The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1951, Page 1

Y CONGRESSIONAL LISRARY WASHINGTON, D, C. VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,996 POW List ' Is Nearly " Checked The Defense Department still had some last names to check today on the Communist-supplied list of Am- ericah prisoners of war in Korea. The Pentagon finished the first Jet Ace ‘.‘phase of the huge job last night. ' As of today about 3,000 names on the full list of 3,198 had been iden- tified. Telegrams making it a joyous Chrismas season for hundreds of American families went out last night to nearly all of the next of kin of 2,940 men. But the sor- row deepened for the many more whose sons were mnot listed. | About 75 soldiers on the ident-| wanr ified list named nearest relatives: at overseas addresses. Messages to these kin are to be sent today. Prisoners identified at the Pent- agon included 2,724 soldiers in ad- dition to the 75 with overseas next of kin, eight Navy men, 58 Mar- ines and 76 Airmen. The approximately 250 remaining to be identified presented special problems. THe Pentagon decided last night to tackle these today. At that hour, the staff working on the list had been on duty 26% »+ hours, ever since the names bezan pouring in from Tokyo Tuesday night. They had been handed to United Nations officers several hamrs ear- lier at Panmunjom, Korea, the site " of the truce negotiations. There are 11,051 Americans of- ficially licted as missing in action in Korea, so the release of the pames meant tragedy in at least two homes for every one where it brought happiness. President Truman joined high military ofiicials yesterday in em- phasing that the list is “complete- ly unverified.” IDELLA MARSH TO GIVE.RADIO PROGRAM > The Columbia I.umber Company is sponsoring Idella Marsh in two Christmas radio programs over KINY Saturday and Sunday. At 5:15 Saturday afternoon she will give “The Christmas Necklace” and at 9:15 p.m. Sunday the “Lord Hand- maidens.” Both are monologues written by her. She majored in dya- matics and writing at the University of Arizona, at Tucson. She also stud- ied with Robert Penn Warren at the University of Louisiana. SNOW BLANKETS CITY Snow hit Juneau yesterday at 3 p.m. and four hours later a blanket of seven inches of the powdery stuff had covered everything “including shovels. Street crews were busy including the detail on stairways leading to the hills. Dixon Street was so heav- ily covered that the snow-plow crew could not get the machine up the hill. Early this morning, thawing tem- peratures put a glaze on the snow iike frosting on a cake. Intermittent snow is forecast for tonight and Friday mixed with rain Friday afternoon. Auto service to the hills has been off and Juneauites in those se tions have walked. - TheWashington { Merry-Go-Round «Copy:ight, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEABSO‘N (Ed. Note—This is another of Drew Pearson’s penetrating col- umns on the subject uppermost in the nation’s mind—graft in the collection of income taxes.) ASHINGTON.—Almest every administration when it"first takes office uses a new broom when it comes to tax evasion. It cleans up at the expense of the administra- tion which preceded it. Then it leans on the broom. Part of this broom-leaning, of | course, is because the graft it would | have to clean out later is its QWH graft; and the clean-up would hurt people in high places. Thus, just as Roosevelt came in-| to office, an important start was| made toward a_ tax-fraud clean-up. Actually, it was started by Repub- lican Progressive Senators Blaine Maj. George A. Davis, Jr., of Lub- bock, Tex., added further strength to his title of world’s {oremost jet Norih Kcrea. Davis shot down four MIG-15s running his total kill over MIG Alley to 12 plants. He accovrnted for 2 MIGs in each of 2 clashes between American Sabre Jet vilots and Communist fliers. (P Wirephoto, Chamber Is Asked To Parficipate in Winter Carnival Tom Stewart and Dean Williams, Juneau ski efthusiasts, pointed out the possibilities of this area as a winter sports region, when they met with the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at the Baranof Hotel Thursday noon. Stewart outlined the plans for a winter carnival here in February sk i Widovhe veiious eervive are being asked to participate. Her- bert S. Rowland, retiring Chamber President, has agreed to head a central committee to manage the event which may become an an- nual affair. a benefit ball. The Lions Club is being asked to manage sled and dogteam races for the kids and the Rctary Club is being asked to and five-year-old girls. The central committee will re- quest the cooperation of the city in providing an ice rink for skat- ing events. Stewart asked that the Chamber take care of prizes for the various events. The Chamber is to take action on the matter next week. Stewart said that there was a good possikility of bringing hockey teams here from Whitehorse and Big Deiia. Pete Warner rose to point cut the risk and questioned, “Wha? if it rains?” The purpose of the carnival, Stewart said, would be fund rais- ing and “iun raising.” The funds would go to pay for a Sno-Cat for | transportation to the Douglas Is- |1and ski area. | Williams pointed ‘ out that the transportation feature was vital in | attracting stateside skiers. He said that he had been approached by | skiers at the Northwest Skiers As- | sociation ' meetings who were in- | terested in seeing Alaska in win- | ter and getting some winter sports here. Norman Banfield recalled that it was the late Dan Moller of the For- {est Service who pioneered skiing in this arca in 1936 and after whom |the ski trail to recreation howl is named. He said that Moller had also been active in recreation fa- cilities in Sitka where a Memorial | Park is being named for him. | Due to the absence of executive |board members Charles Burdick and O. F. Benecke, the election of Chamber officers will be held | over until January 2, Rowland an- nounced. Burton Countryman, Monroe, Wash. builder, was a guest. | | DIVORCE FILED Emma Young seeks a divorce from her husband James A. Young, according to a petition filed in U. S. District Court. of Wisconsin and Brookhart of Iowa two months before Rocsevelt was inaugurated, but continued by FDR with the prosecution of An- drew Mellon, man entrusted with collecting taxes under Hoover and | Coolidge; and of Charles E. Mit- | chell, president of the National City | Dena'i scheduled t{o sail from Seattle Friday. Baranof due to arrive southbound (Continued on Page 4) M Sunday. ace.in the big air batiles over | Traffic Deaths Mounl By Asscpiated Press The nation’s traffic toll today approached the 1,000,000 mark. It reached 999,754 at 7:30 a.m. PR.T. The county rose slowly this morning. Widespread snow, sleet and freezing rain in the north ap- parently limited driving. $ The National Safety Councilsaid the grand total had risen to 999,- 750 las{ midnight. It added: “The remaining deaths are ex- pected to occur by about noon Saturday if the anticipated trav- el and accident pattern does not change.” But the Council also advised driving and walking Americans that “The millionth death can still be postponed, by improved traffic behavior 'in the final hours.” The statement wa flag signal for the race against death Sept. 13, 1899. That was the date of the first known nfotor vehicle fatality in the U. S, The vitim was H. H. Bliss. He stepped from a trolley and was run over by a horseless corriage in New York City. Thereafter, the toll rose—slowly at first and then with alarming speed. Fatalities reached a peak of 39,- 969 in 1941. They slumped off dur- ing World War II, then rose to the 1951 average of around 100 per day. =~ Blast of ley Air Hils Greafer Part of Nation The northern two-thirds of the nation, buffeted by snow and cold | for a week, was struck by a fresh | storm today. Behind the storm was in effect, the inal laps in a that began | | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THUR! (ongressmen Blast Soviet Spy Stories PARIS, Dec. 20—»—Two Con* eressmen today spearheaded the U. S. counterattack against Soviet spy charges. One pictured the whole Soviet-dominated world as in the grip of “spy mania.” ‘The other called Soviet Foreign Minister An- drei Y. Vishinsky “a venomous old goat.” o Rep. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont) told the Ynited Nations political commitiee that four American airmen whose finarmed transport plane was forced down in Hun- gary Nov. 19 are victims of the spy mania. Vishinsky yesterday exprensed, in a violent speech the hope that the four ‘would be tried by “our military and justice au- thorities.” Rep. John M. Vorys (R-Ohio) accused the Soviet delegate of try- ing to wreck “the two great for- ward steps taken by the United Nations this week.” Vorys addrés- sed the weekly luncheon meeting of the Americ2n Club in Paris, Vorys( like Mansfield a member of the House Foreign Affairs Com- mittee and a delegate to the U. N. general assembly session here, de- livered a stinging attack on Vish- insky's speech in the U. N. political committee yesterday, He called it “a matchless, putrid stream of vit- uperation.” “You often wonder how to compete with the venomous old goat, but you realize that there are certain kinds of contests you do not enter with a skunk,” Vorys said. The two great achievements of the U. N. this week, despite furious Soviet objections, were the estab- lishment of a Disarmament Com- mission and the establishment of a commission to study the possi- Vorys said Loy Chrisimas Decorafion '{ontest fo Be Judged bility ¢f iree clections in Germany, | SDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1951 MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ’ PRICE TEN CENTS N Frigid Business ¥ Thesc firemen find their jobs a very cold business as they mon a hose during an early morning fire which droje about 25 persons from the {our-story Club Georgia Hotel at 47th and Stite streets on the scuth side of Chicago (12-16). as they fought the biaze in sub-zero temperatures, (P [Virephoto. The firemen were coated with ice formed by fast freezing spray | I UN Seat Over | White Russia PARIS, Dec. 20—(M—American-' backed Greece won a seat on the| | United Nations | today, beating out White Russia on | the 18th ballot. l The vote was 39 for Greece, and 16 for White Russia. 7¥" (wo-thirds majority of U. N. members present and voting in the general assembly test was re- |quired for election. The deadlock was the longest in | Security Council ggcked. combat leathernecks, 953 army men, Heading Home from Adtion in Korea | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20—(®—, Scme' 4,000 Korean war veterans were greeted with band musicand ' plimes of water from a fireboat as the transport General John Pope | | | | i The ship, second in a “Home for Christmas™” parade of transports irom the Far East, carried 2,900 318 navy, 83 air fores and 248 efv-" ilians. The arrivals included: Gary R. Dodge, Sgt. USMC. Box ! 514, Fairbanks, Alaska; James A.' The Kiwanis Club is to handle handle a Princess contest for four | ia new blast of icy air. At least 228 deaths have been, | attributed to the severe weather of | the last week. Dec. 23; Eight Prizes Originality stressing the spirit of Christmas will rate high in the The new storm whistled east- |judging of the best business dist- ward, dumping tons of snow, sleet |rict Christmas window display, Mrs. and freezing rain. Temperatures tumbled along the route of the, storm, dipping far below zero in |committee said today. many areas. Judging of both stores and Zomes Freezing rein glazed thorough-|will take place December 23 be- fares in the Kansas City area and’gwcen 5 and 8 o'clock and fhe gift |created a hopeless traffic snarl. certificates will be delivered to the Many schools and business houses winners immediately afterward. | were closed. | Four awards will be made in each The storm pelted the Rocky Moun- | ¢lassification. The certificates will tain area first. Colorado had Snow nave values of $20, $15, $10 and $5 |and frigid temperature. Denver with'and will be honored at any store in five inches of new snow, reported ' juneau. !a low of six below zero, Limon, Colo.,,! arrangements to take a photo- had -11. jgraph of the best store window Then the storm spread over the nave been made. lains states, the upper Mississippi| pprs, McCrary, stressed the im- Valley and the Great Lakes region.'portance of having well-lighted It was expected to strike today in‘display& Virginia, Maryland, western Penn i sylvania and most of West Virginia. | = PAA Men Stranded ¥ In Fairbanks Colder weather headed into the{ midwest behind the snow. New Eng- | land and northern parts of New The weather, the Pan American ground crew strike, and the Christ- mas special have stranded Joe York state had sub-zero readings. Godding, PAA traffic manager from . Commiitee Approved! Ilc Sur'ey Germany |Ketch\kan, and Ken Alexander, formerly of Juneau—now with the For Free Elections | mrevcico 2as During the strike, Godding and PARIS, Dec. 20—(#—The UN Gen- | i Chamber of Commerce civic affairs the history of U. N. elections’ | MacDonald, Jr., Sgt. USMCR. C/O ! Greece thus will replace Yugo- General Delivery, Juneau, Alaska. Jessie McCrary, chairman of the, Alexander took over steward’s du- eral Assembly approved today thefies and wound up in Fairbank: creation of a five-nation commit- tee to survey whether Germany is ready for countrywide free elections. This would be a first step toward uniting that now divided country. The Assembly vote was 46 to 6, with eight abstentions. The action was taken in the face of strong ob- jections from the Soviet bldc. ® 0 o o o o o I . WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending at 4:30 AM. Today At Airport, Maximum, 23; minimum, 19. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Cloudy with intermittent snow tonight and Friday, ocas- sionally mixed with rain Fri- day afternoon. Low tonight near 25 degrees and high Fri- day near 33 degrees. L] . o PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport — .15 inches; since July—19.93 inches. ® 00 000 0 00 . . . . . 3 3 3 e . 3 . . . . . ° . . and there they are. There's 1o room for their return because of the heavy Christmas southboun traffic. 2 Pacific Northern’s flight from Anchorage: overheaded Cordova, Yakutat and- Gustavus yesterday and went on to Annette. PAA is expecting three flights in this af- ternoon and PNA is due here Annette. Today’s flight from Anch- orage was cancelled. Stock Quotafions NEW YORK, Dec. 20—®—Clo:- ing quotation of American Ca: stock today is 112, American Tel and Tel.” 185%, Anaconda 0’ Douglas Aircraft 59%, Gener:l ectric 57%, General Motors Goodyear 44%, Kennecott 86, LibbY McNeill and Libby 8%, Norher: Pacific 66%, Standard Oil of Ca =1 ifornia 50%, Twentieth Centur 19%, U. 8. Steel 39%, Pound Canadian Exchange 97.75. Sales today were ‘1,340,000 ‘' Dakota Households I tive mothers were flown to hospit- Islavia on the Security Council Jan. 1. Chile and Pakistan were electcdl two weeks ago to fill vacancies | caused by the expiration of terms| of India and Ecuador. - | White Russia, one of the cen-! stituent rvepublics of the U.S.SR.| was made a member of the United | Nations, along with the Ukraine, wider the Yalta agreement whjch grnaranteed Russia three ,member- dps. *Britain - and cthers had | Lacked White Russia for the Se-! curity Council under a “gentleman’s agreement” of 1946 which gave one seat to the Eastern European bloc | |of countries under ‘Russia’s wing. ! |The United States contended the |agreement was for only a year. The Security Council is made up lrl the big five permanent mem- | Eers—Britain, China, France, Rus- |sia and the United States—and six clected members who serve two-year terms. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky has violently denoun- ced American support for Greece as a violation of so-called gentle- man’s agreement. When the balloting began Brit- ain and France supported the So- viet choice because they did not believe it worthwhile to irritate Russia on what they considered a minor issue. Informed sources said these countries switched during the afternoon’s balloting. The U. S. view was. that since the new member will also sit on the U. N. Disarmament Commis- on it was vital to have a friend- ly country. "Operafion Snowlift’ Makes Deliveries fo | PIERRE, 8. D, Dec. 20—(M—An- ther storm today hit central South Dakota, which for two weeks has heen reeling under snow and wind. Pilots flying emergency supplies for livestock and in some instapces coal to isolated households repOrted the: ituation fast becoming as serious at it was in 1949, Severe ‘storms that year required lying in large quantities of relief supplies in what was known as operation snowlift.” This year's storms have a month’s earlier start. Frank Root, manager of the Win- ner Airport, reported four prospec- Averages today were as industrials 267.45, rails 8241, | 4692, s ties | J under 26 inches of snow. als. Pjerre, the State Capital city, is 1 'Fire Destroys Bar in Petershurg Fldod—eEOiI Stove FETERSBURG, Alaska, Dec. 20 —(M—A flooded oil stove started a| fire which destroyed Jim Bren- nan’s cocktail bar early yesterdny.' The fire broke out again at 3| am., today, but was quelled after two heurs by volunteer firemen. Prompt. work by the volunteer fire tfisnters yesterday saved the Alaska Communication System buildinzg next door. Personnel there had records ready to move out, Bill Douglas was burned slightly ky the explosion that launched the first fire. Don MacKechnie and Dave Ohmer was trapped and slightly burned when a door slam-| med shut as they tried to escape from the building which had burst into flames. They were wielding fire extinguishers at the time, A!aska Plane Makes Emergency- Seattle Landing SEATTLE, Dec. 20—®—An in- bound Northwest Airlines DC-4 transport from Anchorage, Alaska, made an emergency landing at Boe- ing Field last night after the plane’s four engines cut out approaching the airport. There were 45 passen- zers and three crewmen aboard. The pilot, Capt.' Pat Kelleher, managed to get one engine started near Seattle’s Elliott Bay and bring the plane in for a landing. Maihtenance experts from North- west's St. Paul headquarters were to fly here today to examine the plane and try to learn the cause of the trouble. TIDE TABLES December 21 Low Tide 12:41 am. 33 ft Have Session On Armisfice MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 20—®—! Truce negotiators turned the prob- lem of how to supervise a Korean armistice over to staff officers to- day in a “one-shot effort” to break the long deadlock. The staff officers met for two . hours nt . Panmun, ; adjourned until Thére was no report of what hap- pened. # An official Allied spckesman ; said U, N. subcommittea delegates suggested calling in the staff of-. ficers because there had been no | progress for days. “I give ycu my solemn word,” said Brig. Gen. Willlam P. Nuckols, “The decision to appoint the staff officers was because of the lack of progress rather than because of any progre: Earlier in the dey the Commun- ists suggested their version of a compromise. They asked the Allies to (1) permit construction of North Ko- rean airfields, (%) accept the Red propesal for inspection by neu- tral teams at specified points and (3) drop a demand for aerial ob- servation over all Korea. In return, the Communists said they demand for unlimited rotation of troops and replenishment of equip- ment and supplies. The U. N. is represented at the staff officers session by Air Force Col. Don O. Darrow, Tacoma, Wash., and Alr Force Col. Andrew Kinney. i Three of Family Missing in Plane; Search Crews Ouf Erria was missing and “might consider” the U. N.} Fear 11 Lost As Ship Burns 0ff Oregon ASTORIA, Ore., Dec. 20—(®-—The Coast Guard said today that eight passengers and three crewmen “pos- sibly are missing” from the Dan- ish motorship Erria burning at the mouth of the Columbia River, The Coast Guard said 23 passen- gers and 80 crew members had been accounted for. These estimates were based on the belief that 114 were aboard the ship when it anchored Just inside the mouth of the stream to await clearing weather before attempting to cross the bar. Crew { members were unable to say posi- | tively how many passengers were aboard. 2 Whitehorse Persons Aboard In San Francisco, the East Asi- atic Lines also said that eight pass- engers and three crewmen were un- accounted for but emphasized that hope had not been abandoned for them, East Asiagic officlals identified the missing passengers as: Mr. and Mrs. Holst Andersen and Mrs. A, Sorensen, of Copenhdgen; Dorothy Myers, G. F. Scott and Mrs. C, M. Taylor, all of Vancouver, B, C.; and Mrs, A. M. Brunlees and | ; daughter, Elizabeth; Whitehorse, Yt. fieefe Wins [luneau Marine Vet Sfaff Officers | Miss Myer was bound from Seattle to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Seett was enroute from Vancouver to St. Thomas and Mrs. Brunlees and her daughter from Vancouver to New York. Missing Crewmen The missing crewmen, all of Cop- enhagen, are A. 8. Iversen, T. An- derson and L. A. Haase. About 35 of the passengers were taken aboard'at Vancouver, B, C., crewmen said. Most of the passen- eers were on a pleasure cruise down the west coast and through the Pan- ama Canal to New York. The Coast Guard reported one of ¥ ““from the might have Some of the 11 aboard. Planes. went up to hunt it. The commanding officer at the Tongue Point Coast Guard station, {said the 103 were taken to the bar- racks there and then were moved to the Astoria Hotel. Into Icy Water Early reports indicated that only one of those aboard went into the icy waters of the Columbia river. He was Hugo Ray, Vancouver, B, C., a passenger, who grabbed a line hanging over the side of the ship when the fire broke out. The line was unsecured and he plunged over the side, but was quickly picked up by a Coast Guard vessel. Ray's 1l-year-old son, Bill, suf- fered a burned heel in the fire and was taken to a hospital here. Ray's wife and three-month-old son were safe, Anchored At Fire Time The Erria, bound from Portland, Ore, to San Francisco, was burn- ing % of a mile off the Coast Guard station. She was at anchor, awaiting clearing weather before crossing the bar when the fire broke out. Crew members said they believed the fire started from a shorted cable. It spread rapidly through the 400- foot vessel. Blyth said the order to abandon ship came five or six minutes after the alarm. The Coast Guard arrived quickly from its station with two cutters and several lifeboats and be- gan taking off the passengers. Flames Shot High Watchers from the shore said the flames shot high above the ship. PENDLETON, Ore., Dec. 20—®—| myore was only a light breeze blow- Three members of a well-known Walla Walla, Wash,, famijly were still missing this morning on a flight from La Grande to Walla Walla yesterday, The plane carrying Stanley Lott, president and general manager of the Lott Supply Company and his 20-year-old daughter Rose and 10- year-old son Wallace, is believed down some where in the Blue Mountains southeast of Pendleton. By 8 am. today, six crews of about four men each were scour- ing the hills between Deadman’s Pass on the Old Oregon Trajl Highway, (U. S. 30) and the head- waters of McKay Creek, south of Pendleton. An Air Rescue squadron B-17 from McChord Field, Wash, is waiting at the Pendleton airport for clearing weather. The CAA said Lott stopped in La Grande yesterday for gas on a flight from Provo, Utah, to Wal- la Walla. He left the field early in | the afternoon. High Tide 7:14 am. 144 ft. Low Tide 1:30 pm. 5.0 ft High Tide 7:19 pm, 122 ft. ® 000 09 9000 FROM FAIRBANKS Clyde Sherman of Fairbanky is | | | |stopping at the Baranof Hotel. jn) ing. By 5 am. (PST), about two and a half hours after the ship caught fire weird blue flames lighted it. Smoke was pouring from below decks. Most of the ship’s survivors left 1 their belongings behind. Skipper of the 8786-ton vessel, which left Portland Tuesday after loading lumber, is Capt. M. Agge. The vessel also loaded at Longview. It was operated by the East Asiatic Lines. Plane Brake Inspected As Possible Cause in Second Worse (rash ELIZABETH, N. J., Dec. 20—(®— The right brake of the Florida- bound airliner that crashed with the loss of 56 lives Sunday got & thorouglr going over today by gov- ernment investigators. The transcript of the Newark airport tower’s conversation to the pilot of the doomed plane indica- ted the right brake may have been on fire when the heavily-loaded C-46 took off, bound for Florida.