."SSL] THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXIX.. NO. 11,955
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1951
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East Coast
Walkout Still
Waits Solution
NEW YORK, Nov. 3—UP!—A strike
threat by east and gulf coast AFL
ships officers was gone today, but
the paralyzing wildcat) walkout by
longshoremen appeared no nearer
solution.
The 20-day stevedore work stop
page has immobilized more than
100 ships in New York and Boston
harbors.
A grave, new' maritime tieup that
would have hit every port between
• Maine and Texas was averted last
night after the officers put off their
midnight strike deadline until the
separate stevedore dispute is set
tled. •
Charles F. May, president of the
AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots
Union, said negotiations would con
tinue in the officers’ contract dis
pute with shipping operators. May
said he did not want to give any
support to the insurgent AFL dock
workers.
The 12,000 officers are seeking in
creased pension and welfare bene-!
fits. Wages are not in dispute.
Federal mediators are conducting
peace talks.
In the billion-dollar dock tieup.
some 20,000 members of the AFL
International Longshoremen’s Asso
ciation (ILA) are rebelling against
their union president Joseph P.
Ryan,.
National Guard
Air Wing to Be
Sent lo Europe
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—'TP)—The
Air Force announces the 123rd
Fighter-Bomber Wing is being sent
to Europe sOon.
It will be stationed in England
but come under the command of
Lieut. Gen. Lauris Norstnd, Allied
Air Commander in Central Europe.
The 123rd, about 1.600 men strong.
Is made up of Air National Guard
units from Kentucky. North Caro
lina and West Virginia that were
ordered to active duty in October,
1950. Col. Philip P. Ardery of
Frankfort, Ky., commands the wing.
The Air Force said that after the
arrival of the new wing, the 12th
Fighter-Escort Wing, now on rota
tion training in England, will return
to the U.S. This wing has been
assigned to the Strategic Air Com
mand since it went overseas earlier
this year.
The 123rd will use the F-84
Thunder jets that will .be left in
England by the returning 12th Wing.
The 123rd is the second wing to
be assigned to Europe within the
past two weeks. The 126th Light
Bomber was ordered to France and
began leaving from Langley Air
Force Base, Virginia, early this
week.
FROM ANCHORAGE
W. H. Gresham ol Anchorage is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
(Cocyriaht, t951, by BcH Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
l^ASHINGTON — It has been
kept top-secret in order not to em
barrass the British,* Nsnt the Air
Force has just picked up a Rus
sian-built MIG jet-plane engine
which ought to be put on exhibi
tion in London’s Trafalgar Square as
an illustration of how not to help
an ally.
For the Russian engine is an ex
act duplication of the British jet
engines which Britain sold Soviet
Russia in 1947-48.
At that'time, fifty British Nene
engines were sent to Moscow. And
the Russian Mig-15 engine we have
now captured is an exact duplicate.
The Russian workmanship is a lit
tle rougher, but otherwise the two
are identical.
These are the same engines now
powering MIGs which have been
outflying every American plane in
Korea except the F-86. They have
caused considerable loss of Ameri
can life. So many Russian MIGs
have now been sent to Korea that
it is no longer possible for us to
get anywhere near the Yalu River
with bombing planes except at
night.
Note 1—The British can come
back at us with a reminder that
in 1933-34, when Hitler had just
started on the rampage, Cordell
Hull permitted American fighter
plane engines to be sold to Germany
despite our treaty banning muni
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Tax Closes Bookies
Jo.- Eiimv. aUial, (right) owner of a U« Vegas, NrImokmakin; firm ai d his aiu’j Frank Bondi look
sad as they get ready to close operations (10-31) the last day before the 1C per cent excise tax h.t,
betting businesses. Owners contend the tax will forte them in the red. And, loo* who won these two
races, Curtaintime and Excise Tax. Iff) Wirephoto. _
Land Claims
Group Leaves
From Seattle
SEATTLE, Nov. 3—UP,- Five Con- :
gressmen on the House subcommit
tee on Indian A.fiairs will fly north
from v..jl,.,^ tiu . ,
Airlines for a week of hearings on
Indian and Eskimo land claims.
The acting chairman is Rep.
j Wayne Aspinall of Colorado. With
I him are Reps. Frank Bow of Ohio.
Norris Poulson of California, Wes
ley D’Ewart of Montana and Ches
ter McMullen of Florida, with
committee counsel Preston Peden.
With Delegate Robert Bartlett of
Alaska, they will hold sessions at
Kotzebue, Kodiak, Sitka, Juneau,
] Fairbanks, Nome and Ketchikan.
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Report 9 Men
Missing in Bleak
Seas Near Nome
NOME, Alaska, Nov. 3—L0—Nine
men were reported missing in the
; bleak and frigid Bering Sea today.
Six men were believed to be
aboard the motorship Kotzebue,
which has been overdue since Sat
urday on its return trip from St.
Lawrence Island with two barges
in tow.
Three natives were reported lost
between Shaktoolik and Unalakleet
in a small boat. Search is center
ing on sfnall islands in the area.
The Kotzebue is owned by the
colorful Archie Ferguson of Kotze
bue and is under charter to the
B and R Lighterage Co., of Kotze
bue.
Besides its crew of about four
men, two others are believed to
have been picked up from the U.S.
Army tug which was washed ashore
recently on St. Lawrence Island.
The island lies in the Bering off
the Alaska western coast.
No communication has been re
ceived from the Kotzebue, although
it is radio-equipped.
A Coast Guard plane has searched
for three days in "most unfavor
able” weather.
Navy Reports
Loss ol 5 Ships
In Korean War
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 — UP) —
Five U.S. ships have been sunk and
29 damaged by enemy mines, gun
fire or bombs during the Korean
campaign, the Navy said yesterday.
The casualties reported from these
actions included 102 killed, 31 mis
sing in action and 282 wounded.
Four of the ships sunk were mine
sweepers, the fifth an Army tug. All
sank after hitting enemy mines.
Communist gunfire accounted for
damage to 24 ships, including the
cruisers Helena and St. Paul. The
cruiser Rochester suffered very
slight damage from a near miss by
an aerial bomb during the Inchon
landing, the report said.
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Trouble Behind
Bamboo Curtain
Revealed Now
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3——
China's Premier Chou En-Lai has
warned that more blood purges are
coming in his troubled homeland,
which he bluntly calls “economically
backward.”
At the same time, he has pledged
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an unrelenting campaign to "resist
American aggression and aid Ko
rea."
Peiping radio only yesterday
broadcast the long and detailed
speech by Chou, which it said was
made Oct. 23 at the national com
mittee meeting of the political con
sultative conference in Peiping.
Apparently the Red leaders of
China pondered a while before
releasing to the world a speech
that told of a sea of trouble be
hind the bamboo curtain.
The speech as monitored here by
the Associated Press referred re
peatedly to the troubles the Peiping
regime was having with its "land
reform” program.
Chou remarked that Chinese who
resist Communist dictatorship "were
reluctant to accept their extinction
lying down.”
Land reform was a popular fea
ture of the Communist program in
the early days. It called for wide
distribution of land seized from
wealthy landlords and the more
opulant among the peasants.
Reports seeping out of China,
however, have said that the dis
possed have been joined in their
resistance by many beneficiaries
of the program, who found that
high taxes made their let as bad
as before.
The Chinese Nationalists recently
asserted the Reds killed 15,672,000
Chinese, either by starvation or fir
ing sqads, since they assumed power
twro years ago. This figure doubt
less is too high, but the Communists
themselves have admitted shooting
thousands of “counter revolution
aries” and “bandits.”
Mendenhall Glacier
Featured in PAA
1952 Calendar
Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau
is featured in a large colored pic
ture above the July sheet in the
now 1952 Pan American World
Airways calendar.
The caption reads: “Alaska—
Mdndenhall Glacier • reflected in
Auke Lake, thirteen miles from Ju
neau. With a delightful summer
climate, lovely scenery and wonder
ful hunting and fishing, Alaska is
an increasing favorite with sports
men and vacationers alike. Less than
a day away from most anywhere
in continental U. S., Alaska is serv
ed by daily Clippers from Seattle.”
Other areas featured on different
months are the Grand Canyon,
Hawaii, the Caribbean, Bermuda,
Prance, Scandinavia, Great Britain,
Italy, Guatemala, Brazil, Chile, and
New York with the Statue of Lib
erty.
AT,THE BABANOF
Robert. Benart of the U.S. Dis
trict Engineer Office in Anchorage
i is at the Baranof Hotel.
Snow Greets
Royal Couple
On Holiday
STE. AGATHES DES MONTS,
Que., Nov. 3—iVt—Princess Elizabeth
and her husband awoke today to a
ni-wv T 'i ff wauderland to
begin a two-day holiday before con
cluding their North American tour.
But unless the snow falls build up
to more substantial proportions,
there was little chance of skiing.
So the royal couple likely will hike
through the beautiful scenic trails,
snap pictures and come home to a
blazing log fire in a comfortable
hearth.
Winter’s first serious snowfall ar
rived with the royal tourists at
Montreal’s Dorval Airport, 50 miles
away, yesterday afternoon and fol
lowed them to their holiday re
reat.
Throughout the route to this
famous skiing resort thousands of
persons clad in parkas and snow
boots stood in the wintry bluster
to cheer.
At St. Jerome, 5.000 gathered in
the central square and halted the
royal procession to extend greetings.
All along the way, church bells
peiled a welcome from old spires
and by public address systems from
modern buildings.
Buenos Aires Is
Rocked by Blast
fn Down Town Area
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Nov.
3—Iff!—A strong bomb blast rocked
downtown Buenos Aires today, dam
aging a printing plant which pub
lished Mrs. Eva Peron’s book, "The
Reason For My Life.”
It was not immediately known
v.'hether the explosion caused any
casualties.
Mrs. Peron Is the wife of the
Argentine president, Juan D. Peron.
who is campaigning for a new six
year term in the Nov. IT elections.
CEO'S PAC Seeks
Big Campaign Fund
NEW YORK, Nov. 3—W—'The
CIO’s Political Action Committee
(PAC) says it will seek a $1,375,000
campaign fund for the 1952 Con
gressional elections.
The PAC adds that it will cam
paign in about 100 Congressional
districts and in 11 Senatorial elec
tions. The organization did not
identify the contests.
| Ship Movements
Baranof scheduled to arrive north
bound Tuesday.
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive northbound sometime this eve
ning.
Denali scheduled to arrive south
bound Sunday at 7 a.m.
Sailors Splice in port.
Nation Waifs
Ike's Confab
With Truman
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 — </P> —
Although Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower’s return to Washington may
bring no public political announce
ment. Republicans plugging for him
to become their party’s 1952 presi
dential candidate apparently hoped
today to gain some private assur
ances of his possible availability.
Eisenhower himself has put it
strictly up to President Truman
w;hct!icr any political discussions
may pass between the two men in
two days of conferences next week.
The General is due at Fort Knox,
Ky., about noon (CST) today. He’ll
spend the weekend there with his
family and come on to Washington
Sunday night.
Before taking off from Paris yes
terday. the General told reporters
he was making the trip, under presi
dential orders, to talk "strictly mil
itary" affairs with Mr. Truman and
other national leaders.
When reporters asked him if any
political subjects would come up in
talks with the President, the Gen
eral replied with a grin:
"Not from my point it won’t."
This apparently indicated that
Eisenhower has no intention dur
ing his hurry-up visit of making
any public political statement or
of permitting his well-wishers to
pul him on the record about his
intentions.
Eisenhower backers were quick
to point out, however, that the
General didn’t exclude discussion of
politics with friends who might see
him socially in periods, between his,
round of White House and Pentagon
conferences.
MacArthur Wili
Stump for Taft
If Chance Comes
NEWBURG, N. Y., Nov. Nov. 3—
If—If Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio)
gets the Republican Presidential
nomination, says ex-Congressman
Hamilton Fish, Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur "will stump for him at every
whistle stop.”
And, Fish further predicts, Taft
"will carry a majority of both north
and and southern states" in the
1952 election.
The former Republican Congress
man, in an address here last night,
said MacArthur was not interested
"for himself" but-"wants to oust the
so-called Democratic Socialists from
office.”
MacArthur could not be reached
for comment.
Wriggles Out of
Marriage to Wed
Belly Dancer
EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 3— Wl —
Sheppard (Abdullah) King III, with
a Mexican quickie divorce in his
pocket, made big plans, today to
v.ed his beloved belly dancer.
King got rid of his wife, curva
ceous Gloria, at a 30-minute ses
sion yesterday in a civil court at
Juarez, Mexico, just across the Rio
Grande.
Next it’s off to the land of the
Nile and the arms of Egyptian
torso tosser Samai Gamal for the
sandy-haired Houston oil heir. .
Until he leaves in a couple of
weeks, he’ll stay in El Paso to
brush up on my tequila drinking
and the Mambo (a dance)," King
told a reporter.
Judge Jesus Barbara Cornejo call
ed a special session of his Juarez
court on all Saints Day to grant the
divorce. The grounds were incom
patibility.
Union Ultimatum
Prevents Playing
01 National Anthem
MINEOLA, N. Y., Nov. 3 — 0P1 —
No Saturday musician—no “Star
Spangled Banner.”
That’s what happened at corner
stone ceremonies yesterday for the
new $2,500,000 Nassau County Ad
ministration Building.
Officials were about to play a re
cording of the anthem when union
construction workers threatened to
walk off the Job unless a standby
musician was hired at a $16 fee.
With no musician Immediately
available, ceremonies went on with
I out playing the anthem.
Truman with Party Chief
President Truman confers with Frark A. McKinney (right), Indi
anapolis banker (11-1) and newly appointed chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee. UP) YVlreplioto.
More Questioning
Of Caudle in Tax
Scandal Promised
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3— (/PI —
House investigators of scandals in
the Federal tax gathering service
aren’t through questioning Theron
Lamar Caudle, assistant Attorney
General in charge of tax prosecu
tions.
Also, they want a look at his in
come tax returns.
Just what they expect to learn, or
may have learned, has not seeped
out of the series of closed-door ses
sions the investigating ways and
means subcommittee has been hav
ing with Caudle.
After a three-hour meeting late
yesterday. Chairman King (D
Calif; told reporters:
‘Tile Canute matter is net cioe
ed. He will be brought back for
further questioning."
Caudle told reporters: “I answer
ed all the committee’s questions,
and I have no comment.”
The committee’s request for a look
at Caudle’s income tax returns
came earlier in the day.
Caudle's name was brought before
the committee this week when he
confirmed reports that he made a
trip to Italy last summer as guest
of two wine merchants checking on
a bank account they had there.
Caudle said he went along as a
friend and advisor of the two mer
chants.
Attorney General McGrath has
said he knew about the trip, that
he thought Caudle did nothing “im
proper,” but he probably would have
advised against it had he known
more about it.
Rep. Curtis (R-Mo) called yester
day for the ouster of both Caudle
and lylcGrath. Curtis said in a
statement that McGrath should be
fired for condoning the trip.
Western Union
Bans Messages
Relating to Bets
NEW YORK, Nov 3. —OB— The
Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has ordered a nationwide ban
on use of its wires for sending
money orders relating to bets.
The company action followed con
viction Thursday of the firm and its
manager at Bridgeton, N. J., on
misdemeanor charges. The state
contended the Western Union of
fice there handled $300,000 a year
in horse race bets.
A seven-man, five-woman jury re
turned a verdict of guilty against
the company and the manager,
Charles H. Frake, 40, for "accept
ing money orders addressed to al
leged gamblers.”
The ban on “wager messages,”
the company said, was issued to
protect its employees from possible
criminal prosecution. It will not af
fect sending of other money orders.
Defense Spending
Check Group Now
In Philippines
MANILA, Nov. 3 — OB — Seven
members of a Congressional com
mittee on expenditures arrived today
on a checkup on American Defense
spending.
The group, headed by Rep. Herb
ert C. Bonner (D-NC), previously
visited Alaska, the Aleutians, Japan,
Korea and Okinawa.
They will leave Sunday for Singa
pore to continue their trip on
through Europe.
Union Blasts
Coasl Guard
Dock Program
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3—UD—
Leaders of Harry Bridges’ left-wing
longshore union, in a resolution
ready for membership votes, blast
the Coast Guard's waterfront loyalty
screening program as "an anti-union
blacklisting device."
Sixty-seven ILWU officers, meet
ing here in a coastwide caucui, voted
yesterday to submit a resolution on
the program to a union member
ship referendum.
The resolution, while condemning
the present urogram, said In nart:
"We will cooperate in every Way
with a bona fide and democratic
port security program in the in
terest of our own security and that
of the nation."
Atomic Tests Wait
As Troops Take
Weekend ol Rest
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Nov. 3—l/TV—
With a weekend of rest foremost in
their minds, Atomic Energy Com
mission officials said today the nu
clear experiments on the Nevada
desert will not be resumed until
Monday at the earliest.
Soldiers who participated in
Thursday morning’s Exercise Desert
Kock were given two day passes and
instructions not to talk about their
experience as the first troops to
take part in an atomic maneuver.
Las Vegas settled back into its
gay routine and awaited the Sunday
gambling trade. Temporarily, at
least, the aura of suspense was gone.
The AEC has indicated that at
the conclusion of the present series
of* tests there will be a new series
devoted to military effectiveness. It
probably would demonstrate the
value of atomic weapons against
troops and military installations,
and presumably would Include the
long awaited underground detona
tion.
Will Ask for Road
Paving Bids Next Week
Bids for the paving of some five
miles of roads in the Juneau area
will he advertised early next week,
according to Vance Blackwell, en
gineer for the Bureau of Public
Roads.
The paving being planned is for
the road from Duck Creek to Auke
Bay, and from.the Douglas bridge
to Douglas. An estimate of the
amount of money the work would
take was not released. The paving
will be blacktop.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• (U S. WEATHER BUREAU •
• At Airport: Maximum, 42; •
• Minimum, 38. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Cloudy with intermittent •
• rain tonight and Sunday. •
• Low temperature tonight •
• near 38. Highest Sunday •
• near 42. •
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• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hour* ending 1:30 » m. today •
• At Airport — 0.36 inches; •
• about July 1—14.98 inches. •
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Offer Reds
New Proposal
On Kaesong
Suggest Red-Held City
Be Made Neutral Zone;
No Reply to UN Offer
By the Associated Press
United Nations armistice negoti
ators today suggested a compromise
to the Communists on the dispute
over Kaesong now blocking agree
ment on a Korean war cease-fire
buffer zone.
The proposal was made at the
Panmunjom conferences only a few
'lours after U.N. Infantrymen turned
back seven of eight Communist at
tacks on the central and western
sectors of the front. In the eighth
assault the Reds gained some
ground but Jater yielded it without
a fight.
I
But for thousands of American
fighting men in foxholes up front
the big news of the day was the
virtual promise of the Supreme
Allied Commander they would be
home by Christmas.
The Communists made no direct
reply to the suggestion that Red
hiltl Kaesong be placed In a demil
itarized (neutral) zone. Instead they
repeated their claims to the ■ city,
the only major South Korean town
held by the enemy.
But, a U.N. spokesman empha
sized, the Communists "had not
categorically turned down the pro
posal.”
Both sides have demanded Kae
song — a natural gateway for in
vasion of Seoul 38 miles to the
southeast — since armistice,talks
opened July 10. At that time the
city was in No-Man’s-Land.
Presumably the Communists will
reply to the suggestion when the
subcommittees meet at 11 ajjt.,
Sunday (6 p,m., Saturday.
Acceptance of a compromise by
the Communists would pave the
way for final agreement on the
cease-fire line. Negotiators al
ready are In tentative sgreeWmht
en a buffer zone generally follow
ing the battleline In the center
and the east. •
Once a buffer zone is established,
the U.N. and Communists must set
tle three other tough Issues before
the shooting will stop In the* 17
month-old war. These are: a ' Su
pervision of the truce, exchange of
prisoners and recommendation# to
the governments.
Communist Infantrymen assaulted
a United Nations advance position
west of Yonchon on the western
front four times. Three of the at
tacks by company size units were
turned back but a fourth by a bat
talion forced the U.N. units to pull
back. But by dawn the U.N. units
reoccupied the positions as the
Reds drew northward without a
fight.
The Fifth Air Force reported one
U.S. F-85 Thunderjet was lost Sat
urday in a jet scrap in which three
Rusisan-made MIGs were damaged.
An F-61 Mustang was shot down
by Communist ground fire and an
other Jet was lost because of me
chanical trouble but the pilot was
rescued.
Two other Jet encounters took
place but neither side inflicted
damage, the Air Force said.
12 Die as Storm
With Wind, Snow
Hits East Coast
NEW YORK. Nov. 3 — <JT) — A
death-dealing storm with winds up
to a mile-a-minute sent snow and
rain swirling over the northeast to
day.
At least 12 persons were dead.
Skidding automobiles caused most
of the fatalities and injuries.
Upper New York State had a
taste of winter with eight inches of
snow falling in Buffalo.
A driving rain pelted the New
England coastal area and New York
City. High winds along the coast
drove seagulls as far as 15 miles in
land in Massachusetts.
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• NOVEMBER 4 •
• High tide 5:20 a.m., 14.5 ft. •
• Low tide 10:58 a.m., 5.0 ft. •
• High tide 4:55 p.m.. 16.9 ft. •
• Low tide 11:52 p.m., -0.1 ft. •
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• NOVEMBER 5 •
• High tide 6:27 am., 13.8 ft. •
• Low tide 12:07 p.m., 5.9 ft. •
• High tide 6:02 pjn., 15.5 ft. •
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