The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 2, 1951, Page 1

SNGRESSIONAL BRARY | T ASHIN VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,850 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” J UNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 2, 195 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ““THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN GENTS REDS ACCEPT TALK FOR CEASE-FIRE Rldgway-kee Meel WALKIN NATIONAL o CAPITAL| Sireet Car and Bus 0peré- ' fors on Strike; No Park- ing Zones Lifted WASHINGTON, July 2 — # — A paralyzing strike of street ca: and bus operators today forcec thousands of workers in the nation’t capital to walk, hitch hike and takc taxis to their jobs. Thousands of others, who ordi- narily leave their automobiles at home, drove to their offices. To accommodate the extra cars pour ing into the downtown area, park- ing was -permitted on some section: of idle street car tracks and re- strictions were lifted in many no- parking zones. Although the strike got under way Sunday, the full impact wasnot felt until today — work day. Street car: and buses of the strike bound Cap- tal Transit Co. ordinarily carry about 260,000 passengers — mostly government workers — on working ».m DENIES REPORT FISHING STOPS ON BRISTOL BAY SEATTLE, July 2 —(#— A spokes- man for the Alaska Salmon Indus- try, Inc., denied a Saturday report from Dillingham that a labor dis- pute had tied up Yishing boats at Koggiung and Pederson Point;-on Bristol Bay. ‘The report came from the strike committee of Local 46, Bristol Bay Resident Cannery Workers’ union, which announced a switch last week from the CIO to the Seafarers’ In- ternational (AFL). It is picketing canneries and boats in the compli- cated Bristol Bay dispute. The Industry spokesman said 38 fishing boats went out on the tide for Saturday fishing from the Libby plant at Koggiung and all boats were operating at Pederson Point, where the Bristol Bay Packing Co., has a plant. The spokesman said. today the Libby boats at Koggiung hgd come in with an excellens weekend catch of 75,000 fish. 75 PERCENT JUNEAU STORES ARE (LOSING AT NOON TOMORROW About 75 per cent of the Juneau business houses plan o close at noon tomorrow for the pre-Fourth of July activities, O. R. Cleveland, com- mittee chairman announced today. “I'm disappointed that we were unable to get 100 per cent coopera- tion on this, but the matter is up to the individual merchants,” he said. The Washington Merry - Go - Round | By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951. by Bell Synaicate, Inc.. ASHINGTON, The law partners of Louis Johnson, former Secretary of Defense, and the relatives of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek have just been caught shipping strategic tin to Communist China —despite the fact that both John- son and the Chiang family have been urging all-out American aid to nationalist China on the Island of Formosa. The tin shipments totalled 123 tons, which is a tremendous amount of this strategic metal. This quantity definitely went to the Communists in Tientsin in 1949 un- der an invalid license. An addition- al 90 tons of tin was sent to Shanghai through a phony license in the spring of 1949 and probably went to the Communists also— though this is not definite. The shipments were so carefully camouflaged by false representa- tions and certifications that it took some time for Secretary of Com- merce Sawyer to discover the tin shipments. However, he has now (Continued on Page Four) General Matthew B. Ridgway (right) shakes hands with President Syngman Rhee of South Korea at brief meeting in the garden of the Rhee relldence in Pll:an » Wirephoto. VEN STATES IN GRIP OF FIRE, FLOOD Vast Sechons of Forest‘ Laid in Waste; Dike, Levees Threatened By Associated Press The twin fury of fire and Ilood{ (‘omling foU.S. today gripped seven states after lay- | 2¢ ing waste vast sections of forest and farm land. Flames already had seared at least 85,840 acres of foresteA half mil- lion acres of bottomland in Kansas and Missouri have been washed by rampant waters. Lightning Starts Blaze Fresh fires burst anew in some stricken forest sections, timberland torched by lightning. And in the flood areas, swollen streams again threatened to spill over dikes and levees. Forest fires raged in five western states. One death was blamed on firefighting operations which in- volved hundreds of men. The state by state picture included: New Mexico: The hardest hit of the five states, In the Gila area in the southwest, 35,000 acres were swept by flames and lightning start- ed four new blazes Sunday. It was in this area that one man—a soldiex —was killed. In Western States Washington and Oregon: Fire sit- uation still acute. A 1,900 acre blaze in the Willamette National forest near Eugene, Ore; was fought by 900 men. In Northwestern Washington, a 450-acre area was under fire eight miles east of Arlington and the state extended the Western Wash- ington logging shutdown through July 4 except in a few coastal dis- tricts. Logging was halted in Oregon except in two counties. In British Columbia The Pacific Northwest’s biggest firg was in British Columbia where an uncontrolled blaze raged over 20,000 acres on Vancouver Island. The forestery said only rain could stop the fire, but there was no rain in sight. CREDIT MAN HERE Leon R. Armstrong, with the Bur- eau of Federal Credit Unions,, from ! San Francisco, is stopping at the Gastineau hotel. Paulina Wilsdorf, who figures she’s 105 years old, looks ahead through the smoke of her cigarette as she plans for a future in the United States. Now living in a DP camp in ‘Munich, Germany, she will fly to U.S. in June with her son and daughter-in-law and their five- year-old adopted daughter. Born on a small farm near Rowno, Poland, on July 11, 1845, Mrs. Wilsdorf lived there for the first 99 years of her life. (P Wirephoto BAND FOR 4TH; TWO PRACTICES, 2 NIGHTS AT 8 It is practically certain Juneau will have a band for the July Fourth AR N SO OSSR NIERAR P ciut - 0070 0 Ot CONTROLS MEASURE IS SIGNED Stopgap l;gTslation Be- comes Law; Armistice Might Remove System | WASHINGTON, July 2 — W =% | Senator Aiken (R-Vt) says an arm- ‘ istice in Korea might cause Congress to let price and wage controls' die ] at the end of this month. “I think an armistice, if one is negotiated, would pretty well wipe | out whatever little need there may be now for those controls,” Aiken de- clared. President Truman signed on Sat- {urday stop-gap legislation continu- ing wage, price and rent controls through July 31. He acted a few hours before the midnight deadline when the controls program other- wise would have lapsed. Congress approved the 31-day ex tension resolution Friday after nhe House had shelved temporarily a | Senate-passed bill providing for an | eight-month continuance of the law, with revisions. No Price Rollbacks ' any price rollbacks this month — a | ban which Price Director Michael V. DiSalle said would cost consumers some $10,000,000,000 a year if made permanent. On Saturday night, just a few 0ld and New (ommissionprs 7 Forimer Senator from Utah Elbert D Thomas (left) becomes the new U.S. high commissioner of the vast island-speckled area in the western Pacific of which the U.S. became trustee near the end of World War IL He takesfover for the Interior Department . as the Navy’s rule of the area ends and a civil admin- istration replaces it. At right, Admiral Arthur W. Radford, outgoing high commissioner, confers with penple of the island of l-nnotrek in the western Carolinas during a tour of the territory. (P Wirephoto. Red Prison Just a Memory The stop-gap measure prohibits | § hours before the no-roliback law | took effect, DiSalle’s Office of Price Stabilization (OPS) froze existing price ceilings. The idea, the agency explaiied, was' to’ eliminate all re- | quirements_ for price rollbacks and., to freeze price ceilings which were. | ‘in effect June 30. DESPARADO. IN SUICIDE, | ENDS (HASE] FLEMINGTON, N. J., July 2 —® Meek-looking Warren. Lee Irwin ended his bloody career of murder, kidnap and rape by firing a bullet into his brain in a rain-drenched clump of poison ivy. The target of New Jersey's great- est manhunt was found shortly after noon yesterday — sprawled on his back, a trickle of blood still oozing from a .38 caliber bullet hole in his left temple. The body of the 27-year-old des- parado lay about one-quarter of a mile from where he abandoned 17- year-old Carolyn Barker, his last captive, and plunged into the woods to escape capture Saturday. State police and FBI agents said Irwin definitely killed himself, thus carrying out his grim vow that he'd never be taken alive. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 2 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 109%, American Tel. and Tel. 153%, Anaconda 37%, General Electric 52’/ General Motors 47, Goodyear 8%, Kennecott 68%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 361, Standard Oil of California 45'/., Twentieth Century Fox 17%%, U. S. Steel 38%, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange 93.68% . Sales today were 1,340,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 24394, rails 73.16, utili- ties 42.34. parade if the efforts of enthusiastic bandsmen amount to anything and practices are announced for tonight at 8 and tomorrow night at the same hour, both to take place in the Grade school auditorium. Bandsmen of the Juneau the Fourth be without a band? If bandsmen cannot report to- night, then make it Tuesday night for only marches, all are familiar with, will be given the once through. Tonight at 8 and Tuesday night at 8. City bands and high school bands are asked to turn out for what would Baranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive at 1 a.m. tomorrow. Kathleen from Vancouver sched- uled to arrive at 3 p.m. tomorrow. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver July 4. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle July 6. Princess Louise scheduled to:ar- rive from Skagway at 8 tomorrow morning and sails south one hour later at 9 o'clock. , Green, 43, Illinois chairman. Seated between his wife, Lucile, (left) and her sister, Pia Eykens, right, Robert Vogeler, American businessman recently freed from a Hungarian prison, relaxes at a resort high\n the Colorado mountains. He fished, rode horseback and went boatriding as he started his meountain vacation after being welcomed to the state by, Gov. Dan Thornton, (P Wirephoto. SEVEN TP COMMIES TOPRISON. Ordered lo?egin;Serving' Senfences; Bench War- rants for Four NEW YORK, July 2 —P—Fed- eral Judge Sylvester J. Ryan today ordered -seven top Communists to begin serving prison terms and is- sued bench' warrants for four who falled to surrender. Ten of the 11 had been sentenced to five . years imprisonment for teaching the violent overthrow of the: United States government. One had receivéd a tiree-year term. Those ordered arrested were Henry ‘Winston, 35, organizational secretary of the party; Gus Hall, 39, Ohio state chairman; Robert Thompson, New York chairman, and Gilbert Al had beex at liberty,under bail | of $20,000 each, furnished by the Civil Rights Congress, which the U. 8. attorney general’s office has branded as subversive. Thompson had received the lesser sentence of three years because of | his war record. . May Forfeit Bail Judge Ryan ruled that bail of the four will be forfeited if they do not appear in court by 9:30 a.m. tomor- row. The court issued the commitment order after denying all motions by the defense to reduce, modify or postpone the sentences, which had | (cueunnd on Page Two) (10 UNION CHALLENGES SEAFARERS Says CIO is Ready to Nego- tiate with Bristol Bay Cannery Workers SEATTLE, July 2 —M— The Con- gress of Industrial Organizations challenged the right of the Seafar- ers’ International union (AFL) tc take over 1,400 striking salmon can- nery workers in Bristol Bay Satur- day. Roy W Atkinson, regional CIO director, informed ‘the Alaska Sal- mon Industry, Inc.,.that the CIO was ready to open contract nego- tiations for the conneny, workers. Atkinson said the CIO does not recognize any picket lines in what he described as the “jurisdiction dispute” now going on in Bristol | Bay.” Charges ‘Irresponsible’ Meanwhile, George Johansen, secretary-treasurer of the Alaska Fishermen's union (Ind), issued a statement in which he charged lead- ers of the Alaska strike with being “ijrresponsible.” “They are jeopardizing the pro- duction of food during a national emergency; they threaten to deprive resident fishermen and cannery workers of & season’s earnings, and they are jeopardizing the welfare of other workers and the industry,” Johansen, who returned from the strike area asserted. The Bering Sea Fishermen’s un- (Continued on l:n;c “Two) |PEACE TALK MESSAGES EXCHANGED Commie Pro'posal Taken Up by Ridgway, Also Chiefs of Staff = WASHINOTON. July 2. — (B — The U, 8. Joint Chiefs of Staff and Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway exchang- ed messages today on the Commu- nist proposal for Korean armistice talks at Kaesong after July 10. An early reply to the Communists pre- sumably was taking shape. At the same time, Secretary of Defense Marshall advised Congress there would be no rush to bring U. 3, troops home from the Far Pacific in the event a Korean armistice is negotiated. Marshall made the statement in urging the House Foreign Affairs committee to act quickly on the ad- ministration’s request for $8,500,- 000,000 for foreign military and eco- nomic aid. Messages Are Secret Responsible officials, who said a series of messages had passed be- tween Ridgway and the joint chiefs, gave no hint of what was said in them, The fact of the consultations pointed, however, to a possible re- ply within hours to the Commun A likely time might be the early evening hours of tonight, Washing- ton time. Because of the time dif- ference, nightfall in Washington is Tuesday. morning in Tokyo. No objections have been voiced to Kaesong — one of the few places the Communists now hold south of the 38th Parallel — as a meeting place. Top officials have made plain they would like to have an earlier date. There was no sign however whether Ridgway has been advised to pro- pose this. The UN commander has‘full au- thority for dealing with the Com- munist proposal but has been kept in close touch all along. with the Capital. In addition to the military con- sultations, there was continued dip- lomatic activity. Secretary of State Acheson went over the Korean‘developments with his top advisors at a staff meeting during the morning. Later . went to the White House for a review of foreign issues with President Tru- man. The President has been kept in close touch with all developments and regularly meets with Acheson on Mondays. C. W. KERNS HERE C. W. Kerns with Lytle and Green Construction company arrived here yerterday from Seattle on PAA. He has been superintendent on the Haines cut-off paving job recently completed and expects to leave for the interior tomorrow to go on an- other comstruction project for the same company, REDS CLAIM VICTORY IN KOREAN WAR Use Slrong_finguage in Broadcast; Place, Time Set for Talk TOKYO, July 2 —®— Red Korea tonight urged its soldiers to fight on while the world waited for news of an expected armistice. Pyongyang radio repeated Chinese and North Korean acceptance of a UN proposal for cease-firing talks. But the Reds made this clear: They are claiming victory in the year-old conflict. The North Korean Communist station started each broadcast with this stalement: “The Anglo-American aggressors have at last realized failure of their sinister attempt and that is why they are seeking peace.” Between news items the Com- munist announcers inserted these statements: i Savage Broadcasts “Soldiers on the front, fight brave- ly and continue annihilation of ag- gressors,” and “anti-aircraft batter- ies, aim sharp and increase the bag of enemy intruders.” Japanese radio monitors, who heard the Red broadcasts, said the Communist tone was evnn stronger than usual, Peiping radio repeated the text of the Communist acceptance state- ment last night, Cease-Fire Discussion s g they are willing to' meet UN repre- sentatives and discuss a cease-fire. They want the meeting held in the ll?elonl area between July 10 and Gen, mmmv B. Ridgway, s0- preme Allied commander, had pro- posed Saturday that a meeting be held aboard the Danish hospital ship Jutlandia in Wonsan harbor. He said he would propose a date, If the Reds agreed to the meeting. Ridgway has not indicated his re- action to the Red acceptafce mes- sage. Agree to Reds * It is presumed, however, that the UN will agree to the Reds’ proposed place and time, Diplomatic circles in Washington sald Ridgway already has his full instructions and authority to deal with the Communists. The world talked of peace, but it, was “business as usual” on the fighting lines. , ‘There were bitter ground skir- mishes at scattered points. Allied warplanes threw another heavy blow at the Hwangju airfield north of Sariwon in the northwest. Other planes hit supply centers, rail and road lines, bridges, troop con- centrations and gun positions. B-29 Superforts hit military bar- racks at Hungnam on the east coast. UN naval forces continued to blockade and pound the North Kor- ean east coast. Heaviest ground fighting of the day apparently was on the Westérn front. An Allied patrol stormed a hill north of Yongchon. The foot troops killed 33 Reds and captured four. The Allies withdrew and called down an air and artillery barrage. Another 30 to 40 Reds were killed or wounded. AT THE HOTEL JUNEAU Frank Roche, Department of Labor investigator on wages and hours from Pasadena, Calif., is stop- ping at the Hotel Juneau. e e 00 00 0 0 00 . WEATHER FORECAST Temperature for 34-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 60; minimum, 51. At Airport — Maximum, 68; minimum, 48, FORECAST Considerable cloudiness with occasional light rain tonight. Partly &loudy Tuesday. Low: est temperature tonight near 49 degrees and highest Tues- day about 65. PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 s.m. today @ City of Juneau — Trace. . At Airport — Trace. - . © 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 ® ) 3 . 3 . £ L] L) . L [} . ° . @000 0000000c00000®00 00