The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 2, 1951, Page 4

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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for ition of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Wourth Avenue Bidg., Beattle, Wash. 2 Wednesday, May 2, 1951 NO MURDERED BABIES The controversy that persists in Alaska between scheduled and non-scheduled airlines is in the news again . . . this time with accusations made before a Senate small business subcommittee regardipg the ef- fect of the Civil Aeronautics Board's regulations on the irregular carrjers-in Alaska. Apparently- hero of the current show is Eugene Joiner, referred to by witness Sally Carrighar as “a fighting pilot who won't even apply for a CAB license because he has such contempt for them.” And the villain is the CAB. In addition to being a pilot Joiner is also editor and publisher of the Mukluk Telegraph at Kotzebue which frequently features the CAB in rabid editorials and news articles that will not bear the light of truth. Specifically, there was the story published in the Mukluk Telegraph August 31 with the headline, “14 Babies Murdered.” More of the story was told in the sub®ead, “Civil Aeronautics Board Prevents Bush Pilot ‘Flying Serum to Stricken Area. All Babies in Wainwright Die in Whooping Cough Epidemic.” The Mukluk Telegraph’s story continued: “The first case was reported to the nearest medi- cal center of Kotzebue 400 miles to the south where a public health nurse is stationed. The nurse was unable to obtain transportation on the scheduled air- line to the area due to their airplane being out of operation and a local bush pilot who usually flew her on such emergency trips was being held for in- vestigation by the Civil Aeronautics Board for having flown passenger parallel to the local scheduled air- line.. When the nurse finally reached the stricken area”the epidemic had spread along the entire north coast % . . " As is lrequnemly the result of dangerous ir- The Washington at a northwest ai sm such as this, the fiction was responsible journal repeated again and again Though Mr. Joiner's newspaper published charge against the CAB last August, it became again just six weeks ago when, on the last day of the the news Legislature, Peter J. Hayes, a United Press correspond- ent, sent from Juneau the story of Senator Percy Ipalook’s telegram to Chan Gurney, member of th CAB, telling once more the story of the “murdered Eskimo babies. Senator Ipalook, repeating the Muk- luk Telegraph article, added “but according to the| dictates of the CAB only a scheduled air carrier permitted to fly that route, so all the babies in the village died.” Finally, in an attempt to get the straight of th charges, to scotch them for good, Robe O. Kinse CAB director in Alaska. wired to Hugh Wade, chi of the Alaska Native Service and asked him thesc questions: When the alleged epidemic occurr whether the alleged deaths act ly occurred, i names of the pilots who were requested by the AN to fly medical aid and whether it is the official posi tion of the ANS that the alleged epidemic had relationship to the inability of local pilots to transport medical aid to the village of Wainwright. official Mr. Wade's response to Mr. Kinsey cleared the CAB of the ck s made by Mr. Joiner and Senator Ipalook. He : «plaska Native Service does not feel that the deaths resulting from whooping cough epidemic tn Wainwright has any relationship to inability ANS secure airplane transportation into village. “Qur records fail to disclose that we and were denied services of any pilot to fly medical aid to that village. “Records show requested epidemic occurred in July and August. Twelve deaths in July and 2 in August 1950, of infarrds less than onc year old. Physician that area reported 9 of these cases were deaths probably due although accurate diagnosis Im- was present at time of to whooping cough, possible as no physician death Now. Mr. Kinsey'’s of Joiner and Ser the whole story is in the news again—not or Mr. Wade's—but the char ator Ipalook and Sally Carrighar The cherges against the CAB are unjust and Too, those attacking the CAB are com- unwarranted. pletely missinig the point involved in the scheduled- non-scheduled airline controversy. That this controversy exists in a business as ardous as aviation is wrong. ; The schediiled airlines operate under CAB regu- lations. Safety is their aim. They maintain com- munication facilities. Their pilots and equipment receive regular checks prescribed by regulation. Their tariffs, too, are .regulated by the CAB. sto haz- we don't need the is folly. Flying regulations as To say “Alewska is different, CAB in Alaska,¥ we all know, Alaska deserves ithe the same safety in the rest of the country. Most of the older pilots in Alaska have bien “bush pilots” in their day. But when the CAB was established and CAB regulations applied to Alaska, tnost of the bush pilots—pilot-own- ers or pilots for airlines — conformed to the new in regulations. It is irresponsiblie charges such as those made by Joiner, by Senator Ijpalook and now repeated before the Senate small business committee that would draw attention from the rwal purpose of regulated flying tiae attention of people on false babies. and. focus, instead, of “murdered” hp‘(o fi've days loncer when treatec ngle toward t compound. ‘Wher yalu River, while Almond’s m.»;*‘gll]h U{;“ new 3 : p straight norch. eltsville researchers are surer of MQ"Y’GO'RO“"‘ SL:rlt;d “:u:\];:; 1::,;1 out in two | their ground, the tests will be ex- —_— different directions with no com- |tended to other farm crops. (Continued from Page One) munications between, the Chinese e AN e adopted the obvious and eas tac.lcl I efauver l e Row fcy that the tragic blunders of the of advancing into the vacuum. A staft row over the ‘Kefaive: top brass should not be publicized. | Once the Chinese got On OUr) ;e revort simmered ail last Zf dcontkiered |bed . forfhip piests flanks and partly behind our Lnes, | oo yening closed doors. The re ige"of the service. the position of both the Bth AMOY| )y yos written by Morris P General Bradley has come near-jand the 10th Corps became unteh- | . yo of tpe American Bar Asso- est to publicizing these blunders in{able. This was one of the Wmside] o, "oy gutsider called in after his current biography in which he!reasons for the disastrous retreat Of \the investizations were over, anc tells of the failure of Gen. Johnny (“Court House”) Lee to keep the Normandy invasion supplied with munitions. He also tells of Lee's insatiable desire ~for grabbing swank hotels for his officers while the G. L's slept where they could. I reported part of this story during pell-mell without In some cases, it emy without even last November-December. Poor Intelligence The 8th Army retreated 120 miles artillery, leaving them to the en- who dished out summaries on crime in Chicago, Detroit, Miami, St Louis, Los Angeles and Kansas City without consulting the com- mittee experts who did the real in- vestigating. Senator Kefauver had to make last-minute changes to satisfy those making a stop.| unhitched heavy | a pretense of a the war—namely, how Genen{l Lee| fight. This was no reflecL‘iU!I on| oo weren't consulted. had taken over the swank George our men. The error was with the| "y o0 woo 4960 some frritation V Hotel in Paris for himself, and|command. No prepared poSitions| ¢ (phjef counsel Rudy Halley for how his supply lines got so snarled up that Gen. Thomas Larkin was ordered to make a special invest- igation. However, the official re- ports of the war department have never told this story and probably never will. haps would intervene. as played up in that time. While had been set up in the rear, per- because there was slightest expectation Furthermore our overwhelmed by superior staging the big w in his home town, New York City. Halley spent $74,000 and had 39 on the payroll in New York, compared to an av- erage of $4,000 to ,000, plus twe or three investigators, in other citie not the the Chinese troops were not numbers, the headlines at General MacAr- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA o1 May 2 ° . Janice' Stubblefield ol B. F. McDowell Dr. E. H. Kaser * Einar Lavold Bill Champlin Vivian Powers Clyde Sparks Mr He; Museth Jeanette Melseth Blanche McDonald Robert Rowe e o o 2 ¢ o 0 o o escco0s0ecoe COMMUNITY EVENTS TODAY t 7 p.m. — Mothers of Seniors will |« meet in high school. At 8 p.m. —Elks lodge. At 8 p.m. — WSCS meets in meel Chapel May 3 At noon — Chamber of Commerce me€ts at Baranof. At 8 pm Special meeting of Alaska Potters home of Mrs ce Holn 3 May 4 At 1:30 pm. — Martha So des- ert luncheon at home of Mrs Tom 1 . — Regular meeting of ne Chib. pm. — Majority service and and Cross of Colors, Rainbow Girls, Scottish Rite Temple to be wed at 10 p.m. with dance by and Rainbow gir fol DeMolay boys May 6 At 1 pm. — Picnic at Auk Bay recreation area honoring visiting Gr Officers, Rainbow Girls. May 7 At noon — Lions Club, Baranof. At noon — BPW meets, Baranof. At 6:30 p.m. — Banquet hongring visiting Grand officers, Rainbow Girls, Scottish Rite Temple, fol- lowed by special initiation. At 8 p.m. — American Legion meets in Dugout. May & At noon — Rotary Club, Baranof. At 8 pm Civil Defense Council meets in Elks auditorium. At 8:45 pm. - munity Center N t for Adults at Teen-Age ¢ 1b re Dancing. { May 9 At noon — Kiwanis Club, Baranof. NAT. HOSPITAL DAY AT GOVI HOSPlIAl National Hm)):lul Day will bw ob- erved Friday, May 11, at the Gov ernment Hospital. The hospital, | celebrating its thirty-fifth birth-| iay, will hold open house from 2| o0 4 o'clock that afternoon. Mem- | the staff will act as host- sses. { i 1 at sers of HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS TAKE MERIT SYSTEM f EXAMINATIONS FRIDA‘I Two hundred eight Alaska high chocl seniors in 19 Alaska hr'\\w;‘ will sharpen their pencils to lnkrI Alaska Merit System examinations, i this Fri to Dr. 1. J. Montgomery, Of the 208 who have signified in- tentions of ng exams, 136 will} take junior clerk-typist tests and 72 the junior clerk-stenographer Examinations will be given at Anchorage, Cordova, Douglas, Fair- bank: Haix Homer, J mo:\u,' Kodiak Naval Base, Ko- t(\-(lllkdll diak, Palmer, Petersburs Sheldon Jacks and Wran me, | way, Seward, , Wasilla, Korea’s Errors thur was issuing press communi-| Likewise, the tragic mistakes of | ques about a Chinese force of 1,-| OSSWOl'd Puzz]e the Korean war never have been | 000,000 men, his own dispatches to told officially. It has never been|the Pentagon estimated Chinese ACROSS 31. Corrode disclosed, for instance, that when| Sttength at only 285,000 men, plus,| 1. Rodent . 33, 1"1;'.;3{ Gen. Edward Almond and the late| 150,000 North Koreans. & Eetlny 37. Tho theatrical _ . Gen. “Johnny” Walker were rac-| Another serious error the military | 457 R 2500 AT g ing toward the Yalu River just be- | doesn’t like to talk about now was :1‘1 g“ul‘\(&?rosl 41 agirfi:x:und ounde hs fore our tragic December defear,|the failure to spot Chinese troops 5, parase Related there was no battle liaison betwecn | building up on both sides of the = Efiffified fan L them. Yalu River last November. Five }g Lavar: Tm“sf This failure was considered so| thousand horses were brought| 31’ Buciet . ¥ usical dangerous by the joint chiefs of | 4CT0SS the river, which should have| 23. Trgé:fe&t & L;r"s.ffi‘,"fli"fi . Large bol staff in Washington that a special | been fairly easy for Army Intelli-| 25 (A;c(.umulalt w"uul; in 0 warning was cabled General Mac-| gence to 'spot, but MacArthur's in- AL arbe - S solution of Yesterday's Puzzle Arthur to set up communications telligence failed to report them. o Byc‘;:luqn- ) ’l::!v;\sllel DOWN ¢ § mn § . K nea airs between his two field commanders. e 32, Stability Watch secretly 1. Free 3. Of the 1 However, he never heeded the Droughtproof Crops 4 m‘r"g‘:d Yfl"k warning. Most important experiments in . Aside | { The two commanders cfln!muvd}g‘m"”‘ agriculture ‘“}-‘“"" arg ,gnf-,s‘) a"d] i e/ v eak. | being conducted at the govern- ity in Ancient to operate, in effect, without speak- 8 g Mesopotamia ing to each other. Possible explanation was that General Walker was a Lieutenant General in command of the 8th Army, and outranked Almond who was only a Major General. How- ever, General Almond was Mac- Arthur's chief of staff in Tokyo, had been quite close to him, and was sent from Tokyo to command the 10th corps, which, although ville, Md Beltsville tious in that they sensational make farm crops Briefly, the scier ing a plants capable of scienti: are on ment's research laboratory at Belts- their comment, discovery chemical sp for prolonged periods. though cau- indicate scent of a that may droughtproof. ntists are develop- that makes holding moisture This is done sts, the | ] W///////élll not actually an Army, was almosl,by regulating their cell growth. (o i iy The spray is a variant of 24-D, ..%a And for reasons best known to|the weed-killer. If perfected, it I MacArthur, Almond was not placed |be 8s great a boon to plant life . . i under the direct command of his|as “miracle drugs” to human be- | superior, General Walker. Instead,|ings. he reported back to Tokyo. This would not have been so serious, had not Walker's forces started off beans, which hol Some success already achieved in experiments with snap | has been d moisture four AP Newsfeatures . (‘onlend: Usels nc n\ur colly . Forms for % fashioning metals . Go up . Hastens Meat dish Left out Landed proprietorsy coteh arce Smooth Source | Crude metals’ | Befors at the evening meal Filthy place » e 20 YEARS AGO #%': murpine ,-H--,wo, MAY 2, 1931 Eighteen members of the Resurrection Lutheran Church were to be confirmed by tf r, the Rev. Harry R. Allen. They were: Bernice Edwards, Vieno Wahto, Alma Savviko, Roy Jackson, Harry Lundell, Inga Lindstrom, Jennie Savikko, Phyllis Lundell, Carl Lindstrom, Martha Elsie Lundell, Marion Stanworth, Astrid Loken, Theodore Hilja Reinikka, Ruth Lundell, Violet Rundquist and Bessie Peterson, Heyde The following passer were booked for the south on the Princes: Alice which s m Juncau this morning. They were: For Van- couver; M King, Mre. L. C. Hess, Mrs. W. Hendrickson, Dorothea Hendrick H. Robinson. For Seattle: Mr. and Mrs. Georg McKay, Bishop J. R. Crimont, Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Cochran, Mrs. R Grefe | child, Mrs. Charles Perelle, Alfred Daggett, Mr. and Mrs . J. Lomen, D. W. Branch, V. H. Elfendahl, A. Roberts. With o lzrce load of perishables for the Juneau markets, the Norco arrived from ttle, Capt. A. Ekholm, master. She had nine pas- engers for Juneau. They were: John Kirchbaum, Charles Jackson L. L. Bradley, A. L. Adamsen, A. C. Van Winkle, Mrs. Van Winkle, R A. Van Winkle I. Van Winkle, Jochn G. Olson. Mr. and Mrs. George McKay, attached to the Senate during the 1031 Legislature, left on the Princess Alice for Seattle where they will visit until June McKay was sergeant-at-arms and Mrs. McKay wa> Mrs. Luther C. Hess left on the Princess Alice for the south. She was to go to Medeapolis, Towa, to spend some time with her mother who was ill. Senator Hess was to remain in Juneau completing his post- legislative work in connection with the ‘Senate Journal before returning to the Hess home in Fairbanks. Weather: H ; low, 43; rain. > et ; Daily Lessons in English W. 1. corpox | 3 lvrorrvrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr MISUSED: INDICT means He was indicted for forgery.’ put into writing,” as, ‘He indited a succcessful pl OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Protocol. Pronounce pro-to-kol, first and second O's as in NO, third O as in DOLL, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Practicable (serving a useful purpose). Prac- tical (capable of being done). . SYNONYMS: Ridicule (noun), derision, mockery, sarcasm. WORD STUDY to charge with crime INDITE means “to WORDS OF or misconduct,” irony, satire, Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: RETICENT; inclined to keep silent or uncommunicative. “Being very reticent by nature, is able to observe more than the average person.” by ROBERTA LEE E MODERN ETIQUETTE t SUSESTIISESSS TSI PSPRTTUSEUT VT PUUTT ST | Q. When a house guest wishes to give his appreciation, when should he present it? A. He may bring it along and present it soon after his arrival, at some opportunity du 7 his visit, or send it to her soon after his de- parture. This, of course, does not excuse him from writing that im- iportant “bread-and-butter” letter to his hostess promptly after his visit. Q. When passing your plate at the dinner table for a second help- ing of some dish, what should you do with your silver? A. Always leave the silver on the plate. Q. Is it proper for a man to use the tionery for his correspondence? A. This is all right, but the ferred by men. hostess a little gift of “double-sheet” type of sta- single-sheet variety is generally pre- st ) LOOK and LEARN A(j,(JmDON s 1. How many year? 2. Although Generals Robert E. Lee and U. S. Grant fought against each other in the American Civil War, in what war did they both fight on the same side? What percentage of Americans catch cold at least once a year? How many square feet are there in an acre? Who was the first woman elected to sit in Congress? ANSWERS: 1,882 pounds. The War with Mexico. 94 per cent. 43,560 square feet. Jeannette Rankin, pounds of food does the average American eat in n 0w o o o in 1916, I. A. 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Visiting brothers welcome, LE ROY WEST, Exalted Ruler, Alaska Points Weather conditlons and temper- etures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am. 120‘h Meridian Time, and released hy the Weather Bureau are as follows: AR ; 33—Clear | w, H. BIGGS, Secretary. Annette Island 40—Cloudy Barrow 21—Cloudy | ¢ - Bethel 35—Cloudy o 7o Coudy | Moose Lodge No. 700 Dawson 25—Clear Regular Meetings Every Friday Edmonton 44—Rain Governor— Fairbanks 37—Clear ARNOLD L. FRANCIS Haines 39—Cloudy Secretary— Havre D Bain WALTER R. HERMANSEN Juneau Airport .. 28—Partly Cloudy | === - Rodiak 36—Partly Cloudy Kotzebue 32—Cloudy | McC h 37—Cloudy v. r- w- Nome 31—Snow Nerthwanil 2 cer| Taku Post No. 5559 Petersburg 1—Clo y ot el 31-Cloudy| Meeting every Thursday in Portland 41—Partly Cloudy | g “ey "0 " pr oy i Prince George ... 38— Partly Cl()udyi e . Hall at 8:00 p.m. Seattle 41—Partly Cloudy | Sitka 31—Clear Whitehorse ...... 28—Partly Cloudy 2al 2 Ca ety clouey | Brownie's Liquor Sfore . Phone 103 139 So. Franklin P. 0. Box 2508 NEWS The Erwin Feed Co. EDGECUMBE MEN VISIT cumbe Lions| Office in Case Lot Grocery Workman, Pat | Phone 704 nifi and D HAY, GRAIN, COAL anied Al Lawrence, k and STORAGE rict Governor of Alaska District | e No. 49, to be present at the pre-|————0———— it T e et ey sentation of the International] Charter to the newly formed Doug- las Lions Club last Saturday even- ing. Both Caniff and MacBrayer are nominees for the Presidency of the Mt. Edgecumbe Club and Workman is its Secretary The trio returned with Lawrence to Mt. Edgecumbe Sunday afternoon. DVFD MEETS There will be a special meeting tonight aty8 o'clock with business| pertaining to the annual dance and the Douglas cannery construc- | jon. 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