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JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1951
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Tories Get
18-Sea! Edge
In Returns
LONDON, Oct. 29—1#!—Complete
returns from the 624 districts which
voted Thursday in Britain’s parlia
mentary elections gave Winston
Churchill’s Conservatives an overall
edge of 18 seats in the House of
Commons even though they polled
190,236 less votes than the beaten
Laborites.
The last two of the 624 districts
reported today. The 625th is the
Labor stronghold of Barnsley where
polling was postponed until Nov. 8
because of the death of a candidate.
That probably will trim the Tories’
margin to 17 seats. But Churchill
has a qualified pledge of support
from the Liberals, which should
boost his working margin on most
issues to 29.
The Conservatives won 1,732,346
votes in the 624 districts, the Lab
orites 13,911,582.
New Version
Atomic Weapon
Is Given Test
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Oct: 29—
The United States now has at least
three arrows to its atomic strong
bow.
Joining the select company of the
large A-bomb and the baby A-bomb
yesterday was a medium sized
yeapon which give off a brief,
Bhlliant freakish cloud effect in
another test by the Atomic Energy
Commission.
The moderate, by comparison,
bomb was dropped by a B-29
plane in a daylight demonstra
tion yesterday morning.
It was the second after-dawn
nuclear test put on by the AEC
after much delay because of
weather and various operational
difficulties.
Unlike the pallid baby blast last
Monday, yesterday's detonation
caused a rumble heard as far away
as Big Bear, Calif., 225 miles away,
and St. George, Utah, 135 miles oft.
An aviator flying at about 11,000
feet over Kaibab Forest, Utah, re
ported seeing the flash some 200
miles distant. It also was widely
seen in Las Vegas and other south
ern Nevada communities, but was
felt by comparatively few persons.
There was no damage reported.
The AEC reported finding a
small amount of radiation in the
Beatty-Lathrop Wells area, about
35 miles southwest of the Yucca
Flat test site, but it was termed
unharmful to humans, animals or
crops.
Yesterday’s bomb — unofficially
the 19th major nuclear explosion by
the U.S. — flashed white, then
glowed red for perhaps two seconds
before sending up a column of smoke
and the familiar atomic mushroom.
Changing through various colors
from grey to purple to brown to
pink, the nuclear cloud assumed a
“V” shape which stretched widely
across the sky before finally disin
tegrating three hours after the blast.
At its peak, the cloud rose to prob
ably 10,000 feet and attained a
width of nearly 50 miles.
The bomb exploded at an altitude
estimated at about 1500 feet above
Yucca Flats. It was released by a
B-29, one of three planes dispatched
from Kirtland Air Force Base, Albe
querque, N.M.
TheWashingion
Merry - Go - Round
(Copyright. 1951. by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON—With Congress
taking the rest of the year off, va
cation-minded Congressmen have
suddenly discovered "official busi
ness” in South America, the Pacific
Islands, the Mediterranean and
other faraway places.
with winter approaching, the
greatest Congressional interest seems
to be in South America, as com
pared with . Alaska in the summer.
More than two dozen Congressmen
have signed up for “surveys” of sun
ny South America in November and
December. However, other tours are
also planned through Europe, the
middle east and around the world.
While some of these trips are
pure junkets, this columnist is of
the opinion that some make worth
while additions to a Congressman's
store of knowledge at a time when
the American defense Une extends
from Korea to the Rhine. However,
since the taxpayer pays for the air
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Drops in for Lunch
4 mmz w . * - —
Mrs James Jackson pours coffee for l,t. C. L. Burke, whose naming
plane crashed into her back yard at Salem, Ore. Burke bailed out
and landed neaiby. A wing tip sliced a hole in the Jackson roof,
but no one was hurt. Calm Mrs. Jackson invited the pilot to lunch
which was on the tabfe. iff! Wirephoto.
Bus Dives Off of Ramp
Of Oakland Bay Bridge
Killing 7, Injuring 21
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Strike Halts
Atomic Project
Construction
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 29—UP)
j —Construction on a vital atomic
plant defense project was halted
today by an AFL plumber’s strike.
I The plumber's posted {tickets in
defiance of orders of their interna
I tional union president. And for the
; third straight day, hundreds of
AFL workers honored picket lines.
The Atomic Energy Commission
j announced that the project was
shutting down because of lack of
workers to man the job. A handful
of carpenters and laborers showed
up, but they were sent home.
Martin Durkin of Washington,
International President of the
Plumbers and Steamfitters’ Union,
had ordered union leaders to “get
the men back to work."
The Plumbers walked off the jobs
last Tuesday in a jurisdictional
squabble with the carpenters over
a work assignment. They posted
pickets Friday and brought cons
truction to a standstill as more than
2,000 fellow AFL craftsmen honor
ed the lines.
A spokesman for the plumber s
union said the local’s executive
council met over the weekend and
decided to continue the strike.
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'Berserk' Seaman
Killed by Captain,
Says Line's Agent
TOKYO, Oct. 29—W1—An Is
brandtsen agent today said Capt.
Frederick D. Weaver of the line’s
Flying Trader last Thursday shot
and killed an insubordinate seaman,
William Harvey, 24, Dayton, O.
Capt. Andrew Crinkley of A. P.
Pattison Co., Isbrandsten agent at
Kobe, said Harvey “went berserk
and threatened to kill the captain.
He advanced on him and the cap
tain shot him with a pistol.
Weaver is from Englewood, N.J.
The Flying Trader arrived Friday
at Kobe and the American Consul
General investigated. The Con
sulate said its report was sent to
Washington. Crinkley said there
would be a Coast Guard hearing
when the ship reaches San Fran
cisco.
FROM KETCHIKAN
Dick Fairhurst of Ketchikan is
registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
JUNEAU VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Frank of
Sitka are guests at the Hotel Ju
neau.
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• OCTOBER 30 •
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• High tide 1:27 a.m., 16.8 ft. •
• Low tide 7:17 a.m., 1.7 ft. •
• High tide 1:20 p.m., 19.3 ft. •
• Low tide 7:52 p.m., -2.7 ft. •
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OAKLAND, Cal. Oct. 29— UH —
Seven persons were smashed to
death and 21 others lay in hospital
beds today—most of them in serious
condition—after an incredibly freak
ish bus disaster.
A Greyhound bus careened off a
ramp at the Oakland end of the
Bay Bridge and plunged 40 feet to
a railroad track below Just before
dawn Sunday.
It lay crumpled upside down with
moaning and screaming passengers
uupped inside noa.lj two hour.,.
Of the 29 persons aboard only
Air Force Lt. John R. Haber, 24,
of Camp Stoneman, Calif., was
able to walk away from the hospital
after treatment for minor cuts and
bruises.
Twelve of the injured were re
ported in critical condition.
The almost unbelievable sequence
started when a passenger car
knocked a huge hunk of concrete
onto the roadway less than three
minutes before the ponderous bus
hove into sight from the opposite
direction.
The loaded bus, inbound for the
Oakland Bus Depot after a night
run from Salt Lake City, smacked
the concrete block, blew a tire and
went out of control. It ripped out
a section of the stout retaining rail
and fell into the darkness below.
It took an hour and 49 minutes
for rescuers to extricate the 28
passengers and the driver.
Bus driver Vane E. Eishire of
Sacramento, Calif., was one of the
dead.
A 16-year-old bus passenger set
his stop watch as the bus fell. It
was 5:22 a.m. Like everyone else,
he was knocked unconscious by the
crash. ,
Then, said Charles B. Taylor who
lived nearby:
“People were screaming get me
out. . for God’s sake get me out'.”
"One woman kept shouting: ‘turn
off the ignition before we all blow
up."
Two Men Injured
In Car Wreck
On Douglas Read
Two Juneau men were injured in
an automobile accident north of
Douglas on the Douglas highway
early Sunday morning when the car
they were in ran into the ditch
along the highway and turned over
twice. '
Matthew Wannamaker, driver oi
the car which belonged to a rela
tive of his, according to Alaska
Highway Patrol, was the most ser
iously injured. His doctor, at the
government hospital, reports that
Wannamaker may have a frac
tured back. A passenger, Leo Na
varro, suffered cuts on the face and
scalp, and possibly a fractured rib
Both men are said to be in fair
condition.
Wannamaker and Navarro were
both thrown from the overturning
vehicle, according to William Post,
driver of a Glacier Cab. Post told
patrol officers that he saw the car
in front of him swerve back and
forth across the highway, then go
into the ditch on the wrong side of
the road. He said it then careened
back onto the highway and over
turned twice. Passengers in the
cab verified the account of the ac
cident, according to John Monagle,
patrol officer.
Docks Quiet
As Pickets
March in N. Y.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24 — — A
threatened showdown in New York's
waterfront strike failed to develop
today and miles and miles of docks
remained closed tight after morn
ing work whistles blew.
Reinforced lines of pickets
marched in front of many piers. An
nounced plans of AFL Longshore
Boss Joseph Ryan to send men
"through or over” pickets didn’t
materialize.
Police, anticipating a possible vio
lent climax to the 15-day dock
strike, increased waterfront patrols
to about 400 men along the Man
hattan docks alone.
But as the morning advanced, the
docks remained quiet while pickets,
shivering in a chill wind, plodded
to and fro.
■ There was no sign of the non
strikers Ryan had threatened to
send out.
"There’s no trouble anywhere so
far," a police spokesman said.
John J. Sampson, leader of the
strikers’ revolt against a new con
tract, said of Ryan’s threat to send
in non-strikers to crash picket lines:
"He said that two weeks ago. The
men will stay out as long as we
are on strike.”
He also scoffed at Ryan’s charge
that “strangers” were among the
strikers.
"There are no strangers here.”
| Sampson said. “The trouble is that
Ryan is not close enough to the
membership to know who they are.”
Ryan, lifetime president of the
AFL International Longshoremen’s
Association, Sunday wired President
Truman, promising that his fol
lowers will not be kept from work
by picket lines.
STEVEDORES PASS PICKETS
j NEW YORK, Oct. 20—UB—A big
i squad of • >v*d5>r*«s rd red the-/ wr ”
I onto a strikebound pier today, while
! some 200 policemen held back a
' surging, angry throng of some 250
i pickets.
It was the first move today by
j non-strikers to back their threat
! to break through picket lines that I
J have paralyzed the miles of docks:
j along the vast New York harbor.
Some 100 non-strikers, supporters
! of AFL Longshore Boss Joseph
Ryan, filtered hastily past the
massed pickets at pier 90 on the
Hudson river where the Queen
Elizabeth is docked.
Police, who a few minutes earlier
Yiad doubled their foot and mounted
guard at the pier, formed lines and
shoved back the press of pickets.!
keeping the rival factions separated.
The pickets shouted strong taunts, j
but there was no violence.
The back-to-work manuever was I
only isolated, however, ahd left the |
rest of the vast waterfront here —
except for military piers '-Jt closed
tight. A total of 123 ships were strike
bound.
In Albany, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
said it was “intolerable” that an
intra-union fight should tie up the
docks, and ordered the state medi
ation board to step into the dispute.
Lie by Witness
Wins Reprieve
For Murderer
HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 29—UP)—
A convicted murderer about whom
a state’s witness says she lied has
been given a reprieve from the
electric chair.
Francis C. Smith, 26, of Norton
Conn., had only about 24 hours to
live when Gov. John Lodge announc
ed yesterday he had granted him
a reprieve until Jan. 14. Smith, in
trouble with law since childhood, had
been scheduled to die tonight for
shooting a night watchman during
a burglary at a Greenwich yacht
club in July, 1949.
FROM MONTANA
Bill Ensign of St. Regis, Mont.,
is registered at the Hotel Juneau
• WEATHER REPORT •
• (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU •
• At Airport: Maximum, 40; •
• Minimum, 33. •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Continued fair tonight and •
• Tuesday. Lowest temperature •
• tonight around 28 degrees. •
• Highest Tuesday near 40. •
•
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 34 bours ending 7:30 a m. today e
• At Airport — 0.20 inches; •
• since July 1—12.94 inches. •
• ••••••••••
New Truce Site
Here is the entire village of Panmunjon and the Mg, yellow tent where United Nations and CoBimnnist
negotiators will nu‘et after a break of more than two imonths to try and reach an armistice in the Korean
war. All villagers have been removed from their thatched huts shown in the foreground. Iffl Wirephoto.
2 Lives Lost
In Fire a!
Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 29—
If -Fire destroyed Olivera's restau
n at yesterday claiming the lives
H 'u man and a woman who lived
in upstairs rooms.
Neither of the victims was identi
fied immediately.
Firemen said the man was trap
ped in a narrow window wlvle try
ing to escape the flames. The wo
man was found on the lloor of a
room.
The owner of the restaurant. Jay
Kennedy, also was sleeping in an
upstairs room when the fire broke
out. He escaped by jumping to a
low roof and later was hospitalized
for treatment of shock.
Fire Chief George Burns estimat
ed the loss at $50,000, partially cov
ered by insurance. ,
Plan to Ask
Eisenhower
About Candidacy
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29— UFI —
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower prob
ably will be advised soon that if
he is willing to beepme a candidate
for the Republican Presidential
nomination he should say so by
January.
Paul G. Hoffman, former head of
the Economic Cooperation Admin
istration (EVA), has indicated in
■onferences with Republican of
ficials here he plans to carry silch
word to the general shortly.
Senator Duff (R-Pa), scheduled
for a visit to Eisenhower’s Paris
headquarters in the next few weeks,
said in a week-end radio broadcast
that the general's plans “will have
to be very unqualifiedly known very
early in the year.”
North Pole Pilot
To Be Rotated
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 29—M
—The man who has flown over the
North Pole more than any other
person — 58 times — is going to
be rotated from the top o’ the
world to stateside duty.
He’s M/Sgt. James K. Boswood,
who's going to visit his home town
of Oklahoma City, Okla., before
going to new duty in California.
The Air Force sergeant com
pleted his 58 flights over the pole
in the B-29 bombers ‘of the 58th
Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
as a flight engineer. The 20-hour
polar hop is made every other day.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Nov. 2.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver, Oct. 31.
Denali scheduled to arrive south
bound Nov. 4.
1
San Francisco's
Waterfront Awaits
Court Decision
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29—tin—
There was an uneasy peace on San
Francisco’s waterfront today.
Members of the International
Lonshoremen’s and Warehousemen's j
Union were working while awaiting
a court hearing that could touch off
an all-out Jurisdictional war.
The issue is ytLethei Isthimian
Steamship Co., may legally hire
AFL longshoremen to work cargo
on three of its strikebound ships
here. Members of the ILWU have
refused to work the cargo.
The AFL stevedores have a newly j
chartered local here, and Isthimian |
said Friday it had hired 35 of them I
to work the vessels.
Superior Judge William T. Swei- |
gert may rule tomorrow on whether
he should erase a restraining order j
issued last week temporarily pre
venting Isthimian from hiring AFL
stevedores.
Democrats May
Choose Banker
As New Chairman
WASHINGTON, Oct, 29 — W —
Indianapolis banker Frank McKin
ney is reported to be the No. 1
man on a list of persons under con
sideration to head the Democratic
National Committee, meeting here
Wednesday to pick a chairman.
Formally, the committee names its
chairman, but in actual practices it
can be expected to ratify any selec
tion of President Truman, who said
last week he had some 30 names
under consideration.
William M. Boyle, Jr., is resign
ing for what he has said are rea
;ons of health.
Prnicess and Duke
Met in Ontario
By Dionne Quints
NORTH BAY, Ont., Oct. 29—UP—
Decked out in trim new suits, the
Dionne quintuplets greeted Prin
cess Elizabeth and the Duke of
Edinburgh here today.
Marie, Annette, Cecile, Emiiie
and Yvonne, now 17, curtsied for
the princess during a brief stop
over on the royal tour.
Most of North Bay’s 18,500 resi
dents and thousands from the sur
rounding area were present to greet
Elizabeth arid Philip, too. They are
enroute to Montreal.
BROHAMMERS WILL MAKE
THEIR HOME HERE
Mr. and Mrs. William Brohammer
of St. Louis. Mo., have arrived in
Juneau to make their home. They
drove up over the Alaska highway
and Brohammer is associated with
Walter Field in the Propane gas
business. Mrs. Brohammer is a sis
ter of Mrs. Robert (Buck) Faulkner.
The Brahammers have two girls,
Bonnie Sue, 6, and Diane, 3.
FROM MARSHALL
Mr. and Mrs. Lars Otnes and
son of Marshall are at the Baranof
i Hotel.
Buffer Zone
Agreement
Still Waifs
MUNSAN, Korea, Oct. 29 — <AP» —
Allied and Communist negotiators
failed again today to make any
progress toward agreement on loca
tion of an buffer eo.oe 1 *4
Korea.
"Today’s discussions were com
pletely Inconclusive,” the official
U.N. spokesman announced.
Subcommittees of the main armis
tice delegations met 31.’ hours in
Panmunjom. They scheduled their I
sixth meeting for 11 a.m., tomorrow 1
(6 p.m.. Monday, PST).
Each side has proposed a demar
cation line. The U.N. wants it
generally to follow the current bat
tle line, mostly in North Korea.
The Reds want the Allies to pull
back as much ns 15 miles, giving up
such hard won positions as the
Iron Triangle, the Punchbowl and
Heartbreak Ridge. In exchange,
they offered the Onpjin peninsula
in the west. The U.N. says that
has little military value.
Allied negotiators rejected the
Communist plan and said it could
not be considered "any further.”
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
the U.N. spokesman, described Mon
day talks as "a fruitless effort to
arrive at” a solution.
He said subcommittee members
argued "spiritedly" but in a “com
pletely impersonal atmosphere” on
the two conflicting proposals. ’ ,
Jack Benny
Picketed
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 29—OH—They
picketed Jack Benny yesterday, but
while the pickets walked back and
forth on the sidewalk they listened
to the Jeck Benny show over a port
able radio.
In addition to the radio, the pick
ets carried a sign reading: “Jack
Benny patronizes the non-union
Hillcrest Country Club.”
Officials of two AFL unions, the
Building Service employees and the
Culinary Workers, said Benny has
been crossing their picket lines at
the club. Benny is a union man
himself. He belongs to the AFL
Screen Actors Guild.
“We think he’s a great comedian,”
said Jack Devpo of the Service
Union, "but he’t wrong at Hill
crest.”
Slock Quotations
NEW YORK, Oct. 29—!*>—Closint
quotation of Alaska Juneau mint
stock today is 3%, American Can
109V<, American Tel. and Tel. 158'h
Anaconda 47 4. Douglas Aircraft
59%, General Electric 54%. Oeneral
Motors 49'i, Goodyear 43*4. Kenne
cott 82%, Libby McNeill and Libby
8%, Northern Pacific 53%, Stan
dard Oil of California 51, Twentieth
[Century Fox 21%, U.S. Steel 41 %,
! Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange
[ 95.43%.
Sales today were 1,780,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
! industrials 260.37, rails 79.93, util
I ities 45.16.
Screaming
Chinese
In Attack
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Oct. 2»—<AA—
Screaming Chinese Communists
three times today charged an Allied
held hill mass southeast of Kum
song but failed to regain the posi
tions Allied forces took three days
ago. .
A frontline dispatch said the pre
dawn attack kicked off in company
strength at 1:30 a.m.. and built up
to battalion size three hours later.
Mortar fire pounded Allied In
fantrymen as the Reds rolled down
a slope facing the U.N. held hills
on the central front.
AP Correspondent Milo Farnetl
reported from the central front
that Allied officers believe the
Reds have shifted a fresh division
to the Kumsong area to reinforce
a Red division badly mauled
earlier this month.
On the western front Allied forces
slogged forward as much as 1,29#
yards.
In the east they seized a hill and
gained up to 1,000 yards after turn
ing back three separate night at
tacks.
Between 80 and 90 Communist
Jets were sighted Monday over
northwest Korea but a Fifth Air
Force officer said the Reds "weren't
aggressive and went out of their
way to avoid tangling with our
pilots.” It was the first time in
nine days the Reds had refused a
fight.
Red ground fire, however, knocked
two Allied planes out of the air.
There was no chance of the pilots
surviving, the Air Force said.
UN Troops Needod
Indefinitely in
Korea, Says Collins
SOMEWHERE IN KOREA, Oct.
29—JAV—Gen. J. Lawton Collins, U.
8. Army Chief of Staff, said today
allied forces "will have to stay in
Korea for some time If a cease
fire is arranged.”
Collins told newsmen It would
“not be practical” to pull allied
troops out of Korea immediately if
agreement on an armistice is reach
ed at the Panmuhjom negotiations.
He said the South Korean army
“needs our help foe some time to
come.”
“We want to get our men home
as soon as possible, but it would
not be done immediately.”
In Tokyo, Mrs. Anna Rosenberg,
Assistant Secretary of Defense In
charge of manpower, told a news
conference that 12,000 to 15,000 U.
S. combat troops will be brought
out of Korea by the end of next
month under a new point-rotation
formula.
At his warfront news conference,
Collins brushed aside a correspon
ent’s request for his opinion on
prospects for peace In Korea.
“I’m sorry, that's out of my
field entirely,” he said.
Judith Coplon
Expecting Baby
NEW YORK, Oct. 39—Wi—Judith
Coplon, former Justice Department
employee found guilty of spying
■for Russia, is expecting a baby in
February.
The 29-year-old woman, who now
is Mrs. Albert H. Socolov, was re
ported “feeling fine” Saturday by
her husband, who also is one of
her attorneys.
She is appealing a conviction by
a federal court in Washington for
removing secret government docu
ments with the intent of giving
them to Russia.
She was married after the con
victions.
Repeat Performance
Of Play Tuesday
At Meeting of WCTU
The one-act play “No Hands But
Mine" will be presented at 7:30
o'clock Tuesday night in the sanc
tuary of the Northern Light Pres
byterian Church at the regular pub
lic meeting of the WCTU
This is a repeat performance of
this play which was preset ted to n
capacity crowd on Friday by the
following cast: Misses Genevieve
1 Mayberry, Gladys Knight and Janet
1 Flint, Mrs. David James, Messrs.
I Ray Wells. Robert Rabe. Roger
| Miller, David Clem and Bob Pegues.
There is no admission fee to this
| play, and the public is invited to
[enjoy this production.