The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 10, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL LXXIL, NO. 11 ,039 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Nego 10J0, SEVEN OTHERS ARE CONVICTED Moscow NJpaper Fea- | tures Story Truman fo Talk with Stalin An international tribunal con-? victed wartime Premier Hideki To- | io and seven other Japanese of | taking an active part in plans lend- ing ‘to Pearl Harbor. It appeared all 25 Japanese war leaders would be convicted. | Russian newspapers asserted a‘ rekellion still is going on in South Korea and that U. S. troops are! helping to put it down. The | South Korean Home Minister said | Monday 6,000 persons have been | killed i a revolt in North Korem; Moscow newspapers feature prominently a Washington dispatch saying President Truman might go to Europe to talk with Prime Min- ister Stalin - SYNTHETIC FUEL PLANT IS SOUGHT. FORALAS 'e’REPORI[ SEATTLE, three syntheti thorized by C 55 will be sought | for * Alaska, the . tle Chamber | of Co:nmerce~annonnced. today. Chamber trustees votéd yesterday | ———— to present an urgent . request to. the Departments of Interior and defense, which | determine loca- tion of the pr . plants. Alaska is a al locauon for one of the plants, John Perry, chairman of the Chamb?xs- Alaska Committee, said, both be- cause of the existence of large deposits of low grade coal and because of the strategic impurlance‘ of the Ternlory au- The Waslungion; Merry - Go- Round BRv DREW PEARSON {Copyright, 1948, by The Bell ayndlcne Inc.) ASHINGTON— Don't uude)- estimate the intelligence of the! American voter when it comes to focusing on the Congressmen who| worked for the lobbies and the! pocketbook rather than for the; public. Close scrutiny of the elec® tion returns shows that the voters used squirrel rifles, not shotguns. They picked their Congressmen; carefully, and their aim was dead- ly. Here is the voters” list of those| who never will be missed: W. J. Miller, ‘Conn.—Introduced two bills taking the heart out of the Federal Power Commission.y Brazenly stationed two lawyers from Connecticut Light and Power at his elbow during the hearings. | It was obvious they had much to{ do with writing the bills. Now he's defeated. 2 Forrest Hdrness, Ind— When newsmen exposed Miller's opera- tions for the power lobby, Harness; started an investigation of Gov-| ernment propaganda; thunderously } accused the Government of lobby- ing for health, housing and re- clamation. He pushed passage of rider refusing appropriation for Re~| clamation Commissioner Mike Strauss for alleged propaganda, but meanwhile let the real estatel and medical lobbies tell him what to do. Now Harness is defeated. Harold Knutson, Minn—He let‘ Wall Street tax experts sit on a| private committee without public! hearings and draw up the new tax' bill; refused labor representativesi an equal chance to present their case. Minnesota voters got Wise and Harold won't be with us any more. Bud Gearhart, Calif.—At first! refused to hold hearings on reci- procal trade treaties. Later held brief, secret hearings and reported | out a bill emosculating reciprocal trade. The Senate rectified part of his unfairness. Now he’s de- feated. tCnnNnur-d on Page Four) i ] |1antic. tiatio Freed from Alcatraz Cecil Wright, 41, after he was freed from Alcatraz prisen in San Francisco Bay (background) on a writ of habeas corpus which he drew up himself, claiming he didn’t have adequate legal assistance when he was convicted in 1930 of a charge he robbed a Strasburg, HL, postoffice. It was Wright's 13th attempt to gain freedom. P ‘Wirephoto. 25-Year- 0id Girl, With Her % Mother, Among 802 Displaced TASK FLEET - MANEUVERS, EAST COAST o o An official said Roxolana can BObTON Nov. 10.—®— Flghung speak eight languages and has ships of the U. S. Second Task Fleet | studied law. headed toward Arctic waters today, The girl after participating in maneuvers oH; bound for Argentia, Newfoundland, during|where they are to join which - assault Marines made suc-(officials said. Their sponsor is cesséul beach landing. |nsxed as Mary Glennan of An- The ships wiil test anti-submarine | chorage. devices under frigid conditions inl Officials said they did not know the far reaches of the North At-\whcther any more DP’s are headed AIOI Alask.a The Marines—in the second phase) There are 802 DP's aboard the of the operations—pushed inland: General Bundy—the second such after seizing the Argentia opera- | group to go under a U. S. Act tions base in the amphibious attack, | providing for admission of 205,000 a Bostin Traveler correspondent 1e-”efugees ported The first wave of assault troops swarmed ashore yesterday just as! sun broke through thick fog !]lfl‘lA“ Interior Department spokes- enveioped the area. Jmnn said today no organized move- Planes based on the carriers Ley-!ment of displaced persons to Alaska te, Kearsage and Philippine +Sea, \b in prospect. {provided air protection for landing A report from Bremerhaven, forces and strafed and bombed | Germany, yesterday said 802 Dis- coastal defenses. : | placed Persons sailed on the Army The Latileship Missouri, carTying | pransport General Bundy for the Fleet Commander Vice Admiral ypited States and Alaska. Donald B. Duncan, slipped through| g Rex Lee, the Depnrtmem's the fog prior to the Marine l“"d‘\Aasnatam Director of Territories, ings to hurl shells at shore ‘0”'““10111 a reporter the Alaska~bound' cations. s ivi Naval officers said that in sctual| ”':0”;;‘,?”:::: l{hzfl,riw,‘,n:flfi?;: warfare the Argentia dem‘de“'ments with relatives or friends in would have cut sharply the numhe‘x1 | the Territory. of ships that lay off the coast and| .we ynow of no particular group gossibly ‘coulil: hiavo hatted the -1 gisplaced ])eraogs plann!xfg tlu yRsOn, ‘a&'llle in Alnka " Lee said. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—(#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau {mine stock today is 2%, American (By The Associated Press) |Can 79's, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss- WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—A con- Wlight 7's, International Harvest- gressional conmdmittee says that new ‘er 27';, Kennecott 53, New York BREMEN, Germany, Nov. (P—A 24-year-old girl and her | mother will be the first displaced persons to enter Alaska under the? new D.P. Bill, officials said today. Austrian-born Roxolana Skobel- | ska and her 60-year-old mother, native Rumanian, are passengers ‘ubmud the U. S. Army transport Geneml Bundy, en route to the Uml(d States. Both are now state- and her mother Anchorage, GROUPS UNKNOWN WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—(® OUCH! car buyers paid out some $250,000, Central 134, Northern Pacific 17%, | U. S. Steel 72%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 2,100,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: 000 this year for unwanted gadgets on their cars. The committee adds that new| {car purchasers took a $200,000,000 | industrials 17357, rails 53.62, util- beating on trade-ins, | ities 32.90. i | | | | Persons for Enlry fo Alaska iwinds have kept lhe Britis 10— are | -1 Shanghai, Nnaking DISPUTE TIES UP 1 BARGES Jurisdictional Trouble at i Seattle Prevents Load- ing of Alaska Freight SEATTLE, Nov. barges used 1n the government's emergency shipping program for Al- aska were tied up today by a union jurisdictional = dispute. ‘Three are now affected. f CID longshoremen stopped work on the first barge Monday after noon when placed a lone picket at the dock. { {Tow, Inc., for the government-own- the stevedoring operation fuhs and Sprague. Jack McDonald, for the AFL hoisting engineers lo- cal here, charged there has been longshoremen are operating port- akle cranes on the barges and de- clared his union has a contract for the work. Willlam Gettings, CIO longshoré ‘regional chief, countered that his as long as it is performed aboardi the barges. The hoisting Q.ngmeers. Ihe said, operate portable u'nneh cn piers. | The latest barges to be affected ' lare loaded with supplies for the | Alasza Railroad. They also were to! Itake aboard railroad cars for the! {road tomorrow and Thursday. The other barge was half Joaded! with emergency supplies- for” Sew- ard, including Chrlstmm goods. ' WOMAN FLIER 1S HELD AT SHEMYA BY BAD WEATHER Hig! round ] the-world flier, Mrs. Richard Mor-| row-Tait, grounded at this Alculmn ‘outpost for the past two days. The 24-year-old matron and her | navigator, Michael Townsend, plan! ]!0 leave for Anchorage as soon as' the weather clears, From there they | |hnpe to fly to the Canadian East |Coast and back home to England. They arrived here last Wednes- {day from Japan after a hazardous, |mgm during which they encoun-; tered storms and almost ran out of | ‘gas. Their radio, knocked out in that | |fhgh has been repamd SHEMYA, Nov. 10.—® — 1 { SEETHING, DISORDER (By The Associated Press) Food riots and strikes flared in and = Hankow Communists will out of 1 i today Chinese stormed almost at {conquered Manchuria. as Central China grew worse. Rioting was rife, Anti-foreign sentiment flared. The Communists were said to have isolated the cities of Pen- gpu and Suchow, the latter only 170 miles north of the riotous cap- ital of Nanking American dependents were leav- ing Nanking in emergency flights. Gen. MacArthur sent a transport from Japan to evacuate Americans from Shanghai. Six Nationalist regiments’ of posstbly 10,000 men were reported to have deserted to the Communists near Suchow. !not understand why some officials in this country are anxious to pour out billions to battle Communism in Western Europe without giving attention to the same struggle in Asia and the East. Bullitt, special representative of a Congressional committee, said that i (tried to prevent his flight yesterday toward China for a check. The hundreds of millions of dollars the | U.S. already has given China ap-, pmnfl to have done little good. wm— Two more |’ AFL hoisting engineers ‘The barges are operated by Ocean ' ed Alaska Railroad. Contractor for. is Grif-. business agent| {union has a contract for such \mrkl 1 ho : However, | cabin or two may have been caught. o » |Marine b.ue The Nationalist position in Northj | Sen. Bridges (R-NH) said he did} william C.| { Here's part of the 406 ships in the were pit in mothballs by “pickling o | men of the San Diego Naval Station are busy repairing, manitai a “violation of agreement.” He said ocoon” varicus vessels as a test of the preservation methods. (» Wirephoto. Nav " and “cocooning.” Pacific Reserve fleet as they This is a line o ng a Alaska Unions Urged fo Fight Any A 0f Gov. Mon( Wallgren NOW SOUGHT BRUSH FIRES 'DIEDOWN IN CALIF. AREA Hundreds of Fi Fighters Have| Flames Under Contro!- Wind Moderates (By The As=orm(ed Press) SANTA ANA, Nov. 10.—(P—The worst appears over in the Southern | California brush fire. The winds have died down and the hundreds of fire fighters are getting the sit-| uation in hand some 50 miles south- | east of Los Angeles. They've beaten {back the flames from a village in Silverado Canyon in the Santa ! Ana mountains and some 350 threat- lened homes are safe. Not a single in the village was burned officials say an isolated Abcut 1500 persons from the com- | munity of €ilverado and nearby| I Modjeska Canyon .safely evacuated | Monday when gales whipped up a/ {fierce firelin half a dozen smaller,| . | { unpopulated canyons. Officials) estimate mm.el) 46,000 acres of ktrush and' range havej been blackened 18,000, this week added to 28,000 in a fire in the same area last week More than 1500 foresters, army, | navy and marine personnel, smle] prisoners and civilian _ volunteers . fought the fire. At one time it turned within 500 yards of El Toro that approxi- | LEAPS 0 DEATH (By The Associated Press) VIENNA—An Austrian leaped to his death last night from the third floor of the Russian Kom- mandature. Austrian police say | the man may have been implicated jin the desertion of Soviet officers | to the Western Zone. He has been| identified as 38-year-old Freidrich Boehm, who had been employed for the past year as a driver for the Russians. Previously he had | been employed by the American; Army, also as a driver. - e NEWSPRINT GALORE VIENNA—®— The Austrian ex- port of newsprint to Italy, halted i two months ago because of a glue | 'uumed soon. Approximately next tor 110,000 during the payment of cotton. Italy ;months in i kilograms | to | cnmcti | aski | comic { hai | them ppoinfment ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 10. | group today” urfed Alaska unions | to oppese any move to appoint Governor ‘Mon, C. Wallgren of yashington as Secretary of the Interior. Wallgren, close friend resident Truman, failed to secute re-election as governor. John Wiese, President of the | C10 Western Alaskan Fisheries | Council, declared “Wallgren is one u.l a group of politicians known as! the ‘Washington Gang' who done lots of errands for Northwest industrialists and others with heavy interests in Alaska. They are the ones who have cleverly done axe- work - against Alaska, measures as statehood, (Governor Ernest) Gruening Alaska) and against abolition fish traps.” Wallgren, who left Seattle last weekend for a meeting with Pres dent Truman, denied circulated r ports that he had been offered the post of Secretary of the Inter- ior. “There has been no talk of it by me Or others in responsible posi- tions,” he said. “As far as I know there is no vacancy in the posi- (of of A. Krug is the® Interior. Julius Secretary of present | Wicse, referring to what he call- | ed the “Washington Gang,” de- edl ey their work pretty well. always say ‘Yes, statehood for Al- eventually when the Territory is ready for it."” “Alaskan fishermen,” he ‘especially remember Wallgren. He! is the man who as ator tried to get a bill through Congress that | would lease fish traps to cannery | owne: Alaska recently voted in favor of abolishing fish traps gradually | over a 10-year period. The vote; was in the form of a recommenda- tion to Congress, which has the re- have been very clever and generally cover up said, sponsibility for any action on the! | proposal. - >> Chinese Like U. . Comics A SHANGHAI —M— American books are flooding Shang- Few bookstores are without Their popularity, |dren and adults alike, have fost- lered the rapid growth of the side- walk vendor It is generally un- someone in the State Depanmem‘on the Italian market, will be IP-‘dex\umd that the comics are paid ' for 1,000 ! for abroad by means that have been | observation, tons of newsprint will be shipped | outlawed today but which are like- | support by air for land ferces. two | their the continue because made through ly to livery office is post ~/The head of a CIO. fisheries | have | against such | against | int{ They are the ones who with chil- | de- | ns in Coast Strlke Are Blocked SUP DISPUTE STAVES OFF NEW TALKS Employers,iswtrikers Ready to Discuss Proposals fo End Long Walkout | SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 10— | A jurisdictional dispute today :locks jed immediate peace negotiations in West Coast maritime (the lengthy | strike Harry Lundeberg, president of thc‘ | AFL Sailors' Union of the Pacific, jsald his 16,00 members would net sail any ships until the union re= ,celved assurance of full jurisdiction jover steam schooners and Alaska | ships. Th: SUP is not on strike but has |been -idled by the picket lines of | the CIO longshoremen dnd four oth- ‘A'r storking unions, Employers said Lundeberg's \Iu-uu'zm up ‘omplications which |must be ironed out.” This delayed ithe expected reopening of negotia- ‘Il( ns vetween employers and the {striking unlons. The SUP claims jurisdiction over jthe cooks, stewards and deck crew jof the disputed lumber ship Ro- lhndu tied up at Coos Bay, Oregon. | The SUP also says it has authority. to handle lumber cargo on the ship. The CIO marine cooks, engineers angd stevedores, counter that this is ‘an invasion of jurisdiction. ‘The question of who shall man steam schooners—primarily coast- {wise lumber carriers—has been. & Ppoint Br contention: Otherwise, the 70-duy-old smkn appeared moving, thdugh unstead- flv, toward the negotiation . table. +The waterfront employers and the *!Pacitic Americon Steamship Asso- ciation have approved a formula for reopening tal Discussions with the unions gn the plan continue to- day. look today, several ye f destroyer escorts. after they wo thousand nd in some cases pre; g to “de- stand REVOCATION CERTIFICATE | Charges Agamsi One Al- aska Air Line Report- ed Filed with CAB Alaska, calling revoking the air car- rier certificate’ of an air cafgo firm operating in Alaska was re- ‘lpmeu today to have teen filed! The SUP said the impending ne=. with the Civil Aeronautics Board. Igou_.nom must cover these guar- Walter Plett, regional CAA d'rec- antees: tor, said his organization had filed| “The Rolando and all other AFL the complaint against the firm, contract vessels and many other Columbia Air Cargo, charging “num- |ships that we have organized shall erous violations 1be allowed to operate without any | The complaint dealt with acts interference from the striking uns go'ng back more than a year from [1ons.’ October 19, when a Columbia plane| The longshoremen will “no longer {overshot Merrill Field here apd refuse to furnish men to sallors® | crashed without loss of life. h?tch on any vessel of the coastwise | Aviation safety agents, the com- Alaska lines.” | plaint declared, found the plm\el There Wil “bs 00 "“"‘eunfl* carried a ioad 2,000 pounds heavier | Vith SUP men Warklng et in’ than permitted under the regula-|A3skd Poits, with SUP men loafs filing 'll:gm“:pl‘lw or r‘clennllng !h:Ids an The CAA charged in the complaint 1™ s QUATGR AR that the airline has npm.n:«l inj SUP said it has lost 31 ships and and out of fields when the weather | CAMeP have lost 1.064 Jobs permias was not suitable, that its planes nently dus fo ‘the strike, |carvied pilots and other crew- mem- ! “We would be silly to go back $o rwork without first having these dis- {bers who did not have proper CAA| g Lcertificates, and that it had in a PUtes aetdled, . &’ spokeRDEN HON mented, | | number of instances overloaded its aircraft and that it gave untrue welghts on its cargo manifests. The airline has 10 days in which fto file an answer to the CAA at {Anchorage. If the charges are de- nied, a hearing will be held later ‘at Anchorage. i | Joe Dobbins of Portland is presi- {dent of the firm, which has not op- jerated since the time of the Merrill | A Field accident. Dobbins was not| BERLIN (P—Berlin's ghouls hagl| m\'mllblc for ccmment {no respect for royalty. They have | been plundering the graves of kais- 1 ers and princes and stealing coffin \CPERATIONS S(HOO[ o e STARTED IN CANADA ly at the old Garrison church, near the fimperial castle in the Soviet sector. The church was ruined during the war, However, “‘VX‘“N M-’"»r Nov. 10. P—Can-|in its vault are still some 200 Combined Operations | coffins, Thieves who have broken, Imul has gone into action on these | them open apparently were search= !western plains, training land and|ing for valuabies. But the wooden lair units the Dominion is mustering | covers obviously were removed for Ito meet any attac® ) The institution is teaching para- !chute jumping to elements of al Iregular infantry regiment and is| | fuel working on support operations bv! RACF aircrift ! School officials told newsmen | that both the land and alr forma- | tions would be cavable of fitting into | higher divisions of either the Brit- ! ish or American forces in event of | HAIFA, Isracl, Nov. 10—P—A U, war IN. spokesman says that two U, N, Operating within the institution'observers have been arrested are schools, not only for parachut- !Israeli military police. The off) | ists and tactical air support, but also :ay that the arrests occurred while irborne glider work, army air the observers watched an Israel training in offensive tack on Ezyptian positions m Negev desert. The attack was to have been made vesterday, 15 miles north of the Arab cap city of Gaza, ANCHORA # A compls pending or Nov for BERLIN GHOULS ARE BURNING ROYAL COFFINS > 2UN Observers | Are Under Arresf (By The Associated Press) ] It is anticipated the camp even- jtually will embrace a community of 3,000 service men and their families.