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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
GRUENING
 WON'T GET
 IN DEBATE

In his first comments here for publication since returning from Washington, DC, Gov. Ernest Gruening today replied to several questions being asked by numerous AlaSkans.
 One question concerned the we'll publicized challenge of Albert White, Counsel of the Republican Party, to the Governor ito debate the cor ruption, malfeasance and misfeas- ance of the Territorial administra- tion."
 Reporter: "When are you going to hold the debate?"
 Governor: I'm not going to de- bate anybody This is the first I've heard of it. The matter has never been presented to me.
 NO communication, official or unofficial, has been received in my office. I've been travelling lot, so the news didn't always catch up with me"
 Governor Gruening, who had been summoned to the national capitol to appear before the Senate Interior Affairs Committee, returned last weekend, and left Monday morning for Anchorage and Fairbanks. He returned late yesterday afternoon.
 Reporter: Did Randolph Feltus earn all that money he was paid by the Statehood Committee?"
 Governor: He helped spread the good word about statehood to one organization or another. He worked hard for it."
 Reporter: Under the same cir cumstances, would you hire him again?"
 Governor: That is a matter for the Statehood Committee, of which I am only an ex-officio member"
 (Feltus was hired to lobby for Statehood for Alaska, and paid $8, 8,000)
 With John Manders of Anchorage, Governor Gruening was a principal speaker on Town Hall Meeting of the Air program, George V. Denney, Jr., moderator. The program on Alaska defense, sponsored by the United States Air Force, was re- corded first at Fort Richardson, then at Ladd Air Force Base for a second audience.
 This nationwide broadcast is scheduled for pm. (PST) Tuesday over NEG. It will not be carried locally. according to a representa- tive of station KINY.
 Governor Gruening said today, ''The defense situation for Alaska is improving markedly. My repeated requests for more defenses are be- ing complied with. T feel that Alaska need have no concern at the present rate of strengthening our defenses, pro- vided this rate is continued"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
LITTLE INTEREST
 IN ELECTION MEET

About 30 persons showed up at meeting of the public and the candidates for the city council last evening in the grade school audi torium. The affair was sponsored by the Juneau League of Women Voters. Mrs. Les Avrit introduced candidates who were present. Ans wers to a questionnaire were read for those candidates not present.
 Candidates who attended the meeting and spoke were: Art Wal ther, running on the Peoples Tick ct and currently city councilman; Civic Interest candidates: Bert Caro-, Edward s. Nelson, J. A. Thi- bodeau, Pete Warner, Mrs. Pauline Washington. The two Progressive and Independent candidates were not present.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
$7,5oo,ooo WORK ON SEWARD ROAD
 TO BE ADVERTISED

Alaska Road Commissioner Col. R. Moves and members of the ARG staff are busy with plans for work on 58 miles of the Anchorage-Sew- ard road, following appropriation of $7,500,00o for that purpose. Public Law 843 recently made the funds available for reconstructing the highway to a suitable standard for heavy trucking.
 The section is from Seward to Mile 58; that is, from Seward to the intersection with the Turnagain road.
 Work will start in the spring, Colonel Moves said today. under one of the cooperative arrangements with the Bureau of Public Roads.
 The oFR plans advertisement for performance on contract by sec- tions. These are tentatively set for November and IS. February and March 1.
 H. A. Stoddart, BPR Division En- gineer, plans pre-advertisement of the spring dates so that bidders may go over the ground before snowfall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
ALEXANDER RETURNS
 AFTER MEETINGS ON |CIvIL DEFENSE, N. C.

Col. Joseph R. Alexander, acting adjutant general for the Alaska Ma tional Guard, has returned from Washington, D. c. where several details for the further improvement of the Territorial guard were hand led.
 A new type of basic program stressing the integration of the scout hattalions into the ground observer network was stressed. In cluded in this program is surveil- lance in the arctic by the scouts. New tables of organization for the Alaska Scout battalions were aIth- orized while Col. Alexander was in Washington.
 On his return trip, Col. Alex ander stopped at the Ogden (Utah) General Depot and the Seattle Port of Embarkation in order tc speed the shipment of supplies for the Alaska National Guard. The Ogden depot is the source of sup plies for Alaska National Guard. Enroute to Washington, Col. AL exander attended the Northwestern International Civil Defense Con- mission meeting September 21 at Henela, Montana, attended by re- presentatives of seven western stat es. Alaska and three Canadian provinces. . Addressing the meeting, Hubert R. Gallagher of Washington, D. O., in charge of states liaison for the civil defense director, stated that the right kind of civil defense would cut casualties from an at omic bomb attack in half and help win a war.
 He went over the U. s. Bible of Civil Defense" with the repre- sentatives and said further that the master civil defense plan rests on the individual citizen-but the governors are the key men. Gallagher announced that state civil defense directors will be called | to Washington, D. C., for a co-or- dinating meeting October 2-3. At that time, the "vulnerability' l maps-prime enemy target areas in this ocuntry-will be shown, he said.
 Governor John w. Bonner of Montana, who had called the meet | ing, listed as objectives of a regional civil defense plan "pre-attack pre- cautions and post-attack rendition of aid.
 "In order to attain these objects, our plan must be efficiently co-or- dinated between towns, cities, com munities, countries, states, the pro-
 vinces of Canada and Territory of
 Alaska"
 l Attending the civil defense meet
 ling were representatives of British
 Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan,
 Montana, Washington, Oregon, Ida
 ho, Wyoming, the Dakotas. Alaska
 the U. s. Army and Red Cross.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
Y ARRESTS ARE MADE IN CANADA
 NARCOTIC RAIDS

VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 30-tR Three new arrests were made on Vancouver's streets yesterday as R.CM.P. continued ferreting through the city underworld in the largest narcotics roundup of Canadian his- tory.
 In the last 48 hours, IT arrests have been made, including a 22- year-old woman, to eclipse police action here 18 months ago when 10 were charged and tried. Six were convicted.
 Bail of $60,000 in all was set for three men arrested with II others Wednesday. The three are charged with conspiring to sell narcotics the remainder with selling.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
NAME k GIVEN
 NEW F6WS BOAT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - R = The Fish and Wildlife Service said today its new supply tender for the Pribiloff Islands of Alaska has been christened Penguin II.
 It replaces the Penguin, which for 20 years sailed the hazardous waters of the North Pacific and the Boring Sea hauling supplies and personnel from Seattle to the fur-sealing sta- tions of the Far North.
 The Penguin burned at it's moor ings in Seattle June 3.
 The Penguin II will leave Seattle next month with Christmas mail and holiday packages for the Pribi- lofs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
(By Associated Press)


 TOKYO, Sept. 30- R General Macarthur will demand the sur- render of Red Korea tomorrow, authoritative sources said tonight
 With four heavily-armed South Korean divisions gathering along the Red border-the 38th parallel in position to strike northward, the United Nations commander will lay down strong terms, perhaps un- conditional surrender.
 The surrender demand will be broadcast starting at noon Sun- day c pm. PSF, Saturday,. It will be made in the Korean language, in MacArthur's name. And it will be repeated hourly.
 The sources did not disclose the terms-but presumably they will be surrender or else" The "or else" could mean unleashing the South Korean armored columns on what remains of the broken and greatly depleted Red army in the north and complete annihilation of trapped remnants in the south.
 In Pusan, the South Korean As- sembly unanimously urged LIN fore es to smash northward across the parallel. The Pusan radio broad cast an announcement that the As- sembly called for absolutely elmin- ating obstacles to national unifica- tion and independence and the es- tablishment of an absolutely free and independent government"
 Koreans Want To Cross Line
 The 38th parallel was the line drawn by the United States and Russia for acceptance of the Jap anese surrender in Korea after World War II. It was not intended to divide North and South Korea, but Russian occupation forces re- fused to admit LIN commission in the North to conduct free elections.
 While Allied planes and artillery hammered at the parallel and rail and highway routes north of it, the four South Korean divisions ar- rayed on the east coast south of the Red border itched to start roll ing again.
 AP correspondent William borden, with the South Koreans, reported that Republican troops want des- perately to cross.' But he said they still did not know whether they would be ordered to do so.
 Elements of the South Korean Third Division reached the boun- diary at the east coast village of Ingu. Three other divisions were moving up and some probably ar- rived at the line Saturday.
 On Friday, AP correspondent Leif Erickson-flying over the boundary watched South Korean artillery shells hit ridges along the line.
 Uijongbu, highway junction and rail center 12 miles north of Seoul,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
Administration Is Charged with
 Shielding Subversives

WENATCHEE. Wash. Sept. 30-R A former Secretary of War ac- cused the Truman Administration today of shielding those who at tempt to betray the United States" !"
 Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley hurl- ed the charge as he blamed secret agreements at Yalta for what he termed "our diplomatic confusion and failure in Asia"
 He made the charges in his key note address to the Washington State Republican convention.
 He took Senatorial investigating committees to task also, declaring they have shielded the subversives and prevented the American people from obtaining the truth"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
COAST. 6E0DETI( SHIP SURVEYOR IN PORT NOW
 FROM AtEUIIAN WORK

The U. s. Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Surveyor docked this morning from summers duty in the Aleutian Islands observing cur rents. The ship, explained by Con- mander Glendon E. Boothe, will be in port for about week resurvey- ing between the Alaska Juneau mine rock dump and Lawson Creek on Douglas Island before returning to Seattle.
 The survey of ocean currents was made in Unimak Pass, Akutan Pass and Unalga Pass with Roberts rad io buoys.
 This is the first large scale over all current survey of the Aleutian Island passes and the first full season by the Surveyor in the area. Built in 1917 at Manitiwoc, Wisconsin, the ship was conveying during the first world war. From 1919 to 1947. the Surveyor did work on the west coast and was under the Navy during World War II.
 Other U s. Coast and Geodetic Survey vessels working in Alaska waters are the Pathfinder, Explor- CT, Pioneer, Derickson, Patton and Lester Jones.
 The Surveyor is 186 feet overall carrying six officers and crew of 46 men. Other officers are Con- mander John c. Mathisson. execu- tive officer, It. Comdr. Clarence R. Reed, It. Comdr. Edgar F. Hicks. Jr., It. Comdr. Charles A. Schoene, and Rolf G. Baginsky, surgeon.
 At the conclusion of work in the local area. the Surveyor sails for Seattle for overhaul, repairs and processing records. An air photo survey of the harbor area will also be made.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
NATION E ALERTED TO GREAT DANGER
 AS5ERT5 MARSHALL
(By Associated Press)

Secretary of Defense Marshal says that the nations increased respon- abilities still would be present if the Korean fighting should end to- morrow. He warned that the United States is going through time of gerat peril. And he said it would be folly to discount the possibility of atomic attack. Said Marshall: The nation has been alerted and com mon prudence dictates that we must remain on the alert for some time to come"
 Speaking as President of the American Red Cross. Marshall said in Cleveland this is an era of guided missiles. the atomic bomb and long-range planes and subma- rines. He added: Tn the light of recent experience, it would be folly for this country to assume that 1t will remain forever free from such dangers"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
Congressional Committee on
 Juneau visif

Declaring themselves much im- pressed by Alaska and its possibil- ities for development, three mem bers of a House of Representatives Appropriations subcommittee ar- rived this morning in Juneau on board the U. s. Coast Guard ice- breaker. Northwind. They were Rep. J. Vaughn Gary O.. Val. Rep. Otto E. Passman D-La), and Rep An- tonic M. Fernandez. (D-NM). ac- companying Rear Admiral A. c. Richmond, Assistant Commandant, USCG, Washington, D. C.. who is on an inspection trip of Coast Guard installations in Alaska.
 The subcommittee which covers appropriation matters for the Coast Guard. Treasury. REC and Export Import Bank. were primarily in- terested in visiting Coast Guard in- stallations and post offices.
 The party has already visited An- chorage, Kodiak, Ketchikan and Sitka. Today they will see Juneau and vicinity, be entertained by the l7th District Coast Guard at 1:30 luncheon at the Country Club. To- night they will be dinner guests at the home of Gov. and Mrs. Ern- est Gruening.
 Tomorrow they will leave aboard a Coast Guard plane bound for Seattle, San Francisco and Wash ington, D. o.
 Gary, spokesman for the Repre- sentatives, pointed out that Coast Guard appropriations were consid- cred from the standpoints of de- fense and non-defense activities. Appropriations for defense activ- ities will continue to depend upon the world situation,' he said. This year a million dollars has already been set up for the Coast Guard Reserve. We are impressed with the tremendous amount of work ana efflciency or the Coast Guard here in Alaska"
 Passman remarked that he hoped to return to the State of Alaska" and said that he had supported the statehood bill. He also appre- ciated Alaskan hospitality and the interest citizens took in the devel- opment of the country.
 The visitors were met at the dock by Rear Admiral Joseph Greenspun, officers of the 17th District of the Coast Guard, and Gov. Gruen- ing. F. o. Eastaugh, secretary of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, was also on hand to greet them.
 Other members of the party in- cluded: Capt. R. K. Ross, Captain Frank Kenner, Captain I. E. Esk- ridge and Commander c. R. Evans.
 Other civilians in the group are Kenneth Sprankle, executive secre- tary to the House appropriations committee; Willard L. Johnson. treasury budget officer; and T. Jack Gary. accounting advisor to Commandant USCG.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
TOP HEALTH OFFICIALS ADVISE AGAINST CLOSING
 SCHOOLS DUE TO POLIO

Although local health officers must use their own judgment, tor officials of the Territorial Health Department do not recommend clos ing of schools in the event of a suspected epidemic of poliomyelitis dnfantile paralysis).
 Such is the opinion expressed to- day by Dr. James T. Googe. Ter ritorial Director of all local health services. and Dr. Grace Field, who heads the branch on preventible disease.
 Children, who are especially sus- ceptible. may be more closely ob- served in school" Dr. Googe said. Informed and trained teaching personnel can guard against the disease and assure early diagnosis of suspected cases"
 No polio cases have been report ed in this area. The Health Depart ment has received reports of active cases in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Ketchikan.
 A telegram received today from Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, informed officials that two respirators would be shipped today to Anchorage by military transport. O'Connor also offered ad- ditional help of personnel, equip ment and money.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
ATTORNEY GENERAL HELPS PLAN FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS

Having to describe the meeting of one attorney general with anoth- CT, and another tthough nine) The Denver Post unwittingly strad- dled a matter of newspaper style. A caption writer settled for "at- torney generals" and copy desk for attorneys general"
 There was no straddling the is- sue of the meeting, however. The group which met last week in the Colorado city was unanimously in favor of establishing by compact an Interstate Commission on Higher Education in the Vest" which would remove payment of in- dividual tuition fees by exchange students in certain fields.
 With attorney generals from sev- en western states, or their repre- sentatives, Alaska's Attorney Gen. eral J. Gerald Williams, was well comed by Colorados "A.G." John w. Metzger,.
 Discussions centered on extend ing the existing model, in the case of Wyoming and Colorado. These states already allow cooperative interchange in medical education programs.
 By the proposed plan, if no ap- propriate facilities were available in his home state, a student could study in a neighboring one, his own state bearing the cost.
 A commission of six members was proposed, each state or terri tory to share alike in admins trative and research expenses. The commission, which would have paid director, would act as clear inghouse for placement of students from participating states and terri tories.
 Williams returned this week after a 10-day absence to attend the sec- ond meeting of the technical ad- visory group. He also had attended the first one in San Francisco last month.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
MaeARThUR TO DEMAND SURRENDER OF NORTH
 KOREANS IMMEDIATELY

was flattened like fiery flapjack l by rocket firing U. s. Marine fighter -bombers. MacArthur's head quarters said it was the heaviest strike of the war for the Marine fliers.
 U. S. Marines Near Border Using tiny tims'-a 1000 pound rocket nearly one foot in diameter the Marine planes left Uijongbu a flaming rubble. The headquart- CTS summary said the town died under the attack.
 Uijongbu was infested with Reds retreating toward the 38th paral- Tel, 18 miles farther north. American Marine armored col umns, after an artillery barrage pushed off from Seoul toward Ui- jongbu. That route leads to Chro- won, across the Red border and AS miles north of Seoul.
 It is in the Chorwon area that a South Korean army spokesman estimated 100000 Communists have gathered. However, he said most of them are believed to be poorly and lightly armed conscripts round- ed up hastily.
 The British cruiser Ceylon landed a party on the island of Tae- chong, within 10 miles of the paral- Tel off the west coast. A U. s. Navy summary said the raiders found no Reds. They had fled.
 In Seoul, the capitals more than 100000 residents awoke Saturday to the din of artillery on the north east--the barrage preceding the Marine kickoffs toward parallel 38
 Heavy Damage In Seoul The city--officially restored as the Republics seat of government by General MacArthur Friday strove to clean up its battle-rubbled streets and resume normal pursuits.
 No public utilities were function ing-most of the power and water system were damaged or destroyed. Water was dipped from wells.
 Syngman Rhee, the 75-year-old Princeton educated President, ap- peared philosophical about the de- vastation in the 500-year -old city.
 Lives were saved and people were made free,' he commented. We can and we will rebuild"
 Arsonists set Seoul's capital afire Friday, shortly after Macarthur and Rhee had left the scene of the brief and solemn liberation cere- ,mony. Secruity officers had remov- ed a bomb from the building before Macarthur and Rhee arrived there
 In the Seoul vicinity, 300 Reds were reported killed and 226 cap- tured since the war began June 25.
 The Red toll was rising steadily as the Allied steel traps frightened from Seoul to the south coast
 United Nations naval ships join ed in smelling scattered coastal points.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
PIONEERS AUXILIARY
 FOOD SALE OCT. B

A food sale will be held October 13 by Auxiliary, Igloo No. 6, Pio- neers of Alaska, it was decided by the members at the regular meet ing last night in Odd Fellows Hall. The committee in charge appointed by President Irene Mckinley is Anna Bedding, chairman; Edith Powers and Nada Kardanof.
 The program at last nights meet ing was devoted to a memorial service for the late Josephine C. Spickett and Carolyn Armstrong, a discussion of plans for the winter season and initiation of new mem- bers.
 Initiated into the Auxiliary were Mrs. Mary Hammer and Mrs. Ella Johnson.
 Visitor at the meeting was Mrs Florence Thornton, member of the Ketchikan Auxiliary, recently ar rived here to make her home in Juneau. ss At the meeting. of the Pioneers order, also held last night, a new member, Pete Hammer was initi- ated.
 Following the meetings of the two orders they met for a social hour and refreshments were served.
 Auxiliary members in charge oi refreshments were. Dora Sweeney chairman; NAda Kardanof, Mandy Cook, Nell Riggs, May Lundstrom and Jetta Gray.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
General Dean k Reported Seen By American GI's
By Stan SwintOn

CHINJU FRONT, Korea, Sept. 30 -R-American prisoners of war rescued today said they were told by a North Korean medical officer that he had seen and treated Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, missing commander of the U. s. 24th Divi- sion. The time of treatment was not reported.
 General Dean was last seen by his CTS just after the July 20 fighting in the streets of Taejon. The city fell then to the Reds.
 The rescued Americans reported the Communist Army doctor said Dean was seen later in Red pri- soner-of-war camp in the North.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
FIVE POLIO (ASES
 ARE AT ANCHORAGE

ANCHORAGE, Sept. 30-tR-Al- aska Department of Health officials said Friday there are five cases of Poliomyelitis here--one in Provi- dence Hospital and four at the Air Force Hospital.
 Previously hesitant to label the illness as polio, doctors confirm ed reports after discussion of sociological tests at meeting of the Anchorage Medical Society. I
 Two iron lungs are being used and a third has been requested from National Polio Foundation headquarters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
BURFORDS TO ACCOMPANY
 BROTHER TO SEATTLE

MT. and Mrs. Jack Burford are awaiting the arrival of MT. Bur- ford's brother Ben Burford from the westward today or tomorrow and will accompany him to Seattle to attend the funeral services for his wife, Margaret, who passed away in Seattle last Monday.
 Ben Burford is chief engineer on the Fish and Wildlife Service ves- sel Andrew Zussman and was in the Pribilofs with his ship when ad- vised of the death of his wife.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
LOIS SMITH ON LEAVE

Miss Lois Smith, secretary 70 Col. R. Moves, Alaska Road Com missioner, is on leave due to ser- ious illness of a close relative in Hot Springs, Ark.
 In her absence, Miss Lois Nichoi- son is taking her place. A Juneau girl, Miss Nicholson has been on the ARC staff since returning Ill June after attending the Western Washington College of Education m Ellensburg, Wash.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
|. C. DEPT. CONDUCTS
 INSPECTION OF ALASKA
 NATIONAL GUARD SOON

Federal inspection of the 10 Alaska National Guard units starts October g. it was announced today by the National Guard adjutant generals office in Juneau.
 The inspection will be conducted by the Inspector Generals Depart ment of the US. Army of Alaska. Starting in Kotzebue on October g, the inspection continues to Dilling- ham and later to Anchorage, Fair banks and southeast Alaska with the concluding date sometime in February.