City Council
Meets Crisis
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The City of Juneau continue;
to have bid troubles: however the
latest difficulty resolved itself with
out any hard feelings.
Bids were opened on the new
fire station last Friday night at 8
p.m. with three bidders and Hall
Atwater Construction Co. of Se
attle being low bidder. The low bid
was accepted at $172,000. Other
bidders were Carson Construction
Co. of Helena Mont, with $175,440
and Valle-Sommers Construction
Co. of Seattle, $190,000.
Friday afternoon at 4:28 o’clock
a wire came to the ACS office
from Carson Construction Co. at
Helena with a reduction of $17,000
on the company's basic bid. The
City Cleik's Oiiice closed at 4:30
and the aeli\e;> ^oy was out on
the last of his rounds. The tele
gram was not cciivered until 9:25
the next morning. This threw city
ol.Rials into a uzzy and a special
council meeting was called at the
Iris Room of the Ba.anof Hotel
to consider the matter before
Councilman George Jorgenson
caugnt a southbound plane.
All council members, Mavor Wai
no Hendrickson, City Attorney Sta
bler, O. I. Hall of Hall-Atwater,
E. F. Haugen and Robert Merrill of
Carson Co., and architect Harold
Foss were all present.
The Carson Co. withdrew its
telegraphic bid and a cooperative
arrangement was worked out with
Hall-Atwater to conduct the con
struction of the fire hall as a joint
venture. The Carson Co. specified
that its bid was withdrawn "with
out prejudice to all parties con
cerned.'' All heaved sighs of relief
and turned back to their busy Sat
urday activities.
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no reason to obtain a Russian agree
ment to enter the Far Eastern war,
which was ended when two atomic
bombs were dropped on Japan. The
Russians came into the war only a
week before Japan’s surrender.
Acheson said it was not known at
the time of Yalta whether the ato
mic bomb could be produced suc
cessfully.
"That was not proved until sev
eral months later — that we had
one — aifd it was not used until
considerably later.’’ he declared.
"It was the then military opin
ion — concurred in by everyone —
that the reduction of Japan would
have to be brought about by a large
scale landing on the islands oi
Japan, and the forecast of that
fighting, which came from the fight
ing on the other islands In the
Pacific, indicated that it would be
a very bloody and terrible battle.’
Aid Against Japan
As to the wartime aid to the Chi
nese Communists, Acheson said it
was for operations against Japan
At that time, he said, the Com
munist and Nationalist armies were
maneuvering against each other and
not fighting the Japanese effec
tively, although they had an agree
ment to postpone settlement of their
differences until after the Japanese
were defeated.
The Yalta conference was a meet
ing of President Roosevelt, Prime
Minister Churchill of Britain anc
Russian Premier Stalin at a Rus
sian town of that name. They made
high level decisions for future co
operation in the war.
Acheson said it was regarded thei:
as of the “utmost importance” thal
Russia should come into the war ir
the Far East, in time.
"There was very little doubt," he
said, “that they would come in, bul
the grave danger was that the;
would really wait until the war wa:
over — until we had expended' oui
effort and blood to win the war—
and they would come in and d<
what they wished."
Russian Help Wanted
He said military leaders wante;
the Russians in on time “so tha
none of the 700,000 Japanese troop
in Manchuria, and none, if pos
sible, of the 1,235,000 J..panese troop
General Inspects Captive
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme allied commander, fraternizes
with the “enemy” during a front line visit in Korea. The Allied boss
pats a pony captured from Chinese enemy forces as unidentified
Yank soldiers look over the animal's conformation. Wirephoto.
in China, would come back to
strengthen the troops on the main
islands of Japan — but that they
would be occupied with the Russian
effort on the mainland.”
Acheson said the agreement was
that three months after the end ol
European war, the Russians would
enter the Far East war.
In return, he said, it was agreed
they would get the southern hall
of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, their for
mer rights in Port Arthur and
Dairen and their former interest it
the two railways in Manchuria.
Tip to Russians
Acheson also said extension 01
the Korean war to Chinese soil
would give Russia a legal excuse to
intervene in it.
Acheson said he believes a treatj
between Communist China and the
Russians "is of such a nature thai
it would give the Russians that op
portunity and it would also give thi
Chinese a very considerable lever
to demand that the Russians dt
that.”
That, the secretary testified, is
“one of the reasons” why the admin
istration opposed MacArthur's pro
posal to bomb Red bases in Man
churia.
This statement came after he had
presented a long summary of Amer
ican policy in the Orient for the last
five years.
When Acheson concluded it. Sen
ator Wiley asked about “the pur
ported influence of Communist
sympathizers in the (State) Depart
ment during this period, whether
you know of their having any in
fluence- in arriving at the determi
nations that you have deserbed here
as the various steps which were
finally arrived at?”
Acheson said: “I do not believe
there was or is any Communist in
fluence any way affecting the de
termination of Chinese policy, either
then or now.”
RUSSIAN FURS TO
COME UNDER BAN{
WASHINGTON, June 4 — Wl —j
The House is expected to send to
the White House, possibly this week, |
a bill to impose a ban on imports
of mink, muskrat and various other
furs from Russia and Communist
China.
Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) author
of the measure, said such a barrier
“will cut off a source of funds in
this country for the Soviets which
have been used for espionage.”
Russia in past years has, sold mil
1 lions of dollars worth of furs here
despite protests from trappers and
fur farmers in this country.
I “This will save many of our fur
farmers financially,” McCarthy told
■ a reporter. "While it comes too late
to save many others, it will be of
• material aid to the fur raisers here."
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AUK BAY LEGION
PICNIC IS SET FOR
THURSDAY NIGHT
The Auk Beach Recreation Area
will be the site Thursday evening
for the mopthly meeting of Auk
Bay Post No. 25. the American
Legion. The meeting will actually
be in the form of a picnic for
members, families and friends but
>ome business will also be transac
ted at a short business meeting
during the program.
The picnic will get underway at
7 p.m. ai the main picnic shelter.
The program includes pony rides
for youngsters up to 10 years of
ige, free coffee and iced beverages
plus games and races for all. Vice
commander Floyd Ogden, Program
Committee Chairman, says that his
committee has plenty of prizes for
everyone and he guarantees a good
time to all who attend. A charge
of $1 per family will be made to
cover expenses.
Especially invited are prospect
ive members of both the Legion
and its Auxiliary in the Auk Bay
area. Eligibility requirements and
policies of both organizations will
be explained to those attending.
Everyone is requested to take
their own utensils and meals ex
cept for beverages which will be
furnished.
TO ARCTIC
Paul Sorensen, general superin
tendent, and M. E. Tippits, mil!
superintendent with the U. S. Tir
Corporation at Lost River on the
Seward Peninsula, plan to leave
tomorrow for the company’s mine
there. It is expected that opera
tions will get under way soon. Tip
pets is from Clifton, Arizona anc
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
CASE COMPLETED
Quieting title for a portion ol
land above the road in West Ju
neau was completed this morning
in U. S. District Court by Judge
George W. Folta. The petition wai
brought some time ago by the Wes’
Juneau Company, a corporatior
represented by M. E. Monagle.
! J. C. PATTERSON
DIES OF GUNSHOT,
KETCHIKAN CLUB
Joseph C. Patterson, about 35, was
found shot to death in Ketchikan
Saturday night. He had been shot
through the h£ad with a high pow
ered rifle, according to word re
ceived by Assistant U. S. Attorney
Stanley Baskin.
Patterson last fall, was found
guilty on two counts of bribery
while watchman at a fish trap near
Ketchikan. He was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary on
each count and given a $300 fine.
He appealed the case and it was
due to come up shortly before the
(J. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
San Francisco. Assistant U. S. At
torney Baskin was prosecutor.
A coroner's jury in Ketchikan
this morning arrived at the verdict
-hat Patterson had died irom ac
cidental gunshot.
His body was found lying in the
■CO Club which he operated recent
ly. His high-powered rifle was on
the floor nearby. Police said Pat
te.son had been moving his belong
ings from the club to the home of
I a friend.
Surviving are his widow, Toni,
and a brother in Ventura, Califor
j tia.
DOUGLAS
MEWS
MARTIN PEDERSENS LEAVE
Mr. and Mrs. Martin R. Peder
sen are southbound passengers on
the Denali. Before their departure
Mr. Pedersen tendered his resigna
tion as Superintendent of the
Douglas Public School. Ill health
has made it necessary for him to
take a year's leave from the teach
ing profession, and it is with re
gret that he leaves his position
? nd his friends in Douglas.
Mr. Pedersen came to Alaska in
! H35 to join the teaching staff in
j Douglas. He remained in the
I school system for five terms, the
| last three which he served as Su
| perintendent. He and Mrs. Pedersen
| were manned in 1948 and returned
' to the territory that autumn. Ped
ersen spent the intervening years
as a school superintendent, as a
student in the University of Oregon
and in Leland Stanford University,
and as a yeoman in the United
States Navy. He is now working
toward a Doctor's degree and it is
the tentative plan of both the Ped
ersens to enter the University of
Southern California this summer.
EAGLES MEETING
A regular meeting of Douglas
Eagles, Aerie 117, is scheduled for
j J o’clock this • evening.
MASONS MEET TUESDAY
The Masonic Lodge meets Tues
day evening at 7:30 in the Masonic
Kali.
TO SAN DIEGO
Billy Turpin, young son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Turpin, flew to Se
attle Sunday via Pan American en
loute to San Diego where he will
visit his maternal grandparents,
the W. J. Walkers, for the summer.
NEW MACHINIST ARRIVES
FOR ALASKA COASTAL
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Youngberg
arrived in Juneau last Friday from
Island Lake, Illinois. Youngberg
started work Monday as a machin
ist for Alaska Coastal Airlines. The
Youngbergs drove up the Alaska
Hignway and took the ferry from
Haines ,to Tee Harbor. They orig
inally owned and operated the
Youngberg ' Tool and Manufactur
ing Co. at Schiller Park, Illinois
Mrs. -Youngberg sang in Chicago
nights clubs under the professional
name of Lois Voltaire.
American industries use about
70,000 tons of tin a year.
(Fifty-sixth of a Series)
DUTCH harbor day
Nine years ago today Japanese
planes Horn the carriers Ryujo and
junyo bombed Dutch Harbor for
the second time. The first bombing
attack, which was also the first
.uch attack on the soil of contin
ental United States, had occurred
ihe previous day.
There is something extremely
ironic in the name of that second
Japanese carrier, the Junyo. Just
136 years previously the sailing
vessel Juno had been outfitted in
Alaska for an attack on the north
ern Japanese islands.
The Juno was, of course, sent out
by the Russians who then owned
and occupied Alaska. She was ac
companied by another vessel, the
Avos, and sailed from Unalaska,
fvhich is next door to Dutch Har
bor.
Purpose of that Russian attack
was twoiold—revenge for the re
fusal of the Japanese to negotiate
a trade agreement with Count Res
anof a couple of years previously
and hope of securing prisoner-la
bor for the colony in Alaska. But
even by 1806 standards it was a
I feeble attack.
The Juno and the Avos captured
four Japanese and took as booty
some rice, tobacco, salt, dried fish,
"ilks, cottons, paper and household
utensils. They old not, so far as .
history records, kill any Japanese
and the Japanese did not kill any
of them. And even the four pris
oners were eventually returned to
their homes without ever heing |
sent to Alaska. ;
The Japanese Carrier Junyo and
her consort, the Ryujo, when they ]
returned the call at Dutch Harbor j
in 1942, did more damage, but in!
the overall Japanese program their j
attack was not much more success- j
ful than that of the Juno.
Junyo and Ryujo, accompanied I
by two heavy cruisers and three 1
destroyers, comprised the Second ^
Mobile Force of the Japanese Fleet. |
This force was to strike Dutch j
Harbor a paralyzing blow while
another Japanese force occupied
KUka and Attu.
On June 3, when they made the
tirst attack on Dutch Harbor, two
thirds of the Japanese planes were
forced back to the carriers by
weather and onlj 19 reached the
target area. The following day some
32 Japanese planes got through to
the target.
Planes frcm the Junyo picked a
point over Umnak Island for a ren
dezvous after the second day’s at
i tack. This turned out to be almost
I directly over a brand new American
airfield that the Japanese knew
nothing about, and four of them
were shot down by American fight
ers.
The damage inflictedt at Dutch
Karbor in the two attacks inclu
ded 43 killed and 50 wounded, de
struction of four oil tanks with
20,000 barrels of fuel oil, destruc
I tion of two barracks, four huts
! one 20 mm. gun and emplacement
and one Navy PBY. Damaged were
the barracks ship Northwestern, £
warehouse and a hanger.
For the attack on Dutch Harboi
the Japanese had available a tota
of 68 planes, including 20 fighters
36 light bombers and six float
! planes. They lost one fighter, five
1 bombers and one float plane, a to
| tal of seven. There was no damage
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to the vessels of the Japanese Sec
ond Mobile Force.
For defense the United States
had available 32 fighters, 20 med
ium bombers, six heavy bombers
and 20 flying boats, a total of 78
planes. In addition to the damage
at Dutch Harbor, we lost during
the action two fighters, one med
ium and one heavy bcmber and
lour flying boats, a total of eight
planes.
What the Japanese mainly ac
complished by their Dutch Harbor
attack was to greatly increase Am
erican awareness of Alaska as an
outpost of defense and of the dan
ger of a large scale attack on the
United States from the west, via
Alaska.
INCIDENTALS
The myth that Americans are
unwilling to move their residences
from a State to a Territory was
pretty well exploded by the 1950
census. Alaska, as a Territory,
chalked up better than a 70 percent
population gain during the decade,
a record that was unequaled by
any of the 48 States.
Alaska Airlines appears to have
made the best investment in its
history when it ha'uled a plane
load of pro-Gruening witnesses to
Washington for the hearings on
his reappointment in 1949 and a
load of pro-statehood witnesses to
Washington for the hearings last
year, both trips at cut rates. The
company has now received a val
uable certificate for a Portland
Sealtle-Fairbanks air route. Accord
ing to news dispatches, the certif
icate was issued at the special re
quest of President Truman.
As Alaska goes, so goes the Na
tion, according to tradition. Do re
cent events in the Territory indi
cate that the Democrats will em
1 race Governor Warren of Calif
ornia in their national convention
next year and nominate him for
p resident?
6 IN, 25 OUT ON
DENALI SUNDAY
Six passengers arrived on the De
nali southbound Sunday with 25 em
barking for Seattle and way ports
Arriving from Seward: Mrs. R. G.
Gardiner. F. J. Hart, Mrs. Vera
Murphy, R. R. Taylor, V. Yadao.
From Valdez: Ethel B. Milner.
Embarking for Seattle: Charles
Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Ferris J. Me
cham, Mr. and Mrs. R. Pederson,
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Jasker, Ronald
O’Neal, Mrs. R. H. Severine and son:
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Larson,
Fowler Martin, Marie Jensen, Mrs.
Glen Millice, Mr. Hood, Mrs. Bill
Richard.
For Ketchikan: Mrs. M. Krug
ness, Thine Krugness, John Krug
ness, E. M. Seidenverg.
For Petersburg: H. J. Stall, T.
Thomasen, Mrs. C. A. Wilder, Jane
Wilder. .
—EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY—
Election Laws of
Maryland Violated;
Man Fined $5,300
BALTIMORE, June 4 —'.T>— Jon
M. Jonkel, 25-year-old public rela
tions man from Chicago, v.as fine;'
$5,000 today for violating Mary
land’s election laws a; campaign
manager for Senator Butler (R-Md).
Jonkel pleaded guilty to six
charges and was fined by Criminal
Court Judge Joseph Sherbow. The
judge could have fined him a total
of $6,000 and sentenced him to 12 ]
years in prison under Maryland’s
Corrupt Practices Act.
Jonkel testified briefly and a (
statement was read in his behaif i
by his attorney, G. C. A. Anderson.
Both emphasized it had been Jon
kel’s first political campaign of a
statewide nature.
The violations occurred during
Butler’s campaign against Millard
E. Tydings last year. Tydings, Dem
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FALLS THROUGH WALK
Police reported today that Mr.;.
Shirley Zuboff fell through a
walkway betwee^i the City Float
liquor store and 428 S. Franklin
?t. at 3:15 Sunday morning and
was lying on the beach below when
they arrived. Dr. Joseph Rude was
■ lied and went quickly. He recom
mended that she be taken to the
hospital. A call for ambulance
it owed that only one man was on
duty at tl'.c fire hall at the subport
which necessitated the Police driv
ing down to get it. Mrs. Zuboff was
then taken to St. Ann’s Hospital.
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