The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1951, Page 1

N \ » y ¢ . \ . - - “t Lo (4 b ¥ » « . . . L] - ) SONGRESSIONAL IBRARY 7ASHINGTON ® % D C 'HE DAILY A “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,891 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1951 Patrols (lash In Neutral Lone;Red Slain "Partisans on Either Side’ May Wreck Truce, Says Tokyo MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. Allied and Communist subcom- mittees met briefly in Kaesong today as a new threatened efforts to stop the Korean war. General headquarters in Tokyo said “partisan forces of either " may be trying to wreck ar- ce negotiations, The statement was in reply to Red charges that ambushed a Red patrol inside Kaesong's five-mile neutral zone A Chinese patrol leader 20—P— illed and a Chinese soldier jously injured. The subcommittees met for only 70 minutes Monday, It was their shortest session since they toock cover for the main truce delegations Friday. There was no report of progress from the secret talks. But the negotiators agreed to meet again tomorrow. The subcommittees are trying to hammer out a compromise agree- ment on the question of a cease- fire buffer zone. The main dele- gations argued this point for 10 days and found themselyes'com- pletely deadlocked. The Communists want the buf- fer zone to straddle the 38th par- allel, old political dividing line be- tween North' and South Korea. The United Nations command wants it generally along present battle lines, most of which -are north of 38 Both sides have indicated 2 willingness fo compromise. United Nations staff officers at Kaesong today refused to let Al- lied newsmen sit on the verandah of the conference building, or stand near tne two entranceways. SaImon_ Pack Here Up 461,950 Cases Over Last Year ! Southeastern Alaska is 461,950 cases—or almost 1,000 percent— ahead of last year’s salmon pack to the week ending Aug. 11, according to figures released today by the Fish and Wildlife Service. Total pack for the Southeastern section so far 4s 515271 cases as compared with 53,321 up to the same time last year. Pinks are leading with 272,988 cases. In Central Alaska the pack is still lagging behind that of last year. Figure for 1951 is 1,005,898 cases. In 1950 the pack so far was 1,331,984, Final pack figure for Western Alaska, where the season is now closed, is 388,551 as compared with 618,123 cases last year. Grand total for Alaska is still Accused in Slaying U. N. forces|. ' SA B The Defense Department accused Aldo Icardi (above) and Carl G. LoDolce (below) of killing Maj. William V. Holohan (right) and officer of the Office of Strategic Services, in Italy in 1944, The De- fense Department said the two men slew Holohan, their commanding officer, behind the German lines in Italy to gain control of a small fortune in U. S. money and to give ‘Wirephoto. the Red partisans more arms, (P Ifililegafll Alien Infiliration More Dangerous than Armed Invasion, Says Mc(arran 4 WASHINGTON, Forest Fires Cause Evacuationof 25 Northwest Homes | By the Associated Press Residents of more than 25 homes were forced to flee today as fires raged unchecked over widley separ- ated northwest timbered areas, so dangerously. dry that all logging is halg@d in western Oregon and Washington. The miost serious of the half dozen major fires caused the evacuation of an estimated 20 homes in subur- ban Bonny Slope west of Portland, and firemen said dozens of -other homes were in the path of the flames, which spread along a four mile front last night. A report from the Cedar Hill Fire Department said one home and a barn were destroyed. Rising Wind H. T. Williams, assistant fire chief at Beaverton, Ore:. reported that the situation was extremely ser- ious, with a rising wind expected to bring a critical test this after- noon to the estimated 600 firemen | fighting the blaze. Scores of trucks were pressed over 90,000 cases short of last year for the same period. Total pack last year was 2,003,328 cases and 1,909,- 720 for 1951. CITRUS BRINGS ILL " WOMAN TO JUNEAU The U. S. Coast Guard cutter Citrus arrived here about 4 p.m. Sunday with Mrs. Ruth Zieske from Point Baker, Coast Guard head- quarters said here today. Mrs. Zie- ske reported suffering from the after-effects of a heart attack and was taken to St. Ann’s Hospital. TheWashington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Ed. Note—During Drew Pear- son’s absence in Europe, his staff will contribute an_occasion- al column from Washington.) [ ASHINGTON. — For some time we have been itching to have the boss get ouf of town so we could write what we want Particularly, we have wanted tc pay our respects to one Westbrook Pegler and ‘other venom peddlers The boss takes the position that he is paid by his papers to cover Washington, not write about other newspapermen. They're not im- portant enough and people would | get bored if he wrote about Peg- ler, Fulton Lewis, George Sokolsky et al. All you have to do, he says, is to read these gentlemen long encugh and they defeat themselves with their own inconsistencies and their own spleen. _———— . (Continyed on Page Four) into service to help with the evac- uation and to supply water to the fire equipment on hand from three | counties. A 5500-gallon tank truck and Portland city street department trucks had been able to keep all pumpers in water during the night, Williams said. The northwest’s biggest blaze on Vincent Creek near Scettsburg, in Oregon’s northern Douglas county, meantime, had covered an estimated 10,000 acres and was still spreading today. Six homes along Highway 38 were *vacuated as the fire closed in. Ray Oglesby, Western Lane County fire; patrol warden, called for 50 sets f experienced fallers to remove flaming snags from the dangerous 1ortheast corner of the fire. ‘Worst In 13 Years The blaze is the worst in th;n,l region since the Smith River fire| n the same area 13 years ago. slock Quotafions NEW YORK, Aug. 20—(P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneauj nine stock today is 2%, American| Jan 115, American Tel. & Tel. 162'74,{ Feneral Electric 60, General Motors | [ Goodyear 91, Kennecott 77%, sibby, McNeill & Libby 9%, North- ern Pacific 48%, Standard Oil of California 487%, Twentieth Century Fox 20':, Pound 2.79 15/16, Canad- lan Exchange 94.75. Sales today were 1,130,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 266.25, rails 80.29, util- ities 45.13. |are FROM SEATTLE Mr. and Mrs. G. W, Fox of the Superior Packing Co., Seattle, are registered at the Gastineau Hotel. Aug. 20—(P— Senator McCarran (D-Nev) said today a massive, illegal infiltration of aliens into this country is “po-! tentially more dangerous” than an srmed invasion A i The influx would provide an enemy nation “a ready-made fifth column,” McCarran said. The secret testimony of immi- gration officials, he said in a statement, showed: 1. Aliens illegally in this coun- try are countable in the millions, and may total 5,000,000. 2. Among them are “militant Cemmunists, Sicilian bandits and criminals’ in vast numbers. 3. The immigration service has made only small effort to locate and deport these unwanted for- eigners because of a variety of factors, including lack of staff and money. Another member of the sub- committee, Senator O’Conor (D- Md) said in a separate statement that Windsor, Ontario, and Cuba assembly points for aliens seeking illegal entry into the U. S. He said arrests for attempted en- try from Mexico total 500,000 a yes Mary of these are “wet- backs,” Mexicans who cross the Hurricane Kills 109, Blows Info Yucatan $56 Millions in Property Destroyed; Intensity May Increase NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 20—#®— A shrunken hurricane ripped across the Yucatan peninsula today and into the southern Gulf of Mexico 130 miles northwest of Merida. It continued oh a west morth- westerly course with maximum winds of 75 miles per hour, mini- mum hurricane force. However, forecaster W. R. Stevens said the hurricane “will increase in size and intensity over the south- west Gulf of Mexico this afternoon and tonight.” The storm, which during its peak power killed at least 109 per- sons and destroyed property val- ued at $56,000,000 on the British island of Jamaica last Friday and Saturday, was pointed in the gen- eral direction of the mouth of the Rio Grande River separating Mexico and Texas. It moved into the Gulf from the Yucatan peninsula some 650 miles almost due south of New Orleans after giving Yucatan residents a night of panic. Reports from the area were meager because of scanty communications. Contact Lost Radio contact with Cozumel Is- land, 200 miles east of Merida, the capital of Yucatan State, was lost at 4 p.m. (EST) yesterday. Officials in Mexico City said they supposed the radio tower was carried away. Isla Mujeres, a small island south of Cozumel, and other points in the storm’s path report- ed last night the inhabitants took to the streets in panic. \ Eight persons died at May Pen, nedr the forurer U. 8. Base, Vel nam Field. Prisoners Loose Authorities at Kingston were still trying to round up 70 prisoners who escaped when the storm toppled a ‘wall of the island’s penitentiary. The island’s poor house and men- tal hospital also were hard hit. The government reported several persons were killed there when the roofs of those buildings collapsed. Ninety percent of the rich ban- ana crop in some areas was blown down. The cocanut crop, however, suffered less damage. Demos Hit Back af Korea "Delusion’ Charge by GOP WASHINGTON, Aug. 20— (A — Democrats today . defended Presi- dent Truman’s Far Eastern policies shallow Rio Grande river to look for jobs as farm hands. Sabre Jet Rips Over 62-Mile Course To Beaf Records DETROIT, Aug. 20 —®— Col. Fred J. Ascani of Rockford, Ill, broke the world and American records for a 100-kilometer (62- mile) closed course Sunday in the Thompson trophy race. Flying an F-86 sabre jet fighter, Ascani av- eraged 628.698 miles an hour, com- pared with a world record of 605.230 miles an hour established in 1948 by a British-made Sap- phire. In a Friday warmup, Col. As- cani averaged 635411 miles an hour in a run officially timed by the National Aeronautics Associ- ation. NAA officials said this would be certified to the Federa- tion Aeronautic Internationale for a new world's record for a closed course. Col. Ascani’s Sunday time also topped the old Thompson mark of 586173, set in 1949 on a 210- mile course and a 30-mile rectang- ular course. The old American mark for a 100-kilometer race was 464.973, set in 1946. Col. Keith K. Compton of St. Joseph, Mo., set a new transcon- tinental Bendix trophy record with an average speed 553.761 in an F-86 sabre flying between Mur- oc air base, Calif., and Detroit. MARGARET JOHNSON Margaret Johnson, 22, died at the Alaska Native Service Hospital here Sunday. She is survived by her grandmother, Mrs, Williamy George. Funeral arrangements will be an- nounced later. and assailed a Republican assertion that any final peace which leaves Korea divided would be a “delu- sion.” g Eight Republicans, in a week-end report on the inquiry into the ouster of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, called for “liberation and unification” of Korea. They blamed what they labeled “appeasement” _policies of Mr. Truman and Secretary of State Acheson for the loss of China to the Communists. They said the Yalta agreement spawned most of America’s difficulties with Com- munism in Asia. Answering unofficially, Senator Hunt (D-Wyo) said that if the eight Republicans—headed by Senator Bridges of New Hampshire—want to risk World War III by “exces- sive” demands in Korea, they ought to say so flatly. Senator Cain (R-Wash), one of the authors of the GOP report, told a reporter he and others aren’t contending that cease-fire agreement must provide Yor com- plete withdrawal of the Reds from Korea, “But there will be no permanent peace short of the unification of Korea,” he declared, “we will be kidding ourselves if we believe there will be.” || Ship Movements Princess Norah scheduled to arrive from Skagway Tuesday at 8 am sailing for Vancouver one hour later. Aleutian due to arrive northbound at 10 o'clock tonight. Prince George in port scheduled to sail for Skagway later tonight. Denali due southbound Friday at 8 am. Freighter Square Knot scheduled to arrive from Seattle this after- noon, Send ’em Qver To Our House! ® DURANGO, Colo., Aug. 20— ® (M—Fire Chief N. P. Parks to- ® day released the time sheet for ® his department for last month. ® It read ® Fighting fires: ® minutes ® Calls other than fire: One ® hour 30 minutes. #® Cleaning City Hall and Fire ® Station: 534 hours, e e e o o o Governor Dewey Due Here Tomorrow Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York is due to arrive in Juneau tomorrow. Mrs. Ernest Gruening, wife of Alaska’s governor, announced to- day that a public reception for the distinguished visitor would be held at the Governor’s House be- ginning at 9 o'clock tomorrow evening. Governor and Mrs. Gruc- ning extend an invitation to all channe! residents to attend. “If there should be any delay in the arrival of Governor Dew- ey's plane,” Mrs. Gruening said, the reception will be postponed until Thursday at the same hour. Dewey is accompanied by his secretary, two newspaper men and a security aide, He will be met at the airport by Governor and Mrs. Gruening and civic officials of the town. Pan American planes regularly arrive from Seattle at 1:16 p.m. It is planned to fly him to var- ious points of interest in South- eastern Alaska before he leaves Pridey for the Westward and In- terior, Alaska Income _Iax May Be Withheld by Federal Government 5 hours, 57 Alaska’s income tax may be with- held from federal employees’ sal- aries. . Legislation has -been introduced to authorize withholding by the federal government of income taxes from ,salaries in any political sub- division where local laws require holding back of taxes from employ- ee’s pay, according to Delegate E. Bartlett. Introduction of the legislation fol- lowed a recent announcement by the Treasury Department that it would ask Congress to consider the propo- sal, because legal opinions have held that administrative action outside legislation would be unconstitutional he stated. | Sourdoughs Urjé Alaska Statehood SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20—(P— A resolution urging immediate statehood for Alaska was adopted Saturday by Alaska gold rush vet- arans attending the annual inter- national Sourdough reunion. The action was taken after Ar- chie McLean Hawks, Santa Bar- bara, Calif., warned some 400 del- 2gates: ‘Red Russia now has a base on oig Diomede Island, less than 18 miles, away from American soil on little Diomede Island in the Bering Straits. “Alaska must be made a state 5o that America's northernmost outpost can be better defended against another “Pear! Harbor.” First Fishery Jury Trial at 2 0'Clock Today Juneau’s first jury trial for & tishery violation was scheduled to be heard this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Fred Johnson, Eric Johnson, Ray Dettinger and Bob Dettinger, of the seiner Jerry T of Cordova, were arrested by Fish and Wildlife Ser- vice agent Frank See at Humpback Creek on Chichagof Island last Thursday. The, complaint charget them with fishing in the mounth of the creek. X The case was transferred from Hoonah to Juneau when the defen- dants asked for @& jury trial. At- torney M. E. Monagle represented the four men and District Attorney P. J. Gilmore, Jr., acted for the government in the prosecution. AT THE BARANOF L. O. Whitsell and Mr., and Mrs Robert E. Burns from the College of the Pacific at Stockton, Calif., are guests at the Baranof Hotel. U MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e PRICE TEN CENTS Alaska Nafives Lay Eight (laims for Payments Before Indian Commission WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 — (® —+had not retained an attorney. Some At least eight petitions are pending before the Indian Claims Commis- sion on behalf of Alaska's Indians and Eskimos. The list was compiled in a check of attorneys described by commis- sion spokesmen as representing a “big ‘percentage” of the Alaska claimants. The Commission itself has no geographical breakdown of claims filed, While most cases seek compen- sation for lands and waters alleg- edly seized by the white men, at least two — filed on behalf of the Aleut community and tribe on St. Paul Island in the Pribilofs — ask additional pay for sealskins which the islanders have sold to the United States under a monopoly agreement. The claim dates back to this country’s acquisition of the islands from Russia in 1867. It is being handled by Marvin Sonosky of ‘Washington, D.C. No Specific Amount None of the actions ask a specific amount of compensation. In most of the cases, several attorneys said, investigations still are underway and the amount to be sought is not yet completeely determined. The deadline for filing claims passed at midnight Aug. 13. The Senate has not acted upon a House-approved bill to extend the filing period another year. If it does, attorneys predict a new burst of claims, “The Alaska Indians have been too busy fishing,” one attorney ex- plained, “but when the word reaches them about the recent $27,000,000 award to the Ute Indians, they'll take a renewed interest.” 15 Tribes The Interior Department said last month it knew of 15 Alaska tribes inicissted in fiag ¢latmne hut who of these undoubtedly were in the last minute flood of claims receivec by the commission. James E. Curry, of Washington, D.C., attorney who has five dlaska claims pending before the com- mission, said the principal dif- ference between claims of Alaska and U.S. Indians is the absence of any origina] payment to the former. “In most cases in the United States the lands were bought for sums which the Indians now con- tend were inadequate. But ir | Alaska,” he contended, “not one | dime was paid to the Indians for any land.” He said the Alaska claims involve no treaties ‘“except possibly that | with Russia in which the United States” agreed to look out for the Indians’ well-being.” 3 Villages Named Curry’'s major claims involves some 18,000 members of the Tlingit and Haida tribes now living In the southeastern Alaska villages of An- goon, Craig, Douglas, Hoonah, Yak- utat, Sitka, Kake, Klawock, Wran- gell, Hydaburg, Juneau, Kasaan, Klukwan, Haines and Saxman. Others involve the Nisgah tribe in the Portland canal area at Hyder and the Eskimo villages of Shunk- nak, Gambell and Unalakleet. The Tee-Hit-Ton Indians, lo- cated in the inland passage area of southeastern Alaska and rep- resented by James Cralg Peacock, also of Washington, seek com- pensation for 350,000 acres of land and 150 square miles of water. The last clajm received by the commission was filed by Willlam Olsen. Anchorage. on behalf of the natives of Palmer, Alaska. They seek compensation for the lost use of the rich falm lands of the Mat- imnuaka valley. Territorial Civil Defense May Be (rippled: Landreth Should Congress sustain the House Appropriations Committee on the stripping of Civil Defense Administration funds last Friday, certain phases of civil defense in Alaska will be seriously crippled, Earl Landreth, territorial direc- tor, said today. Without federal matching funds, much of the fire fighting equip- ment essential to proper civil de- fense cannot be obtained at this time, he said. Many Alaska cities have inadequate equipment be- cause of recent population increas- es brought about by expanded federal activities. “It would seem that the fed- eral government should share its part of the burden,” Land- reth said. The oxisting medical supplies in Alaska would be used up in a day or two should a major dis- aster occur, he said. Some time would elapse before more could be obtained. “Federal matching funds for fire fighting equipment and med- ical supplies are on a 50-50 ba- sis,” he said. “Under the present law we cannot obtain the equip- ment or supplies without fed- eral aid.” There are two things to be no- ed, Landreth said. The action of the committee 1s not final and ‘he need for an adequate civil de- fense program was not questioned. Jongress and the defense admin- stration did not agree on the ‘orm such .a program should take. Local Fishing Vessel Disabled Off Auke Bay A local fishing vessel, the Clarice, requested assistance from the U. 3. Coast Guard at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, reporting that it was dis- abled and drifting off Auk Bay, ac- cording to the Coast Guard here. The listed owner of the 50-foot Clarice is Lionel B. Mason of Ju- neau. It was thought that the trouble was caused by a broken reduction gear or a lost propellor. Six men were said to be aboard. The Storis was alerted and ord- ered to proceed but the Clarice re- ported back it was being towed to Juneau by another fishing vessel. L. J. RUNNELS IS HERE L. J. Runnels, Seattle painting ! contractor, is stopping at the Gas- tineau Hotel, Nuts! With This Many, He Needs Some SOMEWHERE IN KOREA, Aug. 20—{M—-The young engineer depot commander held up his hand in resignation and said: “Please dc something about the bolts.” He has 15,525 bolts today. “More come in on every train from Pusan,” he said. “I can't get rid of them.” They are all 18-inch steel bolts, % of an inch thick. About all they are used for, the lieutenant said, is to build timber trestle bridges. He figures he has enough on hand for 300 bridges each 50 feet long. about the normal length for Korea. “I told another engineer outfit there was a shortage of 18-inch bolts. I got rid of ten boxes that way. Those guys probably still have those ten boxes,” he said. “It didn't do me much good. ] got in 30 boxes from Pusan the next day.” “Oh, yes,” he added, “don’t use my name. You know, the army.” Cannery Tender Apprehended for Beach Seining The case of the motorship Clydes- dale is scheduled to be heard by a jury in U. 8. Commissioner’s Cour! in Sitka Aug. 24, according to P. J. Gilmore Jr., U. S. Attorney. The vessel is a cannery tender of the Pyramid Packing Company 1t was apprehended at Fish Camp in Klag Bay on the west coast of Chichagof Island on Aug. 12. John Klingbiel, agent for the Fish and wildlife Service, who signed the complaint, charges its crew with beach seining at the mouth of ¢ creek. Gilmore, or Stanley Baskin, assis- tant U. 8. Attorney, will appear for the government. GENERAL STEESE DUE Gen. James G. Steese, commis- sioner for the Alaska Road COm- mission from 1921 to 1927, was due to arrive in Juneau this afternoon General Steese has been to the Westward and Interior on an ex- tended Alaska trip. He attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Canadian border Aug. 16 which op- ened a branch of the Taylor High- way between Dawsen and Jack Wade. It was in his honor that the Steese Highway was named. He expects to be in Juneau sev- eral days. B Passenger of (rashed Bush Plane Dies of Burns ANCHORAGE, Aug. 20—(P—Ar- thur Burk, 45, one of three per- sons aboard a small flaming plane which crash-landed in trees be- tween Skwentna and Rainy Pass Thursday night, died from burns n an air force hospital here Sat- wday. The pilot, Tex Ziegler, was reported improved. The third rersqn aboard, an unidentified 16-year-old youth, escaped un- scathed. The plane went down about 130 niles northwest of here. Burk, a civil aeronautics auth- ority generator specialist, had been narried only about a month. The jurviving widow lives here. Burk's mother Jives in Medford, Ore. Plane (rash in {anyon Brings Death to Four ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 20— P—A dead-end canyon wall spelled death to bush pilot Glen Hudson and his three passengers Search leaders reported today the finding of Hudson's smashed Ces- sna plane against a cayon wall about 25 miles from Talkeetna. Tenth Rescue Air Squadron of- ficers said a trail crew flown to the isolated spot by helicopter last night determined that all were dead. Darkness prevented evacuation of the bodies, which was to be attempt- ed today. Talkeetna, north of Anchorage, was the takeoff point last Wednes- day for Hudson and three passen- gers—Elmer (Red) Wolford and his two teen-age sons, Larry Lee and Steven. The crash scene was reported to be up Disappointment 'Creek. Frank Barr, Civil Air Patrol com- mander, sald he flew over the wreck- age and identified Hudsou's Cessna wing numbers, Earl Smith, manager of the Alaska Railroad's Curry Hotel was reported to have sighted the wreckage first while flying his own plane in the search. Barr said Hudson apparently was following the Susitna River in bad weather when he went up the wrong canyon. It had a blind end and the pilot couldn't climb or turn to safety. Barr, an old bush pilot him- self, expressed the opinion Hudson attempted to turn at the canyon’s and and crashed directly into the wall. ONLY THREE BODIES FOUND ANCHORAGE, Aug. 20— (A — Penth Rescue headquarters said to- day its trail crew from the scene where Glen Hudson’s plane crashed reported finding only three bodies n the wreckage. Four were believed aboard, as the search continued for the fourth, an »ffort was being made to determine vhether there actually were four 1board on the takeoff last Wednes- lay. The plane was reported to have :rashed at the 1,000 foot level on a (,900-foot barrier. «e Expedition Member Leaves ‘or Princefon Nichols Clifford, senior at >rinceton University and member of the Arctic Research Institute 'xpedition at Yakutat, arrived were yesterday en route to his icme in Radnar, Pa. He said that nothing new had leveloped in the search for the ‘nstitute's Norseman which dis- wppeared July 27 on a flight from the Seward Glacier camp at Yak- atat. The aircraft, flown by Mau- ‘ice King, failed to show up with vrs. Walter Wood and her daugh- er Valerie. Mrs. Wood's husband 2as been in charge of the ice studies being made on the Mala- pina and Seward Glaciers. U. S. Coast Guard headquarters -eported here today that one Air Porce C-47 had flown two hours Saturday in search of the Norse- man and a Tokyo bound Cana- dian Pacific Airlines C-5¢ trans- port which disappeared off Cape Spencer exactly a month ago. Cloud banks 13,000 feet deep held the plane to a limited area. No report on Sunday operations were received. FROM WASHINGTON, D. C. John F. Shanklin of the Depart- ment of Interior, Washington, D. {C., arrived here yesterday from An- ‘chorage on PNA and is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.