The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 22, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV.,, NO. 11,510 * POWER AID FORALASKA 15 PLANNED President Urges "Basin- Wide Development-"Tru- man Is Inferested in North WASHINGTON, May 22 — (B — President Truman urged Conhgress today to provide for “basin-wide development” of the power and other resources of the nation’s rivers. In a special message, he said the legislators failed to give “proper censideration” to federal agencies other than the Army engineer: when enacting the recent $1,700,- 000,000 rivers and harbors bill. Mr. Truman signed the big bil last week. As for Alaska, Mr. Truman said the law might be construed as giv- ing the Army exclusive jurisdiction over the development and improve- ment of rivers and other water re- sources there. He added: “Alaska should not be denied the services of other Federal agencies which would normally contribute to the preparation of plans for the de- velopment of its resources. Whether this provision will in fact have such a result is unclear at the present time; if necessary, I shall recom- mend remedial legislation at a later date.” RED RIVER DROPS BUT DANGER NOT OVER YET, REPORT WINNIPEG, May 22—®—The rampaging Red' River eased its hola today on the twin cities of Winni- peg and St. Boniface as the flood- swollen waters slowly began to ebb. Early this morning the official reading here had dropped one inch in the last 13 hours. Still greater drops were reported all along the river’s tortuous course from flooded Emerson at the international bor- der. The Army, directing flood controi operations in the river valley warned that there is a long way tc go before all danger ends. Their warning was pointed up to- day when the river knocked out one of three bridges connecting the twc cities. Only two were left in action —shaky Redwood and Provencher reopened by a temporary grave causeway only a few days ago. o 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 o TIDE TABLE MAY 22 High tide 5:18 a.m., 138 ft. Low tide 12:22 pm., .1.6 tt. High tide 18;56 p.m., 125 ft. The Washington Merry - Go-Round Bv DREW PEARSON ICopyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Ine.) WSHINGTON — A sensational story flashed out .of Detroit re- cently that the Army has developed a magic nerve -gas which destroys the will to resist and makes war painless. The story grew out of a remark by Maj. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, Chief of the Army Chemical Corps, who happened to mention nerve gases at the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting in De- troit. The sensational details ab- out making war painless, however, were supplied by an imaginative reporter. Inside facts about the Army’s new nerve gases are sensational all right, but exactly opposite to what the press reported. The gases do not cause a gentle sleep and do not pave the way for bloodless conquest. Instead, they drive men mad, turn them into raging luna- tics before killing them. The Army’s experiments have been based on two nerve gases developed by the Germans and still known by their German names —Tabun and Sarin. These are fiendishly lethal gases, depending upon the dose. A small dese will cause severe headache, nausea and chest congestion. A few extra whiffs will attack the optic nerve and cause blindness, then degen- erate vital brain 'cells, until the victim loses his sanity. Homicidal tendencies are supposed to result. Gas masks are no protection from Tabun and Sarin, which seep into the body through the skin pores. (FIELD EXTENSION,SEATTLE C. OF C. APPLICATION MADE| TOUR ON ALEUTIAN; FOR JUNEAU AIRPROT! HERE TOMORROW l Formal application has been filed Steamer Aleutian, flagship of the with the Civil Aeronautics Admini- Alaska Steamship Company, with stration for the 2,500-foot extension to the Juneau airport, it was an- nounced today by Secretary ot Alaska Lew M. Williams. Application was made in Anchor- age by George S. Schwamm, direc- tor of the Department of Aviation for a separate 2500-foot field, 30C feet wide, rather than an extension because of technicalities which hinder making application for an extension to an already existing field. Schwamm explained that in orde: for the extension to come under the Federal Aid to Airports Act, and for the Territory to receive 75 percen matching funds from the CAA, the field must be listed as a separate piece of land, although it would ot course be built as an extension. Any field or extension more than 4,000 feet in length must have Con- gressional approval and might miss receiving matching funds, he ex- plained. Total cost of the project is esti- mated at $360,000, with the Terri- tory to stand $90,000 under the matching process. Schwamm was doubtful if the extension would be gotten through this year, because of heavy previous committments made by the depart- ment, and the sum required would put the aviation group in the hole Secretary Williams, however, ex- pressed hope that something coulc be done soon, because the €AA has expressed desire to move out, leav- ing the airport to Juneau. It then would not come under the Aid Act. In the meantime, the application is being mulled over by CAA offi- cials. BPW PLANS MEETING MONDAY WITH LIONS First meeting of the Business anc Professional Women under the presidency of Mrs. Kate Smith was at luncheon on the Baranof Terrace Monday. Because of the presence in Ju- neau next Monday of Mrs. Joseph H. Hanken, past national president of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary and Mrs. George Holm, national chaplain, who will address the BPW at luncheon, members of the Lions Club have been invited tc join the women’s group at the Mon- day meeting. Plans for the next meeting were told by Mrs. John McCormick. Miss Elizabeth Rundél] spoke about local action taken on the White House Conference of Child- ren and Youth of which Dewey Baker is chairman in Juneau and Mrs. Jane McKaskle, of Federal Security Agency, guest of Miss Sadie Billis, spoke to the group about the BPW club of which she was form- erly a member in Little Rock. Mrs. Smith gave a report of her attend- ance at the National Conference ot Social Workers in Atlantic City and a resume of the key speeches made to the 5600 delegates to the conference. POPPY POSTERS WILL BE JUDGED, DISPLAY AT DUGOUT TOMORROW Over fifty posters have been handed in by school children ot Douglas and Juneau competing in the annual Poppy Day poster con- test sponsored by the American Le- gion Auxiliary. Judging of the posters will take place tomorrow evening at the Dug- out. The posters, many of which show marked artistic ability, will be on display to the general public at the Dugoyt from 8 to 9 p.m. Judges are Mrs. Ray Westfall, Mrs. Leo Osterman and Harold Salisbury. HALIBUT PRICES STAY HIGH; 63,000 LBS. SOLD Prices remained high today as 63,000 pounds of halibut sold at the Juneau Cold Storage Company. All the medium halibut landed breught 20 cents per pound, and large fish sold for 19.30 cents. Me- diums sold for 19:50 and 20 cents Saturday; large went for 19.15. Chickens sold for 15.10 and 1515 today. High boat was the Tundra, com- manded by Peter Oswald, which | Capt. Carl Nilsen in command, is making her first voyage of the sea- son' from Seattle to Alaska and is due here tomorrow. Among the passengers making the initial Aleutian trip is a Seattle Chamber of Commerce party led by President Thomas Pelly. The group includes H. L. VanNess, Pacitic Northwest Manager of the Dicta- phone Corporation, Harold Schater, president of Schafer Distributing Company, and Mrs. Schafer, Arthur Ganson, secretary of the Alaska Committee of the chamber, Michael Dederer, president of the Seattle Fur Exchange, Chester Gibbon of the Seattle Times and Messrs. Max McFayden and Glenn B. Walker ot the Goodyear Rubber Company. Special meetings will be held by this party in Ketchikan, Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Seward, Val- dez, Cordova and Petersburg. The theme of the tour is “Proposed In- centives for Industrial Development in Alaska.” Several prominent Alaskans are also making the trip. They include Robert H. Romig and Mrs. Romig ot Anchorage, Mr. and Mrs, Walter Gaffney of Ketchikan, J. B. Gott- stein of Anchorage, Antonio Polet of Nome and A. H. Ziegler of Ket- chikan. LIONS TO ELECT JURE 5, INSTALL OFFICERS JUNE 24 Members of the Juneau Lions' Club and guests made up the aud- ience for the showing this noon of “Alaska, U. S. A,” the docu- mentary motion picture producec by the Alaska Development Board Otherwise, the noon lunchevn meeting in the Baranof “Gold Room was devoted to numerous slub affairs and the usual® horses play of this fun-loving servicc lub. “Whisperer” J. Gerald Will- {ams, as “tail twister” roared his way through to almost a fine per person for the club’s philanthropy fund. Future events held the spotlight, President Val Poor calling attentior. to next Monday’s joint meeting with' the Juneau Business and Pro- fessional Women’s Club, the Lions' annual election June 5 and the in- stallation banquet Saturday, June 24, which will take the place of the June 26 luncheon meeting. Carl Rusher reported 'that, al- though good work had been done one more session will be needed tc finish clearing the Douglas Com- munity Beach. Members arranged o go out this week. There siil are logs to be burned and sand tc be shovelled. Lions voted unanimously to con- tribute their share of the expensec of installing signs at the Alaska Steamship Company dock and the city limits, to inform visitors of seryice club meeting days ahd places. Still looking ahead, the Lions Club got their participation undex way for the Fourth of July celebra- tion. Robert Scott is chairman of 2 committee to plan the Lions’ con- cession, with these other committee members: Robert Aste, John Bav- ard, Oscar ‘Eliason, Earl Forsythe, Don McMullin, Ian "Ogg, C. D Tandy, George M. Tapley and Har- ry Watkins, Twe new members were initialed into the Lions Club by Alva W. Blackerby, Lions roaring a welcome to Ed Patton and Harold Schultz. Guests were W. K. Boyd who re- cently jdined the Burtau of Public Roads staff here, and Dr. Duncan M. Chalmers, Alaska Native Serv- ice doctor from Bethel. Boyd is a former member of the Williston N. D, Lions’ Club, where he servea as “tail twister.” Martin Holm, chairman of the recent Lion-sponsored concert here of the Mt. Edgecumbe Chorus, told of the pleasure of the young sing- ers in receiving photographs of the group, made here. Holmr attended the commencement - ceremonies Thursday at Mt. Edgecumbe, when the Rev. A. Michael Ossorgin, chor- us director, presented each singer with a picture. Before announcing the total re- ceipts of $366.04, Holm expressed his appreciation to all committee workers, especially to Joseph M Shofner and Harry Sperling, who had arranged housing for the 70 singers, also to Howard Andresen. “But,” added Holm, “our greatest| JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1950 2 INDICTED, GRAND JURY, KANSAS CITY First Result_s_of Probe o Crime Conditions Affer Nine Months KANSAS CITY, May 22—M—A Federal Grand Jury that has beer investigating crime conditions here for nine months today indicted & former assistant county prosecutor and a gambler who was linked witk the slain Charles Gargotta. The in- dictrhents charged income tax eva- sion. Indicted were Samuel C. Hayden who was fired as a prosecutor wher the grand jury recently identifiec him as a gambling house partner and Thomas (Tano) Lococo. Lococo was described by the grand jury as a gambling partne: of Gargotta, who with Charles Bi naggio, northside Democratic polit- ical boss, were slain in ganglanc style here last April 5. Their Killer: never have been caught. ‘The grand jury already ha acted to recover money the govern- ment claims Binaggio and Gargotta beat it out of through income tax evasion. It also has moved to col- lect money from the estate of Wol C. Rimann, golf club manager anc coin machine operator, who wa shot down by gangsters near thc downtown district a year ago. ELECTRICIANS PULL FAIRBANKS SWITCH IN UNION SHOP BEEF FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 22 — (M—Two-thirds of Fairbanks’ regu- lar power supply was cut ot at t a.m., yesterday when 24 AFL power- house electricians joined 240 fellow union members on strike. No serious. effects were felt im- mediately. Residents cooperated ir voluntary rationing of electricity and some emergency power was ob- tained from auxiliary sources. The walkout was at the power plant of the Fairbanks Exploration Department of the U.S. Smelting Refining and Mining Co., which furnishes sbout 65 percent of the city’s electric energy. The company’s other members ol the AFL International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers left their dredging and mining jobs six days sgo after contract negotiations were stalemated. Principal issue is the IBEW'’s demand for a union shop. Neither side has budged since then, and union spokesmen said the strike will continue until the com- pany agrees to the union shop clause. ‘The union’s only concession was & temporary agreement to keep the power plant operating during the strike. This was cancelled late last week and the walkout was orderec for yesterday. Meanwhile, city attorneys checkec on the legal aspects of seeking ¢ court injunction against the unior on grounds that a power shortagc creates a menace to public healtl through cyrtailed use of water, sew- age and refrigeration facilities. 2 report was to be made to the city council during today. Before the strike spread to the¢ powerhouse, a run on gasolinc burners and camp stoves cleanec out stocks in local stores. SN TR ‘The Baranof arrived here or its southbound trip at 5:05 p.m yesterday, and, after six person: had disembarked and 24 had em- barked, it left at 7:30 p.m. foi Wrangell, Ketchikan, and Seattle Passengers from Seward were John L. Cole, Keturah Foulks Nels A, Johnson, John McCorm- ick, Moran Casey and William J Walker. Embarking for Wrangell were Mrs. Douglas Mead, George Kan- ka, and Gilbert E. Smith; for Ket- chikan: Maude Hamlin; and for Seattle: Elizabeth Stamm, Mr and Mrs. A. M. Wahto, Karen Wahto, Mrs. E. M. Lipsey, Chris- topher Lipey, Mrs. Albert Carlson Mrs. “E. P. Knopf, Mrs. John Ladley, Judy Ladley, Jennie Lad- ley, Donald Ladley, J. D. Henney, E. F. Hogerty, Mrs. William Leh- man, Larry Lehman, Miss H. Ray- [burn, Walter J. Stutte, and H. A | Gertsman, d” ;ml:‘l 'til—el-r own ¥ }‘l;nspormlfi;\ i e e e e e e e an landed 16,000 pounds. The Viking,|appreciation should go to the sing-(from funds raised by student acti- skippered by John Sonderland,|ers themselves, for their inspira-|vities such as athletics and the landed 13,000 pounds. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Renner of i O O s DR A e B (Continued on Page Four) ‘Cnrdova are at the Baranot Hotel. tional singing and ‘for more tltan that. “Few persons know that the stu- dents bougnt their own uniforms student-operated store. We owe them a great debt, and they hi%e i helped us fullfill our pledge to (he ;Junesu Memorial Library fund.” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AF OF L LONGSHORE GROUP WINS UNION BATILE OVER ILWU The longshore group headed byl Harry Bridges, active in the West- ward recently attempting to orgn«l ‘nize ports there, have been handed {a rebuff with news today that their rival organization, the International Longshoremen’s Association, AFL is working ports in Whittier, Fire Island and Anchorage, The Bridges’ group, the Interna- tional Longshormens and Ware- housemen’s Union, is at present under fire by the national CIO for Communist leanings. A wire to Kenneth R. Bowman organizer for the AFL in Juneau, revealed that the ILA has signed agreements with stevedoring com- panies and the “fyture looks very good.” The wire was signed by M F. Alewine, business representative of the Anchorage operating engi- neers. To this, Bowman said: “To me, this is indicative that the labor movement in Anchorage is definitely anti-Communist and op- vosed completely any left-wing union. “Definitely the AFL labor move- ment will not permit control of de- fense projects in western and cen- tral Alaska by such a disreputable organization as the Bridges-led union.” The ILA, supplanted on the west coast some years ago when many longshoremen broke away from the AFL and joined the CIO, is repre- sented in Alaska in Skagway, Haines, Valdez, Anchorage, Whit- tier, Homer and Kodiak. All locals on the United States east coast are ILA, and a few left on the west coast, among them Tacoma, Wash. Homer is the most recent addition to ports controlled by the AFL group. MRS. McCRARY BRINGS MESSAGES FROM MANY AT CHICAGO. MEETING “On the job™ again after a stim- ulating seven weeks outside, Mrs. Jessie McCrary will be off on an- other business trip tomorrow, going to Anchorage via Pacific Northern Airlines. She is Alaska representa- tive for Sears Roebuck and Com- pany, The first part of her recent trip was a vacation. Her week in Chi- cago was professional, although in- cluding many interesting social en- gagements. As Alaska representa- tive, she was the guest of Sears Roebuck to the Sears Congress ot Merchants at the Stevens Hotel, a seven-day event that brought 1,500 representatives from every part ot the world where the organization it represented. Some delegates came from South America, Hawaii—anc Alaska. Incident to the Congress, she vis- ited the Sears laboratory, and the big paint, wallpaper and furniture factories. The Empire was quoted at length at one convention program. Edward Congdon, national director of pub- 'ic relations for the Sears Founda- tion, read verbatim the editorial in which The Empire expressed appre- -iation for the part that institutior is taking in supplying books for thc new Juneau Public Library. The Juneauite was one of 200 juests at a tea given by General R. H. Wood, chairman of the Sear: board and Mrs. Wood. Mrs. McCrary ‘enjayed talking to their son-in- aw who, then Captain "Addington, was with the Signal Corps on work to build the Alcan Highway. He sent greetings to Juneau friends. Another conversation of excep- tional interest was with Mrs. Rob- ert LaFollette, at a large dinner She expressed great interest in statehood, and also asked to be rememberad to friends here, among whom is Mrs. Ernest Gruening. Mrs McCrary is busy, too, relaying mes- sages from Louis Bye, general man- ager of the Pacific Northwest ares of which Alaska is a part. With all that, Mrs. McCrary had time to see two good shows: “Kiss Me Kate,” and “Lend an Ear.” PACKER, TROLLERS LAND 10,500 LBS. OF SALMON The packer Lassie brought 9,000 pounds of gillnet-caught Kkings to Juneau over the weekend from Taku Inlet, and three trolling boats landed a total of 1500 pounds ot salmon. The Weasel, skippered by Vern Dick, the Pinta, commanded by Walter Maki, and the Elliott, skip- pered by Bill Helin, were the three trolling _boats to land salmon at the Juneau Cold Storage Company wharf, —_— R D S e e e ———— e —— e I (ommittee To End Study On Statehood Final Consideration This Week-Would Give State | 200,000 Acres WASHINGTON, May 22 — & — The Senate Interior Committee prepared . today to start final con- sideration this week of legislation to grant statehood to Alaska and Ha- waii. Chairman O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) said it had ordered committee prints on hearings already held to be made to be ready for the com- mittee study and action. Senator Anderson (D-NM) rank- ing Democrat on the committee, said he had worked out with gov- ernment departments an amend- ment to the Alaska bill whereby 200,000 acres of forest land will be given to the new state to enable cities and towns to expand. The land would be in the vicinity ot the towns. Anderson said this would give the principal towns 30,000 to 50,000 acres of land in their immediate vicinity each. He said that instead of the new state getting five sections of land in each township it is proposed that the government try to promote col- onization for five years and at the end of the time turn over to the state one-ninth of the government owned land. The state, O'Mahoney explained, would then be able to select blocks of better land. Mahoney said he had proposed an amendment to the Hawaitan bill which would prohibit any Com-} munist from holding any oftice ot trust or profit under the state con- stitution. He said it was only his suggestion and must be acted upon by the committee. VANCOUVER FL OF HALIBUTERS IN MENACING BLAZE VANCOUVER, B. C., May 22—(® —The 60-vessel fleet of British Col- umbia packers was menaced early today in a wind-frenzied $600,60¢ Fraser River waterfront fire. There were no injuries. Destroyed were a machine shop housing $500,000 worth of machin- ery and supplies and a $40,000 seiner, the 45-foot Roy Roberts. Five other boats were damaged, three of them seriously, in the fire, which broke out snortly after mid- night. The fire broke out near the center of the machine shop, a con- verted cannery, touching off drums of gasoline and ofl with cannon- dke explosions, The halibut fleet, in for over- hauling, was saved when a change n the direction of the high wind drove the fire over the Fraser River preading to surrounding buildings BOMBS BREAK JAM OF ICE AT CUTOFF FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 22—(# —Airmen found some tough ice tc srack on the Keyokuk River near the village of Cutoff, Saturday. Fliers from Ladd Air Force Base reported an icy section two and & half miles across was barely derilec by the first 500-pound bombs rained on it. The Eskimo village of Cutoff, lo- cated on a tiny knoll 300 miles to the Westward, asked help when it became completely isolated by water backing up from the ice- jammed river. At noon Saturday, came the word that the jam had broken and the waters were receding. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Aleutian from Seattle at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Princess Louise from Vancouver due tomorrow afternoon or eve- ning. Prince George scheduled to ar- rive Wednesday afternoon with Ore- gon Journal tour party aboard. Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle Wednesday. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. FROM SPOKANE J. B. Lyall of Spokane, Wash,, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. AVIATION PROBING PAIR UNLEASH bio GUNS IN FEE BATTLE A jet-plane attack from Warren Taylor, house representative of Fairbanks, against Marcus F. Jen- sen, house member from Douglas, charging that Jensen was “trying to besmirch integrify of Territorial officials,” was met today by an assault which would have put the weapons demonstration on the fir- ing range last Saturday to blushing shame. Both representatives were on the house investigating committee which recently probed into a fee paid At- torney Stanley McCutcheon of An- chorage by the Department of Avia- tion for legal wopk in conneggion with clearing titles for a number of projected airports in the Territory. It all started when a check was given McCutcheon, house speaker last session, for $5,600 by the avia- tion department, which was bounced out of the auditor's office, whc questioned its legality. Both Taylor and Jensen met ir Anchorage to go into the depart- ment's business, and late last week issued a joint statement of recom- mendations for the department tc follow to keep out of similar fusses in the future. Late last week Taylor fired the first shot charging Jensen with withholding “seven findings that cleared McCutcheon” and releasing the remainder. Three findings were released to the press, which in An- chorage caused both papers there to go into fits—which apparently be- came of the epidemic variety, as Taylor seemed to have one himself. Jensen said the “withheld por- tion” was drawn up by Taylor him- self before the pair met as a com- mittee, and justified the fee charged by McCutcheon, Jensen said he re- fused to sign it, but went aheaa with an investigation, and later sent his recommendations to Taylor which were signed. “Why is he screaming now? asked Jensen. “I refused to.sign his idea of a report, but came up witk one of my own. So why didn’t he re- fuse to sign that? He signed it, however, Which mukes it a report ot the majority of the committee.” \The committee’s third member Glen Franklin of Fairbanks, was not able to attend the investigation.) McCuthcheon apparently took the report to be a “smear” on the Dem- ocratic party; to which all three be- long, and to “cloud his reputation,’ in statements he made in Anchor- age. All are Democrats. To this, Jensen prepared the fol- lowing statement, quoted in part: “Taylor, in his letter of April 26 to the Fairbanks News-Miner, justi- fied McCutcheon’s fees before ever having attended the investigation. If I could have honestly issued a similar statement after the investi- gation I would have gladly done so. I have never yet gone to the trouble of smearing anyone, and have al- ways held to honest and true facts as I know them. “If McCutcheon wishes me, as an individual, to make a report to the public as to the facts as I found them, I will be more than glad tc do so, should he make a public request t.hr‘ough the Anchorage BIOLOGIST MADE NEW FISHERIES MANAGEMENT B0SS WASHINGTON, May 22 — M — Secretary of the Interior Chapmar today appointed Richard F. Shu- man, as supervisor of fishery man- agement in Alaska. The job is with the Fish anc Wildlife Service. The appointment is effective June 1. Shuman will be stationed at Ju- neau. A native of Des Moines, Iowa, he was graduated from the Univer- sity of Washington. He worked for the Washington State Department of Fisheries from 1936 to 1939, anc has been with the Fish and Wildlife Service since 1940. For three years he was in charge of the biological station at little Port Walter, Alaska. Since 1943 he has been in charge of the red sal- mon research project at Karluk Lake, Central Alaska. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 22 — Closing quotation of American Can today 1s 119%, Anaconda 33, Curtiss-Wright 9%, International Harvester 29, Kennecott 57, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 16%, US. Steel 33, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 1,610,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 22156, rails 56,45, utilities 4414, - PRICE TEN CENTS Salmon Men, | ILWU Hit On Labor Charge Labor Board Charges Both Factions-One on Boycott, Other on Signing SEATTLE, May 22—(®—<The Na- tional Labor Relations Board cocked a double-barrelled legal shotgun to- day at feuding factions in the Alaska salmon industry. One barrel was ailmed at two locals of the International Long- shoremen and Warehousemen’s Union (CIO). The other was aimed at the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., employer organization. The first charge, filed in Federal court, charges the ILWU with en- gaging in an illegal secondary boy- cott in picketing industry opera- tions to force recognition of, Local 7-C of the ILWU as bargaining agent for non-resident cannery workers. The second accuses the industry of unfair labor practices for signing a contract with a rival CIO union, Local 77 of the United Packinghouse Workers, for the non-resident em- ployees. Local 77, the NLRB charges, has not been certified as collec- tive bargaining agent and the in- dustry has no right to contract with it. The Board asks that a temporary restraining order be issued to halt picketing and eventually a perma- nent injunction. Federal Judge John C. Bowen took no immediate action but called a hearing for 3:30 p.m., Wednesday. The ILWU was given until noon Wednesday to file affidavits uphold- ing its side of the case. SHOWDOWN AT CORDOVA CORDOVA, Alaska, May 22—h— The continuing t be- tween the Alaska Salmon Industry, B headed to a showdown here today with the fate of this year’s pack hanging in the balance. A lengthy meeting between indus- try and union representatives hefe yesterday broke up without result and was resumed today. Fishermen called in from the banks until ne- gotiations are completed report they have agreed to ban all salmon fishing in this area this year if an agrepment is not reached by to- morrow. Both fishermen and canneries already have suffered losses because the red salmon run in the Copper river has started. Cannery Radio Union Election Is Set b_y NLRB WASHINGTON, D.C, May 22 — M—The National Labor Relations Board today ordered an election in the Alaska Salmon Industry to de- termine whether its radio operators wish to be represented by the Radio Officers’ Union, Marine Division, Commercial Telegraphers Union (AFL). The union formerly acted as bar- gaining ‘agent for the radio opera- tors, who operate and maintain radio telegraphic and telephone equipment at cannery shore stations in Alaska. Its contrgct lapsed, how- ever, and the hoard ruled that a new election shall be held. The-date for the election will be set later by a regional representa- tive of the NLRB. WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 50; minimum, 39. At Airport—Maximum, 51; minimum, 37. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Variable cloudiness tonight and Tuesday. Lowest tem- perature tonight about 40. Higheest Tuesday near 53. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — Trace; since May 1 — '4.32 inches; since July 1—69.24 inches. At Airport ~— None; since May 1 — 1.90 inches; since July 1—44.53 inches. ® 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 e e e e e e —————————————————————————————————————————————