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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME'
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11.874
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1951
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Southern
Area Open to
Fishing Friday
Except for the Southwest section
of Clarence Strait and entire south
Prince of Wales Island district, the
balance of the southern portion of
Southeast Alaska will be thrown
open to commercial fishing at 6 a.m.,
Aug. 3.
This was the announcement made
this morning by Clarence Rhode,
regional director of the Fish and
Wildlife Service, the second earlier
opening date set.
Opening tomorrow are the Icy
Strait district; Western district,
except the western section; East
ern district, except the mainland
shore from Midway Island to
Horn Cliffs; Anan and Ernest
Sound.
Opening of the southern portion
August 3 instead of August 6, Rhode
said, was decided upon this morn
ing and was brought about by the
sharp increase in pink salmon es
capement the past three or four
days in nearly all of the early pink
salmon streams to the south.
The Fish and Wildlife Service,
Rhode continued, has been mak
ing continuous surveys in that
area the past week and has re
ceived detailed reports from other
surveys made by the Alaska Sal
mon Industry and personnel of
the Fisheries Institute Research.
Frank Hynes, fisheries manage
ment supervisor, has been in the
southern sector the past two days
and he reported to Rhode last night
that the picture there is very sim
ilar to that in the northern dis
tricts which open tomorrow. A good
many streams, he reported, have
quadrupled in the number of es
capement the past few days, re
sulting in what appears to be a
safe escapement for these early
streams.
Districts which will open Fri
day are: the balance of Sumner
Strait district. (Ernest Sound ant'
Anan open August 1); In Clar
ence Strait: the Northern, Cen
tral, north Behm Canal and
Southeast sections, and the entire
Southern district.
Remaining closed until August 6
are the Southwest section of Clar
ence Strait and the entire south
Prince of Wales Island district.
Rhode pointed out that these are
known to be late salmon areas, and
poor seeding of streams there is no
cause for alarm.
While no official request had
been made for an earlier opening
of the southern sector, Rhode
explained that his action in step
ping up the opening date three
days was in conformity with the
service’s policy, and keeping faith
with the general public by open
ing the season when and where
escapement warrants.
“I think the early good escape
ment this year,’ ’he said, “proves the
wisdom of restrictive seasons of the
past several years. The result of
the good return downstream in 1949
is now paying off.
TheWashinglon
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
1’■‘CM. 1951. DT Bell Bmdlou, Ine.l
T^ASHINGTON. — The tax
gravy passed out by the Truman
Administration for building de
fense plants is so juicy that even
the anti-Truman Chicago Tribune
wants to get in on it.
The Tribune, believe it or not,
has applied to the national pro
duction authority for special tax
benefits for building a $2,022,285.17
enlargement of its composing
room, engraving room, pressroom,
and circulation room.
This seems to be a long way
off from mobilization. Yet a re
cjuest was made to amortize this
new addition to the Tribune plant
in five years—the same benefit
given to manufacturers of guns,
tanks, airplanes, and war goods.
In a way you can’t blame the
Chicago Tribune for trying to
horn in on this tax gravy. So
many companies have applied for
it—and got away with it—that it's
become one of the biggest give
aways of mobilization.
However, the Tribune's reasons
are interesting. It stated in its
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$100,000 Rug
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Mr. and Mrs. Hugh V. Giltnfer and their daughter, Deloris (center)
are shown in Pueblo, Colo., with huge leopard skin rug sent them by
their son, Sgt. Elverne H. Giltner from Korea where he Is serving
with the Eighth Army. The New York Times quoted Korean consul
general, David Namkoong, as saying that rug is worth $100,000, “is a
priceless national treasure” and was formerly owned by the late
■ Queen Min. It is 18 feet, 11 inches by eight feet in size and is
made up of 48 matched leopard skins. Sgt. Giltner wrote his mother
that he pought the rug from a Korean and it came from the Chang
Iluk Palai'e in Korea, (ff) YVirephoto.
New Secret Storage Sites,
'Much More Frequent'
Testing Ahead for Atom
WASHINGTON, July 31 — Iff) —<*
The Atomic Energy Commission
disclosed today it is developing new
but secret sites to “store” atomic
weapons—and is planning “much
more frequent” test blasts.
Word of the new storage sites
came out of a news conference held
n connection with AEC’s tenth
semi-annual report to Congress
made public today.
A reporter noted a statement in
the report that “development of
new facilities for weapons purposes
proceeded (in the first six months
of this year) and announcements
were made of some of the sites.”
AEC Chairman Gordon Dean said
.he AEC had already announced
the location of sites for “produc
tion,” but added:
“We don't announce where we
store our bombs.”
Bigger “Bang"
At the conference it was also
disclosed that the United States has
developed some weapons that have
a bigger “bang”—that is, greater
‘energy release”—than others. The
commission said that was one of
the reasons why some weapons have
been tested in remote Eniwetok
while others with lesser "bang"
have been tested in Nevada.
"One' of the considerations (in
choosing testing grounds) is hurting
somebody,” AEC Chairman Gordon
Dean told reporters. “When they
get very large (in energy-releasing
capacity) we take them away from
people."
Progress Report
To Congress, AEC reported:
1. Continued progress so far in
1951 in military and peacetime
applications of the atom—includ
ing advances towards developing
atomic-powered submarines and
aircraft.
2. Increased acquisition of
uranium ores and stepped-up
production of fissionable materials
from them.
3. Achievement by the United
States of the No. 2 spot among
“the free nations” in the produc
tion of uranium—second only to
the Belgian Congo. (Sumner Pike,
a commission member, said some
time ago that the U.S. had sur
passed Canada to take over sec
ond place.)
San Francisco Cable Cars
loosing Grip on Hillside
Of Woe — City Moves in
SAN FRANCISCO. July 31— M—
The California Street Cable Car Co
—whose quaint hill-climbing car?
ire a tourists’ delight but a poor
source of stockholders’ income —
faced new woes today.
1. Lloyds of London cancelled
the company’s insurance.
2. Out-of-towncrs sought mys
teriously to buy up the stock.
3. Myron Kunin of Los Angeles,
largest stockholder, tried to re
sign as vice-president.
4. Stockholders were called to
meet today on a city move to take
over the money-losing line. The
city already operates the other
two cable car lines which carry
pedestrians up and down the
steep downtown hills here. Senti
mentalists have won out against
practical souls who periodically
have sought to have the unprofit
able cable cars abandoned.
The taxpayers got a look yester
day at some headaches they may
inherit. City Utilities Manager
Janies H. Turner said that if the
city takes over the line Sept. 1, as
proposed, the taxpayers will have
to make up a $121,577 deficit.at the
end of the fiscal year next June 30.
Dr. John O. Haman, president of
the company, said he would seek
new insurance. As for Kunin’s
resignation, Haman said he would
refuse to accept it. /
The bid to buy the stock at $3 a
share came in an unsigned letter
postmarked Los Angeles and only
with the return address: “R. A. Lee
and Associates.”
Later it was learned that the
inquiry came from Ralph A. Lee, a
Los Angeles accountant. Inter
viewed by telephone, he said he
represented a few stockholders who
feel that through a consolidation of
ownership they might retrieve past
losses by getting into a more profit
able business." He refused to elnb
! orate.
Two Clues
Traced on
Missing Plane
Plywood Investigated;
Storis Seeks Flotsam
Spotted Near Yakutat
Two clues to the missing Cana
dian Pacific Airline transport,
which disappeared in the vicinity
of Cape Spencer the night of July
20. are being investigated today,
U.S. Coast Guard headquarters re
ported here this morning.
A searching Air Force plane
sighted a yellow object on Knight
Island west of Prince William
Sound. It was picked up later by a
plane from Cordova and proved to
be a piece of plywood the size of
a signal panel. It did not appear
to be from an aircraft but was
taken to Yakutat today for further
inspection.
Another Air Force plane re
ported sighting objects that might
be life rafts and jackets floating
offshore about 30 miles southwest
of Yakutat. The U.S. Coast Guard
cutter Storis, which is operating
in that vicinity, was seeking the
objects today.
A Royal Canadian Air Force Da
kota from Edmonton. Alta., arrived
at the Juneau airport yesterday. It
and three other RCAF planes from
Whitehorse were expected to Join
the continuing search today.
Coast Guard headquarters said
that some improvement in weather
conditions was expected today and
it was planned to utilise 21 air
craft.
. ftearcli Hampered
Low ceilings yesterday hampered
search efforts but from 60 to 100
percent effectiveness was achieved
in various areas which included a
concentration north and west of
Prince William Sound, Kenai Penin
sula, Cook Inlet, the north half of
Baranof Island and Yakobi Island.
Nineteen aircraft flew 21 sorties
yesterday spending 122 hours over
the areas of probability.
The CPA Tokyo-bound transport,
with 38 persons aboard, was on the
first leg of a flight from Vancouver,
B.C., and was headed for Elmen
dorf Field. An intensive search
has been conducted by seven organ
izations under the coordination of
17th Coast Guard headquarters
here.
(See elsewhere in today’s Empire
for an Associated Press dispatch
from Vancouver, B.C., on the search
efforts.)
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'Race Haired’
Handbill Plane
Sought in Detroit
DETROIT, July 31, —<01—1The
hunt for an airplane that dropped
race hate handbills in the Detroit
tank arsenal vicinity was pressed
into a third day today.
The FBI examined Sunday
flight records of airports in three
counties—Wayne (Detroit) and
neighboring Oakland and Macomb.
Scattering mimeographed leaf
lets, a small unidentified plane
made two flights over the arsenal
area Sunday. The leaflets appear
ed anti-Semitic.
Police said the same leaflet was
dropped near London, Ont., sever
al weeks ago.
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• WEATHER FORECAST •
• Temperature for 24-Hour Period •
4 ending 8:20 o'clock thl» morning •
• In Juneau: Maximum, 63; •
• minimum, 52. •
• At Airpot: Maximum, 65; •
• minimum, 51. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Cloudy with occasional light •
• rain tonight and Wednesday. •
• Lowest temperature tonight •
• about 50. Highest Wednesday •
• near 58. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau—0.06 inches; •
• since July 1—4.08 inches. •
• At Airport — 0,08 inches; •
• since July 1—2.36 inches. •
• •*•••••••»
Protest 38th Parallel
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Residents, headed by men carrying United Nations flags and banners parade (July 28 Korean time)
through streets of Seoul. South Korea, protesting t he establishment of the 38th parallrl as the armistice
linf across Korea as proposed by the Red (lease-fir; negotiators^tt Kaesong. UN negotiators are hold
, ing out for the present battle line. (IPI Wlrephoto.
SalmonDerbyAwards
Presented Tonight
At Tibs Halt
Tonight will be the finale of
the biggest Golden North Salmon
Derby ever held when the sun
burned, happy anglers gather at
the Elks Hall at 8 p.m. for the
distribution of awards.
Over 100 prizes will go to the
skillful fishermen, with E. E. Nor
ton heading the list for the 1951
sedan. Norton's 56-pound king
was the largest salmon ever to be
entered in any Juneau derby.
Ernie Whitehead, manager of
the local Northern Commercial Co.
office, will get a 16-foot boat and
outboard motor. Edward Cwik will
get the stratocrutser round trip
for two to Honolulu. Keith Weiss
comes fourth to receive a large
refrigerator.
The event drew 42 outsiders
from as far away as New York;
Globe, Ariz., Birmingham, Mich.;
Pendleton, Ore.; Walla' Walla; Se
attle; Kellogg. Idaho; Yakima;
Richmond, Calif.; Tacoma; Glen
dale, Calif.; and Portland.
Twelve persons from other Alas
ka towns participated in the fish
ing contest. They were: Ketchi
kan—R. J. Jernberg add Irl That
cher; Skagway—George Rappuzl,
James Sullivan, Barney Anderson,
Malcolm Moe, and Roy E. Eogle;
Anchorage—Cliff Roland and Jo
sef M. Smith; Haines—Mr. and
Mrs. A1 Liibcke, and Gus Jurgel
iet.
Thousand fcniries
Around 1,000 tickets for the
derby were sold bringing in a
total of approximately $9,000, Ir
vin Curtis, secretary-tereasurer of
the Territorial Sportsmen, Inc. re
ported today. Expenses, including
the purchase of the automobile,
round trip to the Rosebowl Foot
ball game in Pasadena, printing,
canning the fish and other items
will run between $4,500 and $5,000,
Curtis estimated.
Money left over will be use<i to
launch next year’s derby and ad
vertise it more widely than ever.
It will also be spent on sportsmen
projects such as deer feeding, ju
nior trout., derby, transplanting
game, birds and fish to the Jun
eau area.
Derby co-chairmen, Curtis Shat
tuck and Dr. D. D. Marquardt,
today expressed their gratitude to
all those who assisted in making
the 1951 Golden North Salmon
Derby a big success.
A complete list of winners will
be published in the Empire follow
ing presentation of awards.
TOOL CO. MAN IS HERE
Ralph G. Fear of the Shearcut
Tool Co. from Hollywood. Calif., is
here accompanied by Mrs. Fear.
They are stopping at the Hotel Ju
neau.
Lines Wanted
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Shaded aieas on map show where Allies and Communists want to
draw cease-fire lines. Area running from point about 35 miles north
of the 58th parallel and following present battlellne is the cease-fire
area proposed to Reds in Kaesong by Vice Admiral C. Turney Joy.
Communists want line to follbw the 88th parallel. Shaded area along
coast would be a three-mife neutal rone off the shores of Koera. <#>
Wirephoto,
Telephone
Strike May
Spread
SEATTLE, July 31, —l/Pt-The
threat of another telephone strike
hung over the Pacific Northwest
today. At the same time, no pro
gress was reported toward settle
ment. of an eight-day walkout by
1,100 employes of the West Coast
Telephone Co.
Negotiations were underway here
on a new contract for 7,300 Pa
cifc Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany workers in the principal cit
ies of Washington and Northern
, Idaho. The present contract ex
pires August 9.
Douglas M. Chisholm, Washlng
*,on-Idaho director of the CIO
Communications Workers of Am
■rica, said yesterday “economic
pressure" may become necessary if
an agreement is not reached in
the next 10 days.
His words “economic pressure"
appeared synonomous with “strike."
Ship Movements
Baranof scheduled southbound
Sunday morning.
Princess Louise due northbound
at (i:30 p.m., today; sails for Skag
way at 11:30 pm.
Tulsequah Glacier
Break Causes
Taku Flood
Dean Goodwin, local freelance
pilot, reported today that a lake
formed by the Tulsequah Glacier
above the Oonsolidated Mine at
Tulseqquoh, B .C., broke last Fri
day. It dumped into the Taku
River causing extreme high water.
The crest of the flood was reached
Sunday night he said, but the
water was receding rapidly today.
The glacier moves out across a
canyon each summer and when
the pressure of the impounded wa
ter becomes great enough it breaks
the ice dam, similar to Lake
George on the Knik River neat
Anchorage.
Ml'KTCK IS DEAD
Muktuk, the pet hair seal at
Taku Lodge, is dead, Mary Joyce
reported here yesterday. Muktqk
lost a bout with the two big St
Bernard dogs at the lodge last
week. Miss Joyce came to Juneau
on A1 Ritchie's Totem to fish in
the Golden North Salmon Derby
over the weekend and was return
ed to the lodge Monday.
FROM MONTANA
Gordon Merrill and L. L. Jones
of Helena, Mont., are at the Hotel
Juneau. Merrill Is a brother of
Robert Merrill, construction super
intendent for Carson Construction
Co., here.
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Korean Peace
Talks Turn fo
Tug-of-War
| 'No Progress' after Five
Days,- South Koreans
Cry 'On to the Yalu'
BULLETIN
U.N. ADVANCE HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, Wednesday — —
Communist and United Nations
negotiators appeared ready to
day to attempt a compromise on
where to set up a buffer zone or
admit that Korean truce talks
have reached a deadlock.
The sixteenth meeting at Kae
song was scheduled for 11 a.m„
(6 p.m„ Tuesday, PDT).
Tuesday's fifteenth session
lasted only one hour and 34 min
utes and resulted In “no progress,"
the U.N. command communique
reported Tuesday night.
Fttr the fifth straight day the
Communist delegation Insisted
that a 12'i mile wide buffer zone
be centered along the 38th par
allel. The U.N. delegation again
sought to establish a 20-mile de
militarized zone along the present
battle line, from 20 to 35 miles
fartiier north.
Two compromise possibilities
haie been speculated upon at ad
vance headquarters. One was
for Communist acceptance of the
Allied position provided there was
an Immediate cease-fire ahead of
agreement on all terms of an
armistice.
The other was that the Allies
could draw back to a defensible
line which would run two to 10
miles south of the 38lh parallel In
the west blit two to eight miles
north of (Rat old political bound
ary in central and eastern Korea.
U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUART
ERS, Korea, July 31 —^—Armis
tice negotiators argued stubbornly
for an hour and 34 minutes today on
v.here to draw the cease-fire line In
Korea without getting any closer
together, *
It was the fifth successive day
United Nations and Communist del
egations devoted to the buffer zone
issue. The announced result of each
session was the same: No progress.
“The area of disagreement has
neither broadened nor narrowed,”
an official U.N. spokesman said.
The Reds want U.N. forces to
abandon their presrnt battle line
and pull bark to the 38th parallel.
Delegates meet again at 11 a.m.
Wednesday (5 p.m., today, Juneau
time), in their 16th session at Kae
song for another try at breaking
the deadlock.
'There was no Indication of, a
compromise to me today." com
mented the briefing officer, Brig.
Gen. William P. Nuckols. "On the
other hand, as you know, a position
ran be adjusted very quickly. That
is neither optimistic nor pessimis
tic.”
“No Change.”
The official U.N. communique
said:
"There was no perceptible
change in the expressed viewpoints
of the two delegations,*’ in Tues
day's sessions.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy ampli
f.ed the Allied position, the an
nouncement said, trying to shftw
"the mutual benefit to be derived
from acceptance of this view.”
North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam II
replied by repeating "his previously
stated stand.”
South Koreans demonstrating in
their temporary capital at Pusan
shouted:
"We oppose any cease-fire at the
damned 38th parallel.”
Thousands paraded through the
busy streets of the southern port
city Tuesday shouting "on to the
Yalu.”
Cunningham of
Alaska Packers'
Association Dies
SEATTLE, July 31—Harry B.
Cunningham, purchasing agent (or
the Alaska Packers' Association,
died of a heart attack at his home
last night. He was 51.
Esther Rose of New York City is
a guest at the Baranof Hotel.