THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,780 _ JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1951_ MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS .....PR1CE TE^ CENTf
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Night Spot Whing Ding Is Destroyed By Fire
Announce Wedding Date
‘ Mbs Alyce Chester, 34, and Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist, smile hap
pily as they tell newsmen in Oakland, Calif., that they will be married
Tuesday, April 10 at the First Congregational Church in Santa Bar
bara, Calif. Kaiser’s first wife, Bess Fosburgh Kaiser, died March
14 after a long illness. Kaiser said, he came to know Miss Chester
who was Mrs. Kaiser’s chief nurse and constant companion. t/P) Wire
photo.
MacARTHUR
KEEPS UP
HIS FIGHT
General Asks for More
Troops for Korea, Also
Greafer Authorify
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By Associated Press
The controversy over Gen. Douglas
MacArthtir’s recent statements boil
ed on three continents today but in
Tokyo the United Nations com
mander indicated he intends to keep
right on pressing for greater latitude
in the Korean campaign.
In a two-hour discussion with
Army Secretary Frank Pace, Jr., at
his Tokyo headquarters yesterday,
MacArthur is believed to have asked
for more troops and a freer hand
to wage war against the Communist
Chinese.
MacArthur has repeatedly railed
against Red Chinas "privileged
santuary oi. Manchuria” and in his
talks with Pace may have sought the
right to bomb Chinese supply bases,
Tokyo dispatches said.
Not Reprimanded
The supreme commander — crit
icized by Truman administration
supporters for urging use of Chi
nese Nationalist troops in a second
front against Red China — author
ized a spokesman to deny reports he
had been reprimanded for the state
ment.
Informed sources said MacArthur
stood his ground in his conference
with Pace on his publicly expressed
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The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. oy Bell Syndicate, Inc..
I^ASHINGTON.—For almost a
year the President and those
around him have blown hot and
cold regarding the most spectacular
military leader in the nation —
Douglas MacArthur. At times, as
when MacArthur barges into things
political, Mr. Truman has been on
the verge of fjring him. At other
times, as when he returned from
Wake Island, the President has
sung MacArthur’s praises.
The truth is that the administra
tion has a bear by the tail and
doesn't know how to let go.
Probably at no time in American
history has there been a compar
able situation between the White
House and a powerful, popular
military commander. ' The facts,
brieily, boil down to these:
1. MacArthur has been an active
candidate for President on the op
posite ticket from that of Mr. Tru
man, entered the Wisconsin prim
aries in 1948, and maintained
campaign headquarters at the
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ALLIED
TROOPS
ADVANCE
i Reach Shores of Hwachon
Reservoir-Reds Are
Using Mortar Fire
By Associated Press
Allied troops reached the southern
shores of the sprawling Hwachon
Reservoir today but heavy Red
mortar fire stopped them short of
the big North Korean dam and
hydro-electric plant,
j AP Correspondent Tom Bradshaw
reported from the Central front
battleground that the water behind
the dam still is about 200 feet deep,
i The Reds opened 10 of the reser
; voir’s 18 floodgates Monday in a
try to halt the Allied drive. But
water quickly subsided to near
normal levels in the Pukhan River,
reservoir outlet.
Reds on Dam
American units paced the Allies
assault on the dam. The Commun
ists fought back with a steady bar
rage of mortar shells.
Bradshaw said it was believed the
Chinese lacked the equipment nec
essary to blow the dam.
Red Resistance Stiffens
' Allied patrols met suueuuig ^ni
nese resistance on the Western
front. American and South Korean
probing units found the Reds well
dug-in. Americans advancing north
from Yongong withdrew under
heavy mortar and machine gun fire.
Gen. MacArthur’s communiques
said the Reds were trying to build
up their forces all along this front.
There was no ground activity on
the East front but Allied warships
pounded Communist supply dumps
and traffic routes.
Air Fights
In the air war, American F-86
Sabre jets bagged one Russian-type
MIG-15 jet fighter and damaged
another near Sinuiju in northwest
Korea.
• •
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperature for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau — Maximum, •
• 41; minimum, 36. •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 43; minimum, 35. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• Cloudy with occasional rain •
• tonight and Wednesday. •
• Southerly winds 15 to 20 •
• miles per hour. Low tempera- •
• ture tonight near 36 and high •
• Wednesday 43 degrees. •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau — .58 inches: •
• Since April 1 — 5.50 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 63.43 inches. •
• At Airport — .17 inches; •
• Since April 1 — 1.84 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 37.60 Inches. •
• •••••••••a
Prospects
'Good' for
Statehood
_
WASHINGTON, April 10 — MV
! Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) said
yesterday on emerging from a con
ference with President Truman,
that he had called on the President
! primarily to talk over statehood
for Hawaii and Alaska and that he
| thought prospects were "good” for
| passage of statehood bills for both
' possessions.
Cut It Out
Is Request
Of Truman
Business, Labor and Farm
Leaders Told to Quit
Playing Leap Frog
WASHINGTON, April 10, —MV
Business, labor and farm leaders
have an appeal from President
Truman to quit playing economic
leap-frog and team up against in
flation.
The President’s plea to his 17
member mobilization advisory board
at the White House yesterday was:
‘‘I’ve got to have the complete
cooperation of every segment of
our population.”
With that Mr. Truman asked his
new advisory group to face up to
two of his toughest mobilization
problems. The board is headed by
economic mobilization chief Cnarles
E. Wilson and has four members
each from agriculture, labor, busi
ness and the public.
One problem is what can be done
to change the defense production
act, expiring on June 30, to help
do a better job in controlling in
flation.
The other is the stalemate on the
wage stabilization board. It has
been inactive for nearly two
months since labor members walk
ed out in fury over mobilization
policies.
Mr. Truman hopes he can thresh
out his domestic mobilization prob
lems within the board and, by
achieving agreement there, get the
country’s support.
Kaiser Wedding
Is Event Today
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April
10, —lift— Henry Kaiser, 68, and
his late wife's nurse, Alyce Ches
ter, 34, will be married here today.
Miss Chester arrived here yes
terday for the ceremony. She is
assistant to the medical director
of Permanente Foundation, a char
itable trust established by the in-j
dustrialist and his wife Bess, who
died last month.
The Kaisers will fly to Miami,
Fla., after the wedding and honey
moon in Jamaica for two weeks.
BAR JAPANESE
FROM FISHING
SAYS CANADA
OTTAWA, April 10 —Ut)~ The
Fisheries Council of Canada said
today the government has been
asked to insure in any negotiations
for a general peace treaty with
Japan that Japanese fishermen be
banned from Canadian fishing
areas.
Making public a group of resolu
tions placed before the government,
the council, representing the Ca
nadian fishing industry, said that
if encroachment is allowed again—
these Japanese fishermen “could
virtually destroy our salmon and
other fisheries with resultant dis
astrous effects to the national
economy.”
The government must make sure,
said the council, that a fishing
treaty is concluded with Japan be
fore any general peace treaty is
signed.
Hunt for Plane (rash Victims
Air Force Air-Rescue members use part of the crashed Southwest airliner for a vantage point as they
direct search for victims bodies, near Santa Barbara, Calif. Ridge in the background shows the narrow
margin by which the plane missed going over the mountain peak to safety. Debris in foreground is ex
pected to yield most of the bodies when operations for bringing them out gets under way. Twenty-two
persons perished in the disaster. (IP! VVirephoto.
ELKS TO SPONSOR
FUND RAISING FOR
MUSICJESTIVAL
Local Elks Lodge, No. 420. has
asked and been given permission to
talje over the balance of fund rais
ing to send Juneau High school’s
band and choral group to the
Southeast Alaska Music Festival to
be held in Ketchikan, April 26, 27
and 28. The Elks will be in charge
of the ticket sale, advertising and
publicity for the annual spring con
cert to be held here in the high
school gym on April 20 and 21, pro
ceeds of which will go toward de
fraying the expense of transporta
tion of the 42 members from each
group who will take part in the
Southeast festival.
Sterling Sears, superintendent of
schools, said today that the Par
ent-Teachers Association had pre
sented him with a donation of $100
toward the project and the Juneau
Singers are contributing in the
neighborhood of $300, w'hich will
leave a balance of $1,200 to be raised.
Sears estimated that transportation
costs would be about $3,900.
Ticket sales by the Elks is ex
pected to get under way immedi
ately.
SPEEDING DRIVERS
WILL TALK TO JUDGE
Police today warded that speeders
would be picked up wherever they
are apprehended and are doing so.
Yesterday in Oity Magistrate s
Court four were fined on speeding
charges. Paul Marks drew' a $60
fine; Buck Jones, $42; Leonard
Trigg and Joe Barcheck, $20 each.
Speed limit as fixed by city ordi
nance is 20 miles per hour in the
city limits, except a 15-mile limit
on curves, grades, intersections and
where there is an obstructed view,
Chief Bernard E. Hulk said.
When passing schools during re
cess, opening and closing hours,
the traffic code cites 12 miles an
hour limit.
"Speeding is unnecessary and-not
only endangers the occupants of the
vehicle, but is a threat to pedes
trians and property as well.” Hulk
pointed out.
FILES FOR DIVORCE
George Wilbur Jones filed for
divorce today from Harriet Virginia
Rossiter Hayden Jones in U. S. Dis
trict ourt on complaint of incom
patability. The couple was mar
ried in Juneau on May 20, 1950. No
; property is involved. Plaintiff is rep
j resented by Robert Boochever.
Bridegroom-fo-Be Killed
April 7 was to have been the wedding day for Pvt. John L. McNeil
(left) of Beverly Hills and Betty Lou Pack (right) of Compton, Calif.
But there will be no wedding. McNeil, en route home from Fort Ord,
was one of 22 persons killed when a Southwest Airways plane crash
ed in the coastal mountains 23 miles west of Santa Barbara, Calif. UW
Wirephoto.
AMER. LEGION HEAD
GIVEN TURN DOWN
BY U. S. PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, April 10 —liW—
The White House said today it can
celled an appointment for National
Legion Commander Erie Cocke, Jr.,
because Cocke first publicly an
nounced what he planned to tell
President Truman — that he sup
ports Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s
controversial position on Far East
ern policy.
This eliminated the need for the
conference which had been set for
noon today, the White House said.
Presidential Secretary Joseph
Short told a news conference:
"At 10:30 yesterday morning, Mr.
Cocke called Mr. Connelly’s (presi
dential appointment secretary Mat
thew J. Connelly) office asking for
an appointment, stating he had just
returnod from Rome and wanted to
see the President before making
any statement to the press.
“A couple of hours later there
appeared on the news tickers in
terviews by Mr. Cocke in which he
informed reporters what hp was go
ing to tell the President. At that
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ASSISTANCE FOR
MINING COMES US’
NOW THROUGH DMA
House Committee Giver
Facts Regarding Loans,
Etc., by Dr. J. Boyd
WASHINGTON, April 10 —<if>~
The Defense Minerals Administra
tion lists 13 types of assistance avail
able to mining and minerals in
dustries under the Defense Pro
duction Act of 1950,
The possibilities include financia
assistance for exploration; govern
ment guarantees of private loan
for plant expansion and workini
capital; direct government loans
government purchase contracts
guarantees of floor prices for futur
production; accelerated amortiza
tion of capital investment for ta:
purposes; advances against futur
production, and construction of ac
cess roads with government funds.
A good many of the programs ar
not yet in operation.
Dr, James Boyd, defense mineral
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BILL RILEY
DROWNS IN
CAR WRECK
One man w.V drowned and an
other seriously injured when a car j
carrying five men went over the
embankment at the foot of South
Seward street and landed in about
eight feet of water at 12:15 this
morning.
William Riley, driver of the car,
was drowned. Spectators on the
Alaska Coastal Airlines dock watch
ing the Whing Ding night club fire
helped four men from the car. Upon
arrival at the hospital, Fritz Albert,
one of the men in the car, asked
where is Riley? It was then discov- j
ered that Riley had not been taken ,
from the car.
Artificial Respiration
Riley's body was taken from the j
car when it was pulled from the J
water by the wrecker truck from
Connors Motors. Artificial respira- :
tion was given Riley until 2:30 this J
morning by firemen but to no avail. J
Riley leaves a widow and two j
boys who live in Douglas. One of the j
boys attends school in Douglas j
while the other is attending school!
in the states. Riley had planned on ,
fishing this season as he had re
cently bought a boat for that pur- j
pose. Until six weeks ago he had ;
been employed at Alaska Electric i
Light and Power Co.
Five in Car
Others in the car at the time of
the accident were Les Hoisington.
Les Sowler, Fritz Albert, all of j
Douglas, and John Easley, Juneau, i
Hoisington was still under an oxy- |
gen tent this morning at St. Ann's
hospital because <jf salt water 'that
had entered his lungs.
The five men had attended an
electricians’ union meeting earlier j
in the evening. They had planned to I
have a steak dinner at Mike’s Place (
in Douglas before going home. In- :
formed of the fire at Whing Ding j
they were enroute to it at the time ;
of the accident.
Three Turn Overs
It was reported by one of the men :
that the car had been brought to a !
full stop at the stop sign on Wil- j
loughby. Tracks made by the car !
showed that the car had continued 1
across Willoughby in a wide arc. j
Easley said that he thought the
car turned over about three times j
before stopping.
The wrecker truck from Connors
Motors pulled the car from the
water. The forward part of the car’s j
roof was caved in almost even with j
j the top of the dashboard. The rear \
window of the car was the only one :
unbroken. The tide was coming in !
at the time of the accident.
ALASKAN WOMAN
rOX FARMER DIES
IN BOAT ACCIDENT
VALDEZ, Alaska, April 10 — Iflt—
An Alaska fox farm operator died
in a boating accident last week on
storm-swept Prince William Sound,
a survivor reported today.
She was Nellie McLean, who had
operated a fox farm on Baldhead
Chris Island for 25 of her 40 years
in Alaska.
John Maxwell, a companion on
the ill-fated boat trip, said the pio
neer was lost when the boat "Nell’’
wrecked last Wednesday night.
The body was recovered Saturday
from a beach five miles from her
island home.
Maxwell said he had anchored the
boat high on the shore during the
storm and attempted to cross the
sound in a skiff to get help. He
. was blown up on the beach and
spent the night in an old fox house.
The next day he renewed his at
tempt to get help and arrived at
Fairmont Island where he met Ly
I man Fletcher.
Fletcher and Maxwell returned to
the "Nell” in Fletcher’s boat and
' found the storm had snapped the
’ anchor line and broken the "Nell”
in two.
’ The two men searched the beaches
for two days before they found
, the body.
SEATTLE VISITOR
Gordon R. Wonder of Seattle is
. staying at the Baranorf Hotel.
. FROM ELFIN COVE
’ George E. Williams of Elfin Cove
j is at the Baranof Hotel.
RESORT GOES
UP IN BLAZE
LAST NIGHT
Fire Starts Near Heating
Unit, Spreads Rapidy
Heavy Loss Reported
Whlng Ding’s Inn, popular night
club on Douglas Island on the Doug
las-Juneau hlghv.ay, burned to the
ground last night while Wilbur Irv
ing, the owner; two fire depart
ments and many sightseers looked
helplessly on.
The Inn is usually closed on Sun
days and Mondays. Irving had left
the place at 8:30 p.m., and was in
9uneau during the evening.
The loss is roughly estimated in ;
excess of $50,000 and is moderately I
covered by Insurance. Curtis Shat
tuck, of the Shattuck Insurance
Agency here, said that an insurance
adjuster from Seattle would arrive
here today or tomorrow to make ;
final determination.
At 18 45 last Right Bill Forward
drove along the Douglas highway
and observed smoke coming from
what he thought was the chimney
of Whing Ding so did not report It.
Ten minutes later Bob Churchill,
of the Glacier Cab Co., was driving
to Douglas and noted the smoke
coming from around the chimney
and reported It on his cab radio to
the operator. The Juneau fire alarm
2-9 sounded at 10:55.
Irving, who was in the Baranof
hotel Bubble room at the time, was
notified by the desk clerk.
' 1 Start of Fire
The fire started in the basement
where the heating unit was located
and spread to Irving’s living quar
ters nearby. By the time Irving ar
rived the building was so hot there
wasn’t any chance to enter it in
an attempt to save anything. In
addition to loss of his personal be
longings and a newly arrived large
shipment of liquor stock, the en- i
tertainers, Mr. and Mrs. Royal
O'Reilly, 1,0st a $400 solo box. a
$600 ba."ii viol and a large,
priceless collection of .music, collect- j
ed and arranged over a period of
10 years.
The glow from the blaze at
tracted many cars bearing sight
seers which jammed the Douglas
highway and streamed steadily
across the Channel bridge.
Helpless to Aid
The Juneau Fire Department was
helpless with only 30 feet of suction
hose that would not reach the chan
nel waters over the long tide flat.
While no alarm was given in Doug
las, the Douglas Fire Department
water truck arrived at the scene BBt .
could do nothing.
Irving built the night ciud aDout
a year ago, doing much of the car- j
penter work himself and designed
special bracing in the structure to
withstand the strong Taku winds.
While the building was not com
pletely finished by July of last year, i
he opened and continued to work on
it days while entertaining guests
nights.
Those at the fire said that Irv
ing sat on a nearby stump and cried
while he watched his investm^it
and careful labor go up in smoke. j
Today Irving said, "I was thinking j
how long it took to build it and all
I put into it . . . and so quickly
it was destroyed."
STOCK OUGt’ATIONS
NEW YORK, April 10 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3, American Can
11014, American Tel. and Tel. 153%,
Anaconda 39%. General Electric
55%, General Motors 52%, Kenne
cott 74, Libby. McNeill and Libby
9'4, Northern Pacific 36 4, Standard
Oil of California 45%, Twentieth
Century Fox 20%. U. S. Steel 42%,
Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange
94.62%.
Sales today were 1,300,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 250.42, rails 82.18, utili
ties 42.50.
STUMER MOVEMENTS
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 p.m. Saturday.
Baranof from west scheduled
southbound Sunday morning.