The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 26, 1951, Page 1

SONGRESSIONAL ¢! LIBRARY VASHINGTON, D. @. VOL. LXXVIII, NO. 11,870 5-POINT KOREAN TRUCE PACT REACHED DAITLY :fishing Pox’ Will Break Out All Over - Juneau on Weekend By KAY KENNEDY An epidemic of “fishing pox” isi expected to break out. here to-| morrow—the opening day of the tiith annual Goldéir ‘North Sal- mon Derby sponsored by the Ter-, ritorial Sportsmen, Inc. 13 “Gone Fishin'” signs will be on| most Juneau places of business on Saturday and Sunday when the fishing fever reaches its peak. The Territorial capital =~ will be a “ghost town” while the - populnce| migrate to the fishing area. All fishermen, experts and ama- teurs, have their sights trained on the new 1951 sedan given oy sponsors for the biggest salmon to be taken during the three days. The second prize, a 16-foot boat and 10 horsepower outboard mo- tor donated by the Alaska Sal- mon Industry, is being eyed wist- fully by land-bound fishermen. Third prize is a “winter ‘season roundtrip via Pan American World Airways to Honolulu and the fourth award is a 9-cubic-foot refrigerator. The other 114 awards donated by Juneau mgchants are in the process of beig grouped in order of value for the runners-up, John Satre and Hazel McLeod, prize committee, said today. Awards Tuesday Award night will be held at the Elk’s Hall next Tuesday at 8 p.m. Dr: D. D. Marquardt and Curtis Shattuck, co-chairman of the ev- ent, announced ' today. A Elton Engstrom, local fish buy- er has been placed in charge of judging and weighing in. There will be two stations, one at Auke Bay and one at Tee Harbor, where derby tickets will be authenticated each morning and where fish will be weighed in each evening. An opening gun Wwill be fired at 7 am. each morning, a warn- ing shot will be given at 4 pm. and the closing signal will be fired at 5 p.m., Marquardt said. The U. 8. Coast Guard will have a patrol vessel onhand to enforce its 6-knot speed limit within Tee Harbor (inside Tee Harbor Light to Point Stephens). Bath Tubs, Too? Everything that floats is expec- ted to be pressed into service for Juneau’s big sportsman event. Even many commercial fishermen have indicated they will accom- modate their boatless friends. Derby ticket sales last night had reached only a little over 300 and chairmen urged that all get their tickets at one of the four places decignated. They are on sale at Juneau-Young and Thom- as Hardware stores, Madseils | Fishing Supply and Percy’s. Cop- ies of the rules are also available at those stores. Among Stateside visitors here for the Derby is Dr. A. J. Kotkis of St. Louis, Mo, who arrived here Tuesday on Pan American Airways. He was planning a fish- ing trip to Jackson's Hole, Wyo. when he learned of the Golden North Salmon Derby through Ju- neau friends. He quickly changed his plans. Doctor Kotkis fished salmon in the Campbell River, Vancouver Island, B. C. in 1935. He said, “ largest fish I caught on that trip remove civil air traffic from air |pymber. Company wasn’t worth mentioning, but I expect to do better here.” TheWashingion Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicats, Inc.. ASHINGTON. — The demor- alized mobilization chiefs met be- hind closed doors the other day and tried to be cheerful about the gutted contrels bill which Congress voted them. The meeting was called by ec- onomic stabilizer Eric Johnson, but it was jolly price boss Mike Di Salle who tried to cheer up his colleagues with some of his fa- mous wise cracks. “Hello, fellow sufferers,” he boomed cheerily. He said his feel- ing about the new controls bill was best illustrated by a Berry- man carteon. “A guy went into the gas sta- tion to get some gas, ‘and they took two tires off his car,” quip- ped Di Salle. Di Salle was philosophicai, however, and remarked ruefully: “We went in for an operation. o0 iR, L R 0, e (Continued on Page Four) ! l Istm. In New Theése four Bradley University basketball players were named by New York District Attorney Frank Hogan in new basketball scandal announced in New York. Hogan said the four had admitted accepting bribes to fix backetball games and were being questioned in Peoria, 11, by the state attormey. Top, an All-America player; and Charles Grover; bottom, left to right: Aaron Preece and William Mann. Scandal left to right: Eugene Melchiorre, ® Wirephoto. Alaska Airport Funds 'Inadequate’ Says Administrator WASHINGTON, July 26 —(®— ‘The $225,000 which the House ap- proved for operation of public airports in Alaska will be “inad- equate” to do the job, civil aero- nautics administrator C. F. Horne believes In a letter to Rep. Hinshaw (R-Calif) Horne said that a min- imum of $370,000 would be re- quired for maintenance and op- eration of the two public airports at Anchorage and Fairbanks. The letter was written before the House yesterday tentatively approved 1951-52 funds for "the CAA. The original request was for $450,000, but this was cut in half by the House Appropriations Com- mittee. Horne said the committee ap- parently based its slash on the premise that not all facilities at the two new fields would be avail- able during the next 12 months. “While it is true,”. he continued, “that the administration buildifg and certain other structures will not be completed,. the runways and other basic operating facili- ties are ready,. and. should. be placed in service.” He said the “primary purpose” “The |0f constructing the fields was t0|ga¢ the north end of the Junpau force bases at the two cities, and added: “The department of defense is insisting that civillan operations be moved to the mew airports at the earliest possible date.” In order to put the fields into operation, he explained, a com- plete new complement of person- nel will be needed bcause the air force bases are manned by air force personnel. DEPUTY MARSHAL TAKES PRISONERS SOUTH TODAY Max Rogers, deputy U. S. Marsh- all from Sitka left Juneau today with two prisoners and three in- sane persons. In Ketchikan two oth- er insane persons will be picked up. - Prisoners are Paul K. Paulson who was recently sentenced to the pen- itentiary under a forged check char- ge. Dorothy Greenhalgh, sentenced to serve a year and a day on a larc- eny charge, was to be taken to the Women’s Federal Reformatory at Alderson, West Virginia. However, she will be turned over to the U. 8. Marshal at Seattle for transport- ation east. The insane persons were bound for Morningside in Portland, Ore- Juneau Plywood Plant Okayed Juneau will hae a new $800,000 ! plywood plant. Word was received today by T. A. Morgan, of the Columbia Lum- ber Company and B. Frank Helf- tzleman, regional forester for the U. S. Forest Service from Wash- ington that approval for the pro- ject had been granted by the National Prbduetion Authbrity and the Defense Production Ad- ministration. Such approval clears the = way for obtaining materials for con- struction and for an accelerated 5-year plan amortization: for the $800,000 plant. “The concern will be known as the Columbia Plywood Corpora- tion,” said Morgan today. He will be president of the' coneern. 120 Men He added that the mill will em- ploy at least 120 men on a two- shift day. At least half that many will be needed in the weods, he said. Annual produciion, accord- ing to present plans, will beabout 130,000,000 square feet of finished Iplywood. The plant will be built FROM SAN FRANCISCO Mr. ad Mrs. F. O. Spence of San Francisco are guests at the Bar- anof Hotel. property south Franklin street. Morgan said that engineering surveys and drawings will get un- der way immediately. Under the approval of NPA and DPA, part of the money for financing will be available from the Reconstruec- tion Finance Corporation. y “We hope,” Morgan sald, “to have the plant in full preduction by mid-1952.” Alaska First { Alaska’s military and clvilian iconstruction will have priority for {use of the plant’s output, Morgan |added. Any surplus will be sent !to markets in the States. This is the third of four projects for Southeast Alaska to be given ,approval by NPA and DPA, on which Heintzleman has been work- ing the past eight monthg in Washington. The first, enlargement and new construction for the Columbia Lumber Company mill at Sitka re- ceived approval about a week ago. Yesterday approval for Ketchi- kan's $40,000,000 pulp and paper | mill was anounced from Washing- ton, D. C. i JUNEAU, i “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” A, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1951 | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Three Royal Canadian Air Force planes departed from Sea Island, near Vancouver, B. C, this morn- ing to join 21 other aircraft on the fifth day of a search seeking a trace of the Canadian Pacific air- liner that mysteriously disappeared last Friday night. The missing plane, last heard from off Cape Spencer, carried 31 passengers and a crew of seven, in- cluding two stewardesses. It was on the first leg of a flight to Tokyo. Search areas have included both land and water from Cape Speme- er northward to Middieton Island. Ceoncentrated efforts are being made in the Prince Willlam Sound reg- lon teday. - 169 Hours Yesterday 26 aircraft spent 169 hours systematically covering the “areas of probability.” This does not include the flying time spent in transit from bases to the region being combed. Only two of the five huge C-124 planes expected from McChord Field Wash. arrived yesterday. The three RCAF planes due to- day are two 4-engine Lancaster bombers and .one amphibious 2«en- gine PBY. They will base out of Elmendorf Field near Anchorage. Icecap Studies Delve Deep With Use of --er-- Pr-Ph-Pyrheliometer Pulp Mill Will Get Maximum Tax Exemption The $40,000,000 Ketchikan Pulp and Paper Company of Ketchikan will be granted the maximum ex- emption of one-half its tax, it was determined at a final meeting of the Territorial Board of Assess- ment and Equalization yesterday. This is the maximum exemption allowable under the industrial in- centive clause of the Alaska Prop- erty Tax Act passed by the 1949 legislature. The exemption can run for a period not to exceed ten years. The new mill is a joint venture by the Puget Sound Pulp and Tim- ber Co. of Bellingham, Wash., and the American Cellulose Co. of New York. It would be located at Ward's Cove, a few miles north of the “sal- mon capital.” The tax of one-eighth the true val- uation of the property, quoted in last night’'s Empire, was erroneous and does not comply with the law. M. P. Mullaney, tax collector for the Territory, said the Ketchikan Schoot District must assess the val- ue of the property. Attending yesterday's meeting mere Mullaney, W. A. Bates, vice- president of the Miners and Mer- chants Bank of Ketchikan, B. Frank Helntzleman regional forester of the Forest Service and members of the Board of Assessment and Equaliz- ation: Ernest Parson, chairman and Peter Wood. . Joe Krause,~board membef from Ketchikan was un- able to attend. S e 060 00 00 0 00 . . WEATHER FORECAST _Temperature for 24-Hour Period @ ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau — Maximum, 79; minimum, 49. At Afrport — Maximum, 75; minimum, 45. FORECAST Juneau and vicinity. Fair to- night with lowest tempera- ture near 54 degrees. Increas- ing cloudiness Friday becom- ing cloudy with occasional light rain by afternoon. High- est Friday about 65. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport Since July 1 — 228 inches. © 0 6 00 00 0 0 ee 000 co00ccs0000000 00 . . . L] . . . [ 3 . . . . . ] . . 3 L] . ] . . . . . ~ [Three Canadian Air Force Planes Join Search for Missing Tokyo-Bound Liner R pe e a5t 3 STt e e Ml BN N L B o el S e s o, ST PSRN o S il 2 2 SRS T <SR Loaded The Coast Guard cutter Storis arrived here from Seattle at 5 p.m. yesterday, unloaded and was en- route by 7:45 pm. to join three other cutters scouring the district from Cape Spencer northward. The search area includes around 35,000 square miles of rugged mount- alnous and glacier terrain as well as a large slice of the Gulf of Al- aska, Six major organizations are par- ticipating in the operation with bases at Juneau, Yakutat and Anch- orage. Crew members from- _planed based here looked weary and bleary-eyed upon their arrival from yesterday's operations. With good weather holding they expeected 'to be back on the job early this morn- ing. Meanwhile reports yesterday from Prince Rupert of smoke ‘signals’ north of there may have been “sud- den eloud formations in turbulent atmosphere,” Pilot Norman Jermyn reported. Jermyn made a two-hour search of the area after observers reported 25 small, black balls rose' over the mountains, then broke : into what appeared to be clouds of smoke. submachine gun, walk away from Press photographer Jim Pringle. Reds Dominate s e 19 M BOSTON, July 26, —®— Gen. Douglas MacArthur - charged last or raincoats. night that Soviet propaganda Now they've come up with a|CPmpletely dominates” American pyrheliometer—no, that’s not a,foreign policy and claimed the printer’s error—and they've plant- result “ot thev war in Korea has ed one on the Juneau icecap to|been “indecisive.” study radiations of the sun. Coupling: a - bristling attack on The Juneau Icefield Research |2dministration policies abroad with Project, now. deeply engrossed in what he called “reckless” spending That august 'body, the United States Weather Bureau, daily scans its barometers and thermometers to tell us whether it'll be sunsuits studying the huge hunk of cold a at home, the five-star General few miles out of town, installed the laid down the major points: instrument. in the field’s center at| 1—The United States has no elevation 3,862 feet. Sl poticy. e ;s & .—Costs of government have y Carle, supervising electron- | oo, "¢ unn pecelerated, alarm- ics technician from Weather Bur- eau headquarters in Anchorage, i here to join the project and inter- | . pret findings of the device. He 3 “The will go to Camp .10, the main base, 1y g i infi to make his studies. ent up on the maintenance of The instrument records the quan-fa gprong vigorous, healthy and tity of radiated heat from the Sud|injenendent American than upoh “in terms of gram calories per|any financial aid which we might square centimeter per minute” 85]y5rovide under our own existing received by a special glass bulb stringencies.” erected on the main research cabin In the eyes of Massachusetts The instrument was fn operation | politicians, MacArthur has thrown ing Ferbruary this year. It is run|himself into the 1962 Presidential three months last summer and dur- | fight—either as a candidate or a ing and reckless rate” with no plan ‘for curbing taxes or infla- - survival of the Irée nitely more depend- Two Chinese Communist soldiers, one loaded with gear including a to Kaesong was halted July 20, Korean time, by high waters. ,engineers have been working to repair flood damage so cease-fire convoy can get through when the Communists are expected to give * their answer to the armistice agenda.' (P Wirephoto by Associated by electricity from generators at|campaigner. the camp, One 3,000-watt generator and an auxiliary 1500-watt gener-|ijc ator were delivered by the recent|General Both Republican and Democrat- leaders see the 7Tl-year-old as far from ‘“fading paradrops made by the C-82 “Fly- |away” after he opened a two-day ing Boxcar” from the 54th Troop |tour of the Carrier Squadron. bay state with a bristling attack ¢n ‘administration It is Hoped that data obtained | policies—foiyign . and . domesticc through use of the pyrheliometer will aid in interpreting some of the changes teking place over a long period of time on the icefield re- lating to growth and decay of glac- iers near their source, according to Maynard Miller, project head. The instrument was loaned to the project by the Weather Bureau in its program of cooperation in the meteorological studies being pur-|ing license to participate in sued. s Carle will;be flown to Camp 10 Ierrilorial'hsth License Required for Derby Days Sports fishermen will need a fish- the Golden North Salmon Derby and commercial fishermen participating in a 10th Rescue Squadron ski plane | wj) have to have two, as soon as the afrcraft is available Stock Quofations NEW YORK, July 26, —®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 111, American Tel. & Tel. 1567%, Anaconda 41%, Douglas Air- craft 40%, General Electric 55%, General llotnn 48%, Goodyear 89%, Kennecott 75, Libby, McNeil & Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 49%. Standard Oil of California 49%, Twentleth Century Fox 19%, U. 5. Steel 41%, Pound 2.80-1/18, Can- adian Exchange 94.43%. Sales today were 1,480,000 sharees. Averages today were as follows: | industrials 250.09, rail 8008, util- ities 44.90. Fro sl - Dr. D. D. Marquardt afid Curtis Shattuck, co-chairmen of the Derby, have been plagued with inquiries today as the people of Juneau turn serious thoughts to fishing. All persons, -except. resident Esk- imos, Indians and Aleuts will be re- quired to have an Alaska Territor- ial sports fishing license which costs $1 for residents and $3 for non< residents and.aliens. The tax meas- ure was passed by the last legis- lature. Licenses are sold by the loc- al hardware stores. Commercial fishermen on a “bus- man’s holiday” will’ be required to have a Territorial sport fishing lic- ense in addition to their commer- cial license. A Fish and Wildlife Service lic- ense is not required for salt water fishing—only fresh water fishing. i Soldier | | | [ | & | a UN photographer whose convoy Allied Baflh Casualties Reach 79,723 WASHINGTON, July 26, —@— | Apnounced U.. S: battle casualties in Korea reached 79,723 today, an increase of 584 since last week. Only two previous casualty reporis showed a lower one-week rise since the Defense Department began issuing its summaries last August 1. The smallest one-weck toll—413 ~~Was reported last week, reflecting | the comparative lull in fighting since, the first efforts to achieve a cease-fire. The second smallest rise —574—was reported February 7. ‘Today's weekly report based on notifications . to families through last Friday reported: Last New Friday Incr. Total Killed in action 11,777 100 11,877 Woundell 55,125 472 55,597 Missing 12,237 12 12,219 Total . 79,139 Battle deaths (x) 13,230 110 13,340 C'r'nt missing (y) 10,632 2 10,634 (X) Includes killed in action, 1,349 fatally wounded and 114 dead, originally reported missing. €YY After deducting from gross total 1,342 returned, 149 known captured and 114 dead. lorge_liion Motors Donates Commission On Derby Car In the list of donations to the Golden North Salmon Derby an un- intentional ~ omission occurred in fafling to’ mention: Jorgenson Mot- ors had donated its commission cn the sedan given as first prize. Arrangements for the purchase of the automobile, which will be the finest yet given in the Derby, were made last January by the Territor- ial Sportsmen, Inc., board of dir- ectors. At that time George Jor- genson, owner of the firm, offered to knock off his commission on the car, It has been the policy of the organization to rotate the car pur- chase among local dealers. BILL BATES IS HERE William Bates, Ketchikan banker is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. ) | Aleutian scheduled = southbound early Sunday. Alaska northbound . due day afternoon or evening. Denali scheduled southbound 7 a.m. Friday morning, sailing south at 10 am, -Freighter Sallors ‘Splice Seattle Priday northbound. Baranof scheduled! northbound from Seattle Priday. Satur- leaves Iureu have been reported. =-————— Agenda Sef; Foes Differ On Truce Line Prisoner Exchange, Cease-fire Supervision Are U. N. 'Musts’ U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUART- ERS, Korea, July 26 —#— Allied and Red delegates -agreed today on | the exact limits of Korean armist- | ice negotiations. United Nations spokesmen said negotiators approved a five-point program and immediately disposed of the first item. A Communist spokesman heralded this a “pro- gressive move toward an armistice.” But the U. N, announcement caut- ioned: (1) Delegates are far apart on the remaining four points; (2) Nobody knows how long it will take for them to agree, and (3) Shoot- | ing will continue until an armistice is signed. Gen, Matthew B, Ridgeway's headquarters announced the five point agenda (list of subjects to be debated) covers: 1. Adoption of Agenda. (They did that in the first nine minutes of Thursday’s session.) 2. Deciding where to draw the truce line and establishing a buffer zone between oposing armies. 3. Concrete arrangements to end the shooting and supervise the truce. 4. Arrangements for exchange of prisoners. 5. “Recommendations to the governments of the countries con- cerned on both sides” (The Com- munist demand’ for withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea comes under this heading.) Negotiators agreed on the agenda in the shortest session they have yet held. It lasted only 58 minutes. Discussions Begin “Preliminiary dicussions began immediately after the agreement on the agenda,” Ridgeway's headquart- ers announced. They will go into it more deeply in the 11th session scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow (4 p.m. Juneau time today.) The announcement emphasized that agreement on the agenda “is merely the initial step for the final goal of a military armistice and re- sultant cease-fire.” The second and third points list- ed on the agenda offered the big- gest hurdles that negotiators will have to overcome, The first point, adoption of the agenda, is a routine matter similar (Cohnuvnued on Page Bix) IIWWasn'I Katmai Which Blew Up, But Little Mt. Mageik KODIAK, July 26, —#— An air- line pilot landed here last night with word that Mt. Mageik, not Mt. Katmai as first reported, is the active volcano on the Alaska Pen- insula. The volcano erupted Tuesday with clouds of smoke and ash. Alaska Airlines pilot Vance Daly made a second flight over the area yesterday. He reported an “atom bomb-like cloud of smoke” arising from Mt. Mageik, several miles southwest of Katmai, the voicano which caused widespread damage in its 1912 eruption, Both volcanoes are near the Val- ley of 10,000 Smokes, northwest of Kodiak Island across Shelikoff Strait. Mt. Mageik is 1.250-feet high, overshadowed by 7,000-foot Mt. Katmai. Daly said ash continues to fall on Kukak, a cannery on the main- land coast, but residents have not been evacuated. Two Seattle men, Charles P. Tur- ner and Larry Freeburn, accom- panied Daly on the flight. Samples of drinking water from the vicinity of the volcano were to be tested at the naval base here. Daly, who brought back the samp- les, had reported after his first flight the crater still smoking so that visibility was cut to two mil- es. He said fine ash and smoke was hanging over a 100-mile area. No injuries to residents in the