The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 11, 1948, Page 1

ARY : \\AF-H\‘CGTON. p G SATURDAY 1PN, Editiea VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,988 SITUATION IN BE UNEAU, ALASKA, SA 140-Day- AM UNION VOTES T0 60 BACK ComplicaIiJEs— Hit Return- fo-Work Plans by Jur- isdictional Trouble SEATTLE, Sept. 11.—®— The Aeronautical Mechanics Union (Ind) called off its 140-day-old strike against the Boeing Airplane Company last night but complica- tions hit return-to-work plans. These were the complications: 1. The union appeared headed into a full-scale, jurisdictional battle with the AFL Teamsters Un- ion. 2. The company placed a ban on rehiring of “a small number of 3. Boeing said it will try to re-employ the rest of the strikers as rapidly as possible but indicat- ed that expansion of assembly op- tions will have to await step- ped-up production in the shops. The union voted to return to work Monday. .The oomp;qy‘hu been hiring all workers who would pass through the pmm lines -and. has mou the job. m went out an strike April 22, The strike was called in sup- port of demands for an hourly wigé increase of 30 cents an hour. Wage scales at the time ranged from $1 to $1.80. Retention of seniority provisions also - was a basic - issue in the dispute. The company ofiered a 15-cent raise. Dave Beck, international vice- president of the Teamsters’ Union, made the announcement which promised a jurisdictional battle with the aero-mechanics. He reported formation of a new Teamster-chartered “union, the Aeronautical - Workers, ‘Warehouse- men' and Helpers, He said it will seek memberships from workers in all hourly cavegories at Boeing. The union has been organizing returned workers at Boeing, but previous- announcements have in- dicated it was interested only in claiming jurisdiction over ware- housemen and a few others. CARPENTER 15 ELECTROCUTED AT ANCHORAGE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sepf. 11. —{M—David Jaiment, 27, a carpen- ter, was electrocuted yesterday when a broken high tension line dropped to the aluminum roof upon which he was working. Jaimet ‘was employed by the Morrison-Knudsen Company. Ori- ginally from Fullertan, Neb., he came here two years ago after serving in .the army. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) —_— DV ASHINGTON-— Due to the dynamite-laden Berlin crisis. the U.. 8. joint Chiefs of Staff bave held some of their most crucial meetings recently. It is no secret that -it is their duty to discuss evety eventuality facing the United States—including war. Acd as the Russians have becom¢ cockier in Berlin, ‘American fac2s have be- come graver arcund the join: chiefs’ conference . table. ‘The American public, whi*h pro- Jbably does mot fully realize how serious the Berlin sitmation is, has & right to know that at a recent njeeting, Gen. Omar Bradlsy, Army Chief of Staff, outiined U S. pol- ify in case of war. He tabulated {(Continued ‘on Page Four) [ S REST CA M P—_Fishing is popular with filers and their families vaca- camp on Squaw hkv:’nur Bemidji, Minn. Left to right: CIM. and son, Rene, 3; Mrs. Hight; Mrs. R. Savory and Thorald, & AT.AIIH!N‘M'W new Tenth Hight, Omaha; M/Sgt. Bob wmu. Omah: Mt clemen': Mich,, and, in foreground, their sons, Ralph, 4, and Capt. Savory, NOME, Alaska, Sept. 11— | Greeeries are being rationed to- | day as the Northwestern Alaska S st Sec. Snyder States Head-| ' | morning | District headquarters has not been ! | decided. AY, SEPTEMBER 11 1948 HAVE COAST GUARD DIST. quarters Are fo Be Re-Established John W. Snyder, Secreiary of; the Treasury, stated in a wire to Governor Ernest Gruening this that the Alaska Coast Guard District will be re-establish- | ed in Alaska. The location of Admiral Joseph Stika of the U. 8.C.G. presided at hearings in re- gard to the re-establishment of the 'Alaska District in August in several Alaskan towns, including Ketchikan, Juneau and Skagway. Admiral J. F. Farley, US.CG.! commandant, was scheduled to; make an inspection trip to Alaska, but word was received from Wash- ington, D. C. on Wednesday that his trip had been cancelled owing to pressing duties. 5 \ VoL ND | VIS By SPENCER DAVIS : ,,x/a g AL SKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS TURDAY 1 P.M. Edition PRICE TEN CENTS GROWING WORSE MRS, IVA TOUGRI D’AQUINO, 32-year-old American born Japa- nese, accused of being “Tokyo Rose,” takes a last long look at Japan as she boards the Army transport General Hodges at Yokohama, for a trip to S8an Francisco, where she will face treason charges. her are Captain John Prosnsk. of Clairfield, Pa., With of the American smilitary police headquarters in Tokyo, and WAC Captain Kaherine Stull, of Mushkogee, Okla., who will be her constant companion on the voyage. Japan. They take a look at the their elder erthcc “entertained” on up the Mfld lmmnal&zp STRANDED MEN ARE In the background are young GI's en route to duty in girl who is alleged to have kept he radialanes dunnfl}ha march wf s e L 1 h ENGINEERS TO INSPECT IN TA(OMA a e II\ Supplies 'OI' Wmler neau Spruce Corporation, was \m- | loaded yesterday in Tacoma by mem- pute between the CIO International Woodworkers of America, the Prince ' (AMP AIGN week. The targe carried 410,000 marlexle Revolt IS Reported Large, towed by the Santrina, a| The ILWU-CIO dispité with the| WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—R— CIO, who claim that all work at the | paign tour, friends said today as! Since the plant re-opened thisl While Mr. lruman will make summer, after a three months shut- ' s,0 appearances in the South, ing until a decision could be m“delmp basis or added to other gen- by the National Labor Relationserg) schedules. e o6 6 o © © 5 e o o major talks on his transcontinental o | tour, following close on the heels (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) # | Temperatures for 24-Hour Period @ | 10Wa, Sept. 20." Like the Presi- iNome Ri'lOfllI‘Ig Grocer |es, Word was received today that the | Jumber barge, belonging to the Ju-| bers of the AF of L Longshoremen. Because of the jurisdictional dis- Longshoremen and Warehousemen'’s Union and ‘the CIO International | Rupert Longshoremen réfused to un- ( load the lumber barge earlier Chh‘ feet of lumber and unloading opera- tons were completed today and the‘ Moun'mg—Dewe‘y W"! company tug, is making her return Follow P[eflden' trip to Juneau. S IWA-CIO has been over loading|president Truman has abandoned of barges by members of the IWA'Vplnns for a lengthy southern cam- Juneau sawmill is under its juris-|¢pe Dixie revolt against his ch diction. | rights program mounted. down, lumber has been piled in|they said, strategic speaking spots order to keep IWA members Work-| yjjl pe selected on a brief, single- Board in the jurisdigtional dispute.| Goy. Thomas E. Dewey & R TR A TR | while disclosed plans for eight; ‘ul‘ Mr. Truman's westward swing. WEATHER REPORT | Dewey’s opener is in Des Moines, el | 52; ldem he is, scheduled to speak in i e P s {San Francisco and Los Angeles. minimum, 48. At Airport— Maximum, 51; -' He will ‘continue on. to- Oregthy Pt 2 Y and .Washington before heading back. B FORECAST — e (Jineau and Vicinity) Variable cloudiness with some light rain showers tonight and Sunday. Not resl n much change in tempera- ture. P'BEC[PITATIONo; On (r“'se (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ | In Juneau — .58 inches; ®| since Sept. 1, 9.16 inches; o since July 1, 2148 inches. ®! wAsnING’l‘ON, Sept: 11. — (B — At Airport — .62 inches; e President Truman for the second since Sept. 1, 1 5.96 inches; o !straight weekend cruised nearby since July 1, ‘14331 inches. e |waters on the yacht Williamsburg A e today preparing for a campaign e s 000000 .‘wur—thl.sumelllthewnytothe 5. IRON. LUNGS ARE 5 i o FLOWN, LOS ANGELES lrouflh outlines of the main speeches BOSTON, Sept. 11—iP— Hve Pl A | ne wili make at Dexter, Ia.; Denver, |Salt Lake City, Los Annlu and | San !"nncl.leo iron lungs. were flown ‘from Massa-,. Miss Helen M. ,Maslarka of chusetts: to Los Angeles last night| Rochester, N. Y., who. will be em- to help combat an outbreak of ln~-p|nyea in the U. 8. Reclamation ‘-—..-.—— TO Woll HERE fantile paralysis. Two more are to| Bureau, is a.guest at the Gastin- -follow. ) eau Hotel, ® v o0eccss0ecscecses0O0OROOL Chamber of Commerce appealed to | Striking maritime unions and gov- | ernment officials to arrange ship- ment of a boatload of winter sup-| plies. | Stores already have reported v.h(\y‘ lare out of potatoes. One bakery | was closed because of lack of flour | and the only other bakery is put- ting out a limited amount of | bread which is not meeting de- mands. Stores said that groceries put out | jon a rationed basis may last a few | weeks. | The Chamber addressed Its tele-| gram to Harry Bridges of the CIO | longshoremen, President Truman, | Territorial Governor Ernest Gruen- | i !ing and the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. : { It said “This section will be , without many necessities of life in s 'the next few weeks.” The Cham- | ber asked that one ship be pel-‘ mitted to bring in winter supplies | about October 1, 'since we are| jclosed in for seven months E‘nch‘ | year.” appeared in hand. | them to Mindanao. MANILA, Sept. 11—(P—Most of ! the 20,000 Filipinos still on the vol-! canic isle.of Camiguin were belng | loaded on a U. S. Army troop lhip today in the ominous shadow o(‘ | erupting Mount Hibokhibok. The mile-high volcano, still blew out dangerous but not deadly gases, |and geologists saw a possibility of a new and violent eruption. but l'or’ the moment at least the situation | RES(UED Crew of Caledonia Taken Aboard Citrus - To Be Landed at Hoonah SEATTLE, * Sept. 11—(P—The A second big Army transport, the "stranded crew memters of the fish- |15,000-ton General Morton, wuling vessél Caledonia, wrecked last rushing to the island to help evacu- jMcnday of Icy Point on the Gulf of |ate refugees. It is due to arriveiAlaska, and two Coast Guard res- | tomorrow. / The 17,812-ton Army transport | Cutter Citrus yesterday afternoon, | Gen. ‘Willlam Weigel had picked up]lhe Coast Guard announced, -~ | some 8,000 refugees and remoVed! A radio message said the 13 men, lelght from the fishing boat, boarded Capt. Walter Williams of the Gen- [the Citrus at Kaknau Creek, Palma eral Weigel said that some 16,000 Bay and that all were in good shape. of the islanders had been accounted | The tirst Coast Guard party of two | for in -seven ‘receptjon centers. Imen was also stranded when their | Island authorities reported: that ' lifeboat swamped, and later their the two transports and other small- [more Coast Guardsmen went ashore er craft should have the island |with supplies. cleared of inhabitahts by Tuesday.| Lieut. Ralph Bumns, “the cium Dehydmwd food was flown to the [commanding officer, radioed that hungry islanders by an American |the party would be put ashore at Hoonah, for trdnsfer to another bont cue parties were taken aboard the! GOLD CREEK In answer to & request for aid on the Gold Creek flood control project, sent to Delegaté E. L. Bartlett's office in Washington, D. C., the City has been notified T, Weaver, Division Engineer in | Washington have instructed Col. | T. Weaver, Dlvmu Engineer in | Portland, Ore., to” take appropriate action mlmedlawly The Corps of Engineers office in { Seattle wired the City that their | representative, who is now in the | Territory, has been ordered to re- jport to Juneau immediately to in- vestigate need of emergency flood fighting work on Gold' Creek. The Engineers in Seattle stated that it |may be possible to plan for emer- {gency work as well as the Flood Control project that previously was requested. A report will be sent in by the Enhgineer's representative | before le:v)ns Juneau. Id Strike Ag_ginst Boeing Settled ALASKA WILL | "Tokyo Rose” Bound for Trial ‘BLO(I(ADE DEADLOCK CONTINUES Russians of ‘Inciting’ Trouble in Berlin | By EDWIN SHANKE BERLIN, Sept. 11.—(M—The sit- uation in Berlin is rapidly wor- sening. There still is no indica- tion when the four Military Gov- ernors would meet here again to continue discussions toward settle- ment of the 79-day Soviet blockade of the divided city. The talks now are in recess after apparently reaching a deadlock. ‘The BSoviet military administra- tion's official newspaper today ac- lcused the Western Allies of “in- citing” Berliners against Russia and Communism. The entire Communist press railed against anti-Communists in the most abusive terms it has yet used. It warned that Thursday's blcody street fighting, which fol- lowed a huge anti-Communist | demonstration, might have “serious | consequences.” 1 The obvious aim was to bulld up | | tomorrow's Communlst o wnllfy Bommunlat. lemands that Berliners must kick out the elect- ed anti-Communist city govern- ment, . Meantime * the Russian-licensed news agency ADN reported last n!um that a German-led spy ring lupporud by American and authorities, had been smuhad in Eastern Germany with the arrest of 15 agents.’ Railway officials in Hanover said last night the Russians = allowed | eight raiiway cars of mail to travel frem blockaded Berlin to the Brit- ish zone of Germany during the day. A British transport offieial in Berlin said it had “no signifi- cance as far as the blockade of Berlin is concerned.” The official sald the westward movement of mail posted in the Russian sector of Berlin has been going on all summer “in dribs and drabs.” He said*the mail trains do not travel over the blockaded international , Helmstedt line, but {along northerly foutes which has never stopped such traffic. e et VICE CONDITIONS AT FAIRBANKS 10 | BEREPORTED, CAIN WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—®— Senator Cain (R-Wash) has asked Western Allis Charged by : “We must have a boat nbou!m.vy flying boat which took otf October 1, the telegram said, “t0|from Manila, 450 miles away. { Attorney Geperal Clark for com- AUTO IN bring - merchandise not available | {before that time from the various | {sections of . the west and mid- west - states.” 'BURDICK REPORTS ON PULP WORK IN KETCHIKAN AREA Engigeers of the Ketchikan Pulp and Paper Co., are now running top- ographic surveys of drainages near |* IWard Cove according to Charles Burdick, Assistant Regional Forester, who returned from Ketchikan yes- terday. Ray Layton, hydro-electric engineer, is in charge of the work { Burdick said that the pump en- |gineers have a plan under consider- ation whereby water from Persever- |ance Lake and the two upper lakes jon Ward Creek will be run through ia filtering plant and. then to the l,mm site at Ward Cove. Estimated |wnter requirement for the high grad~ dissolving pulp plant is 5 million gallons a day with a head of 225 feet to get sufficient pressire. The pullp company expects to start timber cruising early next year. If construction can proceed fast tenough logging will start in the fall of 1950 or the spring of 1951, Hotel. ! Grazing an 1ceverz in heavy seas ienruuw to assist in rescuing htrnnd- | ed crew members ot the Caledonia, | | {knocked out Coast Guard Patrol| , Boat 83542, which tied up in Ju-| neau yesterday with a bent prcpellor for its pains. © i The crippled boat, skippered by ! (Chief William Bentler, stood by at | ITALY'S PRE-WAR COLONIES CAUSING NEW TROUBLE NOW (By The Associated Press) American: officials in Washing- ton express fear that another East- was then ordered back when heavy seas delayed rescue of the men cast ashore when the Caledonia ground- | West disagreement is in the mak- ing. on the question of what to d with Italy’s pre-war colonies. This country has suggested that the Big Four talks on the matter begin in Paris on Monday. It} Russia, which had asked for a start| today, agrees to this date, the nego- tiators will have only three dnys' before the question nuwmnucnlly‘ goes to the United Nations underi Up to now, the three Western; GUAM, Sept. 11.—(P—A moder- powers have opposed Russia's pra~|nte typhoon was moving towards posal that Italy get the colonies; Guam today from about 500 muu back under a UN trusteeship. east of this U. S. naval base. The. Republican Presidential| Weather reports described the terms of the Itallan peace treaty.(storm as having winds of only 45‘, nominee, Governor Dewey, has sug- | miles at its center, but such storms | gested a similar arrangement.. |usually gain in intensity as mey’ e | progress. | HOTEL GUESTS Y i i RN P Miss Dorothy Lawrence of Cor- FROM FAIRBANKS dova and Miss Rose Cooday of, Mike Steponich, Jr., of Fair-! Petersburg are at the Baranof banks, is visiting here and is | a| | guest dt the Baranof. J TYPHOOII MOVING | TOWARDS GUAM, U.S. NAVAL BASE PLUNGE; 3 DEAD Port Althrop for three days and| | PORTLAND, Sept. 11.--P—Five persons were reported drowned ini the Pacific Northwest yesterday and a sixth was feared lost while |tishing on a small lake. : Three of the drownings were in a single accident near Coos Bay, |Ore. An automobile plunged into the Coos River, carrying three con- | struction workers to their deaths. They were identified as Clarence L. Sande, 26, Minneapolis; Don E.| August 18, North Bend, Wash.,, !and Edwin F.Martin,21, Kirkland, Wash., owner of the car, - STEAMER MOVEM(MS All American steamers tled up by coastwide strike. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- rive at' 7 tonight, leaving for bound Tuesday. Princess Louise scheduled sail from . Vancouver Sept. 15. to plete report on vice conditions in Fairbanks, Alaska. 4 Cain’s oifice announced "the ac- ftion and said it was taken after | residents of the city had com- plained to the Senator that gamb- ling and prostitution were un- checked there, They asked, Cain's aides said, it ‘the government could not step in and remedy the conditions. - e \Engagement of Etolin Coulter Is Announced Mrs. Delia Coulter of Wrangell lannounces the engagement of her dauahler. Miss Etolin Thelma Coul- [xer to James Clinton McAden, son of James C. McAden of Dallas, Texas. The marriage will take place in Wrangell in January. Miss Coulter is a member of a Ipramlnem pioneer family and was ,born and reared in Wrangell. For the past several years, she has been employed in the Governor’s ‘office in Juneau. Mr, McAden is senior 'port stew- ;sngwly at 11:45, returning south-iard for Pan American Airways at Annette Island. After their mar- riage, the couple will reside at | Annette.