THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE HEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,967
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Fish Hearing
Ends with Few
Fireworks
Various factions at the annual
Pish and Wildlife Service hear
ing yesterday at the Federal build
ing were keeping their powder dry,
and although fuses sputtered dur
ing the hearing the threatened ex
plosions did not come.
About half of the crowd present
was made up of persons from out
side of the Gastineau Channel area.
Although the hearing was to discuss
proposed changes in commercial
fishing regulations for next season,
local fishermen appeared to have
taken little interest in the proceed
ings.
Clarence Rhode, regional director
of the Fish and Wildlife Service who
acted as chairman for the hearing
expressed his disappointment in the
small number of local fishermen
which attended.
During the morning session, spor
adic outbursts condemning various
phases of trap fishing and insinua
tions that the FWS was prejudiced
in the forming of its regulations in
dicated some heated, if warmed
over arguments were to be heard.
“Few independent fishermen were
making their opinions known, and
the others weren’t going to open
up unless they were forced to,” one
FWS man said after the hearing.
Trap Leads
Yesterday’s morning session was
taken up largely with discussions
concerning a proposal requiring an
opening in trap leads during times
wheiy the traps are closed. This
brought the most interest of any
one question of the hearing, and
many witnesses, independent fish
ermen and Alaskan Salmon Industry
representatives, approved and con
demned the proposal. Another pro
posal, concerning the abolition of
set nets in Southeast Alaska, also
brought its share of argument in
the morning session.
Andy Barlow, executive secretary
for the United Trolleys, of, Alaska,
was the first to speak in the after
noon session. He took the Fish and
Wildlife Service men by evident sur
prise in saying that his group in
general agreed with th* new pro
posals.
“We trollers are a contented lot
on the whole,” he stated. Then smil
ing at the audience, he added, “I
might suggest that if all these
gentlemen here caught their fish
on a hook, there might not be so
many problems.”
He said although many of the
fishermen present had gone on re
cord as opposing traps, the propo
sals concerned the opening of the
lead on the traps, not the question
of whether there should or should
not be traps. Barlow suggested that
instead of continued argument,
whether fish do or do not gather
along a trap lead when the trap
is closed, the FWS put out a test
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TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
(Couyrlght, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
rr ASHINGTON—What General
Eisenhower said to Senator Duff
after Ike let him down by say
ing he hadn’t “heard from Senator
Duff directly or indirectly for a
long time” is one of the most spec
ulated questions in Washington. Its’
like the debate over what the gov
ernor of South Carolina said to the
governor of North Carolina.
However, part of what Ike told
the auburn-haired Senator from
Pennsylvania, briefly summarized,
was this:
“I'm sorry. I never had so many
questions coming at me all at once
and I didn't realize what I was
saying until it slipped out.”
The two men completely patched
things up, and Eisenhower retriev
ed his fumble at a subsequent pr*iss
conference by indicating that he
had no objection to the operations
of friends who “have been my
friends for so long they believe
they know how I would react.”
CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES
Senators on the Cuff — Thirty
Senators left for home last month
without paying up their bills at the
Senate dining room. On top of this,
Nation-Wide Food Service, which
runs the dining room, has been try
ing to collect some Senatorial bills
for six months to' a year. Senators
just don't pay easily. The list of
Senatorial deadbeats has been turn
ed over to the Senate Rules com
mittee, but it is better guarded
than any secret regarding the atom
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Proposals Made
On Regulations
For Next Season
• In brief, here are the proposals
discussed at the annual hearing
yesterday held by the Fish and
Wildlife Service on commercial
fishing regulations for next season:
General proposals covering all of
the fisheries—1) To subject personal
use fishing to commercial regula
tions during the commercial season
and 48 hours before the commercial
season starts and 48 hours after it
ends; 2) to require an opening 12
feet wide in trap leads during all
periods when trap fishing is pro
hibited; 3) to prohibit the snagging
of salmon.
Proposals affecting Southeast
Alaska—1) To have general seine
and trap season from Aug. 4 to
Aug. 30, and from Sept. 15 to Sept.
20; 2) To close mainland shore of
Stephens Passage to fishing other
than trolling; 3> To have a gill net
season during summer and fall in
the Lynn Canal, Taku and Stikinc
sections from June 18 to Sept. 20
with 72-hour closures from 6 a.m.
Friday to 6 a.m. Monday; 4) That
closed area markers on the Chilkat
river be rrtoved down 500 yards be
low the present point; 5) To prohibit
set net gear throughout Southeast
Alaska; 6) To define Taku Inlet as
lying inside line between Greeley
and Cooper points; 7) Prohibit all
salmon fishing in Auke Creek and
Nugget Creek to prevent personal
use wastage.
Local Mail Pick-up
Service lo Start
Early Next Week
Mail boxes for local pick-up serv
ice were being put in place around
Juneau today and the new service
is expected to start early next week,
according to Postmaster Mrs. Crystal
Jenne and T .D. Hockman, super
intendent of mails.
Ten boxes were installed today,
five tor bom packages and tetters,
and five small ones for letter mail
only. The long-planned service will
offer tv,ice-a-day pickup for boxes
in the business section, and once
a-day pickup for those in residential
sections. Service will be curtailed
to an extent on Saturdays, Sundays
and holidays.
Mrs. Jenne said that the city
could thank the mayor, city council
and the street crew for assistance
in getting the boxes in place.
Use of Scarce
Metals lo Be Cut;
Elems Curtailed
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16— (41 —
Production officials predicted to
day that new cuts ordered in civil
ian use of scarce metals after Jan.
1 represent the worst that will be
fall industry and consumers.
The National Production Author
ity (NPA) announces that the auto
truck industry will be allotted only
60 percent of the steel plate needed
to meet scheduled production of
930,000 cars and 24,000 trucks dur
ing January, February and March.
This could mean an ultimate rise
in price ceilings on cars and trucks.
NPA Administrator Manly' Fleisch
mann asked the industry to make
up the plate shortage by using a
more expensive but less critical
form called “conversion steel.”
NPA also announces that manu
facturers of “less essential” con
sumer goods will get an average
of only 10 percent of copper, 20
percent of aluminum and 50 percent
of steel, as compared with their
pre-Korea usage.
On this list of drastically curtail
ed items are sporting goods, lamps
Venetian blinds, springs, and mat
tresses, dolls, toys and games, cig
arette lighters, Christmas decora
tions, umbrellas, jewelry, signs and
advertising displays.
PAA Pilot Reports
Tod Powell Is
Improving
Tod Powell, outdoor columnist for
the San Francisco Chronicle who
sport fished the Juneau area last
summer, is recovering from his re
cent illness. Word came through
Capt. “Ham” Hamilton, PAA pilot
from San Francisco who is mak
ing an Alaskan inspection trip with
Chief Pilot Richard Campbell of
the Pacific-Alaska Division.
This is Hamilton's first Alaska
trip and he declared that he is
coming back for hunting and fish
ing next year.
The two pilots and their crew
were scheduled to leave for An
nette and Seattle today.
Front Line
Troops Learn
Of Atrocities
TOKYO, Nov. 16—!/W—American
front line troops in Korea were told
today the Reds have slaughtered
5,500 of their captured buddies.
The armed forces radio broadcast
for the first time the figures Col.
Jamei M. Hanley announced Wed
nesday — “so the GIs will know
what they are up against.”
Hanley is the center of an army
investigation because he announced
the totals. The colonel said he re
leased them so front line troops
wouldn’t be fooled by Red propa
ganda.
The armed forces radio earlier
was silent on the subject while the
rest of the world heard — and was
shocked. The radio began beaming
the story at intervals of several
hours. , |
Maj. Edward L. Tidwell, chief
of the Far East network, explained
the delay: “There were too many
unknown quantities. When we
could finally pin things down,
we let it go.”
The Army newspaper Stars and
Stripes carried the story in its Ko
rean editions both Thursday and
Friday, the •supervising officer re
ported.
Hanley said the reason he com
piled and released the figures was
for the information of American
front line troops.
The announcement caught the
military by surprise — from the
U.S. Eighth Army in Korea to the !
Pentagon in Washington.
South Korean government offi
cials said today there was nothing
new in the atrocity figures.
“They were not a surprise,” gov
ernment spokesman Clarence Ryee
said at Pusan, where Hanley made
his disclosure Wednesday. "There
is nothing wrong about disclosing
facts of the Communists’ acts at
any time.”
To Investigate Details
.lien. Matthew B. Ktdgway, Su
preme Allied Commander, sent his
press information officer to Korea
| to investigate the details of the
disclosure, and the figures them
selves.
In Washington U. S. Senators
said they were puzzled that top
military and government officials
expressed surprise over the report.
Senator Young (R-ND», wondered
out loud whether the administra
tion was “trying to minimize the
tragedies of the Korea war. ... I
would think anything as important
as that would find our top levels
officially informed.”
BRITAIN ALSO UNEASY
LONDON, Nov. 16—Wl—Britain
has asked the United States if it
can back up an American Eighth
Army office’s charge that the Ko
rean Reds have killed 5,790 Allied
war prisoners, including about 10
Britons.
A Foreign Office spokesman told
reporters today this country had
no official information about the
alleged atrocities. Nor has any
word reached the British govern
ment through its intelligence
sources, according to defense min
I istry officials.
United Nations military head
j a.uarters in Toljyo is probing the
atrocity charges.
Chinese Troops
Knock Out Allied
Front Position
SEOUL, Nov. 16 — — Chinese
troops supported by at least five
tanks knocked Allied Infantrymen
out of an advance position north of
Yonchon on the western front to
day.
An Allied officer said the U.N.
Command forces pulled back soon
after the Reds opened fire.
On the eastern end of the battle-,
line, a Communist company pushed
[ Allied troops off a hill with an
attack which began about midnight
and continued until dawn.
Allied jet fighters on sweeps
over North Korea spotted about 116
Russian-type MIG-15 jets today, but
the Communist pilots showed no
desire to fight.
One flight of some 50 MIGs
streaked back across the Yalu with
out firing a shot when it encoun
tered a group of American F-86
Sabre jets over MIG Alley in
northwestern Korea.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Richard H. Brannon of Anchor
age is stopping at the Gastineau
Hotel.
STEVE HOMER IS HERE
Steve Homer of Haines is staying
at the Gastineau Hotel.
City Bond Issue
Election Set for
December (
December 6 has been set as the
date for a special city election to
vote on bond issues for the con
struction of the rest of the Muni
cipal Safety Building, (City Hall);
city street, sewer and sidewalk im
provements; and additional money
for rebuilding the fire alarm sys
tem and fire hall improvements and
equipment. This was announced at
a regular city council meeting last
night.
Other matters included extend
ing the date for the completion of
the fire hall, discussion of leasing
part or all of the city dock to the
Alaska Plywood Corp., and numer
ous minor matters.
The Carson Construction Co., pre
sented its case for a 60-day ex
tension for the completion date
of the fire hall section of the city
hall, Showing that delays in obtain
ing steel were beyond its control.
The contract provides for extensions
in cases of “matters beyond the |
control of the contractor."
It was finally agreed to .allow 40
days extension beginning November j
7. The construction company is!
making every effort to complete,
the ground floor by December 1 and j
get the heat in so the fire fighting (
equipment can be moved in.
A letter was read from the Alaska
Plywood Corporation requesting a
lease and option to buy part or all
of the city dock in connection with I
operations of the new plywood plant |
nearby.
Discussion brought out that no
sale could be effected without ap
proval of the voters and the city
had an obligation to maintain ser
vice and storage for steamers call
ing at the dock and for those us
ing the warehouse facilities.
The general attitude was that the
council would do all possible to as
sist the new industry for the city
and the matter was referred to a
special committee to meet with i
Thomas A. Morgan, president or the j
corporation, to discuss the matter. |
Mayor Walno Hendrickson was j
authorized to make a project ap- |
pikatknr with the Alaska FuL,»n-,
Works for the street improvement)
program to get matching funds.
Social Security
A resolution was passed auth
orizing the signing of a social secur
ity handling agreement with the
Territorial Auditor, who will collect
the funds and do the book work
in connection with placing city j
employees under social security. The
cost to the city will be one-half
of one percent until enough Al
aska cities sign up to reduce the
costs.
It was understood that in cases
where social security deductions
have been made, the coverage will
be retroactive to January 1 of this
year. In other cases it will begin)
as of July 1 of this year.
Miscellaneous matters taken up
included approval of leasing an un
used space in the airport terminal
to B. W. Matheny of Airport Cof
fee Shop for $20 monthly; approval
of the construction of a small shed
at the small boat harbor to shelter
mail and freight from the weather;
cooperation with the Alaska Na
tional Guard on parking problems in
the access road to the subport; and
postponement of the Nelson Water i
Co., report until the next meeting.
A decision was made to hold over i
a misunderstanding on Jack Kris- ■
tan’s tax complaint until it could
be discussed with the assessor. There
appeared to be a duplication of
liquor stock assessed in Kritan's
three different liquor stores.
Tax complaints by two members
of the Coast Guard brought out
the ruling that if the Coastguards- j
men could show tax receipts from 1
other states, they would be exempt.)
Councilman J. P. Christensen re-;
ported that lights 'and partitions!
were needed in the basement of the I
new Memorial Library before the
city clerk’s office could be moved
in until such time as the new city
hall w’as built. Authority was given
to proceed..
If the bond issue for the new city ;
hall is approved and matching j
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WEATHER REPORT
(U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU
At Airport: Maximum, 28:
Minimum, 17.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Snow with gusty north
easterly winds tonight. Low
est temperature around 28
degrees. Intermittent mixed
rain and snow Saturday with
highest temperature near 38
degrees.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
At Airport — None;
from July 1—16.52 inches.
• ••••••••
Soviets Still
Demand Veto
In Arms Plan
PARIS. Nov. 16—iff)—Soviet Rus
sia presented as a new proposal to
day a four-point disarmament plan,
but insisted attain that international
control be vested in the United
Nations Security Council, where the
U.S.S.R. has the veto power.
The Soviet plan, proposed in a
second "opening” address by Foreign
Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky, would
have the U.N. proclaim the prohibi
tion of atomic weapons, requirp a
quick count of all weapons includ
ing the atomic, and require the Big
Four and Red China to slash arma
ments by a third within a year.
Vishinsky's tone was far milder
today than when he first spake
last week, suggesting to some
westerners that he may have heard
from home about the way he
“laughed" at the western disarm
ament plan.
Vishinsky submitted his plan as
supplementary to the one he intro
duced a week ago in his original
opening speech, but apparently to
day's version fully supersedes the
first. Despite the modifications,
the plan still container! all the
major provisions which have stood
in the way of agreement since the
atomic discussions first began in
1046.
Speaking for the west. French
Foreign Minister Robert Scliuman
took the floor Immediately after
Vishinsky, and said he would wait
for a “complete study" of the new
Soviet proposals before comment
ing on them. France was one of
the proposers of the west’s dis
armament plan which calls for
foolproof checks.
U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lit
following Schuman to the rostrum,
mged an immediate start toward a
step-by-step solution of the political
conflicts that divide the world to
dry. He suggested that the foreign
ministers of the great powers get
;.V‘ther while they are in Paris nnd
make a beginning.
U.S. Secretary of State Dean
Ache.son said of Vishinsky’s new
proposals:
“The only encouragement we can
derive from Mr. Vishinsky's second
thoughts is that he decided to stop
laughing and admitted he had now
read the tripartite proposals. But
he offered us no encouragement of
serious cooperation to get on with
the real reduction of arms.”
Price of Antimony
Is Boosted by OPS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 — ^ —
The government last night raised
the price of antimony, a scarce
metal badly needed by the defense
program, by 7H to 8Vi cents a
pound, depending on the grade.
The Office of Price Stabilization
said the new ceilings, effective Nov.
21, are aimed at increasing imports
and encouraging expansion of do
mestic production to aid the defense
effort.
The new ceilings range from 491 a
to-50’- cents a pouqd, according to
the grade. OPS said these prices
are comparable to those of the world
market.
Territorial Civil
Defense Director
Arrives for Duly
Col. James C. Crockett arrived
this week to be deputy director of
the Alaska Civil Defense.
For the past year and a half, he
was on the civil defense staff for
Illinois with headquarters in Chi
cago. He is also a graduate of the
federal civil defense administration
staff college at Olney, Md.
Before World War II, Crockett
erved as assistant military attache
in Germany. He is a graduate of
the Infantry School at Ft. Benning,
On., the command and genera) staff
school at Leavenworth. Kansas and
also the army war college at Wash
ington, D. C.
Mrs. Crockett accompanied her
husband to his new assignment.
VAN WERTS TO SEATTLE
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Van Wert
are scheduled to leave today on Pan
American for Beattie. They are at
tending the International Power
Boat Association banquet held Sat
urday evening in Seattle at which
the . awards for the 1951 Capital
to-Capital Cruiser Race will be
made. They are also to visit his par
ents in Bremerton, Wash.
FROM LOS ANGELES
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Britton of Los
Angeles, Calif., are guests at the
Baranof Hotel. They arrived here
yesterday from Anchorage on PNA.
Words of Little Chinese Girl
Become Official Thanksgiving Day
Proclamation for Rhode Island
i
Alaska Steam
May Take Over
Haines Ferry
The Alaska Steamship Go. is
i looking into the possibility of op
erating a Juneau-Haines-Skagway
ferry system, according to Gov.
Ernest Gruening.
David Skinner, executive vice
president of the steamship com
pany, and Henry Green, Alaska
Steamship’s local agent, met in the
governor's office this morning with
the governor, Henry Roden and
Frank Metcalf, who are members of
the Territorial Board of Road Com
missioners, A. F. Ghlglione, head of
the Alaska Road Commission, and
George Rogers, chairman of the
field committee of the Department
of Interior.
The meeting had been requested
by Skinner. There was nlso talk
of extending the ferry service to
other Southeast Alaska points. The
governor said the steamship com
pany would be furnished full par
ticulars concerning the operation of
the Haines ferry, including a fi
nancial report. The company has
reserved a decision until the facts
are in hand.
Gov. Gruening said there had ’
been no desire to put the Territory |
into private businesf and only took 1
over the operation of the Haines |
ferry when it was necessary. He
said the ferry was taken over be- i
cause of an obligation to the public,
which had come to expect this link
with the Alaska Highway.
He said the Territory would like
to have the ferry run by a private
concern if it could be shown that
rates and fares would remain rea
sonable.
Salmon Contracts
For Army Awarded
SEATTLE, Nov. 15—<£)—’Twenty .
Seattle and Alaska lirms shared
contracts for more than $2,000,000 ■
in canned salmon purchases re- j
ported by the government today.
The salmon is for the armed
forces.
Two firms, the Whiz Fish Pro
ducts Co. and Whitney and Co., j
each were awarded contracts de- j
scribed in the official report only!
as exceeding $250,000.
The other firms, all giving Seattle J
addresses, and the amount of the
contracts, as covered in the weekly
report issued by the Seattle re
gional office of the Commerce De
partment, were:
Fishermen’s Packing Corp.,
$69,600: Washington Fish and Oys
ter Co., Inc., $87,552; S. and P.
Sales Co., $29,520; Bristol Bay
Packing Co., $47,280; Kenai Pack
ers, $45,113; Frank B. Peterson Co.
$60,500: Sea Brands, Inc., $37,650
Sebastian-Stuart Fish Co., $64,530
Uganik Fisheries, Inc., $44,376
Hamlin - Halferty Seafoods, Inc
$42,700; Annette Islands Canning
Co., $43,776; Icy Straits Salmon
Co., $60,681; Oceanic Fisheries Co.,
Inc., $152,490; Peninsula Packers,
$118,230; P. E. Harris Co., Inc.,
$156,598; Intercoastal Packing Co.,
$168,300; Ketchikan Packing Co.,
$130,369; and New England Fish
Co., $236,000.
N. W. Fisheries
Assn. Announced
SEATTLE, Nov. 16—00— Forma
tion of the Northwest Fisheries
Association was announced today.
The group is made up of whole
-alers in the fish and seafood in
dustry. Its announced purpose is
to promote the industry in the Pa
cific Northwest. The association
is chartered in Washington but is
designed also to include industry
members in Alaska.
FROM 8KAGWAY
James Pattersop of Skagway is
at the Gastineau Hotel.
TIDE TABLES
NOVEMBER 17
High tide 4:11 a.m.. 14.5 ft.
Low tide 9:45 a.m., 5.2 ft.
High tide 3:37 p.m., 16.2 ft.
Low tide 10:24 p.m., 0.5 ft.
PROVIDENCE, R.I.. Nov. 16—^—
A little Chinese girl wrote what was
in her heart and today her com
position was issued as the official
Thanksgiving Day proclamation of
historic Rhode Island.
The document bore the signature
of Gov. Dennis J. Roberts, but the
words were those of Roberta Fong,
17, winner of a statewide high
school competition for the honor.
Roberta’s ancestors were not May
flower passengers,-but this is what
she wrote:
"More than 300 years ago. our
Pilgrim forefathers invited the In
dians to Join them in a day of
celebration on which they would
thank God for His goodness to
them in their new home. We
remember that the Indians brought
gifts to the white man's table; and
that warriors and Pilgrims sat side
by side in peace. We know that
this was the first Thanksgiving Day;
a day which has since become a
national holiday.
‘Though our way of life today
little resembles that of our ances
tors, we still feel In our hearts the
same gratitude to Our Lord. Boon
we shall celebrate another Thanks-j
giving Day. Across the nation, fam
ilies will bow their heads in rev
erence and thank God for His
infinite goodness. Particularly in
these times of unrest and suffering,
we shall realize how many reasons
we have to be thankful.
“Here in America we enjoy the
privileges nnd rights which have
elevated our standard of living to
the highest in the world. ... As
we observe Thanksgiving this year,
let us remember the principles on
which this day was founded. May j
it f>e a day of prayer, praise and
thankfulness.”
Roberta’s father, an army vet
eran, is an aviation mechanics stu- |
dent under the GI bill. Her mother
is a restaurant employee.
Tulsequah Mines '
Producing 250 j
Tons Ore Daily
Jack McLean, superintendent of j
the Tulsequah Mines, Ltd., Tulsc
quah, B. C„ came through Juneau
yesterday enroute to company head
quarters in Trail, B. C. He left here
with his family this morning on
the Princess Louise.
McLean reports that approximate- i
ly 200 men are now employed at
Tulsequah producing 250 tons daily
of base metals of copper, lead and ]
zinc. Because there is no winter
mode of transportation, the concen- j
trates are being stockpiled at the |
mine until river navigation opens1
up in the spring when they will be j
shipped to the Trail smelter.
The mining man expects to return
about the middle of December, he
said.
Good Progress Made
On Eklutna Project
Joseph M. Morgan, director of the
Bureau of Reclamation here, re
turned Wednesday from Eklutna,
where he inspected progress on the
hydroelectric project there, and
Anchorage where he gave an Armis
t it e Day address last Monday
night.
Morgan reports that Morrlson
Knudson, contractors for the tun
nel-driving Job at Eklutna, are
making such good progress that it
is likely to step up the completion
of the project by six months. It
is now believed that the first unit
of the plant will be in operation by
April 1, 1954.
M-K has completed a 144-man
dormitory, heating plant, temporary
power plant, mess hall and access
roads on both sides of the tunnel.
Plans call for starting of two-way
driving of the lOH-foot tunnel
with 1,000 feet of excavation com
pleted by December 1.
At Anchorage Morgan gave an
Armistice Day address to a large
crowd at the Carpenter's Hall Mon
day night in connection with the
meeting of the Alaska Develop
ment Board.
JUNEAU VISITOR
Max McFayden of Seattle is re
gistered at the Baranof Hotel.
Ship Movements
Denali scheduled southbound Sun
day morning.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle today.
Freighter Sailors Splice sched
uled to arrive from Seattle on
i Sunday.
Truman to
Fight for
'Fair Deal'
l
Will Demand Place in
Demo Platform; Obvious
Challenge Made
KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 16——
President Truman plans to fight
for his entire "Fair Deal" program
—Civil Rights proposals and all—
both within his own Democratic
Party as well as against his Re
publican opponents.
And regardless of who runs for
President on the Democratic ticket,
whether It’s Mr. Truman himself
or someone else, the Chief Executive
made It crystal clear yesterday that
he has no thought of giving up
control of the Democratic Party.
In words that came with a
fighting mood, the President pat
it bluntly that he la going to too
tg It that his “Fair Deal” demands
be given a place In the Demo
craft's platform.
Four years ago the President lost
four southern states by his firm
adherence to these sharply contro
versial civil rights proposals.
His Insistence yesterday that his
"Fair Deal” program be Incor
porated into his party’s platform
for the 1952 race shaped up as an
obvious challenge to such leaders
of the anti-Truman forces as Gov.
James F. Byrnes of South Carolina
and Senator Byrd (D-Va).
Byrd, a stalwart In the math’s
opposition to the civil rights pro
gram, declared that Inclusion of
this program in the platform the
Democrats will take Into the Pre
sidential campaign will mean a
hard fight within the party.
Said Byrd In Washington:
"If the President is right in his
forecast about the party platform,
especially as to civil rights, it will
touch off a bitter new fight.”
Drop Bombs in Try
To Divert Flood
Waters In Holy
ROVIGO, Italy, Nov. 18— if) —
Planes were ordered out in pea
soup fog today to drop bombs along
the raging Po River in an effort
to divert flood waters menacing
Rovigo and Adrio.
Helicopters were pressed into
service to rescue terrorized and
isolated flood victims in northern
Italy, where at least 93 persons have
perished in the past week. Property
damage runs into the millions.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of
the fertile Po Valley are under
water, damaging crops.
Muddy waters were already flood
ing the streets of Rlvogo, a provin
cial capital of 40,000 population.
Adria, with a similar population,
lies to the southeast, clear to the
Adriatic Sea.
• Authorities hope the bombs will
breach the banks of the Canal
Bianco—the White Canal—near
Arqua and send the surging Po wat
ers Into a less thickly populated
region. Arqua is about 10 miles
southwest of Rovigo. The canal was
flooded by the swollen Po.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16-iifi—The
Interstate Commerce Commission
today granted the railroads a fur
ther increase of about 32 percent
in mail pay rates.
The increase was estimated to
give the carriers about $74,889,000
more a year for hauling the mails.
Today s award boosts the gov
ernment's railway mail pay about
80 percent higher than the rates
in effect in 1947, when the railroads
started proceedings for larger com
pensation.
Slock Quotations
NEW YORK. Nov. 16—i**—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3. American Can
lCG'i, American Tel. and Tel. 157,
Anaconda 51'*. Douglas Aircraft
57'.. General Electric 56, General
Motors 49 7», Goodyear 42'a. Ken
necott 87'*, Libby McNeill and Libby
8Northern Pacific 56, Standard
Oil of California 51, Twentieth
Century Fox 22•*, U.8. Steel 40,
Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange
94.50.
Sales today were 1,140,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 260.36, rails 81.08, util
ities 46.44.
VISITOR FROM SEATTLE
Carl Hall Of Seattle is stopping
at the Baranol Hotel.