The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 6, 1951, Page 1

SONGRESSIONAL IBRARY ASH TN G THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,9 Start Truce Elsewhere, Says Ridgway TOKYO, Sept. 6—®—Gen. Mat- thew B. Ridgway told the Reds in a stinging note today that if they want to end the shooting in Kores they should agree to start truce talks anew somewhere else. The United Nations commander also brusquely told the Communists to stop their “constant deceit and treachery” in manufacturing in- cidents for “false and malevolent” charges against the Allies. Almost simultaneously with deliv- ery of Ridgway's sharp note, Chinese Communists launched a heavy. tank- supported attack on the west- ern front. A front-line officer said it could be “a prelude to a major offensive.” The Red assault on the long in- active front was only 25 miles from Kaesong, site of the disrupted armis- tice negotiations. Ridgway left it completely up to the Communists whether nego- tiations are resumed. But the UN. commander made it clear the talks won't be at Kaesong. information office said not a suitable site for “it is Ridgway's Kaes0 armistice discussions because within Communist lines.” A release by the information of- fice said the situation has reached a point “where the question of the neutrality of the Kaesong zone has overshadowed the original purpose of the meetifgs.” The Reds broke off the talks Aug. 23 after charging the UN. violated the neutrality zone. Marines Fight [To Disappear from 0ff 3,000 Red Chinese U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD- QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 6—#—An American unit was surrounded by! thousands of tank-supported Chi- nese Reds on the we(stem front to- day but fought its way free after an 18-hour battle. American Infantrymen and sup- porting airmen said they Kkilled more than 400 of the 3,000 at- tacking Chinese. On the opposite end of the front North Korean Reds drove U.S. Ma- rines back 400 yards on the northern edge of the Punch Bowl, 20 miles north of the 38th parallel. The leathernecks counterattacked and regained the lost ground. Chinese attacking on the long quiet western front, seven miles north of parallel 38 were supported by eight tanks. One intelligence officer said 20 Russian-type tanks were seen in the area. The fight began Wednesday mid- night and continued into Thursday night when the U.N. force fought its way clear. It took out its wounded on tanks and armored vehicles. One Allied officer said the abrupt attack by at least a regi- ment of Reds might be the begin- ning of a new offensive. An Eighth Army spokesman said it was too early to tell. Another officer suggested it was a Red attempt to clean U.N. troops out of the “Trans-Imjim” area 30 miles north of Seoul in preparation for a buildup for an ultimate Com- munist offensive. TheWashingion Merry - Go-Round Ed. Note — While Drew Pear- son is on a brief vacation, the Washington Merry-go-round is being written by several disting- uithed guest colummists, today's being by Michael V. DiSalle, d'r- ector of the Office of Price Sta- bilization.) WASHINGTON. — Writing this column for Drew Pearson today instead of reading it, deprives me of a pleasure I enjoy each morn- ing. For each morning I read the column to find out what his pre- dictions are on what we are aboul to do—and surprisingly enough sometimes the predictions have been right. Occasionally, reading the column is not “a pleasure for it steps on the toes of some of my friends. But I guess no one likes to see his friends unhappy. Generally, however, I enjoy the column because of its hard-driving support of the' stabilization pro- gram which we feel is so right and so necessary. We appreciate this ~_ (Continued on Page 4) ¥ ik o Bt R Col. A. J. Kinney (5th from left) Nations liaison officer, holds a officer (pointing) claimed came from a bomb dropped by a UN plane in the Kaesong neutrality area officer stoops to examine the crater, which Communists charged was caused by the bomb. The incident precipitated a series of broad- sides fired by both sides over respo; l-'ol;ce Photo va radio from Tokyo and AP Wirephoto). peded of the U. S. Air Force, Unitea fragment which North Korean Sept. 1. A Chinese Communist nsibility for the affair. (U. S. Air 200 Planes Fly "01d Dobbin’ Doomed Mink Ranch Menus | | “ola Dobpis wit be: of | thepast in *mink diets, aa on 1 n%gel zunises to top thz menu if experiments carried ~‘oft by the Fishery Products - Laboratory in Ketchikan are successful, Clarence’ J. Carlson, acting chief announced | today. The past several years the lab-| cratory has been cooperating with |the Experimental Fur Farm in Petersburg with the use of fish and fish by-products in the diets of mink. In addition, it has been assisting the technological labor- atory in Seattle in developing a | diet for hatehery fish. | Up to now, Carlson said, the | main ingredient in feeding miuk | and hatchery fish has been | horsemeat. This commodity, he added has been becoming more | ccarce every year with a conse- quent rise in price. The past summer Norman Wig- | utoff, fishery marketing specialist | at the Ketchikan laboratory, made | a survey of the potential market | for frozen salmon offal. Hatcheries and mink farms | were visited on the west coast and mid-west and it was found that in the Pacific Northwest it was common practice to feed mink 60 to 70 per cent fish while Wisconsin ranchers considered a 15 per cent fish diet “rather high.” However, because “Old Dobbin” is fast disappearing from the ranges it is evident the midwest will have to increase its volume of fish food, he found. | In Petersburg it was found that) up to 80 per cent salmon wasl.e‘, could be fed mink successfully. Hatchery fish were fed almost 100 per cent waste with good results.| Alaska is the best source of nu- tritionally superior salmon waste products, Carlson pointed out. As a test shipment 100,000 pounds of; offal were gathered and frozen/ this season and is due tto leiy‘,‘” Petersburg on the presen south- bound voyage of the M/V Palis- ana. On the basis of this the Alaska Steamship Company will determine rates at ‘wh\cn volume loads can be made in the future. Carlso; pounds or more O wasted offal could be feeding in the states. \ Lt Admiral Sprague Relieved of Alaska Naval {ommanhd WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—#—The Navy announced the transfer of Rear Admiral Edgar A. Cruise from sea duty to command of the Alaskan Sea Frontier and the 17th Naval ! District. He relieves Rear Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague, whose next duty has not been announced. | | | | shipment n estimated that 10,000,000 f this hitherto used for From Anchorage on Big Game Hunts, Says Rhode | per River last fall have spread over ! an area of about 150 miles. They Daily Mo# and caribou hunting in the Amchorage area is a modern- ized @peration with at least 200 small prigate planes taking off daily’ for the hunting grounds, Clarence, Rhode, regional director of the Fish and Wildlife Service said today. He returned yesterday from Fair- banksg rage and northern e he has been on a In Fafthanis . he sald 25 special permits were issued for taking buffalo at Big Delta. There were 842 applicants whose names were put into a hat and the lucky 25 drawn. Three hundred animals—extent of the herd— is all the range can support, Rhode explained. This is the second year the service has allowed killing older animals un- der the special permit system. He said the herd will not migrate. “The country surrounding is mostly muskeg,” he said,’ “and the animals refuse to spread out over land on which there is no food.” He added that 17 transplanted from Big Delta to the upper Cop- were transported over the Alaska range by truck. Canadians Want 5 He said the Canadian govern- ment has requested five buffalo for planting in the White River JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1951 Navy Will Rescue Lighthouse Keepers Hit by Drought VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. 6— L4 Drought-hit lighthouse keepers will get a fresh supply of water in the next few days’ through the co-operation of the Canadian Navy. The navy craft Billow will leave Victoria today to pump water to stations on Trial I land, Portlock Joint, Merry I: land and Ballenas Island. The Billow is a converted seiner with built-in water tanks. Lighthouse keepers generally draw their supply from rain col- lected in tanks, but the long dry .spell has depleted their supply. e o ° . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e e o o 0 0 o 'Pinch’ Starts. For Civilians, Says Wilson Mobilization Chief De- clares Arms Buildup Hits Quantity Stage WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—(P— Mobilization Chief Charles E. Wil- son today reported the arms build- up is reaching the “quantity-pro- duction stage and “the pinch is here now” for the civilian economy. Wilson said the military pro- gram will “add force to the infla- tionary pressure” in coming months but the rising weapons output is a favorable development. “It is what we expected, we hoped for,” he said. Wilson made the statement in a news conference at which one of his chief lieutenants, Eric John- ston, -confirmed reports that he iplan: to auif. As_economic st | zation administrator “reasonably soont after his agreed nine-month tbur of duty ends on Oct. 24. Wilson's. reference to a civilian “pinch” followed yesterday's order cutting use of steel for civilian goods to 58 per cent of pre-Kor- ean. war levels, effective Oct. 1. The mobilization chief pointed out further problems—the “very serious” matter of the copper strike which, he said, “couldn’t have happened at a worst time”; the necessity to produce machine tools costing $3,000,000,000 by the end of 1953 for defense plants; and a serious = shortage of structural steel which will postpone much planned industrial construction. Copper Workers Slow Refurning fo Work Affer Strike what district where it crosses into Can- ada and the service will supply them as soon as practicable. Rhode flew over the Interior from Fairbanks to north of the Brooks range and from Umiat to Barter Island, encountering some of the worst weather he said he ever saw in the Interior. “In all the years I lived in Fairbanks I never saw so much rain and fog,” he said. On Aug. 29, while on a lake in the Brooks range, where he was surveying the sheep situation, he said four inches of snow covered the wings of his plane. He added it took him eight hours to fly from An- chorage to Juneau yesterday — twice the time of a mormal trip. Military Cooperation In speaking of the hunting sea- son around Anchorage, Rhode said his department is receiving fine tooperation from the military. General William E. Kepner, com- mander of the Alaska command has assigned two men in the An- chorage area and two around Fairbanks to work permanently on game conservation. In“addition about ten other men have been assigned to game law enforcement during the hunting season. They are equipped with vehicles and two-way radio to communicate with agents of the service. Most of the planes out of An- chorage concentrate on the Nil- china caribou herd at the upper end of the Glenn Highway, Rhode said. “And besides the planes, there are literally hund- reds of cars parked along the road in the caribou country.” Dall Sheep “Lose” Rhode said that even the Dall sheep in the Brooks range were “taking a beating” with modern transportation methods. “The country used to be prac- DENVER, Sept. 6—(®—Workers who produce the nation’s vital supplies of copper, lead and zinc, urgently needed for defense, were slow to go back to work today, al- though ordered by a U. S. court to end their 10-day strike. The International Union ol Mine, Mill and Smelter Worker: (Ind) said it telegraphed back-to- work instructions to all locals last night from Nogales, Ariz, where its executive board is meeting. The union earlier had termed “unfair and unjust” an injunc- tion granted in federal district court yesterday — an injunctior asked by U. S. attorneys. Union headquarters here said it had no reports yet on the effect- iveness of the return-to-work or- der. Union spokesmen in the Mia- mi, Ariz, and northern Idaho dis- tricts said they looked for oper- atiops to begin tomorrow. Even after workers begin report- ing back to their jobs, company officials said it may take as long as three days in most plants tc reach peak production. *TIDE TABLES SEPTEMBER 7 . . . e High tide 5:28 am, 135 ft. e Low tide 11:12 am, 3.7 ft e High tide 5:19 pm., 164 ft. FROM SAN FRANCISCO Leon Shaen of San Francisco i registered at the Baranof Hotel | tically inaccessible but With plancs can now be reached in a few MEMBER A '{l('l:\'l‘lfll) PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e Honor Guard for Indian i 9ee0e0ense The *fiag-draped casket, bearing the body of Sgt. John Rice, in Washington, D. C., for final rites at Arlington National Cemetery. Samie Davis, and a sister, Mrs. Helen Wclfe (right) accompanied t (Congress Asks | NavyfoGround guarded by a military escort on arrival The mother (in wheelchalr), Mrs. he body. (P Wirephoto. Russ War Warning Ignored; Delegates Will Sign Treaty, Some With Reservations SAN “FRANCISCO, Sept. 6—(#—! Ignering Russia’s warnings of a new jvar in the Far East, a swell- ing procession of delegates march- ed 'fore the San Francisco.con- iy today and declared their intention to sign the Japanese peace treaty. The fourth plenary session end- ed at 11:59 a.m, and will resume at 3 pm. Just 24 hours after Soviet dep- uty foreign minister Andrei Gromyko made his quickly-de- feated attempt to stall the con- ference and derail the treaty, El Salvador's ambassador to Wash- nigton, Hector David Castro, took the rostrum to praise the pact and announce his country would sign. He was quickly followed by Am- bassador ~ Wilhelm Munthe De Morgenstierne of Norway, Jacques M. Leger, Haitian minister of for- eign affairs; Ambassador Moham- med Kamil Bey Abdul Rahim Egypt's envoy to the United States; Crown Prince Savang of Laos (Indochina) and J. R. Jarewar- dene, finance minister of Ceylon. Reservations They all either stated or made clear their intentions to sign the pact. Some had reservations. Norway warned against toolarge an Antarctic fishing fleet for Japan; Egypt critfcized territor- ial provision. ] The wave of speechmhking showed that Gromyko, who suffer- ed defeat after defeat Wednesday and struck back with a slashing attack on the treaty in late af- ternoon, had made little impact ) the conference—except in the field of conversation and specula- tion. Gromyko ‘“called the treaty “an aggressive military alliance with the United States” and branded it a “preparation for a new war in the Far East.” Looks to Moscow But he took such a battering on every move he made yesterday that some western delegates believed he might be seeking new instruc- tions from MoscOw. Anything from a walkout to new and stronger threats. of Wwar in the Far East was considered pos- sible for the Russians, and their Polish and Czech satellite delega- tions, in view of the situation which has developed here with ex- traordinary speed. Gromyko told the conference yesterday that what the United States and Britain are sponsor- ing “is not a treaty of peace but a treaty for the prepara- tion of a new war in the Far East.” “Aggression” “The draft treaty,” he charged, reading rapidly from his prepared speech, “creates conditions for the reestablishment of Japanese mil-| tarism, creates a danger of a new Japanese aggression.” Gromyko wound up his speech with a proposal of 13 major amend- ments to the British-American draft. These included provisions Successof o *Pat’ Carroll Will Be Chosen by Board A successor to C, A. (Pat) Car- roll, Territorial property assessor who was recently appoinhted to head the Federal Housing Administra- tion ,will be appointed by the Boards of Assessment, and Equali- zation when a meeting is called This was revealed today by Er- nest Parsons of Juneau, acting ehairman at large of the boards. It is not known at this time Parsons sald, when the meeting will be called. Enough time must be given tor applications to be received, he said. Territorial. law. provides that the asses! must have technical and other qualifications prescribed by the tax commissioner, The foul boards, one for each judicial div- ision, are composed of three mem- Lers each appointed by the gover- nor. Parsons for the job at the proper said that applications n be mailed to him y tax office here. |Sfock Quotations NEW YORK, Sept. 6——Cl ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 115'%, American Tel and Tc! 1627, Anaconda 482, Douglas Air craft 53'%, General Electric 60 General Motors 707%, Goodyear Kennecott 80%, Libby, McNeill an Libby 9%, Northern Pacific 52 Standard OM of California 54" Twentieth Century Fox 20%, U. S Steel 43%, Pound $2.79 15/16, Can- adian Exchange 94.62'%. Sales today were 2,150,000 share: Averages today were as follows industrials 272.28, rails 82.72, util ities 45.19. SALESMAN IS HERE H. K. L. Johnson, Seattle jewelr salesman, arrived here yesterda from Cordova and is stopping for ¢ few days at the Baranof Hotel to force American troops out of Japan, bring Red China into thc peacemaking, and give Formosa Red China. He got isolated applause from the Communist delegates and ad- visers—and a loud explosion of “boos” from the spectator sec- tions. The spectators were rep- rimanded by conference vice- president Percy C. Spender of Australia. Altogether the day was the roughest a Soviet delegation ever experienced in a public ses- sion of a major international meeting. In only two hours at the one of outset Gromyko lost the rules| fight that had been expected to| last all day at least. A tight set of | rules limiting debate and barring changes in the treaty was adopted | 48 to 3. Hero's Burial Sgt. John R. Rice, who died de- fending his country but was de- nied a grave in his hometown’s “All White” cemetery because he was an Indian of the Winnebago tribe, got a hero’s burial yester- day in Arlington National Cema- tery. The Army laid to rest with full military: honors the Sioux City, Ia,, infantry soldier who lost his life at the Pusan beachhead in Koia A year ago today. (® Wire- ohoto. School Refunds, 'Frozen’ Fishing fax Ebbs Treasury The tide went out last monin in the Territorial Treasurer's office to the amount of $701,000, leaving i bdlance in the coffers of $320- 12774 as of .Aug. 31, according to v report from Treasurer Henty toden. The non-resident fisnermen’s tax money accounted for $350,000 be- ng “irozen” until a ruling by the Supreme Court on legality of the evy is forthcoming. It assessed a 550 tax on non-resident fishermen. recently pronounced- illegal by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The balance of the sum—8$351,000 was a refund to city schools in Alaska, as provided by law. Alaska’s bank account for the :nd of August showed $6,118510.74 with outstanding warrants amount- ing to $1,049,924.22. Ear-marked funds, including the non-resident fishermen's account, totaled $4,- 748,158.78 leaving the balance of $320,427.74. Denali scheduled southbound Fri- day at 8 p.m. Aleutian due southbound some- time Sunday. Alaska scheduled northbound on Sunday. FROM DENVER H. Louis Plansoen and J. Z. Mun- dine of Denver, Colo., are registered at the Gastineau Hotel. They are with the U, S. Geological Survey. Privafeers 4th Crash Prompts New | Demand by Mifchell- ! 45 Killed in 3 Months WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—P— The crash of a fourth privateer Lomber after the Navy blamed pil- ot error as the “most probable” cause of the first three prompted a fresh congressional demand today that the Navy ground all planes of the type. Rep. Mitchell (D-Wash) noted that 45 men died in 'the four crashes in the Alaska-Pugel Sound area during the past three months and recalled that he wrote Secretary of the Navy Kimball after the third crash: “Machines may be expendable but men are not.” Francis P. Whitehair, under sec- retary of the navy, replied for Kimball. He wrote that investi- gating boards looked into the fatal accidents near Whidby Naval Air Station, Wash., June 21 and Aug. 6 and on Amak Island'Aug. 12, Each cfash involved " a ‘four-en- gine PBY-2, a modified version of the Air Force's B-24 Liberator bomber. “Results of the investigations indicate there is no substanti- ated reason for grounding the aircraft,” Whitehair said. He added there is “‘no reason to sus- pect material failure or struc- tural weakness.” Mitchell had told Kimball the privateers were obsolete, had had thousands of hours of flying wear” and were clumsy when used 10 years ago. Since that letter was written, another privateer crashed on Little Tanaga Island, Alaska, last Thursday killing nine men and injuring a tenth. Yesterday Michell wrote Whitehair: “$ince first letter, another ‘of m‘m%& "Hus crashed in the Alaskan ared. Is this, too, ‘o be recorded as an accident dug to pilot error? Was this - alrcraft which crashed on or about Aug. 30 one of those delivered to the Navy in 1945, making the bomber over six years old? Death Senfence for Cougar Trying fo Kidnap Small Girl WALLACE, Idaho, Sept. 6—®— Animal or man — the penalty for kidnapping is death. And North Idaho hunters are out for blood in their scarch for a cougar that tried to kidnap a two-year-old child, Sam Peterson of Wallace said his small daughter, Jane, was carried 200 yards by a large cat that picked the girl up with its teeth in the child’s sweater. The animal dropped the child when Mrs. Peterson and her two sons ran after it screaming. After letting go of the little girl, the big cat stopped, snarled for a moment, and then disappeared in the brush. Little Jane suffered only scratches about the face. The incident occurred at a mining camp near Wallace. ‘LEMONADE RUN' SET UP TO COOL OFF AIRMEN ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE —When the temperature hit 130 de- grees on the flight line at Randolph Air Force Base, Tex., M/Sgt. V. M. Day, administrative line chief, took steps to do something about it. He rigged up a four-wheel. flat bed trailer equipped with two wood- en kegs containing ice cold lemonade and instituted a “lemonade run” along the sizzling ramp where old sol’s blistering richochet off the all- metal ships and concrete right back at the mechanics. His ‘“beat the heat’ 'idea went over big with the thirsty men. WEATHER REPORT (U, 8. WEATHER BUREAU Temperatures for 24-Hour Perlod ending 6:20 o'clock this morning At Airport—Maximum, 59; minimum, 43.. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Cloudy with intermittent rain tonight and Friday. Southeasterly winds 15 to 25 mph Friday . Low tonight near 50 and high Friday 58. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport — 68 inches; e since July 1—6.20 inches. ® 0 0 0 00 0 0 00 000000000000