The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 9, 1951, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL TIIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIL, NO. 11,730 —— JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — Allied Task Force Plunges to Fan River Government Decides Against RED FORCE Underwriting New Aluminum | DEFENSES PASSES| Planis at Skagway or (anada DAY APPROVES FWS TRANSFER OF FLEET BASE 10 JUNEAU Transfer of the Fish and Wild- life Service fieet base for vessels maintenance operations from Seat- tle to Juneau was approved i ‘Washington last week by Director Albert M. Day, it was announced today by Clarence Rhode, Regional Director who returned late yester- day afternoon from the capital Transfer of the operation was rec- ommended by Rhode to the FWS Washington office several weeks ago. The transfer will bring the seven large craft and 30 small vessels presently operated by the Fish and Wwildlife Service and one large craft to be built and five former Coast Guard 37-foot vessels to be con- verted, to be based permanently at Juneau. The base will be established at the Juneau subport and offices for the maintenance division wil' also be set up at the port. Crews of the vessels and main- tenance personnel will include about 40 employes, a number of whom have families, to make their homes in Juneau. Northbound in May Vessels now in Seattle for winter | over-haul will leave that port for the last time in May for operation in Alaskan waters. At the conclusion of next sea- son’s operations the fleet will put in to Juneau for the winter and crews will go to work on annual maintenance and over-haul work here. Small craft will be to and from the westward and Juneau by the freighter Dennis Winn. The FWS operates a transported ar 50-ton electric crane at the subport: for raising and lowering small craft. Rhode said the transfer of the base headquarters will bring added business as well as residents to Juneau. Other towns in southeast Alaska will also be benefited. Local Contracts Contracts will be let locally by' the FWS for marine work opera-! tions and some of the haul-out op- | or repairs been erations not involving m: and which have previo carried on at the Seattle ba now be done in Petersburg as well as Juneau. The FWS will let contracts Feb.! 15 for the construction of a new 60-foot vessel to replace the Auklet sold last fall, Rhode said. It is hoped to have the craft in service by July. Plans are also underway to replace the Scoter which was| disposed of last year. Standard Equipment Three and possibly all five of the 38-foot formecr Coast Guard craft recently acquired by the FWS will be converted for year-round serv- ice to be put in operation this year. Deisel engines will be installed in the craft, as well as in all other vessels not yet so equipped. Rhode, while in Washington, made ar- rangements to obtain deisels from Navy surplus and other government sources. Standard equipment will se will; Ketchikan and| | | i i | ‘As now n Il:e equipped to handle WOMAN FOUND FROZEN STIFF WITH BODY TEMPERATURE 64 ~ MAY SURVIVE IS REPORT NOW ALASKA lAUNDRY PLANS TO TAKE OVER SNOW WHITE PLANI Final transaction is expected to e completed next week in one of the biggest business transfers in Juneau in a number of years, when the Alaska Laundry, Inc., takes pur- chase of the Snow White Laundry equipment and good will from the present owner, Milton Daniel, it was disclosed today by J. S. Mac- Kinnon, Jr., Alaska Laundry co- owner and manager. Equipment will be moved from the Snow White Laundry buildin on Admiral way shortly after the transfer, MacKinnon said. The Al- aska Laundry will continue all ser- vices presently extended to its cus- tomers by the Snow White Laundry. Another Business Expands The transaction will also make way for the expansion of another Juneau business when in the nea: future the building housing 'the Snow White Laundry will be leased from Daniel by Carson Lawrence owner of the Juno Bakery who will install a bakery plant which when completed, he said, will be the big- gest and finest bakery in Alaska John Barber, assistant to Lawrence Seattle arranging for the purchase of equipment for the new bakery plant. Lawrence said the present loca- tion of the Juneau Bakery on Front Street will continue as it is, as the main sales store. Lawrence is now in the year as owner and manager of the Juno bakery. He purchased the busi- ness from Henr 1y. “I have finally achieved the goal set when I took over to find a suitable location for establishing bakery for Juneau,” Lawrence said today Equipped for Service The Alaska Laundry plant will all the needs of a laundry in Juneau and thel surrounding vicinity, said. New machinery has recently keen installed and with the addition of parts from equipment purchased irom the Snow White Laundry, the plant will be one of the most mod- ern and efficient of its size on the coast. Daniel said today he has been desirous of disposing of his business for some time. His future plans are not yet completed he said but | he and his family will continue to make their home in Juneau. Daniel first became with the Snow White Laundry when in 1937 when he drove the de- livery truck for the owners, Anna Jensen and Ida Foss who started the business in the 1920s, then lo- be installed in all vessels to reduce|cated on lower Franklin street. In maintenance and in parts and tools. The larger vessels presently op- inventory costs (Col;c'mued on P;ge Two) The Washingion Merry - Go - Bound Ry DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, vy Beil Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — Official Wash- ington has now reached an all- time high for confusion and chaos. Part of this, of course, results from the inevitability of war's grow- ing pains. The new stabilization program, for instance, has been moving ahead so rapidly that even the most experienced Washington- ians have been unable to keep up with it. New agencies, new direc- tors, new phone numbers, new add- resses, new authorities and new re. gulations have everyone in a dither, Take the case of “Jizgs’ Dona- hue, the able attorney who convict- ed west coast labor leader Harry Bridges and who was recently ap- pointed chief the new price-contrgl agency. In his new job, Jiggs will be policing millions of prices and collaring black marketeers from coast to coast. But one morning, three days after he'd been sworn in, he discov- ered: " 1.The price-control law gave him of enforcement for! | " (Continued on Page Four) i 1942 Daniel purchased the business from the two women and later mov- ed it to its present location in the new concrete and many windowed puilding on Admiral Way. Since 1895 The Alaska Laundry is Juneau’s first laundry and has been operat- ed continuously since it was estab- lished as the Alaska Steam Laundry | in 1895 by E. R. Jaeger, father of Mrs. J. S. MacKinnon, Sr., who re- tains an interest. Jaeggr’s first laun- dry was located at the corner of Second and Gold Eireets and in 1501 was moved to the large build- ing constructed by Jaeger on Frank- lin Street and now occupied by the Juncau Clinics on the second floor and the Kann store and Gus George Superette on the street floor. It was the first power laundry in Alaska. In those early days of the laund- ry’s history Jaeger operated on a mall scale and made his deliveries n the summer by means of a wheel- karrow and in the winter by a Yu- kon sled. These were replaced by a horse with a light wagon in the summer and a cutter in the snow months. Governu:’s Suire The »ooms on ihe secord floor of 'Jaeger's new launary building then one the largest in Juneau, were cccupied by the family and prominent persons in town who as- pired to enjoy the excellent living accemmodations afforded. Governor (Continued on Page Twc) fourth | the Juno | the finest type of | MacKinnon | associated | CHICAGO, Feb. 9 —P—A young woman, found frozen stiff with a body temperature about 34 degrees selow normal, today was given a *hance to survive. But doctors said she may lose both arms and legs. Physicians at Michael Reese hos- oital said medical history probably does not show a case where a per- son with such a low body tempera- ‘ure — 64 degrees — lived to tell ibout it. Mrs. Dorothy Mae Stevens, 23, a Negro, was found yesterday morn- ng lying beside a South Side apart- ment building in subzero cold A hospital spokesman d it srobably will be four or five days sefore it can be determined whether she will live, or whether her frozen imbs must be cut off. Today, 26 hours after she was found, the woman’s temperature had climbed to 100. The normal is 98.6. Her pulse was 100, within the nor- | mal range. When first brought to the hospital, it was 12 beats a min- ute. Scores of physicians visited the patient to observe her reactions. “It's fantastic that she should still be alive,” said Harold Lauf- man, staff surgeon and assistant professor of surgery at Northwest- ern University. Laufman said there were only two cases of hypothermia (reduction of bodily temperature) on record which have recovered, and in those cases temperatures went no lower than 75 degrees. PLEAS FOR STATEHOOD BY WNDC | WASHINGTON, Reb. 9—(P—Pleas | | for statehood for Hawaii and Al- aska were made at a special lunch- | eon meeting yesterday of the Wo- men's National Democratic Club| honoring the Territories and posses- sions of the United States. Delegate Farrington | said the admission of Hawaii as al state would be a major step in| restoring confidence in the Units ed | States among the peoples of the Far East. Delegate E. L. Barlett (D-Alaska) | coupled his petition for statehood | with a plea for strengthening the defenses of Alaska. “Alaska is not now defended ade- | quately,” Bartlett said. “Our pro- | gress in building up our defense es- tablishment there is pitifully slow. The great need is troops and hous- ing for those troops. “It is easily possible that if an enemy were to seize our great air- ports in Alaska he could bomb our inqusirial plant out of existence. Round trip ilights could be made from these Alaska bases to the in- dustrial heart of the United States.” Farrington said American prestige in the Far East “has suffered ser-) |iously in the five years since the end of World War IL” The task of restoring confidence in American leadership cannot be achieved by armed forge alone, he said. “It must be achieved by acts thstl will convince the people of .the | Far East that we are in earnest in our belief in the pnnclples of Democratic government—self deter- mination, government by the con- gent of the governed, no taxation) without representation, local self government,” he continued. | Mrs. Oscar Chapman, wife of) the Secretary of Interior, presided at the luncheon. STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Feb. 9 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine; stock today is 3%, American Can 108%, American Tel. and Tel. 153%, Anaconda 43%, Douglas Aircraft 104%, General Electric 54'2, Gen- ‘eral Motors 51%, Libby, McNeil and Libby 10%, Northern Pacific 36%. Standard Oil of California 87%, Twentieth Century Fox 24%, U. S. Steel 46!z, Pound 2.80%, Canadian Exchange 95.18%. Sales today were 2,550,000 shares. Averages today were as follows:I Industrials 254.27, rails 89.73, utili- | ties 42.52. l Wages, Hours {30 MILL Bill Is Passed | TAX LEVY By 22-2 Vole By BOB DE ARMOND Rep. C. C. Carlson’s wages and hours bill, H.B.12, passed the House yesterday afternoon by the very handy margin of 22-2. There was no debate on the bill when it came up on the calendar for third reading. The two opposing votes were cast by George Misco- enate Approves New Ac- tion for Cities-Much Busi- ness in Upper House By JIM HUTCHESON The Senate passed 9 to 7 today vich and Stanley McCutcheon, the |2 bill that would remove all doubt latter obviously voting with an eye | of cities rights to boost their prop- to the conference committee should [erty tax to 30 mills. the measure reach that point. The only outspokrn opposition The bill's fate in the Senate is|came from Sen. Anita Garnick (R- somewhat in doubt. The upper | Juneau) after the author, Sen. House has passed a bill setting Steve McCutcheon (D-Anchorage) minimum wages, without regard to |had explained that it was just a hours, and might consider its own clarifying act to allow under terri- measure adequate. corial law what Congress already The Carlson bill provides mini- |has allowed by specific act. mum wages of $1 an hour, except The Senate saw these other de- for persons performing occasional | velopments before recessing to 1:30 chores only, baby-sitters and part-|p. m.: time work by paper delivery boys, errand boys. It passed Sen Frank Barr’s bill o “put teeth into the law” against Also exempt from the provisions of | writing or passing bad checks. The the bill are persons employed in[vote was 16 to 0. the production of an agricultural It approved unanimously Sen. produce during seasonal operations Gunnard Engebreth’s joint memor- of not more than 16 weeks in a year. ial to congressional land committees for action to block private staking, Maximum hours of work, as pro- |under the mining law, on gravel- vided in the bill, is 40 in one week, | yielding public school lands. It is with time and one-half for all work {a hot issue at Anchorage because in excess of 40 hours. Other Measures Passed During the afternoon session the House also passed: House Joint Memorial No. of staking on valuable land adja- cent to the city. It passed Sen. Gerrit (Heinie) Snider’s memorial for suspension of 3, by|annual assessment work on unpat- Rep. Madsen, requesting that the|ented mining claims in Alaska. It Defense Minerals Administration | is addressed to Congress and Presi- offér every possible assistance to]dent Truman. It asks the suspen- Alaska mining operators, and that the U. S. Bureau of Mines under- | Alaska because of exploration activi- | emergency.” take extensive ties to determine the grade and ex- tent of strategic and. critical min- occur in Northwestern Passed 24-0. sion due to “unsettled conditions in the national Bond Issue It opened arguments over Enge- !eral deposits known or indicated tO|preth’s memorial to Congress for Alaska. | the right for the territory to issue up to $12,500,000 in bonds for school Senate Joint Resolution No. 1, by} construction needs. | Senator Engstrom, asking that Jap- Engebreth and McCutcheon car- anese fishing vessels be excluded |rjaq the brunt of the argument for from the waters of Alaska and Brit- | the ponding proposal, while Sen. ish Columbia and that this be stip- | yjohn Butrovich (R-Fairbanks) and ulated in the treaty of peace With{gnider did the main arguing against Japan. Passed 24-0. it. Senate Joint Memorial No. 1, by | Senator Anderson, seeking reactiv-|noon after Sen. Howard Lyng (D- (R-Hawail) { ation of Marks Airfield at Nome Nome) said he wanted to speak st Passed 24-0. GASTINEAU HOTEL IS DAMAGED BY FIRE |OF UNKNOWN CAUSE Fire of undetermined cause last night damaged six rooms and the laundry chute at the Gastineau Hotel. No one was injured. Robert Dugan, delivering a meal { pe to one of the hotel guests, first discovered_the fire and reported it at 9 oclock. Warrant Officer W. E. White, of the National Guard Instructors Detachment, Anchor- age, also a guest at the hotel, was the second person to discover the fire. The two men attempted get- ting the fire under control in the laundry chute with a hotel fire hose. The fire started in the room in the basement of the rear building of the two housing the hotel where the laundry chute emptied out, im- mediately sweeping up the chute. There is the possibility that the fire started in the electrical wnring for 24 knifeblade switches in switchbox in the room. Sparks flared up momentarily at 10:45 behind the baseboard of room 222 located in the rear building of the two housing the Gastineau Hotel but were quickly put out by the Volunteer Fire Department. The fire was brought under con- trol within a matter of minutes by the fire department when firemen answered the fire call at 9:15. Re- call was sounded at 11. Mrs. Luria Jordan, owner of the Imperial Cafe, left her room in the Gastineau Hotel by climbing down the fire escape from the fourth floor. She later took coffee to the fire- fighters from her cafe. Damage to the hotel was esti- mated this morning by Edward J. O’'Brien, manager of the Gastineau and Baranof hotels, as between $35,000 and $40,000. Dogs can see only black and white, no colors. i r l A vote was postponed until after- some length on the issue and Enge- breth was waiting to close the de- bate. In the Senate’s opening action on the 30-mill city property tax enab- ling act, Senator Garnick said she opposed it even though she recog- nized it was just giving cities per- mission to raise the tax, not saying that they should. “Any tax increase or anything which might increase the prospect of a tax increase would be inadvis- able now,” she declared. “If the territorial property tax law should held valid in the courts, then 10 more mills could be added on. If property were in a school district, it could go for another 10. If taxes keep going up and up, people can’t continue to live in the territory.” McCutcheon replied that costs of government operations keep rising with everything else and, if a city opposes a sales tax, and the 30-mill provision is not allowed, the only alternative is for the cities to re- assess property. “That would cost 82000000!’15 000" he said. “It would be much more reasonable to allow municipalities to raise the rate instead of having to reassess.” The memorial against staking on school lands was moved up for ahead-of-schedule action under suspénsion of the rules on McCut- cheon’s motion. He emphasized it is “of more than usual importance” because of the staking at Anchor- age. “If this situation is allowed to stand, it is going to establish a pre- cedent that will be detrimental to Alaska schools for many years to zome,” he declared. Engebreth added that it was not a problem for Anchorage alone be- cause “this land belongs to the school system of the entire terri- tory. It will be the loser.” STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle at 4 p.m. today. Princess Norah scheduled to sail’ from Vancouver 8 p.m., Feb. 14. Denali from westward scheduled to arrive Sunday morning south- bound. REPUBLIC MEMORIAL WITHDRAWN Board Reorganization and Teachers’ Pay Increase Bills Come In . By BOB DE ARMOND George Miscovich, Sniper first class, fired the final shot this morn- ing in the battle for the Republic of Alaska, but it proved to be a dud. Miscovich moved for a Committee of the Whole so the House could hear Henry A. Benson “an eminent authority of the subject of Inde- pendence for Alaska.” He was ruled out of order because of a motion already before the House. ‘The motion was by Rep. McCut- cheon, to reconsider his vote on an amendment offered and voted on yesterday. The amendment sought to strike from the memorial the portion de- manding the right of independence and formation. of the Republic of Alaska. This amendment had occupied the attention of the House during most of its afternoon session yesterday and resulted in a “call of the House,” several roll calls, numerous recesses to enable the Rules Com- mittee to deliberate points of or- der, a notice of reconsideration, a waiver of this notice and a second notice of reconsideration. Vote Is Demanded Carrying out Rep. Stepovich’s demand that members of the House be counted on the unmodified me- morial, 10 Republicans and three Democrats — Franklin, Gundersen and Madsen — steadfastly opposed all efforts to amend the measure. The 13-11 vote held this morn- ing, on the reconsideration vote. The Republicans were unable to muster the necessary strength, how- ever, to force a final vote on the memorial itself and they made an orderly withdrawal from the field, when the proponents of “statehood or else” began their retreat. “We've wrangled long enough over this two-bit memorial,” Rep. Misco- vich commented when Rep. Kay moved that the authors of the me- morial be allowed to withdraw it. Miscovich asked unanimous con- sent for Rep. Kay's motion and there was not a whisper of objec- tion. Board Reorganization Eight of nine bills introduced in the House this morning had to do with reorganizing Territorial boards and commissions by removing the governor from membership — as was suggested in the governor’s re- cent message to the Legislature. The various bills were authored by Reps. McCutcheon, Conright, Hope, Wells, Scavenius, Egan, Gun- dersen, Metcalfe and Stepovich. Two of them, almost identical, have to do with the Banking Board. The board membership changes (Continued cn Page Two) e o o WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau Maximum 22; minimum, 13. At Afrport — Maximum, 22; minimum, 4. FORECAST Fair tonight and Saturday with occasionally gusty northeasterly winds. Lowest tonight 15 in town and near zero in outlying areas. High- est Saturday about 25 de- grees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — Trace; Since Feb. 1 — .10 inches; since July - — 42.08 inches; At Airport — Trace; since Feb. 1 — .10 inches; WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—(-The Government has decided against underwriting new defense aluminum production facilities in Alaska Canada, it was disclosed today. Chairman Celler (D, N. Y. dis- closed the decision by defense mob- ilization chief Charles E. Wilson as a judiciary monopoly subcom- mittee fended hearings on the aluminum industry. Wilson’s decision was contained in a message to Marvin P. Taylor, president of the Skagway, Alaska, Chamber of Commerce, and to Mor- gan W. Reed, Skagway mayor. It was dated January 11 but was with- held pending conclusion of the committee’s hearings. Celler’s subcommittee has beer critical of proposals by the alum- inum company of Canada (Alcan) to build a $500,000,000 plant near Kitimat, B. C,, to furnish the U. 8 with aluminum in return for priori- ties and assured advance contracts on its output. The Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) has favored a site on the Taiya River near Skagway, Alaska, for a similar undertaking. Celler has contended that such U. S. aid to the two industry giants would only further what he has contended is already a monopoly concentration of power in the world-wide aluminum industry. Celler and the subcommittee have contended that U. 8. efforts should be directed at expanding the do- mestic industry through encourage- ment of new independent concerns. 25-HOUR FIRE IS FOUGHT M ichigan—'s—State Office Building Blaze Believ- + ed Under Control LANSING, Mich, Feb, 9 —®— A 24-hour fire that swept Michi- gan’s State Office building, causing an estimated $4,000,000 damage, “appears” to have been brought un- der control, State Fire Marshal Ar- nold Renner said this afternoon. The stubborn blaze, Renner said, now appears to be confined to the southeast corner of the “O" floor, six and a half stories up, where it first broke out. “We'll let it burn itself out,” he declared. The blaze, which brought tem- porary paralysis to parts of Mich- igan’s government, began in mid- H SHATTERED Dramatic Climax Reported | on Advance of Allies - 61,000 Red Casualties An Allied Task Force swept thru shattered Chinese Communist de- fenses today to reach the Han River, five miles southeast of burned-out Seoul. ‘The plunge to the icy Han was a dramatic climax to a UN offensive which began Jan. 25. In that time ¢he Allies had pushed forward cau- Jdously but murderously from 35 niles south of the old Korean capi~ al. They had inflicted more than 31,000 casualties on the enemy; and ‘heir offensive seemed directed to- ward this rather than toward the jaining of territory. U. 8. Eighth Army Commander Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway or- dored the final push to the Han hut said his troops might not try o retake Seoul. City Shelled Other armored task forces on the left flank were within two miles of the city, pouring shells into Yongdongpo, the ancient city’s in- dustrial suburb. One outfit pushed 2astward to within six miles of In- :hon, the capital’'s Yellow Sea port. Almost no enemy ‘resistance was met in these drives. The only danger ~vas from enemy mines strewn along he roads leading to the city. Only on the right end of the west- ern sector and on the adjoining central front were the Reds show- ing any fight. They staged early morning counterattacks but were repulsed. Weather Bitter Cold On the whole fighting front, the weather had turned bitter cold again, Snow and thick overcast kept Al- lied air support out of the skies. It also kept Gen. Douglas MacArthur from landing at U. S. Eighth Army headquarters for his 10th visit to Korea from Tokyo. A South Korean division banged up against 3,000 North Korean Reds on the outskirts of Cholbal, 30 miles north of Checon, and was stalled. The Reds released 41 American, British and South Korean prisoners of war during the'night at two places — 37 on the western front and four on the central front. ILIVESTOCK CONTROLS SLAPPED ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—{#—The day yesterday. It spread, at first{ Government slapped strict controls smouldering and then raging, thru|on livestock slaughtering today in the night. an effort to forestall black mar- By the time it was termed under| kets in meat. control, it had flared more than a full day. Firemen from five cities joined in fighting the treacherous blaze. The firefighters, working through the night in sub-zero cold, fought the blaze at close quarters inside. A total of 12 firemen and one police officer were overcome by smoke or injured by falling debris. By noon, more than 25,000,000 gallons of water had been poured into the structure. Five crews work- ed from scaling ladders. Two other crews attempted to find the heart of the blaze inside. Six inches of ice street outside. ANNUAL VALENTINE TEA GIVEN SATURDAY The annual Valentine Tea which will be given by Trinity Guild in the undercroft of the church tomor- row afternoon is open to men as well as women, the committee in charge has announced. Vjsitors in Juneau are extended a special invi. tation to drop in during the hours of 2 to5. covered the Recent Diet legislation provides since July 1—3035 in hes. ® 0 002 0 0 00 i The Office of Price Stabilization (OPS) issued an order bringing all livestock slaughter under a system of “slaughter quotas.” OPE Director Michael V. DiSalle said: “We are determined to keep meat out of the black market, and to ] see that steaks, pork chops and roasts continue to be available in all sections of the country at a fair price. We believe this slaughter- ing control is a step in that direc- tion. The order will have the effect of limiting slaughterers to the same proportionate share of animals they killed in 1950. New slaughterers are banned from starting operations, unless they can show they are badly needed by the public. On another food front, DiSalle and Economic Stabilization Chief Eric Johnston were quoted as saying they will not recommend any change in the present parity protection for farmers after further study. That word came from Chairman Maybank (D, 8. C.) after a Senate- House watchdog committee on mob- ilization met in closed session with| the price control chiefs. . Eggs are packed with small end for the licensing and registration; down because they keep better that of architects throughout Japan. | way. .