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

CONGRESSIONAL ’ LY A v ., VOL. LXXIX.,, NO. 11,997 & TtafficToll & )y L] Nearing 1 Milli -1 Milion By the Associated Press The toll of traffic deaths in the U. S. since the advent of the au- . tomobile climbed today toward the 1,000,000 mark. s+ The gount reached 999,850 at 7:45 ‘ am. PST. Deaths in motor vehicle accidents were occurring at a rate that was > somewhat slower than usual at this time of year. One hundred had been tabulated in the first 3¢ hours—since 12:01 am. (local time) Wednesday. Heavy snow and icy highway: apparently limited driving in many northern states. But thousands of persons are expected to start Christmas trips *“goaay—and that may be a balan- ,cing factor. This also was the day for many traditional office parties. Some firms have advised. their workers not to drive if they drink. Key Witness ‘Won't Tesiit " Won't Testify [/ o ) . +In "Fix' Case WASHINGTON, Dec. 21— (B — Henry (the Dutchman) Grunewald refused to testify today as a key witness in the Congressional inves- tigation of an alleged $50,000 “tax fix” extortion attempt. ‘% The Washington “mystery man” answered just one guestion. Asked " “nis age, he said: “I was born in , +1892.” But “0) he wouldn’t say ‘where he was born or talk about anything involving him sinca that date. Confronted with' this_ - refussl, * members of a House Ways and Means subcommittee went -ntg <a privite hudii o cousids “wiiether they should séék contempt action against Grunewald, # o When this broke up, it-was; an. nounced that a new subpoena had abeen issued calling for Grunewald to appear before the committee sagain on Feb. 13. This will' give him another chance to decide if * "he wants to talk. s # Contempt of Congress Is an of-| fense punishable by up to a year's imprisonment and $10,000 fine. In some ways it was a strange Congressional committee hearing. Grunewald. a florid-faced, heavy- - et man, was in the witness chair for over an hous. And, while he refused to answer yuestions, he was allowed to read a statement of several hundred words prepared by his attorney, William P. Maloney. Kelchikan Woman Given 2-Year Term *In Narcotics Case One of the first “dope” cases in this section in several years, and one which brought a confession that led to arrests in Anchorage, was ended in U. S. District Court yesterday when Lovie Ander Ealy, of Ketchi- ‘kan, was sentenced to two years in * @ federal penitentiary. Miss Ealy waived prosecution by indictment and pleaded "guilty to information filed by U. S. Attorney " P. J. Gilmore, Jr., of illegal posses- sion of narcotics. She was arrested in Ketchikan last month where she | ‘was found with a quantity of mari- juana and a small amount of co- caine. g Gilmore says that information given by the prisoner after her ar- rest resulted in recent successfud narcotics aids in the’Anchorage area. The U. S. Attorney said that he be- lieved that this was the'first nar- cotics case since he took office in 1946. Miss Ealy will be kept in custody in the federal pail in Juneau until 8he can be transferred to a women's federal prison in the states. Gilmore 'said there appeared to be no serious dope problem in Southeast Alaska, but added, “vig- orous prosecution will be instituted by this office in any cases involving narcotics.” v / \ December 22 s Low Tide High Tide Low Tide 2:44 pm. 40 ft. High Tide 8:38 p.m. 119 ft. 1:32 am. 8:03 am. 42 ft. 148 ft. advice of counsel” | The wife and s smail children of 1st Lt. William Lewis pose hap- pily after receiving news he was en a list of U. S. seldiers held in a Communist prison camp in Kerea three months, and Jerry, 1. Be Judy, 5, and Jimmy, 4, Mrs. Le @ Wirephoto. . Mrs. Irene Lewis is holding Jed, hind h'er are Jeffrey, 3, Johnm, 7, wis said she last heard from her husband Sept. 16 and was notified a few days later he was missing. Demand Reds Give Account 0f Missing MUNSAN, Korea,” Dec. 21—(@— The Allies today demanded the ! Reds .account for .mbre than 1,000 fAmerican and vther missing -U. N. \'Qoldifl': and “an unbelievable num- ber pf South Koreans not listed | @8 prisoners of war. | The demand was made in a 192 Prisonerof War Messages YetioBe Sent WASHINGTON, Dec. 21— (B — The Défgnse Department has less than 200 glpd ings messages sti’l prisoners of war in Korea, but a who will not get one. The Pentagon announced last L’“”'h' it had sent telegrams to next of kin of 3,006 of the 3,198 men 1a vub Lo fimilics of Swacadaa ‘ glimmer of hope remains for those| Vstiffly worded note. It was handed | to a Red liaison officer in Pan- munjom® shortly after Gen. Mat- | Comunists in Korea Tuesday. thew B. Ridgway appealed to At the same time, however, the Communist chieftains to open the |radio in the Red Chinese capital at gates of North Korean, prisonyPeiping continued to broadcast pur- camps to the international Red | Ported greetings from Allied prison- Cross. lers to their home folks. Some names These developments came as the in the broadcasts were not on the whose names were furnished by the | Allies offered to give up all islands off the North Korean coast in a move to hasten agreement on an armistice. A U. N. spokesman said the Reds hinted they would agree to unrestricted rotation of troops during an armistice. He said they also indicated “quite a ghange of heart” toward the U. N. de- mand for a ban on airfield con- struction and reconstruction dur- ing a truce. The Allied offer to withdraw from all coastal islands was made by staff officers to another arm- istice subcommittee Friday. A U. N. spokesman called it a major con- cession. | “We ire returning, without re- compense, all islands formerly held hy the Communists,” said Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols. “We are ing tangible evidence of our willingness to compromise. The r imbursement will be the Commu- i willingness to compromise.” Dena'i scheduled to sail from Seattle today. Baranof due to arrive southbound Sunday. uled to arrive from Vancouver cn Dec. 26, WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending at 4:30 A.M. Today At Airport—Maximum, 27; minimum, 23. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Fair tonight and colder with low temperature near 15 in town and 5 to 10 in outlying areas. Increasing cloudiness Saturday with light snow in afternoon or evening. High Saturday near 25. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport — .36 inches; e since July—20.29 inches. sebbeccoe o o0 eecscoe e 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o o @ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Freighter Yukon Princess sched- |7 | lists handed over at truce negotia- 1 tions. | 1t was recalled, too, that Russia’s | United Nations delegate, Jacob Mal- ‘,1k. several months ago produced a : peace appeal he said was from Am- ericans captured in' the Korean fighting. There were 37 legible sig- [natures and 27 of these names did !not turn up on Tuesday’s list. In Korea early today, the United Nations command tackled this is- |sue. A “stiffly worded” note to the . Reds asked about some 1,000 Allied | soldiers, Americans among them, { whose names were not listed.. The 192 names out of 3,198 re- ! main to be tracked down at the Pet- {agon presented special problems, { mostly some confusion of identity. Legislator Lands In Philippines on |Round World Flight MANILA, Dec. 21—(®—Rep. Peter F. Mack, Jr, (D-IID landed his light single-engine plane at Manila airport today after a 1,050 mile flight from Saigon, Indochina. The Philippines is the 31st coun- try the former naval aviator has visited on a world solo flight. He started from Springfield, Ill., Oct. Mack said he has called on gov- ernment officials but spent most of his time talking to “the man in the street.”” He said Soviet Russia would not let him fly to Moscow. Mack plans to spend two days in the Philippines, then fly to For- mosa, Japan and Korea on his way back to the U. S. via the Aleutian Islands. _TO CHRISTMAS || Steel 397, Pound $2.79, Canadian “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1951 Sorrow Tinges Christmas Joy | InManyHomes! By Asscciated Press | Carolers will sing and tinsel will glisten on Christmas next Tuesday in years past, but in thousands i of American homes the season’s traditional joy will be lacking. Cheery candles in the windows of many a dwelling will obscure the fact that the family inside is thinking of a son or husband risk- ing death in distant Korea. The uncertainty turned to thank- ‘ul joy in some homes this week with word that a missing loved one was reported alive—in an enemy orison camp, but alive. But in an even greater number, the name of a loved one overseas' remained on the list of missing. Family Ties—Home Thus the season emphasized, perhaps to a greater degree than usual, family ties and the homes. President Truman intends to fol- low his custom of flying to his! family home in Independence, Mo., | on Monday to have Christmas dinner there with 'his wife and; daughter, Margaret. | From Independence, the Presi- | dent will press a button Christmas eve to lighi a tree on the lawn of the White House in Washing- ton. He will broadeast a.Christmas message at the same time. Across the nation, travelers head- ed for home wherever it was. A substantial segment of the| travelers were in uniform, on leave from training camps in the United States. They didnt know when they would spend another Chrm-! mas with their families. i Travel Is Heavy The scene was the same, in vary- ing degrees, from coast to coast— trains, buses, airplanes filled to capacity. | In New York, the Pennsylvanlai {raflroad said it was running 150 v tvains ogver the holiday week~ | end. The Greyhound bus line sent 132 Ibuses to Washington and other southern points yesterday, compar- ed with a normal 33. | Churches across the country will, have their usual Christmas serv- | ices. “Fellowship In Church” The Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sher-| rill, presiding Bishop of the Epis- copal church and president of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of | America, called in his annual mes-} sage for “Fellowship in Church” for a true Christmas. Midnight mass at St: Patrick’s cathedral in New York will be beamed on two televisipn net- works (NBC.and ABC), but Fran- cis Cardinal Spellman will not be present. He has left for Korea to spend Christmas with the fighting men. Some troops were being rotated home from Korea. For those who remained, and for American ser- | vicemen elsewhere in the world, the government planned the trad- itional Christmas dinner. Turkey was on the menu in Ko- rea, the same as it was in Presi- dent Truman’s home. Plane Crash Reporied; No Wreckage Found NEWHALL, Calif,, Dec. 21—#— Reports of a big plané’s crash in the rugged Tehachapi Mountains sent ground and air searchers into the area today, but they couldn't find the supposed wreckage. Los . Angeles and Kern County sheriff's offices first received ac- counts from residents of Gorman and Frazier Mountain districts, near where the two counties join, of a plane trailing fire as it crossed 3,000-foot Frazier Mountain. Stock Quofafions NEW YORK, Dec. 21—(P—Clos ing quotation of Alaska Juneca mine stock today is 2%, American Can 111, American Tel and Tcl 155%, Anaconda 50%, Douglas Air- craft 59%, General Electric 57 Qeneral Motors 51%, Goodyea! 44%, Kennecott 86%, Libby, McNeill and Libby . 8%, Northern Pacific 67, Standard Oil of California 49 Twentieth Century Fox 19%, U Exchange 97.75. Sales today were 1,250,000 share 'Up; RR Workers | | ¢ i i I [ water. (® Wirephoto, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS W hre 5 Died This is 4 closeup airview of the wreckage of the two-engined, non-scheduled airliner that crashed into the shallow Elizabeth River at “Elizabeth, N. J. (arrow) taking 56 persons to their deaths. The plane had taken off from nearby Newark Airport only a few minutes before on a flight to Florida. Crowds jlm;lln- bank of the river as rescue workers search for bedies. Smokestack rising from center of smoke is that of Elizabethtown Water Company building which plane struck befere flipping into the Cost oI‘I—.iving Get Pay Boost WASHINGTON, Dec. 214M’l—é The government’s cost of living index rose another 0.6 per cent to| a nee. peak in November. As a result, approximately a million and a quarter railroad wor- kers will get a pay boost of tourl cents an hour. Their wage scales| are tied to the rise and fall of the index. L] The Association of American | Railroad estimates that each cent| an hour increase means for the| carriers about an extra 30 million dollars a year. On this basis, be- ginning January 1, the railroad workers would begin receiving ad- ditional pay at the rate of 120 mil- lion dollars a year. The Bureau of Labor statistics, which keeps the tally, said its in- dex reached 188.6 per cent of the 1935-39 base level. Big Boeing Parly For 40,000 fo Be In Relays SEATTLE, Dec. 21—(®—The big- gest 10c-year histéry is going to be held here Sunday. It’s for Boeing Airplane Com- More than 40,000 have signed up. The party is so big it will be held in relays in the Civic auditor- jum. A circus act show will be pre- sented every hour. Each kiddie will get a gift or a goodie. The Boeing Supervisors’ club is the sponsor. Stand-in for Sanfa Killed Santa Claus lost one of his Chris mas season stand-ins in a traffic ccident here tonight. ace, Ida., farmer, was struck and killed after leaving a department store where he was employed as 1ta. He had been living with a daugh- er, Mrs. Ruth Jorgensen. | UN Political (ommitfee |Voled Confidence PARIS, Dec. 21—(—The United Nations political committee gave ence today by sejecting Russian Averages today were as follow | Industrials €66.34, rails 82.11, util- | { PEE S o SN FROM ANCHORAGE J. H. Fitzgerald of Anchorage at the Baranof Hotel. | harges that the 'U. S. was sup- orting anti-Kremlin plotters on oviet Soil. The vote was 39 against the Rus- sian resolution, 5 for it and 11 ab- stentions, Christmas party in Seattle’s pany employes and their children, ' SAN DIEGO, Calif., Dec. 21—(®— United States a vote of con- | Alaska Airline And CAB Fight In Last Round By FRANK W.'VAILLE WASHINGTON, Dec. 21— ® — Air Transport Associates, Inc., finds out today just how much it must cuftail its Seattle-Alaska operations to stave off a Civil Aeronautics Board order revoking its common | carrier operating authority. Attorneys for the irregular car- rier and the board were ordered by three appeals court judges yester- day to work cut an agreement satis- factory to both parties. They were to return to court to- day (11 am. PST). If no agreement has been reached the court itsell will undertake to settle the issue. Company attornéy Warren E. Mil- ler told the judges it wassthe com- pany’s inability to understand board regulations that led to charges that 1it operated too frequently and too Iregularlyv'!t was on those grounds that the board revoked the com- panl’s permit. Miller said the com- pany was unable to determine what an irregular may do and still comply with board orders. Revocation Staved i The revocation order was to have gene into effect last midnight. It was stayed indefinitely, however, by the appeals court on condition the icompany live up to the regulations { Assuming compliance, the decis- vion will permit the company to con- tinue in business until the court has reviewed the company to continue in business until the court has re- ‘viewed the revocation order. This probably will be early in March. | The court announced its decision orally after a two-hour hearing, as- serted it was prompted by-the “large I number of questions” which com- | pany attorneys raised. Objections Raised Among these were contentions that the board failed to give the carrier warning of its violations or an opportunity to achieve compli- ance, failed to consider pertinent evidence regarding the public need for the carrier service, and acted George Weaver Hulse, 68, tormcri unconstitutionally in applying to ‘Lhe company regulations which were : chacted after it was licensed “ Emory T. Nunneley, chief cotnsel {for the board, denied all but the | refusal to hear evidence concerning ! public demand. Tkis question, he said, was not involved in the hearing which was interested only in the enforcement of regulations. | Contention Denied that failure to stay the revocation order would do irreparable damage to the company through loss of enue and dispersal of its employees He said the company’s application for safety operating authority “un- doubtedly” would be approved by the Loard, and the company then could operate as a privatg contract carrier He agreed that this type of service would result in an economic loss to the company. Opposing the stay, Nunneley char- ‘B_ond~ Company (Can't Recover In Olson Case SEATTLE, Dec. 21—(P—Superior Court Judge Hugh C. Todd held aska treasurer, are not:entitied to recover money they paid out on his account. Olson came from McNeil Island federal prison to testify during the trial. 4 American Fliers Are To Be Tried BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 21— M—Four American fliers forced down in Hungary by Soviet fliers 1 month ago will be brought to ‘rial here, ~the government an- aounces. The announcement, not specify- ing a date for the trial, said merely he four would face a court of justice “as persons having with sremeditated intention violated the Horder of Hungary.” The Soviet Union has denoun- ced the men as sples but the United States has insisted they were on a legitimate mission ‘be- tween Germany and YugeSlavia and got lost. This is the first time, so far as available records show, that any of the European Iron Curtain countries has attempted to {m- prison American military men. Hungary is the country that ime prisoned Robert A. Vogeler, U. 8, businessman. It also has dealt severely with such Hungarian Catholics as Cardinal Mindszenty and Archbishop Groesz. (William N. Oatis, U. S. corres- pondent, is in 'prison in Czechos- lovakia. That country, however, re- leased an American flier forced down in a jet fighter near Prague last June—Lt. Luther G. Roland of Hummelstown, Pa.) The four have been identified in Washington as Capt. Dave Hender- son of Shawnee, Okla., Capt. John J. Swift of Glen Falls, N. Y., Sgt. James A. Elam of Kingsland, Ark., gnd Tech. Sgt. Jess A. Duff of Spokane, Wash. Fate of Missing today that companies which once | H bonded Oscar . Olson, former Al- y 'Fire unklmwn~ ASTORIA, Ore,, Dec. 21—(®—The The American Surety Company fate of 11 persons, missing in a fire of New York and the General Cas- | which swept a ship anchored in the ualty Company of America sued mouth of the Columbia River, re- to recover $9,136 and $1,120 re- main undetermined today. spectively, from the Seattle—l"lrst: One hundred three others, includ- National Bank. Part of the Terri- | ing 23 passengers and 80 crew mem- torial funds were deposited in the bers were rescued by the Coast He also denied Miller’s contention | bank. The bonding firms contended the bank should not have honored checks signed by the treasurer, but should have demanded warrants | troh the Territorial auditor. | Judge Todd held, in a memor- andum decision, that the bank was bound to honor the checks unless it knew of an improper diverslon' of funds. Olson is serving a prison term for diverting public monies to his own use. Labor Wage Fight; Case Up fo Truman WASHINGTON, Dec. 21— (B — Steel iabor negotiations collapsed today and the dispute was referred to President Truman as being in a complete deadlock. Cyrus S. Ching, Federal Media- tion Service Director, ended his ef- forts to negotiate a settlement. He told reporters he was sending the case to the White House as hopeless—Ileaving it up to the Presi- dent to decide on the next step to try to avert a threatened New Year's day strike in the vital steel industry. Mr. Truman apparently has two courses to take. One is to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, with its provisions for an 80- day court injunction prohlbiting a walkout. This, however, would probably shelve the unsettled steel dispute until March, with the possibility that John L. Lewis may be threatening a nation-wide coal strike then. His second gourse would be to re- | fer the steel crisis to the Wage Stabilization Board for a recom- mended settlement. However, it was considered highly | unlikely the board could complete | this process before CIO President | Philip Murray's Jan. 1 strike dead- line. acterized the company as a “flag- rant violator” of regulations limiting flights by an irregular carrier. He said the company has not com- plied with an order directing cur- tailment of flight, “nor have they | at any time indicated they will com- | Py Guard shortly after flames whipped through the mid section of the Danish vessel, Erria, early yester- day. Survivors said crewmen said the fire started from sparks from a shorted electric cable, a few minutes later a hold was on fire. Survivors also said crew members ran from cabin to cabin pounding en doors and ordering passengers to lifeboat stations. Four of the eight Hfeboats were lowered, the first with women and children and the others with men. Three boats burned and one was (not launched. The Coast Guard station, only a ‘mile away, rushed tugs to the scene to pick up the lifeboats. One survivor, E. L. Blythe of Port- land said “there was no panic, but most of the passengers left their luggage behind, Some of them were in night clothing and overcoats.” The 462-foot boat was bound for Liverpool via New York from Portland. . | The missing were believed trapped or drowned. 416 from Korea Will Be Home %ar Christmas SEATTLE, Dec. 21—(®—The third troop transport from the Far East in 24 hours arrived here today. The rush “to get home by Christ- mas was in full swing. Military authorities were trying to get the men on their way as quickly as possible. The latest arrival was the Fred- erick Funston. It carried 50 Army men, 197 Navy men, four Marines and 80 Canadian soldiers. It also carried 85 military dependents. The Gen, H. B. Freeman, with 1,199 troops aboard, arrived last night. The Gen. Hugh J, Gaffey started the pre-Christmas rush when it arrived Thursday morning with 1,168 troops. PAULA COOK HERE Miss Paula Cook is home from college for the holidays. She is a student at Oregon State College, Corvalis, Ore. and is taking home economics. This is her freshman year.