The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 13, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV,, NO. 11,605 JUNEAU ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —— ] AMERICAN FORCES SOLDIER REPLACES JOHNSON Former Secrefary of Stafe Called Back fo New Position by Truman (By Elton C. Fay) WASHINGTON, Sept. 13— # — George Catlett Marshall, soldier by profession and diplomat by exper- ience, is headed back to the Penta- gon to become Secretary of Defense. President Truman turned to the 69-year-old, five-star general and former Secretary of State to replace Louis Johnson. Johnson, bowing to Presidential will and the “enemies I have acquir- ed druing the eighteen months I have served as a member of your cabinet,” submitted his resignation yesterday. Mr. Truman accepted it with official regret—but with alac- rity. Suddenly, in a single day, there were vacancies pending in the two top civilian posts of the huge and complex national military establish- ment. Early Out Also , For what appeared to be entirel; personal reasons, Stephen Early re- signed as Deputy Secretary. He had remained well past the year's leave granted him by the Pullman Stand- dard Car Manufacturing Co., so that he could return to government work. None of the criticism that had welled up around Johnson had touched Early. Johnson’s resignation is effective next Tuesday, Early’s Sept. 30. Johnson, in his resignation let- ter, said that Marshall was a “man of such stature that the very act of naming him to be Secretary of Defense will promote national and international unity.” The President heartily agreed, and most Congressional leaders expres- sed accord, but there was a legal hurdle. Legal Hurdle The law which created the unified Defense Department clause prohibiting the appointment as Defense Secretary of any man who within ten years has been on active duty as a commissioned of- ficer of the armed forces. Marshall left the Army as Chief of Staff soon after the end of World (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go - Round (Copyright. 1950. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON WS'HINGTON — —Here are the details of the secret deal which Dewey forces made with Lt. Gov. Joe Hanley to get him to withdraw from the New York race for gov- ernor. “ In case Hanley loses in his race for the Senate against Herbert Lehman, a new job will be created for him on the Throughway Com- mission—the superhighway now un- der construction across New York state. This job will pay Hanley $25,000 annually. In addition, Hanley has been promised $15,000 income from an oil company, making & total of $40,000, or about the income he would have received had he been elected governor. Finally, friends in the Dewey camp have promised to repay the $30,000 which Kingsland Macy, Frank Gannett and Norman Gould | | dition to one more. had put up to pay off Hanley's debts. The lieutenant governor had been in difficult financial circum- stances and the Macy-Gannett- Gould backets had raised about $30,000 to bail him out. Rival TV Stars In the delegates’ lounge at Lake Success, 8 newsman said to Sec- urity Council president Sir Glad- by Jebb, “How does it feel to be a TV idol?” “It’s really quite frightening,” re- plied Jebb, with his Oxford accent. “People come up to me on the (Continued on Page Four) [~ WASHINGTON, Sept. 13— & — contains a | Truman Asks Confirmation 0f Marshall President Truman asked Congress today to make an exception and let Gen. George C. Marshall serve as Secretary of Defense even though he is a military man. The Senate Armed Services Committee immed- jately approved the necessary leg- islation. The vote was 10 to 2. Congress has to act because the law says nobody who has been on active duty as an officer of the Armed Forces within the past ten years can be Secretary of Defense. The Senate group acted even be- fore a bill was introduced formally. The House Armed Services Commit- tee postponed action until Friday. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the House group said the matter is so important “that I want a full com- mittee present if possible.” APW CONTRACTS FOR SKAGWAY UTILITIES TO HAYES - WHITELY Final papers were signed this morning in the office of the Alaska Public Works for construction of & major utilities project in Skagway.| Hayes and Whitely, Juneau con- struction firm which had submitted the low bid August 30, was award- ed the contract for water and sewer line extensions, and a new elevated reservoir. The contract totals $60,959.33. Construction is expected to start in about two weeks on the new wooden water tank, to be elevated on the hillside. The 100,000-gallon reservoir probably will be completed this fall, but line extensions are not expected to be finished until late next spring. John Argetsinger, APW district engineer for Alaska, said the con- tract for street and sewer work in Ketchikan probably will be award- ed Friday. At the August 30 bid-opening, Morrison-Knudsen Company of Se- attle, was the low bidder, quoting $525,075 against the engineer’s es- timate of $501,600. . PROJECT GRAYLING: LAUNCHED' TODAY Jack ‘O’Connor, President of the Territorial Sportsmen, Inc., and Lewis McDonald of the Alaska De- partment of Fisheries left Juneau today aboard a Fish and Wildlife Service plane Grumman Widgeon piloted by Bob Meek headed - for Lake MacDonald near Atlin, B. C. They were equipped with the nec- | essary gear for the seining and im- pounding of grayling which are to be transplanted into lakes in the Juneau vicinity. The fifth clearance and permis- sion for the operation was received from the British Columbia Game Commission this morning. Because of the impending freeze in the Atlin country, it is necessary to move quickly now if the grayling are to be planted this fall. It is expected that with good luck, the operatign will take a week. Hopes are that enough fish can be obtained to plant, Auk, Peterson, Windfall and Youngs Bay lakes, and Upper Goul- ding Lake on Chichagof Island, ad- The project was started by the Sportsmen who are putting up the money for the deal. The Alaska Department of Fisheries and the FWS are cooperating. o 0o 0 0 s ® 0 0 0 o FORECAST (Junesu and Vieinity) . | . . e Continued fair tonight and e Thursday. Lowest tempera- e ture tonight near 42 degrees; e highest Thursday near 62. e o o @ o ® o o o 0 | in physical education and Schmitz ‘ployed by the Forest Service here GOP RALLY OPENS NEW CAMPAIGN Republicans Told Hiring of | Statehood Lobbyist Illegal —Call for Honest Govt. Although few Republicans realize | it, their Alaska income tax is go- | ing to increase, and that in the very | near future, keynote speaker How- ard D. Stabler told a large Repub- lican rally at the Twentieth Cen- tury Theatre here last night. Under the income tax law passed by the Democratic nineteenth Leg- islature, Mr. Stabler said, the amounts collected from individuals will automatically increase when the Federal income tax increases on October 1. [ Reviewing the course of govern- ment in Alaska in the past few years, including the offenses of the former Territorial Treasurer, the Palmer airport “deal,” the statehood lobby- ing fiasco and other operations of the present administration, Stabler compared this country and this Ter- ritory with the Roman Empire. We are, he told the assembled Repub- licans—and & considerable number of Democrats—pointed in the same direction as ancient Rome afd we are heading for the same kind of fall unless a drastic about-face is made. Lobbying Claimed Illegal Stabler attacked the recent hir- ing of a professional lobbyist by the Alaska Statehood Committee as il- legal—regardless of the standing and background of the man hired. He cited a decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the charge of illegality. Special payments to members of the Legislaturé and to other favorit- es of the Administration were re- viewed by Mr. Stabler, who recited the totals of special fees paid to former Attorney General Ralph Riv- ers, Territorial Senators Victor C. Rivers and Warren A. Taylor, and Representative Stanley J. McCut- cheon. Waste of Funds As an example of the waste of the taxpayers’ money, Stabler cited the “recklessly called extraordinary session” of the Legislature last year. The session was later declared in- valid by the District Court. The ap- propriation to pay for the special session, Stabler said, was $42,126. “We leave it to you to say whether we have been getting common hon- esty and plain dealing from the public officials of the Gruening ad- ministration,” Stabler added. “They are all members of the Democratic Party in Alaska.” “The issues facing us here today can only be settled by loyal, inde- pendent, right thinking Americans and Alaskans who set service to country high above service to self or to Party. Our only hope for any pre- sent reform lies in the Republican Party,” Stabler told the audience. The rally was opened with group singing of “God Bless America,” led by Jack Fargher and with music by Buddy Hunter and his orchestra. Chairman Howard Simmons intro- duced Mrs. Margaret White, the (Continued on Page Two) THREE MORE JUNEAU LADS OFF TO COLLEGE Three Juneau lads left today for Haines where they will join friends and drive over the Alaska Highway bound for the States—and school. There were: Bill Graves, son of Mr. and Mrs, William V. Graves; Bill Schmitz, son of Mr. and Mrs. william Schmitz; and John Stew- art. Graves and Schmitz will attend the Washington Central College at Ellensburg where Graves will major will continue his business adminis- tration course. They have been working for the Juneau Cold Stor- age during the summer, Stewart will attend the Univer- sity of Washington. He was em- during the summer. Incumbents Get Nod in - Primaries New Hampshire’s Toby Wins by Slim Margin in Hottest Senafe Fight (By Associated Press) Five senators—three Republicans and two'Democrats—have been re- nominated in primary elections that just about complete major party slates for nationwide voting Nov. 7. Every House member seeking re- nomination also was successful in ‘Tuesday’s contests involving 41 House seats in eight widely scat- tered states, In the hottest Senate fight, Sen- ator Charles W. Tobey squeezed out a 1,127-vote victory over 34-year-old Wesley Powell for the GOP nom- ination in New Hampshire. Tobey, 70, hailed the result as “ a victory for a forward-looking brand of Re- publicanism.” The only other senator with a primary fight was Arizona Dem- ocrat Cary Hayden. He trimmed two opponents. | Renominated without oppesition were Senators Warren Magnuson | 0 TAKE OFFENSIVE Gen. Marshall New Secretary of Defense 40 PLANES SEARCH FOR TRANSPORT Missing C-47 Is Believed Down in Area Between Anchoarge, Talkeetna ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 13— (P—The Air Force ordered more than 40 military aircraft into the gir today to search for a C-47 transport plane and its five crew- men who disappeared Tuesday over some of Alaska’s most rugged mountains. Prospects for finding the two- engine military transport bright- ened with clearing weather. Yes- s search, undertaken by 30 jet fighter planes and nine mulli- engined craft, was hampered by ex- treme low clouds. The planes centered their search on the mountainous area between Anchorage and Talkeetna, 75 miles north. It was here that the plane Jast reported in, with gasoline for six hours of flying still aboard. Icing Conditions Elmendorf Field public informa- tion office disclosed, however, that gevere icing conditions prevailed in (D-Wash), George D. Aiken (R- Vt) and Eugene D, Millikin (R-! Colo.) { Primaries later this month in| Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Is- | land and Wisconsin will complete the ballot for the November voting. Woman Nominated | Tuesday’s primaries brought at least one woman into prominence. Ana Frohmiller became Arizona's first woman nominee for governor by capturing the Democratic nom- ination, Michigan Republicans picked their wartime leader, former Gov. Harry F. Kelly, to carry the banner again in the governorship race. Primary highlights in other states: Minnesota — Republican Gov. Youngdahl won renomination in a walk over four opponents. Colorado—Democrats picked Rep. John A, Carroll to oppose Senator Millikin. | Vermont—Republicans chose Win- ston L. Prouty as their candidate to succeed Rep, Charles A. Plum- ley, retiring GOP congressman. GAMES TODAY CLEVELAND, Sept. 13—(—Yogi Berra led the New York Yankees to a 10-3 victory over Cleveland to- day, pulling New York within two qercentnge points off Detroit, tem- porarily, in the red hot American League race, Berra lashed out his 22nd home run of the season in the third with the bases empty, and accounted for two singles that figured in scoring innings. Bob Lemon, ace Indian pitcher, was seeking his 21st victory of the season but he retired in the fourth after yielding eight runs. NEW YORK, Sept. 13—(®—Gus Bell of the Pittsburgh Pirates spoiled Sal Maglie's efforts to set a new National League record for consecutive’ scoreless innings today but the New York Gilants dumped the Pirates 3-1 in a wet game that was finally called after seven full innings. Bell hit a home run that bounced off the right field foul pole in the top of the seventh, ending Maglie's string at 45 full innings. The league record is 46 and a third in- nings set by the great Carl Hubbell also of the Giants, in 1933. Cincinnati at Brooklyn postponed rain. HELGESEN TO STANFORD Rokert Helgesen plans to leave Juneau Friday for California ! continue his studies in the Scho of Medicine, Stanford University He has spent his summer vacation in Juneau with his mother, Mrs Gertrude Boggan and sister Karen i the area which is bound by the ugged Talkeetna and Chugach mountain ranges when the C-47 last reported in about 11 p.m. Tues- day. The plane received radio instruc- tions to let down gradually from 10,000 feet for its landing at El- mendorf. It was feared, however, that ice combined with high winds and low clouds caused the plane to crash as it let down. All emergency radio bands have been monitored since the craft was lost but no distress calls have been received. Names of the five crewmen have been withheld. UNIFICATION PROPOSED AT BIG 3 MEET Acheson S@sis Unified European Defenses-Aid Plan Sfudied in Capifal (By Associated Press) ) The big three ministers went into their second day of meetings in New York today. They have heard Secretary Acheson'’s presentation of U. 8. proposals for European de- fenses—a unified military force, centralized command staff and eventual supreme commander. The U. S. also calls for a top effort by Atlantic treaty nations to get their arms production in high gear, Special committees were as- signed to study financial and econ- omic aspects of the reaarmament. An American plan to channel all foreign aid, both military and cconomie, through a single govern- ment agency is reported in the process of drafting for President Truman’s study. An emergency defense bill of $16,700,000,000, four billions of it for foreign arms aid, was headed for Senate appropriations commit- tee approval. At Lake Success N. Y., the Uni- ted Nations Security Council set next Monday for the last meeting before the opening of the U. N. General Assembly in New York Sept. 19. Yesterday Russia, in its i5th veto, turned back a U. S. resolution to send a commission to Reéd China to investigate Commu- iist charges that American planes trafed Manchurian territory. FROM POLARIS-TAKU P. W. Jaron of the Polaris-Taku Mining Co. at Tulsequah, B. C, is taying at the Baranof Hotel. 'GRUENING APPEARS, HEARING Denies Infiltration of Com- munism - Atwood At- . l tacks Salmon Industry WASHINGTON, Sept, 13— ) — Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska, called on Senator Schoeppel today “as a matter of honor” either to prove or retract his charges of Com- munist activtity in the Interior De- partment and the Alaskan State- hood campaign. Gruening made the demand in a face-to-face meeting with Schoep- pel at a Senate Interior Committee hearing. The group is looking into the Kansas Republican’s charges against Secretary of Interior Chap- man, Reclamation Commissionef Michael Straus and others. Schoeppel sat puffing on a cigar as Gruening branded the accusa- tions as “grave and sinister.” The Senator, who already has said his charges might have been “a little strong,” spoke up at one point to tell Gruening he had not intend- ed to accuse Alaskan officials of disloyalty. He said anyone who in- terpreted his words that way “is wrong.” Gruening told the committee he is “fervently anti-Communist.” He ad- ded: “I have never belonged to any organization which formerly or sub- sequently was labelied Communist front.” Criticizes Congress Gruening also criticized the Re- publican controlled 80th Congress which, he said, has left Alaska im- properly defended “like an Achilles Heel.” He recalled Schoeppel’s statement in a Senate speech last week that ‘he Senator feared to find some day that “a Quisling” had taken over in Alaska to serve the Russian cause. Gruening said he could not de- lermine from Schoeppel’s words who the Senator had in mind as a pos- sible Quisling. But he said that anyone who knows of such a dan- zer “should be compelled as a mat- ter of honor and decency to docu- ment” and prove it. Hiring of Feltus Gruening testified that Secretary Chapman had nothing to do with 4iring Randolph Feltus to do public- ity work for the Alaska Statehood Jommission, Schoeppel had charged that Feltus was a “Kremlin agent” and had said we was informed that Chapman anc Gruening arranged to employ him ‘or the statehood campaign. Schoep- el contended Feltus was a “Krem- in agent” because he had once worked for the Polish Ambassador Gruening said he was unaware hat Feltus had been employed by the Ambassador but knew he hac worked for the Indonesian and Netherlands governments, ‘When Gruening concluded, Shoep- pel commented that he, Schoeppel, had not cast any reflections on the action of any official of the Terri- (Continued on Page Three) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 13 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 97%, Anaconda 36%, Curtiss-Wright 9%, International Harvester 31%, Kennecott 64%, New York Central 15'%, Northern Pacific 23%, U. S. Steel 38'%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 2,600,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 22342, rails 66.76, utilties 39.04. BUYING SPLURGE NEW YORK, Sept. 13— (® —A morning buying splurge carried the stock market to a new four-year high peak today. The rail group alone swept to a 19-year peak. Leading issues moved up as much as $2 a share before the edge of the advance was blunted. Dozens of stocks sold at their best prices for a year or more. IMARY I. GRANT IS DEAD AT WRANGELL, RESULT OF STROKE WRANGELL, Alaska, Sept. 13— (Special to Empire)—Mary I. Grant, pioneer hotel proprietor, died at 6 o'clock this morning as the result of a stroke. She was born on the west coast 70 years ago and came to Wrangell when an infant. She married John Grant who came here 50 years ago during the gold rush and shortly af- ter they established the Wrangell hotel known in the early days as Grant’s Hotel. Survivors are a son, Neil Grant of Wrangell, manager of the daughters Mrs. A. R. Bruegar, Seat- tle, Mrs. Joe Warwick, Lead South Dakota, and four grandchildren; two brothers, Charlie and Mike Lynch of Wrangell. Mrs. Grant is the second pioneer ‘Wrangell woman to pass away in one week. Mrs. Dave Wing, 70, died of a heart attack last Saturday morning. She came to Wrangell in 1911, Survivors are her husband, Dave Wing and sons, Joel and Wal- ter. | hotel; | NEW GAINS NOW MADE IN KOREAN WAR iPlans Made fo Break trusl of Enemy-Trap Snap- ped on Red Forces (By Associated Press) American forces In South Korea | “will take the offensive in a very short period of time,” Lt. Gen. Wal- ton H. Walker, United Nations ground forces commander, told the U. S. Eighth Army today. “Soon we are going to give up the attitude of defense which the delaying action forced on us,” Gen. Walker told front line troops. “As soon as we start forward and break the crust in front of us, the enemy will fold. We can feel a weakening of the enemy now and in some posi- i [WILLIAMS, SEATTLE BUSINESSMAN, WINS: ' ! CHANCE AT SENAT SEATTLE, Sept. 13—(P—W. Wal- ter Willlams of Seattle -was con- ceded victory today in the race for the Washington state Republican nomination for U. S. senator. Albert Canwell of Spokane, his closest opponent, conceded the nom- ination to Willlams in mid-morn- ing. The Seattle businessman, in his first political race, had run up a six to four margin over Canwell on returns from three-fourths of the state’s precincts. The winner will face Warren G. Magnuson, the Democratic incum- bent, in the November General Election, Magnuson, who was with- out opposition for the nomination, plled 120,508 votes in the same pre- cincts. The total vote for the five Republican candidates was 141,804, The state’s six incumbent con- gressmen, four Republicans and two Democrats, were either unopposed for renomination or won easily in yesterday’'s balloting, . Willilams has been'a stern critic of the State Department’s foreign policy and the Democratic admin- istration’s prepdredness measures.” BRYSON IS FINED $50 ' | FOR FIRST VIOLATION IN HUNTING SEASON In the first case of violation to ome before U. S. Commissioner 7elix Gray since the deer season »pened September 1, Marquis War- en (Mickey) Bryson of Juneau was ined $50 by Judge Gray this morn- ing. On a complaint signed by Clar- ence Matson, U. 8. Fish and Wild- life Service enforcement officer, Bryson was charged with killing a doe deer yesterday on Douglas Is- land. Bryson said be had not realized it was a doe, and that he had olanned to give the meat to the Minfield Home, This was his first offense. He paid tpe fine this morning: Assistant U, 9. Attorney Stanley Baskin prosecuted the case. DISTRICT COURT WILL RECONVENE FRIDAY A motion calendar is being made up in the office of the Clerk of Court for Friday afternoon, when the U. 8. District Court will reconvene at 2 pm. The term will be short, as the Court party will go to Ketchikan' September 24 for the session called for September 26. Court here was adjourned August 25. i FROM FORT RICHARDSON John A. Bradley of Fort Richard- son is registered at the Baranof Hotel. | southbound Monday. tions they are actually pulling out.” Walker made his announcement as new gains were chalked up by the Allies around the 125-mile battle perimeter. Snap Trap On Reds A secret task force headed by a former West Point football hero snapped a trap on 3,000 Communist troops on the northeast front, eas- ing a major Red threat to Pohang on the east coast. The trap was closed by task force Davidson, led by Brig. Gen. Gar Davidson, former West Point grid- iron star and coach. The force shot across rugged mountain. terrain and sealed the south gate of a corridor northwest of Kyongju. South Kor- ean troops already had closed the north gate. Reds Break, Run As 24th Division troops under the 46-year-old officer stormed the last of a series of ridges, the Reds broke and ran, To the west of this operation the South Korean Eighth Division con- tinued its drive east of Yongchon, a march which took them 12 miles in three days, and as much as nine miles north of the vital Yongchon- Kyongju road. While the UN line is not yet solid on the northeast, the pushes marked the biggest offensive gains since U. S. Marines wiped out the Nak- tong River bulge on the western front in late August. At the height of the Red drive, the Communists twice had penetrated Yongchon in a grave. thréat to Taegu, main Allied advance base 18 miles to the west, and 'to the route to Pusan, the Al- lied supply base on the southeast tip of Korea. Mystery of War Failure of the Reds to exploit their breakthrough early this month in the northeast stands as a major mystery of the war. On the southwest front U. 8. 25th Infantry Division artillery repulsed two Red attempts to storm high po- sitions south of the Nam and Nak- tong Rivers. About 200 Reds were wiped out and the others fell back. North and northwest of Taegu the situation has been described as “fluid,” with both sides making stabs. The ‘West front along the Naktong was relatively quiet. Convoy Ripped B-26 light bombers used flares to light up a Red convoy behind the lines and then ripped it with ‘bombs. Fighter pilots reported knocking out 12 Red tanks in front line strikes. FROM HAINES Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Robertson from Haines are registered at the Hotel Juneau. Robertson is with the U. S. Geological Survey. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. Freighter Ring Splice scheduled to sail from Seattle Sept. 15. Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Baranof in port and scheduled to sail south at 4:30 p.m. today. Aleutian from west scheduled