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JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEIVER 10, 1951
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Exchange of
Prisoners
Big Issue
UN Blasts Reds with
Holding of UN Prisoners
for Blackmail, Ransom
By O. H. P. KING
MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 10—(.'PI—
The United Nations command today
demanded an answer tomorrow from
the Communists on the Allied pro
posal to start immediate negotia
tions for exchange of prisoners of
war in Korea. There was no indica
tion what the Red reply will be. The
Reds have stood pat on their de
mand that the UN answer their
proposal for behind-the-lines in
spection by representatives of neu
tral nations before discussing pri
soners.
UN negotiators said the matter
still is under study.
From Tokyo, the United Nations
radio Monday night lambasted
the Communists in one of the bit
terest attacks from an Allied
source. It accused the Reds of
holding UN prisoners for black
mail and ransom to win their
point on the question of policing
an armistice.
The Allies in effect told the Com
munists at Panmunjom Monday to
quit stalling on the prisoner issue.
They told the Reds that an Allied
liaison officer will be in Panmun
jom at 10:30 a.m. Tuseday (5:30
PST Monday) for their answer.
And a one-man UN subcommittee
will be ready to start negotiations
for the exchange of prisoners 2Vz
hours later.
Joint subcommittees working on
arrangements for enforcing a truce
met only 41 minutes Monday. They
quit as far apart as ever but sched
uled another session for 11 a.m.
Tuesday (6 p.m. PST Monday).
Excerpts from the UN radio
broadcast! were distributed to cor
respondents in Tokyo by Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway’s headquarters in
a bulletin labeled "not an official
release.”
The broadcast declared that the
Communists “have made hostages
of all UN prisoners still alive in Red
camps” by their apparent refusal
to talk about exchanging prisoners
unless the UN gives in to their de
mands for policing the truce.
Port Company Gets
Home from Alaska
Four Months Late
SEATTLE, Dec. 10—(iPl—The men
of the 79th Transportation Port
Company are home again today a
mere four months late on what was
to have been a 90-day tour of duty
in Alaska.
The 194 men arrived here aboard
the MSTS vessel James O’Hara.
The unit has been stationed in
Seattle before it was ordered north
late last spring for a three month
stretch. But the need for men
trained in handling cargo became
so great that the unit had to stay
four months longer.
The company is under the com
mand of Capt. Benny P. -Longwill.
FROM KETCHIKAN
E. E. Reagan of Ketchikan is re
gistered at the Baranof Hotel.
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
■Copyright, 1951. by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON — With the re
lease pf Yugoslav Archbishop Step
inac from prison this week and
a favorable statement regarding this
from the Vatican, one of the most
important sources of friction be
tween Yugoslavia and the Catholic
world should be removed.
No. 1 result should be greater
protection for Italy and the Vati
can. For the Yugoslav army is the
chief protection of Italy on the
northeast. If the Red army should
strike, its first objective would be
the Adriatic coast, just two hours’
bombing distance from Rome.
In talking to the Yugoslav Em
bassy during my exchange of let
ters with Tito regarding the release
of the Archbishop, I became con
vinced that the Yugoslav govern
ment is anxious to bring about
complete religious freedom.
Recently, the National Catholic
Miss Television
Miss Phillis Maygers, (above), 19,
cf Baltimore, Md., carried off
513,000 in prizes wl.'jn she was
named “Miss l’. S. Television of
1952.” The pretty brunette was
selected from among 13 finalists
in national competition, held at
Chicago, iff) Wirephoto.
Caudle Knew ;
Story of Tax
Fix Shakedown
Washington, Dec. 10 — un —
T. Lamarr Caudle acknowledged to
I day that he heard last August of
I an alleged attempted "tax fix”
shake down of Abraham Tcitel
i baum. He said he called Frank Nat
han on the telephone and bawled j
j him out for "bandying” his name.
House tax investigators recessed
I for luncheon without developing
; whether Caudle, then an assistant
J attorney general, took any further ,
| action than the telephone call after
| he got wind of the sensational story !
, Veitelbaum told publicly last Tues- ,
j day. I
Teitelbaum, a Chicago lawyer who |
1 in times past has represented A1;
; Capone, testified that Nathan and
j Bert K. Naster sought $500,000 fron*
j him last April under threat he
[.would have “tax troubles."
And he said they told him there
j was a "clique” in Washington in
i eluding Caudle, which looked for
I "soft touches.”
1 All those named promptly branded
Teitelbaum’s story' as false — Nat
: han under oath In the witness
chair of the House Ways and Means
! subcommittee investigating tax ir
1 regularities.
i Today, the committee called I. T.
1 Cohen, an Atlanta tax attorney, as
1 its first witness.
Cohen said Teitelbaum told him
j of the alleged attempted extortion,
i and that he passed it on to Caudle.
! who was a friend of his, on Aug. 20.
He said he gave Caudle such de
tails as Teitelbaum’s account of
getting a mysterious telephone call
from a man who, speaking in a gut
teral voice with a German accent,
advised him to “play along” with
the tax fix.
Cohen quoted Caudle as com
menting:
“That might be Grunewald. He is
a Dutchman.”
•Henry Grunewald, a will-of-the
wisp private investigator here, is
scheduled to be a witness later in
the hearings.
■ -
| Stock Quotations
NEW YCHX. Dec. 10—<tfl—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3. American Can
111%, American Tel. and Tel. 159,
Anaconda 50, General Electric 57%,
j General Motors 51%, Goodyear 44%,
j Kennecott 87%, Libby McNeill and
| Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 68.
Standard Oil .of California 50%,
Twentieth Century Fox 19%, U.S.
Steel 40%, Pound $2.80, Canadian
Exchange 98.18.
Sales today were 1,340,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 267.36, rails 83.58, util
ities 46.58.
FROM ANCHORAGE
R. C. Caldwell of Anchorage is
Ite Bairnol Hod.'
North Pole,
Santa Plane
Is Delayed
SEATTLE, Dec. 10—(41—Weather
and engine trouble grounded an
Alaska Airlines DC-4 early today,
lelaying the start of a scheduled
light to the North Pole with a
real pole and a sack of letters for
Santa.
Alaska Airlines officials said,
*•< ather permitting, the plane would
fly to Point Barrow, Alaska, de
parture point on the 2,600-mile
aqlar flight, sometime today. The
flight to the pole will be made to
morrow.
The airliner was to have taken
off from Paine Field north of here
last night. When trouble develop
ed in one engine, after an earlier
delay due to weather, maintenance
men held up the flight to get the
four-engined ship in penect shape
for the hazardous 12-hour flight
ove’r the frozen Arctic wasteland.
The especially-outfitted plane will
carry 5.000 letters to Santa collected
ty “North Pole Nellie" iMrs. Au- i
dree Vance of Fairbanks, Alaska) j
from children throughout Alaska |
and the states. Mrs. Vance will |
make the trip as stewardess for the 1
flight.
The airliner’s cargo also will in- |
elude Stan Garson’s North Pole— .
a red and white striped steel cyl- i
inder, who originated the idea of !
planting a real pole at the pole,
probably won't make the trip. The
airline said Civil Aeronautics Ad- |
ministration rules will permit only |
employees aboard during the polar :
flight.
An Air Force navigator will ac
company the flight—the first by
a commercial airliner over the North ;
Pole.
A special release hatch has been i
constructed in the plane’s tail to
drop the .pok apd the sack pf mail j
at the approximate site of the j
North Foie.
- i
Typhoon Hits Island j
Area in Philippines
Ravaged by Volcano j
MANILA, Dec. 10—(41—The worst
typhoon of the year tore across the
central Philippines Monday, caus
ing widespread casualties and dam
age and increasing the wroes of vol
cano-ravaged Camiguin Island.
First casualty reports listed 14
dead, 17 injured and 92 missing,
mostly at Cebu City and Iloilo.
Thousands of persons were home- j
less. Casualties were expected toj
rise much higher when isolated
points reported.
Officials estimated damage round
ly at several million dollars.
The ■ Chief of Police of Cebu:
City on Cebu Island reported that
30 percent of the light buildings j
in (that city of 100,000 were wreck- j
ed " or . badly damaged.
AP correspondent Frank L. White
reported from Cebu City that in
addition many mone substantial
buildings were unroofed, electric
power was out, and hundreds of
persons were homeless. He sent his
report by wireless from the freighter
Elizabeth Bohnhofen,- which rode
out the storm offshore.
He said the wind reached up to
125 miies an hour.
Iran Threatens Oil
Sale to Russia
Unless West Buys
TEHRAN. Iran, Dec. 10—(if)—Iran
threatened indirectly today to offer
2.5 ipillion tons of oil products
for sale to Russia or her satel
lites unless western buyers take it
off Iran’s hands almost immediate
ly
Deputy Premier Hossein Patemi
told a news conference that Iran’s
diplomatic representatives abroad
will deliver notices within the next
three days giving the western buyers
10 days to buy the oil, now in stor
age tanks at Abadan.
This action was announced as 33
opposition deputies and newspaper
editors remained camped inside
the Parliament building. They claim
"government gangsters” are threat
ening their lives. They have drafted
a formal appeal to the United Na
tions charging the government of
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh is
violating tfieir fundamental human
rights.
The opposition has charged Moss
adegh with plotting last Thursday’s
bloody rioting in order to crush
all resistance under guise of an
anti-Communist crusade.
First at Met
Janet Collins gives her costume
and make-up- a last check in
dressing room mirror during in
termission of opening night per
formance of Verdi’s "Aida” at
the Metropolitan Opera House,
New York City. Miss Collins, of
New Orleans, I,a., is the first j
negro dancer to be featured in
the Met Ballet. <#> Wirephoto.
Demc Chairman
And Friend Each
Make Fast $(8,000
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10— —
Frank McKinney, Democratic Na
tional Chairman, said today he and
Frank M. McHale, his close politi
cal friend, each made a fast $G8,000
profit on investments of $1,000
apiece made in 1946.
McKinney told a news confer
ence "no political influence or im
propriety were involved.”
Angrily he charged that news
paper headlines describing the pro
fit were so phrased they might
make his children "think then
father was a damn crook.”
Records of a bankruptcy proceed
ings in Philadelphia give McKin
ney’s profit as $74,000 on the $1,000
invested in common stock of the
Empire Tractor Corp., of Phila
delphia, but McKinney said that
figure is “inaccurate.”
■■Is it criminal, is it unlawful for
a Democratic Chairman to hold
business interests?” McKinney de
manded at the news conference.
“If some people had their way,
you would have to go to some abbey
and choose a monk to head the
party.”
Washington Farm
Couple Murderer
Dies on Gallows
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Dec. 10
—UP)—Twenty-nine year old Grant
Rio paid with his life on state peni
tentiary gallows early today for the
New Year’s Eve slaying two year
ago of a Riperia, Wash., rancher
and farmhand. *
The farm laborer from Spokane
Wash., steel-nerved to the last
moved calmly from his death row
cell to gallows in the nearby execu
tion chamber at midnight. The
trap was sprung at 12:06 a.m. tPST)
and the prison physician pro
nounced Rio dead 19 minutes later.
Rio, convicted of the 1949 murder
of James Beckner, 20, and Beck
ner’s farm hand, Joseph Roberge,
25, on a southern Whitman county
farm, held some hope for a stay of
execution until the last even though
the courts had rejected his last ap
peals.
Rio was granted one stay — a
60-day reprieve by the U.S. Supreme
Court last July to review the case—
but subsequent appeals failed.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. SwaHmg and
family of-Anchorage are registered
at the Baranof Hotel.
Fairbanks
Blacked Out
Seven Hours
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 10—
W* -A power failure blacked out
Fairbanks for seven hours Friday
night and shut off electricity-oper
ated heating systems in 45-below
zero weather.
Many residents in homes with
automatic coal stokers or oil burn
ers stayed up all night stoking
furnaces with wood chopped from
boxes.
Frank Mapleton, utilities man
ager, said an overloaded cable burn
ed, cutting off the power supply
from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. Only build
ing with private generating facil
ities Jrad lights.
Power was restored with a tem
porary circuit, but residents were
nsked to ration themselves until
permanent repairs are made.
; Heating plants in many large
drpartment projects failed com
pletely during the power blackout
—or freezeout.
One large, apartment house re
ported temperatures inside the
building dropped to 20 degrees
above zero. Another reported plumb
ing froze indoors. Many residents
reported temperatures down to 10
above Inside the house after heat
4ng plants folded.
Plumbers were flooded with calls
to thaw Inside water lines and
plumbing.
One lady living in an apart
ment house telephoned the News
Miner to report that her cosmet
ics on her dresser froze solid.
The city was trying to rig up new
cables. Meanwhile power was be
ing supplied to consumers on a ro
tation system. Each district in the
city took a 30-minute blackout at
regular intervals so the peak load
could be kept down on the tempor
ystem.
token 'Pilot*
Didn't Even Have
Driver's License
DAI,LAS, Ga., Doc. 10—<*-“He’S
got us stumped," said Police Chief
Lottie Smith, referring to the flier
he arrested for drunkenness after
a plane crash yesterday.
"He missed the airport by nearly
two miles,” Smith related. "As a
matter of fact, he was so drunk he
didn’t even know we had an air
port.”
The chief said the flier’s name is
Bob Cabaniss and he cracked up a
small plane in a plowed field half a
mile from the Pauling County court
house and just beyond a residential
area.
"He had a gash on his forehead
it took two stitches #to close, but
he wasn’t complaining of pain,”
Smith continued.
“We aren’t sure where he's from.
He told me he was from Atlanta.
He told the sheriff he was from
Macon, Ga. He told Ore'state patrol
he was from somewhere else. In
all, I think he’s given about 16 dif
ferent home towns.”
Did he have a pilot’s license?
"Nope,” replied Smith, "he didn’t
have a pilot’s license. He didn't
’ven have a driver’s license.” ,
No liquor bottles were found in
the wreckage.
Smith said the plane flew low
over town — “it Just missed some
rooftops” — and crashed about 100
yards from the nearest house. The
plane did not appear to be in any
trouble, he added.
Ship Movements
Denali scheduled southbound
sometime Sunday.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle on Friday.
Freighter Cassiar due to arrive
Dec. 12.
Freighter Flemish Knot sched
uled to arrive from Seattle Dec. 14
• WEATHER REPORT
• (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
• At Airport: Maximum, 43;
• minimum, 37.
•
• FORECAST
• (Juneau and Vicinity)
• Cloudy with rain tonight and
• Tuesday. Lowest temperature
• tonight around 38 degrees.
• Highest Tuesday near 44.
0 4
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hours ending 130 a m. todar
• At Airport — 0.14 inches;
• since July 1—18.35 inches.
Seeks Rescinding CAB Order
Appealing . Pearl Ittigiah, f>, holds a scroll of seal skin she will
piLsent President Truman asking him to resrind CAB order which
Al«skan non-schcduled airlines say will put them out of business.
The airlines will fly Pearl to New York to meet Senate committee
investigating the order. Children at thle Fairbanks, Alaska ceremony
seem fascinated by photographer. ifl’i YVirepholo.
Freezing Gale i
Rips Through
So. California
By the Associated Press
Shrieking winds swept Southern
California today, flailing crops,
sandblasting automobiles and snarl
ing transportation — air, sea and
land.
Blasts, up to 75 miles an hour
whipped the smoke from smudge*
pots with which growers fought to
save their crops from temperatures
that plummeted as low as 15 de
grees Sunday.
Gale-whipped desert sands
scoured the paint from automobiles
in the Son Berhardino area. The
wind stripped palm trees, littered
highways so badly that many were
closed to traffic. Air travel was
shut down. Toppled powerlines cut
off electricity to sections of San
Bernardino, Ontario, Sun Valley,
Canoga Park and Reseda.
AU but the largest ships were
warned off the seas. Two students
who set out in a skiff on a fishing
trip in the Malibu area were missing
and believed swept out to sea.
Sunday was the coldest Dec. 9 In
the Los Angeles weather bureau's
75-year history, with 32. The all
time low, recorded In January, 1949,
was 27.9.
But elsewhere In the nation, the
weather was seasonable. There were
snow flurries from the Great Lakes
southeastward to the Appalachian
mountains.- Colder air chilled the
New England and Western Gulf,
state*, but it warmed up slightly
in the central plains. It remained
cold In the west.
Death Hits Twice
Over $16,000 Check
OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 10—Ufi—
Death struck twice over a $16,000
check.
On Nov. 19, bank officials told
Charles P. McCoy, 74, that the $16,
000 check given him my Charles
V. Going, 61, was no good. McCoy
fell dead.
Today two police inspectors
knocked on the door of Going's
house. They wanted to arrest the
broker who had handled McCoy's
investments, on a grand theft war
rant. A shot rang out. Inside, the
officers found Going dead, a re
volver nearby.
Hiya!/ Eskimo
Girl Will Say
To President
NEW YORK, Dec. 10—MV-A pert,
little Eskimo princess, on her way
to see President Truman about
more milk for Alaska, stepped from
a plane here Saturday and sipped
her first tnste of fresh milk.
"I like it,” she said.
The six-year-old girl, Pearl Itti
giali, who made the 5,C00-mile
flight here with her mother, said
that when she secs the president,
she'll say to him:
“Hiya, Mr. President, I came a
long way to see you.”
A group of 11 admiring New York
children met the dark-eyed little
girl, who was clad in white parka
and mqccastns, at LaOuardia Field.
They presented her with six quarts
of milk.
Pearl, daughter of an Eskimo
chieftain of the Athabascan tribe
nt Minto, Alaska, came to the
United States to present a petition
i;;ned by more than 2,600 Alaskans
to Mr. Truman.
It asks the president to make it
possible for more milk, fruit and
vegetables to be flown into the ter
ritory.
Amos E. Heacock, president of
Air Transport Associates, Inc., said
the trip was to dramatize a protest
against a Civil Aeronautics Board
ruling restricting non-scheduled
flights into Alaska.
Canadian Dollar
Goes Dp Half Cent
NEW YORK, Dec. 10—l/PI—A fur
ther increase of half a cent to 98.
18 3-4 In the price of the Canad
ian dollar in terms of the United
States dollar was listed here to
day.
The dollar has been on the rise for
more than a week and has gained
more than 1 3-4 cents in that time.
Banking circles here attributed the
strength of the dollar to an in
creasing demand for Canadian sec
urities which mast be purchased
with Canadian currency.
In particular demand, banking
circles said, are Imperial Oil Co.,
and Canadian Pacific securities or
subscription rights for them.
MONDAY FIRE CALL
The 2-4 fire call at 8:10 a.m.
today was for a chimney fire at
Belle’s Cafe. There was no damage
reported by firemen.
• DECEMBER 11 •
• •
• High tide 12:48 a.m., 14.7 ft. •
• Low tide 6:18 a.m., 4.6 ft. •
• High tide 12:23 p.m., 17.4 ft. •
• Low tide 7:03 p.m., -0.9 ft. •
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World
Silualion
Canvassed
WASHINGTON. Dec. 10 — —
President Truman canvassed "the
world situation" with top military
and political advisers today, but
“no policy decisions, were made” at
the 70-minute conference.
The White House said the dis
cussions included the Korean ar
mistice negotiations but were not
confined to that subject.
Mr. Truman, who cut short his
Florida vacation by a week to fly
bask to Washington yesterday, met
in the cabinet room of the White
House with the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and top figures In the State
and Defense departments.
Presidential Secretary Joseph
Short told newsmen:
"This meeting this morning dis
cussed the world situation. No
policy decisions were made.”
He said the conference was at
tended by Secretary of Defense
I ovett, Acting Secretary of State
Webb and the secretaries of the
three armed services. Undersec
retary Whitehair substituted for
Secretary of the Navy Kimball.
Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff sat in with
the Chiefs of Staff of the Army,
Navy and Air Force. H. Freeman
Matthews, deputy undersecretary of
state also attended.'
Short was questioned about the
Dec. 27 deadline for settlement of
I many issues Involved in the Korean
negotiations.
"Korea was among the subjects
discussed," Short said.
Publisher Is
Named Senator
From Nebraska
LINCOLN, Dec. 10—UB—Fred A.
Seaton, Hastings, Nebr., publisher
today was appointed U.S. Senator
from Nebraska to succeed the late
Republican floor leader. Senator
Kenneth S. Wherry. The appoint
ment was made by Republican Gov
ernor Val Peterson.
Seaton, 42, will serve until a suc
cessor is elected at the general elec
tion next November and qualified
by the state canvassing board.
He is a midwest leader of the
Harold E. Stossen for President
forces and has served two terms as
a state senator In the Nebraska
one-house legislature.
Rescue Man
i
Trapped 18
Hours in Well
PENDLETON, Ore., D^c. 10—Of)—
A 51-year-old rancher, trapped for
18 hours In a 15-foot well while
heavy digging equipment churned
about him, was brought to safety
today.
At the Pendleton Hospital where
he was taken after the dramatic
rescue in sub-freezing temperatures,
doctors described his condition as
"good.”
The rancher, Norman Vina Ford,
51, was pinned to the well bottom
with his foot under a plank when
the walls caved in at 11:30 a.m.
<PST) yesterday. At 5:30 this morn
ing, he was lifted to the surface.
Ford’s 18-year-old son, Leon, was
the hero of the rescue operation.
He was helping his father sink the
well but was working on the sur
face when the walls collapsed. Leon
jumped in and began digging his
father out with his hands. Neigh~
bors who had been called lowered
buckets to the youth.
Leon had his father uncovered
down to the knees when the walls
caved in a second time. Leon, spot
ting another section of the wall
about to give way, braced his back
against the crumbling section. He
remained there for seven hours.
It took that long for a crew with
digging equipment to arrive from
nearby Umatilla where McNary dam
is under construction. As hundreds
watched under the glare of search
lights, John Morton of the McNary
dam contractors took charge of the
rescue. He had a 34-inch iron pipe
forced down around the trapped
man. That prevented further cave
ins.
When the pipe was In place, Leon
was brought to the surface. He was
put to bed with a mild case of
shock. .