THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE HEWS ALL THE TIME”
• VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,888
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 16. 1951
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PRICE TEN CENTS
WRECKED PRIVATEER BOMBER IS SIGHTED
Truce Talks
Go Informal
Reds May Relax De
mand-Formality Drops
Off Subcommittee
MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. 17—(i'Pt—
Truce talks moved into a new and
informal phase today as Allies and
Reds sought to break their long
impasse oyer a demarcation line.
Negotiators created a small sub
committee to try to untangle the
snarl over where a demarcation line
should be drawn between opposing
armies.
The change In tactics came amid
growing, but cautious, optimism
the Reds may be willing to com
promise on their demand for a
demilitarized zone back along the
38th parallel. The Allies want it
right where they are now, along
the present battlefront in defen
sible terrain.
The subcommittee, consisting of
two delegates from each side, was
created yesterday. It will hold its
first meeting at 4 p.m., today, Ju
neau time.
Its members will meet informally
in Kaesong where formal, full dress
negotiations have been locked over
this same point for more than three
weeks.
The U.N. command said it will
issue no communiques during
these meetings. And the press will
not be briefed on what happened.
The purpose is to allow the ne
gotiators complete freedom in try
ing to find a satisfactory recom
mendation.
There was no indication how long
the problem might be in the hands
of the subcommittee.
House Warned Cut
In Foreign Aid Is
Invitation lor War
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 —UPl—
The House got stern warning to
day that any further reduction
in the $7,848,750,000 foreign aid
program might increase the threat
of world war.
Further cuts might “deny us
the vital objectives we seek to at
tain by this program,” said chair
man Richards (D-SC) of the
House Foreign Affairs committee.
He saw these objectives as a build
up of western defenses — "not to
fight a war” to “to prevent a war.”
Richards’ views were contained
in a speech prepared for the
opening session of House debate
on the big assistance program
was aimed at a Republican-backed
drive to chop as much as a billion
dollars from the administration’s
original request for $8,500,000,000.
JUNEAU VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kinsey of
Woodbridge, N. J., are registered at
the Baranof Hotel.
FROM SEATTLE
Sidney Copeland of Seattle is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
SOMEWHERE NEAR THE
CZECHOSLOVAK BORDER. —
Anyone who thinks it’s easy to
launch freedom-friendship ball
oons across the Iron Curtain has
another guess coming. Once the
balloons are in the air, nature and
the fact that “winds of freedom
blow from West to East” take
care of the rest. But the real job
is getting them into the air.
And that boils down to assemb
ling hydrogen, tanks to put it in,
trucks to haul it in, German
workers to fill the balloons with
hydrogen and, on top of all this,
keeping the operation secret from
the curious German population
which loves intrigue. The man who
deserves the chief credit for over
coming these headaches is Harry
Andrews and the Dewey and Almy
Rubber Company, who, without
knowing a word of German, ca
joled, coaxed and wheedled nearly
one thousand hydrogen tanks from
firms all over Germany, collected
them all in one place and got
them filled with hydrogen. It takes
so much hydrogen to carry 15 mil
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How's Thai!'
The meaning of words seems to have Lt. II. G. Underwood (center). USN interpreter, worried as he
talks with liaison officers alter the cease-fire talks in Kaesong. Waiting for interpretation is Col.
('hang ishun San (left), North Korean liaison officer, while Lt. Col. Soo Young (right) ROK Army, ex
plains his meaning. l/P) W’irephoto.
7-YearOld 'Cloak and
Dagger' Killing Solved;
Prosecution Slumped
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 —(API—-5
A cold-blooded "deuce of spades"
killing of an American cloak-and
dagger officer behind enemy lines
in Italy seven years ago has been
solved, the Defense Department
said yesterday.
The Department declared Maj.
William V. Holohan, then 40, was
killed by two fellow American ser
vicemen with the aid of two Ital
ians. All were attached to an of
fice of strategic services (OSSt
mission parachuted into enemy
territory to get the low-down on
partisan guerrilla bands.
One of the former U. S. service
men denied any connection with
the killing; the other withheld
comment.
Two Named
Named by the Department as
the principles in the case were:
Aldo Icardi, then a 23-year
o!d lieutenant, formerly of Pitts
burgh but now employed in New
York City. The Department said
in a foimal mimeographed an
nouncement that Icardi hatched
the plot in a disagreement with
Holohan over how much arms
aid to give to Communist part
isans.
Carl G. LoDolce, then a ser
geant, from Rochester, N. Y. The
Department said LoDolce “drew
the two of spades” and thus got
the assignment of shooting Hol
ohan when Icardi decided poi
son given him earlier might not
be effective.
Keeking Method
At his home in Preakness, N.J.
Icardi denied any part in the kill
ing.
The Defense Department said it
and the Justice Department have
been poring over the lawbooks
seeking a way to prosecute Icardi
"fifth”LoEfoicf in tnis country, ana
it added: "All possibilities have
now been exhausted and it ap
pears that the only hope of pros
ecution lies with action by the
Italian courts.”
The Italian Embassy declined
comment on whether it would
seek to have the two men sent
back to Italy for trial.
They cannot be tried by civil
courts here, since the slaying
the Department accused them of
took place outside the U. S., and
they are beyond reach of mili
tary courts because both have
been discharged from service.
Dropped in Water
The Department said the death
of Holohan occurred on the night
of Dec. 6, 1944. It said that after
the major was killed, his body was
tied up in a weighted sleeping
bag and dropped into 30 feet of
water in Lake Orta in the Alps
near Trieste.,
It declared that two Italians
who were attached to the mission,
under intelligence officers’ ques
tioning a year ago last June , “fi
nally broke down and told the
real story of what happened to
Major Holohan.”
The Department said LoDolce,
later located in Rochester, “final
ly confessed and wrote out a
statement” which cooroborated
that of the two Italians.
'Navy's' Position
Awaits Return of
Henry Roden
Whether Alaska’s “Navy” — the
M V Chilkoot— will be pulled off
the rocks of disallowed vouchers
will be determined on the return to
Juneau of Treasurer Henry Roden.
Roden, a member of the Territor
ial Road Board, with Frank A. Met
calf, Highway Engineer, is today at
tending a ribbon-cutting ceremony
at the Canadian border which will
open a branch of the Taylor High
way between Jack Wade and Daw
son, Y. T.
Gov. Ernest Gruening said this
norning that he was not fully cog
nizant with the two transactions
which led to disallowing the vouch
ers by Territorial Auditor Neil
Moore. An insurance voucher for
$2,800 was disallowed. The other
voucher for $600, was refused be
cause it was for a fine levied before
the Territory bought the terry.
The Governor said he did not
know if the fines had or had not
been allowed for in the purchase
price.
“When Mr. Roden returns,” the
Governor said, “the matter will be
taken up by the Territorial Road
PNA Fares Cut on
Slales-Alaska Run
SEATTLE, Aug. 16—UR—Reduced
fares between Alaska cities and
Seattle and Portland have been an
nounced by Pacific Northern Air
lines and connecting carriers.
ATOMIC EXPLOSION FILM
RECEIVED BY LOCAL
DEFENSE ORGANIZATION
A 16mm sound film that explains
what an individual should do to
protect himself from an atomic
explosion has been received by R.
E. Robertson, local civil defense
director.
The movie, titled “Self Preser
vation,” may be borrowed without
cost by any group or club wishing
to show it. The film can be kept
here only a short time, Robertson
stated.
Board and if an appeal is warrant
ed it will be presented to the appeal
board. If it is found not warranted
then Mr. Moore’s decision, presum
ably, will stand.”
The Governor added that pur
chase of the ferry had been handled
by Roden in the absence, at the
time, of Metcalf. •
Polish Mutineers
Picture Russia as
'Giant Slave Camp'
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 16 —UK—
Polish mutineers who escaped
their Communist ruled country
declared today that "Russia has
turned the whole country into
a gigantic slave camp where life
is unbearable Cor anybody but
Communists.”
| Two of the mutineers — 12
I were "ranted political asvlum by
Sweden—met reporters and gave
a grim picture of life in their
homeland under what they call
ed the “iron grip” of the USSR.
Ignacy Hazel, 21, and Henrik
Skorupka, 22, two of the leaders
of the 12 mutineers, said in a
statement to reporters:
“We staged the mutiny be
cause wc wanted under no cir
cumstances to fight the West
on Russia's side. There are more
like us in Poland.”
Dentists Winding
Up 4-Day Meet with
Election of Officers
The Alaska Territorial Dental So
ciety was today completing its se
cond annual meeting held here dur
ing the past four days, with election
of new officers scheduled for late
this afternoon and a dinner tonight
at the Baranof Hotel for members
wives and guests.
The morning and early afternoon
today were taken up with technical
discussions and the showing of
sound-color movies.
Yesterday Dr. Charles M. Ballard
of Seattle gave a talk on dentist
patient relationship in which he
discussed the importance of edu
cating a patient to wear dentures.
He also stressed Impressing the pa
tient of'his responsibility in coop
erating
Oxfords, Yet?
“New dentures may feel like two
pairs of shoes in the mouth,” Doc
tor Ballard said, “and wearing
them constantly the first 48 hours
is the hardest, but it must be
done.”
He gave a practical demonstration
of using the educational approach
when he placed newly-made false
teeth in the mouth of J. W. Moeller
of Juneau, who had served as a sub
ject for the demonstration of proper
[fitting yesterday.
1 Dr. T. E. Hynson of the Alaska
j Native Service, attended a morn
I ing session during which he out
lined the Alaska Native Service
dental care program.
Pass Examination
Three of the four dentists who
passed the Territorial Board of Den
tal Examiners last week at Ketchi
kan, have been in attendance at
the sessions. They are: Capt. John
E. Miller of Elmendorf Airbase: Dr.
William E. Alexander of Port Al
berni, B. C., and Dr. James L. Irby
of Rogers, Ark., who plans to locate
in the Territory.
Dr. Cecil A. VanKleek, who also
passed the board examinations, re
turned to his internship at Port
land, Ore.
Final Peace
Treaty Draft
Made Public
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—<4>i—1The
United States and Britain made
public today their final draft of a
peace treaty with Japan. It makes
clear Japanese obligations to pay
partial reparations to Allied coun
tries devastated during the war.
Russia has bitterly denounced the
American-British. sponsored draft
and is reported ready to wage an
all-out propaganda battle against
it at the treaty conference opening
Sept. 4 in San Francisco.
Despite this, the State Depart
ment confidently expects the over
whelming majority of 50-plus Allied
countries will sign the pact at the
meeting
The latest draft, the third, makes
it clear Japan's present financial
difficulties rule out complete repar
ations to any country.
This reparations provision however
has been softened in language some
what to please the Philippines
which threatened to boycott the
San Francisco meeting because they
felt they were entitled to big war
damages from the Japanese.
The rest of the changes in the
6,500 word draft are minor. These
were included in answer to com
ments and suggestions from friend
ly governments.
No changes, as far as could be
learned, were made to appease Rus
sia’s vehement objections.
Red China Refuses
TOKYO, Aug. 16.—iff)—Commun
ist China announced today it will
refuse to recognize the forthcom
ing Japanese peace conference
which it charged was called under
Unite' i .States “compulsion.”
Red China was not invited to the
conference opening Sept. 4 at San
Francisco. Neither was Nationalist
China, although it is recognized
by the United States.
Red China’s expected position was
made known in a long statement
by Communist premier and foreign
minister Chou En-Lai. The state
ment was broadcast by the Peiping
radio.
Russ Warned Peace
Terms Are Closed
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—'The
United States told Russia today the
Japanese peace treaty conference
at San Francisco next month "is not
a conference to reopen negotiations
on the terms of peace.”
In a formal note delivered in
Moscow, the U. S. Government
in effect advised the Soviet Gov
ernmen that Its apparent intention
to raise basic treaty issues at
San Francisco is out or order since
the purpose of the meeting will be
“conclusion and signature” of a
treaty already drafted.
The note was made public shortly
after President Truman said he did
not think the arrangements already
made for signing the treaty could
be upset by anyone.
The American note to Moscow de
clared Russia has had “equal op
portunity with the other Allies” dur
ing the past 11 months to help write
the treaty.
PAMELA MARTINS IS
GUEST OF GEORGE FAMILY
Mrs. Wallis George and her
daughter Carol Ann returned the
first of the week from Petersburg
where they visited Mrs. George’s
brother-dn-law and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Lester Elkins.
Returning with them was young
Pamela Martins, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Magnus Martins, who is
visiting Carol Ann.
WEATHER FORECAST
Temperature for 24-Bour Period
ending 0:20 o'clock this morning
At Airport—Maximum, 62;
minimum, 53.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vlelnltr)
Considerable cloudiness with
occasional light rain showers
tonight and Friday. Lowest
temperature tonight about 50
degrees. Highest Friday near
60 degrees.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 am. tod a?
At Airport — .01 Inches;
» since July 1—3.40 Inches.
Dentist Has Some
Dentistry Done
Ke Broke a Tooth
The dentist-to-dentist rela
tionship between Dr. Joyce
D. Smith of Juneau and Dr.
James O. Whaley of Ketchikan
became dentist-to-patient rela
tionship here Tuesday during
Alaska Dental Association con
vention.
Doctor Whaley broke off a
corner of a third molar "while
eating soft cream pie at the
Baranof Coffee shop," he re
ported. He then became a pa
tient while Dr. Smith ground
down the tooth’s rough edges so
it would not cut his tongue.
Mrs. Mona Martin. Doctor
Smith"s dental assistant, got
an almost free filling for serv
ing as a subject for Dr. Robert
E. Wheatley’s demonstration of
new inlay technique. Mrs. Mar
tin paid for the gold, however.
Dewey Homeward
Bound Via Alaska
AUCKLAND, N. Z., Aug. 16 —UP)
— New York’s governor Thomas
E. Dewey left Auckland by air to
day for the first leg of his home
ward trip after a six-weeks fact
finding tour of the Pacific area.
He plans to visit Alaska before
returning to New York. He is
scheduled to be in Juneau Aug. 21.
Champ
Darwin Cooper, IS, of Williams
port, Pa., displays a big smife
after winning the 1951 Soap Box
Derby at Akron, O. Cooper beat
out 140 other youngsters from all
parts of the nation. LeRoy West,
13-year-o>ld Alaska champion, took
tenth place. He won his first two i
heats, but came in third on the
third one. (PI Wirephoto.
FROM ASTORIA
Adolph Lindstrom of Astoria, Ore.,
is at the Baranof Hotel.
Haines Dock May Close;
Owner Unable to Sell
Eskimos Bow lo
Wives lo Gel Feet
Out oi Mild
By FRANCIS J. KELLY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 —UB—
Alaskan Eskimos laced a nasty
dilemma — mud floors In their
livings rooms or bossy wives.
At least 432 of them decided
against the muddy floors.
The housing problems of Es
kimos in (he Hooper Bay area
on the Bering Sea were aired
in the House hearings on a
supplemental appropriation bill,
made public today.
A. C. Newell, an official of the
Housing and Home Finance Ag
ency, said the Eskimos lived in
snow-covered dugouts, pretty sat
isfactory diggings until the spring
maws.
•‘Then,’’ he said, "they walk
around in these houses up to their
ankles in the mud.”
PHA stepped in and offered
loans of up to $500 to provide
floors, roofs and sidewalls, instal
led by the Eskimos themselves.
Newell told the lawmakers a
“little difficulty” arose when the
agency’s lawyers insisted the Es
kimo and his wife both sign the
loan agreement.
“That did not take a very
good hold with the Eskimos,”
he recalled, “because prior to
that the average wife did not
have anything to say in the ec
onomy of the family, and when
she had to sign to get a good
floor in the house, she began to
assume importance in the family
circle.”
At that point the discussion
went off the record. All seven
members of the appropriations
subcommittee are married men,
too.
But it was brought out that 432
Eskimo families yielded to the
march of modernity and signed up
for the loans.
Slock Quotations
NEW YORK, Aug. 10—M*—Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3, American Can 116Vi,
American Tel. & Tel. 162Vi, Ana
conda 46Vi, Douglas Aircraft 51'.4,
General Electric 60‘4, General Mo
tors 50, Goodyear 00%, Kennecott 76,
Libby, McNeill & Libby 9, Northern
Pacific 48'4, Standard Oil of Cal
ifornia 49 %, Twentieth Century Fox
20‘i, U. S. Steel 42Vi, Pound
2.79 15/16, Canadian Exchange 94.75.
Sales today were 1,750.000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 265.48, rails 80.72, util
ities 45.11. _
1 The Haines steamer dock may be
closed in the near future, it was an
nounced today by Peter Wood, Ju
neau real estate agent attempting
to sell the property for Ed Koenig,
the owner. k
Koening, who is to enter the
armed services Aug. 27, will not be
able to keep the dock open, Wood
said. Several buyers are consider
ing purchase, he said, but negotia
tions are ‘moving too slowly” to
meet the date.
A telegram from the owner in
Seattle to Wood ordered him to
“lock her up.”
The dock is in need of repairs. Ac
cording to shippers, closing will af
fect unloading of freight destined
for shipment over the Haines Cut
off to the Interior. One Juneau
shipper declared it would tie up his
operation seriously.
Dock Kuilding
A contract has been let by the U.
S. Army Engineers for the construc
tion of a large army dock at Lutak
Cove, a few miles north of Haines.
Work lias started but it will be
many months before it is complet
ed.
Wood took a dim view of the
army permitting its dock to be' used
by civilians and said:
"The army was interested in let
ting: the public use its proposed
dock at Whittier. When the money
was assured and the dock built,
it was closed to any but army use.
We predict the same for Haines.
If we have to close the Haines
dock now there is a certain per
iod of several months that no
boat unloadings will be possible.
We have kept it open this long out
deference to the welfare of the
citizens of Haines and the welfare
of the Haines cutoff traffic.”
Information received by the Al
aska Development Board regarding
the use of the army dock that the
movement of civilian freight over
it would be permitted.
Will Permit Use
The letter received from Col.
Everett L. Upson, chief of staff,
U. S. Army of Alaska, at Fort
Richardson qualified the state
ment with: “At the present time
it Is contemplated that under
normal peace time conditions,
movement of freight over the
dock will be permitted.”
The local Alaska Steamship Co.
office said that 350 tons of freight
were unloaded by the freighter
Sailors Splice there last week.
Henry Green, agent, said that in
event of closing, it would be possible
to lighter freight ashore or it might
be possible that a cannery dock at
Letnikof Cove could be used.
FROM SEATTLE
H. G. Heaton of Libby. McNeill
and Libby of Seattle, is stopping at
I the Baranof Hotel.
Evidence
Shows Plane
Blew Up
Mountainside Seared
100 Feet Each Side of
Wreck; No Survivors
KODIAK, Alaska, Aug. 16—<APt—
Burned out wreckage of a Navy pa
trol bomber which apparently car
ried 12 men to their death was due
to be reached late today on bleak
Amak Island of the Alaska Penin
sula.
The possibility of finding surviv
ors was considered remote.
The U. S. Navy ship Tillamook
was dispatched to the island with a
ground party after a Navy search
pilot sighted the shattered PB4
Y-2 yesterday near the 1,000-foot
level of Amak’s mountains. The
Tillnmook was scheduled to arrive
at 4 p.m.
The four-engined bomber vanish
ed last Sunday with a crew of three
officers and nine enlisted men on
a routine operations flight from its
Kodiak base. It's last position re
port was near Port Heiden on the
north side of the Alaska Peninsula
and nearly 200 miles northeast of
Amok.
The big plane apparently exploded
as it crashed. The mountainside
was seared for more than 100 feet
on each side. The search pilot who
found the wreckage identified it
from a 10-foot section of the left
wing, tipped in blue with a white
star.
No survivors or bodies were sight
ed.
Meanwhile a limited search for
two missing aircraft in the Yakutat
region continued as weather permit
ted.
Two 10th Air Rescue Squadron C
47’s were ready to search the glacier
and tnourrtain areas for a Korean
airlift transport mlsing since July
20 and a Norseman unreported since
July 27.
Civilian Plane
Weather yesterday was not
good for large aircraft but a light
civilian plane flew four flights
totaling 14 hours, according to in
formation received at (1. S. Coast
Guard headquarters here. The un
identified plane covered Malas
pina and Seward glaciers and
Cook, Vancouver and Augusta
mountains. It also searched Rus
sell Fjord.
The Korean airlift transport was
bound from Vancouver, B. C„ to
Tokyo with 30 persons aboard and
made it last routine check off Cape
Spencer the night of July 20.
The Arctic Institute Norseman,
piloted by Maurice King, failed to
show up at Yakutat July 27 with
Mrs. Walter A. Wood and her
daughter Valerie. They had been
visiting at the Institute’s Seward
Glacier camp where Mrs. Wood’s
husband was in charge of ice stud
ies.
No recent clues to either missing
ilrcraft have developed.
Demand to Ground
Privateers Voiced
WASHINOTON, Aug. 16——'The
Navy was asked today by Rep. Mit
chell (D-Wash) #to “immediately
iround” its Privateer bombers pend
ing a complete safety investigation.
In a letter to Navy Secretary Dan
A. Kimball. Mitchell declared the
planes are obsolete.
Four of the Navy plane*—the
PB4-Y-2—have crashed within re
cent months, the Congressman
said. The first three resulted in
loss of 23 lives. The fourth, which
disappeared Sunday, was sighted
down near Amak Island. 430 miles
west of Kodiak, Alaska, yesterday.
There was no sign of its 12 pass
engers and crew.
In his letter Mitchell asserted:
"There have been reports that in
addition to obsolescence, the repair
of the individual planes, with thou
sands of hours of flying time wear,
is next to impossible.”
He said the plane was “consid
ered clumsy 10 years ago," but is
being used in operations “which
could be termed difficult for up
to-date aircraft.”
“Certainly four crashes of similar
type planes in a short period indi
cate that no time should be lost
in the initiation of a complete check
to prove, if possible, the safety of
operation,” he added. “No planes
| should be in use pending comple
tion of the check.”