The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 18, 1951, Page 1

_ONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY VASHINGTON. D C. VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,838 i THE DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SKA EMPIRE —_— e JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS T T acific Coast Shipping Is Reported Tied Up SABRE JETS IN BATILES. OVER KOREA Oufnumber;d_ American Planes Destroy 6 Russian Type, Damage Others £ 4 By Associated Press Outnumbered American Sabre Jets destroyed six Russian-type jets and damaged eight others in two big air battles over Korea yesterday and today. A total of 118 planes were in- volved in the sudden revival of jet warfare. Sixteen Red jets made a third stab at four Sabre jets Monday afiernoon — but kept at a safe dis- tance. They fired twice on the F-86s, treaked back across the Yalu nto the safety of Manchuria. All American planes returned safe- ly, Far East Air Forces said. New Ground Offensive Reappearance of the Red jets in force coincided with indications the Chinese may be preparing. a new ground offensive. Red troops suddenly appeared in territory they hall previously de- serted. Replacemehts steadily filter- ed down from the north for holding | troops all along the front. Fierce Red defenses checked Al- lied moves in the center of the line. But Allied patrols Monday drove more than three miles into Red ter- ritory in the west and gained slight- ly over a mile in the east. Tanks On Patrols ‘The UN armored tank patrols rumbled up the west side of the for- mer- Red “iron .triangle,” shooting at small Communist bands on the Wway. Another armored patrol trying | to push up the east side from Kumh- wa was forced back by road mines | and mortar fire. 1 Small fights broke out all alnng: the west and center. A briefing of- 1| ficer seid Reds were still fighting a delaying type of warfare. ! Machinegun Fire In the east, North Korean ma- chinegun fire three times drove UN| troops back from a commanding ridgeline, but Reds suddenly aband- oned another ridge for wi h they had fought fiercely Sunday. Fighter bombers raked every strong point as the Fifth Air Force mounted 490 sorties in daylight Mon- day, including the jet flights along the northwestern Korean border. JACK DAVIS HERE Jack Davis, retiring VFW Depart- ment Commander, arrived today from the VFW convention in Ket- chikan and is stopping over in Ju- neau for a few days before return- ing to Anchorage. AT THE HOTEL JUNEAU Dr. Fred Onsinger is staying at the Hotel Juneau. The cork oak trec takes 20 years to produce usable bark. TheWashingion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell 8ynaicate, Inc.. SHINGTON. — If a Congres- sional committee ever digs deep enough into the China lobby, it will find an amazing, almost unbeliev- able, propaganda network aimed at influencing our foreign pelicy. If the British Embassy ever operated such a network, the Chicago Tri- bune and other Isolationists would scream to high heaven and the British Ambassador would be re- called. However, the China lobby has been getting away with it for years. It has been bald-faced and brazen in its moves to contribute to cer- tain Senaters’ campaigns, to hire powerful figures in the Democratic party, and to place slanted news articles with the press. Heart and nerve center of the China lobby is the Bank of China in New York City. Its master-mind is the brother-in-law of Chiang Kai-Shek, Dr. H. H. Kung, one of the wealthiest men in the world, who lives in Riverdale, N. Y., and drives into his office at the Bank of China two or three times a week. Another brother-in-law of the | (Continucd on Page Four) ) [TENSIONIN [BOVESSELS MEETING OF THE WATE R S—Yolande Betbess, Miss America of 1950, pours water symbolizing Franco-American Eiffel Tower and miniature Statue from Hudson River into Sein friendship on bi-millenium of Paris, ! background. of Liberty ave in GEORGE SULLIVAN INSTALLED HEAD TERRITORIAL VFW KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 18— (#— Deputy U. S. Marshal George Sullivan_of Nenana was installed as commiatider of the Alaska De- partment of the Veterans of For- eign Wars Saturday. He succeeds Charles J. Davis of Anchorage. Delegates to the VFW convention named Anchorage as the site of next year’s conclave. Other new officers are Thomas Strachan, Anchorage, senior vice commander; Harold Fennel, Juneau, Jjuniar vice commander; John Fen- man, Fairbanks, judge advocate; William Jackson, Juneau, surgeon; R. Alleman, Anchorage, chaplain, and J. C. Dodd, Juneau, quarter- master adjutant. GUIDE IS KILLED, FREAK ACCIDENT, ON FAMOUS TRAIL GRAND UANYON, Ariz., June 18 —(P—A guide died yesterday of in- juries received when the mule on which he and another guide were riding fell from the Bright Angel trail. The death was the first re- corded in many years on the trail. No visitor to the Grand Canyon has ever been killed as the result of a trail accident, although an average of 8,000 a year take the trip down the mile-deep Grand Canyon on the Colorado river. Lee Smith, 52, believed to have been from Aurora, Mo., was the vietim of a freak trail accident. He had been a trail guide here since 1945. Smith and another guide, Lee W. Roberts, 50, had gone about 100 vards down the trail to assist a third guide who was having a bit of trouble lining up some un- mounted mules. They started back up, the trail and their doubly-loaded mule lost its footing, rolled to. the next switchback of the trail about 50 feet down. Smith and Roberts were brought to the hospital here and Smith died some five hours later. More than 100 tourists were lined up at the top of the trail at the time of the accident. Smith’s wife, Bertha, and a daugh- ter, Betty, work for the Fred Har- vey Company here. A son, Lee, Jr., is in Ketchikan, Alaska. MONDAY FIRE CALL The fire call at 2:10 this morn- ing was for a fire in the Seaview partments. Blankets on a bed in | partment were evidently set on fire by a cigarette. The tenant was not in his apartment at the time | of the fire. PALMER VISITOR i Earl J. Smith of Palmer is reg- | istered at the Baranof Hotel. MORATORIUM FOR MiNING DOUBTFUL DECLARES REGAN WASHINGTON, June 18 —@— A new drive to give some sort of re- tel il Clgim holders who are required to do $100 worth of assess- ment work on their claims each year is shaping up in Congress. It appeared today however that such a drive may face heavy going, For many years Congress annually granted a “moratorium” suspending the assessment work requirement. Last year it granted only a three months’ extension — from July 1 to October 1—for completing the work. Rep. Regan, chairman of the House Interior Affairs Mining sub- committee, says several bills have been introduced in this Congress to grant another assessment work mor- atorium. He told a reporter, however, that afier conferring with members of the subcommittee, he had definitely decided against considering any such legisiation. A The Interior Affairs committee, when seeking extension of the three- ! month time extension bill last year, “definitely pledged” to Congress that there would be no further morator- iums, Regan said. CHARGES MADE BY ADMNSTRATOR OF RFC SYMINGTON WASHINGTON, June 18, — (A — Administrator Stuart Symington of the Reconstruction Finance Corpor- ation charged today a former RFC official, Allen E. Freeze, 52, of Dal- las, accepted employment from an RFC borrower at the same time RFC was employing him at $10,750 a year. Symington told a news confer- ence he has referred the case to the Justice Department for possible prosecution on criminal charges and he has instructed RFC’s general counsel to bring a civil suit against Freeze. Freeze resigned as assistant comp- troller of the RFC last September 28 to hecome Vice President and Comptroller of the Texmass Corp., Dallas, at a salary of $22,500 a year. The salary since has been raised, Symington said. He added that at least months before leaving the RFC, Freeze “accepted a salary” from Texmass and “carried on business with and for (Texmass) from his office at the RFC.” Symington said evidence dug up by RFC investigatops consists of 20 documents presented by Texmass between April 18 and June 15, 1950, signed by Freeze, among other of- ficials, -as a Vice President of the korrowing concern. five Diamond engagement i .igs were uced in the Middle Ages. BERING SEA STRIKE RISES ' BSFU Accuses AFU, Alaska Salmon Industry of Strike-Breaking ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 18 — (#— Tension was reported mounting today in the strike-bound Brist Bay area as charges of “stri breaking tactics” were hurled at t! Alaska Fishermen's Union (Ind) a the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc. | The accusations were made by of- ficials of the striking Bering Sem Fishermen's Union (Ind), whose 1400 resident members walked ouf two weeks ago in support of de- mands for union recognition. Jim Downey of Dillingham, chair- man of the Bering Sea union’s negotiating committee, said feeling had become so bitter “that resident fishermen in Bristol Bay may drive non-resident AFU members out of the area altogéether if they continue their strike-breaking operations.” Will File Charges Seattle, the striking union, said he had noti-| fied the National Labor Relations the Salmon Industry would be re- instated. The formal notice of rein-] statement was filed with the re- gional NLRB office in Seattle today. (The Bering Sea union charged the ASI with giving 1illegal assist- ance to the rival AFU, which it des- cribed as_p fcompany union.” ‘'charge was amended recently to permit the NLRB to rule on a Ber- ing Sea union petition for collective bargaining rights election. No deci- sion has been handed down yet by the board, and today’s reinstatement of charges would appear designed to forestall any action on the pe- tition. Geisness did not disclose the reason for the change in strategy by his union). 2 Cross Picket Lines The “strike-breaking” accusation came after AFU members crossed picket lines at Ekuk to take salmon to a Libby, McNeill and Libby can- nery. Downey said AFU used beachmen, truck drivers and cook house crews for cannery workers in “an attempt to break the BSFU'’s solid front.” He further charged that the AFU and the Salmon Industry used strike-breaking: tactics in unloading cannery supplies from the freighter Nadina at Naknek. (In Seattle, George Johansen, AFU secretary-treasurer, sald AFU members were ignoring. the 'Bering Sea picket lines and would continue to do so. p Strike Against AFU “We couldn’t! do "amything else. The strike is as much against us as the Industry. The Bering Sea people are trying to take over our juris- diction,” he explained. Johansen went on to say that it always has been the practice of AFU members to go aboard ships and help with unloading in Bristol Bay). The Bering Sea union broke away from the AFU several months ago in opposition to what officials sald were efforts to have the AFU af- filiate with the Harry Bridges-led West Coast Longshoremen. ORDERS ELECTION SEATTLE, June 18 —(P— The Na- tional Labor Relations Board an- nounces it had ordered a bargain- ing rights election within 60 days among some 2,600 Bristol Bay, Alas- ka fishermen — 1400 of whom had been on strike since June 1. The order may bring a quick end to the strike of the Bering Sea Fishermen’s Union (Ind) against the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc. for union recognition. All the strikers are resident Bristol Bay fishermen. But the order issued by the NLRB in Washington, D.C., and dated June 15 directed that both resident and non-resident fishermen be permitted to vote. The Bering Sea union petitioned the NLRB last January for a collec- tive bargaining election and asked that the bargaining unit be limited to the 1,400 resident fishermen. This was denied. Provision of Order Provisions of the order appeared (Cuntinued un Page Two) TIED UP AT US WHARVES Water Shi;;pag Hard Hit| as Result of Labor Dispuie NEW ,YORK. June 18 —(®— The CIO National Maritime union || claimed today that about 80 ships that should be on the high seas were “sitting still” in port as a result of labor disputes that tied up every|' major waterfront in the nation. An NMU spokesman said the 80 included ships at Galveston, Hous- ton, New Orleans, Port Arthur and other gulf and east coast ports. Sailing of the American export liner Elmira Victory for Trieste was cancelled today, the first ship in the port of New York to be affected. ‘Two other American export ships, the Exbrook K and Exermont;, are scheduled to sail tomorrow, but line officials said it was doubtful whe- ther they would be able to leave. JAll three are combined passenger land cargo ships. The Bernstein liner Europa, under Panama registry, docked on sched- ule today. It carries a foreign crew, ot affegted by the maritime tieup. Meantime, Federal mediators charted new efforts to settle the no-contract, no-work diputes. The three-coast work stoppages, which started early Saturday, exert- ed their full impact at the start of the work week today. Only Korean war and other vital defense cargoes were moving. = An “official of the C10 National Maritime union said yesterday: that no more American passenger ships carrying tourist trade would sail un- til the contract dispute is settled. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted to St. Ann's Hospital Saturday were Roger Walker, Dorio Neira, Francls Riendeau; admitted Sunday were E. M. Spence, Eugene Lundstrum; discharged Saturday was Dorothy Wickstrom; discharged Sunday were Mrs. Elwin Wright and baby girl; Mrs. Vivian Wirta. Born Saturday morning at 9:15 at St. Ann’s Hospital to Mrs. An-'§ thony Thomas, a girl weighing 7 pounds. Two babies were born at the hospital Monday morning: to| Mrs. Wayne Purtelas of Yakutat at 12:30, a girl weighing 6 pounds 6 ounces; to ‘Mrs. Emerick Kauzlar- ich at1:20, a boy weighing 7 pounds 10 ounces. Admitted to the Government Hospital Saturday was Agnes Jacob, Haines. There were no discharges. THREE FISHING BOATS . HAVE ENGINE TROUBLE Three fishing vessels in three widely separated Alaskan areas re- ported engine trouble to U. 8. Coast | Guard headquarters here today. The Clarice, a 42-footer was dis- abled at Mite Cove at the mouth of Lislanski Inlet with five men aboard. The 83-foot C. G. Cutter is enroute to tow it to Juneau. The cutter Cahoone from Sitka is enroute to the aid of the Hia- watha, an 88-foot vessel with two men aboard and engines out. The Northwind is proceeding to the aid of the fishing vessel BC Lady 150 miles east of Kodiak. Its engines have failed. There are eight men aboard. PELICAN VISITOR C. A. Bower of the Standard Oil Co. from Pelican is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 18 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 111%, American Tel. and Tel. 154, Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft 46%, General Electric 55%, General Motors 48%, Goodyear 79':, Kenne- cott 76, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 4 %, Standard Oil of California 47%, Twentieth Century Fox 18%, U. S. Steel 41%, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange 93.50. Sales today were 1,050,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 26380, rails 79.64, utili- Ny( _Doclor_ For Petersburg | SHIPPING burg, Alaska. hunt some of Alaska’s bountiful Dr. and Mrs. Russell C. Smith boarding the Alaska Steamship Com- pany steamer Alaska in Seattle just before sailing time, 4 p.m., June 13, enroute from Barron, Wisconsin, to their new home in Peters- In addition te continuing his medical practice there, where there has been no doctor for several years, Smith expects to game with items from his world- famous collection of 272 modern high powered rifles which he values at $80,000. (Alaska Steamship Co. photo) NAVY_GOVERNOR Navy Chief Storekeeper Frederick ‘A. Pobst (above) of Pueblo, Colo., has been assigned to govern a group of islands dotting 30,000 square miles of the far western Pacific. Pobst is the first enlisted man ever assigned by the Navy as a representative of the U. 8. gov- ernment. (# Wirephoto. Prince George from Vancouver in port at 3 p.m. and sails for Skag- way at 11:45 p.m. Baranof from Seattle due at 8:30 tomorrow morning. Princess Louise from Vancouver due tomorrow afternoon or evening. Chileotin scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. Princess Kathleen scheduled to sail from Vancouver June 20, Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday but depends on re- sults of shipping strike on coast. e ® 0 6 00 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 52; minimum, 43. At Airport — Maximum, 55; minimum, 43. FORECAST Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Lowest temperature e tonight near 42 degrees and e highest Tuesday near 60. e PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today e City of Juneau — 29 inches; e Since June 1 — 530 inches; e Since July 1 — 77.49 inches. e At Airport — .05 inches; e Since June 1 — 326 inches; e Since July 1 — 44.67 inche . ties 4271, o 0 0 0 0 9 0 000 MACARTUR 1 INQUIRY IS NEAR CLOSE Four More Witnesses May Be Called Including Gen- eral if he Desires WASHINGTON, June 18 —(M— The Senate’s MacArthur inquiry committee voted unanimously to hear only four more witnesses and to close the investigation “at the earliest possible date.” Chairman Russell told a news con- ference the inquiry may end this week or by the middle of next week at the latest. The committee decided to call these additional witnesses: Patrick J. Hurley, former am- bassador to China. . Maj. Gen. Emmet O'Donnell, for- mer commander of the U. S. strate- gic bombing force in the Far East. Maj. Gen. David C. Barr, former commander of the U. 8. Tth Division in Korea and one-time chief of a U. S. military mission to China. Vice Adm. Oscar Badger, former U. S. naval commander in the Far East. In addition to these four witnesses, it is possible Gen. MacArthur may testify again. The committee has invited MacArthur to take the wit- ness chair again if he cares to reply to any of the testimony the commit- tee has heard since the inquiry started May 3. Russell told reporters the com- mitee has had no word from Mac- Arthur as to whether he wants to testify again. Today’s decision to seek a quick wind up of the inquiry was made at a brief closed-door session of the inquiry panel. ,Russeli sald the committee de- cided not to call presidential ad- viser - W. Averell Harriman as a witness. Harriman had been tentatively scheduled to testify tomorrow. Rus- sell said Harriman and the commit- tee agreed that his testimony would cover ground already well covered by other witnesses. O'NEILL HERE George (One Shot) O'Neill of De- troit expected to leave today for Yakutat where he will spend the summer hunting and photographing bears. This is his eleventh trip to Alaska. He plans to return to Ju- neau in October. He is a member ‘u( the Outdoqr Writers Association 101 America, ON COAST CRIPPLED Peacé Talks Underway But No Indication of Compromise SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 —(M+ Shipowners and CIO radio operators hold new peace talks today in hopes of ending a strike that has vir- ually crippled non-military shipping on the Pacific coast. i Federal Conclliator Omar Hoskins met separately with the two fac- tions yesterday, then announced & Joint session today. There was no indication of a com- promise. The American Radio Association (ARA) is asking a $70 monthly pay increase for some 700 members. That would up their monthly base wage to $415. The Pacific Maritime Asso- clation, the employers group, offers a monthly base of $400. Meanwhile the radiomen picketed waterfront piers here and in nearby Oakland and Alameda and two ships were reported picketed at Tacoma, the American Mail Line’s India Mail and Pope & Talbot's P&T Leader. Picket lines were other maritime unions. mmgm BITKA, Alaska, June 18 —(P—An official of the AFL Marine District union said Saturday the Alaska Sal- mon Industry, Inc., had made its first offer in negotiations on fish payments for the coming season. Peter Neilsen, executive secretary of the union, said the Industry offer was presented at a meeting with union representatives here Friday night. Neilsen said the salmon operators proposed this scale: Pink salmon, 49 | cents; chums, 75 cents; cohoes, $1; reds, $1.05, The union has demanded 53 cents for pinks, 90 cents for chums, $1.08 for cohoes and $1.10 for reds. ‘The union formerly was known as the AFL United Alaska Fishermen and Cannery Workers. FRENCH ELECTION PARIS, June 18 —(#—The middle- of-the-road parties emerged today with a majority in France's new National Assembly, but it was a ma- jority facing a squeeze from both the left and right. 'If anything, the political road in France seems to have bent to the right! Virtually complete returns from yesterday's general elections showed that the followers of Gen. Charles jde Gaulle became the largest single party in the assembly while the Communists won the largest single bloc of the popular vote. FUNERAL FOR MRS. YATES TOMORROW Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon at 2 p.m. in the Carter ‘Chapel for Mrs. Sylvia 8. Yates who died following a fall at windham Bay last Wednesday. The Rev. Paul Prouty will say the services and Richard Newton will be vocalist. Interment will be in the Pioneer Plot at Evergreen Cemeterys Pall bearers will be Fred Schind- ler, Everett Judson, William Reck, Edward Madsen, John K. Marshall and H. R. VanderLeest. She is survived by her husband, David Yates of Windham Bay and a sister, Jessie' V. Young in East St. Louis, Ill. Mrs. Yates was post- master at Windham for many years. respected by APPLY FOR LICENSE Timothy Casey, Jr., special agent for the Bureau of Investigation and Margaret Ruth Arcasa, stenograph- er for the Employment Security Commission, have applied for a li- cense to marry in the office of U. ls. Commissioner Gordon Gray,