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

SATIIRDAY l P.M. Edition ° “ALL TLIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXVIL, NO. 11,696 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED I’RI-“ s 17 Killed in Flaming Dealh In Plane Crash BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec. 30— (P—Seventeen persons met a flaming death today when a gov- ernment operated airlines plane crashed near Argentina’s famous seaside resort at Mar Del Plata. An eight-year old daughter of a couple who perished in the crash was the only survivor. All the vic- tims were believed to be Argentin- In one of Argentina's worst avi ation accidents, the plane, belonss ing to the government-ow Lineas, plunged to earth in open country 20 miles from Mar Del Plata shortly affer taking off on its regular flight to Buenos Aires. Many of the passengers a the plane’s crew of five were horribly burned. A motorcycie policeman re- |s ported earlier seeing the plane su denly lose altitude and then burst I into flames about 100 yards off the ground. The sole su Castilla, who w serious condition and JAN. 15 IS DEADLINE FCR HEW 1951 AUTO was Susana s reported to be in with head injur- urns. TAG LICENSE PLATES - Frank Metcal way Engineer, said deadline for pi auto licer cording to be impose: whose cars the Alaska today after that date cn tho do not have C. L. Popejoy reported | 240 Alaska au plates have been sold thi office to date. Last year abcut 2,000 plates were sold by the who handiles the licenses for re dents of the Gastineau Chann area. The Territorial license fee i the city license is $5 and 1951 & property taxes are collected o time of -auto tag purchase, said. Here's a New One On Drunken Driving BATH, Eng. Earl, a 40- was sentenced imprison: on a bicycle Dec. r-old 30—~ farm) to a The Washington : Merry - Go - Round By DRLW PEARSON Copyright, 1957, by Bell €ynaicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON—Trouble is con- tinuing between Washington and Tokyo over General MacArthur's fauity intelligence. Ever since Mac- Arthur’s Christmas” statement and the fail- ure to spot 200,000 Chinese Com- | munists in North Korea, Washing- | ton has been skeptical about the supreme commander’s intelligence reports, Because of this skepticism, it was hinted, after the tragic re- treat from North Korea, that Mac- | Arthur should replace his intelli- gence chief, Maj. Gen. Charles Willoughby, However, this has not been done. Meanwhile MacArthur's public statements in Tokyo are frequently | at complete variance with the con- fidential reports cabled back to his intelligence chief, and Washington, in turn, is puzzled as to which to/ believe. For instance, MacArthur estimat- ed publicly on Dec. 2 that there were about 500,000 Chinese troops in Korea. (This was in direct con- trast to his estimate just six days Continued on Page Four) d Eero |} will! bring the boys home by | Radio Waves Are Received, Sun's Corona By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE (AP Science Editor) HAVERFORD, Pa., Dec. 30— A new mystery on the sun, found by radio, described to the American Astronomical Society to- day. his mystery | | is radio waves which are sent out, not from the sun itself, but fr the sun’s corona, the halo of peari white light seen during total eclipses. This corona extends about a mil- miles out beyond the edges of 2 sun. It is made of gases and particles so thinly d that they would be cor d a good vacuum on earth. idl strange rad:o signals frow lo were picked up and mea- aval Research Lab- crew of scientists on the land of Attu in the Aleutians dur- a fotal eclipse of the sun three hs ago. The sky was cloudy that day, but the radio es,” which are big metal dishpans, received the radic signals right through the clouds The scientists picked up radio sig- nals of four wave lengths, all from i un, respectively of three, eight 10 and 65 centimeters. The radio signals coming from ¢ the halo close to the quite different from thosc sh in the halo. This dif ce was amazing to astronom because it is exactly opposite | to what would be expected. | The radio signals indicate tem- and they show that close n the temperature is abou while 50,000 mile , the halo has a tem- | perature of a mu]wn degrees. The astronomers all said this it ,” which they do not understand, and which they hopa t« 1 future eclipses. Attu eclipse proved definitel | t sunspots e radio |and that the spot. ke mor Y rest of the sun than the the moon moved 'nnm‘s the noises drop: umed later when the on moved out of range. DORTSMEN'S DEER FEEDING PROGRAM 15 GOING FORW. Ten sacks of d(z(‘r feed, providec Territorial Sportsmen, Inc. d aboard the Aegir today !d Hanson, who is feed- Port Althorp. Franci to the s 11,000 degrees, The (48 for ing 20 deer transporting the feed withou cooperation with thi | winter inz program of the | Spertsmen. dy moved ten sack: |of feed to Idaho Inlet where Bok Rezan is feeding about 20 deer anc fen to Lemesurier Island where Joe |Thach is feeding 30 deer. | Arrangements are being made tc | et five sacks of feed to Fish Creel |on Douglas Tsland where reside are also feeding does and fawns. ‘The Sportsmen feel that mor |fawns will be saved this year thar last br-c«m&e more are being fec eal . Last year many fawns diec in January The deer feeding program anc |other matters will be discussed al the January 9 meeting of the Ter- ‘r.tonal Sportsmen, Inc. \EIGHI ARRIVE AND EIGHT DEPART PAA | Eight in and eight out was Pan | American Airways score for yester- day. From Seattle: George Chambers, ie Goldstein, William and Ma- | belle Greene, Ray Langley, John | Pesterkoff, Sergay Sheratine and | Merton Osemore. To Seattle: Mrs. Joan Zawal- nicky, Bill Hanson, Helen Monsen, IAI Hanson, V. Urban, Myrna Mor- gen, Anna Johnson and Linn Ackerman. | He has alre | i Charli FOREIGN POLICY DEBATED WASHINGTON, Dec, 30— ® — Senator Sparkman (D-Ala) propos. ed today a full scale Senate debate cn foreign policy to help settle the rising controversy over western defense plans. Sparkman, who served as a mem- ber of the Amserican delegation to United Nations ,told reporte:s e agrees with John Foster Dulles that the United States can never make its defenses impregnable hy abandoning Europe® and standiig alone, But he added that issue ought to be discussed in the Senate —“without name calling”"—so the rountry will get a better cha o decide between the vie dent Truman, Secretary ol State Acheson and Dulles on one side and former President Hoover on the other. Hoover's Proposal Hoover has proposed that the U. 8. create a Gibraltar of defense in the Western Hemisphere and not “land another man or another dollar” in Europe until European nations “erect & sure dam against the Red flood. Dulles, on the hand, said in a New York speech last night that ine free world should join in ring- ng the Soviet orbit with economic, political and military strength. . Counter Attack The GOP foreign affairs adviser to the State Department added that the “only effective defense for us and for others,” should the Sovist Union decide to open war, “is the capacity to counterattack.” Senator Taft (R-Ohio), speaking at Cincinnati, said: “There is a great lack of confi- dence in Washington felt through- out the whole country. We are con- tinually wavering between panic imnd reassurance, One moment we are told that Russia will attack to- norrow; and another, that we can | work the whole thing out in time.” | Taft said some of the feeling s due “to the people in the Pen- agon.” He said he has “no confi- ience in the judgment of many of »ur top miiltary people,” {OURT ADJOURNS; NEW TERM JAN. 1 The present term of the U.S. Dis- riet Court was adjourned sine di it 10:3¢ o'clock this morning Ly udge George W. Folta. Arguments in the case of Beach | versus Beach, separate maintenance nd divorce suits, were closed yes- | erday afternoon and the case wos aken under advisement by Judge | W. Folta. uary termn of couri will onvene ai 10 a.m., January 3. The setit jury is to report January 8. The calendar for the term will be announced early next week from the office of the Clerk of the Court. There are between 25 and 30 civil cases, most of which are to be heard | by the Court. i First cases set are those of P.ah-; ert E. Coughlin as administrator | to the estate of Fred Gamble versus Z. Haven, et al, January 4; James V. Cole versus Sam Asp, el al, January 5; Red Salmon Canning Co. versus Alaska Industrial Board, | January 8. RSHALS OFFICE HERE CLOSED ALL DAY SATURDAYS Beginning Saturday, January 6, the office of the United States Marshal Saturdays, it was disclosed this morning by Acting U. S. Marshal Walter G, Hellan. This action is in Iaccordance with government regu- lations observed by most Federal ‘omces in the Territory. Marshal Hellan said that the Marshal’s office and its staff are available at all times and sub- ject to call by the public should in the Federal Building| in Juneau will be closed all day | Arms, OTTER TRAWLERS NOW QUITIFAWA; FINANCIAL MOVE SEATTLE, Dec. 30 — {® — With- drawal from the International Fishermen and Allled Workers (IFAWA) and Harry Bridges' In- ternational Longshoremen’: and Warehousemen's Union was an- nounc yestyrday by the Otter Trawlers Union, The group represents 1,000 Wash- ington fishermen, Nick Kuljis, the Union’s secre- tary-treasurer, said the action was “chiefly financial"—to save pay- ment of per capita taxes and other expenses of affiliation, He sald the withdrawal had nc connection with the recent ouster of the IFAWA and the longshore group from the CIO for asserted Communist domination. OVER 100 ATTEND PIONEERS HOLIDAY PARTY LAST KIGHi Over one hundred members o0l Pioneer and Auxiliary lodges, Igloc No. 6 enjoyed the annual Christmas party and regular meetings of the order held last evening in Odc Fellows Hall. Elections of officers for the nex year was the main business of the regular meetings which were fol- lowed by the social event of the ¢ zon. A lighted Christmas tree flanked hy exchange gifts greeted members when they gathered for the fes- tivities of the evening. Christmas carols were sung to the accompani- ment of the piano played by Mrs Elsie Sofoulis and then Santa Claus made appearance and added @ lively note with his antics as he ar- ranged for the distribution of gifts A turkey supper with all the rimmings was served, topped with homemade cakes. Officers of the lodges were in charge of arrange mewts. At the Pioneers meeting the fol- lowing officers were elected: J Simpson MacKinnen, president, re- placing William Biggs, retiring First Vice President, James Larsen: Second Vice President, Gene We chenfelder; Secretary, James Bar- ragar; Treasurer, John R Chap- iain, Dean C. E. Rice; Scrzeant-at- William McKenzie; Trustec for, three year term, Charles W Carter. Nominated for delegate to the Grand Lodge.to be in session here in February, were J. Simpson Mac- Kinnon, Felix Gray, Norman B Cook, Frank Metcalf, Louls Mac- Donald, Edward Sweeney anc Frank Garnick. Election of offic! iary wes as follow. rs by the Auxil Anna Bodding | president, replacing Irene McKinley retiring; and Vice President, Nadi Kardanoff; Historian, Hazel Mac Kionon; Chaplain, Agnes Kiefer Secretary, Mae McKinnon; Trea surer, Ellen Shaffer; Sergeant-at Arms, Mertie Smith. Elected as Delegate-at-Large t the Grand Lodge convention wa Anita Garnick. Delegates elected to the Grand Lodge were: Doroth Russell, Silva Zenger, Irene Mc Kinley and Anna Bodding. Installation of mnew officers fo both lodges will be at the regula: meetings January 26 in Odd Fellow. Hall. ® 6 0o 0 0 0 0 00 WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 40; minimum, 29. At Airport—Maximum, 38; (Juneau zna Vicinity) Cloudy with light snow to- night changing to rain Sun- day. Low temperature to- night near 32 and high Sun- day near 35. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—0.06 inches; since Dec. 1 — 4.19 inches; since July 1—3743 inches. At Airport — 0.13 inches; since Dec. 1 — 313 inches; . ° . . . ® since July 12624 inches. |a need erise, @0 00000t essc00tssnsanan SUMMARY SHOWS GREAT STRIDES IN ARC ROAD WORK A summary of the work accomp- lished by the Alaska Road Com- mission during the past year as compiled by Road Commissioner Col. John R. Noyes shows the im- mense strides made in modernizing and extending the road system of Alaska in 1950. The work included hard surfacing the main highway system, eliminating hazards to mo- torists, and building new roads %o serve new settlers, old residents and entire communities. Road To Haines A goal of the future is the im- | provement and hard surfacing of | the Alaska Highway through Can- ada to the border of southeast Alaska. Haines, the southeast Alas- ka terminus of the latter road, is| separated, like Valdez from the in- terior by a formidable mountain pass, It is hoped that the Canadian Government will take steps to keep this pass open in winter and that Canada will provide funds for im- proving this road and the Alasi Highway to the same standards as the modernized Alaskan roads. A new road, the Hart Highway, con- necting the Alaska Highway at Dawson Creek with Vancouver and Seattle is scheduled for compie- tion in 1951, As soon as the Haines High- way to southeast Alaska has been opened year round, it is hoped to install a car ferry service for automobiles and trucks, connecting it with the principal cities of south- eastern Alaska—Skagway, Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell and Ketchi- kan, and possibly extended to Prince Rupert and Puget Sound. | Blacktop Surface * | There are now an aggregate of 320 miles “blacktopped” in the in- terior. One short stretch is the Haines Highway in southeastern Alaska, In addition the paving now on the ground, all the remainder of the Glenn Highway, the greater part of the Richardson Highwuy and the greater part of the Alaska Highway within Alaska have al- ready been placed under contract for hard surfacing and this work will be completed during the sum- mers of 1951 and 1952. | New Roadways ' Local gravel roads around Fair- banks, Anchorage, Palmer, Kenai Homer and Haines, totaliing over 200 miles, have been built to serve settlers. An important new road to con- nect Anchorage with the south coast port of Seward is under con- struction and is expected to be| completed at the end of the work- ing season of 1951, The new Sterling Highway, ex- tending 140 miles on the Kenai Peninsula from the Seward-An-| chorage Highway, was completed in September, 1950. Another new road was commenc- | ed in 1950 to connect the Rich- ardson Highway with Mt. Me- Kinley National Park. This road, | about 160 miles long, will connect | with the road system already con- structed within the Park, about 95 miles long, extending beyond its western boundavy to Kantishna. Completion of the new road into the Park is tentatively scheduled for 1953, i Extend System A new road extending from the| Alaska Highway toward Eagle was connected in the fall of 1950 with | a Canadian road extending to the | | year exceeded 35,000. The | mirrors and bracke DEATH TOLL ON HOLIDAY RATED HIGH (By the Associated Press) The nation's 1950 traffic deatk toll will climb to an estimated 35,000, the highest since 1941 and the sixth worst in the history of motor vehicle travel. The National Safety Council's estimate of this year's traffic death includes the scores it predicted will {be killed during the last two days of the year. It predicted 330 per- |sons will lose their lives in motor |accidents over a f78-hour pericd, from 6 p.m. yesterday to midnight Monday. The 31,230 killed in the first 11 months this year was only 270 less than the traffic fatalities in 1949 and compared to the 32209 kiilec in 1948. The Council said that only five times has the traffic toll in one record high was 39,969 in 1941, Other years in which 35,000 or more persons were killed in traffic, mishaps were 1934, 1935, 1936 and 1937. In last weekend’s Christmas holi- day, 545 persons were killed on the highways—one of the highest totals on record for an extended holiday USE OF COPPER IN OVER 300 PRODUCTS 1S STOPPED MARCH 1 WASHINGTON, Dee. 30 — (M - The government teday prohibited non-essentigl use of copper in more than 300 civilian products, effective March 1. ‘The banned uses range from pots and pans, building hardware niture and electrical appliances to jewelry, toys, cocktail shakers and paper clips. The order was issued by the Na- tional Production Authority to con- serve copper for “defense and de- fense-supporting needs,” sald Wil- liam H. Harrison, the NPA Ad- ministragor. Throughout the the case of such it oiher non-essentials list—except in ns as toys and copper will be ) | permitted where it serves a func- tional purpose, as in working perts, and whers no practical substitute is available. But the NPA action co eliminates copper from work” and trim on automobi well as in aute wheel di frosters and heaters, gas ta WHO HAS AUTO 745G 19517 There has Leen suine o around town as to who is spo auto license tag 1851 for the comn- ing year 1951. It belongs to Christenson, former cily man, cli- TO SITKA Gus Hansen, long time Alaskan from Anchorage, spent the night here at the Hotel Juneau, enroute to the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka. other outlying areas. These pro- posed roads are subject to Con- gressional approval and appropri- ation of funds before work on them | can be commenced, ‘Work Cooperative jof my friends PRAYER, REVElRY T0O MARK COMiNG OF NEW YEAR '51 (By the'Associated Press) Americans, in their various ways, will bid farewell tomorrow to an old year and an old half century, and observe the start of a new cycle of time. Some will do it with revelry, and some with prayer, Across the nation, the recreation spots and the places of worship pre- pared to mark the advent of 1951 and of the second half of the 20th Century. To,many, it will be a moment tc forget accumulated cares of the past and celebrate the fresh begin- ning. To many others, it will time of soul-searching for gut in the future. With the world, and America set by deep anxieties, hundrads o churches, under the leaders the National Council of Chu of Christ in the US.A., have set day of prayer. Some will hold night-long service: into the new year. New Year's Day is a Roman Cath- olic holy day, s0 Catholics will af: tend Mass both Sunday and Mon* day. For sports enthusiasts, it is a day spiced with varied fare. The fea- ture is the windup of the football season, with half a dozen bowl games across the nation. In the njght clubs and show places, there awill be fynny hats noise and what 1s denerally knowi as whoopee. In New York City, Gene Le who runs Leone’s on West 4 Street, is closing. “This is a time for serious reco- lutions,” he said, “not fer cham- pagne dreams. I would rather think joining in quie prayer for the world’s future than in noisy c~izbrations.” be tance me FOUR KILLED [N FIRE, BEATING BY BERSERK VETERAN AKRON, 0., Dec. 30—M—A World War II veteran went berserk today, Sheriff Robert L. Smith , and killed his parents, a nilece ani a nephew. The sheriff said the veteran, Irvin Snodgrass, admitted beating up his parents and then sefting fire to their home, He was found running around naked in the snow, Smit} added. Smothered in bed by the | |fore she left with her hu, were Clyde Morrow, 2, and his ter, Georgianna, 1. They had been ieft with the grandparents by their mother, Mrs. Rosetta Morrow, be= sband for |a trip Lo Cleveland. y |across a bed on the James Snodgrass was found lying ond floor of the house. His wife was found on the floor downstairs near the bed- Peie [room of the children. The first floor of the structure iwa.s badly damaged by the fire. The city of Dawson. Next season it is By far the greatest part of the hoped to complete this Forty Mile | work of the Alaska Road Commis. | Highway to Eagle, bringing this | | ston, and practically all of the | well known mining camp into the | mndernimuun program, is now per- roadways’ system. | formed by contract. In some cases An important new operation of |services of the Bureau of Pub- | the Alaska Road Commission is the | lic Roads have been utilized in the maintenance of Thompson Passicnuneerxng and administration of | on the Richardson Highway open | the contracts, so that Alaska's two throughout the year. Igreaz road building nrgnmmuons' Proposed roads for which no|work hand in hand through the funds have yet been .nppmprmbed medium of cooperative aurecmemh‘ include a road from Cordova to' so as to produce the best results. | connect with the Richardson High-| Present indications are that the way a road from Fairbanks to Ne-|road program will be continued in | nana, a road from Livengood tol1951 on approximately the same | Eureka and Manley Hot Springs, a | scales 2s it was advanced in 1950. road from the Richardson Highway | This, and prospects for succeeding by way of Chitina to the mlnemllz-_’ years, depends upon appropriations ed areas near McCarthy and Ken- of funds by Congress and by the PNA and is stopping at the Baraxof ' ° nicott, and roads near Nome and Territory of Alaska, |Jack Pickford, Mrs. second story was untouched excey for smoke. The sheriff said he had arrested | the veteran for questioning. He de- iseribed the man as a battle fatigue 'ca.‘se, /20 TRAVELERS FiY WITH PNA FRIDAY Pacific Northern Airlines 20 passengers in and out of Junea yesterday. Arriving from Anchorage Bob Salt, Mrs were | Renshaw, M. Williams, Holly Gross | Kjell Nore, V. Thomas, E. Haynes, | Jack O’Connor, Jr., P. Richardson. dova. To Anchorage: Jack Hendrickson, | |John Pestrihoff, and H. O. Adams. George Chambers and Ray Lang- ley went to Cordova. FROM MT. EDGECUMBE Sirgay Sheratine Mrs. Katrine C. MacLeod arrived here yesterday from Anchorage on M. Knickerbocker cage from Cor- | carried | @ | Katrine C. MacLeod, | @ Ellis, Mrs. Ray | | | PRICE TEN CENTS A AIR FIGHTS TAKE PLACE IN KOREAN WAR (By Associated Press) With United Nations ground forces still engaged in only light, sporadic action against the giow- ing Red offensive, the most dra- matic’ fighting today was in the air, Fifteen U. S. F-86 Sabre jets angled with 40 Russian-built MIG= 15 jets and damaged two in the biggest air dog-fight of the Kur- ean As the Communist forces con- tinued to build up on the ground, the Red alp force is showing more and more willingness to fight, even with America’s fastest and might- iest jets. Two Communist forces pushed forward from 12 to 13 miles on the eastern flank of the Eighth Army. UN deienders were sald to be fn contact with the larger force of 5000 Reds operating 32 miles in- land from the Sea of Japan. The smaller force of 2000 Reds were said to be only 10 miles inland from the sea. But there still was no indication that Red China's big offensive had begun. General MacArthur has predicted the biz push will start after the fixsi of the year, DMA DAYS SMALL METAL MINES MEN ON ORE DELIVERY WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—#-Op- erators of small metal mines will be paid for their ore on delivery when it is purchased by the De- fense Minerals Administration, Sen- ator McCarron (D-Nev) said today. He made the statement after a conference with officials of the mine-aid program set up under the National Defense Act. McCarran said Dr. James Boyd, director of the Bureau of Mines and head of the Minerals Admin- istration, outlined this procedure for aid to small mines: (1) Ore dumps will | ilshed for receipt of ore nical officials in char delivery; 2 t technieal advisory aid shoul made field station of Bur Mines in the state where is located. STEAMER MOV swrws Freighter Coastol Seattle in port a sail late tonight for e Baranof from Seit rive rometime ‘Tuesday Princess Norsh scheduled to from Vancouver at 8 fonigh Denali scheduled to arrive from west at 4 am., Sunday and sails south at 7 a.m. estab- and’ tec e will pay on and the DAVIS RETURNS Lulu Dg returied this week, from her first trio outside in two years. She spent the time in Seattle shopping and visit friends: She is with the Alaska Public Works office here, LULY GREETINGS RECEIVED FROM COL. R. W. RIEGLY ® Col. Roy W Rne( le, who ¥ commander of the Duck Creck e forces during World War 11 and was popularly weliknowis sends the following greelings from his home" at Emporiy Kansas: Again the time has eoine for me to remember all my good friends in and near Ju- neau and to wish them best and happiest season pos- sible. May your fireside glow with warmth, friendship and good cheer, and mway the New Year lift the cloud of danger which hovers, not only over Alaska, but over the whole world.” . the . . . . . ° ° . . . . . . . #0000 0000000 Hotel, She is from Mt Edgecumbe.'e o @ o o o ¢ ¢ ¢ o @