The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 28, 1951, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS “ALL TIE NEWS ALL THE TIME™ | VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,769 EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ff Alaska Atomic Weapons May Be Tested Maroonec!gfamilljy;_A;ks Help Members of a family whose farm near Willmar, Minn., last several weeks, stamped two big H’'s in a field as a signal they needed help. ters (left and center) with ashes to make sure they were seen. Pilot Ted Then was told the family had been without food for two days. of groceries to the farm. U Wirephoto. IMPORTANT BILLS ARE APPROVED BY GOV. GRUENING Bills of principal iateicst proved, by the governor were the General = Appropriation _ Bill, th Ciyil Defense Bill, the Reorganiz: tion Bill, the Motor Vehicle, Regis tration Bill. and_the Banking, Bill. These with athers earlier enactec will give the volume to be know) as Session Laws of Alaska 1951, 13 chapters. Memorials, resolutions and_ extensiye indexing will mak¢ it perhaps the largest volume of Session Laws to date. Bills vetoed and not earlier re- ported were for the most part of a technical nature. Some were tech- nically defective as to form, all were transmitted for permanent filing with the governor’s veto message attached. Among bills vetoed were ay- Senate Bill No. 63, which sought ! to correct conflicting property as- 8 ent practices within independ- ent school districts and adjoining municipalities. Discussion with its author and with the Attorney Gen- eral indicated that the bill would not accomplish its purpose if enact- ed, and that the subject was deserv- ing of fuller treatment by a subse- quent Legislature. Senate Bill No. 70, a bill to re- quire minority stockholders to post a bond before commencing suit against the corporation was vetoed because of its imposing an unnec- essary burden on the maintenance of lawsuits. House Bill No. 20 was vetoed be- cause of technical defectiveness and because it sought to amend an ThéWashingiofl Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc., ASHINGTON.—It is a scienti- fic fact that men who spend their lives working in sewers lose their sense of smell. Coming back to Washington after several weeks' absence, I am struck with the fact that many officials of the Truman administration also A ski | earlier enabling act under which | cities have imposed sales taxes, by lpro\‘xdin_u terms originally reserved to the cities and conceivably con- flicting with measures glready | adopted by cities acting under the | enabling act. | Senate Bill No. 51, ling to the order of pagmiut of claime against estates, was vetoed ! bedase of its conflicting with Fed- >ral statute recognized and in foree ince the"early days cf the Reépub- ic. House Bill No. 93, relating to the aroperty tax, was vetoed because it epresented legislation on mattex ww before the co and because it . would ; give preferential treat, ment to one group of taxpayers sub- ject to the property tax ' The governor pointed tha commercial boat owners had in 194¢ been given an alternative formula for fixing their property tax liabil- ity which instead of the uniform 1 ser cent levy, allowed them to com- pute their tax on a tonnage basis. House Bill No. 93 sought to reduce the tonnage liability by 50 per cent ind was therefore vetoed. GOVERNMENT ENTERS AFU NEGOTIATIONS SEATTLE, March 28 —(P—A Fed- eral labor conciliator today entered | contract dispute between Alaska | Fishermen’s Union (Independent) and the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., representing the packers. Albin L. Peterson, conciliator, said separate meetings will be held with the union and packers in an! attempt to find a basis for joint meetings later. Negotiations between the union and packers have been underway for several weeks, but no agreement has been reached. Wages and other conditions of employment are in dispute. an acf relat- out 1951 FISH LIVER " MARKET T0 BE BETTER | O'Conor L] has been marooned by the heavy snows of the They filled the let- -equipped plane took two big boxes CRIME PROBE ENDING; ASKS CONTINUANCE Senate MaTEe Asked tfo Bring Confempt Cases Against 2 Witnesses WASHINGTON, March 28—(P— The Senate Crime Investigating Committee settled down today to try to whip intc shape legislative blows against the underworld. It worked on its final report amid continuing demands that its sersa- tional probe be continued beyond March 31. Committee members and their staff arranged a closed-door session after calling a halt to their drama- loaded public hearings and then held under bond another balky wit- ress, and voted to cite two others for contempt, Senator Tobey (R-NH) spoke of a compromise in the dispute- over extending the probe. Tobey told reporters he wanted to have “a heart-to-heart talk” with Chairman Kefauver (D-Tenn) and the other committee members to “see if we can’t work out a com- promise.” Kefauver has firmly insisted that the committee should shut up shop on schedule, submit its recommend- ations for striking at organized crime and try to push these pro- posals into law. Brink Admits Interests The committee said it obtained from James Brink an admission that he and members of the “Cleve- land Syndicate” had interests in three plush gambling places inr the Northern Kentucky area across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. Brink was questioned behind closed doors yesterday afternoon by Senator O'Connor (D-Md), sitting as a one-man subcommittee. So was William G. O'Brien of Chicago. reported O'Brien “stood mute” on the ground that he might incriminate himself if he answered questions. UN FORCES SLOW DOWN ON ADVANCE Center of Eo—rean Line, However, Sees Action Against Massed Reds By Associated Press United Nations troops continued a slow advance on both ends of the line across Korea today while American artillery poured heavy fire into massed Communist units in the center. On the East cosst, South Korean troops advanced behind a barrage of naval gunfire to a point six miles north of the 38th Parallel. = They occupied Yangyang, the first size- able coast town north of the border. Spring Rains Prevail The UN artillery on the Central front had the two-fold objective of clearing a path for infantrymen and breaking up any Red efforts to counterattack. Spring rainsj | bogged the artillery hub deep in | places and hampered the Allied air iattack and mechanized ground | forces. | The Central front was the focal | point for Communist troop massing: | activity. Some 10,000 Reds were ! strong along the border with an- ' other 80,000 backing them up. | Wary of Red Push Front line observers were wary of a Red push down the center of | the peninsula. The Reds might pick | the rainy season for such a try since their lightly weighted forces | would have some advantage over the heayily burdened Allied troaps. On. the Western' front, Allied | troops encountered some answering !Red artillery and mortar fire. l | On the diplomatic scene, the Big Four deputy foreign ministers re- | sume their talks today in Paris, {There is no end in sight to the pro- ! paganda battle that has waged fcrl 18 sessions and resulted in little progress toward an agenda for the proposed foreign ministers confer- ence, | { ' INT. REVENUE GETS CARROLL ON 26 COUNTS 1 KAN“AS CITY, March 28 —(P— jJames J. Carroll, St. Louis betting commissioner, was charged today !on 26 counts of failure to report to | Federal tax authorities payments ,wtnllng $52,688.15 made by him in 1948 and 1949, The two informations against | Carroll invoked a little known and | rarely enforced section of the in- | ternal revenue code which requires: | First, that all persons making payments to other persons of more than $600 — other than those on which taxes are withheld by employ- ers — are require¢ to report those payments individually to the Inter- nal Revenue department’s process- ing division, which is located in Kansas City. Second, that all such payments :must be listed collectively and re- | ported annually to the processing division. These provisions are found in Section 147 of the Internal Rev- | enue code. | | \FANNIE HANSON DIES l | Somewhat chilly and very windy weather held forth at the Tidal Basin in Washington, D. C., but these five barefoot lovelies are out to frame up an invitation to the nation to attend the capital's Cherry Blossom Festival. Left to right: Beverly Balentine, Ann Quacktnbush, Mary Freman, Dyan Wilson | and Barbara Hobelman, all members of the Ambassador Hotel Swimming Club. Behind them is one of the famed cherry trees, without blossoms. (P Wir ephoto. WILL SWAT CONTROLS ON MORE FOODS WASHTNGTON, March 28 —(®— {The government was ready today to prder a mew system of price con- frsls on anout 60 per cent of the food in your grocery store. After weeks of wrestling with problems involved, the Oftice of Price Stabilization (OPS) has com- pleted two retail food orders and one wholesale food order. The change over will give the American public some price roll- backs and some price increases with- in the next few weeks — and price Director Michael V. DiSalle has predicted that the rollbacks will outnumber the increases. The nation’s approximately 500,- 000 fiqery stores will be ordered not 4 xceed certain “mark-up” perci ges on about 40. categories’| of foods. The orders are expected to cover canned goods, baby foods, coffee, sugar, salt, butter, packaged cheese,’ cookies and crackers break- fast cereal, shortening, flour, flav- oring, peanut butter, jams and jel- lies, and many other items, They are not expected to cover bread, milk, eggs, fresh meat, fresh fruits, or fresh vegetables. At present, the retail and whole- sale prices of most foods are frozen at the highest levels charged by each seller between Dec. 19 and Jan. 25 — except that in the case of most foods, when farm prices rise, the food-seller may raise his price to allow for this rise. Jim Houston, Seattle salesman, arrived yesterday from Cordova on PNA and is stopping at the Baranocf Hotel. ® e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'cluck this morning In Juneau Maximum, 39; minimum, 35, At Airport — Maximum, 37; minimum, 33. Berlin Reds OpenfFireon U.S. Tourists BERLIN, March 28 — (® —East German Communist police opened fire today on American tourists in downtown Berlff§ U. S. authorities demanded an immediate audience with the Russians for an explana- tion. The Communist police fired 12 pistol shots at four buses carrying American Army and civilian per- sonnel on the regular Wednesday tour of Berlin sponsored by the Army’s special services. | border separating the Soviet sector from the West. Three of the shots hit one of the buses and broke a window but none of the occupants was struck. The Communist police told the drivers they would have to take ar- other route through West Berlin {2 reach the Brandenburg Gate. Whean the buses turned around to obey thut order, one of the yolicemen, described as young .nd excited, opened fire on the last of the de- parting vehicles. LAST RITES HELD TODAY FOR MINNIE FIELD Funeral services were held for Minnie Field this afternoon, well- loved and known as mother to many homeless and neglected: children. The Rebekah ritualist service was used for the services. Internment was in the Odd Fellows plot of Evergreen cemetery. The Rebekah lodge hall was filled to overflowing with friends of Miss Field. Fourteen of the older chil- dren from the Minfield Home at- tended the funeral, The Rev. Walter Soboleff delivered the eulogy. There wers very few flowers because she had requested that money be sent to the Alaska Crippled Children’s The buses were exactly on the) have lost their sense of smell. They | have become so accustomed to po-| Xirk Jones of the Washington| litical favoritism, petty chiseling, | l:aboratories left today for Peters-|had been brought in under a sena- | and party politics that their olfac- | burg after meeting with his agents | torial arrest warrant, placed under | tory ner are numb. They no | in this area. He buys fish livers and i $10,000 bond. The bond was posted | longer have that instinctive sense!Viera for the vitamin content and and O'Brien left. O'Conor said he | of smell, so necessary to every pub- | féPorts that the present market is' would recommend to the full com- | lic official, to differentiate between | better than in 1950. For the coming | mittee that O'Brien be cited for| good and bad. iseasan prices should run from 50| contempt of Congress. Not only do they not realize wi:a”cvms to a $1 a pound on livers and | Vote Contempt Citations has been going on around them,|{rom 10 to 18 cents on vicera de-| Earlier the crime probers voted to | but they fail to understand !i,u‘};)t'ndz;xr; on the vitamin A content. |ask the Senate to approve contempt ! these stories of graft, played up! Wallis George is his local agent; |citations against Morris Kleinman in the Europ are EA\‘“;‘-‘JUhH Enge of Engstrom Brothers and Louis Rothkopf, former Cleve- | us a black eye everywhere. }dt Pelican; Knute Thompwn.h;md bootleggers linked by the com- What they further do not realize Petersburz; Curley Armstrong, | mittee with gambling operations in | is that the men below take their| Wrangell; and John Rogich, Ketchi- | Northern Kentucky and Nevada. cue from the top. This is one of | Kan- l Both refused to testify at a public the truest facts of political life,! {hearing Monday night protesting = (G R L. N. Lyons of Anchorage is stop- | that television and newsreel cameras (Continued on Page Four) ping at the Baranof Hotel. ]invaded their right to privacy. HERE TUESDAY P. M. Famie Hanson died at her home in the Juneau native village yester- day afternoon. She was born in 1865 at Pt. Bishop in Taku Inlet and has lived her entire life in the Gastineau Channel area. She was a charter member of the Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp No. 3 of Douglas and served two terms as treasurer of the organiza- tion. Funeral arrangements will be. announced later. The body is at the Carter Mortuary. O'Connor ordered O'Brien, who ANCHORAGE VISITORS S. M. Sumrall and Willlam Reichers of Anchorage are stopping at the Baranof Hotel. . Association. Active pallbearers were Gene Vuille, James Rolison, Joe Johnston, Alva Blackerby, Ed Shaffer and Glenn Oakes. Honorary pallbearers werc H. L, Faulkner, George W. Fuita, H. R. Vander Leest, Albert White, Norman Cook, John Mar- shall, John Krugness, Dr. J. O. Rude and Stanley Nowicka. Major Chester E. Canine of Washington, D, C. arrived here yesterday from Anchorage on PNA and is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. FORECAST Continued cloudy with in- termittent light rain occas- ionally mixed with snow to- night and Thursday. Lowest temperature tonight about 35 degrees. Highest Thursday near 38. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau—.10 inches; Since March 1—6.75 inches; Since July 1-57.65 inches. At Airport—.04 inches; Since March 1—3.61 inche: Since July 1—36.09 inches. ® ® o o 0 0 0 o 0 SEATTLE VISITOR - Jis at the Baranof Hotel. DEMOS LOSE ELECTION IN KANSAS CITY KANSAS CITY, March 28 —(P— The Citizens’ Association retained control of the city government to- day, beating back a determined bid by Democratic forces led by James Pendergast. 1t marked the first time in a decade the Democratic organization was unified in its efforts to return to power. The Pendergast machine tumbled out of control in 1940. In yesterday’s municipal election, Mayor William E. Kemp, heading the Citizen's ticket, was elected to a third term. The Citizens' Associa- tion, a coalition of Republicans, In- dependents and anti-machine Dem- ocrats, also won eight of nine posts on the city council. Kemp received 68,046 votes. His opponent, Ben W, Swofford, lawyer and member of a prominent Kansas City family, polled 55413 votes. Both men are Democrats. Munic- ipal elections are non-partisan, PRESIDENT OF FRANCE NOWINUS NEW YORK, March 28 —(P— President Vincent Auriol of France arrived today for the first visit ever made to the United States by a French chief executive. Whistles blew, airplanes roared overhead and champagne flowed in Auriol's honor as the liner Ile De France nosed through New York harbor. The smiling president also was greeted with a 21-gun salute from an Army gun at Governor's Island * ALEUTIANS CONSIDERED FOR TESTS Proving Galds Hinted Where Weather Other Conditions Favorable By ELTON C. FAY AP Military Affairs Reporter WASHINGTON, March 28 —(P— ‘The United States may be preparing its fifth atomic weapons proving ? ground, this one in a sub-Arctic wasteland. A lonely spot on the Aleutian Is-, land chain, which stietches out 800 miles from the Alaskan mainland westward toward Russic’s Siberian empire, appears a probable choice. Favorable Factors There, for the first time, the U. S. could test atomic bombs under conditions of climate and other fac- tors which might be encountered should a war require use of such weapons against Russian cities. Since Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean hinted re- cently that new tests might be made at locations not used heretofore, there has been developing specula- tion that the Aleutians might be one of the sites. Reasons for this in- clue: Weather Conditipns 1. Atomic bomb tests to date have been conducted only in favor- able weather conditions in areas unlike those which would be logical A-bomb targets in a war with Rus- sia. 2. The area already {s owned by the government and controlled by the military, There is no need for a transfer of authority or to enter an agreement with another nation, as would be the case if Arctic tests were made in barren Northern Canada. Easily Reachable 3. Any of the Aleutian Islands is easily reachable by sea transport which presumably would be needed to get in the extensive and heavy equipment needed for building in- stallations to house instruments and other material. Kepner Is Cited 4. By coincidence, the present overall commander in Alaska is the former commander for air at the Bikini tests, Lt. Gen. Wililam E. Kepner. So far, atomic bombs have been tested at the original Alamogordo, tN. M. site; at Bikini, at Eniwetok and in the experiments during late January and early February on Frechmen's Flat, in the desert near Las Vegas, Nev. .In these tests, bombs were exploded from a steel tower (at Alamogordo), dropped from a B-29 bomber (the first Bi- kini test), exploded in shallow water (the second Bikini test) and fired in unannounced manner at Eniwetok and Las Vegas. Borb Below Ground But so far as is known, the atomic weaponeers have not exploded a bomb buried below the ground. To simulate a deep-penetraticn .atomic bomb dropped from high altitude. Thus there is the possibility a sub- lsur(ace explosion may be tried in | the Aleutians. . No Good—Coral Island A buried-bomb test at the perma- ent testing ground of Eniwetok ap- peared unlikely. Eniwetok is a cor- al island, Coral is soft and fragile. A bomb burst in the coral probably “would create a crater so large many of the small islands would disappear, 'lcnvlng nothing for study of the J explosion’s effect. 1 Solid Rock Formation On the other hand, the Aleutians ! FROM PETERSBURG Mr. and Mrs. Afne Lund of Petersburg are at the Baranof Hotel. TERRITORIAL HOLIDAY FRIDAY, SEWARD'S DAY Territorial offices will be closed Friday, Seward’s Day, also city banking institutions. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle 4 pm. Friday. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- rive from Skagway at 8 a.m. Friday sailing south one hour later at 9. Baranof scheduled to arrive from bound. i (Coodnued on Page Two) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 28 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 111, American Tel, and Tel. 153%, Anaconda 38%, Douglas Aircraft 95, General Electric 54%, General Mot- ors 51%, Goodyear 71%, Kennecott 73%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 9. Northern Pacific 32, Standard Oil of California 45, Twentieth Century Fox 21%, U. S. Steel 41%, Pound 1$2.80%, Canadian Exchange 95.12%c. Sales today were 1,770,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Mrs. Keppel W. Hoyt of Seattle| Westward Sunday morning south- | Industrials 246.19, rails 79.04, utili- ties 42.58.