The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1951, Page 1

SONGRES SIBRARY FASHINATON 1ONAL ne . VOL, LXXVIIL, NO. 11,897 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 4 Safe After Bailing Out of Spinning C-47 Pilots, 3 Passengers Ride Out Dizzy Loops, Land Safely ANCHORAGE, Aug. 27—®—Four airmen bailed out of a C-47 airplane when it went into a spin early yes- terday and were found safe near Friday Creek, close to the base of Knik Glacier. The men were in mountainous country too rugged for rescue planes to land, officials at Elmendorf Air Force base reported. Food and sleep- ing bags were dropped for them. A land rescue team was to be landed on a sand bar in Friday Creek some four miles away. A note } was dropped telling the fliers to make their way to the sand bar if the four could walk well enough. If not, they were told to stay where they are and a trail crew will go to them. . Present plans call for a helicopter to pick up the men at the sand bar. The quartet jumped from the C-47 when it was about 12,000 feet in the air at the start of its spin, the pilot said after he and his co- pilot landed the plane safely at Elmendorf 28 minutes later. The two pilots, Capt. Ermine C. Hales and Bert E. Dowdy, and three passengers chose to remain with the plane and ride it out. At 6,000 feet, Hales brought the aircraft out of its spin. Their hometowns were not re- ported. The four who jumped were iden- , tified as crew chief Sgt. Larry R. Baine, S-Sgt. Courtney T. Kruger, both crew members, and 1st Lt. | Carl ‘“l;puer and Cpl. Edward G. Szymberski, both ~passengers. All four are stationed at Elmen- dorf. 2 Air rescuers said t.hl'ti e one who appeared.to have asprain ankle, the men seemed ‘m good condition, The, four are not to- gether. One pair landed a consid- erable distance from the other two. 12 Persons Die in Mexico Movie Panic | MEXICO CITY, Aug. 27—/P—Five persons were killed last night when a cry of “fire” caused panic in & movie theatre. 1 A man in the balcony lighted a cigarette. The bruning match light- ed the program of a woman sitting beside him. She creamed “fire” and 600 persons in the balcony rushed for the doors. When the crush clear- ed, two children, two women and a man were found crushed to death. Some 50 persons suffered minor in- juries. The burning program went out in the rush for the doors. Seven persons more were Kkilled when bottled gas leaked into the kitchen of a private house and ex- ploded earlier in the day. ThéWashingion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Ed. Note—Drew Pearson has been in Europe in connection with sending friendship balloons across the Iron Curtain, but re- ports on the prospects of peace or war). FRANKFORT. — Stopping for breakfast at the Shannon Airport en route to Germany, I was inter- viewed by an Irish newspaperman who wanted to know my reason for coming to Europe. Not wanting to tell him about, our balloon project, I replied by citing my No. 2 reason for making this trip. “Our secretary of defense,” I said, “has just told Congress that Europe is much closer to war than at any other time. I am coming to Europe to check up on the facts.” With this my interviewer let out a bellow of anguish. “What!” he said, in mingled ter- ror and incredulity. “Are we goin2 to have war?” This, I found as I traveled on the continent, was the reaction cf most, people. Nobody believed there was any danger of war—perhaps because everyone so devoutly hope there would be no war. This can be a most dangerous situation. But it is a fact. Shrugging Off War The average man in the street simply dismisses the thought of war, He's seen enough of it and doesn't even want to discuss it. Or if he does discuss it, he points to the emblems of peace flaunted (Continued on Page 4) Hurricane Damage The ancient fishing village of Port Royal, Jamai JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1951 B ——————— This Couldn't Happen Here, "cause There Aren't Any ISTACHATTA, Fla,, Aug. 27. —4M—A feur foot blacksnake slowly wriggled down the aisle of the Baptist Church during the sermon at a recent service. As it reached the foot of the pulpit, the Rev. Fletcher West- on threw a hymn book but did not stop the snake. Seceral women raised their feet off the flgor. One left. But she came back with a good sized rock and handed it to the min- ister. He killed' the snake and resumed the sermon. .0 00 0 0 00 00 . L] . . . . . . . . L] . . . . Defiey&peaks ai : Kofzebue: Airport |Dedication o ica, B. W. L. Hes nearly flat after a hurricane blasted it recently. Hardly a house was left intact and four p>rsons were killed. Red Cross relief has been organ- ized for the stricken homeless of earsi-Davies Agreement, Giving Control of Estale fo Former Adress, "Has No Effed,’ Admiqislralors Claim - Le Roy West Lost Derby by .06 of a Second Je Rov Wrst 1 nesw’s Soen Box Derby champ, lost the Akron race by .06 of a second. This was revealed today by J. W. Leivers, derby chairman here who took Le Roy‘east for the national finals which wege run in Akron Aug. 12, Le Roy's time for the third heat, which he lost, was 28.03 se- conds. Time of the winmer was not reported. Average speed for Juneau champ during the race was 28.10. He finished in tenth | place. Leivers said it took the electric eye camera to determine who won the third heat. The derby was won by Darwin Cooper Of Williamsport, Penn., whose time for the final heat was 27.97 seconds. Leivers and Le Roy returned home yesterday via Pan American plane. They met in Seattle Saturday after Leivers had stayed on over a week in Washington, D. C. to confer with heads of the office of U. S. Courts. He is clerk of the court in th first judicial division. Le Roy traveled to Denver with his grandparents two weeks ago. His grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Converse, had been their grand- son’s most enthusiastic. rooters at the Akron event. From Denver he flew to Seattle and visited an aunt in Renton, Wash., until Leiver’s ar- rival. His showing in the race was the best ever made by an Alaskan ent- rant. He was driving a white speed- ster sponsored by The Daily Alaska Empire. Le Roy's time for the first and second heats, which he won, was 28.36 seconds for each heat. Haines Dock Being Repaired After iale fo Businessmen The Haines dock will be repaired immediately and be open for use, it was learned today from the Peter Wood agency, which closed 1 deal selling the dock to a group of Juneau and Haines men headed by Carl Heinmiller, Port Chilkoot cusiness man. ‘The business men bought out Zd Koenig’s steck in the Port Chilkoot Terminal Co. after the dock had been closed for three da’ Koenig entered the armed 4 | services at Fort Richardson today. This move insures freight mov- ing over the dock and up the Haines cutoff to the Interior. Freighters will continue to unload there and will not be dependent upon the use of an army dock which is being constructed at Lu- tak Cove. Canadian Pacific Railway steam- ships have not been calling at Haines because of the unsafe con- dition of the dock. Repairing the the town. (P Wirephoto. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27—®—A | paper supposedly giving former act- | ress Marion Davies voting conirol; |of publisher William Randolph | Hearst’s enterprises “has no more | effect than if it never existed,” 1lpech! administrators of his estate | }conund. Rencrts:have heen published here..Tor | that. Miss D\a;}%fnn, Hearst signed | an-agreement on Nov. 5, 1950, urider| which they were to be the only two trustees in a voting trust for the stock of the Hearst Corp., holding | company for the publisher’s vast en- | terprises. Under the agreement, Hearst | and Miss Davies supposedly pool- ed their stock for voting purposes | and in the event of the death of | either, the other should vote the | entire stock for his or her life- time. Hearst reputedly owned the en- tire 100,000 shares of Hearst Corp. | common stock and 170,000 shares of preferred, with Miss Davies own- ing 30,000 shares of preferred stock Henry S. Mackay, Jr., and Ran- | dolph Apperson Hearst, special ad- | ministrators of the publisher’s es- tate, which is scheduled for pro- bate hearing today, issued a state- ment late yesterday saying they have known about what they term | “the so-called agreement” of Nov. 5, 1950. They said that although published reports have the paper making Miss Davies sole voting trustee in con- trol of all the Hearst property, “this so-called agreement was never executed and for this and many other reasons has no more effect than if it never existed.” %Slockauolafions 1 | NEW YORK, Aug. 27—®—Clos- ling quotation of Alaska Juneau | mine stock today is 27, American | Can 114%, American Tel. and Tel.| 116014, Anaconda 46%, Douglas Air- | | craft 53%, General Electric 60, Gen- | eral Motors 49%, Goodyear 94%, | Kennecott 79%, Libby, McNeill and | Libby 9, Northern Pacific 47%, | Standard Oil of California 49%, | Twentieth Century Fox 19%, U. S. | Steel 41%, Pound $2.79 15/16, Can- adian Exchange 94.68%. Sales today were 1,080,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: | industrials 265.59, rails 7847, util- ities 44.59. WEATHER REPORT (U, S. WEATHER BUREAU Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning At Airport—Maximum, 63; minimum, 41. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Lowest tonight near 47 and highest Tuesday about 64. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport — .02 inches. ® since July 1—5.52 inches. ® o 00 00 00 idock will not have any effect on | their schedules, William McFar- |land, agent said todays ward Hospifal Not Private, Health Commissioner Says ANCHORAGE, Aug. 27— (@ —Dr. C. E. Albrecht, Alaska commissioner of health, says that Territorial Audtiro Neil Moore’s refusal to allow an $82,070 voucher for the Seward narses’ home is based on “confused information.” Expressing confidence that the ritary- would -make payment, Al hrecht raid the new nurses’ home is MOt @ privale efiterprise as Cuis tended by Moore. He said the Seward General Hospital is operated by a com- munity hospital board. The city of Seward owns the building and the territory owns the sanatorium and pays the Methodists to op- erate it. Albrecht said the Seward council is asking the Alaska Public Works | fund to build a 50-bed hospital. He said the new nurses’ home would house both the general hospital and sanatorium nurses. ‘The US. is to pay half the cost, the territory one- fourth and the Methodists donating an amount equal to the territory. Valdez Irrifated on No Funds for Winter Upkeep of Highway VALDEZ, Alaska, Aug. 27—/#— This community at the sourth term- inus of the Richardson Highway was riled this weekend by a report that the Department of Interior has no funds for winter mainten- ance of the key highway to the In- terior Word was received that the mili- tary had been informed that funds were not available to keep the high- way open. Rep. William Egan, Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives and a Valdez merchant, asserted: “It is inconceivable that in this time of national peril, Congress did not make funds available to keep this shortest route to inter- jor bases open this winter. It is not merely a local issue. “The bogey that this route would be hard to maintain in the winter was knocked into a cocked hat twc years -ago when the Alaska Freigh! Lines, a trucking firm, aiding’ by contributions of several thousanc dollars by Valdez merchants, easily kept Thompson Pass open con- tinuously without a terrific expen- diture of funds. “Last year the Department of Interior kept the highway oper much more easily, benefiting by the previous year's experience. Ter thousand tons of supplies were speeded to the interior over thi route in the past two winters without a mishap.” Baranof due northbound Tues- day at 7 am. Princess Nayah scheduled north- bound Tuesday afternoon, south- bound from Skagway Friday morn- ing. the Hotel Juneau. KOTZEBUE, Alaska, Aug. 27—(® —QGov. Thomas E. Dewey faced o brisk and icy breeze yesterday in the first speech of his career above the Aretic Circle. He was the principal speaker at the dedication of an air field in this Eskimo village and trading center 26 miles north of the Arctic Cirele and 200 miles north of Nome. The New York Governor extoll- ed the prospects for Alaska and paid special tribute to the hardy inhabitants of the far morth. The audience of Eskimos and whites came from many parts of territory. 4 eral hundred persons witnessed dedication in intermittent rain. were present from Fairbanks, Nome, Point Barrow, Anchorage and many Arctic villages in the northwest. The new Ralph Wien air field was dedicated to the memory of one of Alaska's early day bush pliotL He was killed here in 1930 while flying Alaska’s first diesel- Dewey was introduced by Gover- nor Gruening. The master of cere- monies was the Rev. George E. Carroll, local Jesuit priest and mis- sionary. . ‘The speakers’ list included Sen. Percy Ipalook, Kotzebue Eskimo; Mrs. Lillian Crossen of Fairbanks, widow, of Joe Crossen, another pio- neer Alaska flier; John McNess of Nome, president of the Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commerce. Mediator Arrives To ‘Attempt Seward Strike Setflement SEWARD, Alaska, Aug. 27—®— A government mediator flew to Alaska from Seattle yesterday to seek & settlement of Seward’s waterfront strike. The strike started Friday mid- night in this entry port for the Alaska Railroad and rail belt cities. It was called by the locals of the International Longshore- men & Warehousemen’s Union in support of a demand for a higher Alaska cost-of-living differential. The strike is against the North- ern Stevedoring Co. Kenneth D. Baker, acting chairman of the local 82 labor relations committee, declared it was not a “wildcat strike” but was a legal one, preceded by sincere negotiation efforts. Baker said Seward always has operated under a local port agree- ment, so it is not included in the union's general Alaska agreement. Although the local unions are af- filiated with the Harry Bridges- lead ILWU, Baker said the Inter- national never has had authority o negotiate for Seward. The union committee contends the 15 per cent cost-of-living differential allowance for Alaska is not adequate in Seward; that the cost-of-living index shows Seward living costs 46 per cent higher than in the west coast states, (In Seattle, William Gettings, :cgional director of the ILWU, said that after receiving notice of the Seward locals’ intention to strike last week “We told them, ‘Don’t stop work; continue Work- ing while negotiating’ When they told us they intended to strike, we told them it would be on their own responsibility.”) R. C. JOHNSON RETURNS R. C. Johnson of the Bureau of Reclamation, returned yesterday from the Whitehorse and Rancheria country where he had been on min- ing business for the past two weeks. He reported that the Yukon and British Columbia country there w forest fires, ] MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Dewey May Boom for Eisenhower PRICE TEN CENTS Announced Break Present Backers Keeping v Quiet - All Waits on Governor’s Return By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Aug. 27—(®— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Re- publican supporters evidently are content to let his prospective presidential candidacy rock along a_ while without nudging. Senator Duff (R-Pa), regarded as one of the leaders of the Eisen~ hower boom, has told Senate friends he is content not to beat up the political buses until after Congress quits, probably in Octo- ber. Duff apparently is well pleased with the way things are going in the absence of any definite assurance from Elsenhower that he will be available for the Re- publican nomination, Senator Saltonstall came out for Eisenhower yester- day. Appearing on a television program (NBC), he called the General “The best man at the present time.” . Dewey Efforts The return of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York from an in- spection trip to the Far East and Alaska is expected to bring renew- ed efforts from the Dewey camp in behalf of Eisenhower's potential candidacy. The New York. governor has been invited to the White House, may write some magazine arti- cles and probably has some speeches up his sleeve. It will not be difficult for him to slip in s few words for Elsenhower oo occasion. ¥ The Dascy CADIDRIEN 18 TeghAr- ded with some suspicion by others in the Eisenhower camp who ap- parently feel that the New York governor would be willing to bid for 4 third presidential nomina- tion if the general makes it plain he isn't available. Dewey and Duff, for instance, seemed to be dealing somewhat at arm’s length in backing Eisen- hower. Duff has made it pretty clear he doesn't want the Repub- licans to wind up with Dewey as their candidate if they don't get Eisenhower. Fisenhower Put on Oregon Demo Ticket For Presidency SALEM, Ore., Aug. 27—®—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was entered provisionally today as a Demo- cratic candidate for president in next May’s Oregon presidential primary election. Republicans are making an at- tempt to get him on their ballot, too. State Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney, Portland, a Democrat, filed pe- titions containing 1,150 signatures with Dave O’Hara, state elections chief. One thousand signatures are enough to put a candidate on the ballot. His consent is not re- quired. O’Hara accepted the petitions, although he pointed out that Oregon law requires that a pres- idential candidate be a member of the party in which he makes the race. Gen. Eisenhower has not said whether he is a Democrat or a Republican or whether he would be a candidate for president. Petitions now are being circul- ated to put Elsenhower's name on the Oregon Republican pres- idential ballot. If enough signa- tures are obtained, then the question of the general's party affiliation would arise, O’Hara said. A court decision might be ne- cessary in an attempt to clarify the question if Eisenhower makes no statement. Another possibility is that he could rup on both par- ty tickets, O’Hara sald, BOEING FILLS LATHROP'S PLACE ON PACIFIC NORTHERN Arthur G. Woodley, president of Pacific Northern Airlines, announc- ed today the election of William E. Boeing, Jr., as a director.of the company to fill a vagancy on the board of directors, which has existed since the death of the late Austin E. Lathrop. Boeing is president of the Mesabi Oregon Corporation and a director; Karin Pehrson of Collegé is at!extremely dry and there werc many!of the Pacific National Bank of| Seattle, (R-Mass) | Colonel Chang (above), North Korean Communist liaison officer, made announcement that Reds have called off “from now on” Korean armistice talks. United Nations officials said he was speaking from - notes “obviously written well in advance.” () Wire- photo. Truman Asked To Take Over Copper Tie-Up By the Associated Press America’s strategic copper indus- try ground to a halt today. Union leaders asked President Truman tc take it over when last-minute nego- tiations failed to avert a strike. < A2 T-gm. Aocal time). deadling moved across the nation, members ol the-Tndepender e Woten: N“W» and Smelter Workers went the | job. Hit first were the smelters on the east coast, then those in the midwest. Picket lines were set up. No violence was reported. Union members at the Big Barber, N. J American Smelting and Refining plant said local negotiations alsc were off, at least for the time be ing. Officers of the Independent Union telegraphed their seizure request tc President Truman early today. The strike was called over dif- ferences on union requests for wage increases and contract changes prineipally increased pension provi- sions. The union said it asked for a general wage increase of 20 cents an hour. Package provisions—mainly pensions—would up that by around 10 cents an hour. The strike call includes operations in Montana, Idaho, California, Avi- zona, Utah, Connecticut, New York Washington, New Jersey, Nebraska Texas, Maryland, New Mexico anc Nevada. Alaska Hearings Scheduled on Bill For Native Claims WASHINGTON, Apg. 27—P—A House subcommittee indicated today it will go to Alaska in October tc conduct hearings on a bill to set uj an Alaska panel of the Indiar Claims Commission. Rep. Morris (D-Okla) chairman of the Indian Affairs Subcommittec told opponents and proponents of the bill today that he would make “every effort” to hold hearings in key Alaska cities. The bill was introduced by Dele- gate Bartlett of Alaska as a means of settling Indian claims to Al- aska lands, Major opposition to the bill was directed toward a clause stating nc claimants shall be gwarded exclu- sive rights in coastal waters beyond the low water mark. Mrs, Ruth Bronson, executive di- rector of the National Congress ol American Indians, asserted thi barred any settlement of the Indian: “most valuable” right—water anc fishing. A provision to authorize a $40,000,- 000 revolving fund for loans to aid Alaska Indians was criticized by Mrs. Bronson as “almost dishonest’ and a ‘“sop to get the Indians tc take the rest of the bill.” TOWED TO KETCHIKAN The fishing vessel Kathleen was towed to Ketchikan by the 52-foot U. 8. Coast Guard cutter yester- day. She had a disabled engine. Thorium is used in atomic en- ergy woik, Reds Blast . Allies, but Are 'Willing' Talk of "Continuing’ Truce Talks - Asks Serious Consideration By the Associated Press TOKYO, Tuesday—The Commu- nist high command today bitterly rejected the Allled reply on an alleged Kaesong neutrality viola- tion but, at the same time, left the door open to a possible re- sumption of the Korean armistice talks. The Reds broke off the stale- mate talks Aug. 23, alleging that an Allied plane had attempted to ‘murder” the Communist delega- tion at the Kaesong conference site. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, su- oreme United Nations commander, told them Saturday their charges were “maliclous Mes” but that he was willing to resume the arm- istice effort. In a reply broadcast early to- day by the Peiping radio, North Korean premier Kim Il Sung and Chinese Red Gen. Peng Teh-Hual said Ridgway'’s state- ment was “entirely unsatistac- tory.” They accused him of manufac- turing incidents to break up the truce talks and of ‘“slandering” the Communists. Following a wordy complaint they reiterated all the old Red charges, they then stated: Open Door “We hereby once more propose to you that this grave action of provocation should be dealt with by your side with an attitude of serious responsibility. Then the _continuation of the negotiations Sle” armistice we oftiers proceed to Kaesong (o ecargy out a re- investigation jointly with our liaison officers of the incident that occurred on Aug. 22, whea your military aircraft bombed and strafed the vicinity of the residence of our delegation in order once again to~prove the full validity of our protest.” The Reds, after a long weekend of vitriolic propaganda against the United States and the United Nations, thus passed the buck Lack to General Ridgway. On the basis of previous ex- -xchanges, it appeared unlikely that he would consider their re- sponse satisfactory. However, the Red invitation to renew the investigation at Kae- ong and to seek a settlement in- dicated clearly they were not yet orepared to cancel the deadlocked iruce talks once and for all. 21,130 War Criminals pardoned for Actions In War with Japan TOKYO, Aug. 27—®—The Jap- anese government today announced the third mass pardon of former military war criminals. It was ap- proved by. the occupation authority. The group, slated for freedom, totaled 21,130. It included 361 colonels and 388 Navy captains. Air Secretary Joins (ongressional Drive To "Unbalance’ Forces WASHINGTON, Aug. 27— B — Secretary of the Air Force Finlet- ter appears to be joining powers with Congressional allies in a drive to give air power a bigger share of military funds. In a speech over the weekend, the Air Force chief called for junk- ing the old concept of “balanced {orces”—insofar as that means di- viding defense dollars equally among the army, navy and air force. Finletter urged instead the allo- cation of men, materials and money to those “top priority tasks” which can deliver military blows “with the most devastating effect.” His address, to the Air Force As- sociation in San Francisco, left little doubt he thought the air force now has such a top priority. He em~ phasized prospects for tremendous new striking power by using war- planes to bring new atomic weapons directly against enemy ground troops. This speech came a few days af-’ ter the launching of proposals in both the House and Senate to give Air Force funds a big boost, with- out making a similar increase for the Army or Navy.