The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 29, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIL., NO. 11,054 Longshoremen Ra SNOW, WINDS FLOODS, RAIN HIT NATION | Elements Tl;fiose in Var- ious Forms-5. Killed in Auto Accidents CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—(®»—The ele- ments hit the nation in various “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MOND ALL THE TIME” ey AY. NOVEMBER 29, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PR[:SS PRICE TEN CENTS ol Whlppmg Advocate Whlpped e r———— P———— formas yesterday. Floods and high winds struck the South. Rain and| now plagued many areas. | At least five persons were killed in automobile accidents attributed to the weather. Another was missing. Rain-swollen rivers left their Lanks Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. Hundreds of persons were forced to flee their homes. dreds of thousands of dollars KILLED IN WINDSTORM Four negroes were windstorm which hit Fort near Tuskegee, Ala. A brief snow- storm struck parts of Texas, Okla- homa and Kansas and then moved southeastwards, with the snow changed to rain or slush and strong winds diminishing. Three died in Georgia and Ala- bama highway accidents, and an- other person was missing. Two were killed on a slippery highway in Pennsylvania, two others in south- ern floodwaters originated in north- ern sections of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. ROADS INUNDATED Many roads were inundated. Near ; Montgomery, Ala., 335 convicts were evacuated from a prison farm to the Kilby state prison, nearby, when | the Tallapoosa river rose. Homes: were evacuated in ncnv.tgred _flgods around Birmingham and Phenix City, Ala., Atlanta, Columbus and Macon, Ga., and Knoxville, Tenn. Peachtree Creek overflowed at At- | lanta, forcing residents of a fash- jonatle northside residential sec— tion to flee. Macon had the highest ! flood level in its history in the Oc- mulgee River. NO ELECTRIC SERVICE A number of Kansas and Oklaho- ma communities were without elec-| tric service yesterday as the result of a snow and wind storm in ¢ area. Heavy sleet breke power 1 to 43 Oklahoma communities. Blizzards and thunderstorms hit the Cascade mountains in Washing- ton. Communications were severed and blown-down trees blocked high- ways. May automobiles were caught in the heavy snowfall. ———eo—— COL. ALEXANDER RETURNS FROM WASHINGTON, OREGON Washington and Oregon Na- tional Guard organizations are pro- gressing nicely toward their full membership, according to Col. J. D. Alexander, officer in charge of National Guard affairs in Alaska. Colonel Alexander returned Fri- day via JJAA after a 10-day trip. The Washington Merry - Go- Round| Bv DREW PEARSON ICopyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) PEARSON AND CONGRESSMEN It looks as if Drew Pear- son could carve another notch in his scalping knife when ‘it comes to taking the hair and hide off Congressmen. Close on the heels of the indictment of Cengressman J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey—as a result of Pearson’s expose, ex- Congressman Roger Slaughter of Kansas City has been in- dicted for failure to register as a lobbyist. It was Pearson who told how Slaughter put the provision in the farm bill probibiting the Government frem renting more grain elevator space, which in turn prevented the Govern- men from giving many farm- ers parity (rices on grain. Pearsen kept harping on this, and also calling to the atten- tion of the Justice Department Slaughter’s failure to register. In the end he was indicated. ASHINGTON Democratic Senator-elect Bob Kerr of Oklaho- ma couldn't resist a little gocd- - natured nhbing when he breezed (Continued on Page Four) wwmém i, in three southern states—' Property and | crop damagze was estimated in hun- | | i injured in a; Davis, Eric Wildman (center) is seized by boy students at Horsley Hall, Eccleshall, England, 2as he lrctured in favor of whippings for students. Wildman, 27, whc calls himself President of the National Society for Retention of Ccrporal Punishment in Schools, was given seven licks with one of his own whipping | canes by the boys who wrestled him to the floor. Wildman runs a firm which manufactures whipping canes for schoolmasters. (® Wirephoto via radio from Londen. | i Noted Alaskan Bush Pilof Quits Ardic Rescue Work | Because of Pain in Ne¢k3 U. 5. ARMY TRANSPORT IS SPLIT Accident Oc(u—rs at Whittier -Has 365 Persons ®—A noted | NOME, Nov. 29 Alaskan bush pilot said today that | after 15 years. he is no longer | available for'Arctic rescue work be- | TRUCK MAIL, cause it's given him a pain in f the neck on Board : To Frank Whaley, the pilot, - that's no gag. He has quit flying| SEATTLE, Nov. 20.—(®—An Army | | 1 land is going to leave Nome be- transport, with 365 persons akoard, | |cause of a neck injury sustained split its nlates atove the water-line | FAIRBANKS' in the sub-zero rescue last winter after docking at Whittier, Alaska, of six crewmen from the wrecked Saturday at the end of a storm- Army B-29, the Clobbered Turkey. battered voyage from Adak in the; Whaley and Willlam Munz, an-!outer Aleutians. other bush pilot here, brought| out the six airmen in their two/said the USAT 8Sgt. Charles E. light planes after the Superfort Mower developed a 9-foot long verti- crashed into a low hill 90 miles cal crack on the starboard sde north of here. |near the stern. The plates popped Two other members of the bomb- ‘apnrt 30 minutes after the transport er crew died as they tried to reach SEATTLE, Nov. 29.—(P—Seattle mail to Alaska is now being carried by truck over the Alaska Highway. ' The overland mail service is op- |erated ty Alaska Freight Lines un- der controct with the post office. | Powerful, specially-built trucks and trailers are hauling an average of /22,000 pounds of mail weekly be-|a native village and three medical |tween Seattle and Fairbanks, E. W. | paratroopers perished during the Anchorage. |Hundley, traffic manager of Alaska rescue. | The Seattle Port-of Embarkation | Freight Lines, announced. Whaley, a Nome pilot since 1933, said temporary repairs will be made The Fairbanks trucking concern,|will make his home in Seattle.[to the Mower at Whittier. The operated by Alfred Ghezzi, Jr., of | —————— | cergo will be removed and the ves- Fairbanks, is packing mail from RuMoRs oF SUB sel brought to Seattle empty via the Sound, about 50 miles southeast of here to Fairbanks on a run that| | inside passage. averages 5% days, cutting approxi- | The ship was reported in no im- !mately 2 days from the time made ‘medxate dl;nger anz all pe has |y mail boats. GUI-F of MExI(o mamui etoard. The Army said ‘ “Star Route” Contract san precautions have been taken. Ghezzi recently was awarded the| DlS(OUN'I'ED NAVY | Gales and heavy seas wracked the 3.2¢0-mile “star route” contract by vessel on its regular shuttle run ibid. It is the longest Star Route in last week between Whittier and {the world, -even outdistancing the WASHINGTON Nov. 29.—#— ! Adak. The Sgt. Mower is a C-2 type my trans- | cross-nation route of a century ago (Navy officials today discounted re- |—one of the smaller and its famed pony express. ‘pgna of an unknown submarine in |ports. It has a crew of 125. Its two drivers, Les Crump anu‘me Gulf of Mexico. Privately, they | ‘The USAT Sen. LeRoy Eltinge, is| H. W. Baker, keep the mail moving. were writing the whole thing off as enroute to Whittier from Seattie One sleeps while the other drives. a mirage inspired by enthusiasm. |t0 take off the 190 first class pas- The truck is equipped with a heat-! The crew of a training plane fmm,senvers, including- women and c! ed cab and sleeping compartment.|Corpus Christi, Tex., Naval air base|dren, and the 50 military personnel. On hand yesterday tp supervise/reported Friday they thought they | They will be brought here. the loading of the mail was A. D.|saw a periscope 20 miles off the U. Repairs to the damaged transport! Lawrence, general superintendent of |s, coast. will be made at Whittier the Railway Mail Service here. An analysis later by base officials R “This truck route to Alaska is the lsajq the cbject, which disappeared only thing that saved the post flf'jm 10 minutes, was more likely' a fice during the boat tie-up,” Law-!snorkel—the snout of a breathing| Tence said, “On its weekly trip north{tubo used by modern submarines. | each truck carries from 600 to 650 | Nayy experts here say it could sacks of mail.” | have beed a snorkel—or a periscope The present route is via SPU'J—-perham belonging to a Russian kane, Calgary, Edmonton, Dawson submarine, tut they doubt it. Creek Whitehorse to Fair:anks. Spotting a periscope or snorkel Alaska Freight is now operating from the air, they said, is extremely 20 trucks, year around—during win-|difficult and is generally possibie| ter months in temperatures as 10w ionly at Very short ‘flsmnce i® e v o0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAUY Temperatures for 24-Hour Period In Juneau— Maximum, 14; ® minimum. 5. At Airport—Maximum, 12; e minimum 0. FORECAST ias 70 degrees below zero, Hundley‘ ie OB said. | > ie (Juneau and Vicinity ! “Special heating and refrigera-| SIO(K OUOIAIIONS e P i tion units have been developed for| 1 e Cloudy with snow and slow- NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—(®—Clos- e ly rising temperature to- {the movement of perishables, fruits, ; vegetables and meats,” he explained. ‘lr‘g quotation of Alaska . Juneau “During the past eight mom.hs‘mme “stock today is 242, American| e temperature tonight near 23 the company has been operating a»Can 79%, Anaconda 34%, Cumss-‘o degrees, Easterly winds 15 fleet of trucks on regular week}y\wrlght 1%, International Harvest-| to 20 miles per hour Tues- schedules moving several hundred | er 26%, Kennecott 54%, New York day. tons per month of military supplies | Central 12%, Northern Pacific 17, PRECIPITATION from Seattle into the Interior.” U. S. Steel 69%, Pound $4.03%. g Within the next two months Al-) Sales today were 1,010,000 share: night and Tuesday. Lowest (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today . . . , . . . ) . . . ° . . . . . ° . [ . . 3 . . 3 . {aska Freight expects to have a Averages today are as follows:(® In Juneau — .01 inches; million dollars worth of equipment |industrials 17199, rails 5247, util-|® since Nov. 1, 20.09 inches; 'rolling to, from and in Alaska, ities 32.53. |® since July 1, 6640 inches. Hundley said. R o e At Airport — .02 inches — | Black diamond is a popular name | ® since Nov. 1, 10.73 inches; Some farmers cover vegetable of a dark mass of impure diamond | ® since July 1, 4572 inches. . plants with paper bags to protect whose technical name is urbnn-‘ . [ them irom frost, ate, )' e 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 o The Seattle Port of Embarkation | put into Whittier, on Prince Wflham' 1aboard was reported aground to- iwest of Cape Spencer, Alaska. Z | freighter was inot taking water. istrom, ground water geologist, marks STRIKEON EAST COAST IS SETTLED Longshoremen Return fo| i Work from Maine fo Vir- ginia-Docks Humming NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—(M—Snow and rain today took up where ing longshoremen left off, hamper- ing waterfront operations in wme East Coast ports. But in New York, where do (kx‘ resounded to familiar longshoremen | activity yesterday as 2,200 men re-| ported for Sunday work, ran had' {little effect on operations ! Joseph P. Ryan, President of the; AFL International Longshoremen's| Association, who had predicted “peace along the waterfront long time to ccme,” said longshort men “are workinz wherever work is available.” Resumption of normal activities was delayed in Philadelphia by rain and bad weather seriously hamper- ed operations in Baltimore. The weather was interferring with long- stporemen in Boston who were un- loading cargo which would be dam- ———— {aged by exposure. | The 18-day-old strike ended Sat- 'urday after union ratification of a new contract. The men won several benefits, inclnding a 12cent increase in the {day-shift straizht-time pay to $1.88 an hour and an increase of 19% cents in the night and week-end jovert'me rate to $2.82 a hour. The | ILA’s latest demand had been for increases of 25 and 37!t cents. | The East Coast strike was esti- mated te have cost the port of New York and its shippers about $30,- {606,000 a day It left, more than 30,- 000 sacks of overseas mail piled up. |Law'fi in a numcer of Industries [resulted because they were unable {to ship their products. The new contract terms approv- ed by referendum on Saturday had Leen reached on Thursday hy ne- gotiators for the ILA and the New York Shipping Association with the aid of the U. S. Mediation and Con- lciliation Service. B B PR IV FREIGHTER KASILOV IS UP ONBEACH Craft with 8 Men Aboard! Reported Aground at Lifuya Bay SEATTLE, Nov. 29.—®— Thel freighter Kasilof with eight men} lday in Lituya Bay, 40 miles north- | The Coast Guard said its cutter, Unalga, was enroute to the scene.) It was expected to reach the! grounded freighter about 8 p. m. The ireighter, a 65-footer, was towing a 100-ton green scow. The Coast Guard report said that the on the rocks but A plane was to fly to the scene from Ketchi-) kan today. The Kasilof is operated by the Berger Distributing - Company of | Seattle. It is owned by Heinie, Berger, formerly of Cordova, Al- aska. ————— PLAN WATER CHECK | IN ALASKAN TOWNS ‘Arriving in Juneau of D. J. Ceder- the beginning of a program to ob- tain ground water supply for vil-} lages angd- communities throughout the Territory. The U, S. Geological Survey and the Territorial Department of Health will cooperate in the under- taking which will begin in South- east Alaska and be carried on| throughout Alaska. According to the Geological Sur-| vey Office, Cederstrom will survey ground water supplies in all of| the Westward. Cederstrom arrived here Friday com'ng from Charletsville, N, C. for a Announcement fhal Juneau fo Gel Coas! Guard Eseadquaflers Starfs Fight by Kelchikan C of € officials. KETCHIKAN, Aleska, Nov. 20.—| “We're to do all we can to M—A reported Coast Guard pilan t the d t back here,” Presi- to turn over the restored Alaska |dent Joe F said | Coast Guard District -headquarters| Effests on the Keichikar® base to Junzau by next July 1 provided | of the possible reassiznment were |that Junegu erect a new building | not clear, but it believed that ‘and provide housing has met op- | pess eight or 10 stafi officers position here. would leave here. One or two : The Ketchikan Chamber of Com- | s night also be moved. I'merce may rend a d to| J. E. Richmond df the D. . C., to an | Coast Guard and his party made) audience with top Coast Guard en Alaska inspection trip last sum-! mer. Last Public Engaaanmm T I i A tired locking King George (left) Bt By e «i Eugzand walks over rough ground during two-kour inspection tcur of National Institute of Agricultural Engineering at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, England. It was the British monarch’s last public appearance before he was forced to cancel planned tour of Australila and New Zealand because of a circulatory condition of his legs. fied. (P Wirephoto. Man with the King is unidenti- INAUGURAL Fl AMING PAA FLIGHT IS SUCCESS SEATTLE, Nov. 29.—(P— The Honolulu to Seattle Pan American | Worid Airways iniaugural flight touched down here at 3 p. m. Sun- day. A group of Northwest tatives were guests on mile roundtrip. represen- the 5400 } The Pan America:. DC-4 left here | last Wednesday night. Among the guests was Mary Ann Amorak, an Eskimo girl from Nome, Alaska, S e Ten {ommandmenis From Anchorage Church Are Stoien, Seatile SEATTLE, Nov. 29—(®—A year old boy yesterday confessed he BUILDING | COLLAPSES (Twenty-seven Persons Be- lieved fo Have Been Kill- ed in Freak Accident MEXICO CITY, Nov. 20.—®— Twenty-seven persons were believ- | ed to have been killed yesterday! when a hardware store building weakened by fire and explosions, teppled into a narrow downtown street | Police who released the death toll said ten bodies were recov- ered from the debris. Digging continued through the night. The | flaming had stolen the ten commandents. | Arrested here for taking two top- coats, the boy also admitted theft of filmstrips for a projector from the First Baptist Church at An- chorage. The strips were slides of the ten commandments. The boy told Detective C. L. Har- ® |Southeast Alaska communities for riott he “hid the slides and then ® 'about two months before going to made a return to his cache. The ten commandments were gone, he said, stolen by another ~erson, | Be | toxic included ¢, Red Cross workers and were trapped when the building collapsed. >~ - George F. Johnson DiesinN. Y. Home' ENDICOTT, N. Y., Nov, 29.—{®— George F. Johnson, co-founder of the Endic ation, died W 9 He had bkeen ill for several weeks. Death was aliributed to a condition, at his home last night. 1]y | little 12 firemen who,| tt-Johnson Shoe Corpor-| Ratify Coast Strike Terms 3 UNIONS ARE STILL HOLDOUTS {Much Remafl?tc Be Done Before Waterfront : Is Reopened i SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.—P— CIO longshoremen in the four {major Pacifiz Coast ports, voting er the weekend, ratified an em- ployer-approved contract to end |the 89-day maritime strike. But much still remains to be > hefore the Pacific Coast wat- nt is reopened. an Francisco, Seattle, Portland id Les Angeles area locals of the International Longshoremen's ird warehousemen's union approvs d the new pact overwhelmingly standing vote, and there was doubt that smaller locals would follow suit, The contract provides a wage in- crease of 15 cents an hour—the last union demand--and other benefits. 1 It would run three years. H Agreement Reached With the raise the scale will be 1 $1.82 an hout. The agreement re tains fhe union hiring hall in 1ts ! present form. Should it be de- clared illegal upder the Taft-Harte ley Act new meetings would be held. | The ' seftlement also calls ; for increased vacation benefits, a | nine-hour swork shift, an & a. m. ! starting tinie, a designated day off each week and improved griev- ance machinery. The National CIO ‘and the San Prancisco Employers Council will underwrite the new pact to avoid violations. Arbitra- | tion groups are set up to handle {Jock), disputes. — ! Actual balloting on the final con- ytract .will be taken after the men freturn to work. Three Unions Out | Three unions still have no con- i tract—the CIO Marine Cooks, the ! unaffiltatcd Marine Firemen and the CIO Radio Operators. The long- “shcremen will remain off the ‘joh until all reach agreement ]mm the employers. Omar Ho-ltfll, Federal Concil- |iator, (ald ‘“considurabie pro- gress” elready has been made in negotiations with the firemen. Meetings have been continuing with |nll three unions. | Another snag is Berry Lunded iberg’s position that his AFL Sail- |ors’ Union of the Paclilc will sail {no ships until the SUP - gets & nmew contract. Sallers Seek Guarantee ! The SUP it not on strike, but Ihas been idled by the walkout of lthe other unions. Lundeberg says 'his men will not go back to work luntil they are guaranteed that 'lhe longshoremen will not en- creach on what the SUP considers its cargo-working rights on coast- wise and Alaska ships. Employers sald they would dis= cuss wages with Lundeberg as’soon as cther union contracts are sign- They said the loading juris- dxulan angle was “sumething still to be worked out.” —————— IVIL RIGHTS MEASURE WILL ‘G0 THROUGH' WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—(P— An officials of a Negro organiza- tion said today President Truman had “expressed determination to |go straight through” with his civil rights program. “I saw no signs of any com=- promise,” said Walter White, sec- {retary of the National Association for the advancement of colored people. White conferring with Mr. White House. ‘SAILING OF LUXURY LINER OFF, 6TH TIME SOUTHAMPTON, Zngland, Nov.. 129.—~(M— Fog today caused the six- | talked to newsmen after Truman at the zth postponement of the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth's departure 1or New York. The glant ship has been idling here since Nov. 17 because of the United States dockworkers' strike and now because of weather. Allf western Furope is blanksted i @& thick fog