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VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,971
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1951
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Truce Hopes
Rise as Reds
Submit Plan
MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 21——
Truce hopes brightened today when
Communist negotiators submitted a
cease-fire plan of their own that
could open the way for a Korean
armistice by Christmas.
It was similar to a United Nations
plan for creating a buffer zone
along the present fighting line to
take effect if an armistice is signed
within 30 days.
A U.N. Command communique
referred to the resemblance as su
perficial.
But the command’s official
spokesman, Brig. Gen. William P.
Nuckols, said if the Red plan
“means what we think it means...
then I think we are very close to
solution” of the buffer zone ques
tion.
The point in doubt was whether
the Communist proposal means
"that troops will be withdrawn
from the buffer zone after an
armistice is signed” as the U.N.
has proposed.
After the Communists submitted
their counterproposal at Panmun
jom at Wednesday’s two-hour truce
session, Allied negotiators tried to
determine whether the Reds con
templated an immediate or delayed
withdrawal from a buffer zone to
be created along the present front.
At the close of the session Maj.
Gen. Henry I. Hodes, heading the
U.N. subcommittee, told the Red
delegates “we will present you with
the necessary revisions to clear up
this proposal” at Thursday’s meet
ing.
It is set for 11 a.m. (6 P.M. Wed
nesday, PST).
Alaska's Delegate
To Youth Forum in
Juneau on Saturday
George Bell, 15-year-old Eskimo
student from Nome, arrives in Ju
neau Saturday on Pacific Northern
Airlines enroute to the annual
youth forum held in New York City
by the Daily Mirror.
He will be here for several days
orientation prior to his departure
for New York. This is the first
trip for George to Juneau and the
States.
“An interesting itinerary of edu
cational and social events have been
planned for him,” said Mrs. Laura
Jones, education specialist for the
Alaska Native Service. Mrs. Jones
was one of four who made the
choice of Alaska’s first delegate to
the forum.
George is due in New York Nov.
30 for the forum that begins on
Dec. 1.
FROM PELICAN
Mrs. Walter W. Shisham of the
Pelican Cold Storage Co. at Peli
can is registered at the Baranof
Hotel.
AT THE BARANOF
Elizabeth V. Vickers of Mt. Edge
cumbe is staying at the Baranof
Hotel.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Ernest Knox of Anchorage is reg
istered at the Baranof Hotel.
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
(CoDyright, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
TFaSHINGTON—Two of the na
tion's top newspapers, the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch and the Providence,
R. I„ Bulletin last week published a
story regarding the Ripps-Mitchell
income-tax case in Mobile, Ala.,
charging Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Lamar Caudle with failure to
prosecute.
Both these papers have done not
able jobs in exposing corruption,
but since I had something to do
with the conviction of these two
income-tax evaders, perhaps the
inside story of what happened is
worth telling—for two reasons: 1.
To illustrate how tax cases some
times get stymied: 2. In fairness to
Mr. Caudle, who has been kicked
around a lot and who, though indis
creet in his choice of friends, in my
opinion is honest.
Much of the story was told in a
column dated Dec. 16, 1949, when
the Washington Merry-Go-Round
two years ago began calling atten
tion to shocking and then little
noticed income-tax scandals.
Sam Ripps and Joe Mitchell had
made a fortune selling millions of
dollars worth of jewelry to army
PX's during the war, following
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AND SHE READS
PHILOSOPHY
Hollywood starlet Marilyn Mon
roe, presently the No. 1 cheese
cake gal of the movie colony, is
coming into her own after a year
cf miner roles. Although chosen
sweetheart of various battalions,
regiments and ships, she is de
scribed as a serious gal who reads
philosophy and is intent on an
acting career. Iff) Wircphoto.
Casualties
In Korea
Increase
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 — W —
Announced U.S. battle casualties
in Korea reached 100,176 today.
The Defense Department’s weekly
summary, reporting an increase of
j 950 since last week, sent the total
over the 100,003 mark. By com
parison, U.S. combat casualties in
the first year of this country’s par
ticipation in World War II were
59,000.
Of the 950 new battle casualties
reported today, 150 were killed out
right in action, 762 were wounded
and 38 are missing.
On Nov. 9 the Army estimated
total enemy casualties in Korea
through Oct. 31 at 1,442,844.
The summary said the latest total
of United- Nations casualties was
313,711.
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Arctic Reindeer
Will Be Flown
To 'Balmy' Texas
NOME, Nov. 21 — iJf) — Thirteen
Arctic reindeer will be flown to
balmy Texas.
The antlered specimens ' were
hand-picked from roving herds in
the far north by Grady Carothers
and Fred Herring of Goldthwaite,
Tex., for pre-Christmas exhibitions.
The Texans spent an arduous two
months of arctic traveling to pick
the critters..
•The reindeer are due for exhi
bition in teams of four at Corpus
Christi, Texas; Oklahoma City, arid
Lovinston, N!M. One is going along
as a spare.
Seventy sacks of reindeer moss
for food also is going along on the
Arctic Alaska Airways plane tc
Seattle.
Moforship Finch
to Tow Disabled
Ship fo Seattle
NOME, Nov. 21—UP)—The motor
ship Finch of Kotzebue is standing
by to tow the disabled M.S. Tula
to Seattle, its home port. The Tula
was damaged in arctic waters.
The vessels will be the last of the
season out of this far northern
port. The Bering Sea already is
full of floating ice. The Tula is
owned by the B. and R. Lighterage
Co., of Kotzebue. ,
Alaska Public Works Approves
Application tor New City Hall
Atrocities
Rebuked Is
Red Claim
WASHINGTON, Nov, 21 — ^ —
Moscow is using what it describes
as testimony of American war pris
oners to reply to U.S. charges of
Communist atrocities in Korea.
One such prisoner was quoted in
a broadcast recorded here as say
ing that he was better off in a
North Korean camp than he was
when unemployed in New York.
A long series of such statements
complete with names and addresses,
has been beamed to the United
States and other western countries
since Col. James M. Hanley of the
Eighth Army made his estimate
that about 5.500 American prisoners
have been slain by the North Ko
reans and the Chinese.
In an English language broadcast
recorded today by U.S. government
monitors, one American prisoner
was quoted:
"I am treated courteously and
live in good conditions, get plenty
to eat, and a daily supply of tobacco,
i When I was captured, my uniform
was in shreds. Here in camp, I was
provided with new clothes.”
Air Superiority
i Over Korea is
! Now Challenged
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 — ^ —
Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg said today
the Allies' “complete air superiority
over Korea is now being seriously
challenged by the MIGs but so far
the situation is in hand."
The Air Force Chief of Staff told
] a long and grim news conference
that possible “serious potentials”
! exist. Among these he listed the
fact that “overnight China has be
come one of the major air powers
of the world.”
Vandenberg, just back from the
Korean war front, also said:
“Under the ground rules estab
lished at the outset of the Korean
war, it is impossible for us to give
air supremacy” because “for rea
sons that we all understand, we
have followed a policy of not at
tacking the strongholds of enemy
j air power directly across the Yalu”
j river in Manchuria.
Red Shield Rooms
Need Extra Chair
Somewhere in the vicinity of Ju
neau, it is hoped, there may be
some one who has one or two
chairs of that old type known
as "overstuffed" in leather or com
position upholstering that is no
longer desirable - for a streamlined
home, but which the owner would
enjoy presenting to The Salvation
Army for use in the Red Shield
Reading Room welfare project.
No need to retell how many
hundreds of GI’s used the Red
Shield rooms when stationed here
at the Duck Creek encampment,
nor how many transient men have
enjoyed the hospitality of this social
center. Word has come through the
grapevine route that some of the
chairs now serving the Red Shield
have seen better days and are ready
for final retirement.
Hence it has been suggested
by those interested in this program
that any person owning such a
chair and wishing to donate it for
this good use may have it picked
up by phoning Lieutenant William
Lynch, who assists in maintaining
the reading room. His telephone
number is Juneau 254.
ARRIVING ON ELLIS
Eight passengers arrived on Ellis
Airlines Wednesday flight with two
traveling on interport. Arriving
from Ketchikan were D. M. Mor
rison, C. V. Rudolph, C. W. Willis,
H. Halvorsen, Tim Casey, Jack
Molyneau; from Petersburg: A.
Sjostedt, C. Kelsey.
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Ship Movements
Alaska scheduled to sail from Se
attle on Friday.
Baranof scheduled to arrive
southbound Sunday morning.
Freighter Sailors Splice in port.
Freighter Yukon Princess sched
uled to arrive Monday morning from
Vancouver.
► “The Alaska Public Works Ad
ministration has approved the City
of Juneau's application for match
ing funds for a new city hall,"
Mayor Waino Hendricksfcn an
nounced tday. Plans for the build
ing will soon be on display in some
of the downtown store windows.
APW will provide 50 percent
of the total cost of the building, not
to exceed $579,000, with the city's
share approximately $290,000, Hen
drickson explained. •
"Qualified voters will be asked
to approve a bond issue for this
amount at a special election set for
December 6," he said. If approved,
bids will be called early in January
of next year and construction is
to be completed by November of
the same year.
Bond Issue
“The bond issue, if approved, will
be paid out of proceeds from the
city sales and service tax, voted
for the purpose of retiring city
' bonds,” Hendrickson said.
I The proposed new municipal
building will be a two-story, fire
proof, reinforced concrete structure
with a partial basement and will
be connected with the new fire sta
tion now under construction on
Marine Way. It will extend for
92 feet up South Seward Street.
In addition to the present open
site, the city has purchased 50 feet
of the Juneau-Young Hardware Co.,
property to provide additional build
ing space as well as a 45-foot con
I necting street between South Sew
urd and Shattuck Way.
Streets ■ Widened
Marine Way is to be widened
by ten feet to permit easier exit
for fire fighting equipment and
South Seward will he widened five
feet extending the length of the
City Hall.
The building is planned to provide
space for all municipal offices—
city clerk, police department and
jail, a magistrate’s court, city
health center, city assessor, city
engineer and sanitarian, council
chambers, several large public meet
ing rooms with adjoining locker or
storage rooms for the use of var
ious civic groups.
Sufficient space is planned for
future municipal needs.
Entrance On South Seward
j The main entrance to the city
i hall will be on South Seward Street
| lacing the R. J. Sommers Construc
tion Co. office.
The city health center will be
on the new connecting streets fac
ing the rear of the Juneau-Young
Hardware Co.
The police department will be on
Shattuck Way facing the Alaska
Laundry.
Hendrickson said that the of
fices and quarters of all city de-:
partments have been designed to j
I meet the present and future needs I
! of a growing city.
“When the building is occupied,’’ j
he stated, "the City of Juneau will
have, for the first time in its his
tory a city jail that will be safe
and sanitary with all the require
ments of a modern city police
department."
At present the city is renting
jail space in the Federal Jail on
a .temporary basis only.
“The proposed new cUty hall
will be a building that Juneau
can be proud of,” Hendrickson con
cluded, “modern, and in keeping
with the needs of the Capitol City.
All that is needed to get the pro
ject underway is the voters’ ap
proval of the bond issue at the
special election December 6".
OPS Warns on Increase
Drink Prices in Bars
Following complaints that some
bars have increased the price of
drinks due to the recent excise tax,
George N. Apostol, enforcement di
rector for the Office of Price Stab
ilization, warned that such in
creases may be in violation of ceil
ing prices.
‘ Bars, like restaurants, are cov
ered by Ceiling Price Regulation
11 and must maintain their food
cost ratios,” Apostol said. “Any
arbitrary increase of 5 or 10 cents
a drink is likely to be in violation
of ceiling prices.”
Apostol pointed out, however, that
if bars show an increase in their
liquor costs during any four-month
period, they may adjust their prices
<o be within their liquor-cost ratio
at the end of their period. There
is little likelihood, he said, that
the recent tax increase of 26 to
30 cents a fifth could be reflected
in a 5 or 10 cent increase in drinks.
CARL LOTTSFELDT HERE
Carl Lottsfeldt of Anchorage is
at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Carl L. Carlson with the CAA at
Anchorage is stopping at the Hotel
Juneau,
Plane Search
On as U. S. Gels
Protest Notes
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. 21
—tfl— Hungary and Romania com
plained officially today thaft a
United States army cargo plane—
still mussing after being fired on
by the satellite border guards Mon
day-crossed over their territories
illegally.
Notes were presented to the Am
erican missions in Budapest and
Bucharest, even as U. S. planes
prepared to search over Yugo
slavia for the missing C-47 trans
port, which disappeared Monday
with four crewmen and diplomatic
cargo aboard.
The pilots reports, as disclosed
by the U. S. Embassy in Belgrade,
did not mention any damage from
the shooting.
Bad weather hampered the search
Fifteen U. S. Air Force planes
were poised at Treviso in northern
Italy, at the juncture of the Ital
ian, Austrian and Yugoslav bord
ers, ready for the word that would
send them over an area of 7,000
square miles, much of it craggy
mountains and wooded hills’.
Premier Marshal Tito's govern
ment gave the search planes per
mission to fly over the northwest
part of Yugoslavia, and area prev
iously forbiddep to foreign planes.
Church Services
Thanksgiving Day
Several of Juneau churches will
hold Thanksgiving day services to
morrow.
At 10 a.m.. there will be Holy
Communion at the Church of Holy
Trinity, Episcopal.
At 10:30 a.m. union services will
be held by the Northern Light
Presbyterian Church and the Meth
odist Church at the NLPC. At the
sarn$: hour, special services will be
held at the Lutheran phurch.
At 11 o'clock there will be special
services at the Memorial Presbyter
ian church, preaching by the Rev.
Walter Sobolcff.
At 11 o’clock The First Church
of Christ, Scientist, will hold ser
vice, the subject being "Thanks
giving."
Services at the Catholic Church
of the Nativity will be held on
Thanksgiving Day at 9 a.m., it is
announced.
"The Hope of Thanksgiving” will
be the title of the sermon to be
preached by pastor Hillerman in the
Lutheran Church. The service will
begin at 10:30 a.m.
At this service the Senior Choir,
under the direction of Miss Mar
jorie Iverson, will sing, “For The
Blessings of Our Days” by Krones;
and the Junior Choir under the di
rection of Mrs. Eunice Nevin will
sing, "Prayer of Thanksgiving" by
Kremser.
The public is cordially invited to
join the congregation for the obser
vance of Thanksgiving Day.
Crimson Bears
Play Alumni in
First BB Game
The annual basketball game be
tween the Juneau High Schoo!
Crimson Bears and Alumni is thf
unofficial opener of the local sea
son tonight at 8 o’clock.
The High School band and ycl
leaders will entertain before th;
game and at half time. It is re
quested that the Sixth Street en
trance to the gymnasium be usee
by those attending the game.
PAA New Link Girdles
Globe; $1,818.80
From Juneau and Back
Just in case an Alaskan wants
to fly around the world by Pan
American World Airways clipper,
it will now be possible after Dec
ember 3. On that date PAA inaug
urates a new service from Los An
geles to Guatemala City.
In order to make a globe-girdling
flight from Alaska, a traveler would
go from the Territory to Los An
geles by way of Honolulu, from Los
Angeles to Guatemala City and
Panama: cross the South American
north coast to Caracas, Venezuela;
from there fly to New York; head
east to London; continue across
Europe to Istanbul, Turkey: tra
verse Asia to Hong Kong; then span
the Pacific by way of cither Tokyo
or Manila and back to Seattle.
Anyhow, it is possible for $1,818.80
just in case. . .
Grateful Paratrooper
I’fc. James R. Fernandez (right), of Providence, R. I., looks grate
fully at Pfc. Frank Elliott, of Coates, N. t’.. who saved Fernandez'
life during a paratrooper exhibition at Ft. Benning, tia. While 82
Mayors frem throughout the country watched. Fernandez' chute
didn’t open and Elliott caught him as he passed head downward
toward the earth and both floated to safety, iff Wirephoto.
Army Violates
'Moral Obligation'
Declares Father
SAN LORENZO, Calif., Nov. 21—
(fl1!—A father said today the army
violated “at least a moral obliga
tion’' by failing to notify him his
daughter, a 20-year-old WAC, was
imprisoned and convicted in a (Junp
Breckinridge, Ky., assault case.
“It’s a hell of ft shock to have
a newspaper reporter call you six
weeks after it hns happened and
tell you your dnughtcr is on the
way to prison,” declared the father,
Maritime Service Lt. John R. Mor
ton, in a telephone call to the Asso
ciated Press.
The army announced Saturday
Sgt. Grace L. Morton and five other
WAC sergeants were convicted No
vember 8 of assault and battery and
ordered dishonorably discharged.
They were demoted to privates,
pending a review of the case, and
later ordered to the federal re
formatory at Alderson, W. Va,
The case involved the October 4
beating of another WAC, but Mor
ton said he ‘knew nothing of the
case until a newspaper reporter
called him last Saturday.
i
No Conciliation
In Arab-lsraeli
Differences
PARIS, Nov. 21—OP)—The United
Nations Palestine conciliation com
mission announces its failure to
settle Arab-lsraeli differences.
The commission said It had called
off the fruitless talks begun iyu'e
Aug. 10 because neither party
showed willingness to make conces
sions.
The group — made up of repre
sentatives of the United States,
France and Turkey — now is draft
ing a report of its failure to the
General Assembly. It then will be
up to the assembly to decide
whether the commission should be
liquidated or continue in existence.
R. C. JOHNSON IS BACK
R. C. Johnson of the Bureau of
Reclamation returned yesterday
from Seattle where he has been for i
medical attention. He is mucti im- j
proved and was back at his desk
today. Mrs. Johnson accompanied!
him.
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• WEATHER REPORT • |
• <U. S. WEATHER BUREAU •
• At Airport: Maximum, 18: •
• Minimum, 4. •
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• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Occasional light snow to- •
• night with lowest tempera- •
• ture near 20 degrees in town •
• and 12 to 15 in outlying •
• areas. Partly cloudy with •
• little change in temperature •
• Thursday. • I
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• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours endtna 7:30 a m. todaj •
• At Airport — None; •
• since July 1—17.13 Inches. •
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Reds Are
Thrown
Back
SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 21 — «1 —
United Nations forces today threw
back the Reds’ strongest attempt
to halt an Allied line-strengthening
drive on the central Korean front.
The U.N. push has pained nearly
five miles since Saturday.
The Republic of Korea (ROK>
Sixth Division stopped counterat
tacks by elements of two Red bat
talions. The South Koreans had
the support of a tremendous artil
lery barrage.
An Allied officer said, “We clob
bered the hell out of them all night.
Without the artillery the Reds
could have made it hard on the
KOKs."
The South Koreans also threw
back several other Jabs at their
Pukhun river line southeast of
Kumsong.
On the Eastern front United Na
tions soldiers repulsed a Red at
tack northwest of the Punchbowl
after a five and one-half hom;
fight that ended shortly after dawn
Wednesday.
Juneau lo Observe
City-Wide Holiday
For Thanksgiving
Juneau will observe a city-wide
Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow as
City, Territorial, Federal and pro
fessional offices close as well as
schools and most business establish
ments.
Many churches in the city will
hold special services as millions
unite in prayers of thankfulness fer
the nation's blessings.
Schools will close at 2 p.m. to
day and will remain closed both
Thursday and Friday.
Wrangell Man Missing
Since Friday
Henry Bradley of Wrangell has
been mis.ing since 2 a.m., last Fri
day according to information from
Herbert Bradley, brother of the mis
sing man, who telephoned William
Paul, Sr., here last night. He re
quested- Coast Guard assistance in
dragging the Wrangell Harbor
where Henry Bradley’s boat was
found partly filled with water.
The Coast Guard cutter Sweet
brier arrived at Wrangell early this
morning and began dragging op
erations at daylight.
U.S. Deputy Marshal John E
Krepps is investigating the possi
bility of foul play since Bradley is
known to have carried large sums j
of money on his person. Local |
authorities there have been unable]
to trace Bradley's movements after
2 a.m., Friday. #
WEDNESDAY FIRE CALL
A grease fire at the Mug-Up Cafe
on Third Street brought out the
Fire Department at 10:50 a.m. to
day. There wras no damage reported
by firemen. 1
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Truman Says
Demos Expect
'Lies, Smears'
Taft and Gabrielson
Reply to President's
GOP-Blasting Talk
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21— I,* —
President Truman, In a speech re
miniscent of his 1948 "give ’em
Hell" style, declared last night that
the Democrats won’t take lying
down the "lies and smears” he said
he anticipates from Republicans
and “special Interests" in the 1952
Presidential campaign.
Mr. Truman told an audience
of party members here he thinks
more money will be spent "In try
ing to defeat the Democratic
Party next year than has ever
brfore been spent In any election
in the history of the country."
This brought from Republicans
reiteration of "corruption" charges.
Mr. Truman did not mention In his
speech any of the charges of wrong
doing which have been alleged
i against his administration..
His declaration that “the truth
and the facts are on our side*
brought a retort from Senator Rob
ert A. Toft (R-Ohio) that “Presi
dent Truman should certainly get
the prize for political effrontery”
speech.
Guy G. Gabrielson, chairman
of the Republican National Com
mittee, said Mr. Truman bad “a
flash of realism” when he said
a “mistake in a Presidential elect
ion can cause the country untold
harm."
“The reminder isn’t necessary for
millions of Americans." Gabrielson
said. “They are disgusted and al
armed at the high taxes, high
prices, corruption, crises and war
oi his Incompetent administration,
j They won’t make the mistake
I again”.
Without naming the Senator, Mr.
Truman singled out Taft with the
assertion that “special interests" had
! poured money Into Ohio last year
, to reelect the Republican.
Taft, an avowed candidate for
his party’s presidential nomina
tion, said In a statement in Cin
cinnati that “It le the Truman
| party which Is the beneficiary of
i the money of epeclal interests
| and of millions of dollars of the
| taxpayers’ money used for polltl
1 cal propaganda. .
“The head of an administration
! which has condoned Communism,
immorality and corruption and does
not even bother to deny the proven
charges, talks of the great moral po
sition of his administration in the
world," Taft continued.
Mr. Truman, who returned today
to Key West, Fla., to resume his
interrupted vacation, outlined lor
his party at a banquet of the Na
tional Women’s Democratic Club
last night the kind of a campaign
he said it must make next year.
He pictured It as a slugging
battle against well-heeled Re
publicans who oopld be expected
to put on a “dirty smear campaign.”
The President left up In the air
the question whether he will run
again. But he seemed to Indicate
that if he doesn’t he fully expects
to have the determining voice in
naming the Democratic nominee.
Mrs. Truman, who had a lot to
do with making the presidential
date for the banquet meeting,
laughed with the crowd as the
President said:
“I am not going to make any
announcement about who the can
didate will be, although I do have
some ideas on the subject.”
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• High .tide 9:20 a.m., 14.2 ft. •
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