THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,755
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1951
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Allied Forces Make 3-Prong Drive On Reds
HOUSE BILL
1 i 1 PASSES
SECOND TIME
House Bill 141. to provide for re
organization of the Territory’s fi
nancial conirol system, was ap
proved by the House of Representa
tives this morning for the second
time.
The vote on passage of the bill was
14-10 this morning, and the vote
was strictly along party lines with
the Democrats favoring and the
Republicans opposing the bill.
On Saturday the vote on the bill
was 18-8.
Also reconsidered and passed by
the House for the second time this
morning was H. B. 80, providing for
licensing and bonding of real estate
brokers and salesmen.
Two other bills were approved by
the House and sent on their way for
Senate consideration:
H. B. 117 provides that self-insur
ers under the Alaska Workmen’s
Act must pay a $25 fee for the cer
tificate of approval as self-insurers
and must also pay into the Terri
tory’s general fund one-twentieth of
1 per cent of their payrolls in lieu
of the premium taxes that would
otherwise be paid on their insur
ance policies.
Third Class Cities
House Bill 119, also approved
this morning, would allow the incor
poration of municipalities of the
third class in Alaska. Present law
provides only for first class and
second class municipalities.
At tire time of the noon recess
the House had under consideration
H. B. 123. which redefines the word
“contributions” in the Employment
Secdrity Act.
This definition and its application
was the subject of a court action in
the First Division District Court
last year and the case is now pend
ing before the Circuit Court of Ap
peals at San Francisco.
The present law defines contribu
tions as “money payments’ the Dis
trict Court decided. The Em
ployment Security administrators
had defined it as “money payments”
plus “experience rating credits.”
The difference in definition makes
a considerable difference in the
amount of surplus in the Employ
ment Security Fund and hence in
the total of allowable experience
rating credits.
Saving to Employers
The bill would change the law to
conform with the agency’s defi
nition of the term. “It will save the
employers of the Territory millions
of dollars if this bill is passed,”
George Crisman of the Employment
Security office told the House. “If
it is not passed, employers will not
receive credit under the Federal Act
for their experience rating credits.”
Attorney H. L. Faulkner, on the
other hand, told the members that
“this bill is a sample of legislation
being taken over by an adminis
trative agency and changed around
as they want it.”
Faulkner contended that the Leg
islature had clearly expressed its
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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 mid
dle East, surveying the world situ
ation.)
ATHENS—The chief subject ev
ery American is asked about, no
matter what country he is traveling
in, is Harry Truman's temperament.
Why, you are asked, does your
President write so many letters?
Why does he call people so many
names? Why does he make so many
quick statements in press confer
ences?
Few people in the United States
realize how widely the President’s
letter to Paul Hume, Washington
music critic, was published—from
London to the smaller cities of the
Balkans. In Turkey some news
papers, having heard that the
President once hurled an uncomp
limentary epithet in my direction,
got mixed up and thought the
Hume letter had been written to
me.
Leaving personalities strictly
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Nils the 61 Jackpot
Cpl. Norman Siheider, of Philadelphia, Ja„ grins happily after re
turning from a hazardous Han River patrol near Seoul, Korea, with
3rd Division mates. Schoider realized a soldier’s dream on his return
! to camp—hot chow and mail from home. UB Wirephoto.
JUNEAU WOMAN
I BURNS TO DEATH,
| PETERSBURG FIRE
PETERSBURG, Alaska, March 12.
—(.4“;—Mrs. Dora Armstrong, ol
; Juneau, was burned to death when
a tire destroyed a house lour miles
south of here yesterday.
Mrs. Armstrong was visiting at
the home of her daughter and son
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Owens,
when fire destroyed the structure.
Owens suffered third degree
burns when he attempted to save
Mrs. Armstrong. Mrs. Owens and
her daughter suffered minor burns.
Mrs. Armstrong was in an up
stairs bedroom when the fire
started. <
ALASKA WILD
FLOWERS THEME
! OF CLUB PROGRAM
Alaska wild flowers and plants,
especially those accessible in the
Juneau area, will be the theme of
, the Juneau Garden Club program
(next Wednesday afternoon, March
14, at the home of Mrs. Harry
ijtonehouse. The meeting is in
j charge of the members of the
Juneau Botanical Club, who will
j stress particularly the flowers suit
! able for garden culture, also the
j plants which have value as foods
■ according to the analyses made by
the Nutrition Division of the Alaska
Department of Health.
Dessert luncheon will be served
at 1:30 p. m. by Mrs. Stonehouse,
assisted by Mrs. Jack Clark as co
hostess. Mrs. Ray Renshaw, the
president, will conduct a short busi
ness meeting preceding the pro
gram.
LWV MEET TUESDAY
Mrs. G. E. Cleveland’s group of
the League of Women Voters will
meet tomorrow at 1:30 p. m. in
the Alaska Electric Light and Power
Co. penthouse. This was incorrectly
| reported to meet Thursday.
According to legend, the island
[ of Cheju off the coast of Korea
was once inhabited entirely by
| w omen, men being permitted to
I land there only once a year and
take away with them all boys who
had reached the age of 13.
The new provisional state of the
Saar is one-third larger than the
post-World War I Saar Territory.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
j Bcranof from Seattle due to ar
rive at 8 a.m. tomorrow.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle 4 p.m. Friday.
High Court Won'l
Review Kiss Case
WASHINGTON, March 12 —(A*)—
The Supreme Court today refused
to review the perjury conviction of
Alger Hiss.
The refusal lets stand Hiss’ con
viction and five-year sentence given
him in a jury’s finding that he lied
in denying he fed government se
crets to Russia from his high State
Department office.
Justices Reed, Frankfurter and
Clark disqualified themselves from
considering Hiss’ appeal.
Reed and Frankfurter testified as
character witnesses for Hiss at his
first trial in Federal Court in New
York but not at the second trial
which resulted in the conviction.
Clark was attorney general at the
time the government prepared its
case against Hiss.
Hiss was convicted on Jan. 21,
1950, has been free on $10,000 bail
pending Supreme Court action on
hi; appeal. His first trial ended
July 8, 1949, with the jury dead
locked 8 to 4 for conviction.
SERVICES WEDNESDAY
FOR LEONARD BRAGG
Returning from Anchorage where
they attended the funeral services
for Leonard Bragg. Fish and Wild
life Enforcement Agent, who died in
that city March 2. Clarence Rhode,
regional director and Dan Dalstan,
enforcement supervisor of the FWS
returned to Juneau Friday evening
on the Service Beeaehcraft plane.
Services for Bragg were held at
2 o’clock last Wednesday afternoon
in the Elks hall in Anchorage un
der the auspices of the Elks lodge
of which he was a member. Rhode
and Ralstan said the hall was filled
with many friends of the Bragg
family. Many of their friends came
from McGrath, their home, by plane
for the services. FWS Agents Ray
Woolford and Frank Chapados came
from Fairbanks. Masses of flowers
attested to the esteem held for
Bragg by friends in the Interior and
westward.
Pallbearers were Clarence Rhode,
Dan Ralstan and Ray Woolford of
the Fish and Wildlife Service and
William Hunt, Ward Gray and
Frank Brinner of Anchorage. Inter
ment was in the Elks plot in the
Anchorage cemetery.
Rhode and Ralstan took Mrs.
Bragg and her 14-year-old son Ross,
to their home in McGrath last
Thursday. They expect to leave in
about a ^eek for evada where
the family resided before coming
to Alaska and their future plans are
indefinite although they may return
to the Territory.
About 2,800 languages are spoken
in the world today according to
estimates by the National Geo
sr.-iphic Society.
Real Taku
Hils Here
A real Taku. with blizzard-like
swats, hit Juneau late Saturday
night and continued yesterday, dy
! ing down between 7 and 8 oclock
j last night.
Registration of wind celocity in
Juneau, especially during the day,
was from 25 to several short gusts j
of 79 miles per hour. Power and<
telephone lines were broken, many,,
roofs lost tar paper coverings but*
few windows were splintered. \Yith
the wind came snow to a depth ofJ
six to eleven inches and drifts were
from two to four feet, downtown
and ori the hills. Traffic was diffi
cult, with or without chains, and
this morning taxis had hard lime
answering calls especially on the
hills because of the depth of snow
until trails were broken by city
plows.
The temperature was mild, how
ever, during the daytime averaging
from 25 to 33 degrees above.
High winds evidently caused the
power to be cut off from 4:03 to
6:15 a.m. yesterday. Officials at the
Alaska Juneau Mining Co. said that
the cause had not been determined
as yet but that workmen were out
checking lines' today.
Police received many reports of
wires down around town. Investi
gation showed them to be telephone
wires in most instances.
Weatherman Brown in a special
report to the Empire, says the
unseasonably cold weather which
prevailed during the past nine days
was at least partially broken by a
storm center which passed over
Juneau last night. This storm de
veloped over the Gulf of Alaska
Saturday and brought strong gusty
northeasterly winds in the city of
Juneau until the storm center
passed. At the airport the highest
wind was 21 miles per hour but it
was much stronger and more gusty
than that in the city of Juneau.
While temperature continues be
low the normal of 32 degrees for
this time of the year yet is warmer
by nearly 10 degrees than for the
past nine days. The daily average
w'as about 18 degrees per day be
low the normal expected tempera
ture during that period.
chandTer is
NOT WANTED
AS BB CZAR
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 12.—
t/W—Happy Chandler was again re
fused a new contract as baseball
Commissioner today by the Major
League club owners. His present
seven-year contract expires April
30, 1952.
The vote was nine votes for keep
ing Chandler, seven against. He
needed 12 votes to retain his job.
The vote was the same as that
by which the owners retused to
renew his contract when they met
at St. Petersburg, December 11.
Chandler hinted to the club
owners that he might resign. After
being informed of the vote against
him. he addressed them: “While I
naturally regret the action, I want
to make it as easy as possible for
baseball to elect a desirable succes
sor and I will cooperate to that end
to the fullest extent.’’
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o clock tins morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
30; minimum, 16.
At Airport — Maximum,,
24; minimum, 15.
FORECAST
Mostly cloudy with occa
sional snow showers tonight
and Tuesday. Lowest temper
' ature tonight near 30 deg.
Highest Tuesday near 35.
PRECIPITATION
i Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — 33 inches;
Since March 1 — .65 inches;
Since July 1 — 51.54 inches.
At Airport — .27 inches;
Since March 1 — .68 inches;
Since July 1 — 33.06 inches.
Good fora Laugh
A laughing Gen. Douglas MacArthur pats the shoulder of Maj. Gen. William Iloge, new 9th corps com
j mander, and Lieut. Gen. Matthew Ridgway, (right), 8th army commander, has a good laugh as the trio
enjoy a joke during the supreme commander’s 12th visit to the Korean battlefields. Iff) Wircphoto.
SENATE, HOUSE
CLEARING DECKS
* OF OWN BILLS
The senate passed unanimously
today a bill to allow selection of
a territorial education commissioner
who may not be qualified for Alaska
high school teaching.
Sen. Steve McCutcheon, who
joined Sen. John Butrovich in intro
ducing the measure, said the board
of education had found in its search
for a successor to Dr. James Ryan
that there are qualified administra
tors with a string of degrees who
actually fall short of the technical
requirements for an Alaska high
school teacher.
The proposed amendment to the
iaw was sent to the house.
The senate also passed four other
minor bills during the morning of
^his final day on which it can
send run-of-the-mill senate bills
to the house. Both houses will hoTd
night sessions in the hope of sweep
ing their decks clean of their own
bills. They agreed this morning to
receive tomorrow any bills that the
other house passes tonight, even
though it may be after midnight.
Otherwise, except on appropria
tions or tax bills, suspension of the
rules by a two-thirds vote will be
required to get a senate bill into
the house or a house bill into the
senate after tonight.
Tlte senate voted 15 to 1 for a
bill to open the way for displaced
specialists from Europe to serve with
the Alaska department of health,
ft proposes exemption from the
present citizenship requirement for
doctors, dentists, nurses and tech
nicians. They mast, however, take
the non-Communist oath.
Other bills passed by the Senate
this morning were:
SB69—to make the birth certifi
cates of children born out of wed
lock conform as nearly as possible
to other certificates by issuance of
a substitute in case of the parents’
marriage (by the education, health
and public morals committee);
SB81 (by McCutcheoni allowing
city councils to sell property below
$5,000 in value without a vote of the
people;
SBS6 (by Huntley and Garnicki
to designate the department of
health as the territorial "mental
authority” for receiving federal
funds and other purposes.
Sen. Elton Engsirom announced
withdrawal of a committee substi
tute bill for a house measure to
remove the governor from the fish
eries experimental commission. The
committee substitute proposed turn
ing the whole commission job over
to the Alaska fisheries department.
Engstrom said it was found to in
volve complications because of par
ticipation of federal agencies so
the original house bill will be re
vived in the senate.
Engineers say that the average
! television receiver requires COO
| parts.
Anchorage to
Crack Down,
School Tax
ANCHORAGE, March 12 — IAV
The Anchorage office of the Ter
ritorial Taxation Department warn
ed today, after fining of two Fort
Richardson civilian workers, that,
upwards of 100 warrants would be
issued this week for the arrest of
persons delinquent in their $5 an
nual school tax.
The Fort Richardson employes,
J. W. Wood and Millard W. Buster,
were arrested last Thursday, pleaded
guilty before U. S. Commissioner
Rose Walsh on charges of failing
to pay the 1949 and 1950 school tax,
and were fined $25 each. In addition
they were ordered to pay the back
taxes with penalties.
The school tax, due each Dec. 1,
is assessed against all employed
persons between 21 and 55 years of
age. Collections in the Third Di
vision for 1949-50 totaled $254,070.
The tax is Alaska-wide.
JUDGE IS DELAYED
BY WEATHER; COURT
OPENS 10 A.M. TUES.
« -
The present term of the U. S.
District Court called for 2 o’clock
this afternoon was postponed until
10 o’clock tomorrow morning, due
to the delay in the arrival in Juneau
of the plane bringing Judge
George W. Folta and members of
the court party from Anchorage.
The Pacific Northern plane on
which they were passengers was
held at Gustavus last night because
of stormy weather and did not reach
the Juneau airport until 10:30 this
morning.
No particular cases are set to
be heard tomorrow. Motions and
other business are expected to
be brought before the court. The
petit jury has been called to con
vene at 10 a m. March 15.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, March 12 —Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3*4. American Can
106, American Tel. and Tel. 156'..
Anaconda 41'», Douglas Aircraft
100V General Electric 56'-. Gen
eral Motors 52V Goodyear 75, Ken
necott 73, Libby, McNeil and Libby,
9%, Northern Pacific 33' .. Stand
ard Oil of California 46, Twentieth
Century Fox 22'i, U. S. Steel 43V
j Pound |2.80Vi, Canadian Exchange
! 93 .56*4.
Sales today were 1.640.000 shares
Averages today were as follows:
; Industrials 249.91, rails 83.53, utlli
j ties 43.14.
FIRST DIVISION’S
SENATORS' BILLS
ARE SIDETRACKED
The Territorial Senate passed two
bills and killed three Saturday after
noon.
The principal bill approved would
set up a comprehensive system of
motor vehicle registration in the
Territory and boost licenses on
trueks from a minimum of $10 to
a maximum of $400 for trucks of 10
tons and over. The vote on Sen. W.
L. (Dan) Lhamon’s bill was 14 to 5.
The three defeated bills were all
sponsored by First Division senators.
They were:
The Nolan-Engstrom bill to re
duce the non-resident fishing li
cense in waters three miles offshore
to $10 from the present $50 in the
hope of bringing more halibut j
catches through Southeastern Alas- |
ka ports. The measure lost on an
3-8 vote.
Anita Garnick's bill to start a
presidential preferential primary
and provide for the popular election
of delegates to the national politi
cal conventions, which lost by a
10-6 vote In favor of Sen. Heinie
Snider's motion to table. It was
the anti-Albert White bill in new
clothing.
Elton Engstrom's "little Hatch
act" to prevent any personnel of
the Territorial executive depart
ments from trying to influence the
outcome of elections, which failed
on an 8-8 vote.
Fishing Measure
The fishing license measure caus
ed the most controversy. Sponsors
contended too many halibut fisher-1
men take cargoes to Prince Kuper, ]
or Puget Sound ports to avoid the
$50 license fee for crew members.
Senators Nolan and Engstrom cited
a drop in halibut landings at Ketch
ikan in support of their contention
that the license cut would be bene
ficial. Originally, the bill, had pro
posed eliminating the license beyond
the three-mile limit. Nolan's amend
ment to make it $10 carried on an
8-7 vote. The sponsors argued that
the $50 license fee is a deterrent to
Southeastern landings, that the Ter
ritory thereby loses tax collection:
on them and the ports lose the bus
iness of provisioning the boats.
Wallis George, manager of the
Juneau Cold Storage company, took
the stand to support their conten
tion. He expressed the opinion that
if it hadn't been for the $50 license
last reason "there would have been
much greater landings in Southeast
ports.” *
His statement was in reply to
arguments by Sen. H. M. MacKen
zie and Vern Albright, international
representative of the International
Longshoremen’s and Warehouse
men's Union, that landings in the
northern ports of Southeast Alaska
—Sitka, Pelican. Juneau and others
I —were higher last year.
Rep. Ed Locken (H-Petersburg)
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ALLIES IN
DRIVE ON
KONGCKON
Spectacular Explosion of
2 Colliding Russ Jets
Important News
By Associated Press
A spectacular explosion of two
colliding Russian-made Jet planes
stole the Korean war spotlight to
day as ground action slowed be
hind retreating Communists.
The migs were trying to make a
tight turn while chasing an Ameri
can F-80 Thunderjet. They couldn’t
cut it fine eonugh, collided and ex
ploded.
"Best damn show I’ve ever been
on,” said Lt. Arthur Walton of
Bethesda, Md., one of the pilots in
a flight of four F-80s attacked by
16 speedy Red planes.
The four F-80s reported they dam
aged four other mig-15s in a 10-min
ute dogfight. That brought the bag
of damaged migs to seven for the
biggest two days of jet fighting over
Northwest Korea in this war.
A total of 61 migs in flights of 10
to 20 each — engaged U. S. F-80s
and F-86s in four dogfights Sunday
and today.
Resistance Collapses
On the ground, Red resistance
collapsed on the East Central front
and faded sharply before a three
pronged Allied spearhead along the
West-Central sector of the Allies’
advancing 10-mile line.
United Nations tank columns
rolled to within five miles of Hong
chon on the West-Central front.
Hongchon is a great Communist
troop staging area and once was re
ported to be Chinese general head
quarters.
UN forces met little resistance as
they probed within sight of the big
Red supply center.
Allies on Quick Move
North Korean resistance collapsed
on the East-Central front. Allied
troops moved in quickly behind the
fleeing Reds and seized mile-high
Mount Taemi without firing a shot.
Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, U.
S. Eighth Army commander, told
frontline correspondents that it
would be a tremendous victory for
the UN if the war ended at the 38tii
Parallel. But he added that he knew
of no plan to end the fighting there.
He said the UN forces have "let
a lot of air out of the inflated bal
loon of the Chinese military estab
lishments.” In the six days of the
new offensive the enemy has lost
33,000 killed or wounded and Ridg
way said the ration of Communist
casualties to UN losses was “well
over 60 to 1.”
Ridgway said new American
troops appearing in Korea as re
placements for combat veterans. He
termed this the beginning of a
“greatly increased flow of replace
ments.”
ROGERS APPOINTED
AS ECONOMIST ON
GOVERNOR'S STAFF
The appointment of George Rog
ers as economist in the office of the
Governor of Alaska on an Admini
strative loan from the Alaska Public
Weeks was announced this morning
by Governor Ernest Gruening.
Rogers took over his post today.
Rogers is no stranger to Alaska
and has previously held a position
m the Governor’s office, having
been administrative assistant to
Governor Gruening from November,
1946 to September, 1947. He came
to Alaska first in January, 1945. as
economist and price executive with
the Office of Pi ice Administration,
with headquarters in Juneau.
After leaving Juneau in 1947 he
studied at Harvard University for
his PhD in economics and a masters
degree in public administration. He
t spent three months as technical
chief to the Chief of the Alaska
Branch, Division ot Territories in
Washington, D. C. In February of
11950 he was appointed as finance
examiner lor the Alaska Public
Works in the Juneau office and
with Mrs. Rogers and their young
daughter and son returned to the
territory.
English is the modern world’s
most widely read language.