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

THE DAILY ALASKA' EMPIRE j o “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 3 VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,962 UNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS S th ¢ Py Ip Site Bids Will Be R ted Soon SITKAPULP “fih&‘sngfi%on DOUGLAS |CIO Marifime |EX-SPY Big Powers May Gel ALLIES BIDSTOBE | ~ox aceeements AFL LOCAL | Unions Turn | ADMITS Decision This Week, FREEZE REQUESTED secear (;TsTa:g isass WILL MEET Down Offers ~ REWARD International Talks MONEY Ben Mullen Says Will Ask| e St ™ 11 Discuss Charges Filed PacificCoasiLa i | Elizabeth Bentl Y | s e mscwed pres | potaliaory Adion Tak , Advefllsg Soon Seretary o St ot witn me| - Douglas Cannery for September 3 Witness Stand INDUS‘I’RY Prrimate "nififilfi‘fv&,‘ff b "“" Marks & mf"féfi.s'xficfifiiflfff :ox:u;}rzm:lfg’::: s‘sxen:k ':;-egx:'e'ff ?::::v m‘xlosi Members of the Dlmglas Branch,| SAN FRANCTSE). Aug. 1| By I;OUGL;\S_E CORNELL Zg:;:]::::z};:zi\:fl; :Lh;;;e‘;‘l_%‘::;i::::‘l’ggé’Sizlht-m\:fim‘::: {E::s nlxmvev ul:::'; Sitka, it was learned today from Ben Mullen, of Juneau and New York, who is Vice-president and agreement’s sake. Marshall made the comment at {a news conference after he had of the AFL United Alaska Fisher- men and Cannery Workers' Union, will meet tonight to discuss charges which their Local has filed with —A fact-finding board prepared a report for President Truman on the complex Pacific Coast Mari- time lakor situation today as three WASHINGTON, The Russian drawn directly Aug. 11—P— Embassy today was into Congressional . DISAGREE |in ten days between Foreign Min- | ister Molotov and the diplomats of the U. S, Britain and France ap- Berlin banks tonight in a retailia- tory blow at the Soviet squeeze in the German capital. . dustrial | been asked to discuss the inter- hearings of the alleged Communist | &i;‘:fiféfir s i national meeting at Belgrade, Yu- :‘k‘ae NLRB ag}:lnst::e‘ Dougla? Ctan- uni‘ins dreadrlr_n-med Sept. 3 as a wn;lz‘im; Skl:)'lng.a . | { ::i:lr:‘d nlilll‘( l;!“_fl:ll:l’c'iw r:::- :":’;:::\li “'rlhv 'pur:x:s: of zmrl ::delr mdu; ompan; oslavia, on freedom of navigation ning Co., when at organization| strike deadline. zabeth T. Bentley, who says H 7 s ¢ e fro emphasize that no unilateral orde Nl ro e fin the Diube River. The con-|allegedly failed to follow through| A Federal injunction prohibitsishe is a former Red spy, returned Housev"ves Renew Cam and it was impossible to tell from|from Soviet authorities can relieve hopes to ask the U. S. Forest Ser- vice late this month to advertise for bids on approximately one billion cubic feet of pulp timber in the Sitka area. The Juneau man has been con-| ferring at Sitka this week with Roy W. ‘Johnson, Vice=presid and ference is split between a majority Russian bloc, and a minority Western bloc. Repeatedly the Secretary gave a no comment reply to inquiries about the big four talks now under way in an agreement with them and, in- stead, signed a contract with the] CIO Food, Tobacco and Agricultu- ral Workers' Union. No charges have yet been filed against the CIO although the AFL to the witness chair of the House! Un-American Activities Commmee1 and testified that Anatol Gromov, first secretary of the Embassy, paid her $2,000 in October, 1945. | She also said he told her the a maritime strike until then. The Presidential board wound up its hearings late yesterday amid charges and countercharges of “Communism” and “Fascism” hurl- ed by both sides. paign Against High Meat Prices (By The Associated Press) Union may ke expected to do so it at. Moscow on the Berlin blockade ¢ it can find enough evidence to sup- engineer .of the company;iBruce and the broader problem of a Ger- Spokesmen for four unions turn- ed down an employer wage offer Marine Cooks and Stewards, and The Government's latest forecasts of an all-time_ record corn crop Soviet Supreme Council had award- | ed her a medal has the Washington experts pre-| the vague hints dropped here and there whether success or failure is in the offing. The Russians said they had massed enough food in Berlin to ieed all the city for 40 days. Com- | plaints of hunger mounted from the surrounding Soviet zone. A. the City government of its obliga- tion to meet all of its budgetary commitments in the Western sec- tors of Berlin,” a British official statement explained. ‘The Russians previously had froz- en accounts of firms in Western Berlin unless they promised to do elected Berlin city government to e ‘port its claims. as inadequats Her st f the money and th Miller, member of the State Parlia- | business only in the Russian cur- | Hoffman, Portland, Ore., 40gging (man settlement. However, the POTt 1 3, as inadequate. er story of the money an e iller, member of the State a | gngmm;'fir Lyford, Seattle aerial|sweeping nature of his response to % Officials of three of the un-|medal had been disclosed by com-!dicting lower meat prices. About|ent i the Russian state of Sax-|rency. The three Westeyn Mili- } photo specialist; and Lyman ‘Blis- | the inquity on the Danube meet- ! jons—the CIO Longshoremen and migtee members earlier, but she|85 percent of the corn harvest g0es|ony_ Anhalt, wrote in a Russian|tary Governments ordered the worth, Sitka logging operator.. All have been working at the plant and ing madé it clear that he applies the same liné of reasoning to.the FIGHTING the Independent Marine Firemen— pointed for the first time to the Embassy as the source. for feeding beei, hogs, and poultry. | ewspaper in Berlin: But the American Meat Institute| «ywe have bitter need for im- instruct central offices of Berlin [ timber site for the past sevefal| Moscow and Belgrade sessions: 1 said their members would definitelyj Miss Bentley, who says she gavesays it will be a long time between |, ovement of our food ration be-{that “no transfers from accounts ik weeks, o { e AN i strike September 3. her story to the FBI in August,|corn crop record and cheaper lfleflt:muse our physical reserves have|in their Western sector branches ¥ Their work has included timbtery { | - CIO Marine Engineers demanded |1945, also told:the committee: prices, because it takes about one|jong peen spent. Ilinesses last [ may be effected without express i cruising, surveying, oopognphuq { further negotiations. “The FBI has told me that in|year for pork and about two years|jong and our abilities to produceauthority of the military govern- surveying and the making of bear- L stk President Truman will get thejchecking all of the evidence I for beef o turn corn'into meat. are impaired.” ment.” 4 ing tests for the sinking of plant foundations. THE “S&wmm" wilt*‘be located at thé delta of Sawmill Creek, just out of Sitka, and is ex- pected to produce 200.tons of.dissolv- ing or rayon pulp daily. The pro- posed mill’s output is expected tc be | used as raw.material in the manu- facture of rayom. 8 Big Investment ‘The project will represent an in-! vestment of between eighteen and | twenty million dellars, Mullen de- clared. Most of the financing will} be done through Belgian interests al- though some local money has also been invested in the company. He| explained that Alaska Industriall is merely an organizing concern | which will turn its results over to} another company for actual opera-: “APPROVES U.N.LOAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—#—, President ' Truman today signed | legislation authorizing a $65,000,000 loan for erection of United Na-' tions headquarters in New York. | The measure, Mr. Truman said, demonstrates the United Stat,es'} faith in a peaceful future. | He called it “another example of the solidarity of the American peo-; |tire was imposed. PALESTINE JERUSALEM, Aug. 11—(#—Guns and artillery resounded from mid- night to dawn today in the heaviest fighting here since the U. N. cease | Count Folke Bernadotte, the Me- | diator who said he was going to gen( tough in order to stop the shooting,, was here and heard it all. The U. N. officer has put 50 more American and French observers on the job! in an effort to restore peace. (A Tel’ Aviv source close to the| Israeli cabinet predicted new Jeru- salem and its Arab quarters will be fact-finding board report Friday {rom Chairman- Harry ~Shulmah, Yale University law professor. Un- ion members still must vote on the employer wage oifer as. required by law. Communist Charge The longshoremen and their leader, Harry Bridges, and the Ma rine Cooks and Stewards were ac cused of following the Communist party line in a brief submitted by the employers. Bridges denied the charge and said he could prove the Pacific American Shipowners Association and the Waterfront Employers Association had “Fascist and Nazi”! connections. Both sides accused the other of ple” behind a bi-partisan forelgniannexed to Israel within two weeks. ' deliberately impeding negotiations. ve given them they never have Whd .any major discrepancy.” The committee put Miss Bentley back on the stand after hearing jHenry H. Collins, Jr, a former ! military government officer, deny: that he was ever a spy for a for- teign country, but refuse to say | whether he s or has .been a ommunist. Before he took the stand, Chair- man ‘Thomas (R-NJ) aunounced| that a special subcommittee will go to New York tomorrow to take testimony in closed session from Michael Ivanovitch Samarin, form- er Russian school teacher. Other members said there are plans also to send a subcommittee ( —perhaps of one man -to Can-! ada, to get a statement from Igor| | progresses. So Amerigan hmxaewivts1 v’ll_m Berlin Fuel Shortage, | have beguh & new campalgn”to' another Russian n ér in bring ‘doWh 1o6d. prites nbw still e city the par 43 kAR e, | are working on their boycott. And | gested the squebze is Hurting the while this may not be spreading | pygsians, Fuel shortages have clos- like wildfire, butchers in some parts{eq many facorites in the Western of the country acknowledged 10| sectors and Neues Deutchland said i day that it is having a noticeable | ine western factory output is “urg- effect on their sales. |ently” needed in the Soviet sector. Frank J. Klinger, the head of the | y g and British authorities have Retail Meat Dealers Association inifjown in a three weeks reserve of Cleveland, Ohio, says: “While sales | tooq ior the 2,000,000 or more Ber-| always fall off in July and August,|jiners i the Western zones. They | they have probably fallen a ‘“‘“de‘.m’epurod to keep the air bridge op- more than usual in the last week. | e all winter if the blockade con- And we anticipate an even sharper|ynyes, Doubtless there will bej decline as the resistance movement:mych suffering for lack of coal, | however. s Other Berfin Activities ! The British prepared a protest to Russia over the flight of 12 Restaurant owuers in Louisville, Kentucky, say they're ready to co- operate on bringing down meat pri- ‘This suggested the diplomatic talky Lat a-iu 0 the Berlin: blockdde" and breaking down other differences between the West and East were not going too well. Currernicy has been report- ed one of the main road blocks in progress In the Kremlim talks, - - -ee Salmon Is Condemned By Court ! i tion of the plant and its facilities.| policy to strengthen the U. N. fi“d!He said the cabinet already has de-| The employers made an offer of) Gouzenko, the former Russian|ces to the extent of going back|yak fighters over thelr Galow air- —_— Asked why Sitka was chosen in-jthe cause of world peace and se-lcided secretly to take the step. The a five-cent hourly wage raise andlalerk who was rqponsible forito meatless Tuesdays. port in the city. American troopstood and Dru of”(ia' stead of another of the five pro-jcurity. (Arabs hold the old city, which is|certain vacation benefits for the|breaking the Canadian atom bomb| In San Francisco, packing houses, g posed pulp timber sites, Mullen ex- about a fourth of the total area.) : lengshoremen. The Marine Cooks spy’ case. j will take part next week in French | have been army maneuvers in Germany. ! picketed by women Says Shipment Dam- plained that the mild winter weath- | FROM WRANGELL The unofficial battle reached its and Stewards are offered a 23 It was disclosed, too, that the|carrying signs which read: Belgium signed- a trade agree-} er and favorable climate was thej M. M. Custard of Wrangell is inheight in Jerusalem around 3 a.m.|percent raise; the Firemen 23 per-|committee contemplates a recess of| “The meat trusts are Keeping|ment with the American-British | ed i" Shi wre(k main factor because such conditions | town and is staying at the Gastin-|Rifle shots and automatic fire broke|cent and for work on steam;the hearings here. |prices up—they get the gravy, We|sone of Germany. The Com-| ag p will help to attract highly skilled|eau Hotel. out by the thousands. Artillery,|schooners 6.3 percent; the Engin- iy B L S Iget the gristle.” R ‘Berlln e ¥ pulp labor. He also said that the S TR s 2 SRR {seemingly from a distance, was audi- | eers, 7 percent on steam schoon- And with meat prices being what|ine ninth policeman from the| DENVER, Aug. 11—M— Nearly location will do away with the ne- e |ble throughout the city. White and|ers. ANNUAL GARDEN lthey are, the New York State|western zones $6,000 worth of canned salmon re- cessity of building a company town The wasnlnglon'lmn flares lit up the sky so ‘Arabs| All of the offers were consider- Conservation Department is wor-| ~ vote Down U. S soversd* (s pusken - SUlk ¢y although the company will need a and Jews could spot their foes.’ |ably below union demands, Long- CLUB SHOW PENS ried about its deer. Officials sus-| The Communist bloc of Eastern|P¢en condemned and ordered des- minimum of 100 housing units as Bernadotte expressed goncern over | shoremen had asked for an 18-cent pect that, as happened during the E troyed. soon as it begins operations. { Paul J. Timbal, a New York rep-l resentative for Belgian banking in-|( terests, is President of the company. He and Charles Semal, a principal stockholder, are due here at the end of’this month for another in-! spection, Mullen also said that their choice of a site has plenty of good timter, ! Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON i (Copyright, 1948, :’u’fh. Bell Syndicate, l WASHINGTON—The well organ- ized real-estate lobby worked backstage with its pet Congress- the 'shooting. WITNESSES ARE CITED, hourly boost. The employers also stood fast in the hiring hall con- troversy; they want the present union-named dispatcher replaced by an impartially-hired man. The unions have refused the change. THIS AFTERNOON| | The annual flower show of the| Juneau Garden Club opened this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Ma- Europe voted down a second Amer-| war, hunters will start stockingiican eifort to ensure free navlgn-i the family larder from among the|tion of the Danube. The Belgrade 350-thousand deer which roam | conference then: started adopting state forests. Indeed, New York|the Russian draft convention. | Conservation Commissioner Perry| . Russia rejected in the Unlledl B. Duryea reports an unprecedent- | Nations an American proposal to| |sonic Temple and will continue luntil 9. o'clock this evening. Many beautiful entries are on display; outstanding for their delicate beau- STOCK QUOTATIONS | ed wave ol game law violations and he has directed wardens to put on the pressure. give Trieste back to Italy. The Sov- iets supported a Yugoslav asser-| tion that the U. S. and Britain| The order was issued yesterday by U. S. District Judge J. Foster Symes. He acted on a libel pf in- formation drawn by Wendell Vin- cent, head of the Denver Pure Food and Drug Office. Vincent sald the 9,600 cans in- volved were part of a shipment of 17,000,000 cans going from Al- aska to Seattle on the freighter b ) nibgmo:d Tant .l:csun; and the pols- k;nnl mendi almost eve'l;'yh mllnute Sk g ;!y are the miniature bouquets. . :;::w violated the Italian peace ry. .4 gnot The ship was sunk sl of an uate power suj g the special session. bl NE , Aug. 11.—P—Clos- g y et ool ol e b nay freaginetl hod o1 (ene e dnited, ko altesys thls p M OFHUM.S Io Premier Andre Marie won a third | & collslon in the Straits of day, via PAA. Mullen returned to New York but will be back in a month or six weeks. Johnson went to Seattle and will return with Se- mal and Timbal. even engaged in , writing free{ speeches in order to kill the Pub- lic Housing bill. Two crack writers for the real- estate lobby even worked one nlght'l until 4 a. m. writing a speech for CONTEMPT Prominent Seattlites Are' ing quotation of Alaska Juneau|oytstanding event of Juneau’s sum- mine stock today is 3%, American mer geason. Can 84 Anaconda 36, Curtiss-| Through the courtesy of Pan Am- Wright 9%, International Harvester | prican Airways, orchids flown direct 28%, Kennecott 56'%, Neéw Yorkifrom the Hawaiian Islands, will be Central 17';, Northern Pacific 22, 'sold. All funds collected from the MEET WITH PRESS HERE LATE TODAY Senate majority leader Kenneth Charged by Washing- ! U. S. Steel 76%, Pound $4.03%. orchid sale will be used for the { What happened was that the Re- industrials 179.27, rails 59.06, util-landscape the grounds of the Ju- vited members of local newspaper victory in Prance when the Cham- | ber of Deputies approved, over Communist objection, his finan- cial reform bill allowing the gov- | ernment to raise or lower taxes. The Greek Army captured Ale- Juan sDe Fuca, August 13, 1947 Most of the cargo was recovered by divers, Vincent said, and re- processed in Seattle for shipment to cities across the nation. The Denver shipment was from Mc- | Govern and McGovern in Seattle, drawn from sale as soon as stores { # i i vitsa Slope, one of the toughest i Wherry. It was quite a forensic Sales today were 1,310,000 shares.|Garden Club’s Living Memorial| With several Pan American of- +he said. The sali ntained de- ; ( “e w dlllSO“ masterp! H : strongholds of ~om. | he said. salmon con as follows: v ¢ & ngholds of the shrinking Com- = i uiier wa | masterpiece. fon State Committee Averages today are Fund, @ plan whereby the club will | ficials visiting Juneau, PAA has in- | T/THBIOTE B U8 ShERERE COM- | composed materials and was with Leaves Tomorrow ipubncln National Committee had already sent Wherry a speech sup- SEATTLE, Aug. ' 11—A— Six} witnesses who refused in a recent’ ities 34.31. neau Memorial Library. Special; —,,o—— |corsages will be made on request. editorial and advertising staffs to a press conference this afternoon head hunters from the Borneo to Malaya to help track down Com- munists who are trying to here were notified, Vincent added. posed to be the Republican answer ———ee - jat 5 o'clock in the Baranof Hotel. take| 3 2 Activities o 09 W 8 8LQ8 0 N & over. r se “h ash to inflation. Among other things|législative Un-American b The visitors include®J. D. (Joe) | | or Jea ’ "1t described free enterprise as & ?:mmitwe‘:esnng n;r say whether \X}E;\%%RREPOI‘S:I‘ : " M“ FIHED AT Fessio, San Francisco, Divisional 5 T f.l onees ! _|svstem that provided little girls, they Wwere then or ever were mem- Te BRA Sales Manager for the Pacific-Alas- The Coaf: 1Guahrd cun:: ‘;1:::\‘\:‘ with plenty of bubble gum. And | bers of the Communist party, were Tempenv.urfl for 24-hour period ¢ . “‘m o" HSH ka Division, who flew in yesterday STEAMER MOVEME"“ | A,e walkh u 'o sett, regularly based *|it compared the difference be- charged in Superior Court yester- ending 7:30 this morning L on the first leg of a trip which will g p plans to leave here at 9 o'clock tomorrow anorning for Seattle for about a month while undergoing repairs and taking part in tactical cperations in the area. Commander Carlson of the Wa- chusett said that two sister ships, the Klamath and the Winona, would be included in the ships tak- ing part in the tactical maneuv- ers. Carlson said he hopes to be in Seattle proper for at least a week. tween the Democratic and Republi- cap viewpoints to the number of |bananas a peddler had for sale.| The Democrats stood for one ban- ana jand considered two bananas a monopoly, while the Republicans stood for 1,000 bananas. So said |the GOP ghost-writer. Wherry read the script over I:me, tossed it into the waste bas- et. ! “It couldn’t have been worse if |the Democratic National Commit- day with contempt. The actions, filed by Prosecutor Lloyd Shorett, accused the six per- sons of “wilful refusal to answer proper and material questions be- fore a legislative committee.” Charges were filed against Ralph Gundlach, professor of psychology at the University of Washington; Herbert J. Phillips of the English Department; Rachmiel Forsch- miedt, senior sanitary inspector for the City, of Seattle; Burton W.| n Juneau— Maximum, 59; minimum, 53. At Airport— Maximum, 62; minimum, 50. v FORECAST (Juneau und Vicinity) Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperature. PRECIPITATION st 24 hours ending 7:30 s.m. today In Juneau — .24 inches; since August ¥ 259 inches; LAW VIOLATIONS | | U. 8. Commissioner Ross Hevel of Haines has fined 11 Haines fisher- men, who were reported by the Fish and Wildlife Service, to have been: fishing in a closed area. The ma- Jority of the violations occurred in'! ‘the closed area at the mouth of the Chilkat River. Pishermen fined $75 ,were; John! Marks Thlunaub, George Williams, Harry Willlams and John Jacobs., take him throughout the Territory. |He expects to remain here for sev- eral days and may make a trip to Sitka, Fred Dunn, Juneau Traffic Manager, said today. Another official, Gerrit E. Roelof, Advertising Manager for PAA's Pa- cific-Alaska Division, will arrive this afternoon and wishes to meet advertising men here and to study Alaska’s publicity and advertising needs R. (Red) Mott, representing the Coastal Monarch sails from Se- attle Saturday, August 14, H Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive northbound Tuesday, August 17. George Washington scheduled to| arrive northbound Friday. Aleutian scheduled to arrive; southbound at 8 a. m. Monday. Princess Norah scheduled to are rive southbound Friday at 8 a. m. - R Work; No Elevator ‘The government workers in the Federal Building are getting quite {a lot of exercise these days. The elevators are out of commission and it is the “shanks mare” that is carrying the weary workers up the five flights of stairs. A disheartened mechanic, who is working on the repair job, said It will be the vessel's first chance to grant a little State-side liberty since July 1, 9.74 inches. At Airport — 07 inches; HERE FROM PORTLAND Ithat it is only one small wire that Elizabeth Gilley and Mary Dow-!is broken—but there are about two tee had written it for me,” he'James and Florence Bean James, Fined $30 were; George szuk.:?ncmc Northwest Division of the snorted. co-directors of the Repertory Play- Gerald Loosli, Charles Hayes, George J. Walter Thompson Advertising since her trip here a year ago last| April when she was in for over- haul. Then he phoned real-estate lobby~ N0use in Seattie: and Albert Ot-| tenheimer, assistant director of the | since ‘August 1, :1.67 ‘inches; since -July 1, 6.51 inches. Clayton Sr., Charles Clayton Jr.' Company, is due at 3 o'clock this ‘and James King. Fenton Jacobs afternoon and also has been invited 1 (Continued on Page Four) | Playhouse. ‘ ® ® 0 o 0 v 9 o o o Jr was fined $26. to attend the conference today. ney of Portland, Ore., are visitors here, stcpping at the Baranof / Hotel, !miles of wire that have to be checked before the trouble can be located.