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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,868
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 24. 1951
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Basketball
Stars Admit
Fixing Games
All-American Among 8
Bradley Boys Accused;
Grand Jury Will Probe
NEW YORK, July 23 -'.TUDist
rict Attorney Frank Hogan an
nounced today that eight Bradley
University players, including an All
American athlete, had admitted ac
cepting bribes to fix basketball gam
es.
Bradley, which is in Peoria, 111.,
has had top ranking teams over
the past few years.
Hogan named four of the eight
players, who are all under question
ing by the state’s attorney in Peor
ia as:
Eugene Melchiorre, 23, Highland
Park, 111., the All-American ath
lete: Wiliam Mann, 24, Peoria; Aar
on Preece, 24, Peoria, and Charles
Grover 22, Peoria.
Hogan said the men admitted tak
ing up to S2.700 in bribes since tjie
1948-49 season when the fixes be
gan.
To Grand Jury
He said the matter would pre
sumably be submitted by State’s At
torney Michael Shore to the gtand
jury of Peoria County.
According to Ifogan the games fix
ed were: Bradley against Washing
ton State in Peoria, 1949-50 season,
and Bradley against Oregon State
in Peoria, Dec. 7, 1950.
He said there was an effort to
fix the Bowling Green-Bradley
game at Madison Square Garden in
the 1948-49 season, but that the
Bradley players involved failed- to
lose by the number of points agreed
on with the fixers,
Hogan named Nick Englese. known
as “Nick the Greek" as the "Sollaz
zo" of the scheme. He referred to
Salvatore T. Sollazzo, who recent
ly pleaded guilty to charges involv
ing the fixing of major Madison
Square Garden Games.
Some eleven players and former
players in local universities were
arrested this spring in connection
with the charges against Sollazzo.
They were from Long Island Un
iversity, City College of New York
and New York University.
GRAND JURY ORDERED
TO INVESTIGATE
PEORIA, 111., July 24 —TP)—State’s
Attorney Michael A. Shore today
ordered a grand jury investigation
of reports the scores of two Brad
ley University basketball games
were manipulated at the instruction
of gamblers.
Shore said the games were be
tween Bradley and Washington
State played in Peoria Dec. 21, 1949,
which Bradley won 67-59, and be
tween Bradley and Oregon State,
played in Peoria Dec. 7, 1950, which
Bradley won 77-74.
TheWashington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
•Copyright, 1951, dj Bell Syndicate, Inc..
WJ ASHINGTON. — Oregon may
be the showdown state where
General Eisenhower finally makes
up his mind whether “to run or
not to run"—and on what ticket.
The situation in Oregon was
outlined to Ike’s political chief-of
staff, Senator Jim Duff of Penn
sylvania, the other day by Robert
Letts Jones, publisher of the Sa
lem, Ore., Capital Journal. Jones
pointed out that Oregon has a
primary ruling whereby any per
son can be entered in the race by
petition of 1,000 signatures —
whether the candidate wants his
name entered or not.
Thus Eisenhower's name could
be entered in the Oregon Presi
dential primary by 1,000 of his
friends, entirely without his con
sent, and as a means of testing
out his political strength.
The Oregon primary has an
other interesting angle, Jones ex
plained to Senator Duff. The state
attorney general has ruled that
no candidate can run unless his
party affiliation is known, thus
Eisenhower would be forced at
that time, to be stamped either as
a Republican or a Democrat.
Since the Oregon primary is
May 16 and since all names have
(Continued on Page Four)
Communists Leave After Recess
The Communist peace delegation walks away from the conference building in Kaesong alter negotia
tors had agTeed to recess until July 25 (Korean time). .Second from right, smoking cigarette, is Maj.
Gen. Nam II. chief Communist negotiator. In background are I N and Communist newsmen. UP) Wire
photo via radio from Tokyo.
British Bomber Wings
Over Pole From Iceland
— BULLETIN —
FAIRBANKS, July 24. —
A 4-cngined British plane which
hep*?$d I1: ■ V,? f«*r
land, landed here on instruments
today at 9:54 a m., Alaska time.
“It was a jolly good flight,”
said Wing Comander R. T. Frog
ley, plane eommander, after he
brought the ship down safely
through an overcast.
The plane made the 3,558-mile
flight in 18-hours 51 minutes.
“The only trouble encountered,”
Frogley said, “was icing conditions
just after Reaving Iceland and just
before landing at Fairbanks.
“But at the North Foie it was
a beautiful dry day.”
FAIRBANKS July 24—7P)—A four
motored British Lincoln bomber car
rying a crew of 10 was winging over
the North Pole on a nonstop flight
from Iceland to Fairbanks today,
U. S. Air Force officers here re
ported.
Officers at Eielson Air Force Base
said the Royal Air Force reported
the bomber left Keflavik, Iceland)
at 3:05 p.m., Alaska time, yesterday
bound for Alaska via the North
Pole.
It was due to land at Eielson
Base at 9:45 a.m., Alaska tiive.
11:45 a.m. Juneau time at the end
of the first leg of a polar training
mission, officers said.
The RAF reported the bomber was
under the command of Wing Com
mander R. T. Frogley, a senior in
structor at the Royal Air Force
Flight College at Manby, Lincoln
shire, England.
Rest For Day
The crew will rest for a day after
Congregalionalisl
Church Chimes
Caus& Confusion
PAWTUCKET, R. I. July 24—
/?*—When the 10:45 a.m. chimes
ring on the steeple of St. Paul’s
Episcopal church it will be ex
ictly 10:55 a.m.
The Episcopal church agreed to
ring the 10:45 chimes 10 minutes
late for the rest of the summer
lo accommodate the Park Place
Congregational Church across the
■:tre ?t.
The Congregationalists il.'ques
led the change because the chimes
and Rev. Carl A. Glover’s Sun
day sermon started at the same
time.
The Congregational church ser
iates are conducted an hour ear
lier during the summer.
arriving here, officers said, then
take off on a nonstop flight of more
than 4.000 miles Fairbanks to Rtyn
by, England, via 'the 'polar regions.
The return flight is expected to re
quire more than 20 hours nonstop
flying.
Eielson Air Force officers said
they had not made radio contact
with the bomber more than six
hours after it left Iceland. However,
they did not expect to hear from
the plane until early today.
LONDON VERSION
LONDON, July 24 —OB— The Air
Ministry said today a Lincoln Aries
—a long range version of the four
engined Lincoln bomber—was fly
ing from Iceland over the North
Pole to Fairbanks, Alaska.
A spokesman said no word has
been received from the plane but
it should have passed over the geo
graphic North Pole about 4 a.in..
Pacific Daylight Time.
17-Hour Flight
It was scheduled to land at the
U. S. Air Force’s Eielson Field near
Fairbanks, completing a non-stop
flight of 3,558 miles in 17 hours.
The flight is one of several Arctic
training flights scheduled by the
R. A. F. College at Manby.
It is commanded by Wing Com
mander R. T. Frogley, senior in
structor at the RAF College, and its
crew of ten includes two Wing Com
manders who are students at the
school, P, W. Heal and A. H.
Humphrey.
The plane is scheduled to leave
Eielson Field Thursday on a 4,128
mile non-stop flight back to Manby,
England. The return flight is ex
pected to take 20 hours.
Search for Airlift
Plane Postpones Two
Sitka Weddings
SITKA, July 24, — UPl — The
search for a DC-4 Korean Airlift
plane missing with 38 aboard in
terrupted plans here for two Sun
day weddings.
Goastguardsmen Robert E,
Countryman and George B.
Woodbury of the cutter Cahoone
were to wed Agnes D. Porter and
Levera Pauline Ballinger, respect
ively.
The Cahoone, enroute here from
Juneau, was diverted to aid in the
search. The weddings, perforce,
were postponed until the Cahoone
returns to port.
ENGINEER IS HERE
R. C. Hack from the U.S. Dist
rict Engineer office in Anchorage
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
Reds Will
SayW f
On Agenda
i Tdlks^esiiriie Tomor
row but Allies Hold
Little Hope of Progress
U. N. ADVANCE HEADQUART
ERS, Korea, July 24, — United
Nations truce negotiators return to
Kaesong tomorrow for a yes or no
answer from the Communists on a
Korean War Armistice agenda.
The Red North Korean Pyongyang
radio indicated today the answer
will be “No.”
U. S. Delegates insist cease-fire
talks omit any discussion of with
drawing foreign troops from Korea
Red Demand
In an unofficial answer Pyong
yang radio quoted the Communist
"Korean Central Press” new;
agency:
“All our people demand with
drawal of all foreign national troop
from our territory.”
The five Red negotiators undoubt
edly have received new instruction'
from Peiping and Pyongyang since
Saturday. On that day they called
for recess of talks which had bog
ged down over this Communist de
mand.
Red China's Peiping broadcast?
Tuesday gave no hint of what atti
tude Red delegates would take Wed
nesday.
Listeners recalled that the two
Chinese delegates had called for the
recess, taking the lead away from
the North Koreans for the first
time in the peace talks. Observers
suggested this might indicate Peip
ing's silence was more important
than Pyongyang’s talking.
Pyongyang radio said:
“At the cease-fire talks in Kae
song Americans are refusing this
issue emphatically. The United
Stales delegates propagandize that
this problem has no relation with
cease-fire talks.”
Want Higher Level
The U. N. position is that the'
question of withdrawing troops is a
political issue to be debated at a
higher level after the shooting war
has actually-been halted.
“This stubborn attitude,” the Ked
radio said, "means that the IT. S.
is aiming to retain military bases
in South Korea. . . ”
Meantime speedy jets and super
fort bombers swept through heavy
clouds Tuesday to keep Communist
forces from moving or storing sup
plies around Yongyang, Nojth Kor
ean capital.
More lighting
Ground fighting stepped up some
what during the recess in armistice
Canadian Eggs
Just Aren't Being
Laid—Musl Import
• OTTAWA, July 24, —/PI—Hit •
• by an unusual egg scarcity, •
• Canada, for the first time in •
• her history, is importing thous- •
• ands of eases of eggs from for- •
• eign countries. •
• Store than 2,000.000 dozens •
• have I .yen shipped to this •
• country from the United Slat- •
• es and Holland in the last few •
• months. •
Europe Will
Fighl if Armed,
Think Solons
WASHINGTON, July 24. —,'41—
Senators agreed today Western Eur
ope has , revived the will to fight
but still sadly lacks adequate de
fenses against possible Russian at
tack.
A cros'-section of views of a
group which toured Europe seemed
to indicate a much more favorable
reception for the administration’s
proposed $8,500,000,000 foreign mil-,
itary and economic aid program
than was evident before.
Senator Hickenlooper (R-Iowa),
told reporters Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower told foreign relations com
mittee members in Paris he regards
the full amount as “essential'- if
the program of rearming Western
Europe is to be rushed ahead.
Saying that Eisenhower urged
speed in providing equipment, Hick
enlooper said he personally favors
producing guns, planes and other
equipment as swiftly as possible.
He sab Eisenhower lias romniit
•nrn«»i'f jivSO defense divisions, hut
can’t bring them into being any
faster than arms are available for
them.
Chairman Connnlly <D-Tex.) an
nounced the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee will begin hear
ings on the proposed big aid pro
gram Thursday, with Secretary ol
State Acheson as its first witness.
Secretary of Defense Marshall will
follow him the next day. Hearings
have been in progress in the House
for several weeks.
Connally told a reporter his talk
with seven of the nine committee
members who conferred with Eis
enhower at the North Atlantic De
fense Commander’s headquarter:
and who visited seven countries, in
dicated the trip would be “very use
ful and helpful.”
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, July 24 —<'VPt— Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau
mine stock today is 2 i, American
Can 111‘i, American Tel. & Tel.
157, Anaconda 407., Douglas Air
craft 491 j, General Electric 551 -,
General Motors 487-. Goodyear 891..',
Kennecott 73Libby McNeill A:
Libby 8:li, Northern Pacific 49'
Standard Oil of California 49
Twentieth Century Fox 19 i, Pound
$2,80-1/16, and Canadian Exchange
94.37'a.
Sales today were 1,740,000 shares
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 258.98, rails 78.89, util
ities 44.60.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
E. W. Tallman from San Fran
cisco is registered at the Baranof
Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Mullan
of Columbia, Mo. are at the Bar
anof Hotel.
talks, but planes carried the main
allied blows.
F-80 Shooting Star jets ripped
and twisted railroad tracks and
blasted 40 rail cars at Kang-Dong.
15 miles east of Pyongyang. Super
forts bombed Sariwon rail yards
south of Pyongyang.
Two U. N. planes were shot down
by red ground fire Monday—a Mar
ine fighter and an F-51 Mustang.
KEDS CLAIM SEVEN
JETS DOWNED
TOKYO, (Wednesday) July 25.—
t)—The Peiping radio asserted to
day that Chinese Communist air
craft shot down seven of eight U. ]
S. jet fighters that it charged vio-'
lated the Manchurian border July I
Air Board
Decision Hit
In Alaska Runs
Independent Carrier
Asks Court Ruling on
Presidential Powers
WASHINGTON. July 24. —(.44—
An independent airline today asked
the Federal courts to rule on Pres
ident Truman's power to mnke re
commendations to the Civil Aero-1
nautics Board in cases involving
new or expanded airline service.
Air Transport Associates. Inc., a;
non-sheduled carrier operating be- '
tween Seattle and Alaskan points,)
sought the ruling in U. S. Court of
Appeals here.
It told the rourt that the Board
in authorizing Scattle-Alaskan serv
ice by two competitors, acted ‘‘not
on the evidence but by the direct
ive of the executive to whom they
are beholden for their appoint
ment.”
Denial To Olliers
The Board had proposed to grant
a certificate to Pacific Northern
Airlines for the service and to deny
all other applications.
This decision required approval of
the President, who must put his
"O. K.” on all decisions relating to
service outside of the domestic Un
ited States.
CAB officials told a reporter that
the law charges the President with
responsibility for making final judg
ment on service outside the domest
ic United States. In such cases, they
said, the CAB acts only as his agent.
They added that such presidential
power previously had been chal
lenged unsuccessfully.
The President, in a letler to the
Board, pleaded for more service to
Fairbanks and Anchorage from
Seattle because of the defense pro
gram.
Air Transport Applied
The Board then authorized the
service by both Pacific Northern and
Alaska Airlines.
Air Transport Associates, Inc.,
was one of the other applicants for
authority to engage in Seattle-Al
aska service.
Amos E. Heacock, president of
Air Transport, in a brief filed with
the Federal court, argued that the
presidential powers were limited to
approval or disapproval of a Board
order and not to recommendations
for issuanre of authority to oper
ate.
Must Follow
He argued In the brief that ‘ it
is appreciated that the members of
the Board, holding ns they do their
tenure of office at the pleasure ot
the President, would be embarrassed
to refuse to follow his directive, ev
en though, as here, it was made
contrary to and without authority
of law. However, they had no altern
ative, in the absence of any control
ling court decision.”
Heacock also told the court that
the Board's order might force his
company “to withdraw from its bus
iness operations.”
43 Engineers
Hear Hathaway
At Dinner Talk
Engineering, its history as per
taining to individuals who choose
that profession, and organizations
to which they t belong, was the
subject of a talk last night in the
Baranof Gold Room by Gail A.
Hathaway, special assistant to
the chief engineer, Corps of En
gineers, Washington, D. C.
Forty-three local engineers at
tended the no-host dinner.
George M. Tapley, of the en
gineering division of the Alaska
Road Commission made arrange- •
nients for the dinner and A. F. •
Ghiglione, chief engineer of the
commission was master-of-cerc
monics.
Hathaway, with H. L. Henny,
also of the Corps of Engineers,
is traveling through the Territory
in behalf of the American Society
of Civil Engineers.
It was the concensus last night
that Alaska could support a sec
tion of the engineering society
and plans were discussed for for
warding a request for a charter to
the society's headquarters in New
York.
Plane Route
Solid black iliir illustrates flight
path of missing Korean airlift
plane from Vancouver, B.C., to its
last reported position about 80
miles west of .luneau. The four
engined Canadian Pacific airlines
charter craft is overdue at An
chorage (underlined) on the first
leg of its planned flight to the
Far East war zone. Dotted line ;
leads from the missing position,
off Cape Spencer, over normal j
air route to Anchorage. Three
Cnited Nations of fcvihls, 28
American military men, and a
crew of seven are aboard. Iff)
Wirephoto Map.
'(Inestimable'
Blow Caused
Railroads
IJy The Associated Prcvs
The mldwestern floods have hit
railroads such a staggering blow
that their loss In property dam
age and revenues still is incalcul
able
Some of the hardest hit lines,
including the Santa Fo, Union Pa
cific and Missouri Pacific, said
Monday their losses could not be
tallied or even estimated for sev
eral days or perhaps weeks or
months.
The Santa Fe's big yards in the
Argentine district of Kansas City,
Kans., are entirely flooded along
with its roundhouse and other
important terminal facilities there
A company spokesman said the
line also suffered heavy damage
at many other points throughout
flood stricken Kansas and Okla
homa.
The Rock Island, the Missouri
Kansas-Texas, and the St. Louis
San Francisco railroads also were
hard hit, particularly in Kansas.
The St. Louis-San Francisco said
it has just started its cleanup jo!;
and will not know the extent ol
damage until more complete sur
veys are made.
Ihree Boats are
Available for
Derby Days
Today’s sunshine caused a flurry
among Salmon Derby fishermen foi
licenses, tickets, clothing and boats
C, G. Holland, of Holland's Shot
Repair shop, has an outboard ht
will share in exchange for auti
transportation to Tee Harbor o;
Auke Bay, Curtis Shattuck, Derby
chairman, said today.
Harry DeLand has indicated that
he has room for three more person
in his boat, Shattuck said. Hi:
phone number is 9fi4.(
Alvin Dieter, phone 390, will rent
a 15-foot outboard with motor.
Ship Movements
Princess Kathleen scheduled from
Vancouver 3 p.m. today,, sailing
for Skagway at 11:30 p.m.
Aleutian v/fduled • authbound
e airly Sunday.
Alaska northbound due Satur
lay afternoon or evening.
Denali scheduled southbound
Friday morning.
Freighter Sailors Splice leaves
Seattle Friday northbound.
Baranof scheduled northbound
from Seattle Friday.
18 Planes in
Air; Fog Lifts
In Mountains
Pilots Confident Missing
Airlift Plane Can be
Spotted Soon ‘
Clearing skies over the Gulf
of Alaska and the coastal range
today gave hopes that the miss
ing Canadian airlift plane, with
38 persons aboard, would be spot
ted soon.
Eighteen planes took off early
this morning from Yakutat and
Elmendorf Air Force base on a
cross-hatch pattern of flights to
scour the mountainsides and
coastline where the plane i s
thought to have crashed.
A broken cloud belt from 3,000
to 5,000 feet still hovered over the
Cape Spencer to Yakutat area,
('cast Guard headquarters here
said. The plane is thought to
have crashed in the mountains
above the 9,000 foot level.
Missing aboard the Tokyo
bound Canadian Pacific Airlines
plane are three civilians reported
on a United Nations mission, 20
U. S. servicemen, two seamen of
the Royal Canadian toavy and a
Canadian crew of seven, includ
ing two stewardesses®.
CAP Joins Search
Joining the search today were
two small Civil Air Patrol craft
from Sitka and Juneau, and the
Arctic Institute's Norseman, be
lieved flown by Morris King, no
ted Arctic flyer.
Five more Air Force planes are
en route to join the search, Coa.A
Guard headquarters here said.
Pilots said late yesterday they
were confident the missing plane
could be located if they had one
<ld.tr day. It appeared that today
would fihe them that opportunity.
Any wreckage located will be
double checked. Coast Guard
headquarters said, te<f»usc there
arc crashes known in the area, in
eluding that of a C-54 which hit
in the St. Flias range in Janu
ary, 1!)50.
Ttie airlift plane was on the
first leg of its great circle flight
to the Orient, and was last heard
from otf Cape Spencer, 80 miles
west of here. Its next check-in was
due from the Yakutat area, but
was not received.
Believe Ship Drifted
The Coast Guard, which is co
ordinating the search with the
Air Force, believes the plane
“drifted" off beam as it crossec|,
the Gulf and crashed In the
mountainous area north and west
of here. It was flying at 9.000
feet. Peaks rise to 15,000 feet of!
the coast.
The two branches of the armed
forces hold midnight conferences
each night to plan the ensuing
day's flights ant| patrcls of three
rutters scanning the shoreline,
kacli plane reports to its base ev
ery 3 minutes, and is given an
overlapping pattern of land and
ant* sea to search, so that no area
will be overlooked, they explained.
Four CPA planes were n the
search yesterday, but the Coast
Guard here did not know if they
were flying today. One is a Cat
alina flying boat, the remainder
DC-4's they said. Two planes are
flown by Coastguardsmen, and 10
by the Air Force, including pilots
irom the, noted 10th Rescue
Squadron.
C. L. MOODY IS HERE
C. L. Moody of Anchorage is reg
istered at the Baranof Hotel.
WEATHER FORECAST
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending G 20 o’clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
56; minimum, 51.
At Airport — Maximum,
CO; minimum, 48.
FORECAST
Juneau and vicinity. Partly
cloudy tonight and Wednes
day. Lowest temperature to
night near 50 degrees. High
est Wednesday about 72.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 21 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — .07 inches:
Since July 1 — 4.02 inches;
At Airport — .04 inches;
Since July 1 — 2.28 inches.
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