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JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1951
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Reds Given
Lambisfing,
Truce Talks
MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 15—Wl—A
United Nations command truce
negotiator today accused the Com
munists of trying to win at the
conference table what they could
not win in battle.
Other UN delegates reported “no
progress at all” in today’s prisoner
exchange negotiations.
Maj. Gen. Howard Turner lam
basted the Reds after rejecting a
six- point Korean truce supervi
sion plan calling for limited troop
rotation.
“You seek to gain through
negotiation what you could not
win through fighting. You seek
' tp avoid through negotiation what
you could not avoid through
fighting,'' he said.
“In accepting the restrictions ad
vocated by the United Nations
command, you would merely accept
a continuation of limits on your
military capabilities which exist to
day as a result of UN command
military operations.
“We are not talking as a victor
■ over the vanquished. We are talk
ing military realities on which this
armistice must be based," Turner
continued.
Negotiators appeared deadlocked
both on plans for policing an ar
mistice and exchanging prisoners
of war, despite earlier indications
that compromise solutions of both
thorny problems might be near.
The two subcommittees will meet
t again Sunday at 11 a.m. (6 p.m.
PST Saturday) in Panmunjom.
Rear Admiral R .E. Libby said
the subcommittees on prisoner
exchange are right back where
they started.
"The net gain was zero. We arc
back on page one, paragraph one.
This is where we came in. No
progress at all,” he said.
Libby said the Reds merely reit
erated their demand that the UN
Allies okeh their plan for a bulk
exchange of prisoners before turn
ing over a list of the prisoners they
t hold.
UN negotiators, on the other
hand, insisted that data on prison
ers and prison camps be disclosed as
the first order of business.
Margot Hoppin Gets
, Hoppin' Mad at
Anchorage Council
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 15—
JO—The Anchorage City Council has
voted to drop a $3,070 item for the
Territorial Welfare Department
from the city’s 1952 budget.
The vote was 5 to 1 after a hot
debate at the weekly session.
> The majority members argued
that city taxpayers already pay
territorial taxes for the support of
the welfare department and should
not have to ante again via the city.
Mrs. Margot Hoppin, the lone
council member for the appropria
tion, got hoppin’ mad and told the
council majority1: “This is the
least ‘giving’ city I (have ever seen.
There is a great deal of personal
charity, but none by the city.”
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
■CoDjrlght, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW FEABSON
FT ASHINGTON—It may get a
diplomatic denial, but the unfor
tunate fact js that there has never
been so much serious friction be
tween U. S. and Latir^American
representatives as at the UN Gen
eral Assembly session in Paris.
Not since 1945, when the other
20 American republics threatened
to walk out of the United Nations
organizing conference at San Fran
cisco, have so many harsh words
and mutual recriminations been ex
changed among western hemisphere
neighbors.
Ironically, our Latin friends were
on the verge of a walkout six.years
ago because, they said, we had done
too much appeasing of the Rus
sians. Now their chief complaint
is that we are getting too tough
with the Commies.
This doesn’t mean that they’ve
suffered a change of heart; however,
it’s Just that some of our recent
tactics on the international front
have responsible Latin Americans
(Continued on Page 4)
‘BRAINS’ FOR ‘BEAUTY’ — Marie Wilson, (he
screen's “dumb blonde,” chats with a former Quia Kid* Martha
Manor (r. >, who stands in for Marie on Hollywood picture locations.
Tax Scamlais io
Be oiaced Before
Fed. Grand Jury
By B. L. LIVINGSTONE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—UP)—It is
now up to a federal grand jury to
sift fact from fiction in the amaz
ing and conflicting stories studding
a House investigation of federal
tax scandals.
This was apparent today as mem
bers of a House Ways and Means
subcommittee—learned by ^ lengthy
hearings highlighted by everything
from mink coats to half-million
dollar "Shakedowns”—temporarily
closed up shop for the holidays.
A federal grand jury is due soon
I to pick up where the * committee
| left off.
Eliminate Wrongdoers
And President Truman may an
nounce today a broad program to
eliminate government wrongdoers—
a program he returned to Washing
ton from- vacation to develop in
the wake of the tax scandals.
Chairman King (D-Calif) ordered
the transcript of testimony sent to
the Justice Department last week.
He did so after Abraham Teitel
baum, Chicago attorney, named
Bert Naster and Frank Nathan,
two Floridans, as engineers of a
purported $500,000 “shakedown” at
tempt on the claim they could “fix”
the tax troubles.
Both Nathan and Naster de
nounced Teitelbaum's story as
•‘lies," and Nathan charged he was
the victim of a "frame-up.”
Intrigue—Mystery
The committee called a halt to
its inquiry last night after labor
ing for three weeks to penetrate a
thick fog of intrigue and mystery
spreading through Washington’s
top officialdom and the haunts
of the influence peddlers and “deal
ers.”
“One thing is certain. Someone
is lying,” said King.
The final day of hearings wound
up much like they started—in a
flurry of “frame-up" charges, den
ials, stories of mysterious telephone
calls and evidence of lavish favors
bestowed on government officials.
While the hearings ended on an
inconclusive note, King emphasized
the committee was not through.
Later—though possibly not for some
months—he hopes to tie up the
loose ends.
Meanwhile, the committee will lay
the groundwork for its January ses
sions. These are scheduled for San
Francisco on irregularities rocking
the northern California Internal
Revenue office.
OUT OF HOSPITAL ,
Alex Johnson of Gustavus is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel. He has
been here for hosptalization.
• WEATHER REPORT
• (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU)
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
• Ending at 4:30 A M. Today
• At Airport: Maximum, 30;
• Minimum, 21.
•
• FORECAST
• (Juneau and Vicinity)
• Partly cloudy tonight and
• Sunday with occasional gusty
• northeasterly winds. Low tem
• perature tonight around 20 de
• grees. High Sunday near 25
• degrees.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
• At Airport — 0.13 inches;
• since July 1—19.91 inches.
• •••••••••
President Plans
Ousting Dishonest
Fed. Officials
By EI) CKEAGH
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15— (.« —
President Truman, who said nine
months ago, his administration was
made up of honorable men, puts the
finishing touches today to a new
broom program of sweeping out of
ficials who have betrayed his trust.
Announcement of the detailed
! program was expected by today al
though there may be some delay.
Whenever it comes, it appeared
certain that strapping Federal
Judge Thomas F. Murphy of New
York, famed as the prosecutor of
Alger Hiss and as a police rackets
busier, would be offered a key role.
The generously mustached Murphy
I had an unpublicized appointment
with Mr. Truman yesterday but a
snowstorm prevented his flying
here. The latest unofficial word
was that he would see the Presi
dent today or Monday.
In New York Murphy said a re
port that he had agreed to serve
: on an anti-corruption commission
i was “a million miles from the
truth.”
He would not comment on when
he would see Mr. Truman.
Indications are multiplying that,
l barring last minute change, the
President’s program will take the
form of setting up an independent
body with power to investigate and
perhaps prosecute.
One of its jobs definitely will be
to clear the names of government
officials — Mr. Truman says they
form the great majority—who are
honest and who tend to their jobs.
Hinfield 'Dear Santa'
letters Go to Juneau
Bartenders' Union
Letters to Santa Claus from the
Minfield Home are not reaching
that jolly old gentleman by way of
the North Pole but are channeled
to the Juneau Bartenders’ Union
which has, for years, made every
effort to answer the “Please Santa,
I’d like. . requests.
Cliff Gardner, big fisherman who
tends bar at the Baranof Bubble
Room during the winter, goes pretty
soft when he reads the “Dear San
ta” letters. He has been the early
Christmas morning Santa for the
Minfield Home for the past three
years.
The forty bartenders in Juneau
provide the funds to buy gifts for
the 40 youngsters at the Home.
Nearly all letters say, “Dear San
ta, we hope we can see you again.
Most of them make their own
requests but one 13-year-old girl
wrote “I wlil write for a few girls
who cannot write. . She lists the
girls’ names and ages and what
they hope for. Dolls rank high along
with "bastinets” doll clothes, shoes,
a pair of furry mittens, a book,
pencils and toothbrush.
Older Children want suitcases
and gloves. Many hoped for flash
lights. A number requested cameras.
Several asked for a “Bible of my
own.” Four petitioned for footballs
and one asked, for “a bow-tie for
Johnny.”
A cautious lad gave Santa a
range of choice when he wrote,
“I’d like a chemistry set or a cam
| era, a hobbycraft set or a camera, a
pocket watch or a camera, a suit
j case or a camera.”
Sub-Zero Cold
Hits Mid-West
In Snowstorm
Ry the Associated Press
A blast of sub-zero cold struck
areas from the Rockies to the mid
west today and the coldest weather
of the season was in prospect for
most of the country.
The biting cold came on the heels
of a fast-moving snowstorm which
yesterday dealt damaging blows and
inconvenienced millions from the
midwest to the North Atlantic
states.
At least 27 persons died from
causes attributed to the mid-Deccm
bere snowstorm, which left record
falls in many areas across the
northeastern quarter of the coun
try. The wind-swept snowfalls dis
rupted transportation and com
munications in scores of cities.
Temperatures dipped to far be
low zero early today in Montana,
Minnesota and North Dakota, as
the frigid blasts swept across the
Canadian border. It was -23 at I
Miles City, Mont., and -21 at In- j
ternational Falls, Minn., Dickinson,
N.D. ,and Lewiston, Mont. It was
zero in Denver, 4 above in Elko,
Nev., and 2 above in Chicago.
The colder weather was headed
for most sections of the country,
including wide areas of the south.
Readings of 15 were predicted for
areas in Tennessee and 20 above in
central Alabama. New York fore
casters predicted a sharp drop to
around 15 above tomorrow.
The icy blasts extended into the
Texas Panhandle early today with
a low of 13 above at Amarillo. The
chilly air extended into southern
Texas'as the cold mass moved east
ward and south from the frigid mid
west.
Santa Casting His
Shadow Before Him
The Ions, gay shadow of Santa
Claus Is falling across Juneau as
thoughts of Christmas are evoked
by the store windows.
Special Christmas stocks are ar
riving for all the stores with gro
cers estimating the numbers 'of
turkeys and pounds of cranberries
to fill Juneau needs. Bakers are
anticipating with fruit cakes and
fruit breads, special cakes and cook
ies.
There is still a wide choice of
Christmas cards in the drug, sta
tionary and other stores.
The trend in toys demand seems
to follow "like father like son” pat
tern. Sons of truck drivers are eye
ing bright toy trucks in the hard
ware stores. Steamshovels, carry
alls, lumber carriers, and fancy
fire engines are being admired and
fondled by future heavy equipment
operators and firemen.
Miniature bus terminals and gas
stations, games of all kinds, tool
chests, all sorts of dolls, tricycles,
ticyles, doll buggies and beds, toy
dishes and other doll housekeeping
equipment are on display.
Old country fancy handblown
glass and handpainted Christmas
tree ornaments Are making their ap
pearance for the first time in many
years.
Drug stores are getting in extra
supplies of exotic perfumes and cos
metic sets. Shoe stores are featur
ing purse and shoe sets along with
evening bags.
Of course jewelry, Alaska station
ery, typewriters and many practi
cal items are tempting.
Clothing stores have everything
for the family including pretty
lingerie, dresses, suits, coats, furs,
shirts, jackets, and everything for
the kiddies.
Ship Movements
Denali scheduled southbound
at noon Sunday.
Baranof scheduled to arrive
northbound Friday.
Freighter Cassiar in port.
• DECEMBER IS
•
• High tide 3:p7 a.m., 143 ft.
• Low tide 9:31 a.m., 5.0 ft.
• High tide 3:22 p.m. 16.5 ft.
• Low tide 10:04 p.m., -0.2 ft
•
• DECEMBER 17
•
• High tide 4:32 a.m., 14.6 ft.
• Low tide 10:10 a.m., 5.3 ft.
• High tide 3:35 p.m., 15.8 ft.
• Low tide 10:40 p.m., 0.5 it.
Controversy
Over Wages
To Westward
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 15—
i.'i*—A threat to file a charge of
unfair labor practices with the Na
tional Labor Relations Board
against the Associated General Con
tractors unless that group resumes
wage talks with the AFL Carpen
ters’ union was issued yesterday
by union spokesmen.
At the same time the carpenters
declared emphatically they will not
settle for a 25 cent hourly wage
hike agreed upon in negotiations at
Seattle between the AGC and eight
AFL unions affiliated with the con
struction industry.
Figures Ridiculous
James Swan, local attorney rep
resenting the carpenters, said "it is
ridiculous to assume carpenters
will settle for any figure that will
put their wage scale on the same
level as that of a common laborer."
He said ’’carpenters are skilled
workers, just as plumbers and elec
tricians are skilled workers.”
At talks in Anchorage last month
the carpenters asked an hourly
wage of $3.70 to apply to all parts
of Alaska. The current pay is $3.14,
except in Southeast Alaska where
it is $2.80.
Fight to Continue
“We haven’t changed our figures
any,” Swan said after hearing of
the Seattle settlement, “nor have
we changed in our determination to
obtain better working and living
conditions in construction camps.”
The AGC earlier had Risked car
penters and culinary workers to give
them until Jan. 1 to study demands
made at November talks. The
unions replied by giving the AGC a
10-day ultimatum to come to terms.
Later the unions agreed to wait
until the Seattle parleys ended but
would expect the AGC to resume
negotiations Immediately after
ward. The culinary workers ' did
not make public their demands.
Contracts with both unions expire
Jan. 1.
Husband of Joan
Bennelf to Face
Trial fcr Shooting
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec. 15
—f/B—The district attorney says he
will prosecute movie producer Wal
ter Wanger for felonious assault,
despite any efforts that may be
made to prevent him being tried
for shooting the agent of his ac
tress wife, Joan Bennett.
Prosecutor S. Ernest Roll, taking
cognizance of reports that the
agent Jennings Lang, might decline
to actively prosecute Wanger, issued
this statement:
“If the police sign a complaint,
and Chief Clinton Anderson says
he will, this office will prosecute
the case regardless of the desires of
the participants.”
May File Complaint
Roll said the complaint may be
filed today.
He said he had warned Lang’s
attorney, Oliver Schwab, that his
client would be moved to the Los
Angeles Genoral Hospital prison
ward if the district attorney’s depu
ties were prevented from talking to
Lang.
An appointment was agreed upon
afterward, Roll added, for the dep
uties to visit Lang today in his
hospital room, to take an official
statement from him.
Lang Progresses
Lang, shot in the groin, was pro
gressing satisfactorily in a hospital.
He underwent surgery Thursday
night, a few hours after he was
shot while he talked to Miss Ben
nett in a parking lot.
Shortly after his arrest, Wanger
blamed Lang for what he said was
a change in Miss Bennett’s atti
tude toward him, and Chief Ander
son quoted the producer: “I shot
Lang because he brokie up my
home.”
The 41-year-old Miss Bennett
insisted her relationship with her
agent ^'as strictly business and she
said that “if Walter thinks there
was any romance ... he is mis
taken.”
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SHOPPING DAYS
TO CHRISTMAS
WAITING FOR DADDY — Mrs. James Stewart and
her twin daughters, Kelly and Judy, sit near a Christmas tree
decorated for Jimmy's return to Hollywood from a movie location.
Strike threat
is Aimed at
Parc American
NEW YORK, Dec. 15—<A«I—‘The
CIO Transport Workers Union
(TWUi lias called for a strike
Monday against the Pan American
World Airways in a wage dispute.
However, both the company and
a federal conciliator say as far as
they are concerned the case still
is In mediation.
The TWU’s strike threat was
made when wage talks broke down
last night. James Horst, director of
the union’s air transport unit, Local
20, said the company was bargain
ing ' in bad faith.”
The strike announcement appar
ently caught the airline and fed
eral mediator George McSwan by
surprise. The union said 5,800(
ground and flight service employees
would walk out, tleing up Pan
American's overseas service "from j
Calcutta to Japan.”
< But the union said the airlift to I
Korea would not be affected. Pan 1
American operates some hospital'
planes and also carries troops to
and from the battle area.
Scheduled to be tied up are the
airline's terminals at New York,:
Miami, San Francisco, Seattle and
Brownsville, Texas.
The union’s wage demands dif
fered for various categories.
For example, the TWU nsked 15
cents an hour more for maintenance 1
employees while the company of-1
fered nine cents. The union de-1
scribed as "inadequate” what it
said was an offer for a $5 a month j
increase for flight personnel, in-;
eluding stewardesses.
Present pay rates were not avail
able.
New Alaska Book
is Now Available
Juneau’s Golden North Salmon
Derby rates a paragraph In a recent
paper back publication by the De
partment of Interior’s Office of
Territories.
The small book is packed with
much up-to-date information about
Alaska and is entitled “Mid-Cen
tury Alaska." It is available from
the Superintendent of Documents,
Government Printing Office, Wash
ington, 25, DC., at 75 cents per
copy or 25 percent off in lots of
100 or more.
TJie book even mentions the Ne
nana Ice Pool and “other guessing
games.” It briefly covers the
geography, history, climate, trans
portation, living costs, land acqui
sition, governmental agencies and
industries.
James P. Davis, director of the
Office of Territories, stated that
the publication is intended as a
source of information for private
individuals, business groups, re
searchers and others who are in
terested in Alaska.
Funeral Services for
John Carlson Monday
Funeral services for John Carl
son will be held Monday afternoon
at 2 p.m. in the Carter Chapel.
The Rev. G. H. Hillerman will de
I liver the eulogy. Interment will be
[ in Evergreen Cemetery. Pallbearers
are to be Kel Larssen, George
Johnson, M. Lisby, Gus Anderson,
William Baumberg, A. J. Bucking
; ham.
Mr. Carlson came to Alaska in
' 1907 and had lived in the Gastineau
. Channel area since then. He had
had a boat shop in Juneau. He had
he had lived on Marmlon Island at
south end of Douglas Island.
New Air
Action in
Korea
By JOHN RANDOLPH
SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 15—(A—Sub
stantially larger numbers of Ameri
ca's top jet fighter plane—the F
86 Sabre Jet—are in action aglnst
the Communists over Korea, the
Air Force disclosed today.
The 51st Fighter Interceptor Wing,
which until two weeks ago was us
ing obsolescent F-80 Shooting Stars,
now is flying the tough, speedy
Sabres, the Air Force said.
The 51st Is commanded by Ameri
ca^ top flying ace, Col. Francis S.
Qabreski, Oil City, Pa.
The new Sabres have shot down
two Communist MIO jets and dam
aged six others in combat since
Dec. 1.
Until the 51st was re-equipped,
the UN command's only Sabre Jet
in Korea were flown by the veteran
Fourth Fighter Interceptor Wing.
Lt. Gen. O. P. Weyland, cbm
mander of the far east air forces,
said the new Sabres were rushed
to Korea aboard two aircraft car
riers to meet the threat posed by
increasingly large numbers of Com
munist jets.
Allied jets shot down one Red
Jet and damaged six others In two
air battles over North Korea Sat
urday.
Buying, Selling
Foreign Monies
LONDON, Dec. 15— UB —Britain
cased tier iron-handed control over
the buying and selling of foreign
monies today with the aim of res
toring world confidence in her own
weakened currency.
The bank of England authorized
private individuals to trade British
pounds for foreign money- includ
ing the dollar—subject only to a
government limitation on the prices.
The action, which relaxes but
does not end exchange control res
trictions, was regarded as a small
first step by Britain to let the
pound find its real value on the
money markets of the world. The
Bank of England may seek more
U. S. money aid next month.
The official dollar value of the
British pound remains at $2.80 and
the official price of gold remains
at $35 per fine ounce.
Dealers buying or selling foreign
monies fur immediate use will be
able to swing their prices anywhere
between $2.77 and $2.83. Dealers
buying or selling foreign monies
later use (forward) will be able
to vary their prices still more. The
only limitation is that they cannot
buy or sell' at prices which the
international monetary fund would
deem unreasonable.
An official bank statement an
nounced that the foreign exchange
market will be reopened in London
Monday for dealing both in spot and
forward currencies.
It has been closed since 1939.
JUNEAU LIBRARY IN
STEAMSHIP PUBLICATION
The Alaska Liner, a house organ
published by the Alaska Steamship
Co. carries a sketch of the Juneau
Memorial Library in this month's
issue together with a paragraph on
the dedication. The steamship
company contributed $1,000 toward
the fund drive for funds to con
[ struct the building.
Democrat
Convention
In Harmony
Troublesome Report
Whipped Into Shape, Ap
proved; Doyle Honored
SITKA, Alaska, Dec. 15—(Special
Dispatch to Empire)—Disgruntled
Democrats who had sympathized
with James Nolan's threatened
walkout were back in the fold
before the Sitka divisional con
vention ended Friday night.
The tone of the convention turn
ed from bickering to banter as
soon as the contraversal nominat
ing committee report was approved
after a number of halts, huddles
and revisions. It was this report,
•laming the divisional and central
committee and the delegates to the
Territorial convention .that had
brought the threat of mutiny in
Democratic ranks here.
Step-By-Step Fight
The fight on this report was a
step by step one with pro-adminis
tration forces making down the line
concessions to bring back harmony,
cut nominations from the floor
were blocked by the committee’s
willingness to make changes.
Peter Wood, head of the com
mittee, and the remainder of the
committee trudged wearily in and
out of a back room of the Sitka
Elks Club in order to whip the re
port into shape acceptable to ob
jectors. But the report was finally
approved without further dissen
sion and Dan Doyle, Sitka mayor,
was named as the new divisional
chairman. And before the con
vintion ended Friday at midnight,
pro forces had proposed a rising
vote of thanks to retiring divisional
.halrman James Nolan and anti
iorces had proposed the same for
.he work pf Oov. Ernest Gruening.
21 Plahk Platform
The path for the platform and
resolutions committee headed by
Ken Bowman proved smoother but
not without bumps. However, after
a minimum of squabbling, few
changes were recommended in the
resent 21 plank platform. Present
national and territorial administra
tions were endorsed as were sec
tions asking for statehood and el
ection of Alaska's governor by pop
ular vdfe.
Eight resolutions were adopted.
One of the notable ones asked for
'ei rltorial control of forests in Al
aska within the national forests,
it read that such forests subject
to commercial use should be given
to the state at such a time as state
hood is granted to Alaska. It also
stated that pending statehood, leg
islation should be introduced giv
ing control, administration and
benefits from utilization of south
east Alaska forests to Territory.
Another important resolution
promised a study of the Workmens
Compensation law to arrive at
monthly payments Instead of pre
sent lump sum payments and to
piovide lor safety Incentives.
Long applause .sounded in a
"thanks' 'to convention chairman
Frank Peratrovich and to the Sit
ka delegation and the city of Sitka
for hospitality to the convention.
_
PAA to Fly Igloo and
Store to Fairbanks
The office force at Pan American
Airways is not in the storage busi
ness, they explain as they leap over
and around mannikins, furs, fix
tures and furniture.
"We’re merely moving a store
by air,” they reply to passengers’
questions.
The entire shipment of the Mar
tin Victor Purs amounts to approx
imately 3,500 pounds that is being
flown from here to Fairbanks by
PAA. The cost of the operation to
the shipper is around $350.
There are a few wisecracks be
ing made about shipping a large
igloo that was used for atmosphere
in the store here. Quipped one,
"they could build the real thing up
in Fairbanks these days.”
KAY NELSON BACK
Kay Nelson, proprietor of the
Baranof Gift Shop, has returned
from a two-months trip Outside
for medical attention and rest. She
visited friends and relatives in
Oklahoma, Kansas and California.
Mrs. George Haen has been in
charge of the shop during Mrs. Nel
son’s absence.
CDA CHRISTMAS PARTY
The CDA will hold their annual
Christmas party, Tuesday, Decem
ber 18 at 8 p.m. in the Parish hall.
Members will have an exchange of
8^