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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
RIp-R0ARING OIL
 WELL GAS FIRE E
 CONTROLLED, MUD

HOUSTON, Tex, March 24.-tR- Weary workmen smothered rip roaring oil well gas fire with mud sarly today, more than nine hours after it burst into flame.
 The tlaze shook South Houston homes late yesterday, lighted up she night sky and tied up traffi~ m the area for hours.
 The fire began in a bursting flash shortly after 6 pm. Witness ss called it "a heck of a startling sight, The bright yellow glare could be seen more than 20 miles.
 The fire was thought to have been subdued twice, but came roaring pack to life, hissing it's way into the air
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
GO AHEAD ON PLANS
 REARMING
Administ tratiOn Told 10 Help Friendly Countries
 Extent of Two Billion
By JOHN scALI


 WASHINGTON, March 24.-tR- Top economic officials have told the administration it can go ahead with plans to ask Congress for up to 2,000.0o0,000 to rearm friendly countries.
 The National Resources Board and other key government agencies re- ported after a careful study of all factors, officials disclose that an arms program of that scope will not upset the nations economy.
 The study Iound that the United States possesses enough resources, manpower and industrial capacity to undertake such rearmament of Europe without resorting to govern ment controls such as rat.oning and allocations- and without causing any further imitation.
 The American weapons would go 70 the foreign nations participat- ng in the North Atlantic alliance, plus Greece, Turkey and Iran.
 Officials said the cost study now Is being revised to take into ac- count continuing price drops in the United States, which are expected to increase the margin of safety noted in the earlier conclusion.
 Assistant Secretary of State Err nest Gross currently is drawing up foreign military aid program call ing for Congress to appropriate rom $1,250,00O,000 to $500 ,OoO, ,0O0 sor the North Atlantic countries for he year starting July 1.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
FIRE SWEEPS HOTEL; TWO PERSONS KILLED

WAVERLY, TENN, March "A 1.-Two persons were killed when fire swept through the Dixieland Hotel here early today.
 One man was killed in leap from the second floor of the two- story frame structure, and the oth- CT was found dead in his room from smoke and fumes.
 Some 20 persons escaped from the blazing structure without injury.
 The deputy identified the dead as G. B. Reed of Goodlettsville, and Aniel Lewis of Memphis.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
Objection 10 veis'
 Homesieads Alaska

SEATTLE, March "A. -tRI A measure before Congress allowing veterans to take big homesteads in parts of Alaska would complicate Alaska's infant pulp industry, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce says.
 The Chamber announced it op- posed the measure, House Resolu- tion l549, which would allow veter- ans to homestead on tracts from 320 to 2,560 acres per person.
 John Perry, chairman of the chambers Alaska division, said if the measure passes, pulp compan- ies would have to deal with hum dreds of small timber owners in- stead of with one government agen- <Vxr
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
17-Year-0Id Girl Admiis, Describes
 Murder of Father

SEATTLE, March 24.-IR-Sheriff Harlan s. Callahan says he has a statement from 17-year- Loretta Minneker admitting the fatal stab- ping of her father, and describing the staying and the events which preceded it.
 Willis E. Minneker, 54-year-old shingleweaver, was clubbed with a milk bottle and stabbed with a butcher knife in his north end home Tuesday night.
 Callahan said he had this version from the 180-pound high school girl:
 Feeling faint after four tooth ex- fractions, the girl had gone With .er father and mother to tavern on Minneker's suggestion that wine might brace her up. She had some double sherries and beer.
 The three returned home and a quarrel started. The girl hit her father on the head with bottle, then drove the butcher knife into his chest.
 Callahan said he had a similar statement from Loretta's S i0-year Told sister Judith who was also in the house at the time.
 Both Loretta and her mother said Minneker had been quarreling with them over a period of about two months.
 Some of the argument, they said, centerec about Rodney Harold Carl son, 29, described as Loretta's boy friend"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
RUTH w. ALEXANDER
 RETURNS FROM TRIP
 THROUGH WASHINGTON

After an absence from Juneau for several weeks, Mrs. Ruth w. Alexander returned from Seattle via PA on March 2Oth, following a aheckup at the Mason Lee clinic.
 During the time away from Ju- oeau. Mrs. Alexander visited her son who is dean of dramatics at the Whitman College at Walla Walla. She left Juneau February 22nd. travelling via PA.
 Mrs Alexander is director of the choir of the Northern Light Pres bvterian Church.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
CONTROL OF
 RENTS GETS | BIG BOOST
Senate Approves Bill for 12 10 IS Months Exten-
 sion-To Conference
By MARVIN L. ARRowsMITH

ny 4NAhAtt AlN U. [4tAtNI w oANAA A "A
 WASHINGTON, March 24.-tR- Democratic leaders today called the Senate-approved hill to extend rent controls 12 to IS months "a pretty good job However, they didn't like the provision allowing home rule iecontrol any time.
 The Senate passed the bill last night, 68 to 10. It permits some cent increases up to 10 per cent.
 Senate action sent the bill back to the House, which already has approved a measure to continue rent controls Is months beyond March 31, when the present ren. aw expires.
 UP TO COMPARES
 The House bill differs in several respects from the Senate's, so con- ferees from the two branches of Congress have to work out a com- promise before the legislation can go to the White House.
 The Senate House conference group plans to get together to- morrow.
 Twenty three Republicans joined 45 Democrats in ramming the Sen ate bill through. All the 10 votes against it were cast by Republicans including Sen. Gordon (Ore).
 Administration leaders succeeded n batting down most amendments hey contended would cripple rent control. But they came out on the short end of a couple of counts, too
 TURN DOWN TRUMAN
 In one case, the Democrats de- serted President Truman in large numbers. That was on an amend nent hy Senator Magnuson O. Wash) to continue rent controls two years as MT. Truman asked.
 That proposal was swamped, 75 to 10. Among others, Senator Lucas (D.-Ill), the majority leader, vot- cd against it. So did 38 other Demo- rats and 36 Republicans. The 10 gotes for the amendment were all " Democrats.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
MINERS ARE ORDERED TO
 GO TO WORK

PITTSBURGH, March 24.-lA- John L. Lewis today ordered his 463,00 idle coal miners to return to work Monday.
 An executive order to district offi- CTS said:
 The present memorial period will terminate Monday, March 28. Pro- duction may then be resumed in all mines and all members should make themselves available for work n that date"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

tCopyright, lS4s. by Bell Syndicate. Incl WASHINGTON = One of the neatest ways of reducing your in- come tax, while simultaneously operating a powerful lobby has just been disclosed on Capitol Hill.
 It is the Foundation for Econ- omic Education, run by some of the biggest corporations in the USA, and which has been flood ing the country with propaganda aimed at undermining the Marshall Plan, rent control, aid to educa- tion and social security.
 The list of contributors has been kept closely guarded secret. This column, however, has secured a copy, and can reveal the fact that the packers of this lobby include General Motors, Standard Oil Of New Jersey, Ford, General Electric,
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
CLASS INSTRUCTIONS. CHURCH MEMBERSiliP,
 BE HELD ON FRIDAY

The class of Instruction for mem- bership in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church will meet trl- day afternoon at o'clock at the Church. All members Of the class are urged to be present and on time. Anyone else desiring to join the class are cordially invited. \
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
STEAMeR MOVEMENTS

Princess Norah from Vancouver scheduled to arrive at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon and sails for Skag- way at 1l:30.
 Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday.
 Baranof scheduled scuthboInd late Sunday or Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
WEATHER REPORT TIT n esyR srtxRn orvurArr

(U- D. WEATHER BUREAU This data is for 24-hour pe- . riod ending 6:30 am. PSF.
 . In Juneau Maximum, 45;
 . minimum, 35.
 . At Airport Maximum, 43,
 . minimum, 36.
 . F o R E c A S T . tJsneau and Vicinity . Mostly cloudy with light . rain showers occasionally . mixed with snow tonight . and Friday. Lowest tonight . near 35 degrees. Highest Fri . day near 40 degrees.
 PR E ClP TAT ION
 . tPast 24 hours ending 7;3o am. today In Juneau .l9 inches, . since March 1. 3l2 inches, . since July l, 95.l2 inches. . At the Airport Trace, . since March l, 109 inches; . since July 1, 5939 inches.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
Veterans Pensions
 SheIved
Friends of Rankin Measure Hope, However, 10
 Get Another Vote

WASHINGTON, March 24.-tR- The House voted today to shelve the Rankin Veterans Pension bill, but friends of the measure immed- lately sought a new vote.
 It adopted, I'll to l68, by teller vote, a motion by Rep. Teague tD- Tex) to strike out the bills enacting clause.
 Ordinarily, that is killing ac- tion, but Teague said he intended it only as a preliminary to mo- tion to send the bill back to the Veterans Committee for further study
 After the teller vote on which the members are not recorded, Teague moved to send the bill back to committee.
 A roll call vote was ordered on that motion.
 In the debate before the first vote, Rep. Rankin (D-Mlss), auth of the bill, shouted that T'eague need not kid himself.'
 "If this motion is adopted, that kills this legislation for this Con- gress," Rankin said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
sIIELvED BY l VOTE

SIIELVED BY VOTE
 WASHINGTON, March 24-tR-- By a one-vote margin, the House shelved the Rankin Veterans Pen sion B.ll.
 A roll-call vote of 208 to POT sent the measure back to the Veterans Committee for further study
 It is possible for the Veterans Committee to write new bill and send it lack to the House at later date.
 But Chairman Rankin (D.-Miss) told the House the vote to recom- init meant that the bill is dead.
 That kills this legislation for this congress- Rankin said.
 Rankin's bill already had been so amended that it bore little re- semblance to his original proposal for $9O a month pensions at age 65 to all World War One and World War Two veterans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24
AT TIFF GAsTINEAU

Larry Lindstrom of Ketchikan IS registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-24

tContinued on Psse FOur'
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15

Steel Industry
Antics Hit By
Wall ST. Weekly

, New York (LPA)-The steel in.
dustry remains unloved" and is
guilty of "bad public relations" ir
its antics before the Presidential
fact-finding board in the steel wage
and pension dispute.
That's not the word of the Unit
ed Steelworkers, but of the influ-
entail Wall Street paper-Barron's
Natl Business & Financial Weekly
The paper declared "the public
has been treated in the Headlines
to the spectacle of one steel COM
pany president after another get
ting up on his feet to impugn the
motivations of the members of the
board and complain about the pro-
ceedings in manner that must
cause howls of joy at union head
quarters"
In fact, the business journal
says fearfully, "for the managers
to have tantrums in public life like
a group of maladjusted children
can only strengthen the hand of
those enemies of the steel industry
who are striving for its national
ization."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
AEL Auto Workers
Local Wins First
All Union Shop

Grand Haven, Mich. ILNS).-
Local 671 of the AFL United Auto
mobile Workers of America, has
signed a new contract with the
Camfeld Manufacturing Co., estab-
fishing the first union shop agree
ment in the area.
Companies in the Grand Haven
region had thus far presented a
solid wall of opposition to this
type of union security and the ac-
complishment of Local 671 cannot
be praised too highly. In addition,
the able bargaining committee ne
gotiated 6 paid holidays, a gradu-
ated yearly bonus, a group hospi-
talization and accident insurance
plan, and a general wage increase.
This latter gain takes the form of
5 cents boost for day workers
and an increase of 15 cents an
hour on piece work base rates.
The new contract also contains
liberal paid vacation provisions
and company-wide seniority affect
ing the two Camfeld plants in
Grand Haven. UAW-AFL Seventh
Regional Representative George
Murphy, who assisted the local bar
gaining committee, characterized
the new pact as one of the finest
in all of Western Michigan.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Auto Workers Can
Strike Ford Co.

Detroit (LPA) - United Auto
Workers is legally free to call a
strike at the Ford Motor Co. any
time now. The only requirement is
that Ford be given five days
notice.
The Michigan State Mediation
Board last week lifted a 30-day
limit on the auto unions right to
strike after Ford and UAW jointly
submitted a day-to-day contract
extension agreement on which they
have been operating. The agree
ment, the board said, made it pos
sible to waive the 30-day strike
limit of the Trip law.
When Michigan Ford workers
took strike vote under the law,
80 days ago, they indicated seven
to one that they would walk out
if necessary to back up their de-
mands for a $1O0 monthly retire
ment pension and wage increase.
Negotiations have been continuing
on and off since June 2, with no
progress whatever.
Meanwhile, UAW has announced
that a contract termination notice
will be filed with the Chrysler
Corp. next week. Union officials
estimate that Chrysler workers
will vote between 1870 and $50
in favor of a strike.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
White Collar Overtime
Rule Changes Are Planned

Washington (LPA)-That ages
old custom of calling a S45-a-week
office worker an executive" and
refusing to pay him overtime had
another setback this week, when
Wages-Hour Administrator Will
lam McComb announced proposed
changes in the executive" and
professional and other such ex-
emptions from the federal wage
hour law.
Production workers who've been
upgraded to jobs as checkers, load
ers, and inspectors also have been
the victims of employers who call
them administrative" workers and
refuse to pay them overtime.
The regulations, which affect q
100000 men and women, will
change the salary level at which
an employer can cut.
Executive" employees are defined
as those who spend at least 500
of their time in managerial func-
tions. To be exempt from the over
time after-40-hours regulation, an
executive employe would have to
earn at least S55 a week. Now, the
cutoff of overtime begins with $50
a-week workers.
Administrative" employees are
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
NLRB Ruling Norrows Poffern
For Dispufes Over Jurisdiction

Washington, (LPA) - A Natl
Labor Relations Board trial exam
iner has found two AFL building
trades unions guilty of engaging in
jurisdictional strikes in violation of
the Taft Hartley act.
The board announced that this
was the first ruling by a trial ex-
aminer on the section of the act
forbidding jurisdictional strikes
and boycotts as unfair labor prac-
tices. The ruling could be inter
preted as setting pattern within
which unions would have to oper-
ate.
The ruling grew out of charges
brought by the Int'l Assn of Ma
chinists, Independent, against the
Los Angeles Building & Construc-
tion Trades Council and the Mill
wright & Machinery Erectors
Union, Local 1907, an affiliate of
the AFL Carpenters.
The lam said that two machin-
lists were forced to quit work on a
power plant near Los Angeles by a
strike of $50 AFL craftsmen who
claimed the machinists' jobs be-
longed to the millwrights.
The machinists were employed
by Westinghouse Electric to install
a steam-turbine generator. Pre-
viously, the fve-man NLRB had
ruled that Westinghouse could not
be forced to give the machinists'
jobs to the millwrights union, such
a ruling being necessary before a
charge of unfair practice through
illegal boycott or jurisdictional
strike can be prosecuted. 1t was at
this point that the trial examiner
entered the picture.
The trial examiner in his decis-
ion found that both the trades
council and the millwright union
were guilty of having engaged in
jurisdictional strikes and of having
induced employees both of WeSting-
house and other employers on the
job to engage in such strikes.
He recommended that sue h
strikes cease, and his recommended
ton had the force of an NLRB
order enforceable in a US Court
of Appeals unless contested within
20 days.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15

defined as those doing "office or
nonmanual field work directly re-
lated to management policies or
general business operations of en-
ployer or employers customers"
for at least 500 of their work
time. The cutoff of overtime be-
gins above $75 a week, instead of
the present 5000 month salary.
A professional" worker is des-
cribed as a man or woman having
as his primary duty (a) work re-
quiring knowledge of an advanced
type in a field of science or learn
ing, or (b) must perform original
work in an artistic field" for at
least 6036 of the working time.
Cutoff of overtime would begin at
$75 a week instead of the present
$500 a month.
The new regulations, which are
part of what was urged by United
Electrical Workers in their petition
which started the changes, are now
subject to appeals by labor and
management representatives for a
30-day period. At the end of this
time, the Wage-Hour Administra
tor must decide whether to put
them into effect, hold further hear
ings, or modify them.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Union, Company
Boast relationship

Ripon, Wis. (LPA) - Because
they get along so well, Local 1927
of the Steelworkers and the man
agement of the Barlow & Seeling
Manufacturing Company decided
they ought to tell the town about
it.
Each took an lad" in the local
newspaper to describe the harmon
ious relations. The company declar-
ed 1--WE have come to appreciate
each others problems and work to-
gether for mutually satisfactory
solution" Also, it asserted that
the excellent workmanship" of the
trade unionists had helped greatly
in boosting the sales of the COM
pany's washing machines.
The union said it Cooked for
ward each year" to negotiations
with management on new con-
tract. "We know that fairness will
be the watchword in all our deal
ings and that the final contract will
be above the average trend OF
labor conditions" The union said
management officials "know the
grievances of working men and
are human enough to do something
about it." Union and company have
been bargaining collectively for IL
years.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Airline Foremen
May Organize,
Rail Board Rules

Washington (LPA)-A preced-
ent-making decision sustaining the
right of foremen in air transport
to organize and bargain collective
ly has been issued by the National
Mediation Board, which administ-
ers the Railway Labor Act. That
act governs both the airlines and
railroads.
The ruling-a victory for the In
ternational Association of Machin-
ists-was issued in a case involving
foremen on the Northwest Airlines.
The board ruled that 81 employees
who are in supervisor jobs have
the right to union representation.
Unlike the Taft Hartley act, the
Railway Labor act makes it fully
legal for subordinate officials TO
organize-and the board classified
the 81 in that capacity. 1t ordered
an election to determine whether
or not they want the lam as their
bargaining agency. The decision
opens the way for organization of
foremen on other airlines.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Asks Superior Unity"

Rome (LPA)-In a radio mess.
age to the Congress of German
Catholics at Bochum, Pope Plus
XII urged German workers to
strive for the day when labor
unions will be able to "cease to
function"
Terming unions organizations
of self-defense," he said that the
aim of the Catholic church was to
eliminate the apparent contradic-
tions between capital and labor"
in favor of "a superior unity" The
present time is conductive to such
development, the Pope said, be-
cause thru the experience of war
the Contrasts of classes have been
mostly eased and men have ap-
preached closer to each other"
Vatican spokesmen stressed the
Importance of the message and
pointed out that the Pope was in
no way opposing organized labor
but was condemning the economic
conditions that made defensive
necessary.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Labor Board Rules
Go. Can't Refuse
Pension Bargaining

Washington (LPA)-An employ
er must bargain on pensions Sin
the absence of a specific waiver OF
the unions right to bargain"
That's what the Natl Labor Re-
lations Board said in a ruling
signed by all five members order
ing the Tide Water Associated Oil
Co. to bargain with the Employees
Assn, Inc, an independent union,
on the exact terms of the COM
pany's retirement allowance plan
for workers at the firms Bayonne
N. j., refinery.
Labor men in Washington wond-
cred whether the barons of steel
would read the decision, or wheth-
er the chiefs of the automobile and
coal industries would give it a look.
This is the first decision of its
kind in the oil industry, but it is
the fourth such pension decision
which the board has issued. The
trial examiner knocked down Tide
Waters attempt to use clause in
the union contract giving the COM
pany Exclusive functions" on re-
firing employees as bar against
talking pensions.
The examiner said that this
clause did not constitute a waiver
by the union of the right to de-
mand that the company bargain
on pensions and he was upheld by
the NLRB.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Protest Grows On
u. S. Use OF Non
Union Greenbaeks

Washington.-Government agen-
cies responsible for printing United
States currency on nonunion paper
have been asked to take "correc-
tive steps" Immediately by Sena-
tor James E. Murray of Montana.
Mr.. Murray was the fifth Sena-
tor to demand an end of nonunion
money. Similar demands were voic-
ed previously by Senator Claude
Pepper of Florida, Hubert H.
Humphrey of Minnesota, Paul H.
Douglas of Illinois and Matthew
NJ. Neely of West Virginia.
81 was shocked" Mr. Murray
said, "to learn from The Paper
Maker that United States cur
rency is printed on paper made by
nonunion workers.
II thought it was established be-
yond any doubt that the political
and economic health of this coun-
try requires strong labor unions.
This fundamental principle has
long been recognized by the Demo-
cratic party and was the basis of
the Wagner act passed in 1885.
at was therefore with consider
able amazement that | learned
that the federal government itself,
through its purchases, was follow
ing practice which threatens
trade union organization.
81 hope that the government
agencies responsible for this prac-
tice will Immediately take the nee
essary corrective steps and that in
the future their purchasing prac-
tice will be designed to encourage
rather than to discourage trade
union organization"
Use of nonunion paper in all
currency was disclosed early this
year by The Paper Maker, publish
ed by the AFL's International Bro
therhood of Paper Makers.