The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1948, Page 1

. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ; “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS \II'MH R ASSOCIATED PRE,SS MINATE TRUMAN, BARKLEY VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,939 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY | é‘, 1948 - DEMOS N Russzans Refuse To Lift Berlln Blockade | | . OFCRISIS IS SPECIAL 1STAMPEDES' NOMINATE | g . | i SESSION CONVENTION TWO CHIEFS . PREVAILING | | o i . g By RELMAN MORIN 1 H HYH Soviel Union ReJeds B Republicans Cry “Cheap PHILADELPEIIA, Jilv 15 Party Is Split Over Civil l o rr H H | The Democrats are airborne now H 1 3 mands Made bY 'l‘hree | POMI(S ‘l.eg|s|a“0n land they can thank the President | R!gh'S il Wlde Bfea(h wesiem Powers | { emanae He pulled them off the ground | y o | ! {at the very last moment of llwu‘ ot S | | (By The Associated Press) convention, after it had been LONE;‘:')NTOMJ I"VIL;IANLS i i { President Truman's call for & beuncing and floundering ,.mnu(ONGRESS (AU.ED IN : , July 15—P— The I special session of Congress July 26 the runways, and seemed certain ;:;:f ::J"";:L “L’S“‘ys‘“a 5‘:}‘1"‘;&( s I tics” today from many Republicans | n-the-mud end. 1 probably was 0, DL = Jof the GOP-controlled House and the most inept, dreary, shapeless A);‘ utl’;;ospl’slere [o( criEs;s p:cv;ile‘d"‘ Senate. X and badly-handled convention in Truman Lashes OU' at Re- oreign Secretary Ernest Bevin | The split in Democratic ranks he history of the party—until bi N o e S 0 et | {shown at the party's national con=t | sty ‘Trumeh. came ‘alorig | publicans During His | | vention in Philadelphia also wa§ That w at 2 o'clock this directly to Buckingham Palace to| | eflected In reaction of the ming Acceptance Speech - repart to the King. | ority’s Congress members totheff | — Anxious crowds waited in the { chief’s back-to-work ~proposal. Sw oaked IPl'll‘ui:l!’\’ | By JACK BELL bloc!( long stfeet outside anmC‘ | They diifered as to whether it! » delegates were tired, sweat- PHILADELPHIA, July 15—~ i MiRser. Atileeis official sesidence. | | was a wise or unwise political move | d and bored by that time. S0|pyegqont Truman countered a Foreign Office spokesmen would ! whether good would come of was the coatle g listless- | yomoeratic civil rights split today not comment on the Soviet re-| i“ PO ly fanning and gasping in the ;.ul-lvxth a dramatic call for a July 26 Jection of the British, French and | | Mr. Truman announced the plan leries. The temperature at Con-| hooia) session of Congress and a &m“::“"m‘:’m;dde'&l‘l“d"’“ o[‘:“(; for the special session—the 26th in | | “‘(“"“ ”;\‘” was 95 at ;" d;‘”“\l‘ | smashing attack on what he term- 4 z e r. groun Pl g e An endless series of speeches,| : e it 4, blookade of Bertin 1 b Mgl . o ik HARRY S. TRUMAN widded wib the tired 60 SAMEL mai T a8 reply . which loft the.next nomination at Philadelphia last| = i g I bys of political oratory—'thatb greati ag. muman asked - for action moyE P Gk gWestern Pawers, | night. Housing and anti-inflation | | American,” “a man who! "I Am|gyp: 15 days after the lawmak- . the” Russlans sald they were Will- Iwere placed at the top of issues (proud and privileged to be able,) o peey, on anti-inflation and 2 ing to negotiate if the talks con- to be considered with civil rights l'“ had been hammered into the | housing legislation ceriéd all “of” Oemmany and not.| | and other recommendations also to j microphones, hour after plodding | xn pour before he took the stage A just Berlin. The Western Allies| myo of Alaska's delegates to the Democeratic National Convention |come up for consideration. [P T 3 f Philadelphia’s Convention Hall had expressed willingness to talk| .4 ppijadelphia are pictured hcre waving #1oft “their Territgrial Almost without exception Repub- | Bussells Name Up eatly this morning to fling a chal- 'we:;"m ouly if the blockade| i Tney endeavorod-to keep cool in Philidelphiz’s sultey sum- | lcan Congress members attributed There .had been one. minor ANd| jenge, at.the Bepublioans - to. make were” enidea. i ¥ i BT ... \the step to political motives and cne major demonstration. Thelgooq on thetr Dewey-Warren plat- Reports in London newspapers| Mmer clime. They are (left to vight) Mrs. Audrey Cutling and Miss & : Sate lities” | {first one came when the South| iz T i3 that new notes would be sent to!| Gradelle Leigh. (International Photo) e sEisEn s oo IOTHER Eainated Betator Riohara, mumiel | o, DR il i & a5 | came frem several voicing their Sk | been nominated by his party on Prime Minister stnfllln within a 1 lagm | r,[' Georgia Ithe first ballot ndpery - edllsdURUEe “p““l“" | Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich),) The major demonsiraiion €ame| rye yote, indicating the wide tion” by the Foreign Office. i Setre'ar o' (onclave I the President of the Senate who has | after the President’s name Was p.each opened in party ranks by But it was apparent the West- ! | worked closely with the adminis- laced in nomination. It was a|ipe pigter, last-ditch fight over " ern Powers were alreac?y planning [ tration on foreign policy, exp,e\sed\ duplicate of those subway-crushes| .o yights 5 their next move. Sir 3 William | \duubts that “any good to the coun- that are standard equipment for} President Truman 94714 @ S!vrang. chief of the Foreign Offi- Itry” would come of the session. | ‘-,"“‘-”’""““”\ Senator Richard Russell, of ce's German section, was to meet “This sounds like a vast hys-| But after lh’;«l_ it sank into the Georgia 263 with the American and French | terical gasp of an expiring admlh-‘l old lethargy The speakers dmm-d‘ Paul V. McNutt 1 vote ‘ " Amhassndoxs.» Lewis Douglas and | istration,” said Vandenberg, Sen- ‘lln. Rr,llymlls nmyrut («h(:nl v\llh\ Not voting 23 Ren Massigll. ate Foreign Relations Committee | {the ponderous weight of a steam Alaska For Truman Refly. Broasiass | chairman. He added that the move | roller. ' Alaska came out for Truman, The Russian reply to the Ameri- “obviously stems solely from poli- || /Truman Appears; Alexd | “The first President of the United can notc_ot July 6 demnnging that * tical motiv | Then the President appeared. [giares to a for statehood for the Berlin blockade be lifted was i @ < ! Despite the hour (ne usually|a).ceq » & broadeast last night by the Mos‘- 1 | rises at 5 a. m.) he looked alert.| g gid the Virgin Islands, and cow radio several hours after it | . | He walked to the rostrum with al... seconding speeches were fin- A z . |qunk springy step. His white lin-|. ¢ o Ly I (Continued on Page Eight) ;Gen. pershl"g on bult an, S madl oA e %‘mf}ffv ‘::uul:l,\[ after two word | grinning, Then he dtarted 10} ppep came the roll-call, to con- SIE‘MER MOVEMHIS | : Pk, |firm what everyone knew already ¢ Alaska, from Seattle, scheduled { asses n In \‘rw[“ 2 “'“wl)"‘ \’"X‘vl"x"“’:}‘l‘)'l“'“- l”:' ~that Mr, Truman would be the to nrrlve‘ Monday. ,‘}‘1:1(\ vital v‘n“;: “,l::. d,:na“- PSS Mome Princess Louise, from Vancouver, | " :n‘ll‘ H;”:uml(k‘!\ J-’.l 1}1'11 a :u::: el '_,p‘“bdmv “f"‘, \Il.’j.w ,‘:‘:’ ternoon or evening. . ! R & nation had all the appearance \“;'““‘ ol e iigen e o Princess Norah scheduled to sail Aged FOI’meI’ Chlef Of Siafi > Hm”fl_‘”w “"‘.l‘;u‘;n'k l;“_”'mm“mélur h} . Mc (ong, long pause) % from Vancouver Saturday. ! D' 1 H ital "I ALBEN BARKLEY lattn: oneress, : I Tout o Aleutian, from west, scheduled ies in Hospital - : : = LBl the Fresident Bt Bard' 0| e RGET BRATE southbound late Sunday or Mon-! Since Feb 1938 land Yigoslaviidlamtinuniats of ‘Be=|his aim was good. Moveover, T vaiom fopithe President "m Al- » day. £y ’ 'ITO H I'II ing hateful toward Russia and|manner was 1 that the aud-|pen ", Barkley of Kentucky, 70- T z traying from the party line. Tito| ien: ould hardly fail to react. ... T e % w = { By JERRY KORN shot back that these were absurd |He was, by turns, angry, xx1x1u~111‘.,'i1;“|“c”li :::::l:zlhh‘i\l:!,'ul I:xx thl:c e aShlngton WASHINGTON, July 15— lies ‘and slander.” and poisonously sarcastic. It was a Pm‘mm Gk i General John J. “Blackj.nck" Persh- AGA!N Bv The new . Cominform attack said |good speech, | Unanimous, that is, except for M MerrY_Go_Round !ing, who led American troops Lc the Yugoslav Communist Coengress| It got the Democratic aircraft|, oroup of Mississippi and Ala- gl | victory in World War 1, died early July 2‘] e "'; l"“""”"“"“"m"l'-‘ Gf"shi " gronnd, ll'émm delegates. They had walked — b e o e 2 v intimidatec wenchmen who are — - e o B By DREW PEARSON ¢ 3 ‘m?\an)n:‘:xé::hefie 51! I:Zw General R IAN unable to speak for the ~real will! (Continued On Page Two) Attractive Mrs. Dorthy M. Verdenburgh was Secretary of the Demo- [0, "0 5o 0 preciqent Tru- | of the masses of party members NI,RB NAMES (lo AN L i (Copyright, 1948, b!;.'x;m Bell Syndicate, cratic National Convention. She is pictured as she spoke to the ..., through White H’uuw aldes AR * PHILADELPHIA— Thoughts on ;5:*";‘;"" delegates and the crowded galleries at the first session | after he had learned of it upon 72 | ROME-—Togliatti improved from| SOI.DIER AWA"ING Watching a Democratic Conven- L g his return from the Democratic . + |his three bullet wounds. l)l\m‘drrmlo(Al AS AGENI FOR tion—The Exercycle girl in the | National Convention at_phiacel-| COMinform Charges Him | nad broken out in Rome and near- (ouRIMAR"Al !N store window on Chestnut Street They said the area, stil phia. s s Ty ly every major Italian city Thc‘(ANNERY WORKERS is still pedaling her exercise ma- PA(IFI( NA"ONS i definitely, pmmm; tfou‘,’;, The aged former Chief of Staff with Condudlng Re!gn general strike stopped transport, | [ AI.ASKA ES(APES chine up and down. She's been! include the West Coast of the Ihas been ill since February, 1933 ”- ' “ | c (9 the radio and newspapers Only o ## doing it ever since the Repub-| ASKED 'l‘o SUPPOR]’ it States end Croasa. the Al | when ke was stricken at Tucson, OF 1CFTOr —I1GNANLIISIS v and dairy workers were ex-{ SEATTLE, July 15—(P—Local 7 lican Convention and she doesn't! askan Coast, the East Coast of |Ariz, by a form of rheumatism emy of the CIO-Food-and-Agriculture » get tired . . . Sam Rayburn, Sena-| Asia to Hong Kong, and the area|Which affected his heart muscles. | (By The Associated Press) | Workers Union, said today it has| SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 —— tor Barkley et al are still ex- loRA" SIATIONS north of a line from Manila tol He came close to dying at that, The Kremlin-bossed Cominform|JEANE | been recognized by the National|Sixth Army headquarters announc- tolling the virtues of Frankin D. Southern Caliiornia, through Guam, | time- tock another crack today at Pre- HALIBUT | Labor Relations Board as bargain-|ed that a Sergeant, awaiting court Roosevelt. The Exercysle girl is Wake and Hawaii Since then, he had lived at the mier Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia —_— :”“" agent for fish cannery work: martial in Alaska, escaped from a # mechanized, but Rayburn, Barkley,| SEATTLE, Juny 15.—®— The e g | Walter Reed Hospital here. aceusing him of conducting a! Jeanette ippered by'in the Pacific Northwest and Al-|prisoner work detail at the Pre- et al aren’t. However, they don't|Philippines asked \estemu) that Death was caused by a blood | “reign of terror.” Rhodes, lande: Juneau | aska | sidio yesterday get tired either . . . Roosevelt is|Other nations in the Pacific share SIotK 0“0]‘"0"5 | clot which reached his lung. The Communists in adjoining |Cold Storage yesterds with a{ The local's right to bargin for the; He was identiiied as Sgt. Peter gone now. It's the first conven- |the cost of operating LORAN (Long | NEw YORK, july 15—#—Clos-| At Pershing’s bedside were his|Italy, in the wake of the attempt-|26,000 pound ~halibut load which | 7,000 workers had been challenged | Myers, 29. tion without him in sixteen years,|Range Navigation) stations in the . guotation of Alaska Juneau|S0D, Warren, his sister, Miss Mayled assassination of Palmiro Tog- |was split by Engstrom Brothers|by the Seafood Workers Union,| The publle Information office > but they keep talking about him !islands. mine stock today is 3%, American|Pershing, and his longtime physi- liatti, the leading Italian Commun- and Alaska Coast Fisheries at lJ‘v\hmiv broke off from Local 7 early|says Myers formerly was attached . . . Talking but not necessarily| The request was made at a 13- can 8 Anaconda 38, Curti cian, Maj. Gen. Shelley Marietta. ‘m temporarily paralyzed the coun- |for medium, eight for chix and 18|in 1947 to the 5lst Ordnance Supply Com- doing . . . Truman talks about|nation conference of the Interna- wright 10%, International Harves As General of the Armies, Persh- | try with a general strike. Riots cents a pound for large. | Ernie Mangao, Local 7 business|pany, Fort Richardson, Alaska. He & him, but fires most of the old|ticnal Aviation Organization. er 32%, Kennecott 59%, New York|ing was the nation’s highest rank- | resulted in at least ix deaths. The - | agent, said the NLRB held the | was charged with embezzling $2,000 Roosevelt team . Oscar Ewing! They were installed by the U. 8./ Gentral 17, Northern Pacific 25,|ing military man. Only one other|Communists were challenging the HIGHWAY PATROL CAR | Seafood Workers Union was domi-|and with theft of soldiers’ savings talks about him; Van Heflin talks' Government during the war and y s steel 80%, Pound $4.08%. |American, George Washington, has| very life of the government of Al-| The Juneau Ofiice of the Terri-|nated by froemen and supervisors|deposits. a about him, Congressman Mike Ker-|are being operated by the U. S.| gales today were 1,620,000 shares.|Deld that title. side de Gasperi, who defeated| torial Highway Patrol acquired an|and incapable on those grounds of | Myers was arrested by Army win talks about him. But the real|Coast Guard until June 30, 1949.| Averages today are as follows:| All during the Second World them at the polls in April But the extra auto for use in this area |acting as baragining agent agents here July 3. He flew from fact is that, despite the talk, the| The delegates, hoping to stand- | i qustrials 187.75, rails 63.15, utili-| War, Pershing received a full re-|government declared a back to|this week. The vehicle was rought | > Anchorage on May 24. He was be- Roosevelt family isn'tin tune with a“dl_"? procedures in the North | jtjes 3567 : I port twice a month from General work mcyvement was beginning. nere from Ketchikan after a new SEATTLE VISITORS ing held at the Presidio here pend- Truman and never will be. Jimmy |Pacific region, said United States 2 G aead {George C. Marshall, his aide in! o 'rar was sent there. It will be used! Among the guests at the Bar-|ing arrival of guards from Alaska Roosevelt did his best for Eisen-|Systems probably will be adopted. FROM MT, EDGECUMBE 11917. Pershing had warned that! LONDON--The Cominform, the|for emergency purposes and for anof are five Seattleites, including to return him to Fort Richardson 5 hower. So did Elliott; and, for a Most of the region's long range Mr. and Mrs. George W. Fedor-ithe United States might become Communist information bureau, is- | visiting dignitaries according to! Harry H. Townsend, Mr. and Mrs.|for a general court marital. commerical flying is by U. S. car- off of Mt. Edgecumbe are visitors|embroiled in a second European'sued its new blast from Rumania. | Highway Commissioner ank A.| Bert Proctor, Maurice Kerr .md} He has a wife in Kansas City, Vi (Continued on Page Four) riers, in Juncau at the Bgranof Hotel. iw:\r as early as April, 1937, | Its original charges accused Tito Metealf fLyle M, Heaton |Mo., the Army said, i