The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 10, 1951, Page 1

WASHINGTON. (5} THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,908 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEP'TEMBER 10, 1951 — MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Reds Firing Rockels Info Allied Lines Russ Pilots Thought Flying Migs-Missiles Cause No Damage U. 8. EIGHTH ARMY QUARTERS, Korea, S Rockets of the type used ans in World Wa landed behind 4 t central front reported today There was speculation HE. they rea by Communist caucasian troops recenily reported n battlefront. No -A Official sources re s the number of rockets that landed In the air war, 30 Americar F-86 ist planes were damaged. It was the second jet battle in two days. Sunday the Allies shot down two MIGS and dam- aged another, There were no 55es in ecither scrap. ss Flying? d unofficially but not con- Russian ted Nat Since must blar sible effective. on the hi d those any spegif indicated on}y a were f 1 The Allies freq primarily infantrymen are go ; 1o a Monday’s jet air battle from altit f 40,000 feet dovt! to tree-top 1le The Allied into ba by Col. A a's top the rangec Fr "Regret’ Qver_S!aén fmerican Scidier BERLIN A r_shot ,Sept. 10—P nd killed by day as Calif The # 3t 1dier’s father, Frank tified iet border barrier, ccident, Thursday night. Eye nesses said a Communist policemar shot the soldier as he.sat behind thic steering wheel. Russian autl expressed regret. The Washington woritie 1, pens Francisco. The n brozd to fine, tailored to the preference used them. @ peace used i pens have Wirephoto. rence admis fills -and ing the Japanese peace treaty in an assorted number of points varying s of the diplomats who br es. oceed under its ebo Naval Base imer ies, k rean coast. was own in Ja P aid combined air and its. silens Merry - Go-Round | Reds Charge (Ed. Note — While Drew Pear- on a brief vacation, the Washington Merry-go-round is being written by several disting- uished guest columnists, today’s being by Corporal Charles Fran- citco, with the U. S. Army's Sev- { enth Division in Korea. Corporal | Francisco, a native of Urbana, Hlinois, was inducted in Septem- Ler 1950, and sent to Korea as a machine ‘gunner shortly there- 17th’ Tofantry Regi- 1th Infantry Division in Korea. = ‘What i e in Korea? What is it lik nen who here? I think of three things around me—moun tains, loneliness and death. Ithink of rotation and home and the fu- ture. And I know that those things are in the minds and bones of most infa men in Korea. As a s in his foxhole and tries to [ rc e mist that covers the top of a mountain he thinks of many things. This i the war in Korea as I see it It seems to me that civilian writers covering the war have not made enough mention of the hills At any rate, the hills have a major . Army bearing on the job of the indivi- dual soldier and the entire tacti- cal situation. % Put yourself in the place of man here. You're no military sups man, you're just an average suy carrying around . 50-60 peunds of equipment on your back. Your job (Cfinun_u;d on Page 4) Another Allied Site Violation MUN: United N sharp words w today after i munist, cha N, ations office ce The b, the Red of their refused to inve: also conce ne was involved They acknowledged The houses The investigators !'lets appeared to have several directiol differ angles. This would conflict, with the Red assel plane made a pa ! from fused a Communist a reply to the charge. Korea, Sept. ion over When the investigation was com- | overseas, including the rotation be- pleted, the senior Allied officer re- | fore this coming winter of all per- i Pr ith Reds in Kaesong ng a Col an Allied war- wse-fire con- ning refused the-spot atior de that tack had occurred or that a U.N. that du ing a four-hour checkup of the | alleged neutrality zone violation | they found one bullet mark a dozen .50 caliber slugs around a group of stonme houses. were about three- quarters of a mile from the site | National Gua of the ¥uspended armistice talks. 1 an said the bul-| fired | been ns and they s« r the hou demand ———‘? SA al 10—(P— re- o tip for Rotation ihat the émyk@ Loads fo Wreck Treaty; Separafe Red Peace ME_VE" Planned 10—A N FRANCISCO, Sept from™ ‘the | ence with Russia’s worst postwar | diplomatic defeat on his record 1 with ammunition in his poc- ket for a new wrecking campaior \inst the Japanese peace treaty merican diplomats, winding uy r affairs in the conference city 1y, predicted Russia will do its utmost to undermine popular support for the treaty with a mas- sive propaganda attack through- out Asia and the Far East Gromyko, who left by train for New York yesterday, prepar- ed the ammunition fer that as- sault in his specches and actions at the peace conference—not- ably by his charges of American and his repeated a “new war” in the also made much of exclusion, Separate Block At point, it is consideres robable that Rusfla will put forth collaboration with Red China, a separate Cosmmunist treaty with Japan y this would embody ns which Gromyko advan- in his vain efforts to get t British-American sponsored pact rewritten. Fc -eight nations signed the peace treaty with Japan in a 63- minute ceremony Saturday. For three tense days of debate Grom- yko had cried his warnings of war and had tried to get accept- ance of amendments which would have rendered Japan defenseless when the treaty becomes effect- ive. But when the document was puf on the table for signing the Uni- ted States scored a clean sweep. Not one nation was held back by Gromyko’s arguments. Sc!die?s with One Winfer in Korea g . He ced out some ped m- to WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—®—AlL S. soldiers who fought in Korea t winter must be brought home “pefore this coming winter,” the army chief of staff said today. Gen. J. Lawton Collins made the statement in a letter to Senator Dworshak (R-Ida), who had protest- t army plans to use Idaho smen as combat re- U r- nd nd ed agains placements. Collins said “there is no satis- factary alternative” but to depend upon guardsmen now in federal service to help meet a “pressing manpewer problem.” Collins added: “The overriding need is the re- - | quirement for rotation of men from at| aid, for' sonnel who endured the bitter com- bat conditions in Korea last winter. San Franéisco confer-| 143-Pound Blonde Named Miss America ® ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 10 © —(M—The 143-pound, five feet e 10 Miss America of 1952 is a © Sunds school teacher who © doesn't smoke or drink. ® Blue-eyed blonde Colleen Kay © Hutchins of Salt Lake City, © Utah, didn't believe it when she @ was chosen queen over 50 other o contestants to climax this re- e sort ci five-day annual © beauty pageant Saturday night. ® “T thought I was too ned @ tall,” the statuesque beauty sajd © in a poised cultured voice that e reflects her dramatics training. e, At 25 she is the oldest to o wear the crown and matches o the record height of Miss Am- © erica of 1945, Bess Myerson cof e New York City. Colleen is the e first blonde to win the title in © 13 years. ° ® On the movie page in today's e Empire is a picture of Miss © America taken prior to her win- ® ning the title. ® o e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 @@ annsnsne0eca~00ensonconosses e ;fesl Run Wili Be Made for Juneau Plywood Plant A plywood test run on 50,000 board feet of Sitka spruce will be made in Seattle within the next two weeks, Thomas A. Morgan president of the Columbia Lum- ber Co. said here today. The timber is scheduled to leave Sitka Wednesday on a Puget Sound Tug and Barge Co. scow towed by | the tug Dolly C. Determinations will be m. de engineers and equipment men r garding the type of machinery needed for a plywood plant to be constructed here in the near fu- ture. | The finished product shipped back to Alaska, d will be Morgan ‘Anchoragé Bank Oresident Dies ANCHORAGE, Sept. Warren N. Cuddy, 65 prominent Anchorage banker and attorney, died in a hospital here last night He suffered a heart attack several days ago. Cuddy president of the First National Bank of Anchorage. While he was in the grocery bus- iness at Valdez he studied law and later became assistant dist- rict aitorney for the Third Divi- ion. He moved here about 20 years started practicing law years he devoted more time to his ive banking bus- than to law. Cuddy was born in Maryland in 286. He is survived by his widow ind a son, Daniel. Another son, Javid, died in action during World war II in Ttaly. Alask:Division_ol Science Association Formed at Meefing MOUNT McKINLEY NATIONAL PARK, Sept. 10—/P—Formation of an Alaska division of the Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science was completed at the science con- ference that ended here Saturday Dr. Laurence Irving, chief of the physiological section of the Arctic Research Center at Anchorage, was named first president, W. Wilson of the soil conservation service wa: named vice president and Rachel S Simett of Palmer was elected secre- tary-treasurer. The distinguished gathering of scientists expressed optimism over the possibilities of scientific re- search in the territory. Mary Morris of Arcadia, Calif., i at the Hotel Juneau. 10— @ — nes WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning At Airport—Maximum, 54; minimum, 47. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Considerable cloudiness with some light rain showers tonight and Tuesday. Lowest temper- ature tonight about 47 degrees Highest Tuesday near 55. ceccece®ccccecs®eas PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport—.13 inches; e since July 1—6.81 inche: ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ! - New British Fighter-Intercepor < the new British fighter-interceptor which (%e Royal Air Force claims is the “best fighter in the world. Tax Collections Up 25% It is the Hawker P-1067 poweerd by an Aven jet engine. formance dala are secret. P Wirephoto. In Alaska; 8 Months Income Levy Saliwon Pack Here More than Double Last Year's Figure Southeastern Alaska’s fishery pack is more than twice that of 1950, ac- cording to figures released today by the Fish and Wildlife Service. Commercial salmon pack figures up to Sept. 1, the close of the sein- ing and trap season, showed the area had canned 1843621 cases, compa to 915,662 last year. Ti» district still leads others by WMo figures show. e Final .pack figures for seining will not be available until next week as most canneries were still operating on Sept. 2. Gillnetting and troliing, which does not close until Sept. 20, will also add slightly to the pack although many of these fish are frozen and shipped south. . Humpies were leading here with 11,153,894 cases and chums were next | with 394,191, Central Area Up In centtal Alaska the pack was up by 28,595 from the week ending Aug. 25. Total pack up to Sept. 1 was 1,079,997 cases. Up to Aug. 28 the pack was 1,051,402, The pack for 1951 was still behind that of last year up to the same period, when 1,404,831 cases were up. The western district was also up during the week, the Port Moller gillnetting adding several thousand c 5. Total pack up to Sept. 1 was 403,663 cases as compared with 622,- 698 last year. Up to Aug. 25, cases packed totaled 389,351, Grand total for Alaska is nearly 400,000 cases more than that of last year. The pack for this year showed 3,327,281 cases as compared with 2,943,191 for 1950. This district’s catch is responsible, officials point- ed out., Trade Association Meef fo Feature Alaska Prohlems SEATTLE, Sept. 19—®—Alaska problems will receive special at-| tention at the Pacific Northwest Irade Association general confer- ce in Missoula, Mont, 0a Sc;'r,‘ 17 and 18, | At the opeaing session Archie W. Shields, u director of the as. ociation fron: the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and also from the . Belliughum Chamber, | will give a preiiminary outline of me of these problems. Tuesday morn'ng an Alasks el, with B. Frank Heintz Juneau as modacrator, wiii make an authoritiative presentatio. of oul-| nding opprtunities 1 prob- ems. Amongz those participuting in} the panel will be Don Gocdman of | Anchorage, chairman of che Alas- ka Developmen:s Board, W. K Boardman, m:nager of the Ketch- ikan Chamber of Comme:ce, anG Herbert Rowland, delegate m the Juneau hunber. Baranof due northbound 3 am.| Tuesday. Princess Louise scheduled to arrive northbound some time Tuesday. 1 Exceeds All of 1950 *» By KAY J. KENNEDY Territorial tax collections are \lpl“‘l approximately 25 per cent over last year at this time, Alaska Tax Com- missioner M. P. Mullaney revealed As of Sept. 1 gross collections amounted to $9,505962.68, he said. Last year at this same time $7,040,- 585.16 had been collected. Mullaney pointed out that since the inception of the Department of Taxation on Jan. 1, 1946 through Aug. 31, 1951 a total of $38,460,789.96 had been brought in through an as- cortment of tax levies, The cost of celleeting $1 tax is only 19 cents, Mullaney said. The department has an average of 60 employees to man the Junean headquarters office and four field offices. Recently installed new bookkeeping machinery has greatly aided in facilitating the handling of records. Record show that the income tax is the greatest source of Terri- torial revenue. As of Sept. 1 income tax collections exceeded the entire total for last year when $3,302,077.76 was garnered. The first eight months of this year has dumped $3,412,326.- 27 into the Alaska treasury. According to the U. S. Internal Revenue Department at Tacoma, Alaska’s income tax ratio increase is higher than any state in the union, Raw fish taxes (Chap. 82) are al- so ahead of the 1950 total with cur- rent colléctions reaching the $1 426,408.51 mark. Last year the entire total was $1,399,913.05. Liquor Tax Reutnr Excise taxes on alcoholic bever- ages are a high contributor to Ter- ritorial finances with $1,178,347.36 brought in so far this year. The en- tire total last year was $1,367,836.49. A breakdown of tax collections from various sources for the first eight months of 1951 show: Income $3,412,326.27 Raw fish 1,426,408 51 Liquor 1,178,347.26 Business 796,209.73 Motor fuel 668,014.33 Tobacco 423,581.72 Fish traps 359,900.00 Auto plates 337,462.00 School 225,861 Other $9,505,962.68 Field Commitfee Will Meet in Anchorage Next Week The Alaska Field Committee, set Total | up in Alaska two years ago by the Department of Interior, will meet in Anchorage Sept. 18 and 19, ac- cording to information reaching | Juneau today. Since the resignation of Ken- neth Kadow a year ago Clarence Rhode, regional director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, ha been acting chairman. Two department officials are now in Anchorage to attend meet- ings of the committee. They are Vernon D. Northrop, administra- tive assistant to the secretary of interior and Otis Beasley, director of the budget and finance Following the commitice meet- ings and a tour of the Interior the two men are expected to drive from Anchorage to Haines and make a visit to Juneau. FROM FAIRBANKS Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Pugh of Fair- banks are stopping at the Baranof Hotel, Sped, | } 1 range, armament and per- fhorl Circuited Plane Fires 1,576 Bullets at Homes LONG BEACH, Calif,, Sept. 10— M—Set off by a short circuit, 1,67 rounds of .50 caliber machine gur bul! wer® sprayed into an ex- clusive north Long Beach residen- area yesterday by an anchorec Air Force fighter plane. Twenty five homes were struck by the bullets. There were no cas- alties. Sam McGill, owner of one of the damaged homes, said he counted 18 slugs in his house. “I thought the Russians were here,” he exclaimed. The armor-piercing inoendiary Lullets were fired from a F-6i Mustang fighter plane of the 188ti: Fighter Squadron, a unit on con- stant emergency alert. The planc was at its base at the Long Beach Municipal Airport. It was under- going a routine check. Fhe trajectory of the builets carried them over thousands of homes between the airport and the Virginia Country Club. In i which is on ground considerably higher than the air- port, the bullets came hurtling into homes, garages and automo- biles. They sheared off branches of some trees and frightened scores of persons from their beds at 5:45 am, One bullet whizzed through the nursery in the Ralph Kemmere: home but missed the two Kem- merer children, Phil 1, and Dawn 4. PIane?OS Beli;ved Hoax; Search Halled WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE Mass., Sept. 10—P—A Westovel Air Force base spokesman saic today that an alert for a possiblc search for a possibly distresscc plane at sea had been called of here. “Weak” SOS signals previously had been described as an apparen hoax after they were picked ul Iy a radio tower at Tinker Pleld Okla. Widely separated sources hac followed up with reports of a plane’: crew bailing out. The Westover —spokesman salc that New York oceanic contro called off all Westover participa- tion and that a temporary alert here had been relaxed when the New York authority transferrcc the checkup to units at Fort Pep- perell, Newfoundland. Westover said a check of th cast coast showed no bomber mis- «ing. Air Force officials at the Pentagon in Washington said they couldn’t locate any flight plan which would place a plane in the reported position off Greenland. Stock EMiofi; NEW YORK, Sept. 10—(»-—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneal mine stock today is 3, American Can 118%, Ameriean Tel. and Tel 163, Anaconda 48%, Douglas Air- craft 56%, General Electric 624 General Motors 507, Goodyear 98 Kennecott 81%, Libby, McNeill anc Libby 9's, Northern Pacific 537 Standard Oil of California 54% Twentieth Century Fox 20, U. 8 Steel 45, Pound $2.79 15/16, Canad- ian Exchange 94.68%. Sales today were 2,190,000 shares Averages today were as follows: industrials 275.25, rails 8291, util- ities 45.38. MONDAY FIRE ALARM The 2-6 fire alarm at 11:45 a.m. Monday was for an overheated oil stove in the AFL hall on Second Street. Firemen reported no dam- age. Sy PRICE TEN CENTS "Copler Crash Kills 2; 13th Ship Missing Air Force B-17 Overdue at Ladd Field-Missing "Copter Safe ANCHORAGE, Sept, 10—(P—An A\ir Force B-17 was reported over- due today on a flight to Ladd Air Force base near Fairbanks. The Civil Aeronautics Adminis- tration report said it was from Elmendorf base. It was listed as 15 minutes overdue when the re- port was made at 9:30 am. It was reported to have enough fuel to last to about 6 p.m., if it continued in the afr. There was no information on the number aboard, but the big hombers normally have seven to 10 men aboard. The plane left Anchorage at 6:31 a.m. It was due at Ladd at 8:27 a.m, It was last reported at 7:01 am., over Talkeetna, about one-third of the way on the ap- proximately 300-mile flight. At the same time, a missing helicopter was reported safe. A Tenth Rescue Squadron B-17 reported the sighting of pilot Jack Shields and the ‘copter in which he vanished Saturday. Both were reported O.K. Another 'copter of Ricks Heli- copter, Inc, of Los Angeles, was prepared to go to Shield’s aid. Shields flew for Ricks. He disap- peared on a flight to the wreckage »f another of the firm's helicop- ters. Two Killed The deaths of two men in an Air Force helicopter crash Sat- urday raised to 94 the number lost in 12 alreraft whirh have crashed or disappeared since July 21, when a Korean airlift plane vanished with 38 aboard. Shield's ‘Enroute to C-47 victims of the helicopter crash were enroute to the sceme of a ©-47 transport plane crash Fri- iay night between Ladd and Ejel- on Air Force bases near Fair- anks, Only one of the four men aboard survived the latter accl- dent. The helicopter had been sent to the crash scene to remove bod- ies of the three victims. Lt. Francis J. Tarik was the oniy .urvivor of the C-47 crash, which occurred when the plane was ap- sroaching Eiison base for a land- ing. 'gi‘nnk helped save his own life. He applied tourniquets to both his legs and set fire to leavas attract- ing the attention of a ‘Tenth Res- sue Squadron ’copter. Jet Crash In one other crash Satirday, a plane was badly damaged in land- ing at Elmendorf Air Force base. But this time there were no fatalities. The pilot of the Fo4 jet plane, Lt. William W. Locke Jr. was slightly injured and ta- ken to the Air Force hospital for observation. A board of officers begun an in- vestigation. LOCAL MEN WERE TO HAVE CHARTERED SHIP Bureau of Reclumation ofticials in Juneau today said that three local men, now surveying for the bureau in the area, were to have chartered Field’s plane. The three, now at Talkeetna, are Daryll Roberts and William ‘Weber, ‘ngineers, and Clark McHuron, ge- Slogist. A telephone call placed this morning revealed that none Was \board the missing ship. Nerseman Plane (rashes, 4 Walk Away Unhurt VANCOUVER, Sept. 10—P— A Queen Charlotte Airlines plane made @ crash landing yesterday near Garibaldi Lake, 30 miles north of here. The light Norseman plane was badly damaged but the four occupants walked away un= hurt. Johnny Hatch, the pilot, sald the plane was caught in an “ex ceptional downdraft” as he came in for a landing on the lake, The plane plunged 800 feet to a crash-landing in a grouwp of trees. The three passengers, - Shirley Hill, Norah Neilsen and Ix Schmidt, all of Vancouver, tinued the trip to a camp near the lake on foot. FROM WRANGELL Verne Smith of Wrangell is at the Baranof Hotel,