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

‘0 i iy ‘SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition “ALL THE NEWS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE TIME” PRSI SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXVIIL,NO. 10,935 B JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MOVEMENT BY ROOSEVELT BACKFIRES Slowdown Charged On Loading For Alaska EMPLOYERS PROTESTING WORK SHIRK Inlormatior@)oned Wir- ed fo Governor and Attorney General 10.—(P— The| 1 SEATTLE, July Waterfront Employers of Washing- ton radioed Governor Ernest Gruening yesterday protesting what they said were “slowdowns” by! CIO longshoremen in the loading of Alaskan ships. Longshoremen, who are under an 80-day injunction not to strike, have repeatedly denied employer assertions of a slowdown. Local| union leaders were not available for comment on the new charges. Merle G. Ringenberg, Employ- ers' President, told Gov. Gruening that “in the 10-day period from June 24 to July 3, CIO longshore-| men_ conducted 13 separate slow-| downs on 10 ships in the Alaska | trade.” “The slowdowns,” he asserted, | “ranged from 19 to 93 percent and averaged 41 percent.” | Ringenberg said he was supply- ing the same information to the United States Attorney General's office. He also made public copies of de- tailed accounts of the alleged slow-> downs and said they would be mailed to the Alaska Governor and U.. S. Attorney General's office. i ROTARY (LUB T0 PICNIC SUNDAY AT AUK VILLAGE The Juneau Rotary Club will hold its annual picnic tomorrow at the Auk Village Recreational Area with a promise of good weather from the | weather man. A good time is prom- ised, by the committee, to fellow[ Rotarians and their guests. There will be special races for everyone, boat rides for the kids andy plenty of food. It is not a dress-up | affair. i Rotarians, having excess transpor- tation, are requested to contact Lee: Lucas at 707 as are those who need a ! ride to the picnic grounds. Picnic Committee members are urged to be on hand by 11 am. Lunch will be served at 2:30 p.m. The Washington): Merry - Go - Round 1 By DREW PEARSON | i | (Editor's Note—The brass ring, good for one free ride on the Washington Merry-Go-Round, today goes to Dwight D. Eis- enhower.) | 1948, (Copyright, by The Bell Byndicate, Ine.) PHILADELPHIA— When Dwight Eisenhower was a high school boy in Abilene, Kansas, he used to| play “Fly Lou” a game which consisted of putting pennies on the shady side of the street and wait- ing for a fly to light on one par- ticular penny. When it did the owner took all the other pennies. In playing “Fiy Lou,” Eisenhower | and his pals were always alert to see that no boy put syrup on a coin to attract a fly, for, as young Dwight said: “A fly is smart but even a fly can be tempted.” Democratic leaders at Philadel- phia will have to put pienty of syrup on their coin to tempt Eis- enhower to fly their way. But whether he lights now or not, Dwight Eisenhower's name is going to be in the political headlines from now until 1952, so here is a further attemp* to appraise the| most spotlighted man in America. | BRASS HAT OR CIVILIAN Biggest questlap asked about Eis- (Continued on Pnge Four) \Winston Churchill Issues! | cIO0 |the period of waiting for a savnet‘ {comer on the Seattle waterfront,—! |the tug Myrtle E. Wilson, [here yesterday. Her owners, Wilson \wrist watch from his well wishing |luncheon meeting Monday at the jone skiff and " | Harold Zenger ALLIES MUST STAND FIRM ORRISKWAR Warning on Present Berlin Blockade WOODFORD, Eng., July 10—(®— Winston. Churchill said today the; Western Allies risk war with Russia if they yield to Soviet pressure in| Berlin. { “If we were to yield upon this grave issue, we would, in my opinion, destroy the best chance which is| now open to us of escaping a third World War,” he said in a speech at a Conservative Party rally in his| home constituency. | The wartime Prime Minister cwiled | reply to the Anglo-French-Ameri- can notes protesting the blockade of Berlin “an anxious hour.” Churchill speculated that a polit- {ical crisis may te developing msxdc Russia, particularly in the light ot| |the Cominform'’s denunciation ol‘ Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia. | - New Tug Arrivesat | Seattle; To Engage | Alaska Barge Line. 10.—P—A new- SEATTLE, July —berthed Steamship Company Inc., plan lol use her in Seattle-Alaska Barge ser-| vice on a contract cargo basis. ! The tug, an ATR steam job, ar- ed from San Francisco Bay ¥ earlier this week. She towed a pair of 200-foot barges. The tug is 155 feet long, 34 feet wide, with 17.8 depth, It is 664 gross tons and has approximately 1,600 horsepower. | The Wilston Steamship Company | recentdly established a Seattle office, | Cmdr. Rush Hoag is operating man- ager for the firm and A. J. Fife is in charge of the Seattle office. e ACSER RETIRES AFTER i [ i 39 YEARS IN SERVICE .. 125 5" v S On July 6th Domenico Centrella, \ a civiliar, was retired from the Alas- ; ka Communication System after having served with them for over 39 years, Centrella, who began his ci- vilian career with the ACS on June , 1909, was with the ACS through two World Wars and during all these years he always served in line with the best traditions of Lhe ser- | vice. ! His retirement was announced by | Col. T. J. Tully, Commanding Offi- cer of the ACS. During a brief cere- mony held in Col. Tully's office, Cen- trella was presented with a gold fellow employees. Attending the ceremony and the small farewell party held immediately afterwards were several old time ACSers fa- miliar to many oldtime Alaskans, including Charles Murphy, Walter Guthridge, John Sherlock, Horace Whitman, Clarence Lawrence, Burr Snyder, Harry Selby, Sylvester Fink, Walter Saunderson, Cecil Everetts, Dow_Galloway and Svend Hansen. — e et BPW MEETS MONDAY Business and Professional Wo-/ men’s Club will hold its monthly Baranof Hotel. All members are urged to attend because the group | at that time will make plans for! a summer outing, either a picnic or boat trip. — e ——— SKIFF IS MISSING Juneau Sea Scouts are missing are hoping thai someone can furnish information as to its whereabouts. The skiff has been missing since ’mesaday; from the edge of the Alaska Dock,| near the West Coast Grocery. Any- | one who can furnish information!St. Ann's, about the skiff is requested to call| at Red 120, ' | aispute. | | way of other news today on the dis- | Ketchikan IWA Local, is here to as- 1 sist |the 4th of July boat races would be ! nothing that Juneau hasn't, a new | VALKYRIE RETURNS TO | Hoonah, ILWU OFFICIAL SAYS IWA COULD HANDLE BARGES William H. Flint, President of the Juneau Local, CIO, International Woodworkers of America, revealed today that he received a letter some- time ago from Verne Albright, In- ternational Representative of the International Longshoremen | and Warehousemen's Union, inj which the ILWU would have agreed | to permit the IWA to load and un- load company owned barges at the Juneau Spruce Corporation sawmill| here and thus end the present labor Flint said that the Juneau IL\VU| Local, however, refused to back Al-| Lright’s offer tut that the IWA be- lieves that Albright’s opinion is good | reason for its return to work. There was very little else in the | pute. The Juneau Local of the IWA | will hold its regular meeting in the | CIO Hall tonight but no new de- velopments are expected. A. W. Mackey, president of the his Juneau colleagues in the removal of the ILWU picket line; |and to protect the interests of his| own Local which holds bargaining rights at the company's Edna Bay logunv camp, He declined, however, 'to make any comment on thc situs tion. Rumors of a new decision from | the National Labor Relations Board | have been um’mmdod so far. | BOAT RACE MONEY ANNOUNCED TODAY Bob Cowling today announced | that prize money totaling $420 for distributed as follows: G. R. Welch, winner of the five horse power event, $50; Bob Nelson and John Hodgins, two top men in | the 10 h.p. race will receive $50 and $10.00 respectively; Ed Vogel and G. D. Towle, winner and runner-up in the 16 h.p. event, get $50 and $10; in the 22 h.p. race Elwin Messer is| the $50 winner with Mike Fenster | and Eugene Wood going $10 each for a second-place tie. Ed Krause copped the $50 first prize in the runabout race, with Ray Packard getting $10 for second. Krause and Packard also take the first and second money in that order race with John Winther, Jr., on hand for the $10 second. NEW TRIO ENGAGED BY SALMON CREEK COUNTRY CLUB; STARTS MONDAY | Out to prove that Hollywood has trio, composed of local musicians will begin their engagement at the Salmon Creek Country Club this evening. Buddy Hunter will tinkle the ivories, Chuck Werner will be on the bass fiddle and Jerry Chapman will be on the drums. — e HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted to St. Ann's Hospital | yesterday for medical attention were Master Frank Young of Haines and Horace Marks. Emily Torres of Hydaburg was! admitted to the Government Hos- pital. PRS- R JUNEAU BOAT DOCK The Valkyrie, owned by O. H. Wood of Hoonah, returned to the Juneau boat harbor Thursday night after a short stay in Hoonah. Wood was here June 24 when com- pleting sale of his cannery at AT TR BISHOP FLIES NORTH Bishop Francis Doyle Gleeson and the Rev. Joseph McElmeel' left Juneau on Wednesday enroute | to Dawson. In Dawson they will attend the Golden Jubilee of St. Mary's Hospital. The hospital was founded in 1898 by the Sisters of Bishop Gleeson and the Rev. McElmeel will return to Ju- i neau on Tuesday. ‘ | cease fire orders if the Arabs aceept | rector JEWS WILL ACCEPT 10 DAY TRUCE Proposal hFde as Heavy! Fighting Confinues— Airport Captured (By The Associated Press) | An Israel announcement that she ! would accept a new 10-day cease- | fire proposal came today tight- ing between Jews and Arabs in Pal- estine continued to spread aiter ex- piration of the four-week truce.’ The Israel Government notified the United Nations she would issue the new truce proposal. At Cairo, Egypt, a spokesman for the Israel Government said Jewish troops had killed 300 Egyptians and captured 200 in a battle near Isdud, 25 miles south of Tel Aviv. The Jews | claimed capture of important Lydda Airport, 15 miles southeast of Tel Aviv, in a strong sweep against Iraqi forces. Syrian reports said 500 (Jews had been killed in fighting m, | Jacot’s bridge area below Lake Hula | lon the eastern frontier. | Tel Aviv was bombed again by two unidentified Spitfire planes. however, a Jewish communique said {there were no casualties. A dispatch from the Arab-held old city of Jerusalem said Arab irrégu- lars with Arab Legion mortar and artillery support advanced 50 yarts deeper into the new city. A sniper fired through the car of U. S Consul General John J. MacDonald, but the | Consul was not hurt | - - | Seattle Explosion Causes Four Deaths: SEATTLE, July 10.—®—A fourth person died yesterday as the result| of injuries received in Tuesday’s vx»; plosion at the Lyle Branchflower Fish Processing plant. 3 He was Alker W. Lanphere, 56, an | assistant engineer. Lanphere was| blown through a door by the force| {of the blast and suffered extensive| burns and an arm fracture. ————eo— — RED (ROSS OFFICIAL | VISITS LOCAL CHAPTER Louis C. Boochever, of Putlic Relations for the American Red Cross paid an un- official visit to the Juneau Chapt yesterday afternoon. He actions taken at the National Con- vention held in San Francisco last month. The Red Cross is making | plans for increased activity in its selective service legislation. Mr. and Mrs. Boochever have been visiting their son and daughter-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Booch- ever for two weeks. They will lea for their home in Washington, D. on Monday via Pan American Air- ways, Juneau for two weeks, left on the Coke has beep the | houseguest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Petrich, who live on Glacier Highway. She will re- turn to Spokane, where her hus- Alaska. Mrs. reviewed jincludes the der was the Berg Construction Co., serviceman division due to the recent | which offered to do the work for Dewey, Warren Eamllles Spend Day at Farm the occasion was a social visit his wife, THE DEWEY AND WARREN FAMILIES lined up for an informal picture on lawn of the New York Governor's farm house at Pawling Y., June The of the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, Goveernor Earl Warren, of California, and three | daughters, to his GOP running mate, Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Republican Presidential cendidate., As 1 might be surmised, the press was on deck in full force, eyen though the visit was of the ‘get-acquainted” | combined-families’ variety. Governor Dewey took Governor Wa n though his pastures and cattle sheds while the young- sters rollicked on the lawn. Left to right are: John Dewey, 14; irginia and Dorothy Warren, Gov- ernor and Mrs. Warren, Mrs. Dewey, Governor Dewey, Nina Warren and Tom Dewey, 17. (Inter- national Soundphoto) LAST RITES MONDAY NEW CALL HowEsiADes, 51 FOR BIDS | s ON PULP SEATTLE, July 10—‘4’1 Services THIRTEEN APPEAR - FOR RACE TRIALS Rounding the Jast turn before the July 18 Soap Box Race, 13 boys were at the trials last night to race down the 12th Street Hill in their almost completed racers, Entries at the run for Ray A. Cornelius, 57, one of the” first Matanuska Valley, Alaska, homesteaders, will be held here at 1 pm., Monday. WOMEN VOTERS MEET TUESDAY AT BARANOF AND GRAVELIS LOW ™%, Vicders daid thes nia 0" FOURI’H S'I' Jo | insufficient time to prepare for| . such a large enterprise, however, 2 and no bids were received at the! <The Juneau League of Women The Lemon Creek Sand and Grav- | initial offering last October Voters will hoid a luncheon meet- National Di- (el Co., was the low bidder yesterday| This time the Forest Service ex-|ing Tuesday noon in the Iris for widening Fourth Street in front | pects to get results. The Ketchi-!Room of the Baranof Hotel of the Federal Building and the Me- | kan unit was readvertised for sale| Mrs rl B. Strong, wife of the morial Lib The job, which also'“at the request of interested par- dean of Grinnell College, Towa, will i ounding of corners ties” the agency said give a talk on the work of ‘the {Fourth and Calboun and Fifth and The prospectus has been rr\'h,.dli rague in Grinnell. Mrs. Ernest by the comp: a report on an only other Main, will be done for $3,541.75. The /| slightly. { Gruening will giv bid- | The proposed 50-year contract will expire in the year 2002, in- Helen Strau of stead of June 30, 2000, as speci- | Naticnal League of Women Voters s, President the $4,897. fied last year, Everyone interested in the League | SRR et — And a provision has been writ- 15 welcome fo attend. For reser-| LEGION AUXILIARY TQ jten i siving assurance—but no|vations, cali Dr. Evyn Butier guarantee—that additional timber |Phone 453. All members are urged MEH’ MONDAY EVEN!“G will be avallable on reasonable | to attend g ter, after the 50 years are up. . There will be a special meeting of Prespective bidders must mit their qualifications, as 2~ MOTHER, BABY (ARE evi- He waiv- Grand Jury . PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today Princess Louise scheduled to sail’ with a 10-year-old girl from Vancouver July 14 ed indictment by the ——————— the American Legion Auxiliary at| go... of ancial ability o RED CROSS TO MEET [the home of Mrs. Ray G. Day on‘:‘h:‘m;m;'_l Ufi"“‘(":,“",;‘lm::f‘XJ‘JI_VI"I,J"“k" COURSE STARTING Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Final| — 0 ~0™ 0 BT T L eived —and 2ol The new board of the Juneaujarrangements Im' the visit of Mr ‘mahzd bids opened—from qualified A course in Mother and Baby | Chapter of ‘the American Red and Mrs. Lee W. Hutton will be |, iq0. "vore™ aAugust 2 (2 pan, Care and Family Health will begin Cross will hold a meeting on Tues- |made. Mrs. Hutton is the Ndlmxml‘}‘s.r‘ y ‘| Monda July 12, at 2:00 p. m day evening at 7:30 o'clock in the President of the Organization. K4 o L L SRR | Classes will meet at the Public| City Council Chambers. Robert| g % ! Health Center, 318 Main Street,| Bocchever, newly elected chairman,(® © o o & e o ¢ o o o {from 2 to 4 p. m. every Monda will preside at the meeting. . L] SIEAMER MOVEME"IS ;\lvn' ix we(vk.'».l Miss M«y Krurgl'ly, o o * WEATHER REPORT *| Senior Public Health Nurse, will DONALD PEGUES HERE s (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) . Princess Norah from Vancouver, be instrmctor. Persons wishing to Donald Pegues, son of Mrs. Dor- @ Temperatures for 24-hour period @ due at 2 o'clock this afternoon, attend this free course may tele- othy Pegues, is visiting in Juneau|e ending 7:30 this morning ® | sailing for Skagway at 11:3 - phene 218, or may register at me until July 19. He is traffic repre- @ In Juneau— aximum, 62; e turning Tuesday at 8 a. m., sail-|beginning of the first meeting. sentative in Fairbanks with Pan|e minimum, 53 ® | ing south one hour later. | —r—— American World Airways. He has|e At Airport— Maximum, 64; ' Denali, from Seattle, .schedulch KETCHIKAN CASE HERE just returned from his first visit|e minimum, 51. ® | to arrive tomorrow. ’ in Seattle and was not impressed e FORECAST e Aleutian scheduled to sail from; Norman Scott, of Ketchikan, was with the Outside. |® (Juneau and Vicinity) o Seattle today, due Tuesday. ‘arraigned here in U. 8. District ——ao——— ® Variable cloudiness this af- | Prince George scheduled to sail|Court yesterday afterncon ‘on MRS. COKE LEAVES ® ternoon and Sunday with e from Vancouved tonight. ulmlkh of contributing to the de- Mrs. Kathleen Coke and son|e highest temperature near 67 e, George Washington scheduled to! linquency of a minor. He is ac- Gary, who have been visiting in|e this afternoon. e sail from Seattle this afternoon. cused of having improper relations! . . . . . . . band, Lieut. Paul Coke, is station- ed with the Army Air Corps. { ® In Juneau City — None; Alaska scheduled to sail from Se-|and agreed to submit to prosecu- ® since July 1, .88 inches. attle July 14, tion by information submitted by ® At Airport Trace; since Baranof, frem west, scheduled|the District Attorney. Bond re- ® July 1, 69 inches. ;\numhuu'nd 8 a. m. Monday. mained at $2,000. William L. Paul, e Corsair scheduled southbound for{J was appointed defense attor- ® @ 0 0 o 0 0 > @ e o Vancouver Monday. I | while |a ecinch for HILL LAST NIGHT interview in Washington with Mrs.| ROOSEVELT IS GIVEN CALL DOWN Anti-Truman Movement s Resented - Demo Talk About V.P. Candidates By JACK BELL PHILADELPHIA, July 10.~ | The collapsing anti-Truman move- | ment agains James cne of its leaders, today Demccratic convention dele- gates talked mostly about Vice- Presidential possibilities. The convention begins Monday, with President Truman as much the Presidential nomi- nation as anything can be a cinch in politics. Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois was reported this morning to have backfired Roosevelt, {the inside track to second place lon the ticket. Later on, talk devel- |oped at convention headquarters _ | that perhaps Supreme Court Jus- tice William O. Douglas might get the assignment. | Rep. John W. McCormack of Massachusetts arrived in Philadel- ! phia and teld a reporter he would | take the Vice Presidential nomina- |tion if it came his way. But he |said he wasn't asking for it. James Roosevelt also came to | town. And some of his warring Californin ‘delegttion promptly took steps to rebuke him for leading a drive against Mr. Truman. The son of the late President said He died Saturday in the Veterans FOl'es' SerVKe Makes Se(' !last night were Larry Freimuth,; ”‘lfll‘al";"’“"ly “:t caucus he had ! Hospital at Portland, Ore., where he | Gerald Shaw, Mason Beach, Albert|cale or tonig. to. try to pro- had gone from Alaska seven months ond Aflempi fo ESiab- | Dobers, Jerry Wade, Bud Overten,| mote Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ago for medical treatment. . | Donald Abel, Jr. Sandy Blanton,|for President now would be called ! Cornelius was born in Helena, Mo., lish New Indus'ry | Gary Hedges, Jack Gould, Jerry|© |and had homesteaded in the Mata- S | McNeven, Mike Wade and Sammy| Another anti-Truman man, Sen- |nuska Valley since 1914. He was a By VERN HAUGLAND McPhetres. fator Olin D. Johnston of South jmember of American Legion Post — WASHINGTON, July 10.—(® Of the 30 boys who have completed | Carclina, abandoned a plan to No.15, Palmer, Alaska The Forest Service has called for race entry blanks, 17 have taken|bring before the Democratic Na- QSU"WO"* include the widow, of | phids on eight billion board feet of their cars out for the trials | tional Cemmittee a resolution call- Seattle; two sons, Frank and ROY| puip —timber near Ketchikan,) Encouraging all boys to comple Lo‘“'" on the President to withdraw Esflofi Enlrbanis, arifl i fBuEiss ) Aa v |heir cars ns soon as possible, Don |45 @ candidate in favor of Eisen- Mrs. Ralph Moore, of Palmer, Ala " It is the agency’s second attempt |Skuse I‘mll‘('d»'n faults which turn | BOWer. ka and Mrs. S. A. Williams, Alameda, | 1 3 . 3 S Calil. |to establish a pulp paper industryup in the race and could have been| Since Eisennower has enminated Dis Y lin the Territory. lavoided had the toys ran the trial| himself “ccmpletely and finally” as | The same timber w: offered course previous to racing 1a Presidential possibility, Johnston lEMo“ (REEK SA"D | for sale last year, as- was a like >-re — | said it would be useless to press area to the north near Thomas the resolution. But, he said, “the south will not vote fer Truman.” And it looked as if there would |be no chance to vote for Douglas, {at least for President. At his Oregon home, the Justice said — again— that he isn't a Presidential (candidate and would make a state- ment later. i John P. McEnery, Vice Chairman (of the Democratic Central Com- mittee of Calilornia, started the | backfire against Roosevelt. He said he would ask California delegates |to demand at a caucus Roosevelt’s s. | withdrawal as National Committee- man-designate. e o i SUSAN WILLIAMS LEAVES Susan Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lew Williams, left on the Alaska to return to her home in | Wrangell. She has been working th the Territorial Department of Taxation here since her graduation (from the Wrangell High School in ‘M.n She plans to enter college tin the fall {Gefs Hurt, Causes fBIasl All Because \He's Mad at Doq STOCKHOLM an July 10— ||#—A stray barking dog aroused the ire of Arnold Maki, 21, employed |here on the Orville Titrud Farm. He |gratbed a shotgun and went out |into the night. | He tripped, the gun discharged !dnd hit a dynamite pit, setting off 1100 pounds of the explosive. The en- suing blast ripped off Maki's clothes, | kroke windows in all the farm build- |ings, moved a machine shed off its | foundation and stripped trees of {their leaves Maki, cut, bruised and badly | shaken, was taken to a bospital. The dog, apparently unharmed, hasn't (teen heard from since, R