The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 19, 1948, Page 1

VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,969 NLRB Hiring Hall Ruling Explanation Says Only Unlawful If Union Members Giv- en Preference WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—®— The CIO, smarting under the first major crackdown on union behavior by the National Labor Relations Board, accused the Board today of “unseemly haste” and a violation of the Constitution, Last night the five-man Board, headed by Paul M. Herzog, ruled unanimously that hiring halls op- crated on the Great Lakes by the CIO National Maritime Union are illegal under the year-old Taft- Hartley law. In so doing, the Board created several legal precedents that extend far beyond the shipping industry. Arthur Goldberg, the CIO’s gen- eral counsel, said in a statement that the ruling was “entirely un- sound,” that he looked forward to a reversal by the courts, and that “surely the law cannot prohibit this salutary practice which has con- tributed to the stability of the maritime industry.” The Board found the union, Pres- ident Joseph Curran and six other officers guilty of two unfair labor practices against four tanker com- panies. ¢ It ordered them w wiOp their de- mands for continuation of the hir- ing halls. And espeelally it ordered them not to call @ strike for thab purpose, as they last May. The decision hély' these effects in the muddled ‘industry: 1. It greay) the threat of a new strike on the Lakes in Sep- tember. The Board’s findings are expected to_be fought all the way to the Supreme Court, but the law permits NLRB' attorneys to seek an immediate _injunctiop—if nec- essary—to’ e order. Mean- while new jons ‘were set for today in Clevelsnd. -’ 2. It foreshudows similar orders and similar injunctions in any other cases, on the Pacific or Atlantic Coasts, where marittme hiring halls might be found to operate in the same manner as those in the Great ; i Lakes case. Hiring hall cases are pending on both coasts, but the present order does not deal with any except on the Great Lakes. On the East Coast, where the National Maritime Union settled its differences with shipowners yesterday, both sides agreed to continue their existing hiring halls pending a ruling on their legality by a federal court. The Board didn’t find hiring halls unlawful in themselves—but only if they operate in such a way as to favor members of the union against non-members. The Board said the Great Lakes hiring halls operate this way because if union members are available they are put ahead of non-members, The Washington Merry-_G_o_— Round BY ROBERT S. ALLEN (Copyright, 1948, bl:l'l)'hfl Bell Syndicate, (Editor's Note — While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation The Washington Merry-Go- _Round is being written by his old partner, Robert S. Allen) WASHINGTON—— Some of the cockeyed inconsistencies of Wash- ington officialdom are verily won- drous to behold. Here “is the latest beaut: On Tuesday, President Truman made an address ardently pleading for public support of the National Employ the Physically Handicap- ped Week, October 3-9. He point- ed out two significant facts: (1) that industrial record shows con- clusively that when given the op- portunity to work, handicaps al- most invariably prove above the average in productivity, regularity and loyalty, and (2) that with the marked .labor shortages exisiting in many fields, it is both good business. and good humanity to give jobs to handicaps. With deep feeling, Mr. Truman urged employers to give handicaps a chance to make themselves use- ful and self-supporting beings. The President’s speech was moving, and a real credit to him. REVERSE PICTURE Yet, at the same time the Presi- dent was making this touching ap- pegl to private employers, one of the biggest government employers (Continued on Page Four) THREENEW | DEALERSTO BE QUERIED House Un-American Com- mittee Orders Pressman, Whitt, Abt to Appear WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—P— The House Un-American Activities Committee today ordered ‘three former New Deal lawyers to ap- pear for questioning tomorrow in its Communist spy ring investiga- tion. They are: Nathan Whitt, Lee Pressman and John Abt. The committee also said that Al- ger Hiss, former State Department official accused of being part of the pre-war Red underground in Washington, has refused to submit at this time to a lie detector test. He has denied time and again under oath that he ever was a Communist. These developments came -as President Truman lashed out at the. committee. He accused the group of infringing the Bill of Rights in its inquiry into alleged { Communism within the govern- ment. Mr. Truman made that state- ment at a news conference as he took issue with criticism of his ad- ministration stemming from the Congressional investigation. Teacher Improves The State Department ruled formally today that Mrs. Oksana S. Kosenkina, refugee Russian teacher, is heyond control of the Soviet government “so long as she refmains in this country.” The ruling was given by Ernest | A. Gross, Secretary Marshall's le- gal advisor, in- a letter to Justice Samuel Dickstein, of the New York State Supreme Court. Improvement was reported to- day in the condition of the Russian school teacher who a week ago Yeaped “from the third floor“of the Soviet consulate. During the night she had been reported sinking at the Roosevelt Hospital. 'MAYOR HENDRICKSON WRITES LETTER TO U. 5. COAST GUARD A compact lewer aescribing ef- fectively the advantages of Juneau as the site should the 17th Coast Guard District be re-established in Alaska was read at the Juneau Chamber of Commerce noon lunch- eon meeting today in the Gold Room | of the Baranof Hotel. Written’ by Mayor Waino Hend- rickson, the letter was addressed to Capt. A. C. Richmond of the U. S. Coast Guard. Mayor Hendrickson pointed out that one of Juneau's citizens has| offered to construct a modern office building for C. G. headquarters. The mayor pointed to these advan- tages: 1. That Coast Guard would have personal contact with both Federal and Territorial heads in Alaska; 2. That Juneau is the geographically the center of communications and transportation for the Territory and that here, air and water transpor- tation is available to all parts of Alaska and to the U. 8.; 3. Airport and small boat harbor facilities are here for operational needs of the Coast Guard; 4. Juneau has the best marine ways repair experts in the Territory; 5. Juneau's schools are fully accredited; 6. He claimed that economically, Juneau has the best standard of living at the lowest cost; 7. The city government will do everything possible to co-operate with the Coast Guard financially and otherwise; 8. The modern ho- tel here is an advantageous place to entertain visiting officials. Establishemnt of the district here, the Mayor declared, would bring more immediate attention to the interests and problems of both the Coast Guard and Alaskans than long distance supervison. Flies Across Nation To Talk Wife Out of Making Trip fo Him OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Me., Aug. 18—P—Army Corporal Tony Furio and his 25-year-old wife Mar- jorie, who started to hitch-hike to the West Coast to see him, were reunited today at the railroad sta- tion here. ‘Tony arrived by train after cross- ing the continent in g ireight plane to talk his wife out of her plan to span the continent with their 22- month—old son, Tony, Jr. | | DRAFT iSeattle at 8 o’clock Tuesday night. | | GERMANS ~ ATTACK SOVIETS | | BERLIN, Aug. 19—®-—An angry |German crowd just inside the Rus |sian sector of Berlin tonight stoned ! |two carloads of Soviet sector police | | i |who pursued black marketeers al-| most into the American and British | sectors. .| First reports sald one person was | rilled and four wounded. H The howling, smiling mob jeered | the Russian Zone police, who backed | slowly. British sector police stood ! just inside the British boundary as! the 600 or more Germans hurled taunts of “Communists” at the po- lice. | PR ol R ALL MAY GO OUT NEXT WEEK WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 19——! (P—Reliable sources say that the| first draft call under the new peace- ! time law will be issued next week. | It will call for 15,000 men®expected | to be in uniform in November. These | sources say a second call for 15,000 | more men for December will follow shortly. All the men will go into the Army and most are expected to be in the older age brackets. Men 25 will be; inducted first, men 24 next and so| on. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive southbound at 8 tomorrow. Leaving at 8:45 a. m. , Baranof arriving here bound Sunday evening. Alaska arriving here southbound 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. Square Sinnett sailed north from south- | Coastal Monarch expected to sail northbound today. George Washington due north- bound at 3 p.m. Monday. Corsair scheduled to leave port here at 11:30 tonight. Princess Norah arriving north- bound Saturday. Aleutian leaving Seattle Satur- day, August 21. Jumper ' Hitch scheduled to sail northbound August 26. - e — THREE FROM FAIRBANKS Three Fairbanks residents are visiting here at the Baranof Ho- tel. They are Lillie Angerman, William M. Maxey, and Jasper Carroll, 4 {this year. | industrials 18257, rails 59.60, util- ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” OF TERRITORY IS BEING MADE House of Representatives Officials Survey Needs of Federal Agencies Here | | Harris Huston and Robert Gres-| ham of the investigative staff of the ; House Appropriations Committee ar- rived yesterday via Pan American| Airways from Washington, D. C. Before returning to the nation's capitol, the officials will also visit| Anchorage and Fairbanks. They ex-; pect to leave Juneau Saturday. The two men wili present an im-|cil decided today to meet partial report on the needs and ac- |&€n FAMILIAR SCENES IN RUTH'S Thousand JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS CAREER Three scenes in the career of Babe Kuth who dicd in New York's Memorial Hospital. At left Babe is shown as a great pitcher for the Boston Red Sox early in his career. He takes a healthy swing at the ball (center) during exhibition game in Flerida while a member of the New York Yankees. At right he poses with his teammate, the late Lou Gehrig (right), in New Yerk during an exhibition game between the Yankees and the Brocklyn Dodgers. (# Wirephoto. s Atfend Funeral of Babe . N. SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS ON_ PALESTINE 19— |in spirit—thronged the Romaj LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. ! The United Nations Security Coun- in ur-'into Fifth Avenue. tivities of Federal agencies in Alaska ' ternoon. [to the House Committee of Appro-; The decision was taken after the t session on Palestine this af- ~ Ruth This Morning By CHARLES MERCER NEW YORK, Aug. 19—®—Fu- neral service for Babe Ruth in tow- ering -St. Patrick’s Cathedral today ing for | | climaxed the nation’s mour itho King of Baseball. Silent, thousands of persons—the {famous who knew him in person land the obscure who admired him n | Catholic Cathedral and overflowed | Francis Cardinal Spellman pre- |sided at the Requim High Mass {for the “Big Guy” with the happy grin who rose from a Baltimore riations. bers investi- | recei i ; Py An af. the i-| Council received a request from .,i.,q00 to undisputed monarch gative staff do not appear at com-count Folke Bernadotte, mittee hearings, but mereiy submit|mediator, for immediate action to {a written factual report. The staff!prevent a breakdown of the Holy |is appointed on a non-political ba-|pand truce. sis and before any staff member is asked to prepare a report, the| Committee Chairman and the rank-| u. The mediator warned the Secur-|neart to the people in the bleach- | ‘'of the national sport. L The great doors of the cathedral {were open to the public—symbolic, {said friends, of the Babe's open ity Council that the situation Infers and the kids in distant places | Jerusalem is “gradually getting out.;w whom his name meant great ing minority member have to aP- ' yang v He said it is doubtful | gportsmanship, prove the investigation. ———e—— — LONGSHOREMEN T0 CONSIDER WEA PROPOSAL 19.—A & SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. — CIO Longshoremen opened cent hourly pay increase. Its re-| jection is a foregone conclusion. At a meeting last night Presi-; dent Harry Bridges urged 6500 San | Franeisco members to reject the, five-cent offer. ! He called it the “lowest pay raise offered any group in the country You've got no choice. We're hitting the bricks Sept. 2.” That date marks expiration of| the 80-day cooling off period ord- ered by a Federal Court here in June to prevent a coastwise strike then threz@:ned by five maritime unions, including longshoremen. The Waterfront Employers Asso- ciation called last night's meeting a “stop work” gathering. As such, said the WEA, it is a violation of the union contract. STOCK QUUTATIONS | | NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—(P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau| mine stock today is 3%, American Can 85%, Anaconda 367, Curtiss- Wright 9%, International Harvester 29, Kennecott 57, New York Cen- tral 16%, Northern Pacific 21%. U. S. Steel 7%%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 580,000 shares. Averages today are as follow ities 34.76. TR E R TR I RN R NS Y { whether the Holy City can be de-! i militarized in the near future. SRR R SIX ARE HELD IN | tioning islaying of American radio corre.s~[' GREEK DEATH OF U.S. BROADCASTER The ) " s t i o RO empioy! # | persons were being held for ques- | the ATHENS, Aug. 10. —(M— in connection with pondent George Polk. b Polk’s bound and bullet-riddled ody was found May 16 in Salon- {ika Harbor. The Ministry identified his mother, tel where Polk stayed. D i ecibimt e o o 0o 0 o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperature for 24-hour period ending 7:30 this morning. In Juneau— Maximum, 69; Minimum, 49. At Airport— Minimum, 44. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 730 a. m. today) In Juneau City — Trace; since August 1, 275 inches; since July ), 9.90 inches. At the Airport — Trace; since August 1, 1.86 inches; since July 1, 6.70 inches. ® 000 0900 00 Maximum, 68; the six |as Gregory Stathopoulos, a Greek | newspaperman, four employees of the Salonika ho-! and About 6,000 persons crowded the !cathcdral to the doors. Police es- ! timated 50,000 others stood gravely outside under grey skies on hush-' ed Fifth Avenue and the sur- rounding area. A 250-man police detail was on duty for the largest (-uneral in New York in years. Gov. Themas E. Dewey i the list of honorary pallbearers who included prominent sportsmen and sports writers. Msgr. Joseph F. Flannelly was celebrant of the High Mass for the great Yankees' batter who died of ]’Cnncer Monday night in Memorial | Hespital at the age of 53. CHINA ADOPTS NEW CURRENCY PEGGED TO U. §. NANKING, Aug. 19—(M—The Chinese Government announced to- day adoption of a new currency, pegged to the U. S, dollar and in- tended to halt a dizzy inflation. | Government spokesman Holling- ® {ton Tong said the currency would : {be called the “gold yuan” and would be backed by 100 per cent reserves. A Finance Ministry spokesman told a news conference, however, ® that the new money would be back- ® ed by 40 per cent gold, silver and foreign currency and 60 percent by ® government “guarantees.” (The ® | “guarantees” were not explained.) Financial circles in Shanghal, the ® nation’s commercial center, imme- ® | diately said the new money would ® not stop inflation unless backed by ® something substantial. . ————— — In 1858, Queen Victoria chose Ot- tawa, then a city of 20,000, as the ® 'seat of government of Upper and ® Lower Canada. It became capital ® of the New Dominion in 1867. i headed | ANCHORAGE TRIES FOR BOM PLANT Goes After Bureau of Mines Station Slated for Juneau ANCHORAGE, Aug. 19—(/®—An invitation to consider Anchorage as the construction site for a $250,- 000 metallurgical laboratory—which might eventually be used as a re- search plant in synthetic fuels— has been sent to the U. S. Bureau ’0{ Mines by the Anchorage Cham- ber of Commerce. Similar invitations have been re-) ceived by the Bureau of Mines; from the Juneau Chamber of Com- merce. Territorial Senator Vic Rivers! said today that although the build-} ing is comparatively small, he vis- |ualized the laboratory as the initial |step in a broad development pro- gram. “This includes the production of Lase metals and synthetic gasoline from coal,” he said. If the structure |is to be used principally for pre- | clous metals or quartz, then Juneau | might be a suitable site,” Rivers declared. Rivers said he saw the proeram as the opening of a vast hinterland in which the railbeit would bpe the center of activity. He said local Bureau of Mines officlals ‘als6 favored “locating the iaooratory here. The Chamber of Commerce re- vealed the municipal gaovernment stood ready to make available a |suitable site, without charge, and that utilities could be readily pro- vided. | “Anchorage is the center of the richest part of Alaska with areas (of great mineral development and potentialities,” the Chamber let- |ter pointed out. 1 | In Juneau, G. D. Jermain, Alaska | Branch Chief of the U. S. Bureau| |of Mines, said today that there is | nothing to the Anchorage story. He | declared that only a technicality |in getting the land title transfer- red to the Bureau from the Navy! is holding up construction of the' H Is Station on Juneau (Mayflower) | Island. Jermain pointed out that most mining potentialities exist in S.E. |Alask which is why he has recommended construction of the: station here. He said that, later,| a district office may be establish- ed at Anchorage. He explained that this station is being designed for metallurgical tests and the development of base | metals which most geologists and mining engineers claim are more | predominant in Southeast Alaska. | One especially important point made by Jermain was that min- ing prospects in this area will be on the increase when pulp timber has been cut because it will open up new territory. et ot i ommand BuyingCurb Rules Ready | WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—(®—The government today clamped controls eon most consumer installment cre- dit purchases between 850 and $5,000, effective September 20. | new Federal Reserve Board| | regulation requires a one-third| |down payment on automobiles and |a 20 percent down payment on most | household appliances, including | stoves, refrigerators, washers, radio sets, and vacuum cleaners. | A time limit of 15 months is | fixed for completing all “easy pay- ;ment" plans of $1,000 or less. Eighteen months is the deadline for purchases above $1,000. | The regulation is termed ‘Regu- lation W,” the name carried by |the post-war credit rule which ex- | pired last November. | The restoration of credit control 'was authorized by the Republican !anti-inflation act signed by Pres- | A PRICE TEN CENTS e Sen. Walker Proposes Fishermen Confinue Degpile Suggension KETCHIKAN, - Aug. 19.—(Spec- ial To The Empire)— In a signed article to the Ketchikan Daily News, Territorial Senator Norman R. Walker today advised the Al- aska fishing ‘industry and fisher- men to “go ahead with the pink salmon pack if the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service extends its closing order after this week.” Walker declared “Let them make their arrests and have trials by jury.” He said that to close the { fishing virtually without warning | would mean “uisaster to the econ- omy of Alaska anyway you take it.” Thompson Explains Low water and freezing weather during the salmon hatch in 1946 are being reflected this year in an unusually light run of pink salmon in Southeast Alaska, Seton H. Thompson said today in Ju- neau. Thempson, chief of the FPish and Wildlife Service's Alaska Fish- eries branch, arrived here today to conier with agency officials and packers. The adverse condition in the streams caused a high kill in the eggs in 1946, Thompson said. As this species returns from the sea after two years, the agency fore- cast the light run, “warned the in- dustry and took steps to protect the salmon by delaying the open- ing of the fishing season,” Thomp- son added. Day Returns Albert M. Day, Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, returned yesterday on the Brandt, follow~ mg a field trip to Petersburg and Little Port Walter. Day talked with fishermen, packers, stream guards and staff members of the Lattle Port Walter Research Sta- tion to obtain a complete picture of the fish situation in Boutheast Alaska. the season is dlscouraging. aska has left the streams very low and to date, very few fish have entered the streams. o Day will leave for Washington, D. C., "within cPa next few days. - S CHAMBER'S INFO BOOTH POPULAR WITH TOURISTS | Harmon Urges Juneauifes to Boost Ifs Tourist En- terfainment Program — The importance to tourists and their appreciation of the informa- tion booth service sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce was graphically described at to- day’s Juneau Chamber meeting by Hank Harmon who has been in charge of the booth for the past three months. E Swamped with inquiries by both tourists and townspeople seeking information about local sites and travel schedules, Harmon said he has had an average of about 30 to 40 persons seeking advice daily. One day, keeping tab on his call- ers, he answered the questions of 153 persons by 11 o'clock in the ), morning. The biggest protest by steamer tourists, he said, is that they do not have enough time in Juneau. With the advent of airplane tour- ists, he suggested that arrange- ments for these persons also should be taken into consideration since they are usually in town for three or four days. Harmon also urged that the city get an early start for tourist enter- tainment next season, attempt to get regularly scheduled charter craft lined up for fishing trips and other activities. Taku Lodge, he said, has been a very successful tourist entertainment spot this year and Alaska Coastal Airlines has arranged some very enjoyable fishing trips, according to tourist reports. He urged the Chamber to continue the service again next year. e What is believed to be the world's largest rose bush is located aat ‘Tombstone, Ariz. A white Banksia about fifty years old, it has grown from one trunk over forty inches in diameter and has an estimated 150,000 blooms cover it in May. - e —— Many women develop high blood pressure in their forties. In men high blood pressure is more frequent after iident Truman on Monday. | 50. lack of rainfall in ‘Southeast Al ~