THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
" UALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,727
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1951
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Allied Tanks Chew Into Red Defense Lines
Aluminum Plant al
Skagway Is Urged
By Boyd, Barllei!
FREE TRIP,
HO TAKERS
IN HOUSE
Vole to Send Member to
Washington-lf They
Can Pick One
The House decided this morning
not to send a representative to
Washington, I). C. for the confer
ence on civilian defense.
A motion by Rep. Barnes to name
Col. J. D. Alexander the repre
sentative of the Legislature at the
conference was voted down 9-15
after some members expressed the
view that he should not oe encum
bered by such an appointment.
Instead, the House voted unani
mously to express its thanks to Col
Alexander for his appearance yes
terday and to request him to report
on the conference upon his return
from Washington.
A cagey game of "who’s going to
Washington” engaged the two fac
tions of the House of Representativ
es yesterday afternoon and ended
without a score.
It was to be resumed this morn
ing after both sides had had an op
portunity to perfect their play.
The House did decide, unanimous
ly, that it should send a representa
tive to a conference on civil defense
in Washington, D. C. The confer
ence starts February 12.
The two groups are so evenly
matched in voting strength that the
loss of a member during the week
or more required for the Washing
ton trip would be a serious handicap
to either side.
The informal nominations for
traveling representative went some
thing like this:
Rep. Barnes, (Republican) sug
gested it would be most fitting and
proper for Speaker William Egan
(Democrat) to go to Washington.
Speaker Egan (Democrat) said he
thought the head of the Civil de
fense Committee of the House (Rep.
Alden Wilbur, Republican) ought to
make the trip.
Rep. Stepovich (Republican) be
lieved they could spare Rep. Kay
(Democrat) for a week.
At that point Rep. Franklin,
chairman of the Committee of the
Whole, reminded the members that
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The Washingion
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1951, oy Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
ff ASHINGTON—An all-impcrt
ant debate is going on inside the
Pentagon. On its outcome will de
pend whether we keep on building
up a huge land army; also whether
we draft more married men and
have a continuing policy of drafting
18-year-olds.
The debate is over the basic mili
tary question of whether it takes
a big army of foot soldiers or a big
air armada to win a war.
Old line army men, led by Gen
eral Omar Bradley, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, together with
Gen. Lawton Collins, the Army’s
Chief of Staff, both favor building
a huge army, claim that final vic
tory will be decided on the ground.
The Air Force, on the other hand,
argues that we can never outnum
ber the Red hordes of Asia and
Russia; that our only chance to
win is to produce superior weapons
and airplanes. Russia, they claim,
can never bci whipped on the
ground. Her manpower reserves are
too limitless and the Russian value
of life too cheap.
There is a very honest differ- !
ence of opinion about this, and the j
men who differ do so not to pro- J
mote their own type of warfare but
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WASHINGTON, Feb. G —3— Dr.
James Boyd, Defense Minerals Ad
ministrator, told* a Congressional
Committee that the aluminum
shortage will continue until late
next year. He said the presently au
thorized 443.000 tons of new plant
capacity will meet military and pre
Korea civilian requirements of
aluminum by late 1952, barring all
out mobilization.
A decision will be made within
20 to 60 days whether to plan fur
ther expansion, he said.
Referring to a proposed new plant
in British Columbia, Canada, Boyd
said it would not be in production
in time to meet United States re
quirements.
Furthermore, he said he believes
that any additional production
should be developed in the United
States, rather than Canada, if at
all possible.
Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska)
asked the committee to urge upon
government officials that a hydro
electric project at Skagway, Alaska,
to produce power for aluminum
production be considered in prefer
ence to the British Columbia proj
ect.
Bartlett said the Canadian proj
ect would require United States
purchase contracts, while the Alas
ka proposal would require Canadian
agreement on the use of the waters
of the Yukon River.
An aluminum plant at Skagway.
Bartlett said, would be an economic
boom for the Territory. He added
that the site would be "just about
as immune from air attack as could
be found.”
Dr. Boyd and Bartlett appeared
before the House Judiciary sub
committee on Monopoly Power.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE
SILL INTRODUCED
IN HOUSE TODAY
Inspection of animals intended to
be sold in Alaska for human con
sumption and the licensing and in
spection of slaughterhouses in the
Territory would be required under
the provisions of H.B. 22, introduced
this morning by Rep. Amelia Gund
ersen.
The bill sets up certain stand
ards for slaughterhouses and pro
vides for inspection and licensing
by the Territorial Department of
Health,
The license fee for each slaughter
house would be $50 a year.
The Department of Health would
also be empowered to provide for
inspection, grading and stamping
of meats intended for human con
sumption and distribution in the
Territory, under such rules and reg
ulations as the department might
set up.
The Health Department would
also have the power to seize and
destroy any meat or meat product
sold or offered for sale in violation
of the act if such action is deemed
necessary for the preservation of
the public health.
The bill provides for a fine up
to $500 and imprisonment up to
six months for violations.
Wages and Hours
Rep. Carlson's wages and hours
bill came before the House in sec
ond reading this moraine and was
amended to exclude from its pro
visions “persons employed in the
production of any agricultural
product during seasonal operations
of not more than 16 work weeks in
a calendar year.”
An effort to move the bill to third
reading was defeated, as was an
attempt by Rep. Stepovich to have
the measure referred to the Judic
iary Committee “for study of its
legality only.”
Rep. Carlson objected to any
scrutiny ify the Judiciary Commit
tee as “stalling tactics.”
“Let the working people the bill
is going to benefit take the chance
that it may be declared illegal,”
Rep. Carlson said.
Before adjourning at noon, the
House set 11 a.m. tomorrow as a j
time to consider the House Rules
and Joint Rules of the House and
Senate, preliminary to adopting
permanent rules for the session.
EYES RIGHT — The “Princely Guard of Honor” inarches
past the reigning Prince and Princess in Munich's first pre-Lenten
carnival session in the German city's Loewenbraukeller.
5TH ATOMIC
TEST MADE,
LAS VEGAS
Windows Shattered as City
Is Rocked-White Light
Is Terrifying
LAS VEGAS, Nev. Feb. 6 —<A»I—
Windows were .shattered in this
Southern Nevada city today as twc
separate shocks from the fifth
atomic test in 11 days rocked the
city.
Police reported big show windows
in two automobile agencies splinter
ed by sound waves.
A window in a garage also
cracked.
Clete Roberts, Los Angeles news
commentator who saw the mid
Pacific atomic tests at Bikini,
watched today’s from the hamlet
of Cactus Springs, on the edge of
the government's 5,000-square mile
testing range.
“This was bigger than Bikini,"
Roberts said.
There were no reports of injuries,
residents having been forewarned
of the possibility of glass-breaking
shocks.
Windows Rattle in L. A.
In Los Angeles, some 300 miles
distant, windows rattled in resi
dences. and on the campus of the
University of California at Los Ang
eles, at 6:12 a.m. (PST) — 24 min
utes after the flash. Sound travels
about 1.000 feet a second.
Scientists have said that sound
waves might be felt as far away
as 1,000 miles if proper atmospheric
conditions were present to permit
the concussion to bounce off clouds
or air strata.
Television cameras picked up the
flash through a fog in Los Angeles
and relayed it to their watchers.
Shock “Worst Ever”
Las Vegas Police Capt. George
Thompson called today’s shock ‘the
worst yet.” Officers were on street
patrol because of an AEC warning
of danger.
The Atomic Energy Commission
would confirm only that a test had
taken place.
White Light Terrifying
The white light was seen in Oak
land, on the edge of San Fran
cisco Bay, where one witness des
cribed it as terrifying. Oakland is
some 450 air miles from Las Vegas.
An irregular sort of white cloud
appeared over the horizon to the
northwest, above the Frenchman
Flat area where the atomic tests
are being conducted. It was differ
ent in appearance from any seen
in the previous four tests seen and
heard here.
2 Distinct Shocks
Two distinct shocks were felt,
following about five and one-half
minutes after the now-familiar
blinding white flash in the pre
dawn sky.
The blast was No. 14 In the world
list of atomic explosions since the i
first in the New Mexican desert in ]
1945.
* Among witnesses of today’s blast j
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EARMARKED
FUNDS ARE
BILL TARGET
Senate Committee Re
ceives First Measure Rec
ommended by Auditors
By JIM HUTCHESON
The Territorial Senate received
'.he first bill today aimed at re
vision of basic Territorial govern
ment procedures in line with recom
mendations of a Seattle auditing
firm.
The bill, introduced by the Senate
| finance committee, would provide
for Legislative control over special
earmarked funds for schools and
for roads, airfields, and water anc.
harbor facilities.
They would come under control
of the Legislature through reversion
to the general fund, from which
the Legislature has to appropriate
all expenditures.
It was one of tne recommenoa
tions of Arthur Anderson Company,
which conducted the audit of Ter
ritorial office practices during the
past biennium.
Reciepts from the tobacco tax
md the school "head tax” now go
into a special school fund. Motor
fuel taxes and vehicle operators’ li
cense fees go into the earmarked
fund for roads, airfields and harbor
facilities.
Finance committee members ex
plained that the funds are then
expended as the department direct
ors or boards desire. Committee
Chairman John Butrovich (R
Fairbanks), who has been working
actively on the bill, said enactment
would mean every school house or
airport planned by departments in
the future would have to be in
cluded in the biennial budget for
the legislature’s approval.
The bill, however, includes a pro
vision for setting aside any parts of
special funds which the board of
administration feels has been spe
cifically committed to particular
projects. There are numerous
schools reported to be in that cate
gory.
A. M. Developments
The Senate saw these other de
velopment during its morning ses
sion:
A memorial to Congress, the Pres
ident and other Federal authori
ties, by Sen. Gerrit (Heinie) Sni
der’(R-Anchorage), asking suspen
sion of the annual $100 improve
ment requirement for mining claims
in Alaska due to "the present un
settled conditions in Alaska because
of the national emergency.”
A unanimous ”do pass” recom
mendation by the taxation commit
tee on Sen. Steve McCutcheon’s
bill to increase the cigaret tax to
5 cents a pack from the existing
3 cents.
$1 An Hour Minimum
A labor committee “do pass” rec
ommendation on Sen. Frank Barr’s
$1 an hour minimum wage bill.
Re-reference to Sen. Anita Gar
nick of her bill to restore indigent
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(RIPPLING
STRIKE IS
STILL ON
Some Switchmen Return
trom "Sick Call" But No
Big Break Is Seen
(By Associated Press)
Railroad switchmen returned to
work in many important centers
today but there was no general back
to work move.
Senator Humphrey (D-Minn)
said in Washington he had good
reason “to be optimistic a settle
ment of the rail strike may be im
minent.”
The crippling “sick call” strike
ended in the New York area.
Switchmen went back to their
jobs in large numbers at Philadel
phia. Boston, Washington, Balti
more, Chattanooga, Buffalo and
other large cities.
Stranglehold
But the walkout kept a strangle
hold on much of the nation’s war
geared economy.
The Defense Transport Adminis
tration took action to make sure
that highway truckers give mails
and vital freight first priority.
The DTA ordered motor freight
carriers to put demands of their
services from the Armed Forces,
the Atomic Energy Commission and
the mails ahead of everything else.
Trucks Get Freight
It said there has been a large
scale diversion of rail freight to
trucks because of the strike. All
truckers operating for hire under
either interstate or intrastate li
censes are affected by the order.
Although rail freight was begin
ning to move some places, the log
jam continued elsewhere.
War Supplies In Piles
Idle switchmen still let war sup
plies and other goods pile up in
Chicago's vast freight yards, the
biggest in the world.
Many other cities also noted no
back-to-work trend despite De
fense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson’s
plea to the workers last night.
“Creeping Paralysis”
Wilson told them their strike
could hurt the United States more
than all the Communist armies in
Korea put together.”
! Speaking with President Tru
man’s approval on a nationwide
broadcast from the White House,
he said a “creeping paralysis” of
the rail system was crippling the
country's defense effort.
Mail, express and freight em
bargoes continued.
Some 250,000 industrial workers
remained idle, including some 130,
000 automobile workers.
Layoffs threatened thousands of
other workers.
At the peak of the rail tie-up,
some 12,000 switchmen were off the
job. Their union, the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen, contends it
i did not authorize the walkout.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK. Feb. 6 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3 *4. American Can
108*4, American Tel. and Tel. 154,
Anaconda 41 'i, Douglas Aircraft
100*4, General Electric 54%, Gen
eral Motors 51*4, Goodyear 72 H,
Kennecott 76*4, Libby, McNeil and
Libby 9'4, Northern Pacific 35%,
Standard Oil of California 98%,
Twentieth Century Fox 23%. U. S.
Steel 47*4, Pound 2.80%, Canadian
Exchange 95.12*4.
Sales today were 2,360,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 254.64, rails 89.85, util
ities 42..39.
STEAMERMOVEMENTS
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle at 4 p. m. Friday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 p.m., Feb. 14.
Denali from westward scheduled
to arrive Sunday morning south
bound.
RUSSELL IN COAST GUARD
Marcus Russell, son of Mrs. Leota
Smith of Juneau, has left to report
for Coast Guard duty at Seattle
February 8. Russell enlisted in the
Coast Guard recently and has been
visiting at home awaiting to be
a signed to service.
Homeless Waif
A Korean youngster sits in the smoldering ruins ol his home in the
Suwon area after It had been destroyed by fire. Native water jars
are the only possessions recognizable in ruins of other native homes
in the background. <fft Wircphoto.
BIG DEFENSE
PROGRAM FOR
CANADIANS
t
OTTAWA, Feb. 6 Canadian
Defense Minister Brooke Claxton
announced in Parliament last night
a $5,000,000,000 three-year defense
program providing a 40-squadron
air force of more than 3,000 planes.
The proposed military expendi- ,
ture overshadows anything Canada
has ever known in peacetime. It
| amounts to more than a quarter of j
Canada’s World War II costs.
The program places the accent on
air power as Canada's major con
tribution to Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower’s Atlantic Alliance forces.
ROTARY OBSERVES
BOY SCOUT WEEK
! The Juneau Rotary Club observ
ed Boy Scout Week at Its regular
luncheon meeting this noon at the
Baranof Hotel, with Henry Harmon
in charge of the program.
Boy Scout Field Executive Ken
Ubbelohde gave a talk on scout
ing and its importance in build
ing for good citizenship, especially
in these times. He paid high com
pliments to the Rotary Club and
Harmon for the active interest in
scouting.
Among visiting Rotarians we^e
Alden Wilbur, chairman of the
Fairbanks Rotary Scout committee;
Phil Johnson of Fairbanks, member
of the Alaska Scout Council; Dan
Llamon, of Fairbanks, vice presi
dent of the Alaska Council; and
Ed Locken, also a council member
and active in scout work at Peters
burg. Other visiting Rotarians were
Marshall Crutcher of Kodiak and
Larry Johnston of Washington, D.
C.
Guests were Lyle Manson, Juneau
High School bandmaster, and Percy
Ipalook of Wales.
A Valentine party for February
17 in the Baranof Gold Room was
announced to begin at 9:30 pm
and is to be formal for the ladies.
Ted Hyder will be in charge of
the program for the luncheon meet
ing next Tuesday, instead of a
tentatively planned dinner meeting
to dedicate the Southeast Alaska
Traveling Library, which had been
postponed because officials of the
Sears-Roebuck Foundation, co-spon
sors of the project, would not be
able to attend at that time.
TRIP TO TACOMA
Mrs. Julius Heineman left Sun
day on Pan American for Seattle
from where she will go to Tacoma
to visit for the next month or six
weeks with her brother and his
family.
FROM PALMER
A. V. Burr of Palmer is stopping
at the Baranof Hotel.
STATEHOOD
BILL AGAIN
BROUGHTUP
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 The
Senate Insular Affairs Committee
will vote Feb. 20 whether to report
the Hawaii and Alaska Statehood
bills without hearings.
Chairman O’Mahoney (D-Wyo)
announced this today after a closed
door meeting of the committee.
Both Statehood bills were passed
by the House last year and approv
ed by the committee last year after
hearings but the Senate did not act
on them.
O’Mahoney has said he favors
acting on the two measures this
year on the basis of the previous
hearings.
Senator Butler (R-Neb), who last
year opposed statehood for both
territories, has said he wants a
committee hearing in Alaska.
Whites Objections
O’Mahoney disclosed today receipt
of a telegram from Albert White,
general counsel of the Republican
party in Alaska, objecting to pro
visions of the Alaska bill relating
to election of delegates to a consti
tutional convention,
White said Alaska Republicans
are against election of delegates on
a non-partisan basis.
He also protested the proposed
apportionment of 10 delegates out
of the total of 31 to the populous
Third Judicial Division.
"This appears,” White said in his
telegram, "to be an effort to stack
the convention in favor of the Third
Judicial Division most of the popu
lation of which are newcomers and
a large percentage of whom are
transients and whose votes are con
sistently Democratic."
The bill provides for nine dele
dates to be elected at large and 10
from the Third Division, which in
cludes the city of Anchorage.
LEGISLATURE TAKES
RECESS, RESPECT OF
FORMER LEGISLATOR
Both houses of the Legislature
adjourned at noon in respect to Joe
Green, former representative and
senator whose funeral was being
held this afternoon.
Members of both houses sent
floral tributes. Rep. Amelia Gund
ersen in the House and Howard
Lyng and Elton Engstrom in the
Senate suggested an afternoon re
cess so members could attend the
funeral.
FROM SITKA
George Beacom of Sitka is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
WRANGELL VISITOR
Neil Grant of Wrangell is at the
Baranof Hotel.
FIERY PATH
PAVED FOR
UN ATTACKS
Chinese for First Time
Throw Tanks Info Battle
for New Offensive
(By Associated Press)
Allied tank columns chewed into
the main Red defense lines south
of Parallel 38 today and ground
ahead against Chinese resistence
that stiffened with the dawn of
their Lunar New Year.
United Nations air, naval and
artillery barrages paved a fiery path
for the attacks. Allied foot soldiers
slogging behind the tanks wiped out
nests of Reds.
The Chinese threw tanks into the
battle for the first time in this
phase of the Korean war. They
rushed reinforcements south from
Seoul over a plank bridge spanning
the Han River. There were indica
tions that this was the big effort
to salute the outset of the new
“Year of the Rabbit.”
On the Western front a daylong
battle raged northwest and north
east of Anyang, a town nearly nine
miles south of Seoul.
On the Central front, American
troops blasted a hole through a Red
battalion on the Hoengsong-Hong
chon road. The South Korean regu
lars rolled through the gap to a
point only 25 miles from the old
i Parallel 38 border.
This was the northernmost thrust
of Allied Forces since they regained
the offensive in Korea 13 days ago.
A Tokyo dispatch said Oen.
Douglas MacArthur is believed to
have recommended to Washington
that Chinese Nationalist troops ba
used in Korea and elsewhere. "Else
| where” might mean a thrust against
I the Chinese mainland, to draw off
i the pressure in Korea. There was
speculation that spring would be an
advantageous time to employ Chi
ang Kai-Shek’s Formosan troops.
COL. ALEXANDER GOES
TO WASHINGTON FOR
CIVIL DEFENSE MEET
Col. Joseph D. Alexander, Ter
ritorial Director of Civil Defense,
leaves today or tomorrow to attend
A meeting on February 16 of all
state civil defense directors in Wash
ington, D. C. To be discussed at the
meeting are state civil defense legis
lation, bomb shelters, federal fund
ing program and matching funds
for civil defense activities, standards
for various civil defense equipment,
and exchange of information and
experiences to date amongst the
states on civil defense. Also to be
handled at the meeting is a dis
cussion of mutual aid between the
states and mutual aid compacts be
tween the states and provinces of
Canada and Mexico.
National Guard business will be
dealt with at the guard bureau
in the Pqptagon before and after
the civil defense meeting.
LOWELL FROM SEATTLE
John Lowell Juneau halibut fish
erman, returned on the Princess
Norah from a trip to Seattle.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures for 24 Hour Period
ending 9:20 o’clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum
17; minimum, 11.
At Airport — Maximum,
16; minimum, 7.
forecast
Clear and cold again to
night. Low temperature near
8 in town and from zero to
5 below in outlying areas.
Fair Wednesday. High after
noon temperature about 19
degrees.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 34 hours ending 1:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — None:
since Jan. 1 — 3.95 inches;
since July 1—41.94 inches.
At Airport — None;
since Jan. 1 — 2.25 inches;
since July 1—3025 inches.