The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 17, 1951, Page 1

SONGRESSIONAL 'Y YBRARY VASHINGTON, D. C. VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,862 ruman, Douglas n Rift Over Choice of Judges WASHINGTON, July 17 — B — Senator Douglas (D-IID said today he will poll the Chicago Bar Asso- ciation to determine whether he or President Truman is right in their Federal judge selections. Mr. Truman passed over two of three men recommended by Douglas for judgeship vacancies in Illinois. Douglas said in a statement he believes Mr. Truman’s two choices are “worthy men.” But he added he feels his own selections have “su-| perior qualifications.” Douglas had recommended ap-| pointment of William H. King, Jr., | a former president of the Chicago Bar Association, and Benjamin P.| Epstein, a judge of the Cook. (Chi- cago) County Circuit court. However, Mr. Truman nominated Joseph Jerome Drucker and Corne- lius J. Harrington to the bench. Drucker is a nephew of Rep. Adolph Sabath, Chicago Democrat and 85-year-old dean of the House. Harrington is a circuit judge in Chi- cago. Congressional insiders interpreted | Mr. Truman's appointments as gn- | other indication .of _the .growing| coolness between him and the Illi- nois senater. Douglas, however, said “I have no desire to become en- gaged in a struggle with the Presi- dentfor syhom I have the kindliest feelings and who is bearing a heavy load.” Mr. Truman picked Douglas’ third judgeship choice, Joseph Samuel Perry, but Perry also was backed by former Democratic Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois and some politicians have looked on Perry’s nomination as chiefly a reward for Lucas. The rift between Douglas and Mr. Truman generally has been attri- buted to these factors: 1. While supporting most admin- istration proposals, Douglas has fol- lowed an independent co on others. He has led a drive aimed at cutting Federal spending. 2. Reports that Douglas may be- come a centender for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1952 if Mr. Truman does not run. Dolglas has denied any such intentions though it is generally believed he'd like to have a hand in picking the nominee. 'ar i\sso;ia_lion ill Consider Poli on Quesiion CHICAGO, July 17 —®—The sec- retary of the Chicago Bar Asso- ciation said today the group will consider a suggestion by Senator Douglas that the association be polled on the question of Federal judge selections. Senator Douglas announced in ‘Washington he would poll the Chi- cago group to determine whether he or President Truman is right in their selections for judgeships in Northern Illinois. Clarance P. Denning, Bar Asso- ciation secretary, said the poll, if undertaken, would require about a week. VISITORS FROM FAIRBANKS Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Hill of Fair- banks are guests at the Baranof Hotel. heWashington erry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, Dy Bell Syndicate, Inc. ASHINGTON. — Defense mo- bilizer Charles E. Wilson has had many bitter battles with labor both | before and after he came to Wash- ington. However, the former Gen- eral Electric boss pulled shoulder- to-shoulder with labor leaders last week in a closed-door assault on Congress for failing to pass effec- tive price controls. More than 100 house members, including about 20 Republicans, heard Wilson, AFL president Bill Green and CIO secretary-treasurer James Carey denounce the badly | gutted price control bill as a boon; to Joe Stalin and an invitation to ruinous inflation. “If the dollar goes down to 25 cents in value because Congress has failed to control prices, Joe Stalin will have gained a great victory without firing a shot,” the ex-head of General Electric declared at the secret meeting, called by House rules chairman Adolph Sabath of Illinois. “I do not agree with labor all the time, but I agree with labor on this. We are moving into a period (Continued on Page Four) ) 54-Year-0ld Love Not fo be Risked In Alaska PORTLAND, July 17, — (® —Ike Hobson, 82-year-old Sourdough, who went to Alaska 54 years ago when his engagement to his sweetheart was broken off, is honeymooning with her here today. His bride is the former Mrs. Em- ma Smith Sgnidt, 73, Portland. They separated in 1897, Hobson said they were married last Thursday in Weiser, Idaho. They went there so they could get married without the three-day de- day required here, he explained. They plan to live in Portland af- ter Hobson returns from a short business trip to Alaska. Taking the wife? No, sir, said Hobson. “There’s a lot of old fellows up there that might beat my time.” Passenger-and Freight Trains Crash; 4 Killed FORT WAYNE, Ind., July 17 —® A Nickel Plate freight train and a Wabash passenger train collided with a thunderous roar at a cross- over junction last night and four persons were killed and 13 persons hurt, The toll rose to four today with the finding of an unidentified Negro woman’s body under an overturned refrigerator car. She was believed to have been a passenger on the Wabash train. Others killed in the crash were three Wabash crew members. The trains piled up in a tangled mass near New Haven, seven miles east of Fort Wayne. State police said the freight rammed and side- swiped the passenger train, splint- ering a coach. The Wabash crew members killed were H. E. (Heinie) Waggoner, 69, Danville, Ill, a conductor; William C. Moore, 66, Toledo, Ohio; and James W. Fisher, Peru, Ind. Recapiuréd Convids Thrown info Solitary CANON CITY, Colo., July 17 —(» Five subdued convicts stirred rest- lessly in barren, solitary cells today while officials probed their bloody attempt to free 10 dangerous crim- inals from the Colorado state prison. Two guards were wounded, neither seriously, in the fighting that broke out yesterday when the five con- victs, brandishing knives and a re- volver, tried to spring 10 prisoners from isolation cells. The 10 included incorrigibles placed in solitary for bad behavior. Heavily-armed guards trapped the five convicts in a cellhouse and quelled them with a torrent of tear gas. The prisoners held five guards as hostages for a short time during the 45-minute uprising. Warden Roy Best said the escape plot was planned by Harold Hathawy, Pueb- lo, Colo., robber with a long record of prison rebellion. He is among the 10 in the isolation cells. Stock Quofations NEW YORK, July 17 —®— Clos- ‘ng quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 109, American Tel. and Tel. 155%, Anaconda 39%, Douglas Aircraft 46, Jeneral Electric 55%, General Mot- ors 48%, Goodyear 83%, Kennecott 72%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 46, Standard Oil of California 45%, Twentieth Cen- tury Fox 18!, U. S. Steel 40%, Pound $2.80 1/16, Canadian Exchange 9425, Sales today were 1,280,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 253.89, rails 7596, utili- ties 43.66. MINING MAN IS HERE J. C. Ross of the Canadian Min- ing and Smelting Co. from Trail, B. C. is registered at the Baranof Hotel. FROM SEATTLE Charles Bulmer of Seattle arrived Bere yesterday on PAA and is at the Baranof Hotel. THE D ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY,..J‘ LY 1 ALL THE TIME” —a MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —= Kansas City Mobilizing For Cleanup Rivers Return fo Channels, Leave Towns | Covered With Muck KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 17, —The battered Kansas a mobilized today for a Herculean cleanup task as flood waters, swirl- ing eastward, struck new blows ai Missouri River towns. Receding flood waters in this Metropolitan area of 500,000 left block after block of muck-covered ruin. And in Kansas, a line of wrecked or partially damaged towns and cities stretched across the eastern and central parts of the state. The latest dan e estimate for Kansas and Missouri is $750,000.000 —the nation’s costliest 1lood. Water still covered many sec- tions but it fast slipping back into river channels here and Kansas. But to the east of Kamsas City, small towns along the Missouri felt the full force of the turbulent river. Lexington, Nerberne and Hardin, Mo, were flooded. Some dikes in Central Misseuri gave way The runoff of Kansas flood wat»} ers also buffeted Oklalioma. Miami, | in northeastern Oklahoma, sufiered | its worst flood beating in history | from the Neosho-Grand River. High water poured over 130 to 150 blocks of the town of 12,000, foreing approximately 3,500 persons | rom their homes. | Truman Flies West | tion, flew west towards the Miss ouri-Kansas disaster area toda; He was scheduled to make & brief stop at Independenc , his home | town and fly back " ht, e flood has bfodighe dé: ) 17 persons, tied up highway and rail transportation, forced more than 70,000 from their homes and | severely damaged the industrial capacity of numerous towns and cities. In Kansas City, Kas, and Kan- | sas City, Mo., four major industrial areas covering thousands of acres were flooded. Water during the height of the flood stood more than 20 feet deep in some places. A five-day old fire that ravaged a seven-block a: injured 14 firemen was left to burn itseif out. Fire Chief Harvey Baldwin called it the most destructive Kansas City fire in more than 10 years. The fire destroyed or damaged 24 major firms. Preliminary esti- mates indicated damage would run well over $1,000,900. The flames were fed by oil and | rasoline floating on flood waters. | g rea and Commitiee Balks | On Upping Flood Relief Funds WASHINGTON, July 17, — ® — The Senate today passed a $25,- 000,000 emergency appropriation for aid to flood stricken areas of the middlewest. The Senate followed the lead of the House in upping by $10,000,000 the amount requested by President Truman. The bill now goes to Mr. Truman for his signature. There was no opposition in the Senate on final passage. Earlier, the Senate had rejected by a stand- ing vote an amendment by its ap- propriations committee to reduce the amount to $15,000,000. The comittee had decided to keep the figure at $15,000,000, on the theory that more could be vo- ted if more is needed. Senator Saltonstall (R-Mass), a member of the committee, told re- porters the action was “absolutely unanimous.” Saltonstall stressed, however, that the action did not mean that ad- ditional funds could not be voted later. saltonstall said the committee felt it would be more sensible to await for complete data on needs and then take whatever action might be necessary. The House yesterday increased President Truman’s request for $15,000,000 to $25,000,000, and it had been expected that the Senate would ‘go along. Ahead of the committee’s action, Senator McClellan (D-Ark) pointed to the disastrous flood as an ex- pensive answer to critics who call flood control projects “pork bar- rel” ‘fegislation. “If/ Congress a few years ago had in| President Truman, reported deep- | ly corcerned over the flood situa- | | Rl T This air photo made from the Kavsas City, Kans, At left is lnler-gity viaduct., do not shoy. in Missouri. The stock yards, also flo: of the Kansas and M.I-‘gl Star, (P Wirephoto. q\mn shington | g Matthew B. Ridg Gen. general waited for departure of Wirephoto. The General Poses , supreme commander, is a willin of positions to make his picture at the United Nations pe Back is Kansas Cit) This area ineludes is omi@ide the picture fo the lefi. the UN. cease-fire delegates to about nine square miles. P the conference at L s side of the Kansas River shows the inundated area Mo., skyline. Foreground, Kansas River. The confluence hoto by Sol Studna, Kansas Cfty o jee Tall Shirfiail Flag st the Thing ‘or Admirals DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, July 17 —#— W. A. Hart- ney's shirttail is hanging out at the Korean cease-fire talks at Kaesong. Harney is chief quarier- master on the U. 8. S. Los Angeles, sailing in Korean waters. He was ordered to produce two small admiral’s flags to fly on the jeeps of Vice Adm. Joy and Rear Adm. Burke at Kaesong, The Navy's ad- miral flag is blue with white Hartney found he had / large sizes in the ship's locker. The regular white bunting material was too stiff and coarse for the 10 by neh flag. So Hariney whipped out his shirttail and cut them out. The Navy issue material did a perfect job, too, Hart- ney said in a letter to his mother, Mrs. W. C. Hartney. CR T b B B e e B . . ° . ® ° ° . ° ° ° ° ° . . e “ ° . ° . . ° . . . . . N Planes Pound Red Routes While ' Ground Adion Lags target as photographers get into all kinds camp at Munsan, South Korea, as the Kaesong. Moim Arrives Thursday President James A. McMu: the Northwestern States the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) will be in Juneau July 19 and 20 to hold con- ference with the local branch of the church. Accompanying the president will be his wife, Mae A. McMurrin, pr | ident of the Reliel Society, a wo- | man’s auxiliary of the church. | The locat pranch has planned the | following pro c Al no-host dinner in the i hotel Gold room at 6:00 p.un. Thursday,| following the dinner conference wiil| be held in the local chapel at 10th | and E streets at 8:00 p.m Friday morning at 9 o'cloc Relief Society and primary of { will meet at the home of Mrs. Dale Belcher. At the same esident McMurrin will me with the local priest ¢he apartment of local ident F. Leroy Davi fast the visitors will I she museum and other points terest including the Mendenhall| Glacier. Leaving Juneau the cot to Fairbanks and cont chureh tour of Alaska. [ time sod group at | ch Pres- | bre taken o¢ to| p! flood he have of appropriated $300,000,000 for control reservoirs in Kansas, told a reporter, “ we wo been spared this flood 1o least twice that amount.’ Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief of army engineers, has egtimated that the damage will be at least $750,- 000,000 and may be much higher. at WASHINGTON, July 17 The House passed an Senate yesterday a tending until Aug. 13 line for presenting Indian Claims commiss The House Interic ported that its reluctanc tend the deadline “was overcom the overwhelming evidence tice will be served” by grar additional year, It added; however, that the committee’s recommendation that no further extension of time should d sent t “it i ) WEATHER FORECAST Temperavure for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau Maximum, 73; minimum, At Airport 79; minimum, 54, — Maximum, 52. FORECAST Continued fair and warm with some high cloudiness to- night and Wednesday. Low- est temperature tonight about 55 degrees. Highest Wednes- day near 78. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — None; Since July 1 — .04 inc At Airport — None; ° ° . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Since July 1 — .04 inches. @ . . © 090800900 Ce0000eERILEBLIC e on Church Head Claserr: Deuediine Set Guer to Aid Indian Groups e be given for the pre- h claims.” at any sentation 1t agreed to the extension partly (he committee reported, because “ir certain instances, particularly witl respect to the Indians of Californi: and Alaska, the Indians have bee: unable to organize themselves ef fectively” to make claims. Fifteen native groups in Alaska have indicated they wish to filc ms but have not done so, the Justice Department informed the committee. T. P. HANS HERE T. P. Hansen, Union Oil repre- entative from Ketchikan, is stop- ping at the Baranof Hotel. FROM MONTANA Lohr and B. J. Turner of Mont. are registered at the 10f Hotel, 0. 1b; Ship Movements l Princess Norah scheduled to ar- p.m. tonight 11:20 pux Prince George from Vancouver today. Princess rom Vancouver Wednesday. Freight e tentatively due July 22. TOKYO, July 17 — @ Allied warplanes continued to pound Com- munist supply routes in Korea today | as ground action slowed to a virtual halt. B-29 Superforts dropped high ex- plosive bombs on the rail yards at ! Sinmak, only 33 air miles northwest | of ‘Kaesong, where ceéase-fire nego- tiations are.being held. ‘ Other B-29s hit Opa, belween Pyongyang and Sinanju, and Hung- su, just north of Sinmak. More than | 100 tons of bombs were dropped in all. The big following bombers were | the 116 planes that flew sorties Mon- sailing for bkuu-[ lg 3 scheduled to sail|#nd the | Louise scheduled to sail} =y, uare Knot from Seat- | trgvel the fransit day night in the greatest after-dark operation of the Korean war. The night raiders pounded Red air fields, road traffic and supply nters. ground action. | Transit Travels ‘From Botfom of World fo Juneau The world's long distance records fov return of lost articles were pro- bably wroken this morning when Leonard Berlin found an engineer’s transit sitting by his desk. Berlin last saw the transit at the south pole. Berlin, division engineer for the of Land Management in u, reecived the engineer’s 1sit this morning: from Wash- on, D. C,, where it was sent by he Argentine government after an Argentine naval exploration found t in an abandoned building at Lit- le America. In 1939 Berlin accompanied a U. 3. Navy Antarctic expedition to Little America. The expedition was mder command of Admiral Rich- ard E. Byrd, They left Boston in the fall of 1939 and spent two summers and one winter (South Pole seasons) in mapping and survey work, return- ing to the east coast of “Big Amer- ica” in July, 1941. It was during their dramatic evacuation from Little America that the transit was left behind. The Antarctic winter, summer in the northern hemisphere, came on fast wnd the expedition’s ships could not enter the ice pack off Little America to pick up the men and expedition supplies. Berlin said the dogs with them were destroyed and all equipment was left behind because their res- cue was by a plane which flew them’'to a small island in the open sea where they were picked up later by their ships. Several years later the Argen- tine exploration party landed in the vicinity of Little America. The shack in which the transit was stored ‘happened to be bare of snow Argentines took the tran- sit to Buenos Aires, and commun- ed with the State Department hington much correspondence and rests today in After | i § chrlm'b office. ‘Some Progress’ in . Despite - vew Red Point By SAM SUMMERLIN (Who went to Kaesong fo rTuesday’s ceas meeting) -fire discussion MUNSAN, Korea, July 17 An AlNed spokesman said Commun- ists raised a new point in Korean war cease-fire discussions today — but that came as no surprise to the UN delegation, The spokesman did not report the nature of the new point. Both he and an official commun- ique swid “some progress” was made in the fifth day of armistice con- ference at Kaesong. Delegates are still arguing about the agenda. The spokesman, Col. James A. Norell of Mountain Home, Idaho, said he had no idea how long dele- gates would be working on the agenda, The negotiators spent an hour and 35 minutes on it Tuesday. They will resume at 10 a.m. Wednesday (4 pm. today, Juneau time). There was considerable “back and forth discussions,” Norell said, but no heeated arguments. Allied announcements ahout ar- mistice meetings were brief, but Communist reports were even short- er. The North Koreans' Pyongyang radio merely gave (the time the meeting opened and the time it closed. Its reports have been terse since the talks resumed Sunday. North Korean Gen. Nam T, chief Communist delegate, opened Tues- day's sessions, a U.S. 8th Army an- nouncement said. Most of the 55- minute morning session was devoted to a discussion between Nam and Vice Adm, C. Turner Joy, chief UN delegate, of the Allied proposdls for the agenda. Considerable time was required in clarifying definitions and in making translations. In the afternoon Nam elaborated on the Reds’ idea of what the agen- da should include. He apparently came with the English and Chinese tronslations of his remarks already prepared. Both Jay. and Nam, who do_virt- ually all the talking, read ' their statements. For the third day there were no Red guards near the tiled building where meetings are held. The Al- lied party saw only {wo armed Com- munists in Kaesong. Both were North Korean police. One stood In a traffic circle with a red flag in one hand, a white flag in the other. He presumably was directing the almost non-existent traffic. The other wa§ leading an ox cart, Eisenhower Holds Cendave of Top \Milifary Chiefs PARIS, July 17 —M®— General Dwight D. Eisenhower met today with his central command chiefs in an important conference to plan the defenses of this key western European area. The meeting brought together top figures in British, French and Ameriean military life, including Field Marshal Viscount Montgom- ery and the British and American commanders in Germany. Gen. Alphonse Juin, resident gen- eral of French Morocco, who is boss of the big Allied Army forces as- signed to the command, flew from North Africa to Paris for the meet- ing. The conference was expecled to result in an early announcement that Juin would soon relinquish his African duties to take over the full- time job under Eisenhower. This would dispell recurrent reports here (hat. Juin was unwilling to give up his Mgrocean post for the supreme headquarters command. Reds Can't Raise Proper Bail, So Ordered fo Jail NEW YORK, July 17, —(®-—Thir- teen indicted Communist leaders were ordered to jail today for the third time when they failed to produce court-approved bail. The order came from Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff. Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan yesterday - disqualified the Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund from posting bond and gave 14 defend- ants until today to obtain the bond | from other sources. | Thirteen made no bail applica- Ition when they appeared before ‘Hullzofl.