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VOL. LXXVIII.. NO. 11,872
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 28. 1951
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Weiss Lands
42-Pounder
For Derby Lead
Keith Weiss of . Juneau took the
lead yesterday in 'the Golden North
Salmon Derby with a 42- pound,
12 ounce fish, the largest ever en
tered in any previous contest.
Jack Messer was a close second
with 42 pounds. 4 ounces and E. L.
(Red) Holloway was third with a
41-pounder.
Fourth was W. C. McDonald, 3!)
pounds, 13 ounces; fifth, Shell Sim
mons, 38 pounds; and sixth Inez
Knorr, 33 pounds 12 ounce .
All high fishermen are of Jun
eau.
Approximate!} 175 boats had an
estimated 500 fishermen in the fish
ing area on the fir-t day, according
to Curtis Shattuck and Dr. D. D
Marquardt, co-chairmen. Man;
more were expected today.
Judges yesterday at Tee Harbci
were E. C. Sweeney, assisted by Har
riet Pen well. Lacy Johnson mt.nnec
the Auke Bay post, assisted by Marie
Burdick.
A Civil Air Patrol plane made
three flights, one at 10 a m., an
other at 2 p.m. and a last one a
5 p.m. to check for any boats ii
distress, Shattuck said. This pro
gram will be continued today anc
Sunday. Anyone needin ' assistance
is requested to signal the plan
when it flies over, he said.
The first prize is a 1951 sedar
given by the Territorial Sportsmen,
Inc., sponsors of the D^irby.
Second prize is boat' and 10 horse
power outboard motor donated la
the Alaska Salmon Industry; third
Pan American World Airways twe
round trips from Juneau to Hon
olulu during the winter season; anc
fourth, a 9-cubic-foot ,refrigeratci
given by Sears, Roebuck and Co.
The fifth prize—announced foi
the first time—is a round trip tc
Seattle by the Alaska Steamshiv
Co. ' i
A few new awards have been add
ed and combinations have been
made of a number of the smaller
prizes.
The awards will be given begin
ning at 8 p.m. Tuesday night in the
Elks Hall.
New High is
Reached in
Self-Rating
• Juneau was all but descried •
• today as nearly everybody was «
• out fishing in the Golden North •
• Salmon Iterby. Most offiecs •
• were closed today. •
• An executive in a Territor- «
• ial agency here neatly squashed •
• requests by employees to take •
• the day off yesterday. He gave •
• out the word that “all who *
• were dispensable were free to *
• take time off to go fishing *
• and only the indispensable per- *
• sons remain.” *
• There were no more requests *
• for leave and not one failed to «
• show up for work. •
FROM ANCHORAGE
Robert L. Singleton and Edwin
L. O'Brien, with the CAA at An
chorage, are registered at the Bar
anof Hotel.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1951. DJ Bell Srnaicite, Inc
WASHINGTON. — No announ
cement has been made to the Am
erican people, but, while their owr
food prices skyrocket, they wil
loot the bill to keep Greek foot
prices down. For the United State;
has agreed to subsidize over hali
of the Greek diet at cut-rate pri
ces.
What happened in Greece i;
that a timid government permit
ted inflation to push prices out
of reach of the average Greek
The Greek government refused tc
pass high taxes or inflation con
trols, so, to combat a sure breedci
of Communism, the U. S. A. ha.1
promised to underwrite a three
year rationing program.
Thus we will subsidize approxi
mately 65 per cent of the Greek
ration, or 1,500 calories out of a
total daily ration of 2,400 calories.
But what’s more, the United
States will not only guarantee the
food, but will supply it at below
market prices. In other words, the
American taxpayers will guarantee
all Greeks two out of three meals
(Continued on Page Four)
In Communist Roundup
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Six persons, identified by tbe FBI as secondary Communist Party leaders were nirested in San Fran
cisro. Left to right: with their alleged party affiliations are: Ernest Otto Fox, 45, San Francisco, water
front rsctlcn organizer; Mrs. Loretta Starvius Stark, "S. San Francisco, former organization secretary
ter California; Oleta O’Connor Yates, San Francis >, state secretary; Albert Jason Lima, 45, Richmond,
Catjf., regional chairman; Carl Rude Lambert. 54. San J'ranciscn, chairman of security review board
commission for party’s district 13, and At Richmond, 31, San Francisco, executive editor, Daily Pyople’s
World. (IP) Wirephoto.
There Was a Little
Salmon Derby —
How it Grew!
ay KAY J. KENNEDY
In 1947 Juneau had a little
salmon derby honoring a delega
tion of the Outdoor Writers of
America headed by J. Hammond
Brown, president of the erguniza
tion. ft was sponsored by the Ter
ritorial Sportsmen. Inc.
The. idea vert .r ' V>
one so the little derby grew up
into one of Juneau's major ev
ents. First award each year for
ihe biggest salmon has been an
automobile. To date the score is
even between men and women.
The first two years men brought
in the winning salmon. The past
two years women have copped the
honors.
Dick Harris was high man in
1947 with a 38-pound, 4-ounce
king. In 1948, Bob Henry of Se
attle brought in the big fish that
tipped the scales at 37 pounds,
13 ounces.
Mrs. Anna Clements took first
in 1949 with a 36-pound, 6-ounce
salmon and last year Mrs. Thel
ma Buddy brought in the prize
winner, weighing 36 pounds, 3
ounces.
The Territorial Sportsmen, Ir.o.
>vis founder! August 17, 1945, for
the purpose of joining sportsmen
together and carrying on project.*
< f interest to them.
Sports Program
Amonj Use projects carried on
Inc vitt v i ~ Ot.il «i v\ i»i*
ter deer feeding program to pre
serve breeding stock, financial as
sistance to the Fish and Wildlife
Service for wolf control in this
area, planting of grayling in lakes
adjacent to Juneau and a $2,500
appropriation to bring Norwegian
blackcock to a suitable area near
Juneau. The blackcock project is
temporarily held up until eggs or
chicks can be imported through
the ass' tance of the Fish and
Wildlife Service.
The organization also watches
legislation affecting game and
wildlife.
At a meeting early this year,
it was decided to look into the
possibility of acquiring a film li
brary relating to sportsmen activ
ities.
Rollback
Measure Goss
To House
WASHINGTON. July 28 — t/PJ —
Senate approval of a new economic
:ontrols bill—permitting some price
ind rent rollbacks and opening the
way for some increases—shifted the
controversial measure to the House
today.
House leaders plan to call it up
for a vote Monday. They pre
dicted passage, which would send
it to President Truman just a
day before the present law ex
pires at midnight Tuesday.
The Senate passed the bill by
voice vote last night shortly alter
t Senate-House committee had
tompleted work on a compromise
version of separate measures ap
proved earlier 'nv the two branches.
The new bill would continue
vage, price, rent and other emer
gency controls through next June—
12 months less than Mr. Truman
lsked. It would relax consumer
-redit curbs.
Lawmakers generally expected
Mr. Truman to sign the bill, with
perhaps a protest that it calls for
easing controls in too many case?
and gives him scarcely any of
the additional anti - inflation
powers he requested.
The new price control provisions
authorize price rollbacks to pre
Korea levels for non-farm com
modities, provided that cost, in
creases which occurred before last
Thursday are taken into account
in fixing ceilings.
Senators who helped draft the
compromise measure said the cost
increase formula also will result in
some price "roll forwards.” One
Office of Price Stabilization (OPSi
'
Alaska Antimony,
Oi! Reports Hade
By Chapman
WASHINGTON, July 28 — l/P> —
Two reports on antimony ore and
oil in Alaska have been released
by Secretary of Interior Oscar Chap
man.
The oil report deals with possi
bilities in the Yakataga district, an
area of some 2,500 square miles on
the south coast between Malaspina
and Bering Glaciers. It deals pri
marily with stratigraphy and land
structures with emphasis on the
geological features which may aid
in search for oil.
The antimony ore report is
based on investigations carried out
by P. L. Killeen and J. B. Mertie
Jr., in the Fairbanks district. It
deals with samplings of known
stibnite localities in the district.
The report said the ore was
found as both disseminated crystals
and kidney-shaped masses of es
sentially solid sulfide ranging up
to several tons each.
Ship Movements
Aleutian scheduled southbound
7 a.m. Sunday.
Alaska Northbound due noon to
day.
Princess Norah due northbound
3:30 p.m. today, sails for Skagway
11:30 p.m.
Princess Louise due northbound
Tuesday.
observer estimated off-the-cuff it
would boost automobile price ceil
ings about 10 percent.
The bill also would assure re
tailers and wholesalers their “cus
tomary percentage margins over
costs.”
I
Red 'Bail' Lsbe!
Scratched; Feds
Not Questioned
WASHINGTON, July 28, — .Pl
The Defense Department ho;
scratched out the official label oji
a brief ins officer's virtual accusa
tion that the Communists are set*
I ting a military trap in Korea with
! peace talk', r,r\ 'wit, but it has no;
| < ue-'toned t'V vi t';', interpretatio!]
ci fact-.. " "* • ‘
i At the same time some Pentagon
authorities found a puzzle in a
statement from Secretary of De
fense Marshall that the United
State plans to have ^OO.OOO Am
erican troops in Europe in 1952.
That sounded like twice as many
i men as Marshall previously had in
Iditalcd and set off a buzz of talk
However, Marshall gave newsmer
his own explanation. His figure
lake account of the total number
of men, including those in supply
and support, to put the planned six
combat divisions in the field. He
figured on a total of 310,003 in
ground forces plus 60.000 airmen.
Secretary Marshall was testifying
| before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee in spport of the admin
istrations $8,500,000,060 foreign ec
onomic and military air program
The briefing officers comment
about a Communist buildup stood;
as rely official until the late
evening. ,
Then Clayton Fritchey, inform
ation director for the Defense De
partment, stepned «n with just
enough cold water to wash the
official label off. Amid not-unex
pected talk that Congress was like
ly to take a vivid interest in what
had been pictured as treachery un
der the white flag, fritchey told re
porters:
The briefing officer’s on-the-rec
ord statement ‘should not. be con
strued as a defense policy or c
change of policy, or a policy by the
Army Chief of Staff ”
It was,Fritchey said, “simply an
officer giving advice” to newsmen
and should be “judged only as a
comment ...”
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• ' WEATHER FORECAST t
9 Temperature for 24-Hour Period •
4 ending 6:20 o'clock this morning. 4
• In Juneau — Maximum, •
• 69» minimum, 54 •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 69« minimum, 50. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• Juneau and vicinity: Mostly •
• cloudy with some intermit- •
• tant rain tonight and Sun- •
• day. Highest temperature •
• Sunday about 00. lowest to- •
• night near 51 degrees. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
• City of Juneau — .00 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 4.02 inches; •
• At Airport — .00 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 2.28 inches. *
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FROM FAIRBANKS
Helmuth Wedow, Jr., of the U.S.
Geological Survey, Fairbanks, is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
Buffer Zone
Deadlocks
Reds, Allies
Presenl Battle Front
Or 38th Parallel
Causes Knarled Dispute
U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUART
ERS, Korea, July 28 —'/Pi— Allied
and Red negotiators were deadlock
ed today over a Red proposal to e •
tablish a military ‘buffer zone"
along the 38th parallel.
Tin Allies want the buffer zone
’.long the present battle front where
the U. N. forces are holding ex
citer.! position, in terrain of then
own choosing.
Presumably they will tackle the
ame knotty problem when their
,13th section gets underway tomcr
•ow.
There was no compromi e today,
m eyewitness said. Both sides re
fused to budge.
Gen. Nam II, ‘ displaying an in
ter tension that normally is held
aider control," presented the Red
irop ?1 or a buffer zone nlon;
he 3# It parallel. An eye-witnes
said N im, the chief Contmuni .
dele. dated the Red position
•vith mnr > f tree and nerve that
■n any previous occasion.”
Vice Acini. C. Turner Joy, sonic)
U. N envoy, rejected the Red pro
posal. At prevent the allied line i:
some miles north of the 38tli par
allel in (lie central and east vector..
Truman Warns
Nation to
|'Get Ready'
Russia Not Ending
World Conquest Idea,
! President Declares
DETROIT, July 28, -MV-Pres
ident Truman bitterly accused
Russia today ol malting danger
ous. war-like military preparations
"around the world" and warned
his country to get ready for “any
emergency.”
Mr. Truman questioned whether
the Communists “really desire
peace in Korea” since, he said,
I Soviet rulers "are putting them
selves in a position where they
can commit new acts of aggres
sion at any time.”
And he assailed administration
clitics at home for “trying to stir
up trouble and suspicion between
the people and their government.”
“The Bis Lie”
"They are using the smear and
the Big Lie for personal publicity
and partisan advantage, heedless
of the damage they do their
country,” he asserted. “Never, not
even in the bitterest political
campaigns, have I seen such a
Hood of lies and slander as is now
pouring forth over the country.”
Mr. Truman flew here from
Washington to address an outdoor
audience in Cadillac Square in
front of the city hall as part of
tills industrial city" 250th anni
versary celebration.
“We can not let our guard
down, no matter what happens in
Korea,” he said in his prepared
speech.
"The free world must have
armed strength—and have it now
—not in reserve, not later, but
low .
“Must Be Ready
We must have men, ships,
planes, tanks, and bombs — on
hand—ready for any emergency.'
The President said Russia's ac
tions “certainly are no indication
sf peaceful intentions" and went
in:
“We do not yet know whether
the Communists really desire peace
in Korea or whether they are
simply trying to gain by negotia
tions what they have not been
able to gain by conquest.”
"We intend to find out. The
talks can be successful if the
Communists are in fact ready to
give up aggression in Korea."
He, declared that the North Ko
reans and Chinese Communists
"are getting a steady flow of new
equipment from the Soviet Union
for ground and air use.”
"But whatever happens in Ko
rea,” the President asserted, “we
must not make the mistake of
jumpiag to the conclusion that
the Soviet rulers have givrn up
their idea of world conquest."
Engineers Bias! Debris
r —r? -a—•••. «— ■ • • — •• •
Allied engineers set oil bln: l in effort* to clear Hie linjin pence
bridge of t.'ebris jammed against il bv high water. I N convoys must
pass over bridge enroute from Mnnsan to Kaesong where peace
meetings aie held. The Iteds n'ere reported to be willing to accept
a compromise on the ioicir.ti troop removal which has prevented
agreement on the peace agenda. >/Pi Wire photo.
Defense Fisheries Head
Says 'Concentration' Plan
Must Be Territory-Wide
\ ANCHORAGE. July 28, .-P
The 1951 Bristol Bay salmon paiT
is far below expectation, Maurice
F. Rattray, deputy administrator
of the U. S. Defense Fisheries Ad
ministration, reported yesterday.
At the same time he said his
Alaska visit convinced him that
if any concentration plan is de
veloped for Alaska it should apply
for the entire territory, and not
just for certain areas.
The DFA plan for limiting gear
in Ccok Inlet. Kodiak and Bris
tol Bay areas was set up last
spring hut never put into effect
because of strong opposition from
Ala ka fishermen and territorial
officials, lie said.
After at! inspection oi the Bris
tol Bay pack, Rattray said the
area’s total pack is not expected
to exceed 400.000 cases. Of these,
about 350.0,00 were put up by shore
plants and 43.0C0 cases by freezer
ships.
Districts Fall
Rattray said Bristol Bay packed
approximately 600,000 eases last
year, and had expected 500,000
tlli season. He di .erioed I he sea
"‘so ITTnTBi* ~l i “ f;:. i! T7T RTi" !;;
| pink districts ns lower than Inst
i year.
His observations included* u
flight over the 700-ship fleet of
drift Rillnrttrrs that hit Cook In
let’s bin red salmon run last week
lie said "It's ohvious there was an
excess of gear fishing inlet wa
ters this year."
He said he believed the DF/1
proposal advanced last sprint'
would have limited the gillm
fleet to 250 boats.
Whether the DFA orders a con
centration plan for Alaska’s 195:
season, including reductions in
gear, will depend on Internationa
developments the next lew month.
Rattray said.
Ife indicated that if such a plat,
is put Into effect it will be an
nounced before Jan. 1, 1952. Rat
tray will inspect the Cordovr.
district and Southeast Alasks
■fishing grounds before returnin'
to his Washington, D. C., head
[ quarters.
Shoe Clue lo
Missing Plane
Pelers Out -
A possible clue to the Korean air
lift transport which disappeared
oil Cape Spencer a work ago,
petered out upon investigation yes
terday.
A hlghtop service shoe was found
on the beach at Deer Harbor on
Yakoboi Island by a man named
Fleming and picked up by Civil Air
Patrol pilot Chuck Porter s>! Ju
neau.
Investigation revealed that it was
an army type shoe thrown ovei
board by Clarence Moe, a fisher
man in that area.
The Canadian Pacific Airlines
plane witli 38 persons aboard, was
on the first leg of a flight from
Vancouver to Tokyo via Elmendorl
\irbase.
The search was continuing to
day, according to I7th C.S. Coast
Guard headquarters here which 1
oordinating the search efforts. A
1,000-foot ceiling lrom Cape Spen
cer northward to Prince William
Sound is hampering land observa
tions above that level.
Coast Guard cutters continued
to comb the w’aters in the Gulf of
Alaska. Planes flew over the coastal
islands from Cape Spencer to
Dixon’s Entrance. They were con
centrating on the thousands of bays,
inlets and fiords that cut the rug
ged coastline.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Glasoe of Se
I atle are stopping at the Gastineau
j Hotel.
1
Polar Flight
Grounded by
Valve Trouble
FAIRBANKS, July 28, -i.T! /
four-engined British bomber anr
it; crew itl 10 were grounded lien
indefinitely today awaiting a re
placement part needed for a l
128-mile non-stop flight to Eng
land.
A broken exhaust valve forced
cancellation of yesterday's sched
uled departure on the polar hop
Efforts were being made to ob
tain a new valve from MeChord
Air Force Base, near Tacoma
Wash, where Canadian planes 01
Iho Korean airlift ore serviced.
The British Aerie bomber tle\>
here Tuesday from Iceland ovei
the North Pole m 18 hour., 4i
minutes.
Approximately 400
Attend Annual Picnic
Held in Seattle
Approximately 400 persons at
tended the Juneau-Douglas picnic
July 15 at Woodland Park, Seattle,
according to information received
from George Benson of Seattle.
Attending the affair from Juneau
were Miss Joyce Hope, Fourth of
July Queen, and Chief of Police
and Mrs. Bernie Hulk. Miss Hope
was awarded a trip to Seattle on
Pan American World Tirways for
winning the July Fourth contest.
The Hulks are vacationing ifi the
States.
1
Fish Season
To Open on
August 1
'Jumpers' Indicate Big
Run, Escapement,
Says Industry
The Southeast Alaska commer
cial fishing season will open Aug
ust 1 in the Icy Strait. Eastern
and Western districts and in tins
Ernest Sound and Annn sections
of the Sumner Strait district.
Announcements of the opening
followed n meeting last night at
which packers, fishermen and un
ion .representatives presented a
picture of conditions in these
areas to Clarence Rhode, regional
director of th Fish and Wildlife
service and oilier officials.
Pete (iilmcrr, representative for
(tie Alaska Salmon Industry, pre
■ ented Ihe case for the packers,
fcn.‘ ing Ids petition on hearings
last fall when the season was :et
,it Aagnrt (1, on an “elastic” ba
sis. That is, if fish showed earlier
the season could be opened call
er: er if there were no fish, a
ater season could he expelled.
Main speakers for the packers
.vero BUI Olson, superintendent
it Kcku Cannery at Kake; John
...ikncss, superintendent of the
Ww England canrtery at Chat
uun: Mrs. Jeanne Welsh, opera
r of Icy Strait Co. at Hoonah,
;*Tank Wright, of the Pyramid
wishing Co. at Sitka and Art
Wolf, salmon cannery operator at
Todd,
Escapement High
Basis of their argument was
hat an adequate escapement of
oinlc salmon has already seeded
he streams in the above areas
md that “jumpers” In the bays
iff stream mouths indicate that
nc.ro fish are coining in.
Although the eastern district is
■peaed commercial fishing Regul
ation 119.7 still applies which
—-. m»i—r i-!'■■!■. • oilin',
don't the eastern shore of Steph
ns Passage and frcderick Sound
rem Midway I bind to Horn
Cliffs.
The Western district opens
Wednesday except the areas des
ribed under regulation 118.3; and
Sumner Strait district' is opened
is described in fishery regulation
121.3.
Ghigfione
Named Road
Commissioner
A. F. Ghigllone of Juneau today
was named commissioner of roads
for Alaska, according to an Asso
ciated Press dispatch to The Empire
mm Washington, D. C.
Secretary of Interior Oscar Chap
man made the appointment, Dele
rate E. L. Bartlett said.
Ghlglio'ne has been acting com
missioner since Col. John R. Noy
was recalled by the Army in
May. lie was formerly chief en
gineer.
The new commissioner was born
n Seattle in 1009. He was graduat
ed from the University of Wash
ington in 1931 and received a
cholarshlp to Massachusetts In
titule of Technology, graduating
with a masters degree in civil en
ineerim; in 1932.
He joined the commission in 1939
as engineer in charge of bridge
construction and subsequently ad
vanced through the ranks to assist
ant chief engineer in 1948. then
was made chief engineer in 1950.
During tiic war, from 1941 to
194 ) fie served with the U. S. Naval
Reserve Civil Engineer Corps, and
was separated from the service with
the rank of commander. He re
ceived a Navy commendation for
■ service.
In 1939 Ghiglicme was married to
Alice Palmer, a music and art in
structor in the Juneau schools. They
have three daughters, Ann, Kay,
and Susan.
As commissioner, Ghigllone also
will be chairman of the Alaska
Road Commission.
CANNERY MEN ARE HERE
Among tlie cannerymen who were
here to attend a Fish and Wildlife
meeting last night were W. S. Ol
son, Keku Canning Co., Kake; A.
L. Rogers, Scow Bay Canning Co.,
Petersburg; and John Likeness,
New England Fish Co.. Chatham.
All are registered at the Baranof
HoteL