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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,902
JUNEAU. ALASKA SATUKPA ' SEPTEMBER 1, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Craters Indicate Second
Kaesong Bombing; Unknown
Plane Drops More Flares
By the Associated Press
MUNSAN, Korea, Sept. 1 — A
United Nations liaison officer today
told the Reds a plane may have
bombed neutral Kaesong this morn
ing. but if so it wasn’t a United
Nations aircraft.
The Reds said a U.N. plane drop
ped two bombs in the Korean cease
fire conference city and called on
the U.N. to investigate.
A liaison officer checked and
reported he found two holes in
the eartli that could have been
made by bombs dropped from the
air or detonated on the ground.
He indicated the Reds staged the
alleged bombing for propaganda
purposes.
A few hours later an unidentified
two-engined plane dropped flares
over this advance U.N. base.
No Explanation
Officials could give no immediate
explanation. It was believed that
an investigation was being made to
determine if the flares might have
been dropped by a U.N. plane by
accident or mistake. The flares
burst over Munsan at 11 p.m. (6
a.m. PDT).
Earlier Saturday the U.N. rejected
a Red protest that a United Na
tions warplane dropped flares over
Kaesong Aug. 29. The U.N. Allies
said flares were dropped that morn
ing, but that they were dropped by
a photographic plane working some
20 to 25 miles north of Kaesong.
Air Force Col. Andrew J. Kin
ney, senior United Nations liaison
officer, told a Red liaison officer
in the conference city of Kaesong
it was possible that a plane had
bombed the Kaesong area early
today.
But, Kinney said, there was no
evidence to show that the plane in
volved was an aircraft under United
Nations control.
Called "Liar”
The Red officer, Col. Chang Chun
San, accused Kineny of "ulterior
motives” and "lying.”
Kinney said, “I can see no point in
continuing to discuss the matter
further.”
Kinney told newsmen in Mun
san the “bomb craters” he saw
could have been caused by a
planted ground blast or by ex
plosives dropped from the air. He
said there was no evidence to
back up either possibility.
Kinney led an investigating team
into Kaesong to look into charges
made by the Reds earlier in the
day. He was accompanied by Ma
rine Col. J. C. Murray, three air
force experts, staff assistants and
four newsmen. The investigation
lasted three hours and 50 minutes.
The Rejls had charged a United
Nations warplane bombed the city
at 12:30 a.m., Saturday. They said
the bombs fell near the residence
of North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam II,
senior Red delegate to the cease-fire
talks.
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
(Ed. Note—While Drew Pear
son is on a brief vacation, the
Washington Merry-go-round is
being written by several disting
uished guest columnists, today’s
being by Dr. Hugh Bennett,
chief of the Department of Ag
riculture’s soil conservation ser
vice.)
WASHINGTON. — The recent
midwestern floods have again
shown with stark reality that the
day of piecemeal flood control
must end. Truly effective flood
control must protect the millions1
of farmers on the land and in the
small creek bottoms as wall as
our great cities and major river
valleys.
In those July floods we had
graphic proof that no single me
thod of flood control can do the
whole, watershed-wide job. We
say how some of our best soils be
came so _ saturated with the rains
of May and June that even the
pastures could absorb little more
when the final big rain came.
Even so, the water-holding capac
ity of the soil helped moderate
the effects of the run-off. Likewise
we saw how downstream levees,
high enough to have withstood the
largest previous flood, were over
topped by this superflood of July.
We are confronted with one in
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4 New Enemy
Groups Spotted;
Fight Stepped Up
Reds May Launch Of
fensive; Mig Downed in
20-Minute Dogfight
By JOHN RANDOLPH
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 1——
Four new Red divisions were spotted
! on Korea’s east-central front today
I as bloody fighting continued on the
‘slopes of Jagged mountain peaks.
AP Correspondent George Mc
Arthur said there were “some indi
cation” the Reds might jump off
shortly on a major offensive.
An Allied officer told McArthur
the reinforced Red forces in the
East could throw “a whale of a
blow” at the U.N. positions. But
he added he did not believe the
Reds could appreciably dent the
Allied line.
( Heaviest Fighting
There was stepped-up action on
land and sea and in the air. Alhcd
officers said their divisions were
engaged in the heaviest fighting
since the now-suspended truce talks
started in Kaesong July 10.
Bombers and fighters attsek'd
Red supply and commimlcptldjis fa
cilities in North Korea.
Communist and U.N. jets tangled
in a 20-minute dogfight high over
northwestern Korea. All Allied
planes returned to base. Maj.
Winton C. Marshall of Italeich.
N.C., was credited with probably
destroying one Kusslan-type MIG.
The ground fighting centered on
the central and east-central front.1,.
Gains of up to four miles were ham
mered out in the east, and some
gains were registered in the center
of the 100-mile battleline.
AH-Day Battle
The U.N. Allies were stalled in a
I savage all-day battle for “Bloody
I Ridge” on the east-central front. AP
I Photographer Bob Otey reported the
Reds fought to the death from deep
bunkers and machine gun nests.
To the west. Communists coun
terattacked and took a hill they
lost Friday. But the U.N. forces
slashed back and recaptured it.
When the fighting died down
more than 460 Communist dead were
counted on the hillside.
Apparently none of the new Red
forces were committed to action
today.
One of the new units had been
shifted from the western front, of
ficers said.
The other three had been identi
fied before today, but they were not
known to be within striking distance
of the front.
Red resistance was stiffening.
One United Nations unit was coun
terattacked five times today. The
attacks started before dawn and
continued late Saturday afternoon.
Senate Approves
Foreign Aid Bill
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1—UPl—The
Senate last night approved a $7,
286.250.000 foreign aid program to
bolster free-world defenses against
Communism.
The total was $1,213,750,000 less
than then $8,500,000,000 asked by
President Tuman. And it was $212.
500.000 below the authorization
passed earlier by the House.
A part of this may be restored
by a Senate-House conference com
mittee which will meet later this
month to iron out differences in
the two measures'.
Senate Democratic leader McFar
land of Arizona said today that Sen
ate passage had put the foreign aid
program “over the big hump,” but
many other Senators insisted the
main battle will come when Con
gress gets down to actually voting
the money to finance foreign assist
ance.
The bill that cleared the Senate j
after two consecutive 12-hour ses- ;
sions merely authorized the aid.
Congress must put up the money:
later after the Senate-House dif-1
ferences are adjusted.
Pleasant Chore
Charles C. Hal's, Seattle, national
commander of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, crown Dorothy
Swisher, 18-yeai-oid blonde from
Southern Pines. N. ( alter :.he
was chosen the ViVV’s beauty
queen at New York City where
the VFW is inJiihi ■ n natur al
convention, tffl Wirepiiolo.
i
First Woman
j Customs Ceiisctoi
Sworn inWSfsii'ee
Alaska’s first woman Collector ol
! Customs—Mrs. Katherine Nordale
of Juneau—was sworn into office
this morning at 11 o’clock in the
federal building.
The oath was read by Gov. Ern
est Grucning and administered by
U. S. Commissioner Gordon Gray.
A group of friends of Mrs. Nor
dale witnessed the ceremony, which
was held in the office of the position
she assumed today. They presented
her with a bouquet of flowers, along
with their good wishes and congrat
ulations.
Present, beside the governor and
Graye were: Lew M. Williams, sec
retary of Alaska; Hugh Wade, dir
ector of the Alaska Native Service;
T. J. Petrich, assistant collector cl
customs; Walter Helsel and Leo
Osterman, deputy collectors; Henri
lioden, territorial treasurer; M .
E. L. Bartlett and Doris Ann Bart
lett, wife and daughter of Alaska's
delegate to Congress, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Alexander. Mr. ancl Mi;:.
John Dimond, Burke Riley, George
Rogers and a daughter and son of
Mrs. Nordale, Mary and James Nor
dale.
She replaces James J. O’Connor,
who resigned because of ill health.
Mrs. Nordale was confirmed by
the Senate Aug. 4 and late ye; ter
clay afternoon received her certifi
cate of appointment from President
Harry S. Truman.
She came to Alaska in 1925 and
is the widow of the late Alton G.
Nordale, who was killed in an air
plane crash near Fairbanks in 1930.
Mrs. Nordale is a life-long Demo
crat and married into one of the
pioneer Democratic families of the
Territory.
The last four years Mrs. Nordale
has been acting head of the Federal
Security Agency.
Alaska Defenses
In Good Condition,
Says Army Chief
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1—Wi
den. J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief
of Staff, returned by air from Al
aska today and reported defenses
there in very good condition.
He told reporters,the recent ad
dition of the 196th regimental
combat team, made up of South
Dakota national guardsmen, “will
give us a very fine defense.”
Collins accompanied Secretary
cf the Army Frank Pace Jr. on the
ten-day Alaskan trip, which fol
lowed conferences with Canadian
defense officials in Ottawa.
Pace stopped off on the return
trip for a week’s vacation with
his family at Cape Cod, Mass.
Service Denies
Extension of
Northern Area
The Fish and Wildlife Service
said at presstime this afternoon
that no extension of the salmon
fishing season would bg granted
north of Sumner Strait, which bi
sects Southeastern Alaska west cf
Wrangell.
Extension for the rest of the
district looks doubtful, according
to C. Howard Baltzo, assistant re
gional director, who said that
"from information on hand” that
remainder of the area would prob
ably be closed at 6 p.m.
He was,‘till awaiting word from
field personnel at 1 o.m. before he
could give final order cn the west
coa‘ t and Clarence Strait areas.
During the morning the service
office was, without doubt, the bus
iest place in Southeastern Alaska.
Packers milled in and out, still
presenting evidence cn why the
season should be extended. On the
other hand, Baltzo said, numerous
requests were being received from
trcllers against extension.
The Southeastern Alaska district
has enjoyed one of the best pink
j runs in recent years.
Whooping Cough
i Takes Toll cs
Ttey Aleu! Village
KODIAK Sopt. 1- "PI—A whoop
ing cough epidemic which has al
r.-ndy caused one death was reported
| today at the native village of Pu-ry
i viile. ?30 mite sputhtwe.it- of here.
i iYifrfG' UWV; "ii ■’c'Jiiiirtiicu'' x-.i .i-.'
there.
J Rain and fog held..up a Kodiak
i based Coast Guard plane two days
i before it flew medicine, serum anti
a Navy doctor to the stricken vil
lage after receiving a plea for assist -
j ance.
The doctor treated the 21 care,
and vaccinated 25 others.
On the return flight the Coart
Guard plane stopped off at Cel.
i Bay on the Alaska peninsula to
bring in for treatment an Army ser
geant suffering from appendicitis.
IllU G STORES WILL
CLOSE LABOR DAY
Juneau’s four (1 rug stores will be
closed all day Monday, it was an
nounced today.
Juneau Drug and Butler Mauro
will ire open Sunday from 12 noon to
G p.m.
House Arsed Forces
Committee Due in
Juneau Kexf Week
A special seven-man House aimed
services committee was due to ar
rive in Anchorage today on the first
leg of an inspection tour of Alas
ka’s military construction program
They will spend tomorrow morn
ing conferring with Lieut. Gen. Wil
liam E. Kepner, commander of the
Alaska Command, and then begin
their personal survey.
They will arrive in Juneau Sept.
8, accompanied by Gov. Ernest
Gruening. The governor will meet
them in the Hub City after open
ing the Alaska Science Conference
in McKinley National Park.
On the following day they will gc
by Coast Guard cutter, or plane, t
Haines and Skagway on an inspec
tion trip.
In Anchorage the committee wil
split into two groups, one going t.
Ladd Field at Fairbanks and Di
Delta and the other to Barrow anc
Nome.
On Sept. 7 they will meet again
in Anchorage and inspect installa
tions at Whittier before leaving for'
Southeastern Alaska the following
day.
Members of the committee are:
Porter Hardy Jr. (D-Va,i chairman:
Clyde Doyle (D-Cal.), Victor Wic
kersham <D-Okla.), Walter Nor
blad (R-Ore ), James E. Van Zandt
• R-Penn.i, William Bates (R-Mass.)
Hubert B. Scudder <R-Cal.). They
are accompanied by E. L. ‘ Bob’’
Bartlett, delegate to congress from
Alaska; M. W. Goding, Department
cf Interior representative; two com
mittee staff members and the fol
lowing military officers: Col. M. W.
Chapman, USAF, liaison officer;
Ccpt. L. K. Reynolds, USN, advisor
on public works; Col. H. P. Hauser,
USA, army advisor on public works.
I Labor's annual day cl'f will ! c> noted In Juneau with many taking off for fishing ivins, ciui'.i. u id |
( lodges during the trinle holiday. No community ev nts arc planned. »
The Joltean Central Labor Council (AFL) wit' < bscrve Labor Day by being host to all children it: |
| Ciastineau Channel at a frets show at the 20ih Century Theatre, according to Clcdamae Carmnock, : , - 1
t rctarv. Doors will open at 1:30 p. m. and an all-k d show of cartoons and features will begin at 2 o'clock.
! Tht.-o will be free candy and popcorn. /
The F.'meire will not be published on the holiday. Next issue will be Sept. 1 See you then.
-Ousted Heme Dtsfrkl Attorney
i (aims Absence Was 'Anmul Leave'
| r-:
iSttmon Fade PaHS'i
Miiikm Mark in ~
Sosi&easfeiiE Area
Southeastern Alaska passed th;
million mark in cases of salmoi
canned in this area o|j to Aug. 2b
This .was revealed in figures issuet
today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlii
Service which gave the total a;
1,341.833.
This is more than twice the num
her packed up to the same date 1.
year when 530,849 cases were put up
Of this year’s number 732,2!
cases are pink.:. Chinns are secern
with 311,295. The Ketchikan die
trict was leading with a total o.
454,209 cases.
Central Alaska is still trailing
last year's pack by several hundrcc
thousand cases. The pack this ye ;
o far is 1,051,402 and last y r t<
the same period was 1,398,939 case;
C. Howard Baltzo, assistant re
lonal director, said no report froir
Western Alaska had been receiver
lor the week.
Total pack for all Alaska is we!
over last year. That of last ye. :
to date was 2,008,970 cases as com
pared with 2,782,646 this year.
Sroenlng W!E! TsEk
3b Pcliika!
Ecology' ai Meeting
“The Political Ecology of Alaska’
will be the text of the opening ad
dress to the second Alaska Science
Conference, delivered by Governor
Ernest Gruening next Tuesday.
Ecology means “the biology deal
ing with the mutual relations be
tween organisms and their environ
ment.”
The conference will begin a four
day session at McKinley National
Park with delegates attending from
throughout the Territory.
Virtually all government and Ter
ritorial departments in Juneau arc
fending representatives, many of
them to deliver addresses on sub
jects of their agencies.
Governor Gruening expects tc
return to Juneau the end of th'
week with a House of Represent
atives armed services committer
which is touring the Territory.
WILLIAMS TO ANCHORAGE
After speaking at the Northwest
Peace Officers convention in Sitka
on Wednesday, J. Gerald Williams,
attorney general for the Territory,
returned to Juneau Thursday and
left that afternoon for Anchorage.
He will be in the Hub City for a
week or ten days on business of his
office.
* MISSOULA, Mont., Sept. 1—tfl
, —A IT.' S. District Attorn y lor Al
| A'SKa' Outintis UK I'cinOVfW IrurtF tH*
i flee by Presidential action on ar
! administrative .error. _•
| Tiie White House reported yes
j terday that Frank C. Bingham vva
removed from office because h
didn’t return to his job in Alaska:
Division No. 2 with bit lees at
Nome.
Bat Bingham contended that
lie was on annual leave, ap
pioveil liy the Justice Depart
ment at Washington, D.C. and
Las several weeks remaining.
Bingham was among the dist
rict attorney who went to Wash
ington for a Justice Department
meeting last May. Irving Perimeter,
assistant White House Secretary,
said Bingham didn't go back and
-was never heard from . am.’
The Justice Department checked
'and found he had gone to Mis
soula and set up a private lav;
practice,” Perimeter added,
Mr. Truman’s order removed
Bingham from office as of June 3.
That, Perimeter said, apparent!;;
was the time Bingham wa due
tack at Nome.
“Before leaving my office al
Nome, I requested my secretary
to inform me of any business
which might require my person
al attention," Bingham said, “an t
i have been in con. taut communi
cation wtih the office.”
Bingham said from his hom. hr
that he had planned to go into r.
law partnership with a Mr ■. j
attorney but plans were cluing; a
and he has not practiced lav; here
since his arrival.
Bingham said he would inform
Washington ol the "mistake” im
mediately.
The attorney said he had not re
ceived official notice of his removal.
Tiie notice was addressed to Nome
hut the White House left delivery
up to the Justice Department and
it probably will be made to Bing
ham here.
.:
: a WEATHER REPORT •
i o IV. 3. WEATHER BUREAU •
rt Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
: e ending 0:21) o'clock this morning •
» At Airport: Maximum, 59; •
* minimum, 45. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
o Continued fair tonight with •
• lowest temperature around 52 ®
• degrees Increasing cloudi- •
• ness and a little cooler Sun- *•
• day, with occasional light •
• rain in the afternoon. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
» At Airport — None; 0
e since July 1—5.52 inches. •
• ...
Dewey Will Report So
Friimsfi on Orient Trip v .
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1—'•P -Til''
.White House said yesterday that:
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New Vo.-:.
- K/IUSBaifc.!« .Pivvdcnt Truman
h!s 1 ■ 'afTa•VfffTN^'arffT'tfnrtivr -
deni; returns to Washington from,
. h}g. -f-yrii',c.'-ifY! ip‘,v 4/fsii.._
cisco and Kansas City.
Presidential Secretary Joseph
Plr s told reporters no definite time
hart been r- . for Dewey’s meeiii,'
with the President.
However, Short said they defi
nitely will confer, probably nf:c
Mr. Truman’s return to Washington.
2, Keei Ifchaimed
$lfer Menfh in
NerlfwiH Wilds
WINNIPEG, Sept. 1 — t.'P) — Tv.
Americans missing since Aur. 2 Ir
northern Saskatchewan have beer
found safe and round. Air lore
officials said here today.
Khe men are Dr. John Taache c
Sheboygan, Wia., and Miles Eiken
burger of Plymouth, Wis.
They disappeared on a 236-ni’
flight In Dr. Tasche’;; plane free
Lac La Kongo to Stony Rapids i
northern Saskatchewan.
The men were rip,hied at th
smith end of Snowbird Lake, 12
miles northeast of Stony Rapids.
a U.S. Air Force search and rcscu.
fortress piloted by Capt. C. I
Porker.
fesafe Won't Budge
Oa Foreign Aid Bill
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14* --'i ll
Senate refused yesterday either t>
oereasa or decrease the $7,53 5.
750,000 foreign aid bill.
It. defeated 56 to 17 p.n effort b
four Democratic Senators to bco
the total to near the full 90.500:
000,000 asked by President Truman.
Earlier it rejected 41 to 31 ai
attempt by 16 Senators, mostly Re
publicans, to whittle a half bi!: »
dollars from economic aid funds fo
Europe.
Both vote-; came after the Renat;
met two hours early and work s
under debate limitation in an effu
to pass the bulky bill by late tonight /
-aslj;uAug.EcOnieClY:,,gC
I Ship Movements
Baranof due southbound Monday
at 1 a.m.
Aleutian scheduled to arrive
northbound Monday at 8 p.m.
Princes. Louise due to arrive from
Vancouver at 7:30 p.m., sailing fur
Skagway at 11:30 p.m.
Elmer Larson of San Francisco is
at the Baranof Hotel.
2nd Privateer
Wrecked; 4 in
Missing Ship
Eighth and Ninth Alaska
Accidents Bring Dead or
Missing to 95 in 6 Weeks
ANCHORAGE. Sent. 1—W_ -An
Air Force 0-47 with four pi boa rrt was
! reported missing In Alaska on (he
j heels of the crash of a Navy Pri
! vivecr in the Aleutians yesterday
! carrying 10 men.
The tv.o were the eighth and
u ntil planes reported crashed or
irdssin; in Alaska in a disastrous
: s( -lug of accidents the past six
! week*. About 95 are dead or miss
| In* in the accidents.
■ Th. C-47r from ihtr 5639th Banr
night. Squadron at Elmendorf Field
lie c. disappeared Inst night on a
wliyht between Platinum and Nak
nek.
u was last heard from when it
contacted Bethel end asked per
mission to fly on Instrument, at
7.000 feet. Two minuter, later the
Bethel radio was unable tc raise the
plane.
The wreckage of the rrlvateer
vas located late yesterday on
Little Tp.nagn Island. A search
party, which went by boat and
Lion overland to the crasli scene,
recovered eight bodies. Thare was
m report of any survivors.
The plane was on a routine fijeht
from Adak. If made its last report,
two hours after the takeoff. ,*t
•bat time, the Weather Bureau -aid,
there was a 300 foot ceilin'', come
clcuds and fog but a visibility of
two miles.
The craft was the same type as
a..Navy.,rife** wblofe e»svjte«l two
V ’:s sg.) on Amak Island north
c' the Alaska peninsula with a
.. Zrrt£ IZ-Hvr&y- .--r—___ -.
Th" current string of Alaskan a*r
accidents .started July 21 when a
He roan airlift plane disappeared
with 38 aboard. *•
. _•
Wood Relieves Xo
Trace of Missing
'■'« Will Be Found
Walter Wood, wealthy New Jersey
cVntisfc In charge of the Arctic
Institute of North America ice stud
ie on tin.* Malaapina • and Seward
laeiers; left Juneau today for his
Ni w York headquarters.
He came in yesterday from Yaku
ts. near where his wife anti 18
year-olri daughter Valerie, disap
ic red on a flight with pilot Maurice
■tiip; from the Seward Glacier camp
.tircmte to YiUrutat on July 27.
An intensive search of 31 days
ui i been conducted for the missing
''for eman by plane: of the lOtli Air
cue Squadron, Canadian Pacific
Airlines, U. s. Coast Guard, Royal
Canadian Air Force and private air
raft.
‘ The 10th Air Rescue did a sub
erb search job.” he said here to
day. “Far beyond anything we
could have hoped for. I appreciate
the kindness and human under
standing of ali the personnel in
volved.”
He indicated that hope had been
iven up for the plane.
"It is my personal opinion that
no trace of it will ever be found,”
Wood said. "Of course no one knows
what happened. Maurice King was
always careful to report hy radio
fler clearing the Seward Gap and
othing was heard from him
May Have Hit Slope
"He may have been boxed in and
flew directly into a slope. That is
niy a theory. However, I do not be
lieve the plane went down in the
water.”
Wood reported that—from a
scientific viewpoint—the ice stud
ies were successful and a i,000-foot
shaft had been sunk through the
ice on the glacier where observa
tions of ice movement can be
taken.
This is the fourth consecutive
oason that studies have been made.
Wood said that the value lay in
continuing them. He will work up the
results of the 1951 observations up
>:i his return to New York.
Wood said that he thought the
project would be continued next
summer but did not know whether
or not he would be back.
He v. as accompanied by his son
Peter, who is returning to Haver
ford College, Haverford, Pa., and
Dr. A. L. Washburn, director of the
Washington, D. C. office of the In
stitute.