THE DAILY ALASKA EMP71E
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,953 ’ JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS . PRICE TEN CENTS
Eisenhower
To Fly Home
This Weekend
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—Gen.
Dwight Eisenhower is flying home
this weekend for conferences with
President Truman and other top
ranking officials.
The White House in announcing
this today, said the General is re
turning for talks Monday and Tues
day to cover matters affecting his
Supreme Allied Command and the
North Atlantic Defense setup.
He will leave Paris at 10 p.m.
(Paris time) Friday and spend the
weekend at Fort Knox. Ky., with
his son, Capt. John Eisenhower. He
will confer with the President and
other administration leaders Mon
day and Tuesday, holding some of
the conferences at the White House.
It was announced that President
Truman had suggested Eisenhower
come here.
Despite the White House em
phasis on the military-defense
nature of the visit, the news that
Eisenhower was returning sent a
big political ripple through the
capital.
Senator Duff (R-Pa), who has
been booming Eisenhower for the
Republican presidential nomination
next year, told reporters he intends
to confer with the General on po
litical matters.
Presidential Secretary Joseph
Short told reporters that no emer
gency was involved.
However, the arrangements for
the trip evidently were made quite
suddenly. Presidential Assistant
W. Avcrell Havriman, new Foreign
Aid director, told a news conference
only yesterday he planned to confer
with Eisenhower in Paris this week
end during a trip to Europe.
Eisenhower reported to the Presi
dent Jan. 31 upon his return from
a tour of the countries belonging
to the North Atlantic Treaty organi
zation (NATO). During that visit
the General reported also to a spe
cial meeting of the cabinet, to the
standing group of NATO and to
members of Congress. He spoke to
the nation by radio.
Juneau Man Is
Honored, ICES
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Nov. 1—tfl
—Marion Williamson of Atlanta was
elected president of the Interstate
Conference of Employment Security
Agencies today.
Among regional vice-presidents
elected were:
John T. McLaughlin, Juneau,
Alaska.
FROM VANCOUVER
James Lundgren of Vancouver.
Wash., is registered at the Baranof
Hotel.
JUNEAU VISITOR
Don Clark of Anchorage is stop
ping at the Baranof' Hotel.
TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
(Cooyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON—The more you
look into the income tax situation,
the more it appears that some U.
S. tax collectors, especially those
with political pull, regard their
jobs as indirect pensions and spend
more time on private business than
on Uncle Sam’s.
Fortunately, there are thousands
of nonpolitical Internal Revenue
agents, but here is an illustration of
what has been happening at Nash
ville, Tenn. Investigation of Nash
ville’s Internal Revenue office so
far has concerned three individuals:
1. Lipe Henslee, the suspended
collector, who, following an illness
a couple of years ago, fell a victim
of narcotics. The Narcotics Bureau
sent two agents to Tennessee to
see where Henslee was getting his
drugs, reported that nothing illicit
was involved though he is still tak
ing narcotics and not spending suf
' ficient time at his office. This was
the reason for Henslee’s suspension.
2. Also under investigation is
George Welch Jr., assistant collector,
who has been criticized for spending
too much time on the affairs of
the Washington Realty Company
rather than on collecting taxes. The
Realty Company owns three large
apartment houses in Nashville, and
the company is controlled by Welch’s
family.
Investigators who checked the
case reported that Welch is almost
stone deaf, difficult to talk to, with
the result that his superiors by
passed him, gave him little work to
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Atomic Blast Cloud
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A giant pillar cf smoke erupts into the now-familiar mushroom
formation over the Nevada desert as the Atomic Energy Commis
sion set off another atomic explcsirm. This picture was made from
Mt. Charleston, approximately f>0 miles away, tffl Wirepboto.
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Stines Optimistic
‘For Mining Future
In Southeast Alaska
The Juneau Chamber of Com
merce had two interesting speakers
and a speaker. table at a tegular
| Hotel Thursday noon.
! Norman C. Stines, mining engi
! neer, gave a talk on the mining
i potential in Southeast Alaska and
R. C. Sheldon, postal inspector, told
of a postal service survey being
conducted in the Territory. Cham
ber President Herbert S. Rowland
read a letter from D. S. Skinner,
general manager of the Alaska
Steamship Co., presenting the
Chamber with a speakers podium.
Secretary F. O. Eastaugh reported
that a Congressional subcommittee
would hold a hearing on the bill
regarding the settlement of aborig
inal claims in Alaska here on No
vember 8.
' Stines Optimistic
Stines, an internationally known
mining engineer, spoke optimistic
ally cf the future of mining in
Southeast Alaska citing a number
of properties he believed held
promise for development.
‘In former times,” Stines said,
“a prospector who located a prom
ising outcrop could get private capi
tal for further exploration and de
veloment of the property. '
“The prospectors have been active
but they have been unable recently
to get* private capital to continue
their explorations. This has been
brought about by an increase in
taxes which has removed risk capi
tal,” he continued. “Uncle Sam
has. taken on the spending of those
dollars that previously went into
mining ventures.”
DMA Makes Loans
Stines then told of the creation
of the Defense Minerals Adminis
tration which now makes matching
loans on prospects that show values.
He said that one such loan had been
granted to the Admiralty-Alaska
Gold Mining Co., which has a valu
able copper-cobalt-nickel property
near Funter Bay on Admiralty Is
land near here.
“This property has immense po
tentialities. All the explorations
point to good values and it is pos- j
sible that within the next year Ju- I
neau will wake up and find an op
erating mine there,” he declared.
In discussing iron deposits in
Southeast Alaska, Stines pointed
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• WEATHER REPORT •
« <U. S. WEATHER BUREAU •
• At Airport: Maximum, 39; •
• Minimum, 19. •
• • • |
• F O R E C A S -T •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Cloudy with rain and •
• southeasterly winds of 15 to •
a 25 miles per hour tonight and •
• Friday. Lowest tenjperature •
• tonight near 36 degrees. •
•' Highest Friday around 43. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• At Airport — 0.09 inches; •
• since July 1—13.03 inches. •
• ••»•••••••
| No Casualties,
U. S. Troops in
A-Bomb Blast
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Nov. 1—L«P)—
I U.S. Army troops were exposed to
| day to an atomic blast for the first
time, and came off without casu
alties and with knowledge which
may prove “greater than .antici
pated.”
Official confirmation of the
troop’s participation in today’s
blast, which was so strong that ii
cracked store windows in this city
more than 75 miles away, came
from Maj. Gen. William B. Kean,
commanding the Army’s Third
Corps.
Another Army spokesman, de
clining to be quoted by name,
said “this is the one test in which
troops will be involved." This
was taken to indicate that the
Army is satisfied with what it
learned and will not participate
in further AEC experiments here.
The blast w'ent off at 7:30 a.m.,
and sent a giant white cloud mush
rooming over the Yucca Flat test
center in the desert northwest of
here.
Las Vegas Rocked
Several minutes later Las Vegas
was rocked by the concussion. Police
switchboards were flooded with calls
from anxious residents. Some of
them described the rattling jar as
stronger than in a series of atomic
blasts last winter.
Windows were broken in at least*
three stores on downtown Fremont
St., and the AEC quickly posted
notices saying residents suffering
damage could file claims.
Today’s was the fourth explosion
in the current group. Five went
off at the range here last winter.
No ‘‘Baby A-Bomb"
The fact that the flash itself was
visible here — 75 miles away — in
bright daylight indicated to observ
ers that it was not a so-called “baby
A-bomb”, of the type set off in the
first test here.
That one couldn’t be seen in this
southern Nevada resort city. Pre
sumably, today’s wqs dropped from
a B-29.
Seven minutes after the explo
sion, a distinct concussion rattled
buildings here. It was the first
time in this fall’s test that the
sound waves have been noted in
Las Vegas.
The rattling was accompanied by
a- long swishing sound audible to
rooftop observers.
The jarring was not nearly so
severe as in last winter’s blasts,
however.
A white cloud soared more than a
mile into the air within a few min
utes. But it's stem disintegrated
quickly. The cloud was touched;
with pink. But from here, at least,
the brilliant flashes of color seen
in Tuesday’s blasts were missing.
ARC MEN RETURN
Walter L. Sanders and Charles
R. Leitzell, Alaska Road Commis
sion men who have been in the
field all summer, have taken up
their winter residence at the Gas
tineau Hotel.
Cheerful (!)
News for
Rainy Day
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—<*—'This is
the day you start contributing your
share of the new $5,691,000,000 in
annual revenue to Uncle Sam. That
averages out to $38 for each person
but not everybody, of course, will
owe that amount.
You'll notice the tax Increase
in your next salary check and
probably in a lot of things you
buy— a pack of cigarettes, an
automobile ,a tankful of gasoline,
a bottle of liquor, a roll of film,
or a fountain pen, for instance.
Not quite all the tax law changes
are on the spur side, though.
The 3 1-3 percent excise comes
off your electricity bills. You now
can buy baby lotion, a house trail
er, a heating pad and a ticket to
a high school football game or a
symphony concert—all without pay
any federal tax. Prices on those
tickets may not come down, though
—the high schools and orchestras
may keep the difference.
All of these changes were in the
big bill passed Oct. 19 by Congress
to provide more money for the na
tion's huge mobilization effort. Pre
sident Truman promptly signed the
measure, although he had asked
for new revenue of almost twice
as much—$10,000,000,000.
Today Is the effective date for the
new law with the exception of
corporation tax increases, retro
active to last April 1.
Buffer Zone
Agreement
is Hear
MUNSAN, Korea. Nov. 1—!£)—A
United Nations briefing officer said
tonight the Allies and Reds are in
“general agreement” on the eastern
half of a neutral zone for a Korean
armistice.
Negotiators are “nearer to agree
ment on a buffer zone than ever
before” said Lt. Col. L. G. Hill, the
briefing officer.
But he emphasized agreement on
the zone would not end the shoot
ing. Hill said:
“There is a possibility the war
will go on for a long time after
ward.”
The buffer zone is only the first
point of a proposed a.rmistice. If
the battle line changes substantially
after an agreement is reached on
a buffer zone, Hill said, it probably i
would have to be negotiated all over
again.
Red China’s Peiping radio said
the Reds’ new proposal contains
“the greatest possible concession”
the Communists can make on a
buffer zone.
Hill said that at the close of three i
hours of talks in Panmunjom today'
U.N. and Red subcommittees were
in “general agreement” on where a
demilitarized zone should run from
Kumhwa to the east coast of Korea.
Kumhwa is the right anchor of
the old Red Iron Triangle. It *
55 air miles from the east coast in
the approximate center of the bat
tieline.
Both sides are basing their pro
posals for a buffer zone generally
on the battle line.
FROM HAINES
Ira M. Powell of Haines is at the
Baranof Hotel.
Slock Quotations
NEW YORK, Nov. 1—<*)—Closin
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%, American Can I
108, American Tel. and Tel. 157
Anaconda 48%, Douglas Aircrait |
59%, General Electric 56%, General;
Motors 50%, Goodyear 44%, Kenne-,
cott 84%, Libby McNeill and Libby
8%, Northern Pacific 55%, Standard
Oil of California 52%, Twentieth
Century Fox 21%, U.S. Steel 41 ,;
Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange I
95.43%.
Sales today were 1,430,000 share
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 264.88, rails 80.88, util
ities 46.19.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle tomorrow.
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive northbound Saturday afternoon
or evening.
Denali scheduled to arrive south
bound Nov. 4.
B-29 Crashes
A B-!», returning to McClellan Air Forrc Base near Sacramento, Calif., for an emergency landing after
an aborted takeoff for Honolulu, crashed and caught fire. The 11 men aboard escaped serious injury.
One civilian fireman dropped dead of a heart attack whll'e fighting the flames. (IP) Wirephoto.
British
Royalty in
Washington
Many Events from
Wreath Placing to Re
ception and Dinners
WASHINGTON, Nov. I — ijfl —
Princess Elizabeth today placed a
wreath on the tomb of George
Washington, the man who played a
najor role in taking this country
cut of the British Empire.
It was a simple ceremony. Eliza
beth and Philip, the Duke of Edin
jtt.rgh, took the wreath and walked
Wbnfc with it into the to.njb. They
placed' it against the back wall.
When they came out, Philip
turned, faced the tomb, and saluted.
Like any other visiting tourists,
the couple then inspected Mount
Vernon, the plantation home where
the father of this country spent his
last days.
Britain's “Fairy Princess,” as
President Truman called her, and
her handsome husband, Philip,
were accompanied by Miss Mar
garet Truman.
It was a gloomy day. It had been
raining and overcast clouds held
the threat of still more rain. A
chill wind blew.
Nevertheless, a sizeable crowd
was waiting on the sidewalk across
the street from the Blair House
when the Royal couple left the
Presidential residence at 10:05 a.m.
The Princess and Miss Truman
wore heavy coats. The Duke wore
a Naval uniform.
There was polite handclapping
and ooh’s and ah’s — the latter
mostly from bobby-soxers and
apparently In admiration of the
handsome Philip.
Another wreath-laying was sched
uled at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier in Arlington National Cem
etery, followed by a diplomatic re
ception in the Canadian Embassy.
The day's big event, with 2.000
on the invitation list and thousands
more on the disappointed list, was
an afternoon reception in the big.
campus-like British Embassy
Champage and French pastries were
to be served in a circus tent on
the lawn. Among those invited:
all members of Congress.
Back at the Canadian Embassy,
Elizabeth and Philip will give a
formal dinner for President and
Mrs. Truman, to “pay back” the
dinner the Trumans gave for their
royal guests last night at Blair
House.
Last night a reception was giver
by some 900 news correspondents
It included the presentation of at
Indian war bonnet for the royal
couple’s three-year-old son, Princ*
Charles, and an Indian doll fot
their year old daughter, Princes.1
Anne.
Elizabeth smiled, said she likea
America fine and promised to comt
again w'hen she could stay longer
Next came the Blair House dln
nej'—strictly a white tie and gold
salad forks affair.
Besides the hosts and guests of
honor there were only 13 guests —
the British and Canadian Ambas
sadors and their wives, Chief Jus
tice Vinson and Mrs. Vinson, Act
ing Secretary of State and Mrs.
James E. Webb, bachelor Senator
Green. (D-RI), Senator McMahon
(D-Conn) and Mrs. McMahon, and
Senator H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ)
and Mrs. Smith.
AT HOTEL JUNEAU
Elfrida C. Franck of Bethel Is a
guest at the Hotel Juneau. She is
with the Alaska Native Service,
Fish and Wildlife Men Save
Vidor of Bull Moose Fight;
Wolves Gel Consolation Prize
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House Group
To Alaska on
i
Land Claims
I To Hold Shod Hearings
in Eight Alaska Cities;
At Juneau Nov 8
Investigation into the various as
pects of Indian, Eskimo and Aleut
land claims in Alaska takes a, new
turn next week when members of
a subcommittee, comprised of re
presentatives to Congress, hold
hearings in cities in all sections
of the Territory.
The subcommittee is said to be
holding the hearings to gather in
formation and to absorb the gen
eral feeling of Alaska natives, com
mercial groups, business men and
individuals before further action
is taken on a bill introduced before
the House of Representatives by
E. L. "Bob’’ Bartlett) delegate from
Alaska.
According to Hugh J. Wade, area
director of Alaska Native Service
the first hearing before the group
will be in Anchorage Nov. 5. In quick
succession, the hearings will be
held in Fairbanks Kotzebue, Nome,
Kodiak. Juneau, Sitka and Ketch
ikan.
On the subcommittee are: Rep.
Clair Engle (D-Calift, Rep. Norris
Poulson (R-Caljf), Rep. Wayne N.
Aspinall (D-Colo), Rep Chester D.
McMullen (D-Fla), Rep. Edward
H. Janison (R-Ill), Rep Wesley A.
D’Ewart (R-Mont), Rep. Frank T.
Bow (R-Ohio), Delegate E. L. Bart
lett (D-Alaska), and attorney for
the group, Preston Peden.
Wade's Capacity
Wade will accompany the subcom
| mittee in a semi-official capacity
at the request of the group.
The subcommittee will arrive in
Anchorage by commercial plane on
Nov. 4, according to the present
schedule. Hearing will be held in
Anchorage the morning of Nov. 5
and in Fairbanks the same evening.
Air Force planes will carry the sub
committee after leaving Anchorage
until they arrive in Juneau.
Departure Is scheduled from Fair
banks the morning of Nov. 6 for
Kotzebue and Nome, where hear
ings are set for afternoon and eve
ning of that day. A hearing is on
:ap for Kodiak the following eve
ning, then the group will head for
Juneau.
Juneau Hearing
The Juneau hearing is tentatively
set for the Senate Chambers of the
Federal building at 3:30 p.m. on
Nov. 8.
The group will leave here on
commercial plane to Sitka Nov. 9,
and will return here the same day.
The Ketchikan airing of the pros
and cons of the land claims is ex
pected to be especially important.
It was set for that date because
it immediately precedes the begin
ning of the convention of the Alaska
Native, Brotherhood in that city.
Natives from all parts of South
east Alaska are expected to at
tend, and the meeting there will
be extended one or two days if
necessary, Wade said.
Roughly, Bartlett’s bill calls for
a commission to be set up to pass
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 1— UP
—The vanquished and the victor
in Alaska’s dramatic battle of the
bull moose have been separated—
the winner to seek his prize, the
loser left as food for the ravens.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice did what the two huge gladiators
could not — pulled their tangled
horns npart after cutting the wire
which had enmeshed them.
Wildlife Agents Ray Woolford
and Frank Glaser concluded the
titanic struggle yesterday, after
being flown lo tlie remote battle
ground 20 miles south of here be
side the Xanana river.
There they found one moose dead,
its neck broken sometime during the
battle they estimated had lasted at
least two weeks. The other proud
and angry animal was bound to its!
victim by wire which Woolford said
had once towed a U.S. Air Force
target.
“The live bull was so mad we
could see his red eyes blazing 50
feet away,” Glaser reported. “He
made repented attempts to get ust
while we cut the wire and pulled
the broken horns apart.” But the
moose was tied to a tree during the
operation.
Afterward, the rescuers untied
the big animal and he made sev
eral angry passes at them. Then,
as though lured by the original
prize in the battle — a herd of
rows (moose) — he stomped away
Into the woods, his broken horns
a silent testimonial to his victory. .
The hungry ravens and wolves
that had been seen waiting at the
spot before Glaser and Woolford
landed in a small plane won the
consolation prize. The loser's car
cass was left for them.
A grizzly bear, which threatened
to crash the act Tuesday, also had
a moose-meat banquet, but not with
the wolves and the ravens. As the
agents flew away from the scene.'
they spotted the grizzly feeding on |
another dead moose about two miles
from the trapped pair.
Tug Kotzebue Still
Missing in Arctic
According to Information received
by U.S. Coast Guard headquarters
here today a drifting tug and barge
north of Northeast Cape on St.
Lawrence Island have been taken in
tow by the Alaska Native Service
vessel North Star.
Two men were reported to have
been aboard the tug which had been
towed by the tug Kotzebue belong
ing to Archie Ferguson of Kotzebue.
However, when North Star official1
boarded the drifting tug they found
a note "Have left for Kotzebue ’’
ft was presumed that the twe
men whose names were not learned,
were aboard the tug Kotzebue which
has not been located nor heard
from. Efforts to contact the vesse
by radio on 2638 and 3190 kilocycle:
have failed.
A Coast Guard plane from Kodial
which is based at Nome, searched,
for five hours yesterday in a ba(
easterly storm with no results.
II TIDE TABLES ||
• NOVEMBER 2 •
• •
• High tide ,3:35 a.m., 16.3 ft. •
• Low tide 9:16 a.m., 3.1 ft. •
• High tide 3:15 p.m„ 19.2 ft. •
• Low tide 10:01 p.m., -2.4 ft.. •
Helicopter
Attack by
Marines
First Combat Movement
of Kind Ever Made;
Ground War Dwindles
US. 8TK ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, Nov. 1—(*l—U.8. Ma
rines successfully raided a Red Ko
rean guerrilla stronghold behind
United Nations lines in the first
true helicopter combat attack ever
made, the Marines announced to
day.
The attack was made Saturday.
The news was withheld until today
for security reasons.
The announcement came as light
snow and cold rain chilled combat
troops along the battle front. The
quiet was shattered during the night
by a thundering 100-ton B-29 bomb
raid.
Thirty-three volunteers made the
flying Marine raid. Two helicopters
carried them seven miles over Jag
ged North Korean mountains to
the guerrillas' mountain fortress.
The airborne raiders landed on«a
mountain top. They hid in the
wild peaks and struck the next day.
Under cover of a frosty ground
haze they charged three huts, head
quarters of a band of 150 North
Korean Reds operating from a
mountain hideout.
In the subsequent fight, a spokes
man said, the Marines “believe they
broke up this stronghold.”
The ground war dwindled to "the
quietest damn thing we've had in
a long time,” a briefing officer said
at noon Thursday.
Night flying B-29s from Okinawa
and Japan blasted Communist
frontline troops with 400 big air
bursting bombs.
Federal Jury
Finds Against
Alaska Firm
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 1—(HI
—A Federal Court Jury convicted the
Henly River Coal Corporation of
unreasonable restraint of trade in
violation of anti-trust laws yester
day.
Two other companies and two
individuals were acquitted.
The Jury received the case Tues
day afternoon and deliberated nearly
24 hours before convicting the Healy
Corporation and acquitting the Usi
belli Coal Mines. Evan Jones Coal
Co.. Harry J. Hill and Emil Usl
belll.
The trial lasted two weeks, a gov
ernment witness testified that the
coal operators several years ago
met and agreed to practices which
the government contended were
collusive. Larry Orslni, the witness,
was a former secretary-treasurer of
the Healy Company. He now oper
ates a real estate business in Fair
banks.
Defense witnesses had claimed
that no agreements were reached
at the meeting described by Orsinl.
To Hold Inquest
Over Headless Body
In Rocky Pass
An inquest will be held in the
death of James Otis Jackson, of
Ketchikan, whose headless body was
picked up Tuesday from a beach in
Rocky Pass, according to word re
ceived today by the U.S. Marshal's
office here.
The body was Identified through a
social security card. Jackson and
his duck-hunting partner, Hank
Mycoski, disappeared more than a
year ago after leaving on their trip
in a skiff. Mycoski’s body, also
headless, was found in September
by hunters on Conclusion Island in
Rocky Pass.
Jackson's body was picked up by
the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Hem
lock.
Haines (utolf
Is Still Open
Although the Haines Cutoff ia
officially closed today, latest word
to Frank Metcalf, territorial high
way engineer, indicates that the
road is still open to the public for
all travel and that there have not
yet been heavy snows to cause
trouble in maintenance. Travelers,
however, are warned to check on
daily conditions before using the
highway.