The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 30, 1951, Page 1

-~ o b [, #Y. - » » JONGRESSIONAL A LBRARY JASHINGTON. D .} VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,900 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY AUGUST 30, 1951 Yanks Violale . .~Lone 'Every Day,’ Say Reds TOKYO, Aug. 30—®—Red.China’s official Peiping radio charged today American planes violate the Kae- song neutrality area in Korea nearly every day. The charge was injected into a series of broadcasts accising Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway of lying, slan- der and disgortion. The latest asserted violation was early Wednesday. The badly garb- led broadcast heard in Tokyo said an American bomber dropped a flare over the site of the now suspended Korean war truce talks. The radio said it happened at almost the same time Ridgway flatly refused to reopem an in- vestigation of Red charges that an Allied plane bombed Kaesong Aug. 22, Peiping called it an attempt “to .cover up the flagrant lies that he handed the world.” The broadcast made no mentjon of the U.N. commander’s offer to resume truce negotiations any time the Communists are willing to do so. He made the offer in the same note that refused to reopen in- vestigation of the asserted bomb- ing. Top Red conmimanders, to whom the message was addressed, had not replied. There was no indication when they would. 10,000 Fresh Red Troops Digging in U.S. 8TH ARMY HEADQUAR- ‘TERS, Korea, Aug. 30 — ® — Ten thousand fresh Communist troops today dug intd the jagged hills of eastern Korea 'behind their attack- ing comrades. Reds hurled three small, savage assaults at United Nations troops north of Yanggu. All were beaten back. ‘To the north, U.N. warplanes tore up rails and road beds in their de- termined effort to cut Communist supply lines. Pilots reported they destroyed or damaged 62 box cars and cut roadways in 67 places after night attacks knocked out 270 trucks. A fresh Communist division — about 8,000 men — was observed dig- ging in northeast of Yanggu, which is 27 miles from the eastern tip of the front. The division, presum- ably North Korean, was'in hills just north of the scene of recent bitter clashes. CASUALTIES UP WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—®— Announced U. S. battle casualties in Korea reached 81,422 today, an increase of 416 since last week. JIM HOUSTON IS HERE James L. Houston, Seattle trav- eling man, is stopping at the Bar- anof Hotel. TheWashington| Merry - Go- Round 'By HARRY J. ANSLINGER (Ed. Note—While Drew Pear- son is on a brief vacation, the Washington Mierry-go-round is being written by several distin- guished guest columnists, today’s being by Mr. Harry J. Anslinger, the Treasury Department’s Com- missioner of Narcotics and the U. S. representative on the Uni- ted Nations Narcotic Commission. In international circles Mr. An- slinger is regarded as the greatest living- authority on the world narcotics traffic. On June 30, 1951, in the U. S. House of Rep- resentatives, Congressman Gyr- don Canfield said: “The nations of the world regard him as the world’s No. 1 authority on the subject.” WASHINGTON. — The narcotic peddler does not kidnap your chil- dren; he destroys them. In extreme distress, parents brought their 16-year-old boy tc my office. The lad quivered like the leaves of the aspen. He was suffering the dreaded withdrawal syndrome of drug addiction. He was one of those who use bravadc to gain admission to the delinquent gang. “Tell me where you get heroin,” I said. “I will send you to the hos- pital for a cure.” We used an undercover agent to buy from the “pusher,” who led us to the wholesale peddler. Then by progressive steps we graduated to one of the big traffickers who (Continued on Page 4) Dewey Calls for Drawing Strict Line Against Communists Finds Alaska Housing, Rentals ‘Frightful’- Defenses ‘Tough’ NEW YORK, Aug. 30—M—Gov Thomas E. Dewey, back from a tour of the Far East, says the United States should “draw a line and let the Communjsts know what we will do if they cross it.” He said southeast Asia is “the natural target for the Communists’ next drive.” “Our immediate and critical necessity,” he says, “is to build a total policy for a free world of Asia.” In Seattle yesterday, Governor Dewey described as “frightful” the quality of housing and rental costs he found in Alaska. “There are military personnel living in houses in Alaska that would be condemned anywhere in the states,” the New: York chief executive said. “In Kodiak I saw dozens of barracks built during World War II that are just fall- ing apart. They could easily be used for good housing. “Pm going to look into that,” he added. He said more radar and ground forces are needed in Alaska to screen the continental U.S. from long- range bombers based in Siberia. Otherwise, Dewey said, Alaska ap- pears well defended now, but he added that more must be done to guard its coastlines against enemy attack. “Alaska’s present defenses would give any attacking enemy a tough time,” the governor said. “That doesn’'t mean that enemy forces miles of coastline in Alaska. But it would be an extremely costly act on the part of the Russians to try 1to capture Alaska from Siberia” 7 Hawaiian Reds Face Court Aug. 31; Judge Backs Bail HONOLULU, Aug. 30—(P—Seven alleged Communists, including Ha- waii's top labor leader, were or- dered arraigned in federal court tomorrow on charges of plotting to advocate the violent overthrow of the U. S. government. Jack W. Hall, regional director of Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen’s and Warehouse- men’s Union, and six others were arrested Tuesday and indicted Wednesday. They are scheduled to appear be- fore a federal judge who has been asked by the government to dis- qualify himself. The jurist, 76-year-old Delbert E. Metzger, indicated to a news- man he has no intention of tak- ing himself out of the case. “I have made my decision,’ he said. “I don’t have to obey anybody except by reasoning and my con- science.” Attorney General J. Howard Mc- Grath asked the disqualification. He made the request because Metz- ger Tuesday set bail for each of the seven accused at $5,000. The government asked for $75,000. Af- ter the indictment Metzger raised it to $7,500. Metzger ~ asserted higher bail would be a form of “punishment before the trial.” The government contends high bail is necessary to prevent the seven from running away to escape trial. Prices May Rise Even with Truman Changes: DiSalle WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—@— Price Stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle said today some prices may g0 Up even if Congress changes the ec- onomic controls law as President Truman requests. 2 But, he told the Senate Banking Committee;- elimination . of the three provisions which Mr. Tru- man has bitterly denounced would give the Office of Price Stabiliza- tion a “workable program.” DiSalle and . mobilization chief Charles E. Wilson were lead-off witnesses in the administration’s price boosts for méanufacturers and dealers and ban livestock slaughter quotas. wilson warned of mounting in- flationary pressures and appealed to the Senators for “the strongest and most effective law you can give us.” PP N ! — EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY — ' could be repelled. There are 10,000 ( .l, Man Agai ‘ & The perpetual war between man battlefront as these GI's struggle flooded Soyang River on Koera's nst Nature o i o and nature goes on even on the to save a pontoon bridge over the east central front. They are using poles to keep debris from hitting the pontoons. (» Wirephoto. Ju;wau’s Necb Construction Totals $6 Millions; Roofs Will Be On Before Freeze By KAY J. KENNEDY Nearly $6,000,000 has gone into public and private construction in the Juneau vicinity during the past year with some-buildings completed or nearly so and others bt.ng rush- ed to get under cover before the freeze up. The largest single building, re= cently completed, was the $1,500,~ 000 Mendenhall Apartments con- structed by the Anderson Construc- tion Co., of Seattle and insured by the Federal Housing Administra- tion, The Alaska Office Building, now going up on Main St. between Third and Fourth Streets, is now 15 per- cent complete, Einar Haugen, of- fice manager of the Carson Con- struction Co., of Helena, Mont., said today. The contract is for $1,058,- 390. Haugen said it was expected the building would be’under cover by mid-November. Fifty men are now employed on the project. Controversy Status of the completion of the two top floors and installation of elevators for the structure is still in controversy, he said. The new Juneau fire hall costing $172,000 on Marine Way is about 30 percent complete, Haugen said. The Carson company, together with Hall-Atwater Construction _Company of Seattle, have the contract. Necessary steel girders arrived on a recent freighter and the second floor slab is being poured with the walls rapidly rising. Nov. 11 is completion date for the structure. Fifteeen men are now working on the building. Library Almost Done The Juneau Memorial Library is 90 percent complete, according to Triplette and Dalziel, Juneau con- tractors for the job. It is being er- ected at the cost of $123,500 by pop- ular subscription and with aid of Alaska Public 'Works matching funds. Dedication of the building is to take place within the next month or six weeks, according to B. Frank Heintzleman, chairman of the library board. The new grade school on Glacier Highway being erected at the cost of $744,000 by the Valle-Sommers Construction Co,, of Juneau, is progressing rapidly. It is now about 50 percent complete. Thomas A. Bateman, construc- tion superintendent, said today that the roof of the building should be on by Sept. 15 and all concrete work completed by Sept. 20. It is expected that inside work can ‘continue through the winter in order that the completion date next April can be met. ph Band Room A band room addition to the Ju- neau High School at the cost of $68,973 will be finished by Sept. 5, according to Triplette and Dalziel, contractors. This addition provides for two classrooms and storage space. Triplette and Dalziel are com- pleting $12,980 worth of ground improvements at the grade school on Fifth Street. An Architects Building on Third Street behind the Lutheran church is 50 percent completed. It is be- ing put up by Foss, Malcolm and Olsefl, local architectural firm. + Jameés Larson is the contractor. It is a two-story frame building that Will have stucco finish. There will four rental spaces avail- | able, s . T b B Progress is underway on the new Burford office building opposite the Federal Building, Triplette and Dal- ziel are'the contractors. The build- 000. It is a two-story reinforced concrete structure with a full base- ment. The contractors said that the building will be under cover before cold weather sets in. Two housing projects ~under way in the area include ten Al- aska Housing Authority homes at Douglas being up up at a cost of $150,000 by Ray James of Seward, and a 50-unit low-income rental project in West Juneau being con- structed by L. E. Baldwin of Se- attle for $767,000. Clearing on the West Juneau pro- ject is going forward, Philip Hale, project engineer said today. He said that some excavation had been ac- complished and foundations were being laid. City building permits totalling nearly $350,000 have been issued during the past year, records at the city clerk’s office show. This includes new private construction and remod- eling to dwellings and business struc- tures. 1st Alaska Nafional Guard Unit Awarded Eisenhower Trophy The first awarding of the Eisen- hower trophy to an Alaska Nation- al Guard unit was announced today by Maj. Gen. Raymond H. Fleming guard bureau chief. % Company B, 208th infantry bat- talion, of Sitka is the unit to receive the award to be made annually Special boards recommend an out- fit on outstanding performance ir training, recruiting and other mili- tary factors. The Sitka unit was federally're- cognized in July, 1950. The Alaska guard completed organization of ite first postwar group in May, 1948 when headquarters company of the battalion was activated. New Doctor Joins Health Depariment Dr. Elizabeth Bishop recently ar- rived in Juneau to assume duties a: director of maternal and child health and the crippled children’s division of the Alaska Department of Health. Her headquarters will be in Juneau although her work will take her throughout the territory. Originally from Portland, Ore., she worked in central and eastern Oregon for the past 10 years. She has been district health officers of a three-county district in central Orgeéon since 1946. She was graduated from the Uni- versity of Oregon medical school and took public health training at!e sinee July 1—852 inches. Harvard University. ing is expected to cost around $60;- | M New 1,000-Watt Radio Station OK'd for City ® WASHINGTON, Aug. 30— @ (P—The Communications Com- ® mission today granted the ap- @ plication of Aurora Broadcast- ers, Inc, for a new standard @ radio station at Juneau, Alaska, ® on 630 kilocycles, one kilowatt ® daytime, 500 watts nighttime. Aurora Broadcasters was in- ® corporated October 31, 1049, ® by Mirlam Dickey, Delmer L. ® Day and Roall Erickson, all of ® Fairbanks. The company's ® principal place of business is ® listed as Juneau. ® ° 0o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 igtkers Open Wa; Ceilings, Ask $34-35 Per Case SEATTLE, Aug. 30—(®—A con- I ference opened here today on the { possibility of an increase from the present $29 a case ceiling price on Alaska red salmon. An increase is expected. William C. Eardley of Washing- ton, D. C., chief of the canned foods division of the Office of Price Stabilization, is holding the conference with 13 members of an industry advisory committee. The *industry has been protest- ing that salmon ceilings are “un- realistic” in view of operating costs. The industry has c¢ontended that prices of $34 to $35 =& case are justified for Alaska reds. Akt fo Blind’ Law Effective Sept. 1 An‘act for ald to the blind, passed by the last session of the Territorial legislature, becomes ef- fective Sept. 1. The law, Chapter 126, provides BESISVATIOE 10 ANy “Tieedy BInd Tes= ident” more than 18 years of age, in payments not' to exceed $80 per th. Payments are made by the ‘Department of Public Welfare. In order to be eligible the person must be totally blind or have vis- ion so defective as to prevent the performance of ordinary activities for which eyesight is essential. Application for assistance can be i made through the welfare depart- ment which will investigate the case and determine the amount of aid to which the applicant is en- titled. Tugs l;eady fo Evacuate 120 Men Ringed by Fire VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 30—A —Two tugs stood by in Jervis Inlet today, ready to evacuate 120 men almost ringed by forest fire at a logging camp at the mouth of the Britain River. However, foresters said the men were holding the fire in check. Jer- vis Inlet is 60 miles up the coast from Vancouver. ’l'h.lny women and children were evacuated by boat yesterday from the flame-menaced community of 150 persons. Reports from the camp said the main blaze had swept up the Britain River valley but that the wind now was dying. The men were building breaks around the tail end of the fire. The flames have already consumed 13,000,000 feet of felled timber and more than a dozen pieces of logging Meanwhile, 150 fought on to save what timber remained on Cracroft Island, 150 miles northwest of here. The fire there Monday wiped out the community of Forward Bay and forced evacuation of 71 persons. Officials of the British Columbie service said that although the forest fire situation was still tense through- out the province, most other blazes were under control. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8: WEATHER BUREAU ‘Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o’clock this morning At Airport—Maximum, 74; minimum, 43. FORECAST (Junesw and Vicinity) Considerable cloudiness to- night with lowest tempera- ture near 50 degrees. Partly cloudy ‘and not quite so warm Friday with highest temper- ature near 65. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport — None BER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Death Follows Hoax Princess Kathleen ‘Badly Holed' in Collision Near Prince Ruperf; None Hurt & A few minutes after telling her father that her boy friend had been killed in Korea, Patricia Louise (Pat) Francls, 16, (above), was found shot to death with a pistol at her side in Indianapolis. But the boy, Raymond Lowell Clif- ton, was alive in Cincinnatl. Po- lice a2 trying to find out whe told her he was dead. (® Wire- photo. | "0ld’ Board Meets fo Okay Ads of 'New' Attorney General Won't Recognize New One-Ter- rilorial Bldg. Approved To ratify actions of the ‘“new” Board of Administration, created under the Reorganization Act pass- o by the ‘Iast- legislature, a meet- | ing of the “old" board was held in: the office of Gov. Ernest Gruening this morning. Among the actions taken was ap- proval of the new Territorial build- ing, he said. However, the Governor said, Territorial Treasurer Henry Roden, secretary of the board which met this morning, kept the minutes and could furnish full information on what transpired. Roden said he would have the minutes written up this afternoon and would give a press release to- morrow. Present at the meeting were the governor as chairman, J. Gerald Williams, attorney general; Henry Roden, treasurer; Neil Moore, aud- itor; and Everett Erickson, commis- sioner of education, Frank Metcalf, highway engineer, also a member of the board, was out of town. These men comprise the Board of Administration as created by Chap- ter 86 during the 1933 session of the Alaska legislature. The new board, created under the last session of the legislature consists of the governor, the at- torney general, the tax commis- sioner, two members of the House of Representatives and two mem- bers of the Territorial Senate. Legality Questioned At a meeting of the new board in July a resolution was passed ap- proving construétion of the Alaska office building, at whicl’ time At- torney General Willilams advised members it would be wise to secure the approval of the 1033 board in order that there would be no ques- tion of legality of the action. Williams still maintains there is but one board. “In my opinion,” he said this morning, “the so-called new board is illegal and legal action can be taken only by THE board of ad- ministration® ' It was reported that the board also this morning unfroze the bal- ance of a $250,000 appropriation for all eommunity-owned hospitals. This money was frozen folowing the 1949 session of the legislature when pros- pective revenues for the Territory did not meet money appropriated. Hospital ‘Private’ Moore, when asked {f this would include the Sewapd hospital, for which he disallowed a voucher of $82,070 last week, for construction of a nurses’ home said: “Vouchers turned into me listed the owners of the hospital as the Methodist Board of Missions and as long-as the hospital is under private ownership I cannot, under law, re- lease the money. If and when the hospital is turned over to the muni- cipality the money will be paid to the city of Seward.” FROM SEWARD D. Sherman Starr of we Alaska Telephone Co. from Seward ar- rived here yesterday on PAA from | Seattle and is stopping at the ! Baranof Hotel. Senafe Will Censider Statehood Bill Afier Recess, Says Solon WASHINGTON, Aug. 30— M — Senator McFarland (D-Ariz) said today the Alaska and Hawalii state- hood bills will be taken up in the Senate “shortly after we reconvene.” ‘This probably will be in January. McFarland, the Senate majority leader, said the two bills cannot be considered before the proposed Oct. 1 recess of the Senate. “But right after we come back, or shortly afteér, whenever that might be, we expect to take them up,” he told a reporter. The Senaté leader said he could not set a definite time for' the statehood bills “because there might be some defense measures that would have to be taken up first.” Present plans call for a Congres- sional recess from October to Jan- uary. The statehood bills were passed by the House in the last Congress, but failed to reach a Senate vote. The strategy of statehood advo- cates this year is to obtain Senate passage before the issue is debated in the House. 300,000 Will Lose Draft Deferments WASHINGTON, Aug. 30— (A — New draft regulatons now awaiting President Trumanjs approval would _deprive _well aver 300000 men of Present draft deferments. Selective Service said yesterday that between 150,000 and 200,000 childless married men will lase thelr deferiuonts uufitfmqaw .‘:‘smfw' An éstimated 150,000 4-f's are ex- pected to be drafted when the arm- ed forces’ mental standards are lowered. The new regulations will carry out provisions of the universal military training and service (UMTS) act. The act also calls for reclassifi- cation of thousands of displaced persons who are permanent resi- dents of this country but not yet U. 8. citizens. ) And some 9,000 conscientious ob- Jjectors, heretofore deferred outright, will be required to do essential de- fense work. FERRY MAY RUN UNTIL MIDDLE OF OCTOBER Alaska ferry, M-V Chilkoot, which runs between Juneau, Haines and at times Skagway, will probably cease operations about the middle of October, ' according to Henry Roden, territorial treasurer. The ferry made two trips to Haines this week. It went up Sun- day, returned Monday evening, and then made a return trip to Haines this morning to pick up freight it could not carry on the Monday trip to Juneau. Roden said activity at Lutak Bay, where the army is building a dock, has caused considerable local traffic. Date of its final trip this fall, Roden said, will depend on demand for service and upon weather con- ditions. Stock Quofations NEW YORK, Aug. 30—M®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Tel. and Tel. 161%, Anaconda 47%, Douglas Afrcraft 53'%, General El- ectric 69%, General Motors 49%, Goodyear 95'%, Kennecott 79%, Lib- by, McNeill and Libby 9%, North- ern Pacific 48%, Twentieth Century Fox 20%, U. 8. Steel 43, Pound 2.79 15/16, Canadian Exchange 94.50. Sales today were 1,950,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 269.94, rails 80.36, util- ities 45.03. Baranof due southbound Sunday afternoon: Princess Norah scheduled to ar- rive from Skagway Friday at 8 am. salling southbound one hour later. Aleutian due to sail from Seattle Friday, arriving at Juneau Sept. 3. AT THE BARANOF W. C. Arnold of the Alaska Can- ned Salmon Industry, is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. FROM DETROIT Edna Bas of Detroit, Mich. is registered at the Baranof Hotel. # PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. Aug. 30 | —#»—Two cruise ships collided in dense fog today 20 miles northwest of this northern port. No one was reported injured in | the ramming of Canadian National | Steamships’ 4,000-ton Prince Ru- pert and Canadian Pacific Steam- ships' 6,000-ton Princess Kathleen. ; First reports said the 300 pas- | sengers aboard the Kathleen were | transferred to the Rupert but this could not be confirmed immedi- ately. v Both ships were making slow progress toward Prince Rupertand were scheduled to arrive here about noon. The Kathleen was reported bad- ly holed from the forecastle to waterline while the Rupert said she was “slightly damaged.” There were 180 passengers aboard the Rupert. ‘The Rupert left here at mid- night last night for Ketchikan, Alaska. The Kathleen was return- ing from that port. Both ships sail every 10 days from Vancouver on northern crui- ses. Most of the passengers are usually American tourists. Skipper of the Rupert is Capt. Willtam Eccles. Capt. G. O. Hughes is Master of the Kathleen. The Kathleen departed for Skag- way from Juneau Aug. 25. She sailed for Vancouver on Monday. No passengers got on or off in Ju- neau, Willlam McFarland, CPR agent, said. | He had heard nothing of the collision this morning. It possibly happened in Grenville Channel, he said, infellectual Fraud /In Dublic Life Beyond Law: Hoover [ DES MOINES, Aug. 30— (® — Herbert Hoover declared today this nation is experiencing “a can- cerous growth of intellectual dis- | honesty in public life which is mostly beyond the law.” “These evils,” the country’s only | living former President warned in | a belated birthday address, “have defeated nations many times in human history, The redemption of mankind by America will depend upon our ability to cope with these evils right here at home. “In its frustration, the Con- gress is groping for some sort of code of ethics which might protect the citizen from his own officials. Much as Congress has my good wishes, something stronger than a new code of ethics is needed in America. ‘Wider Laws’ “Congress can ' well widen the laws so as to clutch the new kinds of bribes and benefits they have discovered. But Congress cannot reach intellectual dishonors.” But, he said right will triumph “because I know America is turn- ing its face away from the maud- lin left isms and the spread of untruths of the past two decades. “We sense the frauds of men's minds and morals. Moral indig- nation is on the march again. I cannot but feel there |is strength in character and _truth and decent living. And it will triumph.” The nation's elder statesman this year deferred his customary birth- day address until today. His 77th birthday was Aug. 10. Hoover's remarks were made to thousands of Jowans assembled at the state fair. Ardic Menu Served Governors In Far North A dinner of products all grown north of the Arctic Circle was one of the highlights enjoyed by Gov. }Ernest Gruening and Gov. Thom- as E. Dewey of New York bn their trip recently. Gruening said today it was served them at Kotzebue follow- ing dedication of the airportthere last Sunday. On the menu among other things were caribou, cran- berry sauce, celery, carrots and cauliflower. The governor returned yester- day from Anchorage where he saw Dewey off for New York following his week in Alaska. Monday afternoon Gruening is leaving for McKinley National Park where he is scheduled to open the second Alaska science confer- ence to be held there Sept. 4 to 8. He will return to Juneau Friday. |