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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,853
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1951
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Peace Talk Envoys Receive Safe Conduct
NLRB TO HOLD
ELECTION, BB
FISHERMEN
Charges Against Industry
May Hold Up Counting
of Ballots
Sr-ri m.E, July 6 —(fl’l— A plan
to send seven National Labor Rela
tions Board election examiners tc
Naknek, Alaska, to conduct an elec
tion among resident and non-resi
dent Bristol Bay fishermen was
announced today.
The Regional NLRB office said
they will leave Seattle by plane at
1 a.m. tomorrow.
It is an aftermath of the com
plicated labor controversy which
ended with the return to work oi
Bristol Bay resident fishermen and
cannery workers today.
There is a question, however, over
when the election ballots will be
counted — if ever. The counting
might be blocked by the existence
of unfair labor practices charge?
which the Bering. Sea Fishermen’s
union < AFL> filed against the Alas
ka Salmon Industry. It was involved
in the strike ^fchat was ended this
week.
Two Weeks fow^leetion
Thomas P. Graham, Jr., regional
NLRB direcor, estimated it will take
at least two weeks to conduct the
election. Russell Miller of Washing
ton. D. C„ chief NLRB election ex
aminer, will head the group.
Fishermen, net tenders, tallymen,
tendermen and culinary workers on
th<’ roll next Monday will be
e ._ j to vote. The total is ex
pected to be about 2,300.
The Bering Sea uhion, which broke
away from the Alaska Fishermen's
union (Ind), originally asked for
the election last January. The NLRB
ordered it June 15, after the strike
had started. By that time the union
opposed holding it. It filed the un
fair practices charge against the In
dustry. That blocked the election
Charges Against industry
It charged the Industry with en
tering illegally into a contract with
its divorced parents, the Alaska
Fishermen's union, while the elec
tion petition was pending. It alsc
charged the Industry with aiding the
rival union in a manner that might
influence the election outcome.
Graham said the voting will be
conducted in hopes that by the time
it is completed some disposal car
be made of the charges so that the
ballots can be counted. If not, they
will be impounded for possible fu
ture counting.
The Bering Sea union originally
asked that the election be limitec
to resident 'fishermen but it wa;
overruled by the NLRB. Observer.
believe that inclusion of the non
resident fishermen in the balloting
along with recent developments in
the dispute, have lessened greatly
the chances of the Bering Sea union
to win the election.
TIMBER SALES NET $44,470
Assist. Regional Forester Charles
Burdick reported today that during
the spring quarter of 1951, 18 mil
lion feet of timber were cut in Ton
gass National Forest bringing i
total of $44,470 in stumpage.
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
ICoprrtcbt. IMl. »» Bell Syndicate, Ine.
rfASHINGTON,—In the^ middle
of last week’s hectic battle over
price controls, President Truman
called Leo DeOrsay, attorney for
radio star Arthur Godfrey, and
begged him to beg Godfrey to go
on the radio and arouse the t>ub
lic for price controls.
This personal appeal by a pa-'
thetic President, battling almost
alone, illustrates the greatest loss
Truman has suffered—the inability
to mobilize public opinion. And
realizing this loss, he appealed to
a radio personality to mobilize
opinion for him.
It also illustrates the greatest as
set Franklin Roosevelt had—the
ability to appeal over the heads of
congressmen to the public. Congress
never liked Franklin Roosevelt.
Most of them did not agree with
his policies. But they feared him
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Was Ready for Fireworks
AMERICAN ^£P©€0CE
JULY j ^ REWtRKS
f& AY AfflVC 3&n-cm
Sgt. Jack Kersey of Tampa, Fla., Air Force armament technician,
straddles a giant “firecracker” intended for a communist target, m
he held sign announcing plans for celebrating the Fourth-of-July
in traditional American fashion, coinciding with his own 24th birth
day. The sign reads, “175th anniversary of American Independence
July 4th—Big Fireworks display above 38th—Only communists in
vited. Courtesy of 19th and 307th bomb groups." (C.S. Army radio
photo via (#1 Wirephoto.)
EAST GERMAN
DEATH TOLL
27 CHILDREN
BERLIN, July 6 —UR— East Ger
man authorities announced today
they have found the bodies of two
more children drowned in the ex
plosion of a small ship yesterday on
the Spree river, raising the official
death toll to 27.
East Berlin People’s police at the
same time ordered the seizure of all
gasoline-engines and a critical /in
spection of all other river craft in
the Soviet sector. The police blamed
the tragedy on a faulty gasoline
which caught fire.
The eastern announcement today
acknowledged the accident as the
worst' disaster involving children in
postwar Germany. But the Soviet
sector press today limited coverage
to publication of a 400-word official
communique from the city govern
ment. Apparently on orders from
above, no details or pictures of the
accident were published.
The explosion came at a most
unfortunate time for Communist
authorities who are waging a pro
paganda campaign for their World
Youth Festival in East Berlin next
month.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, July 6 — Closing
quotation ol Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2 %, American Can
109%, American Tel. and Tel. 1541 i,
Anaconda 3914, Douglas Aircraft
45>i, General Electric 54%, Genera!
Motors 48%, Goodyear 821'». Kenne
cott 71%, Libby, McNeill and Libby
811, Northern Pacific 37%, Standard
Oil of California 45%, Twentieth
Century Fox 18%, U. S. Sleel 39%,
Pound $2.80's, Canadian Exchange!
93.93%.
Sales today were 1,170,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 250.01, rails 75.73, utili
ties 42.82.
PRISONERS HERE
FROM WRANGELL
U. S. Deputy Marshal Jack Krepps
from Wrangell came to Juneau yes
terday afternoon with two prisoners
for Federal jail.
Conrad Edwards was sentenced to
20 days on a drunk and disorderly
charge and Henry J. McCullough
was given 180 days, charged with
giving liquor to a minor. Both were
sentenced by U. S. Commissioner
Joel Wing, of Wrangell.
PW IN ALASKA
GIVEN BOOST,
SENATE COM.
WASHINGTON, July 6 — —
The. Senate Appropriations commit
tee has recommended increases of
more than $2,000,000 in Alaska items
In the Interior Appropriations bill.
The biggest increase over the
House-approved bill is $1,500,000 re
instated for public works, bringing
the total to $8,500,000,. The Senate
version represents a compromise
between . the House-adopted figure
and that originally requested.
The Senate committee also in
creased the item for operation and
maintenance of roads to $2,900,000.
This was an increase of $300,000
over the House figure and is to be
used, the committee said, for "ma
jor roads.”
Full Report for Eklutna
For the Bureau of Reclamatiop’s
Eklutna project the Senate recom
mended the full $5,761,400 requested
in the budget estimate. The House
cut the item to $5,478,040.
No changes were made in the
House-approved figures for road
construction or the Alaska Railroad
These items remain at $2,600,000
and $2,000,000, respectively.
The Senate committee, however,
proposes to change from 25 to 20
per cent the amount of road con
struction money which may be spent
for work on a force account or hired
labor basis.
Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Addison of Lo
rane, Oregon, are guests at the
baranof hotel.
WEATHER FORECAST
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 6 20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
84; minimum, 57.
At Airport — Maximum,
83; minimum, 51.
FORECAST
Fair tonight. Increasing
cloudiness Saturday. Low
temperature about 55 tonight,
high Saturday near 76.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — None.
Since July 1 — .04 inches.
At Airport — None.
Since July 1 — .04 inches.
AMERICAN LEGION
LEADER ARRIVES
JUNEAU SUNDAY
Sunday, July 8 should prove to be
a milestone In the affairs of The
American Legion of this community,
and of its Auxiliary, for on that
date the national commander, Erie
J. Cocke, Jr,, youngest man ever to
hold this high office, will visit Jun
eau on one of three stops of a fly
ing trip through the far North.
Plans have been announced by the
committee of Legionnaires headed
by Vern Harris, commander of the
local post. The national commander
t^ill be met at the municipal air
port by the committee which in
cludes, in additicn to Harris, Waino
Hendrickson, Homer Nordllng and
Harold Dawes, past commanders of
the Department of Alaska.
Included in the itinerary of the
national commander are Anchorage
and Fairbanks, winding up at Jun
eau, whence he will fly via Pan
American on Monday, June 9, to
Seattle enroute to national head
quarters in Indianapolis. The route
to this point will be covered by
military planes.
After a sightseeing trip through
the Glacier and Auk Bay region,
the group will gather at the Bar
anof hotel, where a no-host dinner
will be held with Commander Cocke
as guest of honor. This will be held
in the Gold room, and the commit
tee desires to have reservations made
as soon as possible. These should be
telephoned to Saxon Snow, 1st vice
commander of Juneau Post No. 4.
The dinner hour has been an
nounced for 6:30 Sunday evening.
Following this event there will be a
reception in room 207 of the hotel,
for those wishing to personally greet
the national commander.
Commander Cocke is an &agi?
Scout,, and plana have been mode
by the committee to have him award
Eagle Scout badges to three out
standing young men of the com
munity. These are the first to
achieve the rank of Eagle Scout in
Juneau. They are Wayne Powers,
Eddie Dull and Arthur MacKinnon,
members of Explorer Post 713,
spnosored by Voiture 1126, Society Of
Forty and Eight. Wayne Powers was
first to complete the requirements
for advancement to Eagle Scout,
having qualified at the 1951 Eagle
River Scout camp of the Gastineau
Channel region about 30 days ago.
Objective of the' national com
mander’s Alaska journey is to alert
Legion membership to critical prob
lems which face America today, it
has been reported by the organiza
tion’s national headquarters. With
that objective in view, the commit
tee is desirious of a large attend
ance at the Sunday evening dinner
by members of The American Legion
and The American Legion Auxili
ary, and their guests.
A dynamic and untiring worker
Commander Cocke recently com
pleted a trip of more than 30,000
miles around the world. He visited
outpost positions In the front lines
of Korea, held conferences with
Gen. Douglas MacArthur a short
time before the return of MacAr
thur to the United States; paid a
visit to Chiang Kai-Shek at the
headquarters of the generalissimo on
Formosa, and quite thoroughly cov
ered the Balkan regions including
Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia.
Thus, the welcoming committee
Chairman Harris said, feels that
Legionnaires from the various com
munities of Southeast Alaska should
avail themselves of seeing and hear
ing their national leader. It is tr
facilitate this that the reception ha
been planned, following the dinner.
Monday has been reserved for the
convenience of National Comman er
Cocke, and to provide time for con
ference with the Governor of Alas
ka, Dr. Ernest Gruening.
With Alaska a pivotal factor in
defense of America and the Western
Hemisphere, leaders of The Amen
can Legion in Alaska feel the er
ritory is fortunate in having the of
ficial head of the nation’s largest
veteran organization gather firs
hand knowledge of this region t<
present to his huge audiences in
the continental United States o
America.
That he will do that job dramatic
ally and effectively and thus bring
about a better understanding at
large of Alaska’s problems of the
day are the convictions of the wel
coming committee.
LARRY HAGEN HERE
Larry Hagen of the Standard Oil
Co. from 8enttle is stopping at the
Baranof hotel.
1
Autos Take Over Trolley Tracks
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington's historic thoroughfare from the Capitol (background) to the White
House presented this scene of automobiles jamming normal traffic lanes and parked crosswise on
street car tracks. A city-wide strike of trolley and bus operators forced thousands of workers to drive
their cars into the downtown area. Ifl Wlrephoto.
FREE NATIONS
ARE CAUTIONED
BY GOV. DEWEY
Says "Peace by Surrender
or Appeasement" Must
Never Come
TOKYO, July 6 — WPt— Thomas E.
Dewey said today the United States |
Is dedicated to making world peace
inevitable but cautioned the free
nations against “peace by surrender
or appeasement."
The New York Republican gov
ernor made no direct reference, tc
the Korean cease-fire talks sched
uled to begin Sunday.
He spoke before the American
Japan society, composed of promi
nent Americans in Japan and Jap
anese business and government
leaders. The speech was broadcast
in the U. S.
The United States, he said, is not
afraid of internal and external
Communist aggression and has not
‘the slightest doubt of the final out
come."
Likewise, uewey added, the U. S.
is unafraid of the “continuing threat
of warlike Communist aggression’’
because of America’s tremendous in
dustrial might.
“Neutralism Is Illusion”
The twice-defeated republican
nominee declared “neutralism is an
illusion from which only the harsh
reality of defeat and slavery can
result.”
He said the free nations “with
unity and development of over
whelming strength” can “look for
ward to the gradual exhaustion and
disintegration of the Communist
forces of slavery and aggression.”
The United States, he said, is
building its strength to prevent war
and will never attempt to ' use
other nations for purpose of ag
gression.”
“We do not believe war is in
evitable,” he declared.
“We are dedicated to the high
purpose of making peace inevitable.
Dewey conferred with Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway and U. S. Am
bassador William J. Sebald Thurs
day before completing the final
draft of his speech. It was his first
speech on a six-weeks, 29,000-mile
tour of nine countries of the Far
East.
Dewey, just prior to his speech,
visited the Japanese diet.
Ship Movements
Freighter Flemish Knot from Seat
tle due at 8 a.m. Saturday.
Princess Norah from Vancouver
due to arrive tomorrow afternoon.
Aleutian scheduled to sail from
Seattle this afternoon or evening.
Prince George scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 tonight.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
Chilcotin scheduled to sail from
Vancouver Monday.
Baranof from westward scheduled
southbound Sunday.
Peggy Dow
- !
Peggy Dow (above), rising young
dramatic actress, prefers to date
college boys instead of actors.
“I have nothing against actors,”
she declared. "But let’s face it—
they are self-centered and ego
centric.'’ Peggy went further to
say that being with acting folk
in Hollywood during the work
day is enough, Iff) Wirephoto.
26 MILLION
FOR Aim
NAVY BASES
WASHINGTON, July 6 — Iff) —
The House Armed Services com- ^
mittee gave tentative approval yes
terday to a $26,263,000 appropria
I tion for four Navy construction
projects in Alaska.
The committee is making an item
by-item study of the Defense De
partment’s $6,561,262,000 military
construction program.
The projects, with amounts re
quested shown in parenthesis where
cuts were made, were:
Naval operating base. Kodiak. $7,
677,800; Naval station, Adak, $2,810.
000 ($3,210,000); Naval air station,
Kodiak, $1,936,500 ( 2,956,800>; Naval
communications station. Kodiak,
$7,000,000 i $14,537,000).
Cyril Zubolf with the Territorial
Department of Labor is spending
three weeks in Cordova. Valdez and
Anchorage on an industrial safety
inspection trip.
FIELD GOES
TO JAIL ON
COURT ORDER
BULLETIN — NEW YORK, July
6 —ill— Millionaire Leftist Freder
ick Vanderbilt Field was jailed to
day for contempt of court in re
fusing to telFwho posted sxo.ooo bait
for four fugitive Communist leaders.
The Federal Court sentence was
for 90 days or until the "Angel” of
Left-Wing causes purges himself of
contempt by revealing the names.
Deputy United States Marshals
led Field from the courtroom to a
detention cell.
NEW YORK, July 6 —tut— Fred
erick Vanderbilt Field, millionaire
Leftist, was ordered committed to
jail today for contempt of court in
refusing to tell who posted $80,000
bail for four fugitive American Com
munist leaders.
Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan
rejected a defense plea to continue
the secretary of the Civil Rights
Congress Bail Fund on parole until
his appeal is heard this afternoon
in New Haven, Conn.
Ryan adjudged Field in contempt
yesterday for his repeated refusals
to tell who contributed to the bail
fund.
The four missing leaders, who
jumped bail earlier this week, are
the object of a nationwide FBI hunt
in which the public has been asked
to join.
Discontinue Parole
In refusing to continue Field on
parole pending the appeal hearing.
Ryan said that to do so would be
to recognize that "a substantial
question of law or fact existed in
this case.”
Field had been on parole since
being Judged in contempt yesterday
Ryan said he had permitted Field
freedom overnight on the theory
that "a night’s sober reflection
might bring the desire on the part
of this man to give the court the
Information it seeks.”
Ryan has held that identities of
the bail contributors arc needed to
help trace the missing men.
POSSIBLE ATTEMPT
REPORTED ON LIFE
OF H. LUNDEBERG
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 — tP—
Harry Lundeberg, Sailors union
leader, isn't reporting a possible at
tempt on his life to police because
T can handle these things myself."
A spent bullet nicked the wind
shield of Lundeberg's car yester
day.
The head of the AFL Sailors Un
ion of the Pacific said he's uncer
tain “whether it was a professional
job, or maybe someone was just
target shooting."
Lundeberg is a militant foe of
Communist elements in waterfront
unions.
Police said they wouldn't investi
gate unless a complaint is filed.
SAFE GUARD
FOR ENVOYS
PROMISED
Reds Will Fly While Flag;
No Attack by Planes
is U.S. Order
By Anaoclatod Press
Communist commanders gave final
approval today to arrangements for
preliminary cease-fire talks — five
hours before their emissaries were
scheduled to leave for Kaesong.
In a midnight message, the top
Red generals acknowledged the UN
guarantee of safe conduct for their
emissaries.
The Allies already were putting
the pledge Into effect when the
Red Pyongyang radio broadcast the
eighth message in the series of
radio negotiations.
No Air Attacks
UN warplanes were ordered to
keep away from the highway down
which Communist negotiators will
travel today for cease-fire prelimi
nary talks in Kaesong.
Lt. Gen. O. P. Weyland, Far East
Air Forces commander, issued the
order a few hours after opposing
commanders completed arrange
ments by radio for a Sunday meet
ing — and guaranteed safe conduct
to the emissaries.
The Communist delegation leaves
Pyongyang, the Red Korean capital,
at 5 a.m. Saturday (midnight PDT
tonight).
White Flags for Beds
i The Communist convoy' will fly
white flags as It travels down the
bomb-pocked Pyongyang - Sarlwon
Namchongjom highway to Kaesong,
three miles south of Parallel 38.
General Weyland ordered his war
planes to make no attacks along
the route.
Safe Conduct Pledge
The order carried out the pledge
of safe conduct made earlier In the
day by Gen. Ridgeway, UN com
mander. And It banned Allied
bombers from one of their favorite
targets. The highway Is a main Red
supply artery to the Western front.
Highway Badly Cratered
It has been under almost constant
attack for months. Bombs have
cratered it badly. And it is liberally
seeded with tetrahedrons — sharp,
four-pointed cast Iron devices for
puncturing tires.
Bombers and fighters also were
ordered to make no attacks within
a five mile radius of Kaesong once
the Red delegation reaches it. This
carried out another pledge Ridgway
made.
Sunday Meeting
The two delegations meet Sun
day to arrange for a cease-fire ses
sion scheduled to start in Kaesong
Tuesday.
The shooting will continue until
an agreement is reached at the sec
ond meeting, and approved.
Air scouts spotted half a dozen
people in Kaesong today but could
not tell whether they were Reds, Al
lies or civilians. A UN patrol head
ed for the city for the third suc
cessive day while engineers swept
mines from the "peace road” the
UN delegation will travel if it goes
by jeep.
Red Stronghold Blasted
Forty-four UN planes blasted a
Red stronghold on the Western front
20 miles northeast of Kaesong. It
was one of three mass air strikes
Friday. The others were by Ameri
can jets on two Red air fields. One
is 40 miles north of Pyongyang and
the other 40 miles southeast of the
Red Korean capital.
Without firing a shot — or being
shot at — an armored UN patrol
rumbled up the western side of the
"iron triangle" to lbs tip and enter
ed Pyonggang, 95 miles southeast of
Pyongyang. But another tank-led
patrol was stopped by heavy fire on
the east side of the triangle six
miles from Pyonggang.
TIDE TABLES
July 7
High tide 3:16 a.m. 16.3 ft.
Low tide . 9:53 a.m. -1.1 ft.
High tide .... 4:16 p.m. 14.8 ft.
Low tide 10:22 p.m. 3 8 ft.