The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1951, Page 1

SONGRESSI ONAL LIBRARY 7ASH w A THE DAILY ALAS. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Dn. C N MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS T_I_\ig§lopped Peace Talks JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1951 'All-Time Record Hit In Territorial 'Tax Collections PRICE TEN CENTS — ] 0il Slick Seen Near Yakufat; VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,182 'Deliberate Fabrications’ Russ Knew, Several Months Ahead, of Pearl Harbor ANCHORAGE, Aug. 9—P— @ " " ¢ . aid to Allies ftack. Says Japanese aiks tex outusiuns il : v e ing to $8,000,000 in the first ® 'or's Io Dra e seven months of 1951 have set ® © an all-ti d, Territarial @ Reds Cha[ge UN Team WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, —i have been subvemsive influences | o s Dobiinr e Mu‘:-l . g Japan's top investigating officer|on U. S. foreign policy. ) ‘el H Seeks Excuses; Plangs |iciice today ihe Russians know | Wiloushby sad “the best te- | & "5 i cobectons inaated @ Clearing Weather Sends it & several months before Pearl Har-, gal American talent in Tokyo” the T " A H H“ Wh"e_flagged Trutks Lor of the Japanese plan to strike| had approved as proper evidence : h,:,e :r;;i(;;:: :;e;fi: b“)v'orl:: : Alr Sear(h Forward— TOKYO, Friday, —M—A sharp message from the Communist com- mand last night told Gen. Mat- thew B. Ridgway there would be no new violations of the Korean conference site “unless you should deliberately fabricate incidents as an excuse to terminate armistice negotiations.” The armistice talks have been suspended since Saturday on Gen- eral Ridgway’s complaint that armed Chinese Communist troops entered the supposedly neutral conference zone of Kaesong. The Reds promised Sunday not to let it happen again, but the supreme United Nations commander de- manded a firm guarantee before agreeing to resume the negotia- tions. The Reds in turn have accused the Allies of violating the zone. The latest Red reply, broad- cast by the Peiping radio late Thursday night, said Red guards again had been ordered to ‘“ad- here strictly” to the neutrality agreement around Kaesong. It invited the Allied delegates to return to Kaesong. However, it then raised the question of the Allies fabricating incidents. - . “We Wont Stop” 1t added, “On our part, we def-| initely will not terminate the negotiations rashly and irrespon- sibly without going through the procedural steps of protest, inves- tigation, consultation and settle- ment should a similar failure on your part occur.” The Red Teply, sigried by Gener= als Kim Il Sung and Peng Teh- Huai, was first broadcast in Chi- nese. As translated 'into English by hearers in Tokyo, it omitted the “deliberately. fabricate” angl> and sounded - generally —much more polite in tone than the of- ficial English version which was heard a little later. The English version is regarded as the official one, however. The U. N. command distributed it to correspondents. Allied Vioiation Red China’s broadcast came a few hours after Communists pro- tested Allied planes had violated a safe conduct pledge for truce convoys. Top Communist negotiator, Lt. Gen. Nam I, said a truce truck kearing white flags was machine- gunned Tuesday enroute from Kaesong to the Red capital at Pyongyang. Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, head of the U, N. truce delegation, promptly rejected the protest as invalid. He said Reds had not an- nounced the time and route the truck would . travel, as required. And Joy openly wondered whe- ther the Reds ‘“are abusing the use of white markings,” supposed to be used exclusively by truce teams. RETURNS TO WRANGELL Lew Williams Jr, returned to Wrangell yesterday after being in Juneau for the picnic last Sunday. TheWashingion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, Dy Bell Syndicate, Inc. ‘ASHINGTON. — This week the un-American activities com- mittee will unfold the story of a Communist spy ring in Japan which sent the innermost secrets of the Tokyo High Command back to Moscow. This is an important story and the public needs to know about it. However, it's also important that the public realize that a lot of the current Communist spy news, now making headlines, is extremely old and warmed-over hash. The story about the spy ring in Japan, for instance, was told in this column almost three years ago—Dec. 21, 1948. Incidentally, one reason the story was never officially released by the I. S. government was that General MacArthur would not au- thorize it. In December 1948, the late Secretary of Defense Forrestal cabled MacArthur asking for a release, but it was not given. However, here is the vitally im- portant story, as told in this col- umn on Dec. 21, 1948, and about (Continuéd on Page Four) at the United States and Britain in the Pacific. The House Unamerican Activi-| ties committee drew this testi-| from Mitsusada Yoshikawa, | chief of the special investigating bureau of the Japanese attorney general’s office. The House group and a Senate subcommittee were simultaneously holding separate hearings revolv- mony ing about activities of a Soviet spy ring, headed by Richard Sorge, which operated in Japan before and during World War IIL Overruled Bofore the Senators, Maj. Gen. Charles Willoughby ~ testified he sought in 1949 to ‘“unmask” the activities of members of this spy ring but was overruled by military authorities in Washington. ge's spy apparatus sent a mes- ber, 1941, while U. S.-Japanese peace talks were going on in Washington, He guoted it as ad- vising that “if America refuses | to compromise by the middle of October, Japan will attack Am- erica, the Malay countries,. Sing- apore and Sumatra.” Willoughby, former military in- telligence chief under Gen. Doug- las MacArthur, gave his testimony | before the Senate Internal Secur- ity subcommittee. It is looking Yoshikawa testified that Sor- | sage to Moscow early in Octo- | 'into the question of whether there Kong in 1941, |“a smear | stitute of Pacific Relations, a report naming writer Guen- ther Stein and the late Agnes Smedley as members of a Soviet spy ring in Japan He said Mrs. Smedley conducted campaign” against the report, which he had made pub- lic, and that “the war department public relations officer, in my re- collection, and the Secretary of war’s office, then under Mr. Roy- all” squelched the report as a re- sult. Repudiated He said the report met a fate of “indirect repudiation” when these men “indicated this report never should have been published.” Kenneth C. Royall, now a New York and Washington lawyer, was Secretary of War at the time. “No action ever was taken,” Willoughby said. “Smedley nev- er sued for libel (as she had threatened), and the case died for lack of further attention.” The committee has taken testi- | mony that both Mrs. Smedley and Stein were connected with the In- pri- vate research organization foun- ded in the 1920s with the announ- ced objective of studying Far East- ern problems. ‘Willoughby said Stein was “thor- oughly implicated” in the spy ring. He described Stein as an “itin- erant journalist” and said he be- came a British citizen in Hong ‘BOSTON, Aug. 9—(P—This sum- mer's expedition into the unexplor- ed west face of Mount McKinley, completed exploration of the moun- tain, Bradford Wasburn, director of the Boston Museum of Science, an-~ nounced today. Washburn, - who completed his third ascent of the 20,270 foot peak, returned home from Alaska yester- day. The trek was sponsored jointly by the Museum and University of Denver. He said the expedition complet- ed a three-fold purpose of finish- ing a map of McKinley being pre- pared by the Museum, getting a complete photographic record of the west face, and conducting a thorough geological survey of the area, The director said the expedition benefited so from lessons learned on the last one in 1947 that there were no casualties this time. Hardest Trek The difficult part of the climb, Washburn said, was from 15,000 to North America’s highest peak, has} lt;s Cold Up There |West Face Trek Completes !MeKinley Expto_ruticm 17,200 feet, For a third of a mile the. advancé party had to shovel through waist-deep snow. Thereafter the party chopped steps up an, icy 50-foot incline, setting 800 feet of rope as they worked up. The first trip up the slope ' took four hours, and the second, with the aid of ropes, only 45 minutes. At times the fog was so thick, Washburn said, the party had to use instruments on the ascent. B-r-r-r! Washburn said that at Denali | pass, where the new western route joins the usual Muldrow Glacier route, a thermometer had registered 59 degrees below zero. McKinley’s summit was reached by the three-man advance party July 10, and by the rest of the ex- pedition July 13 and 14. This recent ascent of McKinley was the first time the mountain has been climbed by any route other than the Mudrow Glacier route, Washburn said. Judge Denies Injunction fo Close Fish Trap Judge George W. Folta for the second time has denied a prelimin- ary injunction in the case of the Libby, McNeill and Libby fish trap at Sukkwan. It will be allowed to continue to operate. U. 8. Attorney Patrick J. Gilmore, Jr., received the decision yesterday from Anchorage where Folta is holding court in the absence of Judge Anthony J. Dimond. Gilmore went to Anchorage last Friday and presented the renewed application for a preliminary in- junction to the court Saturday morning for the government which is the plaintiff in the case. It had previously been denied May 15, in Juneau. The government contends that the trap is located within the Hyda- burg Indian reservation, set up some time ago by the Department of In- terior. Validity Questioned In handing down his decision yesterday Judge Folta sustained the defendant’s contention con- cerning the doubtful validity of the executive order setting up the reservation. He held that if granted, the injunction would re- sult in “far greater loss and hard- ship” for the defendant than for the plaintiff. Also that the plain- tiff could be adequately compen- sated in money if courts later up- held the cause of the government. Tax Colleclor Brown Senienced To 2" Years ANCHORAGE, Aug. 9, —M— Archie L. Brown, convicted of embezzling $4,350 in Alaska tax funds, was sentenced by U. S, District Judge George Folta yes- terday to 2! years in the Mec- Neil Island, Wash., federal pris- on. Brown was freed on $5,000 bail pending arguments on a motion for a new trial. He formerly was | deputy territorial tax collector in Anchorage. italian Flood In Wild Rampage COMO, Italy, Aug. 9—{P—At least 19 persons have been killed in a flood which continued its wild ram- page in this area today after 36 hours of heavy rain. Several score are reported injured or missing, and one village is completely isolated. Seventeen of the deaths were | caused by the breaking of the Do- maso dike, which sent a great wall of water crashing into Gera Lario, a village of 700 people. bkt oo S S e SRR LSS | W. C. Arnold and R. E. Robertson appesred in court for the defend- ants. It is expected the case will be carried over to the next term of court in the First Division, end of the 1952 fiscal biennium. Appropriations made by the 1951 legislature for the bien- nium came to $19,000,000. The $8,024,747.75 collected in taxes through July 31 was more | than half the entire total for the 1949-50 biennium. U. §.-Canadian RoadSwap - Not Dead Issue - The four-year-old “road swap” between the United States and Canada is not a dead issue. This was indicated today by Ralph Borwne, assistant general mana- ger of the Alaska Development Board. On a recent trip to Victoria, B. C.;“Browne conferred with Hon. E. C. Carson, minister of public works for British Columbia who again brought up the matter. The roads involved would be the Haines Cut-Off from the Alaska boundary above Haines to Haines Junction, and a 25 to 30 mile stretch along the British Colum- bia-Washington border from Lau- rier, Wash. to Rossland, B. C. British Columbia is constructing a new highway along its south- ern border and in the area be- tween Laurier and Rossland, moun- tainous formation would make it more practicable for the Canad- jans to swing their Highway into ‘Washington state, it was explained. sor-bold Browne he had sent the proposal 10 gOWErNiLEny dwd= quarters at Ottawa, but the matter has not yet been formally presen- ted to the United - States. Advantage (of the states acquir- ing the Haines, Cut-Off would be the possibility of earlier opening of the highway each season, The American section has generally been open several, weeks in ad- vance of the, Canadian. Charges Made Against Four in Shooting Scrape Mike Fuchs and Ralph Littlefield, figures in a shooting fray at Lemon Creek Tuesday afternoon, were ar- rested and charged with careless use of firearms yesterday afternoon. Littlefield is in St. Ann’s Hospital where Dr. C. C. Carter, his physic- jan said he was improving. Little- field received four buckshot pellets in the neck, shoulder, face, and had one tooth knocked out. Fuchs is being held in federal jail under $500 bond. Two women involved were Verina Ginnett, who occupied a cabin at Lemon Creek near Fuchs. She pleaded guilty in Commissioner’s Court on a charge of drunk and dis- orderly conduct and was given a four months suspended jail term. Another woman, Nellie Benson, concerned in the fracas but who was unreported yesterday, pleaded guilty today on a similar charge and was given a similar sentence. John Monagle, of the Territorial Highway Patrol, was among the first on the scene of the shooting. He assisted Deputy Marshal Sidney J. Thompson in bringing Littletield to the hospital. Complaints against the four were signed by Thompson. - | CONCERT ASSOCIATION MEETING CALLED To reorganize the Concert As- sociation, officers have called a meeting to be held Tuesday at 8 pm. in the Elks Hall WEATHER FORECAST Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning At Airport: Maximum, 61; minimum, 50. FORECAST (Junesu and Vieinity) Continued fair tonight and Friday. Low tonight near 48 degrees and high Friday near 0. PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todsy @ At Airport — 001 inches; ® since July 1—3.19 inches. . ® 00 00 00 0 0 Appearance of these armed Chinese troops who marched wi thin three-quarters of a mile from fhe ON peace house in Kaesong during a noon recess of the 19th peace meeting, caused Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme commander, to apology. ) Wirephoto. call 2 halt in the meeting. The g Foreign Aid May Suffer Billion Cut WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.— (® —A House committee reportedly has agreed tentatively to lop $1,000,000,- 000 from President Truman's $8,- 500,000,000 foreign aid program and place the entire program under a new high-level official. < R Scistomsiibldet to_possible reversal later—was ~reported TABU| night by members “of 'the House Foreign Affairs committee. Altholigh some members’ \ere’ absent when the agreement was ‘reached yester: day at @ cloged door Hession, those present: said,, they ' didn't éxpect ‘a reversal. 3 4 Five committee plan would place both i economic and military aid under a new administrator, ap- pointed by the President and con- firmed by the Senate. He would be responsible only to the Presi- dent but would. work closely with the State and Defense Depart- ments. Such a plan could be expected to gain support from Republican forces which have been pressing for re- moval of foreign aid direction from Secretary of State Acheson. 1 Committee members said the preposed money cuts would hit i both military and economic aid. So far, most of the talk in Con- gress has centered on reductions in the economic side of the pro- gram, Meanwhile, a brisk Senate fight appeared brewing over the Presi- dent’s ;program of military and ec- onomic aid to Formosa, island stronghold of the Chinese National- ists. Chairman Connally (D-Tex) of the Foreign Relations committee, holding hearings on the administra- tion’s foreign aid plan, said flatly: “I don't think Formosa needs mili- tary aid when Chiang Kai Shek is there. If Chiang can't protect For- mosa, he can’t protect much.” No More "Lazy Q' Brands - They'll be Lazy Holpoint’ Now . MOSCOW, Idaho, Aug. 9— M — Another trademark of the old west may be on the verge of passing. The old-time ' branding iron— heated over an open fire and stamp- ed into cattle hides—may be replac- ed by an electric branding iron. Experiments for developing the electric branding iron are being con- ducted by Marv Meyers, Sugar City stockman, and William H. Knight, project director for the Idaho Farm Electrification Committee. ARRIVES HERE TO LIVE WITH SISTER Miss Dorothy Grimes, formerly of Seattle, arrived in Juneau Monday | on the Aleutian. | She will make her future home | here with her sister, Mrs. Jean Marsh, a secretary in the Governor’s office. Miss Grimes is a stenographer. — EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY — ;Foued fo Squéél; | On Teammales, Says West Point Cadet ‘WEST POINT, N. Y, Aug. 9— (A—Harold Loehlein, captain-electy of Army’s 1951 football team, said today he was forced, with the threat of prison, to ‘“squeal” on his teammates in the exam-crib- bing scandal at the U. S. military academy, The Kimball, Minn, youth, one of 90 facing dismissal for viola- tion of the academy’s honor code, told his story in a by-line article written “for"the New York Journ- AT IR e eneral demanded an explanation Forest Fires Uncontrolled Along Border Canadian Fire Sweeps Into Washington; Olym- pic Flames "'Corralled” By the Associated Press CariAdian “forést Tires along the “They- kept hammering —at me~nfenational berder continued on 'he ‘rélated. ‘Even if I knew my fighty, ‘which I now know,I would have’ told! m[y part in the cheating. But 11 »woulditt" have' told about [the ‘others, T dfdiit Wint 'to squeal on' ¥y wamp'}'uie's/." Loghlein said he, was handgd, al long sheet of.papey by the exam- ining colonel and told to check the names of those who cribbed. “I checked 20 names,” he said. AtadeTny Coach o Stay-Wanis 'People To Understand’ - NEW YORK, Aug. 9, —®—Earl: (Red) Blaik announced today he planned to continue as head coach at the United States Military Ac-| ademy where his football .squad has been shattered by an exam- cribhing expose. The 54-year old retired colonel, coach of the Army for the last ten years, made the announce- ment at a two-hour press confer-! ence attended by some 40 fans and sports writers. “I feel 1 can best make the ' people understand these boys and their ems and that 1 can do ‘/thing for our fine institution” (ke head coach said in his ststement. During the interview, Blaik said that approximately 50 percent of : the 90 involved' ocadets were ath- | letes and “that all but a few of his 45-man football squad ‘“‘were included.” Cannery Workers Union Agent Ordered Deporfed SEATTLE, Aug. 9—(®—An order directing that Ernesto Arcebal Man- gaoang be deported from the United States was received today by the District Immigration Office here. District Director John P. Boyd said the orders from Washington, D. C, is an outcome of hearings held earlier in Seattie into past act- ivities of Mangaoang, business agent for the Alaska Cannery Workers Union, Local 7-C, International Longshoremen and Warehousemen'’s Union (Independent.) Mangaoang will have 15 days to appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals. The order charges that he was a member of the Communist Party. It is the first case here in- volving a deportation order under the McCarran Act, Mangaoang is a citizen of the Philippine Islands, the rampage today while fire fight- ers'appeared to have:gained the up- per hand over an Olympic National Fovest blaze. District Ranger Sanford Floe of the Olympic Forest said this morn- ing: the Soleduck fire there “is in'a state of flux. We can't say it's under control, but ‘at least we have it cor- raled.” A heavy overcast yesterday and this morning aided the fire crews. The blaze covers an estimated 1,- 500 acres, with about 20 acres of it inside the Olympic National Park, A crew of 175 mer wes fighting the fire in the “dynamite dry” woods trying to hold it within natural bar- riers. Fire fighters called for reinforce- ments against two blazes near Grand Forks, B, C. Flaming embers were reported carrying as much as a quarter of a mile, There already were 1,300 men on the fire lines in that region, with the town of Grand Folrks drained of physically fit men. The flames have swept across the border into the Colville National Forest in northeastern ‘Washington. We Know Just How [You Feel About If SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 9, (A—The Sydney Sun reported to- day that southeastern Australia has been hit by its heaviest snow- fall. Hobart, "Tasmania, its street: covered with two and one half inches of snow, reported a temp- erature of 28.9 degrees—coldest in 49 years. Melbourne had two snow falls this morning and Geelong, Vic- toria, reported the first snowfall in 50 years. Stock Quolations NEW YORK, Aug. 9—(M—Closing quotation of American Tel. & Tel 157%, Anaconda 45%, Douglas Air- craft 51, General Electric 57'2, Gen- eral Motors 49%, Goodyear 92 Northern Pacific 47%, Standard OL of California 48%, Twentieth Cen- tury Fox 20%, U. 8. Steel 41% Pound 2.79 15/16, Canadian Ex- change 95.12%. Bales today were 1,500,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 262.69, rails 81.39, util- ities 45.34. FROM - TEXAS R. S. Sample, George J. Darn- eille and Bill Lawrence, all of Houston Texas, are Juneau visi- tors. ‘They are stopping at the Baranof Hotel, Bones Shipped East A small oil slick was spotted late yesterday in Yakutat Bay by a rov- ing Fish and Wildlife Service plane, and investigations went forward immediately to determine its pos- sible connection with the two miss- ing planes being sought in the area. The Coast Guard cutter Storis was to begin operations today in the vicinity. ok A C-54 transport, chartered from the Canadian Pacific Airlines for the Korean airlift, has been lost since July 20 with 38 aboard. The plane was last heard from off Cape Spencer enroute to Anchorage. Maurice King, pilot of a Norseman craft, with Mrs, Walter A. Wood and Her 18-year-old daughter Valerie as passengeis, have been missing since. July 27. King was flying for the Arctic Institute, which was conduct- ing research on Malaspina and Seward Glaclers, To 180 Feet The area where the slick was seen is dotted with shoals and reefs, and ranges to 180 feet in depth, Coast Guard headquarters here said. They had no information as to its size or intensity. It was located between Yakutat Village and Khantaak, according to the Storis. Headquarters here locat- ed Khantaak Island two miles from Yakutat. Meanwhile, six sorties were flown by six search aircraft out of Yaku- tat yesterday, for a total of 32 hours, with from 30 to 75 percent effectiveness reported. Areas covered included Bering, Miles, Seward, Malaspina and Martin River glaciers, and the and Icy and Disenchantment Bays Eighteen planes were expected up today as weather cleared over the . . search area. Dr. Terris Moore, pre . sident of the'University of Alaska, arrived last night in Yakutat with his ski-equipped plane to aid in the search for the missing Norse- man, Bone Shipped The leg bone discovered several days ago near Yakutat was to be shipped today to Washington, D. C. for positive “identification. It was said here to be from a hu- man, but later examination pro- nounced it as not having come from a man or woman. An 18-inch-long section of a spin- al cord, found across Monti Bay from where the leg bone was seen, was wrapped with the latter. Re- ports from New Jersey and New York said that Juneéau sources had identified it as a “female human baekbone.” Pronouncement that the leg bone “did not seem human” put grave doubts that the discovery had any connection with the missing airlift plane. Coast Guard headquarters maintained from the time of finding the object that they did not consider it a clue, ) Manson-Osberg Low Bidders on Ketchikan Read Manson-Osberg Company of Se- attle were low bidders on recon- struction of 6.9 miles of road north of Ketchikan. Bids were opened at 9 o'clock vhis morning in the office of Hugh Stod- dart, division engineer, for the Bur- eau of Public Roads. The road work includes widening and crushed-rock surfacing of the road from Ketchikan to Whipple Creek. ‘The Manson-Osberg bid was $1,- 939,350. Other bidders and amounts bid were: Wilder-Dawson Construe- tion Co., of Ketchikan, $2,060,569; Stock and Grove Construction Co., Anchorage, $2,199,577, Morrison- Knudson Co., Seattle, $2261,107, and Carl M. Halvorson Co., Portland $2,793,124. . L L] AUGUST 10 L] . L e Low tide 12:41 am., 16ft. ® High tide 6:40 am, 119 ft. ® ® Low tide 12:28 pm., 44ft. @ e High tide 6:46 pm, 155 ft. @ ® 0 0 0 ¢ 00 0 0 00