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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,897
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1951
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4 Safe After
Bailing Out of
Spinning C-47
Pilots, 3 Passengers
Ride Out Dizzy
Loops, Land Safely
ANCHORAGE, Aug, 27—(J*—Four
airmen bailed out of a C-47 airplane ,
when it went into a spin early yes
terday and were found safe near
Friday Creek, close to the base of
Knik Glacier.
The men were in mountainous
country too rugged for rescue planes
to land, officials at Elmendorf Air
Force base reported. Food and sleep
ing bags were dropped for them.
A land rescue team was to be
landed on a sand bar in Friday !
Creek some four miles away. A note
was dropped telling the fliers to
make their way to the sand bar if
the four could walk well enough.
If not, they were told to stay where
they are and a trail crew will go
to them. . Present plans call for a
helicopter to pick up the men at
the sand bar.
The quartet jumped from the
C-47 when it was about 12,000 feet
In the air at the start of its spin,
the pilot said after he and his co
pilot landed the plane safely at
Elmendorf 28 minutes later.
The two pilots, Capt. Ermine C.
Hales and Bert E. Dowdy, and three
passengers chose to remain with the
plane and ride it out. At 6,000 feet.
Hales brought the aircraft out of its
spin. Their hometowns were not re
The four who jumped were Iden- ,
tifled as crew chief Sgt. Larry R.
Baine, S-Sgt. Courtney T. Kruger, ,
both crew members, and 1st Lt.
Carl ft, _Burger and Cpl. Edws*rd
G. Szymborski, tmth passengers.
All four are stationed at Elmen
dorf.
Air rescuers said that, except for
one who appeared to hate \ppralned
ankle, the men seemed :n good
condition. The four are not to
gether. One pair landed a consid
erable distance from the other two.
12 Persons Die in
Mexico Movie Panic
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 27—<*>—Five
persons were killed last night when
a cry of "fire” caused panic in a
movie theatre.
A man in the balcony lighted a
cigarette. The bruning match light
ed the program of a woman sitting
beside him. She creamed “fire” and
600 persons in the balcony rushed
for the doors. When the crush clear
ed, two children, two women and a
man were found crushed to death.
Some 50 persons suffered minor in
juries. The burning program went
out in the rush for the doors.
Seven persons more were killed ;
when bottled gas leaked into the
kitchen of a private house and ex
ploded earlier in the day. t
TheWashingion
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Ed. Note—Drew Pearson has
been in Europe in connection
with sending friendship balloons
across the Iron Curtain, but re
ports on the prospects of peace
or war).
FRANKFORT. — Stopping for
breakfast at the Shannon Airport .
cn route to Germany, I was inter
viewed by an Irish newspaperman
who wanted to know my reason for
coming to Europe.
Not wanting to tell him about our
balloon project, I replied by citing
my No. 2 reason for making this
trip.
“Our secretary of defense,” I
said, “has just told Congress that
Europe is much closer to war than
at any other time. I am coming
to Europe to check up on the
facts.”
With this my interviewer let out
a bellow of anguish.
“What!” he said, in mingled ter
ror and incredulity. "Are we going
to have war?”
This, I found as I traveled on
the continent, was the reaction cf
most, people. Nobody believed there
was any danger of war—perhaps '
because everyone so devoutly hoped
there would be no war.
This can be a most dangerous
situation. But it is a fact.
Shrugging Off War
The average man in the street 1
simply dismisses the thought of
war. He’s seen enough of it and
doesn’t even want to discuss it. 1
Or if he does discuss it, he points
to the emblems of peace flaunted ;
(Continued on Page 4)
Hurricane Damage
JJ-MlRfrEJJFT'' '': ' t • T' vm’
The ancient fishing village of Port Roval, Jamaica, B. W. I., lies nearly flat after a hurricane blasted it
recently. Hardly a house was left intact and four persons were killed. Red Cross relief has been organ
ized for the stricken homeless of the town. IP) Wirephoto.
Hearsf-Davies Agreement, Giving
Control ot Estate to Former Actress,
Has No Effect/ Administrators Claim
_—-* '
Le Roy West
Lost Derby by
06 of a Second
.. ^ ;
j.c Rov W'‘st 1 .if’ii's Soen Box
Derby champ, lost the Akron race
jy .06 of a second.
This was revealed today by J. W.
jeivers, derby chairman here who
;ook Le Roy east for the national
inals which weye run in Akron Aup.
12.
Le Roy’s time for the third
heat, which he lost, was 28.03 se
conds. Time of the winner was
not reported. Average speed for
Juneau champ during the race
was 28.10. He finished in tenth
place.
Leivers said it took the electric
>ye camera to determine who won
he third heat.
The derby was won by Darwin
Dooper df Williamsport, Penn.,
vhose time for the final heat was
57.97 seconds.
Leivers and Le Roy returned home
yesterday via Pan American plane,
rhey met in Seattle Saturday after
reivers had stayed on over a week
n Washington, D. C., to confer
vith heads of the office of U. S.
Courts. He is clerk of the court in
h first judicial division.
Le Roy traveled to Denver with
lis grandparents two weeks ago.
lis grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
J, Converse, had been their grand
ion’s most enthusiastic rooters at
he Akron event. From Denver he
lew to Seattle and visited tin aunt
n Renton, Wash., until Leiver’s ar
rival.
His showing in the race was the
jest ever made by an Alaskan ent
■ant, He was driving a white speed
iter sponsored by The Daily Alaska
Umpire.
Le Roy's time for the first and
second heats, which he won, was
18.36 seconds for each heat.
Haines Dock Being
Repaired After
isle to Businessmen
The Haines dock will be repaired
mmediately and be open for use,
t was learned today from the
3eter Wood agency, v^hich closed
i deal selling the dock to a group
>f Juneau and Haines men headed
>y Carl Heinmiller, Port Chilkoot
;usines« man.
The business men bought out
Hd Koenig’s stock in the Port
Chilkoot Terminal Co. after the
lock had been closed for three
lays. Koenig entered the armed
ervices at Fort Richardson today.
This move insures freight mov
ng over the dock and up the
iaines cutoff to the Interior,
freighters will continue to unload
here and will not be dependent
lpon the use of an army dock
vhich is being constructed at Lu
ak Cove.
Canadian Pacific Railway steam
;hips have not been calling at
laines because of the unsafe con
lition of the dock. Repairing the ]
LOS ANGELES, AUg. —UW—A
paper supposedly giving former act
ress Marion Davies voting control
of publisher William Randolph
Hearst’s enterprises "has no more
effect than if it never existed.”
special administrators of his estate
contend.
Reports have published here
that. Miss Davies and Hearat signed
an agreement Oh NflO. S, lH&u, under
ivhich they were to be the only two
trustees in a voting trust for the
stock of the Hearst Corp., holding
company for the publisher’s vast en
terprises.
Under the agreement, Hearst
and Miss Davies supposedly pool
ed their stock for voting purposes
and in the event of the death of
either, the other should vote the
entire stock for his or her life
time.
Hearst reputedly owned the en
tire 100,000 shares of Hearst Corp
common stock and 170,000 share
of preferred, with Miss Davies own
ing 30,000 shares of preferred stock
Henry S. Mackay, Jr„ and Ran
dolph Apperson Hearst, special ad
ministrators of the publisher's es
tate, which is scheduled for pro
bate hearing today, issued a state
ment late yesterday saying thej
have known about what they terir
"the so-called agreement" of Nov. 5
1950.
They said that although published
reports have the paper making Mis
Davies sole voting trustee in con
trol of all the Hearst property
’this so-called agreement was nevei
executed and for this and manj
Dther reasons has no more effect
than if it never existed.”
(lock Quotations
NEW YORK, Aug. 27—Of!—Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau
mine stock today is 2%, American
Can 114 -i, American Tel. and Tel
160' i, Anaconda 46 %, Douglas Air
craft 53%, General Electric 60, Gen
eral Motors 49%, Goodyear 94%
Kennecott 79%, Libby, McNeill anc
Libby 9, Northern Pacific 47%
Standard Oil of California 49%
rwentieth Century Fox 19%, U. S
Steel 41%, Pound $2.79 15/16, Can
adian Exchange 94.68 'i.
Sales today were 1,080,000 shares
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 265.59, rails 78.47, util
ities 44.59.
WEATHER REPORT
(U. S. WEATHER BUREAU
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
At Airport—'Maximuni, 63;
minimum, 41.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Partly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday. Lowest tonight near
47 and highest Tuesday about
64.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a m. today
At Airport — .02 inches,
since July 1—5.52 Inches.
• ••••••••
dock will not have any effect or
their schedules, William McFar
land, agent said today.
Seward Hospital
Not Private, Health
Commissioner Says
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 27 — (£> — Dr.
, C. E. Albrecht, Alaska commissioner
| of health, says that Territorial
j Audtiro Neil Moore’s refusal to
allow an $82,070 voucher for the
Seward nurses' home is based on
j ‘-confused information.”
Expressing confidence that the
! T-erritJsry would -nude* payment, .AJ»
breoJW ?!<id the n w nurses’ home is
not n private t-tilei pi ■<*-.' as ex
tended by Moore.
He said the Seward General
Hospital is operated by a com
munity hospital board. The city
of Seward owns the building and
the territory owns the sanatorium
and pays the Methodists to op
erate it.
Albrecht said the Seward council
is asking the Alaska Public Works
fund to build a 50-bed hospital. He
said the new nurses’ home would
house both the general hospital and
sanatorium nurses. The U.S. is to
pay half the cost, the territory one
fourth and the Methodists donating
an amount equal to the territory.
Valdez Irritated on
No Funds for Winter
Upkeep of Highway
VALDEZ, Alaska, Aug. 27—'Jfl—
This community at the sourth term
inus of the Richardson Highway
was riled this weekend by a report
that the Department of Interior
has no funds for winter mainten
ance of the key highway to the In
i terior.
Word was received that the mili
tary had been informed that funds
were not available to keep the high
way open.
Rep. William Egan, Speaker ol
the Alaska House of Representatives
and a Valdez merchant, asserted:
“It is inconceivable that in this
time of national peril, Congress
did not make funds available to
keep this shortest route to inter
ior bases open this winter. It is
not merely a local issue.
“The bogey that this route would
be hard to maintain in the wintei
was knocked into a cocked hat twi
years ago when the Alaska Freight
Lines, a trucking firm, aiding b;
contributions of several thousanc
dollars by Valdez merchants, easilj
kept Thompson Pass open con
tinuously without a terrific expen
diture of funds.
“Last year the Department oi
Interior kept the highway oper
much more easily, benefiting by thf
previous year’s experience. Tei
thousand tons of supplies Mere
speeded to the interior over air
route in the past two winters without
a mishap.”
Ship Movements
Baranof due northbound Tues
day at 7 a.m.
Princess Nojah scheduled north
bound Tuesday afternoon, south
bound from Skagway Friday morn
ing.
Karin Pehrson of College Is at
the Hotel Juneau.
This Couldn't
Happen Here, 'cause
There Aren't Any
• ISTACHATTA, Fla., Aug. 27. •
• —tW—A faur foot blacksnake •
• slowly wriggled down the aisle •
• of the Baptist Church during •
• the sermon at a recent service. •
• As it reached the foot of the •
• pulpit, the Rev. Fletcher West- •
• on threw a hymn book but did •
• not stop the snake. •
• Seceral women raised their •
• feet off the floor. One left. But •
• she came back with a good sized •
• rook and handed it to the min- •
• toter He killed' the snake and •
• resumed the sermon. •
Dewey Speaks at
Kotzebue Airport
Dedication
KOTZEBUE, Alaska. Aug. 27—4/P
—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey faced a
brisk and icy breeze yesterday in
the first speech of his career above
the Arctic Circle.
He was the principal speaker at
the dedication of an air field in
this Eskimo village and trading
center 26 miles north of the Arctic
Circle and 200 miles north of Nome.
The New York Governor extoll
ed the prospects for Alaska and
paid special tribute to the hardy
Inhabitants of the far north.
The audience of Eskimos and
whites came from many parts of
the territory.
Several hundred persons witnessed
th« dedication in intermittent rain.
They were present from Fairbanks,
Nome, Point Barrow, Anchorage
and many Arctic villages in the
northwest.
The new Ralph Wien air field
was dedicated to the memory of
one of Alaska's early day bush
pllat v He was killed here In
white flying Alaska’s first dlesel
er.„. 'id plane.
Dewey was introduced by Gover
nor Gruening. The master of cere
monies was the Rev. George E.
Carroll, local Jesuit priest and mis
sionary. ,
The speakers’ list included Sen.
Percy Xpalook, Kotzebue Eskimo;
Mrs. Lillian Crossen of Fairbanks,
widow of Joe Crossen, another pio
neer Alaska flier; John McNess of
Nome, president of the Northwestern
Alaska Chamber of Commerce.
Mediator Arrives
To Attempt Seward
Strike Settlement
SEWARD, Alaska, Aug. 27 —101—
A government mediator flew to
Alaska from Seattle yesterday to
seek a settlement of Seward’s
waterfront strike.
The strike started Friday mid
night in this entry port for the
Alaska Railroad and rail belt
cities. It was called by the locals
of the International Longshore
men & Warehousemen’s Union in
support of a demand for a higher
Alaska cost-of-living differential.
The strike is against the North
ern Stevedoring Co.
Kenneth D. Baker, acting
chairman of the local 82 labor
relations committee, declared it
was not a “wildcat strike" bnt
was a legal one, preceded by
sincere negotiation efforts.
Baker said Seward always has
operated under a local port agree
ment, so it is not included in the
union's general Alaska agreement.
Although the local unions are af
filiated with the Harry Bridges
lead ILWU, Baker said the Inter
national never has had authority
to negotiate for Seward.
The union committee contends
the 15 per cent cost-of-living
differential allowance for Alaska
is not adequate in Seward; that
the cost-of-living index shows
Seward living costs <6 Per cent
higher than in the west roa.it
states.
(In Seattle, William Gettings,
regional director of the ILWU,
said that after receiving notice oi
the Seward locals’ intention to
strike last week “We told them,
Don’t stop work; continue work
ing while negotiating.’ When they
told us they intended to strike,
we told them it would be on their
own responsibility.”!
R. C. JOHNSON RETURNS
R. C. Johnson of the Bureau of
Reclamation, returned yesterday
from the Whitehorse and Rancherla
country where he had been on min
ing business for the past two weeks.
He reported that the Yukon and
British Columbia country there was
extremely dry and there were many
forest fires.
Dewey May
Boom for
Eisenhower
Present Backers Keeping
Quiet - All Waits on
Governor's Return
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27—(A>»—
Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower’s Re
publican supporters evidently are
content to let his prospective
presidential candidacy rock along
a while without nudging.
Senator Duff (R-Pa>, regarded
as one of the leaders of the Elsen
hower boom, has told Senate
friends he Is content not to beat
up the political buses until after
Congress quits, probably in Octo
ber.
Duff apparently la well pleased
with the way things are going
In the absence of any definite
assurance from Eisenhower that
he will be available for the Re
publican nomination.
Senator Saltonstall <R-Mass)
came out for Eisenhower yester
day. Appearing on a television
program (NBC), he called the
General "The best man at the
present time.” *
Dewey Efforts
The return of Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York from an in
spection trip to the Par East and
Alaska is expected to bring renew
ed efforts from the Dewey camp
in behalf of Eisenhower's potential
candidacy.
The New York governor has
been invited to the White House,
may write some magazine arti
cles and probably has some
speeches up his sleeve. It will
not be difficult tor him to slip
.In a few Words for Elsenhower
oil occasion.
The Dewey campaign is regar
ded with some suspicion by others
in the Eisenhower camp who ap
parently feel that the New York
governor would be willing to bid
for a third presidential nomina
tion if the general makes it plain
he Isn’t available.
Dewey and Duff, for Instance,
seemed to be dealing somewhat
at arm's length in backing Eisen
hower. Duff has made it pretty
clear he doesn't want the Repub
licans to wind up with Dewey as
their candidate if they don't get
Eisenhower.
Eisenhower Put on
Oregon Demo Mel
For Presidency
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 27—I*—Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower was entered
provisionally today as a Demo
cratic candidate for president in
next May’s Oregon presidential
primary election.
Republicans are making an at
tempt to get him on their ballot,
too.
State Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney,
Portland, a Democrat, filed pe
titions containing 1,150 signatures
with Dave O’Hara, state elections
chief. One thousand signatures
are enough to put a candidate on
the ballot. His consent is not re
quired.
O’Hara accepted the petitions,
although he pointed out that
Oregon law requires that a pres
idential candidate be a member
of the party in which he makes
the race.
Gen. Eisenhower has not said
whether he is a Democrat or a
Republican or whether he would
be a candidate for president.
Petitions now are being circul
ated to put Elsenhower’s name
on the Oregon Republican pres
idential ballot. If enough signa
tures are obtained, then the
question of the general’s party
affiliation would arise, O’Hara
said.
A court decision might be ne
cessary in an attempt to claiify
the question if Elsenhower makes
no statement. Another possibility
is that he could run on both par
ty tickets, O'Hara said.
BOEING FILLS LATHKOP’S
PLACE ON PACIFIC NORTHERN
Arthur G. Woodley, president of
Pacific Northern Airlines, announc
ed today the election of William
E. Boeing, Jr., as a director, of the
company to fill a vacancy on the
board of directors, which has existed
since the death of the late Austin
E. Lathrop.
Boeing is president of the Mesabl
Oregon Corporation and a director
of the Pacific National Bank of
Seattle,
Announced Break
■20
Colonel Chang (above), North
Korean Communis! liaison officer,
made announcement that Reds
have called off “from now on"
Korean armistice talks. Cnited
Nations officials said he was
speaking from notes "obviously
written well In advance." iff) Wire
photo.
Truman Asked
To Take Over
Copper Tie-Up
By the Associated Press
America’s strategic copper indus
try ground to a halt today. Union
leaders asked President Truman tc
take it over when last-minute nego
tiations failed to avert a strike.
- As a 7-a.s?, rjocaj -tiitie-'- dssdliJM
moved across the nation, members oi
'he TndTen<V«? Uesien of Mill
and Smelter Workers went off thf
Job.
Hit first were the smelters on
the east coast, then those In the
midwest. Picket lines were set up
No violence was reported. Union
members at the Big Barber, N. J
American Smelting and Refininf
plant said local negotiations alst
were off, at least for the time be
ing.
Officers of the Independent Union
telegraphed their seizure request tt
President Truman early today.
The strike was called over dif
ferences on union requests for wage
increases and contract changes
principally increased pension provi
sions. The union said it asked foi
a general wage increase of 20 cent!
an hour. Package provisions—mainly
pensions—would up that by around
10 cents an hour.
The strike call includes operation!
in Montana, Idaho, California, Ari
zona, Utah, Connecticut, New York
Washington, New Jersey, Nebraska
Texas, Maryland, New Mexico anc
Nevada.
Alaska Hearings
Scheduled on Bill
Tor Native Claims
WASHINGTON, Apg.
House subcommittee indicated tod a.'
it will go to Alaska in October tc
conduct hearings on a bill to set ui
an Alaska panel of the Indiai
Claims Commission.
Rep. Morris <D-Okla) chairman ol
the Indian Affairs Subcommittee
told opponents and proponents ol
the bill today that he would make
"every effort” to hold hearings lr
key Alaska cities.
The bill was introduced by Dele
gate Bartlett of Alaska as a means
of settling Indian claims to Al
aska lands.
Major opposition to the bill wa?
directed toward a clause stating ne
claimants shall be awarded exclu
sive rights in coastal waters beyoni
the low water mark.
Mrs. Ruth Bronson, executive di
rector of the National Congress ol
American Indians, asserted thi
barred any settlement of the Indian'
“most valuable" right—water ant
fishing.
A provision to authorize a $40,000,
000 revolving fund for loans to ait
Alaska Indians was criticized b'
Mrs. Bronson ns "almost dishonest'
and a "sop to get the Indians tf
take the rest of the bill.”
TOWED TO KETCHIKAN
The fishing vessel Kathleen wa;
towed to Ketchikan by the 52-fool
U. S. Coast Guard cutter yester
day. She had a disabled engine.
.
Thorium is used in atomic
ergy work.
en
Reds Blast
Allies, but
Are 'Willing'
Talk of 'Continuing'
Truce Talks - Asks
Serious Consideration
By the Associated Press
TOKYO, Tuesday—The Commu
nist high command today bitterly
rejected the Allied reply on an
alleged Kaesong neutrality viola
tion but, at the same time, left,
the door open to a possible re
sumption of the Korean armistice
talks.
The Reds broke off the stale
mate talks Aug. 23, alleging that
an Allied plane had attempted to
murder" the Communist delega
tion at. the Kaesong conference
site.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, su
preme United Nations commander,
told them Saturday their charges
were ‘ malicious lies” but that he
was willing to resume the arm
istice effort.
In a reply broadcast early to
day by the Peiping radio. North
Korean premier Kim II Sung
and Chinese Red Gen. Peng
Teh-Iluai said Rldgway's state
ment was "entirely unsatisfac
tory."
They accused him of manufac
turing incidents to break up the
truce talks and of “slandering”
the Communists.
Following a wordy complaint
they reiterated all the old Red
charges, they then stated:
Open Door
“We hereby once more propose
to you that this grave action
of provocation should be dealt
with by your side with an attitude
of serious responsibility. Then the
continuation of tire negotiations
lor a just and reason«ISfe~ armistice
agreement e*n ‘ '
“Af the gw th*» we demand
that your liaison offlws proceed
to Kaesong to carry out a re
investigation Jointly with our
liaison officer* of the incident
that occurred on Aug. 22, when
your military aircraft bombed
and strafed the vicinity of the
residence of our delegation in
order once again to ' prove the
full validity of our protest.”
The Reds, after a long weekend
of vitriolic propaganda against
(lie United States and the United
Nations, thus passed the buck
Lack to General Ridgway.
On the basis of previous ex
rxchangcs, it appeared unlikely
that he would consider their re
sponse satisfactory.
However, the Red invitation to
renew the investigation at Kae
ong and to seek a settlement in
dicated clearly they were not yet
prepared to cancel the deadlocked
truce talks once and for all.
21,130 War Criminals
Pardoned for Actions
in War with Japan
TOKYO. Aug. 27—UK—The Jap
anese government today announced
the third mass pardon of former
nilitary war criminals. It was ap
proved by the occupation authority.
The group, slated for freedom,
totaled 21,130. It Included 361
colonels and 388 Navy captains.
Air Secretary Joins
Congressional Drive
To 'Unbalance' Forces
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27— » —
Secretary of the Air Force Finlet
ter appears to be Joining powers
with Congressional allies in a drive
to give air power a bigger share
of military funds.
In a speech over the weekend, the
Air Force chief called for Junk
ing the old concept of "balanced
forces”—Insofar as that means di
viding defense dollars equally among
the army, navy and air force.
Finletter urged instead the allo
cation of men. materials and money
to those "top priority tasks" which
can deliver military blows “with
the most devastating effect.”
His address, to the Air Force As
sociation in San Francisco, left little
doubt he thought the air force
now has such a top priority. He em
phasized prospects for tremendous
new striking power by using war
planes to bring new atomic weapons
directly against enemy ground
troops.
This speech came a few days af
ter the launching of proposals in
both the House and Senate to give
Air Force funds a big boost, with
out making a similar increase for
the Army or Navy.