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Evening star., 1950-10-19
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Evening star., 1950-10-19
Goren on Bridqe

SVt Gil VII ~ H04S
Neither vulnerable. North deals.
NORTH.
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WEST. EAST.
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The actual bidding:
North. East. South. West.
i club Pass lheart Pass
2no-trump Pass 6hearts Pass
Pass Pass
Opening lead, ace of spades.
1t has frequently been contended
that 1t Is more desirable to play
against experienced players than
against novices for the simple
reason that one knows what the ex-
perienced player is up to, whereas
the tyro has so vague conception
OF his own plans that there is little
upon which one may base infer
ences in playing against him. While
1t Is no doubt more stimulating to
compete against resourceful players,
I am quite sure that If a good score
is your sole objective, you had better
choose for your opposition some
neighborhood softies.
An interesting case in which
proper diagnosis should have been
made on the defense even against
the most unorthodox bidding, is to-
days hand from a recent tourna-
rnent.
The bidding is given as it actually
took place, though we are not hold
ing forum on the proper way to-
manage the auction. Against the
final contract West elected to open
the ace of spades and his partner
played low. It Is the play at trick
two that is the subject of our study
and little analysis will show that
the best chance is the diamond
shift, in the hope that partner is
void of the suit. This on the sur
face appears highly improbable be-
cause it would allot a six-card suit
to the declarer which he has not
chosen to show. The alternative is
to hope that partner can ruff al
club. The argument against this
holding is the probability that part
ner would have doubled to demandI
that lead, were he void of dummy's
first suit, and then hope that thel
defense could garner another trick.
This much West should conclude:
that declarer has a good six-cardl
heart suit to Jump forthwith into
slam. On this basis, declarer cant
be counted with IL tricks unless
East can ruff something. Six heart
tricks, two spades, two clubs. and
the ace and king of diamonds. Inl
the actual play the club was led and
declarer succeeded in winning the
slam.
For those employing the suit pref
erence convention, the defeat of the
contract would be easy. When the
ace of spades is played, it is quite
obvious that a spade continuation
cannot be desired by East. The
play, therefore, of an abnormally
high spade under these conditions
Suggests a desire for a shift to the
higher ranking of the other suits.
East's play of the nine of spades
(since he cannot want spades, sug-
gests the desire for diamond shift /
rather than a club.
Copyright, 1850, by Charles H. Goren.) |
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
TAX FOES BARRED AT
 H EAR IN C

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16- R - Foes of excess profits taxes were barred today from advocating be- fore the House Ways and Means Committee any alternative tax to produce $4,000,0O0,0
 By straight party votes of Is Dem ocrats to 10 Republicans. the com mittee refused three times to let witnesses suggest any tax plan ss a substitute for the excess profits levy asked by the Truman admin istration.
 Witnesses favoring such alter natives as hikes in regular corpor- ation income taxes were barred not only from talking about them but also from putting their prepared statements into the committee re- cord.
 Chairman Doughton (D-NC> said the committee has a mandate from Congress to draft an excess profits tax bill and just hasn't time to go into the entire field of taxation.
 Yesterday, the committee voted Is to 10 to close public hearings next Wednesday and to limit witnesses to IS minutes each. This was after Secretary of the Treasury Snyder had outlined administration sug- gestions for a 75 percent excess profits tax to take $4,000, ,000, 900 from corporation earnings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
london Meet
 Will Attempt 10
 BreakDeadIolk
German Rearmament and Combined Defense West
 Europe on Agendd

WASHINGTON, Nov. Is = R = Another effort to break the German rearmament deadlock and get on with organization of a combined de- fense force for western Europe is scheduled in London next month.
 The North Atlantic Military Com mittee expects to get together about Dec. 4 with the North Atlantic Council of Foreign Ministers Dep- uties, now in session there.
 The military committee, com- posed on top ranking military of- ficers of the North Atlantic Treaty nations, and the council of depu- ties are seeking German rearma- ment plan on which the U. S.. France, and the other member na- tions can agree.
 A deadlock between US. and French proposals for using western Germans led the North Atlantic De- fense Ministers last month to post pone further steps toward organiz- ing western Europe's defenses and appointing an American-expected to be Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as their supreme commander.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
FISHERIES BOARD HEARS PROGRESS
 REPORTS FOR 50

Members of the Alaska Board of Fisheries spent yesterday hear ing progress reports of the various branches of the Alaska Depart ment of Fisheries. Biologists Rob- ert Parker and Walter Kerkness gave a resume of work carried on during the past season. They re- ported on trap studies which were limited and felt that no definite conclusions could be drawn until further Investigations could be made.
 A good beginning was made in the studies of troll fish and tag ging which laid good basis for future exploration in this field.
 Black cod studies had been limit ed, due to little commercial activ- ity this past season.
 Lewis Macdonald, head Of en- forcement division, reported that r men had been employed to CO., operate with the Fish and Wild life Servcie this year.
 A report on the Falls Creek fish ladder construction was given, stating that it had been sufficiently finished to aid spawning salmon this year and it was hoped to
 complete the job next year.
 A letter was read from Dr
 Thompson regretting his inability to attend this Alaska meeting be-
 cause Of a previous engagement,
 Dr. Thompson has been conduct ing investigations in Alaska on pink and red salmon runs.
 Mrs. Gladys Becker, department
 librarian, reported that a substan-
 tial beginning had been made on fisheries library. Exchange of in-
 formation and publications is talk
 ing place with about 50 agencies, departments and colleges and some
 valuable volumes on fish and fish cries have been acquired, she said. Card cataloguing and cross index
 ing the material is completed. The
 library is available to anyone wish
 ing to use it.
 It was decided that Howard
 Wakefield, chairman of the Board
 and c. L. Anderson, director, would attend meeting of the Pacific
 Marine Fisheries which is to be held in San Francisco, Dec. 4. Today recommendations for 1851 fishing season regulations were being heard by the Board.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
Bishop Gordon on
 Way 10 fairbanks
 Finds Juneau Cold

Juneau just now is a cold stop on the way from Texas to Fair banks, according to Bishop William J. Gordon of the Episcopal Church for Alaska, who arrived here the first Of the week
 Bishop Gordon, now on a tour of Southeast Alaska missions, spoke at the Episcopal Church in Ketchi- kan last Sunday, will visit Sitka next Sunday and Wrangell before returning to his headquarters in Fairbanks.
 During the three weeks he was in Texas, Bishop Gordon, featuring on Alaska, spoke 25 times in 15 days and drove $500 miles in the State of Texas.
 Weather was unusual" Bishop Gordon said, and the temperature of 94 pretty constant during his tour of the largest state in the union
 Texans don't like to joke about the possibility that Alaska might become the largest state in the union," Bishop Gordon said.
 In his lectures, selling Alaska to Texas, the Bishop of Alaska said that he encountered tremendous dearth of information about the territory.
 People still think of Alaska as a land of Eskimos living in ice houses. They know that it is true because there is a picture of an igloo made of ice in current geo. graphy books. There were people n audiences who did not believe that the slides I showed were act ually taken in Alaska. Teachers told me they would have to revise their teaching about the territory" :" he said.
 "So many soldiers were here dur- ing the war, that I thought that the rest of the United States had found Alaska to be other than a land of ice and snoW," said the Alaskan.
 Bishop Gordon is spending his time in Juneau with the Rev. Sam uel A. McPhetres of Trinity Church.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
U. N. Forces Drive Through
 5Ieet Storm, 30-MiIe Front;
 Marines Meet Enemy Forces
(By the Associated Pressl

Driving through sleet storm. United Nations forces pushed for ward on 30-mile front in north west Korea today. Other Allied troops slogged to within 20 miles of the Manchurian border in gen. eral advances along the frozen northeast front.
 In the western advance. lines north and west of the Chongchon river moved up as much as three miles. These lines are manned by South Korean, British and units of the US. First Corps.
 On their right flank, South Ko- reans who have been subject to the heaviest blows of the Con- munist enemy, were able to stab- ilize their lines. They were driven back four miles yesterday.
 To the northeast. on the Pungsan front, US. Seventh Division units thrust against light resistance and gained five miles.
 US. Marines ran into a sizabla force of Red troops on the Changjin reservoir. This was the first time in six days the Marines have felt any real enemy strength.
 Patrols of the Seventh Marine Regiment encountered the Reds west of the reservoir and the town Of Hagaru which they captured without opposition. The Marines pounded the foe with 105 nm. artillery.
 Earlier the Marines had heard reports of big Chinese Communist buildup in the snow capped moun- tains west of the reservoir. Thero were indications the whole Chinese 42nd Army was in the mountains.
 The Reds made an amphibious landing behind the lines of the South Korean Capital Division now within 90 miles of the Soviet Sf- berian border, Communist rear and frontal attacks ripped holes in the South Korean lines.
 But a furious counterattack by the South Koreans drove the Con- munists back two miles on the My ongchong front.
 American naval guns and planes had come to the rescue of the bat tered South Koreans. Eight inch guns of the US. Cruiser Rochester and rockets of Marine and naval planes hit at the enemy. The US. Tenth Corps said the counterattack wiped out half of Red battalion which made the amphibious land ing.
 The Allies stepped up their round- up of Red guerrillas operating be- hind the lines to the south. The US. Third Division captured 200 Reds near Wonsan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
RADAR TEST
 SUCCESSFUL w. GERMANY
U. 5. DiseIoses Seuel Screen Locates Con-
 munist Planes

FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov. II -R-A previously secret American radar screen backed by jet fighter patrols to protect Western Europe against surprise attack has passed its first test, it was revealed today
 The test was supplied by Com munist planes carrying delegates from England to the Communist line peace congress in Warsaw.
 Their flights were tracked and patrols investigated them.
 The first test came when Sov- jet plane carrying French Com munist leader Maurice Thorez tc Moscow for medical treatment made an uncharted flight over Western Germany
 Radar picked up the plane and a jet patrol was sent to investigate.
 Yesterday the radar net and pa trols had their busiest day.
 Thirty-nine unauthorized flights by Eastern Europe Communist planes were sighted and traced as they moved over Western Germany The West has placed no embargo against flying over Western Ger many but demands that each plane notify air headquarters of its ar- rival. course and identity.
 None of the Communist planes did so.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
FLEMISH KNOT FOULS
 ALAJkA COM. CABLE

The Flemish Knot, Alaska Steam snip freighter hooked an Alaska communications System d,ble With a starboard prov anchor this morning when it pulled up anchor to dock from channel. Be- cause of high winds, the freighter had anchored in mid-channel on her arrival at am.
 Jim Cole and crew went to the assistance of the freighter with his 32-foot work boat. Aboard the Cole boat was an ACS officer to cut the cable loose from the an. cnor. The cable was buoyed for splicing during favorable weather
 The Coast Guard cutter. co., S3524, skippered by William Bent Ter, stood by.
 ACS personnel aboard the Cole work boat were It. Nels Ahlstrom. officer in charge of the Juneau station, Sgts Richs'rd Stockdale and Lex Utter. Cpls. Bill Howard and Erling Martinsen.
 The huoyed cable cut loose from the Flemish Knot anchor was Ia Petersburg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
CITY STREET DEPT. DOES FIRE PATROL
 DUTY LAST NIGHT

The city street department had five men on fire patrol all last night, Mayor Waino Hendrickson re- ported today. This extra precaution will continue as long as the wind remains high he said.
 All persons should check chim- neys and any fire hazards" he add ed.
 The fire whistle 'urping" heard during the night was Ferdinand again with another loose wire which was repaired.
 Among the wind casualties during the night was city library window blown out at 12:40 this morning. Police installed a piece of plywood.
 A gust of wind sweeping down Main Street blew in a window at Bowling Motors. The falling glass hit fender of a new Dodge in the showroom, damaging it to the ex- tent of about $50.
 A piece of tin flashing, loosened late yesterday afternoon on the roof of the Fedral Building, was anch- ored with heavy sand bags before it was entirely loosened. A smaller piece of tin flashing on the Gold stein Building was also loosened.
 Temperatures from the records of the Weather Bureau for 1945 on the following dates show the weather colder then: Novembr IA, II de- grees; November 15, 12 degrees; November 16, IA degrees; November IT, 13 degrees; November IS, 16 degrees. The Temperatures at the present time are from five to 10 degrees higher than five years ago. High winds and snow were prevail ing five years ago as now.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
TRY5T E ENDED;
 HUSBAND KILLS
 WIFE AND LOVER

PALATKA, Fla, Nov. 16--R-Two shotgun blasts ended the clandestine romance of Jacksonville's safety commissioner R. D. Sutton and the wife of prominent trucking firm head.
 The husband, J. P McRea, 34. had learned of the tryst and was wait ing near Sutton's well-furnished but lonely lakeside cabin 25 miles from here.
 He caught the two in bed in a nude embrace yesterday morning, fired twice at close range, staggered from the cabin and collapsed of a heart attack.
 Mrs. McRea's head was blown off. Sutton's was almost so. She was 33; Sutton 39.
 McRea was jailed, then taken to Glendale hospital here under guard. His condition was reported as fair. No charge was placed against him.
 Sutton was married and had a son. Charles. Mrs. Sutton was re- ported visiting somewhere in the west.
 Mrs. McRea left her Jacksonville home early yesterday, telling friends she was going to meeting of the P-TA, in which she had taken an active part. Because of her son, 16, she also had been active in the patrol boys mothers association.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
.FWS PENGUIN Il. SAILS
 THIS AFT. TO pRIBn0F
 ISLANDS ON XMAS RUN

Penguin II, Fish and Wildlife Service supply ship skippered by Capt Daniel Drotning, docked last evening on its Christmas supply run to the Pribilof Islands.
 Cargo carried were 20 Christmas trees taken aboard at Ketchikan and 600 tons of cargo taken aboard at Seattle for the islanders. Sail ing time is this afternoon with arrival at the destination expected in about a week. The Penguin II left Seattle last Saturday afternoon with FWS cargo unloaded here.
 Passengers aboard are Mrs. VII lard French and five children who will join MT. French at Unalaska and Jesse Ballard, radio operator on St. Paul Island, one of the Prib- ilofs. Mrs. French and children spent the summer at Salem, oregon where the youngest of the children was born.
 Skim ice was encountered In Wrangell Narrows. Capt. Drotning reports that two dredges are still working on the channel in the Narrows. Wind was encountered at Midway Island with icing condi- tions from there into port here. There is mere snow on the British Columbia coast than here, according to Capt. Drotning-
 Return to Seattle is expected to be shortly before Christmas Crew for the vessel numbers B in addition to the captain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
u. 5, BRITISH | TR00p5, 5,ARM5 |G0 TO BERLIN
Achievements Cheered- Police to Be Armed for
 CitY's Security
(By Daniel Deluce)

BERLIN, Nov. 16-lR-The west ern powers brought British tanks and American troop reenforcements to Berlin today and announced they will arm German police here with submachine guns and automatic rifles.
 AS German school children waved welcome, eight 33-ton Comet tanks rolled from a freight train to the British armored force depot.
 Shortly afterward 200 American soldiers also arrived by rail.
 The soldiers were members of the headquarters company of the Sixth Infantry regiment. which by January will reenforce the American troops here to the level of a pow erfully armed regimental combat team.
 At noon, the Allied Kommanda- tura (The three western command ants) announced it would equip and train the 13,800 police force in west Berlin with submachineguns, auto matic rifles and rifles.
 This is 'in the interests of Berlin security" the Kommandatura as- serted. It described the weapons as types normal to a modern police force"
 Most of them will be retained in Allied hands and issued to the police only in case of emergency the Kommandatura continued. Tt is felt that this re-equipping of the west Berlin police is long over due, since the Soviets have long ignored Allied control council direc- tive No. 16 which authorizes only pistols and truncheons- for the poe lice"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
(ANNERY AT
 DOUGLAS I5
 NEAR WRECK

The 50 to 60 mile winds which swept Gastineau Channel last night partially demolished the big 14( foot cannery at Douglas and ob- servers said that if the winds con- tinue in strength today little will be left of the structure by night fall.
 The building is constructed of aluminium siding over shiplap end last night and today large pieces of the metal borne through he air by the winds have made it un- safe for close approach to the site, observers said.
 off Goes the Roof By noon the roof and the top story which is storage loft, ln- cluding it's wood rafters and floor were gone as well as the big smoke stack. The stack had been newly re- placed after the destruction of the original stack in wind storm last year.
 A large portion of the beach side of the building had been torn away and the winds this afternoon were completing their work of des- truction on that side and on the other walls of the structure. Equipment Intact The new heavy canning euuip- men which had been stored in the loft had been removed to the first floor in the past week. 1t was saM and was being crated to be ship ped to the Continental Can Com pany from which it was leased. At
 press time today it had been im-
 possible to determine whether the
 machinery had been damaged put
 it was believed to remain intact.
 The creosoted piling on which the
 cannery stands. near the north eno
 of Mayflower Island appeared to be
 undamaged. The cannery building was neWiy built in the year 1947-48. Aluminium siding was used in the construction one of the newer metals in building preferred for it's durability. IL -S 4 thinner material than that of oidef materials. corrugated steel and tin and observers said apparently Il could not hold against the strong winds and was pulleed loose over the nail heads which secured 1t. Ironically the two old buildings on the site which are covered witr
 corrugated metal are still stand
 ing, undamaged.
 It is believed insurance IS car.
 ried for the building against wino damage. Insurance, it was said, was collected for wind damage done tc the building last year.
 The cannery is owned by the Douglas Canning Company lic composed of Douglas and Juneau stockholders.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
RIDDEN SAYS TERR. FUNDS SUFFICIENT
 10 END OF YEAR

The Territory's finances are still in the black and there will be money to carry it's business through the year, Henry Roden. Territorial Treasurer, said today.
 The Treasurer's report for the month to November Is, released to- day shows a bank balance of $3,- 343, ,14169. Outstanding warrants to- tai 4,79651, leaving a balance of $2,618,345.18 From this balance is taken a sum of $2,005, ,403.52 for special and earmarked funds, leav- ing an actual balance on hand of $612,941.66 for the general fund.
 Roden said that with funds com- ing in there will be a sufficient amount to carry on the territorial business until the Legislature con- venes in January without having to borrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
AIR DEFENSE
 BASE MOVED !. 0(0L0RAD0

WASHINGTON, Nov. Is R = The Air Force announced today that headquarters of it's new Ali Defense Command will be shifted from Long Island to Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colo, early n 1951.
 Approximately 800 military anc civilian personnel will be assigned to the new headquarters. The Air Defense Command will .,e responsible for the air defense cf the United States.
 It is one of three separate major commands being formed by splitting the present Continental Air Com nand, which has it's headquarter. 1t Mitchell Air Force Base, Long island, N. Y.
 To Be Divided
 The Continental Air Command i. being divided into the Air Defens; Command, a tactical air command iealing with support for ground .roops, and a reduced Continental Air Command administering and raining civilian units of the Air Force.
 The Air Defense Command will De under the command of It. Gen. Ennis c. Whitehead, now com manding general of the Continental Air Command.
 The Air Defense. Command will be an important nerve center in the U. s. defense setup. Located n the interior, it will be far beyond the range of possible attack by guided missiles fired from sub- marines.
 Enemy planes in order to attack it would have to fly a considerable distance overland, making them more subject to detection and in- terception than if their approach were entirely over water.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-11-16
STORM IS RAGING IN
 NORTHWEST
Gales Reported in Eastern Oregon, Washington
 Damage Extensive
(By Associated Press)

Gales ragged through a broad band of eastern Oregon and Wash ington last night and today while torrntial rainfall set an all-time record at Eugene.
 Trees were uprooted and tele- phone and power lines tangled from Walla Walla to La Grande as gusts up to 81 miles an hour-well above hurricane force-lashed the area.
 Western Oregon and southwest ern Washington rivers began to rise.
 Euger,e's Amazon Creek boiled out of it's banks in places and one family was evacuated by rowboat Southeast Portland's Johnson Creek spread out five inches deep over S. E. Foster Road from 108th to 114th Avenues.
 To midnight Eugene reported a 3.45-inch rainfall in A hours, great est in the 60 years of the weather station there. Salem basements were flooded as storm sewers failed to carry away the deluge.
 At Walla Walla, a windstorm with 81-mile- gusts wrecked a grain warehouse, damaged barns and farm homes and s1larled tele- phone and power lines.
 Uprooted trees fell on homes anc automobiles. There were numerous narrow escapes but no reported in- juries to persons.