The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1951, Page 1

£ SONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY WASHINQTON, D. . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,953 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THWRSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1951 Eisenhower To Fly Home This Weekend WASHINGTON, Nov. 1-{#—Gen. Dwight Eisenhower is flying home this weekend for conferences with President Truman and other top ranking officials. The White House in announcing this today, said the General is re- turning for talks Monday and Tues- day to cover matters ‘affecting his Supreme Allied Command and the North Atlantic Defense setup. He will leave Paris at 10 p.m. (Paris time) Friday and spend the | weekend at Fort Knox, Ky. with his son, Capt. John Eisenhower. He will confer with the President and other administration leaders Mon- day and Tuesday, holding some of the conferences at the White House. It was announced that President Truman had suggested Eisenhower come here. Despite the White House em- phasis on the military-defense nature of the visit, the news that Eisenhower was returning sent a big political ripple through the capital. Senator Duff (R-Pa), who has| been booming Eisenhower for the Republican presidential nomination next year, told reporters he intends to confer with the General on po-/ litical matters. Presidential Secretary Joseph Short told reporters that no emer- | gency was involved. | However, the arrangements for the trip evidently were made quite suddenly. Presidential Assistant W. Averell Harriman, new Foreign Aid Rirector, told a news conference only yesterday he planned to confer with Eisenhower in Paris this week- end during a trip to Europe. Eisenhower reported to the Presi- dent Jan. 31 upon his return from a tour of the countries belonging . to the North Atlantic Treaty organi- zation (NATO). During that visit the General reported also to a spe- cial meeting of the cabinep, to ‘the | standing group of NATO. and to) members of Congress. He spoke to | the nation by radio. Juneau Man Is‘_ Honored, [CES MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Nov. 1 i -—Marion Williamson of Atlania was | elected president of the Interstate Conference of Employment Sccurily: Agencies today. i Among regional elected were: John T, McLaughlin, Alaska. vice-presidents Juneau, FROM VANCOUVER i James Lundgren of Vancouver, Wash,, is registered at the Baranof Hotel. JUNEAU VISITOR Don Clark of Anchorage is stop- ping at the Baranof: Hotel. TheWashington Merry - Go-Round| (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—The more you look into the income tax situation, the more it appears that some U. | 8. tax collectors, especially those with political pull, regard their jobs as indirect pensions and spend | more time on private business than on Uncle Sam’s. Fortunately, there are thousands of nonpolitical Internal Revenue! agents, but here is an illustration of { what has been happening at Nash- ville, Tenn. Investigation of Nash- ville's Internal Revenue office so far has concerned three individuals: 1. Lipe Henslee, the suspended collector, who, following an illness & couple of years ago, fell a victim of narcotics. The Narcotics Bureau sent two agents to Tennessee to see where Henslee was getting his drugs, reported that nothing illicit was involved though he is still tak- ing narcotics and not spending suf- * ficient time at his office. This was the reason for Henslee's suspension. 2. Also under investigation is George Welch Jr., assistant collector, who has been-criticized for spending too much time on the affairs of the Washington Realty Company rather than on collecting taxes. The Realty Company owns three large apartment houses in Nashville, and the company is.controlled by Welch's family. Investigators who checked the, case reported that Welch is almost stone deaf, difficult to talk to, with, the result that his superiors by- passed him, gave him little work to | ber President | regarding the settlement of aborig- formatich osir Atomic Blast Clond A giant pillar of smoke erupts into the mow-familiar mushroom the Nevada desert as the Atemic Energy Commis- sion set of( another atomic explesion. This picture was made from Mt. Charlesten, approximately 50 miles away. (# Wirephoto. Stines Opfimistic For Mining Fufure In Southeast Alaska The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce had two interesting specksrs and a speakers table at a regular Llung aeqn. weetit zish B Baranet iHowl Thursday noon, : Norman C. Stines, mining engi- neer, gave a talk on the mining potential in Southeast Alaska and R. C. Sheldon, postal inspector, tolq of a postal service survey being conducted in the Territory. Cham- Herbert S. Rowland read a letter from D. S. Skinner, general manager of the Alaskn; Steamship Co. presenting the| hamber with a speakers podium. Secretary F. O. Eastaugh repor:rd‘ that a Congressional subcommittes | would hold a hearing on the bill| i inal claims in Alaska here on No- vember 8. . Stines Optimistic Stines, an internationally known mining engineer, spoke optimistic- ally cf the future of mining in Seutheast Alaska citing a number of properties he believed held promise for development. “In former times,” Stines said, “a prospector who located a prom- ising outcrop could get private capi- tal for further exploration and de- veloment of the property. * | “The prospectors have been active | but they have been unable recently | | said “this is the one test in which No (asualliés, A A-Bomb Blast | LAS VEGAS, Nev., Nov. 1—P— U.S. Army troops were exposed to- day to an atomic blast for the first time, and came off without casu- alties and with knowledge which may prove “greater than antici- pated.” Official confirmation of the troop’s participation in today's blast, which was so strong that it cracked store windows in this city more than 75 miles away, came from Maj. Gen. William B. Kean. commandins the Army’s Third Corps. Another Army spokesman, de- i clining to be quoted by name, troops wiil be invelved.” This was taken to indicate that the Army is satisfied with what it learned and will not participate in further AEC experiments here. The blast went off at 7:30 a.m., and sent a giant white cloud mush- rooming over the Yucca Flat testi center in the desert ncrthwest of here. Las Vegas Rocked . Several minutes later Las Vegas was rocked by the concussion. Police 1 switchboards were flooded with calls i annual revenue to Uncle Sam. That Cheerful () News for Rainy Day WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—(®—This is the day you start contributing your share of the new $5,601,000,000 in averages out to $38 for each person but not everybody, of course, will owe that amount. You'll notice the tax increase in your next salary check .and probably in a lot of things you buy— a pack of cigarettes, an automobile ,a tankful of gasoline, a bottle of liquor, a roll of film, or a fountain pen, for instance. Not quite all the tax law changes are on the sour side, though. The 3 1-3 percent excise comes off your electricity bills. You now can buy baby lotion, a house trail- er, a heating pad and a ticket to a high school football game or a symphony concert—all without pay- any federal tax. Prices on those tickets may not come down, though —the high schools and orchestras may keep the difference. All of these changes were in the big bill passed Oct. 19 by Congress to provide more money for the na- tion's huge mobilization effort. Pre- sident Truman promptly signed the measure, although he had asked for new revenue of almost twice as much—8§10,000,000,000. Today is the effective date for the new law with the exception of corporation tax increases, retro- active to last April 1. U.5. Troopsin |Buffer Zone Agreement MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 1—{P—A United Nations briefing officer said tonight the Allies and Reds are in “general agreement” on the eastern half of a neutral zone for a Korean armistice. Negotiators are “nearer to agree- ment on a buffer zone than ever before” said Lt. Col. L. G. Hill, the briefing officer. But he emphasized agreement on the zone would not end the shoot- ing. .Hill said: “There is a possibility the war will go on for a long time after- ward.” The buffer zone is only the first point of a proposed armistice. i A B-29, \eturning to McClellan Air Force Base near Sacramento, Calif,, for an emergency landing after an aborted takeoff for Honolulu, crashed and caught fire. The 11 men aboard escaped serlous injury. One civilian, fireman dropped dead of a heart attack while fighting the flames. (P ‘Wirephoto. MEMBER A B-29 (rashes SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN C! { { o Yl Briiish Royally in Washingion Many Events from Wreath Placing o Re- ception and Dinners ‘WASHINGTON, Nov, 1 — (® — Princess Elizabeth today placed a wreath on the tomb of George ‘Washington, the man who played a taajor role in taking this country out of the British Empire. ‘It was a simple ceremony. Eliza- th and Philip, the Duke of Edin-' , took the wreath and walked with it into the tomb, They placed it against the back wall. When they came out, Philip Like any other visiting tourists, | the couple then inspected Mount | Vernon, the plantation home where | the father of this country spent his | last days. Britain’s “Fairy Princess,” as | President Truman called her, and | her handsome husband, Philip, | were accompanied by Miss Mar- | paret Truman. | 1t was a gloomy day. It had been raining and overcast clouds held the threat of still more rain. A chill wind blew. Nevertheless, a sizeable crowd | was waiting on the sidewalk across the street from the Blair Housc the battle line changes substantially when the Royal couple left the after an agreement is reached on|pegigential residence at 10:05 a.m. a buffer zone, Hill said, it px'obabl:~:; The Princess and Miss Truman would have to be negotiated all over | yore peayy coats. The Duke wore again. Red China’s Peiping radio said the Reds’ new proposal contains “the greatest possible concession” the Communists can make on a buffer zone. Hill said that at the close of three| hours of talks in Panmunjom tod a Naval uniform. There was polite handclapping and ooh's and ah's — the latter mostly from bobby-soxers’ and apparently in admiration of the handsome Philip. Another wreath-laylng was sched- to get¥private capital to continue! r their explorations. This has been |from anxious residents. Some of brought about by an increase in|them described the rattling jar as UN. and Red subcommittees werc uled at the Tomb of the Unknown in “general agreement” on where a Soldier in Arlington National Cem- demilitarized zone should run from etery, followed by a diplomatic re- taxes which has removed risk capi- tal,” he continued. “Uncle Sam| has. taken on the spending of those | ;| dollars that previously went into| mining ventures.” DMA Makes Leans | Stines then told of the creation of the Defense Minerals Adminis- tration which now makes matching loans on prospects that show values. He said that one such loan had been granted to the Admiralty-Alaska Gold Mining Co., which has a valu- able copper-cobalt-nickel property near Funter Bay on Admiralty Is- land near here. “This property has immense po- tentialities. All the explorations point to good values and it is pos- sible that within the next year Ju- neau will wake up and find an op- erating mine there,” he declared. In discussing iron deposits in| ! buildings here. (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ At Airport — 0.09 inches;. ® since July 1—13.03 inches. ] ® 0 00 00 00 00 Southeast Alaska, Stines pcinled‘ time in this fall's test that the (Continued on Page Two) sound waves have been noted in Las Vegas. ® o o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 The rattling was accompanied by ° «@ |2 long swishing sound audible to ° WEATHER REPORT ® | rooftop observers, ° (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU . The jarring was not nearly so o At Airport: Maximum, 39; e | severe as in last winter's blasts, e Minimum, 19. ® however. ° ®| A white cloud soared more than a . FORECAS-T @ | mile into the air within a few min- . (Juneau and Vicinity) ® | utes. But it’s stem disintegrated L Cloudy ~ with rain and e|quickly. The cloud was touched| e southeasterly winds of 15 to e | with pink. But from here, at least,! @ 25 miles per hour tonight and e | the brilliant flashes of color seen ® Friday. Lowest temperature e |in Tuesday's blasts were missing. o tonight near 36 degrees. ® Highest Friday around 43. e ARC MEN RETURN v [ Walter L. Sanders and Charles PRECIPITATION e |R. Leitzell, Alaska Road Commis- stronger than in a series of atomic blasts last winter. Windows were broken in at’ least three stores on downtown Fremont St., and the AEC quickly posted notices saying residents suffering damage could file claims. Today’s was the fourth explosion in the current group. Five went off at the range here last winter. No “Baby A-Bomb” The fact that the flash itself was visible here — 75 miles away — in bright daylight indicated to observ- ers that it was not a so-called “baby A-bomb”, of the type set off in the first test here. That one couldn’t be seen in this| southern Nevada resort city. Pre- sumably, today’s was dropped from a B-29. Seven minutes after the explo- sion, a distinet concussion rattled It was the first sion men who have been in the field all summer, have taken up their winter residence at the Gas- tineau Hotel, Kumhwa to the east coast of Korea Kumhwa is the right anchor cf the old Red Iron Triangle. It i 55 air miles from the east coast in the approximate center of the bat- tleline. Both sides are basing their pro- posals for a buffer zone generally on the battle line. FROM HAINES Ira M. Powell of Haines is at the Baranof Hotel. Stock Quotafions NEW YORK, Nov. 1—{®—Closii quotation of Alaska Juneau mi stock today is 3%, American Ct 108, American Tel. and Tel. 157 Anaconda 48%, Douglas Airc 59%, General Electric 56%, Gene! Motors 50%, Goodyear 44':, Kenus cott 84%, Libby McNeill and Libb 8%, Northern Pacific 55%, Standard Oll of California 52':, Twentic'! Century Fox 21%, U.S. Steel 41 Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchangc 95.43%. Sales today were 1,430,000 sharc Averages today were as follow industrials 264.88, rails 80.88, ities 46.19, i Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. Princess Louise scheduled to o rive northbound Saturday afternoo’ or evening. Denali scheduled to arrive soufi- bound Nov. 4. ception in the Canadian Embassy. The day's big event, with 2,000 on the invitation list and thousands more on the disappointed list, was an afternoon reception in the big, | campus-like British Embassy. Champage and French pastries were to be served in a circus tent on the lawn, Among those invited: all members of Congress. Back at the Canadian Embassy, Elizabeth and Philip will give a formal dinner for President and | Mrs, Truman, to “pay back” the dinner the Trumans gave for their royal guests last night at Blair House. Last night a reception was giver by some 900 news correspondents It included the presentation of ar Indian war bonnet for the royal couple’s three-year-old son, Prince Charles, and an Indian doll foi their year old daughter, Princess Anne. Elizabeth smiled, said she liked America fine and promised to come ! again when she could stay longer Next came the Blair House din- ner—strictly a white tie and gold salad forks affair. Besides the hosts and guests of honor there were only 13 guests — | the British and Canadian Ambas- | sadors and their wives, Chief Jus- | tice Vinson and Mrs. Vinson, Act- | ing Secretary of State and Mrs. James E. Webb, bachelor Senator | Green, (D-RI), Senator McMahon | (D-Conn) and Mrs. McMahon, and | Senator H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ) | and Mrs. Smith. AT HOTEL JUNEAU Elfrida C. Franck of Bethel is a | with the Alaska Native Service. Vicor of Bull Moose F House Group To Alaska on Land Claims i To Hold Short Hearings in Eight Alaska Cities; At-juneau-Nov- 8- - Investigation into the various as- land claims in Alaska takes a. new | turn next week when members of a subcommittee, comprised of re-, presentatives to Congress, hold hearings in cities in all sections| of the Territory. The subcommittee is said to be holding the hearings to gather in- formation and to absorb the gen-| eral feeling of Alaska natives, com- | mercial groups, business men and individuals before further action is taken on a bill introduced before the House of Representatives by E. L. “Bob” Bartlett; delegate from | Alaska. According to Hugh J. Wade, area director of Alaska Native Service the first hearing before the group| will be in Anchorage Nov. 5. In quick succession, the hearings will be held in Fairbanks Kotzebue, Nome,) Kodiak, Juneau, Sitka and Ketch- ikan. On the subcommittee are: Rep.| Clair Engle (D-Calif), Rep. Norrisl Poulson (R-Calif), Rep. Wayne N. Aspinall (D-Colo), Rep Chester D.| McMullen (D-Fla), Rep. Edward H. Janison (R-Ill), Rep Wesley A., D'Ewart (R-Mont), Rep. Frank T.| Bow (R-Ohio), Delegate E. L. Bart- lett (D-Alaska), and attorney for| the group, Preston Peden. Wade’s Capacity Wade will accompany the subcom- mittee in a semi-official capacity | at the request of the group. The subcommittee will arrive in Anchorage by commercial plane on Nov. 4, according to the present| schedule. Hearing - will be held in| Anchorage the morning of Nov. 5 and in Fairbanks the same evening. Air Force planes will carry the sub- committee after leaving Anchorage until they arrive in Juneau. Departure is scheduled from Fair- | banks the morning of Nov. 6 for| Fish and WIIdIiie Men Save l turned, faced the tomb, and saluted. | pects of Indian, Eskimo and Aleut| et two weeks. ight; 'Welves Get Consolation Prize FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 1—(® —The vanguished and the victor in Alaska's dramatic battle of the bull moose have been separated— the winner to seek his prize, the loser left as food for the ravens. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv- ice did what the two huge gladiators could not — pulled their tangled horns apart after cutting the wire which had enmeshed them. 1 Wwildlife Agents Ray Woolford and Frank Glaser concluded the titanic struggle yesterday, after being flown to the remote battle- ground 20 miles south of here be- ide the Tamana river. J its neck broken sometime during the battle they estimated had lasted nt! The other proud and angry animal was bound to its victim by wire which Woolford said had once towed a US. Air Force target. “The live bull was so mad we could see his red eyes blazing 50 feet away,” Glaser reported. “He made repeated attempts to get us| while we cut the wire and pulled the broken horns apart.” But the moose was tied to a tree during the operation. Afterward, the rescuers untied | the big animal and he made sev- | eral angry passes at them. Then, | as though lured by the original Helicopler Atfack by Marines First Combat Movement of Kind Ever Made; Ground War Dwindles U.S. 8STE ARMY HEADQUAR- TERS, Korea, Nov. 1—#—U.8. Ma- rines successfully raided a Red Ko- rean guerrilla stronghold behind United Nations lines in the first true helicopter combat attack ever made, the Marines announced to- day. The attack was made Saturday. The news was withheld until today for security reasons. A ‘The announcement came as light snow and cold rain chilled combat troops along the battle front. The quiet was shattered during the night by a thundering 100-ton B-29 bomb raid. Thirty-three volunteers made the flying Marine raid. Two helicopters carried them seven miles over jag- ged North Korean mountains to the guerrillas’ mountain fortress. The airborne raiders landed onsa mountain top. They hid in the wild peaks and struck the next day. Under cover of a frosty ground haze they charged three huts, head- quarters of a band of 150 North Korean Reds operating from a mountain hideout. In the subsequent fight, a spokes- man said, the Marines “believe they broke up this stronghold.” ) The ground war dwindled to “the quietest damn thing we've had in a long time,” a briefing officer saia at noon Thursday. % Night flying B-29s from Okinawa and Japan blasted Communist frontline troops with 400 big air- bursting bombs. Finds Against Alaska 'Firm FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 1—® —A Federal Court jury convicted the Healy River Coal Corporation of unreasonable restraint of trade in violation of anti-trust laws yester- day. Two other companies and two individuals were acquitted. The jury received the case Tues- day afternoon and deliberated nearly prize in the battle — a herd of 34 nours before convicting the Healy cows (moose) — he stomped away | Corporation and acquitting the Usi- into the woods, his broken horns | pelli Coal Mines, Evan Jones Coal a silent testimonial to his victory. iCo, Harry J. Hill and Emil Usi- The hungry ravens and wolves pejyj, that had been seen waiting at the, spot before Glaser and Woolford landed in a small plane won the consolation prize. The loser’s car- cass was left for them. 1 A grizzly bear, which threatened | to crash the act Tuesday, also had| The trial lasted two weeks, a gov- ernment witness testified that the coal operators several years ago met and agreed to practices which the government conténded were collusive. Larry Orsini, the witness, was a former secretary-treasurer of a moose-meat banquet, but not with | the Healy Company. He now oper- the wolves and the ravens. As me| agents flew away from the scene, they spotted the grizazly feeding onl another dead moose about two miles | from the trapped pair. 1 | Tug Kolzebue Still | Missing in Arclic According to information received by US. Coast Guard headquariers here today a drifting tug and barge north of Northeast Cape on St. Lawrence Island have been taken in ’u.w by the Alaska Native Service vessel North Star. Two men were reported to have Kotzebue and Nome, where hear- |been aboard the tug which had been | ings are set for afternoon and eve-| ning of that day. A hearing is on | :ap for Kodiak the following eve- aing, then the group will head for towed by the tug Kotzebue belong- ing to Archie Ferguson of Kotzebue However, when North Star official: boarded the drifting tug they founc |a note “Have left for Kotzebue " | It was presumed that the twc Juneau Hearing ! men whose names were not learned, The Juneau hearing is tentatively | wore aboard the tug Kotzebue which set for the Senate Chambers of the | pas not been located nor heard Federal building at 3:30 pm. onlgom, Efforts to contact the vesse Juneau. guest at the Hotel Juneau. She is| Nov. 8. The group will leave here on commercial plane to Sitka Nov. 9, and will return here the same day. The Ketchikan airing of the pros and cons of the land claims is ex- pected to be especially important. It was set for that date because it immediately precedes the begin- ning of the convention of the Alaska Natlve, Brotherhood in that city. Natives from all parts of South- east Alaska are expected to at- tend, and the meeting there will be extended one or two days i necessary, Wade said. Roughly, Bartlett's bill calls for a commission to be set up to pas: | 7 (Continuea on Page Two) | by radio on 2638 and 3180 kilocycles have failed. A Coast Guard plane from Kodiak which is based at Nome, searchec.| for five hours yesterday in a bac ‘easberly storm with no results, NOVEMBER 2 High tide ,3:35 am., 163 ft. Low tide 6 am, 31 ft. High tide 3:15 p.m,, 19.2 ft. Low tide 10:01 p.m., -24 ft.. ® 0 00 0 0 0 00 ates a real estate business in Fair- banks. Defense witnesses had claimed that no agreements were reached t the meeting described by Orsini. To Hold Inquest Over Headless Body In Rocky Pass An inquest will be held in the death of James Otis Jackson, of Ketchikan, whose headless body was picked up Tuesday from a beach in Rocky Pass, according to word re- ceived today by the U.S. Marshal's office here. ‘The body was identified through a social security card. Jackson and his duck-hunting partner, Hank Mycoski, disappeared more than a year ago after leaving on their trip in a skiff. Mycoski’s body, also headless, was found in September by hunters on Conclusion Island in Rocky Pass. Jackson’s hody was picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Hem- lock. Haines (ufoff Is Still Open Although the Haines Cutoff is officially closed today, latest word to Frank Metcalf, territorial high- way engineer, indicates that the road is still open to the public for all travel and that there have not yvet been heavy snows to cause trouble in maintenance. Travelers, however, are warned to check on daily conditions before using the highway, 3