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The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
COUPLE FROM
 ALASkA,DEAD, , PLANE CRASH

MALIBU, Calf, Feb. F ---R- A man and woman were found dead today in the wreckage of an amphibian plane which crashed yesterday in the Santa Monica mountains near Topanga Canyon
 Deputies said the man carried a pilots license in the name of E. Dale Gilman, 40, of Box 749, Anch- orage, Alaska. The woman was iden- tified 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 plane, a Grum- man, had been on cince yesterday when deputies hes-d it flying low in the fog. It came in from sea, they said, it's engine sputtering. Later, hikecs reported hearing it crash.
 The aero squadron said the plane was registered to the Portland, Ore, Power and Light Co.,, but the conl- pany reported that it had sold the craft through a broker several months ago. The buyer was Gilman.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
TRANSPORT PLANE IN CRASH; NONE OF
 B ABOARD INJURED

EDMONTON, Alberta, Feb. 12 = R-A U. s. Air Force C-54 trans port plane made forced landing here yesterday after one of it's pro- pellors 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 miles northwest of here, on a flight to Elmendorf Field at Anchorage, Alaska.
 Fire extinguishers put 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 dan aged the brakes, landing flaps and the hy- draulic system and the instruments.
 Woods turned back to Edmonton and made 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.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
3RD SECTION OF BOY
 SCOUT COUNCIL MEETS
 IN COUNCIL NAMBER5

The Juneau section of the an nual meeting of the Alaska Boy Scout Council will be held this ,vening in the City Council Cham bers at 7:45, with Council President George A. Parks presiding.
 This will be the third in the jeries of sectional meetings, with the final session being held in 1etchikan on Wednesday. The an aual meetings include reports oi
 he Council operating committees consideration of the annual budget ;or Alaska scouting, and election If officers for the ensuing year All interested leaders and commit eemen are invited to attend, in ad- Iition to the regular voting mem oers in this area.
 Other council officers in Juneau Include Charles G. Burdick, coun- ,il commissioner; Dr. James c. Ryan, vice-president; G. E. Cleve- and, treasurer; Curtis G. Shat tuck, who is chairman of the Councils camping and activities committed; 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 nave been invited to attend, in cluding Fairbanks vice-president W. L. Lhamon, district committee members Alden Wilbur and Joe Coble, also of Fairbanks; execu- tive board members Walter Hunt ley of Palmer; Gunnard Engebreth of Anchorage, and Edward Locken of Petersburg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
FLOODS IN WASH.,B.C.
 SUBSIDING
Five Thousand Persons Are Homeless After 3-Ddy
 Rampage of Rivers

SEATTLE. Feb. 12 --IRl- Clear
 ing skies and sharp temperature
 drop eased flood conditions in 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 5000 persons homeless.
 British Columbia counted at least
 five dead after a weekend of floods and storms.
 A state of emergency was in eff
 feet in Western Washington and
 five National Guard units were
 called out as rampaging rivers
 crashed through dikes anu spilled out over lowlands.
 The Red Cross here said National Headquarters had made 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 $50 were homeless in Brit ish Columbia's flooded Fraser River Valley.
 Rivers spilled their banks after [ three days of record rain. The 1 weather bureau said early today
 clearing weather had generally cas- ed flood conditions throughout the
 area. All streams were falling with the exception of the lower reaches l of the Green River in Western
 Washington.
 B. c. Situation | Rivers also were receding in Brit i ish Columbia and the situation was reported greatly improved Princeton where the Tulameen and Similkameen Rivers had found channels through an ice jam. 1 The highest water Ill many years was reported on the Skagit River | in Northwestern Washington. More than 1000 persons were evacuated {; from the low-lying Skagit delta.
 The communities of Hamilton and
 Conway were virtually deserted and i, children and the aged were re- moved from the Stanwood area. i In Southwestern Washington, 1 the Cowlitz River crested at 22-feet the highest level since l940. The rampaging river ripped out two huge log booms and endangered tne | Cowlitz River bridge between Long view and Kelso.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
CAPT. pIA((ENTI E FIRST NURSE GIVEN hLASKA ASSIGNMENT

ELMENDORF AIR FORCE EASE Alaska The first Air Force Re- serve nurse in the Territory of Alas 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 'ntil recently, Captain Piaccentis active duty assignment is with the j005th Air Force Hosr.oal at FL nendorf AFB.
 Captain Piaccenti volunteered for recall because she feels that, as in l941 when she began her military service, her country needs nurses. y
 She is a graduate of the Nor wegian hospital in Brooklyn, New York, class of 1940. Joining the ser = ice in 194l, Captain Piaccenti vas stationed at Jackson, Mississippi, and Florida until 1943 when she be- came continental Air Evacuation Nurse at Bowman Field, Kentucky.
 Assigned overseas to the Far Eastern theater in August of l945, she served in China, Japan, the Philippines, and Hawaii.
 Captain Piaccenti returned to civilian life in 1947 to attend St. Johns University. where she grad uated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing Education.
 In September of 1850, Captain Piaccenti came to Alaska to work at the tuberculosis sanitorium at Mt. Edgecumbe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
SIEUTH BILL IS
 N0WH HANGING IN SUSPENSE
Held Over for Reconsider. afion Tomonow-Emer-
 genly Clause Fails
Ey BOB DE ARMOND

Will Alaska have a 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 IA 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 42-11, three short of the 16 neces- sary.
 Delays Two Years
 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 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 it's ap- proval by the Governor. 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 Df his bill, admitted that as orig nally drafted it had insufficient Safeguards 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 rather than H.B. 21, Rep. Rays pill to create a Legislative Council Rep. Rays bill, Franklin said has many virtues but would be too nwieldy and expensive to do the york for which HB was designed. He estimated that the Kay bill yould cost $50,OO0 a biennium. The appropriation to carry out investi- ations under Franklin's bill is 7,500 for the biennium.
 Vicious Boomerang
 House Bill sets up a vicious boomerang and persons who vote
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
The W ashington Merry -Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
opyright. 1851, us Bell Syndicate. Inc.
 

|tvASHINGTON-Today the SS |agtedyk sails from Philadelphia, |ty of brotherly live, bearing the |rst cargo of the tide of toys t0 lrope. This is a friendship cargo l mich the American Legion has hinstakingly collected from all |trts of the U. s. A. for the child n of Europe and for the families American CTS in Korea.
 Last year the Legion sent |DO0,000 toys to Europe. Frequent | drives of this kind slacken after
 e first year People get tired or scouraged, figure the need isn't lite so great. But the Legion has |versed this trend, and the ama2-
 total of 7,000,o00 toys have now
 en contributed by children who
 uld spare a toy from under their
 Tn Christmas tree.
 What the Legion and its friends
 we realized is that money
 mot buy friendship. Nor can
 e shipment. of arms build friend Hip. Nor can the rebuilding of Iropean factories, important as
 at is, build friendship. It is the Iople-to understanding,
 ,h as comes through gift of a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
Seventeenth of a Series)

Seventeenth of a SerieS)
 It seems at times that Indian Reservations must be almost as much of an annoyance and bother 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 lem, so far as Alaska is concerned, once and for all
 The Senate section of the Con- gressional Record for January g deyotes several pages to the trou- bles of the Colville Indians of the State of Washington.
 The Colville Indians, it appears, have 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 Der 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 getting nowhere with the settlement of their claims and the consequence is that most of the original 3,400 Indians who lived on. the reserva- ton have given the whole thing up as a bad job and moved away to Idaho or Canada or some other place.
 The ones who remain ca he res eryation are still fighting it out with the lawyers and the bureaus and not making much headWay One of their latest efforts is a pe- tition addressed to Senator Hugh Butler and signed by liar yey St. Paul and 570 others.
 The petition says:
 More people are living in poVer- ty today than when the Colvllle
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
MRS. NORDALE 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 ment of Education. She is mem- Der 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 hrtel there. She is a sister-in- law of Katherine Nordale of Juneau
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
OLIVER ANDERSON
 HERE ON BUSINESS

Oliver Anderson, vessel operator on the Kuskokwim Riy er, came to Juneau yesterday f'om Seattle and will be here several days on busi- ness iii connections with next sea- sons 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.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
GILLESPIE HAS NEW
 JOB, ALASkA STEAM

Bert R. Gillespie has been ap- pointed damage prevention agent of the Alaska Steamship Company D. E. SkinnCr, vice president and general manae 1T. announces.
 This position nas been created, he pointed out. "as further eff fort toward reducing cargo damage and eliminating the elements that result in such damage"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12

for it may regret it." Rep. Kay charged.
 'This committee will be dominat- ed by which ever party has control of the Legislature and will degen- crate into a party witch hunt" he asserted
 On the other hand, Kay claimed his own HB. q would provide for all necessary investigations ano with the added power of making 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- piled that when an amendment tf provide bipartisan membership hat been suggested, Kay fought the amendment.
 The Franklin bill, said Stepo- vich, now provides all necessary safeguards = confidential hearings with heavy penalties for disclosing information, conducting of hearings by the rules of evidence, and the right of witnesses to have attorney and to cross examine.
 "All those who are interested in good, clean government should vote for this bill" Stepovich told the House.
 Sees Old flag
 T am about the most investigated guy in the Territory of Alaska" said Rep. McCutcheon, and I see ir this bill an old snaggle-toothed hae with pointed hat, riding not z broom but an elephant"
 McCutcheon at.acked 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 baseball bat full of spikes. They really made the headlines, and I had no oppor- tunity to make a statement. It was really vicious, really unfair" Me 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, Hong ago told us, Let your light so shine before men that men may know your good works and glorify thy Father who It 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 regulations of innocent people.
 Observers today predicted that the bill will pass on the reconsider ation vote tomorrow by a 1911
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
THOMPSON GOING
 TO CALIFORNIA

Jack Thompson, co-owner and manager of the s n T store in Juneau left Sunday enroute to southern California where he plans to spend the next three months. Jack says he is going to give warm, dry climate try for reliey- ing Q persistent sinus condition and plans to work at a job in the desert country.
 During his absence the store Will be managed by Jacks mother, Mrs. Lucille Stine who owns the business with her son.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
Picking Them Young For Brides; See What Mairimony Is Doing
(By Associated Press)

Matrimony is the big news in the Middle-East today. In Tehran, the Shad of Iran marries his second wife today the l9-year-olo daughter of tribal leader. And Tn 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.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
LEFT ANCHORAGE IN OCT.

ANCHORAGE Alaska, Feb. 12- tR- MT. and Mrs. Dale Gilman, re- ported killed in a plane crash Sun- day near Malibu, Calf, left here last October for a flying vacation in the States
 Gilman, an experienced flier, vas owner of Gilmans Bakery here. Ais wife, Lois, operated the Lois E-auty Shop here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12

margin. but that there is no chance of passing the emergency clause to make it effective at once.
 Tt just looks like some Of these Democrats are afraid to have any thing investigated around here, " commented Rep. George Miscovich at the end of Saturdays session.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
' NITS OF UN FORCES
 CUT OFF
Sixty Thousand Commies Suddenly Launch Sav-
 age Counter Drive
lBy Associated Pressl

tDy AsSOcidtcC kFtSSt 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 Gen. tral front Monday. isolating some American and South Korean units. On the East Coast a South Kor- can patrol which had thrust five miles north of the 38th Parallel was forced back four miles by Red counterattack At last reports to r. 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 60,000 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 fighting to crack enemy road blocks that extended two miles along the road south of them. An American relief fovce was battling up from the south. A South Korean regj- ment also was reported cut off northeast of Hoengsong.
 That town is 55 air miles east of Seoul, Fed-helG former Korean capital.
 1ratrols Attacked
 United Nations troops were mass ed south of Seoul, just across the Han River from tle capital. But a South Korean patl Il that had made another probe into Seoul was forced out again late Monday by sharp enemy smaii-arms fire.
 So serious was the Communist aggressor zero weather drive by some 6C,t.l0 troops along 30-mile sector east and west of Hoengsong, that it threatened a duplication of last November's Allied disaster. Further, there was the possibility that the renewed attack marked the beginning of the expected Chinese New Years offensive.
 Target Is Picked
 As ha opened 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 collapsed under the force of the assault before Sunday mid night. Korean time. Within "A hours, the enemy had driven 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 by LIN forces reach ing from recaptured mchow, west coast port of Seoul. to Chipyong, Is miles west of Hoengsong.
 The Allies, now hold Seouls big port of Inchon. it's industrial su- burb of Yongdungpo, and it's air. port at Kimpo.
 Allied war correspondents lost their 18th man of the campaign when Jean Marie De Premonville, 30, of the French Press Agency. was <illed on a patrol with U. s. rangers )n the Central Korean front.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
ALBRIGHT TO WASHINGTON

pr. c. Earl AIbrecl-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.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
BANFIELDS GREETED
 AT SUNDAY RECEPTION

Close friends greeted Mir and Mrs. Norman C. Banfield at re- ception held at the A. F. Ghiglione residence Sunday afternoon
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

9aranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive am, Tuesday.
 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver pm. Feb. II.
 Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle 4 pm. Friday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12

R. E. DiRae of Sitka is at the Baranof hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-02-12
c . . .
 WEATHER REPORT

Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending s:20 o'clock this morning
 Tn .J,,neau - Maximum
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Evening star., 1951-10-14

It dries to a beautiful high
lustre. Perfect to apply to
wood, tile floors or linole-
ums. ! to a customer. No
phone or mail orders.
Evening star., 1951-10-14

T hey're made Of
heavy chrome plate
and have a removable
crumb tray. The au-
tomato current shuts
of. d erful to
own.
The daily record., 1951-12-31
MANEUvERs, STRIKE

OOntinued =.
its kind in the nation and designation of McLamb Macn
Co. as the nations largest Farmall dealer Major Joe
McCullers recall to the Army and appointment of Norman
Suttes to succeed him manager of the Chamber of
Commerce; national publicity given the town for
pliance with OPS.
Nationwide publicity given Carbne- inventor Marshall
Williams of Goodwin and the decision of MCNeto make
movie of his life the death Of Charles Ross the elder
statesman OF Harnett; the noes celebration of half
century of motion pictures "Movetime, USA drafting
denStment OF hundreds of Harnett youth into the
service opening of the Benson Hog Markets. puorratOn
of Dunn's water supply.
Important religious events in Dunn included: retire
en of Rev. j. Luther Davis after 81 years pastor of
the Gospel Tabernacle and appointment of Rev Balm
Underwood to succeed him. arrival of Father Francis Nc
Carthy the vewire pastor of the Sacred Heart Cath
oc Church, return of Rev. Joyce Early to Divine Street
Church.
Jim MCMILLAN was responsible for organization of
Dunn's Information Clinic and Dunn's Little Theatre
There stories of sensational ma
ture, such murder rape dynarniting of home and
other sord events These, The Record regards merely
part of the passing parade contributing nothing to the
betterment of the communities. ~
The daily record., 1951-12-31
Mr.. and Mrs. E. z. ThomQs
Observe Golden Weddinq

chrysanthemums in crystal bowl
flanked by lighted yellow tapers in
silver candelabra.
AT one end of the table Mrs. E.
H. Bost presided over a large crys-
tai bowl containing egg-nog, and
Mrs. B. B. Hudson served the cake.
The refreshments, which carried
out the Golden Wedding decor, were
diamond-shaped individual cakes,
iced in golden yellow and decor
ated with wedding bells; slipper
and bell shaped sandwiches; and
yellow mints with tiny floral de-
signs formed the traditional we'd
ding ring, cally lily and heart. 9th
er refreshments were miniature bis
cults with ham, cheese biscuits, and
salted nuts, which were served in
bowls and heart-shaped plates of
antique milk glass by Sarah, Mar
tina, Emily and Billie Thomas,
granddaughters of Mr.: and Mrs.
Thomas.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. R. Thomas, Jr.,
said the good-byeS and presented
each guest with small slice of we'd
ding cake wrapped in golden paper
and tied with golden ribbon.
Approximately $50 guests attend