THE DAILY- ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,741
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Twin U. S. Spearheads Set Pace for Offensive
FEDERAL
AGENCIES
ROASTED
_
MacKenzie Memorial
Wants Revamping of Poli
cies Dealing with Alaska
An Alaska senator today describ- j
ed the attitude of many Federal j
agencies toward utilization of the .
Territory’s resources in a national]
emergency as ‘'shocking.”
In a memorial to all U. S. sen
ators. Dr. R. M. MacKenzie, Demo
cratic senator from Ketchikan, i
charged that “few Federal Govern
ment officials possess a realistic |
understanding of the Territory’s
capabilities in furnishing the nation
with essential materials."
The Territorial legislator charged
that the Alaska lumber industry
was being discriminated against
and the Federal agencies were fall
ing down on opportunities to develop
vital mineral and hydroelectric re
sources.
MacKenzie said he would intro
duce the memorial in the Legisla
ture tomorrow.
MacKenzie’s memorial says “des
pite a national need, more than
6,000 tons of chromite ore . . . lies
deserted on a Kenai Peninsula
beach.” The ore was purchased by
the Federal Government during
World War I at a cost of $250,726,
the memorial asserts.
“Although the annua! demand for
timber to be used in Alaska’s con
struction program exceeds 100,000,
000 feet, the actual cut is less than
55.000. 000 owing to discrimination
by Federal agencies against Alaska
mill operators," the memorial con
tinues. “The Army Engineer’s depot
in Anchorage recently purchased
7.000. 000 feet of lumber outside
Alaska, without even asking Alaska
mills for bids, at a cost about $7Q,
000 over Alaska mill prices.
“Owing to the manner in which
specifications are drawn Alaska
mills currently are being deprived
of the opportunity of bidding on
contracts involving 20,000,000 board
feet.”
The memorial asserts that “at
tempts by an Alaska timber oper
ator early in 1951 to establish a
plywood plant to produce material
critically needed in Alaska and
elsewhere were blocked because of
the inability to obtain a favorable
plant site from the Federal Gov
ernment.
“Alaska mining operating desir
ing to furnish antimony, mercryy
and tungsten have been unable to
do so owing to the confusion sur
rounding the program of the De
fense Minerals Administration in
Alaska.”
The memorial calls on the U. S.
Senate to re-examine the policies
of national agencies dealing with
Alaska.
FROM HYDABURG
Edgar F. Russell of Hydaburg is
registered at the Barcnof Hotel.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1951, oy Bell Syndicate, Inc..
FPaSHINGTON— Only fragmen
tary details have been cabled to
the Pentagon, but open fighting
has been reported between the
Chinese Communists and North
Koreans.
Generally these skirmishes have
been discounted by American In
telligence as accidental. It isn't
unusual for trigger-happy troops
to open fire on their own men by
mistake.
However, at least one incident
has been reported as a revolt
against the Chinese. This was a
shooting scrape between Chinese
Communists and North Koreans on
January 19 behind enemy lines.
The Chinese quickly crushed the
revolt after killing 150 North
Koreans.
Meanwhile, hints of friction
among our enemies continue to fil
ter across the 38th parallel. Amer
ican I/itelligence officers do not
believe a serious rift is imminent.
However, they have detected a
strange inferiority complex toward
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Mother, 15, and Twin Babies
Fifteen-year-old Mrs. Barbara Solomon makes notes on what baby things she’ll need for the double order
of habies bom to her at Mavwood Hospital, near Los Angeles. The premature boys, weighing four pounds,
eleven ounces and four pounds, seven ounees are in an incubator (right) and doing well. The father, Paul,
18, is an assembler for an engineering firm. The mothers parents are now grandparents at age 32. Iff)
Wirephoto.
UNCLE SLAPS
MILLION LIEN
ON SB BRIBES
NEW YCTiK, Feb. 23.-1^ The U.
S. government today sla; ped a
SI,128,493.57 income tax lien against
the property of Salvatore T. Sol
lazzo, alleged briber in New York's
college basketball scandal.
The lien covered the five-year
period from 1943 through 1947. The
total includes 6 per cent interest
and 50 per cent penalty on all pro
perty owned by Sollazzo, a jeweler.
It was filed by James W. John
son, collector of internal revenue
for the Third New York District.
NINE AMERICANS
ON WINNING LIST
FOR NOBEL PRIZE
OSLO, Norway, Feb. 23.—(/PI—The
Norwegian Nobel Institute today
nominated 28 persons, including
nine Americans, for the 1951 Nobel
peace prize. Six organizations also
were nominated.
The Americans nominated are:
Frank Buchman, leader of Moral
Rearmament < Oxford Movement i:
Lwing Cockrell, Washington law
yer; Allen Dobson. Nashville, Tenn.,
Lusinessman; H. C. Honegger, New
York philanthropist; Manley O.
Hudson, Cambridge, Mass., expert
on international law; Robert May
nard Hutchins, for many years
chancellor of the University of Chi
cago; Charles Cheney Hyde, New
York international law expert; As
sociate Justice Robert H. Jackson
cf the U. S. Supreme Court; Ra
phael Lemkin, Yale expert on inter
national law.
Others nominated included: Secre
' tary-General Trygve Lie of the
[united Nations; Prime Minister
i Jawaharlal Nehru of India; At
torney General Sir Hartley Shaw
cross of Britain, and the organiza
tion, Cooperative for American Re
mittances to Europe (Care).
An American, Dr. Ralph J.
Bunche, won the 1950 Nobel peace
prize for his work in winning a
truce in the Israeli-Arab fighting
in Palestine.
The prize in 1950 was worth 163,
303 kroner ($23,000).
TEXAS BOMBERS
ARE IN FAIRBANKS
ON 'ROUTINE' TRIP
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 23—
— Giant B-36 bombers of the type
that recently flew from Texas to
England landed at Eielson Air Force
base near here yesterday on a “rou
tine training mission.”
Air Force spokesmen would not
disclose the number of planes in
volved or the nature of the flight.
The bombers took off from Carswell
Air Force base in Texas.
Oliver L. Kaiser of Sitka is stay
ing at the Baranof Hotel.
Patricia Patterson, 22, gets a kiss
from her father, YV. A. Patterson,
president of United Airlines, at
Chicago, after she graduated as a
stewardess for American Airlines,
a rival of her dad’s company.
United Airlines has a ruling that
no two members of a family can
be employed at the same time.
Ifcncc, “Pat” chose the rival air
line. l/Pt YV'irephoto.
HOUSE MAT
INVESTIGATE
MOVIE REDS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23— Wl—An
on-the-spot investigation of possible
Communist influences in the movie
industry may be made by a house
unAmerican activities subcommittee,
Chairman Wood (D-Ga.) said today.
Two committee investigators al
ready are in Hollywood armed with
subpoenas for 20 Hollywood figures
—actors, writers and producers.
Wood told newsmen a three-man
subcommittee would be sent to the
West Coast if preliminary investiga
tion warranted service of the sub
poenas, dated March 21 for appear
ance in Washington.
The chairman decline to make
public the names of those likely to
be served. But he inferentially con
firmed reports from other commit
tee sources that one is Larry Parks,
star of the movie “The Jolson
Story.”
N. Carolina Joins
Vote 2-Term Pres.;
Two More Needed
RALEIGH, N. C.. Feb. 23.——
North Carolina today became the
34th state to approve a Federal
! amendment to keep a President
; from being elected for more than
! two terms.
Approval by only two more states
is needed. The proposed arnend
j mart exempts President Truman.
I
Legislature
Locks Doors
For 4lh Day
Alaska’s legislature cleared the
galleries and press table and locked
its doors again this morning*
The executive session, fourth in
eight days, was on civilian defense.
As the house and senate went
into joint session, the doors were
locked, over protests of two legis
lators, at the request of Cel. Jotoph
Alexander, Alaska national guard
and civilian defense head.
He was reporting on the national
civilian defense council session in
Washington, D. C., from which he
returned a few days ago. Legislators
said he explained it should be a
locked door affair because some of
his material is “restricted.”
Before the senate went to the
house chamber, Sen. Howard Lyng
protested that civilian defense is a
public issue and the public is en
titled to the facts.
As the closed session opened, Rep.
Mike Stepovich proposed unsuccess
fully that newsmen should be ad
mitted on an understanding that
they would repect the “restricted”
parts of the report; that the closed
door policy on public matters was
being overworked.
The house earlier re-approved a
memorial to President Truman,
Congress and national defense lead
ers, asking that the recent decision
against the proposed big aluminum
project near Skagway "be reviewed
immediately, looking more closely to
merits of the Alaska project.”
It substituted for an earlier me
morial by Rep. Stanley McCutcheon
which cited $500,000,000 involved as
being mainly taxpayers’ money.
That portion was eliminated in to
day’s redraft after Governor Gruen
ing advised the house the financing
iwould be by the Aluminum Com
,pany of America.
> The memorial states that the
company “stands ready, willing and
able to proceed" with the project
It says the company “strongly con
tends that the Taiya project is in
the best interests of the nation
from a standpoint of national de
fense and from a dollar savings
standpoint.”
/ It says the Taiya project hydro
i electric potential “of this area of
' Alaska alone is sufficient to com
pletely alleviate the entire national
shortage of aluminum as well as
making it possible to furnish this
highly valuable war material to al
lied countries.” „
Both houses were expected to
be in session this afternoon for work
oa their calendars.
PN'A FLYING TODAY
Due to bad weather yesterday Pa
cific Northern Airlines flight to
Juneau did not get off the ground
at Anchorage. However, two flights
arrived in Juneau early this after
noon and two were due out at
press time.
MRS. HFTROVICH, JR., HERE
Mrs. John Butrovich, Jr., and
daughter, Jan, arrived yesterday
from Fairbanks to spend part of
the Legislative period with Sen
ator Butrovich. They are at the
Baranof hotel.
THOUSANDS |
(HINA REDS i
ARE KILLEDi
j
Communist China Admits
Open Defiance Spreading
-Death Penalty Ordered
HONG KONG, Feb. 23—1/11 -
Communist China, extending the
death penalty drastically, today ad
mitted the underground had killed
thousands of Red militiamen and
that open defiance was spreading.
In an astounishing announce
ment, Peiping conceded that re
sistance had risen with the outbreak
of fighting in Korea.
Some observers here, however, be
lieved the announcement was in
tended primarily to justify a wide
spread purge which they expect
to increase in intensity.
The Reds ordered immediate na
tion-wide imposition of the death
penalty for any and all actions
which might be construed as “op
position” to government authority.
Observers said that by giving the
penlties highest government sanc
tion, Peiping also apparently was
trying to take some of the heat off
regional and local governments.
The Chinese Communists in Pei
ping announcement admitted that
peasant opposition to land reform
Is spreading rapidly, “armed defi
ance" to the Communist regime is
getting out of control, and that
thousands of Red militia and gov
ernment officials have been killed
by “counter revolutionary" agents.
The broadcast said the situation
had grown worse “since the launch
ing of the American imperialist ag
gression against Korea.”
It conceded that roving Guerrilla
bands are destroyiiig railroads and ,
bridges.
NEW RECORD
IS SET BY BIG 1
JET BOMBER
HONOLULU, Feb, 23—UP)—A B-47
jet bomber of the U. S. Air Force
apparently set a record of less than
six hours for the 2,400-mile flight
from California to Honolulu yester
day.
Military secrecy hid details of the
flight, but unofficial observers said
the takeoff from California’s Travis
Air Force base was about 7:40 a m.,
PST, and the landing at Hickam
Field was between 11:15 and 11:30
a.m., Honolulu time (11:15-1:30 p.m.j
PST).
The best recorded time from San
Francisco to Honolulu by Pan
American Airways is 7 hours, 33
minutes, with the average being 8
hours, 30 minutes or more.
The six-engined Boeing Strato
jet can carry the 10-ton bomb load
of a B-29 superfortress. It has av
eraged 607.8 miles an hour in main
land tests.
PIONEERS AUXILIARY
WILL NOT MEET TONIGHT
The regular meeting of the
Pioneers Auxiliary, Igloo No. 6,
scheduled to meet this evening, has
teen postponed until March 30 due
to the fact that the Grand Igloo
convention was held here thus week.
This was announced today by Mrs.
Anna Bodding, president.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—'W—'Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%, American Can
105, American Tel. and Tel. 155 %,
Anaconda 44, Douglas Aircraft 106,
General Electric 55, General Motors
50, Goodyear 72%, Kennecott, 76,
Libby, McNeil and Libby 9%,
Northern Pacific 35 %, Standard 911
of California, 95%, Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 22%, U. S. Steel 44%,
Pound, 2.80%, Canadian Exchange
95.68%,
Sales today were 1,540,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
i industrials, 252.18, rails 86.51, utili
j ties 43.52.
To the Rescue
The accident that everybody’s been expecting: to happen to women
in strapless gowns almost befall Actress Shelley Winters in Hollywood.
At an awards dinner of the Screen Writers Guild, her dress became
slightly unzipped. Actor Farley Granger, her escort, gallantly comes
to her aid. (If) Wirephoto.
Truman Calls
For Letters
On RFC Loans
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 — UP)—
President Truman, steaming over
Capitol Hill charges one of his aides
influenced RFC loans, has got from
the lending agency copies of its
correspondence about loans with
Congress members — 700 to 900 let
ters in all.
Mr. Truman’s move in the red-hot
controversy was first brought out |
today at a Senate Banking Subcom
mitte’s hearing on the question of
whether RFC directors have yielded,
to influence and favoritism in hand
ing out millions in government
loans. The White House later con
firmed that Mr. Truman had called
for the correspondence.
At the Capitol, Chairman W. El
der Harber of the RFC board of
directors testified he had ordered
copies of the letters delivered to
the White House and had discussed
them “with the President himself.”
Ask what purpose President Tru
man had in mind for using the
correspondence. Harber replied:
"He didn’t say.”
At the same time, it was de
veloped that the RFC has hired Eu
gene Kelly, a Washington news
paperman, as a $50-a-day public re
lations adviser. Under questioning
Ti'cm the senators, Kelly said he
joined the RFC staff "a week ago
today" and expected to be retained
"one week or two weeks.”
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Barancf scheduled to sail from
Seattle 4 pm. today.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Feb. 28.
Denali from westward scheduled
to arrive Sunday southbound.
• WEATHER REPORT •
9 Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending «:20 o’clock this morning •
• In Juneau — Maximum •
• 37; minimum, 33. *
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 36; minimum, 32. •
• •
* FORECAST •
• •
» Mostly cloudy with occa- •
• slonal mixed rain and snow •
• tonight and Saturday. Low •
• temperature tonight near 33 •
• and high Saturday near 36. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• •
• City of Juneau — .51 inches; •
• Since Feb. 1 — 4.59 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 46,67 inches; •
• At Airport — .06 Inches: •
• Since Feb. 1 — 2.17 inches; •
1 • Since July 1 — 32.42 inches. •
• •««••••••»
FULBRIGHT
IRE RAISED i
AGAINST RFC
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — (>P) —
Senator Fulbright (D-Ark) accused
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration today of planting reports
he had tried to influence an RFC
loan.
Fulbright, head of a senate bank
ing subcommittee now investigating
RFC lending, called it an attempt
to "discredit the work” of the senate
group.
The senator, jn angry tones,
brought this up when the subcom
mittee began its third day of hear
ings.
Fulbright said a radio commenta
tor, on “a tip-off from someone in
formed by or within the RFC,” had
asked yesterday whether Fulbright!
himself had tried to influence an
RFC loan. Fulbright added:
"This inquiry Indicates quite
clearly that an attempt is being
made to embarrass me and through
me to discredit the work of this
subcommittee.”
Fulbright did not name the "well
known and highly reputable radio
commentator" he said had called
him.
He challenged RFC directors it
the room to prove that he or any
other member of the subcommittee
had exercised “Improper influence"
on loans.
The subcommittees investigation
is aimed at determining whether
there lias been influence and favor
itism in the making of RFC loans
Its first two days of hearings
I rough! frequent mention of Wil
liam M Boyle, Jr., chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, but
no testimony Uniting Boyle directly
with any efforts on behalf of RFC
borrowers.
10 ACT ON
DRAFTING
18-YR.0LDS
•
WASHINGTON Feb. 23. — OP —
Senate Democrats decided today to
bring up for senate action early
next week the bill permitting the
j drafting of I8-year-olds.
Majority Leader McFarland <D
Ariz.) told reporters the manpower
bill will be pushed ahead of a reso
lution dealing with the troops to
Europe issue.
This represents a change of pre
vious plans. McFarland said it was
decided on because the draft mea
sure is ready for action while com
mittee work on the troops-to-Europe
resolution has not teen completed.
FOUR ■ MILE
PUSH MADE;
REDS HIT
Tank - Led Forets Nearing
Key Communist Defense
Point-Supers Blasting
By Associated Press
Tank-led American forces punch
ed swift.Iy up the mountainous spine
of Central Korea late today and
occupied freshly vacated Red fox
holes overlooking Hoengsong, key
Communist defense point .
The twin U. S. spearheads were
setting the pace for the powerful
Allied offensive that shoved ahead
virtually unopposed all along the
muddy 60-mile front.
Brief but bitter Red resistance
was met in some sectors earlier to
day. This Indicated the Commun
ists are using fight-and-run tactics
against the 100,000-man UN Red
killer drive.
Four-Mile Push
AP Correspondent Stan Swinton
reported American forces advanc
ing on Hoengsong in the Middle
Sector of the front here within a
mile and a quarter of the burned
out town. The push carried four
miles.
On the eastern flank of the
rugged, twisting Central Front,
American forces captured rubbled
Pyongchang without a /ight and
pushed four miles beyond to a lat
eral road leading to Hoengsong.
Other elements of the six-nation
force of 100,000 pushed northward
cautiously all along a 60-mile front.
Canadians In Fray
In the area north of Chipyong, a
regiment of Canada’s famed Prin
cess Patricia regiment entered the
fray for the first time to move for
ward without opposition astride the
Seoul-Hongchon road 20 miles to
the west of Hoengsong. They had
joined up in the offensive with
American, British, Australian, New
Zealand and South Korean troops.
More than 10,000 of an estimated
40,000-man Red force was reported
massed around Hoengsong.
Blasting by Supers
B-29 Superforts blasted at rail
road bridges crossing the Yalu Riv
er at Manpojin and others ranged
to Hwangju, south of the Red Kor
ean capital of Pyongyang.
Allied warships continued to rake
shore batteries and coastal defenses
on both sides of the peninsula for
the ninth straight day. The battle
ship Missouri Wt»j back in the as
sault, pouring lo-inch, one-ton
shells into targets near Sc.ogjin.
REMOVE SHRAPNEL
FROM MAN'S EYE
TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 23 - X—
A small piece of shrapnel dust was
recently removed by magnet from
the eye of Brigadier J. M. Rocking
ham, commander of the special
Canadian force training at nearby
Fort Lewis, it was revealed today.
The Canadian’s public informa
tion officer said the shrapnel,
j "about the size of a pin head,” was
I lodged in Brigadier Rockingham's
eye Feb. 15 as he watched a live
j ammunition training session.
VALENTINE I>AY BRINGS
ARMY SIMMONS TO
JUNEAU ENGINEER
Everyone likes to receive surprise
valentines, but one greeting sent to
Thomas P. Rome, Juneau resident
the past two years until recently,
was a surprise that called for an
immediate response. On Valentine's
Day, February 14, he received notice
of his induction in the Armed
Forces.
Rome has written to Juneau
friends that he is now Private
Rome, U. S. Army. Fort Devens,
Massuchusetts.
A cadastral engineer, Rome was
with the Juneau office. Surveys
Division of the Bureau of Land
Management, for two years, and
before that was with the U. S.
Engineers at Anchorage. He left
| here last December on a visit this
: winter with his family in Dobbs
| Ferry, N. Y. Before he left he said
' that he doubted he would return
1 in the spring for another season’s
; work, anticipating service in the
: Army, and now he knows for sure.