The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 12, 1948, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e PRICE T TLN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY OCTOBER 12, 1948 T JU MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NEAU ELECTION VOL. LXVIII., NO. 11,014 HEAVY VOTE IS CA Marshall Returns o U. S. fo Confer C(OAST STORM RAGES Boats Ba"er—gcf by Gale - Craft Run Aground - Men Rescued SEATTLE, Oct. from 50 to 60 miles an hour churn- ed the North Pacific last night and forecasters predicted little change today. The Coast Guard said received no distress calls. The Weather Bureau said a dis- turbance ranged from a point on the Kenai Peninsula 150 miles northeast of Kodiak to Alaska Coast points and the Queen Char- lotte Islands. i It followed a weekend gale that sapk two ships and crippled six. From Prince Rupert, B. C., came; a report of the rescue of five, American seamen after 12 hours on| Lewis Island, 25 miles to the south, it has 12—P—Winds | | where their 93-foot ship went aground. They were Capt. John M. Tuorn- ton, 34, Seattle; Clare Randall, 42, George Butterfield, 47, William | Piatt, 39, and Gilpin Sessions, .m oi Ketchikan. The Coast Guard said it was; fighting heavy seas in an effort, to transfer from the Kodiak Islnnd village of Uzinki toia Kodiak hus-v pital a boy ueported . aufiermg ffom an accidental guqhot wmmd { Five Men Rescued The five Ketchikan men were. rescued from the ‘sottheast -tip -of Lewis Island by a British Columbia police boat Saturday afternoon. Their boat, The Discoverer, had lost its rudder in & 55-mile-an-hour gale. { The shipwrecked men said that between daylight Saturday and the time of their rescue, between eight and a dozen ships had passed by but apparently had failed to note their signals ior help. The men built a smcke-fire among the trees and waved handkerchiefs from the beach whenever a vessel pass-' ed. Carrying 15 tons of assorted cargo, including household effects belonging to Sessions, the Discov- erer left Ketchikan for Seattle on Friday. Pounds on Boulders The Discoverer went aground at' the South end of Lewis Island| about two miles from Herbert Reef | where an American Army tug, struck a week -ago. ,h She struck on boulders at half tide, bat- tered by a heavy surf which stove sought to bolt the parent mg‘up‘ in her bottom and did severe dam- age to her hull. Between the ship and the shore- | line was 100 yards of white boiling surf breaking -over boulders, and| the men stayed aboard the tortured ' ship until 7 a. m. unable to get| ashore. As the tide rose, the ves- sel was battered inshore and were about to lay a-plank onto the rocks. When the ship struck, the men | tried to make shore in a lifeboat, but it was swamped and blown | away almost immediately. They, were forced to remain on the Dis- i coverer, which finally wedged be- tween two rocks with her stern hanging over deep water. | The Discoverer is owned by Lawrence Erickson, Ketchikan business man and has been en- gaged in freight service between | Ketchikan and Seattle. Salvage possibilities are being investigated. B e s il NEGRO WILL BE they i | Alaska spokesman said 26 others had been' ‘refused entry at the U. S.-Canad- President Truman (left) and Sccretary of State George Marshall (right), accompanied by Undersecre- tary Robert Lovett, leave the National Airpert in Washington upon Marshall's return frem the UN con- ference to confer with Truman on the Russian situation. Cl0-1WA CONVENES, ‘PORTLAND \President Fadling Blasts B. €. Revolt Leaders- Alaska Represented PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 12~ The C<O-International Woodwork- ers of America got down to con- vention business today after hear- jing President James Fadling blast | away at leaders of revolt Columbia. a in British In opening the convention yes- terday, Fadling accused leaders of | Union’s District Council No. 1 there of “betraying the organization they helped build.” He was referring to Harold Prit-| lchett, a former IWA International ' President, and Ernie Dalskog, one- time Executive Board member. They ization because of a U. | gration ban against some Bx ti:h Lolumbm delegates to the mmeu- uon Seventeen delegates from British Columbia registered along with more than 400 here from 45 states, and Canada. A union ian border. - - The Wasnmgion \Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON Inc.» ASHINGTON — For the past two weeks President Truman and his advisers have been giving a lot of thought to ways and means of getting the dynamite-laden » W |r.-phom IBALCHEN RECALLED Veteran of_A_r—dic Aerial Exploration to Go with U. S. Air Force 10-Point Program For UNW By HAROLD W. WARD CINCINNATI, Oct. 12.—M— The} United Mine Workers’ convention today approved 10-point pro- gram for improving the present contrs including a shorter work week, higher pay, and bettering | g g the welfare and retirement fund,| WASHINGTON. Oct. The program was submitted to;COl. Bernt Balchen, veteran' of the meeting by the Scale Commit-|Arctic aerial exploration, has been policy l,,mm,remlled to active duty with the!’ | Air Force, the US.AF. announced today. The Air Force did } I a tee. It would set up a composed of committeemen repre- | senting the various districts of the ( {unicn to translate the 10 general | i | objectives into specific demands|Bow Balchen's peculiar talent for next spring ‘ Polar operations and his vast The convention, of its;knowledge of the strategically im- last acts, unanimously adopted a |Portant Arctic area would be used. | resolution for unity of the labor|It said only that he was being movement . and urging its officers| assigned . temporarily to Bolling {—meaning Lewis particularly—to| Base here. {try to bring it about | P - hranch not disclose as one came to Washington iln.\L week where he has been man- aging director of the Norwegiun of the Scandinavian Air- af- RECORD BREAKING |:-»: -, ' He Mt ncuvc duty in 1946 u- a wartime service involving NEAR'NG DE”VERV and Iceland, the stepping | bflwmn Amerlca and Europe. His | specialty was air transport com- estab- is believed to be a record-break- 'lishment of routes across the north ing tow of logs from Alaska, 2': and rescue technique. million board feet in two l‘uge >o o - | Puget Sound tonight. The powerful tug Justine Foss, of Foss Launch and Tug Company, | | rafts tandem style.' Capt. William | Erickson is skipper of the Justine, (e rs I n due in Bellingham tonight. !many secret projects in Greenland \ SEATTLE, Oct. 12—(®— What|mand operations, including cribs, is scheduled to' arrive m' Nile Temple Seattle, is towing the two mlghtv. | The logs are from Karheen Island | |and Fitzgibbon Cove in Southeast Alaska. = Nettleton Timber Com- | pany, which owns the logs, arrang- | ed for the big tow. One of the cribs wili go to Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Company in Everett. First Acclaimed On a trip which took them to the interior, officers of Nile Temple. Seattle, are expected to arrive her |this afternoon to 12—P—| stones | conduct Shrine | RUSSIANS BIG ISSUE on Blockade Apparent- ly Is Bogged Down #By The Associated Press) The Western powers, feeling further mediation efforts useles: are pressing for a showdown in the { Secyrity Council on their demand | for Biting the Berlin blockade, a | Unitéd Nations source said today. Another Council meeting is sought for ‘tomorrow or Thursday. Warren R. Austin, chief Ameri- |ean delegate, accused Russla of | blocking all efforts to solve the i Berlin problem. | Speaking in the U. N.. Political | Committee, Austin called on the chief; Suviet delegate, Andrei Vish- | fngksh to deny that | leaders have repeatedly declared peace impossible between the capi- | talist world and the Soviets. | Mediation efforts of the six pow- “ers on the Security Council not di- | rectly involved in the Berlin dis- | pute have apparently bogged down. The Kremlin's answers to ques- tions put by the mediators, Ar- | gentine, China, Belgium, Colom- !bla, Canada and Syria, still awaited. Secretary of State Marshall re- | turned to Paris after his weekend trip to Washington to confer with | President Truman. Russian Threat | A Russian Army newspaper .in i Beylin said. the. blockade. will re- [matty “uiitilythe Western Powers re- move their currency from the city. Although denying there is any real blockade, the newspaper, Taeglis- che Rundschau, said that “lifting the traffic restrictions could eas- lily take place if, at the same time, the illegally introduced B-mark were: withdrawn.” Another items of the cold war was the now familiar announcement that the Russians would have an- other field day in the air corridor to practice air warfare. Air Strength Expanded German press reports Russians were expanding their air strength and building new air facilities in Eastern Germany. The British are trying to ease the blockade of the British sector of; Berlin by evacuating German chil- dren. Since September they have flown out 1,200 children to the British zone. ! { | A crippling coal strike went m-' France with to its ninth day in little prospect of settlement. railway system bogged down. munist-led dockworkers started 48-hour strike. Generalissimo Franco of told his military leaders The Spain tacked neighboring countries even if the countries attacked differed ideologically with Spain > ® & o 0 0 0 0 0 0 L] . . . WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Perlod In Juneau— Maximum, 46; minimum, 44. At Afrport—Maximum, minimum, 41. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cloudy with light rain showers and southeast- erly winds occasionally as high as 20 mph this after- noon and Wednesday. High- est temperature near 45 de- grees this afternoon. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today | 45; ‘To, | ‘BLOCKING | {Mediation of Six Powers : Communist is said the! Com- | a) Spain | would fight any enemy which at-/! (ommu SEATTLE, Ott. 12, (®—A Con- gressional subcommittee headed for whether fifth col- Alaska toddy to find out there is a Communist umn in the Territory The chairman, Rep. Charles J. Kersten (R-Wisce), said the immed- fate aim of his group is to inves- tigate possible Communist inriltra- tion of Alaska labor unions. “The Russian situation is a def- inite factor in our check,” he said. “We want ito know if there is a fifth column in Alaska.” “We know that when the Com- PORTOF TACOMA I OPEN; AFL Longshoremen' Diive Seattle ClO Pickets from Two Docks, Work Ships TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 12.- Tacoma’s work-bound AFL AP long- shoremen drove Seattle CIO long- | shore pickets from two docks here | this morning and resumed unload- ing of three ships. The out-numbered Congress . of Industrial Qrganizations pickets did not resist, and there was no vio- lence. The non-striking American Fed- eration of Labor longshoremen who control the Tacoma dock jobs while the «triking CIO longshore- men rule in other major West Coast ports, voted yesterday to work the ships. The CIO long- shoremen had established small picket lines against the ships on the contenticn they were diverted to Tacoma from the other strike- 'closed ports. > LABOR CASES 'DECIDED BY HIGH COURT WASHINGTO:S, oct. 12.—(@—The ,Supreme Court has refused to re- |view a decision that an employ- r must bargain with a union be- fore he gives “merit raises” to individual workers. The decision was given by the 'U/ 8. Circuit Court in Cincinnati in a case affecting J. H. Allison .and Company, Chattanooga meat packers. The Circuit Court ruled '2 to 1 that the National Labor | Relations Act requires bargaining on merit increases. The refusal of the Supreme Court to review the case has the effect of upholding the decision. At the second meeting of its fall term, the court also: Refused to reconsider its decis- ion of last June that an employer must include premium pay for night and other odd hours work in figuring a worker's average pay to determine overtime rates. Agreed tc rule on whether the Federal eight-hour law applies to | American workers employed in a | foreign country by a private con- tractor who is doing work for the nvestigate Whether There Is Fifth Column, -| (By 958 BALLOTS ARE CAST AT nists, in Alaska. 3P.M.TODAY ‘mum ts un control of any union oL L st Polls Will Close af 7 To- So it is up to us as members of mgM_Re,ums Broad. cast Starting 10:30 >on| s to survey the situation.” Kersten, a former Milwaukee, Wisc., prosecuting attorney, heads the subcommittee of the House R Committes on Education and Labor.! A heavy vote is being cast in the With him is Rep. O. Clark Fish- Territorial General Election in Ju- |neau today and indications are that "(the total vote will exceed previous elections. At 3 o'clock this afternoon Em- er (D-Tex) and an investigator, Frank MacArthur. The trio is enrvoute to Anchor- age and _other Alaskan points. | Their investigation is expected to PIf¢ reporters made tabulations from Juneau's three precincts and reported 958 ballots had been cast, which is far above ballots cast in <h‘ (-cneml E]N‘(lun two IS ago itake a week or 10 days. April ‘ The vote at 3 pm. | BY SOVIHS Pn‘rincl No. 2 (Gastineau Hotel) today, by pre- Prrdnu (Juneau Dairies) 332. No. 3 Previous Voting | (.(mpal.niw figures show that, 3 p m. at the primary elee- Will “Put Cards on Table'"on airt ar. o, im0 woes hue Regardmg Pro pose d siia” 21, Prelobt Armamem Redu("on | At the lnst general election, Octo- (ber 8 1946, the 3 o'clock score showed: Precinet One, 229 votes; ! Precinct Two, 202, and Precinct | Three, 204, When 'the polls clos- “ed, the heaviest voting since 1940's record bailoting was ready to be counted. Two years ago, Juneau citizens “cast 1391 bAlGHS. of “which 491 gave Precinet Three the greatest number, | Pl ecinct Three. Two, } | i | The Assoc ated Press) Soviet Russia offered a deal to the Western world today to dis- close her armaments if the United Nations accepted thé Soviet pro- |posal for a one-third xcdul.llon in | armaments. . . In the fage of a mnemn. -Ameri~ jcan attitude, Soviet Delegate An- |deri Y. Vishinsky told the U. N. - Political Committee Russia is ready | D0 Yote 10 the April, 1945, pri- to perate on armaments and TR SXCReaE hat: IndNY, [N L . @ weather conditions contributing to will “put our cards on the table. | the ar-record vote: - Precinet He wis replyliig.to U. 8. Delegate Thrwvbfio Precinct Two, 523, and Warren R. Austin, who earlier Precinet One, 485—a fotal of 1,568 sald the world cannot disarm or oo X : cut armaments while the Russians "o ;Iunenu the U. /8. Commission- refuse to cooperate. Austin said office received 180 -nbsex:jtee er's the U. S. disarmed too far and : i e ballots. The deadline was October the last world war. He accused Russia of thwarting efforts to solve the Berlin crisis. "rlu Soviet battle cry in the world . today is “wreek and destroy,” Aus- L n said. Broadcast Tonight Election returns from all pre- cincts received and other general election news, will be broadcast from the Empire oftice tonight be- | Vishingsky made a concillatory 8inning at 10:30 o'clock.. reply. He denied that Soviet pgl- The force of radio station KINY icy was based on the premise that Will set up headquarters in the with the Western World is Empire office and all election news inevitakle. He said differing ideol- 'Obtained by the Empire reporters ogies could exist side by side if Or received by radio from Alaska “both sides try to understand the Points, will be broadcast by Rich- other side.” ard Peter and other KINY staffers > beginning at 10:30 o'clock. 1§ WRE(KED BOY, CRASH VICTIM BY SHOPPERS 'S FLOWN T0 HoMe rhnmc on blucler nghwny EDMONTON, Alta., Oct. 12.—® Eleven-year-old Michael Lintner left here by air for Norton, Kas., last |night to attend the funeral of his mother, Mrs. A. L. Lintner, who was# killed in the airplane crash in \which he was seriously injured. Still suffering from frostbitten feet, a broken arm and a head in- jury, he was lifted aboard a U. § Air Force plane. He was trapped for 42 hours in |the wreckage of a private plane Lefore rescuers found him PEIPING, Oct. 12.—#--One of the'largest food stores in the city! was wrecked Monday by a mob of | shoppers - angered because supplies| had given out, ' The incident pointed up the grow- | ing serlousness of the food situa- tion here, where prices have Leen on a rampage and many items are in short supply. The greatly swollen population is! estimated by police at more than| 2 2,000,000, About 300,000—mostly ci- [ They were flying from Anchorage vilian war ' refugees—are cl nw»"‘ the United States when the as destitute. Mounting costs of food |C¥#sh occurred. and fuel can spell but one thing| 59 e for a bulk of the population this| | Russo-American crisis out of the {hands of the diplomats and putting |ceremonials like those in Anchorage {and” Faitbanks. The Juneau cere- {monial will be tomorrow night in! In Juneau — 142 inches; since Oct. 1, 5.15 inches; United States Government. - I . Hero, Japan War, winter—cold and 'TEN FOR ANCHORAGE ADMITTED NOW, U. OF OKLAHOMA | OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 12—® —For the first time in history of | the state, the doors of the all-| white University of Oklahoma will! be ready to open for a Negro student tomorrow. He is G. W. McLaurin, a 54-| year-old retired professor \\hu1 wants to study for a Doctor’s De- gree in Education in the Univer-|asmerican people once felt for the POT- sity’s graduate school. Yesterday the state, represented | by the University regents, bowed ' to a Federal Court ruling of Sept. 29 and decided to hdmit McLaurin. | it on a people-to-people basis. In brief, it is proposed that Truman make an appeal direct to Stalin in which he would empha-! size that the world can never |have peace “if one nation refuses be accorded tomorrow, to the body to let its people make with the rest of the world. Stalin would be reminded of the great hopes for peace which all the friends {ship and common goal of American hnd Soviet armies, the great friendship which the of the | pecple df Russia, and their present disappointment at the way that friendship has been rebuffed and (Contimied on Page Four) the Scottish Rite Temple; the ban- |quet Thursday evening. George C. Rogge is Potentate of which last month sponsored the seventh annual Shrine circus to benefit crippled children in Seattle. Buried Tomorrow \lnDISON Fla.,, Oct. Burlal with full military honors will oy 12—l nije Temple, of Capt. Colin Kelly, the first ac- claimed hero of the war with Ja-| Other officers in the party e |Ken Howe, Chief Ribtan; Frank Kelly was killed when his plane g,y der, Recorder; Leon Sutter (world cherished, of the comrade-'Crashed on the return froma bomb- | oy et of Second Section, and James | ing mission against the Japanesel tcher, High Priest and Prophet. battleship Haruna off Manila, Lhrulfle L, P 1 i3 days after the attack on Pearl Har- NEW YORK A former New | Dealer who spiit with Truman two | vears ago, is going to vote for him of {for President. The new supporier SEATTLEITES AT BARANOF Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Start | . . . . . . . . . . . ie . e e . . . . ° . . since July 1, 35.06 inches. At Airport — 134 inches; since Oct. 1, 296 inches since July 1, 2361 inches. |o . . o le 60 060 00 00 ( ———— STEAMER MOVEMENTS | All American steamers tled up | by coastwide striie. Princess Louise is scheduled to ‘arrive at 6:30 tonight from Van- couver, % - e THREE FROM SITKA G. Millice, W. A. Peterson Hugh B. Antonious came in and from BOLTON HELD DETROIT, Oct. 12--P— Carl Bolton, 39, former minor union of- |ficial, was held under $75,000 bond today on a charge of trying to kill Walter P, Reuther, President of the 10-United Auto Worker: Recorder Judge Christopher E. tein entered a plea of innocent for Bolton after the defendant nd Seattle are guests at the Baranof jis former Intetior Secretary Harold Sitka yesterday on Alaska Coastal mute on a charge of assault with Hotel. . Ickes. Airlines, atent to kiil, $75,000 BOND hunger. Since August 19, the date at which prices were ordered frozen, the cost of coal, rice and eggs has jumped 500 percent, cooking oil has gone up 800 percent and sugar 1,000 percent ON PACIFIC NORTHERN Ten left c..cau yesterday for ! Anghorage aboard Pacific Northern | Airlines. Mrs. Joe Morris and in- |fant arrived here from Anchorage Passengers to Anchorage were: John Manders, Ray Reach, Mrs. N. |Hart and infant, Uck Wong, James commOd"y Marke's Jones, Ralph Jones, William Black- {ford, John Bugas, J. F. Foster, W. Close, Columbus Day NEW YORK, Oct. 12.--P— becur- ity and commodity markets through | !egistered al out the United States were closed, today in observance of Columbus' Day Canadian and Buropean .were open as usual, > -oe FROM ANCHORAGE Z. E. Eagleston of Anchorage is the Baranof Hotel D - FROM VANCOUVER H. Bergman of Vancouver, is registered at the Bararof L. markets *B. C. iflulel