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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR YALL TLE NEWS ALL THE TIME” I L. LXXV EAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL,3, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —g American Troops Rolled Into Re LEGAL TEETH PULLED FROM TROOP BILL Senafe Leaders Beat Off Republican Sponsored Stranglehold WASHINGTON, April 3— (® — Senate administration leaders pul- led their forces together today to beat off an attempt sponsored by Republicans to put legal teeth into the troops-for-Europe resolution. Yesterday, by a 49 to 43 vote,! the Senate changed the resolution by adding an amendment of Sen- ator McClellan (D-Ark.) The change, bitterly fought by administration leaders, would sim- ply put the Senate on record as| opposing transfer to Europe of any more n four U. S. divisions “without further Congressional ap- proval.” Thirty-eight Republicans and 11 Democrats voted for the amend- ment; eight Republicans and 35 Democrats voted not. So as the resolution stood, it would merely record the Senate as approving President Truman’s de-; cision to send the four divisions about 100,000 men—to join Gen.; Dwight D. Eisenhower's Western{ Where Golfer Drowned Towa women’s golf champion, was picture. Chambers car was traveling north swept to her death. The swift wat (leftward). (® Wirephoto. Air view of the flooded section on the south edge of Des Moines, Ia, where Mary Louise Cordingley, ers dreve the car in which Miss Cordingley was riding off the road at about the spot where the two billboards are seen in the left of the Boyd Chambers, driver of auto, was rescued by police from one of the trees in upper center. |CAB POSTPONES European defense army; and would oppose future transfers without a proval from Congre: - Nicholson-Riggs Wedding Date Set For Fri, April 20 Mr. and M¥s.‘J. “T.!Nicholson to- day announced fhat’ the marriage of their daughter, Miss Lois 'Vir- announced Saturday he pla a to Mr. Donald W. Riggs will vestigate the proposed rule. Spark- at 8{man, chairman of the Senate Small in the Northeérn Light Pres- Business Committee, said he wanted gini; take place Friday, April 20, pm, byterian church. The date had been changed fr March 30, due to illness. Up until last week when she re- signed, Miss Nicholson had been a stenographer in the Alaska Road | Commission. Mr. Riggs is athletic coach at the Petersburg High School in Petersburg. L All friends of the popular young couple are invited to the wedding and to the reception which will im- mediately follow the ceremony a the Scottish Rite Templél EDEN P] b i Lt. Thomas E. fden ' recei word today ‘éha¥ he; had been’ pfas moted to the rank of ‘captaih in the Marine Corps Reserves, The ap- pointment is’ retroactive to January 1, 1949, according to the informa- tion from the 13th Marine Corps Reserve District. Eden is ‘an arch- itect with the Federal Housing Ad- ministration office here. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.. ASHINGTON.—Benny Butten- w er, U. S. Deputy High Commis- sioner for Germany, had a conver- sation with Chancellor Konrad Ad- enauer some time ago which illus- trates one of the most important problems the United: States faces in Europe. The new German Parliament had t{uled carviers. 1904, ORDER THAT HITS ALL IRREGULARS WASHINGTON, April 3 —#— A 30-day postponement of a pro- posed order Jimiting the number of monthly trips irregular air carriers may make between any two cities was grante@d by the Civil Aeronau- ties Board yesterday. The. postpenement -was requested by Senator Sparkman (D-Ala) who to in- to find out if the order would “force om |a $60,000,000 a year industry out of business.” The CAB rule would limit irregu- lar lines to three round trips a month between major cities, and eight round trips monthly between other points. Amos E. Heacock, president of the Aircoach Transportation Associa- tion, has opposed the rule contend- ing it would “strangle” non-sched- 893 Y54 The regulation ‘was' to have/ Be-| come effegtive April 6. 4 <IDNA FLIES‘TWO ° PLANES MONDAY Pacific Northern ‘Airlines carried 37 passengers in and out of Juneau yesterday in addition to intraport passengers, on two flights. From Anchorage G. W. Whit- stone, J. E. Jackman, Mr. and Mrs. Evans, R. R. Armstrong, Katherine Gladiteter, Dick Cook, Karl Brun- stad, L. Freeburn, Ed Brehm, W. L. Trayer. From Cordova: Larry Johnson, Herb Long, Rose Long. To Anchorage:’ Walter Berkland, John Argetsinger, Linn Forrest, Wiliam Brown, Thomas Brown, Lt. Col. Hamilton, W. R. Hammer, J. E. Budd, Webb Trimble, and George, Pauline, Pat and Diane Sharrock. To Cordova: Andrew Anderson, Betty Blindhiem, John E. Gonseth, Diane Redstone. Mary and Karen Nelson, Mrs. Henry Weise, Bill Egan. To Yakutat: Mrs. Gordon Hurst, scaled down taxes on wealthier tax-{ Waunetta Leoine. payers about a year ago, leaving a proportionately heavy tax burden on labor and white collar workers. The United States, which has the right to intervene in certain af- fairs of the new German govern- ment, objected, and it was follow- ing this that Deputy Commissioner Buttenwiesser had his talk with Adenauer. Showing him the high tax scale prevailing in the U. S. A., Butten- wiesser argued that wealthy Ger- mans also must shoulder their share of the tax burden. Chancellor Adenauer replied that he just couldn’t believe the United States collected such high taxes. If German taxes remained too (Continued on Page Four) ON VACATION TRIP Mr. and Mrs. George Kuhns left this weekend on an extended vaca- tion trip to Chicago and various points in Pennsylvania where they will visit relatives and friends. Mrs. Kuhns is employed in the of- fice of the Territorial Veterans Af- fairs and Kuhns is a local well known salesman. MRS, HEINEM Mrs, Julius Heineman returned home on Pan American Airways from a visit of several weeks outside, She was a guest of her brother and family at Tacoma. HOME N When Moslems pray they face toward Mecca. 5| X308 then’s Phion cong g Br)dgéa has appa:mn ‘flét Viotion of false! ILWU OPENS WITH FIRE BY BRIDGES HONOLULU, April 3 —{#— Harry Bridges, Australian-born convicted perjurer, defiantly charges the United States Government is a big threat to world peace. The controversial labor leader made his charges yesterday at the opening session of his International Car Buried by Rock, Earth, Found Crushed, Buf 2 Men, Injured Are Found Alive sonstrugtion project| near Valdez, 175 miles east of here, S dug slowly, threngh debris. coyering an mxomohnle.burwd by an eanthn They dug quMy hecause the sude. > ched off, by, &, constyyetion. blast, of rock and earth from a hillside bordering the road. much chance they thought, anyone in the car could have sur- vived. Just as a shovel scraped the car, the workmen heard groans. ‘They stepped up their pace, quick- 1y uncovered the machine and found Olaf Walhood, 48, and Carl Lawr- ence, 38, both of Valdez, miracul- ously alive in the crushed vehicle. oremen’s . apd ‘Warehp e Febbrdr }:hq oto:ffiifn’ was a Communist, His union . hyi been ousted frdim the OTO on that it follows the Communist parfy line, In a fiery keynote speech and in an ILWU report which he signed, Bridges: 1. Said the attitude of the Tru- man administration “appears to much of the world as the greatest threat to world peace.” 2. Denounced the Korean war as a needless slaughter. 3. Assailed the Marshall Aid pro- gram, the Defense Production Act of 1950 and the Peacetime Draft — ‘it’s pretty easy to send somebody else's kid to die.” Today the ILWU got down to the business of hearing committee reports. syear sente WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Perlod ending 6:20 o'cluck this morning In Juneau Maximum, 39; minimum, 30. At Airport — Mnximum, 38; minimum, 34, FORECAST Mostly cloudy tonight and o Wednesday with occasional o light rain. Low tonight near ® 35 and high Wednesday near o 42, . e PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today e City of Juneau—1.73 inches; e Since April 1 — 2 inches; ® Since July 1 — 59.95 inches. ® At Airport — .66 inches; fe sSince April 1 — .75 inches; e Since July 1 — 37.01 inches. ® e 0 0 00000 0 ¥ %uod was' hurt mumfllly, and ence received a”brokéh™ collar’ s sald’ today - the “condition hen was good despfle serlous ‘bone and wrenched back. Both men suffered from shock. Workmen said the car was flat- tened to three and a half feet. HOWARD DAY NAMED NEW CORDOVA PNA TRAFFIC MANAGER Howard Day, who has been in the Pacific Northern Airlines here for the past year, has replaced Clarence T. Perry as traffic man- ager for PNA at Cordova, Mr. and Mrs. Day with their two children John and Sharon, moved to Cordova over the weekend. Day has served in both operational and passenger sales capacities since joining the Juneau staff. Day is a native son of Juneau and his friends wish him well in his new promotion. THANE ROAD BLOCKED BY 300-FOOT SLIDE A Bureau of Public Roads crew and equipment were working today on a big snowslide that roared down across the Thane road below the city dump last night, Chris Wyller, district engineer said to- day. The reverberation from the slide was heard in Douglas and Juneau. . The road area covered by the slide is 300 feet long and is from 18 to 20 feet deep. It is expected that the road will be opened some- lume tomorrow. is the magnolia. smothered the. car. under; tons | There wasn't | that | The state flower of Mx;sissippi' {The Senate Interior Committee to- 1day approved statehood proposals SIMEHOOD OKEHED BY ~ SEN. COM. WASHINGTON, April 3. — ® — for both Alaska and Hawaii. Senator O'Mahoney (D.-Wyo), | ittee Chairman, said he would for early action by the Ben- | AP‘“ Bt 1o~ prediotions of ultimate Victory from 4 Delegate Bartlett told ‘a reporter. | | | ton (R-Mont, O'Mahoney (D-Wyo). |late in the last Congress.” atel In the last Congress the | House voted for statehood but the | legislation died in the Senate. 'fln committee approved the Ha- 'wallan statehood bill by a 9-4 vote, the Alaska bill squeezed hy with a 7-6 edge. Both votes followed defeat of a motion by Senator Butler (R-Neb) | to substitute his bill permitting the | itories to elect their own gov- ernor, i The Butler motion was defeated | on the same vote by which the state- | hood bills were approved,. Committee Vote Senator O'Mahoney said the com- | mittee vote was as follows: Alaska statehood: For — Senators | Murray (D-Mont) McFarland (D- Ariz), Anderson (D-NM), Lehman | (D-Lib-NY) Cordon (R-Ore), Ec-i Against — Long (D-La), Smath- | ers (D-Fla), Butler (R-Neb), Ma- lone WR-Nev), Watkins (R-Utah), Milligin (R-Colo). Hawaii statehood: For — Senators’ Murray (D-Mont), MrFarland (D= Ariz), Anderson (D-NM), Lehman (D-NY), Long (D-La), Ecton (R- Mont, Gordon (R-Ore), Watkins (R- Utah), and O’'Mahoney (D-Wyo). Against—Senators Smathers (D- | Fla), Butler (R-Neb), Millikin (R- { Cola}, and Malone (R-Nev). Delegates Talk The | committee’s action brought. ‘the two (tertitory's voteléss delegates | to Gongress. 7! “It 'was |a' happy surprise,” ‘Alaska | | “A ssignificant victory,” comment- ed Delegate Farringtort’ of Hawaif. Bartlett said heé"'would ' ‘make no ;! prediction as td" WHen or 'if the |Alaska bill will be taken to the| Senate floor for debate or vote.” | “I anticipate,” he continued, “that | we will be confronted in the Senate with the same type of opposition | that blocked the vote on statehood ! Earlier Senator Butler (R.-Neb.) said the people of Hawai have not yet taken vigorous action to clean out Communists. His statement was printed in the Congressional Record as the com- mittee met. again to consider state- hood: fo¥ Hawaii and Alaska. Butler, the ranking Republican member of the committee, is a lead- ing opponent of statehood for Ha- walt. He included in this statement an arficle - from the Honolulu Star Bulletin. The newspaper article | asserted that Ernest Arena had ! been removed from Governor Stain- back’s full employment committee | because he was one of the “re- luctant 39” who refused to answer | questions before the House Unam- erican Activities Committee in Ha- waif last year. “Ernest Arena without any pos- sible doubt is or was a Communist and the hearings conducted by the House committee in Hawali last year proved that beyond question,” Butler asserted. . His apointment is indicative of the general laxity in the atti- tude of too many people in Hawaii toward the whole Communist ques- tion.” Major Chester E. Canine of Washington, D. C. and Lt. Col. Earl M. Hamilton of Fort Richard- son, are stopping at the Baranof Hotel. STOCK OUGIATIONS NEW YORK, April 3 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 109%, American Tel. and Tel. 153%, Anaconda 38%, General Electric 54%, General Motors 51%, Good- year 7T1%, Kennecott 72%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 9, Northern Pa- cific 32%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 441, Twentieth Century Fox 20 Pound $280, Canadian Ex- change 95.12%. Sales today were 1,520,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 246.02, ralls 79.36, utili- KETCHIKAN HAS {in the local Fish and Wildlife Ser- "Burning Faith” RequiredfoPr By ERNEST B. VACCARO WASHINGTON, April 3 —(®— President Truman declared today Americans need the “burning faith” of religion to prevent a Communist tide of aggression ‘“from sweeping across the world.” He also said religious principles command a fight on organized crime and vice. The task ahead is “full of uncer- tainties ‘and sacrifices;’’ Mr. Trus man said, “but we need not be afraid if we have the faith.” The President spoke as a corner- stone was laid for a new $1,250,000 of Religion eveni Wave of (ommumsm Says Truman bufldh\g for the 150-ye York Avenue Presbyterian here. Abraham Lincoln was pewholder in the church. Mr. Truman said Americans can follow their religious faiths “with the same devotion and determina- tion the Communists give to their godless creed.” Religion, he said, r-old New church once a Korea BIG FORCE 'GOES OVER, TEN MILES Reds Massfll; Thousands of Fresh Soldiers-Mac- Arthur Jeepsto Front By Associated Press American troops rolled into Red must live in American hearts “as & {gorea in force today along a 10- burning faith.” “Only such a faith — only a living mile front in the west. Field dispatches sald the crossing allegiance to such a faith — can|was aggressive but ‘cautious and met cdrry this country through trials which are aheau of it,” he continued. . custody pending a hearing. four-month custody period. gifts for money to trace the child. Mrs. Arlene Martin, 26, of Philadelphia, hugs her daughter, Patricia, 5, in Los Angeles court, after a judge gave her the girl’s temporary The mother said her former husband disappeared with the child last July when he began his annual Mrs. Martin pawned her Christmas Finds Daughfer | ® Wirephoto. PHENOMENAL RUN SPRING HERRING Ketchikan had a phenomenal herring run this spring and has been able to meet not only local bait requirements but has been supplying cold storages in other towns. This was the report received vice ‘office this week and released today by Assistant Regional Dir- ector C. Howard Baltzo. In the past few years herring have been increasingly hard to get and this year’s showing in the Ketchikan area is of great importance. Asked if the Fish and Wildlife Service had an answer to this sud- den show, Baltzo explained that it was due to an exceptionally fine survival of spawn in the 1947 season. He sald this was determined by herring sent to the FWS biol- ogist in Seattle where the study was made. “The abundance of these four- year-old fish,” Baltzo said, “shows | that the 1947 survival was greater than all the other five years put together, which years contribute to the catch.” Herring have a natural life span of about eight years. Balt- 70 said that these four-year-olds are furnishing 53 per cent of the total catch. There is no change in the herring situation in other Southeast Alaska areas,. Baltzo concluded. FROM KETCHIKAN Alaska Fisheries Board, arrived here from Ketchikan Sunday to attend meetings of the board in session this week. He is stopping at ties 42.13. | the Baranof Hotel. I OFFICERS' SLATE NOMINATED, BPWC|. A slate of officers” to present to the Territorial Convention in May of the Business and Professional Women'’s clubs was elected at the noon meeting yesterday in the Ter- race room of the Baranof hotel. President Lucile Stine presided. Norman Banfield explained to club members the status of the fund which had been raised in the community by club members for a new reservoir at the Minfield home. This money does not belong to the Minnie Field estate. It was intended to help build a reservoir to provide an uncontaminated water supply for the Minfield home. Lucile Johnson was nominated for territorial president; Edith Moore, secretary; and Alire War- ner, Treasurer. As Miss Ruth Mc- Grew of Anchorage has been Fed- eration President the past two years, it is believed the new Presi- dent will be chosen from this sec tion of Alaska and probably from Juneau. To choose nominees for the 1951- 52 officers for the Juneau club the following committee was elected: the [only light resistance at the start. These other highlights paced Tuesday's war news: Air — erican Sabre jets shot down threé Russian-type MIG-15s and damaged three others in a furi- ous battle near the Manchurian border. Other Fifth Air Force planes pounded traffic-jammed Commun- ist supply lines in a day-long at- tack against the biggest Red troop jbuildup of the Korean war. MacArthur At Front At the Eastern front — General MacArthur jeeped 13 road miles in- side North Korea on the East Coast. He rode within 500 yards of the main Red line north of Yangyang. There he found South Korean troops digging in, confident and talking only of attack. At the Central front — American, Greek and Thai (Slamese) troops climaxed two days of heavy fight- ing by winning a high ridgeline north of Chunchon and one mile south of Parallel 38, From the ridge they looked into Red Korean terri- tory where the Communists are missing huhdreds of tholisands of battle-ready, soldiers. M rillegy, Fire| | | Chinese and North Korean Com- munists ' screening the big Red build-up pounded the Allied soldiers with mortar and artillery fire. On his return to Tokyo from his 15th visit to. the war front, Mac- Arthur said: “The enemy’s' weakness in the air and on the sea and his lack of ar- tillery and heavy ground weapons is being beautifully exploited by our field command (Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Hidgeway)." Big Red Massing Intelligence sources placed the number of Red troops massed on the Central front at 441,000 or more. Many are fresh or well rested. They may be backed by twice as many rear-echelon troops. GOV. APPOINTS ' -2 NEW MEMBERS TO BANKING BRD. Gov. Ernest Gruening today an- nounced the appointment of two new members to the Territorial Banking Board. They are Harvey Brown, Sitka banker, and Keith Wildes, local well known insurance agent, Under a new law, which was in- troduced and passed as HB 107 in the recent Territorial Legislature, the banking board was increased from three to five members con- sisting of the Governor, the Terri- torial Treasurer, Territorial Audi- tor and two other members, one to be a banker and one a lay member. Gov. Gruening made his appoint- ment from a list of candidates sub- mitted to him, in accordance with the new law, by the Alaska Bankers Association. They are subject to ap- proval by the next Legislature. Each appointment is for a four-year term, but in this first appointment it was specified that the term of the bank- er member would be for four years, until April 1, 1955, but that of the lay member would expire April 1, 1953 with future appointments of Virginia Post, Kay Nelson, Bertha | gpe lay member to be for the full Elilnger, Sadie Billis and Annabelle ! four years. Mansfield. GEORGE PARKS BA(‘ George Parks returned this week from a two months' trip to the States and Hawail. He reported an enjoyable trip to the Islands where | he was met with a friendly spirity and saw a number of Alaskans. He J. P. Valentine, member of the |noted that there is a great deal FROM HOONAH Mr. and Mrs, Harry Douglas of Hoonah are registered at the Gas- tineau Hotel. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah scheduled to sail more publicity in Alaska on Hawail | from Vancouver 8 p.m., April 4. than vice versa. Rubber is used as filling for some types of hollow airplane propellers. | Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle 4 pm. Friday. Denali from westward scheduled southbound somestime Sunday.

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