The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,661 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1950 0] 30 MEME R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Two Giant Planes Crash Together in Midair MILITARY STRENGTH STRIPPED Gen. Bradle7 Makes Plain Statement to Editors Re- g_arding U. §., Allies ATLANTA, Nov. 17 — (D) — Gen Omar Bradley said today the Ko- rean war stripped this country ar its Allies of adequate strength— cepl for the atom bomb—to defend themselves elsewhere. | The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a speech prepared |k for a meeting of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association: “It is a bruising and shocking fact that when we Americans were committed in Kore1, we were left without an adequate margin of military strength with which to| face an enemy at any other specific point. “Certainly we were. left without the strength to meet a general at- tack. “In the military sense, the free world was left without adequate re- serves except for the atom bomb.” While urging a continuing buildup of American strength, Bradley of- fered to trade the atom bomb for “a genuine course of righteousness in the world” and to trade “all mili- tary power for a century of peace.” But he told the 500 editors that “no easy trades are on in the open market,” and went on to say: “We must earn the world righteousness we seek, and the peace we 50 earnestly desire.” Bradley called anew for German rearmament and suggested a system by which U. S. reserve military man- power would be maintained at a| greater degree of combat readiness than in the past. He said that would help provide the military strength which will be necessary “for many years to come.” STOCK QUOTATION: NEW YORK, Nov. 17 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2!z, American Can | 100%, American Tel. and Tel. 151, Anaconda 38, Douglas Aircraft 85, General Electric 49%, General | Motors 48, Goodyear 60, Kennecott 70%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%. Northern Pacific 28%, Standard Oi! of California 80, Twentieth Century Fox 21%, U.S. Steel 40%, Canadian Exchange 9631%:, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 2,130,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 230.27, rails 70.11, utilities 40.59. The Washi;gion Merry - Go - Round Copyright, 1950, by Bell Sysaicate, Ine.} By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—When you eat a chicken neck from a capon which has been fed on a certain kind of fattening hermone, you run the risk of becoming sterile. This is one of the findings of the House committee to investigate the use of chemicals in food proeducts, which has keen quietly probing the effect of all sorts of chemicals | now artificially injected into our food. In the case of chicken necks, it was revealed that some poullry farmers use a hormone called stil- besterol to fatten chickens in a hurry. When injected in the neck this hormone makes an old rooster not only fat but tender. The effect on the human being, if he eats the neck, however, can induce sterility, Congressman AI- thur Miller of Nebraska, himself a doctor, told the committee tf the mink growers of Illinois h:u;‘ fed chicken and turkey heads from poultry so treated to their mink, | only to have them become sterile. As a result, Canada prohibits the use of stilbesterol pellets in feed-| ing poultry, Dr. Franklin Church Bing, chairman of the chemical committee of the Amercian Public Health Association told the Con- | gressmen. | Gives Dogs Fits The committee, headed by ablc James J. Delaney, New York Demo- | crat, has heard mony from some of the nation's top chemists, "MISS JET J0B” | | - @ Judge Henry A. Schweinhauu. ‘Sch\vemhnut fixed no trial date. He Starlet Peggy Castle (above) | showed up at Williams Field, | Phoenix, Ariz, with a movie | iroupe making a film about the 1 (raining of jet pilots, and was | prompily named “Miss Jet Job” | by air cadets who proncunced her COLLAZO PLEADS "NOT GUILTY" OF TRUMAN ATTACK Puerto Rican Fanatic Will| Face Trial in Dis- frict Court By KARL R. BAUMAN ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 — (® — Oscar Collazo, accused of two capi- tal crimes for his part in attempting | to assassinate President 'Iruman,| pleaded innocent at his arraignment in U.S. District Court today. After hearing the four-count in- dictment read, Collazo told District “1 plead not guilty, your honor.” Those were the only words spoken | by the small, meek looking Puerto Rican fanatic. The 37-year-old Collazo was neatly dressed in a brown suit. Leo A. Romer, chief of three court-appointed defense attorneys, argued vigorously against rushing Collazo to trial. U.S. District Attor- ney George Morris Fay told Judge Schweinhaut that “we do insist that the government is entitled to a fair trial.” After hearing the attorneys, Judge said, however, that he did not be- lieve the case should be delayed until Feb. 15, a date suggested by Rover. Collazo and a Puerto Rican com- panion, Griselio Torre<ola, tried to shoot their way into Blair House, the temporary Truman residence, in mid-afternoon Nov. 1. \Will Renew Fight for “Fair TRUMAN IS READY FOR BIG BATTLE Deal” in Lame Duck Congress WASHINGTON, Nov. 17— (® —| President Truman, outwardly hap- py and scrappy, - evidently was| ready today to renew battle with | the new and old Congress for his “Fair Deal” program. On the political front, Mr. Tru- man discounted the election vic- tories of Republicans, reiterated his bkacking for Secretary of State Acheson, refused to back-track on his controversial domestic program and dodged questicns about wheth- er he may run again. The president told his first post- election news conference yesterday he expects the lame duck session of Congress meeting Nov. 27 to ap- prove an excess profits tax, another big chunk cf military appropria- tions, statehcod for Alaska and Hawali and an extension of rent controls, Almost nobody in Congress—in- cluding his own legislative lieuten- ants—shared Mr. Truman's opt:m- -sm on this score. The President said he was not TANKS OF U. §. ROLLING NO'W, KOREAN FRONT Biggest Ba@ Are Being Fought Against Guerrillas on Supply Lines (By the Associated Pre United Nations forces moved cau- tionsly ahead along most of a 250- mile North Korean front today. The Communists attacked furiovsly at two South Korean sectors ard step- ped up guerrilla activity bLoiund N. lines. Sherman tanks rumbled slowly up mountain roads leading elements of the U.S. 7th Division to within 20 miles of the Manchurian border. The Communists pulled back to well well prepared positions av Kapsan, 15 miles from the frontier. The Doughboys won a bloody three-hour battle in a narrow valley six miles southwest of Kapsan afver the Reds attempted to spring a trap on them. Patrols Probe On On the northwest front, U.S. 24th Division patrols probed more than six miles north of Pakchon without opposition. The advance on most fronts was slowed by mines and blown-up calling Congress back early, as he had said he might do, because the request for more funds to finance bridges, and the uncertainty of the strength of the combined Red Chi- nese and Korean forces ahead. The Communists put up their Mr. and Mrs. Alex B. Holden of vacation trip to Hawaii. Holden is wearing one of the uniq weave from palm leaves. transpacific Pan American Stratoclipper at San Francisco. Alaskans Refurn from Islands Sag Juneaun recently. returned from a They are shown as they stepped off their Mrs. ue coconut hats which Hawaiians As co-manager of Alaska Coastal Airlines, acrodynamically ~ perfect. The | Torresola was shot deed, and Pvt. movie, strangely enough, is namea | Leslie Coffelt of the White House «Aid Cadet.” ) Wirephoto. ‘I)O]lCP fatally wounded. Collazo and the fighting in Korea and the na- | piggest fight against South Koreans tion's military buildup still is be- | near Tokchon, center of a road net- ing whipped into shape. work on the right flank of the There was eyery .sign that Con-|yestern front. They also hit hard at Mr. Holden does a good deal of over-water flying, but this was his first transocean clipper fight. Mrs. Holden said, “The glamour and beauty of the Hawaiian Islands isn’t exaggerated. The flowers, BRISTOL BAY POWER BOAT ISUE BROUGHT UP AT F5H MEETING The old issue of power boats for | Bristol Bay came up ac meeting | of the Alaska Fisheries Board yes-! terday when a telegram was re- ceived from the Alaska Fisherman’s { Union at Naknek. | Jim Downey, AFU agent at Nak- nek wired: “Action at headquarters meeting AFU here last night re-! sulted unanimous concurrence briet bmitted to Fish and Wildlife Serv- Seattle favoring power boats with horsepower limitations, also titions secured by the Alaska i Imon Industry by many dubious‘ means repudiated to coincide with | action stated by Clarence Rhode | hat such would be disregarded. ! | | | | | | Copy of brief being airmailed to- da; Yesterday was given over to a| meeting with fishermen and mem- | bers of the FWS regarding fishing | regulations for the 1951 season. | Richard Schuman and Frank Hines of the FWS were present and | worked in hirmony with the Terri- | torial group. Andy Barlow of the Alaskg Trollers and Carl Weidman | presented their recommendations. | Meetings are continuing today and | tomorrow. i ROY GILLESPIE, FORMER JUNEAU SALESMAN, 1S ISLAND COUNTY (O | | | ! rin also were wounded. JUNEAUITES FILE DAMAGE SUIT IN SINKING OF SHIP SEATTLE, Nov. 17—{P—A $38488 damage suit was filed in U.S. Court here today as a result of the sink- ing of the motor vessel Robert Eugene off the British Columbia coast Aug. 22. The libel was filed by seven Ju- neau, Alaska, firms and individuals. It is against M. B. Dahl and Sons, Inc., Frederick M. Dahl and Chief Officer Garey C. Reed and their wives. The libel action said the vessel was carrying merchandise of the Juneau plaintiffs when it sank. (OCTIES, TEEN AGERS T0 GATHER TOYS FOR (RIPPLED CHILDREN Tomorrow, Saturday afternoon, between the hours of 1 and 4 p.m., members of the Coofies and mem- be: of the Teen-Age Club may g your doorbell. They will ask f you have any tQys, games, or dolls that can be repaired for gifts to children who must spend Christ- mas in hospital beds. Members of the Cooties will re- pair these gifts and give a Christ- mas party for the children at the Government Hospital and in the Crippled Childrens Ward at St Ann’s. So, if you have any old toys gress would approve any such measure. But Senate action is doubtful on any excess profits tax bill that might be passed in the House early in December. Senator Taft of Ohio, who heads the Republican policy committee, has said he doesn’t be- lieve any action will come in the short session. Southern Democratic delaying tactics may crop up against House- approved bills to grant statehood to Hawaii and Alaska. The Repub- licans may help out on this. Chairman Maybank (D-SC) al- ready has predicted that the Sen- ate banking committee won't act on rent control extension in the lame duck session. Controls are due to expire Dec. 31 except in com- munities which take positive action to extend them for six months. TEXAN CHRISTMAS 10 BE CHEERED BY ALASKA REINDEER Despite all the claims by native sons, Texas hasn't everything. For the third year in a row, Grady Carothers of Goldthwaite, Texas, has come to Alaska after reindeer | to be used in Christmas exhibits. This year he purchased 14 head of adult sled deer from Ross Stalker at Kotzebue. Moving the deer into Kotzebue with the aid of two Eskimo men is now under way. From Kotzbue, the deer will be flown to the Texas des- tination for Thanksgiving showing | and for use in Christmas exhibits. | This year Carothers came early. Jack Allen, also of Goldthwaite, is helping Carothers with the rein-| deer. Allen has been in Alaska for the ‘South Korean Capital Division where it has reached within 90 .miles of the Siberian border in a slow push up the northeastern coast. “Guerrilla” Front Using tactics perfected over many years in Russia and China, Korean Communists opened a guerrilla “sec- ond front” 50 miles to the rear of Allied lines. The Allied air force continued to pound communication targets near the frontier. It reported a Superfort strike Tuesday knocked out twe additional spans across the Yalu river used by Chinese troops* enter- ing Northwest Korea from Man- churia. But when the Yalu is frozen over in a few weeks the Chinese would be able to move men and heavy equipment over the borderline with ease. No Territorial Ambitions The U. S. State Department beamed into Communist China President Truman’s assurance that the United States has no territorial ambitions in either Korea or Mah- churia, and will help protect China's interests along the Korean border. ‘These brodacasts were an attempt to dispel a professed belief by Red Chinese leaders that U.N. forces would carry the war into Chinese territory. President Truman said yesterday it was on this “pretext” that the Chinese had intervened. At Lake Success Soviet Delegate Jacok A. Malik charged that the United States was attacking China by land, on the sea and in the air. He threatened to cast the Soviet Union’s 47th veto to prevent passage of a resolution demanding that Red China withdraw her troops from Korea. THROUGH RED TRAP An American tank column blasted the constant, warm sunshine, the loved every minute of our siay.” carefree spirit of the people—we The Holdens returned to Juneau via PAA last Sunday. (News Bureau, PAA, Boeing Field Photo). SIR WILKINS IS HURTON ARMY ARCTICTEST NEW YORK, Nov. 17—®—Sir Hubert Wilkins, 62-year-old Aus- tralian explorer and scientist, has been injured somewhere in the Arctic while working on an Army cxperiment, a friend said today. Joseph Robinson, former execu- tive secretary of the Explorer’s Club, said a telegram from Edmon- | ton, Alberta, Canada, reported that Wilkins had “broken some bones in his upper arm” and had bcen taken to a hospital. No other details were available. Robinson said Wilkins was a civilian consultant with the “First Test Detachment, U.S. Army.” Wil- kins was named an adviscr on polar, desert and jungle warfare by the Army Quartermaster Corps in 1942. Wilkins, new a part time con-‘ sultant, had been in Canada with | a joint U.B.-Canada task force| testing winter equipment, the De- | fense Department said in Washing- | ton. He left Washington about three weeks ago and was due back there | about Dec. 1. No details were available in| Washington on how Wilkins was | hurt. i BOB HOPE SUES FOR 2 MILLION LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17—®—Bob Hope, who generally doesn't bruise easily, says he’s been offended— $2,010,000 worth. The comedian filed suit for that amount against Life magazine and radio columnist John Crosby yes- terday, claiming they libeled him by asserting he stole Fred Allen’s Jjokes. Hope said the Nov. 6 issue of the magazine contained Crosby’s article, “Seven Deadly Sins of the Air,” and that it iniplied he was guilty of plagiarism. Plagiarism, said Hope’s complaint, is a practice whicH the entertain- ment industry considers dishonest, unethical and reprehensible. LIQUOR DEALERS RE-ELECT CASTLE Brander Castle® of Wrangell was re-elected President of the Alaska Retail Liquor Dealers Association at an annual meeting held here yes- terday. é Others named were Doug Heay, Fairbanks, First Vice President; Wit : | games, or dolls around your home, Jith the largest vote of any t them away for Saturday. candidate in his county, Roy H.| gJust a few minutes of your Gillespie, formerly of Juneau, Now | time to dig these toys out, can of Langley, Washington, was elected | make the difference between an C“’“L"‘s""{;’""r of Island County No- : unhappy Christmas or a very hap- vember 7. | py Christmas, for a lot of child- Gillespie, who was Pacific Fruit §.’Z,,, and Produce salesman here for six! watch for the group that will years, romped into thé commis- | pe around Saturday. Have your toys a&““"'-‘ !101; as a Republican can- ready, and let’s give those kids a idate with a vote of more than yeally happy Christmas. twice that of his Democratic oppon- | ¥ y ent. | “He returns to the Island County | TWO TURKS ARRIVE [ courthouse where he was treasurer | TWwo 30-pound live turkey gobblers i and auditor many years ago,” says | arrived yesterday on Pan Amencani the Island County Times which 'Airways yesterday with their dig- carried his picture on the front|nity slightly ruffled. They are to be | page of its election edition. ithe main feature at an _E:lks (_:lub[ Mrs. W. A. (Del) Miller, of Ju- }tm‘key shoot tonight, William Biggs, neau, is a daughter of the Gillespies | secretary said today. One of the and there are two grandchildren, |gobblers is on view in the window of Laurin and Louise, who live here.|the Alaska Light and Power Co.] Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie left Alaska The shoot begins at 8 o'clock in about seven years ago. ' }me Elks Hall. AT BARANOF is on temporary at the Baranof WESTFALL Ray Westfall as a clerk FROM SKAGW i and Richard B. Hubbard Ellis at the | duty of Skagway are stopping (Continued on Page Four) ON BUSINESS TRIP Marcus Russell, son of Mrs Smith, left this week for Se: a business trip for Leota’s ol owned by his mother. He cxpi teritongy 5 far North Korean mountain ravinel RE“I (omROl ISSUE | churian border in four days. Communists opened up on the The Juneau City Council will /a narrow road in northeast Korea. conduct a hearing tonight on exten- |A three-hour battle ended with 125 | controls will expire. The meeting |ing remnants, will be held at 8 o'clock in the, This was about 23 miles south of and con are invited to present their isnld his force would reach the bor- | views. To date, little interest has der early mext week and if fired| | S P & . fra el | Baranof scheduled to sail from) to return before Thanksgiving D4V {from Vancouver Wednesday | Denall from west is scheduled to FROM CALIFORNIA Wesley Hayes of El Cerrito. C Hotcl Juneau. | Hotel. a short time taking pictures of the |, way e Rea trap in & today. Then it rolled northward in |a blazing bid to feach the Man- TONIGHT AT COUNCIL {17th Infantry Regiment from the | hillsides as the tanks rumbled along sion of rent controls after the De- | Communists dead on the hills and cember 31 deadline when Federal | Marine Corsairs rocketing the flee- Council Chambers at the City Hall. |the Manchurian frontier. Those interested in the issue pro | The commander of the column | been shown to extend contr jon from Manchuria—: i “We will shoot hell out of them.” Leoto | tle on | v, !Seame this afternoon. | Princess Louise scheduled to sail | 1. | sail south Sunday a.m, | Hot I£. 15 a guest at the Barano! | | Rube Crossett, Ketchikan, Second Vice President; and E. C. Wallace, Fairbanks, Secretary-Treasurer. Picked for ‘the executive board | were: Charles Graham, Ketchikan; | George Madsen, Nome; Ole Gra- ! nell, Anchorage and George Gilbert- | son, Fairbanks. About 30 members were in at- | tendance. Wallace told of project | by the Fairbanks night club opera- | tors, bar owners and bartenders | union, where $5,138.20 was raised to buy an iron lung shortly after the polio epidemic hit Fairbanks. The |lung arrived the day that Julian | Rivers was stricken and put to im- | mediate use. It is planned to buy another iron lung and place the $500 left over into the Fairbanks polio fund. Sessions continued today. The principal interest of the group is | to maintain the liquor business in Alaska as private enterprise, Wal- lace said. | | | WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Perlod ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 15; minimum, 12, At Airport—Maximum, 17; minimum, 14. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Fair and cold with occa- sionally gusty northeasterly winds tonight and Saturday. Lowest temperature tonight near 15 and highest Saturday 20 degrees. PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — none; sinee Nov. 1 — 3.99 inches; since July 1—33.02 inches. At Airport None; since Nov. 1 — 195 inches; since July 1—23.00 inches. © 9o 9 9 9 0 0 0 o o o Bl | FROM SEATTLE Fred W. Butler of Saattle is re- i at the Baranof ifotel. ©00 0000000000000 000000%00 0 13 AIRMEN FACEDEATH IN FLAMES EIanker, Bofil—)_er, Engaged in Refueling Operation, Collide, Plunge Down TUCSON, Ariz, Nov. 17—P—A collision in flight of two giant planes engaged in the U.S. Air Forces newest refueling operation has ended in flaming death for 13 air- men. Ten other parachuted, to safety after the four motor craft smashed together yesterday 50 miles west of Tucson over the southern Arizona desert. Erupt in Flames The planes, a B-29 tanker and a B-50 bomber engaged in a routine refueling operation, were seen to erupt in flames and plunge to the ground five miles north of the Papago Indian village of Silnakya on the Sells reservation. The tanker is believed to have exploded. Some of the crew members jumped and may have reached the ground safely, but were apparently caught in a deluge of flaming gaso- iine that sprayed over the area. Crushed by Debris Another airman was unmarked on the upper part of his body while the lower portion had been crushed by a heavy piece of debris. The Air Force listed some of the 13 men as missing since identifica- tions had not been completed, but they were presumed dead. Robext. Moore, & veporter for the Tucson Arizona Daily Star who flew to the scene, reported there were indications all of the airmen attempted to get out of the flaming craft. Bodies Blackened Their blackened and smashed bodies, most of them wearing por- tions of parachutes, were scattered over an area a half mile around the crash scene. Bits of flaming debris were found as far away as 1 mile. o Steven Ramon, a Papago Indian living in Silnakya, witnessed the crash, Flash — Crash He said he spotted what he thought was one plane about noon yesterday. “There was a flash,” he said. “The plane started to come down toward the ground. Then I saw that there were two planes. They landed very close together, about 10 miles away from me.” 11 BODIES RECOVERED TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 17—{®—Air Force authorities poked through the shattered wreckage of two giant planes today to learn the cause of an air collision that claimed the lives of 13 airmen on the barren Papago Indian reservation. Eleven bodies were recovered from the twisted wreckage of the B-50 and B-29 which crashed during high altitude refueling operations. Ten airmen parachuted to safety, two suffering broken ankles in the mass leap. A search party worked through- out the night under the glare of powerful lights to recover the vic- tims’ bodies. A spokesman at Davis- Monthan Air Force base here, home base of both ships, said two crew- men still were unaccounted but were presumed dead. The survivors were taken to the Davis-Monthan Hospital for ob- servation and Air Force 'officials refused to let them talk about the accident pending a formal investi- gation, ALASKA (OM. CABLE IS DISENGAGED FROM FREIGHTER'S ANCHOR The Flemish Knot docked yester- day afternoon after the Alaska Communications System submarine cable to Petersburg was disengaged from the starboard anchor. A fault on the cable has disrupted phone service to Petersburg. The ACS per- sonnel hopes to raise the cable the first of next week to survey the damage and make repairs. It was necessary to cut the cable in disengaging it from the freight- er’s anchor thus eliminating the use of buoys. The freighter sails to- morrow morning for Haines.