The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 6, 1948, Page 1

SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,036 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, I948 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE!? TURDAY 1P.M. Edition P it MCNBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NO TRACE OF 3 MISSING ALASKA PLANES Will Discuss Proposal to End Shipping Tieup BRIDGES, C10 MEN T0 MEET To Consider—Efiployer-Ap- proved Plan for Seftling Coastwise Walkout SAN FRANCISCO, No. 6.—UP— Harry Bridges summoned his CIO| | the} longshoremen—key union in West Coast maritime strike—to a meeting today to consider an em- | ployer-approved proposal to end the 66-day shipping tieup. The proposal was framed by Al- mon E. Roth, President of the San Francisco Employers’ Council, and would sidestep the issue of whether the leadership of Bridges and Hugh Bryson, head of the CIO Marine Cooks and Stewards, is “irresponsi- ble.” The Waterfront Employers As- sociation and the shipowners have said that it was and refused to re- open negotiations with the two. Yesterday they reportedly agreed to Roth’s plan. Reliable waterfront sources gave dent Truman in the first photo of l DEWEY TELLS WHY HELOST IN ELECTION i this picture of the Roth pattern: 1. It includes only the basis for: re-ovening negotiations™ahd ldmm- istering new contracts. It does not concern contract terms. 2. The Employers’ Council and the National CIO would be party to the negotiations and would under-) write the peace. 3. The “irresponsible leadership” issue would te dropped, in view of the guarantee offered by the Na- tional CIO. Bridges, in a statement, caution- ed against hopes for an early settle- ment of the nine-week strike. When the strike began September 2 the longshoremen sought a wage increase of 15 cents over the basic $1.67 an hour. The employers offer-: ed 10 cents. The CIO marine engineers, one of the five unions observing the strike, already have signed a contract with the ship owners. The Federal Con- ciliation Service is endeavormg to bring together the Independent En- gineers and the CIO Radio Opera- tors for talks with employers. iSays GOP Overconhdence Was Material Factor in Defeat-Goes to Ariz. ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 6.—#—Gov. E. Dewey, conducting a i i | Thomas said today Republican overconfi- dence was a material factor in his defeat for the presidency. “It looks as if two or three mil- | lion Republicans stayed at home out of overconfidence,” the defeated GOP presidential nominee said. “I was quite surprised by the very low vote” in Tuesday's elec- {tion, the Governor told a news con- ference. Dewey and his family will take a vacation i Arizona, he announced. They will fly there tomorrow. The Governor was asked whether he had come to the conclusion that overconfidence was the major rea- son for his defat. | “It's one factor that stands out in the returns so far,” hg replied. post-mortem on Tuesday's election, | Truman, BarkleySmlle Hapmly Truman's New, l VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT ALBEN BARKLEY is pictured with Presi the two taken together. They are both smlllng h&ppuy over their victory in the elections. | often ignored by Deal Program ETo Get Boost New Congress Will Gwe President Better Support |- -Many Changes Made | WASHINGTON Nov. 6.—@- The Congress elected Tuesday is expected to give much smoother sledding to Prdsident Truman’s | New Deal program, battered and the Republican 80th Congress. ¥ That program is topped by such things as broader Social Security soverage, anti-discrimination bills, public housing, public health ins | surance and Federal aid for edite TREASURY REPORT SHOWS DEFICIT | FOR OCTOBER \AIIO(ahons Reduce Sum! . Available for Current ‘, Operaimg Expenses The Territory’s General Fund was | short $247,615.83 of being able to | teet its otligations at the end of | October, according to a statement issued today by Treasurer Oscar G. Olson. By the end of the year, according |to present indications, unpaid Gen- | eral Fund vouchers will amount to | at least $750,000, the Treasurer said. ‘There was $184,564.19 at the end of October after the books were | closed. Against this amount Auditor's office held vouchers to- | talling $432,180.02. Of this amount $46,931.90 was for teachers’ retire- ment; $221,629.71 for school refunds to incorporated towns; $55,211.63 for the University of Alaska; and $108,- 406.75 for miscellaneous accounts idue. { Payrolls for Territorial employees, {including teachers, for the months! of November and Decgmber, will amount to approximately $280,000.! { Commissioner of Education will is-} the | {tion as Knutson (Minn), Also during those two months maq cation. $! All these measures had beéd opposed in ‘the past by many of the lawmakers who went down % defeat in this week's voting. Thbs hold-overs who had been influerié = tial in blocking the President wilj be in a much weaker position noW | for Democrats will be in contré) | of the law- -making machinery. Ousted From Senate Ousted from the Senate by’ the electorate were such opponents of Mr. Truman's legislation as Bal (Minn), Dworshak (Ida), Rever comb (W Va), Robertson (Wyo), [Buck (Del), Brooks (Ill), and Wil- son (Iowa). Of the defeated Re- publicans only Cooper (Ky), gave, the President much support. In the places of these Senators when the 8lst Congress convenes next January 3 will be Democrats Douglas (I1l), Chapman (Ky),| Frear (Del), Humphrey (Minn),' Gillette (Ia), Neely (W Va), Hunt| (Wyo), and Miller (Ida). .There is | nothing in the record of those who have held public office previously to indicate that Mr. Truman can expect anything but cooperation from them, in general. [ House Casualties House casualties included such Republican foes of Truman legisla- chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee; McDowell (Pa), a lead- ing figure on the House Un-Amer- ican Activities Committee; Ploeser (Mo), chairman of the Small Busi- jness Committee; Harness (Ind), | Gearhart (Calif), Chenoweth (Col- Seated are Mrs. and Mr. George was 11-1 for Governor Dewey. (Fl Cabinet Post Noi Offered Has Been Offered Inferior Post OLYMPIA, Wash,, Nov. 6. F—A report emanating from this city yesterday that Gov. Mon C. Wall- gren had been offered the post of Secertary of the Interior in Presi- dent Truman's Cabinet brought a flat denial from the Governor. Wallgren, a close personal friend To Wallgren Governor Fat_l; Denies He' Villagers Cast Ballots Mn Damthy King drops her ballot in the box at da wn in Hnrt‘s Loralmn, N. H, as Town Clerk Macomber (right) watches. Standing In rear are, (left to right) Preston and Frances Burke and Mrs. Alice Burke. Morey and leaning over table, marking his ballot, is Peter King. Vote T e . QUSTER OF STAINBACH DEMANDED Demouahc Governor Laid Down on Job Declares Demo Committee | HONOLULU, Nov. 6.~ The Honolulu County Democratic Com-~ mittee last night demanded ouster of Gov. Ingram M. Stainback, in a resolution accusing him of “failing to take part in the campaign, not | i extending patronage, and acting (inimical to m» interests of the Dem- 40 PLANES ~ INSEARCH, NO.PACIFIC Most Exlen;i;;, Hunt Ever Conducted-Partial List of Passengers SEATTLE, Nov. 6—(®— Three planes with 38 persons aboard were still missing along the North Pa- cific seaboard today despite one of the most extensive search efferts ever seen in the area. 3 More than 40 planes, aided by | ships,” were pressing the search | from the Washington and British | Columbia coast to the Aleutians. | | The missing planes include a | non-scheduled Pacific Alaska Air | Express airliner missing in the | Sitka-Ketchikan = area of Alaska | with 17 aboard, and two Navy | eraft, | The Navy planes are a Navy IPBY Privateer from the Kodiak | Naval base with 12 men on board, imisslnz in the Aleutians, and a |long range U. S. Navy Neptune bomber with nine men, which van- {Yshed off Vancouver Island. The zirliner and bomber disap- | peared Thursday... The Privateer has been unreported since W | day. Reports from Anchorage said there were 17 aboard the Pacific Alaska Air Express plane. CAA, at Seattle, said they were advised only of 11 passengers, and a two-man crew. ‘Twenty-eight American planes and three Royal Canadian Air Force planes ‘are seeking the Neptune bomber with six men aboard, along the Vancouver Island west coast. Six other planes scour- ed the Alaska Peninsula-Aleutian 1sthnds sector for the Navy PBY Privateer from Kodiak, which was last reported slightly north of Port Moller: No clues of any of the three have been sighted. The seventeen persons aboard the missing Pacific Aleska plane in- clude Capt. Andrew Kinnear, Ren- ton, Wash; co-pilot -Richard Wil- bur, Seattle; passengers: Tom Sko- land, Glenallen, Alaska, CAA em- ployee; Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Klug, i Anchorage; Henry Miller, Homer, ! Alaska, who recently resigned from the Alaska Road Commission and Dewey said he had no mtenuonhue vouchers for $285,500 for refunds ! of renouncing his role as titularito municipal corporations. In view ‘P‘cad of the Republican party during |of that fact, very little money can 'Lhe next four years be releaseq for payment of other e, <. - cvin general fund vouchers, Mr. Olson rado), Vail (I1), Busbey (I, Meade (Ky), Reeves (Mo), Buffett i jwas going to Tulsa, Okla, to pick jup his wife and family; Mrs. Agnes Philips, Homer, Alaska, and her | daughter Kelley, and son Grandal. - of the President, scotched the rumor before his scheduled departure this (Neb), Bender (Ohio), Gross (Pa). afternoon for an undisclosed des- and several score others. tination in the East. He did not dis The resolution will come betore the Hawaiian Territorial Democratic Central Committee Nov. 11 TYPHOON MANILA, Nov. 6.—The weather bureau said today a typhoon wim winds at the center of 70 miies an hour would be 285 miles off the northeast coast of Luzon toraorrow afternoon. The storm is moving slowly toward the Philippines. The Washington Merry - Go - Round Bv DREW PEARSON {Copyright, 1948, by 'l'hl Bell Syndicate, ASHINGTON—Here is a bird’s eye view of some of the new men chosen for the Senate this week in one of the most historic elec~ tions in recent years. Kerr of Oklahoma—The voters have swapped one oil man for an- other while ex-Governor Bob Kerr, Democrat, a wealthy oil man, suc- ceeding ‘multi-millionaire Repub- lican Ed Moore in the Senate. | However, except for the fact that they are both oil men, the twol are miles apart. Scrooge-like - year-old Ed Moore was a Senate spokesman for the big corporations, and made no secret of it. If a lib- eral idea ever entered his head it} died from solitary confinement. But Kerr was born in a log cab-' in near Ada, Oklahoma, and has never lost the common touch, de- spite his considerable wealth. And he has an infallible method of keeping his down-to-earth bearings. | “Whenever I am’ tempted t,o, think like a rich man,” says Kerr,, [} (Continued on Page Four) | lon Monday evening at 8 o'clock MARKET PRICES Up, DOWN' NEW YORK, Nov. 6—®— The| stock market headed upward early today but the rally soon bogged down, Toward the close of trading gamc and losses were pretty well mixed, l mostly within a range of a point either way. | Soon after the opening, orders ! poured into the exchange at such a rate the ticker tape was unable to keep up with floor transactions for | a while. Business later slackened a bit but the day’s volume still reached a sizeable total. ‘ Financial quarters reported wide- | spread apprehension exists over the possitle effects of the new adminis- tration’s poiicies. Despite the present ! high level of economic acuvity,‘ which promises to continue for! months to come, many feel | | ! that | business profits may take a beating. Probably the market's greatest concern, these sources claim, is an excess profits tax. ——————— WRITERS TO MEET The Creative. Writers will meet at the home of Mrs. Dora Sweeney, 518 North Franklin Street. It is hoped that all members will be present and one time. FIVE STATES said. ARE SWEPT BY TORNADO | (By The Associated Press) } Pint-sized tornadoes and de- i structive windstorms bounced over iive southern states Friday, leav- ing nine persons dead, 67 injured and home, farm buildings and crops flattened. The rural area around Benton, Miss., go the worst of the tornado terror. The Red Cross reported six persons killed and 30 injured there. The other fatalities occurred else-| where in Mississippi, and in Ken- tucky. Other tornadoes or high winds; | struck at Ripley, Miss.; near Vlcks-l burg, Miss.; at Cedartown, Ga.; near Elizabethtown, Ky.; near Pu- laski, Tenn.; near Alexandria, La;| and in Louisiana’s rural Catahoula Parish (county), 38 miles north- west of Vicksburg, Miss. e DIVORCES GRANTED Divorces granted yesterday by | Judge George W. Folta in District Court included those of Bertha I. from Julian C. Hills; Lila M. from Chester M. Clymer, and Sumoa A. from Emil Jacobson. | Truman proposals. - | J Taking the places of. many of |close the purpose of his trip. jthese will be lawmakers who in| “I have not been offered the Sec- the past have supported Roosevelt-|retaryship of the Interior,” he said “There has been no talk of it by me Adm, In Key Spots or, Through shifting of committee, To the best of my knowledge there | craLs administration supporters | Julius Krug is the present head . will ~hold the key spots in both of the InLermr Depmtmem i the Senate and the House. is slated to replace Taft tOmm'BARKlEY SAYS as head of the labor committee, while Hayden (Ariz), n’plnces, pRI(E (ONTROl tee helm. Even more significant are the‘ WIll RETURM changes in House Committe lead- | ‘Taber (NY) as chairman of Ap-»Sendtor Barkley, (D-Ky), Vice- propriations; Spence (Ky) takes over | | President-elect, predicted today the Banking from Wolcott (Mich); ‘new Democratic-controlled Con- |of Labor in place of Hartley, (N. some authority to control prices J.; Celler (N. Y. takes over Ju-, Barkley also predicted to a news |diciary from Michener (Mich); | conference that the Demoarats the head of Rules; Wood (Ga) suc-' 1. Extend rent controls before ceeds Thomas (N J) as chairman |they expire on March 1. of the Un-American Activities 2. Continue the present foreign {over Ways and Means from Knut-| 3. Revise the Taft-Hartley Labor son (Minn). | Act. On all committees, numerical| to Democrats. |ed on the 1948 platform will carry The election also may mean | out the civil rights ])lcdges i fresh etforts by a group of House The 70-year-old Senate leader | “Liberals” to obtain a stronger to explain the surprising Demo- voice in their party's leadership. cratic victory. They tried it once before and| “Thg peopie did their own think- a better chance now. FR T S A Only by changing past pnlicies, Weeds harbor insects and act they say, can the Republican party |as a breeding ground for plant cunnol from Republicans to Demo-! !is no vacancy in the position.” In the Senate, Thomas (Utah) | Brooks (Ill) at the Rules Commn.— ership. Cannon (Mo), replaces WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—P— | Lesinski (Mich), becomes chairman gress will give President Truman Sabath (I11) replaces Allen (Il at| will: group, and Doughtom (N. C.) takes | aid program. superiority shifts from Repubhcam‘dem Truman and Democrats elect- Repubucans who call themselves|smiled broadly when he was asked | failed, but they believe they have ing and their own voting,” he said. hope to regain control of Congress.) rusts, | | others in responsible positions. | He said he expects that Presi- | Governor Stainback, a Democrat| first appo.nted by President Roose- | Ivelt in 1942, declined comment. His present term expires in 1950 Haw Archbishep Syprou Athenagoras | N, weay Repukhum (above), of New York, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, was clevated te Patriarch of the Or- | thedox Church in an ‘election in | Istanbul, Turkey. He succeeds Maximos V, who resigned because pl((ARD IS of ill health. ® Wirephoto. JAN(HORAGE MAN CALLED OFF ~ T0 SERVE TIME ON MURDER CHARGES BRUSSELS, Nov. 6.—Prof. Au- |guste Piccard’s bathyscaphe has ieen damaged so badly he has been forced to abandon his deep sea venture, the Belga agency says. He hoped to plunge two and a half miles under the water in the SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. /- glant “submarine balloon.” The conviction of Aimond G. Fuller| TPe Belga news agency reporter of Anchorage, Alaska, on charges of With Piccard sa'd the tloater on the second degree murder is upheld by bathyscaphe is damaged so badly it the Ninth U, S. Circuit Court of Ap-|C8nnot be repaired aboard the S. S. peals, Scaldis, mother ship of the expe- dition, Fuller, the opinion said, was con-| ©ff the Cape Verde islands, a sea victed of slaying his mistress, Jeancwell made it ignpossible to get the Mackey, of Anchorage, on July 18, bathyscaphe on board the Scaldis 11946. He was sentenced to 24 years after an unmanned trial dive of imprisonment 14,250 feet The circuit court found no error; A few gallons of water penetrated in the proceedings. Fuller had ap- me cabin of the cage. On seeing the pealed on grounds of insufficient extent of the damage, Prof. Piccard evidence and protested introduction decided to call off the venture, the |at* his trial of a picture of the vic-| Belga reporter said. |tim’s body and of his signed smle-‘ - s> ment containing, the court said,i The crop loss from weeds in the certain admiss'ons tending to in-| United States each year Is esti- jcriminate him., lmulcd at $5 billions. 'No Law Anamsl Jaywalking in ‘Manila * MANILA, Nov. 6.—# — Police started an allout effensive against Jjaywalking. | Quickly they rounded up nine jaywalkers and marched them into court, Thre judge immediately freed them there is no law against jaywalking in Manila. FREE DANCE TONIGHT FOR ELKS, LADIES Prices are Slashed! are zero-zero! The Emblem Club announces that their dance to- night_will be free to all Elks and their ladies. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Emblem Club members have decided to not charge admission to the dance, as was previously announced. Bill Mathenys' orchestra will play for dancing and highlight of the evening will be thé an- nouncement of the winner of the naming contest for the new FElks cocktail lounge. In 1act, they