The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 11, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXII.. NO. 11,040 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, |948 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMPE R ASSOCIATED PRESS ———= Cloo o BRIGE TEN CENTS BARTLETT TO PUSH TWO ALASKA BILLS Longshoremen Blitz Sluppmg on Both Coasts STOP WORK ATNEWYORK OTHER PORIS% Wage Seifiéfient Nego- fiated by AFL Union Leaders Protested | NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—(®—A ma- jor part of America’s shipping was | crippled today by longshoremen’s strikes on the East and West ‘ coasts, { ; The port of New York--fcremost in the world’s commerce—was al- most paralyzed as thousands of men stood ‘idle. The blitz also hit the important harbors of Philadelphia and Bos- ton, where other thousands joined a rank-and-file protest against a wage settlement negotiated by AFL unién leaders. Spread of the walkout to addi- tional ports from Portland, Me, to Hampton Roads, Va. by tonight or tomorrow was feared. Gulf Coast Stoppage A Guli Coast stoppage has been promised if the East Coast strike becomes official and complete. A crippling West Coast strike of CIO unions has idled ships and men from Alaska to Mexico for many weeks. No dock workers “were available as the liner America, Queen of the U. S. passenger fleet, arrived at her Hudson River pier today The 997 passengers carried their own hand luggage as they disem- barked. town. Sanish, D. ment, which began the rebellion. John C. Liner Diverted The British liner Maurentania, | which had been due here tomorrow with more than 1,000 passengers from Southampton, has been di- verted to Halifax, Nova Smma.i Special trains will carry passengers from there to New York and utherl major U. S. cities. Up to 10,000 of New York’s 25,- 000-odd members of the AFL In- ternational Longshoremen’s Asso—' ciation (ILA) were reported to have joined the walkout which be- gan before dawn yesterday. 41 Ships Affected Custom House figures showed 41 ships were affected here immed- iately, in addition to 16 alreadyq lying idle as a result of the West Coast strike. Yesterday’s rain, which normally would curtail dock |, work, and today's Armistice Day holiday obscured the full impact| Gen Lucius D. Clay, U. S. mili- of the walkout. tary governor, said “we will keep The New York port tieup, which{ihem flying.” Some officials tesmed effects 'several plers on the New|inis Russian threat a move in the Jersey side also, came after 10-liway of nerves.” A senior American | cals in Manhattan and Brooklyn |uir ofticer said it looked 1.ke a Rus- | rejected the tentative settlement|gian pluif and “we cafed it.” with the New York shipping asso-| Tpe U. S. and Britain. warned ciation. The pact, announced early | Ryssia the Soviets would be held| “Tuesday, would raise the day-shift|responsible for any action they take. straight-time pay from $1.75 to|Both the U. S. and Britain have $1.85 an hour, and the night and|saiq in the past they would use weekend overtime rate from $2.6! fighter escorts if needed. ot President Truman at Key West kept a close watch on the.Berlin moves. He gave continued study to the need for an agreement to ease American-Russian tensions. The White House made it clear no Truman-Stalin meeting is planned and that Truman hes no intention of going to Moscow, but Prime Min- ister Stalin would be welcome if he should come to Washington. - WILLFLY Keeping Close Watch on Situation (By The Associated Press) American and British planes flew the airlift to blockaded Berlin de- ° a new Russian threat .to force down planes straying out of the 20-mile wide corridors. The Washington Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, hy The Bell Syndicate, inc.) ASHINGTON Here is the inside story of some military poli- tical strategy which—so far as I know—has never been told, and, fortunately, did not take place. Last spring a little group of military men discussed the idea of taking advantage of Russian ten- sion 'a couple of weeks before Election Day in such a way as to justify dropping the atomic bomb. Such a crisis, they argued, would serve two purposes: (1) get inevit- able war over with in a hurry, and | ey pyisiomllionaire plane build- | 2) re-elect President Truman. erannounced yesterday he planned Whether they ever put this UDjieqio soon and then changed his to Truman or exactly who blocked mind. He' decided to. walt untll a the idea, I do not know. I do hatgar know that it was seriously dis- gang He wouldn't estimate when cussed, and justifieq on the! it would be finished. ground that the longer we dela)ed! flc’ a Russian showdown, the mure] likelihoed that Russm would get TESTS OF MAMMOTH WOOD FLYING BOAT! LONG BEACH, Calif., Nov. 11.—® —Howard Hughes has postponed | taxi tests for his $25,000,000 mam- moth plywood flying Loat. FROM KETCHIKAN Isie Homsted of Ketchikan is at !t -the Baranof Hotel. 4Cont Inuml on mgr- Four) HUGHES POSTPONES' TO BERLIN li is built for it at Terminal}5tay ou | Defied Communists These eight Americans were besieged in the Presbyterian mission compound at Sunchon, Korea, during Communist occupation of the They defied the insurgent forces by raising over the compound this flag made of feed sacks and shirts. Lt. Stewart Greenbaum, Los Angeles, Calif.; Lt. They were advisers at Yosu to the Koreon 14th Regi- Seated (left to right) are Gordon D. Mohr, Standing, (left to right), are Dr. . Crane, ‘Guifpert, Miss., head of the mission; Miss Louise Miller, Atlanta, Ga.; T. E. Boyer, Richmond, Va., a mission worker; Miss Janet Crane, Yazoo, Miss., Pr. Crane's sister; Miss Meta Biggar, Kansas City, Mo.; and Mrs. Crane, Biggar teach in the mission school. US.PLANES HOOVER Miss Miller, Miss Crane and Miss (@ Wirephoto. MAKING REPORT Truman at Key West Is Will Request Slrenghen-‘Navy Plane Carries Emer "ed”" Labor Dept.~Change in Postmasterships WASHINGTON, Nov. 11—®— Fermer President Herbert Hoover today urged a “strengthened” Laborlletched a giant Mary flying \m.fl‘huy\ crui removal of from, poli- Department and the 20,000 postmasterships tics. tion of a better-paid career service in government. Hcover spcke as chairman of the 12-member bi-partisan commission on organization of the branch. tentative findings of the commis- sion’s “task forces” on streamlin- ing the Federal government. He predicted the final recom- mendaticns, if adopted after be- ing presented to Congress in Jan- ! uary, will save “a good many mil- lion dellars” when placed in op- eration ior “say five years.” NO WELCOME FOR WALLACE, DEMO PARTY WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—IP— Henry A Wallace will find the wel- come mat gone if he makes any move to return to the Democratic | Party, National Chairman J. How- ard McGrath said today. Although he did not rule out ab- sclutely the je-conversion of a re- pentant Wallace, McGrath told a re- porter: “So far as I am concerned, Hen- ry Wallace has taken himself out! of the Democratic party and he can o The National Chairman added thats the triumphant Democratic| Committee—its internal strife stilled ty President Truman’'s smashing victory at the polls- s making no eestures toward ‘any fringe else~ Wwhere.” He also advocated the crea-. executive | . He gave reporters several) BATTLE RAGESAT SUCHOW| 500,000 Communists Are| Fighting Their Way Into Nanking (By The Associated Press) The greatest battle in Chinese| history raged on the outeér ap- proaches of Nanking today, this an- niversary of the First World Wari armistice. A Chinese Government spokesman said the Communists had thrown 121 armies of 500,000 men into the Lattle around Suchow, 170 miles lfrum the capital. He said the battle is bigger war with Japan. The fate of North Central China hinged on the result land the spokesman said outnumber- ed government troops already are | making successive withdrawals to; “shorten their lines.” T The Chinese Communists . sald | they have bottled up 350,000 Gov-| fernment troops in the Suchow sec- |tion. Rigid censorship was clamped | ton. Martial law was declared in' Shanghat and Nanking to stop fo()d riots. | While this perhaps decisive battle | was being fought, the United States | jloaded what was described as the| first shipment of American guns‘ and munitions for China since the; Communists \mn Manchuua j " HUNGRY BEASTS gency Supplies fo | Loo Animals ; 11.—(A— hunger, ALAMEDA, Calif., ‘An SOS, strictly Nov from ,today to the rescue of a mocern! Noah's Ark. Elephants and tropical birds, con= signed to American zoos are des- perately short of food, radioed the 8.8. Swarthmore Victory, 1,000 nu:u; joff shore. A free translation of the SOS—Save Our Stomachs—hu zled‘ ithe Navy out after (1) authorization I!mm Washington for a new kind of | operation vittles and (2) dozen flxales of hay and 2,500 meal worms. The Navy got both. Early this morning the plane took| off with the feed waterproof-packed on floats and parachute rigged for| dropping near the zoo ship. But m the sea is calm, the plane may transfer its cargo to one of the iship’s boats. Besides eight baby elephants and | the worm-eating exotic birds, the| Pacific Far East Line ship has mon- | keys, sun bears, tree ducks, king| cobras, pythons and golden cats. Most of the animals came from Siam. Cause of the short rations wasn't explained, but the distress signal indicated the elephants and birds were making a ruckus akout it. Two of the baby elephants are; consigned to zoos at Sacramento, Calif., and Madison, Wis. They were | bought with pennies collected by |children in each of these cities. replace “Annic the Elephant,” who died after 30 years in the Henry| Vilas Park zoo. | R s i FALLS FROM WINDOW The Police Department reports| that, on a call to thej Orpheum | Rooms last night, they found a| woman who had fallen from an, upstairs window—Mrs. R. N. Luke- sic. She suffered back and hip | injuries, and was taken to St Ann's‘ ‘Hu\pl(hl for treatment. 1 than ‘any fought in thej. jend then | first. i beth- who expects iabou! Sunday. Freight Train Piles Up Thirty-three cars of Kas., in an early mor: wrecked when hit by one or more of derailed cars but there “’lrcphnln British Woman Flier in ight train derailed and piled up, two and three deep, near Edgerton, k was torn up for more than 100 yards and Santa Fe station was were no reported deaths or injuries. ARMISTICE Hop fo Adak from Shemya DAY BEING PENSACOLA - SCUTTLED YESTERDAY Survivor of Atomic Bomb- ing Sinks After Six Hours of Steady Firing Nov 11— The r Pensacola, a survivor of an mic bombing, took every punch the Navy could throw for six hours and 30 minutes yesterday went down quietly bow SEATTLE, ’lh{’ gallant old veteran of 13 .5 with the- Japanese en guns were good and she could tight back, was listing far to port nd her nose was taking w Then, as if tived of taking further punishment, she ped into the grey water of the Pacific, leaying hardly a splash. The time was 28 p. m. “Destruction damage,” was the maneuver. Air and s units werc given equal chances to test their weapons on the lightly armored ship. l!L ater. swonn soiessne. TAFT-HARLEY LAW the mmh term for| The Pensacola wore | her guns out fighting in World War | II. Built in New York at a cost of $11,100,000, she joined the fleet as a first-line cruiser in 1930, - MACKENZIE KING RESIGNS MONDAY (By The Asaucuud Press) Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie next Monday. Louis 8. St. Lau- rent will succeed him. Mackenzie | King's last official act may be to | send greetings to Princess Eliza- her first baby ->-> MISSION SOCIE MEET TO The Memuna! chuuh Misslonary | mistice Society will hold meeting tonight at the home of Mis, the Reck Apartments their regular 7 o'clock | | ‘[ ‘The elephant for Madison mu\ King of Canada said he will xesu,n\nm , at|night Joyce Howell in | Hungerford a nation's - PROVISIONS OF let us be humtlity, let t takes strength, ard Morrow-Tait, British round-the- She and her navigator, Michae! Globe ~ Exercise af That report said a B-17 of the | expected to stay over night here|globe today as Americans through- nek, near the base of the peninsu On the 30th & ary of Arm- day alter 1.778-mile {light from yijtitayy and civilian leaders call- te repaired and bad weather also gurvance was the tomb of the Un- from Alaskn to Canada and then| eqicq wreaths for the hallowed Secretary of Air Symington issued !patient; if it takes ARE CARRIED OU ington by the Air National Guard are carried out has made a state- Symington's theme was echoed {lonal approval of universal military mains on the books. Denham says| «sid in an address prepared for adds that he has some ideas of his| ;otive and reserve military strength Some labor ieaders have said off- i - Many the American Legion last of Japan's coal mines were shut ADAK, Nov. 11.—P—-Mrs. Rich- oBSERvED world flier, hopped up the Aleutians chain from Shemya to Adak yester-. y to put herself closer to home. P G I 1 Prayer for | Peace irdles Townsend, ariived he n their single engine plane at 5:02 am.| (PST) U Tomb of Unknown Air Force 10th Rescue -Squadron, - would escort British Aviatrix | (By The Associated Pri on her flight, atch said she A prayer for peace girdled the and then depart for Cold Bay,“a|out the world pauscd at the military establishment near the end; hour in silent, tribute to the of the Alaska Peninsula, or Nak-|tion’s war dead The 24-year-old ex-artist'’s model' jgtice Day the sons of and mother of an 18-month-old baby doughboy fathers stacked arms be- girl landed at Sheyma last Wednes- | 116 flawer-strewn graves while northern Japan. Part of the fli2ht!eq gor yenewed dedication to uni- was made without benelit of radio.| vereal peace. knocked out by storms. It had 10| Tpe center of the ob- |delayed her take-off from the west- oun soldier in Arlington Nation- ern outpost of the Aleutians. al Cemetery, There scores of pa- Mrs. Morrow-Talt plans to 1y yiiotic anq clvic groups once again eastward dor a possble transAtlantic| .. oovocq the Potomae from Wash- hop ts her he ington Sounding a preparedness theme, this holiday peace challenge to the nation: ; “If it takes patierce, us be humbie; if let us be strong A 150-plane “raid” on Wash- (By The Associated Press) —intended to stress the same point The man who sees that the pro-| . was postponed until Sunday be- visions of the Taft-Hartley Law cause of bad weather, ment on his future pol NLRB the New American Legion Com- General Counsel, Robert Denham'mander Perry Brown, of Beaumont, that he wiil carry on * lmxmew Texas, who urged early Congress- m has declared that be will rpaining continue administer.ng the Republi* “we have only one reasonable can-sponsored law as long as it Te-| und realistic course before us,” he that he will go on “as if nothidg yhe Arlington ceremonies. “That ‘.m! happened. 3 % , 15 for the United States to muster The NLRB's General Counsel i, yj) yiew of the world sufficlent own about changing the labor law.|, convince one and all that ex- he &3 lobody has asked me | yynction must be the price of for any so fa breaking the peace.” the-record that Denham should either resign or l:e removed when SheAbor RE fiand: oal Miners in | - j s | ARMISTICE DANCE apan on I"ke people attended the Ar- S Day damnce that was giv-_ TOKYO, Nov. 11.—#—One-tifth in the Moose Hall Don down today as miners in 200 Jocal was chairman the unions went on 24-hour charge higher wages and retirement pay. en by of committee i lith, na- | strke for| STATEHOOD, FISH TRAPS, (OMING UP Delegate Notifies Wash- ington Office His Plans for Next Congress By CHARLES D. WATKINS | WASHINGTON, Nov, 1l.—P— | Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska) plans to vush two Alaskan bills in the new Congress that faced some stiff | opposition this year. He has notitlea that he plans to bill in January to grant Alaska statehood and will push for its quick enactment by the 8lst Con=- gress. ; ! i | here his als oilice reintroduce He said he also will reintroduce a | proposal to outlaw fish traps in Alaska over a ten year period. The statehood bill was approved unanimeusly by the House Public Lands Committee last year, It was, however, snagged in the rules committee, which refused to permit it to go to the House for a vote unless the Senate Interior Commit- tee approved the bill granting | statehood for Hawaii. The Senate Committes refused to act on Hawail and the Alaska bill died in the Houge committee, Bartlett's office said he has hopes for quick action, because the Public Lands Committee ap- proved the measure a year ago and if a hearing is held, he expects it to be short. In addition, supporters of Alaska statehood say Rep. Somers (D-NY), slated to be chairman of the House Public Lands Committee, favors the proposal. The proposed outlawing of {fish traps in Alaskan waters w the subject of a long hearing before a joint Senate-House committee last year, but it never reached a vote in either chamber. At the Territory’s election in October, the voters approved the I fish trap legislation 10 to one, 5 B-50§ LAND IN INTERIOR Undergo Aidi(AManeuvers in Weather Reporfed at 48 Above FAIRBANKS, Nov. 11.--(#—The « pilots of five B-60s who lunded at Eielson Field yesterday scratched their heads and wondered if—like Corrigan - they flew the wrong di- rection They landed here on the hottest Nov. 10 in the 40 years the weathe er bureau has kept records, The tempetature was a nice comfortable 48 degrees above zero. “It was celder® than pilot observed, hen we took oft from Tucson, Arizona, last night.” The thing that troubles the Air Force men is that they flew 2600 miles for the first tests of the B-50s under Arctic conditions. They had been looking forward to tems peratures down to 40 below zero. The B-350s were the first Super Superforts to reach here from the United States. They left Davis- | Monthan Field at Tucson at 11:35 p. m. last night. Some were held overnight at bpokam- by the badi | weather. An anuouncement as the planes 1:nn sajd each of the plane’s crews as to participate in survival pro- cedures and navigation and bomb- | Ing problems. Each crew will spend |a week afoot on Arctic ice packs. | Officers said they were expect= ed to encounter temperatures of | trom 30 to 40, degrees below zero. There’s still time for that. The up will remain here 45 days. that,” one