.VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,887
JUNEAU, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1951
MEMBER associated press
PRICE TEN CENTS
Allies Suggest
Subcommittee
On Deadlock
Joy Proposes Meet
'Around' Instead of
. 'Across' Table
MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. 15—<i'Pt—
’* United Nations delegates suggested
t today that a subcommittee be set
up to break through the formality
of Korean truce negotiations and at
tempt to settle the buffer zone dead
lock.
Red delegates showed interest, a
UN spokesman said.
Simultaneously, UN command
% headquarters in Tokyo announced
that the Allies, if necessary, will
< continue "destroying or driving out
of Korea” the Red Chinese and
t Korean armies.
At Kaesong the chief UN delegate,
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, proposed
a two man committee—one from
each side—seek an end to the dead
lock in an air of informality.
He proposed the subcommittee
> • “meet around rather than across
the table.” They would thus es
* cape “the formality of utterances”
which he said contributed to the
' three-week-old dispute over where
to place a military dividing line
across Korea that would separate
opposing armies during an armis
tice.
Joy asked the Communists to re
ply Thursday. The negotiators meet
next at 1 p.m. (10 p.m. Wednesday
* EST). *
Reds “Interested”
The five Red generals "showed
* more visible interest in Admiral
Joy's proposal than they have shown
in any other statement,” Brig. Gen.
Williarji p, Nuckols reported. "It was
suficieptly different to call for their
undivided attention,” Nuckols com
mented.
Botlj delegations appeared more
cheerfhl than usual when they left
the meeting place, a pool dispatch
from Kaesong said. And Communist
newsmen on the scene hinted the
Reds might be willing to discuss a
demarcation line based on the pre
sent battle front, as the Allies de
> mand.
Delegations have been stymied
since July 27 over the location of
the demarcation line.
House Advocates
- Break with Czechs
, Until Oatis Is Free
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 — (if) —
The House today unanimously ad
vocated immediate severance of
commercial relations with Czecho
slovakia until William N. Oatis is
freed from a Prague jail.
, By a standing vote the chamber
passed and sent to the Senate a
resolution expressing the sense of
Congress that such action should
i be taken.
It then ordered 'a roll-call vote
to confirm the standing count.
Deleted from the resolution was
an earlier provision advocating
eventual severance of diplomatic
ties with Czechoslovakia if Oatis
isn’t freed in 90 days.
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
Bj DREW PEARSON
NEAR THE IRON CURTAIN,
IN CENTRAL EUROPE — The
most important answer to the al
arming question put before Cong
ress recently by secretaries Mar
shall and Pace — “Will there be
war with Russia soon?” — Lies ir.
* the long stretch of barbed wire
extending from the Black Sea te
the Baltic which Winston Church
hill named the Iron Curtain.
Most Americans, including the
U. S. government, have neglected
the importance of this barrier be
tween East and West.
We have failed to realize that
there will always exist the dangei
of war with Russia as long as thi;
, curtain exists; as long as the Mos
co radio can tell the Russian
people anything they want about
us and the Russian people have
no free parliament, no fret
church, no free press, no free
public opinion to prevent the
Kremlin from deolaring war.
We have also failed to realize
that even if we fight a war with
Russia and win, actually our vic
tory will be temporary unless we
> can convert the Russian people
to friendship with the U. S. A.
until we have done that, we shall
(Continued on Pegs Four)
The Good Old
Days? Huh!
• TROUT CREEK, N. Y„ Aug. •
• 15—At—A school house which •
• cost $500 to build in 1899 will •
• be remodeled at a cost of $1,000. •
• Frank M. Clark of Oneonta, •
• the contractor who built the •
• frame school, recalls he paid •
e two carpenters $1 a day, plus •
• board, and worked them 18 •
• hours a day. They finished the •
e job in 20 days. •
Red 'Subs' Greatest
threat in Korea,
Kimball Believes
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15— (At —
Secretary of the Navy Kimball be
lieves the Russians may throw sub
marines into the Korean war if the
Kaesong truce talks fail.
‘It’s a very real threat and we’re
alive to it,” he said last night in
a radio interview. He expressed the
view that the threat of Soviet sub
marine intervention is greater than
the threat of increased Red air
power.
320 CASUALTIES LISTED;
LOWEST WEEKLY INCREASE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15— —
Announced U. S. battle casualties
in Korea reached 80,750 today, an
increase of 320 since last week. This
is the lowest weekly increase since
the first weekly summary was is
sued last Aug. 7.
Hears! Burial
Awaits Widow
Will Directs Papers
Held in Chain-Marion
Davie: Cut Off
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15.—UP
—William Randolph Hearst, in
death, was back today in the city
by the Golden Gate where he began
his sensational newspaper career.
Accompanied by four of the five
sons who have followed him in the
newspaper profession, the famed
publisher’s body was flown from
Beverly Hills, where 'Hearst died
yesterday at the age of 88. A series
of cerebral strokes ended his life.
Funeral arangement were await
ing the arrival from New York of
his widow, Mrs. Millicent Willson
Hearst, who is accompanied by a
fifth son, John. Burial will take
place in Cypress Lawn Cemetery,
where the publisher's father, U. S.
Senator George Hearst, and his
mother, Mrs. Phoebe Apperson
Hearst, were buried.
Hearst’s 57-page typewritten Will
already has been filed for proba
tion in Los Angeles. His widow'
was left $1,500,000 In cash and
the income from a $6,000,000 trust
fund.
Former screen actress Marion
Davies, in a codicil dated Aug. 15.
1947, was bequeathed the publisher’s
Beverly Hills home but a codicil,
dated Sept. 8, 1948, revoked the re
quest without explanation.
His will directs that the estate
be divided into two trust funds—
one for the family and the other
the residuary or charitable trust.
Executors of the estate, the will
directs, are not to part with owner
ship of any of the Hearst publica
tions "unless it shall, in their opin
ion, be necessary to do so.”
His five sons are to get enough
preferred stock to realize an an
nual income of $150,000 to be added
to 100 shares of common stock in
the Hearst corporation.
Reds Drive Allies
Off Hill Alter 36
Hours Bombardment
U.S. 8TH ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, Aug. 15 — Ut\ — Red
roops, counterattacking with mor
tar and machinegun fire, drove
United Nations forces off a hill on
the eastern front in the only size
able ground action reported in Ko
rea today. All troops had fought
for the hillcrest last night.
The hill is one of five near Kah
song, objective of a three-day battle.
The Reds hold two, the Allies two.
The fifth hill has been under artil
lery fire for 36 hours.
Elsewhere along the front patrols
occasionally stirred up sharp, deadly
fights.
Four skirmishes were fought on
the western front outside the neu
tral zone surrounding the Kaesong
cease-fire talks. ,
COP Wants
Foreign Aid
Cut by Billion
Money-Not Men
Europe's Biggest Need,
Says Committee
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—(ffl—The
House debated the huge foreign aid
bill today but delayed until tomor
row a vote on a Republican-spon
sored drive to slash a billion dol
lars from the total.
The Foreign Affairs Committee
which knocked only $651,250,000
from the $8,500,000,000 assistance
measure, said in a formal report
yesterday that money, not man
power, is Europe's biggest defense
need.
Today the House was ready to
give final approval to a $1,700,
000,000 defense housing bill. Even
those opposing some of the bill's
particulars conceded it would pass.
The measure’s purpose is to
provide housing near mushroom
ing defense installations with pri
vate enterprise getting first crack
at the building.
( Meanwhile, prompt Senate ac
tion was predicted today on a
House-passed resolution to suspend
trade relations with Red Czecho
slovakia until William N. Oatis, an
A.P correspondent, is freed from a
Prague jail. He has been sentenced
to 10 years in Jail on an espionage
charge.
limited Search
Continues lor
Missing Plane
The search for a Korean airlift
plane missing for 27 days, and a
Norseman aircraft overdue for 20
'll i
Tiiree planes spent eight search
hours in the Yakutat and surround
ing glacier and mountain area yes
terday, according to an incomplete
report received by U, S. Coast Guard
headquarters here this morning.
Flight were hampered by poor
weather and diversion of Air
Force planes seeking the miss
ing Navy Privateer which disap
peared Sunday morning between
Kodiak and Adak.
The Coast Guard cutter Storis,
which had conducted dragging op
erations in Yakutat Bay where an
oil slick had been reported, was
due in Juneau sometime today.
Parties had also combed surround
ing beaches for evidence of the two
missing aircraft. Neither operation
produced any results.
Three Royal Canadian Air Force
planes temporarily based at White
horse, returned to their home bases
last Sunday.
A complete log of Monday s
flights in the Yakutat region
showed that seven aircraft had
flown a total of 41 hours seek
ing the Canadian Pacific Airlines
transport which was last reported
off Cape Spencer the night of
July 20. It had 38 persons aboard.
Included in tlje search is an Arctic
Research Institute Norseman piloted
by Maurice King which failed to
show up on schedule at Yakutat
July 27. King’s passengers were Mrs.
Walter A. Wood and daughter Val
erie. They had been visiting at the
Institute’s ice research camp on
Malaspina Glacier inhere Mrs
Wood’s husband, was in charge oi
ice studies.
Men Aboard Lost
Patrol Bomber
Identified by Navy
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -AM—
The Navy has identified 12 men
missing in Sunday’s crash of a
PB4-Y-2 near Adak, Alaska. They
are:
Edwin Francis Busby, Jr., Low
ell, Mass.; Robert Wilfred Conk
lin, Lt. Jg., South Great Falls,
Mont.; Charles Wyllis Elkins, Lin
ton, Ind.; Bobby Enloe, Houston,
Tex.; Elnord Flinkfelt, Pawtucket,
R. I.;Ronald Lee Hunt, Blackbutte,
Ore.; Roy Erwin Park, Lt., Col
umbus, Ohio; Leonard Walter
Sexton, San Jose, Calif.; William
Wagener, San Francisco, Calif.;
Brooks Alton Willcams, Chicago,
111.; Joseph Dale Witherspoon,
Fordtown, Tenn.; and Henry How
ard Wood, Ensign, Denver, Colo.
FROM SEATTLE
P. R. Andrews and R. F. Hend
ricks of the Pacific Marine Supply
Co. of Seattle, are stopping at the
Baranof Hotel.
Plane Wreckage Burns
Firemen throw water on the burning wreckage of a B-50 which crashed in the south end of Seattle, hitting apartment house (right) and
scattering pieces over a wide aitea. Wreckage of plane, Including a motor, is at center of picture. Autos in foreground were burned in the
fire. Observers said the plane crashed with a terrific explosion, if) Wirephoto.
Matanuska Indians Demand
Payment for Valley;
Almost Miss Deadline
<*
Blaze Destroys
Homes iR Kake;
No Serious Hurls
I KAKE, Alaska, Aug. 15 —<**—
jFire of unknown ong»n destroyed
several homes in this Indian vil
lage late yesterday. No serious in
juries were reported. The blaze
was said to have started in the
home of Freddie James, owner
of the seiner Pearl F.
Ship Assigned to
Alaska Line from
Reserve Fleet
The Liberty ship Daniel G. Reid
has been assigned the Alaska Steam
ship Company by the National Ship
ping Authority for operation under
general agency agreement, accord
ing to Admiral F. A. Zeuslcr, execu
tive assistant to the president of the
company.
The Reid has been moved from
the Olympic reserve fleet anchorage
to drydock for inspection before de
livery.
This is the third vessel assigned
to the company for operation un
der the shipping authority with the
James T. Fields and John Dock
weiler alloted earlier.
It is expected that the Reid will
be operated in the grain run to
India.
Taku Road Report
To Be Given at
Chamber Meeting
Jerry McKinley, chairman of
the Juneau Chamber of Commerce
road committee, will give a report
on the proposed Taku road at a
regular meeting of the Chamber
Thursday, president Herbert S.
Rowland announced today.
McKinley will tell of a recent
flight made by his committee up
the Taku River over the proposed
location for the road that would
connect Juneau to Atlin, B. C.
and the Alaska Highway.
JUDGE FOLTA DELAYED
IN ARRIVAL TO JUNEAU
Judge George W. Folta has been
delayed one day in his arrival in
Juneau from Anchorage, the clerk
of the court’s office said today.
He was originally due in this af
ternoon to conduct pre-trial con
ferences concerning the Nakat
Packing Company cannery, but
word received stated he will not
arrive until Thursday afternoon.
The clerk's office said Folta
would be returning to Anchorage
Saturday where he is conducting
court while Judge A. J. Dimond
is on vacation.
Names of jurors to serve in the
Ketchikan court term, which starts
in October, will be drawn here
Friday, the office announced. J
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 — lift—
Indian who once roamed the
rich Matanuska Valley in Alaska
want the government to pay lor
their being deprived of it.
The claim of the Indians, now
living at Palmer, Alaska, was the '
last filed with the Indian claims
commission before a deadline Mon
day.
Li many of the claims, it ask
ed no specific amount, leaving
that to the claims commission.
That body has until April, 1957,
to clear up the 645 cases pending
before it.
The Palmer Indians contend
they have been deprived of the
continued use of the Matanuska
Valley lands and adjoining waters
on Which they formerly lived.
Their claim, filed by William H.
Olsen, Anchorage attorney, was
submitted through the Interior
Department's Bureau of Indian
Alfairs.
Almost Missed
James A. Langston, adminis
trative officer, said the Palmer
claim almost missed the dead
line, because it was addressed
in care of the Indian Affairs of
fice.
“We got wind of it at the last
minute,” Langston explained, “and
sent a page over to pick it up."
Officials estimated the Indian
claims for all of the United States
and Alaska may total 16 billion
dollars.
A five-year period in which
they could file their claims
againat the government expired
Monday. In all, 645 claims were
put before the Indian claims
commission.
In only one-fifth of them was
an estimate made as to the
amount of money sought. These
totaled $3,016,377,608.
Thus if the others average the
Eame, the total might be $15,000,
000,000, or even more.
But Edgar E. Witt of Waco,
former Texas governor and chair
man of the three-man commission,
explained to a reporter that the
court of claims which previously
handled such cases, allowed only
two per cent of the amounts
claimed before it.
“I’m not predicting what this
commission might do,” Witt said.
VISITORS FROM SKAGYVAY
Mrs. Milton Kepler and Mrs.
Barney Anderson of Skagway are
at the Baranof Hotel.
•
• WEATHER FORECAST
« Temperature tor 34-Hour Period
4 ending 6:20 o’clock this morning
• At Airport, Maximum, 63
• minimum,*49.
• FORECAST
• (Juneeu end Vicinity)
• Considerable cloudiness with
• light rain showers tonight and
• Thusday. Lowest temperature
• tonight near 50 degrees. High
•est Thursday about 62.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Pest 34 hours ending 7:30 e.m. today
• At Airport — .21 inches;
• since July 1—3.48 inches.
Truman Sits 'Under
Mistletoe' Awaiting
Kiss, Thinks Douglas
• WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—UPI •
• Senator Douglas (D-Ill) thinks •
• President Truman ‘ is under- •
• neath the mistletoe” and “in •
• a position to be kissed”—for re- •
• election in 1952. •
• That’s the way Douglas ans- •
• wered a reporter who asked if •
• he thought Mr. Truman would •
• be running again for the presi- •
• dency. •
Statehood Bills
Won't Hold Congress,
Says McFarland
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15— iff) —
Senate majority leader McFarland
(D-Ariz) said yesterday that "sec
ond priority" bills such as those giv
ing statehood to Alaska and Hawaii
would not delay adjournment of
Congress this fall.
He listed 12 "must" measures in
cluding nine big money bills to op
erate the government.
Another dozen given second pri
ority by the Democratic Policy Com
mittee may be sandwiched in be
tween the “Big 12,” he said, but
Congress will not be held to enact
them.
third Riot in Three
Months Quelled al
Utah State Prison
POINT -OF -THE -MOUNTAIN,
Utah, Aug. 15 —W)— The third
riot in as many months at Utah's
new multi-million dollar prison
was put down without bloodshed
yesterday.
And as it ended with the release
of two prison officers who had
been held hostage under threat of
death most of the day, embattled
state officials announced a new
and tougher era at the institution
where 472 inmates are housed.
The state board of corrections
ordered that all men be confined
to their cells.
“Only those who have definite
work assignments will be allowed
to leave their quarters at any
time—except on signed permission
of the warden,” said the board
statement.
The board also announced that
Weston E. Haslam — one of the
two men held hostage for more
than seven hours—will continue
as acting warden with full auth
ority. The other held hostage was
guard Edward Schmidt.
The uprising ended when Joseph
W. Dudler. state commissioner of
public safety and superintendent
of the highway patrol, conferred
'with the riot leaders.
The riot had brought 150 armed
officers from over the state. Of
ficials said 22 men were in the
maximum security cell block taken
over by the prisoenrs.
CHAPE LADIES MEETING
The Chapeladles of Auke Bay
are holding their last meeting of
the summer season tonight. They
will meet at 8 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. John Hagemeier.
Fall series of meetings will start
next month with installation of
new officers.
Wrecked Bomber's
Engines Removed
Frcm Wreckage
SEATTLE, Aug. 14 —</?*)— The
last of four engines from the B-50
bomber that crashed into an in
dustrial district apartment house
Monday was remoyed from the
wreckage early today.
Air Force investigators took the
engines and propellers to Boeing
Field' for a close study in an at
tempt to find clues to the accident
that killed the plane crew of six
and five persons in the apartment.
Brig. Gen. Richard J. O'Keefe,
director of flight safety research
for the Air Force, arrived yester
day from Norton All Force base
at San Bernardino, Calif.
McCarthy Squares
Offal Truman
After 'Hate' Blast
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15— Itf) —
President Truman’s blast at "hate
mongers” brought a challenge from
Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) today
for a 1952 political showdown on hit
Communists-in-government charges.
Mr. Truman dedicated the new
Washington headquarters of the
American Legion last night with a
punch-packed attack on those h(
| said "are trying to create fear and
! suspicion among us by the use ol
slander, unproved accusations and
just plain lies.”
Senator Benton (D-Conn) very
promptly nominated McCarthy as
the object of the attack. Benton
i has proposed that the Senate
formally consider ousting the Wis
consin Senator.
" McCarthy, acepting the designa
tion, flung a challenge back at the
President. He said:
“If Truman wants to make the
fight against Communism—which
I he calls ‘McCarthyism’—an issue
j in the campaign, I will welcome it.
I It will give the people a chance to
choose between Americanism or a
combination of Trumanism and
Communism.”
In his speech, Mr. Truman assail
ed people he said claim to be agains
I Communism but are “chipping awaj
at our basic freedoms just as insid
iously arid far more effectively than
the Communists have ever been able
to do.”
Health (enter Holds
Baby Clinic tomorrow
Mothers are invited to bring their
children to the well baby confer
ence Thursday afternoon from 1 tc
3:30 o’clock at the health center
122 Second Street.
Special appointments may be
made by calling 218. The conferences
are held to measure and weigh pre
school children. A public health
nurse will be there for discussion of
children’s general health.
The center has publications by the
children’s bureau for distribution
and other pamphlets on communic
able diseases and nutrition.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Ralph E. Nelson of Anchorage
: Is at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM MARYLAND
Anna Helsler of Bethesda, Md.
i is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
Territorial ’Navy'
Hits Shoals in
Auditor's Office
The Territorial ".Navy" hit a
reef today in the form of Terri
torial Auditor Neil Moore when
he refused to honor two vouchers.
A $2,800 Insurance voucher and
a voucher for $600 in fines against
the owners of the M V Chilkoot
were disallowed this morning by
Moore. The Chilkoot was pur
chased in June by the Territory
and is operated as a ferry between
Juneau and Haines with calls at
Skagway.
They were presented to the au
ditor by Prank Metcalf, Territor
ial highway engineer under whose
office the Chilkoot operates.
Insurance Listed
The insurance voucher lists a
premium of $2,800 on the vessel
with its valuation given as $40,000
and a $100,000 liability policy on
which the premium is $900. A no
tation on the bill from Shattuck
Agency, where the insurance was •
purchased, subtracts $900 from the
$3,700 total of the two premiums
as having been paid by the Chil
koot Motorship Lines. When it
was paid or what period it covers
is not mentioned.
Moore bases his disallowance
of payment of the $2800 balance
to the fact that the premiums
arc not prorated. The policy was
taken out on May 7, 1951 to run
until May 7, 1952. “The Terri
tory did not purchase the vessel
until June 19,” Moore stated.
In regard to the $600 fines
against the owners of the ferry
Chilkoot, Moore disclosed a letter
written by Merlin O’Neill, vice
admiral and commandant of the
U. S. Coast Guard which cited
cause of the fine and stated that
$500 of the original $1,100 was
cancelled “in view of all the cir
cumstances" and provided the $600
against the owners of the vessel
was paid to the commander of the
17tl; Coast Guard District
Carried Freight
The line, the letter stated,
was levied on June 4 when a
Coast Guard inspector boarded
the vessel at Tee Harbor, oh Its
arrival from Seattle, and found
th3 vessel had carried freight
from Seattle In violation of the
terms of Its certificate of Inspec
tion. The letter added that the
$600 must be paid within 30 days
of Aug. 7, or the case would be
turned over to the United States
Attorney for collection of the
original sum of $1,100.
Moore said he was disallowing
the voucher because the fine is
against the “owners of the vessel"
who. at the time were Robert
Sommers, Steve Homer and as
sociates.
Claimants of disallowed vouchers
can ask for a hearing of the Ter
ritorial Board of Examiners which
consists of the governor of Alas
ka. the Territorial treasurer and
attorney general.
Shrine Ceremonial
Will Be Held Here
Friday and Saturday
Officers of the Shrine Nile Tem
ple of Seattle are scheduled to
rrrive In Juneau on Pan American
World Airways Thursday to hold a
Shrine ceremonial here, Les Holmes,
<ecretary of the Juneau Shrine club,
jaid today.
The ceremonials will be held on
Friday and Saturday, concluding
with a cocktail party and banquet
tn the Gold Room of the Baranof
Hotel Saturday evening.
If weather permits a parade
will take place about 5 o’clock Fri
day afternoon, Holmes said.
Visiting officers who will conduct
the work are: H. Dan Bracken, Jr.,
potentate; Glenn H. Carpenter,
chief rabban; Ruben E. Lovegren,
assistant rabban; and Frank T.
Ostrander, recorder, all of Seattle.
Art Hedges and Lance Hendrick
son of Juneau will assist during the
first section activities. Oscar Eli
sen of Juneau and Harold L. Simp
son of Seattle will assist in the
second section, Holmes said.
Dr. John Clements, Juneau, will
be the ceremonial physician.
In addition to the Juneau candi
dates, others are expected here
from Skagway, Petersburg and
Kake.
From here, the visiting officers
will fly to Sitka on Sunday to initi
ate a class there, before going to
Cordova, Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Gene Vuille is president of the
local Shrine club.
FROM CALIFORNIA
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Adams of
Berkeley, Calif, are stopping at
the Baranof Hotel.
Frank H. Stover of Bay City,
i Mich, is registered at the Baranof
Hotel. . j