The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1951, Page 1

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LXXVI, NO. 11,7 = = JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUA RY 10, 1951 MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS HOOVER FOR STRONG SEA, AIR POWER NEW YORK, Feb. 10 —#— Her- bert Hoover, declaring that air and sea might are America’s best wea- pons st ageression, s la night that land war against Rus- sia would risk “the loss of all civil- ization.” He urged a period of watchful waiting for evidence of Eur unity and military strength b sending more ground iro The forme; said’ that 1a I build “overv power” {i she ¢ “A Com no conciu trophe no salvation to I He proposed ti 1 Shek be 1 “to do what to Chin and that the U. nish him with munitions.” Decl that the nation cannot | sustain for a budget of $71.6 billions and the tax load it demands, | he urged reduction of national | spending “to a level we can c;n‘ryi over a long term of years.” LEGISLATURE NGT TO MEET NEXT MONDAY s victory, no I could brin he add long met 1 £omat Both the House »ad this morning, the Ser until shortly before noo House, starting at 11, recessed until 2:15 and was expected to go toward clearing its calendar dur the afternoon Four morials | 1z — seeking ard, Gambell and Kasilof — were passed during the morning session A number of bills and memorials were introduced. Neither the House nor the Sen ate will meet on Monday, Lincoln’. birthday. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Freighter Coastal Rambler from Seattle in port. Scheduled to 1 for Seward tonight. Baranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive sometime Tuesday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail| from Vancouver 8 p.m., Feb. 14. Denali from westward schedule to arrive 5 a.m. Sunday seilirg south at 10 a.m. Cliff Emard Ketchikan sales man, is stopping at the Baranof hotel. ] be !mduy or tomorrow, The Washington Merry - Go-Buund By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, uy Beil Syndicate, Inc., ASHINGTON—With the nation facing one of its biggest tax bills in history, it is more important than ever that there be no tax chis- elers. Supporting this idea, Sen. John s, Delaware Republican, has 1 up a tax bribery scandal expesed in this column and has demanded the ouster of Jame: W. Johnson as Collector of Inter- nal Revenue for New York's Third District. Located right in the center of Manhattan, this is the wealth- iest tax district in the nation. Williams' blast at Johnson is ar outgrowth of bribery and corrupticn uneéarthed by this column on Jan. 30, 1950, more than a year ago Naming names and giving details this column revéaled how five of Johnson's tax collectors had been shaking down business firms and collecting bribes. Several months later, the same five collectors were brought to justice and sentenced to jail as follows— William A Ganey, five years and $14,350; An- thony V. Fiscella, two years, six months and $2,500; John A. Gal- gano, two years and $2,850; Thomas J. Cannon, 18 months and $2,500; and James A. Bessell, 10 years pro- bation. J. S. Johnson, (conun—ue‘d on fiage Four) the collector in | Acir are shown in Hollywoed as they together regularly irst marriage Dahl who ™ Wirephoto. DEER FLOWN 10 TAIYA VALLEY FOR STOCKE in with- ‘Weather changed into a project sut full succe! a try, try to job !the Fish ev- i jeral attempts to make the run to field improvements at Valdez, Sew- | Faines k last week. headed by Pete Nelsor the Game Mang with five live deer their vessel Grizzly Bear put in at Auk Bay late yesterday afternoon The deer, tal:2n on Admiral nd, were desiined to Taiya district in (he Sk 3 Four were flown oy plane to way yesterday afiernoon and The nts, sion then revezled their engagement. for the past y They 1t will be the nd for Barker, 32, is 24, and sc ) i the weather set up its pranks an- | 1 other time and strong winds pre- vented further flying. The five remaining deer still aboard the Grizzly Bear morning and it is hoped the; flown tq their future hom: were this can sites deer were and FWS agents who made the transport trip with Nelson Bob Baker, Sandy Matson Blake Kinnear. DIDN'T MEAN "MAJORITY’ SAYS SEN. G. ENGREBRETH “T had no intention of misinform- he Senate Committee on Inter- and Insular Affairs about the population of the Third Division,” Senator Gunnard Engebreth told the Empire today. The Senator referred to a quo- tation from his testimony before the committee at last year’s state- hocd hearing. The quotation, used n an Empire editorial Thursday that ‘Anchorage and the Third Division represent a great majority of the population of Alaska.” “What ‘I intended to say was hat bur division represents a great ‘portion’ of Alac populati p,’ nator Engebreth said. v v MIRRORED BEAUTY — Dixieland’s Maid of Cotton, Jeannine Hollana, of Houston, 'ex,, is a reflecied beauty as she sits in front of mirrors on her arrival in New York. Eddy Duchin DiesinN. Y. YORK. whi ! | __ NEW Duchin, piano 10—(P—Eddy mestery 0Of the yboard delighted millions of Americans, died here last night only a few hours after the Navy citeq him for his Wérld War Two combat record, Rear Admiral Walter S. Delany, dommmndant of ‘the 3rd Naval District, delivered the citation per- o Duchin, 41, nt at Memorial Eosiptal. Duchin enlisted in the Navy eight years ago. He served on destroyers in some of the toughest engage- Under the great stress of ap- pearing before the committee foi e first time, I errcneously usec word ‘majority.” “Everyone knows the Third Divi sion does not have a majority of the Territory’s population, and 1 regret that the error was made.” HEALTH CENTER HOIIDAYS Due to the fact shat Monda February 12, Lincoln’s Birthday, is a Territorial Ho.day, the Health Center will be closed all day, but will reopen as usual Tuesday. GANTY RETURNS P. S. Ganty of Pelican retumed: here yesterday from Seattle on | PAA and is stopping at the Baranof | hotel. ments of Loth the Atlantic and Pa- dific. In 1945 he was discharged as enant Commander. tle against Leukemia fere of cancer of the hlcpd— ted.several months ago. Duchin won the title of “The Magic Fingers of Radio.” He and his band ,were featured in several motion pictures, including “Cor- onado” in 1935 and “Hit Parade” in' 1987. At one time, his fingers x'eportedlyi were insured for $150,000. FROM ANCHORAGE Robert F. Lucason, Alaska rail- road man from Anchorage, Is reg-| istered at the Baranof hotel. | D. J. Matelski of Wrangell is ‘shopping at the Hotel Juneau. BOND ISSUE | PROPOSAL IS BEATEN, 8-7 (By Jim Hutcheson) A proposal for a $12,500,000 bond | issue for schools was killed yester- day in the Senate. The vote was 8 to 7 against a memorial asking Congress for the| ight to issue territorial bonds for chool buildings. The memorial was | introduced by Gunnard M. Enge- reth, Anchorage Republican. The ¢ also Kk similar mea- ure during the session. Four Democrats three Re- ublicans voted for esterday. Five Republicans and » Democrats ve'sd against the o 1949 and TOpP he arguments i f with I onded, 2e opponents cities and the terri- unique in freedom de chances for better if it stays way and such request to Congress should be only after a referendum vote by the people: Number 1 Problem guing for the memorial, Enge- | breth said the “number one prob- Ie of the Territory is construc- tion of schools.” He said he opposed uch action at the last session but| added that he was “convinced it was necessay nNow. He said that city and state bond- for construction projects is “re- gnized as sound practice.” Sen. Steve McCutcheon, Anchor- age Democrat, declared that about 7,000 children in Alaska were with- cut schools the past biennium and added that “its about time for to stop fiddling und.” Voting for the memorial were Democrats William Beltz, Walter | Huntley, R. M. Mackenzie, and Mc- | Cutcheon. Republicans for the mes sure were Anita ni Per Ipalcok, and Engebreth. Those Opposed Voting against were Republicans ! John Butrovich, A. F. (Joe) Coble, Elton Engstrom, W. L. (Dan) Lha- imon, and Gerrit (Heinie) Snider. Democrats against were Ed Ander- son, Howard Lyng, and James No- ) lan, Frank Barr, Fairbanks Demo- crat, did not vote, Sniaer, Lyng and Anderson alll gaid there should be a referendum first. Lyng said he would ~ote for the measure proposing a refc/endum 1ii one were introduced. $8,600,000,000 Budget Butrovich, finance chairman, said: “Wa haven't neglected schools. The Ludget will run over $8,000,000 for them.” Lhamon estimated it would cost $375,000 yearly in interest to fin- ance the bonds which he said would have to come from the schocl bud- get. The Senate also completed legis- lative approval of C. Chester Carl- son’s joint memorial to President l’n‘umam snd Secretary of State Acheson opposing any Japanese treaty without a guarantee against | | Japenese fishermen encroaching on North American waters. It was a case of a double barreled attack because the Senate previously had; passed Engstrom’s Senate Joint § Resolution on the same subject, U. A ALUMNUS T0 ORGANIZE AT MONDAY MEETING An organizational meeting of stu- dents and graduates of the Univer- {sity of Alaska of the Gastineau) Channel area will be held at 8 o'clock Monday evening, February 12, in the office of Harold Gron-) roos at the Veterans Employment Service offices in the Juneau Young building, it was announced today. A local alumnae chapter of the University in Juneau will be or- ganized. Also preparations will be made for a reception for the Uni- versity of Alaska basketball team which is scheduled to arrive here next week. All amouni of the University are urged to attend the Monday meet- ing. It is estimated about 30 former students and graduates of the Al- aska university reside in the Chan- nel area. Any person interested and who may desire further informaticn eon- cerning the Monday evening meet- ing is asked to telephone 964 dur-| {ing Monday. { heavily remains ( from bonded tehood were that hat c 1 the memorial |} i may rig, 9 b PRODIGY — Gianella De Marco, six-year-old Italian girl, | concentrates on the score as she | directs the famed Lamoureaux Orchestra in a rehearsal at Salle Pleyel, Paris, MAR. 1 DEADUINE FOR FILIG CLAIMS PRISONERS OF WAR, The following released today by Lew N Secretary of : 211 prise ners of war of World War II, their widows, childrer parents! Tie dewdline for filing vlaims for the §l-a-day nts to p of war or their sur.ivors is 1, 1951. The final date, March First | vas fixed by law and cannot he| by the War Claims Com- | on. If you or a member of! your family were held a prisoner of war during World War II, you| be entitled to these special! POW payments. For official claims | information was i. Williams, Alasl 1 paym forms and further information, call or see Secretary of Alaska, Juneau, Alaska, or write the War Claims Commission, hington | 25, D. C. Don’t delay—March First is not far away. TRUMAN'S DARE NOW TAKEN UP WASHTKGTON, Feb. 10 —®— A key Repubiisan member of the House Ways and Means Committee dared Presidert Truman tfoday- to present his whole $16,500,000,000 new tax program in one Lite. That was the answer of Rep. Richard M. Simpson (R-Pa) to the President’s own dare to Congress to try to cut his $71,600,000,000 budget for the next fiscal year which be-! gins July 1. At his news conference | yesterday, Mr. Truman des cribedl his financial program for the na-{ tion as a good budget and a tight one. s There was word from the Senate, meanwhile, that a single-package tax bill has strong support from Chairman George (D-Ga) of the Senate Finance Committee. Simpson, one of the senior Re- publicans on the House Committee, told a reporter: “The President glibly dares Con- gress to t{ry to save the taxpayers’ money by cutting his spending pro- gram. “The President suggested ways that the people could be taxed $10,- 000,000,000 more, but he passed the buck to Congress on raising an ad- ditional $6,500,000,000 on top of that. ALASKANS PLAY TOURISTS; SEE GLACIER TODAY Mr. and Mrs, Bok Rice and Paul Greimann of Fairbanks played “vis- itors” this morning and visited Mendenhall Glacier for the first| time before taking off jin the Rice Beecheraft for Fairbanks. Stanley Baskin took them on a regular sight seeing tour. They were here attending the meetings of the Alaska Visitors As- | sociation, RR UNION IS FINED $25,000 CHICAGO, Feb. 10— (® —The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, a Federal judge ruled yesterday in fining it $25,000, was responsible for the rail switchmen's “sick” strike last December. Judge Michael I. Igoe imposed the fine on the rail union as full crews of switchmen ended a 10-day simi- lar “sick” walkout and returned to work across the country. The union faces a second charge of contempt in connection with the walkout just ended. A hearing is scheduled for Feb. 14 but Igoe indicated he would continue it to + later date. ALASKA GAME COM, OPENS MEETINGS MONDAY MORNING The opening session of the Al- aska Game Commission annual meeting will be at 8 o'clock Mon- day, February 12, Court room in the Federal building. Sessions will continue each day through Saturday, February 16. Members of the Game Commis- i sion who will arrive in Juneau to- day and tomorrow are Earl Ohmer of Petersburg, and Charles Brown of £humnak. Forbes Baker of Fair- lanks arrived hereearlier this week from Fairbanks. Andrew Simonson of Lake Viéw on the Kenai, member from the Third Division has not yet indicated whethér he will attend the meetinz. His wife was taken in death earlier this month and it is not believed/he wil be present. Monday'’s session will be devoted to - a genersl assembly of Game Commission members will officials and agents of the Fish and Wildlife Service, U. S. Army conservation enforcement offjcers assigned from Armed Forces units in Alaska to work with the FWS, and FWS of- ficials here for the meeting from | Washington. Tuesday the Game Commission will commence a study and delibera- tions of the recommendations for (changes in Alaska's game regula- tions which have been made in ! the last two months at public hear- ings throughout the territory. Re- ports have been compiled to be presented to the Commission. Washington officials in Juneau to attend the Game Commission meetings are Dr. Clarence Cottam Assistant Director of the Fish and Wildlise Service, making his first visit to Alaska and Charles Law- rence, Assistant Branch Chief of Game Management, who is also visiting Alaska for the first time. Representatives of the U. S. Arm- ed Forces in Alaska who will at- tend are Col. Springer and Major Fields, of the Headquarters Staff, Fort Richardson, representatives as- signed permanently as conserva- tion enforcement officers Sgt. CHff ghearer from Fort Richardson and Sgt. Saurers from the Fairbanks units and Sgt. Barrett of the Tenth Rescue Squadron from Fort Rich- ardson, who is on part time assign- ment, Saturday evening the members of the Game Commission, Fish and Wildlife Service officials and visitors participating in the Commission meetings and the annual session of the FWS enforcement agents will gather at Whing Dings for dinner. WEATHER REPORT ‘Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau Maximum 23; minimum, 10. At Afrport 21; minimum, -8. Maximum, FORECAST Fair and cold tonight and Sunday. Lowest temperature tonight 10 deg. in town and 0 to 5 below in outlying areas. Highest Sunday about 22 degrees. 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; since July 13035 inches. ® 9 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 ¢ in the District| . 7 N CENTS ———— PRICE TE AUK BAY HARBOR USE IS DESIRED EForest Service Abandons Auk Bay Telephone System A small boat harbor at Auk Bay was the subject of considerabie dis- cussion at Friday night's regular monthly meeting of the provisional 3 Prizes Captured in Red-killing Offensive Film Pair fo Wed NEW CRUSH O REDS BY UN FORCES Allied WaArApVI;nes in- At- tacks — Warships Shell Areas -Jefs in Action Auk Bay post of the Americar Legion. Ways and means of gelting support for the proposal and for securing such a project took .up a large part of the meeting. At the conclusion of the discussions, Posi, Commander George ¥. Cantillon enlarged the special committee looking into the maftter by adding Legionnaires I. J. Noble and El- wood Reddekopp to the committes Robert J. Prueher and Jack N Trambitas are the other committee members. A letter from the U. Service informed the Legion gro that it is abandoning telephc service to the Auk Bay area. J. C. Dodd, head of a special committee to investigate the p sibilities of extending the benefits of the Alaska World War II Vei- erans Act to all veterans in the Territory, recommended that the matter be dropped as unfeasible for the time being. Plans to raise money through the award of a deepfreeze unit were approved and the Finance Com- mittee was authorized to make all arrangements. A new Post building I'site was approved and a committee was appointed to negotiate for its purchase: The committeée inchides Commander Cantillon, Pobert N. Druxman, Clarence C. Musher and Trambitas Loyd W. Coe was appointed as post servivy officer and Prueher was named post chaplain by Can- tillon. Permanent post committees were also appointed last night by Can- tillon as follows: Merabershi Chairman Jack L. Sturtesant, Urick G. Larsen anc! Trambitas. Finance: chairman, 8. Fores Robert N. Druxman, urtevant and Prueher. Public R:ations: J. C. Dodd, chairman, Richard N. Stockdale and Willigm L. Simonds. Americanism: Clarence C. Mosh- er, chairman; Charles R. Nordling and Reddekopp. Program: Floyd E. Ogden, chair- man; Ervin E. Hagerup and Greig E. Ewing. . Visiting: Robert J. Prueher, chair- man; Bill C. Stilley and Beulah TOKYO, Feb, 10 —#* Allied tank-infantry columus, rolling north d on the floodiide of the 17-day Red-killing cffensive, c wed three big prizes around Sc today without firt a shot. 1 T'hey swept into the sputhwest ndusirial suburb of Yongdungpo 2. They raced ou (o0 the big Ki po airfield 15 miles northwest Seoul. 3. They tered Yello miles west of capital “Where the hell are the Chi~ 1ese?” a GI shouted as he entered Yongdungpo. Crosses ¥Frozen Han patrol rossed the frozen Han River, breached the southern ate of Seoul itself and tangled in a brisk fire-fight with a company of Chinese troops inside the capital city. Allied artillery and Howitzer shells crumped into the capital, al ready buffeted and devastated three imes by the tides of the strange Korean war, War Planes Attack Allied warplanes buzzed low in attack., They spewed out Napalm 1irebombs, rockets and machinegun shells wherever pilots could flush 1 vanishing’ enemy. They raked a orce of 1,000 Reds trying to flee north across the Han. Big guns of Allied warships in- cluding the battleship Missouri and the cruisers U.8.S. St. Paul and the (British Belfast poured shells into the enemy area. The warships were prowling the Yellow Sea waters off | tnchon. ' Red Defense Crumbled Tke whole Communist defense in I‘.lm west had crumbled. But the 1Reds were making a stand in the central Korean area against the northward drive of the old U. S. 10th corps. The 10th now was fighting as a unified element of the U. S. Eighth Army under over- all command of Lt. Gen. Matthew 3. Ridgway. Jets in Battle Far to the north of the swift round action, U. 8. Fifth Air Force F-80 Shooting Star jets tangled in the Sinanfu area with Russian- bat- 19 rumbled into th Sea port of In id Sout One Hickey. It was also voted to hold all fu- ture meetings at DeHart’s Store in Auk Bay. Last night’s meeting was in the home of Lloyd Coe and was attended by 14 Legionnaires 1n- cluding two new members, I. J. No- ble and Ralph A. Reischl. Post membership has now reached a total of 21. LINCOLN DAY BANQUET SET FOR MONDAY NIGHT Annual Lincoln Day dinner willj be held Monday night at 7 o'clock in the Gold Room of the Baranof hotel, according to general chair- man Howard Simmons who will be toastmaster for the occasion. With the legislature in session this year it is expected a large crowd will turn sut for the event. No tic'zets are on sale but person desiring reservations may call the 3 Baranof desk, phone 800, and leave their names. Reservations will be paid for at the hotel dining room Monday evening before the dinner. No formal long speeches are scheduled. The occasion will rather be key-noted by a sociable get-to- gether to become acquainted and!} exchange views. Party officers, in-| cluding General Counsel of the Re- publican party Albert White; and Mrs. Margaret E. White, National committeewoman, will be introduc- ed and called on for talks. It is expected all the Republican mem- bers of the legislature, 10 repre- sentatives and eight senators will be guests and will each make brief remarks. The committee in charge assures those attending that an excellent § nade MI(:-15 jets. No damage to either reported. The MIGs showed up in force for the first time in days. Three flights of Shooting Star pilots reported the MIG attacks. There were 12 Russian-made jets in one flight. seven’or eight in a second and an ‘unreported number in the third Bridges Blasted American B-29s blasted Red rail bridges near the Red Korean capi- tal of Pyonugyang with 64 one-ton block-busters, Other superforts hit the rail yards and bridges at Sun- chon, about 30 miles north of Pyohgyang. BLOOD DONORS REPORT TUES., THURS. FOR MT. EDGECUMBE MED, WORK Donors who are to give blood for patients to undergo theracic and orthopedic surgery at the Mt. E cumbe Medica! Center are & to be at the Juneau Health Center on Main Street, next Tuesday or Thursday afterncon from 5 to 6 50 that their blood may be typed. Friends and relatives of patients at the Medical Center are especially asked to report to the Health Cen- ter. Any one else who is not regis- tered for the Red Cross blood pro- gram may give blood in this pro- gram. Later, when the list of blood types are compiled, those on the list will be called upon to give blood if they care to do so. Rev. Walter Soboleff, minister at the Memorial Presbyterian Church, and Alfred Willard, .grand secretary of side wa dinner will be served for this an- here in Juneau. the Alaska Native Brotherhood, © | nual affair of many years standlmzfare cooperating in the appeal for I blood donors, |