The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 6, 1951, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT St. Louis Is Buried Under Snow ST. LOUIS, Nov. 6—(P—St. Louis was buried under 11 inches of snow today in its greatest 24-hour snow- | storm in 39 years—the fifth heavi- est in St. Louis history. Traffic was stalled throughout the city and the snow continued to pile up at the rate of an inch an hour. The Weather Bureau saw little prospect of a letup later in the | day. One death was attributed to the A storm. Busses were running behind their schedules and were not getting through at all on some lines. Auto-| mobiles were abandoned on scores | of streets. Thousands of persons were late to work or unable to get there at all Highways were all but impassable. The Missouri Highway Patrol urg- ed everyone to stay off the highways except in emergency. The snow storm, which started about 5 p.m., yesterday is the city’s greatest for this early in the year. Furious Storm A furious autumn storm dumped a staggering load of snow on the nation’s midsection today. The drifts on some highways in the St. Louis area were so high that snow plows could not get through them. The number of deaths caused by! the series of storms and record- shattering cold since Saturday reached 143. The roof of an automobile and implement store collapsed under the weight of snow at Tuscola, Il In Ilinois, the snow piled up to 11 inches in Belleville, to 7 in Vandalia and to four in Springficld. Wide Trail The storm dumped snow on a wide trail that stretched from Oklahoma and Kansas to Ohio. Sleet and freezing rain fell south of the snow belt. Upstate New York had the cold- est weather of the season. Malone reported three below. Five foot snow drifts temporar marooned hundreds of motoris there New York City’s temperature of 20.1 was only one tenth of a de- gree above the record for the date set 72 years Princess Louise Will Make One More Alaska Trip Due to tide conditions, the Prin- cess Louise had an early arrival and departure this morning, arriving from Skagway at 6 a.m. and sailing for Vancouver at 7 a.m. The Prin- cess Louise will make one more round trip to Alaska ports before going on a winter run between Van- couver and Kitimat, B. C. Bombing Hair Seals On Copper River Flats s Effective f Hair seal control operations in the Copper River district this fall have proved effective, Lewis Mac- Donald, Alaska Department of Fish- | eries supervisor, reported today. | The three-way cooperative pro- | ject last month was sponsored byi Cordova fishermen and packers with ithe Alaska Department of Fisheries. | Dynamite bombs were dropped in | seal concentrations by men in fast | outboard hoats and followed up by | sharp shooting to kill the wounded | animals. The bombs had 10-second fuses. tense moment occurred when one outboard motor quit following a drop. The outboard engineer did some fast cranking, MacDonald re- lated. A check showed that no fish were caught in the blasts. It was estimat- ed that about 500 seals were elmin- ated. The seals in the Copper River area are known to do great damage to the salmon runs there. It is planned to continue opera- tions in the spring before the be- ginning of the first salmon run. Outboards and boats were sup- plied by the Cordova canneries. | Fishermen participating were Lew Cochran, John Goeres, James W. Nichols, Warren S. Chappell, and Edwin L. Chesire. British troops and Egyptian civ- ilians have exchanged shots at Suez without anybody being hit. That's the word from a British military source. He said incidents are in- creasing in the middle-eastern powder keg. | fl(ing Opens ‘ 'Parliament With Speech ’ By the Associated Press Bri 1's new Conservative-run Parliament was opened formally to- | day with a speech read for the ail- ing King George. He remained in Buckingham Palace. The king’s speech called for dras- | fic action against inflation, threat- | ening Britain’s defense effort. He | also promised a firm stand in the | dispute with Egypt. The new Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, is to follow up with a speech today giv- ing his program. Indian?eamen on Strike; Quick fid Settlement Made By Associated Press A strike of Indian seamen against | a British freighter in Olympia, | Wash., ended last night after the | demands of the crewmen were met. They had been striking for warm | clothing, fresh foods and overtime | pay. They returned to the ship, | the Empire Wallace, after the cloth- ing they demanded was placed on | board and the captain promised overtime pay for those entitled to | it | | The 55 seamen—who signed on at Bombay, India—were supported in their strike by Olympia dock workers. FROM SEATTLE Norman G. Jensen of Seattle is at the Baranof Hotel. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Joint Meefing of Lions, Rofarians Next Tuesday Charlie Carter piloted the Juneau Rotary club through a riotous pro- gram interspersed with humorous stories and comments. It was an introduction to a Rotary fellowship program designed to make for closer friendship among members. Two teams were drawn, one cap- tained by President Neil (Beaver) itchman and the other by Dr. I. J. Montgomery with Dr. William ‘Whitehead as scorekeeper. Ques- tions, a la spelling bee method, were asked of the opposing teams regarding classification of mem- bers, names of their wives and other data listed in the local roster. Fritchman’s group won by a point. It was announced that a joint meeting will be held with the Ju- neau Lions club next Tuesday which is to be the sixteenth anniversary date of the local club. Howard Stabler, the club’s first president | and Waino Hendrickson will be the speakers. Leonard Hopkins, sporting goods salesman from Anchorage was a visiting Rotarian. Other guests were Bill Waddell of Juneau Plumb- ing and Heating and A. J. Alter of the Alaska Health Department. Verne Metcalfe passed the cigars honoring his third child, a boy named Peter McAlister. A bank account collection for the young man retted $17.80 which is to be matched by his father. AT THE BARANOF E. M. Berk of San Francisco is | stopping at the Baranof Hotel. | Anchorage Jail |Is Unsanitary; (ase fo Be Heard ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 6— (M—Judgg Anthony J. Dimond will hold a hearing here tomorrow on a complaint that the Federal jail is so overcrowded and unsanitary that confinement in it is a violation of a prisoner's constitutional rights. The plea is on the basis of the bill of rights guarantee against cruel and unusual punishments. The case was brought into court last week by six attorneys in be- half of 28 out of 35 prisoners. It was sifted down to a one-prisoner test by Ernest Pickens because writs of habeas corpus (which would mean freedom) can not be issued to more than one individual at a time. Territorial Rep. Stanley McCut- cheon appeared as a spokesman for the attorneys. The petition charged that the “close confinement. . .has resulted in overcrowding to such a degree that it is impossible to maintain personal cleanliness and that, as a result, petitioners and their cloth- ing remain unwashed for days at a time, so that the resulting stench is sickening. . .and an outrage to present day American civilization.” It cited plumbing troubles, too. The jail was built in 1918. Grand juries have been labeling it as a hazard for several years. Crawford Family in 'Bed, Food Poisoning By Associated Press Actress Joan Crawford, three of }vnnts are recovering today from a | case of food poisoning. Miss Craw- "Iord says she believes a chicken ‘served at Sunday dinner in Holly- }wood caused the illness. The six | were confined to their beds, but | were not in serious condition. | Mt Katmai, Alaska, showered dust 900 miles away when it erupted in 1912. 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