The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 1, 1951, Page 1

VOL. LXXVII, NO. 11,798 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE P ®ALL-TLE NEWS ALL THE TIME® | Red AdvanceHalted By JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS GREEN LIGHT G(VEN FOR + TERR. BLDG. Contract Sigfii with Car-| son-NPA Permit Issued | City-Offices Moving The contract with the Carson | Construction Co. of Helena, Mont., was executed yesterday with the | Alaska Public Works in Washing- ton, D. C, for the new $1058390 Alaska Office Building here, the APW office reported today® At the same time t} Production Authority issued a per- mit for the construction of the building. The contract calls for work | to begin on or before June 11 with | 450 calendar days for completion. | Carson also has the contract with| the city for the demolition of the City and AB halls which stand on site of the new building. In a telephone conversation with | the local APW office, Carson said| that he expected to arrive in Jun- | eou within the next few days. | Meantime construction is progres- | sing rapidly on the new Sturm . Lockers at Ninth and E streets with | the locker tops now tarred and the roof going on today. Sturm Lockers, | presently housed in the AB hall, will be moved to the new location as soon ms the building is ready. The Juneau City Clerk’s office is being moved to temporary quarters af the city dock and closed for busi- ness. City Clerk C. L. Popejoy said | that it was hoped the office whuid Fe open for Misincee Lomorrote Bl that he would appreciate a little| more time to get settled as all rec- ords would not be in place immed- iately. { The Elks ambulance has been moved to the subport and salvaging | of light fixtures and other items | were going noisily forward in the | soon-to-be-razed old city hall. The ' fire department is temporarily lo-: cated at the subport. | Police headquarters are now lo-| cated on the Franklin street side of | the city dock building. Prisoners ! are to be held in the Federal jail | and City Magistrate’s Court will| also be held there. | SUIT FOR TAXES { The Kake School District filed ac- | tion in U. /S. District Court this morning against the P. E. Harrisi Company for alleged taxes due from | January 1, 1948 to January 1, 1950, in the amount of $3648781. Wil-| liam Paul of Juneau is attorney for | the plaintiff. | National | i STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday. ik Princess Louise scheduled to sail ‘ from Vancouver Saturday 8 p.m. | Denali scheduled to arrive Sunday | at 3 a.m., southbound . | | The Washington Merry -Go- Round‘ By DREW PEARSON (Copyright. 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc., | ASHINGTON — Before Presi- | dent Truman made his tough deci- sion to fire General MacArthur, he | asked General Matt Ridgway for a confidential opinion as to whether U. N. forces could hold against the expected big Communist offensive. | Truman took -this precaution, | first because it had been known for‘! some time that the offensive was coming, second because he also | knew what a catastrophic torrent | of criticism would be heaped on his | head if after relieving MacArthur, | U. N. forces suffered a slagger‘mg‘ defeat. | Gen. Ridgway cabled back that | his forces could hold. He went fur- | ther and stated that he could hold | against any enemy attack for sixty | | days—even without reinforcements. | The Pentagon, reporting this to the White House, said they had complete confidence in Ridgway, SO | Truman shot the works with Mac- | Arthur. | There are several important rea- sons for this confidence, all going | to the tremendously improved fighting quality and command of American troops. | Last December a Chinese Army | | _— (Continued on Page Four) i GIANT PROP TESTED — This nineteen-foot a craft propeller, developed unde: ir- r U. S. Air Force sponsorship, is prepared for tests at Hamilton Standard plant, E. Hartford, Conn. REP. BREHM CONVICTED, FED. JURY Conaressman Faund Guil. ty of Receiving $1,000 Unlawfully WASHINGTON, May 1 — ® — Republican Rep. Walter E. Brehm of Ohio, a five-term member of Congress, was convicted last night of receiving $1,000 in unlawful politi- cal contributions. After deliberating four hours and 18 minutes, a Federal Cour; jury| of 10 men and two women found the 58-year-old Ohioan guilty on five counts, involving as many $200 con- tributions from Mrs. Emma ven while she worked for 1948. The maximum serts be imposed is 15 penalties seldom are imposed in convictions on several counts. Brehm was convicted of breaking a law that forbids congressmen to receive gifts from persdns on the Federal payroll. Brehm's lawyer, told reporters he will ask for a n: trial. Failing that, he said, he will appeal the case to higher courts. The tall, heavy-set congressman was pale, but showed no emotion when Jury Foreman B. Richard Breslar, a restaurant operator, an- nounced the verdict in an almost- MEIVES BROTHERS ARE FLOWN TO KETCHIKAN FOR HOSPITALIZATION Two elderly men, Harry and Lewis Meives, were transported by the U S. Coast Guard to Ketchikan hospitalization early this morning, CG headquarters d today. They ‘had been wintering in Trollers Cove on Prince of Wales Island, about 30 miles from Ketchikan. On February 5 the cutter Citrus, in response to a distress call, sup- plied food to the pair when they refused transportation to Kefchi- kan. Two weeks later the Coast Guard responded to a call that the| two were again out of supplies and a CG plane took 80-year-old Harry Meives to Ketchikan for supplies. Yesterday it was again reported | to the Coast Guard that the pair were starving and in need of medi- cal attention. ENGINEERS HERE R. J. McKinney and A. R. Henny of the U. S. Engineers office in Portland, stopped overright at the Baranof hotel, They are here in connection with a comprehensive survey of Southeast Alaska rivers and harbors report that is being made up. Leo A. Rover, | for; 'SENATE COMMITTEE OKEHS $3% MILLION SE ALASKA ROADS! A three and a half million dollar suppiementary appropriation bill for 'Tongass Forest roads has been favorably reported out of the Sen- aizy committee with “the . entire ausotsd. approved. r Word was recelved here this i morning by Fred Eastaugh, secre- tary of the chamber of commerce, in a telegram from Delezate E. L. Bartlett and Regional Forester Frank Heintzleman. This bill has already passed the House and now awaits final action by the Senate. Four projects will be‘ undertaken by the Bureau of Pub- lic Roads which include: Douglas Highway, grading and surfacing from Falls Creek to Men-, denhall Bar, 2.7 miles. Sitka Highway, grading, surfac-! and bridge, from Sitka to stown Bay, 3.6 miles; Refuge Cove to Totem Bight, grading and surfacing, 2-1 miles; Ketchikan to Ward’s Cove, grad- in; 1 {(ANCER TALK GIVEN | BY BANFIELD TODAY AT ROTARY (LUB | Norman Banfield, campaign {chairman for the Gastineau Chan- Inel area for the Cancer drive, gave a brief effective talk to members cf the Juneau Rotary Club at a regular luncheon meeting at the Baranof Hotel this noon. | He stated that over:$15000 had Leen raised last year in Alaska of which 60 cents of each dollar re- mained in Alaska with 40 cents going to national headquarters. Of the 40 cents, 25 cents goes to the all important research program, he sald. The Alaska program for this year will be to educate the public in recognizing cancer symptoms at an early stage which will often permit cure and to give direct aid to can- cer patients. President Ellis Reynolds gave a histogy of Rotary, its ideals and services. He said that the clubs were increasing at the rate of 250 yearly. New members Ralph Marsh, Irv Curtis and Dave Dunton were pre- sented with handbooks. Program chairmen for this month { were announced as Franz Nagel, \Eric Newbould, Vic Power and ;James Ryan. & | Visiting Rotarians included Leon- ‘,ard Hopkins, Anchorage salesman; T. S. Batchelder, Fairbanks con- tracto nd Larry Johnston, Wash- ington, D. C. architect. Other visitors were Col. M. R. Marston of the Alaska National; Guard, Anchorage; Harold L. Moat, of the U. S. District Engineers of- fice, Anchorage; the Rev. Fred Knewl, Sitka; L. C. Peters, Seattle; Dr. T. E. Tynson, Banfield, Loyd Essig, all of Juneau. David Graves was the Junior guest. | | {1929.... A 1935 Sars in prison i, surfacing and bridge. 3.6 mile&! and & $350001 fine. But: maximum | "5 SUrAciE A HEGR i ICEOUT 5:54P.M. APRIL 30 NENANA, Wlaska, May 1 —(®— The Tanana river broke its winter- ong ice jam at 5:54 p.m. yesterday. The breakup ended the steadily mounting suspense of thousands of Alaskans. Guessing the exact day, hour and minute of the breakup at Nenana | Allie ——— Yogeler |td has long been a favorite pastime of | Alaskans and has been the occasion | of much speculation — both within and without the Territory. More than 150,000 individual | quesses were recorded this year | with only 17 managing to forecast | he exact moment. Individuals or companies holding | zuesses marked for the exact break- | up time included: | Columbia Bar | Pool, Sitka; John Jacobs, Fairbanks; | Carl V. Anderson, Nome; Gordon's | Store, Fairbanks; Kay Handeland,] Nome; Edwin C. Scott, Sitka; Irene;| Noyes, Fairbanks; Peter Coulombz, Fairpanks; D. O. Stockholder, Anch- orage; Otto N. Apen and Paul Ho- | rat, both Anchorage on same ticket; | Ladd Air Force Base Power Plam] Pool One; C. O. Huntley and V. o.| Holdsworth, Palmer, one ticket; A. J. Fill and J. J. Hill, Ophir, one, ticket; John Burke, Anchorage; R.' L. Green and G. C. Wright, Spen- | ard, same ticket; Robert D. and Dorothy Deon Patton, same ticket; Lawson Dickson and, Cumpany of Fairbanks; Jerry Ran- | dall and Jack Coghill of Nenana. BREAKUP DATES e are the breakup date: pasts them jn yous future use: 1917, 1918, = 8 ..april 30, = 8o E588 I S 1922, 1923 1924. 1925. 1926. 1927... 1928. Sangeny SER8g8s8 1930. 1931 1932.... 1933. 1934, AYa AR O aS | i 1937, 8 1938. 1939. April 20, 1941 May 3, 1942, 1943 1944. L 1945, 1946..... 1947, 1948 1949 1950. 1951 EINSTOSS IN TROUBLE IN BERING SEA TODAY The Nordic Maid, a 139-foot for- mer Army freight supply vessel, sent a distress call to the Coast Guard, headquarters reported today. The message said that a fish net was caught in the propeller and that the vessel was drifting northwest at about two miles an hour and gave its location at about 30 miles north of False Pass. The CG cutter Bittersweet was ordered to proceed from King Cove and expects to arrive on the scene about 5 o'clock tomorrow morning. The Nordic Maid is listed in the American Merchant Vessels as hav- ing been built in 1945 in San Fran- cisco with New York as her home port and owned by S. Einstoss. The Frigidland, which was dis- abled with a broken crankshaft Sunday morning, was towed to Sitka by the cutter Storis and moored there at 8:30 this morning. PLEADS GUILTY Wilmer Austin, 18, entered, a guilty plea to a burglary charge in U. S. District Court this morning and was sentenced to two years at McNeil Island penitentiary by Judge George W. Folta. The prison sent- ence was suspended on conditions of good behavior. Joseph ‘A. McLean, | appointed by the court, represented the defendant, | Fairbanks, | .| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine .| stock today is 2%, | 115%, .| Anaconda 41%, .1 1047%, Genera) Electric 55'z, Gene: .| Motors 537%, Goodyear 79':, Kenne- .| 9%, Northern Pacific 37!z, Standard . Oil of California 49, .| Century Fox 21, U. S. Steel 44%,| .| Pound $2.80!¢, Canadian Exchange .1 93.75. [ ties'42.42. | Home by F amily » Robert A. Vogeler, 30-year-old American business man who was released from a Hungarian prison (April 28), is embraced by his wife, Lucile (right) and his sister-in-law, Pia flett) on his arrival in Vienna for a joyful reunion with his family. One of his sons is at right fn background and the other can be seen in foreground with back of head to camera. Vogeler was convicted in Budapest last Feb- ruary on charges he was a spy. His release from prison was obtained by the U. S. government in a deal with Hungary. (# Wirephoto via radio from Frankfurt. Exhausted Mlgr lo Trék | E. Two Korean youngsters, exhausted after long trek south, sleep on family belongings on south bank of Han River, South Korea. They are among the thousands fleeing south from the advancing Com- munists. (M Wirephoto. (CHIEF OF NON-SKEDS TESTIFIES WASHINGTON, May 1 — (B — The head of the nation’s non-sched- uled airlines said yesterday the Civil | Aéronautics Board “is the most Sales today were 1,760,000 shares. | formidable obstacle in the way of Averages today were as follows: | mass air transportation.” Industrials 260.71, rails 82.84, utili- As such, said Amos E. Heacock of Seattle, president of the Aircoach Transport Association, the CAB “it the chief cbstacle in the way of ade- quate air lift that is needed to e lives in an impending war.” Heacock’s assertion was made be- STOCK OUGHATIONS NEW YORK, May 1 — Closing American Can American Tel. and Tel. 155, Douglas Air: el cott 75%, Libby, McNeill and Libby Twentieti TUNNEL OPEN W. J. Niemi, chief of operations for the Alaska Road Commission, today announced that the road tun- nel in Keystone Canyon, at Mile 17 on the Richardson Highway out of Valdez, is now enlarged and open to traffic on a 24-hour a day sched- ule. Previously travel had been al- lowed through the tunnel only at certain hours. (Continued on Page Eirht) 3 NATURALIZED, SITKA HEARINGS, LAST WEDNESDAY Three persons were granted citi- zenship last Wednesday in Sitka at naturalization hearings conducted by the U. 8. District Court. Mary Johinson, who has lived in Sitka continuously since 1865 and is known throughout the southeast area as “China Mary” became an American citizen, Two Filipinos were also given their papers, Romey Molina, who was granted permission to change his name to Romey Moline, and Jesus L. Bartolaba. This was the last time the U. S. district attorney will conduct ex- aminations for naturalization, ac- cording to P. J. Gilmore, district at- torney. By directive of the Justice Department announces that exam- inations will be given in the future ® | by the Immigration officer, who is e | John BErantner in Juneau. 2 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 46; minimum, 33. At Airport — Maximum, 47; minimum, 29. FORECAST Variable cloudiness tonight and Wednesday. Low temp- erature tonight about 35. Slightly warmer Wednesday. High temperature near 48. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — Trace; Since July 1 — 68.05 inches. At Airport — .02 inches; ® Since July 1 — 39.29 inches. . ® 0 0 0.0 0 0 00 | | ° . . . . Al . . . . . ° . . . . . . . . ° . . REPORTON U.S. CRIME IS ISSUED U.S. Ambassador 0'Dwyer ~ Named Contributor in LY: “Investigation WASHINGTON, May 1 — (@ — Senate crime investigators today accused Ambassador Wm. O'Dwyer of contributing to the growth of or- ganized crime in New York City, where they said underworld king- pin Frank Costello is a power in Democratic politics. O’'Dwyer was New York’s mayor from 1946 until last fall when Presi- dent Truman appointed him am- bassador to Mexico. From 1940 to 1942 O'Dwyer was district attorney of Kings County (Brooklyn). Referring to O’Dwyer’s tenure both as mayor and district attorney, the crime¢ committee had this to say in a lengthy and hard-hitting report on its year-long probe of gangsterism: Investigation Blocked “Neither he nor his appointees took any effective action against the top echelons of the gambling, narcotics, water-front, murder or book-making rackets. In fact, his actions impeded promising investi- gations of such rackets.” The crime probers, headed by Senator Kefauver (D-Tenn), alsc said O'Dwyer had named to high public office friends of Costello and Joe Adonis, another big-time rack- eteer and gambler. And after a lengthy detaiiing of Costello’s alleged political manipu- lations, the ‘Senate committee summed up in these words: Sinister Influence “It is apparent to the committee that despite Costello’s protestations his sinister influence is still strong in the councils of the Democratic party organization in New York County.” The senators devoted about 35 pages of the 195-page report to their New York City investigation, where O'Dwyer and Costello were the ma- jor witnesses at hearings viewed on television by upwards of 20,000,000 persons Throttling Laws Asked The report, rushed to completion Jate last night, also asked Congress for a batch of laws aimed at throt- tling the nation’s big crime and gambling syndicates by cutting the profits out from under them. “Gambling profits are the princi- pal support of big-time racketeer- ing and gangsterism,” the senator said. They recommended legislation to outlaw, transmission across state lines of information for illegal gambling, to prohibit illegal gambl- ing losses or expenses from being deducted for income tax purposes, to deny use of the mails or other interstate communications to make or pay off bets, to ban the interstate transmissions of punchboards, rou- Jette wheels and other gaming de- (Continued on Page Two) PRICE TEN CENTS d Curtcin Of Steel BIG DRIVE 1S HALTED, BRIEF TIME Allied Power Poured me, Commie Ranks-Reds Drying Up Rivers By Associated Press An Allied curtain of steel kept Communists from the May Day prize of Seoul today. ¥ Massed artillery, warship guns and a record swarm of planes halted he Reds on the fringe of the anc- ent Korean capital, but there were iigns the weight of their massive pring offensive was shifting to the Central front. Preparing for their new attack, the Communists cut off the water supply in an attempt to dry up the rivers on their invasion route. They closed the sluice gates of the vast Hwachon Dam to lower the waters of the Han and Pukhan rivers, pre- sumably to make it easier for their assault forces to cross. Ominous Red Buildup A heavily censored dispatch from AP Correspondent Nate Polowetzky told of an ominous buildup of Red forces along the Chunchon-Hong- chon invasion route. He said U. 8. artillery broke up enemy concen- trations southeast of Red-held Chunchon and north of Hongchon. In nine days of battje the Com- munist casualties mounted to 75, 000 Allied sources said. Seoul Defended Seoul was being stoutly defended by Allied Big"bund pumping thona= . ands of shelis into the northern hills where the Communists were grouping. Warshops off Inchon, the port of Seoul, laid down a heavy curtain of fir: northwest of the ancient capital. Alr Offensive 1N planes mounted the greatest aii offensive of the war to hold the Reds in check. Altogether the Far Eastern Air Forces flew 1,277 sort- ies, a new air record. A communi- que sald UN air might “smashed a determined large scale Communist supply buildup.” Another jet battle was fought over northwest Korea. Twenty-five U.S. F-86 Sabre jets dueled with a like number of Soviet-type MIG-15s. One enemy jet was reported downed and four others hit. No U. S. planes were damaged. Warning Given A warning that the Communists might strike heavily with air power came from Rear Adm. Lyman A. Thackrey’s flagship Eldorado. The message said the Reds had 3,000 planes ready for such an attack but Allied warships lying off Inchon were ready with potent anti-air- craft fire. Red Smash Checked The Army disclosed the U. S. First Marine Division and a British Bri- gade checked the crushing Red smash at the center of the Allied line April 22 when the Reds opened their spring offensive. Censorship was lifted, to tell the story of how the Marines and the British Briy gade held the line after their flanks were exposed by collapse of a South Korean division. Fighting Terrific One Marine officer, Lt. Col. Webb D. Sawyer of Alexandria, Va. said the fighting in checking the break through by 140,000 Chinese Wwas worse than anything the Marines saw in Northeast Korea last winter. 8 ARRIVE ONPNA; 1560 WESTWARD Twenty-three flew with Pacific Northern Airlines yesterday with eight arriving from Anchorage,five ilying to Cordova and ten going to Anchorage: From Anchorage: C. G. Jones, Ted Milligan, James Ryan; Rolland Girkin, Art Gregory, Joe Corrillo, Alex Stevens, Sam James. To Cordova: Hazel and Jacob Audlin, Clayton Langley, D. Mil- ler, G. LaPerle. To Anchorage: Dr. Grace Field, E. C. Ziegler, L. W. Coe, J. Thom-_ as, C. P. Steward, J. B. Steward, D. Harper, Kenneth Henderson, Jack Streeter, Charles Fowler.