The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 30, 1949, Page 1

VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,312 Big Industry Tie Acheson and Bevin Joke BRITISH COLUMBIA CABINET DISCUSSES ALASKA RAILROAD Pemier Jolm—son Asked fo Gof!o Washington or Conferen VICTORIA, B@., NM 30—A— The British Columbia cabinet will discuss & request that Pre- mer Johnson go to Wash- ington, D.C., 4o talk over Tailwny connections between Alaska and United States. The Premier, in a wire from U.S. Senator Warren G. Magnuson, was invited to Washington next week. Premier Johnson was guarded in his comment. He declined to say whether he would make the trip. Nor did he confirm that the tele- gram has been discussed at a special meeting of the cabinet. Previously, the Premier made it clear he would welcome discussion which was soundly ltased, free from promotional aspects and did not involve large grants of BC. resources. The Premier said he was leaving for Ottawa at the week-end and intimated he might have more to| say on Senator Magnuson's invi- tations after the ecabinet meeting today. The Pacific Great Eastern Rail- way has frequently been mentioned as a southern link in a rail line Jolning the U.S. Pacific Northwest | with Fairbanks. The railway now extends from Squamish, 347 miles to Quesnel and is being pushed 83 miles from Quesnel “to Prince George. Provincial plans call for the line to be extended ultimately from Prince George into the Peace river country. ‘The American House of Repre- sentatives has already passed a bill authorizing the President to order a survey of a railroad to Alaska as a defense move, The President is also empowered to negotiate with the Federal gov- ernment for a link between Prince George and Alaska. NORTHWIND BACK IN SEATTLE AFTER TRIP T0 ARCTIC| SEATTLE, Sept. 30—(®— The/ sturdy veteran of polar regions, the Coast Guard Cutter Northwind, has arrived back in home port after a five months medical mission in northern Alaska. The vessel visited numerous iso- lated villages in the Aleutian Is- lands and Bristol Bay and Bering Sea settlements. A physician and dentist aboard gave medical aid to the natives. The Northwind was under the command of Capt. E. K. Rhodes. FROM LOS ANGELES J. D. Britton of Los Angeles is stopping 'at the Baranof Hotel. The Washmgtonw Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON ICopyrignt, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — One factor| which has made the steel dispute 50 difficult is that both sides’ hands | have been semi-tied by other for- ces. Tier of Phil Murray’s Hands Is— | John L. Lewis. Since Lewis, an old | rival and bitter enemy of Murray, got a welfare fund from the coal operators under. which the miners pay nothing, Murray cannot require his union to contribute to pensions | without, losing -part of his member- | ship. Tiers of U. S. Steel's Hands Are —Its banks and directors. The men | who control the big steel compmn-\l ies, particularly U. 8. Steel, are J. P. Morgan together with a group | of industrialists and insurance men | who do not want a pension pntt,em\ set for their industries. If the steel industry pays pensions without any contribution from labor, it will set| a standard for almost every other industry in the country. * WHO RUNS U. §. STEEL? For instance, directors of U. S. Steel include: Walter Gifford—Chairman of the s (Continued on Page Pour) A smiling Dean Acheson (left), U. 8. Secretary of State, and British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, toast each other at dinner given by the City of New York in honor of United Nations General Assembly. eral Assembly was held at Flushing Meadows, New York, September 20. & WIreplmm. 5 -..;’«. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’ 1LY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER' 30, 1949 the president and delegates to the The opening session of the Gen- | CITY ELECTION AT FAIRBANKS 10 BE HOT ON: Five Candidates Are Up for“Hflld Hfld | on MayorFleven-Seek Council Seats FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 30— (M—Five candidates for mayor were added in the final 24-hour rush for | filing preparatory to the city’s Oct 4 election. In addition, residents will ballot on 11 candidates seeking three va- cant city council seats, three aspir- ants for one school board post, and two persons seeking a place on the | utilities commission. The mayorally seekers are Harold Gough, former Anchorage police chief now employed at the Univer- | sity of Alaska; Mrs. Mildred Meiers Hansen, secretary to attorney War- ren A. Taylor, who is also a candi- date; Maurice T. Johnson, attor- ney; and Earle Hausemann, grocer. Councilman candidates are Philip Anderson, department store propri- etor; Henri Dale, sports store op- erator; Lazar Dworkin, tax con- sultant; Maurice Burroughs, drug- | gist; John L. Hedde, accountant: Barney Holtrop, accountant; Milary Kling, president, Central® Labor Council; George Jarris, carpenter; Thomas Murton, ice cream com- pany operator; and C. H. Van Scoy, bar owner, Dawson Cocper, nardware store operator, and Vincent T. Thierman, city electric service employee, are { candidates for the utilities board. Seeking school board posts are Mrs. Nick Eidem, past president of the Fairbanks Woman's Cllub; Mrs. Myra Rank, past president Alaska Department of American Legion and president of the Fairbanks Health . Council; Forbes Baker, maintenance superintendent for the aeronautics association and an Alaska resident for 45 years. Voters also will decide whether they wish daylight saving ‘time and {allot on a $400,000 general obli- igation bond issue to augment $1,- 800,000 voted last year for con- | struction of a new high school. SENATE PASSES PAY RAISE FOR POSTAL WORKERS WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—®- ~ ILeft-Wingers Demand Attlee LONDON, Sept. 30.—P—A grcupu of left-wing Laborites called t,od.ay for a general election soon on the‘ heels of yesterday’s solid vote of| contidence for the gcvemmems\ crisis policy in Parliament. Even as the House of Commom‘ registered a smashing 342-5 approv- | al of the Attlee regime's faction cutting the value of the pound} stering, a leading Labor organ urg-, ed the government to call an elec- | tion for November, instead of serv- ing the full five-year term which | expires next July. It was the first open demand from an important segment of the| Labor party for a “snap” election. Left-wingers within the party appeared to be pressing for an elec- tion now on the grounds that de- | lay might cost them votes if a rise in living costs develops as a result | of devaluation. | e o 0 e 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau— Maximum, 51; ‘minimum, 46. At Airport—Maximum, 51; minimum, 46. FORECAST (Juneaw and Vicinity) Cloudy, intermittent rain tonight and Saturday. Little change in temperature. Low tonight 48, high Saturday 55 degrees, PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ City of Juneau—.13 inches; @ since Sept. 1, 10.26 jnches; since July 1, 2127 inches. At the Airport—.45 inches; since Sept. 1, 741 inches; since July 1, 149 inches. s e v e MT. EDGECUMBE ARRIVAL Clara Schubert of Mt. Edgecumbe is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. SEATTLE VISITOR Lt. D. A. Swafford of Seattle is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. . | The Senate today passed by voice vote a bill calling for a $100-a-year pay increase for almost all of the 500,000 postal employees. The measure—estimated to cost $61,000,000 a year—goes now to the House. Earlier this week, the House approved'a bill authorizing a postal pay hike of $180,000,000 a year. The Senate bill would give al- most all regular employees a flat $100 a year in addition to their annual salaries. FROM SEATTLE L. W. Delworth of Seattle registered at the Baranof Hotel. is FROM NAKNEK Rusty Fannon, William Lindgren, and J. T. Herre of Naknek are guests at the Baranof Hotel. IOWA GUESTS Mr. and Mrs. Leo J, Curnin of Pdcahontas, Towa, are’ guests at the ! Baranof Hotel. Up Now Threatened Tonight Mentioned in Testimony 102,000 Are Ordered Back, Coal Mining Lewis Sen&fi)ui Instruc- fions fo.Men to End Wal- | Days Before Arriving out in Cerfain Areas. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va., Sept. 30—(P—John L. Lewis to= day ordered Pennsylvania's 80,000 hard coal miners and 22,000 coal diggers west of the Mississippi to go Lack to work Monday. As far as these men are con- cerned it ends a walkout started Sept. 19. ‘The move was announced in & { telegram from Lewis to Presidents. of the affected United Mine Work- ers' districts. \ The telegram said: “The suspension of mining in the western and anthracite areas is not now vital to the pending wage MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTH TOKYO ROSE CONVICTED OF TREASON Jury Dellberates Four| at Verdict of Guilty SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30.—® | —Stony faced, Iva Toguri D'Aquino heard herself convicted of treason | last night—for telling American troops their ships had been sunk in Leyte Gulf and they were “or- phans of .the Pacific.” A somewhat reluctant Federal Court jury of six men and six wo- | men brought in the verdict after four days’, deliberation. A surpris- ed “Oh!” of apparent disappoint- ment, 'swept the courtroom. Iva—Los Angeles born and edu- cated, remained as stoic as she had during the 12-week trial, Head | howed, she said nothingfend there | negotiations.” It sald the action was taken “to minimize loss to all parties.” % BACK TO WORK IN WASH. SEATTLE, Sept. 30—®—John L. Lewis' return-to-work order will afféct about 1,350 Washington state coal miners who have been idle at 30 mines since Septemier 19. Richard Francis, secretary of the state United Mine Workers' district, sald local unions would be notitied as soon as the telegram ordering resumption of work is received from Lewis’ headquarters. 'FLYING BOXCAR' CRASHES McCLEARY, Wash., Sept. 30—(® —An Air Force C-82 “Flying Box- car” carried three airmen to death in a crash that set a hillside for- est afire east of here last night. ‘The broken and burned bodies of the three victims were recovered in the wreckage-strewn area this | morning. They were takem to Mc- Chord Field, the base from which the plane flew on its ill-fated mis- sion yesterday. The big plane crashed into a ridge | near the juncture of Grays Harbor, Mason and Thurston counties. LAST FLIGHT OF AIRLIFTIS SET TONIGHT RHINE - MAIN AIRBASE, Ger- many, Sept. 30—M—This big Ameri- can airtase is as quiet today as a top sergeant with mumps, It is the last day of the once- great Allied airlift to blockaded Berlin. Tonight a ‘big C-54 loaded with coal will fly the final flight east in what once was an endless skyway of planes bridging the Rus- sian blockade. Nobody's sad around here that the lift is ending. Most of them have had enough of long hours, hazardous flights and tedious duty. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—M—Clos-| ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 97, Anaconda. 26%, Curtiss- Wright 7%, International Harvest- er 27%, Kennecott 46, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 132, U. S. Steel 23%, Pound $2.80 3/16. Sales today were 1,100,000 Averages today are as follows: industrials 182,51, rails 47.89, util- ities 37.86. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive Sunday afternoon or evening. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. Aleutian from the westward sche- "duled southbound early Monday. ‘| An appeal is planned. | { the indictment. were no tears. Later she told her attcrney “I can't understand it.” | October 6 was set for sentencing. The minimum sentence would be five years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine; the maximum-—death. | But the government did not nsk the death penalty. Foreman ouus Mann sald the\ jurors would have liked to acquit | the 35-year-old woman known to GI's as Tokyo Rose, but “we did the only thing we thought possible under the judge’s instructions.” Actually, she was convicted on only one of the eight counts in ‘That one mmee| her bropdeast from radio ’l‘nkyo in. October, 1944, “about the x..eyv.e Guif battle. Kenkichi Oki, an official of m.! dio Tokyo, testified the defendant | said: “Now you fellows have lostl ! all your ships. You are really or-, phans of the Pacific. How do you| think you u')'e going to get humew | "That, the jury decided, was sur- | ficiently damaging to American morale to constitute treason. , ATHLETICS BEAT YANKS SCORE 4-1 NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—#—The | | Philadelphia Athletics gave the| Bostcn Red Sox a terrific boost in | the sizzling American League pen- | nant battle today by whipping the | {New York Yankees, 4-1, on home runs by Sam Chapman and Ferris | |Pain and the four-hit pitching of | | Dick Fowler. | Philadelphia 013 000 000—4 6 2 New York ...100 000 000—1 40 | Batteries: Fowler and Rosar; Lo- | pat, Porterfield 3), Sanford (8),| Hood (8) and Berra. | OTHER GAMES A the end of the eighth inning| this afternoon, the score was Bos- | ton 10, Washington 4. ‘At the end’of the sixth inning,! Chicago 6, St. Louis 5. | Chinese Woman Is Dismissed; Given New Job, However, CANTON, Sept. 30—M—Madame Sun Yat-sen was “dismissed” by the Nationalist government today from her old nominal post as a/ political adviser. ! The widow of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Chinese Republic, prozably will get a new job—but with the Communists. She is now in Peiping, the Red capital. FI!OM HOOD BAY Edwm Emnng of Hood 'Bay ar- rived yesterday and is at the Gas-| tineau Hotel. | PARTY FOR MISS BALOG Patricia Balog of Douglas, a communications operator with ACS, was given a farewell party by ACS| fellow workers yesterday. | Miss Balog is leaving for Seattle to continue her schooling. | Seattle Park Board asking for the | lean {money to see them, and the money | | jects. | land would throw them, completely GOODRICH | Oaks, Pa.; {cla ‘and infant, Dorothy Lipsch, M Gambler Mickey Cohen, pictured with his wife at his trial, in Los Angeles, on charges of swearing at police officers, was mentioned | in grand jury testimony as director of a ring of “prostitute extor- | tionists” in Hollywood. The testimony, filed in Superior Court was | by Paul R. Behrmann, 41, a former actors’ agent. Cohen termed the » @ wuephoto. testimony “utterly ridiculou: Alaska Lions Want Snakes Request Made SEATTLE, Ecpl 30.—P—Alaska | Lions would like to borrow a few snakes, please. They haven't anv; handy because it's too cold up| | there' for the cold-blooded reptiles. Fred R. Geeslin, President of the Mt. Edgecuimbe Lions Club and | Assistant ‘Superintendent of the! Alaska Native Service, wrote the of some snakes. He figured | Alaska curiosity-seekers might pay | could be given to community pro-| Zoo offielals, however, said that their best snake® recent recruits frcm India, are not yet acclimated to Seattle—and a trip to the north- off. STRIKETO - BE SETTLED DAYTON, O., Sept. 30—(®—Nego- tiators announced today they had agreed to settle the 34-day-old Goodrich Rubber strike of 16,000 werkers, Asa Tiller, International Repre- sentative of the CIO United Rub- cer Workers, announced the agree- ment. The strike over wages and pen- sions affected ' production workers in Goodrich plants in Akren, Tu caloosa, Ala.; Cadillac, Mich Clarksville, Tenn.; Los Angeles; and Miami, Okla. PACIFIC NORTHERN FLIGHT BRINGS 17, TAKES QUT EIGHT Pacific Northern Airlines yester- day carried 25 passengers, 17 of whom arrived in Juneau and eight departed, as follows: From Anchorage: R. D. Egge, Ivan Strom, J. J. Ryan. From Cordova: Huge Wade, Er- nest Hackney, Jr., Phillip Kempkis, F. Ostrander, H. D. Bracken, J. H. Fletcher, K, L. Howe, Mrs. K. L. Howe, R. L. Von Losson, Mrs. Gar- C. Strand, Mrs. Stuart. To Anchorage: Valentha Ingra- ham, Don Irwin, Joseph Morga H. Stuart, Henry FISH BUYING FROM JAPAN y master General, | Barkley might be getting married | R. C. Johnson, A. D. Harlan, R. | .1 500,000 are scheduled for third read- Collar, James Kay, J. Z. Mann. lIng in the city council Monday. PROTEST ARMY WASHINGTON,. Sept. West Coast Congressmen plan to| fight an announced reduction in the Army's fish purchases on the Pac- | ific Coast with an amendment which would prohibit the Army from buying fish in Japan. This was disclosed today by Rep. Tollef- son (R-Wash). He sald he and California members of the House will seek to tack the amendment to the military appropriation bill, | The Army announced recently plans to buy fish in Japan for| troops stationed there. Fish packers on the Pacific Coast protested that the move would throw thousands ol workers out of their jobs. They estimated it would reduce fish purchases on the coast by some 6,000,000 pounds a year. The Army advised Rep. Mack (R- Wash) and Senator Magnuson (D- Wash) that the packers’ estimate was too high. | Maj. Gen. H. Feldman, Quarter- wrote Magnuson that the Army’s fish purchases on! the coast amounted to 6,127,715 pounds in the last year. He said only 1,250,000 pounds of that went to troops in Japan. “On basis of this slight curtail- ment,” he said, “fish purchases by the Army in the Seattle area will not be seriously affected.” TRUMAN PREDICTS "PARTY VICTORIES NEXT ELECTIONS (Ey Assoclated Press) President Truman made one of his extemporaneous, spesches last night in Kansas City. «The President covered many topics in the’ address, He said his party would win in 1950 and 1952. The| national income could be raised to 300-billion dollars, the country needs a real honest free press, and he hinted that Vlce-Presfidem‘ soon. But perhaps the most important part of Mr. Truman's address was| the indication that he might try to keep Congress in session until it passes all of the administration’s fair deal program. And, failing that, to make this progfam an issue in the next two election campaigns. Bond lssues fo Be Voted On, Fairbanks FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 30— | (#—Ordinances calling for two utilities bond ,issues totaling $4.- 30.—P— || STEEL MEN PLAN STRIKE ATMIDNIGHT ' Last Ditch Attempts to Stave Off Walkout-Con- ferences Underway BULLETIN PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30.—M —A government mediator sald today that the chances of pre. venting a steel strike at mia- night' ‘are becoming “gloomier and gloomier.” “For all practical purposes,” sald Mediator Willlam N. Mar- golis, “the strike is now on.” As steel plants were shut- ting down everywhere and workers walking out, Margolis had only this hope: “There is a chance of & mir- acle, of course, that the strike may not come off.” PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30—(P—Big steel and the CIO got together with Federal Mediators today in a last ditch try to stave off a nationwide steel strike at midnight. But even as they met, the news was not good. From coast to coast, and from the Gulf to the torder, the gigantic steel industry banked its fires in readiness for the strike. And thous- ands of Philip Murray's United Breel Workers jumped the gun in wildcat walkbuts. William N, Margolis, assistant directar of "the m-l Mediation Surprisingly, there was an air. of Nobody mentioned in public the point at issue: Should the union help pay for Iu insurance and pensions? 4 But Murray joked with reporters and he grinned as he asked Mar~ golis: “Is the enemy here yet?” NO POWER, MEDIATOR A mediator has no power—other than the power of suggestion. Some- times he can hit on an idea that is acceptable to both sides. But neither the union nor the coms-, panies needs to pay any attention to what he says. As production’ dropped, as picket- ing started, the two sides still seemed far apart. For example, after last night's meeting with U.S. Steel, Murray had only this to.say: “I wouldn't even comment about hope at this time." " BLEAK PICTURE That’s how bleak the ture is. One small firm — Mirtsmouth (Ohlo) - Steel Corporation. — has given in to Murray. Unofficially it’s the 14th largest steel producer in the nation. But it employs only 4,000 of the 500,000 unionists. Main stocktolders of Portsmouth are Cyrus Eaton, Cleveland finan- cier, and a group of his sssociates. Henry Kaiser had an interest in the company bu sold US. Stesl, the glant, hires 160,000, atput one-third. Any agreement with U.S. Steel would undoubtedly set a pattern for the rest of the steelmakers. A steelworker walkout would push the nation’s strike-idle - past the million mark. Some. 480,000 coal miners have been idle nenfly twa weeks. 'RECORD LOADS BY PAN AM PRODUCE RECORD BUSINESS — SEATTLE, Sept! 30—(P—Record ' {loads of cargo and passengers car- ried by Pan American Airways Clip- pers during the first six months of the year have produced the big~ gest volume of business in the his- tory of the division, Harvey Han- cock, traffic manager for the Pa- cific-Alaskq, division, announced today. Bigges. gain during the first half of the year was cargo and mail which rose 52 percent over the same period in 1948. Passengers traveling over the company’s routes in the Pacific and Alaska increased six percent for the first half of 1949 as compared u; the first half of 1948,