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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,838
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1951
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Pacific Coast Shipping Is Reported Tied Up
SABRE JETS
IN BATTLES
OYER KOREA
Outnumbered American
Planes Destroy 6 Russian
Type, Damage Others
By Associated Press
Outnumbered American Sabre
jets destroyed six Russian-type Jets
and damaged eight others in two big
air battles over Korea yesterday
and today.
A total of 118 planes were in
volved in the sudden revival of jet
warfare.
Sixteen Red jets made a third
stab at four Sabre jets Monday
afternoon — but kept at a safe dis
tance. They fired twice on the F-86s,
then streaked back across the Yalu
river into the safety of Manchuria.
All American planes returned safe
ly, Far East Air Forces said.
New Ground Offensive
Reappearance of the Red jets in
force coincided with indications the
Chinese may be preparing a new
ground offensive.
Red troops suddenly appeared in
territory they had previously de
serted. Replacements steadily filter
ed down from the north for holding 1
troops all along the front.
Fierce Red defenses checked Al
lied moves in the center of the line.
But Allied patrols Monday drove
more than three miles into Red ter
ritory in the west and gained slight
ly over a mile in the east.
Tanks On Patrols
The UN armored tank patrols
rumbled up the west side of the for
mer- Red “iron triangle,” shooting
at small Communist bands on the
Way. Another armored patrol trying !
to push up the east side from Kurah
wa w'as forced back by road mines
and mortar fire.
Small fights broke out all along
the west and center. A briefing of
ficer said Reds were still fighting
a delaying type of warfare. (!
Machinegun Fire
In the east, North Korean ma
chinegun fire three times drove UN
troops back from a commanding
ridgeline, but Reds suddenly aband
oned another ridge for which they
had fought fiercely Sunday.
Fighter bombers raked every
strong point as the Fifth Air Force j
mounted 490 sorties in daylight Mon
day, including the jet flights along j
the northwestern Korean border.
JACK DAVIS HERE
Jack Davis, retiring VFW Depart
ment Commander, arrived today
from the VFW convention in Ket
chikan and is stopping over in Ju
neau for a few days before return
ing to Anchorage.
AT THE HOTEL JUNEAU
Dr. Fred Onsinger is staying at
the Hotel Juneau.
—
The cork oak tree takes 20 years
to produce usable bark.
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW FEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. Dr Bell Synaicate, Inc.
TFaSHINGTON. — If a Congres
sional committee ever digs deep
enough into the China lobby, it will
find an amazing, almost unbeliev
able, propaganda network aimed at
influencing our foreign policy. If
the British Embassy ever operated
such a network, the Chicago Tri
bune and other Isolationists would
scream to high heaven and the
British Ambassador w'ould be re
caneu.
However, the China lobby has
been getting away with it for years
It has been bald-faced and brazen
in its moves to contribute to cer
tain Senators' campaigns, to hire
powerful figures in the Democratic
party, and to place slanted news
articles with the press.
Heart and nerve center of the
China lobby is the Bank of China
in New York City. Its master-mind
is the brother-in-law of Chiang
Kai-Shek. Dr. H. H. Kung, one of j
the wealthiest men in the world,
who lives in Riverdale, N. Y., and
drives into his office at the Bank
Of China two or three times a week.
Another brother-in-law of the
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MEETING OF THE WATERS — Yolande Betbeae,
Miss America of 1950, pours water from Hudson River into Seine
symbolising Franco-American friendship on bl-millenium of Paris.'
Eiffel Tower and miniature Statue of Liberty are in background
GEORGE SULLIVAN
INSTALLED HEAD
TERRITORIAL VFW
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 18—
t/Pi— Deputy U. S. Marshal George
Sullivan of Nenana was installed,
as comtfTarider of the Alaska De
partment of the Veterans of For
eign Wars Saturday.
He succeeds Charles J. Davis of
Anchorage. Delegates to the VFW
convention named Anchorage as the
site of next year’s conclave.
Other new officers are Thomas
Strachan, Anchorage, senior vice
commander: Harold Fennel, Juneau,
junior vice commander; John Fen
man, Fairbanks, judge advocate;
William Jackson, Juneau, surgeon;
R. Alleman, Anchorage, chaplain,
and J, C. Dodd, Juneau, quarter
master adjutant.
GUIDE IS KILLED,
FREAK ACCIDENT,
ON FAMOUS TRAIL
GRAND CANYON. Ariz., June 18
—(.PI—A guide died yesterday of in
juries received when the mule on
which he and another guide were
riding fell from the Bright Angel
trail. The death was the first re
corded in many years on the trail.
No visitor to the Grand- Canyon
has ever been killed as the result
of a trail accident, although an
average of 8,000 a year take the trip
down the mile-deep Grand Canyon
on the Colorado river.
Lee Smith, 52, believed to have
been from Aurora, Mo., was the
victim of a freak trail accident.
He had been a trail guide here since
1945.
Smith and another guide, Lee W.
Roberts, 50, had gone about 100
yards down the trail to assist a
third guide who was having a bit
of trouble lining up some un
mounted mules. They started back
up the trail and their doubly-loaded
mule lost its footing, rolled to the
next switchback of the trail about
50 feet down.
Smith and Roberts were brought
to the hospital here and Smith died
sbme five hours later.
More than 100 tourists were lined
up at the top of the trail at the
time of the accident.
Smith’s wife, Bertha, and a daugh
ter, Betty, work for the Fred Har
vey Company here. A son, Lee, Jr.,
is in Ketchikan, Alaska.
MONDAY FIRE CALL
The fire call at 2:10 this morn
ing was for a fire in the Seaview
Apartments. Blankets on a bed in
apartment were evidently set on
fire by a cigarette. The tenant was
not in his apartment at the time
of the fire.
PALMER VISITOR
Earl J. Smith of Palmer is reg
istered at the Earanof Hotel.
MORATORIUM FOR
MINING DOUBTFUL
DECLARES REGAN
WASHINGTON, June 18 —lift—
A new drive to give some sort of re
iki iti muring maim holders who are
required to do $100 worth of assess
ment work on their claims each year
is shaping up in Congress.
It appeared today however that
such a drive may face heavy going.
For many years Congress annually
granted a ''moratorium” suspending
the assessment work requirement.
Last year it granted only a three
months' extension — from July 1 to
October 1—for completing the work.
Rep. Regan, chairman of the
House Interior Affairs Mining sub
committee, says several bills have
been introduced in this Congress to
grant another assessment work mor
atorium.
He told a reporter, however, that
after conferring with members of
the subcommittee, he had definitely
decided against considering any such
legislation.
The Interior Affairs committee,
when seeking extension of the three
month time extension bill last year,
“definitely pledged” to Congress that
there would be no further morator
iums, Regan said.
CHARGESMADE BY
ADMINISTRATOR OF
RFC SYMINGTON
WASHINGTON, June 18, — (J) —
Administrator Stuart Symington of
the Reconstruction Finance Corpor
ation charged today a former RFC
official, Allen E. Freeze, 52, of Dal
las, accepted employment from an
RFC borrower at the same time
RFC was employing him at $10,750
a year.
Symington told a news confer
ence he has referred the case to the
Justice Department for possible
prosecution on criminal charges and
he has instructed RFC’s general
counsel to bring a civil suit against
Freeze.
Freeze resigned as assistant, cump
| troller of the RFC last September
28 to become Vice President and
Comptroller of the Texmass Corp.,
Dallas, at a salary of $22,500 a year.
The salary since has been raised,
Symington said.
He added that at least five
months before leaving the RPC,
Freeze “accepted a salary’ from
Texmass and “carried on business
with and for (Texmass) from his
office at the RFC."
Symington said evidence dug up
by' RPC investigators consists of 20
documents presented by Texmass
between April 18 and June 15, 1950,
signed by Freeze, among other of
ficials, as a Vice President of the
borrowing concern.
Diamond engagement . .igs were
j used in the Middle Ages.
TENSION IN
BERING SEA
STRIKE RISES
BSFU AccusesAFU, Alaska
Salmon Industry of
Strike-Breaking
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 18 —
(.#— Tension was reported mounting
today in the strike-bound BristpJ
Bay area as charges of "strike-i
breaking tactics" were hurled at tli^
Alaska Fishermen’s Union find) and
the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc.
The accusations were made by of
ficials of the striking Bering Sea
Fishermen’s Union (Ind), whose
1,400 resident members walked out'
two weeks ago In support of de
mands for union recognition.
Jim Downey of Dillingham, chair
man of the Bering Sea union’s
negotiating committee, said feeling
had become so bitter “that resident
fishermen in Bristol Bay may drive
non-resident AFU members out of
the area altogether if they continue
their strike-breaking operations.”
Will File Charges
(In a companion development at
Seattle, Jtyhn Geisness, attorney for
the striking union, said he had noti
fied the National Labor Relations
Board in Washington, D. C., that
unfair labor practice charges against
the Salmon Industry would be re
instated. The formal notice of rein
statement was filed with the re-1
gional NLRB office in Seattle today.
(The Bering Sea union charged
the ASI with giving illegal assist
ance to the rival AFU, which it des
cribed as a "company union “ Tk«
charge was amended recently to
permit the NLRB to rule on a Ber
ing Sea union petition for collective
bargaining rights election. No deci
sion has been handed down yet by
the board, and today's reinstatement
of charges would appear designed
to forestall any action on the pe
tition. Geisness did not disclose the
reason for the change in strategy
by his union).
Cross Picket Lines
The ‘strike-breaking" accusation
came after AFU members crossed
picket lines at Ekuk to take salmon
to a Libby, McNeill and Libby can
nery.
Downey said AFU used beachmen,
truck drivers and cook house crews
for cannery workers in “an attempt
to break the BSFU’s solid front."
He further charged that the AFU
and the Salmon Industry used
strike-breaking tactics in unloading
cannery supplies from the freighter
Nadina at Naknek.
(In Seattle, George Johansen,
AFU secretary-treasurer, said AFU
members were ignoring the Bering
Sea picket lines and would continue
to do so.
Strike Against AFU
"We couldn't do anything else.
The strike is as much against us as
the Industry. The Bering Sea people
are trying to take over our juris
diction," he explained. Johansen
went on to say that it always has
been the practice of AFU members
to go aboard ships and help with
unloading in Bristol Bay).
The Bering Sea union broke away
from the AFU several months ag6 in
opposition to what officials said
were efforts to have the AFU af
filiate with the Harry Bridges-led
West Coast Longshoremen.
ORDERS ELECTION
SEATTLE, June 18 —(AV— The Na
tional Labor Relations Board an
nounces it had ordered a bargain
ing rights election within 60 days
among some 2,600 Bristol Bay, Alas
ka fishermen — 1,400 of whom had
been on strike since June 1.
The order may bring a quick end
to the strike of the Bering Sea
Fishermen’s Union (Indi against
the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc.,
for union recognition.
All the strikers are resident Bristol
Bay fishermen. But the order issued
by the NLRB in Washington, D. C.,
and dated June 15 directed that both
resident and non-resident fishermen
be permitted to vote.
The Bering Sea union petitioned
the NLRB last January for a collec
tive bargaining election and asked
that the bargaining unit be limited
to the 1,400 resident fishermen. This
was denied.
Provision of Order
Provisions of the order appeared
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80 VESSELS
TIED UP AT
US WHARVES
Water Shipping Hard Hit
as Result of Labor
DisputtS
NEW,YORK. June 18 — UP— The
CIO National Maritime union
claimed today that about 80 ships
that should be on the high seas were
"sitting still” in port as a result of
labor disputes that tied up every
major waterfront in the nation.
An NMU spokesman said the 80
included ships at Galveston, Hous
ton, New Orleans, Port Arthur and
other gulf and east coast ports.
Sailing of the American export
liner Elmira Victory for Trieste was
cancelled today, the first ship in the
port of New York to be affected.
Two other American export ships,
the Exbrook and Exermont. are
scheduled to sail tomorrow, but line
officials said it was doubtful whe
ther they would be able to leave.
All three are combined passenger
and cargo ships.
The Bernstein liner Europa, under
Panama registry, docked on sched
ule today. It carries a foreign crew,
not affected by the maritime tieup.
Meantime, Federal mediators
| charted new efforts to settle the
no-contract, no-work diputes.
The three-coast work stoppages,
which started early Saturday, exert
ed their full impact at the start of
the work week today.
Only Korean war and other vital
defense cargoes were moving,
r* An official of the CTO National
Maritime union said yesterday that
no more American passenger ships
carrying tourist trade would sail un
til the contract dispute is settled.
HOSPITAL NOTES
Admitted to St. Ann's Hospital
Saturday were Roger Walker. Dorio
Neira, Francis Riendeau; admitted
Sunday were E. M. Spence, Eugene
Lundstrum; discharged Saturday
was Dorothy Wlckstrom; discharged
Sunday were Mrs. Elwin Wright
and baby girl; Mrs. Vivian Wirta.
Born Saturday morning at 9:15'
at St. Ann’s Hospital to Mrs. An
thony Thomas, a girl weighing 7
pounds. Two babies were born at
the hospital Monday morning: to
Mrs. Wayne Purtelas of Yakutat at
12:30, a girl weighing 6 pounds 6
ounces; to Mrs. Emerick Kauzlar
ich at 7:20, a boy weighing 7 pounds
10 ounces.
Admitted to the Government
Hospital Saturday was Agnes Jacob,
Haines. There were no discharges.
THREE FISHING BOATS
HAVE ENGINE TROUBLE
Three fishing vessels in three
widely separated Alaskan areas re
ported engine trouble to U. S. Coast
Guard headquarters here today.
The Clarice, a 42-footer was dis
abled at Mite Cove at the mouth of
Llslanslci Inlet with five men
aboard. The 83-foot C. G. Cutter
is enroute to tow it to Juneau.
The cutter Cahoone from Sitka
is enroute to the aid of the Hia
watha, an 88-foot vessel with two
men aboard and engines out.
The Northwind is proceeding to
the aid of the fishing vessel BC
Lady 150 miles east of Kodiak. Its
engines, have failed. There are eight
men aboard.
PELICAN VISITOR
C. A. Bower of the Standard Oil
Co. from Pelican is stopping at the
Baranof Hotel.
S! S
NEW YORK, June 18 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
111%, American Tel. and Tel. 154.
Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft
46%, General Electric 55%, General
Motors 48%, Goodyear 79%-, Kenne
cott 76, Libby, McNeill and Libby
8%, Northern Pacific 4i%, Standard
Oil of California 47%, Twentieth
Century Fox 18%, U. S. Steel 41%,
Pound 82.80%, Canadian Exchange
93.50.
Sales today were 1,050.000 shares
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 263.80, mils 79.64, utili
ties 42.71,
New Doctor For Petersburg
Dr. and Mrs. Russell C. Smith boarding the Alaska Steamship Com
pany steamer Alaska in Seattle just before sailing time, 4 p.m., June
13, enroute from Barron, Wisconsin, to their new home in Peters
burg, Alaska. In addition to continuing his medical practice there,
where there has been no doctor for several years, Smith expects to
hunt some of Alaska's bountiful game with items from his world
famous collection of 272 modern high powered rifles which he values
at $80,000. (Alaska Steamship Co. photo)
NAVY GOVERNOR i
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Navy Chief Storekeeper Frederick
A. Pohst (above) of Pueblo, Colo., I
has been assigned to govern a
group of islands dotting 30,000
square miles of the far western
Pacific. Pobst is the first enlisted
man ever assigned by the Navy as
a representative of the V. 8. gov
ernment. if) Wlrephoto.
Ship Movements
Prince George from Vancouver
in port at 3 p.m. and sails for Skag
way at 11:45 p.m.
Baranof from Seattle due at 8:30
tomorrow morning.
Princess Louise from Vancouver
due tomorrow afternoon or evening.
Chilcotln scheduled to sail from
Vancouver 8 tonight.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
sail from Vancouver June 20.
Aleutian scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday but depends on re
sults of shipping strike on coast.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperature for 14-Hour Period •
• ending 6 20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau — Maximum, •
• 52: minimum, 43. •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 55; minimum, 43. •
• FORECAST •
• Partly cloudy tonight and •
• Tuesday. Lowest temperature •
• tonight near 42 degrees and •
• highest Tuesday near 60. •
• precipitation •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. todar •
• City of Juneau — .29 inches; •
• Since June 1 — 5.30 inches: •
• Since July 1 — 77.49 Inches. •
• At Airport — .05 inches: •
• Since June 1 — 3.26 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 44 67 inches. •
• •••#*♦••••
MACARTUR
INQUIRY IS
NEAR CLOSE
Four More Witnesses May
Re Called Including Gen
eral if he Desires
WASHINGTON, June 18 — UP)—
The Senate’s MacArthur inquiry
committee voted unanimously to
hear only four more witnesses and
to close the investigation ‘‘at the
earliest possible date.”
Chairman Russell told a news con
ference the inquiry may end this
week or by the middle of next week
at the latest.
The committee decided to call
these additional witnesses:
Patrick J. Hurley, former am
bassador to China.
Maj. Gen. Emmet O’Donnell, for
mer commander of the U. S. strate
gic bombing force in the Far East.
Maj. Gen. David C. Barr, former
commander of the U 8. 7th Division
in Korea and one-time chief of a
U. S. military mission to China.
Vice Adm. Oscar Badger, former
U. S. naval commander in the Far
East.
In addition to these four witnesses,
it is possible Gen. MacArthur may
testify again. The committee has
invited MacArthur to take the wit
ness chair again if he cares to reply
to any of the testimony the commit
tee has heard since the inquiry
started May 3.
Russell told reporters the com
mltee has had no word from Mac
Arthur as to whether he wants to
testify again.
Today's decision to seek a quick
wind up of the inquiry was made
at a brief closed-door session of the
Inquiry panel.
Russell said the committee de
cided not to call presidential ad
viser W. Averell Harriman as a
witness.
Harriman had been tentatively
scheduled to testify tomorrow. Rus
sell said Harriman and the commit
tee agreed that his testimony woulc
cover ground already well covered
by other witnesses.
O'NEILL HERE
George <One Shot) O'Neill of De
troit expected to leave today foi
Yakutat where he will spend the
summer hunting and photographing
bears. This is his eleventh trip tc
Alaska. He plans to return to Ju
neau in October. He is a membei
of the Outdoqr Writers Associatioi
of America.
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SHIPPING
ON COAST
CRIPPLED
Peace Talks Underway
But No Indication
of Compromise
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 —W-~
Shipowners and CIO radio operators
hold new peace talks today In hop®
of ending a strike that has vlrt*
.ually crippled non-military shipping
on the Pacific coast.
Federal Conciliator Omar Hoskins
met separately with the two fac
tions yesterday, then announced a
joint session today.
There was no Indication of a com
promise.
The American Radio' Association
(ARA) is asking a $70 monthly pay
increase for some 700 members. That
would up their monthly base wage
to $415. The Pacific Maritime Asso
ciation, the employers group, offers
a monthly base of $400.
Meanwhile the radiomen picketed
waterfront piers here and in nearby
Oakland and Alameda and two ships
were reported picketed at Tacoma,
the American Mall Line’s India
Mail and Pope & Talbot’s P&T •
Leader.
Picket lines were respected by
other maritime unions.
SALMON INDUSTRY
FIRST OFFER MADE
IN NEGOTIATIONS
SITKA, Alaska, June 18 —An
official of the AFL Marine District
union said Saturday the Alaska Sal
mon Industry, Inc., had made its
first offer in negotiations on fiah
payments for the coming season.
Peter Neilsen, executive secretary
of the union, said the Industry offer
was presented at a meeting with
union representatives here Friday
night.
Neilsen said the salmon operators
proposed this scale: Pink salmon, 49
cents; chums, 75 cents; cohoes, $1;
reds, $1.05. The union has demanded
53 cents for pinks, 90 cents for
chums, $1.05 for cohoes and $1.10 for
reds.
The union formerly was known as
the AFL United Alaska Fishermen
and Cannery Workers.
FRENCHELECTION
PARIS, June 18 —IAS—The middle
of-the-road parties emerged today
with a majority in France's new
National Assembly, but it was a ma
jority facing a squeeze from both
the left and right. If anything, the
political road in France seems to
have bent to the right.
Virtually complete returns from
yesterday’s general elections showed
that the followers of Gen. Charles
de Gaulle became the largest single
party in the assembly while the
Communists won the largest single
bloc of the popular vote.
FUNERAL FOR MRS.
YATES TOMORROW
Funeral services will be held to
morrow afternoon at 2 p.m. in the
Carter Chapel for Mrs. Sylvia S.
Yates who died following a fall at
Windham Bay last Wednesday.
The Rev. Paul Prouty will say
the services and Richard Newton
will be vocalist. Interment will be
in the Pioneer Plot at Evergreen
Cemetery
Pall bearers will be Fred Schind
ler, Everett Judson, William Reck,
Edward Madsen, John K. Marshall
and H. R. VanderLeest.
She is survived by her husband,
David Yates of Windham Bay and
a sister. Jessie' V. Young in East
St. Louis, 111. Mrs. Yates was post
master at Windham for many
years.
APPLY FOB LICENSE
Timothy Casey, Jr., special agent
for the Bureau .of Investigation and
Margaret Ruth Arcasa. stenograph
er for the Employment Security
Commission, have applied for a li
cense to marry in the office of U.
13. Commissioner Gordon Gray.