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VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,606 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1950 _MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
Bow Backs Up Charges Against Secy, of Int.
DECLARES
CHAPMAN
MAY SUE
Allegations Made by Sen
ator Schoeppel Again
Spoken Publicly
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14— (41 —
Frank T. Bow, chief aide to Senator
Schoeppel (R-Kans), adopted as his
own today the Senator’s charges
that Secretary of the Interior Chap
man has a “personal Alliance’’ with
Communist Russia. He challenged
Chapman to sue him.
Bow told the Senate Interior Com
mittee, which is investigating the
accusations, that he intends to voice
them publicly, where Chapman is
at liberty to sue him.
Chapman has bitterly denied the
charges which Schoeppel made in a
Senate speech. Chapman told the
committee last week he dares the
Senator “or any other man” to make
such charges at some forum where
they would not enjoy Congressional
or other immunity from lawsuit.
Bow Accepts Challenge
"I accept that dare and challenge
of the Secretary," Bow declared in
a prepared statement which he read
to the committee.
“I shall repeat the allegations of
Senator Schoeppel as my own, in
a public and open forum. I shall ad
vise the Secretary of the time and
place', and shall furnish him with
a transcript of my remarks.
“I .shall speak as a citizen of this '
country without immunity or the
mantle- of high public office.”
Charges Made Public
Bow, a candidate for election to
the House from the 16th Ohio Con
gressional District, told reporters he
actually has used some of the mater
ial quoted by the Senator in a cam
paign speech in Wooster, O., a week
ago.
Senator Murray, (D-Mont), who
had read part of Bow’s prepared
statement in advance, challenged it
as “a political speech” even before
Bow started reading it.
Bow disputed Chapman’s conten
tion that Schoeppel was "scandal
mongering.”
Not Slander
“It cannot be called reprehensible
campaign of scandal mongering in
sinuation and pure slander,” Bow
said, "when evidence of a substan
tial character such as the records
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file Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Copyright. IBM. by Boll Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
l^ASHINGTON — Sometimes the
President’s off-the- record remarks
that never reach the papers are his
best. Those present thought this
was the case when Truman addres
sed the joint session of the AFL
CIO last week.
Speaking without notes and ob
viously straight from the heart, the
President made a plea for tolerance
in wartime.
To a considrable extent it was
a historical speech. The President
reviewed the different periods of
hysteria which have gripped the
country—the Alien and Sedition
Act in the early days of the Re
public, the Know-Nothing party,
and Ku Klux Klanism.
He pointed out that the Know
Nothing party had been anti
Mason and referred to the fact
that he, himself, was a Mason. The
Klan, he recalled, was first against
the negro; then when revived in
the 1920’s, against the Jew and the
Catholic. ,
These were evidences of intoler
ance which did not truly represent
the American people, he said, and
he was absolutely confident that
the good Judgment of the Amer
ican people would always win out.
The President did not mention
the Mundt-Nixon bill or the Mc
Carran bill, but it was obvious lie
hod them in mind. For he referred
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Anti-Trust
Arraignment
Beginning
ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Sept. 14—
OTI—Anchorage and Seward liquor
dealers face arraignment in Third
District Court today in connection
with the pending anti-trust suits.
Yesterday attorney Ed Arnell ap
peared for 27 Ketchikan defendants
indicted for liquor and meat price
fixing, conspiracy and restraint of
trade. He represented the Ketchi
kan Retail Liquor Dealers Associa
tion and 15 bar operators, plus the
Tongass Trading Co., and owners of
10 Ketchikan meat markets.
Two Government attorneys ap
peared. indicating they would not
oppose an earlier motion to trans
fer the cases to Ketchikan.
Judge Anthony Dimond reiterated
that no decision would be forth
coming in arguments until or after
Oct. 31 when the Alaska Steamship
Co., is to appear for arraignment.
MAIL CONTRACT
INCREASED FOR
ALASKA COASTAL
Alaska Coastal Airlines annonuces
the Civil Aeronautics Board, Wash
ington, has advised the company
was to receive a lump sum pay
ment of $30,000 for past services
and a 60 per oent increase In the
future for mail carrying.
For the past three years the
company has been compensated for
carrying mail at a virtually fixed
rate established In 1947. Since then
mail service has almost doubled and
mail poundage has increased over
ten times.
O. F. Benecke, company official,
said the tremendous increase re
sults primarily from carrying by
air all classes of mail including
parcel post between the majority
of points served in Southeast Alas
ka following burning of the mail
boat Estebeth in March, 1948.
Already half a million pounds
have been carried this year. It
would have been impossible to
carry this quantity of mail and
meet the 15 per cent annual in
crease in passengers and 40 per
cent increase in cargo without the
company’s 24 passenger Catalina
Clipper acquired last summer and
the additional Grumman placed in
service this spring. •
ON BUSINESS TRIP
Zalmain Gross, local manager for
the Gross Industries, has returned
from a business trip to Sitka, in
cluding an inspection of improve
ment work being done on the Coli
seum Theatre property owned and
operated there by his firm.
NEW ANS EMPLOYE
Miss Marjorie Orcutt from Se
attle, a new clerk-typist arrived
Tuesday on PAA to work in the
Alaska Native Service office here.
She was formerly with Sears, Roe
buck. Her home is in Red Deer,
Alberta. She is staying at the Gas
tineau Hotel.
• WEATHER REPORT
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
• In Juneau—Maximum, 68;
• minimum, 42.
• At Airport—Maximum, 63;
• Minimum, 37.
•
• FORECAST
• l Junes a end VlelnttT)
•
• Partly cloudy tonight and
• Friday. Lowest temperature
• tonight about 42. Highest Fri
• day near 62.
•
• precipitation
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todar
• City of Junean—None;
• since Sept. I—4.10 inches;
• since July 1—15.16 inches.
• At Airport—None;
• since Sept. 1—2.41 inches;
• since July 1—14.41 inches.
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PAROLE IS
GIVEN MAY;
OUT MONDAY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 — Wl —
Former Rep. Andrew Jackson May
j (D-Ky), convicted of accepting a
j bribe and joining in a conspiracy
I in connection with World War II
munitions contracts, has been
granted a parole.
George G. Killinger, chairman of
the Federal Parole Board, told re
porters today the 75-ycar-old for
i mer lawmaker will be released Mon
day from the Ashland, Ky., Federal
correctional institution.
Killinger said May’s age and poor
health, plus “an outstanding in
stitutional record" were major fac
tors in the board's decision to free
him.
May plans to return to law prac
tice at his home in Prestonburg,
Ky.
The board voted to grant the pa
role earlier in the week, but it was
not announced until today in order
to notify officials of the Ashland
institution.
May, wartime chairman of
House Military Affairs Committee,
received a sentence of from eight
to 24 months.
The munitions-making Garsson
Brothers—Henry and Murray—were
convicted with May in July, 1947,
after a long trial that was a Wash
ington sensation. The Garssons
were accused of paying May $53,000
to use his influence to get them war
contracts. They received sentences
identical to May’s.
The GarssonS' beCaWOligible for
parole July 31, but the board turned
them down.
U. S. COMMISSIONER IS
TAKING ABSENTEE VOTES
FOR GENERAL ELECTION
Qualified voters who will be trav
eling or who, for any other reason,
cannot vote in person at the general
Territorial election October 10 may
cast absentee ballots now, according
to U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray.
The actual vote may be made in
the Commissioner’s office in the
Federal Building, or voters may ob
tain ballots to be mailed in.
Absentee voting may be done Mon
day through Friday from 9 a.m., to
5 p.m., until 5 p.m., October 8.
The Commissioner’s office here is
the only place where absentee votes
may be cast by residents of Juneau
precinct. This includes Juneau,
Douglas, Yakutat, Angoon and en
virons. Similar arrangements pre
vail in Sitka, Ketchikan and other
precincts.
Qualified voters can register at
the time of voting. To qualify, an
adult citizen must have resided in
the Territory for a year, in the
precinct for six months.
At the October 10 election, resi
dents of Southeast Alaska will vote
for Delegate to Congress, Territor
ial Treasurer and Commissioner of
Labor, as well as two Senators and
eight Representatives from the First
Division. ^
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Sept. 14 — Closing
quotation of Alaska mine stock to
day is 2%, American Can 98%, Ana
conda 36%, Curtiss-Wright 9%, In
ternational Harvester 31, Kennecott
66%, New York Central 15%, North
ern Pacific 23%, U. S. Steel 39%,
Pound $2.80%.
Sales today were 2.350,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 224.48, rails 66.87, utilities
39.06.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise from Vancouver
due to arrive Saturday afternoon
or evening.
Freighter Ring Splice scheduled to
sail from Seattle Sept. 15.
Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle Saturday.
Aleutian from west scheduled
southbound Monday.
STATEHOOD
BILL ACTION
PROMISED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14— Ufl —
Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) said
he will bring the Hawaii and Alaska
statehood bills to the attention of
the Senate this afternoon.
The chairman of the Interior
Committee told reporters that he
I will urge passage of the bills in a
I Senate speech on the grounds that
j the action would combat Russian
] propaganda in Asia.
Refusal to grant statehood, he
said, "would be blasted from every
Soviet microphone with the charge
that it is evidence of our imperial
istic designs in Asia.”
Backers of the statehood bills were
not hopeful that they could be pass
ed by the Senate this week.
They did hope to make statehood
one of the first orders of business
of the Senate should Congress re
cess until November.
The House-passed bills have been
repeatedly endorsed by President
Truman.
LAST RITES TOMORROW
FOR WALSTEIN G. SMITH,
FORMER TREASURER
Funeral services for Walstejn
Goodale Smith, Alaska’s first Ter-|
ritorial treasurer, will be held to
morrow at 10 a.m. In the chapel of!
the Charles W. Carter Mortuary.
The Rev. Samuel McPhetres will'
conduct the services, and Ernest
Ehler will sing.
Mr. Smith, prominent Alaska
banker since 1007, died Monday
night at St. Ann’s Hospital after
more than six year's illness. He
was 84.
Born in Columbus, O., Mr, Smith
came to Alaska in 1907, first set
tling in Katalla, near Cordova,
where he established a bank. He
came to Juneau as Territorial
treasurer when that office was cre
ated in 1913 and served as treas
urer until 1935.
Survivors include a son, Walstein
D. Smith of Los Angeles, Calif.; a
daughter, Mrs. H. C. (Helen) Scud
der of Juneau; and two grand
children, Miss Merion Cass of New
York City and John T. Cass of
Missoula, Mont.
Mr. Smith’s remains will be taken
to the Washelli Crematorium in
Seattle for cremation, after which
his ashes and those of his wife,
Alice Markley Smith, who died in
1937, will be taken to California to
a final resting place.
Friends who wish may send con
tributions to the Parent-Teacher
Association scholarship fund in
care of Mrs. Stan Grummett, post
office box 1013, Juneau.
BLOOD TYPING BEGINS
HERE SEPTEMBER 26;
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
The Red Cross blood-typing pro
gram in Juneau will begin Sept.
26, it was decided at a committee
meeting held at the Baranof Hotel.
Marvin Kristan, Red Cross public
ity chairman, announces. It will
continue until completed.
Tuesday and Thursday nights arc
announced for the time but a place
is yet to be located, Kristan said
There is a call for four volunteer
typists and three receptionists. Those
wishing to volunteer please call 883
The program is on a Territory
wide %basis with the help of the
Territorial Department of Health
and the Civilian Defense organiza
tions.
Ex-service men are urged to have
themselves typed since the new
procedure takes in the RH factor
not considered in the Army and
Navy typing previously used.
Attending the meeting w-ere; Mr
M. O. Johnson, chairman; Rev. John
Porter; Douglas representative: Dr
James T. Googe, Dr. William I’
Blanton, Mrs. Kenneth Clem, Red
Cross executive secretary; Mr. Wil
liams, Health Department, Mr
John Clements and Marvin Kristan
House to Sit
Until Profit
Tax Passes
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14— UPI —
j The House shouted overwhelming
approval today of a resolution call
' ing on Congress not to adjourn until
; it has a chance to vote on a multi
billion dollar excess profits tax.
This action came after the fail
ure of an effort to write a $6,000,
: 000.000 super levy on big corporation
j profits into the pending general tax
i boosting bill. That move bogged
j down in House rules on procedure.
Speaker Rayburn ruled that un
der the rules and precendents, the
House could not Instruct a Senate
House conference committee to in
sert the big profits levy in the pend
ing $4,508,000,000 tax bill.
He stressed that the conference
committee, because of the rules of
the House and the Senate, could
not insert new subject matter in a
bill when it is trying to smooth out
different versions passed by the
two houses.
In the heated debate that preced
ed the House action Chairman
Doughton iD-NC) of the Ways and
Means Committee told the House
that President Truman, the Trea
sury Department and the tax draft
ing committees of Congress want
time to study a sound means of ap
plying an excess profits tax. He said
that he is for such a levy, but op
poses haste.
GAMES TODAY
BOSTON, Sept. 14 — l/P) — Backed
by two home runs, righthander
Johnny Sain became the Boston
Braves’ third 19-game winning
pitcher today by defeating the
Chicago Cubs, 7-4. Three of the
Chicago tallies were via the home
run route.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14—<*)—'Wally
Westlake’s two-run homer in the
sixth proved to be the winning
blow today as the last place Pitts
burgh Pirates whipped the New
York Giants 7-1 in the first game
of a double-header. The Pirates
insured the victory with a four-run
splurge in the ninth. Murry Dick
son held the New Yorkers to six
hits, one of which was Eddie Stan
ky’s homer in the fourth.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 14 — UP) —The
Brooklyn Dodges blasted four home
runs today to defeat the Cincin
nati Reds, 6-3 in the first game of
a doubleheader. Billy Cox, Call
Furillo, Bruce Edwards and Gli
Hodges did the damage, the latter’s
coming with one on as the Dodgers
scored four runs in the first Inning.
Joe Adcock and Ted Tappe, Brem
erton, Wash., recent Washington
State College athlete, homered foi
the Reds.
Chicago, Sept. 14—l/P)—The Chi
cago White Sox scored all theii
runs in the first inning to defeat
the Philadelphia Athletics, 5-2 in
the opener of a three game series
oday. In suffering their seventh
-tralght loss, the A’s settled for
six hits as Lefty Bob Cain posted
ids eighth win.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 14—(J’l—Rep
resentatives of contending teams
nd baseball Commissioner A. B.
Chandler today set Oct. 4 as the
date for the start of the 1950 World
.series, providing a play-off is not
necessary to determine one or both
of the pennant winners.
COUNCIL WILL MEET
8 P. M TOMORROW
■
The City Council will meet tomor
row night at 8 o’clock in council
i numbers of the City Hall. It will be
be regular council session.
Committee reports will be heard at
lie meeting, according to City Clerk
C. L. Popejoy.
FROM TENAKEE
George Murphy of Tenakee Is
registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
JAP PEACE
TREATY TO BE
DISCUSSED
President Tells Newsmen
at Conference Acheson
Remains in Cabinet
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14— (/PI —
President Truman said today he has
instructed the State Department to
start discussions looking to a peace
treaty with Japan.
He told a news conference also,
in a formal statement:
"We have long pressed the USSR
for an Austrian treaty and we are
exploring the possibility of ending
the state of war with Germany."
Mr. Truman read the statement at
the opening of his weekly news
conference, at which he tossed back
other questions by correspondents.
These other questions dealt with the
resignation of Secretary of Defense
Johnson.
He called that matter a closed
incident. And, with matter-of-fact
terseness, he said that Dean Ache
son remains as Secretary of State.
SENATOR TAFT
IN OPPOSITION
TO MARSHALL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 — UP) —
Senator Taft (R-Ohioi, OOP policy
chief in the Senate, said today he
is dubious about the appointment
of Gen. George C. Marshall to be
Secretary of Defense.
He said he will vote against legis
lation to open the way for Marshall
to re-enter the cabinet, although
he may not speak against it in the
Senate.
Taft also said the Far Eastern
section of the State Department,
under the Truman administration,
"has always been friendly to the
Chinese Communists, at least in its
leanings.”
He said he was dubious about
the idea of making Marshall Sec
retary of Defense because that
would strengthen Secretary of State
Acheson’s hand "in relation to the
Chinese Communists.”
There still were no signs that
the opposition, even with Taft e.s
a recruit, was anywhere near strong
enough to block the bill on the
Marshall appointment.
This bill would make an exception,
in the case of Marshall alone, to
a law which forbids anyone to be
Defense Secretary who has served
as a commissioned officer in the
armed services in the past 10 years.
McLEAN RESIGNS AS
NORWAY'S VICE CON.;
EASTAUGH SUCCEEDS
Joseph A. McLean announced to
day that his resignation as Nor
wegian Vice Consul for Alaska is
effective, and that Frederick O.
Eastaugh has/ been appointed in
that capacity. .
The resignation of McLean re
sulted from a request of the De
partment of 9tate when it ap
peared that a conflict arose with
his commission as a U. S. Army
Reserve Officer . He had been ser
ving as Vice Consul of Norway
since the resignation of H. L.
Faulkner one year ago.
Eastaugh, a native born Alaskan,
is a practicing attorney associated
with the law firm of R. E. Rob
ertson in the Seward Building at
Juneau. He also is the City Magis
trate and the immediate Past Pres
ident of the Juneau Chamber of
Commerce.
TODAY’S LANDINGS
The single landing today was
from Elfin II, E. O. Swanson, and
was 33,000 pounds of salmon for
Alaska Coast Fisheries. Jim Hickey
trucked in 1,500 pounds from Auk
Bay for Engstrom Brothers.
i "MRS. AMERICA
1 -
Mrs. Betty Eileen McAllister, com
peting as Mrs. Johnstown, Pa.,
holds trophy she won for culinary
ability (she broiled meat) In the
Mrs. America of 1960-51 contest
at Ashbury Park, N. J. The cock
ing ability of the blonde, hiltl
eyed mother of two children, plus
other attributes, swayed the
judges sufficiently that they also
crowned her Mrs. America 1950
51. (PI Wirephoto.
14-YEAR-OLD BOY
ADMITS SHOOTING
PETERSBURG MAN
Acting U. S. Marshal Walter
Hellan returned Tuesday from Pe
tersburg bringing a juvenile pris
oner charged wtih first degree mur
der. Hellan had gone there Mon
day to assist Deputy Marshal Ralph
Smith in the investrgation which
followed discovery Sunday of the
body of Paul Albert Hoch, 46-year
old homesteader.
The prisoner, 14-year-old Richard
Eugene Harris, admitted to the
shcotlng of Hoch. He said Hoch
owed him $64 for work he had done
and had agreed to give him a rifle
instead of the irtpney. The youth
said he had worked a while Satur
day for Hoch, asked for the rifle
and been told ‘later." An argument
ensued.
Hoch’s body was found Sundaj
cn the roof of his lean-to cabin,
about eight miles from Petersburg
on the Mitkof Road. He was killed
while shingling the roof.
After Hoch had failed to appear
at a nearby creek where he had a
fishing appointment Saturday with
9-year-old Mike Schwartz, the
youngster’s grandfather, Carrol
Clausen, who keeps chickens in an
abandoned CCC camp nearby, went
to Hoch’s cabin Sunday with a
group of friends.
They found no trace of the home
steader until one of the party
climbing a bank, happened to look
across at the roof.
Young Harris had recently re
tuihed to Petersburg, where he was
born, after attending school in Cal
ifornia. His mother is the present
Mrs. V. G. Fox of San Pedro, Calif.
His father, Richard Harris of
Petersburg, a fisherman, has been
on a seine boat locating trapping
sites. He flew here yesterday and
engaged Mrs. Mildred Hermann as
attorney for his son.
After U. S'. Commissioner Dale H.
Hirt waived juvenile jurisdiction
under the Alaska Juvenile Code, a
preliminary hearing was held in
Petersburg, and the defendant was
held to answer to a Grand Jury
)n charges of first degree murder.
Marshal Hellan signed the com
ilaint.
BIG PUSH
BY ALLIES
INDICATED
American, British Ships
Start Bombardment
Ground Actions Scanty
(By Leif Erickson)
TOKYO, Friday—(fl—Heavy at
! tacks by Allied warships and car
rier planes on Korea's west coast
—an apparent prelude to the prom
ised big push—prompted the Reds
last night to claim four U. S. landing
craft and three destroyers were
sunk.
The U. S. Navy In Washington
said it had no report of any land
ing-type vessels being involved in
the heaviest surface bombardment
of the war by British and American
ships in the vicinity of Inchon, west
coast port for the Red-held capital
city of Seoul.
The Navy said the Reds did inflict
"superficial damage" on three U. S.
destroyers during file Inchon bom
bardment Wednesday.
With ground action relatively
scanty and American commanders
predicting future offensive opera
tions against the North Koreans,
Allied sources in Tokyo said it
sounded as if the Reds were trying
to manufacture a "victory" by im
plying that landing, effort had been
repulsed.
Fat 'Bast Naval headquarters said
earlier that Task Force 77 wrought
damage along a 210-mile western
strip, the main blows being at In
chon.
The attacks against troops, gun
emplacements and airstrips were
disclosed by the Navy Thursday.
Allied ground forces either held
firm or gained on the beachhead
perimeter ISO miles to the south
east.
Particularly active was the north
ern front—from the northwest cor
ner before Taegu to points north
of the Taegu-Kyangju highway
eastward. The U. S. First Cavalry
division seized three heights north of
Taegu. Comparatively small-scale
fighting flared on the southern
front.
But th* Navy was in the spot
light.
On the east coast, an American
battleship cruised up and down the
Sea of Japan off Pohang. One
of its three escorting destroyers
whipped into the Red-held harbor
and exchanged fire with shore bat
teries.
The battlewagon didn’t fire a shot.
Attention was focused on the
west coast by the two-day naval
assault, however, Islands flanking
Inchon have been seized by South
Korean commandos—both for har
assing the Reds’ seaborne supply and
to prepare for a possible offensive.
The U. S. Navy said American
and British cruisers and destroyers
blasted two whole days at Inchon,
port for Seoul, which ig 22 miles in
land.
The strikes were disclosed as Alli
ed ground forces, more than 150 mil
es to the southeast, either held or
punched out gains on the beach
head perimeter .
U. S. Naval power turned up also
on the Sea of Japan side of the
peninsula, the east coast. An Am
erican battleship cruised off the
coast from the ruins of Red-held
Pohang, one-time No. 2 United Na
tions port.
The battlewagon didn’t fire a shot,
but one of three escorting destroyers
zig-zagged into Pohang harbor and
banged away under replying shore
batteries.
COURT NOW POSTPONED
UNTIL 10 A. M. MONDAY
Due to a delay In the return of
Judge George W. Folta from the
westward, the opening of the Dis
trict Court session scheduled for
tomorrow has been postponed until
Monday.
Court will reconvene at 10 o’clock
Monday morning, according to Clerk
Df Court J. W. Lelvcfs.
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