The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 3, 1951, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY VASHINGTON, D c ey SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE %55 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,955 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS East Coast Walkout Still Waits Solution NEW YORK, Nov, 3—®—A strike | threat by cast and gulf eoast AFL | ships officers was gone today, but the paralyzing wildeat walkout by longshoremen appeared no nearer solution, | The 20-day stevedore work stop- | page has immobilized more thm\! 100 ships in New York and Boston | harbors. | A grave, new maritime tieup that would have hit every port between | Maine and Texas was averted last night after the officers put off their midnight strike deadline until the separate stevedore dispute Is set-| tled | Charles F. May, president of the AFL -Masters, Mates and Pilots Union, said negotiations would com- tinue in the officers’ contract dis- pute with shipping operators. Muy1 said he did not want to give any support to the insurgent AFL dock workers, p The 12,000 officers are seeking in-i creased pension and welfare bene- | fits, Wages are pot in dispute. | Federal mediators are conduclm;‘,i‘ peace talks. | In the billion-dollar dock tieup, | some 20,000 members of the AFL International Longshoremen's Asso- | ciation (ILA) are rebelling against | their union president Joseph P“ Ryan. | Nafional Guard Air Wing fo Be Sent fo Europe | WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—(®—The Air Force announces the mm‘ Fighter-Bomber Wing is being sent) to Europe 86on. It will be stationed jn England | but come under the command of Lieut. Gen. Lauris Norstad, Allied| Air Commander in Central Europe.| The 123rd, about 1,600 men strong, | is made up of Air National Guard units from Kentucky, North Car lina and West Virginia that were ordered to active duty in October, 1950. Col. Philip P. Ardery of Frankfort, Ky., commands the wing. | The Air Force said that after the arrival of the new wing, the 12th| Fighter-Escort Wing, now on rota- tion training in England, will return to the US. This wing has been assigned to the Strategic Air Com- mand since it went overseas earlier | this year. ! The 123rd will use the F-84 Thunder jets that will be left in England by the returning 12th Wing. | The 123rd is the second wing to| be assigned to Europe within the | past two weeks. The 126th Lighti Bomber was ordered to France and | began leaving from Langley Air| Force Base, Virginia, early this week. FROM ANCHORAGE W. H. Gresham of Anchorage is registered at the Baranof Hotel. TheWashingion Merry- Gg:Round (Copy:ight, 1951, by Bel'Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON — It has been kept top-secret in o not to em- barrass the British," the Air Force has just picked up a Rus- sian-built MIG jet-plane engine [Group Leaves From Seatfle | gressmen on the House subcommit- Tax Closes Bookies CASHIE boekmaking fir before Plocaihal, (vight) owner of a Las Vegas, Nev. s they get ready to close operations (10-31) the last day Joz sad m ard his ai¢e Frank Bondi look the 1C per cent excise tax hits beiting businesses, Owners centend the tax will force them in the red. And, look who won these two races, Curtaintime and Excise Tax. (P Wirephoto. Land Claims ;?n':::;"g:r‘;;‘i‘n 'Revealed Now SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8—iP— China's Premier Chou En-Lai has warned that more Llood purge: | coming in his troubled homeland, SEATTLE, Nov. 3—{#—Five Con- Which he bluntly calls “economically backward.” At the axd tee on Indian Afiairsy will {ly norlhh from Sealile S, - griole. coengmrent aRd Airlines for a week of hearings on |an unrelenting campaign to sist Indian and Eskimo land claims, | American aggression and aid Ko- 1e time, he has pledged Se vid I diwcoy i rea.” The acting chairman is RP[J,'X Wayne Aspinall of Colorado. With | him are Reps. Frank Bow of Ohio, N s Poulson of ifornia, Wes- | Montana and Ches Peiping radio only yesterday deast the long and detailed cech by Chou, which it said was made Oct. 23 at the national com- | ley D'Ewart of ter McMullen of Florida, with committee counsel Preston Peden. With Delegate Robert Bartlett of Alaska, they will hold sessions at Kotzebue, Kodiak, Sitka, Juneau, airbanks, Nome and Ketchikan. Report § Men | mittee meeting of the political con- | sultative conference in Peiping. | Apparently the Red leaders of | China pondered a while before | releasing to the world a speech ‘ that told of a sea of trouble be- | hind the bamboo curtain. | The speech as monitored here by ‘ll:f‘ Associated Press referred re- peatedly to the troubles the Peiping regime was ing with its “land | reform” program. l Chou remarked that Chinese who | resist Communist dictatorship “were ] . Missing in Bleak Seas Near "ome | reluctant to accept their extinction | lying down.” NOME, Alaska, Nov. 3—{M—Nine| Land reform was a popular fea- men were reported: missing in the! ture of the Communist program in bleak and frigid Bering Sea today., the early days. It called for wide Six men were believed to be akoard the motorship which has been overdue since Sat- urday on its return trip from St. Lawrence Island with two barges in tow. ‘Three natives were reported lost | between Shaktoolik and Unalakleet | in a small boat. Search is center- ing on stall islands in the area. The Kotzebue is owned by the colorful Archie Ferguson of Kotze- bte and is under charter to the B and R Lighterage Co., of Kotze- bue. Besides its crew of about four men, two others are believed to have been picked up from the U.S. Army tug 'which was washed ashore recently on St. Lawrence Island. The island lies in the Bering off Kotzebue, | i distribution of land seized from | wealthy landlords and the more | opulant among the peasants. Reports seeping out of China, however, have said that the dis- possed have been joined in their resistance by many beneficiaries of the program, who found that | high taxes made their lci as bad as before. The Chinese Nationalists recently | asserted the Reds killed 15,672,000 | Chinese, either by starvation or fir- ing sqads, since they assumed power two years ago. This figure doubt- Iess is too high, but the Communists themselves have admitted shooting thousands of ‘counter revolution- aries” and “bandits.” the Alaska western coast. Mendenhall Glacier Snow Greels Royal Couple On Holiday STE. AGATHES DES MONTS, Que., Nov. 3—(P—Princess Elizabeth and her husband awoke today to a annwr T wonderland to begin a two-day holiday befere eon- cluding their North American’ tour. But unless the snow falls build up to more bstantial proportions, there w little chance of skiing. So the royal couple likely will hike | through the beautiful scenic trails, | snap pictures and come home to a lazing log fire in a comfortable hearth. Winter’s first scrious snowfall ar- rived with the val tourists at Montreal’s Dorval Airport, 50 miles away, yeste s afternoon and fol- lowed them reat. Throughout tliz route to this famous skiing resort thousands oi persons clad in parkas and snow- boots stood in the wintry bluster to cheer. At St. Jerome, 5,000 gathered in the central square and halted the| yal procession to extend greetings. | All along the way, church bells| pealed a welcome from old spires and by public address systems from | modern buildings. Buenos Aires Is Rocked by Blast in Dewn Town Area BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Nov 3—(P—A strong bomb blast rocked downtown Buenos Aires today, dam- aging a printing plant which pub- lished Mrs. Eva Peron’s book, “The Reason For My Life.” It was not immediately known whether the explosion caused any casualties. Mrs. Peron is the wife of the Argentine president, Juan D. Peron, to their holiday re-| | Nation Waits lke's Confab With Truman By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 — B — Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- return to Washington may bring no public political announce to become their party’s 1952 presi- dential candidate apparently hoped today to gain some private assur- ances of his possible availability. Eisenhower himself has put it strictly up to President Truman whethier any political discussions may pass beiween the two men in two days of conferences next week. The General is due at Fort Knox, Ky., about noon (CST) today. He'll spend the weekend there with his family and come on to Washington Sunday night. terday, the General told reporte he was making the trip, under pr dential orders, to talk “strictly mil- itary” affairs with Mr. Truman and othér national leaders. When reporters asked him if any political subjects would come up in talks with the President, the Gen- eral ‘replied with a grin: “Not from my point it won't.” This apparently indicated that Eisénhower has no intention dur- ing his hurry-up visit of making any public political statement or of permitting his well-wishers to put him on the record about his intentions. Eisenhower backers were quick | ment, Republicans plugging for him Before taking off from Paris ye<»| President Truman confers with More Ouéslioning 0f Caudle in Tax Scandal Promised WASHINGTON, Nov. 3— (® — House investigators of scandals in the Federal tax gathering service aren't through questioning Theron Lamar Caudle, assistant Attorney General in charge of tax prosecu- tions. to point out, however, that the Genegral didn't exclude discussion of politics with friends who might see him secially in periods, between his, round of White House and Pentagon | conferences. | MacArihur Will 'Stump for Taft if Chance Comes NEWBURG, N. Y, Nov. Nov. 3— (A—If Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) jects the Republican Presidential nomination, says ex-Congressman Hamilton Fish, Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur “will stump for him at every | whistle stop.” And, Fish further predicts, Taft | “will carry a majority of both north-" nd and southern states” in the 1952 election. The former Republican Congress- | nan, in an address here last night, aid MacArthur was not interested “for himself” but. “wants to oust the | so-called Democratic Socialists from | office.” MacArthur could not be reached or comment. ‘Wriggles Out of \Marriage fo Wed Belly Dancer EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 3— (B — Sheppard (Abdullah) King III, with a Mexican quickie divorce in his pocket, made big plans, today to wed his beloved belly dancer. King got rid of his wife, curva- ceous Gloria, at a 30-minute ses- sion yesterday in a civil court at Juarez, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande, | Next it's off to the land of the | i | ‘ed all Also, they want a look at his in- come tax returns. Just what they expect to learn, or out of the series of closed-door ses- sions the investigating ways and means subcommittee has been hav- ing with Caudle. After a three-hour meeting late yesterday, Chairman King (D- Calif) told reporters: “The Caudle mattér is not civs- ed. He will be brought back for further questioning,” Caudle told reporters: “I answer- the committee's questions, and I have no comment.” The committee's request for a look at Caudle’s came earlier in the day. Caudle’s name was brought before the committee this week when he confirmed reports that he made a trip to Italy last summer as guest of two wine merchants checking on a bank account they had there. Caudle said he went along as a friend and advisor of the two mer- chants. Attorney General McGrath has said he knew about the trip, that he thought Caudle did nothing “im- proper,” but he probably would have advised against it had he known more about it. Rep. Curtis (R-Mo) called yester- day for the ouster of both Caudle and McGrath. Curtis said in a statement that McGrath should be fired for condoning the trip. mn&(fiifi Bans Messages Relating fo Befs NEW YORK, Nov 3. —#— The Western Union Telegraph Com- pany has ordered a nationwide ban on use of its wires for sending money orders relating to bets. The company action followed con- income tax returns Nile and the arms of Egyptian torso tosser Samai Gamal for the sandy-haired Houston oil heir. viction Thursday of the firm and its manager at Bridgeton, N. J.,, on misdemedanor charges. The state contended the Western Union of- ‘Truman with Party Chief anapolis banker (11-1) and newly appointed chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee. () Wirephoto. may have learned, has not seeped | Frark A. McKinney (right), Indi- Union Blasli | (Coast Guard | Dock Program | SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3—(P— }Ir‘ndm's of Harry Bridges' left-wing longshore union, in a resolution |ready for membership votes, blast | the Coast Guard’s waterfront loyalty screening program as “an anti-union blacklisting device.” | Sixty-seven ILWU officers, meet- ing here in a coastwide caucus, voted yesterday to submit a resolution on | the program to a union member- ! ship referendum. The resolution, while condehmlnzi the. present. nrogram, spi@ in_ nart: “We will cooperate in every Yy with a bona fide and democratic port security program in the in-! terest of our own security and that | of the nation.” Offer Reds New Proposal 'On Kaesong Suggest Red-Held City Be Made Neutral Zone; { No Reply to UN Offer By the Associated Press United Nations armistice negoti~ ators today suggested a compromise to the Communists on the dispute over Kaesong now blocking agree- ment on a Korean war cease-fire buffer zone, The proposal was made at the Panmunjom conferences only a few hours after U.N. Infantrymen turned back seven of eight Communist at- tacks on the central and western sectors of the front. In the eighth assault the Reds gained some ground but Jater yielded it without a fight. But for thousands of American {ighting men in foxholes up front the big news of the day was the virtual promise of the Supreme Allied Commander they weuld be home by Christmas. The Communists made no direct reply to the suggestion that Red held Kaesong be placed in a demil- itarized (neutral) zone. Instead they repeated their claims to the eity, the only major South Korean town held by the enemy, But, a UN. spokesman empha- sized, the Communists ‘“had ’not categorically turned down the pro- Both sides have demanded Kae- song — a natural gateway fof in- vasion of Seoul 35 miles: to " the southeast — since armistice talks opened July 10. At that time the city was in No-Man's-Land 4 Presumably the Communists will reply to the suggestion when -the subcommittees meet at 11 ‘&.m., Sunday (6 pm., Satupday, ; of s ‘ the Communists would ‘pave the way for final agreement oh $he cease-fire line. Negotiators @l- ready are in tentative agreeshieh! on a buffer zone generally follow ing the battleline in the " Atemic Tests V};il ‘As Troops Take ‘Weekend of Rest LAS VEGAS, Nev, Nov. 3—®— | With a weekend of rest foremost in | their minds, Atomic Energy Com- | | mission officials said today the nu- clear experiments on the Nevada desert will not be resumed until | Monday at the earliest. and the east. Once a buffer zone is establidlied, the UN. and Communists must set- tle three other tough issues béfdre the shooting will stop ‘in: the' 17~ month-old’ war. These are: a’8u- pervision of the truce, exchange'-of prisoners and recommendations'’ the governmients. @ Communist Infantrymen’dséaiilted a United Nations advance position west of Yonchon on the westérn front four times, Three of the at- tacks by company size units’were turned back-but a fourth by's bat- talion forced the U.N. units to gull back. But by dawn the U.N. ufits reoccupied - the positions as “the Reds drew northward without a fight. Soldiers who participated in | Thursday morning’s Exercise Desert | Rock were given two day passes and instructions not to talk about their as the experience first troops to | take part in an atomic maneuver. ! Las Vegas settled back into its gay routine and awaited the Sunday | gambling trade, Temporarily, at least, the aura of suspense was gone. The AEC has indicated that at the conclusion of the present series |of tests there will be a new series | devoted to military effectiveness. It | probably would demonstrate the value of atomic weapons against troops and military installations, and presumably would include the long awaited underground detona- tion. The Fifth Alr Force reported ‘one U.S. F-85 Thunderjet was lost Sat- urday in a jet scrap in which three Rusisan-made MIGs were damaged. An TF-51 Mustang was shot down by Communist ground fire and an- other jet was lost because of me- chanical trouble but the pilot was rescued, ‘Two . other jet encount took place but neither side inflicted damage, the Alr Force said, * 12 Die as Storm Will Ask for Road Paving Bids Next Week With Wind, Snow Hits East Coast Until he leaves in a couple of|fice there handled $300,000 a year NEW YORK, Nov, 3 — B — A which ought to’be pub on exhibi-| “ 0 "0 ication has been re- who is campaigning for a new six- | weeks, he’ll stay in El Paso to|in horse race bets. Bids for the paving of some five | jeath-dealing storm with winds up tion in London’s Trafalgar Square as an illustration of how not to help an ally. For the Russian engine is an ex- act duplication of the British jet engines which Britain sold Soviet Russia in 1947-48. At that~time, fifty British Nene engines were sent to Moscow. And the Russian Mig-15 engine we have now captured is an exact duplicate. The Russian workmanship is a lit- tle rougher, but otherwise the two are identical. ‘These are the same engines now powering MIGs which have been outflying every American plane in Korea except the F-86. They have caused considerable loss of Ameri- can’ life. So many Russian MIGs have now been sent to Korea that it is no longer possible for us to get anywhere near the Yalu River with bombing planes except at night. Note 1—The British can come back at us with a reminder that in 1933-34, when Hitler had just started on the rampage, Cordell Hull permitted American fighter- plane engines to be sold to Germany despite our treaty banning muni- ——e L ceived from the Kotzebue, although |landing, the report said. ol ; Featured in PAA is radio-equipped. | A Coast Guard plane has searched "sz (alendar for three days in “most un(avor-‘ able” weather. Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau is featured in a large colored pic~ ture above the July sheet in the |naw 1952 Pan American World lAirways calendar. The caption reads: “Alaska— Mandenhall Glacier .reflected in Auke Lake, thirteen miles from Ju- |n Korean War neau. With a delightful summer ;c]imate, lovely scezf\erg wdA‘ivolll‘t;ex;; | ful hunting and fishing, as] WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 — B —| . jnereasing favorite with sports- Five U.S. ships have been sunk and ;.o 5 yacationers alike. Less than 29 damaged by enemy mines, gun- 'y day away from most anywhere fire or bombs during the Korean |, .oniinental U. S, Alaska is serv- campaign, the Navy said yesterday. | ed by daily Clippers from Seattle.” The casualties roported from these Other areas featured on different actions included 102 killed, 31 mis-| =~ " 2o the Grand Canyon, sing in action and 282 wounded. Hawaii, the Caribbean, Bermuda, Four of the ships sunk Were mine | g, o geandinavia, Great Britain, sweépars, thy Bith sn Ariny bug. All| Italy, Guatemala, Brazil, Chile, and sank after hitting enemy mines. 2 Communist gunfire accounted for ?;,;l Fouk, with- the Stamue pt Al damage to 24 ships, including the cruisers Helena and St. Paul. The E BARANOF cruiser Rochester suffered very AT, TH slight damage from a near miss by | Robert, Benart of the U.S. Dis- an aerial bomb during the Inchon | trict Engineer Office in Anchorage is at the Baranof Hotel. P Navy Reporis Loss of 5 Ships year term in the Nov. 11" elections CI0’S PAC Seeks Big Campaign Fund NEW YORK, Nov. 3— CIO's Political Action Committee (PAC) says it will seek a $1,375,000 campaign fund for the 1952 Con- gressional elections. The PAC adds that it will ca paign in about 100 Congression: districts and in 11 Senatorial elec- tions. The organization did not identify the contests. Baranc! scheduled to arrive norii- bound Tuesday. Princess Louise scheduled to riye northbound sometime this ¢ bound Sunday at 7 a.m. | Sailors Splice in port. “brush up on my tequila drinking A seven-man, five-woman jury re- miles of roads in the Juneau area |y, 5 mile-a-minute sent snow and Denall scheduled to arrive south-| and the Mambg (a dance),” King|turned a verdict of guilty against told a reporter. the company and the manager, Judge Jesus Barbara Cornejo call- | Charles H. Frake, 40, for “accept- ed a special session of his Juarez|ing money orders.addressed to al- court on all Saints Day to grant the | leged gamblers.” divorce. The grounds were incom- The ban on “wager messages,’ | patibility. the company said, was issued to | protect its employees from possible | z a criminal prosecution. It will not af- Union Ulfimatum fect sending of other money orders. e i 1 Defense Spending MINEOLA, N. Y., Nov. 3 — (B — In Philippines No Saturday musician—no “Star MANILA, Nov. 3 — (®# — Seven ‘Spnngled Banner.” ‘That’s what happened at corner- | stone ceremonies yesterday for the |members of a Congressional com- | new $2,500,000 Nassau County Ad-|mittee on expenditures arrived today ministration Building. on a checkup on American Defense Officials were about to play a re- | spending. |icording of the anthem when union| The group, headed by Rep. Herb- r- | construction workers threatened to|ert C. Bonner (D-NC), previously -|walk off the job unless a standby | visited Alaska, the Aleutians, Japan, musician was hired at a $16 fee. | Korea and Okinawa. With no musician immediately| They will leave Sunday for Singa- | available, ceremonies went on with- |pore to continue their trip on |out playing the anthem. through Europe, will be advertised early next week, according to Vance Blackwell, en- gineer for the Bureau of Public Roads. The paving being planned is for the road from Duck Creek to Auke Bay, and from.the Douglas bridge to Douglas. An estimate of the amount of money the work would take was not released. The paving will be blacktop. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU At Airport: Maximum, 42; Minimum, 38, FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Cloudy with intermittent rain tonight and Sunday. Low temperature tonight near 38. Highest Sunday near 42. | | e PRECIPITATION | @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today | At Airport — 036 inches; 1. about July 1—14.98 inches. 0000000000000 0000 0 rain swirling over the northeast to- day. At least 12 persons were dead. Skidding automobiles caused most of the fatalities and injuries. Upper New York State had a taste of winter with eight inches of snow falling in Buffalo. A driving rain pelted the New England coastal area and New York City. High winds along the coast crove seagulls as far as 15 miles in- land in Massachusetts. NOVEMBER 4 High tide 5:20 a.m., 145 ft. Low tide 10:58 a.m. 5.0 ft. High tide 4:55 p.m,, 169 ft. Low tide 11;62 p.m, -0.1 ft. NOVEMBER 5 High tide 6:27 am, 138 ft. Low tide 12:07 pm., 539 ft. High tide 6:02 p.m., 155 ft. I EE R RN N ®9cecccccncse