The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 30, 1951, Page 1

*SONGRESSIONAL < M6} ARY i VASHINGTON, D. €. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,873 PRICE TEN C JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, {\‘l.\' 30, 1951 400 Seiners Expecied To Fish August 1 A minimum of 400 seine boats are expected to greet the opening of the commercial fishing season at 6 am Wednesday, August 1, it is estimate: by Clarence Rhode, regional di tor of the Fish and Wildlife Serv ice. 6 are: district, Icy Strait distr except the western sec Eastern district, except the main- land shore from Midway Island t Horn Cliff, which is open only tc trolling; Anan and Ernest Sounc sections. Rhode said that information to his office indicated that a great number of boats from Prince Wil- liam Sound, Kodiak, Resurrection Bay and Cordova would come to this area to fish. He added that as far as he knew, practically ali- the local seiners and those in Wrangell and Petersburg are ready to go. Ketchikan Wants In Frank Hynes, assistant manage- ment supervisor, has gone to Ke kan to survey escapements and the general fish situation. have been re d from ther Rhode said, for an earlier opening. Howard Baltzo, assistant regional director went to Cordova .over-the weekend to inspect the fishing in that district, Rhode said a wire from him this morning said the run was extremely poor, and from the amount of gear in the water there, | without having had an adequate | escapement, it appeared that the| Cordova district mAy have to be closed. o Juneau Glrl To Take Pari In Seaitle Event SEATTLE, July rline Pu\\m', drum | fr will repre- | sent lh t city in the \l"flth‘ Seafair tion Ball Aueust 7. Miss Powers is visiting here with hr- mmheL Mrs. Senna P. Powers. The Washmgion Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Synaicate, 30—»2Beverly ASHINGTON.—Dictator co of Spain dropped two import- hints when nine" U. 8. Sena- tors interviewed him in Madrid, which the Truman Administration apparently didn't realize when they embraced Franco so ardently rezently. First Franco refused to make any commifinent on using Spanish troops to defend western Eurc Second, he made no commit- ment to restore civil liberties, in- cluding freedom of religious wor- ship. The Senators’ trip, including the interview with Franco, was high- lighted by the irrepressible diplo- ‘macy of Sen. Aleander Wiley of Wisconsin, ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, who boomed out to the Spanish Dictator: “Franco, we're with you 100 per cent.” Wiley also reached around the back of King Paul of Greece to shake hands with Mrs. Jack Peur- ifoy in such a way that he bump- ed the King on the back. The rea- son he did so, explained the genial Wisconsin Senator, was becaus2 Le wanted to slap the King on the back. Wiley slapped so many European backs that Senators Guy Gillett2 of Iowa and Brien McMahon of Connecticut closed in on h side when they were ushered to see the Pope. “We grabbed his hands to keep him from slapping the Pope o2 the bkack,” McMahon explained afterward. Would Franco Help? Franco's revealing statements came in answer to questions by Gillette and Sparkman of Alaba ma, after Franco boasted that I could mobilize 2,000,000 men in case of war with Russia. “How many of those two lion would you commit to the de- fense of western Europe?” Scna- tor Gillette asked. Franco talked back and fo his interpreter before answei- Otviously it was a ticklis! tion and in the end the Dic tator ducked. to (Continued on Page Four) Requests | me. | { Fran- | Fresh Crabs from Juneau fo Feed Sealile Markels ‘ Pacific | now be the TTLE, July 30— rthwest housewives will able to fresh cr round and Southeastern vill have 1ew industry. That was the prediction today of Seattie which will by ines Aug get bs hipping crabs from Ju Alaska | begin | 19‘ | 8 The firm, Company, the Olympic Seafood id explorations of the last two years have shown that an area n 125 miles of Ju- neau can support 15 crabbers and give them a tzke of up to 1,000 dozen crabs per trip. E. P. Odion, secretary of the firm 3¢0 in Washington wate ke has been low in re- dozen where the ta ent years. He also pointed out that the sea- son is late in Alaska and bring crabs te market between July and January — a Washington waters are only frozen crabs are on market. Hiram McAllister, president of Olympic, credited C. L. Anderson, director of the Alaska Department| of Fisheries, with initiating the w leading to the new industry. Ander- son, tmmm assistant director of the gton State Department of misheries, began explorations in 1950 d found shrimp and crab in com= | mercial nambers in such spots | its and Te ¢ Inlet | The Olympic ' firm, which op- i erates 21 boats in Washington waters, has two operating in Alaska and is signing up a number of additional Alaska boats. It has leased the Douglas Can- ning Company plant at Douglas for use in the crabbing operations. The firm has been crabbing in + itheastern Alaska waters since | April, sending down the catch to Seattle in frozen form. shipping by Pan American World JAirw when newly published rutes be cen nmuu,:w} Air Search Shiffs; New Radio Reporl ANCHORAGE, July 30 — a missing Korean airlift 38 aboard shifted north- on the basis of a new Search plmw wit? 'd today adio report Tenth Rescue Squadron headquar- ters said the new report, from Whitehorse in Yukon Territory might ing e the sing DL,- was an ho ng distance fa north when it \fmv\hr\d in the ("u’ morning of July 21. The Canad Pacific Airlines plane was on Vancouver-Tokyo flight. Tenth Rescue headquarters re- ported a message about arranging meals for the persons aboard, ap- It will begin | aid that compares with a catch of |} divorcee Mich., has ny man able to cancer-ridden mother’s bills. She is the mother of three smalil children, and sup- ports her family on welfare funds. » \Vlrepho(n :Bumed D@uguas Girl in Porfiand * Hoping for Cure PORTLAND, July 30, | berta Sue “kson, 11, |burned in A three year: arrived here vesterday hoping | Portland doctors could heal her {lingering burns. About 70 per cent of her body was burred in Douglas, Alaska, accident, and death was expected {at first. Roberta, with a compan- ion, was romping in a playhouse when it caught fire. | Blood transfusions kept her i She underwent - constant ! aontns tak- the . Jean Gregory, 21, living near Vicksbur offered to marry pay her medical —— Ro- few stopping Helen Jackson, 4o HN e ML S n the grafts said Mrs. mother. Jackson, who formerly lived in Portland, has moved back here with her three other children. he father died of a heart ailment | hold girls Mrs ympathy of Juneau. The Al- \ Crippled Children’s fund paid Robert’s long hospitalization the Mt. Edgecumbe Orthopedic tal near Sitka. Juneau resi- raised the money for the to return to Portland. Cobb Fa;ofr;fighl Baseball Control Befere House Group WASHINGTON, Juiy 30 — P — Ty Cobb, the old time famed De- troit outfielder, spoke out teday in favor of organized baseball’s tight control of pl S, The 64-year-old balding ex-player at parently beamed at Elmendorf Air Force Base at Anchorage, was picked up at Whitehorse, far to the north and east. (Coast Guard headquarters at Juneau said it haa no information on the reportec radio message.) There was no in- formation on the exact time of the message. Whitehorse was reported to have answered that it weuld re- lay the message to Anchorage, but there never was an acknowledge- ment from the airliner, The hour’s difference probably would have placed the plane in the Yakutat vicinity, an Thour north of Caje Spencer. The last previous re- port of a radio message placed the plane in the Cape Spencer Vvici due wi of Juneau. A fleet of search planes sc the rugged coastal ea for to 800 miles, from Prince of Walcs Island north and west to the Kena Peninsula in south central Alacka At least 23 search planes were uf yesterday and 29 today. The weather was bad at low levels along the coast today. Planes made a thorough search of the Kenai Peninsula. The center of the vast air search hac swung yesterday to an area cuth of Cape Spencer. The pilot’s st position report gave the nlane’s locaiion off Cape Spencer, §0 miles west of Juneau. APPLY FOR LICENSE Regina Elizabeth Samakin of Ju neau, have applied for a license to marry in the officz of U.S. Commis~ sioner Gordon Gray. Clock is a fisherman and (r " bride-elect gave her occupation as “maid at St. Ann’s hospital. gave his views to a House Judiciary subcommittee bent on learning whether organized sports should be exempted from anti-trust laws. Three bills to that end have been introduced in the House. “There must be something to pre- tect baseball as we have it today,” said Cobb in the opening inning of the Congressional inquiry. “There has to be something te protect the big league clubs from ene another,” he said, adding that the reserve clause in players con- tracts gets this job done. The reserve clause is the contract provision enabling club owners to buy, trade or sell players without their consent. And if the players object, the clause bars him from playing anywhere in organized base- Cobb told the law mittee that if the reserve clause was taken away the richest owners would be able to get the best players. And this, he said, wouldn't be good for the game. Stock Quotations. NEW YORK, July 30—.—Clos- ing quotation of American Can Com- pany stock today is 113, American Tel. and Tel. 1 Anaconda 43%, Douglas Aircraft 497, General Elec- tric 55%, General Motors 47%, Goodyear 90, Kennecott 76, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern 57%, Roy Clock of Peak Island, andl Pacific 49, Standard Oil of Califor- nia 48%, Twentieth Century Fi 20, U.S. Steel 407:, Pound £2.80 1/18, Canadian Exchange 94.62% Sales today were 1,590, 030 shares. wére as follo industrials 260.72, rails 8151, utilities 45, Seeks Hushand Derby Fish Ever Caught, 56-Pound King Breaks Two Sca The biggest fish ever caught in | the five Golden North Salmon Der- bies broke two scales yesterday be- fore it could be weighed in. E. E. Norton, a logger for Ha; and Whitely, brought in a 56« pounder which he caught at the north end of Shelter Island yester- morning while Stan Perry. The big king staged a 45-minute fight before Norton returns show Ernest Whitchead, manager for Northern Commercial, to be second with a 53-pound, Edward Cwik with 42 pound, 14- ounces; fourth, Keith Weiss, 42 pounds, 12 ounc fifth, Jack Me 42 pounds, 4-ounces; sixth, E. L. (Red) Holloway, 41 pounds; seventh, Mrs. Walter Johnson, 40 pounds, 3-ounces; eighth, W. C. McDonald, 39 pounds, 13-ounces; and ninth, Shell Simmons, 38 pounds. Officials estimated that about 300 boats took close to 1,500 fishermen to catch salmon, halibut,.irish lords and personal sunburns in Sunday’s fishing. Cars Line Road Over 200 parked cars lined the side road from Glacier Highway to Tee Harbor yesterday and hundreds of spectaters were around to watch the final rush when at least 100 boats skimmed across the waters of e O TIVE ™ CRPUHT et | the harbor racing for the judges’ float. One of the a:plmn(s was 12- fishing . with , Largest les L2 year-old Dwain Reddekoppe who brought a 20-pound king salmon to Auk Bay for Judge Albert Geetz to igh in, “He'll at least win one of those permanent waves,” (he young fisherman com- mented. Asci ( Lomen and Mr at Auk Buy Mickey Pu: we etz were Mrs. They ch caught a 2 and fley n there to be weighed His personal plane was floating be- side his boat Busy Weighing The busy assistants at Tee Harbor were Harriet Penwell, Dorothy Meyers, Helen Webster, Mr. Mrs. W.L. Riddle. They Elton Engstrom, who was in cha of judging, check in over 150 big fish. Among the visiting fishermen wa Robert Ji of Ketchikan caught a 24-pound, 12-ounce king said to be bigger than anything he caught on his home fishing grounds Women of the Rebekah Lodge stuffed fishermen and spectator. with hundreds of hot dogs | were cleaned out before the persons left Tee Harbor. Mrs. Penwell is still looking for those who loaned her a screw driver a pair of wool fox and a sweater. Fred Pete Es went to to nd\'cn‘se next reported that 2. last Schneider, Bill Logan and s cleaned the fish which Anchor Fish Co. for canning e Derby. l|m|Ied Control 7 Bill Passes, Goes fo Piesident \VASHIV TON Jllly 30 — K‘V - Congressional action was completed today on legislation continuing price and rent controls until next June 80. House passage sent the compro- » was expected to sign it despite Tet 10 TaTs consiae: hat he wanted. » President has until midnight tomorrow to act. effects expires at that time. House passage was by roll call to 80. The Senate passed 1 last Friday. Both branches previously had passed different bills, the final measure being a compromise. It contains no authority for the President to build defense plants, to impose beef slaughtering quotas or to curb commodity market specu- lation—powers the President wanted —and limits the administration’s ithority to roH back prices, It makes no changes in the present wage stabilization program. Chairman Spence (D-Ky) of the Banking committce told the House he deubts if the bill will “effectively centrol prices,” but he said “it is the best that can be gotten . . . and I think the Presi- dent will be compelled to sign it.” Rep. Wolcott of Michigan, Republican on the committee, serted that the bill gives the Presi- top dent “all the authority needed (o prevent prices from getting wholly out of hand if they are judiciously administered. King of Cambodia Sends What Many Would Like fo SINGAPORE, July 30—/P—The King of Cambodia’s royal good will gift to President Truman—a live elephant—arrived here today to be loaded aboard a freighter bound for the United States. Thy elephant, sent by King Norodem Sianhouk Varmen, wi be shipped aboard the Isthmian Lines vessel Stee! Surveyor, which is expected to arrive in New York about Sept. 8. The King announced iast March that he would send the elephant as a good will gesture following accreditation of the first Cam- bodian Minister to Washington. At Washingten, President Tru- man awaited with apparent calm " the arrival of another weighty problem, The only information available is that the President plans to turn the gift over to the big Washing- | ton Zoo, there being no room for l it around Blair House. mise measure to President Truman, | AbIy” SHOIL | A temporary mea- | sure keeping economic controls in | BIII,;Passed For Agencies WASHINGTON, July 30 d Congress adopted today an emer- | gency resolution to finance govern- ment npor.mum until Aug. 51. It s,_meanwhile._to pass appropHiations bills, The stop-gap resolution was proved by voice vote, first in House and then in the Senate. It was drafted by the House Ap- propriations committee. In general, it permits fthe agencies to spend during the next two months at a rate comparable to last year's spending or funds voted for the presnt year by either branch of Congress None of the regular biils financing the government the year that started July 1 cleared Congi were financed during ap- the appropriation for has July by an row midnight. Superier Packing {President Dies At Tenakee Springs SEATTLE, July 30 John T Tenneson, Sr., 57, fisheries industry executive and prominent northwest businessman, died Satur while on vacation at his summer home in Tenakee Springs, Alaska He was president of the Superict Packing Co. and the Pyramid Fish- eries Co., & member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the National Bank of Commerce and a director of the Marine Bank Corporation, Alaska Salmon Indus try, Inc. and West Coast Airline Tenneson came from Norway !thxs country in 1910 and to in 1912. After serving as an tive in the old Northwestern eries Co. for six years, he bought the Superior Packing Co. in 1920. His wife, Mrs. Gladys Roop Ten- 'ne»on, had planned to leave Sealt today to join her husband in Alaska He also is survived by two sons, John T. Jr, of Astoria, Ore, ames R, of Seattle, and o grand- Baranof due o'clock tonight. and from south at way at 8 a.m. tomorrow, southbou at 9 am, at 3:30 p.m. today. {omorrow. i 1 | [ i Edna M. L. MacSpadden -pounder and helped whe and green | All the agencies| emergency measure expiring tomor- ! 10} Princess Norah arrives from Skag- ad | serv substandard housing preparedness subcommittee cf ices. Ky., area. corporal and his fami "lust HAD o Take Favors,’ Fired General WASFINGTON, July 30, —@ The commanding general of the Detroit tank arsenal has been fired from his command and rep- rimanded for accepting favors [rom contracting companies. Says regular Secretary of the Army Pace had relieved Brig. Gen. Da- vid J. Crawford after an inspec- tor general's report showed Craw- ford had “violated army regula- tions and had not met the high standards required of an army of- fice The 54-year-old Crawford,a West Point aduate and veteran of 29 years' my service, admitted be fore a Congressional committee at Detroit on July 23 that he had ac- cepted a free Washington Hotel suite and the gift of a boat keel from contracting company repre- sentative In night said acknowledged materials idition, he using government building p! ure boats and trans porting personal property at gov- ernment expense. crawford, head of tank arsenal for the years, will be replaced by Brig n. Carroll H. Deitrick, 53, wi now commands the Watertown Mass., arsenal. Intormed of the army’s at his home in Detroit, C aid: “I am still in the army. don’t know what I will do now [ am awaiting new orders.” In testimony before the Con- sressional committee, ~Crawford said he felt there was no impro- priety in his actions and that he couldn’t do business without ac- cepting British (abme! Mission fo Discuss Persian Oil Problem LONDON, July 30—®—Foreign Sécretary Herbert Morrison an nounced today Britain will send cabinet mission to iu € Detroil fou the past action awford I Tehran (o dis- an oil settlement with Iran told the House of Commor the mission will be led by Richa Stores, Lord Privy Seal, and added It is not expedient for me at thi moment to say anything further on this matter Morrison explained the came about as a result of consulta- tions with Averell Harriman, Presi- Truman’s envoy now o He decision ent don Prince George arrived from south | capital. Morrison said there are still some cleared up before the points to be lea for. the Iranian jon can A United & flying back to Tehran by tonight. These are two of a number of pictures of s e men and their families published and rent gouging to a sergeant, his wife and child. constructed of whiskey bottles, beer of three pay in Lon- | | States Embassy spokes- | Princess Louise cue northbound man announced Harriman intends| ard housing for in an inferini report on of military personnel by the the senate commiltee on armed serv- At top is “The Box,” a tiny shack in the Camp Breckinridge, Divided into two small rooms, it rents for $20 a month At bottom is the “Bottle House” cans, oil cans and mortar. A month rent, ercpholn ,Red Trap Statement Invesfinated WASHINGTON, otary of Defe £ into_f niroversial Korean wi issued at the Pentagon op parently without top level clearance The statement, read to reporter: 1t a news briefing last Friday, sug rested the Communi could b 1sing cease-fire talks for gainin ime to build up their forces anc o set ry trap, Comir the height of Korean case fire talks, it jolted top Penta- ron officials who promptly took the label off fhe statemen 1id (hey knew nothing of its 20 Marshall i » July Sec ense A department spokesman sdid erday that Marshall and Deputy 'y Robert Lovet to the bottom of it who askac sald he under wrivten by t to be identifi od the statement wa Army's psychologic warfar ion. That's the Army branci ich uses words and other device: s weapons against the enemy., There was no immediate commen from psychological warfare division ificers i But why the statement w no one could—or would yet The statement said tions forces cut short a wdvance last month which had Re troops “on the ropes” after Rus:i made its truce talks proposal. The statement added that the Communists had ceized the oppor tunity to build up striking powe: along the battlefront while the U.S instead, had actually withdrawn ¢ ombat unit from the line and se it to Japan. s issue ay just United Na- successiu e o 0o 0 0 0 0 0 ¢ WEATHER FORECAST Temperature for 24-Hour Period 6:20 o'clock this morning (Junean and Vieinity) In Juneau—Maximum, minimum, 55 At Airport minimum, endin 70 Maximum, 73; 52 82: FORECAST Mostly cloudy tonight with a few scattered showers. Parily cloudy Tuesday. Low- et tonight near 52 and high- | 4 PRECIPITATION Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau — 00 inches; Since July 1 — 4.02 inches; Al Airport Trace; Since July 1 — 228 inches. e e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fes 000 cec00ec0ssan®camnce . . ° 9 . ° N ° o o . ° B . . . ° ° . ° . . . . Buffer Zone Still Gnarls Negofiafions War to Continue During Talks; Allies Smash at Red Capital U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUAR- TERS, Korea, July 30—®—Allied wnd Red negotiators bargained more than three hours in sultry Kaesong today, but made no progress toward ending the shooting in Korea. Instead, they agreed that the war would continue while they talk. As hey reached this understanding Allied warplanes smashed at the Red Korean capital of Pyongyang in me of the most determined air assaults of the war, The negotiators remained dead- locked on the problem ef a buffer zone to sepirate the opposing mies if and when a cease-fire agreement is reached. A UN. spokesman said: “The final solution hoped for. TI doesn’t mecessarily mean it is he immediate offing.” They will tackle the same thorny juestion when their 15th session pens tomorrow at 11 am. (5 p.m,, today, Juneau time). The United Nations communi- que said Gen. Nam II, chief Com- munist delegate, “stated it was also his definite understanding that hostilities would continue during the current armistice ses- slon: Nam was replying to an earlier ifying” statement by Vice Adm. Turner Joy, senior U.N. delegate, First Hint It was the first official hint of any prior misunderstanding cn this point In today's session, an eye witness sald, Joy used a shghtly ditferent approach “to penetrate what might be a language barrier. It might nave some clarifying effects.” Joy gave a detailed analysis of the Allied and Communist proposals for a military dividing line across Korea in Zones Wanted The Reds want a zone 12': miles wide along the 33th paralle!, pre- itical boundary between North and Souih Korea. The Allies want a 20-mile-wide zone along the present battle lines. Most of these lines are inside Red Korea, on the average about 20 miles north of the 35ih parallel. Joy asked the Reds for comment n the U. N. proposals, “so that the tinal soluticn to this ilem may re- tlect our mutual views." The Red reply took one hour and me minute, and left the situation just where it was before. Longest Meet Brig, Gen. William P. Nuckols, U. N. briefing officer who attends the sessions, sald Nam merely repeated what he has said before, the same ~sorde but in cifferent order, Today's session lasted three hours md eight minutes, longest uninter- rupied meeting since the talks be- zan. Before today's session started, Nuckols made it clear to news- men that the U.N. considers the 38th parallel, “a political boun- dary” and not suitable for a mili- tary dividing line. “A military armistice conference 5 interested in providing a defe line for each side. It would be rest coincidence if there were ural defense line along an maginary dividing line along a par- wllel of latitud Here's One for Ski Club fo Bull Around a Bif OSLO, Nerway, July 30 —@— The little town of Frederikstad in southern Norway reported today what is believed to be the first successful ski-jump ever made by a bull calf. The calf wandered to the top of the well-known Oeya Ski-jump, lock a good look around, sat down n his baunches and shot down the 400-foot long »un, T flying, the calf made a per- iect landing and walked away. TIDE TABLES July 31 High tide 12:01 am, Low tide 6:44 am, High tide 1:17 pm, Low tide. 6:44 pam., he r 148 01 13.5 5.0