The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 19, 1951, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition \ “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LXXVIII. NO. 11 814 | S ————————— e — RS—— it JUNEAU, ALASKA‘ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE TIMB‘ SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition PRICE TEN CENTS — UN Forces Wlthdrawmg Under Pea’ Attack CITY TO FILE SUIT AGAINST INSURANCE €O The City Council of Juneaulast night authorized City Attorr Stahler to bring suit against t i compar W the 1 hv C ard unlk ¢ ise of George Martin is paid by next Thu A total disabili rd was made by the Industrial Board to Martin| amount of $9,852.10 which in an California and the party which en- B rown to approximately $10,000} tertained him at Taku Lodee, h int t and other fees. Mar-f turned to Juneau’this morning tin claimed cerbon monoxide poi- Arriving at the hospitable los soning while a city empl Helof Mr. and Mrs. Royal O'Reilly later sustained other injuries w! Friday afternoon about 4, he traced to the original i Warren, and his secretary Ma Meantime the ¢ lich had King, Gov. Ernest Gruening and ried insurance on and| Aide, Comdr. E. P. Chester, Earl Rowland at th the mon- [ Ohmer of Petersburg and Clarence oxide poisonin d i urance | Rhode, regional rector and pilot to the American Cas-jof the U, S. Fish and Wildlife] . Each company disclaims| Service, were met and weicomed liakility and a judgment was filed| by Mr. and Mrs. O'Reilly d a against the City for payment. small party of Juneau r Iiot Water for Water Co. I'who had been invited on the was led that unless the|and had preceded the Warren par- Juneau Water Co. submits a satis- |ty to Taku Lodge. factory financial report as direc-| Those invited were Dr. ted; that the coi self-im- | Whitehead, local physician ne posed water rate will be surgeon and membel e of cancelled out. The stention was | the Territorial Board of F that the water company should | Floyd Guertin, commis submi{ ut n the same | Veterans Affa e basis as the light | Ct and teleph mmpme | businessman; | Dunn, } Meetings Every Thursday third and final reading an an ordinance was passed that provides for regular City Council mgetings for the first four Thursdays of each month. | Boat Harbor Ordinance | On amendment A comprehensive ordinance rela- :prowess ting to the harbormaster and the small boat harbor was passed on' first repding. It provided for rules, regulations, powers of the harbor- master, registration of vessels, o der and sanitation of the small boat harbor and city float, except- ing the city dock. The matter of rental rates to be included was laid over until the next meeting. Telephone Tax The Cour decided that the telephone excise tax should be ab- | sorbed by the Juneau-Douglas TL]" ephone Co. and should properly be charged as operating cost instead | of being passed along to customers. The City Attorney was directed to iwvestigate and write a letter to to cease and desisi from collecting such tax frem,cus tomers. This action, it was puinwdl out, did not apply to the city S:\lLa and service tax. Small Boat Harbor Work A bid from J. V. Cole for remo au of a portion of the present ap- proach to the small boat harbor and construction of a new one with City materials was accepted. His hid was $6,418 and he promised to} begin work within a week which in- cluded painting of materials. Two, other b opened and read did not meet specifications. Homeless Fire Dept. Mayor Waino Hendrickson an nounced that a new lease for the use of the present Fire Department quarters was on the way from An- chorage. A technical error in the previous usé permit almost caused the Department to be homeless again. The current lease permits occupancy until October 31 of thi5| year. By that time it is hoped nci new Fire Hall will be available. (Contmued on Pa[;e Two) The Washington Merry -Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright. 1951, By Bell Syndicate, Inc. ASHINGTON.—President Tru- man is being ultra-careful about writing letters these days—somuch that some of his assistants almost get him into worse trouble trying to protect him. The other day word was noised around the Capitol that the Presi- dent had written a letter to Cu--i gressman John McGuire of Co necticut jokingly offering him t. “Rosary Concession at the Vatican” when and if the United States sent a new ambassador to his holiness the Pope. There was an immediate furor in Capitol lobbies. The President, it was rumored, had put his fcot] in it again. Careful checking by this column, however, revealed that though the| thelr President had written a letter, it was only a protective letter. Per- (Continued on Page Four) - | day Warren Proves/|SECOND ANNUAL Angler Skill a Moose Creck| Proclai: g yesterday's fishi trip one of the finest he had e er enjoyed, the scenery marvelous and the relaxation “Just what T needed,” Governor Barl Warren of ican Airw - ator of* the Norman Ea and Hunt Gru pilot Alaska Qoastal plane. wi the party up to the river. Gov. Warren gave broof as & fc ton- by catching I the party. FUSAE w in famed Maose Creek pm., when the glers his of lower of Izaak Wals the finegt | Lrdut s enfoyed’ until 11 ned to the lodge for a re din- ner of baked salmon. Good fishing rewarded nearly all of the party. At 12:3 noon Gow s guest of honor at Governor’s this a bu the pleast to the and t ied Californ i nin; ir. Chester we to Anchorage in a C-54 Ar to 1l my plane which will on to Fairbanks Sunc War=- Yen is to deliver the address of the to the\ graduating students at the Um\uxily of Ala Monday. PAY (ONTROL GATE OPENED WASHINGTO 7 The Wage Stabilization Board yes- terday opened a broad gate in the control corral, “Sometimes it I and said: is harder to be Jjust than to be firm.” The board voted 8 to 4, members dissentin; v a 9-cent hourly pay hoost for ,000 packing workers. The broad principles involved in thus approving a wage increase far in excess of the government’s 10 per cent raise ceiling seemed likely apply to other major cases facing the board. These include a proposed 15 per cent boost for 50,000 ship- yard workers, 10.per cent for 100,600 Northern Woolen Worsted and Cot- ton-Rayon Textile Workers, and two or more cost-of-living increases and a propos 1 4-cent hourly “producti haping up for 500,- with in- UUU ’Ilu()m()bl]u wWo! FUMERAL SERVICES MRS. 1.6. RADONICH BE HELD MOMDAY ices for Mrs. Thomas G . who passed away Thursday morning at St. Ann’s Hospital, will be conducted by the Rev. Paul Prouty of the Presbyterian Church at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon, May 21, in the Carter Chapel. Mrs. Lois Reedy will sing and organ music will be played by Mrs Carol Berry Davis. The four eldest grandsons of Mrs. Ra- Radonich, Donald, Te Rodger jand Jeoffrey Pegues, will act as grandmother’s pallbearers with Arthur F. McKinnon and John Morrison, friends of many years. Interment will be in the Pioneers’ Plet in pvergreen Cemetary. 1! reserves; di i | | | 4 ARMED FORCES DAY PARADE HELD A drizzling rain marked the nd annual Armed Forces parade held here this forenoon T'he 10 units in the line of m P the reviewing st front of the Baranof hotel i school band nss the street in front of Electric Light and Power 1 the reviewing stand were illiams, secretary of Ala enting the governor's office; Joseph Alexander, W/O L. L and Capt. F. C. Wilson, Alas- oer: ssed playad k ational Guard, 1 Admiral ‘ux‘)h Greenspun, Coast Guard ':‘(m\mmnh Coast Guard Head- quarters. Units in the parade wez?; Color Guard of the Alaska National Gu team a Army, National r detachment; Coa Cutter Storis platoon led b drill Ensizn headguarters, Ala National d led by Maj. George Matson; Headquartérs, Headquarters Serv- ice Co., 208th Infantry Bat (Sep), Ala National G by Lt. Col, D. N. Dea T, and Capt. Laurls Pnrker the organ 1s of Foreign runette, post n Legion posts < Bay led by Vern the Wars led by coramander; Ame of Juneau and Au Veters Harris and Herb Cantillion, respec- tively. The Boy Scouts assisted the Po ice Department in traffic control. The Alaska Communication /Sys tem manned a public address sy tem apnouncing the umts in the Datade Open houses will be held this af- ternoon as follows: Alaska National jard headquarters in the subport 11 to 3; Alaska Communication em the Federal Building and mi from 2 to 4; and aboard the U. 8. Coast Guard Cutter Storis from 2 to 4. A fair but small crowd, predom- inately childreft, lined the street on both sides of the reviewing stand in _{to watch the parade. TACOA, JUNEAU CHAMBERS DINE E. J. O'Brien, manager of the anof Hotel, pointed out to vis- iting members of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce that trade a two-way street. At a dinner mF"‘lInQ of the Junezu and Tacoma Chambers at the Baranof Hotel last evening, the hotel man stressed that there was a potential market in Juneau for businesses the Ta- comans represented but that tour- ism was part of Juneau’s potential market and the two cities could be of mutual aid to each other. E. D. Thomson, tour chairman for the group, idvited cooperation, following welcoming addresses by Mayor Waino Hendrickson and Herbert S. Rowland, president of Juneau Chamber. Chamber Secretary Fred Eastaugh reminded the guests that Juneau was_ only railhead and the closest large ai port that could be served by motor truck. ‘Those in attendance were: Taco- mans Jack Richards, Thomson, Les Sona, Floyd Hanby, Lynn Faulk, P. H. Tottler, Bob Munn, M. B, Lo- gan, Bill Wilson and Milt Gates. Representing Juneau were Bill and Marlin Feero, Jack Clark, Jessie McCrary, Bert and Mary Barrer, Mildred Maynard, Henry Green, Roland Burrows, Bill McFarlane, Russell McGill and J. C. Johnston. Irv Thatcher of Ketchikan was also present. Buiidings Are Spiinfered by Vicious Tornado OLNEY, Tex., May 19 —(®— A vicious tornado slashed through this North Texas town of 5,000 killing two persons and injuring 100 others. It made kindling wood of 24 to 26 homes and damaged more than 100 others. Several business con- cerns were leveled and many others damaged. Some estimated property damage at a million dollars or more. sen and mile 11 stations 540 miles from the Hazelton, BC.| TRIBUTE PAIDTO MILITARY Observance National wifh. All Forces at Home, Kerea | Speeches Are Made By Associated Press In scores of speeches and a (is-| play of flexing military muscie the | nation today paid tribute to jts uni- fied Armed Forces at home and on| the field of battle in Kor Eight of the world’s m | craft — the B-36 battleships of e | air — thundered over ¢ Atlantic to the Pacif; to Mexico. Ground f while tanks and ar beside them. The Navy | ships on show, i In Korea, soldiers, sail Mara) | ' put ines and Airmen battled erim'y tc Armmed Forces i ,Ww'fimfib,fi«,;&w hold back Communist aggr: sion while the military buildup des | | strated at home is completed. . Truman's Ap 1 President Truman was the first of over 100 governm and fmili- ary speakers at Armed orces Day gatherings. He made an appeal in an address last night, for pafcnal unity “in the midst of one ¢' ihe greatest crises this cauu.:y hat ever faced.” The brief remarks by Mr. Ty and Marshall were broadca’'t American and other United Né jons troops in Korea and Japan. £Xou st gait here at home,” Mr. Truman ished against the ba MacArthur controver quit playing petty politics. Marshall said the military effort in Korea has “dissipated the defeat- | ism of a year ago” and has given new 4‘ life to the UN, the North Atlanti ‘Treaty orgenization and the Free| World generally. Today the Armed Services are| playing hosts to the public. They are | holding “open house” at most of their installations. o In the U. 8. ports the Navy has| 177 vessels which will be open to public inspection. { Much of the newest military M o the 1 mus equipment will be on display at some nade of the celebrations. A Russian tank, captured by U. S. f Korea, will be among the Washing- ton exhibits. FiSH TRAP (ASE CONCLUDED, NOW IN COURT'S HANDS Arguments and hearings were concluded yesterdey afternoon in District Court before U. S. Judge George Folta on the case of the| U. 5. Government vs Libby, McNeill and Libby on an injunction asked by the government to prohibit a Libby, McNeill and Libby fish trap from fishing at Sukkwan. The Government charged opera- tion of the trap was illegal on the Hydaburg Indian Reservation, of which Sukkwan is a part. The court has taken the case under advisement. R. E. Robertson and W. C. Arnold were atforneys or the canning company and As- sistant U. S. Attorney Stanley Bas- kin represented the vovernmmt and Interior Department. WEATHER REPORT Temvperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, At Airport — Maximum, 50; minimum, 41. FORECA Cloudy with light night and Sunday. temperature tonight deg. Highest Sunday Southeasterly winds as 25 miles per hour 5T rain to- Lowest near 42 near 50. as high Sunday. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — .61 inches; Since May 1 — 2.66 inch Since July 1 — 70.71 inches. At Airport — .17 inches; Since May 1 — 1.63 inches; Since July 1 — 40.90 inches, ® 0o 00 0 0 0 0 0 | o g T R &a@-*;fieai?ei‘wrmame [PEACE OFFER Proposal May Come from UN-Armistice Talk Also Appears Moscow Papers JNASHVILLE, Tenn,, May 19 —(» A United Nations peace offer to Communist China may come very 5. FORCE INBREAK FROM TRAP Escape Costs Reds 10,000 Killed-Terrific Fight- ing on Front By Associated Press United Nations forces today coft~ tinued their withdrawal on the blaz- oon, a4 director ,of the Amcrican|ing Central Korean front. A regi= last ssociation UN night, Clark M. Eichelberger did not close the basis for his p He said he believed a * ce offer” to end the fi rea is imminent. Eichelberger spoke at a rice of the Vanderbilt Universit national Relations club. He said the war must n tended in the Far East and d present UN taciics in Ko ducing China to “a weak incapable of aggression China and India.” REPORT IN MOSCOW for predicted are nation, Indo- MOSCOW, May 19 —M-— Pravi and other Soviet newspaper; carrie extensive reports today of cen, Ed win Johnson’s (D-Colo) proposal for war o outbrenk an armistice in the Kox the first anniversaty of its The date would be June Pravda, organ of the Communis arty, quoted what apparently wa the whole resolution and some ob- Hervers Ap-sertt oo ST 25 | the paper did so. It was the first peace proposal for coming from the United to be published in the Soviet s for some time. FORMER JUNEAL RESIDENT D'ES IN ANCHORAGE received here this week New ! of the death of Edwin Sweum, for- mer resident of Juneau, at Anchor- y May 15. Sweum was 45 years old and was proprietor of Sweum's Crogery a “Gloria, only 12 hours old, leans shakily on her mother’s protective forcleg as she looks out on wide world for first time at Ringling Brothers-Barnum Bailey eircus in Boston, Ma, The birth was a,re- peat perfo Ldith,” the mother. Five years ago in Boston she gave bir n, “Mr. Boston,” looking on irom a 14-foot altitude sloria, nmamed in honor of Hollywood starlet Gloria Drew, weighed in at 40 pounds. Blackie Bariow (left) meas- ured baby at a mere five feet. (® Wir P])ho(u nee for ] board and similar WAGE BOOST, | ALASKAR.R. ANCHORAC( compensa- to PROYOSED CAMP FOR CHINESE ALIENS REJECTED Secretary of has rejected MANILA, — B — | Finanee Pio Pedros loposal to establish a-camp for - The A a p rd, meeti housing aliens who have been of five non-operating unions, un- | ordered deported. nounces wage reases for more| The Bureau of Immigration re- than 1,600 employes of the road. The | commended the camp on the se from 25 to 35| grounds that persons ordered Ge- | ported for vi m of immigration laws are largely Chinese, who prob- ably would be persecuted if returned to their native land. fm these boosts WOl g a 40-hour| s ng $§2.34 an hour for (mp e or s hoosted 25 cents hourly; Pedrosa the government $235 to $244 an hour boosted 30 |could not spare -funds for such a cents; $2.45 an hour upped 35 cents. | camp. Increases » were provided for s seven-day employes, fire department\ The Rev. J. Davis of Palmer is; men and workers who receive room | at the Baranof Hotel Spenard at the time of his passiog He was ill only a month. 5 Before going to the westward 1. years ago, he owned and operated the - White Spot liquor siore here and had many friends who Will re- gret hearing of his death Jie s survived by his wife) Ada and three daughters, June, 18; Jo Anne, 15, and Patty, eight months The body is Lzing sent to Everett Wash,, for burfal under auspices of the Elks Jodge. MYSTERIOUS LiFE OF SALMON MA‘{ BE SOLVED THIS YEAR !‘\)R. TLAND, May 19 (B—-Bi- ologists hope to solve many of the myster of the Chinock salmon this year. The answers help continue salmon runs in these days of dam-building. | mander of\ the ment of the U. 8. Second Division pulled back after fighting out of & communist trap and killing an esti- mated 10,000 Reds. The Division, illustrious for hold= ing the breach in many a tough spot in Korean fighting, won high praise from top commanders, It was placed in jm)mnly when a South Korean division to the east erumpled on the st day of the renewed Chi- nese offensive. Strong Red Attack The Reds made a stab in the west. A battalion of Communists attacked South Korean troops northwest of Seoul. It was the itrongest attack the Reds have launched in this sector. The Com- munists also moved inte the aband- med road hub of Uijongbu, 11 miles aorth of Seoul, W The Second Division, supported by French aud Dutch units, fought off entrapment Friday near Hangye, 55 miles northeast of Seoul. Lt. Gen. Edward M. Almond, com- Ve B 1th. Covnsy hailed the Second’s lntcsb stand as ‘magnificent.” Red Brelkthmu'.'h In new defense positions, a unit of the Second today hurled back three Red assauit waves. However, the Red breakthrough on the di- vision's right flank has not been plugged and Communists are streaming southward in that area. The fate of two Allied divisiona on this critical East front is un- known. An Allied officer told AF Correspondent Willlam C, Bar+ nard: “We are sure of nothing on nur right flank.” Air Force Killings The U. 8. Fifth Air Force re- ported it killed or wounded 7900 Communists in the week ended Fri- day. This is the biggest toll chalked up by the airmen in the ¥orean war. Official estimates, showed the Reds have lost 20,000 men so far in their four-day offensive which U. 8. 8th Army Commander Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet says is doomed to fail. ’Gefi."f?xéy Diesal 97 MASSILLON, O, May 19 A ‘General” Jacob 8. Coxey died last night, 57 years after his ragged army of unemployed marched into Washington and into the nation’s history. o He was 97, and he spent more than two-thirds of that long life fight- ing for a losing cause — printing Don McKernan, Oregon state | press money the government could ;ame commission biologist, said| use without paying interest to banks. large numbers of the fingerlings “Coxey's Army” set out from here marked since 1945 were returninglin the spring of 1894 on a 35-day from the sea this year (o e;uwn march to Washington. The objectiv! the end of the se: was to get Congress to use the easy= cects enough information fer the | money method for giant rgad-build- initial report in a stud; salmon | ing program to ease the hardship to be written. brought on by the panic of 1893. The McKernan said 1,857, s lmon | march failed. have been marked since But Coxey’s belief in the ideas in- The information col d will{ spiring that march never wavered. help determine survival of hatchery | Only five weeks ago on his birthday fish, the best size and for b= he voiced once more his enthusiasm. eration, the take of werclall for money reform as the answer to fishermen and the num L years | the coun'ry’s economic troubles. salmon remain at sea o Bfreet FROM HAWK INLET SEATTLE VISI1 C. B. Williams of Hawk Inlet is Herman E. Wich of ttle is at the Baranof Hotel. stopping at the Barano! el ———— B(Jls SLATER HERE “um MOVEMMS Bob Slater of Falrb: s is in {1 Juneau for o few days. He is atthe| Princess Louise from Vancouver Baranof Hotel. due to arrive this evening Skagway - - | bound. Capt. Floyd C. Nelsen of Bethel | Baranof from Seattle due some- is registeted at Mrs. Emily l.nt the Bara Hotel. the Baranof Hotel, ‘ume Tuesday. Denali scheduled to arrive from Mowry of mxun is westward at 5:30 am. Sunday l.nd lauxk south at 8 am.