The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 17, 1949, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIII, NO. 11,275 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Vaughan, Truma DOCK STRIKE IN ISLANDS UNDER TEST Court Ord—e_rs, Various Maneuvers, Peace Talks Are Reported Today HONOLULU, Aug. 17—P—Long- shoremen and waterfront employers met across a peace table today in| a new effort to end Hawaii's 109- day CIO dock strike. The agreement to resume direct negotiations- developed with dra- Spirif of Cupid matic suddenness during a con- ference Gov. Ingram M. Stainback arranged in his office yesterday. Almost immediately officials of | Hawaii’s seven struck stevedoring firms and leaders of the Interna- | tional Longshoremen’s and Ware- housemen’s Union Legan meeting.| The first session lasted two hours. | Resumption of negotiations, made at the suggestion of Longshore President Harry Bridges, was on| the basis of starting “from scratch.” | The stevedores struck May 1 for a 32 cents hike in their $1.40 hourly pay. | The talks came on top of these| maneuvers in court and on the| Vice-President Alben Barkley and exclusive photograph at Barkley's ure was takem by Robert C. H Nashville Tennesseean. Tennesseean. (M Wirephoto copyright 1949 by Nashville | | \ Mrs. Carleton Hadley pose for an estate near Paducah, Ky. The olt, Jr., staff photographer of the waterfronts of Hawaili and thel mainland. DEVELOPMENTS 1. Circuit Judge Edward A.| Towse ordered a contempt action | “or other appropriate action”| against Bridges for personally | defying an anti-picketing injunc-| tion obtained by the Territory | under its new dock seizure law.| Towse ordered the Territorial At-| terney General to start the action by noon today. | 2. The ILWU asked in Federal | court for-an injunction against the | | dock seizure law which provides‘:" 1 for government stevedoring opera- | | tions. The union seeks also $3,000,000 | i damages from the Territory and | ” the seven struck firms. i B.36 SAYS | ‘GOVERNMENT'S TEST | d 3. The government began its; test to see whether it could unload: ships with its own stevedores. It sent a 40-man gang aboard the | Matson line freighter Hawalian ' Merchant. CIO cooks and stewards} SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 —b?!-i and independent marine firemen ., —~p5 a6 }omper bl ls>un k) walked off in ‘suppon §f the ILWD. investigation by a Congressional With the shipleipower off, no cargo | subcommittee, had the approval of | m:ldrl?:ow:::‘ sailed with theyr | 9¢n: Henry H. (Hap) Arnold, war-} CIC’) Marine Engineers de‘ymglume Air Force commander. | “ | The retired general made that orders of their unlons executive ... iment yesterday in advance of! board not to work behir{l the |y, .,mmittee's irquiries on the E\‘n“ergssl:;llmx:::fr:cgh sf\ili’:iml;rr:?West Coast concerning the long-l Honolulu to the outer islands. me{x::‘ge z‘::beru‘lgmmflz s WA H. "Allen of the sate “nej'nessqrelaucnsmp had nothing to do left for the Gulf Coast With &)y tne selection of the B-36 as cargo of pineapple. | a long range military bomber,” Ar- “:'mr;"“;? w::fi’“;cfid st:\:c dfx:; nold told newsmen yesterday. H today for work on the Hawailan wh: ::l:s::d Tfiw‘ T o0 ) Refiner. The ship is picketed by : He described the B-36 as the ILWU longshoremen who fleW|.pegt of its kind and time” and there from Honolulu. |said its performance had demon- strated it was well chosen. i 'CAPTAINS, CREWS ; OF FOUR SEINERS FINED, LOSE FISH| Caprains ana crews of four pyrse- ! seiners were fined a total of $6,000 for fishing during closed season,; after all pleaded guilty in the Ketchikan Commissioner’s Court BOSS BRIDGES TALKS HONOLULU, Aug. 17—M—Long- shore Boss Harry Bridges declares —_— (Continued on Page Eight) The Washington Merry - Go - Round By ROBERT S. ALLEN, Substi- tuting for Drew Pearson, Who Is On Annual Vacation. Former Alaska Sburdough | - Who Lived Simple Lifels Dead; Leaves Goed Estale |“merely preferred to live simply.” ASHINGTON— Consistency is no jewel in the Truman Adminis- tration. At his most recent press confer- ence, President Truman staunchly defended his old friend and mili- yesterday. Fourteen hundred salmon were | confiscated from the four boats, | according to Dan H., Ralston, Fish |and Wildlife Service Law Enforce- { ment Supervisor. Those fined were Harvey Leask, | | SAN DIEGO, Calif., Aug. 17.—® | —An old man who died in rags mg Seattle and left a $103,097 estate | That was the explanation here | today by a brother of Fred S.| Willson, 75. | Well-to-do James C. Willson, 74, the sole heir, commented at his| San Diego home: ARMSPLAN IS DEBATED BY HOUSE Voting Will Probably Start Tomorrow on Foreign: Aid Program WASHINGTON, Aug. Socialist Ncrman Thomas urged Congress today to take the lead {in one more attempt at world dis- | armament before voting to send military supplies to Furope. Thomas testified before the com- | Airliner Passengers Rescued : - | | e e o— i ¥ | {bined Senate Foreign Relaticns and [Armed Services committees as the | | House prepared to open debate on | | the Administration’s $1,450,000,000 foreign arms bill. House leaders said they are con- fident the measure will be ap- proved, possibly by Friday, without substantial change in its terms. Thomas, many times a candidate for President, told the Senators he thinks any arms shipments un- der the bill should be delayed until a coordinated defense of the North | Atlantic community is worked out. “Such concerted agreement for defense would have a practical and moral backing now lacking, if, pre- ceding any further expenditures in the ghastly arms race, an effort were made by the United States or by the nations in the Atlantic Pact through the United Nations to bring about universal disarmament under effective international con- trols and with international provis- ion for security,” he said. Today's entire session ,in th House was set aside for debate, with voting to start tomorrow. STOPGAP BILL GIVES MONIES, A “For years in Alaska, Fred kept house for himself, just as all of | us did in those days. He wore old | clothes. There were no fashion plates there. | “This sort of life suited him ex- | actly. His wants were few. He did not care for sumptuc ound- | ings, ncr for fancy food The brothers were Alaska sour- doughs in the 1890s and early 1900s | —Fred in the Ft. Wrangell .area | | land James in the vast northern| interior. Both made stakes. | James, now a widower, settled in| San Diego. His brother, a recluse| by nature, never married. James last saw his brother in March, four | months beiore his death. He plans! to leave for Seattle to settle the estate. ! jup to Sept. 15 passed the House by' | lellIES The agencies involved include BELTING DODGERS BROOKLYN, Aug. 17—(®—Snap- | ping a tie with five runs in the eighth inning, the Philadelphia Phillies outlasted Brooklyn, 11-7, today and dropped the Dodgers back into a first-place tie with St. Louis in the National League pen- nant race. The Cardinals could move half a game in front by beat- ing the Reds at Cincinnati tonight. SCORE BY INNINGS GOV. AGENCIES WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—P— Congress gave quick approval to- day to another stopgap bill supply- ing money for government agencies now without funds. The Senate pushed through by voice vote a House measure that would allow government depart- ments and bureaus to continue to meet payrolls and other authorized expenses until September 15, ENVOY ASKS ' RUSS ACTION ONJAMMING U.s Ambass_agorKirk Sees Stalin-Mentions "Voice’ {Interference, Lend-Lease WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—(®--U. Stalin to speed action on Ameri- can protests against jamming of the Voice of America radio broad- casts, Secretary of State Acheson disclosed today. Kirk called on the Soviet leader Monday night. Acheson told a news conference that it actually was a courtesy visit and was limited almost entirely to an exchange of { courtesies between the new Ameri- can Ambassador and the Russian Premier. However, e added, Kk did menticn to Stalin two points cur- It will be rushed to the White . House for expected approval by |Tently at issue in Soviet-American President Truman, relations. These, Acheson said, are The House took the first step to supply funds for government agencies that have been penniless for two days. An emergency resolution giving them temporary spending authority voice vote. Interior Department, and a score 0f lesser ones. Two previous emergency reso- | lutions had kept them going from July 1 until midnight -Monday. i Since then, they have not been legally able to buy anything, con- tract to buy anything, or even meet their payrolls. However, most of them do not have pressing payroll problems and ! have been operating on a routine | basis in the expectancy that their money soon will be forthcoming. | i radio broadcasts and the long {drawn out negotiations on a final settlement for wartime lend-lease. On both points, Acheson said, Kirk simply expressed hope to Stal- |ln that the Foreign Office would consider the two matters so that | the two governments can get on with the business of solving the | the Army, Navy and Air Force, the! problems involved. Veterans Administration, the| Asked what Stalin's reaction was, Atomic Energy Commission, the|Acheson said the matters were referred to the Soviet Foreign Off- ice. The House Appropriations com- mittee yesterday recommended in- creasing the Voice of America funds by $11,500,000. This would be used for the construction and improve- ment of broadcasting stations to fight the jamming, Acheson said. TOWNSEND PLAN IS PERKING UP WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—®P— Rubber raft (arrow) with passengers from four-engined U. western Ireland lies alongside British trawler Stalberg as rescued come aboard. survivors of the crash into Galway, Ireland. This airview was made by navigator of a TWA plane which aided in scarch. (» Wirephoto via radio from Paris. S. Ambassador Kirk asked Permier the Russian jamming of American | Will Re’movér Americans on . China Coast quested - Pope Hits Communism Again ! (By The Associated Press) The United States Embassy in| Canton asked the Chinese Foreign | office tcday to guarantee safe con- lduct through the Nationalist blockade for the liner General Gor- |don. The ship has been assigned | to help evacuate several hundr d! Americans from Communist-mens | ed coastal cities. | Latest reports indicated the| | Communists were closing in or | Nanhsiung (Namyung), 155 miles irrom Canton itself. The National- | ists lost radio contact today with | Foochow, big port to the north op- | S. bound airliner which crashed into sea off Safe Conduct of Ship IsRe- | The trawler carried 49 | TAXI DRIVER FACES CHARGE FOR MURDER Fafally lnjfi;e_d Margaret Mitchell, World Famous Author ATLANTA, Aug. 17.—(@®—Mur-| der charges have been placed against the taxi driver who fatally injured Margaret Mitchell, world- famous author of “Gone With the Wind.” Miss Mitchell, whose novel ot Civil War and reconstruction days outsold everything in print except the Bible, died yesterday in Grady Memorial Hospital. Hugh D. Gravitt, the 28-year-old driver of the car which hit Miss Mitchell, is being held without| bond on a charge of murder. At- lanta Police Chief Herbert Jen- | posite Formosa, but announced they were sending naval units up the Min River to its relief. —_— | In Eutope, Pope Pius XII con-| ;\demned anew what he called the| | “lamentable excesses” of Commun- | ism. He spoke at an audience| granted the new Peruvian minist- | er to the Holy See. | Yugoslay soldiers, at a meeting near the Greek frontier, blamed | the Russian-led Cominform (Com- munist Information Bureau) for| the plight of the apparently crumb- ling Greek Communist guerrilla movement. “Comrade Stalin should be ashamed under his mustache,” Bel- grade newspaper accounts quoted one Yugoslav soldier as saying, in denying Russian charges that Yu- goslavia has abandoned the Greek | guerrilla cause. : Winston Churchill and Brttain',s? kins said the case will go to a grand jury Friday if that body is ready to receive it. Gravitt, listed on police records | for 22 pervious traffic vlolaunns.‘ was offduty and driving his own| car when he struck Miss Mitchell. Until the author’s death, he had| been free in $5,450 bond on charge of suspicion of manslaughter. Under Georgia law, a person can be convicted of murder for taking the life of another while in the commission of an unlawful act. The unlawful act can be a misde- meanor or a felony. RENT DECONTROL ONCE MORE HIT | " BY BUDGET CUT CLEVELAND, 'Aug. 17— (P —A Deputy Prime Minister Herbert|budget cut will force his office to Morrison, longtime foes in the| decontrol cne-third of the areas House of Commons in London, were | Where rent controls are now in| the day's principal speakers at the|force, Federal Housing Expediter new Council of Europe in Stras- | Tighe Woods says. bourg, France. Morrison led off| The lists for decontrol now are| with a speech stressing that full | Leing prepared in Washington and tary aide, Maj. Gen. Harry Vaugh- | captain of the seiner Golden Nurch,% an, under headline fire in the Sen- |and a crew of five; Salvador Perez ate’s “5 percenter” probe. At the|captain of the seiner Mermain, same time the President was do-|and a crew of three; Wilbur Rid- ing that, a member of his cabinet| 1€y, captain of the seiner Lincoln, was cracking down on a subordin-(and a crew of four; and William ate accused of accepting insignifi- Booth, captain of the seiner Linda cant Christmas gifts from business|B. and a crew of four. Each captain was fined $500 and friends. | The Cabinet member is Com-|©ACh crew member $§250. merce Secretary Charles Sawyer.| Five hundred salmon were taken The subordinate is Charles Lund, Chief of the fats and oils branch of the Commerce food section. Lund is accused of accepting a $2 bottle of Cuban cordial and a $150 necktie from two business friends last Christmas. Although Lund has a 14-year- (Continued on Page Four) | from the Golden North, 500 from | the Linda B. and 400 from the Lin- | coln, 1 All boats were found fishing be- season officially opened August 15. | Natural gas pipelines must stand |a pressure of 1,000 pounds xsqusre inch, ! Philadelphia ...120 011 051—11 11 0| Brooklyn 100 001 320— 7 13 1| Donnelly, Rowe 6, Konstanty 7, Meyer 8 and Seminick; Branca,| Banta 2, Palica 8, Minner 8 and Edwards. ANCHORAGE MINISTER JOINS FAMILY FOR HIGHWAY TRIP |poration is taking the unusual step | Meeting his wife and daughter | who arrived here aboard the Aleu- | tian yesterday was the Rev. | Fred Koschmann of the Faith way. Mrs. Koschmann and per | daughter have been visiting in the | their states for about two months, ! British Parents Are Warned Over Television Show (By Associated Press) British Broadcasting Cor- The of asking some of its television audience not to watch a show. Actor Peter Lorre is signed up! for a telecast. But the BBC is| afraid he’ll make so many fright-| fore the Southeast Alaska salmon' Presbyterian church at Anchorage. ening faces that he'll scare the kids He and his family will drive back |too much. So the actor is being| | to Anchorage via the Alaska High-|put on at the end of the show, and parents are advised to send children to bed before Lorre goes into his act. unity of Europe should be a long- will be announced in a week or 10 The Townsend old-age pension plan | ¢ 10 is perking up agning inpeCongress, | range rather than an immediate|days, Woods said. Decontrol wm; Backers are more than half way | 808l | become effective upon the an-| | lin signing up the 218 members | nouncement, he explained. still | the House. They had a pep meet- SIEAMER MOVEME!”S | under rent control and the ceilings iing ye.su;"duy and organized a ;will be lifted in one-third of these, | signatures. | sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. | '“I do not think any commumuesi 3 Prince George scheduled to sail|over 100,000 will be affected,” Woods | | : necessary to force a vote on it in| About 1,000 counties are | drive to round up the remaining 93| Princess Katiieen scheduled to|Woods said. ! o }aald. “The cuts will be country-| | from Vancouver Friday. NICKEL RETURNS Dade Nickel, coach in the Ju- neau High School, returned terday akoard the Aleutian from a vacation spent traveling In Tllinois, coaching at Doane College, Crete {taking a concentrated course, | Baranof scheduled to sail from|wide, not concentrated in any one yes- | from Vancouver the |rive -8 a.m. Friday, western states. He spent two weeksiuue hour later at 9 o'clock. | Seattle Saturday. particular section.” Princess Norah scheduled to sail | Saturday. | Princess Louise scheduled to ar-| sailing south| The fish packing boat Command- | er owned by Kayler-Dahl of Peters- | COMMANDER IN PORT Aleutian scheduled southbound | burg, was in port this morning late Sunday night or Monday morn- i enrcute to Petersburg with sup- ing plies. IS AFTER n’s Aide, Denounced Today McCARTY | 1 MARAGON | | Senator. &;ks_ Indictment of Alleped Five. Per- centex for-Perjury WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—®— Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) is de- manding that John Maragon, a key figure in the Senate five percenter inquiry, be indicted for perjury. McCarthy made his demand after Milton R. Polland, a Milwaukee insurance man, swore that he paid Maragon $1,000 for trying to get a sugar rationing suspension order !| lifted in 1946. Polland testified before a Senate Investigations subcommittee. He said he got in touch with Maragon after meeting him at a party given by a Milwaukee brewery for Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, President Truman’s Army dide, Maragon is former Kansas City bootblack who once had a pass to the White House. Just Lefore Polland took the wit- ness chair, testimony which Mara~- gon gave under oath when he ap- peared before the Senate probers July 28 was read into the record by Assistant Committee Counsel Francis D. Flanagan. MARAGON MAKI DENIAL Maragon flatly denied in the testimony that he ever was paid any money by anyone for nego- tiating business with the govern- ment. After Polland, in reply to a crbss fire of questions, acknowledged that he “did pay’ Maragon $1,000, McCarthy said: “I think we should ask the Jus- tice Department to take this matter over and ask that an indictment for perjury be returned against Maragon."” A former Agriculture Department employee testified Maj. Gen. Vaughan was “a little rough” on him in an effort to get a molasses permit for the New Jersey firm in 1946. ‘The former Agriculture Depart- ment worker, Herbert C. Hathorn, said he had a telephone conver- sation late In 1946 with Vaughan, who is President Truman's mili- tary aide. Hathorn said he then was handling allocation of scarce molasses and edible. syrups for the department, He sald Vaughan told him at one point during the conversation that “we Democrats have to stick to- gether.” Hathorn said Vaughan later “was a little rough” when Hathorn told him he could “not conscientiously” grant the permit Vaughan wanted for the firm. VAUGHAN DENOUNCED WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—#— Senator Mundt (R-SD) today de- nounced Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan as a “finagling bargainer” who applied “pressure, intimidation, bluff and bluster” in an attempt’ to get a government worker to violate the law. i Mundt's criticism ofs Vaughan, President Truman’s military aide, (Continued on Page Eight) s oy NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska “‘Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 94%, Anaconda 29%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvest- er 26%, Xennecott 48%, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 15, U. 8. Steel 23, Pound $4.03. Sales today were 1,410,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 18159, rails 47.30, util- ities 36.75. Prices Are Upped A recovery movement rolled through the stock market today and pushed prices up dlose to the peak of the mid-summer rally. Gains were In fractions to around 2 points with some issues going a little higher. Most of the leaders kept to their best quotation of the day at the close. The volume spurted to around 1,300,000 shares for the entire day when heavy bloc} buying of Com- monwealth and Southern started late in the session. One block of 100,000 shares was traded at 5, up ' to equal the year's high, and | bumerous other blocks of 5,000 to 80,000 shares were traded rapid= ly at the same price, z