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JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 10. 1951
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Reds Pound
Info Former
Iron Triangle
U. S. 8th ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, KOREA, July 10. — (if) —
Small groups of Reds today infil
trated the old Chorwon-Kumhwa
Pyonggang Iron triangle on the
west-central front.
Intelligence officers said the Reds
“want control of this area. They
probably are sending down enough
men to ambush any of our patrols.”
The heart bf the triangle is only
47 air miles northeast of Kaesong,
where Red and Allied negotiators
today began peace talks.
Sharp but relatively minor skir
mishes dotted the entire battlefront.
An Eighth Army briefing officer
said there was no report of mili
tary activity of any kind today In
the vicinity of Kaesong.
Rain and poor visibility over all
Korea limited Fifth Air Force pi
lots to only 22 effective sorties.
Eighteen were reconnaissance
flights. Four B-26 light bombers
made radar-controlled bomb drops
in support of ground troops.
B-29 Superforts flew through
thick rain clouds and dropped 70
tons of bombs on important Red
supply centers at Sinpo and Kowon
on the east coast of North Korfea.
The big planes flew from Okina
wa. They used radar to find their
targets.
WOODENFACE SERIES
PLUS SWIMMING RACES
AT EVERGREEN BOWL
An elimination series will be held
Wednesday. Thursday and Friday
afternoons from 2 to 4 o’clock at
Evergreen Bowl to choose the local
woodenface champion.
All boys 14 years of age and un
der are urged by Arnold Soley, Ever
green Bowl recreation director, to
turn out for the series. The Seattle
champion will throw against the
local champion on July 27.
Swimming contests for all age
groups will be held in the Bowl
swimming pool on Thursday and
Friday afternoons of this week.
Events will include races, diving, and
under-water contests.
"Merchants desiring to donate
prizes for the swimming events can
contact me at the Bowl by telephon
ing 461 during the day or 415 eve
nings," said Soley. "More than 100
children are using the pool on good
days.”
•
• WEATHER FORECAST
• Temperature for 24-Hour Period
« ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
•
• In Juneau — Maximum,
• 79, minimum, 65.
• At Airport — Maximum,
• 81; minimum, 49.
•
• FORECAST
• Continued fair and warm
• tonight and Wednesday.
• Lowest temperature tonight
• about 52. Highest Wednesday
• near 81.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hours ending 7.30 a.m. today
• City of Juneau — None.
• Since July 1 — .04 inches.
• At Airport — None.
• Since July 1 — .04 inches.
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
ICopyrlght. U91. By Bell Byndleata, Inc.
TJ^ASfllNGTON. — The public
was asleep at 3 a m. when the Sen
ate staged its most revealing de
bate on price control. Asleep also
were many newspapermen.
Yet the speeches certain Sena
tors made at that time—just as
price controls were scheduled to
expire—and the amendments they
introduced, give the clearest of all
pictures regarding who pulls the
strings to make certain Senators
dance.
At about 2:30 am. up spoke Sen.
Homer Ferguson of Michigan, his
silver hair more awry than usual.
He had an amendment which would
have increased the price of auto
mobiles throughout the nation.
Ferguson did not mention the fact
that his wife and son-in-law are
heavy stockholders in a subsidiary
of one of the biggest automobile
companies—Chrysler. Nor did Sen.
(Continued on Page Four)
IRAN (ALLS
BIG BLUFF
OF BRITISH
TEHRAN, Iran, July 10, — Iff) —
A sharp switch in British tactics in
the Iranian oil dispute became in
creasingly clear today.
There's a surprising move to soft
pedal previous threats to withdraw
all British technicians from Iran
and “let the Persians stew in their
own oil.” A new policy of trying to
hang on as long as possible—in the
face of nationalization of holdings
of the British-owned Anglo-Iranian
Oil Company — is replacing the
tough talk of only a week ago that
the big refinery at Abadan and
the surrounding south Iranian oil
fields would be shut down.
One Iranian official, commenting
on the new developments, declared:
“We’ve always said the British
were bluffing. It looks as though
Premier (Mohammed) Mossadegh's
'no compromise' stand is working.'
There was no indication that
Mossadegh would change that "no
compromise” determination to seize
control 'of the billion-dollar com
1 pany's Iranian installations. But a
I government spokesman said the
1 Premier is giving careful consider
ation to President Truman's offer
yesterday to send his personal rep
resentative, W. Averell Harriman,
I to Iran to help find a settlement.
Board to Choose
New Director of
Security Commission
The Alaska Employment Security
; Commission was in session here to
day to take up, among other mat
ters, consideration of an appoint
ment to fill the vacancy left by
Robert E. Sheldon’s recent retire
ment.
Sheldon was executive director of
the agency.
All members were present: Chair
man Anthony Zorich of Ketchikan;
George H, Vaara of Anchorage, and
Ralph J. Rivers of Fairbanks. In
addition, employment security rep
resentatives Mrs. Mary H. Hutchin
son and John Upsher Smith of the
regional U. S. Department of Labor
office in San Franciso, were at
tending.
FISHING 'CHAMP'
GIVES RQTARIANS
EYEFUL, EARFUL
Rod Darnell, fisherman extraordi
nary, held his Rotarian club audi
ence today with a fishing’ tackle
demonstration and discussion at a
regular club meeting at the Bar
anof hotel.
Darnell caught a 68-pound salmon
last week and admits it is the larg
est salmon he ever landed. He began
with the early types of bamboo rods
used in this area and showed sev
eral progressive types such as the
short stiff rod for trolling; a lighter
rod for strip •fishing, and the new
tough glass rod.
He showed the popular star drag
reel and a larger reel used for strip
fishing.
‘‘There are as many kinds of plugs
as there are fishermen,’ Darnell
told his audience, and he showed a
few including a new cutplug type
which he recommended.
He listed type of lines such as
metal, nylon and the new improved
raw nylon of 15 to 20 pound test,
in tying leaders Darnell showed
the use of one and two hooks and
demonstrated how to fasten bait,
also cut bait to give a half-cup ef
fect which appears more life-like to
the salmon. Swivel type weights arf
good, he said, and recommended not
less than 750 feet of line for the
"big ones.”
By request, Darnell recounted how
he caught the big salmon, first be
lieving that he liad hooked a hali
but but soon learned it was a salmon
when it took all of his line.
A discussion of fishing licenses
followed.
President Neil Fritchman an
nounced the new officers: Eric New
bould. vice president; I. J. Mont
gomery, secretary-treasurer; Hurf
Saunders, assistant secretary, and
Henry Harmon, sergeant-at-arms.
Fritchman announced a visit from
District Governor Lightboddy from
Vancouver, B. C., on July 20 *hen
a special meeting of the club would
be called.
Bill Leivers rose to say that the
ramp for the Soap Box Derby would
be moved tonight and trial runs
■ would be conducted tomorrow and
Four Timber
Projects in
Alaska Slated
Four applications lor new. or ex
panded. timber industries in Al
aska are now pending before the
National Production Administration.
Two of them are for Juneau.
This was the statement of B.
Frank Heintzleman, regional for
ester for the U. S. Forest Service
who returned to Juneau Saturday
after four months in Washington,
D. C., working on matters concern
ing the Territory that pertain to
his department. Heintzleman is
commissioner for Alaska for the U.
3. Department of Agriculture.
The two projects here are en
largement of the Juneau Lumber
Company plant and installation of
a plywood plant here by the Col
umbia Lumber Company. Other
two are the establishment of the
proposed S40 million Ketchikan
Pulp and Paper Co. mill at Ketch
ikan and enlargement pi llie Sitka
sawmill. ' ' vV
Awaits Final Action
Heintzleman said he expects fin
al action on all four applications by
NPA within the next two weeks.
“Those of us interested in Alas
ka development have been supply
ing information to the National
Production Administration for use
in connection with applications for
certificates of necessity to permit
establishment of industrial enter
prises in tlie Territory,” Heintzle
man said. He added that under the
timber award by the Forest Ser
vice to the Ketchikan pulp mill,
the company is required to make a
| financial showing before August 2
I to prove its ability to finance the
project. He said he understands
preparation of tills data is now in
progress.
The Ketchika., Fulp and Paper
Company is sponsored by the Pu
get Sound Pulp ana Timber Co., of
Beinnghanl, Washington, and the
American Viscose Co., of Philadel
phia.
Returning to Washington
In September Heintzleman ex
pects to return to Washington to
present the opportunities for Al
aska newsprint manufacture at a
meeting of a Senate committee
which intends to explore thoroughly
the possibility for getting more
newsprint production on American
soil.
Special Road Projects
Heintzleman pointed out that $7
million had been authorized by
Congress last year for special road
work at Juneau, Sitka and Ketch
ikan, as a special item in the Bur
eau of Public Roads appropriation
bill.
Under this authority $3Vi million
was made available for work this
.spring. Effort is now being made
to get the remaining money on the
Bureau's 1952 appropriation bill.
Heintzleman pointed out that
these funds are for the improve
ment, of present roads, to make
towns of Southeast Alaska more
attractive to big timber industries
and not for new roads.
The regular $1,750,000 appropria
tion lor National Forest roads,
which comes through the Bureau of
Public Roads, has not yet been re
ceived.
Cost-of-Living Allowance
Heintzleman said he gave a great
deal of attention to preparing in
formation on the question of the
25 per cent cost-of-living differ
ential in salary allowance for Fed
eral employees in Alaska and other
Territories. He said A.laska's Del
egate has been working hard to
present a picture of what the el
imination of that item would do to
government departments in demor
alization of personnel. The cut
would hit only those employed in
the Territories.
2 More Sawmills
Heintzleman said the Forest Ser
vice is carrying on discussions with
two interested groups for estaoli.sh-;
ment of additional sawmills i t
various Southeast Alaska town—
These plants do not only anticipate,
sending lumber to the states but
also to military installations in in
terior Alaska.
Thursday evenings. He said that
four entrants were coming from
Sitka.
Visiting Rotarians included Wil
liam Baker, Ketchikan publisher,
and T. S. Batchelder, Fairbanks
contractor. Other guests were Reon
R. Armstrong of the Fedreral Credit
Bureau of San Francisco; J. C. Dodd,
local VFW service officer; William
Winn, local representative of the
Grande Co. of Seattle; Henrik Valle
and R. J. Sommers of the constru
tion firm Valle-Sommers of Seattie
and Juneau.
Bill Ellis was in charge of to
day's program.
NEW BERLIN
CRISIS NOW
POSSIBILITY
MOSCOW. July 10 —itfl— Diplo
matic observers stationed here art
predicting new crises in western
Soviet relations — possibly a new
Berlin crisis — over the west’s move
on the German and Japanese ques
tions.
Some observers here said that il
the Western powers follow up thi
action ending tjieir state of war witli
Germany by moving toward a sep
arate German treaty, they maj
make their position in Berlin mast
difficult, if not untenable. (The ob
servers are not identified in thi
dispatch, which was subject to the
usual Russian censorship).
They add there is almost sure tc
be some way in which the Soviets
could retaliate for actions tney are
certain to denounce as violations oi
international understandings.
As for the Western plans for a
peace treaty with Japan, Moscow
newspapers are saying that the Chi
nese people — meaning the Chinese
Communist government—will “nevei
permit the resurrection of a Japan
ese militarism.” They are charging
that the move toward a Jananese
treaty is part of plan to remilitarize
Japan.
TRIBUTE TO AIRLIFT
BERLIN. July 10 — UO— Berliners
75,000 strong jammed Tempelhol
Air Base today as the city govern
ment unveiled a memorial to the
Allied airlift which snapped the
Soviet blockade two years ago.
Under a baking sun, the va I
throng stood in mute tribute to
what Mayor Ernst Reuter described
as the •'spirit that kept Berlin free.’
The monument is a fiO-foor stone
arch with three crescent-like tips
symbolizing the American. British
and French “air corridors" used by
me b.ft tWgft* •ftffae??' ur ■•■fknt- tv-.e
Russian zone and free tile city.
Inscribed in bronze at the base
of the statue were the name of 70
Allied fliers and five Germans who
died mostly in crashes during the
11-month-long siege.
ZThey included the names of Capt.
william A. Rathgeber, Portland,
Ore., and Sgt. Richard Winter, Seat
tle, Wash.
STATE DEPT. CUT
IN FUNDS DOESN'T
HIT ACHESON'S PAY
WASHINGTON, July 10, — lift —
The House Appropriations Commit
tee recommended today an 18 per
cent cut in this year’s funds for
the State Department, but aimed
none of the reduction directly at
Secretary Acheson.
Republicans seeking to force
Aeheson's ouster withheld their fire
until the bill financing his depart
ment reaches the House floor, prob
ably early next week.
They did not offer in the com
mittee a proposal to prohibit the
use of any department funds to
pay Aeheson’s salary during the
fiscal year which started July 1.
Such a ban probably will be offered
during House debate, and Demo
cratic leaders have conceded the
vote will be close.
The committee recommended that
the State Department be given
$231,432,000 of the $283,686,476
President Truman requested. That
would be a cut of $52,254,476.
This was a smaller percentage
reduction than the committee ap
plied to the 1952 budget of the
Commerce Department, whose
funds, along with those of the Jus
tice Department and the judiciary,
are carried in the same bill.
BIG SALMON TAKE
FIRST FIVE DAYS
SOCKEYE SEASON
SEATTLE, July 10, — W —Amer
ican and Canadian commercial sal
mon fishermen had a combined
take of 135,000 fish in the first
Tive days of the sockeye season.
Estimates of the International
Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commis
sion released here today showed
that the Canadian fleet landed 90,
000 sockeye and the Americans 45,
700 in the five-day' period ended
July 6.
The biggest take was on the July
2 season opening when the two
fishing fleets landed a total of
33,600 fish.
Alaska 'Hardships'
Imposed by Air Board
'Should be Relieved'
Bv FRANK VV. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, July 10 — (#1—
The Senate Small Business com
mittee said yesterday the Civil
Aeronautics Board “should act
promptly to relieve the hardships
it is imposing on Alaska through its
restrictions of flights from the con
tinental United States.”
"The board should recognize the
special need for cargo transportation
to Alaska and the lack of alterna
tive forms of low-cost passenger
service," the committee added.
Second Recommendation
The recommendation was the sec
ond by n Senate committee within
six months to the CAB to ease its
policies governing aviation in the
Territory.
In February an Armed Service
subcommittee urged the CAB to re
lax its regulations sufficiently to
encourage the development of avia
tion in Alaska.
The latest report dealt with the ef
fect of a CAB rule on the lines which
fly on an irregular or lion-sched
uled basis. They are known as "non
skeds.” The CAB regulation re
stricts non-skeds to three round
trip flights per month over major
traffic segments and eight round
trip flights between all other points.
The committee, headed by Sena
tor Sparkman (D-Ala). saiti it was
"alarmed*) by the testimony of
Alaska's Governor Ernest Gruening.
Labels CAB Bureaucracy
The governor described the CAB
as “an absentee bureaucracy . . .
(which) has greatly retarded the
: normal development of Alaska." Its
I policies, he said, had been “disas
| trolls . . . (and) diametrically op
posed t i the policies” of President
Truman.
As evidence of the importance of
non-skids to Alaska, (lie committee
cited testimony by one witness that
such ci 'Tiers had reduced the cost
j of uir freight to Alaska from 08
! rents i^ncAind to .19. cents. Fruits,
j vegetates and produce previously
in short supply are transported !n
i quantities by the non-skeds.
| "The Fublic Health Service was
quoted as having credited this de
velopment with wiping out scurvy
j in Alaska,” the report added.
COMMITTEE WANTS
TO SEE FIELD'S
BANK BOOKS
WASHINGTON, July 10, — —
Chairman McCarran iD-Nev) said
today the Senate International Se
curity Committee has ordered Fred
erick Vanderbilt Field to come be
lore it and bring along his bank
; accounts.
McCarran said Field will be ques
I tioned, among other things, about
the bail raised by the Civil Rights
Congress for the four missing Com
munist leaders convicted in New
Yprk of conspiracy to advocate the
violent overthrow of the govern
ment.
Field, a great-great-grandson of
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt,
has been judged in contempt of
court in New York for his refusal
to disclose contributors to the bail
fund.
Federal District Judge Sylvester
Ryan sentenced Field to 90 days in
jail. Field gave notice oi appeal
and was released on $10,000 bail
yesterday after spending the week
end in jail.
NATIONALS WALLOP
AMERICANS 8 TO 3
NATIONALS WALLOP PI bass
BULLETIN
By Ted Smits
DETROIT — IP>— The National
League cannonaded its way to vic
tory in the 18th annual All-Star
game today, defeating the American
Leaguers 8 to 3 on mighty home
runs by Stan Musial, Bob Elliott.
Gil Hodges and Ralph Kiner.
The short score follows:
National 100 302 110—8 12 1
American 010 110 000—3 10 2
Roberts, Maglie (3), Ncwcombe
(6), Blackwell (9) and Uampanella.
Garver, Lopat (4), Hutchinson (51,
Parnell (8), Lemon (9) and Berra.
HRS: N.L.—Musial, Elliott, Hodges,
Kiner. A.L.—Werti, Kell. WP—Mag
lie; LP—Lopat.
POLICE PUT OUT FIRE
Juneau City night police exting
uished a fire in a lumber pile on
Willoughby Avenue at 1 o'clock
this morning, police headquarters
said this morning. It had been re
ported by Dick Harris as a bonfire.
LANDRETH TO
HEAD ALASK i
DEFENSE POST
Announcement " as made today by
Governor Ernesf Gruening of the
appointment of Col. Earl Lan reth
retired, U. S. Army, as Civil Defense
Director for the Territory of Alaska
He succeeds Col. Joseph Alexander,
who was serving an interim ap
pointment as acting director.
A Civil Defense Council and De
partment of Civil Defense was cre
ated by the last Legislature to pro
vide for protection and defense of
Ala --lea’s civilian population in case
of war.
Col. Lnndreth retired from tin
Army in 1945 after 37 years of serv
ice, during which he worked up
through the ranks.
Starts With Scouts
In 1915, while with the Philip
pine Scouts, he won his first of
ficer’s bars of second lieutenant
From the Philippines he went to
China where he was stationed dur
ing World War I. Here he received
his commission as first lieutenant,
and then captain.
In 1923 he was returned to this
country and was stationed in Kansas
with the 64th Infantry and then
was at Fort Benning, Georgia, where
he attended Infantry school where
he was graduated with the rank of
Major.
Commands School
From Fort Benning he was as
signed to command of the General
Staff School at Fort Leavenworth.
Kansas, served an assignment at
Fort Bliss, Texas, with Staff G-2
of the First Cavalry Division, and
then was returned to Fort Leaven
worth as instructor where lie re
mained five years.
Service at the Army War College,
Washington, D. C., followed and
! later he was attached to the Bureau
! of Insular Affairs, on loan from the
Army, and was ‘appointed secretary
| of the Puerta Rican Relief Com
mission until that unit was ' dis
solved and returned to the Interior
Department.
For a short time he was acting
director of the Division of Terri
tories and Insular Affairs, serving
in that capacity until the appoint
ment of Ernest Gruening to that
post.
Recalled to Army
Recalled to Army duty, Col. Lan
dreth then was sent to Fort Benning
for another four years and in 1939
went to Fort Missoula, Montana.
While at Fort Missoula Col. Lan
dreth was introduced to Alaska. In
1940 he brought a contingent of In
fantry, Field Artillery and Engineers
to Fort Richardson, the first sold
iers were stationed there in tents set
up among a few willow trees. He re
mained at Fort Richardson until
1942, and saw it grow from his orig
inal contingent of 600 or 700 men
to several thousands.
Hack to state.*
In 1942 he went to Camp Gruber
at Muskogee, Oklahoma, where he
was attached to the 88th Infantry
Division and then followed three
years of duty during World War II
He went to the South Pacific
where he joined the 43rd Division
at New Georgia Island, saw action
at Bougainville, and then was as
signed to the Fiji Islands as chief
of staff. He was later in command
of the islands and then was sent
to- New Caledonia as deputy chief
of staff of the American forces. For
a while Col. Landreth was in com
mand of the Russell Islands and
then was appointed military ob
server for the Marines during their
landing at Okinawa.
Following the Okinawa cam
paign Col. Landreth was in com
mand of Base Section 2 in the Phil
ippines and after the Japanese sur
render went to northern Japan as
first chief of staff and later com
mander of the Otaru Army base. It
was at this place that he received
his retirement from the Army.
Col. Landreth and Mrs. Landreth,
i since 1945 have made their home
in Seattle. They arrived in Juneau
I Saturday and are at home in an
I apartment at the Baranof hotel.
They have two married daughters
Mrs. William Wessellhoeft, wife of
j a Seattle attorney, and Mrs.
Charles Lennhoff, wife of a lieuten
ant colonel with the Judge Advo
\ cate General's department in Wash
ington, DC.
Col. Landreth w;on several decora
| tions for his long service with the
Army. He holds the Victory Medal
for World Wars I and II: the Bronze
! Star with oakleaf cluster; Asiatic
theatre ribbon with one campaign
| star: Pacific theater ribbon with
three campaign stars, and the Amer
ican defense and Philippine defense
i ribbons.
AGENDA FOR PEACE TALK
PROGRESSING;' RIDGWAY
IMPOSES STRICT LIMITS
JOE HUGHES LANDS
6-FOOT WOLF EEL
He wasn’t the most beautiful
thing in the world but many cam
era fans took his picture in fronl
of the Juneau-Young hardware
store yesterday.
“He" is a ti-foot wolf eel, com
monly called a wolf fish, which was
caught by Joe Hughes, Alaska
Laundry truck driver, at Tee Har
bor last Saturday. Hughes snagged
she eel while salmon fishing.
According to Pislies of tiro Pa
cific Coast of Canada, a bulletin
published by the Fisheries Research
Board of Canada, this eel ranges
from Southern California to .Alas
ka, It averages 8 feet long with
dorsal and anal fins extending the
length of the gray-green body. It
possesses several sets of vicious
teeth and will attack fishes larger
than itself. However its diet con
sists of crustaceans, mussels, sea
urchins, sand dollars and other
fishes. It was first taken in 1894
in British Columbia waters.
'FIND RUSS SECRETS'
SAYS GROVES, HEAD
MANHATTAN PROJ.
DARIEN, Conn., July 10 —OPV -
Lieut. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, USA
(Ret.i contends that America should
make a determined effort to learn
Russia’s secrets.
He says "cookie pusher.," in an
understaffed State Department"
aren’t enough to do the job.
The wartime head of the Man
hattan Project, Which eereioved the
atomic bomb, told an interviewer at
his home here:
"We should take Immediate steps
to infiltrate Russia by establish
ing courses of study in the Russian
tongue and customs. It is impossible
for any nation to maintain complcie
secrecy on diplomatic or military
strategy, and we have not made any
real attempt to pierce Russia's
seerets.”
Groves was caustic in his com
ments on American Foreign Policy
toward the close of World War II
and In the post-war period.
Tok Cutoff Dubbed
As Par! of Glenn
Highway by Chapman
WASHINGTON, July 10 —W -
Secretary of the Interior Chapman
today extended the name of the
Glenn Highway to a 135-mile sec
tion of the Alaska road system be
tween Gakona Junction and Tok
Junction on tire Alaska Highway.
The newly-named section former
ly was known as the Tok Cutoff,
| The 342-mile Glenn Highway is
i named for Captain Edwin F. Glenn,
| an early Alaska explorer. It now
| extends from Anchorage by way of
Palmer and Glennallen to the Alaska
Highway, main link with the con
tinental United States.
YAW RESIGNS FROM
SHELDON JACKSGN
COLLEGE AT SITKA
SEATTLE, July 10 -trV Le: lie
Yaw has resigned as general direc
ior oi sneiuon Jackson Junior Col
lege at Sitka, Alaska,,effective Jan
uary 1, and will be succeeded by
Roland Wurster, dean of the college
The Board of National Missions oi
the Presbyterian church in the USA
announced the change.
WRANGELL PICNIC
COMMITTEE MEETING
A meeting of the Wrangell Picnic
committee is being held tonight at
8 o’clock in the Triangle building.
All members are urged to be present.
AT HOTEL JUNEAU
Dr. and Mrs. Terris Moore stayed
overnight at the Hotel Juneau. Dr.
Moore went to the Juneau Icecap
today and Mrs. Moore depaited for
Taku Lodge to spend a few days.
HELICOPTER MAN HERE
Marcel Chevlie of Swanton. Vt.
is stopping at the Ciastineau Hotel.
He is with the Allied Helicopter
Service, Inc.
By NATE POLOWETZKV
SEOUL. Korea. July 10 — i.T) —
Cease-fire representatives today
"made progress toward an agenda
to discuss an armistice,” UN repre
sentatives .aid tonight.
Discussions will be resumed at 10
a.in. Wednesday (5 p.m. Tue day
PDT) in Communist-occupied Kae
song.
A communique issued by UN Com
mander Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s
headquarters said the two opening
sessions on Tuesday were held in
'an open nnd formal atmosphere.”
At the outset of the talks Vice
Adm. C. Turner Joy. head of the
five-man UN delegation, announced
discussions would be restricted to
military matters in Korea. He said
'the Allies would not talk about any
thing else — no politics, no eco
nomics, no military affairs else
where.
Allied war correspondents were
not permitted In Kaesong. They will
not be allowed to go Wednesday,
either, as planned earlier.
Brig. Gen. Frank Allen, chief of
information, announced that plans
to send 16 correspondents to Kae
song Wednesday were cancelled be
cause General Ridgway "will do
nothing to jeopardize the success
of the conference."
Newsmen Laler
He said newsmen would be'sent
to Kaesong "after the conference Is
on the track nnd then* Is assurance
it will stay on the track.”
The report on Tuesday's sessions
was given to the press by an Army
officer who had not been at the
four-hour Kaesong meetings.
He said Communists had desig
nated a "United Nations House” in
the war-ravaged city for the use of
UN delegates.
The Allies returned Tuesday night
by helicopter to their “peace camp”
at Munsan without comment.
When they arrived in Kaesong in
the morning, the briefing officer
said, the UN officers were met by
Amej-ican jeeps w hich preceded them
there.
Helicopter pilots had n ported the
delegation was met by 15 jeep loads
of Chinese, including some bearing
side arms. They said armed Chinese
stood guard around the field where
the helicopters were parked through
out the day.
The briefing officer said the
American jeeps carried the UN’s two
admirals and three generals to UN
house. They traveled under armed
Communist escort.
As the briefing officer was mak
ing his report the North Korean
Communist radio at Pyongyang said
that withdrawal of all foreign troops
was one of the conditions of peaceful
■:ettlement of the Korean war.
Talks 1,united
The Red radio said eventual so
lution of the Korean.problem should
be left to the Korean people them
selves.
However, the Kaesong talks, as
the UN viewpoint was outlined by
Admiral Joy, will be restricted en
tirely to military matters.
In his opening statement he called
on the five Red generals to show
good faith in the negotiations and
pledged the UN delegation would do
the same. This, the admiral said,
would generate an “atmosphere of
confidence.”
"In such an atmosphere,” he said,
“there is every reason to hope for
success.”
And he set strict limits to the
subjects of discussion. Joy aid Ihc
Allies want a stable peace but un
der no circumstances will they talk
about:
1. "Political and economic mat
ters of any kind.” That includes the
question of a UN seat for Commun
ist China.
2. "Military matters unrelated
to Korea.” This ruled out Formosa
and other trouble spots.
Ship Movements
Princess Louise from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive at 3 p in., sail
ing to Skagway 11:30 p.m.
Chilcotin due Thursday.
Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle Wednesday.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
sail from Vancouver Wednesday.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
Aleutian from westward scheduled
southbound Saturday afternoon.