TTTE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,182
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9. 1951
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PRICE TEN CENTS
'Deliberate
Fabrications'
Laid to Allies
Reds Charge UN Team
Seeks Excuses; Planes
Hit White-flagged Trucks
TOKYO, Friday, —IP)—A sharp
message from the Communist com
mand last night told Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway there would be
no new violations of the Korean
conference site “unless you should
deliberately fabricate incidents as
an excuse to terminate armistice
negotiations."
The armistice talks have been
suspended since Saturday on Gen
eral Ridgway’s complaint that
armed Chinese Communist troops
entered the supposedly neutral
conference zone of Kaesong. The
Reds promised Sunday not to let
it happen again, but the supreme
United Nations commander de
manded a firm guarantee before
agreeing to resume the negotia
tions.
The Reds in turn have accused
the Allies of violating the zone.
The latest Red reply, broad
cast by the Peiping radio late
Thursday night, said Red guards
again had been ordered to "ad
here strictly” to the neutrality
agreement around Kaesong.
It invited the Allied delegates
to return to Kaesong.
However, it then raised the
question of the Allies fabricating
incidents.
we wuiii oiuji
It added, "On our part, we def
initely will not terminate the
negotiations rashly and irrespon
sibly without going through the
procedural steps of protest, inves
tigation, consultation and settle
ment should a similar failure on
your part occur.”
The Red reply, signed by Gener
als Kim II Sung and Peng Teh
Huai, was first broadcast in Chi
nese.
As translated into English by
hearers in Tokyo, it omitted the
"deliberately fabricate” ang);
and sounded generally much
more polite in tone than the of
ficial English version which was
heard a little later.
The English version is regarded
as the official one, however. The
U. N. command distributed it to
correspondents.
Allied Violation
Red China’s broadcast came a
few hours after Communists pro
tested Allied planes had violated
a safe conduct pledge for truce
convoys.
Top Communist negotiator, Lt.
Gen. Nam II, said a truce truck
bearing white flags was machine
gunned Tuesday enroute from
Kaesong to the Red capital at
Pyongyang.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, head
of the U. N. truce delegation,
promptly rejected the protest as
invalid. He said Reds had not an
nounced the time and route the
truck would travel, as required.
And Joy openly wondered whe
ther the Reds “are abusing the
use of white markings,” supposed
to be used exclusively by truce
teams.
RETURNS TO WRANGELL
Lew Williams Jr., returned to
Wrangell yesterday after being in
Juneau for the picnic last Sunday.
TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(CoDrrlKbt. 1951. D7 Bell Broaicite. Inc.
Washington. — This week
the un-American activities com
mittee will unfold the story of a
Communist spy ring in Japan
which sent the innermost secrets
of the Tokyo High Command back
to Moscow.
This is an important story and
the public needs to know about
it. However, it’s also important
that the public realize that a lot
of the current Communist spy
news, now making headlines, is
extremely old and warmed-ovei
hash. The story about the spy
ring in Japan, for instance, was
told in this column almost three
years ago—Dec. 21, 1948.
Incidentally, one reason the story
was never officially released by
the U. S. government was that
General MacArthur would not au
thorize it. In December 1948, the
late Secretary of Defense Forrestal
cabled MacArthur asking for a
release, but it was not given.
However, here is the vitally im
portant story, as told in this col
umn on Dec. 21, 1948, and about
(Continued on Page Four)
Russ Knew, Several Months
Ahead, of Pearl Harbor
Attack, Says Japanese
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. —(i,P»—
Japan's top investigating officer
testified today the Russians knew
several months before Pearl Har
bor of the Japanese plan to strike
at the United States and Britain
in the Pacific.
The House Unamerican Activi
ties committee drew this testi
mony from Mitsusada Yoshikawa,
chief of the special investigating
bureau of the Japanese attorney
general's office.
The House group and a Senate
subcommittee were simultaneously
holding separate hearings revolv
ing about activities of a Soviet
spy ring, headed by Richard Sorge,
which operated in Japan before
and during World War II.
Overruled
Before the Senators, Maj. Gen.
Charles Willoughby testified he
sought in 1949 to “unmask” the
activities of members of this spy
ring but was overruled by military
authorities in Washington.
Yoshikawa testified that Sor
ge’s spy apparatus sent a mes
sage to Moscow early in Octo
ber, 1941, while U. S.-Japanese
peace talks were going on in
Washington. He quoted it as ad
vising that “if America refuses
to compromise by the middle of
October, Japan will attack Am
erica, the Malay countries, Sing
apore and Sumatra.”
Willoughby, former military in
telligence chief under Gen. Doug
las MacArthur, gave his testimony
before the Senate Internal Secur
ity subcommittee. It is looking
into the question of whether there
have been subversive influences
on U. S. foreign policy.
Willoughby said “the best le
gal American talent In Tokyo”
had approved as proper evidence
a report naming writer Guen
ther Stein and the late Agnes
Smedley as members of a Soviet
spy ring in Japan.
He said Mrs. Smedley conducted
"a smear campaign" against the
report, which he had made pub
lic, and that "the war department
public relations officer, In my re
collection, and the Secretary of
war’s office, then under Mr. Roy
all” squelched the report as a re
sult.
Repudiated
He said the report met a fate of
"Indirect repudiation" when these
men "indicated this report never
should have been published.”
Kenneth C. Royall, now a New
York and Washington lawyer, was
Secretary of War at the time.
“No action ever was taken,”
i Willoughby said. “Smedley nev
i er sued for libel (as she had
i threatened), and the case died
| for lack of further attention."
The committee has taken testi
mony that both Mrs. Smedley and
Stein were connected with the In
stitute of Pacific Relations, pri
vate research organization foun
ded in the 1920s with the announ
ced objective of studying Par East
ern problems.
Willoughby said Stein was “thor
oughly implicated" in the spy ring.
He described Stein as an “itin
! erant journalist” and said he be
came a British citizen in Hong
Kong in 1941.
I t9s Cold Up There ——
West Face Trek Completes
McKinley Exploration
BOSTON. Aug. 9—(At—This sum
mer's expedition into the unexplor
ed west face of Mount McKinley.
North America’s highest peak, has
completed exploration of the moun
tain. Bradford Wasburn, director of
the Boston Museum of Science, an
nounced today.
Washburn, who completed his
third ascent of the 20,270 foot peak,
returned home from Alaska yester
day. The trek was sponsored jointly
by the Museum and University of
Denver.
He said the expedition complet
ed a three-fold purpose of finish
ing a map of McKinley being pre
pared by the Museum, getting a
complete photographic record of
the west face, and conducting a
thorough geological survey of the
area.
The director said the expedition
benefited so from lessons learned on
the last one in 1947 that there were
no casualties this time.
Hardest Trek
The difficult part of the climb,
Washburn said, was from 15,000 to
17,200 feet. For a third of a mile
the advance party had to shovel
through waist-deep snow.
Thereafter the party chopped
steps up an icy 50-foot incline,
setting 800 feet of rope as they
worked up. The first trip up the
slope took four hours, and the
second, with the aid of ropes, only
45 minutes.
At times the fog was so thick.
Washburn said, the party had to
use instruments on the ascent.
B-r-r-r!
Washburn said that at Denali
pass, where the new western route
joins the usual Muldrow Glacier
route, a thermometer had registered
59 degrees below zero.
McKinley’s summit was reached
by the three-man advance party
July 10, and by the rest of the ex
pedition July 13 and 14.
This recent ascent of McKinley
was the first time the mountain has
been climbed by any route other
than the Mudrow Glacier route,
Washburn said.
Judge Denies
Injunction to
Close Fish Trap
Judge George W. Folta for the
second time has denied a prelimin
ary injunction in the case of the
Libby, McNeill and Libby fish trap
at Sukkwan. It will be allowed to
continue to operate.
U. S. Attorney Patrick J. Gilmore,
Jr., received the decision yesterday
from Anchorage where Folta is
holding court in the absence of
Judge Anthony J. Dimond.
Gilmore went to Anchorage last
Friday and presented the renewed
application for a preliminary in
junction to the court Saturday
morning for the government which
is the plaintiff in the case. It had
previously been denied May 15, in
Juneau.
The government contends that
the trap is located within the Hyda
burg Indian reservation, set up some
time ago by the Department of In
terior.
Validity Questioned
In handing down his decision
yesterday Judge Folta sustained
the defendant’s contention con
cerning the doubtful validity of
the executive order setting up
the reservation. He held that if
granted, the injunction would re
sult in “far greater loss and hard
ship” for the defendant than for
| the plaintiff. Also that the plain
I tiff could be adequately compen
sated in money if courts later up
held the cause of the government.
Tax Collector
Brown Sentenced
To lVl Years
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 9, —
Archie L. Brown, convicted of
embezzling $4,350 in Alaska tax
funds, was sentenced by U. 8.
District Judge George Folta yes
terday to 2M years in the Mc
Neil Island, Wash., federal pris
on.
Brown was freed on $5,000 bail
pending arguments on a motion
for a new trial. He formerly was
deputy territorial tax collector
in Anchorage.
Italian Flood
In Wild Rampage
COMO, Italy, Aug. 9—UFi—At least
19 persons have been killed in a
flood which continued its wild ram
page in this area today after 36
hours of heavy rain. Several score
are reported injured or missing, and
one village is completely isolated.
Seventeen of the deaths were
caused by the breaking of the Do
maso dike, which sent a great wall
of water crashing into Gera Lario,
a village of 700 people.
W. C. Arnold and R. E. Robertson
appeared In court lor the defend
ants.
It is expected the case will be
carried over to the next term of
court in the First Division.
All-Time Record Hit
In Territorial
Tax Collections
• ANCHORAGE, Aug. 9—(jW— •
• Alaska tax collections amount- •
• ing to $8,000,000 in the first •
• seven months of 1951 have set •
• an all-time record, Territorial •
• Tax Commissioner M. P. Mul- •
• laney announced today. •
• He said collections indicated •
• the Territorial treasury would •
• have a surplus on hand by the •
• end of the 1952 fiscal biennium. •
A Appropriations made by the •'
• 1951 legislature for the bien- •
• nium came to $19,000,000. *
• The $8,024,747.75 collected in •
• taxes through July 31 waa more •
• than half the entire total for •
• the 1949-50 biennium. •
• ••••••••• a
U. S.-Canadian
Road Swap
Not Dead Issue
The four-year-old "road swap”
between the United States and
Canada is not a dead issue. This
was indicated today by Ralph
Borwne, assistant general mana
ger of the Alaska Development
Board.
On a recent trip to Victoria, B.
C., Browne conferred with Hon. E.
C. Carson, minister of public
works for British Columbia who
again brought up the matter.
The roads Involved would be the
Haines Cut-Off from the Alaska
boundary above Haines to Haines
Junction, and a 25 to 30 mile
stretch along the British Colum
bia-Washington border from Lau
rier, Wash, to Rossland, B. C.
British Columbia is constructing
a new highway along its south
ern border and in the area be
tween Laurier and Rossland, moun
tainous formation would make it
more practicable for the Canad
ians to swing their highway into
Washington state, it was explained.
—CKrsoir teld. JBipwne he had sent
the proposal to go<ernTi.'eut Aifc—2•
quarters at Ottawa, but the matter
has not yet been formally presen
ted to the United States.
Advantage of the states acquir
ing the Haines Cut-Off would be
the possibility of earlier opening
of the highway each season. The
American section has generally
been open several weeks in ad
vance of tire, Canadian.
Charges Made
Against Four in
Shooting Scrape
Mike Fuchs and Ralph Littlefield,
figures in a shooting fray at Lemon
Creek Tuesday afternoon, were ar
rested and charged with careless
use of firearms yesterday afternoon.
Littlefield is in St. Ann’s Hospital
where Dr. C. C. Carter, his physic
ian said he was improving. Little
field received four buckshot pellets
in the neck, shoulder, face, and had
one tooth knocked out.
Fuchs is being held in federal
jail under $500 bond.
Two women involved were Verlna
Ginnett, who occupied a cabin at
Lemon Creek near Fuchs. She
pleaded guilty in Commissioner’s
Court on a charge of drunk and dis
orderly conduct and was given a
four months suspended Jail term.
Another woman, Nellie Benson,
concerned in the fracas but who
was unreported yesterday, pleaded
guilty today on a similar charge
and was given a similar sentence.
John Monagle, of the Territorial
Highway Patrol, was among the first
on the scene of the shooting. He
assisted Deputy Marshal Sidney J.
Thompson in bringing Littlefield to
the hospital.
Complaints against the four were
signed by Thompson.
CONCERT ASSOCIATION
MEETING CALLED
To reorganize the Concert As
sociation, officers have called a
meeting to be held Tuesday at 8
p.m. in the Elks Hall.
•
• WEATHER FORECAST •
• Temperature for 24-Hour Period I
• ending a:20 o'clock thle morning •
• At Airport: Maximum, 61; •
• minimum, 50. •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vlcinltr) •
• Continued fair tonight and •
• Friday. Low tonight near 48 •
• degrees and high Friday near •
• 70. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Put 24 hours ending 7:30 ».m. today •
• At Airport — 0.01 inches; •
• since July 1—3.19 inches. •
• •••••••••*
This Stopped Peace Talks
Appearance of these armed Chinese troops who marched within three-quarters of a mile from jthe CN
peace hous'e in Kaesong during a noon recess of the 19th peace meeting, caused Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway, supreme commander, to call a halt In th e meeting. The gen'eral demanded an explanation
apology, if) Wlrephoto.
Foreign Aid
May Suffer
Billion (uf
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.— Ufl —A
House committee reportedly has
agreed tentatively to lop $1,000,000,
000 from President Truman's $8,
500,000,000 foreign aid program and
place the entire program under a
new high-level official.
" suhifirt toimpossible
reversal later—was reported” TSM
night by members of the House
Foreign Affairs committee. Although
some members were' absent when
! the agreement, was reached yester
day at a closed door Session, those'
i present’ said they didn't expect a
reversal. •
The committee plan would place
both economic and military aid
under a new administrator, ap
pointed by the President and con
firmed by the Senate. He would
be responsible only to the Presi
dent but would work closely with
the State and Defense Depart
ments.
Such a plan could be expected to
gain support from Republican forces
which have been pressing for re
moval of foreign aid direction from
Secretary of State Acheson.
Committee members said the
proposed money ruts would hit
both military and economic aid.
So far, most of the talk in Con
gress has centered on reductions
in the economic side of the pro
gram.
Meanwhile, a brisk Senate fight
appeared brewing over the Presi
dent’s program of military and ec
onomic aid to Formosa, island
stronghold of the Chinese National
ists.
Chairman Connally (D-Tex) of
the Foreign Relations committee,
holding hearings on the administra
tion’s foreign aid plan, said flatly:
“I don’t think Formosa needs mili
tary aid when Chiang Kai Shek Is
there. If Chiang can’t protect For
mosa, he can't protect much.”
No More'Lazy Q'
Brands - They'll be
'Lazy Hotpoint' Now
MOSCOW, Idaho, Aug. 9.— <P> —
Another trademark of the old west
may be on the verge of passing.
The. old-time branding iron
heated over an open fire and stamp
ed into cattle hides—may be replac
ed by an electric branding iron.
Experiments for developing the
electric branding iron are being con
ducted by Marv Meyers, Sugar City
stockman, and William H. Knight,
project director for the Idaho Farm
Electrification Committee.
ARRIVES HERE TO
LIVE WITH SISTER
Miss Dorothy Grimes, formerly of
Seattle, arrived in Juneau Monday
on the Aleutian.
She will make her future home
here with her sister, Mrs. Jean
Marsh, a secretary in the Governor’s
offioe.
Miss Grimes is a stenographer.
— EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY —
'Forced to Squeal'
On Teammates, Says
West Point Cadet
WEST POINT, N. Y., Aug. 9,—
lift—Harold Loehlein, captain-elect,
ol Army's 1951 football team, said
today he was forced, with the
threat of prison, to "squeal-' on
his teammates in the exam-crib
bing scandal at the U. S. hiilitary
academy.
The Kimball, Minn., youth, one
of 90 facing dismissal for viola
tion of the academy's honor code,
told his story In a by-line article
written Tor'thi New York Journ
al-Tfmvi ----
“They kept hammering~al~niP7~
he related. /‘Even if I knew my
Hghth, which I now know,I would
hate told my part in the cheating.
But I wouldn't have told ibout
the others. I cljd'rft tvdnt to squeal
on tnv teammates.'’
y •.!. )
Loehlein said he was handed a
long sheet of pa pee by the exam
ining colonel and told to check
the names of those who cribbed.
"I checked 20 names,” he said.
Academy Coach to
Slay-Wants 'People
To Understand'
NEW YORK, Aug. 9, — (iW— Earl
(Red) Blaik announced today he
planned to continue as head coach
at the United States Military Ac
ademy where his football squad
has been shattered by an exam
cribbing expose.
The 54-year old retired colonel,
coach of the Army for the last
ten years, made the announce
ment at a two-hour press oorifer
ence attended by some 40 fans
and sports writers.
“I feel I can best make the
people understand these boys
and their problems and that I
can do thjf/pfapef thing for our
fine institution,” the head coach
said in his statement.
During the interview, Blaik said
that approximately 50 percent of
the 90 involved cadets were ath
letes and “that all but a few of
his 45-man football squad "were
included.”
Cannery Workers
Union Agent
Ordered Deported
SEATTLE, Aug. 9.—(#1—An order
directing that Ernesto Arcebal Man
gaoang be deported from the United
States was received today by the
District Immigration Office here.
District Director John P. Boyd
said the orders from Washington,
D. C., is an outcome of hearings
held earlier in Seattle into past act
ivities of Mangaoang, business agent
for the Alaska Cannery Workers
Union, Local 7-C, International
Longshoremen and Warehousemen's
Union (Independent.)
Mangaoang will have 15 days to
appeal to the Board of Immigration
Appeals. The order charges that he
1 was a member of the. Communist
Party. It is the first case here in
volving a deportation order under
the MeCarran Act.
Mangaoang is a citizen of the
Philippine Islands,
Forest Fires
Uncontrolled
Along Border
Canadian Fire Sweeps
Into Washington; Olym
pic Flames ''Corralled"
By the Associated Press
Canadian forest fires along the
international border continued on
the rampage today while fire light-1
ers appeared to have gained the up
per hand over an Olympic National
Forest blaze.
District Ranger Sanford Floe of
the Olympic Forest said this morn
ing the .Soleduck fire there “Is in a
state of flux. We can’t say It’s under
control, but at least we have it cor
raled.”
A heavy overcast yesterday and
this morning aided the fire crews.
The blase rovers an estimated 1,
500 acres, with about 20 acres of
it inside the Olympic National
Park.
A crew of 175 men whs fighting
the fire in the “dynamite dry" woods
trying to hold it within natural bar
riers.
Fire fighters called for reinforce
ments against two blazes near
Grand Forks. B. C. Flaming embers
were reported carrying as much as
a quarter of a mile. There already
were 1,300 men on the fire lines in
that region, with the town of Grand
Folrks drained of physically fit men.
The flames have swept across the
border into the Colville National
Forest in northeastern Washington
We Know Just How
You Feel About II
SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 9, —
OB—-The Sydney Sun reported to
day that southeastern Australia
has been hit by Its heaviest snow
fall.
Hobart, Tasmania, its street;
covered with two and one half
inches of snow, reported a temp
erature of 28.9 degrees—coldest in
49 years.
Melbourne had two snow fall;
this morning and Geelong, Vic
toria, reported the first snowfall
in 50 years.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Aug. 9—OB—lClosinf
quotation of American Tel. & Tel
157%, Anaconda 45%, Douglas Air
craft 51, General Electric 57'i. Gen
eral Motors 49%, Goodyear 92
Northern Pacific 47'%, Standard Oi.
of California 48 %, Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 20 '4, U. S. Steel 41%
Pound 2.79 15/16, Canadian Ex
change 95.12%.
Sales today were 1,500.000 shares
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 262.69, rails 81.39, util
ities 45.34.
FROM TEXAS
R. S. Sample, George J. Darn
eille and Bill Lawrence, all of
Houston Texas, are Juneau visi
tors. They are stopping at the
Baranof Hotel,
Oil Slick Seen
Near Yakufal;
Storis lo Drag
Clearing Weather Sends
Air Search Forward
Bones Shipped East
A small oil slick was spotted late
yesterday In Yakutat. Bay by a rov
ing Fish and Wildlife Service plane,
and investigations went forward
Immediately to determine its pos
sible connection with the two miss
ing planes being sought in the area.
The Coast Guard cutter Storis
was to begin operations today in the
vicinity.
A C-54 transport, chartered from
the Canadian Pacific Airlines for
the Korean airlift, has been lost
since July 20 with 38 aboard. The
plane was last heard from off Cape
Speqcer enroute to Anchorage.
Maurice King, pilot of a Norseman
craft, with Mrs. Walter A. Wood and
her 18-year-old daughter Valerie as
passmrscriT, have bees missing since
July 27. King was flying for the
Arctic Institute, which was conduct
ing research on M(alaspina and
Seward Glaciers.
To 180 Feet
The area where the slick was seen
Is dotted with shoals and reefs, and
ranges to 180 feet in depth. Coast
Guard headquarters here said. They
had no information as to its size
or Intensity.
It was located between Yakutat
Village and Khantaak, according to
the Storis. Headquarters here locat
ed Khantaak Island two miles from
Yakutat.
MeRnwhile, six sorties were flown
by six search aircraft out of Yaku
tat yesterday, for a total of 32
hours, with from 30 to 75 percent
effectiveness reported.
Areas covered Included Bering,
Miles, Seward, Malasplna and
Martin River (lacier*, and the
fpiiowta* «Wfl
1,1 r and St. Ellas. Waxell Rldfe
and Icy and Disenchantment Bays
-ware, also scanned,..,
Eighteen planes were expected up
today as weather cleared over the
search area. Dr. Terris Moore, pre
sident of the University of Alaska,
arrived last night in Yakutat with
his ski-equipped plane to aid in
the search for the missing Norse
man.
Bone Shipped
The leg bone discovered several
days ago near Yakutat was to be
shipped today to Washington, D.
C. for positive ‘identification. It
was said here to be from a hu
man, but later examination pro
nounced it as not having come
from a man or woman.
An 18-inch-long section of a spin
al cord, found across Monti Bay
from where the leg bone was seen,
was wrapped with the latter. Re
ports from New Jersey and New
York said that Juneau sources had
identified it as a ‘‘female human
backbone.”
Pronouncement that the leg bone
'did not seem human” put grave
doubts that the discovery had any
connection with the missing airlift
plane. Coast Guard headquarters
maintained from the time of finding
the object that they did not consider
it a clue.
Manson-Osberg
Low Bidders on
Ketchikan Read
Manson-Osberg Company of Se
attle were low bidders on recon
struction of 6.9 miles of road north
of Ketchikan.
Bids were opened at 9 o’clock this
morning in the office of Hugh Stod
dart, division engineer, for the Bur
eau of Public Roads.
The road work includes widening
and crushed-rock surfacing of the
road from Ketchikan to Whipple
Creek.
The Manson-Osberg bid was $1,
939,350. Other bidders and amounts
bid were: Wilder-Dawson Construc
tion Co., of Ketchikan, $2,060,569;
Stock and Grove Construction Co.,
Anchorage, $2,199,577, Morrison
Knudson Co., Seattle. $2,261,107.
and Carl M. Halvorson Co.. Portland
$2,793,124.
TIDE TABLES
• AUGUST 10
•
• Low tide 12:41 a m.. 1.6 ft.
• High tide 6:40 am., 11.9 ft.
• Low tide 12:28 p.m., 4.4 ft.
• High tide 6:46 p.m., 15.5 ft.
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