THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME?*
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,886
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1951
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Allied Air,
' Naval Power
Snag Talks
U. N. Ready to 'Clob
ber” Reds; Enemy Needs
* Peace, Says General
< By Robert B. Turkman
v MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. 14——
Kaesong armistice talks snagged to
day on an argument over the im
portance of Allied air and naval
supremacy.
If cease-fire negotiations break
down, the United Nations ground
commander, Gen. James A. Van
Fleet, said his troops are feady to
* "clobber” the Reds.
In Tokyo Gen. Matthew Ridgway
UN supreme commander, said the
Reds have been steadily building
up and are in a materially better
position to attack than they were
when truce talks started July 10
Van Fleet, commander of the
Eighth Army, commented:
“The military feels we would
like to have the opportunity to
i < meet the Communists if they at
tack. It would be a real clobber.
“I don’t know of a brtter way to
get it over faster.
"The enemy is hurting. He is in
bad shape. He needs peace.”
Van Fleet's opinion of the ability
of the 8th Army to meet a Red on
slaught coincided with views ex
pressed by Ridgway, when the top
Allied comander told about the Red
build-up.
’ Ridgway said the UN position was
not inflexible, but that his troops
must have a defensible position
during a truce approximately along
their present battle line. He said
the UN won’t go back to the 38th
parallel, where the Reds want to
set up a buffer zone.
It was the demilitarized zone
deadlock which generated the argu
ment at Kaesong over UN air and
navy might.
Vice Adn». C. Turner Joy, head
of the UN delegation told the Reds
that Allied planes and warships
“are prosecuting a war behind your
front lines which is not duplicated
behind our lines.”
A UN spokesman said this was a
reply to a one-hour and 13-minute
attack by General Nam attempting
to "discredit the independent ef
fectiveness of air and naval power
which the UN comand would re
linquish in an armistice.”
In one breath the North Koreans
Said they weren’t doing much good
and in the next he said the Reds
would run UN troops out of Korea
except for Allied planes and war
ships.
Reds Claim Allies
Dropped Gas Bombs
MOSCOW, Aug. 14—’If)—Moscow
newspapers and radio today claimed
the Americans have dropped poison
gas bombs in Korea.
The reports said a protest has
been sent to the United Nations.
They claimed the bombs were
dropped on Aug. 1 and Aug. 7 and
that deaths have resulted from
chemical poisoning.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(CopTrtKht. 19M. DT Bell firndlcat* Inc
(Note: Drew Pearson is on
another tour of Europe, study
ing conditions there in this per
iod of world tension and crisis.
This is the first of his cabled
dispatches from Central Europe.)
Near the Iron Curtain, in Cen
tral Europe.—If there was ever a
time when propaganda was need
ed to encourage and stimulate the
people behind the Iron Curtain
now is it.
Already the people of the satel
lite countries and even many in
Russia proper are torn by doubt
and dissension and distrust. Theii
restlessness has been churning for
some time but now it’s near the
boiling point.
All clues I have been able to
pick up from the underground and
from intelligence reports convince
me \ hat the Russian • bear has
swallowed too much and will have
to regurgitate. A bear that’s suf
fering from acute indigestion is
not usually belligerent and it may
be that additional propaganda
barrages by balloons, the Voice of
America and every other device
possible could help increase that
sickness and tip the scales for
peace.
Furthermore, messages of friend
ship and encouragement to the
people behind the Iron Curtain at
this time can help produce an
tContinued on Page Four)
Troop Train, Streamliner Collide
The fust passenger train Southern Bcll'e of the Kansas City Southern Railroad, collided headon with a troop train loaded with more than
3C0 Marines near Simmesport, La. The southbound Southern Belle was headed to New Orleans. State police reported 12 persons were killed
and about 60 injured. UP) Wirephoto. j
Biggest War
Program Gets
House Okay
Construction tor Military
Will Take Billions;
Funds tc Come Later
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 —
The House today authorized the
largest single military construction
program ever presented to Con
gress in war or peace. It calls for
spending 35,768,720,000.
The major portion of the pro
posed work, $3,480,661,000, is al
lotted the Air Force and will be
used to strengthen its bases in
this country, in the territories and
overseas.
The sum of C 1.368,025,000 is ear
marked for Army construction
and $786,267,000 for the Navy. In
addition, there is about $133,766,000
for joint projects and for construc
tion of recreational and welfare
facilities at bases.
The bill simply authorizes the
program. Actual funds will hive
to be supplied later. The military
services are asking $4,600,000,000
to get the work under way.
This is in addition to the $56,
000,000,000 military appropriations
measure for 1952 passed by the
House last week.
The House passed the authori
zation measure after rejecting an
ittempt to strike out of the bill
c $19,019,000 project for expan
sion of the Grandview, Mo., air
:ase in President Truman’s home
rounty. That action came on a
/oice vote.
Hep. Gross <R-Ia> had sougnt
to knock out the Grandview pro
ject on the grounds that it was
in “extravagance.” He contended
the air force could use a nearby
field at Sedalia, Mo.
Southeast Pink
Hun Brings Up Total
Salmon Pack Figure
Tlie excellent pink salmon run
n Southeastern Alaska is helping
,o bring Alaska's total pack fig
ires up to those of last year. This
vas indicated today by figures re
eased by the Fish and Wildlife
Service.
For the week ending August 4,
Southeastern’s pack was 250,579
•ases as compared with 41,767 at
he same time last year. Pinks
iccounted for 106,472 cases of this
ear's total.
Total salmon pack for Alaska
for 1951 to the same date is 1,559,
839 cases. Last year the pack was
1,824,491.
In Central Alaska 920,709 cases
have been packed of which 275,
551 are pinks. Total at this time
last year was 1,164,701.
Western District has only a lit
tle more than half the pack of
last year, with 388,551 for 1951 and
618,023 for 1950. Reds were leading
in this district with 347,979 cases
of that species.
4,500 Prisoners
Thought Held in
Communist Camps
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 14 —UR
— Unofficial estimates indicated
today that, of the 10.624 Ameri
cans officially listed as missing in
action in Korea, as many as 4,500
j probably are being held In Com
munist war prisoner camps.
This figure comes from Allied
military sources which cannot be
uamcci but winch ait in as *»Ov>\l
position as anyone on the Allied
side to know the score on this
hush-hush matter.
The prisoners are said to be
confined near Kanggye, deep in
side Nor‘h Korea about 20 air
| miles f:om the Manchurian fron
| tier.
Reliable information reaching
Allied authorities said Chinese
Red leaders do not want Allied
1 prisoners transferred to Chin
e>e soil. To do so would destroy
the Communist contention that
only Chinese “volunteers” are
fighting in Korea.
The number of American and
other U. N. prisoners never has
been, announced by the Reds. Al
lied sources estimate the total
number at approximately 10,000.
The Allies have announced they
hold 164,756 counted prisoners of
war. Most of them are North Kor
eans.
Whether prisoners will be ex
changed on a man-for-man basis
or by lot will have to be decided
■ by the negotiators.
Red Aggression
Stymied by Allies,
Says Committee
WASHINGTON, Au^. 14—OPV—1The
House Foreign Affairs committee
said today the Allies have plans
“which should deter Soviet aggres
sion or defeat it if launched.”
A committee said details of the
plans were given to the group at
secret hearings on the administra
tion’s $8,500,000,000 foreign aid pro
gram.
While optimistic on the eventual
outcome, the committee warned that
any war would be a long one.
Dewey 'Happy' to
See Truman About
Pacific Findings
WELLINGTON, N. Z., Aug. 14
—(iPi—Governor Thomas E. Dewey
of New York leaves Wellington
tomorrow for Auckland, and will
board a plane there Thursday for
the Fiji Islands on his return trip
from his fact-finding tour of the
East.
The Republican leader told a
reporter he will be “happy to see
President Truman on my return
to the states and pass on first
hand reports of my findings in
the Pacific.”
Dewey announced yesterday he
would visit Alaska before return
ing to New York. (His plans call
for arrival in Juneau next Tues
day.)
William Randolph Hearsl
Dies in Beverly Hills
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. 14
—(/B—William Randolph Hearst, the
publisher, died today He was 88
The man whose chain of Ameri
can newspapers represented a $200,
000,000 enterprise at its peak suc
cumbed in a coma at his home here.
He had been in ill health for some
time and periodically in recent years
v 1 .ciV' Wi.it' i ipOi t/t, .I..*; he Alt:*
dying, but his native strength re
peatedly returned “the chief” to
active direction of his papers.
Then yesterday Hearst sank into
a coma. He died at 9:50 a.m. to
day.
Hearst was one of the nation’s
most controversial figures in news
paper editing and publishing. On
one hand he was called a “yellow
journalist” and on the other, genius.
Certainly it could be said that his
newspapers were never dull. He was
a great campaigner for or against
causes. He fought public utilities,
battled government, was an uncom
promising foe of Communism.
Equally, he was a great champion
of Americanism, he fought for the
eight-hour day and women’s suff
rage.
The publisher, patriarch of chain
newspapers, brought many innova
tions to American journalism during
the half century he directed a vast
empire with a value estimated as
, high as $200,000,000 at the peak of
! his spectacular and often provoc
1 ative career.
Violent controversies swirled all
around him. Through his papers
stretching from coast to coast he
carried on campaigns for or against
causes, jousting with governments,
highly placed individuals, “crim
inal corporations," politicians and
many others. He went after public
utilities and crusaded for public
ownership. He bitterly fought the
old League of Nations and demand
ed payment of war debts after
World War I.
Hearst championed such things
as the eight-hour day, women suff
rage and election of U. S. Senators
by direct vote of the people. In
tensely interested in politics, he
served two terms in Congress from
New- York and aspired for other of
fices including the Presidency.
The publisher was praised and
condemned. By some he was re
garded as a genius, by others as a
“yellow journalist." There were those
who referred to him as a defender
of the helpless, and those who called
him a rabble rouser.
Many Herns
Though most widley known as
a militant newspaper publisher,
Hearst had many other fields of
activity—magazines published both
in this country and England, news
paper feature syndicates, a news
service, photo service, art collecting,
real estate, mining, motion pictures,
radio and ranching.
There was the fabulous San Sim
eon ranch in California, seat of his
empire, with its four castles and
lavish appointments: his wooded,
67,000-acre estate, Wyntoon, on the
McCloud River in northern Calif
ornia; a $15,000,000 art collection
that Included complete churches
and castles brought over from Eu
rope stone by stone; the 12th Cen
tury St. Donat's castle in Wales;
extensive ranch holdings in Mexico;
a number of radio stations.
He inherited a fortune estimated
at around $25,000,000 from his
father, George Hearst, a former
United States Senator. Included in
the heritage were gold mines, ranch
es and railroad and bank stocks.
Though he could have had a life
of e»' ; Hearst pitched in at work |
immediately after he was “rusti
cated" (temporarily suspended)
from Harvard in his senior year for
a prank, and through the years in
creased his fortune many fold.
Newspapers and Magazines
A 1947 compilation showed the
folowing newspapers in the Hearst
group:
San Francisco Call-Bulletin, Son
Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles
Examiner, Los Angeles Herald-Ex
press, Chicago Herald-American,
Boston American, Boston Record
and Boston Sunday Advertiser, New
York Journal-American, New York
Mirror, Albany Times-Union, Balti
more News-Post and Sunday Am
erican, Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph,
Detroit Times, Seattle Post-Intelli
gencer, Oakland Post-Inquirer, San
Antonio Light and Milwaukee Sen
tinel.
The group had been larger before
liquidations and consolidations. The
American Weekly, a Sunday supple
ment that for years was exclusive
with Hearst newspapers, was made
available to others.
There also was a Hearst news
agency, the International News Ser
vice, that served all papers in the
Hearst chain and many others.
Among the magazines were Good
Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar
(both also published in London),
Cosmopolitan, Junior Bazaar, House
Beautiful, Town and Country, Mo
tor, Motor Boating, American Drug
gist and Connoisseur, the latter
published in England.
In Politics
It was In 1904 that Hearst, amid
great fanfare, sought the Demo
cratic nomination for President.
Supporters hailed him as "the great
advocate of popular welfare.” Eight
states and Hawaii voted for him
at the Democratic National Con
vention, but the nomination went
to Alton B. Parker, who was defeat
ed by Theodore Roosevelt in the
election.
Four years later he was selected
by the Independence League as its
standard bearer.
Hearst carried on a long feud
with Alfred E. Smith, who in 1922
refused to run for reelection as gov
ernor of New York if Hearst were
named on the ticket with him as
Democratic candidate for the Sen
ate. The Senatorial nomination went
to Royal S. Copeland.
The publisher offered large prize1
to encourage the development ol
aviation. He also went in for motion
picture production, starting during
the first World War in New York
and continuing for a time in Holly
wood. Many of the guests he enter
tained at San Simeon came from the
movie colony.
KREPPS TO YAKUTAT
Jack Krepps, U. S. deputy marshal
from Wrangell, was through Juneau
yesterday enroute to Yakutat.
11 Dead in
Seattle Plane
Accident
Medium Bomber
Crashes Apartment;
Nine in Crew Killed
SEATTLE, Aur. 14—Charred,
smoldering rubble and melted metal
marked the pyre today where at
least 11 persons were consumed In
gasoline-fed flames spewed out from
a crashed B-50 Air Force bomber.
Those who lived remembered the
hot breath of death that swept
through the hillside apartment
house into which the mediufti
bomber plunged yesterday afternoon
moments after talcing off on a rou
tine check-out flight.
Dozens of persons in Seattle's
south end industrial section saw
the doomed plane suddenly lose
altitude from 700 feet up and veer
off sharply to the right.
Hit Apartments
A wing dipped violently, the B-50
flicked against the side of a brewery,
then plowed into the frame and
brick Lester Apartments on the
hill behind. i
"The noise was so loud I
thought it was a Jet coming,” re- j
called Fred Prout, who was below i
the residential hill. "Then I saw
it, the wings at a 90-degree angle
to the ground—straight up and
down.” In the next instant it
struck and burst Into flames.
Six of the dead were members of
the plane’s crew—three Air Force
men and three flight analysts from
the nearby Boeing Airplane Com
pany, maker of the B-50. The other
five known victims were dwellers in
the 49-unit apartment house whose
entire north end was destroyed.
Still Search
Firemen probed the still-hot de
bris until midnight, searching for
the remains of others who might
have been trapped in the inferno
touched off by the plane's 3,500
gallons of high test gasoline and 300
gallons of oil. The hunt was to be
resumed shortly after daybreak.
Twelve persons in the apartment
building were painfully burned or
injured in the impact or their
escape from the lightning quick
spread of the flames.
Three residents were unaccounted
for at an early hour today.
List of Dead
SEATTLE, Aug. 14—(A’l—The vic
tims of the crash of a B-50 bomber
into a Seattle apartment house yes
terday included the following:
Dead: Lt. Lloyd G. Vanderweilcn,
33, Seattle, pilot.
Capt. Charles A. Dews, 30, 3007
Haris Bvd„ Austin Texas, radar ob
server.
M Sgt. Frank A. Dodaro, 35, flight
engineer, whose mother, Mrs. Mary
Aston Dodaro, lives at 57 Elizabeth
St., Kingston, N. V.
Earl Edwards, 35, Boeing Airplane
Company co-pilot. Kenneth C. Bar
rick, 36, Boeing flight test analyst.
DeLon P, Turner, 33, Boeing flight
test analyst. Mrs. Evelyn Smith Ma
cabeo, 25, apartment house resident.
Mrs. Albert Mason, about 40, apart
ment house resident. Martin P.
Roberts, age unknown, believed an
apartment house resident.
Two of the dead are unidentified.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Aug. 14—(jft—Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau
mine stock today is 2%, American
Can 115, American Tel. At Tel. 159.
Anaconda 45%, Douglas Aircraft
50 '4, General Electric 57%, Gen
eral Motors 48%, Goodyear 89%,
Kennecott 75, Libby, McNeill &
Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 47%,
Standard Oil of California 48.
Twentieth Century Fox 20%, U. S.
Steel 4114, Pound 2.79 15/16, Can
adian Exchange 94.75.
Sales today were 1,180,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 262.88, rails 79.89, util
ities 45.13..
MASSES ON WEDNESDAY
Tomorrow morning, the Feast
of the Assumption, there will be
Masses in the Catholic Church in
Juneau at 7, 8, 9 and 10 o'clock,
in Douglas at 8 o'clock, and at the
Lee Smith residence near the air
port at 7 o'clock.
Ship Movements
Princess Kathleen in port sched
uled to sail for Skagway at 11:30
p.m.
Baranof due southbound some
time Sunday.
Green Flares Seen Near
Adak Spur Hunt for
Missing Navy Privateer
Bone 'Clues’
Pronounced of
Animal Origin
Yakutat Beach Find Ex
amined by FBI; Storis
Reurning to Juneau
The leg and spinal bones found
near Yakutat last week, believed
of human origin and a possible
clue to the missing Korean air
lift plane, were definitely found
of "animal origin,” it was an
nounced today.
The skeletal remains were dis
covered by search parties roam
ing Monti Bay, several miles from
Yakutat, and brought here for j
identification. Three Juneau doc- ]
tors pronounced them human, but (
another source after examining
x-rays, said tney were not.
The findings were announced in
a telegram from J. Edgar Hoover,
head of the Federal Bureau ol
Investigation, to Acting Marshal
Walter Hellan. Hoover said:
"Dr. Marshall Newman, assist
ant curator of the division of
anthropology at the National
Museum, advises the bones are
all of animal origin. There was
no further report. Specimens
being destroyed as your instruc
tions."
Meanwhile, Coast Guard head
quarters reported that dragging
operations carried on by the cut
ter ' Storis urider an oil slick seen
near Yakutat were non-productive.
The ship is returning to its Jun
eau base, they said. Parties
searched the nearby beaches and
found no evidence of an aircraft's
having landed or crashed there.
The search for the missing Can
adian Pacific Airlines transport,
carrying 38 persons, last reported j
June 20 off Cape Spencer en
route to Anchorage, appeared
slackening.
Three Royal Canadian Air
Force planes, based at White
horse, were reported returned to
their bases near Vancouver, B. C.
The search is combined with one
for a missing Norseman craft car
rying Mrs. Walter A. Wood and
her daughter Valerie, lost during a
flight from a glacier camp while
on research for the Arctic Insti
tute. Wood, with several friends,
is in Yakutat pressing the search.
The craft, piloted by Maurice
King, disappeared July 27.
The search yesterday was lim
ited by weather and a decreased
number of aircraft, because of
several having been diverted to
the hunt for the missing Navy
Privateer lost near Adak. Incom
plete returns this morning said
that two aircraft flew six hours in
the Yakutat coastal area yester
day.
Three ships were standing by
today to continue the search on
a "feather permitting" basis.
One Coast Guard plane based at
Kodiak was pressed into the search
for the Privateer.
Catholic Priest to
Pronounce Last Vows
The Rev. Alfred T. Brady, S.J.,
will pronounce his last vows a-'
a member of the Society of Jesu;
at the 9 o’clock Mass tomorrow
morning in the Cathedral of the
Nativity. The last vows will cul
minate his long period of train
ing in the Jesuit order.
Father Brady was stationed in
Juneau during the winter of 1948
-1949. He was chaplain of St.
Ann’s Hospital and cared for the
Catholic Church In Douglas. He
has been in Wrangell this sum
mer and will remain in Juneau
for about a month. He is a mem
ber of the faculty of Seattle Un
iversity.
•
• WEATHER FORECAST •
• Temperature for 34-Hour Period •
» ending 8 30 o’clock thla morning •
• At Airport—Maximum, 72; •
• minimum. 53. •
• forecast •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Mostly cloudy with some •
• very light showers tonight •
• and Wedne»day. Lowest tern- •
• perature tonight near 55 de- •
• grees. Highest Wednesday 65. •
• •
• precipitation •
• (Past 34 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
• At Airport — .08 inches; •
• since July 1—3.27 inches. •
KODIAK, Alaska. Aug. 14——
Hope for 12 Naval airmen missing
since Sunday in an Alaska-based
patrol bomber was pinned today on
a series of green flares sighted
about 40 miles northeast of Adak*
in the Aleutian Island chain.
An investigation was being con
ducted by the Navy tug Bagaduce.
The intermittent flashes were seen
yesterday by a Navy search pilot
but fog and rain blotted out the
ground and sea. Nothing could be
seen that might lie on the surface.
The PB4-Y-2 Privateer disappear
ed on an operational flight from its
home field at Kodiak. Three officers
and nine enlisted men were aboard.
The Military News Service this
morning sent the following dis
patch to The Empire:
Five aircraft of the Tenth Air
Rescue Squadron took off from
Elmendorf Air Base at 3 a.m. this
morning to join the search for the
bomber which disappeared Sunday
on a routine flight from the U.
S. Naval Station at Kodiak to the
Aleutian Island of Adak.
An armada of 24 Navy, Air Force
and Coast Quard aircraft are now
scouring an area of approximately
33,000 square miles for the bomber,
whose crew consists of three officers
and nine enlisted men.
The search area extends over tne
Aleutian Island chain and the wat
ers surrounding the chain, with
planes from Elmendorf, Kodiak and
Adak participating under the di
rection of Commander George Koch,
commanding officer of the Kodiak
Naval Station.
Advance base for the seatch is
Cold Bay.
This morning at 4:39, a Navy
aircraft sighted three green flares
on the water approximately 40
miles northeast of Adak. ShorAy
after, another flare waa sighted
about 10 miles from Adak. The
Navy tug Bagaduce was dispatch
ed from Adak at 7:30 o’clock this
morning, and was scheduled to
arrive in the area 40 mites from
Adak at approximately 10 o’clock.
No report has yet been received
from the tug.
A position report radioed from the
missing plane at 9:34 a.m. Suridav
morning was garbled and could not
be deciphered at the Kodiak base,
but it was relayed to the base at
10:14 a.m. by Lt. Evan Ryner, a
Naval pilot flying in the erea.
The report indicated that at the
time of the transmission, the privat
eer was about 60 miles northeast of
Port Heiden.
Names of the men on the missing
plane are presently being withheld.
Af Least 80 Dead
Or Missing in
Plane Accidents
SEATTLE, Aug. 14 — Ufl—A ser
ies of airplane accidents along the
North Pacific air lanes has left
lead or missing at least 80 people,
Deluding five Seattle apartment
house dwellers killed yesterday
vhen their home was hit by a
crashing B-50.
Six more persons aboard the
plane were killed.
Just one day earlier a Navy
patrol bomber with 12 aboard
vanished over the Alaska Penin
sula, Hope has not been abandoned
for the Navy men.
The string of ill luck capped by
the Aug. 13 crash began July 20
when a Korean airlift plane car
rying 38 persons vanished on or
near the Alaska coast. A smaller
lane disappeared July 27 with its
pilot and two New Jersey women
who were passengers.
A Queen Charlotte Airways
plane carrying seven people was
lost along the British Columbia
.■oast Aug. 4. Last Monday a Navy
patrol plane carried nine men to
leath in a plunge into Puget
Sound.
VISITORS FROM CORDOVA
Marian Elston and Bessie Sand
strom of Cordova are registered at
the Baranof Hotel.
TIDE TABLES
AUGUST 15
Low tide 6:33 a m., -2.2 ft.
High tide 1:02 p.m., 15.3 ft.
Low tide 6:40 p.m., 2.7 ft.