THE HATLV ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIMET* __==^
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,735
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Allied Bayonets Slash Back Red Advance
STATEHOOD
ONCE MORE
CONSIDERED
New Memorial Asks Bill Be
Reported Withut
Further Hearings
By BOB DEARMOND
Alaska statehood again became
an issue before t.he House of Repre
sentatives this forenoon with the
introduction of House Memorial No.
6, urging that S. 50 be reported to
the U. S. Senate without further
hearings.
The memorial, introduced immed
iately after a Democratic caucus
called by Rep. McCutcheon, was
signed by nine of the 14 members
of that party in the House — Reps.
Metcalfe, Gundersen, Carlson, Kay,
Conright. Pollard, Sccvenius, Egan
and McCutcheon.
Democrats not sponsoring the
memorial were Hope of the First
Division, Franklin of the Fourth
and Madsen, Degnan and Wells of
the Second.
“Further hearings on Alaska
statehood would serve no purpose
other than that of delay,” the me
morial states.
The memorial claims that S. 50
is "substantially” the same bill as
the ones on which hearings were
held in Washington last year, and
that opponents of the statehood bill
have been fully and frequently
heard.
To Second Reading
The memorial was moved into
second reading at once on a mo
tion by Rep. McCutcheon. The mo
tion carried 18-6 despite Rep. Step
ovich’s objection that the measure
should go to the Special Committee
on Statehood for review'.
“Failure to support this memorial
in effect asks that additional hear
ings be held,” McCutcheon said.
“We have had many, many hear
ings on the statehood bills and the
people have voted overwhelmingly
in favor of statehood.”
The statehood memorial was one
of several introduced this morning.
Rep. Frank Johnson of Kake seeks
a two-year extension of the time
limit for filing Indian claims under
the Indian Claims Commission Act
of August 13. 1946. Time for filing
claims, under present law, expires
next August.
Reps. Laws, Wells, Madsen and
Degnan, in II.J.M. No. 8. seek a
road from Nome to Teller.
H.J.M. No. 10, by Rep. Locken,
asks that war risk insurance be re
instituted for Alaska shipments.
Rep. McCutcheon’s H.M. No. 25
requests that the recent decision
against the Alaska aluminum proj
ect be reviewed immediately and
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. X85I, By Bell Syndicate, Inc..
^WASHINGTON—Probably the
only American who has ever met
Stalin's mother is Carleton Smith,
director of the National Art Foun
dation, who while traveling near
Tiflis in 193S was taken to a village
where Stalin's mother lived.
Her home was a mud hut dug
out of the side of a hill, and she
proved to / be a wrinkled, kindly
old lady. Telling Smith how she
had raised her son to be a priest,
the old lady added:
“I hear he's now running all cf
Russia, but I don’t believe it.”
A year later, Smith was in
Moscow at the Bolshoi theatre
when Stalin was also present, and
had an interview with the Russian
Dictator. Among other things he
told him about the visit to his
mother.
Stalin maintained an icy silence.
He did not seem interested in his
mother.
Victory in Korea
Gen. Matthew Ridgway personal
ly is largely credited with turning
the most humiliating defeat in 85
years of American military history
into gradual victory in Korea.
Military men say that Ridgway
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Former U. S. Marshal at
Fairbanks Dies as Result
Of Beating in Key West
"LITH E MISS VALENTINE"
An incurably sick little Atlanta,
Ga„ girl only wanted to be your
Valentine and she got her wish. A
.lot of warm hearted folks respond
ed when her plea was made
i
through the press. Jacquelyn
Marre (above), 12, who is suffer
ing from brain cancer, lies amid a
tidal wave of greetings and gifts
| from both the United States and
I Canada, (ff) Wirephoto.
GOVERNOR OF
HAWAII TO
STAY ON JOB
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 —(A—
President Truman says he does not
intend to replace Ingraham Stain
back as governor of Hawaii.
He was asked at a news confer- I
ence if he planned to appoint a
new governor since Stainback’s last
term has expired.
He replied in the negative.
He was not asked, however, if he
intended to reappoint Stainback.
The President has long advocated
statehood for Hawaii.
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51 FLY WITH PKA
IN AND OUT THURS.
Ten passengers arrived here yes
terday from the westward on Pa
cific Northern Airlines and 41 do
| parted for the westward.
From Anchorage: K. S. Hotter,
I Dr. R. H. Shuler, Linda Guesell,
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gerde, R E.
McFarland, George Abadie, Dr.
John Libby.
From Yakutat: Anne Simmons,
C. Howell.
To Anchorage: Neil Ohashi, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Burns, E. Zollman,
Mr. and Mrs. M. Sipes, Ed Cowan,
Helen Esye, A1 Bonnett, F. Charles,
Dr. and Mrs. Smithson and son
Chris, E. W. Norton, Lloyd Bell,
; Roy Avrit, Frank Kimuri, Paul
i Dewoody and two draftees,
i To Yakutat: Mr. ard Mrs. Dan
| Schlichtig.
CURTIS, DUNTON BUY j
CREDIT BUREAU HERE
Irvin Curtis and David P. Dunton j
have purchased the stock of the
Alaska Credit Bureau here from
Sue Kennedy who is leaving about
March 31. The Bureau is now be
ing reorganized and the offices
will be completely remodeled.
Curtis has operated the Curtis j
■Accounting Service here for the1
I past four years and plans to n ove ;
I his office to the new location!
J shortly.
Dunton has been accountant at i
j the R. W. Cowling Co. for the past j
• year and a half and will be the
! new manager of 'he Credit Bur
' eau.
KEY WEST, Fla., Feb. 16 —M>l—
Stanley J. Nichols, 50, former U. S.
Marshal at Fairbanks. Alaska, died
today of injuries which Justice of
the Peace Roy Hamlin said resulted
from a "bad beating.”
Hamlin reported a search was
being made for an unidentified
companion reported seen with
Nichols and who drove away with
his car.
Nichols was found unconscious
at a motor court and never re
gained consciousness. An inquest
was planned by Hamlin.
77 CARRIED ON
ALASKA COASTAL
THURSDAY TRIPS
Alaska Coastal Airlanes carried
a total of 77 passengers on flights
Thursday with 11 on interport, 31 ]
departing and 35 arriving.
Departing for Sitka: Cecil Gould,
Mr. and Mrs. D. Wright, C. Crab
tree, Capt. Stone, G. Miles, Ray
DePriest, Jon Waldorf, Don Huber,
Bob Gray, Jesse Hatch, Jim Sey.
Larry Clarke, Lud Urick.
For Haines: George Meacock, R.
A. Young, Mrs. Clayton, for Skag
way: C. J. Ehrendriech, Mrs. J.
R. McMillen, Dan Gore: for Tena
kee: F. Abraham: for Angoon. J
Peter Jack; for Sentinal Island:
Mrs. T. Cook; for Hoonah: Ed
Metz, Eric Jackson.
For Pelican: P. Ganty; for Pe
tersburg: Tim Casey, Marie Shipp;
for Ketchikan: E. M. Sundblad,
Major Dunnell, Fred Brandis, Jr.,
Tom Nalley.
Arriving from Petersburg: A.
Boberg, V. Baker, T. Casey, E.
Gregory; from Elfin Cove: Claire]
A. Williams; from Hoonah: Tom j
Johnson. Mrs. James Young, Paul
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tem
plin, Mrs, Paul Smith. '
From Kimsham Cove: Paul Sor
enson; from Skagway: Mr. and
Mrs. R. Smithson and two children;
irom Haines: Norvin J. Lewis, Paul
Karlock, Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie
Marks; from Sitka: Rosalee Ratch
menol, Les Florence, Mr. Ashby,
Winnefred John, G. E. Munger,
Juanita Underwood, Bobby Ander
son, R. E. DeRae, Johana Clark,
Larry Anderson, Dr. Diesher and
child. Elizabeth Didrickson, Martha
Cushing, Pat Smith, Jo Carter,
Georgia Smith.
TOKYO IS
BURIED BY
SNOWFALL
TOKYO, Feb. 16 — Wl— Fleecy
white snow flakes paralyzed Tokyo
—something Allied fire and demoli
tion bombs faileJl to do in the Pa
cific war.
Eight persons were dead and 83
injured in the Tokyo-Yokohama
area as 12 inches of snow fell, Kyo
do News Agency reported. Sixty
six fishermen were listed as miss
ing. Thirty-three fishing boats
were sunk and 66 others washed
from moorings.
Fourteen U. S. Naval ships were
grounded by high winds at Yoko
suka Naval base, but 13 were re
floated and back in service. The
14th, the Badoeng Strait, was ex
pected to be refloated today.
The 4,928-ton Swedish motor ves
sel Christer Salen, her bow snapped
off in raging seas 100 miles off the
cast coast, was being towed to
Yokohama. Rescue vessels reported
her 10 passengers and 37 crewmen
safe.
Tokyo’s snowfall was the heaviest
since the record of 14 inches Feb.
26, 1936.
MacUEAN TO JUNEAU
A. K. (Spike) MacLean, mechan
ical engineer with the Alaska Road
Commission, is expected to arrive
in Juneau Sunday from Glenn Al
len where he has been stationed the
past several months. He has been
transferred to the local ARC office.
CONTROL
SYSTEM
BLOCKED
Labor Members of Wage
Stabilization Board Stage
Their Own Walkout
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 —(i?*)—
Uncertainty clouded the whole gov
ernment effort to control prices and
(wages after labor members of the
I wage stabilization board walked out
today In protest over a recommend
ation for a 10 per cent ceiling on
wage increases.
By a six to three vote, the board
came forth with a long-awaited
formula which would limit wage in
creases to 10 per cent between Jan.
15, 1950 and next July 1. Thus if
workers had already had their pay
hiked 8 per cent, they would be
held to a 2 per cent boost until
July 1.
The three public and three in
dustry members, who approved this
formula, promised to review the
entire wage picture before July 1
and revise it if necessary to keep
wages in line with the mounting
cost of living.
The labor members, who had been
holding out for a 12 per cent ceiling,
promptly withdrew from the board
in protest. In effect, they had been
instructed to do so under the cir
cumstances by the United Labor
Policy Committee, a group repre
senting nearly all the 16.000,000 un
ion members in the nation.
Emil Rieve, one of the members,
is president of the CIO United Tex
tile Workers.
The other two labor members are
Elmer E. Walker, president of the
Machinists Union, recently reaffil
iated with the AFL, and President
H. C. Bates of the AFL Bricklayers.
TEXTILE
STRIKE
STARTS
Picket Lines Are Formed in
First Woolen Walk
out in II Years
BOSTON, Feb. 16 —lAT— Picket
lines began forming before day
break today as an estimated 70,000
CIO Textile Workers struck against
160 wool and worsted mills in the
first industry-wide walkout in the
Textile Union's 11-year history.
Some 700 men and women formed
a picket line at 5:30 a.m. outside
two American Woolen Company
plants — the Wood and Ayer mills
—at Lawrence, Mass.
Other pickets marched around
three mills in the Passiac, N. J.
area, where 11,000 workers are af
fected, beginning at 6 a.m.
The Wood mill was described as
the largest worsted goods plant in
the world.
The strike, which directly in
volves half the nation’s wool and
worsted workers, began at 12:01 a.
m. after negotiations broke down
between the union and the Ameri
can Woolen Company. The com
pany generally sets the industry
wage pattern.
The union demands a 15-cent
an-hour increase. It says the aver
age industry wage now is $1.42 an
hour with the minimum $1.17.
Union President Emil Rieve said
the American Woolen refused to
make a "reasonable offer.”
He quoted company officials as
saying that price ceilings must be
lifted before wages could be raised.
Rieve. who is also a labor member
of the National Wage Stabilization
Board, said there was nothing in the
wage freeze which prevented an em
ployer from negotiating a wage in
crease with a union.
DR. SHULER HERE
Dr. R. H. Shuler of Mt. Edge
cumbe arrived here on PNA from
Anchorage yesterday and is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
JENSEN HAS
FOOT INSIDE
HOUSEDOOR
By JIM HUTCHESON
It appeared definite this after
noon that former Rep. Marcus Jen
sen had one foot inside the legisla
tive doors.
The senate voted 9 to 7 this
morning to sit with the house in
joint session behind locked doors
to hear what the former Douglas
legislator has to lay before them.
Jensen has virtually had his hand
on the door twice before, but notices
for reconsideration of the votes
blocked his appearance before each
house individually. This time he ap
peared definitely slated — beyond
hope of reconsideration — to go be
fore the joint session at 3 p.m. to
day in what many legislators have
predicted was likely to be a stormy
session.
It is the fourth straight day that
“l’affaire Jensen” has been the day's
major issue before one house or the
other.
Through those four days it has
been an “on again, off again, gone
again” proposition.
The senate did considerable talk
ing about Jensen and what he
might present to the legislature be
fore it voted to join the house be
hind closed doors.
The senate also found time to
pass two bills.
Bars Legislators
It voted unanimously for Steve
McCutcheon's bill to forbid ap
pointment of any member of the
legislature to any board or com
mission.
McCutcheon said there had been
charges from some sources that the
administration had "been loading
some commissions with members of
the legislature.” He expressed the
opinion it was undesirable to have
legislators passing laws about]
boards or commissions and then sit- 1
ting on them. ,
Sen. Frank Barr (D-Fairbanks),
a member of the aeronautics com
mission which the legislature cre
ated, said he favored the bill al
though it was some times difficult
to fill boards with a member from
each division without going into the
legislative ranks. He said there was
danger of a legislator favoring put
ting projects in areas ft'hcre the
most votes might be.
The other bill passed by the sen
ate was a house-approved measure
to allow the attorney general to
name more than one assistant. At
torney General Gerald Williams
had told the senate his office was
unable to give proper legal service
to all departments with the present
manpower.
Jensen Case
The Jensen affair came up the
first thing this morning when the
senate heard the house invitation
to a joint session. The house had
voted for it late yesterday.
Senator McCutcheon asked unan
imous consent to accept the invita
tion to the house. Sen. John Butro
vich (R-Fairbanks) objected.
Both Sen. Howard Lyng (IJ
Nome) argued that the senate
should go ahead and hear Jensen
without the house.
“The letter was addressed to the
senate and it is our duty to hear
him," said Lyng. "The house refused
to give him a hearing. Nothing pro
hibits the house from advising Jen
sen it now has changed its mind
and is willing to hear him.”
A bit later Lyng suggested that
Jensen might not want to be heard
by a Joint session.
“His feelings may have been hurt
when the house so summarily turn
ed him down,” said the senator.
“Whatever other qualities Mr. Jen
sen has, he is a temperamental and
excitable person, you know.”
The vote came after senators re
ported Jensen would be glad to ap
pear before a joint session. Jensen’s
request, however, had been for an
open session.
Open Hearing
Sen. Heinie Snider argued that
it should be open; “it’s the people
who send us down here and why
should we go behind closed doors
so they don't know what is going
on?”
Senator McCutcheon argued for
the joint session. He said that
’ ‘whatever Jensen may have to pre
I sent, it seems to be a matter for all
i the legislators. Jensen says it is for
j (Continued on Page Twc)
Basis for Flying Saucer Reports
This picture of a "skyhook” balloon, 77.090 feet above Minneapolis,
was taken through a refracting telescope during cosmic ray studies.
Look magazine quoted Dr. Urner Liddel, chief of the nuclear physics
branch of the Office of Naval Research, as saying there has been no
reliable report of a "flying saucer” observation which is not attribut
able to these cosmic balloons. This is a Look magazine photo from
the llniverstiy of Minnesota. (0) Wlrephoto.
EUROPEAN
FORCE! MAY
BE DOUBLED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 —Wl—'
Secretary of State Acheson said to
day “the comat forces of our Euro
pean Allies may be expected to dou- j
ble in the next year.”
He gave no figures in prepared
testimony calling upon the Senate
Foreign Relations and Armed Serv
ices Committees to support the Tru- I
man administration's plan to send I
100,000 additional United States
troops to Europe to bolster defenses
against Communist aggression.
Acheson said the United States
must use the time it has — by vir
tue of its lead over Russia in air
power and atomic weapons — to
build up with its Allies “balanced
collective forces” needed to deter
aggression.
He added that “the value of our
lead” in atomic weapons will de
cline but he said balanced land, sea
and air forces in Western Europe
will help offset the loss of that ad
vantage.
Acheson said America’s Allies “are
now taking steps which bring us
measurably closer to realization of
our ultimate goal” of an adequate
defense force.
Secretary of Defense George
Marshall told the committees yes
terday of the plan to send to Europe
four more Amcr/can divisions plus
supporting troops to reinforce the
two already in Germany.
Marshall’s disclosure of the defi
nite figures took much of the steam
out of the opposition in the troops
to-Europe controversy. The size of
the forces contemplated was smaller
than had been anticipated.
FROM CALIFORNIA
K. S. Hauter, Orinda, Calif., is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM SITKA
Josephine Carter of Sitka is at
the Baranof Hotel.
« WEATHER REPORT
r Temperatures tor '24-Hour Period
• ending 6:20 o clock tills morning
• In Juneau — Maximum
• 39; minimum, 32.
• At Airport — Maximum,
• 37; minimum, 30.
•
• FORECAST
• Cloudy with showers of
• mixed rain and snow tonight
• and Saturday. Lowest temp
• erature tonight near 32.
• Highest Saturday near 37.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Punt 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
• City of Juneau—1.29 inches;
• Since Feb. 1—2.13 inches; '
• since July 1—44.21 inches;
• At Airport—.58 inches;
• Since Feb. 1—.1.56 inches;
• since July 1—31.81 inches.
• #*•••••••
ILLEGAL FOR
FAIRBANKS TO
HAVE UTILITY
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 16 —(At Fed
eral Judge Harry Pratt has ruled
that the city of Fairbanks im no
legal right to establish a utilities |
board in 1947, and rates set by this
board were invalid.
He ruled there is no territorial
law permitting Alaskan cities to
appoint utility boards. Such a law
was passed in 1935 and repealed in
1939.
In what may be a far-reaching
decision in the Territory, the judge
ruled that the city council must fix
utility rates, and bondholders
would have to approve any dele
gation of power by the city to a
utilities board.
The judge made his decision in
the case of Robert Claus, who re
fused to pay rates set for unmeter
ed steam here and brought suit In
a test case. The judge ruled Claus
must pay only a reasonable cost for
steam, but his decision did not touch
on what “reasonable cost" might be.
ANDERSON'S MEMORIAL
PASSESJENATE, 16-0
The following communication
from Edward Anderson, senator
from the Second Division, explains
itself:
Editor of The Empire, Feb. 16
Will you please be so kind and pub
lish in today's Empire that Senate
Joint memorial No. 4 passed the
senate unanimously (16 to 0). For
some reason it was left out from
the senate’s ftoings in yesterday's
Empire, February 15.
This memorial refers to a road
from Nome to Solomon in the Sec
ond Division. I wish you would be
so kind and publish It in today’s
Empire. I would appreciate it. It
j will help to show my memorial
passed the senate in the forenoon,
Thursday. February 15. Thanking
you for your kindness.
A. L. FLORENCE HERE
A. L. Florence of Ketchikan is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Feb. 16 — Closing
I flotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%, American Car.
108%, American Tel. and Tel. 154.
Anaconda 44%, General Electric
54Vi, General Motors 50%, Goodyear
71%, Kennecott 78%, Libby, Mc
Neil and Libby 10, Northern Pa
cific 37%, Standard Oil of Cali
fornia 98 v, Twentieth Century Fox
23%, U. S. Steel 46. Pound 2.80%,
Canadian Exchange 95.31%.
Sales today were 1,860,000 shares
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 254.90, rails 88.40, util
ities 42.90.
RED DRIVE
ISCHECKED,
ONE FRONT
Commies Are Hurling New
Forces Into Battle De
spite Severe Losses
By Associated Press
Allied bayonets slashed back Red
attempts to outflank both ends of
the Central Korean warfront today.
On the left flank, southeast of
Seoul, American infantrymen —al
most out of ammunition — bared
bayonets and charged. They ch ed
the fleeing Chinese survivors half
a mile.
The Doughboys killed some 56
Reds. Artillery already had ki ’ed
about 100 of a dug-in force of 500.
On the right flank of the rela
tively quiet Cenlrol Front. South
Korean infantrymen used bayonets
and grenades to throw back Chinese
troops north of Chechon. But Com
munist pressure in that mountain
ous sector continued.
On the Western Front south of
Seoul, an American tank-infantry
patrol ran invo more than 500 Chi
nese just south of the Han River.
The Reds were dug in but lost at
least 100 men.
Ited Drive Cheeked
Action all along the curving bat
tlefront was relatively small in com
parison with fighting in the pi t
five days, in which a Communist
drive on the Central Front v/1 s
checked.
The Eighth Army counted li«t
casualties at 4.935 for Thursday of
which " 275 were on the Central
Front between Chipyong and W<n
ju. Tin- brought to more than 109,
000 the Red losses since the Allied
limited offensive jumped off Jan
uary 25.
Reds Shift Strength
Friday’s action on the right flank
of the Central Front indicated the
Chinese may have shifted much of
their strength to the area re till
and northwest of Chechon.
Despite the severe losses dealt the
Reds in their offensive, the North
Korenn radio boasted that the Com
munists had shattered elemei
the U. S. Second and Seven!11 di
visions and wiped out the South
Korean 28th division.
“The enemy’s line has crumbled,"
said a broadcast from Pyongyang,
North Korean Red capital. “Our
forces presently are pursuin. >nd
contihuing to advance.”
38th Parallel Issue
President Truman said in Wash
ington yesterday that Allied troops
in Korea still have UN authority
to cross the 38th Parallel di . im
North and South Korea. He told N
news confe. m e any future ' s
ing was a matier of military uut
egy and was in the hands of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur. Headquarters
officials in Tokyo hailed the state
ment as clarifying the “muddy
waters” concerning the issue.
Kadow Has
Resigned
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 .? -
i Interior Secretary Chapman md
j today he had accepted the resig
nation of Kenneth J. Kadov >s
Chairman of the Alaska FicH Con. •
i mittee.
Chapman informed Kadow hi lid
| so "With regret.”
The resignation is effective on
March 31.
'■ Kadow has herded the Field,
Committee for nearly three years
; He plans to rpmair in Ale-ha in
private business.
j Kadow left his headquarters here
! everal weeks ago for Washington.
| Tip has a horn" on the Dot; las
Highway where his family 1- now
located.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Nornh from Vancouver
due late Saturday afternoon or eve
ning.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle 4 p m. today.
Baranof from west scheduled a
arrive Sunday morning at 10, south
bound.