The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1951, Page 1

VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,877 Coastal Pilot Spofs Life Raft In Cross Sound New Clues Found in Air- lift Plane Search; Fog Hampers (G Chcek Two more clues for the Korean airlift transport which disappeared July Cape Spencer, developed day. Alaska Coastal Airlines Pilot James Rinehart reported sighting an upside-down yellow life raft about- 250 feet from shore near Column Point at Lisianski Inle: off Cross Sound, which is direct- ly south of the cape. The obser- vation was made from approxi- mately 100 feet altitude and was verified by passengers, according to information. received by 17th District Coast Guard headquar- ters here. Fog Hampers The Coast Guard cutter Citrus, working at Khaz Bay, 40 miles from there, was dispatched to the site to conduct a water search reported operations hampered fog early this morning. Another possibility being in- igated today was a report received by the searchmasfer at Yakutat yesterday that a fish- erman out of Seward had pick- ed up a partly submerged case of rations. It was reported that he kept the rations and threw the box away. A plane was (o ge to Cordova today to inter- view the fisherman who is sup- posed to be there. At the same time a query was sent to Canadian Pacific Airlines at Vancouver, B. C. where the airlift flight originated, to deter- mine if any army type of ratious were aboard the missing plane. The ship carried three Unifed Na- tions personnel, 28 military men and a crew of seven. Yesterday’s search involved 24 aircraff which achieved a cover- age from 20 to 100 per cent, de- pending on cloud conditions. Weather May Cléar ' It was expected that 21 aircraft would be engaged in rations today to comb the reg from Dry Bay south of Yakutat, to the Kenai Peninsula and from 90 miles inland to 115 miles off shore. Fog clouds limited ‘morning search in the mountain area but it was expected weather would improve this afternoon. The missing aircraft was on tne first leg of a Vancouver to Tokyc flight and was due around 2 am. missing plane, 20 off yester- .at Elmendorf Field on July 21 It made its last rountine radio check at 11:17 p.m. July 20 from the vicinity of Cape Spencer. Intensive search operations, un- der coordination of the U. S. Coast Guard here, have been car- ried on for the past two weeks. Coast Guard cutters and aircraft, U. S. Air Force planes, Royal Canadian Air Force planes, and airline aircraft have participated in the continuing operations. TheWashington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright. 1951, by Bell Srndicate. Inc. (Ed. Note—This special column by Drew Pearson takes the form of a letter to the Attorney Gen- eral of Texas on the important question of tidelands oil and the improvement of our schools, now before Congress. July 26, 1851 Hon. Price Daniel, Attorney General, Austin, Texas. Dear Mr. Daniel: I have your letter calling me “most misleading and inaccurate” in regard to your pending legis- Jation on the submerged oil lands of the nation. Because your bill reverses the United States Supreme Court, the highest tribunal of the land; and because a bill contrary to yours is now before Congress turning the royalties from tidelands oil over to the school and colleges of the nation, I should like to an- swer your letter in somie detail. In my opinion, any reversal of the Supreme Court whether by Congress, the President or any- one else, is something all the Am- erican people should know about and study carefully. They also need to give more thought to our badly sagging educational system, once the finest in the world, but now lagging behind many foreign countries in literacy results, in- cluding Japan. Personally 1 have felt that you (Continued on Page Four) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1951 Doggie Gefs a Tumble competition next door? Eighteen-months-old Mary Ann Dietzel of Flint, Mich.,, knew her dog was good, but how about the She peers over the stall partition at an Arm Arbor, Mich., dog show and loses her balance, rolls over and notoices photographer. Her dog didn’t win a prize. (® Wirephoto. Poles Run Fusilade of Fire fo Escape Red Regime; They're 3 Treafed in Hospital Affer Car Wreck This Morning | Three Juneau youths narrowly missed serious injury or death this moptiing at about 2:30 o'clock in an atjto accident at Norway Point. Chester Zenger, driver of the car, and Dallas Casperson, pas- senger, received cuts about the face. They were taken to St. Ann’s hospital and attended by Dr, William Whitghead who said the” €ut¥ “Teguired numerous stitches., Another passenger in the car, Matthew Wanamaker, was taken {o_the government hos- pital where he was treated and released. 7 According’ to the office of the! Highway Patrol, the three young| men were driving from Douglas to- ward Juneau when they passed Of- ficer John Monagle in a patrol car. Gives Chase He reported he gave chase to! the run-about, in which the young men were riding and exceeding the speed limit. However, when they entered town the young men turned off into a side street and were lost to Monagle. They apparently started out Gla- cier highway and when they reached Norway Point were going at too great a speed to make the turn, the patrol office said. The car hit a bank on the right- hand side and leaped about 20 feet up the embankment, Monagle said. The right wheel was broken off and the car demolished. As the accident happened John Peters, Juneau man, drove by.. He found two of the young men “prac- tically unconscious” and hurried to town to’ notify city police, whom he met on patrol on 12th street. Police Chief Frank Cavanaugh and Officer Glen Byington re- sponded to the call and arrived I at the scene at the same time as Monagle. An ambulance was called and Zenger and Casperson taken to St. Ann’s hespital and Wanamaker to government hos- pital. Zenger is employed by Reliable Transfer and Casperson is with the Territorial National Guard. The patrol did not learn where Wana- maker was employed. Peak-Plepping Pilot Diques Police, Put in Pokey FRESNO, Calif., Aug. 3—®—It's considerable flying distance from ‘he top of Washington’s Mt. Rainier to the Fresno jail, but John W. Hodgkin has now landed in or on both., * Hodgkin, a 42-year-old Air Force reserve lieutenant, became famous last April when he landed his Piper Cup plane atop the 14,408-foot peak and got stuck there. He landed in jail last night after sideslipping his plane into !-‘resno’l! Mayfair residential district. Fed Up’ By GUSTAV SVENSSON STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 3, —IM—Four young Poles, one a woman, landed their bullet-ridden plane in southern Sweden today and told of a dramatic escape from Red Poland amid gunfire. They asked asylum, saying they were “fed up” with the Communist regime in their homeland, Their exploit was less than 24 hours after 12 sallors of tne Fo- lish Navy staged a Baltic mut- iny aboard a minesweeper and chose refuge in Sweden. The two incidents created spec- ulation concerning a possible con- nection with the recent visit to Poland of Sayjst Deput) QPH% Minister V. M. H'Mow}v;. whe warned in threatening terms against Titoist revolts, ¢ The four refugees today mads a perfect landing, despite riddled landing gear, at Bulltoita Awrport near Malmoe, and said they £s- caped after a gunfight wua Fo- lish military guards. They told a thrilli story of zig-zagging at 10,000 feet. thru the Baltic clouds te shake off a pursuing military aircraft. Two weeks ago three Lithuan- ians locked up the other crew ! members of the Russian trawler Samsun July 19 and escaped to Sweden. These incidents followed the declaration of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia last week that Russia fears a revolt is brewing in Po- land. Tito said it was this fear which prompted Molotov. and. an unusual array ‘of east~European Satellite leaders to appear on the platform at ‘Warsaw recently on the seventh anniversaryof the founding of the Polish' National Liberation committee, .forerunner of the present: Polish Communist government. A iy Paper Says Sabofage Might Explain Missing Plane VANCOUVER, Aug. 3, —(CP)— The Vancouver Sun said yesterday that sabotage looms as a possible explanation for the crash of a Tokyo airlift plane 13 days ago. There were no other developments to give confirmation to the story, however. The plane with 38 aboard dis- appeared near Cape Spencer, Al- aska, while énroute from Vapcouy ver to Tokyo: It was operated by the Canadian Pacific Airlines. “R.CM.P. and F.BI. agents are standing by to inspect the. wreck- age, if, as and when, it is found,” said the newspaper report. (The F.B.I special . agent at Seattle said he had no such informa- tion.) Spokesmen for the CP.A. said there has never been a crash of a DC-4—the type of plane used on the airlift—as a result of me- chanical failure. The Sun said it had learned that baggage of U. S. airmen aboard the plane had not been inspected. “With this in view, officials are considering the possibility that a Hodgkin got out of jail after post- homb or spme other infernal de- ing $100 bail, but his plane is still stuck. vice might have been coucealed in the uninspected baggage.” R.CMP. headquarters here and John Parker of Hoonah is stop-in Ottowa declined to comment ping at the Baranof Hotel. on the sabotage report. | | | 90 Cadets Ousted For Violation of "Code of Condud’ WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—#—The Army today ousted 90 West Point cadets, and Gen. J. Lawton Collins was quol saying & majority of the Ar tball team was in- volved: The cadets were discharged for violating the code of honor by ac- cepting outside help to pass class- room tests. Senator Byrd (D-Va) told re- porters that Collins, Army Chief of Staff, had a majority of the foot- ball team had been ousted as part of the biggest shakeup in the 150- year-old history of the military academy. Byrd said he did not know whether West Point would be able to re- build another team for this fall's schedule or not. Earlier, an Army spokesman said the discharges would not affect- any Narnes of ‘mione of those ousted were announced and the Army. spid they would not be. -, Secretary of the Army Pace, said he had approved the.action upon recommendahuns made by a special board. The board was set up by Gen. J. Lawton'Collins, Army Chief of Staff. with 1 1 P . Senale Group Hifs ' "Back Streef’ Campaign of Butler WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, —P— A Senate subcommittee today de- nounced as a “despicable ‘back street’ type” the election campaign conducted in behalf of Senator John = Marshall' Butler: {(RaMd). last year.” " di jorwaxh However, the subcommittee made no recommegndation " for<' action against Butler, who defeated;Dem-, ocrat Millard Tydings by geme 43,000 votes, The group’s denunciation was | restricted to' the campaign con- duct of those who carried on Butler's campaign, but it said Butler “was negligent in Feupéct to certain implied responsibili- ties of a candidate for high pub- lic office. £ The subcommittee said in a re- port to the Senate rules commit- tee—of which it is a part—that actually there were “two cam- paigns within one.” It added: “One was the dignified ‘Front Street’ campaign conducted by candidate Butler in his speaking coverage of the state. “The other was the despicable “Back Street’ ‘type of campaign, which usually, if exposed in time, backfires!” Tydings charged that the But- lers campaign was a “tissue of lies” ‘and asked that the sub- committee come to the same conclusion. Butler in turn accused Tydings of resorting to “reckless and un- justified attacks upon me.” FROM ANCHORAGE Ray F. Downing of Anchorage, is at the Baranof Hotel. ‘Ship Movements Baranof southbound Sunday morning. Aleutian -northbound ~sometime Monday. Alaska departs Seattle August 8. Freighter Sailor’s Splice arrives sometime Sunday. Princess Kathleen arrives Satur- day at 3 pm. Ceilings on Salmon Get Wide Profest SEATTLE, Aug. 3 — () — New, lower government ceilings on the price of canned salmon drew pro- tests from salmon brokers and packers today. They said they objected to prices being set before unit costs have been determined. The cellings, announced in Wash- ington, D.C, set prices for talls and halves $29 and $18 a case for reds; $28 and $15 for cohpes: $21 and $1250 for pinks; $19,and $11.50 for chums; and, in halves, 820 for Puget Sound and ~Copper River sockeye and §21 for Columbia river fancy chinook, with $1 added for hand packing. These are packers’ prices to wholesalers. One broke told the Post-Intel- ligencer that “the real squawk is on the price of reds, but we don’t think there should be any change in ceilings until we can check our costs and know what the runs will be. In some cases the cellings may even be.too high.” Philip Cartwright, Seattle Re- gianal Pricg Supervisor for the Of- fice of Price‘Stabilization, said the ceilings were established now be- cause catches are being sold. “The new regulation is tailored to fit the salmon industry,” he sald, “Pr* will be adjusted later if they be.” Carty t said the prices were established “across the board” on the basis of 1949 prices, with adjust- ments for rising labor and material costs. ASTORIA, Ore, Aug. 3, —P— The 4 fish cannery in. this larea tened today to witi~ draw ‘its canned salmon from the market unlessthe Office of Price Stabilization delays for a month 'an announced price 'rollback. /"'The OPS announced the roll- back yesterday. It ranges from $1.50 to $2 a case, going into ef- fect Aug. 8. # T, .F."Sandoz, president of the Colusibia River; Packers Associ- ation, said the announced price ceiling of $21 a case for Colnm- bia River Salmon was lower than 1948 prices. His firm will withdraw its sal- mon from the market unless OPS agrees to delay the rollback a month, so that fish packers and OPS officials can confer, Sandoz said. Other packers in this big fish canning center also protested the rollback, but did not indi- eate “whether . they ‘would follow Sandoz’ lead in withdrawing the 1951 pack. They sald they would wiilt te see. They called the roll- back unwarranted, though, and saild ‘packing costs were rising. The new ceilings are $21 a case for 'Columbia River salmon, $18 for Alaska red salmon. Planes Still Seek Maurice King in Missing Norseman Air Force planes continued a search today for Maurice King in a Norseman aircraft which has been overdue at Yakutat for past week, according to U.S, Coast Guard head- quarters here today. A Doctor Sharp, member of the Arctic Research Institute expedi- tion for which King was pilot, ac- companied Air Force officers on flights over the Malaspina and Se- ward Glaciers yesterday. A camp at the base of Mt. Vancouver, oneé of the stations for which King was headed, was weathered in but it was hoped clouds would lift today so it could be checked. Doctor Sharp was flown by 2 small afrcraft to Yakutat from Point Manby from which King had de- parted July 26, to service a series of camps where ice studies are being made. Sharp is familiar with the camp locations ‘and the routes over which King normally flew. No new reports had been received here at noon today. .. TEXAN VISITS HERE Mrs. Philip 8tolz of Weslac, Texas, is & guest at the Gastineau Hotel. ATTENTION | Stevens Stores will open at 8:30 am. and close at 5:30 p.m. dwing month: of August, 876-2t MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Trial of Fish Violators Is Delayed Today Trial of five fishing boat cap- tains for illegal fishing was de- layed today pending a report from them from Sitka, H. L. Faulkner, attorney for three of the boats, said. . However, Dan Ralston, law en- forcement chief for the Fish and ‘Wildlife Service had something to say about fish law enforcement. Fishing seasohs "have been re- laxed this year in Southeastern Alaska, but there will be no less vigilance in enforement regula- tions, Ralston said. That Ralston is aware of his duty was shown the morning of August I when he apprehended four boats in Tenakee Inlet and one in Rodman Bay on Baranof Island, for illegal fishing. The four bots in Tenakee Inlet, 8JS II, Sea Ranger, Ginger N, and SJS were caught with their sets completed 15 minutes before the 6 am., legal opening hour, Ralston said, and the Tony K, he said, was fishing in a closed area. Officlals Nabbed Captain aboard the SJS II was Andrew Hope, member of the Ter- ritorial House of Representatives and chairman of the House fish- eries committee in the 1951 ses- sion. On the Sea Ranger was Cap- tain Willilam R. Walton, chairman of the Territorial Board of Fish- ries. Ralston, with pilot Bob Meek and Wildlife agent Robert Bain, from the Yakutat district, left Ju- neau Wednesday morning at 3:30 o'clock on an aerial patrol cov- ering a part of the districts due to open to fishing at 6 am, six days ahead of the regularly sched- uled opening time. “Aerial patrol,” Ralston poin- ted out, “greatly facilitates our job of law enforcement. Where a few years ago it would take a whele season to cover an open ares by baat. it ean.now be pa- trolled by plane in a day. Ralston said that before taking off from Juneau, the three men checked their watches with Civil /Aleronautics Administration time to make sure they were correct. Sight Violators He said first they flew a trap patrol through Chatham Strait and then cut across' to Tenakee Inlet, The four offénding boats; he said, were sighted at 5:45 am., and all had completed their sets. Eight other boats were standing by awaiting the opening hour. After landing on the water and apprehending the offenders, Ralston said ‘they flew to the Pyramid Cannery in Sitka, for which company the 8J8 II and Sea Ranger were fishing, to no- tify them of the arrest and make arrangements for holding the fish in escrow pending out- come of trial of the shem, which is expected late today er tomor- TOW. The SJS and Ginger N, were fishing for the Hood Bay Cooper- ative, financed by the Alaska Na- tive Service. , On the return trip from Sitka the Tony K. another Pyramid Packing Co. boat was, found fish- ing in Rodman Bay, & closed area. They landed, 'Ralston said, and made the arrest. Faulkner will represent fisher- men working for the Pyramid Packing Company at the forth- coming trial and it is expected an Alaska Native Service attorney will present the Hood Bay fisher- men’s case. Stanley Baskin, assistant U. S. Attorney, will act for the govern- ment. Mrs. Hall Will Teach in Ardic This Year Mrs. Clifford Hall and her two children, were enroute today to Kiana where she and her husband taught an Alaska Natlve Service school last year. Last spring Mr. Hall died and Mrs, Hall took the body back to their home in New York State for burial. She will go to Kiana before moving to White Mountain where she will teach this coming year. Thursday evening Mrs. Hall was entertained at “Montgomery’s Ward,” the cabin of Mr. and Mrs. 1. J. Montgomery on Lena Cove road. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Martin Holm and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Schultz. FROM SEATTLE C. C. Pangborn registered at the Baranof Hotel Tops This is North Korean Maj. Gen. Nam II, head of the Communist delgation to the cease-fire talks at Kaesong, the 16th session which ended without apparent progress toward solving the cur- vent issue—location of a “buffer” zone across Korea. He smokes a cigarette in an odd holder. M Wirephoto. EaciafionOnly With Invasion, Landreth Says Evacuation of Alaska’s civilian population will be undertaken only if invasion becomes imminent, Earl Landreth, territorial civil defense director, stated today in a press re- lease on the defense council's first meeting. Council members attending the meeting held July 31 in Governor Ernest Gruening's office were Lan- dreth, Frank A. Metcalf, territorial highway engineer, George S. (Tony) Schwamm, aeronautics commission director, Dr. Earl Albrecht, depart- ment of health director, and Col. Joseph Alexander, acting National Guard ? General, and T. H, Dyer, ofl’ company ‘man#ager. = “The council may tlake steps to increase existing transportation and may establish priorities for evacu- ation if any movement prior to in- vasion taxes normal transportation,” Landreth stated. Annual salary of the director was set at $8,000 by the council, and the deputy. director's at $7,500, The saldries are in line with those of offieials occupying like positions in the Territory, Landreth stated. The civil defensc act, passed by the 1951 legislature, provided for salaries of $12,000 and $9,000, respec- tively. . A deputy director has not been appointed, Landreth said. The council voted to send a tele- gram to Delegate E. L. Bartlett in Washington, D.C., requesting in- formation on federal matching funds in excess of the 50-50 basis. The telegram was sent’ Wednesday, Landreth said. No answer has as vet been received. A policy was established fixing a hasis for matching Territorial funds with local funds on a 50-50 basis after dedueting the amount put up by the federal government, the press release stated. 3 $1,000 1S to be spent, it was ex- plained, the federal government would ptit up $500 while the Terri- tory and a community would each guarantee $250. Should the fed- eral government, propose spending $800, the Territory and a commun- ity would each spend $100, it was stated in the release. Pelersburg Salmon Season Opens with Arrest-But Not Fish PETERSBURG, Aug. 3—P— The Fish and Wildlife Service made its first arrest of the sal- mon season in these waters yes- terday. But—it wasn't for salmon. A fish boat had deer meat aboard. ‘Wildlife agents Hosea Sarber and Doyle Cisney nabbed the seine boat Nancy Rose, registered out of Gig Harbor, Wash, The Nancy Rose was enroute to Puget Sound from Prince William Sound when apprehended. A fine of $625 and costs was levied collectively against skipper Nick Tarabochia, C. B. Johnston, Nick Karzua, A. J. Arney, Bob Van Hooser, Don Izett, Konrad Peterson, Jack Collins and Ivar Stenii. TARRANT IS HERE 8. G. Tarrant, of the Pacific American Pisheries from Belling- of Seattle, 18! ham, Wash. is stopping at the 'Baranof Hotel, PRICE TEN CENTS Allies Remind Reds of Ships Free-Ranging Battle Craft ‘Must Be Taken Taken Into Account’ U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUAR- ‘TERS, Korea, Aug. 3—(®—The Allies today pointedly reminded the Reds that United Nations warplanes and ships range at will far north of the Korean battlefront and must be taken into account in setting up any cease-fire buffer zone across the peninsula. An authoritative source said the U.N. envoys emphasized this virtually unchailanged air and naval might during the dead- locked armistice negotiations at Kaesong. . The Communists have been in- sisting on a cease-fire buffer zone straddling parallel 38. The U.N. demands a dividing line generally following the present front, which extends diagonally, from south of 38 in the west, into North Korea for as much as 35 miles. So, in effect, the Allies told the Reds today not to forget that the ground line is not the only battle front—that the war can and is, daily being carried to the Keds as far north as the Yalu river boundary between North Korea and Red Man~- churia. When Allied negotiators used this lever in Friday’s two hour and 35 minute session, a U.N. spokesman said, North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam Il grudgingly admit- ted that the superior United Na- tions air power had influenced Communist ground action. ' However, the Ghief Red delegate did not wesken his demand for a cease-fire line along the 38th par- allel, B The sessions ended with the two delegations still unable to agree on where to create a buffer zone. They fake up the same subject for the tenth time in Saturday’s session, set for 11'am. (6 p.m, Friday, PDT). Expenses, Musi Be (leared by Roden All travel expenses and pur- chases of Territorial departments in the future must be submitted to the Office of the Commission- er of Finance, according to a di- rective issued to department heads recently by Henry Roden, Terri- torial Treasurer and ex-officio Fi- nance Commissioner. The directive quotes Chapter 133, of the Session Laws of Al- aska, 1951, which set up the of- fice of the Finance Commissioner and established a central purch- asing office. The law has since been declared illegal by ‘Territor- ial Attorney General J. Gerald Williams. At the present time, vouchers are cleared through the office of the Territorial Auditor and bids must be called for on purchases over $250. Chapter 133 allows the Commissioner of Finance to use his discretion on purchases of less than $1000 “either upon compet- itive bids or in the open market.” In traveling outside of the Ter- ritory ihe old law states that the traveler must have permission of the Board of Administration, or, if his department is headed by a board or commission, permission from that source. Concerning a central purchas- ing office the directive says: “In spite of the fact that the Board of Administration has decided not to expend any part of the appro- priations made under said chap- ter, it believes. . . that some of the beneficial provisions of the act may be secured of Territorial departments and agencies will co- operate. . . . " On mimeographed blanks pro- vided, Territorial agencies are asked to list a description of the article they desire to purchase; quantity; estimated cost and other precise information. Where travel is concerned purpose of the trip and by whom made, is required; number of days applicant expects to be gone; estimated cost and estimated total per diem. The. di- rective states that mo voucher for payment of travel costs will be honored unless accompanied by written approval of the Commis- sioner of Finance. August Lena 876-3t Pioneer Picnic, Sunday, 5th, at Garnick’s Cabin, Beach. NOTICE ATTENTION Stevens Stores will open at 3:30 am. and close at 5:30 p.m, during month of August. 876-2¢