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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME9
VOL. LXXV., NO, 11,645
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
BIG VOTE
PREDICTED
ON NOV. 7
Decisions Will Be Close
According to Leaders
of Both Parties
(By the Associated Press)
Politicians figure that the elec
tions a week from tomorrow may
provide the closest decision on Con
gress in six years and the greatest
total vote ever recorded in a non
Presidential year.
Minimum claims from the Repub
lican and Democratic parties pointed
to the possible closeness of the
decision on which shall control Con
gress, and by how much.
Big Vote Predicted
Predictions today from party
chairmen that the total vote Nov.
7 may exceed 42,000.000 and thus
set an off-year record are based on
high registrations in many northern
and some southern states. The pre
vious record for a year in which
there was no Presidential campaign
was 37,304,380 in 1938.
As for control of Congress, the
least that GOP Chairman Guy Gab
rielson has claimed is that the Re
publicans will pick up five seats in
the Senate and 25 in the House.
That minimum wouldn’t be enough
to take control (the GOP would
need a net gain of seven in the
Senate and 49 in the House) but
Gabrielson says he has found good
reason to believe the actual result
will turn the trick with ease.
Democratic Claims
On the other hand, the Democrats
say their rock-bottom guess is they
will hold their own in the House
and pick up at least two Senate
seats. They, too, have predictions
ranging far upward.
The closest off-year election in
recent history was in 1944, the year
of President Roosevelt’s fourth term
election. Then, the Republicans
gained two seats in the 96-man
Senate and lost 22 in the 435-inan
House.
Two years later, the Republicans
gained control of Congress; they lost
it back to the Democrats in 1948.
In other developments, as the
campaigning rolled into the last
week:
Truman to Broadcast
1. A Republican headquarters
spokesman said that the GOP may
let President Truman’s political
broadcast from St. Louis next Sat
urday go unmatched on the air. He
said the party doesn’t have the
money to buy corresponding radio
time.
2. Harold E. Stassen said in a
Washington television appearance
that neither he. Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York nor Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower should be ruled out
as possible candidates for the Re
publican Presidential nomination in
1952. “It’s too early to say what
anyone will do two years hence,”
said Stassen, one of those Dewey
defeated for the 1048 nomination.
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The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
Copyright, W50, by BeU Syndicate. U)0->
By DREW PEARSON
•IJash .. .YON-Out in rock-rib
bed Republican Iowa a lot of folks
don’t know much more about Demo
crats than a hog does about Sun
day, but this year the Democrats
are throwing a slight scare into the
Republicans, and here are three
factors helping them do it:
1. “Old Hector” whiskey.
2. P-60 anti-freeze.
3. A bona fide dirt farmer run
ning for the Senate on the Demo
cratic ticket.
The bona fide farmer is A1 Love
land, who can’t make a speech
much better than a rooster can
lay eggs. But he served faithfully in
the U. S'. Department of Agricul
ture as undersecretary, knows about
half the farmers in Iowa, and has
uncovered the rather important
fact that his opponent, GOP Sen.
Bourke Hickenlooper attended only
one out of six meetings of the Sen
ate Agriculture committee.
As a result, Loveland has been
effectively asking Lowa voters:
“Would you hire a hand who
came to work one day out of six?”
instead of attending meetings of
the Agriculture committee, Senator
Hickenlooper had led the bed
peeping probes first of the Atomic
Energy Commission, then of the
State Department.
The probe of the Atomic Energy
Commission backfired badly, partly
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Too Faf for Unde
Thomas F.. Quallis, of Tulare, Calif., 441-pound, 22-year-old inductee
Is one of the heaviest men deferred during the present crisis by any
U. S. draft board. Having scales which only recorded to 300 pounds,
Army personnel had to use a freight scales. Capt. L. M. Gervin,
(center), reads off the poundage to Sgt. Perry Baldwin. DPI Wirephoto.
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ASSEMBLY
WILLACTON
LIE'S TERM
Security Council Turns
Down Objections Raised j
by Russians
LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 30—«PI—
The Security Council today over
rode Russian objections and decided |
to let the veto-free General Assem
bly take up tomorrow a proposal to
extend the term of U.N. Secretary
General Trygve Lie. \ ,
Russia’s Jacob A. Malik then told l
the Council the Soviet Union would
not recognize Lie as the legal Sec
retary-General if the Assembly ex
tended his term.
The action took place at a closed- I
door meeting of the 11-nation Coun- j
cil which has been deadlocked over
the problem of Lie’s future.
Malik opened the meeting by de
manding that the Council continue
its efforts instead of tossing the
| problem to the Assembly. He con
tends the Assembly has no authority
to act except on candidates nomi
nated by the Council. Other coun
tries say the Assembly can extend
Lie’s term.
Malik proposed formally that the
Council ask the Assembly to post
pone its debate scheduled for to
morrow morning on a 14-nation pro
posal for giving Lie a three-year
extension. He was voted down 7 to
1, with India. Nationalist China and
Egypt abstaining.
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NO BAND PRACTICE
TONIGHT; MEMBERS
ASKED TO GIVE DATE
Owing to a confusion in date
nights, there will be no Juneau City
Band practice tonight. Director
Manson has decided that perhaps
some other night would be more
suitable than Monday and asks that
band members notify either Bill;
Matheny or Elmer A. Friend regard- I
ing their preference for band prac- !
tice nights. A poll will then be taken
from the letters received and an
nouncement of future practice
nights will then be made.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Oct. 30 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
99 7h, American Tel. and Tel. 151,
Anaconda 35 14, Douglas Aircraft!
79'^, General Electric 49, General,
Motors 50'-j, Goodyear 58'i, Ken-I
necott 6714, Libby, McNeill and |
Libby 814, Northern Pacific 25Vi,|
Standard Oil of California 74 ‘/h ,
Twentieth Century Fox 2214, U. S. |
Steel 40"4, Pound $2.80. j
Sales today were 1,790,000 shares. ]
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 226.42, rails 66.78, utilities
,40-34. . ;
GUSTAV V
OF SWEDEN
PASSES ON
N e w K i n g, Son of Dead
Ruler, Immediately Pro
claimed, Takes Oath
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 30—
(if)—Gustaf VI today was proclaimed
“King of the Swedes, the Goths,
and the Wends,” the first new rul
er to ascend the ancient Swedish
throne in nearly half a century.
He succeeds his father 92-year-old
King Gustaf V, whose death yes
terday morning after a reign of
nearly 43 years plunged the nation
into deepest mourning.
To all effects and purposes the
son, born Prince Oscar Frederik
Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf, has
been Sweden’s monarch since his
fatlher'a deaith. But at colorful
ceremonies today in the cabinet
council room of Stockholm's royal
palace he took the royal oath.
Socialist Premier Tage Erlander
read the oath in the presence of his
cabinet and Sweden's hereditary
princes, who immediately gave their
pledge of allegiance to the new
king. Erlander then formally tend
ered his government’s resignation
and the king in turn asked the
cabinet to remain in office.
The new Queln. Britiah-born
Louise, is the monarch’s second
wife. She is a sister of Earl Mount
batten and a great-granddaughter
of England's Queen Victoria.
The new Crown Prince is a blond, j
curly-haired, four-year-old boy—
little Prince Carl Gustaf. His father,
the new ruler’s eldest son, died in
an airplane crash in 1947.
Meanwhile the body of Gustav V
lay in Drottningham Palace, where
he died. His democratic rule llad
been one of the longest in Europe
and the longest in Swedish history.
He had suffered from chronic
bronchial catarrh for several years.
• •
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o’clock this morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 35; • i
• minimum, 29. • j
• At Airport—Maximum, 38; • I
• minimum, 17. • .
• *
• forecast •!
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Variable cloudiness tonight •
• and Tuesday. Lowest tern- •
• perature tonight about 30 de- •
• grees. Highest Tuesday near •
• 38. •
• •
• precipitation •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:JO a.m. today •
• City of Juneau — None; •
• since October 1—6.93 inches; •
• since July 1—29.03 inches. •
• At Airport — None; •
• since October 1—2.71 inches; •
• since July 1—22.05 inches. •
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ADVANCE
IN KOREA
| DELAYED
Chinese Red Divisions Re
ported Entering Fight,
Manchurian Border
—
(By the Associated Press)
Two Red divisions—reported made
up mostly of Chinese Communists
—drove tonight on the Korean east
coast city of Hamhung, far behind
the slowing Allied advance toward
the Manchurian border.
South Korean Republican officers
I said the counterattacking force
numbered more than 10,000 men
and was 30 miles northwest of Ham
hung. The Reds were reported well
organized and full of fight.
This development came shortly
after a U.S. 10th Corps spokesman
said two Chinese regiments were in
action in the same area—the first
official word that a sizeable Chinese
force was helping the desperate
North Koreans.
Commenting on the Hamhung re
port-relayed by AP Correspondent
Ben Price—the 10th Corps spokes
man said it “is basically on the
right track but the units in mention
are larger than our information in
dicates.”
Situation Serious
Thus it still was not clear whether
the South Koreans report on the
number of Chinese was exaggerated.
However, Americans in the Korean
Military Advisory Group (KMAG)
said they considered the situation
serious.
Other North Koreans, mustered
for a last-stand fight in the moun
tainous border regions, cut up one
third of a South Korean Division
and slowed the Allied advance to
ward the Manchurian border.
Women in Ranks
More than 10,000 Communists, re
ported to include some Chinese Reds
made their desperate stand at On
jong, in northwest Korea, 45 mile,
from the border. Reds used their
heaviest weapons, tanks and self
propelled guns. A North Korean
broadcast said women were usee
as reinforcements in the fighting
The counterattack was made ot
the Republic of Korea (ROK) Sixth
Division. Elements of this division
reached the Manchurian frontiei
Thursday above Chosan. Because
they were menaced in the rear, i
was forced to withdraw to Songpa
more than 30 miles south of th<
border.
Sizeable U.N. Defeat
The division’s Second Regimen'
was surrounded by the Reds anc
the bulk of it wiped out. It was the
first sizeable defeat in seven week
for United Nations forces.
Despite the reversal, Gen. Mac
Arthur’s headquarters said “none ol
the enemy counterattacks were sus
tained.”
Intelligence officers in Tokyo con
tinued to discount South Korean,
claims that Chinese Communist of
ficers and men were leading th<
counterattacks. They said there wa>
no real evidence of open interven
tion by Red China.
MAURICE COSTELLO,
FORMER MATINEE
[DOL, PASSES AWAY
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 30 — W -
Maurice Costello, matinee idol o!
two generations ago and father ol
two famous actresses, is dead.
The 73-year-old white-haired ac
tor who in the sunset of life saic
"it’s better to be a has-been that
a never-was,” succumbed yesterdav
to heart disease and complication
that had kept him in a virtual comr
since Tuesday.
Frequent death-bed visitors were
his once estranged but later re
conciled daughters, Dolores anc
Helene Costello, former actresses.
One of the earliest of the great
screen lovers, Costello had won stage
renown before he entered the infant
film business.
FROM SALT LAKE
Kirk H. Fox of Salt Lake City is
staying at the Baranof Hotel.
STUMER MOVEMENTS
— i
Princess Louise from Vancouver,
scheduled to arrive tomorrow after- j
noon or evening.
Freighter Coastal Rambler sched-1
uled to sail from Seattle today j
Baranof scheduled to sail front;
Seattle, Friday, Nov. 3.
I 1
Marines Land
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Marjne elements of the Tenth Corps are shown landing on the sandy beaches flanking Wonsan air strip,
on the east coast of North Korea. Their landing was delayed six days by a heavy concentration of
minefields. 1). S. Navy photo via radio and Iff! Wirephoto.
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RIVERS IN
OREGON ARE
ON RAMPAGE
Floods Claim Two Lives
Property Damage Heavy
-Towns Are Isolated
PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 30—<*—
Flooding Oregon rivers today added
ieath and destruction to the heavy
toll already inflicted on the Pacific
Northwest from five days of Pacific
storms.
The floods had claimed two lives
and one person was missing this
morning after rivers, swollen by the
prolonged steady rain went out of
■heir banks all the way from the
Oregon coast to the Cascade range.
Scores of towns were isolated as
highways were blocked and train
schedules interrupted. Many rural
families were marooned and schools
md lumber mills closed.
New areas were evacuated as the
crest of the rampaging Willamette
river, major stream in the area,
moved into the mid-Willamette val
ley.
The flood crest passed Eugene last
night, where hundreds were evacu
ated yesterday as lowlands were
inundated.
Rise-Fall Fast
The upper Willamette, however,
was falling almost as rapidly as it
had risen and some highways,
dosed by water yesterday, were re
jpened.
At Eugene, where the river crested
ast night at 15.9 feet-nearly four
feet above flood stage—the Willam
;tte this morning had dropped back
near flood stage of 12 feet.
Some observers there said it was
the fastest rise and fall of any
flood in memory. Damage was not
■xpected to be extensive, but the Red
Cross provided shelter for about
1,000 after the evacuation of many
n rowboats.
Crest Wednesday
Meantime, the Snake river, a trib
jtary of the vast Columbia, rose
hree feet duriflg the night at(
"larkston, Idaho. But Weather Bu
eau river forecasters here said they
expected no flooding on the Snake
ir Columbia.
In Oregon's Umpqua river valley,
about 1,000 persons scurried to
higher ground yesterday to escape
the flood. Many were housed at
rtoseburg, center of the' area and at
learby smaller communities.
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CITY CUT OFF 3 DAYS
CRESCENT CITY, Calif., Oct. 30
—W1—With Crescent City isolated
three days by storms that have
flooded highways and washed out
bridges, this community's only link
with the outside world has been
maintained by a network of "ham"
radio operators.
Ever since Friday, when rain and
wind cut off electric power and
telephone service. Earl Boles, op
erator of W6WVS and chairman of
the Del Norte county Red Cross
chapter, has been at his set almost
constantly.
In response to Boles messages of
disaster, relief supplies, food and
clothing are being sent to the area.^
JONES-WILBUR RACE
IN 4TH IS HOT ONE;
GOPER MAY WIN OUT
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 30—
<iP)—1The up-and-down Jones-Wilbur
race for a seat in the Alaska Legis
lature is neck-and-neck again.
It looked like Republican Alden L.
Wilbur might win it after all and
make the lineup for the House of
Representatives 14 Democrats and
10 Republicans, instead of the pre
viously indicated 15-9. It was 19-5
last session.
With all absentee votes counted,
Democrat Thomas A. Jones was
I leading by three votes. Late returns
I from Kaltag pulled Wilbur even
with him Saturday.
Shageluk and Anvik remain as the
only unreported precincts. Anvik
normally gives the Republicans a
• majority. Shageluk is usually Demo
cratic, but there was an uncon
firmed report that Shageluk ballots
did not arrive there in time for the
election. In that event, the delayed
Anvik returns may settle the issue.
TWO ALASKANS HELD
ON ARMED ROE RY
CHARGE IN OR ON
PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 30—tfi)—
Two Alaska fishermen and a Seattle
man were held Saturday night for
the armed robbery of a Salem pawn
shop early today.
State police Sgt. Prank Beers
identified them as Joseph E. To
man, 35, and Tom Turner, 32, who
gave their addresses as “Alaska,”
and Walter J. Sampson, 24, Seattle.
The sergeant said they would be
charged Monday with armed rob
bery. He said all three had ad
mitted roles in getting $502 in cash
irom the Star Exchange pawn shop,
Salem.
Turner was arrested in an auto
mobile bearing an Alaska license.
It had been noticed parked in an
alley at the rear of the shop. To
.nan was arrested near Salem and
Sampson in a Portland hotel.
542 NABBED IN
PRE-ELECTION BAG
OF NYC SUSPECTS
NEW YORK, Oct. 30—1*1—'The
city-wide pre-election roundup of
hoodlums and vagrants has bagged
542 suspects at the latest count.
The round-the-clock arrests con
tinued today, with Police Commis
sioner Thomas F. Murphy estimat
ing 1,000 arrests by election day,
Nov. 7.
The tally of 542 was announced
last night. Most of those seized
were charged with vagrancy.
The roundup has been in progress
since last Tuesday night, on orders
of acting mayor Vincent R. Impel
litteri.
Impellitteri, a Democrat, is run
ning for mayor as an independent
in a four-men field.
FROM LUBBOCK, WASH.
J. R. Orant, Lubbock, Wash, is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
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ALS. ILWU
SUPPORTS
BRIDGES
Convention Ends Here
Here After Delegates
Adopt Resolutions
Pledging full support to the IL
WU members in Petersburg now out
on strike for a contract and endors
ing full support to the Bridges
Robertson-Schmid case now on ap
peal in the 9th Circuit Court in San
Francisco, the first conference of
the International Longshoremen's
and Warehousemen's Union in Al
aska adjourned here Saturday
night.
Other actions included a resolu
tion to set up an ILWU Alaska
Council and to hold an all-Alaska
conference within the next few
months. Contract committees were
| set up lor each of the division
1 of the union which were to start
I work immediately to shape up de
! mauds to be included in new con
tracts.
They adopted a legislative and
political program urging:
“1. A Territorial wage-hour law
providing a minimum payment of
$1 an hour with time and a half
after eight hours in one day or
after 40 hours in one week.
“2. A measure for sickness and
accident benefits for commercial
fishermen financed out of the fish
ermen’s license tax which is now
collected and which would provide
transportation, medical care, hos
' pitalization, necessary drugs, doctor
I surgical bill for all licensed com
: mercial fishermen.
I "3. Modernization of the Alaska
Workmen's Compensation Act by
i increasing long term benefits to the
standards now provided by the Fed
eral Longshoremen's and Harbor
workers Act, retaining the Alaska
schedule of benelits for temporary
disability.
Unemployment
“4. Liberalization of the Unem
ployment Compensation Law to
provide dependency benefits which
will permit the dependents of un
employed workmen to live in decen
cy and comfort, and the Law am
ended so that seasonal workers will
be entitled to draw benefits immed
iately after January first.
"5. Enactment of a disability
insurance law which will provide
unemployment benefits when wage
earners are temporarily unemployed
due to sickness.
"6. An adequate tax program
based on the ability to pay which
will provide for the construe lion
and operation of necessary schools.
“7. A welfare program which
will recognize the right of pension
ers to live under decent standards
and particularly which will provide
adequate assistance for the blind
and or needy children.
"8. A boiler inspection law for
the protection of the public.”
National Issues
On the national level, the union i
urged (tha.t “1. CongiUss enact j
legislation which will provide for
the transfer of the regulation of J
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B29S BACK
FROM WAR
IN KOREA
SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 30—
B-29 bombers from the 92nd bomb
group landed at the Spokane Air
Force base today, a few days less
than four months after they took
off to strike at the Korean Com
munists.
The first plane, piloted by Capt.
Harry Downs of Spokane, eased
down onto the runway at the Spo
kane Air Force base at 6 a.m.
Col. Clifford Ree*. commander of
the base, said that "some” of the
group’s planes had returned. The
number was not given. Others were
assumed to be on the way home.
Still based in Japan is the 98th
Bomb group. It left the Spokane
base a month after the 92nd group
flew ’west.
“Elements of the 92nd bomb group
were released by Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur as soon as their strategic
bombing missions were completed,"
Col. Rees said this morning.
Pilots of the 92nd began taking
off in the dusk on July 4. Manned
largely by veterans of World War
II, they were in combat against the
Communists the day after they ar
rived in Japan.
The base never has said how
many planes were in the groups
that went to Japan. Their normal
number of planes was 30 tor each
group.
INSURGENT
TROUBLE IN
PUERTO RICO
SAN JUAN, Oct. 30—(JP>— Nation
alist insurgents fired on the Gov
ernor’s palace here today and at
tacked police stations in several
towns throughout the country, but
the government said It crushed the
rebellion. At least 15 were killed
and eight were wounded in the
clashes.
Government sources said the or
ganized uprising was aimed at em
barrassing the administration of
Governor Luis Munoz Marin, which
is pledged to continuing the island's
status as a United States territory.
The nationalist party demands com
plete independence.
Governor Munoz scheduled a radio
broadcast to the nation tonight and
announced that the 296th National
Guard battalion has been alerted to
stand by for further troublee.
The rebels used bombs, bullets
and fire against police stations and
government buildings in a number
of towns. Reports, still incomplete,
indicated 10 nationalists and five
policemen were killed.
Three nationalists were dead in
the Governor’s palace. Two police
men were wounded.
THREE NEW CASES
POLIO, KETCHIKAN
Three new cases of poliomyelitis
reported from Ketchikan today
brought the total known cases in
Alaska to 50 since outbreak of the
disease on August 10. according to
Alaska Department of Health head
quarters here.
The three new victims of the di
sease are reported as: Charles Berg,
3; Dawn Van Wierengen, 17 months;
and Robert Brown, a veteran. They
bring the total cases to nine in Ket
chikan where no new occurrences
had been reported since the first
part of October.
The first case to be reported from
Kanakanak was Saturday when
Dlyde Spears, 6, was taken to Prov
idence hospital at Anchorage for
:are.
THUNDERBIRD SCREENS
INSTALLED AT MUSEUM
Visitors may think, irom all the
nammering and sawing, that the
Terfltorial Museum in the Federal
Building is being completely re
juilt.
Such is not the case. The work
is to install the large wooden
screens from the Thunderttird
■louse at Yakutat. recently purchas
ed for the museum by Edward L.
■Ceithahn, curator.
SUTTON TO SPOKANE
Paul Sutton, chief underwriter In
he Juneau Federal Housing Admin
stration office, left today on Pan
tmerican for Spokane on a month's
racation.