The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” X = ————— ] VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,922 ]UNEAU ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRhSS PRICE TEN CENTS NOMINATION OF DEWEY SEEMS PROBABLE U. Washingten Sweeps Hudson on Events SQUEEZE PLAY BY RUSS!A Power, Railfiipments of Food, Coal to Berlin Zone Are Cut Off (By The Associated Press) Russia cut off electric power and rail shipments of food and coall to the Western Zones of Berlin today. The water supply was af- fected in part of the French Zone. It was the most drastic step yei taken by the Soviets to force the U. S, Britain and France from | Berlin. In Warsaw, Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov of Russia and Foreign Ministers of seven states of the Russian sphere made plans for a separate government in Eastern Germany. This was the reaction to the Western Powers' agreement to establish a semi-independent government in Western Germany. The new pressure in Berlin stem- med from the Russian effort to force her currency on all Berlin as the only valid money. Th Western Powers refused to BCCL’))E the Soviet decree. They brought ! their own new currency into N\e? western areas of the capital. | The Berlin German city council | declared both monies valid. The Russians insisted only theirs could circulate and threatened pumsm‘ ment to those accepting Wesu-m; money. | The Russians said unexplained “technical difficulties” caused them | to-stop Western’ traiis to. ‘Betlin. | Traffic must pass throngh 100 | | | | or more miles of the Russian Zone federal court orders barring threat-| Navy to reach the four-power city.| About’ 30 days of food and coalland in the Great Lakes region werei fighter planes that remain for the 2,000,000 Germans | in the western areas of Berlin. | The Russian zone generates about half the city’s power. B The University of Washington's Huskies made a clean sweep of the Hudson River by winning the V sity, Junior Varsity and Freshma Washington 8 wins varsity regatta by a length and a half. third (nearest camera). Boat in mrm:rnund is a Jv erew who waited for the v: IMARINE STRIKES BARRED n races in the Poughkeepsie Regatta. Californ 2 PLANES IN CRASH; SET FIRES ar- It was the 46th annual regatta. second (center boat) and Navy arsity race. (P Photo. * CANDIDATES PRESENTED DELEGATES Federal Court Orders Pre- Two Navy Ensngns Met Demonstrations Range vert Threatened Walk- outs on Shipping NEW YORK, June 24—(P-—New ened shipping strikes on three coasts in effect today The orders were issued, in New | York, San Francisco and Cleveland i yesterday—on the eve of the expira-, crash took the lives of two Death — Miracle Saves Scores of Fatalities 24 —P— inquiry crash t off | fires in three homes and ‘\zun in the heart of Detroit. Witnessed by thousands, The | today two ing DETROIT, June launched an spectacular of linto a Naval | -uun of temporary strike bans obtain- Reserve pilots whose planes (U“ld— { AMERICANS TO STICK HEIDELBERG, Germany, June 24 —(M—Gen. Lucius D. Clay said today the Russians “cannot drive | up out of Berlin by any action| short of war.” The American Military Governor said the latest moves of the Soviets. (Continued on Page Five) i VR e 7 I I 20 ARMY OFFICERS | LEAVE FOR ARCTIC INSPECTION TOUR! FORT LEWIS, June 24—(#— Twenty officers from the Depart- ment of the Army, Washington, D , left Fort Lewis yesterday on thel first Arctic summer inspection tour which will include Canada, Alaska, Newloundland and l,abrador The Wasmngton! Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON by The Bell Syndicate, | Inc.) H (Copyright, 1948, PHILADELPHIA— The support- ers of statesmanlike Senator Van- denberg should have known that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Their biggest mistake at the opening of the Convention was to kick out Mrs. Dudley Hay after her many years of hard work as National Committeewoman and as Secretary of the GOP National Committee. For thereby hangs a tale of poli- tical finagling which goes straight to the doors of some of the biggest Republican leaders in Michigan, a tale which does not help the presi- dential future of Arthur Vanden- berg. Some time ago, two big-shot Michigan gamblers, Danny Sullivan | and Lincoln Fitzgerald, were in- dicted and immediately became fugitives from justice. Skipping to Nevada, they established the Nev- ada Club in wide-open Reno and stayed there, thumbing their noses at Michigan law. Efforts to have them extradited on the part of Ed Jacobs, McComb County Prosecutor, failed. Finally, Jacobs and Mrs. Dudley ; Hay, Secretary of the Repubucnni (Continued on Page Four) 170,000 { Puget { Workers Union. |ed by the government In New York, the full force of a| {Taft-Hartley law clause was invok- (ed by Federal Judge John W. Clancy | State College. {who extended a 10-day reslrammg‘ urder to an 80-day anti-strike in- ;Junction. The ‘“cooling order affects shipping oft other CIO Unions—on the east and Gulf coasts In San Francisco, Judge Gcmve B. Harris extended for another 10 days the temporary restraining or- der issued June 14 against five unions representing '30,000 workers. He withheld a ruling on four motions to dismiss the government's request for an 80-day injunction. The nationwide maritime strike -origmfllly was threatened for June 15 by seven unions in a dispute over new contract terms, mainly the union’s hiring hall. 'AERO MECHANICS VOTE T0 CONTINUE STRIKE AT BOEINGS workers—members | of the CIO Maritime Union and two| yesterday anomu«ml Eoth ! an | 'ed in mid-air | while flying in formation. \|)l](rls were students at Mic | that | es of | Pelice and firemen agreed only “a miracle” saved scor | persons from death or serious in- | | jury when the planes careened out | of the sky { The victims were Ensign Nicholson, 25, Scranton, Ia., and | Ensign Roy E. Schultheiss, 24, of Port Huror!, Mich. | Schultheiss’ plane, a Corsair, | spun onto the Putnam Tool Co., | where between 60 and 70 men| were working, injuring one man. | | The Hellcat piloted by Nichol-| son, its wing torn ofi, crashed in- |to a home occupied by three fam- ilies. It exploded on the impact; shooting flaming gasoline over two ,adjacent houses. ! R NO_SETTLEMENT ON ' RAILROAD DISPUTE; CONFERENCES FAIL 24P | J. H.‘ | | | \ WASHINGTON, June | Convention early today heard nm]u les at 2 p. | the from 2 to 38 Minufes— Sales-Talk Oratory By HARRISON HUMPHRIES PHILADELPHIA, June 24.—(M— Amid traditional fanfare and tumult, the Republican National | the of seven names presented to candidates for the last as dency. Dawn was barely an hour tant when the noisy speech-mak- ing session came to a husky-throat- ed end at 4:02 a. m Weary, bleary-eyed delegates were told to be back in their plac- m. (11 a. m. PDT) to start the serious business of pick- {ing the party’s 1948 standard bear-: er. Interspersed by demonstrations, ranging from two to 38 minutes, sales-talk oratory presented the names of Gov. Thomas Dewey, New York; Senator Robert A. Taft, of Ohio; former Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota; Governor Earl Warren of Califor- nia; Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan; Senator Raymond | E. .Baldwin of Connecticut; and Gen. Douglas MacArthur consin Nominating Speeches Here are some of the said about the candidates major nominating speeches: Of Dewey by Senator Edward |Martin of Pennsylvania, amid cheers and some boos:’ The New York Governor “towers above all others” in qualifications for Presi- dcnt has the American people be- hmd him, and “has the fighting vigor to wage 8 winning cam- things in the SEATTLE, June 24—1m——Severfll i There’s been another unsuccessful|paign.’ thousand members of the Aero { Mechanics Union have voted “un- | long-standing swerving determination” to con- tinue the strike against Boeing Aircraft at Seattle—a walkout now geing into its third month. The vote was taken last night | during an overflow meeting in Seattle’s civic auditorium. The strikers heard a telegram from President Harvey Brown of the parent International Association of { Machinists. Brown offered to de- bate publicly in Seattle with AF‘L Teamster boss Dave Beck on the Teamsters’ claim to jurisdiction over 5000 of the 14,800 Boeing workers. Support of the airplane workers’ strike was given at the meeting by President Earl Hartley of the Sound District Council of the AFL Lumber Wages and other issues are involved in the lengthy dispute. — e DESERTS FAMILY Mary Hawkins was sentenced to serve 60 days in the Juneau Fed- eral Jail yesterday afternoon by U. !charge of family desertion resulting from a warrant sworn to by Roy Peratrovich of Service, and Sawmill | the Alaska Native! { White House effort to settle the railroad dispute! | Spokesmen for the rail operators jand the three unions involved In| ]the dispute have talked separately ! | with Presidential ~Assistant John | Steelman. The report is “no pro-‘ ! gress.” | | The nation’s railroads have been | {under nominal operation of the| 1Army since May 10 when President | ‘Truman seized them to prevent ai ‘tmeatenod nationwide smke e DOUGLAS CANNERY " WORKERS DISCUSS | UNION AGREEMENT Juneau and Douglas members of the AFL Pishermen's and Cannery | Workers Union will meet tomor-| row .night to discuss a proposed | agreement to be presented to thei {Douglas Canning Co. Annouce- ment of the meting was made to- | !day by Ken Bowman, Territorial | Representative of the American| Federation of Labor, who urges all .S Commissioner Felix Gray on a|cannery workers in this area to attend. ‘The meeting will be held in the Douglas City Hall at 8 p. m. tomor- 10W ' | Bricker, a fellow Ohioan: Of Taft by Senator John W. He could lead the Republican Party to overwhelming” victory in Novem- ber because “seldom in the history iCommued an Page Five) D Glacier Priest” !s 'Coming North Again; Plans Are Announced SEATTLE, June 24 —(P—The ev. Bernard Hubbard, the “Gla- ier Priest,” said today he is going ack to Alaska for the 19th year to carry out three projects. He will drive up the Alaska Highway, making a color moving picture of the route. Then he will fly to Point Barrow to do orien- tation work for the Navy that he will return to Southeast Alaska to photograph glaciers. He will return to his home at Santa Clara, Calif., only before leaving for the Orient in late September. For the past two years, he has been photographing Jesuit missions in Iraq, Jamaica, China and the Trust Islands. Presi- | dis- | E.I of Wis-1 After | briefly | Republican YELLS OF LAST NIGHT TURN INTO WHISPERS TODAY Seven Hours Nominating Favored Candidates By HAL BOYLE PHILADELPHIA, June 24—(P— Convention sidelights: The people’s voice, filtered through 14,000 Repuklican larynxes, wore down to a whisper today after nearly seven hours of yelling for the seven “peoples’, choices.” The grand old party's grandest old party began with a stirring ex- change of war whoops and boos be- tween people for and against Gov Thomas E. Dewey. 1t ended at 3:02 a.m., tired cheer for General Douglas MacArthur in a hall three-fourths empty. By then the hall looked like it held a semi-nudist convention meet- ing the wreckage of a hurricane. Confetti, torn streamers discarded paper cups and sandwich scraps littered the floor. Three fugitive red balloons bobbed against the ceiling, jtrailing “win with Taft” pennants. The men delegates long since had scarded their coats, their neckties iand ripped open their collars. Many lady delegates had slipped their 'reel out of their shoes. As the delegates filed out, |janitors ‘awoke from catnaps {went to work. Had the dawn come up like thun- der today it would have sounded | only like a whimper to the weary Republicans dreaming sweet victory {for Tom Dewey, Taft, Warren, Stas- sen, Baldwin, Vandenberg or MacAr- ! thur. i the | and Last night the voices named these seven. Today or tonight or tomorrow voters will know the 1948 nominee. Two spectators were amazed at a large rowboat containing a girl in sailor garb carried around the hall fon the shoulders of Stassen sup- porters. “How can you beat that?” grum- ltled one. “Those Stassen guys got a boat and a dame.” “Pay no attention,” said me olhqr “They're a bunch of radicals Another delegate grabbed a friend ! iand tried to get him to march around | again: “Come on, Ed! “I'm for him all right,” “but my feet aren’t.”” TWO ARGENTINE ' MEN IN SEATILE; i ' { gentine young men have arrived in Seattle, putting 26,000 miles be- hind them in their 45,000-mile tour of North and South America—on bicycles. They are Pedro Rocasalvo, 27, and his brother, Carlos, 21, of Buenos Aireés. Also behind them, they said, were such experiences as dodging bul- lets in a Bolivian revolution hacking their way through jungles with machetes at the rate of five miles a day Notables such as President Ale- man of Mexico have entertained them. When the urge moves them, they said, they will leave Seattle and travel up the Alaska Highway to Fairbanks. They will start back home then, going by way of Ottawa, Candda, and Florida. They expect to reach home in 1951. e e ARRESTED FROM WRANGELL George Collins was arrested here yesterday afternoon by U. S. Mar- shall Willlam T. Mahoney on a telegraphic warrant from Wrangell charging family desertion. He missioner Felix Gray who fixed bond at $500. Nominating Night af Noisy‘ But Colorful One Delegates g;znd Nearly | with a hoarse : said Ed,; ! which to start construction BIKING TO ALASKA. SEATTLE, June 2{*‘M—Twu Ar-| and | was arraigned before U. S. Com-| Convenfion By Rl-l.\dA'\l MORIN CONVENTION HALL, PHILA- DELPHIA, June 24.—(M—A girl in |a boat floats down the center aisle [on a swirling stream of humanity. The Highlanders, kilted and skir- ling, are right behind her A fire starts The pipe organ |blows a fuse. A cowbell clangs. A siren wails. Balloons trailing penmons rise to the roof, far above i A blonde drum-majorette is hoisted atop the podium, struts, preens, and twirls her baton, hit- ting a delegate in the eye. H And while all this is going on, hundreds of people, most of them of middle age, well dressed and in- telligent in appearance, are ser- pentining around the hall, yelling, howling, bouncing placards, push- ing, sweating, stumbling, and re- fusing to quit This was nominating night the Republican Convention. It lasted nearly seven hours, j from 8:20 p. m. (EST) until almost the dawn's early light. Tens of thousands of words were spoken. ! Millions of volts of electricity were burned up in the lights, the| public address system, the radio,| television and telegraph. Millions more, in human energy, | were lavished in the screaming and cavorting ¢{ the 1094 delegates jto the ceuvention and the 13,000} people in the audience | It was a night of happy insan-| ity, of amiable idiocy, of roaring | and thunder and raw hysteria, It was a Graid Old Party aud a good time was had by all. ‘The purpose of all this—and your bewilderment is wholly understand- | jable—-was to nominate the var-| lous Republican candidates, each of whom hopes to win the right; to run for the Presidency of the| United S'.d(,es at NAVY BILL IS SIGNED BY TRUMAN i fo Be Spent for Navy t and Marine Corps ! i i 1 WASHINGTON, June 24. AM—' President Truman today signed lnfl to law a bill carrying $3,749,059, 2501 to maintain and expand the Navy and Marine Corps during the year starting July 1. The measure includes funds with of a 65,000-ton air craft carrier.that will! cst an estimated $127,000,000. It will be the largest of its Kkind| ailoat. The Navy for the year. By the use of wartime reserves and previous appropriations, the Navy will have more than $5,000,- 000,000 to spend in the next 12 months, asked $3,927,738,700 GEORGE WIllIAMS ALASKAN, 78, DIES IN SAN FRANCISCO! SAN P‘RANCISCO June 24—(P—! A miner, Alaska merchandiser and ship operator, George T. Williams, died Tuesday of a heart attack. { Williams, 78, established the Wil- liams Steamship Corp., an inter- coastal line, after the First World} War. He began his shipping opera- | |tions in A]Hhfiu during the gold rush. | He continued'mining activities up to the time of his death, i — e~ — NIKA PRINCIPIA LEAVE BOAT HARBOR | t ‘The yacht Nika, skippered by |Capt. Ross of Seattle, left the| ‘small boat harbor yesterday on; her return trip south The Principia also left the har- bor today, for an expected cruise ‘of southeast Alaska waters. ! The | acce | told | He |had asked the ! two | trom {ference with lis | denberg | Utah i been {Nearly Four Billion Dollars| ler i Senator insisted | picked up $1,205,000. TIDE FOR DEWEY IS HIGHER Favorite'Sd'n of Mass. Withdraws—New Yorker Gets More Backing PHILADELPHIA, tide for Gov. Thomas Dewey, already swirling the Re- publican Presidential nomination close to his grasp, swelled higher | today. Massachusetts' Senator Lev- erett Saltonstall got out as a “favorite son” in Dewey's favor. West Virginia gave him a boost. Thesé developments in the final hours before the balloting gave it the lock of a bandwagon roll. Dewe; aides were working on an speech. A mid-western has fought Dewey's nomination, reporters “it’s all over,” but asked no{ to be quoted by name. Saltonstall announced he was withdrawing because he believed it “in the best interest of the Re: publican Party in Massachusetts.” said he was for Dewey and Massachusetts dele- their own best June 24P tan leader, who gates to “exercise Jjudgment.” There | within the terrific nght{ Bay State's 35-vote| been a NEW YORKER LACKS ONLY 33 VOTES ON 2ND BALLOT Steam Roller Is Working Smoothly-Recess Taken Before Third Ballot CONVENTION HALL, PHILA- DELPHIA, June 24 —WB—Gov, Thomas E. Dewey surged to within 33 votes of capturing the Repub- lican Presidential nomination today on the GOP Convention's second { ballot, The call of the states gave him 515 delegate votes with 548 needed to win. Senator Robert A. TVaft, trailing in second place, had 274 and Harold E. Stassen had 149, The remainder of the delegates voted: Vandenberg, 62. Reece, 1. Baldwin, 19, Warren, 57 Joe Martin 10. MacArthur, 7. Alaska’s Votes On the first roll call, Alaska cast two votes for Dewey and cone for delegation. Sen. Henry C. Lodge, Jr., and others have been holding out for Senator Arthur H. Van- denberg. | Hallanan For Dewey Walter S. Hallanan, West ginia National Committeeman, came out for Dewey. He said the New Yorker at the head of the ticket would make it certain the Repub-, licans will carry border states lnw‘ the fall el ons. Before the Massachusetts de- velopment, Harold E ssen pro- | fessed belief Dewey actually was: losing ground. He said he under-| stood three Kentucky delegate from Washington and one Utah had left the Dewey | Vir- | | i 1 camp. Vandenberg i Stassen had a pre-session con- Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., of Massachusetts. Lodge | plugging Senator Arthur Van-| for the nomination. | Robert A. Taft of Ohio' with members of the and Kentucky delegations, told reporters he also had! carrying on a lot of ‘tele-q phone conferences.” Asked whether he was making any progress, Taft smiled. “Yes T think so,” he said. First Call 11 A. M. As the time neared for the first! call of the states, at 11 a. m. (P. D. T.) the New Yorki forces were ready to pour eve availabie ! scrap of voting fuel into the boil- in the 1irst two tries for the coveted prize. With that steam up, the Dewey strategists counted on coasting to! victory on the third roll call if | Plug for Senator conferred and they don't pull the trick earlier. Against this, Senator Robert A, Taft of Ohio, Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota and a scattering of favorite sons fought a defensive, delaying action. | Taft said Dewey won't hit 400 on the first count. “The Dewey blitz nas been stopped,” the Ohio e —-—— Finds Checks for Over Million; Gefs $25 Reward NEW YORK, June 24—4P—Wwill-| jam Tilley decided to spend his lunch hour yesterday visiting the Stock Exchange, and he quickly But it was in checks he found| on a sidewalk ‘Tilley, 47-year-old city employee, delivered the checks to a bank which had drawn them. One was| for $1,200,000 and the other for $5,000. His visit to Wall Street netted a profit, however. He got a $256 reward. D e 1 ROBINSON RETURNS - { Dr. C. E. Robinson, Territorial Deputy Commissioner of Education, has returned to his office after re- ving & Ph D at the University of Washington | ion |that the Taft, but changed on the sec~ ond roll call to three votes for | Dewey. Connecticut, which had cast its 19 for favorite-son Senator Ray- | mond Baldwin, was reported ready to switch to Dewey. Coufronted with the that other like ‘moves might come, anti-Dewey forces sought to recess the convention. They hoped during the to consolidate their forces. Gov. James Duff of Pennsylvania, recess . \ who is backing Taft, moved a re- cess. until 4:30 p. m. (P.D.T.) Try For Recess Roaring shouts of “No, no” came from the delegates. California’s Senator William { Knowland seconded. Ohio also put in a second. When Chairman Joseph put the question, the “ayes” loud, but the thunder of Martin were “noes” {rattled the rafters. Martin beat his gavel against {he din. He said he couldn't tell whether it was delegates or visitors doing the yelling. Martin ordered the sergeant at arms to clear the floor of all who had no right to be there. Alsles were packed with visitors. Exuding coniidence, Dewey’s New York delegation put in that it had no objection to a recess, and Mar- tin declared one at 2 p. m. until 6:30 pm, (EST) (4:30 pm.) P.DT. First Ballot On the first roll call the ballot- ing brought up these totals: Dewey, 434. Taft, 224. Stassen, 157. Vandenberg, 62. Dirksen, 1. Reece, 15. Driscoll, 35. Green, 5. Baldwin, 19. Warren, 59. Joe Martin, 18. MacArthur, 11 Dewey Strategy Dewey's advisors figured all along that he could hardly make it the first roll call. But they hoped to win on the second, which was launched without delay after the initial round. They were sure nomination would be Dewey's by the fourth at the lat- est. But Dewey's rivals were con- {Conunuzd On Pnge 'No) STEAMER MOVEMENTS Corsair, with Oakland Chamber of Commerce group aboard, in port. George Washington, from Seattle, Skagway bound, in port. Princess Louise, from Vancouver, due Saturday afternoon or evening. Square Sinnet scheduled to sall from Seattle today. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail | from Vancouver Saturday. Alaska scheduled southbound at 1 o'clock tomorrow morning. Prince George scheduled to arrive southbound at 7 on.lock tomorrow morning Baranof southbound late Sunday or early Monday.