The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1951, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS YALL-TIIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVL, NO. 11,747 EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1951 Marines Shove Th SLEUTH BILL GETS TABLED BY SENATORS By JIM HUTCHESON The Senate late yesterday tabled the Legislative Investigating Com- mittee bill which had stirred one of the session’s longest controvers- ies before passing the House. The 11-5 tabling vote on the bill by Rep. Glen Franklin (D-Bound- ary) did not mean the Senate ma- jority was opposed to it. It was interpreted as indicating some supporters felt a substitute | was taking form in a move to over- haul the Territory’s financial ad- ministration which a joint session approved in principle earlier yester- day. Under the proposed reorganiza- tion bill, four members of the Legis- lature would be named to a board of administration. Sen. John Butrovich (R-Fair- banks) moved for tabling after he hit a snag in trying to postpone| action until next week. He explain- ed later he felt there would be no; need for a committee if legislators are added to an administration board. If senators want to take the measure off the table later it will require a majority vote, but sup- porters pointed out it couldn’t pass| anyway unless it got a majority Both Houses spent most of yes- terday afternoon in hearings ur{ reading bills without taking final action. The Senate passed a bill by Dr. R. M. MacKenzie (D-Ketchikan) which would impose 5 per cent pro- gressive penalties for wiiful failure ! to pay the motor fuel tax within 30 days after the due date. The Senate passed two House-ap- proved memorials to the Federal | Government — one by Rep. Ed Loc- | ken (R-Petersburg) asking rein-! statement of war risk insurance in Alaska to give reassurance to in- vestors, and one by Rep. Frank G.| Johnson (R-Kake) asking a two- year extension for filing of Indian tribal claims with the Claims Com- mission. Sen. Gunnard M. Engebreth (R- Anchorage) introduced a bill yester- day designed to crack down string- ently on attempts by department heads or employes to influence or ‘pressurize” legislators. The measure would forbid their public speaking, writing or adver- tising to try to influence appropria- | tions or legislation affecting their | department. It would even forbid sending a letter or telegram to a legislator for such a purpose. It proposes a $500 fine or a year's imprisonment or both as a penalty, plus ouster for any non-elective of-1{ ficial. Sen. Frank Barr (D-Fairbanks) | introduced a bill calling for regis- tration of all aircraft and pi]o:s,' emergency equipment _inspection, and compulsory filing of flight plans. MacKenzie introduced a measure (Continued on Page Eight) Big Snow of '51 NO STRIKE ~IN SEATTLE ON SUNDAY SEATTLE, March 2 —®— AFL Electrical Workers yesterday called off their scheduled Sunday strike iugninsl Seattle City Light after ‘renching an agreement with the ‘Clty council on contract differences. | Mayor William Devin announced | after a meeting with representatives [of Local 77 of the International | Brotherhood of Electrical . Workers | settlement of the threatened strike was ‘positive and definite.” . £ | Devin said the union and eity council had agreed to a ‘compros | mise. Under its terms, the uniom iwm not get a formal contract wit the city but will have the right | negotiate with City Light officials | on wages and working conditions. The procedure agreed upon is || similar to the practice followed in .|| Tacoma for the five years in adjust- +|| ing wages and working conditions y | in its municipal light and power sys= (would allow calling up of f Francisco since 1932. Snow is a Mrs. Virginia Steman of San Francisco makes a snowball from snow on the hood of her automobile during the worst snowfall in San | natives insist this fall was “unusal.” (®) Wirephoto. | | “ rarity in San Francisco and the VOTE MONDAY ON DRAFTING 183 YR.OLDS WASHINGTON, March 2 —(®— The Senate has agreed to a test vote, Monday on the controversial issue of lowering the draft age to 18 years and G The present Service Act; allows induction 19, A pending bill approved by the Senate 'Armed Service Commitiee 18-year- olds. The test will come on an amend- ment by Senator Morse (R-Ore) to make the minimum age 18'. years. The committee bill would require local draft boards to take older men in the present 19 to 26 drafi man- power pool before calling any 18 year old. It also would require that ducted first. ‘The Morse proposal would elimi- nate both these restrict:ons, allow- ing boys 18 years of age as well as those 19 to 26 to be taken at the same time. The test will be the first on a series of amendments proposed to the broad universal military train- ing and service bill. It has been de- bated intermittently this week and the voting agreement was by unani- mous consent. Senator Cain (R-Wash) urged to- day that the nation draft 18-year- olds because “we need every man we can get in Korea.” Cain had sharp criticism for Morse’s pro- Merry-Go- Round! By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc., ASHINGTON. — Beside Iron Curtain, Adrianople, Turkey. — I have just interviewed a Bulgarian) Refugee who lived six years be- np. ang Mys. Trevor Davis of Jun-| hind the Iron Curtain and then fled to safety across the Turkish borders one hour before I talked/ to him. He was almost like a man| coming out of a dark attic and see- ing the modern world for the first time in years. He did not know for instance, ex- actly what the United Nations wi He thought the Korean war was won by America, having heard the voice of America broadcast that MacArthur was bringing U. 'S. troops home by Christmas. He had been told also that people in Greece and Turkey were living onl grass and leaves because America was starving them under the Mar- shall plan. The most significant, immediate news he brought was that the Communists had come in an automobile to Oseno, a vil-! age near him last week, to notify the people that Briitain and United States were about to attack them. v—'(icg;ltAnued o;?sce Four) posals. SYLVIA DAVIS WITH BUFFALO SYMPHONY OVER KINY SUNDAY Miss Sylvia Da daughter of eau is with the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra to be heard in a musical program presented by the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company over radio station KINY at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Miss Davis plays first violin with the symphony or- chestra. Miss Davis is a talented musician and her name is well known in the east. Born and reared in Juneau she has delighted her Juneau friends by appearing in concert here on two of her visits to her hometown. PELICAN VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Winter of Pelican are at the Baranof Hotel. NCHORAGE C. V. Huttine of Anchorage is at the Baranof Hotel. K. C. Patton of Seldovia is re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel. the 18-year-olds nearest 19 be in-, Amerian ~ IsDeadin - RedPrison TAIPEI, Formosa, Marcch 2.—( | —Foreign sources said today Dr.| William L. Wallace, American medi- cal missionary, died in prison after he was arrested on trumped-up charges by the Chinese Reds. | The U. S. Staie Department in Wagshington said yesterday. the, Southern Baptist medical miission- | ary died February 10 in jail at| ‘Wuchow, Kwangsi Province. | i Dr. Wallace, 42, was superintend- | ent of Stout Memorial Hospital at | Wuchow. RATE HEARING REPORT | AT CTY COUNLL 1 Bids will be opened tonight on | 125 light meters by the Juneau City Council. All interested persons and | firms have been notified that the City wishes to dispose of the me- | ters, ] C. J. Erhrenreich has prepared a | report relative to the Juneau- | Douglas Telephone Co. rate hear- lings and it will be presented to- night. & | Two applications have been re- veived for card table licenses, those of Joe H. McNallen of the Arctic Bar and Manuel Diaz of the In- ternational Pool Room. | ! FROM A LIGHT Troy R. Walker, U. S. Coast- guardsman from Five Finger Light, is stopping at the Hotel Juneau for a few days: Ray L. Helland of Seattle is at the Baranof Hotel. e @ o o o ° 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau Maximum 33; minimum, 28. At Airport — Maximumn, 33; minimum, 26. | 1 FORECAST i 1 o Cloudy with intermittent light snow tonight. Lowest temperature near 29 degrees. Mostly cloudy with occasion- al light snow Saturday. High- est temperature about 32 degrees. | o! PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ¢nding 7:30 a.m. today @ . City of Juneau — .05 inches; @ Since March 1, —.13 inches; Since July 1 — 46.96 inches; At Airport — .12 inches; Since March 1 — .12 inches; Since July 1 — 32,62 inches. ® 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 . 00000000000 00000000000000023 0 14 KILLED; tem. The threatened strike would have brought a power blackout for more than half a million residents of Seattle and some of its suburbs. 8SURVIVE |WAGEBOARD | IN CRASH| SIOUX CITY, Ia., March 2. —(#— DC-3 Mid-Continent . Airline plane crashed and burned here to- day and 14 persons were reported killed. A Sioux City Journal reporter said 14 persons were, killed, includ- { ing the pilot and co-pilot, and that; eight persons survived. The north-bound ship was coming in for a landing when the crash occurred about 9:11 a.m. Witnesses said visibility was fair, but a sud- den snow squall blotted out the plane just before the crash. Latest Report The Mid-Continent Airline plane, groping for a landing during a heavy snowstorm, crashed and burned, killing 15 persons. The two-engine craft, trying the second time to land at the air- port, went down into a cornfield bordering the airfield. The airline reported 12 passengers | “unfair” and three crewmen died in Towa's worst plane smash-up. There werel ten survivors. The dead included Mrs. J. D. Alway, of Aberdeen, S. D., who sur- vived another Mid-Continent plane crash last Tuesday at Tulsa, Okla. Her husband, Dr. Alway, who was with her on the trip to Tulsa, was not with her today. The crack-up came only a few minutes after the pilot had been in contact with the airfield tower and had been cleared for a landing. Ceiling was reported as 500 feet and visibility a mile. It was the first fatal crash for Mid-Continent Airlines in its 17 year history, Bert Blackstock, of Omaha reported. It was the second crack-up, however, this week for the company. Last Tuesday, 29 passengers and the crew of four walked away from one of its airliners just before the craft was enveloped in flames after crashing at Tulsa, Okla. Six of those aboard the Houston-bound plane were given hospital treatment but none was injured critically. FROM SITKA H. L. Aga of Sitka is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 2 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can | 1071, American Tel. and Tel. 157%, Anaconda 42%, General FElectric 56%, General Motors 50%, Good- year 78%, Kennecott 75%, Libby, | McNeil and Libby 9%, Northern Pa- cific 35%, Standard Oil of California 93%, Twentieth Century Fox 23, U. S. Steel 44%, Pound $2.80%, Canad- ian Exchange 95.50. Sales today were 1,560,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 253.61, rails 86.26, utili- ties 43.80. | MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS =1 e i b ' [ s U. 8. Marines, Korea. back in action again, move over a oruee’rd bridge as they advance on the central front in It was disclosed (Feb. 27) that the leathernecks were back in the fighting for the first time Manchurian border last December. since their historic withdrawal from the Changjin reservoir near the M Wirephoto. rough Hub in Tankson Foot Marines Advance Again KEY TOWN, RED FRONT, ABANDONED Lealhemetfian Out as Opposition Fades-Han River Is Crossed The U. 8. First Marines shoved ‘through the Korean road hub of Hoengsong today in tanks and on foot. The Communists had aband- oned the key Central front town, leaving behind only the bodies of Dutch battalion troops they had ambushed there three weeks ago. Sweeping into Hoengsong after Red opposition faded, the Leather- necks fanned out, north before they were pinned down by Red machine- gun fire. This was on the ap- proaches to Hongchong, 15 miles to the north, the Chinese strong- hold where an estimated 40,000 en- emy troops are said to be dug in. Han River Crossed On the Western front, U. S. pa- trols crossed the Han River in rub- ber boats and probed the outer ring of Red-held Seoul in several places. On the eastern end of the 60-mile REBUILDING HITS SNAG WASHINGTON, March 2.—(®— Rebuilding of the shattered Wage Stabilization Board today ran up against a major obstacle—a demand by unions that it handle labor dis- putes as well as wage controls. Economic Stabilization Admini- strator Eric Johnston was making cautious moves to fashion a new industry-labor-public board to re-} place the nine-man panel fmml which organized labor has with- drawn its three representatives. Labor Leaders Resign Top labor leaders, acting on orders from the United Labor Policy Committee, showered all the mob- ilization agencies with resignations yesterday, in protest against allegedi wage ocontrol and “big business” domination of the defense drive. Mobilization Director Charles. E. Wilson was the major, target of their charges. Two Actions Taken Johnston, recognizing more storms | and delays ahead, acted as his own one-man wage board in two actions announced last night: 1. He relaxed the 10 per cent ceiling on wage boosts by permit- { ting workers to get full benefitf of cost-of-living wage increases up to June 30—provided their “escala~- tor”-type contracts were signed be- fore January 25. “Escalator” Benefits This may avert unrest and pos- sible strikes in the auto industry, where about 1,000,000 workers enjoy “escalator” benefits. 2. Johnston set a precedent for handling “hardship” cases. A three- member board was named to study whether CIO and AFL packing house workers should get the full nine-cent hourly pay boost won from major packers just after the freeze, It would pierce the ceiling; but the unions claim the freeze caught them at a substandard pay level. A 3% per cent price increase for passager car manufacturers was ordered at thg same time by price officlals, to offset “partially” higher wage and other costs. - i A AL S FROM HAINES Mrs. Bonnie Loop of Haines is registered at the Gastineau Hotel. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah from Vancouver scheduled to arrive Saturday after- noon or evening. Denali from Seattle scheduled to arrive sometime Monday. Baranof from westward scheduled to arrive at 7 a.m. Sunday south- bound. HOUSEHOLDS Central front, the South Korean Seventh Division pushed up between pangnim and the east coast to straighten out the Allied line across the peninsula., They were reported to have driven 16 miles in the last four days. HEARINGS ON (OMP. BiL House Bill 61, rewriting and revis- ing the Alaska Workmen’s Compen- sation Act, was the subject of a Committee of the Whole hearing in the House yesterday afternoon and this morning. Appearing before the House were Labor Commissioner Henry A. Ben- son, E. H. Hall, president of the { Alaska Territorial Federation of La- Donald Arceo (above), 14, sits in an Oakland, Calif.) police station, holding rosary beads after telling Police Inspector Merle Longnecker that he had fatally shot his father, John, 37, and his mother, Dorothy, 31, as they watched a television program. Inspector Longnecker said the youth told him he sur- rendered after visiting a Catholic priest. 7 Wirephoto. CONCERT BY FRANCES PAUL, LOIS REEDY, TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT The concert tonight by Frances Paul and Lois Reedy will be of in- terest. to all musiacl tastes, with songs by a variety of composers. Outstanding numbers will be “De- puis le Jour” from Charpentier’s “Louise,” sung by Miss Paul; “Der Erl-konig” by Schubert, sung by Mrs. Reedy; and a duet, “Flower Scene” from Puccini's “Madame Butterfly.” Of special interest will be “Sancta Mater” from Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater,” which was com- posed for Lenten performance. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. at Northern Light Presbyterian church and will be followed by a reception in the church parlors. The public is cordially invited to attend. Lynn O. Hollist from the Uni- versity of Alaska, is in Juneau for a Department of Agriculture field committee* meeting. He is xmylngl at the Hotel Juneau. bor; James Swan, Anchorage labor attorney, and Leonard Evans of the U. S. Department of Labor, all in support of the bill; L. A. Moore of Associated General Contractors, Curtis Shattuck, insurance broker; and R. E. Robertson, attorney, al! opposing the bill. Benson gave a brief review of the history of workmen’s compensation U. S. Second Division troops astride the Pangnim-Hoengsong highway fought off night-long Red assaults to keep control of the sup- ply route which had been vital to the Reds. , . v Resistance Increases Increasing Communist resistance indicated further that the Chinese nd North Koreans are planning a ig spring offensive. General Mac- Arthur's operational summary said some 31 Red divisions are arrayed across the peninsula. Despite the estimated 140,000 cas- ualties they have suffered since Jan. 17, MacArthur said the Communist attack potential still is “unim- paired.” British Commonwealth troops on the left flank of the spearheading Marines punched northward in the Yongdu area, 17 miles west of Hoengsong, against stiff Chinese opposition. The crew of a U. S. Superfort reported it shot down one of six attacking Russian-built jets over North Korea and damaged another. legislation in the Territory and said increased benefits are long overdue House Bill 61, he said, combine the “best” features of the present Alaska law and the Federal Long- shoremen’s and Harbor Workers Act. He said he was unable to state how much the bill, if enacted, would increase compensation rates an had been unable to get figures from insurance companies. He estimated. however, that the increase would not be more than 50 per cent. “It is my observation,” Benson sald, “that what the insurance com- oanies do is to charge what they ‘hink the traffic will bear.” Highly Competitive This assertion was denied by in- suranceman Curtis Shattuck, whe cited examples to show the highly competitive nature of the casulty insurance business. “The Longshore Act is rated ac 60 per cent more severe than the Alaska Act,” Shattuck said. ‘This bill virtually changes the Alaska Act to the Longshoremen’s Act, but it leaves out the limitations pro- vided by the latter,” It was brought out several times during the_ hearing that the Long- shoremen's Act provides the better long-term benefits, while the Alaska Act has better short-term benefits. “This bill would be the most se- vere Act ever to pass a legislature and is perhaps the most severe ever presented to a legislature,” asserted Larry Moore. “It would spell dis- aster to Alaska industry.” Double Rates Moore said passage of the bill would double present compensation insurance rates and read a letter from a Seattle insurance brokerage in support of his statement. At present, Moore said, costs of | compensation insurance amount to |5 per cent of payrolls on big con- struction jobs, and most of the con- (Continued oo Page TWo) U. §. ENTERS BIG-4 TALKS SKEPTICALLY WASHINGTON, March 2 —P— Ambassador Philip Jessup, said to- ‘day the United States is entering the Paris Big Four talks in a high- 'y skeptical frame of mind as to what the Russians will do. Jessup, preparing his departure for the negotiations, spoke out after 1 conference with President Tru- nan, “We have got to approach the meeting on the basis that we are ‘from Missouri’” Jessup said. “We want to see if they are ready to demonstrate that they will get down to brass tacks and talk about the things that really are causing all the tension.” Jessup leaves the United States tonight for Paris, where Big Four deputy foreign ministers will open talks Monday on arrangements for a meeting of the ministers them- selves, Parliament of Norway Approve Contribution To Nerth Atlantic Pact OSLO, Norway, March 2—(P— Full approval of the government proposal that Norway contribute to | the Atlantic Pact defense army was lvulced last night by the foreign policy and military committees of the Storting (Parliament).