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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
TRUMAN STARTING
 WORK ON CAMPAIGN SPEECHES AT SEA
Will Make Address on Labor Day in Detroit
 Feature Outlined
CBy The Associated Press,

President Truman and his White House staff are heading out into the Atlantic today aboard the USS Williamsburg
 The Presidential yacht dropped anchor last night off Cape Hen lopen. Delaware, and tonight it is
 due in the vicinity of Cape Charles Virginia.
 The President has started work on his campaign speeches. Yes terday he began making notes for his Labor Day speeches in De- troit and four other cities ill
 Michigan.
 When MT. Truman appears ii Cadillac Square in Detroit on Labor Day. he is certain to feature a demand for the repeal of the Taft Hartley Labor Act. Also. he will ask for the defeat of the Republi. can leaders who rejected his de- mand for price control rationing land other anti-inflation authority
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
5ITkA PULP MEN, FOREST SERVICE
 PLAN MEETINGS

Officials of the Alaska Industrial Corporation were in Juneau last evening on the George Washington enroute to Sitka to investigate the pulp site in that area. The pulp officials conferred with B. F. Heintz- leman, Regional Forester, in Ketch- ikan and several more conferences letween Forest Service officials and the officers of the Alaska Indus tlial Corporation have been sched- uled for Thursday and Friday.
 .Heintzleman will travel to Sitka on Thursday for an on the ground con- ference with the timber officials and the party will return to Juneau on Friday morning to discuss fur ther arrangements. It is expected that the Forest Service will open the Sitka pulp area to bidding in the near future.
 Officers of the Alaska Industrial Corporation, who were in Juneau last evening were: Paul J. Timbal, President, who is New York rep resentative for Belgian banking in- terest, Roy Johnson. President and engineer for the Corporation and Charles Semal, principal stockholder and technical adviser from Belgium.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
NO ELECTIONS
 FOR RGERMAN5, RUSSIAN ZONE
By EDWIN sHANKE

BERLIN, Aug. z4.-lR-Marshall Vassily D. Sokolovsky announced today that Germans in the Russian Zone will not be allowed to hold community elections this fall.
 The Russian commander said the voting will te put off for one year. It is the first time in the occupation that one Of the four powers has postponed an election. Sokolovsky issued his order over the protests of the zone's two non- Communist parties-the conserva- tive Christian Democrats and the !rightist liberal Democrats. The parties demanded only last week through their press and at open meetings that fin the name of democracy the people be given a chance to vote. "a
 Non- Communist leaders have claimed the Communists want the elections put off because they feared they would suffer a severe defeat. The Communists have claimed the people are ito busy working for recovery" to vote.
 American and German police re- port quiet night at the sector borders after a day marked by several incidents near troubled Potsdamer Plats. where three sec- tor boundaries converge
 However, in the Russian sector unidentified persons stoned the offices of the anti-Communisi Christian Democratic Union, par ty officials reported The Soviet controlled police said they were hunting the culprits.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
INITIATION l RUkBLINC5
 IN WORLD
American Farm Commodity Prices Decline Adding
 to Further Mixups
By RAIDER wINGET

NEW YORK, Aug. 24-tR-A shift lin the American imitation pattern echoes throughout the world in a confused rumbling
 Currencies and commodities are being adjusted to peacetime level from the chaos that grew out of the war.
 The change is not a sudden de- velopment. It has been going on for some time. It will continue. There will be stresses and strains as each country alters its way of life for the best interests of itself and in har- mony with is neighbors. The steady fall in American farm commodity prices has been a power tful lever on the rest of the world. But at the same time the risk in |the industrial price level of the United States pushed the world the ether way.
 In yesterdays market, the list Of commodities that declined is im-
  pressive: eggs, butter. wheat, corn, oats, rye, soybeans, lard, cottonseed oil. wool, cotton, coffee, cocoa and hides.
 New lows for the season were made in the Chicago futures market for corn, oats, soybeans, lard and some deliveries of wheat. Cotton fell be- low the average level at which the government is pledged to support the market with loans to farmers.
 But at the same time, the total production of goods and services s,l the United States in the second quarter this year was reported by the Department of Commerce at an annual rate of $248, 900 000, ,000---a new ifcord There are no indications that the rise is slackening.
 A major part of that increase in the dollar volume of production was laid at the door of imitation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
EIe(fion in Three Staies
 In Progress
Chief Interest Ceniers in Mississippi Demo Primary
fBy The Associated Pressl

Three states-South Carolina Mississippi and New York held primary elections today with state and congressional posts at stake
 In South Carolina. the Democratic primary was a runoff affair to set tie contests in which candidates failed to get the required majority for nomination in the regular pri- mary two weeks ago. Forty state legislators and U. S. s. represen- tative are to be nominated.
 Voting was expected to be light in both Mississippi and New York
 Lack of big issues and statewide fights was the chief reason.
 Both Republican and Democratic parties held primaries in New York, but several of the states prominent congressman were unopposed. A to- tai of Al seats in Congress and the state legislature were at stake in contested races.
 Chief interest ill Mississippi's Democratic primary-where nomi- nation is tantamount to election centered on the bid of veteran Rep. John E. Rankin for another term from the first congressional district. Rankin, white supremacy advocate and foe of Communists, faced two rivals.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
ON HIKE TO tIvILIzATI0N;
 LOCATED BY RCAF

EDMONTON, Alta, Aug. 24.-tR "A 60-year-old Washington, D. c. man who flew northward from Edmonton two weeks ago in search of spot where he could get away from civilization. bumped homeward on horseback today.
 When V. G. Murray gets back, he'll have some explaining to do to the RCAF. which spent more than $35,000 looking for him. His twin -engined Cessna aircraft van- 'ished August after he filed a flight plan to Grande Prairie, Alta, 240 miles northwest of here, on what he said was the first leg oi a trip to Fairbanks, Alaska.
 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers found Murray at Lonley Nose Creek, 75 miles southwest Of Grande Prairie and well off his announced course. He appeared none the worse for his l6-day out ing.
 The plane, well-stocked with sup plies when it left Edmonton, is still missing. News of its fate, and the story of Murray's back-to- nature holiday. will have to await completion ol the 50-mile trek to Wembley nearest outpost of the civilization he left two weeks ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
Employee of American
 Consulate in Jerusalem
 Kidnapped, Mistreated
By CARTER L. DAVIDSON

JERUSALEM, Aug. 24.-lR The U. s. Consul General here has pro- tested to the Jewish Governor of Jerusalem that the Stern Gang kidnapped and mistreated an Ameri- can consulate employee Sunday.
 The Consul General, John J. Mac Donald, said the Sternists seized George F. Paro, confidential clerk in the consulate and held him for seven hours during which time they handcuffed, blindfolded and slapped and questioned him.
 An Israeli Army source said the Sternists Kidnapped Paro and call ed him a damn British spy be- cause he bears faint resemblance to a British detective who left Palestine four months ago.
 After Paro, a 33-year-old resident of Granville, N. r., was released by the Sternists he was held for another nine hours by Israeli mili- tary police Asked why the Army had held him so long, a spokes- man replied:
 To clear up such mystery in nine hours is not bad police work .'
 Macdonald said he had filed a full report of the incident with the State Department and had sent a strongly worded protest to Dr. Ber- hard Joseph, the Jewish Military Governor in Jerusalem.
 The Stern Gang, an extremist underground organization during the British mandate, joined the Israeli Army inside the State of Israel, but continues to operate m- derground in Jerusalem
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
HISS CHAMBERS
 C0NTR0vER5Y E
 AGAIN TAKEN UP
Ex-Communist Louis Blu. denz Gives Further
 Testimony
(By The Associated Press,

Ex-Communist Louis Budenz testified before the House Un- American Activities Committee to- day.
 The former editor of the Con- munist Daily Worker testified in secret session for 40 minutes on what has been labelled by Committee members as the Hiss Chambers controversy"
 A former Communist now employ ed by Time Magazine. Whitaker Chambers, has testified that Alger Hiss was a leader in an alleged Communist underground organized among federal employees before the war. Hiss, former high-ranking State Department official, has test flied he never was a Communist. Both gave their testimony under oath.
 Hiss and Chambers will face each other at public hearing tomorrow. Budenz probably will be on hand.
 Budenz, who renounced Commu- nism and returned to the Catholic Church. has testified frequently be- fore the House Committee since his conversion. He refused to tell news men what he said today. But Re- publican representative Richard Nixon of California said
 MT. Budenz was able to testify on the Hiss Chambers controversy and was able to contribute valuable information to. the Committee
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
BUDGET FOR UN E
 HANDED IN BY LIE


 LAKE SUCCESS. Aug 24.-R- Secretary General Trygve Lie ask ed today for s33,469.587 to operate the United Nations in 1949.
 The figure is about a million dollars under the l948 budget and generally compares with the an- nual expenditures of states such as Arizona, Idaho. Rhode Island and Vermont.
 Lies figures go before the 58- nation General Assembly in Paris next month for approval. Despite the slash, moves already are under way in the U N. to cut the total still more. The first of these came in a report from the Assembly, s advisory budgetary committee which believes million and half can be Topped off.
 The United Nations is financed by its member nations in -accord- ance with scale of contributions based on the ability to pay. The United States pays the largest share-about 39 percent
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
! SUPPLY PLANE5, BERLIN BLOCKADE,
 COLLIDE; 4 DEAD

RAVOTZHAUSEN, Germany. Aug. 24-tR Two American planes on the supply run to blockaded Berlin coi- lided outside this American Zone town today, killing four U. s. fliers.
 Five American fliers have been killed previously in two accidents on the air run since the Russians block aded Berlin late in June.
 The planes were two-engined CATS. They plunged into cornfields, around this villarge which is IA miles northeast of Frankfurt. The planes were returning to Wiesbaden from Berlin, where they had de- livered supplies.
 Names of the victims were with held
 Hours after the collision, flames from the wreckage prevented re- moval of the bodies. Rescuers could see only one boey in the tangle Of debris.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
BeuIah 1. OvereII
 To Wed Policeman


 LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24-tR Beulah Louise Ayerall 19-year-olc heiress, will marry Los Angeles policeman next May or June.
 Miss Overall, acquitted with for mer fiance of murder charges in the yacht blasts deaths of her parents discloses her engagement to Robert Cannon, 28, former Air Force gum nery instructor and a radio patrol man for the past two years
 .- This is the real thing" Mss Over ell remarked. T love Bob very much He has terrific sense of humor '
 She added that Bob proposed to her last Friday and she accepted.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
VANCOUVER BANK
 ROBBED BY THREE
 MEN WHO E5CApE

VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 24.--- R-Police pressed the search today TOT three men who robbed the Broadway branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce yesterday. An unofficial estimate set their take at STOOD.
 Martin Lingor, a truck driver who saw the men emerge from the bank, identified three pictures from police files last night as those of the holdup men. Police said more than $500 was found on the street neaf the bank.
 Bank clerks said two of the men held pistols on employees and about half dozen customers while the third man vaulted over a counter and stuffed money from tellers' cages into Shopping bag
 They ran from the bank and drove away in a maroon car, Lin gor told police.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
STR IKE TALK
 ALONG COAST IS SPREADING
Go-fo -fo-Meeiing Work Siop- pages byIhousands
 Are Ordered

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 24.--tr A go-to-meeting work stoppase by thousands of longshoremen step ped up the volume of strike talk along the West Coast waterironts today.
 Harry Bridges CIO longshore- men will lay off jobs at major West Coast ports tonight and to- morrow to attend membership meetings on deadlocked contract negotiations.
 Representatives of coastwise union caucus will report their recommendations: reject live cent |an hour wage increase proposal and boycott National Labor Re- lations Board election on that em- ployer offer
 The NLRB went ahead with plans for the balloting But neither un-
 ,Continltcd on E;age Slxl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Freighter Square Sinnet, from Seattle, due at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon.
 Prince George, from Vancouver due at ' o'clock tonight, leaving at 1145.
 Aleutian, from Seattle, due at 8:30 o'clock tonight.
 Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday.
 Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle Thursday.
 Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday.
 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
4Laska Longshoren1en Ciuen Increase Ln Pay
Rebuilding of Salmon Run Is Now Being Undertaken by pr.
 Thompson, Three Alaska Areas

Hopeful of restoring to it's past glory Alaskas depleted salmon run, Dr. w. F. Thompson, fisheries re- search professor at the University of Washington and Director of the Fisheries Research Institute, has three scientific field parties at work on projects in Bristol Bay, Kodiak Island and Southeast Alaska this summer.
 Dr. Thompson, who arrived in Juneau over the weekend from the western Alaska projects which he hated to leave because the interest of his students was so intense on
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug. 24. tR-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3's, American Can 82, Anaconda 369s, Curtiss- Wright 9s., International Harvester 29H, Kennecott 59. New York Central l7h. Northern Pacific 22A U. s. Steel ITS, Pound $4.03h.
 Sales today were 62O.O00 shares.
 Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials l82.5s. rails 60.9O. util- ities 3466.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
TALK WITH STAIN I5
 BENEFICIAL ]
Conference at kremlin Re. ported FruitfuI-Neqo-
 tiations 10 Continue
By EDDY GILMORE

MOSCOW. Aug. 24. tR-A quail fled source said the Western en- voys and Russia have reached a general area of agreement during talks climaxed early today by a four hours and 40 minutes Krem- lin interview with Prime Minister Stalin
 The informant said technical ities lie ahead for adjustment but that they are not trifles and will require considerable negotiation.
 U. S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith emerged from the Kremlin in a buoyant mood at 40 a. m. and declared we're going to have more meetings"
 He added later:
 We're always optimistic. We expect the best and prepare for the worst"
 The envoys have been trying since late July to find bases for lifting the land blockade Russia imposed on Berlin and for Four Power talks on Germany and per- haps other pronlenas in Europe 2
 Situatish Easing s
 The informant said the seven Krenalin conferences, two of which included Stalin, have fair" chance of resulting in solid agree ment. He said prospects are far better today than they were at this time yesterday before Smith, French Ambassador Yves Chatafgneau and British Envoy Frank Roberts saw Stalin.
 Some progress has been made, the source said. ~ -'
 He declared there is no cause for pessimism
 The source said the Western Powers and the Soviets now have reduced their terms to the lowest denominator" Had no progress been made last night and early today. he added, the current series of conversations would have end- ed
 It had been stated on good au- thority before the meeting last night that the session would be the last.
 Stalin's New Ideas
 (Whitehall sources in London said Stalin introduced certain new ideas which offer hope for an East-West settlement in Berlin. The introduction of these unex- plained new thoughts dispelled fear that the diplomatic exchanges would break down, the informants said They added that prolonga- ton of the Moscow negotiations averted potentially explosive in- ternational situation, at least tenn porarily)
 It was stressed that despite the length of the talks, the delicacy of the subject and the frankness exhibited by both Stalin and the Western diplomats. there has been no loss of temper.
 The conversations have been cor rect and polite.
 Indications here were that the Four Powers may. issue a public statement shortly On the talks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
FROM MICHIGAN

Elizabeth Stack from Detroit and Lila M Neurenfeldt of Dearborn. Mich. arrived on PNA from An chcragc and are at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
Two Army Pliers
 Are Killed, Crash

SAN ANTONIO. Tex, Aug. 24-R Two army fliers were killed yes- terday afternoon when Randolph Air Force base training plane crashed one mile north of Selma.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
FROM MONTANA

w. A. Carlson from Helena. Mon tana, is a Juneau visit, and at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
 SIGNED BY
 5 PARTIES
Agreement Will Run for eeYears-Strike Won't
 Effett Alaska Ports

SEATTLE, Aug. 24.--H-A new contract providing increased pay for longshore work in Alaska is an- nounced by spokesmen for two un-
 ions and three shipping compan- | ies
 William Gettings. International Representative of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union tCIO) and Edward G. Dob- rim. representing the companies. said the agreement would run two years with possible wage reviews each six months.
 Gettings said the agreement assured continuation of longshore work in Alaska. even though Pac- fife Coast ports may be closed by Ia strike Sept. 3, but that it did mot mean that longshoremen in Seattle would work Alaska -bound ships i'll event of strike.
 The agreements are with the Alaska Stea ship Company. Alaska Transportation Company and the Northland Transportation Company.
 Gettings said longshoremen were granted a l6,a cent hourly ware increase. bringing the hourly scale Ito $2.i2 for straight time and S3.l8 for overtime Hiring procedure is unchanged
 Dobrin said the wage increase is conditioned and may be adjusted to conform with final figures reach- ed in coast-wide contracts here. A l5-cent differential paid in Alaska will be mstntained, however he said.
 Dohrin said similar agreement had been reached with the Inter- national Longshoremens Association tAFLJ so shat all rorts in Alaska will be covered.
 Gettirigs said 600 to TOO long shoremen ill nine CIO locals are among those affected.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
LOCAL AGREEMENT

The Publicity Committee for Lo- cal ll6 of the International Long, shoremen and Warehousemen's Un- ion ill Juneau announces that the proposed agreement with Alaska shipping companies was ratified yesterday at a meeting of Local li6 Provisions of the pact be- came effective as of 8 o'clock yes terday morning.
 Of paramount importance. the agreement IS designed to lessen the possibility of longshore strike affecting Alaska cargo
 Provisions of the pact include: CD Restoration of l5 percent dif- ferential; t2j Fifteen cents an hour increase on the basic wage.
 t0 Straight time rate. including vacation money, Will be $2.l3 per hour: t4) Overtime will be time and one-fialf of straight time; 6, The present hiring system will be continued.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24

" WASHINGTON- The U. S. has a trumping ace up it's sleeve in the fateful battle of. Berlin.
 While nothing has been said about it publicly. it is certain now that the Allied zones of the city can be amply supplied by airlift throughout the winter.
 That includes both fuel and food. Already. the spectacular airlift is laying down 4.000 tons daily of these supplies. A minimum of 4,500 tons is required. This figure will be definitely attained by Oc- tober l, under, present U. s. and British plans. By that date, the necessary transport planes, person. mel, and ground facilities will be in operation to ensure a delivery of at least 4,5O0 tons of supplies every day regardless of weather conditions.
 The program calls for the U. s. to transport $500 tons and the British 1900 tons.
 NEPOTISM
 Republican Sen Edward V. Rob-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-24
The w aShinqton Merry Go Round
BY ROBERT s. ALLEN

Copyright i94s by The Bell Syndicate.
 Incl Editors Note = While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation The Washington Merry-Go- Round is being written by his old partner, Robert s. Alleno WASHINGTON The U. s. has
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their program has ample reason on which to base his hopes for success.
 Working with the International Fisheries Commission during the sos, he was instrumental in re- building the North Pacific halibut run. He was first in Alaska as student ill connection with hali- but studies in 1916 and the terrific weather of that winter he still recalls.
Evening star., 1948-06-20

with their ineager evening meal.
Hhen she was 10, her father died,
and the lady who came from the
orphanage said that there would
not be room to take the picture with
them. The little girl cried all the
30 miles to the orphanage, and when
she arrived there, she would not
talk to any one or eat anything for
two days, so broken-hearted was
she to have parted with the picture
Finally kind nurse explained to
her that q. lady as good and beauti-
full as her mother must have been
was probably in Heaven. She told
the girl that she could pray to her
mother and then she would not need
the picture to remind her. So the
little girl did pray, and at night she
dreamed of her lovely mother with
soft brown curls and tender blue
eyes and white party dress.
Sometimes she fought with the
other children. Once she hit a boy
because he said his mother had been
the prettiest lady in the world. She
sat on top of him until he admitted
that his mother had not had brown
curls and blue eyes and white
party dress. And then she went to
her room and sobbed, Mother,
Mother, darling"
When she was IS she left the
orphanage and went to work for a
wealthy dowager. The dowager
lived in a large, dark mansion with
precise green lawns. The woman
lived with daughter and son,
and the three people had 20