The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1951, Page 1

PR R SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition “ALL TIIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Bl SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition l.k\\l \O 11,719 VOL. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1951 MEMI!F}R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e S PAC. FISHING‘} (ONSIDERED IN‘ JAP TREATIES WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—®— Rep. Mitchell. (D, Wash.) has re-| ceived assurance that Pacific North- t fisheries’ matters will be given | consideration in any Japanese peace | treaty. Mitchell recently wrote Secretary | Acheson requesting that a | expert be included on lxl(' John Foster Dulles, now discussing preliminary the treaty drafting. assurance was in a letter Jack K. McFall, Assistant ary of State, which Mitchell | iblic. McFall said: | Dulles is aware of problems | relative to fisheries relations be- tween this country and Japan. Al-! though the discussions at this time 1 the Japanese are in a purely preliminary stage, you may be as- sured that the views of the repre- | sentatives of the fisheries industry are being borne in mind and that upon the return-of Mr. Dulles the | industry will bé informed of de- velopments,” ENGLISH GET FRESH MEAT | SLASH AGAIN LONDON, Jan. 26.— (® — The Labor government today announced a 20 per cent slash in each Briton's tiny ration of fresh meat—from 11 2-3 cents (10 pence) worth a| week to 9 1-3 cents (eight pence) | worth. Each person will continue to receive 2 1-3 cents (two pence) worth of corned beef each week in addition to the fresh meat allow- | ance. The new ration, effective Febru- ary 4, was announced in the House of Commons by Food Minister Maurice Webb. In British butcher | shops it will buy about six ounces | of lamb chops, eight ounces of| chopped beef, some four and at half ounces of beefsteak or nine| ounces of roasting lamb. The consumer is allowed in addi- tion four ounces of bacon a week. wes of State fisherie: staff in Tokyo phases of The from Secre! &t ANCHORAGE VISITOR Fred LeLacheur of Anchorage is| stopping at the Hotel Juneau. | The Washington| Merry - Go - Round, By DREW PEARSON i Copyright, 1951, by Beil Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON—The benches in " Washington’s U. S. District Court} are hard and cushionless. Their| backs are straight and dig into your spine. After a week your bones ache —a week of sitting in court listen- ing to testimony, argument, rebut- tal, testimony that you are a “cut- tlefish exuding inky filth over ev- eryone. ‘The jury goes out. You wait, wondering. A juror opens the door. No, he only wants a pack| of cigarettes. . .At the swank dinner parties in nerthwest Washington they take odds for and against) Pearson. “This will fold him up,” gloats one dowager, “helll have to sell his house, his car, and every- thing e to pay Fred Howser thaz' $350,000. .“Yeah, he’ll have to go back to mxlkin'z cows.”. , .“Pearson’s never lost a libel suit, but this time he’s cooked.”. So ran the) dinner-table conversation during| the libel suit of Pearson vs. the former Attorney General of Cal- ifornia. Libel suits are part of the haz- ards of the newspaper and radio bu: No newspaper or news- paperman likes them, but no news- | paper or newspaperman with any courage can avoid them, if you are going to expose inefficiency or irregularity in public office you have to stand the risk of abuse and libel suits. And there is only one Wi to handle a libel suit when you know you are right—bat- tle it out through the American system of a judge and jury. Tougest case I ever battled ou'. was a libel suit brought by Con- i " (Continued on Page Four) | which will then hold 10. The Fourth jchance for all Class' B 15T DIVISION LOSES SEATS NEXT SESSION 'Will Have Only Six Repre- sentatives Next Five Legislatures By BOB DE ARMOND The First Division will have only six Representatives in the next five! Territorial Legislatures — if there are five more Territorial Legisla- tures — instead of the present eight. This was certified by the Director of the Census in a telegram addre ed to the House of Representatives and read this morning. The Second Division will also lose one Representative and both seats will go to the Third Division, PAAY.P. HAROLD GRAY VISITS HERE CAPT. HAROLD E. GRAY Division retains five seats at present. Civilian population of sions, upon which tion is based, was certified as 543 in the First Division, 11,820 in| the Second, 45,647 in the Third and | 23,226 in the Fourth. Although the total population in the First and Fourth Divisions tal- | lied almost the same — 28,203 for | the former and 28,650 for the lat-; ter — the First holds an edge of | slightly more than 4,000 in civilian population. as i Alaska by| representa- | \ Three Against One In a test of strength this morn- ing, the First, Second and Fourth Divisions lined up almost solidly against the Third on the issue of removal of administrative. offices to that area. The vote came on a motion by | Rep. Franklin to table H.B. 8 which | | tice, provides for moving the office of | the Commissioner of Agriculture i from Fairbanks to Palmer. The vote was 16-8 and only Rep George Gasser of Fairbanks, join the seven Third Division sentatives against the motion. Rep. Gasser, who formerly served as Commissioner of Agriculture, ex- plained to a reporter after the ses-| sion that he is opposed to the bill but said that he desired to have it kilied rather than tabled. Rep. Franklin’s motion to table followed a report of the Committee on Agriculture which carried a “Do . Not Pass” recommendation by Reps. Gasser, Degnan and MacKinnon, Chairman Pollard dissenting. i3 Rill In Introduced in the House this morning was House Joint Resolu- tion No. 1 which appropriates a total of $124,661 for the expenses of the Legislature. This includes $367725 for pay of | clerks, secretaries and other help; $2,000 for the salaries of janitors, $39.000 for printing the journals| and sessions laws; $37470 for per diem of members at $15 a day; $2,500 for mailing and $1,500 for an inspection trip to Sitka, and $5,000 i for supplies. Vote of Thanks The House this morning extended a vote of thanks to Rep. Amelia Gunderson for secuuring a picture to” hang behind the Speaker’s desk during the session and to Vic Pow- ers, owner of the picture. The pic- ture is a painting of the Chilkat Mountains by Gil Smith. The House adjourned at 11 o’clock and will reconvene at 10 o'clock Monday morning. The Senate held a brief session this forenoon and adjourned to 10 a.m. Monday. — SKI TRAIL IN GOOD SHAPE; TOW TO RUN Juneau Ski Clubbers will again be out in force on the ski trails over the weekend, and late reports indicated excellent conditions exist along the entire trail areas, Dean i Williams said today. Time trial races will again be featured Sunday afternoon with a skiers to enter into the fun. The ski tow will be running the entire day and all skiers that do not have a season ticket are reminied to bring their money to purchase same at the ski hill. TO BRISTOL BAY Clara MacDougall, medical tech- nician from Culver City, Calif., is in Juneau enroute to Kanakanak in Bristol Bay where she will join the staff at the hospital there. Repre- CAPT. G. MAXWELL It |e on M ‘Mn Francisco Pan Amer are making a winter isn’t to be “different” that Al trip, They arrived in Juneau yesterday !from Annette and are enroute to | Fairbanks and Nome to take a look- see at winter nal problems, lition with PAA Captain Gray's trip—and the first winter one. He is a vice president of PAA, and has been with me | company the past 22 years. | Both are enthusiastic about Al- | aska scenery. “The most beautiful in fhe world—on a clear * Gray declared. The past year has been the best in the history of Pan American’s Alaska division 19 years,” Gray stated. He also reported more travel | between Alaska and Honolulu this winter than ever before. The two captains hope to be able to return to Alaska to do some fish- iing next summer. ESTIMATE 4-FS LOWER; Alaska WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—(®— The Defense Department today cut in half an earlier estimate that | 150,000 4-F's now deferred from | the draft could be put into service. The new estimate was given to the House Armed Services Com- mittee by Assistant Defense Secre- reflects the view of Maj. Gen. Lewis Hershey, Selective Service Director. Mrs. Rosenberg had told the com- now deferred for physical or mental were screened again and qualifica- tions lowered. She said today Hershey now esti- mates that “by slightly lowering” the mental standards and strictly enforcing existing physical stand- ards, between 75,000 and 80,000 of put into full active service. Committee members had brought considering a Defense Department | proposal to draft 18-year-old youths | and to start a system of universal | military training. Chairman Vinson (D, Ga.) also said the committee will explore the possibility of calling up men be- tween the ages of 19 and 26 who have married since the Korean war i deferred. NOW 80,000 tary Anna Rosenberg. She said it | mittee yesterday that 150,000 men reasons could be inducted if they the present 800,000 4-F’s could be| up the question of using 4-F's in| started June 27. Husbands are now | WAGEBOOST " 06 UNIONS, ANCHORAGE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 27— | P— Six key building unions were | granted wage boosts approximating ‘30 cents an hour at a Thursday | night labor-management confer= | ence, it is learned reliably. | Benefitting are carpenters, ce- ment finishers, laborers, operating | engineers, iron workers. Some unions, not included in the | agreement were reported still nego- | tiating, among them the painters, | bricklayers, plasterers and the hotel 1nnd restaurant workers. Demands | by the electricians’ union were re- ported placed in the hands of an | arbitration board. | Plumbers and steamfitters, who accepted a wage of $3.50 per hour | last summer, were not involved in | the current talks. Under the old wage scales teams sters received from $2.50 to $2.95 an hour, laborers $2.40 to $2.70, cement finishers $2.78 to $2.90, iron work= ers $2.84 to $3.04, carpenters $2.84. JUNEAU WOMAN BEATEN, ROBBED Juneau police today are investi< gating an attack made on Mrs. Frank Johnson at her home at 841 West 9th street yesterday after- noon. Mrs. Johnson recalled being hit on the head three times from the back before she became uncen- scious. She did not see her assailant { but her outery brought her husband who was in another room at the time. When he arrived Mrs. John- son was lying on the floor and the attacker had disappeared. He thought he heard the door slam. She was rushed to St. Ann’s hos pital where her attending physician ved up four scalp wounds and re- | ported other bruises about her head. It was lated discovered that Mrs. Johnson’s purse, containing $99 had disappeared. ATTEMPTING TO UNITE WEST EUROPE ARMY PARIS, Jan. 27—{M—France has made an historic move to muster the soldiers of Europe, who have ! spilled each other’s blood for cen- | turies, into one army, under one commander, arrayed against one enemy—Communism. | Her dramatic proposal went out jtoday in the form of invitations to 10 governments to meet here to talk it over February 6. It is the | latest effort in Europe to end the | petty rivalries and centuries-old dis- | trusts which have kept the Western world from getting ready to fend loff a possible attack from the lEast | The first invitation—and the { first reported acceptance—was that to the Federal Republic of West Germany. Germans, historic ene- | mies of France, who have invaded | this nation three times in three Egenemtirms, are quoted as being | anxious to heal the wounds they |have caused to the French and to put on the same boots, helmets | and insignia as their European neighbors. A West German govern- | ment source in Bonn said the Ger- mans were certain to accept the | invitation. | Others confab were Britain, Norway, Ice- land, Denmark, Belgium, Luxem- bourg, Holland, Italy and Portugal. Canada and the United States have been asked to send observers. | | FROM KETCHIKAN \ Howard Stevens of Ketchikan is registered at the Baranof Hotel. STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Baranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive sometime Tuesday. | Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver, 8 p.m., January 31. | Denali from west scheduled to i }an 11 am. invited to the 10-nation | arrive 9 a.m. Sunday ‘ang sails south ! MEMORIAL ASKS INCOME TAX CUT FOR ALASKANS A 20-percent Federal Income Tax reduction for Alaskans is requested in a House Memorial introduced by Rep. Jack D. Conright of Anchor- age. The memorial, H.M. 3, is address- ed to the President, Congress, the Secretary of the Interior and the Delegate from Alaska. It pointed out that: Tt is a generally recognized fact that the cost of living in Alaska is much higher than in the States; The U. S. Government allows a 25 percent differential in salaries to its employees stationed in Al- aska; It would be only fair and equit- able that Alaskans be granted a 20} percent reduction in the amount of income taxes payable to the United States Government under the pro- visions of the Internal Revenue Code. AEC'S FIRST EXPLOSION OCCURS NEV. CARSON CITY, Nev., Jan. 27.— (M—The first explosion has occurred at the Atomic Energy Commission's new testing grounds in Nevada, Gov, Charles Russell has disclosed. It was a “dry run” conducted on the night of Wednesday, January 4, “A detonation did oceur in con-} nection with the test,” the AEC said in a statement which it re- fused to amplify. The information made available today came from Governor Russell in answer to direct questions from newsmen. The commission would not say | whether the explosion was atomic {in nature. ! Governor Russell told newsmen he had been asked by the AEC not\ 'to release any information regard- !ing the explosion unless he was |quesnoned specifically about it. BOMBING MIGHT START WAR BUT NOT WIN KOREA, SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27.—4M— Bombing Manchuria might precipi- tate World War III but probably would not defeat the Chinese Reds in Korea, Associated Press Column- ist Hal Boyle said. Returning to the United States after six months of front-line re- porting, Boyle explained that the Chinese invaders relied almost ex- clusively on manpower, and that air attack had proved insufficient against men in the wild, broken terrain of Korea. Even artillery cannot mow down the enemy as effectively as in more open country, he added. Bases mean less to the Chinese than to an occidental army, and men with rifles—or with backpacks of supplies—hide successfully under every bush and in every ravine, Boyle said. The current fading back qf the Chinese armies in South Korea may very possibly be explained on poli- tical grounds, Boyle commented. ® o 0 0 00 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau Maximum 19; minimum, 11. At Airport — 17; minimum, -6. Maximum, FORECAST Fair tonight and Sunday. Lowest temperature tonight about 15 degrees in Juneau and as low as zero in outly- ing areas. Highest tempera- ture Sunday about 20 de- grees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — None; since Jan. 1 — 3.95 inches; since July 1—41.94 incthes. At Airport — None; since Jan. 1 — 225 inches; e since July 1—3025 inches. 1o 0060606060000 i ®00000000000000000000000%00 u PORT OF SEOUL IS RAIDED Troops DTi_ve Through Ankle-Deep Snow in East Sector-Beat Red Patrols TOKYO, Jan. 27—(#—Gun-toting South Korean sailors drove ashore at Inchon in the cold grey dawn today and raided the port of Seoul for four hours. To the east, Allied tanks and troops drove through ankle deep snow within less than 13 air line miles of the old South Korean cap- ital. The tank column leading off two allied corps of American, Turkish, and South Korean foot soldiers thrust four and one-half miles north of Suwon, site of Korea’s best airfield. At its northernmost point of ad- vance, the column was only 14 road miles—less by air—from Seoul. The South Korean commandos killed 40 Red Koreans at Inchon and captured two. They met no Chinese. Swarm Ashore The raiders swarmed ashore un- der the guns of the American cruiser St. Paul, the Canadian des- troyer Cayuga and the U. S. des- troyer Hank. The swift-striking raiders suf- fered no casualties. The northward thrust along the main road to Seoul, “heartbreak highway,” began Thursday morn- ing. Two U, 8. Eighth Army corps —the Pirst and Ninth—jumped off in a limited offensive and recap- ture) Suwon and Kumyangjang. Moderate Resistance An Ar field dispatch said the column was meeting only moderate i resistaiice. Allied troops forged ahead along a 40 mile front. “We have hit fairly good enemy | positions but apparently have not yet run into their main line of re- sistance,” a divisional officer said. Pre-dawn Fight United Nations troops fought in the pre-dawn darkness Saturday with Red patrols that had sneaked back into Suwon. Guns flashed in the night but the town was report- ed cleared of Reds by daylight. Allied warplanes and artillery pounded small pockets of Reds in dug-in hill positions. The Allied drive along the west- ern front was the first big push the war in late November and reversed General MacArthur’s “end- the-war” campaign into a long retreat. tSHI!’MENTS OVER RAIL-TRUCK ROUTE CHEAPER THANSEA SEATTLE, Jan. 27.—(®—A Brilish Columbia Railway official said to- day that interior Alaska points soon may be able to receive shipments more cheaply over a new rail-trucl land route than by sea. John A. Kennedy, general man- ager of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, announced he is confer- ring with American rail line repre- sentatives here on rate schedules which will apply on the new con- nection with the Territory. Kennedy said he thinks the rates will be lower than those now charged by steamship lines on freight to interior Alaska cities. The new route will, be by rail Prince George, B. C., then over the John Hart Highway to Dawson Creck, B. C., where it joins the Alaska Highway. Kennedy said the Pacific Great Eastern’s 82-mile extension from its present terminus at Quesnel, B. C., will be completed in 1952. The John Hart Highway is to be opened in September. The railway has exclusive truck hauling rights over the John Hart road, being built by British Columbia. The new route will cut approxi- mately 1,000 miles off the Pacific Northwest’s present land cunnec!ion with Alaska by way of the Alaska Highway. WESTFALL TO CAMP Wally Westfall left this week for his logging camp at Fish Bay after a business trip to Juneau. Freele At a Glance WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—(#—The government’s new stabilization or- der at a glance: It freezes all wages as of mid- night last Thursday, and almost all prices at their highest levels dur- ing the period from last Dec. 15 to Jan. 25, It is applicable immediately It is designed to hold back rising prices and wages while gov- ernment officials work out ceiling formulas aimed at staving off dan- gerous inflation. For prices, it specifically pro- hibits buying or selling “in the re- gular course of business or trade” any commodity or service at a price higher than that charged during the Dec, 15-Jan. 25 period— “Regardless of any contract or other obligation.” For wages, it prohibits paying or receiving of wages higher than those in effect last Thursday. New employees must be paid no more than the Jan. 25 rate for the “jobs for which they were hired.” Over- time, vacation and holiday pay, pen- sions, benefits, etc., also must be held at the level in effect Jan. 25. However, the wage regulation al. lows for appeals and the price order emptions—especially of agricultural products sold on the farm. Both were apparently drawn up with an eye to future adjustment— either up or down as conditions dictate. Violations are punishable by fines up to $10,000, one year in prison, or both. SQUARE DANCE CLINIC FOR CALLERS: FEB. 11 The Gastintu. Thannel Square Dance As» tion representatives met recently and planned to hold a caller’s clinic Sunday afternoon, Feb. 11, from 3 to 5 at the Parish hall. All clubs are urged to send anyone interested in learning to call or improving his or her calling to the session. Callers are asked to take wives or husbands so that those who want practice will have one or two sets to call while at the microphone. Further business at the associa- tion meeting was the setting of the date for the Second Annual Spring Break-Up Festival which will be i |since Chinese Reds jumped intolynelq saturday night, April 21 at the Douglas High school gymnas- jum. Will Reedy, president of the square dance representatives, ap- pointed Ray Nevin as chairman in charge of the festival. Representatives present at the meeting were Bill Cuthbert of the Taku Travelers, Les Linehan, Tues- day Teen-Age Square Dancers, Gus and Claudia Gissberg of the Circle- IB-ers, and Will and Lois Reedy and Don Burrus of the Sourdoceys. |Ryan Succeeds Sirand,Fairbanks ' News - Miner FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 27 — (® — John J. Ryan, former Anchor- age newspaperman, will become managing editor of the Fairbanks News Miner Feb. 1, it in announced by General Manager C. W. Snedden. Ryan succeeds William G. Strand. Mr. and Mrs. Strand said they will leave here soon after Feb. 1 but revealed no further plans. FROM KETLHIKAN D. 8. Talford, Coast Guard In- spector from Ketchikan, is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. FROM HOONAH Capt. Prank See of Hoonah is at the Hotel Juneau. FROM WASHINGTON Mr. and Mrs. Curley Sydow of Ellensburg, Wash. are stopping at the Gastineau Hotel ' TRANEFEEBED HERE Gordon Kilday, observer with the {U. S. Weather Bureau has been transferred to Juneau from Bethel where he has - been for the past two years. He is accompanied by | Mrs. Kilday and they are tempor-! arily living at the Hotel Juneau. Wages Government Orders Freezing Prices, MOVE ONLY STOPGAP IS REPORT NOW Highest I.ev_elg of Period lists numerous exceptions and ex- | from Dec. 19 Through- January 25 By MAX HALL WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 —® — The government ordered a long-ex- pected temporary freeze of prices and wages last night and then turn- ed today to the mountainous task of making the controls work. The Office of Price Stabilization (OPS), headed by Michael V. Di- Salle, flashed an S.0.S. to the FBI and other bureaus for help in en- forcement. President Federal agencies needed. One official said the OPS plans a “ruthless enforcement effort at the outset.” Oddly, at the same time, the OPS enforcement chief suddenly re- signed. He is Rear Admiral John H. Hoover, retired Naval officer. His reason for quitting was not clear. Twin Freezes The twin freezes were welcomed by many men in Congress and in business — but labor leaders raised a big protest over the wage freeze. ‘They want flexible controls that will permit lagging wages to catch up. The Wage Stabilization Board (WSB), which didn’t order the wage freeze and took no respensibility for it, renewed its work today on a flexible formula to replace the freeze. In a dramatic and turbulent set- ting, nearly exhausted officials gave out the news of the freezes {plecemeal. The ‘process lasted from 6 p.m. until nearly 1 o'clock this morning. All Prices Not Hit The price freeze does not apply to all prices. A long list of items, including many foods, will still have leeway to rise. But most prices were frozen at the highest level of the period from {Dec. 19 through Jan. 25 — day be- fore yesterday. Since very few things have dropped in price dur- ing that period, the general effect is to freeze Jan. 25 prices. Truman ordered all to pitch in as ‘Wages, Salaries Wages and salaries were simply frozen as of Jan. 25, and no exemp- tions were listed in the order. Board Chairman Cyrus S. Ching announced the wage freeze to the press but he was careful to point out that it was signed by Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston who hand- ed him the order just 10 minutes before the announcement was made. Only a Stopgap The price freeze is only a stopgap, too, and will melt gradually away as soon as separate orders can be prepared for various kinds of goods. The only separate orders now in existence are on automobiles and hides. But plenty more orders are coming. Edward Phelps, assistant price director, said that within 30 days, most retailers and some wholesalers will be under new or- ders controlling their sales mar- gins. The freeze order does not apply to farm prices of live animals and other raw, unprocessed goods. Prices As Are But certain foods, like beef, veal, lamb, and pork, come under the freeze — that is, the processor, the | wholesalers, and the retailer must keep the price as it is, at least for the time being. On most foods, however, prices can be raised, all the way to the consumer, whenever necessary to reflect a rise in the farmer’s price. Some examples: Bread, eggs, poul- try, fresh vegetables, peanuts, oranges. Exemptions A number of items are specifical- ly exempted from price controls by the Defense Production Act. For example, professional fees, insur- +ance rates, freight and passenger rates, utility rates, real estate prices, ]nnd the prices of newspapers, books, magazines, motion pictures, theater tickets, and advertising rates charg- ed by radio and television stations. Rents are not controlled under this order, but many areas of the country are still under Federal or state rent controls.