THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIMET’
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,893
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22. 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
'Not Fault of
Ours' Says OPS
On Fish Deal
There are no ceiling prices on
fresh fish and the ceilings on the
canned salmon were set by the
Washington, D. C., Office of Price
Administration, Julius H. Ferney.
local information officer, said here
today. Fred Hanford, Territorial di
rector, was in "Wrangell.
This was in answer to a protest
by the United Trollers of Alaska
when fishtng ground buyers claimed
they were forced to suspend opera
tions as a result of recently impos
ed price ceilings on fish.
Ferney said that Charles W. Pet
ers, price executive here, would at
tend a meeting in Seattle Sept. 30.
at which prices would be adjusted
up or down according to the pack.
“Celling prices, although lower
than last year’s prices, took into
consideration increased canning
labor, materials and freight," Fer
ney said. He pointed out that the
price of salmon increased sharply
from June, 1950 to Jan. 1951, due
to the small pack last year.
“Current ceiling, prices will more
closely approximate normal compet
itive conditions,” Ferney said.
A >.Jy Barlow, executive secretary
of me United Trollers of Alaska,
said today:
“Had the Office of Price Stabil
ization seen fit to place a ceiling
on canned salmon before the sea
son, there is no doubt in my mind
that this condition would not
have arisen.
“It has been the policy of the
United Trollers to iron out their
problems with the buyers prior to
the fishing season and the relation
ship between the buyers and trollers
has been harmonious.
“But Uncle Sam, with the office
of ’price confusion,’ puts a main
industry completely out of business.
There seems little hope for a fair
consideration of the problems of the
fishing industry and the business
men of Alaska,” Barlow said.
Truman Definite
About Stronger
Price Controls
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—(jP)—
The White House said today Pres
ident Truman has decided defin
itely to ask Congress for stronger
price control powers and hopes to
send a message to the Capitol by
the week end.
Word yesterday that Mr. Tru
man was considering reopening
this issue — only three weeks al
ter Congress passed a bill he
didn't like — got a cool reception
from some key legislators.
JUNEAU VISITOR
Mrs. Muriel Gilbreath and her son
Norman, 15, from North Hollywood,
Calif., are visiting for the next two
weeks with Mrs. Betty Casperson
who is Mrs. Gilbreath’s sister.
TheWashinglon
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
Benton Documents McCarthy
Case
ff ASHINGTON. — It is a grave
matter for a Senator to introduce
a resolution aimed at unseating a
fellow Senator. However, Senator
Benton of Connecticut carefully
documented the case against Sen
ator McCarthy of Wisconsin be
fore calling for his ouster. Here
are the facts that led Benton tr.
demand a Senate investigation oi
McCarthy “with a view toward his
expulsion."
1. Senator McCarthy has tried
to intimidate his press critics —
the greatest challenge to freedom
of the press since the civil war.
For example, McCarthy has char
ged that the Washington Post n
a “Communist Camp follower.’
He has called the Milwaukee Jour
nal the “Milwaukee Edition” and
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the
“St. Louis Edition” of the Com
muist Daily Worker. He has re
peatedly lambasted the Madison
Capital-Times as pro-Communist.
He has called this columnist the
“Voice of International Commun
ism.” On one occasion, he even
accused the conservative Satur
day Evening Post of following the
Daily Worker line.
Actually, these publications do
not follow the Communist line,
but pursue their own separate, in
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Alaska;' Fishery Waste
Seen as Savior of Pacific
Northwest Salmon Runs
Hawaiian Quake
Wrecks Treasured
Water Tanks
HONOLULU, Aug. 22—UP!— The
heaviest earthquake ever recorded
on the volcano island of Hawaii
cost the Kona Coast district most
of its treasured water stores —
with two months of normal
drought ahead.
Property damage was estimated
officially at between $750,000 and
51,000,000, but the water loss was
the most critical.
The quake jarred the largest of
the Hawaiian islands in early
morning darkness yesterday. It
wrecked or damaged more than
200 wooden water storage tanks—
20 of them' on one cattle ranch.
Each of 200 families along a 30
inile stretch of the Kona coast,
on the west slope of Mauna Lao
volcano, had at least one tank for
storing drinking and household
water.
The Kona coast is the driest
section of the islands.
The tremor was centered deep
below the undersea slope of mas
sive Mauna Loa. The volcano rises
13.680 feet above sea level and
slants 18,000 feet under water to
the ocean floor.
There was no evidence of any
impending eruption by Mauna
Loa, one of the world’s most ac
tive volcanoes.
Museum Records
Mount McKinley's
ri vtiis with Map
BOSTON, Aug. 22—7PI—The first
complete map of America's highest
mountain — 20,270-foot Alaskan
Mount McKinley — now Is under
way at Boston's Museum of Science.
But Bradford Washburn, direc
tor of the museum, said "there's
much work to be done before the
map is finished.”
Washburn last month scaled the
peak for the first time from its
western approach. He led an eight
man team who mapped and photo
graphed the new route thoroughly.
From their data will come a full
chart of the mountain and its gla
ciers.
Only six ascents of Mt. McKinley
have been recorded. Washburn is
credited with two of them — both
along the usual Muldrow glacier
route.
He had his eye'on the western
route for 15 years.
“The western side offers a route
by which anyone interested in high
altitude research can get up to 18,000
feet with a maximum of safety,” he
reported.
Washburn and his companions
began the ascent July 4 and reached
the summit July 10.
Washington Stale
Warrants Go on
Collection Basis
OLYMPIA, Wash.. Aug. 22—itfl—
The Washington State Bankers’
Association underlined the state’s
deepening financial crisis today with
a warning to members to accept
state warrants (checks) on a col
lection basis only.
The warning went out as legislat
ors prepared for a special session
scheduled to convene here Friday
it 11 a.m. Governor Langlie called
the session yesterday as an after
math of a state supreme court decis
ion that the revenue-appropriations
bill passed at a special session in
April was unconstitutional.
In his call for a special session,
Governor Langlie reminded legis
lators the state is without funds
to carry on the functions of gov
ernment as a result of the supreme
court ruling.
TIDE TABLES
• AUGUST 23
• .
• High tide 6:00 a.m., 12.8 ft.
• Low tide 11:50 a.m., 4.0 ft.
• Hign tide 6:02 p.m., 14.9 ft.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—Lf)—
Alaska’s fish garbage may help
assure the survival of the Pacific
Northwest Salmon industry, the
Pish and Wildlife Service said
yesterday.
The agency said in a report
that Alaskan canneries throw
away 50,000 tons of salmon vis
cera or entrails each year.
It said its laboratories at Se
attle and Ketchikan, Alaska
have “successfully tested this
waste as a new source of flsli
hatchery food to replace the
Pacific Northwest’s threatened
supply."
The construction of dams on
major rivers in Washington and
Oregon has considerably reduced
the area of salmon spawning
grounds. To make up for this loss,
hatcheries are being increased in
size and many new hatcheries are
being built.
Produces Drain
The agency said this produces
an abnormal drain on fish food
■supply “already too high in price
and difficult to get.”
The laboratories are collect
ing and testing 100,000 pounds
of salmon waste, to determine
whether it can be profitably
frozen and shipped to Pacific
coast fish hatcheries.
The material is shipped frozen
in plastic-lined burlap bags.
The agency estimates that about
30 per cent of Alaska’s annual
salmon catch of 360,000.000 pounds
is waste. It estimates the poten
tial value of this material, now
dumped Into the sea or allowed
to rot at the canneries, at $5,000,
000 to $10,000,000 a year.
Charge Withdrawn
Against Clydesdale
By Wildlife Service
An illegal fishing complaint
against the Pyramid Packing Com
pany cannery tender Clydesdale in
Sitka has been withdrawn, it was
announced today by Dan Ralston,
law enforcement supervisor of the
Fish and Wildlife Service.
Doug Swanson, assistant supervi
sor, flew to Sitka and made an in
vestigation, returning yesterday to
Juneau.
Swanson found that an August tl
the captain of the Clydesdale had
notified the stream watchman at
Fish Camp in Klag Bay that he
wished to catch enough salmon for
i "a couple of cases” for his personal
use. The stream watchman, whose
name is T. A. Anderson and who is
a temporary employee of the ser
vice, failed to notify the service
agent, John Klingbiel, and Klingbiel
apprehended the boat Aug. 12 at
7 p.m. while it was beach seining
He filed the complaint, which was
withdrawn when the stream watch
man admitted he had neglected to
notify Klingbiel.
Red Membership
Drops 10,000,
Hoover Testifies
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22— UR —
Membership in the U. S. Communist
Party has dropped ffrom 54,174 to
43,217 in a year’s time, FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover has told Senators.
And each party member now has
back of him about seven to eight
fellow travellers, as against ten
several years ago, Hoover told a
Senate appropriations subcommit
tee March 1 while testtifying in sup
port of his request for funds. His
testimony w-as made public today.
But Hoover cautioned that the
remaining party members consti
tute ”a hardy core dedicated to sab
otage and to militant revolt against
this country if and when the time
comes."
Another Alaska
Junket Planned
By Committee
I
WASHINGTON, Aug, 22 — (>P) —
Members of the House Armed Serv
ices committee are planning to in
spect military bases and public
works in Alaska this fall, it was
announced today.
Acting committee chairman, Rep.
Brooks (D-La), told the committee
that arrangements for the trip are
being made and that a date will be
set later.
Art Uggen
Dead of
Heart Attack
Alaska Music Supply
Owner Taken Suddenly
During Night
Art Uggen. owner of the Alaska
Music Supply, died suddenly of a
heart attack early this morning.
He had called Dr. Joseph Rude
at 11:30 o'clock last night. Dr.
Rude went to the Uggen apartments
in the Twentieth Century Apart
ments to attend him. The doctor
took him to St. Ann's Hospital
where he died at 12:20 a.m., 10 min
utes after being admitted.
Mr. Uggen came to Juneau in
July of 1936 to open his music
store at 122 Second Street. In 1942
he moved the stofe to Its present
location at Second and Seward
streets, after purchasing the Ju
neau Melody Shop fromm Mrs.
Lena Pigg.
Under his management, the store
sold more sheet music, records and
music supplies in ratio to popula
tion than any place in Alaska, Ore
gon, Washington and western Idaho.
Orders were received from all over
Alaska, especially for records.
He attended the local Lutheran
Church and was a member of its
council for several years. Mr. Uggen
was a member of the Elks and Ro
tary clubs.
He was director of the Juneau
high school and city bands from
1936 to 1938. He played trombone in
the City band for some time after
directing it.
Before coming to Juneau, he own
ed a music store in Colfax, Wash.,
selling it to come to Alaska. In 1921,
Mr. Uggen started the Lyric Music
House in Manila, P. I. He sold his
interest in the music store in 1929
to manage the Oodino Siamese
twins. He toured the states with
them until ii/si when he started
his store in Washington.
Mr. Uggen got his start in music
playing in a newsboys orchestra in
Minneapolis, Minn. He came from
a musical family.
He is survived by his children.
Orville of Lawrenceberg, Ind., Rich
ard of Los Angeles, Mrs. Howard
Frank of Cleburne, Tex., and Miss
Gladys Uggen of Juneau. Another
daughter Mrs. R. A. Sauls lives in
Ames, Iowa.
He is also survived by a sister, Mrs.
E. W. Eagle of Crookston, Minn.,
and his former wives Mrs. Alice Ug
gen of Los Angeles and Mrs. Lil
lian Uggen of Juneau.
Funeral ararngements will be an
nounced later. Those wishing to
send flowers are requested to donate
to the cancer fund, Mrs. Lillian Ug
gen said.
Non-Resident
Fisherman Gets
Refund on License
Based on a decision of the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals handed
down June 25, judgment of $45 was
granted John Storkersen, Seattle
fisherman, in U. S. District Court
last Saturday. The case was Stork
ersen vs. M. P. Mullaney, Territorial
tax collector.
On Aug. 17, 1949 Storkersen paid,
under protest, $50 for a non-resident
commercial fishing license.
On June 25 the court of appeals,
in the case of Anderson vs. Mullaney
handed down its opinion which
stated that a higher tax on non
resident commercial fishermen than
resident fishermen in Alaska was
invalid.
Storkersen was granted $45 refund,
the $5 difference being the price of a
resident license.
H. L. Faulkner represented the
plaintiff and John Dimond, assist
ant in the affice of the Attorney
Geenral acted for the Territory.
WEATHER REPORT
• (U. S WEATHER BUREAU
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
At Airport—Maximum, 61;
minimum, 46.
FORECAST
(Jnnrau and Vicinity)
Cloudy with light rain to
night and Thursday. Lowest
temperature tonight near 50.
Highest Thursday near 56.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m today
At Airport — Trace;
since July 1-4.94 inches.
• ••••••••
Where Hurricane Killed Eight
JSpIntered ruins is all that remains of one of the buildings at- the Kingston, Jamaica, B. W. I., poorhouse
where eight died in the worst hurricane in the British Isalnd colony’s history. IVcatli toll for the island
stood at UO. I/P> Wircphoto.
Road-Builder Steese9 Four
Times Retired9 Trehs
Over Routes He Laid Bown
Wisconsin Goes
Aground in
Hudson River
45,000-Ton Battleship
Hits Mud When Stern
Line Parts from Buoy
S’EW YORK, Aug. 22—IJPI—The
•i. ^fity 45,0C0-(on battleship Wis
consin drifted aground in the Hud
son river opposite Manhattan to
day and then 13 puffing towboats
pulled her free in a marine drama
witnessed by thousands.
A strong downstream tide held
her fast on the New Jersey shore
Just south of Edgewater for ap
proximately two hours. She was
reported free at 8:25 am. (ESTi.
The battleship came into New
York harbor yesterday from Hali
fax, N. S., on n training cruise i
and was moored fore and aft to'
floating buoys. i
A third naval district spokes- |
man said unoffieial information |
Indicated her stern line snap- |
ped and that her end swung )
around and touched bottom off i
the Jersey shore.
Some eye-witnesses had repor
ted that site dragged both buoys
under pressure of the river tide.
No Apparent Damage
The navy spokesman said the
vessel apparently suffered no dam
age, but that she would proceed
to Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn
under her own power for an un
derwater inspection by divers.
The navy declined to give out
an “official” statement until it
had a complete report.
From office buildings on the
New York side and from Palis
ades Park and other vantage
points on the Jersey side thous
ands of spectators watched the
little towboats push and haul
to get the huge gray-hulled
vessel back into midstream.
Captain Thomas Burrowes of
Washington, D. C., commanding
the battleship, could be seen on
the bridge directing operations.
Fires Continue
Gnawing West
Coasi Forests
By the Associated Press
Fires continued to chew into
the huge timber stands of the we ;t
coast today as many areas began
their 101st day without rainfall.
Danger of new outbreaks was
ever present with new major fires
being reported from British Col
umbia.
Logging operations were shut
down tight in Oregon and Wash
ington as half a dozen big fires
ran wild, spurred by low humidity
and high temperatures
In northern California lightning
had kindled some 300 blazes since
last Saturday.
To the north in the Nelson foi
est district of British Columbia,
1,600 men were struggling against
32 fires, one Of them covering
8,000 acres.
Foresters said the west coast
fire potential was the highest in
30 years.
How many times can a man re
tire?
Gen. James U. Steese isn't sure.
He's only been retired from the
armed forces three times and
from private business once, but
he thinks this is really the last
time.
The General is on one of his bi
ennial trips to Alaska — that is,
since the last war. He is here vis
iting friends and resting until
Saturday after a whirlwind tour
around the Territory covering
much of the same ground by auto
and railroad that he once trekked
on foot* horseback and ■ with ddg
team. ■"
Steese, remembered as “Colonel"’
to many old time Alaskans, spear-,
headed the building of the Alaska
Railroad and carried on in the
early days of the Alaska Road
Commission.
In leeognition of his work,
the road from Fairbanks to
Circle was named the Stehse
Highway.
He recalls with relish the days
when the commission was inde
pendent of Washington, red tape
and the power was vested in a
commission free to settle issues
here.
Steese made the necessary pil
grimages to Congress for funds
and thereafter only reported what
he had done with them. In 1932
the commission lost its freedom
and came under the Department
of Interior, Steese said.
>r it in <u an
m:tn in 1927. In private busin
ess from then until 1941. he saw
duty with the Alaska National
Guard from 1933 to 1937, when
he was once more retired. He re
tired from business to return to
the army in 1941 and retired
for the third time in 194G.
It was in 1913 that Steese first
came to Alaska to report on the
feasibility of constructing a rail
road from Seward to Fairbanks.
He said it was possible but favor
ed extension of the Copper River
and Western Railroad to Fairbanks
with a branch read to the Mata
nuska coal fields.
However, in 1923-24, Steese
found himself chairman and chief
engineer of the Alaska Railroad.
In 1913 there were no real
roads in Alaska — only trails,
including “Richardson Trial”
from Valdez to Fairbanks, a few
miles of the White Pass and
Yukon Railroad in Alaska, and
the Copper River Railroad, the
General said.
"I saw that future development
was dependent upon improved
methods of transportation — but
nothing like claims of many wild
magazine articles that overrate
the resources of Alaska,” he said.
“Today’s boom in the Interior is
predicated upon defense spending.
“We had commercial aviation
in Alaska six years before the
first airplane commercial ticket
was sold in the United States,"
he said. “The bush pilots did a
great job up here then and are
trying to nbw, but the govern
ment is trying to choke them
off.”
For the past three years the
General has been a world trav
eler and has only spent a total
of six weeks on U. S. soil. From
here he goes to Mexico, then to
Greece, " the Mediterranean coun
tries and wherever whim takes
him.
“There's one nice thing about
being retired,” the General chuck
led, “Maybe I don't always do ev
erything I want to do—but I cer
tainly don’t do anything that I
don’t want to do!”
Hurricane Kills
One, Injures 15
In Tampico
TAMPICO, Mexico, Aug. 22 —Ml
—The fury of n tropical hurri
cane smashed into Tampico this
morning, blew down houses and
killed at least one person.
Police offilcals said a man was
killed in the Morelos section, where
heaviest damage ' was reported.
Some 15 persons were injured.
The weather bureau reported
the wind reached a maximum of
95 miles an hour at 11 am. Two
hours later the worst of the storm
seemed to have passed.
The streets in the center of
this oil, port of almost 100,000
population were littered with
bricks from rornlces, signs blown
down, fallen wires and debris.
A Spanish civil war veteran
said it “looked Ilk* an air raid
had struck."
Colonia Morelos, n low-cost
housing area, suffered the worst
of the damage. Police said it was
"very heavy." This whole district
was flooded to a depth of 18 in
ches.
Hundreds of cheaply-built wood
en houses were blown down.
Others were damaged by the wind
or the flood which followed the
heavy rain.
Some 10.000 persons had taken
refuge in schools, the barracks,
public buildings and even private
of lice buildings which offered
them safety from the wind.
Strong Note
May Decide
Korea Issue
MUNSAN, Korea, Thursday—(.«
— The Allies today drafted a,
strong note to the Communists
which may bear heavily on wheth
er it will be truce or continued
war in Korea.
The note, prepared by vise Adm
C. Turner Joy, wall be delivered
to Communists liaison officers
north of Munsan at 9 a.m. <4 p.m.
Wednesday PDT).
The note, a long one, will be
the chief United Nations delegate’;
reply to Red charges that the Al
lies have violated the five-mile
neutral zone around Kaesong, site
of the current truce talks.
Joy's reply will hit at a time
when both sides are keeping up
a hot exchange over the aims and
intentions of the other.
The Allies yesterday accused
the Communists of “making a
universal symbol cf bad faith
out of Kaesong.
CASUALTIES REACH
81,006; WEEKLY RISE
SMALLEST SINCE START
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—tA^
Announced U. S. battle casualties
in Korea reached 81,006 today, an
increase of 256 since last week
This is the smallest rise since
weekly summaries were started
last August.
TOUR PARTY LEAVES
Thirty-five members of the Cal
ifornia State Automobile Associ
ation Alaska Tour left today for
Seattle after three days in Ju
neau. They left Seattle Aug. 3 and
have covered the Interior and
Arctic. It was a first Alaska trip
for most of the party and they
declared they were impressed with
: the. size and beauty of the Terri
toiy.
Over 500 at
Reception to
Greet Dewey
Noted Republican leaders are
apparently welcome visitors In Ju
neau.
Last night more than 500 Chan
nel residents thronged the Gov
ernor's House to greet Thomas E.
Dewey, governor of New York,
who arrived in Alaska’s capital
yesterday by plane from Seattle.
It was the largest turnout since
the visit last year of Earl War
ren, governor of California.
Highly tanned from his recent
trip through the Par East and
southern hemisphere, Dewey re
ceived guests smiling affably be
side Governor and Mrs. Gruen
ing in the receiving line. He wore
a tuxedo, nn unusual sight on
Qnstineau channel.
At the dinner, preceding the
reception, talk was on general
subjects. National personalities,
television, and Dewey's trip to
New Zealand were main topics.
This morning Governor Dewey
and his( party were flown to points
of interest In Southeastern Alaska.
Ho was accompanied by Governor
Gruenlng and his aide Capt. Don
Morrison of the Coast Guard.
They are being flown by Regional
Director Clarence Rhode of the
Fish and Wildlife Service.
Speaks In Ketchikan
Dewey is scheduled to speak at
the Coliseum Theatre in Ketchi
kan tonight, attend a cocktail
party in a private home, and then
a smorgasbord at the Ketchikan
Elks Club.
Tomorrow they will be in Sitka
where a luncheon will be held for
them by civic officials and after
! visiting Mt. Edgecombe and other
places of Interest they will return
to Juneau.
Local GOP leaders are hoping
to have a conference with the
I titular head'* oi their party
I iuuisday evening but no def
I ii'ite plans have been made, lie
declined an invitation to speak
publicly at some theatre or haf,
as was hoped for by Juneau’s
Republicans.
Friday noon Dewey vviii speak
to Juneau’s Chamber of Com
merce. which is scheduling its
meeting that day instead of
Thursday to conform with the
Dewey program. It will probably
be limited to members of the
Chamber only. Fred Eastaugh,
secretary, said today because of
seating space.
Friday afternoon Dewey will fly
to Anchorage and the Interior.
He arrived In Juneau via Pan
American plane. It was noted that
his name had been crossed off
the passenger list received by The
Empire.
Dewey Foe Whipped
In Long Island
Primary Election
NEW YORK, Aug. 22-4AV-W.
Kingslnnd Macy’s 25-year undis
puted reign over Republican Suf
folk county was at an end today.
The former Congressman, foe of
Oov. Thomas E. Dewey and friend
yf Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-O), was
defeated by a decisive margin in
his bid in yesterday's primary elec
ion to retain his Republican lead
■rship in eastern Long Island.
The Suffolk county battle was
fhe highlight of a primary election
which had only one other major
contest in the state. That was Car
mine de Saplo’s successful fight to
retain control of New York county’s
Tammany Hall against opposition of
Mayor Vincent R. Impellittcri.
De Sapio's machine, with only five
leadership contests uncounted, held
i 13-3 lead over the city-hall backed
forces of Robert B. Blaikie.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Aug. 22—Uh—Clos
ing quotation of American Tel. and
Tel. stock today is 160%, Anaconda
151 , Douglas Aircraft 51 i, General
Electric General Motors 49%,
Goodyear 94, Kennecott 77%, Libby.
McNeill and Libby 9. Northern Pa
cific 47'i, Standard Oil of Calif
ornia 48%, Twentieth Century Fox
I 20'*, U. S. Steel 41%. Pound $2.80,
Canadian Exchange 94 62'j.
Sales today were 1,ISO,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 264.07, rails 79.10, util
ities 44.66.
FROM SEATTLE
W. E. Baker of the Standard Oil
Co.. Seattle, is registered at the
Baranof Hotel.