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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“'ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXVIII. NO. 11,857
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
AFL Backing
New Taxation
For Everybody
WASHINGTON. July 11 — iff) —
The American Federation of Labor
got behind the Truman administra
tion’s request for $10,000,000,000 of
new taxes today, and proposed that
$6,400,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 be
raised from increases in individual
income taxes to hit particularly at
those with larger incomes.
The proposal was advanced by
Arthur Elder, AFL tax consultant,
in testimony to the tax-writing
Senate Finance committee. His plan
would hike individual income levies
by more than double the $2,850,000,
000 increase in a House-passed $7,
200,000,000 revenue-raising bill. The
senators are holding hearings on
the House bill.
The plan of the big labor organ
ization ran directly counter to sug
gestions of business groups. These
have urged that the House bill be
changed so that personal income
tax increases would hit harder at
lower income levels.
The committee for economic de
velopment, an organization of busi
nessmen, took this view in testimony
yesterday. It said more taxes should
be siphoned out of the lower income
groups as an anti-inflationary
measure.
Elder said the $10,000,000,00(1 tax
increase urged by President Tru
man and Secretary of the Treas
ury John Snyder is essential to
balance the budget in the Defense
Mobilization period.
HELLAN TO ANCHORAGE
Acting U. S. Marshal Walter Hel
lan left Tuesday afternoon for An
chorage via Pacific Northern Air
lines. He was taking John H. Mitch
ell, who was arrested here last week
on a bench warrant, to the Hub
City where he is wanted on a charge
of carrying a dangerous weapon.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, July 10 — Closing
quotation of American Can stock
today is 109'-, American Tel. and
Tel. 154%, Anaconda 39, Douglas
Aircraft, 44%. General Electric 54%,
General Motors 48%, Goodyear 83,
Kennecott 72, Libby, McNeill and
Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 37%.
Standard Oil of California 46%,
Twentieth Century Fox 18. U. S.
Steel 39'-, Pound $2.80%, Canadian
Exchange 43.06.
Sales today were 990.000 shares.
Averages today were as follows
Industrials 250.01, rails 75.17, utili
ties 43.06.
NEW YORK, July 11 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
109%, American Tel. and Tel. 164%
Anaconda 39%, General Electric
55%, General Motors 48%, Goodyear
83, Kennecott 72, Libby, McNeill and
Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 37%
Standard Oil of California 46%,
Twentieth Century Fox 17%, U. S
Steel 40, Pound $2.80 1 16, Canadian
Exchange 94.43%.
Sales today were 970,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows
Industrials 250.92, rails 75.58, utili
ties 43.23.
TheWashingion
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
fCopyright. 1»51. or Bell Syndicate. Inc.
fVASHINGTON. — It is impos
sible, of course, to know exactly
why Moscow made a peace move
at this specific time. But calls at
the State Department by two em
bassies may give the answer.
One is the French Embassy
which has informed Secretary of
State Acheson that Chinese troops
are already massing on the French
Indo-Chinese border and that air
fields in South China have been
enlarged—obviously for a new at
tack.
The other is the Yugoslav Em
bassy which has informed the
State Department that Rumanian
troops are maneuvering and that
Tito believes there is a 50-50 chance
the long-expected attack on Yugo
slavia will begin this fall.
It doesn't take even a smart
mind-reader to figure out that the
Kremlin has an awful lot to gain
(Continued on Page Four)
Election for
Bristol Bay
Called Off
SEATTLE, July 11, — (jP — The
National Labor Relations Board has
called off for this season an elec
tion it has been trying to arrange
for nearly a month for Bristol Bay
fishermen, the regional office an
nounced today.
The election was to have deter
mined collective bargaining rights
for 2,600 resident and nonresident
fishermen and cannery workers.
Unfair labor practice charges filed
by one of the unions involved
against the industry have blocked
the voting.
The N.L.R.B. said it would hold
the election some time in the fu
ture at a period of peak employ
ment when no charges of unfair
labor practice exist. Peak employ
ment occurs only during the short
fishing season, which ends July 25
this year.
Thomas P. Graham, Jr., regional
director,- said an election before
the 1952 season is impossible.
Heal Wave in
Other Sections
Besides Juneau
By Associated Press
A mid-summer heat wave drove
temperatures up throughout the
Pacific Northwest today and forestry
men warned of new fire dangers in
the region’s timbered areas
Scattered small fires were report
ed as woodsmen took steps to pre
vent serious outbreaks.
A partial shutdown in logging
operations was in effect in Western
Washington. Chief State Forester
Bernard Orell said all forest activ
ities have been stopped in Clark
and Skamania counties.
Fires reported yesterday included
a 30-acre brush and timber blazf
near the Yale dam project, 7 miles
northeast of Yacolt, Wash., and an
80-acre fire in logged-off brushland
seven miles southeast of Terrace
B.C.
Temperatures yesterday ranged
from a cool 67 degrees at North
Bend, Ore., to 98 reported by British
Columbia fire fighters battling the
blaze at Terrace.
In Oregon, it was 95 at Medford
Closed Period
May be Relaxed
for Bristol Bay
ANCHORAGE, July 11 —IflV— A
possibility that the mid-week clos
ure on salmon fishing at Bristol
Bay might be relaxed for the rest
of the season appeared today.
Howard Baltzo, assistant regional
director of the FWS. commented
Bristol Bay is repprted to have
developed a very good rut# in the
past week. Depending on the number
of escapements, it may be that ad
ditional hours of fishing are justi
fied.”
He said the packers had asked ad
ditional fishing time in view of the
early season labor strike. Baltzo waf
one of three FWS officials whe
went to the bay area yesterday.
Clarence Rhode, regional director
Dan Ralston, enforcement super
visor, and Baltzo flew from Junear
on an inspection trip to the fishing
grounds of Cook Inlet, Bristol Ba\
and Kodiak.
‘ One thing that particularly con
cerns us on Cook Inlet," Baltza said
is the fact that already 47 more
drift boats are registered this yeai
than last, and there were too manj
last year."
Last year’s yield of red salmon in
the Inlet was 225,000 cases.
WELL BABY CONFERENCE
THURSDAY AFTERNOON
The weekly Well Baby and Child
Health Conference will be held at
the Juneau Public Health Center
Thursday afternoon from 1 p.m.
through 3:30 p.m. All interested
mothers are invited to bring their
young children and babies to be
weighed and measured, and to talk
with the Public Health Nurse. The
Health Center is located at 122 2nd
St., phone 218.
MYSTERY TINGE TO
SUSPECTED SUICIDE
OF U.S. BIOLOGIST
BERKELEY. Calif., July 11 — IffV—
University of California police to
day searched for motives in the
suspected suicide of Navy atomic
biologist Donald Thayer Bliss, 30.
Bliss was employed at the highly
secret radiological defense labora
tory at the San Francisco Naval
shipyard. He was studying the ef
fects of radiation on the human
body.
He was found dead yesterday be
hind the Greek Theatre on the
campus.
Sgt, Frank Woodward of the uni
versity police said a small box
lobeled “Barbitol” was found at his
side.
Woodward said Naval indentifl
cation papers were found on the
body and also an expired pass to the
UC radiation laboratory, home of
the atom-smashing cyclotron.
Bliss’ wife, Hilde, was visiting
friends in San Diego.
Harriman
'Welcome'
In Iran
TEHRAN, Iran, July 11 —lAt—
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh to
night sent a message to President
Truman saying he would be glad to
receive W. Averell Harriman lor con
Perenrps c11 TfflU't ^0 finallZ"*
tion crisis.
U. S. Ambassador Henry F. Gra
dy was called to Mossadegh's resi
dence to receive the Iranian reply
to Mr. Truman's offer to send Harri
man to Iran in the hope he could
help solve the current bitter dis
pute between Britain and Iran.
Grady told newsmen he was “very
pleased” with Mossadegh’s reply.
Earlier it was reported that Iran's
oil nationalization commission had
advised Mossadegh to accept the
Truman offer.
The premier appeared to have
been stalling on an answer to Presi
dent Truman’s offer to send his
personal representative. The com
mission, however, said it approved
the idea “on the ground that Har
riman’s visit could not conflict with
the oil nationalization law,” the
spokesman said.
The recommendation was submit
.ed to the premier for discussion
with his cabinet this afternoon.
Informed circles here say, how
ever, that Harriman’s mission wil'
have little effect unless the Iran
ians show a disposition to modify—
at least slightly—their determina
tion to seize full control of the
British-operated oil industry.
Meantime, there was not the
slightest indication that Mossadegh
was ready to make any compromise
Bakers' Bread Cast
On Waters Comes
Back as 40-Hour Week
NEW YORK, July 11 —(#)—Bakers
re-kindled ovens at 16 major bak
ing firms in the New York area to
day after settlement of a nine-day
strike by 4,000 AFL truck drivers
The strikers and their employers
agreed to a city-sponsored peace
pact last night. The drivers are ex
pected to resume deliveries early
tomorrow.
A chief union gain in the settle
ment — a 40-hour, five-day work
week — was expected to set a pat
tern for 50,000 AFL drivers across
the nation.
Ship Movements
Princess Louise from Skagway at
8 a.m. Friday, sailing south 9 a.m.
Chilcotin due Thursday.
Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle today.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
sail from Vancouver today.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
Aleutian from westward scheduled
southbound Saturday afternoon.
Alaska Hearings
On Rate Raise
Will be Held
WASHINGTON. July 11 — I*; —
The Federal Maritime Board will
hold hearings in Alaska on passen
ger and cargo rate increases recent
ly put into effect by the Alaska,
Steamship Co.
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska told
a reporter today he has been ad
vised by A. J. Williams, board secre
tary, that the dates of the hearings
will be set after a conference with
interested parties.
The increase was originally de
layed by the board but a subse
quent hearing resulted in lifting of
the suspension order and a hearing
on the increase was set for Seattle
Sept. 10 before Examiner F. ! J.
Horan.
The board's decision to hold hear
ings in Alaska as well as Seattle fol
lowed a protest by Bartlett.
Nugget Shop
Display Window
Burglarized
A Nugget Shop uioplay window
was broken into again Tuesday night
for the third time in the past few
months, Assistant Police Chief
Frank Cavanaugh said today.
A chest of silverware valued at
$69.75 was taken, Cavanaugh re
ported.
Entry was effected in the same
manner as previously, by breaking
the plate glass and lifting it out,
he said. Police are investigating.
Juror Must Serve;
Mileage Paid, Says
Deputy - - OH, YEAH?
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July II —
Deputy Sheriff A. Z. Glaze went to
summond a citizen for jury duty
yesterday.
A housewife answered his knock.
“Does he HAVE to serve?" she
asked.
“Yes, Ma’am.”
“Do you pay mileage?”
“Yes.”
"Fine,” said the housewife, bright
ening. “He’s in Japan.”
Soap Box Derby
Trial Runs Are
Tonight, Friday
Trial runs for Soap Box Derby
racers will be held this evening and
Friday evening at 7 o’clock on the
Eleventh Street hill.
"All boys who intend competing
are advised to turn out for the
trial runs so that their cars can
be checked,” Bill Leivers, chairman
of the Soap Box Derby committee
said. "The local race to be held on
July 22. is less than two weeks
away.”
Speed Limit Set
For Derby Boats
In Tee Harbor
U. S. Coast Guard headquarters
here are cooperating with the of
ficials of the Golden North Salmon
Derby in prescribing safety regula
tions for the event, the commander
announced today.
During the three derby days,
July 27, 28 and 29. the speed of all
vessels will be limited to six knots
within the limits of Tee Harbor, in
side a line from Tee Harbor Light
to Point Stephens Rock buoy, he
said.
Operators of all vessels are cau
tioned to have their boats fully
equipped in accordance w'ith law
and observe pilot rules. The com
mander also called attention to the
provisions of other laws which per
tain to reckless and negligent oper
ation of any vessels so as to en
danger the life, limb or property of
any person and to the duty of boat
operators to render assistance to
every person in danger of being lost.
BINSCHUS BACK
Frank Binsclius. representative of
the American Can Co. of Portland,
returned yesterday from a trip to
Haines. He l.% stopping at the Rar
anof hotel.
Communist Representatives at Kaesong
North Korean and Chinese Communist representatives at the preliminary cease-fire meeting at Kae
song are grouped around the conference table during a lull in talks with CN negotiators. Regarding
identification, the Associated Press bureau in Tokyo said: “Signal Corps in Tokyo says original cap
tions did not give definite left to right, but as we ascertain from their description which accompanied
negatives, the three main negotiators would be: extreme left, Colonel Chang of North Koreans; second
from left, Lieut. Col. Chai of Chinese forces; third from left (In foreground), Lieut. Col. Kim of North
Koreans.” Others are unidentified. <P) Wirephoto.
Cease-Fire,
Red Trick
Is Belief
WASHINGTON, July 11 — 1*1' —
Wary lawmakers cautioned today
that new Communist aggression may
be lurking behind seeming Red wil
lingness to negotiate a cease-fire in
Korea.
Senator Lodge (R-Mass) told a
reporter he fears the current man
euvering by the Reds at Kaesong
might be only an effort to throw
UN forces off guard for an attack
on Europe in August.
“We must watch this thing care
fully,” Lodge said. 'If they were
planning an attack in Europe or to
move Chinese Communist troops
against Indochina, the cease-fire
move would be Just the sort of a
thing they would attempt.”
Lodge, a Foreign Relations com
mittee member, said he doesn’t be
lieve the UN should settle for a j
cease-fire at the 38th Parallel, as
the Reds have proposed. He joined
Senator Douglas (D-Illi in propos
ing that the narrow neck of the I
Korean peninsula, about 100 miles
north of the 38th, be made the di
viding line. The 38th was the old
border between North and South
Korea.
GOVERNOR BACK
FROM WESTWARD
Governor Ernest Gruening re
turned to Juneau Saturday via Pa
cific Northern Airline after spending
several days to the Westward.
He attended an American Legion
banquet in Anchorage given in honor
of Erie Cocke, Jr., national com
mander of the American Legion
who is gaaking a visitation to Amer
ican Legion posts in the Territory.
In private life, Cocke is assistant to
the president of the Delta Air Lines
with headquarters at Atlanta. Ga.
The governor also visited Palmer
to discuss Alaska Rural Rehabilita
tion Commission matters with local
residents and conferred with Mayor j
Z. J. Loussac of Anchorage, and E.
Glen Wilder, head of the Alaska
Housing Authority, on housing
problems in the Anchorage area.
FROM TVONEK
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Graham of
Tyonek are stopping at the Baranof
hotel.
FROM KAKE
Mr. and Mrs, Jessie Kadake of
Kake are at the Gastineau hotel.
FROM HAINES
W. E. Sheppard of Haines is at
the Gastineau hotel.
I
Government Bureau
Caught Counterfeiting
On Its Own
HIAWATHA, Kns„ July 11 —(jW—
Floy Ruth, president of the Home
State bank at nearby Everest, broke
open a bundle of $5 bills and care
fully counted them.
Then he turned them over and re
counted. This time he got $530. On
the next check he studied each bill
carefully and discovered—
Six of the notes, fresh from the
government’s presses, were $5 bills
on one side and perfect $10 repro
ductions on the other.
In Washington, officials of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
which manufactures the nation’s
currency, conceded it could happen,
but said they had never heard of
| anything like it before.
Cabin Fire Quelled
On Roberts Trail
By Foresters
A fire which blazed up suddenly
[in a cabin on the first ridge of
the Mount Roberts trail late yes
terday afternoon was controlled by
live Forest Service men after al
most two hours of fighting with
shovels and pulaskis.
The fire first appeared in a flash
shortly before 5 p.m., according to
witnesses.
The Forest Service assumed that
boys had earlier in the day sObrted
a fire in thecabin and when it be
came out of control, fled the scene.
The Juneau Fire Department,
told of the blaze by Kay Kennedy,
Empire reporter, blew their own
alarm for Star Hill,' nearest point
to the scene. On seeing that the
blaze would not reach thr city lim
its, the firemen returned to their
homes.
The service was first notified at
4:45 p.m. by Mrs. A. F. Ghiglione
of 224 7th Street. Under the direc
tion of Kermit Scramstad, four men
rushed up the trail about 1,000
yards. They were Lacy Johnson,
Jim Sofoulis, Rod Pegues and Jack
Pasquan.
The blaze had spread to sur
rounding brush and litter, but by
6 p.m. the men had it under con
trol. Sofoulis remained at the
scene all night. Foresters said the
spot will be checked several times
duirng the next few days to make
sure no flames break out again.
The land is under Jurisdiction of
the Bureau of Land Management.
The Bureau and Forest Service
cooperate in fighting this type of
blaze by the Bureau’s standing the
expense and the Forest Service
sending men.
A Forest Service official said the
land was believed at one time to
be patented mining property, but
it is now considered on the public
domain.
Air Tangle
Nets 3 MIGs
HEADQUARTERS. FIFTH AIR
FORCE, KOREA. July II — lA* —
U. S. Sabre jets today shot down
three Communist MIG-15 jets and
damaged another in a spectacular
20-minute air battle over North
western Korea.
Thirty-four Aineu planes tangled
with an estimated 30 MIGs in dra
matic dogfights south of Stnuiju.
The aerial battle ranged from
33,000 feet down to 3,000.
It started when the Sabre jets
went to the Yalu river border area
to fly top cover for 21 F-80 Shoot
ing Star jets which attacked an
ammunition factory south of the
river.
Capt. Milton Nelson of Tarrant,
Ala., sent a MIG spinning down in
flames and brought his score of the
Russian-made planes destroyed to
four, tops for Allied pilots now in
Korea.
The ground war in Korea has
quieted considerably with the be
ginning of armistice talks, but there
has been no letup in the bitter war
in the air.
Marcum Family
Here From Portland
Visiting Relatives
Returning to Juneau for their
first visit since 1940. Dr. and Mrs
R. W. Marcum and their three chil
dren arrived here on the Baranol
Monday. They are from Portland
Oregon.
Mrs. Marcum is the former Helen
Torkelson, of a pioneer Juneau fam
ily. She is the daughter of Mrs
Emil Samuelson and sister of Mrs
Joe Alexander and Mrs. J. D. Mc
Carthy.
Dr. Marcum taught science in the
Juneau high school in 1935-36 and
then went to Portland to attend the
branch of the University of Oregon
Medical school there. He returned
in 1937 when he and Helen Torkel
son were married. He was graduated
from medical school in 1940.
Yesterday the family took a trip
to Tracy Arm on the Samuelson
boat.
The Marcums will visit here about
three weeks and then return tc
Portland where Dr. Marcum will
be associated with another physician
and surgeon in medical practice. He
formerly operated a clinic in Cor
vallis, Ore.
FROM SEATTLE
Virgil Baker of the Sunset Elec
trical Co. of Seattle, is registered
at the Baranof rotel.
AT HOTEL JUNEAU
K. J. Braithwaite of the Utah
Woolen Mills of Seattle is stopping
at Hotel Juneau.
Reds Change
Attitude in
Peace Talks
'Brass Tacks' Tomorrow,
Says Briefing
Officer
By JIM BECKER
MUNSAN, Korea. July 11 —
Cease-fire talks are progressing In
“cold military formality" with
every reason to be optimistic, a UN
briefing officer said tonight.
"The talks now are on the tracks,"
said the spokesman, Col. George
Ruhlen of Los Cruces, N. M. "An
armistice is much nearer tonight
than it was 24 hours ago.”
An official communique was less
enthusiastic, but hopeful.
It said “a better understanding
between negotiating parties” devel
oped Wednesday. It credited a
change of attitude by the five Com
munist generals.
The communique said the Red
negotiators showed “less stiffness
and less formality.”
Neither the communique nor the
briefing officer mentioned three
Communists demands reported by
Red radios.
But Allied delegates, returning
Wednesday afternoon from the sec
ond day of talks in Kaesong, made
it clear they wouldn’t talk about
one of the three point*—a demand
that foreign troops get out of Korea
immediately.
Rear Adm. Arlelgh A. Burke, a
member of the five man UN team,
said it was a political question. Al
lied negotiators won’t discuss polit
ical issues.
The briefing officer said nego
tiators “may not get down to brass
tacks" in Thursday sessions. They
still are discussing what items are
to go on the agenda and in what
order they will be taken up.
Ruhlen said there was much less
tension at Wednesday's meeting.
Things went forward in a "business
like manner.
He said he could not disclose Just
what has been accomplished.
Red is "Dynamic"
Conferees are operating without a
chairman. Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy
leads Allied discussions as UN
spokesman. North Korean Gen.
Nam II, chief Communist delegate,
is the "dominant force on their
side.” Ruhlen described him as
"dynamic and a man with a strong
character.”
He said neither dominates the
sessions — held around a long table
in a room decorated only by the UN
banner and a North Korean flag
improvement in the atmosphere
of negotiations was reflected in a
communique announcement that 20
Allied news representatives would
be authorized to go to Kaesong for
Thursday's negotiations.
Previously they had been banned
on Communist insistence. Five Al
lied photographers went to the Red
guarded city Wednesday after the
UN delegation had left.
They traveled along roads guarded
by a motley assortment of Chinese,
armed with American, British and
Russian-type weapons. The Reds
stood with their backs to the road.
They said they were protecting the
peace delegates against "Guerrillas."
The language barrier has slowed
negotiations considerably. In the
more informal words of Admiral
Burke, progress has been “fair—
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WEATHER FORECAST
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 4:20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
80: minimum. 55.
At Airport — Maximum,
82: minimum, 50.
FORECAST
Continued fair and warm
tonight, and Thursday. Low
est temperature tonight about
• 54. High Thursday near
80
PRECIPITATION
IPast 24 hours ending 1:30 » m tods?
City of Juneau — None.
Since July 1 — .04 inches.
At Airport None.
Since July 1 — 04 inches.