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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,951
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1951
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'Kitty and
Kitchen' Up
To Churchill
Solution of Home Front
Problems Awaited; New
Cabinet Men Named
LONDON, Oct. 30— (41 —Prime
Minister Winston Churchill named
six more ministers in his new gov
ernment today and then held his
first cabinet meeting to deal with
critical foreign and domestic prob
lems.
Churchill, smoking one of his big
gest cigars, entered 1 Downing
Street about 15 minutes before the
cabinet session began. A crowd of
about 500 persons standing in the
narrow street cheered.
London newspapers wondered,
meanwhile, when the Tory ehirf
• would make his first domestic pol
icy move. One paper summed up
Churchill’s most pressing home
front problems as “the kitty and
the kitchen”—finance and food.
The new cabinet ministers in
clude:
Harold MacMillan, 57, wealthy
book publisher, minister for hous
ing and local government.
Lord Leathers, 67, industrialist,
secretary of state for coordination
of transport, fuel and ‘ power.
Harry F .C. Crookshank, 58, min
ister of health and deputy leader
of the House of Commons.
Selwyn Lloyd, 47, was named
minister of state for foreign affairs
—the No. 2 man to foreign secretary
Anthony Eden in the foreign office.
Mrs. Hannah Penttinen
Dies on Salmon Creek
Trail Monday Night
Mrs. Hannah Penttinen, about 61
years old, was found dead on the
Salmon Creek trail last even "ig.
She had left the highway about 5
o’clock for her home at the upper
power house. When she failed to
arrive men from the power house
investigated and found her body.
Apparently she had suffered a
heart attack.
She is survived by her husband
who had recently been discharged
from the hospital and was con
valescing at home.
Mrs. Penntinen was a long time
resident of the Gastineau channel
area.
No funeral arrangements have
been announced.
Stabbed to Death
As He Sleeps
In Guarded Room
SAIGON, Indochina, Oct. 30—IP1—
The French Commissioner for the
Indochinese State of Cambodia was
stabbed to death by a servant yes
terday as he lay sleeping in the bed
room of his heavily guarded palace
in Pnom Penh.
French police announced that
Jean Leon Francois Marie de Ray
mond, who had been commissioner
since 1949, was slain by Pham Ngoc
Lam, a Vietnamese servant who
fled after the crime.
An accomplice — also a servant
of the palace staff—was arrested
last night and confessed details of
the crime, police said.
Thousands of police, French and
Cambodian troops engaged in a
huge manhunt for the assassin.
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
(Cooyrlght. 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.-)
By DREW PEARSON
TFaSHINGTON—It now looks as
if Senators’ secretaries might be
put on the investigating griddle. If
so, this column has turned up a let
ter pertaining to the office of Nev
ada’s Senator “Molly” Malone that
makes Flo Bratton, secretary to
Vice President Barkley, look like a
sandwich-snitcher at a Sunday
school picnic.
The letter was written by Senator
Malone’s administrative assistant,
Ben Whitehurst, and proposed that
he work for the Long Beach, Calif.,
harbor commissioners against fed
eral ownership of Tidelands Oil—
for fifty grand plus expenses and
plus taxes. The funny thing about
the letter is that Whitehurst’s boss,
the Senator from Nevada, is now
for federal ownership of Tidelands
OU.
Of course, the Senator has had
a position on the blUion-dollar
submerged oil lands which seems
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Anchorage Blaze
Hay Have Been Tel;
Two Lives Are Lost
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 30—
M"!—Anchorage fire and police of
ficials called in a military arson
expert today to determine if a Sun
day fire which claimed two lives
might have been set.
Noel J. Robinson, 35, a bartender,
and Renee Lee, 22, a night club
dancer, died in the fire in Olivera's
restaurant. The building was des
troyed with loss estimated by fire
men at $50,000.
Robinson occupied one room on
the upper floor of the restaurant.
Firemen said he died attempting
to escape through a narrow window.
Fire and smoke apparently cut off
the escape route through other
rooms which had large windows.
Miss Lee's body was found on the
floor in Robinson’s room, firemen
said.
Jay Kennedy, 35, owner of the
restaurant, jumped 16 feet from his
own room on the upper lloor and
suffered miner injuries and shock.
Police said firemen saved canvas
bags containing the restaurant's
weekly receipts.
Infantrymen Beat
Back Attack on
Heartbreak Ridge
By SAM SUMMERLIN
U. S. 8th ARMY HEADQUART
ERS. Korea, Oct. 30—UP)—Allied in
fantrymen In eastern Korea beat
back an attack near Heartbreak
Rridge by 1,000 Chinese in predawn
darkness today, then drove ahead
1,000 yards in daylight.
On the western front United
Nations forces gained more than
half a mile northwest of Yonchon
with little trouble.
Reinforced Chinese who had hurl
ed day-long attacks at the allies
southeast of Kumsong in the center
of the line Monday made only two
. V| • 1 . „ftn Tm-Ho
Both were turned back.
In the air war Communist anti
aircraft guns shot down two Am
erican planes Tuesday—an F-80
Shooting Star jet and a reconnais
sance plane. The Fifth Air Force
said there was “no chance of pilot
survival.”
For the second straight day Red
jet pilots refused to fight Ameri
can jets over MIG alley in North
west Korea.
Anchorage Union
To Appeal Court's
$8,000 Judgment
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 30—
lift—A driver's $8,000 court verdict
against the Teamsters’ Union Local
and its former secretary is appar
ently headed for a higher court.
Defense Attorney Peter Kala
marides says he plans to file an
appeal from the Third District Court
jury verdict of last weekend. The
deadline for filing does not come
until the end of this week.
The verdict was for Ralph L.
Born against the union local 959
and George Cease, the former sec
retary and trustee.
Born alleged that he had been
deprived of his livelihood as a
truck driver through Cease’s arbi
trary action in issuing him a with
drawal card last September and
in refusing later to reinstate him.
Born sued for $10,000. The jury
awarded him $3,000 actual damages
and $5,000 In punitive damages.
The defense had contended that
Born could have appealed within
the union by asking for a union
trial of any charges he made against
Cease.
The jury held that the union trial
machinery did not actually consti
tute a bona fide right of appeal.
Born testified at the trial that
he felt it would be "fruitless” to ask
for a union trial. He declared such
a trial would have been before
"stooges that Cease appointed,”
when Born and another member
were ousted from the local’s gov
erning body.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Oct. 30—W—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%, American Can
1C8‘4, American Tel. and Tel. 156%,
Genera] Electric 55Vi, General Mo
tors 49*4, Goodyear 43Vi, Kennecctt
82%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%,
Northern Pacific 53% Standard
Oil of California 50'4, Twentieth
Century Fox 21 Vi, U.S. Steel 41%,
Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange
95.75.
Sales today were 1,530,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 260.52, rails 79.59, util
ities 45.36.
Postal Rales
Bill Signed
By Truman
Penny Post Card Out
Next Feb. I; News
papers, Magazines Up
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30—1.41—Pre
sident Truman today signed the
postal rate increase bill which
dooms the penny post card as a
part of a $117,000,000 annual boost
in postal charges.
The new two-cent rate on post
cards goes into effect next Feb. 1.
In addition, there will be a 10
percent boost in mailing charges
for newspapers and magazines April
1 next year. Two other 10 percent
increases on this type of mail will
take effect April 1, 1953, and April
1, 1954, making a 30 percent hike
in all.
An increase in the charge for
third class mail—largely circulars
and advertising—will take place
July 1, 1952. This is achieved by
I hiking the minimum bulk rate
from one cent to one and one-half
cents a piece.
Charges for most postpoofice spe
cial services—such as insured mail,
special delivery, registered mail
and COD deliveries—will go up
next Feb.- 1.
Untie Military
Piers, But N. Y.
Strike Still On
NEW YORK, Oct. 30—UP!—Insur
l gent stevedores ended their boy
> eott of military piers today, but
I otherwise, tnefe was only a small
1 dent in the dock strike that has
j immobilized the world/s biggest
I port.
For the first time since the bil
1 lion-dollar, 16-day waterfront shut
; down began, defense loading and
; unloading jobs apparently were
1 fully manned by regular longshore
j crews.
j Picket lines disappeared from the
1 military docks in Staten Island,
I Jersey City and at Brooklyn’s huge
j army base, where more than 50C
| rebel strikers streamed back to
| work.
But elsewhere along the miles of
j idle docks, pickets still marched,
j Only on one Hudson River pier did
non-strikers succeed for a second
day in circumventing the picket
barriers.
At pier 90, where the big British
liner Queen Elizabeth is berthed,
two gangs of longshoremen shut
tled past a jeering, pushing mob of
250 strikers held back by police.
Here and there, fistfights flered
about the dock. But there was no
general disorder. Police detained
one picket temporarily.
The more than 20,000 strikers,
here and in Boston, are in revolt
against a new contract and have
i defied orders of Joseph Ryan pre
sident of the AFL International
Longshoremen Association, to re
turn to work.
John J. Sampson, leader of the
wilddcat dock strike, agreed yester
day to the lifting of the blockade
of military cargoes, but said strikers
“will stand united and continue
the strike” against other shipping.
O'Daniel Back from
Legion Convention
John O’Daniel, commander of the
American Legion post at Skagway,
returned yesterday from the Miami
convention and left today for his
home. O’Daniel makes a plea for
unity among the Alaska posts rela
tive to Alaskan affairs. He was suc
cessful in having passed certain
resolutions pertaining to Alaska is
sues at the convention.
ALASKA POTTERS TO
MEET WEDNESDAY
The Alaska Potters will meet in
the club rooms Wednesday at 8
p.m. to glaze ware that has been
discue fired. Clay has arrived and
there will be leaves for those who
wish to make more leaf dishes.
A demonstration of stacking for
a glaze firing will be given at the
meeting.
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Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Nov. 2.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Wednesday.
Denali scheduled to arrive south
1 bound Nov. 4.
Franchot Tone Spits
In Writer's Face,
Lands Behind Bars
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 30 — tfl -
Franchot Tone, the movie actor
went to jail today accused of spit
ting in the face of a veteran movie
columnist, red-haired Florabel Muir
The booking was suspicion of bat
tery, on a citizen’s arrest signed bj
the newspaper and magazine writer
The incident occurred at Ciro’s
night club on the Sunset Strip.
Miss Muir told police the actor
new husband of actress Barbara
Payton, came to her table, muttered
something uncomplimentary, then
said:
"Florabel, I’m so mad I could
spit in your face. As a matter of
fact, I will.”
He did.
The columnist said she slapped
him and he kicked her in the shins.
She summoned sheriff’s deputies,
who took him into custody.
Six hours later he was released
on $500 bail.
Sgt. John Norris said Tone told
him: “Sure I spit at her, but I
didn't kick her. It's just been one
provocation after another with
her.” '
Miss Muir said Tone made no
specific complaint before the fuss.
Her column contained frequent ref
erences several weeks ago to Tone's
celebrated clash with actor Tom
Neal over Miss Payton’s affections.
He took a thorough beating from
the athletic younfe Neal, but won the
heroine at the finish.
Married in her home town of
Cloquet, Minn., they returned to
Hollywood yesterday. She has been
on a personal appearance tour.
DEMANDS JURY TRIAL
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 30 — IvPl —
Franchot Tone demanded a jury
trial today on charges that he spit
in the face of columnist Florabel
Muir in a night club encounter.
The actor and the red-haired
writer faced each other without a
word between them in Beverly Hills
justice court.
When ♦he rnc f'uallv was called—
a inis'/emeanor charge* of assaut
and battery—lawyer Leis said Tone
was pleading innocent and requested
a jury trial.
Trial -was set for Dec. 11 and
the $500 bail was continued.
Tone said previously that he would
tell his story in court. He was
i arrested on Miss Muir's citizen's
I complaint.
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Mother Trapped
(In Wrecked Plane
Watches Son Die
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Oct.
30—(jP)— A mother, trapped upside
down for 20 hours in a wrecked
plane with >her dead husband, tells
of watching her son die as help ap
proached.
| The mother, Mrs. Maye Morten
sen, 33, and her daughter, Kath
leen, 5, were pulled alive but ser
iously injured from the jammed
up wreckage.
Her husband, Richard G. Mort
i ensen, 33, was killed outright in
the crash, and lie son, Russell, 3,
died many hours later. Officials said
they believed the boy suffered a
skull fracture.
The Seattle family crashed Sun
day night on a wooded ridge near
here while returning in their pri
vate plane from a visit to Belling
ham 80 miles to the north. They
were not located until yesterday
afternoon.
"I knew Dick was dead,” said Mrs.
Mortensen from a hospital bed. “But
Russ lived for a long time as we
lay there. I believe he died just
a little while before the rescuers
came. Perhaps if they had come
sooner he would have lived.”
Little Kathy’s first words as she
was taken from the plane wreckage
were: “If I could just sit dowm.”
She was trapped the entire time in
a bent-over standing position.
Mrs. Mortensen said visibility
was good before the accident.
"We were just going along and
suddenly I heard a big bang,” she
said. "That’s the last thing I re
member before we hit.”
Officials said they believed the
“bang” was when a wingtip hit
a tree. The plane continued on a
lew hundred yards, cut a sw'ath
through trees and landed upside
down in dense woods.
The wingtip was found bf a farm
er yesterday and the plane was
located some time later. Rescuers
virtually had to tear the plant
apart to reach the victims. Two
hours were required to free them.
AT THE BARANOF
J. C. Dawson of Ketchikan is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM CORDOVA
Richard Ziman of Cordova is at
the Hotel Juneau.
A-Bomb Test Explosion
Causes Brilliant Flash
And Mushrooming Cloud
Bridges
Monopoly
Challenged
SAM FRANCISCO. Oct. 30—Ml—
Harry Bridges monopoly on west
coast dock work from San Diego
north to Seattle was challenged to
day in a contract Isthmian Steam
ship Co., signed with the new San
Francisco local of Joseph Ryan’s
AFL International Longshoremen’s
Assn.
The pact was drawn up in what
appeared to be an attempt to end
the exclusive jurisdiction over dock
work claimed since 1934 by Bridges’
International Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union.
Isthmian only last week hired 53
AFL longshoremen to work Its
struck ships. Serious waterfront
trouble might explode if these men
were put to work.
Isthmian officials would not dis
I cuss details of the contract, but
said “it is a better contract than
that of the ILWU.” Wages and
| overtime rates, they said, are sim
ilar to the $1.97 and $2.95'_• pro
vided in the ILWU’s master west
coast agreement.
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COURT ORDER ISSUED
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 30—<API—
The Isthmian Steamship Company
today won a court ruling which may
enable it to use AFL longshoremen,
in defiance of Harry Bridges’ union.
Superior Judge Clarence W. Mor
ris ruled that the bitter dispute
over Isthmian ships was a "juris
dictional strike.”
Court observers said this prob
ab'y would have the effect of caus
i” iVemoval of a temporary injunc
tion issued to Bridges’ union against
Isthmian.
Holding in favor of Isthmian,
Judge Morris said the "marine en
gineers beneficial association-isth
mian dispute did degenerate, if
that is the proper word, into a so
called jurisdictional strike.”
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School Enrollment
In Alaska Jumps
1,700 This Year
The enrollment in Alaska’s schools
has increased from a total of 12,896
last year to 14,597 this year, ac
cording to the Territorial Depart
! ment of Education.
Enrollment figures show an in
crease of 194 students in the high
schools and 1,507 in the elementary
grades. Ninety-seven new teachers
have been added as a result of the
increased population, 72 in the ele
| mentary schools and 25 on the
; high school level.
The Department of Education has j
i taken over five schools under the I
johnson?0’Malley act from thej
Alaska Native Service. These schools I
are at Alitak, Afognak, Copper Cen- j
ter, Old Harbor and Ouzinkie. Also |
eight schools have been established!
on military bases. Figures show
98 schools under the department
this year as compared with 94 last:
year. There were nine more rural
schools last year than this year, but
the new schools on contract from
ANS and the military base schools
increase the overall total by four.
Under the department in Alaska
are: 26 city schools, 59 rural schools,
five from ANS, and eight on mili
tary bases.
In Alaska there are 10,718 en
rolled in city elementary and high
chools, 1,784 in rural elementary
end high schools, 134 in the schools
on contract from ANS, and 1,961 in
chools on military bases. There
are 750 teachers of all grades this
year compared with 653 last year.
Of the 750, 544 are women teachers
end 206 are men.
FROM RUBY
Ed Gurtler of Ruby is stopping
at the Baranof Hotel.
VISITOR FROM ANCHORAGE
Barbara Burrer of Anchorage is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
1 TIDE TABLES]]
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• OCTOBER 31 •
• •
• High tide 2:08 a.m., 17.0 ft. •
• Low tl(Je 7:54 a.m., 1.9 ft. •
• High tide 1:57 p.m., 19.7 ft. •
• Low tide 8:32 p.m., -3.2 ft. •
I.
• L1A0 vecjas, Oct. 30—A bril
liant flash, followed by a mushroom
ing cloud which shot up with the
speed of a rocket, markeij the
third of the AEC’s current series of
atomic tests today.
Despite a bright dawn, the flash
was visible here, some 75 miles away.
Throngs of early risers gathered in
knots at every high vantage point
to watch.
Dennis Schieck. photographer for
the Las Vegas Review-Normal, had
a vantage point in an airplane fly
ing over Las Vegas, given special
CAA clearance despite a general ban
on private aircraft within a wide
range of the testing ground.
Schieck said that, from his
7,000-foot altitude, he caught a
brief glimpse of a skyrocketing
fireball, quickly blanketed out by
a cloud which he reported ap
peared to be ice-capped.
At Henderson, Nev., 11 miles east
of here toward Hoover Dam, houses
rattled a few minutes after the
blast, but residents said there was
none of the noise which accom
panied the second in the series last
Sunday.
Schieck said an airplane was vis
ible at high altitude shortly before
today’s explosion.
The light itself was white, much
like a giant camera flash bulb.
There was a light purple tinge at
the start.
The mushroom was n beautiful
thing, observers agreed. The top
burgeoned out, at the apex of a
towering stem.
There was no shock felt in Las
Vegas within the time limit neces
sary for sound waves normally to
travel from the Vucca Flat range
more than 75 miles from here.
That would Indicate that it was
considerably less severe than several
during a series last February, two
of which broke Windows in Las
Vegas.
Death March Vet
Sent from Hospital
To Korean Front
oEA I I LE, Oct. 30—UPl— Mrs. Eu-j
gene Corder says her husband, a I
survivor of the Bataan death march, I
is in Korea by mistake and she j
wants him back.
She told a Post Intelligencer in
terviewer:
“I knew it would happen. He isn't
in condition for army life anymore
and never will be. He took too
much while in the service befo’e."
She said her husband, Cpl. Eu
gene Sturant Corder, 31, weighed
only 80 pounds when freed after
3 years as a prisoner of war of
the Japanese.
‘‘He was wounded and had receiv
ed the Purple Heart medal before
being taken prisoner,” she wrote.
“When he was discharged in 1946,
he was given 60 percent disability.”
He stayed in the reserves and
was called into active service last
November.
Mrs. Corder continued:
He was ordered overseas last Feb
ruary but was hospitalized because
of old wounds.
After several months hospitaliza
tion he was suddenly ordered over
seas and 10 days later was on his
way to Korea. His letters Indicate
he has seen frontline duty.
“My husband and I have botn
protested to every official possible.
All we ever get for an answer is
that ‘there must have be m some
mistake’.”
She said she has written to both
the surgeon general of the army
and to Rep. Hugh B. Mitchell (D
Wash). Mitchell, she said, replied
he had asked that Corder be given
a complete physical examinaticn
to determine his physical fitness.
Mitchell and army sources were
not available for comment.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• (V. 8. WEATHER BUREAU •
• At Airport: Maximum, 39; •
• Minimum, 21. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau arid Vicinity) •
• Mostly fair with occasion- •
• ally gusty northeasterly •
• winds tonight and Wednes- •
• day. Low tonight about 30 •
• in town and as low as 25 in •
• outlying areas. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 boars endlni 7:30 am. today •
• At Airport — None; •
• since July 1—12.94 inches. •
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Out with Boys
Says Crooner, So
Wife Given Divorce
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 30
—(J)—Nancy Sinatra won a divorce
from her crooning husband today
without mention of his traveling
companion, Ava Gardner.
In fact, the dark-haired wife and
mother testified that Sinatra ex
plained his prolonged absences from
home with the old alibi:
"I was out with the boys.”
Superior Judge Orlando H. Rhod
es granted the divorce on grounds
of cruelty Just a year and a month
atfer she had won a previous de
cree of separate maintenance.
Judge Rhodes approved a property
settlement wherein Mrs. Sinatra
will get 33 percent of the singer's
income up to $150,000 annually and
10 percent when it goes over that
figure.
Sinatra already has filed for a
Nevada divorce. He and Miss Gard
ner romanced during his six weeks
required residence in Nevada, and
are now in New York City where
Sinatra appears on television.
Mrs. Sinatra gets custody of the
couple's three children, Nancy 11,
Frank, Jr., 7 and Christina, 3.
Maine Village
Isolated by
Heavy Snow Fall
By Associated Press
The village of Millinocket, Maine,
is digging out of a six-inch snow
storm—the first of the season. The
fall cut communications and left
the paper mill town and eight other
communities in Maine unable even
to report their plight to the out
side world.
Finally, an Associated Press Cor
respondent, Mrs. Dean Chase, got
the word to the Portland Bureau,
ever amateur radio facilities.
Tug Has Trouble
In Bering Sea
According to information received
by U. S. Coast Guard headquarters
here that the tug Kozebue lost a
l arge 40 miles east of Northeast
Cape on St. Lawrence Island last
Sunday.
The message came from the motor
vessel Peter G and said that two!
men were aboard. The Kotzebue
is owned by Archie Ferguson of the 1
Arctic Oil Sales Co., at Kotzebue. |
The Navy is in charge of assistance
operations.
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Report Says Body
Found on Beach
In Rocky Pass
A report of a headless body found
on a beach In Rocky Pass, near
Kake, Is being investigated by Ralph
Smith, U. S. Deputy Marshal at
Petersburg.
A telegram from Smith to the U.
S. Marshal’s office in Juneau stat
ed that he was leaving on the Coast
Guard cutter Hemlock today to in
vestigate the report.
OPS Liaison Man
Now Available
For Territory
A representative of the Office
of Price Stabilization will now be
available to act as liason man be
tween small business men and the
OPS, the Territorial Office of Price
Stabilization said today.
J. Herbert Melghan of Washing
ton, D. C., director of OPS opera
tions in all the territories, said he
had appointed Fred G. Hanford,
Alaska Director, as “Small Business
Affairs” representative in Alaska.
“This means that, in accordance
with terms of the National Defense
Act, we will set up a procedure to
render special assistance to small
businesses,” Hanford said. “We will
make available a representative of
this office to attend meetings of
business men, or any meeting called,
by the governor’s office or munici
pal body at which the problems of
small businesses are discussed.”
Hanford defined a “small busi
ness” as one which is “independently
owned and which is not dominant
in its field.” He added that most
Alaska Businesses could be classified
as small in comparison with state
side standards.
“When developing regulations or
applying present ones, we want to
work with merchants. We want re
gulations to be understandable be
cause an understandable regulation
is an effective one,” Hanford said.
Hanford said the Juneau office
would make speakers available for
meetings of businessmen or any
organization which has an interest
in the affairs of small businesses.
3 Vessels
In Flaming
Collision
Seven Crewmen Dead,
Others Missing; Captain,
Helmsman Die as Heroes
BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct. 30—<jR—At
least seven men were dead and five
missing today after the flaming
collision of three vessels In Buffalo
harbor.
A charred mass of bodies was
found this morning In the cabin of
the tug Dauntless. Three bodies
had been recovered earlier.
The Great Lakes freighter Pen
obscot rammed the leaded oil
barge Moranla shortly after •
p.m., last night, and the barge
exploded. Its 800,000 gallons of
gasoline showered the freighter
and the tug, which was pushing
the barge.
The 45-foot, 6.50Qrton freighter
was one of the largest on the Oreat
Lakes.
The cause of the accident was
not determined. The harbor was
dark, but the night was clear.
The Penobscot, which had un
loaded a grain cargo Sunday, was
leaving the harbor for Detroit and
Duluth. The barge was Inbound.
The Coast Ouard said the pile of
bodies found on the tug accounted
for the six members of the crew
that had been listed as missing. The
body of one unidentified tug crew
man had been found earlier. The
captain escaped with minor Injuries.
Capt. Louis Guyette of the Pen
obscot and his helmsman, Roy
Richardson, 56, both of Port Hu
ron, Mich., died heroically In the
freighter's pilot house. Their
bodies also were recovered earlier.
Captain Guyette and his helms
man stayed at their posts to back
the freighter away from the bum
iijg hurge. They rangmed their ves
sel's stern' into a dock, so that sev
eral crewmen were able to slide
down a rope to safety.
"The captain saved us, the
captain saved us!” Jimmy Harnett,
an 18-year-old deckhand ship
ping for the second time, screamed,
tears rolling down his cheeks.
Edward Myers, 57, a watchman on
the Penobscot and an old hand on
the lakes, told the story of his
skipper’s heroism.
"The Old Man and Roy stayed In
the tower, put her in reverse and
sent her back toward the dock. They
were both dead when we rammed
the dock.
"‘I tied a line and about 12 of
us slid down it."
Canned Salmon
Contract Awards
Over 1^ Million
SEATTLE. Oct. 30—(fl—Contract
awards for more than $1,601,236
worth of canned salmon were an
nounced yesterday by the Oakland
Quartermaster Procurement Agency.
Twelve Seattle firms and one
from Bellingham shared the awards.
Seattle firms were: Kelly-Clarke
Co., $89,040; Anderson and Mish
kin, Ltd., $77,584; Peninsula Pack
ers, $123,920; Frank B. Peterson
Co., $90,480; P. E. Harris Co., $83,
808; Fldalgo Island Packing Co.,
$246,808; Kenal Packers, “exceeds
$250,000," Whitney and Co., "exceeds
$250,000,” McGovern and McGovern,
$155,000; Port Ashton Packing Co.,
$30,440; Annette Islands Canning
Co., $131,336: Bristol Bay Packing
Co., $46,560; Pacific American Fish
eries, Inc., of Bellingham, $26,250.
Strikes at Three
Atomic Plants
Ends Alter 7 Days
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 30—W5
AFL construction workers flocked
back to work on three atomic plant
jobs today to end a seven-day
strike.
There was no immediate estimate
of the number of workers on hand,
but an Atomic Energy Commission
spokesman said all crafts employed
on the projects apparently were
represented.
A steady early morning rain may
have prevented some men from re
turning to the jobs, the spokesman
added.
The end of the walkout was her
alded yesterdky when leaders of
Plumbers Local 102 withdrew pickets
from the projects. The plumbers
had walked out last Tuesday in a
jurisdictional dispute with members
of AFL Carpenters Local 60.