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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,912
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1951
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PRICE TEN CENTS
2 Bankers in
Month Found
Embezzling
One Takes About
$25,000 a Year for
Period of 20 Years
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Sept. 14
—For the second time in a
month a prominent banker has
been charged with embezzling more
than a half-million dollars in this
small western Pennsylvania com
munity.
Amazement was expressed by most
people after the arrest of William
Paul Smeltzer, 60-year-old assistant
cashier of the First National Bank
Smeltzer is charged by the FBI with
having embezzled $550,000 in the
past 22 years.
. _ JLust a month ago Ludwig Schlekat^
president of the Parnassus National
Bank here, was charged with em
bezzling $600,000. A few days ago
he was released on $50,000 bond.
At the time of Schlekat’s arrest,
government officials said the short
age attributed to him was one of
the largest found in a small town
bank in the country. New Kensing
ton is a community of about 25.000,
18 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
The FBI said that Smeltzer, the
father of three grown children, took
about $25,000 a year for more than
20 years—adding.that he had full
charge of the bank’s ledgers.
No Candidates
Filed for Od.
City Election
A regular • city general election
will take place Oct. 2. At that titns
a mayor, six council members and
a municipal magistrate will be el
ected. j
City Clerk C. L. Popery reveal
ed today that no candidates had
filed for any of the positions. The
deadline for filing is at 5 p.m.
Sept. 26, he said.
This will follow a special elec
tion scheduled for next Tuesday
when the matter of changing the
length of councilmep’s terips will
be decided. • v
If the ordinance is ratified, the
three candidates receiving the
highest number of votes will be
installed for two-year terms, and
the three receiving the next highest
number will go in for one-year
terms. Thereafter, three council
men will be elected each year to
serve for two years.
The mayor and municipal magis
trate are elected for two year
terms. Mayor Waino Hendrickson's
term expires this October. F. O.
Eastaugh has been acting as city
magistrate.
Present council members are:
George Jorgenson, Bert McDowell,
Pauline Washington, Joe Thibo
deau, Bert Caro and Ed Nielson.
British Stop All
Shipments of
Cargoes to Iran
LONDON, Sept. 14—Uf)—Britain
has stopped British ships from de
livering any cargoes to Iran.
Board of Trade spokesman dis
closed vessels carrying “certain
scarce materials” to Iran have
been diverted.
This, he said, was in line with
a British treasury statement which
earlier this week cancelled finan
cial and economic concessions to
the Tehran government.
LARSON FAMILY HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Larson
and family from Elfin Cove, are
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
Edward J. Gavell of Sitka is
registered at the Baranof Hotel
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
WASHINGTON. — There's some
thing awfully peculiar about the
way the Senate refuses to invest
igate graft in the sale of American
war supplies to nationalist China:
also the manner in which some of
these supplies went to Commun
ist China.
This graft and the part played
by the China lobby was exposed in
this column three months ago, in
cluding huge fortunes made by
Chinese in cornering the soybean
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$500,000,000 Alummum Plant Being
Built in British Columbia Wilderness
By SUSY WINN
The years of planning for the
future industrial development of
northern British Columbia came tc
an abrupt halt this year — the
future arrived. Just prior to the
opening of the Columbia Cellulose
Company's $30,000,000 pulp mill at
Port Edward, the Aluminum Com*
' pany of Canada announced in April
that it had selected Kitimat, a
small Indian village south of Prince
Rupert, as the site for the world's
largest hydroelectric plant to be
built at the cost of $500,000,000.
The gigantic development, will ex
tend from the smelter at Kitimat
eastwards a distance of 120 miles to
the Grand Canyon on the Nechnko
River, where a dam will be con
structed. Construction started at
five locations this season and over
3.000 men are now employed on the
project. The work was started in
February by the Morrison-Knudsen
Construction Company and in May.
gary, a Canadian associate of M-K.
took over the job. Construction is
going ahead at top speed with mill
production scheduled to begin in
1953. -1
The people of northern British
Columbia, who live in small village'
along the Canadian National Rail
way between Prince Rupert and
Prince George are not as “boom
happy” as they are dazed by the
project . Since March, the Alcan
-Company has been spending half f.
million' dollars each week and ac
cording to the provincial govern
ment this figure will soon be raised.
This is a lot of money in any man's
language, and the Canadian settlers,
many of whom came north before
the Canadian National was built in
1910, have a difficult time realizing
the extent of their new prosperity.
In the early days, the settlers be
lieved that prosperity would come
when the tracks were built to Prince
Rupert, whict wa$ plannel as an
ocean port for trade to the Orient,
■piis bubble burst in 1916 when the
®raud Trunk'RV. ? wety bre&g
•Shd *»s tikeh over by OielftRwwP
meni-sponsored Canadian National
flail way. A^ter years ol planning
for the industrial development of
northern British Columbia, Cana
dians havedgood reason to be amazed
by their sudden turn of fortune.
Project Plans
The entire project lies within
Tweedsmuir National Park, a vast
wilderness area, lying south of the
Canadian National Railway and
Highway 16, which parallels the
tracks. Within the park, a giant
network of rivers and lakes will be
impounded to form a lake 100 miles
across. The western shore of the
lake will back on the Tahtsa moun
tains of the Cascade Range and
will extend eastwards through a
series of existing lakes to the Ne
chako River. At, the grand can
yon on the Nechako River, 69 miles
southwest of Vanderhoof, Alcan is
going to stop the eastward flow’ of
water by constructing an earth and
rockfill dam, which will be 310 feet
high by 1,350 feet long. It is esti
mated that it will take five years
to complete the dam, but before it
is finished to its highest level, waters
backed up by it will be turning the
turbines at the main power plant,
over 120 miles to the west.
At the west end of this inland
sea, where it backs against the
Tahtsa mountains, a tunnel will be
bored through 10 miles of solid
rock under the mountains. From
the tunnel, water will drop down
2,600 vertical feet and Alcan offi
cials have stated that an output of
1.600.000 horsepower can be devel
oped. The powerhouse will be lo
cated inside the mountain, in a
quarter mile square cavern blasted
out of solid rock. The western end
of the tunnel is located ten miles
from the head of Kenamo Bay on
Gardner Canal.
The power produced at the Ke
namo plant will be carried by elec
tric -transmission lines to Kitimat,
which is situated in a five-mile
wide valley. Kitimat is the nearest
suitable location for the smelter and
“Aluminum City,” which is expected
to reach a population of 50,000. and
will rank as British Columbia’s third
largest city.
At Kitimat, a deep sea wharf is
being constructed to handle bauxite
(aluminum ore) which will be
brought in by ships from the com
pany’s development in the Carib
bean Sea area. The smelter, in its
'nitial stage will produce 330.000,000
pounds of aluminum annually, and
its full production is estimated to
be 1,100,000,000 pounds. '
Why British Columbia?
There is only one answer to why
the world’s largest hydroelectric
plant is being constructed in the
wilderness of British Columbia. R.
E. Powell, president of the Alumi
num Company of Canada, when he
announced the project stated, “This
is the most economical large power
site to be found anywhere in the
world.”
Cheap power is a requisite for
aluminum production as electricity
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represents 25 percent of the over
all cost of refined aluminum. The
estimated per kilowatt hour cost at
Kitimat is one cent. America's "Big
Three”’producers — Alcoa, Reynolds
and Kaiser — are now paying an
average of 2.74 cents per kwh. With
energy costs 150 percent lower than
its U.S. competitors, officials esti
mated that Alcan will be able to
sell its product at two to four cents
a pound lower than the American
price.
Kitimat’s production together with
the aluminum produced at the Ar
vida, Quebec plarg, of the Alcan
Company will make Canada the
world's top producer of aluminum.
American producers have started ex
pansion programs which will raise
national production to 1,025,000 tons
a year as compared to Alcan's esti
mated output of 1.050,000 tons.
This Year’s Work
Work started this year at five
areas of the gigantic project. Before
the-«pf tog -thaw, ..a road was hull-.
dozed through the wilderness from
Vanderhoof to the Nechako dam
site and work has now started on
the dam at the grand canyon. From
Burns Lake a road was pushed
through to the eastern side of the
tunnel at the head of Tahtsa Lake.
From the head of Gardner Canal a
road has been built to the western
end of the tunnel.
The tunnel is not only being
driven through from each end but |
"also fram ti're riilddter-Grews we^e.
flown by helicopters to the top oi
the Tahtsa mountains and they are
now blasting a vertical opening
which will allow- them to start tun
nelling from the middle.
There are 700 men employed ir.
construction at Kitimat. Surveys
for rail and highway connections
from Kitimat to Terrace, a distance
of 38 miles, were made this summer
A four-lane paved highway will
connect the two cities.
Kidnaped
Or Killed
MANILA, Sept. 14—OB—'The wife
of an American engineer missing
since yesterday noon said today she
feared he has been kidnaped.
Mrs. Lester Corp offered a $5,000
reward for information concerning
her 60-year-old husband.
Speculation that he has been
killed or kidnaped increased when
his jeep was found in a river near
the Pulungmaba sugar plantation'
near Del Carmen. Four bullet holes
were found in the jeep.
Shuman Will
Preside al Kodiak
Fishery Meeting
Fiylng to the Westward today
was Richard Shuman, fisheries
management supervisor of the
Fish and Wildlife Service, to con
duct fish hearings in Kodiak on
Sept. 17.
The hearings are conducted an
nually after close of the commer
cial seining season to hear sug
gestions for regulations for the
following year. ,
Shuman will also conduct hear
ings at Anchorage on Sept. 20,
and then will go on to Cordova
and Yakutat on a similar mission.
He said regional Director Clar
ence Rhode and Al Day, director
of the Fish and Wildlife Service
in Washington, D. C., probably
would be present at the Anchorage
session.
Fish and Wildlife proposed
changes in the 1952 regulations in
the Anchorage and Cook Inlet
districts were announced by Shu
man. They are:
(1). A quota to be placed on the
catch of king salmon limiting it
to 100,000 fish for the season. The
quota would be broken up into
weekly quotas with the number
based on the mean weekly cat
ches of recent years.
<2). A 1,500,000 fish quota on
reds for the season. The quota
would be handled the same as for
kings.
(3) . Leads of all pile trap to
remain entirely out of the water
until the opening of the fishing
season.
(4) . All fishing to be prohibited
on Willow Creek of the Susitna
River drainage.
Fishermen, packers, and other
interested parties who attend the
hearing will have the privilege of
either protesting or upholding the
proposals made by the department
Shuman added.
FROM ANCHORAGE
W'. C. Man of Anchorage is reg-:
istered at the Baranof Hotel.
Thumbs Out
Aitdy-Ounderson -thumbs a ride tor Jills family o.n a hUhmy .fust of
Yakima, Wash., as they continue the long journey from Dallas, Ore.,
to Worthington, Minn., to stee Gunderson's ailing father. They have
been en route a week and gotten only 31)0 miles. From left are:
Shirley Mae. Mrs. Gunderson, Be\Vrly Bell, Andy Jr., (standing),
Gaffnay George and Gunderson. Iff) Wirephoto.
Ministers of 3
Nations Discuss
inflation Threat
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14— UP) —
The ministers of three countries,
the United States, Britain and
France today discussed a major
threat to the west’s defensive build
up: inflation.
How to keep inflation from wreck
ing the rearmament drive and along
with it the economies of western
Europe was a topic of talks by the i
big three foreign ministers. Secre
tary of the Treasury Snyder, Brit
ssaa«-; •r. T?--v> pdtskfii
and French Finance Minister Rene
Mayer sat in on the meeting.
The three foreign ministers—Se
cretary of State Acheson, Britain’s
Herbert Morrison and France's Rob
ert Schuman—last night agreed on
main terms for a partnership deni
which would allow the west Ger
mans to contribute forces to the
western alliance.
Today, it was reported reliably,
the ministers confirmed big three
unity on measures to protect their
nationals behind the Iron Curtain.
Informer officials said the ministers
agree that such unity already ex
ists as evidence of yesterday's joint
ban on Czechoslovak airline flights
over Germany and France.
The move presumably was a mea
sure of retaliation for Czechoslovak
ia’s refusal to release AP correspon
dent William Oatis from a Prague
jail where he is serving a ten year
sentence on charges of espionage.
Program Outlined
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—[B—
The big three foreign ministers
jaid today negotiations will be
pressed ‘'as rapidly as possible"
to bring West Germany into the
European defense lineup.
The big three—the U S., Britain
and France—also announced a de
cision to make a “new and reso
lute effort” to bring about an
agreement with Russia on a final
postwar settlement with Austria.
A communique, issued near the
close of a five-day conference,
said Secretary of State Acheson, i
Foreign Secretary Herbert Morri
son and French Foreign Ministei
Robert Schuman “found solid
grounds for confidence in the
growing strength and unity of the
free world.”
They announced “sympathy” for
Italy’s proposal to revise its peace
treaty setting a maximum of 300,
)00 men on Italian armed forces
and said “this question will be the
subject of further conversations
between the governments.”
The big three said they have
agreed on instructions to the high
commissioners for West Germany
>n negotiating a peace contract
with the Bonn government.
In the concluding session today,
the threat of inflation to defense
buildup was discussed.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Sept. 14—W—Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau
mine stock today is 314, American
Can 118' i, American Tel. and Tel.
160%, Anaconda 497,. Douglas Air
craft 58 i, General Electric G3 «,
General Motors 51'i, Goodyear 47%, I
Kennccott 84 H, Libby, McNeill and
Libby 9, Northern Pacific 547
Standard Oil of California 54, Twen
tieth Century Fox 20%, U. S. Steel
44>i, Pound $2.79 15/16.
Sales today were 2,170,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 276.06, rails 84.45, utilities
45.55.
Coast Guard
Announces
Hearing, Oct.
A public hearing will be held here
by the U. S. Coast Guard on Oct. 24
for the purpose of discussing marine
inspection and clasification of south
east Alaska waters, 17th district
headquarters announced here today.
The purpose of the hearing is to
•'rpc've comments on and discuss
nertaintng to the maritime
industry which are peculiar to Alas
ka, over which the Coast Guard
has jurisdiction, principally with
respect to marine inspection and
the classification of the waters of
southeast Alaska,” a press release
stated.
The hearing will open at 10 a.m.
in the Senate Chamber of the Fed
eral Building.
Briefs will be welcomed from those
attending and those unable to at
tend the hearing, headquarter; said.
The press release requested that
those wishing to attend the hearing
c >u.tnunicate with the Commander,
17 (oast Guard District, .Box 2991,
Juneau. The Coast Guar l desires
the names and positions of the pei
sons nho will ieoi"sent the various
ioii'rfc'ts and if tney wish to discuss
the problems orally.
Taku Road Would
Help Dorothy Lake
Electric Project
The Bureau of Reclamation re
port on the Lake Dorothy hydro
electric project has been comple
ted. Joseph M. Morgan, district
manager of the Alaska office, re
ported in a letter to the Juneau
Chamber of Commerce.
The Bureau has recommended thr
immediate construction of the
project, Morgan said. He pointed
out that the construction of the
proposed Taku road as rfar as Point
Bishop would aid materially in
lowering the cost of constructing
the project by transporting equip
ment and materials.
He also said that the road would
facilitate the patrolling ana
maintenance of transmission lines
which would parallel the road
along the mountain side from Point
Bishop to Thane.
For your information,”'the let
ter read, “mining industries in the
Tulsequah area have made formal
inquiry as to the availability ol
electric power supply for use in
their mining operations. Obviously
any ultimate extension of the road
from Point Bishop toward thi
mining area would expedite the
construction and maintenance ol
a transmission line built in that
direction.”
The Lake Dorothy project will
have an ultimate capacity of 24,
000 kilowats and will be capable of
producing and making available to
the area 123,000 kilowat hours of
firm power energy annually.
"This office strongly endorses
the Chamber's program for expe
diting construction of this import
ant segment of the route connect
ing Juneau with Canadian British
Columbia," the letter concluded.
JUNEAU VISITORS
A1 Johnson and Bud Ostby of
Portland are stopping at the Bar
anof Hotel, _
King Neptune Shows Who's Boss on
Briny Deep; Too Much for Ship's Cook
New Secretary
Is Acting Governor
On First Day
Judge Joseph W. Kehoe, new Sec
retary of Alaska, began his first day
in office by becoming Acting Gov
ernor.
Judge Kehoe arrived in Juneau
late yesterday afternoon from Nome
and was sworn into office a little
before 5 p.m. The oath was admin
istered by Judge George W. Folta
in the secretary’s office before Gov
ernor Ernest Gl-uening and members
of the office staff.
Shortly afterwards, former secre
tary Lew M. Williams arrived to
greet and congratulate the new se
cretary and turn over to him the
keys of the office.
Secretary Kehoe will become act
ing governor- tonight when the
Princess Louise, carrying Governor
and Mrs. Omening south, passes
Dixon Entrance and the governor is
out of the Territory.
Judge Kehoe comes to Juneau
from Nome where he has been U. S.
District Judge for the second divi
sion since 1944. Prior to thnt he
was special assistant to the U. S.
Attorney General and from 1933
to 1943 was U. 8. Attorney in the
third division._ *
He was admitted to the Alaska
bar in 1920 and from 1924 to 1929
was U. S. Commissioner at Ketchi
kan.
He served in the Territorial House
of Representatives in 1933 and again
in 1943.
Kehoe was educated at Columbia
University and holds a Bachelor of
Law degree from the University of
Oregon.
Mrs. Kehoe, who Is still in Nome,
will join the new seceretary in Ju
neau as soon as personal matters
can be taken care of there.
The Kehoes are widely known
Alaskans and have many friends
who will welcome them as residents
I of the Capital City.
In speaking of his new office
today Judge Kehoe said:
"X hope that I may be of service
to the people of the Territory and
conduct the office of secretary as
it should be conducted. I am grateful
to all my friends who have greeted
and welcomed me and particularly
to Mr. and Mrs. Lew Williams who
have been so gracious and cordial.”
Lovett Is
Confirmed
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—Mt
The Senate has confirmed the nom
ination of Robert A. Lovett to be
Secretary of Defense succeeding Gen.
George C. Marshall.
Confirmation came 48 hours after
Marshall resigned and President
Truman named Lovett to succeed
him.
Majority Leader McFarland of
Arizona received unanimous consent
to bring up the nomination out of
the regular order.
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• High tide 1:24 a.m., 18.4 ft. •
• Low tide 7:38 a.m., -2.1 ft. •
• High tide 1:55 p.m. 18.5 ft. •
• Low tide 8:00 p.m., -1.0 ft. •
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Ship Movements
Baranof due southbound Sunday
at 6 p.m.
Princess Louise sails from Van- j
couver Sept. 19, arrives Juneau
3ept . 22.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• (U 8 WEATHER BUREAU •
• Temperatures tor 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock this mornlna •
• At Airport—Maximum, 54; •
• minimum, 47. • j
• FORECAST • j
• <Juneau and Vlclnllr) •
• Partly cloudy tonight and •
• Saturday. Lowest tempera- •
• ture tonight about 47 degrees. •
• Highest Saturday near GO. •
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• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
| • At Airport — .70 inches; •
1 • since July 1 — 8.01 inches. •
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► PORT ANGELES, Wash,, Sept. 14
I —1.41—A University of Washington
j faculty member who defied the tra
! ditlons of the sen knows better now.
His sad story came to light when
j the U. S, Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice's exploratory vessel John N
Cobb put in here.
The University research assistant.
I John Slipp, started it all when he
! sighted a white albatross flyiny
; near the vessel which was engaged
in exploratory deep sea trawling
| off Cape Flattery earlier this month.
Excited by sight of the bird, us
ually found only off the coast of
Australia, Slipp asked permission
to shoot it and bring it to the Uni
versity museum as the first known
specimen of a white Albatross seen
in Washington coastal waters.
The seven crewmen immediately
shouted "No!” reminding Slipp of
the fate of Coleridge's “Ancient
Mariner" and the old tradition of
bad luck which follows shooting
an albatross.
Bu because of the specimen’s rar
ity, . Cnpt. Sheldon Johnson reluct
antly granted Slipp's request.
After seven shots, Slipp brought
the big bird down. And this is what
followed:
The net cables fouled up three
times.
The net caught on the sen bottom
and was ripped to shreds.
The shaft on the main winch
snapped.
It then took the crew B'& hours to
reel in the 1,700 feet of cable.
Ted - Meellendorf, a scientific aide
aboard the ship, fell down a hatch
ladder and broke a rib.
Slipp became violently seasick for
the first time In his life. The sen
was calm.
Its exploratory work halted by the
broken gear, the ship turned back to
Seattle. There the cook quit.
Largest Military
Building Bill Has
Authorization
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14— M —
Senate and House conferees reached
agreement today on a $5,864 , 301.178
military construction program—the
largest ever to be approved by Con
gress in a single package.
They eliminated provision for a
$33,000,000 troop carrier base in
Goldsboro, N. C.. subject of contro
versy among North Carolina mem
bers of Congress.
This was the only change in the
bill recommended by the conferees.!
The bill includes an Alaska mili
tary building program of more than
$335,000,000. It includes big sums
for Elmendorf, Ladd and Elelson
Air Force Bases, improvements in
the Kodiak Naval Station and work
in Aleutian bases.
The bill, however. Is only an au
thorization. Actual money would
have to be provided later.
Now See What
Is Being Done
To Watermelons
LAFAYETTE, Ind. Sept. 14—(i?n—
There's a nearly seedless water
melon on the way.
Purdue University has develop
ed one with only two or three
seeds. Commercial seedsmen will
have It next year. It’s round and
weighs only eight to ten pounds,
too—Just right for keeping in the
refrigerator. Purdue says the qual
ity Is high.
A chemical called colchicine did
the trick by changing the internal
structure of the fruit.
Report Given on
Life in Russia
If Alaskans think prices are
high, they should be living In the
American Embassy in Moscow,
Russia.
A report from a young attache
to friends here says that tomatoes
there are $2 a pound; eggs, 40 cents
each; cauliflower, $4 a head; a tin
of crab, $2.50; and 5-ounce steaks
$1 each.
The cook at the embassy gets
$150 per month but if she were
working in a Russian house she
would only get $80. A bus driver
if he is a Stakhanovite. gets from
$300 to $500 monthly but works
many more hours than 48 a week,
the attache says.
It is estimated that no more
than 100,000 automobiles have been
produced in Russia since 1946, lie
said.
FLYING TO MINNEAPOLIS
Mrs. Chester Zenger and daugh
ter Linda Hew south Wednesday
en route to Minneapolis. Minn.,
where they will visit relatives for
ihe next six weeks. They were ac
companied by the family's pet doc.
Doughboys
Wrest Peak
From Reds
Bloody'Battle of Hills'
Is Fought; Supply
Lines Are Slashed
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 14—<A>)—
United Nations doughboys today
wrested a towering peak from bit
terly resisting Reds north of Yang
gu as the bloody “battle of the
hills” ground on in eastern Korea.
On the other end of the penin
sula, six Russian-type T-34 tanks
and two self-propelled guns were
spotted west of Yonchon. They
were immediately attacked by U.
N. artillery, planes and tanks.
An Allied briefing officer said
they were dug in, and apparently
■■ OeviHned f'T defensive-purposes by.—
the RedR.
In the air war, Allied planes
roared through Korean skies on
close support missions for the in
fantry and slashing attacks at Red
supply lines.
One marine corsair fighter was
downed by Communist ground fire.
The Plith Air Force said there was
no chance of pilot survival For
the first time in six days there
were no reports of Jet battles.
Ground action was concentrated
along the^ spiny ridges of Korea’s
eastern front.
The U. N foot troops captured a
towering mountain peak there af
ter getting reports that it was
thinly defended.
But die-hard North Koreans re
pulsed a U. N. attack on another
mountain to the west.
A briefing officer said Allied
.troops on one mountain slope re
ceived "an unusually large amount"
of Red mortar fire.
Eisenhower
To Be Drafted
As Candidate
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14—1lb—
Congressman Hugh D. Scott <R
Pa), GOP, National Chairman in
the 1948 presidential campaign, has
returned from a trip to Europe and
a meeting with Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower convinced that he and
others in the Eisenhower-for-prest
dent movement have a "green light”
to go ahead, the Evening Bulletin
said today.
The newspaper said in a dispatch
by its Washington correspondent.
Carl W. McCardle, that 8cott "left
Elsenhower with the clear impression
that the General will ‘not pull the
rug out from under’ those who are
working to get the GOP nomina
tion for him.”
Scott left Elsenhower sure that the
General is a Republican and that
any talk of his running on the Dem
ocratic ticket is silly, the newspaper
reported, adding:
“But Eisenhower, it is said, made
It plain that if he is to be the
GOP candidate it must be a ‘draff
in the strictest sense and not some
thing contrived.”
Town Is
Isolated,
Rain Fall
ALICE, Tex., Sept. 14—<Pt-Thls
south Texas town was virtually
isolated and hundreds were home
less today following 14.21 inches of
rain.
Murky water up to five feet deep
surged through the streets, and
amphibious trucks and boats were
used to evacuate flood victims.
But R. E. Ilorine, chairman of
the Jim Wells County Red Cross
Chapter, said the worst appeared
to be over.
Only light mist fell this morn
ing, following a flood crest at
dawn by the rampaging San Diego
Creek.
No casualties, were reported
among the 21,000 residents, although
editor Curtis Vinson of the Alice
Echo said property damages would
be ••tremendous.”
GREGG JOINS PAA STAFF
Douglas Oregg has Joined the
staff of the local Pan American
World Airways office here. He is a
traffic representative.