The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 15, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY A " VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,581 \ SKA EMPIRE “4ALL THE NEWS ;,"QLL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ‘Reds Smash at American Flank, Gain Miles FLAMING SHIP "RACESTOLAND 600 PERSONS TADOUSSAC, Quebec, Aug. 15— (M—The 17,000-ton cruise ship Que- bec burned to the waterline last night after racing aflame in the St. Lawrence River to land safely some 600 person aboard. Three Montreal residents wdre unaccounted for today. ‘The 22-year-old vessel was ownés and operated by the Canada Steam- ship Lines, whose cruise ship Nor- onic burned at her berth in Tor- onto last Sept. 17, taking a toll of 119 lives. Operators of the Quebec said she # was a “complete loss.” A considerable amount of bag- gage was destroyed as the ship burned to the water’s edge about four hours after she docked at this resort town at the mouth of the Saguenay River. Still unexplained was the cause « of the fire, discovered late yester- day afternoon as the passengers crowded the Quebec’s decks watch- 4 ing the grandeur of the Saguenay cliffs. The ship sailed from Mon- treal Sunday night. * SALMON OUTLOOK STILL SLIM IN JUNEAU AREA SAYS SETON THOMPSON Seton Thompson, chief of the & branch of Alaska Fisheries for the Fish and Wildlife Service, in Ju- neau from Washington, D.C., head- quarters will make an aerial survey of fisheries conditions today and a survey aboard the Brandt tomor- Tow, the opening day. of.the local salmon canning season. After a week.in this area, Thomp- son will leave for the westward and continue as far north as the Prib- ilof Islands where he will inspect the season’s sealing operations. With Mr. Trumpson in Juneau is C. E. Peterson, who has been with ,) the F & W S commercial fisheries statistical division in Washington, and who will be supervisory survey statistician in Seattle for the F & W S. This is Peterson’s first trip to Alaska in 12 years. Prospects are pretty good for the salmon season in the Ketchikan area, but the showing is still pretty | slim here, the fisheries chief said to- day. ¢ * BANK EXECUTIVE HERE FROM | KETCHIKAN HEADQUARTERS 2 William E. Bates, managing di- tector of the Miners and Merchants Bank, Ketchikan, and the First Bank of Sitka, is in Juneau today on his way to Bitka. i lf - Ketchikan is booming, according to the first city banker. The sixe story, 108-unit Ferris Coun’*dpa{t~ | ; ments are a third completed, Lad the town is buzzing over the start of the fishing season tomorrow. After a week in Sitka and a stop at Pelican where the Sitka bank has an agency, Mr. Bates will re- turn to’Juneau on his way to his Ketchikan home. While here he is at the Baranof Hotel. , The Washington Merry - Go - Round By JACK ANDERSON and FRED BLUMENTHAL KCopyright, 1384 Dy Bell Syndicate, Ine.) (Ed. Note—While Drew Pear- son is on a brief vacation, his column will be written by mem- bers of his staff). Buying Bed Sheets Yesterday we suggested .organiz- ing home-front committees to stim- ulate public opinion against “me- firsters"—the war profiteers and hoarders. This is what we would like to see stopped: Last week PFranco's hired Wash- ington 1dbbyist slipped into Gar- 4 finckel’s department store and sheepishly bought out the store's supply of select bed sheets. Harriman’s Trip The inside reason for Averell Harriman's flying trip to Tokyo wasn’t to scold General ¢ Mac- .Arthur for conferring with Chiang Kai-Shek, as the dopesters have reported. Instead, President Tru- (Continued on Page Four) "LARGEST" QUAKE RECORDED; WHERE WAS THE THING? (By the Associated Press) ILWU OUSTER (OFBRIDGES | e One of the five greatest earth- { quakes ever recorded shook the ! earth today, the U.S. Coast and Ge- | odetic Survey reported. It tenta- \ tively placed the earthquake's loca- ) tion in the northern tip of Burma | near the China border. | Capt. Elliott Roberts of the survey | told a reporter at Washington, D.C., | that the earthquake had a magni- tude of 84. He said this compares with 85 for ‘the maximum so far recorded. The earthquake had been reported on seismographs around’ the world. Roberts said it was premature to be too exact of the quake’s location, although he was sure that the Burma-China border was correct. He said there was no doubt but |'that it was a tremendous quake. *It was a humdinger all right,” he said. | Seismographs in Britain, ‘Japan and, the United States recorded the shocks of extraordinary violence. Auckland, N.Z., reported an earth shock of some intensity at Rotorua, center of the thermal region of New | Zealand in the hot springs spa! area. This shock at'9:45 p.m. New Zealand time (3.45 a.m., EST) rat- j tled windows over a wide area. It was preceded by two milder tremors. | However, the great violence of the | shocks recorded elsewhere indicated to one London scientist that there may have been a quake under t.fiei sea. servatory in Tokyo reported the shocks were believed in the northern part of the American continent. At Seattle, Dr. Eijo Vesanen, Uni- versity of Washington seismologist, said the quake probably occurred in New Zealand or Malaya. The first shock was recorded on his instru- ments at 7:23.07 am. (Pacific Day- light Time) (9:23.07 am. EST). It was still being recorded four and a DEVELOPING | COOS BAY, Ore, Aug. 15—P— || | Behind closed doors West Coast longshore urnion leaders opened a | | caucus here today that may lead | to a serious revolt against Harry Bridges. | Bridges, head of the union for 14 | | Maritime Federation of the World § and his criticism of U.S. actlon in | Korea. Il - His opponents are attempting to'[3 force him to resign the union presi- dency. Actually, the caucus has not the power to do that. His opponents | are attempting, however, to apply pressure on the longshore leader who is in prison at San Francisco after being convicted of lying when he said he never was a Communist. The pressure is being applied by two resolutions from the San Fran- cisco delegation. Princess Born To Elizabeth weeds in foreground, observes hits. (® Wirephoto. DEFENSE GROUP WANTS | THANE AND HIGHWAY IN | The Central Meteorological Ob- | e otes 1o oo Eua. | LOCAL ORGANIZATION was born today to Princess Eliza- | | beth, helress-presumptive to the| throne o the British Empire, and | Governor Ernest Gruening will her handsome husband, Prince|be requested to permit the Juneau Philip. | civilian defense council to include ‘ An American medium tank blasts ‘lt enemy positions in South Korean hills as a soldier, crouched in i | | | 'Auto Workers Strike; Rail (losure Near Heavy Fighting on All Fronts; High Casualfies Suffered by Both Sides (By the Associated Press) E Communist forces smashed sav- agely today against the Americanl southern flank on the Nahong' river bridgehead southwest of | Taegu, main UJB. forward base in South Korea. This Red drive rolled ahead to a point six or seven miles east of the river in the Changnyong area, 23 miles southwest of Taegu, in some of the severest fighting of the war. that it has been written off as a major target for B-29 Superforts. The Far East Bomber command also reported that the Superforts in the past month plastered North Korean targets with 23,000 bombs — 7,000 tons—scoring from 30 percent to complete destruction on their tar- gets. North Korea's premier, Kim Il Sung, reflected worry about this. He commanded his troops in an order of A breakthrough in the Chang-|the day to win the war by the end ! nyong sector not only would imperil { of August, before American forces STATEHOOD FOR HAWAII SURE IF SENATORS VOTE | WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 — (@ — | Samuel Wilder King, former dele- Taegu, but probably would signal | become stronger. A score of Chinese The new princess, second child of the royal couple, is third in line of succession to the British crown. She follows her chubby 21-month-old brother, Prince Charles. The birth of the baby at Clar- jence House near Buckingham Pal- half hours later. lace, home of Elizabeth and Philip, | Thane, West Juneau, and the Gla- | cier Highway district including Auk ‘Bny in the local ‘civilian defense | organization. | This was announced by R. E. | Robertson, chairman of the Iocgl | defense council. after a meeting of | the council last night. gate to Congress from Hawaii, said today the Hawali statehood bill is certain to pass if it reaches a Sen- ate vote. The President of the Hawaii Con- stitutional Convention told a re- 73 orter that a tally of senators, pre- 8,000 Packard Men Wal Out-Conductors and Train- Dr. Vesanen estimated that its distance from Seattle as about 7,000 miles. Its intensity, he said, was comparable to a quake which killed 6,000 persons in Ecuador last year. The University of Washington seismograph is one of the newest and most modern in the country. The Boston College seismograph at Weston, Mass., and the seismo- | He said these areas had been | pushed Elizabeth’s sister, vivacious under the council’s jurisdiction dur- Princess Margaret, into fourth place {in the royal succession. |ing World War IIL . A bulletin issued by the attending| In Juneau, the captains of the lphysicians said the baby came at|27 patrol zones into which the city (10:50 GMT (2:50 a.m., Juneau time) | will be divided will have charge of and that “her royal highness and | setting up organizations in their i her daughter are both doing well.” | sections, Robertson said. The baby princess weighed six| This will include the appointing pounds, an official announcement | of lieutenants and patrolmen for graph at Marquette University in | disaloska. A Milwaukee, Wis., recorded heavy| per hirth touched off spontaneous shocks. The Rev. Joseph Carroll.irnm“y and public celebrations. S. J., at Marquette, said the S{rong | pince philip, as he had done with shock lasted more than two hours ! the arriyal of Prince Charles toasted | and would be located somewhere ! it | the new princess’ health in cham- in the Pacific, possibly in the viein- | \oope " with members of the family ity of Japan. { {and his staff. At the University of California in | “'p o100 rushed through a long- Berkeley, Calif,, “A very large and | g .0 tetephone call to his father- | distant” shock was recorded. It was | in-law, King George, Who was on a described as the “largest @Ver Te- | grouse-shooting trip at Balmoral corded on our instruments. | Castle in Scotland, 500 miles away. ueen Elizabeth was with her SITKA, Aug. 15—(P—The Coast | dafighur. arriving just five minutes and Geodetic Survey reported w-lbelore the baby was born. day’s heavy earthquake Was Te-| ., gppouncement of the royal corded here at 6:22.05 a.m. (PST)'ibu-th hung on the Wrought iron Hugh Nelson, observer in chnrge.ls“es' outside Clarence House, estimated the quake was POSSIBY. o ont cheers from a crowd of sev- 6,500’ miles southeast of Sitka. He | .}y ngreq which had grown since said an accurate estimate was no‘{early morning despite glowering possible from the seismographic re- cord here. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise scheduled to ar-| rive from Vancouver at 6:30 p.m. and will leave at. 11:30 p.m. for Skagway. Aleutian from Seattle in port and will sail for Seward at 6 p.m. i Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle Thursday. e e 0 o o 0 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 75; minimum, 55. At Airport—Maximum, 74; minimum, 44. FORECAST (Junesu and Vicinity) Continued fair and warm tonight and Wednesday. Lowest temperature tonight about 48 degrees. Highest Wednesday near 68. skies. The rogr of cannon salutes greeted the arrival of the new princess. From ancient London tower the honorable artillery company, fol- lowing an old tradition, fired a 62- gun salute. In Hyde Park the-regu- lar army signalled the ‘l'pirm with 41 guns. ' VESSEL REFLOATED WEST OF PETERSBURG The motor vessel Portia of Peters- burg was refloated early this morn- ing after going ashore on a rock pile in Duncan Canal, about 15 miles west of Petersburg. The Portia was aided by a 52-foot Coast Guard cutter from Petersburg, | which arrived on the,scene after the vessel went aground yesterday. Men from the cutter assisted in patching a'small hole in the 41-foot vessel's hull. After being refloated, the Portia, owned by Martin Inge, proceeded to Petersburg under its own power, according to word reaching “Coast Guard headquarters here. | each section and the assignment of duties. Names of the zone cap- | tains will probably be announced before the end of the week, he in- dicated. Now being prepared are city maps showing the zones and forms to be filled out when captains, lieuten- ants, and patrolmen take oaths of allegiance, he said. The council will meet each Mon- day at 7:45 pm. in the City Hall unless otherwise notified by press and radio releases, Robertson sait FWS AIRCRAFT IS SAFE | AFTER BEING FORCED 'DOWN NEAR KETCHIKAN A Fish and Wildlife Service Widgeon aircraft was being towed to Ketchikan today after being forced down in heavy seas at the entrance to Boca de Quadra, an iinlet about 30 miles southeast of { Ketchikan, last night. " A message requesting Coast | Guard assistance was received here at 8:30 o'clock last night from Ellis Air Lines in Ketchikan, which had distress call. The message said the aircraft was attempting to make Twin Islands in the inlet and one engine had failed. The cutter White Holly was in- structed to proceed from Ketchikan to assist the aircraft. A short time later, a messagé was received stat- ing that the aircraft was anchored in sheltered waters off Twin Island. A FWS patrol boat took the air- craft in tow for Ketchikan while the White.Holly stood by, accord- ing to Coast Guard headquarters here. 4 BETHEL TABERNACLE MEETS END TONIGHT The closing exercises of the Chil- drens meetings will be held at 8 men "Near End of Rope (By Associated Press) The .hreat of a nationwide rail- road sfrike hovered over the labor front today and the three months of peace in the automobile industry in Detroit ended. The -White House continued ef- forts to avert the threatened rail trike involving some 300,000 train- men and conductors. Leaders of the two big .unions, however, sald they are near “the end of the rope.” In Detroit, 8,000 Packard employ- ss were called out on strike by the CIO United Auto Workers—the first major strike in the industry since he 100-day work stoppage by Chry- sler employes, Company manage- ment charged the union with a ‘pressure move” to enforce con- tract demands. All Packard oper- ations were shut down. Although rail union officials said no progress was made in peace :alks last night with John R. Steel- man, assistant to President Tru- man, they agreed “reluctantly” to resume talks today. . W. P. Kennedy of the Brother- hood* of Railroad Trainmen said: ‘Unless we make some progress, it looks like we will be at the end of our rope.f' A railroad spokesman, however, said progress was being made be- tween the union officials and Steel- man. Kennedy said the wage and hour dispute had gone unsettled for 17 months and the men are anxious to strike. picked up the aircraft’s radioed] Chief issue in the dispute is the request by the unions for a reduc- tion from the present 48-hour work week to a 40-hour week for yard service workers—without loss in pay. A Presidential board rec- ommended the shorter work week but not as much pay as the union asked, PROS GANTY HERE Prosper S. Ganty of Pelican is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. | STOCK QUOTATIONS | | NEW YORK, Aug. 15 — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2'4, American Can 93%, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss- pared by statehood advocates, shows | the beginning of what the Com- munists hoped would be the final push to Pusan to throw the defend- ers into the sea. But a U.S. officer expressed confidence the Reds could be pushed back. Headquariers said the battle was “indecisive.” While the U.S, 24th Division bat- tled the Red push on the southern flank under a blistering sun, with both sides suffering heavy casual- ties, United Nations forces were holding just to the north in the area where the Reds already have swol- | len their bridgehead to 12,000 troops. The Changnyong front has been almost semi-circular. The Reds rammed another bridge- head 'across the triver on the north- ern end of the Naktong river front near Waegwan, where the kickoff of a Communist general offensive has been awaited, but severe Allied air punishment of the Communist concentrations may have thrown the Red timetable out of kilter. Other Sectors Flame @ There was heavy fighting on other fronts. On the northeast rim of the{ 140-mile-long _battlefront, Allied forces moved to within a half mile of Red-held Pohang, formerly the No. 2 U.S. east coast supply base. On the southern end of the curl- 68 probable votes in favor of the|ing front—behind the advance of j House-passed bill. | Marines and Infantry—U.S. Negro “There certainly will not be 14| troops with the 25th Division cap- than 58 votes for Hawalian state- |tured a rocky hill in fierce fighting, hood,” he said. freeing the remainder of a force of “We count only 28 sure vo®s|g00 American artillerymen who had against the bill.” * | been encircled by the Reds. King has spent a week making| American pilots repbrted a Com- the rounds of senatorial offices t0!munist mechanized column of more PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — None; since August 1—1.14 inches; since July 1—11.07 inches. At Airport None; since August 1—0.85 inches; since July 1—7.89 inches. MEDLEY VISITS Judge Edward F. Medley, presi- dent .of the Lathrop Co. and the Healy River Coal Corporation and | executor of the estate of Capt. Aus- itin E. Lathrop, arrived in Juneau by Pan American Monday and con- tinued to Fairbanks by PAA today. o'clock tonight at Bethel Taber- Wright 10, International Harvester nacle, corner 4th and Pranklin Sts.| 29'., Kennecott 61%, New York There will be awards and. prizes. Central 14%, Northern Pacific 17%, The program will include choruses, | US. Steel 36%, Pound $2.80%, Ca- felt-o-graph story, rythm band | nadian exchange 90.87%. movies. | A special invitation is given to the parents, guardians, and friends dustrials 21531, rails 62.10, utilities to attend these closing exercises. ‘3933. Sales today were 1,330,000 shares. | Averages today are as follows: in- 1 present certified copies of the pro- toward posed Hawaii state constitution | drafted at the recent Constitutional Convention. Reporting on his progress, King said he had talked up Hawail state- hood to 37 senators, in addition to visiting Secretary of the Interior Charman and other administration officials who are supporting the| statehood ambitions of both Ha- waii and Alaska. King said his discussions with the | 37 senators indicated about the same ratio of pros and cons as re- sealed by the “nose count” of the | entire Senate membership. “Most of them are for statehood without qualification, some of them have not quite .made up théir minds, and a few of them are| against us,” he .said. 1 The former delegate said some ! senators are giving serious thought | to his argument that permtiting the statehood bills to “die on the Senate calendar would be capital- ized by our enemies.” | The Communists, he said would | make particular use of such action | as another example of capitalist | imperialism in denying equal op- portunity to territorial peoples. MINNESOTA COUPLE END VISIT WITH BURFORDS After a three-week visit with/ Mr. and Mrs. J. B. (Jack) Burford, Mr. and Mrs. George Monson plan | to leave tomorrow to return to their | home in Hibbing, Minn. Highlight ! Ior their visit was a trip to Glacier Bay aboard Burford’s boat, the Don- Jac. The Monsons expect to go to Haines tomorfow and return as they icnme,‘ over the Alaska Highway. TENNIS TOURNAMENT All persons interested in entering | a City tennis tournament are asked | to contact either Al Carlson or Dick Forrest at the Evergreen Bowl Names must be received by this Saturday. | RING SPLICE LEAVES The Ring Splice, Alaska Steam- ship freighter, sailed for the west- ward at 4:30 p.m. yesterday and ‘does not call here on the return jarea in the first reported Red air | northwest of Taegu. J trip. than 100 vehicles moving Chinju, Communist southern base | being threatened by the American| | leathernecks and doughboys in their southern drive. A Russian-made North Korean ‘ Yak plane dropped two 500-pound i bombs on Masan, communications | center near the southern battlefront activity in some days, and strafed U.S. installations. The Communist radio at Pyong- nyang said the Reds had seized Kosong in the area where the US., Marines have been advancing on the extreme southern front. It is 20 miles southwest of Mesan and the same distance southeast of Chinju. Marines seized the town in their sweep through the south last week. . Red Tanks Move On the northern end of the Nak- tong river front, where 60,000 Reds are polsed across the river for the expected push, the Communists slammed about 3,000 men — with tanks—across the river against South Korean defenders. The enemy moved over bridges which were sub- merged a foot under water to hide them from air attack. Between 700 and 1,000 Reds were killed by US. First Cavalry Division troops in one engagement near Waegwan, 12 miles On the northeast rim of the 140- mile South Korean front, American forces captured the town of Yuk-| tong, nine miles west of the Pohang air strip on the Sea of Japan coast At the same time South Korear troops retook the nearby town o. Imam. Allied forces moved bacl within a half mile of Pohank, sec- ond most important U.S. supply base on the east coast until it was captured last week by the Reds. Allied planes gave heavy suppert to ground forces. Warships aided the ground forces on the east coast sector. U.S. and. Australian fliers smashed at the Wagwan Red con- centrations in more than 400 flights. A Navy plane reported sinking a 200-ton Red vessel off the Korean west coast and another damaged a Communist ship off the east coast. Oil Refinery ‘Done’ Long range bombers have so damaged the Red’s huge oil refin- | ery at Wonsan in North Korea Communist leaders were in Pyong- yang for the liberation day cere- monies, causing speculation whether the Chinese were planning to come to the direct aid of the North Ko- rean Reds. But President Truman, also in ob- servance of Korea’s liberation day, has’ told South Korean President Syngman Rhee he is confident of victory. President Rhee, too, said in Taegu, his provisional capital, that the day of total defeat for the Reds will come secn. RUSS ADMIT AIDING KOREA (By the ASSOCIATED PRESS) Moscow admitied publicly to- day that the Soviet Unlon was responsible for the military power The' presk- A4 article by Kim Do Bon, chairman of the presidium of the North Korean people’s assembly, which said Russia gave his country war ma- terial, machines, mining equip- ment, electric locomotives and tractors in the postwar period. He said this material was that which was not produced in Kor- ca, and he hailed Prime Minister Stalin as “our liberator and best friend of the Korean people.” GRAND MASTER T0 VISIT MASONS OF SE ALASKA LODGES Thursday evening this week will see the Masons on Gastineau Chan- nel in attendance at a rather un- usual meeting in the Masonic Tem- ple at Juneau, when Gastineau Lodge No. 124 of Douglas and Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147 of Juneau will meet in a Joint Communication to receive a visit from the Most, Worshipful Grand Master of Ma- sons of Washington, ‘The honored visitors will consist of Gail Huhn, the present M. W. Grand Master; Henry C. Heal, wha was Grand Master last year, and John I, Preissner, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge and also a Past Grand Master. ' In attendance also will be Archie C. Shiels who is the Grand Historian of the | Grand Lodge of Free gnd Accepted Masons of Washington. It was pointed out that this is the first time that so many Grand Mast%s have ever visited an Alaskan lodge at the same time. Following the meeting, which orens at 8 o'clock, refreshments will be served in the Temple Dining Room. All Masons on Gastineay Channel are expected to be in at- tendance. The follewing day the Grand Of- icers will fly to Sitka to Constitute \ new Masonic Lodge at that point vhich will be known as Mt Ver- stovia Lodge No. 291 and thereafter ‘he Grand Officers continue on South to visit the lodges at Peters- ourg and Ketchikan. IMMUNIZATION CLINIC TOMORROW MORNING Parents with babies or childgen who have not received or com- pleted their immunizations are re- minded of the monthly immuniza- tion clinic to be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in the Public Health Center, 318 Main Street. Dr. J. W. Gibson will conduct the clinic, assisted by the public health nurses. All those interested are invited to attend.