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VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,962
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1951
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Dedication of New
Memorial Library
Sunday ai 2 9. M.
The Juneau Memorial Library,
built in memory of those who served
and died in two World Wars, will
be dedicated Armistice Day, Sun
day, at 2 p.m., in front of the new ^
building or in the basement, con- |
tingent on the weather.
Taking part in the dedicatory
services will be representatives of
the library board, the mayor and
city council, osentatives of three J
veterans organizations, the boy j
scouts, the high school chorus and
band, and others. An open invita- |
tion Is extended to the public.
Opening remarks will be made by j
B. Frank Heintzleman, library
board chairman, who is in charge
of the program. The Armistice
Day parade will end in front of
the new building in time for the
high school band to play an opening
number before the ceremonies. R.
E. Robertson, local attorney, will
make the dedicatory speech.
The high school chorus will sing
and will lead the audience in sing
ing ‘ God Bless America.” Heintzle- ;
man will make tne presentation ci i
the library to the city. Mayor:
Waino Hendrickson and members of
tile city council will accept on the
part of Juneau.
James Burnette, VFW post com
mander, will make the cornerstone
presentation. A receptacle con
taining items of contemporary in
terest, to go in the cornerstone will
be presented by Elmer A. Friend, cf:
the Empire. Verne Harris, repre- j
senting the American Legion, and I
a toy scout contingent, will present I
and raise the flag.
Representing the three veterans ■
organizations of the area will be:
Mrs. Saxon H. Snow, Juneau Amer- j
lean Legion post commander; Jack
Sturtevant, Auke Bay American Le
gion post commander; and James j
Burnette, Juneau VFW post con-1
mander.
Mrs. Maxcinc Williams, of the |
Garden Club committee, w ill arrange
the floral decorations of the Me
morial Library for the ceremonies.
Edward KeithahA, curator of the
Territorial Museum, has helped
Heintzleman with arrangements.
Contributions of hundreds of per
sons and firms in the Gastineau
Channel area have made the me
morial possible. It is the first large
library building in the territory.
Heintzleman says the ceremonies
will be brief but fitting and impres- ;
sive.
—
Hoffman Named to
New Bureau in
interior Department
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 — UP) —
The Interior Department announced
today the appointment of Lewis E.
Hoffman, a veteran government
career man, as chief of the newly
created division of minerals in the
Bureau of Land Management.
Hoffman has been chief of a
minerals branch in the bureau’s ad
judication division since 1946.
WARD CARROLL RETURNS
FROM WESTWARD TRIP
Ward'A. Carroll, operations man
ager for the Alaska Telephone
Corp., arrived here yesterday from
Cordova where he investigated the
possibilities of the ATC buying the
Cordova exchange.
Carroll had also visited corpora
tion installations at Seward and
Nenana. At Palmer he negotiated
with the city council for a fran
chise for the purchase of the tele
phone operation there. There are
225 telephones in Palmer now, he
said.
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
(Copyright, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
W ASHINOTON—When the sec- \
retaries of army, air and defense1
gathered at the White House with j
all the Pentagon brass hats for a
full-dress discussion with General j
Eisensower and the President, the j
paramount question in everyone's,
mind was whether Ike and Harry
had discussed politics at their
lunch.
Neither of them dropped so much
as a hint of what they discussed at
their private, face-to-face meeting.
However, the President frequently
gives himself away by his moods.
When he is pleased by the shaping
of events, he is jovial, relaxed, in
formal. When he is displeased, Tru
man is somber, quiet, down-to-busi
ness.
At this conference, Truman was
definitely down-to-business. Since
the European picture is actually
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Rescues Dolls from Fire
1'ive-ycar-cld Card Alexander smilingly clutches two precious dolls
she rescued when a fire broke out in her home at Arlington, Mass.
( aroi was playing in the house with other children when fire
started in the basement. She ran cut with her friends and «old her
mother, Mrs. I.eo Alexander, who was next door. While the mother
was calling the fire department, Carol broke away, rushed Into the
smoke-filled house and rescued her dolls, IIf) Wierphoto.
Mrs. Cutting
On Stand
Own Defense
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10——
Mrs. Audrey Cutting testified here
yesterday that when she cashed
three $100 checks here she thought
there was money to cover them in
her account at an Anchorage,
Alaska, bank.
The 41-year-old Anchorage wo
man is on trial on a bad check
charge. She was arrested last
month when a cheek she gave a
San Francisco hotel was returned
and the bank reported she had
closed her account.
Mrs. Cutting, however, told a
jury of seven men and five women
that she had "very extensive hold
ings” in Alaskan gold, copper and
coal. When she left Anchorage, she
said, she deposited $1,800 in the
bank, writing checks on the bal
ance during- a trip across the United
States.
The prosecution closed its case
after Police Lieutenant Leslie Do
land testified that Mrs. Cutting
told him, after her arrest, that she
had only $50 in the bank but that
lots of people owed her money.
Her defense will take over when
the trial resumes Tuesday.
Mrs. Cutting, who won a new
trial in Alaska after being convicted
cf embezzlement, is free on $1,000
bail here. She is also on bail
pending a second trial in Alaska.
Mid-East Command
To Be Set Up by
Big 3 and Turkey
PARIS, Nov. 10 — UB — The Big
Three and Turkey joined in a four
power declaration today that they
would set up an Allied Middle East
Command, despite Arab objections.
The statement said the U.S., Brit
ain, France and Turkey had decided
to go ahead with the Mideast Allied
Defense organization because "de
fense of the middle east is vital to
the free world and its defense
against outside aggression can be
secured only by cooperation of all
interested states.”
Some Arab states have said they
are unwilling to join any allied
defense setup in the mideast, and
have insisted that the Arab bloc of
states themselves could provide
adequate defenses for that area
against possible Communist ag
gression.
Seven delegations from Arab
states to the United Nations Gen
eral Assembly called a meeting to
day to consider the defense role
of the middle east. It was a closed
meeting and there was no indica
tion that an announcement would
be mad?.
Traveling Lawmakers
Become AF Problem;
Short o' Airplanes
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 — !.fl —
So many Congressmen are going
abroad or to Alaska that the Mili
tary Air Transport Service is said
to be hard pressed to provide them
suitable planes.
In addition, the State Department
is reported running short of escort
officers.
Approximately 90 House members
and 19 Senators now are overseas
or are planning official excursions
during the current adjournment of
Congress. Others completed tours
earlier in the year.
• Although a few groups chose to
travel by ship, most of the law
makers prefered to go by air, cov
ering a greater amount of terri
tory. Several of the Journeys ex
tended around the world.
The Derense Department is find
ing it a headache to rustle up
enough planes of the type usually
assigned to VIPs — very important
persons — officials say. Practically
ail insist upon plush, four-engine
ships.
The Congressmen are depending
on planes to get them back to Wash
ington in a hurry if an emergency
should demand their presence.
Hardly a spot on the globe is more
than two days by fast plane from
the capital.
Huskies, Bears
Fight It Out
In P. M. Game
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 10——
California and Washington, plucked
favorites of the Pacific Coast con
ference, meet here today.
Pre-season, the teams were sup
posed to fight it out for the title,
but today they’re playing for the
middle ratings.
Washington’s Huskies have lost
three, the Bears two.
In their 36 games California has
won 17, Washington 16, with three
splits.
Sutherland in
Hall of Fame
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Nov. 10
—The Honors Court of the Na
tional Football Hall of Fame today
announced the election of John
B. “Jock” Sutherland, the late great
Pittsburgh and Lafayette coach, to
the football hall of fame.
Bill Cunningham, chairman of
the honors court, stated that over
300 nominations have been received
and are being evaluated. He asked
the patience and understanding of
football devotees in the task of the
honors court.
Marines Hold
Anniversary
Parly for Reds
By GEORGE A. Me ARTHUR
U. S. 8th ARMY HEADQUART
ERS, Korea, Nov. 10— (#) —North
Korean troops on the eastern front
were unwilling "guests" of first di
vision Marines celebrating the corps'
17Gth birthday today.
The leathernecks marked the an
niversary with a terrific aerial
and artillery attack on a line of
Communist-held hills northeast of
the punchbowl.
. Allied raiding parties met stub
born Red resistance Saturday as
they stormed Communist positions
along the western front. The Reds
used small arms, automatic weapons,
mortars and hand grenades against
the UN troops.
After the raiding parties return
ed to their own lines United Na
tions artillery pounded the Reds.
The Eighth Army communique
mid elements of a Red battalion
drove UN troops from two advanced
positions southwest of Kumsong
an the central front early Saturday
morning. Southeast of Kumsong
elements of another Red battalion
made a six-hour attack on three
UN position. They were driven ofi.
An allied officer told AP Corres
pondent Milo Farneti the Chinese
Reds w'ere “apparently moving in
a whole new corps" i about 30,000
men) to replace the one badly chew
ed up near Kumsong last month.
UN Demands
Contact Line
Butter Zone
By NATE POLOWETZKY
MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 10——
UN truce negotiators today gave
up the idea of swapping hard-won
land in ccno't.l and eastern Korea
ior Kaesong in the west, if ni d
when a ce:.e-fire line is drawn.
A new proposal submitted by n;
lied negotiators at Panmunjom call
ed for a cease-fire buffer zone bas
ed on the line of contact and pro
vided for only “such minor local
adjustments as may be mutually
considered desirable.” The line
would be determined after other
points on the armistice agenda are
settled.
In nearly all past proposals the
allies demanded “appropriate ad
justment" be made in fixing the
line.
Observers have taken this to mean
that the UN allies wanted compen
sation for whatever territory they
were giving up when the cease-fire
line was settled. The allies have
said they were willing to give up
territory in the east for Kaesong
in'the west, because it is vital to
the protection of allied-held Seoul,
South Korean capital.
The possibility remained that
Kaesong might be in United Nations
hands when a cease-fire line even
tually is plotted.
The Communist subdelegates also
submitted a new cease-fire line
proposal Saturday but a UN spokes
man said it was an old offer re
phrased, and that the allies re
jected it.
tresumamy notn oners win oc
discussed when the subcommittees
meet in their 18th session Sunday
at 11 a.m. (6 p.m. Saturday, PST>.
Red China’s Peiping radio Sat
urday night quoted a story by a
Communist newsman at Panmun
jom as saying “if the Americans
give up their demand for Kaesong,
a settlement can be reached in a
matter of hours.”
The story was by Allen Winning
ton of the London Daily Worker.
Winnington said Brig. Gen. William
P. Nuckols, official UN spokesman,
had lied and had distorted the Com
munist position.
• WEATHER REPORT
• <U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU
• At Airport: Maximum, 43;
• Minimum, 26.
•
• FORECAST
• (Juneau and Vicinity)
• Increasing cloudiness to
• night, not so cold, lowest
• temperature 34. Cloudy Sun
• day with mixed snow and
• rain, highest temperature
• near 38.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 34 hours ending 7:30 a m. todaj
• At Airport — None;
• from July 1—16.52 Inches.
One Will Be Queen of Rose Tournament
Therr arc approximately lad Eirl; in this picture and one will be nm:d queen of the Pasadena, < alif.,
Tcurnamrnt of Hoses to be held New t ear's Day In conjunction with the Hose Bowl football game.
Beady judf.es have chucn them from among co-cds at two Pasadena colleges and now ntv faced
nilh I hi' job of eliminating all but seven. The Quocn and her Princesses will l.'e named lrom the seven |
finalists, (/pi iVirephotO.
Calls for Armament Cuts
President Truman gestures before a White House microphone (11-7),
just before he started his foreign policy speech in which he called
on Russia to join in a reduction of armament and military forces.
He urged the “Kermiin to accept this proposal" which, he emphasized,
would include “an honest, continuing inventory of all armed forces
and armaments, including atomic weapons." Iff! Wirephoto.
Human Foot
May Solve
Mystery
KODIAK, Alaska, Nov. 10——A
human foot with part of the leg
bone attached may solve the mys
tery of the disappearance of two
Kodiak Naval Station civilian em
ployees last April.
The remnant was found wedged
in rocks, leading to specula tion it
may provide a clue to the fate of
Henty Findley, 31, and Marion Pul
ver, 39, who failed to return from
a fishing trip. Their overturned
kiff wax found later on the beach.
Military personnel searched the
beaches today after the foot was
found and recovered additional
bones and a bit of cloth material
believed to be from a man's shirt.
An inquest has 'Jfecn set for
Monday to determine if the material
can be identified.
TIDE TABLES
• NOVEMBER 11
•
• High tide 12:14 a.m„ 15.6 ft.
• Low tide 6:01 a.m., 2.4 ft.
• High tide 12:15 p.m., 18.1 ft.
• Low tide 6:42 p.m., -0.7 ft.
•
• NOVEMBER 12
•
• High tide 12:59 a.m., 16.1 ft.
• Low tide 6:42 a.m., 2.6 ft.
• High tide 12:50 p.m., 18.5 ft.
• Low tide 7:21 p.m., -1.5 ft.
Alaska
Airline
Protesls
By FRANK W. VAIIXE
WASHINGTON. Nov. 10 — VP) —
A non-scheduled airline questioned
today whether the Civil Aeronautics
Board (CAB) should place any lim
itations upon overseas transporta
tion by irregular air carriers.
Air Transport Associates, Inc., an
irregular carrier operating Iron:
Seattle to Alaska, asked that the
question be included in the inve -
ligation which the board recentlj
ordered into the services of lari'>
irregular passenger and Carlo ai:
carriers.
ATA was ordered by the board re
cently to halt its operations because
of alleged violations of CAE rules
The carrier asked the board to re
consider its order, however, and r
f'O-day stay was granted from the
date the board announces whcthei
it will reconsider its termination
order.
In filing its latest request with
the board, ATA stressed the "spe
cial need for low cost cargo and
passenger air transportation serv
ice.” That need, it said, "requires
unrestricted service” between the
United States and Alaska.
The carrier said in a'brief that
Alaskans use 15 times the amount
of passenger air transportation
per capita as does the United
States and 114 times more air
cargo transportation per capita—
"proving that air cargo trans
portation is the crying need...”
The territory’s lack of alternativi
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Warmup
Chases
Winter
By the Associated Press
Ten.n-i.uJivs were back to near i
norpial over most of the nation to-1
day after an early November on-1
slaught of wintry weather that |
brought Ice, snow and bitter read- |
ings to many areas.
It seemed like spring In the mid- j
west as a warmup melted snows and i
brought moderate temperatures to
that area for the first time this
month.
The only traces of the cold weather
that for a time blanketed all but
the extreme southeast and south
west sections of the country were
along the Atlantic coast down into:
the Carolinas and as far south as!
Georgia. Freezing temperatures '
were reported there early today, but'
a warmup was In prospect today
and tonight.
Permafrost Study
May Make Alaska
Living Easier
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 — IffI —
Eccause of scientific studies. Sec- j
retary of the Interior Chapman said
today, ‘ mankind may some day be
I better able to live and conduct nor
l mal business operations in Alaska
and other parts of the far north.”
Chapman commented in a state
ment on the results of several years
of studies of perennially frozen
, ground. The work has been done
I by the Geological Survey at In bora
! tories and field stations here and
in Alaska.
He said research on the action of
! frost and cold is designed to over
i come some of the difficulties of
| World War II in getting water sup
I plies ancj building runways, roads,
; housing, factories, pipelines and
sanitary facilities for the armed
j forces in Alaska.
At that time we had to depend
j almost entirely upon what factual
information we were able to gain
j from foreign, mostly Russian pub
I ligations,” he said.
•Russia has been wrestling for
decades with similar difficulties that
impeded colonization and develop
i ment of her northern areas.”
j Chapman suid one evidence of
j; clentific progress in the north was
i a report by Survey Geologist Robert
F. Black before the Geological So
| cicty of America at Detroit today.
Pilot Killed in
Thunder jet Crash
FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov. 10
—An American fighter pilot
was killed yesterday when his F-84
Thunderjet crashed in Bavaria, the
U S. Air Force announced.
He was First Lt. Hiroshi Ohta,
28, of Livingston, Mont,
Bartlett Bill
Passage Urged
At Sitka Meet
SITKA, Alaska, Nov. 10 — (Spe
cial to Daily Alaska Empire) —
Only four witnesses, none of them
Indians, appeared at the Sitka
hearing on Delegate Bartlett’s In
dinn Claims Bill on Friday. It was
announced, however, that a num
ber of Sitka Indians will appear at
the Ketchikan hearing, where they
are attending the Alaska Native
Brotherhood convention.
Warren Christianson, representing
the S.tka Chamber of Commerce,
urged passage of the bill in order
that the claims may be quickly
settled and stressed the need for
settling the claims if Alaska is to
be developed.
Keservatlons Opposed
The Sitkn chamber of commerce
opposed the grant of large reserva
tions in the settlement of claims
and the grant of any tldelands,
but did not object to grants of
patents for tracts of land presently
occupied by Indian claimants.
Christianson also urged that If
trusteeships are established to ad
minister cash payments to Indian
claimants, there should be a ter
mination date set at the time such
rusteeshlps are created.
Olenn Morgan asked for clarifi
cation regarding the rights of white
persons who occupied lands in
Alaska prior to 1884. Ben C. Mil
ler of the National Park Service
urged settlement of Indian claims
in the Glacier National Monument
urea as an aid to administration of
that area by the pnrk service.
DeArmond Testifies
Called by the committee to an
swer questions. Bob DeArmond said
the cloud of Indian title appears t»
be n definite hinderance to indus
trial development. The Bureau of
Indian Affairs, he said, appears to
have promoted Indian reservations
in some parts of Alaska. Delegate
Bartlett observed that he held the
same view and that he had opposed
the reservations.
Congressman Poufson of Califor
nia assured the witnesses and
members of the audience that there
are enough votes in the House to
block efforts to reserve the tide
lands.
Members of the Congressional
parly were guests of the Sitka
chamber of commerce and left im
mediately after for Ketchikan.
Clark Quits PMA;
Has Position with
Alaska Steamship
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 10—cff—
Henry W. Clark, president of the
Shipowners’ Pacific Maritime Asso
ciation for the past two years, sub
mitted his resignation today.
Clark, a native of Alaska, will
leave the association January 1 to
become the Washington represen
tative of the Alaska Steamship Com
pany. A former member of the
Alaska Development Board, he
joined the PMA organization in
1946, serving as vice piWdent be
fore he succeeded O. W. Pearson
as president in January 1950.
The PMA ,did not announce when
it would choose a successor.
Abbott, Costello
Suing 2 Companies
For Five Million
NEW YORK, Nov. 18—Of*—The
film comedy team of Bud Abbott
J and Lou Costello are suing two
movie companies for $5,008,000 al
If- -ed.v due them fee a profits «.f
t t ms and da t > tin :r -
t.-v imputation
Tii<‘ comedians !ii<* _ suit in fc !•
l. .1: c urt yest Jtl.v ar-,tn>t Uni
versal Pictures Company, Inc., and
Realart Pictures, Inc., under their
non-professional names—William A.
Abbott and Louis Cristillo.
The pinir said Universal—over
their protests-cut their full-length
films dow nto shorts lor showirg
in “cheap places of entertainment”
such as saloons and nickelodeons
and for use In slot machines. As
a result, they said, their artistic
stature suffered.
Ship Mormmmnti
Denali from Seattle scheduled to
arrive some time Monday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver at 8 tonight.
Baranof from west scheduled to
arrive at 0 a.m„ Sunday, sailing
couth at U a.m.