The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 20, 1948, Page 1

I | ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,995 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ———— PRICE TEN CENTS Seattle Salmon Cargo Released For Shipping UNITED NATIONS MEETING| General Embly Con- venes Tomorrow with World Affairs Topic | (By The Associated Press) German and,Palestinian conflicts simmered today as major issues confronting the United Nations in Paris. The General Assembly con- venes LOmorrow. A British official source said the Foreign Ministers of Britain, the United - States and France would confer this afternoon on the German crisis, at Soviet-blockaded Berlin. 1 Soviet Foreign minister V. M. Molotov was absent. He sent a| deputy, Andrei Y. Vishinsky, to rep- { resent Russia in Paris. The Arab League, over the ob- jections of Trans-Jordan and Iraq, announced the formation of a new Arab government for Palestine. Ahmed Hilmy Pasha, military gov- ernor of the Arab-held section of Jerusalem, was appointed Prime which centers ; Force Way Into Berlin City Hall N Minister. “"The act was denounced by King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan, who said | formation of such a government would amount to partitioning Pal- estine, an act long opposed by | Arabs. (This stand, of course, | ignores the fact the United Na-| tions partitioned Palestine Arab and Jewish sections May 15.) Posthumous Repo! The United Nations had another message smouldering Holy Land. posthumous - report “from:” Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, written | from shortly before the was assawnatedr in Jerusalem Friday. Count Bernadotte, advised that the United Nations, should be prepared to step in and, end the Palestine war if the Arabs and Jews fail to make peace. | “Israel exists in the Holy Land,”| he wrote, and the future of Arab Palestine should be left to the Arab states, “in full consultation ‘of Commerce of the 11 western ¢p, _uue not parties to the labor dis- with Arab inhabitants” of the states, recommended here Saturday t,k:m :fm:;])ehdma:l:: a‘;’;gt,fi";’fl“gfi, pute. Pay will be at the pre- Chief James D. Cole estimated that Holy Land. 'that in view of Alaska's strategic reaus which will make for greater;Strike rate of $167 per hour 15,000 persons, standing on the sun- Bernadotte's body arrived at military location all factors regard- efficiency particularly as it ap-{ OIL—Federal conciliators contin- baked grounds, heard the Presi- Geneva by plane today. It will be ing its security be given immediate| jiec {5 Jand settlement. ued efforts to settle the 17-day-old |dent’s prediction that if the Repub- | flown to Paris tomorrow and simple and increased attention by the Fed- I g aa walkout of West Coast oil refinery licans take over the government, services will be held before the eral Government. LEeaopounare % that the resi-j o,y ors Police investigated firing|‘they Wwill try to turn back - the body continues to Stockholm. 1"1t Tecommended also that-/di{dents of Alaska have the full 0P-;,e","hiiet fnto the home of aniclock to the time when the West For Police Force known Communists be prevented Wr':""y,."’ h“‘"‘ge" and Tecom-( . iant foremen at Rodeo, Calif,|Was an economy colony of Wall In Paris, Secretary-General Try- |from working on.board all vessels|#hem" dihpty dupice of Qoverndr fhe } | Street.” gve Lie announced he would de-!carrying cargo to Alaska and those| e Territory. Truck Drivers' Strike The speech followed a whistling, s { TRUCKING—The number of {cheering, handclapping welcome to mand a United Nations police force | to forestall such acts as the assass- ination of Bernadotte and to| maintain order in disturbed parts of the world. H Lie will call for a United Na- tions constabulary of from 1,000: to 5,000 men when he presents his report in a few days to the United Nations Assembly. As top diplomats moved to the French capital, negotiators in Eu- rope’s capitals arranged to come in for consultations on what's next. There was every indication that the four-power talks on the ticklish situation in blockaded, divided Berlin have bogged down. U. S. Secretary of State Mar- shal, determined “we will do our best.”” British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and France's FbreSgn| (Contlnued on lge Five) The Wasnmgio Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.) ASHINGTON— Gov. Dewey has dropped the hint to one or two Republican Senators that he would like to engineer some boosts in Government salary after he comes to Washington next Janu- ary, Talking to Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, Dewey said he wanted to bring Paul Lockwood, his as- tute confidential adviser, and sevs eral others of his brain trust to help him in the White House. “But,” added the Governor, “they can’t affort it on present Govern- ment salaries.” “Well, if it's or any of the man around you, replied the New Hampshire Sen- s A T S AR (Continued on Page Four) for Earl Warren, | into| delegnte: | the § It was a; ! the mediator, l |States to Fairbanks for purposes of | action will assist®in keeping rates to: {Alaska down. | Other recommendations include ! | Members of a group of Communist-led demonstrators climb an iron gate at the main entrance to the Berlin City Hall in order to unlock it from the inside. Some of the men standing beside the gate are civilian building ‘custodians who were brushed aside when they at- : tempted to halt the demonstrators. March on the City Hall by the Communists was the second in two days. Demonstrators broke up a meeting of anti-Communist City Council and attempted to substitute a regime of their own. (P “'nrephow via radmphoto from Berlin. Federal Govemmenl Is Urged To Give Attention fo Alaska; Recommendations Made! | SEATTLE, Sept. 20—(®— D"L‘" ate steps be taken to eliminate tors of the Western States Council, pumerous government employees made up of managers of Chambers ithin the Territory of Alaska byl handling cargo on docks or nboard. ships in the Alaska trade. | The council yrged r‘omuucuom of a railroad from western United EXTENSION, PAA SYSTEM IS SOUGHT, # 2 SEATTLE, Sept. 20.- (#—Harvey Highway Develepment = |ygncock, Pan-American World Air- A broadening program of high-j Pacific-Alaska Division traf- way development to include the| o girector, returned to Seattle last Hiaxd surfacing of the major high-inignt from an Alaska trip made in ways within the Territory was pro-faonnection with an air route hear- and Congress requested to| lin: hedule: take prompt and effective StePs 0] man-Ame . /K3ce. Dotober 8 stop all further promotion of abor- iginal rights assertions by the De- partment of the Interior, and to national security and development | of the Territory. The President of the United States was asked to immediately| declare an emergency in connec- tion with shipping to and from Alaska and to take such steps ne- cessary to assurz its immediate resumption. i Aeronautics Board for extension of Eeattle-Fairbanks service to give Alaska passengers one-plane service clear the title of Alaska landsi , potjand sa n Francisco and Los trom further assertions of S“ChlAngeles. Stabilization of Alaskan claims. service and increased business are Alaska Indian Reservations It recommended the Congress immediately repeal the A)aska. amendment of the 1936 Wheeler-} Howard Act of 1934 and abolish all Indian reservations created under tions manager. the terms of the Wheeler-Howard 6 Act. ity e It urged that all American steam- | ship operators e given the =ame<FouR.JH AIR sought by the move, Hancock said. He was accompanied on his trip by Capt. Harold Gray, Pacific-Al- {aska division manager, and Capt. | Gordon Maxwell, divisional opera- opportunity to purchase American| surplus vessels as are many foreign countries, pointing_ put. that this| continued- rehabilitation of the Al- aska Railroad until it is possible to operate it efficiently; tha} the Army and. the Department of In-[Muroc Experimental Air Base ex-~ terior _arrive at ‘an “agréement ' to | Mloded, with terrific force today make Whittief” an open port for,and crashed into farmland near commercial shipping, and that the Alpaugh. All aboard were believ- rate structure of the Alaska Rail- led to have perished. road be lowered by the Department of the Interior to encourage addi-|B-45, tional settlement and development;crew of six or seven members. Two of the interior of Alaska. bodies were recovered from the; Cut Govt. Employees The Council urged that immedi- TULARE, Calif, Sept. 20.—®— A four-jet Air Force bomber from four mile square area 777 {Federal Court sustained an NLRB, | Pan-American has asked the Civil Army officials said the plane, a; normally carries a cnmbav.f STRIKES TIE UP INDUSTRY, MANY AREAS 'Auto Workers in Defroit| Out - Maritime and Oil Workers Still Out, Coast (By The Associated Press) ! Labor disputes involving automo- bile workers in Detroit and mari- time and oil workers on the West Coast continued today. ~But in New York the ranks of striking truck drivers declined and ‘a threat- | ened bus strike was averted. In Missouri, 4,000 lead miners ended a 10-week strike. A dispute between the . Briggs Manufacturing Co. and 170 of plant guards kept 60,000 other aw- ‘ tomobile industry employees idie. The Detroit firm rejected a UAW- CIO settlement proposals as the Istrike entered its 13th day. It; charged the UAW was, 1helb[ull-‘ ity of a “wildcat strike” in refusing IRUMAN IN {to work ! teer Firemen” formation of philatelists, The plant guards are members of | an independent union, After UAW ) members refused to cross the plant | | guards’ picket lines, Briggs closed | iits eight plants which employ 25,-! premium pay and an increase in! “preparation time” from five to 15 e e [Warns Volers Agains | PRINTERS— At Indm.r‘mpous.‘ GOP SabOfflge Of Wesi :charge that the AFL Printers’ Un-; ion had violated an injunction lagainst violating the Taft-Hartley | ~Speaks*to Thousands By ERNEST B. VACCARO Act in, the 10-week-old newsparger, : .» ike. The union dehies ‘i DENVER, Sept. L0.—®—President |Lhmges Truman pledged the continued de- ,velopment of the nation’s water re- {sources today Lefore cheering Rocky Maritime Strike MARITIME—CIO stevedores prp-rMuunluin,vuLers whom he rallied to |pared to move Army cargoes at full '1ight against * speed tomorrow for the first time of the West.” {since the CIO Longshoremen’s Un-| He spoke to a crowd overflowing iion tied up West Coast shippingthe state capitol grounds from an| jwith a strike Sept. 2. The Army|improvised stand with the golden- ‘work will be done through special domed capitol serving as a back- 'flgleemenl under contractors who drop. Assistant State Highway Fa(ml New ( Denver from what Police Chief John O'Donnell estimated were 50,000 persons lining downtown streets for the Presidential parade. - - U. N. SHOULD ENIER 'PALESTINE DISPUTE istriking truck drivers in the IYoxk metropolitan area dwindled ‘as the AFL Teamsters walkout | went into'its 20th day. Some 6000 | vmembers of Local 807 have return- ied to work under individual con-' ‘tracts granting a 17%-cent pay m\x,e About 3,400 members of the local were still idle, and some 1.800 members of Local 282 were striking ! rox a 25-cent increase. BUS—A threatened strike which BER“ADO"E WROIE (would have stopped service on| 3 three New York City bus lines PO serving 3,500,000 passengers has| paprg Sept. 20.—P-—A post- been averted by city interventiol.yp mou report by thie murdersd :‘;;Zcru" Lines prepared to p:" Into} oount Folke Bernadotte declares a one-cent fare inCrease|ipe ypited Nations should step’ in which will permit granting of 24- i to end the Palestine war if the icent-an-hour wake hikes. The i ys fail to mak Public Service Commission auth- :;:‘;5 PR dome.in i G Ol‘mblhem"li;‘l;z'gn"’nflure lll]uh:ek! The mediator wrote that “Israel cear = exists in Palestine,” and the fu- strike of 4,000 CIO Mine, Mill and Smeter Workers against the St{1iee ! 0 e, . 1l Joseph Lead Co., which operates| ., iation with the Arab inhabi- mines in southeastern ~Missourl, | ,peen of the Holy Land collapsed. Union members voted His 35000-»\'0111’ report yesterday to go back to work, and (¢ quiied to the 58 U. N. member a spokesman said he assumes thef . ... ¢ his body and that of company will observe a contract|pre;cn 1y Col Andre Pierre Serot which explred in "“’) }were being flown home Y | 'The Holy City of | |where he and Serot were shot to ADAK AIR BASE | death last Friday, should be plac-! l ed under United Nations control, IS DEDICATED IN |™ ™~ | o 4 {Prof. Chin Reported | SPOKANE SUNDAY |prof. Chin Reporte Execuled af Canfon HONGKONG Sept. 20.A—Un- confirmed reports reathing here| said Prof. Chin #uan-pang of | Kwantung College, had been exe-, cuted at Canton The report said that Chin was, SPOKANE, Wnsh Sept. 20.—P— Davis Air Force Base in Adak, Alaska, was dedicated here yester- day during an Air Force Day cere- mony. The dedication was held here Ibecause the illness of Mrs. Esther {T. Davis, for whose hustand the field was named, prevented her from taking the trip north. |un’esled two weeks ago with more | The base was named for the late than 100 others on charges they | Col. Everett Davis, Spokane, who'were members of the outlawed | wreckage which was strewn over a was killed in a plane crash near Democratic League and associated: goon Adak in 1042, with the Communists THE UNITED STATES POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT has postage stamp will be placed on first-day sale at Dover, the new three-center will be red in color. 1000 workers. 1 ' { The guards struck Sept. 8 in sup- {port of demands for week-end, “Republican sabotage ! was dis- | Jerusalem, | U Dewey Has New Line By JACK BELL ENROUTE WEST WITH DEW- EY, Sept. 20—P—An invitation to Latin-American countries to join as “full partners” in halting the march of Communism came today from Goy. Thomds E. Dewey. As the Republican presidential |nomihes pushed westward toward ;a major campaign¥ speech 4n Des Muoires tenight, ke bore down on, fa “peace and freedom” theme. “Dewey Victory Special,” paused in New 3-Cent Stamp Honors Velunteer Firemen announced that the new three-cent DOCK MEN HANDLING FISH NOW Agreement Reached Be- tween Packers, Steve- dores-Coal Loaded SEATTLE, Sept. 20.—--Strike- bound salmon valued at between $10,000,000 and $12,000,000 was freed (for shipment to market by rail today by a new agreement between | packers and the Grifiiths and ! Sprague Stevedoring Co. William Gettings, regional direct- or of the CIO-International Long- shoremen and Warehousemen’s Un= i ion, said dock workers began hand- ling the shipment this forenoon. % POSTAGE i “Volun- Griffiths and Sprague, an indepen- Del, October 4. For the in- |dent firm, reached an agreement (International Soundphoto) { with the Army last week for hand- ling essential military cargo at the Port of Embarkation, during the maritime strike. PARTYHEADS For Talks TALKSTODAY Some 20 of the city’'s 60 long- shore gangs were sent to handle the salmon, cargo at the Port of Embarkation and barges and other vessels not tied up, Gettings said. Gettings also reported that long= shoremen had gone to work to IDI# coal for the Orient for the Pacific Coast Coal Co., and the first ship had beén loaded. | An official of McGovern and Truman, Dewey MoOVIng, ou: 500000 cases ot suimon were . stored a he salmor e 7 West — Warren Making b ‘i might not be shipped sas Hits in Appearances PLAN MAJOR but all might not be shipped east immediately. An official at Ames | Terminals, where about 150,000 cases are stored, said a similar (By ‘The ml,clmgd Press) !u"rermen!. with Griffiths and Spra- ' Both' President Truman . and: jut was being discussed. vaeruo: Thomas Dewey, & Wgreement does not l{kt‘ ;re move!" heduled | salmon. that was not _unloaded West, and each has !Z‘nnjur campaigh speech for to-|{rom ships before the . strike. This His campaign train, dubbed the day. cannot be removed, gettings said, Today Mr, Truman is heading lur because or t,he strike. the ‘Englewood railroad yards' in'Denver and his second major o Chicago to receive a delegation of \dress. Scon after ke enters lhe SovIET Ikmps iLatin-American representatives state, he will pick up Colorado ! from the inter-American council of party officials and Lfllldlda!(’:hi commerce and production meeting | Among these s Senator Edwin 60'"6 Io o“" in Chicago. |Johnson who taces stiff Repuhhcan' Dewey read to the group of a |opposition in his fight for another | ing “my sincere hope that in the! Governor Dewey has a busy day| years to come we shall progress ahead, climaxing it with a major side by sice, not simply as good|speech at Des Moines tonight, Announ(emem Made Over neighbors, but as full partners.” Dewey is expected to sketch the oo broad outtine of the program he MOSCOW Radio with Hint @ o o o @ © 2 O @ O |ihinks the voters will approve m : Novemer. . that U. S. Do Same “;}Eé\'l"g:;!irk!l‘:glg:r | In the mzantime, Dewey's running | % At B ot et Pesiog s i L Earl Warren of! As Secretary of State Marshall alitornia—is heading into Okla- In Juneau— Maximum, 46; homa, But Warren's mann " took off from Washington for the Plichs i 797 ma u i lsh :lkm““’d "5;":" Paris meeting, new patterns of So- At Airport— Maximum, 52; 8 s . (;l&l”o(‘gplumncy Soblviiz; bogen (¥ 5 "‘““nl:‘“(")’vn‘:: e x]v“n'.(‘n‘ Warren talks, he gnu‘» stead- Most important of these was the ly through his typewritten text | (Jumeaw And: Vieinity) e sty o inish. He eokastt ) announcement that all Soviet troops Cloudy with rain or. rain m-luu\lvl k\nt‘mu‘L‘ oratorica nlp el_lwm B mitdrawn. . trot fEXGEE iz Sl - s b & e Korea by the end of the year. showers tonight and Tues- fects. A cheer is checked by thelmy. 1i Radio Mosco day. Slightly cooler Tuesday. ® Warren hand. And he is likely to s P s 9 e 9 B 10,05 just about the time Marshall took bmnlnu'~tmly winds 25 to say such things as “there are good 30 mph, decreasing Tuesday. l'lll“('ll‘l‘l‘ATl()N (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau — 214 inches; since Sept. 1, 1441 inches; since Juiy 1, 26.73 inches, At Alrp since Sept. since July 1, o e 5 148 inches; 148 inches; 18.12 inches. ® e0ecccsecscccccccscccnssse ® 0000000000000 00000® 00 e o 0 00 0 0 0 0 L - eee STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. ing quotation of Alaska mine stock today is 3 American Can 81': Anaconda Curtiss- Wright 9%, International Harvester 27':, Kennecott 55', New York Central 16's, Northern Pacific 20, . Steel 774, Pound $4.03% Sales today were 1,260,000 shdns Averages today are as follows industrials 177.37, rails 58.89, udil- ities 34.49. Juneau > SIEAMER MOVEMENTS All American snanms tled up ‘b) coastwide strike. rincess Norah, from Vancouver, |scheduled to arrive tomorrow af- ternoon or evening. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive at 6 oclock tomorrow morn- ing and sails south two hours lat- er at 8 o'clock, - - | ANGOON VISITORS | Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Mear of An- e visitors here, at the Gastineau Hotel off from Washington. Coupled with the statement was a’ strong hint that the United States do likewise—pull out of southern Kor- ea without delay. Americans in both parties,” or “no party has a patent on principle and good government.” His audiences are attentive, but it is only when arren ‘lal).(s.mfunnullyvthat his Moscow said its withdrawal from ,audiences warm up. Then, m"Korm will Begin ' mot ' later’ #ba Western mannerisms and folksy! 1k gy 20.—A—Clos- the second half of October and be completed by the first of next sy s year. Western sources have felt an unprepared withdrawal approach are those of a man genu- inely glad to meet people—a char- acteristic which his friends true. { that from the divided nation might be a prelude to civil war. The United States and the new republic of southern Korea have agreed on a gradual withdrawal of American troops as the Koreaus increase the FISH TRAPS TOBE | Foku!_ TON!GHI ! m:ll:’llle 200,000 Communist-trained ->-e — {troops are in the northern Korean s > larmy and this has been a weight; The League of Women Voters|p.cior in American policy on lll(m.{ will sponsor an open forum on the .. Moreover, Soviet Siberia bor- fish trap referendum this evening!gers northern Korea and thus any at 8 o'clock in the Grade Schoolig,yiet forces withdrawn from the Auditorium. John Wiese of An-|.,untry could be left within easy chorage, president of the Westward | .o, 0 % Alaska Fisheries, and Marcus Jen- 5 ISGOCPAS S sen of Douglas, Democratic can- didate for the Territorial Legisla- EMERGE“(Y fu“DS {ture, will present their views ini favor of th- gx‘uduul ubuhshment] registered Anchorage are Mrs. Florence Win- ten years Mrs. Mildred Hermann | will act as moderator At the meeting there will be a period of time for questions from! FOR GOLD CREEK A survey of the damage done by the floor, The public is urged to'the Gold Creek flood, that occurred attend and to enter into the discus- | two weeks ago, was made yesterday slon. by George Hopkins of the U. S. > ! Engineers office in Seattle. He is FROM ANCHORAGE ! preparing a report to submit to the Engineers requesting emergency Registered at the Baranof from'funds to. repair the damage done by the last two flash floods. He chell and her daughter Patsy. leit today for Seattle,