The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 27, 1949, Page 2

- AC PROBE GOES ON IN SECRET (Continued from Page One) committee hearings on unifi- ion amendments me of the Senatle yes es approved by rday had been his health brc to get the lay tion or tions becom: quic m to private pro- ent in “‘unde- geograg President conl hjects to use give the ent House, after from the Pres eign aid mo! yesterday. It approved a o $5,617,470,000 to be spent dur com- STAFF FOR BOY SCOUT CAMP 1S~ ANNOUNCED Announcement of the staff for the Eagle River Boy Scout camp was made today by Scout Execu- tive Maurice Powers, who will di- rect the camp again this year. Coming from Ketchikan tomor- row to assist, is Doremus P. Scud- der, Alaska Council field executive. Scudder has been with Alaska scout- ing since December of last year, having served previously as a field executive of one of the Califor councils. hree scoutmasters plan to help direct the program for the 60 boys | who will participate—Wallace Volz of Sitka, Chester Zenger and Chuck Euttrey of Juneau. Dr. E. L. Kelly will cook for the camp, with ene of the patrols serving each day on “K.P.", helping prepare the vege- tables and washing the dishes. Other volunteers will assist from time to time, including Tom Cashen of Douglas and Verne Harris of Juneau. Senior scouts who will serve on the camp staff in - addition to the men listed are: Dick Klingbeil ot vide his own bedding. Facilities ot mess hall will be taxed, ac-| cording to Powers, since the group is more than twice as large as last year. Waterfront activities will be a major part of the camp program, and they will receive close supei- | vision from the adult staff, with| couts using the “buddy system” in | swimming, and every effort made to teach swimming and water| safety principles 1 The camp will talk by radio to the ACT office in Juneau each day. In case of emergency, parents may send messages to their sons by get- | ting in touch with the office sec-; retary of the Boy Scout organiza-| tion, and she will see that the mes-| relayed. Mail to the boys| sage is will be delivered, if addressed 1010‘ Box Juneau """" | LABOR BOARD WASHINGTON, May 27—#— The National Labor Relations Board ruled unanimously today that John L. Le union shop agreement with the steel industry’s coal mines illegal. Lewis ha with the rest of the coal industry, involved only the ‘capti mines, owned y 18 steel companies. The Board ordered Lewis to agree within 10 days to stop giving effect shop. clause with the ry mines and to promise er to call a strike nor threat- en one to get the steel companies to agrec to a similar union shop clause in new contract negotiations The union shop clause declared ies that all mine em- ers of Lewis’ eight COMMUNIST TRIAL | 0'Brien-Pidgeon . In Morning Vows ‘Wedding vows will be spoken to- | morrow morning at 9:30 o’'clock by Miss Dolores N. O'Brien and Mel- bourne Pidgeon at the Church of | the Nativity with Father Whelan reading. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Connell will attend the couple. Breakfast at the Baranof at 11 o'clock will follow ceremonies to be performed group of friends. lans for a honeymoen are indefi- nite. The couple will make their home at 316 Fourth ave. Miss O'Brien is with the Alaska Department of Eealth. Mr. Pidgeon | is a meteorological aide at the U.S. Weather Bureau. | | | | | the | tefore a small | AWARDS ANNOUNCED IN AMERICANISM ESSAY CONTEST BY A. L. AUX.| Mrs. Delia Sarff of Petersiurg, Americanism Chairman for the De-| partment of Alaska, American Le- | funds $37,000 annually. | ILLEGAL, SAYS' ment Station Director, which has just completed its 18th week, now is in a long weekend. The trial doesn’t resume until Tues- | day because of the Memorial Day holiday on Monday. ed, as usual, with verbal exchanges between Federal Judge Harold Med- ina and the defense. STRIKE AUTHORIZED SEEKS FARM CREDIT LOAN | BILL, ALASKA WASHINGTON, May 27— ®— Delegate E. L. Bartlett of Alaska urged a House Agriculture subcom- mittee today to give the Territory the same farm credit loan and agricultural experiment services| available in the states. He sald that “Russians are doing | amazing things on the other side the Bering Straits because of| Soviet experimental work.” The committee is considering | Bartlett’s kill to extend the farm | or about the canneries, if these jobs credit act to Alaska. Department of Agriculture rep- ntatives testified in favor of easing the experiment service John L. Irwin, Alaska Experi- said that Alaska needs farm credit. “There's money in Alaska banks he added. “But you have to pay percent for it.” ’ ENDS 19TH WEEK; STAY 10 TUESDAY (By The Associated Press) | The New York Communist trial, Yesterday's session was punctuat- Medina at one point threatened to throw defendant Benjamin Da- vis in jail. BY VOTE OF UNION SAN FRANCISCO, May 27—P— Longshore and warehouse workers | ve authorized their union leaders | > call a strike on or after June| first. | The strike vote by members cf the International Longshoremen'’s| and Warehousemen's union was taken in a secret ballot last week. The workers voted more than 4 tc 1 in favor of the strike authori- | tion. Three hundred and fifty houses in the San Francisco ay area would be affected directly | it the strike is called. Hundreds ci other warehouses would e af- fected indirectly. NEW '‘ACS TRAFFIC L‘HQ:F Sgt. Harold D. Haines has joined the Alaska Communications System staff here, coming from Seattle as traffic chief in the operations sec- tion. C Y O DANCE :30 tonight in Parish Hall. agers welcome. Adm. 25¢ Al 1t te \ings of those factory workers re<| CANNERS WARNED OF FEDERAL LAWS ON CHILD LABOR With child labor laws in the spot- light, as they will be at the public hearjng Tuesday in the Territérial Department of Labor offices, atten- tion is called to federal regulations, | especially as they pertain to can-| neries, ; L. E. Evans, U. S. Department ot Labor representative, points them out. . “Although Territorial law permits | children under 14 to work in can- nery warehouses,” said Evans, ‘“a 16-year age minimum applies under | the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act to warehouse and other jobs in are a part of the continuous can- | ning process. i “In hazardous occupations,” Evans | continued, “a higher minimum-—13 years—applies.” Evans reminds Alaska fish can- ners that the federal law appltes it | they ship canned fish or other| goods in interstate commerce, or de- liver them for shipment, within 30| days after an under-age child has| teen employed in the establish- | ment. “Alaska canners should ciearly | understand,” said Evans, “that the federal child-labor provisions apply | to all occupations in or about a can- | nery having to do with the “contin- uous canning process,” or which re- quire performance of duties in a room where any manufacturing or! canning processes are carried on. | “The ‘continuous canning process’ includes alt operations which take place on the products to be canned from the time they are received at the cannery until they are labeled, packed in cases for shipment and | the cases stacked.” | Evans indicated that the 16-year | minimum also applies to manufac- turing or processing jobs not part of the canning processes, such as laundry or cookhouse work. INDUSTRIAL | PRODUCTION IS FALLING (By Associated Press) The nation’s industrial produc- | tion is still falling after fivé straight months of decline. The government listed the production index for April at the lowest level since July, 1947—and the index for this month is headinz still lower. | Factory employment has been falling off for seven sfraight months, with the number of layoffs hitting a new postwar high in April. There was also a drop last month in the average weekly earn- maining on the job—and this all adds up to one thing: Fewer workers are getting less money to buy the goods ‘The peacock 1s held in great verence by the Hindus in India. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI [FOUR MEN 'CAB Rulings Are JUNEAU, ALASKA NAMED T0 NEW POSTS President Also Announces Other Promotion for Several Officials WASHINGTON, May 27— @— President Truman has announced the selection of four men to fill newly created posts of Assistant Secretary of State. In addition, he announced that he is nominatinz George W. Per- kins of New York to succeed Assistant Secretary Saltzman who resigning. The four new nominees are W. Walton Butterworth of Louisiana, John D. Hickerson and George C. McGhee of Texas, and Edward G. Miller, Jr., of New York. M. Truman announced his selec- immediately upon signing legislation creating the new posts of Assistant Secretary of State. He also announced a plan to ncminate Adrian S. Fisher of Ten- n e as legal advisor to the State Department s eding Ernest Gro#, recently promoted to Assist- ant Secretary. He said he was naming George F. Kennan of Wisconsin to succeed Charles (Chip) Bohlen as Coun- celor of the State Department. Bohlen has gons to Paris as Minister-Counselor of the Embassy there. Creating Mcnopoly; (harges_b_! Heacock WASHINGTON, May 27—®— Ai spckesman for non-scheduled air | carriers accused the Civil Aero-| nautics Board .today of being “the| most formidable obstacle in the wnyi of ecstablishinz mass air transporta- | tion. ! The statement was made by Amos \ E. Heacock, chairman of the execu- | tive committee of the National In—‘ dependent Air Carriers. ident of Air Transport Asso Inc., of Seattle, a non-scheduled carrier s2rving points in Ala: | He told the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, which is try- ing to find out 'why mest commer- cial airlines are operating at a loss | in a boom period, that “this coun- | try’s air transportation has fallen | under the control of a monopoly ever before a pen Heacock added N}h& “thiis my op-} oly could mtj ! lex: n'u&:T active assistarict” 'of thd! CABatid the “millions upon millions of tax- payers’ funds handed to that mon- | opcly by that board to drive more efficient competitors out of busi- ness.” Demanding “a return to competi~ tion,” he said the independent car- riers “want freedom to introduce | economies, to establish lower rates| and provide a mass market for ser-| vice.” He contended that regulations is- suéd by the board are designed “to destroy all non-scheduled operations except those with insufficient fre- guency to constitute competition with the scheduled airlines.” He denied a claim of the sche- duled carriers that the independents “skim the cream” of the business. On the contrary, he said, the non- | scheduled lines. have “pioneered a wealth of new business.” Heacock said that since the war| veterans have worked ‘new mira-| cles” in air transportation but un- less they get help from Congress their business “will be strangled ! by the rulings” of the CAB. | STORE FRONT DAMAGED: AUTOMOBILE ACCID; The front wall of the Tot to Teen | Shop on Franklin street was dam- | aged slightly yesterday at 5 o'clock | when ,a car driven by Tom Morris | went out of control and jumped the curb. Morris was driving east on| Front Street at the time of the accident. i NOTICE ‘ I will not be responsible for debts not contracted by-myself. \ (207 2t) William J. Farmer. 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Tents| Judges were Mrs. Elton Engstrom, | New Visible Ink Supply t will Le erected Sunday afternoon| Mrs. Harold Dawes and Everett R. OF New Exclusive Ink Flow i by the scouts. Each tent has a|Erickson. In each’case the decision Meter weoden tent floor, four of which|ot the judges was unanimous. New Hi-Flite Leak were installed last year, and four | — FERTILIZE“S Prevention 5 of which were made by the troops| PIONEER PINOCHLE PARTY Ti ] ir Juneau this spring. Each boy| Friday, 8:15 p. m, IOOF Hall. New P‘dh;.::m- i will have his own cot and will pro- | Community Piano Fund. 207 1t « o « plus 8 other great advances! M. V. BEA J. W. McKINLEY JUNE 1: Hoonah, Angoon, JUNE 8: Hoonah, 5 Tenakee Tenakee, Chatham, Gustavus, Pelican, , Angoon, Hood Bay, Saook Bay. Loads Every Wednesday at Juneau City Dock after arrival of weekly ship from Seattle Plumbing Telephone-319 | Sailing Schedule % CHCOMBER | { Sitka. é S © Hualing il Burners Nights-Red 730 Harri Machine Shop. Inec. 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