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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-06
June SUNSHINE
IN NEAR RECORD;
MONTH WAS DRY

According to information re-
leased by the United States
Weather Bureau the month OF June
was sunny, warm and dry. The
amount of sunshine was the highest
ever recorded in June since the air.
port station was established in July
1913.
The mean June temperature
reached within a of a degree OF
that in 1916 which is the highest
on record. This is the first month
since October 1949 that tempera-
lures have been above the normal
mean. Both the maximum and
minimum temperature readings
were equalled this June. The high
est temperature of SO degrees equals
that of 1916 and 1948 and the lowest
temperature of 80 degrees equals
that of 1949.
The total precipitation of 1903 was
well below the June normal and
equaled the lowest previous re-
cord in 1916.
Airport Data
Highest temperature: SO in 1916
and 1913; this June, SO. Lowest
temperature: 80 in 1919; this June.
49, Mean maximum temperature:
average 629; this June CTS. Mean
minimum temperature: average
AS; this June AL Mean monthly
temperature: normal $50; this
June 564. Total precipitation: nor
NAL 1866 inches; this June 1.08
inches. Maximum wind: S IS in
1919; this June IS. Average
cloudiness: average IA percent; this
June 63 percent. Percentage Of pos
sible sunshine: average SO percent;
this June 81 percent.
City Data
Highest temperature: 80; lowest
temperature: 80; mean maximum
temperature: 1858; mean minimum
temperature: 400; mean monthly
temperature: $40; total precipita-
ton: 1.55 inches.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-06
JIRp AIRLIFT ENDS
PREPARATIONS FOR
1850 EXPEDITION

With benefit of last years ex-
perience, favorable weather and
perfect coordination among par
ticipating units, preparations Tor
the main 1850 Juneau Icefield Re-
search Project (JIRP) OF the Amer
lean Geographical Society have
been completed in record time anu
efficiency, according to Field Di-
rector Maynard Miller.
The Air Force and Navy aircraft
which made the supply landings
and drops have returned to Their
bases, and the remaining JtPP
members plan to be ia tke:- camps
on the Juneau Ice Cap ~ the end
of the week.
Miller and two companions
possibly four-will be flown to Taku
Lodge this evening, to- try new
route up the west side of East Twin
Glacier. The US. Forest Service
is considering the four-mile ascent
as a possible easy trail to the ice
field.
With Miller will be Calvin J.
Heusser, Oregon botanist, and Fred
erick A. Small of New York, who is
expedition secretary and food chair
man. Miller hopes that two others
will arrive from Whitehorse in time
to join them. They are Gerald Was
serburg, University of Chicago min
eralogist, and Charles o. Harring-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-06

ton, Massachusetts micro meteorol.
ogist who was ON the expedition
last year.
With those who already have
made the steep climb to the Ice
Cap, this will total Is men in the
field by July Z, with progress well
under way. The JIRP party, which
will have the benefit of art-time
consultants during the summer, ex-
poets to remain until winter SHOWS
about october /.
Four men left Juneau Tuesday
to establish new base Camp 16>
on Lemon Glacier. They are An
thony (Tony) Thomas of Juneau,
on loan from the Forest Service,
who will establish a meteorological
station before going to the main
base Camp 100 Saturday; Robert
B. Forbes, geologist and former
parachuter who was in charge Of
the first supply operations; Arthur
K. Gilkey, Columbia University
geologist, and Frederick A. Milan
of the University of Alaska, whose
classification is meteorology, me-
chanics and communications
Two twin-engine transport type
aircraft have maintained the airlift
to supply the JIRP bases. The serv-
ice sister ship of the commercial
DC-3 dixie that used most COM
monty by Pacific Northern Airlines)
are the Air Forces CAT, equipped
with both wheels and skis, and the
Navy's RAD, which made both
free-fall and parachute drops.
In the seven flyable days out o.
the eight days used, the Navy drop
ped a total of six tons in eight
flights, including essentials for
four new camps. 81 81
About the same amount OF equip
ment was delivered by the Air
Force plane, which made six ski
landings in three days. The eight
day combined operation compares
to that which took three weeks last
year.
For the 10th Rescue Squadron
the JIRP operation also provided
proving ground for pilots. Two
Bits (Flying Fortresses) arrived
Sunday, one of them bringing five
Air Force pilots to be checked out
on experimental ski landings.
Capt. Roy Holdiman, 10th RI
executive officer, made his first ski
landing of the season Sunday-the
fifth one on the Ice Cap strip" AMI
made one take-off from there with
out using JATO Get-assisted take
off. as the snow-ice was hard and
firm. He checked out 1t. Larry
Cronin on the next flight, Cronin
making a perfect ice landing on
his first try.
On two trips Sunday and Monday
several persons associated with the
expedition were taken on familiari.
cation flights. These included Boil
Davlin, Ranger Mel Hardy and Glen
Kirkham, contact man, all of the
Forest Service here; DR.. John Reed
of Washington, DC, former Alaska
chief for the us. Geological Sur
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25
Four Pepper Firms
Accused BY US
Of Price Fixing

San Francisco (LPA) - A US
grand jury here has indicted four
paper companies and four of their
officers on charges of fixing the
price of paper in violation OF the
Sherman antitrust act. At the
same time a civil complaint was
filed in federal court here against
the four corporations seeking to
terminate and prevent recurrence
of the practices.
The four concerns are: Blake,
Moffitt and Towne; Carpenter
Paper Co.; Pacific Coast Paper
Co.; Zellerback Paper Co. They are
the largest wholesale distributors
of paper on the west coast, account
ing for 80 per cent of the business.
Said Herbert A. Bergson, assist
ant Attorney General: Agreements
by competing companies to fix non
competitive prices for their pro-
ducts have been SO positively con-
demned by the courts that there is
no room for doubt concerning their
illegality under the Sherman Act.
Such agreements represent deliber-
ate and collusive efforts to deny the
benefits of free competition to the
public"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25

Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry
OR, Nebr.) took the floor to charge
that "The cloture vote on FEPC
shows that the Democratic party
again has failed to keep its pro-
mises." He asserted that 1872 per
cent of the Republicans were for
cloture, and .36H per cent of the
Democrats voted for it. "Today's
Senate vote showed that the Re-
publican party, the party of the
Great Emancipator, Abraham Lin
coin, is the only agency through
which equal opportunity legislation
can be accomplished" he Grated,
amid audible laughter from the gal
leries.
Lucas objected to Wherry's Gin
lection of partisanship into this de-
bate" and later Sen. Herbert Leh-
man Cd, N.Y. deplored the fact
that "the result of this vote has
been received by our friends on the
other side of the aisle with spirit
almost Of jubilation."
"This is no victory" Lehman
warned. "This is a tragic defeat in
a rightful cause" He termed it
zone of the most discouraging and
tragic occurrences in my entire
public life" His Republican col
league from New York, Irving Ives,
Immediately came to his feet to
Lehman's sentiments, re-
stating his deep-rooted belief that
questions of labor relations and
human relations will never be solv-
ed "by injecting partisan politics"
Sen. II u b ert Humphrey Cd,
Mimi announced he was going to
ask Sen. Lucas to Immediately take
steps to bring revision of the
cloture rule to the Senate
for vote. If the 64-vote cloture
rule had been in effect at the Con-
stitutional Convention, Humphrey
charged, the founding fathers could
never have accomplished a thing,
and they'd still be in a 165-year
The Fair Employment Practice
bill has never come to the floor Of
the Senate for debate. 1t would ban
discriminatory practices based on
race, creed, color, or national origin
in hiring, promotions, pay, or in
unions. 1t has the backing of both
AFL and CIO, whose representa-
lives worked actively for cloture.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25
Employer Finds
He's Asking For
Union Shop

Washington (LPA) The joke was
on Robert. Ramspeck, executive
vice-president of the Air Transport
Association, when he testified be-
fore the Senate Labor committee
May II.
The committee was holding hear
ings on the bill authorizing labor
unions to seek the union shop in
enterprises including airlines which
are covered by the Railway Labor
Act. Ramspeck, who was once a
Georgia congressman and might
have been expected to have more
parliamentary presence of mind,
said his organization opposed the
union shop proposal, but really
thought the airlines ought to be
under the Taft Hartley act instead
of the Railway Labor Act. Sen.
Ebert Thomas Cd, Utah), commit
tee chairman, was the one who
caught him up.
Thomas reminded the former leg
islator that the union shop was
specifically authorized under the
Taft Hartley statute. Accordingly
weren't the airlines endorsing the
union shop by asking to be placed
under Taft Hartley jurisdiction, the
Utah Senator asked. Whereupon
Ramspeck floundered bit and said
weakly that his organization wasn't
really opposing the union shop bill
very strenuously.
Meanwhile, the Airline Pilots
Association-AFL would prefer that
the industry remain under the Rail
way Labor Act in the belief that
the rail measure is years ahead Of
other labor legislation. However,
it is believed that the Air Trans
port Association will eventually
sponsor a separate bill to transfer
the airlines to Taft-Hartley juris-
diction.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25
Ruling Opens Way
For TWUA In
Southern States

Washington (LPA) - The Fifth
Federal Circuit Court Of Appeals
was slapped hard by the Supreme
Court May Is for two anti-labor
decisions.
The lower court had refused to
enforce National Labor Relations
Board orders requiring two south
ern companies to bargain with
unions and had told the board to
hold new hearings. The Depart
ment of Justice appealed to the
high court, charging the Circuit
judges were establishing a "pat-
tern Of denial" Of enforcement or
ders. The high court set aside the
lower court rulings. The Fifth Cir
cult embraces Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas, and the Canal Zone.
The NLRB orders were directed
against the Mexia Textile Mills of
Mexia, Tex, which must bargain
with the Textile Workers, and the
Pool Manufacturing Co. of Sher-
man, Tex, which must bargain with
the United Garment Workers-AFL.
The boards original order against
Pool was issued in 1916, the one
against Mexia two years later. The
Supreme Court refused to review
three similar cases.
Justice Tom Clark read the de-
cision which was supported by
seven of the courts nine members.
Justice Felix Frankfurter read a
dissent contending that the ruling
would "chill" lower court judges.
Justice Robert Jackson concurred
with Frankfurther.
John Edelman, Washington rep
resentative for the union, describ-
ed the decision as a turning point"
in the Textile Workers southern
organizing campaign. He said a
new effort would be made to obtain
a contract at Mexia, and reported
that he'd learned by telephone that
MeXia employees were holding cele-
brations in their homes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25
RR Strike Ends
With Big Issues
To Arbitration

New York LPA) = A six-day
strike of railroad firemen on foui
Southern and Western roads ended
May 16 when most of the issues
were sent to arbitration.
President ID. B. Robertson of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire.
men & Enginemen termed the set
tlement satisfactory" Spokesman
for the railroads also expressed
satisfaction with the agreement.
Union charges that the railroads
have been violating their contracts
by providing supervisory employees
in place of a second fireman on
diesel locomotives will be arbitrat
ed.
The settlement eliminates wage
differentials which had existed be
tween firemen on oil-burning steam
locomotives and electric locomo-
tives, and those on coal-burning
locomotives and diesels.
Spokesman for the railroads
agreed to go before an arbitration
board whose decision is to be bind
ing on both sides" on the question
of whether they are violating ex-
listing contracts concerning the op-
Grafton of diesels.
The Pennsylvania Railroad west
of Harrisburg, the New York Cen
trail west of Buffalo and the entire
Southern and Santa Fe systems
We're closed down when the $4,000
firemen walked off their jobs May
10.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25
X. /. CAFE OWNERS APPEAL
ORDER RAISING MINIMUMS

Providence, r. |. (LPA)-Rhode
Islands restaurant owners have
appealed to court a state order
doubling minimum wages for rest
aurant workers, and have asked for
a new hearing. The owners said
their very existence was threaten
ed. The order boosted minimum pay
from 26 cents to 80 cents for those
service employees who do not get
meals, and from 20 cents to 40
cents for those who do; raised rates
for non-service employees (who do
not get tips) from 36 to 70 cents,
without meals, and from 80 to 60
cents, with meals.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25
RENT CONTROL RESUMED
AFTER RENTS ZOOM

Aberdeen, S. ID. LPA)-Feder-
al rent controls were lifted here
Sept. %, 1949 by US Housing Ex-
pediter Tighe Woods. Rents began
climbing so steeply that the local
rent advisory board asked Woods
office to make a survey. That
showed rents zoomed 36 per cent,
with rental units under $50 up GO
per cent. The advisory board unan-
imously (the landlord member in
cluded) then asked Woods to re-
establish rent controls. He did so,
The local board said housing is
very critical" demand far ex-
ceeds supply, and "such conditions
have caused and are causing hard
ship"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25
OBITUARIES
MRS. ROSA II. JOHNSON

Mrs. Rosa r. Johnson, rs, of 81
Price St., widow of John A. john
son, died May goth in City Hospital
following a five-week illness.
Mrs. Johnson was born in Meigs
county and lived here so years.
She was employed at Plant 8 OF
the Homer Laughlin China Co. and
was a member of the National Bro
therhood of Operative Potters.
She leaves a daughter, Mrs.
Edith f. Birch of the Bell School
district; two brothers, Judson Ours
of Sandyville, w. Va, and Marion
Ours of Pomeroy, and seven grand
and four greatgrandchil-
dren.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25
Notice Sanitary Firms

Any firm seeking skilled craftsmen Tin all trades)
or having job opportunities available for workers in
any job operation in the sanitary branch of the in
dustry contact Walter f.. Shutter, Secretary, Local
Union II, Route 2, Box 58 Mannngton w. Va
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25
800 TEXTILE WORKERS WILL
GO TO SCHOOL THIS SUMMER

New York LPA) - About 300
members of the Textile Workers
will attend six-day courses this
summer at nine Institutes, their
tuition, board and lodging paid for
jointly by the international and
their own local. They will study
everything from union songs to
parliamentary procedure, but the
emphasis, says Larry Rog in,
TWUA education director, will be
on union-community cooperation.
The general course will be given
at the University Of Connecticut,
the Black Mountain Is. c. college,
the Hudson Shore Labor School ;
the advanced course at Wellesley
college, UAW-ClO camp at Ottawa,
H., Black Mountain college and
Hudson Shore.
Buy Union-M Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you'll
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25
More Tax Favors
To Big Boys Voted
By House Group

Washington LPA)-The House
Ways & Means Committee made 8
veto of any tax law they may push
through Congress even more likely
on May II and 18, when they voted
tentatively to: keep the present
loopholes and depletion allowances
in the tax laws by which oil ano
other non-metallics escape taxes
paid by others; 2-allow speculat'
ors to claim income deductions OF
their returns for losses on property
held for three, instead of the pre-
sent six months.
Keeping depletion allowances anc
double deductions allowed the OF
and other non-metallic producers
will carve $200,000,000 off the in
creased tax revenue proposed by
President Truman.
In addition, the committee has
voted to allow new depletion
amounts that companies mining
various non-metallic substances car
calculate on their tax returns, at
cost of federal income of about
$20, 100000 a year.
The committee is also expected
to give the coal mine operators
who now enjoy a five percent a
year depletion allowance on their
Investment, an even more favor
able rate. The oil industry now can
write off 2712 per cent of its i'm
vestment each year, before figur-
ing taxes.
Earlier, the committee had pick
ed up a little of the income it has
tentatively dropped by eliminating
excise taxes, when it decided the
federal government should pay only
two percent interest on money re-
funded to taxpayers for overpay-
ments, instead of the present six
percent. This would mean $1,000
Geo this year, and $67,000,000 a
year when it's in full operation.
The handout to spectators was
called an incentive to invest money
in risky enterprises. However, Rep.
j. Nj. Combs Cd, Tex.) charged it
would be a bonanza for "stock
spectators and high in
comes made on quick-turnover
transactions" Besides lowering the
period of time that property must
be held before a loss can be claim
ed, the committee voted to reduce
bhe top rate on long-term capital
gains from 25 to 16 percent. This
would benefit only the big-money
and spectators, and
would be of little benefit to small
businessmen who claim relatively
small capital gains.
Besides the coal operators deple-
ion proposal, the committee is ex-
oected to act shortly on a proposal
,hampioned by Rep. Noah Mason
IR, Ill., to single out co-ops for
aXation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25
MAPNEWTRYTODEBATE
FEPC ON SENATE FLOOR

Washington (LPA)-A motion to
take up the Fair Employment Prac-
tice bill was still the pending busi-
ness before the Senate on May 49,
despite 81 to 80 setback for pro-
FEPC forces. They had tried to use
the rule put through by Republi-
cans early in the 81st Congress,
which allows the shutting off OF
debate by a vote of GA of the sc
members of the Senate. Majority
Leader Scott Lucas Cd, Ill.) ann
ounced he would try again soon to
get cloture, despite the setback for
civil rights supporters.
The Republicans mustered SO
votes for cloture, and six GOPers
voted against cloture. Three Re-
publicans were absent. Sen. Arthur
Vandenberg Or, Mich.) came to the
Senate chamber against doctors
orders to vote.
There were 19 Democrats voting
for cloture, and 26 against. Of the
26 against all but three were from
the south. Of the nine Democrats
absent, four were announced as be-
ing for cloture, one against, and
FEPC supporters claim they'd have
the votes of the other four if
they're present on the next try.
Immediately following the defeat
of the eloture motion, A. Philip
Randolph and Roy Wilkins issued
a statement on behalf of FEPC
supporters charging that "For too
long the Dixiecrats alone have been
blamed for strangling civil rights
Legislation in the Senate. Today's
vote shows that both major parties
are playing hide and seek with
FEPC. Both Republican and non
southern Democratic Senators who
voted last year for the new 64-vote
cloture rule voted against cloture
today or were absent. If they had
supported the rule they helped to
pass, more than the necessary Ga
votes would have been obtained.
at is time for both parties to
stop using the Dixiecrats as cloak
for their own responsibility or
their own insincerity on civil rights
issues. The defeat Of the cloture
motion today lies directly at the
door of those Republicans and
Democrats who exercised a minor
ity veto through their absence and
failure to vote"
Immediately following the dram
attic roll-call, taken before packed
galleries which included many Ne
groes, Sen Lucas declared the vote
"means that no Senate of the Unit
ed States did not give us here in
this great deliberative body an OPP
portunity to discuss the merits and
dement's of the proposal made. The
measure will still be the pending
business before the Senate"
An angry argument started when
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25
URGE ACTION AGAINST
NEW GERMAN NAZIISM

New York LPA) - Charging
failure of the rehabilitation pro
gram in Western Germany, the
Jewish Labor Committee has urged
Secretary of State Dean Acheson
and u. S. High Commissioner John
J. McCloy to support labor. and
democratic forces in Germany with
a program that will destroy the
revival of the Nazi scourge." The
$50 AFL and CIO officials on the
JIG board urged that the resolu-
tion now in Congress for establish
ment of a Presidential Commission
to investigate the German situation
be passed and acted upon as soon
as possible.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-25
Miners Chief Denies Whistle Signal
Ordering Strike Against Injunction

Washington LPA) - John l..
Lewis has flatly denied ordering
soft-coal miners to ignore Taft
Hartley emergency n IN t n
against striking last winter. The
denial was embodied in a letter to
Rep. Andrew Jacobs Cd, Ind.) who
had invited Lewis to appear before
House Labor Subcommittee the
night of May 16 to testify on the
circumstances under which the min
ers defied the court order.
Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers, originally was sub
poenaed to appear before the
House group, but Rep. John Lesin-
ski Cd, Mich.), Labor Committee
chairman, rescinded the subcommit-
tees subpoena power. Lewis letter
was his first statement on the
charges of Lloyd Sidener former
head of a UNIV local in Canton,
Ohio, who maintains Lewis used
secret signals conveyed by mine
whistle to order the strike while
publicizing kilograms ordering the
miners back to work. Sidener fur
ther contends he lost his job and
was fined $4,000 by his union be-
cause of his charges. He has COM
planned to the National Labor Rela-
tions Board.
In his letter to Jacobs, Lewis said
Sidener 'is in error in his press
quoted assertions that he received
directly or indirectly any whistle
stop instructions" from UNIV
headquarters here. "No such in
structions were uttered or author
lied at any time by this office to
Mr.. Sidener or any other of the
hundreds of thousands of officers
and members of the United Mine
Workers of America" Lewis as
serted, adding that "The term
whistle stop has no significance
in the coal mining industry"
Sidener, who was expected to be
the sole witness before the Jacobs
subcommittee May 16, says he re-
ceived telephoned instructions that
"The whistle blew one" He claims
this meant the men were to stay
out of the pits. The UNIV was abb
solved by Federal Judge r. B..
Keech of responsibility for the fact
that the miners remained on strike
despite the injunction. The judge
ruled the union not guilty of
charges of both criminal and civil
contempt. The civil charge is now
before a Federal Circuit Court of
Appeals.
Lewis told Jacobs it was "unfor-
tunate" that resentment among
Sidener's "neighbors and working
associates" led to the taking of ac-
tion against him. However, the
UNIV leader said, if Sidener feels
such action to be unjust or ex-
treme" he has the unqualified
right" to appeal from the action of
his local union. Lewis pointed out
that Sidener has not appealed.