The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 29, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,311 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1949 Air Force Strengthenin WALKOUT OF STEEL MEN 1S STARTING Two Major Producers Break Off Negotiations -Bargaining Stopped PITT:BURGH, Sept. 20—P—CIO United Steelworkers started walk- ing out today in advance of the Friday midnight strike deadline as two major producers broke off ne- gotiations and the industry began to shut down. The Crucible Steel Company just outside Pittsburgh said picket lines had been established at its gates and have resulted in a full-fledged strike, shutting down the entire Midland (Pa.) operation involving about 7,000 employees. A copy statement added: “Arrangements have been con- cluded with the union for the orderly shutting down of the open hearth facilities and the coke ovens. No reports have leen re- ceived of any picket lines or work | stoppages at other plants of the company in Pittsburgh, Syracuse, N.Y., and Harrison, N.J.” Meantime, CIO United Steel- workers announced that Portsmouth Steel Corporation had agreed to a 10-cent hourly non-contributory pension and insurance program. The agreement breaks the steel industry’s united front against bearing all the costs of insurance and pension plan. The agreement conforms with the recommendation of the steel in- dustry’s fact finding board. Bethlehem and Republic, the na- tion's second and third largest pro- ducers, respectively, stopped bar- gaining. But industry leader. United States Steel and Union President Philip Murray arranged another afternoon session. Big Steel-Murray talks which usually chart industry’s course apparently are deadlocked with neither side budging. Steel plants across the country meantime put into effect plans for an orderly shutdown. Banking of furnaces is under way. It takes 24 to 48 hours for an orderly halt in steel operations. EDYTHE WALKER I CALLED SOUTH BY DEATH OF BROTHER Mrs. Edythe Walker, Home Democration Agent, has been call- ed South by the death of a broth- er at the family home near Port- land, Ore., and expects to be away from Juneau about 10 days. This will necessitate cancelling| meetings of classes which are | scheduled for Friday, Monday and Tuesday, as well as other unsche- duled classes. Notice will be given upon her return when classes will be resumed. The Washington Merry - Go- Round| . By DREW PEARSON (Copyrignt, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON—The battle over old-age pensions in the steel m<’ dustry is being watched by several | million people not only in other| industries but especially in south- ern California and Florida, where Dr. Townsend’s old-age pension movement and the ham-and-eggers have been so strong. Regardless of how the steel dis- pute comes out, more and more de- mands for old-age pensions will follow. One little-realized fact in the steel dispute is that, during the| President’s fact - finding board hearings, CIO chief Phil Murray appealed to the steel industry to settle the old-age pension issue by supporting the social security bill now before Congress. He said: “Look here, you fellows, there's a bill before Congress right now calling for increased old-age pen- sions for everyone. Will you join me in supporting it?” Murray’s remark was addressed to Enders Voorhees and John Ste- phens, executives of U. S. Steel; to C. M. White of Republic Steel, A. B. Homer of Bethlehem, Ben (Continued on Page Four) Swish! Off It Goes; Hereltls NEW YORK, Sept. 20—/—A plane that outruns the sun was mentioned last night in an address by Air Force Secretary W. Stuart Symington. “This same plane, if it had the range,” he said, “would arrive in San Francisco before it left New York That will give worry to the time table experts.” There is a three-hour differential cetween New York and the West Coast. Symington spoke at a dinner of the National Security Industrial Association. The group includes major industrial suppliers of the armed forces, ! Eymington did not specify what kind of plane he was referring to, but he prefaced his reference to it with this remark: “Man has now flown and lived at speeds hundreds of miles an hour faster than the speed of sound— which is 760 miles an hour at sea level.” MODERN AIRPORT AT FAIRBANKS 1S MADE FROM SWAMP LAND FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 29— (M—A modern - Fairbanks airport is nearing completion on what was swamp land five months ago. The big airport, with a 6,000-toot asphalt topping of the runways next spring. The coarse base materials are now being compacted on the land- ing areas. For five months the ponderous earth-moving equipment of Mor- rison-Knudsen Company has been moving earth and gravel from high spots and “borrow pits" to make fills for leveling of the airport area. Parts of the project could not ke worked until August, when the ground dried out from the Chena river’s spring overflow. Approximately 1,500,000 cubic yards of earth have been moved. The Civil Aeronautics Administra- tion started the project with a $4,600,000 appropriation. The M-K| Company proceeded under a $2,- 800,000 contract, awarded in April. NEW GAME BIRDS, MAYBE FOR ALASKA, T0 BE INTRODUCED By VERN HAUGLAND WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—#— Two new game birds from Scan- dinavia are to be introduced to American hunting areas, a Fish and Wildlife Service official said today. They thrive in a climate similar to that of the Northern States. They are hardy. They are good to eat. 4 And, said Dr. Dardiner Bump— the man who rounded them up— they are going to make very sporty shooting. They are the European Black Grouse and the Capercallie. The grouse is about what a hun- ter would expect the grouse to be, only bigger. And the capercallie? “It looks as big as a turkey but has a chunkier build,” Bump told a reporter. Bump returned this week from a four-month field study of game species in Sweden, Finland, Nor- way, Denmark and Scotland. He sent back from Sweden more than 50 grouse and capercallie. “If we'get several hundred birds, we may try them out in Maine, in Idaho, Washington and Western Montana, and even in Alaska,” he said. LIBRARY AGAIN OPEN ON SAT. AFTERNOONS The Juneau Public Library will again be open Saturday afternoons | from 1 to 5, during the winter months, Librarian Edna Lomen has announced. The date for starting the Child- rens’ Story Hour will be announced later. YUGOSLAYVS, RUSSIANS - NOW SPLIT E Friendship Treaty Is Scrap- ped-Accusations Are Made Freely LONDON, Sept, 29.—(P— Soviet Russia scrapped her friendship treaty with Yugoslavia today, de- claring that Premier Marshal Tito's regime has lined up with “foreign imperialist circles.” The decision ending the alliance Isigned in 1945 was disclosed in a Soviet note to Yugoslavia. It was broadcast by Moscow radio. The note declaréd the Budapest treason trial of former Hungarian foreign minister Laszlo Rajk, sen- tenced to death Saturday, disclosed that Yugoslavia had been carrying on hostile activity against the So- viet Union. Rajk was accused specifically of plotting with Yugoslav and Amer- ican agents to overthrow the Mos- | cow-backed Communist government in Hungary. Marshal Tito denoun- ced the trial as a Russian pro- paganda move aimed at weakening his Yugoslav regime. The Russian action was the sharpest diplomatic slap at Yugo- slavia since the Moscow-led Com- inform (Communist International Information Bureau) expelled the Yugoslavs in June, 1948. Since that time Russia and her Eastern European satellites have clamped an economic boycott on ‘Yugoslavia. Marshal Tito or Tuesday accused Russia of rattling the saber and digging “trenches in the satellite countries along the Yugoslav bord- er in an attempt to intimidate his country. There was immediate speculation here that other Communist nations jmay follow Russia’s lead and sever formal ties with the Yugoslavs. WALTERS RELEASED AS REDS' MANAGER CINCINNATI, Sept. 20—/ — | Bucky Walters was released today as manager of the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds’ General Manager, Warren Giles, said Walters' succes- sor has not been selected. Walters, for years a star Cincinnati hurler, became manager on August 6, 1948. Giles said Walters will remain with the Cincinnati organization but did not say what sort of job he will get. PETERSBURG BOY " LOSES His LIF IN DOCK PLUNGE PETERSBURG, Alaska, Sept. 29 —(M—A fall from the Petersburg dock on his bicycle cost 12-year-old Carl Hanson his life here. ‘The boy lost his talance while riding on the pier. His uncle, John Hanson, recovered the body ' two and a half hours later. He was the son of Mr. and Mr: Dick Hanson of Petersburg. Mrs. Hanson is in Honolulu. A younger brother saw the acci- dent and called for help. He said Carl swam to a piling but lost his hold and sank. SCHOOLBOY ROWE IS GIVEN RELEASE BY PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20—M— Schoolboy Rowe, veteran right- handed pitcher, today was given his unconditional release by the Philadelphia Phillies. Rowe joined the Phils in 1943 after starring with the Detroit Tigers and serving part of one-sea- son with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He spent 1944 and 1945 in the Navy and returned to the Phils the fol- lowing year. y FROM SEATTLE K. W. Oakoon of Seattle registered at the Baranof, VIOLENCEIS FLARING IN COAL STRIKE Tipple Wrecked by Dyna- mite Blast - Gunfire Re- ported—Emergency, Va. | (By the Associated Press) A dynamite blast rocked & coal company’s -tipple today in a: fresh outbreak of violence in the nation's coal fields. John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers were to resume negotis tions today with two big of the coal industry amid a stormy background of blasting, gunfire and stone hurling. The mine workers’ wrath non-union men working the pite in defiance of the union brought this fast-breaking chain of events: 1. A blast at a tipple of the Junedale Ccal Company at Grass Flat, Pa., ripped off the roof, tore off part of one side and damaged generators and motors in the build~ ing. Gunfire % 2. A gunfire flareup at Jasper; Ala., reportedly resulted in the death of one miner and the serious wounding of another. The sheriff there said he could not confirm the death, however. 3. Governor William M. Tuck declared a state of emergency in Virginia, 4. The Kanawha County, West Va., schcol board ordered its school buses off the highways in fear of battling between pickets and nons union workers. . No Strike, No? p It was with this background that Lewis’ union was to confer with leaders of the Southern Coal Opera- tors and of the Northern and Western men. The walkout of 480,000 miners entered its 11th day today. Lewis, who wasn't expected to attend either meeting, said it was a spon- taneous demonstration ty the union men, that it was not a strike. Coal stocks were dwindling rapidly. Thousands of men had been laid off because of the coal stoppage. Probe Dynamite Blast The Grass Flat episode came this morning. State police, already bul- warked by extra details, said they were investigating the dynamite blast, but had made no arrests. Robely M. Smith, President of the company which employes 45 {men, said it'll take a week before he can resume operations. The tipple is valued at $10,000. Smith ordered his strip mining operation shut down yesterday |after, he said, UMW pickets at- tacked his non-union truckers with stones. The non-union men were hauling coal from mine pits to the tipple where coal 'is cleaned, crushed and loadéd onto railroad i cars. Some 1,400 non-union miners were at work in Pennsylvania pits. e ® o o © @ & 0 o " ° WEATHER REPORT . (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) (This data s for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, 62; minimum, 41. At Airport—Maximum, minimum, 35. 59; FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cléudy with inter- mittent light rain tonight and Friday. Lowest temper- ature tonight near 45 de- grees. Highest -PFriday near 55 degrees. @ PRECIPITATIONG® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today ® City of Juneau — Missing; ® since Sept. 1, 10.10 inches; @ since July 1, 21.11 inches. . At the Airport—.04 inches; since Sept. 1, 6.96 inches; ® since July 1, 1445 inches. L4 . ® 0 0 0 v 6 s 0 0 00 STEAMER MOVEMF™TS Princess Louise scheduled to sall from Vancouver 8 tonight. Baranof scheduled to sail from | Seattle Saturday. | Aleutian from the westward sche- "duled southbound early Monday. 000000000 cc®000000c0 00 | waterfront or MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 'BANDITRY'CHARGED AGAINST UNION IN OREGON PICKETING Governor MacKay Takes Firm Stand-State Po- lice Are on Patrol THE DALLES, Ore, Sept. 29— —State police patrolled the water- front of this inland Columbia river city today to curb what the Gov- ernor called “banditry” by CIO longshoremen. Union strife stemming from the four-month old Hawailan strike ‘lared here yesterday when steve- dores mobbed non-union dock work- ers and sent two AFL truck drivers to a hospital. They halted the un- loading of a barge of pineapple .erthed here Saturday. “We won't tolerate that in Ore- Zon,” said Governor Douglas Mc- Kay. “Harry Bridges is not running the state of Oregon.” ‘The Governor’s statement came after the Wasco county (The Dalles) circuit court issued an order restraining the ILWU from picket- ing and any interference on the highways in the area, McKay said he had ordered state officers to. the waterfront after local authorities declared the situ- ation was beyond their control. “It they need more help, we have plenty of tough boys to send there,” Mc- Kay concluded. State CIO Secretary George Brown left Vancouver, B.C, last night to take a hand in the Ore- zon situation. About 200 CIO longshore pickets Portland stormed the muni- ipal owned dock here late yes- terday after two trucks were loaded and as two others pulled onto the terminal ramp. In a few minutes, they brushed aside city police and deputized citizens, drag- zed two drivers from the loaded trucks, and smashed windshields and motors. Salmon Pack Is Boosted by 30,09(_) (ases SEATTLE, Sept. 29—(M—South- east Alaska canneries added 30,000 more cases to their pack in the week ended Sept. 24. The Fish and Wildlife Service report today listed the Southeast total on that date, after closure of: the big packing season, at 2,475,990 cases. It compared with 1,245565 ;ases on the same date a year ago. In the same week, 2,300 cases were added in the Central Alaska area. The Sept. 24 total for all of Alaska was 4,330,552 cases. It com- pared with a final season’s tctal of only 3,974,540 last year. §S ASA LOTHROP TO BE WORKED BY AFL IN TACOMA TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 29—(P— STRIKE OF FORD MEN Agreement Reg;hed with History Making Pension Plan Infroduced DETROIT, Sept. 29— (®— The Ford Motor Co. and’the CIO United Auto Workers reached agreement early today on a history-making pension plan to be financed by the company. It will pay $100 monthly—includ- ing Social Security—to Ford work- ers over 65. The agreement, based on a ten- cent an hour package recently recommended by a Presidential fact-finding board in the steel in- dustry, averted a strike of 115,000 Ferd production workers. The marathon negotiations ran nearly 35 hours without recess and et an endurance record for the auto industry. As late as midnight, when the old contract expired, UAW | President Walter P. Reuther said there was still a 50-50 chance walk- out might be called. The new pact runs two and a half years, giving hope of long ceace in the industry. Effective Oct. 1, providing it is ratified by rank and file Ford workers, the new contract is unique in the auto industry's ristory.» CHINANATLS. BLOCKADING U, 5. SHIPS t WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—P— The State Department announced today that three American mer- chant ships are being detained near Shanghai by Chinese Nationalist 5lockade forces. The ships are the Flying Trader, enroute from Hong Kong to Shang- hai and the Flying Independent and the Flying Clipper outbound from Shanghai, All are operated by the Isbrandtsen Co. New York. The United States does not re- cognize legality of the blockade de- clared by the Nationalists tor Zhanghai and other China port cities, The State Department said it has asked for full reports from American authorities in Shanghai before deciding on “an appropriate course of action.” The report of the incident came from the American Consulate Gen- eral at Shanghai. It said the three ships were intercepted by Chinese naval craft off the mouth of the Yangtze river and ‘“requested” to anchor. Pay Raises for Top Governmenf Men Is Slashed by Senafe (By Associated Press) The U. S. Senate may give some top government officials pay raises but less than President Tru- The 8IS. Asa Lothrop, former East[' ° * Coast vessel enroute here to enter the Alaskan trade, will be worked ty A.FL. Longshoremen, a union spokesman said today. Three C.1.O. unions and thé In- dependent Firemen’s union an- nounced Wednesday they would picket the AF.L.-manned ship when she docks in Tacpma this weekend. The union spokesman, who re- quested that his name not be used, said the local longshoremen intend to work the vessel. “I'm not sure what we will do if they put up a picket line,” he said. Last year, local longshoremen roughed up C.LO. pickets on Ta- coma docks during the coastwide longshore strike and worked a number of vessels which C.LO. longshoremen said were “diverted cargo.” The Lothrop, owned by the newly formed Alaska Ship Lines, Inc., is scheduled to dock at Shaffer No. 1 dock “some time during the weekend.” man suggested. The House went along with the President and hiked the pay of cabinet officers from ¢£15000 to $25,000. A ‘Senate amendment cut the new figure to $22,500. The House also has approved pay rafses for U.8. Civil Service work- ers . .. 95 million dollars worth per year . .. enough to give the average year. That bill now is before the Senate. KETCHIKAN ELECTIONS KETCHIKAN— Voters have a busy month ahead with election of city officials and school board vot- ing on the 4th and a special elec- tion October 24 to determine if the city should sell lots to L. 8. Fer- ris for a 100-unit apartment build- ing, Bertha McKay, city clerk said today. | Already 12 absentee ballots have been given out for the city elec- tion, . IS AVERTED civil servant 113 dollars more per| Bombs Bein IMPORTANT CONVICTION IS UPHELD SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20—(P— ‘The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld yesterday a conviction in Los An- geles against Local 36 of the In- ternational Fisherman and Allied Workers of America, and 14 indi- viduals, for conspiring to restrain rade—a violation of the anti-trust act. In the Los Angeles district court jury trial in 1946, the union was fined $3,000, five of the defendants from $2,000 to $1,500, and the re- naining defendants $10 each. * The decision, signed by Federal Judge Homer T. Bone and James Alger Fee, upheld the conviction stating: “The proof tended to show a con- cert by the appellants (from the conviction) to compel by force uni- orm action iy dealers and fisher- men to establish a stabilized arbi- rary price for fresh fish in the area. “It also was proved as charged that incidental services such as ice were withheld by pressure from unfair' boats and non-cooperating Jealers.” o o, U.N. WILL LOOK INTO CHINA WAR By MAX HARRELSON LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 20.—P— The United Nations Assembly today overrode Soviet objections and de- cided to give a full airing to Na- ionalist China’s charges that Rus- sla is threatening peace by aiding Mao Tze-tung's Chinese Commun- ists. The vote was 45 to 6 for placing the Chinese complaint on the Assembly’s calendar. Pive countries abstained. The issue now goes to the Assembly’s 59-nation politi- cal committee for detailed debate. ‘ Yugoslavia joined the Soviet bloc in opposing U. N. intervention in the Chinese problem. The Yugo- slavs, along with the Russians, con- tended the China wai is an in- ternal matter and did not come within the province of the U. N. U. 8. Delegate Warren R. Aus- tin supported China's request for a full hearing of her charges. Outlook Black for China Nafionalists (By The Associated Press) In China, things are blacker than ever for the Nationalists. Radio silence from the province of Sin- kiang indicate that this giant pro- vince—the largest in China—may have gone over to the Reds. This province, in the northwest of China borders on Russia. In the south, near Canton, the Nationalists are claiming local suc- cesses against the Communist arm- les which are attempting to drive on the refugee Nationalist capital. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau { mine stock today is 3%, American {Can 96%, Anaconda 26%, Curtiss- | Wright 7%, International Harvest- er 27, Kennecott 46%, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 13%, U. 8. Steel 23%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,380,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: | industrials 182.43; rails 48.07, util- |ities 37.95. ANCHORAGE VISITORS Don and A. W. Townsend of Anchorage are stepping at the Baranof Hotel, PRICE TEN CENTH Defenses of Alaska Long-Range B-36 Bombers, Capable of Delivering Afom g BasedLMasla FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 29.. —(M—The Star-Telegram said fo- day long-range “B-36 bombers ‘be- gan moving to Alaskan bases’ last week at the same time President Truman announced an atomic ex- plosion in Russia. The newspaper said the huge bombers were manned by crews trained to deliver the atomic bomb. The 8th, Air Force, whose 87th Bombardment Wing is the only wing in the Air Force operating B-36s, is located at Carswell Air Force Base here. Eighth Air Force headquarters described the B-36 flights as “routine training missions.” p However, the Star-Telegram said it learned one of the planes which flew to Alaska carried Brig: Gen. John Willilam P. Fisher, Carswell base commander and commander of the 7th Bombardment Wing. Maj. Gen. Roger Ramey, the 8th’s commander and one of the top ex- perts in the Air Force on atomic warfare, was scheduled to return to his headquarters here today af- ter more than a week of conferen- ces in Washington. Col. Cecil Combs, Ramey’s dep- uty commander, left Carswell Tues- day on one of the B-36 flights to Join Montgomery and Fisher at Eielson Air Base near Fairbanks. Combs was pccompanied by Maf. ., Gen. Earl Barnes, member of Sec- ‘retary -of Defénse Johnson's spec- fal weapons evaluation board, Previous test flights from Cars- well ‘to Alaskan bases were made to test far north and to survey facilities available there for crewmien and for servicing the planes. . One of these flights carried Ramey and some of jhis top staff officers to Elmendorf Air Base at Anchorage, headquarterst of the Alaskan Air Command. Others went directly to Fairbanks and ranged from the Elelson base there over the Afctic Ocean and .polar cap. Because special equipment is re- quired for servicing B-36s, view of their great size, deployment of the sky giants to Alaska has been delayed for some months until such equipment could be made avail- able in Alaska, the Star-Telegram said. Modification of the sky giants for arctic duty—dncluding more powerful piston engines and twin- Jets—has been underway for sev~ eral months here. “ROUTINE TRAINING” WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—(P— The Air Force disclosed today that several of its glant B-36 bombers —with crews trained {n atom bomb- ing technique—have gone to Alaska for “routine training.” A high officer sald under ques- tioning that it was only “co- incidence” that the bombers took off from their Fort Worth, Texas, base at about the time President Truman disclosed that Russia has pachieved an atomic explosion. The big planes went to this country’s most northern outpost, which Is separated by narrow wat- er from Russia. The Air Force call- ed it routine training. “We had planned this particular training last winter, but didn't get around to it,” the Air Force officer sald. ' Crews are trained in atomic bomb warfare. He sald he was not certain as to the number but he believed four B-36's went to Alaska on this trip. Senalor Worrying Over Atom Bombs (By Associated Press) In Springfield, Vermont, Repub=- lican US. Senator Ralph Flanders has asked a grim question ... What if an atom bomb hit Washington, and the government were knocked out? Who would rule the nation? Flanders says the Governors of the 48 states should be ready to step in at once, And the legislator says he may carry the matter to Congress in a resolution. SEATTLE GUESTS O. Fransway and R. C. Grimstad of Seattle are stopping at the ' Baranof Hotel, ‘