The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 9, 1949, Page 1

rog - o A ¥ VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,191 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1949 MEMDER ASSOCIATED PRESS — PRICE TEN CENTS Territorial Treasurer Olson REPUBLIC GERMANY REVIVED New Consfitufion Propos- | ed for Western Section— | Must Be Approved By JAMES DEVLIN BONN, Germany, May 9—(®—The | Germans at last have the consti- tution for a new West German Republic—Democratic, unarmed and pledged to peace. Today it is being rushed to Western Zone military governors for final approval. The 11 West' German states’ legislatures must | ratify it yet, too. Gen; Lucius D. Clay, Americal military governor, said he is trying\ to arrange a quick meeting of the‘ military governors to approve fhe new constitution. | Despite opposition from states righters, some centrists and the| Communists, the German constitu- tional convention approved it, 53 to 12 last night. German democracy was lenornfi‘ on paper, at least—four years to the day after Nazi Germany ho,Je-‘ lessly conceded defeat. I The constituticii icaves the door open for the Russian zone to jom the new state—if free elections take Germany. The four-power Council of For- eign Ministers will discuss the Ger- may question generally in Paris on May 23. Free elections might be planned there. | However, at present German| Communists say they are proceed- | inw with an “All-German Govern- merit” in the Russian zone. They| have insisted on a unitéd Germany | and opposed a Western state. The constitutional convention took eight months to draft the 146- article constitution, Not mentioned in the final docu- | ment were the reservations which |y | | the U. S, British and French made at Washington April 8th when they agreed to the proposed republic. ARNE BOE IS VICTIM OF AMMONIA FUMES| AT PELICAN PLANT| Arne Boe, chlef engineer of t,heJ Pelican Cold Storage plant, was the victim of a freak accident at the plant early Saturday morning. Ammonia fumes from a leaking pipe caused his death shortly after 7 o’clock. | According to the plant manager, Boe apparently spotted the leak in the pipe, attempted to shut it off, but was unable to and made for the door. Indications were that he| stumbled and fell before reaching opén air. Plant employees found | him lying on the floor. His body was brought here satm- day afternoon by plane and put) aboard the southbound Baranof | tound for Tacoma, home of a sister, Mrs. R. E. Bristad. Boe had been with the company ever since it's opening at Pelican. The Washingion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (Copyright, ASHINGTON— Biggest ques- tion mark in the mind of every diplomat is whether- the Russians have merely got soft temporarily or have made a major policy shift| toward long-term cooperation with the rest of the world. No diplomat, to date, dares ven- ture a definite answer. However, uncensored reports from Germany give one a significant clue which may reveal part of the answer. Recently the Russians have been getting advice from Rudolf Na- dolny, former German Ambassador to Russia. Nadolny is not a Com- munist, is a German of Hungar- ian extraction, and a disciple of Bismarck, who always favored close cooperation between Germany and Russia. Nadolny’s advice to Moscow has been to cut out the diplomatic bluster and talk softly to the West (Contlnued on Page Foun How They Suffer for Gl's received in preparation for their foundland, England, France, Italy, wearing new high visibility swimsuits so boys in the back row can see them better. Left to right: Thornton, Wanda Smith, Rosale Calvert, Anne Ross. (# Wirpehoto. “sive Hollywcod, Calif., chorus girls, among a paty of 20 making a five-week tour of Air Force bascs overseas, display vaccinations they trip. They are headed for New- Greece and North Africa and are Betty Jane Howarth, Claudette VICTIMS OF PLANE CRASH ARE RESCUED By GEORG# BRIMMELL Canadian Press Staff Writer VANCCUVER, May 9.—(#—(Dis wributed by Associated Press)—Sun: urned and grimy, weary of choco- late bars and mosquitos, Bill Grant and Sheila Cure same home last rlght~six days overdue. Dressed in the same light cloth- | ing they wore when their light Fleet Canuck aircraft crashed last Monday in a driving snowstorm atop 8,080-foo Mount Hozomeen, ! 135 miles east, they told this story: Grant, 30, a Vancouver. pilot, and the 28-year- le student nurse left Cardston, B. C., enroute to Van- couver at 8 a. m. Monday. “The weather,” said @rant, “was fine.” “We hit the tirst bad weather | when we tried to go through the Ccquihalla Pass. It was coming down like curtains.” ‘They tried -the Big way route then but had to turn Bend High- i | beck. They tried to get to Prince- ton, B. C., “but we were blocked in solid.” “We were about at the border when it really closed Imn,” Grart said. “Then she sarted to ice up. The wings and strits were iced and the prop was, 't0o.” Down They Go “I knew that was it. I started tg ease down slowly and the next ng I saw was snow and trees. “I shouted to Sheila: ‘Watch if. Here we go!'” Grant said one wing hit a snag going in and the propellor snapped off. The only injury suffered was a bruised finger for Grant. The pair spent that nxght‘un-: der freezing conditions—in the hole that the nose of the plane had dug when it- crashed. "It was awfully cold,” said Miss Cure. % Feeling Pretty Low The next morning “we gathered what stuff we could and started down the mountain.” By Thursday mey were “feeling pretty low.” About noon R.CAF. aircraft. “That was the first indication we had they were looking for us,” Grant said. Friday they saw more planes and that afternoon two R.CAF. Dakotas dropped the three para- rescue men who later guided them to safety. Saturday morning they met the para-rescue men. “We were glad to see them!” Said Miss they say two Cure: “We're veryl thankful. It's been a miracle. I'm sure there was someone upstairs looking after us,” | been settled. i nesday. He is a dragline opera- ter.in a placer gold mine opera- tion at Folger, Alaska. The Tracys originally asked for $30,000 in their suit against the airline. | SYLVIA DAVIS WILL PLAME CRASH VICTIMS GET BIG VERDICT SEATTLE, May 9.—#— Two ot several suits resulting from the nine-death crash of an Alaska Air- lines plane at the Seattle-Tacoma | airport in November, 1947, have| A Federal Court jury awarded Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tracy damages of $15500 Saturday night. Earlier| in the day, District Judge John C. Bowen dismissed a similar ac- tion brought by Raymond J. Smith, | administrator for the estate of Fred Leo Smith, one of the nine| persons killed in the crash. It was arnounced the latter action had been settled out of court. Terms of the settlement were not dis. closed. Tracy said he and his wife would leave for Alaska Tuesday of Wed- PLAY IN ORCHESTRA UNDER KOUSSEVITSKY Sylvia Davis, daughter of Mr. end Mrs. Trevor Davis of Juneau, will te a member of a string orchestra to play at a dinnér to- morrow evening honoring Serge Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra to be held at the Wal- corf-Astoria. The dean of American conduc- tors himself will lead the Tangle- wood Alumni String Orchestra of which Miss Davis 15 to be a mem- ber. Eleazar de Carvalho, South American conductor, and Leonard Bernstein, assistant conductor of the Beston Symphony will also conduct the group. Aaron COpla.r'm will be the eve- ning’s master of ceremonies. Miss Davis, a violinist, has just completed a season playing with the Buffalo Symphony at Buffalo, New York. JRRER"S 77 A STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 9.—(®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, American| Can 91, Anaconda 28, Curtiss- Wright 8%, JInternational Harvest- er 24%, Kennecott 43%, New York Central 107%, Northern Pacifié 14%, U. S. Steel T1%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 610,00 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 17517, rails 47.25, util- | Labor Silugl—ial on Other| | weekly AUTO INDUSTRY FEELING EFFECTS OF FORD STRIKE Fronts Encouraging- Men Recalled ' (By the Associated Press) The effect of a strike of 65,000 workers at the Ford Motor Co.s two Detroit area plants was be- ginning to be felt in the industry today. The strike started last Thursday. The company said it will lay off 8,000 workers at Ford plants in St. Louis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Los Angeles, Iron Mountain, Mich., and Metuchen, N. J., within a few days. Many small plants among Ford’s 3,500 suppliers were beginning to feel the strike’s effect also. WORKERS RECALLED Elsewhere in the automotive in- dustry, 47,600 workers previously made idle by strikers were to re- turn to work today. Hudson recalled 25,000 laid off lust week by a shortage of brakes; Briggs Mfg. Co., recailed 16,800 made idle Friday by a small walk- out. And Chrysler resumed opera- tions in Plymouth, Mich., where 5,800 were laid off by a shortage of Briggs car bodies. CAB DRIVERS BACK Some 1,800 San Francisco cab drivers returned to work today| | after settlement of their 128-day| strike. The Yellow and Flymauth% companies agreed to a $9.75 daily minimum wage or 50 per cent of receipts which ever was higher. The union had asked $10. Three other companies which ope- rate 230 cabs had setted with the strikers earlier. Sixty-five hundred workers re- turned today to 21 plants and warehouses of the Philco Corp., in the Philadelphia area. Two locals of the CIO Electrical Workers| Union ratified a new contract yes- terday, ending a weeklonz work stoppage. An agreement was reached yes- terday between the CIO Transit Workers Union and the operators of New York City’s largest pri-| vately owned transit system. Thei agreement averted a strike of 4,000 over the discharge of two workers accused of slowdown tactics. - e e 00 00 000 0 00 ¢ WEATHER REYORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU e This data is for 24-hour pe- e riod ending 6:30 am. PST. In Juneau— Maximum, 54; minimum, 38. At " Airport—Maximum, 49; minimum, 36. FORECAST: (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cloudy with rain showers tonight and Tues- day. Lowest tonignt about 39 degrees. Highest Tuesday near 49 degrees. PRECIPITATION ¢ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ In Juneau — .63 inches; o since May 1, 183 inches; since July 1, 109.09 inches. e . . At Airport 54 inches since May 1, 116 inches; since July 1, 61.75 inches. P 00000000 00 ——— P, TENT FLOORS COMPLETED FOR BOY SCOUT CAMP ] . . . . . . . . ® ° . . . ° . . . . Completed last week by about 25 Boy Scouts were eight tent iloors for their Eagle River Camp. Materials were from the A-J flume and were also donated by the Jun- eau Spruce Corp. The floors, con- structed under the supervision of three scout masters, Chester Zeng- er, “Chuck” Buttrey and Bill Twen- hofel, will be taken to the camp by barge with the work crew. At that time, the camp will be readied for use. ————,——— . R. E. SHELDON RETURNS FROM DIVISIONAL MEET Back from a three-week trip to the- States to attend a divisional conference of Employment. Security agents from Western States, is R. E. Sheldon, director of the Unem- ployment Compensation Commis- sion in Alaska. Sheldon, accompanied by his wife, spent a week in Phoenix, Ariz., after attending the con- ference there, then went to San Diego, Palm Springs, Los Angeles and San Francisco before stopping in Seattle, where Mrs. Sheldon will remain an added two weeks ities 35.85, EFFORTS MADE T0 SETTLE STRIKE AT Acting Detron Mayor| Makes Personal Ap- peal for Mediation (#—The (C10) United Auto Worke! ment Workers be reopened tomorrow. . UAW President Walter in a letter he said was delivered company. Detpoit Mayor George ot 65,000 Ford workers. the CIO United Auto Workers, pro- President of the UAW: Resumption of direct tions, broken off a few after the walkout started Thursday noon. negotia- minutes last Mediation of the “speed up” dis- pute by Detroit’'s Labor-Manage- ment-Citizens Committee. (Both {Ford and Reuther helped set up {this group.) Mediation by Edwards himself. The Acting Mayor, serving in the atsence of Mayor Eugene I. Van Antwerp, previously had suggested use of .the Labor-Management- founded several years never has settled a major strike. That offer, along with a media- tion proposal by Mayor Orville L. Hubbard of Dearborn, was rejected Sunday as 5000 Ford strikers marched through Dearborn, home of the giant, striketound Ford Rouge plant. Reuther and Hubbard | led the parade. Reuther already had accepted Hubbard’s offer and wards’. HOT POLITICAL TIME, MANHATTAN, OVER ROOSEVELT By JOE HALL NEW YORK, May 9—@—Man- hattan's crowded West Side is being treated to an old-fashioned, rip-roaring political fight over Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.’s bid for a place in Congress. salvoes, house-to-house canvasses, campaign buttons, placards by the thousands—all the trappings of a full-fledged campaign—are present; althcugh the special election May 17 involves only the 20th Congres- sional District seat. Young Roosevelt, first of 'ate President’s five children to seek elective office, seems by common consent of his three opponents to be their target. SECOND SISTER DIES; Mrs. Jessie Jackson, 78, died at Hoonah Saturday. She was the sis- ter of Mrs. Louise Kane who died here several days ago. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock i the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, with the Rev. Samuel McPhetres officiating Ernest Ehler will sing two selec- tions. \ Mrs. Jackson, a widow, was torn at Orcas Island, Wash. She is sur-| vived by a sister, Mrs. Minnie Ross of Seattle and Frank Shotter of Hoonah. _— e —— ANS EDUCATORS GO SOUTH ON SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT Native Service educational depart- ment were to leave today for Se- the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Dr. George Googe, director week or 10 days working with the for medical care, attle, . PLANTS OF FORD BULLETIN—DETROIT, May o| | proposed to the Ford Comfl pany that negotiations for seme- of a strike of 65000 Ford | Reuther scught resumption of peace talks to President Henry Ford II of the DETROIT, May 9—®— Acting Edwards | made personal appeals to Henry Ford II and Walter Reuther today to try to settle the five-day strike Edwards, a former organizer for | posed three alternatives to the Ford Motor Co. President and Reuther, Citizens Committee. This group was| ago but| was believed willing to accept Ed- | Street corner rallies, sound truck| the | SERVICES WEDNESDAY, Two staff members of the Alaska attle to assist in a review of appli- cation for teaching positions with of edueation, and Martin Holm, super- | duled to sail from Seattle May 10. visor of education, plan to spend a Civil .Service Commission in Se- Resigns Position Confinuous | | N ol 4 Some 65,000 workes are on the Picket Line s g | UAW-CIO strikers picket Ford's Rouge plant in one continuous line. walkout idling production at the Rouge and Lincoln plahts in Detroit. ( Photo. PRESIDENT ASKINGFOR " SOME SPEED Urges Congress fo Give| Him Power to Reorgan- ize Executive Branches WASHINGTON, May 9 — (B —) President Truman today urged | Congress to act speedily on a bill! giving him power to reorganize | |the executive branches of the gov-| ernment. In a special message sent to the, House and Senate, Mr, Truman; said the legislation should be en- acted soon if any reorganization proposals are to ‘e submitted to this session of Conzress. i Mr. Truman called attention to| |the fact that the bill requires tlmt' any reorganization plan he sub-| | mits must lie ‘before Congress 60| days without being disapproved Ly the House or Senate to become effective. His message said: “Because of this 60 day waiting period the bill should be enacted soon if any rcorganization plans are to be submitted to the present session of Congress. The House already Ras passed the measure giving the President power to undertake reorganization of the Executive branch. It is now awaiting Senate actlon. | The Senate Executive Expendi-| tures committee has approved a | hill di!lerlng on some important | points from the measure passed by the House. It has been on the Sen- |ate calendar awaiting action since April 7. | The Housc Ll exempts some im- | portant governmert agencies from reorganization plans. The Senate bill would exempt none. | Under the House bill both cham- ers must ' disapprove within 60, days any plans submitted by the President in order to veto the pro- | posals. Under the Senate bill either | chamber could act within that time to junk the plans by disapproving them, STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska from Seattle scheduled 0 | arrive tomerrow afternoon. Freighter Coastal Rambler sche- Princess Louise scheduled to sail o | from Vanccuver May 11 Baranof scheduled to sail from. E cattle Saturday, iRED FORCES 'NEAR HEART OF SHANGHAI Twm Pronged Offensive Pressed Along Irregu- lar 230-Mile Front By FRED HAMPSON SHANGHAI, May 9—(P—Fight- ing around Kaiting brought the Chinese Clvil War to an area 17 miles northwest of the heart of Shanghai today. Far to the Southwest, Communist armies pressed a twin-pronged of- fensive along an irregular 230-mile front. This operation extended from the seaport of Hangchow on the east of Lake Poyang on the west. Ay some places the Red drive had carried 200 miles south of Yangtze.| A Shanghai garrison command communique seemed to indicate the fighting closest to Shanghai was on a small scale. Kaiting is on the Shanghai-Nanking highway seven :miles north of the railway between the two cities. Red troops thrusting elong the rail line were within 3sl miles of Shanghai. COMMANDEERING Inside this largest Asian city, the {Nationalist 'garrison - ordered Chinese and foreign business firms and some government agencies to turn over 950 trucks and 300 jeeps for “military purposes.” Foreign Consulates, including the American and British, were inter- ceding to try to keep the garrison from commandeering the foreign vehicles, Many American and British firms were hard hit by the crder. Soma were engaged in essen-| activities. | COMMUNIST DRIVE | One Communist drive, a com- rmunique said, was toward Nan- chang, Kiangsi provinicial capital| 380 air miles southwest of Shang- bai. The other was pointed for ! Fukien province on the southeast | coast just below Chekiang. | (Fukien fronts on the big islundl province of Formosa which Gen- cralissimo Chiang Kai-shek re- portedly haé converted into a fort- ress for a last Nationalist stand.) Shanghai newspapers sald a “state of siege” existed at Hankow, Central China industrial center 600 miles up the Yangtze from Shang- hai. tial e niis BABY GIRL BORN A 6-pound, 10-aunce baby girl was horn to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Westman yesterday morning at 10:20 o'clock at St, Ann's hospital, HENRY RODEN NAMED TODAY AS SUCCESSOR Resignation—Was Effective at Close of Business i Last Saturday Territorial Treasurer Oscar G. | Olson tendered his resignation to | Acting Gov, Lew M. Willlams ef- fective as of the close of business cn Saturday. The Treasurer said that due to ill health and for personal reasons he found it no longer. possible to carry on his duties. The Acting Governor, Attorney General J. Gerald Willlams and Auditor Frank A. Boyle met this morning and appointed Henry Ro- den of Juneau, prominent attorney and respected pioneer citizen, to {fill the position of Treasurer. Mr. Roden took his oath of office to- day. i New Treasurer Roden has been an outstanding figure in Alaska public life for many years. He serv- ed in the Senate In the first Legis- {lature in 1913 from Iditarod in the Fourth Division and later repre- sented the First Division in the same body for several sessions. He served as Attorney General of the Territory from 1941 to 1945 and has during his more than hall a century in the Territory takén an dctive interest in public affairs. Many of the acts on Alaska's statutes were authored by Mr. Ro- den. After he returned to private practice of law, he has continued a lively interest in Territorial Af- fairs and at present is A mem- ber of-the:Pianeers’ Home Board, an institution In which he has taken a personal interest for years, “It is with deep regret that we accept the resignation of Treasur- | er Olson, who has served the Terri- tory so man§ years in that cffice,” said Acting Gov. Willlams. “We feel, speaking for myself, Attorney General Willlams and Auditor Boyle, who are charged with filling the vacancy, that we are fortunate to be able to ob- tain the services of a man of Mr, Roden’s stature to take over the duties. We have deep faith in his akility and integr: Olson was electea ‘ireasurer in 1932 and took office in 1833, and has held his position until he' re- signed. | —————— BEAR HUNTERS LEAVE ABOARD TROLLER ATKA First bear hunting party of the year left here early this morning aboard the troller Atka, bound for Admiralty, Chichagof and Baranof Islands. .Out to kag a big brownie is J. Lee Vorhees, undertaker from Pon- tiac, Mich,, on his first trip to Alaska. Vorhees’ gulde is V. P. (Red) Willlams, who plans to show the Michigan man a little of Al aska's fishing on the trip. They will return May 31. SNOW MIGHT BLOCK HAINES CUTOFF UNTIL JUNE, SAYS METCALF Doubt if the Haines Cutoff Highway will be open before June was expressed today by Frank | A. Metcalf, hllh'lly engineer. Metcalf sald that more snow than has been previously recorded has fallen in the Haines area. Re- cent surveys indicate, he said, that highways will probably not be opened throughout this month. - —— EXTENDS BID CALL ON HIGHWAY AUTO Extension of a call for bids on & Territorial Highway Department automobile was announced by Frank A. Metcalf, Highway En- | gineer. Bids scheduled to be open~ ed today will be opened Saturday noon. - e —— NUISANCE IV IN PORT Nuisance IV, fish-buying boat operated by Stan Thompson, tied up yesterday at the City Float. The beat is a converted Army craft, cemplete with refrigeration unir. Last year was the first year of op- eration for the craft, e 5 e S s M T