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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS__
VOL. LIII No. 103 NOMeTaLASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST*29, 1951 ~ Per Copy—15*
Ridgwav Puts It
Squarely To Reds.
Fate of Truce Talks
TOKYO, (/P)—Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway put it squarely up to the
communists today to decide the
fate of Korean war truce talks.
The United Nations commander
curtly refused to reinvestigate the
alleged Kaesong bombing incident.
But he said the Allies would re
sume armistice negotiations when
ever the Reds are ready to end
their “unjustifiable delay” of the
conference.
The general view here was that
Ridgway’s 116-word message to
the top communist commanders
left them almost no alternatives
but to back down or break off
the disrupted conferences com
pletely.
The U.N. commander observed
that during the original investiga
tion a few hours after the asserted
bombing the night of Aug. 22,
their liaison officer “specifically
refused the request of my liaison
officer to continue the investiga
tion during daylight and to leave
all of the alleged evidence in
place.”
Seward Longshoremen
Strike For 15 Percent
Hike Pay Differential
SEWARD, Alaska, -(TP)—A gov
ernment conciliator started confer
ences here Monday in an attempt
to end the waterfront strike in this
shipping gateway to Alaska.
Albin L. Peterson, of the Seattle
Office of Federal Conciliation Ser
vice, conferred first with Frank
Setterson of the Northern Steve
doring Company.
The strike started Saturday
against the firm. It was called by (
the Seward locals of the Interna- j
tional Longshoremen and Ware
housemen’s Union in support of a
demand for an increase in the 15
per cent pay differential for the
higher Alaska cost of living.
The union committee contended j
the Seward cost of living index is
actually 46 per cent above the j
western states.
The management has withheld
comment on the strike, except to
label it an illegal action.
Governor Dewey To
Address NY VFW Tonight
SEATTLE, (/P)—Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey arrived in Seattle by air
liner early today after a wreek’s
Alaska tour that took him north
of the Arctic Circle. He left im
mediately for New York, where
he is to address the National Con
vention of Veterans of Foreign
Wars tonight.
The New York Republican gov
ernor said he was “greatly im
pressed by the possibilities of
Alaska.”
TUESDAY RESULTS
National League
Pittsburgh 2—New York 0
Brooklyn 3—Cincinnati 1
St. Louis 2—(Philadelphia 0
Chicago 1—Boston 0
American League
Detroit 5—Boston 4
Cleveland 1—Philadelphia 0
Chicago 4—Washington 3
New York 7—St. Louis 5 .
Accused Communist Leads
Hawaiian Sugar Workers
In Wage Increase Talks
HONOLULU, (£>)—An accused
Communist, free on $5,000 bail,
today leads the militant sugar
workers in wage talks with the
management of the territory’s
$120,000,000-a-year sugar indus
try. He is hulking Jack W. Hall,
Wisconsin-born leader of Hawaii’s
sugar and pineapple workers and
longshoremen.
Hall, five other men and one
woman were arrested yesterday
in a dramatic series of FBI raids
that carried the national roundup
of suspected communists into
Hawaii. All were charged with
conspiring to advocate the violent
overthrow of the U.S. government.
Hall, 36, is regional director of
the International Longshoremen’s
and Warehousemen’s Union, the
outfit headed by Harry Bridges,
another accused communist.
The seven arrested were freed
on $5,000 bail each.
Predicts Replacement Of
Judge Who Lowered Bail
Of Hawaiian Communists
WASHINGTON, iff) — Senator
O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) predicted to
day that Federal Judge Delbert
E. Metzger of Hawaii will be re
placed for reducing the bail of
seven communist suspects ar
rested in Hawaii.
O’Mahoney, the chairman of the
Senate Interior and Insular Af
fairs committee, told a reporter
Judge Metzger’s reduction of the
bail bonds from $75,000 to $5,000
was an “outrageous act.” The gov
ernment had asked the higher
figure.
Rep. Doyle (D-Calif\ a member
of the House Unamerican Activi
ties Committee, told a reporter he
considers the $5,000 bail “very
much too low in view of the dis
appearance of communist suspects
under similar conditions in New
York.
Tuna Fishermen
Protest U.S. Aid
Japanese Fishers
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) — A
floating parade protesting govern
ment support of Japanese fisher
men will be held Labor Day in
San Francisco Bay, a tuna skip
per said yesterday.
Hundreds of tuna fishermen
from Alaska to the Mexico border
are coming here to demand a tar
iff or embargo against cheap Japa
nese tuna.
One of the protest leaders, Fred
Wollenson of San Pedro, Calif.,
said the Coast Guard has given
permission for the parade.
Wolleson claimed the U.S. sub
sidized Japan’s rebuilt fishing in
dustry.
“We can’t compete with cheap
Japanese labor,” said Richard Cro
ker, chief of the State Bureau of
Marine Fisheries.
However, he said Japanese com
petition was only partly to blame
for the drop in tuna prices—from
$600 a ton last year to about $250 !
a ton
“Tuna packs and prices broke
all records last year but it’s a j
glut on the market now,” he said. I
Billion Dollar
Military Defense
Program in Alaska
By RUTH COWAN
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The De
fense Department has embarked
on a long-range $1,000,000,000
military construction program in
Alaska, it was learned today.
Nearly $400,000,000 has already
been earmarked for the program.
A special House committee
plans to leave Friday by plane for
a ten-day on-the-spot check on
progress and plans.
The seven-man group is headed
by Rep. Price (D-Ill). E. L. Bart
lett, Alaska delegate in Congress,
probably will accompany the
group. They will arrive at An
chorage Sept. 1. Because of the
shortage of time, the group will
divide into two sections. One sec
tion will concentrate on projects
around Anchorage and the other
on the Fairbanks area. Projects in
and around Kodiak, Nome, Whit
tier, Haines and Juneau will also
be visited.
AA Float Plane
Crashes, Kills Pilot
And 3 Passengers
*
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—An Alaska
Airlines float plane crashed dur
ing a take-off at Seldovia Monday
killing the pilot and three passen
gers.
The CAA said the dead were
Tex Hickerson, pilot of the Tra
velair, Mrs. Jack Edelman and her
son, Jackie, both of Seldovia, and
Johnnie Alex.
Shirley Edelman, daughter of
the dead woman, and Art Hogan
were seriously injured, the CAA
said.
The fatal accident was the sev
enth in a series which started
July 21 when a Korean airlift
plane with 38 aboard disappeared
on a flight to Tokyo.
Report Six of 90 West
Point Cribbing Cadets
Are Returned To Duty
NEW YORK, (JP)—A bar associ
ation hearing was told today that
“at least six” of the approximately
90 West Point cadets accused of
cheating had been restored to duty
at the military academy.
The statement was made by
Robert Daru, general counsel of
the committee on justice of the
New York Civil and Criminal
Courts Bar Association.
At West Point, a spokesman at
the military academy refused ta
confirm Daru’s statement.
He said an investigation into the
cheating scandal had not been
completed, and that academy au
thorities said they could not give
a breakdown on cases until the
screening boards finish their
work.
WATERLOO, la., <(/P)—An ac
cidental explosion which occur
red while he was being given an
anesthetic in a dentist’s office
brought death to Owen Hindal, 20.
Hindal died of a burned throat
and ruptured lungs. Dr. George
Foster, the dentist, said he did ncft
know what caused the explosion.
Army Now Really Has
“Flying Saucers”
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
Army is experimenting with fly
ing saucers—yes, flying saucers—
to supply troops in the field with
water, gasoline and other liquids.
It announced yesterday that
disc-shaped containers made of
synthetic rubber have been drop
ped from altitudes of 400 to 2,000
feet without bursting or spilling
their five gallon contents of
liquids.
When they hit the ground, the
army said, they stretch to almost
double their normal size, bound
back into the air and then settle
down near the point of contact.
Tests have shown the contain
ers, made in cooperation with the
General Tire and Rubber Co., may
be dropped many times without
damage.
They were described as honest
to-goodness, junior size flying sau
cers, and looked like inflated pan
cakes, about two feet across and
weighing five pounds.
Strategic Minerals
Industry Workers
Strike For More Pay
DENVER, Colo., (/P) — Union
leaders said flatly there would be
no break in the nationwide strike
in the strategic minerals industry
before a Washington meeting,
which was to be held Wednesday.
A spokesman for the Interna
tional Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers Union said no formal an
swer would be made to a back
to-work request from the Wage
Stabilization Board to halt the
strike of 58,000 producers of cop
per, lead, zinc, and silver.
Earlier, union president John
Clark said the strike is going to
continue “unless or until” the gov
ernment presses the industry to
accept the settlement offer pro
posed by government mediator
Cyrus Ching in the Kennecott
Copper district.
That offer calls for a package
increase of approximately 21
cents per hour. Union representa
tives *said this offer was accept
able, but it was rejected by a
mediator for Kennecott.
H. Hoover Admonishes
Republican Party To
Expose, Oppose, Propose
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP) — Her
bert Hoover says the Republicans
can win the 1952 presidential elec
tion—if they “intelligently expose,
oppose, propose.”
. But they mustn’t be “me-too
ers” or just carping critics. They
must have *a program of their
own, said the former Republican
president.
He declined to speculate on the
probable GOP nominee, in a chat
with newsmen before he left last
night for Des Moines. He’ll speak
there tomorrow on ‘honor in pub
lic life” at Iowa’s centennial cele
bration. And he’ll be given an
award as Iowa’s most disting
uished son.
ASTORIA, Ore., (fl>) — This
year’s salmon catch was 25 per
cent larger than last year, pack
ers here estimate.
The said that the season, which
closed Sunday, produced a pack
of more than 200,000 cases.
Bradley Warns
Dangerous to Try
Outguess Russia
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A warn
ing by Gen. Omar Bradley that
it is “dangerous to try to guess”
what Russia will do, background
ed the start of Senate debate to
day on a $7,535,750,000 foreign aid
program • designed to confront
communist force with force.
“No one can know just what is
in the minds of the men in the
Kremlin,” the chairman of the
joint chiefs of staff said.
Bradley made the statement
during recent closed door testi
mony by two Senate committees
on the big foreign aid authoriza
tion -bill, already approved by the
House in a form different from
that before the Senate.
He said the safest thing for the
United States and its free allies
to do is ter get ready as fast as
they can to meet communist ag
gression anywhere.
U.S., Britain And
France Give Tito
$50 Million Aid
WASHINGTON, </P) — The
United States, Britain and France
have agreed to provide $50,000,
000 in economic aid to Yugoslavia
to support Marshal Tito’s “contri
bution to the security of the free
world.”
The Economic Cooperation Ad
ministration, in announcing this
today, disclosed it already has al
located $29,800,000 as an initial in
stallment to help the Yugoslavs
buy cotton, coke and steel.
Britain shortly will announce,
ECA said, its decision to make
available $11,500,000 to help bol
ster Yugoslavia’s economy.
The French government is also
expected to announce its .contri
bution in the near future. In
formed officials said the initial
French installment would be
around $5,000,000 or $6,000,000.
The aid will be furnished in the
next six months.
The United States has given or
loaned Yugoslavia a total of $150,
000,000 for military and economic
supplies since Marshal Tito’s com
munist regime broke with Mos
cow.
SCHOOL NEWS
By OLAF HALVERSON
School bells will ring again
after a summer vacation, on
Tuesday morning, Sept. 4. All
students both in grade and high
school are urged to start school
on the opening day in order to
keep up with others in their
classes.
Many improvements have been
made in the Annex during the
summer. Students in the main
building will greatly appreciate
the good work done by Mr. Olsen
in cleaning all of the windows.
There is a noticeable improve- •
ment in the amount of natural
light penetrating into the rooms.
Broken panes have been replaced.
The names and positions of the
faculty will be published in Fri
day’s paper. . ; r