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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,850
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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REDS ACCEPT TALK FOR CEASE-FIRE
WALK IN
NATIONAL
CAPITAL
Street Car and Bus Opera
tors on Strike; No Park
ing Zones Lifted
WASHINGTON. July 2 — Iff! -
A paralyzing strike of street cai
and bus operators today forcec
thousands of workers in the nation’;
capital to walk, hitch hike and tak;
taxis to their jobs.
Thousands of others, who ordi
narily leave their automobiles at
home, drove to their offices. To
accommodate the extra cars pour
ing into the downtown area, park
ing was permitted on some section
of idle street car tracks and re
strictions were lifted in many no
parking zones.
Although the strike got under way
Sunday, the full impact wae'not felt
until today — work day. Street car;
and buses of the strike bound Cap
tal Transit Co. ordinarily carry
about 260,000 passengers — mostly
government workers — on working
DENIES REPORT
FISHING STOPS
ON BRISTOL BAY
SEATTLE, July 2 —-Iff)— A spokes
man for the Alaska Salmon Indus
try, Inc., denied a Saturday report
from Dillingham that a labor dis
pute had tied up fishing boats at
Koggiung and Pederson Fointv on
Bristol Bay.
The report came from the strike
committee of Local 46, Bristol Bay
Resident Cannery Workers’ union,
which announced a switch last week
from the CIO to the Seafarers’ In
ternational (AFL). It is picketing
canneries and boats in the compli
cated Bristol Bay dispute.
The Industry spokesman said 38
fishing boats went out on the tide
for Saturday fishing from the Libby
plant at Koggiung and all boats were
operating at Pederson Point, where
the Bristol, Bay Packing Co., has a
plant.
The spokesman said today the
Libby boats at Koggiung h#d come
in with an excellent weekend catch
of 75,000 fish.
75 PERCENT JUNEAU
STORES ARE (LOSING
AT NOON TOMORROW
About 75 per cent of the Juneau
business houses plan to close at noon
tomorrow for the pre-Fourlh of
July activities, O. R. Cleveland, com
mittee chairman announced today.
••I’m disappointed that we were
unable to get 100 per cent coopera
tion on this, but the matter is uip to
the individual merchants,” he said.
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(OoDvruat. 1851. or Bell Brnalcau. Ine..
I^ASHINGTON, The law partners
of Louis Johnson, former Secretary
of Defense, and the relatives of
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
have just been caught shipping
strategic tin to Communist China
—despite the fact that both John
son and the Chiang family have
been urging all-out American aid
to nationalist China on the Island
of Formosa.
The tin shipments totalled 123
tons, which is a tremendous amount
of this strategic metal. This
quantity definitely went to the
Communists in Tientsin in 1949 un
der an invalid license. An addition
al 90 tons of tin was sent to
Shanghai through a phony license
in the spring of 1949 and probably
went to the Communists also—
though this is not definite.
The shipments were so carefully
camouflaged by false representa
tions and certifications that it took
some time for Secretary of Com
merce Sawyer to discover the tin
shipments. However, he has now
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Ridgway-Rhee Meet
General Matthew B. Ridgway (right) shakes hands with President
Syngman Rhee of South Korea at brief meeting in the garden of
the Rhee residence in Pusan, llfl Wirephoto.
SEVEN STATES
IN GRIP OF
FIRE, FLOOD
Vast Sections of Forest
Laid in Waste; Dike,
Levees Threatened
By Associated Press
The twin fury of fire and flood j
today gripped seven states after lay- -
ing waste vast sections of forest
and farm land.
Flames already had seared at least
85.840 acres of forest.* A half mil
lion acres of bottomland in Kansas
and Missouri have been washed by
rampant waters.
Lightning Starts Blaze
Fresh fires burst anew in some
stricken forest sections, timberland
torched by lightning. And in the
flood areas, swollen streams again
threatened to spill over dikes and
levees.
Forest fires raged in five western
states! One death was blamed on
firefighting operations which in
volved hundreds of men. The state
by state picture included:
New Mexico: The hardest hit of
the five states. In the Gila area
in the southwest, 35,000 acres were
swept by flames and lightning start
ed four new blazes Sunday. It was
in this area that one man—a soldier
—was killed.
In Western States
Washington and Oregon: Fire sit
uation still acute. A 1,900 acre blaze
in the Willamette National forest
near Eugene, Ore.', was fought by 900
men. In Northwestern Washington,
a 450-acre area was under fire eight
miles east of Arlington and the
state extended the Western Wash
ington logging shutdown through
July 4 except in a few coastal dis
tricts. Logging was halted in Oregon
except in two counties.
In British Columbia
The Pacific Northwest’s biggest
firq was in British Columbia where
an uncontrolled blaze raged over
20,000 acres on Vancouver Island.
The forestery said only rain could
stop the fire, but there was no rain
in sight.
CREDIT MAN HERE
Leon R. Armstrong, with the Bur
eau of Federal Credit Unions,, from
San Francisco, is stopping at the
Gastineau hotel.
Coming to U.S.;
Paulina Wllsdorf, who figures she’s
105 years old, looks ahead through
the smoke of her cigarette as she
plans for a future in the United
States. Now living in a DP camp
in Munich, Germany, she will fly
to U.S. in June with her son and
daughter-in-law and their five
year-old adopted daughter. Born
on a small farm near Rowno,
Poland, on July 11, 1845, Mrs.
WUsdorf lived there for the first
99 years of her life. UPl Wirephoto
BAND FOR 4TH;
TWO PRACTICES,
2 NIGHTS AT 8
It is practically certain Juneau
will have a band for the July Fourth
parade if the efforts of enthusiastic
bandsmen amount to anything and
practices are announced for tonight
at 8 and tomorrow night at the same
hour, both to take place in the Grade
school auditorium.
Bandsmen of the Juneau City
bands and high school bands are
asked to turn out for what would
the Fourth be without a band?
If bandsmen cannot report to
night, then make it Tuesday night
for only marches, all are familiar
with, will be given the once through.
Tonight at 8 and Tuesday night
at 8.
I
CONTROLS
MEASURE
IS SIGNED
Stopgap Legislation Be
comes Law; Armistice
Might Remove System
WASHINGTON, July 2 — (/W —
Senator Aiken (R-Vt) says an arm
istice in Korea might cause Congress
to let price and wage controls die
at the end of this month.
‘‘I think an armistice, if one is
negotiated, would pretty well wipe
out whatever little need there may
be now for those controls,” Aiken de
clared.
President Truman signed on Sat
urday stop-gap legislation continu
ing wage, price and rent controls
through July 31. He acted a few
hours before the midnight deadline
when the controls program other
wise would have lapsed.
Congress approved the 31-day ex
tension resolution Friday after the
House had shelved temporarily a
Senate-passed bill providing for an
eight-month continuance of the law,
with revisions.
No Price Rollbacks
The stop-gap measure prohibits
any price rollbacks this month — a
ban which Price Director Michael V.
DiSalle said would cost consumers
some $10,000,000,000 a year if made
permanent.
On Saturday night, just a few
hours before the no-rollback law
took effect, DiSalle's Office of Price
Stabilization (OPS) froze existing
price ceilings. The idea, the agency
explained, was to eliminate all re
quirements for price rollbacks and
to freeze prtSb ceilings which were
in effect June 30.
DESPAR&DO
IN SUICIDE,
ENDS CHASE
FLEMINGTON, N. J., July 2 —lA’l
Meek-looking Warren- Lee Irwin
ended his bloody career of murder,
kidnap and rape by firing a bullet
into his brain in a rain-drenched
clump of poison ivy.
The target of New Jersey’s great
est manhunt was found shortly after
noon yesterday — sprawled on his
back, a trickle of blood still oozing
from a .38 caliber bullet hole in his
left temple.
The body of the 27-year-old des
parado lay about one-quarter of a
mile from where he abandoned 17
year-old Carolyn Barker, his last
captive, and plunged into the woods
to escape capture Saturday.
State police and FBI agents said
Irwin definitely killed himself, thus
carrying out his grim vow that he’d
never be taken alive.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, July 2 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
109%, American Tel. and Tel. 153%,
Anaconda 37%, General Electric
5274, General Motors 47, Goodyear
78% Kennecott 68%, Libby, McNeill
and’Libby 8%, Northern Pacific
36%, Standard Oil of California
45%, Twentieth Century Fox 17%,
U. S. Steel 38%, Pound $2.80%,
Canadian Exchange 93.68 -..
Sales today were 1,340,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 243.94, rails 73.16, utili
ties 42.34.
Ship Movements
Baranof from Seattle scheduled
to arrive at 1 a.m. tomorrow.
Kathleen from Vancouver sched
uled to arrive at 3 pm. tomorrow.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail I
from Vancouver July 4.
Aleutian scheduled to sail from
Seattle July 8.
Princess Louise scheduled to- ar
rive from Skagway at 8 tomorrow
morning and sails south one hour
later at 9 o'clock.
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Old and New Commissioners
Former Senator from Utah Elbert D Thomas (left) becomes the new IT.S. high commissioner of the vast
island-speckled area in the western Pacific of which the U.S. became trustee near the end of World
War II. He takea'over for the Interior Department as the Navy's rule of the area ends and a civil admin
istration replaces it. At right, Admiral Arthur W. Radford, outgoing high commissioner, confers with
people of the island of Lamotrek In the western Carolinas during a tour of the territory. IP) Wirephoto.
Red Prison Just a Memory
Seated between his wife, Lucile, (left) and her sister, Fia Eykens,
right, Robert Vogeler, American businessman recently freed from a
Hungarian prison, relaxes at a resort high Jn the Colorado mountains.
He fished, rode horseback and went boatriding as he started his
mountain vacation after being welcomed to the state by. Gov. Dan
Thornton. (*) Wirephoto.
SEVEN TOP
COMMIES
TO PRISON
Ordered to Begin Serving
Sentences; Bench War
rants for Four
NEW YORK, July 2 —UP!—Fed
eral Judge Sylvester J. Ryan today
ordered seven top Communists to
begin serving prison terms and is
sued bench warrants for four who
failed to surrender.
Ten of the 11 had been sentenced
to five years imprisonment for
teaching the violent overthrow of
the United States government. One
had received a three-year term.
Those ordered arrested were Henry
Winston, 35, organizational secretary
of the party; Ous Hall, 39, Ohio
state chairman; Robert Thompson,
New York chairman, and Gilbert
Green, 43, Illinois chairman.
All had been at liberty^under bail
of $20,000 each, furnished by the
Civil Rights Congress, which the
U. 8. attorney general’s office has
branded as subversive.
Thompson had received the lesser
sentence of three years because of
his war record.
May Forfeit Bail
Judge Ryan ruled that bail of the
four will be forfeited if they do not
appear in court by 9:30 a m. tomor
row.
The court issued the commitment
order after denying all motions by
the defense to reduce, modify or
postpone the sentences, which had
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CIO UNION
CHALLENGES
SEAFARERS
Says CIO is Ready fo Nego
tiate with Bristol Bay
Cannery Workers
SEATTLE, July 2 -MV- The Con
gress of Industrial Organizations
challenged the right of the Seafar
ers’ International union (AFL) tc
take over 1,400 striking salmon can
nery workers in Bristol Bay Satur
day.
{toy W. Atkinson, regional CIO
director, informed the Alaska Sal
mon Industry, Inc., that the CIO
was ready to open contract nego
tiations for the connecy workers.
Atkinson said the CIO does not
recognize any picket lines in what
he described as the “jurisdiction
dispute” now going on in Bristol
Bay.”
Charges ‘Irresponsible’
Meanwhile, George Johansen,
secretary-treasurer of the Alaska
Fishermen's union (Ind ), issued a
statement in which he charged lead
ers of the Alaska strike with being
“irresponsible.”
“They are Jeopardizing the pro
duction of food during a national
emergency; they threaten to deprive
resident fishermen and cannery
workers of a season's earnings, and
they are jeopardizing the welfare of
| other workers and the industry,”
Johansen, who returned from the
I strike area asserted.
The Bering Sea Fishermen's un
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PEACE TALK
MESSAGES
EXCHANGED
Commie Proposal Taken
Up by Ridgway, Also
Chiefs of Staff
WASHINGTON, July 2 — UPl —
The U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway exchang
ed messages today on the Commu
nist proposal for Korean armistice
talks at Kaesong after July 10. An
early reply to the Communists pre
sumably was taking shape.
At the same time. Secretary of
Defense Marshall advised Congress
there would be no rush to bring U.
5. troops home from the Far Pacific
in the event a Korean armistice is
negotiated.
Marshall made the statement In
urging the House Foreign Affairs
committee to act quickly on the ad
ministration's request for (8,500,
000,000 for foreign military and eco
nomic aid.
Messages Are Secret
Responsible officials, who said a
scries of messages had passed be
tween Ridgway and the Joint chiefs,
gave no hint of what was said in
them.
The fact of the consultations
pointed, however, to a possible re
ply within hours to the Communists.
A likely time might be the early
evening hours of tonight, Washing
ton time. Because of the time dif
ference! nightfall in Washington is
Tuesday morning in Tokyo.
No objections have been voiced to
Kaesong — one of the few places
the Communists now hold south of
the 38th Parallel — as a meeting
place.
Top officials have made plain they
would like to have an earlier date.
There was no sign however whether
Ridgway has been advised to pro
pose this.
The UN commander has'full au
thority for dealing with the Com
munist proposal but has been kept
in close touch all along with the
Capital.
In addition to the military con
sultations. there was continued dip
lomatic activity.
Secretary of State Acheson went
over the Korean developments with
his top advisors at a staff meeting
during the morning. Later ,e went
to the White House for a review of
foreign Issues with President Tru
man. The President has been kept
in close touch with all developments
and regularly meets with Acheson
on Mondays.
C. W. KERNS HERE
C. W. Kerns with Lytle and Oreen
Construction company arrived here
yerterday from Seattle on PAA. He
has been superintendent on the
Haines cut-off paving Job recently
completed and expects to leave for
the interior tomorrow to go on an
other construction project for the
same company.
REDS CLAIM
VICTORY IN
KOREAN WAR
Use Strong Language in
Broadcast; Place, Time
Set for Talk
TOKYO, July 2 —1 ift Red Korea
tonight urged its soldiers to fight
on while the world waited for news
of an expected armistice.
Pyongyang radio repeated Chinese
and North Korean acceptance of a
UN proposal for cease-firing talks.
But the Reds made this clear:
They are claiming victory In the
year-old conflict.
The North Korean Communist
station started each broadcast with
this statement:
“The Anglo-American aggressors
have at last realized failure of their
sinister attempt and that is why
they are seeking peace.”
Between news Items the Com
munist announcers Inserted these
statements:
Savage Broadcasts
"Soldiers on the front, fight brave
ly and continue annihilation of ag
gressors,” and "anti-aircraft batter
ies, aim sharp and increase the bag
of enemy intruders."
Japanese radio monitors, who
heard the Red broadcasts, said the
Communist tone was even stronger
than usual.
Peiping radio repeated the text
of the Communist acceptance state
ment last night.
Cease-Fire Discussion
MWWW»o*d War
the twoatatlons Sunday night thkt
they are willing to meet UN repre
sentatives and discuss a cease-fire.
They want tlie meeting held in the
Kaesong, area between July 10 and
15:
Oen. Matthew B. Rldgway, su
preme Allied commander, bad pro
posed Saturday that a meeting be
held aboard the Danish hospital
ship Jutlandia in Wonsan harbor.
He said he would propose a date. If
the Reds agreed to the meeting.
Ridgway has not indicated his re
action to the Red acceptance mes
sage.
Agree to Reds
It is presumed, however, that the
UN will agree to the Reds' proposed
place and time.
Diplomatic circles in Washington
said Ridgway already has his full
instructions and authority to deal
with the Communists.
The world talked of peace, but
it, was “business as usual” on the
fighting lines.
There were bitter ground skir
mishes at scattered points.
Allied warplanes threw another
heavy blow at the Hwengju airfield
north of Sarlwon In the northwest.
Other planes hit supply centers, rail
and road lines, bridges, troop con
centrations and gun positions.
B-29 Superforts hit military bar
racks at Hungnam on the east coast.
UN naval forces continued to
blockade and pound the North Kor
ean east coast.
Heaviest ground fighting of the
day apparently was on the Western
front. An Allied patrol stormed a
hill north of Yongchon. The foot
troops killed 33 Reds and captured
four. The Allies withdrew and called
down an air and artillery barrage.
Another 30 to 40 Reds were killed or
wounded.
At the Hotel juneau
Prank Roche, Department of
Labor investigator on wages and
hours from Pasadena, Calif., is stop
ping at the Hotel Juneau.
WEATHER FORECAST
Temperature ler 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o’clock tbla morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
60: minimum, 51.
At Airport — Maximum,
68: minimum, 48.
FORECAST
Considerable cloudiness with
occasional light rain tonight.
Partly flloudy Tuesday. Low
est temperature tonight near
49 degrees and highest Tues
day about 65.
PRECIPITATION
Past 26 hours ending 1:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — Trace.
At Airport — Trace.