Asks Congress for
$5,768,000,000 for
Military Construction
Head-on Crash of
Marine Troop
Train Kills Five
SIMMESPORT, La.. Aug. 10—W
i—A head-on crash of a Kansas
jCity Southern streamliner and a
feoo-Marine troop train today killed
at least 12 persons and injured 60
pr more, state police reported. None
of the dead were identified immed
iately, the state police report said.
tThe bodies were enroute to nearby
Morganza, La.
State police detailed 100 officers
to the scene where communications
were crippled by the wreck. Tele
phone lines paralleling the railroad
Were knocked down and only death
mecages could be telephoned out of
}he area.
: Casualty reports varied widely but
|i Kansas City Southern employee
jit the scene verified the state po-.
fclice report that the known death
toll was 12 persons. ,
i Several of the cars and both diesel
fnglnes caught fire after the smash
lip. A passenger on the Southern
£elle said Marines told him three
Jar four officers were trapped in
b burning car.
1 The trains crashed together about
7 a.m. (CST) today in a desolate
fwampland about 60 miles north
west of Baton Rouge.
GIL RICH IS BACK
i Gil Rich, well known Alaskan
traveling man and representative of
[he Black Bear Manufacturing Co.,
from Seattle is in Juneau for a few
(lays. He is staying at the Baranof
flotel.
i ‘
i Stanley and Evelyn Burgess of
Cordova, are registered at the Bar
pnof Hotel.
► WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, —AM—
The chairman of the House Arm
ed ■Services committee today told
thp House a $5,768,000,000 military
construction bill is necessary be
cause Russia has the atomic bomb
and planes that can drop it on
the United States.
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) des
cribed the huge authorization mea
sure as "the largest single mili
tary construction bill ever sub
mitted to the Congress in peace or
war.”
He said there is more to come,
as the bill is tailored to require
ments of a. 3,000,800-man armed
force and a 95-wing air force.
Vinson himself this week urged
expansion to a 163-wing air arm
and two additional giant aircraft
carriers.
“During World War Two there
was no threat of hostile bombing
to this nation,” said Vinson.
“Today we face a vastly differ
ent situation. Russia has the at
om bomb and the capability to
-drop it within continental United
States.
He said much has been done in
building up a radar warning
screen and establishing fighter in
terceptor bases, but more needs
to be done to build up bases for
the huge intercontinental bombers
of the strategic air command.
The major portion of proposed
construction is allotted the Air
Force and will be used to streng
then its ground installations and
bases in the United States, in the
territories • and. overseas. Among
the latter are bases to cut the
striking distance on Russia.
FROM GLsTAVUS
Mr. and Mrs. Ken L. Wood, with
the CAA at Gustavus, are stopping
at the fiaranof Hotel.
Lillian Wilson of Kansas City,
Mo., is stopping at the Baranof
Hotel. .17 iv.
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Trestle Repair Bids
To Be Opened by
Council Next Week
Bids will be opened ’for repairs
to a trestle at Ferry Way at the
next regular citp council meeting
next Thursday, City Clerk C .L.
Popejoy reminded councilmen at a
meeting last evening.
The parking problem was discus
sed and Mayor Waino Hendrickson
reported that Chamber of Com
merce president Herbert S. Row
land had suggested that a chamber
committee meet with a council
committee to consider ways and
a nas of living the issue.
He saM that a small space next
to the Lutheran Church on Main
Street had been offered but would
involve some excavation.
Term Change
An ordinance to change the terms
of councilmen from one to two
years was read for the second time
and passed with an amendment
providing that in the Oct. 2, elec
tion the three candidates receiving
the highest number of votes would
serve the tvrd-year terms and the
next three would serve one-year
terms.
Afer this year, according to the
ordinance, three councilmen
would be elected yearly for two
year terms. If the ordinance is
passed on the third reading next
week, a special election will have
to be arranged to put the matter
before the voters before the reg
ular election.
Police Chief Bernard E. Hulk re
ported that reflector type traffic
signs previously ordered were due
on a freighter here yesterday or
the next freighter.
Cemetery Wall
Hendrickson announced that a
concrete retaining wall lor the
cemetery had been sta> ted yester
day.
He said that he had contacted
the Bureau of Public Roads and a
drainage system map of the Gla
cier Highway area in the Waynor
Tract would be prepared for the
city. The road, built by the Bureau
of Public Roads, was taken over by
the city when the Waynor Tract
became part of Juneau last year.
An application for installation of
a concrete sidewalk by Mrs. J. K.
McAllister, at 730 Gold Street, was
approved.
Bond Sale
Hendrickson said that arrange
ments were being made with
Grande and Co. to get the money
from the sale of bonds to meet
payments on the construction of
the new fire hall now being built
by the Carson Construction Co.
Steel trusses for the building are
due early in September, Hendrick
son reported. There had been some
difficulty in obtaining them, he
said.
G. E. Edgecomb, Mayor of Pel
ican, was a visitor and entertained
with a few humorous poems of mu- '
nicipal problems in Pelican.
VESSEL TEDDY GOES
AGROUND; TOWED TO SITKA
Five hours after the Alaska Na
tive Service vessel Teddy, with 24
aboard was reported overdue the
Coast Guard cutter Cahoone, had
it towed to Sitka. Coast Guard
headquarters said today.
The Teddy had gone aground
at the head of Katlian Bay. The
report was received by the Coast
Guard at 1 o’clock this morning.
At 4 o'clock the Cahoone had
reached the scene and had taken
the passengers aboard. It then
towed the vessel to Sitka, arriving
;at 6 o'clock this morning.
He Is Her Hero Too
Little Cassandra Commiskev, three and one-half years old, watches
in wonder as President Truman (left) makes a national hero of her
daddy, I.t. Henry Alfred Ccinmiskey, Z4, a Hattiesburg, Miss., native,
by bestowing the Congressional Medal of Honor lor his killing of
seven Communists in a hand-to-hand combat in a Marine charge
on a Keren hilltop. Lt. Ccmmiskey's wife smiles at center. Watch
ing th'e little girl with amusement are Deputy Defense Secretary
Robert Lovett (upper left) and Gen. Clifton B. Cates, Marine Corps
Commandant (right). Others are unidentified, iff) Wirephoto.
Aii-American Soap
Box Derby Will Be
Run on August 12
The fourteenth All - American
Soap Box Derby will be run in Ak
ron, O., on Aug. 12 with 141 boys
from the United States, Canada,
and U. S. Occupied Germany com
peting for a four-year, $5,000 college
scholarship.
Alaska’s entry is uerioy “Punky”
West, winner of the Juneau race. He
left for Akron earlier this week ac
companied by J. W. Leivers, general
chairman of the local event.
Boys between the ages of 11 and 15
will scoot down hill in their home
built, gravity-powered racers in a
series of elimination heats which
build tc a climax when the All-Am
erican champion is crowned. Ap
proximately 60.000 fans are expected
to gather for the derby .
The race is co-sponsored annually
by Chevrolet and leading newspap
ers throughout the country. LeRoy’s
car carries the name of "The Daily
Alaska Empire” emblazoned on its
sides.
FROM FAIRBANKS
Elsie May Smith of Fairbanks is
is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
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Juneau
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Deportation Order
Appealed by Union
Cannery Official
SEATTLE, Aug. 10, — UP— An
appeal will be made Monday to
the Board of Immigration Ap
peals in Washington, D. C„ for
Ernesto Areebal Mangoang, Seat
tle cannery union representative
and Philippines national, who has
been ordered deported.
John Caughlan, Seattle attorney,
said he would complete the appeal
document today. An order for
Mangoang’s deportation was re
ceived yesterday from the Com
missioner of Immigration in the '
national capital by John P. Boyd
district director of immigration.
Caughlan said Mangoang will
base his appeal on several issues,
one of which is the contention
uhat Mangoang is not an alien,
but entered the country as a na
tional in 1926. prior to passage of
the Philippines Independence Act
of 19CJ. Mangoang will contend
that as he is not an alien, he is
i.ot subject to deportation.
The deportation order was is
sued on the grounds that Man
geang was a member of the Com
munist party and had participa
ted in activities of that organiza
tion which advocated the over
throw of the government by force.
It is the first deportation order is
sued here under the McCarran
Act.
Ghighlione to
Leave on four
Of Road Districts
A. F. Ghiglione, head of the Alas
ka Road Commission, is leaving
Sunday for a visit to the four
road districts in the westward and
Interior. He will go to Nome, An
chorage, Fairbanks and Valdez.
While in the Nome area Ghiglione
will accompany S. H. Lorrain, chief
of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, to the
Lost River country at the western
tip of Seward Peninsula where tin
and other strategic minerals are be
ing developed. Road needs for the
mining properties will be studied.
Polio Hits 5
Of 8 Children in
Los Angeles Family
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10, —(^*1— '
Dread polio has laid low six of
the eight children in the family
of brick worker Donald F. De
Mars.
All six of the youngsters are in j
Los Angeles General Hospital to
day. Two of them—three-year-old
Richard and his oldest brother,
Donald, 10—are in respirators.
The other stricken children are
David, 10 months; Shirley, five
years; Audrey, seven, and Patri
cia, 12.
The National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis said it was the
hardest swipe the disease has ta
ken at a single family since 1946
when nine persons in a Minnesota
family were stricken. Five child
ren out cf five were hit In Reno
early this .year.
CHILI) INJURED
WHEN SHE RUNS
INTO AUTO
Phyllis Nauska, 7 years old, was
taken to St. Ann’s Hospital yester
day afternoon after she hit a car
on Franklin Street in front of the
Gastineau Hotel.
The child dashed' out into the
street from between two parked
cars and hit the fender of an auto
mobile driven by Mrs. Earle Hunt
er, according to witnesses.
The child was taken to the office
of Drs. Rude, Clements and Stew- ,
art by Mrs. Hunter and witnesses.
She remained unconscious for
about a half hour, her attending
physician, Dr. Stewart said. She had
a severe contusion of the forehead
and a cerebral concussion but X
rays show no fractures, he said. She
was discharged from the hospital
this morning but is remaing under
observation.
The child's mother is Mrs. Ednr,
Elusive
Actress Ingrid Bergman, wearing
dark glasses, Flips into a London
ear as she moves front tki» home
of London friends to a hotel to
await the arrival of her husband,
Italian film producer Robert Ros
sellini. Miss Bergman had a pri
vate visit with her 12-vear-uld
daughter, Jenny Ann, in the Lon*
don home of British screen star
Ann Todd. The child, formerly
named Pia, is on her way to
Sweden with her father. Dr. Peter
Lindstrom, Ingrid’s former hus
band. l/P) Wirephoto.
FROM SEATTLE
W. E. Smith of Seattle, is regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel.
VISITOR FROM PELICAN
Lillian M. Stearns of Pelican i:
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
Nauska, a laboratory helper in thi
Alaska Department of Health.
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