The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1951, Page 1

| SONGRESSIONAL - LIBRARY wASHINGTON, D. C. THE DAILY A “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,875 " Truman Signs "Deficient’ Control Ad "Worst Ever"” Blasts President; Price Office Orders Rollbacks ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — P — President Truman prepared today to hammer again on Congress' door for a *good, strong price control law” to replace what he called the “deficient"yact he signed last night. Mr, Truman emphasized that he accepted the new, one-year defense production act—"the worst I ever had to sign”"—only because he could not risk the lapse of its rent ceiling and strong priority control clauses. But the bitterly disputed law was on the books, and its Repub- lican and Democratic backers de- fended it against the angry White House blasts. Their views were summed up by the veteran GOP leader, Rep. Halleck (Ind), who said: “Will Effect Control” “It's a bill which, properly applied |’ and administered, will effect control despite Mr. Truman's statements.” At the center of the storm, Mi- chael V. DiSalle’s Office of Price | Stabilization (OPS) hastily ex- plored techniques for lifting price ceilings to the levels now re- quired. DiSalle ordered thousands of price roll-badks—and a goodly number of roll-forwards—into effect last night in the final hours before Mr. Tru- man signed the new measure. New ceilings, held back for a month during the Congressional de- bate, were applied to consumer items like radios, television sets, refriger- ator and other home appliances, shoes, apparel, cotton textiles, wool yarns and fabrics, machinery, chem- icals and many building materials. By rushing the orders out last night, OPS avoided the immediate necessity of réwriting the ceilings to conform to the new act, which entitles each manufacturer to pass on to buyers his full business cost increases up to July 26. Church Council Urges Harvest Fesfival Sunday NEW YORK, Aug. 1, —(®—The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. urges that churches select a Sunday in Aug- ust, September or October for pro- motion of a “harvest festival.” The council said in a statement last night chat the festival should be revived as a means of relating worship “to the ordinary pursuits of man.” TheWashington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Byndicate, Ine. ASHINGTON. — Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower has quietly passed the word to his GOP boosters that he is not interested in the Re- publican nomination—if Isolation- ists control the party. In addition, Ike let it be known that he is upset by the timid and hesitant policy of internationally- minded Republicans and the way they let bitter attacks on him go unheeded. One glose friend who returned from Paris recently put it thi: way: “If the Republicans want Ike merely to bail out the party and win an election, they're badly mistaken. That would be like put- ting a million dollar jockey orn a two dollar horse. “The General is not the leas! bit interested in running for Pres- ident just to accommodate a can- didate for sheriff. Those who say they want Ike so badly are go- ing to have to do a lot more thal say, ‘He's a fine fellow and will win the election for us’ They'l have to work and fight to make the Republican party the kind of place where the General would feel at home.” Eisenhower’s close friends agree that this issue will largely decide whether he consents to run—and on which party. They claim Eisen- hower is disturbed by four fac- tors: 1. The prospect that as the GOP nominee he might help elect an Isolationist Republican Congress which would them proceed to dump the ailitary and economic e Al asarian A GeomE (Continued on Page Four) road company ordered its pictur- esque maroon and gold cable cars temporarily out of service last night because the company’s in- surance has been cancelled. This meant that today some /8,000 San Franciscans who travel over San Francisco hills on the 70-year-old company’s lines had to find other transportation. The company’s liability insur- jLondon effective at midnight. A |company spokesman said service {would be resumed when new in- surance coverage was procured. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1,—®—| The California street cable rail-| JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1951 Guard al "SHAPE' Headquarlers Soldiers of the French, American and British armies stand guard at the main entrance of the mew headquarters of SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters, Atlantic Powers, Europe) at Marly-le-Rol, near Paris. Left to right are Garde Pierre Minet of Gennevilliers, France; Pfc. Donald R. Sipe of York, Pa.; and Lance Cpl. James Gould of Honslow, Eng. ( Wirephoto, | | Clanging Cable Cars Ring Off; San Franciscans Marooned on Hilltops But even if solved, the future clanging cable cloudy. Stockholders will meet today to this obstacle is of the bell- cars appeared |decide whether the line shall be ance was cancelled by Lloyd's of | | Angeles. sold to the city of San Francisco for $150,000. Myron Kunin of Los the company’s largest single stockholder, said he was against selling to the city and would press for liquidation of the company. The California street company is the last independent cable car operator in San Francisco. he Powell Street Cable Line now is under city management. Search Confinues For Missing Airlift Transport Floating yellow objects spotted Monday and thought to be possible life rafts and jackets from the m ing Canadian airlift transport miss- ing off Cape Spencer since July 20, have not been rediscovered, it was announced today. ‘The flotsam was reported by an Air Force plane 30 miles southwest of Yakutat. U.S. Coast Guard headquarters said here today that the cutter Storis searched the area yesterday, assisted by 10th Air Rescue Squad- ron aircraft but nothing was found. Nineteen searching planes achieved about 50 percent coverage during 168 hours of flight over a district from Baranof Island to the Kenai Peninsula yesterday. Four Royal Canadian Air Force Dakotas (DC-3's) based at Whitehorse par- ticipated. Weather was not good today but it was anticipated that 21 planes, including the RCAF, would be in the air. The Canadians plan to comb the Mt. St. Elias Range if Weather permits. The Canadian Pacific Airlines transport was on the first leg of a Korean airlift flight from Van- couver, B.C, to Tokyo and was sound for Elmendorf Field when it ast reported in the vicinity of Cape 3pencer. It carried 38 persons. Every clue to the missing aircraft 1as been systematically checked by ‘he searching groups. ifock Quotations NEW YORK, Aug. 1—®—Closing juotation of Alaska Juneau mine itock today is 2%, American Can 112%, American Tel. and Tel. 157, Anaconda 447, Douglas Aircraft 50, General Electric 56%, General Motors 47%, Goodyear 93%, Kenne- cott 75%, Libby McNeill and Libby 3%, Northern Pacific 48%, Standard il of California 48, Twentieth Cen- tury Fox 20%, U.S. Steel 41%, Pound $2.79 15/16, Canadian Exchange 94.81%. Sales today were 1,600,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 259.87, rails 81.25, utilities 494, JSREET 5 Juneau Weather Goes Unnoficed By Weather Men Juneau will no longer have temperatures and precipita- tion reported by the Weather Bureau. Since July of 1943 the bu- reau has been &t the airpott. The readings have been taken on the roof of the federal build- ing for the past eight years as a courtesy by members of the bureau’s staff, according to a bureau spokesman. It does not seem adviSable for the readings to be taken since weather men now live closer to the airport than town, he said. The city readings were not in line of duty, he said, and “meant driving into town to take them” before the observer reported for work at the air- port. Juneau’s readings will now be taken evenings by janitors at the federal buildings, the spokesman said. If demand for information is great enough, he said, the readings may be included in the daily report. This means that city read- ings will no longer appear in The Empire. Readers may call the paper if they desire the information printed. If the demand is great enough, an attempt will be made to in- clude morning city readings, - the spokesman said. e o0 0 0 00 0 0 Two Versions Deaths in Shanghai . HONG KONG, Aug. 1, —#— A copy of the Shanghai Liberation Daily received here today said 41 “counter-revolutionaries” were put to death in Shanghai, July 16. This brings to more than 250 the known number of persons executed by the Reds in Shanghai in the first 18 days of this month. Other mass executions announced by the Reds include 60 shot on July 9, 57 on July 14 and 94 on July .18. News of the July 18 ex- ecutions reached here before that of the July 16 executions, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 82 Salmon Derby Awards Distributed To Happy Winners B. F. Dunn, traffic and sales man- ager of Pan American Airways, emceed the awarding of the Golden North Salmon Derby prizes which was held last evening in the EIks Halls. He joked his way through the passing out of 82 awards and e uié ldrge audience rippling with laughter. Dunn was assisted by Don Pegues, also of Pan American, Hazel McLeod, member of the prize committee, passed out thec awards. E. E. Norton, Hayes and Whitely logger, winner of the automobile with a 56-pound king, was not present but Mrs. Norton accepted the car keys on his behalf. Dunn quipped, “Fll bet he saw wheels on that fish when he hauled him in.” Jo Fender accepted the second prize, a boat and outboard motor, for Ernest Whitehead. Dunn asked her if Ernie was still out fishing. When Edward Cwik stepped for- ward to accept his Honolulu round- trip for two, Dunn promised him a good time, complete with names and addresses of friends of Alaska there. The final event was the award- ing of the round trip for two to the famous Rose Bowl football game in Pasadena, Calif.,, which went to Robert W. Scott. It was given by the Territorial Sports- men, Inc., sponsors of the Derby. Dr, D. D. Marquardt, co-chairman with Curtis Shattuck, extended the appreciation of the .committee tc all those who assisted in making the Derby the big success that it turned out to be. He even thanked the weatherman. It was not decided where absent winners would pick up their awards but an announcement will be made later, the committee chairmen said. Americans Try fo Averi Peace, Reds Charge on Radio TOKYO, Thursday, Aug. 2—®— The Pyongyang radio today said the U.N. truce team had “orders from above” to set a cease-fire line in North Korea and charged “the Americans are making every effort to avert the arrival of peace to Korea.” It said the line proposed by Vice Adrg. C. Turner Joy, chief U.N. delegate, would run from Kosong on the east coast to the tip of Ongjin peninsula on the west coast. Kosong is 27 miles north of the 38th parallel. Ongjin peninsula juts out along both sides of the 38th parallel. The Communists are de- manding that the line be drawn along the 38th parallel. “Thus the' Americans try to rob a large. territory inside North Ko- rea,” the broadcast concluded from Pyongyang, North Korea capital. “The Americans are making every effort to avert the arrival of peace to Korea.” MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — | Game Bird Regulations Announced WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, —P— Secretary of the Interior Chapman announted today the hunting reg- ulations for next fall for migra- tory game birds for Alaska. Chapman announced that the hunting season for ducks, geese and brant (except Ross's goose), and coot, in Alaska will be as fol- lows: Opens Here Oct. 1 In the second and fourth judi- cial | divisions, Sept. -—Oct. 25 third judicial division (except Ko- dlak-Afognak Island group) Sept. T—Oet. 31; first judicial division and the Kodiak-Afognak Island group, Oct. 1—Nov. 24. Scoter, el- der and merganser ducks also may be taken in the third judicial div- ision, west of 152 degrees west fongitude from Sept. 7 to Dec. 21, and in thesecond and fourth ju- dicial divisions from Sept. 1 to Dec. 115, Four Ducks Alaska daily bag limit for d is four, and the possession limif is eight. Shooting hours for__ducks, geese and brant in Al‘.l will be the same as last year, from half an hour before sunrise to an hour before sun- set. The daily bag limit for scoters and eiders in Alaska is 10 singly or in the aggregate of all kinds, and the possession limit is 20 singly or in the aggregate. ‘The daily bag limit for Amer- ican and red-breasted mergansers is 2§ singly or in the aggregate of both kinds, with no possession limit after the opening day. Also. for Alaska there is a daily bag limit of not more than two Canada geese or its subspecies, or two whitefronted geese, or two brant, or one each of any two of these three kinds with a pos- session limit of not more thin two_vach of any two theee kinds. In -4lition, there is a daily bag limit of four snow or emperor geese singly or in the aggregate of both kinds, with a possession limit of not more than eight singly or in the aggregate. '0ld Red’ Done in By Love of Mutton, Rancher's Wit BURNS LAKE, B.C., Aug. 1—/ — Old Red, the sheep-killing grizzly bear of the Cariboy, is dead A rancher's quick wit—and Old Red’s appetite for mutton—did him in, Farmers of the interior British Columbia area laid the slaughter of 29 sheep in two months to the roan-colored varmit. Cyril Shelford and Old Red met face to face Monday night when the rancher went to drive a flock of sheep to the corral. Shelford had only a short clubl for a ‘weapon. 2 He threw it at the menacing bruin, then'dashed for the corral. Old Red hllv'ed before he eould slam the gate. With his feotwork failing him, Shelford reésorted to headwork. He sprinted toward an injured ram, hoping it would divert Old Red. It did. The bear stopped and killed it. Shelford reached the house and returned with a rifle. He poured 20 shots into Old Red before the beat fell dead on its final charge. Shelford has a collection of claws as a souvenir. Each is more than three inches long. Wendling Family Leaving for - - Vacalion in Sfales Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wendling and daughter, Mrs. Mary Kirk- ham with her small son Jimmie, are leaving on Pan ~ American plane tomorrow for Seattle on an extended vacation in the States. In Seattle they will pick up 2 new car and drive to Minneapolis to visit Wendling’s parents. From there they expect to go to Kan- sas City and then across the mid- dle states to La Jolla, California to visit relatives. They will be gone about two months, Wendling is employed with the Bureau of Public Roads, Mrs. Wendling is a stenographer in the office of the attorney gen- eral and Mrs. Kirkham is in the office of the Alaska Aeronautics and Communications Commission. | Elmer A. Friend, who in 35 years is retiring as managing editor. with the Daily Alaska Empire, has probably worn out more pencils and typewriter ribbons than anyone, writes ‘30’ to his newspaper career today with the announcement he It's been a trail 35 years long lon the Daily Alaska Empire that Elmer A. Friend has mushed through galleys of proof, feuds, facts, fancy and a lot of just daily routine. On August 1, Elmer, one of the last of the “old newspapermen in Alaska,” parked his pencil, check- ed in bis chips, wrote “30” as managing editor of the Empire, and checked out. Fifty or more years in the newspaper business rides lightly on the shoulders of this man who was the first wire service re- porter in Alaska. When he gath- ered up his effects of 35 years accumulation he remarked, “It’s surprising how much of it is un- important.” “Elmer” and “the desk” were sach storehouses of a great deal of apparently unclassified infor- nation. Only Elmer knew “what yas where” on his big overstuffed aditorial desk—and only Elmer sould reach into his long mem- ory to tie current events to the ong link cf the past, Elmer came to the Empire the day after New Year's in 1916, fol- lowing the gala opening of the new Arctic Brotherhood Hall. John W. Troy, later Governor of Alaska, was editor and publisher. He was the father of Mrs. Helen Monsen, president of the Empire Printing Co. “Two-Timed"” Elmer worked on Seattle news- papers before coming to Alaska to Skagway in 1900 where he was affiliated with a steamship company, was Assoclated Press correspondent, did reporting and editorial writing for both the old Skagway Alaskan and the News. Neither paper knew that he was working for the other. He was there at the time of the Islander wreck and was also cor- respondent for the Dawson Daily News. The information got to Skagway by a special edition of a Juneau paper which carried a passenger list including the names of - the Governor Ross family of Yukon Territory. * Tied Wires Realizing that it was a big story for Dawson and that he had alert opposition *from a rival serving the Dawson Nugget, Elmer said he got a Bible, took it to the tele- graph operator at the White Pass and Yukon Railway and told him to start sending that until the story could be written. The word rate was high but he said the op- erator kept the wire tied up for Friend until he had his story ready. Elmer Friend took out three years to run the Seward Gateway where he did almost everything on 'the sheet from gathering and William F. Bradican of Scranton, writing the news and advertising, Pa, 18 a guest at the Hotel Juneau. 'semng heads as well as running Elmer's Typewriter Keys Quief Affer 35 Years of Grinding Out Alaska News the press. It was durmg this time he learned to operate an Inter- type machine of which he says. “I found only 935 reasons why the damned machine would stop. After checking 934, it was usually the 935th reason that caused the trouble.” Army Protects Newspaper business in Alaska has called for much varied talent and ingenuity and he has dem- onstrated both. There was the time in Seward when he hac trouble with his delivery boys sc he fired the boys and hired girls Fearing trouble from the boys hc alerted the commander of a near- by army post there at the timc to station soldiers at «strategic corners. “There was no trouble, Elmer recalls with a chuckle. Nobody knows how cld Elmer is and nobody thinks much about it because he is one of those rare individuals who is eternally young. The kids adore him and the local Teen Age Club recently voted him Juneau's No. 1 Citizen, Schooled Many v During his many years on the Empire, Elmer has schooled manj men and women in reporting. His policy has been never to ask & reporter to do something that he himself, would not do. Over hi desk in 4-inch letters are the newspaper guide words, WHO WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW WHY. In cases of marriages he tells his reporters that they ma, eliminate the WHY as it mighi prove embarrassing to those con- cerned, He's been proud of the fact that he has never fired a reporter “They've just naturally elimina. ted themselves,” he says. His hobby is band music. Fron his high school days he has al- ways been mixed up in a banc somehow. Hé has been bass drum- mer in the Juneau City Band fol many years. Elmer enjoys living. He has & lovely home commanding a view of Gastineau Channel, and a country home on the Glacier Highway. His son Bill is with the armed forces in Korea and his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Adams, lives in Juneau. Elmer’s pets are his three Adams granddaughters, Helen Jane 14, Gretchen Ann, 10; and Virginia Rae (Sweety Ple), 7. Today Elmer said, “I'm not fired. I'm not retired. I'm quitting.” The Empire is “at-home” this afternoon between 5 and 7 o'clock on .the Baranof Terrace. The staff has tried to reach most of his friends by note or telephone. Any friends who have not been reached, the Empire hopes will call by to see Elmer beiween 5 and 7 o'clock rodny. 'Em Truce Teams Buffeted by Buffer Zone "Reds Appreciafe Allied Position, but Can't Understand Logic” U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUAR- [ERS, Korea, Aug. 1, —(®—Uni- ted Nations and Communist truce teams again today refused to budge from their opposing stands on where to establish a buffer zone across Korea. Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, Chief U. N. delegate, talked for an hour nd 13 minutes telling the Reds vhat was wrong with their des nand. It was the longest speech hat has been made in the 1§ Kaesong cease-fire talks. The Communists want a buffer ‘one back along the 38th parallel, the old political boundary line be-< ‘ween north and south Korea. That is inferior terain for military efenses. “Since this is a military arm- - istice,” Joy told the five Red generals, “‘we are interested only in military realities.” The U. N. insists that the cease- fire zone be established along' oresent battle lines, where hotht armies would be in good defensive positions. Brig. Gen. William Oeputy U. N. Public officer, told a news conference: “Lieut. Gen, Nam Il, Chiet Red delegate, seemed to under- stand the United Nations’' posi- tion but couldn’t appreciate the logic that we used to arrive at that pesition.” Nuckols said the U, N. delegates were patient, He reported Joy gave a “pa- lent, logical, detailed analysis and cefutation” of the Red position. Joy quoted a defination from he Hague convention to emphas- .ze the logiv of the U. N. pesition. rhe Hagué agreement says: “A military armistice is a sus- rension of military operation by mutual agreement between the belligerent parties.” Glacier Pilot Is Reporfed Overdue A Norseman aircraft based out f Yakutat has been reported over- lue since July 27 or 28, according to information received at 17th Dis- irict U.8S. Coast Guard headquarters “ere this morning, The Norseman, N61352, left Point Manby at the entrance to Yakutat 3ay enroute to the Seward Glacier it the foot of Mt, Vancouver and wvas supposed to have returned to Yakutat last Thursday or Friday. (t has been unreported since, the nessage said. It was described as seing silver with a red tail. Maurice King, long-time Alaska sush pilot and Arctic flyer, is known to be flying a Norseman of. that wmber for the Arctic Research In- stitute which is conducting glacier studies on the Malaspina and Sew- rd Glaciers. An Air Force plane which left Yakutat for Great Falls, Mont., Jast night made a night search of the slacier camps enroute to its desti- 1ation but no reports have been -eceived. P. Nuckols, Informatiorr AUGUST 2 High tide 1:19 am,, Low tide 7:54 am. High tide 2:21 p.m Low tide 7:58 p.m.,, 16.3 ft. -13 ft. 149 ft, 35 ft. RN E ¥ WEATHER FORECAST Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning At Airport: Maximum, 60; minimum, 52. FORECAST [ and Vielnity) Mostly cloudy with light showers tonight and Thurs- day. Lowes{ temperature to- night about 50 degrees. High- est Thursday near 62. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport — 0.42 inches; since July 1—2.78 inches. ® 0 0 0 0 00 00