THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
UALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,673
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1950
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RED FORCES DRIVING UN TROOPS SACK
MAGNUSON
FIGHTS JAP
U.S. FISHING
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2— GPI — j
Senator Magnuson (D-Wash) said
today he plans to urge that the j
Jajrane.se Peace Treaty prohibit
Japan from fishing in the
Northwest Pacific Ocean.
He recalled that before World
War II several serious incidents
arose because Japanese boats in-1
vaded the waters usually fished;
by Americans and even entered'
Bristol Bay, oft the Alaskan coast,
in 1937 and 1938.
Magnuson said he had been ad
vised by the Pacific Fisheries Con
ference from Seattle that its mem
bers understood Japanese already
are planning to resume fishing in
the norteast Pacific after the peace
treaty is signed.
“Those fishing waters were de
veloped by North American fisher
men and their business should not
be jeopardized by permitting the
Japanese to again invade the fish- 1
ing grounds close to the Alaskan |
shores,” Magnuson told a reporter
“I intend to insist that in the
final peace terms with the Japan
ese that a clause shall be included
setting forth geographical 14ies
beyond which the Japanese may
not ply their fishing business.”
The Pacific Fisheries Conference
represents fisl.iermmn, employers,
and labor in California, Oregon,
Washington, Alaska and Hawaii.
Nome's New Seawall
Stands Recent Test in
85-Mile-Hour Wind
NOME, Alaska, Dec. 2— (if) —
Nome's million-dollar seawall was
completed yesterday.
The 3,500-foot wall contains 135,
000 tons of granite.
Intended to protect Nome from
Bering Sea storm waters, it al
ready stood the test during a recent
85-miles wind.
KARABELNIKOFF HERE
ON BUSINESS; VISITS
OLDTIME JUNEAU FRIENDS |
George Karabelnikoff, Chief, J
Construction Branch of the CAA, in
Juneau this week on business, was
welcomed by his many old friends
here.
With W. M. Wilkins, Airways En
gineer, Karabelnikoff left today for
Annette from where the two will re
turn to their Anchorage headquar
ters. They have been in Juneau to
confer with Arnold Francis, local
CAA Station Manager on the con
struction program for this area
next spring and are going to An
nette on similar business.
Karabelnikoff spent his boyhood
in Juneau and is a graduate of Ju
nau High School and also an
alumnus of the Crimson Bear bas
ketball team. He is a graduate of
the School of Civil Engineering at
the University of Alaska.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Copyright. MM. by B«U 8ynole»», Ine.)
By DREW PEARSON
J^ASHINGTON—Though Alaska
is likely to be the next ‘‘Pearl
Harbor” in case of a surprise at
tack by Russia, our vital Alaskan
defenses have been held up by pet
ty labor disputes, work stoppages
and the short construction season.
This has so alarmed Wyoming's
aggressive Senator Lester Hunt
that he has taken the problem
into his own hands. He headed a !
Senate subcommittee which recently j
inspected Alaska during the Con- j
gressional recess and discovered j
defense construction lagging. He j
also found servicemen’s families
living in tar-paper shacks without
utilities, yet paying as high as $175
per month rent.
The trouble was that the govern
ment was slow in negotiating con- j
tracts, hence the contractors got off
to a late start. Then work was
interrupted by spasmodic strikes
and finally halted altogether by the
early, rigorous Alaskan winter.
In order that the construction
season won’t be wasted in the
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Northern Neighbors
Little Susan Webster, three and one ha!f-year-old miss from far
off Fairbanks, Alaska, chats with a friend from the North Pole dur- j
ing a visit in Wenatchee, Washington. The snugly clad youngster,
daughter cf an Alaskan pilot, flew unescorted to Wenatchee to spend
the holidays with her grandparents, iff) Wirephoto.
TRUMANS AT
ARMY, NAVY
GAME TODAY
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2 — W —
President and Mrs. Truman ar
rived here today to join a colorful
crowd at the 51st annual Army
Navy football game.
The President’s 11-car' special
train, with 193 persons aboard, ar
rived at the Pennsylvania railroad
yards adjoining Municipal Stadium.
Extraordinary precautions to
guard the Presidential party were
taken in Washington, along the
route of the special train, and in
the sprawling horseshoe-shaped
stadium where some 102,000 persons
will witness this afternoon’s game.
Unlike the rest of the crowd, the
President had a steam-heated box
on the 50-yard line awaiting him.
There were lots of warm blankets, |
too, and a plentiful supply of hot'
coffee.
9 CATHOLICS
CONVICTED
OF TREASON
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Dec. 2
—<£)—Nine Roman Catholic church
men—including a Bishop and two
Abbots—were convicted of espion
age and high treason today in an
Allied Vatican plot to overthrow
Czechoslovakia’s Communist gov
ernment.
The accused, who had joined the
prosecution in condemning the
Vatican as a spy center for Ameri
can capitalism, received sentences
ranging from 10 years to life impris
onment.
All nine had cooperated with the
prosecution. They confessed to the
charges against them and declared
their repentence—asserting that the
church hierachry had led them into
anti-state activities.
Bishop Zela told his judges that
the trial had demonstrated to him
the “espionage activity” of the Holy
See.
LOOMIS-WIGGAM MARRIED
Miss Shirley Wiggam of the
Alaska Native Service, and John
D. Loomis of the Alaska Communi
cations System were married at 8
o’clock last evening at the Juneau
Hotel by U.S. Commissioner Gor
don Gray. Mrs. Jetta Gray and
Thomas P. Smith were witnesses.
The couple will make their home
here.
TOP HEADS
CONFER ON
WAR CRISIS
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 — (if) —!
Secretary of State Acheson called i
Warren Austin, U.S. Delegate to the i
United Nations, here from Lake I
Success today for a conference on j
the Korean situation.
At the same time the Army an- |
nounced that Gen. J. Lawton Col- ■
lins. Army Chief of Staff, is on his :
way to the Far East by air to con- I
fer with Gen. Douglas MacArthur'
on the military situation.
Collins was accompanied by Maj. i
Gen. Charles P. Cabell, director of |
intelligence, and Vice-Admiral F. S.
Low, Deputy Chief of Naval Op-'
erations for Logistics (supply and
transportations).
CHINA RED
TALKS WITH
TRYGVE UE|
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NEW YORK, Dec. 2—Ifl—Chinese j
Communist Delegate Chen Chiao I
conferred for half an hour this
morning with United Nations Sec
retary General Trygve Lie, appar
ently in connection with Lie’s ef
forts to find a solution of the Ko
rean crisis.
This development, came as U.S.
Delegate Warren P. Austin flew to
Washington to report results of sec
ret Allied parleys to Secretary of
State Dean Acheson.
Lie’s executive assistant Andrew
Cordier said there would be more .
meetings with the Chinese Reds and
that these conferences would take
place “before the end of next week." |
He refused to say what they would
concern, but it is known that Lie
s working hard on the Korean
problem.
Immediately after Chen left, Rus
sia’s Jacob A. Malik rushed up and
went into a whispered huddle with
Cordier.
Austin’s flight to Washington is
believed connected with the an- !
ticipated disclosure of just what
action the U.S. wants the United
Nations to take against the Chinese
Reds. A spokesman said earlier that
U.S. policy probably would be made
known today.
Floyd Guertin. Territorial Vet
erans Affairs Commissioner is ex
pected to return to his Juneau head- ]
quarters next Tuesday. With his |
family he has been on a vacation
visit in the states.
STATEHOOD
LEADER WON'T
ADMIT DEFEAT
—
Senator O'Mahoney Will
Keep Fighting for Meas
ure-Other Expressions
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—(£1—Sen
ator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) said to
day he “won’t concede defeat" in
the Administration fight to bring
Alaska and Hawaii Into the union.
"Im not through fighting by a
long shot," the chairman of the
Senate Interior and Insular Affairs
committee told a reporter. “I don’t
cencede defeat, and I won’t concede
defeat. Not by any means."
However, the group of southern
Democrats which, with some Re
publican backing has succeeded up
to now in blocking a vote on the
Alaskan statehood bill, still claimed
the upper hand. Most observers
held a similar view.
Lucas Concedes
Senator Lucas (D-IIL, the major
floor leader, already has conceded
the Dixie group has the strength
to win.
O’Mahoney said, however, he will
take advantage of the week-end
Senate recess to “try to work out
something.” President Truman has
urged pasage of the legislation at
the current session of Congress.
The Senate recessed yesterday
until Monday amid Republican
charges that some Democratic
leaders had not fought as hard as
they could for the two bills.
suggests UN Help
In the meantime, the Labor Com
missioner of Alaska, Henry A.
Benson, predicted a move in the
Territory to place the issue of Al
askan independence before the Uni
ted Nations unless statehood is
granted.
Benson told a news conference he
expects someone will raise the issue
In the United Nations before
Christmas but that the move would
not come from "anyone in a res
ponsible position.”
Delegate Bartlett, who represents
Alaska in the House, told reporters
he hadn’t heard of such a move
before. Other lawmaker’s declined
comment.
Cordon Not Hopeful
Senator Cordon (R-Orei in a
Senate speech declared he "has no
illusions” that the House-approved1
statehood bills can get Senate ap- j
proval. He charged that Democratic i
leadership, with exception of O'- [
Mahoney, has waged only a feeble
fight.
Lucas said the statehood bills1
will have to be set aside Monday j
to make way for consideration of a
rent control measure. He said he J
would like to see—but doesn't ex- j
pect—some move to bring statehood 1
to a vote later.
O’Mahoney Will Fight
O’Mahoney told reporters he will j
demand an agreement to return I
to the statehood issue Wednes-!
day, declaring “I believe two days j
should be enough to pass the rent
bill.”
If that move fails, he said, he'll
let the statehood issue be set aside
“but they won’t have heard the last
oi it. I’ll fight for these bills to
the last day of this session (Jan. 3)
if necessary.”
BODY OF JOHNSON IS
FOUND IN WRANGELL BAY I
The body of Ernest B. Johnson,
40, was recovered from the bay off'
Wrangell yesterday, according to i
advices received by the U.S. Mar
shal’s office here from Deputy U.S.1
Marshal John E. Krepps, at Wran
eell.
The information to Acting U.S.
Marshal W. G. Hellan in a wire
from Krepp’s office gave no details. I
An inquest was to be held late yes- j
terday and the Marshal’s office here
will be informed if the verdict is
other than accidental drowning.
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MISSING HIKERS
LOCATED BY AIRMEN
Two missing hikers from Good-1
news Bay were reported located by
10th Rescue Squadron from Elmen
dorf Airbase, UB. Coast Guard j
headquarters learned this morning.
No rescue activity was required.
The men, Arthur Nickolson and
Jack Baker of the Hadock Con
struction Co. at Platinum, left Cape
Newenham Nov. 28, afoot with two
days rations and did not show at
Platinum when expected.
Which Would You Choose
Here are the seven happy finalists in the competition for Queen of the Tournament of Roses. One
of the Pasadena school girls will be chosen to reign over the New Year's Day festivities, the others will
form her Royal Court. Left to right: Norma Drageset, 17; Billie Joe Hudnall, 19; Glenn Louise Jose,
19; June Roan, 18; Nanry June Robinson, 19; Eleanor Payne, 17, and Laura Engdahl, 18. (IP) Wirephoto.
STUBBORN DIXIECRATS
MANEUVER DEFEAT OF
STATEHOOD LEGISLATION
(By Alice Frein Johnson)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—UPI—Alas
ka Aatehood at this session is dead
as a dodo—killed, not by being vot
ed down, but by a stubborn band
of states rights southern Demo
crats, which, in an effort to fore
stall furtherance of civil rights
prevented the Senate even from
voting on a motion to take up the
statehood measure. Let alone voting
on the bill itself.
Just as dead is any chance for
granting statehood to Hawaii in the
81st Congress.
Maneuvering Killed Statehood
Merits or demerits of the state
hood issues did not enter into the
picture, but adroit parliamentary
maneuvering did. The Dixiecrats
are adept parliamentarians. Many
ol them never have been to Alaska,
Know little about the territory, and,
apparently, care less.
What they did care about was
preservation of the present two or
three vote margin by which they
now can prevent the Senate from
envoking cloture (halting filibusters
on FEPC, poll-tax, or other cm!
rights measures which are ana
thema to them. Preservation of
the status quo their chief considera
tion, they turned deaf ears to the
majority of Senators both pro
ponents and opponents of statehood
—who wished to debate and then
vote on the measure.
To the southerners, four more
votes in the Senate—100 instead
ol 96—meant the possible loss of
their club.
Lucas Sounds Death Knell
When Majority Leader Scott Lu
cas yesterday admitted the Dixie
crats could not be dissuaded from
their stand, he sounded the death
knell for immediate action on state
hood.
Sen. Joseph O. O’Mahoney, Dem.
Wyo., chairman of the Interior
Committee, which favorably report
ed the bill last summer, said: It
looks pretty dead to me.”
E. L. Bartlett, Alaska delegate,
who introduced and steered me
bill to passage in the House last
spring, said:
'Only a miracle can save state
hood at this session.”
Indicating little faith in a pos
sible miracle was Sen. Guy Cordon,
Rep., Ore., who declared: "Calling
the bill dead is a masterpiece of
understatement.”
Cordon was one of two committee
members who voted against report
ing the bill. Recently, he reversed
his stand and has actively worked
for the measure. He said he chang
ed his mind because he thought
it was better to take a "bad bill
and amend it wisely,” than to
wait in vain" for a better bill to
be drafted.
Sen. Hugh Butler, Rep. Nebr.,
ranking minority member of the
committee was the other commit
tee members who voted against re
porting the bill He still is opposed
to the bill, and gave the souther
ners an able assist this week when
he explained the reasons lor his
opposition.
Butler Hoids to Principles
Butler said today he shortly will
Introduce an amendment to the Or
ganic Act of Alaska, to permit the
Territory to elect its own Governor.
He introduced such measures for
both Alaska and Hawaii in the 80th
Congress when he was chairman of
the Interior committee, but pressed
neither when Delegates Bartlett
and Farrington (of Hawaii) oppos
ed them. Both delegates feared
such measures might weaken the
case for statehood in their respec
tive territories, Butler said.
"I hope that the question of
statehood for Alaska is over for
quite a while,” Butler declared to
. day.
| Will Ask Elected Uovemor
j "I also hope that all friends of
j Alaska, and I deem myself a real
< friend of Alaska, will join in as
! sisting the passage of my amend
I ment to make the governor ah el
j ective instead of an appointive po
. sition. We thereby can get started
| on a course which, if wisely hand
(led, will lead to statehood,
j "i don't think there is any chance
I of getting statehood on a movement
I led by an outsider or an insider
' who is appointed to the governor -
I ship, and then proceeds to try
to shape everything so he can be
I come one of the first Senators.”
Butler was asked by Republican
colleagues not to talk against
statehood. They wanted the Fail
Dealers and states righters to make
it a Democratic family fight.
Principles Important
Butler, It was reported by Repub
lican Senators, replied that prin
ciples were more important than
party politics in times such as
this, and that he would not be true
to his convictions if he failed to
state why he believed statehood
now would harm rather than help
Alaskans.
Butler told a reporter that, in
I view of the world situation, such
I an irrevokable step as granting
j statehood should not be taken.
"Statehood is not an interna
I tional issue," the Nebraskan said.
"But a domestic issue, and one
which well can wait until more
normal times.”
Dixiccrats Carry fight
Before the Senate returned last
week, it became known that the
Dixiecrats planned to fight state
hood. Their real reason was not
revealed, however, until Sen. John
C. Stennis, Dem., Miss., disclosed
it earlier this week
In a Senate speech, Stennis said:
"We'll dilute the soundness of our
great union by taking in more
states. There'll be four new votes
to pass on domestic issues, and,
allowing lor the candor and hon- j
esty of legislators from the twoj
proposed states, how dan they
know about our domestic affairs?
How can they pass on price and
j
farm control and social legisla
j tlon?"
I Ignorance concerning Alaska, its
1 geography, educational standards
and modern way of life displayed in
some speeches by southerners was
abysmal, but accuracy was not the
object. Stymying a vote was.
NAVY 14;
ARMY 2;
I IS UPSET
i .
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2— </P) —
One of the biggest football upsets
of recent years took place when
the Navy beat the Army by a score
of 14 to 2. The Navy blocked ev
erything the Army put forth in to
day's game.
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WANNA SKATE!
COOPERATE!
Juneau kiddies will have a place
to skate soon, providing the cold
weather holds up and they refrain
from throwing rocks and other
debris in a site now being flooded
for a skating pond, Mayor Waino
Hendrickson said today.
The City received permission from
the Juneau School Board to flood
a portion of the new school site j
near the Juneau Dairy for skating, i
It is being flooded gradually in I
order to build up good ice. “It is j
Impossible for the place to be po
liced every minute and if the kids
want a place to skate, it would help
if they’d cooperate,” Hendrickson
stated. {
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STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof from Seattle due late
Monday or early Tuesday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 tonight.
Denali from westward scheduled
to arrive southbound 6 p.m. Sun
day.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o’clock this morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 31; • j
• minimum, 22. a
• At Airport—Maximum, 30; •
• minimum, 6. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) |
• Continued fair and cold to- •
• night and Sunday with occa- •
• sional gusty northeasterly •
• winds. Low temperature to- •
• night near 18 and high Sun- •
• day near 25. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m today •
• City of Juneau — Trace; •
• since July 1—33.^4 inches. a
• At Airport — 0.01 inches; •
• since Dec. 1 — 0.01 inches; •
• since July 1—23.13 inches. •
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ALLIES ARE
NOW FACING
TOUGH SPOT
Marines, Doughboys Trap
ped in One Sector-New
Threats Apparent
(By the Associated Press)
Gen. MacArthur said today a half
million well-armed Chinese Com
munist troops have been thrown
into Korea in the “undeclared war"
between the Chinese Reds and
United Nations forces in Korea.
Half of the 500,000 are already in
battle and the rest are moving • to
the front, he said.
The winter-quilted Chinese have
driven back U.N. troops 40 miles in
the northwest and have trapped
United States Marines and Dough
boys in the Changjin reservoir
area of North Central Korea.
New Threat
New threats by the Communist
hordes were mounting rapidly. More
than 100,000 Red troops were roll
ing south in an assault directed at
the new defense line, 30 miles north
of the old Red Korean capital of
Pyongyang.
They drove toward the right flank
in the same sort of maneuver that
earlier this week crushed Mac
Arthur’s “end-the-war” offensive
and routed 110,000 U.N. troops.
Allied troops and refugees began
streaming south out of Pyongyang
following the fall of Songchon. Al
lied anchor 30 miles northeast, to
overwhelming Chinese forces.
U.N. Forres Outnumbered
In a public statement answering
questions submitted by war cor
respondents, MacArthur said the
250.000 Re'ds already faced U.N.
forces all along the front "over
whelmingly outnumber. our forces.’*
He did not disclose the U.N.
strength. The Allied strength, on
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1500 Flee as
Ice Jam Hits
At Bow River
CALGARY, Alta, Dec. 2— <#> —
Rampant waters of the Bow Rivei
blocked by an ice jam, flooded a
12-block area during the night
on Calgary’s east side and drove
more than 1,500 persons from their
homes in 14 below zero weather.
The evacuees were being housed
j,n fire stations, hotels and pri
vate homes. Police supervised the
moving of the families to safety
and Fire Chief Kinnear was in
charge of locating living quarters
for the victims.
More than three feet of water
covered some sections. The area af
fected was about 12 city blocks on
the south side of the river just
east of the center of the city.
There was a considerable area on
the north bank affected.
At 1 a.m. the water level was
stationary and authorities were in
hopes the crest had been reached.
Most damage was confined to base
ments and to homes with first
floors near ground level.
Evacuation of all homes in the
district was necessary because of
the danger of gas furnaces being
extinguished by water in base
ments. Police made appeals for
boats to help in rescue operations.
Telephone calls swamped police
and fire rescue headquarters, add
ing to the difficulty of rescue work.
f aSHOPPINe DAYS
•9 Till CHRISTMAS