THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,881
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1951
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YAKUTAT BEACH
DISPROVED
Reds Silent
On Neutrality
Demand
BULLETIN
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8.—1«—
The Peiping radio said today Gen.
Mathew B. Ridgeway's second
sharp message to the Reds this
week caused the "world to doubt
the basic sincerity of the Ameri
can side regarding the armistice
negotiations.”
TOKYO, Aug. 8, —GW—Red ra
Edios remained silent tonight on
the United Nations demand for
fresh guarantees of neutrality at
the site of Korean armistice talks.
Allied negotiators • returned to
Korea during the day, ready to
'-“sume oease-fire talks if and
when Communist commanders
pledge the Kaesong neutral zone
will be kept inviolable.
No Mention
, -But neither the Peiping nor
Pyongyang radios mentioned to
night the new demand of Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway, U. N. com
mander, first broadcast at 1:30
p.m.» Tuesday (7:30 p.m. Juneau
time).
Instead—32 hours later — the
Chinese Red radio at Peiping
featured a report the Red com
manders still were waiting for
Ridgway’s reply to a Communist
message dispatched Monday mor
ning.
The Peiping broadcast said
, the letter, entrusted to an Am
" erican ’ liaison* officerT contained
assurances from north Korean
Gen. Kim li Sung and Gen.
Peng ieb-tfuai that the Kae
song neutrality pledge would be
observed.
This apparently was the Red
message which Ridgway acknow
ledged Tuesday in his demand for
a new Red pledge they would real
ly keep their word.
3 Languages
The Monitoring agency in Tokyo
said the .Red radio broadcast the
story in English, Chinese and
Japanese. It was featured as a top
news item, said to have been writ
ten by a Red correspondent at
Kaesong.
The Peiping broadcasts said
the Chinese and north Korean
cease-fire delegation waited at
Kaesong Tuesday for the U. N.
negotiators. “But the latter fail
ed to arrive.”
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy led
the four American delegates back
to the United Nbtions advance
headquarters' from top secTet con
ferences With the U. N. comman
der in Tokyo. On his arrival in
Korea, Joy said:
“I have no idea when the talks
will be resumed.”
The U. N. commander broke off
talks after a company of armed
Reds marched through the neu
tral zone. Top Red commanders
said it was an accident.
TheWashinglon
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW FEARSON
(Copyright* 1851. By Bell Byndieate. Inc.
FT ASHINGTON. — One reason
for the deadlock over the cease
fire line in Korea is that precious
tungsten deposits are at stake in
the juggling for position. For,
without Korean tungsten, this
country won’t have enough tung
sten to build jet engines, armor
i piercing shells and, even more
important, to supply atomic en
ergy needs.
The pie-shaped slice of land,
held by General Ridgway’s forces
above the 38th parallel, contains
rich, untapped tungsten deposits.
This is one reason 'Ridgway has
been ordered to hold firm. Fur
thermore, the largest tungsten
mine in the free world is located
at Sangdon, less than 60 miles
below the 38th parallel. This is
another reason Ridgway wants to'
hang on to his stronger defense
line above the 38th parallel, and
keep the Communists as far from
Sangdon as possible.
The shortage of tungsten is so
desperate that we have rushed
mining equipment to Korea, in or
der to step up production at the
Sangdon mine and to reopen small
mines above the 38th parallel.
It is no secret that this coun
try is over two million pounds
short of tungsten for civilian re
quirements alone. Normally the
(Continued on Peg* Four)
Peace Reigns Again
Japanese girls look at peace memorial in front of Industry Hall in
Hiroshima, Japan. The wrecked hall was near the center of the
A-bomb blast six years ago which razed most of the city. The Japa
nese with help from the United States have rebuilt the city. UPI Wire
photo.
Rear-Guard Action of
Can-Can Girls Seen
Again on Seattle ttocks
Casualties Drop ,
Past Week In Korea;
Army Still Highest
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, —OH—
Announced U. S. battle casualties
in Korea reached 80,430 today, an
increase of 351 since last week.
This is the smallest rise since the
first weekly summary last August.
The Defense Department's week
ly summary based on notifications,
to families through last Friday
reported :
Last In- New
Week crease Total
Killed in
action 11,933 21 11.954
Wounded 55,898 317 56,215
ML.sing 12,248 13 12,281
total 80,079 351 80,430
Following is a breakdown of the
casualties by services:
Last In- New
Week crease Total
Army 65,472 255 65,727
Navy 928 4 942
Air Force 697 8 705
Marine Corps 12,982 84 13,066
'Nanuk' Girl
Dead in Seattle
SEATTLE, Aug. 8— UP) —Funeral
services were held today for the
“Nanuk” girl who won the attention
of the world in 1929 when she and
her father were marooned nine
months in an ice bound vessel ofi
the Siberian coast.
She was Mrs. T. Essler Ferguson,
39, the former Marion L. Swenson
who died in a hospital here Sat
urday.
She was a 17-year-old high school
girl when she and her father, the
late Capt. Olaf Swenson, Seattle
fur trader, embarked on the tradinp
schooner Nanuk for the Siberian
Arctic. It was the first time a girl
had rtiade the Arctic trip.
On September 15, 1929, the Nanuk
became frozen fast off North Cape.
Siberia. In March, 1930, she and
her father finally returned tc
Seattle by plane and ship.
Mrs. Ferguson was a graduate of
the University of Washington and
the Annie Wright Seminary in Ta
coma. She is survived by her hus
band, two sons, a daughter and
her mother.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8—MV-'The
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion announced today aproval of 21
loans totaling $9,827,000 during the
week of July 26-Aug. 1.
The loans include Pioneer Hard
ware, Homer, Alaska, $20,000.
— EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY —
SEATTLE, Aug. 8. —Cff)— The (
can-can girls are > back in the line
&gahj ^or the boys just out of the
line. y. .and how the GI Joes lave
if.
Tlje^ fancy-kicking c»n-c«n dan
ears,: >their.,skints-, .swirling to give
a peek-a-boo. glimpse of. shapely
legs, made ,their., .return. appear
ance at Dockside yesterday as a
transport brought 1,553 soldiers
home from Korea.
There were wolf whisles, cheers
and split-face grins as the com
bat veterans lined the rails of
the Pvt. Joe Martinez.
The dancers had welcomed two
jof Seattle's nearly two dozen ro
tation troopships, but their rou
tine was dropped after letters of
protest were received by the semi
official civic , group, Greater Seat
tle, Inc.
Back they came yesterday in
answer to what an official of the
group said was "popular demand.”
No Fishing
Extension for
Alaska Peninsula
Despite the fact that the Alaska
Peninsula has had one of its best
pink salmon packs in years, no ex
tension can be permitted in that
area, Clarence Rhode, regional di
rector of the Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice said today.
The escapement has been very
poor to date and the Service has
been obliged to deny the extension,
Rhode added. A suspension order
had been ordered on fishing in that
district Aug. 3 with the view of ex
tending the season. But careful sur
veys by Ricljard Shuman, fisheries
management supervisor and Biol
ogist T. Smith, along with reports of
various operators, indicate the es
capement is still very meager.
The area was due to close Aug. 5.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Aug. 8—i-W—Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau
mine stock today is 2%, American
Can 114, American Tel. & Tel. 157%,
Anaconda 45%, Douglas Aircraft
50%, General Electric 57%, General
Motors 49%, Goodyear 93, Ken
Inecott 76%, Libby, McNeill & Libby
18%, Northern Pacific 49, Standard
Oil of California 49%, Twentieth
Century Fox 20, U. S. Steel 41%,
Pound $2.7915/16, Canadian Ex
change 95.06%.
Sales today were 1,410,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 263.73, rails 81.97, util
ities 45.46.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Hayes of
Portland. Ore., are stopping at the
I Baranof Hotel.
West Point
Coach Denies
'Recruiting'
High School Player Tells
Of Expenses Paid
Vacation at Academy
WEST POINT, N. Y„ Aug. 8. —
Head football coach Earl H.
Blaik said today that West Point
yearly recruits a percentage of its
football team from the nations
high schools.
"If we did not do that,” he said,
"we would be unable to have any
athletes in West Point able to
play a normal schedule."
Blaik's statement came in the
midst of a controversy over dis
missal of 90 cadets, including most
of the football squad, for cribbing
in classroom examinations.
It followed a report quoting
Duncan MacDonald, Flint, Mich.,
high school star, that the acad
emy attempted to recruit him.
Blaik denied, however, that
any of the high school boys
were high-pressured to enter the
academy, many of them, he said,
themselves contact West Point
and ask for an opportunity to
enter.
The Chicago Tribune had quo
ted MacDonald as saying he had
a six-week, expense paid vacation
at the academy this summer and
that he and_ 22 other potential
players had InformaF tafits“'wTth"
Blaik.
said the story was a “misrepres
entation of facts."
Meanwhile West Point officials
say extenuating clrcumstahcfc'S' mfly'
clear some of the 80 cadfets who
ihave ■admitted cribbing. The exact1
status of the other 10 cadets involv
ed is not known,
Juneau Rents May
Get Blanket Raise
Rents in Juneau will probably be
granted a blanket increase, accord
ing to A. Bandettini, director of the
area rent control office.
The control office said it is now
ready to take applications from
landlords for such increases.
"In any case whe^e the, present
maximum rent is lesi naan 120. Per‘
cent of the June 30, 1947 rent, plus
adjustments for improvements and
services, the landlord is eligible for
the rent increase,” Bandettini said.
Typical cases he cited where land
lords are eligible to raise rent are:
If the rent on June 30, 1947 was
$50 per month and he has received
no increase since that date, the
owner may now obtain an additional
20 percent to $60.
Where a $10 increase was given
because of a major improvement on
a dwelling renting for $50, a land
lord may now obtain an additional
20 percent of his preseent rent of
$60 for a new total of $72. A gar
age modern bathroom or sleeping
porch was listed in the announce
ment as an improvement.
Where the present rate is already
more than 120 percent of the 1947
figure plus adjustments for im
provements and services, “the pres
ent maximum rent continues with
out change,” Bandettini explained.
“In any case where there has been
a decrease in services or equipment
such as cutting off of utilities, such
decreases must be shown in the ap
plication and are offsets against the
20 percent increase," he stated.
WEATHER FORECAST
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending «:20 o'clock this morning
At Airport—Maximum, 61;
minimum, 49.
forecast
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Mostly cloudy with very
light rain showers. Lowest
temperature near 48 degrees
tonight. Decreasing cloudi
ness and warmer with high
est temperature about 65 de
grees Thursday becoming
mostly fair Thursday after
noon.
PRECIPITATION
(Put 24 houre ending 7:30 a m today
At Airport — .05 inches;
since July 1—3.18 inches.
Man Shot in
Fight ai
Lemon Creek
^ Ralph Littlefield was seriously
'■Bunded in a shooting fray which
t£sk place about 4 p.m., yesterday
OK Lemon Creek.
Fuchs, Salmon Creek resi
•nt, is being held in federal jail
Sntfing investigation of the affair.
WDeputy Marshall Sid Thompson
Was called to the scene, together
with Drs. Cassius Carter and Wil
iam Whitehead, and the wounded
man was brought to St. Ann’s
hospital where physicians pro
nounced his condition as fair.
On Visit
Preliminary investigation of the
fracas revealed that Littlefield had
gone to Lemon Creek to visit
Verina Mae Ginnett at her home
there, U. S. Attorney Patrick J.
Gilmore Jr., said this morning.
The shooting took place in the
open between the Ginnett and
Fuchs cabins, when an argument
started between the two men.
Ohe had a 32.40 calibre rifle
and the other a shot gun, Gil
more said. Littlefield was felled
by a shot gun loaded with four
lead slugs. He was injured In the
shoulder, neck and face. One
tooth was knocked out.
Investigation
Further investigation will be
carried out by the Marshal's office
as soon as Littlefield is in condi
tion to be questioned. He was an
emp.oyee of the Burrows Welding
■Company, -of nutate--stridr—- —
An application for a marriage
lie. »se was Issued tit Verina Mae
Giniiett on June 30.1951, at the
! U. S. Commissioner’s office in
Juneau. Neither of the men in
yesterday's shooting affair was
concerned in the marriage ap
plication.
Mrs. Ginnett gave her age on
the application as 38 and stated,
she was born in Nome. She had
had two previous marriages, one
to a man in Petetjsbujrg and the
second, in 1941 '*ta Rdhett Cnhnett
in Tacoma, Washington. Both
were terminated by divorce.
She is being held for questioning
in yesterday’s shooting.
Ketchikan Asks
For Aid in Planning
Forlxpansion
The Ketchikan city council has
requested aid from the Alaska
Development Board in making
plans for expansion which will
result with construction of its new
$40,000,000 pulp mill at Ward's
Cove.
George Sundborg, consultant, re
ceived a letter from the council
last week and immediately contac
ted Ralph Browne, assistant man
ager of development board who
was in Seattle at the time, re
questing he confer with pulp mill
officials In Bellingham for sug
gestions. The Puget Sound Pulp
and Timber Company, ^ at Belling
ham, are sponsors of *the Ketchi
kan project.
Ketchikan expects to increase
its population by 5,000 with op
eration of the big pulp concern.
Browne, who has returned to
Juneau, will go to Ketchikan to
make a special study of commun
ity needs, such as additional hous
ing, schools, roads and facilities
for expanded business and indust
rial services.
The proposed Ketchikan Pulp
and Paper Company plant has
been approved by the defense de
partment and National Produc
tion Authority. A contract for
timber signed with tb ■ Forest
Service July 27. At start of opera
tion it will produce 300 tons of
pulp per day; increasing in 10
years to 525 tons.
Sundborg said* the Alaska Dev
elopment Board will give all as
sistance possible to the First City
in connection with its new en
terprise.
CHILD HEALTH CLINIC '
SET FOB TOMOBBOW
A weekly well baby and child
health conference will be held at
the Juneau Public Health Center,
122 2nd Street tomorrow from 1:00
i to 8:30 p.m. All mothers in this
area are invited to bring their young
children to these conferences with
the public health nurse, the health
center announced today , _
'Minimum Hope' We Can
Escape 10-Year War,
Says Military Expert
Reds Publish
Friendship
Statements
Russia May Say U. S.
Rejection of Peace Pact
Means No Amity
MOSCOW, Aug. 8.— !Pi—Moscow's
press today published fully the ex
change of statements between the
United States and the Soviet Un
ion expressing friendship between
the two peoples.
Now Moscow can be expected to
press its proposal for a five-power
peace pact, and to interpret its re
jection by the U. S. as turning down
of the whole idea of friendship.
The Moscow proposal calls for a
pact among Britain, France, the
U.S.S.R., the United States and
Communist China. For a long time
the Soviet Union has been plumping
for this as a means of lessening in
ternational tension. The United
States does not recognize the Com
■wmnirt government of—the-Peoples
Republic of China.
The press and radlaw.pf the
U.S.S.R now have given almost
the entire Soviet population of
200,000,000 an opportunity to be
come acquainted with the ex
change of messages—(1) Presi
dent Truman's letter commend
ing a Congressional resolution of |
friendship for the Soviet peoples j
and (2) the reply of Nikolai M.
Shefnik, President of the Supreme
Soviet, the U.S.S.R.’s legislature. |
The texts were broadcast and were I
given wide display in the news- ;
papers.
Izvestia, the Soviet government
newspaper, ran an editorial on the ,
exchange, commenting that forces
of "international reaction” now were
striving to “confuse peoples with
lies and to deceive them.”
There never was much expec
tation that the United States
would accept the Idea of a peace
pact which included the Com
munist Chinese.
However, with rejection of the
proposal, the Soviet press may be
expected to go to work on this vig
orously and to tell the Soviet peoples
that such rejection cancels out any
expressions of American friendship
for the Soviets. It would be difficult
for the west in this case to counter '
this impression among the Russians.
Pink Run on
Increase at Anan
And Zimova Strait
The pink salmon run at Anan
Creek and in Zimovia Strait is
building up, C. Howard Baltzo,
assistant regional director of the
Pish and Wildlife Service, said to
day. There is a sharp increase in
the showing since Aug. 6, he said.
Escapement into Anan Creek is
over 200,000 to date and at Snake
Creek over 50,000 fish, according
to Service weirs located at those
creeks. Other streams in Bradfield
Canal also show good escapements.
"The most encouraging part,”
he stated, “is that more fish arc
still arriving."
Reports from Anan say that
there are 175 seine boats there.
Pinks are just beginning to show
in Rocky Pass, Baltzo said, but
it will probably be another week
or ten days before they arrive in
any great numbers. Rocky Pass is
normally a late district for pinks.
VESSEL DISABLED
A 50-foot disabled fishing vessel,
the 310185, with two persons aboard
was towed to Ketchikan from Clar
ence Strait 40 miles north of Ketch
ikan on Monday, according to infor
mation received here by Coast
Guard headquarters. The Sweetbrler
took the disabled boat in.
Ansel J. Wright, Excursion Inlet
canneryman, is stopping at the Bar
anof Hotel. ,
WASHINGTON. Aug. 8 — <*1 —A
Congressional military expert told
the House today "there is only a
minimum hope" that the United
States can avert on all-out war
that might last ten years.
Opening debate on a $56,000,000,
0C0 military appropriation bill. Rep.
Mahon (D-Tex) cautioned against
“complacency” and sounded this
warning: ,
“In my judgment, there is only
a minimum hope that our diffi
culties with Russia ran and will
be resolved short of war. Trends
from cold to hot war, from little
wars to big wars, do not have a
tendency to reverse themselves
short of an all-out explosion."
Mahon is chairman of an ap
propriations subcommittee in charge
of military budgets. As such he is
a recognized spokesman on mili
tary matters. His subcommittee con
ducted weeks of closed hearings be
fore acting on the pending bill. Dur
ing that time it quizzed top de
fense department leaders, both
military and civilian.
“It is true,” he said, “that the
United States becomes stronger
with every passing day,” but the
same probably Is true of Russia.
“Who Is so foolish,” he asked,
“as to assume that the Commun
ists are standing still?”
Mahon in an earlier interview
estimated that the Korean cam
000,000.001 luring its first year
up to last June 30—and predicted
tb«C it would uoat almost that ipuci
more up to next June 30 unless con
dition.', change.
Woods Expected
At Family Reunion
When Lost
SEATTLE, Aug. 8—(A*)—A Seattl*
relative disclosed today that Mrs
Walter Wood and her daughter
Valerie, had been expected here foi
a family reunion the night aftei
they vanished on an Alaska glaciei
flight.
Mrs. Charles Simenstad, Mrt
Wood's aunt, said the reunion hat
been planned for the night of Jul;
28. The Norseman plane with Mr.'
Wood, Valerie andl pilot Maurlci
King disappeared near Yukutat, A1
a,ska, July 27. The Woods are from
Far Hills, N. J.
Mrs. Simenstad said “wc met th<
plane from Alaska twice, and thei
started telegraphing. We never re
ceived any reply.”
The aunt said Mrs. Wood alway:
goes with her husband, a wealths
scientist, on his research expedi
tions. She handles the cameras and
helps in other ways. Her husbant
was directing an Arctic Institute let
studies project.
Mrs. Simenstad is director of the
D.A.R. House here.
Stamp Collectors
Can Obtain First
Flight Cachets
SEATTLE, Aug, 8, —(jR—First
flight cachets from the inaugural
flight of Alaska Airlines new cer
tified schedule August 12 will be
available to stamp collectors, Roy
Bachman, the company's general
manager for traffic and sales, said
today.
Arrangements have been filed
for unofficial cachets from Seattle,1
Portland and Fairbanks, he said.
The flight, Inaugurating certi
fied scheduled service on the line,
will leave Portland airport at 8,
a m., (Pacific Standard time), Se-;
attle-Tacoma International Air-'
port at 9:50 a m. and from Fair
banks at 10:30 p.m.
TIDE TABLES
AUGUST 3
High tide 5:38 a m., 13.2 ft.
Low tide 11:38 am., 2.9 ft.
High tide 5:53 pm.. 16.0 ft.
Trousers
Identified;
Bone X-Rayed
Two supposed “clues" to the miss
ing Korean airlift transport which
disappeared off Cape Spencer July
20, found on the Yakutat beach
last Sunday, were announced this
morning as false.
Search for the airlift plane and
the missing Norseman piloted by
Maurice King was at a standstill
today. King and his passengers
have been missing since July 27.
One discovery, a pair of whipcord
trousers, was identified by Mrs.
Frederick A. Wetche of Pelican as
having belonged to her husband,
lost last November off Yakobi Rock
while on a hunting expedition with
the couple's 14-year-old son, who
was also lost.
i
Thought Bear Bone
The other find, a leg bone
thought to have been that of
a “stocky human male," was be
lieved by authorities this morn
ing to be a bear bone. The bone,
a 32-inch-long massive structure
with the foot attached, was picked
up some 20 feet from the trousers
on the south shore of Monti Bay
by Coastguardsmen. »
U. S. Commissioner Oordon Gray
said that Mrs. Wetche called him
last night after recognizing the
laundry mark published when the
find was announced. Gray described
to her a mended pocket, and she
said it corresponded with mending
... ■
Wetche and his son were lost
when their boat Dixie developed
"helne term We tn Cross Abound and
hey set off in an oarless skiff to
nake land. A friend, Helvig Christ
anren, was found on the rock five
lays later, his feet frozen.
Same Marks
Mrs. Wetche came to U. S.
Marshal Walter Hellan's office late
this morning with a pair of trousers
.identical to those found, and which
bore the same laundry marks. She
said she had sent the trousers to
he Triangle Cleaners several years
igo. She explained that her husband
carried a pipe in his pocket as a
labit and tnat it burned a hole
here which she identified as having
latched.
Gray said he had wrapped the
bone for sending to Washington,
I). C. for Inspection, but that its
weight led him to want more in
formal! sn before doing so. Three
Juneau doctors had told hint the
bone was human, and had been
in the water not more than a
month.
Different Shape
X-rayed at the Government Hos
pital this morning, examination
howed the shape different from a
luman leg bone, particularly the
ljp and metatarsal bones in the
oot. No positive identification of
he bone could be made, but in
'ormants said it definitely “did not
ook human.”
Meanwhile, 17th District Head
marters, Coast Guard, held no hope
oday of being able to launch more
search flights, because the weather
;ave no sign of clearing. Three
veather planes were up yesterday,
hey said.
The Norseman plane carried Mrs.
Walter A. Wood of Far Hills, N. J.,
tnd her daughter, Valerie, as pass
rngers.
Wood is head of the Arctic Insi
tute’s ice studies project at Mt. Hub
bard. He, his son and two other men
were picked up from their glacier
;amp site Saturday after learning
that Mrs. Wood, the 18-year-old
;irl and the project pilot had been
missing a week.
The missing 50-year-old pilot’s
;on, Dick King, expressed optimism
it Fairbanks last night.
“My Dad has been flying In Al
aska for 17 years and he’s been
lost 'more than a dozen times,”
the son, also a flier, said. “Once
he was missing a week. He’s al
ways turned up safe and sound.
Just wait until those clouds lift
off the peaks and they’ll see him
sitting there with his passengers,
waiting for rescue.”
Mrs. Herbert L. Heath of Palo
Alto. Calif., who is - spending the
summer in Portland, said mail from
Mrs. Wood Indicated she was act
ually participating in the ice project.
Mrs. Heath is an aunt of Mrs. Wood.
She said a letter postmarked
June 30 at Yakutat, said: "We are
waiting now to take off for the