The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 16, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIL., NO. 11,044 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ———————————ay JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1948 1\ [} 1BER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS S A Ly Peace 1 NIGHT MEET TAKES PLACE: TALKS TODAY Tie-up Enfers T6th Day as Negotiatcrs Go Ahead in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16.—P— Peace talks continued in the West Coast shipping strike today as the tie-up entered its 76th day. Waterfront employers and Harry Bridges' CIO longshoremen sche- duled another meeting after a “technical discussion” of the issues at their first session last night. The unaffiliated Marine Firemen, another of the five unions involv- ed, were to meet the shipowners today for further talks. The un- jon said the owners offered less in preliminary talks than they did in pre-strike negotiations ended Sep- tember 1. Also joining negotiations were the CIO Marine Cooks and Stew- ards. They asked improved wages and living conditions aboard ships and a 2'% year contract to end June 15, 1951. In the longshore talks, negotia- tors yesterday reported preliminary agreement on _a 9-hour day, in- stead of a 10-hour longshoremen’s day, and at least four hours’ pay for any man reporting for work. Solve Alaska; Marine Strike, Demand on M( (By The Associated Press) The U. S. Maritime Commission has been asked in Portland to solve the West Maritime strike be- fore the region’s economy is furth-| er damaged. A resolution was handed to Vice Admiral W. M. Smith, chairman of the Commission, by the Pac- ific Northwest Trade Association. The Association noted that com- modity surpluses normally explrt- ed are stagnating the business and trade affairs of the region. The resolution said that the strike is ‘crippling the economy at a time when the West Coast is trying to absorb a large population increase into its business and industrial life. The association said defense aims for Alaska also are being de- layed by the tieup. ———— General Manager Alaska Railroad Now in Hospital WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—®—J. P. Johnson, General Manager of The Alaska Railroad, is confintd to a local hospital undergoing treat- ment for a sprained back. His of- fice said he would have to remain there for several days. The Washingion Merry - Go - Round Bv DREW PEARSON Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— Just one year ago last week the Friendship Train traveled across the American con- tinent gathering food for the hun- Resume Waterfront Negolialions RE MADE Talks in Coast Strike A IDLE Y STRIKE CIO longshore officials and Waterfront,’ Employers Assiciation representatives met in San Francisco (Nov. 11) to resume negotiations for settlement of the 72-day-old co right) Eddie Tangen, Secretary, Marine Cooks and Stewards Hugh Brysen, astwide maritime strike. (Left to President, Marine Cooks and Stewards; Harry Bridges, Longshore head; Lou Geldbiatt, Longshore Secretary; Frank P. Floisie, President, Waterfront Employers Association; J. B. Bryan, President, PacificAmerican Shipowners Asso- ciation; Almon Roth, President, San Francisco Employers Council; Al llan Haywceod, CIO Director of Organization and R. J. Thomas, Assistant CIO Directer of Organization. ® Wirephoto. San Francisco Asking for Air Line Direct fo Alaska; Give Reasons for Service { WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—(®—A | spokesman for San Francisco asked | | | IS (OSTLY Francisco, said such service would | ment of the San Francisco area | |since 1940, Keesling asserted the pro- | to Fairbanks, Sen. Warren G. Mag- |and the territory would rise with | nuson (D-Wash) told the Pacific-|such service. " | continued, probably would use a to warrant | gent military necessity ‘through-plane service to transport ‘eliminnlc present trans-shipments | |delays and costs and greatly m»} crease air travel between Califor- | ¢ SRR nia and Alaska. | T After relating the sharp rise in| A((IUIS“IOH of PGER Would | poputation and maustriar develop- | Be About 700 Mil- . posed direct one-carrier, one-plane | ||0n, PNTA Told | service would help not only busi- ness concerns but be in the inter- PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 16.—(P— |est of nat‘onal defense. It would cost $700,000,000 to acquire: He cited hotel registration hg-‘ the Pacific Great Eastern Railway |ures to support his argument that| in’ British Columbia and extend it|tourist travel between California | Northwest Trade Association yes- Air freight in fresh fruits and nuts | terday. |from California to -Alaska would | The Senator read a letter from | increase sharply also if trans-ship- the War Department informing him jment costs at 5932‘;5- Wash., were that the Department does not con- |eliminated, he argued. | sider a railroad to be of such ur-| The fishing industry in Alaska, he i i in next year’s > A Lf.sdbetmg thelligea u: DS lworkers from California to plants cggs. ._|in the Territory when heavy season- The Senator commented, how-;a] demand for labor occurs. ever, that 700 millions represent no“ As for national defense, he point- more than the cost of three modern | .4 ¢, military installations being battleships, and added “many of|geveloped in Alaska and said that us in Congress believe ‘a railroad |i, case of an emergency it would be‘ to Alaska would be worth more iy the interests of the country if a than three battleships in the de-|ihough-carrier operation to Cali-| fensc_a of the Territory and of the|fonia already was functioning. | continent.” He did not mention any particu- | partment budget will make no pro- | SIO(K ouo]'A“o“s “I ‘have no doubt that if Con-| the Army to submit a proposhl for | mine,stock today is 2%, American to consider it.” | 27%, Kenneeott 56, New York Is Up To Army lar air line. { vision for a railroad to Alaska, the | | NEW YORK, Nov. 16—®—Clos- | a railroad, the Army will w)llmgly’Can 79%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss- He said the matter of a railroad | Central 13%, Northern Pacific 18.| Although the current War De-! AR Senator said: | gress ‘at this coming session asks|ing quotation of Alaska Juneau do so and Congress would be glad | wright 8, International Harvester had been discussed by the joint|U. S. Steel 73%, Pound $4.03%. DEPRESSED ;)\ Rcbert Hauptmann, 18, is glum as he sits on steps of 1 headguarters in Washington — a sightseer from Alaska without luggage or money Robert- told police that on arriving in the nation’s capital three men offered to show him. around in a private car. After touring a few points he said the men relieved him of $344 and his luggage. Robert planned to wire his father, Theodore Hauptmann of Skagway, Alaska, for assistance. (P Wirephoto. HALIBUT STEAKS FROM SEWARD ARE FLOWN EAST SEWARD, Alaska, Nov. 15.—#— In a first such cargo flight which lead to monthly shipments, pounds of halibut steaks flown from Anchorage to 18,500 were | Great Falls, Mont., last week. They were shipped to Anchorage by train. william Pege, general manager of the Seward Fish and Cold Stor- age Company, accompanied the shipment 8n an Alaska Airlines| cargo plane. “We bought the halibut from ¢ thg Security Council police * PRESIDENT TAKES HAND ON BLOCKADE Says U. S. Will Not Discuss Talk on Germany Until Blockade Lifted (By The Associated Press) President Truman said today (hei | United States will not resume | four-power negotiations on Ger- | | many until Russia lifts her block- ade of Berlin, Earlier, Russia told top United | Nations officials who had appealed | for new four-power negotiations | | that any talk about Berlin must | take up the whole question of { Germany. | | - The United States, Britain and :’France stood firm. Western power | leaders met in Paris and said “their discussions showed a com- | plete identity of views.” This | | meant, as Mr. Truman said, the | Berlin blockade must be raised be- | {fore any four-power talks on Ger- | many. | | Thus the Berlin crisis ran head- | long into another deadlock. The latest attempt to solve the | | Berlin question—which the West-| | ern powers have charged before | endangers | | peace—came frem H. V. Evatt of | | Australia, president of the U. N. Assembly, and Trygve Lie, its sec- | retary-general | | Mr. Truman made it plain he has no plans to meet Prime Min- ister Stalin unless the Russian dic- | tator accepts his invitation to| Washington. Moreover, he plans to send no emissary to Moscow. He is | to review the entire international | | situation Nov. 22 with Secretary of | State Marshall and Averell Hurrl-;‘ man, the roving ambassador for the Economic Cooperation Admm-‘ AREROUTEDIN | | | | RED SUCHOW AREA |Chinese Govt. Claims Vic tory—Reports Conflict- ing, However (By The Associated Press) The Chinese Government claimed | a great victory today over the Com-‘l munists in the Suchow area, 200 miles from Nanking. | The fact remained, however, that the U. 8. Embassy and Consulates of Shanghai, Peiping and Tientsin urged all Americans to leave the im- periled country as soon as possicle! or risk “hazardous conditions.” | The Government asserted the Red | Armies were routed northeast of | Suchow and were withdrawing. | The news from the defense min- istry’s official news agency was in| direct contrast to generally accept- ed reports from other sources that the Government’s whole control ot | the Suchow area was tottering | Government spokesman Hollington | Tong asserted Suchow “is firmly in | our hands and the Reds are with: drawing to the northeastwar Neutral observers took the reports with considerable reserve. | The Communist radio said Red troops have isolated Suchow com- pletely and captured Suhsien, 50 miles south. The Government said it still holds Suhsien. Private advices from Nanking to| Shanghai said the Chinese Govern- ment will decide within three days | | whether to continue the civil war or| | | MIES | Released from Prison L ;‘v ting cn the steps of the Nevada Penitentiary at Carson City, socialite Frances Taft Poliock of Chicago beams hapnily at Walter W. Witkowski as he is released from prison. Ile holds his parole from prison on the bigamy charge she brought against him 11 months ago. ® Wirephoto. Power Projed al D&rolhy - Lake Scheduled; Warne To Ask Congress for Funds l WASHINGTON, ' Nov 16. (® The ! Interior Department announced to- day it will ask the new Congress for funds to develop at least four power projects in Alaska, with the first to cost $220,000 and develop 30,000 kilowatts of power annual- Iy W. E. Warne, Assistant Secretary said the Reclamation surveyed the four sites and decided they are leasible for development. The Eklutna Lake site, with the estimated to cost $20,000,- listed first project 000 is ment ‘This project, he told a news con- | ference, would serve Anchorage, | Palmer and the Matanuska Valley, |a farming community ‘| The other proj which haveé | been found to be feasible for year ruround operation are at Blue Lake near Sitka, Dorothy Lake near Ju- , | neau, and Swan Lake near Ketchi- v The power survey made by the ® | Bureau i1s part of a general ex- | panded industral program for Al- aska. Warne' said the power would | be needed for civilian and indus- trial uses. The projects weuld be chiefly for power, kut where feasible would provide for irrigation and recrea- tion. The ofiicial said the would aid national defense Territory and the Eklutna project would be able to supply power to Fort Richardson and the big Air Force field near Anchor- age program in the Lake D s 11 RESCUED FROM SINKING TUG BY U. . COAST GUARD BOAT SEATTLE, Nov. 16— The Coast Guard cutter Balsam radioed Bionde, blue-eyed, shapely Patri- cia ‘Legs” Hall (above), who re- cently won a “most beautiful legs in the world” contest, has heen signed by Universal-International studio in Hollywcod, which says it's leoking for “new faces." Ap- re Continuing Bureau had | for develop- | propriately enough, she'll play the teday it had taken 11 men off the 'EAST COAST | | PORTSTIED UP, STRIKE 'Railroad Workers Being Laid Off-Other Leading Labor News ltems (By The Associated Press) Approximately 1,000 rallroad employees were laid off today as, a result of the tightening strike of longshoremen in East Coast ports. allroads said other work- ers may be afiected soon. The striking AFL dock workers | reccived a support offer from Joe | Curran and his powerful CIO Na- | tional Maritime Union. Curran said | NMU members have been ordered | not to perform duties ordinarily handled by longshoremen. Last night, Canadian ports which have been used as havens for ships which normally would,dock in New York were sealed off. . | Canadian affiliates of the AFL | International Longshoremen's Un- | fon refused to handle such ships | at Halifax, Montreal and St. John, East Coast Tieup The strike of 65,000 longshoremen which has tied up East Coast ports between Portland, Me., and Hamp- ton Roads, Va., went into its sev- enth day without indications of | immedtate settlebient. Sailing’ of the Queen Elizabeth for Halifax from Southampton, England, to- morrow, was cancelled. . The liner, | America, was unable to sail on | schedule from New York for Eu- | Yope today. The East Coast strike resulted from a wage dispute. In the 76-day-old West Coast shipping strike, negotiations ~ be- Fweell shippers and five participat- | ing unions were reported to have ‘ymnde progress and to be continu- ing. | Southern and Gulf Coast were operating. | Other labor developments: | At Cincinnati, O., the American ‘;Federnuun of Labor convention | was told by John R. Steelman, | President Truman's special assis- | tant, that union leaders are play- ling an increasingly important part | in shaping the nation’s foreign and | domestic policies. | ports | Also at Cincinnati, President Tru- |man told AFL delegates in a | message that he would enlarge the Labor Department and support a | program of legislation “for the benefit of all the people.” CIO President Philip Murray said at Portland, Ore., he plans to be a candidate for re-election at next “week's CIO convention there. He ‘ended rumors that he would not run again, " John L. Lewis, chief of the | United Mine Workers, said in a | magazine interview he would pre- | fer nd replacement for the Taft- | Hartley Law if it is repealed. | The AFL International Typo-~ graphical Union has filed in In- | dianapolis Federal Court a state- | ment that the union has complied with a Federal injunction against | Tait-Hartley law violations. The | union said its locals have been told | to stop proposing contract clauses prohibited by the court order. The union had been commanded to | show cause why it should not be held in contempt. TTRAIN WRECK; 1A ARE KILLED | s | CALCUTTA, India, Nov.' 16 | —Fourteen persons were killed and ’26 injured by a narrow gauge rail- [ ay wreck today in the Lunding- | Tinsukia section of Assam. The jengine and five coaches were de- ralled. The route, well known to Allied soldiers in wartime, connect- {ed the Stilwell and Manipu, | into Bugma. b | halibuters which formerly had to | take the fish to Seattle to sell it,” | Pege said. “We froze it, cut it |up and packaged it in one-pound cartons similar to those use for lall frozen foods.” Four former Anchorage men are !asaucmwd with him in the ven- | ture. chiefs of staff “15 or 20" times. | Sales today were 1,060,000 shares. He said he understood that prl-f Averages today are as follows: vate negotiations were under way | industrials 17621, rails 54.85, util- for joint private-public acquisition | ities 33.16. The French train is called the|of the Pacific Great Eastern and | e “Thank You Train,” and consists|its extension to Alaska, but he| of 49 boxears (“40 men-8 horses”) | said he did not know to what ex- | (Continued on Page Four) gry people of Europe. Today, one year later, a similar train is trav- eling through France gathering gifts for the American people. sinking Seattle tug Neptune off — | the mouth ot the Columbia River., SON FOR EMMETT CONNORS The Neptume, a short time earl-| A son, Dennis Allen, was born ier, reported it had punctured an|to Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Connor in oif tank maneuvering alongside an- | Seattle on November 6. :Denhis Richard T. Roberts, CAA repre- other tug and a ship they were| weighed six pounds eight ounces It asked |at birth. He joins a brother, George, who is three years old, seek a negotiated peace with the role of 2 bathing beauty in her it CRIREGR TN Communists. Such a peace probably | first picture. Wirephoto. would be based on the retirement of | = President Chiang Kai-shek. R FROM SEATTLE Mrs. R. C. Reed of Seattle is at, sentative from Omaha, Nebr., is!towing and was sinking 'the Gastineau Hotel. lat the Baranof Hotel | immediate assistance. CAA MAN HERE FROM IDAHO INLET | Terry Goodland of "Idaho Inlet |is at the Gastineau Hotel. (Continued on Page Two)