The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 11, 1951, Page 1

SUNURESSIONAL : \RY VA GTON “4LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE e ——— VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,909 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUES DAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Allies Admit Strafing Kaesong Neutra | Zone In Navigation "Error’ TOKYO, Wednesday g Thes- United Nations command acknow- ledged last night that an Allied plane mistakenly strafed the Kae- song neutral zone Monday. The Communists had.not yet re- plied, but instead early today broad- cast an official message rejecting Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s sugg tion that Korean truce talks moved to some other site. The Communist message, broad- ast by the Peiping radio in the names of North Korea Gen. Kim Il Sung and Chinese Red Gen. Peng Teh-Huai, said Ridgway’s proposal to move was ‘“completely unsatis-| factory and unacceptable.” The message told Ridgway “these | efforts of yours are futile” and then repeated all the old Red accu- sations that the Allies were ‘“‘ob- structing” the now-suspended ar- mistice talks and had repeatedly violated Kaesong's neutrality. The Red commander’s message finished in milder tone than they usually use, however, The latest Red complaint was that an Allied plane machine-gunned Raesong before dawn Monday. Previous Red accusations have been dismissed as falsehoods and frameups. The Monday strafing, g was found to be true. A message being sent to the Reds< today through Vice Adm. C. Turner | Joy, chief Allied truce negotiator, says: “The United Nations command regrets this violation of the agreed neutrality which resulted from the | pilot’s error “in navigation. Ap- propriate disciplinary action is being initiated.” The allied reply notes that no casualties were ,inflicted and (mlv‘ slight damage \\gs caused. | First Admission This is the first time the UN command has admitted any basis | to Red charges of neutrality zone violation. The strafing charge was the 11th by the Reds. The allies have denied or ignored all previous charges. The UN command statement said | a plane detected by allied radar in| the Kaesong area at the time of the | Red-report strafing turned out to be a U. S. bomber. The statement continuell “Continuing radar plot includ- | ing a directed Mdentitication turn { and subsequent transmission in- | | dicates plane was from the Third | Boemb “The pilot ‘reports | having in lights at 1:36 a.m. be believed to be a dif- ferent area but which in view of | the radar plot must have been | Kaesong. Earlier the Communists warned the allies to accept Red terms for resuming stalled Korean truce talks in Kaesong or “bear the full conse- | ponsibility for all the consequences.” Counferattack Drives Reds from Key Eastern Peak U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD- QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 11—(®— Counterattacking Allied Infantry- men drove two battalions of Ko- rean Communists off a key peak in eastern Korea today and chased the fleeing Reds northward. The Reds had attacked the Allied | roops in darkness earlier and forced ¢ withdrawal from United Nations sitions north of Inje, 256 miles in- nd from the Korean east coast. {The Allies smashed back at day- and drove the Reds from fort- g-like positions on the peak. ied troops on a limited offen- e threw softening-up attacks at her Red strongpoints on the Jstern front. On the western front, the Com- munists surprisingly. broke off at- tacks they started a week ago. TheWashington 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- columnists, today’s being : Guy George Gabrielson, chair- man of the Republican National committee. William Boyle, Jr., chairman of the Democratic Na- tional committee, was also invited to do a guest column. WASHINGTON—A number of let- ters to the Republican National committee have commented on a magazine editorial entitled, “Here (Continued on Page 4) be however v i i Defense ‘Trim" | cut between $600,000,000 and $1,000,- | ing $5 Mllllon 'che Of America’ Station To Rise on Coast ABERDEEN, Wash,, Sept. 11—(® —Voice of American radio programs will ride a beam over the top of the world to Asia from a huge trans- mitting station to be constructed near this western Washington city. Rep. Russell V. Mack (R-Wash) disclosed plans for the radio sta- tion yesterday. Mack said the station, which he described as one of the two largest and most powerful in the world, will be built at a cost of $500000. A sister station will be constructed in North Carolina. Thurman Bernard, of the office of public affairs in the State De- partment, said the department now is negotiating for the purchase of |land on the ocean beach between Copalis and Copalis Crossing on which to build the station. Douglas Offers | - Billion Dollar WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— o Senator Douglas (D-III) today of- fered a series of amendments toj 000,000 out of the multi-billion dol- lar defense bill. The rangy, gray-haired dlaw- maker startled the Senate late yesterday by a shocked cry dur- | ing bitter debate on the bill. He was temporarily ill. His amendments today aimed at| saving millions of dollars earmarked for extra flying pay, for expedit- aircraft construction contracts and numerous other large items. Senator Byrd (D-Va) and Fergu son (R-Mich) also teamed up to offer two restrictions to the bill providing $61,105,856,030 to operate the expanding armed services. They asked that part-time work- ers and consultants be included within a manpower ceiling of 530,- 000 for civilian “white collar” workers in defense agencies. The ceiling approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee applied only to full time workers, A second Byrd-Ferguson amend- ment would prevent the Defense Department from paying for tuition or schooling of stenographers, typ- ists and other lower-pdid govern- ment Workers. British-American Discussions Tackle Rising World Prices WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— (# — Secretary of State Acheson anc British Foreign. Secretary Herber! Morrison tackled today the prob- lem of how to keep mounting world prices from hampering the western arms buildup. They opened a second round of British-American talks in the big three foreign ministers conference at 9:30 am. It was devoted to ec- onomic and far eastern problems. Diplomats said Morrison intends ed to tell Acheson that rising prices for imports burdened Britain ar much as the arms budget and that stabilization was the most urgent need facing the west. French foreign minister Schuman was to see Acheson later. WEATHER REPORT (U. S..WEATHER BUREAU Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning At Airport: Maximum, 54; minimum, 49. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cloudy with rain showers tonight and Wednes- day. Lowest temperature to- night near 49 degrees. High- est Wednesday about 56. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport — 022 inches; since July 1—7.03 inches. 0000000000000 s00 - | quiet, Japan Signs Treaty as Co-sponsors Walch Japan’s Primve Minister Shigeru Yoshida signs Japanese peace treaty as represcntatives of United States and United Kingdom. co-sponsors of treaty, watch. On dais, (left-right) Conference Secretary-General Warren Ktichner, President of Conference Dean Acheson, Britain’s Herbert Morrison, Australia’s Percy Spender, conference vice-president. Behind Yoshida are, left to right: Hisato Ichimada, Muneyoshi Tokugawa, Niro Hoshijima, Gizo Tomabechi, Hayato Ikeda, all memblers of Japanese delegation, and Treaty Technician John W. Foley, Jr.,, who handed Yoshida the pen he is sing. (P Wirephoto. Senalor Hunlley 'Named Marshai of Third Division PALMER, Sept. 11—(P—President Truman's nomination of Territoriad | Sen. Walter E. Huntley as Mar- shal for the Third Division ended long cenjecture aver the prospects! of his getting the post. “ He w named yesterday to suc-| the late Paul &, ring ‘ Huntley is one of the original | Matanuska Colony settlers. It was | reported as far back as the 1951 | Alaska legislature session that Huntley had the inside track for | the appointment through support | | of a majority of the division's Democratic committeemen. eged B Huntley was probably the most soft-spaken member of the Territorial Senate. On the Senate | floor, he has been outspoken against | the liquor business whenever any aspect of it came before the Sen- ate. There was conjecture among fellow legislators over how firm a hand he might try to.apply to the law enforcement problems of the booming Third Division. | He is the second Democratic mem- | ber of the 1949-1951 Territorial Sen- ate to be named as U. 8. Marshal. The other was Frank Barr of Fair- banks, who resigned a short while later to go back into the aviation | business. | tion the .magazine by name, NS TR :Truman Blasts BuIIerIy Statistics' that Expenses Run Wild in Government By ERNEST B. VACCARO WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— (B — andem Truman denounced as | st o roek o Tipe? tedaw ohaemes ll\'\! waste and extravagahce are running wild in the government. Such charges are based on mean- ingless “butterfly statistics,” the President said. And ke declared that those who claim the government is spending itself into bankruptcy are doing 50 “to frighten voters—particularly as visions of elections dance in the heads of gentlemen who are politically inclined.” Says We're ‘Stronger’ In a bristling speech dedicat- ing a new government building, the President said emphatically that the United States is stronger econ- omically than ever before. He singled out for special criti- cism a recent magazine article pur- i porting to show government waste and extravagance. He did not men- bu plainly referred to the Readers Di- gest, which carried a table of fig- ures supposedly showing that non- defense expenditures had increased anywhere from 100 percent to 1,000 | percent between 1940 and 1950. Juneau Preblems Aired fo Visiting Congress Delegation There is not a single airport inj coastal Alaska south of Valdez| that is served by a highway con- nection. This was pointed out by members | of the Juneau Chamber of Com- merce to two members of the House | armed forces subcommittee who | were here last Saturday. The arc) gument was presented to Congress-‘ man ' Vietor Wickersham (D-Okla.) and Hubert B. Scudder (R-Calif.) in an effort to interest them i1 the construction of a road up the Taku River to connect with the Alaska Highway. The Chamber members also told the congressmen the impor- tance of extending the Juneau airport runway as a defense measure. Alaska’s delegate, E. L. Bartlett who accompanied the representa- tives, ‘promised he would push for a hearing in Alaska to consider the reclassification —of Southeast- ern Alaska waters in order that current Coast Guard regulations can be modified. Enforcement of regulations un- der the present classification “is strangling the development of the panhandle area, the congress- men were told. Meeting with the visitors were Ernest H. Gruening, Territorial Treasurer Henry Rodin, Mayor Waino Hendrickson and Chamber members Herbert 8. Rowland, president; F. O. Eastaugh, secre- tary; Tom Dyer, Joseph McLean, and George Sundborg. The delegation originally con- L3 { “It was just a pack of lies, | Trur an psserted, Lm e, he mdded was am oy ample of what he once heard des- cribed as “butterfly statistics—sta- tistics so meaningless that they seem to have been plucked right out of the air with a butter- fly net—and that's where these came from.” Defends Our Beefs Mr. Truman departed repeatedly from a prepared text. He defended the right of Ameri- cans to grumble about paying taxes but went on to say: “A man will go into a night club and throw away 40 to 50 dollars and think nothing of it, but let him get bill for $30 and hear him scream!” Mr. Truman said he knew per sonally every figure in every bud- get he has submitted, while other people “talk about the budget and don’t know a figure in it.” Mr. Truman spoke at the dedica- tion of the new seven-story lime- stone and granite building for the General Accounting Office, watch- dog pending. Sundberg Named General Manager of Development Board Announcement of the appoint- | ment of George Sundborg as gen- eral manager of the Alaska De- velopment Board was made today by Don Goodman, chairman. Since 1947 Sundborg has been consultant to the board and ex- ecutive assistant to Gov. Ernest Gruening, ‘With his new appointment, Sund- korg will no longer be associated with the Governor’s office but will be employed entirely by the Ter- ritory. His new appointment was effective Sept. 1, Goodman said. His salary in his new capacity was set at $12,000 per year, which equaied his former salary while employed by the federal govern- ment and as consultant to the board. Baranof due southbound sometime Sunday. Princess Louise scheduled to arr northbound today at 4 p.m., sailing for Skagway at 11:30 p.m. due to arrive southbound Friday morning large Air Force plane. They arrived in Anchorage last last week, but bad weather here prevented thc big ship from continuing to Jun- eau. So the party split, with only ® ® 0 0 0 o 0 o o o sisted of five men traveling in a|two men visiting here. lHouse Commitfee (rificizes Alaska 3-Bedroom Quarters WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 — (# — A special House committee on Alas- kan public works today criticized the Defense Department for plan- ning all-three-bedroom quarters in Alaska, The subcommittee, headed by Rep. | equipment must be agency for Congress on federal | ,Blds Asked on Mail Pick-Up, Special Delivery Long-delayed mail pick-up and special delivery service for Juneau loomed as an imminerft possibility today with a call for bids from Postmaster Crystal Snow Jenne. Mrs. Jenne stated that propos- als will be received at her ofiice 1o pN AT fae Rive ol a vehicle, without driver on a hourly basis for collecting mai; and special delivery service during the fiscal year ending June 30 1952. Requirements that the in first-clas: condition, enclosed, and have ¢ capacity of mail-carrying spacc behind the driver’s seat of not les: than 64 cubic feet. Estimated hours c¢f service pel day are: week days, three; Sun- days and holidays, one; with ar estimated total of 246 hours ever) three months. are rs. Jenne's announcement saia the owner of the vehicle will be required to keep the vehicle in satisfactory condition at all times; bear all necessary expense in its operation and maintenance and deliver it each day to a starting point specified by the Postmaster and remove it daily after service has been completed. She said blanks, on which submit proposals, will be furnished interested parties on application to her office. Marshal Speedy In Locafing Man Reporfed Missing Acting U.S. Marshal Walter Hel- lan rendered speedy service today in answer to a telephone call from the Chatham cannery at Chatham Alaska, to Hardy (D-Va), returned last night from a ten-day inspection trip of a proposed $1,000,000,000 military construetion program in Alaska. In a preliminary report the sub committee said there should be . proportionate number ‘of famil quarters with one, two and thre bedrooms. The law sets a maximum of 108 square feet for family quarters i Alaska, and the subcommittee founc that military planners were build ng quarters of this size regardles: f whether they were to be occupiec oy a4 man and wife or family with everal children. Military representatives told the subcommittee they had called fo bids on a two-bedroom quarters bu found there was only a savings of a couple hundred dollars. A legislative top of $14,000 ha: een placed on cost of family quar- | ters in the United States. The top | outside the United States, includine Alaska, is from $25,000 to $35,000. VISITOR FROM CHICAGO G. A. Magruder of the Automatic Electrie Co., of Chicago, Ill., arrived here yesterday on PNA from Cor- dova and is stopping at the Baranof | Hotel. John Likeness, superintendent of the cannery called the marshal’s of- Yice this morning that Walter Czer- vinski had been missing from there ince Sept. 2. Czerwinski was em sloyed as a trap watchman and i vas feared he may have drowned or net with foul play. Before noon Hellan had locatec ‘he man at a local cooktail bar. Czerwinski told Hellan that he “ad been in Juneau and a week agc today had left on the fishing boat Loa to return to Chatham. He saic weather had prevented the boal reaching there and it put in at Ten- akee from where Czerwinski re- turned to Juneau by plane. This afternoon Hellan notified the cannery of Czerwinski's whereabouts and that he was safe. "TIDE TABLES SEPTEMBER 12 Low tide 5:24 am, -02 ft. High tide noon 146 ft. Low tide 5:41 pm., 37 ft. High tide 11:46 p.m., 1638 ft. ® & 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 B-17 Engine Ex Kills 1; Crash Inj PRICE TEN CENTS plosion jures 6 Near Talkeefna Juneau's New City Hall Gets $579,000 From Public Works $6 Millions Alloted for | Alaska Projects-City Must Hold Election Juneau's Municipal-Safety Build- ing took a step nearer materiali- zation today when word was re- ceived that it is included in a new allotment approved for the Alaska Public Works. More than $6,000000 was ap- proved for schools and municipal works in the Territory according to information received by Direc- tor Donald R. Wilson from the Office of Territories, in Washing- ton, D. C. The amount approved for the Juneau municipal building was $579,000. The city will match the fund on a 50-50 basis. “This will require a special election to approve of bonds for the project,” Mayor Waine Hen- drickson said today. “It is hoped that bids can be called for by January. Plans are in the pre- liminary stage now,” he said. The first section of the building, the fire hall, is now under con- struction and is scheduled for com- pletion by November. X The total amount approved for 14 projedts scattered throughout the Territory was $6,447,400. In ad- dition to the Juneau building, others are: Wrongall water, $298 400, Wndipk chool, $600,000; Ketchisan wsuer- ial road, $500,000; Seward sewers, $263,700; Palmer water, $500,000; University of Alaska dormitory, $657,000; Fairbanks school, $700,- 000; Valdez sewer, $206,300; Sitka grade school, $500,000; Anchorage fire station, $173,000; Anchorage school, $700,000; Sand Point school, $233,000; and Fairbanks Alaska housing authority, $600,000. Negotiations for professional services required on these pro- Jects are being carried forward immediately. Much preliminary planning has been completed, Wilson said, and every effort “is being made to éxpedite these public works so that bids may be opened early in 1952 and con- struction may begin as soon as climatic conditions permit.” Release of allotments is the largest since the inception of Al- aska Public Works three year: ago, accordihg to officials at the district office here. In 1950 allot- ments were made to 18 projects with an, approximate completior cost of $5,000,000. Thirteen projects were allotted funds from the cur- rent year's appropriation of $4,- 100,000, Completed Jobs Projects either completed o scheduled to be completed thi fall include the Juneau sewer sys tem, the Juneau public lbrary building, the addition to the Eiel son memorial building en the Un- iversity of Alaska campus, school: at Chugiak, Ninilchik and Peters- burg; Douglas sewer, water an¢ street mprovements which are i use and are finished except for ¢ chlorinator house which will be installed before winter; eight block: of paving in Anchorage; street im- provements in Ketchikan, and the Anchorage city shops and warn storage buildings. The contract for a school at wrangell will probably be awardec this week. Bids will be opened within the next few weeks on Third Avenuc street improvements in Ketchikan sewers and water system in Anchor- age, and water supply at Hoonah. $14,620 Allotied fo Valdez for 15-bed General Hospifal WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— 1 — The Housing and Home Finance Agency yesterday approved $140,000 in interest-free advances for plan- ning of public works totaling an estimated $4,277,665 in six states and Alaska. ‘They include: Valdez, Alfska, $14,620 for a 15-bed general hospital with a tuberculosis ward and equipment. # ANCHORAGE, Sept. 11—(#—One man was killed but six others escaped with injuries yesterday when the No. 3 engine of a B-17 bomber blew up and the ship was brought in to a crash landing. The accident was the 14th in & string of Alaska air disasters the past seven weeks which has claimed a toll of 95 dead or mis- sing. One of the injured in the crash was hurt seriously but he is expected to recover. The wreckage of the B-17 was spotted by a civilian flier 100 mfles north of here after the plane had been reported missing. Pararescue crews dropped at the spot and hell- copters then began returning the survivors to their home Elmendort base here. The crash scene was between Tal- keetna and Summit, The Alaska Command informs- tion officer sald the death was caused by the engine explosion itself. All the survivors were flown to the Elmendorf Air Force base hos- pital by last night. The informa- tion officer said medical officers re- fused to allow interviews with them. "Flameout’ Causes Jet Plane Mishap Near Anchorage. ANCHORAGE, Sept. 11—M—An F-94 jet fighter plane made an emergency landing yesterday on Cook Inlet mud flats, three miles west of the new international air- port here. The pllot, Maj, Robert Deckman of the 66th Fighter Inm Squadron, was unhurt. The Tenth Rescue Squadron Ml o veasel from ite station' at Lake Hood, near Anchorage, to pick up Deckman, The Air Force sald a “flameout” caused the accident. Wha' Hoppen? Did They Melft WASHINGTON, Sept. 11—(#— The Defense Production Adminis- tration (DPA) announced today cancellation of a $60,000 loan pre- viously approved to the Arctic Block Construction Company of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Arctic Block Construction Company withdrew its loan re- quest, because it found itself un- able to get materials for expan- sion regardless of the money. 'Don’t Lead a Fast Life" Advises Miss America (She’s Gof Seven Boy Friends) NEW YORK, Sept. 11—(»—“Be yourself, get lots of rest and don’t live a fast life.” That was the advice Miss America 1952 gave today to American women on how to be beautiful. Miss Colleen Kay Hutchins, 25, of Salt Lake City, Utah, who wén the Atlantic City, N.J., beauty contest, expressed her theories on how to be beautiful at a breakfast news conference. She revealed, too, that she aid not drink coffee, smoke cigarettes or drink intoxicating beverages. And she has “seven boy friends.” Miss Hutchins, who is five feet ten incl tall in her stocking feet, towered over her interviewers. She was wearing blue calf pumps with four inch heels. Stock Quotations , NEW YORK, Sept. 11—M—Clos- i ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ¢ stock today is 2%, American Can 117%, American Tel. and Tel. 162%, Anaconda 48%, Douglas Alrcraft 55%, General Electric 63, General necott 82, Northern Pacific 83%, Standard Oll of California 54, Twen- tieth Century Fox 20%, US. Steel 44%, Pound $2.79 15/16, Canadian Exchange 94.68%. Sales today were 2,030,000 shares. Averages wdly were as lnlhn