The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 23, 1951, Page 1

HE DAILY VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,715 ALAS “ALL TIIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCTATED PRESS EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS — S— Soviet Planes Shot Down Over Korean Front GOVT. WANTS NO DELAYS IN BUILDING No-Strike Pledge Is Being Sought at Meetings | in Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alas Jan. 23— (M—A group of contractors and | labor union officials were told by government representatives yester- day that the coming construction season is the most critical in Alas- ka's history. Ex-Sen. Frank P. Graham of North Carolina presided over the meeting during which the govern- ment will try to obtain a no strike | pledge from unions in case nego- tiations for working agreements fail to result in contracts. Marine Col. Justice M. Chambers | said “this year is the most critical | and if certain projects are not com- | pleted, it will leave us wide open.” Chambers said other talks of this | nature are scheduled on a national basis, but warned that “Alaska is| too close to Russia to wait for these | national conferences.” Chambers, who was a member of a Senate Armed Service Committee that visited Alaska last year to see | what was wrong with military con- struction in the territory, said: “The world situation is like fire and we don't know whether it will be put out or spread.” { Graham said it was not the in-| tention of the government to inter- fere with the right to collective | bargaining. He said: | “We want cooperation. We all{ are Ametican’ ¢itiZéns and "hot a | combination for profitecring at the expense of the people of the Ur d | States by taking advantage of th hour of peril.” Need Housing Lt. Gen. William E. Kepner, head * of the Alaska Command, pointed | out that housing must be completed " before additional troops could be' brought to Alaska. He said housing at military bases in the territory ' already was overcrowded. Col. L. E. Seeman, district engi-' neer, told of construction delays (Continued on Page Two) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 23 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can | 99, American Tel. and Tel. 153, | Anaconda 40%, Douglas Aircraft 106'%, General Electric 55%, General | Motors 49%, Goodyear 71%, Ken- necott 75%, Libby McNeill and Libby 9%, Northern Pacific 32%, Standard 0il of California 93'%, Twentieth Century Fox 22%, U.S. Steel 45%, Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange 94.93%. Sales today were 2,080,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in dustrials 245.30, rails 82.83, utilities 42.36. The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1851, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON—Not much gets into the newspapers about the so- cial lobby these days, but an awful lot of business is still done over Washington dinner tables—even in- cluding war contracts. The other day, Victor Emanuel, power behind the far-flung AVCO | Manufacturing Corporation, Stand. | ard Gas and Electric,, Cmosley { hearings transcript to the new mem- Senafe Is Siiffening, Red China Brands Communists as Ag- | gressors — Would Deny Membership in UN WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—(®—The Senate today adopted resolutions declaring the United Nations should (1) brand Communist China an aggressor in Korea, and (2) deny Red China memtership in the UN. The first resolution was adopted unanimously, without a record vote, but a roll call was taken on the second. The roll call vote was 91 for the resolution and none against, The House similarly approved a resolution last week declaring the UN should brand the Chinese Com- munists as aggressors in Korea. Both Senate resolutions were in- troduced a week ago by Senator McClellan (D-Ark). The resolutions have the effect merely of expressing Congressional sentiment and are not binding on U.S. delegates to the United Na- tions. STATEHOOD | BILL AGAIN | DISCUSSED WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 — (B — | The Senate Insular Affairs Com-|calfe, Mrs. mittee discussed statehood for Ha- ii and Alaska for an hour today without taking action. Chairman O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) | told reporters after the closed-door | meeting he is hopeful the two state- | hood bills may be brought to a vote | in the committee without additional ! hearings. However, O’'Mahoney said Senator Butler (R-Neb), an opponent of | statehood for both territories, ex- pressed a desire for a committee hearing in Alaska. O'Mahoney announced he will bring up the subject of statehood again, either next week or two weeks from today. Meanwhile, he said, he gave copies of last year's ] bers of the committee. i Both statehood bills passed the House last Congress and were ap- proved by the Senate committee. But they failed to reach a vote in the Senate. SENATECONFIRMS TRUMAN APPOINTEES| JOHNSTON, HARRISON| 20 PEOPLE ARE HIRED BY HOUSE Standing Committees Will Elect Chairmen De- spite Protest The Territorial House of Repre»! sentatives met briefly yesterday af- ternoon, hired 20 people to assist Chief Clerk Margaret Grisham with the paper- work and to perform routine work, and voted 14-8 to allow each of the 20 standing com- mittees to elect its own chairman, The vote came after Rep. Andrew Hope protested such elections as dangerous to party solidarity. Since the Speaker represents the party that won the majority of the House seats in the last election, Rep. Hope asserted, the Speaker should name the committee chair- men. Rep. Glen Franklin and Rep George Miscovich stated that the various committees elected their chairmen in the 1949 session, when the Democratic majority was con- siderably greater. Permanent Help The Committee on Permanent | Help, headed by Rep. Jack Conright,{ recommended hiring the following persons and the report was unani- mously adopted by the House: Flora Woodworth, assistant clerk. Mrs. Kathleen Prather, judiciary clerk. Elna Barrington, bill clerk. Edwin Coonjohn, engrossing clerk. Phyllis McClellan, enrolling clerk. Mrs. Helen Johnson, stenographer. Alcesta Brandes, Patricia Met- Bonny Wright, Mrs Irma Scavenius, Mrs. Beatrice Buchanan, Mrs. Ada Waid and Margaret Brown, clerk-typists. Mike Cary, doorkeeper. Eugene Lockridge, messenger. Sandy Stevens, watchman. Helmi Bach and Mrs. Gleaton, mimeograph operators. Arnold Hendrickson, janitor. Wwilliam Estrada, assistant jani- tor. Both the House and Senate were to meet at 3 p.m., today WHAT PRICE ALASKA HCL? | DEPT. ASKS! SEATTLE, Jan. 23— (# —Uncle Sam wants to know how living costs in Alaska compare with those n Seattle. Accordingly, residents of Anchorage and Fairbanks will be asked how much they spend for food, rent, clothing and other items. Groundwork previously had been laid for such an inquiry in Seattle. =0 WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 — (& — The Senate confirmed today Presi- dent Truman’s nominations of Eric A. Johnston as Economic Stabiliza- tion Administrator and William H. Harrison as Defense Production Ad- ministrator. The appointments were approved {on a voice vote. Johnston, head of the Motion Picture Association, on leave, and former president of the U.S. Cham- ber of Commerce, succeeds Alan Valentine. Harrison, former International Telephone and Telegraph executive, has been serving in his government post for several weeks. Broadcasting, and Republic Steel, gave a dinner in honor of Stuart Symington, svelte, efficient head of the National Security Resources Board. Symington got a lot of publicity@ once before from accepting the | hospitality of Floyd Odlum of Con- solidated Vultee, who manufact- ured B-36's at a time when Sym- ington was buying B-36’s for the Air Forces. Emanuel is now making | B-36 parts, Symington is out of the ! Air Forces, though he packs a; powerful wallop in a lot of other | remobilizytion fields. | At any rate, Symington, an ex- tremely busy man, went to the dinner, which was attended by various bigwigs, including homey Senator Homer Capehart of Indi- ana. Later it developed that Homer e e et (Continued on Page Four) | biles on which the bids were offer- JUNEAU MOTOR (0. IS LOW BIDDER ON AUTO FOR NURSES The Juneau Motor Company was low bidder on a four-door sedan to be delivered within 45 days for use of the public health nurses at the Juneau Hesltn Center. The bid was for $1906.94. Other bidders and the automo- e4 included: Cowling Motor Co., Plymouth, $2100; Connors Motor Co., Chevrolet, $2209.20; Chrislen-‘ sen Brothers Motor Co., Nash, £7300. Invitations to bid were of- fered by the Alaska Department | of Health (and the bids were open- | ed January 19 at 4 pm.). The Alaska survey plan was an- nounced in Washington, D. C. today by Maurice Tobin, Secretary of La- kor, and is to start “immediately.” Kenneth Joseph, field supervisor of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, already has enlisted 15 interview- ers, who are to obtain information in Seattle. They are due to take the field the middle of next week. Joseph said he had no informa- tion about the Alaska portion of the survey. Tobin said the comparison of Al- aska and mainland costs will be valuable in forthcoming wage nego- tiations in Alaska. Dawson Is Coldest Spot, North America WINNIPEG, Man, Jan. 23—#— One of the coldest spots on the North American continent today was Dawson, in the Yukon, where the mercury burrowed down to 55 degrees below zero. Weathermen ;predicted it might warm up a little’ bit, though—to 50 below. FROM SAN FRANCISCO Marvin J. Lewis of San Fran- cisco is staying at the Baranof Hotel. FROM WRANGELL Patricia Devenny of Wrangell is staying at the Baranof Hotel. $500,000 BLAZE AT FAIRBANKS Bakery and Drug Store De- stroyed in 50 Degree Below Zero Weather FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 23— (M—Firemen laboring in 50 below zero temperatures battled flames in downtown Fairbanks early to- day. They estimated damage at $500,000. A bakery and a drug store were destroyed. Firemen reported the blaze under partial control. Flames, however, still menaced several nearby struc- tures, including an apartment building. An unidentified fireman from nearby Ladd Air Force Base was injured. He toppled from a roof into one of the burning buildings. He was rescued by other firefighters and rushed to Ladd Field hospital. Encased In Ice Firemen were described as “‘walk- ing cakes of ice” in the extreme cold. Only a trickle of water flow- ed from their frozen hoses. The flames broke out late last night in the Cooperative Drug store, and spread quickly to the North Pole Bakery. The Burns Apart- ments, Avakoff Jewelry store, Kay’s Curio Shop and the Arcade Restau- rant were evacuated of persons and valuables. A 20-foot fire lane separated the blaze from the Nordale Hotel C. J. Newlin, co-owner of the Co- operative Drug store, said a base- ment explosion preceded the fire. Newlin was writing a letter in an apartment above the store when the explosion occurred. Flames spread so rapidly that Newlin bare- ly escaped with his life, FIRE CONTROLLED FAIRBANKS, Alaska. Jan. 23—(® —Firemen controlled a fire in the downtown district today after it destroyed several business build- ings in 50 below zero weather. The blaze destroyed the Coop- erative Drug store, the North Pole Bakery and a building housing Ak- akoff’s Jewelry store. The Burns Apartment building was vacated but was not burned. LATE REPORT ON FIRE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 23— (#—Two Air Force men were injured and three business buildings de- stroyed today by a blaze controlled after firemen battled for hours in an icy fog and 53 below zero tem= perature. Firemen said the loss would be several hundred thousand dollars. One unofficial estimate placed it at $500,000. The injured men were firemen from nearby Ladd Air Force base. One toppled from a roof into the flames and was rescued by other fire fighters. The other was struck by a falling timber. The Air Force withheld their identification. Buildings destroyed were the Co- operative Drug Store, the North Pole Bakery and Avakoff's Jewelry Store. Also burned were two apart- ments, Boutlet and Kohlers account- ing office and Dr. E. I Baggen's dental office, all south of the bakery and drug store buildings. The darkroom of the Fairbanks News-Miner in the basement of the Empress Theater was flooded. The darkroom is in a separate building from the newspaper plant. The bakery saved some supplies and machinery. Water sprayed on nearby build- ings to prevent spread of the fire froze quickly and thick sheets of ice covered facades. The Red Cross arranged emer- gency housing for persons whose apartments burned. MAIL LINE VESSEL . IN TROUBLE SW ATTU SRR, S Bt T ! One of the B-36 _leavgg_[ngland for F huge B-36 bombers that flew to England, takes off (Jan. 20) at Lakenheath air base, near e g light Home London, for the flight to the home base ai Fort Worth, Texas. It was the first trip to foreign soil for | any of the big planes, capable of flying 10,000 miles non-stop. The bombers fanned out on separate practice missions during the return flights, and routes they took were secret. (P) Wirephoto via radio { l from London. INQUIRY ON TAIYANOW REQUESTED (By Frank W. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—(P—A House - Judiciary Subcommittee, studying the defense program for expanding the nation’s aluminum production, will be asked to look into possible development of the Talya project near Skagway, Al- aska. ‘The request will be made by Rep. Tollefson ¢R-Wash) and Delegate Bartlett of Alaska to the group headed by Rep. Celler (D-NY). This committee is inquiring into the possible monopolistic tendencies in the expansion program and specifically into a reported agree- ment under which this country lwcmld help increase Canada’s al- ]umlnum production. Vaille) The Taiya hydroelectric project would cost about $300,000,000, pro- duce 750,000,000 pounds of alum- inum annually and suppcrt a com- munity of possibly 40,000 persons, officials have said. Taps Yukon River It involves tapping the headwat- ers of the Yukon River by means of two tunnels, bored through the coast range of mountains to empty into the Taiya Valley in southeast Alaska, where the plant would be established. The Alaska Development Board, in a letter to the two Congress- men, said the project’s possibilit- ies have been under consideration by the Aluminum Company of Am- erica since 1947. ALCOA Ready The Board said it has learned that ALCOA is prepared to under- take the project “if granted gov- ernmental assistance comparable to that which is suggested would be given the Aluminum Company of Canada” in connection with its proposed development at Kitimat, British Columbia. “We are advised,” wrote George Sundborg, Board consultant, “that the only thing that makes possible the construction of Kitimat devel- opment is a contract reportedly ne- gotiated betwen C. D. Howe, Can- adian Minister of Trade and Com- merce, and Charles Sawyer, U. 8. Secretary of Commerce, for the future purchase by our government ‘o! around one billion pounds of al- uminum.” e e One Hitch Pointing out that one ‘hitch in the Taiya devilopment is the necessity of getting Canadian per. mission to divert a portion of the Yukon River waters from the Territory and northern British Col- umbia, Sundborg said any agree- The S.§. Oregon Mall is having|ment for the purchase of Canadian trouble 350 miles southwest Of|ajuminum should be preceded by Attu it was learned at U. S. Coast|gp ggreement guaranteeing the nec- Guard headquarters here this morn-l escary water rights to make the ing. The 7,886-ton vessel of “‘c"l‘uya project possible. American Mail Line of Portland STEAMER MOVEMENTS was unable to steer it reported and assumed a broken rudder stock. The SS. New World Victory whose| Baranof scheduled to sail from home port is San Francisco is in'| geattle 4 p.m., Friday. the area and is proceeding to the| Princess Norah scheduled to sail scene and the, USCG Minnetonka, a | from Vancouver, 8 p.m., January 31. weather station vessel, is standing|{ Denali from west scheduled to by. ‘arrive Sunday morning southbound. —— Attlee’s Warning Given U.S. LONDON, Jan. 23 — (# — Prime Minister Attlee admonished the United Nations today not to take new and important decisions on Ko~ rea “at this stage,” and Britain's House of Commons cheered. A moment later Conservative Leader Winston Churchill warned the nation not to fall into “any serious division in the United Na- tions brought about by maneuvers which are obviously to the interest of Soviet Russia.” Attlee’s advice against a new U.N. decision now obviously referred to American demands that the world organization brand the Chinese Communist government as an ag- gressor. “We do not believe the time has come to consider further measures,” Attlee said, as the House cheered. “To do so implies that we have abandoned hope of reaching a | peaceful settlement, and this we have not done.” Conservative countered: «Bear in mind constantly the grave dangers which will fall upon us all, should any serious divergency occur between our policy and that of the United States.” |NINE ATTORNEYS ARE ADMITTED T0 Leader ~Churchill Alaska now has nine new at- torneys-at-law, one in Sitka, six in Anchorage and two in Fairbanks, who were admitted to the practice in the Territory this month, it was announced today by Attorney Gen- eral J. Gerald Williams, member of the Territorial Board of Law Examiners. Paul A. Dupler of Sitka was the last of the nine to be admitted to the bar after successfully passing the oral examination held in open court in Juneau before Judge Geo. W. Folta yesterday afternoon. The examination was given by Attor- ney General Wwilliams. The written examinations, were given all nine applicants in Ju- neau by Williams last October. Applicants who took their oral examinations before Judge Anthony J. Dimond in Anchorage and were \dmitted to the bar there were Roger Creme, william S. Sanders, John R. Connelly, Juliana D. wil- son, T. Stanton Wilson, and Victor P. Guns. Admitted to practice law in the territory after taking the oral examinations in open court before Judge Harry Pratt in Fairbanks were William V. Boggess and Corn- elius P, Coughlan. JOHN ADAMS BACK John Adams, engineer with the Alaska Public Works office here, returned aboard the Denali, after spending the holidays with his family in the states. ALASKALAW BAR| AIR GIANTS MAKE GREAT NON - STOPPER FORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. 23—® —8ix B-36 bombers—able to lug more bombs than any other war plane—thundered more than 5,000 miles non-stop through high head winds to return home from England. The air giants ended a training mission of more than 10,000 miles here Sunday, “minor difficulties” a broken windshield wiper and a broken oil line, On schedule the half dozen big planes landed at Carswell Air Force base here, the first stop since leav- ing Lakenheath Air Base in Eng- land 30 hours and 16 minutes earlier. Air Force officials and the 80-odd crew members had nothing but i praise for the plane designed to catry an atomic bomb anywhere in the world. Just Training Mission “Our trip to England was a rou- tine training mission,” said Capt. Bobbie J. Cavnar of Oklahoma Cny.l commander of the only crew re- porters were allowed to interview. “The only difference was that we landed the B-36's on foreign soil for the first time.” “Only minor difficulties were re- ported throughout the operations,” said Brig. Gen. C. 8. Irvine, com- manding General of Carswell. The six ships left Fort Worth Jan. 13, stopped at Limestone, Me., and then flew to Lakenheath last Tues- day. The flight was another in a series of record performances for the B-36. On Dec. 17, 1949, a B-36—without | AIRBATILE 1S FOUGHT: JETS WIN Four Russian - Made Big Mig-15s Shot Down- Wonju Reoccupied (By the Associated Press) American Thunderjets streaking over northwest Korea shot down four Russian-made MIG-15s today in history's biggest jet air battle. The F-84’s also scored one prob- | able kill and damaged four more of the Russian speedsters with the back-swept wings. AP. Correspondent John Ran- dolph, at U.S. Fifth Air Force head~ quarters in Kores, said all the American planes returned safely. Not a single bullet hole was found in the Thunderjets, he added. ‘Wonju Occupied On the ground, Allied combat team Tuesday reoccupied the cen- tral Korean road-rail hub of Wonju and its airstrip. They also seized nearby Hills 233 and 273, ousting a force of nearly 100 Reds off the latter with an artillery barrage. A spokesman said at 10 pm. (5 am, PST), Tuesday that United Nations forces were “in control of all Won- Ju Thirty-one miles southeast, Allied forces were battling Red Koreans in Yongwol. Heavy fighting also hampered only by |, raged southeast of Tangyang. That Air Tangle In the air fight, 33 U.S. Thunder- Jéts fangled with 18 to 28 MIG's over Sinuiju, just across the Yalu river from Manchuria. “There was a real commotion, a al mixup,” said one airman. In a companion raid, 46 F-86 Shooting Star jets screamed down on the flak defenses of Pyongyang to clear the way for a massive B-20 strike on that Red Korean capital. The Fifth Air Force had 79 jets in the air in the two strikes. Last Dec. 22, eight F-86 Sabre jets shot down six MIG’s and a probable seventh. Tanks and Patrol The Allied patrol that pushed through Wonju was bolstered with tanks. . UN. forces withdrew from the town one week ago after a fighting stand there but returned last Friday and have poked into the road center almost every day since. Communist resistance there has lessened steadily. Ground Battle The heaviest ground battle in several days broke out on the east- ern central Korean front with United Nations troops attached to the U.S. Seventh Division pouring artillery and mortar blasts into nearly 3,000 Red infiltrators they had trapped there. Field reports said 400 Reds had been killed in the sharp action. There was little fighting in any other section, but intelligence re- jet engines—flew 5,000 miles to Ha-| horis gaid the Chinese Communists wali and returned, dropping a prac-| 5re moving tanks across the Han tice bomb load half way there. Eight [ yjyer gouthward from the burned- days ago a jet-assisted B-36 stayed | oyt formed South Korean capitol of aloft 51 hours and 20 minutes. WSCS WILL MEET The evening group of the WSCS will meet Wednesday at 8 o'clock in the home of Mrs. H A. Saunders, 29 Channel Apartments. Mrs. A, Robinson will continue the study “So Sure of Life.” All are urged to attend. WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 17; minimum, 11. At Airport—Maximum, 16; minimum, 11. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Continued cloudy with gusty northeasterly winds and occasional light snow to- Seoul. MAIL FREIGHTER . IS DISABLED 500 MILES SOUTH ATTU SEATTLE, Jan. 23—(P—A Coast Guard cutter and a sister ship were enroute today to aid the American Mail Line freighter Ore- gon Mail, disabled in the North Pacific about 500 miles south of the Aleutian Island of Attu. The Oregon Mail radioed she was disabled by a broken rudder control but was in no danger. The Cutter Minetonka was ex= pected to reach the freighter at 1 pm. (PST). She will stand by until another American Mail Line ship, unnamed for security rea- night and Wednesday. Low- est temperature tonight about 6. Highest Wednesday near 8. R R E T R R R NN PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—0.06 inches; since Jan. 1 — 392 inches; since July 1—4191 inches. At Airport Trace; since Jan. 1 — 224 inches; since July 1—30.24 inches. sons, arrived to take the Oregon Mail in tow. ] SEATTLE VISITOR R. L. Ramsey of Seattle arrived here via PAA over the weekend and is registered at the Baranof Hotel. HURLEY THROUGH Julien Hurley, well known Fair- ® | banks attorney, spent last evening o | here with friends. He was a pass- @ © © @ o o @ o o o o engeron the northbound Denali. i