The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 9, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" ————my e VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,038 U NEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1948 MEMBER ASbOClAT!:D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS To Resume Negotzatzons in Maritime Strike Trumans Welcomed o Washmg!on Flames Destroy Canyon Homes One of scores of homes reperted destroyed in a Topanga Canyon fire goes up in flames in the worst Los Angeles County brush fire of the year. the Pacific. PURGE OF 50. DEMOS . Eleanor Roosevelt Makes Suggestion Regarding Chairmanships —_— By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—(m— Democratic leaders turned a cold | the proposal | shoulder today on by Mirs. Eleanor Roosevelt that States’ Rights supperters be purged from the party. National Chairman J. Howard McGrath told a reporter it will be up to the Democratic members oi‘ the House and Senate to decide who gets the prized chairmanships g in the new Congress. He indicated the Natiomal Com- mittee doesn't want to mix in any such possible fight. McGrath is a Sengtor from Rhode Island: He hinted further—but say so ilatly—that any didn’t reprisai (Continued on Page Two) The Wasninglon‘; Merry - Go- Round! Hundreds fled their homes. Pushed by a strcng wind, the fire swept down the canyon toward th Wirephoto. $100 000 lEGS R.R. BARGEIS - - iAGROUNDIN SEATTLE, . Nov. 9—®— T)ls‘ Coast Guard announces that the | | Alaska Railroad barge ARR-738 is | | ashore i1 Fern Harbor, Cross Sound, Socutheast Alaska, with a | crew of two men aboard. The barge is carrying 2,000 tons of relief sup- plies to Whittier for interior Al- aska. BARGE ON ROCKS SEATTLE, Nov. 9.—®— The| | Coast Guard said the cutter Hem- | lock arrived at the scene from Ketchikan last night and using a rubber raft, rescued the crew of two off the barge. | The commander of the Hemlock id the barge “is on the rocks”/ whipped by a 40-mile wind [ Officers of the cutter will make ’. an effort to determine the extent| of damage to the barge and if the! vessel and hel cargo can be salvag-| ed. The barge left Seattle a week !ago for Seward in tow of the tug! [ Ohristine Foss. ~ The vessel went| FJg ashore yesterday morning while @ % | seeking shelter from winds of gale Shapely. Kippee Valez (above), a force. Tug company officials said| mevie dancer from Philadelphia, a tide rip grounded the barge.! Pa. figures her legs are worth r position is near Inian Island.| $100,000. She insured them for : | that amount, her studio in Holly- According to reports received by | al ‘1| Island and Comdr. Willianf H. Sny+ || der I ii Shunk said that an attempt would! to send out a Grumman | &9 i Bv DREW PEARSON. | (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) vCuast Guard representative Lyle E. ! ! Kelsey, the Coast Guard Cutter| White Holly has proceeded to the ASHINGTON - my wite has (0% 10 U (1 LS Mg been making things quite difficult| oy igine Foss from the Foss Tug) fof me.oveE Do MIgUOR DRV 1 63151 Seattie She talks about “that cute little Harry” and won't let me forget that I predicted he would not be | S et . STOCK OUOTATIOHS “Such a nice little man,” she! says, “and he got no help from' NEW YORK, Nu\, 9—(M Clos- anyone. The liberals were against | ing quotation of Alaska Juneau him, the conservatives were mine stock today is .3, American against him. Everybody was agnh\sz’can 79%, Anaconda 33':, Curti him—but the people.” Wright 7%, International Har- I have reminded her that at least | vester 27%, Kennecott 53, New York ; I predicted a Democratic Senate|Central 13%, Northern Pacific 1Tk, and that I reaped a harvest of |U- S. Steel 72, Pound $4.03%. squawks and jeers even for doing| Sales today were 2,260,000 shares. that. But she is satisfied. | 'Averages today are as follows:| “No, you can’t alibi” she says. :industrials 173.93, rails 53.83, util- “I know you too well. That *poor ities 33.26. | little man fighting all alone, and‘ Py | you discouraged him by predicting he would lose. Such a nice man, power Ra'es May I just love him.” o | “Listen,” say 1 gruffly, “Mrs. Go u 'A h Truman isn't g)omg to like hearing' p a m orage» you say that about her husband. e And I don't either. Love and poli-| ANCHORAGE, Nov B—WI—-PU\A-\ tics don’t mix " er rates may go up here beznme “This wasn't politics,” replies of increasing operating costs. Mrs. P. *“This was a lot bigger. The Anchorage Public Utilities This was bigger than any victory District, formed last week for aj Roosevelt ever won, because Roose- 'meeting with city officials to ** velt never had Wallace and the just rates.” Dixiecrats running against him. I~ The APU, which acts as a whole-| want you to tell everyone what a sale agency, estimated operating really great victory this wa costs were up about 12 per cent.| “They don't need me to tell 'em,” They anlud» a 20-ce I argue back. “They know it. Be-' Loard pay taise and fuel costs up‘ e —— ——— 1194 per cent since last year, ofti-| clals said (Continued on Page Four) ! President-elect, wood reported, because she was re- quired to do a dance sequence atop a bar three feet wide. (P Wirephoh\ BARKLEY T0 VISIT TRUMAN KEY WEST, Fla, Senator Alben W. Barkley, the Vice- is flying here to- day to join President Truman at his vacation retreat. Senator Barkley, accompanied by Leslie L. Biffle, scheduled to be- come Secretary of the Democratic- | controlled Senate when it organizes in January, left Washington about 10 am. (EST). They will land at the Boca Chica airport, about eight miles from the naval submarine base. Capt. Robert L. Dennison, President’s naval = aide, will ! them Mcanwhile, Mr. before seven, read the papers, the meet Truman got up and went off to the beach to loaf laround in the sunshine and play around’ in the water. Everybody speculated on what may.non election among employers of seat of | Arab government The Taft-Hartley law's provision has .a blockade around, Gaza, held 2-1 by a special three- there is no known army press the town nt across-the- 'happen to top-ranking officials of | Press Wireless, Inc. his administration. But President Truman said noth-| ing. Nov. 9.—im—! ate! ad- |Lacon and eggs, signed a few papers|ley law FAINT HOPE ' FORMISSING AIR VESSElS Believe 38 Crewmen, Pas-} sengers on Three Alaska Aircraft Have Succumbed | SEATTLE, Nov. inm,eawd faipt today that any of' 33 crewmen and passengers’ ‘omi three planes missing in the North Pacific area The Navy inclined dis- count the possibility that dim radio —iM— Hope are still alive. was to i | { signals picked up yesterday by four{ | Alaska and West Coast stations came from a missing Navy Neptune| { bomber. The signals came from} |a point west of Seattle and thei | Navy believes that the plane is; down in some other sector. Nine men were aboard when the hnmh-l er disappeared last Thursday. The| search is continuing The hunt for two planes in thel Alaska area was shackled by bad | weather yesterday. Seventeen were ahboard a Pacific Alaska Air Ex. press airliner which vanished on | Thursday between Sitka and Ketch ikan and a crew of 12 was on a Navy Privateer patrol bomber wh:ch‘ failed to return to its Kodiak base after a flight over the Aleutians last Wednesday. : LOCAL PLANES GROUNDED Coast Guard and Army planes headquartered at the Juneau air- port for search of the missing Pacific Alaska Express = Airlines plane were grounded today as low | . clouds hovered over the mountain | ‘tops and fog and mist rolled in { over the area between Cape Spencer and Annette where the missing plane is thought to have gone down. Comdr. . Robert Shunk of Annette of the Coast Guard Air Sta-: : tion. at Port Angeles, Wash,, di- | : rectors of the air search, said to-/ iday that no planes were able to go out this morning. Commander | {be made | this afternoon if weather clears. Three Const Guard planes and | three Army planes are here to join | in the air hunt for the missing craft | HIGH COURT - T0 RULE ON “TWO POINTS |Big Qestions Raised by Communist Eisler and Clo Group WASHINGTON Na\ Supreme Court today agr on cases presenting two big ques- | tions: 1.—How much right doesthe House Un-American Activities Com- mittee have to compel witnesses to testify? 2—1Is the Taft-Hartley Law's non-communist provision un- constitutional? Gerhardt Eisler, German-botn Communist, raised the first in an appeal from a conviction of con- tempt of Congress. It was charged that he refused to be sworn to tes- tify before the Un-American Ac- tivities Committee in February, 1947. He was convicted of contempt, sentenced to a year in jail and fined $1,000. Eisler contended to the highest court that the commitee’s proced- ures to compel testimony under ithreat of contempt action are un- constitutional. The court's decision could produce important rules affecting all con-| gressional committees The challenge to the Taft-Hart- non-communist provision | i | | | i | 1 | 1 {came was upl judee district court in New York !mitee called on Communist Yugo- slavia, Bulgaria and Albania today to cooperate with Greece in settling | |the Balkan dispute promptly said she would ignore tk U.N. special committee on the Bal- kans fused to vote, as day when the committee approved | jan indictment of Gr for helping the | Rebels. new appro lem, trying to turn the pr into an woud warring Jews and Arabs, militarized zones and jof armies and Arabs talks in Paris vom the CIO, American Com-|Tel Aviy said the beaten Egyptians munications Association, which was are leaving Gaza, denied a place in a union certifica- 'in Southern Palestine and once the | President Truman begins the drive from Union Staticn to the White House during a “welcome home” Mr. Truman, Democratl Alben Barkley. ® Wirephoto. celebration. (Left to right) rear sea Grath and Vice-President-elect Sen. Mrs. Max Truitt, Barkiey's daughter. Front t: ational Chairman Sen Mo s. Truman, Margaret (rowd Jams Park A huge crowd jams Lafayette Square across Pennsylvania Avenue fr to join in the “wclcome hcme” for President Truman after his clection vietory. from the portico. (P Wirephoto. 802 Misplaced Persons Are Now Bound for U. S,, Alaska UN's PACNot HAMBURG, G ny, Nov The U. S. Army transport Bundy has left 802 displaced persons bound for the United Stat nd Alaska. It was the second such group to sail under a U. 8. Act providing for ad- nnn«)'n of 205,000 refugees Those leaving were especially se- {lected from camps in the Britis zone of Germany and consist mainly )l skilleq laborers. Eleven national- mm were included, mostly Polish, | Lithuanian or Latvian Iniernational refugee organization lofficials said special preference in election was given to autc mechap- | s, general mechanics anu agricul- | tural workers fAIRBANKS GETS AMBULANCE, AFTER 9 \'I» Gen- al Doing So Hef; Turned Down (By The Associated The United Nations Political Com- Press) Yugoslavia | e | (UNSCOB) The Slav bloc of x nations re-! they did yester- B e’s neighbors Communist | ee Greek FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Fairbanks, without an ambu- lance for five yea has a shiny new one--but it can't be used until a $5,000 balance is raised by pop- ular subseription Since the old broke down in 1943 and ailing here have be bound in jeeps and taxicabs. The American Legion shelled out the down payment on thg new ve- hicle and Leglonnaire drove it from Cincinnati. As soon as the rest of the cost is subscribed thé ambulance will be turned over to the city From the plon doesn’t The Security Council was on a Nov. 9. ch to the Palesiine prc sent truce ! armistice tion of troad de- reduction P The seps armistice. include wide ambulance the injured a city The Palestine Post said the Jews are hating preliminary Unofficial reports in their main base a f a newly proclaimd Palestine The Israeli Navy tut! surk on first response, the Le- it will be long. Bremerhaven | PAYMENT IS MADE en hospital | om the White House ( Lone Picket Halts Loading Alaska Barge SEATTLE Nov | et | operated | day Fifty longshoreme {work when he appe | picket claimed to rej ] Hoisting Engineers’ halted loading of relief bar the local disclaimed any knowledge | of the action The third one of {put into emergency ! the maritime strike, half loaded when t jped. It is scheduled | day. | Howard Mc- Truman and 1| background) The President spoke 9 a i’fl\!'rnhh“l< hére yester- n who stom)cd ared said llu' resent the AFL Local 302, but its type service during the he work 1 to sail Mon- CONVICTION OF MEVERS WASHINGTON, Nc U. 8. Circuit Court o upheld the Bennett E. Ms inducing anoth {der oat court split 2 Meyers ha | March 14 five years his Court The case a Senate | air force | Meyer purcha durin ers, roper te ¢ been i ery ar sentence viction in ing cor against contracts. w retired ing the ‘ conviction of IS UPHELD w f 9. M Appea.s Mai on charg son o ik ommittee. has Gen. un The fice last 1 18 v to| imposed after U District ; 1 jail was the chiet CIO* ongshoremen reported a lone pick- | be withheld. to be| barge was | stop- | ‘The EMPLOYERS, STRIKERS T0 MEETNOW tDiscussions May Begin To- morrow Between In- terested Parlizs SAN I'I{A\(’ISCO Nov. 0. -—iPes The full membership of two mari- time employers groups today rati= fied plans tor early resumption of negotiations to end the 69-day-old j coastwise waterfront strike. Employer negotiations committees representing the Waterfront Em- ployers Association and Pacific Shipowners Association discussed plans for starting negotiations with the waterfront unions “as soon as ssible.” Negotiations may begin tomorrow, An announcement by a joint em- ployer committee said the .ques- | tlon of employees returning to work during the negotiations per- iod was discussed but no immediate solution was found. EAST TIEUP AVERTED NEW YORK, Nov. 9.--(P— tieup of East Coast shipping which had heen threatened for any time after midnight tonight—was avoided early today by tentative 'settlement of pay demands of 45, ;000 AFL longshoremen | The agreement with ship opera- tors—subject to ratification by | the employers and the membership |of the International Longshore- ‘men’s Association (AFLy ‘provides a basic wage increase of ten cents an ‘hour..and -other-benelits.. ., , ! Longshoremen on the Guif Coast llad agreed to follow the lead of !the unfon hereé in East Coast ac-" ' | ' tion, A -~ BIG SUM RAISED AT 'FAIRBANKS FOR BOY; SIGHT THREATENED FAIRBANKS, Nov. 9.—(P—A 13- vear-cld Fairbanks schoolboy whose sight is threatened by a brain tumor knows today he is living in a city of “good neighbors.” He no longer has to worry about the cost of a delicate” series of (operations needed for his cure. % More than 700 persons attending a recent beneiit party sponsored by the local Lions Club poured $2,800 linto a fund which, with earlier ¢ contributions, now totals approxi- I mately $4,000. The money will be !turned over to the boy's family, which has asked that his name D BLOCKADE AT -BERLIN TIGHTENED (By Amchl.cd Press) Russia today imposed new traffic {controls in an effort to seal tighter {her blockade of Western Berlin. Six |major road blocks were set up at sector borders to inspect vehicles. etary General of tthe United Nations, said he is study- {ing with the heads of the Security Council and General Assembly the Berlin currency issue. The Russians blockaded the city when the West- ern powers refused their demand to let the Soviet mark be the sole currency for Berlin. Lie asserted, however, he is not taking part in any negotiations over the Berlin deadlock i Trygve Lie, Sec Shanghai faced its most critical {food shortage in modern times. Ten {weeks of economic restrictions and ten days of unbridled inflation made ithe city one of closed shops, rice raids and strikes. This came in the wake of the Communist drive which crushed na- |tional forces in Manchuria. Power~ him grew out of |ful Red forces are within 200 miles ation of wartime |of Peiping ! United States foreign aid officials said American food shipments will officer for the air force continue to the large cities, Shangs hai included, to prevent starvation,