THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXIX., NO. 12,000
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1951
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Weather
Rugged
In Nation
By the Associated Press
Holiday travelers found the go
, ing rugged in snow-clogged and
icy sections of the nation Wednes
►* day.
Fresh snow fell in the northern
> Great Lakes region, parts of New
York, and northern New England.
Freezing cold enve!oj«d meat ,
cf the northern states. Tempera
tures slipped as low as -25 in
Helena, Mont., and -11 in Huron, ,
S. 1).
Rain pelted a band of territory j
> stretching from Louisiana north- i
ca award through the Carolines i
and Virginia.
Travel was slowed in a number1
of states that have been swept by
, a scries of snow storms since the
middle of December.
Many trains were late in Chi
cago, which has had a record
33.4 inches of snow this month.
The late t fall, a white Christmas |
* topping cf eight and a half in- ■
rlie , marooned thousands of au- |
lomoLilc on the streets.
, Two thousand men were put to
work clearing clogged streets in
» Detroit. Detroit's snow has meas
ured 32 inches since Nov. 1. Grand
Rapids has had 54.6 inches since
Dec. 1.
In New York, trains from the
west were running about an hour
> late and busses- coming in from all
directions were about half hour
late.
11 Killed,
8 Kidnaped,
Philippines
MANILA, Dec. 26— Eleven per
sons were killed and eight kidnaped
in Christinas day violence in the
Philippines.
Seven of the dead are Communist
Huks, three were bandits and one
a policeman.
Among those kidnaped were May
or Joaquin Andres of Lallo, Caga
yan Province, in northern Luzon,
the town’s chief of police and a po
liceman. The Philippine News Ser
vice said the kidnapers were Huks.
• WEATHER REPORT «
• <U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• Ending at 4:30 A M. Today •
• At Airport—Maximum, 17; •
Minimum, 1. •
• FORECAST •
9 (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Continued fair with some •
• high cloudiness and gusty •
• northeasterly winds tonight •
• and Thursday. Lowest temper- ®
• ature tonight about 12 in Ju- •
• neau and as low as 5 degrees •
• below zero in outlying areas. •
• Not so cold Thursday with the ®
• highest temperature about 20. •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• At Airport — None; •
• since July—20.45 inches. ®
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
'CooyriKbt, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
rr ASHINGTON.—The Christmas
card that caused me the greatest
heartache was one T received from
the children of Lamar Caudle. It
made me realize what an unhappy
Christmas they must be having.
I had known the Caudle children
since about the time their father
first came to Washington from
North Carolina as an assistant At
torney General. I had watched
them grow up, seen them go off to
college, more recently had seen
them rush home to defend their
father.
They are fine children. And in
sort of a mute appeal to defend
their father, they sent me a card
at Christmas time and some flow
ers.
These arrived just after I had
finished a column giving details
cf how their father had got sucked
in by Larry Knohl, the city slicker
and tax-fixer who took Lamar
Caudle junketing on his private
airplane and paid him a commis
sion on the sale of a plane.
(Continued on Page 4)
Is This Necessary!
The “All American Boy” dc'.sn't think much of the kiss he’s getting
from “Little Miss America” after each tvon his title. The all-star
kids, nktned in the 13th annual Screen Children's Guild contest, are
Marilyn Tnichom, 11, of Cleveland, and Jphn Gary Meyer, 6, of
/■slcria, Ore. They were winners among 11 finalists sent to
Hollywood by sponsoring newspapers. Both will make radio appear
ances and get other entertainment opportunities, i.1®) Wircphcto.
$10 Paid
For Capture
Of Dean
PUSAN, Korea, Dec. 26—UP)—
Police said Wednesday that two
South Koreans led Maj. Gen. Wil
liam P. Dean into Communist
captivity in August, 1950, for $5
a piece.
Chief investigation officer Yoon
Myung Woon said the two had
been arrested and freed on bail.
He did not give the amount. Yoon
said the province police had or
ders to keep the men under ‘ strict
surveillance.”
The officer said the two re
ceived “30,000 won ($5) each from
the Reds for enabling the Red
army” to capture the U. S. 24th
Division Coirfmander near Chinan,
about 35 miles south of Taejon.
Yoon said the men are Han Doo
Kyo, 38, and Choe Chong Bong, 22.
He said they admitted receiving
the reward for Dean’s capture but
declared they turned the money
over to an unidentified Red organ
ization.
Yoon quoted the man as saying
they had tried only to help Dean
but they encountered Reds who
captured him.
Dean was reported missing after
the fall of Taejon in July, 1950.
His name was on a prisoner list
handed the United Nations Com
mand last week.
Quake Is
Registered
In So. Calif.
. LOS ANGELES. Dec. 26—W—The
serenity and calm of Christmas in
southern California was rent by a
late afternoon earthquake that was
felt in six counties but caused no
damage.
Epicenter of the temblor was in
the Pacific Ocean, south of San
Clemente Island. Ocean depths
there range up to 1,600 feet. Dr.
Charles Richter, California Institute
of Technology seismologist, said the
quake, which lasted between 20 and
30 seconds, was sufficiently strong
to cause considerable damage in
populous areas.
Dr. Richter placed the magni
tude of the quake between 5'i and 6
on a scale of maximum 12. The Long
Beach quake of 1933 was 6 U and
claimed 118 lives.
Tuesday’s temblor started at 4:48
p.m. Its slow, rolling motion fright
ened many persons and some of
them rushed into their yards or
streets. The quake set off burglar
alarms in Inglewood, southwest of
Los Angeles.
Probing Mins
Disaster Fatal
Tc119Men
i . •*
WEST FRANKFORT, 111., Dec.
26—!/P—An investigation to, deter
mine v.'hat caused the nation's
worst mine disaster in 23 years
began Wednesday deep in the
wrecked workings of Orient Mine
No. 2.
Thirty-six investigators headed
by John L. Lewis, United Mine
! Workers president, Jack Forbes,
head of the U. S. Bureau of Mines,
and Walter Eadie, Illinois Mine
Department director, descended in
to the mine.
Lewis would not confirm or deny
speculation the nation’s miners
may stage a work stoppage as a
memorial to the 119 miners who
died in the West Frankfort ex
plosion Friday night.
, The investigation was conducted
jointly by union, federal and com
pp.ny officials. The investigators
[planned to rema■ ■. underground
tor possibly eight h.ottrs, walking
through the debris-strewn work
ings which extend for miles some
500 to 600 feet below the surface.
As to the reports the miners
might go off the job around Jan.
1 in a memorial work stoppage
the shaggy-browed Lewis told “Go
to the people who said it. I didn't
say it.”
Agent Shooter Wins
Court Delay; Victim
Placed Under Bond
SANTA MONICA, Calif. Dec. 26—
Walter Wanger was arraigned
wife's agent, but won a delay before
w;ifes agent, but won a delay before
entering his plea to give his attorney
time to read the grand jury indict
ment. His wife is actress Joan Ben
nett.
The lawyer, Jerry Geisler, also
noted that Jennings Lang, the vic
tim, was not present in court, des
pite a subpoena, and won a tenta
tive order putting Lang under bond
to appear Jan. 7, the date of the
plea.
Lang is at home, recovering from
a bullet which penetrated his groin.
STILL PACKING ’EM IN
SAIGON, Indochina — M—'The
film “Gone With the Wind,” even
though it’s ancient now as Amer
ican movies go, still is drawing
crowds at cinemas in Saigon.
A single seat costs $3.50.
Ship Movements
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Denali from west scheduled south
bound Sunday.
Red Report
’Shocking
Disclosure'
More Names of American
Prisoners Released But
Unsatisfactory
MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 26—iff)—
The Communists accounted Wed
nesday for 726 more captured
Americans, but said 571 of them
had died.
The other 155 escaped or were
■eleased, they said. But not one
)f these has returned to Allied
lines, a United Nations command
spokesman said.
The l\ N. command called the
report a “shocking disclosure.”
None of the 726 was named in
a prisoner list supplied by the
Ket? last week.
Communists said they, were
checking to see what happened to
232 other Americans.
After studying the Red report
of 1,058 names, the U. N. command
said they were all Americans. A
spokesman said this was a list
submitted Friday and Saturday by
the U. N. in a demand for an ac
counting.
Another 45 men—20 British and
25 Americans—were not mentioned.
The Allies asked about these 45
Monday.
The Allied announcement was
the first disclosure of the precise
number of non-Korean prisoners
it had asked about—1,103.
The Reds detailed by name what
they said had happened to 726.
Infercntially they blamed Allied
war planes and artillery for many
of the 571 deaths. They died, the
Reds said, of air attack, artillery
fire and disease.
The Reds made their report
in a note. It was delivered dur
ing an unproductive armistice
se; Ion Wednesday during the
cle ing hours of a 30 -day Ko
rean truce trial period.
The Communist note also:
1. Rejected an Allied demand
for an accounting of 50,000 South
Korean troops missing in action.
2. Asked the Allies what hap
pened to 44,215 Reds the Com
munists say were captured.
Pro-Western
Shift Starts
Egypt Riots
CAIRO, Dec. 26—SI—A clear in
dication from King Farouk that he
wants a settlement with the west
touched off violent anti-palace and
anti-western demonstrations Wed
nesday. The King appears to be wor
ried about burgeoning Communist
activity and to want alignment with
the west in the cold war with Sov
iet Russia.
In Alexandria, police used tear
gas to break up a student mob of
5,000 demonstrating against the ap
pointment by the king of Dr. Hafez
Afifi Pasha, strong pro-westerner,
as chief of the royal cabinet and ad
viser to Farouk on foreign and dom
estic affairs. Seven police were re
ported injured there by missiles
thrown by the demonstrators. Two
students were hurt.
In Cairo police dispersed a
shouting crowd of Fouad Univer
sity students and were ordered on
state of alert against further out
bursts. The press reported a state
of emergency already was in effect.
The leftist and Communist-ins
pired section of the press stepped up
its clamor for firmer government ac
tion against the British, using the
term "traitor’ ’to describe any Egyp
tian advocating a settlement. This
section of the press has openly ad
vocated Egypt’s alignment with the
Communist bloc of nations, a step
the new chief of the royal cabinet
w ould oppose !
The appointment by Farouk of
Afflfi and another prowesterner
to places in the royal cabinet is
interpreted to mean the king
wants settlement with the west
based upon recognition of Egypt's
national demands. The Egyptians
seek fujl control cf the Anglo
Egyptian Sudan .and want evacu
ation of the British from the Suez
Canal zone. The west, meanwhile,
has been rebuffed in its invita
tion to Egypt to join a middle cast
command for defense against pos
sible Communist aggression.
The appointments apparently were
a jolt to the dominant Wafdisi party,
whose leaders have insisted upon no
compromise "With the Briti h. They
want the British to clear out at
once.
Ready for Coronation Bali
I
Quoen Nancy Tri'j Thorne of the Tournament of Hoses and her I’rincesses display the gowns at Pasa
dena, Calif., they will wear for the Coronation Ba'I (Dec. 28), one cf the events preceding the annual
New War’s Day parade and Rose Bowl game. Left to right, top: Princess Marcia Long, Queen Nanev,
Princess Ann Cottingham. Seated: Princesses Diana Dial, Barbara Fisher. Carolyn Graves, and Sharon
Kelley. 'Pi Wirephoto.
Senate Group
Raps Waste in
Armed Forces
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—i/P)—A
j Sehste subcommittee has aecusrd
i the Army of “inexcusable and in
| defensible waste” by “endlessly re*
j peating training cycles" for some
I units.
I A report by the group said that
’ while these units are "marking time”
, some other units are being trained
j at camps where there is not enough
, space for field work.
I “The nation gains no strength
| merely because more and more men
; wear army uniforms,” the subcom
I mittee said. “With our acute nation
I nl manpower shortage, any assembly
of able-bodied men into n non-pro
! ductive enterprise like unnecessarily
repeated training is the most fla
grant sort of waste.”
While rapping the Army on this
rind other natters, the committee
said it is ciear that “no one service
i is more prodigal or more prudent
I than the others.”
i Waste in military forces is not
j intentional the report said, but
• “simply resulted from unconcern
Iwith economy, an absence of gen
I nine enthusiasm for efficiency, a
widespread lack of any real ‘cost
j consciousness’."
| In a report to the Senate made
I pubhc Tuesday night, the Armed
Services subcommittee on defense
preparedness suggested that promo
tion’ for military officers be based
in part upon “demonstrated ability
to conserve men, money and mater
ials.”
The group had previously criticiz
ed what it termed waste by the Air
Force, Navy and Marines.
The report was based on staff
checks at eight Army centers includ
ing Fort Lewis, Wasn.
In general the Army was credited
with a good job of feeding, clothing,
housing and medical care of its
troops.
Truman on Hurry
Trip, Kansas City
INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Dec. 26—
F.—President Truman put holiday
affairs behind him Wednesday and
turned again to the job of being
chief executive.
He left his home here at 8:18 a.m.,
CST, and sped by automobile direct
to the Hotel Muehlebach in down
town Kansas City, where a pent
house suite is maintained as a sort
of little White House when he is
here.
There was no immediate new word
on the nature of the business which
called Mr. Truman to his desk but
he has told reporters repeatedly
since his arrival that he has been
spending even his spare time at
home on the State of the Union
message and the budget message
which he will deliver to Congress,
shortly after the lawmakers go back
to work, Jan. 8.
Sitka Ship, Maybe,
Sinking Off
Oregon Coast
ASTORIA, Ore., Dec. 26—'JD—Four
Coast Guard vessels and a search
plane sought a fishing boat which
reported It was sinking south of
Cape Lookout, some CO miles south
of here Wednesday.
The radio report identified the
j vessel only as the Susan. There are
' 12 fishing bonts here by that name,
I ranging from 28 to 105 feet.
In Bremerton, Wash., Mrs. Wil
! linm Smith of Sitka, Alaska, re
l ported that the 72-foot fish packer
I Susan of Sitka was in the Astoria
[ area but she had no word on wheth
! cr it was the bo'at in distress. Mrs.
Smith said the Sitka boat, owned
by her husband, had Duke de la
Hunt and Jack Sheridan, both of
Sitka aboard.
Hard Fighting Is
Expected in Korea
After Thursday
SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 26—.0—Fresh
snow and a lashing wind bogged ac- j
tion on the Korean war front Wed
i nesday. Heavy overcast held air ac
! tion to a minimum.
The U. S. Fifth Air Force said its
planes flew only seven missions
in the 24 hours ended at 6 p.m.
Wednesday, equalling the record low ,
established Feb. 8-9.
Ground fighting, relatively light;'
for a month, may flare in renewed
fury after Thursday.
A 30-day provisional cease-fire
line—the present front—is due to
expire then unless truce negotiators
at Panmunjom come to terms of
an armistice. There is little likeli
hood they will do that.
Battlefront changes made after
Dec. 27 deadline must be taken into
consideration in any newly proposed
cease-fire line. Thus, troops will be
fighting again for keeps after Thurs
day.
Only one sharp brief action mark
ed Christmas Day along the 145
mile shooting line.
In that fight, a Chinese battal-*
ion crashed against an Allied ad
vance pcsition on the eastern front
as darkness fell. The United Na
tions troops, standing on snow-cov
ered ground, stood fast against the
assault .
NEGOTIATIONS EXTENDED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26— !0I —
Gen. Matthew B. Rideway has
been authorized if ho sees fit. to
extend for 30 days the agreement
w'ith the Communists that the ex
isting battle line in Korea shall be
the line for an armistice in event
one can be negotiated.
Diplomatic officials who reported
this Wednesday Indicated they ex
pect both sides to agree to a tempor
ary extension while negotiations
'go forward on other details of the
cease fire.
Columbus touched at Santa Ma
ria, one of the Azores group of
tolands, on his first return from
America.
Holidays Take
Near Record
Death Toll
By the Associated Press
Violent accidents in the United
States took a near record toll over
ihe four-day Christmas holiday.
Deaths in traffic accidents, fires
and from miscellaneous causes
from C p.m. Friday to last mid
night (local time) reached the
staggering total of 758.
This figure compares with ihe
record accidental death toll of 761
recorded in the four-day Christ
mas holiday in 1936?
Traffic accidents caused more
than 500 fatalities, but the 516 to
tal was below the 600 predicted by
the National Safety Council. Fires
caused 102 deaths—but none re
sulted from Christmas trees. There
were 140 persons killed in violent
accidents of miscellaneous nature.
This year’s total exceeded the
1950 accidental deaths of 724 which
occurred during a three-day holi
day. The 1949 three-day total was
580.
Texas reported more than 90 of
this year's accidental deaths, in
cluding nearly 60 in traffic mis
hape.
Ice-coated and snow-covered hi
ways in the midwest sharply
curtailed travel and appeared a
major factor in holding the traf
fic toll under the council's esti
mate of 600.
The accidental death toll docs
not include the miners killed in a
coal mine explosion in West Frank
fort, 111., last Friday night.
The nation’s traffic deaths in
1S51 already have passed 36,000,
the largest total since the record
breaking 39,969 deaths in 1941 and
compares with 35,000 last year. The
death toll since the advent of
the automobile reached the 1,000,
000 mark last Saturday.
former Local Woman's
Husband Found Dead
In Washington Woods
The body of the husband of a
former Juneau woman was found
Saturday in the woods near Everett,
Wash., after an organized search for
him since Wednesday when he failed
to return from a wildcat hunt.
According to the Everett Herald,
the body of Vernon L. Harkey, 57,
was found after what the paper call
ed “one of the greatest manhunts”
in that area in recent years. He
was the second husband of his wife
who was known as Mrs. Edith Shee
lor in Juneau.
Harkey was believed to have suf
fered a heart attack.
The Washington National Guard,
the Coast Guard, the sheriff’s of
fice. the Air National Guard and the
Civil Air Patrol all Joined In the
intensified search.
Crumbling fortifications on the
Azores Islands were built to re
pel privateers.
U.S.IoPay
$120,000
For Fliers
I WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—UPl—The
United States has Informed Hungary
that it will pay $120,000 In fines
i Imposed on four U. S. airmen pro
vided they are released promptly.
The State Department announced
! this Wednesday on specific authori
zation of Secretary of State Acheson.
At the time of the announcement,
the Department was without any in
formation as to whether or when the
airmen would be released.
From Budapest, press dispatches
said there were reasons to believe
the four men had been released, or
would be released shortly.
The dispatches said reporters in
Budapest could not say at this time
what the signs were that Indicated
some past or imminent action for re
lease of the fliers.
The State Department’s an
nouncement here said that acting
..“under instructions" the ranking..
U. S. diplomat at Budapest, George
Abbot, “has indicated that, pro
vided the fliers are released
promptly, this government will pay
the fines imposed on them.”
Abbott gave this information to
the Red regime at 7 o'clock Tuesday
j evening, Budapest time, the depart
ment said <10 a.m. PST yesterday).
At the outset of the announcement
| read to reporters by press officer
| Michael McDermott, the State Dc
I partment said it had tried to obtain
| the release of the four U. S. airforce
; men constantly since they were forc
j ed down in Hungary.
Citizens Offer
To Pay Ransom
For U. 5. Fliers
WASHINGTON. Dec. 26— UH —
While the government pondered
what to do about Hungary's offer to
free four U. S. airmen in exchange
for $120,000, private citizens in scat
tered areas promised to raise the
money promptly.
Robert Vogeler, nn American who
was n prisoner of the Hungarian
Communist regime - for two years,
said lie will seek to coordinate pri
vate efforts to raise the $120,000
in fines levied against the four fliers.
"I can understand any official
ransom payment by the government
might be embarrassing to the United
States," Vogeler told a reporter in
New York. “But I think this way we
might accomplish the same thing
without embarrassment to the gov
ernment."
There was no indication as to how
the State Department would react
to efforts by private citizens to raise
the fine money and thus save the
four fliers, imprisoned by Hungary
from serving three months each in
Jail.
The imprisoned airmen are Capt.
John J. Swift of Glen Falls, N. Y.,
Capt. Dave H. Henderson of Shaw
nee, Okla., T-Sgt. Jess A. Duff of
Spokane and Sgt. James E. Elan
of Klngsland, Ark.
They got lost in the air over
Hungary Nov. 19 while flying sup
plies from Germany to the U. S.
Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Soviet fighters forced them to lapd
their unarmed C-47 on Hungarian
soil.
On Sunday the Hungarian govern
ment announced that a military
court had convicted the fliers of vio
lating the Hungarian border and had
fined them 360.000 florins (about
$30,000 each, with the alternative
of spending tnree months in Jail.
The State Department was still
lebatlng what to do about the Hun
garian demand’.. Some members of
Congress have urged that the U. 8.
\ not pay the fines, which they term
ed ransom demand. A Department
spokesman declined to comment on
various offers tp raise the fine money
privately.
I --
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Dec. 26—Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
1101 a, American Tel. and Tel. 155 W,
Anaconda 50 %, Douglas Aircraft
571 *, General Electric 56>4, General
Motors 51\, Goodyear 43, Kenne
cott 86. Lit^by, McNeill and Libby
8'4, Northern Pacific 65, Standard
Oil of California 49V Twentieth
Century Fox 20 V U. S. Steel 80V
Pound $2.78V Canadian Exchange
97.81
Sales today were 1.520,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 264.10, rails 00J6, util
ities 46.81