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Truman Seems
On Trail for
: Re-Election
> Evident 'He Threw His
Hat in Ring/ Says |
Senator Magnuson
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5——
President Truman appeared today
to have hit the re-election campaign
trail with a 1952 platform virtually
written.
He did everything but formally
’ announce his candidacy at a Dem
ocratic rally here where he called
his opponents names ranging from
“special privilege boys” to “economic
fossils.”
And he constructed his 1952 plat
form under the familiar “fair deal’
banner as he predicted "we are go
ing to elect a President next year.”
He didn’t say it would be Harry
S. Truman, but the way the Dem
ocrats stood up and cheered—and
his own obvious relish of the ap
plause—made things pretty clear
to those around.
More Excitement
Mr. Truman headed for his home
in the midwest after a couple of San
Francisco speeches, in which the off
the-cuff political talk at a party
luncheon created , more excitement
than his major foreign policy ad
dress opening the Japanese peace
treaty conference last night.
The President-.left at 7:02 a.m. on
his plane, Ihe Independence, for
Kansas City, where he started on
the road to the Presidency.
Senator Magnuson (D-Washi, who
was among those cheering the Pre
sident on at the luncheon speech,
told a reporter, with obvious satis
faction:
Hat in Ring?
“I thought he threw his hat into
the ring.”
And that was what just about
everybody else among the upwards
of 750 others at the luncheon
thought, also.
The President's campaign-like
talk appeared to be as much of a
bomb-shell to the party workers
as his assertion that new weapons
are being developed which would
destroy civilization in the event
of another all-out war.
Memories of his "give ’em hell"
campaign of 1948 were stirred by
the President’s assertion:
“The Democratic Party has a
duty to the country, and if I am not
badly mistaken the Democratic
Party is going to keep right on
carrying out that duty.”
“Next year, 1952”—the President
got no further. His audience arose,
cheering in campaign fashion as
though the election were just around
the corner.
CO-OP NURSERY PLANNED
The American f Women’s Volun
tary Services grdup meets Thurs
day at 8 p.m. at the Governor's
House to make plans for a cooper
ative nursery. Members are remind
ed to attend.
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
Ed. Note—While Drew Pear
son is on a brief vacation, the
Washington Merry-go-round is
being written by several disting
uished guest columnists, today’s
being by Millard Caldwell, Fed
eral Civil Defense Administra
tor.)
WASHINGTON. — While time
running out, the cracker-bo>
a'rategists fumble civil defense.
Some of them know that air
power at its best can stop only 3,
out of 100 attacking enemy bomb
ers. Yet they insist that more
air power is the sole answer tc
protecting the home front.
Others blow hot and cold. One
day they think the situation is sc
hopeless that civil defense coulc
do no good. The next day, the
world situation looks brighter, so
civil defense is not needed.
Still others insist that retalia
tion is the answer. What we can do
to the enemy blinds them to what
the enemy can do to us. They for
get the trigger for our retaliation
will be a mass atomic attack on
our own cities.
Then, another group, the os
trich thinkers, insist that no na
tion would dare attack this coun
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First A-Hound
I’rospector Johnny Gossett (above)
of Grants, N. M., claims he owns
the country’s first atomic hound.
With a piece of dentists’ x-ray
film taped to his nose, “Butch"
prowls the northwest New Mexico
countryside. If the film is fogged
wh'en he returns, Gossett says the
dog has sniffed some uranium ore
and that he then studies the dog’s
path. Gossett says the plan works
wt.ll in the uranium-rich country.
DPI Wirephoto.
Yeah, Bui How Do
We Pay off Ihe
Buck and a Half!
• ATLANTA, Sept. 5— (£1 —A •
• course in how to keep out of •
• debt is being offered by the •
• Smith-Hughes Vocational •
• School here, and all it costs is •
• a $1.50 registration fee. •
• “How to avoid financial diffi- •
• culties,” is one of several cours- •
• es the school has scheduled in •
• a training program designed for *
• persons in the sales and distri- •
• bution fields. •
58°» Steel Cut
Will Hit Production
Of Aufos, Radios
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—(AO—
Steel allowances for ordinary con
sumer goods today were cut to. 58
per cent of the pre-Korea level,
effective Oct. 1. This is lower than
the cuts forecast.
Announcing the action, Manly
Fleischman, the national produc
tion administrator, said that if the
copper strike continues further cuts
in passenger cars, radio, washing
machines and other consumer
items will be inevitable.
Even assuming a quick strike
settlement, copper supplies for
consumer goods will be trimmed
to 54 per cent, or six percentage
points lower than previously set,
and aluminum to 46 per cent, or
four points lower.
“We are entering a very, very
serious time in the last part of
this year and the first of next,”
Fleischmann told a news confer
ence. "It will be a time of short
ages. We can not hope to correct
the deficits to any substantial de
gree earlier than 1953.”
5,000 to be Lopped
Off Veterans'
Administration
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—UP!—'The
Veterans Administration said today
it will fire about 5,000 employees by
Oct. 10 to meet budget cuts.
The agency said the reduction will
be nationwide and will include all
administrative activities.
Excluded are employees of the
department of medicine and surgery,
who staff VAs 151 veterans’ hospit
als and its numerous clinics.
The agency’s appropriation for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1952,
limits VA’s expenditures for non
medical personnel to $195,000,000.
TO SKAGWAY OVER HOLIDAY
Miss Pat Carroll, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. “Pat” Carroll,
visited her former home of Skag
way over the Labor Day holiday.
She made the round trip on the
Princess Louise.
Miss Carroll is employed in the
office of the Bureau of Public Roads.
Russ Alfempi to Block
treaty Smashed; Rules
Quickly Adopted 48-3
tanks Smash
to Hilltop
In East Korea
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 5.—— ,
U. S. Second Division infantrymen
U.S. Second Division infantrymen
tonight seized "bloody ridge' in east
ern Korea with hardly a shot after
17 days of savage fighting.
The end came quickly for the stra
tegic height. As the final assault
wave swept up to the crest it found
only a few broken remnants of a
North Korean regiment that had
held the hill.
Most of the survivors were wound
ed or groggy from a violent artillery
bombardment that preceded the el
lied charge. Prisoners said most of
the Red force pulled out early to
day rather than face another at
tack.
One officer estimated nearly a
“third of a million” shells were fired
at the Gibraltar-like positions dur
ing the 17-day struggle.
Fighting still raged for three
other heights in the area. The Reds
were dug in among the crags and
ridges.
The Second Division action, in the
r -♦r,- X **•'
offensive, was the only significant
engagement on the front Wed
nesday. Yanggu, at the eastern end
of Hwachon Reservoir, is seven
miles north of the 38th parallel.
UN troops killed, wounded or cap
tured the equivalent of three Red
divisions last month, the UN ground
commander reported today, mostly
on the eastern front.
Truce Freni Quiet;
Ridgway Reply
Believed Completed
TOYKO, Sept. 5—(#)—For the
first time in days no notes were
exchanged today between the Uni
ted Nations command and Com
munists on the suspended Korean
war cease-fire talks.
Even the Red radios, usually
loaded with accusations and de
nunciations of the Allies, were
comparatively quiet.
It was believed that Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway, U. N. Com
mander, had completed a mes
sage he is due to send top Red
commanders. It will reply to
North Korean Premier Kim II
Sung and Chinese Gen. Peng
Teh-Huai. Sunday they deman
ded that Ridgway either stop
instigating provocations” in the
Kaesong neutral zone of Korea,
where the negotiations were held,
or call them off.
There was no hint of what Ridg
way would say.
Gambling Tax Passed
By Senate Committee
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—UP)—'The
Senate Finance Committee today
voted for a tax on gambling estimat
ed to raise $400,000,000 a year. The
action completed major committee
work on a $6,000,000,000 tax bill.
The Senators accepted without
change the gambling levy included
in the House-passed $7,200,000,000
tax bill.
This calls for a 10 percent govern
ment take from the handle by book
makers and other commercial gamb
lers.
It also includes $50 a year occupa
tional jax on persons who handle
bets and operate numbers lotter y.
Committee aides said the Treasury
had expressed doubts about enforce
ment of the gambling tax but that
the Senators decided to go ahead
with it anyway to see what revenue
could be developed.
JUNEAU CHAMBER HOLDING
BUSINESS MEET THURSDAY
The Juneau Chamber of Com
merce will hold a regular business
meeting at the Baranof Hotel to
morrow noon, President Herbert S.
Rowland announced today.
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5—t.T)
Russia's drive to block An"l)~
American control of tlie Japane i
peace conference was abruptly cut
short today and the conference
adopted 48 to 3 rules of procedure
sponsored by the two western
powers.
It was a smashing defeat far
Soviet deputy foreh-.n -minister An
drei Gromyko, who had also been
defeated earlier in the first two
hours of conference business on a
proposal to bring Red China here.
The V. S. delegation was
caught by surprise by the sud
den speed of the action. Both
Ambassador John Foster Hulks,
author of the treaty, and assist
ant Secretary of State Dean Rusk
int'rated they had expected it
worn! take at least until night
to adopt the rules.
U. S. Secretary of State Dean
Acheson was quickly elected pres
ident of the conference by a sec
ret vote of 43 of tlie 51 members
voting.
Percy Spender, Australian Am
bassador to the United States, was
elected vice president.
The rules arc designed to pre
vent Russia from filibustering the
peaee treaty—now scheduled for
signing Saturday—or from chang
ing it in any wTay.
Speeches on the treaty are lim
ited to one hour for each delega
tion with five minutes to answer
questions.
Proposals for changes lr the
treaty e$A fee rylet! -qut^pf order.
Acheron Tough
Acheson, acting as temporary
president of the meeting, took u
tough line from the outset. At one
point he curtly ordered Stefan
Wicrblowski, Polish delegate, to
sit down when his time, in Ache
son’s view, ran out. Gromyko was
on his feet almost constantly ob
jecting to every Acheson ruling
and demanding that the confer
ence throw wide open and rewrite
the peace treaty drafted by the
United States and Britain.
Debate broke out in the first,
business session of the conference.
It began at 10:10 a.m., alter Pres
ident Truman, opening tne confer
ence formally last, challenged the
Soviets to make good on their talk
of peace by signing the treaty.
“The treaty now before us o -
fers more than talk of peace,"
Mr. Truman said emphatically.
"It offers action for peace. This
conference will chow, therefore,
who seeks to make peace and
who seeks to prevent it; who
wishes to put an end to war,
and who wishes to continue it.”
Gromyko, who had joined brief
ly in the swelling applause of his
toric assemblage when Mr. Tiu
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__
Senate Storm
Session Seen
On Peace Treaty
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—(;Ti
Senator Connally (D-Texas) sai .
today he forsees long, stormy de
bate before the Senate will ratif\
a peace treaty with Japan.
Connally, chairman of the Ber
ate foreign relations committee
told a reporter he believes the
is ‘'no question” that the Sena’: j
will approve the treaty ultimate!'
A storm signal was raised by
Senator Jenner (R-Ind), who
said he found a ‘‘threat to our
security still hidden” in term
of the proposed peace treaty.
In a statement yesterday, Joi -
ner said secrecy surrounds the
treaty itself and companion pact J
proposed on one hand between the.
United States and Japan, and < i
the other between Japan and N |
tionalist China.
“How,” he demanded, “can se
crecy and double dealing het:
usf”
Senator McFarland of Arizona, j
the Senate Democratic leader, an
nounced he plans to press for ra -;
ification of the peace treaty b
fore Congress adjourns on or abc 1
Oct. 1, if it is completed "in rea -
onable time.”
JUNEAU VISITOR
Pauline Grise of Ware, Mass., ar
rived here yesterday on Pan Amiri
1 can Airways and is stopping at the
Gastineau Hotel.
Trapped In Elevator
1';: in .in Cenrifc Roland Cell), uses an acetylene torch to rut through bars of a self-operated clevaov
In which oiin Thompson, 11, a Los Atiegles newspaper delivery hoy, caught his arm. An asbestos blanket
prole( •', the boy’s body. At ri;,ht the boy, his arm In splits, is helped lo an ambulance. Doctor , ira.cj
t: •/ may have, to amputate the badly crushed arm. Mishap occutrcd when bey attempted to retriev. a
a newspaper he'd dropped, iff) Wirephoio.
Note Meopens Search for
P^iot Missing 3lA Months
It$>R!nHkwest Territory ■
kl Kka Refarsesli by
>jol . :or Department,
Sap Cot. Greening
MoKINLEY PARK, Alaska, Sept.
5—1/11—Alaska offers more untouch
ed fields for scientific endeavor;
than any other part of the world,
speakers told the Alaska Science
Conference yesterday.
Some 200 scientists from Alaska,
the continental United States, and
other nations were here for the
foul -day meeting.
Gov. Ernest Gruening discussed
development of the Territory at the
openin.; session. He indicated a be
lief the Interior Department we;
retarding the Territory's growth ana
pro perity.
Dr. kirtley F. Mather. President
of the American Association for lilt
advancement of science, officially
in tailed the Alaska division.
fene.il Sd-aafs
Slew increase of
si Pupils This Year
Juneau’s school enrollment show
ed an increase of G8 pupils on open
ir day yesterday over that of las
year, according to Sterling Sear
si perintendent of schools.
Last year the grade school had
670 students and the high school
"16. This year 716 have registered
in the grade school and 238 in the
hi ;h school.
Figures were not yet compiled
for Individual classes of the high
fliool but In the grade school the
highest number were 110 in the
third grade. There are 90 new
(outers in kindergarten and 60 in
the eighth grade.
Sears said it was probable there
ould bo a few additions in both
ehool.s during the coming week a
I 'rsons returned from vacation
Outside.
The grade school auditorium ha'
been converted into three clas
rooms. On the stage is the tbirr
tade and the seventh grade, which
ms 61 pupils, occupies two rooms on
he main floor of the auditorium.
lock Oisofslions
NEW YORK, Sept. 5—Iff'—Cios
ng quotation of Alaska Juneau
nine stock today is 2,, American
Jan 116, American Tel. and Tel.
:02>c, Anaconda 48'i, Douglas Air
raft 53-.. General Electric 60’.,
ieneral Motors 50' , Goodyear 94';.
Ker.necott 81Libby, McNeill and
Libby 9, Northern Pacific 49 i,
Standard Oil of California 54' .
Twentieth Century Fox 201., U. S.
Steel 43 1, Pound 2.79 15 16, Can
uiian Exchange 94.5611.
Sales today were 1,850,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 272.50, rails 80.85, util
ities 45.16. _
EDMONTON, Sept. 5—(/PI—A note
pilot Johnny ilcurassa left in his
crash-landed light plane in the
northwest territories last May 23
has revived the K.C.A.F. search for
him which was called off more
than 2'. ' eg? . , --
Hie Peace River, Alta., pilot,
about 30, said in the note that he
was leaving his damaged Beilanca
on the rock-strewn shore of Who
ladaia Lake, to trek through thx
northern wilderness in hopes of;
linding. civilization.
A U.S.A.F. aircraft-the one
that found two Wisconsin living
fishermen who had been lost for
29 days only 19 miles from Bour
av.a’s piano—ii"Uled the E II
anca Friday, it was identified
yesterday by an It.t.A.t. pilot.
Bourassa said in the note that
he intended to walk in a north
westerly direction which he believ
ed would take him tp Great blave
Lake, somwhere near Fort Reli
ance. The distance is about 1/60
miles by air.
lie was unhurt in hA plane's
ski-landing May 18. ' He took
with him rations which he said
lie could stretch out lor three I
weeks.
lie had been on a 200 mile flip n!
from Bathurst Inlet.
“I would cay he had a very go. 3
chance of surviving the 6 * mom a
ordeal in that wilderness,” said
Tommy Fox, his former emploj. ■
■Jpiimiy knew the north well.”
ispreti Ranger,
Xopfer Crew,
Brought from Woods
DARRINGTON, Wash., Sept.
(,V)—An injured forest ranger <• -
corted by a helicopter pilot and
doctor, also Injured In a crash- j
thwarted rescue attempt, came <>!■'
of the northwest Washington .
derness last night—one on fco .
one on horseback, and the ran 1 ■
strapped to a stretcher.
A crew of 30 wcaiy fore.!
carried the ranger, Warren P> -
sentin, 33, down a narrow 14-n is
mountain trail from Miner's hi i j
where he was injured Sunday i:
a fall from his lookout town.
Lt. <jg* Charles IS. Muellf r, pi
lot of a Coast Guard lu-licopa r
which crashed in an att mptc..
landing at the ranger station, pre
ceded the party on horseback. Dr
Howard R. Terry, who accompan
ied Mueller on the ill-fated flight,
walked at Pressentln's ale.
The trio was rushed by ambul
ance to Marine Hospital in Seat
tle, where attendants reported ear
ly today their condition was good
despite the three-day ordeal.
TAKU TOASTMASTERS
WILL MEET THURSDAY
The Tuku Toastmasters will hold
the first fall meeting next Thurs
day at 6 p.m. in the Gold Room
of the Baranof Hotel, A. L. Ransome
announced today. The group has
been inactive during the summer
months.
[spicing B-29 j
Kills 1 iiiCrSiEi ;
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho. Sr; l. j
5- (iW—Seven Air Force filers we. •
killed last night when a B-:;J
bomber crashed cne-fourth mil.'!
from a runway at Mountain Home j
Air Force base.
Base public relations oflici.da!
said all the victims were stations i i
at-rho.io bare ..a»4 dljac lln> phi:', ’j
was on a routine trainin';? ill . •'
Ircm the b hie.
Names were withheld peiidia ;
notification of next of kin.
The big bomber exploded on im
part.
I Perish When Ussy
Craft 11$ Wafer
Q'JONSET POINT, It. I. Sept. :i
—I.T A seven-man crew perished
last night when a Na^y patrol
plane plunged into the sea and ex
ploded during operations with a
submarine.
The accident occurred about RO
miles east of Montauk Point, N. '■
Witnesses said the, plane pa.,
evidence of distress just before the
(trash.
liii plane v..; attached to P. -
no! Squadron Five at Jacksonville
via., but was J.tnporanly assign
to the quonset naval air station.
Atak-P&wered
AJrcraH U^der
Contrail to Vulfee
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—GP)—Ti
Air Force today contracted for d
velopment of an atomic-power* >
■rplane by the Consolidated Vulti
Urcraft Corp., of San ... Cal
The order covers work on t
frame of the proposed hi-, ry-nnd
ir.p; aircraft.
'I he nuclear power plant is und
development by the General Fleet!
Company.
The Atomic Energy Comm; i
announced last March 24 th
General Electric was undmala
development of the engine
The fact the Air Force i; now c >
trading for the frame Is an indi
lion of confidence the engine can b
constructed. Just last month. tlr
Navy contracted lor construction
an atomic-power submarine.
• •••••••••<
• <
• WEATHER REPORT <
O <U S WEATHER BUREAU • /
9 Temperatures for 24-Hour Period A
• ending C:20 o'clock this morning •
• At Airport Maximum, GO; «
• minimum, 48. *
• *
• FORECAST c
• (Juneau ami Vicinity) •
• Cloudy with ralh tonight «
• and Thursday. Low tonight o
• near 50. High tomorrow near •
• 58 degrees. «
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• At Airport — None: °
• since July 1—5.52 inches. •
• ••••••••••
flaming Plane
Misses Homes
Hear Hub Off
Veteran Pilot Dies of
Burns After Fighting
Cessna to Avoid Homes
ANCHORAGE. Sept 5 — FT) —
Alaska's air tragedies climbed to 10
in the space of six weeks when a
twin-engined Cessna smashed down
in suburban Rogers Park yesterday
jitet Ttf. or laktiir;' - off - -fm— Pi-wurdr, • •
killing five people.
Pilot Norm Maitlter fought vali
antly to keep the wounded plane
from striking houses, bringing it
down in flames. In the back yard
of an occupied home.
Horribly burned, hr was pulled
from the wreckage alive hut died
rn route to a hospital. Also killed
were the four passengers of the
Christianson Air Service craft,
identified as O. M. Beaver of An
chorage, Laurence Arndt. Talnter,
Alaska, and a military captain
and his wife.
Military authorities withheld the
identity of the latter two until next
1 kin could be notified.
Eighty-nine people have been
killed or lost in the series of acci
di . since a Korean air-lift piano
disappeared July ill with 38 aboard.
School Saves Kids
Had this not been the first day
nf school here, the death toll might
have been much higher as a Inroe
number of children usually arc plr.y
inr In the area. As it was, the plan?
nrrr.vvly missed two houses and
crashed in the back yard of a third.
Mail her and two passengers s(*JI
fee’'oJlt'i'jgrwhen resenerr reached
. -tri*' bat fiacre prevented
t’lrlr rescue.
Tiro plane was the first section of
an afternoon flight to Seward. Jim
Cinowiclt, an air line employee, said
one engine appeared to catch fir?
just offer the takeoff. The craft,
angled down between two houses,
occupied by a mother and baby,
tl:c other by two men.
Saw Plane Coming
George Brandon, 17, look?! up
from the window of a third house
and said he “thought the plane was
coming right into our living room.”
Witnesses said it appeared that
Malthor fought the p'ane all the
■' ■ v to the ground to keep it from
striking the houses.
lie was a veteran pilot, form
erly wilh the Civil Aeronautics
Administration and for a time
manager of the Anchorage airport.
He Icavca his widow and a daugh
ter here and a son, Brian Malther.
who is enrouto to school at Napa
Junior College in California.
Albert McGee and his son, Don
ald, were among those who witnessed
the crash. They were building n
house about 30 feet from where the
plane hit the earth.
Thought was Bomb
"I was sitting on a sawhorse, put
ting a catch on a cabinet door,” Mc
Gee said. “The explosion knocked
me off the horse. I thought, it was
in atomic bomb when I saw the
flames.”
Donald, working on a floor In the
house, said he, too, thought it was
.1 bomb.
“I looked out and saw the burn
ing engine and saw the plane
bounce iike a big rubber ball," lie
* tid, “The fir-t thing I thought
of was my wife and baby in a
temporary house directly behind
where the plane crashed.
“I went over there and saw thry
were all right, then went to the
plane but it was impossible to help.
There was too much fire and heat.
A highway patrolman arrived just
then and tried using hand extin
guishers but they were of little
avail.”
MESSMAN DIES ABO.MtD SHIP
The body of lre!ix Carlos. 57, who
1 . •; i the . southbound S.S.
Baranof nt Valdez on Sept. 1, will
be shipped to Seattle Friday on th?
S.S. Denali, Henry Green, local Al
aska Steamship agent, said today.
Mr. Carlos had been an officers’
me .small aboard Ala ka steamships
for the pa^t 35 years. He has no
known relatives. The body is at the
Carter Mortuary.
Ship Movements
--■ - -— i. .I, --
Denali scheduled southbound Fri
day at 8 p.m.
Aleutian due southbound some
time Sunday.
Alaska scheduled northbound on
Saturday.