The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 7, 1951, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXVI, NO. 11,778 “ALL TLE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1951 ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Plane Is Missing With Twenty-two NEW FIRE HALL BY OCTOBER The Juneau City Fathers rolled | up their sleeves last night and star- ted the first steps toward construc- tion of the Fire Department sec- tion of the Municipal Safety Build- ing that will permit bids to be let by June 1, and the Fire Department moving in by October or November. Fire Chief Minard Mill, in present- ing the proposition for building the fire department section, pointed out that one of these days Juneau res.l idents would wake up and discover that fire insurance rates here are going up because of the inadequate GetDeath _Alo Spying housing and equipment of the de- partment. He stressed the uncer- tainty of occupancy and lack of firemen quarters at the proposed subport site, but said the firemen would live in a tent if they could look forward to getting into the new hall by November. The fire department section of the new city building is roughly one-third of the proposed structure and it would be cheaper in the long run to invest the money in the ultimate structure than temporary makeshifts, Mill stated. He stressed the importance of ade- quate housing for the firemen in order that they might be able to answer calls promptly, especially night calls. “It's the first few min- utes of a fire that counts. Delay in getting to a fire can be fatal,” he said. Harold Foss was asked to discuss the plan. He stated that the fire hall section was the least expensive part of the building and could be constructed for approximately $170,~ 000, not including the jail. He said that some time ago authority was given the council to sell $125,000 worth of bonds for a new fire hall, that about $30,000 were held by} the city that could be cashed in, and that the additional funds could be raised or enough savings could be effected to make it unnecessary. Foss said that the heating plant| from the AB Hall would do as al temporary plant in the new build- ing, that radiators, conduits and other items could be salvaged from | the two buildings which are to be razed to make material savings. Temporary Jail In the preliminary plans a spacel is provided for fire department workroom and storage. It was agree-' able to all that this space could be fixed up for a temporary jail. 1 Foss promised final plans within three weeks and said that the job was of such a nature that it could be handled by local contractors! and it was likely that bids Could‘ even be opened before June 1. Councilman Bert McDowell mov- ed that the architect be directed to complete final plans, that a new agreement be worked out by Foss, Continued on Page Six) Thé Washington|: Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON l (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc., l ASHINGTON. —President Aur- iol of France has now left the Uni- ted States for Canada. When he departed, there remain- ed behind him, hanging on the walls of Mount Vernon, a symbol of France as dear to the Frerch people as the Liberty bell in Phil- adelphia is to the American people. It is the key to the bastille. President Auriol paid a visit to George Washington's home and saw the key to the bastille hanging on the wall just inside the door. But he did not put it there. It was given to Washington by Tom Paine, cru- sading pamphleteer of Revolution- ary days, to whom it had been given by General Lafayette. One of the most historic symbols of France, the key was secured by ELKS TAKE OVER TOWN T0 WELCOME | e { OFFICIAL GUESTS|mneig e \ Today, April 7, 1951, will go down in the history of Juneau as EIks’ Day for the keys to the city are; being turned over to Grand Exalted Ruler Joseph B. Kyle, Past Grand Exalted Ruler Emmett T. Anderson (and the many ERs and PERS who [J ihave come to Juneau to meet the distinguished visitors and aiso join in the dedication of the iron lung. Festivities started yesterday with | the arrival of Kyle and his wife ‘trum Gary, Indiana, accompanied i | by Anderson from Tacoma. o’ Julius Rosenberg (left) and his wife Ethel, (right) sentenced to death as atom spies, are shown in these closeups as they arrived at Federal Courthouse in New York for sentencing. Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman decreed that Rosenberg, 32, an electrical engineer, and his wife, 35, and mother of two, must die for their part in furnishing wartime atom secrets to an international Soviet spy ring. (P Wire- photo. TWO SNOW SLIDES ON ALASKA RR ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April T— (M—Two_snow slides billowed over the Alaska Railroad tracks in two places between here and Seward yesterday, disrupting train travel and communications. Warming temperatures and a fresh fall of three feet of snow caused the slides. Two trains from Anchorage were delayed, and the boat train from Seward to Anchorage was halted. Workmen feared new slides might impede clearing efforts. The first slide came after a three- foot snowfall at Grandview, 43 miles north of Seward. Snow piled 30 feet ) deep over the tracks in some sec- tions. The second slide, reported even larger than the first, occurred 69 miles north of Seward near Gird- wood on Turnagain Arm. Both areas usually are trouble- some in the spring, |CORONER’S JURY DECIDES KNORRE DEATH AS SUICIDE At an inquest conducted yester- day afternoon in U. 8. Commis- sioner’s Court concerning the death of Mrs. Margaret Knorre in Federal jail early Wednesday morning, the jury brdaght in a verdict of suicide. Mrs. Knorre was found. hanging to a framework around the lava- tory in the women’s quarters with wet dish towel knotted around her neck. The jury found no evi- dence of negligence. Assistant Attorney General Stan- ley Baskin conducted the investi- gation with U. S. Commissioner Gordon Gray sitting as Coroner. FUNERAL FOR MARGARET KNORRE SET FOR MONDAY Funeral services for Margaret B. Krorre will be heid Monday after- ncon at 2 o'clock in the Carter Chapel, with the Rev. Ralph E. Baker conducting. Mrs. Baker will sing. Interment will be in Ever- green Cemetery. Mrs. Knorre is survived by her husband, Marvin Knorre, a son, Allen, and one sister, Mrs. James Herring of Kodiak. Pallbearers will be Glenn Allen, Rudy Pusich, Joe Johnston, Arthur Skinner, Kenneth Martin and Ken- Lafayette from the leaders of the neth Allen. French revolution who unlocked the bastille and released 'its political prisoners on July 14, 1789. Lafayette RAGMUFFIN HAS TWINS was one of the French aristocrats| Ragmuffin, a dog that looks like who had fought for the +French|2a dirty brown, fuzzy mop, who ad- people against the tyranmy of Louis opted Ethel FPinlayson and four XIII, and the French revolution-fother government girls who live at aries gave him the key partly for[124 Gold St., gave birth to twins his own protection. \ (Continued on Page Four) last night. They were both boys, black with white feet. As yet they have not been named. STUDENT DRAFTING UP AGAIN WASHINGTON, April 7 —®— New liberalized plans for draft de- ferment of high school graduates and college students, announced this week, will be reviewed at a special meeting Monday of the House Armed Services Committee. This reappraisal, with Maj. Gen. Lewis Hershey, selective service di- rector, doing the explaining, comes at a critical point during House censideration of the highly contro- versial Universal Military Training and Service (UMTS) bill. Reportedly, the House Armed Services Committee in approving the Draft-UMTS bill okayed the student deferment plans in outline. Several members have since found they didn't realize how liberal they would be until spelled out. Supporters of the UMTS bill did a double-gulp when, amid arguing in the House the necessity of re- ducing the present draft age from 19 years to 18 years and six months | they read front page stories of the new student deferment regulations. | These would permit students now {in college to continue either on the basis of past high scholastic stand- ing or a record of 70 on special apti- { tude tests to be offered this sum- mer. Rep. Kilday (D-Tex), a member of the Armed Services Committee, announced he would offer an amendment to kill this plan, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LETS CONTRACTS FOR 2 WORK PARTY BOATS ‘The Geological Survey has let cc.itracts for two work party boats to be used in Southeast Alaska waters in conducting topographic survey activities. ~The contracts were let to the M/V Verma, owned and the M/V Triton, owned and skippered by Lester McCarty. Both boats are of Petersburg. The contracts call for work to being April 25 and work continues for 55 days on the present schedule. Two four-men Geological Survey topographic parties are expected from Denver soon for the summer’s work. R. E. Isto of the Denver of- fice will direct the activities. . ° Several Indian tribes of New Mexico consider the turquoise sa- cred. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah from Vancouver scheduled tc arrive at 3:30 this afternoon; sails for Skagway at 11:30 returning Tuesday at 8 a.m. and sailing south at 9 a.m. Baranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive Tuesday. Denali from westward scheduled to arrive at 9 a.m. Sunday sailing southbound one hour later. | The visitors were greeted at the | airport by a large party of local | Elks headed by Exalted Ruler Wal- lis George and were escorted to the | Baranof hotel. There they were ushered into the lobby to the strains | | of the Juneau high school band and ! | brief talks of welcome were given. | Appreciation was expressed by the visitors for their cordial reception. In the evening a buffet supper | was held in the Gold Room under | the auspices cf Lodge 420 Past Ex- | alted Rulers at which Grand Ex- | aited Ruler Kyle presented Charles | Garfield, charter member of 420, Cecil A. (Mush) Moore crosses Auburn-Lewiston, i, Me., bridge, flanked by Legionnaires as he rides his dogsled in home-coming parade on last leg of 6,000-mile trip from Fairbanks, Alaska. The 40-year-old Moore started his trip as a stunt in Alaskan snows for a benefit to underprivileged children. Taking 17 months to complete the journey, Moore was held up at times by attacking Canadian wolves, Arctic colds, 2 Minnesota heat wave and the birth of nearly 50 pups to his sled dogs. (P Wirephoto. | !with a 50-year membership pin, | with appropriate remarks. Kyle's | “manager,” Emmett T. Anderson lalso gave a brief talk and other visitors also spoke. The evening | concluded with various private par- ties at night spots. H Highlight of today will be the dedication of the iron lung which the local Elks lodge is presenting to the city. Dedication and present- ation will be made by Grand Ex- jalted Ruler Kyle at 4:30 pm, in the Elks auditorium and the public | is cordially invited to attend. This will be followed by a cock- tail party at which members of Elkdom will have the opportunity | to meet the grand leader of the | Elks and his official party. and Central battlefronts, the Com- | At 6:30 pm., the Grand Exalted | Munists had withdrawn suddenly |and strangely. Ruler will be guest of honor at a no-host banquet in the Baranof | But they left behind roadways of Gold Room and a special Elks meet- | death. .The routes leading r);)rth ing is scheduled to follow with Past | were sowed thickly wi;h“m ne: [Exalted Rulers of the Ketchikan |PoOPY-trapped mortar sherls Bo | lodge giving the degree work. | pits dug to trap tranks. The for- | ward pace was slow. During these festivities for the} { Elks, the ladies of the Elks have| Censorship cloaked the distance {arranged a program in honor of gained. . | Mrs. Kyle, Mrs. Garfield and other| AP Correspondent Tom Dradshaw visiting ladies. They will have din- | said lack for firm contact with the ner at Mike's Place at 7:30 pm., Reds “for miles” north of the bor- and then, after the degree work at | der surprised most Allied observers. the Elks lodge meeting, will get to- | On the Western front, patrols gether with the Elks for a social | crossed the Hantan River at several evening. i points four to six miles north of At the special meeting tonight i the border. They drew fire from the | Grand Exalted Ruler Kyle will make . north bank and pulled back, his official address to Juneau lodge. | British Commonwealth troops in Elks from Fairbanks, Kodiak, An- | the Central front consolidated their chorage, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Pet- | positions in the Red northland. ersburg and Sitka have arrived in | American and Thai (Siamese) town for this important event. !unl's north of the border met only The Grand Exalted Ruler and | Small arms and automatic weapons Mrs. Kyle will depart for the south | fire. tomorrow on Pan American plane| An Eighth Army communique said where they will visit other lodges Red casualties Friday totaled about throughout the states. . PNA CARGO CARRIED IN MARCH ALMOST| JRUBLE OVER 1390 o . Indications by Pacific Northern | changed. Instead of an overnight Airline’s increased traffic in spas- | camp at Eagle River, there will be | sengers, ~cargo and mail over a|a session this evening in the Am- year ago point to stepped up bus- erican Legion Dugout. iness conditions in Alaska. Tonight’s program deals with Traffic originating at Juneau|how scouting works and how a last month increased over 1950 |scout troop operates. The partici- March totals in all categories, ac- | pation of all Boy Scout troop com- cording to Robert P. Pheasant,|mitteemen, leaders and fathers is PNA district traffic manager. urged. Passenger miles increased 37 per| Perin leaves Tuesday for Fair- cent with 249,621 miles flown. | banks where a similar training ses- Largest single gain was in cargo{sion will be held. ton miles flown with an 82 per cent | gain over 1950. g | RED ZONES " INVADED BY UN FORCES { i | TOKYO, April 7 —#— United Nations forces stabbed deeper into Red Korea today against little op- position. On most sections of the Western 'BOY SCOUT PROGRAM | CHANGED THIS EVENING The training schedule conducted MRS. CAULEY HOME U. S. Airmail carried from Ju-| Mrs, James Cauley, and son, neau increased 22 per cent. | Charles, returned to Juneau via The Juneau traffic gains ln!Pan American plane after visiting March continue a 1951 trend of in-|in Albany, N. Y., and Seattle. Her creased air traffic to PNA served | husband is Fiscal Officer for the cities in the Prince Willlam Sound, | Employment Security Commission. Kenai Peninsula, Bristol Bay and Kodiak Island areas, PNA officials HAINES MAN DIES anticipate an unprecedented growth in Alaska trade and commerce dur- ling 1951 with Pacific Northern Airlines playing ah important part in this development. The word “argosy” comes from “ragusy” which referred to ships from Ragusa, a famous port in the | Middle Ages but now the town of Dubrovnik on the Yugoslavian seasoast. George Kasko, a resident of Haines, died last evening at the Alaska Native Service Hospital. No funeral arrangements have been announced. The body is at the Carter Mortuary. 3 MORRISON TO KETCHIKAN Comdr. Don Morrison, of the local Coast Guard office, flew to Ketchi- kan Friday via Pan American on ‘Cosst Guard business. TR U AN R S SO A R R LSRR P CONFUSION! MAYBE VISAS FOR ALASKA-CANADA! Ther: has been a good deal of confusion and feeling in Alaska and Canada regarding a proposed re- vision of immigration laws thet ap- parently would require. persons tra- veling by transportation eéumpany, vessel or aircraft between Alaska and Canada to have visas. Nothing is said about travelers in private automobiles. Senate Bill 716 now In Congress proposes such changes in legisla- tion. Under the present law “foreign contiguous territory” is excepted from visa provisions. The Scnate bill and its companion bill, H. B. 2379 are now being con- sidered by a joint subcommittee composed of members of the Sen- ate and House judiciary committees, according to information received by a transportation company office in Juneau. Section 273 (a) of the bills read: “It shall be unlawful for any per- son, including any transportation company, or the owner, master, tommanding officer, agent, charter, or consignee of any vessel or air- craft, to bring to the United States from any place outside thereof any alien who does not have an unex- pired visa, if a visa were required under this act of regulations issued thereunder.” The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce has written to Delegate Bob Bartlett for a copy of the proposed legislation and for an opinion on how it would affect travel between Alaska and Canada. SOUTH FOR TREATMENT Mrs. Kenneth Junge and Mrs Peter Carlson were passengers to Seattle via Pan American plane Friday where Mrs. Carlson will en- ter Virginia Mason hospital for treatment. Mrs. Junge expects to return home shortly. WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In” Juneau Maximum, 42; minimum, 33. At Airport — Maximum, 44; minimum, 33. FORECAST Cloudy with occasional light rains tnis afternoon be- coming steady rain tonight and Sunday morning Wwith southeasterly winds 15 to 30 miles per hour. Mostly cloudy with occasional showers Sun- day afternoon and decreasing winds. Low tonight, near 38; high Sunday, near 44. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today © 0 0000 0 0 0 City of Juneau — .32 inches; Since April 1 — 3.36 inches; Since July 1 — 61.29 inches. At Airport — .14 inches; Since April 1 — 1.19 inches; Since July 1 — 3686 inches. ® 0 00 0 0 0 00 ©0000000°%0000000000 000000000000 © 0000000000000 000000000000000000 JUST LET MacARTHUR DO IT NOW Rev. HubbaTti— Gives His Solution Regarding Warfare in Korea SEATTLE, April 7 —(®— The Rev. Bernard Hubbard, known as the “Glacier Priest” for his years in Alaska, in Seattle Friday, offered this as his solution to the Korean WRE: “Leave the decisions to General MacArthur and take them out of the hands of the bunglers of the State Department and the United Nations.” Father Hubbard, geologist at Santa Clara University in Cali- fornia, asserted that “the diplomats and politicians have lost the con- fidence of the people.” 5 “They have shown,” he continued, “their lack of leadership, of grasp and appreciation.” He said that in his opinion Gen- eral MacArthur is “the greatest living American.” He likened the situation of the Chinese Reds in Korea to that of the wolves in Alaskan preserves. “The wolves are protected in the preserves so that their young can go out and kill. The Chinese who are killing our boys return to the preserves of Siberia.” Father Htbbard estimated that Russia needs two years to be ready for an all-cut war. “And " we are graciously giving them the time,” he added. PAN AM BRINGS 30; TAKES 16 SOUTH FRI. Forty-six passengers flew with Pan American World Airways yes- terday with 14 arriving from Seat- tle, 15 from Fairbanks and one from Annette. Twelve went to Se- attle and four to Ketchikan. From Seattle: Frank Anderson, Susan and Charles Cauley, Ray Hope, Robert Rapuzzi, Floyd Sever- son, Alvin Taefchner, Emma Wal- tonen, Henry Willilams and the Short family consisting of Myrtle, Lois, Patricia, Barbara, and Gail. From Annette: Ian Ogg. From Fairbanks: Vern Hendrick- son, Eugene Smith, Edward Bar- ber, A. T. Kirkland, Louie and Stella Odsather, Emmett Anderson, J. B. and Emily Kyle, Mrs. Walter imm and Donna, Mrs. Virginia Dunton, Frank Hendrickson, Har- ry Mowry, Robert Hoopes. To Seattle: Clifford, Aldene and Pamela Hurst, N. L. Field, Joe Frankson, - ‘Roy Stewart, Louise Skinner, Mrs. Peter Carlson, Mrs. Kenneth Junge, Mr, and Mrs. Al- bert Taylor and daughter Delores. To Ketchikan: R. M. Barnard, Don Morrison, D. K. Robinson, T. Tilson. SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition PRICE TEN CENTS ‘Aboard * SHIP LOST, MOUNTAINS OR AT SEA Douglas DC-3 | Drops from Contact Between Two California Cities SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 7 —M— A Southwest Airways plane carrying 22 persons is missing and feared lost in the mountains or at sea near here. Ground, air and sea searchers are under way for the Douglas DC3, missing since shortly after 8 o'clock last night. On it were 19 passengers and three crewmen. The southbound plane cleared Santa Maria airport and made rou- tine radio contact at 8:18 pm. That was the last heard from the airliner, which had enough gasoline to stay in the air until about 11:15 p.m. Eleven Air Force, Coast Guard and sheriff’s planes, some of them amphibians, are participating in the search, badly hampered by fog. The Civil Air Patrol has 20 other planes on call, TRAGIC ACCIDENT FOR ONE SEATTLE FAMILY SEATTLE, April 7T —(P— Two relatives of a Seattle shipping exe- cutive are dmong the 22 aboard a missing Southwest Alrways plane. If the plane 4s lost, it will be the third tragic accident in the family in the last seven 8, AN The two ."‘é’"nfi!:’,"wérmfi Clapp, wife of the president of the Alaska Transportation Company, and. her daughter by a previous marriage, Gale Gardner, 13. Clapp suffered the loss of his 10- year-old son, Davis, and his divorced wife, Mrs. David Joyce, in a cat accident at Oxnard, Calif, July 19, 1945. A year earlier, in May of 1944, his father, James Norton Clapp was killed. The elder Clapp’s tractor overturned while he was mowing grass on his 1,240 acre ranch at Chino near Pasadena, Calif. CITE SECY. SAWYER FOR CONTEMPT WASHINGTON, April 7 —{#— Secretary of Commerce Sawyer has drawn a contempt of court citation for his part in the long bitter fight over control of the $68,000,000 American President Steamship line. The citation was made by the U. S. Court of Appeals. It said Sawyer had failed to carry out the court’s order to return the shipping line to its former owner, the Dollar Company. 3 ‘The government contends it owns the line’s stock because of loans granted the Dollar interests. The Dollars have- disputed this during years of litigation. Government lawyers were unable to recall any previous contempt citations against a cabinet officer in connection with his official du- ties. The commerce secretary and nine other persons cited with him were given until Thursday to “show cause” why they should not be found in contempt of court. There was no comment from any of those cited. MOOSE ELECT LOREN CARD NEW GOVERNOR Loren Card was elected Gover- nor of Moose Lodge No. 700 last night at a regular meeting. Other officers named were: Ju- nior Governor, Earl Bland; Prelate, Virgil/ Anderson; Treasurer, G. E Almgquist; Trustee for one year, Dean Willlams, and Trustee for three years, Hermoid Waldemar. RAY HOPE RETURNS Ray Hope arrived yesterday via PAA from Seattle and is stopping at the Baranof hotel,