THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,605
JUNEAU ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1950
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Gen. Marshall New Secretary of Defense
SOLDIER
REPLACES
JOHNSON
Former Secretary of State
Called Back to New
Position by Truman
(By Elton C. Fay)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13— —
George Catlett Marshall, soldier by
profession and diplomat by exper
ience, is headed back to the Penta
gon to become Secretary of Defense.
President Truman turned to the
69-year-old, five-star general and
former Secretary of State to replace
Louis Johnson.
Johnson, bowing to Presidential
will and the "enemies I have acquir
ed druing the eighteen months I
have served as a member of your
cabinet,” submitted his resignation
yesterday. Mr. Truman accepted it
with official regret—but with alac
rity.
Suddenly, in a single day, there
were vacancies pending in the two
top civilian posts of the huge and
complex national military establish
ment.
Early Out Also
For what appeared to be entirely
personal reasons, Stephen Early re
signed as Deputy Secretary. He had
remained well past the year’s leave
granted him by the Pullman Stand
dard Car Manufacturing Co., so
that he could return to government
work. None of the criticism that had
welled up around Johnson had
touched Early.
Johnson’s resignation is effective
next Tuesday, Early’s Sept. 30.
Johnson, in his resignation let
ter, said that Marshall was a "man
of such stature that the very act
of naming him to be Secretary of
Defense will promote national and
international unity.”
The President heartily agreed, and
most Congressional leaders expres
sed accord, but there was a legal
hurdle.
Legal Hurdle
The law which created the unified
Defense Department contains a
clause prohibiting the appointment
as Defense Secretary of any man
who within ten years has been on
active duty as a commissioned of
ficer of the armed forces.
Marshall left the Army as Chief of
Staff soon after the end of World
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
tCoprrlvM. H>M. by B«U Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
Washington-Here are the
details of the secret deal which
Dewey forces made with Lt. Gov.
Joe Hanley to get him to withdraw
from the New York race for gov
ernor.
In case Hanley loses in his race
for the Senate against Herbert
Lehman, a new job will be created
for him on the Throughway Com
mission—the superhighway now un
der construction across New York
state. This job will pay Hanley
$25,000 annually.
In addition, Hanley has been
promised $15,000 income from an
oil company, making a total of
$40,000, or about the income he
would have received had he been
elected governor.
Finally, friends in the Dewey
camp have promised to repay the
$30,000 which Klngsland Macy,
Frank Gannett and Norman Gould
had put up to pay off Hanley’s
debts. The lieutenant governor had
been in difficult financial circum
stances and the Macy-Gannett
Gould backets had raised about
$30,000 to bail him out.
Rival TV Sian
In the delegates’ lounge at Lake
Success, a newsman said to Sec
urity Council president Sir Glad
by Jebb, “How does it feel to be
a TV idol?”
“It's really quite frightening,” re
plied Jebb, with his Oxford accent.
“People come up to me on the
(Continued on Page Four)
Truman Asks
Confirmation
Of Marshall
' WASHINGTON, Sept. 13— UP) —
President Truman asked Congress
today to make an exception and let
Gen. George C. Marshall serve as
Secretary of Defense even though
he is a military man. The Senate
Armed Services Committee immed
iately approved the necessary leg
islation.
The vote was 10 to 2.
Congress has to act because the
law says nobody who has been on
active duty as an officer of the
Armed Forces within the past ten
years can be Secretary of Defense.
The Senate group acted even be
fore a bill was introduced formally.
The House Armed Services Commit
tee postponed action until Friday.
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the
House group said the matter is so
important “that I want a full com
mittee present if possible.”
APW CONTRACTS FOR
SKAGWAY UTILITIES
TO HAYES-WHITELY
Pinal papers were signed this
morning in the office of the Alaska
Public Works for construction of a
major utilities project in Skagway.
Hayes and Whitely, Juneau con
struction firm which had submitted
the low bid August 30, was award
ed the contract for water and sewer
line extensions, and a new elevated
reservoir.
The contract totals $60,959.33.
Construction is expected to start
in about two weeks on the new
wooden water tank, to be elevated
on the hillside. The 100,000-gallon
reservoir probably will be completed
this fall, but line extensions are
not expected to be finished until
late next spring.
John Argetsinger, APW district
engineer for Alaska, said the con
tract for street and sewer work in
Ketchikan probably will be award
ed Friday.
At the August 30 bid-opening.
Morrison-Knudsen Company of Se
attle, was the low bidder, quoting
$525,075 against the engineer’s es
timate of $501,600.
PROJECT GRAYLING
LAUNCHED TODAY
Jack O’Connor, President of the
Territorial Sportsmen, Inc., and
Lewis McDonald of the Alaska De
partment of Fisheries left Juneau
today aboard a Fish and Wildlife
Service plane Grumman Widgeon
piloted by Bob Meek headed for
Lake MacDonald near Atlin, B. C.
They were equipped with the nec
essary gear for the seining and im
pounding of grayling which are to
be transplanted into lakes in the
Juneau vicinity.
The fifth clearance and permis
sion for the operation was received
from the British Columbia Game
Commission this morning. Because
of the impending freeze in the Atlin
country, it is necessary to move
quickly now if the grayling are to
be planted this fall. It is expected
that with good luck, the operation
will take a week. Hopes are that
enough fish can be obtained to
plant, Auk, Peterson, Windfall and
Youngs Bay lakes, and Upper Goul
ding Lake on Chichagof Island, ad
dition to one more.
The project was started by the
Sportsmen who are putting up the
money for the deal. The Alaska
Department of Fisheries and the
FWS are cooperating.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Continued fair tonight and
Thursday. Lowest tempera
ture tonight near 42 degrees;
highest Thursday near 62.
GOP RALLY
OPENS NEW
CAMPAIGN
Republicans Told Hiring of
Statehood Lobbyist Illegal
-Call for Honest Govt.
Although few Republicans realize
it, their Alaska income tax is go
ing to increase, and that in the very
near future, keynote speaker How
ard D. Stabler told a large Repub
lican rally at the Twentieth Cen
tury Theatre here last night.
Under the income tax law passed
by the Democratic nineteenth Leg
islature, Mr. Stabler said, the
amounts collected from individuals
will automatically increase when the
Federal income tax increases on
October 1.
Reviewing the course of govern
ment in Alaska in the past few years,
including the offenses of the former
Territorial Treasurer, the Palmer
airport “deal,” the statehood lobby
ing fiasco and other operations of
the present administration, Stabler
compared this country and this Ter
ritory with the Roman Empire. We
are, he told the assembled Repub
licans—and a considerable number
of Democrats—pointed in the same
direction as ancient Rome aild we
are heading for the same kind of
fall unless a drastic about-face is
made.
Lobbying Claimed illegal
Stabler attacked the recent hir
ing of a professional lobbyist by the
Alaska Statehood Committee as il
legal—regardless of the standing and
background of the man hired.
He cited a decision of the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals in support
of the charge of illegality.
Special payments to members of
the Legislature and to other favorit
es of the Administration were re
viewed by Mr. Stabler, who recited
the totals of special fees paid to
former Attorney General Ralph Riv
ers, Territorial Senators Victor C.
Rivers and Warren A. Taylor, and
Representative Stanley J. McCut
cheon.
Waste of Funds
As an example of the waste of
the taxpayers’ money, Stabler cited
the "recklessly called extraordinary
session” of the Legislature last year.
The session was later declared in
valid by the District Court. The ap
propriation to pay for the special
session, Stabler said, was $42,126.
“We leave it to you to say whether
we have been getting common hon
esty and plain dealing from the
public officials of the Gruening ad
ministration,” Stabler added. “They
are all members of the Democratic
Party in Alaska,”
"The issues facing us here today
can only be settled by loyal, inde
pendent, right thinking Americans
and Alaskans who set service to
country high above service to self or
to Party. Our only hope for any pre
sent reform lies in the Republican
Party," Stabler told the audience.
The rally was opened with group
singing of “God Bless America, led
by Jack Fargher and with music by
Buddy Hunter and his orchestra.
Chairman Howard Simmons intro
duced Mrs. Margaret White, the
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THREE MORE JUNEAU
IADS OFF TO COLLEGE
Three Juneau lads left today for
Haines where they will join friends
and drive over the Alaska Highway
bound for the States—and school.
There were: Bill Graves, son of
Mr. and Mrs. William V. Graves;
Bill Schmitz, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Schmitz; and John Stew
art.
Graves and Schmitz will attend
the Washington Central College at
Ellensburg where Graves will major
in physical education and Schmftz
will continue his business adminis
tration course. They have been
working for the Juneau Cold Stor
age during the summer.
Stewart will attend the Univer
sity of Washington. He was em
ployed by the Forest Service here
during the summer.
Incumbents
Gel Nod in
Primaries
New Hampshire's Toby
Wins by Slim Margin in
Holiest Senate Fight
(By Associated Press)
Five senators—three Republicans
and two Democrats—have been re
nominated in primary elections that
just about complete major party
slates for nationwide voting Nov. 7.
Every House member seeking re
nomination also was successful in
Tuesday’s contests involving 41
House seats in eight widely scat
tered states.
In the hottest Senate fight, Sen
ator Charles W, Tobey squeezed out
| a 1,127-vote victory over 34-year-old
Wesley Powell for the OOP nom
ination in New Hampshire. Tobey,
70, hailed the result as “ a victory
for a forward-looking brand of Re
publicanism."
The only other senator with a
primary fight was Arizona Dem
ocrat Cary Hayden. He trimmed
two opponents.
Renominated without opposition
were Senators Warren Magnuson
(D-Wash), George D. Aiken <R
Vt> and Eugene D. Millikin (R
Colo.)
Primaries later this month in
Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land and Wisconsin will complete
the ballot for the November voting.
Woman Nominated
Tuesday’s primaries brought at
least one woman into prominence.
Ana Frohmiller became Arizona's
first woman nominee for governor
by capturing the Democratic nom
ination.
Michigan Republicans picked
their wartime leader, former Gov.
Harry P. Kelly, to carry the banner
again in the governorship race.
Primary highlights in other
states:
Minnesota — Republican Gov.
Youngdahl won renomination in
a walk over four opponents.
Colorado—Democrats picked Rep.
John A. Carroll to oppose Senator
Millikin.
Vermont—Republicans chose Win
ston L. Prouty as their candidate
to succeed Rep, Charles A. Plum
ley, retiring GOP congressman.
GAMES TODAY
CLEVELAND, Sept. 13—(A«)—Yogi
Berra led the New York Yankees
to a 10-3 victory over Cleveland to
day, pulling New York within two
percentage points off Detroit, tem
porarily, in the red hot American
League race.
Berra lashed out his 22nd home
run of the season in the third with
the bases empty, and accounted for
two singles that figured in scoring
innings.
Bob Lemon, ace Indian pitcher,
was seeking his 21st victory of the
season but he retired in the fourth
after yielding eight runs.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13—UP)—Gus
Bell of the Pittsburgh Pirates
spoiled Sal Maglie’s efforts to set
a new National League record for
consecutive scoreless innings today,
bjut the New York Giants dumped
the Pirates 3-1 in a wet game that
was finally called after seven full
innings.
Bell hit a home run that bounced
off the right field foul pole in the
top of the seventh, ending Maglie's
string at 45 full innings. The
league record is 46 and a third in
nings set by the great Carl Hubbell.
also of the Giants, in 1933.
Cincinnati at Brooklyn postponed,
rain.
HELGESEN TO STANFORD
Robert Helgesen plans to leave
Juneau Friday for California to
continue his studies in the School
of Medicine, Stanford University.
He has spent his summer vacation
in Juneau with his mother, Mrs.
Gertrude Boggan and sister Karen.
i
40 PLANES
SEARCH FOR
TRANSPORT
Missing C-47 Is Believed
Down in Area Between
Anchoargejalkeetna
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sfept. 13—
(41—The Air Force ordered more
than 40 military aircraft into tfle
fir today to search for a C-47
transport plane and its five crew
men who disappeared Tuesday over
some of Alaska's most rugged
mountains.
Prospects for finding the two
engine military transport bright
ened with clearing weather. Yes
terday's search, undertaken by 30
jet fighter planes and nine multi
engined craft, was hampered by ex
treme low clouds.
The planes centered their search
on the mountainous area between
Anchorage and Talkeetna, 75 miles
north. It was here that the plane
last reported in, with gasoline for
six hours of flying still aboard.
Icing Conditions
Elmendorf Field public informa
tion office disclosed, however, that
jpevere Icing conditions prevailed in
the area which is bound by the
ugged Talkeetna and Chugach
mountain ranges when the C-47
last reported in about 11 p.m. Tues
day.
The plane received radio instruc
tions to let down gradually from
10,000 feet for its landing at El
mendorf. It was feared, however,
that ice combined with high winds
and low clouds caused the plane
to crash as it let down.
All emergency radio bands have
been monitored since the craft was
lost but no distress calls have been
received.
Names of the five crewmen haVc
been withheld.
UNIFICATION
PROPOSED AT
BIG 3 MEET
Acheson Suggests Unified
European Defenses-Aid
Plan Studied in Capital
(By Associated Press)
The big three ministers went into
their second day of meetings in
New York today. They have heard
Secretary Acheson's presentation of
U. S. proposals for European de
fenses—a unified military force,
centralized command staff and
eventual supreme commander.
The U. S. also calls for a top
effort by Atlantic treaty nations to
get their arms production in high
gear. Special committees were as
igned to study financial and econ
omic aspects of the reaarmament.
An American plan to channel all
foreign aid, both military and
economic, through a single govern
ment agency is reported in the
process of drafting for President
Truman’s study.
An emergency defense bill of
$16,700,000,000, four billions of it
lor foreign arms aid, was headed
for Senate appropriations commit
>ee approval.
At Lake Success N. Y., the Uni
ted Nations Security Council set
next Monday for the last meeting
Pefore the opening of the U. N.
General Assembly in New York
Sept. 19. Yesterday Russia, in its
15th veto, turned back a U. S.
resolution to send a commission to
'ltd China to Investigate Commu
nist charges that American planes
trafed Manchurian territory.
FROM POLARIS-TAKU
P. W. Jaron of the Polaris-Taku
Mining Co. at Tulsequah, B. C., is
taying at the Baranof Hotel.
GRUENING
APPEARS,
HEARING
Denies Infiltration of Com
munism - Atwood At
tacks Salmon Industry
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13— M —
Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska,
called on Senator Sclioeppel today
"as a matter of honor” either to
prove or retract his charges of Com
munist activtity in the Interior De
partment and the Alaskan State
hood campaign.
Gruening made the demand in a
face-to-face meeting with Schoep
pel at a Senate Interior Committee
hearing. The group is looking into
the Kansas Republican’s charges
against Secretary of Interior Chap
man, Reclamation Commissionef
Michael Straus and others.
Schoeppel sat puffing on a cigar
as Gruening branded the accusa
tions as "grave and sinister."
The Senator, who already has
said his charges might have been “a
little strong," spoke up at one point
to tell Gruening he had not intend
ed to accuse Alaskan officials of
disloyalty. He said anyone who in
terpreted his words that way “is
wrong.”
Gruening told the committee he is
'fervently anti-Communist.” He ad
ded:
“I have never belonged to any
organization which formerly or sub
sequently was labelled Communist
front.”
Criticizes Congress
Gruening also criticized the Re
publican controlled 80th Cpngress
which, he said, has left Alaska im
properly defended "like an Achilles
Heel.”
He recalled Schoeppel's statement
in a Senate speech last week that
die Senator feared to find some day
that “a Quisling” had taken over in
Alaska to serve the Russian cause.
Gruening said he could not de
termine from Schoeppel’s words who
the Senator had in mind as a pos
able Quisling. But he said that
anyone who knows of such a dan
ger “should be compelled as a mat
ter of honor and decency to docu
ment” and prove it.
Hiring of Feltus
Gruening testified that Secretary
Chapman had nothing to do with
firing Randolph Feltus to do public
ity work for the Alaska Statehood
Commission.
Schoeppel had charged that Feltus
was a "Kremlin agent” and had said
be was informed that Chapman and
Gruening arranged to employ hinr
'or the statehood campaign. Schoep
oel contended Feltus was a “Krem
in agent” because he had on«
worked for the Polish Ambassador
Gruening said he was unaware
hat Feltus had been employed by
he Ambassador but knew he had
worked for the Indonesian and
Netherlands governments.
When Gruening concluded, Shoep
pel commented that he, Schoeppel,
had not cast any reflections on the
action of any official of the Terri
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STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Sept. 13 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2'4, American Can
77%, Anaconda 36'4, Curtiss-Wright
91 i, International Harvester 31%,
Kennecott 64'4, New York Central
15'Northern Pacific 23%, U. S.
Steel 38V4, Pound $2.80%.
Sales today were 2,600,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 223.42, rails 66.76, utilties
39.04.
BUYING SPLURGE
NEW YORK. Sept. 13— Oft —A
morning buying splurge carried the
stock market to a new four-year
high peak today.
The rail group alone swept to a
19-year peak.
Leading issues moved up as much
as $2 a share before the edge of the
advance was blunted. Dozens of
stocks sold at their best prices for
a year or more.
MARY I. GRANT IS
DEAD AT WRANGELL,
RESULT OF STROKE
WRANGELL, Alaska, Sept. 13—
(Special to Empire)—Mary I. Grant,
pioneer hotel proprietor, died at 6
o’clock this morning as the result of
a stroke.
She was born on the west coast
70 years ago and came to Wrangell
when an infant. She married John
Grant who came here 50 years ago
during the gold rush and shortly af
ter they established the Wrangell
hotel known in the early days as
Grant’s Hotel.
Survivors are a son, Nell Grant of i
Wrangell, manager of the hotel; |
daughters Mrs. A. R. Bruegar, Seat- j
tie, Mrs. Joe Warwick, Lead South I
Dakota, and four grandchildren; two |
brothers, Charlie and Mike Lynch |
of Wrangell. j
Mrs. Grant is the second pioneer
Wrangell woman to pass away in I
one week. Mrs. Dave Wing, 70, died
of a heart attack last Saturday
morning. She came to Wrangell in
1911. Survivors are her husband,
Dave Wing and sons, Joel and Wal
ter.
WILLIAMS, SEATTLE
BUSINESSMAN, WINS
CHANCE ATHNATE
SEATTLE, Sept. 13—W*—'W. Wal
ter Williams of Seattle was con
ceded victory today in the race for
the Washington state Republican
nomination for U. S, senator.
Albert Canwell of Spokane, his
closest opponent, conceded the nom
ination to Williams in mid-morn
ing.
The Seattle businessman, in his
first political race, had run up a
six to four margin over Canwell
on returns from three-fourths of
the state’s precincts.
The winner will face Warren G.
Magnuson, the Democratic incum
bent, in the November General i
Election. Magnuson, who was with
out opposition for the nomination,
plied 120,508 votes in the same pre
cincts. The total vote for the five
Republican candidates was 141,804.
The state’s six incumbent con
gressmen, four Republicans and two
Democrats, were either unopposed
for renomination or won easily in
yesterday’s balloting.
Williams has been a stern critic
of the State Department's foreign
policy and the Democratic admin
istration's preparedness measures.
BRYSON IS FINED $50
FOR FIRST VIOLATION
IN HUNTING SEASON
In the first case ' of violation to
ome before U. S. Commissioner
^elix Gray since the deer season
>pened September 1, Marquis War
en (Mickey) Bryson of Juneau was
ined $50 by Judge Gray this morn
ing.
On a complaint signed by Clar
ence Matson, U. S. Pish and Wild
life Service enforcement officer,
Bryson was charged with killing a
doe deer yesterday on Douglas Is
land.
Bryson said he had not realized
it was a doe, and that he had
olanned to give the meat to the
Minfleld Home. This was his first
offense. He paid tfce fine this
morning.
Assistant U. 9. Attorney Stanley
Baskin prosecuted the case.
DISTRICT COURT WILL
RECONVENE FRIDAY
A motion calendar is being made
up in the office of the Clerk of Court
for Friday afternoon, when the U.
S. District Court will reconvene at
2 p.m.
The term will be short, as the
Court party will go to Ketchikan*
September 24 for the session called
for September 26.
Court here was adjourned August
25.
FROM FORT RICHARDSON
John A. Bradley of Fort Richard
son is registered at the Baranof
Hotel.
I
NEW GAINS
NOW MADE IN
KOREAN WAR
«
Plans Made to Break Crust
ot Enemy-Trap Snap
ped on Red Forces
(By Associated Press)
American forces in South Korea
"will take the offensive In a very
short period of time," Lt. Oen. Wal
ton H. Walker, United Nations
ground forces commander, told the
U. S. Eighth Army today.
"Soon we are going to give up
the attitude of defense which the
delaying action forced on us," Gen.
Walker told front line troops. “As
soon as we start forward and break
the crust in front of us, the enemy
will fold. We can feel a weakening
of the enemy now and In some posi
tions they are actually pulling out.”
Walker made his announcement
as new gains were chalked up by the
Allies around the 125-mile battle
perimeter.
8nap Trap On Reds
A secret task force headed by a
former West Point football hero
snapped a trap on 3,000 Communist
troops on the northeast front, eas
ing a major Red threat to Pohang
airstrip, 1« mUee to the northeast
on the east coast.
The trap was closed by task force
Davidson, led by Brig. Gen. Oar
Davidson, former West Point grid
iron star and coach. The force shot
across rugged mountain, terrain and
sealed the south gate of a corridor
northwest of Kyongju. South Kor
ean troop3 already had closed the
north gate.
Reds Break, Run
As 24th Division troops under the
46-year-old officer stormed the last
of a series of ridges, the Reds broke
and ran.
To the west of this operation the
South Korean Eighth Division con
tinued its drive east of Yongchon,
a march which took them 12 miles
in three days, and as much as nine
miles north of the vital Yongchon
Kyongju road.
While the UN line is not yet solid
on the northeast, the pushes marked
the biggest offensive gains since
U. S. Marines wiped out the Nak
tong Jtiver bulge on the western
front in late August. At the height
of the Red drive, the Communists
twice had penetrated Yongchon in a
grave threat to Taegu, main Allied
advance base 18 miles to the west,
and tto the route to Pusan, the Al
lied supply base on the southeast tip
of Korea.
Mystery of War
Failure of the Reds to exploit
their breakthrough early this month
in the northeast stands as a major
mystery of the war.
On the southwest front U. S. 25th
Infantry Division artillery repulsed
two Red attempts to storm high po
sitions south of the Nam and Nak
tong Rivers. About 200 Reds were
wiped out and the others fell back.
North and northwest of Taegu the
situation has been described as
“fluid,” with both sides making
stabs. The'West front along the
Naktong was relatively quiet.
Convoy Ripped
B-26 light bombers used flares
to light up a Red convoy behind the
lines and then ripped it with bombs.
Fighter pilots reported knocking out
12 Red tanks in front line strikes.
FROM HAINES
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Robertson
from Haines are registered at the
Hotel Juneau. Robertson is with
the U. S. Geological Survey.
STUMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 tonight.
Freighter Ring Splice scheduled to
sail from Seattle Sept. 15.
Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle Saturday.
Baranof in port and scheduled
to sail south at 4:30 p.m. today.
Aleutian from west scheduled
southbound Monday.