The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 3, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,545 U. S. Bombers ]I(orean Situation May Jam | Alaska, Hawaii Statehood Bills Through U. §. Senate MOTHER, 2 . CHILDREN MISSING A Juneau mother and er two small children, missing since June| 25, were sought today by the U.S.| | | “present” when it came to calling ‘the roll on reporting the bills. An informal poll of non-com- | \ | | | By ALICE FROIN JOHNSON (Special to Empire) WASHINGTON, June 30—While | Marshal's office. |the Korean situafion may not ap- Marshal William T. Mahoney said | pear to bear directly on statehood he was anxious to contact anyone|for Alaska and Hawaii, informed who might have seen the woman, sources here believe recent devel- Betty Jane Curry, 35, and her son,|opments in Asia, will ram both Richard, 5, and daughter, Dianne, 2 statehood bills through the Senate ‘The three were seen last on the|bcfore the end of the session. docks Sunday evening, June 25. The | As was expected, the Senate In- woman’s baggage was left at the terior and Insular Affairs Com- express office. p The Marshal’s office on the search when the two child- ren failed to return to the Johnson home where they had been staying. A check of both north and south bound ships which left Juneau on| June 25 failed to disclose any trace of the family. Mahoney described the woman as “35, blond and of buxom build.” Both children are blond. Mrs. Curry sometimes was known as Mrs. Tip- ton, the Marshal said. The woman's baggage carried a discharge paper showing that she had been a WAC during the war. A report that Mrs. Curry had been seen.boarding a bus in Ju- neau during the last week reached the district representative of the Alaska Public Welfare, but there has been no confirmation of the information. Mrs. Curry came to Juneau from Seward in April of 1949. During the last year she has had temporary employment at St. Ann's hospital, the Algska Laundry and in the Department of Taxation. Her children first entered the Lyle Johnson home May 23, re- mained there until June 8 and then were taken to the home again. Mrs. Curry took the children from the home Saturday, June 24, after arranging to return them in a few days. The report that she was boarding the Aleutian southbound Sunday night reached the welfare representative indirectly. “While it is possible that Mrs. Curry may be in Juneau, we are alarmed on her account and because of the children,” Miss Sadie Billis, the welfare representative said to day. “That is why we have appealed to the Marshal’s office in our at- tempt to locate her.” ARC TRUCK HERE, FIRST IN JUNEAU IN 29 YEARS The first Alaska Road Commis- sion truck to come to Juneau in 29 years arrived here Saturday from ‘Tok, bringing household goods for John G. Shepard, construction en- gineer who has been transferred to the Juneau office from Tok. The truck came by way of the Haines cut-off and the Haines car- ferry. It will leave here for Tok | Wednesday, according to Col.”John R. Noyes, head of the ARC. The Washington Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON Ypyright, 190, vy Bell Byndicatc, Ine.) 'ASHINGTON—What has wor- ed military chiefs in considering their Korean strategy is that the Soviet will next make a pass at a defenseless but vital country on the other side of Asia—Iran. For if the men in the Kremlin face a setback in Korea, they are likely to save face in some other area. And the most important and easiest country for them to pen- etrate is oil-rich, revolt-ready Iran. Capture of Iran would put Rus- sian forces on the Gulf of Persia overlooking the Indian Ocean and menacing bcth the shipping lanes to Suez and the pricelesss oil of Arabia. Here are the inside facts about Iran—well known to Moscow—which | Kinley on the make U. S. military chiefs worry. After the Shah.of Iran returned from the U. S. A, it was expected he would receive large shipments of American tanks, artiliery etc. However, Gen. Vernon Evans, U. S. military adviser in Iran, advised against this. He warned that cor- ruption, incipient revolt and ineffi- ciency were such inside the Iran- ian army that U. S. tanks and equipment might fall into Commu- (Continued on Page Foun was called in | both | voted this week to report statehood bills favorably. ‘Sens. Hugh Butler, Neb., and Guy Gordon, Ore, both Republicans, Iwere the only members who voted against the Alaska bill, while But- ler, alone, opposed the Hawaiian | bill, | The conflagration in Korea was ;»eizcd upon by Sen. Joseph C. O'- Mahoney, chairman and staunch | Administration supgorter, as a pat- | amount reason for speeding both bills to the Senate. | mittee Both Territories are logical springboards for mounting attacks | against Communist Asia, should | |war eventuate between Russia and {the United States as a result of | | American aid to free countries. Therefore, O'Mahoney declared, |no possible link which may be]| {forged to strengthen the chains Linding strategically-located off- |shore possessions to the continental United States should be neglected. {He argued that statehood would | strengthen morale in both Terri- tories, and allow better integration of American military planming. . Butler’s Comeback H Butler, opposing O'Mnhtmey's‘ view, said: “With all due respect to the Chairman, it seems to me grantmgi statehood to the Territories has nothing to do with military pre- | paredness. Residents of Alaska and | Hawaii are, first and foremost, loyal Americans, They will aid the United States no matter whether they live under the laws of a state or of a territory. If anything, we can retain closer con- trol in event of enemy attack from across the Pacific under the terri- torial system than under isolated statehood.” Butler and Gordon both asserted they were not against ultimate statehood, but that this was not the time for it. . More Time Needed Three committee members are oprosed to granting statehood im- ‘medlfltcly to either Territory, Lut believed the Senate should have the opportunity now to debate ihe issues. All three merely voted MAN SCALES MI.LOGANFOR SECOND TIME 60 - Year - Old Bostonian Made First Ascent of Peak 25 Years Ago 2v MURLIN B. SPENCER CURDOVA, Alaska, July 3—@—A gray haired, 60-year-old Bostonian, who was among those making the first ascent of 19,850-foot Mt. Lo- gan 25 years ago, conquered the peak again Jupe 17—the S$econd time it has been scaled. He wanted to see if his legs could “still take it.” For Norman H. Read, Boston and Manchester, Mass,, it was six days short of 25 years since he and five others fought their way to the top of the forbidding mpun- tain, highest in Canada and sec- ond by only 450 feet to .Mt. Me- North American continent. 51 Days on Ice Read and Andre Roch, his com- panion from Davos, Switzerland, returned here Saturday with tiel story of their cilmb. They were 51 days on ice where there are no insects, animals or birds. They battled incredible snowstorms that threatened to destroy them. Then in the face of overwhelming odds, they climbed both of Logan’s peaks. (Continued on Page Two) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” KA — ] JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1950 MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — ALASKATS THEME OF CONVENTION ?Eleve}llh Biennial Meet-| mittee senatons ot both parves -] NG Of Soropfimists closed that the majority, including | those who were apathetic on sta‘e- hood, now side with O'Mahoney’s views. Sen. Clinton Anderson, N. M., | | will steer the Alaska bill throughj | floor debate. He conducted recent | hearings on the House bill. His | sharp questions, aimed at both pro- ponents and opponents, brought out | weak points in the measure, with the result that the bill reported %o the Senate has been amended in many ways. Most changes rnvor; the Territory, especially in the | matter of lands to be awarded | the State of Alaska. Believes Passage Certain “I have no doubt that we will| pass both statehood bills, certainly | the Alaska bill, before we go home,” | Anderson told this reporter in the presence of senatorial colleagues. | Then he jutted his jaw. A senator- ial stander-by remarked: When| Clinton juts his jaw like that, he| never fails to get his way.” i Until this week’s crisis in Koré: Alaska statehood advocates hé ! any outside hope of getting action. | They hoped the President would | pour on the heat, since the plat- | form of the National Democratic Convention called for granting statehood to Alaska and Hawaii. Furthermore, proponents had the idea that the President might in- | sist on action to provide Demo- cratic congressiongl candidates with | “see-what-we-did-arguments,” if Congress failed to enact a sizeabie hunk of ‘his “must” 1égislation, such as civil right, low-income and!| middle-income housing and Federal | aid to education. ! Turn Down kresident Although neither House or Sen- | ate has come through with much | legislation called for by the Chief | Executive, both houses have pnssedl some “watered down” measures which half-way comply with the President’s wishes—enough so that | minor, not-too-controversial planks | need not be pressed at this session, especially in view of the present bi-partisan will to strengthen the country’s course of action. Apathy, heretofore the greatest deterrent to immediate grant of statehood, apparently is out the window. This apathy stemmed from the Majority Party ]endcr-l ship in the Senate. Former Republican Congressman Everett Dirksen is giving Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas touzh | :ompetition in the Illinois senator- | lal race. Lucas wanted to close shop as soon as appropriations were out of the way, so he eould 2qQ home and fight for reelection. Statehood for the territories is not even a remote issue in Illinois. Neither could Sen. Francis J. Myers, Majority Whip, summon en- thusiasm for prolonging Congress | to take up the statehood measures. Few of his Pennsylvania constitu- ents care whether Alaska and Ha- waii are states or territories, but mny are falling off Myers' band- wagon. Lucas and Myers determine, for the most part, what «bills shall | come to debate. Aided by lack of | interest on the part of Sen. Robert A. Taft, Minority Party policy chairman, Lucas and .Myers had written off time for statehood de- bates. Now, tension over the inter- national situation is apt to force them to change their minds. MITCHELL GIVES VIEWS ~ | TACOMA, Wash,, July 3 — (& — Rep. Hugh Mitchell (D-Wash) be- lieves the Korean situation necessi- tates the immediate approval Oii statehood for Alaska. “Alaska is America’s Achilles | Heel today because it is so pitifully | underpopulated and underdevel- | oped,” he told a dinner meeting of the Pacific Northwest Allied Print- ing Trades Council. “As Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining says, you can't defend a vacuum. Statehood is one way to fill lhls! vacuum. By ending the Territory's second class status people and in- dustry will be induced to migrate northward.” Mitchell said Russia has built large industrial cities in northern | Siberia to buttress her striking| power in the Pacific. “Korea,” he said, “is a graphic reason why we must match her strength,” Opens in Seattle 5 SEATTLE, July 3—®»—A trip to Alaska was the theme of the wel- coming reception for the 1,000 dele~ gates to the 11th biennial conven- tion of the American Federation of Soroptimist clubs last night. Exhibits, insured for $10,000, turned the Spanish ballroom of the Olympic hotel into a miniature of | the northland for the formal open= ing of the convention which was sponsored by the Soroptimist Clubs of Alaska. The meeting is being held in Seattle for the first time and it is expected that all previous attend-| ance records will be broken, accord- ing to Mrs. Lois Beil Sandall, gen- eral chairman. The Alaskan exhibits included a miniature mining camp with the miner’s cabin, his cache and wind- less all constructed of natural ma- ! terials. It was designed by the Fair- banks club. ‘The Anchorage club’s exhibit dis- played native ivory, furs and Alaskan wild flowers. From Sitka there were Indian ceremonial robes, native baskets and a hand carved mural by Peter Nielsen of the Raven Clan. Most of the exhibits are over 100 years old. The welcoming address was de- livered by Mrs. Edith T. Rauch, president of the Seattle Soroptimist club. The program also included Eskimo. dances and the Metlakatla boys’ choir which sang Alaskan ballads. The Alaskan hostesses all wore native parkas. Convention hosts are the clubs of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Mon- tana and Alaska. | . I 4 | Roberta Messerschmidt, by winning the popularity voting contest, | is Juneau's Queen during the present Fourth of July celebration. She was crowned at the coronation ball at midnight Saturday in the Elks ballroom. ALASKA'S LIBERTY|CORONATION BALL BELL SOUNDS AT! STARTS FESTIVITIES (EREMONIES TODAY, | Anyone in the crowd of peop‘;e: who witnessed the presentation and persons in the Elks' Ballroom Sat- acceptance of the Liberty bell injurday night watched the entrance front of the Federal Building this!to see who would follow the mili- morning had a chance to ring thetary color guard in the midnight OF GALA 'FOURTH' Tense with excitement, some 700 bell along with the dignitaries oni | the program—and plenty of boys?t and girls took advantage of thatj opportunity. 1 The bell, one of 53 replicas of thej Liberty Bell presented to the forty- | eight states and four territories— Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, has a beautifu! sound and in spite of its heavy clap- per-—the youngsters whose part in Picket Sfops Discharging Alaska Ship. SEATTLE, July 3—®—CIO long- shoremen refused to pass a lone A. F. of L. picket at the Albers Milling Company pier yesterday. As a resuit an Alaska Steamship Company ves- sel moved away unloaded. The Sailor’s Splice tied up at the pier early yesterday to unload a cargo of fish meal for Alaska. Mem- bers of the International Long- shoremen’s and Warehousemen'’s ‘Union (CIO) turned back when they saw the picket patrolling the plant entrance. the face of any dangers. The ship was moved later in the | Mr. Petrich called attention to day to pier 24 to discharge canned | the fact that the bell ~was one of salmon. ‘the most dynamic and inspirational The Albers plant has been pick_wsymbols the Savings Bond Division eted by the Sheet Metal Workers|Of the Treasury Department has International Association, Local 99| €ver had . . . that these touring (AFL) since January 3 after the | bells, 53 of them, will have visited company discharged two sheet- Some 2,500 ?ommunities c.lurmg the metal workers and announced it|Present Savings Bond drive. would “farm out” its sheet-metal| First clap of the bell was sounded work. On February 7 Superior Judge | by Gov. Gruening. Mayor Waino Harold A. Sheering denied the Al- | Hendrickson then rang the bell and bers Company an injunction aBm,.‘st‘others who followed were B. D. the picketing. | Stewart, Col. John Noyes, .A!a\ka/ william Gettings, regional direc- | Road Commission; Commissioner tor of the ILWU said yesterday was of Education James Ryan; the dep-| the first time since the dispute be- | Uty collector of customs, J. T. Pet-j gan that longshoremen were called |Tich; Mrs. Gruening, Mrs. Keith| to the pier to work a vessel. }Petrich, Mrs. Mildred Hermann,l ‘ Postmaster Crystal Snow Jenne., e ! Then bystanders, men, women o and children joined in ringing the | bell. The reproduction of the liberty | bell is exact—except, of course for} | the crack—but even the crack is | painted on the replica. . The authorities on bells and bell ringing say that it has a 20-second | sound at present, but when the | mounting is adjusted, which will be | the ceremony was impromptu, thoroughly enjoyed ringing Alaska's Liberty Bell. J. T. Petrich, deputy collector of customs, acting on- behalf of the Secretary of Treasury, presented the bell to Gov. Ernest Gruening, who accepted the bell on behalf of ! the people of Alaska. In his acceptance, Gov. Grueninz said that the bell is a symbol of the freedom we enjoy and have en- joyed continuously for a century and three-quarters, a freedom we must maintain unflinchingly, in ® 060 ° 0 0 0 o o WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 69; minimum, 52. At Airport—Maximum, 68; minimum, 48. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Variable cloudiness tonight and Tuesday. Lowest tem- vibration. procession. Who had wofi the contes’, tc reign cver Juneau’s four-day 4th ot July celebration? Who had been secretly King Juneau I? Applause first for Mayor and Mrs. Hendrickson applause and cheers with the appearance of the royal pair, Roberta Messerschmidt, queen, and Dr. L. P. Dawes, king. “Court attendants” followed, es- corted by officers of the Alaska National Guard. In the order of their success in the queen contest were Princesses Shirley Casperson, escorted by Capt. Arthur Walker; Nella Jermain, with Lt. Dan Mahoney, and Carmen Mantyla, with Lt. Vern Metcalfe. The four young women made an attractive picture grouped on the stage for the coronation ceremony. Their billowy formal gowns shaded from the soft green frock which chosen Iset off Queen Roberta’s brunette beauty (accented by the huge bou- quet of red and white carnations), to the aqua gown worn by Shirley, the cloud softness of Nella’s and the white dress chosen by Carmen. (Mrs. Hendrickson carried out the patriotic theme in her costume, wearing a red and white corsage on the pale blue blouse topping a long black skirt.) ‘With appropria‘te remarks, May- or Hendrickson placed the red and gold crown on the dark hair of Queen Juneau IV, and gave Dr, Dawes the scroll prepared by the committee for King Juneau I Naming him to the Royal Court of Independénce “for devoted ser- vice and the respect of the com- munity” had been J. C. Johnson, Dr. James C. Ryan and Elton Eng- strom. From with Dawes the stage, where she sat committee members, smiled happily above the colorful corsage she had been given. | Besides the airplane fares and cash awards in the queen contest, and princesses the king, queen were give gold bracelets which will be suitably engraved to commem- crate the occasion. Just 24 hours earlier, after the | done today, it will have a lOngerjg eon contest closed Friday night, Mrs, perature tonight about 50 degrees. Highest Tuesday near 67. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—0.08 inches; e since July 1—0.27 inches. . At Airport — 0.15 inches; o since July 1—0.15 inches. 2 9 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @ 6eee®esesose®0cccsesoe a group of interested citizens had UNCLE SAM'S| DEVIL DOGS ORDERED OUT f Troops, AirIJFits from Two | U.S. Bases to Be Rush- ed fo MacArthur TED KOREAN (By Associated Press) Units of the United States Mar- Ines—the fighting devil dogs of Uncle Sam who helped win many ean island in World War Two— were ordered today to the Korean war area. A Defense Department spokesman in Washington said troops and air units from the Fleet Marine Force at Carhp Pendleton and El Toro, Cal, would be rushed across the Pacific to Japan with instructions to report to Gen. MacArthur, who asked more combat manpower tc fight the Communists in Korea. The strength of the Marine re- inforcements was not disclosed. This additional shot in the arm to U. S. strength in the Korear fighting came as the Communist invaders of South Korea slowed down their advance to gather strength for a new all-out assault. It was possible they would move out under cover of night and make their first contact with U, 8. ground troops. U. S. bombers anc fighters gave the Reds a fierce daylight pounding. U. 8. Air Force officials in Wash- ‘ington ordered additional B-29 su- perfortresses from the West Coast to advanced American bases in the Paclfic. The Air Force said U, 8, ‘and Australian planes had flown 105 sorties over Korsa, with only one F-80 jet fighter lost in action. GOVERNOR WILL ASK MAYORS T0 PLAN DEFENSE Back in Juneau after his confer- ence in Anchorage with General Nathan S. F. Twining, General Frank Armstrong, General Cun- ningham and Federal and city of- ficials, Gov. Gruening said today that he would ask the mayors of other towns in Alaska to call sim- ilar meetings to make plans for civilian defense in case of any en- emy action. “Juneau, because of its prestige as capital of Alaska, I consider would be third in importance to| any possible enemy, after Anchor- | age and Fairbanks. We must not be alarmed, but we must have some plan of aetion. “There is no plan of evacuation of Alaska and General Twining and I agreed that people were as safe in Alaska as they would be any- where else should the United States be attacked by some enemy.” | e o o 0 o o 0 o o NO EMPIRE ON 4TH There will be no issue of the Daily Alaska Empire tomor- row, July 4, but any news of transcendent interest will be bulletined. ®© 0.0 0 00 00 0 0 AIRCRAFT ENGINE ON EXHIBITION, BARANOF | A sectionalized Pratt and Whit- ney aircraft engine, prepared for educational and training purposes by Alaska Coastal Airlines me- chanics, is being exhibited in the lobby of the Baranof Hotel until Thursday afternoon. Sections of the cylinders, pistons. and crankcase have been removed to expose the operation of the en- gine and a small electric motor turns it over to show, it in action STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 3 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine At noon tomorrow, July 4, the chent iong hours counting the votes, | bell will ring again. | checking and rechecking. In this No permanent location has bee"!gronp were representatives of the chosen for Alaska’s Liberty Bell conconng eroups, committee mem- and it will remain on the lawn in o oo 6 the Rev. A. B. Morgan. front of the Federal Buillding for mpne orficial tabulation Shows the time being. | 206,400 votes for Roberta Messe | By schmidt, who was spon:ored by the Dragon' flies benefit mankind potary Club and the Business and through their fondness for mosqui- il PR toes. (Continued cn Page Five) stock today is 2%, American Can 102, Anaconda 29'2, Curtiss-Wright 8%, International Harvester 26%. Kennecott 55, New York Central, 11%, Northern Pacific 14, U.S. Steel 32'%, Pound $2.80. Sales today were 1,540,000 shares. Pounding Invaders of Korea July 4th Queen Roberla INFANTRY ATTACKED AT FRONT Strafing Planes Hit U. S. Units - Commies Spray- ed by Bombs, Rockets (By the Assoclated Press) Communist invaders of South Ko- rea slowed down their powerful armored advance today to lay low in the face of a fierce daylight pounding by U.S. bombers and fighters. Under cover of night they were likely to move again and pos- sibly make their first contact with U.S. ground troops. First U.S. Infantry units digging in at the front were greeted by a savage 25-minute attack of five to seven unidentified strafing planes. For the U.S. Infantry it was the first combat action since World War II. A US. sergeant was the first casualty. American bombers and fighters in large numbers sprayed bombs, rockets ‘and machinegun fire at the Communists, four of whose tank columns were across the Han river. Another Red tank column had taken Wonju, 50 miles east of Seoul, captured South Korean cap- ital. Fighters Pound Them American and Australian fighter planes wrecked seven North Korean tanks and 22 trucks and shot down two hostile planes Monday. The Communists were building up their antiaircraft positions in the Seoul area . out heavy, ., g N failed to dislodge the South Ko- reans still hanging on to the town and its airfield, 23 miles south of the fallen capital. Two Red tank columns were re- ported 256 miles below the Han in a menacing break through outflank- ing Suwon and its airfield, aban- doned by the Americans as an ad- vance supply base, but a spokesman at Gen. MacArthur’s advance head- quarters in Korea said this break- through was not as serious as it had looked at first. X No Red e Headquarters said the Reds made no serious progress during the day, but that nightfall might touch off a renewed surge and bring Americans and Communists within shooting range. The day’s reports indicated the Red drive was at least tem- porarily stalled, probably because of ' the severe pasting by the American planes. The Communist radio said Ameri- can bombers raided the North Ko- rean capital, Pyongyang, twice Monday, dropping more than 809 bombs. It said fighters knocked down two bombers. In, Washington, Secretary of De- " fense Johnson said there was no present intention of mobilizing re- serves in the United States in con- | nection with the Korean crisis, de- spite worries that it might spread into a broader conflict. Commies Mobilizing Officials studied reports from Hong Kong quoting Chinese dis- patches from Canton which said the Chinese Communists were mobiliz- ing & force of 20,000 or more men for the Korean campaign. The 39 members of the United Nations who now back U.S. actions in Korea were reported generally favoring the appointment of U.S. Gen. MacArthur to lead the U.N. effort to restore peace by the use of force. Truman Studies Reports President Truman and Secretary of State Acheson studied latest re-~ ports from Korea. It was under- stood these reports said morale in the invaded country was good de- (Continued on Page Two) STEAMER MOVEMENTS Aleutian from Seattle scheduled to arrive at § a.m. tomorrow and sails westward at 2 p.m. Princess Louise from Vancouver scheduled to arrive tomorrow after- noon or evening. Princess Kathleen scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday. Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver Friday. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 208.35, rails 5166, utilities | 47.70, Princess Norah scheduled to ar- rive at 8 am. tomorrow and sails south one hour later at 9 am,