The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 22, 1951, Page 1

ALAS “ALL TIIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE VOL. LXXVI,, JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURS DAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1951 l\[l MBER ASSOC IAll D ]'l\]‘ S PRICE TEN CENTS =y ‘““Operation Killer’’ Started b Mat&rihur al W_onju From fRF( OFFICIAL GRAND 16100 IN SESSION HERETODAY The business meeting of the Grand Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska, | was opened in the Odd Fellows Hall in Juneau this morning at 10 o'clock and was to continue during the afternoon. Called to order by Grand Presi- dent John Reck, some 35 delegates from all parts of the Territory re- ceived several reports and com- munications which were to be acted upon during the afternoon. Grand Secretary Dora M. Sweeney of Juneau reported that the 12 Igloos and six Auxiliaries of the Pioneers now have 1,807 members. Delegates attending the 36th sion of the Grand Igloo are: Gerrit Snider, Anchorage; Otto Koppen C. C. Carlson and Dr. Will H. Chase of Cordova; George W. Gasser, John Butrovich, George J. Miscovich, Alden L. Wilbur, Jr., Robert E. She don, James E, Barrack and Andrew Nerland, Fairbanks. A. Polet, Howard Lyng and ward Andersen, Nome; Mrs. Fannie / Phillips, Cordova; Vida Rich, Flor- ence Thornton, Amelia Gundersen Dale B. De Armond, Christine Han- sen, Eugene Bugden, Larry Thorn- ton, Peter F. Gilmore and R. N. D Ed- Armond, Ketchikan. LaDe: Nordale, Fairbanks; Anila Garnick, Anna Bodding, Dorotk Russell, Irene McKinley lva Zen- ger, Dora M. Sweeney, J. S. Mac- Kinnon, Felix Gray, N. B. Cook, Alfred Zenger and Henry Roden, Juneau. Opens With Banquet | The Grand Igloo session opened last evening when 150 delegates and members of the Juneau Igloo and the Juneau Auxiliary gathered | at the Odd Fellows Hall for a din- ner, followed by an initiation cere- | mony and the Memorial Service of the order. i The recular business session of | the Grand Igloo was opened by Grand President John Reck of}) Juneau, who named the following committees: Credentials—E. B. Collins of of Falrbanks, R. N. De Armond of Sitka, Felix Gray of Juneau. Resolutions—Howard Lyng, Nome, George Miscovich, Fairbanks; C. C. Carlson, Cordova; Larry Thorn- ton, Ketchikan; Norman C. Cook, Juneau. Nominations—Andrew Nerland ‘ and James E. Barrack, Fairbanks:} Lewis MacDonald and J. S, Mac- Kinnon, Juneau:, Gerrit Snider Anchorage; Will H. Chase, Cor- dova; Ed Anderson and Tony Polet, Nome. Auditing—Fred Barragar Tony Polet. Initiation ’Four new members—Mr. and Mr Herman Porter, John Maranovich and Oscar Oberg were initiated in a candle-light ceremony conducted by Anita Garnick, president; Fl rence Thornton, vice-president; Sil- va Zenger, chaplain; Vida Rich, and | | (Continued on Page Eight) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc. l 7 5 ot WASHINGTON*The bitter rovx, over labor participation in the mo- bilization picture boils down partly to a clash with Gen. Lucius Clay, former military governor of Ger- many, now right-hand man to de- fénse mobolization czar Charles E Wilson. ¢There is also a lot of peeve against Harry €. Truman per- sonally. Clay, a hard-hitting, hard-work- ing army officer, accustomed to giving and taking orders was con- tinually clashing with civilians/ when he served as right-hand man to war mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes in World War II, Later, while in Ger- many, he established what is prob- ably a record for any American official. He cabled his resignation to the State Department as Mili- tary Governor of Germany three times in one day. Illustrative of Clay's difficulties| with labor leaders is one backstage | indicent involving the appointment of a manpower commissioner. President Truman had telephnned H (connhued on Page Four) Gen. front in Central Korea during a front line visit with Lieut. Gen. 8th Army ps Commander. MacArthur said he would not “arbitrarily execute authority to re- ! cross the 38th parallel” and that Premier Stalin's “Comrades will have Mathew Edward (left), 16th Ce Ridgway Almond, to do a lot better than they have » \\'ir(-pimto via radio from Tokyo. Tiger Wilh a Blg Blle | Imaginative tank men in Korea their M-46 by painting Cpl. 35 ARMORED SOVIET DIV. GER. POLAND WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—(P—The The Soviet Union now has a fully| armored or mechanized force of 35 divisions in Fast Germany and Poland alone, the State Department ys, and has restored East Ger- many railways whiech would serve as supply lines from Russia in the event of war. @ 5 Additionally, the State Depart-/ ment report based on “current intel ligence” said, the East Germen Communist p: on fam. 15 began of its ranks weal 5 Office of Pub- lic Affairs gave this infomation in an official publication yesterday picturing the background of recent Soviet pressures on Germany. The report came just when the Big Four powers appeared to be nearing agreement on plans for a “peace” conference. It is not known whether Russia really wanis a Big Four meeting. Unless the powers can agree on discussing basic dif- ferences other than Germany there would -be little point in meeting, it said. pu large ed at elir The Departm?; WRITERS' MEETING Herb Hilscher will speak Juneau Creative Writers' at th meet | in the City Council Chambers next 7:30 o’clo nnounced Monday evening at Dora Sweeney, secrets | today. Douglas MacArthur (center) strides up a road en the Wonju | it with a ferocious tiger face. artists (left to right, below) Pfc. Doyle Boone, Purcell, Okla.; and David Lees, Pittsburgh, Penn. Cpl. Thomas Merritt, Mineral Wells, Tax.; Sgt. Cailen Burris, Tish- omingo, Okla.; and (‘pl Robert Faulkner, Bowie, Texas. () erephnto. Commander, and Lieut. Gen. After his visit General yet done to prove him a prophet.” | | added to the formidable aspect of ‘Warrior Atop tank (left to right) are: |ARMY SAYS SOME GUARD, RESERVE WILL BE CALLED WASHINGTON, en. 22—[M——T'hel ‘Arm\ said today it will call some | ‘a(\dmoxnxl National Guard and or- | gnized reserve units of company and battalion size to active duty. Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, 'Axm, planning and training chief, l issued a statement today in which he said also that “there are no pre- sent plans to call up additional National Guard divisions,” but “we will call up guard and reserve units of less divisiona} needed.” Taylor | ment at ence . for than size as t appeared with his state- a Pentagon news confer- declared purpose of | “clarifying” what he called some | published misconceptions about what he said yesterday on present ,,,l‘m» for the National Guard and | Reser the STEAMER MOVEMENTS ' Freighter Square Knot from Seat- tle in port and sails tomorrow a.m. for Haines and Skagway. | Baranof scheduled to sail from i .| Seattle 4 p.m. Friday. Princess Norah scheduled to ,saili | from Vancouver Feb. 28. Denali from westward scheduled to arrive Sunday southbound. SITKA VISITOR Doran Baughn of Sitka is ed at the Baranof Hotel. re- | FROM KLAWOCK Mrs. Helen Keene of Klawock i>i r | here to attend an AFL conference. | | She is stopping at the Baranof; | Hotel i i | the poration { one. | DENIES WAS PRESSURIZED WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. — (P— William E. Willett, a member of Reconstruction ~ Finance Cor- Board, swore to Senate investigators today he “never con- sciously yielded” to influence in his decisions on RFC loans. “I want to point out that every- one in government service is oc- casionally subject to influence and probably on occasion to improper intluence,” he told a Senate Bank- ing Subcommittee. “But I have never yielded to such influence respect.” Willett denied specifically’ that Donald Dawson, a White House aide, or E. Merl Young, whose wife is a White House stenographer, can or do influence him. The Banking Subcommittee, headed” by Senator Fulbright (D- Ark), said in a report to the Senate earlier this month that Willett and some other RFC directors had been influence by Dawson and Young. Fresident Truman called the report asinine. The subcommittee then ordered the present hearings, frankly as a rebuttal to the Presi- dent. Young swore he has never re- ceived a fee or commission in con- ction with any RFC loan. He denied under oath testimony by Ross Bohannon, a Texas lawyer, that Young once asked him for a| $85,000 fee to “be infiuential” with the RFC. “One of these two men is a liar,” stormed Senatior Tobey (R-NH), participating in the hearings. PROBE IN CHARGESIN RFC LOANS WASHINGTON, Feb, 22 —(P— A Kaiser-Frazier Corp. vice prisi- dent testified today his firm was told it could get easier terms on a big government loan if it hired Wil- liam M. Boyle, Jr., Democratic Na- tional chairman, as counsel. Chad Calhoun, the Kaiser-Frazier executive gave his testimony to Sen- ate investigators as 4 second-hand account of a suggestion he said was made to Edgar Kaiser, the company’s head The suggestion, as Calhoun re- ported it, came from Rex Jacobs, a Detroit industrialist, at a time the Kaiser-Frazier firm was hav- ing difficulty obtaining a govern- ment loan to finance its automo- bile manufacturing. Investigating Charges The subcommittee is investigating charges of political favoritism and influence in the making of Recon- struction Finance Corporation (R- FC) loans. Earlier, a director of the RFC, admitted giving a special break to the loan application of a personal friend who recently became an RFC director himself. William E. Willett, the director. told the committee he departed from the usual procedure “as a personal favor” to C. Edward Rowe, the loan applicant who subsequently was named to the RFC board last Sep- tember. consciously in any i Another Deal | Willett said he personnaly assign- ed the RFC examiner who made the recommendations on a $300,000 loan the RFC board made last April 10 l() the Harrington and Richards Arms Co., of Worcester, Mass., of which Rowe was principal owner. When Senator Douglas (D-Il) asked Willett if he had not “de- parted from the usual procedure” in personally assigning the exam- iner, Willett answered: “Yes, sir . . . it is very unusual ... I did it as a personal favor to Judge Rowe. Judge Rowe has been a personal friend of mine for years.” Wwillett maintained the loan tol Rowe's arms company was a good' He pointed out it has been Leonard O. Olsen of Ketchikan is | at the Baranof Hotel. After This John Was Worried With six lovely French models around him, Pfc. John Ahmann of Eyota, Minn, said worriedly to phone back home to explain all thi th the girls including a party at the French Embassy, a play and a midnight ington, D. C., had dates supper. The models are (left to right) Nicole Touchdrd, Juin Eliot, Joselle Farg “I'll have Almann and five other GIs from Walter Reed Hospital, Wash- , Mlle. Tanya, Suzanne Dadelle and l)nnlnlle Chevron. (7 Wirephoto. FIRST, STATES IDA.SENATOR BOISE, Idaho, Feb, 22 —(®—Sen. Herman Welker (R-Idaho) told the Idaho Legislature today he was not going to vote to send billions of dollars abroad until “our firdt line of defense—Alaska” has been pro- vided for. Addres ing a joint session of the Idaho Legislature after a recent tour of Alaska, the Idaho junior senator said he found “a mandate to the United States to make liv- ing conditions better for our troops in the Alaskan theater.” At another part of his speech Senator Welker said “The Ameri- can boy will see to it that if Joe Stalin should ever make an aggres- sive move, we’ll blow him off the face of the earth.” He dwelt at length on the “truly shocking” living conditions he said he found in Alaska and the hard- ships under which troops live and | work in that theater. “I was the first U. S. Senator to visit that theater in the winter time when the temperatures were 52 degrees below zero,” he said. He added that he was “not an iso- lationist — I don’t know what the word means. “I am aware that we can’t t.urn our backs on the free world, o Allies.” FORMER JUNEAU BOY IS INDICTED, SERIOUS CHARGE SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22.—(P— William B. K. Clark, 22, was in- dicted by the Federal Grand Jury Tuesday on charges he embezzled $1,300 in silver coins from the Northern Counties Bank af Marys- ville, Calif. A native of Juneau, Alaska, is under arrest at Gainsville, Ga., after being the object of nation- wide search since his disappear- ance from his bank job January 16 Using the name “Jon O. Nygaard" he got a job as clerk in the bank November 1 after deserting from the U. 8. Air Force at Brooks Field, Tex., officers say. he EMERGENC Y CHIGNIK The Coast Guard cutter Bitter- sweet, stationed at Kodiak, was pro- ceeding through gale force winds and high seas toward Chignik to|are a scarcity of labor, evacuate Clark Cropter, 35, it was learned from 17th CG headquarters here today. Cropter was believed to be suffering from an acute attack of appendicitis. The cutter is due to arrive in Chignik tomorrow. HELP ALASKA |MORE COMBAT, SERVICE, MR POWER NEEDED IN ALASKA; MILITARY IS REPORTED ALERT; NO PEARL HARBOR IS FEARED |, By FRANK W. VAILE WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 —P— The Senate Armed Services Pre- paredness Subcommittee said today all-out war with Russia would force this country te abandon certain iso- lated areas of Alasks. It gave assurance however, that “critical ureas can " held.” the Task Force found to be re- quired between the initiation of a project and the contract award, Hunt said: Red Tape Dangerous “Red tape along with Red Russia can be a dangerous foe.” The Task Force reported: Family quarters for military pm- sonnel are sufficient to meet only ¢ 17 per cent of the total require- ments. Accommodations for bach- elor officers and unmarried enlist- ed personnel fill only 35 and 45 per cent, respectively, of the need. Military or civilian personnel renting quarters off base pay “a high as $80 per month for a one The subcommi’‘ee said it appears “reasounable to assume that little could be done to protect the Seward Peninsula area from either bomb- ing or actual invasion if the Rus- sians so desired.” It was the only specific reference made by the sen- ators to areas within either cate- gory. A 120-page report prepared by room shack \\mmul bath, wat:r ¢ the subcommitte's three-man Alaska | Fefrigeration.’ Task Force stated: ! x ost-Plus Systen Realistic Plan 2 3 » 45 The ss shortage exls'. in pow- “The military in- Alnska, WIthin | unq “cating plants, sospital the limit of the forces made avail- |y, 005, runways, roads and “all able is embarked upon a|,c.ecary requirements ut a bal- realistic plan for the defense of |,p.0q gefense program.” the Territor * | The report placed the blame for But, the senators added, there i | hizh construction costs in part » need for additional combat and |\on s o e of 4 cost-plus- vice troops and more airpower.| g .q fee basis to award construc “Service troops,” the report con-| ... ontracts. It said that since tinued, “are inadequate to prope: | abandonment of that procedure ;‘m"’“ the forces tn 1 ate ; ”““ mid-1949, houses which had cost it the ”'"““””“"”‘“;1"‘"‘:“}1“ '€ the vicinity of $28,625 plus govern- authorized establishment. They Are| .. gupplied materials have beer nowhere near adequate to support an increased effort in the event of | the emergency movemnt of troops| to Alaska. | built. for approximately $11,975 plu materials, No Military Reserves ey The Task Force said it found le Military Alert than 1,000 of the Territory’s approx- The Task Force, headed by Sen- .00 196000 population to be par- ator Hunt (D-Wyo) and including | o, 0¢ing in the National Guard Senators Morse (R-Ore) and Sal- | tonstall (R-Mass), has been study- and Ams, reserve | Defense various military and urged that the ing the Alaska program since 1ast | pepartment. develop a plupvll) co- fall. It spent six days in the Terri- ' jinated program and take im- tory and conducted other studiec | o.io¢0 steps to put it into oper- here. 4 ation. Declaring it found the military It recommended a high priority establishment alert and ready for | for comstruction projects at the any eventuality, the Task Force as- | o0 port of Whittier. Port fa- certed that “if the present state ol cjjities at Seward should be main- alertness and tained, there can be bor in Alaska.” Despite this, however, stated that the defense vigilance is main- no Pearl Har- tained “at no less than present op- erating capacity.” Decks in the lat- ter terminal should be repaired. Railroad Phase The rail connection between Sew- was crippled by numerous faclors. |urq gnd Portage, which the Alaska s Housing Bottleneck Railroad has indicated it would Housing appears to be the big|jice to abandon, should not be dis- bottleneck,” Hunt explained. “The|.o.iinued without the prior ap- little bottlenecks within the big one | proval of Congress, the report as- the report program unreason- 1 erted. :bly high costs of construction and | pne mask Force also proposed ransportation, outrageous costs of | .y the Alaska Railroad be per- living, and a strangling amount of | \yii06q to credit into its accounts governmental red tape upon Which ¢he cost of services rendered pun’ the whole program exists.” Citing 47 individual steps which | | (Continued on Page Eight) i | | y Allics in Korea ALLIES IN BIG SMASH, NEW FRONT Aim fo KiII,MM_aim or Cap- ture All Reds in Mired i Mountains, Valleys By Associated Press Allied forces smashed northward today on a 60-mile rainswept front aiming to kill, maim or capture all Reds in the mired mountains and valleys of Central Korea. Advances in this new offensive— “operation killer” — ranged up to 12 miles on the East-Central sector and up to 3'¢ on the Central Valley, north of Wonju. Resistance was spotty most of the xdny but was stiffening at dusk as Allied spearheads neared the main forces of the dug-in Chinese and North Korean Reds. An estimated 40,000 Reds are south of Parallel 38. The Allied objective is to wipe them out. Weather Roiten Gen. MacArthur announced the new offensive today. An Army spokesman called it “a vital phase of the Korean campaign.” First resistance was spotty, with the greatest obstacle, poor weather — rain, mud, snow, and .fog. The Chinese and North Korean Troops fought and ran, some of them in panic. American, British, Australian, New Zealand and South Korean troops teamed up on the ground in the killer drive. In the air planes of the U. 8. Air Force, Marine, Navy, ih-nm Australin and South Africa found holes in the clouds and plast- ered Red targets. Arc at Front The front was an arc from near angpong, 27 miles east-southeast of Seoul, to Pyongchang, on the | East-Central sector. The biggest Red force was dug in the mountains about six miles north of Wonju, 25 miles west of Pyongchang. AP Correspondent Stan Swinton said a big battle appeared in the offing for Hoengsong, 10 miles north of Wonju. The Allies were applying |.| pincher move on the town. Formosa Issue Informed sources in Tokyo de- clared that the prospect of using Chinese Nationalist troops in Korea remains a live issue. The inform- ants said this had no connection with the visit to Formosa of Vice- Adm. Arthur D. Struble, U. $. Tth Fleet commander. But on Formosa itself the Chi- nese Nationalists were afraid the Reds might do a little invading of their own. Air raid tests were held throughout Northern Formosa in preparation for repelling a Red in- vasion of the last fortress of Chiang Kai-Shek feared with the coming of favorable weather. ATOMIC-POWERED FLIGHT GETTING CLOSE, IS REPORT WASHINGTUN, Feb, 22 —P—The overnment's efforts to build an ' atomic-powered airplane passed to=- jay from the sliderule to the draft- ing board stage. ‘ Yet to be undertaken is the actual construction of an atomic engine and then the aircraft itself. That is what the Air Force and Atomic Energy Commission meant today in announcing the comple- tion of their “NEPA" project. “NEPA” stands for nuclear energy for propulsion of aircraft. The first phase of the project was devoted almost exclusively to mathematical computations and theoretical possibilities. It required more than four years. There has been no word on how long the next phases might take. However, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of Staff, has said atomic-powered flight is closer than most people realize. A joint Air Force-AEC statement today on the conclusion of the “NEPA" phase said “other projects being supported by the Air Force 1d of nuclear ntinued.” and phe AEC in the fiel power flights will be ¢ SITKA VISITOR | Frank T. Calvin of Sitka is re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel,