The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1951, Page 1

oAl RaRY o D VOL. LXXVIII, NO. 11,817 HE DAILY ALAS WALL THE NEWSALL THE TIME® JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Commies Retreating On 80 Mile Korean BODY OF GIRL |Gruening Offers Advice To Alaska Steamship Co. In ILWU Strike Threat IRAN DANGER SPOT OF RED AGGRESSIO Dispufe Over Oil Fields May Cause Reds to Move, Says Bradley WASHINGTON, May 23 — (# — Gen. Omar Bradley said today “there is danger of the Russians moving into Iran and starting an- other aggression.” Bradley made the statement in reply to questions by Senator Brew ster (R-Me) at the Senate’s inquiry into the dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. < Brewster asked Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, what consideration the chiefs have been giving “to the apparent imminence of trouble in Iran,” with relation to the desirability of ending the Kor- ean war. Prefers Not Discuss Iran “Well, of course,” Bradley replied, “the longer the problem in Korea keeps up, the less we are prepared to meet any movement anywhere else. I would prefer not to say as to Iran, beause I am not sure that has too much application in our case. “There is a danger, of course, of the Russians moving into Iran and starting another aggression. Whe- ther or not that is any more dang- erous than Yugoslavia or Indo-China or some other place, I am not pre- pared to say; but certainly it is a point of danger and we would like to be jfi"a better. position o meet any further aggression if it, oc- curred.” Tran Trouble Spot Iran currently potentially a trouble spot because’ of n_dispute | between the Iranian gnven;mem! and the British over fran’s decision | to nationalize its rich cilfields. They hava been under long-terin lease to a British corapany. The pil lields have long been of | strategic importance. They supply muth of Europe’s needs, and this oil flow might be cut off if the fields fell into Russian hands. Asks About Formosa At the outset, Brewster asked a iy | iThere is a mas3 1500 fine and six JUDGE FOLTA RENOMINATED BY PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, May 23 — (B — President Truman nominated Geo. W. Folta today for another term as U. S. District Judge for Division No. One, Alaska. Judge Folta was first appointed to the bench in the First Division in 1947, taking his oath of office on May 7. He succeeded Judge George F. Alexander who retired because of ill health. Judge Folta started his career as secretary to Gov. Thomas Riggs, Jr., about 1918. Later he was a court re- porter and then was appointed as- sistant U. S. Attorney under Wil- liam Holzheimer. He then served as solicitor for the Interior Depart- ment, which position he held when he was appointed to his first term as judge. ALASKA IS ASKED T0 STOP BOUNTY ON BALD EAGLE WASHINGTON, May 23, — (® — A House subcommittee has sugges- ted that Alaska stop paying a $1 a head bounty to killers of the Am- erican bald eagle. “This is our national bird and not many of them are left in this country,” chairman Boykin (D-Ala) of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries subCommittee said. The group shelved u bill by ¥ Angell (R-Ore) to cxtend to Al ka the protection fhat is given i bald yengle . 4 the continental United States. “We didn’t want to tell the Al- askan legislature what to do,” Boy- kin said in an interview. “We mere- ly agreed to suggest that it stop the bounty.” | No Time Set For Debate, series of questions about U. S. mili- tary aid to the Chinese Nationalists forces on Formosa. This is the island off the China coast where Chiang Kai-Shek’s government took refuge when driven off the mainland by the Chinese, Communists. Bradley testified the decision to send U. S. military aid to Formosa was made last August and the first deliveries were in November, | 4TH JULY COMMITTEE MEET THURSDAY NIGHT There will be a meeting of the Fourth, of July Committee at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Gold room at the Baranof hotel, Orin Cleveland, gen- eral chairman, announced today. All organizations are urged to be repre- sented to participate in making plans for the big celebration. FROM SEATTLE G. H. Sampson of the Standard 0Oil company from Seattle is stop- ping at the Baranof hotel. The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEAESON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc., ASHINGTON.—It's been pret- ty well concealed except to their close friends, but a smoldering, bitter feud has been raging between the two top mobilization executives of the nation—Charles E. Wilson and Eric Johnston. Both men have been in the el- ectrical business — Wilson as head of the giant General Electric Corp., Johnston as owner of his own ap- pliance factory in Spokane, WaSh. Wilson has sometimes had rough sledding with his labor relations; Johnston has an employee profit- sharing plan which makes his fac- tory a model for the nation. Wilson did a good job as gov- ernment production executive dur- ing World War II; Johnston for years was a farsighted chairman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Wilson was chairman of Truman's (Continued on Page Four) 1 2 Statehoods WASHINGTON, May 23, — (B — The Senate Democratic policy com- mittee has ‘not yet discussed a time for Senate debate of the Hawaii and Alaska ‘statehood bills. Senate ‘majority leader 'McFar- land (D-Ariz) told reporters yester- day after a policy committee meet- ing that the two bills do not figure in the planning for the senate floor program in the immediate | future. CANNERY WORKERS T0 VOTE, UNION SHOP SEATTLE, May 23 —(®— Mem- bers of Local 7-C, ILWU (Ind), will begin voting tomorrow to determine if 2,000 non-resident Alaska salmon cannery workers want a union shop contract. Polls have been established at 522 Second avenue, by the National Labor Relations Board. Julius N. | Draznin, NLRB field examiner, has | charge of the election. The polls will be open from 9 a.m. to noon and 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. to- morrow and Friday. The workers will vote throughout the 1951 canning season as they are shipped to Alaska. Workers must present a 1951 doctors’ examination card for iden- tification when they appear at the polls; the NLRB announced. The card is issued after the workers have | been hired by the industry. The Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., | representing packers, recently sign- ed a new cbntract with the union. Among provisions of the agreement was one granting Local 7-CPA un- ion shop contract automatically, if it wins the election. CALIFORNIA VISITOR Louise Klassen of Turlock, Calif. is at the Baranof Hotel. FISHERMEN FPERE Mr. and Mrs. Erling Oswald who have been ‘fishing are stopping | briefly at the Gastineau Hotel. { ka, wou! | after coast~wide: Jongshore 50 PO G e ’ug:mpm‘t,ed.wnh ALBRIGHT IS OUT AS . ILWU MAN Alaska's ke—presemative Released-Art Olin Has Resigned, Report SAN FRANCISCO, May 23 —(®— Harry Bridges' International Lon; shoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) said today that Verne Albright, its international representative in Alaska, was ‘“re- leased effective as of May 15.” Commenting on a Seattle report that Albright may have been dis- charged, the union said only that Albright’s release was “a routine administrative change.” Morris Watson, spokesman for Bridges, said there has been no de- cision on whether there would be a successor to Albright. He said Albright had been ap- pointed, with headquarters at Ketchikan, for some “special work” a year or two ago. In Seattle, William Gettings, IL- WU regional director, said Art Olin, who had been appointed to assist Albright as an international repre- sentative in Alaska, had resigned,} leaving the union without an m-l‘ ternational representative in the Territory. Gettings said that Germain Bulc+ presidens in charge of Alas- et un a new Alaska staff ia- ke, vice employers. s c Albright was in Juneau several weeks ago during settlement of Cold Storagemen’s strike. MEMBER CASE UP SEATTLE, May 23 —®— A court hearing is set for today in the suit of 14 members ‘of the Alaska Fisher- men’s Union (Ind) to prevent its merger with the ILWU (Ind). The attorney for the 14 has asked the King County court to find thel defendants in default. That means the fishermen are asking a decision in their favor on the contention that the defendants have not taken adequate legal steps to support their defense. The defendants include Harry Bridges, head of the ILWU, and other officers of the ILWU and its fishermen’s division. The 14 filed the suit last Nov. 7. A county judge issued a temporary injunction against the merger. At that time he denied a motion by the defendants to dissolve—or put an end to — the suit. PR SR NECESSARY ‘ NEGOTIATE, * CHINA REDS! WASHINGTON, May 23 — (P -— Secretary of State Acheson said to- day he supposed it wonld be neces- sary to negotiate with the Chinese Communists if and when it becomer possible to settle the war in Korea. But he told a news conference he knew of no peace feelers from the Red Chinese and could not say what the prospect for a settlement is. Acheson also asserted that a much disputed speech which assist- ant Secretary of State Dean Rusk made in New York Friday night did not announce or indicate or sug- gest any change in United States policies toward China. But when he was asked whether he thought Rusk's words were well chosen, Acheson responded in a manner suggesting that he did not think so. He joked with a laugh whether the questioney thought the question was kind, and he said he did not want to criticize the literary gcomposition of his colleague. In his speech, Rusk denounced | the Red Chinese regime as a col- onial Russian government and ex- pressed strong support for the Na- tionalist government on Forrnosa, Senator Taft and other Repub- lican Congress members had inter- preted Rusk’s words as meaning a change in the department's policy. A widespread search is underwa; at Santa Ana, Calif., for Patricia Jean Hull (above), 10, missing since she attended a movie mati- nee (May 19). Deputy Sheriff Russell Campbell announced that Henry Ford MeCracken, 34, a musician, is being questioned, P Wirephoto. E TENSION UP IN TEHRAN ABOUT OIL Possibility to Nation- alize Oil Resources TEHRAN, Iran, May 23, — ® — Tension ‘mounted today in crisis- torn Tehrarf after some 30,000 Mos- lems—booing the United States and Britain—vowed yesterday to wage holy war if need be to na- tionalize the nation’s rich oil re- sources, An air of crisis gripped the Iran- ian capital as police and troops, on |24-hour alert, patrolled the streets in trucks and on horseback. A doz- en tanks roamed the city, ready for action. ( A resolution declaring “strong hatred” of the United States and Britain was cheered wildly at yes- terday’s mass rally, called by Mos- lem religious leaders and Premier Mohammed Mossadegh’s national bloc. The cheering reached fever pitch when black-bearded Chams Ghan- atabadi, leader of the militant Mu- jaheddin Islam (fighters for Islam), declared: “All loyal Moslems will throw the British bandits into, the Persian gulf, if they do net leave the coun- try.” Thousands of Moslem religious banners were waved in approval when another speaker, parliament member Hossein Makki, declared a recent statement by the U. 8. State Department was “A stab‘in the back of the Iranian nation.” The State Department, which has urged moderation on both sides of the dispute, has been accused by Iranians of backing the British stand against nationalization. FROM HAINES Jim McConnell of Haines is at the Baranof hotel. ®© o 000 0.0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 46; minimum, 36. At Airport 48; minimum, 33. Maximum, FORECAST Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday with light rain late Thursday afternoon. Lowest temperature tonight near 40. Highest Thursday about 52. o0 eccccs0scssce e PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ City of Juneau — 24 inches; Since May 1 — 3.52 inches; Since July 1 — 7157 inches. At Airport — .13 inches; Since May 1 — 2.06 inches; Since July 1 — 4133 inches. ® o 000 0 0 0 00 000000 0%000000000000000000 0 IS HUNTED BY 500 PERSONS SANTA ANA, Calif, May 23 —(® Grim sheriff's deputies abruptly shifted their hunt for the body of 10-year-old Patricia Jean Hull to- day to an area where another girl sex victim's skeleton was found in 1947, Patricia Jean vanished from a movie in her home town of Buena Park last Saturday. Booked on sus- picion of kidnaping is a 34-year-old guitar player, Henry Ford McCrack- en, Through two days and nights of questioning he has denied any knowledge of the girl’s abduction. Search has centered near Buena { Park, but today 500 townspeople and officers set up new headquar- ters 10 miles away in the citrus com- munity of Orange. It was near Orange that the body of Rochelle Gluskoter was found in November, 1947, 20 minutes after she disappeared from her home in Los Angeles with a dark man in a black convertible. Sheriff's Detective Lieutenant Peter Klyne said today: “We think McCracken may have some knowl- edge of the Gluskoter case and at least two other sev crimes.” McCracken, who has a record as a sex offender, was discharged from the Air Force near here a month after the Gluskoter girl was lured into a car by her slayer, Feb. 15, 1946. crowi Vows Tty war 1y FIERY CRASH-- USAF PLANE KILLS SEVEN NEW LISBEN, Ind., May 23—(®— An Air Force plane from Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, burned after crashing on a farm near here today and at least seven of the men aboard were killed. There were five survivord. They suffered burns and serious injuries. Capt. John M. Christenson, the pilot and the four other survivors were taken to the Henry County hospital at New Castle, Ind. Mrs. Wilford Thompson, a farm wife living near the crash scene, sald she believed the plane was afire before it hit the ground. A newsman at the scene said the pilot apparently was trying to make a forced landing, but the plane lost altitude too fast. SHIP CHARGED WITH RECKLESS DRIVING ARMED FORCES DAY HOUSTON, May 23 —®— The ! Navy Destroyer John W. Wilke, here for Armed Forces Day, was formal- ly accused of reckless driving in the ship channel the day of the cBlebration. An Admiralty suit asking for $30,- 000 in damages, was filed by Coyle Lines, Inc., charges the destroyer signaled to pass a Coyle Lines, barge on’one side and then passed on the other side. The complaint al- leges the destroyer rammed the barge and caused the amount of damage asked fo be recovered. DAVID GROSS O. K. Zalmain Gross, and son David, returned ‘to Juneau yesterday via Pan American after a two weeks trip to San Franeisco where young David underwent a special medical check- up. David’s father is happy to re- port that the young man, who was confined to bed for seven months during the winter, has been pro- nounced entirely well and recovered. FROM ANACORTES Robert G. Bowen of Anacortes, Wash. is at the Baranof Hotel. AT HOTEL JUNEAU Frances Even of Mt. Edgecumbe is registered at the Hotel Juneau. FROM SEWARD The May 7 edition of the Daily Alaska Empire carried an open letter to Governor Gruening from D. E. Skinner, generall manager of the Alaska Steampship Company, enum- erating the major problems con- fronting his company and soliciting constructive suggestions for their solution. In a letter to Mr. Skinner, dated May 14, the Governor discusses the company’s problems and offers vari- ous suggestions. The Governor’s let- ter, as received by Mr. Skinner, fol- lows in its entirety: Mr. D. E. Skinner, General Manager, Alaska Steamship Company, Pier 42, Seattle 4, Washington. Dear Mr. Skinner: In a letter dated May 4 and cir- culated to all Alaska newspapers and chambers of commerce, you invite my “constructive suggestions” for dealing with the demands made of | the Pacific Maritime Association by the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union for an increase in wages, pensions and wel- fare benefits. Specifically you ask “shall we resist the Union’s present 122 PER CENT WASHINGTON, May 23 — (/ — In a stormy, shouting session, .the House Ways and Means committee voted today for a flat 12% per cent increase for individual income tax- payers and for a boost in the excess profits tax on corporations. Both revisions were agreed upon by straight party line votes, and the ! Republican members of the com- mittee declared angrily that the changes were “railroaded through.” “I resent legislating by party cau- cuses,” Rep Simpson told reporters. Rep. Reed, ranking Republican | member of the committee, told the newsmen there had been “a major row” in today’s session. The flat 12% per cent increase in everybody's income tax was substi- tuted for the committee’s original plan of a raise of three precentage points in the rate in edch tax bracket. Staff aides said about the same| amount of additional revenue would be raised under either system — $2,845,000,000 in a full year's oper- ation. The 12% per cent increase, how- ever, would mean a somewhat light- er burden for smaller taxpayers than proposed in the original plan, and a correspondingly heavier tax liability for the bigger taxpayers. The original plan for a 3 percent- age point increase in each bracket would have meant a 15 per cent in- crease for the smallest taxpayers and a 3.4 per cent increase for the largest. SCREEN WRITER'S WIFE FOUND DEAD; APPARENT SUICIDE LOS ANGELES, May 23 —(@— Francis Ellis Bercovici, 41, wife of one of the screen writers who testi- fied recently before the House un- American Activities in Washington, D. C., -was found dead in a liquor closet of their home last night. Police detectives listed the death of Mrs. Bercovici, wife of Leonardo Bercovici, as “apparent suicide” al- though no note or evidence of poi- son was found. Bercovici, at his appearance be- fore the congressional committee investigating Communist influences in Hollywood, denied any current af- filiation with the Communist party but declined to discuss past activi- ties. PR R I P e METALS MAN HERE 1. D. Shapiro of the United Iron and Metal Co. from Baltimore, is Elizabeth Reynolds of Seward is * stopping at the Baranof Hotel. lregxstered at the Baranof Hotel. demand to the point where a strike results, or shall we give in to those demands?” By way of introduction, it appears necessary to summarize the oper- ation of existing machinery for deal- ing with problems of this nature, All matters concerning wage and employment conditions are now un- der the jurisdiction of the Wage Stabilization Board. Agreements as to wage and employment conditions may be negotiated by collective bar- gaining, and the services of concil- iation and mediation facilities are available to assist at this stage. If the results of such negotations are consistent with national stabilization policies, no governmental action is required. If results of negotiation go beyond these legally and admin- istratively determined limits, a pe- tition must then be filed with the Board and approval secured before the changes are effective. Finally, either by joint agreement of the two parties or by Presidential order, the Board can assume jurisdiction of any labor dispute which is not re- solved by collective bargaining or by the prior use of conciliation and mediation facilities. Returning to the specific matter upon which you invite my construc- tive suggestions, I notice that the two bargaining agencies concerned are the Pacific Maritime Associa- tion, representing all maritime em- ployers on the entire Pacific Coast, and the International’ Longshore- men’s and Warehousemen's Union representing Pacific Coast locals. I have gotten in touch with the Pa- cific Maritime Association and have been informed that all negotiations are being conducted directly by that association with the unions and that as a member you will necessarily be bound by the decisions of the ma- Jority members. Not only is the bargaining being conducted on a levél beyond that of the Territory of Alaska, but the eco- nomic well-being of an area embrac- ing the States of Washington, Ore- gon, California and the Territories of Hawail and Alaska is involved. It would, therefore, be presumptu- ous of me to propose a solution of a problem which extends far beyond the bounds of Alaska. If any state- ment or suggestions, such as you re- quest of me, are required they prop- erly should be issued jointly by all five governors. Accordingly, I have communicated with the other four governors directly concerned in or- der to determine jointly what ap- propriate constructive suggestions we might make. In the event your company and the locals of the ILWU representing workers in the Alaska trade are agreeable to and abie to bargain in- dependently of your respective reg- ional organizations, I would like to call attention to the mediation ma- chinery existing in the Territorial Department of Labor and invite the representatives of both parties to come to Alaska in order to utilize these facilities for the negotiation of fair and equitable terms of settle- ment. The greater part of your letter is devoted to a listing of changed oper- ating conditions — increased costs, resulting from the general rise in costs and the loss of the Federal government subsidies of the “Inter- im Contract” — and the “attacks” you allege I have made upon your company for putting into effect cer- tain rate increases. As I do not have access to information on labor and other costs which serve as the basis for your “simple arithmetic” I cannot vouch for the accuracy of your statements. Beyond the ques- tion of accuracy, however, your fact list is misleading because it is not complete. You will not object, I am sure, if T add a few comments. The 1947 rates were filed, in part at least, in anticipation of the in- creased costs accompanying the ex- piration of the “Interim Contract.” Since 1947 2 number of specific in- creases above these high rates have been made, the latest being a gen- eral increase (effective May 26) in your tariffs for the non-competitive southeast Alaska trade. You have previously described this as a gen- eral 20% increase, although I notice that rates on grocery items have been increased over previously exist- (Continued on Page Eight) PRICE TEN CENTS e ] front ALLIES THRUST AHEAD Counteratfacks Are Made with Reds Pulling Back fo North Korea By Associated Press Communist troops retreated along an 80 mile front in Korea today before northward thrusting Allied tanks and infantry. The entire U, 8. 10th Corps opened a counterattack across the East- Central front and gained up to three and one-half miles. In the attack- ing force were the Second Infantry and First Marine Divisions and other unidentified units. They re- captured Hangye, key road center. All along the front from Munsan in the Far West to Pungnam in the East-Central sector, the Reds were pulling back toward North Korea. Red Spearhead Slashed On the East front, Allied forces slashing through rugged mountains cut off the spearhead of the last Red offensive force of their second spring drive, The Allies seized a key pass on the Communist supply route to Chinese troops fighting 25 miles south of the Red Korean border for contro] of the main trans-Korean highway in that area. Some Red troops were pulling back in that area, Reds Withdraw On. the West Central front, an Al- lied spokesman said Red forces were making “hasty but orderly” with- drawals. In the Far West, South Korean troops pushed within four miles of the Red Korean border. The valiant U. 8. Second Division led Wednesday’'s big UN counter- attack across 20 miles of the East- Central front. Key Junction Recaptured Tanks led American infantrymen back into Hangye, key highway Junction, 13 miles south of the bor- der. Attacking Leathernecks rescued six wounded Americans who had lived through six nightmarish days in a pretty little valley that Chinese had turned into a scene of death. Survivors said the Chinese al- ready had pushed across the Puk-. kan and Choyang rivers north of Chunchon., This represented a 10- mile pullback in two days. Tanks Going On Allied tank patrols approached Chunchon, 45 miles northeast of Seoul, and Kapyong, 32 miles north- east of Seoul. In the Far West, American arm- ored patrols were catching up with rapid gains forced by South Kor- eans north of Seoul. There were signs of new Red buildups to the northwest. CHAMBER MEETING R. J. Sommers and Steve Homer of the Chilkoot Motorship Lines will attend a regular Juneau Cham- ber of Commerce meeting at the Baranof hotel tomorrow noon. They will discuss the operation of the Juneau-Haines ferry among other business to come up. FROM SEWARD K. King of Seward is at Baranof Hotel. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancoyver 8 p.n. Saturday. Baranof from westward scheduled the southbound Sunday. STOCK OUGHATIONS NEW YORK, May 23 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 107, American Tel. and Tel. 153%, Anaconda 40%, Douglas Aircraft 95, General Electric 52', General Motors 48%, Libby, McNeill and Libby, 8%, Northern Pacific 38, Standard Oil of California 45%, Twentieth Century Fox 18%, U. S. Steel 41%, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange 93.75. Sales today were 1,540,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 247.03, rails 77.33, util- ities 41.92.