The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 18, 1950, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,662 m& Aheadon Warfront RESERVATIONS (RAZED MAN | FOR NATIVES KILLS FIVE IN BIG MISTAKE RENT CONTROLS EXTENDED, ACTION OF CITY COUNCIL Rent control for Juneau was ex- tended to June 30, 1951 by action | of the City Council in regular ses- | sion here last night. Juneau is the | second Alaskan city to pass a rent contrcl e resclation. Pet- ersturg was first. There were 130 signatures on pet- itions, several lett from indi- | viduals and organizations and a| > of in ns at meeting urcing tion Dorothy C. Farrell, rent examiner- “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1950 FLKS GIVE LARGE SUM TO LIBRARY | BUILDING FUND A pleasant surprise awaited B.| Frank Heintzleman, chairman of the | Juneau Memorial Library Board, when he returned to Juneau 'this| week from Washington. Surprise 25 a total sum of $2,250 paid in to the new library building fund from | previous pledges. A check for $2,000 was on Heint- zleman’s desk from the Juneau B. P. | O. Elk’s No. 420, payment in full | of the pledge to the fund from the Elks Lodge. | ACHESON 10 FIGHT CRITICS WASHINGTON, Nev. 18 — (P | Secretary of State Dean Acheson | has decided to fight it out with his | Republican critics, some of whom want him fired. This became clear today in the light of his sharp attack last night | of ANB and ANS st-election statements made by s Taft (R-Ohio). Tt was| The policy of establishing reser- | Governor Discusses Pro- posal at Convention THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition MEMBETL 3 ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ranled FAMILY FEUD | F ) Refusal to See Children Brings Death to 3 Fam- ilies-Admits Slayings (iiiggn;hi_p | | ey TANK-LED US. TROOPS MOVING ON Advance in Snowstorm with Little Resistance~ Allied Air Strikes Made VINELAND, N.J., Nov. 18—(P—A (By the Associated Press) inspector from the office of the The Juneau Painters Union, local|yerified by Acheson’s aides. |vations in Alaska for the Native |slim young appliance salesman aftex housing expediter in Ju u was present to answer and clarify issues. Letters support controls were read Stewart of the Veterans Admin- istration, the executive board of tone 1| Federat.on of Feder- al employees, Lillian Uggen, Mrs. y and Erma E, Wainner. ained how rental under the | | fees could justed present law. Landloxd’s Side | utors. 1504, Charles Hall, president sent| in a check for $100, a half of its pledge. ‘The made a $25 cont the pledge m: tion. A total sum of $125 in pledge pay- ments was made by Caslers store and Ned Kester, individual contrib- by that organiza- Heintzleman said he could not ex- | press too emphatically the deep ap- preciation of the Library Board Harold Foss presented the land-|members for the generous contribu- lord’s side of the question although {tions and prompt payment of he stated that he did not Oppose |pjedges by the lodges, civic organi- rent control until such time that|zations and individuals. 1 hou was avail-| - wpese generous contributions to d out that when the |, worthy a cause is a contribution rent freeze was put into effect that | o tne benefit of thousands who will | Juneau was in a slump while An-lenioy Juneaw's new library,” he! ing a boom and|coiq° SEVERN SWANSON BELIEVED DEAD u W costs h d, while rent con- w lcr inter on ; invested in housing. This discouraged building | in Juneau compared with Anchor- | a and other towns. | 1 Klein also presented the| It is believed that Severin Swan- | landiord view of rent contrcls re- {son, about 60, has been drowned. ferring to the troubles encount- | He has been missing since Wednes- ered in evicting undesirable ten-|day night. Mrs. Swanson reported ants once they get in an apart-{to Juneau City Police late yesterday ment. | afternoon that she thought he was Tenant Evictions ion the ANS vessel Hygiene where Farrell explained conditions 'he works, A check showed that he | unde: h tenants could be re-|had not been aboard for two days moved. |and the crew believed that Swanson A representative of the VFW |was at his home here. spoke for continued controls. | Swanson was last seen by Ray Cledamae Cammock of the Alaska | Maxine, Far West cab driver, at 1| Terri 4 rial Federation of Labor;o‘clock Thursday morning when went on record as favoring con- | Maxine delivered him to the lower tinued controls. |city dock where the boat was tied Klein countered that salaries of |yp, Maxine reported that when he; labor had doubled while the line | geparted Swanson was going down | in rents had been held. i the gangplank. At the time the tide ! T. B. Erickson of CIO reminded |ywas going out and a heavy wind was | N the council of the importance of controls to protect federal and ter- | ritorial employees whose salaries | were frozen and furnished the main payroll for Juneau. Mrs. Mildred Hermann recri'.'cd; a round of applause following the presentation of her case as both a member of the rent advisory board and a landlord. She stressed | the fine work done by the Alaska | office which had been both fair| and rapid and feared that removal; of controls would result in apart-| ments going to the highest bidder | thereby working a hardship on| many people. | “There was a time when Juneau apartment houses were not filled,” | she said, “now they are full Ati presenf there are 1988 dwelling | units in Juneau and 2295 cases of | adjustments have been made in Lhe“ past year.” i Councilman George Jorgenson re- | marked that the evidence presented | showed a demand for extension | of controls. Councilman Bert Mc| Dowell moved that the City At- torney prepare a resolution for the extension, Councilman Al Zen- ger, Sr., seconded the motion and it was passed without a dissem,mg‘ | duction has not been made. The | city books as | Mayberry,” Last year my statement blowing. Police have checked all places where he might have been found with no reports of anyone having seen Swanson since. It is believed that he may have fallen off the gangplank or dock. The U.S. Coast Guard has been requested to do| dragging operations. Juneau Teacher Objects Paying Tax on "Phanfom” Miss Genevieve Mayberry, Juneau teacher, called the attention of the Juneau City Council to an error in her t: statement through a letter wi h was read to the group at a regular meeting last night. Wrote Miss Mayberry, “ ..the tax is levied on the entire amount of the assessed value of the personal property. The $250 allowable de- explanation for this, T believe, is the fact that I am entered on the “Mr. and Mrs. G. was addressed that way. However the city files seem to have liqui- o dated ‘Mr. Mayberry’ this year. He elephone Rate Issue d 1 2 The :xauper of a hearing for the|doesn’t seem ‘to be in existence jncrease in telephone rates was | any more. I would like to elminate discussed. City Accountant J. C.|him too, as he seems to be the i ile | piec r shich I am endrei ggested that while piece of property on whic iy on e paying a luxury tax of sorts. i | (Continued cn Page TWo) ! The Washington Merry - Go- Round | Copyright. w50, by Bell Syuaicate, m;i | | very much. I am not trying to evade taxes, but I am too much of a realist to pay taxes for, or on. a phantom.” She was referring to a $7 tax on $350 worth of personal property. ACCA MEETS MONDAY The regular meeting of the Ju- neau-Douglas chapter of the Alaska WSHINGTON — It Wi::) "eq’_O:’ Crippled Children’s Association e s yi I's ag MOITOW, | o i ras SO) famed address dedicating a battle- | oo " weniner, field at Gettysburg. That address|,. yeen calleq for Monday eve- Jasted only 10 minutes, and followed | ning, November 20, ot 8 o'clock a two-hour speech by orator EAwWard| o, the nome of the President, Mrs. Everett. | John McCormick, 436 West 12th The photographer was still load- | Street. ing his camera when Lincoln sat There will be a report on the down, and when he did so there Was | o percnip drive, and also plans By DREW PEARSON | | Alaska Native Brotherhood | g bution, a part of | “I will appreciate the adjustment ® i The meeting now | ficials who made a survey of the‘ & | | (Continued on Page Four) I\nll ke completed for Christmas. In last night's speech, Acheson people would be a grave backward said, without naming Taft, that he | 5P Gov. Ernest Gruening told the |87th annual convention of the ed from the American | Aldska Native Brotherhood and nd that & new figure has Eisterhood at Craig, in an address whom he called the “re-| Thursday evening. | It would be in conflict. in his | view, he stated, “with our basic ideas and ideals of democracy.” “Jim Crow” “Whatever may be the allegations of benevolentiy intended purpose of those who advocate res | there is no question in my mind ing western Europe. ;(hut it is merely a furm of Jim Acheson spoke before the Na- | Crow’ with sugar coating,” declared tional Council of Negro Women, in | the Governor. an acidly humorous series of jibes, | “It would permanently establish which drew frequent chuckies fro: his audience. had read that the “isolationist” has Taft, in post-election statements, said that “anybody is an idiot who calls anybedy else an isolationist.” | He also said that “only an idiot would be an isolationist today.” He called for a reexamination of the American program for rearm- { when they are achieving | way to achieving, the ful | all over the territory would perman- Several of Juneau’s homes have|tion which is on its way out and puurchased the Martin Victor resi- | of another generation providing the | ity politically, economically ard so- HOMES IN JUNEAU "= i ‘ ently divide our people into castes |and classes. It would revive the ra= changed ownership this month. {has almost disappeared and will Dr. and Mrs. John Gibson have!completely disappear in the course dence, formerly the Judge Alexan- | policy of reservations is not estab- der home on West First Street.|lished. “The setting apart of reservations CHANGE OWNERSHIP | cial prejudice and inter-racial fric- | They expect to move from their| No Advantages ations | | hours of questioning today admitted | he shot to death five members 'of his estranged wife's family and | wounded four others in a crazed tour of three homes last night. His face haggard and drawn, 25- year-old Ernest Ingenito told vhe state police troopers who had cap- tured him: “I did it and I don’t want to talk any more about it.” The oral statement was made to troopers Leonard Cunningham and | Raymond Vorberg, who had seized i { | m , the Native peopie as wards at a time | or on their | 53 equal- | | Michael Ingenito after an automobile chase down a country lane in the scrub pine flatlands of nearby Landis township four and a half hours after | the slayings. Reconstruet Crime A few miles away, authorities pieced together the story of ihe horror-filled moments that brought death to: Michael Mazzoli, 44, Ingentio’s father-in-law; Mrs. Pearl Mazzoli, 45, Ingenito’s mother-in-law; John Pioppi, 46, uncle of Ingenito’s wife; Mrs. Theresa Pioppi, grandmother of Ingenito’s wife; 28, John’s wife. ‘Wounded were the gunman’s wife, Tessie, 23; a nine-year-old cousin, Jean Pioppi; Frank Mazzoli, 35, Mazzoli’s brother, and Marion Pioppi, | granted American citizenship. FUR COATS SAVED AS HOMES BURN; BELOW ZERO FIRE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 18—(® ~The wives fortunately saved their fur coats as two families were burned out in house fires Thursday night, while the temperature was 20 degrees below zero. | home of Sgt. Fire destroyed the $5,000 frame fishermen William Pyvas, his American Pia Lindstrom, 12-year-old daughter of Actress Ingrid Bergman, sits on the lap of her father, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, and puts her arm around his neck in Federal Court at Los Angeles, where she was An amendment to her papers also Americanized her name to Jenny Ann. (7 Wirephoto. WARNING O FISHERMEN OF JAPAN BARBARA, Calif, Nov. warning to Japanese to stay out of North waters has been issued SANTA 18—P—A apartment in the Baranof Hotel to “Those who advocate them por- their new home about December 1. |tray in glowing colors what they The Hugh A. Stoddart home on'claim to be the economic advantages Main and Seventh has been pur-|of reservations. I fail to perceive chased by Dr. and Mrs. D. D. Mar- | any advantages. On the contrary, quardt. They will move to their new | once established on reservations the home about the first of the year. |Natives have no right to ownership The Wayne Johnsons have purch- |and will ever be continued as wards ased the Floyd Fagerson residence of a federal government agency. on Twelfth Street and will be at| “This reservation policy is not a home there in January after they:policy which originated with the return from a trip on the states. }nauve people. It is a policy which The E. E. Stender residence at!was thought up for them in a dis- 218 Gold Street has been purchased tant government bureau and urged by Julius Heineman. ;upon them by employees of that Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Oldham ' bureau and by lawyers who expect purchased the Albert Cooley home |to profit by the continuation and in West Juneau. The Cooley’s have | perpetuation of this wardship. The left to make their home in south- bureaucrats who urge you to accept ern California. | reservations likewise wish to per- Mr. and Mrs. Nils S. Anderson | petuate their bureaucratic structure, purchased a house and lot on Ninth |and control.” Street from James Larsen, building | Beiter Solution Possible congractor. | Governor Gruening said that in Mrs. Hulda Peterson sold a house his view an entirely different and and lot on Pederson Hill in the Auk |a far better solution would be the Lake area on Glacier Highway to;det,erm'mation of aboriginal rights. Mr. and Mrs. Maynard P. Peterson. | He said he would urge this solution | “I am confident that a bill pro- | viding the machinery for determin- Dr. Earl F. Graves, % Veterinarian, Alaska Department ofjtangxble. something valuable. The Victims g fa are | vious stgnd of opposition to reser Dr. Graves says all cattle are In )y, og pave been asked to believe Imat the victims of that reservation | policy will be none other than the |and he believes that it is not only ! possible but probable of accomplish- JUNEAU DAIRY CATTLE jment. wppr LINE UP, SAY "AH" AS | {ing and settling possessory claims IHSPE(IED BY Doflon | could pass the Congress. Through it |if your claims are valid you would Territorial | secure something real, something Agriculture, has been in Juneau | the past week giving the local dairy } stock their regular annual health k= inspection. | been persuaded to reverse your good condition. | i i He has been staying at the Hotel‘m“ the creation of reservations I Juneau and left for Palmer on| A today’'s PNA plane. agree wholly with that view. I fce HYNES SOUTH ON TRIP Frank W. Hynes, biologist with the Fish and Wildlife Service and | Mrs. Hynes who is in the account- ing division of the Alaska Depart- | ment of Health, have left for the | ates on a visit to relatives and| friends in Seattle and Tacoma and | other points in the northwest. They | expect to return shortly after the{l first of the year. | Native peoples themselve Shriners Hold First Dance of SKATING ON AUK LAKE Tonight, at Scottish Rite Temple, NEXT WEEK IF PRESENT Juneau Shrine will hold its [irst COLD WEATHER PREVAILS | Shrine dance of the season, the fif If the prevailing cold weather jalso, of a series held annually holds out for another week ice|ing the winter months. skating enthusiasts should find Auk Lake just about to their lik- i man in charge with Les Holmes ing according to Forest Service of- t heading the refreshment com and Oscar Eliason chairman ¢ ice conditions cn lakes in the Gla- | decoration committee. Thesc cier Highway area yesterday. mitteemen will serve for Smooth ice has formed around"dances to come. the edges of Auk Lake but so far| Dancing starts at 10 p.m the center remains open Gla- | Gregg’s orchestra furnishi cier Lake is frozen over, the of-|music. A large crowd is cx ficials said, but it too rough to!to attend these ever popular 5 be satisfactory for skating. affairs, | Frank’s wife, Hilda, 34. wife and two children, It also razed by the Pacific coast fishing industry. An armored column of the U.S. Seventh Division plowed through a snowstorm today to within two miles of Kapsan, 21 miles below the Red Manchurian border, as Communist resistance faded on the northeastern Eorea warfront. 9n the western end of the 250- mile front, however, 100,000 Korean and Chinese Communists were dig- ging in on a mountain defense line south of the Yalu river's power plants on the Manchurian frontier. U.S. Eighth Army Intelligence sources estimated about 28,000 Chi- nese and about 70,000 Worth Ko- reans are on the Taechon-Tokchon line, with other units in supporting Positions. There was no evidence the Reds intended to pull back to the Yalu in that area, 45 miles northwest of Taechon. Defend Powersites The powersite area apparently Wwill be defended at all costs. Presi- dent Truman’s assurance that the powersites would not be molested by UN. forces was met with this answer of the Chinese Com- munists, broadeast on Peiping radio: “The Chinese people are not de- ceived by what they see. through this curtain of lies and bellicosity.” Only scattered rifle fire from the hills opposed the tank-led Seventh Division column in the rugged reservation policy gives you nothing. | the best you could hope for. I dis-| Season Tonight John Maurstad is general chalr-| At 9 p.m., Ingenito went to the {home of his father-in-law, Michael | | Mazzoli, and asked to see his two ! | children, Ernest, Jr., 4, and Michael, $10,000 log house owned by ! Charles Presten, his wife and two children. The Prestons were trapped in an | upstairs bedroom. They climbed out | oa a second-story porch in m(‘u'l nightclothes. ! KNeighbors rescued them. An el-| ectric short in the basement was blamed for the blaze. The Pyvas family fled into th icy weather after an oil furnace exploded. Only personal possession: ved in each fire were the wives' fur coats, FISH BOARD HEARS FWS EXPERIMENT ! The Alaska Fisheries Board in| Wounds 1, Kills 2 I'its third day of session yesterday The crazed gunman stepped over | jcre was interes in a report their bodies and walked to the Kit- | given by Richard Schuman of the | chen. Seated around a table were | Fish and Wildlife Service. An ex- | three children—Jean Pioppi, eight, periment made in Bare Lake on | Armando Pioppl, six, and Tessie 1k Island has shown that the | Pioppi, one and a half. rent food supply in the lake | Sitting nearby was the children’s | can be Increased for young red sal- great-grandmother, Armando Pi'i 1 and gives promise to aid the oppi. Ingenito leveled his weapon|rchabilitation of red salmon runs | once more and opened fire. The | there, The Board offered to ass the Can’t See Children Ingenito told her husband hibited under a courfl | | ; Mrs. ‘he was pro f:eparatmn order from seeing the | children. | Ingenito then shot his father-in- | | law, mother-in-law, and wife. With | |the smoking weapon still in his; hand, he dashed across the street to the Pioppi home. His wife's, | grandmother, Mrs. Theresa Pioppi, | had heard the shots and was stand- ‘ |ing at her doorway. | Ingenito turned the gun on Mrs.| Pioppl and also on Marion Ploppl,% | who came running to the door at| | that moment. Both women fell dead. | ] | Ked | dove for the cover of the table. Jean | in any other w they cou'd Pioppi was wounded. | Most of the day was given over Their assailant ran from !hei to discussing recommendations house, drove five miles to Minatola, | Le made to FWE& for the 1951 fish- “I realize that some of you have [N.J., and entered the home of |ing regulations. This continued to- ¢ | Frank Mazzoli. {day. and is likely to run into a “I cleaned out the other r:vmily."! night sessicn this evening. | Ingenito shouted. “I came here to — get you.” | Mazolli and his wife fell in a | | | WILDER BACK Glen Wilder of the Alaska Hous- ing Authority at Anchorage, is back {in Juneau for a few days after al o | business trip to Seattle. He is ati . ; the Baranof Hotel. 21 ® | Ethel MacNair of Sitka is stop- | () | ping at the Gastineau Hotel. 5l | s i ®! 1. C. Doheny of Fairbanks is . ?smymg at the Baranof Hotel. . | blaze of gunfire. ® & 0 0 2 0 0 o WEATHBER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Perlod ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 23; minimum, 12, At Airport—Maximum, 17; minimum. 5, \L Harry C. Lyons of Kodiak is a FORECAST | guest at the Baranof Hotel. (Junean and Vicinity) Continued fair and cold with oceasional gusty north- east winds tonight and Sun- day. Low temperature to- night near 15 in town and near 5 in outlying areas High Sunday near 25. Martha Cushing of Sitka is at the | Baranof Hotel. ! Dr. R. A. Smithson of Skagway {is stopping here at the Juneau | Hotel. | | STEAMER MQVEMENIS Baranof from Seattle scheduled ! { to arrive sometime Tuesday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail | from Vancouver Wednesday. | Denali from west is scheduled to arrive southbound 4 a.m., Sunday. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — none; since Nov. 1 — 399 inches; since July 1—33.02 inches At Airport None since Nov. 1 — 195 inches; since July 1-—28.00 inche l"'v’oooo- W. C. Arnold of Seattle, speaking | at the Association of Pacific Fish- eries conference here yesterday, told two Japanese delegates that un- | less Nippon keeps its fishing opem-! tions to a respectable distance, “ser- us trouble, will result.” Japan's prewar fishing ranged frequently into American waters and was a| subject of much dispute. The conference was attended by Susumu Nikaido, of the Japanese Diet's fisheries committee, and | Takei TIiyama, fisheries department | northeast. The snowstorm and rocky roads were the biggest ob- stacles. A field officer said the column expected to reach burning Kapsan tomorrow. Allied Air Strikes Heavy Allied air strikes covered the advancing column, The advance was delayed three hours yesterday to let Sherman tanks wheel off the road and clean out entrenched Reds waiting to ambush the column. After the skirmish, 128 Reds were counted dead, many more wounded. | the |three youngsters and elderly man|the program with financial aid|| chief, who recently conferred with Washington officials. They ex- pressed the hope the two countries can work together. Vance Sutter of Seattle was elec- ted president of the association. P-TA MEETS MONDAY FOR GOOD PROGRAM A good crowd is expected to at- tend the Juneau Parent-Teacher | Asgociation meeting Monday, Nov- ember 20 at 8 p.m. in the hi;-l!: gchocl study hall Max Lewis, supervisor of art in| Juneau schools will talk on| rt in the public schools. Those at- ; the meeting may also view 'nial art exhibit which is display in the grade school m. An admission charge 25 cents will be made to the xhibit Refreshments will be served fol- lowing the meeting by the second grade mothers with Mrs, Urban Nelson as chairman. f PATROLMAN HAS WORKOUT “I come down from the Third Di- U.S. casualties were light. Air observers reported no sign of enemy life all the way to the Yalu river. The Seventh expected to reach | the near side, opposite Manchuria, not later than Monday on a slow |merch with an eye cocked for am- | bushes. Temperatures Milder The snow was accompanied by | milder temperatures—a rise above | freezing at some places from near- vero early in the week. The predic- tion was clear sities with dropping temperature, A spokesman at Gen. MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo said nearly 40 percent of 2,838 Red prisoners questioned said United Nations broadcasts and air-dropped leaflets had influenced them to quit fight- ing. The leaflets included safe- conduct passes. COAST GUARD BUSY WITH MANY DISTRESS (ALLS HERE TODAY Seventeenth U.S. Coast Guard vision to help out the boys here and | headquarters here were busy today they put me to sweeping highways,” | with four distress calls. The 40-foot Jack Davis, Highway Patrolman and | fishing vessel Dixie was reported to former Juneauite, might have been have gone aground on Yukobi Rock heard mumbling yesterday after- late Wednesday. The information noon, | reached headquarters here late last Seems Jack, while making a rou- | night and an air search is being tine inspection along the Glacier | made today for survivors. There High yesterday afternoon, came were three men aboard. An unveri= across a stretch of about 50 feet|fied report was receiyed that an- beyond the long bridge near Lemon other fishing vessel had picked up Creek which was literally strewn one man on the Rock about 3 am. with brand new shingle nalils, ob-| The motor vessel Pomare with 22 viously accidentally dropped from a | persons aboard went aground on & vehicle passing over the route. Im- | reef near Bushy Island in Snow mediate action necessary so | Pass west of Wrangel) last night. Jack spent close to an hour on nhei-n\e CG cutter Citrus i proceeding busy end of a broom clearing the | to the scene. No further information roadway. was available at press time. | The cutter Sweetbrier ~ontacted CHARGED WITH NON-SUPPORT |the fishing vessel Wanderer with LaVerne Wells was taken into|the body of Paul Kinch of Douglas custody last evening by U. S.|who was drowned in Scvmour Canal Marshall Sid Thompson on a war- | last week. rant from Ketchikan, the eomplaint | Today Coastguardsmen were charging abandonment and non- | dragging in the neighborhood of the support of his family in Ketchikan. | Government dock for the body of He will be arraigned Monday in the | Severin Swanson who is believed to U, S. Commissioner’s court here.|have drowned last Wednesday night,