SO. FRONT
OFFENSIVE
UNDERWAY
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The Reds were Just as reckless
in the expenditure of lives on the
extreme south, where they were
storming 25th Division lines in the
teeth of severe aerial punishment.
Headquarters said this attack alone
cost them 1.000 killed. They were
reported to have lost at least six
tanks on this sector.
Allied Air power jolted the Com
munists but could not stop their
advance. A mass Allied air raid was
thrown against them on a four-mile
front at Haman. It blanketed the
area 10 miles deep with rockets,
jellied gasoline firebombs and ma
chinegun bullets. B-26 bombers, Na
vy Corsair fighters and Air Force
jet fighters rained explosives on
the lines of the Korean Sixth and
Seventh Divisions in a pattern at
tack which slowed but failed to
stop the Red drive into Haman.
Can Hold Off Reds
Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters
said the assault was expected and
officers expressed confidence the
Reds would be held. Brig. Gen.
George Barth, 25th Division artil
lery commander, said "they couldn’t
have hit us at a better time,” and
added, “we were really ready for
them." Another officer said “we’ve
got them out in the open now.”
The entire might of the U. S. Sev
enth Fleet’s carrier planes was ord
ered into the battle, to join w'ith
American and Australian land based
fighters in support of ground forces.
An American plane w'as shot down
by a Russian-made Yak fighter,
the first reported enemy plane in
front action for many days. Ameri
can helicopters dropped into battle
eones to pick up wounded where
they fell.
DPR DEPARTMENT IN
OLD MARSHALL PLACE
AT SIXTH AND MAIN
Draftsmen need space, and there
just wasn’t room in the Bureau of
Public Roads quarters in the Fed
eral Building.
Arrangements jvere made to take
over a substantial residence at Sixth
and Main, and now the Design De
partment (engineering) is comfort
ably installed in the former Marsh
all place.
The last tenants were the K. G.
Merritts. who have purchased the
forn\3r Gold Belt Avenue residence
of R. J. Sommers.
The BPR department headed by
J. B. Rehej\ design engineer, is
spread out through most of the three
floors. There will be more than the
present twelve staff members when
projects are discontinued for the
year and other engineers come in
from the field.
The building is home as well, for
one BPR clerk who works there.
James Simmons lives on the third
floor and also is responsible for
building maintenance and operation
utilities.
The move was made August 16.
Financial Report of
Northwest Airlines,
NEW YORK, Sept. 31—^lAV-North
west Airlines, Inc., reported today j
its net profit for the quarter ended
June 30 was $153,241, equal to five
cents a common share. Net for the
like quarter of 1949 was $1,913,885,
or $2.19 a share.
The air carrier reported a net
loss of $3,458,396 for the first half
of 1950, against net profit of $430,
915, or 25 cents a share, in the 1949
first half.
President Croil Hunter attributed
losses early this year to the expense
of breaking in new Stratocruisers
and to unfavorable weather. North
west is now experiencing a record
breaking volume of business and
revenues.
TODAY’S LANDINGS
No landings were made today.
Landings made too late for pub
lication yesterday were from the
Edith, Henry Anderson, 1,700
pounds of salmon and the Puppy,
John Wise, 1,200 pounds, both lor
Alaska Coast Fisheries.
NEW PROCEDURE IN
USE ON MENDENHALL
APT. CONCRETE WORK
For the first time in a building
of its style, slip forms are being
used in the pouring of concrete on
the Mendenhall Apartment building
at the corner of Fourth and Frank
lin, according to A. K. Eskestrand,
superintendent for Anderson Con
struction Co.
“Slip forms have been used for
over 20 years on silos and grain
elevators where floor slabs and
window's are not present,” Eske
strand said.
So that walls may be laid, keys
for tying in the floors are recessed
and the slip form dow'l is hooked
into the key way. After the slip
form passes the recessed key, th£
key is straightened and the floor
is then poured before the form is
■ moved up further.
The slip form was started at the
.completion of the walls for the first
! story and the second story floor.
Thus continual pouring is possible
without delay.
The slip form is hooked by means
of screw jacks on the reenforcing
I steel used in the walls. Five feet
i of concrete can be poured in an
i eight hour shift. One full turn of
I the jacks raises the forms one-half
an inch. The jacking crew follows
| after the concrete pouring crew.
Jacking or moving the five foot
slip form upward coincides with the
rate of pouring.
The concrete finishers, working
on a scaffold suspended from the
slip form yoke, have already started
work with the first floor concrete
to be finished at the conclusion of
the job.
Concrete is poured in layers of
eight inches with the form raised
another eight Inches during the
pouring. The pouring of the floors
follows right after the slip form has
come just above each flor.
Pouring of the floors is from the
slip form deck at the rate of one
floor a week. In other words, it
will take a total of 12 weeks to
pour the floors of the 12-storied
building with two floors already
poured. The roof will be topped
off some time in November.
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No Sabotage Is j
Indicated, Crash j
01 Plane in Egypt
(By Associated Press)
! An investigation is under way
[ into the crash of a big TWA Con- |
[ stellation in the desert west of ]
Cairo, Egypt. Air line officials say;
that there has been no indication
of sabotage so far.
The bodies, meanwhile, of all 55
persons who perished in the crash
have been found. Twenty-three of
the victims were Americans,
KOFFEL JOINS STAFF
OF C. J. EHRENDREICH
- -1—
Gilbert C. Koffel, principal ac
1 countant who hag been with the
Territorial Employment Security j
Commission for more than the past i
three years, will join the staff of
C. J, Ehrendreich as a certified
public accountant on September 5.
i Before coming to Juneau with!
he ESC, Koffel was with the White |
Pass and Yukon Railroad at Skag- j
way where he also served as city I
Jerk and magistrate.
A no-host dinner was given at,
Mike’s in Douglas Wednesday eve- !
ning in honor of Koffel. Approxf- i
mately 40 persons attended.
OLD COUNTRY CLUB SUED
Suit has been brought against
the Salmon Creek Country Club,
Inc., by Odom Company, which j
seeks $2,403.53, the price of goods
purchased, as well as interest and
attorney’s fees.
Odom Company is suing the cor
poration which operated the large
club that burned in 1949. The
corporation has no connection with
the present club across the road,
operated by Thomas L. George, sole
proprietor, who is doing business
as the New Country Club. George
is an officer in the corproation.
Faulkner, Banfield and Boochever
represents Odom Company, which
has filed the action in the Dis
trict Court.
MAINE VISITOR
Josepeh N. Boeher of Biddeford,
Maine is stopping at the Bar
anof Hotel.
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STRATOCRUISER
! SERVICE STARTS,
SEATTLE, ALASKA
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SEATTLE, Sept. 1 — I/P) — With
Karlyne Abele, Miss Washington
of 1950, cutting a ribbon to free
j the ship for flight, Northwest Air
I lines inaugurated Boeing strato
I cruiser service to Anchorage, Al
aska at 8 a.m. today from the
Seattle-Tacoma airport.
Prank C. Judd, company vice
president for the western region,
j said this would cut the flight time
to Anchorage by an hour and 50
minutes over the DC-4 equipment
presently in use.
The use of the 75 passenger sky
giant on the Alaskan run will
release two DC-4's—one passenger
and one cargo plane—for use oh
1 the military airlift now being oper
ated by NWA to Tokyo to supply
| the Korean campaign.
The first stratocruiser flight to
Anchorage comes on the fourth an
niversary of NWA’s non-stop serv
ice to the Alaskan town and on the
first anniversary of the company’s
transcontinental stratocruiser se.-',
ice.
ANTI-AIRCRAFT
CREWS STATIONED
PRACTICE ALERT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 1—
W*!—The military has sharpened Al
aska's anti-aircraft defenses.
Anti-aircraft weapons have sprout
ed in the past week at strategic
points around bases and next to
vital installations. Slit trenches and
gun crew shelters have appeared
at many points.
While the present “precautionary
alert" lasts, anti-aircraft crews are
prepared to live, eat. and sleep a
moment's dash from their gun posi
tions.
Some military installations have
been ringed with lethal rapid-fire j
guns.
The guns have been set up as a
second line of defense for Alaska
from any possible enemy attack
with paratroopers or heavy bombers.
The first line of defense still re
mains the crack squadrons of F-80
shooting star jet planes. "Aey are
fighters and interceptors.
Installation of the new guns are
mounted to defend air base runways
and high priority buildings. Others
are dug in behind sandbags along
the 500-mile Alaska Railroad, which
is a vital suply line to Interior bases.
ENGINE FAILS, PAA I
PLANE Tl SBACK
ON OVERSEAS TRIP
SHANNON. Ireland, Sept. 1—(B—
A New York-bound Pan American
Airways plane with 62 persons on
board was forced today to turn back
1,000 miles out over the Atlantic
Ocean because of engine trouble. One
of the passengers was Mrs. Lewis
Douglas, wife of the U. S. Ambas
sador to Britain.
The plane had been up four hours
when one of its four engines quit.
A relief plane from London later
picked up the passengers for the
New York flight.
AT JUNEAU HOTEL
M. G. Barnes of Seattle is regis
tered at the Juneau Hotel.
FROM HAINES
Nita Hanson of Haines is regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM IDAHO FALLS
John G. Fanning of Idaho Falls,
Ida., is a guest at the Baranof Ho
tel.
FROM REYNOLDS METAL CO.
Hubbard M. Smith of the Rey
nolds Metal Co., of Seattle is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
HEISELS TO LEAVE
SUNDAY FOR STATES,
2-MONTH VACATION
I
Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Heisel are j
leaving Sunday on the Aleutian for
a trip to the States on a two-months :
vacatian. They will first go to Los
Angeles where Mr. Heisel will stop
over to attend the biennial conven- j
tion of the National Federation of |
Federal Employees as a delegate j
from Juneau Local No. 251 during j
the week of Sept. 16-21. From there
they will go to Albuquerque, New
Mexico for a two-weeks stay with
relatives and then to Indianapolis
for a visit with son Walter, Jr
Their plans beyond Indianapolis
are indefinite except from there they (
will travel east and south by car,
and return to Indianapolis before |
starting their return journey. They :
expect to return to Juneau shortly j
after November 1.
MEETING OF WOMEN'S
CLUB SCHEDULED FOR
WEDNESDAY, SEPT, i
The first business meeting of the I
Juneau Woman's Club for the new j
club year will be held Wednesday j
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock in the |
Alaska Electric Light and Power
Co. penthouse, according to Mrs. I
Don Morrison, Vice-President.
Mrs. William Paul, Sr.. President j
of the club, is expected back from j
her trip to the Westward in con-,
nection with the Alaska Tubercu- j
losis Association. Officers of the ‘
club request all members to attend j
this meeting. In addition to rou- j
tine business, plans will be com-1
pleted for the first social program |
meeting of the year on Septemberj
20 and the work program for the
year will be discussed.
DIVORCE ACTIONS FILED *
Evelyn R. Lohr has filed suit for |
divorce from Lyle L. Lohr, charging j
incompatibility and failure to pro- •
vide, and seeking sole custody of
their 15-year-oJd daughter, Dolores
Marlene.
Mrs. Lohr is represented by
Faulkner, Banfield and Boochever
in the action filed in District Court.
On grounds of incompatibility,
Peter Miller of Sitka, represented
by M. E. Monagle, has filed for i
divorce here against Detta Pauline
Miller.
The Millers were married in Port
Orchard, Wash., in 1926 and have1
two children, Peter Wescott Miller, |
Jr., 23, who resides in Sitka, and i
Hazel Elizabeth Miller, 16, who is!
in the custody of her father there. ■
WILLIAMS TO WRANGELL
Lew M. Williams, Secretary of1
Alaska, was booked to Wrangell to
day by Ellis Airlines, planning to
be gone through the Labor Day
week-end, perhaps longer.
Mrs. Williams went there Tues-|
day, and they expect their daugh
ter, Jane, to arrive today from Ken
tucky.
The family reunion is chiefly to
take care of business matters con
cerning their weekly newspaper,
The Wrangell Sentinel.
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GEORGIA FARMER IS
HERE; LIKES ALASKA
H. R. Paysinger, retired Augusta,
Georgia farmer, has always wanted
to come to Alaska. Now he is here
after traveling 10,000 miles through
nearly every state by bus and flying
to Whitehorse from Vancouver. He
arrived here yesterday via PAA and
will fly to Seattle today or tomor
row. Just now he is busy writing I
post cards to all 200 of his friends.
“Next time I’ll see more of Alaska,"
he promised. “You sure have some
fine folks up here." He is stopping
at the Gastineau Hotel. And today
is his birthday.
FROM PELICAN
Mike Goodman of Pelican is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM SEATTLE
Minor S. Lile of Seattle is regis
tered at the Hotel Juneau.
Labor Day Special j
Juneau-Peiersburg, Round Trip . $22.00
(Plus tax)
Ketchikan-Petersburg, Round Trip. $22.00
(Plus tax)
REGULAR FARE $32.40
Tickets on Sale Sept. 3rd and 4th
Tickets Good on Sept. 3-4-5
Fly to Petersburg for the Labor Day-Alaska
Championship Outboard Races
Entertainment... Dancing
ahviwq SiO<dhc£uste\n
Are you looking for n
GOOD TIME?
come to our list
BIRTHDAY
PARTY
. . . THIS WEEKEND . . .
• Free Flowers for the Ladies
• Albert Peterson and his accordion
• Bob Sarver sings your favorites
• Night races as usual ... watch the
thoroughbreds run
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We sincerely thanh...
our many patrons who in the past year
have helped to make the Snake Pit a
success. We hope you will all drop in
often as we go into our second year.
GQRDY, CHUCK and GENE
The ^
SNAKE PIT
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