The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 24, 1951, Page 1

i uungmunm RARY ASHINGTON, D. C. 7I HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THBE NEWS ALL T: Il' TIME” VO . LXXVIIL, NO. 11,868 T JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY J‘ I\ —= , 1951 MEMRBER A SSOC l ATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ks BLEAHING SKIES BRIGHTEN SEARCH HOPES Basketball Stars Admit Fixing Games All-American Among 8 Bradley Boys Accused; Grand Jury Will Probe NEW YORK, July 23 —»—Dist~ rict Attorney Frank Hogan an- nounced today that eight Bradley University players, including an All- American athlete, had admitted ac- cepting bribes to fix basketball gam- es. Bradley, which is in Peoria, Il has had top ranking teams over the past few years. Hogan named four of the eight players, who are all under question- ing by the state’s attorney in Peor- ia as: Eugéne Melchiorre, 23, Highland Park, Ill, the All-American ath- lete; Wiliam Mann, 24, Peoria; Aar- on Preece, 24, Peoria, and Charles Grover 22, Peoria. Hogan said the men admitted tak- ing up to $2,700 in"bribes since the 1948-49 season when the fixes be- gan, To Grand Jury He said the matter would pre- sumably be submitted by State's At- torney Michael Shore to the grand jury of Peoria County. According to Hogan the games fix- ed were: Bradley against Washing- ton State in Peoria, 1949-50 season, and PBradley against Oregon State in Peoria, Dec. 7, 1950, He said there was an effort to fix the Bowling Green-Bradley game at Madison Square Garden in the 1948-49 season, but that the Bradley players involved failed- to lose by the number of points agreed on with the fixers, ‘Hogan named Nick Englese, known as “Nick the Greek” as the “Sollaz- 20” of the scheme. He referred to Salvatore T. Sollazzo, who recent- ly pleaded guilty to charges involv- ing the fixing of major Madison Square Garden Games. Some eleven players and former players in local universities were arrested this spring in connection with the charges against Sollazzo. They were from Long Island Un- iversity, City College of New York and New York University. GRAND JURY ORDERED TO INVESTIGATE PEORIA, 111, July 24 —(®—State’s Attorney Michael A. Shore today ordered a grand jury investigation of reports the scores of two Brad- Jey University basketball games were manipulated at the instruction of gamblers. Shore said the games were be- tween Bradley and Washington State played in Peoria Dec. 21, 1949, which Bradley won 67-59, and be- tween Bradley and Oregon State, played in Peoria Dec. 7, 1950, which Bradley won 77-74. TheWashington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, Dy Bell Syndicate, Inc., ASHINGTON. — Orggon may be the showdown state where General Eisenhower finally makes up his mind whether “to run or not to run"—and on what ticket. The situation in Oregon was outlined to Ike's political chief-of- staff, Senator Jim Duff of Penn- sylvania, the other day by Robert Letts Jones, publisher of the Sa- lem, Ore., Capital Journal. Jones pointed out that Oregon has a primary ruling whereby any per- son can be entered in the race by petition of 1,000 signatures whether the candidate wants his name entered or not. [ Thus Eisenhower’s name could be entered in the Oregon Pres dential primary by 1,000 of his friends, entirely without his con- senf, and as a means of testi out his political strength. The Oregon primary has an- other interesting angle, Jones ex- plained to Senator Duff. The state attorney general has ruled that no candidate can run unless his party affiliation is known, thus Eisenhower would be forced at that time, to be stamped either.as a Republican or a Democrat. Since the Oregon primary is May 16 and since all names have (Continued on Page Four) (ommunisls Leave Affer Recess The (‘ommunm peace delegation walks away from the conference building in Kaesong after nezotia- tors had agreed to recess until July 2! chief Communist negotiator. Gen. Nam 11, photo via radio from Tokyo. 25 (Korean time). Second from right. smoking cigarette, is Maj. In background are UN and Communist nemmeny’» P Wire- British Bomber Wings Over Pole From Iceland —BULLETIN~— FAIRBANKS, July 24, —P— A 4-engined British plane which 3 LMoot Wila G Han. poed land, landed here on instruments today at 9:54 a.m., Alaska time. “It was a jolly good flight,” said Wing Comander R. T. Frog- ley, plane commander, after he prought the ship down safely through an overcast. The plane made the 3,558-mile flight in 18-hours 51 minutes. “The only trouble encountered,” Frogley said, “was icing conditions just after Jeaving Tceland and just before landing at Fairbanks, “But at the North Pole it was a beautiful dry day.” FATRBANKS Ju —!m—A four- motor ritish Lincoln bomber car- rying a crew of 10 was winging over | the North Pole on a nonstop flight from Iceland to Fairbanks today, U. S. Air Force officers here re- ported. Officers at Eielson Air Force Base said the Royal Air Force reported the bomber left Keflavik, Iceland at 3:05 p.m., Alaska time, yesterday bound for Alaska via the North Pole. It was due to land at Eielson Base at 9:45 a.m., Alaska tiive, 11:45 a.m. Juneau time at the end of the first leg of a polar training mission, officers said. The RAF reported the bomber was under the command of Wing Com- mander R. T. Frogley, a senior in- structor at the Royal Air Force Flight College at Manby, Lincoln- shire, England. Rest For Day The crew will rest for a day after arrivmg here, officers said, then take off on a nonstop flight of more | t'vm 4,000 miles Fa'h banks to Man- . England, via the PoIAr regions.| I‘nr\ return flight is expected to re- | quire more than 20 hours nonstop flying. Eielson Air Force cfficers said they had not made radio contact with the bomber more than six hours after it left Iceland. However, they did not expect to hear from the plane until early today. LONDON VERSION LONDON, July 24 M— The Air Ministry said today a Lincoln Aries; long range version of the four- | ined Lincoln bomber—was {l ing from Iceland over the Nor: Pole to Fairbanks, Alaska. A spokesman said no word has been received from the plane but it should have passed over the geo- graphic North Pole about 4 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, er 1 17-Hour Fiight It was scheduled to land at the U. S. Air Force’s Eielson Field near | Fairbanks, completing a mnon-stop flight of 3,558 miles in 17 houn: The flight is one of several Arctic flights scheduled by the R. A. F. College at Manby. It is commanded by Wing Com- mander R. T. Frogley, senior in- structor at the RAF College, and its crew of ten includes two Wing Com- manders who are students at the school, P, W. Heal and A. H. Humphrey. The plane is scheduled to leave Eielson Field Thursday on a 4,128- mile non-stop flight back to Manby, England. The return flight is ex- pected to take 20 hours, Congregationalist Church Chimes Cause Cenfusion PAWTUCKET, R. L July 24— —When the 10:45 am. chimes ring on the steeple of St. Paul's Episcopal church it will be ex- actly 10:55 am. The Episcopal church agreed to ring the 10:45 chimes 10 minutes late for the. rest of the summer to accommodate the Park Place Congregational Church across the street. The Congregationalists if2ques- ted the change because the chimes and Rev. Carl A. Glover’s Sun- day sermon cfarted at the same time. The Congregational church ser- vices are conducted an hour ear- lier during the summer. Search for Airlift Plane Postpones Two Sitka Weddings SITKA, July 24, — (B — The search for a DC-4 Korean Airlift plane missing with 38 aboard in- terrupted plans here for two Sun- day weddings. Coastguardsmen Robrjt E. Countryman and George B. Woodbury of the cutter Cahoone were to wed Agnes D. Porter and Levera Pauline Ballinger, respect- ively. The Cahoone, enroute here from Juneau, was diverted to aid in the search. The weddings, perforce, were postponed until the Cahoone |returns to port. ENGINEER IS HERE R. C. rict Engineer Hack from the U.S.Dist- office in Anchorage Reds Will Say'No" On Agenda 3 # Taiks Resufne Tomor- row but Allies Hold Liitle Hope of Progress U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUAR ERS, Korea, July 24, —®— Ur Nations truce negotiators return to Kaesong tomorrow for a yes or no answer from the Communists on Korean War Armistice agenda. The Red North Korean Pyongyang radio indicated today the answer will be “No.” s U. S. Delegates insist cease-fire talks omit any discussion of with- | drawing foreign troops from Korea ied Demand Tn an unofficial answer Pyong- yang radio quoted the Communist ‘Korcan Central Press” news | agency: “All our people demand with- drawal of all foreign national troep: from our territory.” The five Red negotiators undoubt- edly have received new instructions from Peiping and Pyongyang since Saturday. On that day they called for recess of which had bog- ged down over this Communist de- mand Red China’s Peiping broadcasts Tuesday gave no hint of what atti- tude Red delegates would take Wed- nesday. Listeners recalled that the two Chinese delegates had called for the taking the lead away from recess, the North Koreans for the first time in the peace talks. Observers suggested this might indicate Peip- ing's silence W more important than Pyong alking Pyongyang radio said: “At the cease-fire talks in Kae- song Americans are refusing this issue emphatically. The United States delegates propagandize that this problem has no relation with cease-fire talks. Want Higher Level The U. N. position y troops is a to be debated at a ter the shooting war question of withdrawi ue political i higher level has actually- been halted “This stubborn attitude,” the Red radio said, “means that the U. S. is aiming to retain military bases in South Korea. .." Meantime speedy jets and super- fort bombers swep heavy clouds Tuesday to k forces from movir plies around Yonayane ean capital. More Fighting Ground fighting stepped up some- storing sup- Noyth Kor- or that the’ Canadian Eggs Just Aren't Being Laid--Must Import ® OTTAWA, July 21, —P—Hit ® ® by an unusual egg searcity, © ® Canada, for the first time in @ ® her history, is importing thous- e ® angds of cases of eggs from for- e ® eign countries, . ® More than 2,000,000 dozens ® ® haye bden shipped to this e @ country from the United Stat- o ® es and Holland in the last few ® ® months. ® ® ¢ 000 0 0 0 0.0 Europe Will Fight if Armed, Think Solons HINGTON, July 24, —® rs agreed today Western Eur- revived the will to fight but still sadly lacks adequate de- fenses against possible Russian at- tack A cross-section of views of a group which toured Europe seemed to indicate a much more favorable reception for the administration’s proposed $8,500,000,000 foreign milw itary i economic aid program than was evident before. Senator Hickenlooper (R-Towa), told reporters Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower told foreign relations com- mittee m¢mbers in Paris he regards the full amount as “essential” if the program of rearming Western Europe is to be rushed ahead: Saying that Eisenhower urged speed in-providing equipment, Hick- enlooper ‘said he ))[‘l\(\nnll_\' favors produunr guns, planes and other t‘quipmm& as swiftly as p(\\\lb]e He sal¢ Eisenhower has commit- mentd W60 defense divisions, but can’t bring them into being any faster than arms are available for man Connally (D-Tex.) an- nounced the Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee will begin hear- ings on the proposed big aid pro- um Thursday, with Secretary of ate Acheson as its first witness. Secretary of Defense Marshall will follow him the next day. Hearings have been in progress in the House for several weeks. Connally told a reporter his talks with seven of the nine committee members who conferred with Eis- enhower at the North Atlantic De- fense Commander's headquarters ind who visited seven countries, in- dicated the trip would be “very use- ful and helpful.” n Stock Quofations M— Clos- NEW YORK, July 24 ing quotation of Alask: Juneau mine stock today is 27, American Can 111%, American Tel. & Tel 157, Anaconda 407:, Douglas Air- craft 49%, General Electric 56'%, General Motors 487«, Goodyear 89 Kennecott 73':, Libby McNeill & Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 49': Standard Oil of California 49 Twentieth Century Fox 19%, Pound $2.80-1/16, and Canadian Exchange 94.37%. Sales today were 1,740,000 shares Averages today were as follows: industrials 258.98, rails 78.89, util- ities 44.60. . FROM SAN FRANCISCO E. W. Tallman from San Fran- cisco is registered at the Baranof Hotel, Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Mullan of Columbia, Mo. are at the Bar- anof Hotel. talks, but planes carried the main allied blows, F-80 SHooting Star jets rippec and twisted railroad tracks and blasted 40 rail cars at Kang-Dong, 15 miles east of Pyongyang. Super- forts bombed Sariwon rail yards south of Pyongyang. Two U. N. planes were shot down by red ground fire Monday—a Mar- ine fighter and an F-51 Mustang REDS CLAIM SEVEN JETS DOWNED TOKYO, (Wednesday) July | ®—The Peiping radio asserted to- | day that Chinese Communist air craft shot down seven of eight U | S. jet fighters that it charged lated the Manchurian border July is stopping at the Baranof chLj what during the recess i armi mv‘zl‘ Air Board Decision Hit Independent Carrier Asks Court Ruling on Presidential Powers WASHINGTON, July 24, —(® An independent airline today asked the Federal courts to rule on Pres- ident, Truman's power to make re- commendations to the Civil Aero- nautics Board in cases involving new or expanded airline service. Air Transport Associates, Inc non-sheduled carrier operating tween Seattle and Alask sought the ruling in U. Appeals here. It told the court that the Board be- n points, S. Court of ice by two competitors, acted “not ive of the executive tc whom they are beholden ment.” Denial To Others The Board had proposed to grani a certificate to Pacific Northern Airlines for the service and to deny all other applications. This decision required approval of the President, who must put his “0O. K.” on all decisions relating to service outside of the domestic Un- ited States. CAB officials told a reporter that the law charges the President with responsibility for making final jude ment on service outside the domest- ic United States. In such cases, they said, the CAB acts only as his agent They added that such presidential power previously had been chal- lenged unsuccessfully. The President, in a letter to the Board, pleaded for more service to Fairbanks and ~Anchorzge from Seattle because of the defense pro- gram, Air Transport Applied The Board then authorized the service by both Pacific Northern and Al a Airlines, Air Transport Associates, Inc., was one of the other applicants for authority to engage in Seattle-Al- aska service, Amos FE. Heacock, president of Air Transport, in a brief filed with the Federal court, argued that the presidential powers were limited to approval or disapproval of a Board order and not to recommendations for issuance of authority to oper- ate, Must Follow He argued in the brief that ‘it is appreciated that the members of the Board, holding as they do their tenure of office at the pleasure of the President, would be embarrassed to refuse to follow his directive, ev en though, as here, it was made contrary to and without authority of law. However, they had no altern- ative, in the absence of any control- ling court decision.” Heacock also told the court that the Board's order might force his company “to withdraw from its bus- iness operations.” 3 Engmeers Hear Hathaway At Dinner Talk Engineering, its history as per- taining to individuals who choose that profession, and organizations to which they «belong, was the subject of a talk last night in the Baranof Gold Room by Gail A, Hathaway, special assistant to the chief engineer, Corps of En- gineers, Washington, D. C. Forty-three local engineers tended the no-host dinner. George M. Tapley, of the en- gineering division of the Alaska Road Commission made arrange- ments for the dinner and A. F. Ghiglione, chief engineer of the commission was master-of-cere- monies, Hathaway, with H. L. Henny, also of the Corps of Engineers, is traveling through the Territory in behalf of the American Society of Civil Engineers. It was the concensus last night at- that Alaska could support ec- |tion of the engineering society warding a request for a charter to |the society’s headquarters in New | York, In Alaska Runs in authorizing Seattle-Alaskan serv-| on the evidence but by the direct-| for thelr appoint- | | Plane Roule o g BN | \#ASKA B _‘; $ 5 | "h’ An;hm; o E | 3 —Sevard Yg. } GuMf of ' § Slove L > g Fort Sovithy x| | STATUTE AILES I | | Solid black iine illustrates flight | path of missing Korean airlift plane from Vancouver, B.C,, to ils last reported position about 80 miles west of Juneau. The four- engined Canadian ific airlines charter craft is overdue at An- | chorage (underlined) on the first leg of its planned flight to the | Far East war zone. Dotted line leads from the missing position, off Cape Spencer, over normal air route to Anchorage. Three | United Nations Officinls, 28 and a | » | American military men, are crew of seven aboard. | Wirephoto .“:lp. "Unestimable’ Blow (aused Railroads By, The Associated Press floods have hit The midwestern |railroads such a sta ring blow Ithat their loss in property dam- age and revenues still is inecalcul- able. Some of the hardest hit lines including the Santa Fe, Union Pa- cific and Missou Pacific, said Monday their losses could not be tallied or even estimated for sev- eral days or perhaps weeks or months. The Santa Fe's big yards Argentine district of Kans Kans, are entirely flooded with roundhouse and important terminal facilities there A company spokesman said the line also suffered heavy damage at many other points throughout flood stricken Kansas and Okla- homa. The Kansa San Fri rd hit, The it h and will damage veys are ) in the s City, along other its Rock Island, the Missouri- -Texas, and the St. Louis- co railroads also were particularly in Kansas. Louis-San Francisco said s just started its cleanup job not know the extent of until more complete sur- made. Ihree Boals are Available for Derby Days Today's sunshine caused a flurry among Salmon Derby fishermen foi licenses, tickets, clothing and boats C. G. Holland, of Holland’s Shot Repair shop, has an outboard he will share in exchange for autc transportation to Tee Harbor Auke Bay, Curtis Shattuck, Derby chairman, said today. Harry DeLand has indicated that he has room for three more person: in his boat, Shatiuck said. Hi phone number is 964. Alvin Dieter, phone 396, will rent a 15-foot outboard with motor. o ) ‘|| Ship Movements Princess Kathleen scheduled from Vancouver 3 p.m. today, sailing for Skagway 11:20 p.m, Aleutian 5 fduled southbound early Sunday. Alaska northbound due day afternoon or evening. Denali scheduled southbound riday morning Freighter Sailor Seattle Friday northibe Baranof scheduled |from Seattle Friday. e co0eco00scesrvoee Satur- | |and plans were discussed for lnr-; leaves northbound I bound lieved /e PRECIPITATION 18 Planes in Air; Fog Liffs In Mountains Pilots Confident Missing Airlift Plane Can be Spotted Soon - Clearing skies over the of Alaska and the coastal today gave hopes that the ing Canadian airlift plane, 38 persons akoard, would be ted soon. Gulf range miss- with spot- Eighteen planes took off early {this morning from Yakutat and Elmendorf Air Force base on a cross-hatch pattern of flights to seour the mountainsides and coastline where the plane is thought to have crashed. A broken cloud belt from 3,000 to 5,000 feet still hovered over the Cape Spencer to Yakutat area, Ceast Guard headquarters here said. The plane is thought to have crashed in the mountains |above the 9,000 foot level Missing aboard the Tokyo- Canadian Pacific Airlines are three civiltans reported on a United Nations mission, 26 U. S. servicemen, two seamen of the Royal Canadian Navy and a Canadian crew of seven, includ- ing two stewardessess. CAP Joins Search Joining the search today were two small O Air Patrol craft from Sitka and Juneau, and the Arctic Institute’s Norseman, be- flown by Morris King, no- ted Arctic flyer. Five more Air Force planes are en route to join the search, Coast Guard headquarters here said. Pilots said late yesterday they were confident the missing plane could be located if they had one ddar day. It appeared. that today. would give them that epportunity. plane Any wreckage located will be double checked. Coast Guard headquarars said, becouse there hes known in the area, in that of a C-54 which hit Elias range in Janu- are ¢ cludil in the St. ary, 1950, The airlitt plane was on the first leg of its great circle flight to the Orient, and was last heard from off Cape Spencer, 80 miles west of here. Its next check-in was due from the Yakutat area, but was not received, Believe Ship Drifted The Coast Guard, which is co- ordinating the search with the Air Force, believes the plane “drifted” off beam gs'it crossed, crashed in the north and west the Gulf and mountainous area of here. It was flying at 9,000 feet. Peaks rise to 15,000 feet off the coast. The two branches of the armed forces hold midnight conferences each night to plan the ensuing day's flights and patzcls of three cutters. scannjng. the.. shoreline, Each plane reports to its base ev- ery 3 minutes, and is given an overlapping pattern of land and and sea to search, so that no area will be overlooked, they explained. Four CPA planes were n the yesterday, but the Coast (,uuul here did not know if they were flying today. One is a Cat- alina flying boat, the remainder DC-4's they said. Two planes are flown by Coastguardsmen, and 10 by the Air Force, including pilots irom the, noted 10th Rescue Squadron. C. L. MOODY IS HERE C. L. Moody of Anchorage is reg- istered at the Baranof Hotel. L 1 WEATHER FORECAST Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 56; minimum, 51. At Airport -— Maximum, 60; minimum, 48. FORECAST Juneau and vieinity. Partly y tonight and Wednes- Lowest temperature to- ht near 50 degrees. High- est Wednesday about 72. ck ® (Past 21 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today e City of Juneau — .07 inches; . ce July 1 — 4.02 inches; e At Airport — .04 inches; e Since July 1 — 228 inches.