The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 28, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIII, NO. 11,233 TAFT PLAN ON STRIKES GETS OKEH Government May Use Both Injunctions, Plant Seiz- ures in Emergency WASHINGTON, June 28. —(P— ‘The Senate today approved the plan of Senator Taft (R-Ohio) for the government to use both injunc- tions and plants seizure in dealing with national emergency strikes. The vote was 50 to 40. It wrote this proposal into the Truman Administration’s lakor bill at the climax of a bitter scrap |§ over what provisions should be made in a new labor law to meet the problem of strikes which threat- ened the national health or safety. The acceptance of the Taft plan altered the Administration’s bill still further toward the likeness of the Taft-Hartley law which the Democrats and - President Truman are pledged to repeal. In the preliminaries to accept- ance, the Senate took these three votes: 1. An amendment by Senator Holland (D-Fla) and others provid- ing for injunctions without seizure was defeated 54 to 37. 2." A move by Senator Lucas (IL- W), the Democratic leader, to knock out the injunction authority from Taft’s plan. This lost, 46-44. 3.. A propesal by Senator Ives (R-NY) authorizes neither injunc- tions nor seizure, but depending on Congress to act in national emergencies case by case. This 1s substantially the same amendment | | | | Miss Louise Replogle of Lewistown, | to determine. Attorney of Fergus County, Monta John Tope, 36, Michigan businessman, was elected Chflrfim an(v!v Mont., co-chairman of the Young | Republican Federation at the annual convention in Salt Lake City. | Tope, of Detroit, won after a hot floor fight that required two ballots Miss Replogle is serving her second term as County na. (M Wirephoto. i FINANCIAL WAR CRIMINALS that was defeated 67 to 13 a week | ago. Today the vote against it was | 51'to 40, DAN JONES REPORTS NOME COOPERATION ON MINES STATION B. D. Stewart, Territoria] Com- missioner of Mines, has received encouraging word from Dan Jones, Dew appointee at Nome, on firsr steps in establishing the Depart- ment’s Assay Office and Field Sta- tion there, “Very satisfactory temporary quarters have been made available,” said Stewart today, “thanks to the remarkably cordial cooperation of city officials and other interested citizens. Among these are Miss Carrie M. McLain and Mike Walsh, present and former city clerks, re- spectively; Fred D. Crane, Mike Kelly and A. Polet. “A residence in every way ade- CRISIS N ~ BRITAIN \Commonwealth Confer- | ence Called for Facing Serious Problem (By Associated Press) Britain has called a British Com- monwealth conference to deal with a deepening financial ecrisis. The Finance Ministers of the British |nations are faced with a serious problem of fast-draining gold and dollar reserves. Investors in England are selling} their government securities to a serious extent. British manutac-* tured goods are finding the going hard in ‘dollar areas. Eveu sales of raw products like tin, rubber, cocca and wool are falling cif. Finance Ministers of Canada, quate and suitable was made avail- acle. Moreover, the City Council indicated its intention to make| available to the Department a suit- able site on which to build our| Australia, Ceylon, India, New Zea-' land, Pakistan and South Africa will confer in Loncon early in July with Prime Minister Clement Attlee permanent station when the funds are released.” Stewart added that similar assur- ance have been given by.Fairbanks and Anchorage Councils in the matter of providing sites. The Washihgton Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON ICopyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) ASHINGTON. — The State De- partment’s Dr. Philip Jessup, trail- ing homeé after the failure of the Big Four conférence in Paris, was reflecting on the high hopes which preceded that conference. Jessup had been in on the dis- cussions with Gromyko before the conference, ' and . he remembered May 3 particularly. That was the day when the final Russian note was delivered to him in New York, the day when all the world won- dered what was in that note. Would the Russians say yes or no? The note reached Jessup's office, No. 2 Park Avenue, in the morning, and he knew it was the fatal docu- ment that would tell whether the blockade of Berlin was to be lifted. He knew it was the climax of his weeks of secret negotiations and ‘hiden meetings with Malik and Gromyko. But nobody in his office could (Cnhtmoq “on Page Four) and Economics Chief Sir Staftord Cripps. ’ The crisis has come to a head be- cause the ‘year-old system cof pay- ments among Marshall Plan coun- tries is up for revision. The old their affairs on a bi-lateral basis ends Thursday. Britain wants the bi-lateral system retained. believing iit is more easily controlled. It does not provide for payments in dollars. Eome cther countries are proposing that currency be fully converticle in dollars and gold as a spur to international trade. The United States is supporting- the latter system. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Seattle in port and | sails westward at 9 tonight. Princess Kathleen from Vancouv- er in port. Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday, 8 p.m. Denali scheduled to sail from Se- attle Thursday. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. R { Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Because of Egypt's dry climate, more of the objects used by its an- cient citizens have been preserved isystem by which nations settled! MAY GET CHANCE T0 MAKE APPEALS Supreme Court Justice| Douglas Hands Down Important Decision | WASHINGTON, June 28. —(P—| International war criminals seeking freedom from American imprison-; ment tcday charted a new course toward U. 8. civil courts, along a route marked out by a Supreme| Court Justice, Attorneys for Japanese war lords serving prison terms for war crimes said they.probably will seek Ameri- can court action as a result of an cpinion handed down yesterday by Justice William O. Douglas. Douglas’ views dealt with a case the Supreme Court disposed of six months ago in what he now cal's a “potentially dangerous” decision — even though it was one he agreed with. In that ruling, the court held that it had no power to hear the appeals filed by wartime Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo and 24 other former Japanese officials, because international tribunal, Douglas hasn’t changed his mind about that, although it troubles him because “it leaves no room for ju- dicial serutiny of this new type ot military tribunal which is evolving.” Then he added what was virtual- ly an invitation to American-held war crimes prisoners to try for a new court test. Despite the high court’s lack of authority in cases tried by inter- national tribunals, Douglas said, persons convicted by such tribunals have a right to ask American lower courts to decide whether they are being legally held—if their jailers are Americans. “If an American general holds a prisoner,” he declared, “our (legal) process can reach him wherever he is. To that extent, at least, the constitution follows the flag. “It is no defense for him to say that he acts for the allied powers. He is an American citizen who is performing functions for our gov- ernment. It is our constitution which he supports and defends.” Douglas said a prisoner held un- der such circumstances need only file an application for a writ of habeas corpus in the U. 8. District Court for the District of Columbia. “It is the historic function of the writ,” said Douglas, “t0-examine in- to the. cause of restraint of liberty. We should not allow that inquiry to be thwarted merely because the than those of the ancient citizens of Greece and Rome. Jailer acts not only for the United States, kut for other nations_as well,” | | Territory. | | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1949 Victory in Canada Seven Killed in Navy?lane(rash i OVER 8 HUNDRED ARE UNEMPLOYED, Record-Mine Work Threaten Strike FAIRBANKS, June 28 —(P— ritorial employment oificial pressed concern over a total of men’' and women unemployed . thi month in Fairbanks, the highest | June jebless mark on record.” Employment Office; ‘said new applicants aré streaming in daily, registered in a single day last aveek. He said that normally applica- tions run from “zero to 100" -dur- peak employment month in the Most applicants, he said, are’un- skilled or semi-skilled workers, but veral skilled workers and crafts- also are on the list. Further deterioration on the D, situaticn is seen in the threaten | strike of Fairbanks mine workers| against the U. S. Smelting Com~{ pany, scheduled to come off July 1. Although -the union claims about 200 member,s it is estimated that double that number would be thrown out of work. Union members will vote tomor= row night whether to accept an | agreement, reached by union offi- cers and Fairbanks city offieials, to keep the mining company power plant at sufficient capacity to pre- vent interruption on the output of mining concerns for its domestic power supply. I the union membership fails to ratify the agreement, all but a small business area of the city wil Howeve, Liberals Win Smashij - Young Republican Leaders w 2n8naat'T FARBANKS AREA June Jobless Tofal Breaks! Milten Ward, director of the Ter- | | ritorial ing June, which ordinarily is, the|! 4 19 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS i g 44 new applications - being | | (® Wirephoto. Proceising of Sealskinsin Alaska Is Urged in Report ..~ Made by Redamation Bur. Charred wreckage and a tail fin on which a yellow cross is being painted to designate it as an “old crash” are all that remain of a Navy transort plane which crashed into a mountain near Santa Monica, Calif., killing all seven aboard. The victims were all naval reservists from Memphis, Tenn. was enroute from Moffett Field, Calif., near San Francisco to Los Angeles. It crashed in a heavy fog, be without electricity. Frank Angerman, union organizer, predicted ratification because: “Our contentions are with the company, not with our neighbors.” LIONS RING BELL FOR $350 IN FIRST 'POOL’ RADIO SHOW Juneau kids who like to swim warm-water swimming in the Ever- green Bowl pool today. Lions, in a telephone-radio scheme to raise funds for heating the pool, took to the airways at 6:30 pm. last night and after the 1inal ring up on the cash register had brought in $369.50. | With Vern Metcalfe as moderator, | Gus George and Kenneth Axelson on the telephone and four judges The dispute centers around a| | were more than $350 nearer' to By VERN HAUGLAND REPUBLI(AN WASHINGTON, June 28— (#— ‘The sealskins taken each year on Alaska's Pribilof Islands would be ! converted into fur coats in Alaska if the Reclamation Bureau has its, Coleman Quits Committee with Blast at Chair- man Hugh Scott way. Secretary of the Interior Krug has forwarded President Truman a bureau report recommending the change. Since the govenment has exer- | cised control over the killing of the seals, the furs have usually been pro ed in St. Louis, Mo., gen- WASHINGTON, June 28— (P — Vice Chairman Thcmas E. Cole-; man ' quit the Republican Strategy|warq regicn of Alaska, shipped Cemmittee today with a blast ablirousands of miles to the central GOP National Chairman Hugh D.|portion of the United States for Scott, Jri, for failure to keep "he'pxocessing," the report said. group “moving along.” “Establishment of this industry Coleman, Wisconsin Republican in Alaska would be a valuable addi- finance chairman, wrote Scott that!tion to further development of tre crally by the Fouke Fur Co. Si 1639 bids haven’t ever been ack from other firms, “It appears incongruous, to have a resource taken in the mosi west- e | gion broke a long hot spell in many to determine ‘“assessments,” Lions| 3 p % called phone holders for contribu- | °F take the responsibility for aj| he no longer can “spend the time|Territcry’s economy. I “Alaska kas made several at- they had been found guilty by an} Lions will be on the job again tonight and' tomorrow night at 6:30 with radio time for the pro- gram donated by- KINY. One contribution- brought par- ticular pleasure to Lions: Vinceni J. Rahier, of Shelton, Wash., who i{is visiting at the Val Poor home in Douglas thought the whole idea was 80 good he promptly wrote out a check for $10 to add to the fund. Judges on tonight’s show will e Milton Furness, Lt. D. P. Appel- gate, Mac Kay Malcolm and Dr. J. O. Rude. Contributors last night were: Dr. William Whitehead, $50; Ei- ton Engstrom, $50; James Orme, $25; Stan Grummett, $15; Gus Gissterg, $10; P. G. Gilmore, $5; Mrs. Joe Thomas, $25; Dr. C. Car- ter, $25; Floyd Burns, $5; O. R. Cleveland, $20; Cliff Robards, $5; Don MacKinnon, $5; Freeman Schultz, $25. City Catfe, $5; VFW (D. Jackson) $10; John Tanaka, 81; Smith, $25; H. S. Graves, $10; O. F. Benecke, $5; Louis L. Lucas, $5; Larry McKechnie, $2.50; Crystal committee ' that is not moving, tempts to have part of the proceeds :g::w Bgimth;?m:hg:ctd b:gz‘flfms." | frem annual sales of Pribilof Island in the cash. i “The responsibility must ©e fur seal pelts by the Federal gov- Walter | Snow Jenne, $5; Vern A, (Fats) | “The strategy committee Wwas Lee, $5; Jack Popejoy, $3; Vincent|created in Omaha in January. Now, NEW YORK, June 28.--#—Clos- J. Rabhier, $10. at the end of June, it has had 10 jng quotation of Alaska Juneau R 2535 TGy opportunity to be of any paricularimine stock today is 3, American 3-6 FIRE CALL service to the party.” Can 89%, Anaconda 26, Curtiss- On the other hand, Coleman wright 8%, International Harvester A 3-6 fire alarm last night at 6:30 |said, the Republican Senatoricl 24%, Kennecott 42%, New York o'clock brought out the Fire De-|and Congressional committees| Central 10, Northern Pacific 12%, |ernment returned to the Territory. | yours,” the vice chairman said. * | ! |1t has always been unsuccesstul, Coleman’s step was a tlow to 193 SEATS ' OF262 ARE LIBERALS | Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent Given Per- ' sonal Triumph | TORONTO, June 28.—®— The Liberal party of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent has won @& smashing political victory reminis- cent of the 1936 landslide of the 1| Roosevelt New Deal. . Returns today from the. national election showed the Liberals—Can- ada’s nearest egivalent to Dem- 1 ocrats—had won 193 of the 262 i seats in a new House of Commons. They led in all the provinces but Alberta. It was the greatest party triumph in Canadian history. The Progressive Conservatives, s | the main opposition party, took 43 i seats. The other Commons mem- 1 bers will come from minor parties. The Canadian party dominating /'the House of Commons names the | government, The Liberals now have a mandate until 1954. That will run | their incumbency to 19 gears—they took over from the Conservatives in 1885. It was a personal triumph for T RAR A | St. Laurent, who has been in poli- ‘tics only eight years, The soft- spoken PFrench-Canadian, . 67 years 1old, assumed the Prime Ministry last November when W. L. Macken- HOT WEATHER SPELLBROKEN, 555262 SOME AREAS The plane staunchest Conserva- tive could admit tcday that King was smart. m_ s 4 e | Conimons, and the Liberals held 135. 1 The greatest triumph ever run up by a party, until yesterday, was in 1940. That year the Liberals took 1178 of 245 seats. : The Soclal Credit party, which | governs Alberta, won 10 seats there iyenerd:y against the Liberal's five. ) The Socialists (Coeperative Com- . monwealth Federation) took 12 seats Cool air and rain brought tem- ::akfl(v:e :r:.v.l‘l:lcul,l' “::d.pendmu porary relief to many areas in thei Ay 19 Gommunist candidates lnst. nation's hot weather Lelt today. g, qid all the 15 women ‘running, The dry-stricken Northeastern| states didn't get much rain to help| the wilting crops, but cooling breezes from the Hudson Bay re- Cool Air, Ra_ir_l_B-rings Some Relief - Cool Wave Reported in West (By the Associated Press) WEATHER REPORT (U, 8. WEATHER BUREAU (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau— Maximum, 66; minimum, 45. At Airport— Maximum, 67; minimum, 40. FORECAST (June nd Vielniy) Mostly cloudy with occas- fonal light rain tonight and Wednesday. Lowest tempera- ture tonight around 45 de- grees. Highest Wednesday near 56. Scutheasterly winds sections, Rain over many Midwest states also brought temporary relief from the hot humid weather. Heavy falls were reported in parts in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. COOL AIR MOVES IN New York, sweltering in hot and humid weather and without sub- stantial falls of rain for 32 days,!® got welcome relief last night asi-® the mass of cool air moved in. The|® weather bureau at the city’s lmer-l' national airport at Idlewild,|® Queens, reported a 10-degree drop;® i / |although Great Britain returned its share to Canada many years ago “In 1947 the pelts were sold for !more than $2,000,000. More signifi- cant than just a share of the re- |turns to Alaska would be estatlish- 'ment of the tanning industry in \Alaskn to| process the pelts.” | Seton H. Thompson, Director ot | Alaska Fisheries for Interior's Fish land ' Wildlife Service, tolq a re- ‘porter Krug explored the possi- 4 ILility, dering a trip to Alaska two Scott had called the group into Session here today for the first|YeArs ago, of ‘basing an Alaska time since'dts organization April 24, fur processing industry at Seward. Coleman said in his letter to Thc:ng:.on! 3“‘*‘}11 ":ef";’::tc':'[:; % strategy | Pany indicated, how L :::;; fi?}:‘:sh;‘;‘:l;e;‘:n:ts it com- Of its highly-skilled employees had Lines Republican men and women g:;]::re’dntonl]:le ‘31‘:::“” area and experienced in politics on state and ’, nn‘t’loml levels put:lo & gmall enoughi| The''govenmnt bAs beeR un group to be effective.” able to find any other company “However,” he said, “your long"ha‘ can do the v_/ork nearly as delay in appointing members of | Well. Thompson said. The Fouke the committeé and the executivo Process is a closely-guarded trade committee has caused the loss of “°CFet: several months of working tinwe AR T BTN R . STOCK QUOTATIONS party ‘“harmony” that Scott »has teen publicly stressing since he won a 54 to 50 vote of conf'dence and kept his job at a January meeting of the GOP Nationa: Com- mittee in Omaha. The 23-member strategy commit- tee, which Scoft heads, was formed at Omaha. It' grew out of agree- ment that the party needed new machinery to put over its view- point. | during this session of Congress —from 81 to 71 degrees—in three minutes. The New England states, rainless and hot most of June, reported temperatures in the 70’s, a drop in some areas of from 10 to 20 de- grees. RAIN BRINGS RELIEF There were thunderstorms in parts of Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri and Nekbraska. The weather bureau. re- ported a fall of 4.11 inches in six ‘curs at Tarkio, Mo.; 3.54 inches in 2ix hours at Concordia, Kans.; and 214 inches at Omaha in three hours. In Omaha, asphalt streets were buckled by the rain, piling ashpalt three feet high. At nearby Council Bluffs, Ia., traffic was blocked on the main street 90 minutes by high water. COLD WEATHER WEST While the East, Midwest and Southern states suffered in the heat and humidity yesterday, cold weather covered most of Idaho and the mercury dipped to below freez- ing in Central Oregon. Wheat crops were believed damaged by frost in Central Oregon. The cold weather blackened potato and pea vines and nipped wheat and other crops in Eastern Idaho. Airplanes cruised over the South Central Idaho area to keep 80,000 acres of Camas County wheat crop from freezing. The cruising planes ©eece0cecssee0censc s as high as 25 miles per hour, PRECIPITATION o (Past 2+ hours ending 1:30 a.m. today @ In Juneau — None; since June 1, 6.00 inches; since July 1, 118.39 inches. At Airport — None; June 1, 4:30 inches; July 1, 68.25 inches. . . . . le . 1 since L4 since . ® o0 0000 0 0 70-DAY STRIKE AT BENDIXPLANTMAY COME TO END NOW WASHINGTON, June 28— (#— Secretary of Air Symington an- !nounced an agreement today tor {settlement of the striks that has {closed the Bendix Aviation Corp. plant at South Bend, Ind, for 70 |days. Terms agreed to by company and United Auto Workers officials were ’kept secret pending study and a jvote by the workers. Symington summoned the npion and management spokesmen here \for conferences which ran throdgh |lut night and into this morning. {He sald he did so because of the icflefl of the stoppage on produc- tion of airplane engines. partment to the Spickett Apart- ments on Fifth and Gold Streets because of a smoking motor on a refrigerator. Slight damage was re~ jportefl. and our state organizations are going much more than usual in breparing / for' 'the 1950 election | |“have been functioning etfectively U whicn I think we will win.” it l cel 20%, Pound $4.02'%. Sales today were 790,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: ndustrials 165.81, rails .43.19, util- fanned the surface air blanket| Symington told reporters “we tending to ward off the Ireezing were in trouble all over the worlc temperatures. \on these alrplane parts” He said - 'that he had used “no coercion es 34.14, In parts of upper Egypt rain falls vhatsoever” in bringing ‘abor and only about once in every five years, management. officials togethey, s St T — ——