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VOL. LXXVin7.NO. 11.814 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY. MAY 19, I'.l.ll _MBMilEK ASSOCIATED PRESS_PRICE TEN' CENTsJ
UN Forces Withdrawing __
CITY TO FILE
suit mm
INSURANCE CO.
The City Council of Juneau last
night authorized City Attorney
Stabler to bring suit against two
insurance companies and the Al
aska Industrial Board unless a
judgment in the efise of George F.
Martin is paid by next Thursday.
A total disability award was made
by the Industrial Board to Martin
in an amount of $9,852.10 which
has grown to approximately $10,000
with interest and other fees. Mar
tin claimed carbon monoxide poi
soning while a city employee. lie
later sustained other injuries which
he traced to the original injury.
Meantime the City which had car
ried insurance with Hanson and
Howland at the time of the mon
oxide poisoning, switched insurance
companies to the American Cas
ualty Co. Each company disclaims
liability and a judgment was filed
against the City for payment.
Hot Water for Water Co.
It was decided that unless the
Juneau Water Co. submits a satis
factory financial report as direc
ted, that the company's self-im
posed water rate increases will be
cancelled out. The contention was
that the water company should
submit utlity reports on the same
basis as those given by the light
and telephone companies.
• Meetings Every Thursday
On third and final reading an
amendment to an ordinance was
passed that provides for regular
City Council meetings for the first
four Thursdays of each month.
Boat Haibor Ordinance
A comprehensive ordinance rela
ting to the harbeima; ter and the
small boat harbor was passed on
first re|iding. It provided for rules,
regulations, powers of the harbor
master, registration of vessels, or
der and sanitation of the small
boat harbor and city float, except
in'.; the city dock. The matter of
rental rates to be included was
laid over until the next meeting.
Telephone Tax
The Council decided that the
telephone excise tax should be ab
sorbed by the Juneau-Douglas Tel
ephone Co. and should properly be
charged as operating cost instead
of being passed along to customers.
The City Attorney was directed to
investigate and write a letter to
the company to cease and desist
from collecting such tax from.cus
tomers. T^liis action, it was pointed
out, did not apply to the city sales
and service tax.
Small Boat Harbor Work
A bid from J. V. Cole for removal
of a portion of the present ap
proach to the small boat harbor
and construction of a new one with
City materials was accepted. His
bid was $6,418 and he promised to
begin work within a week which in
cluded painting of materials. Two
other bids opened and read did not
meet specifications.
Homeless Fire Ilept.
Mayor Waino Hendrickson an
nounced that a new lease for the
use of the present Fire Department
quarters was on the way trom An
chorage. A technical error in the
previous use permit almost caused
the Department to be homeless
again. The current lease permits
occupancy until October 31 of this
year. By that time it is hoped the
new Fire Hall will be available.
(Continued on Page Two)
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Hound
Bv DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. By Beil Syndicate. Inr
WASHINGTON.—President Tru
man is being ultra-careful about
writing letters these days—so much
that some of his assistants almost
get him into worse trouble trying
to protect him.
The other day word was noised
around tne Capitol that the Presi
dent had written a letter to Con
gressman John McGuire of Con
necticut jokingly offering him the
“Rosary Concession at the Vatican"
when and if the United States sent
a new ambassador to his holiness
the Pope.
There was an immediate furor
in Capitol lobbies. The President,
it was rumored, had put his foot
in it again.
Careful checking by this column,
however, revealed that though the
President had written a letter, it
was only a protective letter. Per
(Continued on Page Four)
Warren Proves
Angler Skill a!
Noose Creek
Proclaiming yesterday’s fishing
trip one of the finest he had ever
enjoyed, the scenery marvelous
nnd the relaxation “Just what I
needed,” Governor Earl Warren of
California and the party which en
tertained him at Taku Lortee. re
turned to Juneau this morning.
Arriving at the hospitable lodge
of Mr. and Mrj. Royal O’Reilly
Friday afternoon about 4, Gov.
Warren, and his secretary Max
King, Gov. Ernest Gruening and
Aide, Comdr. Ef. P. Chester. Earl
Ohmer of Petersburg and Clarence
Rhode, regional director and pilot
of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, were met. and welcomed
by Mr. and Mrs. O'Reilly and a
.small party of Juneau residents
who had been invited on the trip
and had preceded the Warren par
ly to Taku Lodge.
Those invited were Dr. W. H.
Whitehead, local physician and
surgeon and member-at-large of
the Territorial Board of Education;
Floyd Guertin, commissioner of
Veterans Affairs for the Territory;
Charles Goldstein, premi: ent local
businessman; Charles Herbert,Fred
Dunn, local manager of Pan Amer
ican Airways; E. L. Keithahn, cur
ator of the Territorial Museum;
Norman Banfield, local attorney,
and Hunt Gruening, pilot of the
Alaska Coastal plane which flew
the party up to the river.
Guv. Warren gave proof of his
•prowess as a follower ot izaak Wal
ton by catcning the flu. s; , trout
in the party. Pti'Siag was enjoyed
in famed Moose Creek until H
p.m., when the anglers returned to
the lodge for a real Alaskan din
ner of baked salmon.
Good fishing rewarded nc rrly all
of the party.
At 12:30 this noon Goy. Warren
was guest of honor at a buffo lun
cheon at the Governor's House
where approximately 30 guests had
the pleasure of meeting and talking
to the distinguished Californian.
He and Governor Gruenina, Max
King and Comdr. Chester were due
to lly to Anchorage in a C-54 Ar
my plane which will aho take them
on to Fairbanks Sunday. Gov. War
ren is to deliver the address of the
day to the\ graduating students at
the University of Alaska Monday.
PAY CONTROL
GATE OPENED
WASHINGTON, May 10 — ?! —
The Wage Stabilization Board yes
terday opened a broad gate in the
pay-control corral, and said:
“Sometimes it is harder to be
just than to be firm.”
The board voted 8 to 4. with in
dustry members dissenting, to al
low a 9-cent hourly pay boost for
220,000 packing workers.
The broad principles involved in
thus approving a wage increase far
in excess of the government’s 10
per cent raise ceiling seemed likely
to apply to other major cases facing
the board. These include a proposed
15 per cent boost for 50,000 ship
yard workers, 10 per cent for 100,000
Northern Woolen Worsted and Cot
ton-Rayon Textile Workers, and two
or more cost-of-living increases and
a proposed 4-cent hourly ‘productiv
ity” pay boost shaping up for 500,
000 automobile workers.
FUNERAL SERVICES
MRS. I.G. RADONKH
BE HELD MONDAY
Services for Mrs. Thomas G. Ra
donich, who passed away Thursday
morning at St. Ann’s Hospital, will
be conducted by the Rev. Paul
Prouty of the Presbyterian Church
at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, May
21, in the Carter Chapel,
Mrs. Lois Reedy will sing and
organ music will be played by Mrs.
Carol Berry Davis.
The four eldest grandsons of Mrs.
Radonich, Donald, Terry, Rod: er
and Jeoffrey Pegues, will act as
their grandmother's pallbearers
with Arthur F. McKinnon and John
Morrison, friends of many jears.
Interment will be in the Pioneers'
Flct in Evergreen Cemetary.
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SECOND ANNUAL
ARMED FORCES
DAY PARADE HELD
A drizzling rain marked the sec
ond annual Armed Forces Day
parade held here this forenoon.
The 10 units in the line of march
ers passed the reviewing ;tani in
front i > the Baranof hotel v.Tiii ■ : e
Juneau High school band played
directly across the street in front of
the Alaska Electric Light and Power
Co. On ihe reviewing stand were
Lew Williams, secretary of Alaska,
representing the governor’s office;
Col. Joseph Alexander, W O L. L
Busby and Capt. F. C. Wilson, Ala -
ka National Guard, and Admit al
Joseph Greenspun, Coast Guard
Seventeenth Coast Guard Head
quarters.
Units in the parade were; Co'or
Guard of the Alaska National Guard
land U. S. Coast Guard; National
Guard drill team as color escort;
U. S. Army, National Guard in
structor detachment; Coast Guard
Cutter S tor is platoon led by Ensign
i C ot: headquarters, Alaska National
'' Guard led by Maj. George Matson:
{ Headquarter Headquarters Serv
ice Co., 208th Infantry Battalion
(Sep), Alaska National Guard led
I by Lt, Col. D. N. Dean, battalion
J commander, and Capt. Lauris Parker
; commanding officer: the organized
j reserves; the Veterans of Foreign
j Wars led by Jim Brunette, post
j commander: American Legion posts
l of Juneau and Auk Bay led by Vern
| Harris and Herb Cantillion, respec
| lively.
I The Boy Seoul s assisted the Po
j lice Department in traffic control,
j The A.iaska Communication Sys
] tem manned a public address sys
| tem announcing the units In the
| pajRcW. ’
i open houses will be held this af
I ternoon as follows: Alaska National
j Guard headquarters in the .subport
I from 1 to 3: Alaska Communication
j System in the Federal Building
j and mile seven and mile 11 stations j
[from 2 to 4; and aboard the U. S.
j Coast Guard Cutter Stoiis from 2
| to 4.
A fair but small crowd, predom
inately childre*. lined the street on
both sides of the reviewing stand
to watch the parade.
E. J. O'Brien, manager of the
Baranof Hotel, pointed out to vis
iting members of the Tacoma
Chambei* of Commerce that trade
was a two-way street. At a dinner
meeting of the Juneau and Tacoma,
C! ambers at the Baranof Hotel last
evening, the hotel man stressed
that there was a potential market
In Juneau for businesses the Ta
comans represented but that tour
ism was part of Juneau’s potential
market and the two cities could be
of mutual aid to each other.
E. D. Thomson, tour chairman
lor the group, irivited coop, ration,
following welcoming addresses by
Mayor Waino Hendrickson and
Herbert S. Rowland, president of
the Juneau Chamber. Chamber
.'secretary Fred Eastaugh reminded
the guests that Juneau was only
:)40 miles from the Hazelton, B.C.
railhead and the closest large air
port that could be served by motor
truck.
Those in attendance were: Taco
mans Jack Richards, Thomson, Les
Bonn. Floyd Hanby, Lynn Faulk.
P. H. Tottler, Bob Munn, M. B. Lo
uan, Bill Wilson and Milt Gates.
Representing Juneau were Bill and
Marlin Fecro, Jack Clark, Jessie
McCrary, Bert and Mary Barrel’,
Mildred Maynard, Henry Green,
Roland Burrows, Bill McFarlane’,
Russell McGill and J. C. Johnston.,
rv Thatcher of Ketchikan was
also present.
Buildings Are
Splintered by
Vicious Tornado
_
OLNEY, Tex., May 19 —a
vicious tornado slashed through this
North Texas town of 5.090 killing
two persons and injuring 100 others.
It made kindling wood of 24 to
36 hemes and damaged more than
109 others. Several business con
cern.'; were leveled and many others
damaged.
Some estimated property damage
| at a million dollars or more.
TRIBUTE
PAID TO
MILITARY
Observance National with
All Forces at Home, Korea
Speeches Are Made
By Associated Press
In scores of speeches and a
play of flexing military musch 'he
nation today paid tribute to jU • ri
fled Armed Forces at home . on
the field of battle in Korea.
Eight of the world’s mightir
craft — the B-36 battleships rf ic
air — thundered over cit.i-. frc.
Atlantic to the Pacific and C-*
to Mexico. Ground forces mr,r<
while tanks and artillery cji.
beside them. The Navy put Its \ . i
ships on show.
In Korea, soldiers, sailors,
ines and Airmen battled i ri;i ■ to
hold back Communist "Mr : >n
while the military buildup d< a; u
.itrated at home is completed.
Truman’s Appeal
President Truman was th°
of over 100 government and t . ti
tary speakers at Armed Force:’*
gatherings. He made an appeal in
an address last night, for ns -t!
unity "in the midst of one e in.
greatest crises this country ha< t ver
faced."
The brief remarks by Mr. Ti : uv
and Marshall were broadca ■ iti
American and other United Ni , lv
troops in Korea end Japan. o
"You m..: lit vow '
here at home,” Mr. Truman admon
ished against the backdrop of tin
MacArlhur controversy, "you mu.
quit playing petty politics.”
Marshall said the military effort
in Korea has "dissipated the defeat
ism of a year ago" and has given new
life to the UN, the North Atlanti
Treaty organization and the Fit
World generally.
Today the Armed Services nr
playing hosts to the public. They are
holding "open hou ;e" at most of
their installations.
In the U. S. ports the Navy ha:
177 vessels which util be open to
public inspection.
Much of the newest military
equipment will be on display at some
of the celebrations. A Russian-made
tank, captured by U. S. forces in
Korea, will be among the Washing
ton exhibits.
FiSH TRAP CASE
CONCLUDED, NOW
EN COURT'S HANDS
Arguments and hearings were
concluded yesterday afternoon in
District Court before U. S. Judge
George Folta on the case of the
U. S. Government vs Libby, McNeill
and Libby on art injunction asked
by the government to prohibit a
Libby, McNeill and Libby fish trap
from fishing at Sukkwan.
The Government charged opera
tion of the tran was illegal on the
Hydaburg Indian Reservation, of
which Sukkwan is a part.
The court has taken the case
under advisement. R. E. Robertson
and W. C. Arnold were attorneys
for the canning company and As
sistant U. S. Attorney Stanley Bas
kin represented the government
and Interior Department.
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WEATHER REPORT •
Temperature for 24-Hour Period •
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
In Juneau — Maximum, •
48; mihimum, 42. •
At Airport — Maximum, •
50; minimum, 41. •
FORECAST •
Cloudy with light rain to- •
night and Sunday. Lowest •
temperature tonight near 42 •
deg. Highest Sunday near 50. •
Southeasterly winds as high •
as 25 miles per hour Sunday. •
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PRECIPITATION •
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.rn. today •
City of Juneau — .61 inches; •
Since May 1 — 2.C6 inches; •
Since July 1 — 70.71 inches. •
At Airport — .17 inches; •
Since May 1 — 1.63 inches; •
Since July 1 — 40.00 inches. •
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“Gloria,’ only !:i hours old, leans shakily on her mother’s protective
foreleg a: she looks out on wide world for first time at Ringiing
Brothers-Baroum Bailey circus in Boston, Mass. Tin birth was a, re
peat performance for “Edith,” the mother. l ive years ago in Boston
she gave I th (o a son, “Mr. Boston,” looking on from a 14-foot
altitude at right. “Gloria.’ named in honor of Hollywood starlet
Gloria Drew, weighed in at 40 pounds. Blarkie Barlow (left) meas
ured baby at a mere live feet. (If) Wirepholo.
WAGE BOOST,
R. R.
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A»CHORAGl Uaska, May IB—
'—(A5— The A!s Railroad Wage
Board, meeti: ■ v :h representatives
of five non-' mg unions, an
nounces wave :nr reases for more
than 1,600 employe of the road. The
wage h- is r ■ from 25 to 35
cents an hour.
The sc' * cit s - for the c boost -
for employe., working a 40-hottr
week; Those r uing $2.34 an hour
or less boosted 25 cents hourly;
.*2.35 to $244 an hour bcxt.sted 30
cents; $2.45 an hour upped 35 cents.
Increases also were provided for
seven-day employes, fire department
men and workers who receive room
and board and similar oompensa
tiori from the railroad.
The increases are retroactive t<
April 1.
PROPOSED CAMP FOB
CHINESE ALIENS UEJECTEI
MANILA. — .11 — Secretary o
Finance I’io Pedrosa has reject®
a {•/)]> ,.al to establish a-camp fo
housing aliens who have beet
ordered deported.
The Bureau of Immigration re
commanded the camp 0,1 th
around . ' ner < is ordered de
ported for violation of immigratio
laws are largely Chinese, who prob
ably would be persecuted if returne
to their native land.
Pedrosa said the governmer
could not spare funds for such
camp.
The Rev. J. Davis of Palmer 1
| at the Baranof Hotel.
[PEACE'
OFFER
Ml
Proposal May Come from
UN-Armistice Ta^k Also
Appears Moscow Papers
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.NASHVILLE, Term.. Mny 1!) — OPI
A United Nations peace offer to
Communist China may come very
soon, a . director .of the American
A s ociation for UN predicted last
night.
Clark M. Eichelberger did ci -
close the basis for his p- diction
He said he believe 1 a " mucus
peace offer" to end the is hung in
Korea is imminent.
Eichelberger spoke at a n etlng
of the Vanderbilt University Inter
national Relations club.
He said the war must n be ex
tended in the Far East and declar ed
present UN tactics in Korc are re
during China to “a weak nation,
incapable of aggression . . Inc.o
China and India."
REPORT IN MOSCOW
MOSCOW, May 13 Pravdt
and other Soviet newspape: c irri?
extensive reports today of n. Ed
win Johnson's (D-Colo) pri wal foi
an armistice in the Korean war o:
the first anniversary of it- i .tbrec.K
The date would be June 25
Pravda, organ of the Communis
party, quoted what apparently wa
the whole resolution and s ane ob
aerver* L «t -?.f t tUfE • i iHrttw. t*
the paper did so.
It was the first peace proposal foi
Korea coming from the United
States to be published in the Soviet
press for some time.
r0RMER JUNEAU
D IS
EH ANCHORAGE
News was received her? this week
of ilie death of Edwin Sweum, for
mer resident of Juneau, at Anchor
age on May 15.
Sweum was 45 years old and wat
proprietor of Sweum's Grocery a
Spcnard at tpe time of his passing
He was ill only a month.
Before i im to the wi ■ I ward 1.
years ago, he owned and operated
tlie White Spot liquor store h?rc
and had many friends who will re
gret hearing of his death.
He is survived by his wife, Ada
and three daughters, June, 19; Jo
Anne, 15, and Patty, eight months
The body is tsing sent to Everett
Wash., for burial under au pices of
the Elks dodge.
MYSTERIOUS LIFE
OF SALMON MAY BE
SOU® THIS YEAR
PORTLAND, May 19, P B;
;lo |;;ts hope to solve many of the
mysteries of the Chin1 ok salmon
this year. The answers tr, y help
continue salmon runs in these days
of dam-building.
Don McKernan, Ore >n state
,ime commission bio I , said
large numbers of the fit sterlings
marked since 1945 were returning
from the sea thus year n> spawn.
, By tne end of the se. he
; vets enough informatu n for the
i initial report in a stud;, o: salmon
to be written.
McKernan 'said 1,357 10 e In m
have been marked sin*. '5
i The information coh d veil
help determine survival . aichery
fish, the best size and for lib
eration, the take of < mercial
* fishermen and the numb t years
r salmon remain at. sea.
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SEATTLE VISITOR
Herman E. Wich of cattle is
8 stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
l BOB SLATER HERE
Bob Slatei of Faiib. . ks is in
i Juneau for ■ lew day s lie is at the
Baranof Hotel.
t .
a Capt. Floyd C. Nelsen of Bethel
is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
s Mrs. Emily Mowry of Pelican is
jut the Baranof Hotel.
y. I FORCE
IN BREAK
FROM TRAP
j Escape Cosls Reds 10,000
Killed-Terrific Fight
ing on Front
I?v Associated Press !
United Nations forces today con
tinued their withdrawal on the blaz
ing Central Korean front. A regi
ment of the U. S. Second Division
pulled back after fighting out of a
communist trap and killing an esti
mated 10,000 Reds.
The Division, illustrious for hold
ing tlie breach in many a tough spot
in Korean fighting, won high praise
from top commanders. It. was placed
'n Jeopardy when a South Korean
division to the east crumpled on
the first day of the renewed Chi
nese offensive.
Strong Red Attack
The Reds made a stab in the
west. A battalion of Communists
attacked South Korean troops
northwest of Seoul. It war, the
Wrongest attack the Reds have
j launched in this sector. The Com
' mimists also moved into tl«* abend
nod road hub of Uijongbu, 1! miles
north of Seoul.
The Second Division, supported
by French and Dutch units, fought
•iff entrapment Friday near Hangye.
55 miles northeast of Seoul.
Lt. Gen. Edward M. Alpinmi, com
mander of the U. S. lyth Corns
bailer! the Second’s latest stand as
magnificent."
Red Breakthrough
In new defense positions, a unit
of the Second today hurled bark
three Red assault waves. However,
the Red breakthrough on the di
vision's right flank has not been
plugged and Communists are
streaming southward in that area.
The fate of two Allied divisions
on this critical East front is un
known. An Allied officer told AF
Correspondent William C. Bar
nard:
"We are sure of nothing on oui
right flank.”
Air Force Killings ?
The U. S. Fifth Air Force re
ported it killed or wounded 7,900
Communists in the week ended Fri
day This is the biggest toll chalked
up by the airmen in the Korean
war.
Official estimates, showed the
Reds have lost 20.000 men so far in
their four-day offensive which U. S.
8th Army Commander Lt. Gen.
James A. Van Fleet says is doomed
to fail.
—a
Gen/ Coxey
Dies a! 97
MASSILLON, O, May 19 —UR—
General" Jacob S. Coxey died last
night, 57 years after his ragged
army of unemployed marched into
Washington and into the nation’s
history. •
He was 97. and he spent more than
two-thirds of that long life fight
ing for a losing cause — printing
press money the government could
use without paying interest to banks.
“Coxey’s Army” set out from here
tn the spring of 1894 on a 35-day
march to Washington. The objective
was to get Congress to use the easy
money method f' >r giant r^ad-build
ing program to ease the hardship
brought on by the panic of 1893. The
march failed.
But Coxey’s belief in the ideas in
pirlng that march never wavered.
Only five weeks ago on his birthday
he voiced once more his enthusiasm
for money reform as the answer to
'lie coun ry', economic troubles.
FROM HAWK INI.ST
C. B. Williams of Hawk Inlet is
at the Buranof Hotel.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise from Vancouver
due to arrive this evening Skagway
| bound.
Buranof from Seattle due some
| time Tuesday.
Denali scheduled to arrive from
westward at 5:30 a m. Sunday and
sails south at 8 ami.