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VOL. LXXVIi7"no!'i1,830 " JUNEAU. ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8. 1051_MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_ PRICE TEN CENTS
A rtillery Duel Raging On Iron Triangle Front
Cut of Cost-of-Living Pay
To Alaska Govt. Employees
Opposed by Senator Butler
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COUNCIL APPROVES
SCHOOL BUDGET;
SELLS PILEDRIVER
The Juneau City Council gave ap
proval to the Juneau Independent
School District budget for the year
1951-52 at a regular council meet
ing last night.
The increase in the budget from
$311,397.43 last year to $341,438.16
is largely accounted for by in
creased teachers’ salaries and some
extra repairs.
A bid for $7,000 cash by J. F.
McDowell of Kansas City, Kan. for
the city piledriver and barge was
accepted. The only other bidder
was Manson Construction and En
gineering Co. of Seattle which bid
$6,100.
Fire Hall Bonds
Mayor Waino Hendrickson was
authorized to work out an agree
ment regarding the disposition of
the fire hall bonds for approval at
the council meeting next Thursday.
He was also authorized to cash
in approximately $34,000 worth of
Government bonds at the Behlrends
Bank in order that work may be
started on the fire hall.
WASHINGTON, June 8 — (A1' —
Senator Butler said yesterday that
elimination of cost-of-living pay
ments to government employes hired
in Alaska would be “short-sighted
and undesirable.”
He urged the Senate 'to remove
from the Agriculture Department
Appropriation bill a ban on such
payments to Alaskans who become
government employes. The bill would
continue cost-of-living payments to
employes hired in Continental Unit
ed States for service in the Ter
ritories.
The House-passed provision ap
plies to all Territories, but Butler
directed his remarks specifically to
the Alaska problem.
He said the payments are “abso
lutely necessary ... to get quali
fied personnel to accept positions
there.”
“Surveys clearly show that the
cost of living in Alaska is 40 to 50
per cent higher than in the Con
tinental United States,” he declared.
“ . . . Furthermore, I see absolute
ly no reason for distinction between
those employes recruited in Alaska
and those recruited here but sent to
Alaska. They are the same kind of
people, and Alaskans are just as
much citizens of the United States
as are the residents of the 48 states.
If they do the same work, they
should receive the same pay.”
Butler, an opponent of statehood
for Alaska, added, however, that if
statehood should be granted Alaska,
“it would probably not be practical
to continue to pay this extra dif
ferential ”
Aircraft Float, Boat Harbor
A request from Fred Parsons, of
the Aircraft Owners and Pilots As
sociation, that the City see what
can be done about getting an air
craft float for the small boat har
bor was referred to City Engineer
Felix Toner and the boat harbor
committee to meet with Tony
Schwamm of the Alaska Depart
ment of Aviation next week.
Parsons pointed out that there
were 10 small aircraft owners here
interested in facilities as well as
transient aircraft going through.
He said that similar facilities were
being installed in other Alaska
towns and he believes that Juneau
could obtain the same.
Dock Repair Bids
Bids will be called for repairs to
the Ferryway and South Seward
trestle (dock) for opening at 10
a.m. June 21. The contractor is to
furnish piling, lumber, hardware,
labor and preservative. Plans and
specifications are available at the
City Clerk's office.
Sales Tax Questions
A request by James Bolton, pas
tor of the Baptist Church, for re
consideration on sales tax exemp
tion on materials and labor for a
new church to be built here touched
off a long discussion. It was final
ly decided to have the City Attor
ney draw up a resolution exempting
churches and religious organizations
from city sales tax on purchases
of materials and labor for church
purposes.
Need Hose Drier
Authority was given for the pur
chase of a drier for fire hose, one
that can be used in the new fire
hall. The present situation for
drying fire hose is bad, the Mayor
reported.
It was also voted to pay Chief
Fire Truck Driver Lars Sorensen
$100 a' month extra for the next
four months to spend his time off
in# keeping the fire equipment and
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TO ARREST DRIVERS
OBSTRUCTING FIRE
TRUCK AULARM
The Juneau City Council last
night concurred with a request
from Fire Chief Minard Mill that
some drastic action be taken to
eliminate unnecessary cars driving
to fires and blocking the streets
when a fire alarm is sounded.
At a recent fire, the fire trucks
were delayed by trucks and other
vehicles that failed to pull to the
side of the street and cars bearing
sightseers going to the fire hamper
ing volunteer firemen who were
rushing to the scene.
It. was decided to sound an al
arm, send out the fire trucks and
station firemen to arrest offenders.
Mayor Waino Hendrickson said that
suitable publicity would be given
the matter.
It was pointed out that a city
ordinance prohibits following fire
trucks or other emergency vehicles
during an alarm and requires that
cars pull over to the curb until the
emergency has passed.
The first few minutes of a fire
are the crucial ones and a few min
utes delay of fire trucks and fire
men may make the difference in
loss of life and property, the Chief
said.
3 CONTRACTS
AWARDED FOR
SCHOOL JOBS
Three contracts for school im
provement were awarded yester
day, it was announced by Sterling
Sears, superintendent of Schools. ,
Harri Machine Shop was low
and successful bidder on installa
tion of a boiler in the grade school.
That bid was $4,256 as compared
with a bid submitted by Juneau
Plumbing and Heating for $4,535.
In re-treading the high school
stairs, Blackwell's Cabinet Shop
was awarded the contract on a bid
of $523.50. Only other bidder was
Power and Mallory, $889.35.
Triplette and Dalziel submitted
the only bid for construction of
a bulkhead, retaining wall and
hurricane fence in front of the
grade school. Their bid was $12,980.
BEAR IN PNA OFFICE
A huge Kodiak brown bear hide
belonging to Jack Jenkins, invest
igator for the Alaska Native Serv
ive, is on display in the Pacific
Northern Airlines office.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. Iasi. By Bell Syndicate. Inc..
V^ASHINGTON. — Apparently it
doesn't pay to tell Congress how
General Motors gets favored treat
ment ori steel allocations. The gov- !
ernment official who had the nerve,
to do so. Col. William S. Knight, j
has now been squeezed out of his
job.
Col. Knight is the official inside
the National Production Authority
who testified before Congressman
Manny Celler's monopoly commit
tee regarding 4,563 tons of steel
which the NPA allotted to General
Motors. At the very same time four
other NPA applications for steel
made by locomotive companies were
conveniently ‘lost.”
Knight was advised by his asso- '
ciates in NPA not to testify. How
ever, when called before the Con
gressional committee, he told the i
truth. His testimony gave insight
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PULP MILL
APPLICANT
AT AUK BAY
Forest Service Receives
Application for In
dian Point Site
Formal application for a pulp
mill site at Auk Bay has been re
ceived in the regional offices of
the U. S. Forest Service, it was
announced last night at the month
ly meeting of Auk ay Post No. 25,
The American Legion.
According to Legion Adjutant
Robert N. Druxman, the applica
lion was made by Bernhard B.
Mullen, of Juneau, on behalf of
the Alaska Cellulose Co., for a mill
location at Indian Point which is
a peninsula protruding into Auk
Bay from the N. J. Bavard prop
erty at Mile 15. The Forest Service
did not reveal detaifs of the appli
cation but it was understood that
the conjpany proposes to establish
a mill with a 200 ton daily capa
city.
Considerable discussion took place
at the Legion meeting on the ad
vantages and disadvantages of such
a project in the Auk Bay area. Ad
vocates pointed out that such an
industrial plant would mean lower
electrical rates and the completion
of the proposed community water
system. Opponents declared that a
pulp mill would destroy the scenic
value of the area and bring in un
desirable elements which would ad
versely aifect the present residen
tial desirability of Auk Bay.
Efforts to get a formal opinion
from fho I Jjj the iiml
were finally tabled until next meet
ing in order to get full discussion
and the opinions of non-Legion
Auk Bay residents.
To Give Blood
In other business transacted at
the combined picnic and business
meeting, the Legionnaires voted to
come to Juneau tomorrow night as
a group to give blood to the Amer
ican Red Cross tor servicemen in
Korea.
The purchase of three ‘‘drive
carefully” signs was approved by
the post and the burial flag of the
late George Getchell of Juneau,
first Commander for the Depart
ment of Alaska, the American Le
gion, was received as a gift from
E. E. Weschenfelder of Spuhn Is
land.
Auxiliary Organization
Mrs. Delia Sarff, of Petersburg,
President of the Department of
Alaska, The American Legion Aux
iliary, was present at the meeting
aird told about the organization
and the advantages of an Auxiliary
Unit at Auk Bay. Post Commander
George F. Cantillon announced
that an organizational meeting will
be held at DeHart's store on Fri
day, June 15 to assist the ladies
in forming a unit. Twelve women
have already signified that they
will join.
ROSE ON ALEUTIAN
ON OFFICIAL TRIP
R. C. Rose, Assistant General Pass
enger Agent of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, is aboard the Al
eutian on the present trip. He is
no stranger to Juneau as he was
stationed here with the navy dur
ing world war 2.
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COMMITTEE IS TO
MEET TOMORROW
No action was taken at last
night’s meeting of the Central
Committee for the Fourth of July
celebration as a quorum was not
present, Oren Cleveland reported
today.
Another meeting is being called
for tomorrow night at 6:30 in the
lobby of the Baranof and all re
presentatives are urged to be pres
ent as time is getting short and
there is much planning to do,
Cleveland said.
FAIRBANKS VISITOR
Forest M. Crush, with Reed and
Martin, contractors, from Fair
banks, is stopping at the Baranof
Hotel.
E. O. Easterly of Seattle is at
the Baranof Hotel.
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Editors Are Now Juneau Bound
The National Editorial Association tour party leaving Seattle, June 5 on the Alaska Steamship Company
steamer Aleutian. Snapped while boarding cruise ship were Editor of the Ellensburg (Washington) Daily
Record J. Clifford Kaynor, retiring N. E. A. president, and Mrs. Kaynor (lower left); and Don Eck, gen
eral manager of the N. E. A., Chicago, (upper right). The tour party is scheduled to arrive here tomor
row. (Alaska Steamship Co. photo)
Represent Two Sections
NEA PARTY SAILS
HOUR EARLIER SAT.;
180 NOW IN GROUP
A fine time Is reported by the
cruising National Editorial Associa
tion due in Juneau aboard the Aleu
tion Saturday morning at 7 o'clock.
Due to change in plans, sailing
time from Juneau will be 6 p.m.,
Saturday instead of 7 p.m., accord
ing to Alaska Steampship Agent
Henry Green who talked to Don
Eck, NEA executive secretary by
telephone to Wrangell today.
The cruise list has grown from
170 to 180, Eck said.
And all 180 of the newspaper peo
ple aboard the Aleutian are enjoy
ing their Alsaka trip and looking
forward to their day in Juneau to
morrow.
The Aleutian will be met and wel
comed by Mayor Waino Hendrick
son and a chamber committee upon
arrival. At 10:45 a.m. a fleet of
busses and cabs will take the vis
itors to Mendenhall Glacier where
fresh salmon lunch will be held at
12:30, weather permitting. In case
of rain the lunch will be held at
Auk Bay recreation area.
Juneau Chamber of Commerce
President Herbert S. Rowland urges
all members to indicate their inten
tions to attend by calling Mrs.
Preston Sandbo at Red 332 in order
that noses may be counted.
"These are important visitors and
I hope that all Juneauites will do
everything they can to make their
brief stopover here enjoyable," Row
land said.
Above are two editors who attended the NEA convention at Seattle,
representing two different sections of the nation. J. R. Kilgore (left)
is from Texas, and CUff Kaynor of Ellensbtirg, Wash.
NEW ANGLE IN
BRISTOL BAY
STRIKE CASE
SEATTLE, June 8 — W — The
Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., ap
pealed to the National Labor Re
lations Board today not to grant a
bragaining election in the Bristol
Bay, Alaska, area as long as it is
strikebound.
Some 1.400 members of the Bering
Sea Fishermen’s Union (Ind) have
been on strike for union recognition
since last Friday.
W. C. Arnold, managing director
of the Alaska Salmon Industry, said
in a telegram to the NLRB that “an
election order under these conditions
amounts to a reward for illegal ac
tivities and an absolute bar to a
fair election.”
The wire to the NLRB in Wash
ington, D.C.. said the Salmon Indus
try understood the board was “on
the point of ordering an election
in Bristol Bay.
At the same time, the NLRB re
gional office in Seattle said it antic
ipated a decision shortly by tiie full
board in Washington, DC., on the
Bering Sea Fishermen's petition for
a collective bargaining election.
A spokesman for the Bering Sea
union said in Seattle that a "mem
bers only” contract had been of
fered by the industry and rejected
by the striking fishermen.
John Geisness, attorney for the
union, said the industry offer was
turned down “because it does not
represent real collective-bargaining.’
He reported that the industry
withdrew the offer after it was re
jected. It would have given the
striking fishermen the same fish
prices and working conditions pro
vided in a contract signed between
the industry and the rival Alaska
Fishermen’s Union (Ind).
SPECIAL WELCOME
AT KETCHIKAN FOR
NEA TAUR PARTY
KETCHIKAN, June 8 —1*>—Alas
kans added something special yes
terday to ceremonies welcoming
touring members of the National
Editorial Association to the Terri
tory.
The stateside newspaper publish
ers and editors were welcomed to
Ketchikan, the first stop on their
tour, by a delegation which gavej
them the keys to the city and a hugi I
king salmon. Then they were shown
Wilford Green: ‘The only totem
pole sitter In the entire world.”
The high man on the totem pole
took to his perch as the steamer
Aleutian arrived here with the edi
tors and publishers. Green announc
ed he planned to remain atop the
pole until Ketchikan residents con
tribute their full quota to a blood
bank which arrived on the same
steamship.
, The publishers, editors and their
wives are scheduled to arrive in
Juneau Saturday morning.
R. F. Friele, Jr. of Ketchikan Is
registered at the Baranoi Hotel.
to. S. C. S. MEETS
The W. S. C. S. will meet next
Tuesday evening at the home of
Mrs. Ray Rice.
Ship Movements
Aleutian from Seattle with NEA
tour party aboard scheduled to ar
rive at 7 a.m. tomorrow.
Princess Louise from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive Saturday after
noon or evening.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle late today.
Freighter Cynthia Olson scheduled
to (Sail from Seattle Saturday.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
sail from Vancouver 8 p.m. Satur
day.
Chilcotin scheduled to sail from
Vancouver 11:45 p.m. Saturday.
Baranof scheduled to arrive from
westward at 3 p.m. Sunday, south
bound.
MARSHALL IS
ON VISIT TO
WAR FRONT
Defense Secretary in Sur
prise Trip-Congratu
lates Fighting Forces
TOKYO, June 8 —tD— U. S, De
fense Secretary George C. Marshall
made a surprise visit to Japan and
Korea today, but said it had “no
connection whatsover” with any cur
rent peace moves.
He also denied that he brought
Gen. Matthew B. Rldgway any new
directive on fighting the Korean
war.
Marsall said the reason for his trip
was "purely military.”
“I came to Korea to congratu
late our Army leaders on their
achievements," he said.
When newsmen in Korea asked
him if his trip had any connection
with peace moves, Marshall replied
with a smile:
“You better ask Mao Tze-Tung
(Red China premier) about that.”
A correspondent asked him If
Korea was a military stalemate.
Marshall replied: “Whenever we
start something and don't finish it
the same afternoon — In our coun
try that's a stalemate.”
He said the Guerrilla war in i
Greece was once called a stalemate,
and so was the Berlin airlift.
38th Figure of Speech
Marsall had this to say about the
38th Parallel, once the dividing line
between Communist North and Re
publican South Korea:
"The Army will be handled in the
most effective manner passible. The
38th is Just a figure of speech now." j
In Washington ambassadors of 16
nations which have troops fighting
with UN forces in Korea met Tues
day and discussed prospects of a
cease-fire. They meet again today.
Marshall emphatically denied that
these and other reports of a pos
sible negotiated peace had any con
nection with his visit.
No Comments, Rldgway
In Tokyo, Gen. Rldgway, who ac
companied Marshall to Korea, was
asked this direct question:
“Have you any new instructions
from Washington concerning the
war?”
Ridgway’s reply was "no com
ment.”
The defense secretary flew into
Tokyo about midnight last night.
Within 20 minutes he had changed
planes and was on his way to Korea
Ridgway accompanied him.
Conference at Front
Today, just south of 38 on the
western front, Marshall confeired
with Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet,
U. S. 8th Army commander and the
top UN field commander.
The thunder of Allied artillery
could be heard in the distance.
The 45-mlnute meeting was held
in a green camouflaged Army tent.
Fighter planes circled overhead and
armed military police guarded the
tent.
Photographers were allowed to
take pictures when the conference
broke up, but correspondents were
not allgwed to question him. The
press conference was held later,
just before he returned to Japan.
Marshall looked tired as he left
the conference.
More UN Troop*
The secretary said efforts are be
ing made to obtain more troops for
the Korean war from other members
of the UN. He refused to comment
on whether additional U. S. forces
will be sent.
Marshall said he considered the
UN campaign in Korea a “military
classic.”
In particular he pointed to the
way the Chinese and North Korean
Reds were repulsed during their
May offensive and then were pur
sued by the UN Army.
Red Morale Disrupted
“We counterattacked immediate
ly," he said, “and disrupted the Com
munist’s morale and certainly hurt
the Communist prestige. I wanted
to see the place where this had hap
pened.”
Marshall said his trip was planned
some time ago but he wasn’t able
to come to Korea until he had made
certain the manpower bill and the
1951-52 budget discussions no longer
required his presence in the U. S.
A steady light rain fell during
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Key Base of
Reds Pounded
By Artillery
Allied Bombers Make Ter
rific Attack in Heaviest
Operations of War
By Associated Press
U. 8. Secretary of Defense George
C. Marshall flew into Tokyo today
after a surprise visit to the Korean
front with Supreme Commander
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway.
Marshall’s unexpected visit —his
first since the Korean fighting be
gan — led to speculation that he
might be carrying new orders to
Ridgway, but Marshall denied this.
He said the purpose of his visit
was "purely military."
Both Marshall and Ridgway tour
ed the front with Lt. Gen. James
A. Van Fleet, commander of U. S.
ground forces. Marshall said the Al
lied troops were "in wonderful
shape." Ridgway said the war “is
going fine.”
Artillery Duel
They made their battlefront visit
as big Allied guns fought a long
range artillery duel with Chinese
batteries In front of Chorwon, key
to the Communists’ stoutly defended
Iron Triangle.
There were signs the Chinese
Communists were shifting their
weight eastward.
ig UN guns thundered on Chor
won and Kumhwa at the base of the
triangle, the enemy’s vast reservoir
of men and guns. The area was
blanketed with fragmentation bombs
last night by 23 Allied bombers,
using radar technique.
Bomb Fragments
Some 9,000,000 bomb fragments
were scattered in one of the Far
East Air Forces’ heaviest opera
tions of the war.
Allied officers said the Reds were
shifting eastward toward Wonsan,
east coast port at the head of the
Pyonggang valley. UN warships have
had the port under attack for
months.
The Chinese made a desperate ef
fort to stem the Allied advance on
their triangular storehouse. They
opened 14 floodgates of Chorwon
dam and a two-foot wall of water
swept down the Hantan river. It
failed to knock out AHldd bridges
and was virtually ineffective.
The Reds also employed a power
ful new type of anti-tank gun. Cor
respondents described it as a long
snouted 57 mm. weapon that fires
shells capable of piercing five inches
of solid steel plate.
JUDGE RESTRAINS
PICKET LINES AT
NEW ENGLAND CO.
A temporary restraining order was
issued yesterday afternoon in U. S.
District Court by Judge George W.
Folta against the Purse Seiners
Union local 3-30, ILWU. to lift pick
eting of the New England Fish Co.
cold storage and cannery in Ketchi
kan. The company appeared as
plaintiff, represented by H. L.
Faulkner. Judge Folta gave the un
ion until June 13 to present its case.
The Purse Seiners are asking
prices of 18 cents a pound for pink
salmon, 17 cents for chums, 20 cents
for cohoes, 25 cents for kings and
30 cents for sockeyes for the fish
ing season which opens August 6.
However, the company in making its
plea for the injunction to restrain
the union from picketing its plants,
pointed out that its workmen do not
belong- to the same union as the
Purse Seiners and argued that the
union’s action was in violation of
the anti-trust laws. New England
Fish Company has 15,000 pounds of
salmon and 2,500 barrels of halibut
bait on hand which would be among
losses sustained if the picket line
were allowed to continue, counsel
for the plaintiff pointed out.
Oscar Bergseth. general superin
tendent of the New England Fish
Company was in Juneau for the
court hearing.
EVERETT NOWELL HERE
Everett Nowell of Seattle arriv
ed here Tuesday on PAA from
Fairbanks and is stopping at the
Baranof Hot$|.