The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1951, Page 1

N SONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY VASHINGTON. D. © THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11, 894 “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 19 ALL THE TIME” | 51 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS REDS CHARGE ALLIES BOMBED KAESONG Ex-Army Gridder Greefed Nine Killed in Flaming Crash of Air Force (-47 * At Alaska Railroad Station ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 23 (M—An Air Force C-47 carried nine men to death last night in a flaming erash on an air field along the Alaska Railroad. A medical aid team sent by the railroad, was believed to have re- covered the bodies of all the victims that had been found in the charred wreckage. That report came to the Tenth Rescue Squadron from the Civil Aeronautics Administration. (A later report from Fairbanks However, said only five bodies had been recovered.) The Air Force said there were four crew members and five pas- sengers aboard. The plane was flying from Elmendorf base at Anchorage to Eielscn base near Fairbanl The (ragic crash occufired al Summit, a midway station about 150 miles north of here. There was a low overcast at the time of the crash. The Air Force was advised that the phlne exploded when it hit, burst into flame and burned for most of the night. It was identified as being from the 5,039th Base Flight Squadron of the 39th Air Depot Wing at Elmendorf. Even Air Force communications with the Summit field were scanty. Messages and inquiries had to be relayed between operators. One report from a Civil Aer- onautics Administration employee at the 4,000-foot Summit field said the plane crew had radioed clear- ance for a landing at the field. An- otlier report was that the plane was only radioing about its posi- tion when it suddenly crashed on the runway. There was no report of any mes- | sage tnat the plane was in trouble Weather was clearing today at Summit and another C-47 took off from Elmendorf with a Board of Examiners to fly to the field. The medical team reached the scene at 6 am. (11 am. EST). The Bodies of five of the victims were reported thrown clear of the wreckage, onto the runway. There were reports the plane may have been afire before crashing. Both the Air Force and the CAA said they were unable to confirm the report. The CAA here said its reports indicate that the only radio report from the plane was a routine posi- tion report over Summit. Virgil Stone, a CAA pilot here, said reports indicate the’pilot start- ed to say something else, but that the plane crashed before he could say it. The plane crashed about 100 feet from the CAA administration building. The crash was the latest in a month-long series of major aerial mishaps which have claimed nearly “(Continued on rage Eight) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Ed. Note: Drew. Pearson is again on a tour of Europe, studying conditions there. His column today takes the form of a letter written from Germany to his wife about her son.) Munich, Germany Dear L. W.: Driving up toward the Czech border the other night, about dusk, I noticed a big van lumber- ing along with a little car behind it. The van locked like it was lost from our convoy and we stopped it to inquire. In the little car behind was your son. He was pushing the dri- ver of that big van like a terrier biting the heels of a recalcitrant bull because that van contained the most important part of our “winds of freedom” operation— namely, the messages we were sending that night to the people of Czechoslovakia. I left the car full of VIP’s where I was riding and joined your son, not only because I enjoy his com- pany but' to see what it was all about. What happened was that the friendship messages to the Czech people had been late arriv- ing in Munich from Cincinnati and we had to get new messages printed in Germany. The latter B . (Continued on Page Four) - Jet Pilot Killed I Jump from Plane At Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Aug. 23—®— A jet pilot from Elmendorf field bailed out over the new Anchorage International airport at 9:30 am. today, the Air Force and C.A.A. reported. The C.AA. said later the jet pilot was killed. The plane was located later four miles away. Canadian Padific To Run Jet Planes Aaross Padific OTTAWA, Aug. 23—P—Jet air- craft will be introduced soon on the Canadian Pacific Airlines’ trans-Pacific routes, John Bald- win, ‘chairman of the Canadian Air Transport Board said today. No decision has yet been made on whether jot planes will be used on domestic airlines, he said. Better Methed 0f Sealing Traps To Be Studied To study more effective ways of sealing fish traps during closed per- iods, three Fish and Wildlife Service officials are leaving for Ketchikan Saturday. They are Seton Thompson, head of the Alaska fisheries division here from Washington, D. C., C. Howard Baltzo, assistant regional director, and Frank Hynes, fisheries manage- ment supervisor. Several cases have come up this year of fish traps being fined for having fish during closed periods because they were improperly rig- ged and could not be securely clos- ed. Baltzo said the matter would be thoroughly studied in Ketchi- kan, They will be flown through South- eastern Alaska areas on their way to the First City to survey the pre- sent condition of the pink salmon run, especially as pertains to escape- ment and catches. The first pink run is about over, | Baltzo said, and the second run should begin to show up the first of next week. “It's still to early tg judge what it will be like,” Baltzo said, “but | about the middle of next week we are expecting requests for an exten- sion of the season will be coming in and we want to get a good picture of how the second run is shaping up.” ‘The commercial fishing season is set to close Sept. 1 San Diego Shriners Due Here Today Members of the Juneau Shrine Club will greet a party of 75 tour- ing Shriners from San Diego, Calif,, at 4 p.m. today when the S. S. Chil- cotin arrives here, Gene Vuille, president of the local Shrine Club, said today. The visitors expect to take the Mendenhall Glacier tour and visit the Territorial Museum before the vessel sails at 11:30 p.m. for Skag- way. On the southbound trip they will visit in Sitka Aug. 26, according to a letter from Roy French Kidd, potentate of the San Diego lodge. Second Suspecied Polio Case Reporfed. In Ketchikan Second case of probable poliomyel- itis in Ketchikan this month was re- ported to the Alaska Department of Health here today. These bring to eight the number of cases reported to the health de- partment this season. Four were reported from Nome and two from Fairbanks earlier this summer. immunity to the other. esIs Theory wher 265 persons have taken their final rabies shot. in Waco, Tex., that a period of years will be needed for observation to determine the full effect of the theory. (P Wirephoto. ‘ Dr. Herbert E. Hipps (above) father of the theory that rabies and polio a1 similar diseases and that immunity to one may produce His theory is being tested at Frost, Tex., Dr. Hipps said It's Not the Principle, She Should Watch Her Watch More SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 23 —(m—Willie Porter, 30, pleaded in South Bend City Court to stealing a watch from Miss Mary Richardson, 26. Then the court tried Miss Richardson and found her guilty of stealing the watch from Miss Boba Tharbs. Both admirers of the watch drew 30-day jail sentences and $35 fines. © e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 longshoremen al Seward Threalen Strike on Wages SEATTLE, Aug. 23—(®—A long- shoremen’s strike threat at Sew- ard, Alaska was reported here to- day. It would threaten the supply | line to Anchorage, Fairbanks, and the rest of the “rail belt.” Albin L. Peterson, Federal La- bor conciliator, sald he has been notifed by two locals of the International Longshoremen & Warehousemen’s union (IND) of their intention of striking. He said he will go to the Alaska port city, if necessary, to try to avert a walkout. Some 300 longshoremen and warehousemen were reported in- volved. They seek an increase in the 15 per cent wage differential | paid because of the higher cost of living in Alaska. AFL Teachers Denounce Taking Loyalty Oaths GRAND RAPIDS, Mich,, Aug. 23 | —{®—Loyalty oaths for school teachers stand condemned by the AFL teachers union on grounds of “indigpity and personal injury.” The American Federation of Teachers, in convention here, de- nounced such oaths in a resolu- tion last night. Loyalty oaths, the resolution said, “inflict indignity and per- sonal injury on the honest and loyal teacher by implying he is disloyal until he swears he is loyal.” { Mayokok, | templated a $1,500 collection of ivory The Principal, with Es!(imo Ariist SEATTLE, Aug. the Eskimo artist, con~ 23—(M—Robert | in his hotel room today and de- lclded he will not pay the city of iuenttle $25 a day for a peddler's| license. It is not a matter of principle with Mayokok. It's a matter of prin- cipal. | | “I can’t afford it,” the Eskimo| | shrugged. “It costs enough just to live in Seattle, let alone pay a li- cense fee.” Mayokok, 48, came to Seattle from Nome in hopes of selling Eskimo ivory pieces, including fine tooled birds from St. Law- rence island, dog teams and sleds from Shishmaref, cribbage boards | and carved animals from King i Island and the Pribilof Islands. | He also hoped to sell some of his |own fine etchings of Eskimp life. The profits he must split with his backers, the Eskimos in the villages | who did the ivory carving. | But before Mayokok started his | rounds of Seattle gifts shops, he | checked with the Seattle Chamber | of Commerce. He was referred to the city hall to see about a license. | “One dollar for a business li- | cense, and that is all right,” he i said. “Then they look in a book | and decide 1 must pay $25 a day | for a peddler's license. That is all right, too—but I can’t afford it” Mayokok plans to remain in Se- attle about a week. Then, if busi- | ness doesn’t brighten up, he’s going iback home on an Alaska line ship. $8 Million More 'For Wildlife Work; | \Alaska Gefs $75,000 { WASHINGTON, Aug 23 — @ —| Secretary of Interior Chapman has announced the apportionment of $17,191,031 among the states for| " | restoration and development of wild- | life resources. | This is $8517,514 more than last year’s apportionment of $8,673,517. | The money comes from the fed-| era] excise tax levied on the manu- facturers of sporting arms and am- munition. Alaska’s maximum apportionment by law is $75,000. State allotments include: Idaho, $34€,423; Oregon, $412,624; Washing- ton, $477,355. CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT The Juneau City Council will hold a regular meeting tonight at 18 o'clock in the city clerk’s office on the City Dock. |and $17,008 in resident waey Seffor | Fishin', Camp At Tracy Arm KETCHIKAN, Aug. 23 — (@ — A salmon-fishing trip was in pros- pect today for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey The New York state chief execu- tive, relaxing on an aerial “vaca- tion” tour of Alaska after a 42,000~ mile trip through the Far East, was in the Ketchikan fishing party before flying to Tracy Arm where ‘he planned to spend the night. Dewey arrived here last night Japan, He described his trip te Korea and Japan at an informal meeting with some 200 Alaskans at the Elks Club. i Dewey said he had cancelled to- day’s luncheon stop at Sitka and his entire visit to Fairbanks. He was scheduled to return to Juneau to- night to address the Chamber of Commerce on Friday. Dewey flew to Alaska from Se- attle Wednesday. He spent Wed- nesday night in the mansion of Gov. Ernest Gruening, a Democrat, after attending a public reception. ifor Won't Allow $5 for Carrying Dewey's Bags Alaska's Democratic administra- tion isn’t paying for carrying thc GOP standard bearer’s bags. The Territorial Auditor, an ap- m‘r Democrat, disallowed a r for §5 today from the uffice of Frank A. Metcalf, highway en- gineer—an elective . Democrat—for transportation of Gov. Thomas E. ‘Dcwey‘s bags from the airpoert to the appointed Democratic Governor of Alaska’s mansion last Tuesday. Auditor Neil Moore didn’t see this as an expense of the highway en- | gineer’s office. Asked if it could be paid from Governor Gruening's en- tertainment fun of $6,000 given him by the last legislature, or his emer- gency fund of $5,000, Moore said he iwould have to look up the law gov- erning expenditure of those funds. i The 1951 session laws define the | emergency fund as: “Expenses au- | thorized by the Governor and in- curred as he deems necessary in meeting Territorial emergencies. . ." It doesn’t mention Republican bags, Court Actien Will ‘Reduce Fishermen's Fund, Says Williams Anticipated revenue for the fund for care of sick and disabled fish- | ermen will be materially reduced as a result of a decision by the 'Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals | regarding non-resident fishermen’s | licenses, Attorney General J. Ger- | ald Williams said today. i A recent judgment of $45 was granted John Storkerson, a fish- erman who paid, under protest, $50 for a non-resident license. The court declared void any amount exceeding $5, which is the resident license. The fund, created by the 1951 legislature, became effective June 22. The law provided it receive 30 per cent of all commercial licen- ses. The higher court based its de- cision on the case of Anderson vs Mullaney | given June 25 which stated that the higher tax on non- resident fishermen was invalid. Williams said the U. S. Supreme | Court would be asked to review| the case. Question of the proce-| dure for the payment of refunds| will have to be settled by that | court, he said. Since June 25 the Territory | has been collecting only $5 from the mon residents. Since June 22, $56,235 has been | collected in non-resident licenses, licenses, | tax commissioner M. P. Mullaney ' said. That takes up to Aug. 17. | According to the tax depart-| ment’s biennial report, $467.257.50 was collected from fishermen’s commercial licenses in 1949 and | 1950. Of this, $76,200.50 came from | residents and mo,m _from non- residents. Licenses increased by approx- (Continued on Page Five) Fullback Al Pol[lrd. one of the 90 West Point cadets figuring in the cribbing scandal at the military academy, gets a kiss on the cheek from his girl friend, Patricia LaLonde, on arrival at her Los Angeles home, Frank Fitzgerald and Line Coach Pollard says he's talked with General Manager Shelby Calhoun of the New York Ranks pro lootball team and may sign a contract, but so far ne terms have been agreed upon. (# Wirephoto. Menu of Moose to Mucktuk for Ice-Bound Crew, Marooned Two Winters in Arctic VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 23—@—% An adventure in eating was what the crew of the motor vessel Snowbird II called an ice-bound stay in the Arctie. The Royal Canadian Air Force supply ship, - ice-bound for two winters in the Arctic, arrived at Sidney, B. C. near here after a 16-day, 4,000-mile voyage from near the mouth of the Mackenzie river. The vessel was used during the summers to shuttle supplies to northern air force bases. An attempt to bring it out in 1950 failed because of ice conditions. The sea-going fliers, under com- mand of squadron leader S.C.N. Burridge, 40-year old veteran skip- per, flew into Tuktoyaktuk, near the mouth of the Mackenzie river, in the spring to bring the Snow- bird II to her home port. No Meat For about a month the ship's crew was without meat supplies. “I did what the Eskimos did,” | recalled Cpl. Phil Huschi of Van- couver, B. C., the cook aboard the | Arctic ship. New Zealander Says Russians Held Him Prisoner 127 Days BERLIN, Aug. 23—®—A hag- gard New Zealander who reported he had been imprisoned 127 days by the Russians and East German | Communists on charges that he was a spy arrived as a refugee in Allied West Berlin today. The man was Frank Momme, 45 years old and a native of Well- ington. He said he had entered the Pus- sian occupation zone last April “to see how Communism works in practice.” Now, he added, “I've seen all of it I want of Communism - saw it from behind bars.” British consular authorities helped him book air passage for Londnn this lnzmoon. Labor Day Delays Alaska - We Mean The $S Alaska SEATTLE, Aug. 23 — (® — The | Alaska Steamship Company said to- day the scheduled Sept. 5 sailing of the SS Alaska has been delayed one day because of the Labor Day holiday. “First, 1 served them dried moose meat. Then, in rapid suc- cession came blubber; a ‘myster- fous fish known to as ‘connie; which means ‘un- known,’ but is actually like a Lybrid of salmon and whitefish, nd some fried whale meat.” But the prize dish was “muck- tuk,” the meat of a small 1,000~ pound whale, and finally polar bear. No Squawks There were no complaints the 18-man crew returned in “the pink.” The voyage home was a battle against drifting ice, dense fogs | and storms. After theship roun- ded the tip of Alaska southerly gales tossed the shallow-draft vessel about like a cork-screw, crew members reported. They brought home an infla- tionary-price polar bear skin. | “We bought it from an Eski- mo,” said squadron leader Bur- ridge. “It cost $40. Several years | ago the price would have been 310” I Milliens in Damage Left in Wake of Week-0ld Hurricane TAMPICO, Mexico, Aug. 23—(F —The killer hurricane that raged over tropical seas all week taking more than 150 lives and causing millions of dollars in damage, was Llowing itself out today in the | mountains of Mexico. and home The storm — described as the worst recorded in Mexico — spent its final fury over the oil port of Tampico yesterday. At least one person was killed here and the damage was expected to run above $1,000,000. Twenty-seven persons were of - ficially reported injured here unverified reports placed the cas-/ ualties as high as 300. The weather bureau said the hurricane was blowing northwest into the mountains where it woul break up. FROM SAN FRANCISCO Richard C. Brown of the research i department of American Can Co., from San Francisco arrived here canneries in this area. He is stop- ping at the Baranof Hotel. the Eskimos | : Truce Talks Called Off In Maneuver Ridgway Terms Accusa- | fion 'Ridiculous’- Red Radio Confused MUNSAN, Korea. Friday —iP— The Communists called off the | Korean armistice talks “from now on” Thursday on a bombing charge which the United Nations command said was a complete frameup. The Reds, in a dramatic night maneuver, accused an Allied plane of bombing Kaesong, site of the | deadlocked negotiations. In a sharp statement issued in Tokyo at midnight (6 am. Thursday, Juneau time) Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway said the Allies made no such bombing, and that the timing showed the Communists had decided to break off the talks even before they made their trumped-up complaint, The U. N. commander’s state- ment called it “a frame-up staged from first to last.” No Planes in Area Allied statements said no U. N. air force or naval plane was in the area, no Allied artillery fired into the area, and the Reds pre- sented no evidence that there even was a bombing. An investigating American of- ficer said the evidence he was shown in the early morning black- ness was ‘“ridiculous.” A l-d Haison officer, pulling #7031 notes trom his pocket, pnmpuy announced truce talks were “off frem this time.” . The Reds made this announce- ment at 1:45 a.m. Thursday, only two hours and twenty-five min- utes after the alleged bombing in- cident, Ridgway said. Break Planned Since this obviously was a high- level command decision, the U. N. commander noted, it was evident the break-off was planned in ad- vance, The Chinese and North Kor- ean communications are such that they normally take many hours or days to arrive at such decisions, Despite the appearance of fi- nality, high-ranking Allied offi- cers Thursday night had express- ed belief the breakdown was “by no means permanent.” Red broadcasts displayed some confusion in announcing the ace tion. Communist China’s official Pei- ping radio said that only Thurs- day’s sub-committee meeting was cancelled. Later it quoted a Kae- song dispatch as saying “further meetings at Kaesong have been suspended.” This dispateh predicted “a further formal protest,” presum- ably from a higher level, would be lodged with the U. N. com- mand. The Red Korcan radio added further uncertainty by saying the Communists would consider the U. N. did not want to continue talks unless the Reds received a satisfactory answer to their long series of complaints. All these complaints now have been answered. The U. N. com- mand said all the alleged incidents either did not happen or were the Red’s own fault. MOSCOW MAKES NO COMMENT ON BOMBING MOSCOW, Aug. 23 —#— The Moscow press published no news today of a breakdown in Korean truce talks. The papers carried stories of American planes bomb- ing and strafing the neutral Kae- song area, but made no comment. Ship Movements Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive from Skagway Friday at 8 am. d sailing for Vancouver at 9 a.m. Princess Kathleen due north- bound Saturday at 3 p.m. Aleutian due to arrive south- bound Sunday noon. Denali due southbound Friday noon, sails at 2:30 p.m. Alaska scheduled to arrive north= yesterday on his third routine trip|bound Saturday at 8 pm. to Southeastern Alaska. He expects| Chilcotin scheduled to arrive from to spend the next week visiting|Vancouver at 6 p.m. Baranof due northbound Tues- deyat8am, -~ ;.