THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE HEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXX1X., NO. 11,970
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1951
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Investigate
Tax Probe
Chairman
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — OH —
The Congressional committee mak
ing a many-sided investigation of
federal tax scandals went behind
closed doors today to take a look
at activities of its own chairman.
The House Ways and Means sub
committee probing irregularities of
the Internal Revenue Bureau de
cided to look further into rumors
Rep. King (D-Calif) had brought
"improper influences” to bear on
certain California tax* cases.
King said the rumors were false,
and called the full inquiry himself.
The committee expects to get back
quickly to its investigation of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, shaken
again yesterday by the resignation
of another top official.
Daniel A. Bolich stepped aside as
assistant internal revenue commis
sioner. He said he was quitting
because, of his health.
His resignation was the third
among the bureau’s top level offi
cials since last June. It came at a
time when the committee reportedly
had him under investigation.
Conservatives of
Britain Asked to
Announce Policy
STRASBOURG, France, Nov. 20
—'/Pi—American Congressmen today
challenged British Conservatives to
give th,em a clear concise statement
of Winston Churchill’s official policy
toward European unity.
In the first working session of
the Joint European-American con
ference, Rep. Howard W. Smith
(D-Va), and Rep. Kenneth Keating
(R-NY) asked European assembly
men to explain what steps would
be backed by their peoples.
"What are the official views of
your governments, the views~bt»eked
by your peoples?” Smith inquired.
Keating noted that Britain has
been blamed in the past for the
failure of European nations to unite.
Looking to Robert Boothby, British
Conservative, he said:
"I would like a statement from
the United Kingdom on what its
attitude has been, and what, if any,
changes we can now expect.”
Exams Announced
For FWS Special Jobs
Announcement was made in Ju
neau by Howard Baltzo, assistant
regional director, that the U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service is seek
ing men for the job of Fishery
Methods and Equipment Specialist
with salaries from $3,100 to $7,600
a year.
Civil service examinations will be
held for the jobs, which may be
on either the Atlantic or Pacific
seaboard. Persons interested, who
have commercial fishing or mari
time experience, can write or see
the FWS in Juneau.
Baltzo said the recent work in
tuna and shrimp explorations in
this area by the crew of the John
N. Cobb is an example of the type
of work. The work would be with
the exploratory fishing and with
experiments on the improvement
of fishing gear.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Lester Zuboff and Alice Peters,
both of Angoon, applied for a mar
riage license yesterday from the
office of the U. S. Commissioner.
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
(Copyright, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW FEARSON
FT ASHINGTON — The job of
finding a spotless company to pro
duce aluminum for lagging defense
production is much like that of
Diogenes looking for an honest man.
Below are printed the war records
of the three chief companies con
sidered by the National Production
Authority for aid in setting up a
new aluminum plant. Significantly
no agency of the government both
ered to look up these records, but
left it to the press. Today the FBI
is required to spend weeks, some
times months, checking on the loy
alty of a prospective government
employee; while there is absolutely
no system for checking on the re
cords of companies getting lush war
contracts.
Furthmore, Secretary of Navy
Dan Kimball has flatly refused to
give the record on the Harvey Ma
chine Company to his Cabinet col
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Long-Range P|an
Set for Alaska
Sports Fishing
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — >.fl —
Approval of a long-range program
designed to keep game fish in
Alaska's streams is announced by
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Prepared by the Alaska Depart
ment of Fisheries, the program will
be administered by the Fish and
Wildlife Service. Biologist Urban
C. Nelson of Juneau will head the
program.
John S. Gottschalk, assistant chief
of the service’s federal aid branch,
said it is needed because of heavy
sport fishing by increasing numbers
of servicemen and civilians.
It is aimed at increasing the
number of lake, brook, rainbow
and cutthroat trout and grayling.
As projected, the program in
volves a three-year study to lay the
groundwork for future development.
It will seek to determine areas of
fishing concentration, types of fish
caught and means of spreading the
fishing pressure into areas not now
utilized. The latter includes stock
ing barren streams and lakes where
fish are not now found.
Ways will be sought also to over
come the limited natural produc
tion of Alaska waters by increas
ing the available food supply.
Although the three-year program
will cover most of Alaska, attention
will be given first to Southeast
Alaska and to the Anchorage and
Fairbanks areas where population is
heaviest.
Participating will be the U.S. For
est Service, National Park Service,
the Alaska Command and the Uni
versity of Alaska.
The study will cost an estimated
$120,000 with first year expenditures
figured at $35,000. It will be fi
nanced from the territory’s $75,000
a-year share of the federal aid to
fish restoration program—amassed
through a ten percent excise tax on
sports fishing equipment.
—
! Auditor Moore
Disallows Two
More Vouchers
Two vouchers by the Territorial
Board of- Health totalling $785.37
were disallowed by Auditor Neil
! Moore this morning who said the
vouchers were not properly drawn.
Moore said the vouchers, both
signed by Dr. C. Earl Albrecht,
commissioner of health, were re
turned for correction before they
were "pulled.” ,
In the case of both vouchers, the
auditor’s objection was that they
were addressed to firms or organi
zations other than municipalities
which were supplying matching
funds.
One voucher to the Juneau Health
Council was for $539.36; the other,
$246.01, was to the Juneau-Young
Hardware Co., Inc., for work and
material at the Hoonah Health
Center.
Moore contends that the one
should have been made to the Ju
neau City Clerk and the other to
the municipality of Hoonah. In
each case, he says, it has to f>e
shown that the money is used as
matching funds.
He cited an act by the legislature
I allowing the Territorial Board of
I Health to “. . .allot money here
| under to muncipalities on a match
| ing basis, or otherwise in accord
! ance with the financial ability of
I the municipality and seriousness
of the need.”
Both vouchers were for work and
materials for the two health cent
ers. Dr. Albrecht is not in town,
and the payment of the sums re
quired by the vouchers will be held
up until a correction is made, ac
cording to Moore.
Didn't Want First
Baby Born in Rain;
Born in Auto
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 20——
An excited man ran into a garage,
shouting:
“The baby’s coming! What am I
going to do?”
“Come in out of the rain,” sug
gested mechanic Thornlay Hogan.
Hogan called police, then went
to the car—as 17-year-old Mrs.
Vegas was giving birth to a 7-pound
daughter.
“I didn’t want our first baby
born out in the rain," Vegas said.
“I’m sorry if I scared the me
chanic." .
DIVORCE FILED
Betty N. Hawkins filed a divorce
petition in district court yesterday
against her husband, William L.
Hawkins. The charges were incom
patibility and mental cruelty.
GHQSays Red
Killings May
Reach 6,000
TOKYO, Nov. 20 — tW — Allied
headquarters said today there is
"considerable evidence” that -about
6,000 American soldiers died in Red
atrocity killings although bodies of
only 365 have been recovered.
The statement from Gen, Mat
thew B. Ridgway’s headquarters
made no mention of Communist
countercharges of Allied atrocities.
Fach side accused the oilier of
atrocities in Korea while the I’an
munjom circus tent truce talks
were in a one-day recess asked
b.v the Communists. The Ileds
wanted time to study a I'nited
Nations proposal for a tentative
cease-fire.
General headquarters of the U N.
Command made it clear the report
of wholesale Red atrocities issued
last week by Col. James M. Hanley
did not involve an increase in the
known American dead in the Ko
rean war.
There were two notable dif
ferences between the GIIQ re
port and Hanley’s. The headquar
ters’ figure of G.000 was nearly
500 above Hanley’s. The Colonel
listed his total as definitely atro
city victims. GHQ said "neither
the fact nor manner of death" of
all has been established.
* It also gave Hanley this mild
reprimand for releasing the figures:
j “His duties do not involve respon
sibilities for reporting of casualties
arising from the Korean opera
! tions.”
“Of the 10,836 persons (Ameri
1 cans) still carried as missing in ac
' tion,” the report said, “there is no
conclusive proof as to the number
of dead, though there is consider
able evidence to justify presumption
| of death by atrocity of a large
I number which may approximate
| 6,000.”
i Broadcasts from Red radios in
Pyongyang and Pciping conceded
some American prisoners of war
had died in prison camps but denied
the report issued by Colonel Hanley
of the Eighth Army’s legal section
as an 'absurd lie” and a “slander.”
Red radios in turn accused the
Allies of (1) killing 17,000 Chinese
| and Korean Red prisoners of war
I or allowing them to starve to death,
M2) killing or injuring 14,500 North
| Korean civilians in bbmb raids, and
13> shipping out 1,000 Korean and
Indochinese Reds for use in atomic 1
tests.
A U.N. Command spokesman
called the atom story “pure fab-,
rication.”
Allies Recapture
Hill from Reds
In Counterattack
SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 20—OD—Al
lied infantrymen recaptured a hill
at dawn today a few hours after
losing it to 600 attacking Chinese.
The fight west of Yonchon was
the only action reported on the
western Korean front.
In the east, Allied infantrymen
hacked out gains of 800 yards as
they pushed forward along the
ridges northwest of the punch bowl.
In the Yonchon hill fight, an es
timated Red battalion charged up
the slopes about 3 a.m. Plashes of
gunfire lit up the night as Allied
infantrymen .pulled back slowly
before the assault.
Two hours after the battle be
gan, the UN infantrymen counter
attacked. Most of the Reds got out
of the way. The Allies were chal
lenged only by a few rounds of
rifle and artillery fire, and soon
were back in their original positions.
White Dove Given
UN Delegation;
One tor Vishinsky
PARIS, Nov. 20—UP)—A white dove
of peace in a blue cage was deliver
ed to the United States delegation
to the United Nations today.
The bird arrived by messenger.
The delegation said it had no idea
who sent it.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Y. Vishinsky was presented with
a dove last week as a symbol of
world union.
TIDE TABLES
NOVEMBER 21
Low tide 12:45 a.m., 3.1 It.
High tide 7:31 a.m., 12.9 ft.
Low tide 1:23 p.m., 7.1 It.
High tide 6:56 p.m., 12.6 It.
Truman Should
Pay for 'Junket'
Says Congressman
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — UP) —
Rep. Busbey (R-Ill) said today
President Truman's flying trip here
from Key West is a "political jun
ket and ought to be paid for by the
Democratic National Committee in
stead of the Air Force.” He esti
mated the cost of the round trip at
$2,280.
Noting that Mr. Truman is mak
ing the trip to address the Women’s
National Democratic club tonight.
Busbey said in a statement:
“It cannot be said, by the wildest
stretch of anybody’s imagination,
that Mr. Truman’s trip has any
connection with official business.
The purpose of the trip is politics
and nothing but politics.”
Busbey estimated it costs $285 an
hourv to operate the President’s
piane, the Independence.
TRUMAN IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — UP) —
President Truman, interrupting his
Florida vacation to keep a date for
a political speech, flew back to
Washington today for a *20-hour
stay. His plane arrived at 12:01
p.m. (EST) from Key West.
National Guard to
Have Men Flown to
First Encampment
Approximately 250 men will be
flown into Juneau from Southeast
Alaska for the first encampment
of the 208th Infantry Battalion
(Sep) of the Alaska National Guard
to be held Nov. 25 to Dec. 9, it was
announced by the guard headquar
ters today.
Major Emery W. Kunkle, Warrant
Officer Joseph Wfelsh and SFC Tom
Main, all of the U.S. Purchasing
and Disbursing office, at Anchorage
have arrived to handle supplies for
the encampment.
Fifty tons of supplies arrived on
the Denali Sunday for the camp.,
Included in the total tonnage were
12 tons of commissary supplies of
which 2'-_. tons were meat.
Eider-down filled sleeping bags
will be used during the encampment.
Wooden flooring will be used in the
60 squad tents with two oil stoves
per tent. A five kva. generator
plant has been loaned by the
Alaska Communications System for
use during this period of field train
ing.
The public is warned that there
will be continuous firing on the
rifle range during the two weeks
training period. No one is to enter,
the area unless checked through by
military police.
Selected men from the first scout
battalion started the field training
for the Alaska National Guard with
patrols on the Noatak and Kobuk
rivers in September. The rivers arc
in northwestern Alaska and empty i
into Kotzebue Sound on the Bering,
Sea.
The 207th Infantry Battalion |
(Sep) encampment was held at An- j
chorage in October.
' More emphasis is tq be placed on !
the future training of the Alaska i
National Guard,” said Col. Lars |
Johnson, adjutant general of the i
guard. “In the event of disaster, '<
the guard in this way will be able
to give aid to civilians and the
armed forces in Alaska.”
North Star Crew
Miffed Concerning
'Wild Goose Chase’
SEATTLE, Nov. 20—W—The Al
aska Native Service vessel North
Star arrived back in port here
with her crew still a little miffed
over a “wild goose chase” on the
storm-lashed Bering Sea.
The skipper of the vessel, Capt.
Charles H. Salenjus, told today of
efforts to save an army tug and
two barges which had been lost
in a storm enroute from St. Law
rence Island to Nome.
The three vessels had been cut
loose from the tow of another tug
during a big blow. The North Star
was under the impression two army
men were aboard the abandoned
tug and started a concentrated
search.
Salenjus said his ship finally
located the tug—empty—and one
of the barges and took them in
tow.. But he, too, was forced to
cut them loose when they threaten
ed his vessel in heavy weather.
After many more hours of search
for the errant craft, the army tug
was fitnally re-spotted swamped
with only her bow out of the water.
The barges disappeared entirely—
and as a crowning blow, Capt. Sal
enjus said a radio report was re
ceived that still another tug was
. being sent out to try to rescue the
North Star.
Consider New
Ambassador
To Russia
KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 20——
President Ttruman said today
George F. Kennan is being consid
ered for the post of Ambassador to
Russia.
The President said he had dis
cussed the appointment with Secre
tary Acheson, and that Kennan
would make a good ambassador.”
Mr. Truman made this observa
tion shortly before he took off in
his personal plane, the ''Indepen
dence," for Washington where he
will make a political speech tonight.
Ambassador Alan G. Kirk has
been anxious to give up the Mos
cow post and has expressed a de
sire not to spend another severe
winter in the Russian capital.
Talking with reporters at the
Boca Chica Airport in response to
questions about Kennan, an expert
on Russia, the President asserted:
"He'd make a good ambassador.
He certainly ought to know his way
around out there.”
Kennan is a former head of the
State Department’s policy plan
ning staff. He is now on leave and
serving with the Institute of Ad
vance Studies at Princeton Uni
versity.
Mr. Truman's plane left the air
port at 7:58 a.m. for the four-hour
flight to Washington. He will speak
at 10 p.m. at a banquet of the
National Woman’s Democratic club.
Although the address will be pol
itical, Mr. Truman is not expected
to give any hint whether he will
seek re-election.
Marriage of Tone,
Payfon Is on Rocks
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 20—UP)—1The
seven-week marriage of Franchot!
Tone and actress Barbara Payton'
is on tfie rocks, her attorney said
today.
The lawyer, Robert S. Feder, said
the couple quarreled bitterly Sunday )
night and separated yesterday. He
said he plans to file a divorce ac- \
tion soon, possibly next week.
Feder said he did not know what I
the quarrel was about.
His client has moved out of the j
apartment she shared with the suave
actor and is staying with friends,
he said.
Neither Tone nor Muss Payton
could be reached for comment.
They were married Sept. 29 in
Cloquet, Minji., Barbara's home
town, shortly after Tone was re
leased from a hospital here. He
spent several days in bed recover
ing from a beating given him by
actor Tom Neal in a dispute over
the blonde actress' affections.
TONE FILES FOR DIVORCE
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20—<.Tt—
Franchot Tone beat his wife Bar
bara Payton to the punch today by
tiling a divorce suit alleging ex
treme cruelty.
The 46-year-old actor thus ad
mitted the futility of his seven week
try at marriage with the girl he
fought for—and won, although he
lost the fight.
Tone’s action came as a surprise
to 25-year-old blonde Miss Payton
just as she was readying her lawyer
to prepare a suit against Tone.
U. S. 'Doctor' to Get
Discharge trom
Canadian Navy .
OTTAWA, Nov. 20—Wl—'The Ca
nadian Navy prepared today to dis
charge an American who posed as
a Canadian doctor and served bril
liantly as a surgeon in Korea. The
man’s father doubts he ever went
to medical school.
The Navy announces that the
man they enlisted as Dr. Joseph
Cyr of New Brunswick is in reality
29-year-old Ferdinand Waldo De
mara, Jr., formerly of Lawrence,
Mass.
The Navy’s “Dr. Cyr” won consid
erable fame for a series of major
operations he performed on wounded
South Koreans. The elder Demara
said as far as he know the only
previous medical experience his son
had was as an orderly In a Boston
eye and ear infirmary. The father
said he hadn’t seen his son since
about 1943.
Ship Movements
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle on Friday.
Baranof scheduled to arrive
southbound Sunday morning.
Freighter Sailors Splice in port.
Mayor Hendrickson Traces Juneau
Progress During Past 16 Years
A full house of Juneau Rotarians1
heard a review of Juneau's progress
during the past 16 years given by
Mayor Walno Hendrickson at a
regular meeting at the Baranof Ho
tel this noon.
Hendrickson’s account of Juneau's
progress since 1936 brought out that
many facilities and improvements
now taken for granted had their be
ginnings, arguments and troubles
before final fruition.
Some of the problems faced years
ago are still echoed today and oth
ers have been eliminated.
In 1936 Allen Shattuck of the
Chamber of Commerce called the
City Council’s attention to the
acute auto parking situation on
downtown streets. In 1939 Juneau
citizens were concerned with the
rumor in increased freight rates
from Seattle and the council v«as
wrestling with ways and means to
build a new city and fire hall. The
library committee was calling at
tention to the disgraceful condi
tion of the city library.
Big Construction
The small boat harbor construc
tion was started in 1938; the Bar
anof Hotel had its grand opening;
and a $142,000 bond issue was ap
proved to pave Willoughby Ave.,
12th Street and Calhoun Ave., in
addition to providing new sewers
Supreme Court
To Hear Alaska
Fish Case January 7
The U. S. Supreme Court, which
has agreed to hear arguments on
Alaska's controversial non-resident
commercial fishermen’s license, has
set the week of January 7 for the
case according to the office of
J. Gerald Williams, attorney gen
eral.
Williams and John H. Dimond,
assistant attorney general, have
prepared briefs in support of the
tax from which the Territory has
already collected some $350,000 in
revenue.
The U. S. Court of Appeals in
San Francisco recently ruled that
it was illegal for the Territory to
collect a $50 fee from non-resident j
fishermen, and only $5 from resi- j
dent fishermen. Among other |
points, the appellate court said the:
act was discriminatory and discour- \
aged interstate commerce.
Williams and Dimond will both
appear before the Supreme Court
when the case is heard.
Question: Should
School Teachers
Sneak Smokes!
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20 — W —
Should school teachers have to
sneak their smokes?
The president of the school board,
Paul F. Burke, doesn’t think so.
Expedients such as visiting filling
station rest rooms to smoke a ciga
ret are “incompatible with a teach
er’s dignity,” Burke told the board
yesterday.
Superintendent Alexander J.
Stoddard said the matter has been
under study for several months, j
"Some of our regulations are anti- j
quated,” he said.
But J. Paul Elliott, board member,
said church groups will protest any
relaxation of rules against smoking
on school property.
Second Trial Set
For Wealthy Woman
In Shooting Case
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., Nov.
20 — UP) — Wealthy Mrs. Margaret
Ryan will be tried a second time
Feb. 26 for shooting a young tres
passer on her nearby ranch last
June.
Superior Judge Ray B. Lyon set
the date yesterday and continued
the woman on $10,000 ball. She Is
charged with manslaughter.
Mrs. Ryan’s first trial ended Nov.
7 when the Jury failed to agree.
Mrs. Ryan, widow of a grandson
of New York financier Thomas For
tune Ryan, says she shot Leonard
Durvan Ray, 21, in self defense
afer Ray pointed a .22 rifle at her.
REV. WHELAN SOUTH
The Rev. Robert L. Whelan, S. J..
pastor of the Catholic Church, was
a southbound passenger on Pan
American Monday. He will attend
the golden wedding anniversary
celebration of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Whelan, In Portland,
Ore. He will return to Juneau on
November 30.1
I>-;
I and sidewalks. Those were the days
i of unemployment and PWA. ,
After Pearl Harbor, civilian de
! fense was organized with everyone
! participating. The last year has
been a weaker echo of it.
The Mayor recalled the Gold
stein building fire in February of
1939 during which downtown pro
perty wasn't valued as high as it
is now. It was that year that Char
lie Waynor was developing the
Highlands subdivsion.
The closing of the Alaska-Juneau
mine in 1943 was a blow to the city.
New Library
By 1945 it was decided to do some.
’■ ihinge about a new library. Frank
1 Hentzleman, J. C. Ryan and B. D.
Stewart were named as a commit
[ tee to raise funds. Rotary took a
, leading part in the campaign.
In 1946 Hendrickson found him
self mayor. It was that year that
the Arctic Brotherhood Hall pro
perty was purchased by the city and
a post-war planning program was
adopted. A gradual replacement *ot
city equipment began when a new
patrol wagon, new dump trucks,
street grader, pile driver and build
ing materials were obtained.
-That same year plans for the
municipal airport building began
to jell and a battle was on with
CAA to hold the airport in Juneau.
Bond Voted For Fire Hall
Voters approved of a $425,000
bond issue for street improvements
and $125,000 for a new fire hall in
1948. Most of the piling in the
small boat harbor had been replaced
with creosote piling and a new float
was built back of Pete Warner's
machine shop.
Hendrickson recalled that 1949
was a big year for Juneau when
the Coast Guard Headquarters
building was built by public subs
cription and the first municipality
owned airport administration build
ing in Alaska was dedicated here.
Material Progress
The past three years have seen!
more material progress with 5’4
miles of new paving, more than 9,- (
000 feet of concrete sidewalk, 3.
600 feet of wooden fire mains re
placed with cast iron pipe and hun
dreds of feet of concrete sewer
pipes; establishment of the Juneau
Independent School District; bigger
Fourth of July celebrations; inclu
sion of the Highlands into the city;
dredging of the small boat har-1
bor; 450 feet of concrete bottom!
and sidewalls in Gold Creek; sale i
or tne AB and City Hall property I
to the Territory for the new Alaska
Office Building; completion of the
Memorial Library; passing of the
sales tax for retirement of bonds;
donation of the Elks ambulance; '
opening of the new Mendenhall
Apartments; partial construction of
the new fire hall; and much private
construction.
Forward Look
Hendrickson closed with a for
ward look toward new industries
planned for Juneau such as the
expansion in the fishing industry,
construction of a plywood plant,
the reopening of the Juneau Spruce
Mill since its - disastrous fire in
1S49 and stressed that the city must
be prepared to meet the additional
influx of people and Industry.
He referred to a special bond elec
tion to be held December 6 to fin
ance the construction of a city
hall, street improvements and mod
ernization of the fire department
and urged that these projects be
supported.
Rod Darnell announced that a
children’s party would be held Dec
ember 18 and a cabaret dance for
Rotarians and their wives was set
for New Year’s Eve in the Gold
Room of the Bsranof Hotel.
Skip MacKinnon of the Alaska
Laundry and Joe Waddell of the
Juneau Plumbing and Heating Co.,
were introduced as new members.
Visiting Rotarians were George T.
Armitage of Honolulu and D. P
Dunton of Fairbanks. Other guests
were Dr. Robert Shuler of Juneau
and Harold Kenny of Anchorage.
——-——
FROM PORTLAND
K. H. Leash of Portland is regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel.
WEATHER REPORT
(D. 8 WEATHER BUREAU
At Airport: Maximum, 20;
Minimum, 6.
forecast
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Continued fair and cold
with some high cloudiness to
night and Wednesday. Low
tonight 18 in town and 5
to 10 in outlying areas. High
Wednesday about 26.
precipitation
(Put 24 hours thdlna 1:10 * m. tod*7
At Airport — None;
since July 1—17.13 lncheo.
Border Guards
Fire on Lost
U.S. Plane
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. 20
—(/P—The U.S. Embassy here re
ported tonight an American mili
tary cargo plane with four men
aboard was fired on by Romanian
and Hungarian border guards and
then became lost. It has been miss
ing more than 24 hours and is
being sought in western Yugoslavia
and the Adriatic Sea.
The plane lost its way enroute
from Germany to Belgrade, and
flew near the Hungarian and Ro
manian borders. The pilot ap
parently turned back after Ro
manian border guards opened
flse, the Embassy said, and headed
westward. The pilot last reported
his position in the vicinity of
Zagreb yesterday afternoon.
“It is still not definitely possible
to determine the location of the
plane when it was last hard from,”
the Embassy statement said. "The
U.S. Air Force has mobilized IS
planes at Ttyviso, Italy. These
planes will fly into Yugoslavia at
daylight tomorrow and search for
the missing plane.”
A U.S. Air Force spokesman In
Rome said todaV's hunt for the
plane centered in the northern
Adriatic coastal region of Italy, and
along the Yugoslav-Itallan border.
«The plane Is a military cargo
craft which carried a crew of
four. The C-47 transport, en
route from Bavaria, Germany, to
Belgrade, vanished yesterday.
The plane was carrying a cargo
of supplies for.the American diplo
matic and military personnel in
Belgrade. The Embassy said the
pilot reported the plane was fired
upon. #
'Stockholm Peace
Appeal' Officer
Freed by Judge
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — M —
Judge Matthew F. McGuire today
threw out the government's caae
against one of five officers of the
Peace Information Center, brought
to trial here on charges of violating
the Foreign Agents Registration
Act.
Directing acquittal of Miss Sylvia
Soloff, McGuire ruled there was no
evidence to warrant her case going
to the Jury.
The Peace Information Center,
with headquarters in New York,
circulated the "Stockholm Peace
Appeal”—a document the State De
partment denounced as a Com
munist propaganda trick. It called
for outlawing the atomic bomb.
The government charged the of
ficers of the center, by circulating
the document, were acting as agents
for a foreign (Communist) authority
and should have registered as for
eign agents. Violation of the For
eign Agents Registration Act car
ries a possible penalty of five years
in Jail and a (10,000 fine.
FIVE ACQUITTED
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — —
The Peace Information Center and
five of its officers were acquitted
today of charges of violating the
Foreign Agents Registration Act.
U.S. District Judge Matthew F.
McGuire threw out the cases, and
entered a Judgment of acquittal for
all the defendants.
Steamship Alaska Will
Make Run for Denali
SEATTLE, Nov. 20 — — Ths
steamship Alaska, which has been
laid up at Houghton alnce the close
of the summer season, is scheduled
for one voyage to Alaska in place
of the Denali.
The Alaska was moved from Lake
Washington to pier 42 and will sail
at D o'clock Friday night for Alaska.
Capt. Henry Burns, who was her
master during the summer, will be
in command.
The Denali is skipping the one
voyage for inspection and repairs.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Nov. 20—<*>—Closing
uotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3, American Can
ice**, American Tel. and Tel. 150%,
Anaconda 50%, General Electric
55%, General Motors 40%, Ooodyear
42. Kennecott 81%, Ubby McNeill
and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 60,
Standard Oil of California 51%,
Twentieth Century Fa* 21%, UB.
Steel 39%, Pound $3.80, Canadian
Exchange 95.81.
Sales today were 1,120,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 259.30, rails 80.15, utU