The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 13, 1948, Page 1

ot SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition — VOL. LXXII, NO. 11,042 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1948 _ MLMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —= ] Aviatrix Near Crash Landing at Anchorage STRIKE OF 'DOCK MEN. SPREADING Sixty-five Thousand AFL! Stevedores Join Others | in Walkout (By The Assoclated Press) The dockworker’s strike along this | country’s North Atlantic Coast had repercussions in England. The liners Queen Mary and Queen Eliz- abeth will not accept cargoes for | the United States until the strike ! is settled. And the chances for| an early settlement seem slight. Some 65,000 AFL stevedores are off the job from Portland, Maine, to Hampton Roads, Virginia. The strike began officially at midnight. ! An embargo has been put on all export freight heading for Boston and New York. The embargo may be extended to other East Coast: ports as the strike spreads. | The walkout also is expected to cut the regular flow of shipments to Europe under the Marshall! Plan. { Longshoremen's chief Joseph Ry- ! an says that the need for calling the strike was—in his words “national calamity.” But he sa; "Woman of the Year” . Mrs. Fanny S. Sweeney (left) at Waldorf Astol Mrs. Amy Lortcn ay (center) looks on. Dr. Gilbreth, 70-year- old management engineer d mother of eleven children, was honored for “eminent achievement” in commerce and industry. # Wirephoto. Skagway Youth Sees Sights 0f Washington, D. (., Hard it was necessary after the dock- workers voted “overwhelmingly” to | reject the.terms of a wage settle- ment. 1 — e — BATTLE IN CHINAIS INTENSE Communistmllery Shells‘; Government Airfield at Suchow (By The Associated Press) Communist artillery shelled the! Government airfield, five miles; east of Suchow tonight, unofficial reports said, as fierce fighting for; the central China city roared into! its fourth night. } The Chinese government hurled, its air strength into the great Su- chow battle—a vast struggle across; the flats and chocolate waters of the Grand Cana! that may decide, the fate of Generalissimo Chiang) Kai-shek’s regime. The battle in China involved more; than 1000000 Government and| Chinese Communist troops. Both ! sides claimed a margin of victory.} Each charged the other had suf- fered huge losses in men and ma-{ terial. Chinese Government sources said the Reds had been stopped cold, west of Suchow. The Communists claimed their troops had scored; gains north, east and west of Su- chow and that other Red forces have by-passed the whole field of battle and were moving cautiously toward the Yangtze river, which skirts _Nanking. 1 | | | WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—®-— Both Democrats and Republicans shied away from a suggestion by Senator Bridges' (R-NH) that Pres- ident Truman call a special session of Congress to rush aid to the Chi- nese government. Bridges said in a statement that unless something | is done in a hurry the Communists | will take over “the whole of China,: lock, stock and baryel.” The Washington| Merry - Go - Round; Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, | ASHINGTON — Nowhere is the State’s Rights Party. breaking up faster than in Gov. J. Strom Thurmond's own home state—South Carolina. Not only are South Carolina’s repentant Dixiecrats serambling back on the Truman bandwagon, but they are consldext— ing punitive action against their erstwhile leader. The South Carolina Legislature is ‘actually cooking up a full-dress \Cunllnl‘xt”/r;fi»l‘flgc Four) Way; He Gefs Tough Rolling WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—(#-—-Ten days ago Robert Hauptmann, 18, of fPAY RAISE | Truman, Barkley Give Winners' Gesture IS ACCEPTED, R. R. UNIONS b Three Operating Organi- zations Settle 3rd Round of Wage Dispute | CHICAGO, Nov. 13. #— The |nation's railroads and three oper- ating unions have settled their third round wage dispute The some 125,000 union members —Engineers, firemen, switchmen— accepted a pay raise of 10 cents an! hour, retroactive to Oct. 16. Thet {boost in their weekly salary checks will cost the carriers an estimated $40,000,000 a year. A similar wage hike was accepted !by two other. operating unigns—, conductors and trainmen—last Oc- | tober 4. At that time the railroads | estimated the pay raise to the 175,- 000 workers would cost them $55, 665,000 annually : There was talk in rail circles that {the 10 cent hourly boost now ac- cepted by the five operating broth- | erhoods may sct a pattern tor end-' ing the wage-hour dispute between | the railroads and the 16 non-operat- | ing unions. The engineers, firemen, and the | !switchmen, whose threat to strike ! ST S A DMS NOW Dead Woman, ENROUTETO 1InjuredBeing | | | h President Harry S. Truman (center) greeted Senator Alben W. Barkley (left), Vice-Presideni-elect, and Leslic L. Biffle (right ecretary of the Democratic Party Policy Committee upon their arrival at Key MAY SAVE RR BARGE Skagway, Alaska, left home to see second round demands for a 30 per ! | the nation’s capital—a gift from his: cent raise with a minimum raise of | father for being among the 0P $3 a day. e 110 in’ high school. | Engineers now receive hetween ! Today, Robert wound up at Wash- $88.80 and $128.66 a week; firemen: ington’s Park police headquarters,|$78.83 to $103; conductors $77.40 to ' without luggage or money. 1$117.34; trainmen and switchmen All he had was a tale of woe $71.58 to $96.50. ‘The pay varies with| It started when he arrived here’the class of service. ! yesterday afternoon and was eating | - at a bus termmnal and wondering' CHINA LAND Large Shipment Now on Way with More Supplies Loaded at Vancouver e (By the Associated Press) where to start his sightseeing. | So, he told police, he thought it| {was a mighty kind man, about 20, | who joined him, to offer to take: him on a personally conducted tour |ammunition were on their way to- in a private car Five thousand tons of small arms | IS REPORT | ment intervention, had asked a pay raise of 18 per cent in their third {round demands. This amounted to!} |about $1.76 a day, the difference Letween the 15'% cents hourly boost accepted last July and the original { At 12:30 o'clock this afternoon, Alaska Coastal Airlines received a |call from Pilot Joe Niemic on the regular flight from Tenakee in a Spencer May Be Pull- ed Off-Weather Bad | twin-engine Grumman that he had one injured man and one dead | woman aboard, and to have an am- bulane waiting By 12:45 o'clock Dr. John Clem- ents, U. S, Marshal William T. Ma- honey, Deputy U. S. Marshal Sid | Thompson and members of the Ju- neau Police Department were stand- Tug Company reported s a strong pos: pts to a I near Cape Spencer succeed last night lity that at- in Alaska will} Craft Grounded Near Cape SEATTLE, Nov. 13.—P—The Foss! barge grounded ; /ARMY (-45. i {day from the United States to be- Phoy soon ware leagured Chinese government forces foined. by two, other mas, : % |and another 5,000 tons of explosives Rotert got a tour all right the Capitol, White House, Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, John L. Lewis' home with Mount Vernon next on the list. | But Robert never got to George | Washington's estate. [ Instead. he said, he got a rough- housing and was relieved. by his hosts of about $344 and his luggage. Red-headed, six-foot-two Robert |got in one parting shot—he tossed |8 brick and hit one of his “guides” {in the head. | From 6:30 pm. yesterday, to 9 am. today he just walked around, |seeng the sights the hard way. W A D E R — Ruth Roman of | He told Park police “Dad the movies tries the temperature {wire me some more money.” of the water in Trail Creek at | Sun Valley, Idaho. | will lumber camp foreman at Skagway. - HIROHITO *WILL NOT | ABDICATE GOES CRASH ATTICA, Ind., Nov. 13—®—An Army C-45 crashed in open country | southeast of here early today, and| at least two men are believed dead.! TOKYO, Nov. 13—(®—Both Jap- State police said the plane was so anese and foreigners speculated to- bad,y damaged that immediate day on whether Emperor Hirohito identification of those dead prob-|would make a gesture of some sort ably would be difficult. lin sympathy with his former ad- The light, twin-engine transport,visers, seven of whom were sen- took off from Chanute Field, IlL,!tenced to hang yesterday and 18 to at 1:45 am. (CST) and the crash prison. & is believed to have occurred a few | There have been consistent rum- minutes later. ors since Japan surrendered that —_—— e e — the Emperor would abdicate in favor of a regency for his son. Most ob-| ) IE I servers felt, however, that the Em-{ 1peror would stay where he is--onj the throne. | No date for the execution of the | Japanese war leaders has been set. ;The list of those to be executed is WOODSTOCK, Ont., Nov. 13. —The mayor* of Woodstock wil hand out $5 to each baby torn here headed by former Premier Hideki the same day as Princess Elizabeth’s| ‘Tojo. They have until Nov. 19 to __p| petition Gen. - Douglas MacArthur child. Mayor Thomson said he took his cue from the Lord Mayor of| 1! for clemency, who may reduce sen- tences but not raise them. - London, who announced he will give, The seine boat Dorothy D will funds to each child born that day.|leave today to return to Angoon Woodstock has a population of after picking up supplies here.| about 15,000, ipper is Johnnie Jack. DOROTHY D OUT The company reported a message AVIATRIX IS TALKEDDOWH, GCA SYSTEM \ ‘Lands on Field Under Beam of Aufo Lights - Gas Supply Nearly Out ANCHORAGE, Alaska (M—After twice meeting di ter Alaskan legs be-cireling journey, a British |aviatrix and her navigator plan to take oif here tomorroy in their | ale-engined light plane The two, Mrs. Richard Morrow- Tait and Michael Townsend, land- |ed at Elmendorf Field last night | with the help of the Air Force’s | ground-control-approach group (Gs | CA) system which was used to | talk them down. | They brought in their second- | hand former RAF plane “Thurs- | day’s Child” on the third pass over (the field. Only a 20-minute sup- ply of gasoline was left in the | tanks Runway lights had failed and fog jhad cut visibility to one-eighth of a mile and reduced the ceiling 10 300 feet i Crash wagons and an ambulance i stoed by during the landing as buses, jeeps and, cars beamed their lights on the rumw Townsend said headwinds drain- ed their gas supply on the 700~ | mile flight from Cold Bay near the end of the Alaska Peninsula. The | Hiers previously had finished the 1 1,500-mile hop from Japan to Shemya, at the end-of the Aleut- Lisn chan, ‘with cnly a halt hots ‘supply of ftuel left. Tomorrow's flight to take them to, Whitehorse, Y. (T, from where they will go to ! Edmonton; Winnipeg and Montreal ;nu(ure attempting a trans-Atlantic /hop to England, completing their round-the-world,, trip. The 24-year-old ex-artist’s model and her navigator have been 87 days en route. ‘Their stop here was the 20th of the journey. - - Nov. 13.— with near on of their is scheduled’ “Dad” 1s Theodore Hauptmann, a |were being loaded aboard a Can- |ddian freighter at Vancouver, B. C. . ; Y s L!mm”“l by Capt. Orville | The Canadian shipment also was | ’Ir“ piane brought ‘!“ Gii “lr !lhv tug Ireported to include 30 Mosquito |7OPD<ON, who had "‘fr'"‘-*"".‘\“‘ ;“ sel was standing by | bombers, although an announce- ack. he had been shotly,ige while the tug | i H 1 ment, from Shanghai today said the | With 8 shotgun but didn't discloselyy ocean Tow, Ine. LONDON, Nov. 13—® — ThelGhinese Nationalist Air Force had th¢ name of the person who had iwhole town is talking today about gbandoned use of the fast, two- “P°t him. | Princess Elmpeth's night out | engined British craft The kody of a e s'f:"fi;;fllf“fi‘::'i A Canadian government' spokes- moved and taken | s £ cted 500 | o gaid the 30 planes and the ex- | Ca Mortuary. Accordng to a owned by the Alaska Railroad, I\ven_L with her husband: Punf e Phil- plosives were purchased by the Chi- | P nger, the woman had been ill|aground Monday. It left {ip, inohis car to dine with {riends Inf 000 " oovernment through its Ot- | for two weeks and passed away Just /November under tow 1[&5‘110“!018 Belgravia. |tawa Supply Mission, +and filled |before the arrival of the plane at|Cr | Folr e “:m" .hm:i"'f t”l‘;;fx"" _‘}part of an order for 150 Mosquitoes | Tenakee. i !3‘;‘,’,‘250?3&3:5?21:@‘sr‘.b'uufi’e‘i-"““’ surplus RCAF alreraft parts. Johnson 1‘1(:‘\1!‘(1’('1' !«uxec-\;‘v{x‘luvm be-|in her forward compartment lot nl s ille frome Buckingham Pal-) The 5,000-ton supply small .UA(‘I)(’H taken to 11% nfr.)mcm | crewmen from b {arms ammunition from the United Dospital that someone ad shot him|barge by the " The Princess wore a black eve-|States left a West Coast port re- | ast night. 1t was dark, I eouldn't) Hemlock. The ning dress and a fox cape and was{Cently under the terms of the China \alliwtio 45 Rl | Fern Harbor, hatless. {Aid Pact of 1948, the Defense De- | Officers asked who had been tak-|tween Cupe in front'partment announced in Washington. /ing care of him since then, he said; Heavy weather hampered ear A crowd soon gathered i f5 iof the house. When the couple left |It said additional shipments would |his mother efforts to survey damage e ) shortly before midnight, a cheer be made in the near futwe went, up. Elizabeth smiled gaily ad | In contradiction to a xeport bY he body of Nina Tenfjord of | her flusband waved to the bystand-\the Seattle Post-Intellizencer, a ' renakee, who died of natural causes, | ers. department official said that no P-| .0 tapen to the Charles W. Car ing by, ready to be of assistance, | Titon, i as to June |the saly { age operation woman was re-i Loaded with 2,000 tons of emerg to Charles W.|ency supplies for Seward, istine Sund raaoea the ba of were removed Coast Gua ba i Cross pencer and Ic und, | | | | John:on is about 24 years of age.| of the Sund of Christine Foss said the ves-i the grounded ! owned proceeding ! 1 for supplies to carry out| the barge, | went | T€8¢ ued from a tiny ttle | CASL of Guam by a Navy seaplare > had a hole | Two the 1 Cutter! aground in- be- Strait. { In expectation of the royal birth Kinz George and Queen Elizateth, who usually spend their weekends at Windsor Lodge, plan to remain at the palace. o S PARIS IS CRIPPLED BY STRIKE PARIS, Nov. 13.—(® -This capital city is crippled by a Communist- called 24-hour general strike. Gar- bage collection was halted and the water supply was cut off in at least one section of the city. Rioting strikers attacked a gov- ernment-held coal mine in South central Prance and kidnaped three policemen. at Brassac-Les-Mines, 25 miles southeast of Clermont Ferrand. The Communist-led coal strike now is in its sixth week. - - FROM HAINES K. E. Teston ot Haines is regis- tered at the Gastineau Hotel The fighting broke out' FIGHT ON WOLVES IS i S|x K“'lED v‘SeaI Blubber Poison Ba 18 INJURED P udins & AT FAIRBANKS . 147 fighter planes were included in npoieo. ) :teh initial consignment. Although the Defense Depart- ment did not reveal from which [port the shipment was sent, both the Post-Intelligencer and the Bremerton Sun said a naval attack transport left ~ Bremerton on Wednesday with the \ - - SOVIET DEPUTY WRATHY Also on the Coastal plane was Mrs. Mildred Jones of Angoon who brought her child for medical at- tention. The baby has been serious- | ly ill for the past week. { - it| | | ANCI old Ison jin FAIRBANKS, Nov. 13.—®-—The| Ladd Information Office reports six, PARIS, Nov. 13.—®-—In thelpersons were killed and 18 injured!from Southeast Alaska, where it United Nations, Soviet Deputy jast night when a C-47 plane crash-|has 1 used with considerable| Foreign' Minister Andrei Y. Vish-led into a B-50 bomber on a take-! ycces Maurice Fish ami' {insky asked the United States: off Tt said the C-47 careened off \wildlife Service offic said today.y “You are preparing a Pearl - |Eielson runway into the bomber.| It will not be eaten fur be bor for. the Soviet Union, aren't|pBoth planes turst into flames and'ing anim ht by trappers, hel you?” demolished | Vishinsky spoke before the As-| The C-47 was assigned to the Al-! The blubb small one-t sembly’s Political Committee which'gaska Air Command based at Elm-|inch squares to hold the erystal of {is debating a Soviet proposal that'endorf Field, Anchorage. The B-50|poison and is dipped in sexl oil be- | the United States, Britain, France,{was one of five from the 43d Bomb |[fore being used. Four wolves were | Russia and China slash their arm roup which flew to Alaska on killed by use of the n near laments by one-third within a year Wednesday from Davis Monthan|Fairtanks recently, Frank Glasser, ana outlaw the atomic bomb, | base,.at Tucson, Arizona a4 hunt tal of stry been au for use v Alaska against wolves. Seventy pounds of the specially] cented blubber has teen sent here zed were said he wi | | savory, ARMEN RESCUED (By The Associated Press) Ten American airmen have been island south- } "from Saipan. All ten were i ported uninjured | The men we aboard B-2f Superfort wh went down lé shallow water yesterday. The plane was searching for another B-20 missing for eral days on a flight from Okinawa to Guam. v Crewmen from the second B-29 have been spotted on a tiny is- land near Guam and indications "-xee that all are safe. - {PAA Hawaii Flights Will Start Monday SEATITLE, Nov. 13. —A Pan American World Airways plane- is schaduled to take off irom Hono- flulu at 7:30 p.m. next Monday on res a {the line's first proving flight to the Pacitic Northwest. Regular service will be inaugurated Novembe: 24. The Pathfinder transport is ex- pected r Portland at 9:45 m. Tuesday. The flght will be under the command of Capt. Ralph chief pilot for Pan-Am’s Al rezicn, company hegdquar- ters said today, > PC of UN Adopfs Balkan Resolution (By The Associated Press) PARIS, Nov 13 The United Nations' Political Commit/ee has adopted its Batkan resolution as a unit, Previously, it had voted on it section by section. The resolution demunds that Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia settie their dispute with Greece. Russia and her satellite na= tions voted against the resolution. Today the Soviet delegate (Alexans dre Bogomolov) charged that “the whole world knows that the United States’ military mission is the real boss in Greece to