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

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition “ALL-THE NEWS ALL THE TIME* VOL. LXXVII., NO. 11,796 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1951 Vital Allied Road Hub Now In Enemy '\H ,‘.H ER R ASSOCIATED PRESS SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition PRICE TEN CENTS ~ GOP LEADER URGES PEA(E MAC- TRUMAN WASHINGTON, April 28 —(P Republican Leader Harold E. Stas- sen wrote President Truman today that “for the good of Amer! there should be “a recor tion be- tween you and Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur.” In his letter, Stassen said: “If the disagreement runs its bit- ter course to the end, whatever its outcome may be, it can do no good for our country. “I therefore ask with humility that you consider extending an in- | vitation to Gen. MacArthur to'meet and confer with you.” Stassen told a news conference he | delivered the letter to the White House this morning. He said he did not see the Presi- | dent nor ask to see him, but gave the letter to Matt Connelly, Mr. Truman’s secretary. At the same time, Stassen said, he sent a telegram to MacArthur in New York. Stassen told MacArthur about his letter to Mr. Truman and said he had made it clear that “I had not| spoken to you directly or indirectly, but that I was confident from my | knowledge of you over a period of | years that if such an invitation is extended you will accept.” ‘The White House confirmed re- ceipt of the Stassen letter, but said there would be no comment. 30 COEDS INJUREDIN | EXPLOSION MARYVILLE, Mo., April 28 —(®— A natural gas tank blew up today near a college dormitory, crumbled one wall and sent 180 giris fleeing in nightgowns and pajamas. | “I thought a bomb had hit us,”| said Miss Sue Hood, coed, who sped barefoot out of the burning building into the campus | of Northwest Missouri State College | ¢ Jjust after midnight. Thirty girls were injured or burn- ed and 17 were detained in the ho. pital. There were no fatalities de pite the violence of the big blast. It pitched one sheet of steel four blocks and shot flame hundreds of feet into the sky. The explosion popped glass win- dows in the business district 10 blocks away, severed a water main and silenced telephones in part of the city of 7,000 in Northwest Mis- souri, STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louise from Vancouver scheduled to arrive at 6:30 tonight and sails for Skagway at 11:30. Denali from Seattle scheduled to arrive sometime Monday. Baranof from westward schedluled 'southbound 5 p.m. Sunday. The Washington|’ Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, ®y Bell Syadicate, Inc., ASHINGTON. — Congressman Brehm's attorney, in defending him from the charge of taking kick- backs, has accused Jack Anderson of my staff of intimidating Mrs. Emma Craven, one of the Con- gressman’s secretaries. Brehm's defense attorney also claims that the Conpgressman did not know anything about the kick- backs of another secretary, Mrs. Clara Soliday, until my assistant raised the kickback quesion with Mrs. Craven. The incident is important, be- cause it shows that certain people are a long way from the truth. It also goes to the root fact that money paid to Congressmen for the salaries of stenographers is supposed to be paid to the ladies} themselves, not go into Congress- men’s pockets or political campaign chests. Here is exactly what happened: In January, 1950, Mr. Anderson of (Continued on Page F;mr) | 18-year-old{ 4 | yoperations to seven villages between Gen. Douglas MacArthur waiks off greeting stand at Mid Chicago, to review troops, minutes Mrs. MacArthur (holding flowers). CAB OUSTING | MON-SKEDS IS TOLDTO COM. By Frank Vaille i WASHINGTON, April 28, —®— A Senate Committee has been told that a Civil Aeronautics Poam’ (CAB) official in Alaska has boas- ted” that n duled air riers there are “ the way out. The testimony was given by Sal- ly Carr: , Nome, Alaska, Natur- all and Writer before a mdll\ business subcommittee ing the effect of the board's Il’Eu- laticns on the irregular carriers She szaid: “Robert Kinsey, regional d:rertox': t Anchorage, koasted to me that he had reduced the number of non- skeds from 28 to four and that are on the way out.,” r ernor Gruening and Cliiford Go Seattle wholesaler, all told the committee that air service between Alaska and the United States is in- | adequat t odman, Curtailment Dangerous They said further service, under a regflation 1> limit non-schedv operations to eight flights a m(rnlh between the United States and Al- | aska, would endanger territorial| economy. i Miss Carrighar testime: curtailment of enlivened her ences to packs | ing people, and stories of “outlaw” pilots op- erating without CAB approval. Her mention of the dogs came in onnection with her statement that bush pilets had been bagnned from Nome and Unalakleet cn the Ber- ing Coast. Claims Service !'mwanted She testified government subsi- es to regular carriers on the route amounted to about $100,000 a year—“to furnish service not needed and not wanted by 165 Es- kimos"—and that Kinsey told her a mezjor cargo was freight, inclu- ding garbage cans. di v WW MacAthur Arrivesin (huago 'MEAT PRICE ~ CUTCOMING INAUGUST WASHINGTON, April 28 —(®— The government raised its price cleaver today for a swing at the | high cost of meat. Officials sald a | four to five cents a pound cut in | beef prices to consumers is due by , August with a similar slash to fol- low next fall. | Actual dollars-and-cents ceilings Ay Airport, after his arrival. At far left is (P Wirephoto, SHIRRED (HAMBRAY of beef prices will be announced tonight. One official told a reporter the orders will provide for progressive rollbacks in the prices of live cat- tle — a new method in food price control. These rollbacks are due in | three stages. | The official said the first sige- able reduction will be ordered im- mediately. This will be accomplish- ed by setting ceilings on the amounts slaughterers may pay for cattle. ) It was understood that first cut would amount to 5 to 10 per cent. An Office of Price Stabilization | (OPS) expert said wholesale and retail prices will not be reduced on i the nrst go-round but there may be some adjustments next month as a | result of the live animal cuts. |COLLISION OF! := PLANES TAKES LIVES OF 14 CARNEY, Okla., April 28 —(P— | A giant Air Force B-36 bomber and , an F-51 fighter plane collided dur—l ing a mock air raid on Oklahoma | City yesterday, plunging 14 airmen 115,000 feet to their deaths. Four members of the crew para- chuted to safety. | An Air Force announcement said Ernest | § | days. proposed CAB '{ | early today that “14 men are pre- sumed to be dead or missing’™ —13 on the bomber and the fighter pilot. At first it was believed 16 were | | aboard the huge B-36, but later o(— ficials said there were 17. The F-51 pilot was First Lt. Fred W. Black, Oklahoma City. Bodies and debris were scattered {over a mile-wide area in an oat field The tragedy near here was the Air Force's second costly mishap in two Eleven crewmen were killed | and five injured when a B-29 crack- ied up and burned Thursday in the 'Amnes while making an emergency | landing, The B-29 was stationed at Walker | | | | Pl | Air Force Base, Roswell, N. M., and This strapless convertable bath- ing suit in the Maillot style has white zephyr wool cuffs and bra top with matehing cardigan style windbreaker for those sudden brisk breezes. The suit and acces- sory are made from striped shir- red chambray. The model is Jerry Miller. (P) Wirephoto. | was on a training mission. {(OLD STORAGE MEN HERE TURN DOWN EMPLOYER OFFER The Juneau cbld storage workers of Marine Warehousemen’s Union MENZIES' TICKET APPEARS IN LEAD OVERLABOR PARTY| Local 41 (ILWU) joined the action | taken at Ketchikan, Petersburg, lSilka and Pelican in refusing an { employer offer of $2.12'%: an hour, Don Baker of the local union said today. The union also concurred in a strike action to be taken May 1 if an agreement is not reached by that SYDNZTY, Australia, April 28 ;m date. —The Coalition government oH e o v 2 0 0 0 2 GI stned i)ewn Yank 25th Division infantrymen huddle behind rocks to shield themselves from enemy motar bursts An Allied wall of fire was holding Red offensive forces near the Hantan River on Korea's central front. i U. S. Army Photo via (P Wirephoto, 1 on the central front. to a stands ¥ TEMP!RATURE RISINC — French akater Rny- monde dé Grief executes a flying leap in samba routine patterned after the tropic dance during international ice show in Berlin. M(FARlAND STRIKES AT REPUBLICANS Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies|® ® appeared tonight to have been re- turned to power despite gains made by the Labor opposition in today’s parliamentary elections. | At the close of counting tonight, still incomplete returns showed that | pilots, |8 slight trend toward tne Labor ]pm-t_v, led by former Prime Min- 1 ister Joseph B. Chiefly, would cost'® the 16-month-old Liberal-Country | ® Coalition government about five light rains tonight and Sun- seats. Loss of five seats would lenve‘ d&_ly. Lowest temperature to- Menzies' with. s 9-52 mafority in|® Bi€ht about 39. Highest Sun- the House of Representatives, the | day about 45. cratic leader, assailed assertions by lower House of Parliament. In the| ® P& ECIPITATION o Senator Taft (R-Ohio) that Presi- last House, Menzie controlled 74| ° (Fast 4. tiewts shdinx T30 . Sty 8 dent Truman’s policies would lead seats to Labor's 47. ® City of Juneau — 40 inches; @ '(,,,1,' to a stalemate in Korea and Since April 1 — 884 inches; that Dean Acheson is trying to “ap- Since July 1 — 66.77 inches. pease” Red China. At Airport — .01 inches; Since April 1 — 2.73 inches; ®| “Regardless of what we think of Since July 1 — 3848 inches. ®|the wlicies involved, nobody has @ ®© o o o o o o o eiever alvocated either appeasement “Now that’s a surprise,” she de- clared, “because hungry dogs are a problem in this are They actually eat people up there. You would never get from the door to the zarbage can without being at- tacked.” Telling of the “outlaw” she referred specifically to Eugene Joiner, o Kotzebue, whom she des- cribed as *‘a fighting pilot, who won't even apply for a CAB license because he has such contempt for them.” . WASHINGTON, April 28 —(/P— WEATHER REPORT ® | Senator McFarland (D-Ariz) struck Temperature for 24-Hour Period @ | pack today at Republican charges ending 6:20 o'clock this morning @ | that President Truman’s policies In Juneau — Maximum, @|can lead only to stalemate or “ap- 53; minimum, 39. ® | peasement” in the Korean war. . At Airport — Maximum, . 49; minimum, 38. . And Senator Wherry (R-Neb) # j denopnced a Democratic charge that o | the Republicans huve tried to “make o | political capital” out of President o | Truman’s ouster of Gen. MacArthur e |as Pacific commander. FORECAST Cloudy with intermittent McFarland, the Senate Demo- Allege Attack Miss Carrighar added that dur- ing a CAB hearing against Joiner last August personal insults were exchanged and H. George Kurtz, an enforcement attorney for the CAB, struck Joiner. She said Joiner’s “references to le lo Until tke 12th or 13th Centuries ® the brewing of beer on any large“ ° scale was don: principally by mon- | @ asteries. lo | (Continued on Page Eight) or stalemate in Korea,” McFarland told a reporter. “We wouldn't be fighting in Korea now if appeasement had been our aim.” Wherry, the Republican floor leader, challenged statements of Willlam M. Boyle, Jr., the Demo- cratic National chairman. PAST SKI CLUB MEE MONDAY IN _GOLD ROOM TROLLERS, FISH BUYERS MEET IN OPS HALE; AGREE e 7)‘.‘—1 ¥ Fish ‘bujers and representabives of the Trollers Union met here yes- terday in a haze of indefinite OPS regulations attempting to work out | a minimum price for troll salmon for the coming season. It was finally agreed that the average price paid for all salmon | bought over the dock at Ketchi- kan, would establish the minimum } price to be paid on the grounds, Andy Barlow, executive secretary | jongbu Hands ALLIES ARE ON ORDERLY PULL BACK TOKYO, April 28 —P— Com- munist troops today captured Tu- on the historic invasion route only 11 miles north of Seoul. The U, 8. Eighth Army announc- ed the vital road hub was in enemy hands but gave no details. Allied forces on the Korean West- ern front began falling back through Iujongbu Friday. Allied artillery in Seoul fired throughout Saturday at the onrush- ing Reds. United Nations forces continued pulling back ord Central and Eastern fronts but reported no contact with the Reds. Red Reserves Arrive The Red Korean Pyongyang radio sald Saturday night that Commun- ist reserves had reached the battle- front. The officlal Communist sta- tion usually reports developments at least three days after they take place, The broadcast heard in Tokyo said “Korean and Chinese people’s volunteers are now inflicting heavy damage on the enemy throughout the front. We have this time poured a new reserve force on the battle- | field on one of those fronts and it | 1s taking a heavy toll of American | lives Y AM battlefront sources, how- ever, safd the withdrawal was in good ‘prder, 41,500 Reds Killed All along the 100-mile battlefront Allied forces have pulled back into South Korea. They have killed or wounded more than 41,600 Redx in theh‘ fighting Withdrawal. “% ‘The “Reds -mounted..their biggest offensive on the Western front. Some 300,000 troops were driving on Seoul. Tens of thousands of civilians fled uth. Korean capital. A “South Korean flag flew over the big gray city hall in Seoul Sat- urday, but the building was empty. Reds New Crash On the East-Central front, Red of the United Trollers announced to- | day. Thor Hendrickson, branch, agent of the Uniteg Trollers at | Ketchikan will give out all informa- | tion to each port and the prices; will be broadcast Wednesdays, | { Thursday, Saturdays and Sundnys| over radio station KTKN. | Said Barlow: “A’meeting held in Ketchikan April 7 came to no defi- nine understanding due to the un- certainty of regulations by the OPS. “Up to that time only fresh fish was exempt from price freeze, and other processed fish such as mild- | cure and frozen fish, were suhject‘ to OPS regulations. Efforts to get< some ruling from the Wnshlngwn OPS office have failed, so due to the uncertain conditions it is im-| possible to arrive at a minimum price, as has been the practice in | the past.” 2 The agreement reached here last | night is that the average price pnld‘ { over the dock ‘at Ketchikan duringl the period beginning Saturday morning and ending Tuesday of each week, less four cents per| pound, on all large red king salmon and three cents per pound on all| other salmon, shall be established | as the minimum price paid at ground stations. These prices apply to all ports except Sitka, Juneau and Pelican where a half-cent a pound will be deducted from the price established at Ketchikan as a port differential. Fish buyers at the meeting were The last Ski Club meetlng o Whitmarsh of Polar Fisher- fes and J. K. Johnson of the New year will be held at 8 p.m, Monday evening in the Baranof Hi old Room, vice president Norr ucy announced today. Decision will be made regarding making improvements on the ski slope, building a new cabin, chang- ing the ski tow and clearing upper slopes durng the summer. Work committees will be appointed. There will also be discussion on the Hi Ball Tennis Club for the summer. Inscriplions reveal that bricks were used as structural material at least 6,000 years ago. In Kashmir, India, there are “street bridges,” actually unedwlm small shops, spanning a river. The number one dairying state| in the United States is Wisconsin. England Fish Co., both of Ketchi- kan; Dean Kayler of Kayler and Dahl, Petersburg; J. C. Gilker of the Rupert Fisheries, Prince Rupert, B. C., and Ed Johnson and Elton Engstrom of Juneau, Representing the trollers were Barlow, Emil Veniola, Pete More, O. G. Nolde, Ken Millard, Homer Saxon and Herb Savikko, all of Juneau; Paul Binkley, Joe Connant and Lester Watkins of Wrangell. fiOING FISHING fmrong the many boats heading for the fishing grounds tomorrow will be the Nugget, the glamor girl vessel of the small boat harbor, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Horace! Tbach. Their first stop will be at| | Pelican, 1 fofces crashed into UN positions before dawn Saturday east of Yang- ! gu, but failed to crack the line. About 100 North Koreans cut through the no-man’s land section around the abandoned town at the east end of the Hwachon Reservoir. It was the only major action Sat- urday along that sector. In the West-Central sector, the Allies gave up Kapyong to the Reds. Kapyong (35 air miles northeast of Seoul), is on the Chunchon-Seoul highway. The Reds cut the highway too late to trap any UN forces. Eighth Army headquarters reports said all UN | forces had quit the area. FISHING FLEET TAKING ICE, BAIT FOR SEASON OPENING ON TUESDAY Fishing season opening ‘Tuesday has brought the fishing fleet three and four deep around Cold Stor- age for ice and bait. The bulk of the Juneau fleet is heading for Icy Straits with others going to |the outside and across the Guif. A partial listing of boats heading for fishing grounds this weekend are as follows: Tenakee, skippered by Ronald John, Carol Joy, John Jack; Bertie II, Roy DeRoux; Ocean Cape, Norman De Roux; | Dolores J. Oren Addleman; Valiant, Floyd Eperson; Radiant, Carl Mc- Lean, Marie H., Willlam Johnson; ‘Unuy Jim Young; Ruby, Larry Fitzpatrick; New Rustler, Willlam Dugaqua; Washington, George Dalton; Mabel K. Lester Wiess; New Anny, Willie Marks; Saga, Arnt Nelson; Defiance, Prank Ol- Fern II, John Lowell; Thelma, Bernt Alsteadt; Emma, Martin Bor- |lick; Evolution, Jim Marks; Tern, | Tom Laite; Cape Cross, Howard | Jensen; Queen, Erling Onsolen, Princess, Olaf Westby; Platinum, John Linvog; Pelican, Torre Low- ell, Viking, John Sunderland. Solar, Dan Twiete; Julia D, Tke Puustinen; Arctic, Lawrence Swan- son; Sentinel, Vincent Anderson, Norland, C. Jacobsen; Sunmore, John Winther, Jr.; Mermaid, Joe White; Clarwood, Ei Hanlon,