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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,658
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1950
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Korean Front Paralyzed By Old Man V/intel
CANADIAN
AIRLINER
IN (RASH
Fifty-eight Lives Lost, Ma
jority Returning Home
from Holy Year
"sworie France. Nov. 14—iff)
—French mountain guides today lo
ca.ca one snauered wreckage of a
Canadian airliner which apparently
dashed head-on into an alpine
clil£ with 51 passengers—mostly
Canadian Holy Year pilgrims—and
crew of seven.
Their first radioed report indi
cated none cf the crash victims
was likely to be found alive.
The guides, pushing toward the
s Jene through rain and \ w,
messaged back that they had spot
ted the wreckage near the verticle
north face of Mbunt L'Obiou
range.
The plane crashed last night.
Photographs of Pope Pius XTT.
who had blessed the pilgrims
shortly before they took off from
Rome yesterday for Paris arid
home, were found scattered in a
forest seevral miles from the scene
of the crash—apparently carried by
mountain gales.
Scraps of a diary written by one
of the pilgrims told of the audi
ence with the Pope and of reciting
the Rosary imploring the Mercy
of Heaven before boarding the
plane.
Completely Destroyed
The radio message from the
guides said: The airplane seems
to be completely destroyed.
The wreckage of the fuselage i.
scattered in a mass of fallen earth
at the foot of the north wall of
Mount L’Obiou at a spot looking
over the Isere River.”
The guides said they had seen
the wreckage through a break in
the clouds shrouding the moun
tain.
The crash occurred about 85 mil
es from the spot where an Indian
Constellation plunged into the face
Of Mount Blanc less than two
weeks ago, killing 43 East Indian
seamen and a crew of five. Al
though French mountain guides
reached the scene of that crash
in one of the most hazardous al
pine feats in history, none of the
bodies has been removed because
of the snow and the danger of
winter avalanches. One French
guide was killed by an avalanche
during the climb.
ONLY PIECES OF BODIES
GRENOBLE, France, Nov. 14—W
—The first rescuer reached the
scene today where a Canadian air
liner crashed against the side of an
alpine cliff and reported “nothing
left but pieces of bodies” of the 58
passengers and crew.
Most of the 51 passengers were
Canadian Holy Year pilgrims home- ■
Ward bound from Rome. •
The rescuer, French army alpine
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Copyrlfht. 1050. by Bell Bynolcete, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
WAsHINGTON—This is the kind
of column most editors don’t like
me to write because it’s a think
piece, and they don't pay me to
think. They pay me to get the in
side on cabinet meetings and closed
door sessions, but I get tired al
legedly crouching under cabinet
■ tables, and being human, I can’t
help thinking occasionally.
Recently I’ve been thinking about
some of the discouraging things
that have been happening in dif
ferent parts of the world, which we
have lost sight of during elections.
I’ve also been indulging in that
cheapest of all pastimes—thinking
about what I would do if I were
running the country. I’ve even got
two ideas to propose to make
things better and am almost temp
ted to write a letter to Harry Tru
man.
First, however, here are some of
the things happening in Europe
that haven’t hit the headlines and
which we have missed because we
have been so absorbed in the late
battle to control the west bank of
the Potomac.
In Italy, a country which we
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Downed First Red Je!
i mmmm mas?* ~ 4
Lt. Russell Bi on. jet fighter pilot from Pasadena. Calif., rests his
hand on his crash helmet as he stands near cocknit of his F-80
combat plane at a Far East air base. Lt. Brown is credited with
shooting down the first unfriendly jet aircraft in combat during
an all-jet dogfight (Nov. 10) near Sinuijil, on the Korean-Man
churian border. L1. S. Air Force Photo via Of) Wirephoto.
iHQUESI !N DEATH
OF WARD CHILDREN
HELD HERE TODAY
The jury returned a verdict find
ing that the two Ward children.
Phillip, aged 8 and Lawrence, aged
4, came to their death as a result
of a fire of unknown origin on Nov
ember 9 in a blaze in the North
ern Hotel rooms, following an in
quest held this morning in the U.
5. Commisioner’s Court on the
death of the children.
The little boys perished in the
early morning fire which swept the
Northern Hotel rooms and the Snake
Pit Bar on lower Franklin Street
last Thursday,
Members of the coroner's jury
were Henry Museth, Lloyd Connell,
Orin Cleveland, G. E. Almquist, Wil
liam Passey and Ellis Reynolds.
The inquest was conducted by U.
S. Commissioner Gordon Gray.
Stanley G. Baskin, Assistant U. S. j
District Attorney questioned the 1
witnesses. !
Witnesses Testify
Major Eric Newbould of the Sal
vation Army testified that he went
to the scene of the fire after hear
ing the alarm and that an elderly
man told him on the street that a
body lay in room No. 5 in the hotel.
He said hp went to the room No. 5,
and with fireman Lee Lucas found
the door which had been almost
demolished by fire, partly ajar. He
said they saw a form under the
bedding on the bed and thought
at the time it to be the body of a
woman. The bed was almost com
pletely covered by debris which had
fallen from the ceiling.
He said a call was put in for the
police and for the mortuary car.
Hugh Smith testified he lived
nearby and went into the Northern
Hotel and saw what he believed to
be a body on the bed in room No.
5.
Don Moles of the Charles W.
Carter Mortuary testified that he
was called about 8:45 o’clock in
the morning and removed the bod
ies. He said only the top of the
head of one of the children could
be seen, the other being covered
by the blankets.
Locked Door
Chief of Police Bernie Hulk .tes
tified that he had interviewed Louise
Ward in St. Ann’s Hospital where
she is a patient and that she told
him that she had locked the doer
of the children to keep the “drunks”
from going into the room. He tes
tified she said that there was a
lock on the inside of the door but
that often the children forgot to
lock it to be sure they were pro
tected from molesters she had lock
ed it from the outside.
Phil Berthold, member of the Ju
neau Fire Department, said he and
fireman Roy Carrigan and Wliitey
Thorpe were forced back twice by
flames before they could reach the
top of the stairway with the fire
hose. He said they directed the hose
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i
NEW CALL
MADE FOR
DRAFTEES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 — (.4>) —
The Army today announced a call
for 40,000 draftees in January.
The new call brings the total
Army request to 250.000 since the
outbreak of the war in Korea.
The September and October draft
requests were for 50,000 men in each
month. The November figure
mounted to 70,000 and fell to 40,000
for December.
All men brought into the service
through the Selective Service Sys
tem to date have gone to tlie Army.
The Navy and Air Force continue
to depend upon volunteers to build
up their manpower.
ALASKA FISHERIES
BOARD OPENS 3-DAY
SESSION HERE WED.
The Alaska Fisheries Board will
open a three-day session here to
morrow morning at 10 o’clock in I
the offices of the Alaska Depart
ment of Fisheries in the Seward
Building. All meetings are open to
the public.
C. L. Anderson, director, arrived
yesterday f.jom Washington, D.
C. Ira Rothwell also came in from
Cordova yesterday. Other board
members due today are Howard
Wakefield, chairman, Port Wake
field; Karl Brunstad, Kodiak; J. I
P. Valentine, Ketchikan; William
Walton of Sitka.
The first order of business will
be reports by all members of
Fisheries Staff on work accom
plished since -the meeting last
April.
Thursday will be given over to
a public hearing on recommenda
tions for 1951 fishing regulations,
at which a member of the Fish;
and Wildlife staff will be present, j
All interested persons are invited j
to attend and present their ideas.
Friday board members will dis
cuss specific recommendations to
be made to FWS. The 1951-52 bud
get will be discussed as well as
suggested legislation to be pre
sented to the forthcoming session
of the Territorial legislature. If
it is necessary the meeting will
continue to Saturday, Anderson
said.
STORK CALLS TWICE
A ten-pound boy was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Cropley, Jr.,
at St. Ann’s Hospital at 8 p.m.
yesterday.
A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Francis at 5:55 p.m. S'he
weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces.
FAIRBANKS
IS HIT BY
BLIZZARD
In Fad Inferior Alaska
Struck by Raw Wind and
Drop in Temperature
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 14—
—An Arctic blizzard struck Fair
banks Sunday night, and by yes
terday had piled up more than
12 inches of snow in giant drifts
that blocked roads and snarled
communciations.
Snow-bearing winds in excess
cf 50 miles an hour whistled in
from the northwest on the heel
of a warm front that had raised
temperatures to 25 degrees above
zero.
The Weather Bureau said the
blizzard swept across interior Alas
ka from northern Siberia.
Between midnight and 8 am.
yesterday the snowfall here was
9.6 inches and continuing. The all
time 24 hour record of 15.5 inches
was set in January, 1937.
Telephone service was disrupt
ed in many districts as lines snap
ped under the heavy weight of
snow.
The storm hit within an hour
of the time a plane of the U. S.
Air Force 375th Weather Recon
naissance Squadron was “talked
down" in a ground controlled ap
proach (GCA) landing at the end
of the outfit's 375th flight ovoi
the North Pole.
New Union Is
Formed from
Ousted CIO's
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14—tfi—
Harry Eridges plans to unite un
ions ousted from the CIO on
charges of Communist domination
into a third, all-leftist national la
bor organization, according to
the San Francisco Chronicle.
The newspaper said that pur
pose was indicated in Bridges’
call yesterday for a national labor
conference in Washington, D. C.,
Nov. 28. Joining in the conference
invitation were nine other left
wing labor chiefs.
Although other unions were in
vited, the call is obviously” directed
to organizations purged from the
CIO for alleged Red leanings, the
Chronicle said.
The convention idea was put
forth by Bridges at a New York
meeting two weeks ago. His own
International Longeshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union recommend
ed such action for the "mutual
protection” of the expelled unions.
VOLCANIC
ACTION IN
CALIFORNIA
BERKELEY, Calif. Nov. 14—
A sharp, four-minute earthquake,
presumed caused by volcanic ac
tion in the Mount Lassen area, was
reported last night by the Univer
sity of California seismograph sta
tion.
Don Toscher, assistant seismo
logist, recorded the quake at
6:36:34 p.m., centered about 200
miles from Berkeley, probably near
Mount Lassen, the only active vol
cano in continental United States.
Lassen, 10,577 feet higfa, was
once believed extinct. It erupt
ed, however, in 1941, and since
then has been the scene of hund
reds of explosions of steam and
ash.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive at 7:30 tonight
and sails for Skagway at 11:30
o'clock.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Denali from west is scheduled to
sail south Sunday a m.
Keeping the Hills Hof
Smoke bursts blossom on enemy hill positions north of Hamhung,
North Kcrea, as the U. S. Marine mortar crews keep a steady
pressure on the Reds. The Marines were moving steadily toward the
big Changjln power dam in this sector. I/P) Wirephoto.
EMERGENCY
DECLARED IN
VENEZUELA
CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 14—
Iff) —The government decreed a
state oi emergency today and pres,
ved a hunt for all the assassins
of acting president Lt. Col. Carlos
Delgado Chalbaud, a member of
the ruling three-man military
junta.
The alleged leader of the assas
| sins, Rafael Simon Urbina, was
arrested with some members of his
group, lt was announced.
The state of emergency indefinit-!
ely suspended civil liberties. I
The official version cf yester- 1
day’s slaying said Delgado and his |
aide, Navy Lieut. Carlos Bacalao;
Lara, were seized by a group of I
20 men as they were leaving Del
gado’s home. The two were taken
to an abandoned house in the
eastern section of the city, where
they were brutally beaten, pel
gado was shot in the back and
Bacalao was critically wounded.
Meantime, Venezuela closed her
borders and suspended civil lib
erties.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew was
clamped oiy the oil-rich country'.
4,000,000 population after the gov
ernment announcement that Del
gado, head of a three-man militar;
junta which seblld icontrol o>:
Venezuela in 1948, had died of gun
shot wounds.
MARRIAGE APPLICATION
John Anthony Pasquan and Car.
olyn Dee Hynes have applied fo
a marriage license at the offic;
of the U. S. Commissioner.
FROM SEATTLE
P. H. McDonald of Seattle is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
D. M. Kantola of Anchorage it
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
WARNING TO KIDS
Police today issued a warnin'
to children who have been hookin'
th£ir sleds on to the rear end o
busses and cars stopping at inter
sections. Gold and Ninth street.'
are reserved for sledding and Mayo
Hendrickson has requested that tlv
signal lights be turned on tonight
Motorists are not to use 9th St.
nor Gold St., except to cross it and
all possible caution should be used.
Chief Bernard Hulk said.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Nov. 14 .1> —Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
100, American Tel and Tel 151%,
Anaconda 36%, Douglas Aircraft 83,
General Electric 49 .. General
Motors 49, Goodyear 601,. Kcnnecott
69%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8%,
Northern Pacific 27%. Standard Oil
of California 78, Twentieth Century
Fox 21%, u. S. Steel 40%.
Sales today were 1,680,000 hares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 229.52, rails 6811, utilities
40 80.
>
TELEPHONE
STRIKE IS
NOW ROUGH
Equipment Workers Fight
with Those Going to
Work-Police Called
(By the Associated Press)
Striking telephone equipment
workers fought police for 45 minutes
today in an attempt to keep Bell
operators from going to work at a
West Philadelphia exchange. The
Bell workers finally made it with
police aid.
Seven strikers were arrested dur
ing the push-and-shove struggle.
Twice the picketing strikers burst
through police lines and prevented
entrance of the waiting operators
and other employees.
A third massed police attempt to
force their way through the pick
eting succeeded, but it was a pro
tracted struggle to keep the way
open for employees who sprinted
from across the street, darting
through the line in groups.
Are Knocked Over
Several persons were knocked;
over. Buttons were torn from police :
uniforms and the overcoats of strik- j
ers. The policemen, however, did not
use night sticks.
The demonstration was the first
attempt by the stikers, members of
the CIO Communications Workers
Union, to keep non-striking Bell
workers from going to their jobs.
The operators and other Bell em- j
ployees are members of independent j
unions. The strikers are employed by j
he Western Electric Company.
Bitterness Spreads
Biterness spread in the nation’s ]
partial telephone strike after the;
huge Bell system struck back at dis- j
ruptive hit-and-run picketing.
Leaders of the striking CIO Com-1
munications Workers of America
(CWA) accused the company of a
"discriminatory lockout” in com
plaints to the National Labor Rela
tions Board.
They said the company had
turned away 15,000 long-distance i
operators and maintenance men i
across the country who would not *
pledge themselves to work "regu-!
larly”—that is, be ready to cross j
their union’s sporadic picket lines. !
Complaints Filed
One complaint was filed in New
York and the other in Philadelphia.
NLRB officials said it would take
at least two weeks to decide the
matter, with at least 10 days more to 1
get a court injunction if the union !
charges were upheld.
Bell called the lockout charge |
'absurd” and said it was only try- j
ing to line up a reliable working j
force to handle the emergency.
While tension mounted on the
picket lines, negotiators for both;
sides met In New York in compara- j
tive harmony last night for a seven j
and one-half hour session — the |
longest since the strike began last I
Thursday morning.
The talks will continue today. ,
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KEY RED TOWN
SEIZED; NEAR
ZERO BATTLE
—
(By Associated Press)
U. S. Marines today seized a key
town on the rim of the great Chang
jin reservoir, which supplies power
to Chinese Communist Manchuria.
A field dispatch said the Marines
braving a bitter cold that froze ac
tivity on most of the Korean front,
overran Hagaru without opposition.
They seized a quantity of arms and
ammunition.
Cold and hungry civilians in Hag
aru greeted the parka-clad Marines
‘ with requests for food.
Temperatures of six above zero
all but paralyzed the main north
western front, where an estimated
90,000 Chinese Communists face the
U. S. First Corps. But it was even
colder on the Marine front in the
northeast.
The Marines in their northeastern
push were told at Hagaru that the
main Communist forces pulled out
for the north three days ago.
EXCESS TAX
BOOST LOOMS
FROM JULY 1
WASHINGTON, Nov. '14— Wl —
President Truman asked Congress
today to write an excess profits tax
bill at the forthcoming short ses
sion to produce an additional $4,
000,000,000 a year.
The President made public a letter
to Rep. Doughton (D-NC), chair
man of the House Ways and Means
Committee, in which he recom
mended that the tax boost be made
effective as of last July 1.
“Business volume and prices rose
rapidly after that date as a result
of the decision to enlarge our de
fense program greatly, and profits
have increased as a consequence,”
the President said.
“These profits should obviously
be taxed as part of a sound pro
gram of defense taxation.”
DIVORCES GRANTED
IN DISTRICT COURT
The hearing of divorce cases oc
cupied the U. S. District Court
sessions yesterday afternoon anil
this morning. The afternoon ses
sion today was given over to the
motion calendar.
Divorces granted by Judge George
W. Folta were:
In the case of Ira B. Stevenson :
vs. Gertrude Stevenson, decree
granted to the defendant on a |
cross complaint.
Gunvald V. Vallestad from Doris i
H. Vallestad. They are both of
Petersburg.
Barbara Duck from George F.
Duck.
Howard M. Engel from Gerald
ine Engel.
Carl Jensen from Opan Jensen. !
Hazel A. Hope from J. Raymond 1
Hope.
The case of Peter Miller vs. Detta
Miller was dismissed.
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WEATHER REPORT • |
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
In Juneau—Maximum, 25; •
minimum, 18. • i
At Airport—Maximum, 21; • j
minimum, 12. • \
FORECAST •
(Juneau and Vicinity) g
•
Fair tonight and Wednes- •
day. Northeast gusty winds •
decreasing tonight. Lowest •
temperature tonight about 20 • J
in Juneau and as low as 10 • j
in outlying areas. Highest • !
Wednesday near 24. • I
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PRECIPITATION •
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
City of Juneau—None; •
since Nov. 1—3.99 inches; • ;
since July 1—33.02 inches. • j
At AlrporV*-None; •
since Nov. 1—1.95 inches; • ]
since July 1—23 inches. •
*?*•*•••••!
SOLDIERS I
TRYING TO I
KEEP WAR!
Parka-Clad Men, Howevl
Make Advance One Are!
-Marines Near Reservoi
(By the Associated Press) I
Old Man Winter held the Korlfl
war in his grip today. Near zfl
weather paralyzed the front, cl
respondents said both United fl
tions and Communist forces mosl
spent their efforts in trying to kl
warm. I
The South Korean Capital Dil
sion beat off a tank-led Communl
attack on the snow-covered el
coast. The South Koreans secul
their beachhead on the Orangchl
river. 90 miles from the Soviet I
berian border with the help of tl
eight inch guns of the U.S. cruil
Rochester and rockets of Marl
planes. g
Elsewhere there were only nibbl
| at the Communist lines bolstered I
an estimated 90.090 Chinese I
quilted uniforms. I
Soldiers Shiver 9
Many of the Americans still I
summer-weight uniforms shiverl
as the ice-tipped winds swept dol
from mountain peaks. The temperl
ture was six above zero on tl
northeastern front. The U.S. Eighl
Army was rushing Arctic clothil
to the chilled troops. 9
Mines, Booby Traps 9
Communist soldiers resorted g
mines and booby traps to slow g
the Allied advance but winter wl
doing a more effective Job. 1
Associated Press Corresponds!
Don Whitehead said the arrival g
winter caught American forces u!
prepared. Ice hung from canvg
water coolers. Fuel oil froze in teg
stoves. There were more America!
attired in cottons than in woolerg
Whitehead said. il
Parka-clad U.S. Marines on tig
central front pushed over ice arg
snow and approached the Changjg
reservoir. I
Farther east, two regiments of tig
U.S. Seventh Division drove ovg
icy roads in sub-zero weathg
against 40-mile an hour winds. 9
High Ground Captured 1
On the northwest front U.S. Firg
Cavalry captured high ground ofl
three sides of the walled city g
Yongbyon after a 48-hour battle. I
In the air war two B-29’s werl
damaged in attack by six Sovletl
built jet fighters. The Superfortl
were striking at bridges spannir.l
the Yalo river to prevent furlhel
Communist Chinese troops and supl
plies from reaching Korea. Tb
B-29's made forced landings a
Kinipo airfield to get medical car
for injured crewmen. One B-29 rat
off the runway damaging four othe
planes.
SEE-SAW RACE FOR
MICH. GOVERNOR IS
STILL SEE-SAWING
(By Associated Press)
Michigan's Democratic Governor
G. Mennen Williams now has a
nearly 900 vote lead over his Re
publican opponent Harry Kelly in
the state’s mixed-up election after
math. But four counties, including
that in which Detroit is located,
are still to be canvassed. And an of
ficial f-ecount still appears to be in
the offing.
TAFT STILL EYEING
PRESIDENT'S RACE
IN 1952 ELECTION
(By Associated Press)
The Senator known as “Mr. Re
publican," Robert Taft of Ohio has
something in his eye. It's what is
known as the presidential gleam.
He has told a Washington news con
fernce that while he will not cam
paign for that top 1952 political
nomination, he would accept it If
It comes his way.
Taft preceded this with the claim
that he alone among Republicans
has shown that he can carry labor
strongholds.