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“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME'
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,875
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 1, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Truman Signs
'Deficient'
Control Act
"Worst Ever" Blasts
President; Price Office
Orders Rollbacks
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — <.fl —
President Truman prepared today
to hammer again on Congress’ door
for a “good, strong price control
law” to replace what he called the
“defieient"*act he signed last night.
Mr. Truman emphasized that he
accepted the new, one-year defense
production act—“the worst I ever
had to sign"—only because he could
not risk the lapse of its rent ceiling
and strong priority control clauses.
But the bitterly disputed law
was on the books, and its Repub
lican and Democratic backers de
fended it against the angry White
House blasts. Their views were
summed up by the veteran GOP
leader, Rep. Halleck (Ind), who
said:
“Will Effect Control”
"It’s a bill which, properly applied
and administered, will effect control
despite Mr. Truman’s statements.”
At the center of the storm, Mi
chael V. DiSalle's Office of Price
Stabilization (OPS) hastily ex
plored techniques for lifting price
ceilings to the levels now re
quired.
DiSalle ordered thousands of price
roll-badks—and a goodly number of
roll-forwards—into effect last night
in the final hours before Mr. Tru
man signed the new measure.
New ceilings, held back for a
month during the Congressional de
bate, were applied to consumer items
like radios, television sets, refriger
ator and other home appliances,
shoes, apparel, cotton textiles, wool
yarns and fabrics, machinery, chem
icals and many building materials.
By rushing the orders out last
night, OPS avoided the immediate
necessity of rewriting the ceilings
to conform to the new act, which
entitles each manufacturer to
pass on to buyers his full business
cost increases up to July 26.
Church Council
Urges Harvest
Festival Sunday
NEW YORK, Aug. 1, —(Jt—The
National Council of the Churches
of Christ in the U.S.A. urges that
churches select a Sunday in Aug
ust, September or October for pro
motion of a "harvest festival."
The council said in a statement
last night chat the festival should
be revived as a means of relating
worship "to the ordinary pursuits
of man.”
TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
lCopyright. 1951. or Bell ByndluM, Inc.
Washington. — Gen. Dwight
u. iMseiuiuwi'r nas qiueuy passeu
the word to his GOP boosters that
he is not interested in the Re
publican nomin ition—if Isolation
ists control the party.
In addition, Ike let it be known
that he is upset by the timid and
hesitant policy of internationally -
minded Republicans and the waj
they let bitter attacks on him go
unheeded.
One glose friend who returned
from Paris recently put it thi.
way:
“If the Republicans want Iki
merely to bail out the party anc
win an election, they’re badl)
mistaken. That would be like put
ting a million dollar jockey or.
a two dollar horse.
"The General is not the leas'
bit interested in running for Pres
ident just to accommodate a can
didate for sheriff. Those who saj
they want Ike so badly are go
ing to have to do a lot more thai
say, ’He's a fine fellow and wili
win the election for us.' They’l
have to work and fight to mak<
the Republican party the kind oi
place where the General would
feel at home.”
Eisenhower’s close friends agree
that this issue will largely decide
whether he consents to run—and
on which party. They claim Eisen
hower is disturbed by four fac
tors:
1. The prospect that as the GOP
nominee he might help elect an
Isolationist Republican Congress
which would then proceed to
dump the military and economic
(Continued on Page Four)
Guard at 'SHAPE' Headquarters
.1 _
Soldiers of the French, American and British armies stand guard at the main entrance of the new
headquarters of SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters, Atlantic Powers, Europe) at Marly-le-Roi, near Paris.
Left to right are Garde Pierre Minet of Gennieviiiiers, France; Pfc. Donald R. Sipe of York, Pa.; and
Lance Cpl. James Gould of Honslow, Eng. IP) Wire photo.
Clanging Cable Cars
Ring Off; San Franciscans
Marooned on Hilltops
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1,—OW— 1
The California street cable rail
road company ordered its pictur
esque maroon and gold cable cars
temporarily out of service last
night because the company's in
surance has been cancelled.
This meant that today some
8,000 San Franciscans who travel
over San Francisco hills on the
70-year-old company’s lines had
to find other transportation.
The company’s liability insur
ance was cancelled by Lloyd's of
London effective at midnight. A
company spokesman said service
would be resumed when new in
surance coverage was procured.
Search Continues
For Missing
Airlift Transport
Floating yellow objects spotted
Monday and thought to be possible
life rafts and jackets from the miss
ing Canadian airlift transport miss
ing off Cape Spencer since July 20,
have not been rediscovered, it was
announced today.
The flotsam was reported by an
Air Force plane 30 miles southwest
of Yakutat.
U.S. Coast Guard headquarters
said here today that the cutter
Storis searched the area yesterday,
assisted by 10th Air Rescue Squad
ron aircraft but nothing was found.
Nineteen searching planes
achieved about 50 percent coverage
during 168 hours of flight over a
district from Baranof Island to the
Kenai Peninsula yesterday. Four
Royal Canadian Air Force Dakotas
(DC-3’s) based at Whitehorse par
ticipated.
Weather was not good today but
it was anticipated that 21 planes,
including the RCAF, would be in the
air. The Canadians plan to comb
.he Mt.. St. Elias Range if weather
permits.
The Canadian Pacific Airlines
transport was on the first leg of a
Korean airlift flight from Van
couver, B.C., to Tokyo and was
round for Elmendorf Field when it
ast reported in the vicinity of Cape
Ipencer. It carried 38 persons.
Every clue to the missing aircraft
las been systematically chocked by
.he searching groups.
ilock Quotations
NEW YORK, Aug. 1-4^1—Closing
luotation of Alaska Juneau mine
took today is 2%, American Can
112*4, American Tel. and Tel. 157,
Anaconda 44%, Douglas Aircraft 50,
3eneral Electric 56%, General
Motors 47*4, Goodyear 93%, Kenne
cott 75%, Libby McNeill and Libby
3%, Northern Pacific 48%, Standard
Oil of California 48, Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 20%, U.S. Steel 41%, Pound
$2.79 15/16, Canadian Exchange
94.81*4.
Sales today were 1,600,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 259.87. rails 81.25, utiliticA
But even if this obstacle is |
solved, the future of the bell
clanging cable cars appeared
cloudy.
Stockholders will meet today to
decide whether the line shall be
sold to the city of San Francisco
for $150,000. Myron Kunin of Los
Aneeles. the company’s largest
single stockholder, said he was1
against selling to the city and
would press for liquidation of the
company.
The California street company
is the last independent cable car
operator in San Francisco. Ihe
Powell Street Cable Line now is
under city management.
Juneau Weather
Goes Unnoticed
By Weather Men
• Juneau will no longer have •
• temperatures and preciplta- •
• tion reported by the Weather •
• Bureau. •
• Since July of 1943 the bu- •
• reau has been at the airport. •
• The readings have been taken • ;
• on the roof of the federal build- •
• ing for the past eight years as •
• a courtesy by members of the •
• bureau’s staff; according to a •
• bureau spokesman. •
• It does not seem advisable •
• for the readings to be taken •
• since weather men now live •
• closer to the airport than town, •
• he said. The city readings were •
• not in line of duty, he said, and •
• "meant driving into town to •
• take them” before the observer •
• reported for work at the air- •
• port. •
• Juneau’s readings will now •
• be taken evenings by janitors •
• at the federal buildings, the •
• spokesman said. If demand for •
• information is great enough, •
• he said, the readings may be •
• included in the daily report. •
• This means that city read- •
• ings will no longer appear in •
• The Empire. Readers may call •
• the paper if they desire the •
• information printed. If the •
• demand is great enough, an •
• attempt will be made to in- •
• elude morning city readings, •
• the spokesman said. •
Two Versions
Deaths in Shanghai
HONG KONG, Aug. 1, —M— A
copy of the Shanghai Liberation
Daily received here today said 41
“counter-revolutionaries” were put
to death in Shanghai, July 16.
This brings to more than 250 the
known number of persons executed
by the Reds in Shanghai in the first
18 days of this month.
Other mass executions announced
by the Reds include 60 shot on
July 9, 57 on July 14 and 94 on
July 18. News of the July 18 ex
ecutions reached here before that
of the July 16 executions.
82 Salmon Derby
Awards Distributed
To Happy Winners
B. F. Dunn, traffic and sales man
ager of Pan American Airways,
emceed the awarding of the Golden
North Salmon Derby prizes which
was held last evening in the Elks
Halls. He Joked his way through
the passing out of 82 awards and
wept, uie large audience rippling
with laughter.
Dunn was assisted by Don Pegues,
also of Pan American.
Hazel McLeod, member of the
prize committee, passed out thr
awards.
E. E. Norton, Hayes and Whitely
logger, winner of the automobile
with a 56-pound king, was not
present but Mrs. Norton accepted
the ear keys on his behalf. Dunn
quipped, "I'll bet he saw wheels
on that fish when he hauled him
In.”
Jo Fender accepted the second
prize, a boat and outboard motor,
for Ernest Whitehead. Dunn asked
her if Ernie was still out fishing.
When Edward Cwik stepped for
ward to accept his Honolulu round
trip for two, Dunn promised him a
good time, complete with names and
addresses of friends of Alaska there.
The final event was the award
ing of the round trip for two to
the famous Rose Bowl football
game in Pasadena, Calif., which
went to Robert W. Scott. It was
given by the Territorial Sports
men, Inc., sponsors of the Derby.
Dr. D. D. Marquardt, co-chairman
with Curtis Shattuck. extended the
appreciation of the committee tc
all those who assisted in making
the Derby the big success that it
turned out to be. He even thanked
the weatherman.
It was not decided where absent
winners would pick up their awards
but an announcement will be made
later, the committee chairmen said.
Americans Try to
Avert Peace, Reds
Charge on Radio
TOKYO, Thursday, Aug. 2—
The Pyongyang radio today said the
U.N. truce team had "orders from
above” to set a cease-fire line in
North Korea and charged "the
Americans are making every effort
to avert the arrival of peace to
Korea.”
It said the line proposed by Vice
Adry. C. Turner Joy, chief U.N.
delegate, would run from Kosong
on the east coast to the tip of
Ongjin peninsula on the west coast
Kosong is 27 miles north of the
38th parallel. Ongjin peninsula Juts
out along both sides of the 38th
parallel. The Communists are de
manding that the line be drawn
along the 38th parallel.
“Thus the Americans try to rob
a large territory inside North Ko
rea,” the broadcast concluded from
Pyongyang, North Korea capital.
“The Americans are making every
effort to avert the arrival of peace
to Korea.”
Game Bird
Regulations
Announced
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, — (M
3ecretary of the Interior Chapman
announced today the hunting reg
ulation* for next fall for migra
tory game birds for Alaska.
Chapman announced that the
hunting season for ducks, geese
and brant (except Ross's goose),
and coot, in Alaska will be as fol
lows:
Opens Here Oct. 1
In the second and fourth judi
cial divisions, Sept. —Oct. 25
third Judicial division (except Ko
dlak-Afognak Island group) Sept.
7—Oct. 31; first judicial division
and the Kodiak-Afognak Island
group, Oct. 1—Nov. 24. Scoter, ei
der and merganser ducks also may
be taken in the third judicial div
ision west of 152 degrees west
longitude from Sept. 7 to Dec. 21,
and in the second and fourth Ju
dicial divisions from Sept. 1 to
Dec. 15.
Four Ducks
The Alaska daily bag limit tor
ducks is four, and the possession
limit is eight. Shooting hours
for t ducks, geese and brant in
Alaska will be the same as last
year, from half an hour before
sunrise to an hour before sun
set.
The daily bag limit for scoters
and eiders in Alaska is 10 singly
or in the aggregate of all kinds,
and the possession limit is 20
singly or in the aggregate.
The daily bag limit for Amer
ican and red-breasted mergansers
is 25 singly or in the aggregate
of both kinds, with no possession
limit after the opening day.
Also for Alaska there is a daily
bag limit of not more than two
Canada geese or its subspecies, or
two whitefronted geese, or two
brant, or one each of any two,
of these three kinds with a pos
session limit of not more than i
two .«ch of any two these kinds.]
In dklition, there is a daily bag
limit of four snow or emperor
geese singly or in the aggregate
of both kinds, with a possession
limit of not more than eight
singly or in the aggregate.
'Old Red' Done in
By Love of Mutton,
Rancher's Wit
BURNS LAKE, B.C., Aug. 1—UB
— Old Red, the sheep-killing
grizzly bear of the Caribou, is dead
A rancher's quick wit—and Old
Red's appetite for mutton—did
him in.
Farmers pf the interior British
Columbia area laid the slaughter
of 29 sheep In two months to the
roan-oolored varmit.
Cyril Shelford and Old Red met
face to face Monday night when
the rancher went to drive a flock
of sheep to the corral. Shelford
had only a short club* for a
weapon.
He threw It at the menacing
bruin, then dashed for the corral.
Old Red followed before he could
slam the gate.
With his footwork failing him,
Shelford resorted to headwork.
He sprinted toward an injured
ram, hoping It would divert Old
Red. It did. The bear stopped
and killed it.
Shelford reached the house and
returned with a rifle. He poured
20 shots into Old Red before the
beat fell dead on its final charge.
Shelford has a collection of claws
as a souvenir. Each is more than
three Inches long.
Wendling Family
Leaving for
Vacation in States
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wendling
and daughter, Mrs. Mary Kirk
ham with her small son Jimmie,
are leaving on Pan American
plane tomorrow for Seattle on an
extended vacation in the States.
In Seattle they will pick up a
new car and drive to Minneapolis
to visit Wendling’s parents. From
there they expect to go to Kan
sas City and then across the mid
dle states to La Jolla, California
to visit relatives.
They will be gone about two
months. Wendling is employed
with the Bureau of Public Roads,
Mrs. Wendling is a stenographer
in the office of the attorney gen
eral and Mrs. Klrkham is in the
office of the Alaska Aeronautics
and Communications Commission.
William F. Bradican of Scranton,
Pa., is a guest at the Hotel Juneau.
'30'
Elmer A. Friend, who in 35 years with the Daily Alaska Empire, has
probably worn out more pencils and typewriter ribbons than anyone,
writes '30' to his newspaper career today with the announcement he
is retiring as managing editor.
Elmer's Typewriter Keys
Quiet After 35 Years of
Grinding Out Alaska Hews
It's been a trail 35 years long
on the Daily Alaska Empire that
Elmer A. Friend has mushed
through galleys of proof, feuds,
facts, fancy and a lot of just daily
routine.
On August 1, Elmer, one of the
last of the "old newspapermen in
Alaska," parked his pencil, check
ed in bis chips, wrote “30" as
managing editor of the Empire,
and checked out.
Fifty or more years in the
newspaper business rides lightly
on the shoulders of this man who
was the first wire service re
porter in Alaska. When he gath
ered up his effects of 35 years
accumulation he remarked, “It’s
surprising how much of it is un
important.”
“Elmer" and “the desk" were
2ach storehouses of a great deal
of apparently unclassified infor
nation. Only Elmer knew “what
vas where" on his big overstuffed
'ditorial desk—and only Elmer
ould reach into his long mem
ory to tie current events to the
ong link cf the past.
Elmer came to the Empire the
Jay after New Year’s in 1916, fol
lowing the gala opening of the
new Arctic Brotherhood Hall.
John W. Troy, later Governor of
Alaska, was editor and publisher.
He was the father of Mrs. Helen
Monsen, president of the Empire
Printing Co.
‘Two-Timed”
Elmer worked on Seattle news
papers before coming to Alaska
to Skagway in 1900 where he
was affiliated with a steamship
company, was Associated Press
correspondent, did reporting and
editorial writing for both the
old Skagway Alaskan and the
News. Neither paper knew that
he was working for the other.
He was there at the time of the
Islander wreck and was also cor
respondent for the Dawson Daily
News. The information got to
Skagway by a special edition of
i Juneau paper which carried a
passenger list including the names
of the Governor Ross family of
Yukon Territory. '
Tied Wires
Realizing that it was a big story
for Dawson and that he had alert
opposition from a rival serving
the Dawson Nugget, Elmer said he
got a Bible, took it to the tele
graph operator at the White Pass
and Yukon Railway and told him
to start sending that until the
story could be written. The word
rate was high but he said the op
erator kept the wire tied up for
Friend until he had his story
ready.
Elmer Friend took out three
years to run the Seward Gateway
where he did almost everything on
the sheet from gathering and
writing the news and advertising,
setting heads as well as running
the press. It was during this time
he learned to operate an Inter
type machine of which he says.
"I found only 935 reasons why
the damned machine would
stop. After checking 934, it was
usually the 935th reason that
caused the trouble.”
Army Protects ’Em
Newspaper business in Alaska
has called for much varied talent
and ingenuity and he has dem
onstrated both. There was th(
time in Seward when he hac
trouble with his delivery boys sr
he fired the boys and hired girls
Fearing trouble from the boys h<
alerted the commander of a near
by army post there at the time
to station soldiers at *strategii
corners. “There was no trouble,'
Elmer recalls with a chuckle.
Nobody knows how old Elmer
is and nobody thinks much
about it because he is one of
tho.ee rare individuals who is
eternally young. The kids adore
him and the local Teen Age
Club recently voted him Juneau’s
No. 1 Citizen.
Schooled Many
During his many years on thi
Empire, Elmer has schooled manj
men and women in reporting. His
policy has been never to ask a
reporter to do something that he
himself, would not do. Over hi.
desk in 4-inch letters are tht
newspaper guide words, WHO
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW
WHY, In cases of marriages hi
tells his reporters that they ma,
eliminate the WHY as it migh.
prove embarrassing to those con
cerned.
He’s been proud of the fact thai
he has never fired a reporter
“They’ve Just naturally elimina
ted themselves,” he says.
His hobby Is band music. Fron
his high school days he has al
ways been mixed up in a banc
somehow. He has been bass drum
mer in the Juneau City Band foi
many years.
Elmer enjoys living. He has s
lovely home commanding a view
of Gastineau Channel, and a
country home on the Glacier
Highway. His son Bill is with the
armed forces in Korea and his
daughter, Mrs. Arthur Adams,
lives in Juneau. Elmer's pets are
his three Adams granddaughters.
Helen Jane 14, Gretchen Ann, 10;
and Virginia Rae (Sweety Pie), 7.
Today Elmer said, “I’m not fired.
I'm not retired. I’m quitting.”
The Empire is “at-home” this
afternoon between 5 and 7 o’clock
on.the Baranof Terrace. The staff
has tried to reach most of his
friends by note or telephone. Any
friends who have not been reached,
the Empire hopes will call by to
see Elmer be'ween 5 and 7 o'clock
today.
Truce Teams
Buffeted by
Buffer Zone
"Reds Appreciate Allied
Position, but Can't
Understand Logic"
U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, Aug. 1, —i/B—Uni
ted Nations and Communist truce
teams again today refused to
budge from their opposing stands
on where to establish a buffer
tone across Korea,
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, Chief
U. N. delegate, talked for an hour
uid 13 minutes telling the Reds
vhat was wrong with their de*
nand. It was the longest speedy
hat has been made in the 18
Kaesong cease-fire talks.
The Communists want a buffer
one back along the 38th parallel,
-he old political boundary line be
ween north and south Korea.
That is inferior teraln for military
iefenses.
“Since this Is a military arm- -
Istlce,” Joy told the five Red
generals, “we are interested only
in military realities.’'
me u. N. insists that the cease
fire zone be established along
present battle lines, where bpth
armies would be in good defensive
positions.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
Deputy U. N. Public Information
ifficer, told a news conference:
“Lieut. Gen. Nam II, Chief
Red delegate, seemed to under
stand the United Nations' posi
tion but couldn't appreciate the
logic that we used to arrive at
that position.’’
Nuckols said the U. N. delegates
jvere patient.
He reported Joy gave a "pa
dent, logical, detailed analysis and
.efutation" of the Red position.
Joy quoted a defination from
he Hague convention to emphas
ze the lOfcU; of the U. N. position,
fhe Hague agreement says:
“A military armistice is a sus
tension of military operation by
mutual agreement between the
belligerent parties.’’
Glacier Pilot
Is Reported
Overdue
A Norseman aircraft based out
'f Yakutat has been reported over
Jue since July 27 or 28, according to
information received at 17th Dis
trict U.S. Coast Guard headquarters
here this morning.
The Norseman, N61352, left Point
Vlanby at the entrance to Yakutat
lay enroute to the Seward Glacier
it the foot of Mt. Vancouver and
■vas supposed to have returned to
Yakutat last Thursday or Friday,
it has been unreported since, the
nessage said. It was described as
jeing silver with a red tail.
Maurice King, long-time Alaska
3ush pilot and Arctic flyer, is known
to be flying a Norseman of that
lumber for the Arctic Research In
ititute which is conducting glacier
studies on the Malaspina and Sew
rd Glaciers.
An Air Force plane which left
Yakutat for Great Falls, Mont., last
ulght made a night search of the
'lacier camps enroute to its desti
lation but no reports have been
eceived.
TIDE TABLES
AUGUST 2
High tide 1:19 a.m., 16.3 It.
Low tide 7:54 a.m.. -1.3 ft.
High tide 2:21 p.m.. 14.9 ft.
Low tide 7:58 p.m., 3.5 ft.
WEATHER FORECAST
Temperature for 34-Hour Period
ending 6 20 o’clock this morning
At Airport: Maximum. 60;
minimum, 52.
FORECAST
(Juneau and VielnHr)
Mostly cloudy with light
showers tonight and Thurs
day. Lowest temperature to
night about 50 degrees. High
est Thursday near 62.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a m. todar
At Airport — 0.42 inches;
since July 1—2.78 inches.