THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" _
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,731
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1951
MEMCER ASSOCIATED TRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Reds Ram Deep Wedge into Allied Defenses
SLEUTH BILL IS
NOW HANGING
IN SUSPENSE
Held Over for Reconsider
ation Tomorrow-Emer
gency Clause Fails
Ry BOB DEARMOND
Will Alaska have n Legislative
Investigating Committee?
Or a Legislative Council, with
power to conduct investigations?
Or neither or both?
Rep. Franklin’s Investigating
Committee bill passed the House
Saturday afternoon by a 14-10 vote.
Among the 14 on the prevailing
side, however, was Rep. Stanley
McCutcheon, who had earlier laid
down a heavy barrage against the
bill and against investigating com
mittees generally.
But by voting on the prevailing
side, he gained the privilege of re
considering his vote, and he at once
gave notice of his intention to re
consider.
This automatically held the bill
over until the next time the House
meets, which will be tomorrow'.
The vote on the emergency clause,
which would put the law into effect
the moment it is approved, was
*3-11, three short of the 16 neces
sary.
Delays in rears
The failure of the emergency
clause apparently would delay the
effect of the bill for two years, as
suming that it passes both houses
and is approved by the Governor,
The bill provides for election of
the committee, two members from
the House and two from the Senate,
‘not later than 5 days after the
effective date of this act."
In the absence of an emergency
clause, the bill would not become
effective until 90 days after its ap
proval by the Govenor. The Legis
lature would not then be in session
to elect members to the committee
and the first election — unless a
special session intervenes — would
be within five days after the next
Legislature is organized.
Plenty of Safeguards
Rep. Franklin, speaking in support
)f his bill, admitted that as orig
nally drafted it had insufficient
iafeguards for persons or depart
nents under investigation.
A thorough job of amending had
■orrected these faults, Franklin as
erted.
He urged the passage of his bill
ather than H.B. 21, Rep. Kay’s
lill to create a Legislative Council.
Rep. Kay's bill, Franklin said,
las many virtues but would be too
mwieldy and expensive to do the
,'ork for which H.B. 7 was designed.
He estimated that the Kay bill
ould cost $50,000 a biennium. The
ppropriation to carry out investi
ations under Franklin’s bill is
7,500 for the biennium.
Vicious Boomerang
“House Bill 7 sets up a vicious
oomerang and persons who vote
fhe Washington
(Jerry - Go -Round
By DREW PEARSON
’opyrisht, 1951. oy Bell Syndicate. Inc..
Washington—Today the ss
agtedyk sails from Philadelphia,
ty of brotherly live, bearing the
rst cargo of the tide of toys bo
.nope. This is a friendship cargo
hich the American Legion has
linstakingly collected from all
irts of the U. S. A. for the child
n of Europe and for the families
American GI's in Korea.
Last year the Legion sent
>00.000 toys to Europe. Frequent
drives of this kind slacken after
e first year. People get tired or
scouraged, figure the need isn’t
ilte so great. But the Legion has
versed this trend, and the amaz
g total of 7,000,000 toys have now
en contributed by children who
uld spare a toy from under their
rn Christmas tree.
What the Legion and its friends
ve realized is that money
nnot buy friendship. Nor can
e shipment of arms build friend
ip. Nor can the rebuilding cf
ropean factories, important as
at is, buila friendship. It is the
ople-to-people understanding,
ch as comes through a gift of a
(Continued on Page Four)
A NORTHERN NOTEBOOK
9
By BOB I>E ARMONB
(Seventeenth of a Series)
It seems at times that Indian
Reservations must be almost as
much of an annoyance and bother
j to the Congress of the United States
as they are to the people of Alaska.
Because of the bother they cause
Congress, it is small wonder that
our Senators and Representatives
do not look unfavorably upon a
clause in the Alaska statehood bill
that would rid them of the prob
'em, so far as Alaska is concerned,
once and for all.
The Senate section of the Con
gressional Record for January 22
devotes several pages to the trou
bles of the Colville Indians of the
State of Washington.
The Colville Indians, it appears,
have a reservation and have had one
for several years. They also have
some claims against the govern
ment, and the whole business is
mixed up with mineral rights, tim
ber rights, the Bureau of Indian
Affairs and some assorted lawyers,
including one James E.Curry, whose
name is not wholly unfamiliar to
Alaskans.
The Colville Indians appear to be
vetting nowhere with the settlement
of their claims and the consequence i
is that most cf the original 3,400
Indians who lived on the reserva
tion have given the whole thing up
as a bad job and moved away to
Idaho or Canada or rime other
place.
The ones who remain cn he res
ervation are still fighting it out
with the lawyers and the bureaus
and not making much headway.
One ot their latest efforts is a pe
tition addressed to Senator Hugh
Butler and signed by Har .’ey St.
Paul and 570 others.
The petition says:
‘ More people are living in pover
ty today than when the Colville
Indian Reservation was established
Hunting and fishing are negligible
tow'ard support of our people.
‘‘Our economic life has been rev
olutionized and yet we are not al
lowed to buy and sell our own prop
erty. Business principles are com
pletely ignored.
“Our capital resources cannot be
sold and developed. People who own
large tracts of timber live in a hove'
but cannot sell their timber. They
are forced to wait until one of the
big favored lumber companie ys
tematically cuts large tracts of lim
ber and reaches the individual’s
land.
“Red tape and a desire to per
petuate themselves in office by
members of the Indian service have
not been conducive to economic de
velopment of our Indian resource
“People will not establish industry
‘or business when they cannct give
a long-term lease let alone a deed
We cannot develop capitalistic en
terprise under Soviet-type control.
“Why should we be ruled by in
dividuals who know nothing about
business?
“Why are we protected by a sys
tem of theoretical benevolent pa
ternalism?
“Are we not any more capable if
running our affairs than a colored
or white man?
“When are we going to be treated
on terms of equality? When can
we order a glass of beer the same
as any other citizen?
“It is time we were given our
freedom to live unrestricted as ordi
nary individuals instead of living
under the thumbs of small-minded
souls w'ho cannot see further than
their monthly pay check.
"Therefore ,the undersigned re
spectfully petition that we be freed,
given the rights, duties and privi
leges of a citizen.”
I
j for it may regret it,” Rep. Kay
I charged.
“This committee will be dominat
ed by which ever party has control
of the Legislature and will degen
erate into a party witch hunt,” he
1 asserted.
I On the other hand, Kay claimed.
I his own H.B. 21 would provide for
all necessary investigations and
with the added power of makint
studies of the governmental organ
ization and recommending changes
Kay also charged that there wa'
no provision in the bill for bipar
tisan membership on the committee
Fought Amendment
To this Rep. Mike Stepovich re
plied that when an amendment t<
provide bipartisan membership had
been suggested, Kay fought the
amendment.
The Franklin bill, said Stepo
vich, now provides all necessarj
safeguards — confidential hearing;
with heavy penalties for disclosing
information, conducting of hearing;
by the rules of evidence, and thf
right of witnesses to have attorney;
and to cross examine.
“All those who are interested ir
good, clean government should vote
for this bill,” Stepovich told thr
House.
Sees Old Hag
“I am about the most investigated
guy in the Territory of Alaska,” said
Rep. McCutcheon, “and I see ir
j this bill an old snaggle-toothed haf
with a pointed hat, • riding not z
broom but an elephant.”
McCutcheon attacked Mark Jen
sen, member of a special investi
gating committee created- by the
1949 Legislature, for what he said
was misuse of his position on the
committee.
“Three days before the last Pri
mary Election I woke up to find
that I was being hit by a baseball
I bat full of spikes. They really made
I the headlines, and I had no oppor
| tunity to make a statement. It was
really vicious, really unfair,” Mc
Cutcheon said.
A Man Named Mark
Rep. Doris Barnes had the answer
for that and for any and all people
in public office.
"Another man named Mark,” she
said, “long ago told us, ‘Let your
light so shine before men that men
may know your good works and
glorify thy Father who \~t in
Heaven’.”
Rep. Metcalfe saw the Franklin
bill as a “double-bladed axe,” and
Rep. Scavenius asserted that it
could be used to assassinate the
reputations of innocent people.
Observers today predicted that
the bill will pass on the reconsider
ation vote tomorrow by a 13-11
I
margin, but that there is no chance
of passing the emergency clause to
i make it effective at once.
"It just looks like some of these
Democrats are afraid to have any
thing investigated around here,”
commented Rep. George Miscovich
at the end of Saturday’s session.
3RD SECTION Of BOY
SCOUT COUNCIL MEETS
IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS
The Juneau section of the an
nual meeting of the Alaska Boy
Scout Council will be held this
evening in the City Council Cham
bers at 7; 45, with Council President
George A. Parks presiding.
This will be the third in the
cries of sectional meetings, with
the final session being held in
Ketchikan on Wednesday. The an
nual meetings include reports of
he Council operating committees,
jonsideration of the annual budget
,’or Alaska scouting, and election
)f officers for the ensuing year.
411 interested leaders and commit
eemen are invited to attend, in ad
lition to the regular voting mem
bers in this area.
Other council officers in Juneau
nclude Charles G. Burdick, coun
;il commissioner; Dr. James C.
Ryan, vice-president; G. E. Cleve
and, treasurer; Curtis G. Shat
,uck, who is chairman of the
Council’s camping and activities
;ommittee; Kenneth S. Clem,
chairman of the organization and
extension committee; and Rev. R.
R. Armstrong, council chairman
for leadership training.
Visiting legislators who are prom
■ inent in Alaska Council scouting
cave been invited to attend, in
cluding Fairbanks vice-president
V. L. Lhamon, district committee
members Alden Wilbur and Joe
Goble, also of Fairbanks; execu
tive board members Walter Hunt
ley of Palmer; Gunnard Engebreth
bf Anchorage, and Edward Locken
of Petersburg.
OLIVER ANDERSON
HERE ON BUSINESS
Oliver Anderson, ves .el operator
on t he Kuskokwim Ri i sr, came to
Juneau yesterday f’oir. Seattle and
will be here several days on busi
ness in connections with next sea
son’s river operations.
Anderson is a former resident
of Douglas and is finding time to
visit with old Channel friends
while here. He will return to Se
attle from Juneau and will go to his
headquarters at Bethel in the
spring.
FLOODS IN
WASH..B.C.
SUBSIDING
I
Five Thousand Persons Are
Homeless After 3-Day
Rampage of Rivers
— i
SEATTLE. Feb. 12 —WPt— Clear-i
ing skies and a sharp temperature
drop eased flood conditions in I
Western Washington and British
Columbia today and the weather
bureau said the "worst is over.”
Rain-swollen rivers were cresting
and slowly receding after a three
day rampage which had left an
estimated 5,000 persons homeless.
British Columbia counted at least:
five dead after a weekend of floods
and storms.
A state of emergency was in ef
fect in Western Washington and
five National Guard units were
called out as rampaging rivers
crashed through dikes an*, spilled
out over lowlands.
The Red Cross here said National
Headquarters had made a disaster
appropriation for the area.
State of Emergency
Governor Langlie proclaimed a
state of emergency after some 4,600
persons had been driven from their
homes in Northwest Washington.
Another 650 were homeless in Brit
ish Columbia’s flooded Fraser River
Valley.
Rivers spilled their banks after
1 three days of record rain. The
weather bureau said early today
clearing weather had generally eas
ed flood conditions throughout the
area. All streams were falling with
the exception of the lower reaches
of the Green River in Western
Washington.
B. C. Situation
Rivers also were receding in Brit
ish Columbia and the situation was
reported greatly improved a t
Princeton where the Tulameen and
Similkameen Rivers had found
channels through an ice jam.
The highest water in many years
was reported on the Skagit River
in Northwestern Washington. More
than 1,000 persons were evacuated
from the low-lying Skagit delta.
The communities of Hamilton and
Conway were virtually deserted and
children and the aged were re
moved from the Stanwood area.
In Southwestern Washington,
the Cowlitz River crested at 22-feet,
—the highest level since 1948. The
rampaging river ripped out two
huge log booms and endangered the
Cowlitz River bridge between Long
view and Kelso.
I --
Picking Them Young
For Brides; See What
Matrimony Is Doing
(By Associated Press)
Matrimony is the big news in the I
Middle-East today. In Tehran, the;
Shad of Iran marries his second
wife today — the 19-year-old
daughter of a tribal leader. And in
Cairo, Egyptians are celebrating
the engagement of their King Far
ouk to 17-year-old Narriman Sadek.
Egyptian school children have been
given a two weeks vacation in honor
of the kings birthday and engage
ment.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum
23; minimum, 11.
At Airport — Maximum,
20; minimum, -7.
forecast
Mostly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday with occasional
snow flurries Tuesday after
noon. Lowest temperature
tonight about 15 and highest
Tuesday near 27.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today i
City of Juneau — None;
Since Feb. 1 — .10 inches:
since July - — 42.08 inches;
At Airport — None;
since Feb. 1 — .10 inches;
since July 1—30.35 inches.
Explosion Wrecks Plant
sz-—« -••••* -» ~ WSKM ':i:~ M
This is a general view of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing C^. plant at St. Paul, Minn, which
was damaged heavily by an explosion. At least 9 persons were reported killed and more than 40 injured.
At lower left is a railway boxcar which was overturned and shattered by the force of the explosion. (/PI
Wirephoto. __
COUPLE FROM
ALASKA,DEAD,
PLANE CRASH
MALIBU, Calif., Feb. 12 —UR—
A man and a woman were found
dead today in the wreckage of an
amphibian plane which crashed
yesterday in the Santa Monica
mountains near Topanga Canyon,
I Deputies said the man carried a
I pilots license in the name of E.
j Dale Gilman, 40, of Box 749, Anch
I orage, Alaska. The woman was iden
j tifted as Lois Gilman, 37, believed
, to be his wife.
The sheriffs areo Squadron first
received a report that three victims
had been found in the crash, but
this proved to be erroneous.
A search for the pline, a Grum
man, had been on unce yesterday
when deputies hea'd it flying low
in the fog. St came in from sea,
thev .aid, its engine sputtering.
Later, hikers reported hearing it
crash.
The aero squadron said the plane
was registered to the Portland, Ore.,
Power and Light Co., but the com
pany reported that it had sold the
craft through a broker several
months ago. The buyei was Gilman.
LEFT ANCHORAGE IN OCT.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 12—
UP4— Mr. and Mrs. Dale Gilman, re
ported killed in a plane crash Sun
day near Malibu, Calif., left here
last October for a flying vacation
in the States.
Gilman, an experienced flier, "as
owner of Gilmans Bakery here. His
wife, Lois, operated the Lois L'-auty
Shop here.
THOMPSON GOING
TO CALIFORNIA
Jack Thompson, co-owner and
manager of the S n’ T store in
Juneau left Sunday enroute tc
southern California where he plam
to spend the next three months
Jack says he is going to give a
warm, dry climate a try for reliev
ing a persistent sinus condition
and plans to work at a job in the
desert country.
During his absence the store will
be managed by Jack's mother,
Mrs. Lucille Stine wno owns the
business with her son.
ALBRECHT TO WASHINGTON
dT. C. Earl Aibiec,.t, Alaska
Commissioner of Health, left last
week for Washington D. C., to at
tend a conference on the medical
program for the territory with of
ficials of the National Civilian De
fense.
TRANSPORT PLANE
EN CRASH; NONE OF
13 ABOARD INJURED
EDMONTON, Alberta, Feb. 12 —
(iFI—A U. S. Air Force C-54 trans
port plane made a forced landing
here yesterday after one of its pro
pellers came loose and crashed into
the cabin.
None of the 13 aboard was in
jured. \
Capt. P. M. Woods, the pilot,
said the No. 3 engine on the star
board side caught fire when the
plane was over Whitecourt, Alta.,
about 100 mile^ northwest of here,
on a flight to Elmendorf Field at
Anchorage, Alaska.
Fire extinguishers pu„ out the
fire, but the propeller crashed
against the cabin wall, carving a
hole three by six feet. The prop cut
all power, lines and damaged the
brakes, landing flaps and the hy
draulic system and the instruments.
Woods turned back to Edmonton
and made a landing without brakes.
The four-motored plane hit a snow
bank after running off the runway.
The C-54 was attached to the 54th
Troop Carrying Squadron.
CAPT. PIACCENTI IS
FIRST NU E GIVE
ALASKA ASSIGNMENT
j ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE,
Alaska- — The first Air Force Re
serve nurse in the Territory of Alas
i ka to volunteer for active duty and
be accepted is Captain Margaret
Piaccenti, wartime Flight Nurse
and veteran of the Far East.
Employed by the Alaska Native
Service at Mt. Edgecumbe hospital
ntll recently, Captain Piarcenti’s
ictive duty assignment is " ith the
.005th Air Force Hosr „al at El
nendorf AFB.
Captain Piaccenti volunteered for
’•ecall because she feels that, as in
1941 when she began her military
service, her “country needs nurses.”
She is a graduate of the Nor
wegian hospital in Brooklyn, New
York, class of 1940. Joining the ser -
ice in 1941, Captain Piaccenti »va->
stationed at Jackson. Mississippi,
and Florida until 1943 when she be
came a continental Air Evacuation
Nurse at Bowman Field. Kentucky.
Assigned overseas to the Far
Eastern theater in August of 1945,
she served in China, Japan, the
Phillipines, and Hawaii.
Captain Piaccenti returned to
civilian life in 1947 to attend St.
John’s University, where she grad
uated with a Bachelor of Science
degree in Nursing Education.
In September of 1950, Captain
Piaccenti came to Alaska to work
at the tuberculosis sanitorium at
Mt. Edgecumbe.
TEACHERS
DEMANDING
PAY RAISE
Oppose $300 a Year In
crease as Inequitable
to Cost ot Living
PALMER, Alaska, Feb. 12 -(.Pi
Palmer’s entire faculty of 23 teach
ers were on record today as oppos
ing a $300 per year wage Increase
for teachers as “inequitable.”
In a letter writing campaign this
week they supported Anchorage
teachers in a demand that the raise
be based on a cost of living survey
compiled last summer.
The protests went to legislators
and the Territorial Board of Educa
tion opposing the Increase proposed
by the executive committee of the
Alaska Education Association,
which is to come before the legis
lature.
They said the survey, showing
Seattle as 100 per cent, pegged Jun
eau at 130 per cent; Anchorage 161,
and Fairbanks and Nome at 196.
MRS. NORDALF, HERE
TO ATTEND MEETING
BOARD OF EDUCATION
—
Mrs. Ladessa Nordale of Fair
banks arrived in Juneau on the
Pan American plane Thursday to
attend the annual meeting of the
Board of the Territorial Depart
I merit of Education. She is a mem
I ber of the Board from the Fourth
Division.
Mrs. Nordale Is the wife of
Hjalmer Nordale of the well known
pioneer Fairbanks family, and
owner of the Nordale h tel there,
i She is a sister-in-law of K .therine
Nordale of Juneau.
GILLESPIE HAS HEW
JOB, ALASKA STEAM
Bert R. Gillespie has been ap
pointed damage prevention agent
of the Alaska Steamship Company,
D. E. Skinner, vice president and
general manag'r, announces.
"This position ias been created,”
he pointed out, “as a further ef
fort toward reducing cargo damage
and eliminating the elements that
result in such damage."
• TIDE TABLE •
• February 13 •
• Low tide 12'07 a m. 4 4 ft. •
• High tide 6:22 a.m. 14.6 ft. •
• Low tide 1:14 p.m. 31 ft. •
• High tide 7:23 p.m. 11.0 ft. •
I
UNITS OF
UN FORCES
CUT OFF
Sixty Thousand Commies
Suddenly Launch Sav
age Counter Drive
(By Associated Press)
Chinese and Korean Reds, comb
ing power with such ru es as white
flags and handshakes, rammed a
dangerously deep wadge seven miles
into Allied lines on the Korean Cen
tral front Monday, isolating some
American and South Korean units.
On the East Coast a South Kor
ean patrol which had thrust five
miles north of the 38th Parallel
was forced back four miles by a Red
counterattack. At last reports to TT.
S. Eighth Army headquarters, how
ever, the South Koreans were still
one mile north of the old boundary
of north and south Korea.
Savage Red Drive
The savage Red counterdrive in
the mountainous Central Sector
was launched Sunday midnight and
pushed by an estimated 00,000
troops throughout Monday on a 30
mile-wide front.
Two American units of undis
closed size were reported cut off
! north of Hoengsong. They were
I fighting to crack enemy road blocks
that extended two miles along the
road south of them. An American
relief fo-ce was battling up from
1 the south. A South Korean rogi
! ment also was reported cut off
northeast of Hoengsong.
That town is 55 air miles east
of Seoul, K od-helw former Korean
capital.
» Airols Atiacsra
United Nations troops were mass
j ed south of Seoul, Just across the
j Han River from <he capital. But a
, South Korean pattal that ha4 made
j another probe into Seoul was forced
out again late Monday by sharp
enemy smr.ii-arms fire.
So ser'ous was the Communist
aggressor s zero weather drive by
some 6C,f 0 troops along a 30-mile
sector east and west of Hoengsong,
that it threatened a duplication of
1 last November's Allied disaster.
I Further, there was the possibility
i that the renewed attack marked the
beginning of the expected Chinese
New Year’s offensive.
Target Is Picked
As hrppened last fall, the Chi
nese a;.d Korean Reds picked the
South Korean units for their target.
And as happened then in Far
North-Central Korea, the South
Koreans cciiapsed under the force
of the assault before Sunday mid
night, Korean time. Within 24
hours, the enemy had driven a
seven-mile deep wedge.
Threaten Supply Hub
With the Reds, at last reports,
five miles southwest of Hoengsong,
the chief danger immediately was
to the main road from Wonju, Al
lied supply hub. to Hoengsong. An
American Intelligence Officer said
the situation was “serious.” A grim
possibility was that if the Commun
ists broke through, it would force
withdrawals by UN forces reach
ing from recaptured Inchow, west
coast port of Seoul, to Chipyong, 18
miles west of Hoengsong.
The Allies, now hold Seoul's big
port of Inchon, its industrial su
burb of Yongdungpo, and its air
port at Kimpo.
Allied war correspondents lost
their 15th man of the campaign
when Jean Marie De Premonville,
30, of the French Press Agency, was
killed on a patrol with U. S. rangers
on the Central Korean front.
BANFIELDS GREETED
AT SUNDAY RECEPTION
Close friends greeted Mr .and
Mrs. Norman C. Banfield at a re
ception held at the A. F. Ghlglione
residence Sunday afternoon.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Raranof from Seattle scheduled to
arrive 8 a m., Tuesday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 p in., Feb. 14.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle 4 pin., Friday.
R. E DiRae of Sitka is at the
Baranof hotel.