The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1951, Page 1

JONGRESSIONAL IHRARY /ASHINGTON, D ¢ VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,950 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1951 e MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Tories Get 18-Seat Edge | In Refurns LONDON, Oct. 29—(P—Complete returns from the 624 districts which | voted Thursday in Britain's parlia- mentary elections gave Winston Churchill's Conservatives an overall edge of 18 seats in the House of Commons even though they polled | 190,236 less votes than the beaten | Laborites. The last two of the 624 districts | reported today. The 625th is the| Labor stronghold of Barnsley where | polling was postponed until Nov. 8 because of the death of a candidate. | That probably will trim the Torie: margin to 17 seats. But Churchill | has a qualified pledge of support| from the Liberals, which should | boost his working margin on most | issues to 29. | The Conservatives won 1732346 votes in the 624 districts, the Lab- | orites 13,911,582 New Version Atomic Weapon Is Given Test ‘ LAS VEGAS, Nev, Oct 20—P— The United States now has at least three arrows to its atomic strong| bow. Joining the select company of the | large A-bomb and the baby A-bomb yesterday was a medium ed | eapon which give off a brief,| illiant freakish cloud effect in| another test by the Atomic Energy Commission. The moderate, by comparison, bomb was dropped by a B-29 plane in a daylight demonstra- | tion yesterday morning. It was the second after-dawn nuclear tést put on by the AEC after much delay because of weather and various operational difficulties. | Unlike the pallid baby blast last | Monday, yesterday's detonation caused a rumble heard as far away | as Big Bear, Calif, 225 miles away, and St. George, Utah, 135 miles off. An aviator flying at about 11,000 feet over Kaibab Forest, Utah, re-| ported seeing the flash some 200 miles distant. It also was widely | seen in Las Vegas and other south- | ern Nevada communities, but wa felt by comparatively few persons. | There was no damage reported. The AEC reported finding a ‘ small amount of radiation in the Beatty-Lathrop Wells area, about 35 miles southwest of the Yucca Flat test site, but it was termed unharmful to humans, animals or crops. Yesterday’s bomb — unofficially | the 19th major nuclear explosion by the U.S. flashed white, then glowed red for perhaps two seconds before sending up a column of smoke and the familiar atomic mushroom. Changing through various colors from grey to purple to brown to pink, the nuclear clowd assumed a “y” shape which stretched widely across the sky before finally disin- tegrating three hours after the blast. At its peak, the cloud rose to prob- ably 10,000 feet and attained a width of nearly 50 miles. The bomb exploded at an altitude estimated at about 1500 feet above Yucca Flats. It was released by a B-29, one of three planes dispatched from Kirtland Air Force Base, Albe- querque, N.M. Thfilashington Merry - Go- Round (Copy=ight, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—With Congress taking the rest of the year off, va- cation-minded - Congressmen have suddenly discovered “official busi- ness” in South America, the Pacific Islands, the Mediterranean and other faraway places. with winter approaching, the greatest Congressional interest seems to be in South America, as com- pared with Alaska in the summer. More than two dozen Congressmen have signed up for “surveys” of sun- ny South America in November and December. However, other tours are also planned through Europe, the middle east and around the woild. While some of these trips are pure junkets, this columnist is of the opinion that some make worth- while additions to a Congressman’s store of knowledge at a time when the American defense line extends from Korea to the Rhine. However, since the taxpayer pays for the air (Continued on Page 4) Bus Dives :sirike Halls Drops in for Lunch Mrs. James Jackson pours coffee for Lt. C. L. Burke, whose flaming plane crashed into her back yard at Salem, Ore. Burke bailed out and landed nearby. A wing tip sliced a hole in the Jackson rcof, but no one was hurt. Calm Mrs, Jackson invited the pilot to lunch which was on the tabie, (P Wirephoto. Ofi of Ramp 0f Oakland Bay Bridge Atomic Project Construction OAK RIDGE, Tenn, Oct. 29—® —Construction on a vital atomic {plant defense project was halted today Ly an AFL plumber’s strike. The plumber’s posted pickets in defiance of orders of their interna- tional union president. And for the third straight day, hundreds of AFL workers honored pickét lines. The Atomic Energy Commission announced that the project was [shutting down because of lack of workers to man the job. A handful of carpenters and laborers showed up, but they were sent home. Martin Durkin of Washington, International President of the Plumbers and Steamfitters’ Union, had ordered union leaders to “get the men back to work.” The Plumbers walked off the jobs last Tuesday in a jurisdictional squabble with the carpenters over a work assignment. They posted pickets Friday and brought cons- truction to a standstill as more than 12,000 fellow AFL craftsmen honor- ed the lines. A spokesman for the plumber’s union said the local's executive council met over the weekend and decided to continue the strike. ‘Berserk’ Seaman a a s Killed by Capfain, Says Line's Agent TOKYO, Oct. 29—A—An Is- brandtsen agent today said Capt. Frederick D. Weaver of the line’s Flying Trader last Thursday - shot and killed an insubordinate seaman, William Harvey, 24, Dayton, O. Capt. Andrew Crinkley of A. P. Pattison Co., Isbrandsten agent at Kobe, said Harvey “went berserk and threatened to kill the captain. He advanced on him and the cap- tain shot him with a pistol.” Weaver is from Englewood, N.J. The Flying Trader arrived Friday at Kobe and the American Consul- General inveszigated. The Con- sulate sald its report was sent to Washington, Crinkley said there would be a Coast Guard hearing when the ship reaches San Fran- cisco. FROM KETCHIKAN Dick Fairhurst of Ketchikan is registered at the Gastineau Hotel. JUNEAU VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Frank of Sitka are guests at the Hotel Ju- neau. . . OCTOBER 30 . o High tide 1:27 am., 1638 ft. e Low tide 7:17 am, 1.7 ft. e _High tide 1:20 p.m., 19.3 ft. e Low tide 7:52 pm., -2.7'ft. -+ Killing 7, Injuring 21 | Seven persons were smashed to | death and 21 others lay in hospital | beds today—most of them in serious condition—after an incredibly freak- ish bus disaster. ramp at the Oakland end of the Bay Bridge and plunged 40 feet to a railroad track below just before dawn Sunday. moaning and screaming passengers srupped luside for neaily vwo hewi Of the 20 persons aboard only Air Force Lt. John R. Haber, 24, of Camp Stoneman, Calif., was able to walk away from the hospital after treatment for minor cuts and bruises. Twelve of the injured were re- ported in critical condition. The almost unbelievable sequence started when a passenger car knocked a huge hunk of concrete onto the roadway less than three minutes before the ponderous bus hove into sight from the opposite direction. The loaded bus, inbound for the Oakland Bus Depot after a night run from Salt Lake City, smacked the concrete block, blew a tire and went out of control. It rippéd out a section of the stout retaining rail and fell into the darkness below. 1t took an hour and 49 minutes for rescuers to extricate the 28 passengers and the driver. | Bus driver Vane E. Eishife of | Ssacramento, Calif.,, was one of the | dead. A 16-year-old bus passenger set his stop watch as the bus fell. It was 5:22 a.m. Like everyone else, he was knocked unconscious by the crash. Then, said Charles B. lived nearby: “People were screaming ‘get me out. . for God’s sake get me ou pr “One woman kept shouting: ‘turn off the ignition before we all blow Two Men Injured In Car Wreck On Douglas Road Two Juneau men were injured in an automobile accident north of Douglas .on the Douglas highway early Sunday morning when the car they were in ran into the ditch along the highway and turned over twice. * Matthew Wannamaker, driver of the car which belonged to a rela- tive -of his, according to Alaska Highway Patrol, was the most ser- { jously injured. His doctor, at the government hospital, reports that Wannamaker may have a frac- tured back. A passenger, Leo Na- varro, suffered cuts on the face and scalp, and possibly a fractured rib. Both men are said to be in fair condition. Wannamaker and Navarro were {both thrown from the overturning vehicle, according to William Post, driver of a Glacier Cab. Post told patrol officers that he saw the car in front of him swerve back and forth across the highway, then go into the ditch on the wrong side of the road. He said it then careened | back onto the highway and over- turned twice. Passengers in the cab verified the account of the ac- Taylor who patral officer. OAKLAND, Cal. Oct. 20— (B —1 A Greyhound bus careened off a It lay crumpled upside down with | Docks Quiet As Pickets MarchinN. Y. NEW YORK, Oct. 24 — (P — A threatened showdown in New York's waterfront strike failed to develop today and miles and miles of docks remained closed tight after morn- ing work whistles blew. Reinforced lines of pickets marched in front of many piers. An- nounced plans of AFL Longshore Boss Joseph Ryan to send men “through or over” pickets didn't materialize. Police, anticipating a possible vio- lent climax to the 15-day dock to about 400 men along the Man- hattan docks alone. But as the morning advanced, the docks remained quiet while pickets, shivering in a chill wind, plodded to and fro. There was no sign of the non- strikers Ryan had threatened to send out. “There’s no trouble anywhere so far,” a police spokesman said. John J. Sampson, leader of the strikers’ revolt against a new con- tract, said of Ryan’s threat to send in non-strikers to crash picket lines: “He said that two weeks ago. The men will stay out as long as we are on strike.” He also scoffed at Ryan’s charge that “strangers” were among the strikers. ; “There are no strangers here” Sampson said. “The trouble is that Ryan is not close enough to the membership to know who they are.” Ryan, lifetime president of the AFL International Longshoremen's Association, Sunday wired President Truman, promising that his fol- lowers will not be kept from work by picket lines. 3 STEVEDORES PASS PICKETS NEW YORK, Oct. 20—M—A big squad of ~fevedsres rdved thele wor ionw a strikebound pier today, while {some 200 policemen held back a ! surging, angry throng of some 250 | pickets. | It was the first move today by | non-strikers to back their threat J(o break through picket lines that ,havc paralyzed the miles of docks along the vast New York harbor. Some 100 non-strikers, supporters ;of AFL Longshore Boss Joseph Ryan, filtered hastily past the massed pickets at pier 90 on the Hudson river where the Queen Elizabeth is docked. Police, who a few minutes earlier 'had doubled their foot and mounted guard at the pier, formed lines and shoved back the press of pickets, keeping the rival factions separated. The pickets shouted strong taunts, but there was no violence, The back-to-work manuever was only isolated, however, ahd left the rest of the vast waterfront here — except for military piers < closed tight. A total of 123 ships were strike bound In Albany, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey said it was “intolerable” that an intra-union fight should tie up the docks, and cidered the state medi- ation board to step into the dispute. Lie by Witness Wins Reprieve For Murderer HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 29—(P— A convicted murderer gbout whom a state’'s witness says she lied has been given a reprieve from the electric chair. Francis C. Smith, 26, of Norton Conn., had only about 24 hours to live when Gov. John Lodge announc- ed yesterday he had granted him a reprieve until Jan. 14. Smith, iv trouble with law since childhood, hac shooting a night watchman during a burglary at a Greenwich yacht club in July, 1949. FROM MONTANA Bill Ensign of St. Regis, Mont is registered at the Hotel Juneal strike, increased waterfront patrols been scheduled to die tonight for) war. Here is the entire village of Panmunjon and the 14g, yellow tent where United Nations and Coh Begotiators will mcet after a break of more than two imonths to try and reach an armistice in the Korean All villagers have been removed from their thatched huts shown in the foreground. (® Wirephoto. 2 Lives Lost In Fire at Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 29— P ~Fire destroyed Olivera's restau- ri gt yesterday claiming the lives %' man and a woman who lived in ‘upstairs rooms. ¥ i Neither of the victims was identi- fied immediately. Firemen said the man was trap- ped in a narrow window while tr. {ing to escape the flames. The wo- | man was found on the floor of a | room. The owner of the restaurant, Jay Kennedy, also was sleeping in an { upstairs room when the fire brolke lout. He escaped by jumping to a ilow roof and later was hospitalized | for treatment of shock. | Fire Chief George Burns estimat- ed the loss at $50,000, partially cov- cred by insurance. | | Plan fo Ask Eisenhower About Candidacy | WASHINGTON, Oct. 20— ® — ien, Dwight D, Eisenhower prob- ably will be advised soon that if | ke is willing to become a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, he should say so by January. { Paul G. Hoffman, former head of the Economic Cooperation. Admin- istration (EVA), has/ indieated in conferences with Republican of- ficials here he plans to carry sich word to the general shortly. Senator Duff (R-Pa), scheduled for a visit to Eisenhower’s- Paris headquarters in the next few weeks, said in a week-end radio broadcast that the general's plans “will have to be very unqualifiedly known very carly in the year.” North Pele Pilot To Be Rofaled FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 20—® | —The man who has flown over the North Pole more than any other | person — 58 times — is going to | e rotated from the top o' the | world to stateside duty. | He's M/Sgt. James K. Boswood, who’s going to visit his home town f Oklahoma City, Okla. before ing to new duty in California. The Air Force sergeant com- T SRR S L Lt B S T e T S e SR S L SR I B %32 o 25 'San Frandsco’s Waterfront Awails | Court Decision SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29—(®— There was an uneasy peace on San Francisco’s waterfront today. Members of the International; Lonshoremen’s and Warehousemen's| MUNSAN, Korea, Oct. 20 — (# — Union were working while awaiting Allied and Communist negotiators a court hearing that could touch off | failed again today to make any an all-out jurisdictional war. progress toward agreement on logas Thie ‘isste 15 ~wiciher Isthimian yton of an ifuiside DUITer goie Ifi Buffer Zone Agreement Still Waits Steamship Co., may legally hire| Korea. AFL longshoremen to work cargo “Today's discussions were com- on three of its strikebound ships|pletely inconclusive,” the official here. Members of the ILWU have! refused to work the cargo. The AFL stevedores have a newly chartered local here, and Isthimian | said Friday it had hired 35 of them to work the vessels. Superior Judge William T. Swei- gert may rule tomorrow on whether he should erase a restraining order issued last week temporarily pre- venting Isthimian from hiring AFL Democrals May Choose Banker As New Chairman WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 — (1 —| Indianapolis banker Frank McKin- ney is reported to be the No. 1 man on a list of persons under con- | sideration to head the Democratic National Committee, meeting here | Wednesday to pick a chairman. Formally, the committee names its chairman, but in actual practices it can be expected to ratify any selec- tion of President Truman, who said | last week he had some 30 names under consideration. Wwilliam M. Boyle, Jr., is resign-| ing for what he has said are rea- sons of health. Prnicess and Duke U.N. spokesman announced. Subcommittees of the main armis- tice delegations met 3!': hours in Panmunjom. They scheduled their sixth meeting for 11 a.m., tomorrow (6 p.m., Monday, PST). Each side has proposed a demar= cation line. The UN. wants it generally to follow the current bat= tle line, mostly in North Korea. The Reds want the Allies to pull back as much as 15 miles, giving up such hard won positions as the ‘Iron Triangle, the Punchbowl and Heartbreak Ridge. In exchange, they offered the Ongjin peninsula in the west. The U.N. says that has little military value. Allied negotiators rejected the Communist plan and said it could | not be considered “any further.” Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols, the U.N. spokesman, described Mon- day talks as “a fruitless effort to arrive at” a solution. puid He sald subcommittec members argued “spiritedly” but in a ‘“com- the two conflicting proposals. Picketed HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 20—{®—They | picketed Jack Benny yesterday, but | while the pickets walked back and forth on the sidewalk they listened to the Jeck Benny show over a port- able radio. 3 In addition to the radio, the pick~ Met in Onfario By Dimm mh‘s ets carried a sign reading: “Jack | Benny patronizes the non-union NORTH BAY, Ont., Oct. 20—?— | Hillcrest Country Club.” Decked out in trim new suits, the| Officials of two AFL unions, the Dionne quintuplets greeted Prin- | Building Service employees and the cess Elizabeth and the Duke of |Culinary Workers, said Benny has Edinburgh here today. H)vvn crossing their picket lines at Marie, Annette, Cecile, Emilie the club. Benny is a union man and Yvonne, now 17, curtsied for|himself. He belongs to the AFL the princess during a brief stop- ! screen Actors Guild. over on the royal tour. } “We think he's a great comedian,” Most of North Bay's 18,500 resi-|said Jack Devpo of the Service dents and thousands from the sur- | Union, “put he's wrong at Hill- rounding area were present to greet crest.” Elizabeth and Philip, too. They are| kg Stock Quotations NEW YORK, Oct. 29—{M—Closing BROHAMMERS WILL MAKE THEIR HOME HERE cident, according to John Monagle,| ® since July 1—12.94 inches. . ® | pleted his 58 flights over the pole ¢ |in the B-20 bombers of the 58th ® | Weather Reconnaissance Squadron *!as a flight engineer. The 20-hour ® polar hop is made every other day. FORECAST . (Juneau .and Vicinity) s Continued fair tonight and © Tuesday. Lowest temperature © . . . WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU At Airport: Maximum, 40; Minimum, 33. tonight around 28 degrees. Highest Tuesday near 40. Baranof scheduled to sail from PRECIPITATION ¢ Seattle Nov. 2, @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todsy @ | Princess Louise scheduled to sail L] At Airport — 020 inches; ¢ from Vancouver, Oct: 31, Denali scheduled to arrive south- e o0 606 0 0 0 o o o o boundNov. 4 Mr. and Mrs. William Brohammer of St. Louis, Mo,, have arrived in Juneau to make their home. They drove up over the Alaska highway and Brohammer is associated with Walter Field in the Propane gas business. Mrs, Brohammer is a sis- ter of Mrs. Robert (Buck) Faulkner. The ammers have two girls, Bonnie Sue, 6, and Diane, 3. FROM MARSHALL Mr. and Mrs, Lars Otnes and son of Marshall are at the Baranof | Hotel. | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock todzy is 3%, American Cap | 109%, American Tel. and Tel. 156% | Anaconda 47%, Douglas Alrcraft | 59%, General Electric 54%, General | Motors 49%, Goodyear 43%, Kenne- cott 82%, Libby McNeill and Libby 87%, Northern Pacific 53%, Stan- | dard Ol of California 51, Twentieth | Century Fox 21%, U.S. Steel 1%, | Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange | 95.43%. Sales today were 1,780,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 26037, rails 79.93, util- ities 45.16. Screaming Chinese In Atfack U. 8. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD- QUARTERS, Korea, Oct, 20—P— Screaming Chinese Communists three times today charged an Allied- held hill mass southeast of Kum- song but failed to regain the posi- tions Allied forces took three days ago. . A frontline dispatch said the pre- dawn attack kicked off in company strength at 1:30 am. and built up to battalion size three hours later. Mortar fire pounded Alled In- fantrymen as the Reds rolled down a slope facing the U.N. held hills on the central front. AP Correspondent Milo Farnet! reported . from the central front that Allied officers believe the Reds have shifted a fresh division to the Kumsong area to reinforce a Red division badly mauled earlier this month. On the western front Allied forces slogged forward as much as 1200 yards. 4 ' In the east they seized a hill and gained up to 1,000 yards after turn- ing back three separate night gt- tacks. Between 80 and 80 Communist jets were sighted Monday over northwest Korea but a Fifth Alr Force officer said the Reds “weren't aggressive and went out of their way to avold tangling with our pilots.” It was the first time in nine days the Reds had refused a fight. Red ground fire, however, knocked two Allled planes out of the air. There was no chance of pllots surviving, the Alr Force L UNT ol SOMEWHERE IN KOREA, Oct. 20—(M—Gen. J. Lawton u. 8. Army Chiet of. Staff, said today allied forces “will have to stay in Korea for some time if a cease- fire is arranged.” “not be practical” to pull ‘alied troops out of Kores. immediately if agreement on an armistice is reach- ed at the Panmunfom negotiations. He said the South Korean army ‘“needs our help fon some, tithe to come.” ATRTSCLNE X & “We want to get our' men home jas soon as possible, but it would inot be done immedidtely.” | In Tokyo, Mrs. Anha Rosenberg, | Assistant’ Secretary of Defense in charge of manpower, told a news conference that 12,000 to 15,000 U. 8. combat troops will be brought out of Korea by the end of next month under a new point-rotation formula. H At his warfront. news conference, Collins brushed asidé a correspon- ent’s request for his opinion on prospects for peace in Korea. .“I'm sorry, that's out of wmy pletely impersonal atmosphere™ on|field entirely,” he said. Jack Bemny - :iludflh Coplon Expedting Baby NEW YORK, Oct. 20—#—Judith Coplon, former Justice Department employee found guilty of spying for Russia, is expecting a baby in February. The 29-year-old woman, who now is Mrs. Albert H. Socolov, was re- ported “feeling fine”: Saturdey by her husband, who also is one of her attorneys. ! She is appesling a coanctlon by a federal court In Washington for removing secret government docu- ments with the intent of giving them to Russia. She was married after the con- victions. Repeat Performance 0f Play Tuesday At Meeling of WCTU The one-act play “No Hands But Mine” will be presented at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday night in the sanc- tuary of the Northern Light Pres- byterian Church at the regular pub- lic meeting of the WCTU. This is a repeat performance of this play which was preserted to a capacity crowd on Friday by the following cast: Misses Genevieve ',myberry. Gladys Knight and Janet Flint, Mrs. David James, Messrs. Ray Wells, Robert Rabe, Roger Miller, David Clem and Bob Pegues. There is no admission fee to this | play, and the public is invited to jenjoy this production. Collins * told newsmen it ‘would -