The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 1, 1949, Page 1

SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,313 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1949 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE [ MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NATION-WIDE STRIKE IN STEEL INDUSTRY Tie-up in West Coast Shi Ford Confrad Signed SHOREMEN, EMPLOYERS IN ACCORD Assurance Gje nThere Will Be No Inferruption in Coast Trafficking SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.—#— West Coast longshoremen and their employers said today they had reached agreement on virtually all issues unresolved in last De- cember’s Wage review talks will continue despite the Sept. 30 deadline for complete accord. The joint statement by the Inter- national Longshoremen’s and Ware- housemen’s Union and the Pacific Maritime Association was made af- ter a negotiating session which lasted until midnight Friday. ‘The PMA issued a separate state- ment saying it also had reached agreement with three other West Coast maritime unions exiehding contracts past the Sept. 30 expira- tion date. They are the coastwide contracts of the Sailors’ Union of the Pa- cific, the Master, Mates and Pilots Association and the International Lengshoremen’s Association, AFL. “The third named ‘contract cov- ers the Washington ports of Ta- coma, Port Angeles and Anacortes only. A PMA spokesman said stopping the clock against the Sept. 30 dead- line in the contract re-negotiations and wage review talks gave com- plete assurance of uninterrupted steamship service in all West Coast ports. PRESIDENT BACKFROM 2-DAYTRIP WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—P— President Truman, back from a two day mp to' Missouri, turns sailor ooday From the deck of the yacht Wil- liamsburg he planned to watch an afternoon water pageant com- memorating the 150th birthday of the Washington Naval Gun factory The President arrived by plane from Kansas City yesterday. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyrignt, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON—One significant incident which occurred at the time. of the Russian atomic-explo- sion announcement has now leaked out—namely, how the British tried to prevent that announcement. They did not want President Tru- man to tell the world that the Russians now have the secret of the atom. ‘The argument occurred on Thurs- day evening, Sept. 22, just before the President was slated to make his world-shaking statement. The Prime Ministers of England and Canada were alsq supposedly ready to announce, when suddenly the British Embassy in Washington asked the State Department for: the use of a special airplane to New York. The private plane set aside for Cabinet use was there- upon placed at the Embassy's dis- posal. Just why the Embassy should have asked for an entire air- plane instead of merely buying a seat on a commercial plane to New York was not explained. However, Roger Makin, Deputy Undersecretary for British Foreign Affairs, who was -long stationed in Washington, and an old friend of Secretary of State Acheson, flew to New York and spent part of the evening arguing with Acheson (Continued on hfl Four) back-to-work agreement. pping is No {OPE IS SEEN Pased Separalely By QIARLES D. WATKINS WAmNGTON, Oct. 1—(@»—Hope that may yet approve at east the $139,000,000 Alaska section of a ‘pend'ng military —construc- Walter P. Reuther, (left) President of the CI0 Unied Auto Workers, and John S. Bugus, Ford Vice- President in charge of industrial relations shake hanis in Detroit, after signing a contract calling for a company financed pension that pays $100 monthly, including social security, to Ford workers over 5. At left foreground is Ken Bannon, National UAW Ford director and at right is Mel Lindquist, Ford The negotiators stayed in session nearly 35 hours in reaching the manager of industrial relations. agreement. erepho(n. TEN KILLED IN Banks Will Assist Temlory i PLANECRASH FinandialSituation, SaysRode LAST NIGHT RATON, N. M, Oct. 1.—®— An Air Force B-17 plane flew into the top of a mesa in a storm near the Colorado-New Mexico border last night and killed all ten men aboard. James B. Barber, editor of the Raton Range, said the plane had been identified as an Air Rescue craft from Biggs Air Base, El Paso, Texas. The plane had been missing since 5:42 p.. m. yesterday en route from Biggs to Lowry Field at Denver. The wreckage was located by an Air Rescue plane about the same time two ranchers found it and reported to Mary Bartolino Black, owner of the mountain pasture where the ship crashed. Barber reported the plane crash- ed about 6:15 p. m. Barber, who visited the scene, reported the wreckage was atop 9,500 Ft. Lynwood mesa, seven miles north of Raton. The plané lacked only 150 feet of clearing the gently sloping table land and hit a quart- er a mile north of the rim. Wreckage was scattered over 400 vards. Only ‘the tail section re- mained intact, : Man Hurls Son 0ff 14-Story Roof; Follows HUNTINGTON, W. Va, Oct. 1— P—A 44-year-old postman tossed his five-year-old son off the top floor of a 14-story building here yesterday, then took the plunge himself. The bodies of Claude S. Hatton and his son, David, landed a few feet from the city’s busiest down- town corner at a time when the siewalk was crowded with shoppers and workers on their lunch hour. Hatton had been absent from work because of illness, a superior in the post office reported. How- ever his physician said his ail- ment had been diagnosed as simple indigestion. A prescription for treatment of|" the illness was found in Hatton's pocket. ENLISTMENT INFORMATION All persons wishing information about enlistment in the Alaske National Guard should contact the office of Alaska National Guard’: adjutant ge:dal on the second floor of the Federal Building. Satisfactory arrangements have been completed with almost all banks to assist the Territory out| of its temporary financial situa-| tion, Henry Roden, Territorial | Treasurer announces in a state-| ment released today. An understanding has been ar-' rived at which provides that the banks will advance the cash neces- | sary to pay warrants presented for payment. Each warrant will have on its face a notation indicating which particular tank will cash it; its reverse side will have.a notice thereon to the effect that the payee has assigned the warrant to the bank through which it is payable and thereby authorizes the bank to o:tain reimbursement from the Territory when funds become avail- akle for that purpose. ‘The Territorial Treasurer wishes Salaries, Old Age Pensions, per diem and postage will not be pay- able at any particular bank. Such warrants may be presented to, and will be cashed by, any bank inas- much as there are special funds on hand for these purpcses and these warrants have no form of assignment on their reverse side nor will they be stamped with the name of any particular bank. The Treasurer also wishes it ungderstood that no warrants of any kind will be released unless there is money on hand to issure its im- i for collection it understood that warrants for | inconvenience lenced by the Territory’s creditors ment at some other bank. It does mean, however, that, such warrants may be accepted by another bank and credit therefor given to the payee mamed in the warrant by the paying bank only after the bank through which it ic payable has honored it. The Treasurer has advised all banks in the Territory, as well as banks in the City of Seattle, where territorial warrants are sometimes presented for payment, that no warrant of any kind or for any purpose will be issued unless funds are on hand to pay same. The arrangement concluded be- tween the iranks and the Territory makes it possible for the latter to pay its obligations in a more busi- |nesshke manner than has been the | case for some time and will elimi- Inate considerable annoyance and heretofore ' experi- due to delay in the payment of legitimate Territorial bills. 'AMERICAN LEGION INSTALLATION TO BE MONDAY NIGHT Juneau Post No. 4, American Legion, and the Auxiliary will holc joint installation ceremonies Mon- mediate payment on presentation. In other words, all warrants will ke paid; those payable at the bank designated on the warrant’s face will be paid by that particular hank" on presentation; those warrants| not marked payable through a de-| signated bank will be paid by any| bank to which presented for pay-, ment. The above does not mean that' warrants made payable at a certam tank cannot be presented for pay- REGISTRATION ENDS * N LAST-MINUTE RUSH More than 150 Juneau resndeme crowded the office of the City Clerk this morning for last-minute | registering in preparation for Tuesday’s Municipal Election. Registration closed at noon to- day. Polling places for the coming election are: Precinct One—Council Chambers, City Hall; Precinct Two | —George Brothers Store on Frank- lin Street;- Precinet Three—Office of the Juneau Dairies. i The polling places will open at 8 am. Tuesday and remain. open | until 7 p. m, | | | i day night, Oct. 3, at 8 o'clock in |the Legion Dugout, Post Command- er Chester Zenger has announced. All Legionnaires and théir wives. and Auxiliary members and hus- bands are cordially invited to at- tend. A social time will be enjoved lafter the insfallation, and refresh- | ments will be served. PNA CARRIES 21 ON FLIGHTS YESTERDAY flights . yesterday, Pacific Northern Airlines carried a total of 21 passengers with 17 arriving and four departing. From Anchorage, passengers were C. C. Staples, Paul Kendall, Helen MaClanka, Max Boyer, T. Harsk- anen, James W. Kerr, J. H. Pace, Marion Holm, Clarence Keating, Rosie Brown. From Cordova: Paul Schneuer, Jack Stafford, George Waller. From Yakutat: Bob Welsh, ney Welsh, Glenn Jacobs. For Yakutat, passengers were: {Mr. and Mrs, B. H. Hamilton and child. For Anchorage: T. R, Jolly. William Wood, and Bar- ‘tion program was expressed today by Senator Magnusor (D-Wash) and te Bartlett of Alaska. The bill, authorizing $613,800,000 in projects for the Army, Navy and Air Force, is on the Senate calen- dar. A similar bill has been approved oy the House Armed Services Com- ! rittee but Chairman Vinson (D- Ga) of that committee has said it will not go before the House at the present session. . Magnuson told a reporter today that Chairman Tydings (D-Md) of he Senate Armed Services Com- mittee and Major Leader Lucas (D-I1) have promised to try to get the bill kefore the Senate this ses- fon. n’L_ Megnuson sald: Senators Salten- All Warranfs Gomg fo Be Paid stall (R-Mass) and Russell (D-Ga) aye toid him that if the full bill cannot be, approved they favor passing me Alaska section separ- ately. Saltoniall represents the Senate Armed Services Committee and Russell the Senate Appropria- tions Committee in handling the measure. Bartlett said he tased his hopes on belief that Vinson probably will withdraw his opposition to the measure. The measure would authorize “ousing and facilities for troops in Alaska. It has the endorsement ot the Chiefs of Staff,~who recently made an inspection trip to Alaska. Of the total for Alaska, $66,480,700 is for Army projects, $25,164,000 for Naval construction and $38- 130,800 for the Air Force. TIT0 CHARGES RUSS TRYING T0 "GET HIM" (By The Associated Press) The Soviet Union was accused by Premier Marshal Tito today of staging troop movements along the Yugoslav border in an effort to ntimidate Yugoslavs and overthrow ‘he Tito regime. The charge was made in a Yugo- slav reply to the Soviet note on Thursday in which Russia renoun- ‘ced her treaty of friendship with| 22 Yugoslavia. The latest Yugoslav blast in the vitriolic'word war was reported in London by the official Yugoslav news agency. The note said: “It is well known that Soviet representatives tried to organize their agents within the Yugoslav government and Yugoslay army with a view to overthrowing the legal Yugoslav government.” Two Soviet bloc nations, Hungary and Poland, yesterday followed Rus- sia’s lead and renounced their friendship and mutual aid treaties with the Tito regime. Czechoslo- vakia appeared ready to follow suit. London sources said Bulgaria and Rumania also were about to jump on the bandwagon in the Russian squeeze play against the outcast heretic from the orthodox Comimun- ist circle. It looked as if the Russian bloc might even go so far as to break off diplomatic relations with Yugo- slavia, London sources said. CHIEF DEPUTY CLERK LEAYV Mrs. P. D. E. Mclver, chief dep- uty clerk of the U. 8. District Court, First Division, will leave for Ketchikan on the Aleutian to join| Her Fale Decided An expressicnless “Tokyo. Rose,” Mrs. Iva Togdri D’Aqunio, leaves the Federal Court Room in San Francisco (Sept..27) accompanied by Deputy U. §. Marshal Herbtr Cole, affer hedring the jury an- nounce, at the end of their second day of deliberation, that they were unable to reach a verdict in the treason trial. In her 13-week trial, Mrs, D’Aquino denied she was guilty of treason in making radio brdadcasts for the Japanese government during the war. Finally, after four days' deliberation the jury brought in a verdict of guilty of treason on nnly one of eight counts. (® Wirephm Wine Week Queen GRAPES are rlpenmg and Pat Hall, Hollywood starlet relgns as Vintage Queer during National Wine Week, Octcber 8 to 15, samples the fruit during visit | to a large northern California vineyard, (International) STEAMER MOVEMFTS Preighter Flemish Knot from Se- attle due at 7:30 tonight. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive Sunday afternoon or evening. Baranof schedyled to sail from Seattle teday, due Juneau Tuesday. Aleutian from the westward sche- the court which Is in session anre.iulm southbound 9 a.m. Monday. who | i { | {the fiscal year, FED GOVT. HITS RED, 3 MONTHS ?Speni Over One Billion Dollars More fhan It Took In, Report WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. —P— The ¥Federal governmeént spent about $1,400,000,000 more thgn it took in during the first three months of the 1950 fiscal year, and no relief from red ink financing appears in sight. The most hopeful guess from an administration expert puts the budget deficit for the 12 months ending next June at $2,000,000,000. Senator Byrd (D-Va) predicts it may run as high as $7,000,000,000. Hhese are the official treasury iigures for the first quarter of through Sept. 28: The government's income: 000,000. ‘Its spending: $10,419,000,- 000. The deficit: $1,404,000,000. R REPORT (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) (This data 1s for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m, PST.) $9,015,- | w Averted SHUT DOWN ALL MILLS COMPLETE Half Million Men Walkou!- from Coast fo Coast- Picketing/Quiet PITTSBURGH, Oct, 1—f— A strike by a half-million CIO Uni- ted Steelworkers today shut down iron and steel mills from coast to coast. ‘The free pension and insurance walkout dealt a cripplping blow to American industry. Coupled with the two week old coal mine strike, & threatens to disrupt American économy, | Picket lines at mill gates in 27 states generally were small and quiet, in the first nationwide steel strike since 1846, . Plant gates in Pittsburgh, De- troit and Cleveland were circled by picket lines which dwindled to mere handfuls several hours after the strike began at 12:01 am, lllltem Standard Time. Supervisory wornrl and fa passed through picket lines incident. They were allowed gm entrance to keep mill equipment in good shapre to resume work whenever the strike ends. No vio- lence was reported anywhere. 103 Plants Closed The strike closed 53 steel coms panies and 50 iron ore mining forms in what may prove to be one of the most quiet steel strikes in American history. Mills had begun to close down operations as much as two days beiore the strike deadline. Scattered wildcat strikes dotted the nation before the scheduled end of the truce asked by President Truman and accepted by both union and in- dustry. | Mr. Truman had three times in- tervened—delaying the strike a to- tal of 76 days. But last night he refused to butt in again. Big Wage Loss Th eaverage steelworker, earning | $1.65 hourly, makes about $66 for a 40-hour week. This means that the strike costs workers about $3,- 300,000 in wages weekly. | The steel industry is losing that |sum and more in weekly profits. A long strike could start a slide toward recession and even depres- slon. Present steel reserves are ex- pected to last three to six weeks. If the current walkout lasts as long as the 1946 strike—29 days— it could result in forced unemploy- ment for another million work- ers, With such diminished buying power business would feel the pinch, too. KLONDIKE PIONEER DIES INLOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1—(#-—Mrs. Myrtle Ryan-Bunger, 79, who as a g!rl made the trek to the Klondike in the gold rush of 1898, died yes- terday at her "home. For the past 19 years she had been treasurer of the Alaska-Yukon Club of Southern California and In Juneau—Maximum, 51; e minimum, 46. e At Airport—Maximum, e minimum, 46. o080 o0 v a0 53; FORECAST (Juneau ana Vielnity) Mostly cloudy occasional e light showers tonight and e Sunday. Lowest tonight 44, e Highest tomorrow 55. . ePRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today e City of Juneau—388 inches; e since July 1, 22.15 inches, ® At the Airport-.16 inches; e since July 1, 1546 inches. . LI B B o v e | was a charter member of the Inter- | national Sourdough Association. | She was the daughter of Timothy Ryan, pioneer settler of Los An= geles, and the widow of William Bunger, trucking company opera- | tor here, who died in 1932. | In her years in Alaska she knew Jack London, Rex Beach, Alexander o | Pantages and other colorful per- | sonalities. | Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. | Julia Weter, Junction City, Kans., |and three sisters, Mrs. Margaret Malady, Mrs. Julia B. Stone and | Miss Elizabeth Bunger, all of San Francisco. i Requiem mass will be celebrated elat 9 am. Monday in St. Agatha's ! church, followed by burial in Cal- e vary Cemetery, i