THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,959
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1951
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GOPs Win Seat
In House; Lose
Philadelphia
By the Associated Press
Republicans picked up one seat
in the House of Representatives by
capturing all four special elections
held yesterday, but they lost their
68-year grip on the nation’s third
largest city, Philadelphia.
The off-year balloting, generally
regarded as having no great na
tional political significance, also
brought victory in New York City
to Rudolph Halley of Senate crime
and television fame and the defeat
of James Michael Curley in an at
tempt to come back as mayor of
Boston.
Surprising few observers. Demo
crats appeared to have retained
the Kentucky Governorship, re
turning to the., state house Gov.
Lawrence Wetherby and his slate
of eight state Candidates.
The city hall at Little Rock,
Ark., fell to the Republicans for
the first time in 64 years, and the
GOP also took the mayoralty in
Indianapolis, home of the new
Democratic National Committee
Chairman, Frank E. McKinney.
„ “Clean government” campaigns
were waged by the New York and
Philadelphia winners. Halley won
New York’s city council presidency,
second highest position in the me
tropolis, over Democrat Joseph T.
Sharkey and two others. Halley,
running on the Independent, Fusion
and Liberal party tickets, rolled up
a plurality of 163,000 votes.
In Philadelphia, City Controller
^ Joseph S. Clark, Jr., won the
mayoralty far the Democrats to
end a “"GOP regime which had
stood since 1883. Promising to
clean up corruption he laid at
the door of the Republicans, he
defeated Dr. Daniel A. Poling,
Baptist minister who was the Re
publican candidate.
Some Republicans' claimed a trend
toward their side in the outcome of
the four special House elections, but
three of the vacancies were in tra
ditionally GOP districts and the re
maining one was in a district which
had swung both ways in recent
years.
The GOP gain was registered in
Ohio, where Paul F. Schenck won
a House seat from the district
around Dayton, defeating Jesse i
Yoder. Democrat Edward Breen
had resigned because of ill health.
New Jersey’s 9th district stayed
Republican, as former Rep. Frank
C. Osmcrs, Jr., defeated the Demo
cratic candidate. That seat alsc
was vacant because of a resignation.
The GOP held onto two House
seats in Pennsylvania, one without
opposition at yesterday's balloting.
That was the 8th district, where
Republican Karl C. King was unop
posed. In the state’s 14th district,
Republican Joseph Carrigg defeated
Paul Harris, Democrat.
Boston's colorful Curley, claim
ing he hadn’t the money to make
a campaign, lost the mayoralty to
the incumbent, a fellow Democrat
John B. Ilyncs. Boston elections
are non-partisan. Four times
mayor, four times Congressman
and once Governor, Curley did
not raise his voice during the
campaign.
Despite a few prompt claims from
each side, most observers saw little
evidence in the spotty returns of
any trend likely to mean much in
next year’s bigger campaigns, when
„the presidency and most seats in
TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
(Conyrlght. 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
: FFasHINGTON—The Pentagon
is keeping mum about it, but on Oct
ober 13, Spanish Dictator Francisco
Franco called in Maj. Gen. James
V. Spry, head of the U. S. military
mission to Spain, and staged a sev
age interview in which he threaten
ed, in effect, to withhold the estab
lishment of American bases in
Spain.
The interview was so harsh, and
Franco’s general attitude has been
so unreasonable that General Spry
is returning to the United States
with the almost certain recommen
dation that there be no U. S. air
bases in Spain.
Unless Sen. Pat McCarran, who
heads the powerful Spanish lobby
in Washington, is able to batter
heads at the Pentagon, this recom
mendation is likely to be accepted.
What happened was that General
Spry was sent to Spain as head
of a joint Naval-Air Force mission
to arrange for the much-publicized
bases which Franco supposedly had
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Juneau Chamber
Tc Have Dinner
Meeting Thursday
Visiting Congressmen will be
guests of the Juneau Chamber of
Commerce at an 8 o'clock dinner
meeting at the Baranof Hotel to
morrow night. Wives of Chamber
members are invited, President Her
bert Rowland said today.
The Congressmen will be guests
of Governor Ernest Gruening fcfl
cocktails preceding the Chambei
dinner.
The Taku Toastmaster club i
holding its meeting at noon instead
of evening in order to make thi
Gold Room available for the Cham
ber meeting.
Congress will be at stake. Cam
paigns had been waged pretty
largely on state and local issues.
Cleveland voters returned Demo
ratic Mayor Thomas A. Burke for
a fourth straight term.
In northern New Jersey, site of a
state probe into gambling in Ber
gen county, one mayor under in
dictment was re-elected but two
others were thrown out of office.
Mayor Robinson in
Lead, Reelection
in San Francisco
By the Associated Press
San Francisco's Mayor Elmer
Robinson claimed victory early to
day in his fight for reelection. But
it won’t be definite until Novem
ber 22 because of some 35-hundred
absentee ballots.
Robinson’s lead in yesterday’s
clo^e election race was less than
two thousand votes over Georg (
Christopher, Greek-born San Fran- j
cisco dairyman. But observers pre
dict Robinson will take most of the
absentee votes.
m Official Has
High Praise for
Juneau Ski Club
Jc%n White, regional director
for Pan American Airways from
Seattle, praised the Juneau Ski
Club's initiative in improving the
ski trail and making Juneau winter
sports-minded.
"The Juneau Ski Club is a live
wire organization,” he said, "that
will do much toward attracting out
siders to this area in winter.”
White said that the plans for the
purchase of a Tucker Sno-Cat to
solve the transportation problem
would do much toward making Ju
neau a ski center.
“With the launching of the Al
aska Visitors Association, it is im
portant that prospective builders
of lodges and chalets have both
summer and winter seasons to justi
fy their investments,” White point
ed out.
John White is well known to Al
askans having been with Pan Am
erican Airways for the past 19 years
of its operation in Alaska. Originally
from Massachusetts, White joined
PAA as an accountant in 1932 and
was stationed at Fairbanks.
After visiting the Juneau office
and operations for the past several
days, he left today for Annette and
Ketchikan.
Mee1 Ruled Off
Portland Docks
By Coast Guard
By Associated Press
An international representative
of the longshoremen’s union has
been ruled off the waterfront as a
poor security risk by the Coast
Guard. Mott Meehan said he has
been denied a Portland waterfront
pass—but was not told the reason
for the action. He is the first
prominent longshore official ruled
out in the waterfront screening pro
gam.
The Coast Guard refused com
ment—but Meehan says 20 others
in Portland have been denied secur
ity risk clearances. So far, however,
those without security cards have
not been barred from the docks.
Meehan is a supporter of union
leader Harry Bridges—but otherwise
has not been regarded as left-wing
or radical.
HOLM RETURNS FROM
SCHOOL INSPECTION
Martin N. B. Holm, educationist
for the Alaska Native Service, re
turned Monday frcjm a field survey
of schools located in the upper
Yukon region. On his supervisory
trip, Holm inspected schools at
Tanacross, Northway, Fort Yukon,
Beaver, Circle, Steven's Village,
Rampart, Tanana, and Minto.
Ships Rush Aid
To Survivors
Of Freighter
BULLETIN — SEATTLE. Nov.
7—(#)—Twenty-four survivors of
the burning and sinking wheat
laden freighter George Walton
were pulled from stormy North
Pacific waters off the Washing
ton coast this “morning by three
vessels at the scene.
But four other crewmen were
feared lost when their lifeboat
overturned during rescue at
tempts. Three others had died in
the boiler explosion which touched
off the fire that swept the ship.
With three dead on the Walton,
this left six unaccounted for and
perhaps still in lifeboats or on
rafts. Planes and ships continue
the search.
SEATTLE, Nov. 7—(if)—A Jap
anese merchant ship pulled 12 Sur
vivors of the ill-fated American
freighter George Walton from the
storm swept north Pacific early to
day and moved on to rescue 25
others riding bobbing lifeboats up
wind from their burning and sink
ing ship.
An explosion and fire aboard the
freighter late yesterday killed three
members of its crew and drove the
others to lifeboats to await rescue
from commercial and Coast Guard
vessels converging on the distaster
scene.
The Japanese freighter Kenkon
Maru ,thc first to reach the strick
en ship, battled rough water and
a strong wind through most of
the night to rescue 12 seamen in
a lifeboat nearest the Walton.
Seven were taken aboard shortly
before midnight and the others
rescued about four hours later.
All were weakened by cold and
exposure.
The third assistant engineer on the
ship was listed as William G. An
drews, with a daughter, Hpeal, at
IltV-lkan, Alaska.
Meanwhile, four other vessels
were speeding toward the scene,
390 miles west of the Washington
coast.
But, 13th District Coast Guard
officials at Seattle said, rescue of
the remainder would not be easy.
The tersley worded message from
the Kenkon Maru which reached
the scene at 10:30 p.m., Pacific
Standard Time last night, said:
“I steer very hard in rough sea
so still not pick up men. Still try
ing.” But a short while later, it
reported seven of the 37 men were
rescued, chilled and weakened by
exposure to the cold Pacific air
and wind.
A Coast Guard flier returned
from a flight over the accident
scene with the word that the en
tire mid-section of the Walton was
afire.
Flamfa? enveloped the super
structure and the vessel was list
ing to port and settling,” the pilot
reported shortly after 3 a.m.
The pilot said three lifeboats
were in the water and all the boats
showed signs of life. One lifeboat
was known to have flares.
A new storm moving in from the
western Pacific threatened rescue
operations with added hazards. The
Weather Bureau raised storm warn
ings at 3 a.m., from Tatoosh, Wash.,
the nearest land point east of the
scene, to Astoria, Ore. South to
southeast winds ranging up to 40
miles per hour were forecast.
The George Walton radioed for
aid at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon,
reporting its engine room and crew
quarters swept by flames which fol
lowed an explosion.
“Three men are dead and one
seriously burned,” came the fran
tic message from a radio operator
who was driven fro mhis quarters
every few minutes by the smoke
and fumes. He finally had to fol
low the other crewmen overside,
carrying a portable radio which
sputtered out its last appeal for
help shortly after 5 o’clock.
Meanwhile, the Kenkon Maru, a
slow-moving ship turned from its
course sixty miles away after pick
ing up the SOS. Wallowing at six
knots in a rolling plunging sea, it
steamed directly to the George
Walton.
There a Coast Guard rescue plane
dropped flares to guide it to the
flaming ship, even though the plane
was running perilously low on gas
after 5 hours of shepherding the
bobbing life crafts with its radar
screen.
Then it started home, “coming in
on its fumes,” as the pilot reported.
From other directions came the
Greek steamer Katherine and the
American John Murray Forbes.
Two Coast Guard cutters, the
Wachusetts and North Wind were
dispatched from Seattle with med
ical crews. They should arrive this
afternoon.
The RCA radio-marine station
at Bolinas, Calif., said It intercepted
Fear Lives Lost
In Fire at Bethel;
2 Buildings Burned
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 7—
—A fast moving fire destroyed two
buildings in the western Alaska
town of Bethel early today.
Unconfirmed reports said several
persons had died in the flames.
The fire was first reported here
by the Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration.
The town movie house owned by
the Northern Commercial Co., and
a “road house” or small hotel owned
by Northern Consolidated Airlines
were reported burned to the ground.
Cause of the fire was not known.
It was reported under control at
about mid-morning.
A further report of the fire was
received at Seattle by officials of
the Northern Commercial firm.
General Manager Volney Rich
mond said a dispatch was received
at Seattle about noon from the
branch manager at Bethel.
The message said “several lives
were feared lost.”
There were no further details.
Bethel is near the mouth of the
Kuskokwim river which flows into
the Bering Sea.
Soldier Confesses
Stealing Registered
Mail al Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Nov. 7 —
— An Air Force sergeant who con
fessed stealing hundreds of regis
tered letters inadvertently throw
ing some military operations off
kilter, has been arrested here, Air
Force officials announced.
Postal inspectors said he was
Sgt. James R. Carruthers, of Car
etta, W. Va., a member of the Fourth
Air Postal Squadron at Elmen
dorf Air Force Base.
Sgt. Carruthers was arrested at'
his quarters Sunday morning by \
c.vfi arJti iiuiiu-uy aufiuJimes, vim
said he subsequently confessed re
moving some 300 registered letters
from incoming and outgoing mail
pouches since Oct. 4.
At tne time 01 ms arrest, u. s. |
postal officials said, Carruthers had
in his possession a stolen registered
letter. Complicating matters, how
ever, is the sergeant's confession
that except for an estimated $1,500 |
in cash he obtained he burned the !
entire contents of all the mail he j
pilfered.
Officials said many pieces of the J
lost mail contained important gov- j
ernment documents and several
phases of military operations in the !
Alaskan theatre were disrupted by
disapperance of official communi
cations.
Carruthers was on night duty,
along with one other serviceman.
Inspectors said they were first
notified of the disappearance of
registered mail on Oct. 26, and the
investigation of the matter was
carried on in cooperation with Seat
tle officials.
What did he say he did it for?
To buy new clothes, the postal in
spectors said.
Carruthers will be arraigned today
before a U .S. Commissioner on mail
theft charges.
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle Friday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
Saturday night from Vancouver on
last trip of season.
Baranof from west scheduled to
arrive southbound sometime Sun
day.
Sleek Quotations
NEW YORK, Nov. 7—OP)—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3‘i, American Can
106,'American Tel. and Tel. 156'. .
Anaconda 48%, Douglas Aircraft 57.
General Electric 54%, General Mo
tors 49%, Goodyear 42%, Kenneeott
83%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%.
Northern Pacific 52%, Standard Oil
of California 48%, Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 21%, U.S. Steel 39%, Pound
$2.80, Canadian Exchange 95.75.
Sales today were 1,490,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 257.14, rails 78.14, util
ities 46.01.
AT THE BARANOF
Vernon E. Toney of Renton,
Wash., is registered at the Baranof
Hotel.
messages that one of the dead was
the second engineer and the chief
engineer had been burned severely.
RCA said the radio operator re
ported at 5 pjn. that the ship's
boiler bad blown up.
Land Claims
Hearing Set
For Tomorrow
The House of Representatives
subcommittee now conducting a
series of land claim hearings
throughout Alaska is expected in
Juneau Thursday morning in time
to open a hearing in the Territorial
building Thursday afternoon.
This was the information in a tel
egram from Nome from Delegate E.
L. "Bob" Bartlett, a member of the
party, to Gov. Ernest Gruening.
The schedule now calls for leaving
Kodiak early Thursday morning
after tonight’s session there. Bart
lett’s telegram stated that plans
have been slightly altered to give
more time in Ketchikan. The party
now intends to go to Sitka early
Friday morning for a hearing there.
The Ketchikan hearing will start
early Saturday morning.
Bartlett’s message stated that
most of the group was committed
to leave for the States Saturday
afternoon. No mention was made if
members of the group will continue
the hearings into the first of the
next week as originally planned to
hear arguments by members of the
Alaska Native Brotherhood. The
Brotherhood is holding its annual
convention in Ketchikan next (week.
No time has yet been set for the
start of the Juneau hearing. Gov.
Gruening said he presumed it would
be held in the Senate Chambers.
It was considered a possibility
that the group might miss a hear
ing at Kodiak and come directly to
Juneau Wednesday if the weather
closed in over Kodiak.
Members of the subcommittee are
invited to n cocktail party at Gov.
Gruening’s house at 6 p.m. Thurs
day. They arc expected to be en
tertained by the Juneau chamber
of commerce later in the evening.
The purpose of the subcommit
tee's trip is said to be to gather
information and to absorb the gen
eral eeljng of Alaska Indians,
Ale'uilfBfimtfos, and business
before further action is taken oni
a bill to settle the land claims. The
bill was introduced to the House
by Bartlett.
Alaskans say that much of the
development of the Territory de
pends upon the settlement of the
claims, and the manner in which
they are settled.
—
Military Units
Will March in
Armistice Parade
Armistice Day, Sunday, Novem
ber 11 will be observed by a par
ade and the dedication of the Ju
neau Memorial Library, which has
been built as a memorial to Juneau's
war dead in World War II.
A parade led by color guard of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars will
begin at 1:30 p.m. at the city dock
and will march up Franklin Street
and across Fourth Avenue to the
library.
Marching in the parade will be a
detachment from the USCG cutter
Storis and members of the Alaska
National Guard, Guard detach
ments to be represented in the par
ade include: Company C and Head
quarters and Service Company, 208th
Infantry; Headquarters and Head
quarters Detachment; and Instruc
tors Detachment.
The Juneau High School band,
directed by Herman Kuhlmann, will
march in the parade if weather per
mits. If it is raining, the band will
be stationed under the marquee of
the Federal Building and will play
for the dedication ceremony.
The Women of the Moose drill
team will also participate in the
parade if weather permits.
Christmas Charities
Meeting to Be Held
Tuesday in Elks Hall
A meeting of all organizations
interested in Christmas charities j
will be held in the Elk's hall at 8
o'clock p.m. next Tuesday.
The purpose of the meeting Is to
work out a plan whereby all needy
and deserving families will be cared
for. In the past some families have
received several baskets and gifts
while others have received none.
The Alaska Welfare Department
is cooperating with the organiza
tions as a clearing house to avoid
duplications.
Representatives of all lodges, or
ganizations and clubs are invited
to participate.
AHA MAN IS HERE
Elmer E. Gagnon of the Alaska
Housing Authority from Anchorage,
1$ at the Baranof Hotel.
Juneau FWS Head
Leads Seattle
Fish Hearings
SEATTLE, Nov. 7—(jT)—Hearings
on fishing regulations in Alaska
opened here today with Clarence
Rhode, regional director of the
Pish and Wildlife Service In Juneau
in charge.
Only a small group attended the
forenoon session, which was devot
ed to regulations covering commer
cial fishing in southeast Alaska,
but a larger attendance was expect
ed at later sessions, when several
controversial issues are to be dis
cussed.
The afternoon's session was on
Bristol Bay regulations.
.Regulations on Cook Inlet and
Prince William Sound will be taken
up tomorrow forenoon. Tomorrow
afternoon will be given over to Kod
iak area regulations, and to the
herring fishery in all areas.
Hearing for individual areas also
have been held in Alaska.
Says SE Alaska
Causing New Split
In Territory
Neil Moore, territorial auditor,
who recently returned from the first
convention of the League of Alaska
Cities in Kodiak, said today that
the lack of interest in the work of
the League by Southeast Alaska
cities is likely, to prove costly to this
section of the Territory.
Moore lauded the work and plans
of the organization, saying that the
cities of the Interior and South
west Alaska have banded together
into what he called “a real working
organization.” He says that several
of the cities now in the League
have already benefited through the
exchange of information concern
ing city planning. Moore says that
one of the purposes of the League
is to drive home to Washington of
ficials the need and disirability of
the development of the Territory.
“And, Southeast Alaska will be
left with the crumbs, because with
out representation in the League
this section will naturally be left
out of most of the benefits that ac
crue from the work of the cities
taking and active part,” Moore said.
Unnecessary Split
"By Southeast Alaska cities not |
giving their support to this work,!
they are causing an additional and j
unnecessary split in the Territory," |
he stated.
Moore said that general disap
pointment was voiced at the meeting
at the failure of cities of this sec
tion to join the League. Members
expressed the opinion that Terri
tory-wide organization could bring
industry and development to most
parts of Alaska. He mentioned work
being done to help the growth of
a cattle industry in the Aleutians.
“It has been proven that some of j
the finest wool in the world comes
from sheep raised in the Aleutians," j
Moore pointed out, “and there is
a start of a cattle industry there j
that may be the beginning of a
cattle empire. There are miles and
miles of rich grasslands.
"There was talk at the meeting j
that coordinated effort could very j
well speed the spread of the pulp
industry.”
Moore said that a man to repre
sent the League will be sent to
Washington to promote Alaska’s in
terests. He said he believed the cost
to belong was small compared to
the probable benefits.
Milwaukee Bank
Robbers Escape
With $97,000 Loot
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 7—<Ft—1Three
men, two armed with sub-machine
guns, held up a branch bank on
Milwaukee’s northwest side during
a heavy snowstorm today and es
caped with an estimated *97,000.
The trio entered the bank in mid
morning, according to police and
Manager L. L. Wahl.
The two men remained on each
side of the doorway. The third
jumped over a railing and ran be
hind the row of cashier’s cages. He
scooped the money into a white bed
sheet as one of his companions at
the door counted off the seconds.
As the count hit aero, the trio ran
from the bank and jumped into a
car at the doorway. A fourth man
drove the vehicle away.
RAY WESTFALL ON TRIP
Ray Westfall, assistant manager
of the Baranof Hotel, accompanied
his mother, Mrs. R. W. Hunter to
her home in Durango, Colo. Mrs.
Hunter had been visiting her son
and daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Vernon
here for the past seven weeks. West
fall expects to return In a week or
ten days.
Jel Fighter
Kills Son of
Juneau Woman
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 — 1*1 —
Four Navy men were killed and 10
Injured Sunday when a Jet fighter
crashed into parked planes on the
carrier Antietam off Korea.
The Navy, announcing the mishap
today, gave this account:
The fighter, an F9F Panther Jet.
failed to pick up the arresting gear
and crashed through safety bar
riers into other planes on the flight
deck. Two other Jet fighters were
badly damaged and four received
lesser damages.
The pilot of the plane attempting
the landing. Lt. George S. Brainerd,
of West Orange, N.J., was killed.
The other dead:
Airman Edward Lnverne Clark,
son of Mrs. Cloie May Clark, Ju
neau, Alaska; Airman Eugene A.
Pfeifer, son of Alexander H. Pfeifer,
Osseo, Minn., and Airman Thomas
R. Russell, son of Henry G. Russell,
Barstow, Tex.
Airman Edward Clark was 19
years of age and he Joined the
U.S. Navy last January after serv
ing in a National Ouard unit while
a freshman student at the Uni
versity of Oregon. He was born in
Pasadena, Calif., in 1932 and was
graduated from the University High
School in Eugene, Ore., in 1950.
Airman Clark received his over
seas orders in June and Just prior
to shipping out he came to Alaska
to visit with his mother, Mrs. Cloie
Clark, who is a cook aboard the
MS Hygiene, Alaska Department of
Health’s floating medical shjp. At
that time the ship was anchored
at Metlakatla and Clark visited in
Juneau with his brother, Harland
Clark while waiting for transporta
tion to the Annette Island com
munity. Harland Clark is a statis
tician with the Employment Secur
ily Agency.'
Edward Clark was the youngest of
Mrs. Clark's five sons. Her four
older sons served in the U.S. Navy
during World War II and three sons
were in action against the enemy
and did wo* weive any injuries. He
is also survived by three sisters re
siding in the States.
Mrs. Clark was aboard the MS
Hygiene at Hydaburg when she re
ceived word from the War Depart- i
ment that her son had been killed.
New Buffer Zone
Proposal Hade by
Red Negotiators
MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 7—iJI—Red
truce negotiators submitted a new
buffer zone counter proposal today
strikingly similar to the Allied plan
—but with crucial differences.
United Nations representatives
turned It down. But they said they
might talk about it in tomorrow’s i
sessions at Panmunjom.
Under the Red plan a buffer zone |
would be created now along the:
existing front. If subsequent fight
ing changed the front lines materi-'
ally, either side could propose a!
change in the military demarcation
line for the zone. But there was no
guarantee the other must agree to
the change.
"No adjustments could be made in
the demarcation line as the Com
munists obviously would not agree,”
said Maj. Gen. Henry I. Hodes, head
of the U.N. subcommittee.
"It would be a de facto cease-fire.
It's the same thing they have
brought up for three days."
However, Brig. Gen. William P.
Nuckols, U.N. spokesman, said the
Allies had made no “final Judgment”
on the Red plan.
TIDE TABLES
NOVEMBER 8
Low tide 3:25 a.m., 2.1 ft.
High tide 10:04 a.m., 15.3 ft.
Low tide 4:14 p.m., 3.9 ft.
High tide 10:19 p.m., 14.4 ft.
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WEATHER REPORT
<U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU i
At Airport: Mnxtmum, 45;
Minimum, 41.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Cloudy with rai nand aouth
easterly wind of 15 to 25 mph
tonight and Thursday. Low
est temperature tonight near
38 and highest Thursday near
43.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 houra ending 1:30 a.m. today
At Airport — 0.44 Inches;
from July 1—16.26 inches.
Joint Appeal
Asks World
Arms Limits"
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7—(JB—'The
United States, Britain and Prance
called today for “regulation, limi
tation and balanced reduction of all
armed forces and armaments," In
cluding atomic weapons.
In a joint declaration, the three
powers said any “honest program"
for reducing armed forces and lim
iting weapons must be based on
“disclosure and verification" of troop
strengths and weapon supplies.
They added:
"It must also provide for effective
international inspection to verify
the adequacy and accuracy of this
Information.”
The statement declared the three
powers will submit to the United
Nations General Assembly, now
meeting in Paris, proposals for car
rying out the reduction of arma
ment and forces. It said discussion
of the program should begin Im
mediately but it added:
‘ "However, such a general program
can not be put into effect while
United Nations forces are resist
ing aggression in Korea.
“Moreover, concurrently with the
coming into effect of the program
the major political Issues which
have divided the world can and
must be settled."
President Truman, in a radio and
television address at 7:30 p.m.,
(PST), is expected to explain the
proposals in greater detail. His add
ress will be carried by all major
networks.
St. Louis Digging
Out from Snow;
Warnings Given
By Associated Press
Tlie bread-winners made It to
work atid housewives to the grocery
at St. Lout* today as the city shook
off a foot-thick blanket of snow
deposited in a sudden storm that
seriously crippled the city.
A forecast of clear and warmer
weather signaled the end of the
worst 24-hour snowstorm here In
39 years. But the storm swirled ,
northeastward. A temperature above
freezing turned eight Inches of
snow at Chicago into ankle-deep
slush.
Oale force winds and heavy rain
pounded the eastern seaboard and
sleet pelted storm-groggy upstate
New Yorkers.
Storm warning were issued to
coastal shipping in a special weath
er bureau bulletin announcing that
heavy rain and high southeast winds
will lash the Atlantic seaboard from
Maryland to New England today and
tonight.
L. S. Spencer, of
Skagway, Killed
In Action, Korea
SKAOWAY, Alaska. Nov. 7—
iSpeciaf to the Empire)—James
(Bud) Sullivan has received word
that his brother, Lloyd Spencer
Sullivan of Skagway, had been kill
ed In action in Korea October 4,
1951.
Lloyd was born in Skagway Feb
ruary 14, 1932. He graduated from
the Skagway High School in 1949
and shortly after joined the armed
services as a Marine. He is survived
by his wife, Joyce Bloom Sullivan
of Pocotello, Idaho; his mother,
Mrs. Mary Sullivan of Seattle; two
sisters: Mrs. Bob Snider and Mrs.
Ray Carder of Skagway; and eight
brothers, James and Larry of Skag
way; Alfred, Michael and Patrick
of Seattle; Richard who is ill in
the Veteran’s Hospital in Seattle;
Prank of Anchorage, and Jasper
with the U. S. Navy.
Alaska Plywood Corp.
Is Officially Launched;
$1,000,000 Capital
The million dollar Alaska Plywood
Corporation waa officially born yes
terday when the articles of incor
poration were filed with the Terri
torial Auditor’s office.
At a minting this af'ftmoon
Thomas A. Morgan was named
president; R. C. Avrit, vice presi
dent; and L. R. Hoglns, secretary.
The board of directors will be com
posed of the three officers and
James Larsen and Robert Booch
ever.
A plant engineer will arrive nest
week to work out construction de
tails, Morgan said today.