THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _
VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,633__JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1950_ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_PRICE TEN CENTS
AFL PLANS
FIGHT ON
H. BRIDGES
Expansion of Mis Unions in
Alaska to Be Taken Up
at Ketchikan Meet
SEATTLE, Oct. 16—(At—Strategy
to be used by American Federa'ion
of Labor unions in fighting any
expansion by unions in Alaska un
der the control of Harry Bridges
and the leadership of the Interna
tional Longshoremen and Ware
housemen’s Union (Independent)
will be discussed next week in
Ketchikan.
Evan M. (Ed) Weston, President
of the Washington State Federation
of Labor, will leave next Sunday
for Ketchikan, where the annual
convention of the Alaska Territorial
Federation of Labor will be held.
Weston said yesterday he will
discuss ways and means of combat
ting Bridges’ forces with Terrtor
al AFL leaders.
Weston’s trip is being made to
carry out a program prescribed in
two resolutions adopted at the last
convention of the Washington State
Federation of Labor in Tacoma
in July.
The resolutions pledged the State
Federation to support, the Alaskan
fight against Bridges financially
and otherwise.
IRON RING
IS AROUND
PYONGYANG
Allied Forces Center Chief
Attack on Capital City
of North Korea
(By the Associated Press)
Allied forces narrowed an iron
ring about Pyongyang, the Com
munist capital of North Korea, to
day. Military observers in Tokyo
speculated that the Korean war
could be over in a matter of weeks.
Elements of the U.S. First Cavalry
Division drove to Sinhak, only 46
air miles from Pyongyang, and the
South Korean First Division’s
spearhead, almost due north of the
U.S. troops, was only 40 air miles
from the Red capital Red troops
ahead of the South Koreans broke
into a run for Pyongyang.
The South Korean Third Division,
in the center of the peninsula, drove
from the east of Pyongyang and
was only about 60 miles away,
while the South Korean Eighth Di
vision took Koksan, 50 miles south
east of Pyongyang. On the east
coast, the South Korean Capital
Division speared north and captured
Yonghung.
(Continued on Page Six)
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
(Copyright. 1«SO> by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
I'J^ASHINGTON—Just as the ill
fated hospital shio Benevo) *nce
sank recently without lowerir.? a
lifeboat, the same thing could hap
pen to seven troopships which are
still equipped with cumbersome life
boat gear, almost useless in an em
ergency.
These troopships are plying the
Atlantic and Pacific today, cram
med with GI's going m Korea and
Germany, or with dependents com
ing home. In case of an emergency
they may not be as fortunate as the
Benevolence passengers who went
down within easy range of San
Francisco rescue boats.
These f ven trooj );hips carry
their libeboats cradeled in Navy
triplebank davits which don't even
meet the minimum safety standards
of the Coast Guard. It takes ship's
power to swing the davits with
any degree of speed. Yet ship’s pow
er usually fails in any emergency
serious enough to require lifeboats.
Though substitute handcranks are
attached to the davits, the mech
anism is too slow and cumbersome
to swing the lifeboats in position
within the 10-minute Coast Guard
time limit.
The troopships still using triple
bank davits are the Generals W. M.
Black, Le Roy Eltinge, W. G. Hann,
^Continued on Page Four)
LYNG LABELS GOP
GAINS REBUFF TO
GRUENING MACHINE
In a signed statement, just be
fore his departure lor Seattle, Sen
ator Howard Lyng, Democratic Na
tional Committeeman for Alaska
termed Republican gains in Tues
day’s election a repudiation of the
Gruening administration.
Lyng said, “I do not regard the
Republican gains in October tenth’s
general election as a defeat for the
Democratic Party. It is, rather, a
registered protest of the majority
of Alaska's voters against the man
ner in which the head of the pre
sent administration, federally ap
pointed Governor Gruening, has
been conducting the affairs of the
Territory in recent years’. Demo
crats, Republicans and independent
voters all participated in this vig
orous, Territory-wide rebuke.
“In this election, the Democrats
holding 6 of the 8 holdover Senate
seats from the 1948 general elec
tion, secured but 2 of the 8 Sen
ate seats in the general election, 6
going to the Republicans.
"In the House, in which the total.
24 seats, are filled each 2 years,
the Republicans captured 10 and
the Democrats 14 seats, a loss of
15 seats from the 19 held by the
| Democrats in the 1949 session,
j “The result of this election, in j
I my opinion, is a mandate from
the voters to restore the t,wo-party
system, and once and for all, rid
ourselves of the pro-Gruening, anti
Gruening basis on which our el
ections of recent years have been
conducted.
“The Democratic Party in Al- i
aska, for which I am a major i
spokesman, sincerely hopes that in j
the elections two years hence, it i
will be able to properly conduct I
its own affairs without any out
side intereference or attempted
domination on the part of any
federally appointed officials."
—
EYNG REVIEWS CHARGE
| In Seattle today responsibility for
! Democratic party setbacks in Alas
ka’s general election last week was
laid today at the door of the Terri
torial Governor in a stiffly worded
protest by the party's national com
mitteeman.
Lyng was interviewed this morn
ing by the Associated Press.
"Democrats, Republicans and In
dependent voters all participated in
this vigorous territory-wide rebuke,"
Lyng said in a statement which
broke in the open a controversy he
said has been going on within the
party for a number of years.
He said three of the Democrats
who were defeated for re-election to
the Senate were “hand-picked mem
bers of Alaska’s statehood commit-'
tee.” One was Victor Rivers, the j
chairman of the party in Alaska.
Lyng was chairman of the party
for four years before becoming com
mitteeman eight years ago. He is
a holdover Senator f“om the Norae
Seward region.
When interviewed here today,
Alaska born and raised Senator
Lyng said:
“The defeat of three of five of
the Democratic Senate candidates (
[ is especially hard as they also were
| members of Alaska statehood com
mittee. A further blow to our Demo
cratic party in Alaska was the de
feat of the chairman of the Demo
cratic party, a Senate veteran of
eight years and a member of the
statehood committee.
Korean War
At a Glance
(By Associated Press)
North Korea battlefrpnts: Four
prongs of Allied drive tighten ring
on Red capital, Pyongyang. U. S.
troops drive within 46 air miles of
capital. South Koreans 40 miles
away. Other South Korean forces
spear north on east coast 30 miles
beyond port of Wonsan.
Tokyo: Gen. MacArthur, back
from meeting with President Tru-;
man, says they discussed Far East,
particularly Korea, Japan and Phil
ippines. Military circles speculate
Korean war will be ended, except
for mopping up operations, within
matter of weeks after fall of Py
ongyang and chase of Reds toward
Soviet and Manchurian borders,
j Honolulu — President Truman
i works on ma|i foreign policy
address as world wonders just what
he and MacArthur discussed.
—-—
hoonah couple wed
j Arthur Andrews took Rosina
Greenewald as his bride at a cere
| mony in the Juneau Hotel Saturday
i evening. Both are from Hoonah.
U S Commissioner Gordon Gray
officiated. Alpha Boomer and Frank
i See attended the couple. ,
UNOFFICIAL RETURNS - FIRST DIVISION - GENERAL ELECTION -1950
Delegate Treas. Labor Com. Senators
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Juneau No. 1 .
Juneau No. 2 .
Juneau No. 3~....7..
Thane .
Mendenhall .
Salmon Creek .
Pennock island .
Wacker .
Douglas Bridge .
Ward Cove .
Hydaburg .
Lynn Canal ..
| Annette ..
I Re villa .
Douglas ..
Mountain Point .".. .....
Clover Pass .
Gravina Island 7
Skagway "..’
Wrangell . 77
Stikine ...V "’.
Ketchikan No. 1 .
Ketchikan No. 2
Ketchikan No. 3
Petersburg .
Sitka .
Haines .
West Petersburg .
Scow Bay .
Port Chilkoot .
Angoon .
Tenakee .
Baranof .
Chilkat .
Craig .
Klawock .
Metlakatla .
Gustavus .
Lisianski .
Yakutat .
Hoonah .
Mt. Edgecumbe .
Jamestown Bay .
Chichagof .
Kimshan .
kiukwan .
Windham .
Kake .
Bell Island .
Fanshaw .
Elfin Cove .
Yakutat Airport .
Hyder .
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DEWEY PICKS GEN.
EISENHOWER FOR
PRES. NOMINEE
NEW YORK, Oct. 16——Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey called yesterday
for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as
the Republican nominee for Presi
dent in 1952.
‘Tf I should be re-elected Gov
ernor and have influence with the
New York delegation, I would re
commend to them that they support
General Eisenhower for President if
he would accept the draft,” Dewey
said.
Speaking here over the NBC tele
vision program, “Meet the Press,"
Dewey again took himself out of
a third White House race in the
most emphatic terms.
He praised Eisenhower as “a very
great world figure, the President of
Columbia University, one of the
greatest soldiers in our history, a
fine educator—a man who really
understands the problems of the
world.”
Dewey Is running for a third term
as Governor after first denying he
would be a candidate.
EISENHOWER’S REPLY
NEW YORK, Oct, 16—<«—Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower said today he
was grateful for being proposed as
a Presidential candidate in 1952 but
his duty was to remain as President
of Columbia University.
His statement was guarded. It
did not appear to constitute a flat
withdrawal of his name as a pos
sible candidate.
Eisenhower’s statement came after
Gov Thomas E. Dewey said yester
day he favored the Supreme Allied
Commander in World War II as the
Republicans’ 1952 Presidential can
didate.
Eisenhower, now President of Co
lumbia University, said that his
future lay in his job at the Univer
sity. „ .
The General said he was grate
ful” and “complimented” by Dewey s
endorsement, but added.
“As for myself, my convictions
as to the place and methods
through which I can best contribute
something to the cause of freedom
have been often expressed. They
have not changed.
“Here at Uolumma University, I
have a task that would excite the
pride and challenge the qualifica
i tions and strength of any man."
Repeatedly in the past, Eisen
hower has spurned Presidential
booms in his behalf. But JJewey’s
outright bid for him to run put a
top GOP leader behind him for the
office.
Dewey, twice a candidate for
President himself, said he would not
run for the Presidency again, even
if he were drafted.
Eisenhower’s statement came
j shortly after Harold E. Stassen,
twice an unsuccessful aspirant for
the Republican Presidential nomi
nation, hailed Dewey’s support of
Eisenhower as “real statesmanship."
| Dewey’s endorsement came in the
midst of his campaign for a third
term as Governor.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Freighter Sailor's Splice sailed
from Seattle last Saturday.
I Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Wednesday, Octo
| ber 18.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
j Seattle Friday.
WEATHER RETORT
Temperatures for 24-Rour Period
ending «:20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau—Maximum, 45;
minimum, 37.
At Airport—Maximum, 48:
minimum, 34.
FORECAST
(Jonean and Vicinity)
Increasing cloudiness to
night. and Tuesday. Lowest
temperature tonight about 40.
Highest Tuesday near 46
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todas
City of Juneau—0.06 inches:
since October 1—3.86 inches;
since July 1—25.94 inches.
At Airport — 0.12 inches:
since October 1—1.40 inche
since July 1—20.74 inches.
Cordova Fishermen
Disaiiiliate, 3 to 1,
From Int. FAWA
SEATTLE, Oct. 16—UP!—'The Cor
dova District Fishermen’s Union,
with some 800 members voted more
than 3 to 1 to disaffiliate from the
International Fishermen and Al
lied Workers of America, it is re
ported.
IFAWA, which has become a di
vision of the International Long
shoremen and Warehousemen’s Un
ion, headed by Harry Bridges, re
cently was expelled from the Na
tional CIO along with the ILWU.
Other affiliates of IFAWA have
voted recently to disaffiliate at
Astoria, Ore., Bellingham and Ab
erdeen, and at Bristol Bay, Juneau
and Copper River, Alaska. The Al
aska Fishermen's Union, largest af
filiate of IFAWA with more than
5,000, also has voted to disaffiliate.
The Cordova fishermen voted to
withdraw during a 90-day referen
dum conducted among members.
MANSON BAND PLAYS TO
BIG CROWD AT ELKS'
PURPLE BUBBLE BALL
High spot of the weekend was
the Elks’ annual Purple Bubble Ball,
held Saturday night at the Elks’
ballroom.
First formal affair of the season,
the ball was attended by a capaci’y
crowd of more than 200 couples—
who danced to the music of Ju
neau’s newest dance attraction,
Lyle C. Manson and his orchestra.
As in previous years, the ball
room was decora’ed with hundreds
of gaily colored balloons, purple, of
course, predominating.
In charge of arrangements were:
Harold Fennel, James Brunette,
Carl Jensen, Gus Gissberg and Bill
Wade.
FROM TACOMA
A. V. Collor and R. W. Algeo, re
gistered from Tacoma and An
chorage are at the Baranof Hotel.
SENATORS ARE ON
WAY TO ALASKA TO
LOOK OVER DEFENSES
PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 16—UP)
—FDR’s old four motored "Sacred
Cow” flew out cf here yesterday
with three members of the Senate
Armed Services Committee enroute
to look over Alaskan defenses.
Aboard were Senator Lester C.
Hunt (D-Wyo), Senators Wayne L.
i Morse (D-Ore) and Leverett Salt
onstall (R-Mass.)
I "We hope to be able to bring
! back such a report of the inad
equacy of our defenses that we can
stimulate unusual interest on the
part of Congress and the Chief Ex- j
ecutive to get the job done,” Sen. I
ator Hunt said as he boarded the I
Air Force DC-4 here.
He said housing facilities at or
near the military establishments
in the Territory were on the survey
agenda. “It’s impossible to keep
men up there without living facil
ities,” he said. We never have let
them take their families. We are
! forcing them to go mere, unu im
mediately after their enlistments
expire they either get out of the
army or we have to bring them
back to the states.”
The first stop was to be at Elm
endorf Air Force Base near An
chorage, then to Kodiak, Seward,
Portage and back to Anchorage.
Then to Nome by air and to Ladd
and Eielson Air Fields near Fair
banks and stops at Juneau, Ket
chikan and Annette Island enroute
back here.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
102%, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss- |
Wright 9%, International Harvester |
131%, Kennecott 65%, New York
| Central 16%, Northern Pacific 23'.-,
U.S. Steel 40, Pound $2.80.
| Sales today were 1,630.000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in- i
; d us trials 227.47, rails 69.32, utilities '
40.53.
I ,
Truman, Mar Arthur Meeting
Highly Satisfactory; What
Really Happened Not Given
ONLY ELECTION
CHANGE IS FIRST
DIVISION HOUSE
With no more returns from the
Second, Third or Fourth Divisions
since those published Saturday, the
legislative picture remains un
changed, except for jockeying for
place in the First Division House of
Representative lineup.
The First Division, with 53 out of
59 precincts reported to the Clerk
of the Court, gives these unofficial
returns up to noon today:
Delegate: Bartlett (D> 4273; Pet
erson 1928.
Treasurer: Roden <D, unopposed)
4971.
Commissioner of Labor: Benson
<R> 3542; Kimball (D) 2395.
Senate (two to be elected): Nolan
(D) 3836; Engstrom (R) 3730;
Peratrovich (D) 3065.
House (eight to be elected):
Barnes (R) 3827; Hendrickson (R)
3087; Johnson (R) 3066; Locken
(R) 3047; Hope (D) 2971; MacKin
non (R) 2961; Metcalfe (D) 2901;
Gundersen (D) 2897; Jensen (D)
2779; Stewart (D) 2777; MacSpad
den (R) 2756; Smith (D) 2515;
Bartholomew (R) 2427; Peterson
(R) 2418; Coughlin (D) 2275; Har
ris (D) 2223.
Still unreported are Fun ter, Myers
Chuck, Kasaan, Point Baker, God
dard, Port Alexander.
Absentee ballots will be counted
October 24.
Leading in other divisions are:
Second: Senate, O’Leary (D),
Beltz (D). Ipalook (R) will probably
overtake Democrat O’Leary. House:
Laws (R). Madsen (D), Wells (D),
Degnan (D).
Third Division: Senate, Snider
(R), Engebreth (R). House: all
Democrats, McCutcheon, Scavenlus,
Egan, Conright, Kay. Carlson, Pol
lard. Gill, Republican, trails Demo
crat Pollard by 90 votes.
Fourth Division: Senate, Lhamon
(R). Coble (R). House, Stepovich
(R), Miscovich (R), Franklin (D),
Gasser (R), Wilbur (R).
STEEL WORKERS
ARE SEEKING AN
ADVANCE, WAGES
• -
If Demands Are Granted It
Means Price Raise in
Many Necessities
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 16—W)—In
dustry leader United Spates Steel |
Corporation and the CIO United |
Steel Workers opened negotia
tions today of the Union's demand
lor a wage increase.
Neither side commented as ses
sions goti under way.
President Philip Murray of both
the CIO and the USW headed the
union’s 37-man bargaining team.
Vice President John A. Stephens
led about the same number of re-’
presentatives of “big s'eel’s" six
steel-producing subsidiaries.
Murray and Stephens shook
hands and chatted pleasantly for
a few minutes before the bargain
ing session started in a downtown
hotel conference room.
U. S. Steel is the traditional bell
wether of the industry in wage
talks. If it grants a pay hike, other
steel firms—both basic producers
and the firms that turn the steel
into finished products—probably
will follow suit.
The amount of any U. S. Steel
wage hike would be reflected in the
prices of automobiles, refrigerators,
hairpins and everything else made
of steel.
Little doubt has been expressed
that U. S. Steel will make some
form of wage increase offer. The
amount of that expected offer re
maias to be answered.
Murray himself hasn’t said how
much he will seek for the steel
workers who now average $1.70 an
hour. Some sources have placed
the union’s demand at about 25
cents an hour.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Vic P. Gems, of Anchorage, is
staying at the Baranof Hotel.
KETCHIKAN VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Marshall of
Ketchikan are gu'ests at the Bara
nof Hotel.
HONOLULU, Oct. 16—(fl—Presi
dent Truman was flying back to
the mainland today to report on
his meeting with General Mac
Arthur on Wake Island which has
world capitals still puzzled over the
significance of that Pacific rendez
vous.
The President's plane "Indepen
dence” left Hickam Field, Honolulu,
for San Francisco at 6:28 a.m. (8:28
a.m., PST), and the "Dewdrop,”
carrying his top advisers, departed
five minutes later. The flight to
San Francisco requires about nine
hours.
Aides said the President is devot
ing extraordinary time and care to
the major foreign policy address he
will make in Snn Francisco at 8:30
p.m. (PST) Tuesday.
While he will preface his talk
with a reference to his conference
with General MacArthur on the
barren Far Pacific island as a move
to help the Far East find peace,
there has been no indication that
the President will elaborate greatly
on the Wake Island statement.
Conference Short One
The statement, signed by the
President and initialed by the
United Nations Supreme Com
mander. followed their less than
three hours talk.
Actually, the most important
phase of it was the hour Mr. Tru
man and General MacArthur spent
alone in the living room of a quon
set hut before they went into con
ference with military and diplo
matic advisers.
The statement gave no hint of
any far reaching new decisions such
as many had speculated might grow
out of the spectacular 14,000 mile
round trip flight.
In fact, one top White House
policy adviser said Mr. Truman pri
marily "wanted to talk to General
MacArthur face to face” about Far
East problems and added: “After
all, he had never seen the General
and thought he should."
Prepares Tuesday’s Talk
Mr. Truman will complete the
final draft of his Tuesday talk at
the Fairmont Hotel in San Fran
cisco where he will spend Monday
night.
He Is leaving immediately after
his talk so he can be back in the
White House Wednesday morning.
Mr. Truman was reported anxious
to build up strong American sup
port for the spending necessary to
keep defense appropriations moving
after the Korean emergency ends
and to rehabilitate and reconstruct
Korea as an example to all the Far
East that the United States and
its associates want only peace and
stability for the world.
That thought will underline not
only his San Francisco talk but the
one he will make to the United Na
tions Oeneral Assembly in New
York on Oct. 24.
Satisfaction Over Meet
Whatever others may speculate
about the Wake Island meeting, the
President and his advisers exude
satisfaction over its results.
And while Oeneral MacArthur
exuded less outward happiness as
they shook hands upon meeting and
departing, Presidential advisers said
the two world figures “got along
famously.”
8ome reporters thought Oeneral
MacArthur was impatient to return
to Tokyo to keep close tab on opera
tions in Korea.
The General himself, picked Wake
Island for the meeting when the
President suggested tnat scconu
World War hot spot or Hawaii. .
First Hand Information
Mr. Truman said in a statement
that he met the General to get "first
hand information and ideas from
him." He added, significantly:
“I did not wish to take him away
from the scene of action in Korea
any longer than necessary and.
therefore, I came to meet him at
Wake."
(Izvestia, the Soviet government
newspaper in Moscow, declared the
Truman-MacArthur meeting was
arranged to work out plans to ex
pand “American aggression” in the
Far East.)
Mr. Truman called the conference
“highly satisfactory.”
He attributed briefness of the
meeting to “very complete unan
imity of views."
Then he went on to say that he
and General MacArthur talked
about “steps necessary to bring
peace and security to the area”
with the view tQ withdraw U.S.
armed forces as soon as possible.
FROM SITKA
Paul A. Dupler of Sitka is staying
at the Baranof Hotel.