The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 5, 1951, Page 1

SONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY WASHIN THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,957 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1951 Chance of Bail For 12 Accused ! 0f Red Charges WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — P — The Supreme Court today gave 12 persons accused of Communist ac- tivities a new chance to win re- lease from jail ir Los Angeles on bail of less than §50,000 each. The 12 appealed to the high tri- bunal after lower federal courts in California rétused to cut their bail. The Supreme Court, in an opin- ion by Chief Justice Vinson, said . District Court in San Francisco had not used “proper methods” " in fixing the $50,000 figure. Vinson said the 12 should be per- mitted \to go back to the district court and asked for reduced bail, and that they should have the right to appeal to the U.8. Circuit Court in San Francisco if denied a reduc- tion. Among the group is William Schneiderman, referred to as the acting head of the Communist party in the United States. He was arrested in New York last summer and taken to Los Angeles. Among its other actions today the high court: 1. Voted 6 to 3 against hearing at this time the government's chal-| lenge of a lower court’s decision that FBI informants may be sued, for libel and slander if their state- ments are motivated by malice. The | decision was handed down by the | US. Circuit Court in New York, but actual trial of the suit is pend- ing. The FBI asked vainly for & quick Supreme Court ruling over-| turning thg circuit court. | 2. Refused to review the rurder | trial of Grant E. Rio, convicted in Whitman County, Wash., for the| killing of Joe Roberg and James | Beckner. The jury) recommended | the death penalty. 3. Refused to review a decision | holding; invalid a Utah law which Princess Elizabeth, who may be Q a diamond tiara on her head and ing ul for Dinner o ueen of England some day, wears - a fox stole around her shoulders as shle leaves Blair House in Washington (11-1) to be hostess to Pri P Wirephoto. ent and Mrs. Truman at a dinner at the Canadian cmbassy. [} required* employers to make union | dues deductions from wages When| asked to do so by workers. { 4. Granted, a hearing to Yvette Madsen, who is serving a 15-year prison term in this country for the slaying of her army officer husband after a party at an American air base in Germany two years ago. Wade Leaves Sunday fo Atiend Land Hearings Hugh J. Wade, area director for the Alaska Native Service, left Sun- day aboard the Pacific Northern e plane for Anchorage wherd he will join the House of Represenfalives|pooq resolutions met with opposi-|“is a life or death matter to the subcommittee holding hearings on|ion when they came to a vote. Indian, Aleut, and Eskimo land claims. Wade will return to Juneau on|congecutive time, but Gov. Herman|has “no desire or intention to leave Thursday when a hearing is sched- uled to be held here. Other hear- ings will be held in Anchorage, Fair- | hig negative vote with the provision | banks, Kotzebue, Nome, Kodiak, Sitka and Ketchikan. TheWashingtoln' Merry-Go-Round (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—The Democrat- ic National Committee almost came apart at the seams last week when party officials went to Washing- ton to “elect” President Truman's hand-picked candidate as party chairman. On the surface all was sweetness and light—just as sweet as the Princess Elizabeth, whom he was entertaining while his party chief- tains boiled. But underneath, con- troversy was so bitter that at one point top lady Democrat India Ed- wards resigned as vice president of the Democratic National Commit- tee. In the end, visiting Democrats came to heel in a most undemocratic manner They did exactly what the | édv;ifiruening | Says Stateliood Fight in Open | Opposition in some parts of the| south to Alaska becoming a sta Japan Urges (onseivation 0f Fisheries TOKYO, Nov. 5—(P—Japan urged | te | conservation of North Pacific sea| was finally voiced and the true rea- | resources at the opening today of | son given at the recent Governors|negotiations with the United States Conference, according to Ernest Gruening who returned last | weekend from a six-weeks' stay in) the States. Gov. Gruening said Q. conference was that this first | the [ Gov.|and Canada for an international | fisheries agreement. The negotiations were provided | the Japanese peace treaty | for in signed two months ago in San Fran- cisco. Demands Cut In Government Spending Senator Asks for Caution in Military Expenses; Limit on Taxes WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — (M — Senator O’'Mahoney (D-Wyo) said today he has cautioned Secretary of Defense Lovett and Pentagon officials to cut next year’s mili- tary spending to fit the pattern of tax revenues, O'Mahoney got immediate sup- port in this move from Senator Flenders (R-Vt), who told a re- porter Congress must inform the Defense Department: “Here is how much money we are going to allow you to spend and you shape your budget accordingly.” President Truman will go to work on the over-all budget, including the military items, at his winter re- treat in Key West, Fla, after his conferences this week with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. O'Mahoney said he has conferred with Lovett and Pentagon officials in an effort to head off any out- sized military requests, “From the secretary on down, I told them they had better cut their requests to fit the pattern of rey- enues or Congress would be likely to do it for them,” he added. “O’'Mahoney, who heads the Sen- ate-House Economic committee, and Flanders, a member of the group, agreed that any additional tax in- creases are unlikely. “We have reached the limit on taxes, so far as rates are concerned,” O'Mahoney said. Reds Say U. S. Building Base MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Sth Atomic Blast Exploded; Perhaps Biggest One Yet LAS VEGAS, Nev, Nov. 5—®-— The fifth atomic blast in the cur- rent test series exploded at 8:31 am. (PST) today. Thirty seconds later the atomic cloud customary in the detonations could be seen from Las Vegas ris- ing over the Yucca Flat test site 75 miles away. It was a big one, perhaps the big- gest yet, observers here who have seen the previous blasts reported. There was a purplish color to the mushrooming cloud. An indication of the size and potency of this detonation was in- dicated by an unusual warning from the Atomic Energy Commission. Radio stations in a wide area covering Goldfield, Beatty, and Caliente, Nev., were asked to warn residents to open windows in their homes and stores. Presumably this would be to les- sen effects of tremendous concus-; sion expected. Seven minutes after the detona- tion there was a perceptible rumble in Las Vegas, along with a sudden blast, of wind. i The brilliant flash of the burst was 8s bright, at least, as the big one last Thursday, the first detona- ' | tion in which troops participated in atomic mancuvers. LAS VEGAS, Nev., Nov. 5—{P— ‘The fifth and biggest atomic blast in the current series of tests gave a Nevada town a ‘realistic disaster drill today. The detonation sent a cloud| mushrooming from the Yucca Flat test site, 75 miles from here, at 8:31 am. (PST). The burst’s bri liant flash, plainly visible here, was followed by a perceptible rumble and a windy gust. The bomb was dropped from a B-29 plane. But in Caliente, Nev., 185 miles northeast of here, the 2,500 resi- dents had an exprience such as they might have in a real atomic war. | The sheriff’s office in Caliente had' only about 15 minutes’ notice of a warning. But deputies treated it }i%e a genuine disaster./ Officers PRICE TEN CENTS Troops See Afomic Blast Cloud Members of the 1lth Airborne formed by atomic explosion in Ni ion kneel and watch cloud (11-1). While the atomic Div evada bomb actually burst, troops squatted on the ground, heads on chests with their backs to the detonatio they swung around to watch the res the first time troops thad particip: ™ Wirepheto. n site. After the blinding flash, sultant cloud formation. This was ated in an atomic explosion test. Cold Wave A; Askfor World | Lashes Ouf; 88 Deaths Truman May A-Bomb(ensus 1urfil “throdgh the town, tellibg citizens to get out of buildings. Children were hustled from class- rooms into school yards. Residents ! emerged from houses, stores and business places throughout the town. Near Siberia MOSCOW, Nov. 5—#—The Soviet news agency Tass said today the northern Japanese island of Hak-| The atomic cloud today could be kaido — 200 miles west of Siberia — | seen from here rising 30 minutes | is being “feverishly transformed”after the blast. into Japan’s largest military base. | A Tass dispatch from Shanghai said great attention is being at- tached to the recent visit of U.S., Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Col- lins to northern Japan, The dispatch said Collins’ inspec- Use of Afomic ‘Weapons in Korea | | prairies By Assoclatéd Press Lashing cold and snow which States was reliably. reported today jerked winter into high gear weeks to have decided to propose a world- ahead of schedule booted the weath- : wide arms census including a com- er death toll to at least 88 in the plete accounting of all atomic wea- east and midwest today. | pons. Temperature records continued to| The US. plan, which will be crack and shatter. | placed before the United Nations | Assembly here this week, calls for a strict system of verification for apart struck from the Canadian |ihe atomic accounting. This may like Dboxers' one-two |prove to be the stumbling block punch. They whipped through t0 | which could hold up indefinitely the eastern seaboard and into the | .,y qisclosure of the number of doep sputh, | atom bombs in the U,S. and Russia. The first, which caught many. | .areas basking in mild weather Sat- | Two Arctic cold fronts a day Informed quarters said the arms PARIG, Nuv. 5 M- The Uidd) : where the Alaska and Hawaii state-| A Japanese delegate said fishing | Japanese people.” He said Japan The Governors Conference passed |favors “appropriate conservation” the statehood bills for the fifth of North Pacfic undersea life and Talmadge of George set a precedent | fisheries activities uncontrolled and by voting “No.” He later withdrew |unrestricted.” that it be made & matter of record,| ~_ William C. Herrington, Assistant Gov. Gruening said today that| Undersecretary of State who heads Ari-| the 10-man U. S. delegation, said Sen. Ernest W. McFarland, of Ari-, b, ! zona, has promised that the bil| the United States feels sure ar- | rangements can be made which | | controversy. will be brought up in the coming session of Congress. Senator Mc-| Farland is majority leader of the| Senate. Aceording to Gov. Gruening, it| | has been a rule of the conference| unanimously because, he says, the| group is formed on a non-political | basis and it.would not be desirable to split the conference with All resolutions are presented to a committee of a num- | ber of. governors who sift each cne to discuss the advantages and dis-{ advantages before deciding to report favorably to the entire conference. Therefore. Gov. Gruening: says, almost invariably the resolutions re- parted on favorabiy are approved by the conference. “No” Against Statehood ‘“But ‘when the statehood resolu- tion came up at the executive ses-| sion—which was the last session cf the ‘conference,”’ Gov. Gruening ex- plained, “Everyone was surprised to hear a lone ‘no.’ It proved to come| | will maintain maximum produc- tion of present fisheries and en- | courage development of resources ! “not now being* fully realized.” 1. He proposed: A commission be | that all resolutions be approved | established to coordinate fisheries research and to administer conser- vation regulations. 2. Each nation agree not to in- vade fisheries which can be proven tion trip of Hokkaido was particu- larly interesting and “reveals the intensification of American mili- tary preparations in north Japan.” | The dispatch added that Japanese authorities are being given “full co- operation by the Americans in the militarization of Hokkaido.” Japanese police reported several weeks ago that sounds of Soviet gunfire on the Habonai Islands off Hokkaido’s eastern tip were creating mounting fears among Japanese. One official said Japanese police| reserves were training with bazookas and mortars on Hokkaido, but added that this use of heavier weapons was not related to difficulties with the Russians. CLAY SCUDDER TO ATTEND SEATTLE already fully utilized by another of i FISH HEARINGS the three nations. 3. Each nation agree not to in- !vade fisheries where another of the three nations has imposed limita- tions on its own fishermen. 4. Each nation harvest fish in high seas contiguous to its territor- ial waters and in areas it has helped develop. Canadian Minister of Fisheries, R. W. Mayhew said Canada wants an agreement “based on good sense, giving to each of us. some respon- sibility for promoting the develop- ment of fisheries in a way that will maximize production and maintain constant yields of food for the peo- White House wanted them to do— | from Gov. Talmadge of Georgia. |ple of the world.” thanked outgoing Chairman Bill! Boyle for his past services and duti- fully elected Indiana’s Frank Mo- “When asked by the chairman of the session, Gov. Battle of Virginia, | if, he would have any objection to, Kinney, a little-known amateur, to | #tating his reasons for voting against 1eplace him. It had the efficiency | the resolution, Gov. Talmadge said, of a well-trained animal act. | ‘Not at all'” . The revolt which simmered, but| Talmadge then went on to explain never reached the boiling point, got | that the people of Georgia were its initial touch-off two weeks ago | opposed to any more senators who when President Truman called in|might be in faver of cloture — the vice chairman India Edwards and | procedure limiting debate, and offered her Bill Boyle's place. Mrs. whereby filibustering is finally stop- Edwards, an energetic and popu-|ped. lar figure among all Democrats, de-’ Gov. Gruening says that the fact clined on the grounds that the '52|that Gov. Talmadge stated his rea- election campaign should be run|son will prove useful. by a man. But she specifically and| “It was at last stated clearly what categorically asked that she be con- | those who have watched the state- sulted on the selection of the new |hood battle have long suspected,” (Continued on Page 4) The negotiations are expected to last three or four weeks. AT THE GASTINEAU T. K. Curtis of Ketchikan is stop- ping at the Gastineau Hotel. Baranof from Seattle scheduled to arrive 7 a.m., Tuesday. Denali scheduled to sail from Se- attle Friday. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive from Skagway at 6 a.m., Tues- day and sails south one hour later (Continued on Page 6) ‘4] bat T.am. To attend the annual fisheries hearings, Clay Scudder of the Alaska Native Service left Sunday abeard the Pan American plane for Seattle. Several Fish and Wildlife Service officials left last week for the fisheries meetings on the pro- posed regulations for 1952. For the first time, the final hearings on regulations will be held in Juneau instead of Seattle. . The Juneau hearing is scheduled for November 15. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU At Airport: Maximum, 42; Minimum, 34. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Rain and southeasterly winds occasionally as high as 20 mph tonight. Lowest tem- perature near 37 degrees Mostly cloudy with rain showers Tuesday. Highest temperature Tuesday near 42 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport — 0.09 inches from July 1—1542 inches. e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . . ° . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ° Urged by Senalor WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — B — Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo) | today urged use of atomic weapons | against the Communists in Korea — and said the possibility of re- taMation of Russia is “to absurd to urday, came with winds up to a| mile-a-minute velocity and hit the | northern plains and parts of th® Great Lakes, Appalachian and east | coast areas with heavy snows. Fm’-i ther south, sleet and freezing rain | fell. Highways throughout the storm l area were generally left slippery | proposal was the heart of the reported peace plan which Presi- dent Truman will announce Wed- | nesday night and which Secretary | of State Dean Acheson will lay before the United Nations Assem- bly, perhaps on Thursday, Inclusion of atomic weapons in Eisenhower InU.S. for One Purpose To Confer with President On Western Defense Problems; Talk Politics WASHINGTON, Nov. § — ® — President Truman and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower confer on western defense problems today in a confi- dential meeting affording an op- portunity to talk politics £ if either man wishes to do so. Another topic which administra- tion officials said is due to come up is a foreign policy speech the Presi- denf will make Wednesday night. This is understood to be concerned with a new American move toward a settlement with Russia, to be made in the United Nations Gen- eral Assembly opening in Paris Tuesday. The White House announced Saturday evening that Mr, Tru- man will make his address at 10:30 p.m., EST, Wednesday anhd that it will be carried on all major radio and television nmetworks. It reportedly will be built around a formula for disarmament and atomic controls, peace in Korea and other major east-west Issues. As a preliminary to the meeting wfith the President, Eisenhower went to the Pentagon for talks with defense leaders during the morning. He met first with Gen. Omar Brad- ley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The two later went on to see Defense Secretary Lovett. Eisenhower arrived in Washing- ton at 6:54 p.m,, yesterday and told reporters he was here “for one pur- pose only — to talk military affairs with my superiors in the Pentagon and elsewhere in Washington,” Asked whether he would see Senator Duff (R-Pa), who |is booming Elsenhower for the Re- publican Presidential nomination next year, the General replied that he had not heard from Duff diewsly on Indeoety s | Eiséhhower arrived in the US. Saturday afternoon and went to Ft. Knox, Ky, where hé and Mrs. Eisenhower visited their son, Ma). John Eisenhower and his family. He disavowed any intentions of talking’ politics with the President. He also declined at Mitchell Field, Long Island, a yes or no answer to 'a question as to whether, “Come ‘what may,” he would not be a candidate for president next year. | .“Of course you can't say that,” | Eisenhower responded. “I will not indicate political leanings of any sort. I'm doing a job. That's my | statement.” WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—(P—Gen. , Dwight D, Eisenhower and President Truman met today for conferences |eveidently concerned, among other "things, with the military situation of the western world. | consider.” and dangerous. At least 64 of | | the proposed arms census represents — gicennower arrived at the White Johnson, a member of the Senate- House Atomic Energy Committee, spoke out against the background of the latest series of atomic tests in Nevada. He declined to dis |information he has about the out- come of these tests, except to say they showed “great progress” in building America’s atomic might. The Colorado lawmaker told re- | between his call for use of atomic weapons in Korea and his state- ment last night that the small countries of the United Nations “must strike a hard blow for Korean peace right now before it is for- ever too late.” In that statement, Johnson said the United States and the other great U.N. powers have made only “futile efforts to end the violence” in Korea and had “forfeited the trust” placed in them. Thousands Pay Homage fo Memory 0f Will Rogers CLAREMORE, Okla., Nov. 5—(®— More than 3,000 persons, including cowpokes, aviators, businessmen anc the curious, gathered at the Wil porters he saw “no conflict at all” | wis, those killed as a result of the rig- | orous weather conditions were victims of traffic accidents on icy | pavements. | The second cold front, less than the first, drove temperatures to new low records for this. early in the| season. | Today's early minimums included | three sub-zero reports: Lone Rock,| ., -9; Bismark, N. D. -9, and Far- go, N. D, -6. | A record low of 7 degrees at Sault | Ste. Marie, Mich,, slowed loading! of ore boats and froze hopes for| record lake shipment this year. | Western New York had the heav- | iest snowfall on record for the first, week of November, with some drifts several feet high. The Niagara area had 11 inches of snow Sunday. Chicago, with an early morning 11, set a fourth successive minimum record. More Milk (oming Up; Five Jersey Heifers Arrive Five Jersey heifers were unloaded | from the ship Sailor Splice over the| | Rogers memorial here yesterday tc | weekend. Coming from the L. H.| pay homage to the memory of the | McKee Registered Jersey herd of ‘, late humorist on his 72nd birthday | Perrydale, Oregon, they will be add- | anniversary. ed to the Glacier Dairy herd of Rogers was killed with aviator | Dwight Nash. Wiley Post in a plane crash near| These Jerseys take their place Point Barrow, Alaska, on Aug. 15 |beside their year older sisters that 1935. arrived in Juneau last year. All are W. T. (Bil) Piper, president of |daughters of the same sire, Remus the Piper Aviation Corp, Lock-|Baronet Highspot. His daughters haven, Pa., was the principal|have responded well to the climate speaker. heré Nash says. The older daughters | He said, “Will, with his analytic [have produced an‘ average of five mind, saw the day coming when|gallons a day and under test the aviation would span the world and|remarkable content of 50 percent bring nations within hours of each |more energy wunits than ordinary jother.” milk was found, | i census question has been before the UN. since 1948, but was blocked by the Russian veto because the U.S. refused to include atomic wea- pons, Word of the U.S. policy shift lcaked out as the 60-pation assemlly prepared to launch its 1951 meeting here tomorrow. The U.S. was reported asking Britain and France to support its new peace formula, timed to beat Russia to the peace punch before the Soviets-have a chance to re- new their expected peace offen- sive. The main points of the arms cen- sus, are expected to be: 1. A UN. demand upon all coun- tries for a complete accounting of all troops and weapons. 2. An ironclad system for send- ing inspectors into any country to make first-hand verification of the figures submitted. The arms census plan is intended as a preliminary step toward gen- eral reduction of armaments and armed forces. President Truman proposed to the last assembly that the U. N. combine atomic discussions with talks on conventional armaments. This idea has been accepted by the special committee which studied the question during the summer. It is now before the assembly for final action. NOVEMBER 6 1:00 am,, 1.1 ft. 7:45 am., 13.7 ft. 1:31 pm, 6.1 ft. 7:27 pm., 14.4 ft. e o 0o 0 0 0 Low tide High tide Low tide High tide e o o 'a drastic change in U.S. policy. The ‘House 10 minutes early for his meet- ing with the President. He had been 'invited to come at 12:45 p.m. (EST) for luncheon alone with the Presi- | dent. | The general posed for photo- graphers but had little to say to reporters. He did tell the newsmen he expected to fly back to Europe tomorrow and hoped to talk with them just before leaving. A few minutes after Eisenhower went into the President’s office, the two men came out together to go across Pennsylvania Avenue to the Blair House for luncheon. They posed together for photo- graphers. ‘While the picture-making was on, Eisenhower asked Mr. Truman how he likes Princess Elizabeth, who . visited the Trumans last week. “She was wonderful,” Mr. Tru- man said. Although all circumstances point- ed to the prospect that momentous decisions were in the making, there was little expansion from official sources on the reasons for the con- ferences here, Informants said Mr. Truman would discuss with Eisenhower the speech the President will “make Wednesday night on foreign policy. Steck Quofations NEW YORK, Nov. 5—®—Closing quotation of American Can today is 107%, American Tel. and Tel. 156%, Anaconda 48, Douglas Air- craft 58%, General Electric 55, Gen- eral Motors 50, Goodyear 42%, Ken- necott 83%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 63%, Standard Oil of California 50%, ‘Twentieth Century Fox 21%, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange 95.75. Sales today were 1,120,000 shares, Averages today were as follo industrials 250.74, rails 79.20, util- ties 4615, e ¢