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“ALL THE NEWS AT-. THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,916
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNi,oJjAV. SEPTEMBER 19, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Double
Drowning
At Nome
Attorney C. C. Tanner,
Eric Nelson Lose Lives
in Safety Lagoon
NOME, Sept. 19—W)—Nome’s on
ly attorney, C. C. Tanner, and a
companion drowned yesterday on
a hunting trip. Ironically, the
tragedy occurred in Safety Lagoon.
The other missing man was Eric
Nelson. They were lost when the
boat overturned in the icy water.,
Tanner, a long-time Nome area |
resident is survived by his widow
and small daughter.
Ills loss leaves this distant Al
aska city without any attorney
or judge.
The only other attorney in the
city the past few years, was Frank
C. Bingham, who was U. S. Dist
rict attorney for the Second Divis
ion. He, is in the states and was
relieved of his position by Presi
dent Truman on Aug. 31. The Pres
ident said Eingham had "disap
peared'' on a trip to the states in
stead of returning to his post.
Bingham responded the next day
that he was only taking the leave
to which he was entitled.
Judge Joseph Kehoe, far western
Alaska’s only jurist, also is gone.
He moved to Juneau last week as
the new Secretary of Alaska.
Voters Approve
Two-Year Terms
For Countilmen
In a special city election held yes-;
terday, Juneau voters ^p^roved a I
city ordinance changing council
men terms from one to two years,
w‘th three council members carry
ing over each year.
Out of 240 ballots cast, 193 approv
ed the change while 47 were against
it. All ballots were cast at the polls
set up in the display room of the
Alaska Light and Power Company.
According to the provisions of the
approved ordinance, the three
councilmen receiving the highest
number of votes in a regular elec
tion Oct. 2, will go in for two-year
terms. The next three highest will
serve one-year terms. Thereafter
only three councilmen will be elect
ed yearly for two-year terms.
To date only one citizen has filed
for a candidate for councilman, C.
L. Popejoy, city clerk, said today.
He is Albert Glover of the Spruce
Delicatessen on Willoughby Ave.
At the same time a mayor and
city magistrate will be chosen for
two year terms.
FROM ANCHORAGE
R. J. Stevenson of Anchorage |
arrived here yesterday on PNA and
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM SITKA
J. M. Voyles of Sitka is at the
Gastineau Hotel.
TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
Washington. — jovial Mike
Di Salle, the price administrator,
went down to the White House the
other day and broke the news to
President Truman that he wanted
to retire from his prickly, unpop
ular price job on December 1.
Truman vigorously demurred. He
protested that Mike must stay on,
finally agreed only that he would
discuss the matter again with Di
Salle in November.
During the course of the conver
sation, the'President asked Di Salle
what he wanted to do when he
went back to private life, and the
price administrator replied that
he wanted to wait and see what;
Prank Lausche, the present Demo
cratic Governor of Ohio, did.
Lausche, who refused to oppose
Taft last year, is popular with Re
publicans and may run against
GOP Senator Bricker. But if he j
doesn’t, Di Salle told Truman, he j
would like to run himself.
"When we have a Democratic j
Senator from Ohio,” shot back the
President, “let’s have a real Dem
ocrat. Not a counterfeit like that
fellow Lausche.”
Huge Loan Stopped
Forty-six million dollars may not
seem like a lot of money in these j
days of huge billion-dollar defense
budgets, but several hundred thous
and little taxpayers have to chip
nt;- .(Continued on Page 4)
Judge's Threat
Forces Gambler
Gross to Talk
Is Told to Take Chair
and Testify or Be
Chained to It
NEW YORK, Sept. 19— W> —
Gambler Harry Gross defiantly
stomped down from the witness
chair at Brooklyn’s mass police
graft trial today, but returned af
ter the judge threatened to “chain
you to the chair.”
“You ccme back here, and take
that stand,” Kings County Judge
Samuel S. Liebowitz shouted. “If
you don't, I’ll chain you to tlk
chair with handcuffs."
Glowering, *hc one-time multi
million-i/.i-ar bookmaker ambled
back up to trie stand and rat down
Ilis defiant gesture came, af
ter he had refused for the second
day in a row to continue his tes
timony about his purported mil
lion-dollar-a-ycar bribery pay
offs to police.
A heated exchange ensued be
tween him and the judge.
"I stand on my rights,” Gross
said stubbornly.
"You have no rights,” the judge
retorted. “You waived them yester
day. If you don’t answer those
questions, I warn you I will sent
ence you to the limit of the law.
I’ll do it if you have to rot in jail."
Gross, whose abrupt halt in
testimony yesterday threatened to
wreck the graft trial of 18 pres
ent or former policemen, had re
lented after a recess, and agreed
to resume his testimony today.
But when the trial resumed, he
announced resolutely: “I will not
answer questions, apw or later."
The gambler’s sudden silence
yesterday can* af^gr he already
had told of a police-$)iielded start to
a bookmaking career that spiraled
to a $20,000,000 annual business.
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OiiOw 4 /* i*«si Vi noianr'**1
NEW YORK, Sept. lfr-M*—Kings
County Judge Samuel S. Leibowltz
today dismissed the indictment
against 18 policemen accused of
taking bribes, after gambler Harry
Gross defiantly refused to give tes
timony.
The judge’s action came after
the prosecution conceded that with
out Gross’ testimony, it could not
hope to go on with the trial.
In throwing the case out, Leibo
witz sentenced the balky gambler
to 00 months in jail for contempt of
court, and $15,000 in fines.
Earlier Gross defiantly stomped
down from the witness chair but
returned after Judge Leibowitz
threatened to “chain you to the
chair.”
GAMES TODAY
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 19— UP) —
Murry Dickson hurled the Pitts
burgh Pirates to a 7-3 triumph over
the Boston Braves today to notch
his 19th win of the season. Earl
Torgerson smashed his 22nd home
run for the Braves in the ninth.
PHILADTLPHIA, Sept. 19—W—
One big inning was enough to pro
vide the Philadelphia Athletics with
an 8 to 1 victory over Detroit today
as they pounced on three Tiger
hurlers for seven of their eight tal
lies in the fourth frame.
BOSTON, Sept. 19— UP) —The
Cleveland Indians thrashed the
Boston Red Sox, 15-2, before 23,321
anguished fans at Fenway Park to
day to sweep the two game series
and dim Boston’s fading pennant
hopes.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19—<#)—Rookie
Mickey Mantle belted a three-run
homer in the fourth inning today
to spark the New York Yankees to
a 5-3 triumph over the Chicago
White Sox. The triumph enabled
the Yanks to remain three percent
age points ahead of the Cleveland
Indians in the American League
pennant race.
Slock Quotations
New York, Sept. 19—IM—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
117%, American Tel. and Tel. 159,
Anaconda 48%, Douglas Aircraft
60%, General Electric 63Vi, General
Motors 51%, Goodyear 47%, Kenne
cott 84 %, Libby. McNeill and Libby
8%, Northern Pacific 56%, Stand
ard Oil of California 53%, Twentieth
Century Fox 21%, U. S. Steel 43%,
Pound $2.79%, Canadian Exchange
94.81 Vi.
Sales today were 2,060,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 274.27, rails 84.37, utilties
45.54.
Senator Asks
All-Out Use of
Atomic Bombs
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19— —
Senator McMahon (D-Conn) has
called for all-out mass production of
atomic weapons to equip a mighty
atomic army, navy and air force.
He said emphasis on atomic rather
than conventional armaments would
save U. S. taxpayers $30,000,000,000
a year.
The chairman of the Senate
House atomic energy committee de
clared in a prepared Senate address
that all-out mass production could
bring the cost of an A-bomb down
to less than that of a tank.
He urged that this country spend
56.000,000.000 a year to equip an
atomic army, navy and air force he
said could guarantee American se
curit/ by making it impossible for
Russia to attack the free world.
He said that only $750,000,000
actually was paid out of the treasury
for the atomic program in the year
ending last June 30.
“Dollar for dollar,” McMahon de
clared, “atomic deterring power is
actually hundreds of times cheaper
than TNT. An atomic weapon can
produce, at a cost of twenty or
thirty dollars, the same explosive
force which costs literally thousands
of dollars to produce by ordinary
means.”
World Series
Mel Sales
At Cleveland
CLEVELAND. Sept. 19—«*—'The
Cleveland Indians began accepting
world series ticket orders today.
"We aren't counting our chickens,”
the club anonunced, “but we can no
lomrer delay Ronnuneemept .0?, oni,
world series ticket plans.”
The American League champion
ship may not be decided before the
final day, Sept. 30, and the club
has to get started with arrangements
well ahead of that time—just in case.
Senate Overrides
Truman Veto on
Pensions 69 lo 9
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19—W—The
Senate has joined the House in
over-riding President Truman’s veti
of a bill increasing the pensions
of veterans disabled in civil life. The
vote was 69 to 9.
The action writes the measure into
law despite Mr. Truman’s objec
tions. ,
In his veto message of Aug. 6
Mr. Truman estimated the bill would
cost the government about $16,700,
000 the first year and by the end of
the century, as veterans advanced
in age, would cost about $400,000,
000 a year. Veterans with non-service
disabilities now get pensions rang
ing from $60 to $72 a month. The bill
Mr. Truman vetoed would raise this
to $120 a month.
The bill would not affect pensions
of veterans whose disability resulted
from military service.
No Senator voiced support of the
President’s veto during the one-hour
debate that preceded the vote on the
measure.
Proposed Sales
Tax Apparently
Lost, Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 19—
(ill—Anchorage voters apparently de
feated yesterday a proposal for a two
percent retail sales tax for school
purposes.
Partial returns indicated the vote
was running about two to one against
the tax. There was a heavy vote.
The issue was: Shall the Anchor
age independent school district levy
the tax for the building of schools
and improving of the school trans
portation system. Under the school
board proposal, the tax would have
been limited to $5,350,000 total col
lections.
PROPOSAL LOSES -
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 19—Ofl—An
chorage city and vicinity voters re
jected by a 2.096 to 1,106 vote yester
day a proposal for a two per cent
sales tax for school buildings and
buses.
It was the largest vote ever re- \
corded in the Anchorage Independ
ent School District election.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Vining of
Wales are at the Baranof Hotel.
Plane Crash Scene
Aid is offered lo injured alter a plane crashed and cartwheeled into a crowd cf 1,000 persons and closely
packed automobiles at an air show at Flagler, Colorado. Nineteen persons were killed and more than
20 others injured. It was undetermined whether th e man in the foreground was dead or injured. ifl>l
Wire photo.
Former Director of
RFC Swears Boyle
Called Him on Loans
Tells Senators Meetings
Were Arranged for Bor
rowers; Boyle Denies
WASHINGTON, Sept, lft—M—
Former RFC dirge tor William E.
wfflnrswJre' Ijuny'"uBU vwiilain
M. Boyle, Jr., contacted him three
time about loan matters after be
coming Democratic National chair
man.
Willett, who left the RFC i Re
construction Finance Corporation)
!ast May in a reorganization, tes
ified before Senators investiga
ting charges that Boyle brought
oolitical influence to bear on op
erations of the government loan
lgehcy.
Boyle has denied using any such
nfluence.
Willett told a Senate Investiga
tions Subcommittee he received
telephone calls from Boyle arrang
ng meetings for various persons.
One of these, he said, was on
May 29, 1950, to arrange a meet
ing between Willett and two en
gineers for Thompson and Star
ett Co., which sought an assign
ment to survey properties of the
Lustron Corp., of Columbus, Ohio,
a big RFC borrower.
He said the firm did not get the
job.
He described another call, Nov.
c9, 1949, arranging an interview
for an official of the Wren Man
ufacturing Co., and a third one
Sept. 11, 1950, for Sam Marks,
counsel for the Copper City Min
ing Co. Wren and the mining com
pany already had received their
oans, Willett said.
He was not asked immediately
ior further details, but Senator
Nixon (R-Calif), a subcommittee
member, demanded a check on
whether either Boyle or Max Sis
kind, Boyle’s former law partner,
represent any of those firms now.
The Senate investigation already
has churned up a grade-A political
fight.
WOMAN NOW IN CASE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19—(#)—
E. Merl Young testified that the
daughter of the Washington Rep
resentative of American Lithofold
Corp. worked in the White House at
the time the company got $645,000
in RFC loans.
Young, former White House fre
quenter whose own alleged activities
in connection with RFC loans have
been under scrutiny, named the girl
as Shirley Green, daughter of Lith
ofold employe Cecil Green.
Young said Miss Green worked
with his wife, Lauretta, a White
House stenographer until she left
the job following an earlier RFC
investigation last spring.
Mrs. Young’s $8,450 mink coat
won prominent mention in the earl
ier inquiry.
Her husband testified today be
fore Senators looking into charges
of political influence on the grant
ing of loans by the RFC (Recon
struction Finance Corporation.)
Senator Nixon (R-Calif) asked
Young where his wife and Miss
Green had worked together. Young
New Tax Bill
Would Yield
Over 5 Billions
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19—Ofl—1The
| Senate Finance Committee today re
por' d its new tax increase bill
wou’j yield an estimated $5,506,000,
! noo®, -ar.tr.
This estimate, prepared by the
group’s staff of experts, was well
under the $6,000,000,000 estimate
given earlier to newsmen by Chair
man George (D-Ga). *
The $5,506,000,000 figure was con
tained in the committee’s formal re
port distributed to Senators shortly
before the Senate was scheduled to
begin debate on the measure. Floor
consideration may start late today
or tomorrow.
The report said that the 13 mem
j bcrs of the committee believe the
j limit has about been reached on in
! creases in income taxes both from
! individuals and corporations.
U. S. Polity Favors
Chinese Commies,
Says Wedemeyer
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19——Lt.
General Albert C. Wedemeyer, war
time commander of American forces
j in China, testified today that re
; ports submitted to him by his State
Department political advisers were
! contrary to U. S. policy as he un
derstood it.
The tall, silver-haired general,
now retired, said the advisers’, "idea
was to give more support to the
Communist forces in lieu of the Na
tionalist forces” of Generalissimo
Chiang kai-Shek.
He told the Senate’s Internal Se
curity subcommittee that American
policy, “as I interpreted it, was to
keep China in the war and to sup
port the Nationalist government.”
The subcommittee is searching for
any'traces of subversive influences
on U. S. policies in the far east, with
the probe focused particularly on
the Institute of Pacific Relations
IRP), rf private research organi
zation.
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• ending 4:20 o clock this morning •
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• minimum, 47. •
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replied it was in the President’s
office in the White House.
Young also said they previously
had worked together for President
Truman when he was a Missouri
, Senator.
Fish Hearing Will
Consider Quotas on
Salmon Next Year
SEATTLE, Sept. 19—</PV—The U
S. Fish and Wildlife Service wil
open hearings at Anchorage, Alaska
tomorrow to consider placing quota:
on salmon catches In the territory’:
Cook Inlet and Yakutat areas.
The hearings on 1952 regulation:
will be held at'<*mW>va September
24th and Yakutat September 26th,
the agency said jkvjtcrday.
Officials said no major proposal:
are planned for the Prince William
Sound area but the service will con
sider closing the Bering River are?
to August 20th to rebuild early sal
mon runs.
Major proposals to be considered
it the hearings are:
Cook Inlet area.
A quota to be placed on the catch
if king salmon whereby only 100.000
fish may be taken during the sea
son. The quota would be divided
into weekly quotas to be establishec
m the basis of mean weekly catche:
>f recent years.
A quota to be placed on the catch
of red salmon whereby only 1,500,
000 fish may be taken during the
season. Weekly quotas based on
weekly catches of recent years
also would be established.
All leads of pile. traps to remain
entirely out of the water until the
opening of the salmon season.
In addition to streams closed in
1951, all fishing would be prohibited
on Willow Creek of the Susitna
River drainage.
Copper River area:
Mid-weekly closed period to be
extended by 12 hours making the
closed period:
6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 p.m. Thurs
day; 6 a.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Mon
day of each week, or a total closed
time of 84 hours each week.
Fall season to be from August 10th
to September 18th.
A quota of 100,000 red salmon to
be placed on the Situk weir escape
ment.
The weekly closed period in the
Situk-Ahrnklin Inlet district to be
extended to include the period from
6 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Monday,
making a total of 84 hours each
week.
Gill nets in the Kaliakh River
would be. limited to 25 fathoms in
the aggregate.
Greece, Turkey Are
Voted Into Sphere
01 Atlantic Treaty
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
OTTAWA, Sept. 19—OH—The last
obstacle to an Atlantic council re
commendation that Greece and
Turkey be brought into the North
Atlantic Treaty apparently was
swept away today by a Danish gov
ernment decision to vote for such
action.
Military leaders of the Atlantic
alliance were reported already at
work on plans to set up a new NATO
middle east command centered on
Turkey but designed to create < a
common strategy for anti-Com
munist forces throughout that area
of the world.
These plans, it was learned, were
tentatively shaped up by the top
level standing group of the NATO
military committee. _ . .
Russ Migs
Shot Down,
Air Battles
Hit-Skip Raids Reported
Made on Allied
Korean Positions
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 19—(>PI—
Swift Allied jets shot down one
Russian-type MIG-15 Jet and
lamaged live in three swirling air
battles over northwest Korea today.
Aground the Communists struck
back in Eastern Korea. Two ana
possibly three unidentified, pre
sumably enemy planes, hit-skip
raids on Allied positions on the
Western front Wednesday night.
The Reds in the East seized a
key hill north of Yanggu after
two earlier futile attempts to storm
It. ’’
The planes bombed and strafed
Allied front positions in the Yon
chon and Chorwon areas, a file
dispatch said. Allied anti-aircraft
'tuns threw up a barrage of ex
plosive shells.
At least 112 Jets engaged in fighU
lashing from 30,000 feet down to
tree top level.
These were the first jet fights
in five days. Murky weather had
curtailed jet activity.
( apt. Dennis L. Skeen of Twin
Falls, Idaho, bagged the jet shot
down today. It was the first
time he had run Into the Rus
sian MIGS. It was his third
mission over Korea.
Skeen was leading a flight o!
our P-84 Thunderjets southwest
of Sunchon when he spotted eignt
VIIGS. Four made runs on th<
Mlied planes. Skeen caught the
■ail-ender.
Soon after, 37 American F-8(
pabre jets tangled with 40 MIGf
n a swirling, 15-minute battle.
On the ground, fighting raged in
.he Eastern sector north of Yang
’ ;tt.
Communist troops Wednesday
orced Allied defenders off a com
nanding height in the "Heart
ireak Ridge" sector. The Allied
orces had won the hill after hard
ighting Tuesday midnight and
ater had hurled back two Rer
harges.
Grounding Order
lifted for Kodiak
Naval Air Group
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10—If)—Th<
navy announced today that flyinf
restrictions have been lifted for na
val air squadron nine in Alaska
The unit is based at Kodiak.
An announcemnt was made last
Thursday that the Squadron wa;
.’rounded for “morale purposes” af
rr three of its Privateer patrol
planes had been involved in crashes
Undersecretary Francis P. White
hair said at the time that a special
board of inquiry was being set up
to investigate the crashes. No de
tails were available, however, on any
inquiry that may have been con
ducted.
Official Declares
Welfare in Order
For National Crisis
POCONO MANOR, Pa., Sept. 19
Private health, and welfare
facilities of the nation have been
carefully and deliberately organ
ized to meet a national emergency'
for the first time in history, Ralph
W. Blanchard says.
Blanchard, vice president of the
j United Defense Fund and former
| president of the National Social
Welfare Assembly, spoke at a plan
i nlng conference of United Service
1 Organizations, Inc., here.
Earlier, the conference heard
I.awrence Phillips, executive vice
president of Camp Shows, Inc.,
quote performers who have return
ed from tours to Korea and Alas
ka as saying that Korea is tougher
than anything they saw overseas
during World War II.
In Alaska, Phillips added, the
performers report conditions even
tougher than in Korea, from the
viewpoint of need for entertainment
and relaxation.
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• Low Tide 10:33 a.m., 3.4 ft. •
• High Tide 4:36 p.m., 16.1 ft. •
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Reds Make
Request for
Conference
UN Liaison Team, Com
mies Will Talk Over
Latest Developments
TOKYO, Sept. 19—1*1—The Uni
ted Nations Command tonight
agreed to a Communist request to
send a liaison team tomorrow to
the Kaesong neutral zone, site of
the suspended Korean war armis
tice talks.
The Reds made the ^request
shortly after the U. N. Command
announced that four unarmed
South Korean soldiers yesterday
mistakenly entered the neutral
zone.
The Red request for a meeting
raised speculation that the Com
munists may want to discuss re
sumption of the stalled talks,
or they may want to lodge an
other charge of Allied violation
of the neutral mone.
The Reds broke off the talks
Aug. 23 after charging that an Ai
led plane tried to “murder” Com
munist armistice negotiations with
strafing fire in the zone the night
oefore.
The Reds asked for a meeting
vith Allied liaison officers at
Panmunjom, Communist outpost
lear the edge of thet neutral zone,
it 6 ajn. Thursday (2 p.m. Wed
lesday PDT).
Tone of the notes exchanged
between the Reds and Allies re
cently has been more moderate,
a U. N. Command release said.
The Reds had charged that the
ncldent was a violation of the
Cat.song neutral zone.
The U. N. Command took a
ighter view.
It said the four, members of an
intl-eptdemic unit, were "armed
vith nothing more dangerous than
jin'/ '
The Command said the South
Koreans were “not mistreated
luring their overnight stay in Kae
ong, nor were their Items of equip
nent confiscated or damaged.”
Their truck also was released
'y the Reds.
No Extension in
[rolling, Gillnel
:ishing on Taku
There will be no extension In the
almon trolling season In South
astern Alaska, C. Howard Balt
',o, assistant regional director of
the Pish and Wildlife Service said
today. The season closes Sept. 30
at 6 p.m.
He further announced that gill
netting would end on the Taku
tnd Copper Rivers at the same
ime as trolling closes. Fishermen
lad asked an extension in these
ircas.
No announcement has yet been
node in answer to a request for
in extension in the Yakutat area.
Prank Hynes, fisheries supervisor
tnd Gus Hilsinger, fisheries ag
■nt. are surveying the situation
here today and decision will be
made on their return.
Baltzo said the decision to close
.he Taku and Copper River listi
ng at the regular time was based
in the quality of the fish. He said
they are deteriorating rapidly
which makes them more valuable
for spawning than for commercial
purposes. He added the runs are
.ailing off In volume and no sur
plus of fish exists.
"Cohoes have been the main
stay in the livelihood of trollers
and glllnetters lor several years
now,” Baltzo said. "Part of the
reason is due to the substantial
escapements secured after the
close of the season.”
He added: "It would be very
foolish to ‘kill the goose that lays
the golden egg’ as we have seen
what has happened in that line in
other areas.”
Rita Alarmed,
Kidnap Threats
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19—OB—
Rita Hayworth, alarmed by anony
mous kidnap threats, has hired
detectives to guard her 19-month
old daughter Yasmin, the Los Ang
eles Times reports.
The child’s father is Moslem
Prince Aly Khan, whom Miss Hay
worth is in Reno to divorce.
The Times said in a story last
night that the actress’ Hollywood
friends ascribe the threats to the
fact that she is seeking a large
financial settlement for Yasmin.