The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 15, 1948, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 11,017 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e B’ PRICE TEN CENTS Legislative AIR DEFENSE (CAMPAIGN “FORALASKA | CHARGES FORWINTER HURLED Force to Be—S;nt North Is|Both Trumgrr Dewey En- Announced-For Train- | gage in Sizzling Atomic ing Purposes Dispute in Talks By ELTON C. FAY (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—®— | An atomic dispute sizzled in the The United States’ air defense in| election battle today as Pre%xdent! Race In First Division Still Clos “(@ PBrevogren PuPId (q) uosIRd (@) Swerm © (@) ordog @) nented Juneau No. 1 200/| 238| Juneau No. 2 Juneau No. 3 Juneau Bridge Sheep Creek Douglas Salmon Creek 243 248| 245/, 217, 12 14 ‘Lynn Canal Mendenhall Mountain Point Alaska this winter apparently will Truman and Gov. Thomas E. Dew- | wacker consist of five bombers and one group of about 75 fighters. ey fired new campaign charges. Mr. Truman was ballot-bound | Down at the other end of its de- through Indiana after a Milwaukee | fense perimeter, the Panama Canal address in which he said his Re-| Zone, there are 12 fighter planes, publican Presidential foe “implies” World War Two type F-6ls. there ought to be “private exploit- This came to light today in con- ation” of atomic energy. nection with an Air Force an-| The New York Governor mean-| nouncement that three five-plane While moved his vote hunt into flights of the new B-50 bombers | Minnesota from Kansas City where will rotate on training missions in|he blasted the Democratic admin- Alaska between November 1 and istration as too “tired” and “con-| March 15. Under this program, fused” to provide “good govern- only five of the bombers will be ment.” H in the area at any one time. | Dewey spoke on atomic matters The only other combat unit in'three weeks ago in Phoenix, Ariz. the Polar frontier sector is the| He said that eventually the “dead fighter group regularly stationed hand of government” must be lift- there. ed from atomic development—but However, Air Force defense plan- that the present government mon- ning is based on the idea that!oply must be continued until en-; both fighters and bombers can be | forceable world controls are clamp- flown to Alaska quickly if a sud-'ed on atomic weapons. den military menace developed. Wallace Is In Too | Clover Pass Haines Klukwan Chilkat Annette Pennock Ward Cove Stikine Revilla Kimshan Cove Skagway Metlakatla Hydapurg Craig’ Petersburg Sitka Wrangell Ketchikan Angoon Pelican Funter Klawock Hoonah Tenakee Forthcoming Missions Henry Wallace also got into the The forthcoming missions of the Atomic cross-fire at Milwaukee.; B-50s will be the first such bomb- The Progressive Party's Presiden-' ers: have mgde in organized units | tial candidate claimed credits for: to any point outside the country. giving Mr. Truman his now-aban- | The B-50 is a radically changed'doned idea of sending Chief Jus- version of the wartime B-29. It-tice Fred M. Vinson to Moscow to| has a top speed of 400 miles an'talk about the “atomic problem.” ! hour, a 10-ton bomb capacity and,| The President told his Milwauke the Air Force says, can reach tar- ' audience that Dewey showed gets “over 2,300 miles” from the|“dangerous lack of understanding take-off point. (in bringing the subjeet “of, atomic While B-50s have been in use energy into the political arena. by the Air Force for several! While saying that business con-; months they never have been | cerns will continue to take an im-{ flown under Arctic conditions. This, | portant part in atomic development, said the Air Force, is the purpose Mr. Truman declared “we must not of the training mission to Alaska, put profit above the national wel- including studies to get the long-|fare.” est range out of the planes through| Atomic energy, he added, must not; fuel-conservation technique. {be “another Tea Pot Dome.” 1 Similar training was conducted: At the same time the President! last winter with the older B-29s. 'put Russia on notice that: { ! “Until the right kind of inter- Panama Canal Deicnse I pational control is assured we have ( Alr Force officials toid a reporter no choice but to proceed with the they are unable to discuss future development of atomic weapons.” | i i ( plans for air defense of the Panama Canal. But available information shows that the only armed planes presently in the Zone arz the 12- plane squadron of all-weather fight- | ers. The 36th Fighter Wing—an out- fit equipped with 75 F-80 jet right-" ers—left Panama in August for transfer to Germany to reinforce the single fighter group there. ————— - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—P—Clos- ing quotation .of Alaska Juneau mine stock teday is 3%, American Can 81, Anaconda 37, Curtiss- Wright 10%, International Harvest- er 28%, Kennecott 59'2, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 20%,' UBS. Steel 82's, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 910,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 184.62, rails 60.23, util-| ities 35.22. The Washington Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) WKSHINGTOE— Election year always brings grey hairs and stom- ach .ulcers to newspaper column- ists. It is a season when, no mat- ter what you say, one side or the other jumps on you; when editors get sore, blue-pencil columns_ or throw you out of the paper. Most newspapers and their readers — are quite happy to have you turn the spotlight on every act and habit of the President of the United States during every minute of his term of office. He is- considered fair game, with a year-round open season. And the result is that the Ameri- can public now knows what kind of garters Mr. Truman wears, how much money he has saved in office, his favorite cusswords, what kind of poker he plays, and how many (Continued on Page Four) |PRESIDENT QUIRINO; Dewey told a rally in Mr. Tru man’s old Kansas City bailiwick |that the Democratic administra-; | tion “is coming apart at the seams.” | | “It runs oif in a dozen differ- ent directions at once. It tries to| frighten people. It divides them,” he said. - 1 *ALERT’ SOUNDED BY| 1 FILIPINOS WARNED MANILA, Oct. 15.—(®—President Gustavus 12 Baranof Yakutat Jamestown Scow Bay Goddard Mt. Edgecumbe 41 26| 18| 23| 4 43| 33 5 80/ 12 0 18 26 Delegate Atty.Gen. 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LATE RETURNS T0 DETERMINE WINNERS NOW ‘ZSZContesi Is Close Both for % Candidates for Senate . as Well as House ot 7| 28 15 Anything can happen now in 4 | the resuits, both for the Senate and 14| House in the First Division | i F (@) ueoN (@) 98pLooT () unEyg ) uurm anunuon () uouursPBK 203 167 194 173 184 167 6 29 31 50 7 5 4 Today the Empire tabulates re- turns from 49 of the Divisions 5¢ precinets 8 17 23 24 6 11 7 20 12}| 4 44 6. 29 7 1 38 22! 19 0 38| 18 34 4 35 19 0 48 23 0= e EE.828 58 153 ki 99 193 466 128 868 45 49 6 79 95 27 8 10 37 34 22 5 82 279] 118 13 30 4 36 23 9 13 9 19 6 5 42 50 29 6 9 28 16 12! 0 2 55 50! 32! 5585 1730 ' 2936'4028| /4286 2616 2831/ ALASKA An open letter from Alaska to the PI(kefS a' Ia(oma 10 Use‘watcrlrum Employers Association ;and the Pacific American Shipown- ers' Association, was read at yester- H day's meeting of the Juneau Cham- er When FOg I.'"s !ber of Commerce, and caused much —_— 'discussion. The open letter, signed SEATTLE, Oct. 15.—(P— ’I‘he:by Ernest Gruening, Governor of Alaska Railroad said today its first'Alaska; E. L. Bartlett, Delegate; emergency Alaska barge sailing 'Ralph J. Rivers, Attorney General, from Seattle is scheduled for next and Henry A. Benson, Commissioner Wednesday. jof Labor, is as follows: Officials said 2,200 tons of food Gentlemen: and other essential freight will be Since Seattle longshoremen have shipped to Seward for distribution expressed to Mayor Devin ot Se- in the rail belt area. jattle willingness to divorce Alaska Meanwhile in Tacoma, scheduled 'from the West Coast maritime ticup air and sea “picketing” by slrik-"by loading and unloading Alaskan ing Seattle maritime unions was ships upon pre-strike terms unde postponed because of fog. Strike | Stipulation covering retroactiv officials said a plane equipped wit a loudspeaker will ‘“picket” the der a new West Coast agreement, harbor when weather permits. % the undersigned, acting in be- .~ Plane with Loudspeak- the ’Elpidiu Quirino toda_v.warned Philippines to prepare for a “po: sible emergency.” The President discussed inter- national conditions with his Cabi- Inet members and the Council of State aboard his yacht. { His office said President Quirino told them that the Filipino peo- ple should have “understanding and unity” in the face of critical world developments. The official statement said the President told administration lead- ers that steps had been taken “to put the country on the alert.” It added that officials were studying! “measures to be adopted in case! {of need.” !More_M;é; for Pacific Defenses Will Be R_equbsled (By The Associated Press) This week’s defense talks in Tokyo are efpected to Tesult in requests for more money and manpower for {our Pacific defenses. For three days General MacArthur met with our commander in Alaska and with the | deputy commander of the Pacific; fleet. Informed sources say that theyl fwill ask Washington for money for; jour forces in the Far East and Al-! aska. The American occupation army 1 in Japan has been under-manned for some time, ‘for saw logs and peeler logs thanj linto pulp.” They suggested ulmzmg' AFL longshoremen there have half of the people of Alaska, u driven off picket lines of the CIO|that the way is now open for re- unions, The CIO group has been | Sumption ofAAlnskm shipping se picketing ships in the harbor, con-i'“- Our position is based upon the tending they were diverted (mmifollowing points:* ports where - striking longshore-, 1. We are assured by men hold sway. William ithe C.I.O. unions that “Relief Ship” Irestrictions recently referred to as Ethe “joker” in the Seattle long- |shoremen’s proposal are not includ- |ed in their current offer, but that (10 - IWA MAKES SquBIlo“ ABou' Efull job services would be perform- ied, including unloading of Alaska "MBER I“ AlASKA;ships now in Seattle hartor and { future southbound cargoes. i | 2. Contracts governing ships PORTLAND, Oct. 15.—(®-— The personnel for Alaskan ships and CIO International Woodworkers of jlongShoremen at all Alaska ports America suggested yesterday that are already in full force and ef-| Alaskan timber might be better used |fect. 3. Although none of the carriers for paper. {is obliged under the Taft-Hartley The convention called for a re-!law to negotiate with the long- survey of Alaskan timber resources|shoremen until ILWU leaders sign {to determine whether it would be inon-communist affidavits, the fact wiser to atandon the projected pulp remains that there is nothing to program and establish instead “an prevent the carriers from so ne- intergrated Alaskan wood industry |gotiating if they see fit to do 0 making lumber and plywood as well|{As a matter of fact, they have en- as pulp and paper.” igaged in just such negotiations for The delegates criticized “dtvert-ln West Coast agreement over a ing potential lumber and plyvlflodipe.rlud of months before the present deadlock with those very same lead- waste woods in both Alaska andiers. The carriers, as operators ol the continental United States w!dock facilities in Alaska, have also meet the paper shortage. |known non-communist, - - S'u“m Movmms Is!gn the atfidavit because he chal- All American steamers tied up‘lenges the constitutionality of the by coastwide strike. 'sta!ulory provision requiring a dec- Princess Louise is scheduled tojlaration of party. Yet the coal ¢ail from Vancouver October 20. !'mines operate, and rightly so, as no (same unions. John L. Lewis, a Open Lefter from Alaska by BARGE SAILS Four Officials on Marifime ke, O, ( h any gains that might be made vn-! |Gettings, Seattle representative of iconciuded agreements with these| refused to! A ¥ one in his right mind would con- tend that the nation should freeze until the Supreme Court has ren- dered a decision. With these precedents in mind we contend that the only sensible thing to do if you are really concerned about the plight of -Alaska is to} cause Alaskan shipping to be re- sumed and carried on until the Supreme Court has ruled. We fee. that you will never purge commun- ists from the ranks of Seattle long-! shoremen by prolonging a stoppage’ to Alaska on a technical issue with Harry Bridges of San Francisco. Attendant hardship could result in making more communists. Further, as supplies for defense construction in Alaska are halted, the aims ot tke real and known communists ot |the world are being admirably| served. Neither do we see why the hun-| dreds of loyal longshcremen at Se-| attle’ should be treated as "u‘n-i touchables,” so to speak, just be-| cause certain ILWU leaders at San| Francisco refuse to sign the affi- | davits. 4. We appreciate that the Seat-! tle based Alaskan carriers, as mem- | bers of the Waterfront Employers[ Association and the Pacific Ameri- can Shipowners Association are pledged to stay united with all other |West Coast waterfront employers in refusing to deal with CIO long- shore unions until ILWU leaders| bave signed the non-communist ul-l fidavits. At the time the pledge’ was entered into it might have looked to memters of the shipping| industry like sound industry strate- ! gy to achieve a West Coast objec- | tive—especially since it is clear that it js not profitable to operate ships| during the present off-season. Nev-! ertheless, now that the Seattle longshoremen have offered to di-| vorce Alaska from what looms as a/| long and bitter struggle, the carriers| and industry associations should | modify their strategy accordingly.! ‘We in Alaska are no less opposed to communism than are you, but‘ are chiefly concerned with the com-; munists across Bering Strait. As; far as the problem in California is| concerned, it should be fought out| !down there without making Alaska a pawn in the conflict. Logical communist strategy would be to tie up Alaskan shipping at a time when relations -with Russia are strained,| (Continued on Page Five) 1113429/3865(3185 (3866 3455 2404/4301 2728{3324 3470/3851/ 3745 3322 3037 2! GOVERNOR'S BLOCKADE PROPOSALIS OF BERLIN TURNED DOWN?} IS BLOCKED /Issue Comes Before UN Seaftle Waterfront Em- ployers to Stick Togeth- There is one large precinct, 4!at Kake, which has not been iljlq,\ortvd ‘Therg, are three other 4 precincts from rw%ich no returns 9 have been recelved up to noon to- 4!/day at the U. S, District Clerk's 27/ office. | Then again the absentee vote, 27| which is estimated to be approxi- 33| mately 800, must be counted. 3! As the line up now stands, ac- 9| cording to the Empire’s unofficial 34| tabulation of returns received: Dr. 67 R. M. MacKenzie, Democrat, has 3613865 votes, Anita Garnick, Repub- 286 | lican, 3429; Murs. Elton Engstrom, 9} Republican, 3311. 3| But look at the vote for can- O'digates in the House of Represen- 4| tatives! \ 1i Mrs. Doris Barnes, Republican, 6 wrangell, 1s high with 4301 votes, and is in top place for sure. 11 Second, almost certain, s G. E. | Alnquist, Democrat, with 3866 | votes. Third is Andrew Hope, Dem- (ocrat, with 3851 votes. Fourth | place goes to Marcus Jensen, Dem- | ocrat, with 3745 votes. | Then the vote gets closer. There {is James Nolan, Democrat, with 13472 votes; Amelin 'Ou:{dersoh. ! Democrat was 3470 votes; Abel An- ! derson, Democrat, with 3455 votes; | Willlam Feero, Jr. Republican, | with 3324 votes, and Frank John- | son, Republican, with two votes un- tder Feero, 3322, | Look at the table on this page, take out your pencil, and figure out how the other candidates: are lining up. Anything can happen now! Pl S Rl 18/ 19, 36 49 i 132 90 52 64 178 249| 83! 579] 13] 38| 3 38 48 *20 9 6 31 23 20 10/ 17} 23 5 4 2 42 33/ 43 25 997/3038|3472 2412|1888 /6496 1023 81 141 1476 366 11 19 2 4 20 15 3 1 12 17 39 5 21 41 63 8 84 48 14 46 43 5 15! 96! ] 25 Families Made Security Council - No inow in its 44th day. er in Strike Situation SEATTLE, Oct. 15—®— M. G. (By The Associated Press) Ringenberg, president of the Water- Berlin blockade issue comes front Employers of Washington, in kefore the United Nations Security a statement yesterday said the w_li(_:ouncll_ again today. There was no E.A. membership is “standing fast,indication either side would yield. against any move to split its ranks In another section of the Worla and obtain separate agreements with irresponsible union leader- ship.” Ringenverg said the Association | has rejected a suggestion by Alaska Gov. Ernest Gruening that the W. E.A. reach “some agreement” with striking maritime workers who handle Alaska shipping Compromise Cited i i | i { ator Ralph Bunche said, “The time |is ripe for a settlement” in the Holy Land. He said he believes both sides would accept a reasonable U. N. peace proposal. Communist-led strikes and threats of strikes harassed France and {Italy. A thousand auto workers bar- {ricaded themselves in a Bordeaux {plant while 335,000 French coal (miners stayed idle for the 12th day Italian communists threatened nuonw{dc general strike BRIDGES TALKS SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15—/#— Harry Bridges and Waterfront Em ployers emphatically denied there are prospects for early settlement of the West Coast Maritime strike, ‘Polk, - American broadcaster, But the employers indicated to- day there was ‘a possibility nego- tiations would be resumed. They| said they were exploring a possible basis for reopening negotiations as' ¢ AN Ty suggested by representatives of (€¥U Yoshida, an ultra conseryative {as prime minister of Japan. ) President Philip Murray. y CIO Pres &y ‘2’ WS Chinese communists capturec Major Break in Polk Murder Case Is Near ment. In Japan list position | Kai-shek flew {nearer. to |di ;lhe record year of 1940 and that 1grain production also tops that yesr. (By The Associated Press) | How ' 2 There's a new development in the | HOWever, Moscow gave no specitic figures. A mystery surrounding the murder of | American radio newsman lCBSr‘!. d George Polk last May. The Greek: ' government reportedly is ready to| accuse Greek Communists of kill- ing Polk in an attempt to discredit | the Athens government. i y ey According to a Greek newspiper | for re o have declared that “Sov- editor, the Athens government will| publish an offieial report on the| Polk case Sunday. The report would be based on information se- cured by Greek police durlng ainpraineq only if the Western Pow two-month investigation. ers refuse to yield to the Soviet In Washington, the State De-|oiao called the Berlin blocks “ partment has declared that infor-| oy 0. the herhn NS mation from Greek officials indi- cates that a major break is near in the Polk investigation, Berlin Crisis Debate As the U. N. debated again Berlin crisis, Gen. Lucius D. Clay {in the German city | He said lasting peace can starvation measure. ' (Continued op Pa\;«fT'wm Peace agency, acting Palestine medi- ! hinhsien, anchor of the Natlonal- in Manchuria. Chiang Peiping to be l Russia claimed her industrial pro- uction is 26 percent higher than | minister who failed te {produce enough meat and milk was the the American military governor was iet expansion will not only be halt- ed, it will recede,” if the Western| | Powers continue thew firm stand be He said Russia | blocked efforts of the West to buy| e Homeless by Fire, Coney Isle Section NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—(P—Flames swept through 13 two-family frame houses in Coney Island near the amusement section early today, leaving 26 families homeless. Five occupants of one house, in- cluding a’ three-year-old child and a four-year-old, were burned and itaken to a hospital, Two firemen |and a policeman were injured. Over 266 .Slrid(en - Plomaine Poisoning i i [ | | i 1 | ‘I At Air Force Base Athens newspapers said the gov-' ernment will announce Sunday that Greek communists killed George and tried to blame the Greek govern- DENVER, Oct. 15.—M—More than 200 enlisted men at the Lowry Air Force kase were stricken with pto- malne poisoning yesterday. Seven wete serious enough to require hos- pitalization but all were reported by base officers today to be re- Emperor Hirohito invested Shig- |covering D ® 0o 00 00 v 000 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Pertod In Juneau - Maximum, 44; minimum, 38 At Afrport— minimum. 36. FORECAST (Juueau and Vieinity) Cloudy+ with rain tonight and Saturday. Not much change in temperature with the low tonight near 40 and the high tomorrow around 45. Southeasterly winds 15- 25 mph ‘tonight, occasional- ely increasing to 35 mph to- ® moarrow. e PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours endiys 7:30 a m. today ® In Juneau — .14 inches: since Oct. 1, 643 inches; since July 1, 36.34 inches. At Airport — 07 inches; ince Oct. 1, 354 inches; since July 1, 24.19 inches. Maximum, 47; i ©0000000%0000000000%00000°)ye0 ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0