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JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1951
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27—<#>—
The spectre of bloody waterfront
strife stalked in the background
today-as Harry Bridges' longshore
men battled in court to keep rivai
AFL workers off the docks.
Bridges’ longshoremen were an
gered to fighting pitch by announce
ment that AFL stevedores are. to be
used in unloading three strikebound
ships.
Isthmian Steamship Co., center
of the bitter dispute, disclosed
yesterday that it has hired 53
members of the AFL Internationa!
Longshoremen's Association (ILA)
to work the three vessels.
Bridges’ International Longshore
men’s and Warehousemen’s Union
(ILWU) immediately warned any
such move would lead to "strife
struggle and bloodshed on the San
Francisco waterfront.”
An ILWU spokesman condemned
the hiring as “strikebreaking”
and said the ILWU will stop
work on all shipping here if
Isthmian attempts to unload with
AFL labor.
“Scabs will not be permitted on
the waterfront,” the spokesman
asserted.
Isthmian disclosed the hiring as
its attorneys sought dismissal of a
temporary court order prohibiting
the company from using non-ILWU
men on the docks.
Bridges union must answer Isth
mian's arguments in court before 11
a.m., PST, today.
Bridges, a bitter enemy for almost
two decades of the AFL stevedores
and their president, Joseph Ryan,
obtained the court order earlier
this week when Isthmian withdrew
from the Pacific Maritime Associ
ation (PMA).
PMA, representing all major west
coast shipowners, has a contract
with Bridges stipulating that all
longshore work in the San Fran
cisco Bay area shall be done by the
ILWU.
VFW Protests
Order to Cancel
Alaska Non-Sched
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 — Ufl —
The Veterans of Foreign Wars said
today it is dismayed by a proposal
to cancel the operating permit of
Air Transport Associates of Seattle,
Wash.
The veterans organization filed
its statement with the Civil Aero
nautics Bo*rd. It asked the agency
to reconsider its order that Air
Transport Associates go out of busi
ness.
The proposed revocation was
based on findings that the company,
licensed as an irregular carrier, had
conducted regular operations be
tween Seattle and Anchorage,
Alaska, over a long period.
The 'protest by VFW, filed by its
attorney, John C. Williamson, said
the airline was organized in 1948
by Pacific war veterans and had
been employing young ex-Air Force
men as pilots over a long period.
VFW contended that the Veterans
Administration and the War Asset'
Office, which had surplus war planes
for sale, had encouraged World War
II fliers to get into aviation, but
that CAB had been “hacking away
at the enterprises of many veterans
who entered the field with the en
couragement and assistance of the
government.”
The organization contended that
air links with Alaska constitute an
important item of national defense.
The original CAB order required
Air Transport Associates to suspend
Oct. 21. However, a 30-day exten
sion of operating authority was
granted when the line asked recon
sideration.
Small A-Weapon
Test Run Again
Delayed, Weather
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Oct. 27——
Stymied by weather- conditions, the
Atomic Energy Commission today
delayed the rescheduling of a small
A-weapor. test run.
Following yesterday’s postpone
ment of a slated atomic aerial
sortie at the Nevada test site, AEC
scientists decided to wait for strong
30 to 40-mile per hour northerly
winds to sweep the area clean of
clouds and fog.
'1’he AEC is expected to resume
the test tomorrow or Monday, as
weather dictates.
Top Officials
Predict Gloomy .
Months Ahead
HOT SPRINGS, Va„ Oct. 27—(#1
—A probable worsening of relations
with Soviet Russia and heavier
strains on the domestic economy
were pictured by two top govern
ment officials today as the pros
pect for the months immediately
ahead.
Secretary of the Army Frank Pace
and Secretary of Commerce Charles
Sawyer delivered the double bar
reled warning at the second session
of a three-day conference of Saw
yer's 100-member business advisory
council.
Pace foresaw international ten
sion getting “closer to the boiling
point” as Russia watches the growth
of military strength in. the United
States and its North Atlantic Allies.
The pressure will continue to
mount, he predicted, until the build
up of military power in the free
world reaches such strength as to
make any Communist aggression too
risky to undertake. It would be)
impossible to sav when that point
will be reached, he added.
Both Pace and Sawyer addressed
the industrial leaders behind closed
doors, but they gave reporters their
views informally later.
Sawyer predicted a “substantial
but not drastic” cutback in civilian
goods manufacture in the three
months starting January 1. Later
in 1952, he said, the shortages will
ease, at least in the steel-using sec
tor of the economy.
Unscheduled Trip
lands lady Here
A lovable "young” lady with
traces of lingering gold in her white,
hair walked aboard an Annette
bound Pan American Airways plane
at Seattle Friday right into the
hearts of the PAA crew and passen
i gers.
She was Mrs. Marguerite Akinscn
returning to her home in Ketchikan
after three months visit with rela
tives in Raleigh, N.C. Her bright j
eyes sparkled happily to be going j
home but socked-in weather caused t
her plane to fly over Annette and
land in Juneau.
“Oh well,” she smiled, “I’ve al
ways wanted to see Juneau any
way."
Mrs. Atkinson first went to Ket
chikan in 190S with her husband
who was a lumber mill foreman. She
made her first trip outside in 1939
by boat but she gets seasick so
she prefers to fly. This trip she
flew from Ketchikan all the way to
North Carolina in a little over 24
hours.
For 26 years Mrs. Atkinson was a
telephone operator in Ketchikan
when the company had had about
100 subscribers and retired in 1943
when there were nearly 1,500.
Enroute back she stopped in Ta
coma to visit her daughter-in-law
and three grandchildren.
“If I ever go out again, I want
to always be sure I get back to
Alaska,” she said.
Ever-young, Mrs. Atkinson’s eyes
and heart are attuned to beauty.
She stores all the sights and ex
periences of her trips on what she
calls her “memory shelf” to be
enjoyed again at her leisure at
home.
“Never grow old,” she advised her
PAA fellow seat mate as she told
of her plans to build a home in
Ketchikan and of her long continu
ing faith in the bright future of
her town.
Yuoslavia May
Receive Heavy
Weapons from U.S.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—(*—'The
United States reportedly has agreed
to send modern heavy weapons to
Communist Yugoslavia, focal point
of growing Balkan military tensions.
Officials here said last night that
weeks of secret negotiations have
resulted in a military supply pact
that will be signed formally in Bel
grade “within a few days.”
Details of the agreement remain
ed undisclosed, but it was under
stood that by signing a formal mili
tary accord—providing for a Unit
ed State military mission in Yugo
slavia—Russia’s one-time ally will
become eligible for heavy, modern
arms including tanks and artillery.
The reported agreement comes
three years and four months after
Marshal Tito, who as leader of Yu
goslavia’s Communist guerrillas was
one of international Communism's
major World War II military heroes,
broke with the Kremlin over policy
differences.
FROM ELFIN COVE
firnest Swanson of Elfin Cove is
staying at the Baranof Hotel.
Melee Marks
Paralyzing
Dock Strike
NEW YORK. Oct. 27—(#)—Fist
fighting broke out in the New York
dock strike today when 200 non
striking longshoremen crashed into
a wildcat picket line.
' Police quickly quelled the melee,
outside Pier 92. where the Cunotd
Liner Britannic was due to dock
later today.
The violence came quickly af
ter the strikers rejected an appeal
by President Truman to return to
work in the interests of national
defense.
In another development as the
paralyzing strike went into Its
13 day, pickets appeared for the
first time outside a IJ. S. Navy
supply depot at Bayonne. N, J_
Fifteen mounted and 15 foot po
lice on duty outside Pier 92 said they
had expected the non-strikers would
skirt the picket line of about 250
men to go to work.
Instead, the non-strikers plunged
directly at the line and forced their
way through amid fighting, shoving
and arguing while the police rushed
in to restore order.
The noif-strikers, members of the
local 824 of the AFL International
Longshoremen’s Union, fought a
similar battle with pickets Thurs
day morning.
Joseph P. Ryan, ILA president,
has opposed the strike. The strike
was initiated by some ILA factions
dissatisfied with terms of a re
cent contract between the union
and shipping owners. The union
membership had ratified the
agreement.
The President stepped into the
east coast port dispute last night
with an appeal that the wildcat
walkout end “at once” in the inter
est of national defense.
It took the strike committee just
15 minutes to turn down the Pre
sident’s request.
Mr. Truman now may invoke
the Taft-Har*lev Act He also can
call in one Wage Stabilization
Board, which is consulted in matters
affecting defence.
14fh Person Taken
By FBI on Charges
01 Embezzling
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 27—I#)—FBI
agents held the 14th person today
on embezzlement charges which
cover more than $3,030,000 in the
past 13 months.
The latest arrested is Paul J.
Staitiff, 52-year-old cashier and di
rector of the First National Bank
of Indiana (Pai. He is fcharged by
the FBI with embezzling $30,256 in
bank funds.
Special Agent Fred Hallford said
the balding Straitiff admitted tak
ing the money. Straitiff said he
knew he was misapplying the funds
but said he had always intended
to make the shortage good.
Hallford said Straitiff is the se
cond employee of the First National
Bank to be arrested since Sept. 25.
Air Force Plane
Overnights Here
An Air Force C-47 from Elmen
dorf Field at Anchorage overnighted
in Juneau on Friday. The plane
was on a reconnaissance flight to
the air fields at Annette Island and
Gustavus. The plane was sched
uled. to take off from Juneau today
at 11 a.m.
Members of the Army group re
gistered at the Baranof Hotel were:
Col. Malcomb Harwell, Col. L. K.
Tarrant, Lt. Col. Harry D. Easton.
Jr., Maj. James Greene, Maj. Steve
Donegan, Maj. James Reynolds,
Capt. Bill Coombs, Capt. Charles
Gault, Capt. W. E. Oberholtzer. Jr.,
Lt, Darrell E. Griffin, Sgt. William
Henderson, R. E. Bates, and Ken
neth Hunt.
JUNEAU VISITOR
E. O. McCarthy of Seattle is n
guest at the Baranof Hotel.
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• High tide 12:06 a.m., 5.3 ft. •
• Low tide 6:03 a.m., 2.0 ft. •
• High tide 12:15 p.m.. 17.5 ft. •
• Low tide 6:37 p.m., -0.1 ft. •
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• OCTOBER 29 •
• High tide 12:48 a.m., 16.2 ft. •
• Low tide 6:39 a.m., 1.7 ft. •
• High tide 12:47 p.m., 18.5 ft. •
• Low tide 7:14 p.m., -1.6 ft. •
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Sleepy Sailor Has
Long Ride Home to
His Wailing Bride
SEATTLE, Oct. 27—Wl—'The arms
of Morpheus outwrestled those of
his bride-to-be, so a slumbering
young sailor out of San Diego boot
camp had to take the long way
around—by way of Chicago—to get
married in Ketchikan.
Pan American World Airways
told the story Friday.
The sailor. Alfred Berry, 20, board
ed a United Air Lines plane in San
Diego to start his 14-day leave.
Then he went to sleep. When the
plane got to Los Angeles, where he
was to transfer to a northbound
plane, Berry still slept.
The plane was two hours along
the way to Chicago before a stew
ardess awakened him for his ticket.
He handed it to her. It was a Pan
Am ticket to Ketchikan.
So on he went to Chicago. Two
hours after arriving there United
put him on a San Francisco-bound
plane with a gratis ticket marked
"involuntary rerouting due to pas
senger being over-carried.”
He arrived in Seattle Friday mid
night and told the Seattle-Tacoma
airport clerk about it. She sighed
"I've heard enough"—then got him
free accommodations in a down
town hotel for the night.
He caught a Pan Am plane at
8 o’clock (PST) Friday for Ketchi
kan.
There he is to be married to his
childhood sweetheart, Nancy Col
lins, 17, of Ketchikan. He'll be two
days late but—he guaranteed—
wide awake.
Berry’s troubles are not over. Due
to fog at Annette yesterday he was
overcarried to Juneau and is hoping
to get to Annette and Ketchikan
today — weather permitting.
Groundwork for
Three-Way Mutual
Aid Pad Planned
Groundwork for a three-cornered
mutual aid pact between Alaska,
Canada and Washington in case of
enemy attack will be discussed at
a meeting of civilian defense direc
tors November 1 and 2 at Portland,
Oregon, said Col. Earl Landreth,
territorial director of civilian de
fense.
Expected to attend the meeting
are the directors from British Co
lumbia, Alberta, Yukon Territory,
Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Cali
fornia, Idaho and Montana. Lan
dreth leaves Oct. 31 for the meet
ing.
Terms of the pact will generally
be that when “certain” Alaska
towns are hit, Canada and Wash
ington will furnish personnel and
equipment, Landreth stated.
“Alaska will do likewise in the
event of an attack on Canadian
i cities,” he stated. “Payment for
' services and supplies is to be made
by the territory receiving assist
ance.”
Evacuation of Alaska’s civilian
population will be undertaken only
if invasion becomes imminent,
Landreth said.
Meeting at the same time as
the civilian defense directors is
the Pacific Coast Board of Inter
governmental Regulations with gov
ernors from Oregon, Washington,
California, Idaho and Montana at
tending.
Col. Landreth left Friday to at
tend the first annual convention
of the League of Alaskan Cities
being held at Kodiak Oct. 28 to 30
He is to deliver an address on the
territorial civilian defense program
on Oct. 29.
Topics to be discussed at the con
vention are civilian defense, old
age and survivors’ insurance plan,
and municipal revenues.
Pan American
Carries 13
from Seattle
Pan American World Airwa:.
brought 13 passengers from Seattle
yesterday and due to poor landin':
conditions at the Annette Island
field, ten passengers destined for
Ketchikan were brought to Juneau
for the night.
Passengers from Seattle were'
George Castle, D. Desmond, Jim
Madson, Alfred Ransome, M. Grim' -
rud, D. W. Parsons, Evelyn Hope,
William Johnson, Charles Voytan.
Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin, Cliff Good
man and W. M. Dwernichek.
Ketchikan passengers spending
the night in Juneau were: Mrs. M.
Atkinson, Wilfred Berry, Kay Ken
nedy. Dick Lang, Mr. and Mr
Edward Mack, Warren Pellctt,
Katherine Packard, Gordon Taylor.
library Opening
Planned W n
Next Two Weeks
It is probable that the dedication
of the new Memorial Library of
Juneau will be held in from 10 days
to two weeks, according to Prank
Heintzleman, chairman of the lib
rary board.
It may be 60 days before the new
furniture for the building is received
Heintzleman said, and the dedicatory
services will be held without wait
ing for the complete furnishing of
the building. A few things still need
to be finished inside J.he building,
then it will be turned over to the
city by the Alaska Public Works
Agency.
Shelves are in, Heintzleman said,
and books are being moved into
their new home. Heintzleman said
the board had wanted to delay the
opening until the city painted the
' basement walls in readying that
part of the building for temporary
quarters for the mayor’s and city
clerk's office. The city council okay
ed this work at its last meeting.
“Because of the weather," the
chairman said, “we may have to
hold the dedicatory services inside
the building instead of outside as
we planned."
Heintzleman expects to make a
quick trip to Seattle within the
next few days and will appoint a
committee to plan the opening ser
vices before he leaves. The opening
will be held on his return.
Tlie library board chairman once
again called attention to the need
for from $3,000 to $4,000 to "meet
the community's obligation" on the
new building.
I "We would like very much to pay
it off in full at the dedication,"
Heintzleman said. "We appreciate
the hundreds of firms and individ
uals who have already contributed,
but there are many who have not
yet done so.”
He also pointed out that many
pledges have not been paid in full,
and that interest on the unpaid bal
ance on the building will start as
soon as the building is turned over
to ! he city.
‘T consider us very fortunate to
have received federal assistance on
our fine structure. It was necessary
for the board to apply when it did,
even though the pledged money was
not definitely in hand. We simply
had to take the chance at that time
that pledges would be paid. I am
confident that we would not have
had further opportunity to receive
a federal grant to assist us in
building the library.”
Heintzleman said that a special
effort had been made to get a grant
from some foundation for certain j
types of new books, but that the
board has not yet been successful in
getting such a contribution.
Haines Cutoff
Is Still Open;
Ferry fo Run
The Haines Cutoff is still in good
shape and will be open until snows
block the Canadian side even though
there has been an announced clos
ing date set at Nov. 1, according
to Frank Metcalf, territorial high
way engineer.
Metcalf said that it was planned
to run two more trips of the Haines
ferry, and that motorists could
probably chance the Cutoff for the
next several days. He pointed out,
however, that travel would be at the
risk of the individual after Nov. 1,
and that drivers should check high
way reports before attempting the
Cutoff.
At the present time, there is no
snow on the summit of the pass,
Metcalf said, and travel will not be
stopped until snow blocks the road.
SIMPKINS RETURN FROM
STATESIDE TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. George Simpkins
returned on the Princess Louise
from a six weeks trip in the states.
Mr. Simpkins said that he at
tended one of the World Series
rames and the the rest of them on
television. The Simpkins visited
their three daughters living in Bel
lingham, Wash., Moscow, Idaho and
New ' York City.
But they are glad to be back as
they claim that there are no
friendlier people than in Alaska.
British Elections
Mean Little, Says
Red News Agency
By the Associated Press
Moscow has commented on the
British elections. The Soviet News
Agency Tass tells the Russian peo
ple that the replacement of the
Socialist by a Tory government
means little or nothing. According
to the agency, both La Sorites and
Conservatives in Britain are war
mongers. (
Thunderous
Jet Plane
Dogfight
By NATE POLOWETZKY
U. S. 8th ARMY HEADQUART
ERS, Korea, Oct. 27—(At—Eight
Russian-made MIGs were damaged
today in a thunderous jet plane dog
fight over northwest Korea as they
failed to stop an allied bomV) strike
on bridge and rail lines.
It was the seventh straight day
the Communist jets whooshed
out of their Manchurian sanctu
ary to challenge the air might of
the United Nations in the Korean
war.
On the ground, Communist night
assaults in the east and west were
repulsed in fierce fighting. In the
center of the battle line allied in
fantrymen slogged forward and se
cured a key hill mass southeast of
Kumsong, battered onetime Com
munist stronghold.
(The Red China Peiping radio
said Saturday night Chinese and
North Korean troop have infllrted
170,000 casualties on U. 8. forces
in the last 12 months. General
headquarters sources in Tokyo
called the report “fantastic.”)
In the six previous days of air
fighting, six MIGs were destroyed,
twp listed as probables and 14 dam
aged, the Fifth Air Force said. These
totals did not Include the eight
enemy planes damaged Saturday.
The Fifth Air Force said it had
lost two jets in the six days of air
fights as well as five fighters and
one helicopter to enemy groundfire.
Eight Okinawa based B-29s es
corted by 112 allied Jets were chal
lenged by more than 130 MIGs in
the latest air scrap over Sinanju.
The Fifth Air Force said all jet,
planes returned to their bases. Far
east headquarters in Tokyo an
nounced that one B-29 landed with
battle damage at a Korean air base.
Land Reserves
To Be Examined
By Interior
That a sweeping clean-up would
be made by the Interior Depart
ment on the land withdrawal situa
tion in Alaska with as many reser
vations as possible being elindna'
ed was stated by Dale E. Doty as
sistant secretary of the Interior,
who nddressed the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce last week.
Secretary Doty said, "It is a pol
icy of the Interior Department to
discourage land withdrawals." In
an effort to eliminate unneces
sary withdrawals, Doty said that the
Department is going to make a com
plete Inventory of every withdrawal
in Alaska and will then Initiate pro
ceedings to eliminate them.
Doty said, “There is no reason
for many of the withdrawals to
continue. There is an area near
Fairbanks that was withdrawn from
settlement as a musk ox reserve,
there haven't been any musk ox near
Fairbanks for more than ten years.
Not long ago a rabbit reserve was
discovered in Kodiak, but nobody
knew how long it had been since
a rabbit had been on it.”
Field Committee Meets
Secretary Doty was in Anchorage
to attend the quarterly meeting of
the Alaska Field Committee. He in
troduced the new field committee
chairman, George Rogers of Juneau
to the committee members, who are
directors of Interior agencies in Al
aska. Doty outlined plans for re
activating the committee’s program
designed to co-ordinate the activit
ies of the separate agencies.
Speaking at the meeting on pro
grams of individual agencies were
Joseph Morgan, Bureau of Reclam
ation; Clarence Rhode, Fish and
Wildlife Service; Lowell Puckett,
Bureau of Land Management; Hugh
Wade, Alaska Native Service; An
drew Herdlik, U. S. Bureau of Mines.
Interior Toiir Taken
Secretary Doty, accompanied by
Oeorge Rogers toured the Interior
and Railbelt area so that Doty could
become acquainted again with the
Territory.
After attending the official open
ing of the Anchorage-Seward high
way at Glrdwood. a party of Interior
officials traveled over the Alaska
Railroad in a gasmobile to Seward
and inspected the port and rail fac
ilities at both Anchorage and Sew
ard.
From Seward the group flew to
the lakes area of the Kenal Penin
sula. Agricultural lands that have
been classified and will soon be re
lased to homesteaders were visited
by the Secretary, who was accom
panied by Lowell Puckett, Alaska
director of the Bureau of Land
Management.
From Kenal the group flew in a
Fish and Wildlife plane to Palmer
where Doty Interviewed Don Irwin,
head of the experimental farm of
LIKES AMERICAN MEN
Leslie Caron (above), young
French dancing sensation, is wild
about both the Hollywood career
and the Ameriran husband she’s
gotten In less than a year. She's
married to (ieorg'a Hormcl, young
heir to the meat parking for
tune, and says she prefers Am
i rri.can men because lhey’‘re much
| more considerate «f their women,
j (ffl Wircphoto.
Price Curb
Tools No Good
SaysTfuman
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 — (J1 —
President Truman said todny that
“the tools Congress has given us,
| to curb inflation are not good
, enough to do the Job as it should
be done."
But he pledged ills administration
to do "its best” with the tools at
hand.
Mr. Truman's latest attack on the
price control law was in a speech |
prepared for the dedication of a
small triangular parkway here to
the memory of Samuel Gompers,
pioneer American labor leader.
"Scores of special interests have
ganged up together for the purpose
of securing special short-run ad
vantages for themselves at the ex
pense of all of us,” Mr. Truman
said. He added:
“These special interests have
adopted the principle that price
control is all right if it does not
require them to absorb a penny
more in costs, or forego a penny
of profit, no matter how high
their profits may be. This is the
main idea behind the terrible
Capehart amendment, which I
tried to have removed from the
price control law.”
This referred to a provision writ
ten into the law to'allow certain in
creases in celling prices in propor
tion to the production cost increases
since the original price-freeze.
Mr. Truman always refers to the
provision as the Capehart amend
ment, although Senator Capehart
tR-Ind) insists he was only one of
several Senators sponsoring the
measure. The administration failed
in efforts to eliminate the provision
before Congress adjourned last
week.
Richard Desmond of Long Bench,
Calif., is registered at the Barani f
Hotel.
the Department of Agriculture. Se
cretary Doty was with the General
Land Office when the Matanuska
colony was founded and it had been
| ten years since his last visit to
the farming community.
George Collins of the U. S. Park
Service was the Secretary's guide
at Mount McKinley National Pari:
The Park hotel will be operated
agin this winter as an Air Force rest
and recreation center.
In Fairbanks. Secretary Doty met
witli the Bonrd Regents of the
University of Alaska to discuss In
terior co-operative research pro
grams in wildlife management, ag
riculture, and mining.
Rogers To Washington
Secretary Doty returned to Wash
ington, D. C.. from Fairbanks. Rog
ers returned to Juneau on Thurs
day and will leave on Saturday to
attend a meeting of all field com
mittee chairmen in Washington, D.
C. He expects to be away for ten
(daJ’s'
Churchill
Takes Over
In Britain
Appoints Himself De
fense Minister; Eden,
Others Named to Cabinet
LONDON, Oct. 27 — l* — Prime
Minister Winston Churchill ap
pointed himself Britain's Defense
Minister todny and assigned to
dapper Anthony Eden the Jobs of
Foreign Secretary, Deputy Prime
Minister and leader of the House
of Commons,
In so doing, Churchill restored
the leadership which piloted Brit
ain through World War II. The
Defense Ministry will run the
nation's three-year $13,000,000,000
defense program and thus Is of
the utmost Importance to Churc
hill.
Ailing King George VI approved
eight appointments by the new
Prime Minister this morning at a
special session of the Privy Coun
cil at Buckingham Palace. More
appointments will be made later,
probably early next week.
Downing Street sources said
Churchill named the men to Ills
key posts only a few hours after
taking over as Prime Minister
because “of the critical foreign
and economic situation."
The new government, elected by
a minority vote, faces many critical
situations. Including the persistent
failure of the nation to pay its
way in the world trade by which
it lives, the threat of Communism
and the defiant tweaking of the
British Lion’s tall by segments of
the declining empire.
The sharp division which splits
tlir nation as Churchill takes over
was demonstrated by the fact
that although his Conservative
parly got, mor? parliamentary
w:.t* hi Thursday s flection than'
the Laborltes. they did so on less
of the popular vote. In other
words, more people—some 200.000
— voted Labor than Conservative,
but not In 4he right places.
In addition to handsome, 54
year-old Eden, today's appointments
included three peers, two business
men and two lawyers. The average
age of the eight and Churchill Is
CO 1/9 years. Clement Attlee’s
Labor government cabinet averaged
5!) 7 17.
Other cabinet appointments in
the new Conservative government:
Lord Woolton, 68, Lord President
of the Council with responsibility
for Food and Agriculture.
Richard Austen Butler, 48, Chan
cellor of the Exchequer.
Oliver Lvttlcton, 58, Colonial Sec
retary.
Sir Walter Mnnckton, 60 Minister
of Labor.
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe. 51. Home
Secretary and Minister for Welsh
Affairs.
Margt’e?* tf Salisbury, 58. Lord
Privy f»e_' spd leader of the House
of Lo ds.
Lord Irin.iy, 68, Sec -toiy for
Commonwealth Relations.
Son of Seward Man
Wounded in Korea
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 — 1*1 —
Cpl. Ronald E. Carlson, son of
George W. Carlson of Seward,
Alaska, was listed by the Defense
Department today among the Army's
wounded In Korea. There were no
details.
I 1
Baranof scheduled to arrive
southbound Sunday at 1 p.m.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver, Oct. 31.
Denali scheduled to arrive north
bound Monday.
Freighter Square Sinnet in port.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU •
• At Airport: Maximum, 39; •
• Minimum, 32. •
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• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Mostly cloudy with occasional •
• light rain showers tonight •
• and Sunday. Lowest tern- •
• perature tonight near 3 de- •
• grees, highest Sunday around •
• 41. •
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• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 houra ending 7:30 km. today •
• At Airport — 0.01 inches: •
• since July 1—12.64 inches. •