The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 18, 1951, Page 1

JONGRESSIONAL IBRARY VASHINGTON, D: C. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,915 Big Defense Bill Goes ToTruman | Military Construction, Legislation Okehed; Guard Against Russia WASHINGTON,, Sept. 18—43’?—1 Congress gave its (ix}al approval today to a $5,864,301,178 military Angry Citizens Put Up Roadblock Light Vole Is Being Cast in Ciiy Election At 2:30 o'clock this afternoon only 113 ballots had been cast in the special city election. The only pol- | construction program designed to | ling place, for all residents, is'in shore up this gountry’s defenses)the display rooms of the Alaska against Russia. ( Light and Power Company, Second House approval of a conference and Franklin. The polls close at 7 committee agreement adjusting | o'clock. House-Senate differences over a| A referendum is being conducted few items sent the bill to Presi- | to determine the wishes of the voters dent Truman. | in a matter vital to the future ad- The measure authorizes con- | ministration of city affairs. struction of hundreds of air ba- | The voters are called upon to de- ses, depots, training camps and | cide whether their councilmen shall other military installations in | pe elected for terms of one year, this country and aboard. Con- | a5 is now the case, or whether three gress has yet to appropriate the |shall be elected for two years and money to pay for them. three for one year and three each The biggest share of the pro-|thereafter. gram is for the Air Force—approx- | Chief virtue of the proposed plan imately ~ $3,480,000,000 including | js that its adoption will assure con- about $1,000,000,000 to build a string ‘tinuity of office of at least half the of secret overseas bases girdling | council members each year. This Russia. | will enable uncompleted municipal! Here's what other branches of | projects to go forward with the aid the armed services get: of at least three experienced mem- Army—insi; continental Uni- |pers. ted States, $890,000,000; outside,| Whatever your views on the pro- $175,000,000; secret facilities, $300,- | posal—your vote is essential in the 000,000. Total $1,360,000,000. | city’s planning. Be sure to vote. Navy and Marines—inside contin- | ental United States, $597,000,000; | utside, $74,000,000; secret, SHS,-‘ H + A S Missing Haines 000,000. Total, $785,000,000. In addition, millions of dollars | will be shared by all three services un ers oun Hunters Found 4 Final fish pa(k Two Haines men, reported over- due since Saturday from a one- " day hunting trip on the Chilkat Figures Released |kiver. have been tocatea. Sgt. Harold Johnson, stationed at B w'ldr’ S k Haines with the Alasks Communica- y ' 'e e" e | tions System, ahd Herb Gulford, | resident there, left that town Sat- What 'are just about final pack|yrday morning by car to hunt moose figures for the 1951 season were is- | on the Chilkat which empties into sued today by the Fish and Wild-|yynn Canal near Haines. The men life Service. | had started down the river in an Gillnetting and trolling is still | ejght-foot plywood punt. going on but these seasons end| 7144 powell, Alaska Coastal Air- Sept. 20. At that time, all fishing | jines agent at Haines, reported to in Alaska will cease except for Port | the Juneau office that the men Moller in the Western District which | were missing on Tuesday morning. remains open to gillnetting unlil'He requested the regular flight of Sept. 30. However, C. Howard Balt- | the ajrlines to Haines be diverted 20, assistant regional director of | the service, pointed out that the| run there was about over and prac- tically no fish are being taken. , Today's pack figures cover the | period up to the week ending Sept. | 8 Southeastern Alaska still leads Alaska’s pack with 1,847,127 cases. Central District put up 1,087,628 cases and Western District, 403,663. Comparing these figures with last year’s pack, up to the same period, Southeastern Alaska had 1129414 cases; Centraly Ajaska, 1,410,382 and Western Alaska, 622,698. The pink salmon pack was high in Southeasterr Alaska with 1,153,909 | cases. In the Central and Western | Districts reds were top. Central | Alaska packed 378465 cases of reds and Western Alaska, 348895 cases. Only 75,542 cases of reds were put up in Southeastern Alaska and in Central Alaska the pink pack to- taled 359,031 cases; Western Alaska | pinks totaled 10,337 cases. Grand pack totals for Alaska by species this yeare were: reds, 802,- 884 cases; kings, 87,272; pinks, 1,- 523,277; chums, 631,765; cohoes, 293,- 220, Total: 3,338418. To the same period last year: 3,162,504 cases. TheWashington Merry- Go- Round WASI‘IINGTON, — The U. S. government last week was on the verge of loaning $46,000,000 of the taxpayers’ money to the Harvey Machine Company to set it up in business as a bigtime aluminum producer. Suddenly alert Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman raised a red flag. He sent hasty letters to Stuart Symington of the RFC and Manly Fleischmann, head of de- fense production, withdrawing his okay of the $46,000,000 until he could examine certain new facts. Inside reason for the red flag was a mass of evidence which this column placed on Chapman’s desk. The Harvey Machine Co. had beea suspected of sabotage on war con- tracts in 1943 and recommended by the Navy to the Justice Depart- ment for prosecution. The Justice Department never prosecuted, on the grounds of “in- ability to prove to a jury that the Navy Department was seriously in- to look for the men. They were found stranded on a sand bar a few miles down the Chilkat from Klukwan without food or sleeping bags, O. F. Benecke of Alaska Coastal said. A message was dropped to the men from the plane stating that help was on the way from Haines. A river boat was sent from Haines to pick up the hunters, Benecke said. Extension of‘ Gilinet, Trolling Season Requested Requests for an extension of the gillnetting and trolling season were received Tuesday from fishermen by the Fish and Wildlife Service, C. Howard Baltzo, assistant regional director said today. The season normally would close Thursday at 6 p.m. Baltzo said that Frank Hynes, fishery management supervisor and Gus Hilsinger, agent, have departed on an aerial survey of the Taku, Copper River and Yakutat districts where the requests for extension were made. Baltzo said a decision probably would be made by the Service by ‘Wednesday. AL S 4-9 FIRE CALL The 4-9 fire call at noon today was for a garage fire at the Louis Anderson residence on E street. Little damage was reported by firemen. Pk €t ) WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 ¢'clock this morning At Airport—Maximum, 59; minimum, 52. FORECAST (Junesu and Vielnity) Partly cloudy with scattered rain showers tonight and Wed- nesday. Lowest temperature tonight near ¢8. Highest Wed- nesday near 55. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 8.m. toda At Airport — .24 inches; . (Continued on Page 4) — since July 1 — 825 inches. e . ° . ¥ 0o 00 00 00 0 00 Againsi School Principal Because tie Rgfuses Ils‘al_ui/eflag of U.S. HALL, Ind., Sept. 18—®—A school | principal who refuses to salute the | | flag for religious reasons failed to show up at school today, 24 hours after a roadblock of angry citizens | stopped him. A small group of parents, most of them women, gathered at the Red | Brick School today. Mrs. Robert| Ratts, a leader of the group oppos- ing the principal, said the principal made no attempt to return to school | and his classes met without a teach- | er. | The principal said yesterday he| would return today. “The easy way would be to resign and get out, but I won't do it,” said Principal William Lewis, 38, a member of the Jehovah's Witness- es sect. | Lewis said he will ask the Morgan County Circuit Court in Martil ville for an order to protect him in continuing %is work at the Gregg| township g ede school in Hall. Amos Burg Covers '98 Trail on 9th Trip fo Alaska Amos Burg, explorer and author, has returned from a trip to Yukon ‘Territory where he took color mov= ies and color and black and white photographs of the “Trail of '98” for a National Geographical maga- | zine article. He covered part of the Chilkoot Pass and trail and White Pass trail to Whitehorse. He went through Miles Canyon and the Whitekorse rapids in a canoe with two other men. Those who made the canoe trip with him were W. J. MacBride, public relations man for the White Pass and Yukon Rallroad, and W. J. Goondlad, pilot on the Yuknn River steamer Casca. The three men shot the rapids two days in a row in a 20 foot canoe. From Whitehorse, he went to Daw- son City on the Casca and returned to Juneau on Pan American out of Whitehorse. This is Burg's ninth trip to Al- aska. He paddled a canoe from Ju- | neau to Skagway in 1928 and ship- | ped it over the railroad to Lake Bennett, about half way between Skagway and Whitehorse. He then | paddled to the Bering Sea down the Yukon River. The trip took him | two months. An article on the trip| appeared in the National Geograph- | ic in July, 1930. Y Other rivers that Burg has trav-| eled the entire length of are the Columbia, Snake, Yellowstone, Mis- souri, Mississippi, Athabasca, Slave and Mackenzie. Several years ago, he descended the rapids of the Grand Canyon where he made a film for 20th Cen- tury Fox. He has also dared the waters of the Salmon River in Ida- | ho for Paramount Pictures. Burg recently completed a series | of sound films on family life as it is lived in the countries of Asia, North and South Americas and Eu- rope. These are used widely, he said, in the schools of the United States and are translated into many languages for use in other count- ries. Early in 1950 he returned from a three year trip to Europe during which he filmed family life and gathered material in the western European countries from Spain to Norway, One of the books published with his pictures and text for the Encyclopedia Britannica World's Children Series is on the Eskimo on Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea. Burg leaves this week on his 36 foot sloop rig, the Endeavor, for Ketchikan on his return to the stat- es. At the Memorial Presbyterian Church Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock he shows movies taken dur- ing the past 12 years on the child- ren of many lands series. He will also show pictures taken in Alaska. New York Times Is 100 Years Old; Congrats by Truman NEW YORK, Sept. 18—®—The New York Times, 100 years old to- day, received congratulations from President Truman. The President — Whose message was among many received from world, national and.local leaders and groups—told Arthur Hays Sulz- berger, president and publisher: “T congratulate the Times partic- ularly for constantly maintaining the highest journalistic standards.” VISITORS FROFM HAINES Mrs. Haynes Bishop and Mrs. | Refinery \ saféty down an eight-inc¢h pipe. He JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1951 Barbara Visits Tonein Hospifal New Charges Made by Communists; Neutral Terrific Explosion Twelve Workers Dead, 20 Others Are Injured Seriously WOOD RIVER, Ill, Sept. 18—® —*“I saw men knocked to the ground. They were screaming and begging for help, running with their clothes afire.” That was the way a boilermaker’s away, described the panic following | a terrific explosion at the big Shell MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 'Encampments For Alaska N. 6. 'Are Announced The first Alaska National Guard Tone Violation helper, himself only a few feet| 0Oil Co., refinery here last night which claimed the lives of 12 work- ers and injured 20 others seriou: He was Willie Burchell, 47, of | | East Alton, who was atop a pump- | house when four or five explosinns‘ went off directly ' beneath him.| Blocked by flames, Burchel]l peeled | the skin from his hands sliding to| leaped as flames licked at his legs. Four bodies were recovered soon | after the blast. Eight men died x\ti hospitals through the night from burns. The explosion occurred at one of | the refinery’s large oil cracking| units where a special night crew was working. A flash fire following the explo- sion, shot flames more than 50 feet ino the air. It was quickly snuf- fed out by company firefighters, but the intense hest hung on keeping rescue workers from probing deep into the debri-. RedsSiop Surprise UN Atfack U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD- QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 18—(P— An allied armored force with infan- try support launched a surprise at- tack on the dormant western front | at dawn today. It was stopped by! firmly dug-in Reds. i The allied doughboys and tank crews fought all day in the mud and a steady drizzle in their unsuc- cessful effort to gain a hill mass west of Chorwon. Chorwon is the| southwestern point of the Reds’ old iron triangle troop assembly area. The town is 18 miles north of parallel 38. The Reds held grimly to bunkers and trenches on the hill mass. Com- munist mortar and artillery fire, | anti-tank guns and mines helped check the allied thrust. About 400 to 500 Red troops were dug in on the hills as the tank column surged up a road in a sur-| prise attack on the Communists from the rear. | Allied infantrymen hit the slopes | from the south at the same time. | Elsewhere along the western front, | allied patrols probed beyond the | United Nations line with little enemy contact. One hill southwest | of Chorwon was occupied against| no opposition. Sharp local clashes flared along the mountainous eastern Korea war front Tuesday. Allied troops cnptured, one peak | with a five-mile view into enemy Ceyrltory. Birth of National Anthem Celebrafed At Fort McHenry BALTIMORE, Sept. 17—{®—Coast Guard guns flashed off historic Fort McHenry, shore batteries rumbled their reply last night, as Baltimore celebrated the shining hours 137 years ago when the National An-| them was born. And just as it was when the Brit- ish lifted their fire, Old Glory was flying over the ramparts guarding the port. FROM PETERSBURG - D. E. Nickerson of Petersburg is registered at the Baranof Hotel. TIDE TABLES September 19 High Tide 4:05 am, 159 ft. Low Tide 9:58 am., 18 ft. High Tide 4:03 p.m, 174 ft. Clara Dask of Haines are staying at the Hotel Juneau, Blonde Barbara Payton (right, top photo) leaves Franchot Tone's hbspital room in Hollywood after a two and one-half hour visit, the day following his serious injury in a fight. Tone les behind screen yhlhle in background between Miss Payton and unidentified nurse. Lower photo shows Miss Payton and Tone at a film premiere earlier is year. Tone was hospitalized after a beating by actor Tom Neal @t the Hollywood home of Barbara Payton, center of a romance ‘Ariangle. ® Wirephoto. Dodors Fear Tone's Proiiie May” Resemble Something Out of Food Mixer HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 18— (® —swhether to seek a criminal com- Franchot Tone’s face may look as if | plaint against actor Tom Neal, whose it had tangled with a food mixer lethal fists sent Tone to the hos- when he leaves California hospital in | pital. The actors came to blows two weeks. ienrly last Friday morning over the | for late this month or in October, |and a committee from the city | Her brother, a Korean war veteran, | died In an auto accident near his| they don’t know how his profile will be for movie closeups when they re- move the bandages. “In a general way,” says Dr. Leland House, who | patched up Tone’s smashed fn(-ndo.i “it’s reasonably certain he'll look | like Franchot Tone, but as for closeups, who knows?"” Tone and his lawyer, Kenneth Chantry, were to confer today on Seeking Arficles For Deposit in Cornersfone Box Articles are being sought for de- posit in the cornerstone box for the new Juneau Memorial Library, it has been announced by the lib- rary board. Dedication ceremonies are planned B. Frank Heintzleman, chairman of the board, said before he left to attend a meeting in Montana. As is customary, the articles should be indicative of the pre- sent day living. Anyone having suit- able material for this can leave it wilth ‘George Haen, room 409, in the Federal Building. They will be reviewed by the library board couneil, ‘The copper box is 17% inches long, 12 inches wide, and 2 inches deep. It will be sealed by soldering, Heintz- leman said. MRS. APOSTOL RETURNS FROM BROTHER’S. FUNERAL Mrs. George Apostol, wire of the | special assistant to the Territorial Attorney General, returned Sunday rom Seattle. ¥ She was called south two weeks ago upon the death of her brother. home at Omak, Wash. He was 23 years old. Mrs. Apostol attended funeral ser- Miss Payton, professing an un- divided love for Tone, told news- men Sunday after she had visited his hospital room that he had pro- posed and she had agreed to marry him in the very near future. She was to have married Neal in San Francisco last Sunday, and a few weeks ago sald Tone would be her next husband. Payment of Pledges Urged for Library; Ask New Donations Payment of balances, and ncw contritutions are urged by B. Frank Heintzleman toward . the Juneau Memorial Public Library. In a statement before he left Juneau - for Missoula, Mont., last weekend, Heintzleman pointed out that the library will be completed by Sept. 30, and full payment for the structure is due by that time “The new library needs your support,” Heintzleman said. “It Is a community project of which all may be proud.” He said that between $3,000 and | $4,000 is needed to cover added cost of consttuction which com- prised a concrete retaining will be- hind the building. This had 1ot been considered in the initial es- timate. Outstanding pledges $7,900 and Heintzleman said early Payment would be appreciated It is expected dedicatory ceri monies will tage place shortly al- ter Oct. 1. OPERATION KITTY-CAT GOING AT ELKS CLUB Peter Wood's “operation kitty-cat” got under way Sunday night at the Elks Club when Black Velvet, young tom cat got in without a key and quietly took over with an air of “any rats here vices for the young veteran. | | BURGLARY REPORTED | IN PELICAN | Acting Marshal Walter Hellan| said today that he had ordered Max | Rogers, Sitka deputy, to Pelican to| investigate a reported burglary in| that town. Hellan said the Pelican mayor had wired Rogers of the alleged af- fair and Rogers requested permis- |slon to make the investigation. 1 | eer, Red McGill gave the kitten & howl of milk to launch his car- after which the kitten took over a lounge booth with a prom- ise to “case the joint for mice.” FROM YAKUTAT Mrs. W. H. Johnson and two children of Yakutat arrived, here from Seattle on the Aleutian and are stopping at the Hotel Juneau enroute home, still total | al | encampments since World War II | will be held this fall, it has been | announced by Col. Lars L. Johnson, in(ljlllnnt general of the organiza- | tion, Governor Ernest Gruening has | called for two encampments as part | of the guard’s defense training pro- !gram, which 1s conducted under | the general observation of Lt. Gen, W. E. Kepner, commander-in-chief Alaskan command, and Lt. Gen. | Julian W. Cunningham. The 20th Infantry Battalion, sep- arate, under the command of Lt. attorney, will make its encampment at Fort Richardson October 13 | through October 27. The 208th Infantry Battalion, separate, will encamp near Juneau November 23 through December 7. It's commanding officer is Lt. Col. William Dean, who is Col. Johnson’s administrative assistant in charge of training and supply. Approximately 200 men are ex- pected at each encampment. The 207th Battalion includes members from the Seward, Fairbanks and An- chorage areas, while men of the 208th are from the Sitka, Ketchi- kan and Juneau areas. Remaining units of the Alaska National Guard are the 1st and 2nd Scout Battal- ions, covering the entire northern area of Alaska, for whom training is being contemplated in the near future, Col. Lars Johnson. . Receives Promotion In National Guard Lt. Col. Lars Johnson of the Al- aska National Guard has been ap- pointed as adjutant general of the guard, according to an announce- ment by Gov. Ernest Gruening. Col. Johnson is also promoted to the rank of full colonel. The ap- pointment and advancement were made under the provisions of chap- ter 120 of the 1949 session laws of Alaska. He was appointed acting-adjutant general on Aug. 17 succeeding Col. J. D. Alexander who was assigned to the guard bureau in Washing- ton, D. C. New Civil Defense Insignia Announced A standard civilian defense. in- signia for the Territory is announc- ed by Col. Farl Landreth, civil de- fense territorial director. The, insignia has the letters “CD" in red centered within a white tri- angle surrounded by a blue circle. Around the bottom of the circle Is the word Alaska in white letters. The name of the service will ap- | pear across the top tangent of the "circle. Local civilian defense organ- izations may add the name of the community parallel to the word Al- aska and tangent to the bottom of the circle, Landreth said. | “The insignia may be worn on'y :by qualified personnel performirg civil defense duties,” said Landreth. Armbands bearing the insignia have been distributed to local civil defense digectors. Fishing Piclure - Contest Closes {Here Thursday | A prize photo contest conducted | by the Golden North Salmon Derby | Committee ends Thursday, Joe Wer- ner, chairman, reminded shutter bugs today. Thirteen cash prizes will be awarded for the best photos suitable for use in advertising the | 1952 Derby. The first prize is $25; second, $15; | third, $10; and ten prizes of 5 each. Entries may be placed with Wer- ner in the Valentine Building or at any of the local photo shops, drug stores or hardware stores. Either black and white or colorel slides will be considered. The pictur- es need not have been taken dur- necessary that the negatives ac- company the pictures, Werner sald. | FROM SEATTLE | V. A. Stafford of Seattle is at the | Baranof Hotel, Col. George McLaughlin, Anchorage, ing the current year and it is not| PRICE TEN CENTS (laim TOKYO, Sept. 18—(M—The Com- munists tonight charged four allied soldiers had invaded the Kaesong neutral zone. The Reds demanded a meeting of liaison officers Wednes- day “to settle this matter.” The United Nations command re- plied that its representatives would go to the meeting at 9 a.m. Wednes- day, (5 pm, Tuesday, PDT). The meeting place will be Pan- munjon, six miles east of Kaesong, site of the suspended truce talks. A relense earlier from the head- quarters of the supreme allied com- mander, Gen, Matthew B. Ridgway, said the Reds made the charge in a radio contact with the United Nations comand advance headquart- ers in Korea. It gave the number of soldiers as three, instead of four. There were no detalls of the alleged incident. The announcement by Ridgway's headquarters came as a surprise to correspondents in Tokyo. The usual advance notice that an announce- ment is coming was not made, It was the 12th time since the Korean war armistice talks opened at Kaesong July 10 that the Com- munists have charged the United Nations with violating the five- mile neutral zone. The UN command has admitted one of these charges—that one of its planes strafed the zome acci- dentally Sept. 10. Williams Gets Dismissal Letier From Truman Ex-Secretary of Alaska Lew M. Willlams today was in raceipt of a | detter, g . President of the tite POREE i Captioned “The White House,” the letter read: “Sir: You are hereby removed from the office of Secretary of Alaska, effective Immediately. (sig) Harry 8 .Truman” “Through the Secretary of the Interior” ) Asked to comment, Williams said: “Well, it isn’t as long as the one he sent the music critic.” The envelope containing the let- ter and a three-cent stamp was not cancelled by the Post Office Department. Tugs Searching for Lost Lumber Barge According to information receiv- ed here at U. S. Coast Guard head- quarters, a tug towing a barge of | lumber encountered heavy seas near Cape St. Elias Sunday night and had to abandon its tow. The tug Pulaski, left Sitka a week ago with 450,000 board feet of lumber aboard a 34 by 136-foot barge bound for Whittier. The lumber belongs to the Columbia Lumber Co. and was being towed by the tug which is chartered from the Puget Sound Tug and Barge Co. of Seattle. Heavy seas and 60-mile-an-hour winds, about 20 miles northwest of Cape St. Elias, endangered the tug causing the tow to be cut loose. Moderating weather today permit- ted the tug Active to join the Pulaski in an attempt to locate and pick up the lost lumber load. Princess Louisé sails from Van- couver Sept. 19, arrives Juneau Sept. 22, Baranof salls from Seattle on - Friday. Aleutian scheduled southbound | somtime Sunday. Freighter Coastal Monarch in port. Freighter Sallor's Splice scheduled to arrive sometime Thursday night. Stock Quotations NEW YORK, Sept. 18—4®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 117%, American Tel. and Tel. 159, Anaconda 48%, Douglas Air- craft 59%, General Electric 63%, General Motors 511, Goodyear 47%, Kennecott 84, Libby, McNeill and Libby 9, Northern Pacific 547, Standard Oil of California 53,%, Twentieth Century Fox 21%, U. S. | Steel 44%, Pound $2.79%, Canadian Exchange 95.06%. Sales today were 2,030,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 274.34, rails 83,77, utilities 45.39,