THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,774 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APR1L.3, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ~ PRICE_TEN_CENTS
American Troops Rolled Into Red Korea
LEGAL TEETH
PULLED FROM
TROOP BILL
Senate Leaders Beat Off
' Republican Sponsored
Stranglehold
WASHINGTON, April 3— (API —
Senate administration leaders pul
led their forces together today to
beat off an attempt sponsored by
Republicans to put legal teeth into
the troops-for-Europe resolution.
Yesterday, by a 49 to 43 vote,
the Senate changed the resolution
by adding an amendment of Sen
ator McClellan (D-Ark.i
The change, bitterly fought by
administration leaders, would sim
ply put the Senate on record as
opposing transfer to Europe of any_
more than four U. S. divisions
“without further Congressional ap
proval."
Thirty-eight Republicans and 11
Democrats voted for the amend
ment; eight Republicans and 35
Democrats voted not.
So as the resolution stood, it
would merely record the Senate as
approving President Truman's de
cision to send the four divisions—
about 100,000 men—to join Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Western
European defense army; and would
oppose future transfers without ap
proval from Congress.
Nicholson-Riggs
Wedding Date Set
For Fri., April 20
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Mr. and Mrs. J. T.! Nicholson to
day announced that the marriage
of their daughter, Miss Lois Vir
ginia to Mr. Donal'd W. Riggs will
take place Friday, April 20, at 8
pm., in the Northern Light Pres
byterian church.
The date had been changed from
March 30, due to illness.
Up until last week when she re
signed, Miss Nicholson had been a
stenographer in the Alaska Road
! Commission. Mr. Riggs is athletic
coach at the Petersburg High School
in Petersburg.
. All friends of the popular young
couple are invited to the wedding
and to the reception which will im
mediately follow the ceremony at
the Scottish Rite Temple.':
EDEN PROCHOfEP :•
Lt. Thomas E. Edeii received
| word today that, he had been pf?
moted to the'rank of captaih in the
Marine Corps Reserves. The ap
pointment is retroactive to January
1, 1949, according to the informa
tion from the 13th Marine Corps
Reserve District. Eden is an arch
itect with the Federal Housing Ad
ministration office here.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1981. Dj Bell Syndicate, Inc..
I^ASHINGTON.—Benny Butten
wiesser, U. S. Deputy High Commis
sioner for Germany, had a conver
sation with Chancellor Konrad Ad
enauer some time ago which illus
trates one of the most important
problems the United States faces in
Europe.
The new German Parliament had
scaled down taxes on wealthier tax
payers about a year ago, leaving
a proportionately heavy tax burden
on labor and white collar workers.
, The United States, which has the
right to intervene in certain af
fairs of the new German govern
ment, objected, and it was follow
ing this that Deputy Commissioner
Buttenwiesser had his talk with
Adenauer.
Showing him the high tax scale
prevailing in the U. S. A., Butten
wiesser argued that wealthy Ger
mans also must shoulder their share
of the tax burden.
Chancellor Adenauer replied that
he just couldn’t believe the United
States collected such high taxes.
If German taxes remained too
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Where Golfer Drowned
Air view of the flooded section on the south edge of Des Moines, la., where Mary Louise Cordingley,
Iowa women's golf champion, was swept to her death. The swift waters drove the car in which Miss
Cordingley was riding off the road at about the spot where the two billboards are seen in the left of the
picture. Boyd Chambers, driver of auto, was rescued by police from one of the trees in upper center.
Chambers car was traveling north (leftward). l/P! Wirephoto.
CAB POSTPONES
ORDER THAT HITS
ALL IRREGULARS
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WASHINGTON, April 3 —OP—
A 30-day postponement o| a pro
posed order limiting the number o£
monthly trijis irregular air carriers
may make between any two cities
was granted by the Civil Aeronau
tics Board yesterday.
The postponement was requested
by, Senator Sparkman iD-Ala) who
announced Saturday he plans to in
vestigate the proposed rulp. Spark
man. chairman of the Senate Small
Business Committee, said he wanted
to find out if the order would "force
a $60,000,000 a year industry out of
business.”
The CAB rule would limit irregu
lar lines to three round trips a
month between major cities, and
eight round trips monthly between
other points.
Amos E. Heacock, president of the
Aircoach Transportation Associa
tion, has opposed the rule contend
ing it would “strangle” non-sched
| uled car'ifrs. , , . ^ .
I The regulation was *to have DC-..
Icon* effective April 6.
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PNA FLItJ fWO
PLANES MONDAY
Pacific Northern Airlines carried
37 passengers in and out of Juneau
yesterday in addition to intraport
passengers, on two flights.
Prom Anchorage G. W. Whit
stone, J. E. Jackman, Mr. and Mrs.
Evans, R. R. Armstrong, Katherine
Gladiteter, Dick Cook, Karl Brun
stad, L. Freeburn, Ed Brehm, W. L.
Trayer.
From Cordova: Larry Johnson,
Herb Long, Rose Long.
To Anchorage:' Walter Berkland,
John Argetsinger, Linn Forrest,
Wiliam Brown, Thomas Brown, Lt.
Col. Hamilton, W. R. Hammer, J.
E. Budd, Webb Trimble, and George,
Pauline, Pat and Diane Sharrock.
To Cordova: Andrew Anderson,
Betty Blindhiem, John E. Gonseth,
Diane Redstone. Mary and Karen
/'Jelson, Mrs. Henry Weise, Bill
Egan.
To Yakutat: Mrs. Gordon Hurst,
Waunetta Leoine.
ON VACATION TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. George Kuhns left
this weekend on an extended vaca
tion trip to Chicago and various
points in Pennsylvania where they
will visit relatives and friends.
Mrs. Kuhns is employed in the of
fice of the Territorial Veterans Af
fairs and Kuhns is a local well
known salesman.
MRS. HEINEMAN HOME
Mrs. Julius Heineman returned
home on Pan American Airways
from a visit of several weeks outside.
She was a guest of her brother and
family at Tacoma.
When Moslems pray they face
toward Mecca.
Car Buried by Rock, Earth,
,
Found Crushed, But 2 Men,
Injured Are Found Alive
ILWU OPENS
WITH FIRE
BY BRIDGES
HONOLULU, April 3 —(£1— Harry
Bridges, Australian-born convicted
perjurer, defiantly charges the
United States Government is a big
threat to world peace.
The controversial labor leader
made his charges yesterday at the
opening session of his International
Long^.ftremen's , and Warehouse^
i^Sen's' ^ftiion contention. • i
Bridgfes has app&tflfed the' Federal
pvj-year sentence jim got on fl^nJ
Vlcfton of fakthif swearing he win
was a Communist. His union has
been ousted from the CIO on charges
that it follows the Communist party
line.
In a fiery keynote speech and in
an ILWU report which he signed,
Bridges:
1. Said the attitude of the Tru
man administration “appears to
much of the world as the greatest
threat to world peace.”
2. Denounced the Korean war
as a needless slaughter.
3. Assailed the Marshall Aid pro
gram, the Defense Production Act
of 1950 and the Peacetime Draft —
‘it’s pretty easy to send somebody
else’s kid to die.”
Today the ILWU got down to
the business of hearing committee
reports.
•
O WEATHER REPORT
• Temperature for 24-Hcur Period
• ending 6:20 o’clock this morning
• In Juneau — Maximum,
• 39; minimum, 30.
» At Airport — Maximum,
• 38; minimum, 34,
t
• FORECAST
• Mostly cloudy tonight and
• Wednesday with occasional
• light rain. Low tonight near
• 35 and high Wednesday near
• 42.
t
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hourr ending 7:30 am. today
• City of Juneau—1.73 inches;
• Since April 1 — 2 inches;
• Since July 1 — 59.95 inches.
• At Airport — .66 inches;
!• Since April 1 — .75 inches;
• Since July 1 — 37.01 inches.
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ANCHORAGE, April .c-W irr,
Workmen at,,p cphstruption project
near Valdez, 175 miles east of here,
dug slowly thyopgh debris coyenps
an automobile, buriyd by an earthr;
^ide.
|.,They chig sfyjpjg because the slide,
touched off by a. construction blast,
had smothered the. car under tons
of rock and earth from a hillside
bordering the road. There wasn't
much chance they thought, that
anyone in the car could have sur
vived.
Just as a shovel scraped the car,
the workmen heard groans.
They stepped up their pace, quick
ly uncovered the machine and found
Olaf Walhood. 48. and Carl Lawr
ence, 38, both of Valdez, miracul
ously alive in the crushed vehicle.
’ ppta,QIs said today the condition
! t)f Uoth( (nen was good despite serious
.tpiuriqs. " '
! 4jteb|iood was hurt internally, and
Lawrence received a brokeh collar
: bone and wrenched back. Both men
suffered from shock.
Workmen said the car was flat
tened to three and a half feet.
HOWARD DAYNAMED
NEW CORDOVA PNA
TRAFFIC MANAGER
Howard Day, who has been iri
the Pacific Northern Airlines here
for the past year, has replaced
Clarence T. Perry as traffic man
ager for PNA at Cordova.
Mr. and Mrs. Day with their two
children John and Sharon, moved
to Cordova over the weekend. Day
has served in both operational and
passenger sales capacities since
joining the Juneau staff. Day is
a native son of Juneau and his
friends wish him well in his new
promotion.
THANE ROAD BLOCKED
BY 300-F00T SLIDE
A Bureau of Public Roads crew
and equipment were working today
on a big snowslide that roared
down across the Thane road below
the city dump last night, Chris
Wvller, district engineer said to
day. The reverberation from the
slide was heard in Douglas and
Juneau.
The road area covered by the
slide is 300 feet long and Is from
18 to 20 feet deep. It is expected
that the road will be opened some
time tomorrow.
The state flower of Mississippi
is the magnolia.
STATEHOOD
OKEHEDBY
SEN. COM.
WASHINGTON, April 3. — Wl —
The Senate Interior Committee to
day approved statehood proposals
for both Alaska and Hawaii.
Senator O'Mahoney (D.-Wyo),
Committee Chairman, said he would
press for early action by the Sen
ate. In the last Congress the
House voted for statehood but the
legislation died in the Senate.
The committee approved the Ha
waiian statehood bill by a 9-4 vote,
the Alaska bill squeezed by with a
7-6 edge.
Both votes followed defeat of a
motion by Senator Butler (R-Neb)
to substitute his bill permitting the
territories to elect their own gov
ernor.
The Butler motion was defeated
on the same vote by which the state
hood bills were approved,.
Committee Vote
Senator O'Mahoney said the com
mittee vote was as follows:
Alaska statehood: For — Senators
Murray (D-Mont) McFarland (D
Ariz>, Anderson (D-NM), Lehman
(D-Lib-NY) Cordon (R-Ore), Ec
ton (R-Mont, O’Mahoney (D-Wyo).
Against — Long (D-La), Smath
ers (D-Fla), Butler (R-Neb), Ma
lone gR-Nev), Watkins (R-Utah),
Millillln (R-Colo).
Hawaii statehood: For — Senators
Murray (D-Mont), MrFarland (D
Ariz), Anderson (D-NM), Lehman
(D-NY). Long (D-La), Ecton (R
Mont, Cordon (R-Ore), Watkins (R
Utah), and O'Mahoney (D-Wyo).
Against—Senators Smathers (D
Fla), Butler (R-Neb), Millikin (R
Colo), and Malone (R-Nev).
Delegates Talk
j. in i.uniuuucc o avuuw uivwftssv
predictions of ultimate victory from
the two territory's voteless delegates
to Congress. ;l
“It) was a happy surprise,” Alaska
Delegate Bartlett told a reporter.
"A significant victory,” comment
ed Delegate Farrington of Hawaii.
Bartlett said he “would make no
prediction as td when or if the
Alaska bill will be taken to the
Senate floor for debate or vote.”
”1 anticipate,” he continued, "that
we will be confronted in the Senate
with the same type of opposition
that blocked the vote on statehood
late in the last Congress.”
Earlier Senator Butler (R.-Neb.)
said the people of Hawal have not
yet taken vigorous action to clean
out Communists.
His statement was printed In the
Congressional Record as the com
mittee met again tQ consider stater
hood tat Hawaii and Alaska.
Butler, the ranking Republican
member of the committee, is a lead
ing opponent of statehood for Ha
waii.
He included in this statement an
article from the Honolulu Star
Bulletin. The newspaper article
asserted that Ernest Arena had
been removed from Governor Stain
back's full employment committee
because he was one of the “re
luctant 39” who refused to answer
questions before the House Unam
erican Activities Committee in Ha
waii last year.
“Ernest Arena without any pos
sible doubt is or was a Communist
and the hearings conducted by the
House committee in Hawaii last
year proved that beyond question,”
Butler asserted.
“. . . His apointment is indicative
of the general laxity in the atti
tude of too many people in Hawaii
toward the whole Communist ques
tion.”
Major Chester E. Canine of
Washington, D. C. and Lt. Col.
Earl M. Hamilton of Fort Richard
son, are stopping at the Baranof
Hotel.
STOCK OUGfATION!
NEW YORK, April 3 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3, American Can
109%, American Tel. and Tel. 153%,
Anaconda 38 %, General Electric
54%, General Motors 51%, Oood
year 71%, Kennecott 72'4. Libby,
McNeill and Libby 0, Northern Pa
cific 32%, Standard Oil of Cali
fornia 44 %, Twentieth Century Fox
20%, Pound $2.80, Canadian Ex
change 95.12%.
Sales today were 1,220,000 shares
Averages today were as follows
Industrials 246.02, rails 79.36, utili
ties 42.13.
"Burning Faith" of Reiigion
Required to Prevent Wave of
Communism Says Truman
BIG FORCE
GOES OVER,
TEN MILES
Reds Massing Thousands
of Fresh Soldiers-Mac
Arfhur Jeeps to Front
By Associated Press
American troops rolled Into Red
Korea in force today along a 10
mlle front In the west.
Field dispatches said the crossing
was aggressive but‘cautious and met
only light resistance at the start.
These other highlights paced
Tuesday's war news:
/\ir — /uiicricttu onuic jew*
down thre^ Russian-type MIG-15s
and damaged three others in a furi
ous battle near the Manchurian
border. Other Fifth Air Force planes
pounded traffic-jammed Commun
ist supply lines in a day-long at
tack against the biggest Red troop
buildup of the Korean war.
MacArthur At Front
At the Eastern front — General
MacArthur Jeeped 13 road miles in
side North Korea on the East Coast.
He rode within 500 yards of the
main Red line north of Yangyang.
There he found South Korean
I troops digging in, confident and
talking only of attack.
At the Central front — American,
Greek and Thai (Siamese) troops
climaxed two days of heavy fight
j ing by winning a high ridgeline
| north of Chunchon and one mile
I south of Parallel 38. From the ridge
they looked into Red Korean terri
tory where the Communists are
j massing hundreds of thousands of
1 battle-ready soldiers.
Mortar, Artillery Fire
Chinese and North Korean Com
| munlsts screening the big Red
i build-up pounded the Allied soldiers
with mortar and artillery fire.
| On his return to Tokyo from his
[ 15th visit to the war front, Mac
Arthur said:
“The enemy’s weakness in the air
and on the sea and his lack of ar
tillery and heavy ground weapons
' is being beautifully exploited by our
field command (Lt. Gen. Matthew
B. Hidgeway)."
Big Red Massing
Intelligence sources placed the
number of Red troops massed on
the Central front at 441,000 or more.
Many are fresh or well rested.
They may be backed by twice as
many rear-echelon troops.
GOV. APPOINTS
2 NEW MEMBERS
TO BANKING BRD.
Gov. Ernest Gruenlng today an
nounced the appointment of two
new members to the Territorial
Banking Board. They are Harvey
Brown, Sitka banker, and Keith
Wildes, local well known insurance
agent.
Under a new law, which was in
troduced and passed as HB 107 in
the recent Territorial Legislature,
the banking board was increased
from three to five members con
sisting of the Governor, the Terri
torial Treasurer, Territorial Audi
tor and two other members, one to
be a banker and one a lay member.
Gov. Gruenlng made his appoint
ment from a list of candidates sub
mitted to him, in accordance with
the new law, by the Alaska Bankers
Association. They are subject to ap
proval by the next Legislature. Each
appointment is for a four-year term,
but in this first appointment it was
specified that the term of the bank
er member would be for four years,
until April 1, 1955, but that of the
lay member would expire April 1,
1953 with future appointments of
the lay member to be for the full
four years.
FROM HOONAH
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Douglas of
Hoonah are registered at the Gas
tineau Hotel.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Norah soheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 p.m., April 4.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle 4 p.m. Friday.
Denali from westward scheduled
. southbound sometime Sunday.
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By ERNEST B. VACCARO
WASHINGTON, April 3 —lA*!—
President Truman declared today
Americans need the "burning faith"
of religion to prevent a Communist
I tide of aggression “from sweeping
across the world.”
He also said religious principles
command a fight on organized crime
and vice.
The task ahead is “full of uncer
tainties 'and sacrifices,’ Mr. Tru
man said, “but we need not be
afraid if we have the faith.”
The President spoke as a corner
i stone was laid for a new $1,250,000
building for the 150-year-old New
York Avenue Presbyterian church
here. Abraham Lincoln was once a
pewholder in the church.
Mr. Truman said Americans can
follow their religious faiths “with
the same devotion and determina
tion the Communists give to their
godless creed.” Religion, he said,
must live in American hearts “as n
burning faith."
"Only such a faith — only a living
allegiance to such a faith — can
carry this country through the
trials which are ahea^ of it," he
continued.
Finds Daughter
Mrs. Arlene Martin, 26, of Philadelphia, hugs her daughter, Patricia,
; 5, in Los Angeles court, after a judge gave her the girl’s temporary
custody pending a hearing. The mother said her former husband
disappeared with the child last July when he began his annual
four-month custody period. Mrs. Martin pawned her Christmas
gifts for money to trace the child. </P> Wlrephoto.
KETCHIKAN HAS
PHENOMENAL RUN
SPRING HERRING
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Ketchikan had a phenomenal
herring run this spring and has
been able to meet not only local
i bait requirements but has been
| supplying cold storages in other
I towns. This was the report received
i in the local Pish and Wildlife S'er
I vice office this week and released
I today by Assistant Regional Dir
i ector C. Howard Baltzo. In the
| past few years herring have been
Increasingly hard to get and this
year's showing in the Ketchikan
area is of great importance.
Asked if the Pish and Wildlife
Service had an answer to this sud
den show, Baltzo explained that
it was due to an exceptionally fine
survival of spawn in the 1947
season. He said this was determined
by herring sent to the PWS biol
ogist in Seattle where the study
was made.
“The abundance of these four
year-old fish." Baltzo said, "shows
that the 1947 survival was greater
than all the other five years put
together, which years contribute to
the catch.” Herring have a natural
life span of about eight years. Balt
zo said that these four-year-olds
are furnishing 53 per cent of the
total catch. There is no change
in the herring situation in other
Southeast Alaska areas, Baltzo
concluded.
FROM KETCHIKAN
J. P. Valentine, member of the
Alaska Fisheries Board, arrived
here from Ketchikan Sunday to
attend meeting* of the board in
i session this week. He is stopping at
j the Baranof Hotel.
OFFICERS'SLATE
NOMINATED, BPWC
A slate of officers to present to
the Territorial Convention in May
of the Business and Professional
Women’s clubs was elected at the
noon meeting yesterday in the Ter
race room of the Baranof hotel.
President Lucile Stine presided.
Norman Banfield explained to
club members the status of the
fund which had been raised in the
community by club members for a
new reservoir at the Minfield home.
This money does not belong to the
Minnie Field estate. It was intended
to help build a reservoir to provide
an uncontaminated water supply
for the Minfield home.
Lucile Johnson was nominated
for territorial president; Edith
Moore, secretary; and Aline War
ner, Treasurer. As Miss Ruth Mc
Grew of Anchorage has been Fed
eration President the past two
years, it is believed the new Presi
dent will be chosen from this sec
tion of Alaska and probably from
Juneau.
To choose nominees for the 1951
52 officers for the Juneau club the
following committee was elected:
Virginia Post, Kay Nelson, Bertha
Elilnger, Sadie Billis and Annabelle
Mansfield.
GEORGE PARKS BACK
George Parks returned this week
from a two months’ trip to the
States and Hawaii. He reported ar
enjoyable trip to the Islands wrheie
he was met with a friendly spirii
and saw a number of Alaskans. He
noted that there is a great dea.
more publicity in Alaska on Hawai
than vice versa. •
Rubber is used as filling for some
j types of hollow airplane propellers