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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,817 ’ : JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAV 23, 1951_MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
Commies Retreating On 80 Mile Korean Front
IRAN DANGER
SPOT OF RED
AGGRESSION
Dispute Over Oil Fields
May Cause Reds to
Move, Says Bradley
WASHINGTON, May 23 — (IP) —
Gen. Omar Bradley said today
“there is danger of the Russians
moving into Iran and starting an
other aggression.”
Bradley made the statement in
reply to questions by Senator Brew
ster (R-Me) at the Senate’s inquiry
into the dismissal of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur.
Brewster asked Bradley, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, what
consideration the chiefs have been
giving “to the apparent imminence
of trouble in Iran,” with relation to
the desirability of ending the Kor
ean war.
Prefers Not Discuss Iran
“Well, of course,” Bradley replied,
“the longer the problem in Korea
keeps up, the less we are prepared
to meet any movement anywhere
else. I would prefer not to say as
to Iran, bcause I am not sure that ]
has too much application in our
case.
“There Is a danger, of course, of
the Russians moving into Iran and
starting another aggression. Whe
ther or not that is any more dang
erous than Yugoslavia or Indo-China
or some other place, I am not pre
pared to say; but certainly it is a
point of danger and we would like
to be in*a better position to meet
any further aggression if it oc
curred.”
Iran Trouble Spot
Iran currently is potentially a
trouble spot because of a dispute j
between the Iranian government j
and the British over Iran’s decision i
to nat .malizc its rich oilfields. They
have been undei long-term lease to
a British company.
The pil fields have long been of
strategic importance. They supply’,
much of Europe’s needs, and this
oil flow might be cut off if the
fields fell into Russian hands.
Asks About Formosa
At the outset, Brewster asked a
series of questions about U. S. mili
tary aid to the Chinese Nationalists
forces on Formosa. This is the island
off the China coast where Chiang
Kai-Shek’s government took refuge
when driven off the mainland by
the Chinese Communists.
Bradley testified the decision to
send U. S. military aid to Formosa
was made last August and the first
deliveries were in November.
4TH JULY COMMITTEE
MEET THURSDAY NIGHT
There will be a meeting of the
Fourth of July Committee at 8 p.m.
tomorrow in the Gold room at the
Baranof hotel, Orin Cleveland, gen
eral chairman, announced today. All
organizations are urged to be repre
sented to participate in making
plans for the big celebration.
FROM SEATTLE
G. H. Sampson of the Standard
Oil company from Seattle is stop
ping at the Baranof hotel.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEAESON
(Copyright, lflsi. By Bell Syadlc»«. Ine..
T^ASHXNGTON.—It's been pret
ty well concealed excfept to their
close friends, but a smoldering,
bitter feud has been raging between
the two top mobilization executives
of the nation—Charles E. Wilson
and Eric Johnston.
Both men have been in the el
ectrical business — Wilson as head
of the giant General Electric Corp.,
Johnston as owner of his own ap
pliance factory in Spokane, WaSh.
Wilson has sometimes had rough
sledding with his labor relations;
Johnston has an employee profit
sharing plan which makes his fac
tory a model for the nation.
Wilson did a good job as gov
ernment production executive dur
ing World War II; Johnston for
years was a farsighted chairman of
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.
Wilson was chairman of Truman's
(Continued on Page Four)
JUDGE FOLTA
RENOMINATED
BYPRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, May 23 — Wl —
President Truman nominated Geo.
W. Folta today for another term as
U. S. District Judge for Division No.
One, Alaska.
Judge Folta was first appointed to
the bench in the First Division in
1947, taking his oath of office on
May 7. He succeeded Judge George
F. Alexander who retired because
of ill health.
Judge; Folta started his career as
secretary to Gov. Thomas Riggs, Jr.,
about 1918. Later he was a court re
porter and then was appointed as
sistant U. S. Attorney under Wil
liam Holzheimer. He then served as
solicitor for the Interior Depart
ment, which position he held when
he was appointed to his first term
as judge.
ALASKA IS ASKED
TO STOP BOUNTY
ON BALD EAGLE
WASHINGTON, May 23, — W —
A House subcommittee has sugges
ted that Alaska stop paying a $1
a head bounty to killers of the Am
erican bald eagle.
“This is our national bird and
not many of them are left in this
country," chairman Boykin <D-Ala>
of the House Merchant Marine and
Fisheries subcommittee said.
The group shelved a bill by R<; .
Angel! <R-Ore) 'to extend to .Alas
ka the protection that is given the;
bald ..eagle in Vi* 'if opjlfe.,
There is a maximum penalty of
$50f) fine and six months ;."pris
unjpeut foi killing a bald eagle in
the*cou: mental United States.
"We didn’t want to tell the Al
a'kan legislature what to do,” Boy
kin said in an interview. “We mere
ly agreed to suggest that it stop
the bounty."
No Time Set
For Debate,
2 Statehoods
WASHINGTON, May 33, — UR —
The Senate Democratic policy com
mittee has not yet discussed a time
for Senate debate of the Hawaii
and Alaska statehood bills.
Senate majority leader McFar
land (D-Arizi told reporters yester
day after a policy committee meet
ing that the two bills do not figure
in the planning for the senate
floor program in the immediate
future.
CANNERY WORKERS
TO VOTE, UNION SHOP
SEATTLE, May 23 —(A»)— Mem
bers of Local 7-C, ILWU (Ind), will
begin voting tomorrow to determine
if 2,000 non-resident Alaska salmon
cannery workers want a union shop
contract.
Polls have been established at 522
Second avenue, by the National
Labor Relations Board. Julius N.
Draznin, NLRB field examiner, has
charge of the election.
The polls will be open from 9 a.m,
to noon and 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. to
morrow and Friday. The workers will
vote throughout the 1951 canning
season as they are shipped to Alaska.
Workers must present a 1951
doctors’ examination card for iden
tification when they appear at the
polls, the NLRB announced. The
card is issued after the workers have
been hired by the industry.
The Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc.,
representing packers, recently sign
ed a new contract with the union.
Among provisions of the agreement
was one granting Local 7-CPA un
ion shop contract automatically, if
it wins the election.
CALIFORNIA VISITOR
Louise Klassen of Turlock, Calif,
is at the Baranof Hotel.
---—.
FISHERMEN FERE
Mr. and Mrs. Erling Oswald who
have been fishing are stopping j
briefly at the Gastineau Hotel.
ALBRIGHT
IS OUT AS
ILWU MAN
Alaska's Representative
Released-Art Olin Has
Resigned, Report
SAN FRANCISCO, May 23 —MV
Harry Bridges’ International Long
shoremen's and Warehousemen's
Union (ILWU) said today that
Verne Albright, its international
representative in Alaska, was “re
leased effective as of May 15.”
Commenting on a Seattle report
that Albright may have been dis
charged, the union said only that
Albright's release was "a routine
administrative change.”
Morris Watson, spokesman for
Bridges, said there has been no de
cision on whether there would be
a successor to Albright.
He said Albright had been ap
pointed. with headquarters at
Ketchikan, for some “special work”
a year or two ago.
In Seattle, William Gettings, IL
WU regional director, said Art Olin,
who had been appointed to assist
Albright as an international repre
sentative in Alaska, had resigned,
leaving the union without an in
ternational representative in the
Territory.
Gettings said that Germain Bulc
ke, vice preside**! In charge of Alas
ka, would set up a new Alaska staff
ui or coast-wide longshore negotia
.. ... . ,,«u' v.i uompfbted witfl I
employers. :
Albright was in Juneau several j
weeks ago during settlement of Cold
Storagerrxen’s strike.
MEMBER CASE UP
SEATTLE, May 23 —Iff)— A court
hearing is set for today in the suit
of 14 members of the Alaska Fisher
men’s Union (Ind) to prevent its
merger with the ILWU (Ind).
The attorney for the 14 has asked
the King County court to find the
defendants in default. That means
the fishermen are asking a decision
in their favor on the contention
that the defendants have not taken
adequate legal steps to support
their defense.
The defendants include Harry
Bridgjes, head of the ILWU, and
other officers of the ILWU and its
fishermen's division.
The 14 filed the suit last Nov. 7.
A county judge issued a temporary
injunction against the merger. At
that time he denied a motion by
the defendants to dissolve—or put
an end to — the suit.
NECESSARY
NEGOTIATE,
CHINA REDS
WASHINGTON, May 23 — tiFI —
Secretary of State Acheson said to
day he supposed it would be neces
sary to negotiate with the Chinese
Communists if and when it becomes
possible to settle the war in Korea*.
Cut he told a news conference he
knew of no peace feelers from the
Red Chinese and could not say what
the prospect for a settlement is.
Acheson also asserted that a
much disputed speech which assist
ant Secretary of State Dean Rusk
made in New York Friday night
did not announce or indicate or sug
gest any change in United States
policies toward China.
But when he was asked whether
he thought Rusk’s words were well
chosen. Acheson responded in a
manner suggesting that he did not
think so. He joked with a laugh
whether the questioner thought the
question was kind, and he said he
did not want to criticize the literary
pomposition of his colleague.
In his speech. Rusk denounced
the Red Chinese regime as a col
onial Russian government and ex
pressed strong support for the Na
tionalist government on Formosa.
Senator Taft and other Repub
lican Congress members had inter
preted Rnsk’s words as meaning a
change in the department’s policy.
I kidnaped;
A widespread search is underway
at Santa Ana, Calif., for Patricia
Jean Hull (above), 10, missing
since she attended a movie mati
nee (May 19). Deputy Sheriff
Russell Campbell announced that
Henry Ford McCracken, 34, a
musician, is being questioned. Ill
Wircpholo.
TENSION UP^
IN TEHRAN
ABOUT OIL
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Crowd Vows Holy War Is
Possibility to Nation
alize Oil Resources
TEHRAN, Iran, May 23, — VP —
Tension mounted today in crisis
torn Tehrart after some 30,000 Mos
lems—booing the United States
and Britain—vowed yesterday to
wage holy war if need be to na
tionalize the nation’s rich oil re
sources.
An air of crisis gripped the Iran
ian capital as police and troops, on
24-hour alert, patrolled the streets
in trucks and on horseback. A doz
en tanks roamed the city, ready for
action.
A resolution declaring “strong
hatred" of the United States and
Britain was cheered wildly at yes
terday’s mass rally, called by Mos
lem religious leaders and Premier
Mohammed Mossadegh’s national
bloc.
The cheering reached fever pitch
when black-bearded Chams Ghan
atabadi, leader of the militant Mu
jaheddin Islam (fighters for Islam),
declared:
"All loyal Moslems will throw the
British bandits into, the Persian
gulf, if they do not leave the coun
try.”
Thousands of Moslem religious
banners were waved in approval
when another speaker, parliament
member Hossein Makki, declared
a recent statement by the U. S.
State Department was “A stab in
the back of the Iranian nation.”
The State Department, which has
urged moderation on both sides of
the dispute, has been accused by
Iranians of backing the British
stand against nationalization.
FROM HAINES
Jim McConnell of Haines is at
the Baranof hotel.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
46; minimum, 36.
At Airport — Maximum,
48; minimum, 33.
FORECAST
Mostly cloudy tonight and
Thursday with light rain
late Thursday afternoon.
Lowest temperature tonight
near 40. Highest Thursday
about 52.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today
City of Juneau — .24 inches;
Since May 1 — 3.52 inches;
Since July 1 — 71.57 inches.
At Airport — .13 inches;
Since May 1 — 2.06 inches;
Since July 1 — 41.33 inches.
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BODY OF GIRL
IS HONIED BY
500 PERSONS
SANTA ANA, Calif., May 23 — (A
Grim sheriff's deputies abruptly
shifted their hunt for the body of
10-year-old Patricia Jean Hull to
day to an area where another girl
sex victim’s skeleton was found in
1947.
Patricia Jean vanished from a
movie in her home town of Buena
Park last Saturday. Booked on sus
picion of kidnaping is a 34-year-old
guitar player, Henry Ford McCrack
en. Through two days and nights of
questioning he has denied any
knowledge of the girl’s abduction.
Search has centered near Buena
Park, but today 500 townspeople
and officers set up new headquar
ters 10 miles away in the citrus com
munity of Orange.
It was near Orange that the body
of Rochelle Gluskoter was found in
November, 1947, 20 minutes after she
disappeared from her home in Los
Angeles with a dark man in a black
convertible.
Sheriff’s Detective Lieutenant
Peter Klyne said today: “We think
McCracken may have some knowl
edge of the Gluskoter case and at
least two other sev crimes.”
McCracken, who has a record as
a sex offender, was discharged from
the Air Force near here a month
after the Gluskoter girl was lured
into a car by her slayer, Feb. 15,
1946.
HERY CRASH
USAF PLANE
KILLS SEVEN
NEW LISBEN, Ind., May 23—(A*1—
An Air Force plane from Patterson
Field, Dayton, Ohio, burned after
crashing on a farm near here today
and at least seven of the men aboard
were killed.
There were five survivor^. They
suffered burns and serious injuries.
Capt. John M. Christenson, the
pilot and the four other survivor.-;
were taken to the Henry County
hospital at New Castle, Ind.
Mrs. Wilford Thompson, a farm
wife living near the crash scene,
said she believed the plane was afire
before it hit the ground.
A newsman at the scene said the
pilot apparently was trying to make
a forced landing, but the plane lost
altitude too fast.
SHIP CHARGEDWITH
RECKLESS DRIVING
ARMED FORCES DAY
HOUSTON, May 23 —(A>*— The
Navy Destroyer John W. Wilke, here
for Armed Forces Day, was formal
ly accused of reckless driving in
the ship channel the day of the
celebration.
An Admiralty suit asking for $30,
000 in damages, was filed by Coyle
Lines, Inc., charges the destroyer
signaled to pass a Coyle Lines barge
on one side and then passed on
the other side. The complaint al
leges the destroyer rammed the
barge and caused the amount of
damage asked to be recovered.
DAVID GROSS O. K.
Zalmain Gross, and son David,
returned to Juneau yesterday via
Pan American after a two weeks trip
to San Francisco where young David
underwent a special medical check
up. David’s father is happy to re
port that the young man, who was
confined to bed for seven months
during the winter, has been pro
nounced entirely well and recovered.
FROM ANACORTES
Robert G. Bowen of Anacortes,
Wash, is at the Baranof Hotel.
AT HOTEL JUNEAU
Frances Even of Mt. Edgecumbe
is registered at the Hotel Juneau.
FROM SEWARD
Elizabeth Reynolds of Seward is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
Gruening Offers Advice
To Alaska Steamship Co.
In ILWU Sfrike Threat
The May 7 edition of the Daily
Alaska Empire carried an open letter
to Governor Gruening from D. E.
Skinner, general manager of the
Alaska Steampship Company, enum
erating the major problems con
fronting his company and soliciting
constructive suggestions for their
solution.
In a letter to Mr. Skinner, dated
May 14, the Governor discusses the
company’s problems and offers vari
ous suggestions. The Governor’s let
ter, as received by Mr. Skinner, fol
lows in its entirety:
Mr. D. E. Skinner, General Manager,
Alaska Steamship Company,
Pier 42,
Seattle 4, Washington.
Dear Mr. Skinner:
In a letter dated May 4 and cir
culated to all Alaska newspapers and
chambers of commerce, you invite
my "constructive suggestions” for
dealing with the demands made of
the Pacific Maritime Association by
the International Longshoremen’s
and Warehousemen’s Union for an
increase in wages, pensions and wel
fare benefits. Specifically you ask
“shall we resist the Union’s present
PERCENT”
RAISE VOTED
INCOME TAX
WASHINGTON, May 23 — 141 —
In a stormy, shouting session, the
House Ways and Means committee
voted today for a flat 12 la per cent
increase for individual income tax
payers and for a boost in the excess
profits tax on corporations.
Both revisions were agreed upon
by straight party line votes, and the
Republican members of the com
mittee declared angrily that the
changes were "railroaded through."
“I resent legislating by party cau
cuses,” Rep Simpson told reporters.
Rep. Reed, ranking Republican
member of the committee, told the
newsmen there had been “a major
row” in today’s session.
The flat 1214 per cent increase in
everybody's income tax was substi
tuted for the committee’s original
plan of a raise of three precentage
points in the rate in each tax
bracket.
Staff aides said about the same
amount of additional revenue would
be raised under either system —
$2,845,000,000 in a full year’s oper
ation.
The 1214 per cent increase, how
ever, would mean a somewhat light
er burden for smaller taxpayers
than proposed in the original plan,
and a correspondingly heavier tax
liability for the bigger taxpayers.
The original plan for a 3 percent
age point increase in each bracket
would have meant a 15 per cent in
crease for the smallest taxpayers
and a 3.4 per cent increase for the
largest.
SCREEN WRITER'S
WIFE FOUND DEAD;
APPARENT SUICIDE
LOS ANGELES, May 23 ——
Francis Ellis Bercovici, 41, wife of
one of the screen writers who testi
fied recently before the House un
American Activities in Washington,
D. C., was found dead in a liquor
closet of their home last night.
Police detectives listed the death
of Mrs. Bercovici, wife of Leonardo
Bercovici, as “apparent suicide" al
though no note or evidence of poi
son was found.
Bercovici, at his appearance be
fore the congressional committee
investigating Communist influences
in Hollywood, denied any current af
filiation with the Communist party
but declined to discuss past activi
ties.
METALS MAN HERE
X, D. Shapiro of the United Iron
, and Metal Co. from Baltimore, is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
p—
demand to the point where a strike
results, or shall we give in to those
demands?”
By way of introduction, it appears
necessary to summarize the oper
ation of existing machinery for deal
ing with problems of this nature.
All matters concerning wage and
employment conditions are now un
der the Jurisdiction of the Wage
Stabilization Board. Agreements as
to wage and employment conditions
may be negotiated by collective bar
gaining, and the services of concil
iation and mediation facilities are
available to assist at this stage. If
the results of such negotations are
consistent with national stabilization
policies, no governmental action is
required. If results of negotiation
go beyond these legally and admin
istratively determined limits, a pe
tition must then be filed with the
Board and approval secured before
the changes are effective. Finally,
either by joint agreement of the two
parties or by Presidential order, the
Board can assume Jurisdiction of
any labor dispute which is not re
solved by collective bargaining or
by the prior use of conciliation and
mediation facilities.
Returning to the specific matter
upon which you invite my construc
tive suggestions, I notice that the
two bargaining agencies concerned
are the Pacific Maritime Associa
tion, representing all maritime em
ployers on the entire Pacific Coast,
and the International Longshore
men’s and Warehousemen’s Union
representing Pacific Coast locals. I
have gotten in touch with the Pa
cific Maritime Association and have
been informed that all negotiations
are being conducted directly by that
association with the unions and that
as a member you will necessarily be
bound by the decisions of the ma
jority members.
Not only is the bargaining being
conducted on a level beyond that of
the Territory of Alaska, but the eco
nomic well-being of an area embrac
ing the States of Washington, Ore
gon, California and the Territories
of Hawaii and Alaska is involved.
It would, therefore, be presumptu
ous of me to propose a solution of
a problem which extends far beyond
the bounds of Alaska. If any state
ment or suggestions, such as you re
quest of me. are required they prop
erly should be issued jointly by all
five governors. Accordingly, I have
communicated with the other four
governors directly concerned in or
der to determine jointly what ap
propriate constructive suggestions
we might make.
In the event your company and
the locals of the ILWU representing
workers in the Alaska trade are
agreeable to and able to bargain in
dependently of your respective reg
ional organizations, I would like to
call attention to the mediation ma
chinery existing in the Territorial
Department of Labor and invite the
representatives of both parties to
come to Alaska in order to utilize
these facilities for the negotiation of
fair and equitable terms of settle
ment.
The greater part of your letter Is
devoted to a listing of changed oper
ating conditions — increased costs,
resulting from the general rise in
costs and the loss of the Federal
government subsidies of the “Inter
im Contract” — and the "attacks"
you allege I have made upon your
company for putting into effect cer
tain rate increases. As I do not have
access to information on labor and
other costs which serve as the basis
for your "simple arithmetic” I
cannot vouch for the accuracy of
your statements. Beyond the ques
tion of accuracy, however, your fact
list is misleading because it is not
complete. You will not object, I am
sure, if I add a few comments.
The 1947 rates were filed, in part
at least, in anticipation of the in
creased costs accompanying the ex
piration of the “Interim Contract."
Since 1947 a number of specific in
creases above these high rates have
been made, the latest being a gen
eral increase (effective May 26) in
your tariffs for the non-competitive
southeast Alaska trade. You have
previously described this as a gen
eral 20“I increase, although I notice
that rates on grocery items have
| been increased over previously exist
(Contlnued on Page Eight)
ALLIES
THRUST
AHEAD
Counterattacks Are Made
with Reds Pulling Back
to North Korea
By Associated Press
Communist troops retreated along
an 80 mile front in Korea today
before northward thrusting Allied
tanks and infantry.
The entire U. 8. 10th Corps opened
a counterattack across the East
Central front and gained up to three
and one-half miles. In the attack
ing force were the Second Infantry
and First Marine Divisions and
other unidentified units. They re
captured Hangye, key road center.
All along the front from Munsan
in the Far West to Pungnam in the
East-Central sector, the Reds were
pulling back toward North Korea.
Red Spearhead Slashed
On the East front. Allied forces
slashing through rugged mountains
cut off the spearhead of the last
Red offensive force of their second
spring drive. The Allies seized a key
pass on the Communist supply route
to Chinese troops fighting 25 miles
south of the Red Korean border for
control of the main trans-Korean
highway in that area. Some Red
troops were pulling back in that
area.
Rede Withdraw
On the West Central front, an Al
lied spokesman said Red forces were
making "hasty but orderly” with
drawals.
In the Far West. South Korean
troops pushed within four miles of
the Red Korean border.
The valiant U. S. Second Division
led Wednesday’s big UN counter
attack across 20 miles of the East
Central front.
Key Junction Recaptured
Tanks led American infantrymen
back into Hangye, key highway
Junction, 13 miles south of the bor
der.
Attacking Leathernecks rescued
six wounded Americans who had
lived through six nightmarish days
in a pretty little valley that Chinese
had turned into a scene of death.
Survivors said the Chinese al
ready had pushed across the Puk-.
kan and Choyang rivers north of
Chunchon. This represented a 10
mlle pullback in two days.
Tank* Going On
Allied tank patrols approached
Chunchon, 45 miles northeast of
Seoul, and Kapyong, 32 miles north
east of Seoul.
In the Far West, American arm
ored patrols were catching up with
rapid gains forced by South Kor
eans north of Seoul. There were
signs of new Red buildups to the
northwest.
CHAMBER MEETING
R. J. Sommers and Steve Homer
of the Chllkoot Motorship Lines
will attend a regular Juneau Cham
ber of Commerce meeting at the
Baranof hotel tomorrow noon. They
will discuss the operation of the
Juneau-Haines ferry among other
business to come up.
FROM SEWARD
K. King of Seward is at the
Baranof Hotel.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 p.m. Saturday.
Baranof from westward scheduled
southbound Sunday.
STOCK OUGiATIONJ
NEW YORK. May 23 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%. American Can
107, American Tel. and Tel. 153‘4,
Anaconda 40%, Douglas Aircraft
95. Oeneral Electric 52%, General
Motors 48%, Libby. McNeill and
Libby. 8%, Northern Pacific 38,
Standard Oil of California 45%.
Twentieth Century Fox 18 U. S.
Steel 41%, Pound *2.80%, Canadian
Exchange 93.75.
Sales today were 1,540.000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 247.03, rails 77.33, util
ities 41.92.