The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 14, 1951, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY WASHINGTON, D. C. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” * VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,965 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1951 ‘White Pass Has Change, Ownership | PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, Nov. 14—(P—The historic White Pass and Yukon Railway, famous in the days of the gold rush of '98, has been purchased by Canadian inter- ests. F. H. Brown of Vancouver an- nounced here Monday, while en route north, that the newly-formed White Pass and Yukon Corporation Ltd., has purchased the transporta- tion system, which includes river steamers and a bus line. He placed the assets at upwards of $10,000,000. Brown is president of the new com- pany. The purchase was made from the original owners of the White Pass and Yukon Railway Co, Ltd., of London, England. White Pass and Yukon route in- cludes 110 miles of railway between Skagway and Whitehorse, 700 miles of steamship lines from Whitehorse down the Yukon River to Dawson | and on to Coal Creek, 250 miles | into Alaska, and bus operations on 1500 miles of highway between | Dawson Creek, B. C. through the| Yukon to the Alaska boundary. | Cliff Rogers of Seattle, president of the old White Pass and Yukon | Railway Co., will continue as man- aging director. Iran Premier Asks , Quick Financial Helpfrom U. §. WASHINGTON, Nov. 14— (B — Premier Mohammed Mossadegh .of Iran said today He has appealed for “immediate financial aid” from the United States to prevent his| country from, _being . ‘paralyzed through'lack of funds.” “Iran’s economic crisis at this moment is so grave,” he said, “that no one can be sure of the outcome | Many Arrive For Thursday Fish Hearing Local hotels were filling today with top officials of Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., individual commercial fishermen, and delegates from dif- ferent areas as the Fish and Wild- life Service prepared for the annual hearing on commercial fishing re- gulations tomorrow in the federal courtroom. About 25 industry representatives of the industry are checking in fro; Seattle. Delegates of fisher- men’s unions- are expected from Cordova, Anchorage and Kodiak. Many independent fishermen are expected to appear for the hear- ing beginning at 9 a.m. Thursda morning. Clarence Rhode, regional director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, will act as chairman for the hear- ing. This is the first time the an- nual hearing on regulations has Leen held following the big Seattle hearing. Rhode declares this was done to give Alaska fishermen a chance at rebuttal before the final; regulations are formed. Those attending the hearing here tomorrow will have a chance to hear and discuss the proposals made at the hearing in Seattle, Rhode says. The hearing will continue through Friday if necessary. Commercial fishing regulations must be in final form before Jan- uary 1, and have to be approved by the Secretary of Interior before they are printed. The meeting is open to the public. Rhode said yesterday that he hoped the people of Alaska would appear at the meeting and let their views be known. Alasitans Look Youngerthan unless urgent remedies are found. | The elderly Iranian leader made | the statement in a speech before | the National Press Club which | bristled with denunciations of Brit- | ain for trying to block Iran’s plan i to nationalize the Anglo-Iran Oil |Leave it to a woman to make this, ;. Company. g Mossadegh, in his prepared text, ! definitely reaffirmed his govern- ment’s determination to push ahead with the nationalization program. The British-Iranian dispute over it | has halted the flow of oil from Iran for the past four months. France Culs Dollar Area Imporis; Faces Austerity Program PARIS, Nov. 14—{P—France join- ed Britain today in announcing a deep slash on imports from dollar areas. The cost of rearming and fighting a war in Indochina against Communist-led rebels were the main reasons for the action, which means France is facing a new period of austerity. y A cabinet spokesmen said France's dollar imports from July, 1951, to June 30, 1952, will ‘be limited to | $500 million. This represents a 22| penent cutback, compared with last year, and a 40 percent slash on what France had hoped to be able to import. VISITOR FROM ANCHORAGE Jacque Alexander of Anchorage is registered at the Baranof Hotel. TheWashington Merry-Go-Round (Copy=ight, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON — Mrs. Truman makes no bones about her desire to turn the White House over. to new tenants. At a reception the other day, the First Lady confided to a friend: “This is a terrible life. We don't have any privacy at all. If I want to go across the hall to see the President or Margaret, I have to get dressed up. I can't just slip a kimono on, for you never know who you'll find in the hall. I'll be glad when we get back to Indepen- dence and can live like human be=’ ings.” Mrs. Truman said she thought the government 'should provide private living quarters away from the White House for the First Family. She - was referring, of course, to the fact that Secret Service vigilance has been tightened since the attempt on the President's life, so that guards are on every floor of Blair House. Other People WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 — (# — discovery: that Alaskans look younger than other people. Mrs. Norma Ruedi Hazeltine, in- | formation officer of the Interior De- | | partment’s Bureau of Land Man-| agement, jotted down the evidence during a tour of the territory last summer and fall. She told members of L’Enfant { i g /e ’s Business and Professional Women’s Club here about it in an address, and referred them for further procf to their clubwomen associates of Anchorage, Cordova, Juneau, Ket- chikan, Kodiak, Petersburg and Fairbanks. “Men and women 1n Alaska, cven the old-timers, do not show their age by many years,” she declared. “The peopic of Alaska, especially the women, have found that some- thing which many of us on the out- side have lost or are in danger of | losing: the joy of living through worthwhile achievement. “Call it a philosophy of life, a reason for life, or what you will, it seems to act as a fountain of youth.” Mrs. Hazeltine said labor costs are so high in Alaska that it is fashionable for women both in town and country to do their own work. She especially admired the farm women. “These are women of courage, for it takes a great deal of that com- modity to make a go of homestead- ing in Alaska,” she said. “Everywhere I went I found people with a pioneering spirit which even now is providing the impetus and the strength for a future 49th state.” MISS IVY IS HERE Miss Hazel G. Ivy of Mt. Edge- cumbBe arrived here this morning on the Alaska Native Service vessel North Star and is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. Stock Quofations NEW YORK, Nov. 14—/»—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 1067, American Tel. and Tel.M57%, Anaconda 50%, Douglas Aircraft 57%, General Electric 567%, General Motors 50, Goodyear 53%, Kenne- cott 88', Libby McNeill and Libby 81z, Northern Pacific 54%, Stan- dard Oil of California 51, Twen- tieth Century Fox 22%, U.S. Steel 40, Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange 95.93. Sales today were 1,220,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 261.27, rails 79.73, util- pies 46.48, In Korean qu_ A Files Open to : Tax Fraud investigators WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 » — Congress memkbers investigating tax scandals said President Truman assured them today they can see all Justice Department files on tax fraud casts. | And, in another development stemming from charges of irregu- larities in the tax collection service, Revenue Commissioner John B.| Dunlap ordered an investigation of his own into the Revenue Bureau's alcohol tax unit. He said it would | be made by outside agents, Chairman King (D-Calif), of aj House Ways and Means subcommit- ! tee, inquiring into misconduct and, cerruption in the tax gathering serv=| ice, talked with Mr. Truman by i telephone at Key West. King said the President “agreed| ) with the necessity for full coopera-! tion” by the Department of Justice in supplying committee investiga- tors with information thus far de=| | nied by the Attorney General. “We will get all we need in the way of files and other cooperation,” i King told newsmen. Truce Talks May Be (Called Off MUNSAN, Kored, “Nov. 19—1Pe= { Communist negotiators ' challenged the allies today to agree to a cease- fire line in Korea now or break off the truce talks. | Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols, of- I ficial UN spokesman, said the chal- |lenge was ignored in a welter of !words that marked today's five I hour and five minute armistice ses- | He said the challenge was made |by Chinese Maj. Gen. Hsieh Fang, member of the Red’s twe-man sub- committee. | Hsieb's challenge came during | a wrangle over whether a military demarcation line and buffer zone | shall be established now, as the Reds insist, or whether the ques- tion shall be postpcned until other armistice questions are settled. The allies refuse to agree form- ally to a line now, beacuse they say that would restablish an immed- iate cease-fire. This, in turn, they {say, would take military pressure toff the Reds and enable them to stall on other armistice terms. { Hsich called this “fantastic talk.” “If that is the course you choose to follow,” he said, “then why not stay away.” ‘ Nuckols released other quotations from the. Red delegates to show: 1. They want to ‘end the fight- ing now, in the air and on the sea as well as on the ground. A UN communique said this became | “unmistakably clear.”. 2. The Reds say there will be no armistice unless the allies agree to setting up a military de- ” marcation line and buffer zone now. 3. The Reds agree that estab- lishing a buffer zone now would “mean cease-fire in fact.” 4. The Reds conceded that once established, a military demarca- | number tion line should not be changed later. 3 Nuchols said the language of ne- gotiations at today’s meeting—the longest unbroken session they've yet held—was sharper than it has ever been. Another meeting was schedul- ed for tomorrow. . Taft Confinues . Hammering at oy President By Associated Press Senator Taft spoke last night in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, making attacks on both the foreign and domestic policies of the Truman administration. He said President Truman usurp- ed the power of Congress to wage the war in Korea, and, said Taft, “As long as you have that kind of President, you can never be cer- tain what kind of war you'll me‘in.” Here at home Taft contended, the “President wants to impose. . .sub- stantially the same socialistic sys- tem existing in England today.” (laims Reds Have Murdered Thousands of UN Priseners frocities ] PUSAN, Korea, Nov. 14—P— The head of the U.S. Eighth Army’s legal section today said Reds have kilied at least 5790 United Nations soldier-prisoners— about 5500 of them Americans— and some 250,000 Korean civilians in atrocities since the start of the war. ' Col. James M. Hanley of Seattle, chief of the Army's Judge Advocate section, said in a statement that 200 captured U.S. Marines were killed in a single day — last Dec. 10 — near Sinhung in northeast Korea. Sinhung is about 20 miles north of Jungnam. Last December rem- nants of the U.S. First Marine Di- vision and the U.S. Seventh Infan- try Division were pulling back to- ward Hungnam port in a bitter retreat. Hanley said the Marines were killed on order of the commander of the 23rd Regiment, 81st Chi- nese Division. He said 17 Turkish war prisoners were slain by Chinese Reds May 15, 1951, near Yanggu and 12 others on April 10 near Yonchon. Hanley said the count of military prisoners slain did not include South Korean troops. He gave no esti- mate of these, but indicated the was about twice that of other U.N. soldiers killed by Red captors. Civiliar men, women and child- ren were slaughtered, Hanley said, without trial or even a formal death sentence. He said 700 civilians were driven into the horizontal shaft of a gold mine near Haeju, 80 miles south- east of the North Kerean capital of Pyongyang, on Sept. 26, 1950, bound and gagged and dropped down a vertical shaft. They were left to die, he said. Four hundred more were given the same treatment on Oct. 9, 1950, . Hanley said. were bound, gagged and buried alive in three big holes at Haejg airport. Hanley said his statement had “nothing to do with the cease-fire negotiations” at Panmunjom. He accused the Reds of making a sham of the Geneva Convention on treatment of prisoners of war. The United Nations, he said, cared for the Reds it captured “in com- plete accordance with the Geneva agreement.” “None of the Communist war pris- oners have been killed by us,” he | added. Alaska Woman Found Guilty By S. F. Jury SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14—(?- A Superior Court jury convicted a 41-year-old Alaska real estate wo- man yesterday of passing a worth- less $100 check at a San Francisco hotel. The defendant, Mrs. Audrey Cut- ting of Anchorage, was ordered to appear December 12 for a report on possible probation. Maximum pen- alty is a year in jail or 14 years in prison. Mrs. Cutting testified in her de- fense that checks the state said were worthless -should have b covered by proceeds of a mortgace that was supposed to be deposited in her Anchorage account. Police Inspector Alfred J. Torrie testified that when he arrested Mrs. Cutting she told him she had only $50 but some property that could | be sold to cover the checks. Torrie added that she admitted the three she passed were no good. During her extended trip to the states, Mrs. Cutting testified, she had cashed numerous checks Seattle, New York, Washingto C., and Albuquerque, N. M, that so far as ‘she knew all had been honored. The checks in question were cas! 2d in August and Mrs. Cutting v arrested in October, when she plead ed innocent. Mrs. Cathina Ahlstrand of Sar Francisco, with whom the defenda! has been staying, testified M Cutting was the owner of extensive gold, copper and coal propertic Alaska and did not need to ¢ bad checks. Superior Judge Twain Michelsen presided over the case. in D n SON FOR HARDINS A boy, weighing six pounds and ! ounces, was born to Mr. and Mis. Victor Hardin at Pullman, V November 3 and has been ! James Victor., The youug f: Hl:::ndlnx Washington State Col 5 cd ris #elegaw Sir Benegal Rau was made ; Three days | earlier, he said, still another 400 | ;1living accommodatons. Will Let Demos Answer Talk By General SEATTLE, Nov. 14—(P—The Uni- versity of Washington announced today it would give an administra- tion supporter a chance to reply to General Douglas MascArthur's blistering attack on politics of Pre- sident Truman. University President Raymond B. Allen made the offer after Demo- crats aimed criticism at Mac- Arthur, Greater Seattle, Inc., and the University for the General's on-campus speech last night. Allen said the University “has no desire to take sides in these mat- ters,” and explained that the speak- er had not even been selected at the time Greater Seattle, Inc., was granted use of the University pav- ilion for ,last night's Centennial celebration event, Democratic criticism ranged from charges of demogoguery to de- mands for a public apology for | “converting the celebration into a Republican political rally.” Rep. Henry Jackson (D-Wash) said the speech “sounded mdre like the 100th anniversary of opponents of the Truman administration.” He ealled it a “breach of good man- ners.” India Calls for Big 4 Meeting on Wordl Tensions PARIS, Nov. 14—(#-—India called [today on the Big Four foreign min- isters to get together in a supreme | jeffort to ease the tensions now frightening the world. The suggestion by Chief Indian the United Nations General As- sembly after a sertes of similar ap- peals by | countries. Calling attention to the fact that | U. S. Secretary of State Dean Ach- eson, British Foreign Secretary An- thony Eden, Soviet Foreign Minis- | | ter Andrei Y. Vishinsky and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman are all in Paris, Rau asked: “Could they not meet and discuss or re-discuss at least the most out- spokesmen for smaller | standing matters of disagreement between them?" Governor Issues (Thanksgiving Day Procdamation | Following a previous announce- ment by President Truman, Gov.| Ernest Gruening has issued a pro- clamation setting Thursday Nov. 22, a week from tomorrow, as the official date of Thanksgiving Day in Alaska. | The President’s proclamation said | in part: “Let us all on that day (Nov. 22,| 1951), in our homes and in our | places of worship, individually and |in groups, render homage to Al- mighty God. Let us also, on the |appointed day, seek divine aid in the quest for peace.” Gov. Gruening urged that. the people of Alaska observe Thanksgiv- ing Day appropriately. {Telephone Workers Sirike Seftled SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14—P— A strike involving 800 telephone equipment workers in four states ended early today. The dispute, which began over housing for employees transferred to San Rafael, spread when the striking employees were suspended. R. W. Hackler, President of Lo- cal 10971, CIO Communications | Workers of America, said the men were returning to work today. He said the company had agreed to give employees transferred to San Ra- fael time, with pay, to find suitable Denali scheduled southbound Sun- day morning. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive from Skagway Friday at 6 e.m., sailing for Vancouver at 7 am, on the last trip of the season. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday. Freighter Sailors Splice - sched- uled to arrive from Seattle Nov. 18. FROM WRANGELL Mr. and Mrs. Brander D. Castle | candidate for President of the Uni- 'MacArthur Greels ‘Returning Troops; ]o( Wrangell are at the Baranof Hotel, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS M’ Arthur Says Truman Leads Nation fo Ruin SEATTLE, Nov. 14—(P-—General Douglas Mac'drthur told Seattle and the nation last night that the Truman Administration is following a policy which, if continued, can lead to the ruination of the country. The General devoted only three minutes of 2 45 minute address to the Seattle Centennial which he was invited here to open and to which labor groups had urged him to con- fine his remarks. But he referred frequently to the pioneer spirit and attitude in his blistering attack on the federal government. He never . mentioned Mr. Tru- man or the Democratic Party by name—but he left no doubt that he felt the “ruinous processes” of which he spoke could be halted only by a change of administra- | | tion, “The people have it in their hands,” he declared in his speech which was nationally broadeast, “to restore morality, wisdom and vision to the direction of our for- cign and domestic affair:” And immediately one of the men who had asked him to refrain from discussing polities while opening the city’s 100th anniversary pro- gram charged him with being a ted States. The charge was made by Cong- ressman Hugh Mitchell (D-Wash) in a statement issued within min- utes after the general concluded his talk on the University of Wash- ington campus — where political speakers normally are banned, “I have long suspected that Mac- Arthur fancied himself in the role as the Republican nominee. I am more firmly of t’lat opinion after listening to him “tonight,” Mitchell said. MacArihur told the 9,000 per- sons who squeezed into the Uni- versity’s athletic pavilian that what he termed the Administra- tions' blunders are leading to a third world war, its domestic pol- icies are drifting into socialism and spending and taxing are im- periling the whole structure of the Republic. Afomic Blast Is Her Name For Cockfail AN ATOMIC BLAST is what Madge Journey of Los Angeles calls this drink she is holding at Las Vegas, Nev., near the A-bomb testing grounds. It con- tains a base of gienadine, vodka | and orange juice with a float of high-proof rum that is burncd ofi. The custemary atomic mush- room s imagined, but Nevada rezidents say the effect is felt in a wide radios. /ILW Union Loses Appeal of Suit To Juneau Spruce expenditure, extravagance , “Expenditure upon extravagance upon have so burdened our people With|Corporation of Juneau, Alaska, to! | taxation and fed the forces of in-| flation, that our traditionally high | standard of life has become largely | fictitious and illusory,” he said. | The speech climaxed a half day | of participation in centennial open- ing ceremonies, which included tra- | | vel along a 20-mile route lined by | a crowd estimated by Police Chief George Eastman at 300,000. It was| the largest crowd in the history of the city. | The University pavilion was pack- | ed for the address but a crowd| which had been expected to fill a| sizeable portion of the adjoining 55,000 seat stadium failed to mat- | erialize when a drizzling downpour | set in, | | They Honor Him SEATTLE, Nov. 14 — (M — Gen.| Douglas MacArthur welcomed home- coming troops from Korea for the| first time today with a heartfell “well done.” He spoke briefly to the cheering fighting men crowding the rails of the transport Gen. Hugh J. Gaffey in a dockside ceremony. And he said: “Whatever criticism there may be with reference to the Korcan war, none pertains to the fighting men.” As the transport inched into its berth, a mass roar rose from the troops when they spotted the gen- eral and wife waiting to greet the FROM KODIAK Pat Cannon of Kodiak is stoppin at the Baranof Hotel WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU At Alrport: Maximum, 32; Minimum, 24. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Continued fair with occa- e sional gusty northeasterly o, winds tonight and Thursday o Low tonight about 25 high o Thursday near 35. . e PRECIPITATION © (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today e At Alrport None; e from July 1—16.52 inches. e s 0 0000 0 00 | Alaska SAN RAFAEL, Calif,, Nov. 14—(® —The right of the Juneau Spruce collect a $750,000 judgment against the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen'’s (ILWU) Union and its local at Juneau was upheld in Marin County Superior Court yesterday, The judgment, by District Judge George W. Folta, of Juneau, orig- inally was made in May, 1949, after the court found the ILWU used coercive tactics and picketing in a work stoppage that closed the ccr- poration’s mill. ‘The firm had sued under the Taft~ Hartley Act after a jurisdictional fight between the ILWU and the CIO International Woodworkers of America. The Marin County ruling, by Judge Jordan L. Martinelli, follows ! a decision by the Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals here last May upholding the Alaska judgment. ‘The case shifted into the Califor- nia court because the law provides for a plaintiff to try to collect in a state court when a federal court | decision is in a U.8. Territory. ‘The United States Supreme Court agreed to review the damage ver- dict in a ruling on Oct. 22. Chrisimas BasI;Is Plan Underway Representatives of 11 organiza- tions turncd out for a Christmas charities mceting held at the Elks Hall last evening. Lt. William Lynch of the Salvation Army was ippointed chairman fo coordinate the work. Henry A. Harmon, director of the Welfare Department, said that the district welfare office was available as a clearing agency to help avoid duplications of Christmas askets for needy families. Miss Marjorie Morris, district rep- resentative and Miss Annette War- ren, her assistant, also attended the meeting. They agreed to com- pile a list of needy families, with the permission of the families in- volved, that would be available for the organizations. It was esli- mated - that there were approxi- mately 100 families in the Gastineau Channel area that would appreci- ate Christmas baskets. Representatives of the organiza- tions said they planned to take care of their usual families and then {would apply to the district welfare office for additional names and clear The Salvation Army plans to PRICE TEN CENTS Gov. Warren ToSeek GOP Nomination Administration Change Needed for Country’s Welfare, Warren Says SACRAMENTO, Nov. 14 — (® — Republican Governor Earl Warren of California entered the 1952 presi- dential race today. The 60-year-old Warren, his party’s candidate for vice president in 1948, announced his decision to seek the GOP presidential nomina- tion in a 400 word statement which asserted. “There must, for the welfare of our country, be a change in na- tional administration, but if this { Is to be, the Republican party | announcement, must present a definite construc- tive and workable program for the nation. “We can not hope to win solely on the mistakes of the present 20 year administration, many though they are.” The third term governor agreed to head a favorite son ticket of na- tional convention delegates in Cali- fornia’s primaries next June. “I am giving thought to what ex- tent I shall urge my candidacy in other states before the convention,” he said in the statement he read slowly to newsmen. A rival Republican faction hopes to field an uninstructed slate . in California, but Warren—tagged as the strongest dark herse by Senator Richard Nixon (R~-Calif)—already has the pledged support of most of the state party leaders. The six foot one inch Californian who has campaigned in the state ds a Progressive, thus became the | second presidential prospect of elther party fo. Senator Robert A -Ohio) announced first — just about a month ago. He and Warren have i differed politically at times. Taft so far has indicated he'll stay out cf California primaries. Before Warren began to read his a newsman asked whether he agreed with Taft's statement that we are fighting a useless war in Korea. The governor replied that’s not a matter to discuss today — that he would go into it some other ume, Mid-Confinent Is Struck by Disastrous Blows By the Associated Press A series of tornadoes and violent electrical and wind storms struck damaging blows across the wide areas of the mid-continent yester- " day. The twisters killed at least one person and injured seven others. Property damage was expected to run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. i The mid-November storms lashed most of the midwest. Heavy rain hit many areas. Winds of 100 miles an hour whipped across commun- Ities in the path of the tornadoes which struck in Illinols, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky. Scores of homes were damaged. Communications were disrupted, trees uprooted and traffic slowed in many cities and towns in the path of the destructive gales and slectrical storms. TIDE TABLES NOVEMBER 15 High tide Low tide 2:56 a.m., 15.8 ft, 8:32 am., 39 ft. High tide 2:30 p.m., 17.7 ft. Low tide "9:08 pm., -12 ft. e & o o 0o 0 0 o esesevve eececose ake care of needy single men, Lynch said. It is estimated that there are about 25 such men in the community. Miss Morris stressed that her of- fice would be glad to. accept any contributions from individuals who wished to participate in the Christ- mas basket program. ‘The next meeting of the group is scheduled for December 11. The groups represented at last night’s meeting were: Elks Lodge, Moose Lodge, Emblem Club, Wo- men of the Moose, Bartenders’ Union, Soroptimists, Catholic Daughters of America, Juneau Wo- man’s club, Rebekahs, American Le- o ! names in order to avoid duplication. | gion Auxiliary and the Salvation