The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 15, 1951, Page 1

. * 2 YSUNGRESSIONAL LIBRARY VASHINGTON, D ©. VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,887 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDA\7 AUGUST 15, 1951 Allies Suggest Subcommitiee On Deadlock Joy Proposes Meet "Around’ Instead of "Across’ Table MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. 15—P— United Nations delegates suggested today that a subcommittee be set up to break through the formality «of Korean truce negotiations and at- tempt to settle the buffer zone dead- lock. Red delegates showed interest, a UN spokesman said. Simultaneously, UN command headguarters in Tokyo announced that -the Allies, if necessary, will continue “destroying or driving out of Korea” the Red Chinese and Korean armies. At Kaesong the chief UN delegate, Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, proposed a two man committee—one from each side—seek an end to the dead- lock in an air of informality. He proposed the subcommittee “meet around rather than across the table.” They would thus es- cape “the formality of utterances” whieh he said contributed to the three-week-old dispute over where to place a military dividing lin® across Korea that would separate opposing armies during an armis- tice, Joy asked the Communists to re- ply Thursday. The negotiators meet next at1 pm. (10 p.m. Wednesday EST). * Reds “Interested” The five Red generals “showed more visible interest in Admiral Joy’s proposal than they have shown in any other statement,” Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols reported. “It was suficiently different to call for their undivided attention,” Nuckols com- mented. Botl delegations appeared more cheerful than usual when they left the meeting place, a pool dispatch from Kaesong said. And Communist newsmen on the scene hinted the Reds might be willing to discuss a demarcation line based on the pre- sent battle front, as the Allies de- mand. Delegations have been stymied since July 27 over the location of the demarcation line. House Advocales Break with Czechs Unfil Oafis Is Free WASHINGTON, Aug. 156 — ® — The House today unanimously ad- vocated immediate severance of commercial relations with Czecho- slovakia until William N. Oatis is freed from a Prague jail. By a standing vote the chamber passed and sent to the Senate a resolution expressing the sense of Congress that such’ acticn should be taken. It then ordered “a roll-call vote to confirm the standing court. Deleted from ' the resolution was an earlier provision advocating eventual severance of diplomatic ties with Czechoslovakia if Oatis isn't freed in 90 days. TheWashington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON NEAR THE IRON CURTAIN, IN CENTRAL EUROPE — The most important answer to the al- arming question put before Cong- ress recently .by secretaries Mar- shall and Pace — “Will there be war with Russia soon?” — Lies i the long stretch of barbed wire extending from the Black Sea tc the Baltic. which Winston Church- hill named the Iron Curtain. Most Americans, including the U. S. government, have neglectec the importance of this barrier be- tween East and West. We have failed to realize that there will always exist the dange: of war with Russia as long as thic curtain exists; as long as the Mos- co radio can tell the Russian people anything they want about us and the Russian people have no free parliament, no free church, no free press, no free public opinion to prevent the Kremlin from deolaring war. We have also failed to realize that eben if we fight a war with Russia and win, actually our vic- tory will be temporary unless we can convert the Russian people to friendship with the U. 8. A. until we have done that, we shall (Continued on Page Four) The Good 0ld Days? Huh! TROUT CREEK, N. Y., Aug. ® 15—®—A school house which cost $500 to build in 1899 will be remodeled at a cost of $1,000. F M. Clark of Oneonta, the contractor who built the frame school, recalls he paid two carpenters $1 a day, plus board, and worked them 18 hours a day. They finished the . . . . . . . ° . . ° . Red "Subs’ Greatest Threat in Korea, Kimball Believes WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.— (# — Secretary of the Navy Kimball be- lieves the Russians may throw sub- marines into the Korean war if the Kaesong truce talks fail. “It’s a very real threat and we're alive to it,” he said last night in a radio interview. He expressed the view that the threat of Soviet sub- marine intervention is greater than the threat of increased Red air power. 320 CASUALTIES LISTED; LOWEST WEEKLY INCREASE WASHINGTON, Aug. Announced U. S. battle casualties in Korea reached 80,750 today, an increase of 320 since last week. This is the lowest weekly increase since the first weekly summary was is- sued last Aug. 7. Hearst Burial Awaits Widow Will Directs Papers Held in Chain-Marion Davies Cut Off Ul SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15.—® —William Randolph Hearst, in death, was back today in the city by the Golden Gate where he began his sensational newspaper career. | Accompanied by four of the five sons who have followed him in the newspaper profession, the famed publisher's body was flown from Beverly Hills, where "Hearst died yesterday at the age of 88. A series of cerebral strokes ended his life. Funeral arangement were await- ing the arrival from New York of his widow, Mrs. Millicent Willson Hearst, who is accompanied by a fifth son, John. Burial will take place in Cypress Lawn Cemetery, where the publisher’s father, U. S. Senator George Hearst, and his mother, Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, were buried. Hearst's 57-page typewritten will already has been filed for proba- tion, in Los Angeles. His widow was left $1,500,000 in cash and the income from a $6,000,000 trust fund. Former .screen actress Marion Davies, in a codicil dated Aug. 15, 1947, was bequeathed the publisher’s Beverly Hills home but a codicil, dated Sept. 8, 1948, revoked the re- quest without, explanation. His will directs that the estate be divided into two trust funds— one for the family and the other the residuary or charitable trust. Executors of the estate, the will directs, are not to part with owner- ship of any of the Hearst publica- tions “unless it shall, in their opin- ion, be necessary to do so.” His five sons are to get enough preferred stock to realize an an- nual income of $150,000 to be added to 100 shares of common stock in the Hearst corporation. Reds Drive Allies Off Hill Atter 36 Hours Bombardment US. 8TH ARMY HEADQUAR- TERS, Korea, Aug. 15 — (® — Red roops, counterattacking with mor- tar and machinegun fire, drove United Nations forces off a hill on the eastern front in the only size- able ground action reported in Ko- rea today. All troops had fought for the hillcrest last night. The hill is one of five near Kan- song, objective of a three-day battle. The Reds hold two, the Allies two. The fifth hill has been under artil- lery fire for 36 hours. Elsewhere along the front patrols occasionally stirred up sharp, deadly fights. Four skirmishes were fought on the western front outside the neu- tral zone surrounding the Kaesong cease-fire talks, . GOP Wants Foreign Aid Cut by Billion Money-Not Men- Europe’s Biggest Need, Says Committee WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—(P—The House debated the huge foreign aid bill today but delayed until tomor- row a vote on a Republican-spon- sored drive to slash a billion dol- lars from the total The Foreign Affairs Committee which knocked only $651,250,000 from the $8500,000,000 assistance measure, said in a formal report yesterday that money, not man- power, is Europe's biggest defense need. Today the House was ready to give final approval to a $1,700,- 000,000 defense housing bill. Even those opposing some of the bill's particulars conceded it would pass. The measure’s purpose is to 15— A — o provide housing near mushroom- ing defense installations with pri- vate enterprise getting first crack at the building. Meanwhile, prompt Senate ac- tion was predicted today on a House-passed resolution to suspemd trade relations with Red Czecho- slovakia until William N. Oatis, an AP correspondent, is freed from a Prague jail. He has been sentenced to 10 years in jail on an espionage charge. Limifed Search Continues for Missing Plane The search for a Korean airlift plane missing for 27 days, and a Norseman aircraft overdue for 20 Any Three planes” sperit eight Search hours in the Yakutat and surround- ing glacier and mountain area yes- terday, according to an incomplete report received by U. 8. Coast Guard headquarters here this morning. Flight were hampered by poor weather and diversion of Air Force planes seeking the miss- ing Navy Privateer which disap- peared Sunday morning between Kodiak and Adak. The Coast Guard cutter Storis, which had conducted dragging op- erations in Yakutat Bay where an oil slick had been reported, was due in Juneau sometime today. Parties had also combed surround- ing beaches for evidence of the two { missing aircraft. Neither operation produced any results. Three Royal Canadian Air Force planes temporarily based at White- horse, returned to their home bases last Sunday. A complete log of = Monday’s flights in the . Yakutat region showed that seven aircraft had flown a total of 41-Nours seek- ing the Canadian Pacific Airlines: transport which was last reported off Cape Spencer the night of July 20. It had 38 persons aboard. Included in the search is an Arctic Research Institute Norseman piloted by Maurice King which failed to show up on schedule at Yakutat July 27. King'’s passengers were Mrs. Walter A. Wood and daughter Val- erie. They had been visiting at the Institute’s ice research camp on Malaspina Glacier where Mrs. Wood's husband, was in charge of ice studies. Men Aboard Lost Patrol Bomber Identified by Navy WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 —(P— The Navy has identified 12 men missing in Sunday’s crash of a PB4-Y-2 near Adak, Alaska. They are: Edwin Francis Busby, Jr., Low- gll, Mass.; Robert Wilfred Conk- lin, Lt. Jg., South Great Falls, Mont.; Charles Wyllis Elkins, Lin- ton, Ind.; Bobby Enloe, Houston, Tex.; Elnord Flinkfelt, Pawtucket, R. I.;Ronald Lee Hunt, Blackbutte, Ore.; Roy Erwin Park, Lt., Col- umbus, Ohio; Leonard Walter Sexton, San Jose, Calif.; William Wagener, San Francisco, Calif.; Brooks Alton Willcams, Chicago, IN; Joseph Dale Witherspoon, Fordtown, Tenn.; and Henry How- ard Wood, Ensign, Denver, Colo. _FROM SEATTLE P. R. Andrews and R. F. Hend- ricks of the Pacific Marine Supply Co. of Seattle, are stopping at the Baranof Hotel. appearad to b sesleentng oft, ! fire. Blaze Destroys Homes in Kake; No Serious Hurls KAKE, Alaska, Aug. 15 —P— 4Fire of-unknown. origiii destroyed several homes in this Indian vil- lage late yesterday. No serious in- juries were reported. The blaze was said to have started in the home of Freddie James, owner of the seiner Pearl F. Ship Assigned fo Alaska Line from Reserve Fleet has been assigned the Alaska Steam- ship Company by the National Ship- ping Authority for operation under general agency agreement, accord- ing to Admiral F. A, Zeusler, execu- tive assistant to the president of the company. The Reid has been moved from the Olympic reserve fleet anchorage to-drydock for inspection before de- livery. e This is the -third vessel assigned to the company for operation un- der the shipping authority with the James T. Fields and John Dock- weiler alloted earlier. It is expected that the Reid will be operated in the grain run to India. Taku Road Report To Be Given al Chamber Meefing Jerry McKinley, chairman of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce road committee, will give a report on the proposed Taku road at a regular meeting of the Chamber Thursday, president Herbert S. Rowland announced today. McKinley will tell of a recent flight made by his committee up the Taku River over the proposed location for the road that would connect Juneau to Atlin, B. C. and the Alaska Highway. JUDGE FOLTA DELAYED IN ARRIVAL TO JUNEAU Judge George W. Folta has been delayed one day in his arrival in Juneau from Anchorage, the clerk of the court’s office said today. He was originally due in this af- ternoon to conduct pre-trial con- ferences concerning the Nakat Packing Company cannery, but word received stated he will not arrive until Thursday afternoon. The clerk’s office said Folta would be returning to Anchorage Saturday where he is conducting court while Judge A. J. Dimond is on vacation. | Names of jurors to serve in the Ketchikan court term, which starts | in October, will be drawn here Matanuska Indians Demand Payment for Valley; | 'Almost Miss Deadline | # WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 The Liberty ship Daniel G. Reid | Friday, the office announced. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS T T Plane Wre_ckage B_urns i Autes Indiays who once roamed the rich Matanuska Valley in Alaska want the government to pay for | their being deprived of it. The cleim of the Indians, now | living at Palmer, Alaska, was the | last filed with the Indian claims commission before a deadline Mon- day. Lil& many of the claims, it ask- ed no: specific amount, leaving that to sthe claims commission. That body has until April, 1957, to clear up the 645 cases pending before it. The Palmer Indians contend they have been deprived of the continued use of the Matanuska Valley lands and adjoining waters on Wwhiclke they formerly lived. Their - claim, filed by Willilam H. Olsen, Anchorage attorney, was submitted through the Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs. Almost Missed James A. Langston,. adminis- trative officer, said the Palmer claim almost missed the dead- line, because it was addressed in care of the Indian Affairs of- fice. “We got wind of it at the last minute,” Langston explained, “and sent a page over to pick it up.” Officials estimated the Indian claims for all of the United States and Alaska may total 16 billion dollars. A five-year period in which they could file their claims against the government expired Monday. In all, 645 claims were put before the Indian claims commission. In only one-fiith of them was an estimate made as to the amount of money sought. These totaled $3,016,377,608. Thus if the others average the same, the total might be $15,000,- 000,000, or even more. ‘ But Edgar E. Witt of Waco, former Texas governor and chair- man of the three-man commission, explained to'-a reporter that the court of claims which previously handled such cases, allowed only two per cent of the amounts claimed before it. “I'm not predicting what this commission might do,” Witt said. VISITORS FROM SKAGWAY Mrs. Milton Kepler and Mrs. Barney Anderson of Skagway arc at the Baranof Hotel. WEATHER FORECAST Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning At Airport, Maximum, 63 minimum,49. FORECAST L (Junesw and Vicinity) . Considerable cloudiness with ® light rain showers tonight and ® Thusday. Lowest temperature ® tonight near 50 degrees. High- ® eest Thursday about 62. . . eececscocsoee ® PRECIPITATION ¢ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ At Airport — 21 inches; © since July 1—348 inches. © ® 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 Truman Sits ‘Under Mistlefoe’ Awaiting Kiss, Thinks Douglas WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—(® Senator Douglas (D-IID) thinks President Truman “is under- neath the mistletoe” and “in a position to be kissed"—for re- election in 1952. That's the way Douglas ans- wered a reporter who asked if he thought Mr. Truman would be running again for the presi- dency. . Won'tHold Congress, Says McFarland WASHINGTON, Aug. 15— M — Senate majority leader McFarland (D-Ariz) said yesterday that “sec- ond priority” bills such as those giv- ing statehood to Alaska and Hawail would not delay adjournment of Congress this fall. He listed 12 “must” measures in- cluding nine big money bills to op- erate .the government. Another dozen given second pri- ority by the Democratic Policy Com- mittee may be sandwiched in be- tween the “Big 12," he said, but Congress will not be held to enact them. Third Riof in Three Months Quelled at Utah State Prison POINT -OF -T H E -MOUNTAIN, Utah, Aug. 15 —(®— The third riot in as many months at Utah's new multi-milljon dollar prison :was put down without bloodshed yesterday. And as it ended with the release of two prison officers who had been held hostage under threat o(| death most of the day, embattled state officials announced a new and tougher era at the institution where 472 inmates are housed. The staté board of corrections ordered that all men be confined to their cells. “Only those who have deflnnel work assignments will be allowed to leave their quarters at any time—except on signed permission of the warden,” said the board statement. The board also announced that Weston E. Haslam — one of the two men held hostage for more than seven hours—will continue as acting warden with full auth- ority. The other held hostage was guard Edward Schmidt. The uprising ended when Joseph W. Dudler, state commissioner of public safety and superintendent of the highway patrol, conferred ® ‘with the riot leaders. The riot had brought 150 armed officers from over the state. Of- ficials said 22 men were in the maximum security cell block taken over by the prisoenrs. CHAPELADIES MEETING The Chapeladies of Auke Bay ®lare holding their last meeting of | |the summer season tonight. They will meet at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. John -Hagemeier. Fall series of meetings will start next month with installation of | new officers. Territorial "Navy' 'Hits Shoals in < Auditor's Office Firemen throw water on the burning wreckage of a B-50 which crashed in the south end of Seaitle, hitting apartment house (right) and scattering pieces over a wide aita. Wreckage of plane, including a motor, is at center of picture. Observers said the plane crashled with a terrific explosion. (P Wirephoto. in foreground were burned in the Wrecked_;dl;lber's Engines Removed From Wreckage SEATTLE, Aug. 14 —(®— The last of four engines from the B-50 bomber that crashed into an in- dustrial district apartment house Monday was remoyed from the wreckage early today. Air Force investigators took the engines and propellors to Boeing Fleld® for a close study in an at- tempt to find ciues to the accident that killed the plane crew of six and five persons in the apartment. Brig. Gen. Richard J. O'Keefe, director of flight safety research for the Air Force, arrived yester- day from Norton Alr Force base at San Bernardino, Calif. 'McCarthy Squares Off at Truman After "Hate' Blast WASHINGTON, Aug. 15— @ — President Truman’s blast at “hate- meongers” brought a challenge from Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) today | for a 1952 political showdown on hig | Communists-in-government charges Mr. Truman dedicated the new Washington headquarters of the American Legion last night. with & punch-packed attack on those ht said “are trying to create fear and suspicion among us by the use of i slander, unproved accusations and just plain lies.” Senator Benton (D-Conn) very promptly nominated McCarthy as the object of the attack. Benton has proposed that the Senate formally consider ousting the Wis- consin, Senator, “ McCarthy, acepting the designa- tion, flung a_challenge back at the President. He said: “If Truman wants to make the tight against Communism—which he calls ‘MeCarthyism'—an _issue in the campaign, I will welcome it. 1t will give the people a chance to choose between Americanism or a combination of Trumanism and Communism.” In his speech, Mr. Truman assail ed people he said claim to be agains lCommuanm but are “chipping away at ‘our basic freedoms just as insid- iously ad far more effectively than the Communists have ever been able to do.” Health Center Holds Baby Clinjc fomorrow Mothers are invited to bring their children to the well baby confer ence Thursday afternoon from 1 tc [3:30 o'clock at the health center 122 Second Street. Special appointments may be made by calling 218. The conferences are held to measure and weigh.pre- school children. A public health | nurse will be there for discussion of children’s general health. | The center has publications by the | children’s bureau for distribution and other pamphlets on communic- able diseases and nutrition. FROM ANCHORAGE Ralph E. Nelson of Anchorage is at the Baranof Hotel. FROM MARYLAND Anna Heisler of Bethesda, Md. is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. The Territorial “:Navy” hit a jreef today in the form of Terri- | torial Auditor Neil Moore when | he refused to honor two vouchers. A $2,800 insurance voucher and | a voucher for $600 in fines against | the owners of the M,V Chilkoot | were disallowed this morning by Moore. The Chilkoot was pur- | chased in June by the Territory and is operated as a ferry between Juneau and Haines with calls at Skagway. ‘They were presented to the au- ditor by Frank Metcalf, Territor- ial highway engineer under whose office the Chilkoot operates. Insurance Listed The insurance voucher lists a premium of $2800 on the vessel with its valuation given as $40,000 and a $100,000 lability policy on which the premium is $900. A no- tation on the bill from Shattuck Agency, where the insurance was« purchased, subtracts $900 from the $3,700 total of the two premiums as having been paid by the Chil- koot Motorship Lines, When ‘it was paid or what period it covers is not mentioned. Moore bases his disallowance . of payment of the $2800 balance to the fact that the premiums arc not prorated. The policy was taken out on May 7, 1951 to run until May 7, 1952. “The Terri- tory did not purchase the vessel until June 19,” Moore stated. In regard to the $600 fines against the owners of the ferry Chilkoot, Moore disclosed a letter written by Merlin O'Neill, vice- admiral and commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard which cited cause of the fine and stated that $500 of the original $1,100 was cancelled “in view of all the cir- cumstances” and provided the $600 against the owners of the vessel was paid to the commander of the | 17t Coast Guard District. Carried Freight The fine, the letter stated, was levied on June 4 when a Coast, Guard 3 o L i M arrival from Seattle, and found ths vessel had carried freight from Seattle in violation of the terms of its certificate of inspec- tion. The lefter added that the $600 must be pald within 30 days of Aug. 7, or the case would be turned over to the United States Attorney for collection of the original sum of $1,100. Moore said he was disallowing the voucher because the fine is against the “owners of the vessel” who, at the time were Robert Sommers, Steve Homer and as- sociates. Claimants of disallowed vouchers can ask for a hearing of the Ter- ritorial Board of Examiners which consists of the governor of Alas- ka, the Territorial treasurer and attorney general. Shrine Ceremanial Will Be Held Here Friday and Saturday Officers of the Shrine Nile Tem- ple of Seattle are scheduled to arrive in Juneau on Pan American World Airways Thursday to hold a Shrine ceremonial here, Les Holmes, secretary of the Juneau Shrine club, said today. The ceremonials will be held on Friday and Saturday, concluding with a cocktail party and banquet in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel Saturday evening. If weather permits a parade will take place about 5 o'clock Fri- day afternoon, Holmes said. Visiting officers who will conduct the work are: H. Dan Bracken, Jr., potentate; Glenn H. Carpenter, chief rabban; Ruben E. Lovegren, assistant rabban; and Frank T. Ostrander, recorder, all of Seattle. Art Hedges and Lance Hendrick- son of Juneau will assist during the first section activities. Oscar “Eli- sen of Juneau and Harold L. Simp- son of Seattle will assist in the second section, Holmes said. Dr. John Clements, Juneau, will be the ceremonial physician. In addition to the Juneau candi- dates, others are expected here from Skagway, Petersburg and Kake. From here, the visiting officers will fly to Sitka on Sunday to initi- ate a class there, before going to Cordova, Anchorage and Fairbanks. Gene Vuille is president of the local Shrine club. FROM CALIFORNIA Mr. and Mrs. Orville Adams of Berkeley, Calif. are stopping at the Baranof Hotel. Frank H. Stover of Bay City, | Mich. is registered at the Baranof Hotel.