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Waterfront
Union War
Seen on Coast
San Francisco Court Halts
Brief AFL-CIO Ship
Engineer Battle
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 29—itfl—
Threats of a bitter jurisdictional
war sounded on west coast water
fronts today in the wuke of a couri
order that ended a brief shipping
tie-up here.
Four men. one a policeman, were
hospitalized yesterday in Los An
geles after AFL pickets appeared at
one dock.
In San Francisco, AFL pickets
tied t up nine vessels and delajed
the departure of the orient-bound
luxury liner President Wilson 8'i
hours.
AFL marine engineers withdrew
the picket lines after Superior Judge
Daniel R. Shoemaker issued a pick
et-banning order at the request of
the Pacific Maritime Association.
(PMA represents shipowners.)
Union officials said the picket
ing was in retaliation for the pick
eting in Alameda and Los Angeles
of Isthmian Line ships by the rival
CIO Maritime Engineers.
The CIO picketing is a hangover
from an east coast strike against
Isthmian. During the walkout, AFL
engineers enlisted membership of
several of the strikers and« subse
quently obtained a contract with
Isthmian.
2 Navy Bombers
Reported Down
In California
HAMILTON FIELD, Calif., Aug.
29—(#)■—Two Navy torpedo bomb
ers, carrying three men each, were
long -overdue at MoffefT"
day on a flight from Los Almitos
Base, Long Beach.
The Hamilton Field Air Rescue
squadron said the two overdue
planes were part of a squadron of
six ships which left Long Beach
for Moffett Field, south of San
Francisco.
The planes were due at 9 o’clock
last night but had not been heard
from today.
Bad weather, with heavy over
cast, prevented the Air Rescue
Squadron from starting a search.
"The planes are down somewhere,
but we have no idea where," a
rescue squadron spokesman said.
Ship Movements
Baranof due southbound Sunday
afternoon.
Princess Norah scheduled to ar
rive from Skagway Friday at 8 a.m.,
sailing southbound at 9 a.m.
Aleutian scheduled north from Se
attle on Friday.
The Washingt on
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
Recently, on the edge of the
Iron Curtain, Drew Pearson par
ticipated in a project which real
ized an idea for which he has
plugged ever since 1048—the re
lease of a barrage of freedom -
friendship balloons to people be
hind the Iron Curtain.
As far back as July 21, 1943,
Pearson wrote an open letter tc
Stuart Symington, then Secretary
for Air, In which he stated:
"It may be that I am a terrible
bore on the subject, but I am
convinced that we must go ovei
the Kremlin’s head to the Russian
people in order to convince them
that the United States—contrary
to Moscow propaganda—is compos
ed of people who do not want wa'
... as long as the Russian gov
ernment has no senate, no con
gress, and most important of all
no public opinion to hold the
checkrein on the Kremlin, oui
only common-sense policy is to
get to the Russian people our
selves with the truth. . .
“So here is my suggestion.
“The 60 giant B-29’s you have
sent to Europe will have their ef
fect on the Kremlin. Let’s also
make them felt by the Russian
people—in an entirely different
way—by having them drop mes
sages of friendship.”
A few days later Pearson wrote:
“General pubUc reaction to the
idea of going over the head of the
Kremlin by floating weather bal
loons from Prance and Germany
(Continued on Page 4)
Queen
Jane Taylor, 17, of San Diego,
poses with her new dress she will
wear as homecoming Queen for
men of the U. S. Aircraft Carrier
Princeton, due in San Diego from
Korea today. The men have rais
ed $5,000 to establish a trust fund
for Jane's education. She has been
crippled by cerebral palsy since
infancy. (PI Wirephoto.
Head of Hawaiian
Sugar Union Nabbed
As Communist
Head of 18,500 Sugar
Workers, Out on Bail,
Leads Wage Talks
• rHONOkPfct?, An
accused Communist, free on $5,000
bail, today leads the militant sugar
workers in wage talks with the
management of the territory’s
$120,000,000-a-year sugar industry.
He is hulking Jack W. Hall, Wis
consin-born leader of Hawaii’s
sugar and pineapple workers and
longshoremen.
Ilall, five other men and one
woman were arrested yesterday
in a dramatic scries of FBI
raids that carried the national
roundup of suspected Commun
ists into Hawaii.
All were charged with conspir
ing to advocate the violent over
throw of the U. S. government.
Hall, 36. is regional director of
the International Longshoremen’s
and Warehousemen's Union, the
outfit headed by Harry Bridges,
another accused Communist.
Hall heads 18,500 sugar workers
on 26 plarftations in the Hawaiian
Islands.
The seven arrested were freed
on $5,000 bail each.
Senator Predicts
Judge's Removal lor
Reducing Reds' Bail
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29—(A1)—
Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) pre
dicted .today that Federal Judge
Delbert E. Metzger of Hawaii will
be replaced for reducing the bail
of seven Communist suspects ar
rested in Hawaii.
O’Mahoney, the chairman of the
Senate Interior and Insular Af
fairs committee, told a reportei
Judge Metzger’s reduction of the
bail bonds lrom $75,000 to $5,00C
was an “outrageous act.” The gov
ernment had asked the highei
figure.
Rep. Doyle (D-Calif), a mem
ber of the House llnamerican
Activities committee, told a re
porter he considers the $5,000 bail
"very much too low” in view of
the disappearance of Commun
ist suspects under similar condi
tions in New York.
Asked for comment, Senator
O'Mahoney dictated this statement
to a reporter:
“Outrageous Act”
“The action of Federal Judge
Delbert E. Metzger of Hawaii in
reducing the bonds of Jack Hall
and his associates arrested yester
day as Communists on orders of
the FBI is an outrageous act which
in my judgment will speedily ter
minate the judge’s services In Ha
waii.
“His actual term of office ex
pired in September, 1950, but his
age and the pendency of suggested
legislation providing retirement
for territorial Judges has delayed
the selection of a successor.
"From my conversations with
the government officials con
JVew Seamount Discovered
in Gulf—But Don9t Worry,
tt9s a Hiile Under Water
*
3 Slot Machines
Seized in Raid
By Marshal's Office
Three slot machines were seized
last night In a raid of four night
spots adjacent to Juneau, conducted
by the office of the U. S Marshal.
They were 5 cent, 25 cent and $1
machines.
Acting Marshal Walter Hellan said
the raids were carried out as a re
sult of numerous complaints made
to him the past few weeks against
gambling in the vicinity of Juneau
and Douglas.
Assisting in the raid were Deputy
Marshals Sidney Thompson of Ju- j
neau and John E. Krepps, of Wran- j
gell.
Hellan said no other forms of
gambling were uncovered except
the one place where the slot ma- .
chines were found. They were |
taken in custody by the marshal j
and will be destroyed. No arrests i
were made.
“A warning was issued against
gambling and slot machines prior
to the raid,” Hellan said, “with the
statement there would be no second
warning. It is my intention to en
force the law regarding gambling
in any form. Flagrant public gamb
ling will not be tolerated.”
AtlendaiKe in
Increaw Last Year
Total enrollment of Territorial
schools increaaed by 1,485 chUdren
last year, according to figures Issued
today by 4he Territorial Department
| of Education. These Include incor
’ pSTStS&'iuSS' swhyvAd.
During the 1950-Sl term 12,658 at
tended as compared with 11,173 for
the 1949-50 period. The greatest in
crease was In Anchorage, it was
said.
Average daily attendance also
stepped up by 958.77 percent. The
average daily attendance for 1950-51
was 9639.32. That of 1949-50 was
8670.55 percent.
Last year 661 pupils graduated
from the eighth grade and 636 the
year before. However last year’s
number of high school graduates
dropped by 20. In 1950-61 diplomas
were given to 335 and the year pre
ceding, 355.
The Department of Education
pointed out that these figures do not
include Alaska Native Service’
schools or rural schools. Present year
figures are not yet available.
Juneau’s schools showed a sub
stantial increase over the same per
iods. Enrollment in the grade school
during the 1949-50 term was 697
with 60 in the eighth grade and 119
in the first. During the 1950-51 ses
sion there was a total of 743 grade
school students; 75 in the eighth
but last year’s first grade showed
a loss. It enrollment was 106.
Every high school class showed
an increase last year over the year
before. For the 1949-60 term there
were 64 freshmen, 56 sophomores, 51
juniors and 43 seniors. In 1960-51:
freshmen 79, sophomores 65, juniors
57 and seniors 49. Totals in the high
school were 213 in 1949-50 and 250
last year.
Greatly Impressed
By Alaska, Dewey
Flies to New York
SEATTLE, Aug. 29 —UTt— Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey arrived in Seat
tle by airliner early today after
a week’s Alaska tour that took
him north of the Arctic Circle. He
left promptly for New York, where
he is to address the national con
vention of the Veterans of For
eign Wars tonight.
The New York Republican gov
ernor said he was “greatly impres
sed by the possibilities of Alaska.”
FROM KETCHIKAN
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Lucas of Ket
chikan are at the Baranof Hotel.
cerned, I am confident there will
be no further delay, and appoint
ment of a new Judge will be
recommended immediately.
“Judge Metzger has sacrificed
any right to further considera
tion."
Federal judges, in the territories,
unlike those in the continental
United States, are appointed for
specific, limited terms.
Those in the continental United
States are appointed for life time
terms. •
LA JOLLA, Calif., Aug. 29 — MP) —
Discovery of a new mile-high moun
tain under-the Gulf of Alaska was
announced here today.
The top of the mountain, which
is flat and about three miles across,
is a mile under the sea's surface.
Dr. Roger Revelle, director of
the University of California’s Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, made
the announcement.
He said the seamount (as such
isolated and submerged mountains
are called by oceanographers) was
discovered by the Institution’s re
search vessel Horizon.
Several such seamounts have
previously been discovered in the
Gulf of Alaska. The new one Is
among the highest. It has been
named “Holiday” and Is located at
5 degrees north, 143 degrees 103
minutes west.
The research ship, due to reach
Kodiak today, is on the first leg of
a 7,000-mile scientific expedition to
the north Pacific.
Ths expedition over the “Holiday"
(little-known) area follows up the
Navy-8cripps expeditions last year
which discovered a mid-Pacific
range, rivaling the Rockies, west of
Hawaii, and an escarpment extend
ing from the northern California
coast equal in size to the Sierra
Nevada.
Expose, Propose,
Oppose' Says Hoover
For '52 GOP Vidory
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30—(JPi—
Herbert Hoover says the Republicans
can win the 1952 Presidential el
ection—if they “intelligently expose,
oppose, propose.”
But they musn’t be “me-too-ers"
or just carping critics. They must
have a program of their own, said
the former Republican President.
He declined to speculate on the
probable OOP nominee in a chat
Witn newsmen before he lelt urift
night for Des Moines. He'll speaic
there tomorrow on “honor in public
life” at Iowa’s Centennial cele
bration. And he'll be given an award
as Iowa’s most distinguished son.
Fishery Officials
Getting Data on
Lale Pink Runs
On an aerial survey of late pink
salmon escapements in the Icy and
Chatham Straits districts, Richard
Shuman, fisheries management su
pervisor and Gus Hllsinger, agent
for the Pish and Wildlife Service
left Juneau this morning.
The service officials seek first
hand Information prior to a meet
ing scheduled tomorrow afternoon
at 2 o’clock in the Pish and Wild
life Service office, concerning ex
tension of the present salmon sea
son.
The season was scheduled to
close Sept. 1, but C. Howard
Baltzo, assistant regional direc
tor, said numerous requests have
been made for an extension. All
persons Interested in extending,
or not extending the season are
invited to attend tomorrow’s
meeting.
Some fishermen are against ex
tending the season, Baltzo said.
“Opinion seems to shape up on
the traditional lines with trai
lers and gillnetters against an
extension and packers for it,” he
said. He added that the seiners
are about evenly divided on the
matter.
“This has been an unusual year,”
Baltzo stated. “The quality of this
year's pinks, and the steadiness of
the run probably will produce one
of the best quality packs of can
ned salmon in the history of the
Territory.” He said the fish have
been unusually bright and large in
size and the run has been consist
ently large in volume.
Slock Quotations
NEW YORK, Aug. 29—UK—Clos
ing quotation of American Can stock
today is 116, American Tel and Tel.
160%, Anaconda 47%, Douglas Air
craft 58%, General Electric 59%,
General Motors 49%. Goodyear 94,
Kennecott 78%, Libby, McNeill and
Libby 9, Northern Pacific 48%. Stan
dard Oil of California 52%, Twen
tieth Century Fox 20. U. S. Steel 42*4
Pound $2.79 15/16, Canadian Ex
change 94.43%.
Sales today were 1,510,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 268.18, rails 80.21, util
ities 44.73.
FROM SEATTLE
Harold Olaser of Seattle is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
Iowa Back in Service
Several hundred invited guests stand under the IS-inch guns of the 45,000-ton battleship Iowa as re
commissioning ceremonies are held aboard ship in San Francisco. The veteran of articn in both the
Pacific and Atlantic In World War II was taken out of moth balls several weeks ago and extensive work
started at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard. The state of Iowa was represented by Mrs. William S.
Beardsley, the wife of the state’e governor. IP) Wire photo.
Real Flying Saucers - a Variety
Fhat Bounce - Being Used by Army
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 — tffl —<
The Army is experimenting with
flying saucers — yes, flying saucers
— to supply troops in the field with
water, gasoline and other liquids.
It announced yesterday that dis
shaped containers made of synthetic
rubfc v have been dropped from al
titiSfe of 400 to 2,000 feet without
bursting or spilling their five gal
lon contents of liquids.
When they hit the ground, the
Army said, they stretch to almost
•double their normal size, bound
back into the air and then settle
down near the point of contact.
Tests have shown the containers,
made in cooperation with the Gen
eral Tire and Rubber Co., may be
dropped many times without dam
age.
The Armv viie.se honest- j
to-goodness, Junior sized flying j
soucers as looking like Inflated pan
cakes, about two feet across and
weighing five pounds.
I
2-Year-Old Refused
Candy, Kills Self
By Buffing Head
• WILMINGTON, Calif. Aug. •
• 29— (Al —Two-year-old George •
• asked his mother for candy be •
• fore mealtime. She refused him. •
• Angered, the little boy butted •
• his head into the wall yester- •
• day with such force that he was •
• killed. •
• The mother, Mrs. Marian •
• Geiger, called firemen but re- •
• suscitation efforts failed. Po- •
• lice listed the death as acciden- •
• tal. •
Alaska Increase
On Income Tax Tops
U. S. Percentage
TACOMA. Wash., Aug. 20—OH—
The percentage increase in indi
vidual income and employment tax
collections was greater in Alaska
than in any other part of the
country during the fiscal year just
closed.
This information was received
by Clark Squire. Internal revenue
collector for the Washington-Alas
ka district, from Commissioner
John B. Dunlap in Washington,
D. C.
Collections from individual tax
payers Increased from 014,349,235.78
to $34,940,189.29, or 143.5 percent.
Total internal revenue collected in
Alaska was $38,762,327.11, an in
crease of 122.8 percent.
That is more than five times
the sum which the United
States paid Russia for the ter
ritory in 1867. Withholding taxes
alone increased 162.7 per cent.
Total collections for the Wash
ington-Alaska district increased
from 462 millions to 602 millions,
or 30.4 per cent. The increase for
the entire country was 29.5 per
cent.
Collections of individual income
and employment taxes in this dis
trict increased from 309 millions I
to nearly 418 millions, or 35.1 per
cent.
ZACK MOSLEY
VISITS JUNEAU
Jack Mosley of Stuart, Florida,
creator of the comic strip “Smiling
Jaek,” stopped overnight in Juneau.
He was here with Col. Patrick Arn
old of the 10th Air Rescue Squadron
from Anchorage. .
I
Arlington Burial
For Indian Hero
Not Wanted in Iowa
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29—UPI
President Truman today offered
the burial in Arlington national
cemetery of a Winnebago Indian!
killed in action in Korea, whose
interment was halted at Sioux
City, la., because of his Indian
blood.
Mr. Truman acted after reading
a news story that burial of the
body of Sgt. First Class John R.
Rice, 37, was halted just as it was
about to be lowered into the grave.
The story which aroused the
President quoted an army offi
cer as saying the Winnebago
Indian's burial was stopped by
authorities of the Sioux City
Memorial park cemetery because
“only members of the Caucasian
race” could be buried in the
cemetery.
Rice was killed in action, Sept.
6, 1950, while serving with the
First Cavalry Division. He also
was a veteran of World War II.
4 British Columbia
Forest Fires Rage
Out of Control
VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 29— I
(£5— Pour major forest fires raged
out of control today over British
Columbia’s mainland timber stands.
The worst, at Jervis Inlet, 60
miles northwest of Vancouver,
sprang up yesterday just as the
day shift of loggers was going off
duty. The blaze is 25 miles along
the coast line.
Pilot Denny DeRoche, who flew
over the scene, described the Jer
vis Inlet fire as "one blazing in
ferno.” He said the forest was
ablaze right down to the coast line.
With the exception of the Jervis
Island blaze, all other fires are
in sub-alpine non-commercial tim
ber near the 4,000-foot level.
SQUARE DANCE SERIES
END FRIDAY EVENING
The last square dance in the sum
mer series will be held Friday eve
ning at 8 o’clock in the parish hall.
The dance held every two weeks
during June, July and August were
sponsored by the Gastlneau Chan
nel Square Dance Association. With
arrangements made for live music,
it is hoped that a large crowd will
turn out for this final dance.
Bradley Warns
Senate Not to
'Guess' on Russia
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29- .D A
warning by Gen. Omar Bradley that
it is ‘’dangerous to try to gttess”
what Ru^ia will do backgrounded
the start of Senate debate today on
a $7,535,750,000 foreign aid program
designed __to eutufuTit .
force with tot&s. 1 •
"No one can know just what is
in the minds of the men In the
Kremlin,’’ the chairman of the
joint chiefs of staff said. “We can
not guess what they arc going to
do, and it is dangerous to try to
guess.”
Bradley made the statements dur
recent closed door testimony by t\v<
Senate committees on the big for
eign aid authorization bill, already
approved by the House in a form
different from that before the Sen
ate, The testimony was made public
today.
He said the safest tiling'for the
ftnited States and its free workl
allies to do is to get ready as fast
as they can to meet Communist
aggression anywhere.
Democratic Leader McFarland ol
Arizona held out a special incentive
to Senators to complete action on tin j
bill this wepek. McFarland said ht
would call a recess over Monday
Labor Day, and Tuesday if the Sen- 1
ate passed the big authorization
before this week ends.
6 West Point
Cadets Reported
Bark to Duty
NEW YORK, Aug. 29——A bll
association hearing was told tod:;'
that “at least six” of the apprcx
imately 90 West Point cadets ac
cused of cheating had been res
tored to duty at the military acad
emy.
The statement was made by Rob- i
ert Daru, general counsel of t!u I
committee on justice of the New
York civil and criminal courts bai
association.
At West Point, a spokesman a:
the military academy refused t.<
confirm Daru's statement.
He, said an investigation into the
cheating scandal had not bet i
completed, and that academy au
thorities said they could not giv<
a breakdown on cases until tilt
screening boards finish their work
• WEATHER REPORT •
• <U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending fi: 20 o'clock this morning •
• At Airport—Maximum, 70 •
• minimum, 42. •
• •
• FORECAST »
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Continued fair tonight with •
• lowest temperature near 45 »
• degrees. Increasing high •
• cloudiness Thursday with •
• highest temperature near 68. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• At Airport — None; ©
• since July 1—5.52 inches. •
• ••••••••••
Fafe of Truce
Talks Up !o
Communists
Ridgway Refuses Second
Probe of 'Bombing'
No Alternatives
TOKYO, Aug. 29—f-P)— Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway put it squarely
up to the Communists today to
decide the fate of Korean war truce
talks.
Tiie United Nations commander
curtly refused to reinvestigate the
alleged Kaesong bombing incident.
But he said the allies would resume
armistice negotiations whenever the
Reds are ready to end their "unjus
tifiable delay" of the conference.
The general view here was that
Rldgway's 116-word message to the
tip Communist commanders left
them almost no alternatives but to
back down or break off the dis
rupted conferences completely.
Ridway did not even mention the
Communist demand that he admit
a UN plane bombed the truce site.
He called the whole Incident a
fraud.
His message to the North Korean
premier. Kim 11 Sung, and Chinese
Gen. Peng Teh-Huai dealt only with
th»ir request that he send his lia
ison officers back to Kaesong to
look at new evidence.
“A reinvestigation after tills
lapse of time,” Ridgway said,
"cculd serve no purpose other than
to continue tills unjustifiable de
lay In the armistice negotiations.”
The UN comnnder observed that
during the original investigation n
few hours, after the asserted bomb- 1
in ; the night of Aug. 22, a Red liai
son officer "specifically refused the
recftMsta of my liaison officer to con
tinue the investigation during day
light and to leave all of the alleged
evidence in place.”
5 Soldiers. Drawn ^ -
In Rising River
MUN6AN, Korea, Aug. 2J—Oft—
Six American soldiers drowned when
the rapidly rising Imjin River trap
ped and overturned their truck re
cently. .
Seven companions on the truck
escaped.
Seventy-two other allied sold
iers stranded by the erratic river
were rescued by helicopters. Four
teen of (hem were saved after
six hours on a broken pontoon
bridge, lending off debris that
threatened to sweep their pontoon
from its precarious perch In the
dark.
The men swept off the truck
drowned in full view of their buddies
on both banks of the Imjin. The
army withheld their names.
The tragedy occurred in the eerie
gleam of floodlights trying to pierce
the rain.
Lights were turned on after the
truck stalled about 30 feet from
shore. Aboard were 13 men of the
24th Division returning to the Unit
ed Nations side of the river from
patrol duty on the west bank.
World Situation
Hinges on Red
A-Bombs: Churchill
WASHINGTON. Aug. 29— —
Winston Churchill was quoted as
telling U. S. Senators visiting in
Europe recently that the world sit
uation hinges on how many atomic
bombs the Russians have.
Senator McMahon tD-Conn) told
of the discussion in closed-door
testimony in a new foreign aid bill,
made public today.
McMahon said Senator Green <D
RI) asked Churchill, wartime Prime
Minister of England, “what he
thought of the present outlook on
things?”
('hurehill “looked around what
seemed to be about three minutes
—probably 20 seconds — puffed
on his cigar,” McMahon related,
and then finally said:
“ ‘How many atomic bombs have
they got".’”
McMahon, who had said earlier
in the testimony that the Russians
have a "growing stockpile of atomic
weapons,” last night advocated that
A-bombs be used against the Soviet
if she invades western Europe.
TWO SPEEDERS FINED
Two speeders received fines in
City Magistrate’s court yesterday.
C. A. Me Mickle was found guilty
of speeding through the Waynor
Tract at 11:30 o'clock yesterday
morning and was fined $30.
Duwayne Harvey pleaded guilty
to a charge of speeding and reck
less driving through t in- same area
and drew a fine of $60. '