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The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
Seward Dropped As port of Call
 By Alaska Steam

SEATTLE. Oct. IT - R The strike-bound port of Seward. Alaska, has been dropped as port of call by the Alaska Steamship Co.,, effec- tive immediately, D. E. Skinner. vice president and general manager. says.
 Skinner said the strike, now in it's fifth day. has made 1t impos- sible to discharge cargo at Seward, the southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad.
 The dispute is between the Inde- pendent Longshoremen's and Ware housemen's Union (InO and the Northern Stevedoring Go.
 Skinner said Alaska Steam sail ing to Seward would be halted uptil the situation is relieved"
 "The national defense program of Alaska is seriously affected by this strike which is interrupting the movement of cargo for Army and Air Force installations" he added.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
Home Manufafiure No Longer 5ubjeef To Price Controls

Individuals manufacturing items in their own homes. and whose sales amount to 1000 or less each month are no longer subject to price con- trol. the Office of Price Stabilization said this week.
 Until now, small home manufac- turers had an exemption of $200 a month. Small home manufacturers produce such items as fishing lures, artificial flowers, baskets, small toys, wood carvings. small scatter rugs and thousands of similar things.
 The OPS said these commodities have an insignificant effect on the cost of living and to control their prices would involve administrative burdens out of proportion to their value.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
pakislan Buries Prime Minister

KARACHI. Pakistan, Oct. 17-R -Pakistan buried her murdered Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, today, while stunned nation grieved.
 Sobbing, sorrowing thousands lined route heavily guarded by troops as Liaquat's body was brought from his home to hallowed ceme- tery to be placed beside that of the man he succeeded as this na- tions chief the revered Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
 The leader of this four-year- nation was shot to death yesterday at Rawalpindi in the Punjab. where he had just begun a speaking tour. The body was flown to Karachi early today and hurried funeral arrangements were made while the nation trembled at the prospect of violence in the wake of the assassin's act
 The crowd was orderly, obviously stunned. As the body was borne through the streets on a flower decked artillery caisson, Pakistani officials announced for the first time that they identified Liaquat's slayer as an Afghanistan national.
 The fanatical killer, identified as Sher Akhtar, member of an organi- zation which wanted holy war" with India, fired two bullets into Liaquat Ais chest and head yester- day as the Prime Minister addressed a meeting at Rawalpindi, only 30 miles from disputed Kashmire state
 The Khaksar organization. to which the leader belonged. is a Nazi-like group with a Hitler-like leader, Allama Mushruqi. It often has clashed with the Moslem league, founded by Jinnah, and a man who tried at one time to assassinate Jinnah was said to have been a Khaksar.
 Sir Kwaja Nazimuddin, Governor General of Pakistan, has taken over as acting prime minister of Pakistan. A moderate right winger, he is friendly to the west and re- spected in neighboring India.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
Leaders Tell COPS No More Me, Too';; Adopt Platform

SEATTLE, Oct. 17-R- Republi- cans think they can carry the west in 1852 if they work hard enough at it.
 That's the message drummed out in two days of speechmaking ano policy writing at the party's western conference. The meeting ended yesterday.
 Ten of the II member states voted for President Truman in 1948. Only Oregon supported Republican Thomas E. Dewey.
 Why the optimism, then?
 Guy c. Gabrielson. Republican National Committee chairman, and other speakers told delegates:
 There'll be no "Me, too" cam paign next year. The party has plenty of issues this time-headed by charges of Democratic cor ruption and Communists-in- government. And it's not going to let 194S overconfidence set in again.
 The conference adopted a pro- posed 20-point Republican platform for the west. The action was not final, however. Because of Cali fornia objections against some points, delegates agreed to keep the platform resolution open for possible change at their January meeting in San Francisco.
 Among other issues, the plat form backs immediate statehood for Hawaii and would let Alas kans elect their own Territorial Governor, now appointed, until such time as it too wins state hood.
 Alaskan delegates offered no de- murrer against the phrasing which does not specify immediate state hood. Others pointed out that Alaska votes Democratic; hence the state of Alaska would send two more Democratic Senators to Washing ton. The Alaska delegates were headed by Albert White of Juneau, controversial general counsel" for the party in Alaska, and his wife, the National Committeewoman.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
.MatArfhur .Hits Truman Korea Policy
Calls for AII-0ut Force to End Slaughter of
 Americans; Applause

MIAMI, Florida, Oct. IT, R = Gen. Douglas Macarthur bitterly accused the Truman administration today of plunging the nation toward socialism and economic disaster. And he called for an all-out use of military force to ends the "un- necessary slaughter of Americans in Korea.
 The five-star general told thou sands of cheering American Legion naires you cannot profitably nego- tiate with Communist" and he all but proposed an end to the truce talks in Korea. He declared force is the only persuasion the Reds can understand and the best way to end the war.
 MacArthur's address was a slash ing attack on the administration domestic, foreign and military pol icies-perhaps the hardest hitting since he was busted from his far eastern commands by President Truman.
 He was greeted with roaring cheers when he began his speech in the Big Dinner Key Auditorium where more than l5.000 people had gathered. And he often was inter- rupted by applause.
 MacArthur's 45-minute speech was interrupted 49 times by outbursts of cheering. The heaviest applause broke out when the general men, toned using greater military force in the Korean war.
 .MacArthur proposed l5-point program for the Legion to support in correcting weaknesses as the general saw them--including an atomic program with a full com- mitment to the use as needed of the atomic weapon"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
Infantry
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Allies Within Rifle Range of Bastion; Chinese Retreat Slowly

U. s. 9TH ARMY HEADQUAR- TIERS, Korea, Oct. 17-R-Allied Infantrymen drove to within rifle range of Kumsong on the central front today.
 Chinese defenders retreated slowly before the advancing US. 24th Di- vision and the South Korean Sixth Division.
 The Allies gained 1,50o to 2.00O yards in the fifth day of their drive toward the Reds central Korean bastion.
 The Reds were described officially as slowly withdrawing.
 Whether this was general along the entire 22-mile central sector remained to be seen. It was still possible for the Reds to make a stand south of Kumsong.
 Allied Infantrymen trapped a pocket of Chinese on the highest peak guarding the southern ap- proach to Kumsong. First esti- mates placed the number of trapped Reds at about 800. But a briefing officer said slackening resistance as American and Co., lombian troops attacked the crests indicated the number may have dwindled.
 The 24th Division moved 1000 yards forward to close the last gap in the trap around the Reds.
 We're going in and clean them out" said It. Col. Albert L. Thornton of Birmingham, Ala.
 US. troops and Colombian In- fantrymen began the assault. Artillery covered them from newly captured flanking hills.
 More than 40 hills have been captured in the five-day advance on Kumsone. Three J-nitei Nations divisions have advanced seven miles along a 22-mile front. Allied arr tillery moved up to strategic peaks where it could blast Kumsong. the main Communist bastion on the central front. M
 To the east, the Republic of Ko- req (ROK) Eighth Division drove against 1000 to 3,000-foot ridges in an effort to keep pace with the central push.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
FoIfa Is Confirmed

WASHINGTON, Oct. IT = R = The Senate confirmed the nomina- ton yesterday of George w. Folta of Juneau for another term as U. S. District Judge in 'laska
 It also approved the nomination of Francis Xavier Chapados to be U. s. Marshal of Division No. 4. District of Alaska. succeeding Frank Barr, resigned.
 Folta is the judge for Southeast Alaska. His reappointment con- firmation drew letters of protest from five Alaskans. the Senate Ju- dietary committee reported pre- viously. One was legislator and three were former legislators - all from outside the division in which Judge Folta serves.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17

Is there a phantom choir, with organ accompanist, that plays clear ly defined church music for the lonely wanderer in the isolated canyons of the Nahlin river?
 Department of Fisheries men are seeking a more scientific answer to the music and bells they heard and finally admitted to each other that they heard-in the seldom seen wilderness over 100 miles east of Juneau.
 And who lifted the weight off the packs of two of the men as they climbed a steep goat trail over a slide on an unnamed river?
 Notification about the music came from three of the four men on the field trip. And the other man ad- mits having defective hearing. The two men whose packs were lifted by
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
Beftingk Heavy on Churchill

LONDON, Oct. 17-tR-Heavy bet ting on Winston Churchill and his Conservative party to win the Oct. 25 British election drove the odds still longer against the Labor gov- ernment today.
 In the books of Douglas Stuart, one of the nations biggest bet talk CTS, packers of Prime Minister Att lees Labor party can put up f2 to win f7. Conservative supporters must bet f9 to win f2.
 The odds reflect the weight of betting money on both sides, not the bookies' opinions, Stuart spokesman said. A few days ago Stuart was offering to l against Labor and to 1 against the Con- servatives.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
Stotk Quotations

NEW YORK, Oct. 17-R-Closing ouotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3A, American Can 118a. American Tel. and Tel. l5oA : Anaconda 5OA. Douglas Aircraft 641b. General Electric SIS, General Motors 52, Goodyear 47la, kenne- colt 85la. Libby McNeill and Libby g. Northern Pacific 581s, Standara oil of California 521s, Twentieth Century Fox 23A, US. Steel 439s' Pound $2.79, Canadian Exchange go.
 Sales today were 1,460,000 snares'
 Averages today were as follows industrials 273.56, rails 85.l3, util- itieS 46.49.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
CrisisLooms For British
 In Suez Area
British and Egyptians Rush Achievements; Paratroopers Sent

:, CAIRO. Oct. 17-lR-Ismailia in the Suez Canal area was an armed camp bristling with machineguns and tanks today, as both British and Egyptians rushed reinforce ments there Britain faced new trouble in the Anglo Egyptian Su- dan.
 One leader of the powerful pro- Egyptian Sudanese Ashigga party called upon the people of Sudan for a campaign of disobedience to Brit ish authorities there in the cam paign to drive the Britons out of the land over which Egypt now has proclaimed King Farouk the sole monarch.
 In the Suez Canal area, the British reported that the Lan- cashire Fusiliers, military and RAF forces and the Egyptian police were in control of the sit uation after the city of 50,000 was rocked by violent rioting yester- day.
 A release distributed in Cairo by the RAF said almost all the shops and buildings Gin Ismailia) are closed and the town resembles an armed camp"
 British parachute troops, 3,5oo strong, were taking off from Nicosia, Cyprus, only 300 miles away, to re- inforce the British in the canal zone, where at least seven and pos sibly 12 persons were killed in yes terday's violence.
 Ismailia was divided into two sections, the western part held by British troops grimly alert behind barbed wire, with Bren guns noslng through. The section was com pletely blacked out last night. No lights showed from any building and the dark streets were empty except for patrolling British Jeeps
 The Egyptian sector was patrolleo by Egyptian police on a 24-houl emergency alert.
 Egyptian officials said six British army trucks were burned or other wise destroyed by mobs in the vlo- lence yesterday. Other sources salo at least IT trucks were burned.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
DYE MARKERS FOUND

MISSIONER AIR FORGE BASE, Mass, Oct. 17--R-A smear of yell low dye was found on the sea to- day 490 miles east of Cape Cod by a search plane seeking a missing stratofreighter and her crew of II.
 Westover officers said the dye marker was sighted by Capt Lewis Dandolph of East Rutherford, N. J., flying C-54 search plane, at 9:30 am. EST, and that it was consis- tent with dye carried in pneumatic rafts used by planes.
 Capt. Randolph reported he did not see a raft.
 Capt. Randolph's report added impetus to search already speeded up by reported light flashes in the area last night.
 Eighteen search planes had con- verged on that section of the At- lantic, about 150 miles south of Sable Island. N. s.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
5traiofreighter Win fl Aboard Missing al Sea
By FRANK LOCKERBY City Editor, Tacoma (Wash)
 NewS- Trihune

LAGES FIELD, Azores, Oct. IT, R-Clerical and other non-flying air force workers today are serving as volunteer scanners in the intense search for a missing Stratofreighter plane with II men aboard.
 Visibility was good as United States and Portuguese military planes combed the North Atlantic for a distance of 855 miles west of here
 But no sign has been found so far of the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) plane reported missing on a routine flight from here to Westover Air Force base in Massachusetts Monday.
 The rescue planes are conducting route and area search" flying at an elevation of approximately 500 f1st above sea lItei.
 At this altitude visibility over the search area is good, according to rescue control officers at Flight B Seventh Air Rescue Squadron here.
 The search plane crews are aug mented by the volunteer scanners, working in shifts of two hours.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
Hungry (onvitis 'tnds Revolt
 After 1S Hours

MOUNDSVILLE, w. Va, Oct. IT -4R-An 18-hour revolt of 1900 prisoners at the West Virginia State Penitentiary ended without casu- alties at 9:45 am. (EST) today.
 State Police Maj. R. w. Boyles suddenly appeared on the steps of the administration building lead- ing into the two-acre exercise yard where the prisoners had milled all night.
 He yelled: T have a message for you"
 Get on the loud-speaker," called back some of the prisoners.
 Warden Orel J. Skeen's voice came on the prison public address system.
 'If you men care to go in your cells," he said, "the doors are open. And when you get in, we'll ar range to feed you. We can't feed you where you are"
 There was surge for the door.
 There were some scattered yells among the leaders: 'No, no, mo-"
 Ready to Quit
 The main body of the cold and hungry convicts paid no attention to them.
 Even the leaders joined the rush. They apparently feared they might be identified, if they held out.
 When the big break came in the tense revolt, some of the prisoners were picking up and eating nuts which had been scattered in the yard for squirrels.
 Only short time earlier the prisoners had shouted defiance from the cold, foggy exercise yard.
 During the night, gunfire had driven back their rushes on the grocery storeroom and the power plant.
 Fifty heavily armed state troopers marched into their midst soon after dawn. The 1900 rioters fell back, shouting profane abuse at the po- licemen.
 They had been called in from all over the state to augment the 90 guards. Moundsville is on the Ohio river 12 miles below Wheeling.
 1900 In Mutiny
 All but 400 of the prisons 1,70o inmates joined the mutiny. They protested prison cook was filthy They said they had too little cloth- ing. They refused to come in from the exercise yard last night for the evening meal.
 They haven't eaten since yester- day noon. The temperature got down to AT last night.
 The 90 guards on the 40-foot walls fired over their heads so no one was hurt when about 200 of the prisoners rushed the boiler room and commissary with knives and broken scissors.
 A few marched in front of the ad- ministration building all night. Most of them stretched out on the cold, damp pavement. A few huddled in blankets.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
Arehie Betis Rites Thursday Afternoon

Funeral services for Archie Betts will be held Thursday afternoon at ? o'clock at the Carter Chapel The Elks ritualistic service will be used and Ernest Ehler will sing. Inter ment will be in the Elks plot at Evergreen Cemetery.
 Pallbearers will be members of the Elks Lodge. They are Arthur Adams, Erwin Hagerup, Nick Bav- ard. Pat Carroll. Robert Schy and Phillip Berthold.
 MT. Betts was member of the Elks and Moose lodges and a charter member of the Kiwanis club serving as treasurer of the organization from its inception until l946.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
Fibre Work
 On Tax Bill Proposed

WASHINGTON. Oct. l7---tA-fhe Senate agreed today to make new efforts to work out with the House a tax increase bill acceptable to both branches of Congress.
 The voice vote decision was taken with only handful of members on the floor. It was on motion of Sem ator George D-Ga) who heads the tax-writing finance committee.
 In brief meeting earlier. the committee had decided it would re- commend a further attempt to reach agreement with the House.
 The House yesterday unexpectedly turned down the compromise $5,- 732, ,000, 900 tax measure, agreed on hy Seinate-House conferees after lengthy hearings.
 The unexpected House action threw a roadblock into plans for Congressional adjournment this week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
Mediterranean Gale Kills F In Sicily

CATANIA, Sicily. Oct. I'M A great gale. flashing the Mediter- ranean from Sicily to Gibraltar, smashed down five story residence building here today. At least 12 persons were killed.
 Eight to ten others were feared buried in the debris. and two more persons were killed in other wreck age. Damage ran to hundreds of thousands of dollars along the Sic- ilian and western Italian coasts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
Want Alaska To Have vote In Electric Coop
Bv Associated Press

A regional meeting of the Nation al Rural Electric Cooperative Asso- citation in Spokane has asked the national organization to amend its bylaws with regard to Alaska. The group wants Alaska granted the same recognition as state in the association. This would give Alaska cooperatives a vote on the National Board of Directors.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
The W ashington Merry Go Round
,copy-.ght, 1851. by Bell Syndicate, Incl
 By DREW PEARSON

TI
 " ASHINGTON = The two old tvrants of the Senate, Mckeilar oi Tennessee and McCarran of Nevada, tried to hrowbeat the nations top secret out of Atomic Energy Chair man Gordon Dean the other day. It's none of their business, but they demanded to know this country's exact number of atomic bombs.
 This is too precious secret to be repeated around Congress, whose employees are not cleared for loy- alty like other federal employees. It would be particularly dangerous for Senator McCarran to know, since a parade of ex-Communists is constantly streaming through his office. Though they have denounced their Communist ties and come to McCarran to confess, the FBI is frankly skeptical of some of them.
 Nevertheless Mcclellan and Nc Carran got the Atomic Energy chairman behind closed doors of the Senate Appropriations committee and hounded him to tell the exact number of bombs in our atomic stockpile.
 If we are going into war, we ought to be ready, and we ought to know what we have" rasped Tennessee's McKellar. You are ask ing for more money, and 1t is un- usual to ask for more money just before the Congress adjourns. What I would like to know is what you have done with the money that we appropriated last year?"
 we have done a great deal of work, and we have expanded the atomic energy program---fold," re-
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
MRS. HERMANN LEAVES FOR TRIP EAST

Mrs. Mildred Hermann left Tues day on the Pan American plane for New York City and Washington, D. c. In the nations capitol she will attend a convention of the Gen. eral Federation of Women's Clubs and in New York she will represent the Alaska Cancer Society at the meeting of the American Society.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
PONTIAC ZONE MANAGER STOPS HERE ON ALASKA TOUR

C.. L. Messecar, zone manager for the Pontiac motor division of Gen. eral Motors. stopped in Juneau Tuesday as part of his re-contract- ing tour through Alaska.
 Messecar. from Portland. says he is the first zone manager for Pom tiac to be assigned to Alaska duty" He was in Juneau to re-affirm the contract with the Connors Motor Co.,, here.
 His next stop will be Anchorage. where he will meet with dealers from that city and Cordova, val- deg. Seward and Palmer. In Fair banks he will meet with the Nome dealer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
Ship Movements

Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Oct. 19.'
 Denali due southbound sometime Sunday.
 Freighter Lucidor scheduled southbound at 2 pm.
 Freighter Coastal Monarch due northbound Oct. 21.
 Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Oct. 20.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
heinizIeman 10 Make Alaska Day Address at Sitka

To speak at the Alaska Day pro- gram in Sitka, B. Frank Heintzle- man. regional forester and we'll known authority on Alaskas hls- tory. will leave today on the AL aska Coastal Airlines. Tomorrow VIII mark the 84th anniversary of the transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States.
 MT. Heintzleman vii return to his office on Friday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17

Frank Lockerby, on 'month-long tour of US. air bases abroad, ar rived in the Azores just as search began for a missing Stratofreighter with II aboard He is delaying his tour to cover the story for the Associated Press.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
NO WELL BABY SESSION

Due to the fact that Alaska Day is holiday, the Juneau Health Center will be closed Thursday, October IS, and there will be no Well Baby Conference. Parents who had planned on taking their children in may phone 218 for a future appointment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-17
LICENSE TO WE'D

TACOMA, Oct. 17-tR-A marriage license has been issued to: Edgar T. Combs and Lucille Combs, both of Fairbanks, Alaska.