The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVIII., NO. 10,982 COAST PORTS PAR FIRST SECTION—PAGES | TO 8 “ALL THE NEWS UNEAU, ALASKA, FR[DAY SEPTEMBER 3, 1948 ALL THE TIME” Fishing Close Extension Is Alulhorized in | Southern Distrid; Reporis AreGivenatHearings Here IN JUNEAU Salmon fishing in all of South- INTERIOR'S DAVIDSON IS “I am here to listen and learn areas one by one, beginning with|and not to talk,” Assistant Secre- Rail Block InGermany. Is Debaled German Press Behev’es JURY FINDS JAP GUILTY OF TREASON Kawakita T;E'ed Traitor MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LYZED BY STRIKES Paving of Glacier Highway Is Indicated; (alled for That bids will be advertised soon | for the paving of the Glacier High- | phalt-cement Bids Will Be Soon Is Report |ten days. The road will be paved with as- and specifications S Northern Division S.E. Alaska STRIKE IN PROGRESS, . ALL PORTS Battle for Survwal lndlcal east Alaska except Central, SOUth-|yoy gtraits, which he said was at | tary of the Interior C. Girard Da- s |way ¢ r ay wi 3 3 y from the city limits to the|call for a 22 foot roadway with four | east and Bagthwe # ‘?““e“; a very low level. vidson, told the Fish and Wild- B|°(kade '0 Be I-'flOd‘ 'Of over' Ads on Ame”' Juneau Municipal ).:urport. was SR TobE eNites, T road is 8.6 miles ed '0 Be lOflg 0fle Straits, the Southern District an Don Davis, P. E. Harris Company, { life Service people and cannerymen jnounced today by Chris Wyller,!in length. Estimated cost of the ed—wa"(Oui Pfedid- South Prince of Wales District will close at 6 pm. tonight, Seton Thompson, Chief of Branch of Alaska Fisheries, Fish and Wild- life Service, announced last night Hawk Inlet, had “nothing favor- able to say as far as pink salmon are concerned. But we have had a fair run of chums. Chums are still coming in good. It looks a attending the hearing in the Sen-! ate Chambers last night. The mild-mannered Louisianian gave an attentive ear to the testi- mony of fisheries and cannery ex- Others Not So Sure * . (By The Associated Press) : A Western German press Ser- vice said today the Russians ate cans in Prison Camps i SiiRer ! By JAMES 8. LINDSEY | LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3—®—A verdict branding Tomoya Kawakita lic Roads Administration. Wyller said that the paving pro- ject has been pending for the past ‘still keeping their fingers crossed,” |Acting District Engineer of the Pub- | paving project is $500,000. | The paving of the Glacier High- |way was authorized in 1946 but it |was not until the recent session of two years and the PRA officials are | Congress that the appropriation was | received. The sum was included in SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3—(P— A strike paralyzing Pacific Coast ports today was accepted by the | following a meeting with cannery- little better i 4 o s 1] | n the total volume)perts, making technical arrangements to!a traitor was returned by a federa i men who, with dim hopes of €X-|, 140 of pinks.” ey o De. | lift the Berlin blockade. court jury but it “can't stand,” his|on the project, Bids are scheduled |the overall appropriations for Na- SWPPINg industry and Harry FOWeTSERaN RSt By whe De- |to be advertised withm the next Lunal Forests hngh\\uys ridges’ CIO Longshoremen as a tensions, reported their views of the 1948 salmon season. ! Western District was also at ex- ]lreme}y low level, Thompson said, partment of the Interior are Park! Service, Bureau of Mines, Bureau The Western Powers appeared to be surrendering on the currency defense counsel said as he prepared today to appeal the case. Ibattle for survival. | The walkout, sfretching from the i Areas affected include these near ’ s i 5 { e e e Ohatham | ¥ith every evidence of a sharp|of Land Management and Geologi-!issue to the anguish of the domin-| 7" JU¥ ©f rine b s Mexican to the Canadian borders, { Hoonah, Tenakee, Pelican, Hood dn.>|) in cgwhes ool °‘icul Survey.' Assistant Secretary lant Berlin Soctalist party. refurned the vgerdlct late yeslerday m resslve omml a erVI(e heid: sotie. M0 ipe. 10l St Idiet Bay, Sitka. last week.’ lwm. H. Warne is Alaska’s special The press service, British 'p‘m"holdin Kawakita, 27, guilty of eight jabout 12,000 dock workers and kept Adequate rscapement Needed ;guardian in Interior, and develop-|sored, said the Russians summon- . S8 b 116,000 seafarers shorebound. The southern districts will con- tinue operation until 6 p. m. Sep- tember 7. Weather, Weather, Weather Weather is the cause of it all.{ The weather has been too hot, too dry, too windy, too rainy. Finally the weather prevented Alaska ! Repeating that “to reproduce a good run it was necessary to have| an adequate escapement,” Thomp- son called on cannerymen for their ideas about the Western District. Davis reported ‘“same as Icy | Straits as far as pinks are con- ment of Alaska is his responsibil- ity, said Davidson who is chiefly concerned with the Pacific North- west, excluding Alaska. After his arrival - in Juneau! Thursday, the Secretary spent the afternoon in the office of the ed the director of German rail- ways in the Soviet zone for in- structions. An American transport official said there is no indication when the Russians intend to reopen the Berlin-Helmstedt railway to the overt acts of abusing American cap- interpreter in Japan's Oeyama Pri- Ison camp. Kawakita was carged ! ,wn.h 13 acts. ‘The exhausted jury announced its decision after eight days of deliber- “allon following 11 weeks of testi- [tives while he served as war-time| I { For Alaska World War Il Dead At Sitka (emete. 5 on .unday Bridges warned his union mem- hers to prepare to pound the water= !front pavements in picket lines for four to six months, Presideat Powerless In Washington, President Tru=- man said the government was power= cerned, but we have done well | Bureau i i = A & iess Salmon Industry Director W. C.|with chums” Bureau of Mines discussing Al-| oo " union they stopped 72 days|mony. % ISR S8y, Ty dexoapt: UGN i chu iaska’s special problems and going e he U. 8 d Britatn | A niost impressive ‘committal Tafe. ! Tribute, Chaplam it. Col) John negotiation. A Federal Court in- Arnold and many of e cannery- over surveys and reports which jm- ago, forcing ti . 8. an If upheld the verdict could carry F. Chalker Senior Chaplain US!junction banning the strike for an men who were to have been pres- ent from reaching Juneau for the meeting last night. The dry summer, streams empty, of water, preventéd fish goirg up creeks to spawn; during the last two weeks the weather has been And J. T. Tenneson, Jr., Super- rior Packing ' Company, said hope- fully: “Our emperience indicates an increase in pinks in Chatham.” Thompson agreéd there had been [an early escapement of pinkd"in; Chatham due to the late opening this year, but said it was still not pressed him greatly. | “If Alaska’s labor costs were eom- | parable to those in countries from | which are obtained , #ine, cop- per and tin, mining of these com- modities might be possible. So far none of the metals of stock pile to maintain an expensive air Ifft. It is unlikely they will do so (re-| open the . line) um,u they . are | satisfied ~with «the \vesults . of. cussions here and in Moscow, the U. S. official said. “Nor will they get any coal or iron trains from a death sentence, but U. 8. Atty. {James D. Carter made no demand {for it. The penalty could range as - |low as.five years imprisonment. The trial was reported to be’the tirsé on treason charges held west of the Mississippi. vice has been planned for the Alaska World War II at the Sitka National Cemetery on Sunday, Sept. 5 at 9:- 30 am, rding to Capt. Joe D. Fée, A Information Offf= cer, /Fort Richardson. 2 The following is the service as ar- ranged: Army, Alaska. Hymn, “Sleep, Comrade, Sleep!”; Roll Call World War II Dead, Chap- lain (Lt Col) John F. Chalker; Comprittal: Protestant, Chaplain I(Lt. Col.) John F. Chalket; Catholic, Chaplain (Major) Patrick J. Mec- 80-day cooling off period expired yesterday as the strike began. l‘ The President told a news con- lerence the is still erylng €5 settle pute by ne- gotiation but that he has no emer- gency powers left. Dwyer. Presentation of Wreaths: = Un- Across the nation effects of the {the Ruhr to feed their zone’s in-| Carter contended that Kawakita's tleup were felt as railroads halted so stormy that traps have been {dustry until they lift the blockade [acts were of aid and comfort to| wrecked;. water so rough that sein- interest have been found in Alaska in large enough quantities to war- sufficient. In Sitka Area Prelude Hymn, “Be still, My Soul”; (Ma- ers have been unable to set gear. Weather has prevented cannery- men from making reports to the FWL on which to base its statistics, or weather would be too severe to allow a trap to be brailed, a zero report would result, the catch re- port would give no true indication of the volume of fish present. “Nature has in effect thrown her own escapement program in our laps,” said Pete Gilmore, manager of the Juneau Office of Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., as he sum- | med up his report on the fisher- jes and the weather, representing all of the packers from Petersburg south who were unable to come to| Juneau for the meeting. For the operators he represented, he | recommended that Sumner Straits, Clarence Straits, Southern Dis-| trict, South Prince of Wales Dis-. trict remain open until Septem-f ber 8 and asked if showings on the Sth warrant extension that the| FWL extend the season through Ibably 75 percent chums, 25 per-| | States |75 percent pink.” Frank Wright, Pyramid Packing | Company, said they had consider-! able pinks and chums ‘“equal to! 1944. The run has held up pretty | well” It is the first time in the| last three years, Wright said, he| had seen a good pink run in the {Sitka area. And Seton Thompson repeated | his recurring chorus: “To maintain adequate seeding, we must have greater escapement.” Then the Eastern District, Davis reporting: “Fish, yes, and pro- | cent pinks.” Stan Tarrant, Pacific American! Fisheries, reported 19,000 fish yes- terday from Pillar Bay “fairly, steady.” Davis agreed, “Kuiu shore catch- es have been predominantly pink, Tenneson reported, yesterday, 10, l 350 salmon from six boats, 90 per-l cent pink. Mike Goodman, Whiz Fish Pro-! the 11th. i ducts, agreed, reported yesterda.y] Thompson took up the fishing |a good day. U But “the weather is ugnlnxt us The Washington Merry - Go- Round BY ROBERT S. ALLEN (Copyright, 1948, bl; 'l;he 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.) ASHINGTON—"It now de- velops there was a hefty jigger of wishful thinking in that we're-all- pals statement issued after -the hush-hush powwow of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The accord was largely super- ficial. ‘The root cause of the long- standing Navy-Air Force feuding was settled only on the surface. The basic issue between them, control of strategic bombing, is still as unresolved as before. What actually happened Wi this: Defense Secretary Forrestal cracked the whip on the military chiefs. In effect, he ordered them to stop interservice rowing. As officers, they bowed to this com- mand. They promised to clamp down on further bickering. But on the bitter cause of this vendet- ting, Forrestal got little more than a patch-quilt truce. The Navy still retains a big oar in strategic bombing—a fact which the Air Force is acutely aware and resents as hotly as be- There has been hardly for trap or seine flshlng " wns the oft-repeated comment of the can- | nerymen. i And “we should make a special effort to rebuild the run. Adequate !seeding is necessary,” ‘was ThoWip- son’s story, repeated as frequent- ly. Gilmore Reviews Season . Planes with packers from the southern end of the Division had been unable to take off from Ketchikan, and Pete Gilmore, who had talked by radio to Judge Arn- old Thursday, spoke for him and all of the members of the pack- ers group from Petersburg south. Gilmore reviewed the season, scheduled to be a short one, August 9 to September 3; the suspension from August 14 to August 23, “a rather substantial segment of anj already short season”; the second closure order and its subsequent revocation. “The fishing results in the last week in' four areas not only show a good run, but a heavy run. Not-| withstanding the fact that a week is out of our already short season,i 1948 production records are ahead | of 1947 and ahead of 1948's parent year, 1946, Gilmore said. Then the weather came into the that the FWL statistical informa- must be viewed in connection with the severe weather of the past week. “The storms have taken a toll| of fixed and mobile gear. There| are fish here. Each time the| weather has moderated a little! by Clarence Rhode, . |ASK GRAND JURY rant production under existing costs,” the Secretary said. Enthusiastic over pulp and paper development in the Territory, Da- vidson said, when a reporter ex- pressed hope that Juneau might have a pulp industry, “Oh, I think | you will.” ' “And that development will brlng' more people. Alaska can’t help | growing.” Davidson will fly north, visit Mt.; McKinley National Park. Parks have their problems, too, the Sec-. retary said. Every park in the| wants an airfield. That' the Alaska park is the only one| with an airfield is always a mat- ter of discussion when national parks have the floor. “But Mt. | McKinley National Park can't be| reached by highway,” is of course,! the answer. ‘This morning, Davidson was tak- en on a flying tour of this area Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. INVESTIGATION OF | MARLJUANA CASE| LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3.—-45—‘ ‘The district attorney’s office moved today for a county grand jury in- vestigation into the marijuana- smoking case involving Robert Mitchum, handsome film hero, and attractive actress Lila Leeds. { Dist. Atty. William E. Simpson announced that the chairman of the jury’s criminal complaints com- mittee has promised he will recom- mend an inquiry by the entire ! panel. 1 Simpson added that if the jury! decides to take up the case, Mit- chum, Miss Leeds and two others arrested with them early Wednes-: day will be invited to appear and tell their stories. STEAMER MOVEMENTS George Washington, from Seattle, ! due at 6 o'clock tonight. Prince George, from Vacouver, scheduled to arrive Saturday eve- ning. 1 picture again and Gilmore urged; Princess Louise scheduled to Masaryk. sail from Vancouver Saturday. from Vancouver Sept. 8. Alaska scheduled southbound Sunday night. Baranof, from west, scheduled| southbound early Tuesday. | ——— - —— HERE FROM ANCHORAGE jviet mark be the sole money and restore normal communications to our satisfaction,” he added. BERLIN—A Ermish Informant said the Russian Military Governor of Germany, in conferences here with the American, British and. French governors, is insisting on an even one for one exchange rate between the Russian and Western mark. This is snagging the Ber- lin talks, since German financiers say one Western mark is worth four Russian marks. Moreover, the Russians will have control of the printing presses. The Western Powers were Ie- ported insisting upon joint control with the Russians on the volume; of currency, credits and discount in Berlin if, as expected, they yield to Russian demands that the So- for BENES 1§ DEAD IN PRAGUE! Former Two-Time Presi-| dent of (zechoslovakia Passed Away Today By A. I. GOLDBERG PRAGUE, Sept. 3.—M—Eduard Benes, slovakia and was twice its Presi- dent, died today. He was 64. The statesman who rose to world acclaim from ranks of the peasants was stricken early Tuesday and has been unconscious since. Cough- 1ing spasms weakened his tired old fighting heart, which finally gave way. He died at his country home at Sezimovo at 6:10 p.m. Benes had a stroke a year ago. His arteries had hardened. His last year of life was doubly saddened by the coup through which Communists seized power in his republic and by the death soon afterward of Foreign Minister Jan ‘The Foreign Minister was the son of Thomas Masaryk, tion prepared by Dr. W. H. Rich' Princess Norah scheduled to saft with whom Benes helped to form the Caechoslovam Republic in 1918. ———e—— MARRIAGE LICENSE Application for a marriage license in the U. 8. Commissioner’s office who helped found Czecho-| the United States enemies. The government called more than 30 witnesses, most of them former tral Honshu, Kawakita was charged ‘wlth striking prisoners, compelling them to work when sick, and on one | occasion with participating in duck- ing an American in the camp cess- pool. All of these charges the little| Kawakita, known to American prisoners as “the meatball,” was arrested after being spotted in a Los {Angeles store by a former G. I prisoner, William L. Bruce, of San |Luis Obispo, Calif. The Los Angeles Kawakita trea- son conviction story was the last (written by Lindsley, who was strick- en shortly afterward with a heart attack and died. Lindsley, who .saw wide service in the Pacific as a war correspondent, including Japan were Kawakita's brutalities against (the start. RED SPY HEARINGS| [POSTPONED 2 WEEKS 1O CLEAR EVIDENCE By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—M— The House Un-American Activities Red spy hearings. Chief investigator Robert E. Stripling said the committee will 180 ahead then with efforts to un- ravel conflicts in testimony giv- len by Alger Hiss, former high | State Department official, Whittaker Chambers, an avowed former member of a Communist underground. Stripling said Chairman J. Par- nell Thomas (R-NJ) has advised him the committee intends to com- plete the Hiss-Chambers and Eliz- abeth Bentley hearings before get- ting into the story of a new spy ring. “I think this will take three weeks,” Stripling told reporters. The investigation was to have been resumed Sept. 7. Stripling said the delay is necessary to |give the committee and its staff time to complete preparations. A T FROM PORTLAND L. B. Wells, from Portland, Ore., Hotel. . AR S Nick Carter and Bob Woods,; both from Seattle, are in Juneau, inmates of Camp Oeyama, on cen-" |Calexico, Calif.—born Nisei denied. | AGAINST (10 Amcrican war prisoners were com-| mitted, covered the Nisei’s trial from ! and { i { i [} Invocation, Chaplain Jor) ‘Patrick J. McDwyer Senior KBOWn Dead, Gov. Brnest Gruening; Chaplain shipment of most export freight to the coast, and some exporting man- US Army, Maj. Gen. Stanley L. Alaska Alr Commnrfd US Alr Force, Brig. Gen. 'Frank A. Armstrong; US Coast Guard, Rear Adm. Joseph E. Stika; US Navy, Capt. John Shaw (USN) ; Missing-in-action, Col. Gerald G. Gibbs; US Marine Corps, Capt. W. C. Reeves (USMC). Appreciation to Organizations Represented. Chaplain (Lt. NLRB SEEKS COURT ORDER Committee Asks Enforce- ment of Ruling Against Union Hiring Hall WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—(®— The National Labor Relations Board said today it has asked the Cir- cuit Court of Appeals in New York City to enforce its recent order against use of the hiring hall Ralph Weeks, non-denominational | by the CIO-National Maritime Un- ion. This is .the first time the (board has had to ask the courts to back up an NLRB order under the Taft Hartley Act. The board has no enforcement power of ity own. The new labor-management rela- tions act prohibits the closed shop, Warm blood of proud Americans,, The board held Aug. 17 that the practice of clearing jobs on_ the Committee decided to postpone un-|Great Lakes through the union’s til Sept. 15 the resumption of its|hiring hall was discriminatory against non-union job applicants. In efiect, the union enjoyed a closed shop, the board ruled. The same hiring practice is fol- lowed on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts. The Great Lakes case was the first to be acted on by the NLRB. A trial examiner has handed in a report covering the Atlantic Shipowners and the NMU, similar to the board’s findings on the Great Lakes. Contracts have been entered in- to on the Atlantic, Gulf and Great Lakes continuing the hiring hall practice pending a final court decision. The hiring hall now is a big issue ir» the West Coast dispute, where Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's Union began a work stoppage along with other seafarers’ union yesterday. — e - SANTA BARBARA VISITOR Visiting from Santa Barbara, guest at the Baranof Hotel e Harriet Brinkley from Los An- geles, Calif., is in Juneau, a guest __ Scott; ‘The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars. | Benediction, Chaplain (Lt. Col.) 'John F. Chalker; Volleys, Firing ‘Squad 9108th Technical Service Unit; Firing Squad US Coast Guard | Cutter “North Wind.” | ‘Taps, Buglers, 57th Fighter Wing, Fort Richardson. i Recessional Hymn, Me.” “Abide with Colors and Color Guard will be furnished Ly Sitka Post No. American Legion. Music will be furnished by A Ca-~ pella Choir under the direction of 13 ,Chaplain, Mt. | School. Tribute to be read by Chaplain Chalker will be the following: | In Memoriam, by Colonel James B. Colson, Chief-of Staff, US Army, Alaska: g “Scores of quiet, sacred spots exist '‘on this Earth, consecrated by the Edgecumbe Native spilt in sacrifice on land and sea, and | in the air in the cause of freedom. He, Who neither slumbers nor sleeps, watches in solemn Presence over their final resting places wherever they may be. “This quiet place in the valley is; one which has been so consecrated. Let us, therefore, be ever conscious that in this spot of rural beauty is placed the mortal evidence that the | (American Boys) have satisfied their randezvous with destiny In Glory and in Honor.” Gen. Scott and his party will leave Fort Richardson early Saturday morning in an Army C-47 plane. then go on to Sitka by commercial float planes. After the ceremony Sunday morning, Gen. Scott and his party, together with Gov. Gruening will return to Juneau by commercial float planes. At Juneau the entire party will board the C-47 plane for the return trip to Fort Richardson. Gov. Gruening will the same plane to Fairbanks where | he has an engagement that evening. | The Sitka Cemetery was first es- tablished in 1884. It was made a formal military and naval cemetery is now staying at the Baranof| Calif., is Phyllis Cooper, who is in 1890 by Executive Order of Pres- ident Benjamin Harrison. It was made The Sitka National Cemetery in 1924 by Executive Order of Pres- ident Calvin Coolidge. It is the Col.) | John F. Chalker; Territory of Alas-! ka, City of Juneau, City of Sitka,; They will have lunch in Juneau and | continue on| ufacturers cut production. Survival At Stake The Waterfront Employers Asso- clation and Pacific American Ship- {owners Assoclation declared survi- {val of the industry was at stake, i They announced they no longer ywould deal with any union whose officer refused to file non-Commu- nist affidavits with the National Labor Relations Board. Such affi- davits are required to qualify unions for NLRB services. Bridges has re- fused to make such an aftidavit but sald he was willing to refer the iquestion to the union membership, Long Strike Theatened He told 6,000 cheering Longshore- |men losing their strike would put the union out of business. Discuss- ilnx negotiations which collapsed Wednesday night, Bridges said: “I crawled on my hands and knees and all I got was a spit in the eye. “We will prepare for a four to six jmonths’ strike now. There will be no more talks with the employers except on our terms.” - { Four other unions backed the Longshoremen with pledges of “all for one, one for all.” Picket Lines The CIO Marine Cooks and® Ste- wards and independent marine fire- men ordered picket lines today. Fur- ther meetings to discuss their par- ticipation were called by the CIO Marine Engineers and AFL Radio pomcen The Federal Conciliation Service tried to get negotiators back into joint sessions yesterday but failed. 1 Bridges sa!d employer evidence of “intention to negotiate in good faith to end the strike” was a union re- quirement before talking further. 1 Employers Statement Longshore employers withdrew a 10-cents-and-hour wage hike offer and a proposal to continue with the present union-named dispatchers at hiring halls until the Supreme Court determines whether they are legal. In any new talks employers will lgo back to their original offer of a five-cent wage boost and an im- partial dispatcher, the announce- ment said. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—(M—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 83%, Anaconda 37%, Curtiss- Wright 10%, International Harvest- er 287%, Kennecott 59%, New York Central 174, Northern Pacific 28%, U. 8. Steel 81, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 660,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 184.35, rails 6297, util- Nema Ellis, from Anchorage, is a' was made by LaVerne Leona Sut- iguest at the Baranof Hotel. jton and Leo Tacal Navarro. ities 35.39. (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Five) [lnd guests at the Baranof Hotel. 1“ the Baranof Hotel. xonly national cemetery in Alaska.