OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIV No. 29 NOmI ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1952 Per Copy—io
Hawaii Delegation
To Challenge
Sen. Connally
HONOLULU, (/P)—A delegation
of Americans consisting of one
Caucasian, one Hawaiian and one
Japanese—all war veterans—and
a Hawaiian Gold Star Mother
leaves Friday to challenge Sen.
Tom Connally on his remarks
about the Americanism of Hawaii.
Connally, in a Senate speech
Monday opposing immediate con
sideration of the Hawaii statehood
bill, said he was a better Ameri
can than many persons living in
Hawaii.
Many of the people living there,
he added, “are not of American
descent.”
Hawaii bristled, fired a barrage
of protests and poured dimes and
dollars into a fund to send a
delegation to Texas and Wash
ington.
Adding fuel to the fire was the
fact that during World War II
Hawaii’s 442nd Regiment rescued
trapped elements of Texas’ own
36th Division in Italy.
The 442nd sustained more cas
ualties in the rescue than the
number of trapped Texans and
came crut of the war the most
decorated American outfit.
Hawaii Court Acquits
Fairbanks Night Club Man
Involved In Shooting
HONOLULU, (i<P) — A circuit
court jury has acquitted Raymond
V. Wright, 39, Fairbanks, Alaska,
night club operator, of a Honolulu
airport shooting involving a
young Samoan.
Defense counsel John H. Peters
told the jury Wright shot and
wounded Tinet Su, 23, in self de
fense after a gun had been drawn
on him. Peters declared Wright
had come by plane to Honolulu to
find his wife.
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Peters said Su was one of a
group which surrounded Wright
at the airport.
Wright is under five-year sen
tence for violation of the federal
narcotics law. His conviction re
cently was upheld by the US.
Court of Appeals.
U.S. Marshal Otto Heine said
Wright will be taken to Seattle
within a week to serve his sen
tence at McNeil Island, Wash.
Alaska Scout Learns To
Like Milk Shakes But Still
Hankers For Dried Salmon
FORT LEWIS, Wash., (/P>—Pfc.
Arthur Kinegak has learned to
like milk shakes and hard candy
since becoming a patient at Madi
gan General Hospital.
But he still likes his native
delicacies of fish.
The Alaskan native, a member
of an Alaska National Guard
Scout Battalion, was hit by the
landing gear of a low-flying plane
two months ago. He suffered sev
eral fractures and multiple cuts.
# Recovering here, he got a han
kering for some “salmon strips.”
Friends got some, “custom
smoked” salmon from the Sky
komish Indian Reservation near
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Funeral Services For
Mr. and Mrs. Reggie Joule
To Be Held Tomorrow
The funeral of Reginald Lieb
| Joule, age 30, pilot of the bush
plane which crashed last week,
is being held from the Covenant
Church tomorrow afternoon at
two o’clock with Rev. Paul Carl
son in charge.
Joule was born at Pt. Hope and
had all his schooling in the terri
tory, having attended at Kivalina,
Buckland, Pt. Lay and Eklutna.
He is also a veteran, having
served with the Armed Forces
in Italy during World War II,
after which he took up flying
under the GI Bill and returned
to the territory.
The American Legion is fur
nishing the flag for the funeral
service. The Alaska National
Guard will participate with a fir
ing squad at the grave and the
CAP will be in charge.
He is survived by his father,
Tony Joule, and step-mother; sis
ters Vera Huff of Nome and Ma
ble Blatchford of Sitka, a brother
Sylvester, who is in the Armed
Forces and has arrived for the
funeral; two’ half sisters, Mildred
Dorothy and Annie; an aunt,
Mary Smith, residing at Snoho
mish. where Reggie was married
on Jan. 9; and an uncle, Max
Lieb, of Bethel'.
Mrs. Joule will be buried from
the Catholic Church tomorrow
morning at nine o’clock, with
Father Murphy in charge of the
service.
She was the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Johnny Kakarak of Ig
loo, where she was born Oct. 13,
1929. She has two brothers, Fred
erick and Wilfred, and a sister,
Jeanne, all of Igloo.
Disputed Heir To Morgan
Fortune, Shot, Wounded
NEW YORK, (jP)—Sol A. Ros
enblatt, society lawyer and dis
puted heir to a J. P. Morgan
granddaughter’s fortune, was
wounded Thursday night by a
mystery gunman as he entered
his Park Avenue home.
The attorney, one-time general
counsel for the Democratic Na
tional Committee, was struck in
the left thigh by one of three
shots fired by his assailant, who
escaped in a car with another
man.
Rosenblatt, 51, a key figure in
the currently contested will left
by Mrs. Eleanor Morgan Satterlee,
kin of the late J. P. Morgan the
elder, said after the shooting:
“I wish I had something to
tell you, but I don’t know any
thing.”
The shooting came six hours
after hearings on the disputed
will had been postponed without
explanation until Monday.
New Law to Remove Need
For Alaska Matching Fund
WASHINGTON, (£>)—President
Truman has signed a bill author
izing the federal government to
pay a major share of civilian de
fense costs in Alaska.
. Heretofore, the territory was re
quired to match the government
dollar for dollar. The new law
removes this requirement. It does
not specify what percent is to be
275 People Injured
When Bleachers
Fall at Ice Show
BALTIMORE, (JP) — Top state
and city officials Friday began a
thorough investigation into the
collapse of a section of bleachers
at an ice show Thursday night.
At least 275 persons were in
jured, 32 of them seriously.
The section of bleachers gave
way at 8:25 p.m., a few minutes
before Sonja Henie’s Ice Revue
was to begin its opening appear
ance. About 7,000 people were in
the Fifth Regiment Armory.
Just as the rink lights went on
•and the band struck up a tune,
there came a sickening crunch
that grew into a loud roar as
the back section of seats dropped
into a tangled mass of broken
timbers and flailing arms and
legs.
Miss Henie’s manager said the
stands were erected by a con
tracting firm described as a vet
eran in constructing that type of
stand for circuses, fairs and sim
ilar events. -
Spectators said uprights still
were being nailed in place while
the audience was streaming into
the stands.
Report On
Fairbanks Vice
Conditions
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — A report
outlining vice conditions in Fair
banks was made public Thursday
at a special meeting between the
city council and Brig. Gen. Don
ald B. Smith, commander of Ladd
Air Force Base.
The report was compiled by
agents of the American Social
Hygiene Association, who sur
veyed the city’s vice conditions in
January of this year. The survey
was made at the request of the
Department of Defense.
The agents found that a large
number of prostitutes were doing
business in the city’s bars. The
agents said the women were oper
ating openly, charging a standard
price of $20 and doing land office
business around military paydays.
General Smith has threatened
to take drastic action if the city
vice conditions are not cleaned.
He hasn’t said what action he will
take but it is generally assumed
he means to put Fairbanks off
limits to military personnel if the
undesirable conditions contiqpe.
Japanese Crab Fishing
Vessels Will Be Barred
From North Pacific
TOKYO, (/P) — A government
spokesman announced Friday
Japanese crab fishing vessels will
be banned from the North Pacific
this year because of adverse Am
erican reaction.
Kozen Hirokawa, minister of
agriculture and forestry, reported
the action. Several Japanese com
panies had been competing for
the right to fish the area,' un
touched by Nipponese since World
War Two.
Hirokawa said the government
would not recompense any of the
concerns for losses thev suffered
New Hampshire Overrun ‘
By Presidential Candidates
Before Election Tuesday
(Ey the Associated Press)
Presidential candidates found it
hard to keep from bumping into
each other in New Hampshire
Friday as they stepped up their
town- to- town^jdrive for votes in
the nation’s first Presidential
primary just four days away.
Victory Tuesday will mean lit
tle except the prestige of being an
early winner and some talking
points between now and the na
tional conventions in July. But
three candidates and top back
ers of two others felt it was worth
the old college try.
Sen. Taft of Ohio, jubilant after
several traffic-stopping appear
ances, planned heavy schedules
for the home stretch.
Harold E. Stassen challenged
Taft with five questions, dealing
mainly with the senator’s stand
on the defense effort.
Sen. Kefauver of Tennessee,
Democratic candidate, intensi
fied his hand-shaking, back pat
ting campaign along the state’s
byways, stopping and talking to
everyone he met, making a few
speeches.
- Kefauver is opposed only by
delegates pledged to President
Truman — who hasn’t said yet
whether he plans to run for re
election.
Taft and Stassen face tough but
shadowy opposition from Gen.
Eisenhower, who has said he will
accept the GOP nomination but
will not fight tar it.
Soviet Paper Attacks
Agreement Which Gives
U.S. Bases In Japan
MOSCOW, (/P)—Izvestia, organ
of the Soviet government, asserted
Friday the U. S. administrative
agreement with Japan contains
numerous secret clauses which
are being kept from the Japanese
public.
This was the Moscow paper’s
second bitter attack this week on
the agreement, which gives the
United States bases in Japan.
The published clauses alone, Iz
vestia said, make clear that the
U.S. is perpetuating its occupation
of Japan indefinitely. It said the
agreement gives full extra-terri
toriality for Americans on Japa
nese territory
Izvestia asserted the Japanese
people already hate the agree
ment and said all “progressive”
humanity is on the side of the
Japanese.
McCarthy Ouster Inquiry
Called “Pure Politics”
WASHINGTON, (JP)—An elec
tion year storm appeared to be
brewing Thursday over whether
to continue an inquiry into a
demand that Senator McCarthy
(R-Wis) be ousted from Congress.
Sen. Walker (R-Idaho) called a
move for a Senate vote on the
question “pure politics.” He said
the administration is trying to
prevent re-election of McCarthy
this fall. McCarthy agreed.
However, Sen. Gillette (D-Iowa)
declared “there is nothing more
certain than the fact there is no
noli tical motive of any. kind be
Government Spent
$50 Million On
Alaska Since 1934
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
United States poured $50,183,772
pto Alaska, exclusive of military
outlays, from 1934 through last
June in various federal programs.
The figure is from a report by
the joint committee on reduction
of non-essential federal expendi
tures. It includes all direct pay
ments to* the territory under co
operative arrangements and ex
penditures within Alaska which
provided relief and other aid.
The report showed a sharp in
crease in the postwar period start
ing in 1947. In the depression and
prewar years, 1934-41, the terri
tory received $16,079,872.
This two million dollar a year
average continued through the
war period and through 1947. A
steady climb brought a peak of
$5,799,278 in the 12 months be
tween July, 1949 and June, 1950.
The biggest single item listed
by the committee is $3,701,678 for
readjustment benefits and voca
tional rehabilitation of veterans.
Second place in the most-costly
program category still is held by
the $3,060,915 paid out in grants
under the Federal Emergency Re
lief Administration program of
depression days.
Communist Negotiators
Seek To Forestall Possible
Naval Blackade of China
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — Com
munist truce negotiators Friday
sought to* forestall a possible
naval blockade of the Red China
coast or an invasion of the main
land.
The Reds proposed writing a
ban into a Korean armistice.
“It seems that what they are
trying to do is to stretch the
armistice agreement to any place
in the world where forces in Ko
rea have any territory under their
control/ said Col. Don O. Darrow.
Darrow said the proposal ap
parently was designed primarily
to prevent an Allied blockade of
the Chinese mainland or an Allied
supported invasion by Chiang
Kai-Shek’s Nationalist forces from
Formosa.
There has been unofficial talk
that the U.N. Command might at
tempt to enforce a Korean truce
by threatening to blockade the
China coast and bomb Chinese
industrial centers if the Reds vio
late the armistice.
Darrow intimated the Commun
ist move could have far-reaching
effects on the truce negotiations,
but he emphasized the Reds might
be “just exploring the idea.”
Harry V. Williams, Ketchikan
City Councilman, Callapses
KETCHIKAN </P) — Harry V.
Williams, 38, member of the
Ketchikan city council and life
long resident of Ketchikan, died
in a hospital Thursday after col
lapsing in a cafe.
City health officer R. W. Carr
said an autopsy will be held to
determine the cause of death.
Williams, an accountant, ran for
the Alaska Senate four years ago.
He leaves his wife and two ohil