THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
uALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" _
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,732
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Allied Lines Threatened by Split by Reds
PARTY UNITY
STRESSED BY
REPUBLICANS
Party unity and organization clear
down to the precinct level were
called for by speakers at a Lincoln
Day gathering of more than 100
Republicans in the Gold Room of
the Baranof hotel last evening.
“The Republican Party has never i
lost an election in Alaska when it 1
war united," Albeit White told the
group in the lead-off talk that fol
lowed the introduction of Mrs.
White. Republican National Com
mitteewoman for Alaska for the
past 16 years.
White charged that parts of the
public records have been deleted by
officials of the present administra
tion. "We need not only investiga
tions by the Legislature; it is almost
time for the FBI to step in,” he
asserted.
Others introduced by Toastmaster
Howard Simmons were:
Howard D. Stabler, Republican
Divisional Committeeman, who ex
pressed pride in belonging to the
party of Lincoln, “who stood for
plain, common honesty in govern
ment.”
Senators John Butrovich, Jr..
Gunnard Engebreth, Anita Gar
nick, Gerrit Snider, A. F. Coble,
Percy Ipalook, Dan Lhamon and
Elton Engstrcm;
Representatives Doris M. Barnes,
Frank G. Johnson, George Misco
vich, W. W. Laws, Mike Stepovich,
Ed Locken, George Gasser, Alden
Wilbur. J. S. MacKinnon and Waino
Hendrickson;
R. E. Robertson, H. L. Faulkner
and Cyrus Peck of Juneau and Mel
Roe, president of the Ketchikan Re
publican Club;
A determination to perfect the
party organization and to come
back with an even greater Repub
lican victory in 1952 was expressed
by the speakers.
FRANK DUFRESNE
HERE FOR WEEK
Prank Dufresne arrived here
from Seattle on the Baranof to
spend four or five days and at
tend Alaska Game Commission
meetings. Frank retired from the
' Fish and Wildlife Service last year
and is now making his home in
Seattle, where he is western editor
for Field and Stream.
Since retiring he has been hav
ing plenty of hunting and fish
ing and getting paid for it. He will
do a story for the magazine on the
AGC and will make a leisurely
return trip visiting in Southeast
Alaska and British Columbia. He
is in the market for outdoor manu
scripts.
GANTY FROM SOUTH
P. S. Ganty, business man of
Pelican has returned from the
south after a trip with Mrs. Ganty
to Hawaii.
The Washington
Merry- Go -Round
By DREW FEARSON
(Copyright. 1951, t>y Bell Syndicate. Inc.,
M'AoHTNGTON—The man who
really dominates cabinet meetings
these days is not the president but
defense mobilizer Charles E. Wil
son. Truman is so fond of Wilson
personally, *o determined to give
him complete power, that the big
square-jawed ex-head of General
Electric carries far more weight
than any member of the cabinet.
In fact, some cabinet meetings
have featured none-too-friendly ar
guments in which Wilso« always
gets what he wants.
For example, Wilson will an
nounce to the cabinet: “We need
more timber for defense construc
tion. The lumber people tell me we
can get it from the National for
ests.”
The National forests are under
Secretary of the Interior Chapman,
while the timber in them is under
the forest service and Secretary of
Agriculture Brannan. And if the
latter argue about the need of
saving timber for future genera
tions and suggest using only half
the proposed amount, Wilson's
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Gen. Vandenberg Believes
Russia Could Gel 70 Out of
100 Bombers Though So 0. S.
_____ _ _ _
HUNDREDS
HOMELESS
BY FLOODS
Double Weather Condi
tions Prevail in Ravag
ed Pacific Northwest
SEATTLE, Feb. 13 — IB— A cold
wave brought simultaneous relief
and new hardships to flood-ravaged
Western Washington early today.
The temperature dropped to the
low 20s in the Cascades, halting
mountain thaws and stopping the
heavy runoff of snow melt.
The freezing weather caused new
hardships among hundreds of per
sons left homeless by weekend
floods which overran sections of
Western Washington and British
Columbia.
As the mercury dipped to a min
j imum of 25 in the hard-hit Skagit
I River area, the sheriffs office re
ported Calls for help from persons
who said they had been taken ill.
While the rivers, chased out of
their banks late last week by three
days of record rainfall, continued
I to recede, hundreds of families still
were kept from their homes by the
muddy flood waters.
Damage to homes, farms and in
dustrial plants was expected to run
| into the millions.
| At least eight persons died in
[ the multi-river rampage that was
' touched off last Friday. Three per
ished in Northern Idaho and five
in British Columbia.
A number of roads still were
closed and numerous Western
Washington communities were
“dead in the water” — containing
j not a living soul.
BODIES, ANCHORAGE
VICTIMS OF PLANE
|CRASH, RECOVERED
MALIBU, Calif., Feb. 13 —UPI—
! The bodies of E. Dale Gilman, 40,
wealthy Anchorage, Alaska, baker,
and his \yife, Lois, 37, were removed
yesterday from the wreckage of a
light amphibian plane that crashed
in the Santa Monica mountains
late Sunday.
Sheriff’s deputies reported that
Gilman, an experienced flier, ap
parently was hemmed in by over
cast in the Topanga Canyon area.
The plane smashed into a moun
tainside at an altitude of about
1,160 feet. The Gilmans were
crushed in the cockpit.
Gilman had taken off from
Orange County airport at Santa
An# and was headed for Santa
Barbara. He and Mrs. Gilman had
been visiting relatives and friends
in southern California. *
Officers said Gilman was carry
ing a bank book showing deposits
of $10,000 fh an Anchorage bank.
He owned Gilman’s Bakery in the
Alaska city, where he settled 10
years ago. His wife operated a
string of beauty shops. They left
Alaska on an extended vacation
l:ist October.
JOHN DUFRESNE DIES
AT GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL
John Dufresne. 28. died Saturday
at the Government hospital. The
hody is at the Charles W. Carter
Mortuary and funeral arrangements
are held awaiting word from his
relatives in Council on Seward
Peninsula.
WSCS MEETING
The WSCS of the Methodist
church will meet Wednesday after
noon at 1:30 in the home of Mrs.
J. Argetsinger, 905 B street. The
study “Near East Parnorama” will
be continued.
Earl C. Simmons of the Alaska
Road Commission at Anchcrage is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
I
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 —lifi—
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg. chief of
the Air Force, believes Russia conic
push at least 70 out of 100 bombers
through to United States targets in
a determined attack.
Vandenberg said in a signed ar
ticle in the current issue of Satur
day Evening Post that Russia "has
been working intensively on a heavy
bomber to match the B-36" and
“she unquestionably will build it."
Analyzing the Soviet striking
power and America’s air defenses.
Vandenberg said Russia “now has
at least 450 planes that can si l ike
our major population and industrial
centers from bases in the U.S.S.R.”
(A reference to Russian copies oi
the B-291.
He expressed his belief that no
conceivable defense — not even
such a preposterous device as c
five-mile high steel fence around
the country backed by an unbroken
radar screen, a perfect warning
system and an umbrella of fightei
planes — could fully stop a de
termined bombing attack.
“Should war come," Vandenberg
said, “we can be expected to destroy
no more than 30 per cent of the
planes making an attack in strength
on the United States before bomb
ing missions are completed. And our
preparations today are not beefed
up to achieve even that figure.”
GRUENING REPLIES
TO ASSERTIONS MADE
Two Alaskan Republican leaders
expressed the opinion in Lincoln
Day banquet speeches last night
that Governor Gruening’s proposal
for his removal from numerous ter
ritorial boards was not a voluntary
gesture.
They contended he was told to do
so by “higherups.”
The speakers were Albert White,
longtime Alaska Republican party ]
general counsel, and R. E. Robert-1
son, Juneau attorney.
Robertson declared the “Governor
is not surrendering anything volun
tarily — don’t be deceived on that.”
White expressed the opinion in
structions from higherups “account
ed for the conciliatory tone” in
Gruening’s message to the Legisla
ture.
In response to a newsman’s re
quest for a comment on assertions
by Robertson and White that pres
sure from “higherups” prompted his
proposal to get off territorial boards,
Governor Gruening said today:
“If such a statement was made,
it was absolute and unqualified non
sense. The idea originated wholly
and solely with me.”
GRONROOS HEADS
NEWLY ORGANIZED
U. OF A. ALUMNI
The University of Alaska Alumni
Association, Gastineau Branch, was
organized at a meeting of gradu
ates and former students of the
University now residing on Gastin
eau Channel, last evening in the
office of Harold Gronroos in the
Juneau Young Company building.
The meeting was largely attended
by the 25 or 30 alumnus who live
in the local area, and was conduc
ted by Leo H. Saarela, University
graduate, and who is Commissioner
of the Territory Department of
Mines.
Harold Gronroos, was elected
President of the Association and
Mrs. S. J. <Jane) MacKinnon, Jr.
was elected Secretary-Treasurer.
Both are- graduates of the Univer
sity. The nomination for the office
of vice-president was left open.
The Association will hold a sec
ond meeting next Monday, Febru
ary 19, at 8 p.m. in the Gron
roos office.
STUMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof from Seattle in port and
scheduled to sail westward at 4
o’clock this afternoon.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 p.m. tomorrow.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle 4 p.m., Friday.
IAPS PROHIBIT I
NATIONALS TO
FISH IN PACIFIC
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—(tf—'The
State Department announced today
the Japanese Government has
agreed to prohibit its Nationals
from fishing in the Eastern Pacific
and Bering Sea, members of the
Washington Congressional Delega
tion said.
The brief announcement said the
agreement had been made volun
tarily by the Japanese Government
In an exchange of notes with the
American embassy in Tokyo.
MUSHER MOORE
IN CONNECTICUT
MAINE - BOUND
Sleeps in Bed Used by
George Washington
Dogs in Stable
NEW PRESTON. Conn., Feb. 13
— lift — George Washington slept
here — and so did Cecil “Mush”
Moore. In George’s bed, too.
The bearded dog musher, who
trailed a team of huskies out of
Fairbanks, Alaska, 57 weeks ago,
stopped here last night near the
end of his dog sled trip to Lewis
ton, Me.
Moore’s story of trials and tribu
lations on the 5,100-mile trek from
Fairbanks found a sympathetic
listener in Judge Walter M. Pickett,
present owner of the house where
George Washington slept one night
in 1777.
The court of common pleas judge
not only put Moore up in the George
Washington bed in the George
Washington house, he found shel
ter for Moore’s eight Husky dogs
in a shed in which — according to
local legend — Washington’s horse
was once stabled.
Moore said both he and his dogs
were footsore and weary when they
arrived here today. He said he had
traveled 2,100 miles on sled runners
through dense Alaskan and Canad
ian wilderness and 3.000 miles with
wheels attached to the sled.
He had a team of 11 Huskies
when he left Fairbanks. The wolves
got one of them. One disappeared
and one was left in Torrington Sun
day after giving birth to a litter.
Moore began the trek more than
a year ago to raise funds for the
Lions club at Lewiston, his home
town.
ROWLAND SIMMONS
PASSES AWAY AT
YAKUTAT MONDAY
Word was received today by Ju
neau friends of the death of Row
land Simmons, long-time resident
and former postmaster of Yakutat
at 6; 30 last evening at his home in
that town. His body will be brought
here tomorrow to be shipped to
the States for burial.
Mr. Simmons is survived by his
wife Anne, who was formerly a
nurse at Yakutat for the Alaska
Native Service. It is expected Mrs.
Simmons will accompany the body
of her husband to Juneau.
19 LEAVE TODAY TO
JOIN ARMED FORCES
Nineteen young men left Juneau
today via PNA for Ft. Richardson
where they will report for induc
tion into the Armed Forces.
They are Maurice Nelson and
Harold Fossum of Juneau; Charles
Daniels, Jr., Grafton Gabriel, Frank
P. Martin, Vernon Thomas and
Matthew Williams of Sitka; Ed
ward Durgan, George Inman Jr.,
Robert O. Berg, Patrick Bryant,
Charles 'E. King, John Wacker, Jack
O’Connor, Jr., and Edwin Haynes
of Ketchikan; Gordon Mason, Kjell
Nore, and Harvey Gross of Wran
gell; and Charles Diven of Peters
burg.
Harvey Hildre and Robert Lar
son have already gone to Anchor
age.
Aaran Funner transferred to An
chorage. Wallace Crake transferred
to Everett, Wash, and Jack Leen
transferred to Dayton, Ohio.
SAUCERS ARE
BALLOONS IN
RAY STUDIES,
NEW YORK. Feb. 13 —WPI— A
Navy official confirmed today that
"flying saucers" really existed, but
actually were huge plastic balloons
used in high-altitude cosmic ray,
studies.
Dr. Urner Liddel. Chief of the j
Nuclear Physics branch of the Office
of Naval Research, made this dis
closure in an article in the current
Look Magazine.
Liddel, in Washington, discussed j
the Look story further when news- ;
men queried him.
The Navy balloons, Liddel de
clared, w'ere 100 feet in diameter
and sometimes rose to a height of
19 miles. He added that winds
might sweep them along at 200
miles an hour.
At dusk, the slanting rays of the
sun lighted up the balloons’ bottoms,
giving them the saucer-like appear
ances, Liddell said.
Liddel said the existence of the
big balloons was kept secret be- I
cause the project was connected
with atomic developments.
Liddell, who was in charge of
the balloon tests, said that secrecy
was “no longer" necessary.
These balloons, called skyhooks
by the Navy, were first used in
1947, about the first time the disks
were first sighted.
FAMILY NIGHT AT
METHODIST CHURCH
SCHEDULED FRIDAY
On Friday night, February, 16,
the Methodist Church will have a
family night program. Committees
have been appointed as follows
for the planning of this occasion:
Food planning and promotion:
Mrs. Fred McGinnis, Mrs. Harold
Schultz, Mrs. Ruth Popejoy, Mrs.
Mildred Lister, Miss Edith Moore,
Program: Mr. Henry Leege, Mr.
Tom Priest, Mrs. Ed Chester, Mrs.
Walter Ebbett. Decorations: Mr.
Larry Parker, Dr. I. J. Montgom
ery, Mrs. Ed Hall, Tom Priest.
Publicity: Harold Salisbury, Wal
ter Ebbett,, Rev. Fred McGinnis
Don ^McMullin.
The program of the evening will
begin with a pot-luck supper at
| 6:30. Immediately following the
meal the program committee will
take charge and an evening of
social enjoyment and fun will be
provided. All the members and
their friends are invited to parti
cipate in this time of fellowship
in the Methodist Church.
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STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Feb. 13 — Closing
quotations of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%, American Can
109%, American Tel. and Tel. 153%,
General Electric 44%, Douglas Air
craft 109, General Electric 54%,
General Motors 50 H, Goodyear 72%,
Kennecott 78%, Libby, McNeil and
Libby 10%. Northern Pacific 37%,
Standard Oil of California 98%,
Twentieth Century Fox 23%, U. S.
Steel 46%. Pound 2.80%, Canadian
Exchange 95.
Sales today were 2,400,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows.
Industrials 255.71, rails 88.99, util
ities 42.75.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13 —W— The
curb market was mostly higher to
day. Among stock on the upside J
were Alaska Airlines and Air Asso- j
ciated. Alaska Airlines closed at
7%, up %.
Financial circles at Seattle com
mented that most businesses affect
ing Alaska had been particularly
active in recent weeks.
HOSNTAINOTEJ
Admitted to St. Ann's hospital
yesterday were Mrs. Arthur Knight,
Billy Howard. Mrs. William John
son, J:.c McKenzie.
Dismissed were Nancy Niemi,
Mrs. William Weimer, Mrs. John
Smith, Peter Jack, Mrs. Dave An
I drus and baby girl.
Howard St. Clair was admitted
to the Government hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roley of
j Seattle are at the Hotel Juneau.
King Will Marry Her
rywwflnraaarBSV".~ * " T I"*)!
The Egyptian Royal Palace handed out this official picture of Miss
Narriman Sadek (Feb. 10) and said King Farouk I will marry the
beautiful 17-year-old girl on an unannounced date. King Farouk was
31 years old Feb. 11. (/PI Wirephoto via radio from Cairo.
FRANKLIN BILL
GOES TO SENATE;
NEW MEASURES IN
By BOB DE ARMOND
Rep. Glen Franklin’s bill to set up
a Legislative Investigating Commit
tee was on its way to the Senate
today after Rep. McCutcheon waiv
ed his notice of intention to move
for reconsideration.
The bill passed the House on Sat
urday after a heated debate. The
vote was 14-10.
The House this morning voted to
include Territorial employes in Rep.
Hendrickson’s bill to extend Social
Security coverage to employes of
public agencies, and to exempt mu
nicipalities from the provisions of
Rep. Metcalfe’s bill regarding mili
tary leave.
As amended, the military leave
bill will not require municipalitie
to grant up to 16'- days leave a
year to employes who are member.1
of a reserve component of the
Armed Forces.
Rep. Hendrickson explained he
fears the smaller cities might be
hurt by having to grant such leave
with pay and that the tendenc>
would be for them not to employ re
servists.
New Bills
Four new bills and a couple o'
memorials hit the House hopper thi
morning.
A House memorial by Reps. Barne'
and Gundersen, seeks establishment
of 24-hour service to the traveling
public at the Canadian boundary
stations of Pleasant Camp, B. C.
and Snag, Y. T.
Rep*. Carlson and Scavenius in
troduced a House Joint memoria1
asking that the season on bears or
Kodiak Island be extended to 12
months and the bag limit removed
Rep. Stepovich’s H. B. 45 would
allow banks in Alaska to*pledge as
sets to municipal or other public
corporations, including public util
ities, to secure the funds of such
corporations on deposit in the
banks.
At present banks are permitted
to give such security only to the
Territory and the United States.
Welfare Bills
Three welfare bills, authored by
Mrs. Gundersen and Mrs. Barnes,
having to do with foster homes, old
age assistance ar.d aid to depend
ent children, were among the new
measures.
H.B. 46 would give the Board of
Public Welfare power to license and
supervise boarding homes, foster,
homes, nurseries and institutions
(Continued cn Page Two)
PAY ACT IS
DEFEATED IN
TWO TESTS
By JIM HUTCHESON
A “payroll guarantee” bill was
buried in the Senate today after
taking its second straight body blow
within four days.
It was a bill to require that any
employer must have sufficient as
sets to meet the next payroll per
iod before he can commence or
continue business in the Territory.
\ fine of SI,000, a year in prison,
>r both, were provided as penalties.
It lost Friday on a vote of eight
‘yeas” and seven “nays," with Sen.
William Beltz, second division Dem
ocrat, absent.
On Sen. Anita Garnlck s motion
oday to rescind the previous action,
die vote was eight to eight. That
neant it lost.
It came as a surprise to many
enators and observers. Beltz added
his vote to the "yeas,” which would
lave made the necessary nine if
he vote of the others had remained
inchanged. However, just above
Beltz on the rollcall, Sen. Frank
Barr (D-Fairbanks) changed his
■yea” of Friday to a "nay” and
threw the issue into a deadlock,
which meant defeat of the bill.
No Debate
There was no debate on the bill
itself although there was discus
sion of parliamentary problems in
volved in Senator Garnick's un
successful attempt to move for re
consideration of Friday’s vote. She
had been on the wrong side of the
fence.
The bill was introduced by the
Senate Labor Committee and has
had the support of labor groups,
vho have contended it is desirable
for protection of employes. Oppon
ents have criticized it as an econo
mic hobble on many persons or
firms desiring to start or carry on a
business.
The rollcall today in favor of
rescinding (and thereby in faVor of
the bill) was: Democrats Anderson,
Beltz, Huntley, MacKenzie, Mc
Cutcheon and Republicans Garnick,
Ipalook and Engebreth.
Senators against rescinding wer?:
Republicans Butrovieh. Coble, Eng
strom, Lhamon, Snider and Demo
crats Barr, Lyng and Nolan.
The votes of all ‘enator> except
Beltz and Barr were the same on
(Continued on Page Two
REDS ARE '
PLANNING
ATTACKS
MacArlhur Says Enemy Has
Plenty ot Manpower,
Also Supplies
(By Associated Press)
Chinese Communists shifted the
direction of their massive attack in
Central Korea today and headed
down mountain corridors in an ef
fort to split the Allied lines between
Wonju and Yoju.
General MacArthur visited the
Western Front and warned on his
return to Tokyo that the enemy
still had plenty of manpower and
supplies.
The first Red onslaughts dented
Allies lines as much as 18 miles and
swept United Nations forces out of
the road center of Hoengsong, 10
miles north of Wonju and 50 air
miles east of Seoul.
But this apparently was only the
Eastern wing of a heavier attack
now gathering momentum.
Escape from Trap
American and South Korean
troops successfully fought their
way out of a 100,000-man Chinese
trap, with some losses of men and
equipment. The key road hub of
Hoengsong was abandoned to the
Reds after bitter hand-to-hand
fighting.
Elements of three to six Chinese
armies and two North Korean
corps sprang their offensive Sun
day night with the blare of trum
pets and the roll of drums. They
[ hit at five Allied columns.
Confused Situation
The confused situation at that
front was described as “fluid," with
most UN troops having broken con
tact with the Reus. Both sides were
said to be regrouping during the
lull.
Gen. MacArthur paid his tenth
visit to the Korean fighting front,
visiting an Eighth Army observation
post on the south banks of the Han
River below Seoul from where he
' watched Allied artillery pour shells
1 into the burned-out former South
: Korean capital.
.viacAriiiur s version
; Returning to Tokyo, the supreme
commander said UN forces were
fighting the only kind of war they
can — an aggressive local cam
paign. In his statement, he declared:
“Talk of crossing the 38th Parallel
at the present state of the cam
paign, except by scattered patrol
action incidental to the tactical sit
uation, Is purely academic."
He said the future in Korea is
“largely dependent upon interna
tional considerations."
Threat to Allies
On the Western front, the U. S.
25th and Third Divisions consoli
dated their positions around the
recaptured port of Inchon, Seoul’s
big industrial suburb of Yong
dungpo and the capital’s big Kimpo
airfield.
But the powerful attempt by the
enemy to drive a wedge down the
middle toward the key rail and
highway center of Wonju threat
ened the Allied position in the
i west. A breakthrough to Wonju
i might force the UN troops on the
I comparatively quiet Western front
[ to pull back to protect their escape
| route from Seoul to Taegu.
i Robert Collette of Sitka has ar
I rived here from Seattle and is stop
| ping at the Baranof hotel.
|.
I • WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperuturra for 34 Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau — Maximum •
• 27: minimum, 15. •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
[ • 27; minimum, -2. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• Cloudy with snow tonight •
• and Wednesday. Lowest tern- •
• perature tonight about 22 and •
• highest Wednesday 34. •
• precipitation •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau — Trace; •
• Since Feb. 1 — .14 inches; •
• since July - — 42 08 inches; •
• At Airport — Trace; •
• since Feb. 1 — .10 inches; •
i • since July 1—30 35 inches. •
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