The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 15, 1951, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY WAGHINGTON, D. C, g HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,966 North Pole To Have Pole Now By Associated Press “The “pole” part of the North JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1951 Fishermen Atfack FWS Proposals A proposal that trap leads be opened during the weekend closing Pole may have been a misnomer | periods was termed a “punitive” up to this time but something 1simeasm'c ‘Which \s:m:ld provide no going to be done about it ccme‘conservnuon of saimon by fls:h trap Dec. 10. ‘o“‘ners q: Q]e annual hearing on And if Santa Claus really does commercial fishing regulations con- make his home there he's going|ducted by the Fish and Wildlife to get such a flood of letters on Service. A that day he'll need a private secre- | The hearing opened this morning tary until next Christmas. |in the Federal courtroom, and con- tinue this afternoon and possibly tomorrow. Both independent fishermen and packers and Alaska Salmon Indus- try, Inc., representatives took issue with various phases of the proposed regulations for the coming year. Clarence Rhode, FWS regional di- acted as chairman for the nearing; and poimed out repearedly that the proposals were merely that and that the hearing was held to enable the Fish and Wildlife Ser- vice to determine which proposals should be made into regulations. Bitter Opposition The proposal to open the trap leads was bitterly opposed by in- dustry representatives and almost unanimously endorsed by gill-net- ters, purse-seiners and trollers. W. C. Arnold, representing the in- dustry, spoke at various times in defending the stand of his group on the lead-opening question and in taking a stand for an earlier sea- son this coming year. A. W. Brindle, of Ward’s Cove Packing Co., said the proposal to open the trap leads was thought | of Ly persons merely wanting to| “harass” their competitors. “If a trap was built to keep any fish in the lead, then the trap | would not catch fish,” Brindle de- | clared. | In disagreement with previous All of which is a way of say- ing that plans generated by Stan Garson, Point Barrow oil-worker and ex-dishwasher, have come to fruition. With the aide of an air- line, a newspaper woman and var- jous other persons and organiza- | tions, that is. And without the ~help o the U, S:Air Force whiclr wouldn't have any part of the i stunt, Garson suggested some time back that a real pole ought to be drop- ped at the North Pole. He even chipped in $150 of his money to have a 9-foot, hollow steel cylinder con- structed and painted like a candy cane (or barber pole, if your inclin- ations are a little less romantic). Mrs. Audree Vance, Fairbanks, journalist and radio_announeer, lik- | ed the idea and added a suggestion —How about dropping off some “honest-to-goodness” letters to San- ta Claus. “Fine,” says Garson and it was a fait accompli (look it up yourself). Alaska Airlines Chairman H. W. | Marshall heard that the Air Force ! ‘wast taking-an uppity attitude to- ward the project and offered to donate one of its four-engined specials for the 3,200 mile flight from International Airport, Fair- banks, Alaska. | rector, Today, they decided the steel pole witnesses, Brindle said that salmon and all the letters the kiddies of | will not lay along the lead for any. this continent want to send to lengih of time. He said that witness- Santa Claus, care of North Pole. es who declared this is to be true Nellie “¢Fhat’s “Mrs. “Vénce's' miss nomer), Fairbanks, will visit Santa | Dec. 10. | The Air Force is helping, too,| but not officially..The flight route! of the polar spedial -will be over| its famed “pfarmigan” route, es-| tablished by the 58th Weather Re- ponnaissance Squadrém based at| Eielson Air Force Base, Alagka. And just in case the airliner mak- es an unscheduled call on Santa| Claus it will have aboard full em- ergency equipment for a two month stay on the ice—including rations, tents, stoves, clothes. But no bar- ker chair. Stock Quofations NEW YORK, Nov. 15—(P—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 106, American Tel. and Tel. 156%, An: conda 51'%, Douglas Airgraft 56%, General Electric 55%, General Mo- tors 49%, Goodyear 42%, Kennecott 8812, Libby McNeill and Likby 8%, Northern Pacific 54}, Standard Oil of California 50%, Twentieth Century Fox 22%, U.S. Steel 40, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange 95.87%. Sales today were 1,200,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 260.99, rails 80.24, util- ities 46.38. TheWashington Merry-Go-Round (Copy=ight, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—“Will-he-won't- h Eisenhower—Governor Dewey did not meet secretly with Eisen- hower at the Waldorf as reported last week. A broadway columnist got that one mixed with a Waldorf meeting which did take place be- tween Dewey, Senator Duff of Pennsylvania, Herbert Brownell, the Dewey GOP mentor, and Gen. Lu- cius Clay. Georgia-born Clay, a lifetime Democrat, is now in the Eisenhower camp. The meeting dis- cussed ways and means of rounding up delegates despite the fact that Ike cannot declare until next spring .. .There’s not the slightest question but that Tke started life as a Demo- crat. His first speech at the age of 18 at Abiline, Kansas, was at a Jackson Day dinner. . .Taftites are suspected of putting a neat one over on Arthur Krock. He Yeported that Tke would come over to the Taft side if the Senator would de- sert the isolationists. . .It now seems certain that Tke will face President Truman in the Oregon primary— whether he likes it or not. He will also face Taft in the' Republican (Continued on -Page 4) {fish gather and lay along the leads‘ "along a trap lead. “had evidently never worked with | traps.” Punitive Measure “This opening of the leads would only a punitive measure,” Brindle protested. “It would not be a matter of conservation of fish. There is never a time when a big body of for any length of time.” Patrick Paul, of Wrangell, inter- rupted to say that he disagreed with Brindle. Harold B. Hansen, of Cor- | dova, said a packer had told him | of an instance when he had seen| “10,000 fish” laying and milling “If we were allowed the same| privilege, of staking the end of| our net to the ‘shore during the| weekend closing periods, we would have lots of fish there on Monday morning. But it is not a question! of use trying to ‘punish’ the trap owners.” Fred Gunderson said he had been | associated with fish traps since 1916. He said it is a cardinal prin- ciple that traps are set so fish will follow the lead into the trap. He said fish no not “school up” along leads nor stay there. “They either go into the heart, or out and around,” Gunderson said. “As long as the heart-wall is down the fish will go through.” Rhode said that the Fish and wildlife Service did not intend “to willingly become a tool of one group interested in one type of gear against another group interested in another type of gear.” | | | Cole (R-NY). Gen. MacArthur Gives Talk on 'Americanism’ However It Rocked Seattle Political Circles; Now Enroute fo N. Y. SEATTLE, Nov. 15—(®—General! Douglas MacArthur, still the center of a civic storm that rocked po- litical circies of the Pacific north- west, left today erroute to his home in New York. He will stop off two | hours in Portland. He carried With him the memory of a sea of faces lined for miles along the cold, blustery, wet route he followed for the 40 hours he visited Seattle, Tacoma and way points. But with him also went the bitter words of Democratic party bigwigs who objected to his anti- administration speech re_ Tues- day night. He gavzc recognition ir. remarks made 2t » banquet late iast night! to the ¥ rm he had created. Jeanie from Murfrees- bory,” lie said in obvious reference to his wife, “tells me I have al- ready said too much and if I don't say anything and shut up they will like you a lot.” With that and a few other humorous ref- erences to the storm he ceased talking. Earlier, in Tacoma and Puyallup, | southwest of Seattle, he told his audiences he had not talked politics in his speech opening Seattle's cen-f tennial celebration, “just American- ism” But along the parade line' some boos and catcalls were heard mixed with the applause. Rep. Hugh Mitchell (D-Wash), in a speech before the Young Men's | Democratic Club, said the General was a man with “tarnished brass| and tattered braid” who used our| centennial as a forum of personal spite and ‘attempted political re-; venge. @ an tom e e gl ONE-time, operator of the ves- a Ws '¥sel. the Pacific Explorer, said he Eisenhower House Poll WASHINGTON, Nov. 15— B — Senator Robert A. Taft tops Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 71 to 54, as the first choice of House Republi- cans for the GOP Presidential nom- ination in a poll conducted by Rep. | i Results of the private survey, started in September and concluded | this week, were disclosed by Cole today in the wake of California Gov. Earl Warrgn’s announcement he is a candidate for the Republican nomination. ‘Warren's move yesterday put his hat formally in the ring along with Taft’s. So far the Ohio Senator and ‘Warren are the only avowed candi- | dates in either major party. h Eisenhower-for-President Repub- | lican backers are hard at work in his behalf, however despite the gen- eral’s refusal to say publicly wheth- er he will run. Senator Duff (R-Pa), one of the leaders of the move ,announced in a New Orleans speech last night that Senator Lodge (R-Mass) will “accept the leadership” of a cam- paign to put Eisenhower in the ‘White house. Dangerous to Watchmen John Grebstad made a statement which he said corruborated that of Brindle’s. John Davis, represent- ing the P. E. Harris Co., Inc., said not only would breaking the trap leads serve no real purpose, but that it would be dangerous for the trap watchmen. He also pointed out the difficulty in enforcement. “I have been in the trap busi- ness all my life, and as far as I (Continued on Page 6 WEATHER REPCRT (U. . WEATHER BUREAU At Airport: Maximum, 30; Minimum, 14. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Continued fair and cold with gusty northeasterly winds to- night and Friday. Lowest temperature tonight near 25 degrees in town and as low as 15 in outlying areas. High- est temperature Friday around 32. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport None; from July 1—16.52 inches. o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Stalin’s Birthday Replaces Christ's As Holiday: Report MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 15— #— Radio Free Europe said it has re- ceived reports that Stalin’s birthday, Dec, 21, officially will replace Christmas as a holiday 'in Com- munist Hungary. The broadcast also said the Buda- Ministry of Foreign Trade has issued confidential orders banning the import of Ch¥istmas trees and ! forbidding the printing of “reac- tionary” Christmas cards. Radio Free Europe is a privately financed American station. v Denali scheduled southbound Sun- day morning. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive from Skagway tomorrow at 6 a.m., sailing for Vancouver at 7 am.,, on the last trip of the season. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow, Freighter Sailors Splice sched- uled to arrive from Seattle Nov, 18. Tseas fishery resourcesT— |from fishing North Padific Fish Trealy Submitied TOKYO, Nov. 15—(@P—The Japan- ese draft of a proposed three-na- tion North Pacific fisheries treaty was submitted to American and Canadian delegates today. It reportedly follows closely those presented earlier by U. S. represen- tatives. The Japanese plan calls for es- tablishment of an internationa’’ North Pacific fisheries commission to investigate fishery resources and recommend joint measures for the maintenance of maximum produc- tivity. Japan, which depends on its fish- ing industry to help feed its 84,- 000,000 people, asks that no country be subjected to “discriminatory ex- ¢lusion” from exploitation of high However, it agrees to refrain in areas where it clearly is established that maximum fishing already is being carried on and where it is necessary to restrict fishing to maintain or increase pro- ductivity. In a statement Japanese dele- gates declared that the fishing in- dustry is a “basic factor in the es- tablishmernt of a self-sustaining ec- onomy” ana “controls the very fate of Javin.” Bez Profesting Selling by Govl. 0f Cannery Ship SEATTLE, Nov. 15 — (®# — Ar Alaska salmon packer, who once took President Truman fishing, ha: protested to the president against selling the government’s $5 million cannery torship. He expressed fear the Russians may buy it. Nick Bez, wealthy industrialist was in no way interested in purchas- ing the 410-foot craft. ) But, he telegrapned the presi- dent, he was protesting “as an American citizen” who regards the vessel as a vita! American de- fense weapon.” The Maritime Adininistration has offered the ship for sale. It now is in mothballs near Astoria, Ore. where it was tied up after Bez op- erated it for seven months and the government for another 18 months after the close of World War II “You recall, T am sure, how Soviet agents once made unsuc- cessful attempts to obtain plans of this vessel,” Bez telegraphed the president. “Sale now may permit Soviet acquisition of plans they have been trying to obtain since 1945.” Bez told newspapermen the Rus- sians sent three men to his office before the ship was completed, and several times tried to obtain the plans through trickery and subter- fuge. Now, he said, sale of the ship to a private purchaser might make the ship plans available to the Russians He did not explain why he con- sidered the vessel vital to the na- tion’s defense, or to the Russians, beyond mentioning that the Rus- sian agents told him they wanted the plans so they could build 20 such craft for $100 million. Bez once accompanied President Truman on a fishing trip witt former Washington Gov. Mon C Wallgren, a long-time crony of the president. Nobel Prize for Literature Goes To Swede Novelist STOCKHOLM, Nov.- 15— Swedish Academy today aw the 1951 Nobel Prize for litera to one of its own member Lagerkvist, author of the novel Dwarf.” Lagerkvist, who is 60 years old and a playwright, poet, essay and writer of short stories as we! as a novelist, will receive a check for 167,612 Crowns ($32357) fro! —The King Gustav Adolf at the Nobel| Prize presentation ceremony to bt held in Stockholm on Dec. 10 NEW PHONOGRAPH RECORD SHOP OPENS HERE MONDAY Juneau will have a new phono- graph record store beginning ! Monday when the Record f opens in the George Brothers bu! ing next to the Spudnut shop. Proprietors Ned Kester and Loy« Coe announce that the shop specialize in long playing rcco 'Fair Deal’ Banner for Democrals Truman Announces Campaign Program; MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Substitution of Fish for Army fo Be investiqaled SEATTLE, Nov. 15—{M—Possible adulteration through substitution of dog salmon for silversides in frozer fish destined for the armed forces— including troops fighting in Korea— will be probed tomorrow. Army and federal authorities tolc TOKYO, Nov. 15—#—The report- ed Communist slaughter of some 5,500 American prisoners of war shocked general headquarters from Slaughfer of American Prisoners by Commies In Korea Is Shocking PRICE TEN CENTS might not extend down to the front line Communist troops or to the patrol leader who doesn’t want to v 2 today of the test, to be conducte. Many Subjects Discussed |ty we Food ana Drug Administra tion cffice here. KEY WEST, Fla, Nov. 15—®— “Seattle’s fish industry is up i President Truman declared today |arms over the case,” said Col. Homct 1e is drafting a “state of the union” [ D. Barnes commanding officer o message committing the Democratic | the Quartermaster market cente: party to campaign in 1952 under his | here, top to bottom today. bother to bring in live prisoners.” Col, James M. Hanley, chief of the war crimes section of the Eighth Army, said he divulged the figures because he thought INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 15— American soldiers at the front (p_The commander of the Ameri- ought to know what they are up |can Legion Department of Alaska ALASKA COMMANDER MAKES STATEMENT ‘fair deal” banner. But, under a bombardment of questions from reporters at a winter White House news confer- ence he refused to comment on whether he intends to support General Dwight D. Eisenhower for the Democratic Presidential nom- himself. He said that at no time did he liscuss domestic politics with Gen- ral Eisenhower in their recent tonferencs on the Western Euro- yean de e program in Wash- ngton He :ald he had made that clear i hal the General and that both aave the reputation of teiling the axuth. “Do you have any intention cf supporting General Eisenhower for the Democratic nomination?” he was asked. Evenly the president replied: no comment. This was in contrast to another press conference recently when he aid he thought General Eisenhower would not be interested in the Democratic nomination, and he 20uld not help him get the Repub- lican nomination. Asked whether he will urge enact- He said exhaustive laborator: tests would be made to determin definitely whether it has bee adulterated by substitution of ¢ lower-grade salmon for the specie specified in the army contract under which it was processed. Kenneth E. Monfore, head of the “Food WA DFuE oTfice Tere, i< cated that if tests confirm sus- picions about the substitution his office will bring criminal charges in federal court. Barnes said Seattle fish packer. Legan wondering how a firm out side the northwest could outbic them consistently on army contract the past four to six months despitc the fact the great bulk of troll caught silverside salmon, specifiec in the contract, 18 harvested i Washington and Oregon waters. One industry source, said exami- nation of some 60 samples of the disputed fish in a University of Washington laboratory showed the army was getting dog salmon (alsc known as chum or fall salmon) in- stead of the higher priced, highen quality ocean-caught silversides. Dog salmon sell from 10 to 12 cents a pound cheaper here thar silversides. Colonel Barnes said the army has nient of his “fair deal” program in | not officially accepted the fish yet the “state of the union” message he [nor paid for it. will send to Congress in January, J - he said of course, and he added it will be a part of the Democratic: Yertform. x R E ¥ oo i “Regardless of who runs? he was asked. ‘Regardless of who runs, replied. Under questioning, the president said he would ask further changes n the Taft-Hartley Act which has been the frequent target of union eaders, but he would not disclose hem at this time. The president sat on a tree-shaded lawn of the “Little White House” in a blue sea shore, sea-gull sport hirt open at the neck, blue trousers ind white shoes. He was asked about a story out »f Pusan, Korea, in which the U.S. Eighth Army charged the Reds with murdering about 5,500 American prisoners of war. It's a horrible thing, the presi- dent said. No facts have reached him as yet, he said, but he de- clared it is the most uncivilized thing that ha$ happened in the last century if this is true. he ‘The president also told the con- 1 ference: 1. Re French \President Auriol's suggestion of a “Big Four” meeting to relieve international tension: his views haven't changed that the United Nations is the proper foru for settling world disputes. 2. He still has hope that an Amer- ican-French-British proposal for reduction of atomic and other wea- pons will get favorable Russian re- action eventually because of the Russian people’s longing for peace. 3. That Republican Gov. Earl Warren of California, who an- nounced for the GOP presidential nomination yesterday, is a fine man. He said he once said Warren was 1 Democrat and didn’t know it, and that that still goes. 4, He did not believe the Korean war should be an issue of the 1952 campaign. Alaskans fo Wed in Seattle SEATTLE, Nov. 15—P—Notice of intention to wed-was filed here yes- terday by Warren M. Wilkins, An- chorage, and Doris E. Cloudy, Ket- chikan. Both gave their age as “legal.” > FROM ANNETT Charles Naples of Annette is stop- ping at the Gastineau Hotel. ‘They have a large stock of all tv of records and will handle mail ers, . . NOVEMBER 16 L] L] e High tide 3:32 am, 152 ft. o Low tide 9:08 am, 451t e High tide 3:02 pm, 17.1 ft. ® Low tide 9:46 pm., -04 fi. ® almon Is Bad; Likel Suit Filed 1 SEATTLE, Nov. 15—M—A libe] 1was filed in United States district court yesterday against 661 cases of unlabeled salmon. The cases each containing 48 one-pound cans, were taken into custody by the United States Marshal. The libel states that the salmon contained in the cans is spoiled. It was shipped to Seattle from Juneau by the Alaska Coast Fisheries. The action was filed for the Pure Food and Drug Administration. A copy of the libel was served on A. J. Bacon, manager of salmon terminal, pier 25, in whose custody the salmon was found. ‘Johnslon KEY WEST, Fla, Nov. 15—/— President Truman today disclosed Eric Johnston’s resignation as Eco- nomic Stabilization Administrator, effective Nov. 30. 36 Killed in Air Force Plane Crash in France CHAMBON-SUR-LAC, France, Nov. 15—(P—Rescue crews today found the shattered snow-crusted wreckage of a missing U. 8. alr for transport plane 5000 feet up mountain slope in southern France. All aboard were dead. American and French rescuers 'bexan bringing the battered burncd bodies of the 36 passengers and crewmen—all U. S. military person- nel—down the side of the mountain where the twin-engined flying box car crashed Tuesday. Rescue teams who fought their way up the snow and ice encrust- ted slope 250 miles south of Paris said most of the fire-scarred bodies were battered to bits. The plane disappeared Tuesday on a routine flight from Frankfurt to Bordeaux with ill soldiers and six crewmen aboard. It crashed into 4 peak in the Mont Doreh group some 20 miles south of Clermont Ferrand. Today the plane lay glistening ® | in the sunlight, a few feet below the opening of a ile toward which :‘me pilot apparefitly had headed. JELSMA 18 lll;E Lt. Col. M. Jelsma of Anchorage |of Anchorage, against. san, Korea, Hanley said the story about the “wanton murder” of Am- erican prisoners “should have been put out a long time ago.” Apparently no one knew he was going to make the statement—Ileast of all Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, General headquarters officers, after conferring with Hanley by telephone, are preparing an an- nouncement tonight for release tomorrow to clarify “the basis for some of Hanley’s figures.” Even Gen. James A. Van Fleet, commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, said he had no advance knowledge. He declined to comment, explaining: “I have not had tire t familiarize myself with the content of ‘the statement.” Hanley is chief of the war crimes section of the Eighth Army. Hanley released the Red atrocity total yes- terday at a press conference in Pu- san, Korea. What Hanley did was total ail the reports and estimates of Com. munist atrocities since the begin- ning cf the war. | These figures came from ¢ap- tured Reds, escaped United Na- tions prisoners, from questioning clvilians, and from allied agents operating behind Communist lines. t some cases the bodies actually were counted. Many of the mas- sacres had been reported long be- oIt was Hanley's total that was staggering. One high officer greeted the an- nouncement with “hopeful skep- ticism.” “I am just hoping that our esti- mates are too high,” he said. “I am keeping in mind that the enemy knows how dear to America eve:y captured American soldier is and that every captured American is extremely valuable bargaining ma- terial in armistice negotiations.” Another officer countered: “The high levels of the Com- munist armies may be aware of the bargaining vaiue of the Ameri- can captives, but that knowledse There's a Long, Long Trail a-Winding for A Lovelorn Buffalo A young bull buffalo, jilted by three cows he made a trip with into Yukon Territory and bullied by his only male travelling companion, has evidently turned the nose on his shaggy head up at the lot of them and is slowly making his way back ;0 his former home at Big Delta, Alaska. The five buffalo were a gift of the Fish and Wildlife Service to the Game and Publicity department of Yukon Territory and were wrestled into shipping cages at Big Delta vy Urban C. Nelson, wildlife biolog- ist of Juneau, and others, for the long trip to nbdrth of Whitehorse. Them Kjar, director of the Y. T. department, wrote letters to Nelson and Clarence Rhode, FWS regional director, thanking them for the start of what Kjar hopes will some- jay be a sizeable herd. In the let- ters he said that the bison seemed “lto be doing fine, but told of a young bull being pushed out by the larger bull. “At the last report,” Kjar says, ‘the young bull has been seen in a valley in the vicinjty of Clue Lake, lose to the Alaska highway near mile post 1036. We are jusg wond- .ring if his intention is to head for home.” Mile 1036 is 392 miles from Big Delta, the grounds of the corrals and home of the Alaska bison herd. Wrangell Highway Bids Rejected by BPR: Tqo High The Bureau of Public Roads re- jected all three bids received today for grading 1.9 miles on the exten- sion of the Wrangell highway. The reason given was that all bids were too- high. Berg Construction Co., of Juneau bid $195,868.40; Stock and Grove $199,052; and Keil In an exclusive interview in Pu-| |said he was appalled by the news of Communist massacres of United |States troops in Korea. j | “Such actions," said John H. Van |Horn of Sitka, Alaska, “prove that | the United States is at war and not engaged in a police action. The ene- my is ruthless and uncompromising. ,The news bears out the need for [military control rather than the State Department rule of warfare.” Van Horn now is attending the | national conference of department cmmanders here. OUTRAGE-ANGER WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—(®—Re- ports that the Communists have murdered 5,500 U. S. prisoners in ,Korea sent a wave of outrage and anger through the United States today, and brought a call from a Congress member for loosing of !atomic weapons against the Reds. At the same time, it was plain in Washington that the Defense 'and State Departments were start- led by the release of the report in the war theatre and were, in effect, | caught off balance and unprepared. Rep. Cole (R-NY) called for use of the A-bomb if the reports were true. Cole’s statement was in com- | ment to reporters. Another member of Congress, Rep. Shafer (R-Mich), telegraphed the Defense Department 3 | “forthright explanation” of there had been no »1&‘ 3 of such - intormation. . released by Hanmley, went back to 11960, Uncivilized Dedlares President KEY WEST, Fla, Nov. 15—f— President Truman today condemned the murder of American prisoners by Chinese Communists as the inost uncivilized thing that has happened in the last century. Mr. Truman voiced this indict- ment at” a winter White House news conference in which he declar- ed his views that the United Na- tions rather than “big four” confer- ences should settle international disputes. The President declared that he ! has not been told officially of re- ports of charges of the murder of 5400 or more American prisoners but he added it’s a horrible thing. Ma tacts have reached him offic- ially yet, he continued, but if true, it is the most uncivilized thing that has happened in the last cen- tury. But he replied with a firm no comment to a question whether this brought closer the day when we might use the atmoic bomb in Korea. Woman's Club Launches CARE-for-Korea Food And Clothing Packages The Juneau Woman's Club is launching its campaign for CARE packages to be sent to Korean war victims in time for the holidays, | Mrs. Don Morrison, president, an- ! nounced today. | Funds are being solicited by the club through the Teen Agers Fri- days and Saturday. Each CARE package costs $10, but funds in any !xunoum will be accepted, Mrs. Mor- rison said. The packages will be sent in the names of the donors. “Each CARE food package sub- scribed by Américans kept five Ko- rean orphans alive for seven days during the tragic weeks before the second occupation of Seoul by Com- munist forces last winter,” Mrs. Morrison pointed out. FROM ANCHORAGE George Mooney of Anchorage is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. FROM SEATTLE C. V. Wilson of Seattle is at the is registered at the Baranof Hotel, and Peterman of Juneau, $226,093. Baranof Hotel,