THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXIX., NO. 12.001
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1951
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Family In for Christmas Dinner
3. 1. I!etr;ck, 81-rear-old retired farmer of Faglcysville, Fa., entertains ‘\,ust my children, grandchil
dren and great-grandchildren at Christmas dinner' (Dec. %'i) and 8i sat down for dinner. "W‘e don t
incite anyone else because there just isn't ream.” Here ‘art cf the groun pcses at the family home
stead. The family at1.', a.nong other things, four turkeys six chicken, six ducks, one goose and two
hams. S’! Wirepjoto.
Tax Liens
Are Filed
Against 6
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—
An Internal Revenue Bureau
spokesman says he knows of no
coordinated pattern in the filing
of tax lions against persons who
have figured in a House investiga
tion of tax collection irregularities.
Liens were filed Thursday against
Abraham Teitelbaum, Chicago at
torney, and Henry Grunewald,
Washington man who refused to
answer questions before n House
subcommittee.
And it was disclosed that a tax
lien was filed Nov. 19 against
property believed to be held in
Houston, Texas, by Troy White
head. Whitehead’s name came up
in the inquiry as having taken
government officials on pleasure
trips in his airplane.
A spokesman for the Revenue
Bureau said he didn’t know of any
“concerted effort’’ which might be
indicated by the actions.
Teitelbaum told the House group
early this month he had been
threatened by two Florida men
with “bad tax trouble” unless he
paid them $500,000. He said the
two claimed to be in contact with
a combination of high Washington
officials, all of whom said they
knew of no such clique.
Liens were filed in Chicago
against Teitelbaum, his wife, his
law partner and the partner’s
wife. They charge the four owre
more than $500,000 in back taxes,
penalties and interest.
The lien against prunewald and
his wife charges he owes $51;157
for 1950 income taxes. It was filed
in Miami, Fla., where Grunewald
has an expensive home and othe^
property.
Four liens aggregating $1,528,464
were filed at Houston against
Whitehead, the machinery com
pany he heads, and his wife. They
allege he owes that amount on
taxes for the years 1942-40 and for
1950.
TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
fCoDyrlsht, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
fr ASHINGTON.—It wasn’t an
nounced at the time, but General
Eisenhower gave Winston Church
ill some very blunt talk at their
recent luncheon in Paris. It was
about the bluntest conversation
anyone has had with the eloquent
Prime Minister of England who us
ually dominates every conversation
and who usually was able to have
his way with Franklin Roosevelt.
Eisenhower opened the luncheon
by telling Churchill that he felt
the time had come to speak frank
ly. He added that he had always
been a close friend of England—
in fact, had been criticized in the
United States for being too friend
ly to the British.
Therefore he indicated that, as a
friend, he was in a position to
Speak frankly about England’s fail
ure to cooperate in Europe. Eng
land, he said, was not supporting
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Baby Sitting
Case Narked
Closed Now
LYNN, Mass., Dec. 27—UP)—'The
Nahant baby sitting case was mark- |
ed “closed" Thursday with the three
school girl principals under court
sentence for the theft_ of $18,000
from the home of a doctor.
Roberta McCauley, 15, the baby
sitter and one of her two compan
ions, Marilyn Curry, 1G, were placed
Wednesday under the jurisdiction
of the Youth Service Board, a state
agency which handles rehabilitation
of juveni.'/: offenders.
Eileen Jeffrey. 17, was placed on
probation for two years witli the
condition that she spend one year
at the House of the Good Shepherd,
operated by Catholic Sisters for the
rehabilitation of girls and women
of all creeds.
The girls were accused of stealing
$18,000 from Dr. Covner for whose
baby Roberta was a sitter. They
went to New York with the money,
the girls admitted and spent $3,000
of It on good clothes and entertain
ment. They were fleeced out of the
rest of it by three men.
Dr. Albert Covner, apparently up
set by the furor caused by the theft
of his money, committeed suicide
several weeks after the girls’ spree.
Sailors Get
, I
Wage Boost
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27—MV
A wage-boosting contract for the
Sailors Union of the Pacific has j
been approved by the Wage Stabil- !
ization Board, SUP chief Harry ,
Lundeberg said Wednesday. The
contract was negotiated Oct. 26
with the Pacific Maritime Associ
ation, retroactive to Sept. 30.
It grants a 6.2 per cent wage
raise, flat “inequities” raises, time
and a half for all overtime, an ex
tra deckhand on all offshore ships,
and increased employer payments
on the SUP welfare funds.
Fwo Tulsequah
Miners Survive
Dynamite Explosion
A premature dynamite explosion
at the Consolidated Mine at Tulse
quah, B. C., sent two miners to St.
Ann’s Hospital here on Christmas
day. 1
George McLeod and Harry Cald
j well were brought in by Alaska
Coastal Airlines Tuesday afternoon
Dr. William Blanton interrupted hi
j Christmas dinner to take care of
them. Pieces of rock weye removed
from their bodies and he reported
that they were in fair condition to
day.
Merit Certificate
Given BPR Engineer
A certificate of merit has been
: awarded Chris Wyller, district en
! t’ineer for Southeast Alaska in the
■ Bureau of Public Roads, for 25 years
j of responsible service in highway
work.
The award was made by the Amer
ican Association of State Highway
officials. Wyller's 25 years of high
way work has been in Alaska.
Russia Will
Accept New
Ambassador
FSy EDWARD E. BOMAR
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27— ‘ffl —
Russia has agreed to accept George
F. Kennan as the new U. S. Ambas
sador to Russia, almost at the same
time denouncing him as a foe of the
Soviets.
President Truman announced at
Kansas City Wednesday night the
selection of the 4T-year-old career
diplomat, who is credited .with being
a principal author of the present
American policy of containment to
counter the threat of Communist
aggression.
Kennan will succeed former
Rear Adm. Alan G. Kirk, whose
request for retirement President
ial Secretary Joseph Short said
Mr. Truman accepted with reluct
ance.
The announcement was made af
ter the Kremlin orally informed the
White House that Kennan would be
acceptable. There had been some
speculation that he would not be.
It arose after attacks on him by
both Pravda and Radio Moscow, the
latest only yesterday.
Kennan, former State Department
counselor and recently chief of
Secretary of State Acheson's policy
planning staff, is now on leave with
the University Institute for Advanc
ed Studies at Princeton, N. J. He
is expected to take over the Ambas
sadorship probably in April.
Short said his nomination would
be submitted to the Senate for con
firmation soon after Congress re
convenes. There has been no indica
tion of opposition to Kennan.
Kennan has had long experience
in dealing w'ith the Soviets, previous
service in the embassy at Moscow,
and speaks the Russian language
fluently.
Ickes Is
In Hospital
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27— <fl) —
Harold L. Ickes, self-styled cur
mudgeon who was Secretary of the
Interior from 1933 to 1946, is a pa
tient in a local hospital suffering
from what his wife described as “a
mighty painful nerve root condi
tion."
Mrs. Ickes told a reporter Wed
nesday her husband entered George
town University Hospital a week ago
Thursday. She said he is "getting
along all right.” She said: "It is no
dread disease, but it does give con
siderable pain.”
Ickes, who is 77, has lived on a
nearby Maryland farm since he
left the cabipet.
Funeral Friday
For George Amner
Funeral sendees will be held for
George Amner, of Tenakee, by Rev
Willis R. Booth in the Carter Chapel
at 2 p.m. Friday.
Burial will be in Evergreen Ceme
tery. Mr. Amner died Sunday in
St. Ann’s Hospital at the age ol
79 years. He lived at Tenakee for
many years, but there are no knowrr
living relatives. Mr. Amner was borr
in Kent, England, January 24, 1872
No Action Yet
On $120,000
For U. S. Fliers
By RICHARD O’REGAN
VIENNA, Der. 27—M—'The U. S.
Embassy said Thursday night thr
I Hungarian Communist government
h> still “considering’ ’the American
offer to pay a fins for the freedom
of four jailed U, S. fliers.
Such a stand conflicted with the
announcement of Hungary’s legation
in Washington last night that the
offer of $120,000 in fines—called a
ransom in the west—had been ac
cepted for the prompt release of the
four men.
In Washington, the legation
said that no further word had been
received from Budapest. The press
attache, Madame Zsuzsana Szucs,
said the only information receiv
ed by the Minister, Dr. Emil Weil,
was last night's message saying the
American offer to pay the fines
had been accepted but that the
fliers could not be released be
fore Thursday because of a Hun
garian Christmas holiday.
The night's development raised
doubts on the status of negotiations
for release of the fliers, convicted of
violating Hungary’s borders after
their plane lost its course on a Mu
nich-Belgrade flight. It seemed pos
sible the Hungarians had raised new
conditions.
The Ambassador here, Walter J.
Donnelly, talked with George Ab
bott, U, S. Charge D'Affairs in the
American legation at Budapest.
“The Hungarians merely told Ab
bott our proposition was being con
sidered,” Donnelly said.
But American officials in Buda
pest still hoped the fliers soon would
i be on their way to freedom. Abbott
j also expressed hope that the Hun
] garians—when their decision was
made—would turn the fliers over
; to the U. S. legation in Budapest,
I rather than dump them on the Aus
trian border without previous notice.
HUNGARIAN REPLY
I VIENNA, Austria, Dec. 27——
Tlie Hungarian government has ask
ed U. S. representatives in Budapest
j to call at the foreign office at 10
I a m., (1 a.m. PST) Friday to receive
* the Hungarian reply to the U. S.
I government’s offer to pay the fines
for four American airmen, it was
| learned here Thursday night.
I This means the fliers, held since
| Soviet fighters forced down their
. C-47 transport Nov. 19, will not be
1 released in any case before tomor
1 row, though the United States has
j offered to pay the $120,000 in fines
1 assessed against them as border
| violators.
—
! WANTS INVESTIGATION
; WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—(A>)—
Senator Morse (R-Ore) Thursday
proposed a Senate investigation of
the case of the four American
fliers who were forced down and
arrested in Hungary.
Morse telegraphed chairman Rus
sell (D-Ga) of the Senate Armed
Services Committee suggesting that
the group make an inquiry "at
the earliest possible time conven
ient’’ for the fliers to appear be
fore the Senators.
Russell could not be reached im
mediately for his reaction. He was
reported en route to Washington
from his home at Wynder, Ga. .
Senator Humphrey (D-Minn)
called Wednesday for an investi
gation through the United Nations.
He termed Hungary’s actions "in
substance an act of aggression
against the United States and its
people.”
E. O. DAVIS FINDS
SWEET GASOLINE
Sugar was found to have been
placed In the gasoline tanks of two
trucks belonging to E. O. (Curley)
Davis of the North Transfer Co.,
when they were parked behind his
Front Street shop on Christmas
night. It was discovered yester
day. Juneau police are Investigating.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK. Dec. 27—Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today Is 2 'i, American Can
110 ',, American Tel. and Tel. 155%,
Anaconda 50%, Douglas Aircraft
58 Vi, General Electric 577 General
Motors 43%, Goodyear 43%, Krn
necott 87%, Libby, McNeill and Lib
s'1!,, Northern Pacific 63 . Stand
ard Oil of California 49: -, Twen
tieth Century Fox 19 a. U. S. Steel
40’4, Pound 2.79, Canadian Exchange
97.81 >4.
Sales today were 1,400,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows:
Industrials 266.74, rails 81 99, utilit
ies 46.99.
— EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY -
'That's My Husband'
Mrs. William F. LVan, wife ef the prisoner-of-war general now confined in a camp at Pyongyang, North
Korea, hart no hesitation in identifying Associated Picks pictu.'.s radioed Dec. 2:1 from Toyko, as being
those of her iong-miesing husband. “It's just wonderful to sec him,” she said repeatedly on receiving
prints in her Berkeley, Calif., home. Willi her is Leonard Ver Mohr, husband of General I ' an’s sister.
<#) Wirephoto.
Letters
From Dean
Broadcast
I
j SAN *?RANCISCD, Dec. 27—(API—
Fled China’s Peiping radio has
broadcast letters it said were from
Maj. Gen. William Dean, now in n
North Korean prison camp, to his
wife and daughter in California.
The broadcast Wednesday was re
corded here by the Associated Press
and the letters were relayed to Mrs.
Dean in Berkeley. She said they
sounded authentic.
The letters said he was well car-*
ed for and had become fond of rice,
the staple of the Orient. But he
expressed a longing for “frizzled
beef" just like mother makes.
The letters were filled with re
membrances of anniversaries. He
wondered hopefully if he had become
a grandfather. He has.
A son, Robert Dean Williams, war,
born to his daughter nine months
ago. That was just five months af
ter the U. S. division commander
disappeared on the Korean battle
front. The Communists say the gen
eral is in a prison camp near Pyong
yang, the North Korean capital.
“I hope that the uncertainty sur
rounding my disappearance was not
too much for you and mother,” Dean
wrote his wife. “I am sorry that I
have been the cause of so much con
cern.”
Asserts 'Far too
Much' Is Spent
On Campaigning
WASHINGTON, Dec, 27— <£l —
Senator Humphrey <D-Minn) invit
ed fellow Congress members Thurs
day to ‘'tell the people the sorry
truth” about the high cost of run
ning for federal office, and who pays
thc bills.
"It would be a good idea if every
member of Congress were required
i iO go before a subcommittee and tell
aow his campaign was financed,”
the Senator told reporters.
He, contended ‘‘far too much” is
spent on campaigning, the bulk of
it raised by contributions from well
wishers. In exchange for their con
iributions, he added, “some people
expect something besides Just good
government.”
A Senate Rules subcommittee
headed by Senator Gillette (D
Iowa) already is studying Senator
ial campaign costs to determine
whether new laws are needed to
cover spending.
Ship Movement
Freighter Square Knot from Seat
tle- due Friday at 7 a.m.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Denali from west scheduled south
bound Sunday.
Distressed Sitka
Fishing Boat Has
Harrowing Day
ASTORIA, Ore,, Dec. 27—Ml—An
Alaska fishing boat arrived here
under tow today after a harrow
ing day in stormy sens off the
Oregon coast.
It was identified by the Coast
Guard ns the Susan of Sitka. Ra
dio reports yesterday told of the
two men aboard bailing by hand
to keep the disabled craft afloat
after the pumps went out.
There were winds with gusts up
to GO miles an hour.
William II. Smith of Sitka owns
the Susan, a 72-foot fish packer.
He said the men aboard, on a
San Francisco-to-Sitka voyage,
were Jack Sheridan, about 38, of
Bodega Bay, Calif., and Thomas R.
(Duket DeLaHunt, 30, of Sitka.
The Susan sent its first distress
call before 5 a.m. yesterday. The
Coast Guard sent out two cutters,
two smaller search craft and three
planes. One of the planes finally
sighted the disabled vessel about
35 miles southwest of the Colum
bia river mouth in mid-afternoon.
A cutter towed It in.
Union Official
May Get Slay
On Deportation
SEATTIE. Dec. 27—UD—The Uni
ted States District Court will be
asked to review an immigration
hearing which ordered a Seattle un
ion official deported. Attorney John
Caughlan said Thursday.
The recent Seattle hearing for the
official, Ernesto Mangaoang, was
upheld by the Board of Immigration
appeals in Washington, D. C., John
P. Boyd, District Director of Immi
[rration, said Wednesday.
Caughlan said a review by the
ourts is possible under the Admin
. strative Procedure Act. He said he
ias petitioned the Board of Appeals
o stay all proceedings while the
board reconsider, the case. If it
does not act before Jan. 2, when
Mangaoang is scheduled to be sur
rendered to Immigration authorities
for deportation to the Philippine
( lands, the case will be taken into
Federal court, he ;ald.
Mangaoang’s deportation wns on
grounds he wns a member of the
Communist Party.
Caughlan said he contends the
immigration laws provide for depor
tation only of an alien who has been
a member of the Communist party.
He said he takes issue with govern
ment on whether Mangaoang was an
alien in 1938 and 1939 when it is
charged he was a Communist. The
I defense holds he was a national at
I that time, Caughlan said.
Mangaoang recently reelected bus
| iness representative of the Cannery
Workers, Local 37, International
Longshoremen and Warehousemen'^
Union.
Sabre Jets
Chase MIGs
From Air
Battles Resumed Over
Northwest Korea; Fight
at Heartbreak Ridge
By John Randolph
SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 27—(i4V-Am
crican sabre jets shot down two
Red jets and badly damaged an
other In a 'renewal of air battles
over northwest Korea Thursday,
the Fifth Air Force reported.
The MIG-15s were shot down
in a 30-minute battle between 32
sabres and 50 fight-minded MIGS.
Earlier 100 MIGS had run for
cover when a flight of sabres op
ened up on them. The Fifth All
Force said no American planes
were hurt in cither encounter.
The air war broke out anew
In clear skies as Allied Infantry
men fought in knee deep snow
and subzero temperatures near
Heartbreak Ridge to regain an
advance petition rut off by the
Reds.
The Communists have been
f i g h ti n g^ intermittently since
Christmas night to capture and
hold the outpost.
A company of Reds attacked
again shortly after last midnight,
Just 24 hours before the end of
the 30-day truce trial period.
The fight continued through the
bitter cold early morning darkness.
By 7 a.m. the Reds cut off the
position.
United Nations troops counter
attacked at 11:10 a.m., the U. S.
Eighth Army reported, and at
noon “were fighting in knee deep
snow to regain the position.”
Chilled infantrymen of both sides
I stayed mainly behind their own
i lines. Patrols, as always, roamed
the no-man’s-land between. The U.
S. Eighth Army reported that, for
the third day within a month, no
American soldiers were killed in
ground action in the 24 hours end
ing 6 p.m. Wednesday.
In the air, while the sabre Jets
hunted for MIGS and flew cover
for heavier planes, fighter-bombers
resumed their relentless attacks on
North Korean roads, rails and sup
ply lines.
'field committee meet
The Alaska Field Committee will
hold a meeting here January 8, 9
and 10, George Rogers, chairman
said today.
TIDE TABLES
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• High Tide 13:23 p.m. 19.1 ft.
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Cease-Fire
Agreement
Runs Out
Ominous Note Further
Received About Prison
ers of War Deaths
MUNSAN, Korea, Friday—!*—
The 30-day Korean cease-fire line
igreement ran out today on "a
other ominous note” In truce
alks about Allied prisoner of war
deaths.
There was no indication here of
>lans to extend the agreement re
sponsible for the 30-day twilight
.var. The full five-man armistice
ommittees which signed the orig
nal agreement Nov. 27 did not
•ven meet. An official U. N. spokes
11 an said neither side asked for
in extension.
But in a subcommittee session at
?anmunjom Thursday, Hear Adm.
il. E. Libby said the Communists
linted: they may report many of
he 50,000 unaccounted for Allied
prisoners pf war died of exposure
md disease.
Libby said it wa.< “a rather
ominous note. It might have been
a forewarning that all these
people died of illness."
Subcommittees working on the
jroblems of exchanging war pris
oners and supervising a truce still
,verc deadlocked when they ad
mirncd their last session before
the scheduled expiration hour. The
igrcement was timed to run out
it midnight (7 a.m. PST) Thurs
day.
Each committee scheduled an
ither meeting for 11 a.m. Friday
G pm. PST Thursday) in Pan
nunjom.
Washington sources expressed
belief Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway
would approve a 15-day exten
sion of the period In which the
145-mile line draws a tram Ke
ren Nov. 27 could become a par
iiiiiucm vrnac-iiiv
High diplomatic officials 1 n
.Vashlngton said the Supreme U.
M. Comr.iander had been author
zed to approve an extension of up
o 27 days If he felt there was
iope of reaching an agreement.
On Nov. 27 negotiators drew
a tentative cease-fire line and
agreed it would become the cen
ter of a Vi mile wide buffer zone
if an armistice were signed with
in 30 days.
Otherwise the line would be re
drawn Just before a truce Is signed
o follow changes resulting from
jattle action.
Expiration of the cease-fire line
igreement could bring an explo
ive end to the month-long lull
in the battle front; or the twl
ight war could continue while ne
otiations go on.
CLAIM 5,000 DEAD
MUNSON. Korea, Friday, Dec. 37
-i^i—1The Reds dropped a veiled
.Unt Thursday that 50.000 unlisted
Allied prisoners were all dead of dis
ease or exposure.
At the same time Allied armistice
negotiators Indicated that If the
Communists would give a full and
honest accounting for all prisoners,
.he Allies might consider the all-for
all exchange that the Reds de
nanded.
The conferences ended, however,
with agreement only one thing: to
met again today at 11 a.m. (6 pm.
Thursday, P8T) even though the
30-day deadline on the provisional
oease-flre line expired at midnight
Thursday.
There was no Indication here of
iny plans to extend the agreement
responsible for the "twilight war"
>f the past 30 days. The full five
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?63 Americans
Held by Commies
Claims Senator
By Associated Press
A Republican Senator from Cal
fornla claims Communist China
s detaining 363 American cltiaens
. . and he demands the govern
nent arrange for their release
luring the Korean truce negotia
tions.
Senator William Knowland says
Ills information is that 33 Amer
icans are in Chinese jails, 30 or
more are under house arrest and
300 have been refused visas to get
out of China.
Knowland has demanded that
the State Department tell him
whether it has taken steps to as
sure that the detained Amrlcans
are able to leave China and return
to the United States.