The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1950, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,538 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Il THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE [ JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1950 58 Missi 10 RESCUED INPACIFIC PLANE CRASH HONOLULU; June 24—(P—A brief | message out of the Pacific today said nine of 11 crewmen of ah ill-fated superfortress were safe, and the Navy tug Munsee, directing a wide surface search, said it was| steaming toward a 10th survivor! who had been located on a life- | boat. The superfortress was ditched in | the tossing Pacific late Thursday about 140 miles southeast of Guam, | It was returning to its Guam base | after a simulated bombing run on Okinawa, 1200 miles to the west. The Munsee picked up six men | first. Two others were rescued by | an Air Force crash boat from Guam. Last night the Munsee reponed it had “picked up one survivor” and was “proceeding to a new area‘ to retrieve a man on a lifeboat.” Names of those aboard were withheld. WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 68; minimum, 53. At Airport—Maximum, 72; minimum, 43. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Variable cloudiness and cooler tonight and Sunday. Lowest temperature tonight 50 degrees and highest Sun- day 65. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneu — None; since June 1 — 083 inches; since July 1—T72.07 inches. At Airport — None; since June 1 — 049 inches; @ since July 1—46.26 inches. . ® 6 o o 0 0o 0o o 0o 0 0 PRESIDENT FLIES TWICE DURING DAY (By Assoclated Press) President Truman — who's done more flying than any other Presi-; dent—takes off again today. First he flew to Baltimore to dedicate an airport near that city, made a briet address, and then the “Indepen- dence” took off again — carrying the President out to his home in Missouri for the week-end. ‘The statisticlans have figured that the President already has flown more than 83,000 miles while holding his present office. This weekend jaunt will add a couple of thousand miles more to his record. The Washington Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1980, vy Bell Syndicate, Ine.) WSHINGTON — In fairness to Congressman John S. Wood of Georgia, here is the gist of his “ reply after I reported that his office had exacted a $1,000 fee from a crippled boy hit by an Army truck after a bill was passed by Congress giving him relief for his injuries. “Pearson is an archliar, a scan- dalmonger, a character assassin, a rogue, villain and slanderer,” the congressman told his colleagues on the floor of the House of Rep- resentatives. “Pearson’s stock in trade con- sists of a wicked heart, a lying tongue and a poisonous pen. “To him there is nothing in the heavens that is sacred. He be- fouls and means to befoul every- thing he touches. He occupies the unique and unenviable position to- day of standing alone at the very pinnacle of all slanderers and| scandalmongers in all American history.” Fee Was Satisfactory Congressman Wood also admitted that his assistant, Carl Tallent, did accept a fee of $1,000 from Ralph Stanfield, the boy who was hit by an Army truck. But in justi- fication, the congressman obtained an affidavit from the boy’'s father stating that he was “satisfied.” The elder Stanfield gave this affidavit only after his employer, (Continued on Page Four) | | | [ Iing PP —— e Farm Ahoy o MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS When Bi An ocean-going freighter sails past a farm—or is it vice versa?—as the Columbia River floods near Port- land, Ore. Actually, ship was following usual channel to the sea but river has so overflowed its banks much of the area looked like an inland bay. (» Wire photo HUNTED MAN i INDIANAPOLJS, Two FBI agents shot down Henry Harland Shelton, one of the na- tion’s 10 most-wanted criminals, | last night when the Michigan fugi- tive reached for a gun to ave arrest. | "Whalzit" Flashes Across Texas Sky, Scaring Thousands DALLAS, Tex., June 24—®—A| ball of fire flashed across the| southern sky as the sun sank last | night, trailing. a streamer of flame and startling thousands. I Or did it? Was it just a speed-‘ ]mg plane with the sun’s last red [} | and gold rays playing tricks with its vapor trail? Was it a real ball | of fire, a meteor? Or was it—could | it have been—a flying saucer? | Here are the known facts: a bril- liant lighf, variously described as a fire ball and a fiery streak, was seen from Montgomery, Ala., to Fort | Worth, Tex., at about 7:40 p.m. (CST). A ship 350 miles at sea from | Galveston, Tex., saw it. A Simllflr‘ flash was seen an hour earlier af Natchez, Miss.,, and about 20 min- | utes later at Abilene, Tex. During this period a jet plane was whizzing | over the south on a course from | Langley Field, Va, to El Paso. The weather bureau at Moisant International Airport in New Or- leans said there were theories tnat‘ the fire ball was either the tail-end of a comet or the vapor trail of al high-flying aircraft. 'Pencil Stubs Are Economic Problem, Library of Congress WASHINGTON, June 25 — (® — The Library of Congress is prac- ticing economy—with complications. Its iniormation bulletin details 2 reading rooms. “The routine is simple,” the bul- letin says and then it explains: Nine members of the staff should turn in | stubs to the divisional secretaries. | The divisonal secretaries will | consign’ them to the supply ofticer. issue them on demand to the stack ete.” The library happily reports: “168 in the recent spring house-clean- ing.” FROM SKAGWAY a guest at the Baranof Hotei, June 24—A— jof the United Nations. plan for routing pencil stubs from | | the various library divisions to the The supply officer “will in turn| and reader service, serials division, stubs were collected in this manner | Five Rallroads 'No Peace Seen men on five big mid-western and western railroads are due to strike tomorrow morning. Four of the | roads have announced they will not try to operate. There was no sign—early today— of any break in the deadlock be- tween: the AFL Switchmen’s Union of North America and the carriers. ‘The five roads are the Chicago, | Rock Island and Pacific, the Chi- cago Great Western, the Western Pacific, the Great Northern, and the Denver and Ric Grande West- ern, \Mrs. F. D. R. Hopes Understanding Can Be Had with Russ PARIS, June 24—{®—Mrs. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt expressed confi- dence today the western world could reach an understanding with Rus- sia, “given wisdom, patience and ,good examples on the part of the Democracies.” The widow of the late U.S. Presi- dent, in Paris for a five-day private trip with her son Elliott and his two children, said: “I am optimistic about the future Everytime we meet we learn something, we make a gain. As slow as it Is with the U.S.SR., even that can become | possible.” (QUEEN MOTHER S HOUSEKEEPER, AIDE 'HURT BY INTRUDER LONDON, June 24—(P—An truder broke into 83-year-old Queen Mother Mary’s home early today, stabbed her housekeeper seven times and beat up the housekeeper’s helper. Queen Mary, asleep in an- other part of the house, was not | disturbed. | Scotland Yard arrested a 26- year-old Irish gardner named Ger- ald O'Brien and charged him with robbery attempt and assault. Authorities at St. George’s hos- pital said Mrs. Alice Knight, 66, the | housekeeper, had, seven Kknife wounds. Her helper, Mrs. Winitred ‘anlph. 49, had two black eyes and | other superficial injuries. Scotland Yard’s highest officials went into an immediate emergency conference to discuss the apparent; laxity of sectirity arrangements around the Queén’'s home, Marl-, puilt by Sir Christopher Wren. CHICAGO, June 24— P—Switch-! | COL. BRETT, SHOT DOWN To Strike Soon; WIFE, DIEIN ACCIDEN? FAIRFIELD, Calif., June 24—{M— Col. William Brett, 35, commander of the 9th Strategic Heavy Bomb Group, and his wife, Polly, killed today in an automobile col- lision. The deputy commander of the group, Lt. Col. (Buzz) Celic Jr., and his wife, Josephine, were in- jured eritically. I Sacramento. The highway patrol said the other car in the accident was driven by John Gorman, 20, Sacramento. Merle Benson, 18, of Sacramento, was riding with him. Both received severe cuts. Florist Shop Robbers Kill SEATTLE, June 24—(®—A young apprentice florist was slashed to death with an ax last night whhe he worked alone in the rear of a Seattle flower shop, The slain youth, Thomas Edwa*d peatedly about the head. The shop owners Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Cole told police $48.50 was missing from the till. A wo- man - passerby also Teported she had seen two men fleeing from the back of the place shortly after the time coroner’s deputies estimate Jones died. POINT BARROW SUPPLY SHIP IS OFF FOR ARCTIC SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 24— —The amphibious attack cargo ves- sel USS WASHBURN will leave to- day for the 1950 Point Barrow, Alaska resupply expedition. It has been preceded from here by three other craft which will rendezvous with other ships of the expedition in Seattle after taking on fuel and supplies at Port Huen- eme and Port Molate, San Frat- cisco Bay. Personnel at Point Barrow, hub of a 35,000 square mile area of the Naval petroleum reserve within the Arctic Circle, is largely dependent Arthur E. Tunley of Skagway is _bourough House, an old hnumnrk on annual delivery of supplies duf- 'ing a few ice-free days in August were | The accident occurred near North | Youth with Ax Jones, 24, had been chopped re- ! FIGURES REMAIN Thursday's tabulation in the Fourth of July Queen's Contest| remained unchanged last night for | the three high contestants at the| daily count at Juneau Drug. The| only difference was a 10,000 vote sum for Shirley Casperson whose | total had not been turned in Thurs- day. Figures stand as follows: Carmen Mantyla 31,500 ! Roberta Messerschmidt 27,900 ! Nella Jermain 17,500 Shirley Casperson 10,000 With the four queen candidates serving as models, two fashion ‘shn\\‘s will be presented at local theatres over the weekend. The first show will be at 9:10 p.m., at 20th Century Theatre tonight. and the second at the Capitol Thea‘e tomorrow evening at 7:20, accord- jing to Judy Greene. The Queen Contest closes June 130 and daily counts of votes for candidates will be made at Junehu Drug each afternoon at 5:30 until the final day. REPUBLICANS GO GUNNING; DRIVE (By Associated Press) Republicans of the eastern states are gunning for five-million new voters for the November elections. Chairman Owen Brewster of the Republican Senatorial campaign committee says that many new GOP | votes would give the party control | of Congress. The drive was announced as the (| Bastern Republicans concluded a two-day strategy meeting in At- lantic City, New Jersey. The Re- publicans say they're launching a | “minute-man” drive, similar to the campaign that put Warren Harding in the White House in 1920, It’s a doorbell-pushing drive for new parw membYers. B-36'S MAKE FIRST MASS FLIGHT OVER MID-PACIFIC SEAS HONOLULU, June 24—®—Six of America’s greatest bombers landed here yesterday after a continuous flight of nearly 38 hours that ate up 10,000 miles and carried them into the mid-Pacific. It was the first mass flight over water for the six-engined B-36', and their training mission went otf without a hitch. ers would make “simulated bomb- ing attacks on strategic American cities” when they return to the mainland next Tuesday. There were eight planes on the operation when the bombers took | off Thursday from Fairfield-Suisun Air Force base in California. One | flew directly here with spare parts. Another was scheduled to make the 38-hour flight but developed engine trouble and landed here. 24 TRAVEL WITH PACIFIC NORTHERN Pacific Northern Airlines brought 15 passengers here yesterday and carried nine persons to the west- ward. Arriving from Anchorage were Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Watson and M. Holkeslad, Allen May, Mrs. Top- liff and infant, and Herman Hoppe. { Boarding at Cordova were Har- old Schultz and seven Seattle- bound passengers, while Arthur Lappi, Judy Remmer, Norris P. Bundy and Wilson Townsend Joined the flight at Yakutat. Dora Brosseau went to Cordova, | David Stevens, J. E. Holz and F. A. Hefner went to Anchorage, and Olaf Floe, Donald R. Fitzgerald, Melvin Anderson and Bart Ander- son to Kodiak. FROM PORTLAND Frank C. Binschus of Portland, Ore., is registered at the Baranof Hotel. Add to new men’s fashions, phos- phorescent ties that glow in the dark. SAME AS THURSDAY ' ON FOR VOTERS Brig. Gen. €, S. Irvine, mission| commander, said the giant sky raid- i David; Ken Groon, Mrs. Ray Clute, | Outbound, S. M. Campbell and| ~ (Contest: Here Are Six Others ‘ Mrs. Dorothy M. Bell, an Alas- | kan-born housewife of Juneau, is winner of the $1,000 first prize in the Territory-wide Alaskagram con- test which was featured in six | leading Alaska newspapers. 1 Second prize of $500 was won! by John F. Walsh, Jr., a carpenter at Fort Richardson near Anchor- age. Bud Olson, a fisherman of Peters- | burg, is winner of the $250 third | prize in the Alaskagram contest, |and the fourth prize of $100 was |won by Joseph L. Matthews, a | master sergeant in the Air Force | stationed at Elmendorf Field near Anchorage. | Three prizes of $50 each will be jawarded to T. O. Hansen, an air- line pilot at Petersburg, to Mrs. | Phyllis Helstrom, a 22-year old housewife whese husband is a pow- er lineman at Ladd Field near Fairbanks, and to Richard W. De- Weil, a soldier servine as a radio technician with the Alaska Com- municatiov. System in Juneau. Identical Scores The contest was decided by a puzzle sent to hundreds of con- testants who tied in a serles of | puzzles appearing in Territorial newspapers. In the tie-breaker puzzle contestants were asked to |list as many Alaskan towns as possible from a series of simple ! words containing 344 letters. Scor- ing was based on points and Mts. Bell in Juneau and Walsh in An- chorage tied with an identical score of 826 points—but different solutions. To break the final tie between the two top contestants, they were required to list as many English words as possible from the 344 ! letters appearing on the first tie- breaking puzzle. Both were able ito complete the second tie-breaker in the time allotted and Mrs. Bell “eat Walsh with 153 words to the carpemer‘s 146. The second tie- | breaker was confined to those two contestants, Points made breaker were: | Mrs, Bell and ‘Walsh 826, Olson 822, Matthews 818, Hansen 812, Mrs. Helstrom 812, and DeWeil 808. Mrs. Bell, the $1,000 winner, is 36 years old. She was born at Tanana where her father, the late Rufus R. Stoddard, owned and op- erated a trading post. During tde war she was a clerk on the Sel- ective Service Board in Sitka and there she met and married her | hushand in 1945. He is a master sergeant in the Alaska Communica- tion System at Juneau. They have no children. Walsh, winner of the $500 sec- ond prize, was horn in Kansas in 11907. He first came to Alaska in 1934 to work in a Ketchikan csn- nery. He went to Palmer when the Matanuska Valley ocolony was at- on the first tR- { | | bl 1CCCHAIRMAN SAYS ' HE FEELS FINE AFTER % COLLAPSE IN NORTH WASHINGTON, June 24 — (A — Col. J. Monroe Johnson, 72, chafr- man of the Interstate Commerce Commission, arrived in Washington today “feeling fine”—apparently re- | covered from collapse yesterday in Anchorage, Alaska. Johnson ’ fainted at Anchorage after his arrival there on a plane bringing him from Tokyo with Sec- retary of Defense Louis Johnson and Gen. ondar Bradley. The ICC chairman stepped from the plane here looking chipper. He told reporters he had merely suffered a digestive upset and, after standing for some time at the Anchorage airport, “just keeled over.” Johnson said he made the trip to Japan to inspect Japanese rail- ways, and found them to be “one have ever seen.” have great possibilities of develop- ment,” he said. Johnson .said Gen. Duuglns Mac- Arthur invited him to make the | trip. They were ftellow officers of the Rainbow Division in the First World War. MacArthur was the division's chief of staff and John- son was chief of engineers; both were colonels. tracting national attention and, a gradute of the University of Mils- souri school of journlism, he sub- mitted several magazine articles on the project. He is now employea as a carpenter at Fort Richardson and his wife is a stenographer for the Army there, Third Prize Olson, winner of the third prize of $250, is a commercial fisherman who owns his own vessel operating out of Petersburg. He and hi family have lived several years in the Southeast Alaska fishing center Fourth-prize winner for the $130 award is Mrs. Phyllis Helstrom, a 22-year old housewife who came to Alaska from Minnesota exacily a year ago with her husband, a power lineman at Ladd Field. Contestants were required to score their own solutions, Twelve points were deducted for each letter not used in the list of 344 letters, but contestants who included all 344 letters in their lists of towns were awarded an 80-point bonus in ad- dition to the total points earned by their solutions. There were 27 solutions—includ- ing the top seven—entitled to the 80-point bonus. Scores on them ranged from 752 points to the 826 top score rating. Actual awarding of prizes will be made by Miss Virginia Houston, a public 'accountant in Anchorage. She will mail checks to contest- ants upon her verification that they are uncontested winners. 2,000 Contestants Nearly 2,000 contestants partici- pated in the contest sponsored as as publicity campaign for the Al- aska Almanac of which David Tewkesbury is co-publisher, and hundreds throughout the Territory submitted the subsequent tie- breaker. Six Alaska newspapers sold advertising space for the con- test and none of them shared sponsoring of the contest. Each town-name listed on the tie-breaking puzzle was worth 10 points. Additional points were al- lowed for certain letter combina- tions within each town name. The sequence of the letters “LA” within a word was worth 8 points. The combination of “TO" earnd 6 poinis, and each “CH” formation credited 4 points. pAY Point Scoring To {llustrate, all three point- scoring combinations are incluced in the Alaskan name “Latouche.” To the 10 points allowed for the name f{tself, 8 points were added for. combination of the letters ‘LA” plus 6 for “TO" plus 4 for “CH” making the name “Latouche” worth a total of 28 points in the contest. Mrs, Bell listed 55 towns in the ‘ije breaker and although Walsh listed only 52, the Anchorage car- penter tled the Juneau housewift's score because his shorter list in- cluded several names with higher point values. FRENCH PREMIER KNOCKED OVER IN CONFIDENCE VOTE (By Associated Press) Prance's middle-of-the-road gov- ernment fell today on a confidence issue. Some feared the event might prove a severe blow to the Schu- man plan for pooling West Eur- ope’s coal and steel, in which France boldly seized the initiative. While the issue forcing the res- ignation of Premier Georges Bidault was relatively minor one concern- ing budget outlays for government esmployes’ wage increases, the pre- mier had made it plain the vote would be a broad overall question of confidence. The nalfonal as- sembly voted against him, 352 to 230. The main opposition carne of the best (orelgn rail systems I|from the Soclalists, who have sup- vorted him in other matters. Al- “They run on time, they are a|lied with them were the right | good substantial business, and they | wing De Gaullists, the Commu- nists and a scattering of Independ- ents. The result may hasten a French election. SEATTLEITES HERE Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Watson and1 David, of Seattle, are at the Bara- nof Hotel. PRICE TEN CENTS g Plane Disappears QUEEN CONTEST ' Juneau Housewife Winner of $1,000Prizein Alaskagrams Lake Michigan May Contain Missing Ship Northwest miner Gone in Thunderstorm - 0 Slicks Investigated MILWAUKEE, Wis,, June 24— —A big Northwest Air Liner with 58 persons aboard disappeared last night in a thunderstorm over Lake Michigan. Hours after uawn today, search- ing planes and surface craft found two oil slicks and a little unidenti- fied wreckage on the lake’s choppy surface east of Milwaukee. One slick was about six miles offshore, the other about one mile out. The search was concentrated near the one farthest from shore. But there was no actual trace of the big four-engined air liner or its occupants. Fog which cut vistbility to about 600 feet hampered the search by Army, Navy and Coast Guard planes and surface craft from Coast Guard stations at Kenosha, Racine and Milwaukee. ‘The oll slicks were not conclusive evidence that the big plane had crashed into the lake. A tanker or other lake ship might have made it. Northwest Alrlines officlals re- fused to give up hope that the plane may be safe. They said the plane had enough gasoline to fly as far as Billings, Mont. It was possible, they said, that the plane may have been thrown off mission and into the Northern Wisconsin woods. Meanwhile searchers reported a third oil slick on the east side of the lake about 12 miles northwest of Benton Harbor, Mich. Lake sailors have said oil slicks are fairly com- mon in the steamship lanes, re- sulting usually from fuel oil seep- age of ships. If all aboard the DC-4 four- engine air coach are lost, it will be the most diastrous crash in US. commercial aviation history. The plane was enroute from New York to the Pacific Northwest. There was a crew of three board the craft. The skipper was Robert Lind, 35, of Hopkins, Minn. Co- pilot was Vern F. Wolfe, 35, of Min- neapolis, Stewardess Bonnie Ann Feldman, 25, of St. Paul, completed the crew roster. The night plane last reported its position at 11:15 p.m. (CST) yes- terday. At Minneapolis the Civil Aeronautics Authority sald Capt. Lind told them he was over the eastern edge of Lake Michigan at the time. The passenger list included K. Nielsen, bound for Anchorage, Alaska. There was no other identi- fication of Nielsen. TUNA BOAT GOES DOWN SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 24—(® -~Disaster overtook one of the scores of albacore “gold rush” fish- ing boats that have come he from as far as Alaska. The 36-foot Sea Home of Morra Bay, Calif., sank 20 miles out after a collision yesterday with the 48- foot Linda of Seattle, Harbor department officlals, ex- pecting hundreds of boats to be passing in and out during the rush | fer the running $400-a-ton top- grade tuna, considered traffic con- trols, The Sea Home's two occupals, D. J. Work, 32, and Willlam Han- son, 50, were rescued by the Linda, | STEAMER MOVEMENYS Princess Louise from Vancouver due in port this afternoon at 3:30 |o'clock and sails for Skagway at | 11:30. Alaska from Seattle due to arriva tomorrow. Baranof from Seattle due Tues- day. Princeses Kathleen scheduled to sail from Vancouver tonight. Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver Tuesday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday. Aleutian from westward scheduled southbound 6 p.m. Sunday.