THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,883
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1951
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Reds and Allies Just Like
'Happy' Family—Not a Word
For 2 Hours, 11 Minutes
U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, Aug. 10—(^Dead
locked United Nations and Com
munist truce negotiating delegations
sat for two hours and 11 minutes in
dead silence today, each waiting for
the other to change his position.
The unprecedented silence was
precipitated, the United Nations
command said, when the Communist
refused to talk about anything ex
cept a buffer zone located where
they want it.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief
U.N. delegate, proposed several
alternatives to break the dead
lock. Then he waited for North
Korean Lt. Gen. Nam II, head of
the Red delegation to reply.
Nam said nothing.
For 131 minutes, nobody spoke.
Air Charged
"The air was full of electricity,”
said Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
official U.N. command spokesman.
He said General Nam fidgeted in
nervous embarrassment, smoked
cigarets incessantly, drummed on
the green-topped conference table
with his fingers or his cigaret
lighter, and glanced repeatedly at
his wrist watch.
Occasionally he received notes
from staff officers behind him. But
he said nothing.
The other four Communist Gen
erals held occasional whispered
conferences. Most of the time,
Nuckols said, they remained impas
sive.
Admiral Joy sat calmly, Nuckols
said, "Writing notes in a detached
sort of fashion.”
Joy appeared patient, sometimes
bored, Nuckols said.
Joy finally broke the silence.
When negotiations resumed after
a five day break, U.N. delegates of
fered a series of alternatives in
tended to break the disagreement
oyer where to end the shooting war.
The Communists turned all U.N.
proposals down.
The five Red Generals refused
to consider anything except a
buffer zone back along the 38th
parallel.
me armistice tanss appealcu iu
be at their most critical point since
they began a month ago today. The
U.N. communique indicated the ten
sion ridden conference might be
nearing a breaking point.
The Allies described the position
of the Communists as “adamant.”
For ten consecutive sessions dele
gates have been stuck on the ques
tion of where to create a buffer
zone.
Admiral Joy tried to break the
deadlock by proposing that negoti
ators temporarily pass over this
question and go on to the next point.
That deals with “concrete ar
rangements for the realization of
military armistice and the resultant
cease-fire.”
But Nam II refused.
Professor Retires
Alaska Universfiy
Dr. Enoch F. George, head of
the University of Alaska physics
department, retired August 1.
He returned to his old home in
Lubbock, Texas but expects to
spend his summers on Vancouver
Island, B. C. where be owns a
tract of land, an announcement
from the school said.
He had held his position at the
University since 1944.
TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
icopmmt. issi. dj Bell Bradteau. Inc..
rr ASHINGTON. — Much of the
waste of Chinese Nationalist, war
supplies could be avoided if the
millions of dollars worth of mun
itions we have sent to Formosa
were handled direct by the U. S.
government and Supervised by us.
Instead, a peculiar system of
middlemen Is used, thereby per
mitting graft, rake-offs and com
shaw to creep in. It’s suspected
that part of this is to help finance
the China lobby which at times
has had powerful influence in the
U. S. Senate. Just who is getting
the rake-offs remains a mystery.
Here is one illustration of how
2,956,170 gallons of aviation gaso
line was ordered for the Chinese
air force on Formosa, a purchase
costing a cool million dollars.
This order was placed on Jan.
1, 1950—not during the hectic war
days when the State Department
white paper .tells of widespread
graft in the Chinese army.
(Continued on Px* Four)
►-—
President to
Inquire Into
West Point
Wants Remedy Without
'Killing Patient' to
Cribbing Scandal
WEST POINT, N. Y., Aug. 10—«P>
—A private Presidential inquiry into
football emphasis at the nation’s
service academies—prompted by the
cribbing scandal at the U. S. mili
tary academy here—was under way
today.
President Truman, an avid foot
ball fan, told his news conference
yesterday he was attempting to
find a remedy for the situation at
West Point without killing the pat
ient.
All but a few of West Point’s var
sity football team were among the
90 cadets who have been dismissed
for violating the academy’s honor
system by cribbing in exams.
The Presidential inquiry will in
clude a study of the athlete re
cruiting system of the schools.
Superintenden Pleased
Meanwhile, West Point's Superin
tendent, Maj. Gen. Frederick A.
Irving said he was ’’pleased” that
Earl "Red” Blaik had decided to
remain as head football coach and
director ol athletics at the academy.
Commenting on Blaik’s announce
ment made yesterday in New York,
Irving said:
“He is a fine forthright gentle
man in whom I have the utmost
confidence and I know he will act
in the best interest of the military
academy.”
Meantime Blaik. a father and
coach, began building his eleventh
army football team today from the
remnants of a squad that could
have-been one the nation’s best until
It was riddled by the current crib
bing scandal.
Blaik s son l»one
Gone Is his son. Bob, who iden
tified himself as one of the 90 in
volved cadets yesterday just a
short time after the father told
sports writers in New York City
he would stay as coach at the mil
itary academy.
Young Blaik, who would have
been a senior, was a quarterback
Some rated him as the nation’s best.
Others who have identified them
selves as involved include Harold
loehlein of Kiimball, Minn., captain
elect of the team and president of
the senior class; J. D. Kimmel, pow
erful Tyler, Tex., tackle; and Gibby
Reich, an outstanding defensive
j back from Steelton, Pa.
j Gamblers Helped
Bring Resignation,
Says Marshal Barr
WASHINGTON. Aug. 10, —Mi
One of Alaska’s U. S. Marshals
has quit his job, attributing his
decision in part to opposition by
advocates of “wide open" gamb
ling.
Besides, Prank Barr wrote the
Justice Department, he has been
offered a job by a former employ
er paying him nearly $200 more a
month than his pay as Marshal of
Alaska's Fourth Division.
President Truman accepted the
resignation, effective last Tuesday
Barr said in his letter of resig
nation:
“Since taking office, I have
been successful in keeping the
gambling closed down in this
area, but there has been an or
ganized campaign to discredit
me by the gambling element,
aided by quite a few towns
people and merchants who want
a wide-open town.”
Barr said that his opponent
seemingly has been successful in
implanting “suspicion and dist
rust" it} the minds of his super
iors, making it impossible for him
to continue his work.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Aleutian due southbound Satur
day afternoon.
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive from Vancouver Saturday af
ternoon.
Prince George scheduled to arrive
at 8:15 tonight.
Every Soul in U. S.
Will Pay $1 a Day
To Military Budget
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—W—'The
House was expected to approve to
day a $5,768,000,000 military con
struction bill aimed at bolstering
U.S. defenses here and abroad
against any Communist aggression.
The Foreign Affairs committee
last night okayed a $7,848,750,000
foreign aid bill to help friendly na
tions strengthen their military and
economic muscles. The House may
vote on this next week.
Both measures together would
add another $13,568,000,000 to the
record peacetime $56,662,405,890
military budget passed yesterday by
the House, 348 votes to two. Both
pending measures will require Sen
ate approval and separate legisla
tion later actually putting up the
money.
The $56,062,405,890 bill to finance
the armed forces for fiscal 1952 was
strictly cash. Its prompt approval
by the Senate was expected Just as
soon as routine committee consid
eration is completed.
It represents a cash charge of
$364, or almost one dollar a day,
for every man, woman and child
in the United States during the
fiscal year ending next June 30.
Troops-lo
Europe Battle
Knots Senate
Connally's Warning Re
vives Six-Division Ques
tion in Both Houses
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—MV-A
warning by Senator Connally (D
Tex) that the U. S. hay have to send
more than six divisions to the At
lantic pact army has mtensined uit
bitter troops-to-Europe battle.
The issue which had Congress
tied in knots earlier this year un
derwent a strong revival yesterday
on both sides of the capitol.
In passing a $56,062,405,890 money
bill to finance the military estab
lishment for the fiscal year, the
House declined by a vote of 131 to
84 to put a six-division lid on U. S.
contributions to the European de
fense army.
Connally's remarks, made at news
conference, indicated that he may
be concerned over the possibility of
a similar Senate test. His warning
brought critical response from sev
eral Republican Senators.
The Senate checked its earlier
controversy over troops for Eu
rope in a resolution which said
“it is the sense” of the Senate
that only four U. S. divisions. . .
in addition to the two already
there. . . should be sent to Eu
rope.
However, this is not legally bind
ing on the President as commander
in-chief.
Connally, chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, spoke
out shortly after his group and the
Senate Armed Services Committee
wound up joint hearings on the ad
ministration’s $8,500,000,000 foreign
aid bill .
A similar bill—but cut to $7,848,
750,000—cleared the House Foreign
Affairs Committee last night by a
20 to 0 vote. It is slated for Rules
Committee clearance next Monday,
House debate starting Wednesday
and House action by the end of the
week.
Girl Borrows Car,
Crashes Truck,
Gets $85 in Fines
A sixteen-year old Juneau girl
was cited into City Magistrate’s
court yesterday afternoon on char
ges of negligent driving and driv
ing without an operator's license.
Police said she had borrowed a
car from William Forward and
was driving down Willoughby
Avenue when she crashed into a
dump truck driven by Jim Neilsen
at the turn by Thibodeau's Gro
cery. About $50 worth of damage
was done to the left rear fender
of the truck, police said, and the
left front fender of the car was
damaged.
A $50 fine for negligent driving
was suspended but the girl paid
a $35 fine on the charge of driv
ing without an operator’s license.
METALS MEN ARE HERE
Hubbard M. Smith and Norris W.
Campbell of the Reynolds Metals
Co., Seattle, are registered at the
Baranof Hotel.
On Way lo a Record
At zero plus one second (left) the camera catches start of the record breaking flight of a Viking rocket
at the H’hite Sands, N. M., proving grounds. Exhaust blast is still in pit below rocket. Ice formation
from the liquid oxygen fuel can be s'cen on rocket body. (Center) rocket reaches the twenty-foot mark
in climb toward a new 135-mile altitude record. <R ight 100 feet up the rocket is rapidly gaining moment
turn which reached 4,1M miles p'or hour, iffl Wircphoto.
Long-Legged Bird
Ignores Hospital
Landing Field
• Landing gear that won’t op- •
c cite xr scii e.lrpcvt: does •
• not pass his inspection may be •
• reasons the stork hasn’t landed •
• recently at the Government •
• Hospital. •
• The old bird has not made a •
• delivery for the past 12 days, •
• said a hospital spokesman. An •
• average of six or seven babies a •
• month are born at the institu- •
• tion. •
• This means that deliveries •
• must pick up for the rest of •
• August if the stork is to adhere •
• to his scheduled flight plans. •
• Non-scheduled flights are •
• not announced. •
News Briefs
The Seattle Rainiers extended
their lead to four games with a six
to one win over seventh place San
Diego. Second place Hollywood
dropped a two to five decision to Los
Angeles. In other games, San Fran
cisco bopped Oakland 11 to four
and Portland shaded Sacramento
six to five.
KepuDlican Qacxers oi ueueruj u.
Eisenhower have agreed with Pre
sident Truman's guess that the five
star commander isn’t interested in
the Democratic Presidential nomin
ation. Mr. Truman made the com
ment at his news conference yester
day, saying he didn’t think the gen
eral was a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination and that he—
the President— couldn’t help him
get the Republican bid.
The Atomic Energy Commission
will begin a new series of small ex
plosions August 15 at the Indian
Springs testing ground in Nevada.
In it’s announcement yesterday, the
commission did not say the blast
would be of atomic origin but re
ferred only to "small amounts of
high explosives.”
JUNEAU VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Nowell of Bur
bank, Calif., are staying at the Hotel
Juneau.
• •
• WEATHER FORECAST •
• Temperature for 24-Hour Period •
• ending # 20 o'clock this morning •
• At Airport: Maximum, 61; •
• minimum, 50. •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinltrl #
• Juneau and vicinity contin- •
• ued fair tonight and Saturday. •
• Low tonight near 50 and high •
• Saturday near 74. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Paat 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
• At Airport — 0.01 inches; •
• sipce July 1—3.19 inches. •
Seeks'Good
Democrat'to
! Decide Feud
McCarthy Uses Immunity
To Name 'Communistic'
State Employees
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, —OP)—
|Senator McCarthy (R-Wisi offer
ed today to let a ‘committee head
ed by a good Democrat” decide
who is right in his latest feud
with the State Department and
some fellow Senators over his
charges of Communism in govern
ment.
He suggested Senator McCarran
<D-Nev) and the Senate Internal
Security subcommittee he heads.
McMarthy used his Senatorial
immunity from libel suits yes
terday to name in the Senate
26 persons he identified as State
Department officials and em
ployees "charged with Commun
ist activties.”
This stirred majority leader Mc
Farland (D-Arizi to protest vig
orously against what he called a
Senator’s use of his immunity “to
smear any individual" or become
"a character assassin.”
And Senator Lehman (D-NY)
charged that McCarthy had given
“shabby and dastardly treatment”
to Ambassador Phillip G. Jessup,
one of the 26 on McMarthy’s list.
Jessup was not immediately
available for comment but under
Secretary of State Carlisle H.
Huinelsine issued a statement ac
cusing McCarthy of “smear tactics
in making this misleading list of
[names public.”
McCarthy challenged this and
declared he is anxious to have
the McCarran subcommittee “de
cide the whole issue.”
McCorthy’s Senate speech, well
publicized in advance, drew large
crowds to the Senate public gall
eries, but few Senators listened to
the entire exchange.
City Law on Fire
Alarm Not Observed
By Eight Auloists
The 1-6 fire alarm Thursday at
3 p.m. was used as a check by the
Volunteer Fire Department to see
how many cars violated a city ord
inance.
The law states that all vehicles
must stop while the alarm is sound
ing.
Fire Chief Mtnard Mill stated that
most drivers were very cooperative.
A car with license number 24201
followed the department’s truck, ac
cording to firemen. Autos that failed
to stop, said firemen, were: 1737.
1603, 24242, 1180, 17, 1462 and a U S.
Signal Corps jeep numbered 32830.
Philip C. Jessup
Heads McCarthy's
Dis-loyaity List
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, —«t—
Senator McCarthy listed to the
Senate today what he said were
the names of over 20 State De
partment officials and employees
whose loyalty is under question.
He topped his roll call with Am
bassador Phil C. Jessup as "the
prize of them all."
The State Department shortly
got out a statement in which it
said the Wisconsin Republican had
used “smear tactics" and was de
liberately violating the fundamen
tal tenet of “freedom from intimi
dation.”
The statement said McCarthy's
list includes the4 names of “per
sons who are not employees of the
Department of State, employees
who have been cleared by the De
partment's Loyalty Security board,
as well as individuals in procesi
through the loyalty program."
No names were mentioned in
the statement.
“Negotiated With Russians”
In his Senate speech, McCarthy
declared that Jessup, Ambassador
at-large, has “negotiated with the
Russians much as Hiss negotiated
with them at Yalta."
This was a reference to Alger
Hiss, former State Department of
ficial now serving a prison term
on conviction of lying when he
swore he never gave secret papers
to a Communist spy ring courier.
McCarthy said he had turhed
over a total of 106 names of gov
ernment employees suspected for
loyalty but that 28 of them had
been cleared.
McCarthy delivered his speech
before crowded galleries but only
about half the Senators were at
their desks.
Twits Democrats
He twitted the Democrats by
noting that former Democratic
leader Lucas (XU.), who challenged
McCarthy last year to make names
public, “is no longer with us,” and
that Senator Tydings (D-Md) "al
so is no longer with us.”
Tydings conducted an investi
gation last year of McCarthy's
charges of Communist infiltration
of the State Department and was
one of a Democratic committee
majority which called the charges
a “fraud.”
Both Lucas and Tydings were
defeated for reelectlon.
WILLIAMS AND WIFE
DUE HOME TUESDAY
Attorney General J. Gerald Will
iams and Mrs. Williams are due
home Tuesday from the south.
The Attorney General was in San
Francisco appearing before the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for
I the Territory and then attended an
Attorney’s General conference in
Seattle wher he was one of the
main spea ;ers.
They are returning via Pan Am
erican plana.
Mrs. Ellen Bowman of Wrangell
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
Air Search Pressed;
Landings Planned on
Malaspina Glacier
Zip! A Record
WASHINGTON, Aug 10, —UP —
An Air Force "Stratojet” B-47 med
ium bomber has flown 2,800 miles
non-stop at an average speed of
500 miles an hour. The flight yes
terday—from Fairbanks, Alaska, to
Witchlta, Kas.—set a new distance
record for planes of this type.
The five hour, 36-mtnute flight
was made to test the B-47 and col
lect long-range cruise control data.
The Jet bomber has been described
as the backbone of the U. S. med
ium bomber fleet.
Yesterday’s flight exceeded by 200
miles one made last May by a B-47
between Hawaii and California in
five hours, 50 minutes.
Zipl Another!
SHREVEPORT, La., Aug. 10. —
IA—Barksdale Air Force base re
ports tlyit an RB-45 Jet bomber
has averaged a speed of 886 miles
per hour—believed to be a rec
ord for that type of plane.
This speed was made possible,
it was explained yesterday, by a
"Jet air stream,” which traveled at
a speed of from 225 to 300 miles
per hour. The stream is an air
current which encircles the earth
at certain stratas of the atmos
phere.
Barksdale sources said the
plane’s average was made on a
recent 13-minute 50-second 205
mile flight from Fort Worth, Tex.,
to Shreveport.
School Contracts
On Oil and Freight
Hauling Awarded
Contracts for hauling oil to
various Juneau school buildings
were awarded Tuesday evening at
a regular meeting of the School
Board.
Reliable Transfer was success
ful bidder for oil hauling to the
Juneau Grade School. Its bid was
$3.50 per 420 gallon load. Caro
Transfer was low with a bid for
a like amount for hauling to the
Willoughby School and Alaska
Transfer and Storage Company
won the contract for hauling to
the Tee Harbor School. Alaska
Transfer bid was $2.75 for the
first 100 gallons with an addition
al chatge of lMtc per gallon over
100.
From a Hat
As all bids offered were the
same for hauling to the Alder
Terrace Apartments, names were
drawn from a hat with the result
that that contract was awarded
to North Transfer.
Of the transfer companies bid
ding, two were left which had not
received contracts for hauling oil.
Their names were placed in a
hat and one drawn for freight
hauling for the school year of
1951-52. The name of Orme Trans
fer was drawn.
School 8uw.*intendent Ster
ling Sears said that in the fu
ture it will be the policy of the
School Board to award the
freight hauling contract for a
full school term. However, the
contract will not he given to a
company which has any other
contract with the school for that
year and no company will be
awarded the freight hauling con
tract for two successive years.
He added that the board felt
this policy would divide the oil
and freight hauling business
with the school equitably be
tween Juneau’s various transfer
companies.
Ralph E. Kibby, of the Channel
Bus Line, was low bidder and re
ceived the contract for transpor
tation of school children from be
tween the Johnson Children's
Home and the city limits.
SESSION LAWS
RECEIVED BV MOORE
Territorial Auditor Neil Moore
was busy this morning tinding
storage place for books in his of
fice.
He received 500 volumes of the
1951 session laws and 250 volumes
for 1949.
They arrived in Juneau yester
day from Seattle where they were
bound after being printed by The
Daily Alaska Empire.
Moore said the 1951 volumes
will sell for *22.08 each and the
1949 laws, which are reprints, are
*7.14 per volume.
VISITOR FROM ANCHORAGE
David J. Nichols of Anchorage is
at the Baranof Hotel. __
► Search for two missing aircraft
in the vicinity of the Oulf of Al
aska coast went forward today un
der excellent weather conditions. It
was anticipated that 21 aircraft, in
cluding a light ski-wheel equipped
plane, would be in the air today.
Meanwhile, two members of the
Juneau Icecap Research Project
walked over the icefield to Juneau
yesterday because the 10th Air Res
cue C-47 servicing the camps had
been tied up by bad weather and the
search for the missing aircraft.
Dr. Fred Golomb, expendltlon
doctor from Bellevue Hospital,
New York City, and Fred Milan
of Fairbanks, made a three-day
trek from a camp near the Canad
ian border across the vast Icefield
and down Salmon Creek. They
carried only sleeping bags and
light equipment.
Doctor Golomb was scheduled to
leave here today for New York
after five weeks with the expedition.
The C-47, however, arrived here
late this morning and was scheduled
to make four or five landings on the
icecnp with about 5,000 pounds of
supplies and equipment. Lt. Col. W.
G. Walton, pilot of the plane, said
today.
“If conditions permit we may
land at the main camp of the Arc
tic Institute on Malaspina Glacier
Sunday to remove that camp,"
Colonel Walton said. "Landings
will depend on snow conditions
and other factors.”
Search Continues
Meantime aircraft were on the
search today for a Canadian Pacific
Airlines transport which disappear
ed 21 days ago off Cape Spencer
and a Norseman aircraft overdue at
Yakutat since July 27.
Excellent weather yesterday per
mitted 23 aircraft to make 22 sorties
Involving 159 search hours. Planes
from the 10th and 4th Air Rescue
| Squadrons, Royal Canadian Air
I Force. Canadian Pacific Airlines,
the U. S. Coast Guard and a Piper
Cub piloted by Dr. Terris Moore,
president of the University of Al
aska, participated in yesterday’s op
erations.
i onunuing good weatner raised
hopes for good coverage by Ute 21
aircraft expected to be in the air
today. It was anticipated that
Dr. Moore’s light plane might
make some (lacier landings today.
Area Probed
Today’s areas of search will cover
glacier and mountain regions north
and west of Yakutat to the Chugach
Mountains. Icy and Yakutat Bays
and from Cape Spencer to Yakutat.
U. S. Coast Guard headquarters
said. This is the same district comb
ed yesterday.
The Coast Guard cutter Storls
continued to drag a portion of Mon
ti Bay! near Yakutat where an oil
slick had been reported two days
ago. Beach parties are investigating
the beaches of the vicinity.
Leg and spinal bones found on a
beach near Yakutat have been sent
to Washington. D. C.. for identifica
tion but no word has yet been re
ceived.
The Canadian Pacific transport
was carrying 38 persons on the first
leg of a Vancouver to Tokyo-Korean
airlift flight.
Walter A. Wood, whose wife.
Forests, and 18-yoar-old daughter
Valerie, were in the lost Norse
man, continued steadfast in his
belief they would be found safe
with pilot Maurice King.
Wood has been at Yakutat since
he and three others were picked
off Mt. Hubbard Olacier by a 10th
Air Rescue Squadron C-47 several
days ago. He was engaged In ice
research work for the Arctic Insti
tute.'
Further south, heavy fog hamper
ed a search for a Queen Charlotte
Airlines float plane which disap
peared six days ago on a 37-mile
flight to the fishing village of To
rino, on Vancouver Island. B. C.
Six loggers and the pilot were on
board.
Slock Quotations
NEW YORK, Aug. 10—lift—Clos
ing quotation of American Can to
day Is 114, American Tel. Sc Tel.
157%, Anaconda 45%, Douglas Air
craft 49%, General Electric 57%.
General Motors 50, Goodyear 91,
Kennecott 76, Libby, McNeill Sc
Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 48%,
Standard Oil of California 48%.
Twentieth Century Fox 20%, U. 8.
Steel 41. Pound 2.79. Canadian Ex
change 95.12.
8ales today were 1,260,000 sales.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 261.92, rails 80.99, util
ities 45.24.
Mildred Powell of Seattle Is regis
tered at the Oastineau Hotel. _.