The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 12, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY AL OL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,244 ) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ,ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1949 MEMEER ASSOCIATED PRESS SKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS ° Airliner Crashes, Roar of Exploding Gasoline Treason Trial Opens RUMAN MAY STEP INTO 316 STRI KE President M—ay Infervene in Threatened Labor Dis- pute of Steel Workers (By the Associated Press) President Truman may intervene prevent a threatened strike of | jhe nation’s 500,000 steel workers. A White House announcement| id he had the steel labor dispute | under consideration” and a state- ent may be issued later today. Barring Presidential action, a ike may begin Saturday. CIO President Philip Murray has an- ounced he will recommend hi nited Steelworkers quit work this eek-end. A steel workers’ 170-man wage licy committee is expected to ap-,‘ brove his recommendation today. | PRESIDENT'S POWER President Truman has the power i declare the proposed strike a| fanger to the nation’s safety and | elfare. He could delay a work| toppage for 80 days while a fact inding board examines the dis- | bute. ! Besides an unspecified wage| e, the steel workers are de-| manding company finance pensions | d insurance. The giant unit is expected to | ack up its demand with a CIO ponsored economic report calling | or wage increases to fight off a:BIOVIIl B“" ble depression. i CIO'S. ANALYSIS Halts F"e'mefl | AtBarn Fire The CIO's - economic, _analysis, brepared by Robert R. Nathan, a NORTH ANDOVER, Mass, July 12—(#—William A. Mazarinko and bonsulting economist, advocated e raises in all but “severely de- his large, trown bull aren’t speak- ing today—not after what bhap- ssed” industries and companies. pened this morning. trial on charges of treason. She o raise wages and cut prices at| e same time. | Iva Ikuku Toguri D’Aquino, (Tokyo Rose), Japanese-American, escorted down a corridor in the Federal Building in San Francisco, by U. S. Deputy Marshal Herbert Cole, prior to the opening of her was one of six English-speaking | - CHARGEDTO - CATHOLICS ESPIONAGE STRIKE ON COOK INLET IS ENDED 1 Fishermen'flion Accepls | Price and Wage Offer Made by Industry ! ANCHORAGE, July 12—®— A | 14-day strike of CIO fishermen and cannery workers, which reduc- ed Cook Inlet cannery outfut to a trickle, ended yesterday with the union’s acceptance of a new price and wage offer by the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc. The largest increase for fisher- ‘n'.en will be in the price paid for | red and silver salmon. Those taken | in lower Cook Inlet will bring 70 PORT AREA OFLONDON IS SEIZED Soldiers, S;ifirs, Marines Start Discharging 1217 Ships » v the Associated Press) Labor government — armed with a proclamation of na- tional emergency — seized the| strike-bound port area of London ]to force a showdown with some {12,000 striking dock workers. The workers’ 16-day-old dispute with the dock labor toard has tied up 127 ships and slowed the hand- | ling of dollar exports and imported | goods. The proclamation of a state of| national emergency was signed yes-| terday by King George VI aner; the cabinet decided to have re-| course to such a measure. It was| the first time since the general strike of 1926 that a state of emer- gency had been proclaimed to quell a labor dispute in Britain, Some 2,300 soldiers and 400 sailors and marines went into the port today to unload food The government has been sending serv- icemen on the docks since last Thursday. | cents apiece, those in the upper in- let 66 cents. John Wiese, president of the CIO | Westward Alaska Fisheries Council, | said: | “This is 8 cents better than the 11948 prices and 4 cents more than the industry offered before the strike.” | Raises Granted | Under the agreement, the price | of king salmon will remain un- | changed. Pinks taken by gillnets on the upper inlet will be worth 18 cents, lor 4% cents more than last year. | Seine caught pinks will bring 21 cents, a rise of 5% cents. Chums, whether caught with gill- | | nets or by seining, will net 26 icents, up 3': cents. Beach gillnetters employed by companies will get three-fourths of {the new quoted prices, while | handtrap fishermen will be paid| “Under the emergency proclama- |75 per cent of the scale for the|tion men may be arrested without upper inlet. | warrant if they are suspected of Alfred Owen, business agent for |trying to keep others from work- the AFL United Fishermen of Cook |ing. But they may not be drafted Inlet, said the new prices automati- to work or prevented from peace- | i his union. [AMERICAN LEAGUE WINS ALL-STAR GAME FROM NATIONALS; SCORE 11-7; " RECORD SET SCORING AND ERRORS By TED SMITS BROOKLYN, July 12—(®—The American League All-Star team de- feated the National Leaguers 11 to| 7 today in a wet and wobbly All-| Star game that set records for seering and errors. Joe DiMaggio, $90,000-a-year New York Yanker outfielder who has been out of action most of the season, led the American at- tack with a powerful double in the sixth that scored two vital runs. €tan Musial and Ralph Kiner hit homers for the Nationals. A crowd of 32,577 paid $79,225.02, | less taxes, to see the game that| lasted three hours and minutes. The National Leaguers made five| errors, one more than the record | made by the Americans in 1938.| The total run output of 18 toppedf the previous high of 16 set in 1934 when the Americans won 9-7. This was the twelfth American League victory in 16 All-Star games | and came despite the orders of President Ford Frick of the Na- tional League.to bear down. The last half of the game was played in a slight drizzle, and in the sixth inning rain halted play for 13 minutes. | Virgil Trucks of Detreit was the! winning pitcher and Don New-! combe, big Brooklyn Negro, was| charged with the loss. i The American Leaguers used four pitchers, Mel Parnell of Bos-| ton, Trucks, Lou Brissie of Phila- delphia, and Vic Raschi of New York. The Nationals used seven—-| Warren Spahn of the Boston Braves, Newcombe, George Munger' of the St. Louis Cardinals, Vern Bickford of the Boston Braves, Monte Pollet ~ of the Cardinals, Ewell Blackwell of Cincinnati; and Preacher Roe of the Dodgers. Only Blackwell looked really effective. In his single inning he| struck out Vern Stephens and Joe Gordon, and forced Eddie Robin-| son to pop out weakly. four| 45 KILLED IN CRASH OF PLANE Thirteen mrican Cor- respondents Among Victims of Disaster BOMBAY, Thirteen American correspondants and 32 other persons died today in the crash of a KLM Consellation groping through monsoon rain- storms toward a Bombay Island | airfield.. The American reporters were re- turing home from a tour of In- donesia sponsored by the Dutch gevernment, It was the second tragedy to befall plahes of KLM (The Royal Dutch Airline) within three weeks. The Constellation that carried the reporters to In- | donesia crashed on its return trip; to Europe, killing 33 -persons off Bari, Italy,, June 23. The correspondents killed includ- ed Charles Gratke, foreign editor |of the Christian Science Monitcr, | and two Pulitzer prize winners— H. R. Knickerbocker and S. Bur- ton Heath. A 14th American killed was Lynn Mahan, representative of a New York public relattons company. The others killed were 11 Dutch agrewmen, including the gtneral operations manager of KLM at Karachi, Pakistan; 17 other Dutch- men; two Chinese and one Briton. 33 Bodies Recoverec Thirty-three bcdies had been re- covered by nightfall, approximate- ly 14 hours after the crash. The rplane struck a rocky hill- top while approaching the BSanta Cruz airfield, i5 miles north of Bombay. It hit a hill near Ghat- kopar, on the opposite side of the 30-mile-long island from Santa India, July 12—®-—| 26 BODIES REMOVED, WRECKAGE Plane HitsHill in California | -18 Persons, Still Alive, Mangled By BILL BECKER LOS ANGELES, July 12.—(®— Twenty-six bodies have been re- covered from the smouldering wreckage of a commercial airliner that crashed in Susana Pass today after a fist fight among someé ot the passengers. Fire destroyed the pilot's cabin and the crash left only one wing and the tail. The plane belonged to Trans- National Airlines and was repre- sented locally by Standard Au Lines. It was one of the cut rate transcontinental flights, which carry passengers for $113 instead of the customary $181. Passenger Fight | Pilot Roy White informed . the Traffic Control Bureau at Bur- ‘bnnk that a fight among passeng- jers had brokenout near River- | side, Calif. He said he wanted rolice aid as soon as the plane landed, and he requested permission to set down at Burbank instead of | the customary: destination, Long Beach. One passenger was badly beaten, said White, Survivors said the, fight started after a male er became hys.wrlul while : the big airliner was coming through a, storm. An- other passenger nw&m'w have Quieted him when a chance remark on the -hysteria pre- cipitated ‘a g match. Warning J While the fight was going on, jone of the stewardesses watned: “Fasten your safety belts; we are going into a cloud bank.” | Eighteen persons, still alive, but t said many industries can afford | Fire broks out in the Mazarinko | US. Steel, bellwether ‘for the Ominous Overfone Ap-f bt | ndustry, has turned down the jon’s claims with a flat “no.” Murray says the contract negoti- barn about dawn and Mazarinko| called the fire department which | rushed apparatus out to the farm| pears in Church - State —or almost to the farm. The bull plainly didn’t like red fire engines—he just planted him- self in a narraw roadway and tions are “hopelessly deadlocked.” The union, U.S. Steel Corp., and | bther basic steel producers met in| ashington yesterday with Cyrus S. Ching, Federal Conciliation Di- ector. | They didn't. Indications after the meeting| poybling as picadors, the fire were that the gonciliation Services | fishters armed themselves with tforts had collapsed. |pitchforks and drove the bull into la field. The bull got loose and ,UTHER | n ngs‘vzl?xk:ebRwifre the CIO'cnme back. The fire was getting nited Auto Wc;rkers are meecing,iw"rse‘ The firemen finally penned | Union President Walter Reuther is|the bull in a nearby pasture. By that time tne big, wooden slated to be handed his third term | ; las president. |barn was beyond saving. Led by Reuther, the convention | Less approximated $12,000. lhas passed a resolution calling on the CIO to oust any affiliates dom- | inated by Communists. The ma-| H . jority was nearly 100 to 1. The nl I(a Ion 'UAW Chief called it the strongest| anti-Red resolution ever adopted by | vk roowe 1 Of Military . | 1 Cacoa beans were used by the| Sadarma " s Held UP The Washington = Merry - Go- Round | July 12— #— By DREW PEARSON a till tightening the military uni- |By a one-vote margin, the House Armed Services Committee voted ICopyright, 1949, by Bell Byndicate. Inc.) }chtion law until the committee |investigates ‘the B-36 bomber. ASHINGTON — While the| Rep. Short of Missouri, ranking Atomic Energy Commission is m-:Re‘publican on the ccmmittee, de- forming Congress of streamlined clared that approval of the bill by methods for bigger and better atom |Congress would ‘hamper the B-: bombs, Army doctors have been|probe. The Senate already has ap-| Mittee will start voting on funds| working quietly to prevent loss ol proved the unification law changes. life from those same bombs—and| Three Democrats joined 10 Re- with surprising success. | publicans in voting the postpone- It can now be stated that, as ment. It was opposed by 11 Demo- a result of this research, Army crats and Republican Leroy John- doctors have lost their fear of the son of California, bomb’s casualties, and that at| least 20 per cent of the lives Iosv.f at Hiroshima could now be sav-]BR"’ISH OU'"J"E “Ew | This is the conclusion of cal_lplA“ SAVE DOI_[ARS § Elbert de Coursey, Commandant of | (By Associated Press) the Army’s Medical Research Britain is reported to be getting School, whose principal assignment | has been to prepare medical deten-‘, ses against the atomic bomb. | He explains that 65 to 85 per a cent of pme victims at Hirouhtgm | Commonwealth could do without to & dollars. and Nagasaki died of burns and|3'® R injuries, easily treated by medical| Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor science. The challenge to the medi- °f the Exchequer, is said ’;o_ be cal profession therefore is to aban- lxesdy to ask the Finance Minis- don the present method of treating {ter of the seven British Dominicns to approve the list at their meet- (Continued on Page Four) ing with him in London tomorrow. today to hold up consideration of| {up a list of things she thinks the | Fight in Czech Land | (By The Associated Press) | There is a new, ominous overtone challenged the firemen to come on. to the church-state fight in Czech- | | cslovakia. An official of the Com- ! munist government accused Roman Cathelic bishops and clergy in Czechoslovakia of “espionage for unfriendly foreign countries” and demanded that they be subject to the same penalties as soldier spies, including death. | The charge was made by Prof. | Alexander Horak, Commissioner of | Transport in Slovakia. Horak is a former priest who was suspended by the church for disobeying its | ban against participation in poli- itics. He now is a leader in the government-sponsored S e p a ratist | Catholic action movement. ! The Czechoslovakia government also has made a veiled threat to |step government donations to | Catholic charities unless the bish- lops give up in the church-state battle. ;Spending Program Of Nafion Taken Up By Senale Gorup | (By The Associated Press) | A Senate committee will settie |down to a fight on the nation's “spendmg money today. The Senate Appropriations Com- for the European Recovery Pro- !gram. Committee chairman Ken- | neth McKellar still wants a cut |of eight-hundred-million dollars. But other Senators have 'softened | their attitude after learning that a cut in Marshall aid may mean a jcut in farm crop purchases in this | country. | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jjuv; i2—#—Clds- ing quotation of American Can |today is 91%, Anaconda 27%, Cur- | vester 25%, Kennecott 46%, New York Central 10, Northern Pacific 13%, U. 8. Steel 21%, Pound 1$4.03%. Sales today were 870,000 shares. industrials 171.78, rails 43.30, util- . ities 35.15, tiss-Wright 8%, International Har-| Averages today are as follows: | | Wage Baise | CIO cannery workers accepted the across-the-boards wage raise of [cally will be paid to members of |ful picketing. {7 cents an hour offered by the ( | Salmon Industry befcre the strike, kut the agreement settled two oth- | er major points at issue. by ! | A proportionate increase in sea- | sonal guarantees = was granted, | | along with the stipulation that res- pR p E | ident cannery workers will hnvej | their guarantees applied in full to the remaining five weeks of the| season. | (By -Associated Press) | Wage scales for cannery work-| Nationalist China, the Philip- ers now will start at $152 an|Pines and South Korea have gotten | hour, or $229.50 where they are em- | behind a proposed Pacific tront ployed by the month. Subsistence |3gainst Communism. The Philip-| and travel pay also is provided. |Pines and Nationalist China initi- | Wnhile some canneries along the|ated the idea in a three-day con-| | inlet operated on a reduced scale|ference in Baguio, the Philippines. | during the strike, most of the in-| The conference was attended by dustry was tied up as tendermen | President Elpidio Quirino and Gen- | respected the picket lines of the|eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek. South- | fishermen and cannery emplcyees.i?m Korea quickly approved the _— idea. 1 The biz question now is: will the| 'MEDICAL MEN ARE T | | countries of the Far Pacific in a }BE GUESIS OF AIR!pollflcaI and economic—but not a | military—alliance. | pocsibly Burma right away. Aus-| 12—»— |tralia and New Zealand are among will be in- | United States come in? Washing- {ton will be asked to line up with roR(E A“(HORAGE‘ Advocates of the proposed union 1] hope to enlist Siam, Indonesia and | wasHINGTON, July | The Air Force will be host to the jother countries which Alaska Medical Mission Conference |vited to join. in Anchorage, Alaska, July 19 to| August 1 under the joint sponsor-| ship of the Department of Interior E An"-Dep'ession and the American Medical Associa- | Program May Be Cut by Congress | tion. | This will be the first time for| Air Force and Army medical offi- | cers to participate in the mission’s | two-week session of conferences _ and clinics. Three sessions have "N | been held in Alagka in the last nve‘ c By, The. Alsaclsted Pr%.h' that | lyears. longmsslon‘al leaders believe s | The object of the conference ls;::t’l’-dz;:'m‘l’orn Pres)::rrl‘: ;;:::_d < to give Interlor Department medi-| i 5P pm';?“a! B aicn, | cal officers now serving in "mme‘But one Jeading Repuhhc:'m;Juc Alaskan areas an intensive brush-| e o 0 wrosco s usetts—agrees up on the latest technique and de- that the country can bncs;. e o tional production up" to three-hun- dred-billion dollars annually with- in a few years. And the leaders {of the Senate and House Tax com- mittees belleve that some cuts In | velopments in the tield of internal medicine, dental surgery, obstetrics | wartime excise taxes can be made next year. | and gynecology, tuberculosis and ophthalmology. The conference will be conducted by five outstanding specialists chos- en by the American Medical Asso- ciation, including Dr. Elliott B. Hay, associate professor of surgery, IBnylor University’s College of Med- icine, Houston, Texas, and Dr. Ed- ward N. Smith, Oklahoma City. NATIVE RESOURCES MAN RETURNS FROM INTERIOR Harvey Starling Alaska Native The mission will leave Washing- Service credit officer in the Native ton by air July 16. | Resources division, returned yester- With it will be 10 physicians|day after spending two weeks in | who will be replacements for medi- | cal officers now in Alaska, | Nome and way points, Toit 2), AMERICAN LEAGUE Innings R H E 400 202 300—11 13 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE Innings R H E 212 002 000— 7 12 5 Parnell (Boston), Trucks (Det- Briss‘e (Philadelphia 4), Raschi (New York 7) and Tebtetts| (Boston), Berra (New York 4);| Spahn (Boston), Newcombe (Brocklyn 2), Munger (St. Louis 5), Bickford (Boston 6), Pollet (St. Louis 7), Blackwell (Cincinnati 8), Roe (Brooklyn 9) and Seminick (Philadelphia), Campanella (Brook- lyn 4). Hit (St. Louds) HALIBUT FISHING SEASCN 1S ENDING TODAY AT MIDNIGHT ! SEATTLE, July 12.—#— Halibut fishing season in the vast Area III, | west of Cape Spencer, Alaska, ends at midnight Tuesday. The area's quota of 28 millien pounds will| have been reached at that time. A deluge of fishing vessel arriv-| als is expected later in the week. | The Pishing Vessels Owners’ Asso- | ciation said the bulk of the boats may stop in Alaska ports en route home, but most are expected to re- turn direct from the fishing| grounds. ALASKA STEAM IS~ | PLANNING (HARTER | OF DIAMOND CEMENT SEATTLE, July 12.—(»—Nego-| tiations between Alaska Steamship ! Company and Seattle agents for the 8S. Diamond Cement reported- ly were in progress Monday for possible charter of the freighter | by the Alaska line. The vessel is owned by Perman- ente Steamship Oorporation of Oakland. Olympic Steamship Co. | is Seattle agent for the firm. The Diamond Cement, a veteran in coastwise and Alaska trade, re- cently concluded a season of haul- ing Alaska lime rock to Seattle for Permanente. The ship carries about 5,000 tons of cargo. There was no immediate confir- homers: National — Musial 1 Kiner (Pittsburgh). ds H 1y | The American newsmen aboard were returning from a tour of In. donesia sponsored by the Nether: badly mangled, were taken 'from the wreckage. The arm and leg of one woman fell off after:she had been placed on a stretcher. | azine, {the New York Herald Tribune and lands government. The plane a| ntly scraped the |side of a 200-foot hill In a box canyon with & wingtip and then pancaked and caught fire. Newsmen Victims The American reporters listed as dead by the American consulate: Nat A. Barrows, Chicago Daily News. James Branyon, Houston, (Tex.)| Post. Fred Colvig, Denver Post. | Miss Elste Dick, Mutual Boad- casting System. Tom Falco, Business Week Mag- WEATHER REPORT Tt (U. 5. WEATHER BUREAT (Thi; data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 a:m. PST.) In Juneau— Maximum, 64; minimum, 52, ¥ At Alrport— Maximum, 63 minimum, 49. : FORECAST (Juneaw and Vietnity) Mostly cloudy with an ac- casional lght rain shower tonight and Wednlesday. Lowest temperature 'tonight hear 50 degrees. Highest Wednesday about 58. PRECIPITATION (Past 2+ hours endiog 7:30 a.m. dods In Juneau — .08- inches since July 1, 71 inches. At Alrport — .09 Inches; since July 1, .21 inches. ! ® 0 0 0 0 . STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Seattle is due to- night at 6 o’clock. Princess Norah from Vancouver due at 9:30 tonight. Princess Louise scheduled to saii from Vancouver tomorrow. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Kathléen scheduled to ;au from Vancouver 8 p.m. Satur- ay. Charles Gratke, foreign editor of the Christian Science Monttor, of Boston. S. Burton Heath (home, Darien, | Conn.). Bertram D. Hulen, Times. H. R. Knickerhocker. Vincent Mahoney, San Francisco Chronicle. George Moorad, Portland Ore- gonian and Radio Station KGW, -William H. Newton, Scripps- Howard Newspaper Alliance. John Werkley, Time Magazine. Refused To Fly Two Americans origihally in the party—Mrs. Dorothy Brandon of New York| | Willlam A. Mathews, Tucson, Ariz,, publisher—had decided not to return aboard the 1ill-fated Constellation. Mathews said on his arrival at| Manila that Mrs. Brandon had re- fused to fly on the KLM air-| craft because she feared it would be sabotaged. He quoted her as saying the plane would be “sabo- taged as sure as your life” No! evidence that the plane was sabo- | taged has been uncovered thus far. The Constellation was en route| from* Batavia to the Netherlands.| | OTHER CRASHES | DIVORCES GRANTED Three other widely scattered) Before leaving yesierday for the plane crashes yesterday took an| Ketchikan term of court, Judge apparent toll of 21 persons. | George W. Folta signed a number A French military plane phmged}flf divorce decrees. into the sea just off Prench Mor-| Katherine D. Reed; represented occo. Eighteen persons were killed.|by M. E. Monagle, was granted a A. U. 8. C-54 airlift transport | divorce from Morgan W. Reed of crashed last night in the Russian| Skagway. The custody of their zone near Berlin. Alr searchers| tWo sons was divided, the children could see no sign of life near the|to be with ' each parent for six wreckage and ‘the three crewmenimcfllhl of the year. are believed dead. Ella Stverly, represented by How- A Coast Guard seaplane cracked |ard D. Stabler, received a divorce up in the Pacific about 480 miles|decree from Lawrence W. Siverly, northwesf of San Prancisco last! with custody of their minor son. night, on a rescue mission, but all| Divorces were also granted to 11 persons aboard were saved. The Sammy Quejada from Rita Que- the Interior, going to Fairbanks, mation of the charter report Mon-|plane was trying to remove an all- | jada and to Agnes Carrillo from ing passenger from a steamer, Sam Carrillo, .