THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL, LXXV., NQ. 11,580
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY. AUGUST 14, 1950
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SUPERFORTS
STRIKE TOWN
NEAR SIBERIA
Bombs Hit 17 Miles from
Russ Border-No Soviet
Reaction Reported
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—l/Pl—'The
United States has given Russia a
new and unmistakable token of its
determination to fight the Korean
war even at the risk of open Soviet
intervention.
A mission of American Air Force
superfortresses, in a strike on a
North Korean city, slammed down
more than 500 tons of bombs so
close to Russian Siberia—17 miles—
that distant rumble o^ the attack
probably was heard across the bor
der.
This weekend bombing mission to
the Northern Korean port city of
Najin was one of the most daring
and delicate operations of the war.
The difference between putting
bombs down on a North Korean
target or, through accident and
error in navigation, having them
fall on Soviet territory was a
matter of about five minutes flying
time for a big formation maneuver
ing at a speed of more than three
miles a minute.
But there was an even greatef
calculated risk. How would Russia
react to the appearance of Amer
ican planes, bombed and armed for
combat, so close to her doorstep?
There was no indication that the
Soviet Air Force reacted to Cue
Najin mission. Information re
ceived here said nothing of the
sighting by the bomber mission of
non-American aircraft.
PURSE SEINERS GO
OUT AS SEASON
OPENS TOMORROW
The purse-seining season in
Southeast Alaska opens tomorrow as
per schedule, it was announced to
day by Clarence Rhode, regional
director of the Fish and Wildlife
Service.
Preliminary runs have been poor,
and this gave bloom to rumors that
the service would hold off the sea
son until the pink salmon showed
up in more numbers.
' Rhode said it was too late to make
changes now, although he said he
didn’t expect catches to be great.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
by JACK ANDERSON
and FRED BLUMENTHAL
.Copyright. r>j m|1 eradicate. Inc.)
(Ed. Note—While Drew Pear
son is on a brief vacation, his
column will be written by mem
bers of his staff).
WASHINGTON — The American
Embassy reports from Moscow that
the Kremlin is delighted with the
U. S. Senate's recent decision tc
loan Dictator Franco $100,000,000.
In fact, the Russians are already
planning to use this as a new too
for anti-American propaganda. The
Reds have a long list of quotes
from Franco's own lips, more poi
sonous than anything they could
invent. Here are a few France
quotes that the Communists will
be flinging in our faces:
1937— (To Hitler) "Fervent wishes
as the great German people ad
vance under the glorious emblem
of the Swastika. Heil Hitler.”
1938— (To Hitler) “Cordial con
gratulations ion annexation of the
Czechs).” Remember Lidice?
1941—“What joy to see the Ger
man bombdrs one day punishing
the insolence of the skyscrapers
of New York.”
Private Admission
Though President Truman was
plenty miffed when the Senate re
jected four major nominations last
week—the worst setback Congress
has handed him this session—he
admitted privately that he mig.’it
have voted the same way.
Truman made the concession at
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PACIFIC COAST
ILWU MEETING
OPENS TUESDAY
SEATTLE, Aug. 14—UP)—Delegates
from Pacific Northwest locals of
the International Longshoremen's
and Warehousemen’s Union (CIO)
gather in North Bend, Ore., tomor
row and Wednesday to decide what
to do about:
1. The jailing of Longshore boss
Harry Bridges.
2. The maritime security program.
3. Possible wage Increases.
The agenda of the two-day gath
ering was disclosed here yesterday
by William Getting, regional di
rector. The parley will attract dele
gates from union locals all up and
down the coast as well as in the
Northwest.
CLIMBERS COMB MT
WHITNEY SEARCHING
FOR REYNOLDS HEIR
LONE PINE, Calif., Aug. 14—(A>t—
Four veteran mountain climbers
lowered themselves over the east
face of Mt. Whitney today in a
last-hope search for Christopher
Smith Reynolds, tobacco-heir son
of singer Libby Holman.
The climbers plan to search re
mote ledges and crevasses and, if
unsuccessful, will remain on the na
tion’s highest peak overnight and
start anew tomorrow.
The frozen body of Stephen Rice
Wasserman, was found in a snowy
crevasse at the 11,500-foot level yes
terday, a week after the two 17-year
old Eastern scions had set out to
conquer Whitney’s toughest side.
Scant hope was held by veterai.
searchers that young Reynolds is
still alive, unless he wandered off
for aid for Wasserman. Today's
search will be concentrated on
higher crevasses of the 14,496-foot
peak.
Young Reynolds' mother, former
torchsinger Libby Holman, was
ready to fly from Paris. The boy,
heir to a $7,000,000 fortune, was
born to Miss Holman shortly after
her husband, Zachary Reynolds,
was mysteriously slain.
WORLD REVIEW
Here’s whats happening in the
world outside Korea, politically and
rtherwise:
STRASBOURG, France: Cons
tantin Tsaldaris of Greece proposed
hat western European governments
mmediately negotiate for a unifier
army to defend the continent ag
ainst the threat of Communist ag
gression. He asked the European
council's consultative assembly to
entrust its president, Paul-Henti
Spaak of Belgium, with carrying
out preliminary steps. Winston
Churchill, Britain’s conservative
leader, proposed such a unified
army in a speech to the assemSy
Friday and the assembly approved
he idea.
London: Britain’s Conservative
and Liberal party leaders asked
Prime Minister Attlee to recall
Parliament from its summer recess
earlier than the Sept. 12 date he
has set. Churchill, wartime Prime
Minister, said Sept. 12 was "alto
gether too remote.”
Brussels: Prince Baudouin, who
has taken over the powers of his
father, King Leopold, as ruler ot
Belgium, has named acting For
eign Minister Paul Van Zeeland
Premier-Designate, charged with
-he ticklish job of forming an all
Social Christian party cabinet.
Tapei, Formosa: Nationalist
China’s air force said it would con
tinue to patrol the Red China
coast and attack Communist craft
which might be used to invade
Formosa, island stronghold of the
Nationalists.
The Air Force said It would de
fend Formosa in “full cooperation
with our allied forces,” referring
o the U. S. fleet ordered by Pres
ident Truman to defend Formosa.
ULMER FATHER, SON
REUNITED IN FAIRBANKS
Already, Severin Ulmer of Wash
ington. D.C., has found his first trip
to Alaska an eventful one.
In Fairbanks, he saw his father
for the first time in 40 years. Joe
Ulmer, old-time prospector in the
Interior, is "quite a character,” to
quote his son.
The Washington visitor is head of
personnel for the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.
BULLETINS
General MacArthur's psychologic
al warfare branch says safe-con
duct passes are to be dropped on
concentrations of enemy troops—
as well as bombs. The passes are
printed in black and red, in both
English and Korean, the UN em
blem is painted on the passes.
Enemy troops are told they’ll get
food and rest if they give up. that
all they have to do is walk toward
our lines with these passes held
over their heads.
A Chinese Nationalist paper m
Hong Kong says the top Chinese
Red leader — Mao-Tze-Tung —
left his capital on August 11th, for
an undisclosed destination. There
is speculation that he has gone to
Mukden, in Manchuria, to talk with
Russian commanders. A message to
the Hong Kong papers says Mao
made his trip after getting cabled
instructions from Stalin.
The Chinese Nationalist Ambas
sador to the United States, Dr.
Wellington Koo, plans to leave For
most for Washington on Wednes
day. Koo has been on Formosa
since August first. He has bee'n
conferring with Nationalist offic
ials.
In Japan, Japanese workers are
laboring hard to rehabilitate great
fuantities of steel airstrip matting.
The matting has been rusting in
Japan for nearly five years—etf?r
since the occupation forces wthit
into Japan. These workmen car.
refurbish about 750-thousand square
feet of this matting in a week
enough for a five thousand foot
runway 150 feet wide. The run
ways are desperately needed for
air strips in Korea.
—
Australian Prime Minister Rob
ert Menzies arrived in Tokyo today
to look Over Australian installations
in Japan. Menzies was greeted at
the airport by General MacArthSv.
The Australian Prime Minister
told newsmen that his country is
working as fast at it can to speed
the assignment of ground troops
to Korea. But he said he could
give no details about the Australian
force that would be sent to Kordi.
A proud B-50 bomber—Lucky
Lady the second—has crash-landed
in the Arizona desert. FortunatdTy,
all but one of the 11 crew mem
bers escaped injury. The planers
famous for making the first non
stop round-the-world flight in 19#
A St. Paul, Minnesota landmark
—the Jewell Hotel—has been de
stroyed by fire'. But firemen say
there apparently was no loss of life.
The government is trying to jail
ten of the convicted Communist
ieaders who are free on bail. /Tl
torney General J. Howard McGrath
says a Federal judge has ordered
the Communist leaders to show
cause why the bails should not be
revoked. August 17th is the date
set for the hearing—New York will
be the place.
The White House continues its
efforts to settle the dispute be
tween the nation’s top railroads
and the union*. One person tak
ing part in the conference says a
very little progress has been macs,
but there is yet a long way to go.
The talks continue tomorrow morn
ing.
The big Ford Rouge local of the
CIO auto workers is cracking down
on union officers suspected of Com
munism. At a hectic session, the
local's general council has ordered
five unit officer tried as Coitf
munist sympathizers.
JET PLANES COLLIDE
AT ELMENDORF BASE
ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Aug. 14—
ijfl—Two F-80-C jet fighters col
lided on the Elmendorf Air Force
Base runway last evening during
a takeoff. Neither pilot was in
jured.
The colliding planes swereved off
the runway and were enveloped in
a large puff of smoke. One of the
craft was badly burned, the second
only slightly damaged.
Public information officers said
only that one plane had suffered a
"failure.” Neither would they iden
tify the two pilots.
The jets were attached to the
64th Fighter Interceptor Squadron
of the 57th Fighter Interceptor
Wing,
NATIONAL GUARD
ENLISTMENT IS NOT
DRAFT'NSURANCE'
Young men without previous mili
tary service who now join the Na
i tional Guard are still subject to be
ing drafted into the armed forces,
John McCormick, Territorial direc
tor of selective service, warned to
day.
Any youth between the ages of
19 and 25 who joined the Guard
since June 24, 1948, may be called
up the same as any civilian, he said.
The Selective Service, if it is found
the draftee is eligible in other re
spects will draw up papers to have
the wanted man discharged from
the Guard so he may enter the
army.
Recent talk has gotten abroad,
McCormick said, which gives the er
roneous impression that a member
of the National Guard is "safe”
from induction.
Only young men not subject to
call are those with previous mili
tary service or those who joined the
Guard previously, he said, and are
still enlisted.
WAR SUMMARY
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(By Associated Press)
Central Front: Reds poise 60,000
troops along Naktong northwest oi
Taegu for expected blow at Amer
can inland base. Americans a*T;d
South Koreans wipe out probiftg
attacks on central sector. Red gen
:ral offensive reported imminent.
Changnyong &ector: On southern
dank of central front, American
:4th Division attacks Red bridge*
lead, gains up to a mile in dritfe
with artillery and tank support on
,ix-mile front 23 miles southwest
| of Taegu.
Eastern Sector: Red battalion
nolds Pohang, former U. S. supply
port; U. N. forces still hold air
strip, but planes no longer are
using it.
Southern Sector: Marines and
infantry take hills outside rubbled
Jhinju.
Air War: Tiny Tim, new Amer
can 11.75-inch rocket, goes into
uction, as Navy carrier planes use
hem to good effect in attacks on
Red supply lines. Other planes
.ake Red troops installations along
ront.
Washington: Truce in partisan
politics on Korea question asked as
major parties trade charges. Con
gress leaders hope to get definite
anti-subversion bill readied, wlft.
demand expressed for stronge'r
measure.
TRANSPLANTING MIGHT
IMPROVE PINK SALMON
RUNS, SAYS ANDERSON
Transplanting young fish from
streams which now have good early
pink salmon runs to those from
which the early runs have disap
peared might improve the fishing
picture in Southeast Alaska, C. L.
Anderson, director of the Alaska
Department of Fisheries, said today.
He said a small hatchery on a
stream which now has an early run
would provide “eyed eggs” or small
fish for planting in the streams'
from which the early runs have dis
appeared.
“There are indications that such
planting would restore the early runs
to Southeast Alaska,” he said, "but
in my opinion the success of such
an experiment would depend on
whether or not the early runs dis- J
appeared because of over-fishing.”
The planting could be successful
if the disappearance of the early
runs was due to over-fishing, he
declared.
Opinion on the reason for the dis
appearance of the fish is divided, he
said. In some quarters it is be
lieved the early run became depleted I
because of some natural condition
such as low streams or too-cold
winters; in others, that it was due
to overfishing.
Anderson said he believes it was
due to a combination of the two fac
tors.
Depletion of early runs caused
the opening of the fishing season
to be set back from June to Au
gust in 1945.
The Alaska Department of Fish
eries has no funds available for
establishing a hatchery for the ven
ture which would be "highly ex
perimental, but relatively inexpen
sive," according to Anderson,
i
Demo Solon
Asks Truce
On Politics
O'Mahoney Answers GOP
Charges of Votes Being
Sought Despite War
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — (^P) —
Senator Bricker (R-Ohio> contended
in the Senate today that Congress
ought to keep for itself the right
to decide when and if wage and
price controls are needed.
He Argued against granting that
power to President Truman as pro
posed in pending economic controls
legislation.
To give wage-price powers to the
President, he said, would create two
dangers:
First, a piecemeal approach would
create inequities faster than they
could be corrected.
Second, the President would be
subject to the tremendous pressure
to control certain commodities, and
having started a piecemeal system,
he would be “powerless to stop gen
eral price and wage controls even if
he should feel they were prema
ture.”
Over the weekend two Republican
lawmakers assailed the Truman ad
ministration’s handling of the pro
gram. Sen. O’Mahoney (D-Wyo),
talking with reporters, called in1
reply for “a truce on partisan pol
itics.”
“I think this is a very poor time
for anyone—Democrats or Republi
cans—to challenge the motives of
those who are called upon to make
the extremely difficult decisions re
quired,” O’Mahoney declared.
"This of all times is a time for a
truce on partisan politics.”
O’Mahoney was replying to week
end attacks on the administration
Dy Senators Aiken (R-Vt) and Mar
tin (R-Pa).
Aiken predicted easy Senate pas
sage late this week of a House
approved bill which would set up
authority for wage-price-rationing
curbs, but he said President Truman
declined “for political reasons” to
ask Congress for these controls.
Mr. Truman did ask for immedi
ate power to allocate materials, set
up priorities and curb credit. The
bill which the House passed and
which appears to face smooth sail
ing in the Senate would also give
him authority, for use when he saw
fit, to control prices and wages ana
impose rationing.
Aiken contended that Mr. Tru
man has his eye on the November
elections and has been “negligent
in leaving the American people in
the dark about the gravity” of the
world situation.
Martin accused the administra
tion of a tendency to play politics
with the nation’s security, and
asked:
“Can we wait until after the No
vember elections to tell the people
of America the real truth? Can we
place votes first?”
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Aug. 14 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
93%, Anaconda 32%, Curtiss
Wright 10%, International Harves
ter 29%, Kennecott 61%, New York
Central 14%, Northern Pacific 17,
U.S. Steel 36%, Pound $2.80%.
Sales today were 1,280,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 215.31. rails 62.08, utilities!
38.77.
WEATHER REPORT
In Juneau—Maximum, 65;
minimum, 55,
At Airport—Maximum, 69;
minimum, 51.
FORECAST
(Junra u and Vicinity)
Continued fair and warm
tonight and Tuesday. Low
est temperature tonight about
48 degrees. Highest Tuesday
near 75.
precipitation
(Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — Trace;
since August 1—1.14 inches;
since July 1—11.07 inches.
At Airport — 0.03 inches;
since August 1—0.85 inches;
since July 1—7.89 inches.
LEGION MEMORIAL
SERVICES TONIGHT
WILL HONOR TWO
Cameron, Sperling Deaths
! Recorded - Convention
Delegates Nominated
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Memorial services will be conduc
ted tonight by Juneau Post No. 4,
the American Legion, for the late
Fred Cameron and the late Harry
Sperling, longtime members of that
organization who passed away here
late last week.
Cameron had been a member of
the Juneau Post for over 31 years
and Sperling had also held mem
bership in the post for many years.
Both were veterans of World War I.
Post Commander Bob Druxman an
nounced that Cameron will be post
humously awarded the Legion’s Cer
tificate of Merit for his many years
of service to the organization. It
had originally been intended to
make such an award later this year
but Cameron's sudden death hast
ened the presentation. He will be
the first member of the post to re
ceive this honor.
Funeral services will be conducted
by the Elks on Wednesday for Sperl
ing. The Legion and its subsidiary
organization, the 40 et 8, will jointly
conduct services on Thursday for
Cameron.
It was also announced today that
nominations will be received this
week and next week for post dele
| gates to the annual American Le
gion Department of Alaska Con
vention to be held here over the
Labor Day weekend. In the mean
time, arrangements for the conven
tion are to be developed further at
tonight’s regular business session.
CONVICTED REDS
MUST BE JAILED,
SAYS GOVERNMENT
NEW YORK, Aug. 14—MWThe
government charged today that 11
convicted Communist leaders are
backing Communist forces in Kor
ea and elsewhpre, and thus “should
not be at large Jh this hour of
national crisis."
U. S, Attorney Irving H. Saypol
made public the government’s affi
davit in support of its move to have
the “American politburo” members
—now free in bail—jailed while
their appeals are being considered
by the courts.
All have been found guilty of
criminal conspiracy and sentenced
to prison terms up to five years.
Saypol accompanied his affidavit
with photostats of recent articles
In the Daily Worker, Communist
newspaper, assailing the United Na
tions action in Korea and de
nouncing “American war-makers."
One of the Daily Worker exhibits
Saypol made public was a full-page
article signed by three of the con
victed leaders. It said in part:
'Not a cent, not a gun, not a plane
for Wall Street’s puppet regimes
n Korea, Formosa, Vietnam."
The defendants m^t show cause
in Federal court here next Thurs
day why they should not go ta
jail at once.
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STOWAWAY ON SS
BARANOF GETS TWO
MONTHS JAIL TERM
A 50-year-old man who stowed
away on the steamer Baranof in
Seward and rode the ship to Ju
neau was placed in federal Jail to
day to serve a two-months term.
Elmer Canary, who flew north n
short time ago to look for a job
around Anchorage, told U. S. Com
missioner Gordon Gray he couldn’t
find any work, and wished to get
back to Seattle, but had no money.
So on Aug. II he boarded the
Baranof in hopes of being carried
south, but was discovered by crew
members a short time after the
ship departed the Gateway City.
Henry Green, agent here for Al
aska Steamship Company, signed a
complaint before Judge Gray,
j charging Canary with stowing
away. Canary pleaded guilty to
' the charge and was committed to
| jail.
CHILCOTIN IN SUNDAY
The Chilcotin was in port here
yesterday from 7 to 11 p.m. north
I bound. ’ -
KOREAN WAR
OFFERS "NO
ROAD BACK"
_ I
U. N. Secretary Believes
Fight Can Be Kept
from Spreading
i
(By the Associated Press)
With the greatest Communist of- ;
fensive of the Korean" war possibly!
only hours away, Red forces made
probing stabs across the Naktong
river northwest of Taegu today while
they massed some 60,000 men for
their big push on United Nations'
forward bases.
The Reds threw two underwater
bridges across the river. The stone
and-log bridegs are a foot below
water, hidden from sight of Ameri
can planes but capable of holding
armor and artillery for the new
thrust.
The fifth anniversary of Korea’s
liberation from Japan—Aug. 15—
dawned with the Red offensive ap- |
parently imminent in the Waegwan
area, 12 air miles northwest of
Taegu, main American inland base.
August 15 was the target date of
the North Koreans for setting up an
All-Korea government taking in the
whole country under a single Par
liament. But Seoul, where it was to
meet, has been under heavy air at
tack.
The North Korean Communist
radio at Pyongyan reported a dele
gation of 22 officials from Red
China were in the North Korean
capital, probably in connection with
liberation day. The Red radio, in
another broadcast, accused U.S. air
and naval forces of making barbartc
attacks "against a peaceful people."
“No Road Back"
While United Nations forces
braced for the expected Red on
slaught, U. N. Secretary-General
Trygve Lie told reporters in Oslo
there Is "no road back from Korea
except a victory for the principle 01
Justice over the principle of power
politics.” He said he believes, how
ever, it is possible to keep the Ko
rean war from broadening into
World War III.
In today’s fighting, U. S. F-80
Shooting Star jet pilots slammed
rockets, bombs and machinegun
fire into enemy positions along the
Naktong front, and B-26 light bomb
ers flew night intruder missions as
far north as Seoul. The greatest
threat along the front was at Waeg
wan, where the Reds were assemb
ling their greatest force. A success
ful Red attack on Taegu here would
clear the way for a final drive on
Pusan, main U.S. supply base on
the southeast tip of the peninsula.
Yanks Move Up
On the southern flank of this
ominous threat, U.S, 24th Division
troops, moving up in a heavy rain
behind 45-ton Pershing tanks,
shoved North Korean forces back as
much as a mile in their swollen
salient across the Naktong in the
Changnyong sector, 23 miles south
of Taegu. Point-blank artillery fire
met the Americans on this six-mile
front from guns the Reds ferried
across in darkness.
An Eighth Army communique said
all elements of the 24th Division
made some progress in the Chang
nyong counterattack. Division head
quarters expressed cautious optim
ism about the Changnyong sector
and said the situation now was
“highly satisfactory."
As the rain lifted, U.S. fighter
planes went back into action on the
Changnyong front. The Army said t
the preponderance of U.S. air power j
and artillery on the front was giving '
the Americans an advantage.
On the southern front, U.S. Ma- j
rines captured hills just outside the :
rubbled Communist southern anchor j
at Chinju. American 25th Infantry >
Division troops probed the hinter- j
land looking for a battalion of iso
lated Reds cut off in the southern
battle, which now has been slowed ,
down on both sides in anticipation
of the big push to the north.
On the northeast rim of the curl- j
ing front, a Red battalion held the i
port of Pohang, whiqh had been bne I
of the Americans’ supply bases on |
the coast, but South Korean troops
challenged them there and Kigye,
jumpoff point for the Red guerrilla
attack on Pohang and its airstrip,
six miles to the southeast of the
port. Planes no longer are using this
important strip, but American tanks
j
TRIPLE TITLIST —
Betty Smith, of Charleston, W.
Va.,' won, her third beauty title
In a year at the University of
North Carolina when she was
named May Queen.
and Infantry still hold it from the
attacking Reds.
Big New Rocket
The "Tiny Tim,” a big new Ameri
can 11.75-inch rocket, has gone into
combat with reported good results.
Fired from carrieiVbased Navy
Corsair fighters, the armor piercing
rockets knocked out 13 enemy loco
motives and damaged 23 more,
blasted eight ammunition cars, set
afire two fuel trains and beat up
seven troop-train cars. One "Tiny
Tim” rocket knocked out a brld’- s
at. Chungju, 90 miles northwest of
Taegu, on the Red supply line.
Like the 3.5-inch bazooka anti
tank gun used by ground troops, the
"Tiny Tim” got its baptism in the
Korean war. It is considered the
most powerful rocket-type weapon
oarried by a plane in combat.
Other U.8. and Australian planes
poured rocket and machlnegun fire
on enemy concentratioas in the
buildup area around Waegwan, 12
air miles northwest of Taegu, where
the Reds have placed about four
elite divisions facing outnumbered
defenders.
Along the entire 140-mile front,
the Reds have some 15 divisions,
possibly 150,000 men.
Facing the Reds’ divisions at
Waegwan, the critical area, is t{ie
U.8. First Cavalry Division, which
has been fighting off probing Red
attacks across the river. The First
Cavalry wiped out 800 Reds who
sneaked across the river Monday.
TAYLOR ELIMINATED
iN SOAP BOX DERBY
FIRST ROUND TRIALS
AKRON, O., Aug. 14—M—A lanky
15-year-old youngster from Charles
ton, W.Va., who carried a Sunday
School Testament as a good luck
charm, is the nation’s new Soap Box
Derby champion.
Harold D. Williamson calmly
steered his streamlined black racer
to victory yesterday to win the 13th
Derby Race before a crowd of some
50.000.
A straight “A" student, the
freckled youth will receive a $6,000
four-year scholarship for taking the
All-American event sponsored by
Chevrolet and a host of newspapers.
Williamson had to win five heats
and conquer a field of 146 opponents
in his story-book victory. Six years
ago, he was in bed with rheumatic
fever.
Gerald L. Taylor, Juneau, Alaska,
was eliminated in the first round.
He was inches behind the winner
of his heat.
THIS WAS DIE DAY
Here's an ironic reminder.
It’s August 14th today—and that
was a big day for us five years ago.
Remember? It was V-J Day, the
end of the Second World War.
STEAMERMOVEMENTS
Princess Norah from Skagway due
at 7 a.m. tomorrow and sails for
Vancouver at 8 a.m. tomorrow.
Aleutian from Seattle due Tues
day at noon.
Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle Thursday.
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive from Vancouver tomorrow.