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JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1951
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Reds Hint
Jhey'll Change
"Truce Site
^ TOKYO, Sept. 8—Iff)—Communist
propaganda broadcasts tonight hint
ed that the Reds may be willing ti
change the site of cease-fire talk
from Kaesong as proposed by Gen
Matthew B. Ridgway.
* The remarks were unofficial ant
B.did not say the Reds accepted the
, supreme allied commanders pro
r posal. The talks have been suspend
ed since Aug. 23.
The first hint came from the
North Korean Ited radio at Pyong
I yang. It urged the Korean people
to be “cautious” about changing
the site.
Later Peiping radio quoted a Com
munist correspondent as sayin;
"wherever-the- talks, are held. .noth.-.
I ing will come of them unless the
Americans are willing to agree to the
l armistice on the lines proposed by
I (Russia’s Jacob) Malik. . .” presum
1 ably he was referring to the 38th
parallel, where the Reas want the
buffer line drawn. Thev UN want?
! the buffer zone generally along tin
t present battle lines.
I A high-ranking officer in al
ii lied headquarters said a major
Communist offensive in Korea
ivould not endanger fljg talks.
; “We have been hammering them
, (Communists) nil along with our
i planes,” he said. "We made it clear
1 to the Reds when the armistice talks
started that we didn’t intend to
stop fighting during the meetings.
There’s no reason they shouldn’t
stage an offensive if they want to.
I think we’ll clobber them if they
;, do.”
The Reds broke off the negotia
r tions Aug. 23. They claimed an al
1 lied plane attacked Kaesong. The UN
allies said the charge was fraudu
lent.
1
Reds Take HiS! Near Kae
song, Driven Off Another
-No Major Attack
tJ. s. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
f QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 8——
Communist troops and tanks to
night were reported in Kaesong,
site of the suspended Korean
truce talks, r.s Chinese Reds step
ped up probing ground attacks on
\ the western and central fronts. v
\ The United Nations command
‘arned from a reliable source that
ajor elements of a Chinese div
1 jn remained in Kaesong after
j, Reds agreed to make the city
J ; neutral area July 15. Red tanks
■* were reported moving into the
area.
Presence of surh forcrs in Kae
song constitutes a violation of
the neutral zone. Actually, it lias
A been the Reds who have charged
Hthc Allies with violating the zone.
■ Kaesong, in western Korea a few
Bniies below the 33th parallel, is
■ near the scene of some of the heav
iest /lighting. Chinese captured at
- least one hill on that front today.
JUNEAU VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. John Wright of
Skaeway are stopping at the Bar
anof Hotel.
TheWashingi on
-Merry-Go-Round
(Ld. Note—While Drew Pear
| ton is on a brief vacation, the
’ Washington Merry-go-round is
being written by several disting
1 uished guest columnists, today’s
k by Honorable Thomas K. I'in
B letter, Secretary of the Air Force.
V WASHINGTON. — Here are t
| few of the problems that we in the
V Air Force are thinking about a;
* the moment.
1. The perennial problem oi
“lead time” sounds like a dull sub
ject. but it .conditions all Air Foret
. planning. What lead time means h
i.that it takes about two years from
l\ he time you make a decision tc
kiuy planes until you get them intc
cur fighting units. This mean,
hat you have to look two year
head. You have to estimate what
, our weapons will be then ant
jvfaat conditions will be then. It is
hot true, as has sometimes been
said, that military plans are usual
ly based on fighting the war which
is just over; but if you are to avoid
doing this you have to cast your
mind constantly forward to the
conditions of two to four years
from the time of the planning.
Here are some of the things that
one can estimate as of two years
from now. We can’t order planes
that aren't 'proven; therefore we
have to order the planes that are
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Rescued from Well
Marie Anne Payne, blonde 21 -year-old girl, is carried to safety by
Lt. Ralph Staley, a fireman, after being trapped four hours in a
narrow well shaft near her home in Newberg, Ore. Rescuers dug a
shaft beside the well, th'en tunneled to where the little girl was
pinned 12 feet below the surf ice. A doctor said she suffered no
ill effects other than being chilled and shocked, (ffl Wirephoto.
Russia Sends SCO 'tag Specialists'
To Eass Siberia, Sap Savis! Press;
Casually Influx Expected, Thinks Expert
! --
I
! Price of New
jlo Rise $65 So $250
‘DETROIT. %$t. 8—!.E—Higher 1
price tags for most lines of the i
nation’s now pa i&enger cars were ]
being figured out today.
i Home of the boosts, exported i
I to run from about SG5 on the
I lowest priced ears to as much
i as $2",ft on higher priced models,
| probably will be effective by the
! end of next week.
I
j Authorizaticrti to make the in
crease under a complicated form
! ula that would raise prices an es
timated five to six per cent was
given the industry yesterday by
the Office cf Price Stabilization.
Ry the time retail dealers are
allowed to apply their pro:it
margins, ranging from 15 to 30
per cent, it is estimated that the
total boost might go ns high as
eight per cent over 'current list
prices.
Further price increases also are
pos ible, the OPS order indicated.
The announcement brought im
mediate indication that the “big
three” cf General Motors, Ford
end Chrysler would make the in
crease effective soon.
GM president C. E. Wilson said
the full amount of the increase
t uthorized by OPS would be passed
on to the retail buyers. Chrysler,
in a statement, said that the oi
c’.ers "does not give the relief that
is needed. Ford withheld immed
iate comment.
166-Miie Per Hoar
Hurricane Moves
leward Bermuda
i
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 8—W—A hui'j
ric-ane alert was given the vacation
island of Bermuda today 'as the
monstrous hurricane “easy” swung
its 160-rr.ile winds toward the
British colony about 700 miles
southeast of New York.
Grady Norton, chief storm fore
caster in the Miami weather bur
eau, said the United States coast
line was safe from the mightiest
tropical hurricane of the year,
‘but a definite threat to Bermuda
has developed.”
The calm central eye of the
hurricane was only 330 miles
southwest of Bermuda at 9:30 a.m.
<EST> today. The storm was mov
ing forward at 10 to 11 miles an
hour. This would bring its strong
winds to the Bermuda area to
morrow before noon.
FROM SEATTLE
I. J. Yolland of Seattle is at the
Gastineau Hotel.
VISITOR FROM SKAGW\V
Cyril A. Coyne of Skagway is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
f SEATTLE, Sept. 8—(/T— A Uni
tersitv of Washington specialist]
on Russian affairs says 'the Soviet i
prc: ’ recently reported BOD young j
specialists had passed through
Khabarovsk en route to Siberia’s
PacifL tops-f* Most d'wcrib°d
as doctors and teachers.
Dr. Ivar Spector, the university's
Tar Eastern department expert on
what tiie Russian press is saying,
noted the item in the newspaper
Pravda of Aug. 19.
“This announcement is as sig
nifiiant as if our government
were to make public information j
that 800 doctors and teachers re
cently had passed through Fair
banks enroute to Nome and
Dutch Harbor,” Hr. Spector wrot?
in tiie Seattie Times.
Dr. Spec tor said the item was
an inconspicuous one, headed
"Young Specialists.”
It said the 800 passed through
Khabarovsk in a seven-month per
iod en route to Kamchatka and
the coast of the sen of Okhotsk.
Kamchatka is the peninsula reach
ing down from Siberia nearest the
lip of the Aleutians. The Sea of
Okhotsk is inside the peninsula.
The closest part of the sea would
be 800 miles or more from the tip
oi North Korea.
“The item stated only how many
passed through Khabarovsk,” Dr.
Spector said, "but nothing of those
going by way of Komsomolsk, Ma
gadan or Vladivostok. *
He continued:
‘‘Since there are hints that
many hospitals have been built
in tiiat corner of northeast Sib
eria, one conclusion to be drawn
is that the doctors are needed to
meet ’ a possible influx of war
casualties, either of Soviet troops
or, since Chinese hospitals are
reported to be overtaxed, of Nor-h
Korean and Red Chinese woun
ded.
“The teachers might be required
to instill the doctrines of Marxism
Leninism among troops convales
cing there.”
Home Land Office
Discontinued; Land
Boundaries Changed
The Nome land office, under the
Bureau of Land Management, has
teen discontinued, it was revealed
today by R. D. Searles, acting sec
retary of Interior.
Searles, in a communication tc
Governor Gruenings office, said tin
business of the Nome office would
be transferred and consolidated
with the Fairbanks land office. The
order was effective Aug. 31.
He added that land district boun
daries have been re-established so
that the boundary of the Anchor
age land district shall conform to
the boundaries of judicial divisions
1 and 3. The boundary of the Fair
banks land district has been chang
ed to conform wdth the judicial
boundaries of divisions 2 and 4. j
— EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY —
Russ Term Treaty 'Draft
For New War'—Walk Out;
Duties Catted 'Warmonger'
BULLETIN *
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8—l/B '
—The Russian delegates got into
their automobiles and drove off
from the seene of the Japanese
peace conference today after they
“disassociated” themselves from
tlie treaty session.
By JOHN M. IIIGIITOWER
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8—l/B—
Russia loudly washed her hands of
the Japanese peace treaty today
and warned its sponsors she con
idered it a “draft for a new war."
Andrei Gromyko, Soviet deputy
foreign minister, told a press con
ference the Soviet view a few min
utes before the treaty signing
ceremony .set. far. 10 e mt., in the.
San Francisco opera house. For
ty-eight victsr nations were lin
ing up to sign the conciliatory
peace with Japan.
The Signing Ceremony
Russia, said the chief Soviet
delegate, “disassociates" herself
from it.
Resoundingly defeated in his ef
forts to disrupt or delay the con
ference at its regular business ses
sions Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, the Russian-- started his
conference at 9:10 a.m.
Attacks Dulles
He attacked the treaty's author,
John Foster Dulles, as a “seasoned j
warmonger,” and contended “the|
purpose of the treaty is to stage
American troops there” (In jSpan).
To the 300 newsmen present the
arguments, which Gromyko read
rapidly in English, had a familiar
ring. They were the same he had
hurled at the conference.
Only his phrasing was more em
bittered and direct.
What was possibly Gromyko's
last fling followed his defeat last
night in a free-for-all conference
debate, in which he went down
shouting the diplomatic version
cf “wc W'uz robbed.”
t -
A short time later he rose Iron)
his fifth row sent and together with
his Communist colleagues walkec
out of the hall. But it was a false
w^llkouj. in tlie sense of a Russian
withdrawal irom a conference.
lie Grins!
Three minutes later the usually
'grim-faced Russian, grinning ap
parently at the excitement he hao
caused, wnlked back in again.
The ltus>ian. Poli ,h and Czech
delegates generally were expected
to boycott the .signing ceremony
today. Gromyko, however, had
called a !) a.m. press conference,
perhaps to explain his position
and take a few last cracks at the
United .States and Britain and the
treaty they >o successfully spon
sored here.
British officials said that foreign
minister Herbert Morrison, who ar
rived last night, might speak brief
ly when he signs the pact. No other
talks were due, however, as nations
beginning with the Argentine and
ending with Vietnam advanced in
alphabetical order to commit them
selves to the pact.
-— Sign for Troops
It was believed that the day
would also bring the signing of
a security treaty between the Uni
ted States and Japan under which
American troops will remain in
Japan after peace becomes ef
fective. No plans for this signing
had been announced, however.
Forty-nine nations, including Ja
pan, gave conference secretary
Warren Kelchner notice by last
night that they would sign the
peace pact. Of the 52 here, that
left out only Russia, Poland and
Czechoslovakia. Technically; they
could still show up, but none of
the other delegations thought there
was the least chance they would do
so.
Development Board Head
Will Confer with Alcoa
Heads on Power Project
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Fishing Vessel Sinks
North of Ketchikan
The fishing vessel Betty sank at
midnight near Brownson Island
Reef, about 40 miles north of Ket
chikan, according to information
received here by U.S. Coast Guard
headquarters.
The vessel, belonging to Carl Esk
land, ran aground yesterday after
noon about 5 o'clock. The cutter
White Holley from Ketchikan ar
rived at the scene at 6:30 p.m. to
find the boat half submerged and
Esklnnd aboard the fishing vessel
•Caroline which was standing by.
Eskland intended to attempt to
repair the boat and float it at low
tide today but it slipped from the
rocks and sank in deep water.
Marine Cooks Will
Face Federal Court
To Answer Charges
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 8——
Charges of unfair labor practices
by the Independent Marine Cooks
and Stewards Union will be heard
in federal court Monday.
The case, originally scheduled to
open yesterday, was assigned by
Federal District Judge Edward P
Murphy to Federal Judge Dal M
Lemmon.
Accusations against the union
were filed by the National Labor
Relations Board. The MCS is
charged with intimidating and
coercing members opposing the
union's leaders and with using
the hiring hall to bar opponents
from employment.
The suit stems from a dispute
between the MCS and the AFL
Sailors Union of the Pacific and
the CIO National Maritime Union.
The MCS says the two other un
ions attempted to raid its mem
bership.
Ship Movements
Aleutian due southbound Sunday
at 4 p.m.
Alaska scheduled northbound on
Sunday evening.
Princess Louise due to sail from
Vancouver today, arriving at Juneau
Sept. 11.
• George Sundborg, general man
ager of the Alaska Development
Board, leaves next month for Pitts
burgh to confer with Aluminum
Company of America officials on the
proposed development of a large
hydroelectric plant in Alaska.
This was revealed today after an
Alcoa announcement in Seattle de
clared that the big company had not
lost interest in development of a
project in the north.
While the exact site was not
named, it was assumed to be the
Taiya vicinity near Skagway, in
which Alcoa has invested thousands
in preliminary investigations. Sund
borg said he returned from survey
work there some 10 days ago.
Location of the Kitimat project
near Prince Rupert by the Alum
inum Company of Canada hasjiot
sidetracked, but instead has in
creased Interest In the Alaska site,
said Sundborg.
The Development Board has been
working with Alcoa since 1947 or)
this development and the work, ac
cording to Sundborg, has not slack
ened in the period since Kitimat
was selected as a site for a similai
plant to be built by the Canadlai
company.
“In the Taiya project we have 1
the best opportunity existing any
where In the entire world to ob
tain a large expansion in alumi
num production at reasonable
cost." Sundborg said. “We under
stand that defense officials are
coming around to the view that
only by encouraging the construc
tion of a really large project like
Taiya can the nation be assured of
sufficient aluminum capacity to
meet the rapidly expanding needs
for this material.”
• ••••••••••
e •
• WEATHER REPORT *
• (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o’clock this morning •
• At Airport—Miximum, 63; «
• minimum, 49. «
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Cloudy with rain tonight •
• and Sunday. Southeasterly •
• winds 15 to 25 miles per hour. •
• Lowest tonight near 50 de- •
• prees and high Sunday near •
• 58. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• At Airport—.84 inches; •
• since July 1—7.10 inches. •
• ••••«••••«
Poland Protests
: r-- • __ cSSHSi-:lai
\VI;ile Kenneth Younger (left) chief British delegate talks, Stefan
YVierblowski, I’oalmTs chief delegate to the Japanees peace confer
ence, continues protesting to the then Acting Conference Chairman.
; Secretary of State Dean Achcson (center, iVar) that Poland as a
so\Vreign nation, was entitled to speak for more than five minutes.
Achcson was later chosen permanent president of the conference.
OP) Wirephoto.
$5 Billions
Added to Arms
Money Bill
Added Funds to Air
Force,- 'New Secret
Weapons' Provided
WASHINGTON, Sept, 8—W—1The 1
Senate Appropriations Committee
gave unanimous approval yesterday
to a $61,103,865,030 military money
bill, which members said provides
for secret new weapons more ter
rible than the atom bomb.
The Senate committee increased
by $5,000,000,000 the amount voted
by the House. The added funds were
earmarked for Air Force expan
sion, with a recommendation that
the Air Force be built up to at least \
| 95 groups.
I
Action Monday
Senate Democratiic Leader McFar- j
land (D-Ariz) told Senators he j
would call the bill up for Senate j
action Monday.
Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo)
said some of the funds would go
for the new secret weapons, lie
added that if Russia launched a
new world war, she would be
crushed in the same manner that
Adolf Hitler and the German Nazis
were defeated during the last war.
The big committee increase for
air power would go to the Navy and
Air Force for plans they have not
even submitted in detail to the
Congress,
More Later
Closed-door testimony,' made pub
lic after it had been censored in
many places, disclosed that Pentagon
leaders had planned to ask extra
billions later, probably in October.
As the measure reached the
Senate it carried $20,036,170,056
for the Navy and Marines.
The extra $5,000,000,000 was placed
under funds for Secretary of De
fense Marshall until the joint chiefs
of Staff, lylth Presidential approval,
submit specifications to Congress.
(orthern Scientists
)raw Applause ai
McKinley Gathering
mount McKinley nation
al PARK, Sept. 8—1>P)—Scientists
who brave the rigors of the far
wrth in quest of knowledge drew
praise at yesterday’s session of t lie
\laska Science Conference.
The session had drawn prominent
.dentists from many parts of the
world.
Dr. Kirtley F. Mather, president |
:>f the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, des
cribed the conference as a huge
success and said the scientists in
attendance are the men who will
shape the future of civilization.
He was the speaker who lauded
Arctic researchers for facing hard
ships in the search of knowledge
for the future benefit of mankind.'
Senate Raises Mail
Rates; No Hike in
Postmen's Pay
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—(if)—The
cost of sending a letter would go
lip from three to four cents under a
postal rate Increase bill passed by
the Senate last night and sent to the
House.
The measure also would make the
penny postcard only a memory,
raise airmail rates and boost charges
on other types oi mail in an effort
to swell the post office department's
revenues around $400,000,000 a year.
Kven so the department would
be left in the red. Its expenses
now outrun Us Income more than
$'■00,000,000 annually.
And it was only because the Sen
ate wrangled so long over the rate
increase bill that it failed to hike
the pay of postal workers slightly
more than $200,000,000 a year.
Senator had hoped to whi|
through an 8.8 percent salary In
crease for postal employees yester
day, but at the end of last night’s
session Majority Leader McFarland
of Arizona said it now would have
to wait until other top-priority leg
islation is out of the way.
3 Sub-Committee
Members Arriving
in Juneau at 2 P. M.
Three members of the sub-corn
mittee of the House of Representa
tives Armed Services Commute
will be in Juneau this afternoon.
They are E. L. "Bob" Bartlett
Alaska delegate to Congress; Victo
Wickersham (D-Okla.); and Huber
13. Scudder (R-Cal.i. Weather i
preventing the other five member
from arriving.
Tne committee has been In 'An
thorage, Fairbanks, and northeri
Alaska the past week inspecting njil
itary installations and conferrin
with military heads.
The Air Force Constellation it
which they are traveling is too bii
to land at Juneau in poor weathei
Capt. Don Morrison, aide to Gov
ernor Ernest Gruening, said today
Those scheduled to arrive here abou
2 p in , are being flown down in ai
Air Force B-17 furnished by Lieu
General W. E. Kepner.
Capt. Morrison said the three mer
will take off. again early tomorrov
morning to fly to the Interior, prob
ably Whitehorse, where they wil
join their party for tho- flight bad
to Washington, D.C.
Unidentified Body
Found Floating
Near Ketchikan
U. S. Coast Guard headquarter,
here today received a report tha:
the fishing vessel Sterling had pick
ed up. the body of an unidentifiec
person float off Vallenar Point or
Gravina Island about 10 miles north
of Ketchikan.
Headquarters ordered that tht
body be transported to Ketchikan
and turned over to the U. S. Com
missioner there.
3 Killed in
Alaska's 11th
Air Tragedy
One Man Thrown Clear
Engine Burst Into Flame
Nearing Eielson
FAIRBANKS. Sept. 8—(>P)—A C-47
.vith four men aboard crashed five
niles from Eielson Air Force Base
icre last night. An official said three
men were killed.
A night flying helicopter, playing
i searchlight on the wreckage, lo
cated the lone survivor, Lt. Francis
J. Parik, who had been thrown
dear of the plane when it crashed
in flames.
Lt. Col. Robert Zerbe, an Air
Force wing surgeon aboard the heli
copter, said that both Parik's legs
were broken when he was tossed
from the plnne. To attract attention,
he had built a fire of leaves while
lying helpless on the ground.
(This is Alaska's eleventh air
crash in less than seven weeks, with
the total dead and missing close to
90 persons. The series of tragedies
began July 20 when a Korean air
lift plane disappeared off Cape
Spencer with 38 aboard.)
Parik told Zerbe and the helicop
ter's pilot, Capt. Louis Erhart,
that one of the big plane’s motors
had burst out in flames while ap
proaching Eielson for a landing.
Bodies of the three other victims
were to be brought in as soon as a
rescue party could reach the wreck
age and return. The accident occur
red at 10:02 o’clock last night and
the Tenth Rescue Squadron heli
copter located the survivor an hour
and 45 mlunutes later.
Capt. Erhart said he was circling
the wreckage and shining a light on
it when he saw Parik lying on the
ground waving his arms. Erhart
landed the helicopter and Parik
was taken aboard. The survivor was
rushed to Eielson Air Force Base
where he was reported to be in scr
I ious condition.
Lnter he was taken to Elmenderf
Air Force Base at Anchorage.
Air Superiority
To Guard Against
Disaster: Air Chief
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — UR —
America has “no choice but to main
tain superiority in the air” if it Is
to guard against “the swiftest kind
of military disaster.”
That’s the way Oen. Hoyt S. Van
denberg, air force chief of staff, put
it on the line to members of the
Senate Appropriations committee,
which voted billions of dollars yes
terday to bolster the nation’s aerial
might.
Vandenberg hammered hard at
the threat of Russia’s expanding air
force. His testimony, given behind
closed doors Aug. IS, was made pub
lic by the committee after it had
approved a $61,105,865,030 military
defense .bill. More than $20,000,
'100.000 Is earmarked for the air
force.
“The first battles of an air war
may well be the decisive battles,"
Vandenberg declared. “Years are re
tired to replace air losses, and
luring those years a superior air
force could operate against us with
ncreasing destructiveness.”
Vandenberg told the committee:
"An air force of 95 wings cannot
le considered sufficient to win a
injor war by defeating superior
itrength both in the air and on
he ground. ■ A force of this kind
s intended primarily as a deterrent.
“It is hoped that such a force
night be able to stave off all-out
carfare.”
Stressing a need for a speedy
terial build-up, Vandenberg said an
iir war "cannot be won with yes
erday’s air force, for tomorrow’s air
brce may never be born under the
lounding of an air force already in
>eing today.”
American Legion
Delegate to Report
Dn Convention
Legionnaire William Liddle, the
only delegate from Juneau to the
annual American Legion convention
leld recently at Seward, will report
in the convention at a meeting of
Juneau Post No. 4 on Sept. 10 at 8
p.m. •
Post commander Vern Harris also
announced that nominations for of
ficers will be held at the meet
ing with election of officers schedul
ed for Sept. 24. Visiting legionnaires
and veterans are invited to the meet
ing. /