The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 12, 1951, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL TLIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXVIL, NO. 11,7 31 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS = MEMRBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Reds SLEUTH BILL IS NOW HANGING IN SUSPENSE Held Over for Reconsider- ation Temorrow-Emer- gency Clause Fails Iy BOB DE ARMOND Alaska have a Legislative Investigating Committee? Or a Legislative Council, with wer to conduct investigations? r neither or both?_ Franklin’s Investigating tee bill passed the House fternoon by a 14-10 vote. the 14 on the prevailin side, however, was Rep. Stanley McCutcheon, who had earlier laid down a heavy barrage against the bill and against investigating com- mittees generally. But by vecting on the prevailing side, he gained the privilege of re- considering his vote, and he at once gave notice of his intention to re- will Rep This automatically held the bill over until the next time the House imeets, which will be tomorrow. The vote on the emergency clause, whi would put the law into effect the moment it is approved, s .2-11, three short of the 18 neces- | i ary. Delays Two Years The failure of the clause apparently would delay the effect of the bill for two years, as- suming that it passes both houses and is approved by the Governor. The bill provides for election of the committee, two members from the House and two from the Senate, ‘not later than 5 days after the effective date of this act.” In the absence of an emergency lause, the bill would not become | effective until 90 days after its ap- proval by the Govenor. The Legi lature would not then be in session 0 elect members to the committee jind the first election — unless a special session intervenes — would be within five days after the next egislature is organized. Plenty of Safeguards Rep. Franklin, speaking in support bf his bill, admitted that as orig- nally drafted it had insufficient afeguards for persons or depart- nents under investigation. A thorough job of amending had orrected these faults, Franklin as- erted. He urged the passage of his bill ather than HB. 21, Rep. Kay's bill to create a Legislative Council. Rep. Kay's bill, Franklin said, has many virtues but would be too nwieldy and expensive to do the ork for which H.B. 7 was designed. He estimated that the Kay bill sould cost $50,000 a biennium. The ppropriation to carry out investi- ations under Franklin’s bill is 7,500 for the biennium. Vicious Boomerang “House Bill 7 sets up a vicious oomerang and persons who vote he Washington ito the Congress of the United States | Cor emergency Ram ) . - 1 -1 3, A NORTHERN NOTEBOOK By BOB DE ARMOND H l (Seventeenth of a Series) It seems at times that Indian Reservations must be almost as much of an annoyance and bother as they are to the people of Alaska. Because of the bother they cause it is small wonder that Senators and Representatives not look unfavorably upon a clause in the Alaska statehood bill that would rid them of the prob- 'em, so far as Alaska is concerned, mee and for all. The Senate section of the Con- ;ressional Record for January 22 devotes several pages w the trou- bles of the Colville Indians of the State of Washington. The Colville Indians, it appears, ave a reservation and have had one several years. They alco have some claims against the govern- ment, and the whole business is mixed up with mineral rights, tim- ber rights, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and some assorted lawyers, including one Ja s E.Curry, whose name is not wholly unfamiliar to Alaskans. our for Deep Indian Reservation was established | Hunting and fishing are negligible | toward support of our people. “Our economic life has been rev- olutionized and yet we are not al- lowed to buy and sell our own prop- erty. Business principles are pletely ignored. “Our capital resources cannot be sold and developed. People who own large tracts of timber live in a hove but cannot sell their timber. They are forced to wait until one of the big favored lumber companie: cy tematically cuts large tracts of tim- ber and reaches the indivi land. “Red tape and a desire to per- petuate themselves in office by! members of the Indian service have not been conducive to economic de- velopment of our Indian resource “People will not establish industry or business when they cannct give a long-term lease let alone a deed We cannot develop capitalistic en- terprise under Soviet-type control. “Why should we be ruled by in- dividuals who know nothing about business? “Why are we protected by a sys- com- The Colville Indians appear to be getting nowhere with the settlement of their claims and the consequence is that most tion have given the whole thing up as a bad job and moved away to Idaho Canada or :ime other place. The ones who remain cn -he res- tion are still fighting it out with the lawyers and the bureaus and not making much headway. One of their latest efforts is a pe- tition addressed to Senator Hugh Butler and signed by Harsey St. Paul and 570 others. The petition sa “More people are living in pover- ty today than when the Colville L . or for it may regret it,” Rep. Kay i charged. “This committee will be dominat- ed by which ever party has control of the Legislature and will degen- erate into a party witch hunt,” he ! asserted. On the other hand, Kay claimed his own H.B. 21 would provide for all necessary investigations anc with the added power of making studies of the governmental crgan |ization and recommending changes Kay also charged that there wa no provision in the bill for bipar- tisan membership on the committee Fought Amendment To this Rep. Mike Stepovich re- plied that when an amendment tc provide bipartisan membership hac been suggested, Kay fought the amendment. The Franklin bill, said Stepo- vich, now provides all necessary safeguards — confidential hearings with heavy penalties for disclosing information, conducting of hearing: iby the rules of evidence, and the | right of witnesses to have attorney: jand to cross examine. “All those who are interested ir good, clean government should vote for this bill,” Stepovich told the House. £ i Sees Old Hag “I am about the most investigatec zuy in the Territory of Alaska,” said s n erry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON ‘opyright, 1951, vy Bell Svndicate, Inc.. ' ASHINGTON—Today the SS agtedyk sails from Philadelphia, ty of brotherly live, bearing the rst cargo of the tide of toys to arope. This is a friendship cargo lhich the American Legion has instakingly collected = from all irts of the U. S. A. for the child- n of Europe and for the families American GI's in Korea. Last year the Legion sent 100,000 toys to Europe. Frequent- drives of this kind slacken after e first year. People get tired or scouraged, figure the need isn’t iite so great. But the Legion has versed this trend, and the amaz- 2 total of 7,000,000 toys have now en contributed by children who uld spare a toy frem under their 'n Christmas tree, hat the Legion and its friends ve realized is that money nnot buy friendship. Nor can shipment, of arms build friend- lip. Nor can the rebuilding eof ropean factories, important as t is, buila friendship. It is the Jople-to-people understanding, Rep. McCutcheon, “and I see ir this bill an old snaggle-toothed hag with a pointed hat,' riding not ¢ broom but an elephant.” McCutcheon atiacked Mark Jen- sen, member of a special investi- gating committee created: by the 1949 Legislature, for what he said was misuse of his position on the committee. “Three days before the last Pri- mary Election T woke up to find that T was being hit by a baseball bat full of spikes. They really made iche headlines, and I had no oppor- tunity to make a statement. It was really vicious, really unfair,” Mec- Cutcheon said. A Man Named Mark Rep. Doris Barnes had the answer for that 'and for any and all people in public office. “Another man named Mark,” she said, “long ago told us, ‘Let your light so shine before men that men may know your good works and glorify thy Father who -+~ in Heaven'.” Rep. Metcalfe saw the Franklin bill as a “double-bladed axe,” and Rep. Scavenius asserted that it could be used to assassinate the reputations of innocent people. I h as comes through a gift of a (Continued on ;aaa Four) Observers today predicted ' that {the bill will pass on the reconsider- lauon vote tomorrow by a 13-11 of the original 3,400 | Indians who lived on the reserva- | tem of theoretical bencvolent pa- terna ? “Are we not any more c.pable ) running our affairs than & cclerea [or white man? | “When are we going to be treated |on terms of equality? When can ! we order a glass of beer the same l:n any other citizen? | “1t is time we were given our | freedom to live unrestricted as ordi- | nary individuals instead of living { under the thumbs of small-minded | souls who cannot see further than | their monthly pay check. “Therefore the undersigned re- | spectfully petition that we be freed, 5mvcn the rights, duties and privi- leges of a citizen.” — e margin, but that there is no chance of passing the emergency clause to make it effective at once. “It just looks like some of these Democrats are afraid to have any- thing investigated around here,” commented Rep. George Miscovich at the end of Saturday's session. 3RD SECTION OF BOY SCOUT COUNCIL MEETS IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS The Juneau section of the an- nual meeting of the Alaska Boy cout Council will be held this wening in the City Council Cham- pers at 7:45, with Council President George A. Parks presiding. This will be the third in the eries of sectional meetings, with the final session being held in Ketchikan on Wednesday. The an- qual meetings include reports of he Council operating committees, sonsideration of theannual budget for Alaska scouting, and election 5f officers for the ensuing year. All interested leaders and commit- eemen are invited to attend, in ad- lition to the regular voting mem- sers in this area. Other council officers in Juneau nclude Charles G. Burdick, coun- il commissioner; Dr. James C. Ryan, vice-president; G. E. Cleve- | and, treasurer; Curtis G. Shat- ek, who is chairman of the Souncil's camping and activities sommittee; ~Kenneth S. Clem, chairman of the organization snd] extension committee; and Rev. R. R. Armstrong, council chairman for leadership training. Visiting legislators who are prom- inent in Alaska Council scouting nave heen invited to attend, m-} cluding Fairbanks vice-president %. L. Lhamon, district committee} members Alden Wilbur and Joe Coble, also of Fairbanks; execu- tive board members Walter Hunt- ley of Palmer; Gunnard Engebreth of Anchorage, and Edward Locken of Petersburg. OLIVER ANDERSON HERE ON BUSINESS Oliver Anderson, vesel operator on the Kuskokwim Riier, came to Junecau yesterday from Seattle and will be here several days on busi~‘ Iness in connections with next sea- $son’s river operations. Anderson is a former resident of Douglas and is finding time to visit with old Channel friends’ while here. He will return to Se- attle from Juneau and will go to his headquarters at Bethel in the lspflng. drop i Columbia today and the weather bureau said the “worst is over.” | called |T Wedge into Allie FLOODS IN WASH., B.C. SUBSIDING. Five Thousand Persons Are; Homeless After 3-Day Rampage of Rivers | TTLE, Feb. 12 —— Clear-| ies and a sharp temperature | eased flood conditions in S ing s Western Washington and British Rain-swollen rivers were cresting and slowly receding after a three- day rampage which had left an estimated 5,000 persons homeless. British Columbia counted at least five dead after a weekend of floods and storms. A state of emergency was in ef- fect in Western Washington and five National Guard units were out as rampaging rivers crashed through dikes ani spilled out over lowlands. The Red Croess here said National Headquarters had made a disaster appropriation for the area. State of Emergency Governor Langlie proclaimed a state of emergency after some 4,600 persons had been driven from their homes in Northwest Washington. Wirephoto. was damaged heavily by an explosion. At lower left is a railway boxcar which was overturned and shattered b, ¥ "1 Explosion Wrecks Plant This is a general view of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Cq. plant at St. Paul, Minn. which At least 9 persons were reported killed and more than 40 injured. y the force of the explosion. (P) ‘ . Another 650 were homeless in Brit- sh Columbia’s flooded Fraser River Valley. Rivers spilled their banks after! three days of record rain. The weather bureau said early today clearing weather had generally eas- ed flood conditions throughout, the area. All streams were falling with the exception of the lower reaches of the Green River in Western Washington. B. C. Siiuation Rivers also were receding in Brit- ish Columbia and the situaticn was reported greatly improved at Princeton where the Tulameen and | Similkameen Rivers had found channels through an ice jam. The highest water in many years was reported on the Skagit River in Northwestern Washington. More than 1,000 persons were evacuated from the low-lying Skagit delta. ;. gq Alaska. The woman was iden- he communities of Hamilton and ey’ g5 Lois Gilman, 37, believed Conway were virtually deserted and to be his wite children and the aged were re-. 3 moved from the Stanwood area. The sheriffs areo $guadron first In Southwestern Washington, received a report that three victims the Cowlitz River crasted at 22-feet|had been found in the crash, but :he highest level nince 1048: The{this RFovEd. 0. be exrcneous. rampaging river ripped out two A search for the pline, a Grum- huge log booms and endangered the | man, had been on :ince yesterday Cowlitz River bridge between Long- | when deputies heed it flying low view and Kelso. in the fog.'it came in from sea, -— thev -aid, engine sputtering. Siaie . Later, hikess reported hearing it pltklng Them Yo“ng cst:f.: aero squadron said the plane . For Brides; See What . . Matrimeny Is Doing ! was registered to the Portland, Ore., (By Associated Press) Power and Light Co., but the com- pany reported that it had sold the craft through a broker several months ago. The buyer was Gilman. Matrimony is the big news in the ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb, 12— Middle-East today. In Tehran, the) #— Mr. and Mrs. Dale Gilman, re- Shad of Iran marries his secondported killed in a plane crash Sun- wife today the 19-year-old | day near Malibu, Calif., left here daughter of a tribal leader. Cairo, Egyptians are celebrating | in the States. the engagement of their King Far-; Gilman, an experiencd flier, was ouk to 17-year-old Narriman Sadek. [ owner of Gilmans Bakery herc. dis Egyptian school children have been | wife, Lois, operated the Lois E.auty given a two weeks vacation in honor | Shop here. of the kings birthday and engage- ment. ALASKA,DEAD, PLANE CRASH MALIBU, Calif, Feb. 12 —iP— A man and a woman were found dead today in the wreckage of an amphibian plane which crashed yesterday in the Santa Monica mountains near Topanga Canyon. Deputies said the man carried a pilots license in the name of E. Dale Gilman, 40, of Box 749, Anch- LEFT ANCHORAGE IN OCT. THOMPSON GOING TO CALIFORNIA Jack Thompson, co-owner and manager of the S n’ T store ip Juneau left Sunday enroute tc southern California where he plans to spend the next three months Jack says ‘he is going to give & warm, dry climate a try for relie ing a persistent sinus condition and plans to work at a job in the desert country. During his absence the store Wil be managed by Jack’s mother, Mrs. Lucille Stine who owns the business with her son. A e e o o . . e o o o o o WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau Maximum 23; minimum, 11. At Airport — Maximum, 20; minimum, -7. | FORECAST Mostly cloudy tonight and ] Tuesday Wwith occasional snow flurries Tuesday after- noon. Lowest temperature tonight about 15 anc. highest Tuesday near 27. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours endihg 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — None; Since Feb, 1 — .10 inches: since July - — 42.08 inches; At Airport — None; since Feb. 1 .10 inches; since July 1—3035 inches. e 0o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | ALBRECHT TO WASHINGTON e e| Dr. C. Earl Albrec.t, Alaska ® | Commissioner of Healtt, left last ® | week for Washington D. C., to at- ®|tend a conference on the medical ® ! program for the territory with of- ® | ficials of the Naiional Civilian De- . ltense, COUPLE FROM TRANSPORT PLANE [§ CRASH; NONE OF 13 ABOARD INJURED EDMONTON, Alberta, Feb. 12 — (M—A U, S. Air Force C-54 trans- port plane made a forced landing here yesterday after one of its pro- pellors came loose and crashed into the cabin. None of the 13 aboard was in- Jjured. Capt. P. M. Woods, the pilot, said the No. 3 engine on the star- board side caught fire when the plane was over Whitecourt, Alta., about 100 miles northwest of here, on a flight to Elmendorf Field at Anchorage, Alaska. Fire extinguishers pui out the fire, but the propellor crashed against the cabin wall, carving a hole three by six feet. The orop cutb all power, lines and damaged the brakes, landing flaps and the hy- draulic system and the instruments. Woods turned back to Ldmonton and made a landing without brakes. The four-motored plane hit a snow- bank after running off the runway. The C-54 was attached to the 54th Troop Carrying Squadron. CAPY. PIACCENTI IS "FIRST NURSE GIVEN TEACHERS | DEMANDING | PAY RAISE Oppose $300 a Year In crease as Inequitable to Cost of Living PALMER, Alaska, Feb, 12 —(P— Palmer's entire faculty of 23 teach- ers were on record today as oppos- ¢ ing a $300 per year wage increase for teachers as “inequitable. In a letter writing campaign this week they supported Anchorage teachers in a demand that the raise be based on a cost of living survey compiled last summer. The protests went to legislators rand the Territorial Board of Educa- tion opposing the increase proposed by the executive committee of the Alaska Education Association, which is to come before the legls- lature. They said the survey, showing Seattle as 100 per cent, pegged Jun- eau at 130 per cent; Anchorage 161, and Fairbanks and Nome at 196. MRS. NORDALE HERE ALASKA ASSIGRMENI ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, | Alaskay — The first Air Force Re- | serve nurse in the Territory of Alas- | be accepted is Captain Margaret | Piaccenti, wartime Flight Nurse | and veteran of the Far East. Employed by the Alaska Native Service at Mt. Edgecumbe hospital ntil recently, Captain Piaccenti’s wctive duty assignment is vith the 005th Air Force Hosriual at El- nendorf AFB. | Captain Piaccenti volunteered for recall because she feels that, as in 1941 when she began her rgilitary service, her “country needs nurses.” She is a graduate of the Nor- wegian hospital in Brooklyn, York, class of 1940. Joining the ice in 1941, Captain Piaccent] stationed at Jackson, and Florida until 1943 when she be- | came a continental Air E: ition Nurse at Bowman Field, Kentucky. Assigned overseas to the Far Eastern theater in August of 1045, she served in China, Japan, the Phillipines, and Hawaii. Captain Piaccenti returned to civilian life in 1947 to attend St. John’s University, where she grad- uated with a Bachelor of Science | degree in Nursing Education. | In September of 1950, Captain | Piaccenti came to Alaska to work |at the tuberculosis sanitorinm at | | Mt. Edgecumbe. .| pointed damage prevention TO ATTEND MEETING BOARD OF EDUCATION Mrs. Ladessa Nordale of Fair- banks arrived in Juneau on the Pan American plane Thursday to And in | last October for a flying vacation ka to volunteer for active duty and attend the annval meeting of the Board of the Territorial Depart- ment of Ecducation. She is a mem- |ber of tne Board from the Fourth Division, Mrs. Nordale is the wife of Hjalmer Nordale of the well known pioneer Fairbanks famuiy, and owner of the Nordale h-tel there. | She is a sister-in-law of Kitherine Nordale of Juneau. GILLESPIE HAS NEW JOB, ALASKA STEAM Bert R. Gillespie ias been ap- agent of the Alaska Steamship Company, D. E. Skinnee, vice president and general manag”r, 2nnNounces. “This position aas been created,” he pointed out, “as a further ef- fort toward reducing cargo damage and eliminating the elements that| result in such damage.” TIDE TABLE February 13 tide 12:07 e.m. 44 ft. 6:22 a.m. 146 ft. 1:14 pm. 31 ft. 7:23 p.m. 11.0 ft. e o o 0o o Low High tide Low tide High tide « e o 3 ° . ) . ° . | Dei fnorth of Hoengsong. farrive 8 am. Tuesday. enses UNITS OF UN FORCES CUT OFF ixty Thousand Commies Suddenly Launch Sav- age Counter Drive N (By Associated Press) Chinese and Korean Reds, comb- ing power with such ru es as white flags and handshakes, rammed a dangerously deep wadge seven miles into Allied lines on the Korean Cen- tral front Monday, isolating some American and South Korean units. On the East Coast a South Kor- ean patrol which had thrust five miles north of the 38th Parallel was foreed back four miles by a Red counterattack. At last reports to 7. 8. Eighth Army headquarters, how- ever, the South Koreans were still one mile north of the old boundary of north and south Korea. Savage Red Drive The savage Red counterdrive in the mountainous Central Sector was launched Sunday midnight and pushed by an estimated 60,000 troops throughout Monday on a 30- mile-wide front. Two American units of undis- closed size were reported cut off They were fighting to crack enemy road blocks that extended two miles along the road south of them. An American relief fovce was battling up from the south. A South Korean regi- ment also was reported cut off northeast of Heengsong. That town is 55 air miles east of Seoul, Fud-heli former Korean capital. Vacrols Attacked Unitea Nations troops were mass- ed south of Secul, just across the Han River from the capital. But a South Korean pafz -l that had made another probe into Seoul was forced { out again late Mynday by sharp enemy smail-arms fire. So serous was the Communist aggressor 5 zero weather drive by some 60,010 troops along a 30-mile sector east and west of Hoengsong, that it threatened a duplication of last November's Allied disaster. Further, there was the possibility that the renewed attack marked the { beginning of the expected Chinese New Year's offensive. Target Is Picked As heppened last fall, the Chi- nese ard Korean Reds picked the South Korean units for their target. And as happened then in Far North-Central Korea, the South Koreans ccuapsed under the force of the assault before Sunday mid- night, Korean time. Within 24 hours, the enemy had driven a seven-mile deep wedge. Threaten Supply Hub With the Reds, at last reports, five miles southwest of Hoengsong, the chief danger immediately was to the main road from Wonju, Al- lied supply hub, to Hoengsong. An American Intelligence Officer said the situation was “serious.” A grim possibility was that if the Commun- ists broke through, it would force withdrawals by UN forces reach- ing from recaptured Inchow, west coast port of Seoul, to Chipyong, 18 miles west of Hoengsong. The Allies, now hold Seoul's big port of Inchon, its industrial su- burb of Yongdungpo, and its air- port at Kimpo. Allied war correspondents lost their 15th man of the campaign when Jean Marie De Premonville, 30, of the French Press Agency, was killed on a patrol with U. S, rangers on the Central Korean front. BANFIELDS GREETED AT SUNDAY RECEPTION Close friends greeted Mr. and Mrs. Norman C. Banfield at a re- ception held at the A. F. Ghiglione residence Sunday afternoon. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Séattle scheduled to Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 p.m. Feb. 14. Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle 4 p.an., Friday. R. E. DiRae of Sitka is at the Baranof hotel.