The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1949, Page 1

' SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition YOL. LXXIII., NO. 11,272 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIREF= PRICE TEN CENTS SOUTHEAST ALASKA FISH PRIGE SETTLED MEET ON BANK SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES 10 BRING MacARTHUR HOME LOAN NETS NO ACTION TODAY Conferences have been held here | during the past two days between | Seattle banking officials and Ter-| ritorial government officials on zhe’ forthcoming one million dollar loan | to the Territory by the Seattle | Trust and Savings Bank in order | to help Treasurer Henry Rodenl meet the present Territorial defi-| cit. i Attending the meetings were SECRETARY JOHNSON MAKES REMARKS ON | DEFENSE OF ALASKA' OTTAWA, Aug. 13.—»—US. De-' fense Secretary Louis Johnson5 said yesterday “We've no fears about the Alaskan (defense) pic-j | U. S. General Confersj with Chinese Official SUMMARY OF TODAY'S INTER-| NATIONAL NEWS | | (By The Asscciated Press) 1 Gen. Douglas MacArthur had a| DEEP FREEZE | | xpresses Anger | " & GIFTS POSE E | i . MYSTERY TODAY | * | CAPITAL ROUNDUP | (By The Associated Press) | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—P—A | | new episode in the home freezer mystery opend today with a search | | for a motive. | | Why, asked Senators investigating | five percenters, were those freezers | shipped to whomever they were | shipped? | A member of the special lnvestlw gations subcommittee said private- | | ly yesterday that he has seen in- | | voices showing that onz was ship- ped to Mrs, Harry S. Truman, two | to Maj. Gen, Harry H. Vaughan,| GHER ALASKA RATES ON FREIGHT (OULD BE CAUSED BY COMPETITION Hawaii Will Begin Unloading Strikebound Ships Nexi Week HONOLULU, Aug. 13.—P— Hawail’'s new waterfront boss told the island’s 540,000 residents last night the government would begin unloading strikebound ships early | SEATTLE, Aug. 13—(®—Entry of a California ship line into Puget | Sound-Alaska trade may force higher shipping rates to the Terri- tory, G. W. Skinner, President ot , Seattle’s Alaska Steamship Com- pany, asserted Friday. | ! The Coastwise Lines of San| ! Francisco annouhced earlier that it has purchased two 10,500-ton freigh- ers for services between California : ports, Puget Sound and Alaska. The STRIKE MAY NOT DEVELOP Ketchik afieporls AFL Agreement in Nego- tiations Today Possibility of a strike on the eve of the advance opening of the fish- ing season in Southeastern Alaska appeared lessened today, with an agreement reiiched between the Roden, Bank Manager K. Winslow, | ture, thanks to the understanding O. B. Thorgenson, Seattle attomey.iwe have in the Western Hemi- George ~Marshall, representative ol | sphere.” R Seattle tond and brokerags| 1 ships are the James Lick and John ! Chandler' Harris. { “The trade is wide open,” Skinner ! declared, “but the only logical re-| i | Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc, and |the AFL Seiners Union. Progress was also reported in negotiations with CIO unions, two-hour conference in Tokyo [0-‘ . Vg8 | President Truman’s army aide. next week, day with a personal representative § ) % He said further that invoices! Harbor Manager Ben F. Rush | of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. | Vi also list, shipmenits to Chief Jus-|likewise told the striking CIO In- a one-day visit to Ottawa, | and company, Governor Gruening, At-| Subjects of the discussion were| tice Fred M. Vinson, Federal Re- Johnson at a new. s0: torney General Gerald Williams, | fo S o Sk and his assistant, John Dimond. | 1+ Indicated approval of a plan,| Roden said immediately following |discussed at an earlier meeting a mornins session held in his office | With the Canadian cabinet defense | today that no statement could be committee, to allow an exchange of issued on the outcome of the con- C3nadian and U. S. military pro- ferences before Monday. |duction which would prevent further strai ada’s r From Ketchikan this week came pmbls:n ESI a0 CatacRe (Solln 3ng::n:bcrfiodeCux?me:;e_ L“;ml’:e"‘; 2. Said there is no disagree-, it e R bdolin | ment between the two countries in necotiating a loan of $1,000,000 to help th gbdl il “Territord |any aspect of defense co-operation. p the badly mauled Territorial| 3 npecjineq to discuss the possi- Treasury.” o 3 A 3 5 i 4 bility of a unified American- Ketchikan's Daily News headlined | Canadian regional command be- the Chamber action in backing | fix it . Roden’s plan for the Terrifory. cause it would be “putting the cart | Lefore the horse” in developments |leading to formation of Atlantic Pact organization. Pope Pius Salisfied P gae. ! ikes Canadian Setu Sp&“man-Ml’S. F- D. R- | The S(-crezary‘ described l)himseu (ommvefsy Semed | as “tickled to death” with Canada’s i from the Chinese Nationalist lead- | kept secret. Wu Teh-chen, close ad- | viser to Chiang, traveled to Tokyo| performing bear Jake turns on Trainer Bu Robinson, bites cheek dur at Monte NAVY. NEEDS MORE MONEY FORBARROW SAN DIEGO, Calif,, Aug. 13— ——Rear Adm. Bertram A. Rodgers, Commander of Pacific Amphibious ck er’s refuge on Formosa Island. o Wu insisted his visit was “un- cfficial.” All he. would say fur- ther was that it did not concern the Pacific anti-Communist pa(:tl proposed recently by Chiang and President Elpidio Quirino of the Philippines. i The U. S. Senate Foreign Rela-| tions and Armed Services Commit- | tees voted 13 to 12 at a joint meet- ing yesterday, to summon Mac- | Arthur to Washington to hear his views on the Far Eastern situation. | The General has said he does not | eel he should leave his post at this time. Chinese Reds Advance Chinese Communist armies,| meanwhile, hammered steadily st | | OBJECTING to entering barrel, | serve Governor James K. Varda- "mdn and Presidential Secretary I Matt Connelly. | Chief Counsel William P. Rog- - ers said the committee has a sub- { poena out for Harry Hoffman, Mil- | waukee advertising man., Lawmak- | ers heped he might shed some light | ’x-n the subject. 4 } Discuss Reorganization l Other Capitel Hill development: | Reorganization— Senate leaders ,‘;()L busy with two reorganization ‘]nr‘;)r. s—one to set up a Cab- inet-rank Department of Welfare. The other tc transfer two employ- ment agencies from the Federal) Security Agency to the Labor De- partment. | Submitted by President Truman,’ both have been frowned upon by | the Senate Expenditures committee.( | The President yesterday urged| ‘ would be invoked if some maritime' mercial cargo hauled by each ship | defense set up and said, “I have | never spent a more worthwhile day | |in my life nor felt myself among CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Aug.| more understanding people. We are Kainghsien, 215 miles northeast of Canton and regarded as the gate- | Forces, says the Navy “has a bear| their approval as a sign of good by the tail” in its big Alaskan|faith by Congress. Swap Arms With Canada l‘f_l‘;l P"p:hm'[p‘ru‘:egf:: brothers in e cause of peace.” e believes the controversy een | ; - 5 Francis Cardinal Spellman and|, H'; mg';d“::}v‘;!:e “;f“’ittwn;“m‘:;‘ Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt over | Pea L L AN | St. Laurent, on “the whole field ot | the question of Federal aid to?d S Catholic schools has been resolved | 4¢*€nse- i | His statement on Alaska was satisfactorily. o g ot & Eoatt ssed {his opinjon | PAckgrounded by the presence of i R SERICREd I Op ‘la Tass (Russian) News Agency re- in a special audience given five e = e porter at the press conference. American newspaper correspon- : dents at his summer residence here. | WIeD he was asked whether the & .. |United States could handle enemy | The Pope, answering a direct'y;iqc yp there, he said both Tass question, first replied that the! | guerrillas along the Albanian fron- | | the government says the guerrillas | petroleum reserve. Rodgers, who returned yesterday d | from a 10,000-mile air trip to Point Barrow, Alaska, to chserve the 1949 re-supply expedition to Barter Is- and Point Barrow, recommend appro- way to the Nationalist provisional| capital. In Europe, Greece's army pushe its offensive against Communist | tier, One spearhead was reporz-:1"’”1‘(;:'-l‘"]“sk*‘-ld ed within a mile of the main S¥C he wou highway from Albania, over which | priation of new funds to vontinue ’ oil exploration in the area. Unless Ccongress votes more money-by the end, of the next fiscal !,\Far, the program will have to be FMabandoned, Rodgers said at a news get their suplies. Russia Attacks Tito Russia carried on her stepped- again; | Arms— —Lawmakers voiced gen- eral approval of a propcsal to swap ! military supplies with Canada, al-| ! though some saw flaws in the plan. | Secretary of Defense Johnson re-| iported to the President and the! Cabinet yesterday that Canada wants to barter warships, aircraft, small arms ammunition and other | things they make for American ' supplies. This would conserve her | dollar reserve but still provide her| with equipment she can get conly| and Moscow would like an answer | matter was too delicate for com-}on that. ment. | Then he added he had seen the| exchange of letters between the| New York Archtishop and Mrs.| Roosevelt in a Romie newspaper Margaret Michell . and that, from them, he thought‘Shownlg Imprqvemefl' h r’ lved satis- | g‘:toc:]:fmvelsy was resolved sa 'ffom Au'o A“lden' doci | ATLANTA, Aug. 13—P—A hos- *e”dent.es. 0' pital bulletin today noted that | Margaret Mitchell, who wrote of a .egro Mm“’ers {lost cause in “Gone With the Wind,” . Are Dynamited | was showing signs of winning her | own. 4 During the night, the hospital A BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 13— roported, Miss Mitchell aroused —Dynamite blasts rocked the| yomentarily from the semi-coma homes of two Negro ministers early today in an area zoned for whites. A group of Negroes fired several into which she -lapsed after being struck by a speeding car Thursday shots at the dynamiters’ auto, ap- | parently without effect. night. Eighteen Negroes in the two! Defends "Bikini’ houses narrowly escaped death or! injury. | . 4 | FROM HAINES R. A. Merrell of the Alaska Road Commission registered from Haines at the Baranof. | The Washington Merry - Go-Round By ROBERT S. ALLEN, Substi- tuting for Drew Pearson, Who Is On Annual Vacation. (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— This is a long- deserved public tribute to a man ‘of great courage and great human- ity. };Ie is Paul Strachan, tall, deaf,| And impassioned father of National Employ the Physically Handicapped up propaganda campaign { Marshal Tito’s Yugoslavia, describ- ed for the first time yesterday i an “enemy and foe of the Soviet Union.” P “The mask has been torn away,” Moscow'’s Pravda, declaring Tito was carrying on a “double-dealing, traitorous policy.” | The Consultative Assembly of the | new European Council at Stras-| boury defeated overwhelmingly an | Irish attempt to call up the divis-| ion of Ireland for debate by dele- | gates from 12 nations. | DECREE PASSES STUDENTS | BANGKOK—#— A government | decree gave passing grades to 29 students who flunked university entrance examinations. Within a was deluged with requests from parents that their children who flunked other tests be given pass- ing marks. Top Education Ministry officials sought to resign in shame over the Thailand cabinet’s action, but were persuaded to hang on only because their terms were expiring shortly. The education squabble began when the son of a member of par- liament got 49.6 on an examination, the passing grade was lowered from 50 to include all who scored 49.5 or better. d LIVING STANDARDS KIEL, Germany—®— The citi- zens of the west German state of Schlewig-Holstein complained that their cabinet ministers were living too well. When the state parliament dis- cussed the matter, minister presi- dent (governor) man rose and put two bottles | conference. | She FRET GERMAN STATE [ Hermann Luede- | 3 of | The re-supply expedition, Rodgers declared, “was an outstanding suc- cess.” Ships of the flotilla unload- ed 40,000 tons of supplies over the frozen beaches in less than five days, and the only “casualty” was | the icebreaker Burton Island which broke one of her propeller shafts. was replaced 24 hours after the accident, however, by, the Coast Guard icebreaker Northwind, and unloading proceeded on schedule. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Prince George scheduled to arrive | southbound 7 a. m. Monday. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- few days the Ministry of Education |rive from Vancouver 4:30 p.m. to-|earthquake have boosted the esti- ! | day. Denali scheduled to arrive Sun- day afternoon from Seattle. Aleutian scheduled to arrive from Seattle Tuesday. Princess Louise arrives Tuesday from Vancouver. Baranof due to arrive southbound at 7‘p.m. Sunday. Diamond Cement scheduled sail from Seattle Wednesday. to N BIKES at MADSEN’S {in this countryy. Senator Bridges (R-NH) said that if the plan involves z\cquh’)mze (naval vessels from Canada he does not think it will work out. “We've | got more ships tied up now than we know what to do with,” he said ! INUMBER OF QUAKE DEAD IN ECUADOR | ESTIMATED, 6,000 QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 13—@—! President Galo Plaza Lasso says3 {latest reports on Ecuador's Aug. 5 mated property damage to $67,- 1500,000 and the number of dead | to more than 6,000. | The President said it is not pos- sible to fix the exact number of casualties, but that all calcula- tions, including that of a U.S. reliei mission, “tend to raise the ‘pre- | viously estimated’ 4,000 figure to | more than 6,000.” More than 100,000 persons were | left homeless by the disaster, the i President said. 3 i | ployees, ternational Longshoremen’s sult from addition of any unneces- "snry number of ships in any trade }is higher rates!" CRITICIZES INTERIOR DEPT. | Skinner also voiced sharp criti- cism of the U.S. Interior Depar- !ment’'s Alaska shipping policy. ed approval of a motion condemn-| Which he charged “up to now hasj ing the “strikebreaking law.” This|€lven Coastwise Lines what referred to the emergency act un-|8mounts to an unfair subsidy” in der which the government seized|dividing Alaska Rallroad cargoes the struck stevedoring compantes. | between the Coastwise Lines out of | Rush said the hiring of 1,680 non- | Portland and the Alaska Steamship | union men to work’ the docks was|Company out of Seattle. i progressing. He conceded the Terri-| The Coastwise Lines has been op- tory could not control the threaten- | €1ating from Los Angeles, San ed picketing on the mainland of|Francisco and Portland to Seward, ships loaded by government work- Alaska, the past year. ers, UNFAIR DIVISION But he declared “we can and will; Skinner continued: control the handling of cargo into]| “Freight for the Alaska Rail- and out of Hawaiian ports.” road should have been allotted in| That meant the emergency law | proportion to the amount of com- Warehousemen's union the Terri- torial government would brook no interference in operating the ‘.yelzud' docks. | Shortly before Rush spoke in a radio broadcast, the striking long- shoremen met and unanimously vot- line for distribution into interior Alaska by the railroad. Alaska Steamship Company carried 80 percent of this type of freight and should have received a proportion- ate share of the other cargo.” A Coastwise Lines spokesman ad- vised by telephone from San Fran- | cisco that, its newly-purchased | Liberty ships would be placed in| the new service as soon as they can be regularly scheduled. Pur-' chase price reportedly was about‘ ; $500,000 each. | 'HERBERT HOOVER IS STRICKEN ON TRAIN - BUT (OIIIIIIUES‘IRIP‘ OGDEN, Utah, Aug. 13.—P— Former President Herbert Hoover was stricken with aninternal dis- order abcard a traili early today but after medical exi tion con- tinued his trip to New York. Mr. Hoover last Wednesday cele- brated his 75th birthday. He made a 30-minute speech at Stanford| University, For several weeks he had been vacationing at the famed Bohemian Grove, on the Russian| | River, north of San Francisco. The only living ex-President was on his way to New York. He was accompanied by his private secre- | tary, Bernice Miller. unions carry out their plans to walk off ships in Hawali out of re- spect to the ILWU. plcket fines, Subject to Jai! or Fines The law provides for injunction action against interference with government dock cperations. Itj also provides penalties of a 5500‘ fine and three months in jail for; interference. | The first job will be to unload six freighters in Honolulu. Then the government will begin loading sugar and pineapple for the main- land. Hawail's legislature was given an amendment yesterday which would tighten its new seizure law. The amendment, introduced by Territor-! ial Attorney General Walter D. Ac-l kerman, jr., prohibits: { (1) Strikes by government em-‘ (2) picketing of gnvern-*. ment dock operations, (3) any con-| certed refusal to transport or han- dle cargo worked by the govern-| ment or perform any service on vessels worked by the government,| (4) any guidance or direction to| persons with the object of inter-| ilering with government operauons.‘ The amendment also make un- lawful any act of giving money to! aid anyone interfering with gov- | ernment dock operations. ! | ASKS FOR DIVORCE Non-support was given as the grounds for divorce in a suit filed in District Court yesterday by Mable Stoltz against Edward A. Steltz. e o o & 35 & 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) (This data is for 24-hour pe- | riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) | In Juneau—Maximum, 54; minimum, 81. At Airport—Maximum, 56; FROM SEATTLE W. B. Toner, Don Davis Frank Brownell of Seattle guests at the Baranof, and are | minimum, 50. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Rain with highest tempera- ture near 55 degrees and Southeasterly winds as high as 25 miles per hour to- day. Showers with the low- est temperature around 50 degrees and decreasing- Southeasterly winds tonight. Clearing Sunday. ePRECIPITATION @ (Pust 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today e In Juneau — —47 inches; since Aug. 1, 421 inches; since July 1, 9.50 inches. i . Fishermen will be ready to leave for fishing grounds tonight after reaching an agreement in labor- industry negotiations at Ketchikan, according to word received here in a telephone communication with W. C. Arnold, managing director ot the Alaska Salmon Industry. Both CIO and AFL fishermen and workers were expected to go on the job, in spite of difficulties arising out of a position taken by FTA-CIO Local No. 7 at Seattle, representing the non-resident can- neries. “We don't anticipate any further difficulties unless made by non- resident men who have teen here for the past few days,” the in- dustry spokesman said. Industry representatives and CIO seiners and canmery worker repre- sentatives were to meet for sessions today. Both CIO groups were to hold membership meetings also. ASI-AFL SIGON CONTRACT =~ The Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc, and AFL seiners have signed a contract for the 1949 fish prices as follows: pinks 37% cents, chums 55, cohoes 70, reds 80 and kings $2.05. . CIO MAKES DEMANDS The CIO has demanded exclusive bargaining rights with the industry for the 1049 season, according to Arnold. The National Labor Rela- tions Board recently handed down a decision declaring the CIO in- eligible to take part in coming can- nery elections due to non-con- formance with signing of non- Communist oaths in time to get on the ballots, , (10 UNION GETS OKAY FROMNLRB FTA Files fi(ommunisl Affidavits But Too Late for Election WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—P— The CIO Fopd, Tobacco and Agri- cultural Workers completed the filing of its non-Communist affi- dayits with the National Labor Re- lations Board yesterday. This makes the union eligible for participatéon in collective bargain- ing elections conducted by the | board But the board denied’the organi- zation a place on the ballot in an election for the Pacific Coast Sal- mon Industry next Tuesday, be- cause, said Board Counsel Robert |N. Denham, it" would be adminis- tratively impossible to get the union’s name printed on the ballot tefore the vote. By filing its affidavits, the FTA will have a chance to get on the ballots for important elections at o R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, . 2 o | Greenstoro, N.C, and the Pled- o|mont Leaf Tobacco Company at o | Winston-Salem, N.C. The dates for o 'those elections have not been set. | wine on the table. * herewith in- vite all deputies who live more modestly than I for a bottle of wine | since July 1,°6.14 inches. in my one-and-a-half-room apart- " ; 4 2 (60000 vse-0ve ment,” he said. “I think two bot- | [NEEES ) i | tles are enough.” E % ’ At Alrport — .27 inches; Week. since Aug. 1, 212 inches; Strachan conceived this unique | humanitarian institution while tlat | fn his back in Johns Hopkins Hos- pital in September, 1940. It took fim five years of unremitting ef- fort to win Congressional approval.| g:’ow firmly established and warm-| supported by leaders of govern- ment, industry and labor, NEPHW | has made it possible for more than | 500,000 handicapped men and wo- ment to obtain gainful work and the inexpressible satisfaction of be- (Continued on Page Four) | GETS 60-DAY SENTENCE l IN NON-SUPPORT CASE William Bowling was sentenced Frank R. Young, represented by to 60 days in jail yesterday after- | Attorney William L. Paul, Jr., today | noon after failing to pay $200 or- brought suit in District Court|dered by the District Court in a \ against Carl W. Heinmiller for pay- | non-support case. Bowling ‘was cit- | ment of a promissory note dated | ed for contempt of court and or- SUMMEr | january 14, 1948, In the amount cxldcred to either pay the money by | | $235.54. - 5 pm. yesterday or go to jail, | SUIT IS BROUGHT OIL COMPANY MEN HERE | AGAINST HEINMILLER Three Union Oil’ Co. representa- | L tives arrived here yesterday for| conferences with Robert Akervick, local oil company representative. Here are W. E. Davenport, district representative of Seattle, P. H. Hansen of Ketchikan and W. E. Thompson of Anchorage. = ANSWERING criticism by “Miss America,” Bebe Shopp, of French Bikini swim briefs, Lena Marty, 24, “Miss Switzerland, 1947,” models one, argues “giri with nice figure ought to show it” accasionally, (International)