The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 10, 1948, Page 1

..ago after VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,987 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1948 ASKA EMPIRE MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS D OF RUSSIANS U.S. TURNS DOWN DEMAN THOUSANDS ON STRIKE INNATION Various Industries Are Paralyzed - Situation ! on Pacific Coast ! (By The Associated Press) Thousands of men in' the oil, ship- ping and trucking industries are on strikes today and hopes of enrly' settlement appeared dim. l More than 115,000 workers, in- cluding 50,000 Detroit auto plant employees, remained idle because of work stoppages. Several thousand longshoremen on the Pacific Coast; ' 15000 CIO refinery workers andI some 15000 AFL truck drivers ini New York City and northern New Jersey are out on strikes. / Representatives of six major oil companies and the CIO ‘Workers Union resumed negotiations in an attempt to end the week-old strike as the Federal Government placed a temperary embargo on shipment of gasoline and other fuels from West Coast ports. The union is asking 21 cents an hour pay increase. The Los: Angeles area was the hardest hit in supplies | of gasoline but a million gallons was to be sent'from Oklahoma. In New York, leaders of striking | Local 807 of the AFL International Brotherhood of Teamsters called a union membership meeting this af-4 ternoon to decide whether to reduce { the wage demands from 25 cents to| 17% cents an hour. " The truckers quit work 10 days er of a 15 cents an hour pay hike.! About 1,000 strikers at a meeting ] yesterday, voted not to propose um; lower wage demands. H About 1,000 of the 4,300 New Jer-{ sey truckers who joined in the strike flvedlyllcflmdpemdwre-l turn to work today. Members .of} Local 478 in Newark last night rfiti-' fied agreements with 16 Xndependent; trucking concerns, 1 The CIO Longshoremen Union | members voted on whether to have | their leaders sign mn—CommumsL; affidavits and accept the final wage i offer by the West Coast employers. The union announced the vote at Seattle was 1,468 to 19 against its| leaders signing the affidavits. The| strikers at Seattle also voted 1467 to 15 against accepting the employ-‘ ers’ Jast offer—a pay raise of 10 cents an hour. The union had demanded | a hike of 15 cents an hour. Union President Harry Bridges said he would resume negotiations after votes in the cosstwide union election were counted. The strike, now {n its ninth day, | has tied up 160 ships from Puget Sound to San Diégo. The 50,000 auto workers were made ) idle in Detroit after a strike by! 1170 independent plant guards at the Briggs Manufacturing Company. They included 25000 Briggs work- ers, 19,000 at Chrysler Corp. plant and 6,000 at Packard. The guards struck in support of demands for 15 minutes paid preparatery time. ———————— The earliest known bird is bélleved to be a peculiar creature called an archaeopteryx which lved- 125,000 ton The Washing Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEAR SON (Copyrisht, 1948/ by The Bell Syudicate, Liberals Endorse Truman |BRIDGES [SALMON PACK "Miss America” West Quintet [SOVIETS TRY Previous Prediction Now| l. | 452,000 bushels over the August GIVES IN Longshore Boss Agrees fo Handle Essential Car- go, Former Wage: | WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—D— Secretary of the Army Royall said today that Harry Bridges, head of the striking West Coast longshorg= men, has agreed to handle essentil Army cargo at pre-strike rates fll’d working conditions. Royall said in a statement that the matter now has been retu’fid to the Army’s stevedoring contrae- tors. Y He said the contractors have net yet replied to the proposal, which fwould permit the moving of essen- ’tial Army cargo to Pacific bases. The statement, expected earlier, had been withheld tempororily by Royall pending “expected develop- ments."” BIDS ARE ASKED 'FOR SPURROADWAY AT NUGGE CREEK . PRESIDENT TRUMAN (left) signs a certificate of acceptance placing his name on the Liberal Party ballot after officials of the Liberal Party of New York called at the White House to notify him of their decision to support the Truman-Barkley ticket in November. Watch- ing the President sign are Adolf A. Berle, Chairman, Liberal Party of New York, and Alex Rose (right), Vice-Chairman of the.party. (Intermational Photo). Juneau-Aberdeen Telehhone invitations for bids on the construe- !tion of the Nugget Creek Road, length 59 miles. Bids will be opened {September 30 and forms can be ob- 'ih}md in Room 315 of the m._f‘u i ‘nis shért spur will take off from l ABERDEEN, Sept. lD—M’»—A;the Mendenhall Glacier Road just quick-witted Seattle telephone oper-:below the powerhouse residence and ‘atur, monitoring a long disunce!wlll run towards the glacier on the Call Is Broken for Fire.A A AT ORI 2 D e S A 5 | Aberdeen-Juneau, Alaska, telephcne!leit of the large rock formation. |call, turned in an Aberdeen fire: A parking space will be built at jalarm last ‘night. the end. | The blaze, at the Quick Printing| The present approach to the gla- {Company, caused several thousandicier is inadequate, according to Re- idollars damage before being con-!gionn] Forester B. Frank Heintzle- | trolled. man, The front of the glacier has (ORN CROP % ' Kearny Clark, owner, was working |receded a long distance since the t a Linotype machine when the[Present parking place was built and ! fire broke out in another part of theithis has forced tourists to make a |second floor shop. {long walk over sand and rocks in John Forces, an associate, was|order to get a close view of the a1 |talking long distance to his wife glacier. A majority of the tourists ap- BOOSfed 22 Ml“lon lat Juneau. He immediately broke!Pear to be elderly people, may of { !the connection, and then picked up{whom are unable to make the hike ! Bushels 'lme receiver to call the alarm. The new road will allow cars and | The 'Seattle telephone operator ;busses to bring them close to lhe[ ! was still on the wire and she quickly ¢Present front of the glacier. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—P—|t1ansterreq the alarm through thei S e 7 4n all-time record corn Crop fore- | pergeen telephone office to the cast a month ago was boosted even ;.. department here, only two: higher today in the Agriculture p, .. away. { Department’s new report on crop | s et oy { mw pRESIDE“]’ conditions. H . [ | A yield of 3528815000 bushels of corn was forecast as of Sept. This represents a boost of 22,-, NEGOTIATIONS; ' AMER. BAR ASSN. | SEATTLE, Sept. 10—P—In an ac- ceptance speech last night, Frank E. Holman of Seattle, new president of the American Bar Association, de-: lcllred pressure groups “are seek.ng to change the fundamental princi- ples and concepts of our govern- forecast of a record-setting 3,506.- | 363,000 bushels. The DepmmemY said crop prospects improved near- ly one percent duwing August. | s Spring wheat production also was! (By The e bt oveaa) reported slightly . improved to 304-| e girike against Californial ofl 000,000 bushels, as harvest passed| orinerios is a week old today. And|ment.” }a, pank . |while the fuel situation in the West| He accepted the gravel from the| An all-wheat total of l'm'om",gmws more critical, the six major|retiring president, Tappan Gregory, 000 bushels was estimated. struck ofl companies and the CIO|of Chicago. Of other crops nearly all har-i gy workers Union are continuing) The policy-making House of Dele- vested, the Department said yields gpq;. newly-resumed negotiations. RE o9 Bt 5 ceolutioh OppOsE larger than a month ago are NOW pere are some of the new develop-!ing “further squandering” of Fed- forecast for oats, barley, flaxseed ,,ents of the past few hours: Torgd and urging the return and most kinds of hay. . | The president of the Union Oillof the powers of the states to the For later-growing crops, improve-; company, Reese Taylor, says that|states. The group voted to defer ment was seen for cotton, sorghum o million gallons of oil are beingjuntil the midwinter meeting action| grain, beans, potatoes and tobacco. (sped to Los Angeles from the mid-fon a resolution which would have AR FORCEDAYTO - [ A US Conciliation Service Direc-|tions establish courts for tutqre 'tor, E. P. Marsh, says this Federalltrials, including necessary police it “gfe;xcyc ma?rh fizp ;‘1‘1 ;l'-s Cflli:iomh forces. AITHERSBURG, Md. — Well, \stafe Conciliation &) ail. —————————— Ic)}md a swell vacation—at least BE (ELEBRAIED BY | The Federal Gevernment hasem-1® @ © o o o © 72 o o o until the pigs got loose. bargoed the export of gasoline and e o Before the vacation started I had FlIG“T oF B-29S;on from West Coast ports. ¢ WEATHER REPORT °* siudled road maps and dreamed { RSN 5 ) (A - (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) ’ up all sorts of tours. I figured on} ——— ,(HINBE m MIOR @ Temperatures for. 24-Hour Period @ going out to see my daughter in Honoring the first - rsary" 3 |' In Juneau:g Maximum, 57; © California, and my wife's aunt 10} S "ol ent of the-United I T New Mexico. T bothered KarliZ ''0 0 kY e | A I.. mmm“r;o e 80, o o s e D N oanada,(tember 18, a flight ‘of B-28s frou| Yl % R ECARR o and corruwndady with Sun el:1'n"’ Alaskan Air Command will| PEIPING, Sept. 10—®—Wang|e (unean and Vielnitr) P Welles about a tfip up to Bar _lfly over Southeast Alaska cmes.lvm.y,.‘, who headed Japan’s pup-|{e Mostly cloudy with rain or @ bor. Air Force Day marks the first!pet government in North China,|e rain showers tonight and e B.ut in the end I decided mt'lmnlverury of the establishment|was executed today for collabora- o, Saturday. Lowest per- with real foreworks likely to break|°f the Alr Force as an autonomous| tion with the enemy. o ature tonight near 48; high-" e out in Berlin this winter, I ought|'dilitary establishment. | A single shot through the back|e est Saturday 55. . to take a at things before-| The flight of B-20s will num- of his head ended the life of theje PRECIPITATION o hand, so I gbt reservations for|ber eisht to ten planes and will | Chinese traitor. @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today ® fly over. Juneau at 2 o'clock . in{ ° . o BN e . In Juneau — .58 inches; e Euro) wént h the red upe"o'(."":': “American Military |the afternogn op September 18| ON VACATION o since Sept. 1, 854 inches; ® Government permit to visit Ger-|The planes, which are located at; Mrs. Marie Brown of Los An- e since July 1, 2086 inches. e Eimendorf Pield near Anchorage,|geles, Calif., has arrived by Pnnlo At Airport — 47 inches; e Wien the sailing date rolled aTe too large to land on the Ju-| American fiight for a short vaca-|e since Sept. 1, 534 inches; o i . _. _ |neau .Municipal Airport- landing;tion here. She is staying at the|e since July 1, 1369 inches. ®] (Continued on’ Page Four) ' Gastineau Hotel. 70 ARMY|IS SMALL ONE | The rorest Service Is sending out} { THIS SEASON Southeast Alaska Produc- fion Is Over Same Date, Sept. 6 of Last Year SEATTLE, Sept, 10—(#—The Alas- ka salmon pack through Sept. 4 totaled 3,737,678 cases, compared with 4,205,204 cases on Sept. 6 last year. In only one other year ~f the past seight years, the Fish and Wildlife| Service reported today, has the pack ikeen so small at a comparable date. On Sept. 7 two years ago the pack reached on 3,455,735 cases, but in other years of the period the amcunt was well over four million cases. ‘The Southeast Alaska pack on Sept. 4 totaled 1,075,512 cases, com- pared with 999,609 cases on Sept. 6 last year, despite a several days clo- | lsura this season. H H Other area totals include: Western Alaska (final) 1,374,254 cases; Cen- ,tnl Alaska (Sept. 4) 1,287,909 cases. {The previous Central Alaska low, in| the past five years, was 1,710,708 cases on Sept. 7, 1946. - - TWO LADD FIELD | AT BLOCKING - AIR SUPPLIES Request Information on Flights to Blockaded Berlin—Reply Is No ! (By The Assoclated Press) American officials rejected curt- ly today a Russian attempt to re- strict the air lift supplying block~ aded Berlin. The Russians sent a formal note to the Four Power Berlin Alr Saf- ety Center demanding from the- |U. 8. detailed prior notice on ev- ery flight made to Berlin. They asserted the data is needed “in the interests of safety.” An American Air Force official said the satety rules are adequate and the real intent of the Russians was “obviously another one of their efforts to get control of our flights into Berlin." The Russian move came after the Soviets blamed the anti-Com- munist government of blockaded ‘Bernn today for the mass protest {meeting which led to Soviet gun- | play. i The Soviets hoisted the hammer !and sickle flag over the Branden- thurg gate, where blood flowed last (night after Berliners, shouting THIS WESTERN QUINTET OF LISSOME AND LOVELY LADIES poses at Atlantic City, N. J., where they are candidates for the coveted title “Miss America of 1948.” They are (left to right) Wyoming’s Carol Held. California’s Reba Lauretta Watterson, Colo- AIRMEN KILLED IN | PARACHUTE DROP| { Tivadhés o thd tHree gy o | perished when’ their ‘puchutes' failéd to open as they bailed out of ! }n crippled C-47 Air Force plane near | 1Edmonton, Alberta, were released‘ today by the public relations office of Griffiss Air Force base here. The victims were identified as| {Cpl. Robert C. Dribble and Pvt. Don- { lald €. Kennan, both stationed at! be permanently plugged with ce-| (Ladd Field, Alaska, and Charles( jBank, N. J. hometowns of the three| (were not given. | 1Schilk of Watson Laboratories, Red llanded, and two others who jump- ed were injured, NAME OF TRUMAN | NOT ON BALLOT | IN LOUISIANA BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 10—, | i | |/P—President Truman's name was{and dried other wooded taken off Louisiana's ballot today by the Democratic State Central Committee. The Committee substituted in-| stead the States’ Rights Democrats | ticket, headed by Gov. Strom Thur-| mond of South Carolina for Presi-, dent. i The action came when Ccummiueel members voted unanimously to pledge all ten of Louisiana's electnrsl to Thurmond and Gov. Flelding L.| Wright of Mississippi for Vice Pres-| ident, e =3 Roaring Oil Well Fire Conirolled; : Will Be Plugged| EDMONTON, Alterta, Sept. 10— (#—I. N. McKinnon, Alberta Con- servation Board chairman, today an- nounced normal production will be resumed in the $500,000,000 Leduc oilfield where Monday wild Atlan- tic ‘No. 3 roared into a mass of flames and burned about $150,000 worth of oil in three days. " Mr. McKinnon said Atlantic will fturn trip inspected the west coast | The pilot of the craft, who crash- ment early. next week. ! —e WALLACE'S TALK | CALLED OFF; RAIN| NEW YORK, Sept. 10—P— A rainstorm last night forced post- ponement until tonight of Henry A. Wallace’s scheduled address at Yankee Stadium. An estimated 30,000 persons al- ready had filed into the stadium . lbelon the affair had been put off. bird visitors, they said yesterday. rado’s Virginia Smith, Texas' Bonnie Jean Bland and Washington's against Communism and the Rus- sian dictatorship, tore down the . Lorraine May Lowder. (International Soundphoto) ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. . rument, he demonstra- —IM—Alaska trained pilots, who’w‘"e eat. a4 i tion—by far the largest in Berlin agéept ground phtrol’, pppR hfismca the war—was “expressly dedi- |cated to arouse the people against (By The Associated Press) A late-summer heat wave parch- ed Northwast residents today, kindled at least one forest fire ithe Russian sector. One German A | Taegliche Rundschau, " offiglal | | saturated Frankfurt-Berlin air “Some pilots from Hawall, areas to ing a blaze which is reported out| Mmuch trouble and our boys don’t plain red flag. was killed, 22 were injured and up 10,1 Pewspaper of the Russian military R ( G cerridor, Master Sergt. Ernest “Pop” Panama and Texas are not used to of control in 100 acres of the|WOrry very much.” L g f Shooting Last Night to 90 were reported thrown into | Morrow reported today. Morrow, a member of the 54th | Troop Squadron which was trans- | GCA approaches, he said. “But Cance Creek area at Lake Quin- e 5 S T | The protest meeting was just in- . Iside the British zone, a !Oermns stoned |, three Areleading Airliffsfo - & oo "5 oot § { Soviet jalls, Practically all the ot a e er In rea shooting seemed to“be from the ’ : Russian zone. landings as coolly as a sourdough brushes aside blizzards, are lead- ing the air lifts down the fog- ferred from Elmendorf Field over- seas early in the summer, flew 22 | missions into the German capital. | our boys go right in without bat- the danger point. 4 | ing an eye. Forest Service crews are fight-| “The Russians never gave us ault, Wash. In Oregon, no major iires were reported, although tim- ber-land was tinder-dry. experience, admitted, however, it was a ‘“comfortable feeling” to have American F-47s and F-80s es- cort the cargo ships on their re- turn hops, which took them near two Soviet airfields. “The German people were skep- i > FEWS OFFICALS | muk" 0" BRAm|:::lt ;::Xr“:::ed:’ h:ll;nflth: ea\rwl‘ll}: “but when the planes kept coming Seton Thompson, Chief of mcl::‘dwe won_thelr: confidence,” he Branch of Alaskan Fisheries, and # George Kelez, official of the Pish| MOTOW: & C-64 crew chlef whose and Wildlife Service, returned yes-f::nl':;pe’: t:‘?:l:uwr:wu l“:::‘c!h m’::g terday on the Brant, following an| '~ , official trip in’ Southeast Alaska. ::‘t;“‘ end, ot his: current, taur. of In Petersburg and Wrangell, the £ by g "Most Hated Record” ost Hated Record Pisheries officfals met with local fishermen to, explain the reasons for not extending the commercial| fishing season in that area. In! Ketchikan, a meeting was held with | cannery operators and fishermen in! attendance. Southbound, the men inspected | all the streams on the east coast of | Prince Wales Island and on the re- SACRAMENTO, Calif.,, Sept. 10— (M—Followers of popular musie were dropping by a music shop today to pick up the “most-hated record of the week.” | The selection is “Nature Boy.” ; Read a newspaper advertisement | | streams. telling of the bargain: “For 2 cents we'd throw it out the 62Spedesol Wild B"ds in "e' York! “Better yet, we'll give you 2 cents to take it out of our store. ....” " STEAMER MOVEMENTS All American steamers tied up NEW YORK, Sept. 10—(P—Long noted for its “bears” and “bulls,” the canyons of the downtown finan- cial district also have wild birds. | by coastwide strike. Four financial firm workers kept| Princess Norah scheduled to ar- their eyes on the skies as well as|rive Saturday afternoon or eve- the stock ticker tape over a three|ning. ” year period to count 62 species of | Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Sept, 15. The veteran flier, with 25 years| Offered lor Two (cml'sl |the Soviet Union.” Sen. Chan Gurney (R-SD), the !chairman of 4he Senate Armed Forces Committee, saw the meet- ing and said: It was “the greatest mass pro- test 1 have ever seen to come from the people of their own free will.” Allied sources said talks between ithe Military Governors to lift the blockade might break down com- pletely. They are now in recess. WASHINGTON—American offi- iclals said they see no chance of !suocm at the Big Four meeting (with Russia in Paris on Italy’s col- |onies. They foresaw the meeting as only a forum for more Russian vitupertion against the U. S, |Britain and Prance. PARIS— Henri Queulille of the Conservative Radical Socialist par- ty seemed to have formed the 14th French government since. the war. Gen. Charles de Gaulle, whose rightist followers made large gains M the last local elections, de- manded a new general election. Labor troubles continued. - { GRAFENWAEHR, Germany —U. |S. Porces discovered in war games {what everyone knew: That Ameri- can forces now in Germany would be whipped by a strong thrust {from the east. Ah, but the atomic bomb was not used in the war games! JERSALEM—Isreal rejected a U. N. mediation effort to broaden gradually the open city status hop- jed for in Jerusalem. The Cainese crashed a bullet through the back of the head of Wang Yin-tai, who headed a puppet government for Japan during the war. NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—P—Clos-~ ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 82%, Anaconda 36%, Curtiss- Wright 10, International Harvester "B‘m. Kennecott 57%, New York Central 17%, Northern Pacific 21%, {U. S. Steel 78%, Pound $4.08%. { Sales today were 970,000 shares. ] Averages today are as follows: industrials 180.61, rails 60.28, ufil- luws‘um.