The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 24, 1948, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,973 MEMRER AS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1948 ASSOCIATED PRESS —— ____PRICE TEN CENTS Alaska Longshoremen Given Increase In Pay TALK WITH STALIN IS Conference af Kremlin Re- | porfed Fruitful-Nego- tiations fo Continue By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Aug. 24. {P—A quali- fied source said the Western en- voys and Russia have reached a general area of agreement during talks climaxed early today by a four hours and 40 minutes Krem- lin interview with Prime Minister Stalin. q The informant said technical-} ities lie ahead for adjustment but ! that they are not trifles and will require considerable negotiation. U. S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith emerged from the Kremlin Employee of American Consulate in Jerusalem . Kidnaped, Mislreaiedi NO ELECTIONS FORGERMANS, RUSSIAN ZONE By EDWIN SHANKE BERLAN, Aug. z+—®—Marshall Vassily D. Sokolovsky announced today that Germans in the Russian Zone will not be allowed to hold community elections this fall The Russian commander said the voting will ke put off for one year. It is the first time in the occupation that one of the four powers has postponed an election. \TRUMAN STARTING WORK ON CAMPAIGN SPEECHES AT SEA 5 ’ Labor Day in Defroit- Feature Ouflined (By The Associatec Press) President Truman and his White House staff are heading out into By CARTER L. DAVIDSON | JERUSALEM, Aug. 24.—® - The U. S. Consul General here has pro- tested to the Jewish Governor of {Jerusalem that the Stern Gang | kidnaped and mistreated an Ameri- can consulate employee Sunday. The Consul General, John J. Mac- | Donald, said the Sternists seized | George F. Paro, a confidental clerk in the consulate and held him for seven hours, during which time they handcufféd, blindfolded and slapped and questioned him. An Israeli Army source said the Sternists kidnaped Paro and call- ed him a “damn British spy" bé- cause he bears a faint resemblance !to a British detective who left Williamsburg. The Presidential yacht dropped anchor last night off Cape Hen- lopen, Delaware, and tonight it is due in the vicinity of Cape Charles, Virginia. ! on his campaign speeches. Yes- terday he began making ‘notes for his Labor Day speeches in De- jtroit and four other cities in will Make_A—ddress on| the Atlantic today aboard the usal The President has started work ! in a buoyant mood at 1:40 a. m. and declared “we're going to have more meetings.” He added later: “We're always optimistic. expect the best and prepare for the worst.” The envoys have been trying since late July to find bases for lifting -the. . lani imposed on Be Power talks on Sokolovsky issued his order over the protests of the zone's two non- {Communist parties—the conserva- irightist liberal Democrats. The 1 parties demanded only |through their press and at open !meetings that “in the name . of |democracy” the people be given a {ehafice to yote. - | Non-Communist ¢ 4claimed the | Slectiols leaders have unists want the § “off Decause - they We :tlve Christian Democrats and the | last week | Palestine four months ago. After Paro, a 33-year-old resident 'of Granville, N. Y. was released by the Sternists he was held for ! another nine hours by Israeli mili- tary police. Asked why the Arm had held him so long, a spokes- man replied: “To clear up such a mystery in MacDonald said he had filed a full report of the incident with the | State Department and had sent a |strongly worded protest to Dr. Ber- {nard Joseph, the Jewish Military | Governor in Jerusalem. The Stern Gang, an extremist (undesground organization during the British mandate, joined the nine hours is not bad police work.” of, would suffer a severe | raelj Army. inside the State of!i |Michigan. When Mr. Truman appears in |Cadillac Square in Detroit on Labor |Day, he is certain to feature a |demand for the repeal of the Taft- [Hunley Labor Act. Alse, he will 1ask for the defeat of the Republi- can leaders who rejected his de- mand for price control, rationing and other anti-inflation authority. -+ Election in i ! ‘ [ i INFLATION RUMBLINGS INWORLD American Farm Commodity | " Prices Decline Adding v fo Further Mixups By RADER WINGET NEW YORK, Aug. 24—(®—A shift in the American inflation pattern echoes throughout the world in a iconfused rumbling. Currencies and commodities are Leing adjusted to a peacetime level from the chaos that grew out of the war. The change is not a sudden de- =velopmenL It has been going on for some time. It will continue. There will be stresses and strains as each country alters its way of life for the best interests of itself and in har- mony with its neighbors. ’ The steady fall in American farm H | Kodiak Rebuilding of Salmon Run Is Now Being Underfaken by Dr. Thompson, Three Alaska Areas Hopeful of restoring to its past glory Alaska's depleted salmon run, Dr. W. F. Thompson, fisheries re- cearch professor at the University of Washington and Director of the Fisheries Research Institute, has three scientific field parties at work on projects in Bristol Bay, Island and Southeast Alaska this summer, Dr. Thompson, who arrived in Juneau over the weekend from the western Alaska projects which he | hated to leave because the interest Rebuilds Halibut Banks of his students was so intense on' His later work with the Inter- yhational Fisheries Commission |brought the halibut banks back jto their abundance of twenty years ago. Rebuilding of the halibut their program, on which to success. Working with the International Fisheries Commission during the '30s, he was instrumental in re- ample reason hopes for has base his run. He was first in Alaska a student in connection with hali- but studies in 1916 and the terrific weather of that winter he still recalls. building the North Pacific halibut | as LIVING COST banks was accomplished by regulat- ling the season and placing a catch tlimit on the banks. | With the International Paclfic | Salmon Fisheries Commission, re- REACHED PEAK CONTRACTS SIGNED BY 5 PARTIES Agreemeanfill Run for ThreeYears=Strike Won't Effed Alaska Pors SEATTLE, Aug. 24—M—A new contract providing increased pay for longshore work in Alaska is an- nounced by spokesmen for two un- ions and three shipping compan- i des. | Willlam Gettings, International Representative of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen'’s Union (CIO) and Edward G. Dob- rin, representing the companies, said the,agreement would run two years with possible wage each six months, Gettings said the agreement assured continuation of longshore work in Alaska, even though Pac- reviews commodity prices has been a power-! ful lever on the rest of the world. But at the same time the risk in the 'industrial price level of the United States pushed the world| the cther way. I 4 | WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 P— In yesterday's market, the list of |, £ . ! commodities that declined is im-| D¢ COst of living index kept by pressive; ‘eggs, butter, wheat, corn ithe Bureau of Labor Statistics hit oats, rye, noyb’euns. lard, cottonseed "V 81l time record on July 15. 4 As 1ofl, wool, cotton, coffee, cocoa andi® result 225000 General Motors hides. (Corporation employees will get a New lows for the season were made wage increase of three cents or in the Chicago futures market for more an hour. |cent resear¢h under Dr. Thompson |ific Coast ports may be closed by {disclosed the cause for depletion 8 strike Sept. 2, but that it did lof the Fraser River salmon run to [lot mean that longshoremen in Ibe an obstruction 125 miles up!Seattle would work Alaska-bound Ithe River at Hell's Gate, caused by ships in event of a strike. railvoad construction, Building of | The agreements are with the !the Hell's Gate fishways by thef Alaska Steamship Company, !Canadian and U. S. governments| Alaska Transportation Company /in 1945 allowed the escapement to)and the Northland Transportation the depleted spawning grounds toiCOHIDBlw- increase five fold and next year's' Gettings said longshoremen were pack should begin to show the ef- [granted a 16': cent hourly |fect of the increased escapement, |increase, bringing the hourly scale Ito $2.12 for straight time and $3.18 jeorn, oats, soybeans, lard and some The index stood on that date at | DV. Thompson said. Hiring procedure is The Pisheries Research Institute, {for overtime. which operates separately from the unchanged. { Echool of Fisherles, was establishedr Dobrin sald the wage increase is . by action of the Board of Regents conditioned and may be adjusted ‘of the University of Washington ]to conform with final i1igures reach- ed In coast-wide contracts here. A e Commbnists have 11737 percent of the 1935-39 average, ' :the Labor Department reported to- iday. The General Motors employees wages are tied to the fluctuations in May, 1947 in the BLS llving cost index, un- | " . 11 the Unted’ Siates. (n-the sicond [der.theis convact of Jast. May 20.| Menbers uf the laske Sawon (il CUEIEERL B 0 SISt {quarter this year ‘was “réported by This 4s“the adjustment singe | Fnei \said ; {the Department of Commerce at an | the contract went into efiect, . 'O Underlake ' research to develop ] i lannual rate of $248,000,000,000~s The BLS, calling its index the {Ne fisheries resources in Bristol | Dobrin said a similar agreement | i i ' v, r § had been reached with the Inter- new itcord. There are no indications consumers' price list rather than ;BAY, the red salmon ares, and : Ythat the rise is slackening. & cost of living measurement; re- |1ter. to undertake a study of the national Lopgshoremen’s Association Israel, bug continues to operate un- | {derground in Jerusalem. i e BERLIN BLOCKADE, | COLLIDE; 4 DEAD included _Stalin, have a “fair” chance of resulting’in'a solid agry ment. He sald prospects: are fa better today than they were at this time yesterday before:Smith; French Ambassador Yves Chéitaigneau and British Envoy Frank Roberts saw Stalin, working for recovery” to vote. i féan and ‘Germatn police re- pert’ a_guiet night at the “sector rders after a . day marked by incidents. near . troubled mer Plate, - where flitee sec- ifor ‘boundaries converge. £ {" "However, in the Russian sector “Some, progress”! s been made, ]wmenuma persoms stoned . the the source said. : 4 |n progress!dehvcnes ot wheat. Cotton (fell be- low the average level at which the Chief Infer jovernment is pledged to support the market with loans to farmers. But at the same time, the total Rroduction of goods and services ief Inferest Centers in| Mississippi Demo Primary (By The Associated Press) ka salmon run, To!'AFL) so that all ports in Alaska offices of the anti-Communisc He declared there s no cause for pessimism. The source said ‘the Western Powers and the Soviets now have reduced their terms to the “lowest | denominator.” Had no progress been made last night and early today, he added, the current series | of conversations would have end- Christian Democratic Union, par- | ty officials reported. The Soviet- controlled police said they were hunting the culprits. h L. Overell Beulah | \ | RAVOTZHAUSEN, Germany, Aug.' Three states—South Carolina, 24—(P Two American planes on the | supply run to blockaded Berlin coi-1 |lided outside this American Zone! town today, killing four U. 8. fliers. | Five American fliers have been, primary electicns today with state and congressional posts at stake. In South Carolina, the Democratic primary was a runoff affair to set- tle contests in which candidates ( {laid at the door of inflation. - > - 'HISS - CHAMBERS - A major part of that increase in; Mississippi and New York held : the dollar volume of production wasipu-cent higher than u year ago and \killed previously in two accidents on | the air run since the Russians block- failed to get the required majority for nomination in the regular pri- ported the new figure was 9.7 Southeast Alas the Institute the Alaska Salmon 30.3 percent above the June, 1946 ' ‘ndustry contributes §175000 a ilevel. It was 762 percent above Y4 pre-war August, 1939, The Bristol Bay investigation be- - -oo 5 gan in 1945, SE Alaska in 1946 and a similar investigation was started in Kodiak Island this year. SITKA pulp MEN’ Student Investigators iwill be covered, QGettings said 600 to 700 long- !shoremen in nine CIO locals are ‘among those affected. LOCAL AGREEMENT ‘The Publicity Committee for Lo- jcal 116 of the International Long- ' CONTROVERSY IS | ] reh §s aetually done by the Ishoremen and Warehousemen’s Un- I'University students according to 'ion in Juneau announces that the ithe University’s high standard of ,Proposed agreement with Alaska |scientitic investigation. “We have ;Shipping companies was ratified | been given a completely free hnnd,’)‘tsu’rdly al a meeting of Local ¥ Provisions ‘of the pact be- ed. | aded Berlin late in June. It had been stated oh good au- | —— | The planes were uvo—engin‘ed legislators and a U. S. S. represen- | | thority before the meeting last, LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24— -{C-47's, They plunged into cornfields," 1ative are to be nominated night that the session would be Beulah Louise Averall, 19-year-old;around this villarge which is 14( Voti:g “.:s expected m. be light - the last. iheiress, will marry a Los Angelesmiles northeast of Frankfurt. The|in poth Mississippi and New Yurk.‘ | FOREST SERVICE PLAN MEETINGS mary twa weeks ago. Forty state: |policeman next May or June. i planes were returning to Wiesbaden | Lack of big issues and statewide Stalin’s “New Ideas™ Miss Overall, acquitted with a for- |from Berlin, where they had de- fights was the chief reason. 'Ex-Communist Louis Bu-| | We consider only the actual facts, ;116. {1et the chips fall where they may,” came effective as of 8 o'clock yes- . Ofiicials of the Alaska Industrial!Dr. Thompson said. terday morring. | (Whitehall sources In London mer fiance of murder charges in the ' livered supplies. said Stalin introduced certain “new ideas” which offer hope for an East-West settlement in Berlin. The introduction of these unex- plained new thoughts dispelled fear that the diplomatic exchanges | would break down, the informants said. They added that prolonga- tion of the Moscow negotiations averted a potentially explosive in- ternational situation, at least tem- porarily.) It was stressed that despite the length of the talks, the delicacy of the subject and the frankness exhibited by both Stalin and the Western diplomats, there has been no loss of temper. The conversations have been cor- yect and polite. Indications heré were that the Four Powers may_issue a public statement shor Ahe talks. BUDGET FOR UN IS ' HANDED IN BY LI LAKE SUCCESS, Aug 24—(P— Secretary-General Trygve Lie ask- + ed today for $33469,587 to operate the United Nations in 1949. The figure is about a million dollars under the 1948 budget and iyacht blasts deaths of her parents,! |discloses her engagement to Robert held. Cannon, 28, former Air Force gun- | !nery instructor and a radio patrol- | from the wreckage prevented re- ‘man for the past two years. “This s the real thing,” MIss Over- ell remarked, “I love Bob very much. | debris. He has a terrific sense of humor.” | Sh¢ added that Bob proposed to her last Friday and she accepted. D The Washington Merry-G_o- Round (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, 1ne.) (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.) ASHINGTON— The U. S. has a trumping ace, up its sleeve in the fateful battle of Berlin. While nothing has been said about it publicly, it is certain now that the Allied zones of the city can be amply supplied by airlift throughout the winter. That includes both fuel and food. Already, the spectacular airlift is Names of the victims were with- Hours after the collision, flames {moval of the bodies. Rescuers could 'see only one body in the tangle of 'VANCOUVER BANK ' ROBBED BY THREE | 1 | 'VANCOUVER BA Both Republican and Democratic | . denz Gives Further Corporation were in Juneau last| MEN WHO ESCAPE| jparties held primaries in New York, 1but several of the state’s prominent icongressmen were unopposed. A to- | tal of 41 seats in Congress and the state legislature were at stake inj contested races. | Chief interest Mississippi’s | i | in nation is tantamount to election— | {centered on the bid of veteran Rep. from the.first congressional district. Rankin, white supremacy advocate and foe of Communists, faced two rivals. | i iDemocratic primary—where nomi-:american Activities Cor day John E. Rankin for another term| members controversy.” Testimony (By The Associated Press) Louis Budenz the House Un- mmittee to- Ex-Communist testified before The former editor of the Com- munist Daily Worker testified ln, |secret session for 40 minutes on! {what has been labelled by Commmee| as the “Hiss-Chambers A fcrmer Gommunist now employ- evening on the George Washington pulp site in that area. The pulp ,officials conferred with B. F, Heintz- ,Jeman, Regional Forester, in Ketch- ikan and several more conferenc {1l etween Forest Service officials and ithe officers of the Alaska Indus- |tiial Corporation have been sched- | Though there is an advisory com- mittee of prominent members of lenroute to Sitka to investigate the the fishing industry, the program ' is written by the University. There are 28 men in the field ithis summer, mostly University of Washington students, though Dr. ‘hompson is anxious to have Al- ska students join in the research. “We are making every attempt ,uled for Thursday and Friday. !to get the most competent help T:fi"[‘::le'r""" wfllnu;;vel to 5‘;“ OR (we can, especially young men who sday for an on the ground €on- |4re enthusiastic, who will bring & ference with the timber officials; iy i ¢ and the party will return to Juneau on Friday morning to discuss fur- ther arrangements. It is expected fresh viewpoint to the work,” Dr. Thompson said. Sven Scmme, inspector in charge of Norwegian Fresh Water Fisher- MURRAY ON HIKE |10 CIVILIZATION; LOCATED BY RCAF VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 24.— | M—Police pressed the search today {lor. three men who robbed the | Broadway branch of the Canadian |Bank of Commerce yesterday. An | unofficial estimate set their take 1at $7,000. i Martin Lingor, a truck-driver who saw the men emerge from the | EDMONTON, Alta, Aug. 24.—® ibank, identified three pictures from j__a 60-year-old Washington, D. C. ipolice files last night as those of 'man who flew northward from the holdup men. Police said more |Edmonton two weeks ago in search than $300 was found on the street of a spot where he could get {near the bank. away from civilization, bumped | Bank clerks said two of the men theld pistols on employees and {about half a dozen customers while | the third man vaulted over a homeward on horseback today. When V. G. Murray gets back, he’ll have some explaining to do to the RCAF, which spent more [counle’r and stufied money fromthan $35,000 looking for him. His tellers’ cages into a 3hopping bag. twin-engined Cessna aircraft van- ed by Time Magazine, Whittaker |Chaabers, has testified that Alger |Hiss was a leader in an alleged Communist underground organized among federal employees before the war. Hiss, a former high-ranking State Department official, has test- itied he never was a Communist. Both gave their testimony under ioath. Hiss and Chambers will face each other at a public hearing tomorrow. | Budenz probably will be on hand. Budenz, who renounced Commu- nism and returned to the Catholic Church, has testified frequently be-| {fore the House Committee since his conversion. He refused to tell news- men what he said today. But Re-| {publican representative Richard Nixon of California said: iterest, Roy Johnson, Vice-President that the Forest Service will open! the Sitka pulp area to bidding in the near future. Officers of the Alaska Industrial; Corporation, who were in Juneau last evening were: Paul J. Timbal, President, who is a New York rep- resentative for Belgian banking in- les, has been with Dr. Thomp- son’s field projects at the Westward for the last month The Southeast Alaska project is ,directed by Leon Verhooven, who ‘has charge of tagging operations (in Icy Straits, upper Chatham tand upper Behmn Canal. and engineer for the Corporation ’I'aul:“?h;:\ "g"::;m"‘l ‘hict and Charles Semal, a principal; ¥ : pe o 34 through which stockbolder and technical ndvlscr;’“e SGAIESRIRY - of salmon from Belgiing, I migration will be worked out, begin H when the schools of fish first come {in, and through tagging the fish jare followed from the beginning tof their run to the spawning grounds. Through the percentage from of retwrns of the celluloid discs Seattle, due at 3:30 o'clcck this with which the fish are tagged, is afternoon. worked oul the science of vital STEAMER MOVEMENTS Freighter Square Sinnet, Of paramount importance, the agreement 15 designed. to lessen the possibility of a longshore strike |affecting Aluska cargo. Provisions of the pact include: (1) Restoration of 15 percent dif- ferential; (2) Fifteen cents an hour increase on the basic wage; (3) Straight time rate, including vacation money, will be $2.13 per hour; (4) Overtime will be time and one-Half of straight time; (5) ‘The present hiring system will be continued. STRIKE TALK ALONG COAST 1S SPREADING .Go-lo-MeelTnankSlop- | pages byThousands Are Ordered FRANCISCO, Aug: 24P |—A go-to-meeting work stoppase by thousands of longshoremen step- | i { | 1 | SAN generally compares with the an- (. They ran from the bank andijshed August 7 after he filed a| “Mr. Budenz was ablt to testify| Prince George, from Vancouver, statistics of fisheries. ying down 4,000 tons daily of ‘ped up the volume of strike talk nual expenditures of states such as Arizona, Idaho, Rhode Island and Vermont. Lie's figures go before the 58- nation General Assembly in Paris next month for approval. Despite the slash, moves already are under way in the U. N. to cut the total still more. The first of these came in a report from the Assembly’s advisory budgetary committee which! believes a million and a half can be lopped off. The United Nations is financed by its member nations in -accord- ance with a scale of contributions based on the ability to pay. The | largest United States pays the share—about 39 percent. |these i supplies. A minimum of 4,500 tons is required. This figure {will be definitely attained by Oc- ! |tober 1, under, present U. S. and British plans. By that date, the necessary transport planes, person- nel, and ground facilities will be in operation to ensure a delivery of at least 4,500 toms of supplies every day regardless of weather conditions. The program calls for the U. S. ito transport 3,300 tons and the \British 1,200 tons. NEPOTISM Republican Sen. Edward V. Rob- (Continued on Page Four) {drove away in a maroon gor told police. LML e Two Army Fliers Are Killed, Crash SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug. 24—(® —Two army dliers were’killed yes- terday afternoon when a Randolph Air Force base training plane crashed one mile north of a. - --e— FROM MONTANA W. A. Carlson irom Helena, Mon- itana, is a Juneau visit, and at the {Baranof Hotel. car, Lin-| flight plan to Grande Prairie, Alta., 240 miles northwest of here, on {what he said was the first leg o1 a trip to Fairbanks, Alaska. Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers found Murray at Lonley Nose Creek, 75 miles southwest of Grande Prairie and well off his announced course. He appeared none the worse for his 16-day out- ing. The plane, well-stocked with sup- plies when it left Edmonton, is !still missing. News of its fate, an the story of Murray’s back-to ‘nature holiday, will have to await {completion ot the 50-mile trek to Wembley, nearest outpost of the ivilization he left Lwo weeks .o on the Hiss-Chambers controversy | and was able to contribute valuable information to. the Committee.” - > - - NEW YORK, Aug. 24. A—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau | imine stock today is 3':, American Can 82, Anaconda 36%, Curtiss- Wright 9%, Iuternational Harvester ' 29';, Kennecott 59, New York! Central 17%, Northern Pacific 22'., U. 8. Steel 77%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 620,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 18258, rails 60.90, util- ities 34.66. { i i {sail from Vancouver Wednesday. due at 7 o'clock ‘tonight, leaving Like scientilic work in general, at 11:45. Dr. Thompson's projects and their Aleutian, from Seattle, due at'results are based on facts. “Scien- 8:30 o'clock tonight. tists are conservative, but as soon as Princess Louise scheduled to we have something to say we will publish a report to be issued by Alaska scheduled from 'the University." Seattle Thursday. ! “Rebuildling the salmon run is Baranof scheduled to sail fromiour object and we have had no- Seattle Saturday. * ithing but cooperation from _the Princess Norah scheduled to sail |memikers of the salmon industry,” from Vancouver Saturday. * |the Fisherles institute director - | said. FROM MICHIGAN | Dr. Thompson left for Seattle ‘hy plane Monday, but will return Elizabeth Stack frem Detroit and 'later to conclude summer field Lila M. Neurenfeldt of Dearborn, work. The summer projeets will Mich.,, arrived on PNA from An- become the basis of wintér studi che and are at the Baranof, ‘at the University T sail to lalong the West Coast waterironts !today. | Harry- Bridges’ CIO longshore- ymen will lay off jobs at major West Coast ports tonight and to- morrow -to attend membership meetings on deadlocked contract | negotiations. | Representatives of a coastwise (union caueus will report their recommendations: reject a 1ive cent an hour wage increase proposal ‘and boyéott a National Labor Re- |lations Board election on that em- iployer offer. { The NLRB went ahead wiih plans for the balloting. But neither un- “\Contnued on Fage Six)