The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 5, 1951, Page 1

A)l\ul{i_fii::l\)nAL TON, D € THE D. VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,904 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, V\"EDNI-‘.SD AY FIVE KILLED IN TENTH Truman Seems On Trail for Re-Election Evident "He Threw His Hat in Ring,” Says Senator Magnuson SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5—(®— President Truman appeared today to have hit the re-election campaign trail with a 1952° plauom\ virtually written. He did everything but formally announce his candidacy at a Dem- ocratic rally here where ‘he called his opponents names ranging from “special privilege boys” to “economic fossils.” And he constructed his 1952 plat- form under the familiar “fair deal” banner as he predicted “we are go- ing to elect a President next year.” He didn’t say it would be Harry S. Truman, but the way the Dem- ocrats stood up and cheered—and his own obvious relish of the ap- plause—made things pretty clear to those around. More Excitement Mr, Truman headed for his home in the midwest after a couple of San Francisco speeches, in which the off- the-cuff political talk at a party luncheon created ,more excitement than his major foreign policy ad- dress opening the Japanese peace treaty conference last night. The President:left at 7:02 a.m. on his plane, the Independence, for Kansas City, where he started on the road to the Presidency. Senator Magnuson (D-Wash), who was among those cheering the Pre- sident on at the luncheon speech, told a reporter, with obvious satis- faction: Hat in Ring? “I thought he threw his hat into the ring.” And that was what just about everybody else among the upwards of 750 others at the Iluncheon thought, also. The President’s campaign-like talk appeared to be as much of a bomb-shell to the party workers as his assertion that new weapons are being developed which would destroy civilization in the event of another all-out war. Memories of his “give 'em hell” campaign of 1948 were stirred by the President’s assertion: “The Democratic Party has a duty to the country, and if I am not badly mistaken the Democratic Party is going to keep right on carrying out that duty.” “Next year, 1952"—the President got no further. His audience arose, cheering in campaign fashion as though the election were just around the corner. CO-OP NURSERY PLANNED The American [ Women's Volun- tary Services group meets Thurs- day at 8 p.m. at the Governor's House to make plans for a cooper- ative nursery. Members are remind- ed to attend. TheWashington Merry - Go - Round Ed. Note—While Drew Pear- son is on a brief vacation, the Washington Merry-go-round is being written by several disting- uished guest columnists, today’s being by Millard Caldwell, Fed- eral Civil Defense Administra- tor.) .. WASHINGTON. — While time “running out, the cracker-box »'rategists fumble civil defense. Some of them know -that air power at its best can stop only 3¢ out of 100 attacking enemy bomb- ers. Yet they insist that more air power is the sole answer tc protecting the home front. Others blow hot and cold. One day they think the situation is sc hopeless that civil defense could do no good. The next day, the world situation looks brighter, so civil defense is not needed. Still others insist that retalia- tion is the answer. What we can do to the enemy blinds them to what the enemy can do to us. They for- get the trigger for our retaliation will be a mass atomic attack on our own cities. Then, another group, the os- trich thinkers, insist that no na- tion would dare attack this coun- (Continued on Page 4) i First A-Hound Prospector Johnny Gossett (above) of Grants, N. M, claims he owns the country’s first atomic hound. With a piece of dentists’ x-ray film taped to his nose, “Butch™ prowls the northwest New Mexico countryside. If the film is fogged whien he returns, Gossett says the dog has sniffed some uranium ore and that he then studies the dog’s path. Gossett says the plan works well in the uranium-rich country. () Wirephoto. Yeah, But How Do We Pay cfi the Buck and a Halft ATLANTA, Sept. 5— (P —A course in how to keep out of debt is being offéred by the Smith-Hughes Vocational School here, and all it costs is a $1.50 registration fee. “How to avoid financial diffi- culties,” is one of several cours- es the school has scheduled in a training program designed for persons in the sales and distri- bution fields. e o 0o 0 0 0 0 0 0 58% Steel Cuf Will Hif Producion 0f Aufos, Radios 6eecoeosesose WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—(P— Steel allowances for ordinary con- sumer goods today were cut to.58 per cent of the pre-Korea level, effective Oct. 1. This is lower than the cuts forecast. Announcing the action, Manly Fleischman, the national produc- tion administrator, said that if the copper strike continues further cuts in passenger cars, radio, washing machines and other consumer items will be inevitable. Even assuming a quick strike settlement, copper supplies for consumer goods will be trimmed to 54 per cent, or six percentage points lower than previously set, and aluminum to 46 per cent, or four points lower. “We are entering a very, very serious time in the last part of this year and the first of next,” Fleischmann told a news confer- ence. “It will be a time of short- ages. We can not hope to correct the deficits to any substantial de- gree earlier than 1953.” 5,000 fo be Lopped 0ff Veierans' Administration WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—P—The Veterans Administration said today it will fire about 5,000 employees by Oct. 10 to meet budget cuts. The agency said the reduction will be nationwide and will include all administrative activities. Excluded are employees of the department of medicine and surgery, | who staff VAs 151 veterans’ hospit- als and its numerous clinics. The agency's appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, limits VA’s expenditures for non- medical personnel to $195,000,000. TO SKAGWAY OVER HOLIDAY Miss Pat Carroll, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. “Pat” Carroll, visited her former home of Skag- way over the Labor Day holiday. She made the round trip on the Princess Louise. Miss Carroll is employed in the office of the Bureau of Public Roads. Russ Attempt fo freaty Smashed; Rules Quicidy Adopled 48-3 T Yanks Smash To Hilltop In East Korea U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD- QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 5. U. S. Second Division infant U.S. Second Division infantrymen tonight seized “bloody ridge’ in ern Korea with har 17 days of savage fighting i The end came quickly for the stra- | tegic height. As the final assault wave swept up to the crest it found only a few broken remnants of a North Korean regiment that had held the hill. Most of thé survivors were wound- | ed or groggy from a violent artillery | bhombardméent that preceded the al-| lied charge. Prisoners said most of the Red force pulled out early to-| day rather than face another tack. One otflce! estimated nearly a “third of a mfllion” shells were fired |By Senate Commiftee at the Gibraltar-like positions dur- ing the 17-day struggle. Fighting still raged for three other heights in the area. The Reds were dug in among the crags and © ridges. The secong Division action, in the Ao G0 Liod. g ans offensive, was the only significant engagement on the front Wed- nesday. Yanggu, at the eastern end | of Hwachon Reservoir, is seven | miles north of the 38th parallel UN troops killed, wounded or cap- tured the equivalent of three Red divisions last month, the UN ground commander reported today, mostly on the eastern front. Truce Fronf Quiet; Ridgway Reply Believed Complefed TOYKO, Sept. 5—®—For the first time in days no notes were | exchanged today between the Uni- ted Nations command and Com- munists on the suspended Korean war cease-fire talks. Even the Red radios, usually loaded with accusations and de-| nunciations of the Allies, were comparatively quiet. It was believed that Gen. Mat- thew B. Ridgway, U. N. Com- mander, had completed a mes- sage he is due to send top Red commanders, It will reply to North Korean Premier Kim Il Sung and Chinese Gen. Peng Teh-Huai. Sunday they deman- ded that Ridgway either stop instigating provocations” in the Kaesong neutral zome. of Korea, where the negotiations were held, or call them off. There was no hint of what Ridg- way would say. Gambling Tax Passed WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—»—The Senate Finance Committee today voted for a tax on gambling estimat- ed to raise $400,000,000 a year. The action completed major committee wotk on a $6,000,000,000 tax bill. The Senators accepted without change the gambling levy included in the House-passed $7,200,000,000 tax bill This calls for a 10 percent govern- ment take from the handle by book- makers and other commercial gamb- lers. It also includes $50 a year occupa- tional fax on persons who handle hets and operate numbers lotter"s. Committee aides said the Treasury had expressed doubts about enforce- ment of the gambling tax but that the Senators decided to go ahead with it anyway to see what revenue could be developed. JUNEAU CHAMBER HOLDIN BUSINESS MEET THURSDAY | The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce will hold a regular business meeting at the Baranof Hotel to- morrow noon, President Herbert S. Rowland announced today. Block By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, 5—@— | drive to block Anglo- an control of the Japanese conference was abruptly cat today and the conference adopted 48 to 3 rules of procedure sponsored by the two westein powers. It was s a emashing for er Al defeat foreinn minist dru Gromyko, who o been defeated earlier iu t first two ! hoi of u\nrvmm\ Lusiness on proposal ving Red Chir here The U. . delegation was caught by surprise by the sud- den speed of the action. Both Ambassador John Foster Dulles, author of the treaty, and assisi- ant Secretary of State Dean Rusk incicated they had expected woui! take at least until might to adopi the rules, U. 8. Secretary of Acheson was quickly els ident of the conference ret vote of 43 of the 51 voting. Percy Spender, bassador to the United States, elected vice preside State ted Dean pres- memt ALl gned to pre- vent Russia from filibustering the peace treaty—now scheduled for signing Saturday—or from chang- ing it in any way. Speeches on the treaty are lim ited to ong hour for each deleg vith five to '\n«\w-v ir the xL Lt order | tempor treaty u,u ke ruh:;‘( fichesen Acheson, acting a: president of the mee line from the out point he curtly ord Wierblowski, Polish delegate, t down when his time, in Ac son's view, ran out. Gromyko was on his feet almost constantly jecting every Acheson rul and demanding that the confer- ence throw wide open and rewrit the peace treaty drafted by th United ates and Britain Debo broke out in business session of th It began at 10:10 a.m,, after Prc ident Tr n, openi the confer- ence formally last, challenged the Soviets ob- to the first conference. | “The treaty now before us o’- fers more than talk Mr. Truman said emp “It offers action for pe: conference will show, who seeks to make peace who secks {o preveni it; » wishes to put an end to war and who wishes to continue i Gromyko, who had joined brief- ly in the swelling applause of hi toric assemblage when Mr. Tiu- (Continued on Page Eizht) Senafe Storm Session Seen On Peace Treafy WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 Senator Connally (D-Texas) s today he forsees long, stormy (L bate before the Senate will ratif a peace treaty with Japan. Connally, chairman of the Sen- ate foreign relations commitiee told a reporter he believes the is “no question” that the Senat will approve the treaty uitimat A storm signal was raised by Senator Jenmer (R-Ind), who said he found a “threat to our security still hidden” in terms of the proposed peact treats In a statement yesterday, J ner said secrecy surrounds the| 2 Ani=| to make good on their talk | ! | of peace by signing the treaty. and l J land on, (Yeit), 11, a At r iputate y Olin 7 the th ~'d drog ays U v—~Alaska offers mo fields for scientific any other part of the world cers told the Ernest of the w. lopmen ing session, He indicated & the Interior Departm ding the Territory’ perity Kirtley f the Ame dvancement talled the F. Mather, Pre an Association for of science, ¢ Alaska division. flicially s rease of $ehon! u.,u. P 4% ?GW fi hool enrcliment - ¢ of 68 pupils on open- terday ovem that of las Ar, 'w’r!(uH' to Sterling Sear: rint nt of schools. r the grade school had 670 students and the high sch This year 716 have isterec the grade school and 238 in the izh school. Figures were not yet compi for individual ses of the high chool but in the grade school the highest number were 110 in the third grade. There are 90 new- comers in kindergarten and 60 in the eighth grade. Sears said it wa uld be few hools during the ¢ rrsons returned f Jutside. The grade school auditorium ha cen converted into three clas: oms. On the stage is the thirc rade and the seventh grade, which a8 61 pupils, occupies two rooms on 1e main floor of the itorium. pr s in both ming week a vacation ad treaty itself and companion pac proposed on one hand between United States and Japan, the other between Japan tionalist China. “How,” he demanded, “can sc- crecy and double dealing hel; us?” Senator McFarland of Ariz the Senate Democratic leader, : nounced he plans to press for ification of the peace treaty b fore Congress adjourns on or abc Oct. 1, if it is completed “in onable time.” JUNEAU VISITOR Pauline Grise of Ware, Mass., rived here yesterday on Pan A i can Airways and is stopping at t! Gastineau Hotel. 'Stock Quotations Sept. 5 Clos- ng quotation of Alaska Juneau aine stock today is 2%, American Jan 116, American Tel. and 'Tel conda 48'%, as Air- General Elec 60 jeneral Motors 50%, Goodyear 94, Kennecott 817%, Libby, McNeill ar Libby 9, Northern Pacific 49%, Standard Oil of California 54'z, Twentieth Century Fox 20%, U. S. Steel 43%, Pound 2.79 15/16, Can- wdian Exchange 94.56%. Bales today were 1,850,000 shares Averages today were as follows industrials 272,50, rails 80.85, util- ities 45.16. NEW YORK, ired whe 2§ from 23 1 fc ofi more id in the nole his d Bell t T b1 re dama wn to tre wilderness tion. n the sh | ladaia 10rthern rock Lake, civiliza the one onsin flying who had been lost for miles from Bour- —civhied It was would take him tp Great ke, somwhere near Fort a The abot | miles by air. He was unhurt ski-landing May 18, © He U with him rations which he he could stretch out for W He from in his plane’s three ad been on a 200 mil Bathurst Inlet. would & he had a very of surviving the 3% in that wildery 1y Fox, his former emplo ‘Johnny knew the north well rnnured Ranger, ‘(opler (rew, Broughi from Weez?; DARRINGTON, An injured corted by a helicopter pilot doctor, also injured in a cral thwarted rescue attempt, came ¢ hwest W agton v derness last night—one on I one on horseback,‘and the strapped to a stretcher. A crew of 30 weary for carried the ranger, Warren I sentin, 35, down a narrow mountain trail from Mine; where he was injured f fall from his lookou Lt. (jg) Charles E. lot of a Coast Guard which crashed in an ¢ P landing at the ral st i, pr ceded the party on horse D Howard R. Terry, who ied Mueller on the ill walked at Presser C The trio was rushed b ance to Matine Hosp tle, where attendants r ly today their conditio despite the three-day TAKU TOASTM bll’l\\ WILL MEET THURSDAY The Taku Toastmaster Wash,, forest Sept. ranger a yan- light, ambul- will hold Thur: day at 6 pm. i of the Baranof Hotel .. Ransome mounced teday. The group ha been inactive during the months, ! development by the Ge: summer | Y ALASKA EMPIRE self-operate n An ash D attempted to retriey ilance, n boy Riils 7 in Crash Base public aid all the Idaho, Air 1liers Lombe or Mountain Hom ourt at relatic vietims wer on a routif from- the n de . 1. Sept crew per 1 vy patrol | ea and ex- with a N plunged into the ed during operations submarine The accident mile t of 1 the s Just plane ga lence before tiy crash, The plane was attache )1 £ Five at Jack Fla., but was geraporarily o the guonset naval air of distre d to Pa- sonville ation Momic-Uowere hirrafi Under P Confradi fo Yulice WASHINGTON, Sept. 5-(—Ti \ir Force today contracted for d clopment of an atomic-powerec rplane by the Consolidated Vult vircraft Corp., of San Diego, Cal The order covers work on rame of the proposed hist 7 alreraft. The nuclear power plant eral Electr Company. The Atomic Energy Commissi nnounced last March 24 th General Electric wa$ undertaki development of the engine The fact the Air Fc is racting for the frame is an i tion of confidence the engine cai constructed. Just last Navy contracted or cc an atomic-power submarine for 24-Hour Period clock this At Airport—Ma minimum, 48. mor wum, FOR Cloudy and Thursday. Low near 50. High tomorr e 58 degrees, . ECAS u and Vielnity) e PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. . At Airport — None; e since July 1552 inches o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Norm Maither fou to keep the wound triking houses, 0 in flames. in the back ya i occupled home. ly Horribly burned, he pulied the' wréekage alive but died te to a hospital. Alse kilied were the four passengers of the nson Air Service craft, d as 0. M. l ver of An- Lau! ndt, Palmer, orage, A nd a military captain Ala a authorities withheld the lentity of the latter two until next t kin could be notified. Eighty-nine people havi 1 lost in the series of ince a Korean air-lift p *d July 21 with 38 aba haoo! 8 s Kids not been the first day 2, the death toll might much higher, as a Aldren usu; killed or 'l/’ in the back yard of a third. Mzither and two passengers stitt prevented section of appeared to catch f or the takeoff. The ecr: down between two houses, ipled by a mother and baby, her by two men. Saw Plane Con George Brandon, 17, m the w of ¢ aid he “(r ng right into our Witnesses said it ither fought the plane vl] the v to the ground to keep it from the houses. was a veleran pilot, form- with the Civil Aeronautles istration aud for a tim > Anchorage airport, i(l’!w and a daugh- n, Brian Maither, te to sehool at Napa on, Don- those who witnessed ey were huildir out 20 feet from where hit the earth Thought was was ting a Gee Bomb sitting on a sawhorse. cateh on a cabinet door,” Me- d. . “The explosion knocked me off the horse. I thoueht it was . atomic bomb when I saw the put- 1d, working on a floor in the L said he, too, thought it was v bomb: A “I looked out and saw the burn- ing engine and saw the plane bounce jike a big rubber ball,” he sa2id, “The first thing 1 thought d baby in a where the plane erashed. “I went over there and saw they were all rig then went to. the plane but it wa ossible to help. There was too much fire A hi iman arr then d using h they were hway and but MESSMAN D! The body of Felix aboard tk Ship Movements l 1ali scheduled southbound Fri- t 8§ pm. due southbound some- Alaska \uwdulml northbound on Saturday.