The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1951, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL y . EAERARY WASHINGTON, D, ¢ 'HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,983 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Light Vole Is Being Cast in Boxd Election A light vote was cast in today's special bond issue election up to 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. At precinct No. 1, Memorial Lib- rary, only 132 voters had cast bal- lots. Only 67 had voted at precinct No. 2, Juneau Dairies. The polls will remain 7 o'clock tonight and heavy voting is expected to take place around 4:30 to 5 o’clock. The voters are asked to decide the fate of the three bond issues (1) $290,000 for construction of a 3 Gity hall; (2) $287,000 for street im- | Vith Judge George W Ol provements; (3) and $88,000 for im- | ¥'01"3 o ""‘-"'; ““)“”' Sty Drovements. tos the 116 station and | FORty persans have peed 8680 rebuilding the fire alarm system. | th¢ grand jury which is ordered Any resident who has paid 1(':1]‘![“ report at 10 am. .I:muf\ry 3. ’l»ll:‘ personal or auto taxes in Juneau list for the regular jury contains is eligible to vote. 60 names of persons who are to report at 10 a.m. January 10. The grand jurors are: irom Ju-| neau—Karl E. Ashenbrenner, Ro- McGrath o Resign T. B. Erickson, Thelma George, Marion Hedges, Edgar L. Holioway, Jessie M. Hulbert, Charles John- son, Irma 1. Johnson, Frances E. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—(P—At- torney General McGrath today ex- pressed complete confidence in the integrity of the government’s legal | Kester, Mrs, Gertrude Klein, Lau- rence K. Larsson, Kenneth Millard, talent. He defied those interested in special influence to try to tempt c George A. Parks, Helen J. Pheasant, Bertha Stevens, Helen V. Stutte, T. R. Vanwert, Warren H. Wilson, Ed- them from their duty. The Attorney General, flushed and obviously moved by the fire ward C. Zigler. From Sitka—Henry Benson, Mary that has been directed toward his department in the culrent tax Cushing, Charles Fratter, Claudine Lersten, James L. Sarvela, Mrs fraud investigations, made the state- ment in a fighting off-the-cuff | Helen V. Wallarth. Harold Carlson, Morgan medi speech before a luncheon meeting | of the Federal Bar Association. and Byer Sawyer, from Skagway; Isabelle Cashen of Douglas; Mervin McGrath made it clear that he has no intentions of resigning his E. Clover, Christine Fryer, Walter | Hofstad, of Petersburg; Donna positibn as: has been reported in some quarters, Flint, of Salmon Creek; Mimi Gregg, of Port Chilkoot; Peter E. Johnson, of Angoon; Louise Marsh, Dean Rusk Quifs L] State Depariment; . Stays as Advisor of Mendenhall; Mrs. John F. Mor- KEY WEST, Fla, Dec. 6—P— rison, of Basin Road; John A. Johnson of Pelican. President Truman today announced the acceptance of ‘the resignation Jurors Picked | For Court Term ! open to ot | Starting Jan. 3 clerk of the court, | that the regular District Court | W. Folta pre- J. W. Leivers s announced term off the U Petit Jurors Tha potit e | neau—Mrs. Bradford, Dorothy J. Carroll, B. T. Chandler, Lloyd V. Connell, Ef- fie B. Cook, Peter I. Dahl, Ray V. Dotson, Richard A. Frank, Jane M. Furst, Nathalie Gustafson, Carl F.| Hagerup, Henry A. Harmon, Inez“ Hogins, R. A. Hollingsworth, Vin- | cent Isturis, Oscar Jenson, Charles E. Judson, Harry I. Lucas, Jr., Os- | car Lundstrom, Phyllis N. Martin, ‘Mrs. Douglas Mead, Laura Melseth, R. Nunamaker, Charles Otte- Al LR | | | scores of burned bodies in the | Berggren, Mrs. E. L. Bost, @ €.| Scores of Burned Bodies Seen - In Het Blanket of Ashes of Frupiing Volcano in Philippines (EDITOR'S NOTE: Frank L. White, AP chief of bureau in Manila, flew to Camiguin Island Wednesday in a U.S. Navy sea- plane which carried nurses and medical supplies. He was the first American newsman on the scene. (Communications facilities were jammed, so White hired a 65-foot lauach to take him 12 miles across Surigao Strait to Mindanao Is- land. As the aune left 30 terror - stricken os leaped abeard, rying all of their be- longings. (On Mindanae, White borrowed a car and drove 50 miles to Cag- ayan where he filed his graphic dispatch). MAHINOG, Philippines, Camiguin Island, Dec. 6—M—Flaming Mrs. Albert Carlson, | Hibok Hibok volcano hid its toll of dead today under a smoking blanket of ash which rained for the third successive day on seven burned vil- lages. So far 209 bodies have been re- covered. Official estimates say 500 more probably are buried in a six square mile area covered by lava and volcanic ash. It may be a week before total casuelties in Tuesday's eruption are known. Poisonous fumes rising from molten lava and red hot ash drove search crews from the stricken villages on the charred slopes of Hibok Hibok. Two new blasts shook the volcano Wednesday feeding the sulphurous pall of smoke hanging like an um- brella over the mountain. They were the third and fourth eruptions. Searchers who approached the buried villages said they saw bodies near one village.) Ten thousand people crowded into this little seaside town of 3,000 waiting for the governor to decide whether they could be evacuated to nearby Mindanao Island. (Philippines News Service said 10,000 of the island’s 45,000 people already had fled.) Refugees crowded into Mahinog included almost the entire 7,000 of Dean Rusk, Assistant Eecretary.‘sen Donald H. Peterson, B. W. Rus- | d S ffairs. It ;> "’ 5 Ay | population of Mamajao, largest chigiie {or as PAtCER 0N {sell, W .A. Sobolefi, E. E. Stender, |,y on Jjttle Camiguin Island. is effective immediately. Rusk has been chosen President of the Rockefeller Foundation, to succeed Chester I. Barnard when the latter retires next June. Although Rusk is resigning, he will stay on as a consultant on the U.S. Japan Security Pact, an ex- change Of letters with President Truman revealed. C. D. Swanson, Myrtle B. Thomp- son, Mary V. Toner, Grace Tref- fers, Nedford H. Zenger. From Sitka—B. O. Frank Cashel, Theron J. Cole, Geor- gia Conley, Laurence T. Doig, Tony Herman, Frances C. Hildinger, T. R. Jackson, Mrs. Andrew Johnnie, Mrs. Bessie Sam, J. R. Shennett, | Howard R. Smith, Mary Whitcomb, covtaacrors awe mee (M DO Lol 4 A R. H. Stock and J. J. Grove of} T Sienry W, Berger, tractors, are stopping at the BAra~1o," nqgrom, Aril Mathisen, Mary nof Hotel after a.trip to Sitka. R;)binsnn. Thomas Seott, Charley ol J. Sparks, William S. Stocking, Ber- nice Stoke, Lillian H .Swanson, Erling Thynes, C. Don ‘Williams, Dorothy Wingard. From Lynn Canal—H. C. Bracke_n, Lois M. Jund, Mrs. Pete Nickel, Lil- lian F. Nelson, William Somonds. From Douglas—Edwin C. John- son, Val A. Poor, Mike Rieser, Geo. Agnes Berg, H. B. Stone- E. R. Pierce of Petersburg is atl the Baranof Hotel. TheWashington Merry - Go- Round N Edwards. #Copy=ight, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) e, Jennie Joseph of Tenakee; By SN REANO Marjérie Crueger of Jamestown (Ed. Note—The brass ring, good |Bay; Thomas B. Lambert and Grant for one free, though rather rough |Logan of Chichagof; Frank Jackson ride on the Washington Merry- |and David Roberts of Mt. Edge- go-Round, goes today to Attorney |cumbe; Max Steffen of S““w‘;‘ General J. Howifrd MaqGrath.) |Calvin C. Headlee, of Port Chil- —_— koot; Louis Maturovage of Fan- WASH!NGTON — Those who [shaw; Ardis M. Oltmn. o!ThSco: have worked with likable Howard |Bay; Sylvia D. Watkins, of Thafiet McGrath as Attorney General say|and Margaret Anne Williams, 0 there are only two things wrong |Salmon Creck. with him: 1. He is seldom around the place where he is supposed to work—the Justice Department. 2. He has his eyes so firmly fixed on the U. S. Supreme Court that|e e © e e o o o o he is afraid to make any moves e WEATHER REPORT that might make enemies. . (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU Real fact is that McGrath ent-|e Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ered the Justice Department with|e At Airport: Maximum, 32; every expectation of being upped |e Minimum, 27. to the Supreme Court within a year. Justice Stanley Reed, not in the best of health, was expected to retire. 4 But Reed recovered. Meanwhile the policy of offending no one, es- tablished early in the McGrath re- gime, has drifted on. Early in life, likewise, Howard got into the habit of offending no one. He learned that if you're lucky and don’t rock the boat, things come your way. He also learned that if you exude enough charm, a rea- i A AT HOTEL JUNEAU ! Henry Adams of Yakutat is regis- | tered at the Hotel Juneau. e o Ll FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Considerable cloudiness with an oecasicnal snow shower to- night. Lowest temperature near 28 degrees. Parily cloudy with occasional gusty north- easterly winds Friday. Highest Friday around 32 degrees. PRECIPITATION ,.(Muhmn ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport — 0.05 inches; since July 1—18.11 inches. Boettcher, | ©90000000000000qoe0 e ene .. (Continued on FOURTH MAJOR BLAST MANILA, Hikok Hibok volcano spewed out a new rain of fiery ashes late Thurs- day in its fourth major blast in three days. Additional casualties were feared. The latest eruption from the fiery mile-high inferno was re ported to have occurred at 4 p.m, Thursday. Some 200 persons, mainly Chinese storekeepers and their families and Philippine army troops, had re- mained in Mambajao. Dispatches from the Philippines News Service and Manila Times correspondents on the 13-mile-long {island said the latest eruption ap- parently came from a new vent. on the northern slope. The new vent was opened Tuesday night. The Philippine News Service re- port indicated there were deaths and injuries among those who had remained in Mambajao. Postoffice Open Later Saturday for Chrisimas Mailing To help Juneau Christrhas shop- pers get packages mailed south, the postoffice will be open Satur- day from 10 a.m. to ¢ p.m. instead |of closing at 1 o'clock as usual on Saturdays. Packages mailed then will catch the Baranof, which goes south Sunday. Steck Quefations NEW YORK, Dec. 6—{#—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 111, American Tel. and Tel. 158, Anaconda 50%, Douglas Aircraft 597%, General Electric 57, General Motors 51%, Goodyear 44%, Kenne- cott 88%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 69%, Standard Ofl of California 50%, Twentieth Century Fox 19%, U.S. Steel 40%, Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange 96.75. Sales today were 1,840,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 266.23, rails 83.58, util- ities 46.41. Friday — (\— Raging ' Barflett Predids Early Passage of Statehood Bill Delegate E. L. Bartlett spoke on statehood and two more nomina- tions were made for the executive board when the Juneau Chamber of Commerce met at the Baranof Hotel this noon. Bartlett briefly traced the his- tory of statehood bills since the first one was introduced in Con- gress by James Wickersham in 1916. He refuted-tife argument that the new ctate would not have control of its lands and resources. He said that the Senate came up with a formula that would give Alaska compact contiguous areas adjacent to established communities or wherever chosen, except in the Na- tional Forests. He assured the Chamber that the new state would have the same control over its fish and game as other states. In response to a question regard- ing tidelands and filled-in tide- lands, Bartlett said that would be | the same as other states. He said that Alaskans should get ready for statehood and predicted the early passage of the present bill. Peter Wood and Jerry McKinley were added to the list of nomina- tions for executive board members. Others previously nominated were F. O. Eastaugh, O. F. Benecke, Henry Green, Franz Nagel, Pete Warner, Charles Burdick and E. J. O'Brien. Election will be held next Thurs- day noon. Pete Warner, chairman of the outdoor committee, urged support of the Ski Club's efforts to acquire Ia Sno-Cat to haul skiers and otk to the ski area on Douglas Island. “I believe this is the greatest step toward development of a Juneau | winter sports area,” he declared. Mayor Waino Hendrickson urged the membership to vote today on the bond proposals port of ‘Wake Island. ! | [Brilain_KrTns Program Lags Says Churchill LONDON, Dec. 6 — (® — Prime | Minister Winston Churchill dis- closed today his goverpment has | given up hope of fulfilling Britain's three-year, $13,160,000,000 arms pro- gram on schedule. . At the same time, he told the House of Commons, he thinks there is less danger of a third world war now than at any time since the Berlin airlift crisis in 1948. Churchill declined to say how much Britain would fall short of| meeting geted for the armed services during | the current year. Ticket Sale Strong For Bartlefi-Demo ’Dinner Tonight Local Democrats estimate there will be close to 100 persons at the $5 a plate dinner tonight in honor of E. L. Bartlett, Alaska’s delegate to Congress. The dinner i3 at Mike'’s in Doug- las. The ticket sale is limited to 100 !and Democrats say the demand may exceed the supply. Delegate Bart- lett is scheduled to speak. His topic has not been announced but several party members have said the speech might be the kick-off for party tivities for the coming election y Special interest has been shown with the dinner coming between the local caucuses and the divisional convention for Democrats at Sitka next week. COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT The Juneau City Council © hold a regular meeting at 7:30 p= tonight in the city clerk’s office the city dock. Denall scheduled to sail from Se- | attle tomorrow. | Baranof scheduled to arrive| southbound Sunday at 6 p.m. Freighter Cassiar due to arrive homes, emolishing four and damaging a fitth, civilian and tive pirmen injured. (® Wirephoto. B-29 (rashes; Homes Destroyed Armistice new . an Allied t proposal, The Communists want all inspec- tions mad> by representatives of| The Alaska okservers honored: neutral npacicns, T UN. Com-| Twenty to 20 years service: Am-| mand has : forma!ly rejected this|alia H. Hill, Allakaket, Alaska. idea. Ten to 20 years service: Fred Levie said the Communist dele-|Bahovec, Baranof; Emma Leach, that the use people. Levie emphasized, however, that Allied negotators did not regard the Red reaction as a rejection of the cight-point program. He said the probably will its rearmament targets,|more to say when the delegates but said it would be unable to spend | meet again in Panmunjom at 11 on time even the $3,500,000,000 bud- | a.m, Friday (6 p.m. EST Thursday). Communists Ships Collide, Another Sinks, In Stormy Seas VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 6—®— Two ships collided and another sank during a storm off the coast of British Columbia yesterday. The 416-ton coastal freighter Is- land Prince and the fishpacker Chilco Lake collided in Grenville Channel, 450 miles north of here. The fishpacker North Isle re- moved most of the freighter's 14- man crew. Others remained aboard in an attempt to get the freighter into Prince Rupert. The Chilco Lake, its bow crump- led, was taken in tow by another packer headed for Prince Rupert. The four-man crew of the fish- packer Marmae took to the lifeboat fter the packer struck a floating vbject and foundered in choppy waters in Georgia Strait. were rescued by the packer Western Dec. 12, Cruiser. | ferred directly from ships to rail- am. (8T). | road flatears and delivered to An- It was the second flight across | chorage sidings. R the Atlantic for B-36s. The first| smith foresees delivery of 18,090 TIDE TABLE was to England’Jan. 12. They e- | pounds a week to his Anchorage turned Jan. 21 | distribution point. | In years to come, Smith thinks, . o | MRS. ANNIE WALTERS | Alaskans will munch pre-frozen . DECEMBER 7 e |OF TENAKEE DIES bread in the regions where their an- 0 e | Mrs, Annie Walters, 25, died this | cestors used to treasure sourdough e Low tide 2:41 am. 30 ft. ®|morning at the Government Hos- biscuits, bread and hotcakes. e High tide 9:17 am. 158 ft. @ |pital. She was from Tenakee. The | P URARSIRIRDL S s 2 e Low tide 3:45 pm., 32 ft. e |remains are at the Carfer Mortuary W. A. BATES IS HERE o High tide 9:54 p.m. 133 ft. e |and funeral arrangements will be, W. A. Bates of Ketchikan is at e © 06 0 0 0 o o o o o announced later. lmeflumulfloul. Korea, Dec. 6 — (& — today agreed to go along Communist demand that ecif] points be subject to E ng a Korean arnmis- caneession was " em. point plan for solv- \i‘ hé bitter dispute over policing their demand for unre- behind-the-lines ions, they insisted that the checks i be ' made by foint Allied-Red teams, The Reds reacted immediately— | and unfavorably — to the Allied said a U.N. spokesman, | Lt. Col. Howard Levie. cates repeated their old argument of joint teams would interfere with the in- ternal affairs of the North Korean Denver, Cclo., firemen fight fiaming wreckage of a B-29 bomber which crashed into a rew of swank E ight airmen were apparently killed and at I[:ast one |5 Alaska Weather |Reds R ;Observors Honored | \ By Secy. Commerce WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—(P—Sec- retary of Commerce Charles Saw- ver today paid tribute to the na- tion's 10,000 volunteer weather ob- servers for their patriotic service to the United States. He made his commendation con- currently witil the Jssuaiice Of w volume entitled “The Cooperative Weather Observer” prepared by the Weather Bureau. The commemorative volume lists the names of 1,887 observers who | have served voluntarily for more than 10 years, including five from | Alaska. Working with standard gages and | thermometers provided by the Wea- | & ther Bureau, the voluntear observer | K‘p“)‘ s cach day makes his readings and fused to records them on a special form | which he mails to Weather Bureau cction offices once a month. , The United | charged the Cog night with “ part of a truce negotiators inspec- Nuckols” Maj. Gen, proposals to set up question. Circlé Hot Bprifigs: W, C. Graham, | °75® of war, Gull Cove; Joseph T. Bauer, Radio- ville. inspection U.S. Bombers Make 10,000 Mile Flight During Allie have Korean armistice. FORT WORTH, Tex. Dec. (M—Six strategic air command B-! 36 hombers—the kind that could carry an atomic bomb 10,000, miles | and more—landed at home today after a 4,984-mile non-Stop hop to| Africa and the non-stop flight back. They landed in Africa at a new American air base, one of several super-secret air fields ~being built around the world for global defense. Aj. L. A. Proul, intelligence offi- ser of Southbridge, Mass, said it ~as the first time flights other ‘han local ones had landed at the 3idi Slimane, French Morocco, field Crewmen shrugged off the actual flying as routine. But today they still couldn’t sto talking about the food—for instance the 54 filet mignon steaks for one 18-man crew alone—on the re- turn flight. Several crewmen stepped from the planes wearing bright red fezzes, characteristic headdress of parie of North Africa. The first glant 10-engine bomber touched down at Carswell at 12: and breadstuffs. of boxes” Cat loading it rives in Anchorage. They efuse Brig. Gen. William: said Red delegates at truce talks apparengly to force the Allies to e > munist terms for superyision /s armistice by delaying di: 3 the prisoners exchange. blast came after consider repeated Allfe The reinforced breadboxes ride the deck of steamers, be trans Lee Sang a second sub= in committee to work on the prisoner ! og geaq may rise General Lee was quoted as say- ing “when there is no prospeet for | progress of the meeting, our semor' | delegate (Lt. Gen. Nam II) will not; | &ive us any answer about the pris- meeting the be subject to inspection during a Sialeside Bakery Shipping Frozen Bread fo Alaska SEATTLE, Dec. 6—(P—Now it's frozen bread for Alaska. On its next ship for the north Alaska Steamship will carry its first sizeable shipment of frozen bread The bread will travel north in big plywood containers 8 feet square| and 62 feet deep. Built at a cost $700 apiece, the plywood ‘ice- weigh 800 pounds epiece and have a capacity of 16,800 loaves. They're Curt Smith's answer to the bread shipping problem. Smith, who operates Vic’s Band Box Lunch here, is shipping thej bread north for sale by his Pacific ring Co. in Anchorage. He's buying the bread from a big Seattle bakery, pre-freezing it and into his big breadboxes with enough dry ice to keep it below freezing until it ar- insulated will 'No Tieup Coast Shipping SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6—P— The Marine Cooks and Stewards Union won a 6.2 percent wage boost from the Pacific Maritime Assn. yesterday, thus averting a tieup of 14 ships owned by PMA firms. Union members resumed signing on all ships, a union spokesman sald. The shipowners agreed to pay the increase over January base pay to all steward department per- sonnel regardless of union affilia- tion. The dispute had affected nine ships here, two in Seattle and three in eastern ports. The 6.2 percent Increase was made retroactive to July 15 and a 3.7 percent increase was granted from that date back to June 16. The PMA also agreed to reduce the work week from 44 to 40 hours if the Wage Stabilization Board approves similar benefits for other unlicensed seagoing personnel. The Alaska Steamship Company's MS Susitna, tied up in Seattle by the dispute, signed on stewards and left for Alaska soon after the agree- ment was reached. Matson Line officlals said the Hawaiian Craftsman, also held in Seattle, would sign crews today and continue her voyage to British Co- lumbia. A : Pro-Communists Mous condition and the toll An estimated 5,000 pro-Commun- ist students started the heaviest rioting when they marched on the Majiis (parliament) shortly after dawn, in defiance of a government ban on demonstrations. Nationalists who support Premier Another U.N. spokesman at the| Mohammed Mossad meeting, Lt. Col. Howard Levie, told o R apalied lato Allied correspondents, “I think to 1 of us that had somewhat the im- plication of blackmail.” Thursday’s the streets and engaged in bloody conflict wherever they met the Reds. The police and Natlonalists to- gether smashed and routed the Reds i who sholited “death to Mossadegh” 1 agreed to go along with a Red | ang fought with el {demand that only specified points | o o e el i fists. What started as a Communist show of force against Mossadegh's i government turned into a bloody Red defeat. Yelling mobs of Nationalists smashed and burned Communist “peace” headquarters, raided pro- Communist newspapers and a the- ater, and dumped bushels of torn and burned propaganda books and leaflets into the sunlit streets. Veteran observers believed the | Nationalists were taking advantage of the riotous situation to wipe out known centers of the outlawed lcammu.nlxt ‘Tudeh party. 9 Atfa Boy! Soldier In Korea Playing It Safe, Maybe By the Associated Press It seems there is one Army pri- vate in Korea who doesn't believe in putting all his eggs in one basket. He has written to an Army shop- ping center in Yokohama, Japan, and ordered eight identical gifts for Christmas. He had them sent to eight different girls in the United States, each to be accompanied by this note: “I will love you always.” i | i