The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1950, Page 1

'HE DAILY ALASKA. EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,645 BIG VOTE PREDICTED | ON NOV. 7 Decisions WBe Close] According to Leaders of Both Parties (By the Associated Press) Politicians figure that the elec- tions a week from tomorrow may provide the closest decision on Con- gress in six years and the greatest total vote ever recorded in a non- Presidential year. Minimum claims from the Repub* lican and Democratic parties pointed to the possible closeness of the decisicn on which shall control Con- gress, and by how much. Big Vote Predicted Predictions today from party chairmen that the total vote Nov. 7 may exceed 42,000,000 and thus set an off-year record are based on high registrations in many northern and some southern states. The pre- vipus record for a year in which there was no Presidential campaign was 37,304,380 in 1938. As for control of Congress, the least that GOP Chairman Guy Gab- rielson has claimed is that the Re- publicans will pick up five seats in the Senate and 25 in the House. That minimum wouldn’t be enough to take control (the GOP would need a net gain of seven in the Senate and 49 in the House) but Gabrielson says he has found good reason to believe the actual result will turn the trick with ease. Democratic Claims On the other hand, the Democrats say their rock-bottom guess is they will hold their own in the House and pick up at least two Senate seats. They, too, have predictions ranging far upward. The closest off-year election in recent history was in 1944, the year of President Roosevelt’s fourth term election. Then, the Republicans gained two seats in the 86-man Senate and lost 22 in the 435-man, House. Two years later, the Republicans gained control of Congress; they lost it back to the Democrats in 1948. In other developmpents, as the campaigning rolled into the last week: Truman to Broadcast 1. A Republican headquarters spokesman said that the GOP may let President Truman’s political broadcast from St. Louis next Sat- urday go unmatched on the air. He said the party doesn’t have the money to buy corresponding radio time. 2. Harold E. Stassen said in a ‘Washington television appearance that neither he, Gov. Thomas .E. Dewey of New York nor Gen. Dwight Thomas E. Quallis, of Tulare, Calif., 441-pound, 22-year-old inductee is one of the heaviest men deferred during the present crisis by any U. 8. draft board. Having scales which only recorded to 300 pounds, Army personnel had to use a freight scales. Capt. L. M. Gervin, (center), reads off the poundage to Sgt. Perry Baldwin. (P Wirephoto. ASSEMBLY WILLACTON LIE'S TERM Security Council Turns Down Objections Raised by Russians LAKE SUCC‘Elrsxtv Oct. 30—A— JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER ‘30, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ADVANCE IN KOREA DELAYED Chinese ReID?visions Re- ported Entering Fight, Manchurian Border (By the Associated Press) —drove tonight on the Korcan east coast city of Hamhung, far behind B | the slowing Allied advance toward the Manchurian border. Isaid the counterattacking force numbered more than 10,000 men and was 30 miles northwest of Ham- organized and full of fight. This development came :nrtor a US. 10th Corps spokesman isaid two Chinese regiments were in b |action in the same area—the fivst f | official word that a sizeable Chinese force was helping the desperate North Koreans. Commenting on the Hamhung re- port—relayed by AP Correspondent i Ben Price—the 10th Corps spokes- man said it “is basically on the | right track but the units in mention jare larger than our information in- dicates.” GUSTAV Y OF SWEDEN Ruler, Immediately Pro- daimed, Takes Oath | | 1 PASSES ON :New King, Son of Dead| STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 30— Situation Serious Thus it still was not clear whether the South Koreans report on the number of Chinese was exaggerated. However, Americans in the Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG) 1said they considered the situation serious. Other North Koreans, mustercd for a last-stand fight in the moun- | tainous border regions, cut up one- ;third of a South Korean Division and slowed the Allied advance to- ward ¢he Manchurian border. ‘Women in Ranks More than 10,000 Communists, re ported to include some Chinese Reds ]mnde their desperate stand at On- ) jong, in northwest Korea, 45 mile: {from the border. Reds used their i heaviest weapons, tanks and self- The Security Council today over- | #—Gustaf VI today was proclaimed | propelled guns. A North Korean rode Russian objections and decided | “King of the Swedes, the G"thsv.broadcast said women were used to let the veto-free General Assem- bly take up tomorrow a proposal to extend the term of U.N. Secretary- | General Trygve Lie. 'y Russia’s Jacob A. Malik then told the Council the Soviet Union would not recognize Lie as the legal Sec- retary-General if the Assembly ex- tended his term. ‘The action took place at a closed- door meeting of the 11-nation Coun- cil which has been deadlocked over the problem of Lie's future. Malik opened the meeting by de- | and the Wends,” the first new rul- er to ascend the ancient Swedish throne in nearly half a century. He succeeds his father 92-year-old King Gustaf V, whose death yes- terday morning after a reign of nearly 43 years plunged the nation into deepest mourning. To all effects and purposes the son, born Prince Oscar Frederik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf, has been Swgden’s monarch since his father's death. But at colorful ceremonies today in the cabinet as reinforcements in the fighting The counterattack was made or the Republic of Korea (ROK) Sixth i Division. Elements of this divisior i reached the Manchurian frontiel Thursday above Chosan. Because they were menaced in the rear, 1 !was forced to withdraw to Songpa more than 30 miles south of the ‘border. ! Sizeable U.N. Defeat | The division's Second Regimen! i was surrounded by the Reds anc ! the bulk of it wiped out. It was the manding that the Council continue { council room of Stockholm’s royal | first sizeable defeat in seven week: its efforts instead of tossing the problem to the Assembly. He con- D. Eisenhower should be ruled out) ., "o oicembly has no authority as possible candidates for the Re- publican Presidential nomination in 1952. “It’'s too early to say what anyone will do two years hence,” said Stassen, one of those Dewey defeated for the 1948 nomination. " (Continued on The Washingtion Merry - Go-Round Copyright, 1950, by Bell Synaicate, Ipe.) By DREW PEARSON % ABH . 5¢vON—Gut in rock-rib- bed Republican Iowa a lot of folks don’t know much more about Demo- crats than a hog does about Sun- day, but this year the Democrats are throwing a slight scare into the Republicans, and here are three factors helping them do it: 1. “Old Hector” whiskey. 2. P-60 anti-freeze. 3. A bona fide dirt farmer run- ning for the Senate on the Demo- cratic ticket. The bona fide farmer is Al Love- land, who can’t make a speech much better than a rooster can lay eggs. But he served faithfully in the U. S. Department of Agricul- ture as undersecretary, knows about half the farmers in Iowa, and has uncovered the rather important fact that his opponent, GOP Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper attended only one out of six meetings of the Sen- ate Agriculture committee. As a result, Loveland has been pffectively asking Iowa voters: “Would you hire a hand Wholqg,, General Electric 49, General|® came to work one day out of six?” | Motors 507%, instead of attending meetings of the Agriculture committee, Senator Hickenlogper had led the Bed-|gi ngard Oil of California 74%, @ peeping probes first of the Atomic Energy Commission, then of the State Department. The probe of the Atomic Energy Commission backfired badly, p““"ldum-ials 226.42, rails 66.78, utilities ® \Continued, on Page Four) to act except on candidates norii- NO BAND PRACTICE TONIGHT; MEMBERS ASKED TO GIVE DATE nated by the Council. Other eoun-j tries say the Assembly can extend Lie's term. Malik proposed formally that the Council ask the Assembly to post- pone its debate scheduled for to- morrow morning on a 14-nation pro- posal for giving Lie a three-year extension. He was voted down 7 to 1, with India, Nationalist China and Egypt abstaining. Owing to a confusion in date nights, there will be no Juneau City Band practice tonight. Director Manson has decided that perhaps some other nhight would be more suitable than Monday and asks that band members notify either Bill} Matheny or Elmer A. Friend regard- ing their preference for band prac- tice nights. A poll will then be taken ) from the letters receivéd and an- nouncement of = future practice nights will then be made. NEW YORK, Oct. 30 — Closing quotation of Alaska Junesu mine stock today is 2%, Americar. Can 997%, American Tel. and Tel. 151, Anaconda 35%, Douglas Aircraft Goodyear 58%, Ken- necott 67%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 25% Twentieth Century Fox 22%, U, S.| Steel 40%, Pound $2.80. Sales today were 1,790,000 shares. | Averages today are as follows: in- palace he took the royal oath, Socialist Premier Tage Erlander read the oath in the presence of his princes, who immediately gave their pledge of allégiance to the new king. Erlander then formally tend- ered his government’s resignation and the king in turn asked the cabinet to remain in office. The new Quetn, British~born Louise, is the monarch’s second wife. She is a sister of Earl Mount- batten and a great-granddaughter of England’s Queen Victoria. The new Crown Prince is a blond, curly-haired, four-year-old boy— little Prince Carl Gustaf. His father, the new ruler’s eldest son, died in an airplane crash in 1947, Meanwhile the body of Gustav V. lay in Drottningham Palace, where he died. His democratic rule liad been one of the longest in Europe and the longest in Swedish history. He had suffered from chronic bronchial eatarrh for several years. WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 35; minimum, 29, At Airport—Maximum, 38; minimum, 17. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Variable cloudiness tonight and Tuesday. Lowest tem- perature tonight about 30 de- grees. Highest Tuesday near 38. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — None; szve October 1—6.93 inches; since July 1—29.03 inches. At Airport None; since October 1—2.71 inches; since July 1—22.05 inches. for United Nations forces. Despite the reversal, Gen. Mac- | Arthur’s headquarters said “none of i cabinet ‘and Sweden’s hereditary ; the enemy counterattacks were sus- | tained.” Intelligence officers in Tokyo con tinued to discount South Korean: claims that Chinese Communist of ficers and men were leading the counterattacks. They said there wa: no real evidence of open interven- tion by Red China. MAURICE COSTELLO, FORMER MATINEE IDOL, PASSES AWAY HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 30 — ® — Maurice Costello, matinee idol o two generations ago and father ol two famous actresses, is dead. The 73-year-old white-haired ac tor who in the sunset of life saic “it’s better to be a has-been thal a never-was,” succumbed yesterda to heart disease and complication that had kept him in a virtual com: since Tuesday. Frequent death-bed visitors wer his once estranged but later re- conciled daughters, Dolores anc Helene Cestello, former actresses. One of the earliest of the grea! screen lovers, Costello had won stage renown before he entered the infan! film business FROM SALT LAKE Kirk H. Fox of Salt Lake Cit) staying at the Baranof Hotel | STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise from Vancouvcr scheduled to arrive tomorrow after- noon or evening. | Freighter Coastal Rambler schcd- uled to sail from Seattle today Baranof scheduled to sail {107 | Seattle, Friday, Nov. 3. | | Two Red divisions—reported made || up mostly of Chinese Communists South Korean Republican officers | hung. The Reds were reported well- || shortly ot oy PRICE TEN CENTS Magjne elements of the Tenth Corps are shown landing on the sandy beaches flanking Wonsan air strip, on the east coast of North Korea. Their landing was delayed six days by a heavy concentration of minefields. U. S. Navy photo via radio and (® Wirephoto. RIVERS IN OREGON ARE ONRAMPAGE Floods Claim Two Lives- Property Damage Heavy «~Towns Are Isolated PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 30—®— Flooding Oregon rivers today added death and destruction to the heavy toll already inflicted on the Pacific Northwest from five days of Pacific storms. The floods had claimed two lives and one person was missing this meorning after rivers, swollen by the: prolonged steady rain went out of sheir banks all the way from the Oregon coast to the Cascade range. Scores of towns were isolated as highways were blocked and train schedules interrupted. Many rural families were marooned and schools and lumber mills closed. New areas were evacuated as the crest of the rampaging Willamette river, major stream in the area, moved into the mid-Willamette val- ley. The flood crest passed Eugene last night, where hundreds were evacu- ated yesterday as lowlands were inundated. Rise-Fall Fast The upper Willamette, however, was falling almost as rapidly as it had risen and some highways, :losed by water yesterday, were re- spened. At Eugene, where the river crested ‘ast night at 159 feet—nearly four teet above flood stage—the Willam- stte this morning had dropped back aear flood stage of 12 feet. Some observers there said it was the fastest rise and fall of any {lood in memory. Damage was not 2xpected to be extensive, but the Red Cross provided shelter for about 1,000 after the evacuation of many n rowboats. Crest Wednesaay Meantime, the Snake river, a trib- atary of the vast Columbia, rose hree feet durifig the night at Clarkston, Idaho. But Weather Bu- -eau river forecasters here said they :xpected no flooding on the Snake or Columbia. In Oregon’s Umpqua river valley, about 1,000 persons scurried to higher ground yesterday to escape the flood. Many were housed at Roseburg, center of the'area and at aearby smaller communities. CITY CUT OFF 3 DAYS CRESCENT CITY, Calif., Oct. 30 —M—With Crescent City isolated three days by storms that have flooded highways and washed out bridges, this community’s only link with the outside world has been Imnlnmlned by a network of “ham” radio operators. | Ever since Friday, when rain and |wind cut off electric power and | telephone service, Earl Boles, op- | erator of WEWVS and chairman of the: Del Norte county Red Cross | chapter, has been at his set almost | constantly, i In response to Boles messages of | disaster, relief supplies, food and! | clothing are being sent to the area.l' | JONES-WILBUR RACE| ALS. ILWU IN ATH IS HOT ONE; GOPER MAY WIN OUT FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 30— (M—The up-and-down Jones-Wilbur race for a seat in the Alaska Legis- lature is neck-and-neck again. It looked like Republican Alden L. Wilbur might win it after all and make the lineup for the House of Representatives 14 Democrats and 10 Republicans, instead of the.pre- viously indicated 15-9. It was 19-5 last session. With all absentee votes counted, Democrat Thomas A. Jones was leading by three votes. Late returns from Kaltag pulled Wilbur even | with him Saturday. Shageluk and Anvik remain as the only unreported precincts. Anvik normally gives the Republicans a majority. Shageluk is usually Demo- cratic, but there was an uncon- firmed report that Shageluk ballot.sl did not arrive there in time for the election. In that event, the delayed Anvik returns may settle the issue. TWO ALASKANS HELD ON ARMED ROBBERY CHARGE IN OREGON PORTLAND, Ore.,, Oct. 30—(@— Two Alaska fishermen and a Seattle man were held Saturday night for the armed robbery of a Salem pawn shop early today. State police Sgt. Frank Beers identified them as Joseph E. To- man, 35, and Tom Turner, 32, who gave their addresses as “Alaska,” and Walter J. Sampson, 24, Seattle, The sergeant said they would be charged Monday with armed rob- bery. He said all three had ad- mitted roles in getting $502 in cash irom the Star Exchange pawn shop, Salem. Turner was arrested in an auto- mobile bearing an Alaska license. It had been noticed parked in &n alley at the rear of the shop. To- man was arrested near Salem and ~ampson in a Portland hotel. 542 NABBED IN PRE-ELECTION BAG OF NYC SUSPECTS NEW YORK, Oct. 30—(®—The city-wide pre-election roundup of hoodlums and vagrants has bagged 542 suspects at the latest count. The round-the-clock arrests con- tinued today, with Police Commis- sioner Thomas F. Murphy estimat. ing 1,000 arrests by election day, Nov. 7. The tally of 542 was announced | last night. Most of those selzed were charged with vagrancy. The rounduy, has been in progress since last Tuesday night, on orders of acting mayor Vincent R. Impel- litteri. Impellitteri, a Democrat, is run; ning for mayor as an independent in a four-men field. FROM LUBBOCK, WASH. J. R. Grant, Lubbock, Wash., is registered at the Baranof Hotel. SUPPORTS | BRIDGES Convention Ends Here Here After Delegates Adopt Resolutions Pledging full support to the IL- ‘WU members in Petersburg now out [un strike for a contract and endors- {ing full support to the Bridges- Robertson-Schmid case now on ap- peal in the 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco, the first.conference of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen’s Union in Al- aska adjourned here Saturday night. Other actions included a resolu- tion to set up an ILWU Alaska Council and to hold an all-Alaska conference within the next few months. Contract committees were set up for each of the division lof the union which were to start | work immediately to shape up de- | mands to ‘be included in new con- tracts. » They adopfed a legislative and political program urging: “l. A Territorial wage-hour law providing a minimum payment of $1 an hour with time and a half after eight hours in one day or jafter 40 hours in one week. “2, A measure for sickness and accident benefits for commettial fishermen financed out of the fish- ermen’s license tax which is now collected and which would provide Icnnspomuon‘ medical care, hos- | pitalization, necessary drugs, doctor surgical bill for all licensed com- | mercial fishermen, “3. Modernization of the Alaska | Workmen’s Compensation Act by | increasing long term benefits to the standards now provided by the Fed- | eral Longshoremen’s and Harbor- workers Act, retaining the Alaska schedule of benefits for temporary disability. Unemployment “4, Liberalization of the Unem- | ployment Compensation Law to provide dependency benefits which will permit the dependents of un- employed workmen to live in decen- cy and comfort, and the Law am-. ended so that seasonal workers will | be entitled to draw benefits immed- ‘ihnely after January first. | “5.. Enactment of a disability insurance law which will provide unemployment benefits when wage | earners are temporarily unemployed | due to sickness. | “6. An adequate tax program | based on the ability to pay which will provide for the construc®on 1and operation of necessary schools. ! “I. A welfare program which will recognize the right of pension- | ers to live under decent standards | and particularly which wiil provide adequate assistance for the blind and or needy children. the protection of the public.” Natlonal Issues | On the national level, the union urged ,that “1. Congw:ss enact legislation which will provide for the transfer of the regulation of QL s Sl A (Continued on Page Twc) : i “8. A boiler inspection law tor‘ B29S BACK FROMWAR IN KOREA SPOKANE, Wash,, Oct. 30—(®— B-29 bombers from the 92nd bomb group landed at the Spokane Air Force base today, a few days less than four months after they took off to strike at the Korean Com- munists. The first plane, piloted by Capt. Harry Downs of Spokane, eased down onto the runway at the Spo- kane Air Force base at 6 a.m. Col. Clifford Rees, commander of the base, said that “some” of the group’s planes had returned. The number was not given. Others were assumed to be’on the way home. Still based in Japan is the 98th Bomb group. It left the Spokane base a month after the 92nd group flew “west. “Elements of the 92nd bomb group were released by Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur as soon as their strategic bombing missions were completed,” Col. Rees said this morning. Pilots of the 92nd began taking off in the dusk on July 4. Manned largely by veterans of World War II, they were in combat against the Communists the day after they ar- rived in Japan. The base never has said how many planes were in the groups that went to Japan. Their normal number of planes was 30 :or each group. INSURGENT TROUBLE IN PUERTORICO SAN JUAN, Oct. 30—{M—Nation- alist insurgents fired on the Gov- ernor's palace here today and at- tacked police stations in several towns throughout the country, but the government sald it crushed the rebellion. At least 15 were killed and eight were wounded in the clashes. Government sources said the or- ganized uprising was aimed at em- barrassing the administration of Governor Luis Munoz Marin, which is pledged to continuing the island’s status as a United States territory. The nationalist party demands com- plete independence. Governor Munoz scheduled a radio broadcast to the nation tonight and announced that the 206th National Guard battalion has been alerted to stand by for further troublee. The rebels used bombs, bullets and fire against police stations and government buildings in a number of towns. Reports, still incomplete, indicated 10 nationalists and five policemen were killed. Three nationalists were dead in the Governor’s palace. Two police- men were wounded. THREE NEW CASES POLIO, KETCHIKAN Three new cases of poliomyelitis reported from Ketchikan today brought the total known cases in Alaska to 50 since outbreak of the disease on August 10, according to Alaska Department of Health head- quarters here. The three new victims of the di- sease are reported as: Charles Berg, ; Dawn Van Wierengen, 17 months; and Robert Brown, a veteran. They bring the total cases to nine in Ket- chikan where no new occurrences had been reported since the first part of October. The first case to be reported from Kanakanak was Saturday when Clyde Spears, 6, was taken to Prov- idence hospital at Anchorage for care. I ! THUNDERBIRD SCREENS INSTALLED AT MUSEUM Visitors may think, from all the hammering and sawing, that the Terfitorial Museum irt the Federal Building is being completely re- built. Such is not the case. The work is to install the large wooden screens from the Thunderbird House at Yakutat, recently purchas- ed for the museum by Edward L. Keithahn, curator. | | | | SUTTON TO SPOKANE Paul Sutton, chief underwriter in the Juneau Federal Housing Admin- istration office, left today on Pan | American for Spokane on a month's 1vncnflon.