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The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16
WINNING OUT

KANSAS CITY. July 16 --4R- The twin cities of Kansas City, Mo, and Kansas City. Kas.. apparently were winning their fight today to contain the disastrous flood that has inundated four industrial dis tricts. but raging fire that started 72 hours ago still burned unchecked.
 Although the crest of the flood had passed and was well down the Missouri river, water stood as much as IS feet deep in the major flooded areas with the prospect relief would come slowly.
 As Kansas City operated on a state of emergency following the na- tion's costliest flood these rapid fire development highlighted the picture:
 l. Missouri's governor and lieu tenant governor got into row oyer whether the National Guard should be called out to aid the stricken city.
 2. The House at Washington raised from sl5,00O,O0o to $25.OO0. .oO0 The funds provided in relief bill to aid the stricken areas in Mis- souri and Kansas and passed it quickly.
 3. President Truman decided to fly west tomorrow to make per- sonal survey. He probably will fly as far west as Manhattan, Kas.
 4. Kansas City business operated on sharply restricted hours. Three
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16
Engebrefh Dies in South

Gunnard M. Engebreth, 42-year- old president of the Alaska Senate, died Saturday in Seattle while un- dergoing an operation, according to the Associated Press.
 He left Anchorage June 25 for a medical checkup after steadily los- ing weight.
 Engebreth was serving his second term as Senate president and was the only man ever to hold the of- flee twice. He regarded himself as a Liberal Republican.
 He came to Alaska in 1886 as a Public Works Administration offic- ial, taught in the Alaska Native Service at Kaltag and later entered business at Anchorage.
 His widow, Violet, and their six children were in Oceola, Wis, at the time of his death They went there last Monday to visit Mrs. Enge- breth's father, Oscar Swanson.
 Funeral services will be held m Minneapolis, the Fisher Kalfus Flu neral home said today. The body will be sent there.
 Many former friends and relatives live in the Wisconsin Minnesota area. He was born in Chicago.
 Surviving children are Karen, II; Kristen, g; Roger, T: Evelyn. s; Rob- ert, 3. and Nancy, T months. He also is survived by his father, Levord Engebretsen, Hawkins, Wis; two brothers, Ralph and Arthur Enge- breth. Anchorage. and three sisters, Mrs. Hilda King, Seattle; Mrs James Smith, LaPorte, Ind. and Mrs. Edward Cook, Minneapolis.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16
Reds Massing Men For Attafk

U. S. 9TH ARMY HEADQUART- FRS. Korea. July l6 --tRL-- Allied officers said today the Reds are prepared to launch a massive att tack if cease-fire negotiations break down.
 A pooled dispatch from the ad- vance base at Munsan quoted the unidentified officers are saying the Reds could throw 72 divisions at the Allies. A Red division is usually fig ured at 5000 to 10000 men.
 They said the Reds could sustain such an attack five to seven days.
 Eighth Army plans in case the cease-fire talks fail are of course secret.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16
Leopold Gives Up Throne 10 Son

BRUSSELS. Belgium, July Is - R- King Leopold III of Belgium surrendered today the throne he held for IT unhappy years, and urg- ed his people to rally around his elder son, who now become King Baudouin l.
 Leopolds solemn words of counsel to his son, delivered before an as- semblage of 200 Belgian government leaders, had overtones of sorrow After years of tragedy and bitter ness, Leopold, now putting aside his crown, begged the Belgians to sup port his young son loyalty and un- selfishly.
 Baudouin, 20, takes the Royal Oath tomorrow before Parliament.
 Leopold signed the abdication document in the ballroom of the Brussels Royal Palace, in cere- mony kept simple to the point of austerity by the kings own wish.
 The small Belgian Communist party tried to seize advantage oi the abdication, and continued with its "vive La Republique" meetings in defiance of the government. The Interior Ministry forbade sucn meetings.
 Leopold, now 49, was minor player in a world drama which was beginning just as he assumed the throne. The Nazis had come to pow CT in Germany, and the way was being paved for war which was to bloody Belgium's soil for the second time in generation.
 Leopold surrendered to the invao- ing Germans despite the opposition of his government. and he was wide ly assailed as pro-German. During his long exile there was many a move to dethrone him.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16

LA JOLLA, Calif., July l6, -lR- Another expedition into the vast depths of the Pacific got underway heer last weekend with departure of the research vessel Horizon.
 The ship, with the latest ocean, ographic equipment, will survey the virtually uncharted area of the North Pacific between the Aleutian Islands and the San Francisco Hawaii steamer lanes.
 It is being sent out by the Uni-i versity of California's Scripps h. stitution of Oceanography here. in cooperation with the U. s. Navy electronics laboratory, San Diego. The office of Naval Research is sponsoring the expedition.
 Scripps' scientists explained that the horizons new voyage will be an extension of expeditions which last year discovered and surveyed the submerged Mid-Pacific Moun-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16
The W ashing gton Merry -Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Copyright. ls5l. by Bell Syndicate. Inc
COP Targets for '52


 A frank outline of COP campaign strategy for 1852 was presented to key Republican Senator's assistants by Alb Hermann, the energetic na- tional committee executive director, in a private meeting the other night.
 The tall, hanjo-eyed Hermann, onetime big-league ballplayer. con- fided: We won Senate seats last year wherever we took our gloves off. There were only two states we should have taken and dicn't, and that was because our nominees re- fused to punch hard-Missouri and Connecticut.
 Why" complained Hermann, we had to bootleg speakers like Mo Carthy into Connecticut"
 'The prime targets" in 1850, he said, were Scott Lucas in Illinois; Francis Myers in Pennsylvania; Ebert Thomas of Utah, and Mill lard Tydings of Maryland.
 Turning to Frank Smith. assist ant to Sen John M. Butler, who defeated Tydings. Hermann contin- ued: We did a beautiful job in Maryland and Utah, Frank. I don't see why the Democrats yelled so much about the composite picture in your campaign, when, by com- parison with the anti-Thomas
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Ship Movements

Baranof due am. from south.
 Princess Norah scheduled to ar rive tomorrow afternoon or evening. Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver Tuesday.
 Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16
Kansas City Reels as Flood 5urges East

KANSAS CITY, Mo, July l6--tR- The nations costliest flood passed it's destructive peak in the Kansas City area today and surged on east ward in Missouri.
 But this metropolitan area of 900.0000 persons and Eastern and Central Kansas still reeled from the impact of high waters.
 The twin furies of fire and flood lashed at Kansas City, Mo, and Kansas City, Kas., for the fifth con- secutive day.
 Four industrial districts were un- der water. Transportation was crippled. The water supply was curtailed. A seven- block fire burned fiercely and destructively - just as 1t has since last Friday.
 In Eastern and Central Kansas, the swollen Kansas river and its tributaries receded generally, per- hitting some of the thousands of homeless to return to muck leaked areas.
 More than 1000 persons in both states were driven from their homes.
 Crest Rolls On
 But many of the towns still lacked power and water facilities.
 Eastward in Missouri, the Missouri river crest rolled towards the cen- tral part of the state.
 Its destructive power was still there, but there were no great in- dustrial cities in its path.
 The towns along the river are still disging out of q flood that hit qasIjcr. this month. The Missouri runs 200 miles across the state from Kansas City on the west to St. Charles on the east. There 1t emp tes into the Mississippi.
 All vehicular bridges between Kansas City and St. Charles are closed because of high water.
 IF Deaths
 Seventeen deaths have been caus- ed by the gigantic flood
 Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief of the Army Engineers. said last night il appeared the cost will run consider ably over the $5OO,000,0O0 he esti- mated on his arrival from Wash ington last weekend.
 President Truman, who requested Pick to make personal survey, designated flooded parts of both states as disaster areas.
 Train and highway transportation in both states is drastically cur tailed. The National Guard, the Red Cross. Army, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard have thrown men and money into the fight against high waters.
 Aid has poured in from coast to coast and from Canada.
 In this metropolitan area, muddy waters still swirled over thousands of acres of industrial districts. Waters. ranging from a few feet tc 20 feet deep, stretched over rail road yards, livestock industries, grain elevators, oil refineries, and manufacturing plants.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16
First (ease-Fire Progress Reported; Reds In 'Amiab|e' Mood
By Associated Press

MUNSAN, Korea, July Is -tH- LIN negotiators reported they made some progress" today in Korean war cease-fire talks held in friend ly atmosphere with Communist dele- gates.
 It was the first formal announce T ment of progress.
 Negotiators are still working on the agenda. It may be PA hours or A days" before the agenda is com- pleted and actual negotiations on armistice terms get underway, spokesman said
 Two 55-minute sessions were held Monday in neutralized Kaesong The next meeting is scheduled for II am. Tuesday 6 pm. today, Juneau time).
 No Armed Reds
 There wasn't an armed Commun- ist visible within half mile of the house where talks were held.
 Tt Is much better now that we are not surrounded by guards" said Vice Adm. c. Turner Joy, chief LIN delegate.
 "The Communists have fulfilled their agreement with respect to the neutrality of the conference site" LIN communique said. fin that no armed personnel was observed"
 Armed Red military police were in the war-battered city. They were there by agreement reached Sunday. Some smiled at the second group of 20 LIN newsmen to go into the city. Others scowled.
 The negotiations themselves were conducted in a formal atmosphere across a green-topped table in secluded conference room.
 More Frinedly
 But it was not a formality that would prevent an agreement" said It. Col. Howard s. Levie of New York. LIN staff officer who was present.
 Everyone was more friendly to- day than ever before.9. vs The two Chinese generals on the five-nan Red deIcsaEI0n especially seemed to be in good spirits at the afternoon session.
 The Chinese smiled when they came back into the conference room." Levie said They nodded to General Craigie" (Maj Gen. L. c. Craigie is one of the five LIN dele- gates).
 Maybe" the spokesman sug- gested. the Communists have learn cd we are not the man eaters they were led to believe from their propa- gandists"
 Newsmen on the spot said both sides appeared to be in harmony at the end of Mondays session.
 Tuesdays meeting was scheduled for II am. one hour later than usual = at the request of the Com munists. No reason was given for the change in time.
 Joy took the entire 55 minute Monday morning session to present further arguments in favor of the agenda proposed by the Allied dele- gatiOn.
 They took a two-hour recess at the Reds request.
 Then in the afternoon. cigaret- smoking Gen. Nam Il, head of the Red delegation. used another 55 minutes to present his views.
 Agenda Only
 They talked only about agenda items. An Allied announcement said:
 The JUN command delegation re- ports that some progress was made to the formation of mutually agreed-upon agenda."
 A press dispatch from the truce city said the five North Korean and Chinese generals were scowling as they left the morning meeting.
 But when the afternoon talks ended they seemed amiable. The five Red generals smiled and posed for LIN photographers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, July 16 -LR-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 212, American Can 108%, American Tel. and Tel. 154A !, Anaconda 38%, Douglas Aircraft 465s. General Electric 551s, General Motors 48as, Goodyear 8S& Kenne : colt 71h, Libby, McNeill and Libl y 85s, Northern Pacific 4lh, Standa I'd Oil of California 455s, Twentieth Century Fox 1893. U. s. Steel 3!lA Pound S2.8O 1i16, Canadian Ex- change 9406A.
 Sales today were 100000 sh nres.
 Averages today were as follows: Industrials 252.31, rails 75.60, utili- ties 1850.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16

MT and Mrs Lee E,,is of the Fish and Wildlife Service from Wrangell are stopping at Hotel Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16

Garth B. Harlan of the U. s. dis trict engineer office in Anchorage IS staying at the Baranof hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16
FROM SEATTLE

s. A. Brown, Seattle representa- tive of the Utah Woolen Mills, is registered at Hotel Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16

MT. and Mrs. J. K. Johnson oi Ketchikan are stopping at the Bar anof hotel. Johnson is with the New England Fish Go.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16

B. H. Parkinson of the Coastwise Steamship Go. of San Francisco, is registered at the Baranof hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16
WEATHER FORECAST

WEATHER FORECAST Tempersture for 24-Hour Period , ending $40 o'clock this morning In Juneau = Maximum, 78; minimum. 56, At Airport - Maximum, 78; minimum, 50. F.O R E c A s T Fair tonight. Increasing high cloudiness Tuesday. Lowest tonight near 5 and highest Tuesday about 75 , degrees.
 P R E IPIT TION } tPast 2l hours ending 7:3o am. today City of Juneau = None; , Since July = .04 inches. At Airport = None: Since July - GA inches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-07-16

Roy Sumpter of the Washington Mortgage Go. of Seattle is at the Baranof hotel.
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AT HOTEL JUNEAU Sgt. William F. Kelleigh of the Alaska Communications System is staying at Hotel Juneau.
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Evening star., 1951-08-17

neck, N. j., told the committee
that zwillman tried to buy pro-
lection for his operations by Of
Ifering to contribute 100000 to
the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor in 1949. on the promise
that he be permitted to appoint
the State attorney general.
Mr.. Bishop said the offer was
rejected fatty by the Democratic
candidate, State Senator Elmer
Wene. who subsequently lost to
Gov. Driscoll.
Mr.. Bishop said the campaign
proposition was made through
him by George Kesselhaut, an as
sistant to the Democratic leader
in Essex County, N. j. The wit
ness said Kesselhaut told him
Zwillman was willing to do more
for Wene than he had done for
John Kenny in Jersey City"
The offer was relayed to the
Democratic candidate at break
fast the next morning, the COM
mittee was told.
"The Senator had some eggs
half way to his lips" Mr.. Bishop
testified. They froze on his fork
right where they were. He said,
I don't even want to hear about
it. When can we get out of this
town?'"
Mr.. Kenny and his Freedom
ticket had been swept into Office
earlier that year over the Hague
organization. In the gubernator-
ial campaign. Mr.. Wene had Hague
support.
Mayor Kenny denied that his
fellow Jersey City commissioners,
Charles S. Witkowski and James
A. Murray, had been deprived of
their powers for any reason ex-
cept that there had been a family
squabble within the city admin
istration.
The Mayor blamed Jersey City's
trouble with longshoremen on
Commissioner Murray's chief of
park police, whom he described as
a trouble maker. He said this
officer went to a pier and tore
down a campaign placard for AL
fred D. Sieminski, successful can
didate for Congress, who was
backed by the Kenny forces over
Mr. Murray's son.
Mayor Kenny admitting taking
$4,000 in cash from his own safe
deposit box and sending it to a
lawyer friend who was in a jam.
He said the money was an out
right gift because the lawyer had
Evening star., 1951-08-17
kobiIizer Sets Up
Incentive WAGE Plan
By the Associated Press

Mobilization Director Charles E.
Wilson yesterday set up a plan
permitting wage increases where
necessary to attract workers to
defense plants.
A similar system was in effect
during World War II under Gov
ernment wage controls.
Mr.. Wilson issued a manpower
policy declaration which was ex-
planned at news conference by
Chairman George w. Taylor of
the Wage Sterilization Board and
DR.. Arthur Flemming, MIR. VIII
sons manpower chief.
They emphasized it would have
to be rare and unusual case
as certified by the Defense Man.
power Administration in the La
bor Department, or by other de-
fense agencies. The board will
decide the extent of any wage in
crease, and DR.. Taylor said it
would be granted only if the board
is satisfied that the boost would
not be unstabilizing.
The principal shortages now are
in the machine tool industry, but
a score of skilled crafts also have
frightened up in recent months.
Employers faced with the prob
lem of holding or finding workers
will have to enlist the help of the
local labor-management manpow-
er committees. and through them
the procurement agency or the
Defense Manpower AdminiStra-
!tion.
Evening star., 1951-08-17
Rescuers Climb Volcano
Toward Plane Wreckaqe
By the Assoeiafsd Press

TOLUCA, Mexico, Aug. IT.
Rescuers were fighting their way
up snow-capped Toluca volcano
today toward an unidentified twin
engined plane reported crashed
near the crater.
The 29-man party of volunteers,
led by a guide and Mexican Red
Cross official, left here last night
for the climb up the 15,000-foot
cone.
The wrecked craft was sighted
yesterday by two pilots from the
Puebla Civil Aviation School. OBJ
servers in Calimaya said they
could see the plane near the snow
line at the crater with field glasses.
The pilots said they circled
above the wreck and saw no signs
of life.
The Mexico City airport tower,
which controls all plane traffic in
Central Mexico, said it had no
record of a missing plane. It
added that all commercial and
scheduled flights are accounted
for.
Evening star., 1951-08-17
Student Is Given Choice
|0f -Four Service Schools
BY the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17.-Nine-
teen-year old Robert T. Lutz. jr.,
believes in putting plenty Of irons
in the fire.
Robert took an entrance exami-
nation for West Point a while
back. While he was awaiting the
results, he filled out applications
for other service schools.
Months went by. Then Repre-
sentative Morris Poulson advised
Robert he had appointed him to
West Point. The day after he ar
rived at the Academy. he received
a letter saying Representative
Donald Jackson had named him to
Annapolis.
Subsequently he was ordered to
report to the New London (Conn)
Coast Guard Academy, then to the
California Maritime Academy at
Vallejo. Finally his Draft Board
notified him his number was up.
Robert is sticking to West Point.
Evening star., 1951-08-17
Wilson Going Ahead
with Plant Dispersal
BY the Associated Press

Defense Mobilizer Charles Z.
Wilson said I'VE are going ahead"
with President Truman'S plant
dispersal program despite criti-
cism from Congress.
Mr.. Wilson said in a statement
that "it is a great program for
the good Of the country-for many
years to come, in peace and war.
The plan calls for placing new
industrial plants at least an
atomic bombs range - several
Imiles-from existing plants. Mr..
Truman has ordered Government
agencies to use these dispersal
standards in administering Gov
erninent aid programs for indus
TRY.
Representative Martin, Repub-
|lican, Of Massachusetts,, House
minority leader. has complained
that the plan might result in
locating few new plants in already
heavily industrialized New Eng
land.
Mr.. Wilson's statement en-
phasized "the local character of
this program for greater national
security"
Existing industrial areas" Mr.
Wilson said, "can apply the dis
Ipersal idea-space-in terms of a
few miles rather than hundreds.
We are not asking vital industries
to move their factories but only
to locate new factories a few miles
away from existing ones.
1--WE are relying upon private
Industry everywhere to see that
new plants are dispersed. Ard
effective dispersal can be accom-
plished within local marketing
areas.
Evening star., 1951-08-17
Civil Defense
Continued From First Page.)

otheS Government money bills aft
er cracking deadlocks.
The civil defense budget was
considered along with those of a
score of other agencies in the
supplemental bill providing ST.
677 ,566, ,314-a total of $625, ,304,-
800 from President Truman's re-
quest.
The committee approved $3.50
million of the $273 million asked
by the Atomic Energy Commission
to speed up construction of new
facilities, to test weapons and to
develop new type of reactors.
Another big allotment recon-
mended was $790,216,000 for stock
piling strategic and critical mate
rial, for which the President had
requested $500 million.
$50 Million for Cargo Ships.
The Commerce Department was
allotted $50 million to continue
work on construction OF new fast
cargo ships. The committee said
contracts already have been let
for Is of the 81 new ships au-
thorized.
Three other big money bills
emerged from Senate e-House con-
ference committees within a few
hours yesterday. They are:
/, An Agriculture Department
bill carrying some 81 1.062, $1,000 to
finance Federal farm programs.
2. A $2,512,004,270 fund for
Labor Federal Security agencies.
3. A SSH, 1865 1886 bill for the In
terror Department.
House Accepts Report.
The House today accepted the
conference report on the Interior
bill, and planned to finish the
other two money bills this after
noon.
When the Senate ratifies the
conference reports on these bills
next week, Congress will be at the
halfway mark in passing the IL
annual appropriation bills.
The six which will still require
action by one or both houses are:
Civil functions, legislative, State
Justice Commerce, the $50 billion
armed forces budget, the miscel-
laneous supplemental bill reported
Evening star., 1951-08-17

today and foreign aid appropria-
ton.
Hearings on the civil defense
fund requests developed testimony
that Russia has 100 atomic bombs.
This was the testimony of Dis
trict Civil Defense Director John
Z Fondahl, who said the infor-
nation came from persons "who
have access to classified informa-
ton"
New Information Received.
In other testimony, Federal
Civil Defense Administrator Mil
lard Caldwell told Congress that
new information from the Central
Intelligence Agency on Russian
capabilities would force a drastic
upward revision IN this country's
civil defense needs.
II must inform you that since
this budget has been sent to the
hill we have received certain vital
and new information from the
Central Intelligence Agency con-
Icerning Russian capabilities" he
said.
He noted also that on June 16
the Atomic Energy Commission
and the Defense Department an
nounced in the joint report on the
Greenhouse atomic test operation
in the Pacific that:
Both military and civil defense
leaders. noting that there has
been an improvement in weapons
design, must necessarily plan on
the basis of weapons several times
more powerful than the Hiro-
,shima- -Nagasaki, or nominal
weapons"
Evening star., 1951-08-17
Crime
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First PageD
stand under subpoena to say
Zwillman dominated her husband.
She said Mr.. Krieger consulted
regularly with zwillman and did
what zwillman told him, that the
visits to zwillman's home were
prearranged and that when both
Zwillman and the Kriegers were
in Florida, Mr.. Krieger spent ev-
cry afternoon with Zwillman.
She said her husband and his
friends referred to Zwillman as
"the big fellow and to Mayor
Kenny as "the little fellow"
When the committee recalled
Mr.. Krieger, the lawyer murmured
with bowed head that, when hus-
band and wife part there is bound
to be some vindictiveness but that
their child-a 16-year -old daugh-
ter-lives with him. He made
no other rebuttal of his wife's
unruffled contradictions of his
testimony.
Writer James A. Bishop of Tea