The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 21, 1951, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL “7romy LIBRARY ! NGTON, D. C. HE DAILY A “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL.- LXXIX., NO. 11,971 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, Truce Hopes Rise as Reds Submit Plan MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 21—(®— Truce hopes brightened today when Communist negotiators submitted a cease-fire plan of their own that could open the way for a Korean armistice by Christmas. It was similar to a United Nations plan. for creating a buffer Zzone}} along the present fighting line to take effect if an armistice is signed within 30 days. A UN. Command communique |} referred to the resemblance as su- ‘perficial. But the command's spokesman, Brig. Gen. Willlam P. Nuckols, said if the Red plan “means what we think it means.. then I think we are very close to solution” of the buffer zone ques- tion. The point in doubt was whether the Communist proposal means “that troops will be withdrawn from the buffer zone after an armistice is signed” as the UN. has proposed. After the Communists submitted their counterproposal at Panmun- jom at Wednesday’'s two-hour truce session, Allied negotiators tried to determine whether the Reds con- templated an immediate or delayed withdrawal from a buffer zone to be created along the present front. At the close of the session Maj. Gen. Henry I. Hodes, heading the U.N. subcommittee, delegates “we will present you with the necessary revisions to clear up this pruposal” at Thursday's meet- ing. It is set for 11 am. (6 P.M. nesday, PST). Wed- Alaska's Delegate To Youth Forum in Juneau on Saturday George Bell, 15-year-old Eskimo student from Nome, arrives in Ju- neau Saturday or' Pacific Northern Airlines enroute to: the annual youth forum held in New York City by the Daily Mirror. He will be here for several days orientation prior to his departure for New York. ‘This is the first trip for George to Juneau and the States. “An interesting itinerary of edu-| cational and soeial events have been planned for him,” said Mrs. Laura Jones, education specialist for the Alaska Native Service. Mrs. Jones was one of four who made the choice of Alaska’s first delegate to the forum. George is due in New York Nov. 30 for the forum that begins on Dec. 1. FROM PELICAN -Mrs. Walter W. Shisham of, the Pelican Cold Storage Co. at, Peli- official | told the Redj AND SHE READS PHILOSOPHY .| complete with names and addresses, Hoilywood stariet Marilyn Mon- roe, presently the No. 1 cheese- cake gal of the movie colony, is coming into her own after a year of miner roles. Although chosen sweetheart of various battalions, regiments and ships, she is de- seribed as a serious gal who reads philesephy and is intent on an acting carcer. (® Wirephoto. (asualties | InKorea Increase WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 — # — Announced U.S. battle casualties in Korea reached 100,176 today. The Defense Department’s weekly summary, reporting an increase of 950 since last week, sent the total over the 100,000 mark. By com- parison, U.S. combat casualties in the first year of this country’s par- ticipation in World War 59,000. Of the 950 new battle casualties | reported today, 150 were killed out- right in' action, 762 were wounded and 38 are missing. On Nov. 9 the Army estimated total enemy casualties in Korea through Oct. 31 at 1,442,844, The summary said the latest total of United* Nations casualties was can is registered at the Baranof 313711, Hotel. AT THE BARANOF Elizaketh V. Vickers of Mt. Edge- cumbe is staying at the Baranof Hotel. FROM ANCHORAGE Ernest Knox of Anchorage is reg- istered at the Baranof Hotel. TheWashington Merry-Go- Round (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—Two of the na- tion's top newspapers, the St. Lomis Post-Dispatch and the Providence, R. I, Bulletin last week published a story regarding the Ripps-Mitchell income-tax. case in Mobile, Ala., charging Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Lamar Caudle with failure to prosecute. Both these papers have done not- able jobs in exposing corruption, but since I had something to do with the conyiction of these two income-iax evaders, perhaps the inside story of what happened is worth " telling—for two reasons: 1. To illustrate - how tax cases some- times get stymied; 2. In fairness to Mr. Caudle, who has been kicked around a lot and who, though indis- creet in his choice of friends, in my opinion is honest. Much of the story was told in a column dated Dec. 16, 1949, when the Washington Merry-Go-Round two years ago began calling atten- tion to shocking and then little- noticed income-tax scandals. Sam Ripps and Joe Mitchell had made a fortune selling millions of dollars worth of jewelry to army PX's during the war, following (Continued on Page 4) lAmic Reindeer Rebuked Is II were' - Alrocilies Red (laim WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 — (# — Moscow is using what it describes as testimony of American war pris- oners to reply to US. charges of Communist atrocities in Korea. One such prisoner was quoted in | a broadcast recorded here as say- ing that he was better off in a North Korean camp than he was when unemployed in New York. A long series of such statements has been beamed to the Unit States and other western cmmmesw since Col. James M. Hanley of (hel Eighth Army made his estimate that about 5,500 American prisoners | have been slain by the North Ko- reans and the Chinese. In an English language broadeast recorded today by U.S. government monitors, one American prisoner was quoted: “I am treated courteously and live in good conditions, get plenty ) When I was captured, my uniform was in shreds. Here in camp, I was provided with new clothes.” | Air Superiority Over Korea Is Now Challenged | WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 — B —| Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg said today the Allies’ “complete air superiority over Korea is now being seriously challenged by the MIGs but so:far the situation is in hand.”" The Air Force Chief of Staff told la long and grim news conference that possible “serious potentials” i exist. come one of the major air powers of the world.” Vandenberg, just back from the Korean war front, also said: “Under the ground rules estab- lished at the outset of the Korean war, it is impossible for us to give air’ supremacy” because “for rea- |sons that we all understand, we have followed a policy of not at- tacking the strongholds of enemy air power directly across the Yalu” river in Manchuria. Red Shield Rooms Need Exira Chair Somewhere in the vicinity of Ju- neau, it is hoped, there may be some one who has one or two chairs of that old type known as “overstuffed” in leather or com- position upholstering that is no longer desirable ‘for a streamlined home, but which the owner would Will Be Flown Te 'Balmy’ Texas NOME, Nov. 21 — {# — Thirteen Arctic reindeer will be flown to balmy Texas. / The antlered specimens ° were hand-picked from roving herds in the far north by Grady Carothers and Fred Herring of Goldthwaite, Tex., for pre-Christmas exhibitions. The Texans spent an arduous two months of arctic traveling to pick the critters. “The reindeer are due for exhi- bition in teams of four at Corpus Christi, Texas; Oklahoma City, arid Lovington, N'M. One is going along as a spare. Seventy sacks of reindeer moss for food also is going along on the Arctic Alaska Airways plane tc Seattle. \Moforship Finch To Tow Disabled Ship fo Seattle NOME, Nov. 21—/»—The motor- ship Finch of Kotzebue is standing by to tow the disabled M.S. Tula to Seattle, its home port. The Tula was damaged in arctic waters. The vessels will be the last of the season out of this far northern port. The Bering Sea already is full of floating ice. The Tula is owned by the B. and R. Lighterage Co., of Kotzebue, ' enjoy presenting to The Salvation Army for use in the Red Shield Reading Room welfaré project. No need to retell how many hundreds of GI's used the Red Shield rooms when stationed here at the Duck Creek encampment, nor how many transient men have enjoyed the hospitality of this social center. Word has come through the grapevine route that some of the chairs now serving the Red Shield have seen better days and are ready for final retirement. Hence it has been suggested by those interested in this program that any person owning such a chair and wishing to donate it for this good use may have it picked up by phoning Lieuténant William Lynch, who assists in maintaining the reading room. His telephone number is Juneau 254. ARRIVING ON ELLIS Eight passengers arrived on Ellis Airlines Wednesday flight with two[ traveling on interport. Arriving from Ketchikan were D. M. Mor- rison, C. V. Rudolph, C. W. Willis, H. Halvorsen, Tim Casey, Jack Molyneau; from Petersburg: A. Sjostedt, C. Kelsey. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- attle on Friday. Baranof - scheduled to southbound Sunday morning. Freighter Sailors Splice in port. Freighter Yukon Princess sched- uled to arrive Monday morning from arrive to eat, and a daily supply of tobacco. | Among these he listed the' {fact that “overnight China has be- | Alaska Public Works Approves Applicatien for New City Hall “The Alaska Public Works Ad- ministration has approved the City of Juneau's application for match- ing funds for a new city hall” Mayor Waino Hendricksén an- nounced tday. Plans for the build- ing will soon be on display in some of the downtown store windows. APW will provide 50 percent of the total cost of the building, not to exceed $579,000, with the city's share approximately $290,000, Hen- drickson explained. + “Qualified voters will be asked to approve a bond issue for this amount at a special election set for December 6, he said. If approved, bids will be called early in January of next year and construction is to be completed by November of the same year. Bond Issue “The bond issue, if approved, will be paid out of proceeds from the city sales and service tax, voted for the purpose of retiring city bonds,” Hendrickson said. The proposed new municipal building will be a two-story, fire- proof, reinforced concrete structure with a partial basement and will be connected with the new fire sta- tion now under construction on Marine Way. It will extend for 92 feet up South Seward Street. In addition to the present open site, the city has purchased 50 feet of the Juneau-Young Hardware Co., property to provide additional build- ing space as well as a 45-foot con- necting street between South Sew- ard and Shattuck Way. Streets - Widened Marine Way is to be widened by ten feet to permit easier exit for fire fighting equipment and South Seward will be widened five feet extending the length of the City Hall. The building is planned to provide space for all municipal offices— city clerk, police department and jail, a magistrate’s court, city health center, city assessor, city engineer and sanitarian, council chambers, saveral large public meet-~ ing rooms with adjoining locker or storage -rooms-.for the -use of var- ious civic groups. Sufficient space is planned for future municipal needs. Entrance On South Seward The main entrance to the city hall will be on South Seward Street facing the R. J. Sommers Construc- tion Co. office. The city health center will be on the new connecting streets fac- |ing the rear of the Juneau-Young | Hardware Co. The police department will be on Shattuck Way facing the Alaska Laundry. fices and quarters of all city de- | partments have been designed to meet the present and future needs lof a growing city. “When the building is occupied,” he stated, “the City of Juneau will have, for the first time in its his- tory a city jail that will be safe and sanitary with all the require- ments of a modern city police department.” At present the city is renting jail space in the Federal Jail on a femporary basis only. “The proposed new clity hall will be a building that Juncau can be proud of,” Hendrickson con- cluded, “modern, -and in keeping with the needs of the Capitol City. All that is needed to get the pro- ject underway is the voters’ ap- proval of the bond issue at the special election December 6". OPS Warns on Increase Drink Prices in Bars Following complaints that some bars have increased the price of drinks due to the recent excise tax, George N. Apostol, enforcement di- rector for the Office of Price Stab- ilization, warned that such in- creases may be in violation of ceil- ing prices. “Bars, like restaurants, are cov- ered by Ceiling Price Regulation 11 and must maintain their food- cost ratios,” Apostol said. “Any arbitrary increase of 5 or 10 cents a drink is likely to be in violation of ceiling prices.” Apostol pointed out, however, that if bars show an increase in their liquor costs during any four-month period, they may adjust their prices 40 be within their liquor-cost ratio at the end of their period. There is little likelihood, he said, that the recent tax increase of 26 t0 30 cents a fifth could be reflected in a 5 or 10 cent increase in drinks. CARL LOTTSFELDT HERE Carl Lottsfeldt of Anchoragt at the Baranof Hotel. FROM ANCHORAGE Carl L. Carlson with the CAA at Anchorage is stopping at the Hotel Vancouver, Juneau, Hendrickson said that the of-' Plane Search OnasU.S. Gels Profest Nofes BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. 21 —(M—Hungary and Romania com- plained officially today that a United States army cargo plane— still missing after being fired on y the satellite border guards Mon- crossed over their territories lllfl,all) Notes were presented to the Am- erican missions in Budapest and Bucharest, even as U. S. planes prepared to search over Yugo- slavia for the missing C-47 trans- port, which disappeared Monday with four crewmen and diplomatic cargo aboard. The pilots reports, as disclosed by the U. S. Embassy in Belgrade, did not mention any damage from the shooting. Bad weather hampered the search Fifteen U. S. Air Force planes were poised at Treviso in northern Italy, at the juncture of the Ital- ian, Austrian and Yugoslav bord- ers, ready for the word that would send them over an area of 7,000 square miles, much of it craggy mountains and wooded hills, Premier Marshal Tito’s govern- ment gave the search planes per- {mission to fly over the northwest part of Yugoslavia, and area prev- jously forbiddep to foreign planes. | Church Services Thanksgiving Day Several of Juneau churches will hold Thanksgiving day services to- morrow. At 10 am, there will be Holy Cemmunion at the Church of Holy Trinity, Episcopal. | At 10:30 am. union services will 'be keld by the Northern Light | Preskyterian Church and the Meth- odist Church at the NLPC. At the samg hour, specinl services will be held at the Lutheran ¢hurch. At 11 o'clock there will be special services at the Memorial Presbyter- ian church, preaching by the Rev. Walter Sobol=ff. | "At 11 o'clock The First Church 'of Christ, Scientist, will hold ser- |vice, the subject being “Thanks- glvlng |~ Services at the Catholic Church {of the Nativity will be held on Thanksgiving Day at 9 am, it is announced. “The Hope-of Thanksgiving” will be the title of the sermon to be preached by pastor Hillerman in the | Lutheran Church. The service will ;besln at 10:30 a.m. | At this service the Senior Choir, |under the direction of Miss Mar- | jorie Iverson, will sing, “For The Blessings of Our Days” by Krones; and the Junior Choir under the di- rection of Mrs. Eunice Nevin will sing, “Prayer of Thanksgiving” by Kremser. The public is cordially invited to | join the congregation for the obser- ivance of Thanksgiving Day. Crimson Bears Play Alumni in First BB Game The annual basketball game be- tween the Juneau High Schoo: Crimson Bears and Alumni is the unofficial opener of the local sea- son tonight at 8 o’clock. The High School band and yel leaders will entertain before thc game and at half time. It is re- quested that the Sixth Street en- trance to the gymnasium be usec by those attending the game. PAA New Link Girdles Globe; $1,818.80 From Juneau and Back Just in case an Alaskan wants to fly around the world by Pan American World Airways clipper, it will now be possible after Dec- ember 3. On that date PAA inaug- urates a new service from Los An- geles to Guatemala City. In order to make a globe-girdling flight from Alaska, a traveler would go from the Territory to Los An- geles by way of Honolulu, from Los Angeles to Guatemala City and Panama; cross the South American north coast to Caracas, Venezuela; from there fly to New York; head east to London; - continue across Europe to Istanbul, Turkey; tra- verse Asia to Hong Kong; then span the Pacific by way of either Tokyo or Manila and back to Seattle. Anyhow, it is possible for $1,818.80 Just in case, , . NOVEMBER 21, 1951 EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Grateful Paratrooper Pfc. James R. Fernandez (righ fully at Pfe. Frank Elliott, of ¢ life during a paratrooper exhibition at Ft. Benning, Ga. of Providence, R. L, leoks grate- N. C., who saved Fernandez’ While 82 es, Mayors frem throughout the country watched. Fernandez' chute didn’t open and Elliott caught him as he passed head downward toward the earth and both floatcd Army Violales 0 "Moral Cbligation’ Declares Father SAN LORENZO, Calif., Nov. 21— (M—A father said today the army violated “at least a moral obliga- tion” by failing to notify him his daughter, a 20-year-old WAC was imprisoned and convicted in a -‘np Breckinridge, Ky., assault case. “Ius e hell of & shock to have, a néwspaper reporter call” you si (1 weeks after it has happened and tell you your daughter is ouw the way to prison,” declared the father, Maritime Service Lt. John R. Mor-| ton, in a telephone call to the Asso- ciated Press. The army announced Saturday Sgt. Grace L. Morton and five other WAC sergeants were convicted No- vember 8 of assault and battery and ordered dishonorably discharged. They were demoted to privates, pending a review of the case, and {later ordered to the federal re-| formatory at Alderson, W. Va. The case involved the October 4 beating of another WAC, but Mor- ton said he‘knew nothing of the case until a newspaper reporter called him last Saturday. No Conciliation In Arab-lsraeli Differences PARIS, Nov. 21—{P—The United Nations Palestine conciliation com- mission announces its failure to settle Arab-Israeli differences. ‘The commission said ¥t had called off the fruitless talks begun here Aug. 10 because neither party showed willingness to make conces- sions. The group — made up of repre- sentatives of the United States, France and Turkey — now is draft- ing a report of its“failure to the General Assembly. It then will be up to the assembly to decide whether the commission should be liquidated or continue in existence l R. C. JOHNSON IS BACK R. C. Johnson of the Bureau of Reclamation returned yesterday from Seattle where he has been for| medical attention. He is much im- | proved and was back at his desk today. Mrs. Johnson nccnmpmnml him. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU At Airport: Maximum, 18; Minimum, 4. FORECAST | (Juneau and Vicinity) | Occasional light snow to- night with lowest tempera- ture near 20 degrees in town and 12 to 15 in outlying areas. Parfly cloudy with little change in temperature ‘Thursday. ; PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport None; e since July 1—17.13 Inches. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . Lt | atter | dragging to safety. (® Wirephoto. Reds Are Thrown Back SEOUL, Korea, Nov, 21 — P — United Nations forces today threw back the Reds’ to halt an Allied line- -strengthening drive on the central Korean front. The UN. push has gained. nearly five miles since Saturday. The Republic of Korea (ROK) Sixth Division stopped counterats tacks by elements of two Red bat- talions. . The South Koreans had the support of a tremendous artil- lery barrage. An Allied officer said, bered the hell out of them all night. Without the artillery the Reds could have made it hard on the ROKs.” The South Koreans also threw back several other jabs at their Pukhan river line southeast of ' Kumsong. On the Eastern front United Na- tions soldiers repulsed a Red at- tack northwest of the Punchbowl a five and one-half houg fight that ended shortly after dawn Wednesday. Juneau fo Observe . (ity-Wide Holiday For Thanksgiving Juneau will observe a city-wide Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow as City, Territorial, Federal and pro- fessional offices close as well as schools and most business establish- ments. Many churches in the city will hold special services as millions unite in prayers of thankfulness for the nation’s blessings. Schools will close at 2 pm. to- day and will remain closed both Thursday and Friday. Wrangell Man Missing Since Friday Henry Bradley of Wrangell has been missing since 2 a.m,, last Fri- day according to information from Herbert Bradiey, brother of the mis- sing man, who telephoned William \ Paul, Sr., here last night. He re- quested: Coast Guard assistance in the Wrangell Harbor where Henry PBradley’s boat was found partly filled with water. The Coast Guard cutter Sweet- brier arrived at Wrangell early this morning and began dragging op- erations at daylight. U.S. Deputy Marshal John E | Krepps is investigating the possi- bility of foul play since Bradley is known to have carried large sums| of money on his person. Local authorities there have been unable} e to trace Bradley's movements after 2 a.m., Friday. P WEDNESDAY FIRE CALL A grease fire at the Mug-Up Cafe |on Third Street brought out the Fire Department at 10:50 a.m. to- day. There was no damage reported by firemen, strongest attempt | “We clob- | PRICE TEN CENTS Truman Says DemosExped "Lies, Smears’ Taft and Gabrielson Reply fo President’s GOP-Blasting Talk WASHINGTON, Nov. 21— ® — President Truman, in a speech re- miniscent of his 1948 ‘“give 'em Hell” style, declared last night that the Democrats won't take lying down the “lies and smears” he sald he anticipates from Republicans and “special interests” in the 19562 Presidential campaign. Mr. Truman told an audience of party members here he thinks more money will be spent “in try- ing to defeat the Democratic Party next year than has ever before been spent in any election in the history of the country.” This, brought from Republicans reiteration of “corruption” charges. Mr. Truman did not mention in his speech any of the charges of wrong- doing which have been alleged against his administration.. His declaration that “the truth and the facts are on our side® brought a retort from Senator Rob- ert A. Taft' (R-Ohio) that “Presi- dent Truman should certainly get the prize for political effrontery” for hlscpeech Guy G. Gabrielson, chalrman of the Republican National Com- mittee, sald Mr. Truman bad “s flash of realism” when he said a “mistake in a Presidential elect- fon can cause the country untold harm.” “The reminder isn’t necessary for millions of Americans,” Gabrielson said. “They are disgusted and al- armed at’ the high taxes, high prices, corruption, crises and war loi his Incompetent administration. 'nuy won’t make the llhuke again”. Senator, HI’ ‘with the _Without naming assertion that “special dnterests™ had poured money- into Ohio last year to reelect the Republican. Taft, 3n avowed carididate for his party’s presidentisl nomina- tion, said in a statement in Cin- cinnati that “it is the Truman party which is the beneficiary of the money of special interests and of millions“of dollars of the taxpayers’ money used for politi- cal propaganda, . .” “The head of an administration which has condoned Communism, ‘|mmonmy and corruption and does ot even bother to deny the proven charges, talks of the great moral po- isition of his administration in the | world,” Taft continued. Mr. Truman, who returned today to Key West, Fla., to resume his interrupted vacation, outlined for his party at a bangquet of the Na- tional Women’s Democratic Club last night the kind of a campaign he said it must make next year. He pictured It as a slugging battle against well-heeled Re- publicans who copld be expected to put on a “dirty smear campaign.” The President left up in the air the question whether he will run again. But he seemed to indicate that if he doesn’t he fully expects to have the determining voice in naming the Democratic nominee. Mrs. Truman, who had a lot to do with making the presidential date for the banquet meeting, laughed with the crowd u the President said: “I am not going to make any announcement about who the can- didate will be, although I do have some ideas on the subject.” EMPIRE NOT TO ISSUE THANKSGIVING DAY In keeping with the holiday, there will be no issue of The Daily Alaska Empire tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day. Any im- portant world events will be bulletined, however. ® o8 o 0 0 0 o o “TIDE TABLES NOVEMBER 22 Low tide High tide Low tide High tide 1:43 am, 28 am., 133 ft. 2:37 pm., 63 ft. . 8119 p.m,, 12.2 ft. NOVEMBER 23 Low tide 2:41 am., 4.0 ft. High /tide 9:20 a.m., 142 ft. Low tide 3:41 pm. 50 ft. High tide 9:36 pm., 125 ft. lo o 0o 0 0.0 000900