The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1948, Page 1

TH VOL. LXVIIL, NO.'10,986 JUNEAU, ALASKA, l& CTS U.S. PROPOSAL juty Contesta RUSS BLUN OFFER MADE INHANDLING ARMY CARGO Bridges, H;v;;ver, Side- steps Showdown in Con- ference with Milifary SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9. —Harry Bridges, sidestepping a showdcwn with the army, has offered conditionally - to handle military cargoes in struck Pacific ports. The CIO longshore leader, speak- ing for striking unions which have tied up all shipping -on. the West Coast, told army officers yester- day that his men would load mili- tary cargo if paid wages asked of .employers during recent nego- He sald that the CIO seafaring unions involved in the strike would | serve on ships carrying military cergoes if paid the scale current on the East Coast. As an alterhative, he said the SUPPLIES FLOWN TO STRANDED MEN ON ALASKA SHORE SEATTLE, Sept. 9—®— Sup- plies are being flown to 10 men stranded on a rocky shore near Cape Spencer, Alaska, while Coast Guard rescue vessels await clear-| ing weather before making another/ rescue attempt. Eight of the men were stranded when the fishing vessel Caledonia went aground Monday and the |other two, Coast Guardsmen, were marooned with them when high; seas capsized a rubber raft in which they were attempting a | rescue. 1 MORE AID GIVEN ! SEATTLE, Sept. 9—®— Three men from the Coast Guard Cutter Citrus went ashore at Icy Point |wim food, provisions ‘and axes {today to travel overland to the stranded crew of the wrecked flsh-l ing vessel Caledonia, the Coast} Guard announced. They were led by Chief Boat- swain's mate Raymond V. Herron, | Seattle. The weather was clenr' and they expected to reach the Caledonia crew members. tenight. Earlier, Lieut. R. A. Lammon, of “ALL THE NEWS URSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1948 Y 50,000 AUTO WORKERS ARE IDLE, DETROIT One Hundr;d—and Seventy Plant Guards Walkout Tieup Big Industry DETROIT, Mich., . Sept. 8.—P— An estimated 50,000 Detroit auto workers continued idle’ for a second day and still more were threaten- ed with idleness as a result of a walkout by 170 plant guards at the Briggs Manufacturing Co. The eight Detroit plants of the Briggs Company were closed Wed- nesday, throwing 25,000 workers off their jobs. Chrysler Corp. sent home 19,000 and Packard €,000 when a shortage of Briggs bodies halted assembly lines. Continuation of the strike would completely shit down the latter | two companies, management said.( The guatds, members of Local 114, United Plant Guard Workers ] They're ‘ Four candidates for ALL THE TIME” = ———— MCMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — nis, Nalutally the title of ‘Miss American Legion, 1948” get hints in modeling form from Miss TRUMANIN REPLYTO ~RUSS ACT Says U.S. Will Stand Up for Rights in Berlin-Cam- paign Is Outlined WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—iP— | President Truman sald today the United States will stand up for its rights in Berlin while keeping up negotiations in the hope of estab- lishing peace. His guarded statements on the Soviet-American crisis came at a iinews conference in which he also discussed political matters. He shrug- ged off, without comment, accusa~ tions made by Harold Stassen that his presidential campaign was in-| citing class warfare He disclosed partial plans for his next big political swing into the west. It will carry him to Dexter, Ia., jon Sept. 18. Denver and other Colo~ jindo cities on Sept. 20, Salt Lake! City, Sept. 21 or 22, San Francisco; |a day later. BLAST IS DELIVERED IN BERLIN U.'S. Told fi)fio Interfere in Matters that Don't Concern It By EDWIN SHANKE BERLIN, Sept. 9—(UP— Russian lighter planes stunted and dived high above the American sector of ~ Berlin today, leaving vapor i trails reminiscent of the war days. The Russians broke no regulations, but excited the German popu- lation in this jittery Four-Power city. The maneuvers, duly announced in advance, were staged against a somber background of Big Power tension. The Soviet Commandant in Ber- lin, Maj. Gen. Alexander Kotikov, had just told the Americans ‘“not to interfere in matters which doh't concern them." This was the Russian answer to longshoremen - and the seafarers e T T the proyision’ tive ad- justments' be inade at ‘the end of | the strike. g : es outiibed his proposal té |miles north of Icy Point, and the before’he met with army ‘other three men about a mile away. g £ 7% 1Clothing, food and a walkie-talkie lndh were dropped. The Caledonia was wrecked on Monday west of Olpe‘Spemzr. - Elaine Buehler in Phil-llelpllh; .l.efl. to right: Marilyn Stonchouse, Janet Slowik, Irene Max, Jean Fergu- son and Miss Buehler. ® wn-pw. | Mr. Tiuman said he definitely, (will visit Los Angeles—where the} ~—— | Progra ve Party candidate, Henry ‘A. Wallace, drew big crowds. Hejoffices in the city hall Monday ‘might also go to San Diego. tin which 19 Western ‘Sector police , |were carted off. % 4 French Turned Down The President at first sought to ;nvmd comment of the Soviet black-i do’:}:f R";'wh ':l” Bave. Wrned {ade of Berlin and the Communist|' fuErgchi s dunang. e the led invasion of American offices in '¢1ease of another 19 Western the Eerlin City Hall. i sector police who were kidnaped hhn.!by Soviet sector police Wednesday "I ' But when repotters pressed i ‘M%Trumln opened up. - (morning while traveling under a @ protest by the American Com- mandant, Col. Frank Howley, against an invasion of American Albin Ind., flying @ PBY plane,|°f America (Ind), struck over a; messaged that one group of sev- demand for 15 minutes paid pre- | en of the Caledonia’s crew had |Paratory time. The company now been ‘sighted on the beach threei®llows five minutes. { e ——— CTAT ITALENT, CURV IPEACE MOVE ';.STATEHOQD, "IN CONTEST FOR | | BANKS ISTO IS"MADEIN PASSED “P.i "MISS AMERICA™ W i Ad ;helmunflr‘, inaty. Competifion.. .. . | " Held Last Night-55 |- o SRPRSRE ¥ o A T SEATTLE, Sept, 9—(®—The Amer- ‘ ! quest of the various: unions in-i NEW YORK—Henry A. Wallace! B | lReserves Ordefed Increas- olved.” {will officially open his New York Are SGEklng Tlfle k L 9 ork: SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9—d--| A ! i | 4 g State campai 1 i 3 !olulions yesterday which would have o g - b i campaign for the presidency peace moves and ofl conservation urged immediate admission of Ha-| ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Sept. 9 ed, Che(kmg A((OUMS, :negorln:‘e, ‘;mph“'/g By ge:o“pe::; to P noesir e Gl nd Ml e Savings Deposifs |, | A auesuon was ineriested; haa|fFom 25000 1o 30000 fect, This Waterfront employers also had | Inot this government said it would |28 American spokesman said, was 1 Blockade Comment & ehief had no com- meeting; and Major . Lester, com- t after the | | ! | , he said, and U i e Ry m 127 Yak. is still argument to be had, rs We are doing everything we cAn' | roared over Berlin early in the day. Later there were two more in negotiating on the problems, he, 8TOUPS, one of fiye planes’ sk ione of nine. They flew over the nmmg‘ :: s::k o::, :3‘: l:,'f;{ -%{:::om' nm:“hlsmm amg'e; prflm!m'“ms appeared simultaneously | ggjj and Alaska as States. | —(@—Tennessee talent and Kansas | P e week-old strike W] iy mfi = wi );fiy xKe itoday in the five-day-old Cal1fornm] The statehood question was held |curves led the Miss America pageant | humiglego‘:.mu;len tsalangd l?a“‘ ankee Stadium to hear him. refinery strike. lto be outside the scope of the Asso- | today. { j Pac! waterfronts an s A five-state western' area experi- | ;s R % : iciation. The Resolutions Committee Dorothy Free, 19-year-old Miss | By CHARLES MOLONY 3 3 | flight m :h;f;m o s u,oon.-! N‘,SV:D:Z’{;,‘SN;,.;‘“;::::";:,&;:'e“““ a steady dwindling of §aso- ' reported, however. that it felt fa- Tennessee, held the lead on Miss| WASHINGTON, _Sept. 9‘.xmfi"""k“d;fn’:";;:‘ENSC",:;ZM, m“flmfi"ffi"fi’&o"’}ffi ::plle,uwy : line supplies, the result of a walk- ® i ' o : pa- | Bo rs may find it tougher to| et R K A Union officials, said, however,|decided in a plebiscite yesterdny;out by CIO Oil Workers Union “wr!:‘i:alzleel'r‘tzx:;dasa;;l:s;lon of the 2211 s, dominated the beauty pa \getrr:)nv‘l)ixey rrgm 1459 bnnksgm g Wf have never made that xmte_lwe\::u:xdny‘s Soviet air operations General Lester agreed to refer the they want to have beer and winely,ge negotiations became dead-| rmpe’ ke gy R ey were the first winners in the | result of '@ ‘new. Federal Reserve ml’l’h‘ M'x. Truman .savm shn?-ply We;“ ”n:t:(;red :y Ame:icnn pilots | proposals to the War Depnnmgm;:old byT;he bottle in taverns and|jocked. dropased by J. Russell Cades’ o pnlimy;nary co}np&nwn s [Bohvd WA T hitd ot C“mng‘haw he‘lniuewnlunl:xlxg ev:.-:- since l:e, e Ax:;l: non'n'n‘l'. i 1hotels. e only legal place to tuy! . X ¢ » N el war ended and will continue to do’? rican . airlift yesterda: i P &t s Sk Vi In Washington, Interior Secre-,gonoiuiy and by Miss Dorothy Ty- the nation’s number-one beauty- |down on inflationary lending. g Loot. g et it %8 ”.“:"bmll_’ I with the union. Shell oil met ami- {meeting this noon, a letter was i i those bottled good: v i - | i . At Honolulu, housewives whql ttled goods now is at gov-itary Krug asked governors of flVflmr and Edward V. Davis of An- ywith-brains, the 1948 Miss America.| At least FRB officials hope 50., Dges this mean, a reporter asked,|ing in 3319 tons of supplies in | i - ! out crowded into stores. It was; WARSAW, — An authoritative! . Eal n of Catifornia 3 By { 1 siav. 1 Wacren of Califo Miss Tennessee, a_ resident of |their member banks across the| we have not been negotiating un-|Was 3,120 in 408 flights. rice supply is already exhausted. iman Mielinski, chief editor of the.ang ggriculture.” ’ ' MERCHANTS MEET PARIS—Henri Queuille appeared:copy with union representatives [list Party decided to support Him.; gpate Conciliation Supervisor tead from the British Columbia not negotiate while Berlin wasj 1Ot a violation of Four-Power | were fearful that the island’s lim- jernment stores. western states to name state oil 3 1chorage. (A crowd of 10,000 watched the|Yesterday, in an effort to make {ha¢ the United States will negotiate | 439 flights. The- highest tonm [ited stocks of foodstuffs would run co-ordinators for the emergency.' - - < | competition last night. lending funds scarcer, they ordered ‘under duress? 8! | Ererii s :: e ;:; | necessary to rope off store en-'source said today security policelsaig:he would do so at once due to. “ AMBER Io H AVE 0.0 ; have arrested the Rev. Dr. Ro- !« 3 Chattanooga, appeared in a black‘lnatlon to put another $1900000,- 'der duress, Mr. Truman retorted.| P PR AR trances to handle the crowds. The, {“the dangers to business, industry| crepe gown with rhinestone design]000 into reserve vaults—where bor-!The Llockade is an attempted du- | § b AR :Catholic news] r Glos ‘Katolicki. | and sang two popular songs. | rowers can’t get at it. 4 iress—and he emphasized the adjec- P 1The charge wrx‘:; made known. |3 v o the]dmsjor o contllpnt.nies Miss ~ Kansas -appeared In her[ Its new action, wsing anti-infla- | tjve—but it is not duress. g ! EMBLEM CLUB WILL s4id they wollld 7e-gpen neqatiations Lathing suit and had to do nothing | tionary power voled by the spec-| And he added that this country | “Exl IHURSDAY‘mnm lagt night. {ial session of Congress a month regards the clockade as something = virtually certain tonight of formin v, Tonight the 55 participants in!ago, raised the amount of money |separate and apart from the nego- - a new yh’ench cabxnuen The Soclnf y"“""“;’;;,‘{;fl tad ather. cogters i‘ the Miss America contest split up|banks must have in reserve by anjtiations of the French, British, Rus- Lo e e ] At the Chamber of Commeice again for more talent and Leauty)additional two percent on check<ixmn and American military gover-' ueuille formally accepted his nom- g “ preliminaries. Girls from 43 states,|ing accounts and 1% percent on'iors on the settlement of Berlin's| Q y accepted !Glenn Bowers said “several feelers nine cities, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and | savings deposits. ‘tinancial and administrative troub- The first meeting of the Emblem Club for the fall season will be held {iration a5 Premier tonight. i es. tonight a$ 8 o'clock in the Elks Hall. | A program for the year will be plan-} ned and all members are urged to attend the meeting. On the refresh- ment committee for tonight's meet- ing are Mrs. Rose Wolf and Mrs. Georgia Mae Lajoie: - ANCHORAGE VISITORS W. R. McDaniel and L. L. Mor- ton of Anchorage are registered at the Baranof Hotel. The Washington Merry - Go- Round BY ROBERT 8. ALLEN (Copyright,- 1948, I;;"l“lu 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.) ‘VAs!m:u Sen. Robort raft has a bi: sugprse up his sieeve for the Dewey kigh Com- mand. The able to-taright Ohioan .- tends to becomz a membei of tle crucial Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the next Congress.| be two committee vacancies. Sen. Capper, Kansas, and Wallace 'White, Maine, long-time committee members, are retiring from public life. Taft’s high senierity entitles him to one of these places if he wants it. He wants it. give up his ehairmanship of the lLabor and Education Committee or his seat on the Pinance Commit- tee to shift te Forelgn Relations. " Continued on Page Pm;r? There will He is prepared to| jwere put out by both sides.” There jwas no concrete development, how- WASHINGTON,—The United Sta-eyer, tes today proposed that big four! wreanwhile, a voluntary industry talks start in Paris Monday on the|ajjocation committee was set up to ;‘:"“’i of It"ifiwl":‘w“hcfilmh"‘ratlon existing supplies of gasoline PEIATY - 0F arshall sug-fand oil. This committee will act Igested the Monday date in a ""’Iflrn on the more critical Los An- lm:'t;e tM:lm to the Russian B‘“’““.geles situation. ate today. - YikEoviER B GB [ RATIONING GASOLINE A R - S V. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9.—A Wiegner is being held in the Oak-|_programs for rationing gasoline jalla prison here until ms, trial In}i, the West were mapped today, connection with the fatal 'shooting|yniie a cautious note of optimism of John McComas, 52, on the Alu-imwd out of meetings aimed at ka oHighway last month. <ending the California refinery strike. Glenn Bowers, State Conciliation Supervisor, said the “tenor of the meeting was cooperative. The par- ties made a serious effort to con- clude their arguments as soon as * SEATTLE,—Alaska salmon opera- tors said here today that approxi- mately ‘a -million cases of canned pink - salmon ‘will be discharged at ce-Rupert, B. C., instead of Se- attle because of the maritime strike. possible.” The salmon, valued at 320,000,000, “\pjje ne cautioned against too is virtually the entire Southeast optimistic an_interpretation, Bow- {Alaska pack. ers added that “the possibilities I[or a settlement this week are WASF{INGTON,—Senate investi-imore favorable than at any time gators declared today ' they are|since the strike started.” ready to identify a man said STEAMER MOVEMENTS ihave supplied *forged export li- censes” for more than $1,000,000 All American steamers tied up by coastwide strike. worth of lard and flour shipped to Chilcotin, with Shrine party jLatin America. I ! - aboard, scheduled to arrive at 3 i STOCK QUOTATIONS . |:™"iocss. | b Princess Norah scheduled to ar- | NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—®—Clos-|rive Saturday afternoon or eve- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau |ning. mine stock today is 3%, American| Princess Louise scheduled to Can 83%, Anaconda 36%, Curtiss-|arrive at 7 a. m. tomorrow, sail- Wright 10, International Harvest-|ing south one hour later. er 28%, Kennecott 57%, New York ¥ e Central 16%, Northern Pacific 22%, REEDY HERE U. S. Steel 79%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,200,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 18033, rails 60.39, util- ‘l!k-h 34901, 1 eau, is a guest at the Juneau |Hotel. He is accompanied by his wife and family. - i $teamship Co. Ltd., of Vancouver, effering to carry cargo into Juneau during the strike period. The. Brit- llah Columbia company has freight- lers equipped with refrigeration and |now makes stops at Taku River {and Haines, unloading cargo for {the Yukon Territory and interior British Columbia. It was decided by the Chamber thay at next' week's meeting all merchants of Juneau would be requested to attend to discuss the {British Cclumbia Steamship Com- pany's offer and other aspects of the situation. X 4t was announced at the Cham- ber that Admiral J. F. Farley, U. I8. C. G. Commandant, had can-| celled his trip to Alaska. It was/ decided that if a representative party was sent from Admiral Far- Jy’s staff, a business meeting and a cocktail party will be given by the Chamber. A letter was read from the An- chorage Chamber of Commerce stating that it was seeking repre- seritation at the CAB hearings, 'which are scheduled to.be held in Anchorage in October. - The Avia- tion Committee is preparing a re- lpon. on the hearings for the next lmzetmg. ' Guests at today's lungheon were Jack Hazlett, Jr., of Seattle, the Rev. B. J. Bingle, Missionary of| the Highways of Alaska for the Presbyterian Church, and the iRev. G. Edward Knight, Superin- tendent of the Alaska Methodist Mission at Seward. { T ket O SHRINERS ARRIVE i A party of Shriners and Masons William Reedy of Boise, Idaho,|from the San Francisco Bay area aliino deer, and colored photographs fepresenting the Reclamation Bur-farrived on the 88 Chilcotin lhu:were also taken of the deer. i afterhoon on a chartered trip, The group is cruising in Southeast Alaska, 000 ir scholarships. PENGUIN ARRIVES Canada are competing for the 325,-“ | o o e, As for another troubled spot : e rael--Mr. Truman said be could not WEATHER REPORT o jhow say whether the full, “de jure” (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Ps ?recognlthn of Israel would have to! 'and is scheduled to sall late this af- | 'cnly 100 feet away. At the head of ‘Temperatures for 24-Hour Period In Juneau— Maximum, 57; minimum, 54. At Airport— Magimum, 56; minimum, 54. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with rain or rain showers tonight and Friday. Lowest temperature tonight near .50. Highest Friday near 56. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau — 3:41 inches; since Sept. 1, 796 inches; since July 1, 20.28 inches. At Airport — since Sept. 1, since July 1, IN PORT ENROUTE, PRIBILOF ISLANDS Carrying teachers and winter supplies for the Pribilof Islands and the Aleutian Islands, the MS Pen- guin, Fish and Wildlife Service ves- sel, arrived in Juneau this morning ternoon. Travelling to St. Paul Island are; a civil engineer, who will direct the construction of a new water system, and a dentist. Teachers on the Pen- guin have been assigned to St George Island, Sand Point, Unga and Belkofsky. Captain of the Penguin is Dan Drotning and First Engineer is Ben Burford of Juneau. NAHA RETURNS FROM 10-DAY HUNTING TRIP The Naha, owned by Earl For- sythe recently returned from a ten day hunting and fishing trip in this area. Included in the party were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pratt of Eu- gene, Ore, Mr. and Mrs. James, Camp, Miss Thelma Pederson and Forsythe. Preddie Harris was the! Va. a son, George, of Seattle, was guidz. | notitied. Two other sons, Frank Pratt brought down an 800 pound | and Jack Whaley, both of Nome, brownie and also obtained colored 8lso survive. movies of a grizzley bear that was She was the widow of Frank H. Whaley, a contractor, who died in 1939. . 3.66 1201 inches. ® ® 0000 c00s00 0000000000000, Former 'fiéflé Passeg Away, East SEATTLE, Sept. 9.—(M— Mrs. Buena Vista Whaley, 72, who liv- ed in Nome, Alaska, from 1938 to 1945, died yesterday at Alexandria, Mitchell Bay, the party sighted an' - FROM IDAHO Mr. and Mrs. M. Peterson and The party also enjoyed fishing,| clam digging and crabbing while on the trip, guests at the Baranof Hotel, (wait until after the elections in the new Jewish state. That matter is under consideration, the President |said. > Fred Bryant Dies, Seward SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 9—®—A Bangor, Maine, man who sailed around the Horn to join the Alaska gold rush 50 years ago this month ment. { He was Unjled States Coramis- sioner Fred Bryant, T8. Bryant reached Seward on Sept. 14, 1898 in a 120-foot sailing vessel irmm Boston, Mass. { A crew of eight chartered the jtoat to come to Alaska. They were six months enroute, sailing around Cape Horn to San Francisco, be- fore heading north. ol They battled fierce storms which | at one time sent them almost to the African coast and they didn't know until they reached Seward that the Spanish-American war was over. In Alaska, Bryant engaged in mining activities in the vicinity ot Valdez, Coopers Creek and Statson |Creek. He was U. S. Comumissioner |in Hoonah before his appointment jas Commissioner at Seward 10 years I"a Bryant is survived by a niece, I town, Ohib, - BERLIN RIOT By GEORGE BRIAN EERLIN, Sept. 9—M--Russian and Communist-controlled German po- lice gpened fire tonight to break up a crowd of Berlin anti-Communists who stoned and beat a jeep load ot | Soviet soldiers. | Headquarters of the western Ber- lin German police sald several wounded Germans had been brought into the British sector from the Russian sector, scene of the main clash in a series of incidents. The extent of their injuries was not an=- nounced. | An antl-Communist climbed up the historic Brandenburg gate, which now divides the British and Russian occupation sectors, and tore down the Red flag which the Rus- ® |died here Wednesday of a heart ail- [sians fly there. The crowd roared approval. The mele followed an anti-Com- munist demonstration Ly about 200,~ 000 Germans at Republic Square in the British sector. It was the big- gest demonstration in postwar Ber- lin. e |AUK BAY RESIDENTS 10 GET ACQUAINTED WITH NEW MINISTER Next Priday evening, between the hours of 7 and 10 o'clock, a, get acquainted meeting will be held at the Chapel-By-The-Lake. The pur- pose is to meet the new minister, the Rev. Pred Telecky and his wife who have arrived from Palmer to |take over the pastorate. All resi- idents -of the Auk Bay section are sofi of Spirit Lake, Idaho, are Mrs. Ena Montizambert of Youngs-'invited. Refreshments will be served (during the evening.