the United States. Signs of a scrap over the par- ty’s platform also were cropping up. Some Congress members, Just. now getting a good look at it, weré veporied a pro- posed foreign policy plank is teo “internationalist.” So many big states are hold- ing back on commitments that it looks like most anything can hzppen ¢n the Presidential nom- ination. By JACK BELL CONVENTION HALL, PHILA- DELPHIA, June 21.—(®—Banners waving, Republicans streamed into their convention hall today cockily confident they are picking the next | President but still as uncertain as ever over who that man is. All the preliminary sparring be- fore the first- gavel's fall left the race for the coveted ngmination apparently still wide open. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Senator Robert A. Taft acknow- ledgedly were out in front, but lacking the votes at this time to assure the nomination. Each said he felt certain of winning. So did Harold E. Stassen. Stas- said he would be a “strong third” on the first ballot and the winner on the ninth, Senator Arthur A. Vandenberg's friends were not calling their shots in that manner. But they claimed sen ! Vandenberg is in a good position to step out toward the end and run off with the big prize, Backers of half a dozen others talked similarly, Balloting Wednesday The actual balloting will not start before Wednesday, or maybe Thursday. Meantime, the GO®'s biggest oratorial guns will belabor the Democrats and the party will adopt ks platform. Today's first session was just sort of a warm up for that—pray- er, song and welcoming talks, plus whamming the Democrats by GOP | Naticnal Chairman Carroll Reece. The first session of the conven- “(Continued on STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 21.—{P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine. stock today is 3%, American Can 86%, Anaconda 39'i, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvester 33, Kennecott 59%, New York Cen- 16%, Northern Pacific 24%, U. S. Steel 80%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,750,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 189.71, rails 60.54, util- ities 35.62. kil el PITT WHITE LEAVES Pitt F. White, Jr, ACS enlisted | man, left here on board the Aleut- ian for Seattle to receive an hon- orable discharge from the U. S. Army Signai Corps. White left many iriends in Juneau. He had entertained many local audiences ! with vocal and instrumental songs and was lodge organist for the ' Juneau Elks. .