The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 8, 1951, Page 1

SONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY NWASHINGTON. D €@ » “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” { VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,907 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1951 ‘Reds Hint They'll Change < Truce Sife TOKYO, propagand Communis( tonight hint- may be willing t te of cease-fire talk s proposed by Gen e unofficial an the -Reds accepted the upreme allied eommander’s pro. ,' posal. The talks have been suspend- ed since Aug. 23. The first hint came from the North Korean Red radio at Pyong- vang. It urged the Korean people to be “cautious” about changing the site. Later Peiping mmn quoted a C“v inist correspo “wherever th: ing will come of them Americans are willing to agree to the } armistice on the lines proposed by (Russia’s Jacob) Malik " presum- ably he was referring to the par: where the Reds want buff line drawn. The, UN the buffer zone generally al present battle lines. A high-ranking officer in al- lied headquarters id a major Communist offensive in Korea would net endanger the talks “We have been hammer them (Communists) all along with our planes,” he said. “We made it clear to the Reds when the armistice talks started that we didn't intend to stop fx“l\t ng during the meeting Ther no reason they shouldn’ stage an offensive if they want to. 1 think we'll clobber them if they , do The Reds broke off the ne tions Aug. 23. They claimed an al- d plane attacked Kaesong. The J allies said the charge was 'fr: lent. Reds Take Hill Near Kae- | song, Driven Off Angther! ~NoMajor Atfack U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD- $ QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 8—IP— Communist troops and tanks to night were reported site of the suspended Kore Chinese Reds step- round attacks on central fronts.; 4 % the western d \ The United Nations com ‘arned from a reliable sourc ts of a Chinese 1 in Kaesong afte ed to make the city aeutral area July vere reported moving area. Presence of such forces in Kae- song constitutes a violation of the neutral zone. Actually, it has been the Reds who have charged the Allies with violating the zone. Kaesong, in western Korea a few miles below the 33th parallel, near the scene of some of the heav- iest fighting. Chinese captured at least one hill on that front today. JUNEAU VISITORS and Mrs. John Wright agway are stopping at the anof Hotel, The Washington Merry-Go- Round (Ed. Note—While Drew Pear- con is on a briel vacation, the Washington Merry-go-round is | being written by several disting- uished guest columnists, today's by Honorable Thomas K. Fin- letter, Secretary of the Air Force. WASHINGTON. — Here are ¢ few of the problems that we in the Air Force are thinking about ai the moment. : 1. The perennial problem “lead time” sounds like a dull sub- Jject, but it .cond s all Air Foree planning. What lead time means i wthat it takes about two years from he time you make a decision huy planes until you get them intc Lour fighting units. This mean: hat you have to look two year f head. You have to estimate what our weapons will be then anc ’V‘BDL conditions will be then. It is fiot true, as has sometimes becn said, that military plans are usual ly based on fighting the war whic is just ovet; but if you are to avo! P doing this you have to cast your mind constantly forward to the conditicns of two to four years from the time of the plannin ¢ Here are some of the things t one can estimate as of two years from now. We can't order planes that aren't “proven; therefore we have to order the planes that are Mr. | ) (Continued on Page 4) in Kaesong,; Rescued from WéII Anne P: alph ow well shaft near shaft beside the well, t pinned 12 feet below the ill effects other thax ig chilled onde 21 a firema ome b tunneled to where the little surface, old girl, is carried to safety by being trapped four hours in a in Newberg, Ore. Rescuers dug a girl was A doctor said she suffered no and shocked. (A Wirephoto. Exet €283 iTe | Price of New Cars 'To Rise $65 fo $250 | *seTRorT, ?w price tags for most nation’s new pa ng fizured ov Some of the —{»—Hig lines of cars were beosts, expected to rén frem £65 on the lowest priced cars to as. much ad $230 on higher priced models, probably will be effective by the cnd of next week. to make the complicated fof vise prices x per cent yesterdd Stabilizatic Authorizatioh cre ould timated five to iven the ind o Office of Pric By the time retail flMk‘r‘ n 15 to 3 per cent, it is estimated that the total boost might go as high as ight per cent over ‘current list also are iicated i “big price increases the OPS ‘order i announcement brought indication that the of General Motors, would make ve soon. C. E. Wilson said of the increase uthorized by OPS would be passed on to the retail buyers. Chrysl in a the cers “does not give the relief t is needed. Ford withheld im iate comment 160-Mile Per Hour Huiricane Mave} Toward Bsgmufia The mediate three” the ricane alert was nd of Berr winds about of New York. Grady Norton, chief sto casters in the Miami weaihe eau, said the United States line -was safe from the mightiest tropical, hurricane of the year 60-niile colony 700 nnl;s fore- bu “but a definite threat to Bermuda has developed.” The calm central eye of the southwest of Bermuda at 9:30 a.m. (EST) today. The storm was mov- ing forward at 10 to 11 miles au hour. This would bring its strong the Bermuda area to- morrow before noon. I J. Yolland of Seattle is at the I hurricane was only 330 miles winds to FROM SEATTLE Gastineau Hotel. VISITOR FROM SKAGWAY Cyril A. Coyne of Skagway is stopping at the Baranof Hotel Russia Ses ds 3u§} ’Y mg Speclahsls Stheria, Says Soviel Press; Casualfy fnflux Expeciad, Thinks Expert 8—P—A Uni- gton - spec | s says ‘the Soviet ¢ reported 800 young| hed passed through en route to Siberia’s Mot szone.rdaserihed # SEATTLE, Sept ists arovsk pe: | Kh rtment expert on in press is saying,| i note 1e item in the newspaper { Pravda of Aug. 19. “This announcement is as sig- nificant as if our government were to make public information hat 800 doctors and teachers re- cently kad passed through F banks enroute to Nome and Dutch Harbor,” Dr. Spector wrot¢ in the Seattie Times. Dr. Spector said the inconspicuous one, Young ialist 1t item was headed passed through even-month per- Kamchatka and sea of Okhotsk. he peninsula reach- Siberia nearest the the Aleutians. The Sea of ¢ s ide the peninsula. The closest part of the sea would ) more from the tip tip of ated only how many ugh Khabarovsk,” Dr, said, “but nothing of those way of Komsomolsk, Ma- ! an or Vladivostok.” He continued: ice there are hints that Lospitals have been built in that cormer of northeast Sib- cria, one conclusion to be drawn ‘is that the doctdrs are needed to meet * a possible influx of war casualties, either of Seviet troops or, since Chinese hospitals are reported to be overtaxed, of Nor-i Korean and Red Chinese woun- ded. E “The teachers might be required to instill the doctrines of Marxism- Leninlsm among troops convales- cing there.” Spector | Nome Land Office | Discontinued; Land 'Boundaries Changed The Nome land office, under the Bureau of Land Management, has been discontinued, it was revealed Ly R. D. Searles, acting sec- ry of Interior. Searles, in a comniunication tc Governor Gruenings office, said the business of the Nome office Would transferred and consolidated h the Fairba: land office. The order was effecti¥e Aug. 3L e added that land district boun- daries have been re-established so that the boundary of the Anchor- age land district shall conform to the boundaries of judicial divisions 1 and 3. The boundary of the Fair- banks land district has been chang- ed to conform with the judicial boundaries of divisions 2 and 4. — EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY — MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Russ Term Treafy ‘Drat For New War'—Walk Out: Dulles Called 'Warmonger BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8—(M The Russian delegates got into their automobiles and drove off i from the scene of the Japanese P e conference teday after they “dicassociated” themseives. from the lrr:uv session. By JOHN M. lllGllTO“FR l SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8- Am‘l ussia loudly washed her hands of \hv Japanese peace treaty today and warned its sponsors she con- idered it a “draft for a new war.” Andrei Gromyko, Soviet deputy foreign minister, told a press con- ference the Soviet view a few min- ut before the treaty signing ceremony .set for. 10 any, in the] San Francisco opera house. Fm--' pight vic! nations were lm-l ing up to n the conciliatory | peace with Japan. The Signing Ceremony Russia, said the chief Soviet| delegate, “disassociates” herseif from it. Resoundingly defeated in his ef- forts to disrupt or delay the con- ference at its regular business ses- sions Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the Russian-—started -his conference at 9:10 a.m. Attacks Dulles I attacked the treaty John Foster Dulles, as a “seasoned warmonger,” and contended “the purpose of the treaty is to_stage American troops there” (in Jdpan). To the 300 newsmen present the arguments, which Gromyko read rapidly in English, had a familiar ring. They were the same he had hurled at the conference. Only his phrasing was more em- bittered and direct. What was pessibly Gromyko's last fling followed his defeat last night in a free-for-all conference | debate, in which he went down | shouting the diplomatic version of “we wuz robbed.” { author, ‘grim-faced Russian, A short time later he rose from his fifth row seat and together with his Communist colleagues walkec cut of the hall, But it was a false wAlkoup in the sense of a Russian withdrawal 1rom a conference. e Grins! . Three minutes later the usually grinning ap- parently at the excitement he haa caused, walked back in again. The Russian, Polish and Czech delegates cenerally were expecled to boycott the signing ceremony today. | Gromyko, however, had called m. press conference, perhaps (o explain his position and take a few last cracks at the United States and Britain and the treaty they so successfully spon- sored here. British cfficials said that foreign | minister Herbert Morrison, who ar- rived last night, might speak brief- ly when he <igns the pact. No other talks wer e, however, as nations beginning with the Argentine and ending with Vietnam advanced in alphabetical order to commit them- selves to the pact. Sign-for Troeps- It was believed that the day would also bring the signing of a seeurity treaty between the Uni- ted States and Japan under which American troops will remain in Japan after peace becomes ef- fective, No plans for this signing bhad been announced, however. Forty-nine nations, including Ja- pan, gave conference Warren Kelchner notice by last night that they would sign the peace pact. Of the 52 here, that left out only Russia, Poland and Czedheslovakia. Technically they could still show up, but none of the other delegations thought there was the least chance they would do s0. Development Board Head Will Confer with Alcoa Heads on Power Project % George Sundborg, general man- Fishing Vessel Sinks Horth of Ketchikan The fishing vessel Betty sank at midnight near Brownson Island Reef, about 40 miles north of Ket- chikan, according to information received here by U.S. Coast Guard headqu: The vessel, belonging to Carl Esk- land, ran aground yesterday after- noon about 5 o'clock. The cutter White Holley from Ketchikan ar- rived at the scene at 6:30 p.m. to find the boat half submerged and Eskland aboard the fishing wessel “Caroline which was standing by. Eskland intended to attempt to repair the boat and float it at low tide today but it slipped from the rocks and sank in deep water. Marine Cooks Will Face Federal Court To Answer Charges SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8—(P— Charges of unfair labcr practices by the Independent Marine Cooks and Stewards Union will be heard in federal court Monday. The case, originally scheduled to open yesterday, was assigned by Federal District Judge Edward P. Murphy to Federal Judge Dal M Lemmon. Accusations against the union were filed by the National Labor Relations Board. The MCS is charged with intimidating and coercing members opposing the union‘s leaders and with using the hiring hall to bar opponents from employment. The suit stems from a dispute between the MCS and the AFI Sailors Union of the Pacific and the CIO National Maritime Union The MCS says the two other un- jons attempted to raid its mem- bership. Aleutian due southbound Sunday at 4 p.m. Alaska scheduled northbound on Sunday evening. Princess Louise due to sail from|e Vancouver today, arriving at Juneau Sept. 11. ager of the Alaska Development Board, leaves next month for Pitts- burgh to confer with Aluminum Company of America officials on the proposed development of a large hydroelectric plant in Alaska. This was revealed today after an Alcoa announcement in Seattle de- clared that the big company had not lost interest in development of a project in the north. While the exact site was not named, it was assumed to be the Taiya vicinity near Skagway, in which Alcoa has invested thousands in preliminary investigations. Sund- borg said he returned from survey work there some 10 days ago. Location of the Kitimat project near Prince Rupert by the Alum- inuwm Company of Canada has ot eiracked, but instead has in- cre interest in the Alaska site, said Sundborg. The Development Board has been working with Alcoa since 1947 on this development and the work, ac- cording to Sundborg, has not slack: ened in the period since Kitimaf was selected as a site for a simila) plant to be built by the Canadiar company. “In the Talya project we have the best opportunity existing any- where in the entire world to ob- tain a large expansion in alumi- num production at reasonable cost,” Sundborg said. “We under- stand that defense officials are coming around to the view that only by encouraging the construc- tion of a really large project like Taiya can the nation be assured of sufficient aluminum capacity to meet the rapidly expnnrllng needs for this material.” WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning At Airport—Miximum, 63; minimum, 49. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Cloudy with rain tonight and Sunday. Southeasterly winds 15 to 25 miles per hour. Lowest tonight near 50 de- grees and high Sunday. near 58. . . . . e PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport—.84 inches; e since July 1—7.10 inches. * 0 0 0 00 00 00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L] secretary Poland Protests WkLile Kenneth Ynun‘er (left) chief British (h‘lnxfl‘e talks, Stefan Wierbloweki, Poalnd’s chicf delegate to the Japances peace confer- ence, continues protesting to the then Acting Conference Chairman, Secretary_of_State Dean Acheson (center, r'ear) that Poland as a sovereign nation, was entitled to speak for more than five minutes. Acheson was later chosen permanent president of the conference. P Wirephoto. $5 Billions Added fo Arms Money Bill Added Funds fo Air Force; ‘New Secret Weapons™ Provided | WASHINGTON; Sept, 8—(®—The' Senate Appropriations Committee | gave unanimous approval yesterday to a $61,103,865,030 military money bill, which members said provides for secret new weapons more ter- rible than the atom bomb. ‘The Senate committee increased by $5,000,000,000 the amount voted by the House. The added funds were earmarked for Air Force expan- sion, with a recommendation that the Air Force be built up to at least 95 groups. |s Action Monday I3 Senate Democratiic Leader McFar- | land (D-Ariz) told Senators he| would call the bill up for Senate action Monday. Senator O'Mahoney (D- Wynl \ said some of the funds would for the new secret weapons. "(‘ added that if Russia launched a | new world war, she would be | crushed in the same manner that | Adolf Hitler and the German Nazis | were defeated during the last war. ; The big committee increase for' air power would go to the Navy and Air Force for plans they have not even submitted in detail to the| Congress, More Later | Closed-door testimony, made pub- | lic after it had been censored in| many places, disclosed that Pentagon | ieaders had plarned to ask extra billions later, probably in October. | As the measure reached the | Senate it carried $20,026,170,050 for the Navy and Marines. The extra $5,000,000,000 was placed under funds for Secretary of De-| fense Marshall until the joint chiefs | of Staff, with Presidential approval, | submit specifications to Congress. | itar Senale Raises Mail Rates; No Hike in Dostmen's Pay WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—(®—The cost of sending a letter would go up from three to four cents under a postal rate increase bill passed by the Senate last night and senf to the House. The measure also would make the | penny postcard only a memory, raise.airmail rates and boost charges on other types of mail in an effort to swell the post office department's revenues around $400,000,000 a year. Even so the department would be left in the red. Its expenses now outrun its income more than $500,000,000 annually. And it was only because the Sen- ate wrangled so long over the rate increase bill that it failed to hike the pay of postal workers slightly more than $200,000,000 a year. Senator had hoped to whiy through an 88 percent salary in- | crease for postal employees yester- d 1y, but at the end of last night's session Majority Leader McFatrland of Arizona said it now would have to wait until other top-priority leg- | islation is out of the way. '3 Sub-Committee Members Arriving in Juneau at 2P. M. Three members of the sub-com mittee of the House of Representa tives Armed Services Committe will be in Juneau this afternoon. They are E. L. “Bob” Bartlett Alaska delegate to Congress; Victo Wickersham (D-Okla.); and Huber B. Scudder (R-Cal). Weather i preventing the other five member. from arriving, Tne committee has been in ‘An chorage, Fairbanks, and norther: the past week inspecting mil installations and conferrin with military heads, The Air Force Constellation ir which they are traveling is too bis to land at Juneau in poor weather Capt. Don Morrison, aide to Gov ernor Ernest Gruening, said today | Those scheduled to arrive here abou lorthern Scientists Jraw Applause at McKinley Gathering MOUNT MCcKINLEY NATION- AL PARK, Sept. 8—M—Scientists who brave the rigors of the far lorth in quest of knowledge drew ! praise at yesterday’s session of the Alaska Science Conference. The shesion had drawn prominent | scientists from many parts of the world. Dr. Kirtley F. Mather, president | of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, des- cribed the conference as a huge| success and said the scientists in attendance are the men who will shape the future of civilization. He was the speaker who lauded Arctic researchers for facing hard- ships in the search of knowledge | for the future henefit of mankind |2 pm, | of Ketchikan. are being flown down in a | Air Force B-17 furnished by Lieu General W. E, Kepner. Capt. Morrison said the three men will take off, again early tomorrov | morning to fly to the Interior, prob ably Whitehorse, where they wil join their party for the flight bacl to Washington, D.C, Unidentified Body Found Floafing Near Keichikan U. 8. Coast Guard headquarter. here today received a report tha! the fishing vessel Sterling had pick- ed up. the body of an unidentifiec person float off Vallenar Point or Gravina Island about 10 miles north Headquarters ordered that the body be transported to Ketchikan and turned over to the U, S. Com- missioner there, f 3 Killedin Alaska's 11th Air Tragedy One Man Thrown Clear- Engine Burst Into Flame Nearing Eielson FAIRBANKS, Sept. 8—(»—A C-47 vith four men aboard crashed five miles from Eielson Air Force Base 1ere last night. An official said three men were killed. A night flying helicopter, playing a searchlight on the wreckage, lo- cated the lone survivor, Lt. Francis J. Parik, who had been thrown slear of the plane when it crashed in flames. Lt. Col. Robert Zerbe, an Air Force wing surgeon aboard the heli- :opter, said that both Parik’s legs were broken when he was tossed {rom the plane. To attract attention, he had built a fire of leaves while lying helpless on the ground, (This is Alaska's eleventh air crash in less than seven weeks, with the total dead and missing close to 90 persons. The series of tragedigs began July 20 when a Korean air- lift plane disappeared off Cape Spencer with 38 aboard.) s— Parik told Zerbe and the helicop- ter’s pilot, Capt. Louls Erhart, that one of the big plane's motors had burst out in flames while ap- proaching mn for a landing. Bodies of the three other victims were to be brought in as soon as a rescue party could reach the wreck- age and return. The accident occur- red at 10:02 o'clock last night and the Tenth Rescue Squadron heli- copter lodated the survivor an hour and 45 miunutes later. Capt. Erhart said he was circling the wreckage and shining a light on it when he saw Parik lying on the ground waving his arms. Erhart landed the helicopter and Parik was taken aboard. The survivor was rn:hed to Eielson Aif Force Base where he _was reported to be in ser- ious condftion. ¥ “ Later he wa$ takento Elmendort Air Force Base at Anchorage. Air Superiority To Guard Against Disasfer: Air Chief WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — (A — America has “no choice but to main- tain superiority in the air” if it is to guard against “the swiftest kind of military disaster.” ‘That’s the way Gen, Hoyt S. Van- denberg, air force chief of staff, put it on the line to members of the Senate Appropriations committee, which voted billions of dollars yes- terday to bolster the nation’s aerial might. Vandenberg hammered hard at the threat of Russia’s expanding air force. His testimony, given behind closed doors Aug. 15, was made pub- lic by the committee after it had approved a $61,105,865,030 military defense .bill. More than $20,000,- 100,000 is earmarked for the air force. “The first battles of an air war may well be the decisive battles,” Vandenberg declared. “Years are re- ired to replace air losses, and juring those years a superior air force could operate against us with ‘nereasing destructiveness.” Vandenberg told the committee: “An air force of 95 wings cannot ne considered sufficient to win a wajor war by defeating superior itrength both in the air and on he ground. * A force of this kind s intended primarily as a deterrent. “It is hoped that such a force night be able to stave off all-out warfare.” Stressing a need for a speedy werial build-up, Vandenberg said an ir war “cannot be won with yes- erday's air force, for tomorrow’s air orce may never be born under the »ounding of an air force already in >cing today.” American Legion Delegate fo Report In Convention Legionnaire William Liddle, the only delegate from Juneau to the annual American Legion conventien 1eld recently at Seward, will report m the convention at a meeting of Juneau Post No. 4 on Sept. 10 at 8 pm. Post comrmmder Vern Harris also announced that nominations for of- ficers will be held at the meet- ing with election of officers schedul- ed for Sept. 24. Visiting legionnaires and veterans are invited to the meet- ing.