The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 21, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 11,022 Damage Case Brou Jackson Coming North fo | Investigate Alaska; Talks with Delegale TRUMAN AND DEWEY TALK OUT TONIGHT One from Wile House, Other-in New York-Both Hold Fire for Next Week (By The Associated Press) Both President Truman and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey were booked on New York programs today, but with Mr. Truman making his talk from the White House. The Presidential candidates were holding their main fire, however, for next week's campaign windup when they make their final per- sonal appearance tours of the 1948 contest. Mr. Truman was scheduled to speak tonight on a nationwide broadcast sponsored by the Inter- national Ladies Garment Workers Union. Actress Tallulah Bankhead will introduce the President from New York. Dewey will make his speech in person at a memorial dinner hon- oring the late Alfred E. Smith, former New York Governor and Democratic candidate for the pres- idency 20 years ago. Dewey spoke last night on the New York Herald Tribune Forum where he renewed his strength- through-unity plea. “Division and dissention are an invitation to the aggressor,” he said. “We will put them behind us. The task of waging peace should .be above partisanship. We must keep it above partisanship. America will stand before the world ak 'one . country and one people, belleving . deeply in the cause of| peace.” Declaring “there can be no iso- lation' for America,” Dewey add- ed? “There can be no withdrawal from the world where freedom and | tyranny are locked in a deadly struggle for survival.” . (Continued on Page Five) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 21—#¥—Clos- | ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3'%, American Can 79%, Anaconda 38%, Curtiss- ‘Wright 10%, International Harvest- er 29%, Kennecott 59%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 21%, U. S. Steel 84%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,200,000 shares. | Averages today are as follows: ipdustrials 186.44, rails 61.25, util- ities 35.70. The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.) Copyrisht, ASHINGTON— The record of| Congress during recent years is not unlike the present garbled pol- itics of the country. Party lines have been cut. Republicans some- times vpted with Democrats; some Democrats. lined up with Republi- cans. This will probably continue. It will probably also be true that/ Dewey will get as much support from certain Democrats as he will from some Republicans. On inter-| national issues—now probably the| most important before Congress— it is certain that most Democratic Senators will give him more back- ing than such isolationists as| Brocks of Illinois, Dworshak of, Idaho, or Robertson of Wyoming. In fact, the irrepressible, lovable Congressman John Taber has al- ready served notice that the GOP isolationists are planning to give brothér Dewey a rough time on two issues——economy and internation- al’ cooperation. ! Electing the right kind of Sen- e O R ¢ AR (Continued on Page Four) | gress'onal | the responsible military people there man's trips in Alaska. | jutilities and was active in frater- {came here in 1926 from Cordova, \where he had been an assistant JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Defenses of SEATTLE, O(‘l 21.—A Rep. | Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) said to- day he will fly to Alaska soon to gather first-hand details on the! state of the Territory's defenses | for the House Appropriations Com- mittee. Jackson, who held the second ot | two conferences with E. L. Bartlett, Alaska Delegate in Congress, here | today, said: “Delegate Bartlett, as the Con- representative of the Territory of Alaska, does not have| a vote in Congress but he has a voice which must be heard. o “He has told me the story of Al-! aska’s defenses and as a member of a vital house committee, I am determined that Mr. Bartlett's plea| to defend Alaska shall be heard. | Jackson is a member of Loth the House Appropriations Committee and of the Interior Department sub- committee which controls Alaska funds, “A glance at the world globe,” he said, “shows how vulnerable this| country will be if Alaska ever is| invaded by enemy troops irom the Polar Airfields. We charged our military forces with protecting us not only against probabilities but against possibilities— and Alaska, today, is full of potential threats. “My purpose in visiting the Ter- | ritory will be to determine the ex—“ act nature of those threats and how | think current dangers may best be met.” Bartlett, who leaves for his home. in Juneau today, will accompany| Jackson on some of the congress- I HARRY M'CAIN PASSES AWAY AT KETCHIKAN ‘ 1 1 | KETCHIKAN, Oct. 21—®—Harry | McCain, 62, who served eight yearsE on the City Council and was Mnyorn | three terms, died yesterday after | a brief illness. He led in the fight for municipal ownership of He bul-‘ He | nal and political affairs. fered a stroke last Friday. !district attorney for five years. svile, Ore., @ej graduated from Willamette andi Northwestern Universities. Before | coming to Alaska in 1916, he was| a National Vice President of the| Intercollegiate Prohibition Associa- | tion and later was associated with! Dr. Clarence True Wilson in the campaign for prohibition. The funeral tomorrow will be under the auspices of the Eagles| Lodge, of which he was a Past! Worthy President ] UNION WANTS, UNSAFE MINES| Born in Br: OWR CLOSED DOWN| CHICAGO, Oct. 21, —(A— A spokesman for the United Mine ‘Workers of America said today that mine inspectors must be given au- thority to close down an entire mine if proper safety precautions are not observed. “We are serving notice on the coal industry that this is another ‘must’ for the protection of our people,” said Paul K. Reed, specia international representative of the' union and an advisory member of the UMW safety division. | Wildrid Meynell Dies in England| LONDON, Oct. 21-—(5’)— Wildrid | Meynell, 96, poet, essayist and bio- ’ grapher of Disraeli, died last night ' at his Sussex home. COMMIE CHARGETO BE HEARD Congressmén' io Investi- | gate Employer Stand on Coast Maritime Strike SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 21.—#— Waterfront Employer charges that Communists are Lehind the 50-day old West Coast maritime strike will get a hearing before a house sub- committee on education and labor. Rep. Fred A. Hartley (R.-N.J.), chairman of the full committee, planned to set the date for the in- quiry today in a telephone confer- ence with the two-man subcommit- tee, the latter group, headed by Rep. Charles J. Kersten (R.-Wis.), flew here frcm an investigation of alleged communist infiltration in Alaska. Hartley left for New York IBSL} night after a speech in Berkeley. | He said he planned no “witch hunt.” “We merely want to allow the work- ers in the Bay Area to:overthrow communist leadership if they so desire.” The communist question has been | * a major point of dispute in the maritime strike. The Waterfront; Employers have refused to consider signing contracts until maritime un- ion leaders sign non-communist af- fidavits. Kersten told reporters the com- mittee learned at Nome that Russia has information about the city iwhich could come only from Nome residents. Amer. leg|on Proposes Big Pension Plan 'Would Apply to All Hon-! orably Discharged Vets | of Buth Wars MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 21—(®— The American Legion today adopted two resolutions calling.for pensions for! all honorably discharged veterans of World Wars -1 and 11. One asked Congress to enact llegislation that would provide a $60 a month payment to vetertans of either war when they reach the age of 55 and $75 a month pay- !ment when -the veteran reaches 65 years of age. The second, which had twice been defeated at previous national con- ventions, would provide pensions to all World War I veterans, their widows and children on the same basis now provided for Spanish- American War veterans and their widows and children: The over-all-pension plan, adopted at the final the 30th national convention, would include all veterans who served 90 days or more with the Armed Services during either war and would be paid “irrespective of any other income received.” Earlier, delegates adopted reso- lutions which recommend unifica- tion in the Armed Services, that stockplles of strategic war mater- ials be set up, conunued atomic energy research, development of the merchant marine, expansion of of world intelligence service and the maintenance of adequate mili- tary bases. OH, HUM! ANOTHER SHIPPING STRIKE THREATENED NOW NEW YOiih, Jct. 21—@— A nationwide shipping tieup, starting Nov. 9, was threatened today by Joseph P, Ryan, president of the as ]AFL International Longshoremen's Asscciation. Ryan’s threat of an impending strike of longshoremen was made to a Presidential Board of Inquiry seeking to settle a dispute between the unicn and the New York Ship- ping Association. —————————— FROM HOOD BAY A. E. Owens of Hood Bay is at the Baranof Hotel. itrol at the time of the accident. session of | { commandant 38 DEADIN | PLANECRASH INSCOTLAND Wire, Bursts Into Flames ~Nine Americans Die PRESTWICK, Scolland Oct. 21.— (M—Thirty-eight persons perished! today when a fog-blinded Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) constellation struck a high tensicn wire, bflrst! into flames and crashed into a pas- ture. Nine of the deac were Americans. Two persons, both Dutch, survived | the crash. 1 Both were reported gravely in=- jured. ! Six persons were taken from the | wreckage alive, but four died In hospitals later. The huge four-engined flircnfl.f was en route from Amsterdam to New York. While groping through | the fog for a landing, the pllot‘ radioed the control tower at the field: “I have hit comething. I am go-| ing on fire. Attempting to climb. * | { Nothing more was heard from the i plane. i A Civil Aviation Ministry offi-! cial stationed at Prestwick said the airliner was not under radar coms' A radar operator directed the: plane down through the fog until | the pilot saw the field, the off: cta]] told newsmen. Other airpory oificials said the! plane hit a 132,000-volt power Mne. {atout 100 feet above the ground, the | plane continuing for about two mnn‘ past the mining community ot Tars ¢ Lolton and crashed. Tt fell about, five miles northeast of the airfield. | Residents of Tarbolton said they | wer2 awakened by the engines of the low-flying plane and could see| flames spurting from the craft be- fore it crflahed BERLIN CITY ELECTION IS RULED OUT Russians In;p_ose Condl-j tions Which Are Sort | of Stranglehold [} (By The Associated Press) I Russia has ruled out a Berlin| city election for December 5, by! imposing conditions. These included| withdrawal of Western curr the | erasure of non-communist leaders! irom the ballot, and a purge of the anti-communist press and anti- communist labor unions. Col. Frank Howley, the U in Berlin, said the| Russians blocked the election to! “save the Communists from over- whelming defeat and condemna- tion.” He said the Reds would gt only three or four percent of the vote and called the Russian com- mandant’s restrictions ‘“the 'same type of soapbox oratory he has been giving us for years.” More hard words about Russia were voiced by Premier Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium. “Russia is voluntarily paralyzing United Nations action, making any progress toward lasting peace almost impossible.” COMMIE BOSSES EGG ON STRIKERS AT FRENCH MINES (By The Associaied Press) French strikers, egged on by Com- munist union bosses, spread anarchy in the French coal fields. Ten colleries were flooded and one set afire because the Reds wouldn't al- low maintenance. Strikers dug in behind barricades to battle govern- ment efforts to seize the pits. About 10,000 troops are in thej south central fields, where the trou-| 8. a walkout which the communists' hope will cripple the Marshall plan. Craft Hifs High Tensioni 'en, one of a number cf ° | be to answer letters to Santa Claus | to underprivileged children. | Michael O'Shea, Donald O'Connor, | added. The power barge Skarstone, (above), which the hatch cover had blown vived. The barge grounded on the reef. Four men were lost when they (u. off. Sanfa Claus Foundallon Is Established with Base Near Fairbanks; Plans Announced BIG ISSUE “By HOWARD C. HEYN HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 21— | Hollywood still believes in Santa | Claus and it seems that San Fran- | cisco does too. | The establishment of the Santa Claus Foundation geuglaphlcally‘ | centered at North Pole, seven miles frem Fairbanks, Alaska, was an- nounced last night by Eddie Brack- ~"2rs sup- porting the project. The Foundation’s main aim will | and whenever possible to send gifts | San Francisco will be the actual headquarters for the nonprofit cor- | poration, to be directed by a board consisting of five prominent resi- dents of the Bay area. | Hollywood’s Role Hollywood's role is one of moral | | and financial support irom such| luminaries as Bracken, Jack Car- son, Dennis Morgan, Virginia Maya.‘; Jackie Coogan, Barry Sullivan, Janis Paige, Dick Haymes and others. | ‘The board is composed of Glad)s Byrd Davis and Mrs. Theodore Swanson, San Francisco philan-' thropists; Frank J. Cayting, Na- tional Director of U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce; John J.! Davis, insurance man; and Charles D’Y. Elkus, attorney. Mrs. Davis is president of the board. Bracken said the organization is based on the belief that the spirit- ual regeneration of children alll over the world is a strong force for peace. | “To see that all poor kids will get | a present at Christmas seems lige a dream, but we ultimately are| going to try to do just that,” he/ i i} | | Service For Needy San Francisco will serve as a guinea pig for the first year and gifts of the Santa Claus Founda- tion will be confined to needy| children speciiied by service groups in the Bay area. However, letters all over the world will be answer- ed if sent to North Pole head- when the strike opened and later able, according to Frank A. Metcalf, quarters. +A number of toy manufacturers have pledged their support and a series of benefits will be put on by [Kinstley, union vice president. The possible, reports Patrolman Adolph !he actors. A softball game Nuv‘ 7 in Oakland will start the bene- fits. - Morgan and Carson will head the teams. Hollywood Olympies in December are also planned to boost the pro- Ject. Toy Train Planned Next year the Foundation hopes to have a top train tour ‘the na-| tion, picking up used toys kids overseas. Toys ble is the worst. French fuel stocks|manufacturers will go to childrentoday with 813 jwere low as the 335,000 coal miners were in their third week of strike-+{ The five fold aims of the Foun- \Dlspl.\ced Persons admitted to thefA. Goode of Portland, Ore., to [ U. 8. under a recent Congressional |[named National President of The salmon, in this country. [58) letters; dation, Bracken said, are answer the Santa Claus | sible; {set up ( the @) gifts insofar as pos- to establish’ a™ Santa Claus toy factory and village at! North Pole; (4) to found an in- ternational orphanage; and (5) to contribute to other children’s fare groups wherever possitle How It Started the Foundation is the; story of anonymous construction ! engineers and workers in Alaska who for several years have answer- | ed Santa Claus letters at their own expense. 1t started this way: An airplane arrived at Fair- banks with sacks of mail for Santa Claus. The construction people a new post office, Pole, to take care of the Christmas order. It has grown year by year. Last Yuletide the original backers found it cost them $15,000 to answer all letters, which poured in from send @ Behind ‘L])HLIINI of 44 cnuntnes (19 MAKES OFFER IN OIL STRIKE ‘Union Will Accept Com-| pannes ‘Offer of 12%2c Per Hour Raise SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21.—M— An offer by CIO oil workers to end | the 48-day-old strike against six major refineries i California went before the Texas Company today.; The proposal, received wllhuuv. comment by Standard Oil Company here yesterday was taken into a, Los Angeles meeting. It would |increase (the union wanted 22% | came down to 17'%) and reinstate | the pre-strike working agreement with a few changes, said A. ,R. old buse wage was $168. . — 813 IMMIGRANTS ENROUTE T0 U. S.. BREMERHAVEN G(’rmam Oct (or 21.—(A—The U. 8. Army Transport donated by.Genernl Black sailed for New York immigrants of 11 llBllDl)b They will be ‘act. is shown in this photo made by a Coast Guard search plane, heavy seas off Yakataga Reef in northern Gulf of Alaska last Sunday after the barge flashed an SOS. Arrow No. 1 points to living quarters partially torn away and No. 2, an open cover hold amidship from 8. Coast Guard phnlo from A. P.) North accept the companies! the first left the barge in a dory. One sur- | BLOCKADE 'D | ternational rought Against ILWU-CIO Battered Barge $193,000 IS SUM ASKED, JSC ACTION | amages lmez:ed (aused by Boycotting, Picket- ing of Local Plant The filing of an action in the District Court at Juneau, by Juneau Spruce Corporation against the In- Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union (CIO) and its Juneau, Alagka, Local No. 16, for $193,000 in damages allegedly caused by picketing and boycot- ting was revealed today by Free- man Schultz, manager of the Cor- poration in Juneau. Mr, Schultz received the foliow- ing statement from Hemry F. Chaney, President of the Corpora- tion, who resides at Portland, Ore- gon: “Since April 10 or wis year our mill at Juneau has been picketed and our lumber subject- ed to an unlawful boycott by the Longshoremen because our company refused to take the jobs of loading our barges away from our employess, members of the International Woodworkers of America, and sign an unlawful contract with the Longshore- men. This fact was admitted IS STILL | Blg Five Powers Favor, Peaceful Solution-Neu- tral Plan Is Suggested (By The As The Big Fivi ? pledged; themselves today in favor of peace- | ful settlement of their differences. It remained to be seen tomorrow, { (when the Berlin blockade debate is{ !1esumed, whether the action was more than words. The Big Five are the United States, Russia,' Britain, France and China. They, agreed to a Mexican resolution to Ithat eiffect in the United Nations | Political Committee, 3 Informed sources said there is a (slim chance at least that the six {smaller powers on the Security Council will be able to kring Rus-’ |sia and the Western powers to a| | solution of ihe Berlin crisis. One ineutral source said Deputy For-: | cign Ministed Andrei Vishingsky ull Russia had given conditional ap- I proval to a neutral plan for solv- 'mg the Berlin issue. An Ameri-; |can spokesman said the plan is ,ncceplable and satisfactory. The plan is said to appeal to the United States, Britain, France and Russia to make no move that would lead to war; a call to Rus- |Sifl to lift the blockade; the Four ; Powers to put into effect the ten- | tative Moscow accord which would have made the Russian-sponsored mnrks the sole ‘Berlin currency; and the Foreign Ministers Council to meet aftérwards on all German problems. The Russians tightened | |the blockade a little more with railway restrictions. ——— e HAINES CUTOFF STILL PASSABLE, PATROL REPORTS, ‘The Haines Cuto!( still is pass- i from children | offer of a 12'%-cent per hour wage | 'head of the Alaska Highway Patrol. | Every effort is being made to H(eq) the road open as long as !C. Lubcke, who is working with |Major Wade of the Northwest High-| way System, Y. T. i They continue the work of cle.u-‘ ’mp the slide, and a “cat” will be! kppt there as long as the road {is open, Another six inches of | snow fell Tuesday on the summit, acu)rdmg to reports. > NEW ALA PRESIDENT MIAMI, Oct 2074.4” Mrs. Hubert was | American Legion Auxiliary today. under ‘oath in a recent hearing in Juneau. “We do not enjoy bringing lawsuits, especially when they arise (rom controversies with any segment of organized labor, but in this case we have no other alternative. Despite the ' plain ternms- ‘of our 'milt- at Juneau has been forced to close twice, the first time because our employees were threatened and intimidated and therefore refused to cross the picket-line; the second time because our dock was so clogged with lumber we could not unload due to the strangle- hold of the Longshoremen in West Coast ports. There is a limit to the injury we can suffer without asking redress, and after more than six. months of this unlawful conduct that limit has been reached. “Theye are only two simpie issues Lo this affair. The first is whether an employer and the union lnmiflly representing his employees may safely deal to- gether on all jobs in a plant, or must be subjected to the illegal whim of any union that wants to ‘muscle in’‘and take the jobs over. The second issue is wheth- er the Longshoremen, headed by Mr. Bridges, are above the law. Although we filed a charge with the NLRB months ago we have had no answer to either ques- tion. It is for that reason we have filed this action in the courts, where we intend to press it with the utmost vigor.” The case will be tried in the U. 8. District Court in Juneau, and will be heard before a jury. Faulkner, Banfield and Boochever are representing the plaintiff in the action. This mornthg summons were served on' officials of the Local No. 16, President Earland Pearson and Secretary Alex Laiti. SCHULTZ LEAVES Freeman Schultz, General Man- ager o} the Juneau Spruce Corpor- ation, left today via Pan Ameri- can Airways for Portland. He ex- | pects to return to Juneau in three days. 'PACIFIC LOGGERS SUPPORT SHIPPING MEN, COAST STRIKE PORTLA] Ore., Oct. 21.—P— Thre Pacific gging Congress has rendorsed the policies of West Coast Iwnterlronl employers in the mari- time strike. Some 1200 delegates reprecenting the industry in 11 western states approved what they called the-shippers’ efforts to l"ing stability to the Pacific Coast mari- time industry VIAIDEI!ER INWITH 900 DOG SALMON The Wanderer, xkippered by S. ‘A Stevens, docked this morning at Juneau Cold Storage, with 900 dog totaling about 10,000 pounds.