THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11394
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1951
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Nine Killed in Flaming
Crash of Air Force (-47
At Alaska Railroad Station
ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Aug. 23—'
(fln—An Air Force C-47 carried nine
men to death last night in a flaming
crash on an air field along the
Alaska Railroad.
A medical aid team sent by the
railroad, was believed to have re
covered the bodies of all the victims
that had been found in the charred
wreckage. That report came to the
Tenth Rescue Squadron from the
Civil Aeronautics Administration.
(A later report from Fairbanks
however, said only five bodies had
been recovered.)
The Air Force said there were
four crew members and five pas
sengers aboard. The plane was
flying from Elmendorf base at
Anchorage to Eielscn base near
Fairbanks.
The tragic crash occurred at
Summit, a midway station about 150
miles north of here. There was a low
overcast at the time of the crash.
The Air Force was advised that
the plane exploded when it hit,
burst into flame and burned for
most of the night. It was identified
as being from the 5,039th Base
Flight Squadron of the 39th Air
Depot Wing at Elmendorf.
Even Air Force communications
with the Summit field were scanty.
Messages and inquiries had to bo
relayed between operators.
One report from a Civil Aer
onautics Administration employee
at the 4,000-foot Summit field said
the plane crew had radioed clear
ance for a landing at the field. An
other report was that the plane
was only radioing about its posi
tion when it suddenly crashed on
the runway.
mere was no icjjuil ui any
sage tnat the plane was in trouble.
Weather was clearing today at
Summit and another C-47 took off
from Elmendorf with a Board of
Examiners to fly to the field. The
medical team reached the scene
at 6 a.m. (11 a.m. EST).
The Bodies of five of the victims
were reported thrown clear of the
wreckage, onto the runway.
There were reports the plane may
have been afire before crashing.
Both the Air Force and the CAA
said they were unable to confirm
the report.
The CAA here said its reports
indicate that the only radio report
from the plane was a routine posi
tion report over Summit.
Virgil Stone, a CAA pilot here,
said reports indicate the pilot start
ed to say something else, but that
the plane crashed before he could
say it. The plane crashed about 100
feet from the CAA administration
building.
The crash was the latest in a
month-long series of major aerial
mishaps which have claimed nearly
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TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Ed. Note: Drew. Pearson is
again on a tour of Europe,
studying conditions there. liis
column today takes the form of
a letter written from Germany
to his wife about her son.)
Munich, Germany
Dear L. W.:
Driving up toward the Czech
border the other night, about
dusk, I noticed a big van lumber
ing along with a little car behind
it. The van looked like it was lost
from our convoy and we stopped
it to inquire.
In the little car behind was
your son. He was pushing the dri
ver of that big van like a terrier
biting the heels of a recalcitrant
bull because that van contained
the most important part of our
"winds of freedom” operation—
namely, the messages we were
sending that night to the people
of Czechoslovakia.
I left the car full of VIP’s where
I was riding and Joined your son,
not only because I enjoy his com
pany but' to see what it was all
about. What happened was that
the friendship messages to the
Czech people had been late arriv
ing in Munich from Cincinnati
and we had to get new messages
printed in Germany. The latter
^ (Continued on PM* Four)
Jet Pilot Killed
In Jump from Plane
At Anchorage
ANCHORAGE. Aug. 23—W— A
jet pilot from Elmendorf field
bailed out over the new Anchorage
International airport at 9:30 a.m.
today, the Air Force and C.A.A.
reported.
The C.A.A. said later the jet
pilot was killed. The plane was
located later four miles away.
Canadian Pacific
To Run Jet Planes
Across Pacific
OTTAWA, Aug. 23—(PI—Jet air
craft will be introduced soon on
the Canadian Pacific Airlines’
trans-Pacific routes, John Bald
win, chairman of the Canadian
Air Transport Board said today.
No decision has yet been made on
whether jet planes will be used on
domestic airlines, he said.
Better Method
Of Sealing Traps
To Be Studied
To study more effective ways of
sealing fish traps during closed per
iods, three Fish and Wildlife Service
officials are leaving for Ketchikan
Saturday.
They are Seton Thompson, head
of the Alaska fisheries division here
from Washington, D. C., C. Howard
Baltzo, assistant regional director,
and Frank Hynes, fisheries manage
ment supervisor.
Several cases have come up this
year of fish traps being fined for
having fish during closed periods
because they were improperly rig
ged and could not be securely clos
ed. Baltzo said the matter would
be thoroughly studied in Ketchi
kan.
They will be flown through South
eastern Alaska areas on their way
to the First City to survey the pre
sent condition of the pink salmon
run, especially as pertains to escape
ment and catches.
The first pink run is about over,
Baltzo said, and the second run
should begin to show up the first
of next week.
“It’s still to early tp judge what
it will be like,” Baltzo said, “but
about the middle of next week we
are expecting requests for an exten
sion of the season will be coming
in and we want to get a good picture
of how the second run is shaping
up.”
The commercial fishing season is
set to close Sept. 1.
San Diego Shriners
Due Here Today
Members of the Juneau Shrine
Club will greet a party of 75 tour
ing Shriners from San Diego, Calif.,
at 4 p.m. today when the S. S. Cliil
cotin arrives here. Gene Vuille,
president of the local Shrine Club,
said today.
The visitors expect to take the
Mendenhall Glacier tour and visit
the Territorial Museum before the
vessel sails at II :30 p.m. for Skag
way.
On the southbound trip they will
visit in Sitka Aug. 26, according to
a letter from Roy French Kidd,
potentate of the San Diego lodge.
Second Suspected
Polio Case Reported
In Ketchikan
Second case of probable poliomyel
itis in Ketchikan thfs month was re
ported to the Alaska Department
of Health here today.
These bring to eight the number
of cases reported to the health de
partment this season. Four were
reported from Nome and two from
Fairbanks earlier this summer.
Tests Theory
Dr. Herbert E. Hipps (above) father of the theory that rabies and
polio aiV: similar diseases and that immunity to one may produce
immunity to the other. His theory is being tested at Frost, Tex.,
wher 265 persons have taken their final rabies shot. Dr. Hipps said
in Waco, Tex., that a period of years will be n’eeded for observation
to determine the full effect of the theory. (Ft Wirephoto.
It's Not the Principle, It's
The Principal, with Eskimo Artist
She Should
Watch Her
Watch Wore
• SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 23 •
• —tfl>)—Willie Porter, 30, pleaded •
• in South Bend City Court to •
• stealing a watch from Miss •
• Mary Richardson, 26. •
• Then the court tried Miss •
• Richardson and found her •
• guilty of stealing the watch •
• from Miss Boba Tharbs. •
• Both admirers of the watch •
• drew 30-day jail sentences and •
• $35 fines. •
Longshoremen at
Seward Threaten
Strike on Wages
SEATTLE, Aug. 23—LP)—A long
shoremen's strike threat at Sew
ard, Alaska was reported here to
day.
It would threaten the supply
line to Anchorage, Fairbanks, and
the rest of the “rail belt.”
Albin L. Peterson, Federal La
bor conciliator, said he has been
notifed by two locals of the
International Longshoremen &
Warehousemen’s union (IND) of
their intention of striking. He said
lie will go to the Alaska port city,
if necessary, to try to avert a
walkout.
Some 300 longshoremen and
warehousemen were reported in
volved. They seek an increase in
the 15 per cent wage differential
paid because of the higher cost
of living in Alaska.
AFL Teachers
Denounce Taking
Loyalty Oaths
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 23
—Uf)—Loyalty oaths for school
teachers stand condemned by the
AFL teachers union on grounds
of "indignity and personal injury,”
The American Federation of
Teachers, in convention here, de
nounced such oaths in a resolu
tion last night.
Loyalty oaths, the resolution
said, "inflict indignity and per
sonal injury on the honest and
loyal teacher by implying he is
disloyal until he swears he is
1 loyal.”
SEATTLE, Aug. 23—(if>—Robert
Mayokok, the Eskimo artist, con
templated a $1,500 collection of ivory
in his hotel room today and de
cided he will not pay the city of
Seattle $25 a day for a peddler's
license.
It is not a matter of principle with
Mayokok. It’s a matter of prin
cipal.
“I can’t afford it,” the Eskimo
shrugged. “It costs enough just to
live in Seattle, let alone pay a li
cense fee.”
Mayokok, 48, came to Seattle
from Nome in hopes of selling
Eskimo ivory pieces, including
fine tooled birds from St. Law
rence island, dog teams and sleds
from Shishmaref, cribbagc boards
and carved animals from King
Island and the Pribilof Islands.
He also hoped to sell some of his
own fine etchings of Eskimo life.
The profits he must split with his
backers, the Eskimos in the villages
who did the ivory carving.
But before Mayokok started his
rounds of Seattle gifts shops, he
checked with the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce. He was referred to
the city hall to see about a license.
“One dollar for a business li
cense, and that is all right,” he
said. “Then they look in a book
and decide I must pay $25 a day
for a peddler’s license. That is
all right, too—but I can’t afford
it.”
Mayokok plans to remain in Se
attle about a week. Then, if busi
ness doesn’t brighten up, he’s going
back home on an Alaska line ship.
$8 Million More
For WildIHe Work;
Alaska Gels $75,000
WASHINGTON, Aug 23 — —
Secretary of Interior Chapman has
announced the apportionment of
$17,191,031 among the states for
restoration and development of wild
life resources.
This is $8,517,514 more than last
year’s apportionment of $8,673,517.
The money comes from the fed
eral excise tax levied on the manu
facturers of sporting arms and am
munition.
Alaska’s maximum apportionment
by law is $75,000.
State allotments include: Idaho,
$340,423; Oregon, $412,624; Washing
ton, $477,355.
CITY COUNCIL
MEETS TONIGHT
The Juneau City Council will
hold a regular meeting tonight at
8 o’clock in the city clerk’s office
on the City Dock.
Dewey Set for
FishiiT'Camp
At Tracy Arm
KETCHIKAN, Aug. 23 — UP) — A
salmon-fishing trip was in pros
pect today for Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey.
The New York state chief execu
tive, relaxing on an aerial “vaca
tion" tour of Alaska after a 42,000
mile trip through the Far East, was
to Join the Ketchikan fishing party
before flying to Tracy Arm where
I he planned to spend the night.
Dewey arrived here last night
from Japan. He described his trip
to Korea and Japan at an informal
meeting with some 200 Alaskans
at the Elks Club.
Dewey said he had cancelled to
day’s luncheon stop at Sitka and his
entire visit to Fairbanks. He was
| scheduled to return to Juneau to
night to address the Chamber of
Commerce on Friday.
Dewey flew to Alaska from Se
attle Wednesday. He spent Wed
nesday night In the mansion of
Gov. Ernest Gruening, a Democrat,
after attending a public reception.
Auditor Won't Allow
$5 for Carrying
Dewey’s Bags
Alaska's Democratic administra
tion isn't paying for carrying the
GOP standard bearer's bags.
The Territorial Auditor, an ap
pointed Democrat, disallowed a
vodther for $5 today from the office
[ of Frank A. Metcalf, highway en
j gineer—an elective Democrat—for
transportation of Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey's bags front the airport to
the appointed Democratic Governor
of Alaska’s mansion last Tuesday.
Auditor Neil Moore didn’t see this
as an expense of the highway en
gineer’s office. Asked if it could be
paid from Governor Gruening's en
tertainment fun of $6,000 given him
by the last legislature, or his emer
gency fund of $5,000, Moore said he
would have to look up the law gov
erning expenditure of (hose funds.
The 1951 session laws define the
emergency fund as: “Expenses au
thorized by the Governor and in
curred as he deems necessary iti
meeting Territorial emergencies. . ."
It doesn't mention Republican
bags.
Court Action Will
Reduce Fishermen's
Fund. Says Williams
Anticipated revenue lor the fund
for care of sick and disabled fish
ermen will be materially reduced
as a result of a decision by the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
regarding non-resident fishermen's
licenses, Attorney General J. Ger
ald Williams said today.
A recent Judgment of $45 was
granted John Storkerson, a fish
erman who paid, under protest,
$50 for a non-resident license.
The court declared void any
I amount exceeding $5, which is the
resident license.
The fund, created by the 1951
legislature, became effective June
22. The law provided it receive 30
per cent of all commercial licen
ses.
The higher court based its de
cision on the case of Anderson vs
Mullaney given June 25 which
stated that the higher tax on non
resident fishermen was invalid.
Williams said the U. S. Supreme
Court would be asked to review
the case. Question of the proce
dure for the payment of refunds
will have to be settled by that
ccurt, he said.
Since Jnne 25 the Territory
has been collecting only $5 from
the non residents.
Since June 22, $56,235 has been
collected in non-resident licenses,
and $17,006 in resident licenses,
tax commissioner M. P. Mullaney
said. That takes up to Aug. 17.
According to the tax depart
ment’s biennial report, $467,257.50
was collected from fishermen’s
commercial licenses in 1949 and
1950. Of this, $76,290.50 came from
residents and $390,967 from non
residents.
Licenses increased by afcprox
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Ex-Army Gridder Greeted
1
Fullback Al Pollard, one of the 90 West Point cadets figuring in
the cribbing scandal at the military academy, gets a kiss on the
cheek from his girl friend, Palriria LaLonde, on arrival at her Los
Angeles home. Pollard says he's talked with General Manager
Frank Fitzgerald and Line Coach Shelby Calhoun of the New York
Kanks pro football team and may sign a contract, but so far no
terms have been agreed upon. IP* Wlrephoto.
| Menu of Moose to Muchtuh for
Ice-Bound Crew9 Marooned
Two Winters in Arctic
VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 23—OP)—'
An adventure in eating was what
; the crew of the motor vessel
Snowbird II called an ice-bound
stay in the Arctic.
The Royal Canadian Air Force
supply ship, ice-bound for two
winters in the Arctic, arrived at
Sidney, B. C., near here after a
16-day, 4,000-mile voyage from
near the mouth of the Mackenzie
river.
The vessel was used during
the summers to shuttle supplies
to northern air force bases. An
attempt to 'bring it out in 1950
failed because of ice conditions.
The sea-going fliers, under com
mand of squadron leader S.C.N.
Burridge, 40-year old veteran skip
per, Hew into Tuktoyaktuk, near
the mouth of the Mackenzie river,
in the spring to bring the Snow
bird II to her home port.
No Meat
For about a month the ship’s
crew was without meat supplies.
"I did what the Eskimos did,”
recalled Cpl. Phil Hufichi of Van
couver, B. C., the cook aboard the
Arctic ship.
’ “First, I served them dried
mooce meat. Then, in rapid suc
cession ramc blubber; a 'myster
ious fish known to the Eskimos
as ‘connie,’ which means ‘un
known,’ but is actually like a
hybrid of salmon and whitefish,
^ind some fried whale meat.”
But the prize dish was “muck
tuk," the meat of a small 1,000
pound whale, and finally polai
bear.
No Squawks
There were no complaints anc
the 18-man crew returned hom«
in “the pink.”
The voyage home was a battle
against drifting ice, dense fogs
and storms. After the ship roun
ded the tip of Alaska southerly
gales tossed the shallow-draft
vessel about like a cork-screw,
crew members reported.
They brought home an infla
tionary-price polar bear skin.
"We bought it from an Eski
mo," said squadron leader Bur
ridge. "It cost $40. Several year;
ago the price would have beer
$10.”
New Zealander Says
Russians Held Him
Prisoner 127 Days
BERLIN, Aug. 23—(/PI—A hag
gard New Zealander who reported
he had been Imprisoned 127 days
by the Russians and East German
Communists on charges that he
was a spy arrived as a refugee in
Allied West Berlin today.
The man was Prank Morame,
45 years old and a native of Well
ington.
He said he had entered the Rus
sian occupation zone last April
"to see how Communism works
in practice.”
Now, he added, "I’ve seen all
of it I want of Communism -•
saw it from behind bars."
British consular authorities
helped him book air passage for
London this afternoon.
Labor Day Delays
Alaska - We Mean
The SS Alaska
SEATTLE, Aug. 23 — W — The
Alaska Steamship Company said to
day the scheduled Sept. 5 sailing
of the SS Alaska has been delayed
one day because of the Labor Day
holiday.
Millions in Damage
Left in Wake of
Week-Old Hurricane
TAMPICO, Mexico, Aug. 23—(AT
—The killer hurricane that raged
over tropical seas all week taking
more than 150 lives and causing
millions of dollars in damage, was
blowing itself out today in the
mountains of Mexico.
The storm — described as the
worst recorded in Mexico — spent
its final fury over the oil port of
Tampico yesterday. At least one
person was killed here and the
damage was expected to run above
$1,000,000.
Twenty-seven persons were of
ficially reported injured here —
unverified reports placed the cas
ualties as high as 300.
The weather bureau said the
hurricane was blowing northwest
into the mountains where it would
break up.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
Richard C. Brown of the research
department of American Can Co.,
from San Francisco arrived here
yesterday on his third routine trip
to Southeastern Alaska. He expects
I to spend the next week visiting
canneries in this area. He is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
Truce Talks
Called Off
In Maneuver
Ridgway Terms Accusa-,
tion 'Ridiculous'- Red
Radio Confused
MUNSAN, Korea. Friday —IM—
The Communists called off the
Korean armistice talks "from now
-on” Thursday on a bombing
charge which the United Nations
command said was a complete
frameup.
The Reds, In a dramatic night
maneuver, accused an Allied plane
of bombing Kaesong, site of the
deadlocked negotiations.
In a sharp statement issued in
Tokyo at midnight (6 a.m.
Thursday, Juneau time) Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway said the
Allies made no such bombing,
and that the timing showed the
Communists had decided to
break off the talks even before
they made their trumped-up
complaint.
The U. N. commander's state
ment called it "a frame-up staged
from first to last."
No Planes in Area
Allied statements said no U. N.
air force or naval plane was in
the area, no Allied artillery fired
into the area, and the Reds pre
sented no evidence that there
even was a bombing.
An investigating American of
ficer said the evidence he was
shown in the early morning black
ness was "ridiculous."
A Red liaison officer, pulling
y >J notes from his pocket,
promptly announced truce talks
were “off frem this time."
The Reds made this announce
ment at 1:45 a.m. Thursday, only
two hours and twenty-five min
utes after the alleged bombing in
cident, Ridgway said.
Break Planned
Since this obviously was a high
level command decision, the U. N.
commander noted, it was evident
the break-off was planned in ad
vance.
ean communications are such
that they normally take many
hours or days to arrive at such
decisions.
Despite the appearance of fi
nality, high-ranking Allied offi
cers Thursday night had express
ed belief the breakdown was “by
no means permanent.”
Red broadcasts displayed some
confusion in announcing the ac
tion.
Communist China's official Pei
ping radio said that only Thurs
day's sub-committee meeting was
cancelled. Later it quoted a Kae
song dispatch as saying "further
meetings at Kaesong have been
suspended.”
This dispatch predicted “a
further formal protest,” presum
ably from a higher level, would
be lodged with the U. N. com
mand.
The Red Korean radio added
further uncertainty by saying the
Communists would consider the
U. N. did not want to continue
talks unless the Reds received a
satisfactory answer to their long
-eries of complaints.
All these complaints now have
been answered. The U. N. com
mand said all the alleged incidents
either did not happen or were
the Red’s own fault.
MOSCOW MAKES NO
COMMENT ON BOMBING
MOSCOW, Aug. 23 —UB— The
Moscow press published no news
today of a breakdown in Korean
truce talks. The papers carried
stories of American planes bomb
ing and strafing the neutral Kae
song area, but made no comment.
Ship Movements
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive from Skagway Friday at 8 a m.
sailing for Vancouver at 9 a.m.
Princess Kathleen due north
bound Saturday at 3 p.m.
Aleutian due to arrive south
bound Sunday noon.
Denali due southbound Friday
noon, sails at 2:30 p.m.
Alaska scheduled to arrive north
bound Saturday at 8 pan.
Chilcotin scheduled to arrive from
Vancouver at 6 p.m.
Baranof due northbound Tues
day at 8 ajn. -_ .,^1