The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 2, 1951, Page 1

L #ONGRESSIONAL JBRARY AN ne THE D “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TI)ME” \()L LXXVIIL, I\(V 11,876 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THU: RSDAY, Y ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN ('l'INTS Salmon Packers Hang Hopes on Southeastern (oncesslon Hint by Reds Seen on Zone Communists Seen "Build- ing Up Folks Back Home for Letdown’ UN. ADVANCE TERS, Kore; neath the surf to draw a cease-fire line in Korea, a high United Nations source today w. a hint that the Reds might prep: g the way fot (‘nn(mh"” the Allied demand. The Allies want stop on the pres north of the 38th pars Reds have been holdi o buifer zone centered on the p: HEADQUAR- Friday — (® — Be- ce deadlock on wher the fighting nt line, ge: Possibly nudging the Commun- " ists toward a more conciliatory attitude, the U.S. Eighth Army reperted its attacking troeps gained more than twe miles on the central Korcan front Thurs- day against only smali groups of the enemy. iay night th Ko- tice dele- he The Peiping radic Thur: quoged Lt. Gen. Nam II, N T ef of the Red arm! gation at Kaesong, ying “repndiated the buffer zone” posed by the Ailies “deep acr 38th parallel.” What Nam meant by “deep” not explained, but the Red radio a Pyongyang declared the Allies were demanding a approximately 38th and 39th pe This, said a 1 “a Tob of malar} made no such demand. “It appears B Dbuilding up the foll a letdown,” the U.N. sour mented. “If they accept the buf- fer zome below where they we are asking for it, lock like a Communist Vice Adm. C. Turner UN. delegate, told the Allies must hold a defer across Korea, such pose, d a truce hecause of i 1)m<|blln n armistice violation by the other s The Red Peil the chief Col Gen. Nam II, fer zone” proposed by Joy across the 38th parallel” There was no indication of what the next move would be in the face of apparent flat rejections by both sides. Neither has hinted at compromise. Seventh Deadlock It was the seventh successive ses- sion in which negotiators rema ed deadlocked on where te draw the armistice line. They will try again tomorrow de- spite unswerving positions ed in Washington and Pyongyeng, the North Korean capital. The meeting is scheduled for 11 am. . (5 pm., tod: Juneau time) Gen. William P. Nuckols, N. spokesman, quoted Admiral Joy as telling Red negotiators at Kac- song: & “The United Naiions command has no intention of violating the tary armistice agreed upom, but neither will the U.N. com- mand place itself in an inde- fensible position in the event of an armistice violation by the other side.” Nuckols said Joy read this pre- pared statement in response to “t final question” by North Korezar 1t. Gen. Nam T, head of the Rec delegation. Nuckols did not disclose the na- ture of this final question. e Tk e o o o 0 o 0 0 o was T “vietor) Joy, ci Reds the ible line ing radio reported st delegate, Lt pudiated the bu “deer next WEATHER FORECAST Temperavure for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning At Airport—Maximum, 603, minimum, 51. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Considerable cloudiness with some light rain showers to- night and Friday. Lowest tonight about 52, highest Fri- day near 65. OB A aOasnanesa © ° PRECIPITATION ¢ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ At Airport — 0.12 inches; e since July 1—2.90 inches. . ® o 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 & @eo0®0000ces0scesdon e s the Allies pro- Possible Com < Ygngdok = A TR WONSAN 7 Smgou 1 Vel INCHON Despite the present deadlock demarcatien line is cons Seme northeastward to the wesiern end ward to the east coast. f =7 an eventual comprom dered likely Ambrican military men speculate that *9id out from the west coast along the Im , ten miles south of the 38th parailel and winds up to a mile or two soulh of the parallel across country nerth of Uijongbu; mnorth- the reservoir eastward over the heights to Yanggu and thence east- M Wirephoto Map. promlse lme COASTAL NEUTRAL ZONE 70nq(l|wv\ 53 8 Ciatore > AN = /—— munie RED PROPOSED (hu nl" Chunchon | NeaTAaL SONE A% Km\gnunp > \SOUTH "/ . KOREA ot [22] o 20 Ty STATUTE MILES ise on a Korean by some military observers. good ‘line could be River, which is about of the Hwachon reservoir; along AP atomic | The T coua ed with ¢ e e offi- the uffer Civil Defense Ad- tor, told a House Armed subcommittee under questioning, one anis, former Col. Jo- d the joint \L(fl doubted Alaska { would be atom-bombed, chair- man Hebert (D-La) said. The committee approved legisl: tion to authorize the Civil De- fense Administration to waive a | ment that Alaska match | federal funds for air raid | territory | | : an enemy { worth, er of his ass seph Chi chiefs of Atem Bomb Atfack on Alaska Doubiful, Says Civil Defense Officials ufi Wadsworth gaid that since more ‘han 90 per cent of the wrinofy's nouses Afe uf” Tranic copstruction, relatively light in- cend and high explosives could highly destructive. be Alaska’s population is wide area, he said, but €6 nt of its residents live in target areas.” tegic importance of the| he said, that al measures be taken to re- the hazards of attack. . Earl Landreth, Al rector of civil defense stationed in Juneau, added that any at- tack over the pole “weuld prob- ably” be aimed at military tar- gets in the northland. Since civiian communities are so close to targets, they would suffer from these attacks, he seid. 'The Washington| {Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.. | It looks as| if a showdown is nearing in the | Korean truce talks. General Ridg- | way has cabled Washington for instructions as to whether he should set a cut-oif. date on fur- ther d mns. He re that the Commun- | ists are unwilling to budge regard- ing an armistice line 10 kilometers wide on each side of the 38th parallel, therefore he asked whe- ther he uld continue talking or serve nc after a cer- tain date fighting will be resumed. So far the Pentagon has not answered his query. The qui is now under the most serious study by the State Department, the Defense Department and the White House. SHINGTON. full-s | General Ridgway has reported that the Communist delegates have put the greatest possibie; stress on the 38th parallel and continue to make long speeches regarding its importance. These refusals of the United Nations tc compromise from our stand along the sent fighting line appe: to make no impression whatso on Chinese-north Korean dele- gates. . The issue will probably be de- cided within the next 24 hours. General Omar Bradley, who joesn't get riled easily, was pretty sore his own -army spokesmen had blurted out to a press conference {the name of an airborne division {which had been transierred from |Korea to Japan. | The incident took place in a (Continued on Paze Four) when he heard how one 0iiand mail (anadian Beafs Wiil Suspend Winter Service ‘There will be no Canadian steam- ship operations to Southeast Alaska from Nov. 10 to March 10, accord- ing to word received here from Delegate E. L. Bartlett. Bartlett reported in a letter to George Sundborg, consultant for the Alaska Development Board, that he had word from a Canadian Pa- cific Steamship Co. official in Washington, D.C,, that winter serv- ice would be suspended. William McFarlane, local CPR agent, said today that he had re- ceived no official word regarding the matter but that unofficially he had been informed that the Prin- cess Norah, the regular winter ship, would be placed on the Prince Ru- pert and Kitimat run, Jack Alderson, di t passenger agent representing the British Co- {lumbia Coast Steamship Co., affili- ate of CPR running the Princess boats, is to be in Juneau on Aug. 11, McFarlane said. Bartlett’s letter said that the com- y planned to provide freighter ce with a new ship, Yukon Prin doorg wrote a letter to the CPR headquarters in Montreal, Que., urging that the winter service be maintained to Alaska. He pointed out that the passenger service would be sorely missed and said that in times past it was the Princess boats thgt afforded the only passenger service to Southeast Alaska. He said that the company had afforded splendid service and that it had been greatly appreciated. FROM CHICAGO W. H. Hogan of Chicago is stop- ping at the Baranof Hotel, spread “ing the prop Territorial . Officials Nabbed ' For illegal Fishing Territorial Rep (sentative An- drew Hope and William R. Wal- ton, chairman of the Alaska Board of Fisheries were among 31 fish- ermen arrested yesterday on char- ges of illegal fishing. Dan Ralston, law enforcement supervisor for the Fish and Wild- | life Sitka. The seines | ton's v | salmon Amd pursed | Menday, fifteen minutes before | the opening gun of the season, ;le.&mn said. Clarence Rhode, re- gional director for the said the men must have set their seines at least ‘an hour before| | pursing them. In complaint signed by Ral- ston, four of five boats were | charged with fishing in Inlet before the legal opening hour of 6 am., and the fifth boat, the Tony K. was alleged to have been fishing in a closed area, Rod- n Bay on Baranof Island. The boats and crew members are: were found full of lative Andrew Hope hagd as crew "nltn;bmi Alex Andrews, Al Will- | rd, Peter Kitka, Jr., ¥rank Ben- ._on, Herbert Hope and Fred Hope. ea Ranger has as captain Wil- mm R. Walton, chairman of the Territorial Board of Fisheries with a crew of Ggorge McGuire, | Ben Didrickson, Charies Didrick- son, Barney Essendrup, Peter James, Earl Forsythe and Harold | Lawrence. Capt. Sam Newman is the skip- per of the Ginger N. with crew members Waverly Peterson, Al Canon, and Paul Johnson. The U85, captaip Feter E. Johnson | gud crew tooney Starr, Ronald F Jaies, Heary Kitka, Herbert Mer- ey, bl Subifison, e veend | Johnson. On the Tony K. with Clyde | Peterson as captain were Warren | Todd, Pete Crews, Jack Evans, Von Blankenship and Roy Mil- ler. The Tony K., SJ8 II and Sea IK nger were fishing ior the Pyr- |amid Packix Company and the JS and Ginger N., for the Hood Bay Packing Company, which is operated under the Alaska Na- > Service. fishermen will not appear here in person but will be rep: sented by a local attorney and 2 representative of the Alaska Na- tive Service. Stanley Baskin, as- istant U. S. Attorney will be prosecutor. It is expected that the case would be heard this afternoon. New Corporafion In Offing for Kefchikan Mill —(P— A new SEATTLE, Aug. 2, corporation for the construction and operation of Alaska's first big pulp mill, at Ketchikan, is in the offing. It will be the successor to the present Ketchikan Pulp and Pa- per Company, which pioneered the way for the now-approved project and entered a timber contract with the U. S. Forest Service. Lawson Turcotte, president of the Puget Sound Pulp and Tim- ber Company, said today at Bel- lingham the new corporate set-up is a necessary step to bring his firm and the American Viscose Company jointly into the opera- tion. The Ketchikan company has been & solo Puget Sound Company operation, under an agreement with American Viscose., The latter firm is to take virtually all the production for rayon and cellul- ose products. Turcotte confirmed as “substan- tially correct” a Post Intelligencer story today which said, in detail- financial setup, that “the principal financing, es- timated to run between 30 and 40 million dollars, is expected to come from insuranc compan and other institutional investors The paper adde “While many details still remain to be ironed out, it is understood that Puget Sound Pulp and Tim- ber Company and Americar V cose each will contribute from 3 to 3% million dollars in equity capital. “A loan by American Viscise for substantially the same amount as its Investment also is being con lsidereli." K Service, made the arrests, near | of Hope and Wal-| at 5:45 am., serviee, | £JS II, captained by Represent- | Tenakee | | Courts | Court. ner Girc accused Commu U. § grand jury. ate I terios, (P W In-lllm‘n Left to right are: W, and_ probing questions piled Alphaeus Hunton, Das hiel department to determine additional —ali trustees of the Civil Rights Congress bail { Field and Green were sentonce Both now are serving contempt t if the b trousle on tht Ham d 30) to Ilunton ail fund violated six months each for ¢ banking Tmuble Trouble Fmabie M SR e Yoss York's Federa ield Ab- as bail for and court, sntemdt of a and Hammett were questioned by the laws. Th alse are serving tfln”@aswa@ of Flouting Weaiker Slows Air Seach; Truckers Spot "Semething’ | Tie fate of aKorean airlift trans- . which vanished July 20 {off Cape Spencer with 38 person | aboard still remained a mystery to- | her held many search planes ground yesterday and this ng but was expected mid- 2fternoon ceflings would permib air search to continue, U Coast Guard headquarters said today. Coast Guard is coordinating a sea investigations. A Norseman aircraft, believed to ve been piloted by Maurice King, on th mor at Yakutat was included in today's search opergtions. King is flying for the Arctic Research Institute which is conductipg glacier studies of A.’Nafipma and Seward Glacie Another clue to the missing Ca- nadian Pacific Airlines plane de- veloped late yesterday when truck drivers on the Alaska Highway re- ported sighting “something” in the Snag, Y.T., area. Royal Ca- nadian Air Force planes based at Whiteherse intended to investigate the report as soon as weather permitted. Snag is roughly 200 miles north of Yakutat, which has been the focal area of search op- erations. Due to fog yesterday only eight hours in the Prince William tricts seek- 50 Sound and Cook Inlet di ing the missing transport which was on the first leg of a Vancouver, B.O to Tokyo flight. The only search for the missing | y night | Norseman was made Tuesds by an Air Force plane bound foi Great Falls, Mont., from Yakutat No report has been received from it EDMONTON, Aita., —R.CAF. aircraft investigating reports of a “large silver aircr: lying on the side of a mouxn near the Alaska highway reported back today that the silvery object was a glacier, Planes had left Whitehorse to 1" vestigate after two transport dr’ and a party*of tourists repor ;wsmng the “silver plahe” on a mc : tainside near mile 1179 of Alaska highway, about five west of the highway. CITY" COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT A regular meeting of the Jun City Council will be held toni in the offices of the city cler the city dock on South Frankli Street. It is expected that the po- lice committee will give a report on a meeting held® last night 1 ,gnrdmg Juneau’s growing tralfic lund parking problems. The | and | kan bush pilot, reporied overdue | Of [uml\ of t Canada ar anneries invade Britis next m'mlh C. said last v include f the treaty grounds un O'Brien px | though a fisk is scheduled is no assur lable to Am ¥ cept or v Franci council pre statement vasion of could c SAT0,17 « The cash July 31, it !by Henry Roden, Territorial Trea- + | surer. | e T endont Flold flew| This did not include $4,147,043.91 in the bank or warrants, Ro Among the general mana lu'r at that time, able conservation,” Millerd Perritorial balance of < $470,770.92 $900,450.97 to meet Canneries from Japan F(*m'mé-’l by @@mudmns he Fisheries Counct afraid. Japanese float- and mother ships \\m n e Gordon O'Brien of Ot of the counc failure he will Teave inted \eries pac to come up I it would b can ard Ci we e hing interes to our ideas ab he said. of echoed O'Br ut Vancouver ient, sh rly as this fail. 0.92in Alasks Treasury, ‘Roden Reporis had a as o today treasury was -announced in ear-marked funds outstanding den explained. ear-marked funds is |money unfrozen by the Board of ! Admintstratio schocl Veteran's wnd National distric Commission, aid loan $650,000 1 Guard, $2,000. n in July: ts, $750,000; Cuable Car SAN FRA ‘crucial” determine th California was called of few meeting was morrow Service or lines — Calif! rell, and Jo suspended i had cance tors of the | they ments for ne Street Cable shareholde! couldn’t Sharehelders Bon’t Show NCISCO, Aug. 2 stockholders’ P meetin e fatare of the historic Car Co f yesterday because Lo showed up. Tht set for 10 a.m. to n the company's A Street and O'F nes and Hyde “temporarily” Lloyd s insura able car compar complete arrangé- »w coverage in time tc of n avoid a shutdown. Pre: nt the cor y for other ins be resumed. John O. Haman 5 trying to a urance so service could range xel id a Japanese m-; Columbia waters to ! to | SuifFiled For Damage’ In Ship Fire ' $358,000 Asked for Goods Dastroyed Alionrd Coasfal Monarch SEATTLE | | 1 | 1 | | \ Aus. 9dm fire Tonarch g : the Alask the Alaska T evedoring Co, filed by 176 individ- 5 and firms who claim good hey shipped on the vessel were aged when fire broke out i Yo. 2 hold July 23, 1950, while enroute from Seward to tely 83 ing from a t nl ar The suit w wa Duteh Harbor, t of the sought i resulting 1p com- amount for losse of the ste liver goods. The ve after the cad of' contir Cannery Oificial And Wife Leave $429,051 Estale SEATTLE, Aug {M—A forme: a fishing fleet operator an wife, who died less than a y left an estate ied 2 | hi An_inventory filed the estate of Mr, and Johnson disclosed the estir value. Their property was order placed in trust for relatives. Johnson, vice pri 1t of the F E. Harris Company before it we sold to Nick Bez, died in Torc July 26, 1950, His wife, the for Sarah Harris, ¢ Har as stric heart attack in Portland last 24, yesterday M "Banking’ Coins in Parking Meters for Extra Time Now Banned As meter man has been ordered not to turn the handles of p.anv meters that show violations. T fic tickets will be issued, (hw of Police Bernard Hulk said to— day. ny persons have been in the | Babit of putting a coin in city| | parking meters, turning the har in the meter that will register when the meter man comes by to check,” Hulk said, “This is in vi- olation of the city traffic code.” of today the city parking {dle and then placing another coin | sald | Red Packin Bay Lowest Since 1898 Price Increase Not Ex- pected if Pink Run Here Produces Good Pack SEATTLE, Aug. 2—(M- salmon industry is hanging | for a big pack on south | following a short red | in Bristol Bay. | “If there is going to be any pack at all out of Alaska this year, the southeast will have to produce said a Fish and life Service official. McGovern, Seattle salmon said the red pack this year is the Jowest since 1898, Up to July 21, with only a few days of spotty | fishing left ip Bristol Bay, the red pack totaled 638,376 c; and the total pack of 979451 consider~ ably below last year. Alaska's its hopes st Alaska, mon catch Pinks Foreseen The season for trap and fishing is now open in much of Southeast Alaska. The open areas are in Iey Strait, Eastern and West- ern Districts, and in the Erest Sound and Angn sections of the Sumner Strait district. There have been early indications of a good run seine stry sources say the fisher- men were expecting a poor cyele year for the Bristol Bay reds, but the results were even below their expectations. There is no explanation for the searcity of reds, said McGovern, Prince William Sound was a . £2lyre atred production and Cop: per Creek dropped off 58 percent. Cook TInlet became overcrowded with + from the Wildlife Service re a downward trend in salmon in recent y In 1936 ¢ mil- catches the n ca milljon until was 4 million, 1d in 1050 1943, TIn 1948 it in 1949 4'% million, million. Total Up Walter Sharpe, Alaska Salmen | Industries official, said this year's or pack from Bristo! Bay was “nothing to get alarmed about,” predicting that the total will come up to last year. There will probably be no in- crease in prices, said McGovern, if the Southeast produces enough pinks, There is also a “law of sub- stitution” working, he said, which 15 driven the price of salmon down because of high production, and con- equent low prices, in tuna. A ‘Area Closed 2 Years Opens To Fishing F comme ¢ the first time in two years, sl fishing for all types of r will be allowed on the main- land shore of Stephens Passage, tarting August 6. announcement came y afternoon from Clarence Rhode, regional director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, following receipt of a wire from Director Albert Day in Washington, D.C, Day announced he had signed an amendment to the commercial fishing regulations to this effect. The area concerned is from Mid- Island to Horn Cliffs, with ex- ption of all ers of Limestone Inlet, which remain closed. The mainland shore of Stephens ge was closed to seining and g following the 1948 fish- ing A because of a severe d pletion of fish, Rhode said. It h: remained open to trolling. Include are about 75 miles of corst waters. The area contains about six fish traps, Rhode said, which will prob- ably be in shape for fishing on the opening day. In this location sein- ing is prohibited within 500 yards of a stream mouth. endment allows seining ishing from August 6 to “epu’mm'r 1, the regular fishing | season set by regulations last year. trap d | FROM EATTLE | Clyde W. Hurley of the National | Groeery Co. of Seattle is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.