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TSEl THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE [EE]
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VOL. LXXVIII-, NO. 11,943
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1951
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No Explosion of
A-Bomb; Electrical
Circuit al Fault
LAS VEGAS, Nev. Oct. 20— UFi—
Push-button warfare just around
the corner? well
The start of the latest atomic
weapons test was set back two days
as scientists pushed a button yes
terday to explode a nuclear mass
from the top of a 100-foot steel
tower, and nothing happened.
It took Dr. Alvin G. Graves and
his fellow Atomic Energy Commis
sion scientists aH day to find and
fix the trouble—a faulty electrical
circuit, one of thousands in the in
tricate mechanism required to set
off an A-weapon.
By the time the scientists w'ere
so tired that the nuclear series op
ener was postponed until tomorrow
morning, weather favoring.
Graves and Carroll T. Tyler, AEC
test manager, explained that they
and most of the workers at the
Yucca. Flat test site had been work
ing 30 straight hours.
House Group
Due to Arrive
Here on Sunday
Eight members of the House of
Representatives are due to arrive
in Juneavr on Sunday afternoon
on a round the world junket. The
group is headed by Rep. Herbert C.
Bonner who is chairman of the
sub-committee on inter-government
al relations, of the House expen
diture committee.
No definite time of arrival has
been announced. Members of the
Chamber of Commerce reception
committee will meet the party at
the airport.
Two members of the Bonner com
mittee are also cn the Coast Guard
sub-committee of the House mer
chant marine and fisheries commit
tee. Coast Guard committeemen are
Rep. Bonner and Rep. John Shelley
ft" California, who have agreed to
hold a hearing here on Monday
to consider the reclassification of
f;ilar,d waters and other Coast
' Guard regulations. The public hear
ing will be held at 10 a.m. in the
* Senate Chambers.
Trouble lor Man
Selling Surplus
Goods lo Government
I DETROIT, Oct. 20—Wi—The re
sale to the government for *13,502
* of tank supDort arms he bought as
surplus for $500 put a Detroit men
under Federal court indictment to
day. His alleged profit was 8,700
percent.
The manufacturer, Kenneth C.
Heavlin, 34, w’as eharged yester
day with "concealing mater'al facts’"
by failing to state in his bid that
the arms would be surplus instead
of new. He did not comment on
the charge.
* Heavlin was a witness hers last
July in a Congressional probe into
purchasing operations at the De
troit tank-automotive center. He
told them of favors to center em
ployees.
Following the probe, the center’s
commanding officer, Brig. Gen. Da
vid J. Crawford, was transferred.
„ Two employees were reprimanded
for accepting favors from contrac
tors. \
FROM PELICAN CITY
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Larson, of
Pelican City, are guests at the Gas
tineau.
TheWashington
‘ Merry-Go-Round
(Couyrlght, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, .Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
y^ASHINGTON — When Sen.
Walter George of Georgia heard
the news that the House of Repres
entatives had rejected his loop
hole-riddled tax bill, he V'orted:
j, “The CIO did it.”
Big, bald, Sen. Gene SJillikin, Col
orado Republican, was more whim
sical. Meeting Democratic Sen. Hu
bert Humphrey of Minnesoa. who
had battled against tax loopholes,
he joked:
“When the Republicans and the
CIO get together, It’s an unbeatable
combination. That’s a partnership
‘ you can’t lick.”
What he and George referred to,
* of course, was that labor and big
city populations were dead opposed
^ to the tax bill because of the many
loopholes favoring upper-bracket
taxpayers.
Both, however, overlooked one
other important factor behind the
Rare View
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You have thr word of a breathless
Hollywood press agent that this
picture of Lana Turner is doubly
important. Not only does it give
a rare view' of her legs as she's
ccstumed for a scene in “The
Merry Widow," but she’s wearing
a corset that shows off her 21
inch waist. Iff) Wii’.’photo.
Fire Destroys
Two Buildings
in Skagway
aXAGWAY, Alaska, Oct. 20 —
‘(‘tfeclnl to Empire)—Fire from an
unknown origin completely destroy
ed two buildings on Fifth Street
and damaged a third Thursday af
ternoon. The fire apparently start
er] iii an open passageway between
the home of Mrs. Margaret Peter
son and the abandoned community
hall, thte first church erected in
Skagway in the gold rush days.
Mrs. Peterson’s home at the west
of the church had been built as
a manse. While the church had
been built under the auspices of
the Presbyterian Church, many
preachers of other denominations,
among them Alaska’s Bishop Rowe,
had used it. In later years it was
use as a community hall where
various organizations such as the
Women’s Club, the Boy and Girl
Scouts, etc., had meetings. It was
owned by Les Powell.
Most of Mrs. Peterson’s personal
belongings were saved but her home
was completely destroyed. The ware
house on the east, owned by George
Rapuzzi, suffered several hundred
dollars damage. This building was
used by the YMCA in the early
days and later by Carstens’ as a
meat market and cold storage place.
A strong north wind was blowing,
. making firefighting most difficult,
ant< causing several small fires
to start from sparks in the southern
part of the city.
State of Warwjth
Germany Is Ended
WASHINGTON. Oct. 20 — OPI —
The state of war with Germany Is
ended. A Congressional resolution
ending it was signed by President
Truman yesterday. This means
that Germans are no longer enemy
aliens In the eyes of this country.
But it Is not a pfeace treaty. The
East-West split in Germany has
prevented that.
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• (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU •
• At Airport: Maximum, 43; •
• Miiymum, 26. •
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• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Mostly cloudy tonight and •
• Sunday. Lowest tempera- •
• ture tonight about freezing. •
• Highest Sunday about 42. •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 atm. today •
• At Airport — None; •
• since July 1—12:52 inches.
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Truman, Tafl Named
As Best Qualified
To Head Tickets
CHICAGO, Oct, 20—UP—President
Truman and Senator Taft i R-Ohio)
have be£h named in a poll of news •
paper editors as the "best quali
fied" in their respective parties for
the presidency.
I he noil was conducted by the
National Editorial Association with
319 editors, a NEA spokesman said,
were "pretty well scattered" across
the country.
In the vote for best qualified De
mocrat, Mr. Truman received 64
ballots, with Senator Douglas «D
111 > second with 63 and Senator
Byrd (Va) third with 62. Others
receiving votes included General
Eisenhower, 19; Chief Justice Vin
$on of the Supreme Court 14; Sen
ator Kefauver (Tenn) 8, Governor
James Byrnes of South Carolina 5.
Taft polled 128 votes to lead the
Republicans. In second place was
Gen. Eisenhower with 87, followed
by Gov. Earl Warren of Calttcrnia
36, former Gov. Harold Stassen of
Minnesota 28; Gen. MacArthur 10,
Sen. Morse (Ore)), 5, and Sen.
Duff (Pa) 4.
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Longshoremen to
Unload 2 Strike
Bound Freighters
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 20—i/Pl—
Harry Bridges’ longshoremen don
deputy sheriff badges today to par
tially unload two strike-bound
freighters they've shunned for three
months.
Bridges’ International Longshore
men’s and Warehousemen’s Union
(ILWU) agreed to furnish a depu
tized crew after Montgomery Ward
and Co. filed a superior court com
plaint for delivery of $44,000 worth
of Christmas toys aboard two Isth
mian line vessels here.
’Cilh K/ac.u$
Dunn said the crew will unload only
the cargo covered by the Mont
gomery Ward complaint. The store
will finance the unloading, he said.
Both Isthmian vessels, mean
while, remained the cause of in
creasing tension of San Francisco’s
jittery waterfront.
I One of Bridges’ bitterest rivals,
| Harry Lundeberg, head of the AFL
; Sailors Union of the Pacific (SUP),
j yesterday pledged his full support
j to AFL longshoremen if they at
tempt to break the ILWU boycott
j ol the two ships.
Bridges’ men have refused to go
near the ships since the Isthmian
signed a contract with AFL engi
I neers while the line’s CIO Marine
j Engineers were on strike.
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Ambassador to
Vatican Named
By President
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 — —
President Truman today nominated
General Mark W. Clark to be the
first United States Ambassador to
Vatican City.
The President’s action, if ap
proved, means the United States
will have a full ranking Ambas
sador at the Vatican for the first
time in history.
- Myron C. Taylor, New York fi
nancier, was a special representative
of the President to the Vatican for
several years, but resigned some
time ago. He did not have regular
ambassadorial status.
Since Taylor stepped out various
Protestant church organizations
have urged the President not to
reappoint a special representative.
The President made no state
ment in connection with today’s
nomination, which came without
advance public word of any such
move.
Mendenhall 4-H
Club Gels Harvest
On Summer Projects
The past summer's work has paid
off according to records kept by
the boys in the Mendenhall 4-H
Club.
Several hundred pounds of veal
»nd baby beef have been put in
4-H freezer-lockers. Many pounds
of vegetables have been stored and
also supplied family tables during
the summer by the boys.
Two of the 4-H club boys raised
Guernsey heifers for milk produc
tion.. The boys are Bill Gaines
and Ronald Petersen. Several white
Emden geese have been sold by
Olaf Bartness. Don Weisgerber re
ceived top market price for his
potato crop.
.Inhn Tannw r#»nnrter
'Grubstake'
Fcr Prospectors
Discussed Now
HAILEY, Idaho, Oct. 20—
“grub stake" for the prospector —
forgotten man in the government
financed search for scarce metals—
appeared today as the most likely
suggestion to come out of a Con
gressional committee hearing on the
program.
“If the government really wants
these minerals, it’s got to grub
stake the prospectors.” Ray Haw
ley, Arco, Idaho, miner, told a House
interior and Insular Affairs stra
tegic metals subcommittee.
“It’s got to say ‘here’s a grub
stake; we’ll split 50-50 on what
ever you find’.”
Rep. Wesley D’Ewart (R-Mont),
who is conducting the hearing,
said there was no question of the
nation’s needing the minerals.
“We’re having to redesign some
of the machines of war because cer
tain minerals are so scarce,” he
said. .
D’Ewart said he thought Presi
dent Truman could set up a grub
stake program under present laws
by a directive.
As the program now stands, the
government makes production loans
only to operators who can pay part
of the cost.
“There’s no place in it fQr the
prospector without any money,” said
Ernest Ellis, former University of
Idaho Mine professor who is a
mining engineer for the Defense
Minerals Administration. “All he
can do is get out of mining and go
to work.”
Fred Shirts, Hailey miner, claimed
that only the large operators “with
enough money to send an engineer
back to Washington to lobby” were
getting the government production
loans. His application for one was
rejected.
“The government is giving no
consideration to the two-man op
eration,” he declared.
Ellis replied thpt loans as small
as $500 have been made arid that
the 151 loans made through Sept.
20 avdrnged about $40,000.
Juneau High School
Candidate Chosen
iror new torn mp
Albert Wilson has been chosen by
a committee of Juneau High School
teachers to compete with candidates
from other Alaska high schools for
a trip to New York City.
The New York Daily Mirror in
vites students between 15 and 18
from all the states and territories
and several foreign countries to a
youth forum. The newspaper’s pur
pose in uniting these delegates is
to find out how young people
think.
Joe Wilson, Herbert Martin,
Johnny Eldemar, Roy Peratrovich
and Albert were the five the com
mittee chose to decide from.
Albert will be judged by a com
mittee from the Territorial Depart
ment of Education and the educa
tion division of the Alaska Native
Service along with the candidates
from all high schools in Alaska.
The winner will leave his home
about December 1 and travel, ex
pense free, to New 'York. While
there, he will be attended by a
councilor who will advise him on
traveling, take him on tours and
entertain him. The trip will take
about two weeks.
Albert Wilson is a 16-year-old
sophomore and has always attended
school in Juneau.
'Days orw
Staged at
High School
“The Days of ’98” complete with
dancing girls and men from the
creeks set the scene for the annual
Publications Hop that was held Fri
day night in the high school'gym
The dance which opens the social
season for the high school each year
is staged by the publication staff
of “The J-Bird” and “Totem”.
Prizes were given to the youns
men having beards that were the
bushiest, best-groomed and clean
est shaved. Don Morrison won the
prize for the bushiest, Jack Livie
for a close shave, and Bill Orme for
the best trim. Heather Hollman was
awarded the prize for the best girl
costume and Dick Folta, dressed in
a swallow tale coat, was judged to
have the best boys’ costume.
The judges awarded one prize
that wasn’t on the program. They
nominated Jerry Wade as “The
man least likely to find gold.”
Chaperones for the dances were
Mrs. Jack Molyneau, Mrs. Kath
erine Nordale, Mr. and Mrs. Ken
neth Junge, and Mr. and Mrs. Lo
AvHt «
Full House for Taft Announcement
Senator Robert A. Taft (R-Ohlc) (left) has a room lull of listeners — newsmen, photographers, and
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others — as he announces his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. More than 100
persons jammed a Senate office building committee room in Washington to hear Iris announcement,
iff) Wirephoto.
Reds Agree
To Corridor
To Peace Site
Bv ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, Oct. 20—
Communist liaison officers today
accepted a United Nations com
promise of a quarter-mile-wide
security path to the proposed new
site for Korean armistice talks, and
agreement seemed near for quick
resumption of i lie long-stalled dis
cvAf'Jjie;
Liaison officers of both sides will
resume their conferences tomorrow
at 10 a.m. (5 p.m., Saturday, PST).
If agreement is reached then on
security conditions, full scale talks
could be resumed within a few days.
The Reds agreed to a United Na
tions proposal for a 400-meter corri
dor straddling the road from Pan
munjom six miles west to Red
headquarters at Kaesong and 16
miles southeast to the U.N. com
mand advance camp at Munsan.
Only one point remained In dis
pute before arrangements are com
plete for resumption of full scale
cease-fire negotiations — and the
liaison officers appeared near
agreement on that point: shall the
I U.N. agree in writing to keep its
warplanes from flying over the se
j curity zone around Kaesong?
The corridor would be free from
attack by either side.
The liaison officers talked four
hours and 10 minutes today In the
cold and wind-swept circus tent at
Panmunjom. It was the longest
one-day session since efforts were
started to get the talks going ggain.
Sitka Turned
Out for Alaska
Day Celebration
Nearly every man, woman and
child in Sitka turned out for the
annual Alaska Day program that
was held Thursday, October 18. B.
Frank Heintzleman, regional forest
er for Alaska, reported today that
over 700 people attended the buf
fet supper, program, and dance ithat
was held in Sitka’s Community
Hall.
Col. Earl C. Landreth of the Civ
ilian Defense Agency and Mr.
Heintzleman were featured speak
ers at the evening program. Heintz
lcman spoke on the industrial devel
opment of Alaska, emphasizing that
the north country is at last coming
into its own. Just as America’s West
had a period of rapid development
now that Alaska and northern Can
ada has started its development it
would advance at a rapid rate. Col
i andreth spoke on the Territory’s
new program for civil defense.
QSdfimers' in Army,
Air Force May Now
Colled Bonuses
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 — W) —
Thousands of "old-timers” in the
Army and Air Force would be able
to collect re-enlistment bonuses
.iider a bill sent to the White House
.esterday by the Senate.
Payments ranging up to $360 have
.cen held up on a technical ruling
,f the Comptroller General for men
ho signed up for another indefi
nite hitch prior to October I, 1949,
ithout being formally discharged
and then re-enlisting.
U. S. Tanks Smash
into Kumsong; Red
Targets Blasted
By ROBERT EUNSON
SEOUL, Korea, Oct. 20— Amer
ican tanks smashed into Red-held
Kumsong today and blasted Com
mur.istxtargets there for one hour.
They returned to the main
United Nations line two miles south
without a casualty despite heavy
Red anti-tank and artillery fire.
A pooled dispatch said two
companies of IVI-46 I'atton tanks
rumbled into the outskirts of the
Pod’s i ontrai front bastion.
Earlier Snturdny Allied tanks
probed to within a mile of the city
and pounded it with high explo
sives.
Allied officers said there were
probably few — if any — Red troops
In Kumsong.
• ‘ They have known we were on the
way, so they have probably taken
their troops and as many supply
stores .as they could,” one briefing I
officer said.
At a late hour Saturday there
was still no full report' from the
tankers who crashed into the city.
United Nations Infantrymen
raptured two more hills south of
the city. Stubbornly resisting Reds
kept them off three others.
Saturday’s central front battles
were fought in rain and bitterly cold
winds.
While the Infantry fought for the
last major ridgeline south of Kum
seng, some troops could look down
into the city from their vantage
points on high ground.
Fairbanks Man
Loses Appeal on
Procuring Charge
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 2—W—
The conviction of Raymond Wright,
onetime operator of a Fairbanks,
Alaska, night club, on a procuring
charge, was upheld by the Ninth
U. S. Court of Appeals yesterday.
Stlil pending before the Appel
late Court is Wright’s appeal from
a narcotics conviction.
Wright was sentenced to three
years at McNeil Island Peniteniary
ill Washington State on Nov. 22,
1950.
A Fairbanks, Alaska, jury convict
ed Wright of procuring 23-year-old
Vanada Donaby of Fairbanks for
piostitution at the Club 69, owned
a,id operated by Wright and his
wife, Vernestine.
Mrs. Wright also was indicted,
but- the charge against her later
was dismissed.
Deserted Boy lj
Puzzling Authorities
By the Associated Press
A three year old boy is homelcs
in Los Angeles and Juvenile author
ities are baffled. 'All they know
about the youngster is that he
answers to the name of Stanley and
that his only possessions ore a
shirt, a pair of overalls and a dog.
Early this month, an unidentified
woman left Stanley in the care of
Mra Carrie Nation after agreeing
to pay for the boy’s keep. Eight
days after she’d taken the child
in, Mrs. Nation was found dead in
her bed. The unidentified woman
never returned, and Stanley's family
name or where he comes from are
unknown, __
British
Attacked
In Port Said
FAYID, Egypt, Oct. 20—(if)—A
British army truck patrol reported
It was attacked with small arms and
automatic weapons lire this after
noon In Port Said, northern ter
minus of the Suez Canal.
The attack broke the relative
quiet thnt has prevailed in the dis
puted British-held Canal Zone In
the Inst two days.
Port Said had been cairn after
rioting Tuesday afternoon during
which Egyptian customs and other I
officials left their offices to the
British. The British .said they oc
cupied the offices only until the
Egyptians wanted to return.
Reinforcements Come
Meanwhile, from Cyprus came
word that the British garrison on
the Island was completely stripped
to reinforce the 40,000 Tommies in
Egypt with a full 'brigade of para
chute troops.
In Cairo, Egyptian officials de-:
livered a formal protest note ac
cusing Britain of "endangering
peace in the middle east” and
blaming her for Wednesday's pre
dawn battle at the El Ferdan bridge
over the canal. Two Egyptian sol
diers were killed in the battle.
Egypt Is trying to annex the Su
dan after repudiating a 52-year-old
agreement to share jointly with
Britain In ruling thf country.
Repudiate Pact
An Egyptian official said British
controlled forces in the Sudan in
clude 1,500 British regulars, 5,000
police and 5,000 native Sudanese
against only 1,500 men under Abdel
Hadi's orders.
The Egyptians have publicly
sworn to throw the British out of
the Suez Canal area.
The Egyptian government has re
pudiated the 20-year defense pact
with Britain five years ahead of its
expiration. The treaty permitted
British troops to use Egyptian bases
for a 10,000-man army and a 400
plane air force to defend the canal.
New Businesses
(an Save Trouble
By (becking OPS
Persons starting new businesses
should check with the Office of
Price Stabilization first to avoid
difficulty later, Fred O. Hanford,
Territorial OPS director, warned
today.
Hanford pointed out that all
new retail businesses which handle
merchandise shipped in from the
outside for resale must first apply
to the OPS for approval of their
price lists before placing goods on
;ale. Retail sales are covered by Re
gulation 9.
Established businesses which add
new lines or items which they did
not handle during the base period
i December 19-January 20 should
also apply to the OPS fyr approval
of their proposed ceiling price on
that particular artcile or fine, Han
ford said. .
Procedures for applying in -both
instances are outlined in the regu
lation. Copies may be obtained, with
instructions, by writing or. contact
ing thev OPS office in Juneau or
any of the branches in Anchorage,
Ketchikan and Fairbanks.
FROM SEATTLE
H. F. Rosier, of Seattle, is regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel. i
Congress
May Quit
This P. M. <
Appropriation Measures
Lined Up for Final
Disposal During Day
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 M -
Three big money bills were maneuv
ered Into position today so that
Congress could pass them quickly
and go home.
The three, which include a $7,328,
£03,000 foreign aid measure, are the
only major Items Handing in the
way of adjournment of the firat
session of the 82nd Congress. The
lawmakers hope to call it quits
some time this afternoon. They have
1 een in session for nine months and
17 days.
Two of the appropriations bills
were whipped into final compro
mise form at Senate-House confer
ences last night.
These are the foreign aid bill
and a $1,650,000,000 supplemental
measure carrying funds for defense
purposes, economic stabilization
agencies and various government
departments.
The third, a $4,000,080,000 military
construction bill, still must bp work
ed out in a conference.
Except for some miscellaneous
adds and ends, all other “must”
tills were out of the way, a $5,691,
000,000 tax increase bill having left
Capitol Hill for the White House
last night.
Anxious to get the year’s business
over with, House leaders called their
branch into session earlier than us
ual GO a.m. E8T). They hoped for
sine die, or final, adjournment in
mid-afternoon.
The Senate meets two hours later
(noon), since the House must act
first on the leftover appropriation
bills.
Senate Leaves
Jessup Question
Up to Truman
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—(«—Sen
ate shelving of Ambassador Philip
C. Jessup's nomination as a United
Nations delegate left to President
Truman today a decision on wheth
er to give him a recess appointment.
The Senate voted last night to
pigeonhole the disputed Jessup
nomination "without prejudice,” but
it confirmed the nine other per
sons Mr. Truman had named to
serve as delegates or alternates at
the November meeting of the UN
assembly in Paris.
The action was by voice vote
with no objections audible — on
cither shelving of the Jessup ap
pointment or confirmation of the
others.
The nine approved were Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Warren R.
Austin, chief of the American mis
sion to the UN; and Reps. Mans
field (D-Mont) and Vorys (R-Ohio)
all first string delegates.
At a Senate foreign relations sub
committee's hearings on his nomin
ation, Jessup was charged with hav
ing followed the Communist line
and with having advocated a U. S.
policy toward China which his crit
ics said hastened the victory of the
Chinese Reds. Jessup denied the
charges under oath.
The subcommittee voted 3 to 2
Thursday against Senate confirma
tion of Jessup, who is an Ambas
sador-at-large and a top aide to
Secretary of Staifs Acheson.
Ship Mov«m«nt§
Baranof scheduled to arrive
northbound Tuesday.
Denali due southbound sometime
Sunday.
Freighter Coastal Monarch sched
uled northbound Sunday at 7 am.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver tonight.
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