The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 28, 1951, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY WASHINGTON, D. . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIX., NO. 12,002 “More Deaths Reporfed in Prison Camps By George A. McArthur MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 28—®— The U. N. Command said Friday at least 450 American soldiers have Jdied in North Korean prison camps. An official communique said that is 77 per cent of United Nations troops known to have been impris- oned in rear aréas and not accoun- ted for in last' week's list of liv- ing prisoners. Simultaneously the Communists indicated a complete list of living U. N. prisoners already is in Al- lied hands. The 450 soldie;s wore not among those listed on the Communist roster of 11,559 prisoners. ‘They apparently were among 571 Amer- jcans the Reds' said Wednesday had died of disease or were killed by Allied air raids or artillery fire. The U. N. Command said its announcement was based on a study of the Reds| Wednesday re- port. Died In Camps “We must presume they died in prison camps,” said Brig. Gen. Wil- liam P. Nuckols, official U .N. spokesman. “This is the first time we have had knowledge of any deaths in prison camps.” North Xorean Maj. Gen. Lee Sang Cho hinted Friday at Pan- munjom that the Reds would re- port that many other Americans, not yet accounted for, had died of disease or exposure in prison camps. Aside from hinting at the fate of American prisoners whose names failed to appear on the Red roster, Communist negotia- tors offered no further accounting of some 50,000 captured soldiers the U. N. says have not béen listed U. N, aegoiialuis ai ¥aliiGjom again accused the Reds of insin- cerity and stalling the truce talks. The Communists, clared that JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS the Norih 5ids and was typical of a standstill. ® Wirephoto. That White Christmas dream turned into a mightmare for Chicago moterists as more taan ecight inches of smow arrived overnight to bring the December tctal to 33 inches. Photo above was made on the entire city as traffic came to Believe U.Ss. Radar Sight Still Secret WIESBADEN, Germany, Dec, 28— | P—Is America’s super-secret radar gunsight for jet fighters in Rus- sian hands? | Nobody knows for sure. i If it is, America has lost one of !TS'.»' bigsestd edgoe I A against Russian made jets in Korea. combutis Some officers at this big U. S.| in turn, de-|air base in weSt Germany think|aq Allied insistence on |the secret is still safe. The closestinussmn army shortly after Astra- Believed Soviet Atomic Scientist Fled fo U. S. LONDON, Dec. 28—(®—The Lon- don Daily Express said Friday the boss of Russian uranium mining in East Germany—a key man in So- viet atomic works—may have been [taken to Washington after he fled to the West six weeks ago. He was identified as Lt. Col Fedya Astrachov, whose scientific achievements once were honored 1 Ruuslaws . coveted Stulin prive. The express said American In- telligence agents were reported estioning a senior officer of the banning a Red air buildup during |they come to talking about its prin-|chov reportedly fled the Reds. an armistice runs the “risk of throwing overboard completely meu whole basis” of negotiations. Red China’s Peiping radio quo- ted a Communist negotiator as telling U. N. delegates at Pan- munjom: “If you want the ne- gotiations to continue, I must ask you not to repeat such state- ments.” Meanwhile the war of words raged on without letup. There was no indication that the Korean battle front was about to explode into action even though the 30- day cease-fire line agreement had expired Thursday midnight. The truce subcommittee discuss- ing prisoner exchange continued its wrangling over prisoner lists but reported no progress. The del- egate$ didn't even hold an after- noon session. They scheduled an- other meeting for 11 am. Satur- day (1 p.m. PST Friday). TheWashington Merry-Go-Round #Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON (Ed. Note—This is another in Drew Pearson’s series of columns on the cause of corruption in government and its cure.) ASHINGTON.—In every ad- ministration, whether Democrat or Republican, the cue for clean gov- ernment is set right at the top. Basically the fault lies with: the President of the United States. This was true of Warren G. Hard- ing, who, though personally hon- est, spent so much time playing poker at the little green house on K Street that the boys below and around him felt that they could in- dulge their own personal pleasures, too. Resilt was one of the worst eras of government graft. This is also true, in a different way, of Harry Truman, who is not only honest personally, but had a ‘well-publicized record in the Senat€ for exposing inefficiency and cor- ruption. Though President Truman also goes in for occasional poker parties with stakes so high that speaker Sagn Rayburn goes to bed; and though the President also has oc- casional conferences with I. W. Harper; the cue for influence- peddling is set not by him person- ally but by those around him. It is done in two ways: 1. By the fact that the White House staff accepts personal favors TGN RN A R (Continued on Page 4) ‘ciples is to say that “it does every-| thing ast.” | It is assumed the radar sight has been used in combat by F-86 Sabre i Jets in Korea, although no one will (say so officially. Some Sabre jets { have been lost in combat but Air Force officers hope the Russian's| ¢haven't got the sight. i “Each one of those things has al special detonating device,” one high lofficer explained. “A pilot whoae‘ | plane has been disabled just touches | |a button and ‘bang’ no more sight. | Since it is fairly rare for a pilot to | be killed outright, we think no| sights have fallen into Russian| { han | “If,” he added guardedly, “they are , in use in Korea.” There has been no chance for the, Russians to get their hands on a radar gunsight in Europe. No U. S.| Air Force planes are equipped with | them, Proncunced Dead, Widow Revives, Now Brings Suit SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 28—M— A 60-year-old widow is seeking dam- ages from the hospital where she revived after having been pronounc- ed dead. Mrs. Theresa K. Butler filed a $533.70 claim against the city Thurs- day. She said staff members at Harbor Emergency Hospital “used excessive heat without proper tem- perture control. . .and burned my back, right arm and leg and abdo- men to bring me back to consciqus- ness.” She said the $533.70 represented doctor bills for treatments. Mrs. Butler was found unconscious in her apartment Nov. 8, pronounced dead by a doctor of an overdose of sleeping pills, and sent to a morgue. | An attendant noticed a faint pulse and sent her to a hospital. Even- tually she regained her faculties and departed to complete writing a book. TIDE TABLES December 29 | Robert It also linked him with a recent but call the pilot for brcnk—‘imp to Germany by four leading | American atomic scientists—Dr. J. Oppenheimer, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N. J.; Dr. Walter F. Whitman of the U. 8. Atomic En- ergy Commission; Dr. Lee A. Du- bridge president of California In- stitute of Technology, and Dr. Charles ‘G. Lauristen, a rocket ex- pert from CIT. “It is now believed that the scientists were called in to size up the facts given to intelli- gence by Astrachov,” the Express said, adding: “An Allied official guessed to- night that Astrachov has reached Washington.” In Washington, the Justice De- partment declined comment. Mother, 3 Kiddies Perish in Fire At P1. Barrow FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 28— ! | California. Stassen Will Again Seek Nominafion By LEE LINDER PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28— P — of Minnesota, is going to make a second attempt to win the Republi- can nomination for President of the United States, Stassen, now President of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, Thursday night joined two other seasoned GOP campaigners in the nomination fight—U. 8. Senator Robert A, Taft of Ohio and Gov. Earl Warren of There was immediate specula- tion that Stassen’s declaration would slow down the drive of a number of Republicans who have Leen campaigning tg get Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower into the | field. However, backers of the gen- | eral discounted such speculation. | | Stassen said some time ago he would endorse the general’s nomin- ‘:)tiol‘.—if Taft would do ‘the same.| { In fact, the Minnesotan recently 1 asked Taft publicly to quit the race and support, with Stassen, the Eis-| enhower campaign. But Thursday night, before ad- dressing millions of Americans or a nationwide radio and television simulcast, Stassen disavowed the offer and said “it is all off now.” “Iam in the race without a com- mitment to any other person,” he declared. He did admit, however, in a hnstilyi called news conference in Washing- ton—where he flew three hours be- | fore making his address here—that | he decided to seek the Presidency | after speaking with Eisenhower in| Paris earlier this month. | | Attacking the present adminis- tration’s foreign and domestic poli ies as “failures” and “disastrous, Stassen said he would offer a “hu-| manitarian and liberal program” to| the American people. i Stassen’s Platform i 1..A new American foreign policy that would defeat Communism with- | iout war, and give freedom to all | peoples: of the world. 2. High moral standard in Wash- }ington “with plain honesty in pub- lic employees.” | 3. A modern gold standard, with| !a “solid dollar,” to prevent infla- tion. R ! 4. “Full employment, excellent| farm income, conservation of natur- | al resources and a balanced budget.” Grunewald Was Once in Good | Govt. Position ' WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—(P— Henry (The Dutchman) Grunewald omewhat mysterious Washington figure whose name cropped up in House tax scandal hearings, once worked for the Justice Department and later for the Republican Na- tional Committee, Attorney General McGrath said Thursday. McGrath chided Senator Wiler (R-Wisc) because he said the Sen- ator had given the impression in a statement last Monday that Grunewald once held {‘tremendous |a Red jet out of Korean skies Fr! Firewm\g‘n F X | arold E .Stassen, former governor | § Figiting a South Side fire in were ijured when the extens: broke dropping them 40 feet. ice Cha maat 60 persc this picture, showing two of the falling firemen (arrows). s homeless. (P} Wirephoto. and snow, three Chicago firemen n ladder on which they were working rles Dunnling, an amateur, made The fire Red Jetls | Shot Ouf | 1] Kir SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 28—M—Out- | numbered American Sabre jets shot | day while Allied infantrymen recap. tured Christmas Hill on the snow- covered battlefront, The Fifth Air Force said U. S.| Sabres came out unscathed from| their 20 minute dogfight. The bat- | tle was between 24 Sabres and more | than 70 MIG-15s. Another high flying 60 MIGs in the same area did not get mixed up in the fight. Down In Flames One Red jet was sent tumbling| down in flaming pieces by the same flight of Sabres that killed two and: damaged one Thursday. | The fight for Christmas Hill, scene of the fiercest fighting in 31 days of twilight war on the Korean front, was the only sizeable ground action reported. Hill Changes Hands The Hill, towering beside Mun- dung Valley not far from Heart- break Ridge, is just an outpost on the eastern front. But it has changed hands repeatedly since Christmas Day. power” in the office of the alien property custodian. It is true, McGrath wrote Wiley, {M—A mother and three children |that Grunewald once was employed perished in a fire which destroyed|in the Alien Property office, for- a house in five minutes during an|merly an independent agency and 85-mile an hour gale at Point Bar-|now an arm of the Justice Depart- row, Alaska, Thursday. ment. Alaska Communications System| McGrath said that Grunewald officials said the house was in the|was carried on the Alien Prover- native village and the victims were |ty payroll as a -special assistant Mrs. Ethel Olemaun and three of|from Sept. 12, 1942, until Feb. 27, her children identified as Thomas,|1943, at a salary of $2222 a day Lottie and Kathleen Ruth. Their!when actually working. But he ages were not learned. worked only 10 days on one special High Tide 2:34 am., 166 ft. Low Tide 8:12 am, 26 ft. High Tide 14:14 pm,, 20.1 ft. Low Tide 20:55 p.m. -39 ft. o 00 0000 0 0 eeeseccee LR The father, Corp. Nathaniel Ole- maun, ACS station operator in Bar- row native village, and three sons escaped with shock and burns. Three Sons Escape With Father The bodies of all but Kathleen Ruth, an infant, have been recover- ed from the ruins. The gale was part of heavy winds which swept Alaska from Point Bar- row to Fairbanks and the Big Delta country. Most plane traffic through- out the interior was grounded and some highways and roads blocked by snow drifts. The wind reached 56 miles an hour in Fairbanks, FRONT STREET TO BE CLEARED OF SNOW City snow removal equipment will begin clearing Front Street between Main and Franklin early tomorrow morning, Ray Hagerup, street fore- man announced today. He reques- ted that all parked cars be moved. Otherwise the crews will have to move them or push them around at the owner’s risk. assignment, McGrath said, and had been paid $222.20, Last Services Are Held at Kodiak for Former Priest KODIAK, Alaska, Dec. 28—#— Services were held here yesterday for Father C. R. King, former priest of the Russsian Orthodcx Church. The 73-year-old patriarch died on Monday. Children in Seattle and Kodiak survive him, Freighter Square Knot from Seat- tle in port and scheduled to sail sometime Saturday. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle today. Denali from west scheduled south- bound &t 4 a.m. Sunday. The U. S. Eighth Army reported' the rest of the front remained coldly quiet in the first day after a 30-, day agreement on a tentative cease- fire line expired Thursday mid- night, Off both coasts UN warships con- tinued their blockade of the freez- ing coasts of North Korea. Jury Award, Labor (ase af Anchorage, Is Sef Aside ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 28— #—An $8,000 jury award to an Anchorage teamster who was un- ablo to find work after hging kicked ovt of the AFL Teamster’s Union nas been set aside by Federal Judge Anthony Dimond. The judge ruled that the verdici could not stand because the court and jury was without jurisdiction in the case. He emphasized that the award to Ralph Born was dis- missed solely because “of lack of Jjurisdiction of 'this court,” The judge's ruling agreed with a defense attorney’s, contention that! “it has heen proved that a case| exists similar to those in which | the Supreme Court has ruled that exclusive jurisdiction belongs to the National Labor. Relations Board.” Born had charged he was de- prived of his livelihood when| George - Cease, an official of the“\ union, had issued him a with- drawal card and later refused to Steel Strike Delayed PITTSBURGH, Dec. 28—{®—The nation will escape a crippling steel strike on New Year's Pay—but will have to face the threat again on Jan. 3. The wage-policy committee of the CIO United Steelworkers voted to defer a work stoppage for at least three days. That gives the specia USW convention in Atlantic City the final say on calling a strike. The convention also will make the union’s formal answer to President Truman's appeal to avert a strike and submit the steel contract dispute |to the Wage Stabilization Board. The steel companies already have agreed to the President’s proposal. The action of the wage policy committee had been widely pre- dicted. Mr. Truman, Who says there must not be a steel strike in view of the National Defense em- crgency, has declared he will use every law on the books to prevent a nationwide steel walkout. If the convention accepts the Pre- sident’s plan, the Wage Stabilization Board will study arguments of both sides and outline recommendations. These will not be binding on ejther side. ! An entire new contract between the big union and the country’s steel companies is at stake. The union 22 demands are topped by a call for an 18% cent hourly wage increase. Murray also wants a guaranteed annual wage, union shop and other concessions for the men in the mills He says Migher living costs and industry profits justify a substantial wage increase. The 650,000 USW members em- ployed in the industry now average slightly less than $2 an hour. Orders Are Given Regarding Smoking LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28—{P—Los Angeles school teachers will have to continue doing their smoking ‘“off campus.” The school board voted down yes- terday a proposal to allow teachers to smoke in rest rooms in school buildings. Roard President Paul Burke cast the only affirmative vote. He ar- gued that teachérs should be grant- ed personcl freedom ‘within the bounds of good order and profes- sional decorum.” However, Burke admitted the pub- lic generally opposed the proposal for smoking. reinstate him. Born's counsel indieated the case would. be appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court. ‘Hungarian Consulafes ‘Are(losed | WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—{P—The State Department Friday banned | American travel in Hungary, and | ordered Hungarian consulates in | Cleveland and New York closed. Secretary Acheson announced the action. It was retaliation for Hun- gary's detention of the four U. 8 Airforce fliers who were released Fri- day after the U. . paid $120,000 in fines. s In a statement, Acheson said: “The American peopie are right- fully indignant. Because we value the weifare of the individual above all else,'we have paid the so-called fines'.” He warned at the same time that “our patience is not inexhaustable." Acheson charged also that the Communist Budapest regime has ‘ignored the basic rules of long-es- thilished international conduct. “Repeated requests were made to the Hungarian authorities to permit American officials to vislt the airmen,” Acheson said. “No such access was allowed either before trial or subsequently when the request was renewed. “In the circumstances, in view of the refusal of the Hungarian auth- orities to permit American officials to exercise this normal right, which is basic to the extension of custom- ary censular protection to. Ameri- can citizens abroad, the United States government will no longer validate the passports of American citizens for travel in Hungary. “Furthermore, since the recipro- cal basis of the exchange of con- sular privileges has been nullified hy Hungary, this government is also notifying the Hungarian legation in Washington that the Hungarian sonsulates in this country, which are located in Cleveland and New York, should be closed jmmediately.” Civil Defense Council Discusses Program The Alaska Civil Defense Council met this morning in the governor's fice to discuss tentative overall! Jdans to be adopted in cgse of an| mergency and to designate what} he various responsibilities would | je. 1 Taking part in the conference were: Gov. Ernest Grucaing, Col. James C. Crockett, acting director of the Department of Civil Defense, Dr. C. E. Albrecht, director of the health department; ‘Tony Schwamm; and Col. L. L. John- son, adjutant general. Prank Metcalf, highway engin- 4 U. S. Hiers Held by Reds - Free and Safe Released on Agreement By U. S. to Pay Ransom Demanded by Commies By CURT HAMPE NICKELSDORF, Austria, Dec. 28 ~—{P—The four American airmen jailed by Communist Hungary for 40 days came back to freedom Thursday. . The fliers crossed the Hungarian frontier into Austria at 6:01 p.m. (7 am. PST). Within a few min- utes they were sped on their way back to their base at Erding, Ger- many. U. S. officials at the border kept the four men under wraps, but as they were starting to drive to Tu- lin Air Base, outside Vienna, one of them was asked by a reporter how he was treated in Hungary. “All right” was all that Jess Duff, of Shokane, Wash., replied. He was the mechanic aboard the C-47 trans- port forced down on Hungarian soil by Soviet fighter p!nnes Nov, 19. Look Tired The four men appeared through the mist of the raw, damp evening, looking tired. They were hustled into a room of the Austrian border police building. Eagerly they drunk the coffee and ate the sandwiches provided by the welcoming party. Two stiff Russlan officers and the American party joined in the snack, ‘Walter J. Donnelly, the U. 8. Am- bassador in Vienna, came to the Austrian frontier to greet the fliers. The U. 8. had agreed to pay $120,- 000 in fines levied against the men on a charge of violating the Hun- garian border, provided the men were promptly released. Donnelly announced in Vienna carlier 'Thursday that the fliers would be released at 4 pm. (7 am. PST), He , sped t9 the. received Soviet permission to cross through the frontier barrier past Soviet guards. Met By Officer The fliers were accompanied across the border by Lt. Col. William Alden Somerby, ‘U. 8. Air Attache in the American legation at Buda- pest. Immediately upon reaching the Austrian side of the frontier, the fliers went into a police post build- ing, accompanied by High Com- missioner Donnelly and Col. John Guillett, commander of the U. 8. Air Force base at Tulin, along with other members of the American wel- coming party. In Uniforms The airmen wore their Air Force cer and Tom Dyer, member-at- arge, were absent from the meet- ing. Funeral Safurday For Prather Baby Funeral services for baby Ernest Prather, who died last night at 10 o'clock at St. Ann's' hospital, will se held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning in the Catholic church. The child was born Nov. 24, 1951. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Prather, of Juneau. Burial will be in the Catholic plot in Ev- ergreen cemetery. RAINBOW GIRLS TO HOLD HOLIDAY FORMAL The Rainbow Girls are holding their annual holiday formal bdll at 9:30 tonight in the Scottish Rite Temple. HUGH WADE CRACKS ANKLE Hugh Wade slipped and fell by the Seward Street entrance to the Federal Building Wednesday morn- ing. Examination revealed that he had cracked bones in his ankle, which will be in a cast for the next six weeks. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending at 4:30 AM. Todey At Airport—Maximum, 28; Minimum, 0. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Fair and cold with occasion- ally gusty northeasterly winds tonight and Saturday. Low to- night 15 in town and 5 in outly~ ing areas. High Saturday near 2. PRECIPITATION (Pust 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today |® At Airport — .02 inches; | ® since July 1—2047 inches. e o o @ o o & @ @ o o uniforms. The fliers are: Capt. John J. Swift of Glens Falls, N. Y., pilot. n Capt. Dave H. -Henderson of Shawnee, Okla., co-pilot. T-Sgt. Jess A. Duff of Spokane, Wash., mechanic. Sgt. James A. Elam of Kinggland, Ark., radio man. = ianh They were forced down near Papa, Hungary, Nov. 19 by Soviet fighter planes stationed in Communist- ruled Hungary under the World War II peace treaty. In a twin- engine C-47 they were enroute from Erding, Germany, to Belgrade, Yu- goslavia ,on a routine delivery of supplies, when they reported them- welves lost. Capt. H. F. Rapp Dies in Seattle SEATTLE, Dec. 28—(®—Funeral services for Henry (Harry) F, Rapp, retired sea captain and salmon can- nery operator, will be held here Saturday. He died Wednesday at “he age of 84. He took part in the Alaska gold rush, operated ships in Alaska waters and ran canneries in Alaska and Monterey, Calif. Two daughters and four sons survive him. Stock Quoations NEW YORK, Dec. 28—{M—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American<Can 112, American Tel. and Tel. 156%, Ana- conda 50'%, Douglas Aircraft 58, General Electric 58%, General Mo~ tors 51%, Goodyear 43%, Kenne- cott 87, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific *65%, Stand- ard Oil of California 50%, Twen- tieth Century Fox 19%, U. 8. Steel - 40%, Pound 276, Canadian Ex- change 98.06. < yitles 47.11,