The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 5, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,035 ——— JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS THREE PLANES ARE MISSING OFF GOAST Tremendous Welcome Greets Pres. Truman ! PRESIDENT ADDRESSES THOUSANDS Triumphal my to Wash- ington Greatest Turn- ouf Since April, 1945 WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—@—| President Truman, speaking from the front porch of the White House asked today for co-operation of all the people in dealing with the na- tion’s problem. For himself, he pledged “to do the job to the best of my abil-| ity.” i Mr. Truman spoke to thousanis | massed about the executive man- sion. They and others like them had just given him a tumulteus welcome back to Washington and cheered him wildly on a triumphal | ride up Pennsylvania avenue from the Union Station. ! The happy President waved and beamed. ! But in his White House speech | he said solemnly that the “immen- | sity of the job ahead makes a man | wonder whether he is worthy of the great responsibility.” He told his well-wishers he could not say how much he appreciated the warm and-cordial weleome he received from the people of Wash- ington. ‘Welcome “‘Overwhelming” “It is overwhelming,” he said.| He had been in Mexico, Brazil,i Canada, and all the state capitals, ! Mr. Truman added, but he had nev- er seen a better turnout than that which welcomed him home from his campaign. i “Thank you from the bottom of ! my heart.” Floyd A. Truscott, Assistant Sup- erintendent of Police, said at least 500,000 persons “and probably more” turned out along the line of; march. { Policemen on the White House, grounds thought 500,000 people stood within the President’s view. Lafayette Park across Pennsyl- vania Avenue from the White, House was solidly packed with hu- manity. “Greatest Hce-l’resldent" The President told the crowd! he would look forward to the co-| operation of “the greatest Vice- President a man ever had.” d Then he introduced Vice-Presi-, dent-elect Barkley as “the President of the Senate.” Barkley, after telling the Presi- dent it had been “a great pleasure” | to be associated with him in the campaign, declared that the elec- tion had proved one thing: “It is that the American people do their own thinking and their own voting on the day of election.” Amid more laughter and cheersl (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, ?[: The Bell Syndicate, c. (Editor's Note:—After Drew Pearson, in the Merry-Go- Round of last Wednesday, told of Dewey's White House staff line-up as = President, came right back on Thursday with as finely ‘a written Merry-Go- Round telling how on election night, “two efficient-looking gentlemen in plain clothes stepped up to Governor Dewey and notified him that, from that moment on, he was, in ef- fect, a prisoner. They were the Secret Service, charged un- der the law with protecting the | President of the United States.” The Merry-Go-Round also gave [ Dewey's propesed legislative- £ program. Of course, these | Merry-Go-Rounds were never ! printed except in a few early or pre-dated issues in the 1 United States. | (Again in Friday's Merry-Go- ! Round, Drew Pearson mention- ! ed a case coming up Which ! (Continued on Page Four) NEGRO NOW Truman in Viclory President Truman wears a broad grin and raised his hands over his head as he greets a crowd outside the Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City, Mo, after Gov. Thomas Dewey had conceded victory in the Presi- dential election. (P Wnrenhoto Members cf the clerical staff at the White House mass arcund President Truman's desk after Thomas E. Dewey conceded defeat in the national presidential race. ) Wirephoto. U. 5. TASK FORCE 38 IN MANEUVERS TOKYO, Nov. 5—(®—U. S. Task ‘F rce 38 will participate in train- mg exerclses with the Far East Air Forces for three days starting! .. NJv 17, it was announced today. e Task Force, composed of two _— carrlsn two light cruisers and .By HOWARD DOBSON | eight destroyers, WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—®—An| China. i outright race issue confronts the‘ new Democratic majority of the House—a negro is in line to head a major committee of Congress. He is Rep. William L. Dawson, of Illinois, Georgia-born Chicago at- torney who was re-elected Tuesday to his fourth term. Dawson actually is only the sec- ond ranking Democrat on the EX- eeutive Expenditures committee. But the No. 1 man—Rep. John W. McCormick of Massachusetts — is slated to return to his job of ma- jority floor leader. And tne major- (By Associated Press) ity leader customarily does not have | Administration leaders are happy | any committee assignments; he about the new Democratic Congress, ISINLINEFOR MAJOR. (OM. COALITION OF DEMOS LOOM never has carried the burden of a‘but they have no illusions of com- | major chairmanship. | | plete zmooth sailing ahead for | Democratic committee assign-|everything they ask. Some Demo- is at Tsingtao,| (GOPERS,SOUTH SITKA LOSES BIG PAYROLL OVER STRIKE Colymbia LMer Co. Sus- | pends Because Unable fo Move Produchon SITKA, Alaska, Nu\' 5.—(M—The maritime strike has stopped this town’s largest single payroll. The Columbia Lumber Company, | manufacturers of Sitka spruce lum- Ler, suspended operations today te- cause it was unable to move it production. ments in the House are arranged by | cratic leaders admit that President | the party's members of the ways Truman's and means committee. This group’s| program won't get very far, if sub- recommendations are submitted to|mitted in its entirety. a caucus of all House Democrats, | then to the entire house. to watch out fof a possible coali- The Ways and Means members’ tion of Republicans and Southern recommendations usually are ap-‘Democrats These two groups got proved Ly the caucus, since they together in the Democratic 79th are worked out with the party's| Congress, which irked both Frank- (Continued on Fage Two) 1in Roosevelt and Harry Truman. ten-point anti-inflation | Administration officials will have | Roy C. Avrit, manager of the company, said operations would be |resumed when boats were again | available The company 190 men with a monthly payrol | about $90,008. normally employs 1l ol B RECKLESS DRIVER FINED On a charge of reckless driving, | Jack Cunningham was fined $35 today by U. 8. Commissioner Felix| gey negotiations resumed next week. | Gray. .o FROM SELDOVIA R. T. Kester and Mr. and Mrs. Advar Duncan of Seldovia registered at the Baranof Hotel. ' | State Marshall | }(ABINET SHAKEUP NEARING ed Into New Truman Family-Rumors By FRANCIS M. LEMAY WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—(#— The name of Harold L. Ickes, the | { “Old' Curmudgeon” of the New ! Dedl, cropped up today in wide-, { spread rumors o impending Cabi- | net appointments. | 161 all strictly specululmn some people in high places whispering that they won't be sur- prised it President Truman invites back into his official family that | | | | | but, phrase: “Thomas Elusive Dewey— the candidate in sneakers.” Mr. ‘Truman, returning phantly to Washington, hasn't said a word about it, but the rumor milis are working overtime about qosflblc shakeups. Cabinet Shakeups A favorite topic of conversation campaign inactivity on the part of | the varfous Cabinet members with the exception of Secretary of and Secretary of Defense Forrestal. These two, because of the bipar- tisanship foreign policy and the} strained international situation, never had been expected to do any plugging for Mr. Truman. the all-out efforts of such Cabinet officers as Secretary of Labor Tob- iin and Secretary of Agriculture (Continued on Page Six) DOPEON MARINE STRIKE SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5—(#—! ‘The possibility of an end to the 64- day-old West Coast maritime strike was heightened today by these de- velopments: 1. President Almon E. Roth, of the San Francisco employers’ coun- cil, said the council had placed a formula “for early resumption ofl negotiations” in the hands of em- ployers, local unons, and national CIO officers. 2. Sources close to the strike said shippers and union representatives | | 1 have been in contact by telephone | with national CIO president Philip Murray. In Washington, Murray de- lined comment on settlement pros- pects, but said he might have a statement soon. 3. Wateriront empioyers and un‘on sources conceded ‘‘something is stirring.” A union spokesman said: ‘You are ®afe in saying this thing looks like it is going to be sellled very soon.” Striking CIO longshoremen an- nounced a union meeting Saturday ‘o discuss the situation. CLOSELY GUARDED MEETING SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5—P— | Maritime employers held a closely guarded meeting today—65th day of the West Coast shipping strike/ {o —t0 consider a new peace move. Just what the new move, initiated by the San Francisco Employers Council, called for no one would say. There were published re- ports it proposed: 1. A gugrantee of contract com- pliance in behalf of the striking CIO unions by National CIO Pres- ident Philip Murray. 2. Guarantee of shipowner com- pliance by the Employers’ Council. The move's aim was certain: To R ad ) ACS OFFICER HERE Lt. D. H. Tyer of the Alaska) are | Communications System is at the o He is from Seattle. | Baranof Hotel. Harold Ickes May Be Call-| are ' ! master of invective who coined the | trium- | for weeks has been the degrec of, { Otherwise the range spread from 'Handwriting W Alaska's Result REPORTS ARE HANDED OUT i Prices, Inhlahon Federal Spending, New Labor Law fo President (By The Associated Press) Inside the White House, details of the job ahead are beginning {to pile up on the President’s desk Presidential advisers are drawing up reports. Mr. Truman will pack [them up with his fishing clothes and leave on Sunday for two- week vacation at Key West, Flor- ida On President Truman's desk will be a message from his council of economic advisers. They'll submit a report on what can be done akout prices, inflation and Federal spending. There'll also be outlines of legislation that the administra- tion will try to get before Con- gress as soon as possible. Democrats are talking about writing a new labor law to ireplace the Taft-Hartley Act, which President Truman wants re- pealed. Labor Secretary Maurice 'Tobin has declared that the new ilabor law should be—in his words | —"Fair to both workers and man- | agement.’ | Senator Allen Ellender of Louis- !iana has predicted that the new Democratic Congress will get to . work quickly on an _ “adequate” (housing bill. This measure would { provide for public housing and slum clearance — projects that were Iblu.ked by the eightieth Congres: Administration leaders will make la try at holding back run-away lpn(es The probable head of the House Banking Committee, Repre- | sentative Brent Spence of Ken- tucky, says there will be an at- | tempt to control prices. | Congress also is due to get legis- lation on national health insur- ance, broader and bigger social security benefits and Federal help |lu education 'BULLETINS 1 a i openly WASHINGTON~» Presldem Tru- man today appointed Robert M. Scotten of Michigan' to be Am- bassador to New Zealand. MALFIELD, Ky. — A framed picture of President Harry S. Tru- iman in a book store here bears a tag which read “Was $1.98; now 1810.00.” PO ARSI ST oo om0 'a e iw & g 9 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period In Juneau— Maximum, 40; minimum, 33, At Airport— | minimum, 32. Maximum, 40; FORECAST (Juneau snd Vielnity) Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday with occasional showers of rain or snow. Lowest temperature tonight near freezing and highest tomorrow near 40. . . . . . . . ) . . . . . . . . . PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ In Juneau 61 inches since Nov. 3.14 inches; since July 4955 inches. At Airport 35 inch since Nov. 1, 170 inches; sincé July 1, 3379 inches. 1 1 o . ° . . ° FOR TRUMAN as on Wall Two WeeksBefore Tuesday Eledion; Was Barometer By MORGAN REYNOLDS WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. For more than two weeks before Tuesday's stunning election upset, the handwriting was right there on the wall for all to see It was Alaska's Democratic in the Territorial election of tober 12 | Although the Territories do not vote for President, Alaska for the | past 32 years always has called the turn by choosing a delegate to Congress from the party that has gone on to win the presidency. This year was no exception, and { the far-north voters refused to put {in a Republican replacement for Democrat E. L. Bartlett, the dele- ! gate coming back for a third term. In the actual election only two of the weathervane states survived Tuesday's Truman tempest with perfect records of backing the pres- idential winner. These were Arizona and New Mexico, which haven't missed since joining the union in 1912, when they went for Woodrow Wilson. | iThey did it again four years later, then switched to the Republican column the next three elections. In the last five elections; the baby states have been in the Democratic camp. | Three other ballot barometers— Idaho, West Virginia and Missouri —came up with accurate forecasts to maintain their high ratings. The Potato State hasn’t been wrong since it missed out with William Jennings Bryan 'in 1900, Missouri, likewlse, has swung with the victory parade 44 years, start- ing with Teddy Roosevelt in 1904. West Virginia has supported only two losers in the last 16 presiden- tial elections, losing with Cleve- land in 1888 and splitting its elec- toral vote 7 to 1 for Hughes in 1916. As for Maine and its once-fam- ed record for pointing to the na- tional victor with its September state election—is maintained a 20-', year record by giving its fifth; straight misdirection | - Alibies Are Figured Ouf, . Republicans (By Associated Press) The work of those forecasters is going througo some scrutiny ‘n Al- bany, New York. Governor Dewey's advisers are trying to figure out what made the pre-election polls so unanimously wrong. Some people are blaming the polls for Dewey’s defeat. They argue that many people didn't bother to come out and vote for Dewey because they assumed he had the election sewn up. The Republican candidate’s ad- visers also think the type of cam- paign waged by Dewey had some thing to do with the result. A min- ority of Dewey's advisers wanted him to slug it out with the Presi- dent, issue for issue. But most of them persuaded the Governor to stick to a high-level campaign. And so Dewey stressed a united America and gave only an outline of his position on campaign issues. More than anything else, Re- publicans are blaming over-confi- dence for the logs of the election STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American | Can 797., Anaconda 34%, Curtiss- | Wright 9%, International Harvest- | er 27%, Kennecott 55%, New York | Central 13%, Northern Pacific 17%, | U. 8. Steel 74';, Pound $4.03. | Sales today were 2,530,000 shares. | Averages today are as follows: | industrials 178.38, rails 56.22, util- vote | Oc- | 30 OR MORE REPORTED ON LOST CRAFT Missing Include Airliner, Navy Long-Range Bomb- | er and Navy BPY (By The Associated Press) Three planes- one of them an airliner—with a total of 30 or more persons aboard are missing today (Friday) in the North Pacific area. The planes are: A Pacific Alaska Air Express non- scheduled airliner which vanished yesterday on a flight from Anchore age to Seattle. Pigures on the nume- ber aboard ranged from 11 to 15. A Navy long-range Neptune bomb- er with a crew of “seven or nine” reported missing off the Washing- | ton-British Columbia coasts yes- terday during Army-Navy-Air Force WAar maneuvers. A Navy PBY with 12 aboard which disappeared in the Aleutians area Wednesday night. Big Search On All available aircraft in the three areas were pressed into a search for the planes. ‘The non-scheduled Pacific Alaska DC-3 disappeared during a flight from Anchorage, Alaska, to Seattle. At the time, it- was making one leg of the hop from Yakutat to Annette Island. K was last heard from over Cape Spencer yesterday thorning at 5:10 am, Pacific Standard Time. It failed to make its regular report over Sitka. No Lists Available None of the passegers lists was available. Two additional search planes were being sent north today by the Coast Guard to join in the search for the | missing Pacific Alaska airliner. The Coast Guard sald the Civil Aero- +nautics Administration at Yakutat advised it there were 11 passengers aboard the transport. It was be- lieved to have a crew of two or three. Coast Guard Search ‘The Coast Guard was sending a PBY from its Port Angeles, Wash., station and a B-17 from San Fran- cisco. The later was to stop at Port Angeles on the flight north. The Coast Guard said it had two of its own planes and an Air Force plane from Alaska bases in the search over a wide expanse of land and sea. The searches for the three miss- ing planes covered a vast area of thousands of square miles between Washington State and Nome, Al- aska. All search reports were nega- tive. There never has been a time when 50 many large scale searches were being conducted at the same time in Northwest and Alaska areas. Those Aboard Two of the persons aboard the missing Pacific Alaska Express plane were identified today in An- chorage as Mr. and Mrs. Ed Klug of Anchorage, who were returning to Milwaukee, Wis. Klug formerly (Continued on Page Eight) ELECTION VOTE Associated Press returns at 2 pm. (EST) Friday from 127532 of the country’s 135,864 voting units show- ed the vote in Tuesday’s election: Popular Electoral 23077445 304 21,092,596 189 1,094,877 None 925,226 38 46,190,144 > - ANCHORAGE VISITORS Among the Anchorage residents staying at the Baranof Hotel are J. A. Holzenberg, A. E. Peterson, and Miss May Camden. Richard Stryker of Anchorage is also here. Mrs. Richard Stryker is the former Rogene Garvin of Juneau. STEAMER MOVEMENTS All American steameys tied. up by coastwide strike. Princess Norah scheduled to san Truman Dewey Wallace Thatrmond ‘ Total | ities 33.65. from Vancouver November 11,