The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1951, Page 1

'HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL TLIE NEWS VOL. LXXVI,, NO. 11,732 ALL THE TIME” — JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1951 Allied Lines Th Gen. Vandenberg Believes Russia Could Gef 70 Out of PARTY UNITY | STRESSED BY REPUBLICANS Party unity and organization clear down to the precinct level were called for by speakers at a Lincoln Day gathering of more than 100 Republicans in the Gold Room of the Baranof hotel last ev “The Republican Party lost an election in Alaska when it was united,” Albert White told the group in the lead-off talk that fol- lowed the introduction of Mrs White, Republican National Com- mitteewoman for Alaska for the past 16 years White charged that parts of the public records have been deleted by officials of the present g tion. “We need not tions by the Legislature; it is almost time for the FBI to step in” h(‘l asserted. Others introduced by Toastmaster Ho d Simmons were: Ho d D. Stabler, Republican Divisional Committeeman, who ex- pressed pride in belonging to the party of Lincoln, “who stood for plain, common honesty in govern- ment.” Senators John Butrovich, Jr., Gunnard Engebreth, Anita Gar- nick, Gerrit Snider, A. F. Coble, Percy Ipalook, Dan Lhamon and Elton Engstrem; Representatives Doris M. Barnes, Frank G. Johnson, George Misco- vich, W. W. Laws, Mike Stepovich,} Ed Locken, George Gasser, Alden Wilbur, J. S. MacKinnon and Waino Hendrickson; R. E. Robertson, H. L. Faulkner | and Cyrus Peck of Juneau and Mel Roe, president of the Ketchikan Re- | publican Club; A determination to perfect the party organization and to come back with an even greater Repub-! lican victory in 1952 was expressed' by the speakers. ! FRANK DUFRESNE | HERE FOR WEEK Frank Dufresne arrived here| from Seattle on the Baranof to| spend four or five days and at-{ tend Alaska Game Commission meetings. Frank retired from the; ' Fish and Wildlife Service last year and is now making his home in Seattle, where he is western editor for Field and Stream. Since retiring he has been hav-| ing plenty of hunting and fish- ing and getting paid for it. He will | do a story for the magazine on the AGC and will make a leisurely return trip visiting in Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. He is in the market for outdoor manu- scripts. GANTY FROM SOUTH P. S. Ganty, business man of| Pelican has returned from the | south after a trip with Mrs. Ganty | to Hawaii. | The Wéshingion Merry - Go- Bound By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, vy Bell Syndicate, Inc.. ASHINGTON—The man who really dominates cabinet meetings these days is not the president but} defense mobilizer Charles E. Wil-y son. Truman is so fond of Wilson personally, so determined to give: him complete power, that the big square-jawed ex-head of General Electric carries far more weight than any member of the cabinet. In fact, some cabinet meetings have featured none-too-friendly ar- guments in which Wilsow always gets what he wants. For example, Wilson will an- nounce to the cabinet: “We need more timber for defense cnnstruc-[ tion. The lumber people tell me we can get it from the National for- ests.” The National forests are under Secretary of the Interior Chapman,, while the timber in them is under the forest service and Secretary otl Agriculture Brannan. And if the! latter argue aboyt the need of saving timber for future genera- tions and suggest using only half the proposed amount, Wilson’s 100 §ombers HUNDRED HOMELESS BY FLOODS Double Wah er Condi- As the mercury dipped to a min- {imum of 25 in the hard-hit Skagit River area, the sheriffs office re- ported calls for help from persons who said they had been taken ill. While the rivers, chased out of their banks late last week by three days of record rainfall, continued to recede, hundreds of families still were kept from their homes by the muddy flood waters. Damage to homes, farms and in- dustrial plants was expected to run into the millions. At least eight persons died in the multi-river rampage that was . touched off last Friday. Three per- ished in Northern Idaho and five | in British Columbia. A number of roads still were closed and numerous Western Washington communities were “dead in the water” — containing not a living soul. BODIES, ANCHORAGE VICTIMS OF PLANE CRASH, RECOVERED MALIBU, Calif,, Feb. 13 —P—| The bodies of E. Dale Gilman, 40, wealthy Anchorage, Alaska, baker, and his wife, Lois, 37, were removed yesterday from the wreckage of a | ight amphibian plane that creshed | the ESanta Monica mountains late Sunday. Sheriff’s deputies reported that Gilman, an experienced flier, ap- parently was hemmed in by over- cast in the Topanga Canyon area. The plane smashed into a moun- tainside at an altitude of about 1,160 feet. The Gilmans were crushed in the cockpit. Gilman had taken off from Orange County airport at Santa An# and was headed for Santa Barbara. He and Mrs. Gilman had | been visiting relatives and friends in southern California, Officers said Gilman was carry- ing a bank book showing deposits of $10,000 fn an Anchorage bank. He owned Gilman’s Bakery in the Alaska city, . where he settled 10 years ago. His wife operated. a string of beauty shops. They left Alaska on an extended vacation last October. JOHN DUFRESNE DIES AT GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL John Dufresne, 28, died Saturday at the Government hospital. The hody is at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary and funeral arrangements are held awaiting word from his relatives in Council on Seward Peninsula. WSCS MEETING The WSCS of the Methodist church will meet Wednesday after- noon at 1:30 in the home of Mrs. J. Argetsinger, 905 B street. The study “Near East Parnorama” will be continued. Earl C. Simmons of the Alaska Road Commission at Anchorage is — Thoughfo L. S. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 —(» Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chief of the Air Force, believes Russia coulc push at least 70 out of 100 bombers through to United States targets in a determined attack. Vandenberg said in a signed ar- ticle in the current issue of Satur- day Evening Post that Russia “has been working intensively on a heavy bomber to match the B-36" and “she unquestionably will build it.” Analyzing the Soviet striking power and America’s air defense Vandenberg said Russia “now has JAPS PROHIBIT NATIONALS T0 FISH iN PACIFIC WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—(P—The State Department announced today the Japanese Government has agreed to prohibit its Nationals from fishing in the Eastern Pacific iand Bering Sea, members of the Washington Congressional Delega- tion said. The brief announcement said the [ agreement had been made volun- tarily by the Japanese Government in an exchange of notes with the American embassy in Tokyo. MUSHER MOORE IN CONNECTICUT MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SAUCERS ARE BALLOONS IN RAY STUDIES NEW YORK, Feb. 13 —®— A' Navy official confirmed today thnt; “flying saucers” really existed, but actually were huge plastic balloons used in high-altitude cosmic ray studies. Dr. Urner Liddel, Chief of the Nuclear Physics branch of the Office of Naval Research, made this dis- closure in an article in the current Leook Magazine. Liddel, in Washington, discussed the Look story further when news- men queried him. The Navy balloons, Liddel de- reatened by Splif by R King Will Marry Her ot REDS ARE PLANNING ATTACKS MacArthur §a; Enemy Has Plenty of Manpower, Also. Supplies (By Associated Press) Chinese Communists shifted the direction of their massive attack in Central Korea today and headed down mountain corridors in an ef- fort to split the Allied lines between Wonju and Yoju. General MacArthur visited the Western Front and warned on his return to Tokyo that the enemy still had plenty of manpower and ds | supplies. The first Red ohslaughts dented Allies lines as much as 18 miles and swept United Nations forces out of the road center of Hoengsong, 10 miles north of Wonju and 50 air miles east of Seoul. But this apparently was only the {GRUENING REPLIES tions Prevail in Ravag_ at least 450 planes that can strike clared, were 100 feet in diameter TR our major population and industrial and sometimes rose to a height of ed Pacific Northwest | centers from bases in the uss® MAI“E & BOUND 19 miles. He added that winds 3 e (A reference to Russian copies of might sweep them along at 200 SEATTLE, Feb. 13 —(®— A cold \the B-29). ; by g miles an hour. weve: okt simuttaneous it | B8 Sxposed 1o vetet that no| | gayS i Bed LSO TSt a: e sevine T S TR and new hardships to flood-ravaged conceivable defense — not even sun lighted up the balloons' bottoms, { Western Washington early today. s a preposterous device as H s giving them the saucer-like appear- b ‘Pmlm“”,‘,“d'm;:;"“l”‘(;‘f'mr five-mile high steel fence around George waShmg'o“ ances, Liddell said. low 20s in the Cascades, halting | the country backed by an unbroker DOgS n Stab‘e jofael - gatd Hie. exiatens ob o mountain thaws and stopping the l’;d;rnsrre;n, a ‘;w l*lmz \\':rnmy big lmll;:om was kept secret be- heavy runoff of snow melt. system and an umbrella of fighter VR ! cause the project was connected The freezing \\'eu:hcr"c;xxx:sed new | Planes — could fully stop a de- r\:gw PgESTO»;'V C;?n.,w]?eb.l 12 with atomic developments. burdatibe \Ainohg Rsndreds ot par. | Eiined bombing attack. '; 5 — ‘:“ge di;scngl TM?J:}?" Liddell, who was in charge of sons left homeless by weekend| Should war come” Vandenberg Mere G i G the balloon tests, said that secrecy floods which overran sections of | S8id: “We can be expected to destroy oore. In George's , too. ho| V28 “no longer” necessary. l Western Washington and_ Britisn |10 TOre than 30 per cent of the [ ~he bearded dog musher, Ng|, These balloons, called skyhooks Columbia. planes making an attack in strength | trailed a team of huskies out of| py tne Navy, were first used in on the United States before bomb- | Fairbanks, Alaska, 57 weeks 880|947, about the first time the disks stopped here last night near the preparations today are not beefed | €0d Of his dog sled trip to Lewis- up to achieve even that figure.” ton, Me. 4 R i Sl Moore’s story of trials and tribu- lations on the 5,100-mile trek from Fairbanks found a sympathetic listener in Judge Walter M. Pickett, 'I'o ASSER"O"S MADE present owner of the house where George Washington' slept one night in 1777. Two Alaskan Republican leaders| The court of common pleas judge expressed the opinien in Lincoln {not only put Moore up in the George Day banquet speeches last night|Washington' bed in the George that Governor Gruening’s proposal | Washington house, he found shel- for his removal from numerous ter- {ter for Moore’s eight Husky dogs ritorial boards was not a voluntary |in a shed in ‘which — according to gesture. local legend — Washington's horse They contended he was told to do|was once stabled. so by “higherups.” Moore said both he and his dogs The speakers were Albert White, | were footsore and weary when they longtime Alaska Republican party | arrived here today. He said he had general counsel, and R. E. Robert- | traveled 2,100 miles on sled runners son, Juneau attorney. (through dense Alaskan and Canad- Robertson declared the “Governor | ian wilderness and 3,000 miles with is not surrendering anything volun- | wheels attached to the sled. tarily — don’t be deceived on that.” He had a team of 11 Huskies White expressed the opinion in-;when he left Fairbanks. The wolves structions from higherups “account—'got one of them. One disappeared ed for the conciliatory tone” inland one was left in Torrington Sun- Gruening’s message to the Legisla- | day after giving birth to a litter. ke Moore began the trek more than In response to a newsman's re-|a year ago to raise funds for the quest for a comment on assertions | Lions club at Lewiston, his home ing missions are completed. And our were first sighted. I FAMILY NIGHT AT i METHODIST CHURCH « SCHEDULED FRIDAY| On Friday night, February, 16, the Methodist Church will have a family night program. Oommmeest FRANKLIN BILL GOES T0 SENATE; NEW MEASURES IN By BOB DE ARMOND have been appointed as follows for the planning of this occasion: Food planning and promotion: Mrs. Fred McGinnis, Mrs. Harold Schultz, Mrs. Ruth Popejoy, Mrs. Mildred Lister, Miss Edith Moore, Program: Mr. Henry Leege, Mr. The Egyptian Royal Palace handed out this official ]‘plclure of Miss | Narriman Sadek (Feb, 10) and said King Farouk I will marry the beautiful 17-year-old girl on an unannounced date. King Farouk was 31 years old Feb, il. (? Wirephoto via radio from Cairo. PAYACTIS | Eastern wing of a heavier attack now gathering momentum. Escape from Trap American. and South Korean troops successfully fought their way out of a 100,000-man Chinese trap, with some losses of men and equipment. The key road hub of Hoengsong was abandoned to the Reds after bitter hand-to-hand | fighting. Elements of three to six Chinese armies and two North Korean corps sprang their offensive Sun- day night with the blare of trum- jpets and the roll of drums. They | hit at five Allied columns. Confused Situation The confused situation at that | front ‘was described as “fluid,” with most UN troops having broken con- tact with the Reds. Both sides were Tull, 4 Gen. MacArthur paid his tenth visit to the Korean fighting front, said to be regrouping during ,'{"Q & Tom Priest, Mrs. Ed Chester, Mrs. Walter Ebbett. Decorations: Mr. Larry Parker, Dr. 1. J. Montgom- ery, Mrs. Ed Hall, Tom Priest. Publicity: Harold Salisbury, Wal- ter Ebbett,, Don ,McMullin, The program of the evening will I begin with a pot-luck supper at | 6:30. !meal the program committee will take charge and an evening of social enjoyment and fun will _ be provided. All the members and i Rev. Fred McGinnis! Immediately following the | Rep. Glen Franklin's bill to set up 'a Legislative Investigating Commit- tee was on its way to the Senate today after Rep. McCutcheon waiv- ed his notice of intention to move for reconsideration. The bill passed the House on Sat- urday after a heated debate. The vote was 14-10. The House this morning voted to ‘ include Territorial employes in Rep. Hendrickson's bill to extend Social Security coverage to employes of | public agencies, and to exempt mu- TWO TESTS | By JIM HUTCHESON | bill A “payroll guarantee” was | buried in the Senate today after! taking its second straight body blow | within four days. 1 It was a bill to require that any| employer must have sufficient as- sets to meet the next payroll per- iod before he can commence or continue business in the ’l‘errimry.l visiting an Eighth Army observation post on the south banks of the Han River below Seoul from where he watched Allied artillery pour shells into the burned-out former South Korean capital. MacArthur's Version Returning to Tokyo, the supreme commander said UN forces were fighting the only kind of war they can - an aggressive local cam- paign. In his statement, he declared: “Talk of crossing the 38th Parallel by Robertson and White that pres- sure from “higherups” prompted his | proposal to get off territorial boards, Governor Gruening said today: “If such a statement was made, it was absolute and unqualified non- sense. The idea originated wholly and solely with me.” GRONROOS HEADS NEWLY ORGANIZED U. OF A. ALUMNI The University of Alaska Alumni Association, Gastineau Branch, was organized at a meeting of gradu- ates and former students of the University now residing on Gastin- eau Channel, last evening in the office of Harold Gronroos in the Juneau Young Company building. The meeting was largely attended by the 25 or 30 alumnus who live in the local area, and was conduc- ted by Leo H. Saarela, University graduate, and who is Commissioner of the Territory Department of Mines. Harold Gronroos, was elected President of the Association and Mrs. §. J. (Jane) MacKinnon, Jr. was ~elected Secretary-Treasurer. Both are graduates of the Univer- sity. The nomination for the office of vice-president was left open. The Association will hold a sec- ond meeting next Monday, Febru- ary 19, at 8 pm. in the Gron- roos office. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Seattle in port and scheduled to sail westward at 4 o’'clock this afternoon. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 p.m. tomorrow. Denali scheduled to sail from _-_(confinned on T’ue Four) registered at the Baranof Hotel. 1 Seattle 4 p.m., Friday. town. ROWLAND SIMMONS PASSES AWAY AT YAKUTAT MONDAY Word was received today by Ju- neau friends of the death of Row- land Simmons, long-time resident and former postmaster of Yakutat at 6:30 last evening at his home in that town. His body will be brought here tomorrow to be shipped to the States for burial. Mr. Simmons is survived by his wife Anne, who was formerly a nurse at Yakutat for the Alaska Native Service. It is expected Mrs. Simmons will accompany the body of her husband to Juneau. 19 LEAVE TODAY T0 JOIN ARMED FORCES Nineteen young men left Juneau today via PNA for Ft. Richardson where they will report for induc- tion into the Armed Forces. They are Maurice Nelson and Harold Fossum of Juneau; Charles Daniels, Jr., Grafton Gabriel, Frank P. Martin, Vernon Thomas and ‘Matthew Williams of ESitka; Ed- ward Durgan, George Inman Jr., Robert O. Berg, Patrick Bryant, Charles ‘E. King, John Wacker, Jack O’Connor, Jr., and Edwin Haynes ! of Ketchikan; Gordon Mason, Kjell i Nore, and Harvey Gross of Wran- gell; and Charles Diven of Peters- burg. ! Harvey Hildre and Robert Lar- | son have already gone to Anchor- age. Aaran Funner transferred to An- chorage. Wallace Crake transferred to Everett, Wash. and Jack Leen transferred to Dayton, Ohio, their friends are invited to parti- [nicipalities from the provisions of cipate in this time of fellowship|Rep. Metcalfe's bill regarding mili- A fine of $1,000, a year in prison,|at the present state of the cam- )¢ both, were provided as penalties. ! paign, except by scattered patrol { action incidental to the tactical sit- in the Methodist Church. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 13 — Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 109%, American Tel. and Tel. 153%, General Electric 44%, Douglas Air- jcraft 109, General Electric 54% General Motors 50% , Goodyear 724, Kennecott 78%, Libby, McNeil and Libby 10%, Northern Pacific 37%, Standard Oil of California 98%, Twentieth Century Fox 23%, U. 8. Steel 46%. Pound 2.80%, Canadian Exchange 95. Sales today were 2,400,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 255.71, rails 88.99, util- ities 42.75. NEW YORK, Feb. 13 —P— The curb market was mostly higher to- day. Among stock on the upside 1were Alaska Airlines and Alr Asso- ciated. Alaska Airlines closed at %, up %. Financial circles at Seattle com- mented that most businesses affect- ing Alaska had been particularly active in recent weeks. i HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted to St. Ann’s hospital yesterday were Mrs. Arthur Knight, Billy Howard, Mrs. William John- son, Jue McKenzie. Dismissed were Nancy Niemi, Mrs. William Weimer, Mrs. John Smith, Peter Jack, Mrs. Dave An- jdrus and baby girl. Howard St. Clair was admitted to the Government hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roley of lsanflz are at the Hotel Juneau. tary ‘leave. | As amended, the military leave bill will not require municipalities ‘to grant up to 16': days leave a year to employes who are member: of a reserve component of the Armed Forces. Rep. Hendrickson: explained he fears the smaller cities might be hurt by having to grant such leave with pay and that the tendency would be for them not to employ re servists. ¢ New Bills Four new bills and a couple of memorials hit the House hopper thi morning. A House memorial by Reps. Barnes and Gundersen, seeks establishment of 24-hour service to the traveling public at the Canadian boundary stations of Pleasant Camp, B. C. and Snag, Y. T. Reps. Carlson and Scavenius in- troduced a House Joint memoria' asking that the season on bears on IKodknk Island be extended to 12 months and the bag limit removed Rep. Stepovich’s H. B. 45 would allow banks in Alaska toepledge as- sets to municipal or other public corporations, including public util- ities, to secure the funds of such corporations an deposit in the banks. At present banks are permitted to give such security only to the Territory and the United States. Welfare Bills Three welfare bills, authored by Mrs. Gundersen and Mrs. Barnes, having to do with foster homes, old age assistance anc aid to depend- ent children, were among the new measures. HB. 46 would give the Board of Public Welfare power to license and supervise boarding homes, homes, nurseries and institutions foster It lost Friday on a vote of eight ‘yeas” and seven “nays,” with Sen. William Beltz, second division Dem- ocrat, absent. On Sen. Anita Garnick’s motion | oday to rescind the previous action, the vote was eight to eight. That neant it lost. It came as a surprise to many enators and observers. Beltz added his vote to the “yeas,” which would iave made the necessary nine if he vote of the others had remained mchanged. However, just above’ Beltz on the rollcall, Sen. Frank Barr (D-Fairbanks) changed his ‘yea” of Friday to a “nay” andl threw the issue into a deadlock,; which meant defeat of the bill. | No Debate | There was no debate on the bill; itself although there was discus- sion of parliamentary problems in- volved in Senator Garnick's un- successful attempt to move for re-| consideration of Friday’s vote. She’ had been on the wrong side of the fence. ¢ The bill was introduced by the) Senate Labor Committee and has had the support of labor groups, who have contended it is desirable for protection of employes. Oppon- ents have criticized it as an econo- mic hobble on many persons or firms desiring to start or carry on a business. The rollcall today in favor of rescinding (and thereby in favor of the bill) was: Democrats Anderson, Beltz, Huntley, MacKenzie, Mc- Cutcheon and Republicans Garnick, | Ipalook and Engebreth. Senators against rescinding wer2: Republicans Butrovich, Coble, Eng- strom, Lhamon, Snider and Demo- crats Barr, Lyng and Nolan. The votes of all senators except Beltz and Barr were the same on (Continued cn Page Two) “(Continued on Page TWe) uation, is purely academic.” He said the future in Korea is “Jargely dependent upon interna- tional considerations.” Threat to Allies On the Western front, the U. 8. 25th and Third Divisions consoli- dated their positions around the recaptured port of Inchon, Seoul’s big industrial suburb of Yong- dungpo and the capital’s big Kimpo airfield. But the powerful attempt by the enemy to drive a wedge down the middle toward the key rail and highway center of Wonju threat- ened the Allied position in the west. A breakthrough to Wonju might force the UN troops on the comparatively quiet Western front to pull back to protect their escape route from Seoul to Taegu. Robert Collette of Sitka has ar- rived here from Seattle and is stop- ping at the Baranof hotel. e o 0o o 0 ® 0 00 WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau Maximum 27; minimum, At Airport 27; minimum, 15. — Maximum, -2. > FORECAST Cloudy with snow tonight and Wednesday. Lowest tem- perature tonight about 22 and highest Wednesday 34. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — Trace; Since Feb. 1 — .14 inches; since July - — 4208 inches; At Airport — Trace; since Feb. 1 — .10 inches; since July 1—30.35 inches. o 0 0 03 0 0 00