The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 15, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,043 == | AR MBER ASSOCIATLD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEGOTIATIONS PROGEED IN JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDéY. NOVEMBER 15, 1948 OAST STRIKE Princess Elizabeth Gives Birth to ‘Bonny Lad’ " Tojo Hears Death Sentence |[EMPLOYERS, ROARING WELCOME IS GIVEN U. S. Warships, British| Craft, Royal Salutes, ! Bands Blare By TOM WILLIAMS LONDON, Nov. 15.—P—A joyous Britain roared a welcome today to the tiny Prince of Edinburgh, first born of beloved Princess Eliz- abeth. He probably will be Eng- land’s next King. The “bonny lad,” as Bucking- ham Palace attendants called him, weighed seven pounds, six ounces at birth Sunday at 9:14 (4:14 p. m. EST). Elizabeth, heiress-presump- | tive to the throne, and her son, | who becomes second in line, both were declared in satisfactory con- | dition. The U. S. warships Columbus and Hamul joined British naval craft at Plymouth in firing a 41-! gun salute to the royal child. ‘The Royal Horse'Artillery, King | George’s own troops, wheeled guns into Hyde Park and fired tumultu- | ous rounds in honor of the chfld‘ and his mother. Elsewhere trumpets. and. bandsl blared; bonfires flamed and flre—; works snapped. | The baby was born six days be- | fore the first wedding anniversary | of Elizabeth and Prince Philip.| Crowds outside the palace scream- | ed cheers to the nervous father last night. The Union Jack whipped in the wind above Buckingham Palace. Ships at London docks set their sirens screaming. Sailors got a| doukle ration of rum. The 12 bells of magnificent cld St. Paul's Catnedral began peal- ing in mid-morning. Bells of West- minster Abbey and scores of less- er churches joined in. The newest Prince is a distant cousin to all-the crowned rulers in Continental Europe. He is a great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria through both Eliza- beth and Philip. Through his father, the baby can claim as an ancestor Astrid, the| sister of Canute, the King of both Britain and Denmark. The infant would bring to the British throne for the first time since the death of King Harthacnut in 1042 a di- rect male descendant from the Danish race, which is credited with a half share in the ancestry of the English. Gun salutes and other noisy phases of the celebrations were passed up yesterday by old cus- tom so as not to mar the dignity and calm of the Sabbath. s What the little Prince will be named, may not be announced un- til his christening. The King's favorite country estate is Sandring- ham and the beautiful church of Saint Magdalene probably will be the scene. The poyal family usually spends Christmas at Sandringham and Elizabeth and Philip are expected to go there the middle of next month. The Archbishop of Canterbury probably will - officiate at the christening, aided by the Arch- bishop of York. ¥ The Washington Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON {Copyright, 1948, b! ’l"he Bell Syndicate, ASHINGTON: Cong. J. “I- re- fuse-to-testify” Parnell isn't the only member of the House Un-American Committee who didn't practige in his own office what he preached from the Committee rostrum. Another who pulled a fast one| behind the taxpayers' back while investigating un-Americanism in | others, was Pennsylvania's outgo- ing Congressman John McDowell. Though McDowell didn't take kickbacks, he drew $5400 annually| (Continued on Page Four) Cruiser Under Shell Fire Shells from guns of First Task Fleet splash around heavy cruiser Pencasola during bombardment off the Washington coast The shots shcwn here were too far away to do damage but veteran ship sank atfer more. than six hours bombardment by cruisers and destroyers. ® Wirephoto. (Picture made from Ob- servation Plane of First Task Fleet). Pacific Northwest Rattled By Gale; Heavy Damage Reported; Gusts 80 MPH INDICTED Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (above) of New Jersey, Chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, was indicted in Wash- ingten on charges of conspiring to pad the payroll of his Congres- sional office. Thomas was reelect- ed in the last electioh. However, he will lose his chairmanship when the Democrats take over the con- trol of Congress. Wireplmln. Bus Sirike . Is Averfed (By The Associated Press) A last-minute agreement averted a Pacific’' Greyhound bus strike set for one minute past midnight to- day in seven western states. Negotiators for 3400 AFL bus drivers and station employees lifted the strike call pending a vote of the membership on the tentative agreement. No details have been re- leased. "= e 0o 0o 0600600 0 0 THANKSGIVING DAY IS PROCLAIMED BY PRESIDENT TRUMAN, WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.— (#—President Truman has proclaimed Thursday, Nov. 25, as Thanksgiving Day. He urges citizen to “render gen- erous assistance to the hun- gry and homeless in other lands, thus renewing our de- votion to the cause of good- well among men.” | SEATTLE, Nov. 15—(®—Residents of the Pacific Northwest repaired | damage today along the trail of a late autumn storm which blew in from the North Pacific to shake this rezion 'till its teeth rattled. Winds clocked at 50 to 60 miles {an hour yesterday set off land- | slides, ripped out power lines, felled trees, damaged planes and claimed | the life of a California woman. 1 Mrs. Alice Edna Griffith, 48, of Thornton, Calif., was crushed by a! igale-toppled fir tree near Oak- ridge, Ore. ! Mile a mipute winds and rain loosened Angel Rock near Port Al- berno, on Vancouver Island, and, spilled several hundred tons of rock:! and dirt across the Port Alberni- 1 Nanaimo highway. | At Hoquiam, Wash,, gusts reached the speed of 80 miles an hour, and then started to blow in earnest.! Two light planes were yanked fmml their moorings, flipped on the)r backs and wrecked. Commercial airlines reported they, did not cancel any flights, but were finding it difficult to maintain reg- i {ular schedules NO ELECTION FOR BERLIN, SAY SOVIET Commies Would Be Oe-| feated - U. S. Army Has New Puzzle (By The Associated Press) The Russians flatly and finally | ejected plans for a city wide elec- tion in Berlin Dec. 5. They said | 4 nor allow voting in their sector. | There appeared little doubt mo RI I | | Communists would have suffered | | serious losses. ln new troops. Another said the | soldiers were kept practically under | Meeting of Big Four Exfikev at nigh. | ecufives Requested fo | Seitle Problem (By The Associated Press) An informed source at U. sessioms in Paris said Secretary| U. S. Army sources said they are | puzzled because Russian deserters have suddenly ceased fleeing to |the Western zones of Germany. | The British said about 12,000 de- serted since 1945. One officer said me Russians probably had moved by an iniormed source in Paris planning a new move in an effort to end the war in Palestine. The | Jews were protesting against an | order of the acting mediator, Dr. ‘| Ralph Bunche, that ' the Israelis of State Marshall will answer for| | withdraw from positions won in the 4, t- | President Truman an appeal oH‘Negev s,mfe“oo:tollm: ugmfi ttlrgu};e Secretary General Trygve Lis P i PRvary ¥ e and | 1o area involved totals about | Assembly President H. V. Evatt of | 500 square miles, the U. N. for a meeting of Big AR TG Four executives to settle the Ber- e P T letters Sat- | "o OUORUM IODAY, b S, ame GOP CENTRAL COMM: TO MEET ON FRIDAY Minister Stalin of Russia, Prlme Minister Attlee of Britain Premier Henri Queuille of F‘rance suggesting talks. They acted under a recent Mexican resolution call- ing on the Big Powers to settlle] The GOP Centrsl Committee, | their differences. which was scheduled to begin meet- | Secretary of Defense Forrestal‘mgs today, was forced to cancel estimated in Berlin that the Ber- |them due to the lack of a quorum. lin airlift is costing U. S. taxpay-| The opening meeting has been ers $100,000.000 a year. Since the!postponed until Friday afternoon. Russians blockaded Berlin in June, | The meetings will be held in the| the U. 8. and Britain have been|office of Howard Stabler, First Di-| supplying the Western zones by air. | vision Chairman. | i The United States was reported | MACKENZIE KING QUITS | | | {Prime Minifit?r of Canada Resigns After Over 21 Years in Position OTTAWA, Nov. 15 —P—Canada's |elder statesman and ablest poli- {'tician, Prime Minister William Lyon | Mackenzie King will resign today. He has established a record of ten- ure of office that may never be sur-| | passed ‘The 73-year-old ailing Prime Min- |ister has headed Canada’s govern- ment for 21 years, five months and | five days. Mackenzie King's resgnation will mark the end of an era in Canada. | His successor is the French Can- |adian external affairs minister in the King cabinet, Louis St. Laurent. {He is a bi-lingual Quebec lawyer |who has been in the government since 1941. He was chosen by a | Literal Party convention last Au- | gust. | The Libera] Party is the majority party in Canada’s House of Com- mons and there is expected to be litle change in the new cabinet. Mackenzie King is a grandson Li/Willam Lyon Mackenzie, Oan- add's great rebel who fought for responsible government and was ex- llled for his political activities. ——e——— GOVERNOR OF HAWAII IS INBAD | OLULU, Nov. 15.—#— Im-| {modmle ouster of Gov. Ingram M. Stainback by President Truman, is| Idemanded by Hawaiian Democratic pnrty leaders. | The Governor, also a Democral | was accused by the Central Com- | ‘mmce of his party of ignoring | Democrats and siding with Republi- |cans. A central committee resolution | said Stainback supported “false and | | fancied” charges of Communist in-| | filtration in the Island party and | was hostile to union labor. ‘ Stainback, a 1942 appointee of | the late President Roosevelt, had no | comment. But a source close to him \'h"y would not recognize results|ggiq tne Governor would not take | | “this msumng action lying down.” ‘Woman Flier IsOnWaylo : | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 15— | P—Ladd Field officials here said that Mrs. Richard Morrow-Tait, left Elmendorf Field at Anchorage, about 11 am, Pacific Standard Time, today on a non-stop hop to Whitehorse, Y. T. The 500-mile flight will be via Gulkana, Northway and Snag. Forrestal Is HIS OFFICE - Whitehorse British round -the-world aviatrix, | To Step Out | 1 | | | | Hideki Tojo, Japan's wartime Premier, hears himself sentenced to be hanged. The verdict of the intcrnational Military Tribunal was read by Sir William Webb of Australia in Tokyo. U. (® Wirephoto from U. behind Tojo is unidentified. photo. SHAKE-UP INDICATED GOP TOPS The (By ociated . Press) The giving | Adm |a shake-up in the GOP top con- gressional jobs as a result. There Senator Robert’ Taft of Chio, who helped write the raord bf the E.ghtieth Congress. Leading ReputLlicans contend that this con- tributed not only to the defeat of Republicans some thought definitely the New are to Governor Thomas Dewey, but to the | party’s loss of both houses in the election. Su, these tcp Republicans 1ssing the poseibility that Sena- | tor Taft may decide to give up his ! job as a Republican leader in the | Senate. Taft may face a fight if he | | wants to remain as chairman of the | | Cenate Republican policy commit- |tee, and there seems to te little doubt thaf he will fizht if the Re- publicans make an issue of it. On the other hand, some of Chlg enator’s friends say that Taft is not challenged openly, he may wish to step out of his own accord. The Senator is in FEurope now | [FLAMES ENVELOPE PLANES IN CRASH AT EIELSON FIELD the if > FATRBANKS, Nov. 15— An inistration. And there may be are | FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov. 15.| Air Force transport left Eielson —M—U. 8. Defense Secretary|Field runway and rammed a bomb- James V. Forrestal left Frankfurt|er killing six men an injuring 18, by plane today for Washington after | the Air Forces reported Saturday a two-day tour of Frankfurt, Ber- lin and Heidelberg. All the aboard the Forrestal said yesterday he had|bomber, one of five B-50's which already notified President Truman |arrived Wednesdzy on a training be would not be able to serve|mission from Tucson. Ariz. The “through his entire administration | others were all aboard the trans- of 'the next four years. | port, (The White House made no com-| Flames enviloped the two planes ment on Forrestal’s statement.) I immediately. dead were STRIKERS IN CONFERENCES Step< Taken Will Be for longhme Peace-Revis- ed Arbifrafion Policy | SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. ‘15 | —Negotiators announced today they | had taken steps to make peace last once the West Coast mnrmma | strike is settled. | “Definite progress” in talks tow=- | ard new contracts was reported by | representatives of the Waterfront Employers’ Association and the CIO | longshoremen. The post-strike peace plan calls | for revised arbitration machinery | to remove causes of work stoppages | by settling disputes on, the local level wherever possible, a joint statement by the association- and | union said. | Optimism prevailed among those | attending the weekend conferences seeking to end a walkout which has paralyzed most of the coast’s ship- | ping. Som: 28,000 workers are out -in the strike involving five unions | and tying up about 250 of the 275 dry cargo ships steamship estimate. the $4,000,000 a day in trade. The tte- up extends from San Francisco to Seattle. Negotiators today began draft- | ing tentative contract language covering points already settled. Negotiations on other issues will resume at 1:30 p.m, Under the formula by which the peace talks were resumed last week, they are limited to a 10-day period | which expires next weekend. If & | settlement, of the 75-day-old strike has not been reached at that time, S. officer standing S. Army Radio- IRUMAN Unions must submit the en:ploy- ers' latest offer to a vote ol their members, MuM 0" Two issues which began the strike last Sept. 2—wages and control of the unfon’s hiring hall by which men are assigned to jobs—remain to be settled. Both sides agreed s “in principle,” however, on hiring AN procedure “equalizing work oppor=- . P tunities,” and wages were not ex- President Giving Out No|sected io prove fatal scumbing . | block. Information-Wallgren | *As e srike bogan, 1ongshore- Sla'ed for POS' | men and employers were only 5 | cents apart. The union wanted a | 15-cent raise to $1.82 an hour, and KEY WEST FIA Nov. 15.—(M— | employers oifered 10 cents. | Company comes and goes at the| Still"to be settled, too, is a juris- | couthern- “White House” with no|dictional matter: whether the AFL |one outside any wiser about admin- | Sailors Union of the Pacific shall | istration decisions or the makeuy | have jurisdiction, rather than the of the new cabinet CIO, in Alaskan ports and steam | There was no statement from| (umber) schooners. arry Lunde- | President Truman on a suggestion | berg, head of the AFL union, sald by Trygve Lle, United Nations Sec- | his men won't go back to wofk |retary-General ' and Herbert Evatt|until their claim is granted. In president of the UN General As-| Cincinnati, the AFL convention sembiy, that the four “Big Powers' }.numhed hisfull fl aippost resume negotiations looking to end- | ing the Berlin stalemate. Nor would the President comment DE (on- reports from Paris that Secre- | |tary of Defense Forrestal had left it to the Chief Executive when he sheuld resign from the cabinet. MY Senator Alben W. Barkley, Vice- | | Pres.dent-elect: Senator H. Howard McGrath, Democratic National airman, and Leslie L. Biffle, Di- rector of the Democratic National Commitee in the Senate, would say | nothing as they moved- out of Mr.| BERLIN, Nov. 15.—(f— Truman's vacation retreat Army sources said vesterda) (hey Matthew. J. Connelly and Charles | were mystitied by the fac! that des G. Ross, presidential secretaries, | sertions of Russian soldiers commg were movinz in from Washington. | cver to the West Zone of Germnny. Also coming down was Gov. Mon C.|had stopped suddenly. Wallgren, of’ Washington State, a| There had been a steady stream presidential pal, who was defeated of deserting Russians until the end for re-election in November. It's of October. British officials esti- reported he will be offered a top mated there were atout 13,000 de- wdministration post sertions sinee 1945. The three were flying here by} plane with David K. Niles, adminis |fered this possible reason for the trative gssistant in charge of prob-|abrupt termination: ems of minorities | “The Russians probably have mov= ; - o /ed in new troops. When they have been around for a while, living in A | compounds, and are due to go back The Juneau Men's Chorus mll]m Russia, the desertions no doubt hold practice session tonight at | will start up again.” ‘7 o'clock in the Odd Fellows Hall.| Another officer said the Russians | All. members are urged to attend had clamped down tighter restric- the meeting, and anyone interested |tions on their men. “At night, they in singing is invited to attend. practically lock 'em up,” he sad. An Allied Intelligence officér of- MEN'S CHORUS TO MEET of West Coast companies. - Employers = strike is costing ' |