The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 16, 1951, Page 1

b * JONGRESSIONAL I“! JTERARY & SN VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,888 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1951 | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'WRECKED PRIVATEER BOMBER IS SIGHTED Truce Talks | Go Informal Reds May Relax De- mand-Formality Drops Off Subcommittee MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. 17 Truce talks moved into a new | informal phase today as Allies and Reds sought to break their long | impasse over a demarcation line. Negotiators created a small sub- committee to try to untangle the | snarl over where a demarcation line should be drawn between opposing armies. The change in tactics came asila growing, but cautious, optimism the Reds may be willing to com- promise on their demand for a demilitarized zone back along the 38th parallel. The Allies want it right where they are now, along the present battlefront in defen- sible terrain. The subcommittee, consisting of two delegates from each side, was created yesterday. It will hold ics; first meeting at 4 p.m., today, Ju- | neau time. Its members will meet informally in Kaesong where formal, full dress negotiations have been locked over this same point for more than three | weeks. The U.N. command said it will issue no cofpmuniques during these meetings. And the press will not be briefed on what happened. The purpose is to allow the ne- gotiators complete freedom in try- ing to find a satisfactory recom- mendation. There was no indication how long the problem might be in the hands of the subcommittee House Warned Cuf In Foreign Aid Is Invitation for War WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 —@— 'he Housc got stern warning to- day that any further reduction in the $7,848,750,000 foreign aid | program might increase the threat of world war. Further cuts might “deny us the vital objectives we seek to at- tain by this program,” said chair- man Richards (D-SC) of the House Foreign Affairs committee. He saw these objectives as abuild up of western defenses — “not to fight a war” to “to prevent a war.” Richards’ views were contained in a speech prepared for the opening session of House debate on the bhig assistance program was aimed at a Republican-backed drive to chop as much as a billion dollars from the administration’s original request for $8,500,000,000. JUNEAU VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kinsey of ‘Woodbridge, N. J., are registered at the Baranof Hotel. FROM SEATTLE Sidney Copeland of Seattle is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. TheWashington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON SOMEWHERE NEAR THE CZECHOSLOVAK BORDER. Anyone who thinks it's easy to launch freedom-friendship ball- oons across the Iron Curtain has another guess coming. Once the balloons are in the air, nature and the fact that “winds of freedom blow from West to East” take care of the rest. But the real job is getting them into the air. And that boils down to assemb- ling hydrogen, tanks to put it in, trucks to haul it in, German workers to fill the balloons with hydrogen and, on top of all this, keeping the operation secret from the curious German population which loves intrigue. The man who deserves the chief credit ior over- coming these headaches is Harry Andrews and the Dewey and Almy Rubber Company, who, without knowing a word of German, ca- joled, coaxed and wheedled nearly one thousand hydrogen tanks from firms all over Germany, collected them all in one place and got them filled with hydrogen. It takes so much hydrogen to carry 15 mil- (Continued on Page Four) The meaning of words seems talks with liaison officers after the cease-fire talks in Kaesong. Chang Shun San (left), North Korean liaison officer, while Lt. Col. Soo Young (right) ROK Army, ex- plains his meaning. ) Wirephoto. "How's That¥’ to have Lt. H. G. Underwood (center). Waiting for interpretation is Col. USN interpreter, worried as he 1-Year-Old 'Cloak and Dagger’ Killing Solved; Prosecution Stumped WASHINGTON, Aug. A cold-blooded “deuce of spades” killing of an American cloak-and- dagger officer behind enemy lines in Italy seven years ago has been solved, the Defense Depmlmem said yesierday. The Department declared Maj. William V. Holohan, then 40, was killed by two fellow American s vicemen with the aid of two Ital- ians. All were attached to an of- fice of strategic services (OSS) mission parachuted into enemy territory to get the low-down on partisan guerrilla bands. One of the former U. service- S. men denied any connection with | the killing; the other comment, Two Named Named by the Department as the principles in the case were: Aldo Teardi, then a 23-year- old lieutenant, formerly of Pitts- burgh but now employed in New York City. The Department said in a formal mimeographed an- nouncement that Icardi hatched the plot in a disagreement with Holohan over how much arms aid to give to Communist part- isans. Carl G. LoDolce, then a ser- geant, from Rochester, N. Y. The Department said LoDolce “drew the two of spades” and thus got the assignment of shooting Hol- ohan when Icardi decided poi- son given him earlier might not be effective. Seeking Method At his home in Preakness, N.J. withheld | 16 —(P—%Icardi denied any part in the kill- | ing. The Defense Department said it and the Justice Department have been poring over seeking a way to prosecute .Icardi RN TODUICE" I TS country, ana it added: '“All possibilities have now heen exhausted and it ap- pears that the only hope of pros- ecution lies with action by the Italian courts.” The Italian Embassy declined comment on whether it would seek to have the two men sent back to Ttaly for trial. They cannot be tried by civil courts here, since the slaying the Department accused them of took place outside the U. S, and they are beyond reach of mili- tary courts because both have been discharged from service. Dropped in Water The Department said the death of Holohan occurred on the night of Dec. 6, 1944. It said that after the major was killed, his body was | tied up in a weighted sleeping bag and dropped into 30 feet of water in Lake Orta in the Alps near Trieste., It declared that two Italians | who were attached to the mission, ;Lll‘.dt‘l‘ intelligence officers’ ques- | tioning a year ago last June , “fi- ‘later located in Rochester, | statement” | nally broke down and told the! real story of what happened to | Major Holohan.” The Department said LoDolce, “final- and wrote out a which cooroborated that of the two Italians. ly confessed "Navy's’ Position Awails Return of Henry Reden Whether Alaska’s “Navy” — the M/V Chilkoot— will be pulled off the rocks of disallowed vouchers will be determined on the return to Juneau of Treasurer Henry Roden. Roden, a member of the Territor- ial Road Board, with Frank A. Met- 2alf, Highway Engineer, is today at- tending a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Canadian border which will open a branch of the Taylor High- way between Jack Wade and Daw- son, Y. T. Gov. Ernest Gruening said this moerning that he was not fully cog- nizant with the two transactions which led to disallowing the vouch- ers by Territorial Auditor Neil Moore. An insurance voucher for $2,800 was disallowed. The other voucher for $600, was refused be- cause it was for a fine levied before the Territory bought the ferry. The Governor said he did not know if the fines had or had not been allowed for in the purchase price. “When Mr. Roden returns,” the Governor said, “the matter will be taken up by the Territorial Road PNA Fares Cut on States-Alaska Run SEATTLE, Aug. 16—(P—Reduced fares between Alaska cities and Seattle and Portland have been an- nounced by Pacific Northern Air- lines and connecting carriers. ATOMIC EXPLOSION FILM RECEIVED BY LOCAL DEFENSE ORGANIZATION protect himself from explosion has been received by R. E. Robertson, local civil director. The movie, titled “Self Preser- vation,” may be borrowed without cost by any group or club wishing to show it. The film can be kept here only a short time, Robertson stated. Board and if an appeal is warrant- ed it will be presented to the appeal board. If it is found not warranted then Mr. Moore’s decision, presum- ably, will stand.” The Governor added that pur- chase of the ferry had been handled by Roden in the absence, at the time, of Metcalf. the 1awbooks | \ A 16mm sound film that explains [of Juneau, who had served as a sub- what an individual should do tolject for the demonstration of proper an atomic | fitting yesterday. |at the Baranof Hotel for members | Polish Mufineers Picture Russia as "Giant Slave Camp’ STOCKHOLM, Aug. 16 —P— Polish mutineers who escaped their Communist ruled country declared today that “Russia has turned the whole country into a gigantic slave camp where life is unbearable for anybedy but Communists,” Two of the mutineers — 12 were sranted political asvium by Sweden—met reporters and gave a grim picture of life in their homeland under what they call- ed the “iron grip” of the USSR. Ignacy Hazel, 21, and Henrik Skorupka, 22, two of the leaders of the 12 mutineers, said in a statement to reporters: “We staged the mutiny be- cause we wanted under no cir- cumstances to fight the West on Russia’s side. There are more like us in Poland.” Dentists Winding Up 4-Day Meef with Election cf Officers The Alaska Territorial Dental So- ciety was today completing its se- cond annual meeting held here dur- ing the past four days, with election of new officers scheduled for late | this afternoon and a dinner tonight j wives and guests. ‘ The morning and early. afternoon today were taken up with technical discussions and the showing of sound-color movies. Yesterday Dr. Charles-M. Ballard of Seattle gave a talk on dentist- patient relationship in which he discussed the importance of edu- cating a patient to wear dentures. He also szressed impressing the pa- tient of ‘his responsibility in coop- | erating. Oxfords, Yet? “New dentures may feel like two pairs of shoes in the mouth,” Doc tor Ballard said, “and. wearing them constantly the first 48 hours is the hardest, but it must be done.” | He gave a practical demonstration of using the educational approach when he placed newly-made false teeth in the mouth of J. W. Moeller | Dr. T. E. Hynson of the Al.skn: defense | Native Seryice, attended a morn- ing, sessfon during which he out- lined ‘the Alaska Native Service | dental care program. Pass Examination Three of the four dentists who passed the Territorial Board of Den- tal Examiners last week at Ketchi- kan, have been in attendance at the sessions. They are: Capt. John E. Miller of Elmendorf Airbase; Dr. | William E. Alexander of Port Al- berni, B. C., and Dr. James L. Irby of Rogers, Ark., who plans to locate in the Territory. Dr. Cecil A. VanKleek, who also passed the board examinations, re- turned to his internship at Port- land, Ore, | whichy it charged was called under |and Mrs. Magnus Martins, Final Peace Trealy Draft Made Public WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—#—The United States and Britain made public today their final draft of a peace treaty with Japan. It makes clear Japanese obligations to pay partial reparations to Allied coun- tries devastated during the war. Russia has bitterly denounced the Amerfean-British . sponsored draft and IS reported ready to wage an all-ou$ propaganda battle against it at the treaty conference opening Sept. 4 in San Francisco, Despite this, the State Depart- ment econfidently expects the over- whelming majority of 50-plus Allied countries will sign the pact at the meeting. The Jlatest draft, the third, makes it clear Japan's present financial difficulties rule out complete repar- ations to any country. This reparations provision however has been softened in language some- what to please the Philippines which threatened to boycott the San Francisco meeting because they felt they were entitled to big war damages from the Japanese. The rest of the changes in the 6,500 word draft are minor. These were included in answer to com- ments and suggestions from friend- ly governments. No changes, as far as could be learned, were made to appease Rus- sia’s vehement objections. Red China Refuses TOKYO, Aug. 16.—A—Commun- ist China announced today it will refuse to recognize the forthcom- ing Japanese peace conference Unite: ;States “compulsion.” Red China was not invited to the conference opening Sept. 4 at San Francisco. Neither was Nationalist China, although it is recognized by the United States. Red China's expected position was made known in a long statement by Communist premier and foreign minister Chou En-Lai. The state- ment was broadcast by the Peiping radio. Russ Warned Peace Terms Are Closed WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—(#—The United States told Russia today the Japanese peace treaty conference at San Francisco next month “is not a conference to reopen negotiations on the terms of peace.” In a formal note delivered in Moscow; the U. S. Government in effect advised the Soviet Gov- ernmen that its apparent intention to raise basic treaty issues at San Francisco is out or order since the purpose of the meeting will be “conclusion ‘and signature” of a treaty already drafted. ‘The note was made public shortly after President Truman said he did not think the arrangements already made for signing the treaty could be upset by anyone. The American note to Moscow de- clared Russia has had “equal op- portunlty with the other Allies” dur- ing the past 11 months to help write the treaty. PAMELA MARTINS IS GUEST OF GEORGE FAMILY Mrs. Wallis George and her daughter Carol Ann returned the first of the week from Petersburg where they visited Mrs. George’s brother-in-law and sister, Mr.and Mrs. Lester Elkins, Returning with them was young Pamela Martins, daughter of Mr. who is visiting Carol Ann. ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . WEATHER FORECAST Temperature for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning At Airport—Maximum, 62; minimum, 53, FORECAST o (Junesu and Vieinity) . Considerable cloudiness with ® occasional light rain showers ® tonight and Friday. Lowest ® temperature tonight about 50 | degrees. Highest Friday near | 60 degrees. ° . |Ouf of Mud | dilemma | Eskimo families | march of modernity and signed up Dentistry Done- He Broke a Tooth Dentist Has Some | The dentist-to-dentist rela- e tionship between Dr. Joyce ® | D. Smith of Juneau and Dr. e James O. Whaley of Ketchikan e became dentist-to-patient rela- o | tionship here Tuesday during e | Alaska Dental Association con- e vention. . Doctor Whaley broke off a e corner of a third molar “while ® eating soft cream pie at the e Baranof Coffee shop,” he re- o ported. He then became a pa- ® tient while Dr. Smith ground e down the tooth’s rough edges so ® it would not cut his tongue. . Mrs. Mona Martin, Doctor e Smith”s dental assistant, got e an almost free filling for serv-e ing as a subject for Dr. Robert ‘® E. Wheatley's demonstration of @ new inlay technique. Mrs. Mar- ® tin paid for the gold, however. ® ® & & & 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dewey Homeward Bound Via'Alaska AUCKLAND, N. Z, Aug. 16 —(® New York’s governor Thomas E. Dewey left Auckland by air to- day for the first leg of his home- ward trip after a six-weeks fact- finding tour of the Pacific area. He plans to visit Alaska before returning to New York. He is scheduled to be in Juneau Aug. 21. { Darwin Cooper, 15, of Williams- port, Pa, displays a big smile after winning the 1951 Soap Box Derby at Akron, O. Cooper beat out 140 other youngsters from all parts of the nation. LeRoy West, 13-year-old Alaska champion, took tenth place. He won his first two heats, but came in third on the third one. ® Wirephoto, FROM ASTORIA Adolph Lindstrom of Astoria, Ore., is at the Baranof Hotel. Eskimos Bow fo Wives fo Gef Feet By FRANCIS J. KELLY WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 —(®— Alaskan Eskimos faced a nasty mud floors in their livings rooms or bossy wives. At least 432 of them decided against the muddy floors. The housing problems of Es- kimos in the Hooper Bay area on the Bering Sea were aired in the House hearings on a supplemental appropriation bil, made public teday. A. C. Newell, an official of the Housing and Home Finance Ag- ency, said the Eskimos lived in snow-covered dugouts, pretty sat- isfactory diggings until the spring thaws. “Then,” he said, “they walk around in these houses up to their ankles in the mud.” FHA stepped in and offered loans of up to $500 to provide floors, roofs and sidewalls, instal- led by the Eskimos themselves. Newell told the lawmakers a “little difficulty” arose when the agency's lawyers insisted the Es- kimo and his wife both sign the loan agreement. “That did not take a very good hold with the Eskimos,” he recalled, “because prior to that the average wife did not have anything to say in the ec- onomy of the family, and when she had to sign tp get a good floor in the house, she began to assume importance in the family cirele.” At that point the discussion went off the record. All seven members of the appropriations subcommittee are married men, too. But it was brought out that 432 yielded to the for the loans, Stock Quofations NEW YORK, Aug. 16—(®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 116%, American Tel. & Tel. 162%, Ana- conda 46%, Douglas Aircraft 51%, General Electric 60%, General Mo- tors 50, Goodyear 90%, Kennecott 76, Libby, McNeill & Libby 9, Northern Pacific 48%, Standard Oil of Cal- | ifornia 49%, Twentieth Century Fox |20%, U. S. Steel 42%, Pound PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todsy ® At Airport — 01 inches; e since July 1—349 inches. o ® 9 00 0000 0 ¢ 279 15/16, Canadian Exchange 94.75. Sales today were 1,750,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 265.48, ralls 80.72, util- ities 45.11. % | toff to Haines Dock May Close; Owner Unable fo Sell ® The Haines steamer dock may be closed in the near future, it was an- nounced today by Peter Wood, Ju- neau real estate agent attempting to sell the property for Ed Koenig, the owner. ' Koening, who is to enter the armed services Aug. 27, will not be able to keep the dock open, Wood said. Several buyers are consider- ing purchase, he said, but negotia- tions are “moving too slowly” to meet the date. A telegram from the owner in Seattle to Wood ordered him to “Jock her up.” The dock is in need of repairs. Ac- cording to shippers, closing will af- fect unloading of freight destined for shipment over the Haines Cut- the Interior. One - Juneau shipper declared it would tie up his operation seriously. Dock Building A contract has been let by the U. S. Army Engineers for the construc- tion of a large army dack at Lutak Cove, a few miles north of Haines Work has started but it will be many months before it is complet- ed. Wood took a dim view of the army permitting its dock to be used by ctvilians and said: “The army was interested in let- ting the public use its proposed dock at Whittier. When the mley was assured and the dock buil it was closed to any but army nn:. We predict the same for Haines. If we have to close the Haines dock now there is a certain per- iod of several menths that no boat unloadings will be possible. We have kept it open this long out deference to the welfare of the citizens of Haines and the welfare of the Haines cutoff traffic.” Information received by the Al- aska Development Board regarding the use of the army dock that the movement of civilian freight over it would be permitted. Will Permit Use The letter received from Col. Everett L. Upson, chief of staff, U. S. Army of Alaska, at Fort Richardson qualified the state- ment with: “At the present time it is contemplated that under , normal peace time movement of freight dock will be permitted.” The local Alaska Steamship Co. office said that 350 tons of freight were unloaded by the freighter Sailors Splice there last week. Henry Green, agent, said that in event of closing, it would be possible to lighter freight ashore or it might be possible that a cannery dock at Letnikof Cove c.ould be used. conditions, over the FROM SEATTLE H. G. Heaton of Libby, McNeill and Libby of Seattle, is stopping at the Baranof Hotel, Evidence Shows Plane Blew Up Mountainside Seared | 100 Feet Each Side of | Wreck; No Survivors KODIAK, Alaska, Aug. '16—(P— | Burned out wreckage of a Navy pa- trol bomber which apparently car- ried 12 men to their death was due to be reached late today on bleak Amak Island of the Alaska Penin- sula. ‘The possibility of finding surviv- ors was considered remote. The U, 8. Navy ship Tillamook was dispatched to the island with a ground party after a Navy search pilot sighted the ‘shattered PB4- Y-2 yesterday near the 1,000-foot level of Amak’s mountains. The Tillamook was scheduled to arrive at 4 pm, The four-engined bomber vanish- ed last Sunday with a crew of three officers and nine enlisted men on a routine operations flight from its Kodiak base. It's last position re- port was near Port Heiden on the north side of the Alaska Peninsula and nearly 200 miles northeast of Amak. ‘The big plane apparently exploded as it crashed. The mountainside was seared for more than 100 feet on each side. The search pilot who found the wreckage identified it from a 10-foot section of the left wing, tipped in blue with a white star. v No survivors or bodies were sight- ed. Meanwhile o lmited search for two missing aircraft in the Yakutat region continued as weather permit- Two 10th Air Rescue Squadron C= 47's were ready to search the glacier and mourttain areas for a Korean airlift transport mising since July 20 and a Norseman unreported since July 27, Civilian Plane Weather yesterday was not good for large aircraft but a light civiian plane flew four flights totaling 14 hours, according to in- formation received at U. S. Coast Guard headquarters here. The un- identified plane covered Malas ina and Seward glaciers and Cook, Vancouver and Augusta mountains, It also searched Rus- sell Fjord. The Korean airlift transport was bound from Vancouver, B. C, to Tokyo with 38 persons aboard and made it last routine check off Cape 3pencer the night of July 20. The Arctic Institute Norseman, piloted by Maurice King, failed to show up at Yakutat July 27 with Mrs. Walter A. Wood and her daughter Valerie. They had been visiting at the Institute's Seward Glacier camp where Mrs. Wood's “wshand was in charge of ice stud- No recent clues %o either missing urcraft have developed. Demand fo Ground Privateers Voiced WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—(®—The Navy was asked today by Rep. Mit- chell (D-Wash) so0 ‘“immediately zround” its Privateer bombers pend- ing a complete safety investigation. In a letter to Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball, Mitchell declared the planes are obsolete. Four of the Navy planes—the PB4-Y-2—have crashed within re- cent months, the Congressman said. The first three resulted in loss of 23 lives. The fourth. which disappeared Sunday, was sighted down near Amak Island, 430 miles west of Kodiak, Alaska, yesterday. There was no sign of its 12 pass- engers and crew. In his letter Mitchell asserted: “There have been reports that in ! addition to obsolescence, the repair of the individual planes, with thou- sands of hours of flying time wear, is next to impossible.” He said the plane was “consid- ered clumsy 10 years ago,” but is being used in operations “which could be termed difficult for up- to-date aircraft.” “Certainly four crashes of similar type planes in a short period indi- cate that no time should be lost in the initiation of a complete check to prove, if possible, the safety of operation,” he added. “No planes should be in use pending comple- tion of the check.” J PRSI