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

¥ | | THE DAILY ALASKA ALL TLIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,773 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS | Commies Mass For All - Out Spring Offensive WARNING IS GIVEN BY AURIOL French President Talks Straight o Joint Ses- sion of Congress WASHINGTON, April 2. — (® — President Vincent Auriol of France told Congress today that if his country falls before the forces of aggression “the whole world, indeed civilzation itself, will be in mortal danger.” Addressing a special Senate- House session, he said to prevent such a disaster the West must base its defense strategy on “shielding” Western Europe against attack. The alternative, he said, is to “liberate a Europe which may once more be occupied, enslaved, ex- ploited and ravaged and whose name, you may be sure, would only recall the final ruin of a civiliza- tion.” Auriol’s speech climaxed a formal j six-day state visit here as guest of President Truman. He planned to leave by train for New York soon after for three more days of speech- es, dinners and receptions. In his final appearance here, Auriol cautioned America’s legis- lators of the dangers of “uncoordi- nated diplomaey and strategy.” The West must stand together, he said, building regional defense pacts “to deter aggression and strengthen the peace.” Auriol specifcally mentioned only the 12-nation North Atlantic Pact and did not elaborate on his refer- ence to possible additional “pacts.” The bespectacled chief of state vigorously ' defended the - French fighting record. France, he said, has lost 1,932,000 nien as a result of; the past two World Wars and is! now fighting Communism in Korea and Indochina. l MRS. SANDBO SOUTH Mrs. Preston Sandbo flew to. Se- attle Saturday via Pan -American Airways where she will enter the Virgin Mason Clinic for medical attention. ! PASSMORE TO SEATLLE | _love Bloomed at Rose Paréde Marine Corp. Robert Gray, are going to be married engagement at Pasadena Wirephoto. Vietor Passmore, who has been| en the Daily Alaska Empire mech- ¢ anical staff for the past three months during the legislative rush, flew to Sgatle Saturday.where ml will join “his wife «who has been living in“Seattle while, her hushand was in Jineau, i ROCKY ROTHWELL HERE Ira (Rocky) Rothwell, of Cordova | arrived yesterday on PNA to attend the spring meeting of the Alaska Fisheries Board, of which he is a member. He is stopping at the Bar- anof Hotel, The Washington| Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc., ASHINGTON. — One trouble with holding down prices is that some officials inside the office of Price Stabilization seem more in- terested in upping prices than in preventing inflation. Here's an example of the public- be-hanged behavior of certain of- ficals which occurred at a recent closed-door meeting between price official Charles W. Carvin and rep- resentatives of the woolen industry This meeting, like most of the important - price-control meetings held in Washington, had no spokes- man for the consumer. The group consisted entirely of wool manufac- turers—with the exception ot Charles Carvin, the government’s man, Carvin, however, is not ex- actly a friend of the consumer, haing spent most of his life in the textile industry and currently is on leave from ‘his own large New York textile firm, Charles W. Carvin Co. During their meeting Carvin and the wool manufacturers discussed; the question of how much of a pncel increase the manufacturers should! get, and Carvin astonished the group with this advice: “Go see Mike Di Salle (OPS Ad- (Continued on Page Four) T TO sul THE PURPOSE_Acmshedc-m: , who replaced Gen. Dwight Eisenhower as grand marshal of the 1951 Tournament of Roses parade at Pasa- dena, Calif., and Betsy Josi, 18, one of the Rose Queen’s princesses, They're pictured as they announced their They met at the Queen’s breakfast a few days before New Year’s Day and said it was love at first sight. P with its windows boarded up and a door added, is converted into a snack bar for officers on air strip somewhere in South Korea. s MARBLE DANCERS — Roy E. Swain, Huntington Park; Calif., consultant engineer, points to one of his picturesque signs showing two Spanish dancers which is made of approxie mately 15,000 brightly colored glass marbles. JUNEAU WOMAN HA TWO DEEP FREEZES What to do with two deep freeze refrigerators? That’s the question facing Mrs. Wayne Johnson today who received a brand new 12 cu. ft. Frigidaire food freezer Saturday night from Auk Bay Post No. 25, The American Legion, i 1t seems that Mrs, Johnson is al- ready the owner of a 9 cubic foot deep freeze outfit and so, she’s looking around today for means of disposing of the surplus box. Mrs. Johnson and her husband are proprietors of the City Dry Cleaners. HAINES VISITOR Flex F. Hakkinen of Haines is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. LEFT FORCES LEADING AFU | ELECTIONS SRATTLE, April 2.—(p—Candi- | dates supported by left-wing forces in the Alaska Fishermen's Union (Independent) appeared to have been elected to head the union for the coming year, it was learned | oday. ! In the race for secretary-treasur- | & er, George W. Johansen of Seattle, was leading Louis Motsad of Port- land, who was supported by the more | conservative forces, 541 to 348, in | voting in West Coast ports. Votes from Alaska still were to be counted but they were not expectéd to change the outcome. Johansen's strength in Alaska, especially in the | | Southeast, is generally conceded. . | Johansen would succeed Osuari Anderson of Seattle, who did not seek re-election. Anderson ha sbeen | under attack of left-wing forces. Hans Hansen of Seattle, also sup- | ported by the left-wing, is leading for assistant secretary-treasurer, it | was reported. Other candidates were | Ralph E. Olsen of Seattle, Mrs. | Lottie Edelman of Anchorage and | Oluf Johnson of Seattle. i 24 LEAVE ABOARD | New Army Tank ‘ O & [ v 1 ] 3 | i | | | | Army and government officials view a new Walker Bulldog tank as it rolls off the production line at the Cadillac Division of General Motors’ plant at Cleveland, Ohio. tons and came off the assembly line three months ahead of contract schedule. (P Wirephoto. The tank, called the T-41, weighs 26 " BARANOF SOUTHBOUNS | | Embarking on the Baranof tor;IHFREE HElD N i i isealue and Ketchikan Monday af- { ternoon were 24 passengers. | o | i i | | For Seattle: Mrs. Malcolm Greany and two sons; James Bush, SEATTLE, /April 2. = (7 — Three women, whase arrest.dn a North Inga S. Miller, Les Joe, Mrs. Mar- tha Ulrich, Mary Ann Ulrich, Mr and Mrs. J. E. Hutson, Mrs. G. M. Lowry, Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. MacKin« | non, Howard E. Martin, Gerald | Williams, Howard Lyng. ! For Ketchikan: Andy Barlow, B. | F. Kane, Glenn Leach, Ralph E. Smith, Aaron Johnson, Mae Ja- | End house of prostitution led to the ger, TFrank A. Metealf, Alberta “payoff” discharge of a King County jCote, ! Deputy Sheriff. are held as material | witnesses. | Prosecutor Charles O. Carroll said Body of Wrangell . Man Found in Canal The “hold” was apparently all SEATTLE, April 2, —P—The | ope wigh Mrs. Eileen Avanzino body of a man identified from per- |26, whose statement on the “])ro-’ ismml papers as Sylvester T. Con | tection payoffs” was read in Justice traro of Wrangell, Alaska, Was|court Priday. She said she wished found yesterday in the Lake Wash- |the protection of the jail because ington ship canal. Ishe believed herself in danger and Coroner John P. Brill ordered an | feared violence. autopsy performed. { Mrs. Avanzino said in her state- S0 {ment she had paid since discharged GUARD OFFICER RETURNS | Sheriff’s Deputy Elmo Hudgens $500 Harry Lucas, warrant officer of |in cash plus a promised $500 a the National Guard, returned to|manth to keep the hou se in opera- ipay their fines was rejected. ‘The |offer was accompanied by a mes- sage to get out of town. Juneau yesterday via Pacific Nor- | tion: thern Airlines after having been | She also named Steward O. Jac- on an inspection trip of National |Obson, private detective, Nelson Guard units in Anchorage and | Durham, attorney, and Deputy | Sheriff F. J. Sands as participating in the payoff deal. Fairbanks, He was gone a week. | ! The other two women held were Rita Curtis, 22, and Ida Bernardino, TO OCEAN BEACH $ Mot _ Mrs. Dorothy Novatney, of lhe"m. who said she was the house- o e _ | keeper. '!“erntona] Depssimpiiis gl | Both Hudgens and Jacobson have tion flew south to go to Ocean | ) A Besch Oslif. where; ahe Wikl Galis | SR (e caress because of illness of an aunt. wwmrome | MRS. LUTHER HESS Mrs. Beatrice Buchanan is a new | employee in the disbursing office of | I}S DE AD i“ SEA‘"’I.E the U. S, Treasury Deparnmem.[ Arthur Adams is in charge of the | office. | SEATTLE, April 2. — (® — Mrs. Mrs. Buchanan was recently em- | Harriet Hess, 74, of Fairbanks, Sec- |retary of the University of Alaska | Board of Regents for 34 years, sdied iin a hospital here Saturday after |an extended illness. | Long active in civic and educa- Itional work in Alaska, Mrs. Hess was named in 1916 to select the site near Fairbanks for the first build- ing of what is now the University of Alaska. She was appointed Sec- 'retary of the Board of Regents in 1917 and served until her death. Mrs. Hess was principal of the Juneau High School from 1902 to 1907, and was Fairbanks High School ptincipal from 1907 to 1910. In 1911 she married Luther Hess, widely known Fairbanks business man. They had no children. | Andrew Nerland of Fairbanks, President of the University Board of Regents, is in Seattle and is as- sisting Mr, Hess with funeral ar- | rangements. The funeral will be at 1 pm., Wednesday at the Bon- ® ney-Watson Funeral Home, in Se- ® atle, with entombment in mauso- |leum at Acacia Cemetery. ployed in the Territorial legislature. e e o o o o 0 o o WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In 42; Juneau Maximum, minimum, 38. At Airport — Maximum, 43; minimum, 37. FORECAST Rain occasionally mixed with snow and southeasterly winds of 15 to 25 miles per hour tonight, Lowest temp- erature near 35 degrees. Mostly cloudy with rain showers Tuesday. Highest temperature near 42 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today city of Juneau—27 inches; April 1,—27 inches ®| C. L Watson of Sitka, is stop- ¢ ping at the Gastineau Hotel. Since July 1—36.36 inch 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 o% Since B ince July 1 — 5821 inches e At Airport — .09 inches; e e Since April 1 — .10 inches; @ . l. ihe had orderpfisas held|jdnt Ealil o v TSIBE VALY D ion Eisenhower To Get Men - Under 20 Yrs. { WASHINGTON, April 2—(P—Ad- !ministmbion forges won the first | tests today a§ the Senate drove to- ward a decision in the great debate over sending U. 8, troops to serye in a North Atlantic defense force in Europe. asting into the night appeared probable before a final vote on a Senate resolution on the troops issue. Knocked down by only two votes —46 to 44—was a moye by Senator McClellan (D-Ark) to put the Sen- ate on record as saying that no more than four additional divisions !should be sent to Western Europe “without further Congressional ap- proval.” A vote of 62 to 27 rejected a move by Senator Case (R-SD) to ban the sending of any foot soldiers under age 20, The committee's resolution en- dorses the administration plan to send four divisions—about 100,000 men—to join the two divisions al- ready in Europe and ticketed for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Wes- tern defensz command. It also calls for Congressional approval of “any new policy” for troop commitme:nts |beyond the four divisions. The Senate met two hours ear- lier than usual in an effort to come to a final decision on the troops- for-Europe issue after weeks of de- bate. Two separate resolutions were be- fore it. Both would endorse the administration’s program. One would express only Senate senti- ment. The other, if adopted by the Senate, would be sent on to the House. Neither resolution has the force of law. They would call upon the President to get “Congressional ap- proval”—without defining the term —before assigning any additional forces, Legally, the President, who has contended he has the final authority on troop deployment, could ignore this advice NEW YORK, April 2.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today s 2%, American Can 109, American Tel. and Tel. 1537, Anaconda 38%, General Electric 54, General Motors 51%, Goodyear 71%, Kennecott 72%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 9, Northern Pacific 32, Stand- ard Oil of California 45'%, Twen- tieth Century Fox 20%, U. S. Steel 41%, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Ex- change 95.25. Sales today were 1,280,000 shares Averages today were as follo industrials 246.63, rails 76.69, utili- FLOWERED HAT— Roses and egrets are used as combination on a black horse- hair crown for a pretty evening hat by Rose Valois of Paris. A large diamond clip placed in the center of the hat gives it a glit- tering. effect. GOVERNOR 10 WASHINGTON T0 CONFER, DEFENSE Governor Ernest Gruening is fly- ing to Anchorage tomorrow where he will confer with military heads on civilian defense for Alaska and Wednesday will go on to Washing- ton, D. C., where he will see Mil- lard F. Caldwell, national admin- istrator for civillan defense. Main object in his talks with Caldwell will be an effort to secure addition- al federal funds for Alaska civilian defense. The recent legislature passed an act appropriating $150,000 for administration and $250,000 for work of civilian defense in the Ter- ritory, the latter to be matched with federal funds. “However,” the Governor said, “I feel that half a million dollars is not a sufficient sum to carry out civilian defense properly in the Territor; He expects to be gone about three weeks, MRS. SHUDSHIFT RETURNS Mrs. Arne Shudshift, of Douglas, returned home this morning on the Denali after a visit of six weeks in the Pacific northwest. In Seattle Mrs. Shudshift was a house guest of Mrs. Nils Furness who formerly lived in Juneau. Mrs. Shudshift said that while in Seattle, Vancouver, B. C. and other cities and towns in the Seattle area. Vernon J. Forney of ties 42.21. a guest at the Baranof Hotel. | | i i | she enjoyed | visits with many former Juneauites | STRENGTH " OF ENEMY IS TESTED Tank - Led U. N Infantry . Patrols Cautiously Stab at Boundary Line By The Associatéd Press ! Tank-led United Nations infan- | try patrols stabbed across the Kor- ean 38th parallel several times to- day testing enemy strength. The Chinese Communists were reported massing their forces for an all-out spring offensive. | After short veriods north of the 1‘ boundary, Allied patrols presumably | returned to their main lines. One i patrol on the West Central front | encountered stiff enemy resistance |one and a half miles north of the | border before pulling back. | The Allied advance was cautious |in the face of the expected all-out | Chinese counterattack. Patrols led |the way through heavy mine- | fields. | Communist vehicles jammed the iroads of Northwest Korea — more than 2,300 were spotted by Allied | airmen last night. | General MacArthur's communique said the main Chinese thrust might, |come in the Central sector, where the enemy is building up great strength in the Chorwon-Kumhwa- Hwachon triangle, i Hwachon is 15 miles due north lof Allied-held Chunchon and seven miles north of the border separat- ing North and South Korea. United States units adyanced east of Chun~ chon without firing a shot. Greek, Thailand (Stamese) and South Kor- ean troops fighting with the Am- ericans tan into pockets of resist- {ange north 'of Chunchon. Allied warplanes punched at en- emy troop concentrations and build- {up areas north of the border. the Western front the Red {Chinese planted mines to protect | their flank while they carried forth | their preparations on the Central | front. | There were no indications of any fresh Allied crossings of the bound- ary line. No further advance was reported on the East Coast where South Korean troops are 10 to 12 miles north of the border. THIRD WRANGELL MAN CHARGED IN - ILLEGAL FUR CASE | | Another Wrangell’ man, Orrie C. { Harris, was apprehended in Wran- gell Friday in what' appears to be an illegal fur racket which seems to have struck the town. He isthe third man to plead guilty of such charges within a week, according |to word received here by Regional | Director Clarence Rhode of the U. 'S, Fish and Wildlife Service office. | Harris pleaded guilty before U. | 8. Commissioner Joel Wing on two Icuunw. taking and possession of |illegal fur and was fined $1000 and !given a jail sentence of one year | which was suspended. | Last week Cal Zuver was appre- ihended in Seattle as he stepped off |a plane from Wrangell. He was |given a $500 fine and six months | suspended jail sentence for posses- sion of illegal fur, Last Friday U. !8. Deputy Collector of Customs, | Ben Carson was charged and plea- ded guilty to possession of 14 mink | skins and was fined $500 and given a suspended jail sentence of 180 days. Carson has since resigned his !Wrnngell Customs post, the local | Collector of Customs office re- | ported. MRS. V. SOLOFEFF HERE | Mrs, V. Soboleff arrived Monday |on the Denali from Ketchikan and is staying at the Baranof. She is lan aunt of Rev. and Mrs. Walter Soboleff. | STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah scheduled to sail | from Vancouver 8 pm., Avril 4. | Baranof scheduled to sail from | Seattle 4 p.m. Friday. 1 Denali in port and scheduled to Denver is sail westward at 4 o'clock this af- | ternoon,