The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 11, 1951, Page 1

yuNGRF.‘SSIONAL JBRARY 7 ASHINGTON, D. C. m s “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIIIL. NO. 11,857 KOREAN ARMISTICE | AFL Backing Election for New Taxation For Eve_r_ybody WASHINGTON, July 11 — ® — The American Federation of Labor got behind the Truman administra- tion’s request for $10,000,000,000 of new taxes today, and proposed that $6,400,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 be raised from increases in individual income taxes to hit particularly at those with larger incomes. The proposal was advanced by Arthur Elder, AFL tax consultant, in testimony to the tax-writing Senate Finance committee. His plan would hike individual income levies by more than double the $2,850,000,- 000 increase in a House-passed $7.- 200,000,000 revenue-raising bill. The senators are holding hearings on the House bill. The plan of the big labor organ- ization’ran directly counter to sug-| gestions of business groups. These have urged that the House bill be changed so that personal income tax increases would hit harder at lower income levels. The committee for economic de- velopment, an organization of busi- nessmen, took this view in testimony yesterday. It said more taxes should be siphoned out of the lower income groups as an anti-inflationary measure. Elder said the $10,000,000,000 tax increase urged by President Tru- man and Secretary of the Treas- ury John Snyder is essential to balance the budget in the Defense Mobilizatien period. HELLAN TO ANCHORAGE Acting U. S. Marshal Walter Hel- lan left Tuesday afternoon for An- chorage via Pacific Northern Air- lines. He was taking John H. Mitch- ell, who was arrested here last week on a bench warrant, to the Hub City where he is wanted on a charge of carrying a dangerous weapon. srocx'o@rfims NEW YORK, July 10 — Closing quotation of American Can stock today is 1092z, American Tel. and Tel. 154%, Anaconda 39, Douglas Aircraft, 44':, General Electric 547, General Motors 487, Goodyear 83, Kennecott 72, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 37% Standard Oil of California 46%, Twentieth Century Fox 18, U. S Steel 39':, Pound $2.80's, Canadian Exchange 43.06. Sales today were 990,000 shares. Averages today were as follows Industrials 250.01, rails 75.17, utili- ties 43.06. NEW YORK, July 11 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau min¢ stock today is 2%, American Can 109%z, American Tel. and Tel. 164% Anaconda 39%, General Electric 55%, General Motors 48%, Goodyear 83, Kennecott 72, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 37'% Standard Oil of California 46%, Twentieth Century Fox 177%, U. S Steel 40, Pound $2.80 1/16, Canadiar Exchange 94.43%. Sales today were 970,000 shares. Averages today were as follows Industrials 250.92, rails 75.58, utili- ties 43.23. TheWashington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Bynaicate, Inc. ASHINGTON. — It is impos- sible, of course, to know exactly why Moscow made a peace move at this specific time. But calls at the State Department by two em- bassies may give the answer. One is the French Embassy which has informed Secretary of State Acheson that Chinese troops are already massing on the French Indo-Chinese border and that air- fields in South China have been enlarged—obviously for a new at- tack. The other is the Yugoslav Em- bassy which has informed the State Department that Rumanian troops are maneuvering and that Tito believes there is a 50-50 chance the long-expected attack on Yugo- slavia will begin this fall. It doesn't take even a smart mind-reader to figure out that the Kremlin has an awful lot to gain (Continued on Page Four) Bristol Bay Called OFf E, July 11, — (M — The National Labor Relations Board has | called off for this seasan an elec- tion it has been trying to arrange for nearly a month for Bristol Bay fishermen, the regional office an- nounced today. The election was to have deter- mined collective bargaining rights for 2,600 resident and nonresident fishermen and cannery workers. Unfair labor practice charges filed by one of the unions involved against the industry have blocked the voting. The N.LR.B. said it would hold the election some time in the fu- | ture at a period of peak employ- | ment when mno charges of unfair lakor practice exist. Peak employ- ment occurs only during the short fishing season, which ends July 25 | this year. Thomas P. Graham, Jr., regional director,» said an election before ‘Lhc 1952 season is impossible. Heal Wa;e in Other Sections Besides Juneau By Associated Press A mid-summer heat wave drove temperatures up throughout the Pacific Northwest today and forestry men warned of new fire dangers in the region’s timbered areas. Scattered small fires were report- ed as woodsmen took steps to pre- vent serious outbreaks. A partial shutdown in logging operations was in effect in Western Washington. Chief State Forester Bernard Orell said all forest activ- ities have been stopped in Clark and Skamania counties. Fires reported yesterday included a 30-acre brush and timber blaze near the Yale dam project, 7 miles northeast of Yacolt, Wash., and an 80-acre fire in logged-off brushland seven miles southeast of Terrace B.C. Temperatures yesterday rangec from a cool 67 degrees at North Bend, Ore,, to 98 reported by British Columbia fire fighters battling the blaze at Terrace. In Oregon, it was 95 at Medford Closed Period May be Relaxed For Bristol Bay ANCHORAGE, July 11 —®— A possibility that the mid-week clos- ure on salmon fishing at Bristo Bay might be relaxed for the res! of the season appeared today. Howard Baltzo, assistant regional director of the FWS, commented “Bristgl Bay is repprted to have developed a very good rur®in the oast week. Depending on the number of escapements, it may be that ad- ditional hours of fishing are justi- fied.” He said the packers had asked ad- ditional fishing time in view of the early season labor strike. Baltzo was one of three FWS officials whc went to the bay area yesterday. Clarence Rhode, regional director Dan Ralston, enforcement super- visor, and Baltzo flew from Juneav on an inspection trip to the fishing grounds of Cook Inlet, Bristol Bay and Kodiak. “One thing that particularly con- cerns us on Cook Inlet,” Baltza said ‘is the fact that already 47 more drift boats are registered this yea: than last, and there were too many last year.” Last year's yield of red salmon in the Inlet was 225,000 cases. WELL BABY CONFERENCE THURSDAY AFTERNOON The weekly Well Baby and Child Health Conference will be held at the Juneau Public Health Center Thursday afternoon from 1 p.m. through 3:30 p.m. All interested mothers are invited to bring their young children and babies to be | weighed and measured, and to talk {with the Public Health Nurse. The | Health Center is located at 122 2nd | St., phone 218. | southbound Saturday afternoon. MYSTERY TINGE T0 | SUSPECTED SUICIDE | OF U.S. BIOLOGIST BERKELEY, Calif., July 11 —®— University of California police to- day searched for motives in the| suspected suicide of Navy atomic| biologist Donald Thayer Bliss, 30. | Bliss was employed at the highly | secret radiological defense labora- | tory at the San Francisco Naval shipyard. He was studying the ef- fects of vadiation on the human body. He was (ound dead yesterday be- hind the Greek Theatre on the zampus Sgt. Frank Woodward of the uni- versity police said a small box lobeled “Barbitol” was found at his side. Woodward said Naval indentifi- cation papers were found on the body and also an expired pass to the UC radiation laboratory, home of | the atom-smashing cyclotron. Bliss' wife, Hilde, was visiting friends in San Diego. Harriman "Welcome' Inlran TEHRAN, Iran, July 11 —®— Premier Mohammed Mossadegh to- night sent a message to President Truman sayl he would be glad to receive W. AV Harriman for con- ferences on TEAR'e. Afl notonaliz tion crisis. U. S. Ambassador Henry F. Gra- dy was called to Mossadegh's resi- dence to receive the Iranian reply to Mr. Truman'’s offer to send Harri- man to Iran in the hope he could help solve the current bitter dis- pute between Britain and Iran. Grady told newsmen he was ‘“‘very pleased” with Mossadegh's reply. Earlier it was reported that Iran’s oil nationalization commission had advised Mossadegh to accept the Truman offer. The premier appeared to have been stalling on an answer to Presi- dent Truman’s offer to send his personal representative. The com- mission, however, said it approved the idea “on the ground that Har- riman’s visit could not conflict with the oil nationalization law,” the spokesman said. The recommendation was submit- .ed to the premier for discussion with his cabinet this afternoon. Informed circles here say, how- ever, that Harriman’s mission will have little effect unless the Iran- jans show a disposition to modify— at least slightly—their determina- tion to seize full control of the JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1951 Alaska Hearings On Rate Raise Will be Held WASHINGTON, July 11 — ®/— The Federal Maritime Board will [} hold hearings in Alaska on passen- ger and cargo rate increases recent- ly put into effect by Steamship Co. Delegate Bartlett of Alaska told a reporter today he has been ad- vised by A. J. Williams, board secre- tary, that the dates of the hearings will be set after a conference with interested parties. The increase was originally de- layed by the board but a subse-|" quent hearing resulted in lifting jof the suspension order and a hearing on the increase was set for Seattle Sept. 10 before Examiner Horan. The board’s decision to hold hear- | ings in Alaska as well as Seattle fol- lowed a protest by Bartlett. Nugget Shop % Display Window Burglarized A Nugget Shop awplay window was broken into again Tuesday night for the third time in the past few months, Assistant Police Chief Frank Cavanaugh said today. A chest of silverware valued at $69.75 was taken, Cavanaugh re- ported. Entry was effected in the same manner as previously, by breaking the plate glass and lifting it out, he said. Police are investigating. Juror Must Serve; Mileage Paid, Says Depuly - - OH, YEAH! BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 11 —# Deputy Sheriff A. Z. Glaze went to summond 3 citizen for jury duty yesterday. A housewife answered his knock. “Does he HAVE to serve?” she asked. “Yes, Ma'am.” “Do you pay mileage?” “Yes.” “Fine,” said the housewife, bright- ening. “He’s in Japan.” Soap Box Derby Trial Runs Are Tonight, Friday Trial runs for Soap Box Derby racers will be held this evening and Friday evening at 7 o’elock on the Eleventh Street hill. “All boys who intend competing are advised to turn out for the British-operated oil industry. Meantime, thére was not the slightest indication that Mossadegh was ready to make any compromise BakersTEread (ast On Waters Comes Back as 40-Hour Week NEW YORK, July 11 -—(®—Bakers re-kindled ovens at 16 major bak- ing firms in the New York area to- day after settlement of a nine-day strike by 4,000 AFL truck drivers The strikers and their employers agreed to a city-sponsored peace pact last night. The drivers are ex- pected to resume deliveries early tomorrow. A chief union gain in the settle- ment — a 40-hour, five-day work week — was expected to set a pat- tern for 50,000 AFL drivers acros: the nation. Ship Movements Princess Louise from Skagway at 8 a.m. Friday, sailing south 9 a.m. Chilcotin due Thursday. Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle today. Princess Kathleen scheduled to sail from Vancouver today. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Aleutian from westward scheduled trial runs so that their cars can be checked,” Bill Leivers, chairman of the Soap Box Derby committee said. “The local race to be held on July 22.is less than two weeks away. Speed Limit Set For Derby Boals In Tee Harbor U. S. Coast Guard headquarters here are cooperating with the of- ficials of the Golden North Salmon Derby in prescribing safety regula- tions for the event, the commander announced today. During the three derby days, July 27, 28 and 29, the speed of all vessels will be limited to six knots within the limits of Tee Harbor, in- side a line from Tee Harbor Light to Point Stephens Rock buoy, he said. Operators of all vessels are cau- tioned to have their boats fully equipped in accordance with law and observe pilot rules. The com- | mander also called attention to the provisions of other laws which per- tain to reckless and negligent oper- ation of any vessels so as to en- danger the life, limb or property of any person and to the duty of boat operators to render assistance to every person in danger of being lost. | BINSCHUS BACK Frank Binschus, representative of the American Can Co. of Portland,| returned yesterday from a trip to Haines. He Is stopping at the Bar- | anof hotel. the Alaskay F.|J.| Koreans.” Others are unidentifie - —— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS o d. (M Wirephoto. S ‘MUCH NEARER’ » North Korean and Chinese Communist representatives at the preliminary cease-fire meeting at Kae- song are grouped around the conference table @uring a lull in talks with UN negotiators. identification, the Associated Press bureau in Tokyo said: “Sigmal Corps in Tokyo says original cap- tions did not give definite left to right, but as we ascertain from their description which accompanied negatives, the three main negotiators would be: extreme left, Colonel Chang of North Koreans; second from left, Lieut. Col. Chai of Chinese forces; third from left (in foreground), Lieut. Col. Kim of North Regarding Cease-Fire, Red Trick Is Belief WASHINGTON, July 11 — (® — Wary lawmakers cautioned today that new Communist aggression may be lurking behind seeming Red wil- lingness to negotiate a cease-fire in Korea, Senator Lodge (R-Mass) told a reporter he fears the current man- euvering by the Reds at Kaesong might be only an effort to throw UN forces off guard for an attack on Europe in August “We must watch this thing care- fully,” Lodge said. “If they were planning an attack in Europe or to move Chinese Communist troops against Indochina, the cease-fire move would be just the sort of a thing they would attempt.” Lodge, a Foreign Relations com- mittee member, said he doesn’t be- lieve the UN should settle for a cease-fire at the 38th Parallel, as the Reds have proposed. He joined Senator Douglas (D-TlI) in propos- ing that the narrow neck of the Korean peninsula, about 100 miles north of the 38th, be made the di- viding line, The 38th was the old border between North and South Korea. GOVERNOR BACK FROM WESTWARD Governor Ernest Gruening- re- turned to Juneau Saturday via Pa- cific Northern Airline after spending several days to the Westward. He attended an American Legion banquet in Anchorage given in honor of Erle Cocke, Jr. national com- mander of the American Legion who is gaking a visitation to Amer- ican Legion posts in the Territory In private life, Cocke is assistant to the president of the Delta Air Lines | with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga. The governor also visited Palmer to discuss Alaska Rural Rehabilita- tion Commission matters with local residents and conferred with Mayor Z. J. Loussac of Anchorage, and E Glen Wilder, head of the Alaska Housing Authority, on housing problems in fhe Anchorage area | FROM TYONEK Mr. and Mrs, Willis Graham of Tyonek are stopping at the Baranof hotel. FROM KAKE | Mr. and Mrs, Jessie Kadake of | Kake are at the Gastineau hotel FROM HAINES E. Sheppard of Haines is at ,Cabihfiifire Quelled 16 p.m. the men had it under con- Government kureiu Caught Counterfeifing On lts Own HIAWATHA, Kas,, July 11 —(®— Roy Ruth, president of the Home State bank at nearby Everest, broke open a bundle of $5 bills and care- fully counted them. Then he turned them over and re- counted. This time he got $530. On the next check he studied each bill carefully and discovered— 8ix of the notes, fresh from the government’s presses, were $5 bills on one side and perfect $10 repro- ductions on the other, In Washington, officials of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which manufactures the nation’s currency, conceded it could happen, but said they had never heard of anything like it before. | | On-Roberts Trail By Foreslir_s A fire which blazed up suddenly in a cabin on the first ridge of the Mount Roberts trail late yes- terday afternoon was controlled by five Forest Service men after al- most two hours of fighting with shovels and pulaskis. The fire first appeared in a flash shortly before 5 p.m., according to witnesses. ¥ The Forest Service assumed that boys had earlier in the day started a fire in thecabin and when it be- came out of control, fled the scene. The Juneau Fire Department, | told of the blaze by Kay Kennedy, Empire reporter, blew their own | alarm for Star Hill, nearest point | to the scene. On seeing that the blaze would not reach the city lim- its, the firemen returned to their homes. . The service was first notified at 4:45 p.n. by Mrs. A. F. Ghiglione of 224 Tth Street. Under the direc- tion of Kermit Scramstad, four men rushed up the trail about 1,000 yards. They were Lacy Johnson, Jim Sofoulis, Rod Pegues and Jack | Pasquan. | The blaze had spread to sur- rounding brush and litter, but by trol. Sofoulis remained at the | scene all night. Foresters said the spot will be checked several times duirng the next few days to make | sure no flames break out again. The land is under jurisdiction of | the Bureau of Land Management. The Buregu and Forest Service cooperate in fighting this type of blaze by the Bureau’s standing the expense and the Forest Service sending men. A Forest Service official said the |land was believed at one time to | |be patented mining property, but |it is { domain. l”w Gastineau hotel, i Air Tangle : hes 3 MiGs HEADQUARTERS, FIFTH AIR FORCE, KOREA, July 11 — @ — U. S. Sabre jets today shot down three Communist MIG-15 jets and damaged another in a spectacular 20-minute air battle over North- western Korea, Thirty-four Alhea pianes tangled with an estimated 30 MIGs in dra- matic dogfights south of Sinuiju. The aerial battle ranged from 33,000 feet down to 3,000. It started when the Sabre jets went to the Yalu river border area to fly top cover for 21 F-80 Shoot- ing Star jets which attacked an ammunition river. Capt. Milton Nelson of Tarrant, Ala, sent a MIG spinning down in flames and brought his score of the Russian-made planes destroyed to four, tops for Allied pilots now in Korea. The ground war in Korea has quieted considerably with the be- ginning of armistice talks, but there has been no letup in the bitter war in the air. Marcum Family Here From Portland Visifing Relatives Returning to Juneau for their first visit since 1940, Dr. and Mrs. R, W. Marcum and their three chil- dren arrived here on the Baranof Monday. They are from Portland Oregon. Mrs. Marcum is the former Helen Torkelson, of a pioneer Juneau fam- ily. She is the daughter of Mrs Emil Samuelson and sister of Mrs Joe Alexander and Mrs. J. D. Mc- Carthy. Dr. Marcum taught science in the Juneau high school in 1935-36 and then went to Portland to attend the branch of the University of Oregon Medical school there. He returned in 1937 when he and Helen Torkel- son were married. He was graduated from medical school in 1940. Yesterday the family took a trip to Tracy Arm on the Samuelson boat. The Marcums will visit here about three weeks and then return t Portland where Dr. Marcum will be associated with another physician and surgeon in medical practice. He formerly operated a clinic in Cor- vallis, Ore. FROM SEATTLE Vifgil Baker of the Sunset Elec- trical Co. of Seattle, is registered at the Baranof rotel AT HOTEL JUNEAU K. J. Braithwaite the Utah of now considered on the public | Woolen Mills of Seattle is stopping | at Hotel Juneai factory south of the Communist Representatives at Kaesong Reds Change Affifude in Peace Talks “Brass Tacks” Tomorrow, Says Briefing Officer By JIM BECKER MUNSAN, Korea, July 11 —®— Cease-fire talks are progressing in “cold military formality” with every reason to be optimistic, a UN briefing officer said tonight. “The talks now are on the tracks,” said the spokesman, Col. George | Ruhlen of Los Cruces, N. M. “An | armistice is much nearer tonight than it was 24 hours ago.” An official communique was less enthusiastic, but hopeful. It said “a better understanding between negotiating parties” devel- oped Wednesday., It credited =a change of attitude by the five Com- | munist generals. The communique sald the Red negotiators showed ‘“less stiffness and less formality.” Neither the communique nor the briefing officer mentioned three Communists demands reported by Red radios. But Allied delegates, returning Wednesday afternoon from the sec- ond day of talks in Kaesong, made it clear they wouldn't talk about one of the three points—a demand that foreign troops get out of Korea immediately. Rear Adm. Arleigh A, Burke, a member of the tive man UN téam, said it was a political question. Al- lied negotiators won't discuss polit- ical issues. The briefing officer said nego- tiators “may not get down to brass tacks” in Thursday sessions. They still are discussing what items are to go on the agenda and in what order they will be taken up. ' Ruhlen said there was much less tension at Wednesday's meeting. Things went forward in a “business- like manner.” He said he could not disclose just what has been accomplished. Red is “Dynamic” Conferees are operating without a chairman. Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy leads Allied discussions as UN spokesman., North Korean Gen. Nam 11, chief Communist delegate, is the “dominant force on their side.” Ruhlen described him as “dynamic and a man with a strong character.” He said neither dominates the sessions — held around a long table in a room decorated only by the UN banner and a North Korean flag., Improvement in the atmosphere of negotiations was reflected in a communique announcement that 20 Allied news representatives would be authorized to go to Kaesong for Thursday’s negotiations. Previously they had been banned on Communist insistence. Five Al- lied photographers went to the Red- guarded city Wednesday after the UN delegation had left. They traveled along roads guarded by a motley assortment of Chinese, armed with American, British and Russian-type weapons. The Reds stood with their backs to the road. They said they were protecting the peace delegates against “Guerrillas.” The language barrier has slowed negotiations considerably. In the more informal words of Admiral Burke, progress has been ‘“fair— " (Continued on Page Two) WEATHER FORECAST Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 80: minimum, 55. At - Airport — Maximum, 82; minimum, 50. FORECAST Continued fair and warm tonight. and Thursday. Low- est temperature tonight about e 54, High Thursday near 80. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — None. Since July 1 04 inches. At Airport None, Since July 1 04 inches. e o 0 0 00 0 00 ®eve00sesseos e, @00 e0 000000000000 Co0ne ®eeecee ‘