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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11.917
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY. SKPTEMBER 20, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
MISSING AIRPLANE WRECKAGE IS SIGHTED
Meet Force
With Force
Says Truman
Declares U. S. Will Con
tinue to Seek Agree
ments with Russia
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20— UP) —
President Truman said today the
only way to deal with the present
world emergency is to meet force
with force. He added that he dislikes
this necessity very much.
The President told a news confer
ence the United States will continue
to seek agreements with Russia, but
will continue to build up its armed
strength to see that these agree
ments are enforced.
He said the United Nations was
organized to settle differences
without the use of force. But, he
added, Korea is just one example
of how the Communists have made
this impossible.
He said there is a stronger possib
ility of peace now than ever before
— if the United States sticks to it-s
knitting and goes ahead with its
defense program.
No Fees, Says Boyle
The President also:
1—Said he has the word of Chair
man William M. Boyle, Jr., of the
Democratic National Committee
that he took, no fees in connection
with RFC loans and he believes hiin.
He added that committee officials
should do all they can to introduce
prospective borrowers to government
agencies as lo^g'as .they receive no
fees for it. 1 ■’
2—Predicted a Democratic vV- |
tory in the 1952 elections. He said
the Republicans have no issues
and have resorted to ml*repi>«ent- j
ation and smears. r .
3— Wrote Vice PresidentVSarkley
renewing his plea for $10,00(/00O,OC0
in additional taxes and urging in
creases in the pending Senate bill
on individual and corporation in
comes. He said the Senate biU now
being debated would produce only
$5,200,000,000 a year in the face of
a prospective deficit about- twice
that much. The Senate Finance
Committee has estimated the bill
would bring in $5,506,000,000 more
a year.
Holds to Nominations
4— Said he is standing by his
nominations of two federal judges
for Illinois despite the action of the
Senate Judciary Committee in bott
ling them up.
The President said he has no in
tention of submitting new nomina
tions, because he is satisfied with
the ones he made.
Mr. Truman and Senator Douglas
(D-Ill) have split over the nomin
ation of the two judges.
The President’s remarks about
Russia came when a reporter re
called his Monday speech assert
ing agreements with Russia are not
worth the paper they are written on
and asked, in view of this, whether >
the U. S. would continue to seek
agreements.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
l^ASHINGTTON. — GOP Con
gressman Hugh Scott of Pennsyl
vania deserves a medal for high
jumping at -conclusions. With con
siderable flourishes and a great air
of being in the know, Scott an
nounced that General Eisenhower
would accept the Republican nom
ination.
However, here is an almost ver
batim account of Congressman
Scott’s talk with General Ike in;
Paris, on which the Pennsylvania
Congressman based his earth-shak
ing prediction:
Scott asked Eisenhower if there
was any “hope” of Ike’s accepting
a GOP draft nomination for the
White House.
Scott added: "I know you’re a
good Republican, General—isn't
that a fact?”
Before Eisenhower could reply,
an aide, Brig. Gen. Charles T.
Lanham, who wras present at the
meeting, broke in jokingly:
"I've never heard the General
^iy anything to indicate that he
isn't a good Republican.”
This struck Eisenhower as so
funny that he reared back and let
go with a belly laugh that almost
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Barber Pole for North Pole
Is Project of Oil Workman;
Plenty of Opposition Also
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 20—(A <
—If it’s called the North Pole there
>ught to be a pole there. So reasoned
\laska workman Stanley Garsor..
fie built one. Painted it like a bar
jer pole and asked the Air Force
,o drop it at the top of the world.
That’s where the trouble started.
The 58th weather reconnaissance
iquadron which makes routine
flights over the earth’s icy bald
lead hum-hawed over Garson’s re
juest, then said today:
The 9 foot, 200 pound pole is too
hg. The B-29's of the squadron are
inverted for long distance flying
ind gas tanks obstruct the bomb
jay doors.
To be dropped at all, Garson would
aave to cut about three feet off the
'pole.
The barber pole would be of little
geographical significance since the
North Pole is on drifting ice and
the wooden one would soon shift off
center.
And anyway, the pole couldn’t
be given the heave-ho from a wea
ther reconnaissance plane without
official sanction from Washington,
D. C.
Undiscouraged, the Point Barrow
oil exploration worker who made a
special trip here to put across his
pole project said he’d try to get an
OK from Air Force bigwigs in Wash
ington.
“There’ll be a pole at the North
Pole if it’s the last thing I do,” he
vowed.
National Kids'
Day Saturday Is
Kiwanis Project
Juneau’s Kiwanis Club is just one
of the 3.300 in the United States,
Canada, Alaska and Hawaii that is
sponsoring the third annual obser
vation of National Kid's Day Sat
urday September 22, 1951.
Kiwanis committee members
whose project Kid's Day is this
week are Joe Morgan, Dr. John
Clements, Ed Hinke, Howard Biggs,
Gene Viulle, Ken Morgan and Cliff
Daigler.
Purpose of the National Kids' Day
observation is to raise money for
underprivileged children, to focus
attention upon the accomplishments
of vpi *K md to fo i;,-., jnt»rest the
general public in the problems of
juvenile delinquency, to assist vic
tims in becoming useful citizens.
Funds will be raised by sale of
National Kids’ Day buttons on Fri
day and Saturday of this week.
All funds raised in Juneau will
remain in this area to be spent on
youth work.
There will be Kids’ Day entertain
ment for the boys and girls of Gas
tineau Channel with a free show
and free popcorn at the 20th Cen
tury Theatre. The show' is sponsor
ed by the local Kiwanis.
Paving Bids
Opened at Road
Commission Office
Bids opened in the office of the
Alaska Road Commission yester
day afternoon revealed three com
panies, working in cooperation, as
low bidders on paving a section of
the Anchorage Seward road, it was
announced today by George M. Tap
ley, chief of the engineering divi
sion.
The companies are S. Birch and
Sons Construction Company, C. F.
Lytle Company and Green Construc
tion Company. Their bid was $1,068,
870.
In all, seven construction firms
submitted bids. They were: Rogers
Construction Company and Babler
Bros., $1,181,834; Morrison-Knud
sen, $1,224,778; Pacific Sand and
Gravel Company, $1,324,494; Mc
Laughlin, Inc., $1,341,212; Max J.
Kuney Company, $1,355,335 and Yett
and Conley, $1,540,311.
The paving, proposed for next
year, is a 38’.- mile section from An
chorage to Girdwood.
Bids have been sent to the Wash
ington, D. C., office of the commis
sion for approval with the recom
mendation the lowest bid be accept
ed.
Ship Movements 1
Princess Louise due to arrive in
Juneau Saturday afternoon or eve
ning.
Baranof sails from Seattle on
Friday.
Aleutian scheduled southbound
somtime Sunday.
Freighter Coastal Monarch in
port.
Freighter Sailor’s Splice scheduled
to arrive Saturday morning.
FROM VIRGINIA
M. W. Godins of Alexandria
Va!, js stopping at the Baranof Ho
tel.
Vancouver Isle
Forests Closed
By Fire Hazard
Thousands of Loggers
Laid Off; Wind Shift
Saves Nanaimo Suburbs
NANAIMO. B. C„ Sept. 20—(AT—
A forest fire which had threatened
homes of C50 suburban residents of
this Vancouver Island city retreated
in its blackened tracks today.
The wind shifted late last night
as the flames were bearing down
on the suburbs of Extension, White
Dftp'Hv Rond't"ri Hm row'vv ' ■<'>{] f"' r.
ried the fire back up the slopes of
Mount Benson.
Before the wind—and GOO loggers
—turned the blaze, it had reached
a point eight miles from the city
center.
The blaze, started Saturday—by
a careless hunter, forestry men said
—was burning on a 6'i-mile front.
It covered 2.000 acres and has des
troyed 4,000,000 feet of timber.
Meanwhile, the Provincial Forests
Department closed all forests on
Vancouver Island and the south
coast of the mainland at midnight
last night.
The closure order, imposed because
of the fire hazard, threw 15,000 log
gers out of work for the second time
this year.
Two Territorial
Positions
Still Unfilled
Two important Territorial posi
tions still remain to be filled. Va
cancies exist in the office of Ter
ritorial property assessor and perm
anent executive director of the
Employment Security Commission.
The property assessor’s job be
came open when C. A. (Pat) Car
roll resigned to become Territorial
director of the Federal Housing
Administration on August 1.
The executive director’s chair in
ECS has been temporarily filled by
John McLaughlin since the retire
ment of R .E. (Bobby) Sheldon last
June.
Applications are being taken for
both positions by the respective
boards.
Ernest Parson, acting chairman at
large for the Boards of Assessment
and Equalization, said today that
only two written applications bad
been received for property assessor.
Applications may be mailed to Par
sons at the' property tax office in
Juneau and an assessor is to be
chosen within the next two weeks,
if possible, he said.
Applications for the executive
director of ESC are still being taken
by Chairmah Ralph J. Rivers, at
Box 1951, Fairbanks. A meeting of
the board is scheduled to be held
soon to choose a permanent director.
1 TIDE TABLES ||
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• September 21 •
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• High Tide 5:30 a.m., 13.0 ft. •
• Low Tide 11:11 a.m, 5.0 ft. •
• 'High Tide 5:13 p.m.. 14.8 ft. •
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Burdick Talks on
Road Situation at
Chamber Meeting
Southeast Alaska roads and a
scheduled Coast Guard hearing
Oct. 24 were discussed at a regular
meeting of the Juneau Chamber of
Commerce at the Baranof Hotel
this noon.
Curtis Shattuck, head of a special
committee, reported that his com
mittee recommended that the Cham
ber's participation in the Coast
Guard hearing be limited to consid
eration of towed barges only and
without prejudice for a Congres
sional hearing regarding the reclass
ification of Southeast Alaska waters.
Charles G. Burdick, assistant re
gional forester of the U. S. Forest
Service here, explained the road
situation from the Forest Service
angle.
“Juneau will have a 50 to 75
percent increase in population be
fore long,” Burdick said. "Pros
pects for a pulp mill here are en
couraging now. That means an
increased traffic load on existing
roads. It is more important to
improve present roads than to ex
tend them.”
He pointed out that the $9,000,000
requested for the improvement and
extension of Southeast Alaska roads
had been reduced to $7,000,000. This
appropriation was specifically al
loted for road improvement, he said.
"The Forest Service cannot spend
money for roads other than those
for which the funds are appropriat
ed,” Burdick emphasized.
No Fund Diversion
Previous suggestions by Chamber
members had been to divert funds
already appropriated, to the con
struction of the proposed Taku
road. Burdick stressed that this was
impossible. A specific request would
have to pass the Bureau of the Bud
get and Congress for that particular
project.
‘"Hie Forest Service will stand be
hind the Juneau Chamber of Com
merce in a request for additional
funds for the Taku project," he said.
However he was not optimistic about
the chances for it unless a defense
angle could be attached to the pro
ject.
The only new road construction
planned at the present time is for
two miles of low standard road near
the pulp mill site at Ketchikan to
open up new home sites for the an
ticipated population increase there,
he said.
The current $7,000,000 appropria
tion is for the roads at Ketchikan,
improvement of a road at Sitka,
and improvement of roads around
Juneau. An extension of the road
on north Douglas Island is contem
plated but holds the lowest priority
he said.
In the absence of President Herb
ert S. Rowland, Vice President O. F.
Benecke presided at today’s meet
ing. Rowland is attending a meet
ing today with, E. C. Carson, British
Columbia Minister of Public Works,
in Vancouver, B. C., also with respect
to the Taku road.
Visitors were: T. P. Hanson, Union
Oil Co., representative from Ket
chikan; Charles Baker of the Bu
reau of Reclamation from Wash
ington, D. C.; Clyde L. McGillvray
and James Barry, Ketchikan con
tractors.
Bulletins
WASHINGTON—President Tru
rr.an has nominated Paul N. Ripley
as postmaster at Ketchikan, Al
aska. The nomination went to the
Senate.
WASHINGTON—The Senate
Banking Commttee today voted 9
to 4 to rewrite what President
Truman has called “The Terrible
Capehart Amendment” concern
ing controls, etc.
OTTAWA—The North Atlantic
Council voted unanimously today
for full membership of Greece and
Turkey in the Atlantic Defense
Alliance.
LONDON—British bookies today
offered six to four on the conser
vatives to win the British national
election Oct. 25.
SEATTLE—Orders for a Pacific
Northwest “brownout” and a cut
back of industrial electricity use
will come around Oct. 1, public
power system representatives were
told today.
Necessary because of the mount
ing power shortage problem.
Prom Michigan
L. E. Becker of Grand Rapids,
Mich, is at the Baranof Hotel.
'Economy Courts' in Alaska
Rep. Walter Norblad (R.-Ore.), bark in Washington from an inspection trip of Alaska military bases,
said that landlords are gouging families of military men who occupy off-base housing in Alaska. He said
the photo (above) is th'e home of Sgt. Elmer C. Burkey and family. The congressman declared that the
sergeant pays S85 a month for this one room (left) portion of a set of apartments railed “Economy
Courts" near Anchorage. Alaska, and that seven fa mllles sharv one bath, 100 feet from the dwelling.
Th‘ sergeant is stationed at Fort Richardson. The man and children arc unidentified. UP) Wirephoto.
Three-Run Homer
In Eighth Frame
W *u lor Yankees
NEW YORK, Sept. 20—.'.ft—Joe
Collins slammed a three-run homer
in the eighth inning to give the New
York Yankees a vital 5 to 4 victory
over the Chicago White Sox today.
It increased the Yanks lead to a half
game over the idle Cleveland In
dians in the seething American
League pennant race.
Collins’ game-winning blast came
with the Yankees on the short end
of a 4-2 score. Up to then, Saul Rog
ovin had stymied the yanks on six
hits. Retiring 12 straight batters
at one point.
Phil Rizzuto opened the eighth
for the Yanks by lining a single
to renter. After pinch hitter Johnny
Mize flied out, Mickey Mantle walk
ed.
That brought up Collins, and the
slim first baseman hit into the right
field stands for one of the most
dramatic home runs at Yankee
stadium this season.
Both teams scored twice in the
first inning. Chicago took a 3-2
lead in the fifth inning on Eddie
Robinson’s triple and Phil Masi’s
fly ball. Robinson boosted this ad
vantage to 4-2 by hitting his 28th
homer of the season in the seventh.
Bob Vogue, third of five Yankee
pitchers, received credit for the win
LEAGUE OF ALASKA
CITIES TO MEET IN
KODIAK OCT. 28-30
Acting Governor Joseph Keho<
has received word that the Leagu<
of Alaskan Cities will hold its firsl
annual convention at Kodiak Octo
ber 28 to 30.
Purpose of the meeting is for for
mulation of a legislative program
for consideration of the legislature
with particular reference to city
problems, Kehoe said.
Mayors, or their representatives,
are being invited to attend the con
vention.
SOURDOCEY SQUARE DANCE
The next regular meeting of th<
Sourdocey square dance club wil
be held Saturday night at 8:30 ii
the Parish Hall. Special instructioi
will be given, beginning at 7:3i
the same evening, for all member
who wish to brush up on basic calls
All new members are especially urg
ed to be there promptly at 7:30.
MAN DIES ABOARD
VESSEL TRITON
The U. S. Coast Guard headquart
ers here received a report late last
night that a man, whose name was
not given, had died aboard the fish
ing vessel Triton south of Wrangell
Narrows. A doctor from Petersburg
was dispatched to pick up the body.
FROM SEATTLE
Allen F. Osberg of Seattle is re
gistered at the Baranof Hotel.
Red Planes
Are Downed,
Dog Fights
Giant Helicopters Now
Reported Ferrying
Troops in Hill Battles
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea. Sept. 20— —
American warplanes today damaged
three Russian-made MIG-15 jets
In a series of dogfights over north
west Korea. Altogether, 49 allied
and 78 Red planes were engaged.
The U. S. Fifth Air Force said
there were no allied losses.
Red losses for two days of dog
fighting totaled one MIG destroyed
and 8 damaged.
For the first time in history,
giant helicopters . ferried battle
ready troops into action. The heli
copters delivered a reinforced
company of Marines and their
equipment-to a rugged mountain
summit in only four hours. By
foot the same Job would have
taken two days.
Other United Naticyis troops faced
withering Red mortar fire as they
pushed off again in the bloody “bat
tle of the hills’ 'on the east-central
front.
Clearing weather gave them badly
needed air support.
Communist troops on commanding
high ground rained artillery and
mortar fire at the attacking allied
infantrymen.
Elsewhere on the east-central
front, Eighth Army soldiers con
tinued local attacks against Red
dug in on high ground.
UN Advances
UN advances also were reported
on the western front. They were
lorth of Yonchon and northwest of
Chorwon.
The Fifth Air Force reported four
swirling Jet battles between allied
;nd Communist aircraft.
In the biggest, 32 F-Sabre Jets
ook on 50 MIGS and damaged two
if them. The battle ranged down
o tree-top level from a start at
(3,000 feet.' Capt. Richard H. John"
of Napa, Calif., and Lt. John W
Honaker of Arlington. Va„ were
credited with two enemy planes dam
aged.
The Sabre Jets were flying cover
for Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers
attacking Red rail lines.
JIMMY JACKSON IS IIF-RE
Jimmy Jackson, oldtime Alaskan
from Anchorage and Juneau, who
has been at Todd for the summer,
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
I He is leaving for San Francisco
| soon.
Cease-Fire
Talks Are
Asked, Reds
Request Resumption of
Conference to Take
Place Immediately
TOKYO, Sept. 20—l/PI—'The Com
munist high command reversed it
self today and suggested that Korean
cease-fire talks be resumed immed
iately in Kaesong.
The Reds broke off the talks
28 days ago. They charged then
that an allied plane bombed and
strafed the neutral Kaesong area
Aug. 22 in an attempt to murder
Communist truce delegates. Allied
command called the charge fraudu
lent and faked.
Heretofore the Reds have de
manded that the allies admit res- I
ponsibllity for a string of alleged !
neutral zone violations before the
truce talks could be resumed
They proposed today only that
a “suitable organization" be set
up to guarantee the neutrality ol
Kaesong, Korea.
Gen. Matthew B. RUlgway made
no immediate comment.
But a release from the supreme
commander’s headquarters said:
'There is reason for hope that the
latest Comunist reversal in policy
and agreement to renew the peace
talks may bring some sort of a cease
fire in Korea.”
It cautioned, however, that “it is a
hope that must be tempered by the
realization that a renewal of the
talks does not mean necessarily that
previous difficulties will suddenly
iron themselves out.”
FROM HOOD BAY
E. J. Schuck of Hood Bay is reg
istered at the Gastineau Hotel.
WEATHER REPORT
<U. B. WEATHER BUREAU
Temperatures for S4-Hour Period
ending 6:20 c clock this morning
At Airport—Maximum, 54;
At Airport, Maximum, 59;
minimum, 42.
FORECAST
(Jonean and Vicinity)
Cloudy with occasional very
light rain tonight. Partly
cloudy Friday. Low tonight
near 48 and high Friday near
60.
precipitation
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 am today
At Airport — None;
since July 1 — 8.45 inches.
Is Found
On Peak,
Kenai Pen.
Wreckage May Be that
of Korean Airlift Ship;
Had 38 Aboard
ANCHORAGE, Aiarts. Sept. 20—
Discovery of wreckage high on
the slope of a Kenai Peninsula
mountain peak spurred the search
today for a long-missing Korean
airlift plane and its 38 occupants.
The Air Force base public infor
mation office reported a Mr. Carey
telephoned the 10th Rescue Squad
ron from the Mason-Oberg Con
struction C., camp that he spotted
the wreckage of either a DC-3 or
DC-4 at the 4,000-foot level in the
Keneai mountains. The missing air
craft plane was a DC-4.
Carey said he used field glasses
In spotting the plane. A short time
later he flew over the area in a
plane but the weather closed in.
The 10th Rescue Squadron said
it had no record of any crashes of
that size plane anywhere near the
Kenai Lake area.
The forecast was for bad weather
the next 48 hours.
A four-man tr&U crew left here
at 5:30 pj*.,„h)r train and will walk
in. Lt. Richard Man, in charge of
the trail env, aethaated it would
tnki twu or threw days to reach the
site because of’gjs difficult terrain.
His group h ini a radio with
which It wM^jbaka progress re
port-. to the Mioea-OtH-r, camp.
The mlgwhC WNift plane disap
peared July M liter taking off from
Vancouver, B. £, for' nchorage on
the first ley gfffi light to Tokyo.
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Season (loses
Al6P.MJoday
C. Howard Baltzo, assistant re
gional director of the Pish and
Wildlife Service announced today
that there will be no extension cf
tire trolling or jgillnetting season
in Southeast Al&ska.
Surveys Wednesday of the Yaku
tat and Haines areas showed no
excess of fish, Baltzo said.
An extension had been asked for
these sections and the Taku area
for gillnetting and a longer troll
ing period.
Refusal of the department to
grant extensions will see the end
of all commercial fishing in South
eastern Alaska from Dixon En
trance to Prince William Sound to
night at 6 o'clock.
Trolling for king salmon will
open Oct. 1, as will the fall sein
ing season for chums. Trolling will
continue all winter but the sein
ing season is for six days only—
Oct. 1 to 6, Baltzo said.
Bond Issue for
Juneau Building
Pul Up in Bill
WASHINGTON, 8ept. 20— Wl —
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska intro
duced a bill yesterday to authorize
the Territory to issue $250,000 in
revenue bonds for the Territorial
Office Building at Juneau.
Another Bartlett bill called for the
establishment of a roadside lodge
offering tourist accommodations in
the vicinity of or along the Alaska
Highway.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Sept. 20—:^—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3, American Can 118 %.
American Tel. and Tel. 168 'i, An
aconda 48\. Douglas Aircraft 60,
General Electric 62, General Motors
51Goodyear 47%, Kennecott 85%.
Libby, McNeill and Libby 8>„ North
ern Pacific 58%, Standard Oil of
California 53, Twentieth Century
Fox 21%, U. S. 8teel 45%. Pound
$2 79%, Canadian Exchange 94.75.
Sales today were 2,100,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 274.10, rails 85%. utilities
45.50.
TWO DOCTORS ARE HERE
Doctors Fred L. Coddington and
R. H. Shuler from Mt. Edgecumbe
are stopping at the Baranof Ho
tel- -