THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,980
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1951
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11 Dead as
Plane Wrecks
Five Houses
Denver, Dec. 3 — (tfl — A B-29
bomber trying to reach Lowry air
force base with one motor not work
ing crashed into a row of swank
homes today, apparently killing
eight airmen.
At least one civilian and five
airmen were injured.
Five homes were damaged — four
of them demolished.
Col. John T. Sprague, command
ing officer of the airbase, said 14
men were aboard the plane. Five
airmen, he said, have h.een removed
to the base hospital. * One other
man was taken to Colorado General
hospital, but ‘it was uncertain
whether he was an airman or not.
Of the injured men at the base.
Colonel Sprague said one—the pilot
—was “in bad shape.” The othefs,
he reported, were conscious.
Two children of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Tobias, at. first feared trap
ped in the wreckage of one house,
were found safe. Their mother said
the youngsters, aged 5 and 3, were
away from the home at the time
of the accident “for the first time
in a w’eek.”
The Colonel said one propeller of
the plane was feathered, indicating
an engine was not working, but
added that this alone would have
been insufficient to cause the crash.
He said the plane was trying to
reach the field.
ANOTHER FATAL CRASH
RENO, Nev., Dec. 3—.'Pi—A twin
engine plane, one engine conked out
by freezing temperatures, crashed
and burned today in a residential
district. The pilot was killed but
his four passengers escaped virtu
ally unhurt.
The plane narrowly missed plow
ing into a house.
Reserve Army Capt. Clarence
Booth, San Lorenzo, Calif., died in
the flaming wreckage as he brought
Ms crippled plane down through a
driving snow storm in a futile at
tempt to reach the Reno airport.
4 Alaskan Korean
Vels Return Home
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3—(At—
Four Alaskans were among 4,777
combat veterans from the Orient
reaching here aboard a troop ship
today.
They were: Pvt. Roderick Beach,
Anchorage; Sgt. Harold Connor,
Star Route, Mile 45, Anchorage;
Cpl. Charles Natkong, Hydaburg;
Cpl. Gerald Wilson, Moses Point.
Former Juneau _
Resident Dies
SEATTLE, Dec. , 3— ffl—Funeral
services will be held here tomorrow
for Hans Kristiah Loken, early-day
Alaska miner nnd long-time resi
dent of Juneau. He died Thursday
at the age of 72.
He had lived here about a year.
He is survived by his widow and
four children. Three of the latter
live in or near Jpneau—Mrs. Mary
Meek, Mrs. Ethel Gray and Ken
neth Loken.
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
(CoDyrizht, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
T^ASHINGTON — Republican
members of the King income tax
committee, apparently not trusting
their Democrat colleagues, have re
tained their own investigators to
probe Dan Bolich, recently resign
ed deputy commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue.
Here is one phase of Bolich's act
ivities they might want to check
into.
In the summer of 1949, top mem
bers of the Los Angeles Internal
Revenue Bureau came to Washing
ton with what they thought was a
sensational tax-fraud case. They
also thought it was airtight.
It involved the Guaranty Finance
Corp., of Los Angeles, a high-sound
ing name for one of the biggest
gambling syndicates in California.
Evidence which T-men turned up
showed that, in 1948, Guaranty Fi
nance had deducted from its tax
return $248,000 paid to "Lopez” and
another $108,000 paid to “Special.”
No further explanation was given,
but Treasury agents were convinced
that the $108,000 was paid to run
tContinued on Page 4)
Chinese Reds
Convict Nuns
Of'Murder'
HONG KONG, Dec. 3—(M—Two
Canadian nuns were sent to prison
for five years and three others were
ordered expelled from China after
a clamorous, broadcast trial Sun
day in Canton.
The three sisters facing expulsion
had not arrived tonight. Catholic
spokesmen said the three might be
escorted to the border tomorrow.
Two other Canadian nuns who
helped run the Sacred Heart or
phonage in Canton were sentenced
to five years in prison at the close
of the trial before 6,000 shouting
Chinese.
The shouts of the spectators could
be heard plainly here by radio
listeners.
Tite prison terms were given Sis
ter Superior Antoninette Couvrette,
36, Joliette, Quebec; Sister Jermaine
Gravel, 43, Three Rivers, Quebec.
Banished from China for life
wpre Sisters Imelda Lapierre. Pen
rouge, Quebec; Jermaine Tanguay,
a Canadian citizen born at Nashua,
N.H., and Elizabeth Lemire, La
Baie du Eevre, Quebec. ,
The five nuns for years ran the
Sacred Heart orphanage and receiv
ing center for abandoned children
and unwanted girls.
Most of the youngsters were starv
ing and ill when brought to the
sisters. Many were dying. The
nuns saved hundreds, but thousands
died and the Communists charged
the sisters with one count of mur
der for each death.
High Court Fails
To Intervene for
Millionaire Field
! , *
1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — <IPi —
| The Supreme Court has refused to
intervene in the contempt of court
conviction of Frederick Vanderbilt
Field, millionaire leftist serving a
six month sentence,
i The high tribunal at the same
time and by the same 7 to 2 vote
also denied a hearing to Dashiell
Hammett and Alphaeus W. Hun
ton, also given contempt sentences
which will expire next Sunday.
The cases grew out of the flight
under bail of four top Communist
leaders convicted of plotting to
teach violent overthrow of the U.S.
government.
All three men refused to tell a
grand jury who put up $80,000 bail
for the four Red leaders. The four
j jumped bail after the Supreme
! Court upheld their conviction last
summer. One of the group, Gus
Hall, was captured in Mexico.
In another decision, the court
also decided that state police who
seize bookmaking equipment in
raids staged without benefit of
search warrants may use the evi
dence obtained in state court trials.
The tribunal thus reaffirmed —
but did little to clarify — the dis
tinction it makes between activ
ities of state and federal law en
forcemegit officers.
Tt' consistently has held that fed
eral courts may not receive evi
dence obtained in “illegal” raids,
that is, when the officers lack search
warrants.
But it has also decided — as it
did again by a 7 to 1 vote — that
the same rules need not apply in
state courts.
Vishinsky Refuses
Answers cn Atomic
Weapons Control
PARIS, Dec. -8—liP—The western
powers tried to pin down Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vish
insky today on whether Russia would
agree that the prohibition of atomic
weapons and the start of interna
tional atomic control could become
effective simultaneously. They got
no answer.
Following a secret two and a half
hour disarmament discussion among
the Big Four — Russia, Britain,
France and the United States—a
western spokesman said U. S. Dele
gate Philip C. Jessup asked Vish
insky :
“Would the Soviet Union admit
inspectors the very day after the
United Nations General Assembly
passed a resolution on prohibition?"
Vishinsky did not reply, he said.
The west has always maintained
that there can be no unconditional
prohibition of the atomic weapon
without a fool-proof international
inspection system to guarantee
obedience. Russia demands immed
iate prohibition of the bomb and
then a discussion of controls.
Sabre Jets,
Outnumbered,
Score Win
6EOUL, Korea, Dec. 3 — —
American Sabre jets, outnumbered
four to one, scored a sweeping vic
tory Sunday in the mounting bat
tle for aerial supremacy over Korea.
The Far East Air Forces reported
five Red MIG jets were shot down
and three damaged without loss of
any Sabres.
Allied and Communist jets tangled
in two brief air scraps high over
northern Korea Monday. The Fifth
Air Force said two Communist
MIGs were damaged and all Allied
planes returned safely.
It was the eighth day of jet-to
jet combat.
U.N. pilots said the Red fliers
were far less eager to fight Monday
than on previous days.
The Air Force said 684 sorties had
been flown up to 6 p.m.
The calm along the Korean
ground front remained unbroken
Monday. The Eighth Army re
ported no significant action up to
noon.
Ketchikan Mayor
Praises National
Guard Review
Mayor and Mrs. George H. Beck
of Ketchikan are leaving for their
home tomorrow after being here for
the Governor’s review of the Alaska
National Guard.
Beck, an ex-army man of the
transportation corps said, “I’ve seen
professional battalion reviews that
weren't as good. We are proud of
our Ketchikan boys.”
Beck met with Juneau’s Mayor
Waino Hendrickson to discuss mu
nicipal problems. He said that a
four million dollar bond issue for
sewer and street improvements was
approved by 85 percent of the Ket
chikan voters. Ninety percent ap
proval was given a two million dol
I lar bond issue for schools, he said.
On December 12 the voters will
decide on a three million dollar
bond issue for improvement and
expansion of public utilities, dial
telephone system, increased power
and extension of lines.
Red Proposal
May Be Step
To Armistice
MUNSAN, Korea. Dec. 3— UP) —
Communist truce negotiators today
proposed behind-the-lines inspec
tion by neutral observers and a
“complete freeze’’ on troops and
arms in Korea, possibly paving the
way for agreement on another step
toward an armistice.
The move appeared to be a major
concession on the part of the Reds.
In the past they have refused ad
amantly to allow observers behind
their lines and have insisted on the
right to build up their armed
strength while an armistice is in
force.
The surprise compromise plan im
mediately drew from alHed envoys
more than a score of searching
questions.
The big one—an Allied spokes
man called it the $64 question— was
what neutral nations do the Com
munists have in mind to police the
truce?
The Communists said they would
answer 21 questions posed by the
UN command when the negotiators
meet in Panmunjom at 11 a.m.
Tuesday (6 p.m. PST Monday).
The offer to permit inspection
teams behind Communist lines was
the Reds’ biggest concession, even
though they stipulated that any
such inspection should be limited
to “mutually agreed upon ports of
entry.”
The Reds sprang their surprise
proposal at an afternoon session
Monday. At Monday's morning
meeting the two sides appeared
deadlocked on the problem of sup
ervising an armistice.
The “$64 question”—which na
tions the Communists consider neu
tral-might prove a major stumb
ling block.
Among countries officially neutral
in the Korean war are such Rus
sian satellites as Czechoslovakia
Poland and the Balkan nations—
not to mention the Soviet Union
itself.
On the other hand, there are re
latively few western countries which
have not participated directly in the
war or supported the Allies through
votes in the United Nations.
Hendrickson Outlines Fire Department
Needs to Be Voted on Thursday
Bond Issue Proposals
Appearing on Special
Election Ballot
For the convenience of the voters
in Juneau, The Empire presents
the wording of the proposals which
will be voted upon next Thursday
at a special city election.
Proposal No. 1—Shall the City
of Juneau, Alaska, incure a general
obligation bonded indebtedness, and
issue and «ell its negotiable gen
eral obligation bonds, in the sum
of $290,000, to finance the city's
share of the cost of the City's pro
jects No. 1, to wit, a project for
the construction of a city hall and
safety building in Juneau, by Al
aska Public Works, at an estimated
over-all cost of $579,000—the city’s
share whereof, on a matching fund
bass, being approximately $290,000.00
Yes. No.
Proposal No. 2—Shall the City of
Juneau, Alaska incur a further
general obligation bonded indebted
ness, and issue and sell Its negoti
able general obligation bonds, in the
further sum of $287,000.00, to fi
nance the cost of the city’s project
No. 2, to wit, a project for addi
tional planned construction and
improvement of public streets, side
walks and sewers within the city,
and the preparatory work required
therefor? Yes No.
Proposal No. 3—Shall the City of
Juneau, Alaska, incur a further
general obligation bonded indebt
edness, and issue and sell its ne
gotiable general obligation bonds,
in the further sum of $88,000.00 to
finance the cost of the city's pro
ject No. 3, to wit, a project for ad
ditional improvements to the Ju
neau Fire Station, and for rebuild
ing the city’s fire alarm system.
Yes. No.
| --
iMayor Hendrickson
[Explains Bond
[issue to Lions
Mayor Waino Hendrickson gave
I his popular “ past 15-year Juneau
1 History” talk at a regular meeting
of the Lions' Club Monday noon
at the Baranof Hotel.
He recounted the city’s develop
ment and pointed out that while
much had been accomplished, such
as improvements in the Evergreen
Bowl, the construction of the air
port terminal, street and sewer im
provements, the new fire hall, the
library, much remained to be done.
He listed the need of a runway ex
tension at the airport, more street
improvements, a city hall, and mod
ernization of the fire department.
! Hendrickson ended with a plea
i for support of the three bond issues
| which will be voted on Thursday.
| He explained that the present
i bonded indebtedness is $623,000 and
new bond issues would amount to
an additional $665,00 which will be
paid off from the receipts of the
city sales and service tax. The re
turn from the tax so far this year
is nearly $130,000, he said. It is
planned to retire the bonds in ten
years.
Mayor George H. Beck of Ketchi
kan was a guest.
President Carl Rusher announced
that Bill Dean was appointed to
be Santa Claus for the Children's
Christmas party and would be as
sisted by Jerry Williams.
Charles Mountjoy gave a report
on the attendance committee. Les
Avrlt, program chairman, announc
ed that at the next meeting mem
bers would be called upon to recite
their "most embarrassing moment.”
AT THE GASTINEAU
Gordon R. Pennington with the
ACS here has taken up residence
at the Gastineau Hotel.
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle on Friday.
Baranof scheduled to arrive from
Seattle at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
SHOPPING DAYS
TO.CHRISIMAS
!• Mayor Waino Hendrickson today
outlined the needs for the Juneau
Volunteer Fire Department that will
be made possible if a bond issue of
$88,000 is approved by the voters at
a special election next Thursday.
The proposal is one of three that
will appear on the balot, the other
j two being bond issues of $290,000
I for construction of a city hall, and
$287,000 for street Improvements. De
' tails of these have appeared in prev
I ious stories in the Empire.
In addition to providing better
facilities for fire fighting, Hendrick
son pointed out, that the improve
ments would reduce fire insurance
rates in Juneau.
In 1948 the Board of Fire Under
writers inspected Juneau and gave
it a rating of “Classification 6'' to
be used in issuing fire insurance
policies. Ketchikan Is classified as
“5” with lower insurance rates.)
The board made a report recom
mending improvements to give Ju
neau a better rating. They includ
ed: new fire proof fire station with
living quarters for a sufficient num
ber of men to man fire trucks at all
times—especially at night; acquisi
tion ot a triple capacity and an
aerial ladder truck; modernization
and extension of the fire alarm sys
tem; and additional hose.
If the board's recommendations
are met, Hendrickson said that the
board would undertake a re-survey
of Juneau and the new classifica
tion would result in a 10 percent re
duction in fire insurance costs.
If the bond issue is approved, the
Fire Department will get its first
new equipment in 12 years. The
Fire Department recommends a 4
wheel combination high and lower
presstue pumper fire truck to meet
the requirements of the Board of
Underwriters; a 75-foot aerial lad
der because of numercus buildings
here that are over five stories; ad
ditional hose; rewiring of the Al
arm system and additional alarm
boxes needed in residential areas.
Equipment and furniture is need
ed for the new fire station, the up
per floor of which will provide liv- .
ins evarters for 14 men.
“Juneau's Volunteer Fire Depart
ment has a record the city can be
proud of,” Hendrickson said, "and
the new equipment is needed in
order that they may maintain it.”
The next and last story of this
series will take up the handling
of the bond issue and how it can be
paid off by the city sales and ser
vice tax.
Gang-Style
Execution
In Chicago
CHICAGO, Dec. 3—UP)—A scorch
ng scandal touched off by an ex
convict’s income tax disclosures re
mained white hot today following
the man’s gang-style execution.
Two gunmen blasted Ram Rinella,
49-year-old former Capone hench
man under indictment for income
tax evasion, as he left his south
side home late Saturday night.
They caught him in the glare of a
flashlight—as though they were
making syre they had the right
man—then opened fire.
Rinella’s slaying came Just 11
days after he talked to a federal
grand jury about financing of his
il-fated Loop nightclub the Copa
cabana. Treasury Department inves
tigators said Rinella named as
L>ne of the investors in the club
Thomas J. Duffy. 66, then a $5,200
a-year police captain.
They said Rinella said Duffy put
more than $100,000 into the night
spot. Rinella was indicted Nov. 20
on charges of evading $156,986 in
income taxes for 1945 and 1946.
FROM PETERSBURG
Miss Wilma Moffatt of Petersburg
is at the Baranof Hotel.
•
• WEATHER REPORT
• (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
• At Airport: Maximum, 36;
• Minimum, 21.
•
• FORECAST
• (Juneau and Vicinity)
• Cloudy with snow tonight.
• Lowest temperature near 28
• degrees. Mostly cloudy with
• occasional mixed rain and
• snow Tuesday. Highest tem
• perature Tuesday around 38
• degrees.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
• At Airport — 0.01 inches;
• since July 1—17.67 inches.
• •••••••••
Shivering Crowd
Turns Out ior
Governor's Review
Nearly 300 shivering Juneauites
turned out Saturday afternoon lor
the Governor's review of the Al
aska National Guard which is hold
ing an encampment on Montana
Creek.
The review was held at the sub
port following a parade up town.
In the first line of review were
Lt. General William E. Kepner,
commander-in-chief of the Alaska
Command, Maj. Gen. William D.
Old, commander general of the Al
aska Air Command; Brig. Gen.
Richard Pence, deputy commanding
general of the U. S. Army in Alaska;
Rear Adm. Joseph Greenspiui, 17th
District Commander of the U. S.
Coast Guard; Col. Lars Johnson,
adjutant general of the Alaska Na
tional Guard and Governor Ernest
Gruening.
The Governor presented the Eis
enhower Trophy to Company B of
Sitka for outstanding achievement
in recruiting, training and soldierly
conduct. It was received by 1st Sgt.
Kermin Gutierrez. Capt. Charles
Kidd Is commanding officer of the
company.
The Governor also presencea pro
motions to three men. Warrant Of
ficer John C. Dodd or Juneau re
ceived his first lieutenant's bars.
Sgt. 1st class William M. Brady,
nnd Sgt. 1st class Joseph N. Pike,
both of Sitkn were given their se
cond lieutenant’s bars.
Adding a good deal of snap to the
occasion was the blue uniformed
43rd Army band from Ft. Rich
ardson which was flown here.
Lt. Col. Dwight Dean of Juneau
directed the formation
Following the review, Colonel
Johnson and his staff entertained
the men of the guard with coffee
and doughnuts in the Gold Room
of the Baranof Hotel. Governor
Gruening was guest of honor.
Officers Dance
Saturday evening, Governor and
Mrs. Gruening held a formal dance
for the Guard officers at the Gov
ernor’s House.
The city of Juneau lived up to
its name as a complete host at the
dance Saturday evening for the
members of the' 208th Tnfantry!
Battalion (Sep) of the Alaska Na- I
tional Guard. I
Special entertainment acts were
put on in the early part of the
evening by Johnny and Leonard
from the Baranof Hotel Bubble
Room, Royal and Eleanor O’Reilly
and Anita from the Pamaray Club,
and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Skin
ner. The Skinners gave two dance
numbers.
A scroll was presented to Head
quarters, Headquarters and Service
Company of the 208th Battalion as
the winning drill team. Because of
lack of space, the team was not
able to give an exhibition of its
complete drill. Instead, the team
went through the manual of arms.
Musicians for the dance were
Tom Larmon and Mrs. Phyllis
Langdon.
Clark, McGrath
May Testify in
Tax Law Cases
WASHINGTON, Dqc 3 — ^ —
Chairman King (D-Calif) said to
day Supreme Court Justice Tom
Clark and Attorney General How
ard McGrath will be invited to
testify at House subcommittee hear
ings on tax law enforcement.
King told newsmen that the two
will be heard late this week, in all
probability, if they want to testify.
He said Clark would be given an
opportunity to "clear the record on
his participation” in plane trips to
Florida fishing spots with T. Lamar
Caudle and others.
Caudle, ousted former assistant
attorney general, has testified to
naking several trips in the private
plane of Troy Whitehead, Charlotte,
N.C., businessman who was having
tax troubles.
Clark acknowledged over the
weekend that he took perhaps as
many as three trips in Whitehead’s
plane.
Both Clark and Caudle said they
did not know, when they took the
trips, that Whitehead was in any
lax troubles.
Clark’s trips were while he was
attorney general prior to his eleva
tion to the Supreme Court bench in
1949.
TIDE TABLES
•
DECEMBER 4
• High tide 6:11 am., 15 4 ft.
• Low tide 12:02 p.m., 4.7 ft.
• High tide 5:56 p.m., 15.8 ft.
Hungary Admits Red Fighters
Forced Down Missing Plane
And that Crew Members Held
By the Associated Press
Communist Hungary announced
today that Soviet fighter planes
forced down a U.S. Air Force' trans
port, missing since Nov. 19, and that
its four crew members are being
held.
Thus the Reds have four more
American hostages to use in pres
sing demands that the United
States pay up its ransom for the
release of American businessman
Robert A. Vogeler. Vogeler was
released from a Hungarian prison
April 38 after the United States
agreed to a number of conces
sions, notably the return of Hun
garian property stolen by the
Nazis and held by the Americans
in West Germany.
Significantly, a Hungarian charge
that the United States had not
lived up to its bargain in the Vog
Ketchikan Plans
For Growth when
Pulp Mill Starts
All of the paper work from the
U. S. Forest Service side is wound
up and there is nothing in the way
for the start of spring construction
of the pulp mill at Ketchikan, B.
Frank Heintzleman, regional fores
ter, reported this morning after
his return from Seattle and Ketchi
kan this weekend.
Heintzleman says that ho met
with the board of directors of the
Ketchikan Pulp and Paper Co., in
Seattle and that contracts between
the company and the Forest Service
have been signed and that all
special use permits and licenses
nave Deen issued.
The city of Ketchikan is working
feverishly to lick problems which
are expected to arise with the huge
incrfease in population, Heintzleman
said. He said the city's chamber of
commerce and other civic organi
zations are working hand in hand
with Ketchikan officials on con
crete plans for housing, water, ut
ilities and sewage disposal to take
care of the city's coming growth.
"With the cooperation they have
down there, Ketchikan won’t be
'caught short’ like some other Alaska
cities have been," Heintzleman de
clared. j
Heintzleman said the original pro
duction of the pulp mill there will
add some 1.500 to 1,750 persons to
the city's population. Logging camps
with workers and their families are
expected to add another 500 to 750
persons. Then, later, when mill pro
duction grows from 300 tons a day
(expected original production) to
525 to 550 tons a day, the increased
population figures will probably
double, Heintzleman said.
Roads are being built between the
city and the pulp mill site and two
miles beyond in order to make mori
land availble for homes to take care
of the influx of people in the area.
Additional side roads past the mill
site are also being planned. Heintz
leman says the company and fhe
Forest Service are planning loca
tions of small logging towns which
will be layed out in lots for resi
dences.
"We hope to encourage logging
men to bring their families, and if
we can help it we aren’t going to
have a lot of scattered tar-paper
shacks,” Heintzleman emphasized.
He reported that he also talked
to members of the group of news
paper publishers interested in locat
ing a newsprint plant at Juneau.
Heintzleman Indicated that he had
further informatioln of Interest to
Juneau and Southeast Alaska which
he would be able to divulge later.
VISITOR FROM SITKA
Ed L. Thomas of Sitka is stopping
at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM SEATTLE
Harold V McGulgan of Seattle
is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
Slock Quotations
NEW YORK. Dec. 3—^)—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today, is 3, American Can
108%, American Tel. and Tel. 157
Anaconda 50'». Douglas Alrcrafl
58%, General Electric 56!.-, General
Motors 50!i, Goodyear 43'i. Kenne
cott 87 %, Libby McNeill and Libby
8\. Northern Pacific 62, Standard
Oil of California 51, Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 20 %, U.S. Steel 39%
Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange
96.31%.
Sales today were 1.220,000 shares
Averages today were as follows
industrials 263.24, rails $1.52, util
, ities 46.18.
►--——
eler case came five days after the
US. C-47 disappeared on a flight
from Erding, Oermany, to Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, and presumably after
it was down in Hungary.
On Nov. 20. the Hungarian gov
ernment told U.S. Legation officials
it had no news about the missing
plane, which was carrying supplies
to the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade.
On Nov. 24, a long note from the
Hungarian government said the
United States had returned only
an ■insignificant1, part of the prop
erty ft had promised for the release
of Vogeler, sentenced to 15 years In
prison on charges of spying.
Vogeler. writing last week In the
Saturday Evening Post, said the
price America agreed to pay for his
release was too high.
Hungary’s latest note in the
Vogeler case not only demanded
that the U.S. turn over the rest
of the Hungarian property looted
by the Nails during the war —
part of the Vogeler release bar
gain—but added a new demand
that the historic crown of St.
Stefan also be returned.
St. Stefan’s crown was an ancient
symbol of Hungarian independence.
The Nazis stole it, too, during the
war, and it was taken from them by
the Americans. It is believed the
U.S. Army now holds the crown
somewhere in Oermany. It was
not Included in the U.S.-Hungarian
deal for Vogeler’s release.
Russian news agency Tass, in its
account today of the downing of
the American plane In Hungary,
alleged that the plane had been
sent to pick up spies and saboteurs
in Yugoslavia to be dropped inside
the Soviet Union and her Eastern
European allies.
By backing up these accusations
with detailed accusations that the
plane carried operational mlll
tary maps of Russia,, and jtutr
European satellites, Tass pare
added weight to the possibility
that Hungary might held the
crew on charges of espionage.
The Communist report of the
downed plane was the first public
admission by Russia that her planes
are operating in Hungary along
the borders from neighboring Yugo
slavia.
The Yugoslavs, ousted from the
Cominform in IMS for falling to
bow to Moscow rule, have charged
anew in the United Nations that
Russia and satellites are building
up an aggressive military force on
her borders with the Intent of over
throwing the regime of Premier
Marshal Tito.
Tass identified the crewmen of
the plane as Capt. Henderson, com
mander (pilot); Capt. 8wift, second
; pilot; Senior Sgt. Dofe, air me
j chanlc, and Sgt. James Albert 111
I ham, radioman. (The Air Force in
! Washington has listed the crewmen
as Capt. John J. Swift, Olen Falls,
N.Y.; Capt. Dave H. Henderson,
Shawnee, Okla.; 8gt. James A.
Elam. Kingsland, Ark.; and Tech.
Sgt. Jess A. Duff, Spokane, Wash.
; Action to
Be Taken by
State Depf.
V
WA8HINOTON, Dec. 3 — (Jfl —
The State Department said today
the United States will take “imme
diate action" to'tree the four-man
j crew and an American Army plane
reported forced down in Communist
; Hungary.
The Department at the same
time rejected a Moscow charge that
the plane was carrying equipment
to help anti-Communist “spies and
' saboteurs" behind the Iron Cur
tain. The blankets, parachutes,
maps and portable radio on the
p’ane were described as standard
emergency equipment.
The C-47 cargo plane with its
crew of four disappeared Nov. 19
on a flight from Munich to Bel
grade. Yugoslavia. A Tass agency
dispatch said Soviet fighter planes
forced the U.S. craft to land at a
Hungarian air field several days
ago.
Officials here assumed this was
true as a long search In Yugoslavia
had failed to disclose any trace of
the plane. However, the State De
partment said today it is still with
out confirmation from the Hun
garian government although re
peated requests for information
have been made to Hungary by
the American Charge de Affaires
| in Budapest, George Abbott.