THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,905 _JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1951_*_MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_PRICE TEN CENTS
Start Truce
Elsewhere,
Says Ridgway
TOKYO, Sept. 6——Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway told the Reds lr
a stinging note today that if thej
want to end the shooting in Korer
they should agree to start truce talk;
anew somewhere else.
The United Nations commander
also brusquely told the Communists
to stop their “constant deceit and
treachery” in manufacturing in
cidents for “false and malevolent"
charges against the Allies.
Almost simultaneously with deliv
ery of Ridgway’s sharp note, Chinese
Communists launched a heavy
tank- supported attack on the west
ern front. A front-line officer said
it could be “a prelude to a major
offensive.”
The Red assault on the long in
active front was only 25 miles from
Kaesong, site of the disrupted armis
tice negotiations.
Ridgway left it completely up to
the Communists whether nego
tiations are resumed. But the U.N.
commander made it clear the
talks won’t be at Kaesong.
Ridgway's information office said
Kaesong is not a suitable site for
armistice discussions because “it is
within Communist lines."
A release by the information of
fice said the situation has reached
a point “where the question of the
neutrality of the Kaesong zone has
overshadowed the original purpose
of the meetings.”
The Reds broke off the talks Aug.
23 after charging the U.N. violated
the neutrality zone.
Marines Fight
Off 3,000
Reef Chinese
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 6—(At—An
American unit was surrounded by
thousands of tank-supported Chi
nese Reds on the western front to
day but fought its way free after
an 18-hour battle.
American Infantrymen and sup
porting airmen said they killed
more than 40® of the 3,000 at
tacking Chinese.
On the opposite end of the front
North Korean Reds drove U.S. Ma
rines back 400 yards on the northern
edge of the Punch Bowl, 20 miles
north of the 38th parallel. The
leathernecks counterattacked and
regained the lost ground.
Chinese attacking on the long
quiet western front, seven miles
north of parallel 38 were supported
by eight tanks. One intelligence
officer said 20 Russian-type tanks
were seen in the area.
The fight began Wednesday mid
night and continued into Thursday
night when the U.N. force fought
its way clear. It took out its wounded
on tanks and armored vehicles.
One Allied officer said the
abrupt attack by at least a regi
ment of Reds might be the begin
ning of a new offensive. An
Eighth Army spokesman said it
was too early to tell.
Another officer suggested it was
a Red attempt to clean U.N. troop'
out of the “Trans-Imjim” area 30
miles north of Seoul in preparation
for a buildup for an ultimate Com
munist offensive.
TheWashingion
Merry - Go - Round
Ed. Note — While Drew Pear
son is on a brief vacation, the
Washington Merry-go-round is
being written by several disting
uished guest columnists, today’s !
being by Michael V. DiSalle, dir
ector of the Office of Price Sta
bilization.)
WASHINGTON. — Writing this
column for Drew Pearson today
instead of reading it, deprives me
of a pleasure I enjoy each morn
ing. For each morning I read the
column to find out what his pre
dictions are on what we are about
to do—and surprisingly enough
sometimes the predictions have
been right. Occasionally, reading
the column is not a pleasure for
it steps on the toes of some of my
friends. But I guess no one likes
to see his friends unhappy.
Generally, however, I enjoy the
column because of its hard-driving
support of the* stabilization pro
gram which we feel is so right and
so necessary. We appreciate this
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Disputed (rater Inspected
Col. A. J. Kinney (5th from left) of the U. S. Air Force, Cnited
Nations liaison officer, holds a fragment which North Korean
officer (pointing) claimed came from a bomb dropped by a IJN plane
in the Kaesong neutrality area Sept. 1. A Chinese Communist
officer stoops to examine the crater, which Communists charged was
caused by the bomb. The incident precipitated a scries of broad
sides fired by both sides over responsibility for the affair. (C. S. Air
Force Photo va radio from Tokyo and AP Wirephoto).
200 Planes Fly Ddlly
From Anchoraye on Biy
Game Unnts9 Says Rhode
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'Old Dobbin'Doomed
To Disappear irom j
Mink Ranch Menus
« i
‘•Old Ddbfcir” will be tiling of
j thepast in mink diets, and' Salmon
! /.<•£«.i --mbps to top t'"" menu if
experiments carried dtit by the
Fishery Products Laboratory in
Ketchikan are successful, Clarence
J. Carlson, acting chief announced
today. I
The past several years the lab
oratory has been cooperating with
the Experimental Fur Farm in
Petersburg with the use of fish
and fish by-products In the diets
of mink. In addition, it has been
assisting the technological labor
atory in Seattle In developing a!
diet for hatchery fish.
Up to now, Carlson said, the ,
main ingredient in feeding mink J
and hatchery fish has been I
horsemeat. This commodity, he
added has been becoming more
scarce every year with a conse- j
(■uent rise in price.
The past summer Norman Wig- ,
utoff, fishery marketing specialist'
at the Ketchikan laboratory, made ,
a survey of the potential market:
for frozen salmon offal. j
Hatcheries and mink farms
were visited on the west coast
and mid-west and It was found
that in the Pacific Northwest it ;
w4s common practice to feed j
mink 60 to 70 per cent fish while j
Wisconsin ranchers considered a 1
15 per cent fish diet “rather j
high.” n
However, because “Old Dobbin
is fast disappearing from the .
ranges it is evident the midwest |
will have to increase its volume j
of fish food, he found.
In Petersburg it was found that |
up to 80 per cent salmon waste I
could be fed mink successful^
Hatchery fish were fed almost 100,
Per cent waste with good results.
Alaska is the best source of nu- ,
tritionally superior salmon waste
products, Carlson pointed out. As
a test shipment lOOOOO pounds o
offal were gathered and fiozen;
Si »»““
Petersburg on the present sou h
bound voyage of the M, V Palis ,
anOn the basis of this shipment
th? Alaska Steamship Company
will determine rates at
volume loads can be made in the
<USS.o„ estimated that 10.000*
pounds or more of this hith
wasted offal could be used for
feeding in the states, v
Admiral Sprague
Relieved of Alaska
Naval Command
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—.'01—The
Navy announced the transfer of
Rear Admiral Edgar A. Cruise from
sea duty to command of the Alaskan
Sea Frontier and the 17th Naval
District. He relieves Rear Admiral
Clifton A. F. Sprague, whose next
duty has not been announced.
Moose a no canoou uunung in
;he Anchorage area Is a modern
ized operation with at least 200
small private planes taking off
daily for the hunting grounds,
Clarence Rhode, regional director
of the Pish and Wildlife Service
said today.
He returned yesterday from Fair
banks; Anchorage and northern
Alaska. *h«e he has been on a
Ir'. he said 25 <-necial
permits were issued for taking
buffalo at Big Delta. There were
842 applicants whose names were
put into a hat and the lucky 25
drawn.
Three hundred animals—extent
of the herd— is all the range can
support, Rhode explained. This is
the second year the service has
allowed killing older animals un
der the special permit system. He
said the herd will not migrate.
“The country surrounding is
mostly muskeg,” he said, “and
the animals refuse to spread out
over land on which there is no
food.”
He added that 17 transplanted
from Big Delta to the upper Cop
per River last fall have spread over
an area of about 150 miles. They
were transported over the Alaska
range by truck.
Canadians Want 5
He said the Canadian govern
ment has requested five buffalo
for planting in the White Rivei
district where it crosses into Can
ada and the service will supply
them as soon as practicable.
Rhode flew over the Interior
from Fairbanks to north of the
Brooks range and from Umiat to
Barter Island, encountering some
jf the worst weather he said he
>ver saw in the Interior.
“In all the years I lived In
Fairbanks I never saw so much
rain and fog,” he said. On Aug.
29, while on a lake in the Brooks
range, where he was surveying
the sheep situation, he said four
inches of snow covered the wings
of his plane. He added it took
him eight hours to fly from An
chorage to Juneau yesterday —
twice the time of a normal trip.
Military Cooperation
In speaking of the hunting sea
son around Anchorage, Rhode
said his department is receiving
fine cooperation from the military
General William E. Kepner, com
mander of the Alaska command
has assigned two men in the An
chorage area and two around
Fairbanks to work permanently
on game conservation. In'addition
about ten other men have been
assigned to game law enforcement
during the hunting season. They
are equipped with vehicles and
two-way radio to communicate
with agents of the service.
Most of the planes out of An
chorage concentrate on the Nil
china caribou herd at the upper
end of the Glenn Highway,
Rhode said. “And besides the
planes, there are literally hund
reds of cars parked along the
road in the caribou country.”
DaU Sheep “Lose"
Rhode said that even the DaU
sheep in the Brooks range were
“taking a beating” with modern
transportation methods.
“The country used to be prac
Navy Will Rescue
Lighthouse Keepers
Hit by Drought
• VICTORIA, B. C„ Sept. 6— •
• .¥) — Drought-hit lighthouse •
• keepers will get a fresh supply •
• of water in the next few days •
• through the co-operation of the •
• Canadian Navy. •
• The navy craft Billow will •
• leave Victoria today to pump •
• water to stations on Trial Is- •
• land, Portlock Joint, Merry Is- •
• land and Ballenas Island. The •
• Billow is a converted seiner •
• with built-in water tanks. •
• Lighthouse keepers generally •
• draw their supply from rain col- •
• lected in tanks, but the long •
• dry spell has depleted their •
• supply. •
'Pinch' Starts
For Civilians,
Says Wilson
Mobilization Chief De
clares Arms Buildup
Hits Quantity Stage j
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—(/PI—
Mobilization Chief Charles E. Wil
son today reported the arms build
up is reaching the "quantity-pro
duction stage and "the pinch is
here now” for the civilian economy,
i Wilson said the military pro
gram will “add force to the infla
tionary pressure" in coming months
but the rising weapons output is
a favorable development.
“It is what we expected, what
I we hoped for," he said,
i Wilson made the statement In a
1 news conference at which one of
I his chief lieutenants, Eric John
> ston, confirmed reports that he
‘ pier-.: to aui*, economic
I zation administrator “reasonably"
soon after his agreed nine-month
tbur of duty ends on Oct. 24.
Wilson's reference to a civilian
“pinch” followed yesterday's order
cutting use of steel for civilian
goods to 58 per cent of pre-Kor-1
ean war levels, effective Oct. 1.
The mobilization chief pointed
out further problems—the “very
serious” matter of the copper
strike which, he said, "couldn't
have happened at a worst time”;
the necessity to produce machine
tools costing $3,000,000,000 by the
end of 1953 for defense plants; and
a serious shortage of structural
steel which will postpone much
planned industrial construction.
Copper Workers
Slow Reluming lo
Work After Strike
DENVER, Sept. 6—OPI—Workers
who produce the nation's vital
supplies of copper, lead and zinc,
urgently needed for defense, were
slow to go back to work today, al
though ordered by a U. S. court
to end their 10-day strike.
The International Union ol
Mine, Mill and Smelter Worker;
(Ind) said It telegraphed back-to
work instructions to all locals last
night from Nogales, Ariz., where
its executive board is meeting.
The union earlier had termed
"unfair and unjust” an injunc
tion granted in federal district
court yesterday — an injunctioi
asked by U. S. attorneys.
Union headquarters here said it
had no reports yet on the effect
iveness' of the return-to-work or
der. Union spokesmen in the Mia
mi, Ariz., and northern Idaho dis
tricts said they looked for oper
ations to begin tomorrow.
Even after workers begin report
ing back to their jobs, companj
officials said it may take as long
as three days in most plants tc
reach peak production.
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TIDE TABLES
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• SEPTEMBER 7 •
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• High tide 5:28 a.m., 13.5 ft. •
• Low tide 11:12 a.m., 3.7 ft. •
• High tide 5:19 p.m., 16.4 ft. •
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FROM SAN FRANCISCO
Leon Shaen of San Francisco is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
tically inaccessible but with planes
can now be reached in a few
hours.”
Honor Guard for Indian
The*fiag-draped casket, bearing the body of Sgt. John Kire, is guarded by a military escort on arrival
in Washington, I). C., for final rites at Arlington National Cemetery. The moilirr (in wheelchair), Mrs.
Sarnie Davis, and a sister, Mrs. Helen Wolfe (right) accompanied the body, (ffl Wirephoto.
Russ War Warning Ignored;
Delegates Will Sign Treaty,
Some With Reservations
San FRANCISCO, Sept. 6—(tfl—<<
Ignoring Russia’s warnings of a
new 'var in the Far East, a swell
ing procession of delegates march
ed ’ -fore the San Francisco , con
today and declared their
intention t6 sign the Japanese
pence treaty.
The fourth plenary session end
ed at 11:59 a.m. and will resunn
at 3 p.m.
Just 24 hours after Soviet dep
uty foreign minister Andrei
Gromyko made his quickly-de
feated attempt to stall the con
ference and derail the treaty, El
Salvador's ambassador to Wash
nigton, Hector David Castro,
took the rostrum to praise the
pact and announce his country
would sign.
He was quickly followed by Am
bassador Wilhelm Munthe Df
Morgenstierne of Norway, Jacques
M. Leger, Haitian minister of for
eign affairs; Ambassador Moham
med Kamil Bey Abdul Rahim
Egypt's envoy to the United States;
CroWn Prince Savang of Laos
(Indochina) and J. R. Jarewar
dene, finance minister of Ceylon.
Reservations
They all either stated or made
dear their intentions to sign
the pact. Some had reservations.
Norway warned against too large
an Antarctic fishing fleet for
Japan; Egypt criticized territor
ial provision.
The wave of speechm&king
showed that Gromyko, who suffer
ed defeat after defeat Wednesday
and struck back with a slashing
attack on the treaty in late af
ternoon, had made little impact
on the conference—except in the
field of conversation and specula
tion.
Gromyko called the treaty
"an aggressive military alliance
with the United States” and
branded it a “preparation for a
new war in the Ear East.”
Looks to Moscow
But he took such a battering on
every move he made yesterday that
some western delegates believea
he might be seeking new instruc
tions from Moscow.
Anything from a walkout to^ new
and stronger threats of war in
the Far East was considered pos
sible for the Russians, and their
Polish and Czech satellite delega
tions, in view of the situation
which has developed here with ex
traordinary speed.
Gromyko told the conference
yesterday that what the United
States and Britain are sponsor
ing “is not a treaty of peace
but a treaty for the prepara
tion of a new war in the Far
East.”
“Aggression”
“The draft treaty,” he charged,
reading rapidly from his prepared
speech, “creates conditions for the
reestablishment of Japanese mil
itarism, creates a danger of a new
Japanese aggression.”
Gromyko wound up his speech;
with a proposal of 13 major amend
ments to the British-American
draft. These included provisions
Successtff'Paf'
Carroll Will Be
Chosen by Board
A successor to C. A. (Pat) Car
roll, Territorial property assessor
wlio was recently appointed to head
the Federal Housing Administra
tion . will be appointed by the
Boards of Assessment and Equali
zation when a meeting is called.
This was revealed today by Er
nest Parsons of Juneau, acting
chairman at large of the boards.
It is not known at this time,
Parsons said, when the meeting
will te called. Enough time must
be given lor applications to be
received, he said.
Territorial law provides that
the assessor must have technical
and other qualifications prescribed
by the tax commissioner. The font
boards, one for each judicial div
ision, are composed of three mem
bers each appointed by the gover
nor.
Parsons said that application?
for the job can be mailed to him
at the property tax office here.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Sept. 6—(/W—Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau
mine stock today is 2:i, American
Can 115'i, American Tel and Te!
162:'i, Anaconda 481 _•. Douglas Air
craft 531L’, General Electric 60
General Motors 70 7„, Goodyear 95
Kennecott 80, Libby, McNeill an
Libby 91 i, Northern Pacific 52
Standard OU of California 51 .
Twentieth Century Fox 20%, U. S
Steel 43%, Pound $2.79 15 16, Can
adian Exchange 94.62'i.
Sales today were 2,150,000 share.
Averages today were as follows
industrials 272.28, rails 82.72, util
ities 45.19.
SALESMAN IS HERE
H. K. L. Johnson, Seattle jewelr;
salesman, arrived here yesterda;
from Cordova and is stopping for ;
few days at the Baranof Hotel.
to force American troops out o;
Japan, bring Red China into the
peacemaking, and give Formosa t;
Red China.
He jot isolated applause from
the Communist delegates and ad
visers—and a loud explosion of
"boos” from tile spectator sec
tions. The spectators were rep
rimanded by conference vice
president Percy C. Spender of
Australia.
Altogether the day was one of
the roughest a Soviet delegation
ever experienced in a public ses
sion of a major international
meeting. In only two hours at the
outset Gromyko lost the rules
fight that had been expected to
last all day at least. A tight set of
rules limiting debate and barring
changes in the treaty was adopted
48 to 3.
Hero's Burial
St>t. John 1C. Rice,' who tiled de
fending his country hut was de
nied a grave in his hometown's
“All White" cemetery because he
was an Indian of the Winnebago
tribe, gut a hero's burial yester
day in Arlington National Ceme
tery.
The Army laid to rest with lull
military, honors the Sioux City,
la., infantry soldier who lost his
life at the l’usan beachhead in
KoiVa a year ago today. (/B Wlre
ohoto.
School Refunds,
'Frozen" Fishing
lax Ebbs Treasury
The tide went out last month
m the Territorial Treasurer’s offief
to the amount of $701,000, leaving
t bdlance in the coffers of $320.
127.74 as of Aue. 31, according ro
i report from Treasurer Henry
Roden.
Tlic non-resident flsnermen's tax
money accounted for $350,000 be
ing "irozen” until a ruling by the
Supreme Court on legality of the
levy is forthcoming. It assessed a
550 tax on non-resident fishermen,
recently pronounced illegal by the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The balance of the sum—$351,000
was a refund to city schools in
Alaska, as provided by law.
Alaska’s bank account for the
and of August showed $6,118,510.74
with outstanding warrants amount
ing to $1,049,924.22. Ear-marked
funds, including the non-resident
fishermen’s account, totaled $4,
748,158.78 leaving the balance of
$320,427.74.
Ship Movements
Denali scheduled southbound Fri
day at 8 p.m.
Aleutian due southbound some
time Sunday.
Alaska scheduled northbound on
Sunday.
FROM DENVER
H. Louis Plansoen and J. Z. Mun
dine of Denver, Colo., are registered
at the Gastineau Hotel. They are
with the U, S. Geological Survey.
Congress Asks
Navy lo Ground
Privateers
4th Crash Prompts New
Demand by Mitchell
45 Killed in 3 Months
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—IM—
The crash of a fourth privateer
bomber after the Navy blamed pil
ot error as the "mast probable”
cause of the first three prompted a
fresh congressional demand today
that the Navy ground all planes
of the type.
Itcp. Mitchell ID-Wash) noted
that 45 men died in 'the four
crashes in the Alaska-Puget
Sound area during the past three
n.onths and recalled that he
\\ rote Secretary of the Navy
Kimball after the third crash:
"Machines may be expendable
but men are not.”
Francis P. Whltehair, under sec
retary of the navy, replied for
Kimball. He wrote that investi
gating boards looked into the fatal
accidents near Whidby Naval Air
Station, Wash., June 21 and Aug.
6 and on Amak Island Aug. 12.
Each crash involved a lour-en
gine PBY-2, a modified version of
the Air Force’s B-24 Liberator
bomber.
“Results of the investigations
indicate there is no substanti
ated reason for grounding the
aircraft," Whitehalr said. He
added there is “no reason to sus
pect material failure or struc
tural weakness.’’
Mitchell had told Kimball the
privateers were obsolete, had had
thousands of hours of flying wear"
and were clumsy when used 10
years ngo. Since that letter was
written, another privateer crashed
on Little Tanaga Island, Alaska,
last Thursday killing nine men
and injuring a tenth. Yesterday
Michell wrote Whltehair: :
"Since my first letter, another
-or these bjfhbeY'S has crashed In
(he Alaskan ared. Is this, too, to
be recorded as an accident due to
pilot error? Was this aircraft
which crashed on or about Aug. 30
one of those delivered to the Navy
in 1945, making the bomber over
six years old?"
Death Sentence for
Cougar Trying to
Kidnap Small Girl
WALLACE, Idaho, Sept. 6—lift—
! Animal or man — the penalty lor
kidnapping is death.
And North Idaho hunters are out
for blood in their search for a cougar
that tried to kidnap a two-year-old
child.
Sam Peterson of Wallace said his
small daughter, Jane, was carried
200 yards by a large cat that picked
the girl up with its teeth in the
child’s sweater.
The animal dropped the child
when Mrs. Peterson and her two
soas ran after it screaming. After
letting go of the little girl, the big
cat stopped, snarled for a moment,
and then disappeared in the brush.
Little Jane suffered only scratches
about the face.
The incident occurred at a mining
camp near Wallace.
‘LEMONADE RUN’ SET UP
TO COOL OFF AIRMEN
ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE
—When the temperature hit 130 de
grees on the flight line at Randolph
Air Force Base, Tex., M Sgt. V. M.
Day. administrative line chief, took
steps to do something about it.
He rigged up a four-wheel flat
bed trailer equipped with two wood
en kegs containing ice cold lemonade
and instituted a “lemonade run'1
along the sizzling ramp where old
sol's blistering richochet off the all
metal ships and concrete right back
at the mechanics. His ‘beat the
heat’ ’idea went over big with the
thirsty men.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• <U. 6 WEATHER BUREAU •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6 20 o'clock this morning •
• At Airport—Maximum, 59; •
• minimum, 48.# ••
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Cloudy with intermittent •
• rain tonight and Friday. •
• Southeasterly winds 15 to 25 •
• mph Friday . Low tonight •
• near 50 and high Friday 58. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a m today •
• • At Airport — .68 inches: •
• since July 1—6.20 inches. •
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