The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 10, 1951, Page 1

" Four Months Late VASHINGTON, D o THE DAILY ALAS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MON DAY, DECEMBER 10, .1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,986 Miss Television Exchange of Prisoners Big Issue UN Blasts Reds with Holding of UN Prisoners for Blackmail, Ransom By 0. H. P. KING MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 10—P— The United Nations command today demanded an answer tomorrow from the Communists on the Allied pro-| posal to start immediate negotia- tions for exchange of prisoners of | ¥ war in Korea. There was no indica- tion what the Red reply will be. The Reds have stood pat on their de- mand that the UN answer their proposal for behind-the-lines in- spection by representatives of neu- tral nations before discussing pri- soners. UN negotiators said the matter still is under study. From Tokyo, the United Nations radio Monday night lambasted the Communists in one of the bit- terest attacks from an Allied source. It accused the Reds of holding UN prisoners for black- mail and ransom to win their point on the question of policing an armistice. | Miss Phillis Maygers, The Allies in effect told the Com- | (above), 19, of Baltimore, Md., carried off munists ‘at Panmunjom Mond;_ay to| $13,000 in prizes wlin she was quit stalling on the prisoner ISSUE. | ;0med “Miss U. S. Television of They told the Reds that an Allied 1952 The pretty brunette was liaison officer will be in Panmun- jom at '10:30 a.m. Tuseday (5:30 PST" Monday) for their answer. And a one-man UN subcommittee will be ready to start negotiationsgs for the exchange of prisoners 2% | hours later. | | | Joint subcommittees working on (audle Knew | arrangements for enforcing a truce selected from among 13 finalists in national competition, held at Chicago. (P Wirephoto. | met only 41 minutes Monday. They | quit as far apart as ever but sched- |/ Iory o ax Tuesday (6 p.m. PST Monday). Excerpts from the UN radio broadeast were distributed to cor- respondents in Tokyo by Gen. Mat- a bulletin labeled “not an omcial‘ WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 — B — release.” | T. Lamarr Caudle acknowledged to- | The broadcast declared that the|gqo yhat he heard last August of Communists “have made hoaLaE(‘S\,m alleged attempted “tax fix” camps” by . their apparent refusal|paum He said he called Frank Nat- to talk about exchanging prisoncrs|pan on the telephone and bawled | unless the UN gives in to their de- | pjm out for “bandying” his name. mands for policing the truce. House tax investigators recessed i whether Caudle, then an assistant | attorney ncnvml took any further ,'lc’mn than the telephone call after H 'rom A'aska ‘he got wind of the sensational story | ome e | Teitelbaum, a Chic; lin times past has repre: | Capone, testified that Nathan and uled another /ession - fov il am..| Fix Shakedown thew B. Ridgway’s headquarters in of all UN prisoners still alive in Red | hoxe down of Abraham Teitel- - for luncheon without developing Pori Company Gels ; weitelbaum told publicly last Tues- SEATTLE, Dec. 10—®—The men | g..; g Nagter sought $500,000 from of the 79th Transportation POr|pn jagt April under threat he | Company are home again t0day—2 | youlq have “tax troubles. mere four months late on What Was " Apng he said they told him there | to have been a 90-day tour of duty | was a “clique” in Alaska. | cluding Caudle, The 194 men arrived here aboard | «goft touches.” the MSTS yessel, James O'Hara. All those named promptly branded The unit-has “jgenstationed in | rejtelbaum’s story’ as false — Nat- Seattle before it was ordered north | |han under oath in the witness late last spring for a three month chair of the House Ways and Means stretch. But the need for men|sybcommittee investigating tax ir- trained in handling cargo became regularities. so great that the unit had to stay| Today, the committee called I. T. four months longer, | Conen, an Atlanta tax attorney, as The company is under the com- | its first witness. in Washington in which locked for i [dree Vance of Fairbanks, Alaska) | Irise much higher when |in that city of 100,000 were wreck- North Pole, Santa Plane Is Delayed SEATTLE, Dec. 10—(®—Weather and engine trouble grounded an Alaska Airlines DC-4 early today, felaying the start of a scheduled light to the North Pole with a real pole and a sack of letters for Santa. Alaska Airlines officials weather permitting, the p fly to Point Barrow, Al varture point on the 2600-mile yglar flight, sometime today. Thi (light to the pole will be made to- morrow. The airliner was to have taken off from Paine Field north of here last night. When trouble develop- ed in one engine, after an earlier delay due to weather, maintenance men held up the flight to get the| four-engined ship in periect shape for the hazardous 12-hour flight ovér the frozen Arctic wasteland. The especially-outfitted plane will carry by “North Pole Nellie” said, e would ka, de (Mrs. Au- | from children throughout Alaska and the states. Mrs. Vance will make the trip as stewardess for the flight. The airliner's cargo also will in clude Stan Garson’s North Pole—, a red and white striped steel cyl- | inder, who originated the idea of | planting a real pole at the pole, ' probably won't make the trip. The airline said Civil Aeronautics Ad- | ministration rules will permit only employees aboard during the polar ! flight. An Air Force navigator will ac- company the flight—the first by a commercial airliner over the Nor m | Pole. A special release hatch has been\ constructed in the plane’s tail to] drpp. the and the sack of mail, at the upproxxmwte site of thei North Pole. Typhoon Hits Island Area in Philippines | Ravaged by Volcano MANILA, Dec. 10—®—The worst typhoon of the year tore across the central Philippines Monday, caus- ing widespread casualties and dam- age and increasing the woes of vol- cano-ravaged Camiguin Island. First casualty reports listed 14/ dead, 17 injured and 92 missing, !mosuy at Cebu City and Ioilo. | propriety | | | \ ' Thousands of persons were home- |less. Casualties were expected to isolated nolnts reported. Officials estimated damage round- iy at several million dollars. The +Chief of Police of Cebu! |city on Cebu Island reported that 90 percent of the light buildings | ed or badly damaged. AP correspondent Frank L. White reported from Cebu City that in addition many, mone substantial buildings were unroofed, electric power was out, and hundreds of persons were homeless. He sent his report by wireless from the freighter Elizabeth Bohnhofen, which rode out the storm offshore. mand of Capt. Benny F.-Longwill. Cohen said Teitelbaum told him jof the alleged attempted extortion, | and that he passed it on to Caudle, | who was a friend of his, on Aug. 20. He said he gave Caudle such de- FROM KETCHIKAN E. E. Reagan of Ketchikan is re- gistered at. the Baranof Hotel. The Washington Merry - Go- Round Copyright, mn. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON — With the re- | lease pf Yugoslav Archbishop Step- inac from prison this week and a favorable statement regarding this from the Vatican, one of the most important sources of friction be- tween Yugoslavia and the Catholic world should be removed. No. 1 result should be greater protection for Italy and the Vati- can. For the Yugoslav army is the chief protection of Italy on the northeast. If the Red army should strike, its first objective would be the Adriatic coast, just two hours’ bombing distance from Rome. In talking to the Yugoslav Em- ‘bassy during my éxchange of let- ters with Tito regarding the release of the Archbishop, I became con- vinced that the Yugoslav govern- ment is anxious to bring about complete religious freedom. * Recently, 'flu National Catholic S| X tails ds Teitelbaum’s account of getting a mysterious telephone call from a man who, speaking in a gut- teral voice with a German accent, advised him to “play along” with the tax fix. Cohen -quoted Caudle as com- menting: “That might be Grunewald. He is a Dutchman.” “Henry Grunewald, a will-of-the- wisp private igvestigator here, is scheduled to be a witness later in the hearings. Steck Quotations NEW YCRE,.Dec. 10—P—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 111%, American Tel. and Tel. 159, Anaconda 50, General Electric 577%, | General Motors 51%, Goodyear 44%, Kennecott 87%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 68, Standard Oil .of California 50%, Twentieth Century Fox 19%, US. Steel 40%, Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange 98.18. Sales today were 1,340,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 267.36, rails 83.58, util- ities 46.58. FROM ANCHORAGE R. C. Caldwell of Anchorage is | He said the wind reached up to 125 miles an hour. iran Threatens Oil Sale fo Russia Unless West Buys TEHRAN, Iran, Dec. 10—(A—Iran threatened indirectly today to offer 25 rillion tons of oil products for sale to Russia or her satel- lites unless western buyers take it off Iran’s hands almost immediate- ly. Deputy Premier Hossein Fatemi told a news conference that Iran’s diplomatic representatives abroad will deliver notices within the next three days giving the western buyers 10 days to buy the oil, now in stor- age tanks at Abadan. This action was announced as 33 opposition deputies and newspaper editors remained camped inside the Parliament building. They claim 5,000 letters to Santa collected | § |inv First at Met Janet Collins gives her costume and make-up a last check in dressing room mirror during in- termission of opening night per- formance of Verdi's “Aida” at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City. Miss Collins, of New Orleans, La., is the first negro dancer to be. featured in the Mct Ballet. ® Wirephoto. Demo Chairman 'And Friend Each ‘Make Fast $68,000 WASHINGTON, Dec. 10— B — ‘ank McKinney, Democratic Nfi-wLome Smith, referring to the flier tional Chairman, said today he and | Frank M. McHale, his close pohu- cal friend, each made a fast $68,000 | ‘profit on investments of $1,000 apiece made in 1946. McKinney told ,a mews confer- ence “no political influence or im- ere involved.” Angr] he charged that news- paper headlines describing the pro- fit were so phrased they might make his children “think their |father was a damn crook.” Records of a bankruptey proceed- ings in Philadelphia give McKin- ney'’s profit as $74,000 on the $1,000 ted in common stock of the mpire Tractor Corp., of Phila- delphia, but McKinney said that figure is “inaccurate.” “Is it criminal, is it unlawful for a Democrati¢ Chairman to hold business interests?” McKinney de- manded at the mews conference “If some people had their way, you would have to go to some abbey and choose a monk to head the parfy.” Washingion Farm (8| ment house telephoned the News- | Fairbanks Blacked Out FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 10— (®--A power failure blacked out Fairbanks for seven hours Friday night and shut off electricity-oper- ated heating systems in 45-below- Jzero weather. Many residents in homes with automatic coal stokers or oil burm- ers stayed up all night stoking furnaces with wood chopped from boxes, Frank Mapleton, utilities, man= ager, said an overloaded cable burn- ed, cuiting off the power supply from 9 pm. to 4 am. Only .build- ing with private generating facil- ities had lights. Power was restored with a tem- Dorary circuit, but residents were asked to ration themselves until permanent repairs are made. i Heating plants in many large , drpartment projects failed com- Pletely during the power blackout ~—or freezeout. One large, apartment house re- ported temperatures inside the building dropped to 20 degrees above zero. Another reported plumb- ing froze indoors. Many residents reported temperatures down to 10 !above inside the house after heat- {ing plants folded. Plumbers were flooded with calls to thaw inside water lines and plumbing. One lady living in an apart- ! Miner to report that her cosmet- ics on her dresser froze solid. ‘The city was trying to rig up new | cables. Meanwhile power was bé- ing supplied to consumers on a ro- tation system. Each district in the |city took a 30-minute blackout at regular intervals so the peak load could be kept down on the tempor- i system. Prenken "Dilof’ \Didn’t Even Have Driver's litense DALLAS, Ga., Dec. 10—P—"He's 1got us stumped,” said Ponce Chief | i | he arrested for drunkenness after a plane crash yesterday. | “He missed the airport by nearly | two miles,” Smith related. “As a | matter of fact, he was so drunk he | didn’t even know we had an air- | port.” ! The chief said the flier's name is; | Bob Cabaniss and he cracked up a small plane in a plowed field half a mile from the Pauling County court- house and just beyond a residential area. “He had a gash on his forehead it took two stitches close, but he wasn't complaining of pain,” Smith continued. We aren’t sure where he’s from. He told me he was from Atlanta. He told the sheriff he was from Macon, Ga. He told fthe‘state patrol he was from somewhere else. In all, I think he’s given about 16 dif- ferent home towns.” Did he have a pilot’s license? “Nope,” replied Smith, “he didn't Seven Hours = Seeks Rescind Appealing . Pear! Ittigiah, 6, pitsent President Truman asking investigating the order. By the Associated Press Shrieking winds swept Southern California today, flailing erops, sandblasting automobiles and snarl- ing transportation — air, sea and land. Blasts, up to 75 miles an hour whipped the smoke from smudge- pots with which growers fought to save their crops from temperatures that plummeted as low as 15 de- grees Sunday. Gale-whipped desert sands scoured the paint from automobiles in the San Berhardino area. The wind stripped palm trees, littered highways so badly that many wer closed to traffic. Air travel shut down. Toppled powerlines cul off electricity to sections of San Bernardino, Ontario, Sun Valley. Canoga Park and Reseda. AU but the largest ships were warned off the seas. Two students who set out in a skiff on a fishing trip in the Malibu area were missing and believed swept out to sea Sunday was the coldest Dec the Los Angeles weather bu: 75-year history, with 32. The all- time low, recorded in January, 1649, was 27.9. But elsewhere in the nation, the weather was seasonable. There were snow flurries from the Great Lakes southeastward to the Appalachian 9 in have a pilot’s license. He didn't 2ven have a driver’s license.” No liquor bottles were found in the wreckage. Smith said the plane flew low over town — “it just missed some rooftops” — and crashed about 100 yards from the nearest house. The plane did not appear to be in any ‘rouble, he added. Couple Murderer Dies on Gallows WALLA WALLA, Wash,, Dec. 10 —{m—Twenty-nine year old Gran! Rio paid with his life on state peni- tentiary gallows early today for the New Year’s Eve slaying two year ago of a Riperia, Wash, ran and farmhand. ’ The farm laborer from Spokane Wash., steel-nerved to th S moved calmly from his des cell to gallows in the nearby exect- tion chamber at midnight i trap was sprung at 12:06 a.m. (P and the prison physician nounced Rio dead 19 minutes later. Rio, convicted of the 1949 murder of James Beckner, 20, and Beck- ner’s farm hand, Joseph Roberge, 25, on a southern Whitman county farm, held sonie hope for a stay of scheduled :ometime Sunday. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle on Friday. Freighter Cassiar due to arrive Denali southbound Dec. 12. Freighter Flemish Knot sched- uled to arrive from Seattle Dec. 14 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU Temperatures for 24-Hour Period At Airport: Maximum, 43; minimum, 37. “government gangsters” are threat- ening their lives. They have drafted a formal appeal to the United Na- tions charging the government of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh is violating their fundamental human rights. ‘The opposition has charged Moss- adegh with plotting last Thursday’s kloody rioting in order to crush all resistance. under guise of an anti-Communist crusade. execution until the last even though the courts had rejected his last aP- peals. Rio was granted one stay — & 60-day reprieve by the U.S. Supreme Court last July to review the but subsequent appeals failed FORECAST (Juneau’ and Vicinity) Cloudy with rain tonight and e Tuesday. Lowest temperature ® tonight around 38 degrees. ® Highest Tuesday near 44. ase— PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Afrport — 0.14 inches; since July 1—19.35 inches. ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FROM ANCHORAGE ‘ul‘mdllrsACSw < amily of -Anchorage are regen at the Baranof Hotel. ®000000000000000000 0 e AT R SR I e 1 2 B I B B S s . ey mountains: Colder air chilled the New England and Western Gul states, but it warmed up slightly in the central plains. It remained cold in the west. Death Hits Twice Over $16,000 Check OAKLAND, Calif,, Dec. 10—#— | Death’ struck twice over a $16,000 check. | On Nov. 19, bank officials told Charles P. McCoy, 74, that the $16,- 000 check given him my Charles V. Going, 61, was no good. McCoy fell dead. Today ‘two police inspectors knocked on the door of Going's house, They wanted to arrest the broker who had handled McCoy’s investments, on a grand theft war- rant. A shot rang out. Inside, the officers found Going dead, a re- volver nearby. holds Aliskan non-scheduled airlines say will put them out of business. The airlines will fly Pearl to New York to meet Senate committee Children at the Fairbanks, Alaska ceremony seem fascinated by photugrapher » Wircpholo‘ Freezmg Gale 'Hiya!, Rips Through }Glrl So. California To President lf World Situation Canvassed WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 — (B — President Truman canvassed “the world situation” with top military and political advisers today, but “no policy decisions. were made” at the 70-minute conference. The White House said the dis- cussions included the Korean ar- mistice negotiations but were not confined to that subject. Mr. Truman, who cut short his Florida vacation by a week to fly baek to Washington yesterday, met in the cabinet room of the White House with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and top figures in the State and Defense departments. Presidential Secretary Joseph Short told newsmen: “This meeting this morning dis- cussed the world situation. No policy decisions were made.” He said the conference was at- tended by Secretary of Defense Lovett, Acting Secretary of State Webb and the secretaries of the three armed services. Undersec- retary Whitehair substituted for Secretary of the Navy Kimball, Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sat in with the Chiefs of Staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force. H. Freeman Matthews, deputy undersecretary of state also attended.. Short was questioned about the Dec. 27 deadline for settlement of jmany issues involved in the Korean negotiations. “Korea was among the subjects discussed,” Short said. Publisher Is fFrom Nobrash LINCOLN, Dec, 10—M—Fred A. Seaton, Hastings, Nebr., publisher more milk for Alaska, stepped from |today was appointed U.S. Senator a plane here Saturday and sipped;from Nebraska to succeed the late her first taste of fresh milk. | Republican floor leader, Senator “I like it,” she said. Kenneth 8. Wherry. The appoint- The six-year-old girl, Pearl Itti- | ment was made by Republican Gov- giah, who made the 5,00-mile)ernor Val Peterson. flight here with her mother, said| Seaton, 42, will serve until a suc- that when she sees the president,!cessor is elected at the general elec- she'll say to him: | tion next November and qualified “Hiya, Mr, President, T came a! by the state canvassing board. long way to see you.” He is a midwest leader of the A group of 11 admiring New York ' Harold E. Stassen for President children met the dark-eyed lmlel!orces and has served two terms as girl, who was clad in white parkaa state senator in the Nebraska and moceasins, at LaGuardia Field. | one-house legislature. ¢ They presented her with six quarts of milk, Pearl, daughter of an Eskimo chieftain of the Athabascan tribe at Minto, Alaska, came to the United States to present a pem(9n signed by more than 2,606 Alaskans to Mr. Truman. It asks the president to make it possible for more milk, fruit and vegetables to be flown into the ter- ritory. Amos E. Heacock, president of Air Transport Associates, Inc., said the trip was to dramatize a protest against a Civil Aeronautics Board ruling restricting non-scheduled flights into Alaska. (anadian Dollar Goes Up Half Cent ing CAB Order a scroll of seal skin she will him to restind CAB order which , Eskimo Will Say NEW YORK, Dec, 10-—P—A pert, little Eskimo princess, on her way to see President Truman about Rescue Man Trapped 18 'Hours in Well PENDLETON, Ore., Dge. 10—P— A 51-year-old rancher, trapped for 18 hours in a 15-foot well while heavy digging equipment churned about hlm was brought to safety today. At the Pendleton Hospital where he was taken after the dramatic rescue in sub-freezing temperatures, doctors described his condition as NEW YORK, Dec. 10—(/P—A fur- ther increase of half a cent to 98.- 18 3-4 in the price of the Canad- ian dollar in terms of the United | States dollar. was lmed here to- day. The dollar has been on the rise for more than a week and has gained more than 1 3-4 cents in that time. Banking circles here attributed the strength of the dollar to an in- creasing demand for Canadian sec- urities which must be purchased | with Canadian currency. In particular demand, banking circles said, are. Imperial Oil Co., and Canadian Pacific securities or subscription rights for them. MONDAY FIRE CALL The 2-4 fire call at 8:10 am. today was for a chimney fire at Belle’s Cafe. Phere was no damage reported by firemen. TABLES . . . DECEMBER 11 © . o e High tide 12:48 am., 147 ft. © e Low tide 6:18 am, 461ft. e 0 High tide 12:23 p.m., 174 ft. o, Low tide 7:03 pm. -09 ft. ® c e 0o 0 0 0o o o0 The rancher, Norman Vina Ford, 51, was pinned to the well bottom with his foot under a plank when the walls caved in at 11:30 am. (PST) yesterday. At 5:30 this morn- ing, he was lifted to the surface. Ford’s 18-year-old son, Leon, was the hero of the rescue operation. He was helping his father sink the well but was working on the sur- face when the walls collapsed. Leon jumped in and began digging his father out with his hands. Neigh~ bors who had been called lowered buckets to the youth. Leon had his father uncovered down to the knees when the walls caved in a second time. Leon, spot- ting another section of the wall about to give way, braced his back against the crumbling section. He remaineg there for seven hours. It took that long for a crew with digging equipment to arrive from nearby Umatilla where McNary dam is under construction. As hundreds watched under the glare of search- lights, John Morton of the McNary dam contractors took charge of the rescue. He had a 24-inch iron pipe forced down around the trapped man. That prevented further cave- ins. ‘When the pipe was in place, Leon: was brought to the surface. He was put to bed with a mild case C( shock. ;