The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 19, 1951, Page 1

AN GRESSIONAL n.mRv SHINGTON, D. C. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIII, NO. 11,839 Nogotiations Continue In RUSS MIGS DOWNED IN AIR FIGHT Baffles Rage Over N.W. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE Tommy The Tumblr Comes Bat Korea; Terrific Encounters| Take Place for Ridges By Associated Press For the third straight day Amer- ican pilots today beat Red airmen in a big jet battle over Northwest Korea. U. 8. Sabre jets domaged four Russian-type MIG-15s as Allied in- fantrymen knocked North Koreans off key ridges on the eastern battle- front, On the sea fronts UN war- <hips silenced a challenge by accur- ate Communist shore batteries. 6 Down, 12 Damaged Twenty-seven Sabre jets battled 30 Red jets Tuesday in the most| evenly matched of the current air fights. They ran their three-day score to six Red jets shot down, 12 damaged. The battle spread over a wide area around Sonchon, 35 miles from the Manchurian border. It was the deepest recent penetration of Korea by Red jets in force. The Fifth Air Force did not say, as it usually does, that all Sabre jets returned safely from Tuesday" air battle. Artillery Barrage North Koreans opened up with a terrific artillery barrage in an ef- fort to halt Allied infantrymen in the east. But UN troops drove ahead two ‘miles in their deep!st pene- tration front this year and Fierce fighting broke out when the advance carried the Allies to the crest of a ridge line looking down on a Red supply area. A see- saw battle broke out and was the only noteworthy action along the front, It was still under way Tues- day night. Fight Over Ridge The dominating ridge changed hands six times in the afternoon. Heavy Red artillery and mortar fire burst at tree-top level along the wooded hills. UN 155 and 105 mm. field pleces roared back, and 45- | inch rockets streaked into Red posi- tions, The ridges, reached 'in a pincer movement earlier in the day, form the southern rim of a punch bowl valley loaded with Red supplies. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 19 — Closing quotation. of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 110%, American Tel. and Tel. 154%, Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft 46%, General Electric 55%, General Motors 48%, Goodyear 80%, Kenne- cott 76%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 42, Standard Oil of California 48, Twentieth Cen- tury Fox 18%, U.S.Steel 40%, Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange 93.50. Sales today were 1,100,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 253.53, rails 79.78, utili- ties 42.82. TheWashington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, Dy Bell Byndicate, Inc. | 'ASHINGTON. — Senate Demo- cratic leaders called an emergency off-the-record huddle the other day to decide how to meet Senator Mc- Carthy's 60,000-word attack on Sec- retary of Defense Marshall. Minnesota’s fiery Sen. Hubert Humphrey suggested a mass walk- out when McCarthy got up to speak. Pointing out how Hitler started his rise to power by tearing down the heroes of the German Republic, Humphrey snorted his disgust at McCarthy’s tactics. “There are many ways to destroy people—sometimes by outright mur- der, sometimes through the process of attrition,” declared Humphrey. “I mean character assassination, misrepresentation and quoting out of context. This is the most inhu- mane way.” The Senator from Minnesota sug- gested that the Democrats had only Two-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Paiva takes his first steps with the help of his parents sinee his fif- teen-story fall from a window in his apartment. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Paiva, look almost as pleased as Tommy as they cheer him on at Bellevue Hospital in New York, where he has been con- fined with a cast on his fractured thigh for almost six weeks. Soon he's going home as good as mew. (P Wirephoto. ADM. BADGER SEES CHANCE, CHINA SPLIT Testifies Anti-Red So.China Could Roll Iron Curtain Back to Yangize WASHINGTON, June 19 —®— Vice Adm. Oscar C. Badger wld‘ senators today he-believes there is| a chance South China may revolt against the Communists. Badger, one of the Navy's old China hands, testified as the tenth witness in the dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur as Pacific Com- mander. He read to the investigating com- mittees a report he had made to the war college here last March 14. Chance of Revolt This said the area of Manchuria, inner Mongolia, Sinkiang “and pos- deemed to be securely under Com-‘i munist control and definitely sub- servient to Moscow.” | But in the areas of China to the | south, it said, there is still “a| chance of revolutionary repercus- | sion against Communist tyranny | and imperialism.” Speaking generally, Badger also| told the senators the over-all ob-| jectives of the U. S. should be to: 1 (1) “Create and maintain world conditions so that Russia will deem it unwise to undertake World War| III,” and, | (2) “Initiate promptly and un-’ dertake those political, economic, ! humanitarian, and military objec- | tives which, in case of war with| Soviet Russia, would permit us w‘ engage under the most Xavorable: terms.” ‘ Roll Back Iron Curtain Badger said he believes the “high percentage of anti-Communist feel- ing in South China gives the pos- sibility of rolling the iron curtain back at least to the Yangtze river and of relieving the pressurs from the border nations of Southeast! Asia. i “The recent Chinese reverses in| Korea are strengthening these chances,” he declared. “The remark- | able increase in the welfare of the ! people of Formosa during recent | months is known widely on mainland and is a spur to reac- tion.” Badger said to those familiar with the Far East “it has been evident that the strategic value placed by Russia upon North China, including | (Continued on Page Four) PN S R S M SR R SR S 2 B S O P R IR sy, TRCTNIRR ST S sl B i i e B Wit B ROE St e sibly, North China,” is “generally | g North China Strategic l Walks Agam ‘While her parents, Gdv. and Mi#s. Earl Warren, of Calif, préudly watched, pretty Nina (nongy Bear) Warren, 17, walked for the first time without crutches flnce she was stricken last November with polio. She took her first steps across her high school stage in Sacramento, to receive her grad- uation diploma from Dr. John Kennedy, president of the Sac- | ramento Board of Education (left). (® Wirephoto. VESSEL DISABLED According to information received at U. 8. Coast Guard headquarters here this morning, the fishing ves- sel Betty Mac has been disabled with a frozen clutch about 25 miles off shore from Cape St. Elias. An unnamed Canadian vessel is stand- mg by and a Navy vessel is en- route to the scene. Baranof from Seattle in port and scheduled to sail for westward dur- | ing afternoon, Princess Louise from Vancouver due to arrive at 9 tonight sailing me\for Skagway at 1:30 p.m. Chilcotin from Vancouver sched- uled to arrive at 3p.m. Thursday, Princess Kathleen scheduled sto sail from Vancouver June 20. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday but depends on re- sults of shipping strike on coast. Princess Norah scheduled to sail CZECH GOVT. OATIS TRIAL 'BEGINSSOON Associated -Press Corres- pondent Accused of Hostile Activities LONDON, June 19 —(P— Reports from Prague today said the Czech foreign ministry has informed the U. S. embassy that Associated Press Correspondent William Oatis will be placed on trial within a few days. Oatis, 37, was arrested April 23 on charges of hostile activities to- ’ward the Czechoslovak government. The Prague report said Vilem S8i- roky, Czech foreign minister, told U. S. Ambassador, Ellis O. Briggs of Oatis’ forphcoming trial when Briggs called at .the foreign min- istry last Friday afternoon. Seized by Czechs Oatis’ arrest gid. not become known until April 26, nearly 72 hours after his disappearance from his office and lodgings in Prague. He was last seen while preparing to Keep an appointment. Three Czech agents seized him as he was putting his car in his garage. A native of Marion, Ind., Oatis Manchuria, Mongolia and smkmng[ | from Vancouver Saturday providing (Cotuinued on. Pagc 8ix) ‘t,here is no strike on Canadian lines. J had gone to Prague last June as chief of the Associated Press bur- eau there. Shortly before his arrest he had informed the U. 8. embassy he was being shadowed. At the time his arrest was an- nounced, Frank Starzel, general manager of the Associated Press, said the AP knew no basis for the charges against him. With AP Since 1937 Oatis had been writing for the Associated Press since 1937, except for four years when he was in the United- States Afmy during World War II The Czech announcement of April 26 said ‘the charges against him in- cluded activities hostile to the state, gathering and disseminating infor- mation considered secret by Czecho- slovakia and spreading malicious in- formation regarding the Czech state through illegal news channels. MARRIAGE LICENSES Two applications for marriage li- censes have been issued in com- missioner’s court. They are Jack Willis Boddy, laborer, and Irene C. McKinley, stenographer, and Theo- jdore R. Oberman, optometrist, and Mary Jane Walker, Alaska Native Service employe. SEATTLE VISITOR Thor Sunberg of Seattle is reg- istered at the Gastineau Hotel. , 1951 |NEW DRAFT LAW SIGNED BY TRUMAN Selective Service Exfended Also Lays Way for Mili- 1aryIraining WASHINGTON, June 19 —(,’B-“I President Truman has signed the new draft law. The measure lowers the draft age, extends the Selective Service System for years and lays the foun- dation for Universal Military Train- ing. Mr. Truman signed the bill in a White House ceremony. ‘The new law keeps the draft in operation until July 1, 1955, and permits the induction of 18%-year- olds for military service if local draft boards exhaust their supply of older eligible men. It makes no change in the present maximum draft age of 25, The present law, which would have expired on July 9, prohibited the induction of anyone under 19. The period of service under the new law is 24 months instead of 21 under the expiring law. Although the minimum induction age under the new law is 18% years, men still must register when they become 18. TROLLEYS, BUSES RESUME SERVICE; 900 PILOTS STRIKE By Associated Press _ Streetcars and buses went back into service in Detroit today for the first time in two months. But as the nation’s longest major municipal _transit walkout ended there, 900 AFL pilots went on strike against the United Air Lines across the nation. In Detroit, 3,500 trolley and bus drivers resumed their jobs after a u-dly walkout. They left their pay increase demands to be settled by mediation or arbitration. They had demanded a pay boost of eight and & half cents an hour. The present hourly base pay is $1.67%. A spokesman for the AFL Air Line Pllots Association said the pilots’ strike will not affect UAL pilots fly- MEN AI)I* R ASSOCIA' l l) Pl\l‘ SS PRICE TEN CENTS Coast Ship Anybody Homie! A Yank soldier holds his bayonet-tipped rifle ready as he moves cautiously into a battle-wrecked house in the center of Chorwon. Allied troops met little resistance on this west-central Korean front as Reds withdrew all along the line. “’Ilephoul PORILAND ALASKA RELATIONS ABLY TOLD, DINNER HERE pama.na ahrady does 20 percent of!‘the business: with Alaska and would do more if more ships were available, the joint Portland and Juneau Chamber of Commerce groups were told last night by Pres- ident Edgar W. Smith of the Port- land Chamber. Pleasure and a sense of accom- plishment was evident in the ex- pression of speakers regarding the recent granting of air certificates to two Alaska airlines with Portland as co-terminal. ~ “Our Senator Morse and Con- gressman Angell, with the aid of Gov. Gruening were responsible for inducing President Truman to grant certificates that gave Portland co- terminal status with Scattle on your two Alaska airlines,” Mr. Smith said. And about steamer transportation | ing on the Korean airlift operation. The union and the compapy have been engaged in a disputé over wage rates and working conditions for nearly two years. CALL OFF STRIKE ORDER WASHINGTON, June 19 —®— The National Mediation Board to- day directed the AFL Air Line Pi- lots to call off what the agency termed an illegal strike of United. Airline operations. A telegram to Union President David L. Behncke signed by Thomas E. Bickers, secretary of the board, sald Behncke's telegram to United Air Line Pilots to the effect that they were within their rights in walking out under the Railway La- bor Act “is definitely incorrect.” SEATTLE VISITOR C. M. Ambrose of Seattle is reg- istered at the Baranof Hotel. FROM PALMER Howard P. Andresen of Palmer is at the Baranof Hotel. WEATHER FORECAST Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:30 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 83; minimum, 42. At Afrport — Maximum, 57; minimum, 39. FORECAST Falr tonight and Wednes- day. Lowest temperature to- night about 44, highest Wed- nesday about 63. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — .03 inche: Since June 1 — 533 inches; Since July 1 — 77.52 inches. At Afrport — 01 inches; Since June 1 — 3.27 inches; Since July 1 — 44.68 inches. between Portland and Alaska, Mr. Smith said, “Col. Johnson of your Alaska Railroad made it possible to bring to Alaska the competition of a fair and square port. In Oc- tober 1948 the Coastwise Company to Alaska was started and Portland is now doing 20q, of the Alaska E ld that the Portland Cham-/ ber is glad that Portland is able to provide Alaska with fair and equit- able trade at fair and reasonable prices. About air rates to Portland Mr. Smith said, “ I hope r: 5 will ke set up so that they will 10 gre. er to Portland than they are Seattle.” Better Trade Relations “In any event, we will continue our efforts to build better trade relations | throughout the north- west,” the Portland Chamber pres- ident concluded. The dinner meeting in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel was attended by more than 60 people, twenty of them members of the Portland Trade-Travel Tour. Herb Rowland, president of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, presided as toastmaster. Gov. Ernest Gruening in welcom- ing the visitors, mentioned that the Territory of Alaska had been organized under the Oregon Code, that Portland had been the princi- pal port for trade with Alaska in the early days; that present ship- ping with Portland and the two new air certificates that connect Alas- ka with Portland should develop our mutual relationship. “Alaska is a part of America that has a great destiny, a destiny we share with you,” the Governor con- cluded. “Transient Alaskans” Mayor Waino Hendrickson called the Portlanders “transient Alas- kans.” “We enjoy your visits, hope you do and that you will all come again.” Bob Maloney, to chairman of the @000 0ece®00000000000%%000 {Continued on Page SiX 1 STRIKE ON CANADIAN LINES' Deadline for Walkout is Set for Midnight Next Fr_iiely . VANCOUVER, B. C., June 19 —(® The Seafarer’s International Union (AFL) has set midnight Friday as the deadline for a strike against Canadian National, Canadian Pa= cific and Union Steamship Lines on the British Columbia coast. A union spokesman says that un- less the companies agree to a $30- asmonth wage Iricrease 900 seamen will tie up 22 vedsels of the three companjes, The company has’ of- fered $13.87. ' Duwring a similar seamen’s strike last summer, British Columbia ship~- pers organized an airlift to trans- port supplies -to Vancouver Island and settlements on the coast. TERRITORY BUYS FERRY; 15T TRIP IS TONIGHT AT 9 Negotiations w noon today by the Territory for purchase of the Juneau-Haines fer- ry, Chilkoot. A check for $38,877.74 was turned over to the former own- ers, Robert Sommers and BSteve Homer, it was announced by Henry Roden, commissioner of finance. First trip of the ferry from Jun- eau will be made at 9 o’clock tonight with Gus Gustavus as skipper. Robert Coughlin will be manager of the operation for the Territory and Steve Homer, will be agent at Haines, completed at Roden said no regular schedule has been arranged but that the fer- ry would operate when business itated for the present, The ferry will return to Juneau as soon as cars, waiting at Haines for transportation, are loaded. J()l\' HUSBAND! To jein their husbands stationed here with the Alaska National Guard Headquarters, Mrs. H. D. CGermann, and two daughters, and Mrs. D. N. Cameron, and daughter, arrived on the Baranof. MAURICE KELLY HERE Maurice Kelly of the Pish and wildlife Service from Anchorage is at the Hotel Juneau. FROM llAl‘\Eb Thomas L. Armstrong of Haines is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. le:up TALKS ARE SCHEDULED FOR TODAY Twelve Sl@ Idle at Docks; Shipowners are Reported Optimistic SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 —(®— Omar Hoskins, Federal conciliator, interviewed union and employer groups separately today in hope of reaching some basis for settlement of the four-day maritime strike, The CIO American Radio Asso- ciation struck West Coast ships after a break with the Pacific Maritime Association over wages. Other mar- ine unions have respected picket lines. Hoskins indicated at mid-day that it might be profitable to call a joint egotiation conference late this aft- ernoon. There were recurring but uncon- firmed reports that top shipping men here were trying to work out a new proposal which could lead to set- tlement. It was known that “a plan,” details undivulged, was discussed in private talks during the morning. There was waterfront talk too, that some of the other unions are more than a little dissatisfied. The tieup has thrown many stevedores and seagoing crewmen out of work. There were complaints that while the West Coast was “tighter than a drum,” Atlantic and Gulf Coast strike policies were far more. elas- tie, although many more wurken e on sirike, iips, including the nn- son Luxury Liner Lurline were itrikebound here. Vice President Philip O'Rourke of the radiomen said: “Frankly, I'm optimistic. =~ The shipowners were much more friend- ly.” Radiomen, members of the Amer- ican Radio Association, ask $415 a month, ap increase of $70. Shipown- ers said they wouldn't pay more than $400. SAILING OF DENALI IS CALLED OFF SEATTLE, June 19 — (A — The Alaska Steamship Co. bas canceled. tomorrow’s sailing of the passenger ship Denali for Alaska because of the American Radio Association (CIO) strike. The firm'’s plers were being pick- eted for the second straight day today. Picketing was suspended for a time yesterday to allow emerg- ency handling of cold storage car- go at a dock. The Denali cancellation hit as the tourist traffic is nearing full bloom. It was booked to virtual capacity with 150 or more passengers. ‘Two other vessels — the Coastal Monarch and the Square Sinnet — were also held idle at Alaska Steam’s pler 42 by the picket lines. Company spokesmen said the Aleutian, due from Alaska tomourrow afternoon, will have its Fyiday sailing can- celled if the strike continues. Pickets also marched before an- other pier, idling the Matson Navi- gation Company’s Hawalian Planter. Carl Lundquist, port agent for ARA, said the picketing would spread to other piers “as and if we determine it is needed.” MARRIED BY GRAY Earl Joseph Skinner and Mabel Lyman, both of. Ketchikan, were married yesterday by U. S. Com- missioner Gordon Gray in his of- fice in the Federal Building. Skin- ner is engaged in the plumbing business. + Witnesses were Mrs. Elmer Nan- ton and M. Meyers. DORIS BARNES HERE Doris Barnes, Territorial Senator, of Wrangell arrived on the Baran- of to spend a few days in Juneau. She is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. Robert Ogg and James Bortal of Annette are at the Baranof Hotel,