The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 6, 1951, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY WASHINGTON, D. C. '‘HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIX.,, NO. 11,958 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1951 Rail Strike Set fo Start Thursday WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—(®—The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen today called a strike on four major railroads to begin at 3 pm. (local standard time) ‘Thursday. President David B. Robertson said a work stoppage is “the only course left open to obtain long overdue increases in wages and improved working conditions.” All major railroads have been under government seizure for some time. This makes the em- ployees technically government workers, and the government quite probably will seek a court injunc- tion to stop the strike before it begins. Failure to obey a court order would lay the union and its leaders open to contempt penalties. Th strike was termed a “progres- sive” one, meaning that while the walkout initially was to affect four key railroads and their subsidiaries, other rail systems could be struck later. Four Lines Involved The four lines on which the walk- out Thursday was ordered are: Chicago and Northwestern Rail- way, including the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway. Terminal Railroad Association of St Louis. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in- cluding the Buffalo Division (form- erly Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts- burgh Railway) and the Bumxlo’1 and Susquehanna district. Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Strike Is Voted ! The union represents 105,000 rail | firemen, enginemen and yardmen,, but only a maximum of 75,000 of | these members are affected in the | current dispute. The union announc- ed Oct. 24 that a membership vote San Diego recruit depot because couldn’t — so an aide, Brig. Gen, with the general happened during Tie Drill Marine Pvt, Billie D. Shelley, 20, (left) gets special drill at the commandant of the whole Marine Corps, to tie his necktic. Sgt. Frank F. Divssel (right) is tie-tying drill master. he asked Gen. Clifton B. Gates, Gates Clayton C. Jerome, did. Now S. The incident a recent inspecticn. (P Wirephoto. PARIS, Nov. 6 — (I — President Vincent Auriol of France opened favored a strike 10 to one. Robertson said. the cONtrOVErsy has been unsettled for two years.| He said that for 13 months there! has been a deadlock on its demands for a general wage increase for all| its members“and a 40-hour week for men in yard service. The latter now work a 48-hour week. Demands Made The union’s most recent demands have been for an 18'% cent hourly general increase, plus an additional 15% cents hourly for men in yard service until such time as the 40- hour work week is adopted in the yard service. | The carriers had offered to meet substantially the union’s money de- wmands but had insisted on working | rules changes to which the union'’ objected. Six Lives Are ‘ Lost, Explosions By the Associated Press Explosions have taken six lives| and injured six other persons, the sixthossesleis tions General Assembly today with an appeal for a Truman-Churchill Stalin meeting in Paris during thi session to disc world tensions. Aurjol told delegates of 60 | tions, gathered in the theater of | the red and gold Palais de Chailiot | that such a meeting would be wel- | comed with joy throughout the, world. Luis Padilla Nervo of Mexico was is elected president of the assembly. | Call for Demo Meel Received in Juneau The official call for divisional and territorial Democratic Party conventions has been received h it was announced by Jefferson- Jackson Club President Walter Her- mansen today, and an important! , club meeting has been scheduled for tomorrow (Wednesday) night. The oificial call came from Cen- tral Chairman Vic Rivers of Anch-| .0 cpokesman said Britain would’ (orage and reached Juneau Demo-|..icome any move toward easing | France's President Calls 'For Truman-Churchill-Stalin Meeling at Paris UN Session At the Douglas Aircraft Company ‘crats via Divisional Chairman Jam- | k geles. 8 a - €5 Nolan of Wrangell. | ::'llcfiolifile]a“ieg;x: :lleix:tal:dnxg;‘::-:i The Jefferson-Jackson Club meets five others, The cause is not known, 8t the Moose Club with Walter| Two blasts at the Independent Hern_mnsen mz_cnm president. Club | Explosives Company of Pennsyl- officials, have issued an urgcn_lt re- | vania, at Scranton, killed two men quest that all members .;md citizens and injured a third. The explo- interested ‘in the political welfare | sions let go shortly after 60 other of thc_ ’rcmtury attend the Wednes- | men had quit work... day night meeting to set up the lo- cal organization of precinct caucuses rand prepare f8r the conventions * 1 The vote was 44 for Padilla Nervo, | |Time 1er Victor Anares selaunde or {Peru -and six for Adolfo Costa du! | Rels of Bolivia. 1 | The French President did not | mention Prime Minister Stalin, Prime Minister Churchill or Presi- dent Truman by name, but re- ferred to them as the “distin- guished men toward whom all | anxious eyes are turned” He added he was sure that a meei- ing of the three in private and { | | Would Call Off Fighting Churchill Says Socialists Leff National Crisis LONDON, Nov, 6—®—Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill declared to- day his new Conservative govern- ment found Britain on the road to “national bankruptey.” He warned the nation it is en- tering a period of emergency during which he will be forced to take “ex- ceptional measures.” “We are convinced,” he told the House of Commons, “that it is necessary to present the facts plainly to the nation in order that everyone might realize where we stand.” In addition to stringent financial action, Churchill said he will ask soon for a secret session of Com- f | mons at which he will give it full information on the country’s de- fense position. % On finances, Churchill said: “We do not believe that a full and frank statement of our posi- tion will aggravate the loss of confidence abroad which has been taking place.” Churchill did not specify what remedies he has in mind. Churchill said Britain has a deficit crisis worse than 1949’s and is running into debt abroad at the rate of nearly $2 billion a year. The pound was devalued in 1943. Churchill opened debate on the traditional speech of the king of the formal opening of the new Parlia- ment. The king's speech, prepared by the government, declared that rising inflation “threatens the maintenance of our defense pro- gram.” Reds Fp Hands 'n Regard io Inrrr Ta!ks Tuww & Just Without Signing Formal Armistice MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 6—(#—The | United Nations Command spokes- man said today the Reds want to call off the fighting in Korea with- out signing a formal armistice. within the scope of the U.N. could make progress at easing tensioms. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei’ Y. Vishinsky at his desk in| the hall as Au spoke. So were | US. Secretary of State Dean Ache- | son, British Foreign Secretary An-| thony Eden, and French Foreign| Minister Robert Schuman. The | western Big Three Foreign Ministers | hurried to the opening session after | {a final conference at the French oreign Ministry to map strategy on an American peace plan which is expected to dominate this session. In London, a British Foreign Of- cast-west tension. President Truman has replied to previous suggestions of a Big Four meeting that he would be glad to meet Stalin in Washing- ton. Stalin never has been willing to go far from the U.S.S.R. There is no indication that either has changed his mind. A cold rain ended and a warm November sun broke through the clouds as delegates drove up in The U.N,, he said,’ will have none of that. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols, the cpokesman, told newsmen the Reds tipped their hand Tuesday when they rejected the latest Allied proposal. That was an offer Monday to set aside the stalemated cease-fire buffer zone issue for the moment and take vp other iiems that must be set- tled before a formal armistice can y be signed. $250,000 Blaze at Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 6—(P —Fire deStroyed the Anchorage City ‘Transit bus garage last night caus- ing damage estimated at $250,000. One hundred volunteer firemen fought the blaze in near-freezing temperatures and kept it from spreading to other buildings in the area. Lost in the fire were nine buses, including a reconditioned one which was scheduled to start the first Anchorage-Seward bus serv- ice tomorrow; one Jeep, 17,000 pounds of mnew spare parts, a newly installed furnace, and the garage itself. Employees saved four other buses by driving them from the garage. Firemen said the fire apparently was started by a workman using an electric drill on a water-filled gas tank. A small quantity of gas left in the tank dripped on the drill and ignited it. There was no ex- plosion but the fire spread quickly through the building. Anchorage Fire Chief George Byrns said a shortage of water hampered fire-fighting efforts. The garage was located inside city limits and Burns said only one hydrant was available. Fire trucks were de- layed reaching the fire scene by misleading information regarding ylocation of the fire, the chief | added. There were no injuries. The Ik was partly covered by insurance. Voters Go ToPolls By the Associated Press | In elections centering largely around state and local elections, | ‘vcters today choose two governors, | | one of them without opposition, four | | members of Congress and scores of mayors. | The off-year elections have been | pretty generally discounted by po- | | litical observers as a tip-off on nex year’s Presidential and Congres- sional elections, ‘The most heat has been generated in several mayoralty and other local | electicns, notably in Philadelphia. The special House of Representa- tives clections are to fill vacancie: caused by deaths or resignations. | They include two in Pennsylvania | tand one in New Jersey, all normally | | Republican, and one in Ohio which | goes either way. | The picture includes: Kentucky — Vice President Bark- MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ’No Political Aspiralioql' Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower tells The SHAPE commander is home at Washington. ® Wirepaoto. PRICE TEN CENTS Legality of $50 Fishing Fees ToHigh Court WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—(M—The Supreme Court has agreed to say whether Alaska may impose a $50 a year license fee on non-resident fishermen when it charges Alaskans only, $5. The US. Circuit Court in San Francisco has held the territory cannot. The circuit court said the higher fée on non-residents was an unconstitutional burden on inter- state commerce. The ruling was given on a suit by the Alaska Fishermen's Union on behalf of some 3,200 members who are non-residents of Alaska and who fish in the territory each year. The Supreme Court review on the dispute was asked in an appeal filed by J. Gerald Williams, attorney general of Alaska. He contended, among other things, that Alaska had shown that “the inconvenience, burden and expense” of. collecting the tax from non-resident fisher-- men is substantially greater than that of collecting from residents. newsmen he has “never had any political aspirations” during stopover at Mitchel Field, N. Y., enroute from Paris.to Ft. Knox, Ky, to visit his son, Capt. John Eisenhower, i to confer with President Truman fiere Is Why Eisenhower (Came fo Us WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — # — Precidént Truman said it was prob- lems of European economic stabil- ity, growing out of the rearming Eisenhower Makes His Stalement When Time Comes He Will Talk on Polifics; L LSkt effort, that brought Gen. Dwight D To Speak for Himself Eisenhower to Washington. | “That is the reason — all the| WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—(®—Gen. | speculation to the contrary — that|Dwight D. Eisenhower said today | i The Re;if wds;r_mnded, N“C_klol” |ley entered the campaign on' behalf (8ald, InMEs inal, formal solu- | of pemocratic Gov. Lawrence Weth- | tion” of ‘hed}’“'fef zone matter be- 'orhy and Lis slate of candidates for | fore proceeding to the rest of Lhc_:“gm othor state offices. Ken- j agenda. Nuckols said this would in ef- an end to the fighting without for talks drag on indefinitely. Nuckols said he felt the Red re- jection was flat and final. Asked how final he thought it was, Nuckols replied: “Only time will say how irrevocable it is.” Nuckols said that in rejecting i fect allow a de facto cease-fire —| | mal agreement — and let armistice | 'one Repubiican edge in registration, | tucky has had only three GOP gov- |ernors in the past 40 years. Pennsylvania Contests Pennsylvania — Despite a two to | Democrats are regarded as having their best chance yet to break the 68-year-old GOP rule in Philadel- phia. The candidates for mayor: Dr. Daniel A. Poling, prominent Baptist minister and writer, Repub- TheWashington: Merry - Go-Round| (Copy:ight, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON W\SQINGTON — How worried | Harry Truman has always been over | General Eisenhower’s running for President was first indicated by a tonversation which Truman had with some of his closest advisers in June 1948 when a move Wwas on! to draft Eisenhower on the Demo- cratic ticket. The conference took placg on the newly built $15000 White House “Back Porch,” then under Repub- | lican fire, and the most important ! adviser present was White House Jester George Allen, who happened to be a good friend both of the President and General Eisenhower. Truman was worried sick over the prospect of Ike's running, and he made little attempt to disguise his worry from those sitting with him in the cool of the June evening. He knew, from political sound- ings throughout the country, that Ike could take the Democratic con- vention easily if he announced. Such | | | i the Allied offer, the Reds asserted lican; Joseph 8. Clark, now city to be held this fall. | shiny cars to the refurbished Palais Fear of Volcano Caused by Sirange Spof on Fujiyama TOKYO, Nov. 6—(P—A black spot | covering about a square mile has appeared ‘near the summit of 12,- 425-foot Fuji, Japan’s sacred moun- tain. Nobody knows what it is. Rag- vented a field investigation. Peo- ple are wondering if the spot is the result of a rise in temperature at the peak and whether the volcano silent more than 1,000 years, might erupt. Quake Recorded in Northern Japan BERKELEY, Calif.,, Nov. 6—(®— The University of California re- located a strong quake recorded today as in northern Japan instead of in South America. on the banks of the Seine. The flags of the 60 member nations fluttered from poles about a pool from which giant fountains sprayed water high in the air. American Plans The American effort to make this cession a decisive one for world peace envisions these moves: A reported proposal for a census of armaments, incliding atom | bombs, under strict international | inspections; investigation on the | scene by a U.N.-appointed commit- tee to find whether conditions in \ing blizzards and 10 below zero givided Germany will permit hold- | temperature on the peak have pre- | {ing of free elections; intensive ef- fort to bring peace to Korea and a drive for conclusion of an Austrian treaty of independence. Auriol made his suggéstion for a meeting of top leaders in a formal speech of welcome to the delegates after the session was opened by last year's president, Nasrollah Entezam of Iran. TIDE TABLES NOVEMBER 7 once a buffer zone was established it would be a mark of “bad faith” for either side to change the boun- dary of the area by military opera- tions. Farm Advisory Board To Meet in Juneau For Planning Talk Four of five members of an ad- visory board for agricultural plan- ning and operations in Alaska will | meet today and tomorrow in the | office of B. Frank Heintzleman, re- gional forester. The group is comprised of Heintzleman, John Irwin, director of research administration for Al- aska, of Palmer; Charles Wilson, Territorial conservationist, of Palm- er; I. M. C. Anderson, of the Farm- ers Home Administration of Anch- orage; and Lynn O. Hollist, director of the Agricultural Extension Ser- vice for Alaska, from College. The work of the group is for the U. S. Department of Agriculture All of the members but Hollist will meet in Juneau, preparatory to Ir- win’s leaving Thursday for a con-| | | controller, Democrat. Also to be elected is a district attorney. The campaign was a bitter one, marked by charges of graft and corruption. ‘The two special House elections are in normally Republican districts. Ohio — Besides the special House election, interest centers on a pro- posal to change the state constitu- tion to give counties more probate judges and on municipal offices and bond issues. The House seat at stake, in the area around Day- ton, has alternated between the Republicans and Democrats. The candidates are Jesse Yoder (D) and Paul C. Schneck (R), both real estate men. New York Crucial New Yofk — Rudolph Halley, who became familiar to millions of tele- vision fans as counsel for the old Senate Crime committee, is making a bid for the New York city council presidency, a post ranking second | be shrinking the adrenal gland, the e to that of mayor. Halley is run- ning on an Independent, Fusion, Liberal party ticket. Virginia — The dominant Demo- | cratic organization headed by U.S.| Senator Harry F. Byrd will retain top-heavy control of the state legis- lature. Mississipph — The election merely | is the reason General Eisenhower came to see me,” Mr. Truman told he National Society of Cartoonists. The President went to the Statler Hotel to address a breakfast meet- !ing of the cartoonists and to thank them for help in defense bond | drives and other government pro- grams. He spoke without a prepared tails of the problems talked over with Eisenhower yesterday. Implicit in his remarks, however | was the question whether U.S. Allie: in Europe can go through with the armament programs they have tackled without upsetting their economies. As the President spoke, Eisen- | as preparing to return tc ; his European Defense Command in | France. His plane took 8ff at 11:21 a.m. | EST. { Up early, Eisenhower had break- | fast with Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, {head of the Central Inteliigence ;Agency. and went out to the Penta- jgon for a final round of confer- ences with military leaders before boarding his plane, By implication, Mr. Truman’s re- marks to Lhe cartoonists contained a sharp rebuke to Congress for (1) cutting his proposed economic aid to Europe, and (2) refusing to |give him all the anti-inflation | powers he had asked. ‘Whal’s Troubling 'You? Here Is All About It By the Associated Press | hower w; A Baltimore physician says it may | Just be the price of civilization ¢ Dr. Curt Richter of John kins hospital - told the Nat | Academy of Sciences at Yale U | versity . . . civilization seems to source of hormones that | stress and fatigue, fight off Baranof from Seattle in port that “if the time ever comes” for him to speak out on politics he'll, 1 so immediately. ! He “declared, however, that “as of vals moment” his job as sup- reme allied commander in Europe is much too important for him to take any political stand. He told a news conference that no one has been authorized to act for him in an Eisenhower-for-Presi- | manuscript and did not go into de- |dent movement, adding that if he ieels it his duty to speak “no one will need to speak for me.” Eisenhower met with reporters a few minutes before taking off in his plane, the “Columbine,” on his return to his headquarters near Paris. He said he spoke on the tele- phone—presumably earlier today— with Senator Duff (R-Pa), a leader in the drive to get the Republican Presidential nomination for Eisen- hower. Eisenhower said he and Duff.dis- cussed “some subjects of mild in- terest” to both of them but when Important Broadcast lBy Truman WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — (B — President Truman will make what is expected to be a highly significant foreign policy .address to the na- tion tomorrow night (7:30 to 8 p.m., PST) from his White House office. It will be carried on all major radio and television networks. It coincides with ghe opening of the United Nations in Paris. Although no further details were given here, it has been speculated both in Washington and Paris that Mr. Truman may outline a new disarmament program, Some believe the proposal will call for a world court of both con- ventional and atomic weapons, among other things, Offensive by Chinese in Korea Spreads U. 8. 8th ARMY HEADQUART- ERS, Korea, Nov. 6—(P—Chinese infantrymen captured a third hill on the expanding western front to- day and held two other peaks against allied counterattacks. : The Reds won three other hills but lost them again. The three-day-old Red offensive spread through drizzling rain over a 20-mile sector. Attacking Reds were supported by their heaviest display of armor in months. They hit United Nations forces from points west of Yonchon, eight miles north of the 38th parallel, to the hills north of Chorwon, western an- chor of their old iron triangle. asked if Duff talked over with him what a reporter called the “Eisen- hower for President boom" the gen- eral replied with a hearty laugh: “No, he didn’t. “I didn’t know it had reached the proportiots of a boom.” Eisenhower said that when he ac- cepted the combined western de- fense command last year he told President Truman he hoped the as- signment wouldn't last “too long.” He declined to say how long he expected to continue in the post, saying “the subject never came up” in his conversations yesterday with President Truman. There has been speculation that sisenhower might give up his Bu- ropean post early next year if Xe | decides to seek a Presidential nom- ination. Troubled with aches and pains?| WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU B At Airport: Maximum, 45; e Minimum, 34. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with rain e showers tonight and Wed- e nesday. Southeasterly winds e from 15 to 25 mph decreasing o Wednesday. Lowest tempera- e ture tonight about 36, high o temperature Wednesday near Chinese attacks Tuesday took ad- vantage of rains and mist which srounded most UN warplanes. The @ifth Air Force reported only 19 successful sorties during the day. Sixteen of these were radar-direct- »d bomb attacks on the Red front. Chinese commanders employed elements of a division (up to 10,000 men) in their assaults in the west. Juneau-Douglas Have Uninfenfional Blackout Juneay and Douglas had a sud- den and unintentional blackout for a half hour last evening from 6:15 intil 6:45 o'clock. For a few min- ites the only lights observed were ‘hose of the freighter Sailor’s Splice, 1t the Alaska Steamship dock and auto lights of a few cars rushing along the streets like a man in a hurry. One by one candles shone through windows like stars coming out. Flashlights were brought into use. Many dinners were interrupted. ‘The cause of the power fallure was undetermined but Alaska-Juheau Mining Co., powerhouse operators said that it may have been caused by an overload on the electric lines. A redistribution of the power load | ing westward during late afternoon. e 42, seemed to solve the problem. The quake, first recorded at ference in Washington, D. C., with 1 ratifies the August Democratic pri- | assorted Democratic leaders as Jim- my Roosevelt in California, Mayor ‘Hague in Jersey City, Senator Olin Johnston of South Carolina, Sen- (Continued on Page 4) 8:4953 a.m. (11:4953 a.m. EST), lasted for two and one-half hours, Seismologist Don Tocher reported. He placed its distance as 5,300 miles from here. :14 am., 18 ft. 01 am., 143 ft. Low tide 00 pm., 54 ft. High tide 59 pm., 14.1 ft. ® 00 000 00 0 0 Low tide 2 High tide 9 3 8 the Department of Agriculture per- taining to farm problems in tli Territory. Irwin, Anderson and Wilson will \arrive in Juneau today. | maries carried by a slate of States |Rights-supporting candidates headed by former Gov. Hugh L (Continued on Page Two) Denalf scheduled to sail from Sec- ¢ PRECIPITATION attle ‘Friday. @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today Princess Louise scheduled to sail e At Airport — 040 inches; Saturday night from Vancouver on| e from July 11582 lnt_:hes. |last trip of season, |00 00 00 0 00 @000 00000000000 rnaccren FROM FAIRBANKS Mr, and Mrs. J. P. Brown of Fair- registered at the Bar- D