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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,859
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
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JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1951
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RIDGWAY FIRES
ULTIMATUM AT REDS
Judge Ryan
Frees 15
Communists
NEW YORK, July 13, — (,fl —
Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan
today complied with a U. S. Ap
peals court ruling and ordered re
lease of 15 Communist leaders un
der bail previously supplied by the
Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund.
Judge Ryan previously had re
voked the bail, totalling $175,000,
on the ground trustees of the bail
fund were “unworthy of trust.”
He had sentenced three of them |
to jail for contempt of court for i
refusing to reveal identities of con
tributors to the fund.
The 15 Communists are charged
with conspiring to teach and advo
cate violent overthrow of the Uni
ted States government and are i
awaiting trial.
Ryan jailed them Wednesday
with instructions to obtain bail
from another source.
U. S. Appeals Court Judge Learn
ed Hand yesterday ordered the bail
from the Civil Rights Congress re
instated.
Hand held the full, three-member
appeals court previously had ruled
bail from the Congress as accept
able.
The Congress is listed by the De
partment of Justice as subversive.
Ryan's decision today was made
in the p»p»ence of the 15 defend
ants, who had been kept in jail be
cause of legal technicalities since
Judge Hand’s ruling.
Lodge Urges
150/Group
Air Force
WASHINGTON, July 13 —UPi
Senator Lodge (R-Mass) proposed
today that the United States build
a 150-group Air Force to assure
itself the mightiest in the world.
He estimated the cost at $74,000,
000,000 over a three-year period.
Lodge told a Senate Appropria
tions subcommittee the U. S. will
have only a “second best” Air Force
when it reaches the 95-group goal
set by the administration.
"We risk national disaster unless
we move faster and greatly raise
our sights,” Lodge said in a state
ment given to the group.
‘‘We must no longer be content
with muddling along in an atmos
phere of business as usual.”
An Air Force “group" is a term
not easily translated into numbers
of planes. The planes in a group
vary according to the size of the
planes^
A heavy bomber group, for in
stance, consists of 30 planes. A
fighter group has 75 planes.
DENVER VISITORS
William R. Judd and W. E. Col
lins of Denver arrived here yester
day from Anchorage on PNA and
are stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
TheWashington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
•Copyright. 1951. Dr Bell Brnaicato, Inc.
Washington. — it’s hard tc
write about a man who is dead and
cannot defend himself. However, I
should like to write about Andrew
Older, listed recently by an FBI
undercover agent as a member of
the Communist party.
Older worked for me for a brief
period after the war and it became
my unpleasant duty to fire him
During the course of firing him, I
got to know a little bit about wha'
makes a Communist tick.
If we are going to cure Commun
ism in the American body politic,
then it’s important that we know
what turns a man into a Commun
ist and how he can be cured. Here
is one case history in point.
Older worked for a group of
conservative trade journals—a paint
and varnish magazine, a bakery
journal, a poultry monthly, togeth
er with the film and radio dailies
and the Hollywood Reporter. During
the tail end of the war when man
power was short he also worked
(.Continued on Page Four)
Path to Peace!
United Nations and Communist representatives hike up the path
leading to meeting place in Kaesong, Korea, where they are nego
tiating a possible cease-fire agreement. Signal Corps Photo via
Army Radiophoto and Iff! Wirephoto.
Kansas City Industrial
Area Ordered Clear
As Floods Sweep Levees
KANSAS CITY. July 13 —(.PI—
Surging flood waters crashed over
levees at this metropolitan conflu
ence of the Kansas and Missouri
rivers today and officials ordered
immediate evacuation of the vital
central industrial district. The
widespread two-state floods had
claimed 11 lives.
Rolling in muddy crests out of
Eastern Kansas where scores of
cities and towns were struggling
with overflows, the Kansas (Kaw)
river by midmorning had inundated
the Armourdale and Argentine dis
tricts of Kansas City, Kas.
Then levees on the east, protect
ing the Missouri side, began crum
bling.
City Manager L. P. Cookingham
immediately ordered evacuation of
the industrial district for the first
time since 1903. In this area lie the
city's famous stockyards, the Live
stock Exchange building, the Amer
ican Royal Stockshow arena, the
Armour and Go, packing plant, nu
merous other heavy industries and
the Burlington and Frisco railroads
roundhouses.
The flood began backing up thru
city streets. The Turkey creek pump
ing station of the city water plant
was threatened with a shutdown
More than 600.000 persons using city
water were asked to conserve sup
plies in anticipation of a shortage.
Back along the raging Kansas
river, and in other flooded river
basins of that state, rescue and re
lief teams were hard pressed.
Aircraft from many areas, includ
ing the Coast Guard from New York
City, were busy at rescue efforts but
lowering skies made flying difficult
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Juneau's 'Glow'
Hottest in 17
Years, Broken
The “glow” carried by Juneauites
because of the heat the past 10
days nearly equals that of the hot
spell in July, 1934.
It was the hottest it’s been for
17 years, but as a stretch of sunny
weather, it’s nothing so unusual.
The highest recorded temperature
in-town during the dry spell start
ing July 3 and ending this morn
ing with a trace of rain was on
July 3 with the reading at 84 de
crees.
The highest temperature recorded
in 1934 was 85 degrees on July 23.
The last long dry spell was from
June 4 to 18, 1950.
I>R. GRAY IS HERE
Dr. Bernard Gray of Seattle is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
Ship Movements
Alaska from Seattle due to arrive
late tomorrow' afternoon or evening.
Princess Kathleen from Vancou
ver due 3 p.m. Saturday.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle late today.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
Prince George scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Tuesday.
Aleutian from westward scheduled
southbound Saturday afternoon.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Wednesday.
Yacht Named for
"Tugboat Annie"
Visits Juneau
A famous yacht with a famous
name left Juneau harbor this af
ternoon after lying here several
days while its owners cruise South
east Alaska waters.
The craft is the TTiea Foss,
named for the founder of the Foss
Launch and Tug Company of Se
attle. It was upon her life that
the well-known “Tugboat Annie”
stories and film were based.
Once owned by John Barrymore,
stage and screen star, and known
then as the Infanta, she was here
20 years ago when the “great pro
file” toured Alaska on a bear hunt
Her present owner is C. Arthur
Foss, president of the tug company,
one of three sons of "Tugboat An
nie.” He and his wife, with a small
party of guests, are aboard.
Foss visited old friends here on
his first trip to Juneau in 30 years.
His wife, who owns what has been
termed the most extensive collec-:
tion of crystal, jade, petrified wood'
and rock specimens in the States, i
is using the tour to add to her hob
by.
Northward bound, the 120-foot
yacht stopped in the Taku River
long enough for Mrs. Foss to “high
grade” a gold barge by sweeping
its deck of gold concentrates milled
at Tulsequah.
The yacht was last in Juneau 11
years ago as the Polaris, then
owned by Ted Lowe, an early Al
aska bush pilot and founder of an
airline out of Anchorage. The army
Lower Fish
Pack Brings
More Money
WASHINGTON, July 13 — lA’L
The Fish and Wildlife Service said
today the pack of canned salman
in the Pacific coast and Alaska last
year totaled 4.274,462 standard cases,
valued at $108,590,571 to the canners.
Compared with 1949, this was a
decrease of 23 per cent in quantity
but an increase of 5 per cent in
value.
Alaska accounted for 77 per cent
of the 1940 pack. Alaska's 1950 catch,
by standard cases and value: Chi
nook or king, 54,053 cases, $1,542,709;
chum or keta, 777,779 cases, $15,212,
302; pink, 1,095,534 cases, $25,663,330:
red or sockeye, 1,153, 508 cases, $33,
345 862: silver or coho, 191.502 cases,
$5,131,834; steelhead, 268 cases
$7,472.
The Pacific Coast states: Chinook
or king, 151,928 cases, $5,382,820;
chum or keta, 539,982 cases, $11,260,
800; pink, 2,277 cases, $61,855; red
or sockeye, 136,741 cases, $5,308,048;
silver or coho, 160,625 cases. $4,812,
707 f steelhead, 10,266 cases, $360,830
The service said the 1950 pack of
pink salmon "was only 34 per cent
of the 1949 production du^ to a
combination of poor runs in South
east Alaska and the fact that prac
tically no pink salmon are caught
in Puget Sound in the even num
bered years.”
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, July 13 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2'4, American Can
109%, American Tel. and Tel 154%,
Anaconda 40-'. TVwurlas Aircraft
46 s, General Electric 55 H, General
Motors 49%, Goodyear 84%, Kenne
cott 66‘v, Libby, McNeill and Libby
8%, Northern Pacific 41, Standard
Oil of California 46'2, Twentieth
Century Fox 18%, U. S. Steel 40%,
Pound $2.80 1/16, Canadian Ex
change 94.25.
Sales today were 1.320,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 254.31, rails 76.48, utili
ties 43.45.
• •
• WEATHER FORECAST •
4 Temperature for 24-Hour Period •
4 ending 6 20 o'clock this morning •
• •
• In Juneau — Maximum, •
• 74; minimum, 54. •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 82; minimum 55. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• Partly cloudy tonight and •
• Saturday. Lowest tempera- •
• ture tonight near 55 and •
• highest Saturday about 75. •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau — Trace; •
• Since July 1 — .04 inches. •
• At Airport — Tracp; •
• Since July 1 — .04 inches. •
took the vessel during the war.
Poss returned her to her original
status as a pleasure craft several
years ago.
Aboard are the Foss' daughters,
Miss Christina Foss and Mrs. Pa
tricia Peterson, and a friend, Miss
Carolyn Schustrom. Mrs. Peterson’s
son Eric is also along.
The party took off this afternoon
for Skagway, to return in several
days. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sabin
of Juneau are on board for the
short junket.
Two of the five-man crew are
well known here. They are Capt.
Russell W. Gross and Chief Engin
eer Maurice “Whitey” Pixley. Gross,
who once commanded the City of
Anacortes In local waters, was last
here 15 years ago. Pixley was
aboard army vessels here during
‘World War II.
Thea Foss, mother of the vessel’s
owner and his two brothers, H O.
and Wedell Foss, died before the
war. She and her husband Andrew
started the company with a row
boat in Tacoma, Wash. With her
business acumen and his ability as
a ship's carpenter, they built the
company to one of the largest tug
boat fleets on the Pacific Coast.
Author of the "Tugboat Annie"
series once worked aboard the Foss
tugs and when he became a writer,
used his former employer as his
lamous heroine.
First War Dance
Little Indians at the annual encampment near Nespelem, Washington, on the Colville reservation are
ied by an elder in their first war dance. This is a big event in an Indian lad’s life. His parents give
(resents to persons in the crowd to celebrate the occasion. The three-day encampment, which ended
July 7, drew Indians of many tribes, (fft Wirephoto.
Unlucky Friday 13th
Finally Catches Up
With Jinx Defiers
'vllTSIHJRGH. Friday, July IS—
(if)—Who says Friday the 13th isn’t
unlucky?
Pittsburgh has a group of 13 men
who call themselves the Friday the
13th club.
Every lime the calendar turns up
a Friday the 13th these 13 men get
together and defy the jinx.
They smash mirrors, walk under
ladders, spill salt, consort with black
cats, and otherwise scorn super
stttutions.
So what happens today, Friday
the 13th?
So many members are out of town
that the club, unluckily, had to call
off its meeting!
Employment
Commission
Seeks Director
The Territorial Employment Se
curity Commission adjourned yes
terday without appointing a suc
cessor to Robert E. Sheldon, exe:
cutive director who retired last
month.
It was depided to make another
call for applications for the posi
tion until August 15, newly-elected
Chairman Ralph J. Rivers, said here
today.
‘•To be eligible the applicant must
have been a resident of the Territor y
for five years, have some under
standing and sympathy with the
employment security program, be
educated to understand fiscal and
procedural matters and be of proved
administrative ability,” Rivers said.
He stated that the position was not
political. The salary is $8,500 pet
year.
Written applications will be re
ceived by Rivers at Box 1951, Fair
banks.
The board will hold another meet
ing sometime after August 15, Rivers
said. Meantime John McLaughlin,
director of the unemployment insur
ance division, will continue to be
acting executive director.
Rivers was designated to attend
an interstate conference of employ
ment security commission which is
to be held in Florida next October
The other two members of the com
mission are Anthony Zorick of
Ketchikan, retiring chairman and
George Vaara, Anchorage business
man.
FAIRBANKS VISITOR
John Jensen of Fairbanks is at
the Hotel Juneau.
FAIRBANKS VISITOR
■Joan Rader of Fairbanks is rev-1
istered at the Baranof Hotel.
McKinley
Scaled on
Western Side
ANCHORAGE, July 13—l/W—'Three
men reached the peak of Mt. Mc
Kinley late Tuesday evening and
spent the night atop North Amer
ica’s highest mountain, the Alaska
Military Command reported yester
day.
A radio message received by the
military indicated Dr. Bradford
Washburn, director of the Boston
Museum; James E. Gale, Anchor
age. Arctic survival expert, and Capt.
William D. Hackett of Denver, sta
tioned at Fort Richardson with the
Army, were the thrpe who made the
fifth successful climb ot the 20,270
foot peak.
They were the first said the radio
report, to reach the top by a western
route.
The party indicated it would re
turn to the 15,000-foot level Wed
nesday and reach camp at the 10,
000-ft. level yesterday. There Dr.
Terris Moore, president of the Uni
versity of Alaska, planned to land a
ski-equipped plane and fly the party
off the mountain.
Washburn has made three of the
successful ascents, previously climb
ing McKinley in 1942 and 1947. Gale
and Hackett were in the 1947 party.
Five other members of the cur
rent expedition, conducting geologic
explorations, were reported by radio
to be "still climbing.” They include
Drs. Henry Buchtel and John Am
bler, Denver physicians; T. M Grif
fifths, glacial geologist at Denver U.;
Barry Bishop, University of Cincin
nati student, and Jerry Moore, stu
dent at Dartmouth College.
Previous word from the climbers
indicated the new route "seems
faster, more reliable." Considerable
wind and many avalanches were re
ported but climbing conditions were
safer, with fewer crevasses and
holes.
No Fires, Bui
Firemen Have
Hot Session
The monthly meeting of the Ju
neau Fire Department .was held
last night, postponed one week be
[ cause of Fourth of July activities.
Due to increased activities at the
subport where meetings are tem
i porarily being held, the quarters al
[ loted the department last night
were decidedly warm and so was the
meeting.
Members reported an increasing
number of duels with non-firemen I
Clink Discontinues
For Summer; Opens
Again in Fail
Dr. C. C. Carter, city health of
ficer, announces that for duration
of the .summer, the Monthly Im
munization clinic will be temporar
ily discontinued.
Those parents who urgently de
sire their children to complete im
munizations are asked to consult
their family physician upon advisa
bility of doing so. Parents who have
their children’s immunizations com
pleted at their doctor's office are
asked to report them to the Health
Center, so that record cards may
be completed and copy given to
the parents for their permanent
! record.
The immunizations offered at
the Health Center at these month
ly clinics are dlptheria, • whooping
cough and tetanus combined, and
small pox vaccinations. Parents are
asked to watch the paper this falJ
for notice of recontinuation of the
clinics. The Health Center is loca
ted at 122 2nd Street, telephone
218.
Wolf Control to
Be Continued
Plans are now being made for a
wolf control program for the Taki
and Dyea valleys this fall, Maurice
W. Kelly, FWS predator contro'
agent said Friday. He returned tc
Anchorage after a month's detai
here.
Last winter the Territorial Sports
men, Inc., cooperated financiallj
! with the FWS in a wolf control pro
gram for these areas. It is intended
to continue the work as the area;
are subject to reinfestation. The
latest report on the number ol
wolves is 11 poisoned by Kelly and
Frank S. Glaser, Fairbanks preda
tor agent. Kelly pronounced the
operation highly successful.
Of the $500 appropriated by the
Sportsmen, only $175 was used last
season.
racing to fire calls. Drastic steps
will be taken shortly in order that
firemen may be permitted the
right-of-way when driving to an
swer an alarm.
' Chief Minard Mill announced a
drill to be held at 7:30 p.m. July
19.
Eight new firemen were elected
to membership to complete the
roster of the department. Those
elected were Alvin Bloomquist,
James Vuille, Marvin Krtstan,
Grant Ritter,- Robert Stutte, R. B.
Brown, Eugene Wood and Rudolph
Krusl.
Lars Sorenson's shrimp feed
wound up a hot evening.
I 1
Commander
Lays Down
3 Demands ,
Get Armed Guards
Out, Allow Free
Moves
SEOUL, Korea, July 13 —MV-'The
Allied command told the Reds to
day: Korean war cease-fire tRlks
will be resumed only when UN dele
gates have unrestricted movement
in an area free of armed guards.
Gen. Matthew B. Rldgway sent
that virtual ultimatum to top Com
munist commanders after the Reds
rejected an Allied demand that news
correspondents be accepted as part
of UN personnel In the conference
area.
The supreme commander de
manded that:
1. The Reds get their armed
guards out of Kaesong — original
site of armistice talks — or agree
to meet somewhere else.
2. End "unreasonable ard un
necessary restrictions” on his nego
tiators and let them move freely.
3. Accept anyone he names as
part of the UN delegation.
Ridgway’s message was broadcast
just two hours and 20 minutes after
the Reds rejected the third point,
originally made yesterday by Adm.
C. Turner Joy, chief UN negotiator.
The rejection came from North
Korean Oen. Nam 11, chief Red
cease-fire delegate, in a reply to Joy.
Nam suggested the delegates meet
at 1 p.m. Friday (8 p.m. Thursday.
PDT i for further discussions.
Must Agree
The UN answer came at 1:15 p.m.
I in Ridgeway’s expanded demands.
Joy said Thursday that negotia
tions would be resumed as soon as
the Communists agreed to pass any
UN personnel designated by the Ai
ded command including newspaper
men.
Nam replied: “Neither side’s news
reporters or news representatives
can come into the area . . . until
both sides have agreed."
This reply was delivered to a UN
liaison officer at 10:55 a.m. but the
Allied command did not announce it
until 12 hours later—after Nam’s
message had been broadcast by both
the Red Peiping and Pyongyang
radios. The delay was not explained.
General Ridgway's headquarters
in Tokyo said:
“No Settlement”
"This reply offered no settlement
>f the issues contained in General
Ridgway’s massage to Generals Kim
II Sung and Peng Teh-Huai, which
yas then in preparation and later
broadcast at 1315 hours (1:15 p.m.)
loday.
“No reply to General Ridgway s
message has been received.”
Kim is the North Korean pre
mier. Peng is the commander of
Chinese troops in Korea.
By going directly to them, General
Rldgway took the Issues out of the
hands of the cease-fire delegates.
Last Nine Days
Adds 11,506 io
Enemy Casualties
WASHINGTON, July 13 —
The Army today raised Its estimate
of enemy casualties In Korea to
1,202.928 — an Increase of 11.506
since its last estimate was Issued
nine days ago.
The figure covers the period from
:he beginning of the fighting thru
July 4, before the cease-fire nego
tiations were started with a result
ing lull in fighting.
Of the total, 872,737 were battle
casualties, an increase of 8,788.
Prisoners totalled 163,473, an in
crease of 343.
Non-battle casualties were esti
mated at 166,718, an increase of
2,375.
Of the total casualties, 608.525
were North Koreans and 594.403
were Chinese. The Chinese had 500.
107 battle casualties and the North
Koreans 372.630.
Of the prisoners, 146,091 were
North Koreans and 17,382 Chinese.
FIRE CALL
The fire call this morning at 5.30
was for a furnace backfiring in the
Senate Apartments on South Frank
lin. No damage was reported.