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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11.909
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Allies Admit Strafing
Kaesong Neutral Zone
In Navigation 'Error'
TOKYO. Wednesday — <*> — Then
United Nations command acknow
ledged last night that an Allied
plane mistakenly strafed the Kae
song neutral zpne Monday.
The Communists had .not yet re
plied, but instead early today broad
cast an official message rejecting
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s sugges
tion that Korean truce talks be
moved to some other site.
The Communist message, broad
cast by the Peiping radio in the
names of North Korea Gen. Kim 11
Sung and Chinese Red Gen. Peng
.Teh-Huai, said Ridgway’s proposal
to move was “completely unsatis
factory and unacceptable.",
The message told Ridgway “these
efforts of yours are futile" and
then repeated all the old Red accu
sations that the Allies were “ob
structing” the now-suspended ar
mistice talks and had repeatedly
violated Kaesong’s neutrality.
The Red commander’s message
finished in milder tone than they
usually use, however.
The latest Red complaint was that
an Allied plane machine-gunned
Kaesong before dawn Monday.
Previous Red accusations have
been dismissed as falsehoods and
frameups.
The Monday strafing, however,
was found to be true.
A message being sent to the Reds
today through Vice Adm. C. Turner
Joy, chief Allied truce negotiator,
says:
“The United Nations command
regrets this violation of the agreed
neutrality which resulted from the
pilot’s error in navigation. Ap
propriate disciplinary action is
being initiated.”
The allied reply notes that no
casualties were t inflicted and only
slight damage w'gs caused.
First Admission
This is the first time the UN
command has admitted any basis
to Red charges of neutrality zone
violation. The strafing charge was
the 11th by the Reds.
The allies have denied or ignored
all previous charges.
The UN command statement said
a plane detected by allied radar in
the Kaesong area at the time of the
Red-report strafing turned out to
be a U. S. bomber.
The statement continued:
“Continuing radar plot Includ
ing a directed identification turn
Sand subsequent transmission in
dicates plane was frem the Third
Bomb Group. The pilot * reports
having strafed lights at 1:36 a.m.
In-what he believed to be a dif
ferent area but which in view of
the radar plot must have been
Kaesong.
Earlier the Communists warned
the allies to accept Red terms for
resuming stalled Korean truce talks
in Kaesong or “bear the full conse
ponsibility for all the consequences."
Counterattack
Drives Reds from
Key Eastern Peak
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 11—UP)—
Counterattacking Allied Infantry
men drove two battalions of Ko
rean Communists off a key peak In
eastern Korea today and chased the
fleeing Reds northward.
The Reds had attacked the Allied
roops in darkness earlier and forced
withdrawal from United Nations
ositions north of Inje, 25 miles in
jid from the Korean east coast.
The Allies smashed back at day
jak and drove the Reds from fort
s-like positions on the peak.
Vllied troops on a limited offen
e threw softening-up attacks at
°ier Red strongpoipts on the
fstern front.
i - On the western front, the Com
munists surprisingly broke off at
tacks they started a week ago.
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TheWashington
Merry -Got-Round
(Ed. Note—While Drew Pear
son is on a brief vacation, the
Washington Merry-go-round is
Mag written by several disting -
(kM columnists, today’s being
by Gay George Gabrielson, chair
maa af the Bepublican National
coaaalttee. William Boyle, Jr.,
chairman of the Democratic Na
tional committee, was also invited
to do a guest column.
WASHINGTON—A number of let
ters to the Republican National
committee have commented on a
magazine editorial entitled, “Here
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(Continued on Page 4)
$5 Million 'Voice
Of America’ Station
To Rise on Coast
ABERDEEN, Wash., Sept. 11—<jT1
—Voire of American radio programs
will ride a beam over the top of
the world to Asia from a huge trans
mitting station to be constructed
near this western Washington city.
Rep. Russell V. Mack (R-Wash)
disclosed plans for the radio sta
tion yesterday.
Mack said the station, which he
described as one of the two largest
and most powerful in the world, will
be built at a cost of $5,000.00. A
sister station will be constructed in
Nortli Carolina.
Thurman Bernard, of the office
of public affairs in the State De
partment, said the department now
is negotiating for the purchase of
land on the ocean beach between
Copalis and Copalis Crossing on
which to build the station.
Douglas Offers
Billion Dollar
Defense 'Trim'
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— Wl. —
Senator Douglas (D-Ill) today of
fered a series of amendments to
cut between $600,000,000 and $1,000,
000,000 out of the multi-billion dol
lar defense bill.
The rangv, Brav-haired law
maker startled the Senate late
yesterday by a shocked cry dur
ing bitter debate on the bill. He
was temporarily ill.
His amendments today aimed at
saving millions of dollars earmarked
for extra flying pay, for expedit
ing aircraft construction contracts
and numerous other large items.
Senator Byrd (D-Va) and Fergu
son (R-Mich) also teamed up to
offer two restrictions to the bill
providing $61,105,856,030 to operate
the expanding armed services.
They asked that part-time work
ers and consultants be included
within a manpower ceiling of 530,
000 for civilian “white collar”
workers in defense agencies. The
ceiling approved by the Senate
Appropriations Committee applied
only to full time workers.
A second Byrd-Ferguson amend
ment would prevent the Defense
Department from paying for tuition
or schooling of stenographers, typ
ists and other lower-paid govern
ment workers.
Briffsh-American
Discussions Tackle
Rising World Prices
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— UPI —
Secretary of State Acheson anc
British Foreign Secretary Herbert
Morrison tackled today the prob
lem of how to keep mounting world
prices from hampering the western
arms buildup.
They opened a second round of
Eritish-American talks in the big
three foreign ministers conference
at 9:30 a.m. It was devoted to ec
onomic and far eastern problems.
Diplomats said Morrison intend*
ed to tell Acheson that rising prices
for imports burdened Britain a:
much as the arms budget and thal
stabilization was the most urgent
need facing the west.
French foreign minister Schuman
was to see Acheson later.
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WEATHER REPORT •
(U. S. WEATHER BUREAU •
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
ending 6:20 o’clock this morning •
At Airport: Maximum, 54; •
minimum, 49. •
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FORECAST •
(Juneau and Vicinity) •
Mostly cloudy with rain •
showers tonight and Wednes- •
day. Lowest temperature to- •
night near 49 degrees. High- •
est Wednesday about 56. •
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PRECIPITATION •
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
At Airport — 0.22 inches; • j
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Japan Signs Treaty as Co sponsors Watch
Japan-s Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida signs Japanese peace treaty as representatives of United States and United Kingdom, co-sponsors
cf treaty, watch. On dais, (left-right) Conference Secretary-General Warren KWchner, Australia's Percy Spender, eonference vice-president.
President of Conference Dean Acheson, Britain's Herbert Morrison. Behind Yoshida are, left to right: Hisato Ichimada, Muneyoshl Tokugawa,
Niro Hoshijima, Gizo Tomabechi, Hayato Ikeda, ail memb'ers of Japanese delegation, and Treaty Technician John W. Foley, Jr., who handed
Yoshida the pen he is using. lff>l Wirephoto. ,
Senator Nuntley
Named Marshal of
Third Division
PALMER. Sept. 11—M—President
Truman’s nomination of Territorial
Sen. Walter E. Huntley as Mar
shal for the Third Division ended
long conjecture over the prospects
of his getting the post.
He was named yesterday to suc
c—d the late Faul C. Hearing.
1 '
Huntley is one of the original
Mulanuska Colony settlers. It was
reported as far bach as the 1951
Alaska legislature session that
Huntley had the inside track for
the appointment through support
of a majority of the division’s
Democratic committeemen.
Huntley was probably the most
quiet, soft-spoken member of the
Territorial Senate. On the Senate
floor, he has been outspoken against
the liquor business whenever any
aspect of it came before the Sen
ate. There was conjecture among
fellow legislators over how firm a
hand he might try to apply to the
law enforcement problems of the
booming Third Division.
He is the second Democratic mem
ber of the 1949-1951 Territorial Sen
ate to be named as U. S. Marshal.
The other was Frank Barr of Fair
banks, who resigned a short while
later to go back into the aviation
business.
Juneau Problems
Aired to Visiting
Congress Delegation
There is not a single airport in
coastal Alaska south of Valdez
that is served by a highway con
nection.
This was pointed out by members;
of the , Juneau Chamber of Com
merce to two members oi the House j
armed forces subcommittee who
were here last Saturday. The ar^
gument was presented to Congress
man Viotor Wickersham (D-Okla.)
and Hubert B. Scudder (R-Calif.1
in an effort to interest them ii
the construction of a road up th<
Taku River to connect with th(
Alaska Highway.
The Chamber members also
told the congressmen the impor
tance of extending the Juneau
airport runway as a defense
measure. '
Alaska's delegate, E. L. Bartlett,
who accompanied the representa
tives, ’ promised he would push for
a hearing in Alaska to consider
the reclassification of Southeast
ern Alaska waters in order that
current Coast Guard regulations
can be modified.
Enforcement of regulations un
der the present classification is
strangling the development of
the panhandle area, the congress
men were told.
Meeting with the visitors were
Ernest H. Gruening, Territorial
Treasurer Henry Rodin, Mayor
Waino Hendrickson and Chamber
members Herbert S. Rowland,
president; F. O. Eastaugh, secre
tary; Tom Dyer, Joseph McLean,
and George Sundborg.
The delegation originally con
sisted of five men traveling in a j
Truman Blasts 'Builerly
Statistics' that Expenses
Run Wild in Government
By ERNEST B. VACCARO 4
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— (/PI —
President Truman denounced as
1 ist a n-»oV (fHaeoes
that waste and extravagance are
running wild in the government.
Such charges are based on mean
ingless “butterfly statistics," the
President said.
And he declared that those who
claim the government is spending
itself into bankruptcy are doing
so “to frighten voters—particularly
as visions of elections dance in
the heads of gentlemen who are
politically inclined."
Says Wc’rt ‘Stronger’
In a bristling speech dedicat
ing a new government building, the
President said emphatically that
the United States is stronger econ
omically than ever before.
He singled out for special criti
cism a recent magazine article pur
porting to show government waste
and extravagance. He did not men
tion the magazine by name, bir
plainly referred to the Readers Di
gest, which carried a table of fig
ures supposedly showing that non
defense expenditures had increased
anywhere from 100 percent to 1,00(
percent between 1940 and 1950.
"It was just a pack of lies," Mr
True an asserted.
rtn (»y .
ample of uiiat he once heard des
crlbed as "butterfly statistics—sta
tistics so meaningless that they
seem to have been plucked right
out of the air with a butter
fly net—and that's where these
came from.”
Defends Our Beefs
Mr. Truman departed repeatedlj
from a prepared text.
He defended the right of Ameri
cans to grumble about paying taxes,
but went on to say:
"A man will go into a night club
and throw away 40 to 50 dollars and
think nothing of it, but let him get
a tax bill for $30 and hear him
scream!”
Mr. Truman said he knew per
sonully every figure in every bud
grt he has submitted, while othrr
people “talk about the budget and
don't know a figure in it.”
Mr. Truman spoke at the dedica
*ion of the new seven-story lime
stone and granite building for the
General Accounting Office, watch
dog agency for Congress on federal
pending.
Sundberg Named
General Manager of
Developmeni Board
Announcement of the appoint
ment of George Sundborg as gen
eral manager of the Alaska De
velopment Board was made today
by Don Goodman, chairman.
Since 1947 Sundborg has been
consultant to the board and ex
ecutive assistant to Gov. Ernest
Gruening.
With his new appointment, Sund
torg will no longer be associated
with the Governor's office butwi'.i
be employed entirely by the Ter
ritory. His new appointment was
effective Sept. 1, Goodman said.
His salary in his new capacity
was set at $12,000 per year, which
equaled his former salary while
employed by the federal govern
ment and as consultant to the
board.
Ship Movements
Baranof due southbound sometime
Sunday.
Princess Louise scheduled to arrive
northbound today at 4 p.m., sailing
for Skagway at 11:30 p.m. due to
arrive southbound Friday morning.
large Air Force plane. They arrived j
in Anchorage last last week, but
bad weather here prevented the,
big ship from continuing to Jun
eau. So the party split, with only
two men visiting here.
Heuse Committee
Crilicizes Alaska
3-Bedroom Quarters
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 — W —
A special House committee on Alas
kan public works today criticized
the Defense Department for plan
ning all-three-bedroom quarters in
Alaska.
The subcommittee, headed by Rep.
Hardy (D-Va), returned last night
from a ten-day inspection trip of
a proposed $1,000,000,000 military
construction program in Alaska.
In a preliminary report the sub
committee said there should be r
proportionate number of famil
quarters with one, two and three
bedrooms.
The law sets a maximum of 108'
square feet for family quarters ii
Alaska, and the subcommittee fount
that military planners were build
;ng quarters of this size regardles'
of whether they were to be occupiet
by a naan and wife or family with
several children.
Military representatives told th'
subcommittee they had called fo
bids on a two-bedroom quarters bu
found there was only a savings of
a couple hundred dollars.
A legislative top of $14,000 ha;
been placed on cost of family quar
ters in the United States. The top
outside the United States, including
Alaska, is from $25,000 to $35,000.
VISITOR FROM CHICAGO
G. A. Magruder of the Automatic
Electric Co., of Chicago, 111., arrived
here yesterday on PNA from Cor
dova and is stopping at the Baranof
Hotel.
Bids Asked on
Mail Pick-Up,
Special Delivery
Long-delayed mail pick-up and
special delivery service for Juneau
loomed as an innnlneift possibility
today with a call for bids from
Postmaster Crystal Snow Jenne.
Mrs. Jenne stated that propos
als will be received at her ofrlce
° 'vr~' r\""> ■ v» v- (-)»<>
a vehicle, without driver on ar,
hourly busis for collecting mai,
and special delivery service during
the fiscal year ending June 30
1952.
Requirements are that the
equipment must be in first-clas1
condition, enclosed, and have f
capacity of mail-carrying spaci
behind the driver’s seat of not les;
than G4 cubic feet.
Estimated hours cf service pei
day are: week days, three; Sun
days and holidays, one; with ar
estimated total of 216 hours every
three months.
Mrs. Jenne’s announcement sale
the owner of the vehicle will be
required to keep the vehicle in
satisfactory condition at all times;
tear all necessary expense in its
operation and maintenance and
deliver it each day to a starting
point specified by the Postmaster
and remove it daily after service
has been completed.
She said blanks, on which to
submit proposals, will be furnished
interested parties on application
to her office.
Marshal Speedy
In Locating Man
Reported Missing
Acting U.S. Marshal Walter Hel
lan rendered speedy service today in
answer to a telephone call from the
Chatham cannery at Chatham.
Alaska.
John Likeness, superintendent ol
the cannery called the marshal’s of
iqe this morning that Walter Czer
vinski had been missing from then
ince Sept. 2. Czerwinski was em
jloyed as a trap watchman and i
vas feared he may have drowned oi
net with foul play.
Before noon Hellan had locatec
.he man at a local cooktail bar.
Czerwinski told Hellan that he
'tad been in Juneau and a week age
today had left on the fishing boat
Loa to return to Chatham. He sale
weather had prevented the boat
reaching there and it put in at Ten
akee from where Czerwinski re
turned to Juneau by plane.
This afternoon Hellan notified the
cannery of Czerwinski's whereabouts
and that he was safe.
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• Low tide 6:24 a.m, -0.2 ft. •
• High tide noon 14.6 ft. •
• Low tide 6:41 p.m., 3 7 ft. •
• High tide 11:46 p.m., 16.8 ft. •
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B-17 Engine Explosion
Kills 1; Crash Injures
6 Near Talkeelna
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Juneau's New City
Hall Gets $579,000
From Public Works
$6 Millions Allofed for i
Alaska Projeds-City
Must Hold Election
Juneau's Municipal-Safety Build
ing took a step nearer materiali
zation today when word was re
ceived that it is included in a new
allotment approved for the Alaska
Public Works.
More than $6,000,000 was ap
proved for schools and municipal
works in the Territory according
to information received by Direc
tor Donald R. Wilson from the
Office of Territories, in Washing
ton, D, C.
The amount approved for the
Juneau municipal building was
$579,000. The city will match tht
fund on a 50-50 basis.
"This will require a special i
election to approve of bonds for
the project,” Mayor Waino Hen
drickson said today. "It is hoped
that bids can be called for by
January. Plans are In the pre
liminary stage now," he said.
The first section of the building,
the fire hall, is now under con
struction and is scheduled for com
pletion by November.
The total amount approved for
14 projects scattered throughout
the Territory was $6,447,400. In ad
dition to the Juneau building,
others are:
W>f>•'{'Pit writer xfivilek
school, $600,000; Ketchuuui arter
ial road, $500,000; Seward sewers,
$263,700; Palmer water, $500,000:
University of Alaska dormitory,
5657,000; Fairbanks school, $700,
000; Valdez sewer, $206,300; Sitka
grade school, $500,000; Anchorage
fire station, $173,000; Anchorage
school, $700,000; Sand Point school,
$233,000; and Fairbanks Alaska
housing authority, $600,000.
Negotiations for professional
services required on these pro
jects arc being carried forward
immediately. Much preliminary
planning has been completed,
Wilson said, and every effort
"is bring made to Expedite these
public works so that bids may be
opened early in 1952 and con
struction may begin as soon as
climatic conditions permit.”
Release of allotments is th<
largest since the Inception of Al
aska Public Works three year:
ago, afccordihg to officials at tht
district office here. In 1950 allot
ments were made to 18 projects
with an, approximate completion
cost of $5,000,000. Thirteen projects
were allotted funds from the cur
:ent year’s appropriation of $4,
000,000.
Completed Jobs
Projects either completed 01
scheduled to be completed tht
(all include the Juneau sewer sys
tern, the Juneiau public libran
building, the addition to the Eiel
son memorial building on the Un
iversity of Alaska campus, school
at Chugiak, Ninilchik and Peters
burg; Douglas sewer, water an<
street mprovements which are ii
use and are finished except for :
chlorlnator house which will b(
installed before winter; eight block:
of paving in Anchorage; street im
provements in Ketchikan, and thi
Anchorage city shops and warn
storage buildings.
The contract for a school a'.
Wrangell will probably be awardee
this week.
Bids will be opened within tht
next few weeks on Third Avenue
street improvements in Ketchikan
sewers and water system in Anchor
age, and water supply at Hoonah.
$14,620 Allotted lo
Valdez lor 15-bed
General Hospital
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— 1*1 —
The Housing and Home Finance
Agency yesterday approved *140,000
In interest-free advances for plan
ning of public works totaling an
sstimated $4,277,565 In six states and
Alaska.
They include:
Valdez, Alfska, $14,620 for a 15-bed
general hospital with a tuberculosis
ward and equipment.
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 11—OB-One
man was killed but six others
escaped with injuries yesterday
when the No. 3 engine of a B-17
bomber blew up and the ship was
brought In to a crash landing.
The accident was the 14th In a
string of Alaska air disasters the
past seven weeks which has
claimed a toll of 95 dead or mis
sing.
One of the injured In the crash
was hurt seriously but he is expected
to recover.
The wreckage of the B-17 was
spotted by a civilian flier 100 miles
north of here after the plane had
been reported missing. Pararescuo
crews dropped at the spot and heli
copters then began returning the
survivors to their home Elmendorf
base here.
The crash scene was between Tal
keetna and Summit.
The Alaska Command Informa
tion officer said the death was
caused by the engine explosion
Itself.
All the survivors were flown to
the Elmendorf Air Force base hos
pital by last night. The Informa
tion officer said medical officers re
fused to allow interviews with them.
'Flameouf Causes
Jef Plane Mishap
Near Anchorage
ANCHORAGE. Sept. ll-OB-An
F-94 Jet fighter plane made an
emergency landing yesterday on
Cook Inlet mud flats, three miles
west of the new International air
port here.
The pilot. MaJ. Robert Deckman
of the 66th Fighter Interceptor
Squadron, was unhurt.
The Tenth Rescue Squadron gent
c "easel from ite station at Lake
Hood, near Anchorage, to pick up
Deckman.
The Air Force said a “flameout”
caused the accident.
Wha’ Hoppen!
Did They Melt!
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11—LIT—
The Defense Production Adminis
tration <DPA> announced today
cancellation of a *60,000 loan pre
viously approved to the Arctic
Block Construction Company of
Fairbanks. Alaska.
The Arctic Block Construction
Company withdrew Its loan re
quest, because it found itself un
able to get materials for expan
sion regardless of the money.
'Don't Lead a Fast
Life' Advises Miss
America (She's Got
Seven Boy Friends)
NEW YORK, Sept. 11—OR—“Be
yourself, get lots of rest and don’t
live a fast life."
That was the advice Miss America
1952 gave today to American women
on how” to be beautiful.
Miss Colleen Kay Hutchins, 25, of
Salt Lake City, Utah, who won the
Atlantic City, N.J., beauty contest,
expressed her theories on how to
be beautiful at a breakfast news
conference.
She revealed, too, that she did
not drink coffee, smoke cigarettes
or drink Intoxicating beverages. And
she has “seven boy friends.”
Miss Hutchins, who Is five feet
ten inche| tall in her stocking feet,
towered over her lnterviewera. She
was wearing blue calf pumps with
lour inch heels.
Mock Quotations
NEW YORK, Sept. 11—UR-Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today Is 2%. American Can
117 Vi. American Tel. and Tel. 162*.
Anaconda 48*, Douglas Aircraft
55*, Oeneral Electric 82, General
Motors 50%, Goodyear 48%, Ken
necott 82. Northern Pacific 53%,
Standard Oil of California 54. Twen
tieth Century Fox 20%, US. steel
14%. Pound 82.18 13/18, Canadian
Exchange 94.68%.
Sales today were 2,030,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 213.88, rails 82.31, utili
ties 45.33.
VISITOR FROM SITKA
Mrs. Evelyn Karnes of Sitka Is
stopping at the Oaatineau 'Hotel