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Truman, Douglas
In Rift Over
Choice of Judges
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WASHINGTON. July 17 — UP —
Senator Douglas (D-Ill) said today
he will poll the Chicago Bar Asso
ciation to determine whether he or
President Truman is right in their
Federal judge selections.
Mr. Truman passed over two of
three men recommended by Douglas
lor judgeship vacancies in Illinois.
Douglas said in a statement he
believes Mr. Truman’s two choices
are "worthy men.” But he added he
feels ills own selections have "su
perior qualifications.”
Douglas had recommended ap
pointment of William H. King, Jr„
a former president of the Chicago
Bar Association, and Benjamin P.
Epstein, a judge of the Cook (Chi
cago) County Circuit court.
However, Mr. Truman nominated
Joseph Jerome Drucker and Corne
lius J. Harrington to the bench.
Drucker is a nephew of Rep.
Adolph Sabath. Chicago Democrat
and 85-year-old dean of the House.
Harrington is a circuit judge in Chi
cago.
Congressional insiders interpreted
Mr. Truman’s appointments as an
other indication of the grpwing
coolness between him and the Illi
nois senator.
Douglas, however, said
‘•I have no desire to become en
gaged in a struggle with the Presi
dent for .jyhom I have the kindliest
feelings and who is bearing a heavy
load.”
Mr. Truman picked Douglas’ third
judgesljip choice, Joseph Samuel
Perry, but Perry also was backed by
former Democratic Senator Scott
Lucas of Illinois and some politicians
have looked on Perry’s nomination
as chiefly a reward for Lucas.
The rift between Douglas and Mr.
Truman generally has been attri
buted to these factors:
1. While supporting most admin
istration proposals, Douglas has fol
lowed an independent course' on
others. He has led a drive aimed at
cutting Federal spending.
2. Reports that Douglas may be
come a centender for the Democratic
Presidential nomination in 1952 if
Mr. Truman does not run. DoUglas
has denied any such intentions
though it is generally believed he'd
like to have a hand in picking the
nominee.
Bar Association
Will Consider
Poll on Question
CHICAGO, July 17 —W—The sec
retary of the Chicago Bar Asso
ciation said today the group will
consider a suggestion by Senator
Douglas that the association be
polled on the question of Federal
judge selections.
Senator Douglas announced in
Washington he would poll the Chi
cago group to determine whether he
or President Truman is right in
their selections for judgeships in
Northern Illinois.
Clarance P. Denning, Bar Asso
ciation secretary, said the poll, il
undertaken, would require about a
week.
VISITORS FROM FAIRBANKS
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Hill of Fair
banks are guests at the Baranof
Hotel.
TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Coprrliht, 1931. DT Bell Brndlcete. Inc.
PPaSHINGTON. — Defense mo
bilizer Charles E. Wilson has had
many bitter battles with labor both
before and after he came to Wash
ington. However, the former Gen
eral Electric boss pulled shoulder
to-shoulder with labor leaders last
week in a closed-door assault on
Congress for failing to pass effec
tive price controls.
More than 100 house members,,
including about 20 Republicans,
heard Wilson, AFL president Bill
Green and CIO secretary-treasurer
James Carey denounce the badly
gutted price control bill as a boon
to Joe Stalin and an invitation to
ruinous inflation.
“If the dollar goes down to 25
cents in value because Congress has
failed to control prices, Joe Stalin
will have gained a great victory
without firing a shot,” the ex-head
of General Electric declared at the
secret meeting, called by House
rules chairman Adolph Sabath of
t Illinois.
“I do not agree with labor all
the time, but I agree with labor on
this. We are moving into a period
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54-Year-Old Love
Not to be Risked
In Alaska
PORTLAND, July 17, — (« —Ike
Hobson, 82-year-old Sourdough, who
went to Alaska 54 years ago when
his engagement to his sweetheart
was broken off, is honeymooning
with her here today.
His bride is the former Mrs. Em
ma Smith Sgiidt, 73, Portland. They
separated in 1897.
Hobson said they were married
last Thursday in YVeiser, Idaho.
They went there so they could get
married without the three-day de
day required here, he explained.
They plan to live in Portland af
ter Hobson returns from a short
business trip to Alaska.
Taking the wife? No, sir, said
Hobson.
“There’s a lot of old fellows up
there that might beat my time."
Passenger end
Freight Trains
Crash; 4 Killed
FORT WAYNE, Ind., July 17 —Wl
A Nickel Plate freight train and
a Wabash passenger train collided
with a thunderous roar at a cross
over junction last night and four
persons were killed and 13 persons
hurt.
The toll rose to four today with
the finding of an unidentified Negro
woman’s body under an overturned
refrigerator car. She was believed
to have been a passenger on the
Wabash train.
Others killed in the crash were
three Wabash crew members.
The trains piled up in a tangled
mass near New Haven, seven miles
east of Fort Wayne. State police
said the freight rammed and side
swiped the passenger train, splint
ering a coach.
The Wabash crew members killed
were H. E. (Heinie) Waggoner, 69,
Danville, 111., a conductor; William
C. Moore. 66, Toledo, Ohio; and
James W. Fisher. Peru. Ind.
Recaptured
Convicts Thrown
Into Solitary
CANON CITY, Colo., July 17 — UP)
Five subdued convicts stirred rest
lessly in barren, solitary cells today
while officials probed their bloody
attempt to free 10 dangerous crim
inals from the Colorado state prison.
Two guards were wounded, neither
seriously, in the fighting that broke
out yesterday when the five con
victs, brandishing knives and a re
volver, tried to spring 10 prisoners
from isolation cells. The 10 included
incorrigibles placed in solitary for
bad behavior.
Heavily-armed guards trapped the
five convicts in a cellhouse and
quelled them with a torrent of tear
gas.
The prisoners held five guards as
hostages for a short time during the
45-minute uprising. Warden Roy
Best said the escape plot was
planned by Harold Hathawy, Pueb
lo, Colo., robber with a long record
of prison rebellion. He is among the
10 in the isolation cells.
Slock Quotations
NEW YORK, July 17 —UP)— Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
^tock today is 2%, American Can
109, American Tel. and Tel. 155%,
Anaconda 39%, Douglas Aircraft 46,
general Electric 55%, General Mot
ors 48%, Goodyear 83%, Kennecott
72%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8%,
| Northern Pacific 46, Standard Oil
of California 45%, Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 18%, U. S. Steel 40%, Pound
$2.80 1/16, Canadian Exchange
94.25.
Sales today were 1.280,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 253.89, rails 75.96, utili
ties 43.66.
MINING MAN IS HERE
J. C. Ross of the Canadian Min
ing and Smelting Co. from Trail,
B. C. is registered at the Baranof
Hotel.
FROM SEATTLE
Charles Bulmer of Seattle arrived
Here yesterday on PAA and is at
the Baranof Hotel.
Kansas City
Mobilizing
For Cleanup
Rivers Return to
Channels, Leave Towns
Covered With Muck
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 17. —tm
—The battered Kansas City area
mobilized today for a Herculean
cleanup task as flood waters, swirl
ing eastward, struck new blows a;
Missouri River towns.
Receding flood waters in this
Metropolitan area of 900.000 left
block after block of muck-covered
ruin.
And in Kansas, a line of wrecked
or partially damaged towns and
cities stretched across the eastern
and central parts of the state.
The latest damage estimate for
Kansas and Missouri is $750,000,000
—the nation’s costliest llood.
Water still covered many sec
tions but it was fast slipping back
into river channels here and in
Kansas.
But to the east of Kansas City,
small towns along the Missouri
felt the full force of the turbulent
river. Lexington, Norborne and
Hardin, Mo., were flooded. Some
dikes in Central Missouri gave way
The runoff of Kansas llood wat
ers also buffeted Oklahoma, Miami,
in northeastern Oklahoma, suffered
its worst flood beating in histor.,
from the Neosho-Grand River.
High water poured over 130 to
150 blocks of the town of 12,000,
forcing approximately 3,500 persons
irom their homes.
Truman Flies West
President Truman, repotted deep
ly concerned over tlie Hood situa
tion, flew west towards the Miss
ouri-Kansas disaster area today.
He was scheduled to make a briei
stop at Independence, |4o., hi ', horn,
town and fly back to Washington
tonight,
fKe flood has ori.ut'rm death to
17 persons, tied up highway and
rail transportation, forced more
than 70,000 from their homes and
severely damaged the industrial
capacity of numerous towns and
cities.
In Kansas City, Kas., and Kan
sas City, Mo, four major industrial
areas covering thousands of acres
were flooded. Water during the
height of the flood stood more than
20 feet deep in some places.
A five-day old fire that ravaged
a seven-block area and injured 14
firemen was left to burn itself out.
Fire Chief Harvey Baldwin called
it the most destructive Kansas City
fire in more than 10 years.
The lire destroyed or damaged
24 major firms. Preliminary esti
mates indicated damage would run
well over $1,000,000.
The flames were fed by oil and
gasoline floating on flood waters.
(ommilfee Balks
On Upping Flood
Relief Funds
WASHINGTON. July 17, — UP) —
The Senate today passed a $25,
000,000 emergency appropriation for
aid to flood stricken areas of the
middlewest.
The Senate followed the lead of
the House in upping by $10,000,000
the amount requested by President
Truman. The bill now goes to Mr.
Truman for his signature.
There was no opposition in the
Senate on final passage. Earlier,
the Senate had rejected by a stand
ing vote an amendment by its ap
propriations committee to reduce
the amount to $15,000,000.
The committee had decided to
keep the figure at $15,000,000, on
the theory that more could be vo
ted if more is needed.
Senator Saltonstall iR-Mass), a
member of the committee, told re
porters the action was “absolutely7
unanimous.”
Saltonstall stressed, however, that
the action did not mean that ad
ditional funds could not be voted
later.
Saltonstall said the committee
felt it would be more sensible to
await for complete data on needs
and then take whatever action
might be necessary.
The House yesterday increased
President Truman's request for
$15,000,000 to $25,000,000, and it had
been expected that the Senate
would go along.
Ahead of the committee’s action,
Senator McClellan iD-Ark) pointed
to the disastrous flood as an ex
pensive answer to critics who cal!
flood control projects "pork bar
rel” 'legislation.
"If Congress a few years ago had
Scene of Devastation
This air photo made from the Kai'sas tit. J Rails., side of thr Kansas River shows the inundated area
in Missouri. At left is in(er-city viaduct. Back is Kansas City, Mo., skyline. ForcKround, Kansas River.
The stock yards, also flooded do not show. This area includes about nine square miles. The confluence
of the Kansas and Missouri rivers is outside the picture to the left. Photo by Sol Studna, Kansas City
Star. (IP) Wirephoto.
The 6enerai Poses
Gen. .Matthew IJ. Ridgrway, supreme commander, is a willing target as photographers set inlo all kinds
of positions to make his picture at the United Nations peace camp at Munsan, South Korea, as the
general waited for departure of the U.N. cease-fire delegates to the conference at Kaesong. Iff;
Wirephoto.
Mormon Church Head
Arrives Thursday
President James A. McMurrin of
the Northwestern States Mission of
the Church of Je.su ; Christ of Latter
Day Saints (Mormon) will be in
Juneau July 19 and 20 to hold con
ference with the local branch of the
church.
Accompanying the president will
be his wife, Mae A. McMurrin, pres
ident of the Relief Society, a wo
man’s auxiliary oi the church.
The local oranch has planned the
following program for the visitors: A
no-host dinner in the Barnoff hotel
Gold room at 6:00 pin. Thursday,
following the dinner conference wiil
be held in the local chapel at 10th
and E streets at 8:00 p.m.
Friday morning at 9 o'clock the
Relief Society and primary officer.'
will meet at the home of Mrs. Dale
Belcher. At tile same time Pre :dent
McMurrin will meet for brt kf.i t
with the local priesthood group at
die apartment of local branch Pre -
:dent F. Leroy Dav. . After break
fast the visitors will be taken to
.he museum and other points of in
terest including the Mendenhall
Glacier.
Leaving Juneau the couple will i!y
to Fairbanks and continue th r
church tour of Alaska.
appropriated $300,000,000 for flood
control reservoirs in Kan as,” he
told a reporter, “ we would have
been spared this flood lo , of at
least twice that amount.”
Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief of
army engineers, has estimated that
the damage will be at lea t $750,
j 000,000 and may be much higher.
Claim Bet$«i
Set @rcs* ti
StttlUm Gra
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WASHINGTON, July 17 — IIP) —
The House passed and sent to the
Senate yesterday a resolution ex
tending until Aug. 13, 1352, the dead
line for presenting claim to the
Indian Claims commission.
The House Interior committee re
ported that its reluctance to ex
tend the deadline "was overcome by
the overwhelming evidence that jus
tice will be served” by granting an
additional year.
It added-, however, that “it is the
committee’s recommendation that
no further extension of time should
Illsiff
» Aid
ups
at any time be given fov the pre
; entation of such claims.”
It agreed to the extension partly
the committee reported, because “ii
certain instances, particularly witl
respect to the Indians of C'aliforni;
and Alaska, the Indians have hecr
unable to organize themselves ef
fectively” to make claims.
Fifteen native groups in Alaska
have indicated they wish to £11'
claims but have not done so, the
Justice Department informed the
committee.
•
o WEATHER FORECAST
o Temperature for 24-Hour Period
j ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
• In Juneau — Maximum,
• 73; minimum, 54,
» At Airport — Maximum,
• 79; minimum, 52.
•
® FOR E CAST
» Continued fair and warm
• with some high cloudiness to
« night and Wednesday. Low
• est temperature tonight about
• 55 degrees. Highest Wedncs
» day near 78.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• U’ii'it 24 hours ending 7:30 a m today
o City of Juneau — None;
• Since July 1 — .04 inches.
• At Airport — None;
« Since July 1 — .04 inches.
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T. P. HANSEN HERE
T. P. Hansen, Union Oil repre
sentative from Ketchikan, is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM MONTANA
O. C. Lohr and B. J. Turner of
Shelby, Mont, are registered at the
Baranof Hotel.
Ship Movements
Princess Norah scheduled to ar
rive 7 p in. tonight, sailing for Skag
i way at 11:20 p.m.
Prince George scheduled to sail
from Vancouver today.
Prince s Louise > cheduled to sail
from Vancouver Wednesday.
Freighter Square Knot from Seat
tle tentatively due July 22.
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‘Sosue Progress’ in
!*e jee Tat!’;. Besgrite
Tew Red Point
Shirtfail Flag
fin! !fce Thing
•;t Admirals
» DAYTONA REACH, Fla.,
» July 17 —(/ft— VV. A. Ilarl
• ney’s shirttail is hanging out
• at the Korean cease-fire talks
• at Kaesong.
• Harney is chief quartcr
• master on the U. S. S. Los
® Angeles, sailing in Korean
• waters.
• He was ordered to produce
• (wo small admiral’s flags to
® flv on the jeeps of Vice Aclnt.
« Joy and Hear Acini. Rurke at
• Kaesong. The Navy’s ad
• miral flag is blue with white'
• stars. Hartney found he had
• only large siz.es in the ship's
• loeker.
• The regular white bunting
• material was too stiff and
• coarse for the 10 by 12-inrh
• flag. So Hartney whipped
• out his shirttail and cut
» them out.
• The Navy issue material
• did a perfect job, too, llarl
• ney said in a letter to his
• mother, Mrs. W. C. Hartney.
• •
UN Pianes Pound
Red Routes While
Ground Action Lags
TOKYO. July 17 — (if! — Allied
warplanes continued to pound Com
munist supply routes in Korea today
as ground action slowed to a virtual
halt.
B-29 Superforts dropped high ex
plosive bombs on the rail yards at
Sinmak, only 33 air miles northwest
m Kaesong, where cease-fire nego
tiations are being held.
Other B-29s hit Opa, between
Pyongyang and Sinanju, and Hung
su. just north ot Sinmak. More than
109 tons of bombs were dropped in
all.
The big bombers were following
the 116 planes that flew sorties Mon
day night in the greatest after-dark
operation of the Korean war.
Tlie night raiders pounded Red
air fields, road traffic and supply
and troop centers.
There was little ground action.
The world's long distance records
Jo** return of lost articles were pro
bably uroken this morning when
Leonard Berlin found an engineer's
transit sitting by his desk.
Beilin last saw the transit at the
.;outh pole.
Berlin, division engineer for the
Bureau of Land Management In
Juneau, reeeived the engineers
ansit this morning from Wash
ington, It. C., where it was sent by
he Argentine government after an
\rgentine naval exploration found
t in an abandoned building at Lit
!e America.
In 1939 Berlin accompanied a U.
I. Navy Antarctic expedition to
Little America. The expedition was
tnder command of Admiral Rich
nd E. Byrd.
They left Boston in the fall of
1939 and spent two summers and
me winter (South Pole seasons) in
•napping and survey work, return
ing to the east coast of "Big Amer
ica" in July, 1941.
It was during their dramatic
evacuation from Little America that
the transit was left behind. The
Antarctic winter, summer in the
northern hemisphere, came on fast
ind the expedition's ships could
not enter the Ice pack off Little
America to pick up the men and
expedition supplies.
Berlin said the dogs with them
were destroyed and all equipment
was left behind because their res
cue was by a plane which flew
them'to a small island in the open
sea where they were picked up later
by their ships.
Several years later the Argen
tine exploration party landed in
the vicinity of Little America. The
shack in which the transit was
stored happened to be bare of snow
1 and the Argentines took the tran
j sit to Buenos Aires, and commun
| mated with the State Department
j m Washington.
After much correspondence and
travel the transit rests today in
Bv SAM SUMMERLIN
(Who went to Kaesong) to rTuesday’s
cease-fire discussion; meeting)
MUNSAN, Korea. July 17 —(At—
An Allied spokesman said Commun
ists raised a new point in Korean
war cease-fire discussions today —
but that came as no surprise to the
UN delegation.
The spokesman did not report the
nature of the new point.
Both he and an official commun
ique said "some progress" was made
in the fifth day of armistice con
ference nt Kaesong. Delegates are
still arguing about the agenda.
The spokesman, Col. James A.
Norell of Mountain Home. Idaho,
said he had no Idea how long dele
gates would be working on the
agenda.
The negotiators spent an hour
and 35 minutes on it Tuesday. They
will resume at 10 a m. Wednesday
(4 p.m. today, Juneau time).
There was considerable "back and
forth discussions,” Norell said, but
no heeated arguments.
Allied announcements about ar
mistice meetings were brief, but
Communist reports were even short
er. The North Koreans' Pyongyang
radio merely gave the time the
meeting opened and tlie time it
closed. Its reports have been terse
since the talks resumed Sunday.
North Korean Gen. Nam II. chief
Communist delegate, opened Tues
day's sessions, a U.S. 8lh Army an
nouncement said. Most of the 55
minute morning session was devoted
to a discussion between Nam and
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief UN
delegate, of the Allied proposals for
the agenda.
Considerable time was required in
clarifying definitions and in making
translations.
In the afternoon Nam elaborated
on the Reds’ idea of what the agen
da should include. He apparently
came with the English and Chinese
translations of his remarks already
prepared.
Both Joy and Nam, who do virt
ually all the talking, read their
statements.
For the third day there were no
Red guards near the tiled building
where meetings are held. The Al
lied party saw only two armed Com
munists in Kaesong.
Both were North Korean police.
One stood in a traffic circle with a
red flag in one hand, a white flag
in the other. He presumably was
directing the almost non-existent
traffic. The other was leading an
ox cart.
Eisenhower Holds
Conclave of Top
Military Chiefs
PARIS, July 17 —IjPi— General
Dwight D. Eisenhower met today
with his central command chiefs
in an important conference to plan
the defenses of this key western
European area.
The meeting brought together top
figures in British. French and
American military life, including
Field Marshal Viscount Montgom
ery and tlie British and American
commanders in Germany.
Gen. Alphonse Juin, resident gen
eral of French Morocco, who is boss
of the big Allied Army forces as
signed to the command, flew from
North Africa to Paris for the meet
ing.
The conference was expec tea to
re .ult in an early announcement
that Juin would soon relinquish his
African duties to take over the full
time job under Eisenhower. Ttus
would dispell recurrent reports here
that. Juin was unwilling to give up
his Mproccun i>ost for the supreme
headquarters command.
Reds Can'* Raise
Proper Bail, So
Ordered <o Jail
NEW YORK. July 17, — Wl—Thir
teen indicted Communist leaders
were ordered to jail today for the
third time when they failed to
produce court-approved bail.
The order came from Federal
Judge Alexander Holtzoff.
Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan
yesterday disqualified the Civil
Rights Congress Bail Fund from
posting bond and gave 14 defend
ants until today to obtain the bond
from other sources.
Thirteen made no bail applica
tion when they appeared before
Holtzoff.
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