The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 29, 1951, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL TLIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,720 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Sy Fiery Napalm D 1 STATEHOOD ORREPUBLIC Third Division Men Want Independence for Alaska If Statehood Fails By BOB DE ARMOND ‘The instant right to declare our absolute independence of and from the Government of the United States, and to form ourselves into a free men to be forever called the Republic of Alaska,’ was demanded in the Territorial House of Repre- sentatives this. morning in the event statehood fails. The demand was in the form of a memorial intrbduced by the seven Third Division Representatives Carlson, Conright, Egan, Kay, Mc- Cutcheon, Pollard and Scavenius. All of them are Democrats. | The memorial, HM. No. 4, is ad- | dressed to the President and people of the United States; Congress; the Hon. Trygvie Lie, secretary general of the United Nations; and the| people of Alaska. | Rep. Wendell Kay, after being granted special privilege of the| floor, read the memorial in full and | the reading was recorded for pos- terity by Rep. Conright. | Duties of Citizenship The memorial made the following allegations: The people of Alaska have for 84| years submitted to the obligations | and duties of United States citizen- ship and have contributed without stint the blood and treasure of the people to the prosecution of the| wars of the United States; Men of Alaska are fighting and | dying on the fields of Korea in the forces of the United Nations for the | preservations of liberties which | they themselves do not possess; The people of Alaska have dem- onstrated their ability and fitness to assume the full rights and obli- gations of citizens; Congress has met the prayers and supplications of Alaska with indif- ference; Taxation without representation is as abhorrent to free men in 1951 as it was to Thomas Jefferson in 1776. | The memorial was referred to the | newly created special Committee on | Statehood. Ghost of 1949 | A ghost of the 1949 extraordinary session rose in the House this morn- | ing when Rep. Jack Conright in- | troduced a bill which was enacted | in that session. | The bill, to approve, adopt and| make of force as the Code of Alaska | | (Continu(v‘dflworni Png,g Two )’ The Washington|’ Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Beil Syndicate, Inc.) ( Ed. Note—The brass ring, good for one free ride on the Washing- ton Merry-Go-Round, today goes to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who now reports te Congress on the difficult job of rearming Europe.) ASHINGTON — When General Eisenhower went off to Europe, a lot of people got the impression that he was rather glad to leave Columbia, ‘get into uniform again and return to his old haunts abroad. Actually, this was not the case. To a few close friends just be- fore he left, Ike confessed that he dreaded going overseas again, knew that he would face hostile crowds, realized how tough it would be to organize rearmament in war- ‘weary Europe. Ike also knew, though he didn't say so, that getting back into uni- form might blast any Presidential ambitions he had. There was nothing theatrical, therefore, about Ike’s answer when President Truman called him in Chicago last Decgm- | ber and asked him to become chief | commander under the North Atlan- tic Pact. Ike replied that a soldier | has to go where he is called, and| he meant it. phony or Report to Congress § © Behind Eisenhower’s report to . prepared announce that large groups of em- | A MR AP (Continued on Page Four) Blood Bank Hfois»lewd Aboard (a_grier % Y i A mobile blood bank is hoisted onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Boxer at San Francisco, so some of the 750 crewmen aboard could give blood for wounded in Korea. has seen considerable action in Korea waters. (/) Wircphoto. Practice Alert The carrier, undergoing overhaul, Scheduled For Tomorrow Night; Here Are Rules UNFREEZING OF CONTROLS IS STARTED Inequities Recognized by Officials-Many Exemp- tions Made Already WASHINGTON, Jan. Price and wage stabilization of- icials set to work today on the delicate and tedious job of releasing some of the pressures behind the dam they built last Friday to hold living costs. Their task is to remove as quickly possible the acknowledged in- equities which resulted when the covernment on Friday night froze 20 —iP— as most prices at peak levels between | Dec. 19 as of Jan. ; Wage Exemptions Wage Stabilization Board a statement expected to and Jan. 25 and all wages The ployes are exempt from the wage freeze. These would include 4,000,000 Federal, state and municipal work- ers and also employes of very small firms — all exempt from stabiliza- tion during World War TI. Price Exemptions There are whole industries exempted from price controls under the Defense Production Act, too. These include newspaper and pub- lishing fields, radio, television and similar - communications, utilities, carriers and movie theater admis- sions. Whether wages in those in- dustries will be controlled is up to the lawyers, already holding their heads. 10 Per Cent Wage Hike Besides the statement on exemp- tions, the wage board headed by Cyrus C. Ching is driving to come out with a formula — probably on Tuesday or Wednesday for granting blanket approval to in- creases along the pattern developed |last year. In major industries this generally was for a 10 per cent wage hike — sometimes with pensions and similar benefits. The board may pick another per- | centage, but increases in steel, coal, | electrical manufacturing and alumi- num industries helped to mold the ]‘10 per cent pattern. fo Be Observed - lsounded at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan- uary 30, and will last for one-half ‘m three-quarters of an hour. | R. E. Robertson, Director, juneau- Douglas Civilian Defense snnounces the following rules that will govern the practice alert that will be From time the alert is sounded until the all-clear signal, persons should remain off streets and high- | ways. Those on streets and high- ys at time alert is sounded should immediately take shelter in nearest suitable building, preferably re- | turning to their own homes if that |is most convenient and nearest. | From time the alert is sounded, { automobiles should not travel streets or highways. Those traveling streets ways at the time the alert unded, should immediately proceed to destination (obeying regular traffic regulations) and re- main at destination until all-clear | signal is sounded. Throughout duration of alert, persons should refrain from mak- ling telephone calls, so as to leave telephone system available for use of civilian defense organization. These regulations should not be | violated except in case of sickness, | fire, or other serious emergency. No black-out will be put in effect at this alert. 1 short blasts of fire siren, for 2 or 3 minutes. The all-clear signal is 1-1 blast, same as fire all-clear signal. Juneau Telephone Central will notify out-of-town residents by 6 quick rings on telephone lines lead- ing out the highways. FOREST SERVICE OFFICIAL TO WASHINGTON ON LANDS ADMINISTRATION BUSINESS | W. A. Chipperfield, in charge of |lands administration for the U. S. Forest Service in Alaska, has left | by Pan American plane enroute to | Washington, D. C. There he will | confer with Forest Service officials ' |on Land Management concerning work which includes homesites, homesteads, resorts and recreational | areas. Chipperfield plans to be in the capital several days and returning to the west coast will go to the Portland office of the Forest Service to confer on land handling methods n the National Forests of the Pa- cific Northwest region in regard to land management. He expects to return to Juneau in about one month. Kelly Foss of Anchorage is stop- ping at the Baranof Hotel. 1 al for alert is repeated | FREEZE T00 LATE MANY BUYERS SAY (By Associated Press) Food prices apparently weren't that the public should bear in mind | budging an inch up or down to- | day following freeze order of late last week, spot | Of drafting any veterans now, butiabout a mysterious telephone call the government’s checks of retailers showed. But consumers seemed generally unimpressed. Mrs. Eilleen Lowry, an early-morning New York shop- per, offered this typical comment “The government froze too late. They locked the stable after the horse had been stolen. I think the {prices are awful, and that they should have been rolled back to at least six months ago.” Some food retailers agreed. “The freeze doefn’t give the public a break,” said Manhattan focd store proprietor Alexander Pappas. “Today's prices are higher than the black market prices during World War Two,” said a New York beef market owner, John D, Milone. Grocers said their prices were sticking to the levels at which the government froze them last Friday. Items not covered in the freeze also appeared to be holding steady. AL LUBCKE BACK Al Lubcke, Alaska Highway Pat- rolman from Haines, who has been on temporary duty at Ketchikan, has returned here. He is at the Baranof Hotel. GRANTED DIVORCE A divorce was granted H. E. Rid- ley from Dorothy Ridley by Judge George W. Folta, in the Federal ‘uo0UINIE ABPLLI 3ANOD JOLIISIT STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 29 — Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 99'%., American Tel. & Tel. 151%, Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft 102%, General Electric 54%, Gen- eral Motors 44%, Goodyear 72, Ken- necott 757, Libby, McNeil & Libby 9%, Northern Pacific 35%, Standard 0il of California 95, Twentieth Cen- tury-Fox 22, U. S. Steel 47%, Pound 280's, Canadian Exchange 94.93%. Sales today were 2,630,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: Industrials 248.64, rails 84.90, utili- ties 4221 STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive 7 am. tomorrow. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 p.m. Wednesday. Denali scheduled to Seattle 4 p.m. Friday. BRITAIN CALLS UP RESERVES Expanded IS?Iense Pro- gram Is Anncunced by Prime Minister Altlee LONDON, Jan. 29 —{®— Prime Minister Attlee announced today Britain will call up 235,000 Army Reserves for 15 days of training this summer. At the same time the Royal Air Force will recall 10,000 officers and men from its own reserve. Attlee gave this information at the start of a statement to the House of Commons outlining Brit- ain’s plans for rearmament against Red aggression. Attlee said the total strength of this nation’s armed forces will be 800,000 men by April 1, This com- pares with 682,000 in April, 1950. The Army Reserves to be called up this summer will be mainly class “Z” men — that is, draftees who served between the start of World War II and Jan. 1, 1949. Attlee said the expanded pro- gram will cost $13,160,000,000 over the next three years. This compares with a government estimate last September of $10,080,000,000 for the same period. DRAFTING VETERANS IS KILLED WASHINGTON, Jan, 29 —(®— The House Armed Services Commit- tee today virtually killed the idea reached out for single men up to age 28, two yzars above the present limit. At the same time pressure built up at the Capitol behind the idea of drafting childless husbands in the present 19 through 25 ‘age bracket plus thousands of youths now classified 4-F, before any 18- year-olds are taken. But the military held out for the 18-year draft in preference to tak- ing married men. Two Congressional Committee hearings, one in the Senate and the other in the House, showed those trends in discussion of the Defense Department’s proposal to draft at 18 instead of the present 19 years, hold the men for 27 instead of the present 21 months, and work the program into permanent Universal Military Service and Training (UMST). Resumption of the hearings fol- owed a proposal from Senator Ed- win C. Johnson (D-Colo) the U. S. Army. This foreign legion should re- move all military demands for drafting our 18-year-old boys,” Johnson told a reporter. “It also ishould solve some of our domestic manpower shortages and internn- tional difficulties.” 31 TRAVEL WITH PNA ON SUNDAY Yesierdys travel score for Pa- cific Nerthern Airlines were 19 ar- riving from the westward and 12 outbound. From Anchorage: Wilfred Wolfe, G. Shaw, Gene Sheldon, Don Wil- liams, Louis Sorenson, Keith Thur- man, Arvid Norheim, Roty Utness, L. Miller, C. C. Gorsuch, A. Z. Car- rol, G. C. Sink, G. R. McMurray, Vern Harris, Ervin Hill, R. T. Kirby, J. Maservich, Andy Barlow. From Cordova: Milo Rousculp. H To Anchorage: Mary Robinson, {H. O. White, Clara MacDougall, Le- land Smith, Capt. Harold Gray, C. F. Maxwell, Lowell Schei, Ed Han-{anof Island for two days because son, Fred Brechen, George Thomp- son, W. Malcolm. To Cordova: Steve Pytel. BUCKLES HERE Roy Buckles who is with PNA at|the Labrador retriever makes it a sail from|Anchorage is stopping at the Bar-!good dog for hunting water fowl i anof Hotel. No Despair { 1 to en- list 1,000,000 Western Europeans m!ter season to be alarmed for the umped on Reds by Mustangs 30 MILES OF FIRE BURNING, KOREAN AREA Reds Killed in Mountain Fox Holes-Big Advance Made b!EN Forces (By Assoclated Press) Chinese Communists died fight- ing in their mountain foxholes to- day. They resisted to the bitter end a wary but seemingly relentless al- lied advance to within 10 miles of Seoul in Western Korea. Associated Press Correspondent k| Jim Becker reported 130 Reds were : (&3 One fins reflected on these faces none of the utter despair normally associated with hopelessness. Mr. and Mrs. George Godfrey pose in their East Side apartment in New York, with their four sons—all of whom face certain death from muscular dystrophy—a mysterious disease with 100 per cent mortality. The boys are (front) Michael, 12, George, 24, (back) Bobby, 16 (left), and Roy, 21. The family pet is “Brownie.” (® Wirephoto. Wives, liIIWYou‘r Husbands Out 0fthe Doghouse; Grocers, Also (ab Drivers,Helg killed in one hill alone. Only eight were captured. Air strikes and artillery raked the enemy positions, but U. N. infantry- men finally had to scramble up the frozen hillsides and blast out the Reds with grenades and rifle fire Advance 3 Miles The U. S. Eighth Army reported advances up to three miles along the 40-mile western front. In the area north of Suwon, 38 P-51 fighter-bombers dumped 8,000 gallons of fiery napalm (jellied gasoline) in the heaviest mustang mass attack of the war. Red troops and buildings were hit, Early esti- mates were that 100 Reds were killed and 240 buildings destroyed or damaged. Maj. Thomas D. Robertson, of St. Paul, Minn,, who led the attack, said: 30 Miles of Fire “There was over. 30 miles of fire burning when we left.” Becker said Intelligence Officers estimated that the entire 50th Chi- nese Communist Army and three North Korean Divisions now were near the combat area, holding strong positions. At full strength these forces would total zbout 60,~ 000 men, but losses are believed to Wives: Have you been worrying this week rounded vp a gang of |have cut them .considerably. telephone-happy high school girls in which- a sweet feminine voice| who thought they were being just asked for your husband by his first name and refused to tell you who was calling. Taxicab companies: Have you been plagued with calls to send cabs to addresses where your drivers on arrival found nobody wanted a taxi? Grocers: Have you been called to deliver large orders to places where your deliveryman found the people didn't want groceries at all? If you are in one of these cate- gories, this story is for you. The U. S. Marshal's Office here JEER REPORTED T0 BE IN 60OD SHAPE ONWESTERNSLOPES There is no reason yet this win- calls in wholesale lots. Acting Marshal Walter aged 14 to 16, who last Monday were caught in the act of making such malicious mischief over the telephone, The four admitted tc cutting school that afternoon and one of them had a key. Then, they confessed, they proceeded to keep the calls. also were sent on wild goose chases by the girls. family newspaper. however, according to Hellan, went out to wives and made insinuations about the conduct of their hus- received such calls are the wives of lack of natural feed for deer in the vicinities of the Peril Straits and Sitka west coast areas according to word brought to Juneau in the past few days. Charles Burdick, Assistant Reg- fonal Director of the Forest Serv- jce who has just returned from a 10-day trip which took him as far as the southwest end of Peril Straits said there is only about a foot of snow along the beaches and low- lands in the Straits and about the same depth on the western slopes of Chichagof and Baranof Island. W. E. Elkins, Acting Regional Di- rector of the Fish and Wildlife Service who returned from a shor. trip to Sitka Saturday said there is not more than a foot of snow on the lowlands and slopes in that dis- trict. He said the deer were reported to be fat and lively. Both Burdick and Elkins ob- served a heavier depth of snow on the east side of the islands. Elkins said three feet of snow was re- ported in the Hoonah Sound area. Burdick said that he put into the community of Baranof on the Ranger X on the east side of Bar- ent Federal official. In placing such a call, one of the to get in touch with out together. ences to alleged trysts with husbands in these conversations with their wives. All denied ever having met any of the men mentioned, Hellan said, and insisted they had picked names called at random from the tele- phone book. Other occasions in the past when such calls were placed, and the names of several other girls who had participated in the “game,” were confessed by the four who were apprehended. The Marshal’s office is continuing its investigation. Anyone having re- communicate with Hellan. Meanwhile, it is hoped that a few Juneau married men will be per- mitted to come out of the doghouse, There is also another problem confronting city and Federal auth. orities and that is many reports of shiplifting reported done by juven- iles, | of high winds and that he esti- mated about five feet of snow in the vicinity. The exceptionally thick hair of in cold weather, gathering in an apartment to which | edging forward. ceived anonymous calls is asked toje Enemy Ambushes The Allies’ five-day advance had awfully funny by placing such |been slowed earlier by Red counter- attacks in battalion strength at sev- Hellar [eral places, and by enemy ambushes has had in for questioning four girls on the central front. The U. N. “Limited Objective” attack was spread from Suwon northeastward and southeastward 11 and 13 miles to Ichon and Kum- yanjang, constantly probing and . Heavy Red Losses The U. 8. Eighth Army Com- switchboard busy with false | mander, Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridg- way, reported to Gen. MacArthur Local cab companies all had calls { during the U. N. commander’s visit from the group. Loca! grocery stores |to the front Sunday that the Chi- nese Reds have suffered 160,000 cas- ualties, including 40,000 dead and There were other calls of a kind |120,000 wounded, since Jan. 1. This that can’t even be described in this |did not take into account casual- ties from the bitter cold, from di- The most serious set of calls, |sease and from war weariness. B-29s Make Strikes From Okinawa bases, 24 B-29s struck four important rail bridges pands. Among those known to have jand a highway bridge Monday and others ranged north of the 38th well-known Juneau business and lParallel in the 10th consecutive day professional men and one promin-|of clear weather, meeting no re- sistance. Despite hints at the United Na- girls would ask for the man and [tions in Lake Success — stemming on being told he was not at home |from the Indian delegation — that (this being in the middle of the|there were political reasons behind afternoon), would say she just had|the lull in the Chinese Comiunist him right | action, away to tell him something she for- | pressed belief the Chinese pullback got to say the last time they were|was merely for the purpose of re- the Allied Command ex- grouping and rebuilding supplies for The girls confessed, Hellan said,[a renewed full scale assault. to making various suggestive refer-le o o o the [ o e o o o o o WEATHER RIPORT ‘Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau Maximum 19; minimum, 10. At Afrport — 14; minimum, -8. Maximum, FORECAST Partly cloudy with little change in temperature to- night and Tuesday. Lowest tonight near 12 in town and as low as zero in outlying areas. Highest temperature Tuesday near 25. ® PRECIPITATION ©® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today ® City of Juneau — None; since Jan. 1 — 395 inches; since July 1—41.94 inches. At Airport — None; since Jan. 1 — 225 inches; since July 1—30.25 inches. ® 00 0 0000 00