The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXII., NO. 11,045 “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1948 ALL THE TIME” ey Mb\xBPR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CLNTS PROGRESS MADE TO END COAST STRIKE EAST COAST PORT STRIKE IDLES MANY No Progres??eported in Negotiations - Other Angles, Labor News (By The Associated Press) i No progress is reported today| toward ending the walkout of 65,-| 000 East Coast AFL dock workers. | Effects of the shipping tieup in| ports from Maine to Virginia were| being felt in many segments ol industry and business. Estimates of losses ran into many millions of dollars since the AFL International Longshoremen'’s Association walk- ed out eight days ago in a dispute over wages. tugboat and trucking workers have been made idle. The port of Halifax was reopen- ed and the 2,000 longshoremen will handle all goods not consigned to the United States. Earlier Halifax Longshoremen's Associa- tion said it would seal off Halifax I t | | Thousands of railroad, | the i | | from any more ships diverted be-| cause of the strike. In Movieland The AFL screen extras gulld mn Hollywoed said its members voted | 2512 to 67 to reject an employer, proposal for continuing the mob scene extra's pay bracket of $9.45 | a day. The guild said it will ask the studics to make a new offer. Bus Drivers' Strike For the third day a strike of 150 bus drivers ‘and mechanics. of the Edwards =~ Lakes-To-Seas system halted operations over 1,500 miles of route in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Wash- ington, D..C. The AFL Amalga- mated Association of Street Car, Electric Railways and Coaches Em- is seeking a wage The company The 5.55 hour ployees union hike of 10 per cent. has offered six per cent. present rate for drivers is cents a mile and $127 an for mechanics. Labor Repeal Fund The American Federation of La- bor, in convention in Cincinnati, téday had for consideration a pro-| posal to raise $750,000 to be used in the fight for repeal of the Taft- Hartley Act. The committee di- recting policy for “Labor’s League for Political Education” suggcsted to the 650 delegates to the AFL's convention that they finance an educational program with an; assessment of 10 cents a membe The AFL membership on August 31 was 7,220,000. CIO Meeting In Portlahd, Ore. the 51 mem- | bers of the CIO Executive Board| met. | | AIN.Y. Strikebound Docks TWINS Baily and Nicole Claudine, in carrving the luggage after th bound New York DISAPPEARS Theresa Catherine Foster (above) a Colorado University co-ed from Greeley, Cclo., vanisked after leav- ing a Newman club meeting in Boulder, Colo., (Nov. 9). Search turned to a mountain road near Boulder where a ring and scarf, identified by her mother as be- lenging to Miss Foster, were found near pools of blood and strands of hair. ®; W rrphoto. FEDERAL TAX FROM ALASKA INCREASING SEATTLE, No 17. -(M—Wash- The -apnual CIO convention | ington-Alaska District federal tax will open in Portland Monday.|ccllections for 1948 have passed the Walter Reuther, president of meinalf -billion’ mark. United Auto Workers, asked about 1 Internal Revenue Collector Clark rumors that he might run for tha)Scuire announced the total reach- CIio presidency, said (Philip) is my man.” Murray, ending his eighth year as president, is not planning to retire. The government sent one of its; top mediators from Washington to New York this afternoon to try to settle the East’ Coast AFL dock workers strike. He is William N. Margolis, assist- ant to Director Cyrus S. Ching of the Federal Mediator Service. He will try to get both sides to- gether to seek some solution. > The Washington| Merry - Go - Round Bv DREW PEARSON ACopyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, | ASHINGTON—President Tru- man is doing some real soul- searching about the man who is to} be his new secretary of state. Witite House intimates say he-has two things in mind: 1. The most important facing the entire country is peace, and Truman has got to find the| | office No. 1 man in the country to solve | |bergh was not to be intervie it. 2. mistake Franklin Roosevelt did of “(Continued on Page Four) “Murray | ed $500,882,046 with issue i for He doesn't want to make the | | Gastinean i the collec- tion and deposit of $1,354,000 yes- terday. It compares with $471 052,986 at the same date a year ago. The gain is six per cent, Income taxes total 3259604508 an increase of nearly nine per cent. The other $241,277,000 rep sents withholding, employment and miscellaneous taxes. - Lindbergh HasArrived In Fairbanks FAIRBANKS, Nov. 17. Chaxles A. Lindbergh, flying a B- 50 bomber, landed here yesterday | to begin a study of long-range| Arctic flying for the Air Force. His arrival followed by only a few days that of five other B-50 ! bombers assigned to Eielson Field 45 days of Arctic training. The field public information told newsmen that Lind- wed. - FROM PELICAN Zitz of Hotel. Teny —ip— | 3, or Paris, take an equal hand e liner America docked in strike- CHINESE ROUTING COMMIES Government Makes Report’ on Progress of Fight- ing at Suchow (By The Afiucluled Press) The Chinese government told skeptical world today its ties The government made the same; kind of claims shortly before Tsin- an, Chinhsien and Mukden fell to the Reds. It appeared the Chinese Air| Force actually had bunted the Red, attacks some 200 miles from Nan- | king, but that the Communists were regrouping for another as- sault, rather than retreating. Despite the Chinese victory claims, it appeared that Gen H=: ang Po-tao’s Seventh Army Group, which was isolated east of Suchow, | lost more than half its full strength of four armies. The group otill is fighting. Gen. Pai tional armies from Hankow ap- proached the Pukow-Suchow rail- road to join the battle. The Chinese Communist | indicated the Reds are pushing east to clamp a pincers on gov- ernment forces. In North China, the ‘Communists appeared to have meved into Paoting, capital of Ho-, peh and 90 miles southwest of Pei- | ping. The issued a second emergency warn- ing for Americans to get out while they can. Response was greater. The Chinese extended martial law | to Tsingtao, An American naval base. PIECE OF WRECKAGE | IS FOUND Believed Be Part of B-25| Bomber Missing in New- foundland-Six Aboard ST. JOHN'S, Nfld, Nov. 17— | —Planes searching for a United States bomber missing since Nov. 5 turned toward the Peckford Islamd area today. The lightkeeper there | reported finding a piece of air- | eraft wreckage. | | The wreckage was not definitely | | identified as part of the B-25. The ‘plane had six men aboard when it | disappeared on a flight from Wash- | Hngwn D. C, to Argenti, in south-' ! ern Newfoundland. | | { Chung-hsi's four Na-| radio {into Prince Rupert, U. S. Consul at Shangha#| THREE TUGS, STORM TOLL Coastal Disturbance Raises Havoc with Shipping- Gradual Dymg Down SEATTLE, Nov. al storm was gradually dying down today, leaving in its wake a toll of three tugs and seven lives. Three men were lost when the {tug St. Ciair smashed onto rocks | near Port San Juan, B. C. Five | others reached shore in a life- : boat. Two more men were missing from | the tug Ruby Eight, which sank }in Puget Sound. Another man died of a heart, attack as the Coast Guard was attempting rescue of him and 10 “| others from their sinking tug Nep- [tune off the Columbia River | mouth. | The tef men were saved by the { Coast Guard in a hazardous xub- | ber boat rescue, but the one man {died after falling into the sea. | The seventh victim was a woman, jlost overboard from the ferry Princess Victoria between Van- ccuver and Victoria, B. C. Two vessels, lightship which \lost its anchor and a freighter' with 16 aboard, which broke loose | from a towing tug, were still mcuum'mg the attention of the Coast Guard today. The lightship was heading protection of the Strait i | I a tor of | the ern coast =~ of Washington, but without a warning light The freighter, Herald of the| | Morning, finally anchored by its crew miles off Grays Har- (bor after winds appeared to be ! driving it ashore. The Coast Guard said it would be all right if the { anchor holds. Another tug, the 116-foot Mon- 'arch towing three million feet of {logs from Southeast Alaska to )Puget Sound, was in trouble off {Dundas Island this morning after |losing its rudder, the Coast Guard |reported. The Coast Guard said th cutter White Holly had been or- dered out from Ketchikan and at- tempts were being made to contact the Army LT-394, in the area, to; assist. The Puget Sound tug and barge |company, owners of the tug, said |here however, that the Monarch was [making repairs and was putting B. C. It was! 'bringing two cribs of logs south {from Fitzgibbons Cove. 1 ! PORT ANGELES, Nov. 17.—® The Coast Guard Cutter McLane Banks off Cape Flattery, at the en- trance to the Strait of Juan De Fuca, to replece the lightship which lost its anchor in yesterday’s heavy storm. The lightship arrived here early today with its broken anchor chain ;Repairs were not expected to takey many days and it will return to its post. - Outlawing Sirikes Cause Big Walkout MELBOURNF, Australia, \Nov. 17.—(P—About 85000 Melbourne workers struck today for 24 hours in protest against a new law Victoria outlawing strikes in es- sential services unless approved by a majority of union members in secret ballots. cluded railway and street car em- ployees, seamen, dock workers, miners and engineers and some b\mdu\g workers. e SIO(K OUOIMIONS NEW YORK, Nov, 17.—#- Clos- ing quotation of Alaska mine stock today is 2%, American Can 79':, Amaconda 34%, Curtiss- wright 8, International Harvester 28, Kennecott %, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 17%, U. S. Steel 717%, Pound $4.03%.. Peckford Island is about 50 | miles northeast f Gander Airport/ Pelican is at thel and off Newfoundland's northeast industrials 176.07, coast, Sales today were 970,000 shar Averages today are as follows: rails 54.46, ‘util- 17.—(P—A coast-} was ordered today to the Swiitsure; Juneau | NO DIRECT SEVEN LIVES, | SETTLEMENT Prince M.k ON BERLIN U. §., Britain, france State Security Council Must Handle Crisis (By 'The Associated Press) The United States, Britain and France declined a plea of two lead-| ing U. N ofticials to negotiate di- lrectly a four-power settiement of {the Berlin crisis. They .told Sccre- itary General Trygve Lie and Assem-! |the appeal Saturday, that the issue 'sl‘ould remain before the Security Council. President Truman said yesterday ‘there would be no four power mee ‘ing while the Russians continue the {Berlin blockade. The American re- !jection repeated this. Russia in her reply yestercay said any discussion, uf Berlin must come during a com-| {plete airing of the whole German wprohlem !NAUGURATION BE GLAMCRIZED HOLLYWOOD, Nev | There'll be a touch of Hollywood | |glamor at President Truman’s in-' | auguration. Actor Melvyn at request of Washington_officials! he’s heading a committee to or ganize a sizeable delegation to th | Juan de Fuca bordering the north-;geremonies in the capital Jan. 20.{ BY BRmSH GOVT 2 could make only slow progress. ItS gection, armies . departure left the Swiftsure Banks 1 had routed the Communists east of el Mo Suchow and imposed 90,000 casual-' It will include an industry cross- from big name leaders. Douglas' | wife is Rep. Helen Gahagan Doug- (las D-Calif), who also was re- elected November 2. - LOUISE TO SOUTH; 45 BCARD HERE; RETURNS NOV. 22 “Forty-five southbound passengers Loarded the Princess Louise when she docked here at 10:30 last num lafter a more than 12-hour delay| lat Skagway !gers totaled 27, 15 for Vancouver jand three for Prince Rupert. She| |sailed at 11:45 o'clock Py The Louise will leave Vancouver (November 22 on her next north- bounc. sai | Passengers nul on the Louise are: To Seattle: W. E. Crooks, M. Seil- er, Mr. and Mrs. Milliken, Mrs "[‘re(zegar Mr. and Mrs. Frank Met- lecalf, Mrs. Peterson, Sgt. and Mrs. | Filley, Mr. and Mrs Kinney, Miss | Mrs. Henry Roden, , Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Elsie McLean, Hangard, G. Fournier, L Baranof, A. O. Holendorf. he said, | Hedington, 1 V. Bernar | Monagle, ‘and Mrs. {Weise, S. P. Moe, M rPredko. 0. Anderson To Vancouver: E. Chapman, Wiiliams, Gov. and Mrs, Gruening,| M. Stinscn, Mr. Campbell, Mr. iderson, Mr. and Mrs. Pelky, Mr. !{Proese, Mrs. Schuller, E. Olson, A. 'Maclsaac, Mr. and Mrs. I. Gold- stein. To Prince Rupert: Miss M. Miller, Miss N. Miller, J. Cleforulet Jol n | i Following the recommendation of : the Territorial Pardons Advisory Board, Gov. Ernest Gruening has The strikers in-{granted a pardon to John O'Brien,j now of San Francisco, who in 1901 on conviction of assault with intent {to commit robbery | The pardon operates |O’Brien civil' rights of ihas beéen deprived for more than 45 years. I" The offense for which O'Brien served time occurred in the early |{days in Skagway. Since his release O'Brien, now 75, has teen a mer- ichant seaman and culinary worker. { - i FROM ANCHOBAGF Here from Anchorage and stay- to restore to -/ing at the Baranof Hotel are Ber- nie H. Reiten axd Parker W. Ne- gus of the CAA, and George Voo-| ra. Ibly President H. V. Evatt, who made | 17— vousin e e BOTTLE PARTIES Seattle-bound passen-: Miss P! Bun- JOHN O'BRIEN IS, PARDONED BY GOV.. and 1902 served a 15 months' sen-| Itence at McNeil Island penitentiary which hej Elizabeth Spent Excellent Night; ONE ISSUE SETTLED AT CONFERENCE 'Hiring Halls fo Remain i Under Union Control- Negotiations Continue | SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17.. (M- Announcement that Secretary of|Negotiators in the 77-day Pacitic Dehn Forrestal is flying down lu-‘("u“ t shipping strike appeared morrow to have lunch with Presi- |headed down the home stretch to- |dent Truman stirred speculat’on t |ward settlement today day the time of his departure from! A big stumbling block in the way the cabinet will be ed (of peace in the waterfront tie-up Presidential Pre Secretar \1 idlinz 28,000 men—what to do about Charles G. Ross said simply that{the hiring halls for the CIO long- F‘onosm] will be a guest of the Chief | <l‘oremen-—mns settled yesterday. “«‘mlmw at his southern “White| The hiring halls will stay under Hou: on the Naval submarine union control. The tentative agree- ba !ment of the Waterfront Employers Toe defense secretary told a news| Association amnd the Longshoremen's (‘on(erencv in Paris that he does Union provided for “modilying 17—~ not expect to serve out :monwrlpramrex by mutual agreement if another {four years in the cabinet. He said!necessary as result of court or con- will he was leaving up to Mr. Truman |gressional action.” 10 on'to decide when his resiznation will| Negotiators today to pad|become effective {take up problems Involving wages, | Representative Sam Rayburn!vacations with pay and grievance The New Jersey lawmeaker entered | (D-Texas) the prospective speaker | machinery. a formal plea of innocent to the of the House again when the Drmn-; The longshoremen seek a 15-cent indictment at a surprise arraignment w.x'll\ organize it in January, is com-ian hour voost in the present wage He had been sci hml-, ng in tomorrow also. [seale of $1.67, or will take 15 cents, ! Ross made it clear that Mr. Tru- |retroactive to June 15, when their and /man had not “summoned” Forrestalcontract expired. |to Florida. There the possibility| Negotiators for the ship owners the defense chief will fly back to-|and the CIO cooks and stewards ‘morrow afiernoon. (held a three-hour sess'on yesterday He would not go beyond this bare and reported at ‘the end that “pro- | announcement |gress is being made.” Three other Ross said 40,000 pieces of mail and unions are mvolved in mc strike. 110000 telegrams of congratulat ml - have been received at the wmm | House in Washington alone s'\nce RA'lRoAD To 1 Tn‘xm'm“ election victory. PORTLAND, Nov. 17--(#—A rail- . Truman’s delay in xeurgunlzu lng hlx admin'stration was attrib- road from Alaskan Yukon through |Canada to the United Stat urg= LONDON, Nov. 17— The| government moved today to outluw"“e‘v by. ‘close associgtes. fadey o |bottle parties—a device used to| i°"t:”} “"Fh“l picking. ’epl""cmems beat the closing times of night | *y RESRCWIR RIS MO clubs, iese* sources, unquotable |name, said the President is in no yed by the Pacific Northwest Trade | Association, ! The suggested route would go {through British Columbia to Can- (ada's Northwest Territory and to FORRESTAL T0 MEET 'PRESIDENT {Secrefary of Defense Fly- ing to Southern “"White House™ for Talk By ERNEST V’\(‘CARU KEY WEST, Fla,, Nov. 17.—®- P Princess ' | llent night | continue to her doctors | DON, Nov. 11 Ih/ubml\ spent an ex jand she and her son make good progress,” reported today. Alter visiting | the Princess, who| gave birth to a seven pound, six ounce Prince Sunday night, physi- | !cians Sir William Gilliatt and Sir! Jchn Weir made a personal re- iport to the Queen | Court sources reported | tional bulletins were expected day no addi- to- | i | e THOMAS TRIAL JANUARY 10; OUT ON BOND WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 Barring delays or a shift to y, Rep. J. Parnell Thon go on trial here Januarj arges that he conspired his office payrolls I {late yesterday. uled to appear today. Thomas was fingerprinted then released on $1,000 bond -o is T0 BE OUTLAWED D Flrsl Survey Flight of 1 This afternoon, 24 hours after he was expected to preside over Dis- jtrict Court on its resumption yes- le)d:\) Judge George W. Folta had (not returned from a week’s hunting | trip. While concerned over his failure o110 return, Mrs. Folta felt certain |that the delay was due to bad weather conditions. ‘ I° m the pa . are Mark Jen-| sen, representative-elect and pro- prietor of a Douglas grocery; Chri 51 | Wyller, P.R.A. district engineer, and | Ralph Mortenson of Douglas. Thel |party left akoard Mortenson’s 42- fcot troller, the Totem .- D TEN BUCKS ARE BROUGHI IN-BY HYAK HUNT PARTY With ten bucks among party of hunters returned terday on the Hyak, Sim McKin- non’s new boat. Hunters in the party were Earle Hunter, Percy| Reynolds, Minard Mills, Skip Mac- Kinnon, Jim Orme, Joe Johnston |and Sim MacKinnon, | They were out for two weeks | ec ares and found their best hunting in| $5 Dividend the Rocky Pass district. They got } SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17— | ks good bags of duck and geese on the trip also. All the bucks they brought down were three and four pointers A ka Packers Association loday‘ dectared o awidend of 5 a share| (URTIS BRADFORDS ARE payable Dec. 10 to stock of record Dee. 1. ois wil bring 194 pay- PARENTS OF DAUGHTER {ments to $10 Lumpnll‘d with $11 paid | H | A daughter was born to Mr. and | Mrs. Curtis Bradford in St. Ann's| Hospital yesterday morning. The lla\l year. ‘new arrival weighed eight pounds one ounce. She joins a young broth- ter. Y Bradford is employed by the Stan- dard Oil Company here and was a > -e {Ialmadge Now, Georgia's Gov. ATLANTA, Nov. 17-—{®--Herman Talmadre, one-time farm toy, be- came the 63rd Governor of Georgia Itoday in a ceremony blending coun- try-style simplicity with official| pomp. al Arthur E. war service in 49th Bombard- - EXPLORER DOCKS The Explorer, Local boards usually forbid liquor | R i bl to shake up his cabinet until; > b Ihe can complete selection of a team P3G, wnliio. wimysipter. at-privets carry on during the next four | clubs organize bottle part: - . BT | {buying bottles or booze in advance ¥ or bringing their own The Labor Government put up a { bill in parliament ~uhj«>(‘ung bu!lh-‘ (])El“l“\ “organized for gain” ! ular closing hours. A».s\ued pa~- pAA M d Se "l ,sage, it will become effective m\ a e, a e December, 1950. F H . > i I I {Fairbanks, linking there with the NOGEROA pARTY | | TAaal TS e s ye—— | Congress was asked to appropri- SEATTLE, 'Nov. 17—(@— Fitst|ate $150,000000 to restore the idle lA'E I" REIUR"'“G plane to make the Pan Americanimerchant fleet to operating condi= survey flight from Honolulu 1oition as a national security measure. FROM HUNTING TRIP | scattie 1andea nere ut 10:30 1ast ol il | S i night, 13 hours and four minutes i lafter leaving the islands. { The flight was made prior to mfiPORIlANbBOAIS | auguration of regular service on| By o T0 SAIL TWICE WEEK, SEWARD PORTLAND, Nov. 17.—#-—Twice a week sailings between Oregon- them, a California ports and Seward, Alas- yes- | Kka, are planned by the Coastwise lines when the maritime strike i§ ended. | H. H. Wrightson, Portland mana- ger, said three Liberty freighters are ready for service on the route. One of tne firm's freighters reached Alaska to open the service before the strike, Wrightsen reported refrigerated cargo space 18 planned later and 'other Alaskan ports may be added >s POISONING, AIR FAIRBANKS, Nov. 17.--#--The information office for the Ladd Field Hospital yesterday identified a soldier it had said died from poisoning byt officers withheld the names of the six others still in resident of Wrangell for many m;‘hhmlvmm' § s years. Welcoming & new grand-|g i, ichm was Sgt daughter is Z, M. Bradford.of Wran- | o0, ® veteran of ad | Burope with the {ment Group. The seven soldiers were taken ill |at the Galena Air Force base, mid- captained by Mag- way between here and Nome, and Cannon boomed a salute, two|nus Hansen, came in at Juneau brought here for treatment. The bands played, and followers whoop- | Cold Storage this morning, to un- U. S. Marshal’y office was adyised ed and yelled after the 35-year- -old'load a cargo of fish livers after Saturday that a civilian at Galena took the oath as the youngest stateidischarging a fish load at Peters- had died, presumably from wood lexrruflw in the nation burg aleoho! poisoning., {