The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE’ VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,968 NLRB RULES “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1948 Salmon Industry FOUR-POWER | TALKS NEAR CONCLUSION KETCHIKAN CRITCIZES SUSPENSION First City Objects to Fish| Closure — F&WS Ex- plains Ruling According to the Ketchikan News, there is strong and increasing ten- timent here that Albert M. Day, head of the Fish and Wildlife Service, is not acting in good faith with fishermen and industry in the present closure of this fishing dis- trict. While northern districts of Southeast Alaska may have a poor showing, the Ketchikan district has a good “escapement of pink salmon with an estimated 700,000 in Anan Creek and another 300,000 at its mouth. Many other streams in' this district alo have good escapement estimated at one million'to. 2 mi lion and a Guarter fish espegially in view of the dry weather hecuts down grounds gvailable for immedi-| ate spawning. _The fishing industry claims that dry weather® and northerly winds keep fish from coming in and when the rain does come, there will be"s’ heavy run which will overcrowd streams as in 1941'when tremendous m were- lost_to % mmwi Packers claim that an ‘;u l tion before, closure was ordered by Day at Juneau and no pilot traps are now being operated to determine (Continued On Page Two) e The Washington| Merry- EP_ -Round| By DREW PEARSON Copyright, 1948, .b':w’l'he Bell Syndicate, 5) 'ASHINGTON— When a nation : is in dire trouble’ with another nation—as we are today with Rus- sla—wise leaders cqncemrate on the weakest point in the other na-| tion's armor. The weakest point in Russia’s armor are her own people—as this column has so long emphasized, and as is being emphasized today in New York "by two Russian schoolteachers. In brief, when the Russian people get to know the difference between the US.A. and the U.S.SR., they prefer the U.S.A. Simultaneously the Moscow press and radio are putting out complete- ly false ideas about these Rus- sian schoolteachers—because the Kremlin knows all too well that the Russian people are the weakest spot in the Soviet armor and that they must continue to be deceived. The Kremlin knows this, but the State Department doesn’t know it —or, at least, doesn't do anything about it. The Diplomats who guide our Russian policy do not seem to realize that there will always be: danger of war with' Russia—and| grave danger—until we get behind | the Iron Curtain to make friends with the Russian people. When this column suggested floating weather balloons' into Rus- sia from Germany with propaganda messages and gifts attached (which the Weather Bureau says is quite feasible), the Army and Air Forces were most enthusiastic. One high-ranking general urged releasing a million balloons a montk. “If we can get to the Russian people that way or any other way,” he said, “we who are supposed to fight wars can go fishing.” But the State Department, which has the final say in all such foreign-policy matters, said no. Russia, they decreed, might be of- fended. CODE FOR WAR PREVENTION Perhaps it is lese majesty for a humble newspaperman to give advice to the high-and-mighty State Department. But since, if war comes, it is my children—not the (Continued on Page Four) [ndependenl Airlines fo Figh! Rules SEATTLE, Aug. 18- {P—Members of the Independent Air Carrier Con- ference are meeting here to map what they say will be a fight on a national scale to keep the non- scheduled air transport industry from extinction i John J. Klak, general counsel for | the TACC, said the meeting was pre- cipitated by a recent Civil Aeronau- tics Board order calling for an in- vestigation of all “large irregular air carriers” to check on violations of Federal Air Commerce Rules.” The meeting was called for Seat- | tle, he said, because two non-sched- {uled airlines operating from Seattle to Alaska have been accused by the Board with violating the federal “regularity” ruling. H2 explained that the most im- | portant charge in the CAB order for unéllrg an investigation was hat “irregular” carriers have con- ducted their - operations so as to iset wup a “pattern of regularity.” The two Alaska-Seattle firms are Golden North Airways, Inc., and Moupt" McKinley lines. ka base. 3 Klak said 17 non-scheduled air- lines are represented. here. COMMUNIST i ON DANUBE Eastern Europe Is Vofed Exclusive Control of River BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 18. —(P—Eastern Europe’s Communist bloc voted itself exclusivé control over the Danube River today and the Western Powers officially re- corded their refusal to heed the decision. The vote of the conference was 7 to 1 to accept the Russian-drafted pact ‘posting a “Danube for the Danubians” sign over the contin- ent’s most important waterway. The United States voted against it. Neither Britain nor France voted. Both the British Ambassador, Sir Charles Peake, and Adrien Thierry, chief of the French delegation, re- mained in the conference room while the final vote took place. The United States accused Russia y Both, +fl!@“ Anchorage as thelr main Alas- ! Salmon. Industry, Inc., talked about | today, but, the threat of a steam- BLOC GETS | WIFE OF FORMER VICE - PRESIDENT DIES YESTERDAY UVALDE, Tex., Aug. 18.—(®—Mrs. John Nance Garner, Cactus Jack's “right hand,” is dead. The wife of the 32nd Vice-Presi- dent of the United States died at 4:30 pm. yesterday in the stately buff brick home her husband “built for Ettie” 28 years ago. She was 78. Death came peacefully to the in- separable companion of the Saulh: Texas lawyer who rose to be Vice-! President of the United States. Garner was at his wife’s side when she died. - FISH *OFH(IAl FEARS STRIKE ON WATERFRONT W.C Arnofi,fi_Alaska Sal-| mon Industry Man- ager, in Juneau | | | g v gl g % It is not the current week's|{progress had bee made, there Is;| TEL AVIV, Istael, Aug. 18.—® closure of salmon fishing in South- east Alaska that-'W. C. Arnold, Managing director of the Alaska ship tieup which would immobilize practically half the Territory's salmon pack. Arnold, in Juneau to confer with E. E. Murray, President of the! Alaska Salmon Industry, said that the movement of crews is already acute, in spite of the fact that 4,000 fishermen and cannery work- ers have already been airborne to their homes from the Naknek air- port. Fifteen hundred of these! were resident fishermen and can- nery workers, Eskimos, Aleuts,, whites, natives from S. E. Alaska| and the Yukon and from points as! far separated as Kotzcbuc and| Ketchikan, and as far west as Atka. Fishing on the Peninsula, where the season closed August 12, ap-j proached a new low. A substan-}| tial factor in the below average season, according to Arnold, was not lack of fish, but three weeks of violent storms that prevented lishermen from operating fixed or mobile gear. Three days lost in the beginning of the short Bristol Bay season due to failure to reach a fishing agreement between operators and gill netters before the season open- ed, contributed to the pack in that area being short of last year. Arnold was joined in Ketchikan last week by Mrs. Arnold and their of “deception.” The head of the American delegation charged that the Communist bloc of States had been used with “cynical” solidarity to achieve the Soviet aim. — CHINA WILL RETURN T0 - DICTATOR ! SHANGHAI, Aug. 18—(®—China, !its constitutional democracy still: shiny, new, was reported today on the verge of returning to a dicta- torship, but the report was denied officially in Nanking as “untrue.” ‘The young China party newspap- er said today in a joint dispatch from Nanking and Kuling, the summer capital, that President Chiang Kai-shek will resume abso- lute power. He will rule China by decree under special authority granted him for use in event of national emergency, the dispatch; said. And in Nanking, China's executive Yuan announced an absolute ban on student demonstrations—denying even the right of petition; and on strikes or other labor actions that would hinder production. The order ;also permits search of private homes [ (mine stock today is 3%, American daughter. Bill, Jr., spent the sum- | mer at the Kadiak Fisheries can-j nery at Port Bailey, destroyed by fire Sunday night. Judge Arnold will remain in Ju- neau for several days. Albe’rrlaha;efimenl Is Elecled for Foulrh Time; Social Credit| EDMONTON, Alta., Aug. 18— | Alberta’s Social Credit government rolled back into power today for! another term—its fourth. The Social Credit party has ruled the province since 1835. Prime Minister Ernest Manning, 39, and his party captured at least 42 of the Provincial Legisla- ture's 57 seats in yesterday’s elec- tions. Manning and the nine men in His Cabinet all won seats. STOCK QUUTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 18—®—Clos ing quotation of Alaska Juneau Can 85 Anaconda 37's, Curtiss- Wright 97, International Harvester | 29%, Kennecott 57'%, New York| Central 16%, Northern Pacific 21%, U. 8. Steel 76%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 650,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: without warrants if there is evi- dence of “subversive activity.” ities 3470, industrials 182.12, rails 59.37, util-| | By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Aug. 18—I®--The four power talks in Moscow about Berlin .|and Germany are nearing and end. This was learned today on excell~ ent authority from a source who refused to say whether the conver- sations would or would not end with published agreements. One thing, however, appears cer tain: that there will be four power talks on a high level on the German problem as a whole at some future. date. There certainly will meeting of the envoys of the Unjt- ed States, Britain and France with the Sovi later this week, probably on Friday. There is nothing definite fon whether this is to be the last or next to last conference, but the end is at hand barring some unex- pected development. The three western envoys have |put in some long hours and hard work in and between their six talks with Molotov since July 31. It is interesting to mote that while neither optimism nor pessimism being expressed at any of the three embassies. RUSSIANS, AMERICANS MANEUVER‘; By GEORGE BRIA BERLIN, Aug. 18—®--American foot troops wound up all-night de- fensive maneuvers early today in the Grunewald Forest of Soviet blockaded Berlin. Reports from Hamburg said the Russians are winding up summer maneuvers of their own near the zonal frontiers. Helmeted troops with ritles, mor- tars and machineguns simulated delaying action against an “enemy” that had captured Gatow airport, the British supply field for the sealed off western sectors. Officers in charge of the opera- tion said British troops theoretically took part in the maneuver. Earlier yesterday other American troops joined the French units in maneuvers along the Rhine River near Heidelberg. It was the first time since the war’s end the two Allies had engaged in joint war games. U. S. and French officers said the show was successful and pre- dicted other such efforts in the fu- ;ture. Only 1,500 troops took part in the operation. The Grunewald Forest maneuver caused considerable excitement among the Germans, Several called the Associated Press Bureau here to ask what truckloads of helmeted troops and armored cars were doing in the woods. The forest runs through the American and British sectors of Berlin. Berlin is deep in the Soviet occu- pation zone, entirely surrounded by it, > ® © ® ®» @ o o o o WEATHZR REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-hour period ending 7:30 this morning In Juneau— Maximum, 62; minimum, 49. At Airport— Maximum, 62; minimum, 44. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly fair tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperature, PRECIPITATION (Past 34 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau — . since August 1, since July 1, At Airport — . since August 1, 1.86 inches; since July 1, 6.70 inches Obje be another Y ARABS AND JEWS FIRE UPON UN CONVOYS TODAY (By The Associated Press) A. Lundstroem, Chief-of- Staff of the U. N. Truce Commis-| sion ,in Palestine, blamed both Jews and Arabs today for renewed | fighting in Jerusalem. An Israeli army source said the Arabs shelled Jewish positions around Southern Jerusalem last night and that machinegun duels; were fought in the northeast part of the city near the Damascus gate. Weekend fighting in the Holy City was the worst' 'since the United Nations imposed its second | truce last month. U. N. Truce Headquarters one of its planes was fired while landing on field. The shots nearby area controlled Arabs. Aides of Count Folke Bernadotte, the U. N. Palestine mediator 1 said on by the |in Stockholm, tried to arrange a| f“no fire period” to visit Govern- ment House in Jerusalem, where hedvy firing has been going on The Jews agreed, but the Arabs said nothing. I—A United Nations Truce Com- mission spokesman said the lead- ing jeep of a U. N. convey from “Tel Aviv-to Jerusalem was fired on three times today from Arab !pusmfins near Latrun. b | The jeep, its three American officer passengers and the convoy all escaped. hits from the machine- ! gun fire. The convoy got through ! but the spokesman said a pro- test would be lodged at once. In the jeep were Capt. John D’Angelis, ‘Nesquehoning, Pa, a survivor. with Capt, Eddie Ricken- backer on the Pacific raft, and !Maj. Sam C. Grashio, Spokane, iWash.. a survivor of the Bataan | Death March. CEYLON IS VETOED AS | UN MEMBER I | i ! 1 i {Russia Charges New Na-i fion Is Puppet of British LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 18.—(P— Russia today vetoed Ceylon’s ap-i | plication for United Nations mem- pership. It was the 27th Soviet| veto in Security Council history. The vote in the Council on the application from the new Aslatic nation was 9 to 2 with the Soviet Ukraine joining Russia in opposi- tion. As the ballot was subject to the Big-Power veto provision, the Russian “No” automatically blocked Ceylon. The last Russl{n veto was June 122, being used to block adoption of ‘a report on International Control of Atomic Energy. Foreign Minister Dmitri Z. Man- uilsky, addressing the Security Council, said the new Asiatic na- | tion is a puppet of Britain and is; neither sovereign nor independent. He classified Ceylon with Trans- Jordan, which Russia vetoed previ- ously on the contention that the; Arab State is a British satellite. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Corsair is due northbound 19:30 o'clock tomorrow morning Sword Knot due northbound at 1 Io’clock tomorrow morning. H Princess Louise scheduled to ar-: rive southbound Priday morning. Aleutian leaving Seattle Satur- day, August 21. Baranof arriving here at| south- {never has been.. !York hotel room. Rep. Nixon { Calif.) 18. views with serious concern the bound Sunday, August 22. i Priday morning. .| Seattle at 8 o'clock last night. Coastal Monarch expected to sail last Thursday northbound today or tomorrow, | | i MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS HAL L IL LINKED T0 CHAMBERS Secrefary Marshall Stands by Teachers—Mrs. Kos- enkina Health Worse By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Aug. 18— Congressional spy probers pointed juLilantly today to a 1934-35 link be- tween Alger Hiss, former State De- partment official, and Whittaker Chambers, avowed one-time mem- ber of a Red underground. Hiss himself admitted the connec- tion by identifying Chambers as a Kalandia Air-|man he knew years ago as “George came from a|Croseley " and as a free lance wirter. That happened yesterday in New York, before members of the House Un-American Activities Committee who [and again at a news conference call- lis attending a Red Cross meeting |ed by Hiss. Previously, Chambers had testi- fied under oath that Hiss was a member of the pre-war Red under- ground Chambers isted had op- erated in Washington. And F also under oath, denied it. He denied, too, knowing anyone by the name {of Whittaker Chambers. He said he| could not identify Chambers by a picture. His still i§ sticking to his state- ment. that he is no. Communist and But Committee members said they tare on stronger ground now that Hiss admits he knew Chambers at one time. Some of them had been saying their investigation would be hurt badly if it developed that Chambers actually never had known Hiss. Hiss now is head of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. Chambers is a senior editor of Time Magazine, The Committee for the first time brought the two of them face to face yesterday afternoon in a New (R- said afterward that Hiss “positively indentified” Chambers. Hiss told reporters later that at the meeting Chambers said: “Alger, we were both Communists. Hiss said he threw up his hands at that and denied again to the Committee that he was a Red. MARSHALL DEFENDS TEAC""‘RQMx'x. Dianna Cyrus Bixby, 25, plans WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—M— Secretary Marshall said today that evidence reported to the State De- | partment does not sustain Russian charges against United States au- thorities in connection with the refugee school teacher case in New York. Marshall told a news confer- ence a formal answer will be given within the next 24 hours to the Russian protests. He said the U, charges made by representatives of the foreign power involved in the| New York inciderfts. ‘He did not mention Russia specifically by name. i Voluntarily discussing the school | teacher cases, Marshall said avail- able evidence does not bear out the Soviet protests. Russians have demanded that the U. S. hand the three over to the Soviets. Among other things the Russians have accused Ameri- can authorities of conniving in “kidnaping” the teachers, whose own claims are that they prefer to live here rather than go back to Russia. Marshall said a note answering the Soviets is in preparation, based on reports from authorities in New York City. TEACHER IN OXYGEN TENT NEW YORK, Aug. 18—(P—Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina, whose leap from a third floor window of the Soviet Consulate created an international stir, was placed in an oxygen tent at Roosevelt Hospital late today. The hospital announced the ac- tion at 3:30 pm. (EST). An earlier hospital bulletin noted that Mrs. Kosenkina's respiration Alaska arriving here southbound had been “somewhat labored” and |said her temperature was 103.4. She, Baranof Hotel are Jack Alhadeff, .Square Sinnett sailed north from has been in a critical condition|V. R. Fawcett, J. J. Tunneson, | \since her jump from the Consulate' L. E. Sawyer, Arnold Rude, > |- CONTROL AGAIN IN YUGOSLAVIAN IS SHOT, KILLED IN ESCAPE ATTEMPT (By The Associated Press) Yugoslavia’s former Chief of Staff has been shot and Killed in a reported attempt to flee to Ru- mania The official Yugoslav Communist paper (Pravda) says that Arso Jovanovic and three | others tried to flee Yugoslavia |v.'h(‘n pretending to be on a boar| hunt According this report, Yugo- | islav border ds say the group| !hustling toward the Rumanian| border at akout 2:00 a. m. on August 12. The guards opened nr«-i when one of the group started | shooting after being told to hait. | Two of the four—including the former Chief of Staff—were killed, one was captured, and the other succeeded in getting to Rumania.| Forjuer Chief of Statf Jovanovic | is described as one of Marshal Ti- |to's top-ranking military men. > > PENDERGASTS GET to | | | i JACKSON COUNTY KANSAS CITY, Aug. 18—#— Control of the Jackson County Democratic Committee was back the hands of the Pendergast politi- cal organiaation taday, 5. The omufin"’éhm‘fi“éd by, Jim Pendergast. He inherited it on the death of his uncle, boss Tom Pen= PRICE TEN CENTS LEGAL cts To Fish Closure HISS NOW A 0 STRIKE THREAT 1§ STAVED OFF East Coast Agreement Is Reached-West Coast Men fo Stop Work BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—P —The National Labor Relations Beard, in a decision of pro- found importance to industry and labor, ruled unanimously teday that “hiring halls” of the C10 National Maritime Union on the Great Lakes are dllegal. It ‘ordered the union not to strike to keep them. NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—P— A threatened strike of 60000 CIO seamen was staved off early today by an agreement with 42 Atlantig| and Gulf Coast shipping companies| for retention of union “hiring halls*| and for pay increases. The hiring balls - in which the| union picks men for job h been the main issue in dispute tween the operators and the Nas tional Maxitime Union (CIO) Jengthy bargaining, not affect the NMU 4 vith the Great Lakes ship ‘owmers, or| similar tangles on' the West Coast where a strike Is threatened Sep- dergast,” whose - faction deminated Missouri politics for years. i The test of Pendergast’s-strength in the committee came yesterday il electing..a committee chairman. Al Pendergast-backed candidate, Leo! T. Schwartz, defeated Ralph M.’ Russell, 30 votes to 26. Russell WI&I supported by factional opponents of Pendergas WOMAN TO MAKE SOLO AIR TRIP AROUND WORLD BURBANK, Calif,, Aug. | i 18— ito take off from San Francisco at jone minute past midnight, Aug. 26, on her solo round-the-world flight, friends disclosed today. The energetic aviatrix hopes to! make the 21076-mile trip in 70 | hours, elapsed time, reaching San Francisco the night of Aug. 28. This will give her time, she says, to rest up and have her modified twin-engine Mosquito bomber tuned up fdr the Bendix Air Race i She would cross the Pacific via Midway and Hawail. S e Woman Admils Giv Poison fo Hushand ‘At His Request | SONORA, Calif., Aug. 18—(#—A 45-year-old woman calmly related today, District Attorney Ed Vilas| said, how she poisoned her husband| at his request and carefully planted a flower garden over the shallow grave where she had buried his body in pieces. Mrs. Ada Hansen, questioned at! length by Vilas and others, was| ‘held without bail on a charge of | suspicion of murder. | | Vilas said she maintained un- |swervingly that her husband, Otto Hansen, about 48, had been iil for several years and had forced her| {to administer him strychnine. He was her third husband, the} jother two having died, she related. Complaints of an unpleasant odor | led the auto camp management tol the remains yesterday. The man was believed to have been dead about four months. i | | i i > ! SEATTLE VISITORS Among Seattle guests at the! tember 2. Natfonal Labor Relations Board) attorneys are confronted by puzzler in these other cases. The East and Gulf Coast agree-) ment—subject to ratification by] the Union membership—was reach| ed at 2:15 a. m. (EST) after 11-hour session ‘of negotiating com=| mittees of the NMU and the ship| { owners. A strike had been threatened| for after, Sept. 2, when Fede Court cooling-off injunctions exs| pire. The agreement gives boatswain a wagé increase of $25 a month| and other ratings an Increase $12.50 a month. It provides that the status q on the hiring halls shall be pre: served until a court of “competent Jjurisdietion” determines whe the hiring system is legal unde the Taft-Hartley Act. The oper: ators have contended the act ban the system. LONGSHOREMEN TO MEET SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18- —Union leaders announced long: shore operations in San Francisco will be shut down from T p. tonight until 8 a. m. tomorro for a stop-work meeting. They will gather to hear a reporf§ on the findings of a Presidenti Fact-Finding Committee, whi questioned the CIO longshore lead ers and the employers in the Pac itic Coast maritime contract last week. ‘The Waterfront Employers’ A: ciation ealled the stop-work meel ing a violation of contract and threatened to register a complain with the National Labor Relation Board 5 Employer spokesmen contend the men could hold a day and night meeting, without keeping ai workers from their jobs. James Kearney, President of cal 10 of the Union, said longshoremen would also discus the pending NLRB poll among fit maritime unions involved in coast-wide dispute. The poll will allow union members to accept o reject a “final” employer cont offer. Leaders of all five unions ha announced they will strike at mid night, Sept. 1, when the govery ment’s anti-strike injunction ex| pires, if no settlement is reache by then. ,ee - — WRANGELL COUPLE Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Thomas Wrangell are in Juneau stoppinf at the Hotel Juneau. R Miss | “L.ols Quivey, Ralph Huggett, and| | G, E. Beavers, Visiting Juneau from Elfin Co R. J. Hatranft is staying at Baranof Hotel,