THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
__ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,661
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Two Giant Planes Crash Together in Midair
MILITARY
STRENGTH
STRIPPED
Gen. Bradley Makes Plain
Statement to Editors Re
garding U. 5., Allies
ATLANTA, Nov. 17 — — Gen.
Omar Bradley said today the Ko
rean war stripped this country and
its Allies of adequate strength—ex
cept, for the atom bomb—to defend
themselves elsewhere.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff said in a speech prepared
for a meeting of the Associated
Press Managing Editors Association:
“It is a bruising and shocking
fact that when we Americans were
committed in Kore", we were left
without an adequate margin of
military strength with which to
face an enemy at any other specific
point.
“Certainly we were left without
the strength to meet a general at
tack.
"In the military sense, the free
world was left without adequate re
serves except for the atom bomb.”
While urging a continuing buildup
of American strength, Bradley of
fered to trade the atom bomb for
“a genuine course of righteousness
in the world” and to trade “all mili
tary pow'er for a century of peace.”
But he told the 500 editors that
“no easy trades are on in the open
market,” and went on to say: “We
must earn the world righteousness
we seek, and the peace we so
earnestly desire.”
Bradley called anew for German
rearmament and suggested a system
by which U. S. reserve military man
power would be maintained at a
greater degree of combat readiness
than in the past. He said that would
help provide the military strength
which will be necessary “for many
years to come.”
STOCK QUOTATION
NEW YORK, Nov. 17 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
100'4, American Tel. and Tel. 151,
Anaconda 38, Douglas Aircraft 85,
General Electric 49 %, General
Motors 48, Goodyear 60, Kennecott
70%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%.
Northern Pacific 28%, Standard Oil
of California 80. Twentieth Century
Fox 21%, U.S. Steel 40%, Canadian
Exchange 96.31':, Pound $2.80%.
Sales today were 2,130,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 230.27, rails 70.11, utilities
40.59.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Copyright. 19.so, by Bell Syboicote. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
J^ASHXNGTON—When you eat a
chicken neck from a capon which
has been fed on a certain kind
of fattening hormone, you run the
risk of becoming sterile. This is
one of the findings of the House
committee to investigate the use
of chemicals in food products,
which has been quietly probing the
effect of all sorts of chemicals
now artificially injected into our
food.
In the case of chicken necks, it
was revealed that some poultry
farmers use a hormone called stii -
besterol to fatten chickens in a
hurry. When injected in the neck
this hormone makes an old rooster
not only fat but tender.
The effect on the human being,
if he eats the neck, however, can
induce sterility. Congressman Ai •
thur Miller of Nebraska, himself
a doctor, told the committee that
the mink growers of Illinois had
fed chicken and turkey heads from
poultry so treated to their mink,
only to have them become sterile.
As a lesult, Canada prohibits the
use or stilbesterol pellets in feed
ing poultry, Dr. Franklin Church
Bing, chairman of the chemical
committee of the Amereian Public
Health Association told the Con
gressmen.
Gives Dogs Fits
The committee, headed by able
James J. Delaney, New York Demo
crat, has heard testimony from
some of the nation's top chemists,
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"MISS If! JOB”
Starlet Peggy Castle (above)
showed up at Williams Field,
Phoenix, Ariz., with a mevie
troupe making a film about the
(raining of jet pilots, and was
promptly named “Miss Jet Job-’
by air cadets who pronounced her
aerodynamically perfect. The
movie, strangely enough, is named
“Aid Cadet.” Iff1) Wirephoto.
BRISTOL BAY POWER
BOAT ISSUE BROUGHT
UP AT FISH MEETING
The old issue of power boats for
Bristol Bay came up at a meeting
of the Alaska Fisheries Board yes
terday when a telegram was re
ceived from the Alaska Fisherman’s
Union at Naknek.
Jim Downey, AFU agent at Nak
nek wired: “Action at headquarters
meeting AFU here last night re
sulted unanimous concurrence brief
submitted to Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice Seattle favoring power boats
with horsepower limitations, also
petitions secured by the Alaska
Salmon Industry by many dubious
means repudiated to coincide with
action staled by Clarence Rhode
that such would be disregarded.
Copy of brief being airmailed to
day.”
Yesterday was given over to a
meeting with fishermen and mem- j
bers of the FWS regarding fishing j
regulations for the 1951 season, j
Richard Schuman and Frank Hines
of the FWS were present and '
worked in harmony with the Terri- i
torial group, Andy Barlow of the!
Alaska Trollers and Carl Weidman j
presented their recommendations, j
Meetings are continuing today and ,
tomorrow.
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ROY GILLESPIE, FORMER
JUNEAU SALESMAN. IS
ISLAND COUNTY COM.
I
—
With the largest vote of any'
candidate in his county, Roy H.
Gillespie, formerly of Juneau, now [
of Langley, Washington, was elected !
commissioner of Island County No- ;
vember 7.
Gillespie, who was Pacific Fruit
and Produce salesman here for six
years, romped into the commis
sioner’s job as a Republican can
didate with a vote of more than
twice that of his Democratic oppon
ent.
“He returns to the Island County
courthouse where he was treasurer
and auditor many years ago,” says
the Island County Times which
carried his picture on the front
page of its election edition.
Mrs. W. A. (Del) Miller, of Ju
neau, is a daughter of the Gillespies
and there are two grandchildVen,
Laurin and Louise, who live here.
Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie left Alaska
about seven years ago.
FROM SKAGWAY
Ellis and Richard B. Hubbard
of Skagway are stopping at the
Hotel Juneau.
COLLAZO PLEADS
"NOT GUILTY" OF
TRUMAN ATTACK
Puerto Rican Fanatic Will
Face Trial in Dis
trict Court
By KARL R. BAUMAN
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 — UP) —
Oscar Collazo, accused of two capi
tal crimes for his part in attempting
to assassinate President Truman,
pleaded innocent at his arraignment
in U.S, District Court today.
After hearing the four-count in
dictment read, Collazo told District
Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut.
“I plead not guilty, your honor.”
Those were the only words spoken
by the small, meek looking Puerto
Rican fanatic. The 37-year-old
Collazo was neatly dressed in a
brown suit.
Leo A. Romer, chief of three
court-appointed defense attorneys,
argued vigorously against rushing
Collazo to trial. U.S. District Attor
ney George Morris Fay told Judge
Schweinhaut that “we do insist that
the government is entitled to a
fair trial.”
After hearing the attorneys, Judge
Schweinhaut fixed no trial date. He
said, however, that he did not be
lieve the case should be delayed
until Feb. 15, a date suggested by
Rover.
Collazo and a Puerto Rican com
panion, Griselio Torre'-ola, tried to
shoot their way into Blair House,
the temporary Truman residence, in
mid-afternoon Nov. 1.
Torresola was shot deed, and Pvt.
Leslie Coffelt of the White House
police fatally wounded. Collazo and
two other White House policemen
also were wounded.
JUNEAUITES FILE
DAMAGE SUIT IN
SINKING OF SHIP
SEATTLE, Nov. 17—UPI—A $38,488
damage suit was filed in U.S. Court
here today as a result of the sink
ing of the motor vessel Robert
Eugene off the British Columbia
coast Aug. 22.
The libel was filed by seven Ju
neau, Alaska, firms and individuals.
It is against M. B. Dahl and Sons,
Inc., Frederick M. Dahl and Chief
Officer Garey C. Reed and their
wives.
The libel action said the vessel
was carrying merchandise of the
Juneau plaintiffs when it sank.
COOTIES, TEEN AGERS
TO GATHER TOYS FOR
(RIPPLED CHILDREN
Tomorrow, Saturday afternoon,
between the hours of 1 and 4 p.m.
members of the Cookies and mem
bers of the Teen-Age Club may
ring your doorbell. They will ask
if you have any tqys, games, or
dolls that can be repaired for gifts
to children who must spend Christ
mas in hospital beds.
Members of the Cooties will re
pair these gifts and give a Christ
mas party for the_ children at the
Government Hospital and in the
Crippled Childrens Ward at St.
Ann’s. So, if you have any old toys
games, or dolls around your home,
put them away for Saturday.
Just a few minutes of your
time to dig these toys out, can
make the difference between an
unhappy Christmas or a very hap
py Christmas, for a lot of child
ren.
Watch for the group that will,
j be around Saturday. Have your toys
ready, and let’s give those kids a
really happy Christmas.
TWO TURKS ARRIVE
Two 30-pound live turkey gobblers
1 arrived yesterday on Pan American
Airways yesterday with their dig
nity slightly ruffled. They are to be
| the main feature at an Elks Club
' turkey shoot tonight, William Biggs,
secretary said today. One of the
i gobblers is on view in the window of
the Alaska Light and Power Co.
The shoot begins at 8 o’clock In
! the Elks Hall.
WESTFALL AT BARANOF
Ray Westfall is on temporary
; dutv as a clerk at the Baranof
Hotel.
TRUMAN IS
READY FOR
BIG BATTLE
Will Renew Fight for "Fair
Deal" in Lame Duck
Congress
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17— UP> —
President Truman, outwardly hap
py and scrappy, evidently was
ready today to renew battle with
the new and old Congress lor his
"Fair Deal” program.
On the political front, Mr. Tru
man discounted the election vic
tories of Republicans, reiterated h s
tacking for Secretary of State
Acheson, refused to back-track on
his controversial domestic program
and dodged questions about wheth
er he may run again.
The president told his first post
election news conference yesterday
he expects the lame duck session
of Congress meeting Nov. 27 to ap
prove an excess profits tax, another
big chunk cf military appropria
tions, statehood for Alaska and
Hawaii and an extension of rent
controls.
Almost nobody in Congress—in
cluding his own legislative lieuten
ants—shared Mr. Truman's opt.m
.sm on this score.
The President said he was not
calling Congress back early, as he
had said he might do, because the
request for more funds to finance
che fighting in Korea and the na
tion’s military buildup still is be
ing whipped into shape.
There was every sign that Con
gress would approve any such
measure.
But Senate action is doubtful on
any excess profits tax bill that
might be passed in the House early
in December. Senator Taft of Ohio,
who heads the Republican policy
committee, has said he doesn’t be
lieve any action will come in the
short session.
Southern Democratic delaying
tactics may crop up against House
approved bills to grant statehood
to Hawaii and Alaska. The Repub
licans may help out on this.
Chairman Maybank (D-&C) al
ready has predicted that the Sen
ate banking committee won't act
on rent control extension in the
lame duck session. Controls are due
to expire Dec. 31 except in com
munities which take positive action
to extend them for six months.
TEXAN CHRISTMAS
TO BE CHEERED BY
ALASKA REINDEER
Despite all the claims by native
sons, Texas hasn't everything. For
the third year in a row, Grady
Carothers of Goldthwaite, Texas,
has come to Alaska after reindeer
to be used in Christmas exhibits.
This year he purchased 14 head of
adult sled deer from Ross Stalker at
Kotzebue.
Moving the deer into Kotzebue
with the aid of two Eskimo men is
now under way. From Kotzbue, the
deer wall be flown to the Texas des
tination for Thanksgiving showing
and for use in Christmas exhibits.
This year Carothers came early.
Jack Allen, also of Goldthwaite, is
helping Carothers with the rein
deer. Allen has been in Alaska for
a short time taking pictures of the
territory.
RENT CONTROL ISSUE
TONIGHT AT COUNCIL
The Juneau City Council will
conduct a hearing tonight on exten
sion of rent controls after the De
cember 31 deadline when Federal
controls will expire. The meeting
j will be held at 8 o’clock in the
j Council Chambers at the City Hall
Those interested in the issue pro
| and con are invited to present their j
I views. To date, little interest has
' been shown to extend controls.
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ON BUSINESS TRir
Marcus Russell, son of Mrs. Leoto
Smith, left this week for Seattle on
a business trip for Leota’s shop, |
owned by his mother. Hr expects
to return before Thanksgiving Day. ^
FROM CALIFORNIA
Wesley Hayes of El Cerrito. Cal
lf- is a guest at the Baranof Hotel
I
TANKS OF U. S.
ROLLING NOW,
KOREAN FRONT
_i
Biggest Battles Are Being
Fought AgainstGuerrillas
on Supply Lines
(Py the Associated Press'
United Nations forces moved cau
tionsly ahead along most of a 250
mile North Korean front today The
Communists attacked furiouolv tit
two South Korean sectors ar d step
ped up guerrilla activity l ined
U.N. lines.
Sherman tanks rumbled slowly up
mountain roads leading elements of
the U.S. 7th Division to within 20
miles of the Manchurian border.
The Communists pulled back to well
well prepared positions at Kapsan,
15 miles from the frontier.
The Doughboys won a bloody
three-hour battle in a narrow valiej
six miles southwest of Kapsan after
the Reds attempted to spring a
trap on them.
Patrols Probe On
On the northwest front, U.S. 24th
Division patrols probed more than
six miles north of Pakchon without
opposition.
The advance on most fronts was
slowed by mines and blown-up
bridges, and the uncertainty of the
strength of the combined Red Chi
nese and Korean forces ahead.
The Communists put up their
biggest fight against South Koreans
near Tokchon, center of a road net
work on the right flank of the
western front. They also hit hard at
the South Korean Capital Division
'there it has reached within 90
miles of the Siberian border in a
slow push up the northeastern
coast.
“Guerrilla" Front
Using tactics perfected over many
years in Russia and China. Korean
Communists opened a guerrilla ‘‘sec
ond front” 50 miles to the rear of
Allied lines.
The Allied air force continued to
pound communication targets near
the frontier. It reported a Superfort
strike Tuesday knocked out twc
additional spans across the Yalu
river used by Chinese troops* enter
] ing Northwest Korea from Man
churia. But when the Yalu Is frozen
over in a few weeks the Chinese
would be able to move men and
heavy equipment over the borderline
with ease.
No Territorial Ambitions
The U. S. State Department
beamed into Communist Chins
President Truman’s assurance that
the United States has no territorial
ambitions in either Korea or Mah
churia, and will help protect China’s
interests along the Korean border.
These brodacasts were an attempt
to dispel a professed belief by Red
Chinese leaders that U.N. forces
would carry the war into Chinese
territory. President Truman said
yesterday it was on this "pretext”
that the Chinese had intervened.
At Lake Success Soviet Delegate
Jacok A. Malik charged that the
United States was attacking China
by land, on the sea and in the air.
He threatened to cast the Soviet
Union’s 47th veto to prevent passage
of a resolution demanding that Red
China withdraw her troops from
Korea.
THROUGH RED TRAP
An American tank column blasted
i its way through a Red trap in a
I far North Korean mountain ravine
today. Then it rolled northward in
> a blazing bid to reach the Man
| churian border in four days.
Communists opened up on the
17th Infantry Regiment from the
hillsides as the tanks rumbled along
a narrow road in northeast Korea.
A three-hour battle ended with 125
Communists dead on the hills and
Marine Corsairs rocketing the flee
ing remnants.
This was about 23 miles south of
the Manchurian frontier.
The commander of the column
said his force would reach the bor- |
der early next week and if fired !
on from Manchuria—:
"We will shoot hell out of them."
SIEAMERHOVEHENIS
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle this afternoon.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail'
from Vancouver Wednesday.
Denali from west is scheduled to
sail south Sunday a.m.
i
Alaskans Return from islands
Mr. and Mrs. Alex B. Holden of Juneau recently returned from a
vacation trip to Hawaii. They are shown as they stepped off their
transpacific Pan American Stratoclippcr at San Francisco. Mrs.
Holden is wearing one of the unique coeonut hats which Hawaiians
weave from palm leaves. As co-manager of Alaska Coastal Airlines,
Mr. Holden does a good deal of over-water flying, but this was his
first transocean clipper fight. Mrs. Holden said, “The glamour
and beauty of the Hawaiian Islands isn’t exaggerated. The flowers,
the constant, warm sunshine, the carefree spirit of the people—we
loved every minute of our stay.” The Holdens returned to Juneau
via PAA last Sunday. (News Bureau, PAA, Boeing Field Photo).
SIR WILKINS IS
BURTON ARMY
ARCTIC TEST
NEW YORK, Nov. 17—UPI—Sir
Hubert Wilkins, 62-year-old Aus
tralian explorer and scientist, has
been injured somewhere in the
Arctic while working on an Army
experiment, a friend said today.
Joseph Robinson, former execu
tive secretary of the Explorer’s
Club, said a telegram from Edmon
ton, Alberta, Canada, reported that
Wilkins had “broken some bones in
his upper arm” and had been taken
to a hospital. No other details were
available.
Robinson said Wilkins was a
civilian consultant with the “First
Test Detachment, U.S. Army.” Wil
kins was named an advisor on polar,
desert and jungle warfare by the
Army Quartermaster Corn;, in 1242.
Wilkins, new a part time con
sultant, had been in Canada with j
a joint US.-Canada ta^k force 1
testing winter equipment, the De- I
fense Department said in Washing
ton.
He left Washington about three |
weeks ago and was due back there j
about Dec. 1.
No details were available In j
Washington on how Wilkins was [
hurt.
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WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
criding 6:20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau—Maximum, 15;
minimum, 12.
At Airport—Maximum, 17;
minimum, 14.
forecast
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Fair and cold with occa
sionally gusty northeasterly
winds tonight and Saturday.
Lowest temperature tonight
near 15 and highest Saturday
20 degrees.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — none;.
2<nee Nov. 1 — 3.99 inches;
since July 1—33.02 inches.
At Airport — None;
since Nov. 1 — 195 inches;
since July 1—23.00 inches.
BOB HOPE
SUES FOR
2 MILLION
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17—(/PI—Bob
Hope, who generally doesn't bruise
easily, says he’s been offended—
02.010,000 worth.
The comedian filed suit for that
amount against Life magazine and
radio columnist John Crosby yes
terday, claiming they libeled him
by asserting he stole Fred Allen’s
jokes.
Hope said the Nov. 6 Issue of the
magazine contained Crosby’s article,
"Seven Deadly Sins of the Air,” and
l hat it implied he was guilty of
plagiarism.
Plagiarism, said Hope’s complaint,
is a practice which the entertain
ment industry considers dishonest,
unethical and reprehensible.
LIQUOR DEALERS
RE-ELECT CASTLE
Grander Castle of Wrangell was
re-elected President of the Alaska
Retail Liquor Dealers Association at
an annual meeting held here yes
terday.
Others named were Doug Heay,
Fairbanks, First Vice President;
Rube Crossett, Ketchikan, Second
Vice President; and E. C. Wallace,
Fairbanks, Secretary-Treasurer.
Picked for the executive board
were: Charles Graham, Ketchikan;
Gecrge Madsen, Nome; Ole Gra
nell, Anchorage and George Gilbert
son. Fairbanks.
About 30 members were in at
tendance. Wallace told of project
by the Fairbanks night club opera
tors, bar owners and bartenders
union, where $5,138.20 was raised to
buy an iron lung shortly after the
polio epidemic hit Fairbanks. The
lung arrived the day that Julian
Rivers was stricken and put to im
mediate use. It is planned to buy
another Iron lung and place the
$500 left over into the Fairbanks
polio fund.
Sessions continued today. The
principal interest of the group is
to maintain the liquor business in
Alaska as private enterprise, Wal
lace said.
FROM SEATTLE
Fred W. Butler of Seattle is re
Bb'te:. .1 at the Baranof Hotel.
13 AIRMEN
FACE DEATH
IN FLAMES
Tanker, Bomber, Engaged
in Refueling Operation,
Collide, Plunge Down
TUCSON. Ariz., Nov. 17—(#1—A
collision in flight of two giant planes
engaged in the U.S. Air Forces
newest refueling operation has
ended in flaming death for 13 air
men.
Ten other parachuted, to safety
after the four motor craft smashed
together yesterday 50 miles west of
Tucson over the southern Arizona
desert.
Erupt In Flames
The planes, a B-29 tanker and a
B-50 bomber engaged in a routine
refueling operation, were seen to
erupt in flames and plunge to the
ground five miles north of the
Papago Indian village of Silnakya
on the Sells reservation. The tanker
is believed to have exploded.
Some of the crew members
jumped and may have reached the
ground safely, but were apparently
caught in a deluge of flaming gaso
line that sprayed over the area.
Crushed by Debris
Another airman was unmarked on
the upper part of his body while
the lower portion had been crushed
by a heavy piece of debris.
The Air Force listed some of the
13 men as missing since identifica
tions had not been completed, but
they were presumed dead.
Robert Moore, a reporter for the
Tucson Arizona Daily Star who
flew to the scene, reported there
were indications all of the airmen
attempted to get out of the flaming
craft.
Bodies Blackened
Their blackened and smashed
bodies, most of them wearing por
tions of parachutes, were scattered
over an area a half mile around
the crash scene. Bits of flaming
debris were found as far away as
a mile. •
Steven Ramon, a Papago Indian
living in Silnakya, witnessed the
crash.
Flash — Crash
He said he spotted w'hat he
thought was one plane about noort
yesterday.
“There was a flash,” he said. “The
plane started to come down toward
the ground. Then I saw that there
were two planes. They landed very
close together, about 10 miles away
from me.”
11 BODIES RECOVERED
TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 17—Air
Force authorities poked through the
shattered wreckage of two giant
planes today to learn the cause of
an air collision that claimed the
lives of 13 airmen on the barren
Papago Indian reservation.
Eleven bodies were recovered from
the twisted wreckage of the B-50
and B-29 which crashed during high
altitude refueling operations. Ten
airmen parachuted to safety, two
suffering broken ankles in the mass
leap.
A search party worked through
out the night under the glare of
powerful lights to recover the vic
tims’ bodies. A spokesman at Davis
Monthan Air Force base here, home
base of both ships, said two crew
men still were unaccounted but
were presumed dead.
The survivors were taken to the
Davis-Monthan Hospital for ob
servation and Air Force officials
refused to let them talk about the
accident pending a formal investi
gation.
ALASKA COM. (ABLE
IS DISENGAGED FROM
FREIGHTER'S ANCHOR
The Flemish Knot docked yester
day afternoon after the Alaska
Communications System submarine
cable to Petersburg was disengaged
from the starboard anchor. A fault
on the cable has disrupted phone
service to Petersburg. The ACS per
sonnel hopes to raise the cable the
first of next week to survey the
damage and make repairs.
It was necessary to cut the cable
in disengaging it from the freight
er’s anchor thus eliminating the
use of buoys. The freighter sails to
morrow morning for Haines.