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JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 19^1
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Small Star! at Haines
Of Smoked Salmon Plant
May Give All-Year Work
Haines, which community's ec
onomy heretofore, has depended on
the summer's salmon and fishing
industry, now has a small start in
^ a related industry which may be in
operation the year around.
Many hands are busy in this small
but important Alaska city, and
many lingers are staying crossed,
as work goes forward in a smoked
salmon plant which recently com
pleted successful trial runs.
The new industry might be said
to have sprung from the .beginning
of a community veterans’ cooper
dative plan after World War II.
There was a concentrated effort to
employ the tbwn’s veterans by es
tablishing new industry.
Efforts along several lines did
not prove outstandingly success
ful, but some of Haines’ citizens did
not give up. Notable among these
was Carl Heinmiller, manager of
the Port Chilkoot Terminal company
He saw the possibilities in a smok
ed salmon industry in Haines.
He asked the advice of C. L. An
derson, director of the Department
of Fisheries, and, as it proved, ne
couldn't have come to a man who
knew more of the answers. /
Smoked Salmon Industry
Anderson had gained reputation
in the [Territory through several
projects, among them the crab can
nery in Douglas, and the shrimp in
dustry in Juneau. But the important
thing from Heinmiller's interest
was that Anderson had vast exper
ience in the smoked salmon busi
ness, and had designed an efficient
smokehouse with many innovations
that made its use commercially
feasible.
Anderson says he was in the busi
ness in Seattle, but didn't think of
his plans for the smokehouse until
he went ^into government work. He
wrote a technical piece which was
printed in booklet form by the
government and showed the plans of
the smokehouse in detail.
Anderson went to Haines and act
* ed in an advisory capacity in help
ing the small business get started.
Anderson says that Haines is
ideally situated for the industry,
lying betvjjan |ts two planned
sources of supply—the Chilkat and
the Chilkoot rivers—and having
transportation outlets to the south
east and to the Interior should the
industry gxuw.
Operate Year Around
Through using frozen fish, the
* smoked salmon plant could operate
the year around. Financing the pur
chase of enough fish has kept Hein
miller’s project from getting away
to the fastest of starts, but optimism
has not died.
Anderson says there is a small,
privately owned plant of similar
design (Operating suocebsfully in
Seldovia. Eight similar plants of An
derson's design are in operation
in the state of Washington.
* Here is the way the plant will
operate:
Silvers or red salmon are bought.
After cleaning, they are cut into
sides, then cured in salt—much like
the curing of ham or bacon.
Anderson furnished the special
curing formula being used. The
sides are laid flat on screens rick
ed up on a truck whioh rolls into
the big oven. First the moisture
t is drawn off, then the salmon is
cured in the circulating smoke of
alder or wild crabapple wood.
The fish are smoked quite solid.
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
(Cooyrlsht, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
W ASHINGTON — Senator Taft
let his hair down the other eve
ning at an off-the-record dinner
for Republican newcomers to Cong
ress. Under a barrage of questions,
he talked like a Presidential candi
date but couldn’t be coaxed into
admitting he was one.
“Senator," blurted Illinois’ Con
* gressman Tim Sheehan, “when we
go to a football game on Saturday
aiternoon and we see the players
running up and down the side
lines, we assume they are about
ready to get in the game. You have
been running up and down all over
the country. Are you or are you not
a candidate?”
"Not at the moment,” grinned
Taft.
“Would you be interested in a
> Taft-MacArthur ticket?” fired Con
gressman Albert Morano of Connec
ticut.
“No, I wouldn’t, but MacArthur
might be interested in a MacArthur
Taft ticket," shot back Mr. Re
publican.
(Continued on Page 4)
►-—
i The skin and few bones left are
! removed and the salmon is sliced
up much like dried beef and canned.
^Haines citizens see great possib
ilities in the new industry, and are
! hoping year around employment for
a number of Haines people is provid
ed.
Anderson points out that there
is no way of knowing how well or
how fast the plant will grow.
But he says a good try is being
made, and the success of the plant
means a great deal to the Alaskan
community.
Politics
Starling
In Slates
By the Associated Press
Preliminary maneuvers in the
1952 battle for the Presidency are
j shaping up all over at state levels.
At Austin. Texas, a liberal faction
of Texas’ usually-split Democratic
party gathered at a political break
fast today to hear a speech by Sec
retary of Agriculture Brannan.
The goup, calling themselves “Vol
unteer Democrats,” was reported
deeply concerned over the renewed
threat of a “States’ Rights Demo
crat" uprising like that which nomi
nated its own ticket in 1948.
At Oklahoma City yesterday, Gov.
Johnston Murray said he would lis
ten to the arguments of such South
ern States' Righters who are talking
about a bieak with the present na
tional administration. _ _.
In the GOP camp, Governor war -
ren of California threw down what
amounted to a challenge to con
servative Republicans in his state.
At Sacramento, the three-term Gov
ernor who calls himself a Progres
sive Republican, said he welcomed
a reported move by party leaders
opposed to his policies to field their
awn delegation at the June Presi
dential primary.
Fishery Products
To Be Plentiful,
Fairly Firm Market
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13—Uft—'The
Pish and Wildlife Service today
forecast a generally plentiful sup
ply of fishery products and a fairly
firm market for them for the re
mainder of the year.
An analysis by Ralph Russell, a
commodity expert in the service’s
branch of commercial fisheries, said
that although large Supplies bf
meats, including poultry, also will
J be available, the relative price
| levels probably will leave fishery
; products in a favorable position.
! Elks'Purple Bubble
; Dance Event Tonight
The Elks will give their annual
Purple Bubble dance tonight in their
ballroom, the event starting at 10
o’clock. Balloons for all arrived by
air yesterday and will be given out
during the dance. An orchestra of
five pieces under the direction of
Mrs. Francis Mangan will play.
Following the 11 o’clock toast a sur
prise dance will be given by Rudy
Krsul.
Another surprise was announced
during this forenoon when Tom
George stated his floor show will
entertain at the dance at midnight,
I coming in from the Salmon Creek
Country Club for the special ap
pearance. The entertainers are
Hedi Richmond, dancer; Lois John
son, pianist and vocalist; and Irvin
Kitch, banjoist.
The committee in charge of the
dance is Art Herold, Jim Fennel,
Kenneth Lee, Rudy Krsul, Dr. J.
H. Geyer, Buck Faulkner and Jim
Burnett.
Ship Movements*
Baranof scheduled to arrive
southbound Sunday at 5 p.m.
Denali due northbound Monday
evening.
Freighter Ring Splice in port.
■ Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive 9 tonight, to Skagway at 11:30,
returning southbound Tuesday eve
ning.
Elizabeth, Duke
Thrilled Over
Welcome, Canada
TORONTO, Oct. 13——Sources
close to the royal couple said today
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of
Edinburgh could hardly believe the
enthusiasm of Canada’s welcome,
were thrilled by it and never had
seen anything like it.
Veteran reporters described the
welcome for the heiress presumptive
to the British throne as "fantastic”
and a Canadian professor of psy
chology called it “mass hysteria.”
More than 500,000 persons turned
out in this city of 700,000 to cheer
Elizabeth as she and her consort
moved slowly through the jammed
streets yesterday.
Earlier more than 200,000 persons
had swarmed around the couple,
waving British flags, shouting 'and
laughing as they passed through
small cities between Ottawa and
Toronto.
Officials estimated more than
1,200,000 of Canada’s 13,500,000
people have hailed the princess
during the first four days of her
projected 30-day tour of the do
minion.
Metal Cut
Predicted
By Jan.1
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13—’The
Defense Production Administration
said today the use of metal in
making household appliances and
other consumer hard goods will be
cut about 11V4 percent starting Jan.
1.
The cutback was disclosed by DPA
Administrator Manly Fleischmann,
at a joint hearing of four Congres
sional committees.
Civilian output will be “moderate
ly lower" in the first quarter of
nexUitesw,. Eleisrtwnaiu; aflrfknfr
that some "less essential” products
using critically scarce copper and
aluminum will be “very drastically
curtailed.” \
He did not specify the items, but
they were understood to include
good like Venetian blinds and house
wares of the type in which plastics
or other substitutes could be used.
But there will be no “death sen
tence orders,” or outright prohibi
tions on the use of basic materials
in any such products, Fleischmann
said.
Find $1-Million
Shortages in
Penn. Bank Sandal
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Oct. 13
—WPI—The two national banks in
New Kensington are short over a
million dollars today as the FBI
arrested a fifth employee on em
bezzling charges that have shocked
this industrial community.
The FBI seized George Rogers
Shiarella, 53, yesterday. The slight,
greying man worked his way up
from messenger boy to assistant
cashier of New Kensington’s First
National Bank. FBI Agent Fred
Hallford said Shiarella admitted
misapplication of $12,594.
Shiarella is the fourth First Na
tional employee arrested since last
Jan. 11 and the fifth in the town
to be accused of embezzling federal
bank funds. Hallford said Shiarella
also admitted making an $18,324
false entry on the bank's cash sheet.
Korean Clothing
Drive Is Underway
Have you a warm coat or other
article of wearing apparel that is
taking up needed space in your
closets?
Plans for the Clothing for Korea
Drive, October 12 to 18, were com
pleted last evening at a joint com
mittee meeting of the men’s and
women’s service clubs of Juneau.
This great humanitarian effort is
sponsored by American Relief for
Korea, composed of ten different
charitable organizations, including
an advisory committee from the
Department of State, as an over-all
national channel for the collection
and transmission of clothing and
kindred supplies to Korea.
Collection boxes have been lo
cated in the following places: First
National Bank, Baranof Hotel, B.
M. Behrends Bank, Alaska Elec
tric Light and Power Co., Thomas
Hardware and Juneau Drug.
Warm garments of all sizes and
ages are needed and the committee
stresses the necessity that the cloth
ing should be clean as there are
no facilities for cleaning them be
fore packing for shipment.
Middle East
Defense Up
To Egypt
LONDON, Oct. 13—(JV-Egypt was
invited today to join with the west
ern powers and Turkey in setting
up an international force for middle
east defense. A main base would
be the Suez, now in bitter dispute
between Britain and Egypt.
This was the driving diplomatic
followup to Egypt’s threat to out
law the British guardian forces in
the Suez Canal area and Britain’s
vow to fight if Egypt tries to remove
British treaty-covered troops by
force.
Sources here indicated that if
Egypt accepts, Gen. Omar Bradley,
chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs
of Staff; Field Marshal Sir William
Slim, chief of the British Imperial
General Staff; and French Gen.
Charles Francis Lechere, were pre
pared to fly to Egypt for talks. They
now are in Ankara, Turkey, discus
sing the whole program.
Baseball
Trading
Rumors
By RALPH RODEN
NEW YORK, Oct. 13 — —
Major league teams, especially the
also rans, have launched their 1652
rebuilding programs and it appears
that one of the most spirited trad
ing sessions in years is on tap.
No "big deals” have been con
summated but a number involving
name players are expected.
The biggest deal brewing report
edly involves Ned Garver, the bril
liant 20-game winner of the tail
Wir Si. Lbuu> Sruwtis, Doth uie
champion New York Yankees and
the Chicago White Sox are sup
posed -to be dickering for Oarver's
services.
Reports persist that the Yanks
made a down payment on Garver
when they sold outfielder Cliff
Mapes to the Browns on waivers
during the season. Second base
man Gerry Coleman and four
other Yanks along with a bundle
of cash are supposed to complete
the transaction.
General Manager George Weiss
of the Yanks admitted yesterday
that he had huddled with St. Louis
officials for three hours but had
reached no agreement on any deals.
"There was no deal made," Weiss
said.
The rumors also say the White
Sox wiil send a number of players
including: Jim Rivera, a rookie
who burned up the Pacific Coast
League and cash to the Browns.
Rivera played for Seattle under
Rogers Hornsby, the Browns’ new
manager.
Meanwhile, the Browns have been
stocking up with minor leaguers.
They have purchased pitchers Hal
Hudson and Johnny Hetki from
their Toronto International League
farm club and yesterday obtained
infielder Leo Thomas from Portland
of the Pacific Coast League.
Thomas, a former Brown, was ob
tained for cash and pitcher Fred
Sanford and infielder-outfielder
Jack McGuire.
The White Sox also reached Into
the minor leagues the other day for
help. The Sox obtained pitchers
Marv Grissom and Hector (Skinny)
Brown from Seattle for five minor
leaguers and cash.
Grissom, a 20-game winner, is a
former Detroit Tiger. Brown was
drafted from Seattle last year but
was returned when he failed to
click.
PERCY HUNTER ARRESTED
Percy Hunter was arraigned yes
terday in the U. S. Commissioner's
court yesterday on the charge iof
assault and his bond was set at
$500. He was arrested this week by
the Juneau police.
WEATHER REPORT
(U. S. WEATHER BUREAU
At Airport:'Maximum, 48;
Minimum, 37.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity) •
Partly cloudy tonight. Low
temperature ab)out 38 de
grees. Mostly fair and sunny
Sunday, expected high tem
perature 47 degrees.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 34 houri ending 7:30 a m today
At Airport — 0.01 inches;
since July 1—12.51 inches.
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Military
Pay Boost
Proposed
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 — GP) —
A House Armed Services subcom
mittee has approved a bill to raise
the pay of everyone in the military
services by 10 percent.
The measure, however, has only a
slim chance of adoption at this
session of Congress. The Senate
Armed Services committee has said
it will defer action until January.
As originally drawn it would have
put a limit of $800 a year on the
raises, cutting higher paid officers
below the 10 percent. The sub
committee knocked this out.
Under the $800 limit plan generals
and admirals would have received
only a 5 percent increase, colonels
and some lieutenant colonels with
long service only between seven and
eight percent.
The ten percent boost under the
bill as amended would be extended
to all retired personnel.
Couple, Formerly
Of Ketchikan,
In Custody Fight
SEATTLE, Oct. 13—(jP—A 5-year
old girl, ill with the measles, became
the pawn today in a battle for her
custody being waged by her well-to
do father, who is 74, and her 39
year-old mother.
Temporarily protected from the
legal tug-of-war by the walls of
King County Hospital while she re
cuperates from her ailment is Shir
ley Ann Reynolds.
Her father is John Robert Rey
nolds of Helena, Mont., and formerly
a Kxtchikan, Alaska, fish packer.
He was granted custody pf the child
from Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Reynolds
in Helena. July 31, when neither the
ffwnToe or child were present in
court. Mrs. Reynolds had moved
to Ketchikan with the child. She
recently returned to Seattle.
Today, the father’s counsel ob
tained an order requiring the child
to be produced in court next Tues
day for a hearing on the father’s
demand for custody.
Mrs. Reynolds says she will be in
court for this hearing and fight
for custody of Shirley Ann.
The Reynolds were married in
Billings. Mont., in 1938. She sued
for divorce in Seattle four years
later, asking $1,000 a month sup
port. They were reconciled, how
ever, and the case dropped.
First Team Chosen
For Boy Scout
Finance Campaign
The first of 10 teams to be or
ganized for the 1951 Boy Scout fi
nance campaign scheduled to begin
Oct. 16 was formed by team captain
Ray Bolton, according to campaign
chairman A. B. Phillips.
Serving with Bolton a‘re William
S. Ellis, AI Zenger, Dr. C. L. Polley,
Burke Riley, Bob La Joie, Sam Paul
Jr., and Joe Thibodeau Sr.
Chairman Phillips also announced
the selection of two more campaign
workers who are heading the drive
in areas adjacent to Juneau: Val
Poor in the community of Douglas,
and Eric E. Lindegaard for the
Glacier Highway and Auk Bay area.
MARINE BASIN WOBK AT
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL
On the ways at the marine basin
of the Northern Commercial Com
pany are the tug Lumberman, own
ed hy the Samson Tug and Barge
Company, for hull work; the troller
jcannine, Homer Saxon, for hull
survey: and the yacht Acania, J. M.
Martinac Shipbuilding Corp., for
repair to propellor shafts and hull.
Recently pulled up for winter
storage were the gillnetters 30
G1552, Earl Eaton, 31D441, Fred
Nelson, 31E276, Clancy Henkins,
30L1431, Frank Lee, and the Blue
Heron, Chris Hansen; the trollers
Buddy, Frank Barber; Mary Rose,
Ralph Whitcraft; and the cruiser
Libby, H. Lougher, .and cruisers
owned by Pete Warner and Bill
Hixson.
IMMUNIZATION CLINICS
Dr. C. C. Carter, City Health
Officer, announces Immunization
Clinics will again be coniucted
monthly at the Juneau Health Cen
ter, 122 Second Street, on the third
Wednesday morning of each month,
at 10 am. The first clinic will be
held the morning of October 17.
Diphtheria, tetanus, whooping
cough and smallpox immunizations
1 will be offered.
George Tapleys
Leave Sunday for
Rangoon, Burma
Leaving Sunday for a new assign
ment in Burma is George Tapley,
chief of the engineering division of
the Alaska Road Commission. Tap
ley will be hydroelectric engineer for
Knappen, Tippetts, and Abbett and
will be stationed in Rangoon, the
capital city of Burma.
Knappen, Tippetts, and Abbett.
one of the leading American con
sulting engineer firms, has been
assigned Burma under the ECA
Point Four program designed to aid
in the industrial and economic de
velopment of democratic border
countries.! The American engineer
ing firm on its Burmese mission
will investigate the l^itural re
sources of the country and prepare
a report and plan of development.
The program is financed largely by
the United States with subsidiary
aid from the Union of Burma.
Talley leaves Juneau on the Pan
American Airways plane tomorrow
and will fly to New York. He plans
a two week stay in New York and
Washington, D.C. and will then
travel by direct air route to Burma.
He expects to be in Rangoon by
November 4.
mrs. rapiey ana ner son, ueorge
Jr., leave on the Baranof and will
travel to New York by train. They
will piake the trans-ocean Journey
by boat to Egypt and then transfer
to a smaller ship for the trip
through the Suez Canal to India
and Burma.
Present family plans are that
their daughter, Betty, who Is now
in her sophomore year at Mills
College, will Join them in June.
Betty plans to travel across the
Pacific with a college friend, whose
father is stationed with the State
Department at Singapore.
Life in Rangoon
Rangoon has a population of 750,
000 with 000 British residents and
200 Americans. The monsoon sea
son lasts for six months each year
with a constant temperature of 85
degrees. Mr. Tapley said that hous
ing was being arranged and that
he will receive &n annual quatlpW
allotment of $2,000 and an addi
tional $1,800 for subsistence. Serv
ants receive $20 a month in Ran
goon and the average household
staff is four domestics. The British
American colony in Rangoon have
clubs which include facilities for
tennis, golf, and swimming.
According to information received
by the Tapleys, there are excellent
schools for younger 'children in
Rangoon in which George Jr., who
is in the fifth grade here, can be
enrolled. When the children are
ready to enter high school the ma
jority are enrolled in English pre
paratory schools in northern India,
that are on a par with Eton and
Harrow in England.
Tapley has had 21 years of gov
ernment service and has been
assigned to the Alaska Road Com
mission for the past three years.
Previous to his Alaska duty, he
was with the Corps of Engineers,
War Department, for 18 years.
The Taplfeys sold their home on
10th and C Streets to Mr. and Mrs.
Simpson MacKinnon Jr. in July
and have been living at the Men
denhall Apartments.
National Guard Holds
Recruiting Program
A recruiting program by Head
quarters, Headquarters and Service
Company of the 208th Infantry Bat
talion (Sep) of the Alaska National
Guard will be conducted Oct. 15
to 31.
“Membership in thb guard not
only affords guardsmen a chance to
serve with their friends while re
ceiving an Introduction to military
life,’’ the headquarters said, "but
also present an excellent opportun
ity tb learn a special skill in courses
offered by the guard.’’
A partial list of vocations avail
able to members of the detachment
includes drafting, radio repair, au
tomotive repair, instruction in radio
work and welding. 'Additional in
formation can be obtained from
the National Guard Headquarters
at the Juneau armory or by call
ing 1038.
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TIDE TABLES
•
• High tide
• Low tide
• High tide
• Low tide
OCTOBER 14
1:11 ajn., 17.4 ft.
7:11 ajn., 0.1 ft.
1:22 p.m., 18.9 ft.
7:41 p.m., -1.7 ft.
OCTOBER IS
• High tide
• Low tide
• High tide
• Low tide
1:63 a.m., 17.5 ft.
7:47 a.m., 0.6 ft.
1:65 p.m., 19.1 ft.
8:17 p.m., -2.1 ft.
New Gains Made on 2 Fronts
As Fighting Flares with
Renewed Savagery in Korea
Tents Set Up
For Holding
Truce Confabs
By NATE POLOWETZKY
MUNSAN. Korea, Oct. 13——
Liaison officers will meet again
Sunday In dusty little Pnnmunjom
in another effort to get the stalled
Korean aimistice talks rolling
again.
The meeting is scheduled for 10
a.m. (5 p.m., Saturday, PST).
Negotiations were interrupted
Saturday by a Red complaint that
three United Nations warplanes
strafed the fringe of the Kaesong
neutrality zone Friday, killing a
12-year-old boy and wounding his
two-year-old brother. U. N. liaison
officers investigated.
The Communists meanwhile went
ahead with their preparations for
the resumption of negotiations. They
put up three more tents at Pan
munjom, presumably to be used
by the Red delegates and their
staff.
They are about 200 yards north
of the large conference tent set up
earlier this week. It has been used
by liaison officers In their discus
sions.
The U.N. command has erected
one tent and will bring in more
when needed.
10 U. S. Fighters,
1 Sabre Jet Lost,
1 Week in Korea
UJ3V
It lost
Fifth Air Force
10 fighter planes, one of them an
F-86 Sabre jet, in Korea in the
week ended yesterday.
The Sabre Jet was shot down in
a clash with Russian-type MIG-15
Jets over northwest Korea. The
pilot was rescued.
The nine other planes were lost to
Communist ground fire.
Record Is Broken
By Congressln
Appropriations
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 — (>P) —
Tlie present Congress has broken
the peacetime record for the amount
of money appropriated and still has
four big appropriations to handle
before it adjourns.
Two bills passed by the Senate
and sent to the White House yes
terday raised to $71,136,000,000 total
funds approved thus far to run the
government in the current fiscal
year.
The remaining four bills would
add about *14,000,000,000 to the
total already approved in the nine
measures sent to President Truman.
One of the bills sent to the White
House yesterday — the *56,937,
808.030 military money measure —
was the largest peacetime appropri
ations bill ever passed by Congress.
The other measure approved was
a $1,042,867,887 bill carrying funds
for the State, Commerce and Jus
tice Departments and the Judiciary.
Body of Native of
Kake Reported Found
PETERSBURG, Alaska. Oct. 13—
The body bf Henry Adams, Kake
native missing about a month after
flying from Kake to Petersburg,
was found this morning by Ted
Darby, Petersburg high school
teacher, while hunting behind Pro
lewy Rock at the north end of
Wrangell Narrows.
The body had been in the water
about a month. Identification was
made by Homer Williams, who ac
companied a Coast Guard boat to
pick up the body at 9 o'clock this
morning. Deputy U. S. Marshal
Ralph Smith and Commissioner
Dale Hlrt were also in the party.
The body is too decomposed to hold
an Inquest, it is stated.
DUCK HUNTING HOURS
October 14
Starts — 7:01 a.m..
Ends — 4:56 p.m.
October 15
Starts — 7:04 am..
Ends — 4:53 p.m.
► By JOHN RANDOLPH
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea. Oct. 13 — OP) —
United Nations Infantry supported
by tanks and artillery gouged out
new gains on the western and cen
tral Korean fronts today as fight
ing flared with renewed savagery
across Korea.
The U.S. 24th Division and two
South Korean divisions gained up
to nearly two miles along a 22-mlle
front in the center.
Allied artillery pounded a day
long rain of high explosives on
Chinese Communists positions
above Yonchon In the west. U.S.
First Cavalry troopers moved un
opposed onto a hill forming the
eastern flank of a vital ridge
line scarred by four days of fight
ing.
One battalion of the cavalry was
badly cut up Friday.
A captured Red officer on the
eastern front said the North Ko
rean Army — the one that started
the war 21 months ago — now was
"practically nftnextstant.” •
American and French troops on
Heartbreak Ridge In eastern Ko
rea scorched the last Reds out of
their suicide bunkers on the
slopes of the ridgeline’s northern
most peak. The peak, Hill 851.
was captured Friday. Allied offi
cers said the mopping up action
was among the bitterest fights of
Nhe war.
American Sabre Jets patrolled
MIG Alley in northwest Korea but
drew no challenge from« Russian
made MIG Jets. Fifth Air Force
warplanes pounded Red road and
rail lines.
To the west the cavalrymen wore
on the move again after a disastrous
day Friday. A battalion of the Sev
enth Regiment — General Custer’s
old outfit — was shattered and cut
to pieces by waves of attacking Rods
west of Yotwhon.
Remnants of the battalion were
rescued, but only after some ground
was lost.
Longshoremen
Give Warning,
Russ Cargoes
Shipments from Sweden
Are Also Viewed with
Suspicion by ILA
NEW YORK. Oct. 13—(if)—The
AFX International Longshoremen’s
Association (ILA) has warned ship
ping companies that their vessels
will 4ie delayed for long periods If
stevedores detect Russian cargoes.
ILA President Joseph P. Ryan
says the shippers must clearly label
the country of origin on all pack
ages, or longshoremen will insist
that the parcels be opened.
He adds that unlabelled packages
coming from Sweden will be viewed
suspiciously.
Ryan acted yesterday after the
ILA claimed that It had uncovered
a large amount of Russian goods,
especially furs, slipping through the
union’s boycott here and In other
Atlantic ports.
Goods from Russia are shipped
to Sweden, Ryan said, and then
are rewrapped before being loaded
on America-bound vessels.
The ILA voted Its ban on hand
ling Soviet goods a year ago, but
there Is no legal United States gov
ernment restriction again Importing
such merchandise.
APW Leases
New Building
The Alaska Public Works signed
a lease on Thursday for the office
building now being constructed at
123 Third Street by Foss, Malcolm
and Olsen, Juneau architectural
firm. The Alaska Public Works
will take occupancy of the building
on or before December 1. The two
story office building Is being built
by James Larsen.
One set of offices on the first
floor is expected to be sub-leased
to the Alaska Field Committee,
which now occupies office space In
the Juneau Plumbing and Heating
building. The Alaska Public Works,
which now has 30 employees in
Juneau, has had offices at the
Alaska Juneau mine office building
for the past year.
Offices for all construction en
gineers working on Juneau projects
will be on the first floor of the new
building. On the second floor will
be located engineers and admin
istrative officers working on the all
[Alaska program.