The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 16, 1951, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAR LIBRARY '.’VASI‘HNGTON, D. c. THE DAILY VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,967 Fish Hearing Ends with Few Fireworks Various factions at the annual Fish and Wildlife Service hear- ing yesterday at the Federal build- ing were keeping their powder dry, and although fuses sputtered dur- ing the hearing the threatened ex- plosions did not come. | Abtout half of the crowd present | was made up of persons from out- | side of the Gastineau Channel area. Although the hearing was to disc proposed changes in commercial | fishing regulations for next season, local fishermen appeared to have | taken little interest in the proceed- | ings. | Clarence Rhode, regional director of the Fish and Wildlife Service who acted as chairman for the hearing| expressed his disappointment in the | small number of local fishermen; which attended. During the morning session, spor- ! adic outbursts condemning various phases of trap fishing and insinua-) tions that the FWS was prejudiced in the forming of its regulat dicated some heated, if warmed over arguments were to ke heard. “Few independent fishermen were making their opinions known, and the others weren't going to open| up unless they were forced to,” one | FWS man said after the hearing. | | Trap Leads i Yesterday’'s morning session was taken up largely with discussions concerning a proposal requiring an opening in trap leads during times when. the traps are closed. This, brought the most interest of any! one question of the hearing, rmd‘ many witnesses, independent fish- ermen and Alaskan Salmon Industry | representatives, approved and con- demned the proposal. Another pro- / ' Proposals Made On Regulafions For Next Season “1In brief, here diseussed at the yesterday held by the Fish and Wildlife Service on commercial fishing regulations for next season: General proposals covering all of the fisheries—1) To subject personal use fishing to commercial regula- tions during the commercial season and 48 hours before the commercial season starts and 48 hours after it ends; 2) to require an opening 12 feet wide in trap leads during ail periods when trap fishing is pro- hibited; 3) to prohibit the snagging of Proposals ~ affecting Southeast Alaska—1) To have general seine and trap season from Aug. 4 to Aug. 30, and from Sept. 15 to Sept. 20; 2) To close mainland shore of Stephens Passage to fishing other than trolling; 3) To have a gill net season during summer and fall in the Lynn Canal, Taku and Stikine sections from June 18 ‘to Sept. 20 with 72-hour closures from 6 a.m. Friday to 6 am. Monday; 4) That losed area markers on the Chilkat river be moved down 500 yards be- low the present point; 5) To prohibit set net gear throughout Southeast Alaska; 6) To define Taku Inlet as lying inside line between Greeley and Cooper points; 7) Prohibit al salmon fishing in Auke Creek and Nugget Creek to prevent personal use wastage. re the proposals nual hearing Local Mail Pick-up Service fo Start Early Nex! Week Mail boxes for local pick-up serv- ice were being put in place around Juneau today and the new service i Friday, the supervising officer re- | said at Pusan, where Hanley made posal, concerning the abolition of s expected to start early next week, set nets >1n Southeast Alaska, a%flgacccx‘din: to Postmaster Mrs. Crystal | brought its share of argument in|jenne and T .D. Hockman, super- the morning session. Andy Barlow, executive secretary | for the United Trolleps of Alaska, intendent of mails. Ten boxes were installed today, five 10T boun: prekeges and- kettersy Front Line Troops Learn Of Atrodifies TOKYO, Nov. 16—P—American frong line troops in Korea were told today the Reds have slaughtered 5,500 of their captured buddies. The armed forces radio broadcast | for the first time the figures Col.! James M. Hanley announced Wed- | nesday — “so the GIs will know what they are up against.” Hanley is the center of an army| investigation because he announced the totals. The colonel said he re-| leased them so front line troops wouldn’t be fooled by Red propa- ganda. The armed forces radio earlier was silent on the subject while the rest of the world heard — and was! shocked. The radio began beaming the story at intervals of several hours. v - Maj. Edward L. Tidwell, chief of the Far East network, explained the delay: “There were too many unknown quantities. When we could finally pin things down, we let it go.” The Army newspaper Stars and Stripes carried the story in its Ko-| rean editions both Thursday and ported. Hanley said the reason he com- piled and released the figures was for the information of American front line iroops. The announcement caught the military by surprise — from the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea to the Pentagon in Washington. South Korean government offi- cials said today there was nothing| new in the atrocity figures. “They were not a surprise,” gov-; ernment spokesman Clarence Ryee his disclosire Wednesday. “There is nothing wrong about disclosing: facts of the Communists’ acts at any time.” To Investigate Details JGen. Matthew "B, ‘Ridgway, Sue JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRID. City Bond Issue Election Set for December 6 December 6 has been set as the date for a special city election to vote on bend issues for the con- structicn of the rest of the Muni- cipal Safety Building, (City Hall); city street, sewer and sidewalk im- provements; and additional money for rebuilding the fire alarm sys- tem and fire hall improvements and equipment. This was announced at a regular city council meeting last night. Other matters included extend- ing the date for the completion of the fire hall, discussion of leasing part or all of the city dock to the Alaska Plywood Corp., and numer- ous minor matters. The CarsQn Construction Co., pre- sented its case for a 60-day ex- tension for the completion date of the fire hall section of the city hall, showing that delays in obtain- ing steel” were, beyond its control. The contract provides for extensions in cases of “matters beyond the control of the contractor.” It was finally agreed to allow 40 days extension beginning November 7. The construction company is making every effort to complete the ground floor by December 1 and get the heat in so the fire fighting equipment can be moved in. A letter was read from the Alaska ' Plywood Corporation requesting a lease and option to buy part or all of the city dock in connection with operations of the new plywood plant nearby. Discussion brought out that no Isale could be effected without ap- proval of the voters and the city had an obligation to maintain ser- vice and storage for steamers call- ing at the dock and for those us- ing the warehouse facilities. The general attitude was that the council would do all possible to as- sist the new industry for the city and the matter was referred to a AY, NOVEMBER 16, 1951 Soviefs Still Demand Vefo InArmsPlan PARIS, Nov. 16—®—Soviet Rus- sia presented as a new proposal to- day a four-point disarmament plan, but insisted again that international | control be vested in the United Nations Security Council, where the U.S.S.R. has the veto power. The Soviet plan, proposed in a second “opening” address by Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky, would have the U.N. proclaim the prohibi- tion of atomic weapons, requirp a quick count of all weapons includ- ing the atomic, and require the Big Four and Red China to slash arma- ments by a third within a year. Vishinsky's tone was far milder today than when he first spoke last week, suggesting to some westerners that he may have heard from home about the way he ! “laughed” at the western disarm- ament plan, Vishinsky submitted his plan as; ! supplementary to the one he intro-; duced a week ago in his original opening speech, but apparently to- day's version fully supersedes the first, Despite the modifications,! the plan still contained all the ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Words of Little Chinese Girl Become Official Thanksgiving Day Proclamafion for Rhode Island Alaska Steam May Take Over Haines Ferry The Alaska Steamship Co. is looking into the possibility of op- erating a Juneau-Haines-Skagway ferry system, according to Gov. Ernest Gruening. David Skinner, executive vice- president of the steamship com- pany, and Henry Green, Alaska | Steamship’s local agent, met in the governor's office this morning with | Henry Roden and, the governor, Frank Metcalf, who are members of the Territprial Board of Road Com- missioners, A. F, Ghiglione, head of the Alaska Rodd Commission, and George Rogers, chairman of the field committee of the Department of Interior. The meeting had been requested by Skinner. There was also talk major provisions which have stood of extending the ferry service to ‘in the way of agreement since the other Southeast Alaska points. The alomic discussions first began in governor said the steamship com- 1946, Speaking for the west, French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman took the floor immediately after Vishinsky, and said he would wait for a “complete study” of the new Soviet proposals before comment- ing on them. France was one of f the proposers of the west’s dis- ‘ armament plan which calls for foolpreof checks. U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lis following Schuman to the rostrum, | | pany would be furnished full par- | the Haines ferry, special committee to meet with { uzged an immediate start toward a Thomas A. Morgan, president of the stop-by-step solution of the political | corporation, to discuss the matter. | eenflicts that divide the world to- Mayor Waino Hendrickson was | dry. He suggested that the (oreign! anthorized to make a project ap- ministers of the great powers get piicationr with e “Alaska - Pubiic | U¥ther while they are in Paris and was the first to speak in the after-f,nq five small ones for letter mail noon session. He took the Fish and|ony The long-planned service will Wildlife Service men by evident SUr- [ offer twice-a-day pickup for boxes prisg in saying that his group in|j, the pusiness section, and once- general agreed With the new pro- ,_gay pickup for those in resitiential posals. { sections. Service will be curtailed “We trollers are a contented 10t |4, an extent on Saturdays, Sundays on the whole,” he stated. Then smil- | .14 nolidays. ing at the audience, he added, “I!| g Jenne said that the city might suggest that if all these| ;14 thank the mayor, city council gentlemen here caught their fish|gng the street crew for assistance on a hook, there might not be 50| in getting the boxes in place. many problems.” He said although many of the fishermen present had gone on re- Use o' S(ar(e Metals fo Be Cut; 5 fiems Curfailed cord as opposing traps, the propo- WASHINGTON, Nov. 16— (® sals concerned the opening of the lead on the traps, not the question | Production officials predicted to day that new cuts ordered in civil of whether there should or should not be traps. Barlow suggested that instead of continted argument, whether fish do or do not gather along a trap lead when the trap is closed, the FWS put out a test | Army officey’s charge that the Ko- (Continued on Page 5) The Washington Merry - Go- Round| (Copy=ight, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—What General Eisenhower said;to Senator Duff after Ike let him ‘down by say- inz he hadn't “heard from Senator ian use of scarce metals after Jan.| 1 represent the worst that will be- | fall industry and consumers. The National Production Author- ity (NPA) announces that the auto- | truck industry will be allotted only 60 percent of the steel plate needed | to meet scheduled production of 930,000 cars and 24,000 trucks dur- ing January, February and March. This could mean an ultimate rise in price ceilings on cars and trucks. NPA Administrator Manly' Fleisch- mann asked the industry to make up the plate shortage by using a more expensive but less critical form called “contversion steel.” Duff directly or indirectly for a long time” is one of the most spec- ulated questions in Washington. Its’ like the debate over what the gov- ernor of South Carolina said to the governor of North Carolina. However, part of what Ike told the auburn-haired Senator from Pennsylvania, briefly summarized, was this: “I'm sorry. I never had so many questions coming at me all at once and I didn't realize what I was saying until it slipped out.” The two men completely patched things up, and Eisenhower retriev- ed his fumble at a subsequent press conference by indicating that he had no objection to the operations of friends who “have been my friends for so long they helieve they know how I would react.” CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES Senators on the Cuff — Thirty Senators left for home last month without paying up their bills at the Senate dining room. On top of this, Nation-Wide Food Service, which runs the dining room, has been try- ing to collect some Senatorial bills for six months to' a year. Senators just don’'t pay easily. The list of Senatorial deadbeats has been turn- ed over to the Senate Rules com- mittee, but it is better guarded than any secret regarding the atom (Continued on Page 4) NPA also announces that manu- facturers of “less essential” con- sumer goods will get an average of only 10 percent of copper, 20 percent of aluminum and 50 percent of steel, as compared with their pre-Korea usage. On this list of drastically curtail- ed items are sporting goods, lamps Venetian blinds, springs, and mat- tresses, dolls, toys and games, cig- arette, lighters, Christmas decora- tions, umbrellas, jewelry, signs and advertising displays. PAA Pilot Reports Tod Powell Is Improving Tod Powell, outdoor columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle who sport fished the Juneau area last summer, is recovering from his re- cent illness. Word came through Capt. “Ham” Hamilton, PAA pilot from San Francisco who is mak- ing an Alaskan inspection trip with Chief Pilot Richard Campbell of the Pacific-Alaska Division, This is Hamilton's first Alaska trip and he declared that he is coming back for hunting and fish- ing next year. The two pilots and their crew were scheduled to leave for An- | reporters nette and Seattle today. {preme Allied Commander, sent his press_information officer to Korea {to investigate the details of the | disclosure, and the figures them- | selves. ; In Washington U. S. Senators| said they were puzzled that top imllilary and government offlCinlS) expressed surprise over the report. Senator Young (R-ND), wondered | out loud whether the adminislra-} | tion was “trying to minimize the" ‘(mgedies of the Korea war. . . . would think anything as important | as that would find our top levels | officially informed.” 1 PR i‘ BRITAIN ALSO UNEASY | LONDON, Nov. 16—{M—Britain | has asked the United States if it | can back up an American Eighth | rean Reds have killed 5,790 Allied war prisoners, including about 10 { Britons. A Foreign Office spokesman told | today this country had no official information about the| alleged atrocities. Nor has any: word reached the British govern-| ment through its intelligence ources, according to defense min- istry officials. | United Nations military head- quarters in Tokyo is probing the atrocity charges. Chinese Troops Knock Out Allied Front Position SEOUL, Nov. 16 — (® — Chinese troops supported by at least five tanks knocked Allied Infantrymen out of an advance position north of Yonchon on the western front to- day. An Allied officer said the U.N. Command forces pulled back soon after the Reds opened fire. On the eastern end of the battle- line, a Communist company pushed Allied troops off a hill with an attack which began about midnight and continued until dawn. Allied jet fighters on sweeps| over North Korea spotted about 116 Russian-type MIG-15 jets today, but the Communist pilots showed no desire to fight. One flight of some 50 MIGs streaked back across the Yalu with- out firing a shot when it encoun- tered a group of American F-86 Sabre jets over MIG Alley in northwestern Korea. FROM ANCHORAGE Richard H. Brannon of Anchor- age is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. STEVE HOMER IS HERE Works for the street improvement program to get matchiffg funds. Social Security A resolution was passed aut;\- orizing the signing of a social secur- ity handling egreement with the Territorial Auditor, who will collect the funds and do the book work in connection with placing city employees under social security. The cost to the city will be one-half of one percent until enough Al- aska cities sign up to reduce the costs. It was understood that in cases where social security < deductions 'have been made, the coverage will be retroactive to January 1 of this fyear. In other cases it will begin/ as of July 1 of this year. Miscellaneous matters taken up included approval of leasing an un- used space in the airport terminal to B. W. Matheny of Airport Cof- fee Shop for $20 monthly; approval of the construction of a small shed at the small boat harbor to shelte: mail and freight from the weather cooperation tional Guard on parking problems in the access road to the subport; and postponement of the Nelson Water Co., report until the next meeting. | with the Alaska Na- | | make a beginning. 1 US. Secretary o ' Acheson said of Vishinsky’s i proposals: | | “The only encouragement we can | derive from Mr, Vishinsky's second thoughts is that he decided to stop | | laughing and admitted he had now | read the tripartite proposals. But‘ he offered us no encouragement of | f State Dean| new ! the real reduction of arms.” :Price of Anfimony Is Boosted by OPS WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 — (A — | The government last night raised the price of antimony, a scarce | metal badly needed by the defense program, by 7% to 8% cents a | pound, depending on the grade. The Office of Price Stabilization! | said the new ceilings, effective Nov. 21, are aimed at increasing imports | nd encouraging expansion of do- mestic production to aid the defense effort. ! The new ceilings range from 49'% | to-50% cents a pougd, according to the grade. OPS said these prices are comparable to those of the world tan’s tax complaint until it could‘ liquor stock assessed in Krnan'aiDe'enn'Dirmo' of the Coast Guard brought out| other states, they would be exempt. | this week to be deputy director of were needed in the basement of the |was on the civil defense staff for in until such time as the new city | federal civil defense administration A decision was made to hold over a misunderstanding on Jack Kris-| market. be discussed with the aséessor. There | PP ] .8 appeared 1o be o dupieation ot | Tefritorial Civil three different liquor stores. Tax complaints by two members | . Arrives for Duty the ruling that if the Constguard»‘ \ men' could show tax receipts from| Col. James C. Crockett arrived Councilman J. P. Christensen re- | the Alaska Civil Defense. ported that lights‘and partitions| For the past year and a half, he new Memorial Library before the Illinois with headquarters in Chi- city clerk’s office could be moved |cago. He is also a graduate of the hall was built. Authority was given to proceed. If the bond issue for the new city | ha}l is approved and matching (Continued on Page Two) WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU At Airport: Maximum, 28; Minimum, 17. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Snow with gusty north- easterly winds tonight. Low- est temperature around 28 degrees. Intermittent mixed rain and snow Saturday with highest temperature near 38 degrees. PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport None; Steve Homer of Haines is staying at the Gastineau Hotel. ' ® from July 1—16.52 inches. ® 00 0000 00 staff college at Olney, Md. Before World War II, Crockett served as asSistant miiltary attache in Germany. He is a graduate of | the Infantry School at Pt. Benning, | Ga., the command and genera} staff | school at Leavenworth, Kansas and | also the army war college at Wash- | ington, D. C. | Mrs. Crockett accompanied her | husband to his new assignment. | ! VAN WERTS TO SEATTLE | Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Van Wert are scheduled to leave today on Pan American for Seattle. They are at- tending the International Power Boat Association banquet held Sat- urday evening in Segttle at which the awards for the 1951 Capital- to-Capital Cruiser Race will be made. They are also to visit his par- ents in Bremerton, Wash. FROM LOS ANGELES Mr. and Mrs, J. D. Britton of Los Angeles, Calif, are guests at the Baranof Hotel. They arrived here yesterday from Anchorage on PNA. ticulars concerning the operation of including a fi- nancial report. The company has reserved a decision until the facts are in hand. Gov. Gruening said there had' been no desire to put the Territory into private businesy and only tnokl over the operation of the Hamps] ferry when it was necessary. He said the ferry was taken over be- cause of an obligation to the puhli(‘,‘ which had come to expect this link with the Alaska Highway. He said the Territory would like to have the ferry run by a private concern if it could be shown that rates and fares would remain rea- sonable. Salmon Contrads For Army Awarded SEATTLE, Nov. 13—{P—Twenty Seattle and Alaska 1irms shared serious cooperation to get on with| contracts for more than $2,000,000 | Yesterday enroute to company head- in canned salmon purchases re- ported by the government today. The salmon is for the armed forces. Two firms, the Whiz Fish Pro- ducts Co. and Whitney and Co., each were awarded contracts de- scribed in the official report only as exceeding $250,000. ‘The other firms, all giving Seattle addresses, and the amount of the contracts, as covered in the weekly report issued by the Seattle re-; gional office of the Commerce De- partment, were: / Fishermen’s Packing Corp, $69,600; Washington Fish and Oys- | ter Co., Inc., $87,552; S. and P. Sales Co., $29,520; Bristol Bay Packing Co., $47,280; Kenai Pnck-t ers, $45113; Frank B. Peterson Co.,| $60,500; Sea Brands, Inc., $37,650; Sebastian-Stuart Fish Co., $64,530; | Uganik Fisheries, Inc., $44,376; Hamlin - Halferty Seafoods, Inc., $42,700; Annette Islands Canning Co., $43,776; Icy Straits Salmon Co., $60,681; Oceanic Fisheries Co., Inc., $152,490; Peninsula Packers, $118,230; P. E. Harris Co., Inc, $156,508; Intercoastal Packing Co., $168,300; Ketchikan Packing Co., $130,369; and New England Fish Co., $236,000. N. W. Fisheries Assn. Announced SEATTLE, Nov. tion of the Northwest Fisheries Association ‘was announced today. The group is made up of whole- salers in the fish and seafood in- dustry. Its announced purpose is to promote the industry in the Pa- cific Northwest. The association is chartered in Washington but is designed also to include industry members in Alaska. FROM SKAGWAY James Patterson of Skagway Is at the Gastineau Hotel. TIDE TABLES NOVEMBER 17 High tide 4:11 am., 145 ft. Low tide 0:45 am. 52 ft. 16—{M—Forma- | 3 PROVIDENCE, R.I, Nov. 16—®— | A little Chinese girl wrote what was in her heart and today her com- position was issued as the official Thanksgiving Day proclamation of historic Rhode Island. The document bore the signature of Gov. Dennis J. Roberts, but the words were those of Roberta Fong, 17, winner of a statewide high school competition for the honor. Roberta’s ancestors were not May- flower passengers,<but this is what she wrote: “More than 300 years ago, our Pilgrim forefathers invited the In- dians to join them in a day of celebration on which they would thank God for His goodness to them in their new home. We remember that the Indians brought gifts to the white man’s table; and that warriors and Pilgrims sat side by side in peace. We know that this was the first Thanksgiving Day; {a day which has since become a | national holiday. “Though our way of life today little resembles that of our ances- jtors, we still feel in our hearts the same gratitude to Our Lord. Soon; we shall celebrate another Thanis- | giving Day. Across the nation, fam- |ilies will bow their heads in rev- |m-euc£‘ and thank God for His/ infinite goodness. Particularly in these times of unrest and suffering, we shall realize how many reasons we have to be thankful. “Here in America we enjoy the privileges and rights which have! clevated our standard of living to| the highest in the world.'. . . As we observe Thanksgiving this year, let. us remember the principles on which this day was founded. May| it be a day of prayer, praise and, thankfulness.” Roberta’s father, an army vet- eran, is an aviation mechanies stu- dent under the GI bill. Her mother is a restaurant employee. i Tulsequah Mines Producing 250 Tons Ore Daily Jack McLean, superintendent of the Tulsequah Mines, Ltd., Tulse- quah, B, C,, came through Juneau quarters in Trail, B. C. He left here with his family this morning on | the Princess Louise. McLean reports that approximate- | ly 200 men are now employed at | Tulsequah producing 250 tons daily |of base metals of copper, lead and | zinc. Because there is no winter |mode of transportation, the concen- |trates are being stockpiled at the Imine until river navigation opens' up in the spring when they will be |shipped to the Trail smelter. The mining man expects to return about the middle of December, he said. " Good Progress Made On Eklufna Project Joseph M. Morgan, director of the! Bureau of Reclamation here, re- turned Wednesday from Eklutna, where he inspected progress on the hydroelectric project there, and | Anchorage where he gave an Armis- ‘;me Day address last Monday night. Morgan reports that Morrison- Knudson, contractors for the tun- nel-driving job at Eklutna, are making such good -progress that it |15 likely to step up the completion of the project by six months. It is now believed that the first unit 1of the plant will be in operation by April 1, 1954, M-K has completed a 144-man dormitory, heating plant, temporary power plant, mess hall and access roads on both sides of the tunnel. PRICE TEN CENTS Truman fo Fight for Fair Deal’ Will Demand Place in Demo Platform; Obvious Challenge Made KEY WEST, Fla, Nov. 16—(®— President Truman plans to fight for his entire “Fair Deal” program —Civil Rights proposals and all— {both within his own Democratic Party as well as against his Re- publican opponents. And regardless of who runs for President on the Democratic ticket, whether it's Mr. Truman himself or someone else, the Chief Executive made it crystal clear yesterday that he has no thought of giving up control of the Democratic Party. In words that came with a fighting mood, the President put it bluntly that he is going to see tp it that his “Fair Deal” demands be given a place in the Demo- eraft’'s platform, Four years ago the President lost four southern states by his firm adherence to these sharply contro- versial civil rights proposals. His insistence yesterday that his “Fair - Deal” program be incor- porated into, his party’s platform for the 1952 race shaped up as an obvious challenge to such leaders of the anti-Truman forces as Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina and Senator Byrd (D-Va). 4 Byrd, a stalwart in the south’s opposition to the ‘civil rights pro- gram, declared ‘that' inclusion this program in the platform Democrats will take into the sidential campalgn will mean hard fight within the party. Said Byrd in Washington: “If the President is right in his forecast about the party platform, especially as to civil, rights, it will | touch off a bitter new fight.” Drop Bombs In Try To Divert Flood ‘Walers in aly ROVIGO, Italy, Nov. 16— @ — Planes were ordered out in pea soup fog today to drop bombs along the raging Po, River in an effort to divert flood waters menacing (Rovigo and Adrio. Helicopters were pressed into service to rescue terrorized and isolated flood victims in northern Italy, where at least 93 persons have perished in the past week. Property damage runs into the . millions. Hundreds of thousands of acres of the fertile Po Valley are under water, damaging' crops. Muddy waters were already flood- ing the streets of Rivogo, a provin- clal capital of 40,000 population. Adria, with a similar population, lies to the southeast, clear to the Adriatic Sea. * Authorities hope the bombs will breach the banks of the Canal Biango—the White Canal—near Arqua and send the surging Po wat- ers into a less thickly populated regioii. Arqua is about 10 miles southwest of Rovigo. The canal was flooded by the swollen Po. Mail Pay Rafes Upped, Rail Lines WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—M—The Interstate Commerce Commission today gratited the rallroads a fur- ther increase of about 33 percent in mail pay rates. The ipcrease was estimated to give the carriers about $74,889,000 more a year for hauling the mails. Today's award hoosts the gov- ernment’s rallway mail pay about 80 percent higher than the rates Plans call for starting of two-way driving of the 10%-foot tunnel with 1,000 feet of excavation com- pleted by December 1. At Anchorage Morgan gave an Armistice Day address to a large crowd at the Carpenter's Hall Mon- day night in connection with the meeting of the Alaska Develop- ment Board, JUNEAU VISITOR Max McFayden of Seattle is re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel. Denali scheduled southbound Sun- day morning. Baranof scheduled to sail from | Seattle today. High tide 3:37 p.m., 16.2 ft. Low tide 10:24 pm., 05 ft. ® 0 00 00 00 00 Freighter Sailors Splice sched- | uled to arrive from Seattle on | Sunday. in effect in 1947, when the railroads started proceedings for larger com- pensation. Stock Quofations NEW YORK, Nov. 16—(P—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 106%, American Tel. and Tel. 157, Anaconda 51%, Douglas Aircraff 57'%, General Electric 56, General Motors 487%, Goodyear 42'¢, Ken- necott 87%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8':, Northern Pacific 56, Standard Oil of California 51, Twentieth Century Fox 22%, U.S. Steel 40, Pound $280, Canadian Exchange 94.50. Sales today were 1,140,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials. 260.36, rails 81.08, util- ities 46.44. VISITOR FROM SEATTLE Carl Hall of Seattle is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.