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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,650
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
UN Forces Battling Chinese Red Divisions
$22,127.51
NETTED ON
SALES TAX
Rent Control Hearing Set
tor Nov. 17-City Coun
cil Discusses Much
Juneau’s “pennies from heaven”
sales tax program netted $22,127.51
cn two month’s collection, City
Clerk C. L. Popejoy reported to a
regular City Council meeting here
last night. This money goes to
retire city bonds.
It was decided to refer the Ju
neau-Douglas Telephone Company’s
petition for a rate hearing to the
City Accountant, C. J. Ehrendeich
fcr investingation and report.
Mrs. Ernest Gruening asked the
city to employ a social worker.
The matter is to he taken up with
tne Alaska Department of Welfare
before any definite action taken, it
was decided.
It was voted to grant the same
sales tax exemptions to the Catho
lic school litre as given to the pub
lic schools.
A meeting with Leslie Sturm was
scheduled for early next week to
take up problems arising out of
moving his lockers from the AB
• Hall when the city receives notice
from the Territory to vacate that
property.
Tnere was discussion on tne pet
ition by West Juneau residents
to be taken into the City, involving
paving of the highway and a pos
sible election to decide the issue.
A bill for Highlands street im
provements based on a contract
with the Juneau Realty Company
before the area was taken into the
city limits was referred to Joe
Thibodeau's street committee. The
bill amounted to $2,716.18. Other
street improvements were discussed.
A city ordinance on salaries for
city employees was passed on third
and final reading.
A hearing on rent control will be
held at the next regular meeting,
November 17.
Howard Stabler was re-employed
as city attorney. An offer was ac
cepted from Ole Johansen to tear
down old garages on the play
grounds at Sixth and Kennedy,
salvage what he could for his own
use and pile the rest for hauling.
Mayor Waino Hendrickson report
ed that inventories of city property
in all departments had been made
and were being typed up.
A letter from James V. Davis of
the Department of Territories was
read in which he acknowledged the
City’s protest against the cut in
Alaska Public funds and stated that
the Department would work to re
store the original appropriation.
Other matters discussed were:
adjusting some parking meters for
2 -hour period instead of 60 min
utes; light meters for the small
boat harbor; keeping the old grid
iron in repair; water drain troubles
in the Highlands; and clarification
of sales tax items by the city at
torney.
Councilmen present were: Ed
Neilson, Joe Thibodeau, Bert Caro,
Bert McDowell and Mayor Hend
rickson.
No Action Is
Taken Organize
European Army
ROME, Nov. 4—(£1—The European
Committee of Foreign Ministers, at
a closed door session here, has
refused to take any action on the
proposal for a unified European
army for defense against Commu
nist aggression.
The action was taken, inform
ants said, because of the deter
mined insistence of the British del
egate. Undersecretary Ernest Dav
ies, that the European council, in
its charter, was not competent to
act on matters of defense. The
council is the upper House of Eur
ope’s unofficial Parliament.
The ministers, representing 13
European nations, made a unani
mous decision not to consider the
proposal.
The first American native to visit
England is believed to have been an
Indian taken there by Sir Richard
Grenville from Roanoke Island, N.C.,
in 1585.
New Record
Earnings for
Chrysler Corp.
DETROIT, Nov. 4—(if)—Chrysler
Corp. announced new record earn
ings today and a major shift in top
executive ranks.
K. Keller, the man now in charge
of America’s military guided missiles
program, was elevated from corpor
ation president to board chairman.
A protege, Lester L. Colbert—one
time Texas cotton buyer and bomber
engine builder of the last war—is
Keller’s successor as president".
The advancement of the two was
announced simultaneously with
Chrysler’s report on nine-month
earnings for the year.
Net earnings, Chrysler said, were
$105,246,991, equal to $12.09 on a
share of stock.
Jt compares with $97,651,453, or
$11.22 a share, for the same period
i (nine months) of 1949.
TELEPHONE
STRIKE IS
WEEKEARLY
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NEW YORK, Nov. 4—(if)—A coast
to coast telephone strike set for
next Thursday got off to a head
start yesterday in the St. Louis
area and threatened to spread all
through southwestern states.
National officials ol the union,
•Uje CIO Communications Workers
of America, said here, however, it
would not be used as an excuse to
jump the gun on the major walk
out deadline.
One of eight telephones In the
St. Louis metropolitan area was
dead—or nearly dead—after some
3,000 workers struck yesterday to
protest the suspension of six truck
drivers.
Joseph A. Beime, president of the
CWA, said the strike could spread
through the rest of southwestern'
Bell, which operates in Missouri,
Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and
parts of Texas.
The coast to coast walkout is set
for 6 a.m. Thursday and could in
volve most of Bell's 300,000 em
ployees.
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Red Chinese I
! Move Toward
Tibetan Capital:
| CALCUTTA, India, Nov. 4—UPt—
j The Kalimpong correspondent of
i the newspaper Statesman reports
! Communist Chinese invading Tibet
are near Nagchuka, about ISO miles
from Lhasa, the Tibetan capital.
Tibetans in Kalimpong, which
lies on the Indian-Tibet frontier,!
regard Chamdo's fall Sunday as a
| great disaster, the correspondent
said.
According to reports reaching
Kalimpong, the Tibetan force had
posted some of its best troops at
Chamdo and they fought to the
death. Of the entire force, only
one officer surrendered to the Com
munists, these informants said.
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DOLL CLOTHES ARE
TO BE FEATURED AT
BAZAAR OF GUILD
] Doll clothes will again be feat
l ured at the annual Bazaar to be
| held Saturday, November U, by the
• Guild of Holy Trinity Episcopal
I church. The committee has agreed
i it is the most popular item they
have ever offered, and hope there
; are the usual number of dolls in
| need of outfits.
Christmas and greeting cards, the
! plastic goods which they have
I handled for several years, hand
' made gifts, and white elephants
j will also be featured.
Subscriptions to any magazine
! may be bought at the Bazaar. This
| includes your own or gifts subs
I criptions, new or renewal, a year
i round service available through the
! Trinity Guild.
i The bazaar opens at 2 p.m. in
I the church undercroft.
TRUMAN ON
AIR TONIGHT
FOR DEMOS
War Reverses May Change
Theme - Sfassen Will
Reply to President
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—(41—Un
expected reverses In the Korean
war clouded the political screen
today as President Truman touched
up the final draft for his lone
campaign speech tonight in St.
Louis.
With a hopping radio and televis
ion audience in prospect, the Pre
sident was reported concentrating
on a peace-and-posperity theme
as the basis lor his appeal for
election of a Democratic Cofngress
and Democratic Governors.
The surprising revival of Com
munist military power in Korea,
however, robbed the President of
any chance to predict an early end
to the fighting there.
Military Picture
Some politicians said the altered
military picture might have an
affect on the election outcome. Sev
eral Republicans have contended
that Administration bungling in the
handling of foreign affairs invited
the conflict.
Senator Knowland (R-Calif) said
in a statement last night in San
Francisco that the President should
cancel his political talk “and give
the people the full facts regarding
Chinese Communist participation in
the Korean conflict.”
Truman On Defense
Mr. Truman was reported ready
to defend his foreign policies vig
orously and point to a general
high level of prosperity at home
as indicating there is no need for
a change in control of Congress,
where the Democrats now control
both houses.
Harold E. Stassen, president of
University of Pennsylvania and a
probable 1952 GOP Presidential as
pirant, scheduled conferences with
Republican leaders here during the
day to whip in shape the opposition
party’s reply to Mr. Truman.
The President will go on the air
from St. Louis at 10 p.m., Eastern
Standard Time, after an afternoon
flight from Washington.
Stassen will reply to the Presi
dent on a single network, Mutual,
at 10:30 p.m., Eastern Standard
Time. Mr. Truman’s and Stassen's
time on the air will be paid for
out of their respective party funds.
NORTH KOREANS
FIERCELY DEFEND
SUIHO POWER DAM
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—OP)—An
army description of the Suiho
power dam on the Korean-Manch
urian border underlined today why
Communist troops are defending it
fiecely.
A spokesman for the army told
reporters at the Pentagon that this
Japanese-built dam has a power
capacity of 700,000 kilowatts. For
comparison, this is about two-thirds
that of the Hoover Dam on the
Colorado River.
Asked what the intention of Uni
ted Nations forces is concerning the
huge Suiho power project, in case
UN troops reach the Korean side
of it, the spokesman said he does
not know.
Neither would he discuss the
strategic value of Suiho and its
allied questions.
Nevertheless, the importance is
obvious. If it remains entirely In
Communist hands, its power can
be denied to the non-Communist
part of Korea. On the other hand,
should United Nations forces reach
the Korean part of the power pro
ject, and turn it over to the South
Koreans, this would give non-Com
munists a hand in control of the
power llow both to Korea and
Communist Manchuria.
STORK RINGS TWICE
The stork called twice yesterday
at St. Ann's Hospital. A boy was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Rosenberger at 10:15 a.m. He
weighed 8 pounds.
A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald Beasen at 10:50 a.m. She
tipped the scales at 6 pound, and
14 ounces.
Slain Guard
Given Hero's
Lasl Riles
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—UP)—'The
nation gave a soldier's funeral to
day to the White House policeman
who gave his life Wednesday to
save the Commander-In-Chief from
assassins.
President and Mrs. Truman at
tended funeral services in an Army
chapel for Pvt. Leslie Coffelt, the
40-year-old guard killed during the
attack on the Chief Executive's
Blair House home by two Puerto
Rican revoluntionists.
Mr. and Mrs. Truman drove to
the chapel in a black sedan, follow
ed by an open car full of the
Secret Service men who guard the
President and his family. A large
number of police stood guard out
side the chapel, in addition to po
lice and soldiers who took part in
the last ritse for Private Coffelt.
The slain policeman, who served
in the army during World War II,
received the honors which America
gives to its greatest military heroes.
STATEHOOD
IS ISSSUE
IH HAWAII
HONOLULU No. 4t-W*—State
hood is the big issue in Tuesday’s
elections in Hawaii.
The big race is for the tetri
torial delegate’s seat in Congress.
Both parties have stumped for
statehood.
The .Democratic claimant, Wil
liam B. Cobb, says a Democrat!
could turn the trick for the Ter- j
ritory. The Republicans say Dele-1
gate Joseph R. Farrington practi-< 1
cafly has clinched it already. They j
say a Farrington defeat would be
repudiation of Hawaii’s expressed
desire for statehood.
Hawaii’s proposed state consti
tution is up for ratification Tues
day. It also hinges on the state
hood question.
Its drafters say overwhelming ap
proval would show the other states I
that Hawaii really wants statehood, j
ST. LOUIS POLICE
TO GUARD AGAINST
CIRCULARS TODAY
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 4—Wl—Mimeo
graphed circulars urging Puerto
Rican independence were distrib
uted today in St. Louis, where Pres
ident Truman is due to arrive late
today.
Police ordered the arrest of any
person found distributing them.
Two Puerto Rican Revolutionists at
tempted to assassinate the Presi
dent in Washington Wednesday.
Earlier it was announced that 600
city police, double the normal num
ber, will help guard Mr. Truman
during his visit here.
Only a few of the circulars had i
been found. Several of them were
left at an entrance to the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch Building.
The 140-word circulars state
Puerto Rican people “are enslaved |
by Wall Street imperialism.’’
They made only one reference to ,
President Truman, saying he could I
veto Puerto Rican laws at any time. |
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SHELLEY'S BODY IS
BEING BROUGHT HERE;
The body of Jesse E. Shelley
will be brought to Juneau today
by the 83-foot U. S. Coast Guard
cutter, CG headquarters reported.
This arrangement was made by the
U. S. Commissioner.
Shelley was found dead in his
fishing vessel, the Mable C., ui the
outer harbor at Elfin Cove Thurs
day after it had run aground.
Shelley had apparently died
while the vessel was under way The
Mable C will be left in the care of
Max Dorman, a friend of Shelley’s
at Elfin Cove.
Greenland is almost entirely cov
ered with Ice up to a mile and a
half thick.
MILLIONS
MAY VOTE
TUESDAY
Senate, House Seats In
volved in Election,
Also Governorships
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4— —
Here's a quick run-down on Tues
day's national elections.
About 42,000,000 people are ex
pected to vote. If they do, they’ll
set a record for a non-Presi
dential election.
Thirty-six of the 96 Senate seats
and all 435 House seats are at
stake.
And this year the people of 33
states have to elect governors.
(Maine has already elected a
governor and three house members).
Democrats and Republicans have
both spend around $1,000,000 each
in this year’s campaigns.
Senate-IIause Lineup
At this moment :n the Senate the
Democrats outnumber the Repub
licans 5*. 12, or 12 more. The Re
publicans need a net gain of seven
to get control.
In the House the Republicans
need 49 more members to grab
control. To do this they must keep
their present strength of 169, fill
their own three vacant seats, and
pick up 46 from the Democrats.
Among the 48 states right now
the Democratic governors outnum
ber the Republicans, 29 to 19.
In the 33 governorships being
filled this year, the Democrats hold
17 posts, the Republicans 16.
Ding-Dong Battle
This year the Republicans are ge
tting up a ding-dong battle all over
the country, two of the toughest
fights being in Ohio and California.
In California two members of
the House—Helen Gahagan Doug
las, Democrat, and Richard M.
Nixait, H|publican—are battling
for a Senate seat.
in umo, rtepuoucan senator kod
ert A. Taft is trying to keep his
Democratic opponent, State Aud
itor Joseph T. Ferguson, from un
seating him.
Democratic Landslide
The President, going out to St.
Louis to make a speech for his
party tonight, has cheerfully pre
dicted a landslide for the Demo
crats.
Except for him, the political bi>
shots in both camps have been
pretty cautious witht heir forecasts
although both sides claim victory
before the voting starts.
With the exception of one two
year period—1947 And 1948—when
the Republicans had control of
Congress, the Democrats have had
a majority in both House and Sen
ate since 1933, with a Democratic
President in the White House now
for 17 unbroken years.
HANS N jjjMOVE
TO PORTLAND, OREGON
Mr. and Mrs. Hans Nielsen left ■
Juneau aboard the Princess Louise i
for Portland where they expect to
make their home now. They have
been Juneau residents for the past
38 years. The four children they
raised in Juneau remain here: Miss [
Anna Nielsen, Eddie Nielsen, Albert |
Echramen and Mrs. Christine Ed
dleman.
Mr. Nielsen is 72 years old and ;
was formerly caretaker of the Ev- j
ergreen Cemetery.
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WEATHER REPORT • !
Temperatures lor 24-Hour Period • i
ending ~«:20 o'clock this morning • j
Iii Juneau—Maximum, 48; •
minimum, 34. •
At Airport—Maximum, 51; •
minimum, 32. • J
FORECAST •
(Juneau and Vicinity) •
Partly cloudy tonight and •
Sunday. Lowest tempera- •
ture tonight near 28 degrees •
and highest Sunday 38 de- •
grees. •
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PRECIPITATION •
(Past 24 hours ending 7 30 a m today •
City ol Juneau—.83 inches; •
since Nov. 1 — 2.70 inches; • i
since July 1 — 31.93 inches. •
At Airport — 44 inches •
since Nov. 1 — 92 inches; •
since July 1 — 22.97 inches. •
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New King and Queen
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, who has been sworn In as Sweden’s new
king, is shown above with his wife, Crown Princess Louise. The new
king will succeed his father, King Gustaf V who died in Stockholm
at the age of 92. Iff Wircphoto.
ASSASSIN'S
WIFE GOES
ON STRIKE
NEW YORK, Nov. 4— —The
slim, defiant widow of President
Truman’s slain would-be assassin
was on a hunger strike today in a
Federal jail cell.
The woman, 21-year-old Carmen
Dolores Torresloa, was tracked
down by Secret Service agents
Thursday night. She was taken to
the Federal house of detention and
a Federal official, who refused to
be quoted, said she had been on a
hunger strike since the arrest.
Mrs. Torresola, her dark eyes
smouldering during her arraign
ment yesterday, heard a U. S. at
itorney say she “expressed herself
in entire sympathy with the at
tempt on the President’s life.”
She was held in default of $50,000
ball on a charge of conspiring to j
injure the President. |
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GOV. OUTSIDE TODAY;
MRS. GRUENING PLANS
SAN FRANCISCO VISIT
Instead of taking off this noon
for Anchorage, to join Alaskan
Science Conference delegates for
the flight to Washington, D. C., by
military aircraft, Delegate E. L.
(Bob) Bartlett and Gov. Ernest
Gruening were booked to Seattle
today by Pan American Airways, as
was Mrs. Gruening.
The Delegate and the Governor i
will go direct to the capitol, where
Gov. Gruening will open the three
day conference Thursday.
Mrs. Gruening plans a leisurely
trip from Seattle to Denver, where
she will join her husband on his
arrival for the last of the Western
Governor’s Conference November 10
and 11. The Governor expects to
be back in Juneau November 13' or
14.
To join their son and his wife in
San Francisco, Mrs. Gruening will
stay outside another week or ten
days.
Peter Gruening, for some time
United Press correspondent in Hon
olulu. has been proipoted and trans
ferred to the division office in San
Francisco.
He and his bride, who visited here
recently on their vacation, expect to
be in the Bay City by next weekend.
More bituminous coal and lignite
is carried on the Monongahela river
than on any other U.S. inland
waterway.
“Roof-bolting’ is a means of mak
ing mine tunnels safe. |
EARLY TRIAL
FOR COLLAZO
IS PROMISED
WASHINGTON. Nov. 4——An
early murder trial, possibly in Feb
ruary, appeared in prospect today
for Oscar Collavo, Puerto Rican
gunman wounded Wednesday in the
wild and bloody attempt to kill
President Truman.
Federal investigators said they
saw no need to delay the trial for
many months to permit the check
ing and rechecking of all angles,
particularly the question of whether
Collazo and a slain companion had
accomplices.
U. 8. District Attorney George
Morris Fay said the case may be
presented to the grand Jury next
week. Preliminarly arraignment
has been set for Nov. 21.
Fay said he expects to move for
an early trial as well as a quick
indictment. A trial in February
was regarded as probable.
Collazo, a Puerto Rican National
ist, faces a possible death sentence
for the slaying of White House pol
iceman Leslie Coffelt. Collazo and
a companion, Grieselio Torresola, j
tried to shoot their way into Blair
House, the temporary Truman res
idence.
Torresola was slain in a furious
gun battle with White House pol
icemen and Secret Service agents,
including Coffelt.
PNA TRAFFIC FROM
ANCHORAGE LIGHT
Pacific Northern Airlines carrin"
30 passengers yesterday with nine
going to Anchorage, four to Yaku
tat, two arriving from Anchorage
and one from Yakutat.
To Anchorage: Mr. and Mrs. C. i
Davis, Glen Jefferson, H. L. Moats,
W. E. and Malva Goodwin, Ken
Bowman, Robert De Armond and V.
Delude.
To Yakutat: Leslie and Nick Mil
ton, Charles Newman and Conrad
Brown.
Prom Anchorage: M. Jusker and
Tony Barnhart.
From Yakutat: Berg Whitten.
Fourteen others were carried be
tween westward points.
STEAMERMOYEMENTS
Freighter Coastal Rambler irom
Seattle scheduled to arrive 8 p.m.
Sunday.
Baranof, with cargo only, sailed
from Seattle Friday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver, Saturday, Nov. 11.
ENEMY IS
RECEIVING
MORE AID
Washington Is Concerned
Over Situation - Eighth
Army Drives, Border
(By Associated Press)
The United States Eighth Army
officially confirmed today Its men
are fighting the equivalent of at
least two Chinese divisions in north*
west Korea. United Nations forces
drew a firm line against further
withdrawals forced by eleventh
hour Communist counterattacks. A
high-ranking Eighth Army staff
officer said the Chinese Reds have
probably 300,000 troops deployed
along the Korean-Manchurian bor
der and probably 1.000,000 more
troops within "committing dis
tance."
High officials said any protest
to Red China, or a demand for a
declaration of intention, must
be decided In Washington.
Washington Concerned
In Washington, it was reported
official concern Is mounting over
Chinese relniorcement of the North
Korean Reds but the administra
tion's inclination is to wait for
the situation to develop further be
fore any open challenge to the Pei
ping regime.
The Eighth Army mission remain
ed to drive to the Manchurian
border and to defeat any foe—
North Korean or Chinese allies—op
posing its advance.
In the Unsan sector north of
Anju.,£he JElghth Army confirmed
the Identification of Chinese bat
talions through prisoners.
Chinese Hoad Bloc
In northeast Korea, where thi
U. S. 10th Corps Identified twi
Chinese Communists regiments, twi
U. S. Marine battalions were cui
off north of Sudong. An officia
source said a Chinese roadblock wai
set up behind the two battalions
In the most crucial area, at Un
san and Kunu, inland from thi
west coast, Qen. MacArthur's head
quarters said the entire withdraws
strategy is almost complete. Thi
situation there appeared to be stab,
llized.
Escape from Trap
Half of a trapped regiment of tlH
U. S. First Cavalry Division lr
northwest Korea escaped to thi
new UN defense line irom a traj
sprung Thursday by the Korear
Reds, who were aided by Chinese
The weather continued bad foi
UN Air Forces. Rain and low cloudy
hampered close fighter support
Observation planes spotted enemj
forces moving southeasterly fron
the Yalu River boundary of Man
churia but there was no indicatior
the movement was on a largi
scale.
Neibauer Sukide
In Seattle; WHe
Is in Fairbanfc
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SEATTLE, Nov. 4 — (jf*t — Lama
Neibaur, about 30, was found deal
in his gas-filled apartment here.
Coroner’s deputies said he com
mitted suicide. :
Patrolmen Oscar Winsberg sail
a note left by Neibaur to his wife
Juanita, in Fairbanks, Alaska, In
dicated he was despondent ove
living apart from her and a Is
over financial difficulties.
GRAND JURY Will BE
DFOR JANUARY:
From Ketchikan, where Distrit
Court is in session. Judge Georg
W. Folta has notified court official
here of dates for opening the firs
1951 term in Juneau. !
The grand jury will be called fo
Wednesday, January 3, 1951, th
petit Jury for Monday, January I
according to Mrs. P. D. Mclve
Chief Deputy Clerk.
Judge Folta plans to dispose c
several cases here, probably aboi
November 10 or 13, before going t
Anchorage to assist Judge Anthon
J. Dimond.
Manhood 1s not considered b
Koreans to have begun until afte
marriage, even if a bachelor is 70.