THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,966
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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PRICE TEN CENTS
North Pole
To Have
Pole Now
i
By Associated Press
“The “pole” part of the North
Pole may have been a misnomer
up to this time but something is
going to be done about it come
Dec. 10.
And if Santa Claus really does
make his home there he’s going
to get such a flood of letters on
that day he'll need a private secre
tary until next Christmas.
All of which is a way of sav
ing that plans generated by Stan
Garson, Point Barrow oil-worker
and ex-dishwashcr, have come to
fruition. With the aide of an air
line, a newspaper woman and var
ious other persons and organiza- ;
tions, that is. And without the
Belp oY the'U.’S; Air Force which—
wouldn’t have any part of the
stunt,
Garson suggested some time back
that a real pole ought to be drop
ped at the North Pole. He even i
chipped in $150 of his money to have j
a 9-foot, hollow steel cylinder con
structed and painted like a candy
cane (or barber pole, if your inclin
ations are a little less romantic).
Mrs. Audree Vance, Fairbanks
journalist and radio announcer, lik
ed the idea and added a suggestion
—How about dropping off some
"honest-to-goodness” letters to San
ta Claus. “Fine,” says Garson and
it was a fait accompli (look it up
yourself).
Alaska Airlines Chairman II. W.
Marshall heard that the Air Force
wast taking an uppity attitude to
ward the project and offered to
donate one of its four-engined
specials for the 3,200 mile flight
from International Airport, Fair
banks, Alaska.
Today, they decided the steel pole
and all the letters the kiddies of
this continent want to send to
Santa Claus, care of North Pole
Nellie (That's Mrs. Vance’s miss’-'
nomer), Fairbanks, will visit Santa
Dec. 10.
The Air Force is helping, too,
but not officially. The flight route
of the polar special will be over
its famed “ptarmigan” route, es
tablished by the 58th Weather Re
connaissance Squadron based at
Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska.
And just in case the airliner mak
es an unscheduled call on Santa
Claus it will have aboard full em
ergency equipment for a two month
stay on the ice—including rations,
tents, stoves, clothes. But no bar
ber chair.
—
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Nov. 15—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3, American Can 108,
American Tel. and Tel. 156%, Ana
conda 51%, Douglas Airpraft 56%,
General Electric 55%, General Mo
tors 49%, Goodyear 42%, Kennecott
88 %, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%.
Northern Pacific 54%, Standard
Oil of California 50%., Twentieth
Century Fox 22%, U.S. Steel 40,
Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange
95.87%.
Sales today were 1,200,000 shares.
Averages today were as follqws:
industrials 260.99, rails 80.24, util
ities 46.38.
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
(Copyright. 1951. by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
l^ASHINGTON—“Will-he-won’t
he” Eisenhower—Governor Dewey
did not meet secretly with Eisen
hower at the Waldorf as reported
last week. A broadway columnist
got that one mixed with a Waldorf
meeting tvhich did take place be
tween Dewey, Senator Duff of
Pennsylvania, Herbert Brownell, the
Dewey GOP mentor, and Gen. Lu
cius Clay. Georgia-born Clay, a
lifetime Democrat, is now in the
Eisenhower camp. The meeting dis
cussed ways and means of rounding
up delegates despite the fact that
Ike cannot declare until next spring
.. .There's not the slightest question
but that Ike started life as a Demo
crat. His first speech at the age
of 18 at Abiline, Kansas, was at a
Jackson Day dinner. . .Taftites are
suspected of putting a neat one
over on Arthur Krock. He Reported
that Ike would come over to the
Taft side if the Senator would de
sert the isolationists.. .It now seems
certain that Ike will face President
Truman in the Oregon primary—
whether he likes it or not. He will
also face Taft in the Republican
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Fishermen
Attack FWS
Proposals
A proposal that trap leads be
opened during the weekend closing
periods was termed a "punitive"
measure which would provide no
conservation of salmon by fish trap
owners at the annual hearing on
commercial fishing regulations con
ducted by the Fish and Wildlife
Service.
The hearing opened this morning
in the Federal courtroom, and con
tinue this afternoon and possibly
tomorrow.
Both independent fishermen and
packers and Alaska Salmon Indus
try, Inc., representatives took issue
with various phases of the proposed
regulations for the coming year.
Clarence Rhode, FWS regional di-.
rector, acted as chairman for the
that the proposals were merely that
and that the hearing was held to
enable the Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice to determine which proposals
should be made into regulations.
Bitter Opposition
The proposal to open the trap
leads was bitterly opposed by in
dustry representatives and almost
unanimously endorsed by gill-net
ters, purse-seiners and trollers.
W. C. Arnold, representing the in
dustry, spoke at various times in
defending the stand of his group on
the lead-opening question and in
taking a stand for an earlier sea
son this coming year.
A. W. Brindie, 01 Ward’s Cove
Packing Co., said the proposal to
open the trap leads was thought
of icy persons merely wanting to
“harass” their competitors.
"If a trap was built to keep any
fish in the lead, then the trap
would not catch fish," Brindie de
clared.
In disagreement with previous
witnesses, Brindie said that salmon
will not lay along the lead for any
length of time. He said that witness
es who declared this is to be true
"had evidently never worked with
traps.”
Punitive Measure
“This opening of the leads would
only a punitive measure,” Brindle
protested. “It would not be a matter
of conservation of fish. There is
never a time when a big body of
fish gather and lay along the leads
for any length of time.”
Patrick Paul, of Wrangell, inter
rupted to say that he disagreed with
Brindle. Harold B. Hansen, of Cor
dova, said a packer had told him :
of an instance when he had seen
"10,000 fish” laying and milling
along a trap lead.
“If we were allowed the same
privilege, of staking the end of
our net to the 'shore during the
weekend closing periods, we would
have lots of fish there on Monday
morning. But it is not a question
of use trying to ‘punish’ the trap
owners.”
Fred Gunderson said he had been
associated with fish traps since
1916. He said it is a cardinal prin
ciple that traps are set so fish will
follow the lead into the trap. He
said fish no not “school up” along
leads nor stay there.
“They either go into the heart,
or out and around," Gunderson
said. “As long as the heart-wall
is down the fish will go through.”
Rhode said that the Fish and
Wildlife Service did not intend “to
willingly become a tool of one group
interested in one type of gear
against another group interested
in another type of gear.”
Dangerous to Watchmen
John Grebstad made a statement
which he said corruborated that
of Brindle’s. John Davis, represent
ing the P. E. Harris Co., Inc., said
not only would breaking the trap
leads serve no real purpose, but
that it would be dangerous for the
trap watchmen. He also pointed out
the difficulty in enforcement.
“I have been in the trap busi
ness all my life, and as far as I
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WEATHER REPORT
(U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU
At Airport: Maximum, 30;
Minimum, 14.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Continued fair and cold with
gusty northeasterly winds to
night and Friday. Lowest
temperature tonight near 25
degrees in town and as low
as 15 in outlying areas. High
est temperature Friday
around 32.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
At Airport — None;
from July 1—16.52 inches.
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Gen. MacArthur
Gives Talk on
'Americanism'
However It Rocked
Seattle Political Circles;
Now Enroute to N. Y.
SEATTLE, Nov. 15—.VI—General
Douglas MacArthur, still the center
of a civic storm that rocked po
litical circles of the Pacific north
west, left today er.route to his home
in New York. He will stop off two
hours in Portland.
He carried With him the memory
of a sea of faces lined for miles
along the cold, blustery, wet route
he followed for the 40 hours he
visited Seattle, Tacoma and way
points. But with him also went the
bitter words of Democratic party
bigwigs who objected to his anti
jditiinlsixsilifin—sneecii—here. Tnes=J
day night.
He gave recognition in remarks
made rt ) banquet late last night
to thr v rm he had created.
‘TT: t Jeanie from Murfrees
boro, ' lie said in obvious reference
to his wife, “tells me I have al
ready said too much and if I don’t
say anything and shut up they
will like you a lot." With that
and a few other humorous ref
erences to the storm lie ceased
talking.
Earlier, in Tacoma and Puyallup,
southwest of Seattle, he told his
audiences he had not talked politics
in his speech opening Seattle’s cen
tennial celebration, "just American
ism.” But along the parade line
some boos and catcalls were heard
mixed with the applause.
Rep. Hugh Mitchell <D-Wash),
in a speech before the Young Men’s
Democratic Club, said the General
was a man with “tarnished brass
and tattered braid” who used our
centennial as a forum of personal
spite and attempted political re
venge.
Taft Tops
Eisenhower
House Poll
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15— UPl —
Senator Robert A. Taft tops Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhow'er, 71 to 54, as
the first choice of House Republi
cans for the GOP Presidential nom
ination in a poll conducted by Rep.
Cole (R-NY).
Results of the private survey,
started in September and concluded
this week, were disclosed by Cole
today in the wake of California
Gov. Earl Warrpn’s announcement
he is a candidate for the Republican
nomination.
Warren’s move yesterday put his
hat formally in the ring along with
Taft’s. So far the Ohio Senator and
Warren are the only avowed candi
dates in either major party.
Eisenhower-for-President Repub
lican backers are hard at work in
his behalf, however despite the gen
eral’s refusal to say publicly wheth
er he will run.
Senator Duff (R-Pa), one of the
leaders of the move .announced in
a New' Orleans speech last night
that Senator Lodge (R-Mass) will
“accept the leadership” of a cam
paign to put Eisenhower in the
White house.
5talin's Birthday
Replaces Christ’s
As Holiday: Report
MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 15—^—
Radio Free Europe said it has re
ceived reports that Stalin's birthday,
Dec. 21, officially will replace
Christmas as a holiday in Com
munist Hungary.
The broadcast also said the Buda
pest Ministry of Foreign Trade has
issued confidential orders banning
the import of ClVistmas trees and
forbidding the printing of “reac
tionary" Christmas cards.
Radio Free Europe is a privately
| financed American station.
Denali scheduled southbound Sun
day morning.
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive from Skagway tomorrow at 6
a m., sailing for Vancouver at 7 a.m.,
on the last trip of the season.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle tomorrow.
Freighter Sailors Splice sched
uled to arrive from Seattle Nov. 18.
North Pacific
Fish Treaty
Submitted
TOKYO, Nov. 15—UP—The Japan
ese draft of a proposed three-na
tion North Pacific fisheries treaty
was submitted to American and
Canadian delegates today.
It reportedly follows closely those
presented earlier by U. S. represen
tatives.
The Japanese plan calls for es
tablishment of an international
North Pacific fisheries commission
to investigate fishery resources and
recommend joint measures for the
maintenance of maximum produc
tivity.
Japan, which depends on its fish
ing industry to help feed its 84,
000,000 people, asks that no country
be subjected to "discriminatory ex
clusion" from exploitation of high
sva~5~fisiicTy resources'.
However, it agrees to refrain
from fishing in areas where it
clearly is established that maximum
fishing already is being carried on
and where it is necessary to restrict
fishing to maintain or increase pro
ductivity.
In a statement Japanese dele
gates declared that the fishing in
dustry is a “basic factor in the es
tablishment cf a self-sustaining ec
onomy" and “controls the very fate
of Jr.odn "
Bez Protesting
Selling by Govt.
Of Cannery Ship
SEATTLE, Nov. 15 — M — Ar
Alaska salmon packer, who onc(
took President Truman fishing, ha:
protested to the president against
selling the government’s $5 million
cannery motorship. He expressed
fear the Russians may buy it.
Nick Bez, wealthy industrialist
^inrl one-t«ne operator of the ves
sel, the Pacific Explorer, said he
was in no way interested in purchas
ing the 410-foot craft.
But, he telegraphed the presi
dent, he was protesting “as an
American citizen” who regards
the vessel as a vital American de
fense weapon.”
The Maritime Administration ha:
offered the ship for sale. It now is
in mothballs near Astoria, Ore.
where it was tied up after Bez op
erated It for seven months and the
government for another 18 month1
after the close of World War II.
“You recall, I am sure, how
Soviet agents once made unsuc
cessful attempts to obtain plans
of this vessel,” Bez telegraphed
the president. "Sale now may
permit Soviet acquisition of plans
they have been trying to obtain
since 1945.”
Bez told newspapermen the Rus
sians sent three men to his office
before the ship was completed, and
several times tried to obtain the
plans through trickery and subter
fuge.
Now, he said, sale of the ship to
a private purchaser might make the
ship plans available to the Russians.
He did not explain why he con
sidered the vessel vital to the na
tion’s defense, or to the Russians,
beyond mentioning that the Rus
sian agents told him they wanted
the plans so they could build 20
such craft for $100 million.
Bez once accompanied President
Truman on a fishing trip with
former Washington Gov. Mon C
Wallgren, a long-time crony of the
president.
Nobel Prize for
Literature Goes
To Swede Novelist
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 15—UPl—The
Swedish Academy today awarded
the 1951 Nobel Prize for literature
to one of its own members' Par
j Lagerkvist, author of the novel ‘The
Dwarf.”
Lagerkvist, who Is 60 years old
j and a playwright, poet, essayist
and writer of short stories as well
as a novelist, will receive a check
for 167,612 Crowns ($32,357) from
King Gustav Adolf at the Nobel
Prize presentation ceremony to bi
held in Stockholm on Dec, 10.
NEW PHONOGRAPH RECORD
SHOP OPENS HERE MONDAY
Juneau will have a new phono
graph record store beginning next
Monday when the Record Shop
opens in the George Brothers build
ing next to the Spudnut shop.
Proprietors Ned Kester and Lloyd
Coe announce that the shop will
specialize in long playing reco:
They have a large stock of all typ‘“
of records and will handle moil ord
ers.
'Fair Deal'
Banner for
Democrats
Truman Announces
Campaign Program;
Many Subjects Discussed
KEY WEST. Fla., Nov. 15——
President Truman declared today
ie is drafting a "state of the union”
message committing the Democratic
party to campaign in 1952 under his
fair deal” banner.
But, under a bombardment of
questions from reporters at a
winter White House news confer
ence he refused to comment on
whether he intends to support
General Dwight D. Eisenhower for
the Democratic Presidential nom
-hvatiaa-or whether lie wtH seeh-rt "
iiimsetf.
He said that at no time did he
llscuss domestic politics with Gen
ral Eisenhower in their recent
■onfere'si-s cn the Western Euro
jean de'-nse program in Washi
ngton.
He said he had made that clear
s had the General and that both
aave the reputation of telling the
ruth.
"Do you have any intention cf
supporting General Eisenhower
for the Democratic nomination?”
he was asked.
Evenly the president replied:
no comment.
This was in contrast to another
press conference recently when he
aid ho thought General Eisenhower
would not be interested in the
Democratic nomination, and he
lould not help him get the Repub
lican nomination.
Asked whether he will urge enact
ment of his "fair deal” program in
the “state of the union” message he
will send to Congress in January,
ha said of course, and he added
it will be a part of the Democratic’
ifcnVform.
“Regardless of who runs?” he
was asked.
' Regardless of who runs, lie
replied.
Under questioning, the president
raid lie would ask further changes
n the Tnft-Hartley Act which has
been the frequent target of union
eaders, but he would not disclose
them at this time.
The president sat on a tree-shaded
lawn of the “Little White House”
m a blue sea shore, sea-gull spert
hirt open at the neck, blue trousers
and white shoes.
He was asked about a story out
of Pusan, Korea, in which the U.S.
Eighth Army charged the Reds with
murdering about 5,500 American
prisoners of war.
It’s a horrible thing, the presi
dent said. No facts have reached
him as yet, he said, but he de
clared it is the most uncivilized
thing that hak happened in the
last century If this is true.
The president also told the con
ference :
1. Re French ^President Auriol’s
suggestion of a “Big Four” meeting
to relieve international tension: his
views haven't changed that the
United Nations is the proper forum,
for settling world disputes.
2. He still has hope that an Amer
ican-French-British proposal for
reduction of atpmic and other wea
pons will get favorable Russian re
action eventually because of the
Russian people’s longing for peace.
3. That Republican Gov. Earl
Warren of California, who an
nounced for the GOP presidential
nomination yesterday, is a fine man.
He said he once said Warren was
i Democrat and didn’t know it, and
that that still goes.
4. He did not believe the Korean
war should be an issue of the 1952
?ampalgn.
Alaskans to
Wed in Seattle
SEATTLE, Nov. 15—>£1—Notice of
intention to wed was filed here yes
terday by Warren M. Wilkins, An
chorage, and Doris E. Cloudy, Ket
chikan. Both gave their age as
“legal.”
FROM ANNETTE
Charles Naples of Annette is stop
ping at the Gastineau Hotel.
I TEDETABLESl
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• NOVEMBER 16 •
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• High tide 3:32 a m., 15.6 ft. •
• Low tide 9:08 am., 4.5 ft. •
• High tide 3:02 p.m., 17.1 ft. •
• Low tide 9:46 p.m., -0.4 ft. •
Substitution of
Fish for Army fo
Be Investigated
SEATTLE, Nov. 15—(41—Possible
adulteration through substitution ol
dog salmon (or silversides in frozei.
fish destined for the armed forces—
including troops fighting in Korea—
will be probed tomorrow.
Army and federal authorities tolc
today of the test, to be conducte.
by the Food and Drug Administra
tlon office here.
"Seattle’s fish industry is up ii
arms over the case,” said Col. Home:
D. Barney commanding officer o.
the Quartermaster market cente:
here.
He said exhaustive laboratory
tests would be made to determin
definitely whether It has bee:
adulterated by substitution of i
lower-grade salmon for the specie
specified in the army contract
under which it was processed.
Kenneth E. Monfore, head of the
twwr ana vng srner here, tndr
rated that if tests confirm sus
picions about the substitution his
office will bring criminal charges
in federal court.
Barnes said Seattle fish packer
began wondering how a firm out
side the northwest could outbic
them consistently on army contract
the past four to six months despiti
the fact the great bulk cf troll
caught silverslde salmon, specif lei
In the contract, is harvested it
Washington and Oregon waters.
One industry source, said exami
nation of some CO samples of th«
disputed fish in a University ol
Washington laboratory showed the
army was getting dog salmon (also
known as chum or fall salmon) in
stead of the higher priced, higher
quality ocean-caught silversides.
Dog salmon sell from 10 to If
cents a pound cheaper here that
silversides.
Colonel Barnes said the army ha;
not officially accepted the fish yet
nor paid for it.
Says Shipment of
Salmon Is Bad;
Libel Suit Filed
SEATTLE, Nov. 15—(JB—A libe.
was filed in United States district
cimrt yesterday against 661 case;
of unlabeled salmon. The case*
each containing 48 one-pound cans,
were taknn into custody by th(
United States Marshal.
The libel states that the salmon
contained in the cans i.s spoiled. It
was shipped to Seattle from Juneau
by the Alaska Coast Fisheries. The
action was filed for the Pure Food
and Drug Administration.
A copy of the libel was served on
A. J. Bacon, manager of salmon
terminal, pier 25, in whose custody
the salmon was found.
Johnston
Resigns
KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 15—W—
President Truman today disclosed
Eric Johnston’s resignation as Eco
nomic Stabilization Administrator,
effective Nov. 30.
36 Killed in
Air Force Plane
Crash in France
CH AMBON-SUR-LAC, France,
Nov. 15—(jB—Rescue crews today
found the shattered snow-crusted
wreckage of a missing U. S. air force
transport plane 5,000 feet up a
mountain slope in southern France
All aboard were dead.
American and French rescuers
began bringing the battered burned
bodies of the 36 passengers and
crewmen—ail U. S. military person
nel—down the side of the mountain
where the twin-engined flying box
car crashed Tuesday.
Rescue teams who fought their
way up the snow and Ice encrust -
ted slope 250 miles south of Paris
said most of the fire-scarred bodies
were battered to bits.
The plane disappeared Tuesday
on a routine flight from Frankfurt
to Bordeaux with 111 soldiers and
six crewmen aboard. It crashed Into
a peak in the Mont Doreh group
some 20 miles south of Clermont
Ferrand.
Today the plane lay glistening
in the sunlight, a few feet below the
opening of a defile toward which
the pilot apparently had headed.
JELSMA IS HERE
Lt. Col. M. Jelsma of Anchorage
is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
Slaughter of American
Prisoners by Commies j
In Korea Is Shocking
TOKYO, Nov. 15—Ml—The report- i
ed Communist sin lighter of some
5,500 American prisoners of war
shocked general headquarters from
top to bottom today.
Col. James M. Hanley, chief or
the war crimes section of the
Eighth Army, said he divulged
the figures because he thought
American soldiers al the front
ought to know what they are up
against.
In an exclusive Interview in Pu- 1
san. Korea, Hanley said the story
about the "wanton murder" of Am- j
erlcan prisoners "should have been
put out a long time ago."
Apparently no one knew he was 1
going to make the statement—least
of all Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway,
w ws'TitreirnxTnxin'g.-—}
General headquarters officers,
after conferring with Hanley by I
telephone, are preparing an an
nouncement tonight for release
tomorrow to clarify “the basis for |
some of Hanley’s figures."
Even Gen. James A. Van Fleet,'
commander of the Eighth Army in
Korea, said he had no advance
knowledge. He declined to comment,
explaining: “I have not had tirhe t' ,
familiarize myself with the content
of the statement."
Hanley is chief of the war crimes
section of the Eighth Army. Hanley j
released the Red atrocity total yes- |
terday at a press conference in Pu- 1
san, Korea. i
Whnt Hanley did was total all
the reports and estimates of Com
munist atrocities since the begin- ,
nhig cf the war.
These figures came from cap
tured Reds, escaped United Na
tions prisoners, from questioning
civilians, and from allied agents
operating behind Communist lines.
In some cases the bodies actually
were counted. Many of the mas
sacres had been reported long be
fore.
, It was Hanley's total that was
staggering.
One high officer greeted the nn- j
nouncement with “hopeful skep- j
ticism.”
“I am just hoping that our csti-j
mates are too high," he said. “I am ■
keeping in mind that the enemy]
knows how dear to America every
captured American soldier is and
that every captured American is
extremely valuable bargaining ma
terial in armistice negotiations."
Another officer countered:
“The high levels of the Com
munist armies may be aware of
the bargaining value of the Ameri
can captives, but that knowledge
There's a Long, Long
Trail a-Winding for
A Lovelorn Buffalo
A young bull buffalo, jilted by
three cows he made a trip with into
Yukon Territory and bullied by his
only male travelling companion, has
evidently turned the nose on his
shaggy head up at the lot of them
and Is slowly making his way back
X) his former home at Big Delta,
Alaska.
The five buffalo were a gift of the
Fish and Wildlife Service to the
Game and Publicity department of
Yukon Territory and were wrestled
into shipping cages at Big Delta
by Urban C. Nelson, wildlife biolog
ist of Juneau, and others, for the
long trip to nbrth of Whitehorse.
Them Kjar, director of the Y. T.
department, wrote letters to Nelson
and Clarence Rhode, FWS regional
director, thanking them for the
start of what Kjar hopes will some
day be a sizeable herd. In the let
ters he said that the bison seemed
to be doing fine, but told of a
young bull being pushed out by the
larger bull.
"At the last report,” Kjar says,
the young bull has been seen in a
valley in the vicinity of Clue Lake,
lose to the Alaska highway near
mile post 1036. We are just wond
ring if his intention is to head for
home.”
Mile 1036 is 392 miles from Big
Delta, the grounds of tha corrals
and home of the Alaska bison herd.
Wrangell Highway
Bids Rejected by
BPR: Tqo High
The Bureau of Public Roads re
jected all three bids received today
for grading 1.9 miles on the exten
sion of the Wrangell highway. The
reason given was that all bids were
too high.
Berg Construction Co., of Juneau
bid $195,868 40; Stock and Orove
of Anchorage, $199,052; and Kell
and Peterman of Juneau, $226,093.
might not extend down to the front
line Communist troops or to the
patrol leader who doesn't want to
bother to bring In live prisoners.”
ALASKA COMMANDER
MAKES STATEMENT
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 15—
l/Pl—The commander of the Ameri
can Legion Department of Alaska
said he was appalled by the news
of Communist massacres of UnPed
States troops In Korea.
“Such actions," said John H. Van
Horn of Sitka, Alaska, “prove that
the United States is at war and not
engaged in a police action. The ene
my is ruthless and uncompromising.
The news bears out the need for
military control' rather than the
State Department rule of warfare."
Van Horn now Is attending the
national conference of department
emmanders here.
OUTRAGE-ANGER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—Re
ports that the Communists have
murdered 5,500 U. S. prisoners In
Korea sent a wave of outrage and
anger through the United States
today, and brought a call from a
Congress member for loosing of
atomic weapons against the Reds.
At the same time, it was plain
In Washington that the Defense
and State Departments were start
led by the release of the report In
the war theatre and were, In effect,
caught off balance and unprepared.
Rep. Cole (R-NY) called for use
of the A-bomb if the reports were
true. Cole's statement was In com
ment to reporters.
Another member of Congress, Rep.
Shafer (R-Mich), telegraphed the
Defense Department demanding a
"forthright explanation” of Why
there had been no prior release of
such information. The figures, as
released by Henley, went bBclc to
1950.
Uncivilized
Declares
President
KEY WEST. Fla., Nov. 15—W—
President Truman today condemned
the murder of American prisoners
by Chinese Communists as the most
uncivilized thing that has happened
in the last century.
Mr. Truman voiced this indict
ment at a winter White House
news conference in which he declar
ed his views that the United Na
tions rather than "big four” confer
ences should settle international
disputes.
The President declared that he
has not been told officially dt re
ports of charges of the murder of
5,400 or more American prisoners
but he added it's a horrible thing.
Mo facts have reached him offic
ially yet, he continued, but If true,
it is the most uncivilized thing
thnt has happened in the last cen
tury.
But he replied with a firm no
comment to a question whether
this brought closer the day when
we might use the atmoic bomb in
Korea.
Woman's Club Launches
(ARE-for-Korea Food
And Clothing Packages
The Juneau Woman’s Club is
launching its campaign for CARE
packages to be sent to Korean war
victims in time for the holidays,
j Mrs. I)ou Morrison, president, an
■ nounced today.
| Funds are being solicited by the
club through the Teen Agers Fri
| days and Saturday. Each CARE
package costs $10, but funds in any
amount will be accepted. Mrs. Mor
rison suid. The packages will be
sent in the names of the donors.
“Each CARE food package sub
scribed by Americans kept five Ko
rean orphans alive for seven days
during the tragic weeks before the
second occupation of Seoul by Com
munist forces last winter.” Mrs.
Morrison pointed out.
FROM ANCHORAGE
George Mooney of Anchorage is
stopping at the Gastineau Hotel.
FROM SEATTLE
C. V. Wilson of Seattle Is at the
Baranof Hotel.