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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,663 _____JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1950_ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_PRICE TEN CENTS
Lives Are Lost in California Flood Waters
FIND FLIERS
LOST 10 DAYS
IN INTERIOR
1 FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 20—(A1)
—After 1C days in the frozen Arc
tic wilderness, where temperatures
ranged as low as 50 degrees below
zero, James Stevenson and Varion
Andrick were rescued yesterday.
Neither, apparently, suffered un
due ill effects.
Stevenson, manager of the Port
Yukon branch of the Northern
Commercial Company, said running
out of cigarettes on the second day
was the “worst” part of their ex
perience.
The two men, who disappeared
Nov. 9 after taking off on a short
40-mile hop from Fort Yukon to
Venetie, said strong winds blew
their light Aeronca plane 100 miles
off course.
Stevenson said he flew until the
engine stopped, then made a dead
stick landing on a lake.
“After building a fire, we got
the engine started again and flew
another 30 miles before running out
of gas,” he continued.
Crash Land on Tundra
That time, they crash landed on
the Arctic tundra and began the
nine-day walk which ended Satur
day when they were sighted by
Lt. James Whitmer, pilot of a
Tenth Rescue Squadron C-54.
Whitmer dropped food and cigar
ettes within 15 feet of them in the
snow.
Uncertain ice conditions along
the Colleen River prevented a C-47
from attempting a landing at the
spot yesterday. They were finally
picked up and flown out in a light
plane by bush pilot Ed Toussaint
of Fort Yukon.
Dressed Warmly
Stevenson said both he and An
drick were fortunate in that they
were warmly dressed. Andrick, a
teacher from the Mt. Ed&ecumbu
School at Sitka, was on an in
spection trip of schools in the area
and also had a suitcase full of
extra clothing.
Both slept in one mummy-type
sleeping bag for nine nights.
For food, they ate 10 of the 47
loaves of bread they were carrying
to Venetie.
They were armed with a 22 cal
iber pistol and a hatchet, but saw
no game although they found wolf
tracks within 30 feet of their camp
on one occasion.
For Stevenson, a veteran of 58
battle missions with the 15th Air
Force during World War II, the
rescue was doubly timely.
He arrived home in time to share
his three-year old daughter San
dra’s birthday cake.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
CoprrUht. MM, by Ball Bynclcata, Ino.l
By DREW PEARSON
"RpASHINGTON — With Russia
now building up a stockpile of ap
proximately 28 atomic bombs and
with the cold war turned into a
hot war in one part of the world,
the Federal government is lagging
far behind American cities in pre
paring against atomic attack.
As of today, President Truman
still has not appointed a chief for
Civil Defense, and present civil de
fense planning is temporarily in
the hands of Stuart Symington’s
brither-in-law, likeable but inexper
ienced J. J. Wadsworth.
Meanwhile, the American Mu
nicipal Association has prepared
a confidential survey of civil de
fense plans showing considerable
criticism of Washington for drag
ging its feet. The survey also shows
that 150 key cities are going ahead
with their own defence plans, with
two cities, Norfolk, Va., and San
Mateo, Calif., claiming to be 75 per
cent ready >;r atomic httack.
Manchesther, Conn., estimates it is
70 percent prepared and Uniontown,
Pa., 65 percent.
Meanwhile, many large cities,
such as San Francisco, San Diego,
Schenectady and Wichita, have
hired full-time civil defense direc
tors, while other smaller towns—
Niagara Fails, N. Y„ Jackson, Mich,
and Wilmington, N.C.—are relying
on volunteer directors.
Uniontown, Pa., has organized
its beauty shops as first-aid cen
ters in case of emergency. San An
gelo, Tex., is ready to draft its
taxicabs and bus system for em
ergency evacuation. El Paso, Tex.,
(Continued on Page Four)
THUGS KILL
SEATTLE MAN
IN MANILA
MANILA, Nov. 20—<41—A promi
nent Pacific northwest businessman
was shot and killed by bandits yes
terday while sightseeing a few hours
after his arrival from the United
States.
He was John P. Herber, 55-year
old Seattle importer and exporter.
Herber was riding with some
friends, police said, when the party
was stopped by a crude road block
on a well-traveled highway south
of Manila.
Three men stepped from hiding,
fatally wounded Herber and shot
A. A. Krivenko, a Manila business
man. Two others in the party were
being robbed when a Philippine
constabularly unit arrived, chasing
off the bandits.
Authorities were unable to say
whether the bandits might have
been Communist Hukbalahaps who
have been operating in that area.
The National Bureau of Investi
gation. the Philippine FBI, joined
in the search for bandits.
Herber. who had arrived here only
Sunday morning, headed the John
P. Herber Export and Import Co.,
Seattle.
He was also a trustee of the
American Institute of Pacific Rela
tions.
Survivors include his widow, The
resa Joan; and two sons, John Car
rail Herber, 19, and Billy Joe Her
ber, 14.
INGENITO, KILLER
OF FIVE, ENDS TWO
DAY HUNGER STRIKE
WOODBURY, N. J.. Nov. 20—<>Pi
—Ernest Ingenito, d.U'k-haired
appliance salesman who killed five
persons and wounded four in a
savage effort to wipe out his es
tranged wife's family, ended today
the hunger strike he began Satur
day in a prison cell.
Warden William Mollineaux of
the Gloucester County prison said
In-j'nito, 26, at breakfast this
morning and appeared in a “very
good mood.’’
Ingenito, steadily chain-smoking
cigarets, was talking freely with
guards, but has not discussed the
killings, the warden said. He is a
World War II veteran.
The prisoner had refused food
since he was jailed after the 20
minute massacre Friday night. The
hunger strike, however, had not
endangered his health, Mollineaux
said, and Ingenito has made no fur
ther suicide attempts.
unknownIhief
RETURNS PROPERTY
WITH APOLOGIES
A window was broken in Skin
ner's Qun Shop edrly Sunday
morning and six guns, five rifles
and one shotgun were taken by an
unknown person. By Sunday night
the guns were returned to the Ju
neau Police station by an intermed
iary who brought verbal apologies
and a promise to pay damages. Po
lice are continuing investigations.
Art Skinner, owner of the gun
shop says that he will not press
charges.
HUNTERS GET DEER BUT
HAVE ROUGH GO ON HUNT
Stormbound for two days and
with the snowfall and subsequent
freeze early last week made hunt
ing a rough go tor three local nim
rods who despite a bad time man
aged each to get a deer in the
Freshwater Bay area and returned
to Juneau Saturday night on the
vessel Hobo.
In the party were Acting U. S.
Marshal Walter G. Hellan, Nor
man Bucy and Robert Faulkner.
Hellan said that being storm
bound was to be expected but the
| freeze following a snowfall made
! it tough going and gave the bucks
| p break for they could hear the
! hunters at a long distance as they
i made their way over the crusted
: snow which creaked and whined
| with every footstep. The hunters
saw plenty of tracks but few bucks,
j He said however they did see a
large number of does and fawns.
ALASKA BALLOT
MAY DECIDE RACE
IN FRANKLIN CO.
PASCO, Wash., Nov. 20—<£l—An
absentee ballot believed to be on
its way from Alaska will decide
whether incumbent Jim Fanning or
candidate Vincent Small gets the
post of Franklin County Commis
sioner.
Both candidates now have 1,759
votes as a result of absentee ballots.
Louise Lewis, county auditor, said
if the Alaskan ballot is received be
fore Wednesday and postmarked
Nov. 7, it will decide the race.
Otherwise the two men will draw
straws.
CHINA REDS
IN KOREA ON
OCTOBER 20
By RELMAN MORIN
TOKYO, Nov. 20—(jW—General
MacArthur’s headquarters said to
day the Chinese Communist 38th
Army crossed from Manchuria into
Korea Oct. 20.
That same day, American para
troopers jumped 23 miles north of
the captured Red Korean capital,
Pyongyang, and MacArthur pro
claimed: “The war is very definitely
coming to an end.”
An intelligence spokesman said
the time of the Red crossing indi
cates the Communists’ decision to
commit Chinese troops was made
about Oct. 1, when U.N. forces were
approaching the parallel 38 boun
dary betwefen South and North
Korea.
The spokesman said this story of
the Chinese Red 38th Army was
pieced together from 150 prisoners:
The Chinese 38th originally was
at Changchun, capital of Man
churia. It compristd three divisions,
of 9,000 or 10,000 men each, plus
some special units. It moved to
Mukden Oct. 18.
In Mukden the troops were out
fitted with winter clothing, an in
dication they were expected to be
in the field several months. They
received some unusual instructions:
Destroy all letters and papers
that might identify them as Chinese
Red Army regulars.
Dont’ talk or otherwise frater
nize with Koreans living in Man
churia.
Don’t speak Chinese in the pres
ence of Korean civilians.
The army arrived opposite Nam
pojin, a border point in north cen
tral Korea, Oct. 20, and immedi
ately began crossing the Yalu river
boundary. The railway bridge had
been destroyed; troops crossed on
a narrow wooden bridge.
At the same time, other Chinese
Red units apparently were crossing
into Korea from Sinuiju in the
northwest.
DON CLARKS DEPART
FOR BELLINGHAM HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Don Clark, and In
fant daughter, Kimberly Joyce, left
yesterday by Pan American plane
for Seattle.
Clark, who has been advertising
manager of The Daily Alaska Em
pire for the past year and a half, is
joining the advertising staff of the
Bellingham Herald and, with his
family will move to Bellingham and
take over his new duties the first
of December.
Mrs. Clark, until early summer,
was receptionist for Drs. John H.
Clements and Joseph O. Rude.
The many friends whom this con
genial couple made while in Juneau
regret their departure but send
their good wishes with them in their
new venture.
GRIZZLZY BEAR IN PORT
AFTER BEING STORMBOUND
Game enforcement officers who
were out on patrol in the local
area returned to port over the
weekend on the vessel Grizzly
Bear, skippered by Clarence Matson,
who is also enforcement officer.
The Grizzly Bear was stormbound
most of the week in Pleasant Bay,
Seymoilr Canal, FWLS game of
ficials said today.
GIRL FOR McNEILS
An 8-pound 6-ounce girl wai
born to Mr. and Mrs. Chris Mc
Neil of Juneau at the Government
Hospital at 9:40 p.m. last night.
1
12 Indicted
In Contempt
Of Congress
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — Ufl —
A U.S. grand jury today indicted 12
I persons, including an heiress and
an atomic scientist, lor contempt
of Congress. They are accused of
refusing to answer questions during
a House committee investigation of
j Communism.
Seven of those indicted are mem
bers of the United Electrical, Radio
and Machine Workers Union, ex
pelled by CIO a year ago during
a purge of left-wing affiliates.
The indicted scientist is Clarence
Hiskey, associated with the Brook
lyn, N.Y., Polytechnic Institute. The
woman was Mrs. Louise Berman,
of California, heiress to a west
coast dried fruit shipping business.
Also indicted were these members
of the electrical workers union:
Julius Emspak, New York City:
James J. Matles, New York; Thomas
J. Fitzpatrick, Pittsburgh: Thomas
Quinn, East Pittsburgh, Pa.; Frank
Panzino, Pittsburgh; Esther Tice,
i Cincinnati; Talmadge Raley, Lock
! land, Ohio.
Other indicted included:
Philip Bart, General Manager of
the Communist Daily Worker, New
! York City.
BLACKOUT
IN BOSTON
_
j BOSTON, Nov. 20 — UPI — So till
powerful wires got crossed last night
and that caused the big Boston
blackout.
A power failure darkened much
of the hub in a hit-and-miss pat
tern and parts of suburban Brook
line. Cambridge and Belmont for
about an hour.
An estimated million persons
were variously affected by the sud
den gloomy Sunday but police re
ported no major harm done.
Most hospitals switched imme
diately to emergency generators.
Both Boston television stations were
out during the eclipse and radio
stations, newspapers and news wire
services were affected.
John Ahern, vice president of the
New England electric system, said
the blackout came because a wrong
switch was thrown in a station at
Pratt’s Junction, 50 miles northwest
of Boston.
He said that opened high tension
lines which overloaded lines of the
Boston Edison Company system.
SOCIALISTS CLAIM
ELECTION VICTORY;
NO GERMAN ARMY
FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov. 20
—{ft—West German Socialists —
fierce opponents of the creation of
a new German army to bolster
western defense—won a thumping
weekend election victory in the
American occupation zone.
Voters in two states snubbed the
powerful Christian Democrats, who
dominate the federal West German
government and have urged Ger
man rearmament.
The states of Hesse and Wuert
temberg-Baden, which voted yester
day for new state parliaments, also
decisively rejected Moscow’s policies
j in Germany. With not a single
j Communist elected, the Reds suf
I fered their worst drubbing since
i thfe war.
Socialist leaders immediately
hailed the results as a victory for
their stand against West German
rearmament.
ENROUTE TO SKAGWAY
Mrs. Helene Johnson and four
I small children are at the Hotel Ju
neau enroute from Bingham. Utah,
to their new home in Skagway
where Johnson has been employed
on the White Pass and Yukon RR
for the past year.
FUNERAL FOR INFANT
Funeral services for 16-months
old Elizabeth Brown, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brown will be
held tomorrow afternoon st 2
o’clock in the Carter Chapel The
Rev. Ralph E. Baker of the Assem
bly of God wlU officiate. Burial will
I be in Evergreen Cemetery
U.S. SEVENTH
PUSHING ON,
SNOWFRONT
Tank-Led Forces Reported
Near Manchurian Border
in Wintry Weather
(By the Associated Press)
An armored spearhead of the U.S.
Seventh Division pushed through
snow-filled North Korean valleys
today to within two miles of the
Manchurian frontier. The border
town of Hyesanjin appeared within
easy reach of the tank-led column.
Elsewhere on the wintry front
United Nations forces made steady
gains against a foe which appears
to be withdrawing cautiously to
build up stronger defenses against
a mountain ‘backdrop.
In north central Korea, U.S. Ma
rines advanced two miles on the
east short of the vast Changjin
reservoir that feeds hydroelectric
plants in both Korea and Chinese
Manchuria.
Beat Off Commies
The ROK (Republic of Korea)
Capital Division continued its drive
to the northeast towards the Soviet
Siberian border. U.S. air support
and the guns of the cruiser St.
Paul helped the division’s right
flank make a 16-mile advance be
yond Myongchon. The left flank
beat off a Communist counterattack
nine miles outside Myongchon.
A three-mile advance by South
Koreans on the right flank of
Allied forces on the northwest front
permitted a straightening of the
U.N. line. The Communists fought
furiously in this sector until Sun
day.
mountain ueiense
A U.S. Eighth Army spokesman
said the Communists appear to be
preparing a mountain defense call
ing for a 10-mile withdrawal along
parts of the front.
After smashing through Com
munist opposition outside the walled
city of Kapsan, the 17th Regiment
of the U.S. Seventh Division rolled
through and past the city with ease.
The Communists had set a trap
for the oncoming Allied tank col
umn. But Communists, fearful of
American armor, jumped from their
foxholes and disclosed their am
bush.
Chinese Communist prisoners
have told Allied intelligence officers
they were unused to meeting such
heavy fire power nor low strafing.
They said their morale had been
high until they came head on with
UN. forces Nov. S. The prisoners
said the Chinese were having
trouble keeping supplied with food
and with ammunition for their mot
ley collection of Russian, Japanese,
Canadian and Atnerican weapons.
Elsewhere
Indochina — French air fighters
opposing Communist-led Vietminh
rebels got their first consignment
of American bombers. Four-engine
Navy Privateers were flown to
Indochina by American pilots who
will train French crews.
Nepal — Nepalese government
forces capture Brlganj, major
stronghold of Nepal’s rebels and
the seat of their provisional gov
ernment.
COMPLETE SEASON
SURVEYS BID WEEK
With the completion of work in
the Wrangell area scheduled for
the end of next week, homesite and
land surveys will be completed for
the season in the territory by the
engineering division of the U. S.
Bureau of Land Management,
Leonard Berlin, Chief, said today.
John C. Means completed home
site surveys at Lena Point, over the
weekend, which were listed for ex
ecution this fall. He is now in the
Juneau office and will work this
winter on the preparation of field
notes and plats of surveys of the
past season's work.
Assisting Mhans on the Lena
Point surveys were Duane Haffner,
C. U. Loop and Edward Hutchison.
Haffner left Saturday afternoon J
for Wrangell where he will assist!
Cadastral Engineer Harold Rad-,
cliffe to complete the assignment:
of homesite surveys in that district. |
new winter hours
Hobart Agency, 296 So. Franklin
St. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Satur
day afternoons. 662-6t
British Commandos Join
U.5. Marines, Korean Front
TELEPHONE
STRIKE IS
ENDED NOW
NEW YORK, Nov. 20—WV-More
than 33,000 telephone employees
return to work across the country
today under compromise settle
ments that ended their 11-day
strike against units of the huge
Bell Telephone System.
The agreements were reached
yesterday in New York and Detroit,
where Federal mediators had been
seeking peace in the pay and con
tract dispute.
The big break came here at the
end of a 25-hour marathon barg
aing session between Bell’s West
ern Electric Co., and Division 6
of the CIO Communications Work
ers of America (CWA), repre
senting 11,00 equipment install
ers.
Within a few hours, parallel set
tlements were announced here be
tween Western Electric and 5,000
Maintenance and Warehousemen In
Division 18; in Detroit between the
Michigan Bell Telephone Co., and
17,000 members of CWA Division
15; and in Haverhill, Mass., be
tween Western Electric and 700
Division 68 plant workers.
The companies both are subsid
iaries of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Co., the parent Bell
corporation.
AT and T said that aside from
some local Interruptions, it main
tained nearly normal service all
through the strike.
The union claimed a strike vic
tory. The companies called the set
tlements “fair”—although "costly”
in the Michigan dispute. In the
compromise, both sides actually
receded from their hard-and-fast
strike positions.
In the key Western Electric dis
pute, the union had demanded a
15-cent hourly raise, but accepted
a series of increases from nine
to 14 cents. These averaged, by
company figures, 11.3 cents—or
slightly better than Western El
ectric’s last offer of 11 1-4 cents.
Previous wages averaged from $1.55
to $1.62 an hour.
TWO OLDTIMERS
ARE FOUND DEAD
Two oldtimers at Tenakee were
found dead in their respective cab
ins last week, and their bodies
brought to Juneau Saturday after
noon by Alaska Coastal Airways.
Carl Engstrom, 74, was found
dead in bed by Harry Darte and
Bill Eglar last Tuesday. He appar
ently passed out with a heart at
tack. He had been a resident of
Alaska since 1908, previously living
in Kennecott and Anchorage. Since
1941 he had lived in Tenakee. As
iar as is known he has no relatives.
Emil Matllalne, 60, was last seen
alive by T. Williamson on Sept. 15.
He was found fully clothed dead
on the floor of his cabin on Fri
day morning. He Is reported to
have a brother in Finland.
The bodies are at the Carter
Mortuary, flown here by Alaska
Coastal.
SECTION RICHARDSON
HIGHWAY BE CLOSED
DAILY, TWO WEEKS
The Richardson Highway at Mile
17 from Valdez will be closed dally
from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., for the
next two weeks for the purpose of
enabling the highway contractor to
enlarge and Improve the tunnel at
Mile 17 in the Keystone Canyon,
Alaska Road Commission officials
disclosed today. Traffic will be per
mitted to pass over the highway
during the night from 6:00 p.m. to
6:00 a.m.
For the next several months the
highway .will be closed for periods
up to twelve hours per day as re
quired for construction at the tun
nel. Highway users may obtain cur
rent information regarding travel
restrictions at the tunnel site from
Alaska Road Commission Head
quarters at Juneau or from District
Offices at Anchorage and Valdez
WITH UB. 1ST MARINE DI
VISION, Korea, Nov. 20—(A>>— Brit
ish , Royal Marine Commandos
Joined American Leathernecks to
day for unified ground operations
in northeast Korea.
"I believe it is the first time
we have fought together under a
single command since the Boxer
rebellion in Peiping in 1900,” said
Capt. Ralph Parkingson-Cumine of
Klllough, North Ireland.
The British Marine unit made
six ship-to-shore raids behind Com
munist lines before moving up by
sea to join the American leather
necks.
They will not go up to the frozen
Changjin front for another few
days.
American Marines helped their
new comrades move into winterized
tents in a rest area.
"You must think we can't take it,”
British Cpl. Derrek Toor of Qwln
sted, Sussex, said when U.S. Sgt.
Charles Laport of Connellsville, Pa.,
began installing a stove in one tent.
Laport laughingly replied: "We
Just want you to be comfortable
while you can. We know Comman
dos can take It.”
Both the British and the Ameri
cans said they were pleased to be
fighting side by side.
Commando Robin Joyce of Porch
Cottage, Brimdeln Irlesford, Hamp
shire, said, “The United States Ma
rines are a fine group of fighting
lads and we are glad to be with
them.”
The American Leathernecks re
plied in kind.
Sgt. John Babyak, Clifton, N.J.,
said:
"Everyone has heard of British
Commandos. It’s really something to
have them with us.”
The Commandos came equipped
with American parkas for the sub
zero weather.
NOMINATIONS
ARE MADE IN
4TH DIVISION
FAIRBANKS. Alaska, Nov. 20—Utl
—Fourth Division Democrats have
indorsed Frank Barr and MaJ.
Hubert Anthony Gilbert for new
appointments.
Barr, a Territorial Senator, will
be recommended for the Job here of
U.S. Marshal, to replace Stanley
Nichols, resigned.
Gilbert will be recommended for
Asstant District Attorney. Everett
Hepp, former assistant, has been
named district attorney.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Nov. 20 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2Vi, American Can
100%, American Tel. and Tel. 151,
Anaconda 38, Douglas Aircraft 86,
3eneral Electric 47 V4, General Mo
tors 47Vi, Goodyear 58%, Kennecott
71%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%.
Northern Pacific 28 Vi, Standard
Oil of California 80Vi, Twentieth
Century Fox 21%, U.S. Steel 40%.
Sales today were 2,250,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 231.29, rails 70.32, utilities
40.63.
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la WEATHER REPORT a
a Temperatures for 34-Hour Period a
# endlns 4:30 o’clock this morning o
a In Juneau—Maximum, 29: •
a minimum, 19. •
a At Airport—Maximum, 29; •
a minimum, 7. •
a a
a FORECAST •
a (Jeneee end Vicinity) a
a Continued fair with gusty a
a northeasterly winds tonight a
a and Tuesday. Lowest tern- a
I a perature tonight about 15. a
a Highest Tuesday near 22. a
a a
a PRECIPITATION a
a (Pest 34 hours ending 7:10 e.m. today a
a city of Juneau — none; a
a since Nov. 1 — 3.99 inches; a
a since July 1—33.02 inches. a
a At Airport — None: a
a since Nov. 1 — 1.95 inches; a
a since July 1—23.00 inches. a
• aaaaaaaaaa
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DISASTROUS
FLOODS IN
CALIFORNIA
Two Lives Lost, Thousands
Driven from Homes, Prop
erty Loss Is Enormous
FRESNO, Calif., Nov. 20—W—
Perhaps the worst flood In central
California history has taken two
lives, driven thousands from their
homes and damaged millions of dol
lars worth of property, crops, high
ways and livestock.
Mountain streams, normally little
more than rivulets, bloated into rag
ing torrents over the weekend under
the impact of days of driving rain
and melting snow from the Sierras.
Some communities were inun
dated. Others were threatened by
weakening dikes. Roads and bridges
were washed out.
Countless rescue missions kept
casualties to a minimum.
New Storm Warning
The Weather Bureau warned that
a new storm would pour more rain
over north central California today,
the eighth day of the record-break
ing downpours that dumped as
much as 10 inches of rain in a 24
hour period in foothills east of
Fresno.
Unseasonal warm weather in the
Sierra thawed the snowpack, adding
millions of gallons of water to the
swollen streams.
At Donner Pass the pack had
melted from 28 to 7 inches and was
still dwindling.
Murky waters has forced at least
2,000 families from their homes in
central California.
Frank Irwin, 87, was found
drowned in bed in his cottage on
he rampaging Sacramento river.
AU-Out Assistance
Jimmy Johnson, 75-year-old pen
sioner, died of a heart attack as
he was being rescued from his home
near KernvlUe.
As flood waters surged over the
already-drenched area from Sacra
mento to Bakersfield, Oov. Earl
Warren ordered all state depart
ment heads to alert their staffs
for all-out assistance.
Visalia, already iaclng complete
Inundation as the rising Kaweah
river surged against the Cutler
Park dike, and other lower valley
towns feared new river crests.
Parts of Kernville and Isabella
were under four feet of water. Some
1,000 persons were homeless in that
area alone. The Kern river com
pletely washed out the $200,000 state
Kern river fish hatchery.
NEW STORM WAVES
FRESNO, Calif., Nov. 20—MV-New
storms were moving in waves upon
central California today, heighten
ing the menace of floods in foot
hills and valley areas.
Thousands had been driven from
their homes. Damage to property,
crops, highways and livestock was
counted in the millions.
In Visalia, Tulare county, four
members of a family burned to
death today as fire destroyed their
house. Most of the fire department’s
pumpers were busy at the time,
trying to keep flood waters from
ruining goods in store basements.
Two other deaths had been re
ported earlier, directly attributable
to the floods, possibly the worst in
the history of central California.
At Sacramento rivermen predicted
the American river would go a foot
above Its overflow level late today—
about four feet lower than the re
cord mark. Seven hundred residents
of suburban Sacramento were
forced from their homes.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof from Seattle scheduled
to arrive 1 p.m. tomorrow.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Wednesday.
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle 5 p.m., Friday.
Freighter Lucidor scheduled to
arrive southbound tomorrow morn
ing at cold storage dock.
CLEM ENDS VISIT
Kenneth 8. Clem has returned
to Juneau after a two weeks’ visit
to schools in the southeast Alaska
division on his duties as Education
Supervisor for the Territorial De
partment of Education.