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

murw b ‘NASHINGTON, D. G. il! SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,843 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 2 THE DAILY ALASKA SATURDAY MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS MISSING PAA PLANE FOUND, REPORT NOW Craft with 40 Aboard is | Spotted; Rescue Party fo Scene MONROVIA, Liberia, June 23 — (M—Reports reaching here today said a missing Pan American World Air- ways Constellation with 40 persons aboard has been spotted at Totota, about four hours travel time from Monrovia. The plane had been miss- ing more than 24 hours. There was no word as to casual- | ties. Doctors and ambulances from a Lutheran mission 13 miles from the crash scene were reported heading for the plane. REPORTED LOCATED In New York, a Pan American spokesman said the plane was re- ported located 50 miles northwest of Roberts Field, the Liberian air- port which was its destination. He said one of the air line’s DC-4s and twd other planes in one of the search parties “have identified the remains of flight 151, which was overdue at Roberts Field.” The plane was New York bound from Johan- nesburg. The spokesman said the DC-4 radioed the Constellation’s location and that a messax~ also had been received about it from g Lutheran mission nearby. ‘ Paraciiuic Reseue Informants at Tdlewild airport in New York said they believed therc was “ground access to within four nifes of where the plane is down/ but that rescue. operations will be carried on by parachuie A tornado raged through purt of the Dakar arga early yesterday. There was no indigation whether the high wi might ¢ struck the "Censt li a8 sought to land Terts “icld, Liberia, dur~ ing=a wopica in. In his contact yesterday, the pilot of Constellation had messaged thai the radio beam to his next scheduled stop — Dakar— had blacked out and he was return- ing to the Liberian airport which was built for American military planes during World War IIL e ivomen | Aleutian from Seattle with Seattle CC tour party aboard scheduled to arrive Monday evening. Princess Kathleen from Vancou- ver scheduled to arrive at 3 p.m. today. Princess Norah scheduled, to sail from Vancouver 8 tonight. Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver Tuesday. Alaska scheduled to sail Seattle Wednesday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver June 30. Baranof from west scheduled to arrive 5 p.. Sunday southbound. TheWashingion Merry-Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.. from ASHINGTON. — Defense mo- bilizer Charles E. Wilson has sent letters to about 20 government ag- encies cautioning them on one of the worst scandals of mobilization— unjustified tax amortization. This is the system whereby manu- facturers ‘are permitted to write off the cost of a new factory for tax purposes in five years instead of 30. While this tax concession is a big boost to war production, a House subcommittee headed by Con- gressman Porter Hardy of Virginia recently issued a scathing blast against tax favoritism for certain firms. After issuing the report, .the com- miittee called on mobilizer Wilson and made a flat-footed demand that he change some of the person- nel who had handed out tax con- cessions, among them Frank Cree- don of the National Production Au- umrity Creedon was revealed by (Condnued on Page Four) R S AN R aE R B B D ARt B BN 5 Loll <~ RES 1 A i : 2 A B B AR T TR R e Off for Channel Swim | | | H The Tongay children, Bubba, 5, shewn just before leaving Miami, will swim the first few miles with is at left, rear. Wirephoto., an attempt to swim the channel in August. father-coach, says he will disregard growing protests and that Bagba (center) and Kathy, 4, (left), are Fla., on their trip to Londen for Russell Tong (righ®), hands and feet tied. Mrs. Tongay ' IMAY SUMMON HARRIMAN T0 SEN. HEARING McMahon Wonis fo Hear Harriman's Testimony on Yalta Conference By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, June 23 —(P— { A move to summon W. Averell Har- riman from Europe for testimony on Far Eastern policy threatened teday to prolong the Senate’s investigation of Gen. MacArthur’s ouster, Senator McMahon told a reporter he plans to bring before the Senate committees the question of calling Harriman. Harriman, presidential foreign af- fairs adviser, is in Europe. ‘Wants Harriman McMahon said he thinks the group ought to hear from Harriman in re- buttal to testimeny by Patrick J. Hurley, Republican former ambas- sador to China. Harriman, then ambassador to Russia, attended the 1945 Yalta con- ference but Hurley did not. Hurley bitterly denounced the Yalta agreement as an “immoral and cowardly” pact which he said gave Russia unwarranted Territor- ial concessions in Manchuria at the expense of Nationalist China. He also testified that President Roosevelt commissioned him to try to modify the Yalta terms or even have them set aside. Chiang “Chagrined” Maj. Gen. David G. Barr, who had been scheduled as the next to last witness in the committee’s hear- ings, told senators yesterday that Chiang Kai-Shek, Chinese Nation- alist leader, was “chagrined” at the wind up hearings with testimony Monday from Maj. Gen. Emmett (Rosie) O’'Donnell, former com- mander of the Far Eastern Air Force, who once urged that the “ul- timate weapon” — atomic bomb — be used in Korea. FISHERIES INSTITUTE MEN ARE IN JUNEAU Howard D. Smith and Clark Poorman of the Fisheries Research Institute are stopping at the Bar- anof Hotel. CALIFORNIA VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Carr of Monterey Park, Calif. are guests at the Baranof Hote! . FROM PORTLAND Bland Ballard of Portland registered at the Baranof Hotel. is Yalta agreement and “resented” it.} The committee had planned to GOV. DEWEY IS 10 FLY . 10 KOREA ALBANY, N. Y., June 23 —IB— Gov. Thomas E. Dewey will make a flying trip next month to the Kor- can war front and other’ major trouble spots in the Pacific.in an effort to help bolster the fight against Communist aggression. The twice-beaten Republican presidential candidate, in anhounc- ing the month-long 25,000-mile trip, said today he would confer in For- mosa with Chiang Kai-Shek, head of the Chinese Nationalist govern- ment. Dewey has been one of the fore- most advocates of stronger Ameri- can support for Chiang’s govern- ment. Dewey also will talk with top po- litical and military leaders in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, French Indo-China, Indonesia and Malaya. The governor will fly from New York to San Francisco July 1, and the next day will take off for Tokyo. From Tokyo, Dewey will fly to Korea and go to the battlefront. He expects to be in the zone a few days. Dewey said he was not making the trips as a representative of the U. S. government “or anyone else.” Furthermore, Dewey said, “I'm traveling at my own expense.” Asked whether there were any- thing political in the trip, domestic~ ally speaking, Dewey replied vig- orously: “Absolutely no.” RUSS GUN DISPLAYED On display in the window of Skin- ner’s Gun Shop is a rifle made in Russia in 1944. It was taken from the body of a dead North Korean soldier by an American recently returned from that theater of war. WEATHER FORECAST Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 60; minimum, 48. At Airport — Maximum, 61; minimum, 43. FORECAST Mostly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Low temperature to- night about 45. High temper- ature Sunday about 62. e PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today ® City of Juneau — Trace; ® Since June 1 — 533 inches; e Since July 1 — 77.52 inches. © At Airport — Trace; ® Since June 1 — 3.27 inches; e Since July 1 — 44.68 inches e 0o 00 0 00 0 00 THREE CRUISERS EXPECTED FINISH 900 MILE EVENT| Latest reports on the Capital- to-Capital Cruiser race that the Donolie, Ray Hart’s 36-foot cruiser, is taking part of her lay- over time off Thane there this morning at 8, 1 o'clock this afternoon with the Douglas Bridge as the finish line. Norton Clapp’s 65-foot Carmelita developed engine trouble between {Prince Rupert and Ketchikan. .§ twin-motor cruiser, one engine fai ed and the Carmelita limped into Ketchikan yesterday. The enginé was fixed there and the cruiser is now enroute to Juneau and it i§ hoped the cruiser will arrive ifi time for the banquet this evening, Dr. J. Wayne Graham's 34-foot Nickenus s in transit to Juneau but definitely can not arrive in time for the banquet though Gra= ham is still participating in the race. George H. Patton’s Alleen did not ,enter the race for reasons unknown. i Patton's trophy has atrived and will be awarded to the second place winner of the over-all race. “We had clear sailing weather all of the way from Prince Rupert to Thane where we are taking our lay-over time,” said Bob Cowling. who flew to Prince Rupert to join the Donolie. “There was nothing but bad weather from Bremerton to Prince Rupert with the three boats taking their lay-over time at night to ride out the storm.” The first place trophy for the winner of the Capital-to-Capital Cruiser Race, presented by the Bar- anof Hotel has arrived and is on Jisplay in the lobby of the hotel. It » that offered by Patton. Both tro- phies will be given the first and second place winners for the semi- annual event. The winners' names will be inscribed on each and will remain with the yacht club whose boat won it until the next race when the trophies will be awarded again. The Prince Rupert to Juneau plagues have arrived. These plaques will be awarded by the Juneau Yacht Club to the three place win- ners of this second leg of the race. In reality, there are three races in one. Bremerton to Prince Rupert is the first race, Prince Rupert to Ju- neau is the second race and the over-all Capital-to-Capital Cruiser Race. The trophies and plaques will be presented at the banquet to be held in the Baranof tonight at 7:30. In- itiation into the Ice Berg Pilots As- sociation will be held at the ban- quet for the cruiser skippers and their crews. Charles W. Carter will officiate at the initiation ceremon- ies. ® Iment slupped on SEATTLE (C NORTHBOUND ON ALEUTIAN SEATTLE, June 23 —®— Forty men and women left Seattle early this morning on the annual Cham- ber of Commerce Goodwill Tour of Alaska. Thomas Pelly, president of the chamber, headed the group, which will visit Southeast and South Cen- tral Alaska. The party left Seattle on the Aleu- tian after a period of uncertainty. The tour had been canceled Thurs- day evening because of the strike of ship-radio operators. It was rein- stated hurriedly when the strike was settled yesterday. The party will visit Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Anchorage and Wrangell. A smaller group will fly from Juneau to Fair- banks, then rejoin the main party at Anchorage. They will return to Seattle July 4 'SALE OF FRUIT BY WEIGHT IS PROTESTED CATRO—P—Egypt's fruit sellers went en strike when their govern- price controls. ® | One order they protested was that ®| citrus fruits — oranges, lemons and © | tangerines—be sold by weight In- ® |stead of by number, arriving | ¢ Finishing time for the race is at a uaveling trophy " aléng withy e R reveals | | f Allies Win Savage Red Central Hedy Honeymoons "y’"—'"—f“ ) Hedy Lamarr End her fourth husband, Ernest “Ted” Stauffer honeymooning in Carmel Valley, Calif,, look on as Denise, 5, Heddy’s daughter by a former marriage, strings beads. surprise ceremony in Los Angeles. (P Wirephoto. | The couple was wed in a 'Mrs. America’ Remarries s T B Mrs. Frances Cloyd, 25, “Mrs. America of 1949,” remarried the father of her lli’ee children at San Diego, Mrs, Cloyd on arm of her hus- band, Arthur T. Cloyd, Jr, 27, and the three children (left) Patty, 2, and (right) Terry, 4, and Tommy, 5, are shown leaving the Wedding Bell Chapel after the ceremony. (P WIrephoto. UNION CLASH [RADIOMEN HOLDS VESSEL FROM smuuo] SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 - m—l STILL OUT ATLANTIC NEW YORK, June 23 —(M—Short- A bitter waterfront labor wmhhlflcr hours and higher wages brought erupted into viclence late last night {CIO seamen back to their Atlantic and Gulf coast jobs todcy, but ship- and prevented the sailing of the .. oherators still must settle with Matson liner Lurline — just as shipping was settling down to nor- mal after a six-day strike by sea- going radiomen. Members of the CIO Maritime! union.— turned down by the Na- tional Labor Relations Board lwl week in an attempt to claim juris- diction over members of the Inde- pendent left-wing Cooks and Stew- ards union—picketed the pier where the Lurline was ready to sail at mid- night. The arrival of police reinforce- ments prevented a large-scale clash between the NMU and the MC&S. but billy-wielding officers knocked three MC&S meh to the ground and (Continued on Page EKight) radiomen and engineers. Federal mediators announced “complete agreement” between some 40 shipping companies and the CIO National Maritime Union (NMU) late last night after day-long nego- tiations. The conciliators then expressed hopes the same companies would settle with the American Radio As- sociation (CIO) and the National Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso- ciation (CIO) at meetings this morning and afternoon. Joseph Curran, NMU president, said he expected the agreement for his union would set the pattern for ! the two smaller CIO unions. (Continued on Page Eight) BERT LYBECK FOUND DEAD | ‘THIS A.M. L] Bert, Lybeck, city street fore- man, was found dead this morning at 10:45.in, the old lumbershed of- fice at the city dock by George Mar- tin who had stopped to see him, Martin found the door locked, looked through the window and saw Lybeck lying on the floor. Martin immediately notified Clty Clerk O. L. Popejoy who took a key and they went into the office. Dr. William Whitehead and U. 8. Com- missioner Gordon Gray were called Lybeck was born in Paso Robles, Calif., March 6, 1892 and first came to Ketchikan in 1912. He later went to Seward where he engaged in fishing. From 1917 to 1219 he was in the Army and came to Juneau Motor Co. for several years and first was employed by the city in 1933 and has been working for it since with the exception of two years be- tween 1944 and 1947 when he was outside for medical attention. In 1937 he was married here to Mabel Linehan. He is survived by his wife; his mother, Mrs. Lena Lybeck, and a sister, Anna Ramsey in Kent, Wash., also another sister, Mrs. Hilda Swetnan and a brother, | August, both of Seattle. Lybeck was very active in Ameri- can Legion circles and 40 and 8. He belonged to the Elks lodge and only last night was initiated into the Moose lodge here. PILOTS URGED RETURN WORK IMMEDIATELY | WASHINGTON, June 23 —(P— President Truman today urged strik- ing United Airlines pilots to return to work immediately so that the National Mediation Board may con- tinue efforts to reach an agree- ment. He has sent a telegram to David L. Behncke, president of the Air Line Pilots Association appealing to him personally and to each of the striking pilots to comply with the request. The President said he could not emphasize too strongly the import- ance of continuing air transporta- tion in this critical period and does not believe the pilots would desire to “subject themselves to national criticism under such circumstances.” PRICE TEN CENTS orean Attack AllIES WIN VICTORY IN AIR BATTLE Terrific Figfifitaged on High Ground; Bayonet Thrusts Made TOKYO, Sunday, June 24 —(P— The Allies won a savage, seesaw fight with Reds in Central Korea, bumped into a Communist buildup in the west, and scored a new vie- tory in the mounting air battles Saturday. United Nations troops in the cen- ter 2aptured a hill in the old Red “iron triangle” after twice being driven off in a bayonet and hand grenade struggle. In the west, Allied patrols near Parallel 38 north of Seoul contacted two Red regiments, the largest force round there in two weeks. An Allied officer said the regiments appeared to be outposts of a larger Com- munist force. Jets in Tangle Over northwest Korea, 42 to jet tangled for the sixth day in seven-day period. One Red jet was damaged before the enemy fled back to Manchuria. The triangle fight, in Central Korea more than 20 miles north of Parallel 38, broke out at a time when Allied officers were on the alert for a Communist offensive, expected on the war's first.anniversary, June 28, Allies Capture Hill High ground exchanged hands five times during the day. | At nightfall the Allies were dug in triumphantly on the hill. The Reds pulled back, possibly to regroup for a new blow. UN infantrymen pushed in south of the triangle apex of Pyonggang early Saturday in an attempt to throw off balance an expected Red smash about Monday, the war's first anniversary. They advanced steadily all morn- ing through constant small arms and automatic weapons fire. Reds Answer Charge The Allies hurled a morning at- tack on the hill in a broiling sun. Hundreds of enemy rifles and bmachineguns and five machine- guns answered their charge. Allled tanks and artillery splat- tered the Red bunkers just over the ridge top. UN troops won their ob- jective_at bayomet point by mid- !in 1928. He was with the Juneau{afternoon. Bayonet Attack Thirty minutes later the Chinese struck back with withering tommy- gun, grenade and machinegun fire, Bayonets were fixed to their rifles. The Allies backed down the south slope of the 500-foot hill. They re- grouped at the base and doggedly stormed to its summit again. With bugles blowing, the Reds were back again before the Allies had time to consolidate their positions. Resistance Cracked Once more the Allies fell back down the slope but they were on top again at darkness. Allied artillery and warplanes hammered the rear slope of the hill while the bayonet-grenade fighting see-sawed on the southern slope. As the furlous fighting waned, frontline officers said “we believe we will take the ground and hold it.” NEW HIGHWAY IS NAMED IN HONOR OF IKE P. TAYLOR Secretary of Interior Oscar Chap- man today announced from Wash- ington, D. C., that the new road between Tok Junction and Eagle, under construction by the Alaska Road Commission, has been named Taylor Highway, honoring Ike P. Taylor, former commissioner in Alaska for ARC. ‘Taylor, who served with the ARC for more than 25 years, retired two years ago and, with Mrs. Taylor, now resides in Seattle. Having been residents of Juneau for more than 30 years, the Taylors have many friends who will be pleased to learn of the honor extended the re- tired commissioner. The highway was formerly called the 40-Mile road.