THE DAILY" ALASKA EMPIRE
* "ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’ ^
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,744
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Vicious Red Counterattacks Smashed Back
UNIVERSITY
S.E. BRANCH
BILL KILLED
Measure Falls One Short
on 8-7 Vote-Defense
Bill Is In
The bill for creation of a Uni
versity of Alaska southeastern
branch died by a hair-line margin
in the Senate today.
It dangled by the thin thread of
a single vote absention before it
toppled off the budget wagon.
The vote was 8 to 7 in favor,
after the proposed appropriation
had been cut in half to $250,000,
but nine votes were needed for pas
sage. The bill was introduced by
Sen. Anita Garnick iR-Juneau).
Sen. Percy Ipalook <R-Kotzebue>
caused a mild furore when he an
nounced. on roll call, that Jie was
not voting. When senators pressed
for an explanation, he explained
that he did not want to vote
against it because he thought it
was a worthwhile proposal if it
could be financed; he didn't vote
"yes" because "I wouldn’t feel justi
fied, with the great need my people
have for schools, to start another
university while failing to provide
schools for the children. It would be
like building a superstructure with
out a foundation.”
He had spoken earlier of the
Eskimo children who never have
had schools and some of whom
never have learned even to speak
English.
The debate waxed as warm as
any the Senate has seen this ses
sion. Most of the senators got into
the argument before it was over.
Charges of sectionalism were tossed
around the chamber.
The supporters of the bill argued
that the southeast branch was
needed as a research center for
fisheries and forestry; that the
territory loses many of its most
able young people through lack of
higher educational facilities; that
no expenditure would be required
at the start for a site or facilities.
The opponents contended the bud
get can't be stretched far enuogh
to include another university; that
the present unsettled conditions
make it an undesirable time to try
to launch a new institution.
Sen. John Butrovich 'R-Fair
banks) summed up much of the
opposition’s standpoint with the
declaration;
"Once the doors Are open, we
would have two institutions to
maintain when we can’t support
one decently.” He reviewed the long
fight for funds for the university
at Fairbanks and said it never got
decent appropriations until 1947.
Roll Call
111? roll cad was:
For—Barr, Beltz, Garnick, Hunt
ley, MacKenzie, McCutcheon, Nolan
and Engebreth.
Against — Anderson, Butrovich.
Coble, Engstrom, Lhamon, Lyng,
Snider.
; Continued on Page Six)
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1951, oy Bell Syndicate. Inc..
Washington. — Diplomatic
circles are now convinced the long
anticipated big four foreign min
isters meeting will not only be held
this April but will be held in Wash
ington.
The meeting between Secretary
of State Acheson, French Foreign
Minister Schuman, British Foreign
Minister Bevin and Soviet Foreign
Minister Vishinsky is generally
looked upon by the diplomatic corps
as the world’s last opportunity to
reach a peaceful settlement be
tween the East and the West.
In the delicate touch-and-go at
mosphere of high-level diplomacy,
Washington analysts have detected
what they interpret as "secret”
signals from Moscow indicating
that the Kremlin is willing to talk
out, rather than shoot out the dif
fereences between Democracy and
Communism.
The most important clues are
contained in dispatches to U. S.
papers from Moscow—dispatches
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• I
FINAL DECISION
ON INSPECTION
TRIP TO SITKA
The final word — we hope — on
the Legislature’s trip to Sitka to
inspect the Alaska Pioneers’ Home
came out of the House Committee
on Territorial Institutions just be
fore noon today.
All seven members of the com
mittee will make the trip, leaving
Juneau on Friday by Alaska Coastal
plane and returning on the Bar
anof, due in Juneau sometime Sun
day.
Members of the Committee are
Rep. W. W. Laws, chairman, and
Reps. Amelia Gundersen, Doris
Barnes, Frank Degnan, George Gas
ser, Stanley McCutcheon and J. S.
MacKinnon.
The trip has been an on again,
off again proposition for several
days.
As originally planned, the junket
was open to all members of both
houses and 40 members, wives,
friends and acquaintances had sign
ed up.
Then the Senate back-tracked
and suggested to the House Cnat a
committee of three Senators and
four Representatives make the in
spection.
This proposal was flatly rejected
by the House, whereupon the Senate
flatly rejected the entire trip, so
far as its members were concrnd.
Th House went along with its
plans for a unicameral inspection
until someone discovered w'hat they
thought was a serious snag.
The resolution appropriating
funds for the trip specifies that it
is to be an inspection by the House
and Senate. So the House sent a
conciliatory message to the Senate
which said, in effect, "If you won’t
go, can we go alone?"
And the Senate graciously and
unanimously said "Yes.”
LiHIT IS PLACED ON
PRESIDENTS'TERMS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 —W—
From now on, no President of the
United States — except for Harry
| Truman, — may be elected to more
[ than two terms.
And under the 22nd Amendment
to the Constitution, which for all
practical ) .rposes became law last
night, no man or woman may serve
more than 10 years in the White
House.
The amendment, while limiting
future Presidents to two elective
terms, allows a person who has
served two years or less of an unex
pired term to be elected twice on
his own.
As President at the time the
amendment was approved by the
Republican controlled 80th Con
gress, Mr. Truman was specifically
exampted.
Utah and Nevada Legislatures
acted in quick succession last night
to approve the amendment. Nevada
completed action at 7:30 p.m. (EST)
becoming the 36th state to ratify
the amendment.
The Constitution requires that
amendments to it be ratified by
three-fourths of the states—or 36
at present — to become law.
WILL EXTEND
AUTO FREEZE
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27 —i&—
Officials of the Office of Price Sta
bilization (OPS) said today they
plan to extend the auto price
freeze, which otherwise would expire
March 1.
[ The manufacturers’ prices of new ;
\ cars now are frozen at the levels (
of last Dec. 1. The order was issued j
in mid-December and was the first i
price control order by the OPS.
Officials said the order may be
extended to April 1 to give them j
time to work out new regulations:
for manufacturers of all kinds.
For the last two months the OPS
has been working on a revision of !
the auto price freeze that would
permit the manufacturers—in some
cases at least — to raise prices to ]
help compensate for higher costs
of production.
—
FROM SPOKANE
Mr. and Mrs. W. Cooper of Spo
kane s i §_gtAjping at the Baranof
Hotel.
~ I
CLUES IN
DEATH OF
NICHOLS
—
KEY WEST, Fla., Feb. 27 —
Two developments in the investiga
i tion of the death of former U. S.
1 Marshal Stanley J. Nichols are re
ported by Peace Justice Roy Ham
lin.
He said the blue sedan which
Nichols drove here from Fairbanks,
Alaska, was found in a Miami park
ing lot over the weekend and new
information was uncovered on the
man who was with the former
marshal when he checked in at the
Folridlan hotel Feb. 10.
Nichols was found lying on the
floor at the hotel Feb. 12. He died
in a hospital four days later.
Hamlin said the man with Nichols
was last seen Feb. 11 when he at
tempted to cash a $100 traveler’s
check. New facts about him were
uncovered from a card he had filled
out in peraparation for a trip to
Havana with Nichols.
Hamlin said he gave the name
of Thomas Meffert of Fairbanks,
listed his age as 28, a native of
Louisville, Ky., and a "professional
sailor."
A travel agency told Hamlin that
Nichols and the other man bought
tickets to Havana on Feb. 10 and
the man brought them back the
following day and collected a re
fund.
A warrant has been issued
charging the missing man with
stealing Nichols’ car, Hamlin added.
Dr. Ralph Herz, who performed
an autopsy on Nichols, said death
was due to natural causes.
State Attorney J. Lancelot Lester
asked the coroner's jury to withh<i’d
its ruling on the death, saying:
“I am net satisfied that there
was no criminal intervention.” The
coroner’s jury has recessed subject
to call.
FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR MRS. SMITH AT
9 A.M. TOMORROW
Funeral services for Mrs. Frances
J. Smith will be held from the
Catholic Church here tomorrow
morning at 9 o’clock. The rosary
will be recited tonight at 7:30 o’clock
at the Carter Chapel.
Active pallbearers will be Mike
Monagle, Tony Thomas, Larry Zaeh,
Joe Thibodeau. Frank Heinke, Evan
Wruck. Honorary pallbearers will be
Jack Mullen, Frank Maier, Joe
Kendler, H. R. VanderLeest, Ed
Jacobson and Neil Moore. Inter
ment will be beside her husband
in the Catholic plot in Evergreen
Cemetery.
Mrs. Smith passed away with a
heart attack last Tuesday morning.
She is survived by one daughter,
Dolores F. Bruns of St. Mary’s,
Ohio, and five sons, Lee W., Joe M.,
Theodore J., Francis A., and Sidney
J. Smith, all of Juneau, one brother,
William Altmiller of Taft, Calif.,
and seven grandchildren.
Mrs. Smith was born in Joplin,
Mo., August 28, 1893, came to Alaska
in 1913 and was married to L. H.
Smith, April 7, 1915, and has made
her home here since. The family
has operated the Slr.ith Dairies for
many years.
ANCHORAGE VISITOR
James Power of Anchorage is at
the Baranof Hotel.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o’clock this morning
In Juneau- — Maximum
29; minimum, 18.
At Airport — Maximum,
29; minimum, 10.
FORECAST
Occasional light snow end
ing tonight. Low tempera
ture tonight near 25 degress.
Decreasing cloudiness tomor
row. High temperature about
32 degrees.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours endian 7:30 a.'m. today
City of Juneau — Trace;
Since Feb. 1 —4.59 inches;
Since July 1 — 46.67 inches;
At Airport — Trace;
Since Feb. 1 — 2.18 inches;
Since July 1 — 32.43 inches.
JAMES V. DAVIS
WEDS IN SEATTLE;
HONEYMOON, HAWAII
SEATTLE, Feb. 27 — (jTI — The
I marriage of James V. Davis, wealthy
I former Alaska Legislator, and Mrs.
Alyce Schultz of Oregon City. Ore.,
[ was solemnized last night in the
Mural room of the New Washington
hotel.
They will leave tonight by plane
for the Hawaiian Islands for a hon
eymoon of several weeks.
Davis, who still has many Alaska
business connections, came to the
Seattle area several years ago from
Juneau and makes his hqme on a
Whidbey Island estate of several
hundred acres.
He met his bride-to-be shortly
after she came to Seattle six months
ago to stay with a brother, H. L.
Slick. Mrs. Schultz was an official
of the Culinary Workers Union in
Oregon City before she left to visit
her brother.
The ceremony was attended only
by members of the couple’s fami
lies.
After their return from Hawaii,
Mr. and Mrs. Davis will live at their
estate on Whidby Island in Puget
Sound.
Davis was a member of the Alaska
Legislature for several terms while
living in the Territory. He still re
tains controlling interest in the
Alaska Coastal Airlines and serves
in an advisory capacity for several
fishing, cannery and shipping in
terests.
HELEN CLAIRE LISTER
DELIGHTS AUDIENCE
AT PIANO RECITAL
Juneau music lovers were amazed
and delighted as they thoroughly
enjoyed the piano music of little
Miss Helen Claire Lister, twelve
year old daughter of Mrs. Ronald
Lister of Juneau, who was pre
sented in recital by her teacher
Mrs. Jane McMullin last evening
in the Methodist Church.
The young pianist opened her
program with dementi’s spirited
Sonatina and then played for her
audience Beethoven's Moonlight
Sonata, Schubert's Scherzo, B Flat
Major, preludes and waltzes by
Chopin, Poldini's Poupee Valsante,
the little air of Sugar and Spice
by Kettering and MacDowell’s To
a Wild Rose and Hungarian. Her
technique was excellent and she
played with an expression and
depth of feeling unusual in under
standing for so young an artist.
Delightful also to her audience
was Miss Lister's unaffected grace
and the charm of natural poise.
In a floor length dress beautiful
in its simplicity in a style remin
icent of Godey’s Lady Book, of a
3oft shade of blue over pink and
shot with sequins and set off by
a pink sash and big bow, her
lovely golden hair softly arranged
in curls, the little artist looked like
a fairy princess as she sat in the
spotlgiht at her piano, with greens
and masses of daffodils arranged
across the front of the concert
platform making a perfect setting
in color blend.
During her concert Miss Lister
was presented with a number of
bouquets from the audience and
at the close of her recital she
was called back for encore and
finally left her audience with a
gracious little courtesy. As the ap
plause continued she returned to
the auditorium with Mrs. McMullin
and the two received the congrat
ulations of the many present at
an informal reception.
FROM OGDEN
M. J. Winninghoff of Ogden,
Utah, is stoppin? at the Hotel
Juneau. j
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Feb. 27 — Closing
quitation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3‘4, American Can
106?i, American Tel. and Tel. 156'4,
Anaconda 42%, Douglas Aircraft
104f!i, General Electric 5571, General
Motors 49 7», Goodyear 73%, Kenne
cott 75, Libby, McNeil and Libby
9%, Northern Pacific 34 4, Stand
ard Oil of California 94, Twentieth
Century Fox 23, U. S. Steel 43%,
Pound 2.80'i, Canadian Exchange
95.75.
Sales today were 1,680,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 251.34, rails 84.95, utili
ties 43.70.
INCENTIVE 1
PROGRAM
IS URGED
Requests for Tax Morator
ium, Indian Claims Set
tlement, Pass House
By BOB DEARMOND
A House Joint Memorial asking
that Congress establish a tax in
centive program to encourage the
investment of industrial capital in
Alaska was passed by the House
this morning with only two opposing
votes.
The memorials requests that firms
coming to Alaska to develop new
resources be granted a moratorium
on Federal income taxes until such
time as the taxes they would norm
ally pay equals the amount of their
capital investment, with a maxi
mum of 15 years for such morator
ium.
The tax incentive program was
initiated by the Alaska Department
of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce. The memorial was sponsored
by the Juneau Chamber of Com
merce and introduced by Rep. Mac
Kinnon. The only votes against it
were cast by Reps. Conright and
Hope.
Another memorial which, if ef
fective. would tend to encourage in
vestment in Alaska, was also passed
by the House this forenoon. This
was H.J.M. 11, also by Rep. Mac
Kinnon. urging Congress "to take
prompt action to investigate, and
to settle equitably to all parties in
interest and to the general welfare
ui the Territory, the question of
Indian or aboriginal title to all lands
in the Territory of Alaska.
The memorial passed without a
dissenting vote. j
Three Bills Passed
In quick succession this morning
the House passed three bills and
disposed of another by tabling.
H. B. 29, for reorganization of the
Banking Board, was tabled at the
request of its authors, Reps. Con
right and McCutcheon, who ex
plained that the matter will be
taken care of in a comprehensive
banking bill to be introduced in the
Scn&tc
Passed by a 20-4 vote was Rep.
Gasser’s bill defining and prohibit
ing cruelty to animals. Dissenting
votes were chalked up for Reps.j
Hope, Kay, Madsen and Wells.
H. B. 57, which would allow quali
fied attorneys to join Alaska law
firms and engage in practice until
such time as the annual bar exam
inations are held, received unani
mous approval, as did H. B. 74, to
permit corporations to file their an
nual reports on a fiscal year basis..
Monday Afternoon
During its afternoon session yes- j
terday the House passed a bill mod
ifying the requirements for receiv-1
ing old age assistance benefits and
a bill increasing the severity of
penalties for violations of the nar
cotic Act.
The old age assistance bill gen
erated some heated debates on the
proposal to eliminate the citizen
ship requirement and on a pro
posed amendment to increase maxi
mum benefits from $80 to $90.
Rep. Scavenius, commenting that1
he has little use for people who
have lived in the country for many
years without becoming citizens and
adding that he himself is a natural
ized citizen, asserted that there is
less and less excuse for the defal
cation because better transporta
tion makes it easier for people to
get to the courts than formerly.
“That is a phony argument,”
countered Rep. Kay. "What this
boils down to is a question of dol
lars and cents. We have to support
the aliens when they become desti
tute anyway, and we might as well
do it by old age assurance benefits
and get some Federal help.”
Rep. Barnes also placed the mat
ter on a financial rather than a
patriotic basis. "Relief for aliens
now comes entirely from the Terri
torial treasury and I think it is our
duty to get Federal help when it is
available,” she said.
Compromise Reached
As a compromise between those
who wished aliens entirely excluded
from assistance benefits and those
who would drop the bars, an
amendment was adopted to permit
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Army Prepared to Defend
All Parts of Alaska at
Anytime, Declares Kepner
WINTER ICECAP
STUDIES FOLD
UNTIL MID-MAY
Another chapter in the Juneau
Icecap Research Project closed be
hind the tail of Tom McCahill’s
plane yesterday as he evacuated the
last of the JIRPS from the ice field,
just ahead of a storm.
The past month's studies resulted
in a better idea of the winter char
acter of the ice field and contrib
uted to weather data. Eight men
were involved in the operation and
two camps were maintained.
McCahill made six flights yester
day to take out the men and equip
ment. Before his first landing on
deep soft snow, he made several
passes over the landing place to
pack the snow a bit harder each
time. On the last trip the plane
would not become airborne with
Miller and Sgt. Calvin Anderson
so Miller was left on the snowfield
while Anderson was landed on the
Taku River. Mac then went back,
got Miller, picked up Anderson and
flew them to Juneau.
Others in the winter party were
Dr. Theodore Haley, expendition
doctor; Fred Small, assistant to Mil
ler from the American Geographical
Society; Tony Thomas of the For
est Service; Fred Milan, University
of Alaska; Anderson and Sgt.
Adam Schmeider, both of the Air
Force. McCahill was liaison for the
party as well as pilot. The expedi
tion is sponsored by the Geograph
ical Society, the office of Naval
Research and the Forest Service.
While the camps were only 40 air
line miles from Juneau, isolation
was rather complete. “Being able to
radio contact the CAA boys at the j
Juneau airport, gave us a feeling j
of security in case of an emerg
ency,” Miller said today.
Between February 11 and 20 Mil
ler said that 72 inches of new snow
fell at the camp. An hourly weather
report was kept and winds up to
70 miles an hour were recorded. It
was determined that the ice field
has winter movement.
The only sign of life were wolf
tracks up there, Miller said.
The studies are to be resumed
about mid-May when Milan plans
to return to Fairbanks and with
Ed Guerin will travel up the Norris
Glacier in weasels.
TEACHERS REACH
UNITY REGARDING
SALARY REQUESTS
Lester L. Wtngard, Supt. of Pe
tersburg Schools and Legislative
Chairman of the Alaska Education
Association, announces that a uni
form request for teachers cost of
living adjustment has been
reached. The teachers of the Ter
ritory are asking for a $500 annual
increase for the First Division,
$650 for the Third Division and
$800 for the Second and Fourth
Divisions.
'■Alaska, flchool administrators
are finding it more and more dif
ficult to attract and keep teachers
because of better paying areas in
the States, and increases are
needed even assuming that the
cost of living remains stable for
the next two years,” Miss Marjorie
Tillotson, Juneau • High School
Teacher and President of the Al
aska Education Association, stated
tod Eiy
At the present time Warren j
Dahlstrom of the Anchorage Tea
chers is representing the Alaska
Education Association before the
Legislators. "There is a great deal
of encouraging support for the
AEA requests. This raise would
represent $350,000 for the coming
school year if the number of tea
chers does not increase,” said he.
Dahlstrom and Miss Tillotsen ap
peared before ‘he House Ways and
Means Committee this morning
and presented the above salary re
quest.
M. Carlson of Seattle is stopping
at the Oastlneau Hotel.
1
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 27—
(if)—The head of the Alaska defense
command says "We are no push
overs and anyone who thinks he
can walk in and take Alaska is
in for a rude awakening."
Lt.-Gen. W. E. Kepner said his
organization la well prepared to
defend all of Alaska against any
nation that may “step in and try
to take it.”
"My mission is to defend Alaska
and that means all of Alaska,”
Kepner said. "The force of men
here (Alaska) is well trained and
capable. We are prepared to meet
the enemy whenever and wherever
he may strike.”
The General made the state
ments in commenting on a report
made by a preparedness subcom
mittee of the Senate Armed Forces
Committee in Washington, D. C.,
last Thursday.
The subcommittee report said
that an all-out war with Russia
"Would force this country to aban
don certain isolated areas of Al
aska.”
The subcommittee report also
said it appears "reasonable to as
sume that little could be done to
protect the Seward Peninsula area
from either bombing or actual in
vasion if the Russians desired.”
The Seward Peninsula reaches
up into Northwestern Alaska and
borders on Bering Strait, a 60-mile
strip of water separating the Ter
ritory from Russian Siberia.
Kepner said certain areas of Al
aska are more vulnerable but that
"Any portion that is important to
the enemy is important to us."
"Our strength is highly mobile
and can be moved to areas where
it may be needed and when it is
needed," he said. .“If we are to
temporarily relinquish an area
it would be with the idea of mak
ing it untenable.”
The subcommittee is headed by
Sen. Hunt iD-Wyo.). The other
two members are Sens. Morse
iR-Ore.) and Saltonstall (R
Mass.).
SALMON TAX
WOULD RAISE
LARGE FUND
\
The new salmon tax bill. Intro
duced yesterday by Rep. Andrew
Hope, if passed In Its present form
would raise upward of two million
dollars a year for the Territory's
general fund, Rep. Hope said today.
He said these calculations were
based upon the prevailing prices of
salmon for the 1950 season, and
upon an average catch.
The new bill, which would place
a tax upon each salmon caught In
Alaskan waters, was drafted by
Ernest Spink with the assistance of
C. L. Anderson, Director of the
Territorial Department of Fisheries,
Rep. Hope said.
Hoik; said that he secured An
derson's approval of the measure
in its final form Just before he
introduced it. He said he feels that
it will have the support of a ma
jority of the fishermen and others
connected with the fishing industry,
and that the revenues from the
tax will do much to lift the Terri
tory's General Fund out of its pre
sent precarious position.
The man who drafted the bill
is registered in the Auditor's office
as a lobbyist. The registration give
the following information:
Name, Ernest &pink. Firm or
person represented: Ernest Spink
Interests: Anything to do with
finances. Signed, Ernest Spink.
1
frKUM I'lLSEQUAH
H. R. Hammond of Tulsequah is
at the Baranof Hotel.
STfAMERHOVEMENIS
Baranof from Seattle In port and
scheduled to sail during late after
noon for westward.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Feb. 28.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Sea*tie 4 p.m. Friday.
ALLIED LINE
IS ADVANCED
THROUGH MUD
Battle-Hardened Marines
Now in Fighting Line
Hills Captured
By Associated Press
United Nations troops smashed
back five vicious Red counterat
tacks on the Central Front nenr
Hoengsong today as the whole Al
lied line, spearheaded by the U. S.
First Marine Division, moved cau
tiously forward through mud and
howling winds.
It was the first report that the
First Marines — the battle-harden
ed heroes of the fighting with
drawal from Changjln Reservoir
last December — were in the fight
ing line again.
In today's action the Leather
necks seized commanding hills
south and southeast of Hoengsong.
This has become a no-man’s land,
with the Chinese Communists and
North Koreans ringing it to the
north on the approach to their key
strongpoint of Hongchon.
On the West-Central and Western
sectors things were relatively quiet,
although the U. S. First Cavalry
and British elements ran into stiff
Red resistance 15 miles northwest
of Hoengsong, near Yongdu.
Reports from the front said the
Red pre-dawn counterattack were
among the sharpest actions met in
the week-old renewal of the Allied
offensive. The U. 8. Second Division
drove the enemy back.
A U. S. Army spokesman said the
new forward push had thwarted or
delayed a Chinese counter-offensive
by four to six armies. He said 100,
000 Chinese Reds had been shifted
into defense positions and it would
take them several weeks to regroup
for any drive southward again.
Crack Red Defenses
An American regiment cracked
the main Korean Red defenses on
the East-Central battlefront today
after Doughboys in the same sector
smashed five fierce Communist
counterattacks.
The Reds were being chased into
an unchartered mountain wilder
ness.
"We have broken their main line
of resistance,” said Col. William
R. Quinn, commander of the U. S.
Seventh Division regiment that
broke through the Reds on the East
West Highway from Pangnfm to
Wonju.
"But we’re not letting them rest,”
he told A. P. Correspondent Tom
Stone. “We’re going in after them,
and we're going to sweep them out
if the hills and the valleys and
caves.”
Quinn said his riflemen and ar
tillerymen were taking “a terrific
toll” of the enemy.
All along the Central warfront
UN forces moved ahead steadily but
cautiously.
GRONROOS APPOINTED
PLACEMENT OFFICER FOR
ALASKA NAT. SERVICE
Appointment of Harold B. Gron
ross as Alaska Native Service
placement officer was revealed to
day. The appointment, it was
itated, was effective Friday, Feb. 2?.
Gronroos was formerly the vet
erans representative with the U. S.
Employment Service, Department
of Labor. He has been a resident
of Juneau for the past several years,
a graduate of the University of
Alaska, and is the newly elected
president of the University Alumni
Association.
MRS. MORROW AND HER SON
RETURN TO ANNETTE ISLAND
Mrs. Robert Morrow and her in
fant son, Richard, born in Juneau
February 7, have left for their home
on Annette Island where young
Richard’s father is stationed with
Pan American World Airways. Mrs.
Morrow is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. K. G. Merritt of Juneau and
she and her son have been the
houseguests of her parents here.
FROM ANCHORAGE
J. L. Connor of Anchorage is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.