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JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1951
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Egyptians
And British
Clash Again
CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 18—OR—Brit
ish and Egyptian troops clashed
yesterday along the Suez Canal and
the British seized the only bridge
crossing it. Two Egyptian soldiers
were killed in the fighting.
The Cairo newspaper A1 Mlsri said
that by seizing the bridge the Brit
ish had cut the canal area off from
the rest of Egypt. But the Arabic
newspaper A1 Xainan later said the
British had withdrawn from the
bridge—called El Ferdan—and that
Egyptian troops had resumed guard
duty in the area.
Egyptian censors held up news
of yesterday’s clash for 24 hours.
It started about 2 a.m., according
to the British version, and lasted
15 minutes. The Egyptian version
H was that resistance continued into
mid-morning.
Today in Cairo, a shouting street
mob of 2,000 demonstrated in front
of Shepheard’s Hotel, displaying
newspaper front pages carrying pic
tures of rioting at Ismailia and
Port Said. The mbb shouted anti
British and anti-Western slogans.
The pictures showed g. funeral
procession in Port Said Wednesday
for five civilians killed there, show
■ ’ed a dead Egyptian policeman ly
i ing in the street' at Ismailia and
other scenes showing British troops
in the streets.
A British army spokesman said
the Canal area was quiet again last
night and today.
It was the second successive day
the British had fought with Egyp
tians. They opened fire Tuesday
on rioters and looters at Ismailia,
where the Egyptian government
said seven were killed. The Brit
ish said they fired in self- de
fense.
But today the British moved to
ease tension at Ismailia, site of a
British army sub-command. Egyp
tian officials said the Britons agreed
to pull their troops out of the town
of 50,000 and leave it in control
of Egyptian police.
The British, meanwhile, were due
to complete today the transfer by
air of 3,500 parachute troops from
the Mediterranean island of Cyprus
to the Canal area where 40,000 or
* more British soldiers and airmen
already were on the alert.
Committee Reports
May Be Important
At Council Tonight
A few important committee re
ports are expected to be read at
* the regular weekly meeting of the
Junau city council in the chambers
at the -city dock tonight at 8 o’clock.
Some changes concerning the
Boat Harbor are being contem
plated, according to Mayor Waino
Hendrickson.
It is expected that the list of ap
plications for city positions will be
acted upon. The second reading of
the proposed ordinance changing
the time and frequency of council
meetings is scheduled.
AT THE GASTINEAU
David L. Stroebel, of Anchorage,
is registered at the Gastineauv Ho
tel.
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
(Couyrlght, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
Washington—There are some
interesting backstage reasons why
Republican Senators are so insis
tent that Guy Gabrielson resign
as chairman of the Republican Na
tional Committee.
One is a comparison between the
two RPC loans obtained by the two
chairmen of the Republican and
Democratic National Committee.
Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle’s
loan for American Lithofold in St.
Louis totaled $565,000—a relatively
small amount.
GOP Chairman Gabrielson’s loan
for Carthage Hydrocol was for $18,
500,0000—one of the bigger loans
granted by the RPC.
Gabrielson drew a salary and
fees totaling $201,000 from Carthage
Hydrocol during the period that
he was either Republican National
Committeeman from New Jersey or
Republican National Chairman. He
has been President of Carthage Hy
drocol since April 26, 1946, and did
not resign after he became Na
tional Chairman.
Boyle claimed he received a fee
of only $1,250 from American Litho
fold, though upon becoming Demo
cratic Chairman he sold his legal
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26 Carried
To Death in
Plane (rash
Airliner Hits Side of
Mountain on Vancouver
Island; Bodies Charred
NANAIMO, E.C., Oct. 18—OPI—A
Queen Charlotte Airlines plane,
laboring futilely at full throttle to
gain altitude, crashed into the side
of a mountain 10 miles from here
last night, carrying 23 persons to
their death.
The victims were 30 miles from
their destination at Vancouver, B.C.,
nearing the end of a southbound
400 mile flight from Kemano, when
the twin-engined craft hit the rocky
side of 5.000 foot Mount Benson
All those aboard except the three
crew members were believed to be
loggers and construction workers.
Charred Bodies Found
Owen Jones of Nanaimo, one of
the first to reach the wreckage of
the amphibious plane after a three
hour climb up the mountainside,
said six charred bodies were found
nearby.
“The others must have burned
up,” he said. “My God it was an
awful mess.”
Jones said what appeared to be
the hands of a woman were sticking
through a piece of fuselage, al
though there had been no report
that a woman was aboard. A red
sweater and a red slipper were
nearby.
"I don't think they’ll ever re
cognize anyone,” Jones said. "All
the bodies were intact but they
were all charred.”
Jcnes said the plane crashed about
100 feet below a bluff but there
i was another bluff beyond.
"If the plane had climbed the
| other way it would have been over
' the sea and safe.” he said,
j “The right wing was standing
straight up in the air, and there was
] one float but that was all that was
j in one piece.”
Accident Witnessed
The accident was witnessed by
Keith Price, operator of a power
i station near this city, which is 150
| miles northwest of Seattle.
Price said it was about 6:50 p.m.,
PST, when the plane circled his
station at an altitude of about 50
feet, veered west and narrowly
missed 130,000 volt powe;- lines.
Then, he related, the plane roared
at full throttle toward the mountain
in an apparent attempt to gain alti
! tude, crashing into the rocks at
' the 2,000-foot level.
Flames - Explosion
A sheet of flame leaped up and
a loud explosion was heard. That
was all.
Kemano, where the flight orig
inated, is the site of the Aluminum
Company of Canada development
in Northern British Columbia. Na
naimo is 30 miles west of Vancouver,
across Georgia Strait, and the plane
apparently was off course on its
regularly scheduled run.
The crew members were identi
fied as Doug McQueen, the pilot,
Jaginder S. John, first officer, and
Ray Williams, crewman.
The airline withheld names of the
passengers until relatives are noti
fied.
1 --
8 Candidates
Pass Bar Exam
Eight candidates will be admitted
as members of the Alaska Bar as
a result of the legal examinations
which concluded here yesterday.
Mrs. Gladys Stabler, wife of City
Attorney Howard Stabler, will be
the only woman admitted this
year.
Other successful candidates are
Thomas Stewart, Juneau: Charles
M. Gore, Ketchikan; Warren C.
Christianson, Sitka; Earl M. Greg
ory, John L. Rader and John D.
Shaw, Anchorage; and James A.
Von Der Heydt, Nome. Mr. Von
Der Heydt, commissioner at Nome,
will be the only practising attorney
in the Second Division. The Sec
ond Division District Court is now
without a judge due to the resigna
tion of Acting Governor Joe Kehoe.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle tomorrow.
Denali due southbound sometime
Sunday.
Freighter Luoidor scheduled
southbound at 7 p.m.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
Waterlronl
Tie-up Looms on
Two Coasts
NEW YORK, Oct. 18—WV-'Wildcat
dock strikers tightened their grip
on New York City piers today, as
rumbling of possible violence spread
along the waterfronts here and on
the west coast.
Apparently beyond control of AFL
longshore leaders, the strike leap
frogged to more docks in Brooklyn,
and virtually numbed the entire
Hudson river waterfront on Man
hattan’s west side.
Vital defense and commercial
shipping alike were severely crip
pled.
At Brooklyn’s big Port of Em
barkation, one of the nation's ma
jor shipping centers for military
supplies and troops, nearly 1,000
stevedores gathered on the streets
outside, but ignored "shapoup”
whistles.
It was the fourth Straight day of
the union-opposed strike, sparked by
unrest over a newly ratified con
tract.
As an aftermath to yesterday’s
episode when strikebreakers led by
underworld figure Anthony Anas
tasquia temporarily sent army base
stevedores back to work, the army
today banned any repetition.
Only four piers were reported
working in Brooklyn.
In San Francisco, a smolder
ing labor dispute threatened that
key city’s waterfront with its big
gest battle since the bloody dock
strike of 1934.
The west coast trouble stacked
up largely as a struggle between
New York's Joseph P. Ryan, presi
dent of the AFL International
Longshoremen’s Association (ILA),
and the west coast’s Harry Bridges,
§ resident of ijhe International
Longshoremen’s and Warehouse
mens’ Union.
Ryan announced here that he
was opening a drive to wrest control
of the Pacific Coast stevedores from
Bridges, his bitter left-wing rival.
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Seward Strike
jSelHsd; Cargo
Is Unloaded
SEATTLE, Oct. 18—Wl— Striking
longshoremen in Seward returned to
1 work today, officials of the Alaska
j Steamship Co., here were informed.
The dispute was between Local
! 82, International Longshoremen and
\ Warehousemen's Union (Ind) and
| the Northern Stevedoring and
Handling Co.
Cargo, much of it materials for
defense projects, was being unloaded
from the Square Sinnett, Alaska
* Steamship Co. vessel. Two other
I ships, operated by the same line,
| the John H. Quick and the Susitna,
were moved yesterday to Whittier.
Two other ships, the Victoria and
the Coastal Rambler, will now go
into Seward to unload, an official
of the steamship company said.
It was not learned here under
what conditions the men returned to
w'ork. The union had charged the
stevedoring company with hiring
men in violation of the contract.
The union’s international had urged
the men to return to work and
settle the dispute under machinery
of the contract.
Whooping Cough
Epidemic Strikes
Isolated Village
A distress call from the small
Kodiak Island village at Old Harbor
stating that 75 people had whoop
ing cough and two had died, took
the Coast Guard plane based at
Kodiak out on a mercy call yester
day.
A doctor from the Kodiak Naval
Air Station was flown to Old Har
bor 50 miles southwest of Kodiak.
A baby, Lucy Christensen, was
brought back to the Kodiak hospital
for further care.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU •
• At Airport: Maximum, 39; •
• minimum, 30. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Increasing cloudiness to- •
• night with northeasterly •
• winds 20 to 30 miles per hour, •
• occasionally reaching 40 to •
• 45 miles per hour. Mostly •
• cloudy Friday with light rain •
• occasionally mixed with snow •
• and northeasterly winds 15 •
• to 25 miles per hour. Low •
• tonight near 36 and high •
• Friday near 42. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• At Airport — None;
• since July 1—12:52 inches. •
• ••••»•!•»•
Children Lowered to Safely
As Flames Sweep Through
Fairbanks Apartment House
Thompson Is
Nominated for
U. S. Marshal
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — <>Pi —
President Truman today sent to
the Senate the nomination of Sid
ney J. Thompson for U.S. Marshal
for Division One of Alaska, suc
ceeding the late William T. Ma
honey.
Truman Is
MumbOver
His Plans
Won'! Disclose Whether
He'll Run for Reelection;
Platform of Taft
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — OP —
President Truman said today he
will not disclose whether he will
run for reelection until after he
completes the three major messages
he will submit to Congress in Janu
ary.
This was about the only definite
thing the President said regarding
his political future during a ban
tering exchange with reporters at a
news conference.
A report*- -old Mr. Truman that
Senator Tp" (R-Ohio), when an
nouncing his candidacy for, Uje Re
publican Presidential ' ’4 ’"on,
had said he would like ^ vMr.
Truman as his foemocratic Opponent.
“Will you accommodate Senator
Taft?” the reporter asked.
The President said he couldn t
answer that question now. He said
he had made up his mind what
he is going to do but he proposed
to pick the time of his announce
ment.
Asked whether he would like to
see Chief Justice Vinson run if he
does not make the race himself,
the President said he would answer
that question when he made his an
nouncement.
Another newsman asked what he
hought of Taft's pronouncements as
to what would be the three big
issues of the Presidential campaign.
With a grin. Mr. Truman replied
that he (the President) is against
sin, too.
Taft's Platform
Taft had said he hoped to be
elected on a platform pledging:
1. Restoration of pr'ogress “within
the principles of liberty rather than
the principles of socialism.”
2. Restoration of “honesty and
integrity" . in government with an
end to "corruption" and "influence
peddling."
3. A restudy oi u.s. ioreign policy
to halt the spread of Communism;
establishment of Korea as a free
country, and completion of the
arming of Western Europe to en
able it to defend itself.
Boyle Resignation
The questions switched to the
recent resignation of William M.
Boyle, Jr., as Democratic National
Chairman.
Boyle had been under criticism
from some members of Congress,
chiefly Republicans, in connection
with charges of Influence on gov
ernment lending, but gave his
health as the reason for his resig
nation. Boyle also denied there
had been anything improper in his
actions.
Mr. Truman declared emphatic
ally that Boyle resigned because of
his health, no matter what has
been said about his action.
He added that he had tried to
persuade Boyle to stay on before
the resignation was made public.
Slock Quotations
NEW YORK, Oct. 18—Wl—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%, American Can
117%, American Tel. and Tel. 158’-.
Anaconda 50%, Douglas Aircraft
63, General Electric 60%, General
Motors 52, Goodyear 47%, Kenne
cott 85, Libby McNeill and Libby 9,
Northern Pacific 58%, Standard
Oil of California 52%, Twentieth
Century Fox 23%, U.S. Steel 43%,
Pound $2.79%, Canadian Exchange
95.12%. „
Sales today were 1,450,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 273.51, rails 85.09, util
ities 46.45.
r
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 18—</B
—A three-week-old baby and five
other small children were lowered
to safety from windows of a burn
ing apartment house building yes
terday as firemen battled flames
inf sub-freezing temperatures.
Some 30 persons were left home
less by the fire in a two-story unit
of the Fairview Manor apartment
house project occupied mostly by
military men and their families.
One woman was injured. Mrs.
Ray Christian, about 50, was treat
ed for shock after firemen rescued
her from a smoke-filled room.
Firemen said a woman identi
fied as a Mrs. Ilall tied a three
week-old baby in a sheet and
lowered the infant to the ground.
Two more children, aged 3 and
5, followed by the same route,
then the woman slid down the
sheet herself.
One Air Foi^e officer, Capt.
George Boynton, former Belling
ham, Wash., Herald reporter re
cently recalled to active duty, ar
rived home from the Ladd Air Force
base to find his apartment in flam
es and his family trapped Inside.
Unable to enter the building
through (he dense smoke, he stood
on the ground outside his apart
ment window and caught his two
year-old daughter, Stacy, who was
dropped to him by his wife, Mich
aels, while she leaned out of the
i smoke-filled apartment. Then she
: threw out a mattress and drop
| ped to the ground unharmed.
Firemen said another Ladd Air
| Force officer, Capt. Delbert Smyth,
saved two children by dropping
| them from a second-floor window
j into the arms of a Catholic priest.
The fire apparently broke out in
' the basement and spread quickly
j up the staircase, firemen said,
i No estimate was made of damage,
confined mostly to the interior of
I the bonding.
Military
Appropriations
Bill Signed
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — (ifl —
President Truman today signed the
$56,937,808,030 military appropria
tions bill.
Largest amount ever glyen the
military in peacetime, it finances
the Army, Navy and Air Force for
the fiscal year ending next June 30.
Much of it will go for new arms.
Actually, the services will have
about $94,000,000,000 available — the
balance being carryover funds.
Eisenhower Has
Hopes for
Peaceful Europe
By the Associated Press
General Dwight Eisenhower has
wound up his visit with the U.S. 6th
Fleet in the Mediterranean. He
was flown today from the carrier
Franklin D. Roosevelt to Nice,
France, where his own plane was
waiting to fly him back to his At
lantic Pact headquarters near Paris.
At an AP news conference aboard
the carrier, Eisenhower declared his
belief that a strong, peaceful west
could live in peace with the Com
munist bloc of nations.
Two Juneau Men
Honored by Scottish Rife
According to word received by
Walter B. Hei%el from H. L. Faulk
ner. Deputy of the Supreme Council
of the Scottish Rite who is now
in Washington, D. C„ attending the
biennial sessions there, C. B. Hol
{land and A. A. Hedges of Juneau
and Marion P. Smith of Anchorage
were honored with the rank of
Knight Commander of the Court of
Honor.
At the same session K. G. Merritt
of Juneau was honored by election
; to receive the 33rd and last degree
! of the Rite which probably will be
i conferred next month at Portland,
i Oregon.
I
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• OCTOBER 19
•
• High tide 4:24 a.m., 14.5 ft.
• Low tide 10:05 a.m„ 4.6 ft.
• High tide 4:00 p.m., 16.1 ft.
• Low tide 10:46 p.m., 0.8 ft.
Compromise
Readied on
Tax Bill
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18— IP —
Senate and House conferees today
agreed on a new compromise $5,
691,000,000 tax increase bill. It calls
for slightly smaller boosts in indi
vidual income taxes than the mea
sure rejected by the House on Tues
day.
That change and several other
minor adjustments cut the estimated
yield $41,000,000 below the original
agreement. However, the two bills
are practically the same in most
details.
The Senate will vote first on the
new bill and action is possible late
today.
If the Senate approves it, the bill
will then go to the House.
Passage by both chambers would
clear the way for probable adjourn
ment of this session of Congress
on Saturday. *
Rep. Simpson (R-Pa) of the
House conferees, told reporters
the revised bill is “sure” to pick
up a number of Republican votes
in the House.
A combination of votes from Re
publicans and northern Democrats
defeated the earlier bill in the
House.
A joint Senate-House committee
settled on the terms of the new
measure in a two-hour meeting.
The bill calls for an Increase
of 11 percent in the tax on the
first $2,000 of surtax net income,
rather than 11V4 percent as pro
vided in the original compromise.
The change shaves from 20 cents
to $2 off the proposed tax increase
on single persons.
It affects all brackets, since every
one pays the first surtax rate.
Net loss from the individual in
come tax revision was estimated at
$68,000,000.
22 Arrested for
Fraud in Program
Of Gl Education
i*o?$, c«,i. SO' vTr"**e
FBI today announced the arrest ol
22 persons on charges of fraud
against the government in connec
tion with the GI educational pro
gram.
Fourteen arrests were made in
Miami, Fla., two in Detroit, one in
Dayton, O., two in New York City
and three in the Newark, N. J., area.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
identified those arrested as em
ployees, officials, and owners of
five vocational schools, including
the Berlitz School of Languages of
America, Inc., at Miami.
Hoover said the alleged frauds
total more than $350,000.
In the past 10 months, he added,
FBI investigations have resulted
in the arrest of more than 300
persons charged with veterans
school frauds totaling close to $1,
Ooo.ooo.
Russ Warplanes
Drop Bombs on
British Vessel
By Associated Press
Russian warplanes are said to
have made an unprovoked bombing
attack against a British merchant
vessel last September 14th near the
Soviet Port of Archangel.
The captain of the 3,500-ton
Berylstone, Leslie Gow, says the
Russians dropped thrpe bombs, but
none of them hit.
Gow disclosed the attack when his
vessel docked today at Belfast,
northern Ireland on the return trip
from Archangel. He and members
of the crew were interviewed by
British intelligence agents. The Ad
miralty and the British Foreign
Office in London declined immed
iate comment on Gow’s statements.
The captain’s account suggested
the possibility the Russian war
planes may have failed to identify
the approaching British vessel and
tried to warn her away from the
Russian port.
Delegate Flies
To Anchorage
Delegate and Mrs. Bob Bartlett
returned from Haines yesterday
morning on the Alaska Coastal
plane and departed for Anchorage
on the afternoon flight of the Pa
cific Northern Airlines. Delegate
Bartlett will return to Juneau on
November 8 when hearings will be
held on Indian land claims.
Their daughter Susan accom
panied her parents to Haines and
Skagway but will remain in Juneau
while her parents are In Anchorage
and Fairbanks. Susan is the
houseguest of Mr. and Mrs. John
Dirnond.
Federal Pay
Boost Agreed,
Conferees
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — —
Senate-House conferees agreed to
day on n bill hiking postal rates
by about $117,000,000 a year.
They took the House version and
thus threw out the Senate measure
which would have boosted first
class letter stamps from three to
four cents and increased airmail
from six to eight cents.
The compromise bill leaves the
three cent stamp and airmail rate
unchanged but dooms the penny
postal card. The charge for it will
be doubled.
The conferees also agreed on
a pay raise for about 1,500,000
federal employees which will cost
more than $400,000,000 a year.
The workers will get a 10 per
cent boost except that Individual
Increase will not be less than $300
nor more than $800,
Previously the conferees had
agreed on a $250,000,000 annual pay
increase for the 600,000 postal
workers.
The three bills are tied together;
there was an informal agreement
not to bring one to final passage
without the other two. The com
promise measures will be called up
for a vote In 'the House first.
Jessup's
Appointment
Hangs Fire
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — OP —
A Senate Foreign Relations subcom
mittee today voted against Senate
confirmation of Ambassador Philip
C. Jessup as a United Nations dele
gate. The vote was 3 to 2.
At the same time, the subcom
mittee voted 3 to 0 In favor of con
firmation of the other nine persons
toy Prrsjdenf .Triunan to
he delegates or alternates to the
UN. General Assembly meeting in
Paris next month.
The other nine Include Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Warren R.
Austin, chief of the U.S. mission
to the UN. and Dr. Channlng H.
Tobias of New York.
The subcommittee acted shortly i
after Tobias, a Negro religious
leader, had testified under oath
that he has no Communist sym
pathies.
The subcommittee had before it
a‘ House Un-American Activities
Committee file listing Tobias as
having been a member or associ
ated with 10 organizations cited of
ficially as Communist or Commun
ist-front.
The subcommittee’s adverse re
port on Jessup, who is an Ambas
sador-at-Large, and its favorable
vote on the other nine go now to
the full Foreign Relations commit
tee.
With adjournment of Congress
expected this week or next week
there is a possibility all 10 of the
nominations may not come up for
Senate action.
If there is no Senate action be
fore Congress quits, it would leave
the way open for Mr. Truman to
give recess appointments to the
same 10.
Weather Station
Plans'Postponed'
For Arctic Ice
SEATTLE, Oct. 18—MV-Air Force
plans for a seven-man weather
station on a drifting Ice Island In
the Arctic have been "indefinitely
postponed," the Post-Intelligencer
said today it had been advised by
the Alaska Air Command.
There was no explanation in the
terse announcement.
The ice Islands are reported to be
from 60 to 200 feet thick, much
thicker than the rest of the polar
pack.
A previous attempt to establish a
weather station on the ice was ab
andoned last March when six air
men were evacuated when the is
land began to break up during a
storm.
The newspaper also said the Air
Force reported it has "tracked”
a huge, drifting island across the
Arctic for five years. The island,
known as "target one," was first
sighted about 400 miles north of
Point Barrow. It now is reported
nearing Greenland’s northern tip.
It was described as about 10 miles
by 15 miles and irregular in shape.
FROM TEXAS
Celita M. Cales, of El Paso, Texas,
is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
I State Dept.
Change Is
Demanded
American Legion Con
vention Wants Complete
Shake-up in Leadership
MfAMI, Fla,, Oct. IS—The
American Legion today demanded
that the top leadership of the State
Department be replaced with "men
of unquestioned loyalty. . to the end
that confidence of all Americans
in the conduct of our foreign af
fairs may be fully restored.”
The action came after a bitter
and noisy floor fight on the resolu
tion and after rejection of a min
ority report which would have elim
inated all criticism of the State
Department.
The demand was approved by
voice vote.
J. Joseph "Jiggs” Donohue, dis
trict commissioner of Washington,
D. C., pleaded with the convention
not "to turn this into a political
convention.”
He praised the record of Secre
tary of State Acbeson—but when
Acheson’s name was mentioned
there was a chorus of boos which
drowned out the speakers words.
The resolution said In part:
"We demand the Immediate re
moval of the present corps of lead
ers whose every action has reflect
ed Incompetency, Indecision and de
featism.”
The resolution named no names,
but left no doubt the Legion was
referring not only to Secretary of
State Acheson but also his top
lieutenants.
A minority of the Legion Foreign
Relations committee—from Color
ado. Kentucky and the District of
Columbia—tried to substitute a
minority report which, would have
struck out all criticism of the State
Department,
Urging a harder-hitting war
against the Reds, another resolution
said:
• “We mgulm ■ Uwteur
government ofce every prrsirfMr
means to bring the Kansan war to
speedy and successful conclusion.”
General Douglas MacArthur had
called for a greater military effort
in Korea and had accused the Ttu*
man administration of holding back
military power which would end
the war.
MacArthur Chai es
On Formosa Point
Denied by Truman
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — —
President Truman said today Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's charge that
his opposition "wrecked the secret
plan" to let Formosa (all to the
Chinese Reds was not based on
fact and the general knew it.
Mr. Truman’s comment was In
reply to questions at his news con
(crence.
MacArthur made his assertion in
a speech to the American Legion
convention in Miami yesterday.
The general said, too. that the plan
ilso would have given Red China a
cat in the United Nations.
When reporters brought up the
matter, Mr. Truman said brusquely
hat MacArthur's assertion was
not based on (act and the general
knew it.
M-K Low Bidder
On APW Project
in Ketchikan
Morrlson-Knudsen Company of
Seattle are low bidders for the
Alaska Public Works project at
Ketchikan to make street improve
ments and to install drainage fa
cilities on Third Avenue in New
Town. M-K's bid was $214,712. The
APW engineer's estimate made last
year on the project was $178,800.
Next lowest bidder was Berg Con
struction Company of Ketchikan
who bid $240,704. Kell and Peter
man of Juneau bid $269,692 on the
project. Awarding of the contract
will be made here In two weeks
according to John D. Argetslnger.
The street improvements will ex
tend six blocks and will open a new
area for housing. One 70 foot
bridge will be constructed.
FROM ANCHORAGE
H. Kenaga. a representative of the
Pfaff Sewing Machine Company is
in Juneau from Anchorage and at
the Baranof Hotel.
AT THE BARANOF
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Clark, of An
chorage, are guests of the Baranof.