THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,885
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY. AUGUST 13, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Governor Dewey, on
Whirlwind Trip of Pacific,
Visits Juneau Aug. 21
WELLINGTON, New Zealand
Aug. 13—Oft—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
announced plans today to visit
Alaska on his way home from a
whirlwind tour of the Pacific.
Dewey said he would spend eight
days in Alaska late this month to
inspect defenses there.
As for his Pacific tour thus far,
Dewey gave a gloomy picture.
The situation is "very bad," he
declared.
“Russia has never ceased mak
ing war since the end of the sec
ond World War,” he told a news
conference. “Five wars are going
on in the Pacific — in Korea,
Indonesia, Malaya, the Philip
pines and Indochina — and no
body else is behind them but
Russia. Russia has two object
tivcs: getting Japan and Ger
many. If she can get both, she
can tip the balance of power.
Japan's ability to defend herself
must be built up.”
Arriving by plane from Australia
for a three-day visit, the New York
governor advocated more defense
treaties in the Pacific, particularly
one covering Indonesia and Burma.
He emphasized that the only way
to avoid World War III is to be
strong enough to prevent it.
Dewey praised the Japanese
peace treaty as a brilliant piece
of negotiation.
In order to make the trip to
Alaska Dewey said, he had changed
his schedule as follows:
Leave Wellington, Aug. 16 for
Fiji and Honolulu.
Spend three days in Honolulu in
stead of the four previously plan
ned and take off for Seattle Aug. 19.
Arrive Seattle 12:30 p.m., PST,
Aug. 20, leaving at 7 o'clock the
next morning for Juneau where he
is scheduled to arrive at 1:15 p.m.
He will spend Aug. 22 to 29 in
Alaska. •
Farwell, Pilot of
Aleutian, Dead
SEATTLE, Aug. 13—Uft—Capt.
Raymond F. Farwell, 58, University
of Washington transportation pro
fessor and an authority on pilot
rules, died of a heart attack Friday
night aboard the steamship Aleu
tian in Alaskan waters.
Farwell had signed on as a sum
mer pilot of the Alaska Steamship
Co.’s Aleutian which docked in Ju
neau yesterday enroute to Seattle.
Farwell was a veteran of 34 years’
active reserve service with the Navy
in which he held the reserve rank
of captain.
Funeral Held Here
For Child Killed
At Yakulal
Private funeral services were held
this afternoon in the Carter Chapel
for 5-year-old Michel R. Delagne.s
who was hit and killed by a truck
at Yakutat last Friday. He was the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Rene Delagnes
who are with the Civil Aeronautics
Authority there. The Rev. John
Greeny of the Luthern Church of
ficiated at the private services. Bur
ial was in the Masonic plot in Ever
green Cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Lucien P. Delagness
of Cloverdale, Calif., grandparents
of the child, arrived here today
to attend the services. ,
TEACHER IS HERE
Anita Watkins, Alaska Native
Service school teacher, is stopping
at the Hotel Juneau for a few
days enroute to Fort Yukon.
FROM SITKA
Cleo Campbell of Sitka is regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel.
TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Coprrlght, 1*51. By Beil ByndlcM*. Inc.
Yf ASHINGTON. — That shiny
new Cadillac presented by the
Elks Club of Houston to General
MacArthur when he visited Texas
still isn't paid for. The car cost
$5,700 and the Elks, in their en
thusiasm. figured the money would
be easy to raise. So they presen
ted the car to MacArthur and
figured cn paying for it later.
When the last appeal for funds]
was issued, however, MacArthur’s
popularity seemed to be on the
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'No Progress/ Says
Reds, Unless Allies
Change Demands
MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. 13, — UP)—
The chief Communist armistice
negotiator said tonight Korean
truce talks “will not make any
progress” unless the United Na
j tions changes its demands on
| where to create a buffer zone.
I The statement from North Ko
rean Lt. Gen. Nam II was broad
cast by the Red Pyongyang radio
ten hours after he had again re
fused to change his own demands.
The Red position is so firmly
fixed that in Monday's negotia
tion session Nam II rejected a
United Nations statement as “not
satisfactory" as soon as it was
delivered.
And, a U. N. communique said,
Nam 11 made the rejection while
“speaking from a previously pre
pared and translated paper."
In the Pyongyang broadcast
Nam 11 called on the U. N. dep
egation “to change its attitude”
and “to take into consideration
our demands" for a buffer zone
along the 38th parallel.
He said if the Kaesong truce
negotiations are to “make any
progress at all” U. N. delegates
must “change their distorted de
mands they have made up to
now.”
U. N. spokesman have made it
clear that the Allies will not con
I sider a demarcation line on the
38th parallel. They say the Reds
must change their stand if nego
tiations are to progress.
No progress was made in today's
one hour and 20 minute session—
the 13th devoted to the same Hue«
tion.
I
Hundreds
Escape Injury
In Train Wreck
FOUR OAKS, N. C., Aug. 13—<>P)
—Hundreds of passengers escaped
death or serious injury near here
yesterday in the wreck of the At
lantic Coast Line's streamliner pas
senger train, the East Coast Champ
ion.
C. G. Sibley, assistant vice presi
dent for operations, said over 500
persons were aboard the Miami
New York train which crashed two
miles north of here. The railroad
announced no one was killed and
no one was seriously injured when
the nine middle cars of the 18-car
train were derailed and three cars
plunged down a 20-foot embank
ment.
Baranof Crewman
Removed as 'Risk'
SEATTLE, Aug. 13 — 'St — Jerry
Tyler, former secretary of the Se
attle C.I.O. council, has been re
moved from the crew of the steam
ship Baranof as a poor security risk.
Coast Guard officers handed Tyler
a form letter stating that his pres
ence aboard the vessel would be
inimical to the security of the
country. He had planned to sail
to Alaska as a third pantryman.
Tyler safd he would appeal his
removal through the Marine Cooks
and Stewards’ Union (Ind). He
formerly was a patrolman for that
union, which was expelled from the
C.I.O. on a charge of following the
Communist party line.
A. V. Ritche of Taku Inlet is stop
/ ping at the Baranof Hotel.
LeRoy West Wins
Tenth Place in
Soap Box Derby
LeRoy West, Jr., Alaska's 13-year
old Soap Box Derby champion, won
tenth place In a field of 140 entries
at the all-American race held at
Akron, O., yesterday.
He met defeat in this third round
heat but made the best showing of
boys entered from Oregon, Wash
ington and Alaska. He was the only
one of the group to get past the first
round, and won a spray gun as
prize.
LeRoy scored first and second
round heat victories but was third
in this third round heat. The racer
that eliminated him from the
final running made fourth place
in the race.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Converse, Le
Roy’s grandparents, were in Akron
with him and were overjoyed at his
placing. He is the son of Mr. and
! Mrs. LeRoy West, Sr., 419 Twelfth
Street.
Tall, slender Darwin Cooper, 15,
a shy boy who built his sleek black
racer in the dining room of his
home in Danville, Pa., Is the hero
of the Susquehanna Valley today.
He rode to victory in the 14th na
tional derby defeating winners from
the United States, Canada and the
U. S. Zone of Germany.
Cooper roared across the finish
line ahead of Raymond Marconi of
Gary. Ind., -who placed second and
Paul F. Albright of Jefferson City,
Mo., who was third. James Gary of
Columbus, Ga., took fourth.
Alaska's champion was played
up on the front page by Akron's
Beacon Journal. Instead of a par
ka, which LeRoy said he is glad
he didn't wear because of the heat
he wore a scarlet sourdough shirt
with shining buttons of imitation
gold nuggets.
LeRoy was sponsored by the Rot
ary Club, Connors Motors, Chevro
let dealer, and The Daily Alaska
Empire.
Juneau Rents Not
Up Automatically,
Warns Bandeftini
Provision for increasing rents 20
percent in Juneau is not automatic
as believed by numerous landlords,
it was announced today by A. Band
ettini, area rent director for the
Office of Rent Stabilization.
Application for upping of rents
must be filed in accordance with
provisions of the new rent control
law, he explained.
Of some 50 applications so far
processed, he said, around 35 have
been granted the increase.
"In any case,” he said, “where the
present maximum rent is less than
120 percent of the June 30, 1947
level—plus adjustments for improve
ments and services—the landlord
is eligible for the increase.”
Any decreases in services or equip
ment will act as offsets against the
20 percent increase, he pointed out.
Application forms are available to
landlords in the local rent control
office in the Valentine Building.
Alaska Dentists
Open Convention
Here Today
Gov. Ernest Gruening and Dr.
William Whitehead gave addresses
of welcome to the second annual
meeting of the Alaska Terlrtorial
Dental Society which opened here
at 3 o’clock this afternoon in the
American legion Dugout, Dr. Joyce
D. Smith said today.
Some delegates arrived over the
weekend but most of them were
expected to come by air today.
A business session was held today
and a cocktail party and buffet sup
per will take place this evening at
the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Wil
liams on Glacier Highway.'
More than 50 dentists are expect
ed to attend the four-day session.
Waterfront Screening
May Half Shipping Sept. 1
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13—l*
—A new provision of the govern
ment's waterfront security screen
ing program was depicted in Fed
eral Ccyrrt here today as threat
ening to bring most west coast
shipping activity to a halt at the
end of this month.
Hugh Bryson, head of the left
wing Marine Cooks and Stewards
union, said in an affidavit that
only about one-fourth of the 5,000 I
members of the union will be el
igible to man ships starting Sept.
1.
Bryson said that under an
amendment to the program, issued
by the Coast Guard July 18 to go
into effect Sept. 1, all crewmen of
ships leaving west coast ports for
foreign harbors, the east coast,
Alaska or Hawaii must have vali
dated security screening docu
ments. i
Aleutians Didn’t■ Break
Soldiers Mentally Like
Other Points9 Says Doctor
SEATTLE, Aug. 13— 1*1 —Second'
World War soldiers stationed In the
bleak Aleutian Islands jutting out
from Alaska had fewer mental
breakdowns than their comrades
elsewhere.
Dr. Charles H. Jones, superin
tendent of Northern States Hospital
at Sedro-Woolley, attacked a com
mon belief among servicemen when
he set forth the above fact in on
article for the current issue of “dis
eases of the nervous system," a med
ical Journal.
During the war, the average
serviceman had the same feeling
toward Atka, Adak, Amchitka.
Shemya or Attu as a Russian
would have toward a Siberian la
bor camp.
That is, until he got there, ac
cording to Dr. Jones, who for 18
months was the only psychiatrist on
the island of Shemya. He was a
major in the army medical corps.
He said the old-timers immediate
ly would convince newcomers that
conditions used to be worse. This
approach seemed to work wonders in
keeping the mental disability rate
low, he said.
On any one day during the war.
Lake Appears
Where Forest
Service Had Road
There’s a blue lake now where
a Forest Service road used to be.
It is on the Nugget Creek side ol
Mendenhall Glacier.
Two years ago, Charles Burdick,
assistant regional forester said the
service built a road to the face of
the glacier. It branched off the
main road Just below the power
house and followed the moraine
about a mile.
A log barrier was erected at the
end of the road where tourists and
visitor , coul.l get a ‘'c!o.,e up" of the
immense chunk of ice.
Last year ice under the graveled
road began to melt and large holes
appeared. The Forest Service mov
ed its log barriers back several
hundred feet to prevent cars from
travel over the road, but visitors
could still walk beyond the barrier.
Today, however, Burdick said the
road has finally ‘•melted" away
and the lake has moved in.
The late Chyarles Forward, of
the Forest Service, established a
network of triangulations to check
recession of the glacier. These stud
ies are still being carried on.
Burdick said by this method it
is determined that probably in five
years the glacier will have receded
far enough beyond Nugget Creek to
expose more land and make bridging
of Nugget Creek feasible. The creek
at present flows along the foot of
the glacier.
He explained that there are two
ice sheets involved at Mendenhall.
One is in the ground itself and the
other is the glacier which moves
over the stationary ground ice.
Metcalf Will
Represent Governor
At Road Opening
The office of Alaska's Gover
nor will be represented at the
opening of a branch of the Taylor
Highway on August 16.
Frank A. Metcalf, Territorial
highway engineer, has been ap
pointed by Gov. Ernest Gruening
to represent him when the Com
missioner of Yukon Territory cuts
the ribbon at the border between
Alaska and Canada which will
jpen the road from Dawson Y. T.
to Jack Wade, Alaska. The cere
mony is set to coincide with "Dts
rovery Day" which is celebrated
annually by the city of Dawson.
Metcalf left yesterday for
Haines accompanied by Mrs. Met
aalf, Territorial Treasurer and
Mrs. Henry Roden and Highway
Patrol officer and Mrs. Emmett
Botelho. From Haines they will
drive up the Alaska and Taylor
Highways.
Metcalf said he is also sending
representatives of the highway pa
trol from Fairbanks and Tok
Junction to attend the road open
ing.
Bartlett Asks that
traffic Fines Go
to Highway Patrol
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—MV-Del
egate Bartlett (D-Alaska) introduc
ed a bill today providing that all
fines collected for traffic violations
in Alaska shall be used for the Ter
itory’s highway patrol system.
1 an average of 0.6 percent of the
total army was confined to a hos
pital or quarters for neuropsych
iatric reasons. On Shemya, the
average was only 0.1 percent.
“One of the most important forces
which tended to keep the rate so
low was the attitude held by the
average soldier in respect to his
service on Shemya," Dr. Jones wrote.
“This attitude, peculiar to Aleu
tian soldiers, seemed to develop in
direct proportion to the length of
time on the island."
After the initial landing party
pitched tents on the diamond-shap
ed island in the spring of 1943.
no person set foot on the island
without hearing the universial greet
ing:
“You should have been here when
It was rough!"
"Any complaint by a newcomer
wah automatically answered by the
same remark,” Dr. Jones explained.
"Variations ol this theme were re
flected constantly in the attitudes
of the men toward each other.”
Personal prestige rested solely on
the length of time a soldier had
spent, on one of the small, barren
islands, he said.
Cutting Gillnels
'Discriminatory,'
Charges Fisherman
Is cutting the length of a drift
gillner from 200 to 150 fathoms
"discriminatory?''
This question is the text of a
‘..suit brought by a Cook Inlet fish
lerman against Oscar Chapman,
I secretary of Interior; Clarence
! Rhode, regional director of U. S.
I Kish and Wildlife Service and
! Holgar Larsen, service agent.
Penley Gilles is plaintiff in the
suit. His discriminatory charge is
rased on action of the , service
| 'jJfiereih drift gillnets were cut
! from 200 to 150 fathoms in Cook
Inlet during the height of the past
fishing season.
Reason for its actions, stated at
the time by the service, was the
intense concentration of gear in
that area. There were 700 boats
fishing within a distance of seven
miles, it was reported at the
time.
Gilles questions the right of
fishery officials to place restric
tion on any form of gear. The of
ficials have 60 days to show cause
why such regulations should be
enforced. Hearing will be held in
Anchorage.
Port Rules Are
Negotiated with
Longshoremen
Two Alaska Steamship official*
left Juneau yesterday after complet
ing negotiations on port rules in
connection with the new Alaska
longshore contract, Henry Green, lo
cal agent, said today.
The port rules involve operation of
equipment, working times, number
of men in gangs and other points, it
was explained.
Tlie longshoremen recently re
ceived a 6-cent an hour increase for
straight time and 9-cent an hour
increase for overtime. The present
base rate is $2.32 an hour straight
time and $3.48 an hour overtime.
In addition the company pays
17’/4 cents per man-hour into a
pension fund effective Sept. 1. Since
February 1850, the company ha?
been paying SM cents per man-hour
into a welfare fund.
Representing the steamship com
pany were Leonard Wesson, chief
clerk of the operating department,
U. W. KUlingsworth, vice president
and general manager of the Ketchi
kan Wharf company, and Green.
Joe Guy, Sam Adams and John
Rogoski were the committee from
the International Longshoremen’s
and Warehousemen’s Union local
here.
Why Doesn't This
Story Tell Us How!
FRESNO, Calif., Aug. 13—^-Of
ficers last night arrested four
youths, age 15 to 18. who had re
moved the caps of pop bottles which
were still in a vending machine,
then absorbed the contents through
straws.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive from Skagway Tuesday at 8
a.m. sailing south one hour later.
Baranof due tonight at 9 p.m.
northbound. r
500th Polar Flight
Completed by
Weather Aircraft
FAIRBANKS, Alaska. Aug. 13,—
(/!*>—A pole-hopping B-29 landed
at Eielson Air Force base at 1:02
a.m. today to complete the 500th
flight over the north pole by the
58th weather reconnaissance squa
dron.
Special ceremonies marked the
completion of No. 500.
Lt. Col. Joseph H. Fletcher, the
Squadron Commander, comment
ed:
"This finishes one phase of Arc
tic studies and operations. Many
false assumptions about polar fly
ing have existed and there have
been many unknown factors. It
has taken us 500 flights to under
stand the polar regions aeronaut
ically. We have now completed
these studies and are ready to
embark on the routine phase of
our work."
For four years the "Ptarmigan"
flyers have been passing over the
north pole every other day. They
never have had a serious accident
on one of the 15 to 21-hour
flights.
Colonel Fletcher explained that
one of the chief problems has
been navigation. The magnetic
compass Is erratic and virtually
worthless near the pole because
of its tendency to point straight
down.
The squadron has devised a sys
tem of navigation with gyroscopic
compasses, coupled with celestial
bearings and some help from the
plane’s radarscope.
Once pilots balked At entering
the Arctic during periods of
twilight, when neither the sun
nor the stars can be used to
establish position. The squadron
has found that the time between
sun and stars is not long enough
to cause a plane to get lost.
The squadron also has found
the Pfund sky compass to be of
great aid in twilight. This ingen
ious device enables fliers to estab
lish a position by studying polar
ized rays of light coming over the I
horizon from tl)e set sun.
The squadron also has studied I
ice islands in the Arctic. At one
time the fliers had three huge is
lands located for possible landing
fields.
The 500th flight was a 16-houi
round trip. As the plane crossed
the pole, the crew radioed: “Greet
ings to the world from the top of
the world on the 500th Ptarmigan
flight.”
Million and a Half
Fish Taken from
Anan Creek to Dale
Over a million and a half fish
for commercial use, have been
taken from Anan Creek so far
this season. Clarence Rhode, reg
ional director of the Pish and
Wildlife Service, said today.
Rhode returned last night from
a day’s aerial survey in the area
He said that besides the com
mercial take, the creek had re
ceived a good seeding.
"It proves beyond argument,”
Rhode said, "that a good escape
ment will produce a good run In
the next two years. In 1949 the
Service was criticized by various
persons for ‘over escapement’ in
Anan, but this year's run is proof
that the Service policy was nol
wrong.”
He said there were about 200
seiners in Bradfield Canal and ad
ded that the later run of pinks
was now beginning to show in late
streams.
A. R. Brueger, of the Farwest
Wrangell Company in Wrangell
told Rhode that he had 50,000 ca
<es of salmon already packed.
Harvey 0 Apprehended
For Fishing in
Closed Area
The seiner Harvey O was ap
prehended Aug. 10, for fishing in a
closed area, according to word re
ceived by the Fish and Wildlife
Service.
The complaint, signed by John
Wendler, Ketchikan agent for the
service, charges the boat with fish
ing in closed waters of north Behm
Canal.
Capt. Lawrence Pawsey of the ves
sel pleaded guilty before U. S. Com
missioner Patrick J. Gilmore, Sr ,
in Ketchikan and was fined $500.
The following crew members, who
also pleaded guilty, were given $250
fines: Joe Geist, Kenneth L. Brown,
Robert Luke, R. B. Jacobs and Ed
ward Meyers.
VISITOR FROM PELICAN
Marti Rekala. fisherman from j
Pelican, is stopping at the Hotel Ju
eau.
Navy Patrol Bomber
From Kodiak Vanishes;
Weather Hinders Search
Amelia Gundersen
Dead in Ketchikan
Mrs. Amelia Gundersen. member
of the Alaska Legislature and a long
time civic leader of Ketchikan, died
early Saturday morning in' the
Ketchikan hospital. She was about
60 years old.
Rosary services will be held tins
evening at 8 o’clock at the Holy
Names Catholic Church. The fun
eral will be tomorrow at 9 a.m.
Instead of flowers, the family re
quests that donations be made to
the Cancer Fund.
Last winter Mrs. Gundersen un
derwent a major operation in Se
attle. but she served in the 1951
legislative session despite her ill
ness. She was first elected to the
House in 1949.
She was the wife of Andrew
Gundersen, who served in the Ter
ritorial House in 1943 and in the
Senate in 1945 and special session
of 1946. They were Alaska’s first
husband and wife team to be elected
to the Territorial legislature.
The Gundersens were married in
Reno. Nevada, in 1930 and then
moved to Ketchikan where Gunder
sen conducted a herring fishery.
Mrs. Gundersen was a veteran of
both World Wars. In World War I
she saw active duty as an Army
nurse. In the last war she was sta
tioned in San Francisco. She was
prominent in Red Cross work, in the
Ketchikan Women's Club and in
nursing organizations.
She is survived by her husband
in Ketchikan and three brothers,
all living at her former home in
Houston, Texas.
At the time of her death her
husband was aboard the Pirate on
the fishing grounds.
Gov. Ernest Omening, when in
formed of the news this morning by
The Empire said:
“The death of Amelia Gunder
sel leaves the Territory of Alaska
distinctly poorer. She was a gal
lant soldier, serving her country
well In war as in pence. As a train
ed nurse of great ability sht had
repeatedly rendered valuable and
devoted service.
“As a legislator she sought to
serve the public Interest. She will
be missed by the many who have
known her. To her husband, Andy
Gundersen, who is likewise widlry
known throughout Southeast Al
aska, will go the deep sympathy
of a host of friends."
Stork Beats Cutler
To Taku Point
The stork beat the U. S. Coast j
Guard cutter Kimball by 20 min
ttes to the native village at Taku
Point where it had been directed
o pick up Mrs. Joseph Stevens
who was in labor and bring her
her to Juneau.
A baby boy was born 20 min
jtes before the Kimball arrived
>ut Mrs. Stevens and son were
brought here where they were ad
mitted to the Government Hos
)ital at 5:30 o'clock this morning.
They are reported to be doing
nicely.
Alaska Airlines'
Firsl Flight Halted
SEATTLE, Aug. 13 — i/T) — Last
minute delay in obtaining an op
erating certificate from the Civil
Aeronautics Administration post
poned the first scheduled flight of
*n Alaska Airlines passenger plane
from Seattle to Fairbanks and Ari
.horage, which had been set for
Sunday.
A. W. Stephenson, vice president
ind general manager, announced
the new scheduled service probably
will be inaugurated later this week.
Slock Quotations
NEW YORK, Auk 13— tfl-Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau
mine stock today Is 3 '■*, American
Can 116, American Tel. & Tel. 158‘a,
Anaconda 45' t, Douglas Aircraft
50'., General Electric 58. General
Motors 50. Goodyear 00, Kennecott
7514, Libby. McNeill & Libby 9,
Northern Pacific 47%, Standard Oil
of California 481., Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 20U. S. Steel 41 V«,
Pound *2.79 15/16, Canadian Ex
change 94.87 V?.
Sales today were 1,320.000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 263.06, rails 80.40, util
ities 45.27.
* KODIAK. Alaska, Auk. 13. —1*1
— A four-engtned Navy patrol
bomber 12 crewmen aboard was
reported missing today In Alaska.
It was the fourth plane to have
vanished along the Alaska and
British Columbia coasts since July
21. They carried 60 persons.
The Navy PB4-Y-2 Privateer
disappeared yesterday after taking
off at 7:35 a.m. from its Kodiak
base on a routine operational mis
sion.
The Kodiak Naval station said
nothing was heard from the big
plane after it gave a position
report at 1#:14 a.m. Its fuel
supply would have been exhaus
ted at 9:35 p.m. Alaska time last
t Ight.
The Alaska Command informa
tion office at Anchorage said the
missing plane's last radioed posi
tion was in the vicinity of Port
fleiden, on the north side of the
! Alaska Peninsula. That is about
200 miles out on the peninsula
and about 250 miles southwest of
Kodiak.
Names of the three officers and
nine enlisted men in the crew
were withheld.
An air and sea search was star
ted yesterday after the bomber
was presumed lost. Fog and rain
curtailed rescue efforts. Planes of
the 10th Air Rescue Squadron at
Anchorage were standing by today
awaiting clearing weather.
Meanwhile, there was no slack
ening in the hunt for a Korean
airlift DC-4 with 33 -aboard which
disappeared July 21 over the Alas
ka panhandle between Cape Spen
cer and Yakutat, about 500 miles
east of Kodiak.
Six days later a ski-equipped
single-engined Norseman plane
'vanished ht the1 same area en
route from Mt. Hubbard to Yaku
tat. It carried the pilot and the
wife and daughter of millionaire
New Jersey scientist Walter Wood,
who was conducting experiments
on the mountain for the Arctic
Institute.
Sixteen aircraft searched 103
hours yesterday achieving 50 to
80 per cent effective coverage,
largely In mountain areas.
It was planned to continue in
the same areas today as weather
permitted. ,
Maj. Gen. William D. Old, com
manding general of the Alaska
Air Command from Elmendorf
Field, flew here Saturday and
made one flight as co-pilot to the
Juneau Icecap Research Project
with Lt. Col. W. G. Walton. They
flew In the 10th Air Rescue Squa
dron C-47 ski-wheel equipped
plane that has been taking in sup
plies and equipment to main camp
on the ice field.
The C-47 was scheduled to leave
here for Anchorage today.
On August 4 a chartered Queen
Charlotte Airlines single-engined
plane was lost on a 37-mile flight
from Muchalat Arm to the tiny
settlement of Tofino, on Vancou
ver Island. The pilot was flying
ging camps on the island,
six passengers to Tofino from log
Four Juneau Boys
And Girls Shaken
Up in Accident
Pour Juneau young people were
badly shaken up when an auto
mobile belonging to Jack Burford
and driven by his son, Don, skid
ded and turned over on the road
near the Salmon Creek power
house about 12:15 o'clock Sunday
morning. Juneau police said today.
With Burford were Sylvia Lis
ter and Jean Penrod of Juneau
and Bob McCormick of Douglas
They were driving to the airport.
Micki Pusich drove by a few
minutes after the accident and
brought the boys and girl to Jun
eau, Burford said. Jean Penrod
was unconscious for a few minutes
after the accident but was taken
to St. Ann's Hospital for x-rays
and dismissed. None was injured.
The car was badly damaged, ac
cording to police.
"The kids were evidently just
going too fast,” Jack Burford said
today.
John Monagle, Alaska Highway
Patrol officer, who was called to
the scene, said he was filing a
charge of reckless driving against
young Burford. He said a hear
ing was set for this afternoon.
FROM SEATTLE
Loyd B. Bell oi Seattle, is reg
istered at the Baranof Hotel.