The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 18, 1948, Page 1

CONG LIB! SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,994 R . RESSIONAL RA \R A JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1948 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ——————————=== PRICE TEN CENTS STRIKING LONGSHOREMEN WORK CARGO Truman In Lashing Attack On Republzcans —— e —— FARMERS GET | WARNING IN IOWA TALK 6OPers Ha\;—s—iruck Pitch- | fork in Tiller's Back-In- | ternational Situation By ERNEST B. VACCARO | DEXTER, Iowa, Sept. 18.—®—| President Truinan declared today ! that a Republican election victory would place the American farmer in “great danger” of “man-made disaster” from “gluttons of privi-| lege.” | In a slashing “give ’'em hell”| attack on his opposition, the gray- | haired chief executive said that | “Wall Street reactionaries” are doing everything to elect a Re- publican administration. The Republicans, he continued, | have already “stuck a pitchfork in the farmer's back” and are now | ready “to let the bottom drop uut\ of farm prices.” Speaking to a crowd gathered\ for the National Plowing Contest, the President asked: { “Are you going to let another | Republican blight wipe out your prosperity?” ! Biting Language | Mr, Truman’s biting language on | the domestic farm issue contrasted | sharply with a solemn assurance that this government is going everything possible to avoid war, He told his farm audience he knew that “the war talk which is/| so prevalent today is causing all/ of you deep concern.” “It is plain enough,” ued . gravely, “that we cre facing| a disturbing international situa- tion.” | he con-| Trying For Peace “I should like every American to realize that this country is making every possible effort to pre- | serve the peace.” He said American leaders have “kept our tempers” and ‘“stood | firm” and that they will “continue working for peace with every in-| strument at our command” while | “building up our strength.” This,| he said, is being done in the know- | ledge that world peace and Unned‘ States interests require us to “strong and vigilant.” “Give 'Em Hell” | His brief reference to the tense international situation, however, | was “not the main point I wish to | cover today.” And he launched | into the political speech for which[ DRAFTING ~ Pamela Enters Hospital S A A LITTLE l’mLA’LAMI’m 45’ léw'ln with Dr. John Vandenberg of Cook County Hospital, Chicago, as he prepares her for preliminary examinations prior t0 surgery to give her a new lease on life. Pam, 22 months old, born with an inverted bladder outside her body, recently attracted nationwide attention when specialists recom- mended the surgery. (International Soundphoto) | ATOM SPYING "KEY FIGURE” WINDS UP THIS DAY WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—(P—| | Registration for the peacetime draft wound up today es the last| of the nation's 18-year-olds re-| ported. Signing up started August 313l with the 25-year-olds. Erom now on youths will report to their | {local draft boards as they reach | the age of 18. The 20,000 specinl‘ registration centers across the| country will close. | Selective Service headquarters | ARTHUR ADAMS, of New York. : | ville, he travelled here on the first 1eg yq¢ 1ag no idea how many young of a 9,500-mile stumping tour in|ye; gre on its bopks, and officials | has been named by the House Un-American Activities Com- which he has said he will flgmisald they will not know until next | hard and “give 'em hell.” i He used the expression “glut- tons of privilege” and “Repubucan gluttons of privilege” a half-dozen ! times and accused them of talking “plain hokum.” He told the farmers that in only, two years of control of Congress, | “the Republicans were able tof weaken your position gravely.” “If they should get both Con- gress and the Presidency,” Mr. Truman went on, “what they have | taken away irom you thus far would be only an appetizer for the economic tapeworm of big busi- B. C. DEEP-SEA, SHORE WORKERS | GET WAGE BOOST VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 18— (P—British Columbia deep-sea long- | shoremen have been granted an across-the-board wage increase of 15 cents an hour, it 1§ announced. The 15-cent increase is the only' change in last year’s contract. Longshore rates now are $1.55 an hour straight time and $2.33 overtime. The dock workers originally ask- ed for a 25-cent hourly increa.g:,‘ - e LOS ANGELES VISITOR Miss Kay O'Brien of Los An- geles is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. | ruptey. |stead of hgvmg important leaders ! mitee as the “key figure” in its investigation of Communist ef- forts to gain America’s atomic secrets. The committee received testimony about Adams during closed hearings last week. (In- ternational Soundphoto) Son Born fo Rofl(eleller NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—(M— A !son was born yesterday to Mrs. | Winthrop Rockefeller. week. | STEAMER MOVEMENTS All American steamers tled up { by coastwide strike. | Princess Louise, from Vancouver, scheduled to arrive at approxi- mately 8 o'clock tonight. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver 9 tonight. The Wasmngion Merry - Go- Round| | Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) A Polyclinic Hospital physician ; ASHINGTON — The woebe-' one, bedraggled Democratic Na-| |said that Mrs. Rockefeller, the tional Committee finally came to former Barbara Sears, had to be life last week, after limping per- taken to the hospital unexpectedly ilously near the verge of bank- and that the child was born. pre- maturely. Some of the committee’s opera-| He said the mother’s condition tions have been so amateurish, they Was good. are unbelievable. In New York! gpo ang Winthrop Rockefeller, !the committee has been paying for | grandson of John D, Rockefeller, 50 rooms at the Biltmore Hotel— ,n4 oiten called America’s “most and keeping them empty. Desks | gjigipie pachelor,” were married last and stenographers sit in the rooms pepyary, —but that's all. Meanwhile, young ladies have| HiS Thance with the pretty, been given the job of raising blonde “Bobo,” the daughter of a money from top Democrats. In- }wuhingmn. Pa., coal miner and a one-ume stage player, made one of the ‘year’'s most widely heralded | Cinderella stories. Hospital authorities said the |child would be named Winthrop , Rockefeller, Jr. call on the big givers, young lad-: jes who never met the big boys before have made the calls and (Continued on Page Four) PLANE GOES APARTWHEN. CIN MIDAIR {Craft Flies o Pieces-Pilot | Lands by Parachufe- Only One Scratch | SAN BERNARDINO Calif;, SI'D(m | 18 —P—Imagine flying nearly. 600 miles an hour, having your *plane, | simply disintegrate around you -a ccming ont of it with .only iscratch on the ear! ! That's what happened to Capty {R. M. Barnes of Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter, S. C., yesterday. | He was flying an F-84 Republié Thunder Jet in a simulated race | with an Star as a feature of an Air Force Day celebration at San Bernardino I Air Base. They were neck and " a ! neck, hitting more than 570 miles | an hour at 800 feet past the re- viewing stand of 8,000 spectators. | Suddenly flew to pieces. Capt. Barnes' plane Parts landed two ymiles away beiore the horrified crowd discovered the pilot was | floating down in a parachute. ! He landed at the edge of the | field, unhurt: except for that one| | seratch. INJURED ATADAK iSuffers Serious Skull In- jury, Plane Skidding- | Rushed fo South FORT LEWIS, Sept. 18.—(®—In- jured in a plane accident on land- !ing at the Adak Field, Alaska, S-! Sgt. Russel F. Crider, 29, of Har Miss,, was rushed by air- plane to Madigan General Hospital El"Ere yesterday. Crider, who has a serious skull injury, a split of about nine in- ches, was given temporary treat- ment at Madigan. He was then taken to McChord AFB where he | boarded another plane for Letter- |man General Hospital at San Fran- | cisco where he was operated upon i The plane at Adak skidded on a jwet runway and went into a |ditch. Crider was thrown through {2, door without injury, but struck i his head when thrown into another fcompartment of the plane ! ———————— WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period In Juneau— Maximum, 52; minimum, 46. At Airport— Maximum, 54 minimum, 45. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Considerable cloudiness with some light rain showers this afterncon and tonight, followed by cloudy and light to moderate rain with south- easterly winds 20 to 25 miles per hour Sunday. Highest temperature near 55 degrees this aftérnoon. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau — 110 inches; since Sept. 1, 11.36 inches; since July 1, 23.68 inches. At Airport — 88 inches; since Sept. 1, 17.53 inches; since July 1, 1588 inches. . | e }o e te ® ece0vcco e ® 0000000 ®00000000000000000® 000 o o o o — o ——— FROM SEATTLE In Juneau today f{rom Seattle are Dave McIntyre, G. E. Beavers, F. M. Caldwell and E. W. Linder- oth, all staying at the Baranof Ho- tel. F-80 Lockheed Shooting | _ TUNA MA ifor Alaska BE BOON' T0 ALASKA PR e O Fish Expert Anderson Makes Report on Possi- bility of New Industry By VERN HAUGLAND WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—(®—A new and important fishery top- quality tuna—may be in prospect and British Columbia, | fish expert A, W. Anderson said today. But theories that a shift in the | Japancse Current or that the Cen- tral Pacific atomic weapon experi- ments might have something to do | with it, he said, are probably with- out basis. Anderson, Chief of Commercial Fisheries for the U. S. [Fish and | Wildlife Service, returned from Al- aska this week. Already, he ,told a reporter, Al- aska's albacore catch, first in its history, exceeds 450,000 pounds. It's selling at from $520 to $550 a ton. Albacore is a choice species of tuna. | The tuna are being caught south | of Ketchikan, in waters off South- | east Alaska and British Colurabia. | Canadian fishermen, too, are haul- ing them in, Anderson said. { In Seattle, Anderson said, he } heard the argument among fisher- | men that American post-war atomic } bomb experiments in the Marahal]‘ Islands area might have chased the | tuna into northern waters and also | might have contributed to the scar- | | (Connnued on Page Five) HAYES & WHITELY BID ACCEPTED ON ELECTRIC PROJE(T, Hayes and Whitely have bean awarded the contract for pole set- ting and miscellaneous construction work on the Glacier Highway Elec- | tric Association project. Approval | of their bid was received from the Rural Electrification Administra- tion office in Washington, D. C., this morning by Felix Toner, Project Engineer. Toner said that construc- tion would start in the immediate future. Hayes and Whitely were low bid- | ders on the contract and their bid | was $19,446.50. Partners in the firm | are Howard Hayes and Stanwood | A RIOTING MOB of several thousand striking CIO oil worker escorting non-striking AFL tradesmen through picket lines at Standard Oil Co, shown above (center left) has just hurled a tear thrown by pickets can be seen on the ground. This picture was made behind police lines. eramen were manhandled by pickets who expoged their film and wrecked three cameras. Whitely, both of Juneau. MRS. AMERICA 15 DOMESTIC by MRS. MARIA STROHMEIER, a 5-foot, 6-inch blonde from Philadelphia, won the tenth an- nual contest at Asbury Park, N. J., to determine Mrs. America. She won in competition against 25 other married contestants from all parts of the country, and besides her obvious physical attributes, she can cook. She submitted prize recipes for mac- aroni salad and fried chicken. (International SOundphnto' THOUSAND SA(KS OF MAIL ABOARD LOUISE One thousand sacks of mail of all descriptions are aboard the Prin- cess Louise due from the south this evening. Part of this mail, as usual, | |is for nearby sections, distributed from the Juneau office. >> FROM TACOMA Staying at from Tacoma are Capt. E. P. Carl-| son and Walter J. Paulsen. clashed with Richmond, gas shell in the dir leence Flares i in thhmond 0il Slrlke Calif.,, police gates. A policeman ection of the rioting crowd. Stones Five cam- (International) HUNT FOR ASSASSINS OF COUNT ne- {Jewish State Warnzd Musti "Assume Full Responsi- bility" for Crime (By The ciated Press) The Gevernment of Israel acted {today to ferret out the assassins’ of Count Folke Bernadotte, Umteu | Nations Palestine mediator, and hxa I French aide. i A U. N. ofiicial formally notified | .{the new Jewish state that it musl i lassume full responsibility” for the |slayings. Foreign Minister Moshe | Shertok advised the U. N. that !“Israel is adopting the most vig- jorius and energetic measures to 1br£nx the sins to justice. and | eradicate evil” in Palestine. | The Isreal army slapped a cur- {few on Jerusalem's 90,000 Jews. | Roadblocks were thrown up { throughout the Jewish section of | {the Holy City and sound trucks | admonished the people to stay at { home. | { Military policemen were stationed {oumde the American consulate jand others were ordered to accom- | {pany any U. N. car in the city. ! The curfew was the first ordered | the Jewish state since Israel |preclaimed herself a nation last 3 In Paris, U. N. Secretary-Gener- al Trygve Lie put the Palestine | question before the full member- {ship. Placing the issue on the lagenda of the Assembly session ,opening Tuesday had the efiect |of bringing the assassination before ! all 58 member nations simultane- ously. Lie also said the slayings | ed grave questions about the safety of U. N. personnel in troub- led areas. The U. N. Middle East: toll now stands at eight h > 5. E. ALASKA'S | . SALMON PACK | SHOWS INCREASE Southeast Ala<k salmon pack, a total of the 1948 season as of the | | week ending September 11, was 1,- | 232,120 ‘The 1947 total for the Southeast Alaska district for increase for this area of 204,438'% cases in 1948 over the previous year.. {handled by 1ST BREAK IN STRIKE REPORTED | Army Freig]lt_Now Being Handled at Seattle at Pre-Strike Wages | SEATTLE, Sept. 18— Striking | CIO longshoremen were working Army cargo at the Seattle port of embarkation today. Tae tirst break in the West Coast ! maritime tie-up came last night when five gangs were dispatched to the pier after a special stevedoring Arrangement brought withdrawal of pickets. A contract for handling militar: cargo was reached through Grif fiths and Sprague Stevedoring com pany, {irm which is independent ol the Waterfront Employers associa tion. The tirm recently agreed to 15-cent hourly pay increase for th longshoremen. However, under th special military cargo arrangement, unlon officials said the longshore men will work for pre-strike wages. | There have been reports that the firm might also enter an agreement with the Army for handling military cargoes at California ports, but President Frank Setterstein said this morning his firm does not ex- | pect to operate there and is not | current ring with the Army son the pon ility. VT The approximately 60 members of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union who went to the port last night started off the first shitt with handling of mail and baggage only. They were un- Ilondlng the transport Sgt. Charles iE. Mower, which arrived late yes- terday (rom t.hc Orient. ‘NO DIVERTED CARGO BEING UNLOADED AT RUPERT IS REPORT PRINCE RUPERT, C. C., Sept. 18.—(P—No cargo from Alaska, di- verted from strikebound United States ports, is teing handled here, employer and employee representa- tives said. TLe statement came in reply to a report that the bulk of the South- east Alaska canned salmon pack, which normally moves through Se- attle, would be diverted to Prince Rupert, | ! Considerable salmon and lumber |is being handled here, but it has all been normally booked for ship- ment. It is definitely not “diverted” because of strike conditions. William Gettings, Seattle long- shoreman representative, said in Seattle that only salmon actually consigned to Canadian ports will be affiliated longshore~ men. >-ee - — 'Emil Ludwig Is Dead af Swiss Home ASCONA, Switzerland, Sept. 18.— #/—Emil Ludwig, 67, world famous mographer. playwright and political |essayist, died at his home here last night. Among Ludwig's works was the {“Life of Napoleon,” which he adapt-~ ed to a motion picture in Hollywood in 1933. His biographies included Jesus. Goethe, Bismarck, Beethoven, Willlam II, Lincoln and Wilhelm Hohenzollern. He made no attempt to return to Germany after the rise of Hitler. iSeveral of his books were burned by the Naazis. Ludwig was known widely in the United States through popular read- the Baranof Hotel | Sept. 11 was 1027,691, indicating an ing of his biographies and such works as “The Nile.” He also went on American lecture tours.