The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 18, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXII., NO. 11,046 New Snag Struck 1 Big 3ig Alaska EXPERTS 10 DISCUSS! CURRENCY PROBlEM, TROUBLING BERLIN New Hopé for Solvingi‘ Blockade Is Also Re- ported Seen Now (By The Associated Press) | The Secretary of State has alled | to Paris financial experts from| jects Not Disclosed Washington and Berlin to advise| By ERNEST B. VACCARO jon the currency problem in Berlin KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. la.'—«m—i—lhe issue which led the Russians Secretary of Defense Forrestal has|to blockade the city in June. The| a conference with President Truman | airlift has been costing the U. S| taxpayers at the rate of $100,000,000 goday on critical foreign and defense a year since. It tpok two more problems. Landing at the navy’s Boca Chi-| British lives last night when ca_air station, he made only terse|transport plane crashed Marshall’s move in Paris and ani responses to newsmen's queries hour conierence between Juan A. akout the turn of affairs in Chma- anfk Europe. Bramuglia, November President of the U. N. Security Council, and “I've got a number of things— general matters of a broad range,| g,yiet Deputy Foreign Minister | Andrei Vishinsky suggested new to talk to the President about,” he! hope for solving the blockade cri- said. Before Forrestal's arrival, Presi-1g " mranuglia had a new kind of compromise calling for gradual, dent Truman emphasized there woald'bet_l_mflrz‘;::‘“z:‘: ““’po‘;‘:; casing of the blockade and mak- nation’s Li-p: g ing Russian marks the sole Berlin! money. by designating John Foster Dulles as acting chairman of the United FORRESTAL TALKSWITH PRESIDENT Imporfant Conference! Takes Place But Sub- | | | States delegation to the United Nations in the absence of secretary, of State Marshall from Paris. , Marshall =nd roving ECA Ambas- sador, Harriman are flying home ro review the entire peace outlook with the President at the White House Monday, the day after his flight; back from his two weeks' vacation | here. i Reporters tried to pin the De-| fense Secretary down on whether he would talk to the President about Berlin or China, He said:: “Nothlng specmc ANCHORAGE, Nov. 18—(®—The Alaska Third Division Court grant- ed a permanent injunction yester- day restraining Alaska Airlines! from engaging in overseas air ! transportation except of a *cas-! ual, occasional, infrequent” 1, 000 MORE U. 5. MARINES FOR CHINA WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 - (#—De- | fense Secretary Forrestal said today; the Uhited Stites Marine force atOffers overseas service. ! Taingtas, Ching, will be increased by| -The order will'not affect the com-, 1,000 Marines. {pany’s certified operations, the He also told a news confelence'CAB said. g that two transports are going into: The Court also nrdexed the anr« Chinese ports, one tomorrow and(“"e to pay court costs of ane Friday, to remove Americansito PNA and $250 each to Pan\ fleeing from the path of advancing Amcncan nnd Noxchww Communist forces. lSE"ATo (A There are at present about 3,600 Marines stationed at Tsingtao. The WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—®— Senator Cain (R-Wash) and Mrs. | intention is to increase this to 4,600. Cain announced today they have } 1 Pacific ‘Northern Adrlines with Pan | American ‘and = Northwest Airlines: (and the Civil Aeronautics Board! acting as intervenors. This and another injunction iss- ued at the same time takes efl'ect, !Nov. 30 on the termination of an exemption order under which Al-; aska Airlines currently is oper- 'al)ng overseas “airlift” flights dur- ling the maritime strike. The "other order re: rains the| | | H - MAYORS' CONFERENCE Forrestal was asked if the Ma-( rines would “fight” Communist forc- es if they seize the city. “I wouldn't want to comment on that,” the Secretary said. “Their purpose is to aid in whatever steps are necessary for evacuation” (of!decided to separate and that she! Ameticans.) qwill file suit for a divorce in Ta- Asked if the Americans would be|coma, Wash, their home. ordered to withdraw if the Com-{ They said an amicable property| munists advanced on the city, For-|settlement has been reached and! restal replied that would be a mat- | that Mrs. Cain will have custody. ter for the State Department tojof their two children, Candy and decide. Harry P. IL. Alter the conference officials ex- plained that when Forrestal said two transports are going to China ports tomorrow, he meant that they were leaving the West Coast at thn time - for China. iTO Mayor Waino Hendrickson was! aboard the 10:10 o'clock Alaska | Coastal Airlines plane this morn- gt ing, going to Sitka to attend the Old Themistokles Sophuuu_s has | three-day Southeast Alaska Mayors’ formed another coalition cabinet in{Conference, although he plans to Greece. return in time for tomorrow night's meeting of the Juneau City French police and soldiers have Council. moved on Dunkerque where 2,000 dockers, striking at the order of } Communist-led unions, barricaded! themselves behind cargoes. o The Washmgion| Merry - Go- Round Bv DRE‘W PEARSON {Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) A DU SURVEY ENGINEERS BACK Lyle F. Jones and Jack C. Means, Public Survey Office en- zineers. have returned to Juneau, having completed their field sea-‘ sons at Fairbanks and Anchorage. Jones will work a few days in this vicinity before being trans- farred to Denver, Colo., for winter lurvey i —_— e - — MISS KRUEGER TO LEAVE Miss Mae Krueger, public health nurse here for the past two years, will go to Portland, Ore., to take a position as tuberculosis nursing supervisor for the Portland Visit- ing Nurse Association. She will be replaced on the Ju-| ASHINGTON—Only one group of people since Nov. 2 have redder faces than the polisters—the big businessmen who had feathered their nests with Dewey's !riends‘ Take, for instance, the sad case of delightful Lewis Rosenstiel, head of Schenley’s giant distilling com-‘ pany. As one of the leading: whiskey and wine producers in the | USA, Mr. Rosenstiel was interest- | ed in having an “in” with the Center. o | > FROM SITKA (Continued on the Baranof Hotel. ‘at threatened Tsingtao, U. OVERSEAS SERVICE . icould take Tsingtao anytime they | 'a dozen ships is there. ' Tokyo Secretary of State Marshall basis. jernment’s plight in China. He said The injunction was asked by the!Marshatlshut off ‘the flow of am-{ !shall reports to Mr. Truman. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1948 n Coastal Maritime Strike VICTORY CLAIMED BY CHINA Commumsts Reported in’ | Hight at Suchow-Sen. Malone Makes Charges (By The Associaled Press) ! China claimed today a great and| complete victory at Suchow, with Communists in flight after suffering 130,000 casualties. The Nationalists were said to have a |lost only 40,000 men, but both sides! Petersburg and Ketchikan. “|often exaggerate casualty claims. Iti seemed true this time that the Gov- ernment had won at least the first| phase of the battle and the capital | of Nanking appears safe for a! while, | The Communists said they held| the initiative. It appears certmm they had to abandon, for the mu-‘ ment at least, the conquest of Su- 1 chow and to withdraw for regroup-| ing. The U. S. sent 1,250 more mannesl from Guam to bolster the 3,600 men | S. navai |station on ilie Yellow Sea and evac-! {uation port for Americans in the| larea threatened Lty the Reds.| Whether the Marines would engage open fighting with the Commun- | ists depends on circumstances, the State Department said. Experts in{ Washington said the Communists wished. An American task force of Sen. Malone (R-Nev) said in is to blame for the Nationalist Gov- munition which would have held} back the Communists, although the U. 8. already had given Chiang Kai- hek the guns for which the mu-\ |nitions were needed. Malone said $20,000,000 worth of; ummunnmn and machine guns would have saved China and that 1,000 planes to strafe and bomb | | | Pairbanks, i Guard organization in their states. Red lines might even yet save, Chxnng He said President Truman | \already has all the authority he| i company from advertising that it} need< to give Chiang the credit to} Mr {buy the planes. The China problem doubtless wmf be talked out Monday when Mar-| -ro——— SAYS U. S. IS NOT FACING FACTS IN | . ITS FOREIGN POLICY, 1 | | (By The Assouuwd Press) A well-known writer says the United States is not facing facts i its foreign policy. Max Easuman says, “There will} be no peace in the world so long as the Stalin regime survives in Moscow. Stalin totalitarian po- lice-state is more gangerous than Hitler's to democracy and civilized morals.” Eastman is a veteran contribut- ing editor to the liberal weekly, New Leader, and a roving editor for Reader’s Digest. He addressed the AFL convention in Cincinnati today. He said Stalin is sitting in the Kremlin—as he puts it—"pulling a big fracas in Berlin in order to distract minds while he con-l solidates his hold on Manchuria and builds his own impregnable Ruhr.” l e, $35,000 MINIMUM | FOR WRANGELL MILL; | NEW BIDS JANUARY 5| In the matter or the Wrangell Sawmill, Col. Otto F. Ohlson, re- ceiver, through Attorney Henry Roden, this morning petitioned in district Court for a further order of sale, as no bids have been re- ceived under the order which es- tablished $150,000 as a minimum bid. Judge George W. Folta so ruled. The new order will cut the min-| neau staff my Miss Edna Peterka,|imum bid and allow another 45/ represents now of the Fairbanks Public Health | days for the receiver to tfy to sell | Pacific Northwest whose main in- San Francisco, is at the Baranof {the mill, which has been in re- ‘ceivershlp for otfe and a half years. Bids will be received January Charles M. Peterson of Sitka is 5, 1949, in Wrangell, the upset price Council previously took similar ac- heinz - $35,000 ©30, {just expanding an idea that's al- “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — MEMBER ASSOCIATI:D PRESS GOVI.TOTRY Guard Now | SETTLEMENT Envisioned! 9-DAY STRIKE |, | A East Coast Shipping Inter- ests, AFL Longshoremen | Meet in Conference (By ANCHORAGE, Nov. 18.—(®— plan envisioning an Alaska Nation« al Guard nearly twice as large as one originally proposed was announced today by U. S. Army officials here. The original proposal called for, two battalions of Alaska Scouts, made up largely of natives from outlying communities, and two in- fantry battalions from Anchorage, Seward, Kodiak, Cor- Sitka, Wrangell, The Associated Press) jattempt to settle the East Coast shipping row (Friday) William N. Margolis, Assistant Di- irector of the U. S. Mediation and !Conciliation Service, said Ofiicials said the actual forma-|apr jongshoremen and their em- !tion of units would await Federal ployers will meet in their first point approval of the expanded p}‘.ogrnmI session since the strike started They said they expect an nppm-iw'gu are the issue. priate” bill will be presented to the: ‘Margolis flew to New York from Territorial Legislature in January.|yachington yesterday as the Gov-|{ They declared approval of the ernment stepped into the contro- plan for two Scout battalions al-|yersy. The strike at ports from ready has been received from Ma'ne to Virginia, has made thou- Washington, D. C. isands of dock workers and more Lt. Col. Joseph D. Alexander, than 200 ships idle. Its economic ef- | who is participating in the organ- (fects have been felt throughout the ization of the Guard, has confer-|East Coast area. red with iV Ernest’ S Gruening and is directing surveys' Other labor developments includ- for possible location of Guard un- {ed: its in the Territory. He is -con- Delegates to the .67th Annual tacting Governors of Washington, ;C"“W"“"“ of the American Federa- Oregon regard to tion of Labor in Cincinnati, O., vot- ‘éd yesterday ' (Wednesday) to col- llect 10 cents from each of the! | AFL's 7,500,000 members to finance la drive of Labor's League for Po- !litical Education. George Meany, AFL Secretary-: Treasurer, told the delegates that 172 League-backed candidates had been, .elected to the House of Representa- uves. Nov. 2, and 106 classed as unfriencly” were defeated. m,gne is the APL political ari m, nine-day old strike tomor- dova, Juneau, and Idaho in LETTERS FOR EUROPE PUSHED | |tional CIO convention will convene next week, signs pointed to the like- NEW YORK,—#—A young Am-'lihood of a public showdown with erican writer and a score of con- the pro-communist element in the unental newspapers have joined c10 leadership. forces in an ambitious .campaign' CIO President Philip Murray is to get Europeans and Americans known to be much concerned over better acquainted—by mail. goal is the annual exchange of [top CIO leaders. He met yesterday millionsf personal letters between. with his 51-man executive koard| Average Citizen, U. S. A, and 'Lehind closed doors. He is reported: i his counterpart it ten Western Eu- to have asserted that CIO policy- oo —— - o v o 00 e 0.0 v o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) ‘Temperatures for 24-Hour Perlod ropean countries. makers must choose between loyalty | The American is Robert Farr, to the CIO and loyalty to Russxan magazine writer. European foreign xmhcy collaborators in the program are | newspapers in France, Belgium, | | Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, . DELAYED HUNIERS Finland, Sweden, Norway, Luxem- bourg and Switzerland. BA(K WI'H GAME Farr is founder and director m the International Friendship Asso- ciation, which has launched a na-: The hunting party, aL‘m\rd the 42- tionwide campaign to get Ameri- foot troller, Totem, lelumt,d to Ju- 'cans to write letters about them- neau late Jast night, beating their, { selves, their activities and Amer- message from Pelican to the effect {ica. These letters, which also may 'that they would not return Tuesday stipulate the type of European with 'as planned. { whom the writer would like to cor-| respond, should be addressed to'men bagged their limit, u:lurnmg “Priendship Association, Summit rwith two bucks each. In the party! New Jersey.” {were Judge George W. Folta, Chris| The Association will relay the Wyller and, trom Douglas, Mark letters to cooperating European Jensen and Ralph Mortenson, own- newspapers. The latter will distii- er of the boat. bute them to their readers. From' = that point on, the writers on both' sides of 'the Atlantic are on their own. They will mail succeeding communications direct to each oth-; er. The Association will furnish stationery to most of the Europ- ean correspondents. i “This isn't a new idea. In Juneau— Maximum, 38; minimum, 32. At Airport— Maximum, 35; minimum, 31. We are ready been tried out successfully,’ Farr said. eeec0cee oo - OPPOSITION T0 WALLGREN GOES | T0 PRESIDENT| i ANCHORAGE, Nov. 18.—(®—Dem- | ocrats here said they have sent President Truman a telegram op- posing the possible appointment of Washington Gov. Mon Wall-| gren as Secretary of the Interior. victor C. Rivers, chairman of the Democratic Central Committee, | said his group, Democratic divis- | ional committees Aand Democrat | club officers, all have sent wires. Rivers said “we feel Wallgren, those interests in the FORECAST (Junesu and Vicinity) Cloudy with rain o6ccasion- ally mixed with snow tonight and Priday. Southeasterly winds as high as 25 miles per hour. Coldest tonight near freezing PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 am. today In Juneau .30 inches; since Nov. 1, 1517 inches; since July 1, 61.68 inches. At Airport — .31 inches since Nov. 1, 745 inches since July 1, 4254 inches. © o 0 0 0 0 0 0 R aad FROM SAN FRANCISCO Lance S. Bardue, Federal Secur- |ity Agency representative from lercst would be to exploit Alaska | Hotel. rather than emancipate it. ! The Westward Alaska Fisheries D AT BARANOF tion at the Barunof Hotel The Government will make a new | striking | The| In Portland, Ore., where the na-| Their |alleged left-wing leanings of some! Hunting near Chichagof, the four| o |and materials could be placed on/ o0 L3 o o o} . . ol . . . . . Q . C. E. Petergon of Anchorage is ployed at sewing fur garments since Drastic Fish Regulafions Planned, Southeast Alaska POSTAL RMES T0 BE SOUGHT try desperately” to halt next year the declining trend in South- Alaska’s salmon fishery, (‘IA‘ rector Albe M. Day said tods Day told a reporter the agency, is considering fishing regulations| “drastic enough to turn back the downward trend.” The' new rulesj will be announced in mid-January Fifteen or 20 years ago, Day said, the cateh averaged 2,000,000 cases al year. Last year it was down to 682,000 cases, and this year it hit a new low, 665000 cases. Day returned this week from a| conference at Victoria, B. C, with Alaskan packing interests. He also) attended a meeting there of Amer-| ican members of the Canada-U. .’ sockeye salmon commission | Efforts of the past several years| to rebabiitate the sockeye salmon runs in the PFraser River of British | ColumLia, are kteginning to Its, By CHARLES MOLONY WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.~(P— President Truman will reney with ‘»wul next year his plea for” higher H tal rates to help talance the bud- gel, those in the know ‘said today. The post office department now seems likely to wind up $500,000,000 in the red next June 30—an un- precedented loss which would ac- tcount for more than a third of the deficit forerast for the entire Gov- ernment's operation this fiscal year. | Ofticials told a reporter private- tly the increases most certain to be proposed will involve second clas. mail—-made up chiefly of news- papers and magazines They said the reason is that the post office department rates that category as its biggest money-loser. They insisted the fact that a ma- jority of the nation’s press opposed Mr. Truman’s election is beside the | point To emphasize their no-retaliation contention, they recalled that the | Pres'dent recommended postal rate Jbocsts in each of the last two years| ;and followed up the first sugges- jtion with a specific bill drafted by ithe Postmaster General. A feature of that bill was sharply lbws(od rates for second class matv fter. But it never got out of commit- 't.ee for a vote in either house Congress. ! Some increases were voted by lh(~ ‘som Congress to go into elfect on . ‘ January 1. They will raise alrmail | SEATTLE, Nu\ lB. o still | stamps from five cents to siX, make | coling from Tuesday’s storm, the varying hikes in third and fourth| north Pacific area braced today iclass mail, and up rates on money g, 4 new gale reported to be! orders and registered mail | sweeping coastward off the oulf! (Third class mail is made up of | |of Alaska. circulars. catalogues and ul,hex Earl this week, printed matter or merchandise and waves claimed seven lives, sank | ' weighing under eight ounc Fuunh‘ three ships and damaged se ‘“u]l class mail is parcel pos! pa(kdgl’s‘uthm\ along the shores of Oregon, | I between eight ounces and 70 pounds | Washington and British Columbia. | in weight). The storm was expected to add - l.u the danger of the Seattle tug Monarch, which reported ruddder trouble off Dundas Island, north- west of Prince Rupert, B. C., yes- {terday. The cutter White Holly,!| \enl from Ketchikan, tried to take| Monarch in tow, but was turn- ed back by high winds. the Coast| 'b\lard n-pmtu’l | IMAY BE REFLOATED;, TWO REPORTS MADE .- . ™ i SEATTLE, Nov. 18—~ Alaska | temoon, The Moualch with a crew | | Railroad spokesm.m said there’s was towing 3,000,000 feet of l“every indicat'on” the railroad’s|jo.s south 2 ; 'barge aground near Cape Spencer[ will be nulled free. Adviseg of the Anchorage report | that the carzo might be a total loss, W L Harker, the railroad’s coun- Che expensive f.shway shape,” he added “The salmon run up the river| was good and the pack was good.| This is one of the outstanding con-| | servation jobs of our time.” Day also discussed Columbia River tion program with state oflicials of | Washington and Oregon, and at! fan PFranci he conferred with| California sportsmen on waterfowl hunting regulations and on out- Lreaks of totulism at several g.nm‘ refuges. the Lower | > 'ALASKA STORM 10 HIT SEATILE; NEW - GALE SOUTHBOUND 1 I I - 'GROUNDED BARGE‘ i ... 49 ARRESTED IN | SAN FRANCISCO, | at is the first we've heard jof it. As far as we know, we will | iget the barge off and expect to save BANK RoBBERIES jmost of the cargo. We have a salvor i tand consultant who are the be: i in the business and it's in their| SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18.-/P—| hands, There are as many tugs at|Eighty FBI agents and 60 police| the scene as can possibly be used.|airested 49 men in an all-night Weather conditions are reported manhunt prompted by a wave 0.‘ fairly favorable.” !8an Francisco bahk robberies. | Information of the Coast Guard| It was the largest such manhunt| here is less buoyant. A report trom (i the city's recent history. Thirty- | the Cutter Hemlock, at the scene, five of the 49 were jalled on a var-| | aid there had been no apparent|iety of suspect and holding book | lprogrem since Saturday; that men | | | ings but police doubted if any evi-| dence had been turned up that would link the bank robberies. | the targe only during slack water D !periods, and “salvage operations are consist of sealing the forward flooded compartments and placmg[ ‘them under air pressure to force out | 'the water.” MOC WILL INITIATE A class will be initiated by the| | Loyal Order of Moose at the Fli“ day night meeting and then plc— tures of Moosehaven will be shown All desiring to see the picture may | apply at the Moose lodge door nt' 9:30 o'clock.. Retreshments will| be served during the evening. - s AND MARTINSEN > iEskimo Girl Going ‘Io Hawaii, Guest of iPan American , | ENLIST IN AIR FORCESi NOME, Alaska, Nov. 18 —#— A| T/ /Sgt. E. S. Craig, Juneau Army | full-blooded Eskimo girl, Mary Apn|enlistment officer. reports the| Amarok, will make her first trip!three-year enlistments of two Ju- “outside” next week {neau men for the U, 8. Air Forces The 21-year-old Nome High in Aleska | | School graduate has been chosen| Richard W by Pan American Airlines for alstaff geant flight to Honolulu by way of Se- \pclt,\ officer radarman on the! attle and Portland. Coast Guard Cutter Wachusett. | | Miss Amarok, the daughter of a| Erling L. Martinsen will receive | | Nome laundry owner, has been em- |alrman basic training at Fort | Greely, Kodiak Island, prior to ignment ille 2L DeWeil enters as| 5 He is a former| | she wduated L show [ ed out. Day said {1 « of Hells yeached a Gate canyon has paid off in fine|ty pr striking fishery rehabilita- | pay principle, | s1.67 | th round of wage increases | evitable.” | conference. Y PRICE TEN CENTS HIRING HALL ONCE AGAIN BIG PROBLEM Both Sides,fiowever, Con- fident in Final Seftle- ment of Troublss SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18-—=P-— West Coast waterfront peace talks continued today, but employers and strikers reported a new snag over the hiring hall. The strike involving five unions and some 28,000 workers went into its 12th week. Both sides were optimistic over prospects of | settlement, Buf a joint union-employer com- |mittee at a press conference said the hiring hall had not been iron- A joint press release last Jad said negotiators “tentative agreement” rve union control of hir- ing halls, pending court decisions. However, yesterday Dwight C. Steele, representing employers, and President Harry Bridges of the CIO longshoremen said: are agreed on the hiring but not agreed on the application of that principle. Our busic disagreement arises out of the Tait-Hartley Act.” Wage issues are yet to be settled. The key longshoremen’s union cecks a 15 cent boost over the hourly basic wage. There’s an air of optimism, (| however, as the West Coast Mari- time unions negotiate with employ~ !er representatives in the 78-day-old Pacifie Coast shipping tieup. The Spokesien for -both -sides are anx- ious to come to terms. For one thlnu. longshore leader Harry Bridges and Hugh Bryson, head of-the Marine . Cooks *and Stewards, are anxious to attend the National CIO Convention open- ing Monday in Portland. And em- ployers have indicated thsy are eager - to take advantage of the | East Coast maritime tieup to re- Tuesday “We high winds | capture 1 lost bunlnem FORD SAYS WAGES ARE T0 60 UP PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18— Henry Ford II, president of the Ferd Motor Company, said 'a four- “is in- going to get an- other pey boost,” Ford told a news “1 don't think any- thing can prevent it.” Ford came here with other mem- kers of his tirm’s policy commit- tee to inspect the Ford Assembly Plant at nearby Chester, Pa The 31-year-old executive, com- menting on 'he probable wage in- cases, said flatly: “Prices can't go anywhere but up. If wages go up and matertals 20 up, prices too must go up. Thv.w is no place for them to 80" Would price control “No," Ford insisted. trol would wreck the auto industry included—and the economy. “It is ridiculous to think any person sitting in Washington can | tell a company how much to charge for its product.” - — - WORLD FLIERS PLAN TAKEOFF ON FRIDAY ANCHORAGE, Nov 18. —ID— Mrs. Richarda Morrow-Tait, 24, British round-the-world aviatrix, said today she expects to take off at 8 am. Friday for Whitehorse, T She has been delayed by engine trouble. Air Force mechanics had difficulty in servicing the motor because ol Gufamiliarity with the English motor. Mrs, Morrow-Tait and her navi- gator, Michael Tuwm}na reached here from Cold. Bay' last Friday, “Workers are help? “Price con- nation—the ruin