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Dewey in Huff
Af Magazine on
Trip Finances
Publication Says He
Will Write Si* Articles
on 42,000-Mile Trip
Gov. Thomas e' Dewey, who left
Juneau yesterday in an Air Force
plane for Anchorage, is mad at
Collier’s Magazine for revealing that
“we helped finance his trip.”
The national magazine announced
that Dewey will write six articles
on his trip to the Orient and Alaska,
but refused to divulge how much
they would pay him. But Louis Rup
pel, editor, made the statement to
the Associated Press.
The North American Newspaper
Alliance, a news service in the
states, revealed the Dewey ire in
a story appearing in various news
papers dated Aug. 22, but delayed
in transmittal.
Met With GOP
No word has been received yet
on the New York governor’s trip
to the Interior. But late yesterday
it was revealed here that he met
informally with a small group of
Juneau Republicans to talk over
Alaska problems regarding politics,
economics, revenues, forest reserves
and matters pertaining to state
hood.
He seemed anxious, according to
Republican National Committee
woman’Mrs. A1 White, to obtain all
information possible concerning the
Territory. The meeting took place
shortly before he spoke before the
Chamber of Commerce.
Trip Details
In the n$eantime, details concern
ing his trip on the yacht Manana II
were learned by The Empire.
Accompanying Dewey to Ketchi
kan were Governor Gruening, his
aide, Capt. Don Morrison, Burke
Riley, administrative assistant to
Gruening and Paul Lockwood, Ray
I. Borst and E. M. Galvin of Gover
nor Dewey's party. They were flown
in a Fish and Wildlife Service plane
piloted by Regional Director Clar
ence Rhode.
A noon stop was made at Water
fall salmon cannery where the party
were luncheon guests of Mr. and
Mrs. H. B. Friele. Friele is vice pre
sident of the Nakat Packing Corp.
Also present was W. C. Arnold, man
aging director of the Alaska Salmon
Industry who after the luncheon
flew from Waterfall to Ketchikan
with the party.
Sees ’Em Canned
Governor Dewey was taken all
through the cannery, in full opera
tion, to show him how Alaska’s
salmon are put in the can.
Arriving in Ketchikan, Dewey was
taken on a tour of the town 'and
to Ward's Cove where the $40,000,
000 pulp mill will be established. Al
though Dewey did not appear to
speak publicly, he was guest of hon
or at a cocktail party at the home
of Ketchikan's mayor, George Beck,
and later attended a Smorgaasbord
at the Elks Club.
Dewey was presented with a case
of canned Alaska seafood, put up
by Charlotte Speegle in Ketchikan,
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TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Ed. Note — Drew Pearson, in
Europe for the launching of
friendship balloons behind the
Iron Curtain, has also picked up
some important reactions re
garding the vital problem of war
and peace.)
EN ROUTE THROUGH EUR
OPE — Europe today is a study
in contrasts — contrasts between
East and West, contrasts between
this continent and the U.S.A.
Here are some scenes which,
though I have left them, remain
vividly etched on my mind.
Scene 1—East Berlin: As you
walk behind the Iron Curtain
through the bomb-riddled city of
East Berlin you are struck with
the way Moscow has played up
the thing that appeals most to
men’s hearts.
nags are everywhere. And be
tween every German, Chinese,
Czech, Korean, Hungarian flag is
the blue and white flag of peace.
Atop every pillar also squats the
dove of peace a plump, dumpy
dove, a little too smug and self
satisfied to sit surveying the stark
remnants of what was once Ber
lin — but nevertheless a constant
reminder that the Soviet Union
supposedly craves peace.
And at the base of every pillar
are featured the international
words for peace—“paz—fair—paix
—beke—peace.” Over and over
again are repeated these words,
Shaggy Babe
At the tender age of two months, Joe Wayne Lewis of San Angelo,
Tex., had a head of hair that would have madv Samson envious. His
mother, Mrs. Mike Lewis, was far from pleased with her baby's
plunging sideburns. “He looks too shaggy,” she told barber Emmett
Butts, who is applying the scissors, while little Joe howls lustily from
atop a stack of barber toewls, supported by his father, Mike. IB
Wirephoto.
Juneau Light Company,
Started with Grocer's Water
Wheel, Expands Facilities
By KAY J. KENNEDY H
The Alaska Electric Light and
Power Co. has faith in the future
of Juneau. It has backed that faith
with the investment of more than a
quarter of a million dollars on the
expansion of its facilities to meet
increasing power needs.
Within the past year the company
has installed a new $77,000 Pelton
vertical water wheel, a $26,500 gen
erator, $77,000 worth of new pipe
running 1.500 feet from a penstock
on Mt. Juneau to the power house
off Willoughby Avenue, and a new
$5,000 machine bookkeeping system
in the uptown office.
New Diesel
Foundations will soon be laid for
the installation of a $180,000 Enter
prise diesel generator in the power
house. It will have 1,700 horsepower
and is expected to be ready for op
eration sometime in December.
At present there are over 5,000
meters in service covering the
area from Thane to Mile 11 on
the Glacier highway and in Doug
las.
The company employs 27 persons,
which represents a $12,000 monthly
payroll.
The early history of the company’s
beginning is as dim as a kerosene
lamp and does not seem to be pre
served in any records — in fact, it
is doubtful records were kept 60
years ago.
Under the dust or memories it
appears that sometime in the early
90’s Frank Thorpe, a butcher or
grocer on Gold Creek, rigged up
a small Felton water wheel to
generate electricity to light his
store and home.
His neighbors soon applied to get
on the line and Thorpe found him
self in the electric light business.
Bought Out i
It was in 1896 that four pioneers,
who had come to Juneau ten years
previously, decided to buy out
Thorpe’s plant. They were J. F.
Malony, Robert Duncan, A. W.
Corbus and J. P. Corbus.
William Corbus, a son of A. W.
Corbus, is the current president of
the company and resides in Menlo
Park, Calif. Miss Mary Corbus of
Los Gatos, Calif., is the daughter
of J. P. Corbus, and she is secretary
treasurer. John Malony, a son of
J. F. Malony, is on the board of di
rectors. There are 20 stockholders
in the company.
E. J. Margrie was manager from
1913 to 1918 when W. S. Pullen took
over until March of 1950.
Franz D. Nagel has been vice
president and general manager
for the past three years. He came
here from San Francisco, where
he had been an engineer with the
General Electric Co.
He is a graduate of the University
of Santa Clara and spent 2% years
in power and industrial work on the
West Coast, Hawaii, Guam, Bikini,
■and other Pacific Islands during
World War II.
Before Nagel took the position, he
visited Juneau first to see if he
would like it. He did.
Only One Here
The new Pelton 1,200 horsepower,
six-nozzle, vertical water wheel was
installed during the summer of 1950
and first placed in operation April
15 of this year.
It is a miniature of a huge 62,000
horsepower water wheel at Bridge
Rover, B.C., and is the only one of
its type in Alaska.
“It used to be that 85 percent
efficiency from a water wheel
was regarded as tops,” Nagel ex
plained, "but tests run on our new
wheel shows 89 percent efficiency.”
The company has two horizontal
water wheels of 600 horsepower
each. They were installed in 1914
and rebuilt in 1935. The advantage
of the new wheel is that it occupies
less space, saves on building costs
and permits more effective dis
charge of water from the buckets
to give greater power recovery, Nagel
said.
The 130-ton new wheel and gen
erator are housed in a small addi
tion to the old power plant. The
foundation was first laid, the wheel
installed, and the building con
structed around it.
New Switchboard
In 1949 a new switchboard was
installed at the power house at a
cost of $32,000. It replaced an old
open type board that was a fire
and electrical hazard and inade
quate to meet the increased power
load, Nagel said.
Studies show that the company
has gone as far as economically
possible with the Gold Creek de
velopment which operates from
April through November when the
power lines are switched over to
the Alaska-Juneau Alining Co.
lines.
The average stream flow is 127
cubic feet per second through the
machines.
A neat trick was worked out in
connection with the new steel pipe
that runs from the forebay of the
flume on the side of Mt. Juneau
to the plant on “Pipeline Alley."
"Nested” Pipe
In order to save money on ship
ping costs the pipe was made in
three sizes, 48-inch, 46-inch, and
44-inch, so they could be “nested”
for shipment.
There are 2,700 feet of flume from
the intake grizzly on Oold Creek1
by the Basin Road bridge to the pen
stock above Calhoun Avenue. About
200 feet of flume are now replaced
each year, Nagel said. Some of the
flume is over 40 years old.
Damage occur* annually from
snowslides, rock slides and bears.
Occasionally a big bear will walk
the flume and his weight will
break in an old section. In his
Ridgway Blisters Reds,
Leaves Door Ajar for
Continued Negotiations
Allies Blast Port
HacArthur Wasn't
Allowed to'Bomb
Rashin, Close to Russ
Border, Pasted by
35 Superforts
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Aug. 25—UB—
U. S. B-29s today, for the second
time in the Korean war, bombed
Rashin, Red supply port 20 miles
from Russian territory which Gen
eral MncArthur wanted to knock
out early in the war.
Thirty-five superforts hurled
niore than 300 tons of bombs on
Rashin <NaJln> in clear weather.
The Pas East air forces in Tok
yo gave no report of damage. But
it said 100-pound and 500-pound
bombs were dropped on the port’s
marshalling yards and railroad fa
cilities.
The superforts met no anti*
aircraft fire or enemy planes.
All returned safely to their ba
ses in Japan and Okinawa.
Almost 50 B-2Bs hit Rashin in
the first attack Aug. 12, 1950. They
struck by radar in heavy overcast
and dumped some 500 tons of
bombs on their targets.
Rashin, one of the best ports
on the east coast of Korea, is 110
miles southwest of Vladivostok.
Asked Permission
MacArthur testified before Sen
ate committees last May after his
removal as supreme Allied com
ffippdf!' thut Vt- rerwatedly asked
Washington in February or March
for permission to continue bomb
ing Rashin, but was denied it.
Defense Secretary Marshall
told the Senators permission was
denied because the port was so
close to the Soviet border.
"It was a question of the risk
Involved in an operation so close
to the Soviet frontier," Marshall
said, ‘‘and as to the question of
ships in the harbor and other
mishaps that might occur."
MacArthur described Rashin as
"the great central distributing
point from Manchuria down the
east coast of Korea.”
U. S. Navy panther Jets escor
ted the B-29s on Saturday’s raid.
Hit Railroads
The bombers hit a locomotive
repair yard containing a round
house and 15 tracks, an 18-track
storage yard, a 17-track marshal
ling yard capable of handling 750
cars, a six-track car repair yard,
a 12-track holding yard, an en
gine house, a car repair shop, a
central heating plant, two ware
houses and many smaller struc
tures.
in Diner air ntuuu ouiuiunj,
flashing U. S. P-86 sabre jets won
a 51-jet sky fight over northwest
Korea — the second Jet battle in
two days.
Twenty-one sabres damaged
at least one Red MIG-15 in
brief but aggressive action with
30 enemy jets near Sinuiju,
northwestern Korea border city
on the Yalu river.
Friday night 26 sabres tangled
briefly with 40 MIG-15s over Sin
anju, midway between the border
and the North Korean capital of
Pyongyang. The sabres shot down
two MIGS.
No sabres were reported lost in
either action.
Allied intelligence said large
numbers of Communist troops
were observed moving into the
old Red “iron triangle” of central
Korea on Saturday for the sec
ond straight day.
On the east-central and central
fronts Reds patrolled and fought j
fiercely for the second day in a
row.
Intelligence said they were be
coming increasingly sensitive to
Allied stabs.
haste to get away he will some
times tear up many yards of It.
Special Trucks
Arne Shudshift is general foreman
and is in charge of the rolling equip
ment which includes four especially
equipped trucks that "can do every
thing but talk.” There is a meter
truck, a line truck fully equipped
with the latest hoist and A-frame
to raise poles, two utility trucks
for wiring, and one flat bed truck.
One of the old steam boilers in
the plant which ifasn’t been used
since 1915 has been sold to Colum
bia Lumber Co., and the other has
been destroyed to make room for the
new diesel generator.
< V: ROBERT EUNSON
TOKYO, Aug. 25 — m— Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway today sent
a blistering message to top Red
conmianders in Korea and left it
up to them whether armistice
tallts would continue in Kaesbng.
The supreme Allied commander
said he was willing to resume ne
| gotiations, halted by the Reds,
ftut he rejected as “malicious
falsehoods" Communist accusa
tions that United Nations forces
ted Kaesong's neutrality,
s broke off the talks two
dayl ago. They demanded a "satis
facttiry" answer to their charge
thal a United Nations warplane
att&ked Kaesong to murder the
Red delegation.
“Utterly False"
Rtdgway's reply said the charge
was “so utterly false, so prepos
terous and so obviously manufac
tured’ that it did not merit a
reply.
The next step was up to tne
Communists. Ridgway's scathing
message gave them a hard choice.
The harshly-worded reply was
sent to Kim 11 Sung, North Kor
ean Premier, and Gen. Peng Teh
Huai, commander of Chinese Red
forces in Korea.
It was first broadcast over the
Armed Forces radio, then de
livered to a Chinese liaison of
ficer at the Red outpost of Tan
munjom, six miles east of Kae
song.
The last paragraph left the door
open — just a crack — for a re
sumption of talks.
"Reasonable” Agreement
Rilgway said “When you are
prepared to terminate the suspen
sion of armistice negotiations . . .
I witl direct my representatives to
meei with yours, with a view to
seekjlg a reasonable armistice
agreement.”
The Allied delegation, headed by
Vice Adns. C. Turner Joy, stood
by at United Nations advance
headquarters in Munsan,.ready to
go to Kaesong if the Reds give
the word.
Ridgway’s reply, in tone and
content, came as no surprise to
observers here.
They said he could hardly
apologize for incidents he had
already branded as “manufac
tured in advance.”
Nor, the observers added, can
the Reds accept the blast as the
•■satisfactory” answer they deman
ded.
It is possible, said the obser
ver*, the Reds will agree to con
tinue negotiations, and try to con
vince the world they are doing so
for the sake of peace.
Senate Group Lops
Tax Increase;
We Get 2 Options
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-J-W—The
Senate Finance Committee has lop
ped about $800,000,000 off the House
passed $7,200,000,000 tax increase
bill and still has several important
phases to consider.
The group agreed tentatively yes
terday to boost personal income
taxes by about $2,409,000,000 a year.
This is $438,000,000 less than would
be raised by the individual income
hike voted by the House.
The committee meets again today
in an unusual Saturday session to
try for more action on the bill.
Chairman George (D-GA) said
the group would tackle corpora
tion tax rates first. The House
boosted these to get an additional
$2,855,000,000 in annual revenue
After finishing with corporate lev
ies, the Senators still must work
on excise taxes.
Two Ways, Yet!
The tentatively-approved Finance
Committee Income tax hike formula
gives the taxpayer two options. He
may take the lesser of:
1. An 11 percent levy figured fin
the tax he pays now.
2. An eight percent levy figured
on the taxable income he has left
after deducting his present tax.
Ship Movements
Princess Kathleen due north
bound- at 3:30 pjn. today, sailing
for Skagway at 11:30 p.m.
Aleutian due to arrive south
bound Sunday noon.
Denali due southbound Friday
noon, sails at 2:30 p.m.
Alaska scheduled to arrive north
bound at 7 p.m. today.
Baranof due northbound Tues
day evening.
Hawaiian Quake Damage
Richard Sweet points to cracks in the Central Union Church at
Kona in the south coast of th'c big island of Hawaii after the most’
intense earthquake ever recorded in the islands. Kona was hardest
hit, but there were no fatalities. Property damage was hVavy. (If)
Wirephoto.
Shrine Tour Group
Have a Good Time
Despite Rain
Rain did not dampen the spir
its of 104 members of a Shriners
tour group from San Diego, Calif.,
who spent six hours in Juneau
and vliifiiti/ "fhsf night. They ar
rived aboard the S. S. Chilcotin.
The Shriners and their wives
made a trip to Mendenhall Gla
cier and Auke Lake, visited the
Territorial Museum, and saw
other sights including the night
life of the city.
The visitors were met by a
group ol local Shriners who ac
companied them. Most of them
were in an older age group and
the party was accompanied by
Dr. Charles L. Ollpliant, a retired
r.'avy heart specialist, who kept
an eye on seven heart cases.
In the party was a retired Navy
Admiral, John P. F. Miller, who
had visited Alaska in 1910. He was
impressed with the growth of the
Territory since he saw it last.
Dr. Roy French Kidd, potentate,
declared that they all were en
joying the trip and did not mind
the rain. “It has been a most rest
ful tour,” he said.
Don B. Albertsen, cruise direc
tor, said that this was the last
Shrine tour to Alaska this year.
From now on the tours will be
made to Hawaii and South Am
erica, he said.
Salmon Pack for
Alaska Readies
2,351,945 Cases
Alaska’s total salmon pack up to
the week ending Aug. 18, is 2,351,
945 cases, according to figures re
leased today by the U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.
Last yei^-, for the same period, the
total pack was 2,281,455 cases.
The pack is gradually surpassing
Iasi year’s ffgures. For the week end
ing Aug. 11, It was lagging over 93,
000 cases but this week had reached
70,490 cases above 1950.
Southeastern Alaska is contribut
ing largely toward boosting this
year’s pack. This area has already
put up over four times last year’s
amount. Wildlife service records
show 916,689 cases for 1951 as com
pared with 286,429 last year. Pinks
number 530,599 of the cases.
In Central Alaska the pack is 1,
045,905 cases, still several hundred
thousand cases below last year’s
number of 1,377,003.
Gillnetting at Port Moller brought
Western Alaska’s pack up 500 cases
the past week. This district is clos
ed to fishing, except at Port Moller.
The new figures show 389,351 cases
this year and 618,023 in 1950.
Pinks are leading the total pack
for Alaska with 890,760 cases. Reds
are next with 783,171 cases and
kings are low with 86,905.
JUNEAU VISITORS
Dr. -and Mrs. James P. Mooney
of Roslyn, Wash, are registered at
the Baranof Hotel.
Funeral Services
Fcr Art Uggen
Set for Monday
Funeral services for Art Uggen
will be held next Monday after
noon at 2 o'clock in the Carter Chap
el with the. Rev. G. H. Hillennurr
conducting the service. Jle wfh oe
assisted by John Greeny.
James Mahar will be vocalist ac
companied by Christine Ra.ssmus
sen in two songs.
Pall bearers will be Glen Leach,
James McNaughton, K. G. Merritt,
Stanley Grummet, Bert McDowell
and Zack Gordon. Burial will be in
Elks Rest in Evergreen Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Carter
Chapel between 7 and 10 p.m. Sun
day.
Mr. Uggen, owner of the Aln-k.i
Music Supply died suddenly of a
heart attack last Wednesday morn
ing. He was about 63 years old.
He is survived by his children,
Orville of Lawrenceberg, Ind., Rich
ard of Los Angeles, Mrs. Howard
Frank of Cleburne, Tux., and Miss
Gladys Uggen of Juneau. Another
daughter Mrs. R. A. Sauls lives in
Ames, Iowa.
He is also survived by a sister,
Mrs. E. W. Eagle of Crookston, Minn,
and his former wives Mrs. Alice Ug
gen of Los Angeles and Mrs. Lil
lian Uggen of Juneau.
Those wishing to send flowers
are requested to donate to the can
cer fund, Mrs. Lillian Uggen said.
Fishermen
Gasp at Big
AnoplopmUtue
/ “Anoplop” may be the beginning
of a frozen fish museum for Juneau
if Wallis George of the Juneau
Cold Storage Co., takes the advice
of many /who saw the 48-pound
(dressed) skilfiifh brought in u
his plant yesterday.
“Anoplop” is short for the fish’s
family name of “anoplopmidae”—
of the blackcod (sablefish) tribe.
Fishermen long ago tagged the
fish with the unromantic nomer of
“skilfish.”
While this “anoplop” is not s
giant of his family, he is a specie
seldom caught anywhere, C. L. And
erson, director of the Alaska Depart
ment of Fisheries, said after exam
inging him.
When Larry Fitzpatrick of the
fishing vessel Ruby, brought "ano
plop” up from 300 fatheoms of water
on a long line near Cape Fairweath
er three days ago, he thought he
had caught the biggest blackcod
under the sun.
He would have, too—if it had been
a true blackcod. It was about 20
pounds heavier than the larges!
blackcod ever caught.
Now the problem still remains. . .
what to do with “anoplop."
from seattll
Mrs. Florence Smith of Seattle
is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM YAKUTAT
Jack Krepps of Yakutat is stay
ing at the Baranof Hotel.
Air Board, FBI
Open Query inio
I aisi Air Crash
OAKLAND, Calif. Aug. 28—(M—
FBI and Civil Aeronautics officials
opened investigations today into the'
t.a.:i of United's newest type air
liner, as searcher* went over a
h Usidc 20 miles south of here for
the last of 50 broken bodies.
Object of the FBI probe is to
determined wether sabotage caus
ed the DC-6-B to plow into the
fog-shrouded hill a few moments
from the end of its (ranscontin
ental flight early yesterday.
The FBI, in announcing the inves
tigation, would not elaborate r,r
comment whether it was routine.
Tlie Civil Aeronautics Board's
investigation was to cover all
phases of the accident. Regional |
investigator Ralph A. Reed said
it would last several days but the
CAB probably would know some
time today whether the ship had
strayed from it landing course, as
“evcral residents of the area sug
gested.
United Air Lines said last night
searchers quit after bringing down
perhaps 41 bodies, most of them on
horseback. They were to return to
day for the other nine—or what
ever can be found of them.
The 50 victims included the six
man crew and all 44 passengers—
eight children, nine women and 33
meji. The ship was flying to Oak
land from Boston. It had stopped at
Hartford, Conn., Cleveland and
Chicago.
Scrapped Wartime
Shells Kill V
Injure 4 in Seattle
SEATTLE, Aug. 25—*.¥)—Exnyjsion
of World War II .shells in scrap
metal cargoes killed three men and
1 four here yesterday.
The fatal blast occurred at the
Ames Terminal Company wnterfront
yard where workmen were burning
powder remnants from inside shells
with acetylene torches.
The shells were from scrap metal
cargo brought from the Philippines
on the Chinese freighter Hai Yu.
The cargo included 57 millimeter
and five inch shells and 1,000-pound
bombs. They were to have been
cleaned of all explosives before leav
ing the Philippines.
An. ordnance adviser for the sal
vage operations, Paul E. Martin,
■ aid eight, checking tables had been
set up to avoid accidents.
•'The powder in the shell that
killed those men was confined by a
•booster well’ which should have
been removed in the Philippines,
Martin said, "but occasionally we
find a shell in checking that hasn't
been deactivated.”
l ightning Hits
Dynamite Charge,
Kills 9 Workers
WONDERVU, Colo., Aug. 25—i.f)
—Lightning set off a dynamite
charge at a dam construction site
yt stei'day, killing nine men and
injuring nine others.
Rescue ■ workers finished today
i amoving tons of rock and dirt
that cascaded down on the work
ing men when the dynamite explo
ded prematurely. Officials said
there were no other casualties.
The explosion sent a rain of
toulders and debris smashing
down on the site of a $12,000,000
dam project of the city of Den
ver in south Boulder Creek can
yon, a gash Ip the front range
of the Rocky mountains.
The damsite is about 65 miles
northwest of Denver, and is south
west of Boulder, site of the Uni
versity of Colorado.
Between 50 and 60 men were
w* i kin*; in the area when the
lightning touched off the dyna
mite which was to have been
filed when the day shift went
off duty at 5 p.m. (MSTl. The
blast was at 1:20 p.m.
“Both sides of the canyon caved
in," said Noble L. Benson, 29, of
Nampa, Idaho, operator of a heavy
earth moving machine. “A big
rock hit my cue (earth mover)
and Just about pushed the motor
into the ground."
SALLY NEVITT IS HERE
Mrs. Sally Nevltt, formerly of
Juneau, now of Mt. Edgecumbe is
it) Juneau until tomorrow. She
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
AT THE BARANOF
James Davis, head of the De
partment of Territories, lrom
Washington, D. C. is stopping at
the Baranof Hotel.