The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 10, 1950, Page 1

» [ - » , €d today that a Canadian trans- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,397 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NUARY 10, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS WRECKED US. | THUNDERJET IS | REPORTED SEEN MONTREAL, Jan. 10— (® —The! Royal Canadian Air Force announc- port plane has discovered a wreck- | ed U. S. Thunderjet fighter 20| miles south of Whitehorse, Yukon. The RCAF pilot, Lt. Barney! Hammond of Vancouver reported | he discovered the wrecked plane| Saturday near the.Alaska Highway and said the American pilot was| not injured. | Hammond said he dropped emer- gency supplies to the American pl-| lot who was only identified by the name “Fitzpatrick.” Canada’s Yukon Territory borders | on Alaska. Joint Canadian Ameri- can maneuvers called “Exercise Sweet Briar” are scheduled to take place north of Whitehorse and in Alaska next month, SAILINGS, ALASKA STEAM FREIGHTERS ANNOUNCED TODAY SEATTLE, Jan. 10—(P—The Mo_} torship Square Knot set to sail| for Alaska January 13 in place of | the motorship Coastal Monarch, the Alaska Steamship Company an- nounced today. [ The ports of call for this voy-| age will be Ketchikan, Wrangell, { Petersburg, Juneau, Haines, Skag- way and Sitka. The Coastal Monarch has in turn been named to make the voy- age scheduled January 20, calling| at Yakutat, Seward and Vsldez‘! Simultaneously the Square sinneti was named to make the sailing; scheduled January 27, calling at Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Pelican and Sitka. Russian Election To Be Held in March (By Associated Press) Moscow announces that Russian | voters will elect members of the| Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R, the | nation’s two-house Parliament, March 12. The last election was Feb. 9, 1946. It is a single slate of | Communist and non-party Bol- shevik bloc candidates. The Washington| Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) i ASHINGTON—Herbert Hoov- | er's statement that the American | Navy should be used to protect far- distant Formosa must have brought | a wry smile from his old Secre- tary of State Henry L. Stimson. For when Stimson served in the Hoover Cabinet, he waged a valiant= but losing fight inside that Cabin- et to take firm measures against Japanese aggression when the Jap| war lords first landed in Manchur- ia. Stimson wanted to cooperate with | the League of Nations and with other countries in nipping what he quite clearly saw was the be- ginning of future war. But Hoover fussed, fumed, vac- iilated and finally said no. At one| time Stimson wanted to send the| American fleet not even as far as| | Britain's national | questioned Ly investigators. STATEHOO BILL GETS | NEW ACTION WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—(@®—The House Public Lands Committes to- day voted to try to force the Al- aska and Hawali statehood bills out of the Rules Committee so the House can act on them. The Rules Committee has failed to clear them for a House vote. Chairman Peterson (D-Fla) of the Public Lands Committee said the group instructed him to move to discharge the bills from the Rules Committee if it dces not take immediate and favorable action. The effect of this move, under new procedure of the House, would be to allow the House itself to vote on a resoluticn to consider the bills on the floor. Only a ma- jority vote weuld be requested. Petitions to discharg | Committee from further considera- tion of the measures were filed last May. BRITAIN'S ELECTIONS ONFEB. 23 Jan. 11—(F— elections will be held Feb. 23, Prime Minister Att- lee announced today. The present Parliament will be dissolved Feb. 3. It was scheduled to reassemble on Jan. 24, but this session has been cancelled. This means there will be no further meeting of the present Par- liament. 41 Now Death Toll Mercy Hospifal Fire DAVENPORT, Ia., Jan. 10—(#— The death toll in the Mercy hos- pital mental ward fire rose to 41 today. ‘The hospital reported that Ruth Finnerty of Ottumwa, Ia., died last night of injuries suffered be- fore rescuers could remove her from the blazing ward building. She was the second to die among the 24 who were rescued. As the investigation of the dis- aster continued, meanwhile, it was announced survivors will not be LONDON, Wed. Presi&enl Quirino Rushes To Hospitl BALTIMORE, Jan. 10—(®—Presi- dent Elpidio Quirino of the Philip- pines landed here today on his way to Johns Hopkins hospital for an| operation. Directors of AP | Meef in Arizona. TUCSON, Ariz. Jan. 10—(®—Di- rectors of the Associated Press from | all parts of the nation have ar-| Formosa, or to Chinese waters, but simply on a cruise in the mm-Pac-} ific as a gesture of American | strength. Again Hoover said no. Hoover would not even permit his Secretary of State to keep Am-| erican Consul-General Prentiss Gil- | bert as an observer to the Le:\guei of Nations in Geneva. Stimson had | instructed Gilbert to sit in on the| with | League conferences dealing * Manchurian aggression, but Hoover, | worried over isolationists in the‘ Republican = Naticnal Committee, finally yanked Gilbert out. Today, however, the'ex-President who contributed more than any one man to undoing Stimson's far- | sighted war-prevention policy, now | says the American fleet should be| used in Chinese waters when it| is too late. | Christrns In Alaska i Secretary of Air Stuart Syming- | ton, who spent Christmas 1948 in!| Berlin with pilots and mechanics | of the air lift, decided to spendi (Continued on Page Four* |along the side of a road about a rived here for the three-day an- nual meeting which opens this morning at the Arizona Inn. A majority of the 20 directors, many with their wives, cpme yes-| terday, some by air and others b¥| train. Blinding Auto Lights Resulis In Dfilh of Man, CUMBERLAND, Md., Jan. 10— (#—“The lights of that other car blinded me,” Walter S. Nycum, 39, told police yesterday after his car| had struck and killed 64-3‘ear-u[d| Abraham Teter who was walking| mile from his home. The driver of “the other car” wWas identified by police as Byron Teter the victim’s 22-year-old son. No charges were filed pending further investigation. a 'Wite of Peron BARRAGE T0 UNSEAT NAT'L CH 1N A FROM UN.CONTINUING (By the Assc The Soviet Uni her diplomatic camp. iated Press) is continuing gn to unseat Nationalist China the United Nations. | The U.N. Security Council holds| its first 1950 meeting today and with Nationalist China’s T, F Tsiang in the chair. Russia, it is anticipated, will let fly a barrage of objections. The Chinese Communist regime in a series of messages has asked the council to expel the Nationalist delegation, Five of the 1l-nation counci. have recognized the Chinese Com- munist ne — Russia, Britain, Yugoslavia, India and Norw The United States, although still recogn'zing the ionalists, is in ‘he midst of a controversy with Generalissimo ng Kai-shek’s Formosa regime over the sheiling of the American fr hter Flying Arrow yesterday by Nationalist war- | ships off Communist-held Shang- hai, In Washington the Senate For- eign Relations Committee was eager to hear an analysis of American foreign policy by Secretar of State Dean Acheson. He 1s ¢ ed to outline government policy on Formosa and the administration’s| attitude on recognition of the Communists. In Colombo, Ceylon, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told the British Commonwealth Foreign Ministers that countries recognizing the Communist Chinese peoples’ re- | public must also extend -cautious friendliness to the new regime. Among the commonwealth na- tions, India, Britain, Ceylon, Paki- stan have recognized - the -Gom- munists. Recognition has not yet been *extended by Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. | HELOCOPTERS FOR | RESCUE EXPLAINED | T0 AUTO ENGINEERS| DETROIT, Jan. 10—/P—A heli- copter intended for rescue mission work in the Arctic currently is| under development, the Society ot ! Automotive Engineers was told to- day. i Cpening their annual five-da,\‘ midwinter meeting here, the engi-| neers heard much about aircraft design and advances toward greater | safety of operation. | Dietrich W. Botstiber, of the| Piasecki Helicopter Corp, Mormn.: Pa., described helicopters capable of operation from land, water, on| ship’s deck and of being used under | either Arctic or tropical conditions He told of one such craft de-| signed for Arctic rescue missions that could be towed to the loca-| tion by an airplane, then could descend and rise under its own power, and, finally, to be towed back to its base. Tomorrow the engineers will Le told how as much as 150 miles to the gallon cf gasoline is being ob- tained with test automobiles. R. J. Greenshields, of Shell Oil Co., will outline numerous things that were done to the test cars to get the unprecedented mileage. Goes Under Knife, BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 10—(P— Mrs. Maria Eva Duarte Peron, Ar- gentina’s First Lady, was resting today from an attack of acute ap- pendicitis. The wife of Argentine President Juan D. Peron suffered the at- tack last night while she was of- ficiating at the opening of a new taxi union headquarters and so- cial center. FROM MT. EDGECUMBE Mr, and Mrs. Michael Hickey of Mt. Edgecumbe, Sitka, are stop- ping at the Baranof Hotel. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Seattle bound westward, Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Jan. 14. Denali . scheduled to sail Seattle January 14, in port from | the Orient. 143 plus U.S.GUNSTO ESCORT SHIP TOSAFEPORT (By the Associated Press) Two U.S. destroyers prepared to- night (Tuesday) to escort the crippled American freighter Flying Arrow to any port but her destina- t.on—Shanghai. The ship was battered yesterday { on the high seas by shells from a Nationalist guntoat. Wayne Rich- ardson, Associated Press Correspon- dent aboard the Flying Arrow, said Ninety carloads of tanks and ar- mored cars consigned to the Chin- fese CGovernment at Formosa were !loaded aboard a Turkish freighteri TANKS, ARMORED | CARS LOADED ON SHiP FOR FORMOSA 10—(A— PHILADELPHIA, Jan. at a Philadelphia pier today. Oflicials of the Reading Com- pany disclosed that the tanks and cars were transported over Read-| ing lines from “somewh?re in Ohio” lines from “somewhere in Ohio"! to a along the Deleware River in Port Richmond, located in the northeastern section of Philadel-§ phia Loading was begun this morning she hit between 30 and 40 times. aboard the 8,077-ton freighter, S. S Her master, Capt. David Jones owned by Marta T.AS. of{ of Chicago, pronounced her un-|istanbul. Turkey. & seaworthy and asked to be escorted | Agents for the ship, B. H. Sobel- by U.S. naval vessels to the nearest|Man and Company, Inc, sald the port for repairs. That's Communist ship will depart next wee_k, The Shanghai, agents declined to give detailed in- Captains of the two destroyers, £ ition on the consig_mm‘nl st{m the Stickell and the Bausell, said 3 :.;:Fr‘(!n_ent S Lutklsh they would not escort the Flying - Pm.nhns fEFR 0L any Artow there. Other Communist | ¢V TCPOIts to the press. held ports are nearer the ship's FREpE T pn.slln:) than any port clmml?}g PURCHARE SENRALED : B LIMA, O., Jan. 10—(®—Uncle Sam frispdship Yo Western, powers, has sold 200 combat vehicles—tanks A Chinese Nationalist gunbtoat| ° " = “~ o g T R g | ATy the"md armored cars—to the Chinese Flying Arrow as dusk settled over MINE “WARNING" At Tapei, Formosa, Chinese Na- tionalist capital, a spokesman said the freighter was fired upon to{ keep her from a mine field that would have meant her certain de- struction with a possible large loss of life. The ship carries a crew oxl 12 passengers, seven of them women, tound for Shanghai. The merchantman is unarmed, The Nationalists have slapped a blockade on all Chinese ports held by the Communists. Sea and air patrols have been maintained off Shanghai. In Hong Kong a sister ship ot the Flying Arrow, the Brooklyn | Heights, was loading cargo for Shanghai. She is tentatively sched- | uled to sail tomorrow (Wednesday) with a crew of 42 and one passen- ger. One member of her crew has signed off rather than risk the danger of a Shanghai voyage. The Hong Kong agent for the operators of both ships, the Is- randtsen Line of New York, said he hoped the presence of the two| destroyers near the Flying Arrow | would clear up the status of the Chinese blockade as far as Ameri- can shipping is concerned. | The American State Department | does not recognize the blockade. | But it has warned American ships to stay out of Shanghai waters. And it advised sailors of the Flying Arrow and Brooklyn Heights they could sign off in Hong Kong. | In Bangkok, Thailand (Siam),| Vice Adm. Russell & Berkey, Com- mander of the U.S. Seventh Task | Force, said naval protection would | be afforded American merchantmen on the high seas but not in Chi-| nese territorial waters. 1 DELEGATION OF RUSSIA STAGES WALKOUT AT UN. LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 10—#— The Russian delegation walked out | of the United Nations Security Council today after a row over the Chinese question. Deputy Foreign Minister Jakob A. Malik led his Soviet group from the chamber when the Council re- jected his demand for immediate! action to expel thé Chinese Na- tionalist delegation. ! By a vote of 8 to 2, the Council upheld a ruling of Council Presi- dent T. F. Tsiang, of Nationalist China, to defer action on the Soviet proposal. Russia and Yugoslavia voted to overrule the President and India abstained. o | Before he left the chamber, Malik said it was abnormal for| the Council to meet under the) Presidency of (Tsiang) who “rep- resents nobody at all.” The other delegates ignored the walkout. | Five of the 11 nations on the! Council have broken with Tsiang's government and recognized the Chinese Reds. They are Russia, Britain, Yugoslavia, India and Nor- way. . ON HONEYMOON | Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd F. Hames, ai newlywed couple from Sitka, are guests at the Baranof Hotel, | was Nationalist government for ship- ment to Formosa, a reliable source reported today The vehicles, loaded on 90 freight cars, already have been shipped to Philadelphia and are being loaded aboard a freighter. The deal was described as “straight sale” and the vehicles were taken from “excess to imme- digte U.S. needs” in storage at the Lima Crdnance Depot. The Chinese Nationalist govern- ment made all transportation ar- rangements, Loth rail and water, the source said. The shipment moved out last Friday night. Five days were con- sumed in loading the tanks and cars. Their type and size were not disclosed. The Limo Ordnance Depot and its *Tank Storage Farm” cover 260 acres, 13 of them under roof. Disclosure of the actual shipping was made by Lieut. Col. R. B. Fon- taine, commander of the depot, which was established in 1942. During a six-year period, at the height of the depot’s activity, 100,000 combat vehicles were received by the depot and 96,000 were shipped out, 10 FORMOSA WASHINGTON, . Jan. 10— roposals for an unofficial mission Formosa by more than 100 mericans, including retired Army 1d Navy officers, have been turned n by the State Department. his was disclosed today amid the continuing controversy over what, if anything, can be done to ave Formosa from the Chinese Communists, Diplomatic authorities reported that the unofficial mission idea put forward by prominent champions of aid to China before president Truman emphatically ruled out any direct U.S. govern- ment support for Formosa with his Dee. § declaration. Who the backers vere was not disclosed. | Al SEATTLEITES HERE Ernest A. Smith of Seattle registered at the Baranof Hotel & ¢ ® 8 8w 5 ® @« > 8 o . . WEATHER REPORT . © (This data is for 24-hour pe- ¢ ¢ riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) e . In Juneau—Maximum 18; @ ¢ minimum 10, ® ° At Airport—Maximum 15; ¢ minimum -5. ll . FORECAST . . (Juneau and Vieioity) . . Continued fair and cold e with occasional gusty north- e o easterly winds tonight and DI * Wednesday. Lowest temper- © ature tonight near 12 degrees n| ® in Juneau and -5 in outlying e ¢ districts. Highest Wednesday e * about 10 degrees. CSPRECIPITATION o] (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a m. todny @ | * City of Juneau—None. . |® since Jan. 1—99 inches; . |® since July 1--5493 inches. @ ® At Airport—None; L4 ® since Jan. 1—82 inches; L ® since July 1--36.31 inches. BITTER WRANGLE TAKES PLACE AT BRIDGE'S TRIAL o SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10 Federal Judge George B. Harris| criticized defense lawyer Vincent B. Hallinan for misconduct today | after another bitter wrangle at the Harry Bridges perjury trial. Hallinan trought the storm down on his head by castigating govern- ment counsel—calling them “col- lectors, trainers and educators of perjurers”—in connection with the | controversial ~ witness Lawrence Seton Ross. It was only yesterday that Ross created a courtroom sensation by admitting he had posed for years under a false alias, pretending to| be Kentucky born whereas actually | he is of Polish birth and his real name was Rosenstein. Judge Harris, aiter calling Halli- | nan for misconduct, proceeded to | refer the Ross incident to the Grand Jury. The defense has been trying to make the most of Ross'| admission, contending his veracity has been discredited. The Judge said, however, he| would not make any recommenda- | tion either to the Grand Jury or to U.S. Attorney Frank J. Hennessy, ! nor would he try to decide the | materiality of the false statements Ross made as a government wit-| ness. Hallinan, chief defense attorney,| engaged in a long and bitter attack on chief prosecutor F. Joseph Dono- hue and other government ofticials, while the jury was absent. MRS. E. BRINGDALE | PASSES ON EARLY THIS MORNING Daughter of a pioneer ramily, Etta Bringdale, wife of Arthur Bringdale, died in St. Ann’s Hos- pital this morning after an ill- ness of several months. Mrs. Bringdale, daughter of Da- vid Brown and the late Mrs. Brown, was born in Douglas January 20, 1900. Her parents had come to Al- aska in 1895 and lived in Douglas for many years. Etta Brown was graduated from . Douglas High| School and soon afterwards be- came an employee of B. M. Beh- rends Bank. Here she remained until a few years ago she became a teller at the First National Bank. Etta Brown and Arthur Bring-| dale were married in Juneau Jan-| uary 5, 1927 and this has been their home since that time. Mr. Bring- dale is mechanical superintendent | of the Empire Printing Company. A member of the Eastern Star in Douglas, of the Juneau Rebekah | Lodge and of the Pioneers of Al-| aska Auxiliary, Mrs. Bringdale had many friends in Juneau and Dou: las who have known her sl hildhoed and will miss her greatly. | She was an accomplished pianist | and at times played with several logal dance orchestras. Surviving, besides her husband, are her father, David Brown and! a nephew, David Alfred Brown,| Leth of Juneau. Though funeral arrangements | have not been made, burial will be| in the Masonic plot in Evergreen Cemetery, next to the grave of her | mother. Commie Leader Severe Storms Sweep Along Pacific Coast CALIFORNIA ICED UP BY NORTH WIND (By the Associated Press) An Alaskan-torn storm whistled through the peaks of the Siskiyou mountains in California today, bringing rain, snow and high winds to the coast. In Middle America rescue work- ers sloshed through muck to plug leaking dikes along rampaging rivers, The blast that hit northern Cali- fornia was termed a “virtual bliz- zard.” H.ghway patrolmen closed high- way 99 south of Dunsmuw in the snow-struck Mt. Shasta area. A bus driver told of fighting seven hours to inch his vehicle from Duns- muir to Weed-—just 18 miles, Eetween California and Nevada in historic Donner Pass, snow | slashed through the north in the Sierras at from 30 to 40 miles per hour. Weathermen class this speed as a “moderate gale,’ but its force will sway a whole tree. In Southern California, more rain is expected tonight which may end a cold snap that followed week- end rains. Ice covered Los Angeles county roads yesterdays, FLOOD AREA RAINS In the Indiana-Illinois flood area, more rain dripped down on the waterlogged floodlands. Emer- gency squads sweated on in their rescue work. Strong winds prevailed through- out most of the flood region, creat- ing a new hazard. Weather bureau officials said the high winds would make “heavy seas” of water in the lowlands. Damage to crops and property mounted as waters spilled over thousands of acres of rich farm lands. The critical situation at Vin- cennes, Ind., appeared somewhat eased as the rain-swollen Wabash river receded slowly during the night. Meanwhile, a cold wave, with winds up to 50 miles an hour, moved across Montana, the eastern Da- kotas and Minnesota. It was below zero in Montana and parts of the Dakotas as skies cleared. MORE WALKOUTS OF COAL MINERS PITTSBURGH, Jan. 10— (B — walkouts by soft coal miners to- day spread to three more steel companies which operate coal pits. About 57,000 diggers are idle in seven states in the unexplained walkouts. At least 30,000 western Pennsyl- vania miners now are” idle. About 7200 stopped work at ‘“captive” or non-commercial mines, bama miners rose from 5,000 to 6,- 000. In Virginia, 2,300 striking miners returned to work. Industry sources think there's little chance of a general return to work before Monday. The na- tion's coal miners now are working only Mondays, Tuesdays and Wed- resdays on orders of John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers. Many of the idle miners don’t in Japan Kicked From His Party | | into even know when they are not work- ing. The operators say the walkout is another effort to needle them signing a new contract. (By Associated Press) | " Japan’s Communist Party um_\‘NOSE WHEEI‘ or expelled Ko Nakanishi, a top lead- er, following the recent Cominrorm; journal blast at Japanese Com- munist leadership. Nakanishi, of the six Communist members in the upper house of Parliament, was charged with having made “an open attack on the party.” Anchorage Couple To Wed in South SEATTLE, Jan. 10—(®—A mar- riage license application was filed here yesterday by: James P. Sheldon, 30, and Eileen T. McSharry, 27, both of Anchor- age. SITKANS HERE Mrs, Stanley Westover and Paul- ®® 0 o 0 o o o o o ot the Baranof Hotel, [} one PLANE COLLAPSES, SEATTLE TAKEOFF | SEATTLE, Jan. 10—®—A nose | wheel collapsed on a Northwest Air- 1ines DC-4 early today during its .| takeoff run for a flight to Anchor- | age. The four-engined plane skidded 1 to a stop with its nose down. Twelve persons were aboard. No | one was injured. An airline spokesmian said the ! accident occurred at 7:45 a.m., after la run of about 1500 feet at the Seattle-Tacoma International Air- port. He said the plane had not attained much speed and damage to it was minor. |- The pilot was Capt. Art Walker. .‘Ine Ballinger of Sitka are stopping‘;’!‘hv passengers were changed to HOWLING WIND IN 2 STATES (By the Associated Press) Howling winds of near-hurricane force raked the coasts of Oregon and Washington early today, then swept inland to become a bliazard. Whole areas were left isolated in the coastal battering, and inland regions were fast beng knocked out as the storm raced to the south- east. Thirty inches of snow fell in the Santiam Pass of the Cascade mountains in Oregon, and snew- plow crews gave up. Elsewhere east of the Cascades the snow was fall- ing fast and drifting hadly. A bus with seven passengers was trapped when the blizzard hit the Santiam Pass, but all made ther way to shelter. They are safe and have food, but their rescue will await the end of the storm. Through the night much of the Oregon coast and the upper Olym- pic peninsula in Washington was cut off entirely from communica- tion, ‘The leading edge of the storm, which started in the Gulf of Alaska, howled steadily at 50 miles an hour over Redmond in central Oregon before reaching a crescendo of 72 miles an hour at 5 a.m. Heavy snow and freezing weather on the Olympic peninsula knocked out communications lines between the Port Angeles-Port Townsend sector and the rest of the state early today. A total of 22 inches of snow on the ground was reported in the Discovery Bay area after a heavy overnight fall. . . INQUIRY CALLED, DENFELD'S OUSTER WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—(®—De- mands for an inquiry into the ouster of Adm. Louis Denfeld as Chief of Naval Operations today delayed Senate Committee action on the nomination of Adm. Forrest P. Sherman as Denfeld’s successor. The Armed Services Committee decided at a stormy session to defer consideration of the Sherman ap- pointment until Jan. 19 after Sena- tor Knowland (R-Calif) called for the inquiry. Denfeld was ousted by Secretary of the Navy Matthews, with Presi- dent Truman's approval, after he had protested to the House Armed Services Committee that the Navy was not getting a fair break under the Unification of the Armed Zervices. 2 Knowland said he wanted to know whether Denfeld had teen fired because of that testimony. Several Republicans, including Senator Bridges (R-NH) and Gur- 1 this| ney (R-SD) supported Knowland's morning. The number of idle Ala- plea for delay. Solka Resigns As Census Enumeralor FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 10— (M—Paul Solka's resignation as a supervisor of census enumerators for the Second and Fourth Divi- sions was announced today by Clarence Keating, Territorial census supervisor. He said Solka resigned to go In- to private business. Solka is well known in the Territory as a news- man. Floyd Avery Again Manages lce Classic FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 10—(R —Floyd W. Avery has been re- eclected manager of the ice classic at Nenana. Ken Wilson was reelected as a committeeman for the organization that conducts the annual ice break- up guessing contest. Frank Turner und Al Wright were elected as new committee members. Holdover members are Fred Mueller, Tom Jones and Robert Coghill. PAXTONS HERE Mr. and Mrs. Orville Paxton of Sitka are guests at the Baranof Hotel. FROM ANCHORAGE Jack T. Jefford and John A. Freeland of Anchorage are guests another plane for a later takeoff.lat the Baranof Hotel