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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,778
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1951
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Plane Is Missing With Twenty-two Aboard
NEW FIRE
HALL BY
OCTOBER
The Juneau City Fathers rolled
up their sleeves last night and star
ted the first steps toward construc
tion of the Fire Department sec
tion of the Municipal Safety Build
ing that will permit bids to be let
by June 1, and the Fire Department
moving in by October or November.
Fire Chief Minard Mill, in present
ing the proposition for building the
fire department section, pointed out
that one of these days Juneau res
idents would wake up and discover
that fire insurance rates here are
going up because of the inadequate
housing and equipment of the de
partment. He stressed the uncer
tainty of occupancy and lack of
firemen quarters at the proposed
subport site, but said the firemen
would live in a tent if they could
look forward to getting into the
new hall by November.
The fire department section of
the new city building is roughly j
one-third of the proposed structure
and it would be cheaper in the
long run to invest the money in
the ultimate structure than in
temporary makeshifts, Mill stated.
He stressed the importance of ade
quate housing for the firemen in
order that they might be able to
answer calls promptly, especially
night calls. “It's the first few min
utes of a fire that counts. Delay
in getting to a fire can be fatal,"
he said.
Harold Fcss was asked to discuss
the plan. He stated that the fire
hall section was the least expensive
part of the building and could be
constructed for approximately $170,
000, not including the jail. He said
that some time ago authority was
given the council to sell $125,000
worth of bonds for a new file hall,
that about $30,000 were held by
the city that could be cashed in,
and that the additional funds could
be raised or enough savings could
be effected to make it unnecessary.
Foss said that the heating plant
from the AB Hall would do as a j
temporary plant in the new build- i
ing, that radiators, conduits and
other items could be salvaged from
the two buildings which are to be
razed to make material savings.
Temporary Jail
In the preliminary plans a space
is provided for fire department
workroom and storage. It was agree
able to all that this space could be
fixed up for a temporary jail.
Foss promised final plans within
three weeks and said that the job
was of such a nature that it could
be handled by local contractors
and it was likely that bids could ■
even be opened before June 1.
Councilman Bert McDowell mov-1
ed that the architect be directed
to complete final plans, that a new
agreement be worked out by Foss,
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The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, l#si. By Bell Syndicate. Inc..
WASHINGTON. —President Aur
iol of Prance has now left the Uni
ted States for Canada.
When he departed, there remain
ed behind him, hanging on the
walls of Mount Vernon, a symbol
of Prance as dear to the French
people as the Liberty bell in Phil-1
adelphia is to the American people, j
It is the key to the bastille.
President Auriol paid a visit to
George Washington's home and saw
the key to the bastille hanging on
the wall just inside the door. But
he did not put it there. It was given
to Washington by Tom Paine, cru
sading pamphleteer of Revolution
ary days, to whom it had been
given by General Lafayette.
One of the most historic symbols
of Prance, the key was secured by
Lafayette from the leaders of the
French revolution who unlocked the
bastille and released its political
prisoners on July 14, 1789. Lafayette
was one of the French aristocrats
who had fought for the -French
people against the tyranny of Louis
XIII, and the French revolution-'
aries gave him the key partly for ]
his own protection. .
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Get Death for Atom Spying
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Julius Rosenberg (left) and his wife Ethel, (right) sentenced to death
as atom spies, are shown in these closeups as they arrived at Federal
Courthouse in New York for sentencing. Federal Judge Irving R.
Kaufman decreed that Rosenberg, '32, an electrical engineer, and his
wife, 35, and mother of two, must die for their part in furnishing
wartime atom secrets to an international Soviet spy ring. (IfI Wire
photo.
TWO SNOW
SLIDES ON
ALASKA RR
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 7—
i./P—Two snow slides billowed over
the Alaska Railroad tracks in two
places between here and Seward
yesterday, disrupting train travel
and communications.
Warming temperatures and a
fresh fall of three feet of snow
caused the slides.
Two trains from Anchorage were
delayed, and the boat train from
Seward to Anchorage was halted.
Workmen feared new slides might
impede clearing efforts.
The first slide came after a three
foot snowfall at Grandview, 43 miles
north of Seward. Snow piled 30 feet
deep over the tracks in some sec
tions.
The second slide, reported even
larger than the first, occurred 69
miles north of Seward near Gird
wood on Turnagain Arm.
Both areas usuaily are trouble
some in the spring.
CORONER'S JURY
DECIDES KNORRE
DEATH AS SUICIDE
At an inquest conducted yester
day afternoon in U. S. Commis
sioner's Court concerning the death
of Mrs. Margaret Knorre in Federal
jail early Wednesday morning, the
jury bnjjght in a verdict of suicide.
Mrs. Knorre was found hanging
to a framework around the lava
tory in the women's quarters with
a wet dish towel knotted around
her neck. The jury found no evi
dence of negligence.
Assistant Attorney General Stan
ley Baskin conducted the investi
gation with U. S. Commissioner
Gordon Gray sitting as Coroner.
FUNERAL FOR MARGARET
KNORRE SET FOR MONDAY
Funeral services Tor Margaret B.
Krorre will be held Monday after
noon at 2 o’clock in the Carter
Chapel, with the Rev. Ralph E.
Baker conducting. Mrs. Baker will
sing. Interment will be in Ever
green Cemetery.
Mrs. Knorre is survived by her
husband, Marvin Knorre, a son,
Allen, and one sister, Mrs. James
Herring of Kodiak.
Pallbearers will be Glenn Allen,
Rudy Pusich, Joe Johnston, Arthur
Skinner, Kenneth Martin and Ken
neth Alleij.
RAGMUFFIN HAS TWINS
Ragmuffin, a dog that looks like
a dirty brown, fuzzy mop, who ad
[ opted Ethel Finlayson and four
i other government girls who live at
[ 124 Gold St., gave birth to twins
last night. They were both boys,
black with white feet. As yet they
have not been named.
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STUDENT
DRAFTING
UP AGAIN
WASHINGTON. April 7 —W— j
New liberalized plans for draft de
ferment of high school graduates
and college students, announced
this week, will be reviewed at a
special meeting Monday of the
House Armed Services Committee.
This reappraisal, with MaJ. Gen.
Lewis Hershey, selective service di
rector, doing the explaining, comes
at a critical point during House
consideration of the highly contro
versial Universal Military Training
and Service (UMTS) bill.
Reportedly, the House Armed
Services Committee in approving
the Draft-UMTS bill okayed the
student deferment plans in outline.
Several members have since found
they didn’t realize how liberal they
would be until spelled out.
Supporters of the UMTS bill did
a double-gulp when, amid arguing
in the House the necessity of re
ducing the present draft age from
19 years to 18 years and six months
they read front page stories of the
new student deferment regulations.
These would permit students now
in college to continue either on the
basis of past high scholastic stand
ing or a record of 70 on special apti
tude tests to be offered this sum
mer.
Rep. Kilday (D-Tex), a member
of the Armed Services Committee,
announced he would offer an
amendment to kill this plan.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
LETS CONTRACTS FOR
2 WORK PARTY BOATS
The Geological Survey has let
contracts for two work party boats j
to be used In Southeast Alaska j
waters in conducting topographic
survey activities. The contracts
were let to the M/V Verma, owned
and the M/V Triton, owned and
skippered by Lester McCarty. Both
boats are of Petersburg.
The contracts call for work to
being April 25 and work continues
for 55 days on the present schedule.
Two four-men Geological Survey
topographic parties are expected
from Denver soon for the summer’s
work. R. E. Isto of the Denver of
fice will direct the activities.
Several Indian tribes of New
Mexico consider the turquoise sa
cred.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Nbrah from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive at 3:30 this
afternoon; sails for Skagway at
11:30 returning Tuesday at 8 a.m.
and sailing south at 9 a.m.
Baranof from Seattle scheduled
to arrive Tuesday.
Denali from westward scheduled
to arrive at 9 a.m. Sunday sailing
southbound one hour later.
ELKS TAKE OVER
TOWN TO WELCOME
OFFICIAUiUESTS
Today, April 7, 1951, will go down
in the history of Juneau as Elks’
Day for the keys to the city are
being turned over to Grand Exalted
Ruler Joseph B. Kyle, Past Grand
Exalted Ruler Emmett T. Anderson
and the many ERs and PERS who
have come to Juneau to meet the
distinguished visitors and also join
in the dedication of the iron lung.
Festivities started yesterday with
the arrival of Kyle and his wife
from Gary, Indiana, accompanied
by Anderson from Tacoma.
The visitors were greeted at the
airport by a large party of local
Elks headed by Exalted Ruler Wal
lis George and were escorted to the
Baranof hotel. There they were
ushered into the lobby to the strains
of the Juneau high school band and
brief talks of welcome were given.
Appreciation was expressed by the
visitors for their cordial reception.
In the evening a buffet supper
was held in the Gold Room under
the auspices cf Lodge 420 Past Ex
alted Rulers at which Grand Ex
alted Ruler Kyle presented Charles
Garfield, charter member of 420,
with a 50-year membership pin,
with appropriate remarks. Kyle’s
“manager,” Emmett T. Anderson
also gave a brief talk and other
visitors also spoke. The evening
concluded with various private par
ties at night spots.
Highlight of today will be the
dedication of the iron lung which
the local Elks lodge is presenting
to the city. Dedication and present
ation will be made by Grand Ex
alted Ruler Kyle at 4:30 p.m. in
the Elks auditorium and the public
is cordially invited to attend.
This will be followed by a cock
tail party at which members of
Elkdom will have the opportunity
to meet the grand leader of the
Elks and his official party.
At 6:30 p.m., the Grand Exalted
Ruler will be guest of honor at a
no-host banquet in the Baranof
Gold Room and a special Elks meet
ing is scheduled to follow with Past
Exalted Rulers of the Ketchikan
lodge giving the degree work.
During these festivities for the
Elks, the ladies of the Elks have
arranged a program in honor of
Mrs. Kyle, Mrs. Garfield and other
visiting ladies. They will have din
ner at Mike’s Place at 7:30 p.m.,
and then, after the degree work at
the Elks lodge meeting, will get to
gether with the Elks for a social
evening.
At the special meeting tonight
Grand Exalted Ruler Kyle will make
his official address to Juneau lodge.
Elks from Fairbanks, Kodiak, An
chorage, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Pet
ersburg and Sitka have arrived in
town for this important event.
The Grand Exalted Ruler and
Mrs. Kyle will depart for the south
tomorrow on Pan American plane
where they will visit other lodges
throughout the states.
PNA CARGO CARRIED!
IN MARCH ALMOST
DOUBLE OVER 1950
Indications by Pacific Northern ]
Airline’s increased traffic in 'pas-'
sengers, cargo and mail over a!
year ago point to stepped up bus- j
iness conditions in Alaska.
Traffic originating at Juneau;
last month increased over 1950
March totals in all categories, ac
cording to Robert P. Pheasant,
PNA district traffic manager.
Passenger miles increased 37 per
cent with 249,621 miles flown.
Largest single gain was in cargo
ton miles flown with an 82 per cent
gain over 1950.
U. S. Airmail carried from Ju
neau increased 22 per cent.
The Juneau traffic gains in
March continue a 1951 trend of in
creased air traffic to PNA served
cities in the Prince William Sound,
Kenai Peninsula, Bristol Bay and
Kodiak Island areas. PNA officials
anticipate an unprecedented growth
in Alaska trade and commerce dur
ing 1951 with Pacific Northern
Airlines playing an important part
in this development.
The word “argosy” comes from
“ragusy” which referred to ships
from Ragusa, a famous port in the
j Middle Ages but now the town of
Dubrovnik on the Yugoslavian
seasoast.
Home at Last
Cecil A. (Mush) Moore crosses Aubum-Lewiston, Me., bridge, flanked by Legionnaires as be rides his
dogsied in home-coming parade on last leg of 6,000-mile trip from Fairbanks, Alaska. The 40-year-old
Moore started his trip as a stunt in Alaskan snows for a benefit to underprivileged children. Taking
17 months to complete the journey, Moore was held up at times by attacking Canadian wolves, Arctic
colds, a Minnesota heat wave and the birth of nearly 50 pups to his sled dogs, (fft Wirephoto.
RED ZONES
INVADED BY
UN FORCES
TOKYO, April 7 —(*— United j
Nations forces stabbed deeper into
Red Korea today against little op
position.
On most sections of the Western
and Central battlefronts, the Com
munists had withdrawn suddenly
and strangely.
But they left behind roadways of
death. . The routes leading north
were sowed thickly with mines,
booby-trapped mortar shells and
pits dug to trap tranks. The for
ward pace was slow.
Censorship cloaked the distance
gained.
AP Correspondent Tom Bradshaw
said lack for firm contact with the
Reds “for miles” north of the bor
der surprised most Allied observers.
On the Western front, patrols
crossed the Hantan River at several
points four to six miles north of
the border. They drew fire from the
north bank and pulled back.
British Commonwealth troops in
the Central front consolidated their
positions in the Red northland.
American and Thai (Siamese)
units north of the border met only
small arms and automatic weapons
fire.
An Eighth Army communique said
Red casualties Friday totaled about
935.
BOY SCOUT PROGRAM
CHANGED THIS EVENING
The training schedule conducted
by Robert Perin, assistant director
of Boy Scouting services has been
changed. Instead of an overnight
camp at Eagle River, there will be
a session this evening in the Am
erican Legion Dugout.
Tonight’s program deals with
how scouting works and how a
scout troop operates. The partici
pation of all Boy Scout troop com
mitteemen, leaders and fathers is
urged.
Perin leaves Tuesday for Fair
banks where a similar training ses
sion will be held.
MRS. CAULEY HOME
Mrs. James Cauley. and son,
Charles, returned to Juneau via
Pan American plane after visiting
i in Albany, N. Y„ and Seattle. Her
husband is Fiscal Officer for the
Employment Security Commission.
HAINES MAN DIES
George Kasko, a resident of
Haines, died last evening at the
Alaska Native Service Hospital. No
funeral arrangements have been
announced. The body is at the
Carter Mortuary.
MORRISON TO KETCHIKAN
Comdr. Don Morrison, of the local
Coast Guard office, flew to Ketchi
kan Friday via Pan American on
Coast Guard business.
CONFUSION!
MAYBE VISAS FOR
ALASKA-CANADA!
Thera has been a good deal of
confusion and feeling in Alaska and
Canada regarding a proposed re
vision of immigration laws that ap
parently would require persons tra
veling by transportation cjmpany,
vessel or aircraft between Alaska
and Canada to have visas. Nothing
is said about travelers in private
automobiles.
Senate Bill Tib now in Congress
proposes such changes in legisla
tion.
Under the present law ‘‘foreign
contiguous territory" is excepted
from visa provisions.
The Senate bill and its companion
bill, H. B. 2379 are no?-' being con
sidered by a joint subcommittee
composed of members of the Sen
ate and House judiciary committees,
according to information received
by a transportation company office
in Juneau.
Section 273 (a) of the bills read:
“It shall be unlawful for any per
son, including any transportation
company, or the owner, master,
Commanding officer, agent, charter,
or consignee of any vessel or air
craft, to bring to the United States
from any place outside thereof any
alien who does not have an unex
pired visa, if a visa were required
under this act of regulations issued
thereunder.”
The Juneau Chamber of Com
merce has written to Delegate Bob
Bartlett for a copy of the proposed
legislation and for an opinion on
how it would affect travel between j
Alaska and Canada.
SOUTH FOR TREATMENT
Mrs. Kenneth Junge and Mrs
Peter Carlson were passengers to
Seattle via Pan American plane
Friday where Mrs. Carlson will en
ter Virginia Mason hospital for
treatment. Mrs. Junge expects to
return home shortly.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 34-Hour Period i
ending 6:30 o'clock thle morning <
In' Juneau — Maximum,
42; minimum, 33.
At Airport — Maximum,
44; minimum, 33.
FORECAST
Cloudy with occasional
light rains this afternoon be
coming steady rain tonight
and Sunday morning with
southeasterly winds 15 to 30
miles per hour. Mostly cloudy
with occasional showers Sun
day afternoon and decreasing
winds. Low tonight, near 38;
high Sunday, near 44.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 34 hours ending 1:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — .33 inches;
Since April 1 — 3.36 inches;
Bince July X — 61.39 Inches.
At Airport — .14 inches;
Since April 1 — 1.19 inches;
Since July 1 — 36.96 inches.
JUST LET
MacARTHUR
DO IT NOW
Rev. Hubbard Gives His
Solution Regarding
Warfare in Korea
SEATTLE, April 7 — (tfl—. The
flev. Bernard Hubbard, known as
the “Glacier Priest” for his years
in Alaska, in Seattle Friday, offered
this as his solution to the Korean
war:
"Leave the decisions to General
MacArthur and take them out of
the hands of the bunglers of the
State Department and the United
Nations.”
Father Hubbard, geologist at
Santa Clara University in Cali
fornia, asserted that "the diplomats
and politicians have lost the con
fidence of the people.”
"They have shown,” he continued,
“their lack of leadership, of grasp
and appreciation.”
He said that in his opinion Gen
eral MacArthur is "the greatest
living American.”
He likened the situation of the
Chinese Reds in Korea to that of
the wolves in Alaskan preserves.
“The wolves are protected in the
preserves so that their young can
go out and kill. The Chinese who
are killing our boys return to the
preserves of Siberia.”
Father Habbard estimated that
Russia needs two years to be ready
for an all-out war.
“And' we are graciously giving
them the time,” he added.
PAN AM BRINGS 30;
TAKES 16 SOUTH FRI.
Forty-six passengers flew with
Pan American World Airways yes
terday with 14 arriving from Seat
tle, 15 from Fairbanks and one
from Annette. Twelve went to Se
attle and four to Ketchikan.
From Seattle: Frank Anderson,
Susan and Charles Cauley, Ray
Hope, Robert Rapuzzi, Floyd Sever
son, Alvin Taefchner, Emma Wal-;
tonen, Henry Williams and the'
Short family consisting of Myrtle,
Lois, Patricia, Barbara, and Oail.
From Annette: Ian Ogg.
From Fairbanks: Vern Hendrick
son, Eugene Smith, Edward Bar
ber, A. T. Kirkland, Louie and
Stella Odsather. Emmett Anderson,
4. B. and Emily Kyle, Mrs. Walter
J5imm and Donna, Mrs. Virginia
Dunton, Frank Hendrickson, Har
ry Mowry, Robert Hoopes.
To Seattle: Clifford, Aldene and
Pamela Hurst, N. L. Field, Joe
Frankson, Roy Stewart, Louise
Skinner, Mrs. Peter Carlson, Mrs.
Kenneth Junge, Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert Taylor and daughter Delores.
To Ketchikan: R. M. Barnard.
Don Morrison, D. K. Robinson, T.
Tilson.
SHIP LOST,
MOUNTAINS
OR AT SEA
Douglas DC-3 Drops from
Contact Between Two
California Cities
SANTA BARBARA, Calif,, April
7 —(A— A Southwest Airways plane
carrying 22 persons Is missing and
feared lost in the mountains or at
sea near here.
Ground, air and sea searchers
are under way for the Douglas DC3,
missing since shortly after 8 o'clock
last night. On it were 19 passengers
and three crewmen.
The southbound plane cleared
Santa Maria airport and made rou
tine radio contact at 8:18 p.m. That
was the last heard from the airliner,
which had enough gasoline to stay
in the air until about 11:1^ p.m.
Eleven Air Force. Coast Guard
and sheriff’s planes, some of them
amphibians, are participating in the
search, badly hampered by fog. The
Civil Air Patrol has 20 other planes
on cafl.
TRAGIC ACCIDENT FOR
ONE SEATTLE FAMILY
SEATTLE, April 7 —I*— Two
relatives of a Seattle shipping exe
cutive are among the 22 aboard a
missing Southwest Airways plane.
If the plane 4s lost, it will be the
third tragic accident in the family
in the last seven years.
The two are Mrs. Norton Clapp,
wife of the president of the Alaska
Transportation Company, and her
daughter by a previous marriage,
Gale Gardner, 13.
Clapp suffered the loss of his 10
year-old son. Davis, and his divorced
wife, Mrs. David Joyce, in a cal
accident at Oxnard, Calif., July 10,
1945.
A year earlier, in May of 1944,
his father, James Norton Clapp
was killed. The elder Clapp’s tractor
overturned while he was mowing
grass on his 1,240 acre ranch at
Chino near Pasadena, Calif.
CITESECY.
SAWYER FOR
CONTEMPT
WASHINGTON, April 7 —<*V—
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer has
drawn a contempt of court citation
for his part in the long bitter fight
over control of the $68,000,000
American President Steamship line.
The citation was made by the U.
S. Court of Appeals. It said Sawyer
had failed to carry out the court’s
order to return the shipping line
to its former owner, the Dollar
Company.
The government contends it owns
the line’s stock because of loans
granted the Dollar Interests. The
Dollars have' disputed this during
years of litigation.
Government lawyers were unable
to recall any previous contempt
citations against a cabinet officer
in connection with his official du
ties.
The commerce secretary and nine
other persons cited with him were
given until Thursday to “show
cause” why they should not be
found in contempt of court. There
was no comment from any of those
cited.
MOOSE ELECT LOREN
CARD NEW GOVERNOR
Loren Card was elected Gover
nor of Moose Lodge No. 700 last
night at a regular meeting.
Other officers named were: Ju
nior Governor, Earl Bland: Prelate,
Virgil' Anderson: Treasurer, G. E.
Almqulst; Trustee for one year,
Dean Williams, and Trustee for
three years. Hermoid Waldemar.
RAY HOPE RETURNS
Ray Hope arrived yesterday via
PAA from Seattle and is stopping
at the Baranof hotel.