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VOL. LXXVII., NO. 11,796_. _JUNEAU. ALASKA, SATURDAY. APRIL 28, 1951_ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
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Vital Allied Road Hub Now In Enemy Hands
GOP LEADER
URGES PEACE
MAC-TRUMAN
WASHINGTON, April 28 —Iff—
( Republican Leader Harold E. Stas
sen wrote President Truman today
that "for the good of America” i
there should be "a reconciliation be-!
tween you and Gen. Douglas Mac- [
Arthur.”
In his letter, Stassen said:
“If the disagreement runs its bit- 1
>. ter course to the end, whatever its
outcome may be, it can do no good
for our country,
“I therefore ask with humility
that you consider extending an in- |
vitation to Gen. MacArthur to meet
and confer with you.”
Stassen told a news conference he
delivered the letter to the White
House this morning.
He said he did not see the Presi
dent nor ask to see him, but gave
the letter to Matt Connelly, Mr.
Truman’s secretary.
At the same time, Stassen said,
• he sent a telegram to MacArthur
in New York.
Stassen told MacArthur about his
letter to Mr. Truman and said he
had made it clear that “I had not
spoken to you directly or indirectly, |
but that I was confident from my |
knowledge of you over a period of
’ years that if such an invitation is
extended you will accept.”
The White House confirmed re
ceipt of the Stassen letter, but said
there would be no comment.
30 COEDS
INJURED IN
EXPLOSION
t MARYVILLE, Mo., April 28 —IM—
A natural gas tank blew up today
near a college dormitory, crumbled
one wall and sent 180 girls fleeing
in nightgowns and pajamas.
“I thought a bomb had hit us,”!
said Miss Sue Hood, 18-year-old!
coed, who sped barefoot out of the
> burning building into the campus
of Northwest Missouri State College ,
just after midnight.
Thirty girls were injured or burn
ed and 17 were detained in the hos
pital. There were no fatalities des
pite the violence of the big blast.
It pitched one sheet of steel four
blocks and shot flame hundreds of
feet into the sky.
The explosion popped glass win
dows in the business district 10
blocks away, severed a water main
and silenced telephones in part of
the city of 7,000 in Northwest Mis
souri,
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive at 6:30 tonight
and sails for Skagway at 11:30.
Denali from Seattle scheduled to j
arrive sometime Monday.
Baranof from westward scheduled |
southbound 5 p.m. Sunday.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
•Poprrliht. 1951. OT Bell Syadlcete. Ine..
Washington. — congressman
Brehm's attorney, in defending him
from the charge of taking kick-1
• backs, has accused Jack Anderson
of my staff of intimidating Mrs.
Emma Craven, one of the Con
gressman’s secretaries.
Brehm’s defense attorney also
claims that the Congressman did
not know anything about the kick
backs of another secretary, Mrs.
» Clara Soliday, until my assistant
raised the kickback quesion with
Mrs. Craven.
The incident is important, be
cause it shows that certain people
are a long way from the truth.
It also goes to the root fact that
money paid to Congressmen for
the salaries of stenographers is
supposed to be paid to the ladies
themselves, not go into Congress
men's pockets or political campaign
chests.
Here is exactly what happened:
In January, 1950, Mr. Anderson of
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MacArfhur Arrives in Chicago
Gen. Douglas MacArthur walks off greeting stand at Midway Airport,
Chicago, to review troops, minutes after his arrival. At far left is
Mrs. MacArthur iholding flowers). Iff1) Wirephoto.
CAB OUSTING
NON-SHEDS IS
TOLD TO COM.
By Frank Vaille
WASHINGTON, April 28, —(/PI—
A Senate Committee has been told
that a Civil Aeronautics Board
(CAB) official in Alaska has “boas
ted" that non-scheduled air car
riers there are “on the way out.”
The testimony was given by Sal
ly Carrighar, Nome, Alaska, Natur
alist and Writer before a small
business subcommittee investigat
ing the eifect of the board’s regu
lations on the irregular carriers.
She said:
"Robert Kinsey, regional director
at Anchorage, boasted to me that
he had reduced the number of non
skeds from 28 to four and that
they are on the way out.”
Miss Carrighar, Governor Ernest
Gruelling and Ciiiford Goodman,
Seattle wholesaler, all told the
committee that air service between
Alaska and the United States is in
adequate.
Curtailment Dangerous
They said further curtailment of
service. under a proposed CAB
regulation io limit non-scheduled
operations to eight flights a month
between the United States and Al
aska, would endanger territorial
economy.
Miss Carrighar enlivened her
testimony with references to packs
of hungry dogs a;racking people,
and stories of “outlaw" pilots op
erating without CAB approval.
Her mention of the dogs came in
connection with her statement that
oush pilots had been banned from
operations to seven villages between
Nome and Unalakleet cn the Ber
ing Coast.
Claims Service Unwanted
She testified government subsi
dies to regular carriers on the
route amounted to about $100,000
a year—“to furnish service not
needed and not wanted by 165 Es
kimos”—and that Kinsey told her
a major cargo was freight, inclu
ding garbage cans.
“Now that's a surprise,” she de
clared, “because hungry dogs are a
problem in this area. They actually
eat people up there. You would
never get from the door to the
garbage can without being at
tacked."
Telling of the “outlaw” pilots,
she refe-red specifically to Eugene
Joiner, of Kotzebue, whom she des
cribed as ‘“a fighting pilot, who
won't even apply for a CAB license
because he has such contempt for
them.”
Allege Attack
Miss Carrighar added that dur
ing a CAB hearing against Joiner
last August personal insults were
exchanged and H. George Kurtz,
an enforcement attorney for the
CAB, struck Joiner.
She said Joiner’s references to
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SHIRRED (HAMBRAY j
This strapless convertible bath
ing suit in tbe Maillot style has
: white zephyr wool cuffs and bra
I top with matching cardigan style
windbreakcr for those sudden
brisk breezes. The suit and acces
sory are made from striped shir
red cliambray. The model is
Jerry Miller. (/P) Wirephoto.
MENZIES' TICKET
APPEARS IN LEAD
OVER LABOR PARTY
SYDN3Y, Australia, April 28 — UR
j —The Coalition government of
Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies
appeared tonight to have been re
turned to power despite gains made
by the Labor opposition in today’s
parliamentary elections.
At the close of counting tonight,
still incomplete returns showed that
a slight trend toward tne Labor
j party, led by former Prime Min
ister Joseph B. Chiefly, would cost
the 16-month-old Liberal-Country
Coalition government about five
seats.
Loss of five seats would leave
Menzies with a 69-52 majority in
the House of Representatives, the
lower House of Parliament. In the
last House. Menzie controlled 74
seats to Labor’s 47.
Until the 12th or 13th Centuries
the brewing of beer on any large
=cale was don-- principally by mon
asteries.
MEAT PRICE
CUT COMING
IN AUGUST
WASHINGTON, April 28 — IJTl
The government raised its price
cleaver today for a swing at the
high cost of meat. Officials said a
four to five cents a pound cut in
beef prices to consumers is due by
August with a similar slash to fol
low next fall.
Actual dollars-and-cents ceilings
of beef prices will be announced
tonight.
One official told a reporter the
orders will provide for progressive
rollbacks in the prices of live cat
tle — a new method in food price
control. These rollbacks are due in
three stages.
The official said the first size
Rble reduction will be ordered im
mediately. This will be accomplish
ed by .setting ceilings on the amounts
slaughterers may pay for cattle. - It
was understood that first cut would
amount to 5 to 10 per cent.
An Office of Price Stabilization
(OPS) expert said wholesale and
retail prices will not be reduced on
the first go-round but there may be
some adjustments next month as a
result of the live animal cuts.
COLLISION OF
PLANES TAKES
LIVES OF 14
CARNEY, Okla., April 28 — t/Pi—
A giant Air Force B-36 bomber and
an F-51 fighter plane collided dur
ing a mock air raid on Oklahoma
City yesterday, plunging 14 airmen
15,000 feet to their deaths.
Four members of the crew para
chuted to safety.
An Air Force announcement said
early today that "14 men are pre
sumed to be dead or missing” —13
on the bomber and the fighter pilot.
At first it was believed 16 were
aboard the huge B-36, but later of
ficials said there were 17.
The F-51 pilot was First Lt. Fred
W. Black, Oklahoma City.
Bodies and debris were scattered
over a mile-wide area in an oat
field.
The tragedy near here was the Air
Force’s second costly mishap in two
days. Eleven crewmen were killed
and five injured when a B-29 crack
ed up and burned Thursday in the
Azores while making an emergency
landing.
The B-29 was stationed at Walker
Air Force Base, Roswell, N. M., and
was on a training mission.
COLD STORAGE MEN
HERE TURN DOWN
EMPLOYER OFFER
The Juneau cbld storage workers
of Marine Warehousemen's Union
Local 41 (ILWU) Joined the action
taken at Ketchikan, Petersburg,
Sitka and Pelican in refusing an
employer offer of $2.12’an hour,
Dot, Baker of the local union said
today.
The union also concurred In a
strike action to be taken May 1 if
an agreement is not reached by that
date.
•
• WEATHER REPORT
• Temperature for 24-Hour Period
• ending 6:20 o’clock this morning
• In Juneau — Maximum,
• 53; minimum, 39.
• At Airport — Maximum,
• 49; minimum, 38.
•
• FORECAST
• Cloudy with intermittent
• light rains tonight and Sun
• day. Lowest temperature to
• night about 39. Highest Sun
• day about 45.
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
• City of Juneau — .40 inches;
• Since April 1 — 8.84 inches;
• Since July 1 — 66.77 inches.
• At Airport — .01 inches;
• Since April 1 — 2.73 inches;
• Since July 1 — 38.48 inches.
• •••••••••
Gl's Pinned Down
Yank 25th Division infantrymen huddle behind rocks to shield themselves from enemy motar bursts
near the Hantan River on Korea's central- front. An Allied wall of fire was holding Red offensive forces
to a standstill on the central front. U. S. Army Photo via Iff) Wircphoto.
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TEMPERATURE RISINC — French skater Rav
monde de Grief executes a llying leap in samba routine patterned
after the tropic dance during international ice show in Berlin.
McFarland
STRIKES AT
REPUBLICANS
WASHINGTON, April 28 — W—
Senator McFarland (D-Ariz) struck
back today at Republican charges
that President Truman’s policies
can lead only to stalemate or “ap
peasement” in the Korean war.
And Senator Wherry (R-Neb>
denounced a Democratic charge that
the Republicans have tried to “make
political capital" out of President
Truman’s ouster of Gen, MacArthur
as Pacific commander.
McFarland, the Senate Demo
cratic leader, assailed assertions by
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) that Presi
dent Truman’s policies would lead
only to a stalemate in Korea and
that Dean Acheson is trying to “ap
pease” Red China.
“Regardless of what we think of
the .Kilicies involved, nobody has
ever advocated either appeasement
or stalemate In Korea,” McFarland
told a reporter.
“We wouldn’t be fighting In Korea
now if appeasement had been our
aim.”
Wherry, the Republican floor
leader, challenged statements of
William M. Boyle. Jr., the Demo
cratic National chairman.
CAST SKI CLUB MEET
MONDAY IN GOLD ROOM
The last Ski Club meeting oPS?
year will be held at 8 p.m. Monday
evening in the Baranof HaM5»Gold
Room, vice president NonaffinBucy
announced today.
Decision will be made regarding
making improvements on the ski
slope, building a new cabin, chang
ing the ski tow and clearing upper
slopes durng the summer. Work
committees will be appointed.
There will also be discussion on
the Hi Ball Tennis Club for the
summer.
Inscriptions reveal that bricks
were used as structural material at
least 6,000 years ago.
In Kashmir, Inula, there are
"street bridges,” actually lined with
small shops, spanning a river.
The number one dairying state
in the United States is Wisconsin.
[ROLLERS, FISH
BUYERS MEET IN
OPS HAZE; AGREE
kt -
Fish buyers and representatives
of the Trollers Union met here yes
terday in a haze of indefinite OPS
regulations attempting to work out
a minimum price for troll salmon
for the coming season.
It was finally agreed that the
average price paid for all salmon
bought over the dock at Ketchi
kan, would establish the minimum
price to be paid on the grounds,
Andy Barlow, executive secretary
of the United Trollers announced to
day. Thor Hendrickson, branch
agent of the United Trollers at
Ketchikan will give out all informa
tion to each port and the prices
will be broadcast Wednesdays,
Thursday, Saturdays and Sundays
over radio station KTKN.
Said Barlow: “A meeting held in
Ketchikan April 7 came to no defi
nine understanding due to the un
certainty of regulations by the OPS.
“Up to that time only fresh fish
was exempt from price freeze, and
other processed fish such as mild
cure and frozen fish, were subject
to OPS regulations. Efforts to get
some ruling from the Washington
OPS office have failed, so due to
the uncertain conditions it is im
possible to arrive at a minimum
price, as has been the practice in
the past."
The agreement reached here last
night is that the average price paid
over the dock at Ketchikan during
the period beginning Saturday
morning and ending Tuesday of
each week, less four cents per
pound, on all large red king salmon
and three cents per pound on all
other salmon, shall be established
as the minimum price paid at
ground stations.
These prices apply to all ports
except Sitka, Juneau and Pelican
where a half-cent a pound will be
deducted from the price established
at Ketchikan as a port differential.
Fish buyers at the meeting were
WfiSk Whitinarsh of Polar Fisher
ies and J. K. Johnson of the New
England Fish Co., both of Ketchi
kan; Dean Kaylcr of Kayler and
Dahl, Petersburg: J. C. Gilker of the
Rupert Fisheries, Prince Rupert,
B. C., and Ed Johnson and Elton
Engstrom of Juneau.
Representing the trollers were
Barlow, Emil Veniola, Pete More, O.
G. Nolde, Ken Millard, Homer
Saxon and Herb Savikko, all of
Juneau; Paul Binkley, Joe Connant
and Lester Watkins of Wrangell.
r.OING FISHING ,
t ir.ong the many boats heading
for the fishing grounds tomorrow
will be the Nugget, the glamor girl
vessel of the small boat harbor,
owned by Mr. and Mrs. Horace
Ibach. Their first stop will be at
Pelican,
ALLIES ARE
ON ORDERLY
PULLBACK
TOKYO, April 28 —OH— Com
munist troops today captured Iu
Jongbu on the historic invasion
route only 11 miles north of Seoul.
The U. S, Eighth Army announc
ed the vital road hub was in enemy
hands but gave no details.
Allied forces on the Korean West
ern front began falling back through
Iujongbu Friday.
Allied artillery in Seoul fired
throughout Saturday at the onrush
ing Reds.
United Nations forces continued
pulling back or* Central and Eastern
fronts but reported no contact with
the Reds.
Red Reserves Arrive
The Red Korean Pyongyang radio
said Saturday night that Commun
ist reserves had reached the battle
front. The official Communist sta
tion usually reports developments
at least three days after they take
place.
i The broadcast heard In Tokyo
! said “Korean and Chinese people's
I volunteers are now Inflicting heavy
damage on the enemy throughout
the front. We have this time poured
a new reserve force on the battle
! field on one of those fronts and It
Is taking a heavy toll of American
lives,'".
Allied battlefront sources, how
ever, said the withdrawal was in
good "ity-der.
41,500 Reds Killed
All along the 100-mile battlefront
i Allied forces have pulled back into
[ South Korea.
They have killed or wounded more
' than 41,500 Reds In their fighting
withdrawal.
The Reds mounted their biggest
offensive on the Western front.
Some 300,000 troops were driving on
Seoul.
Tens of thousands of civilians fled
the §outh Korean capital.
A South Korean flag flew over
the big gray city hall In Seoul Sat
urday, but the building was empty.
Reds New Crash
On the East-Central front, Red
fo/ces crashed into UN positions
before dawn Saturday east of Yang
gu, but failed to crack the line.
About 100 North Koreans cut
through the no-man’s land section
around the abandoned town at the
east end of the Hwachon Reservoir.
It was the only major action Sat
urday along that sector.
In the West-Central sector, the
Allies gave up Kapyong to the Reds.
Kapyong (35 air miles northeast of
Seoul), is on the Chunchon-Seoul
highway.
The Reds cut the highway too late
to trap any UN forces. Eighth Army
headquarters reports said all UN
forces had quit the area.
FISHING FLEET TAKING
ICE, BAIT FOR SEASON
j OPENING ON TUESDAY
1 -
Pishing season opening Tuesday
has brought the fishing fleet three
and four deep around Cold Stor
age for ice and bait. The bulk of
the Juneau fleet Is heading for
Icy Straits with others going to
the outside and across the Gulf.
A partial listing of boats heading
for fishing grounds this weekend
are as follows: Tenakee, skippered
by Ronald John, Carol Joy, John
Jack: Bertie II. Roy DeRoux;
Ocean Cape, Norman De Roux;
Dolores J. Oren Addleman; Valiant.
! Floyd Eperson; Radiant, Carl Mc
i Lean, Marie H., William Johnson;
Unity, Jim Young; Ruby, Larry
Fitzpatrick; New Rustler. William
Dugaqua; Washington, George
Dalton; Mabel K., Lester Wless;
New Anny, Willie Marks; Saga,
Amt Nelson; Defiance, Prank Ol
son.
Pern II, John Lowell; Thelma,
Bernt Alsteadt; Emma, Martin Bor
lick; Evolution, Jim Marks; Tern.
Tom Laite; Cape Cross, Howard
Jensen; Queen, Erling Onsolen,
Princess, Olaf Westby; Platinum,
John Linvog; Pelican. Torre Low
ell, Viking, John Sunderland.
Solar, Dan Twiete; Julia D., Ike
Puustinen; Arctic, Lawrence Swan
son; Sentinel, Vincent Anderson,
Norland, C. Jacobsen; Sunmore,
; John Wlnther, Jr.: Mermaid, Joe
| White; Clarwood, Ell Hanlon,