The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 24, 1951, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,946 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESI):\Y. OCTOBER 24, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Talksfo Open With Japanen -~ Paific Fish WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — P — The State Department announces that the United Stat has ac- cepted a Japanese invitation to participate in three power n(’!!'\h-: ations for a North Pacific Fisheries convention. The talks will open| at Tokyo on Nov. 5. The three powers are the US. Japan and Canada. The announcement said Willl C. Herrington, special assistant to Undersecretary of State James F.| Webb, will be the chief US. dele-| gate. . | His advisers will include Edward | W. Allen of Seattle, Commlwinneri | m of the International Fisheries Com- | mission and member of the Pacific; Fisheries Conference, and FHarold! E. Lokken of Seattle, mandger of the Fishing Vessel Owners Asso., and a member of the Pacific Fisheries Conference. Barkley's Secrefary fo Be Quizzed | WASHINGTON, Oct, 24 — P — Senate investigators today asked to see RFC records on loan applicn-{ tions in which Vice President Bark- | ley’s secretary and a Senate com- mittee lawyer displayed interest. W. Stuart Symington, adminis- trator of the big lending agency, disclosed at a news conference that the request had just been received | from the Senate Investigation :uh‘}' committee headed by Senator Hoey | (D-NO). | Asked whether the records would | be made available to committee in-, vestigators, Symington sald: “Sure.” | Mrs. Flo Bratten, secretary te Barkley, and Charles E. Shaver, | counsel to the Senate Small Busi- ness committee, have both ack- nowledged making inquiries to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation | last year about the status of an| application for a $1,100,000 loan for construction of a hotel at Miami, Fla. RIS i { | | action. FIRE CALL A mattress fire at the Seaview apartments this forenoon at 11:35 o'clock caused little damage, fire- men said. The Washington Merry - Go-Round| (Copy=ight, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inec.) | By DREW PEAR! o | I ASHINGTON — A vitally im-| portant argument over European defense strategy is keeping the teie- | coms busy between Washington, | London, and General Eisenhow Atlantic Pact headquarters in Paris. The debate started when Eisen- hower suggested a~way to tak: offensive in the psychological with the Kremlin-—namely, r military-age -refugees from behind ' the Iron Curtain into a volunteer | legion. & Eisenhower believes that up to 100,000 men—three to five divisions —could be recruited from Russian, Czech, Polish, Baltic and Balkan escapees. Most of these men left Iron Curtain countries because they hate Communism, and Eisenhower belives the existence of such a leg- ion would be further indueement for Cominform troops to desert. He received a dash of cold water, however, from London and Wash- ington. The British, who support refugee committees of their own, are opposed to a large fighting force independent of the foreign offict and the foreign legion Ike propos would be equipped, armed and main- tained largely by the United States. Another objection is that the re- fugees’ fanatic hatred coukd not ,be controlled and might erupt into war as soon as rifles are issued. At one conference, the British repre- sentative frankly stated: “We fought one war to liberate eastern Europe, and our cities were bombed out for it. We are not anxious to start an- other war.” Gen. J. Lawton Collins, U. S. army chief of staff, was also skepti- cal when he conferred with Eisen- hower recently. He said the joint chiefs” of staff have no faith in| troops under refugee command, and pointed out that escapees can- vol- unteer in the American army. Eisenhower replied that very few sescapees ‘have enlisted, and for a very simple reason; they don't want to be integrated among strange American troops. But if organized _ . (Continued on Page ¢ | \ e et eemnd fEana-siphll O BrightSide of NATO Problems tion's group of economic experis t of the is pre r neeilor of the E . British Ch ring_a_get-together bers of the s of {h arter. isted B resp economic commitiee, cchequer, (P Wirephoto, North Atlant reaty Ofganiza- weir colle: France's Jean Mon- near Pa Averell Harriman ¥ MoWnTT A U. . Reserves Broad Roadbanks Along Side 0f All Alaska Roads 4 WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—P—The Sievedores Brave ‘Boos’ To Load Ships NEW YORK, Oct. 24—(®—Some dock hands resumed handling of | military cargoes today, braving the | 1 s denied any effort to in- boos and catcalis from wildeat strik- | son, Glenn, Ha who threw up mass picket lines along New York's vast waterfront. | Most of the port still was num- | bed by the longshore strike, which | has stirred.a plea for Presidential | interventfon. But at two army piers, | some of the idle men returned to | work. | . Biggest break in the military- ‘ cargo tieup was in Staten Island, | where eight military ships await- | ed loading. There, 300 stevedores | streamed past picket lines, amid | chouts of “double-crosser” and | beos from strikers. There was no violence, At the same time the army must- | ered a handful of about 50 new | dock workers, signed as special Civil Service Bropklyn's. huge Port of Embarka- tioh. THe strike began in Brooklyn | 10 days ago. This development came as thi government sent its top labor con- ciliator, Clyde M. Mills, from Wash- | Glenn Highway Junction to Fish- from which Egypt wnms_ to ington to try to iron out the strike,| hok Junction to Wasilla to Knik , British forces. The Egyptians have which has stranded more than 100 | Road, Slana to Nebesna Road, Ken- | scrapped the 1936 ships. The strike, set off by a local re- velt agafnst a recently negotiated contract of the International Lengshoremen’s Association, has spread throughout the New York- |ishna Road, Paxson to McKinley | Canal Zone incidents last week. New Jersey harbor area, and crip- pled operations in Boston and Aibany. New Jersey’s Gov. Alfred Dris- coll stepped into the picture today,! declaring the siuation a “threat to the general welfare.” He pledged | action to keep military cargoes moving. ! At the same time, Joseph Curran, head of the powerful CIO National | Maritime Union, modified a pledge of support to the striking AFL dock- ers by saying the seamen would not back any tieup of military cargoes. | “Our position is not to support | the holdup of war supplies, he said. (Continiied on Page Two) Stock QHJMS NEW YORK, Oct. 24—(P—Clos quotation of Alaska June: stock today is 3%, Ar 110%, American Tel. and Tel. 157'%, Anaconda 48%, Douglas Aircraft 60%, General Electric 56%, General Motors 51, Goodyear 45';, Kenne-| cott 85, Libby McNeill and Libby 9, Northern Pacific 57%, Standard Oil | of California 51%, Twentieth Cen- tury Fox 22%, U.S. Steel 43%, Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange 9543. | Sales today were 1,670,000 share: Averages today were as follow. industrials 264.95, rails 82.38, util-! ities 45.69. | under the public land laws, and ré- | staying at the ‘Baranof Hotel. Federal government reserved to it-) self today a byoad swath or road- bank along the 1,800 miles of high- way system im Alaska. For the Alaska Highway, this! strip is 600 feet wide. An Interior Depargment order withddew ‘all | rands Wing within 202 945 on eitber | <ide of the highway's center line| from all forms of appropriation | served it for highway purposes. For several other through high- ways, the strip is 300 feet wide—150 feet from the center line on either side. This applies ‘to the Richard- | nes, Seward-Anch- e, Anchorage-Lake Spenard and | airbanks-College highways. F le Along lesser roadways, the de- | partment put into effect an “epse- | ment” instead of a withdrawal. means that setflement and private ownership would be per- mitted so that if road plans later | were changed and the rights-of- | way or easements abandoned, the roadway land would be acquired automatically by adjacent owners. | Under this arrangement, 100 feet each side of the center line tected by easement along the feeder roads: following | Hdger! Highway, Sterling Highway, Taylor Highway, | Airport Road, Palmer to Matanuska | Fouad Serag El Dim as saying e|to Wasilla Junction Road, Palmer|was quiet today and there were no wger Lake to Wasilla Road, new incidents in the Canal Zone, lto $5,962,000 to Fin |ai junction to Kenai Road, Univer- | sity to Ester Road, Central to Circle | Hot Springs to Portage Creek Road, | | Manley Hot Springs to Eureka! Road, North Park boundary to Kat- | |Park Road, Sterling* Landing to| | Ophir Road, Iditarod to Flat Road, | | Dillingham to Wood River Road,| i Ruby to Long" to Poorman Road, | | Nome to Council Road, and' Nome to Bessie goad. The Department ordered a reser- vation by easements for 50 feet from the center of all other public and! local roads in Alaska. FROM WASHINGT! D.C. H. G. Heiberg and T. Ruden of Washington, D.C., are guests at the Baranof Hotel. FROM CHICAGO H. A. Wadell of Chicago, Ill, is 2 © o o o & 0 o o o § . WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU At Airport: Maximum, 38; minimum, 22. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy tonight and o. Thursday with light rain e Thursday afternoon. Lowest e temperature tonight near 32. e e Highest Thursday about 40. e . . e PRECIPITATION o ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ . At Airport None; . e since July 1—1 inches. e ® 0o 0 0 000 0 0 00 ° ° . . ° ° . . . ° Suez @ uie|,7 | But Tension Grows Higher | CAIRO, Oct. 24+(#—Guns of Brit- h warships covered British merch- ant ships clearing through the Suez Canal today against orders of the Eeyptian government, The Suez and the Cairo areas were quiet after violent outbursts of anti-British rioting, and the ver CEISSUCH PR Wariags against, new outbursts. Buf tension uLetween the British and the Egyptians quickened. A | British naval spokesman in Cairo said Egypt deliberately was “trying| Truman Says Reds "Foolish’ In Opposition WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — B — President Truman told the Russians today they are “utterly foolish” to oppose nations banded together to seck “pence and justice.” Speaking on the anniversary of the birth of the United Nations, the President declared: “I hope the time will not be far. listant when the leaders of the Union and their satellites Will come to see that it is utterly foolish to oppose the united will of all the other peoples of the world for peace and- justice, “But so long as the forces of aggressien are attacking the Unifed Nations, there must be no weakening — there must be no slackening of our efforts to check aggression and to build up the defense of the free world, back up these men of many nations freedom of the world in Korea.” Fres of the cornerstone for the building) -| of a District of Columbia Red Cross chapter, Mr. Truman devoted much of his talk to a plea "for hlcod for the Red Cross bank: CAN PREVENT THIRD WAR WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — (B — President Truman expressed belief today a third world war can be pre- vented, and said the Russians are “utterly foolish™ to oppose nations banded together to seek “peace and Jjustice,” ' Another great war must ke avoided he declared, because it would mean “practically the end of civilization.” The President touched on this theme in two separate addresses— delivegidon the anniversary of the birth of the United Nations. He spoke informally in the morn- ing to the 73rd general conference of the National Guard. Association. To the Guardsmen, he voiced opti- mism a third big war can be pre- to make things difficult” for the|vented and the U.N. charter made British at the canal entrances, Port Said ‘and Suez, and that the | Egvptians broke a previous ar-| rangement to clear British ships| ing supplies for Britain's mili- forces in the Canal Zone. | The British maintained a blist- | ling armed defense along the can- | al. The cruiser Gambia and the | destroyer Chevron were reported | at Port Said. The destroyer Cheq- ‘ uers and the frigate Cygnet were | said to be at Suez. Egypt has ord- ] ered the British to get out of Suez and the Anglo-Egyptian Su- ‘ dan, | The British military nnnounccd: it had lifted—for a 24-hour period | The pro-government newspaper | all expel Anglo-Egyptian treaty. b | Al Balagh said Queen Narriman, King Farouk’s recent bride, had given £800 (about $2,300) toward aid for families of Egyptians killed in Represeniative To Vatican Is Left fo Congress WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — 7 Congress will get a chance to de- cide whether the United State should have a full diplomatic rep- resentative at the Vatican, chur state of Roman Catholicism in Ttals The White House announced yes- terday that President Truman not going to offer Gen. Mark a recess appointment. Pre retary Joseph Short said “it i satisfactory to Clark” to Congress’ action. Mr. Truman sent to the Senalc the nomination of Clark to be ! first American Ambassador t0 Vatican last Saturday, just b Congress adjourned until Jar The Senate must approve Amb dorial appointments. VISITORS FROM SITKA Mr. and Mrs. H, Suler of are guests at the Baranof Holt FROM WRANGELL Mr.r and Mrs. Arnt Sorset son of Wrangell are guests al Baranof Hotel, effective. H Then, in an afternoon address at a Red Cross ceremony, Mr. Truman spoke of Russia’s present position as foolish. Bids Are Opened, Bethel Hospital; Over Allotment WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — ® — The Bureau of Indian Affairs said today a $3,932254 bid by the Valle Sommers Construction Co., was the lowest received for construction of Abbert Road on Kodiak Island,sonh; the ban on oil tanker and|. 75 paq hospital for the Alaska n Cutoff, Elliott Highavay,|truck traffic between Suez and | \.iive Service at Bethel, Alaska. workers for jobs at|Seward Peninsula tramroad, -Steese | Cairo. | The Bureau’s allotment for the hospital is $2,775,000 and in view Northway Junction to|Al Balagh quoted Interior Mmmm'm[ this, it is considered likely that the bids will be rejected. Five other bids ranged upwards Ask Canada-U. 5. Control Coast Botfom Fishing PORTLAND, Oct. 24—®—An in- ternational commission, represent- ing Canada and the United States to handle management of the Pa- cific Northwest bottom fishery, was proposed at a meeting of the Pa- cific Marine Fisheries commissior: vesterday. Angus Neish of British Columbia director of ¢he United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union, proposed the “international commission. He said the bottom fisheries industry was nearing depletion — that some of the most productive areas off British Columbia already are wiped out, John L. Veatch, chairman of the -|Oregon Staté Fish Commission, op- posed the plan. He dislikes fed- t|eral agencies regulating industries that could better be regulated by the state, he said. No action was taken on Neish's proposal. Delegates agreed however that the condition of the coast bot- tom fish industry is critical. HERE FROM ANNETTE Lt. Comdr. Charles A. Greene and Lt. George L. Oakley of the U.S. Coast Guard Alr Detachment at Annette Island are staying at the Baranof Hotel. HERE FROM SEATTLE C. R. Goodman of Seattle is re- “It is up to us here at home to|§ are fighting for us and for the| ¥ Los Angeles TrafficWas Cause against a red light. The truck rip the entrance to a drug store on corner of the building collapsed int Whalen (fcreground) occupied th This secne of carnage resulted when a truck heavily laden with magazines rammed irto a two-stery building in Los Angeles whiie trying to avoid two elderly aomen Three persons were injured, including the truck driver. » Wirephoto. crossing Beverly boulevard pped out a steel I-beam supporting the ground floor and the entire o the street. Mr. and Mrs. Michael ¢ apartment on the second floor. Birthday OfUN Is Observed Is 6th Aniverasry of Organization Dedicafed to Preserve World Peace PARIS, Oct. 24—(®—In an at- mosphere of tension and fear of war, reoples around the world to- day marked the sixth anniversary of the United Nations, the world organization dedicated to the task of i preserving peace. France marked the day by giving the UN a golden key to the palace which will be the world organiza- tion’s home in November. In open air ceremonies, Foreign Minister Robert Schuman handed UN Secrétary General Trygve Lie the key to the Palais De Chaillot where the General Assembly will open its sixth session Nov. 6. The Palais will officially become the property of the UN Nov, 10 for as long as it is needed. As the blue UN flag was hoist- ed over the building, Schuman said he hoped the psychological atmosphere of France would help the 60-nation organization along Timber Contrad Lecal (o]:ipany Awarded Huge The award of a huge timber ccn- tract which probably means new industry for Juneau was made to the Columbia Lumber company in the offices of the U.S. Forest Serv- ice here yesterday. The preliminary award for 117- million feet of timber on Kosiusko Island was made to the lumber company as the sole bidder. The bid was for $418275, figured on total value of stumpage as set by the Forest Service. The Columbia Lumber company was represented by its president, Tom Morgan. Morgan has not yet been reached for comment, but the company’s plan has been to begin operation of a large plywood plant in Juneau if the timber could be acquired. ‘The logging will be done in the couthern division of the Tongass National’ Forest. Frank Heintzle- | man, regional forester, and Charles | Burdick, assistant regional forester, jand af PRICE TEN CENTS (oast Guard Regulations Aired Today Emphasizing that the Coast Guard is dedicated to tHe preven- tion of marine disasters, Admiral Joseph Greenspun, commandant of the 17th district, set the stage this merning at the formal Coast Guard hearings in the Senate Chdmbers. Greenspun stated that charges had been made that in Southeast Alaska the enforcement of Coast Guard regulations were oppréssive and too severe. He said that the meeting' had been called so that every protestant could be heard and that a transeript of the meeting would be forwarded to the Coast Guard commandant at Washington. Nine witnesses were heard at the morning session and at the con- clusion of the testimony, three witnesses were interrogated by Ad- miral Greenspun, Capt. G. W. Call- beck, 12th Coast Guard o ters, and Comdr. Paul BSavonis, Coast Guard headquarters, Wash- ington, D.C. Chamber’s Views representing the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, stated that the Chamber did not concur with the Coast Guard that the waters of Southeast Alaskd weére s0 dangerous that the district should be classified as limited coastwise waters rather than in- land waters. Southeast Alaska's economy and development is de- pendent on small boats and barges, Boochever sald. And he added that what is needed is a reasonable in- terpretation of the regulations so that neither marine safety nor economic welfare is jeopardized. Jerry McKinley, chairman of the chamber’s Coast Guard committee, protested that there are too fre- quent changes in the safety equip- ment that each boat must carry. The Chamber of Commercé favors a plan for the use of car ferries across Lynn Canal at Berner's Bay nect % road’ systems. Fred Eastaugh, Juneau attorney, stated that the present classification would prohibit the use of ferry boats and that in his estimation the wo'ers were “improperly classi- fled.” Crew Requirements A new problem was introduced into the hearing by L. E. Erickson, { co-owner of the Ketchikan Trans- portation Company operating. the Dart and Discoverer as mail-freight- passenger ships for the west coast of Prince of Wales Island. Erickson stated that his vessels had always been passed at inspections but that the Coast Guard requirements that only men holding papers could man the ship Discoverer, a 92 foot ves- sel had worked an extreme hard- ship. Because he was unable to hire men in Ketchikan, his com- pany had ceased to use its largest boat, the Discoverer and were how- using the Dart, which was smaller and was exempt from certain’crew | say that the spruce in the stand fe | of exceptionally high quality. \ Burdick said, “It will take ap- ( proximately 15 years to log this par- ticular area, It is just a portion of the timber available on Kosiusko and it is really wonderful timber.” The stands consists of Sitka Hemlock the road to peace. | Spruce and Western Lie answered that international inainly, and red cedar and dead relations were far from reflecting spruce. Bid prices were set at $5.1C gle harmony of the site—one of the | n thousand fegt of board measure most “beautiful Paris neighborhoods | for the spruce, $2 for the hemlock, —but the United Nations must keep | $3.85 for red cedar, and $1 for on striving to establish harmony, dead spruce. The sale provides for or, at least, some form of peaceful | re-determination of .the stumpage co-existence between conflicting in- | value every three years. terests and ideologies in the world."| The sale provides for a minimumr Oct. 24 is celebrated as UN Day | cut of 30 million feet each three- because the charter officially came Into force Oct. 24, 1945. There were observances in almost every world capital. In, Moscow, the government ‘newspaper Izvestia charged that the UN had become the tool of British and American imperialists. Birthday processions were arrang- ed to start at dawn in Indian cities and in Pakistan 27,000 Karac schoolchildren were to witness UN pageant. Statements of support were also sent to Lie from many governments. The Communist Czechoslovak gov- ernment scheduled special birthday broadcasts on the state radio. BEN STEWART AND FAMILY IN JUNEAU Mr. and Mrs. Ben Stewart Jr, and son arrived Sunday on the Denali from Valdez. Stewart is dis- trict engineer for the Alaska Road Commission at Valdez and he will reiurn to his headquarters at the end of the week. a VISITORS FROM SEATTLE Don 8. Davis and Robert E. Land- west of Seattle are guests at the gistered at the Baranof Hotel. Baranof Hotel, member | | year period, with a maximum cut | of 40 million feet in each period. i Burdick said the .timper would be the major source of supply for peeler | blocks for the planned plywooc | plant here. He also said it woulc | take a major system of work roads for the stand to be logged. Other than making the timber ailable for the public interests, one of the reasons prompting the | sale was the fact that there had been a serious bark beetle infesta- tion which had reached an epidemic | stage in 1945, Burdick said the infestation was now endemic, or normal, but that there are many | dead trees because of the beetle at- | tack. He said it was desirable to | get this dead spruce salvaged. | This area includes the stand the | Forest Service supervised timbering during World War II for plywood { for Britain’s famed Mosquito bom- bers. | ANCHORAGE MAN | BACK FROM KOREA | SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24—P— ‘Szl Thomas L. Gielarowski of An- | regulations. In using the Dart, Erickson claimed that his company was not 1ble to service all its way- ports., Because of the construction boom and government competition, it was ifficult to hire qualified men in etchikan this year, Erickson said. When employees would leave the ship without notice, Erickson said that he had to wire to Seattle for men holding papers in spite of the * fact that there were men in Ket- chikan, who had navigated fishing boats for years and knew the local waters,” yet he was unable to hire local men because they had no papers. Steve Homer of the Chilkoot Mot~ orship Lines also protested this rul- ing and added that only a féw men in Southeast Alaska qualified for able seaman’s papers because one qualification was that they serve aboard a vessel of over a 100 tons. There are only a few vesséls in Southeast Alaska of this size, he said. While many fishermen have spent their lives aboard small fish- ing boats, they cannot be qualified to work aboard mail or passenger crafts inspected by the Coast Guard although the vessels are not any larger than the fishing boats. Loss Reported George Baggen, Jr, Sitka barge and tug operator, testified that he had lost approximately $8,000 this Kbt A b A, i (S (Continued on Page Two) OCTOBER 25 Low tide 3:54 am. 3§ ft. High tide 10:36 a.m., 138 ft. chorage, Alaska, was one of the 2,851 | Army men returned here from Ko- | rea on a troopship yesterday. Low tide 4:33 pm., 58 ft. High tide 10:29 p.m., 133 ft. e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ', . R R RN NN