The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 8, 1951, Page 1

JONGRESSIONAL [BRARY WASHINGTON, D. C. “En 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,985 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1951 Grocers Ask For Higher Price Lids WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—®—The nation's grocers want permission to charge higher prices—basing their plea primarily on increased ‘costs. Price Stabilization officials said they would conduct a quick survey of conditions in the nation’s 560,000 food stores to see if “emergency” relief from present grocery store price ceilings is needed. But the officials indicated overall grocery price adjustments would not come for some. time. Your corner grocer took his plea for a bigger margin of profit to the Food Distributors Industry Ad- visory Committee. The committee represents both independent and chain grocers. Price control officials said the requested increase might add one- hali to one percent to the country's present food bill. arlier this week the OPS gave thousands of manufacturers, proces- sors, refiners and others—includ- ing businesses preparing meat, milk, butter and other foods for the retail market—permission to apply for higher ceiling prices. And the Bureau of Labor statistics reported that retail food prices reached a new high on Nov. 15. The bureau said an eight-city sur- vey pushed its index up to 231.2, compared to the 1935-1939 average of 100. That was about 14 percent above pre-Korea prices. Juneau Singers (hristmas Program Week from Sunday One of the lighter features of the Juneau Singers program next Sun- day afternoon, December 16, at. the Twentieth Century Theatre, will be the “Skaters’ Walte' b .- and |, Mrs. Bill Barringtbm mi‘%{ngfiss’ Anyone who has seen the Barring- tons folk dancing, SQu§) édang;g or ballroom danging E\OWS»( 5 specialty will be an outstanding attraction and greatly enjo . Th theme “Winter: ! Wondédand (il pe carried,out in song, gayly col- ored outdoor costuming, and set-| ting. Among the popular songs will be White Christmas, Jingle Bells| (a very special arrangement) and W:inter Wonderland. Jimmy Leath Taken To Orthopedic Hospital At Mt Edgecumbe Little Jimmy -Leath, hospitalized since féceiving 'a stab wound in the chest fromhl$ father-on Nov. 24; i} being ‘taken to the Orthopedic. hos- pital®at Mt Edgecumbe today, It ‘1§ expected that he will im~ prove and may probably Le dis- charged from the hospital; within & couple of “iweeks,. the -attending pHysieian said. is father,-Mel Leath, died last week from stab wounds inflicted on H 4 himselt. §o0 oEb TheWashin.gtdAh Merry-Go-Round (Copy:ight, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By 'DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Another mink coat has been dancing around the Justice Department—or, rather, the ghost 'of a mink coat. It’s one of these will-0’-the-wisp, now-you-see- it-now-you-don’t-see-it garments that was seen on the wife of a Jus- tice- Department official about a year ago, but which is seen no more. The coat, beautiful as it was sup- poséd to be, is probably not as im- porfant as some of the political maneuvering around the Alien Pro- perty Custodian. The general public may not realize it, but the Alien Property Custodian handles mil- lions of dollars worth of property seized from the Germans, Japanese and Italians during the war. However, a mink coat worn by the wife of a government official these days is getting to be like arson, sabotage or treason, so I went down to the Justice Department to inves- tigate. The husband of the lady, Harold Baynton, the Alien Property Custod- ian, I had never met before. He seemed like a nice guy and willing to open up every detail of his life; so I felt sort of like Mr. District (Continued on Page 4) d i fi son, Vallejo, Calif: Fairbanks Posse Capt Madman; Save Kidnapped Baby Affer Snowy Chase in Sub-Zero Weather Life's Game [s (alled on Jack Langseth Jack Langseth, oldest of oldtime printers in this section of Alaska, and a 33rd degree baseball fan, died suddenly yesterday afternoon on the city bus as it rounded the corn- er at the baseball park. His parents brought him to Min- nesota when he was seven years old. He came to Douglas in 1908 and was married in Juneau in 1918. He worked on the Douglas Island News, Dispatch, Record-Miner and the Daily Alaska Empire in the days when the papers were set by hand. He saw the linotype replace . the men who hand-set the day’s news. Mr. Langseth played baseball and umpired in the Gastineau Channel area for years. Whenever an ar- gument developed about a play in o a long-gone local game his record | their rooms, leaving the baby un- books were dug out to settle the disputed point. He was active on the Juneau and | Douglas volunteer fire departments and was a member of the hose team of the Juneau department be- fore there were fire engines. In re- cent years he was elevator operator in the Goldstein Building He would have been 66 years old December 14, pasing away one week before his birthday. He was born ‘in Trondjen, Norway. Mr. Langseth was a member of the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows and a long-time member of the Pioneers. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Josephine Langseth, and three daughters, Mrs. James Owings, Talladee, Ga., Mrs. James Glea- ton, St. Petersburg, Fla., and Mrs. ! Roy Eaton,. Anchorage, and seven grandchildren. Langseth is also survived by o brothers, Andrew Langseth of Ketchikan and Rasmus Langseth uf‘ tle, two sisters, Mis, Iver Han- 'Seattle, and Mss. Ji C Johg- i neral arrangements are to be Shadounced later. The, remains, fire at the Carter Momuery It s ye- quested that no fléwérs be ‘sent to the funeral. Instead, it is asked that the money be sent to the Alas- ka Tukerculosis Association. Defense Head Quits Because of Secial Security Payments Col.” Earl C. Landreth, director of civil defense for Alaska, has ten- dered his - resignation to Gov. Ernest Gruening, giving as his rea- son that he objected paying Social Security because it might lead to a situation he terthed “unethical, if; not immoral.” Gov. Gruening accepted Col. Landreth’s resignation, stating his J{wekret and complimenting him for ‘the work he had done since his appointment last July. Gov. Gruening announced that Col. James C. Crockett has been; appointed acting Civil Defense Di- rector. Col. Crockett has been CuLi Landreth’s assistant. Col. Landreth, in his letter of resignation, said he objected to hav- ing Social Security payments with- held from his salary as Civil De- fense Director. He said, “After three and one- half years I could draw against Social Security to the extent of $80 a month. My total payments would only come to $189. To me, this is wholly unsound. Under the system of handling funds for this Service, it is entirely possible that any event of shortages in the Social Security fund will have to be met from the federal treasury. “Under such circumstances, the acceptance of any .benefits from the act would, in my case, be un- ethical, if not immoral.” He said he realiged he could re- fuse to accept such payments, but | that in contributing to the fund he would be supporting a proposi- tion which he could not support. He said that he had enjoyed his work and his relations with those he worked with and under, but felt, he must quit because of the above reason. AT THE BARANOF Link . Williams of Anacortes, Wash,, is a guest a tthe Baranof Hotel. e EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY o ures Screaming FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 8—(® —Maniacal screams led a police posse in the black night yesterday to a demented trapper who ran barefoot through the snow in 41 below zero weather with a 10- month-old baby dangling by the heels. He wore a flapping | the baby a diaper. | Strangely, the child appeared to | have suffered no lasting ill effects nightgown; Heavy Task Faces Weary Tax Probers WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 — (B — Weary House Tax Investigators took a week-end respite today be- fore plunging anew into their ef- fort to unsnarl a tangle of charges about an alleged tax shakedown attempt. The temporary halt in the hear- ings coincided with a published re- |irom its hour and 45 minute ex- | posure to the bitter cold. The trap- per, Willlam Burke, about 30, Nen- ana, Alaska, froze his feet. The eerie kidnaping of the baby | occurred after Burke escaped from |a hospital where he was under | treatment for a mental disorder. He became unbalanced while trap- [ping alone in the wilderness north of Nenana. In quick succession: Burke burst shouting into the ) of Mr. and Mrs, William T. Dyer, who had left their five child- iren in the care of their oldest son, | Bill, 13. They scurried, terrified, to | rrotected in its crib. The madman snatched up the infant by the heels and ran scream- ing through the night. Just too late, Bill remezabered a rifle in the house grabbed it up and bravely went back to the front room. It was empty. While he barricaded the door | and sat on guard with the rifle on his knees, every police officer | in the Fairbanks area, highway patrolmen and Marshal's deputies formed a posse and fanned out. Burke's full-throated shrieks| pointed them to him. He was found | in the brushland near the Alaska Railroad terminal,.still holding the | bhaby upside down. The brother, Bill, meanwhile, re- | mained grimly protecting the other‘: children. He refused to open the, door. even police, and not until | L6 Putas Muned world e vl | his vigil. | Police Chief Ray = Skelton said Burke was picked up by a bush pilgt along his trap line after his | | | | “alone. He had been hospitalized oy’ one day. } Truce Talks 0 o Deadlocked, But Hope Seen By ROBERT B, TUCKMAN MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 8 — # — United Nations negotiators today made another unsuccessful effort to break the long deadlock over polic- ing a truce in Korea. The Reds rebuffed all UN. over- tures and again said “no” to every .key U.N. proposal for supervising an armistice. After five hours of debate in which tempers on both sides of the conference table became frayed, the two-man subcommittees appeared no nearer an agreement whici would break the 12-day deadlock. Nonetheless, some observers saw hope of a compromise solution soon. Tl'hy believe the negotiations have reached the hard bargaining stage which frequently comes just before an agreement is hammered out. In Tokyo, general headquarters accused the Communists of “at- tempting to pour supplies, equip- ment and men intgp North Korea” while the armistice talks are under- way. In a lengthy harangue, North Ko- rean Maj. Gen. Lee Song Gho flatly rejected five points the U.N. Allies insist must be included in any truce supervision agreement. Lee said the Communists would: 1. Insist on the right to rebuild damaged airfields and construct new bases in North Korea. 2. Refuse to concede the UN. demand for rotation of troops and replacement of equipment during an armistice. 3. Demand that the U.N. Allies evacuaté islands off the coast of North Korea and withdraw all naval forces from coastal waters. 4. Insist on rear area inspection only at mutually agreed ports of entry and refuse United Nations demands for unlimited reconnais- sance and the use of communica- tions lines hy observer teams. 5. Reject the United Nations proposal for a single armistice com- mission to supervise the truce and insist on a joint U.N.-Communist commission with a separate organi- zation of neutral nations to provide observer teams. | dogé came to a nearby.settlement port about a housecleaning in gov- ernment. The Washington Post said Mr. Truman hopes to announce such a move before the new year although the story added he has not decided on a definite plan of action. Among the things Mr. Truman “has been turning over in his mind,” the Post said, are: Assignment of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to seek out cor- ruption in the government service. Appointment of a team of big- rame lawyers, one a Republican and the other a Democrat, to prosecute any govermment offi- cials charged with wrong-doing. The House probers yesterday heard testimony of Abraham Teit- elbaum, wealthy Chicago lawyer. Teitelbaum told the probers two men claiming connections with high Washington officials had| threatened him with tax troubles unless ke paid off to the tune of $500,000. Teitelbaum told a House Ways and Means subcommittee one of the officials named to him as a member of the alleged government “clique” was Charles Oliphant, who resigned Wednesday as chief ccunsel of the Internal Revenue Burean with an angry denial of the charge. Oliphant had been scheduled testify yesterdag he at the last minute Subse g A Oliphant ould have delayed il fraud prose- cution of Teitelbaum’s income tax case at about the time Teitelbaum glleged he refused to be shaken| down. When the subcommittee resumes [its-hearings Monday, it plans to re- call former assistant attorney gen- cral T. Lamar Caudle, the ousted Justice Department’s chief tax prosecutor. Attorney General J. Howard Mc- Grath is due to be called Tuesday for a discussion of Caudle's activ- ities, with former Internal Revenue Commissioner George J. Schoene- man to follow. New Service by Alaska Steam Next Season SEATTLE, Dec. 8—(P—Alaska| Sleamship Co. passenger vessels will expand their service next year, | | | | | general traffic manager H. N. Pei- | erson announced today. Steamers Baranof, Denali, Alaska and Aleutian will continue twice-a- week service from Seattle on a 12- day round trip schedule. However, they will extend their ports of call. For instance, all vessels will call at Juneau, and ships will call at Sitka weekly instead of every two weeks. Also, for the first time since the war an Alaska. Railroad stream- liner will run a one-day round trip to Anchorage in connection with each passenger ship’s Seward visit Doubleheader Is Played at Douglas In a doubleheader basketba game played in the Douglas Hig School gymnasium last night, Mike got back in the win column by de- feating the Alaska Road Commis- sion 49 to 37. The Douglas Hig! Huskies downed an aggressive Country Club quintet 38 to 30 for their fourth win in five starts. 1 TIDE TABLES DECEMBER 9 Low tide 4:39 am., 43 It High tide 11:00 a.m., 168 ft Low tide- 5:38 pm., 08 it DECEMBER 10 High tide Midnight 14.2 ft Low tide 5:31 am. 451! High tide 11:44 am., 171 ® Low tide 6:23 p.m. ® 00 00000 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . ° . | '5 Furious Air Batties Over Korea SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 8—(®—Uni- ted Nations and CommuniSt jets fought five furious air battles high over North Korea today as clearing Iskies brought the swift planes out in force after a one-day lay-off. The U. 8. Fifth Air Force said two Communist MIGs were dam- aged and that vastly outnumbered American Sabre jets came through the battles unscathed. The MIGs were hit in a swirling afternoon dog fight between 15 Sabres and 60 Red jets over Sin- anju Earlier in the afterndon, a flight of Sabre jets tangled with 60 MIGs | for about 10 minutes, but the Fifth Air Force said neither side could get in position to fire. Allied pilots spotted large numbers of MIGS in sweeps over North Korea Saturday, the Air Force said, but the Communist fliers in most cases showed little desire to fight. While no UN planes were lost in aerial combat, one F-84 thunderjet was shot down by Communist anti- aireraft gunners. The Air Force said the pilot landed in the ocean off the west coast of Korea and was picked up by a Third Air Rescue Sguadron flying boat. Gas F;;F—I;res Out of Contrel Near Pt. Barrow FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 8—P —Natural gas pouring from one of the Navy’s exploratory oil wells #4F Point Barrow, at the northern ¥t Alaska, caught fire Thursday was reported still burning out itrol yesterday. Y engineers here said no _ ‘were injured but the steel derrick over the well probably wauld be a complete loss. Cause of the fire was not dis- closed. The well, in the Navy's Point Barrow oil reserve deep in the arctic, is located in mountainous terrain givemw the name of Gubik by the Navy’s oil seekers. American Military Air Crashes By the Associated Press The crash of a U.S. Air Force fly- |ing boxcar in Japan’s Inland Sep today (Saturday) brought to 30 the possible death toll in three widely l\vparat,ed smash-ups of American military craft. In Tokyo, the Air Force said one injured crewman had been picked | up, three bodies had been recovered |and a fifth airman is missing. The plane was on a flight between bases in Japan. Sixteen men are missing on 2 | B-29 Superfort which crashed in the sea on a flight between the Azores and Bermuda. Another ten ;‘:re lost on a C-47 cargo plane 'which hit a peak in southern | France. Both these crashes occur- |red Thursday, but were not re- ;um'wd until yesterday. Air searchers near Cuges-Les- | Pins, France, found the wreckage f the C-47 today but saw no sign f life. The plane was enroute from Tripoli, Libia, to Marseille. Wreckage ‘of the B-29 and one body were .reported found yester- day. Searchers for the Superfort have been hampered by hard rain and moderately high seas. The C-47 was the third U.S. Air Force plane lost in Europe in less than four weeks. One C-47 was | forced down Nov. 19 while over Red Hungary, and its crew of four was taken into custody. | A Flying Boxcar crashed in | Southern France, Nov. 13, killing all | 36 servicemen aboard. SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS 1 |S. Twenhofel, chief of the United I States Geological Survey in Alaska. States Pictures production “Di Warner Bros, introduces Alaska's This year the plates are white with Thoese desiring special numbers Simpson Building, registration of vehicles is required. by the headquarters office of the $50; and over 18,001 pounds, $75. theau Federal- {Employee, Wife Face Court Suit CLEVELAND, Dec. 8—(P—A court quarrel is in progress here over the two children of the wife of William Mrs, Elizabeth Twenhofel, a Clev- elander, is being sued by her former husband, Francis A. Stejer, a gov- srnment geologist in Washington. Twenhofel fcrmerly was Stejer’s boss in Alaska. Stejer wants the court to do two :h}ngs: (1) Punish Mrs. Twenhofel for violating 2 court order forbidding hersto take her two children to Ju- aeau, Alaska, for a visit to her new husband, last summer. Con-' tempt of court carries a maximum 10-day jail sentence and $500 fine. (2) Award him $105,000 in an alienation of affections suit against Twenhofel and his ex-wife’s parents, Mr .and Mrs. Willlam H. Robinson of Cleveland. The Robinsons are named because he sald they en- souraged his wife to marry Twen- hofel, even though they knew Twen- 10fel then was married. For her part,\Mrs. Twenhofel is 1sking the court to set aside the oresent court order and allow her t0 take her children, Charles, 7, and Sharon, 4, to Juneau to live #ith her huspand. The hearing—with all the prin- Jeipals on hand—resumed today. JUNEAU VISITOR Ray 8. Crawford of Anchorage arrived here yesterday on PNA and is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. FROM MT. EDGE MBE Miriam Pawliski of Mt. Edge- cumbe is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. CONTRACTOR HERE James A. McGillvray, Ketchikan contractor, is stoppjng at the Bar- anof Hotel, Denali scheduled to sail from Se- attle today. Baranof scheduled to arrive southbound Sunday at 11 p.m. | _love_ly_ Miss-Also Auto Plafes Lovely Mari Alden, Gary Cooper's leading lady in the United nt Drums," soon to be released by The plates will go on sale December 15. The Juneau City Clerk’s office will handle the sale in Juneau. tion before December 15, dircotly to the tax collector’s office in the Under the new motor vehicle act passed by the last legislature, The fee for passenger cars is $10; motorcycles, $5; taxicahs, $20. All other vehiclen are- Hoontsd peeosfinn $o walpht=-7500 paundy or less, $15; 3,501 up to 12,000 pounds, $25; 12,001 up to 18,000 pounds, | was |ll' Edition PRICE TEN CENTS Volcano Confinues Erupting Fear Felt that Parts of One Area Might Sink Info Sea MANILA, Dec. 8—(P—Lava spew- ed from four holes near the top of Mount Hibok Hibok today as the volcano continued its eruption in- to the fifth day. The holes were marked by four glowing Red spots that could be seen clearly through the smoke and steam swirling around the peak on Camiguin Island in'the southern Philippines. Fissures .opened in the earth near Mabajao on the northern coast of the island. These brought fear that parts of Camiguin might sink Into the sea. Constabulary troops and rescue 1952 automobile license plates. blue numerals, from 1 to 100 may make applica- Certificates of title will be issued Department of Taxation here. | ! Baflefidérs Of Juneau GetPay Raise creases for nearly 1,000 Pacific northwest and Alaska workers were approved today by the regional wage stabilization board in major cases of 22 acted upon in a two- workers were evacuated hastily by boat from the Mabajao area after the cracks appeared. Philippines news service sald also it had received an uncon- firmed report that part of the village of Panasan, west of Ma- Bajao, had sunk into the sea. Voleano experts in Manila dis- counted the report. They said suoh a sinking of the earth near an erupting volcano would have shown on seismographs here. The ilight of Camiguin residents to nearby Mindanao and other is- lands continued through Saturday. Juan Pagalan, chief clerk in the Mabajao = treasurery office, leld the Philippines news' service he didn’t believe rore than' 10 percent of the 2,300 persons living in the hardest-hit areas survived the first sudden downpour of hot ashes and | rocks ‘Tuesday. Mayor Eliton Limbaco said more than 1,000 are buried under the Cowgirl fo Tell Alaska "Movies Betfer than Ever’ SEATTLE, Dec. 8—(M—Carolina Cotton, singing cowgirl of -the movies, will leave here Monday for Alaska to spread the word that mo- tion pictures are “better than ever.” She is the first goodwill ambas- SEATTLE, Dec. 8—(P—Wage in- sador to be dispatched by the “movietime U.S.A” program launched nation-wide in October— beyond the continental limits of the United States. Miss Cotton will fly via Alaska Airlines to Fairbanks, where she day session. % The board vdféd 17-1 ‘(one public membér dissenting) to approve a petition of 22 establishments be- longing to the Juneau, Alaska, Bar Owners Association and indepen- dents and the AFL Bartender’s In- ternational League for an increase from $15 to $17 in the base daily pay for 68 bartendefs., Other increases also were sanctioned for'split shift rates, part days, etc. The action came within the WSB 10 percent formula, Dr. Duncan Chalmers To Head Sanaforium At Mt. Edgecumbe. - Dr. Duncan M. Chaimers has been appointed medical officer in charge of the Mt. Edgecumbe sana- torium, it was annotnced by the Alaska Native Service today. He was in charge of the Bethel Hospital which burned in Novem- ber of 1850. The hespital was op- crated by the native service. Re- cently, Dr. Chalmers was director of the community hospital at Hale Center, Texas. Autoists on Highway Are Given Warning Autoists along the Glacier high- way are given warning of the icy condition of the road beyond the paving. The highway, early this morning, was glare ice and traveling most difficult. On the loop road three cars were in the ditch and from Auke Bay to the airport five cars had slid off the highway. EQUIPMENT MAN HERE John H. Anderson of the Yukon Freighter Casslar due to arrive Dec. 12. Freighter Flemish Knot sched- | uled to sall from Seattle today. Equipment Co., from Anchorage is | at the Baranof Hotel. | — LMPIRE WANT ADS PAY — ‘will make personal appearances. In addition to representing “mov- ietime U.SA.” in Alaska, Miss Cot- ton will carry thousands of mess- |-ages from children throughout the i nationt to Santa Claus at the north | pole. She has appeared in many “west- jerns” and is billed as the feminine yodelirig champion of America. Boxer, Rookie ,0' Year Get Thrill PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8 — (A — “Next to winning the heavyweight title from Ezzard Charles last sum- mer, this is the biggest thrill of my life,” sald Jersey Joe Walcott today on his selection as “Boxer of the Year.” Standing alongside the 37-year- old veteran was young Gil Turner who was just as pleased with his selection by the Boxing Writers' Assoclation as “Rookie of the Year.” Turner said he was going to try and justify the award by “winning the welterweight championship.” e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU Temperatures for 24-Hour Period At Airport: Maximum, 38; Minimum, 33. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Cloudy with rain tonight with southeasterly winds 15 to 25 mph. Mostly cloudy Sunday with occasional mixed rain and snow. Low tonight near 35 degrees. High Sunday near 38. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 bours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Alport — 033 inches; since July 1-—18.86 inches. 0 00 0 0 0 00 eeevcee