THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE 1\EWS ALL THE TJ ME"
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,840 _
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1951
MKMP.KR ASSOCIATED TRESS_
PRICK TEN CENTS
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Strikers. Shipowners Confer on Coast Walkout
AIR BATTLES
CONTINUING,
KOREAN WAR
Ten Red Planes Shot Down
or Damaged; Punchbowl
Valley Given Up
By Associated Press
Ten Red planes were shot down
or damaged today in the Korean
war’s first double-deck dog-fight.
Both jet and propeller driven
planes — 98 of them — took part in
the fourth consecutive day of air
war over Northwest Korea.
On the ground North Koreans
suddenly abandoned Punchbowl
Valley, which they had fought for
so viciously. UN guns now dominate
the former Red buildup area cn the
Eastern front.
Sharp battles flared Wednesday
on both sides of the valley — one
near Kansong on the East coast
and the other in mountains north
of Yanggu.
New Red Defense Line
Dispatches from across the front
spoke of new Red defense lines.
A Stars and Stripes (Army news
paper) correspondent reported “an
other flay of watchful waiting” on
the Central front west of Kumhwa.
AP Correspondent O. H. P. King,
in a flight over the front, observed
“extensive new defense positions”
on both sides of the now quiet bat
tle lines. His report was delayed
five days by censors.
The double ai^r battle broke out.
simultaneously between low flying
propeller planes and jets swirling
above at 13,000 feet.
When it was over the Reds had
lost three planes t^e- trqyed, ami*
probably destroyed and six damaged.
Stormoviks Shot Down
Twenty-four UN Mustang fight
ers overpowered a flight of six Rus
sian-built propeller planes. All the
Reds were hit. A yak fighter and
two Stormovik attack-bombers were
shot down. Anther Stormovik was
probably destroyed and two were
damaged.
Thirty-two American Sabre jets
battled 36 Russian-type MIG-15
jets in the top level of the battle.
The jet fight began at 13,000 feet
and swept down to 6,000.
The four days of air war cost
the Reds 28 planes destroyed or
damaged. The Fifth Air Force listed
nine shot down, one probably
knocked out and 18 damaged.
There have been no figures on UN
loses if any in these air battles.
GAMES TODAY
NEW YORK, June 20 — (Jl— The
New York Yankees trimmed the
American League lead of the Chi
cago White Sox to two and one half
games today as Hank Bauer scored
the tying run in the seventh inning
and drove home the winning marker
in the eighth for a 2-1 victory.
AMERICAN
Cleveland 14, Boston 8.
Other games night.
NATIONAL
Boston 9, Chicago 0.
Other games night.
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go 7 Round
By DREW PEARSON
(CoDrrUbt. MSI. or Bell Eradicate. Inc.
(Ed. Note—The brass ring, good
for one free ride on the Washington
Merry-go-round,, goes to President
Galo Plaza of Ecuador.)
Washington—The first Pres
ident of a Latin-American country
ever born in the United States ar
rives in Washington today. He is
Galo Plaza Lasso, President of Ec
uador, who has played football at
the University of California, sold
apples in New York during the de
pression, and has built up a herd
of 1,000 Holstein dairy cows one
mile up on the plateaus of Ecuador.
More important than any of these
however, Galo Plaza is operating
one of the few free and democrat
ic countries in the western hemis
phere. On a continent where demo
cracy is squeezed between Commu
nism and Fascism, and where de
mocracy is considered a luxury safe
More Meat on Way So the Table
i *
Cattle pens at the Union Stock Yards at Chicago, presented this appearance after the receipt of
beef animals, twice the number which arrived a we?!; ago. The cattle from pen in foreground are being
driven out for consignment to a packing house. An OPS official said the increase apparently repre
sented the first break in the “wait and see” attitude of feeders who have been holding cattle on their
farms. !ffl Wirephoto. ,__
21 MORE REDS
INDICTED FOR
ANTI-US PLOT
hr •
Justice Dept., FBI, Round
| Up Secondary Command
of Communist Ring
WASHINGTON, June 20, — (/PI —
Twenty one members of the Com
munist party's secondary command
were indicted today on charges of
plotting violent overthrow of the
United States government.
Seventeen of those indicted by a
Federal Grand Jury in New York
were seized in an early morning
roundup by FBI agents. The four
others were being sought.
Sixteen of the arrests were in
New York, the other in Pittsburg.
Get Lesser Lights
The government moved against
the lesser lights in the wake of this
month's Supreme Court decision
upholding the conviction of the
party’s 11 top leaders.
Attorney General McGrath and
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover said
in a statement:
“Some of the individuals arrested
are members of the alternate na
tional committee, recently formed
by the Communist party to serve
as the top policy making body in
the absence of the present national
committee members, now convic
ted.”
The 11 leaders were convicted in
New York in 1949 of conspiring to
teach and advocate the violent
overthrow of the U. S. government.
Although the Supreme Court up
held the conviction two weeks ago,
a legal battle for a rehearing is still
on.
All Active Reds
Each of those seized today was
described by Hoover as “a promin
ent, active functionary of the Com
munist party, U.S.A.”
Those arrested today included:
Israel Amter, 70, New York City,
organizer of the “friends of Soviet
Russia in the United States.”
He is a native of Denver, Colo.
■ Marion Maxwell Abt Bachrach,
32. New York City, public relations
director and secretary of the De
ien.se Commission of the Cornmun
,st party.
. HOME FOR VACATION
Miss Martha Newbould, daughter
of Major and Mrs. Eric Newbould.
of the Salvation Army, arrived home
on the Princess Louise to spend a
month's vacation visiting her par
ents. Site is in her third year of
nurses’ training at the Tacoma Gen
.■ral hospital.
One of the 32 atolls in the Mar
shall Islands is named "New Year."
I
Mickey Cohan
Convicted ol
Evasion
LOS ANGELES. June 20 —(.41—
Gambler Mickey Cohen was con
victed today of four counts of Fed
eral income tax evasion.
The investigation was sparked by
Cohen’s testimony before the Ke
fauver Senate Crime Investigating
committee that he had been living
largely on borrowed income for sev
eral years.
The verdict bore out Cohen’s own
prediction. He told a reporter dur
ing the trial: "The word is out ‘get.
Mickey Cohen’.’’ He denied any eva
sion, however.
The maximum penalty would be
20 years in a Federal penitentiary
and fines totaling $40,000. Each
count carries a maximum of five
years and $10,000.
He was charged with defrauding
the government of more than $156,
000 over a three-year period 1946
1948, inclusive.
Cohen reddened as he heard the
verdict, and rocked slightly in his
seat. His pretty wife, LaVonne, had
been indicted with him, but charges
against her were dismissed during
the trial.
Through years of living on the
fringe of the law' and amid periodic
underworld attempts to "rub him
out” with bullets or bombs, Cohen
never before was convicted of any
but minor charges.
32 COME FROM SOUTH
OK PAN AM; 15 OUT
Forty-eight passengers flew in
and out of Juneau Monday on Pan
American World Airways with 33
arriving from the south and 15 out
bound.
From Seattle: B. Boettcher, John,
William, and Carl Calvert, Ronald
Keezling, John W. Lennox, J. Shel
ly, Robert Simpson. W. Walker, F.
Weston, Barney Welsh, R. R. Man
nelmi, J. R. Robinson, Ora Whit
taker, R. J. Sommers. Harold An
derson.
Dorothy Arnold, Mrs. H. B. Gloige
and two children, Ralph Hall, Le
ota Hisey, Roy Keil, Mildred, Kersh
mer, J. J. Leonard, Fred Nitshke,
Frank Rundle, Thor Sundberg, M.
Ward, Francis Williams, Lawrence
and Hilma Alderson.
From Annette: George Sullivan.
To Seattle: L. Nance. Mrs. John
Hermlc and Jackie, Virginia Cush
ing, S. Kellenthal, Mrs. H. Graves.
Mrs. Guy Godfrey, C. W’. Lee, Don
Dougal.
To Ketchikan: Earl J. Smith, H.
Wedow, T Mutrux, Clarence Bow
en, O. H Samanson, Peter Traska.
MAC ARTHUR
NOT GOING,
TO TESTIFY
Doesn't Care to Appear
Further at Hearing; Raps
Present Inquiry
WASHINGTON, June 20 —I.V—
Gen. Douglas MacArthur declared
today that President Truman’s or
ders “silencing pertinent witnesses"
have denied a senate inquiry the
••full facts” of his dismissal. But
MacArthur said he doesn’t care to
testify again himself.
MacArthur. rapped at the Presi
dent in rejecting by letter an invi
tation to appear again before the
Senate committees investigating his
ouster.
He contended, too, that some of
i he documentary evidence submitted
to the senators had been lifted out
of context so that it was “mislead
ing," and said there was “lack of
accuracy” in paraphrasing. _
“Paraphrasing” Charged
Many of the documents given to
the senators in connection with the
inquiry have been “paraphrased"—
that is submitted in a rewritten,
summary form rather than as the
original documents.
The reason is that the original
documents were transmitted by
radio in code. Release of the actual
texts might help a potential enemy
to decipher the U. S. codes.
MacArthur testified for three days
when the inquiry began last May 3.
The committees had invited him to
reply, if he wished, to the testimony
received since tjien, most of it from
Truman administration officials.
Truman Silences Witnesses
The five-star general wrote Chair
man Russell that because “my
known personal views already are
in the record in t reat detail I do
not believe it in the public interest
to testify again.
However, he added:
“Insofar as the investigation deal |
with my relief from the Far East
command. I feel that the full facts
have not been elucidated due to
the orders of the President silencing
the pertinent witnesses as to his
own part in the action.”
ON VACATION
Mrs. John Hermle and son Jackie
flew to Seattle Monday on a vaea
, tion via Pan American, en route to
California where they will visit
friends and relatives for the com
ing two months.
FROM CRAIG
Cliff Thompson and Roy Nothak
I of Craig are at the Uaranof Hotel.
I
RENT CONTROL VITAL
NATIONAL DEFENSE
SAYS TIGHE WOODS
National Housing Expediter Tighe
E. Woods declared here today that
rent control in Alaska is vital to
national defense.
He told the Juneau Kiwauls club
it “keeps the lid on the price of
housing until more housing can be
built for the military and civilian
personnel who are making Alaska
a front-line bastion against Com
munism.
“The fight against inflation re
quires sacrifices on the part of the
Alaskan landlord just as the fight
against Communism requires sacri
fices on the part of the Alaskan
infantryman," he added.
The housing chief declared the
Korean war had changed tli? ques
tion of rent control from a local
matter to one of national concern.
He charged that local option re
moval of controls "is making a grim
farce and mockery of Federal rent
controls." He said local option on
rent control could be compared to
giving Akron. Ohio, the right to
sav whether or not the price of
tires should be controlled.
Open Discussion
An open discussion followed
Woods' talk in which it was brought
out that a defense housing bill is
bottled up in the House Rules com
mittee that would mateyally aid
housing construction in defense
areas.
Woods said that a new defense
production bill, now pending in
Congress, if unchanged on the floor,
would control all rental properties
including commercial units.
Woods, accompanied by Harvey
W. Wertz, of the San Francisco
Public Relations staff nnd Rich
ard Done, regional board executive,
also of San Francisco, left this
afternoon for Anchorage on his
three-day inspection tour of the
Territory.
Yesterday many tenants in Juneau
were surprised by a visit from the
housing expeditor.
Alaska Problems Vary
Housing problems vary in Alaska
and while high costs of housing in
Anchorage and Fairbanks are the
result of population congestions in
military areas, Juneau's problem is
one of disparity in rents between
controlled and uncontrolled units,
Woods.
In Alaska to confer with Gov. Ern
est Gruening and Lt. Gen. William
E. Kepner and Gen. W. Baker, re
garding charges of rent-gouging
near military installations and in
the Territory generally, Woods and
Done spent a busy 24 hours here
conferring with the governor, with
the local advisory board and with
A. Bandettini, area rent director for
Alaska, and Wertz.
Voods, Done, Wertz and Bandet
tini were Pacific Northern Airlines
passengers for Anchorage today and
have a busy schedule lined up for
meetings in Anchorage, Fairbanks
before they return south.
Construction vs. Kents
In Juneau Woods explained that
the Juneau board’s principal inter
est is in informing local residents
of the reason for differences in the
price of rental units.
Rent Control has no authority
over housing built or converted
since 1947, Woods explained. In the
meantime housing in newly built
rental units is costly due to doubled
and tripled costs of construction.
While conversions have filled a
need for more housing, the differ
ence in the rent of an apartment
under rent control and a converted
apartment, not' under control, has
, created a problem for the local
[ board, Juneau landlords and ten
ants.
He mentioned specifically an ef
ficiency apartment in a controlled
unit that is still renting for $45 and
a one bedroom apartment in a con
verted unit that rents for $125.
Present Act Expiring
The present Rent Control Act ex
pires June 30 and rent control will
come under the new Defense Pro
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. HOSPITAL NOTES
Admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital
Tuesday were Mrs. Charles Gamble,
Fred Marlowe, Patrick Paul. Mrs.
Lillian George, Robert Hildre: dis
charged were R. Walker, Mrs. John
Curtis.
Admitted to the Government Hos
pital was Katie Lindoff. Hoonah;
discharged were Leroy McKinley,
| Hoonah, Minni Albert, Juneau.
Enemy Secret Weapon!
When Lt. Clinton Effinger, F-KO jet pilot from West Palm Beach,
Fla., says that he was “low enough for the enemy to throw rocks”
at him, he isn't kidding. The smiling pilot holds a rock which he
removed from damaged wing In background after return to Korean
base from a recent mission. He thinks that a Red soldier heaved
the missile at his plane during a strafing attack 30-fect over the
front. (U.S. Air Force Photo via </P) Wirephoto.)
SALMON PRICE
AGREEMENT MADE
iCY STRAIT AREA
SITKA, June 20 —UP— A 1951
agreement has been signed between
the Alaska Marine District Union
<AFL> and the Alaska Salmon In
dustry, Inc.
It was announced here by Pete
Nielsen, union executive secretary,
and confirmed by the Industry in
Seattle.
Nielsen said the agreement sets
the following prices for seine-caught
fish: Pinks 50 cents each; chums
77V cohoes $1; reds $1.10; kings
$2.25.
The union embraces the Icy Strait
area mainly.
The agreement Includes th^clause.
Nielsen said, that “'if notice to term
inate the 1951 contract is given, then
it is agreed that negotiations and
discussion of fish purchases shall
commence on the basis of fish pur
chase by the pound.”
The reference to termination was
described as meaning notice of
termination prior to 1952.
The suggestion for fish purchases
by the pound instead of by the fish
was an issue between the Industry
and at least one union recently. _
BOB IIELGESON IS
HOME FOB VACATION
Ilob Helgcson, son of Mrs. Ger
trude Boggan, arrived home for the
summer Tuesday via Pan American
plane.
Young Helgeson, who has just
completed his second year of med
ical school at Stanford University,
drove from Palo Alto to Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lavenik, for
mer Juneau residents, accompan
ied him as far as Klamath Falls,
Oregon, where they now live.
Alter the summer vacation, Hel
geson will return for his third year
in medicine at Stanford.
--
Ship Movements
Chilcotin from Vancouver sched
uled to arrive 3 p.m. tomorrow.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
sail from Vancouver 8 tonight.
Aleutian scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday but depends on re
sults of shipping strike on coast.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday providing
there is no strike on Canadian lines.
Prince George scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Tuesday providing
there is no shipping strike.
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive from Skagway at 6 a.m. Friday
sailing south at 9 a.m.
Baranof from west scheduled to
arrive sometime Sunday p.m. south
bound.
ANCHORAGE
SALES TAX
VOTED DOWN
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 20,—
04*1—A proposed one per cent sales
tax to repair the streets was voted
down by about one-third ol Anch
orage's 3,000 registered voters Mon
day.
The vote was 575 against to 443
for.
The tax would have been levied
on all sales and services, with pro
ceeds going for street improve
ments, retirement of street bonds
and refunds to residents who paid
street assessments during the past
three years.
The proposal also called for an
additional one per cent levy for
school buildings if and when the
school board Imposes a tax in a
school district outside the city
limits.
WEATHER FORECAST
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
59: minimum, 48.
At Airport — Maximum,
60; minimum 45.
F O R E C A S T
Decreasing cloudiness with
' lowest temperature near 44
degrees tonight becoming
mostly fair with highest tem
perature near 63 degres Fri
day.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 1:30 am. today
City of Juneau — Trace;
Since June 1 — 5.33 inches;
Since July 1 — 77.52 inches.
At Airport —■ Trace;
Since June 1 — 3.27 inches;
Since July 1 — 44.68 inches.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK. June 20 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2'j. American Can 110,
American Tel. and Tel. 154Ana
conda 40 i. Douglas Aircraft 46' .■,
General Electric 54 V General Mot
ors 48'I, Goodyear 80:li, Kennecott
76's, Libby. McNeill and Libby 8'S,
Northern Pacific 41*. Standard Oil
of California 47 v Twentieth Cen
tury Fox C8's. U. S. Steel 40 V
Pound $2.80Canadian Exchange
93.75.
Sales today were 1,120,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 251.50, rails 79.12, utili
ties 42.81.
ALL-NIGHT
SESSION IS
FRUITLESS
Another Negotiations
Meeting Scheduled; 19
Ships Now Tied Up
BULLETIN — SAN FRANCISCO.
June 20 —— Hopes for an early
settlement of the Pacific Coast
maritime tieup were dashed to earth
this afternoon when representatives
of the CIO American Radio Asso
ciation walked out of negotiations
with the Pacific Maritime Associa
tion.
With the abrupt halt of talks,
Phillip O'Rourke, vice president of
the ARA, said:
"The whole thing is broken up.
Negotiations are off. We're right
back where we started."
Earlier, there were "behind the
scene*” indications the talks might
bring success.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 20 -Am—
CIO Radio Operators and shipown
ers recessed an all-night negotiating
session at dawn today without end
ing a five-day-old strike. The walk
out has crippled non-military ship
ping on the Pacific Coast.
Federal Conciliator Omar Hos
kins said the two factions will meet
again at noon. He called them to
gether at 7 p.m. yesterday. Their
only break was for a 4 a.m. break
fast. The shipowners picked up the
check.
Hoskins said the negotiators had
gone over all phases and all angles
of the dispute, but he refused to
indicate whether a settlement was
near.
"As long as we’re meeting there's
still hope," he said.
The strikers, members of (he CIO
American Radio Association (ARA),
have tied up 19 ships in Pacific
Coast ports. They demand $415 a
month, a $G3 increase that wotild
put them on a par with second
mates.
The Pacific Maritime Association
rejected that and asked for a 15 to
30-day extension of the contract
while negotiations continue.
Other Unions Restless
Meanwhile, there were reports of
unrest among three other maritime
unions supporting the strike.
Officials of these unions — the
CIO Marine Engineers Beneficial
Association, the afl Masters, Mat.cs
and Pilots, and the Independent
Marine Firemen’s Union —- were re
ported seeking a meeting with the
ARA for a general clarification of
the strike issues.
Basis for the dissatisfaction was
said to be the ARA’s posting of
pickets in Pacific coast ports while
not doing so on the east coast, thus
allowing some ships to move from
the latter.
Leaders of the three unions said
they do not want to do anything
that would injure the strike.
Only American passenger liners
and flag freighters are affected.
TERMINALS
AT SEATTLE
. PICKETED
Nonstriking Members are
Paid Off; Touring Editors
Get Baggage
SEATTLE, June 20 —im— Steam
ship companies affected by the
strike of the American Radio Asso
ciation (CIO) paid off nonstriking
crew members yesterday as picket
ing continued at major terminals.
The Alaska Steamship Company
laid off deck, engine and steward
department personnel of two ve wets.
The American Mail Line released
the crew of the SS India Mail at
Tacoma.
The striking radiomen meanwhile
had idled at least five ships here
and two more at Tacoma.
Pickets appeared for the first
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