The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1951, Page 1

JONGRESSIONAL LUBRARY i WASHINGTON, D o, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,994 Steel Strike Peace Talks Scheduled WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—{»—The government today summoned top steel industry and union leaders to Washington for peace talks aim- | ed at avoiding a New Year's strikv.; CIO President Philip Murray and representatives of the ten largest| steel firms were called to govern- ment-guided bargaining sessions be ginning Thursday. Murray has threatened an in- dustry-wide walk-out in steel— perhaps including, also, a substan- tial part of the aluminum indus- try—unless his contract demands are met. Only 12 days remain un- til the strike deadline at midnight, Dec. 31. “We will not work with- out a contract,” the grim-faced Murray said in Pitisburgh yes- terday after a meeting of the un- ion policy committee. Thereupon Director Cyrus S. Ching of the Federal Mediation Service brought the government squarely into the deadlocked steel labor talks by arranging the com- 1 | JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1951 MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS Leaves fo Plead Alaska Fishing Case Before High Court J. Gerald Williams, attorney gen- eral, left today for Washington, D. C. to appear before the U. S. Sup- reme Court to plead the legality of the Alaska non-resident fishermen's license case. ‘The right to collect the $50 non- resident fee was held legal in U. S. District Court in Juneau before Judge George W. Folta. However, the Ninth Court of Appeals, sitti in San Francisco, reversed the Dis- trict Court’s decision with two judg- es affirming the reve: and Chief Judge Denman dissenting. Several hundréd-thousands of dollars have already been collected | § | since the law went into effect, which | will have to be refunded if the high | | court’s decision .declares the act illegal. The attorney general and one of his assistants, John Dimond, have been preparing briefs for the hear- ing for several weeks. The case scheduled for the first week in Jan. uary. Mrs. Williams and their two child- ren will accompany the attorney general. Dimond, his wife and child left Sunday. i It is believed that this will be bined negotiations. The companies, the first Alaska case before the| have been bargaining individually! supreme Court in some 25 years. with the union for three weeks. | Attorney General Williams ex- The 75-year-old Ching pledged pects to be gone three weeks to a every effort toward obtaining a)month. It is uncertain how long it: contract settlement without a strike, | wi1] take for the judges’ decision to at the same time cautioning the union and steel firms that: \ “Any curtailment of operations in this key industry will seriously affeet cur national economy and have a direct and critical impact on the defense effort.” | Besides their apprehension over‘! the threatened interruption of the t ! vital flow of steel, government of- ficials were equally concerned thal steel's economic tug-of-war may| be handed down. Council Meefing Fails to Change Bar Closures meeting of the city | A special Newsmen and avia wing — called channel wings — in the invention’s first public demonstration at Pittsburgh. Pa, New Airpla ne Wing Demonsirafed tion enthusiasts cluster around an experimental model of a plane with a new type of W. R. Custer, the inventer, claims the channel wing will allow a plane to rise vertically, hover in the air and gain new spead and efficiency. (P To Deléy Look At $500,000 Tax Fix Story P—The WASHINGTON, Dec. 18— start of a grand jury inq wreck the’ wage-prite control sys-|gouncil today for reconsideration Abrabam Teitelbaum's story of an tem, They realize that other Iabor/ leadeis will segk to match what! Murray gets, and any steel price boosts will 1ift the price lid fdr steel | consumers. A steel industry dele-| gation called again today on Price Administrator Michael V. Di Salle, seeking help in that field. 70-Mile Winds Whip Northwest ASTORIA, Ore., Dec. 18—(®—Gale ! force winds pounded the Pacific ! Northwest coast overnight, ripping, out power lines, toppling trees and‘ a radio tower and sending at least one vessel aground. Two traffic deaths were attribu- ted to the downpour of rain that accompanied the blow. Wwind gusts of 70 miles an hour were recorded here at the mouth of the Columbia River and at Coos Bay on the southern Oregon coast. MARRIAGE LICENSE Richard R. McCormick, of Doug- las, and Lujian Penrod, of Juneau, have applied for a marriage license in U. S. Commissioner’s court office. e FROM SITKA A. Glenn of Sitka is at the Bar- anof Hotel. TheWashington Merry-Go-Round «Copyzight, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON Ed. Note—Today Diew Pearson begins a series of columns on the Subject uppermost in the Ameri- can public’s mind—“How does cor- ruption in government get start- ed and what is the cure?” Pear- son, who began hammering on ingome-tax scandals ahead of anyone else in the nation and who_has helped obtain the con- viction of two Congressmen, is probably better qualified to write on this subject than ‘anyone in the nation's capital). ASHINGTON—A lot. of people these days are asking how corrup- tion got started in the U. S. gov- ernment. The answer probably goes back to three main roots. Root No. 1—Got started during the war years when Roosevelt con- centrated so intensely on winning the war that he paid little attention to domestic policy. Root No. 2—Got a deep hold in 1944, when Roosevelt was so anxious to be re-elected that he threw con- trol of the Democratic party over to the big-city bosses. That was the year that Bob Hannegan of St. Louis, Frank Hague of Jarsey City, Ed Kelly of Chicago, plus Ed Flynn i _ {Oontinued on Page 4 | | | of recently periods for ‘charged with four various lieney. i The district court has announced that the licenses of the bars will be held up for the various “periods of prejudice.” This will mean the Arctic and the Victory bars will be closed 30 days each following Jan- uary 1. The Top Hat and Triangle bars will be closed 10 days each during that period. The council met at the request of the police committee headed by Councilman Robert Stutté for re- consideration of the closure pen- alties. | There had been criticism that nearly all the bars at some time or other had been guilty of minor vi- | olations, and some bar owners felt| the action was discriminitory. Most | councilmen, however, felt that the bars named had been charged by police with the various offenses and that it®was the duty of the {council to uphold the police. had protested thatl Bar owners they had paid fines and had been it.” consideration was up to the coun- cil and said that fines paid in magistrate court should not free offenders of action of licenses. The Arctic bar was penalized for allowing cards to be played on the bar; the Victory bar for selling liquor to a habitual; the Triangle for not clearing the bar in the proper time after closing hours; and the Top Hat for operating with its venetian blinds closed. The council plans to take the matter up at its next regular month. The committee has wanted to question Grunewald for some time but has been unable to because he was in Georgetown University Hospital. A physician reported his ailment was nervous tension. The hospital disclosed today that it dismissed Grunewald last night. Adrien De Wind, counsel for the House investigating group, said assured that “thap was the end of | Grunewald has been subpoenaed to Council members said final {560, before it on Thursday. De Wind declined to elaborate, but it was regarded that at least the initial questioning of Grune- wald would be behind, closed doors. The group last week wound up its presently scheduled open sessions. Grunewald was hospitalized when the subcommittee sought to ques- tion him earlier. One thing mem- bers have said they want to ask Charles Oliphant, recently resigned chief counsel of the Internal Rev- meeting Thursday, and to outline | enue Bureau. a policy to give better understand- ing and to end further confusion. None of the bar owners were present at the meeting. Fire D;slroys Fuchs Home af Lemon Creek Fire of unknown origin destroyed {rom Juneau on the Glacier High- way. The 2-9 fire call was received from the Alaska Communication System tuner station at seven mile, according to firemen. The call was blown at 9:05 pm. The pumper truck from the sub-port with eight members of the volunteer fire de- partment were sent out. Nothing was saved in the fire and it is thought that the house was fully furnished. A house nearby was saved through efforts of the fire department. SENTENCED TO JAIL FOR BAD CHECK Ted R. Singer, of Juneau, receiv- ed a 90-day jail sentence in U. S. Commisioner’s Court yesterday with the final 75 days suspended on a charge of larceny by the check. The check was in the amount of $10, a house owned by Mike Fuchs» at} Lemon Creek last night, six mms'Petershurg, Ingvald Bratland and Fined for Failure To Pay School Tax Failure to pay school tax has brought fines to seven Wrangell and Petersburg citizens within ‘the last week. In U. S. Commissioners court at Palmer Peterson were each fined $75 on the charge. Four Wrangell persons—William Gross, Ernest Rude, Harry Coulter and - Morris \Agent's Shooling | BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.,, Dec. 18 mtoi recommended . closure | alleged attempt to shake him down! The county grand jury voted an|through a one-story residence and Juneau bars for $500,000 in exchange for relief|indictment charging violations | from -tax~troubles appeared likely | inter ;failed to bring any action for len- | today, to be delayed until next carries a possible penalty of five, him about is a $1,300 loan involving | Wirephoto. Film "Produ(;r ' Indicled in —(P—Walter Wanger, film produ- cer, was indicted today in the tri- angle shooting of Jennings Lang, agent for Wanger's wile, actress Joan Bennett. assault with to comynlt murder, which to 14 years in prison. Wanger, ready for the expected ‘The White House, meanwhile, maintained secrecy on details of the “drastic action” promised by Pre- sident Truman to sweep wrongdoers out of the federal government, re- portedly with U. 8. Judge Thomas F. Murphy of New York wielding the broom. And the House Ways and Means subcommittee whose hearings figur- ed largely in Mr, Truman’s decision arranged to question on Thursday Henry Grunewald, about whom some mystery developed in its previous sessions. ° action, was waiting in a bail I)unda-{ man’s office with his attornev, Jer- ry Geisler. He already was at lib- rty on $5,000 bail on a writ of + habeas corpus ! Wanger said he shot Lang “be- cause he broke up my home.” Geis- | ler tofd reporters that, “If neces sary,” he will use in court private detectives’ reports on the associa- tion of Miss Bennett and Lang. Rrifain Welcomes Assodiation with Europe Army Plan PARIS, Dec. 18—(P—Britain an- nounced she welcomes the Euro- pean army plan and would associ- late herself as “closely as possible | with the European defense commu- nity at all stages of its political and | military ‘development.” But Britain still was not committed to direct participation of her troops in a European army. This was disclosed in a commu- ique issued after British Prime | Minister Churchill concluded his- toric talks here with French leaders, and at Supreme Headquarters with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, North Atlantic Alliance Commander. The British promised to set up a permanent delegation at the seat of the “high authority” envisioned for giving effect to the Schuman Steel-Coal Pool Plan, the commun- ique said. Actording to the communique, this was as far .as Britain would go with regard to the European army: “The British forces under the di- rection of the Supreme Allied Com- mander in Europe will be linked to the forces of the European defense community for training, supply an operation by land, sea and air. “They will remain side by side in the spirit of true comradeship.” This did not commit Britain to pooling her troops with the Euro- pean army force planned by the six Shber Hits . [House, Goes Info Crash SHREVEPORT, La., Dec. 18—(#— A B-29" Superfortress bomber, glid- in for a landing, smashed | ing | erashed late last night. Four of, (W13 crew members were killed, | eight airmen were injured, three | seriously, and another is missing, officials at the Barksdale Air Force | base reported. Witnesses said the crippled cralt} _dipped crazily to the ground, broke | off an engine, then skidded 200 yards | | across U.S. Highway 80 and burst into flame. At Travis Air Force Base, Calif., 2 spokesman said the plane landed at Travis Sunday after a flight! from Guam and that a ferry crew | | took over for the flight to Barks-| | dale. | 'The only member of the crew; identified was the plane commander Col. H. E. Rogner, assigned to| Headquarters Second Air Base,' Fairchild Air Force base at Spo-' | kane, Wash. i Red Jels Gun Shy SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 18 — (# — American Sabre jets found more than 200 Communists jets over northwest Korea today, but the Reds \wcre gun shy. | The Fifth Air Force said a few | firing passes were reported, “but |in all cases the (Red) MIGs broke off the engagement as soon as pos- sible.” One Sabre jet pilot bailed out on his way home. He was rescued, un- injured, the Fifth said. It did not say why he bailed out. | Two Marine planes, an F-9F and |an F-4U, were shot down by Com- ,munist antiaircraft gunners but both pilots were rescued. Fifth Air Force planes flew 661 | sorties up to 6 o'clock tonight. They |included 20 flights in support of troops along the generally quiet | front lines. Turkish troops threw back twc | cially, Fresh Snow, Cold 'Plague Northern 'States; Deaths Up I By the Associated Press h snow and cold plagued the jorthern states today. The toll of deaths attributed to the severe weather rose to 152. A new blast of zero and sub-zero bore down on the midwest. Three inches of snow fell in | Cleveland, topping the nine inches talready on the ground. It continued |to fall and drift there. | Western Maryland was burdened with five more inches of snow. |8chools in many closed. Watertown, in northern New York, had a fresh fall of snow. An additional six inches was expected on top of the 37 inch fall of yester- day. A new storm headed into the middle Atlantic states and north- east. The weather bureau in Washing- {ton, in a special! bulletin, said Pennsylvania, New York and nor- thern Ohio will get three to eight inches of snow. A drop in temperatures to near- zero or sub-zero brackets was pre- dicted for the frozen north central states. And winter doesn't start—offi- that is—until Saturday. | | Anchorage Tax Man Charged with Embezziement FARGO, N. D. Dec. 18—(®—Paul Odlaug, former employee of the de- partment of Internal Revenue and the Territorial Tax division of Al- aska, was arrested here yesterday on a bench warrant charging em- bezzlement. Odlaug was living with relatives when taken into custody by a U. 8. Marshal. The warrant stated Odlaug was indicted at Anchorage, Alaska by a federal grand jury Oct. 23. Bond was set at $5,000. (At the time of Odlaug’s arrest, there had been no announcement in| Anchorage of any indictment sgainst: him. There was, however, a secret' indictment by the October grand jury which never has been made | publid). Odlaug received a suspended sen- tence in a 1950 embezzling case. He pleaded nolo contendere in| the Third Division court at Anch- orage that year to a charge of em- bezzling $160 of public money while employed by the U. 8. Internal| Revenue Department. i Manslaughter Count Against Alaskan Upheid SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18—®—! The conviction of Lilburn H. Bar- beau at Anchorage, Alaska, for man- slaughter by culpable negligence in the_death of Paul Gunn was upheld by the Ninth U. 8. Court of Appeals here yesterday. The appeals court ‘judges split two-to-one in upholding the convic- tion of Barbeau, who had contend- ed the shooting was entirely acci- dental. Gunn was hit February 18, 1950, by a bullet from a German auto- matic. It discharged while Barbeau was holding it in his lap and in- serting a clip of shells, A federal district court jury at Anchorage on June 22, 1950, found Barbeau innocent of murder, but guilty of manslaughter. Chief Judge William Denman countries were | | Red probing attacks Monday night [and Judge William E. Orr, in to- Larson—were each fined $75. A fifth | founder nations, France, Italy, West person, Virginia Layman, was fined | Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. o ° > -~ 7 SHOPPING DAYS - TO CHRISTMAS STORY BY LOCAL WOMAN IN WESTERN FAMILY A story by Mrs. Louise Sh of Juneau, “So We Ate thc Ci mas Tree Ornaments,” appeis maga- in and at bout ttuck tonally through grocery may be obtained in Ju Bert's grocery. The story the Christmas tree in the home last year and includes recipes for Sookies and “zcodies” with which the tree was decorated. and early Tuesday south of Pyong- ‘gang in the old Iron Triangle on the central front. o o 6 0o 06 0 0 0 0 0 e > WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending at 4:30 AM. Today At Airport—Maximum, 16 Minimum, 2. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Continued” fair and cold with gusty northeasterly winds tonight and Wednesday. Low ionight near 8 in town and near zero in outlying arcas. High Wednesday near 16 de- grees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport — None; since July 1—19.78 inches, e 00 0 00 000 day's decision, pointed out that the jury had determined that the safety catch on the weapon, a Walther- P-38, was not on and said this was sufficient to support Barbeau’s con- viction. In the dissenting opinion, Judge MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. The Communists turned over to the United Nations today a list of 11,559 prisoners, including 3,198 Americans. They said the list includes all prisoners of the Korean war in their hands: The U.N. gave the Reds a list of 132474 Chinese and North Korean prisoners, General Matthew B. Ridgway's headquarters in Tokyo said it under- stood the Communist list includes Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, lost commander of the U.S. 24th Divi- sion. Dean has been missing since the fall of Taejon in July #950. Communist newsmen at Panmun- jom said Associated Press photog- rapher Frank Noel was also listed. Reds Capitulate Lists were exchanged Tuesday when Communist truce negotiators suddenly capitulated to U.N. de- mands. The prisoner subcommit- | i PAA Keeps Operafing OnSchedule | NEW YORK, Dec. 18—(P—Pan| American World Airways, whose | ground crews, pursers and stewar- desses are on strike for higher pay, said today it expected to operate 100 percent of its scheduled flights within 24 hours. It announced it had operated 92 percent of its normal flights since the CIO Transport Workers Union ! called the strike Sunday and that ‘lrane-Atlantic- operations already had returned to normal. There has been no interruption of its Latin American and Pacific services, the airline reported. A union negotiating committee was reported unofficially to have decided at a meeting today to re- commend that strikers return to| work and cooperate with gn emer- | gency fact-finding committee set up by President Truman yesterday ool‘ inquire into the dispute. | Company officials already have| expressed willingness to appear be- fore the president’s committee. The union negotiators said they would pass their recommendations along to strike leaders in Pan Amer- | ican’s five terminal cities in the United States to be voted upon later today by the strikers in each. | Ridgway Confers In Korea MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 18—(P— Top United Nations military offi- cers and truce negotiators held a strategy conference today on future steps in Korea. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, su- preme commander in the theater, flew to Korea for the conference. When it was over he said: “Military and truce delegations are in complete accord.” He did not say whether the dis- cussion centers on possible renewal of ground fighting, which has been conducted as a twilight war since a provisional cease-fire line was drawn Nov. 27, or on the armistice talks which got a shot in the arm with today’s exchange of prisoner lists. 24 MINK FLY PNA TO CORDOVA TODAY ‘Twenty-four ranch raised mink sengers today bound for Cordova, where they will be liberated on Albert Lee Stephens said “there is nota word of substantial evi- dence in this case that the safety Montague Island by the Fish and Wildlife Service. 18—{R)— - were Pacific Northern Airline pas- | was not on” He added that he| They came from the University of thought an fnnocent act “had been |Alaska experimental fur farm at warped into & crime. . It is not a Petersburg. There were eight males crime to be negligent.” and 16 females. No mink have been found on Montague Island. It is believed that they will thrive there. JILLEGAL TRAPPING BRINGS $100 FINE TO TWO Trapping during closed season brought 4100 fines each to two Wrangell men in U. 8. Commission- er's Court in Petersburg yesterday before Commissioner Dale Hirt. L Dan Ralston, law en(orcemem;c supervisor for the Fish and wildlife | Servicee ,arrested the two men,'® John De Witt and James Marten. ® High tide 5:19 pam, 14.0 ft, DECEMBER 19 High tide 5:47 am. 142 ft. Low tide 11:41 am., 56 ft. PRICE TEN CENTS 3,198 Americans, Including Maj. Gen. Dean, Listed Among 11,559 Communist Prisoners tee recessed until Thursday. Rear ;Asim, R. E. Libby, U.N. member of the committee, said the purpose was to study the lists. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols, U, N. spokesman elaborated: “The Communist lists have not yet been verified. They probably include errors, omissions and pos- sibly fictitious additions. List to be Checked “Every effort humanly possible will be made immediately by the UN. Command to check the list. The respective arms of services in the United States will notify the next of kin immediately on verifi- cation, “I cannot emphasize too strongly that this is a Communist list. “Any information on prisoners received from the Communists is questionable due to their continued refusal to allow international com- mittees of the Red Cross to inspect their prisoner of war facilities and operations,” vommunist List Of the 11,550 names on the Com- munist lists, a U.N. Command com- munique reported: 7,142 are South Korean, 3,198 American, 919 British, 234 Turkish, 40 Filipino, ten French, six Australian, four South African, three Japanese, and one each from Canada, Greece and the Nether- lands. Nuckols declined to say whether General Dean’s name was among them. Nuckols emphasized that the ex- change of names “is by no means :e :;;:‘uum' to agenda item four,” g Wwith actu: P 5 al exchange of “We merely have started of the road that will lead \q,:ou: S0lUtion,” he sl x o ko Skepticism He reported the Command studled the - Red mmmc with “skepticism as to its detajls, authen- ticity, accuracy end completertess,” The Communist lists fell far short of previous.public Allied esti- mates of perhaps 100,000 or more. The 3,108 Americans listed as prisoners compare with approxi- mately 12,000 Americans otficially listed as missing in action. But a reliable. source In Tokyo said there probably was “no great disparity” between the official us. Army estimates of the number of prisoners the Reds hold and the number announced by the Reds. He said thet probably many of those listed as missing actually died in battle, * No progress was reported by a second truce subcommittee arguing at Panmunjom over how to enforce an armistice. It adjourned until 11 am. Wednesday (9 u.m. Tues- day, EST). INTRICATE TASK OF ADVISING KINFOLK . WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 — (B — The military in Korea, Tokyo and Washington today began a gigantic, intricate task of advising kinfolk of the names of 3,198 Americans re- ported held prisoner by the Com- munists. The first official notifica- tions may go out by early after- nioon. Many families will be cheered by word that their soldier-sons are alive, although in enemy hands. But a still greater number are in for grief and disappointment. The list supplied by the Com- munists is little more than one- fourth of 11,042 Americans reported missing in Korea. The Army in Korea to fly the prisoner list to Tokyo where it will be distributed to newsmen and relayed on to the Pentagon in Washington. That list will contain only the names, rank, serial numbers and unit designations. It will have to | be matched in Washington against | the roster of the missing to obtain | home town addresses. That procedure will take hours, possibly days. Stock Quofations NEW YORK, Dec. 18—{P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 110%, American Tel. and Tel. 156, Anaconda 51, Douglas Aircraft 59, General Electric 58, General Motors 51%, Goodyear 44, Kenne- cott 86%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 66%, Stand- ard Oil of California 50, Twentieth Century Fox 19%, U. 8. Steel 39%, Pound $2.79, Canadian Exchange 97.18. Sales today were 1,290,000 Averages today were as follows: They were arrested in the Portage ® Low tide 11:57 pm. 23 ft. Bay area. g ‘e 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0