The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 14, 1951, Page 1

- o o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,886 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, 7‘\ GUST 14, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ey Allied Air, " Naval Power Snag Talks U. N. Ready fo Clob- ber”’ Reds; Enemy Needs * Peace, Says General By Robert B. Tuckman MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. 14— Kaesong armistice talks snagged to- day on an argument over the im- portance of Allied air and naval supremacy. If cease-fire negotiations down, the United Nations ground commander, Gen, James A. Var Fleet, said his troops are feady to “clobber” the Reds. In Tokyo Gen. Matthew Ridgway UN supreme commander, said the Reds have been steadily building up and are in a materiaily better position to attack than they were when truce talks started July 10 Van Fleet, commander of the Eighth Army, commented: “The military feels we would like to have the opportunity to y 4 meet the Communists if they at- tack. It would be a real clobber. “I don’t know of a better way to get it over faster. “The enemy is hurting. He is in bad shape. He needs peace.” Van Fleet's opinion of the ability of the 8th Army to meet a Red on- slaught coincided with views ex- pressed by Ridgway, when the top Allied comander told about the Red build-up. Ridgway said the UN position was not inflexible, but that his troops must have a defensible position during a truce approximately along their present battle line. He said the UN won't go back to the 38th paraliel, where the Reds want to set up a buffer zone. It was the demilitarized zone deadlock which generated the argu- ment at Kaesong over UN air and navy might. Vice Adm C. Turner Joy, head of the UN delegation told the Reds that Allied planes and warships “are prosecuting a war behind your front lines which is not duplicated behind our lines.” A UN spokesman said this was a reply to a one-hour and 13-minute attack by General Nam attempting to “discredit the independent ef- fectiveness of air and naval power which the UN comand would re- linquish in an armistice.” In one breath the North Koreans said they weren’'t doing much good and in the next he said the Reds would run UN troops out of Korea except for ‘Allied planes and war- ships, Reds Claim Allies Dropped Gas Bombs MOSCOW, Aug. 14—P—Moscow newspapers and radio today claimed the Americans have dropped poison gas bombs in Korea. The reports said a protest ha: been sent to the United Nation: They claimed . the bombs were dropped on Aug. 1 and Aug. 7 and that deaths have resulted from chemical poisoning. ., TheWashington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright. 1951. by Bell Syndicate. Inc. (Note: Drew Pearson is on another tour of Europe, study- ing conditions there in this per- iod of world tension and crisis. This is the first of his cabled dispatches from Central Europe.) Near the Iron Curtain, in Cen- tral Europe.—If there was ever a time when propaganda was need- ed to encourage and stimulate the people behind the Iron Curtain now is it. Already the people of the satel- lite countries and even many in Russia proper are torn by doubt and dissension and distrust. Thei restlessness has been churning for some time but now it's near the boiling point. All clues I have been able to pick up from the underground and from intelligence reports convince me 'Yat the Russian. bear has swallowed too much and will have to regurgitate. A beer that's suf- fering from acute indigestion is not usually belligerent and it may be that additional propaganda barrages by balloons, the Voice of America and every other device possible could help increase that sickness and tip the scales for peace. Furthermore, messages of friend- ship and encouragement to the people behind the Iron Curtain at this time can help produce an- (Continued on Page Four) break ’ . Trop Train, Sireamliner Collide 300 Marines near Simmesport, La. and about 60 injured. /) Wirephoto. The fast passenger train Southern Belle of the Kansas City Southern Railroad, collided headon with a troop train loaded with more than The southbound Southern Belle was headed to New Orleans. State police reported 12 persons were killed Biggest War Program Gels House Okay Construction for Milifary Will Take Billions; Funds fo Come Later- WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 —(@®— The House today authorized the largest single military construction program ever presented to Con- ess in war or peace. It calls for pending $5,768,720,000, The major portion of the posed work, $3,480,661,000, is lotted the r Force and used to ngthen its bases in this country, in the territories and overseas, The sum of £1,368,025,000 is ear- marked for Army construction and $786,267,000 for the Navy. In addition, there is about $133,766,000 for joint projects and for construc- tion of recreational and welfare facilities at bases. The bill simply authorizes the program. Actual funds will have to be supplied lati The military seryices are asking $4,600,000,000 to get the work under way. pro- al- st This - is in addition to the $56,- 000,000,000 military appropriations measure for 1952 passed by the House: last week. The House passed the authori- zation measure after rejecting an ittempt to strike out of the bill 1 $19,019000 project for expan- sion of the Grandview, Mo, air case in President Truman’'s home ounty. That action came on a voice vote. Rep. Gross (R-Ia) had sougat o knock out the Grandview pro- ject on the grounds that it was in “extravagance.” He contended the air force could use a nearby field at Sedalia, Mo. Southeast Pink Run Brings Up Tofal Salmon Pack Figure The excellent pink salmon run n Southeastern Alaska is helping 0 bring Alaska’s total pack fig- ires up to those of last year. This vas indicated today by figures re- eased by the Fish and Wildlife service. For the ‘week ending August 4, Southeastern’s pack was 250,579 ‘ases as compared with 41,767 at he same time last year. Pinks wccounted for 106,472 cases of this ear's total. Tetal salmon pack for Alaska for 1951 to the same date is 1,559,- 839 cases. Last year the pack was 1,824,491, In Central Alaska 920,709 cases have been packed of which 275.- 551 are pinks. Total at this time last year was 1,164,701. Western District has only a lit- tle more than half the pack of last year, with 388,551 for 1951 and 618,023 for 1950. Reds were leading in this district with 347,979 cases of that species. will be | ' 4,505 Prisoners {Thought Held in Communist Camps SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14 —# Unofficial estimates indicated | today that, of the 10624 Ameri- | cans officially listed as missing in action in Korea, as many as 4,500 probably are being held in Com- munist war prisoner camps. This figure comes from Allied ‘nuht:u‘y sources which cannot be Phamed bulwiteh e n owas goud sition as anyone on the Allied side to know the score on this hush-hush matter. The prisoners are said to be confined near Kanggye, deep in- |side Norh Korea about 20 air {miles from the Manchurian fron- tier. Reliable information reaching Allied authoritics said Chinese Red leaders do not want Allied prisoners transferred to Chin- ese To do so would destroy the Communist contention that only Ckinese “volunteers” are fighting Korea. The number of American and other U. N. prisoners never has ! been. announced by the Reds. Al- |lied sources estimate the total number at approximately 10,000, The Allies have announced they {hold 164,766 counted prisoners of | war. Most of them are North Kor- jeans. Whether prisoners will be ex- changed on a man-for-man basis by the negotiators. 'Red Aggression Stymied by Allies, Says Commitfee House Foreign Affairs committee said today the Allies have plans “which should deter Soviet aggres- sion or defeat it if launched.” A committee said details of the plans were given to the group at secret hearings on the administra- tion’s $8,500,000,000 foreign aid pro- gram. While optimistic on the eventual outcome, the committee warned that any war would be a long one. IDewey Happy’ fo ‘See Truman About Pacific Findings WELLINGTON, N. Z., Aug. 14 —(®—Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York leaves Wellington tomorrow for Auckland, and will board a plane there Thursday for the Fiji Islands on his return trip from his fact-finding tour of the | East. The Republican leader told a | reporter he will be “happy to see President Truman on my return to the states and pass on first hand reports of my findings in the Pacific.” Dewey announced yesterday he |would visit Alaska before return- |ing to New York. (His plans call |for arrival in Juneau next Tues- day.) jor by lot will have ‘to be decided | hjs spectacular and often provoc- i 1 William Randolph Hearst ; Dies in Beverly Hills BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. 14 —(M—William Randolph Hearst, the publisher, died today. He was 88. ‘The man whose chain of Ameri- can newspapers represented a $200,- 000,000 enterprise at its peak suc- cumbed in a coma at his home here. He had been in ill health for some time and periodically in recent vears T WET Tlpoiw e “Way dying, but his native strength re- peatedly returned “the chief” to active direction of his papers. Then yesterday Hearst sank into a coma. He died at 9:50 a.m. to- Hearst was one of the nation's most controversial figures in news- paper editing and publishing. On one hand he was called a “yellow journalist” and on the other, genius. Certainly it could be said that his s newspapers were never dull. He was a great campaigner for or against causes. He fought public utilities, battled government, was an uncom- promising foe of Communism. Equally, he was a great champion of Americanism, he fought for the eight-hour day and women’s suff- rage. The publisher, patriarch of chain newspapers, brought many innova- tions to American journalism during the half century he directed a vast empire with a value estimated as high as $200,000,000 at the peak of ative career. Violent controversies swirled all around him. Through his papers stretching from coast to coast he carried on campaigns for or against causes, jousting with governments, highly placed individuals, “crim- inal corporations,” politicians and many others. He went after public utilities and crusaded for public ownership. He bitterly fought the WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—(P—The | League of Nations and demand- ed payment of war debts after World War 1. Hearst championed such things as the eight-hour day, women suff- rage and election of U. 8. Senators by direct vote of the people. In- tensely interested in politics, he served two terms in Congress from New York and aspired for other of- fices including the Presidency. The publisher was praised and condemned. By some he was re- garded as a genius, by others as a “yellow journalist.” There were those who referred to him as a defender of the helpless, and those who called him a rabble rouser. Many Fielas Though most widley known as a militant newspaper publisher, Hearst had many other fields of activity—magazines published both in this country and England, news- paper feature syndicates, a news service, photo service, art collecting, real estate, mining, motion pictures, radio and ranching. There was the fabulous San Sim- eon ranch in Califorpia, seat of his empire, with its four castles and lavish appointments; his wooded, 67,000-acre estate, Wyntoon, on the McCloud River in northern Calif- ornia; a $15,000,000 art collection that included complete churches and castles brought over from Eu- rope stone by stone; the 12th Cen- tury St. Donat’s castle in Wales; |from Wrangell, was through Juneau a number of radio stations. He inherited a fortune estimated at around $25,000,000 from his father, George Hearst, a former United States Senator. Included in the heritage were gold mines, ranch- es and railroad and bank stocks. Though he could have had a life of esqi Hearst pitched in at work immediately after he was “rusti- cated” (temporarily suspended) from Harvard in his senior year for a prank, and through the years in- creased his fortune many fold. Newspapers and Magazines A 1947 compilation showed the folowing newspapers in the Hearst group: San Francisco Cali-Bulletin, San Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles Herald-Ex- press, Chicago Herald-American, Boston American, Boston Record and Boston Sunday Advertiser, New York Journal-American, New York Mirror, Albany Times-Union, Balti- more News-Post and Sunday Am- erican, Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, Detroit Times, Seattle Post-Intelli- gencer, Oakland Post-Inquirer, San Antonio Light and Milwaukee Sen- tinel. The group had been larger before liquidations and consolidations. The American Weekly, a Sunday supple- ment that for years was exclusive with Hearst newspapers, was made available to others. There also was a Hearst news agency, the International News Ser- vice, that served all papers in the Hearst chain and many others. Among the magazines were Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar (both also published in London), Cosmopolitan, Junior Bazaar, House Beautiful, Town and Country, Mo- tor, Motor Boating, American Drug- gist and Connoisseur, the latter published in England. In Politics It was in 1904 that Hearst, amid great fanfare, sought the Demo- cratic nomination for President. Supporters hailed him as “the great advecate of popular welfare.” Eight states and Hawaii voted for him at the Democratic National Con- vention, but the nomination went to Alton B. Parker, who was defeat- ed by Theodore Roosevelt in the election, Four years later he was selected by the Independence League as its standard bearer. Hearst carried on a long feud with Alfred E. Smith, who in 1922 refused to run for reelection as gov- ernor of New York if Hearst were named on the ticket with him as Democratic candidate for the Sen- ate. The Senatorial nomination went to Royal S. Copeland. The publisher offered large prizes to encourage the development of aviation. He also went in for motion picturé production, starting during the first World War in New York and continuing for a time in Holly- wood. Many of the guests he enter- tained at San Simeon came from the movie colony, KREPPS TO YAKUTAT Jack Krepps, U. 8. deputy marshal extensive ranch holdings in Mexico; yesterday enroute to Yakutat. 11 Deadin Seattle Plane Accident Medium Bomber Crashes Apartment; Nine in Crew Killed SEATTLE, Aug. 14—(®—Charred, smoldering rubble and melted metal marked the pyre today where at least 11 persons were consumed in gasoline-fed flames spewed out from a crashed B-50 Air Force bomber. Those who lived remembered the hot breath of death that swept through the hillside apartment house into which the medium bomber plunged yesterday afternoon moments after taking off on a rou- | tine check-out flight. Dozens of persons in Seattle’s south end industrial section saw the doomed plane suddenly lose altitude from 700 feet up and veer off sharply to the right. Hit Apartments A wing dipped violently, the B-50 flicked against the side of a brewery, then plowed into the frame and brick Lester Apartments on the hill behind. “The noise was so loud I thought it was a jet coming,” re- called Fred Prout, who was below the residential hill. “Then I saw it, the wings at a 90-degree angle to the ground--straight up and down.” In the next instant it struck and burst into flames. Six of the dead were members of the plane’s crew—three Air Force men and three flight analysts from the nearby Boeing Airplane Com- pany, maker of the B-50. The other five known victims were dwellers in the 40-unit apartment house whose entire north end was destroyed. Still Search Firemen probed the still-hot de- bris until midnight, searching for the remains of others who might have been trapped in the inferno touched off by the plane's 3,500 gallons of high test gasoline and 300 gallons of oil. The hunt was to be resumed shortly after daybreak. ‘Twelve persons in the apartment building were painfully burned or injured in the impact or their escape from the lightning quick spread of the flames, Three residents were unaccounted for at an early hour today. List of Dead SEATTLE, Aug. 14—M—The vic- tims of the crash of a B-50 bomber into a Seattle apartment house yes- terday included the following: Dead: Lt. Lloyd G. Vanderweilen, 33, Seattle, pilot. Capt. Charles A. Dews, 30, 3007 Haris Bvd., Austin Texas, radar ob- server. M/Sgt. Frank A, Dodaro, 35, flight engineer, whose mother, Mrs. Mary Aston Dodaro, lives at 57 Elizabeth St., Kingston, N. Y. Earl Edwards, 35, Boeing Airplane Company co-pilot. Kenneth C. Bar- rick, 36, Boeing flight test analyst. DeLon P. Turner, 33, Boeing flight test analyst. Mrs. Evely~ Smith Ma- cabeo, 25, apartment house resident. Mrs. Albert Mason, about 40, apart- ment house resident. Martin P. Roberts, age unknown, believed an apartment house resident. Two of the dead are unidentified. Stock Quotations NEW YORK, Aug. 14—{M—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 115, American Tel. & Tel. 159%, Anaconda 45%, Douglas Aircraft 50%, General Electric 57%, Gen- eral Motors 48%, Goodyear 89%, Kennecott 75, Libby, McNeill & Libby 87%, Northern Pacific 47%, Standard Ofl of California 48, Twentieth Century Fox 20%, U. S. Steel 41%, Pound 279 15/16, Can- adian Exchange 94.75. Sales today were 1,180,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 26288, rails 79.89, util- ities 45.13.. MASSES ON WEDNESDAY Tomorrow morning, the Feasl of the Assumption, there will be Masses in the Catholic Church in Juneau at 7, 8, 9 and 10 o'clok, in Douglas at 8 o'clock, and at the Lee Smith residence near the air- port at 7 o'clock. | Princess Kathleen in port sched- {uled to sail for Skagway at 11:30 | p.m. Baranof due southbound some time Sunday. \Green Flares Seen Near Adak Spur Hunt for ' a A 4 ;Bone "Clues’ "Pronounced of Animal Origin Yakutat Beach Find Ex- amined by FBI; Storis Reurning fo Juneau The leg and spinal bones found near Yakutat last week, believed of human origin and a possible clue to the missing Korean air- |1ift plane, were definitely found of “animal origin,” it was an- nounced today. The skeletal remains were dis- covered by search parties roam- ing Monti Bay, several miles from Yakutat, and brought here for identification. Three Juneau doc- tors pronounced them human, but another source after x-rays, said they were not. The findings were announced in a telegram fram J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to Acting Marshal Walter Hellan. Hoover said: “Dr. Marshall Newman, assist- ant curator of the division of anthropology at the National Museum, advises the bones are all of animal origin. There was no further report. Specimens being destroyed as your instruc- tions.” Meanwhile, Coast Guard head- quarters reported that dragging operations carried on by the cut- ter 'Storis urider an oil slick seen near Yakutat were non-productive. The' ship is returning to its Jun- eau base, they sald. Parties searched the nearby beaches and found no evidence of an aircraft's having landed or crashed there. The search for the missing Can- adian Pacific Airlines transport, June 20 off route to Anchorage, slackening. Three Royal Canadian Air Force planes, based at White- horse, were reported returned to their bases near Vancouver, B. C. The search is combined with one for a missing Norseman craft car- rying Mvs. Walter A. Wood and her daughter Valerie, lost during a flight from a glacier camp while on research for the Arctic Insti- tute. Wood, with several friends, is in Yakutat pressing the search The craft, piloted by Maurice King, disappeared July 27. The search yesterday was lim- ited by weather and a decreased number of aircraft, because of several having . been diverted to the hunt for the missing Navy Privateer lost near Adak. Incom- plete returns this morning said that two aircraft flew six hours in the Yakutat coastal area yester- day. Three ships were standing by today to continue the search on a “weather permitting” basis. One Coast Guard plane based at Kodiak was pressed into the search for the Privateer. Catholic Priest to Pronounce Last Vows The Rev. Alfred T. Brady, S.J. will pronounce his last vows as a member of the Society of Jesus at the 9 o'clock Mass tomorrow morning in the Cathedral of the Nativity. The last vows will cul- minate his long period of train- ing in the Jesuit order. Father Brady was stationed in Juneau during the winter of 1948 -1949. He was chaplain of St. Ann's Hospital and cared for the Catholic Church in Douglas. He has been in Wrangell this sum- mer and will remain in Juneau for about a month. He is a mem- ber of the faculty of Seattle Un- iversity. Cape Spencer en appeared WEATHER FORECAST Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning At Airport—Maximum, 72; minimum, 53. FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Mostly cloudy with some very light showers tonight and Wednesday. Lowest tem- perature tonight near 55 de- grees. Highest Wednesday 65. e0ecveceetes v PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today . At Airport — .08 inches; o since July 1—3.27 inches. e o 00 000 0 00 'Missing Navy Privafeer examining | carrying 38 persons, last reported | KODIAK, Alaska, Aug. 14—(M™— Hope for 12 Naval airmen missing since Sunday in an Alaska-based patrol bomber was pinned today on a series of green flares sighted about 40 miles northeast of Adak} in the Aleutian Island chain An investigation was being con- ducted by the Navy tug Bagaduce. The intermittent flashes were seen | yesterday by a Navy search pilot }but fog and rain blotted out the 'ground and sea. Nothing could be | seen that might lie on the surface. | The PB4-Y-2 Privateer disappear- ed on an operational flight from its | home éxeld at Kodiak. Three officers |and nine enlisted men were aboard. The Military News Service this morning sent the following dis- patch to The Empire: Five aircraft of the Tenth Air Rescue Squadron took off from | Elmendorf Air Base at 3 am. this morning to join the search for the | bomber which disappeared Sunday on a routine flight from the U. S. Naval Station at Kodiak to the Aleutian Island of Adak. An armada of 24 Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard aircraft are now scouring an area of approximately 33,000 square miles for the bomber, | whose crew consists of three officers and nine enlisted men. The search area extends over tne Aleutian Island chain and the wat- ers surrounding the chain, with planes from Elmendorf, Kodiak and Adak participating under the di- rection of Commander George Koch, commanding officer of the Kodiak Naval Station, Advance base for the search is Cold Bay. * This morning at 4:39, a Navy alrcraft sighted three green flares on the water approximately 40 miles northeast of Adak. Shorfly after, another flare was sighted about 10 miles from Adak. The Navy tug Bagaduce was dispatch- ed from Adak at 7:30 o'clock this morning, and was schedulél to arrive in the area 40 miles from Adak at approximately 10 o’clock. No report has yet been received from the tug. A position report radioed from the missing plane at 9:3¢ a.m. Sundav morning was garbled and could not be deciphered at the Kodiak base, but it was relayed to the base at 10:14 am. by Lt. Evan Ryner, a Naval pilot flying in the erea. The report indicated that at the time of the transmission, the privat- eer was about 60 miles northeast of Port Heiden. Names of the men on the missing plane are presently being withheld. At Least 80 Dead Or Missing in Plane Accidents SEATTLE, Aug. 14 —(®—A ser- ies of airplane accidents along the North Pacific air lanes has left lead or missing at least 80 people, ncluding five Seattle apartment house dwellers killed yesterday vhen their home was hit by a crashing B-50. Six more persons plane were killed. Just one day earlier a Navy patrol bomber with 12 aboard vanished over the Alaska Penin- sula. Hope has not been abandoned for the Navy men. The string of ill luck capped by the Aug. 13 crash began July 20 when a Korean airlift plane car- rying 38 persons vanished on or aear the Alaska coast. A smaller clane disappeared July 27 with its pilot and two New Jersey women | who were passengers. A Queen Charlotte Airways plane carrying seven people was lost along the British Columbia oast Aug. 4. Last Monday a Navy patrol plane carried nine men to ijeath in a plunge into Puget Sound. aboard the VISITORS FROM CORDOVA Marian Elston and Bessie Sand- strom of Cordova are registered at the Baranof Hotel. TIDE TABLES AUGUST 15 6:33 am, -22 ft. 1:02 pm.,, 153 ft. 6:40 pm., 2.7 ft. Low tide High tide Low tide