THE BAJIY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,895
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Slight Hope
Held for More
Truce Talks
Allied Troops Ready io
Whip Enemy if Reds
Refuse to Negotiate
TOKYO, Aug. 24—(/P)—Only a
tiny ray of hope remained today
that Korean truce talks might be
resumed.
If they break down completely,
the United Nations ground com
mander said his troops will go
back to fighting "with hate and
eagerr.?ss.”
“We feel very confident we
can whip the enemy in the pres
ent battle area,” Gen. James A.
Van Fleet said at his Eighth
Army Headquarters.
The U. N. Command in Tokyo
had not abandoned all hope for
the armistice talks.
Officers searched through a new
message from top Communists for
an indication that they might
want to resume the Kaesong ar
mistice talks which they broke off
abruptly Thursday. It was in this
harshly worded message they
found a ray of hope.
Message From Kim
The message was from Kim II
Sung, North Korean Premier and
Supreme Commander, and Gen.
Peng Teh Huai, commander of
Chinese troops in Korea. It was
addressed to Gen. Matthew B.
Rigdway, top U. N. Commander.
The protest, formally adjourn
ing negotiations, was based on
the charge an Allied plane bombed
Kaesong, narrowly missing Red
truce delegates—a charge dubbed
by President Truman as a “new
Communist masquerade” contain
ing "no truth.”
The message said:
"It is our hope that the armis
tice negotiations will proceed
smoothly and that a Just and
reasonable agreement acceptable
to- both sides readied.”
But, it continued, because of
“t h e deliberately! murderous
bombing” the Reds declared “the
meeting adjourned as from August
23rd" to wait for Ridgway “to take
responsible action with regard to
this serious provocation by your
side.”
U. S. FIFTH AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Satur
day —(AP)— Two Communist jet
planes were shot down Friday
when 24 American sabrejets at
tacked 40 Red MIGS over North
Korea, Fifth Air Force Headquar
ters announced today.
All the American planes re
turned safely.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—UP—
Rsp. Brooks iD-La) called today
for use of the atomic bomb in Ko
rea if the Communists definitely
end the Kaesong cease-fire talks.
TheWashington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
EN ROUTE THROUGH EUR
OPE — Here are some spot obser
vations gathered in various parts
of Germany regarding one of the
most important problems we face
either in preventing war or win
ning a war after it gets started:
Frankfort — High Commissioner
Jack McCloy, who is performing
a remarkably fine Job, is supposed
to be the top man in Germany. He
can and does set aside German
court decrees. He c>n give or with
hold American money, the life
blood of Europe. He can order the
American army to get out of this
area or into that.
But when it comes to Russians
escaped from behind the Iron
Curtain, High Commissioner Mc
Cloy has as much influence with
the American arifty as a Commu
nist youth demonstrator in the
east zone of Germany. The Amer
ican military flouts his orders
and thumbs its nose at McCloy
much like the above Cemmunist
youth demonstrator at the West
German police. Perhaps because
of this, the young socialite central
intelligence agents of Gen. Bedell
Smith and the amateur detectives
In counter-intelligence do such a
successful job of alienating these
Russian escapees that a lot of
them decide Soviet Russia is bet
ter than the much-vaunted west
and return home.
Just outside Frankfort is a Rus
sian refugee camp. Its name, its
exact location, the number of Rus
sians In it are supposed to be top
secret. Not even McCloy knows
how many Russians are in it. Nor
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Singer Visits Honkers
Opera singer Lauritz Melcholr, a good man for a gag or a concert,
looks in on the geese in Seattle's Woodland Park. Melcholr recently
had trouble with Florida game authorities when he was pictured with
an ovier-the-limit bag of geese on a hunt. He protested oyl.y one of
them belonged to him. The singer is in Seattle on a concert tour.
10*1 Wirepiioto.
Six Buii Moose Receive Lovely
'Grani-in-M from Beneficent
Uncle Sam - a Willing Femme
> * *
Six big bull mocKe-Vf a'trnhsplantM I
herd near here have a fighting
chance for a happier future.
The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice has brought them one of the
nicest presents a bunch of bull moose
ever received from a benificent gov
ernment.
It’s a lady moose.
For a year, the herd rollcall has
included six bulls and a belle. Ii
wasn’t considered a happy situation
from either the standpoint of the
gentleman moose or the govern
ment agents. The latter are inter
ested in keep a "balance of nature ’
in Alaska. Roughly speaking, that’s
about what the bull moose are in
terested in, too.
«rv»,W* >
believe in bigamy.
The new feminine addition to the!
herd arrived In the best of modern
transport—an airplane. To keep her
company on the flight—and possibly
to bolster her courage for the ex
perience—a bull moose was assign
ed to fly with her.
The lady was willing. She walk
ed right into the plane. It took
four struggling men to push the
timid male in with her.
The plane landed safely with the
herd additions. Of course, it means
there is now another extra male,
which is sort of a hauling coals to
Newcastle proposition, but the per
centage is better. Wildlife Agent
Holger Larsen predicts the com
petition is going to be terrific.
Alaska's Auditor
Turns Down Seward
Hospital Voucher
Another disallowed voucher for
funds from Alaska’s treasury was
on Territorial Auditor Neil Moore’s
desk this morning. Yesterday he dis
allowed the sum of $5 for transport
ating Governor Dewey’s bags to
town from the airport.
Today’s amount was for $82,070,
and was requested by Dr. C. E. Al
brecht of the Board of Health, as the
Territory’s share for construction
of a nurses’ home at the Seward
hospital.
Moore, in giving his reason for not
honoring the voucher, said the Sew
ard hospital was a private institu
tion, owned by the Women’s Divi
sion, Christian Service Board of
Missions of the Methodist church,
and Chapter 81 of the 1949 session
laws of Alaska, which provides for
aid to hospitals, limits such aid to
community operated non-profit hos
pitals.
“Construction of such a private
ly owned institution is not, and car.
not be classed ds a community pro
ject,” Moore stated.
The Federal government, under
the Federal Hospital Survey and
Construction Act, has appropriated
$164,140 for the project and owners
of the hospital have put up a sum
similar to that requested from the
Territory.
DAN MAHONEY FAMILY
IS CALIFORNIA BOUND
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mahoney and
their young son left aboard the Prin
cess Louise this morning on their
way to Areata, California where they
will join his mother who preeceeded
them south several weeks ago, call
ed by the sudden death of her broth
er.
The Mahoney family plans to live
in Areata this winter, where the
senior Mrs. Mahoney, widow of the
late Marshal William A. Mahoney,
will establish her home.
50 Juneau Service
Businesses Musi
File Ceiling Prices
! Over 900 service establishments
in' Alaska are now required to file
their celing prices with the Territor
ial Office of Price Stabilization, Fred
G. Hanford said today.
Hanford estimated there are about
50 such businesses hr Juneau. He
gave as types affected those oi
cleaning and pressing shops, laund
ries, all kinds of repair shops, de
livery services, and any service
where the customer is charged an
hourly rate.
The deadline for filing the ceil
ing prices is Sept. 25. One copy
of the prices is to be filed with
the local Office of Price Stabiliza
tion and a carbon, or copy, is to
be posted in the place of business
by the same date, Hanford said.
All service trades in Alaska have
heretofore been controlled by the
Geenral Ceiling Price Regulation
which froze their prices to the level
of the period Dec. 19, 1950-Jan. 26
1951. They are now under celing re
gulation No. 34. in effect in the stat
es since May 16.
“Placing service trades under
CPR 34 will have little affect on
their prices,” Hanford said. “The
main difference is that they must
now place their price lists on file
with the OPS. They did not have
to do this before.”
Hanford pointed out that service
businesses which have raised their
prices since Jan. 26 have done so
illegally. Under the new regulation,
however, provision is made for price
adjustments in cases where a seller’s
costs have gone up.
FROM SEATTLE
Irv Cunz, U. S. Rubber represen
tative from Seattle, is stopping at
the Baranof Hotel.
NOTICE
Who is Mr. Bazaar???? 894-It
Dewey Decries
'Frontier
Socialism'
Likens Alaska to Aus
tralia-Wishes Us Luck
in Government
After beginning in a light vein
regarding his Alaska trip, Oov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
swung into a serious discussion of
world affairs when he spoke^ to
about 175 persons at the Jurfeau
Chamber of Commerce this noon at
the Baranof Hotel.
He declared he was “overwhelmed”
by many facts he learned about the ,
Territory with its limitless undevel
oped resources during the past 84
years.
“You still have only 140,000 per
sons here and half of them by grace
of the defense effort. Alaska is 12
times bigger than my home State
of New York, but we have 1,000
times as many people," he said.
He said he regarded Alaska a*
the great, open, undeveloped
frontier of the United States.
“Australia also, is an undeveloped
frontier but I hope you don't get
their brand of socialism—I wish
you luck," he said seriously.
Alaska Defense
Dewey spoke of Alaska defense
as a primary interest but said that
it Is being defended on fighting
fronts in Korea, the Philippines,
Indonesia and Malaya.
He pointed out our proximity to
Russia at the Bering Strait “just'
as one of the Japanese islands is
only three miles from a Russian
island on which the Soviet is build
ing up fighting divisions.”
“World War II has never stop
ped and the third world war is
under way,” he said, “full scale
wars are going on in the countries
I mentioned and three more are ,
will t, up free <
doni from (he atom bomb and nu
opportunity to escape our obli
gations in this world as long as
Comunism occupies the Kremlin.”
“The Russians are doing very
well,” he said, by peaceful means in
bringing more lands and peoples in
to their orbit and we must vigorously
resist them.
Treat Equally
‘‘We must learn to treat the peo
ples of the free world with equality
and understanding to keep our alli
ances. We cannot remain free with
out them.”
On the lighter side the New York
governor reminded his audience
that he had a standing invitation
from Alaska's governor for the past
nine years to visit the Territory
and he was glad to have accepted
it.
He pointed out that he and Gov.
Earl Warren of California were
the two oldest elected governors
who had been attending gover
nors’ conferences consistently.
Fish Grades Differ
In recounting his fishing adven
tures the Governor admitted that he
was not a good fisherman but while
fishing yesterday he caught a cod
which the Alaskans aboard the ves
sel Manana, tossed back contempt
ously. "Where I come from, the cod
is considered a respectable fish,” he
laughed.
His second catch, he said, was s
red snapper which received the
same treatment and added, “To me
a red snapper would be at the top
of the menu."
The third fish was a 12-pound
king salmon which he was allowed
to keep.
Governor Dewey was introduced
by Herbert S. Rowland, Chamber
president. Paul Lockwood, associa
ted with Dewey for 15 years, was
also introduced.
Besides Dewey, Lockwood, and
Rowland at the head table were
Gov. and Mrs. Ernest H. Gruen
ing, Governor’s Aide Capt. Don
Morrison, Chamber secretary F.
O. Eastaugh, Miss Annabelle Simp
son of Life Magazine staff and
Hay McFarland of Libby, McNeil
and Libby.
In conclusion Dewey said, “I
hope to induce my wife to join
me and come back to Alaska
sometime for a real vacation.”
Scriver Relatives
Sought by Elks Lodge
Efforts to locate relatives of James
H. Scriver, former Juneau resident
who died Aug. 14 at Big Delta,
have proved unsuccessful, William
Biggs, Elks Lodge secretary, said
today.
Scriver was a member of Juneau
Lodge No. 420 and was buried at
Fairbanks on Aug.-21. Anyone who
knows the whereabouts of any of
his relatives are requested to con
tact Biggs.
Troops (an Ride to Front
I I
Armed infantrymen sit in a new armored troop carrier designed to
protect them against small arms fire and shell fragments while they
ride to forward combat posts. The vehicle runs on a full track, like
a tank, and Is powered by six-cylinder engine. It ran rarry a squad
of t: men anywhere a tank can op'erate. Double rear doors permit
quick dismounting. IT. S. Army Photo via (PI Wirephoto.
Llfc* Presit,<,"C|,!
Big On*** BooU;
SUP off 'n’M„ , 4.pounder
B„t He «ot “ *
'Nervous' Seems
Hardly the Word
• ELIZABETH. N. J . Aug. 24— •
• Mrs. Elsie Petjpzello of Spring- •
• field won a divorce yesterday •
• on grounds of cruelty. She test- •
• ified her husband's habit of •
• throwing knives, forks and wa- •
• ter at her made her “nervous.” •
Big Prizes for ~
Big Fish Deal!
Out al Theatre
More than 300 youngsters filled
the front seats of the 20th Century
theater last night to see the award
ing of the Junior Trout Derby prizes.
Donald Barcus won first prize, a
bicycle with his 4-pound, 1-ounce
trout.
Second prize, a sleeping bag, went
to Casey Harris for a 3-pound, 15
ounce fish.
Three were tied for third place
with fish weighing 3 pounds, 10
ounces each. The prizes were boxed
in identical boxes and Kenneth
Merritt drew the box containing a
complete fishing outfit of creel, rod,
and tackle. Norman Clark got the
camera. Rudy Maier got a fishing
outfit the same as Merritt's.
Tom Peters, who had entered a
3-pound, 4-ounce trout, got a fish
ing rod, an airplane kit with motor
donated by Nina’s, and a belt knife
and hatchet set given by Pan Ameri
can Airways.
Fishing Trip
Joe Albayalde and Russell Hop
kins tied with 3-pound fish and
each got a fishing trip on Alaska
Coastal Airways to a good trout
lake.
Lynn Barcus, the only girl win
ner, was awarded a complete fish
ing outfit of rod. reel and tackle
plus a candy fish that Mrs. James
Orme brought back from Oregon.
Joe Thomas and Douglas Boyd
tied with 2-pound, 8-ounce trout.
Each won year passes to the the
aters. Thomas was out of town but
his pass will be sent to him at Fish
Bay by Alaska Coastal Airlines.
B. F. Dunn presided as master of
ceremonies. He introduced James
Orme, member of the board of di
rectors of the Territorial Sportsmen,
Inc., who sponsored the kid event,
and whose idea it was in the first
place.
Orme received an enthusiastic
ovation and said he hoped that a
regular “derby day” could be ar
ranged for the Junior Trout Derby
neat year.
Foster Sportsmanship
Dunn explained that the object
of the derby is to develop and foster
c,ood sportsmanship, interest in fish
ing and the outdoors. He pointed out
that one of these days some of the
youngsters in the trout derby would
be running the bigger event, the
Oolden North Salmon Derby
“Carrying out the derby would
not have been possible," Dunn said,
“without the fine cooperation of
the Juneau-Young and Thomas
Hardware stores which took regis
trations, weighed in the fish and
kept the records.”
He said that the prize display
would be at Juneau-Young and
KETCHIKAN, Aug. 24—itfi—Oov.
Thomas £. Dewey of New York
tangled with Alaska's famed fight
ing salmon yesterday and had a one
out of four batting average.
The Qovernor was the first In the
party to land one of the silver beaut
ies, a 14-pounder. He hooked three
others, but they, like the Presidency,
were the big ones that got away.
The Governor’s secretary, Paul
Lockwood, landed two. He also lost
one of about 35 pounds. Cnpt. E. M.
Galvin of the New York State
Police and Ray Borst of the Buf
falo Evening News ench caught 12
pounder^.
Governor Dewey had expected to
be a spectator only, but members
of the party said he became an en
thusiastic fisherman after landing
the first one in 15 minutes.
He fished aboard the chartered
yacht Manana out of Ketchikan.
Later he transferred to the Brant:
Pish and Wildlife Service boat,
spending the night at Tracy Arm.
He arrived back in Juneau this
morning.
$11 Million Airport
At Anchorage Wilt
Open in October
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 24—Ifl—Op
ening of the new $11,500,000 In
ternational Airport here is sched
uled early in October, A. A.
Lample announced yesterday.
Lample administrator of public
airports for the Civil Aeronautics
Administration, said construction
was proceeding as rapidly as pos
sible so airlines may evacuate fa
cilities at Elmendorf Air Force
base which are badly needed by
the Air Force.
Originally scheduled to begin
operations Aug. 15, International
Airport construction has been de
layed repeatedly by a lag in the
delivery of materials.
A temporary passenger office be
ing erected is expected to be com
plete by the time operations begin
in October. Work on permanent
administration buildings should be
completed in the next construc
tion season.
•
• WEATHER REPORT
• (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
• ending ( 20 o'clock this morning
• At Airport—Maximum, 54;
• minimum, 49.
•
• FORECAST
• (Juneau and Vicinity)
• Partly cloudy tonight and
• Saturday. Lowest temperature
• tonight near 46 and highest
• Saturday about 64.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a m today
• At Airport — .14 inches.
• since July 1—5.37 inches.
• •••••••••
the awards will be given at the Cap
ital theatre next year.
Dunn said* that the Dally Alaska
Empire had been generous in giving
stories about the progress of the
derby and the list of registrations.
The 20th Century theatre manage
ment reported that 175 children at
tended the show as guests of the
Sportsmen and the rest paid their
own way.
50 Killed When United
Air Line DC-6 Crashes
Near Oakland Field
Catalina Flying
Boat Crash Kills
8 Reservists
ATLANTA. Aug. 24—ijfl—A Navy
Catalina flying boat carried eight ,
men to a flaming death last night
In a crash down a 60-foot cliff at
the end of a runway.
The dead, four officers and four
enlisted men, were reservists on two
weeks active duty at the Naval air
station here.
naming Engine
Drops oft B-29;
Safe Landing Made
TAMPA. Fla., Aug. 24— WPI —A
flaming engine dropped off a B-29
plane today Just before the pilot
brought the superfort, in for a safe
emergency landing.
The 2.500-pound engine fell when
the plane was at a 1,500-foot alti
tude. It landed near one of the en
trances to MacDill Air Force base.
Airmen said 1st Lt. Paul K.
Oreenwade of Farinersville, Texas,
the pilot, skillfully brought in the
big ship "like a fighter plane." It
was fully loaded with gasoline.
The left inboard engine burst in
to flames shortly after the ship,
with its 10-man crew, had taken
off from MacDill on a training
flight.
56 feared Dead
As Dam Bursts in
Hurricane Wake
MEXICO CITY, Aug.24 —l/PI—
Fifty persons were feared dead
today from- the flood of a burst
ing dam which yesterday wiped
out a whole village in the wake
of a spent-out hurricane.
The dam at Cardenas, 150 miles
north of here, crumbled under
the pressure of heavy rains which
followed a killer hurricane. The
hurricane itself had left more
than 150 dead in Jamaica, slam
med into the Gulf of Mexico and
left one person dead in the oil
port city of Tampico before spend
ing it'.elf against the Mexican
mountains.
The government railways said 27
bodies of persons living in the
town—e few hundred feet below
the dam — had been recovered.
About 23 others were missing.
Searchers were still hunting In
the corn fields below the dam.
Waterfront Fire
Destroys Tacoma
Boat Company
TACOMA, Wash. Aug. 24—(/Ft—
A costly waterfront fire destroyed
the Tacoma Boat Building Co.,
early today.
Fire chief Charles Eisenbacher
said company officials estimated
damage would exceed $1,000,000.
Arne E. Strom, company president,
would not confirm the estimate.
The company manufacture;
fishing boats and recently was
iwarded a |navy minr( sweeper
contract.
Flames covered a whole city
block and, at the peak of the
;lirce-alarm blaze, was visible for
miles. Ten engine companies, two
! truck companies and a fire boat
had the fire under cnotrol about
an hour aftpr the (irst alarm at
2:03 a m.
Cause of the fire was not im
mediately determined.
Ship Movements
Princess Kathleen due north
bound Saturday at 3 p.m.
Aleutian due to arrive south
bound Sunday noon.
Denali due southbound Friday
noon, sails at 2:30 p.m.
Alaska scheduled to arrive north
bound Saturday evening.
Baranof due northbound Tues
day evening.
By JERRY T. BAILCH
OAKLAND. Calif., Aug. 24~AB—
Fifty persons died on the crest of a
low hill near here today as a million
dollnr air liner crashed and disinte
grated. There were no survivors.
Hours later broken bodies were
being taken from the shattered
wreckage of the United Air Lines
plane. At the top of the hill there
lay the body of a little tow-headed
boy. His skull was crashed. Others
lay in the tangled debris In a ravine.
The plane, a DC-#-B, was Hying
non-stop from Chicago 4* Oakland.
The flight originated in Boston
last night, and the four-engined
ship had stopped at Hartford and
Cleveland, In addition to Chicago.
In Chicngo, United Air Lines said
the list of 44 passengers was sketchy,
with some names incomplete, and
few home towns listed.
Five Minutes
Only five minutes before the
plane was to hnve landed at Oak
land airport, It crashed inexplicably
into a low' hill 1H miles east of
Decoto, a farming community about
ten miles southeast of Oakland.
Three minutes before the crash.
Pilot Marlon W. Hedden of Los
Altos, Calif., had given the control
tower a routine report.
Then residents of the area were
startled by a flaming flash and
the rumble of a blast. The six
crew members and the passengers
died when the huge liner plowed
into the hill. The shattered
debris rained down for 200 yards
as the plane slid Into the sharp
ribbed ravine at the base of the
knoll.
The DC-6-B type plane has been
In United Air Line service since
Aug. 1. Its use has been the source
of a controversy between the Air
Liars PUbtV Association' and file
various nlr lines.
Cause of Strike
Last June the pilots struck United
for ten days, demanding that their
mileage pay be geared to the hand
ling of the faster and larger plane.
There was no road to the tragic
scene. Ambulances and other res
cue cars slipped and slid over the
smooth dry grass as they tried to
make their way up the slopes and
through the many small ravines.
About two acres of grass and
scrub brush burned as the fire
and blast shook the giant liner
into a thousand pieces.
Baggage, personal effects, letters,
clothing and bodies were strewn
over the area, but most was found
in the ravine at the foot of the
hill.
Engines scauerea
Pieces of the four engines were
scattered over the grass and brush
patches. It was Just a burned hill
side of debris.
Three hours after the crash thir
teen bodies had been recovered and
placed in ambulances.
Joe F. Angel, who operates a motor
tow services in nearby Hayward,
said he saw the fire and started
toward it. He said he heard a sec
ond explosion about 25 minutes after
the crash. ,
The Weather Bureau said vis
ibility was about six miles, and
the cloud ceiling was between 1,1M
and 1,500 feet at the hour of the
crash.
Photographer Paul Strong of the
Associated Press San Francisco Bu
reau flew over the scene a short
time after the crash and said heavy
fog had settled over the hilltop. His
pilot said he had never seen such
demolition in a crashed airplane.
In addition to Captain Hedden,
the crew members—all Californians
— were First Officer George A.
Jewett of Redwood City, who made
30 missions in World War II as
pilot of B-24s; Flight Engineer
Mario A. Durante of Sausalito:
Arthur W. Kessler, 42, of Redwood
City, veteran of 20 years with UAL,
who was on the trip as flight ob
server after a vacation trip to Chi
cago, and Stewardesses Marilyn
Murphy of San Mateo and Le Verne
Sholes of Palo Alto.
FBI to Investigate
Possible Sabotage
OAKLAND. Calif. Aug. 24—(iTi—
The FBI said today it was investi
gating this morning's United Air
Lines plane crash in which fifty
persons died.
The terse announcement said
"The FBI is making an inquiry to
determine whether sabotage has
been committed."
The statement was issued over the
name of Harry Kimball. FBI agent
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