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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,754
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1951
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Back of Red Defense Line Reported Broken
Hot Springs Bound
Governor and Mrs. Earl Warren arc pictured with their youngest
daughter, polio-strickcn Nina, following their arrival at Norton Air
Force Base, San Bernardino, Calif. Nina will undergo treatment at
nearby Arrowhead Hot Springs. If 1 Wirt photo.
ZUFELT - WALKER
WEDDING WILL BE
SUNDAY AFTERNOOh
The marriage of Edna Mae Zu
felt, daughter of Mrs. Della Salis
bury of Juneau, and Mr. Troj
Richard Walker of Juneau will be
solemnized at a ceremony to bt
performed by the Rev. Waltei
Soboleff, at 5 o’clock Sunday after
noon at the home of Mr. and Mrs
A. M. Uggen in the 20th Apart
ments. Close friends of the couple
hr.ve been invited to the weddim
aod Inc reception to .follow,at tlv
Uggen home.
Mrs. Evelyn Jones will be the
matron of honor- and Mr. Joe Mc
Nalley will be the best man.
The bride will be given in mar
ridge by Mr. Uggen.
Preceding the marriage ceremony
Mbs Gladys Uggen will sing
"Dearly Beloved" and the music for
the ceremony will be played by
Mrs. Uggen at the piano.
The bride-to-be has been a resi
dent of Juneau the past two year's
and has been employed at the
Sugar Bowl Cafe. Mr. Walker is
with the U. S. Coast Guard head
quarters office in Juneau.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1951. oy Bell Syndicate. Inc..
(Ed. Note: Drew Pearson is on a
flying tour of Europe and the m'd
dle East suveving the woild situ
ation.)
BELGRADE.—You can’t escape
the fact that our new-found friend
ship with Jugoslavia is nothing less
than a marriage of convenience
with a Communistic state. For
Communism, though somewhat re
laxed under Tito recently, is still
going full blast. In fact, Tito to
some extent is a prisoner of Com
munism since, in order to please
the radical wing of his party, he
has to show he's more of a Com
munist than Stalin.
Therefore, the present Jugoslav
government line is that Stalin uses
Communism merely as a cloak for
Imperialism and that Communism
of the Jugoslav brand is pure and
unadulterated. What most peopl.
outside this country fail to realiz"
is that the hard core of the Jugo
slav government was trained either
in Moscow or in Serbian jails dur
ing the Fascist regime of King
(Continued on Page Foun
mm SURGEON is
GIVEN RELEASE ON
PRISON SENTENCE
RANGOON, March 10 -ASH— The
Jurmese Court of Appeal has or
ered the release of Dr. Gordon
Seagrave, f mod “Burma surgeon’’
1 ho was sentenced Feb. 17 to six
years In prison on a charge of aid
ing rebels in this country.
The Appeals Court confirmed the
forced labor sentence against Sea
re vo, but reduced the term to the
nearly six months he already has
spent in jail. The reduction in sent
ence was made in view of his age
and in gratitude for the services he
had rendered to Burma.
A Burmese court sentenced the
53-year-old doctor on two of the
three charges of high treason filed
against him.
He was arrested last August at
his Mission hospital in the northern
Burmese town of Namkham. He had
spent more than 25 years giving
medical aid to the Burmese people
The court charged he helped Rebel
Karen tribesmen, gave them medical
supplies for their fight against the
government and entertained their
leader.
Seagrave’s defense was based on
the fact that the powerful rebel?
would have destroyed his hospital
and endangered the lives of the pa
tients and nurses had he not given
them the medical supplies.
JAPAN’S FIRST PRIMf
MiJiSSMES TODAY
TOKYO, March 10 — iB—Kijurc
Shedehara, 78, speaker of Japan’s
House of Representatives, died to
day of a heart attack.
Shedehara was Japan’s first prime
minister appointed under the occu
pation.
He had been forced out of poli
tical life in 1931 when as foreign
minister he bitterly opposed Japan’s
militarist expansion.
mm M0YEMSN15
Baranof from Seattle due Tues
day morning.
Princess Norah d.drd to sai"
from Vancouver March 14.
Denali from westward scheduled
to arrive at 11 a.m. Sunday south
bound.
DEMOCRATS
OPEN FIRE
ON PATROL
i _
Frank Metcalf Testifies in
House-Police Dept.
Bill Killed
By r>OB DEARMON'D
The House of Representatives last
evening put on one of the zanist
performances of the present ses
sion, and a packed gallery enjoyed
every moment of it.
The spectators saw Highway En
gineer Frank Metcalf take the stand
to talk about the bill to create a
Territorial Department of Police.
They saw Metcalf grilled by mem
bers of his own Democratic party,
who attacked anu tore to shreds his
administration of the Highway Pa
trol.
They also saw *he Highway Pa
trol and Metclaf’s administration of
it defended by members of the Re
publican party
And finally they saw Democratic
Speaker Egan fail to recognize the
efforts of Democratic Floor Leader
MeCutcheon to get the floor so he
could give notice of his intention
to reconsider his vote and instead
recognize Rep. Stepovich’s motion to
adjourn, which carried and cut off
McCutcheon's chance for reconsid
eration.
! Metcalf tailed
' Called to the stand at the re
quest of Rep. Stepovich, the High
way Engineer and ex-officio Chief
of the Highway Patrol told how he
built the patrol up from four men
to the present 26 and said that he
once had 30 members.
Metcalf said he was "ordered” by
National Defense Organization at
Anchorage and Fairbanks to in
crease the patrol force.
He said he does not believe a
Territorial Police Department should
be built up at the expense of the
Highway Patrol.
“If I had the $20,000 you propose
to pay the Superintendent of Police
during the next biennium I could
raise salaries 15 per cent and keep
some of the men whose pay is so
low they can’t make ends meet up
in the Interior,” Metcalf said.
Salary Scale
Metcalf said patrolmen start at
$400 a month and work up to $475,
with sergeants receiving $500 a
month.
Ah members of the Highway Pa
trol force have had former police
experience, Metcalf said.
"Are these political appoint
ments?” asked Rep. Gundersien.
"Not necessarily,” Metcalf replied.
Democrats Gundersen of Ketchi
kan and Kay of Anchorage hurled
some of the sharpest barbs of the
evening in Metcalf’s direction.
Appointments to the patrol, Met
calf explained, are recommended to
him "from the field.” He then goes
over the list with the FBI and the
Board of Road Commissioners and
finally submits the list to the Demo
cratic Divisionai Committee.
"Isn’t approval by the Divisional
Committee one of the main consid
erations?” Kay asked.
“You recently appointed a man
at Ketchikan without even con
sulting the committee,” Rep. Gun
dersen charged.
“I understood he had been check
ed by the committee,” Metcalf said.
‘I didn’t think it of sufficient im
portance to find out.”
Car Purchase
Opening the attack in a new sec
tor, Rep. Kay asked, "Didn’t you
recently purchase a 1942 Studebaker
from Patrolman Jack Davis at An
horage for $1200 when the bluebook
price was less than $300?”
“I don’t have a bluebook,” Met
calf retorted.
In answer to questions, Metcalf
said he did not shop around to see
if better bargains were available.
He said he did not know that parts
for the car purchased are no longer
available.
"I needed a car right now and I
bought it,’ Metcalf said. "The Army
took three cars that were being
shipped to me from Seattle and I
needed a car.”
Upon questioning by Rep. Mac
Kinnon, he admitted he didn’t
know that the Army took them. "I
know that somebody got them and
we didn’t.”
Powers Outlined
Several of the Republican mem
(Continued on Page Eight)
Reds Attack -- Yanks Cross Han
Red forces (open arrows) and Allies (so.!id arrows) battled across the
Korean Peninsula. Reds launched an attack near Soksa (1) as their
main strength continued to build up at Hongchon (2). Allies ad
vanced in the Yangpyoun area (3) and surged across the Han River
east of Seoul (4). i/P) Wirephoto Map.
TRUMAN
KEEPS UP
ROUTINE
KEY WEST, Fla., March 10 — (fl
—President Truman, outwardly un
concerned by Republican criticism
in Washington, pursued his custo
mary Florida routine today with his
White House staff.
The arrival of Charles S. Murp^
his special counsel, will enAle him
to get a first-hand account of nego
tiations in Washington looking to
a reconciliation of the administra
tion and organized labor.
The labor leaders walked out on
the mobilization program after ac
cusing Defense Mobilization Direc
tor Charles E. Wilson of weighting
its decisions in favor of “big busi
ness."
Murphy, who has been in confer
ence with the union spokesmen,
may get in today.
The White House insistence is
that Mr. Truman is getting moi'j ac
tual work done here than he could
get done in Washington with the
normal interruption of White House
callers.
He is swimming and sunbathing
two hours each day.
INDUSTRIAL BOARD TO
MEET IN FOUR ALASKA
TOWNS TWICE EACH
The Alaska industrial Board has
decided to meet twice a year in each
of the four main Alaska towns.
Anchorage, Fairbanks, Ketchikan
and Juneau and at such other times
as the volume of business makes
additional meetings necessary. The
board is composed of Commissioner
of Labor Henry A. Benson, Attorney
General J. Gerald William and Aud
I itor Neil Moore.
Action at a board meeting here
yesterday Salvador Buffo, Bristol
Bay fisherman was awarded 50 per
! cent disability amounting to $2,250
i for the loss of the use of a leg. He
! was injured at the Wingard Packing
! Co. at Ugashik.
Modesto Quiocho, a cannery work
' er at the Copper River Packing Co.
i and Nellie Juan was awarded 10
! days temporary disability for con
I tact dematitis.
FRED FLETCHER DIES
! HERE LAST NIGHT
Fred Fletcher, 66, died at his
; home here last night after two years
: illness. He and Mrs. Fletcher had
! farmed at Hoonah for 25 years un
i til two years ago when they moved
here because of Fletcher’s health.
I Fletcher is survived by his wife,
: a sister Mildred Eberhart of Olym
pia, Wash., a daughter Rose Sim
I onson and five grandchildren.
No funeral arrangements have
been made. The remains are at the
Carter mortuary.
N. N. Caldwell of Bremerton is
j stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
BRIDGES
REPORTED
VERY ILL
BOSTON, March 10 — OH— Harry
Bridges, convicted West Coast labor
leader, is reported to be “desper
ately ill with the flu in New York.”
Bridges was scheduled to speak
before an audience of some 300 last
night under the sponsorship of the
Progressive Party of Massachusetts.
A spokesman for the sponsors
told the audience that Bridges was
unable to appear because of illness.
Bridge s scheduled appearance
here stirred the city council into
asking Acting Mayor William F.
Hurley that he be barred. Hurley
replied he didn't have the power to
impose the ban because a permit
had been properly issued.
Bridges was convicted of perjury i
last summer by a U. S. District
Court in California on a charge of
falsely swearing at his 1945 natur
alization hearing that he was not
and never had been a Communist.
MISSOURI
CHEERS VOTE
GOP VICTORY
ST. LOUIS, March 10.—Re
publican leaders today cheered the
election of Claude I. Bakewell as
Congressman from Missouri’s 11th
District as proof that political winds
have shifted in their favor.
Bakewell, who served a term in
Congress from 1946-48, won an im
pressive victory in a special elec
tion yesterday over Harry Schendel,
an auto dealer and former State
Representative.
The vacancy was created by the
recent death of John B. Sullivan,
Democrat.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o’clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
20; minimum, 13.
At Airport — Maximun,
20; minimum, 7.
FORECAST
Continued fair with some
cloudiness and gusty north
easterly winds tonight and
Sunday. Lowest temperature
tonight near 12 deg. High
est Sunday near 22.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — None;
Since March 1 — .32 inches;
Since July 1 — 51.21 inches;
At Airport — None;
Since March 1 — .41 inches;
Since July 1 — 32.38 inches.
• ••••••••
Political Implication of
HB141 Are Reviewed by
Former Member of House
_^ _
SENATORS HIT
FAST CLIP IN
PASSING BILLS
Bv JIM HUTCHESON
Twelve bills and two Nome mem
orials sailed through the Senate yes
erday and last night.
It raised the Senate’s bill-passing
total for Friday to 15.
It set a record for the session.
The senators admitted late last night
hat they were’nt too sure about the
ine points of two or three of them,
out they passed them on the basis of
aith in their sponsors.
One of the bills approved, 15 to 1,
would make a person under 21 who
buys, or tries to buy, liquor, equally
-esponsible with the seller.
It was introduced, by request, by
Sen. W. L. (Dan) Lhamon (R-Fair
banks). The lone vote against It
was by Sen. Walter Huntley <D
°almer).
Both Huntley and Sen. Percy Ipa
>ook (R-Kotzbue), former mission
>ry at Wales, expressed wariness
(bout the intent of the bill, but
Tpalook went along with the majority
if ter Lhamon insisted its intent was
“very simple” and Sen. Frank Barr
added:
“It will make the minor who looks
like he is 21 think twice before he
goes in to try to buy a drink.”
The bill now goes to the House.
Other bills approved bv the Sen
ate would tighten up on tobacco and
liquor tax collections.
One would forbid a minority
stockholder to tie a corporation up
in litigation unless he posted 5 per
cent of the stock as a bond, or
posted a bond of not more than
$5,000. In response to a question,
Lhamon said it was introduced, on
request, because of the long litiga
tion over the Chilkoot Barracks vet
erans’ colony project. Lhamon said
the intent was to place a measure of
responsibility on a minority stock
holder before he could start costly
Mticrotinn
Bills Approved
Other bills approved by the Sen
ate (all Senate-originating bills)
were:
SB 65—to allow territorial officers
to destroy non-permanent records
after 10 years with approval of the
attorney general:
SB 97—to expand the territorial
textbook commission from two ap
pointive members, to four, to serve
with the education commissioner:
SB 32—to eliminate the need of
physical examinations in non-profit
mutual beneficial insurance socie
ties for benefits under $2,500:
SB 91—to authorize and direct the
highway engineer to survey for
streets and grades outside cities, with
the survey to determine where utili
ties lines may be laid.
The latter bill precipitated quite a
flurry.
Sen. Steve McCutcheon (D-An
chorage) said the League of Alaska
Cities wants the bill passed. He
said that as a member of the An
chorage Planning Commission he
had experienced the problem of run
ning against a city limits barrier,
with no authority to go farther.
Senator Barr opposed it with the
argument: “I object to spending ter
ritorial money and expending em
ployees’ time for an Anchorage prob
lem. We don’t even know if the
people outside the city want it."
Sen. Howard Lyng brought up an
inter-division issue before the 13-3
vote for the measure.
He commented that Nome had no
planning commission, but it has a
Chamber of Commerce that is trying
to get road funds restored after the
Federal Bureau of the Budget cut
them out. He cited memorials which
he and Sen. Ed Anderson had intro
duced with that aim. One of them
was approved by the Senate earlier
in ihe day.
Plight of Second Division
He said the Second Division hadn’t
been able to get Federal road funds
while they were diverted "so they
could black-top roads in the Third
Division. How long is the Second
Division going to have to be sub
servient to the Third?”
Senate President Gunnard Enge
(Continued on Page Eight)
A “Letter to the Editor" that
deserves more consideration than
the usual “communication" is that
of Curtis Shattuck about House
Bill 141.
Shattuck, a former member of
the Legislature and Juneau busi
nessman, addresses the Empire as
follows:
“Your Article relative to House
Bill No. 141, the so-called Reor
ganization Bill, which appeared in
your March 9 issue, was most time
ly. You appear, however, to have
missed some of the political impli
cations of this measure.
“As you correctly point out, the
Bill would give to our appointed
Governor far more power than he
now has in the financial affairs of
Alaska, and would remove from
control those officials now pn our
Board of Administration who are
elected on a Territorial-wide basis
by the people.
“Few if any States In our Union
have a setup like this, contrary to
the smooth-talking Mr Reeves from
Kentucky, who wrote the Bill, and
has apparently sold it to our House
of Representatives. Almost without
exception those States which do
have elected officials on their fiscal
control boards place on them men
who are elected at large, just as we
now have without Reorganization.
“The Reorganization Bill also re- 1
moves the Auditor from the Alaska
Industrial Board and replaces him
with a third member to be selected
by the two present members who
carry over under Reorganization,
namely. Commissioner of Labor
and Attorney General.
“The reason that the Auditor has
been on the Industrial Board is
that he is also Commissioner of
Insurance. In order to remove this
reason for his being on the Indus- ]
trial Board, the Reorganization Bill
takes away these powers and hands
them to, of all persons, the Com
missioner of Labor. Why?
“Supervision of insurance is more1
nearly a financial problem than a
labor problem, for it involves super
vision of rates of financial struc
ture, of policy forms. \yhy should it
go under the supervision of the
Labor Commissioner? There ap
pears to be no precedent lor tins
in any State. Even in Kentucky
insurance is not supervised by the
Commissioner of Labor.
"Early in the session of this Leg
islature it became known that the
Governor desired to get off the
numerous boards which he has
headed for many years. The infer
ence was, in short, that the Gov
ernor was disclaiming any desire to
perpetuate the political control he
has built up since taking office.
“This was pretty well taken for
its face value. Then along comes
Mr. Reeves from Kentucky, the ex
pert (usually defined as an ordi
nary man a long ways from home)
with an idea on how to reorganize
us ordinary people in Alaska.
“With everybody’s eye on the
quarterback who was ready to pass
the Governor right smack off ol
every board that he was on, the
fullback grabbed Reeves’ ball, which
gives the Governor greater powers
than ever, and now has it on the
90-yard line in the House.
“If there ever was a political
"Statue of liberty’’ play, this is it
The only thing that isn’t clear is
who is calling the signals. Maybe
you'd better ask some of those indi
viduals you sent to the Legisla
ture.
NIGHT SESSIONS,
PERHAPS SUNDAY,
FOR LEGISLATURE
Both the House and Senate met
this morning, the House from 9 un
til 10, the Senate from 10 until
noon. The House recessed follow
ing a scrap over procedure regard
ing H. B. 141, the Reorganization
Bill.
[ The House went back into session
at 1 p.m. and was scheduled to meet
again this evening at 7:30. There
was also talk of a Sunday session
The Senate was expected to meet
again at 2 o'clock this afternoon
and may possibly have an evening
session also.
REDS HIT
HARD, AIR
ALSO LAND
TOKYO, March 10 —OB— United
Nations troops rammed their bridge
head across the Han River 10 miles
wide and nearly six miles deep be
fore noon today east of Seoul.
Flame-throwing tanks rumoieit
ahead of UN fighting units and
•spit their fiery streams into Com
munist foxholes.
“We killed a batch 'f them and
have driven many more back into
the hills,” one frontline officer said.
Patrols of the 35th and famed
Wolfhound regiments ranged off
the Seoul plains into rugged hills to
the north.
The Communists fought back
with automatic weapons and mortar
fire.
Intelligence Officers of the 25th
(Tropic Lightning) Division said
the mighty UN artillery bombard
ment and infantry drive across the
Han apparently had broken the back
of the Communists’ first defense
line north of the river.
They said the Reds probably had
pulled back to defend the main
road leading west to Seoul. This is
about five miles north of the pres
ent line.
Skies were gray but the weather
was mild as the Doughboys slowly
and methodically pushed thejr
northward advance. They searched
every yard of ground.
When the Reds showed fight, the
Allied units called for artillery bar
rages. Then they threw their own
firepower into the Chinese positions
and finally climbed the hills to
capture or kill any who stood their
ground.
"The more than 300 prisoners we
collected already would make up
one of their battalions,” an officer
said. ,
American Marines pushed ahead
another mile north of Hoengsong.
The Leathernecks called for air
strikes and slammed artillery bar
rages into Red positions honey
combing a row of 3,000 foot high
mountains.
Jtellled gasoline hit in searing
flames. Rockets zoomed into the
ridges. Bombs smashed against the
peaks. Smoke from a dozen fires
shrouded the ridgeline.
"That ought to help soften them
up for us.” a Marine major said.
BIDS ON LARGEST
ALASKA BUILDING
OPENED MARCH 27
SEATTLE, March 10 —(<?>— Army
Engineers will open bids here March
27 on Alaska’s "largest building’’
m $8,000,000 Army housing ana
recreation center at Whittier.
The “composite building” was de
signed by Architect John Maloney
of Seattle, whose office described
it as t-he Territory’s largest struc
ture.
It will house Army personnel and
iffices at the Army port of Whit
tier.
Designed as the answer to a se
vere weather problem in Whittier,
where more than 15 feet of annual
precipitation is normal, the com
posite building will be of reinforced
concrete.
It will have a 300-seat theater,
four bowling alleys, a 16-bed hos
pital and complete medical facili
ties, five school classrooms and a
postoffice. It will even have a Jail,
a beauty shop, chapel, library and
hobby shop.
Tse six-story structure, resting on
solid rock, will be built in units with
projecting wings. Between each pair
of units copper "bellows’’ will al
low motion without damage in case
of an earthquake.
Low roofs between wings will be
heated to keep snow melted — a
problem where the annual snowfall
is 11 feet a year. Water and anti
freeze solution will be pumped thru
pipes embedded in gravel between
slabs of concrete.
On the main roofs, hot water cir
culating in gutter pipes will pre
vent ice from choking drains.
Door locks in the 18th Century
frequently were large and elabor
ately designed. Some were more
-,han a foot long and required keys
half that length.