THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE,NEWS ALL THE TIME’
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,876
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGl ST 2, 1951
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Salmon Packers Hang Hopes on Southeastern
Concession
Hint by Reds
Seen on Zone
Communists Seen 'Build
ing Up Folks Back
Home for Letdown'
U.N. ADVANCE HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, Friday — Ul — Be
neath the surface deadlock on where
to draw a cease-fire line in Korea,
a high United Nations source todny
saw a hint that the Ijteds might
be preparing the way for conceding
the Allied demand.
The Allies w'.ant the fighting to
stop on the present line, generally
north of the 38th parallel. The
Reds have been holding out for a
buffer zone centered on the parallel
Possibly nudging the Common- '
ists toward a more conciliatory
attitude, the IJ.S. Eighth Army
reported its attacking troops
gained more than two miles on
the central Korean front Thurs
day against only small groups of
the enemy.
The Peiping radio Thursday night
quoted Lt. Gen. Nam H, North Ko- |
rean hhii f of the Red armistice dele
gation at Kaesong, as saying he
“repudiated the buffer zone" pro
posed by the Allies “deep acro :a the
38th parallel.”
What Nam meant by “deep” wa*
not explained, but the Red radio ar
Pyongyang declared the Allies were
demanding a “top-shooting line”
approximately halfway between the
38th and 39th parallels.
This, said a high U.N. source. ir
“a lot of malarky.” The All...,
made no such northern-reachin.
demand.
“It appears they (the Reds) arc
building up the folks at home for
a letdoun,” the U.N. source com- j
mented. "If they acct pt the buf- |
fer zone below where they say :
we are asking far it, then it will j
lock like a Communist ‘victoryj
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief,
U.N. delegate, told the Reds the
Allies must hold a defensible lmc j
across Korea, such as the Allies pro- .
pose, during a truce because of fie- j
possibility "of an armistice violation
by the other side.”
The Red Pciping radio reported
the chief Communist delegate. Lt.
Gen. Nam II, “repudiated the buf
fer zone” proposed by Joy "deep
across the 38th parallel.”
Therf was no indication of what
the next move would be in the
fare of apparent flat rejections by
both sides. Neither has hinted at
compromise.
Seventh Deadlock
It was the seventh successive ses
sion in which negotiators remained
deadlocked on where to draw the
armistice line.
They will try again tomorrow de- j
spite unswerving positions expressec
in Washington and Pyongyang, the
North Korean capital. The next
meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m.
Friday, (5 p.m., today, Juneau time)
Brig. Gen. W’illiam P. Nuckols
U.N. spokesman, quoted Admiral Joy
as telling Red negotiators at Kae
song:
“The United Nations command
has no intention of violating the
military armistice agreed upon,
but neither will the U.N. com
mand place itself in an inde
fensible position in the event of
an armistice violation by the other
side.”
Nuckols said Joy read this pre
pared statement in response to ‘:
final question” by North Korea,
Lt. Gen. Nam II, head of the Ret
delegation.
Nuckols did not disclose the na
ture of this final question.
WEATI1ER FORECAST «
Temperature lor 24-Hour Period *
ending 0:20 o'clock this morning «
At Airport—Maximum, CO;, '
minimum, 51. '
forecast «
(Juneau and Vicinity) •
Considerable cloudiness with «•
some light rain showers to- «
night and Friday. Lowest *
tonight about 52, highest Fri- «
day near 65. e
PRECll'ITATlON •
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
At Airport — 0.12 inches; •
since July 1—2.90 inches. •
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Possible Compromise Line
Dc.;j»itc the present deadlock an eventual compromise on a Korean
demarcation line is considered likely by some military observers.
Some American military men speculate that a good line could be
out from the west coast along the Imjin River, which is about
ten miles south of the USth parallel and winds up to a mile or two
south of the parallel across country north of Uijongbu; north*
northeastward to the western end of the Iiwachon reservoir; along
the reservoir eastward over the heights to Yanggo and thence east
ward to tiie east coast. UP) tVircphoto Map.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, -OP—
.Alaska mr well escape atonic
i&mhmg: ufr coma ee tnt dfe?
place attacked with high explo
sives, federal Civil Defense offi
cials said yesterday.
"Quite possibly the territory
would be the first to suffer under
an enemy attack," James J. Wads
worth, deputy. Civil Defense Ad
ministrator, told a House Armed
Services subcommittee.
Later under questioning, one
of his assistants, former Col. Jo
; eph Chamber, said the joint
chiefs of staff doubted Alaska
would be atom-bombed, chair
man Hebert (I)-La) said.
The committee approved legisla
tion to authorize the Civil De
fense Administration to waive a
requirement that Alaska match
equally federal funds for air raid
shelters.
Wadsworth said that since
more hau }10 per cent of the
irtmoi'f» Houses ale m tr*J»e
construction, relatively light in
cendiary and high explosives
could be highly destructive.
Alaska's population is spread
over a wide area, he said, but Cfi
per cent of its residents live in
“critical target areas."
The strategic importance of the
area requires, he said, that all
possible measures be taken to re
duce the hazards of attack.
Col. Karl I,andreth, Alaska di
rector of civil defense stationed
in Juneau, added that any at
tack over the. pole “would prob
ably” be aimed at military tar
gets in the northland.
Since civilian communities are
so close to targets, they would
suffer from these attacks, he said.
The Washinglon.'
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
! Copyright, 1951. By Bell Syndicate. Inc..
PTASHINGTON. — It looks as
if a showdown is nearing in the
Korean truce talks. General Ridg
way has cabled Washington for
instructions as to whether he
should set a cut-off. date on fur
ther discussions.
He reports that the Commun
ists are unwilling to budge regard
ing an armistice line 10 kilometers
wide on each side of the 38th
parallel, therefore he asked whe
ther he should continue talking
or serve notice that after a cer- ,
tain date full-scale fighting will
be resumed.
So far the Pentagon has not
answered his query. The question
is now under the most serious
study by the State Department,
the Defense Department and the
White House.
General Ridgway has reported
that the Communist delegates
have put the greatest possible
stress on the 38th parallel and
continue to make long speeches
regarding its importance. These
refusals of the United Nations to
compromise from our stand along
the present fighting line appears
to make no impression whatsoever
on Chinese-north Korean dele
gates.
The issue will probably be de
cided within the next 24 hours.
General Omar Bradley, who
doesn’t get riled easily, was pretty
sore when he heard how one oi
his own army spokesmen had
blurted out to a press conference
the name of an airborne division
which had been transferred from
Korea to Japan.
The incident took place in a
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Canadian Boats
Wiil Suspend
Winter Service
There will be no Canadian steam
ship operations to Southeast Alaska
from Nov. 10 to March 10, accord
ing to word received here from
Delegate E. L. Bartlett.
Bartlett reported in a letter to
George Sundborg, consultant for
the Alaska Development Board, that
he had word from a Canadian Pa
cific Steamship Co. official in
Washington. D.C., that winter serv
ice would be suspended. .
William McFarlane, local CPR
agent, said today that he had re
ceived no official word regarding
the matter but that unofficially he
had been informed that the Prin
cess Norah, the regular winter ship,
would be placed on the Prince Ru
pert and Kitimat run.
Jack Alderson, district passenger
agent representing the British Co
lumbia Coast Steamship Co., affili
ate of CPR running the Princess
boats, is to be in Juneau on Aug.
11, McFarlane said.
Bartlett’s letter said that the com
pany planned to provide freighter
service with a new ship, Yukon Prin
cess.
Sundborg wrote a letter to the
CPR headquarters in Montreal, Que.,
urging that the winter service be
maintained to Alaska. He pointed
out that the passenger service would
be sorely missed and said that in
times past it was the Princess boat
that afforded the only passenger
and mail service to Southeast
Alaska. He said that the company
had afforded splendid service and
that it had been greatly appreciated.
FROM CHICAGO
W. H. Hogan of Chicago is stop
j ping at the Baranof Hotel.
Territorial
Officials Nabbed
For illegal Fishing
Territorial Rep (tentative An
drew Hope and William R. Wal
ton, chairman of the Alaska Board
ol Fisheries were among 31 fish
ermen arrested yesterday on char- |
ges of illegal fishing.
Dan Ralston, law enforcement
supervisor for the Fish and Wild- j
life Service, made the arrests, near :
Sitka.
The seines of Hope and Wal
ton’s vessels were found full of
salmon and pursed at 5:45 a.m.
Monday, fifteen minutes before i
the opening gun of the season,;
Ralston said, Clarence Rhode, re- j
gional director for the service, |
said the men must have set their j
seines at least an hour before j
pursing them.
In a complaint signed by Ral
ston, four of five boats were
charged with fishing in Tenakee
Inlet before the legal opening
hour of 6 a.m., and the fifth boat,
the Tony K. was alleged to have
been fishing in a closed area, Rod
man Bay on Baranol' Island. The
boats and crew members are:
SJS II, captained by Represent
ative Andrew Hope had as crew
•members Alex Andrews, A1 Will
ard, Peter Kitka, Jr., trank Ben
son, Herbert Hope and Fred Hope.
Sea Ranger has as captain Wil
liam R. Walton, chairman of the
Territorial Board of .Fisheries
with a crew of George McGuire,
Ben Didrickson, Charies Didriek
son, Barney Essendrup, Peter
James, Earl Forsythe and Harold
Lawrence.
Capt. Sam Newman is the skip
per of the Ginger N., with crew
members Waverly Peterson, AI
Canon, ar.d Paul Johnson. The
SJS, captai i Peter E. Johnson
aliU crew Cooney Starr, Ronald
j: me , Henry Kitka, Herbert Mer
1 cey,- r.Tiui aonhsvii., ..ta' v:fcnd
Johnson.
On the Tony K. with Clyde
Peterson as captain were Warren
Todd, Pete Crews, Jack Evans,
Von Blankenship and Roy Mil
ler.
The Tony K., SJS II and Sea
Ranger were fishing for the Pyr- i
amid Packing Company and the
SJS and Ginger N„ for the Hood
Bay Packings Company, which is
operated under the Alaska Na
tive Service.
The fishermen will not appear
here in person but will be repre
sented by a local attorney and a
representative of the Alaska Na
tive Service. Stanley Baskin, as
sistant U. S. Attorney will be
prosecutor.
It is expected that the case
would be heard this afternoon.
New Corporation
In Offing tor
Ketchikan Mill
SEATTLE, Aug. 2, —(/PI— A new
corporation for the construction
and operation of Alaska’s first
big pulp mill, at Ketchikan, is in
the offing.
It will be the successor to the
present Ketchikan Pulp and Pa
per Company, which pioneered the
way for the now-approved project
and entered a timber contract
with the U. S. Forest Service.
Lawson Turcotte, president of
the Puget Sound Pulp and Tim
ber Company, said today at Bel
lingham the new corporate set-up
is a necessary step to bring his
firm and the American Viscose
Company jointly into the opera
tion. The Ketchikan company has
been a solo Puget Sound Company
operation, under an agreement
with American Viscose. The latter
firm is to take virtually all the
production for rayon and cellul
ose products.
Turcotte confirmed as “substan
tially correct1’ a Post Intelligencer
story today which said, in detail
ing the proposed financial setup,
that “the principal tinancing, es
timated to run between 30 and 40/
million dollars, is expected to
come from insurance companies
and other institutional investors ”
The paper added:
“While many details still remain
to be ironed out, it is understood
that Puget Sound Pulp and Tim
ber Company and American Vis
cose each will contribute from 3
to 3'i million dollars in equity
capital.
“A loan by American Viscose for
substantially the same amount as
its Investment also is being con
I sidered.”
Trouble, Trouble, Trouble
Courts and probing questions piled additional trcu :!•' cn I hi., ii'.'.u i; t, seen leavin'. \ <>rC ■ Federal
Court. I .oft to right are: tV. Alphaeus Ilunton. Das Mel I nun t. FrederiCi Vanderbilt 1 rid and Ab
ner fie. —all trustees of the Civil Rights Congress bill fund. .< ,:ht court:, have rejected as ba t for ■
accus'd Communists. Field and Green were sentenced (Jul-. Dl to . •. mouths each for cantcm at of a
U. S. grand jury. Both now arc serving contempt t: rms. Hunt i and Ilalnmeit were questioned by the
state banking department to determine if the bail fund violated banking laws. They also are serving
jail (etuis. dPI Wirepho^o.
invasion .©# Floating
Canneries frmn $upms
Feared fe?# Canadians
Wt sifter Slows Air
Sesth; Truckers j
Spot'kffieihing'
The fate of a.Korean airlift trans
port plane, which vanished July 20
off Cape Spencer with 38 persons
aboard still remained a mystery to
day.
Weather held many search planes
on the ground yesterday and this
morning but at was expected mid
afternoon ceilings would permit air
search to continue, U. S. Coast \
Guard headquarters said today. The !
Coast Guard is coordinating air and
sea investigations.
A Norseman aircraft, believed to
have been piloted by Maurice King, J
Alaskan bush pilot, repots"! overdue j
at Yakutat was included in today’s
search operations. King is flying
for the Arctic Research Institute
which is conducting glacier studies
of Malaspina and Seward Glaciers.
Another clue to the missing Ca
nadian Pacific. Airlines plane de
veloped late yesterday when truck
drivers on the Alaska Highway re
ported sighting “something” in
the Snag, Y.T., area. Royal Ca
nadian Air Force planes based at
Whitehcrse intended to investigate
the report as soon as weather
permitted. Snag is roughly 203
miles north of Yakutat, which has
been the focal area of search op
erations.
Due to fog yesterday only eight
aircraft from Elmendorf Field hew
50 hours in the Prince William
Sound and Cook Inlet districts .seek
ing the missing transport which was
on the first leg of a Vancouver, B.C.,
to Tokyo flight.
The only search for the mb dng
Norseman was made Tuesday night
by an Air Force plane bound foi
Great Falls, Mont., from Yakutat
No report has been received from it
EDMONTON, Alta., Aug. 8—
—R.C.A.F. aircraft investigating
reports of a “large silver aircraft”
lying on the side of a mountain
near the Alaska highway reported
back today that the silvery object
was a glacier.
Planes had left Whitehorse to in
vestigate after two transport driver,
and a party of tourists reporter,
seeing the "silver plahe” on a moan 5
tainside near mile 1.179 of the
Alaska highway, about five mill
west of the highway.
CITY COUNCIL
MEETS TONIGHT
A regular meeting of the Juneau
City Council will be held tonight
in the offices of the city clerk at
the city dock on South Franklin
Street. It is expected that the po
lice committee will givp a report
on a meeting held* last night re
garding Juneau’s growing traffic
and parking problems.
VANCOUVER, B.C., Aug. 2—<iW—
Officials of the Fisheries Council of
Canada are afraid Japanese float
ing canneries and mother ships will
invade British Columbia salmon
fciuii;—after is jir.'cr- fhiit,.
country, is signed at San Francisco
next month.
C. Gordon O’Brien of Ottawa, j
general manager of the eouneit, 1
said last night that failure to |
include fisheries regulations in I
the treaty wilt leave ‘our coastal |
ground. unprotected.”
O’Brien pointed out that even j
though a fisheries pact with Japan |
is scheduled (o come up later, there I
is no assurance it would be accept- I
able to American in d Canadian'
fishing interests.
“Japan will again he a sovereign I
nation at that time, able to ac
cept or reject our ideas about
conservation,” lie said.
Francis Millerd of Vancouver,
council president, echoed O’Brien's j
statement and said a Japanese in
vasion of British Columbia water
could c :ne as early as this fall.
$470,710.92 in
Alaska Treasury,
Roden Reports
The Territorial treasury had a
cash balance of S470.770.92 as of
July 31, it was announced today
by Henry Roden, Territorial Trea
surer.
This did not include SI,147,943.91
in the bank in ear-marked funds
or $909,450.97 to meet outstanding
warrants, Roden explained.
Among the ear-marked funds is
money unfrozen by the Board of
Administration in July: aid to
school districts, 8750,000; loan to
Veteran's Commission, 8650,000
tnd National Guard, $2,000.
Cable Cur
Shareh alilers
Skate
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2—Uh—A
“crucial” stockholders’ meeting, b
determine the fiitxre of the historic
California Street Cable Cur Co.
was called off yesterday because toe
few shareholders showed up. The
meeting was re-set for 10 a.in. to
morrow.
Service on the company's tw.
lines — California Street and OTar
1 rell, and Jones and Hyde — wa:
suspended “temporarily" Tuesday
midnight because Lloyd’s of London,
had cancelled its insurance. Direc
tors of the cable car company said
they couldn’t complete arrange
ments for new coverage in time to
avoid a shutdown.
President John O. Human said
the company was trying to arrange
for other insurance so service could
.be resumed.
Suit Filed
For Damage*
In Ship Fire
$358,000 Asked for
Goods Destroyed Aboaid
Coastal Monarch
f-lEATTI.-K, Ati(>. 2—<T* A suit ft :
approximately S338.Q00 damages r«
■uiilng from a fire aboard the
Coastal Monarch last summer it:
Alarkon waters was on file in Fed
eral court today against ihe Alaska
Steamship Co. and the Alaska Ter
minal and Stevedoring Co.
The suit was filed by 170 individ
uals and firms who claim good,
they shipped on the vessel west
damaged when fire broke out in
Ihe No. 2 hold July 23, 1900, while
it was enroute from Seward to
Dutch Harbor.
Part of the amount sought i
cowpen' ulion for losses resultin'’
from failure of the steamship com
pany to deliver goods. The ve i
returned to Seattle after the fire
was put out, Instead of continuing
its voyage.
Cannery OiSidal
And Wife Leave
$429,057 Estate
SEATTLE, Aug. 2—UB A forme;
Alaska fishing fleet operator am:
hi ; wife, who died less than a yeai
apart, left an estate valued al
$429,057.
An inventory filed yesterday o:
the estate of Ml', and Mr.;. Join
X. Johnson disclosed the e airna
value. Their property was orders;
placed in trust for relatives.
Johnson, vice president of the T
E. Harris Company before it was
•old to Nick Bez. died in Toronti
July 26, 1950. His wife, the lor...<
Sarah Harris, daughter of P. E
Harris, was stricken with a lata
heart attack in Portland last Juris
24.
'Banking' Coins in
Parking Meiers for
Extra Time Now Banned
As of today the city parking'
meter man has been ordered not
to turn the handles of parking
meters that show violations. Traf
fic tickets will be issued, Chief
of Police Bernard Hulk said to
day.
“Many persons have been in the
habit of putting a coin in city
parking meters, turning the han
dle and then placing another coin
in the meter that will register
when the meter man comes by to
check,” Hulk said, “This is in vi
olation ol the city traffic code.”
Hid Pack in
Bay Lowest
Since 1898
Price Increase Not Ex
pected if Pink Run Here
Produces Good Pack
SEATTLE, Aug. 2—MV- Alaska’s
salmon industry is hanging its hopes
for n big pack on southeast Ala lea,
following n short red salmon catch
in Bristol Bay.
“If there is going to he any
pack at all out of Alaska this
year, the southeast will have to
produce it,” said a Fish and
Wildlife Service official.
Bert McGovern, Seattle salmon
broker, said the red pack this year
is the lowest since 1838. Up to July
21, with only a few days of spotty
fishing left iji Bristol Bay, the red
pack totaled 638,370 cases, and the
total pack of 079,451 was consider
ably below last year.
Pinks Foreseen
The season for trap and seine
fishing Is now open In much of
Southeast Alaska. The open areas
are in Icy Strait, Eastern and West
ern districts, and in the Ernest
Sound and Anan sections of (he
Sumner Strait district. There have
been early indications of a good run
of pinks.
Industry sources say the fisher
men were expecting a poor cycle
year for the Bristol Bay reds, but
the results were even below their
expectations.
There is no explanation for the
scarcity of reds, said McGovern.
Prince William Pound was a
f-uiirp ai,r» t production and Cop
per Creek dropped off RC perrent.
Cook Inlr‘ became overcrowded
with giil natters.
Figure^ from the Wildlife Service
picture a downward trend In salmon
( itches in recent years. In 1936
the total Alaska peek was 8' : mil
lion c :>’Cs. The tolal continued over
5 million until 1943. Tn 1048 it
was 4 million, in 1949 4'^ million,
and iu 1350 3', million.
Predicts Total Up
Walter Sharpe, Alaska Salmon
Industries officia', said this year’s
poor pack from Bristol Bay was
“nothing to get alarmed about,"
predicting that the total will came
up to last year.
There will probably be no in
crease in prices, said McGovern, if
the Southeast produces enough
pinks. There is also a “law of sub
stitution" working, he said, which
has driven the price of salmon down
because of high production, and con
fluent low prices, in tuna.
Area Closed
2 Years Opens
To Fishing
For the first time in two years,
commercial fishing for all types of
sear will be allowed on the main
land hore of Stephens Passage,
starting August 6.
The announcement came yester
day afternoon from Clarence Rhode,
regional director of the Fish and
Wildlife Service, following receipt
of a wire from Director Albert Day
in Washington, D C. Dev announced
he hud signed an amendment to the
commercial fishing regulations to
this effect.
The area concerned is from Mid
way Island to Horn Cliffs, with ex
ception of all waters of Limestone
Inlet, which remain closed.
The mainland shore of Stephens
Passage was closed to seining and
trap lishing following the 11)415 fish
ing season because of a severe de
pletion of fish. Rhode said. It has
remained open to trolling. Included
are about 75 miles of const waters.
The area contains about six fi ll
traps. Rhode said, which will prob
ably be in shape for fishing on the
opening day. In this location sein
ing is prohibited within 500 yards
of a stream mouth.
Day’s amendment allows seining
and trap fishing from August 0 to
September 1, the regular fishing
season set by regulations last year.
FROM SEATTLE
Clyde W. Hurley of the National
Grocery Co. of Seattle is stopping at
the Baranof Hotel.
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