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VOL. LXXV1II., NO. 11,832
JUNEAU, "ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED FRE^S
PRICE TEN CENTS
Two Red Strongholds Entered by UN Forces
TERRITORY WILL
OPERATE F ,
JUNEAU-HAINES
Negotiations have been practically'
completed for the Territory to taki
over operation of the Juneau-Haines
car ferry.
At a meeting of the Territorial
Road Board this morning in the gov
ernor’s office, it was decided to buy
out the Valle-Sommers interest in
the Cliilkoot Motorship Line for the
sum of $20,000. The Valle-Sommers
partnership owned three-fifths in
terest in the concern. Steve Homer
and associates, who owned the other
two-fifths, will retain their interest.
Henry Roden, finance commis
sioner for the Territory who is a
member of the Road Board, said
operation of the ferry will be re
sumed as soon as a qualified crew
can be secured and the necessary
transfer of papers is executed, which
he added, should be within the next,
few days.
The ferry ceased running June 4,
when, due to marine regulations and
other problems, it was found it could
not be operated on a paying basis.
Purchase by the Territory is ex
pected to be a temporary stop-gap
to keep the ferry in service during
the coming summer. The Alaska
Road Commission is making plans
to take over its permanent opera
tion in the future.
BRITISH SEC.
PARRIES ON
MISSING MEN
LONDON, June 11 —(.FI— For
eign Secretary Herbert Morrison
sidestepped questions in the House
of Commons today on the political
Views of Britain’s pair of vanished
diplomats.
A query whether there was wide
spread sexual perversion in the For
eign Office entered the discussion
when a member asked Morrison to
investigate such charges.
Facing a barrage of critical quer
ies Morrison parried a demand whe
ther Donald MacLean, 38, and Guy
Burgess, 40, had any connection
with the Soviet Union or whether
Burgess had Communist associa
tions.
The two men have been missing
on the continent of Europe more
than two weeks. MacLean has been
head of the Foreign Office’s Ameri
can department, and Burgess has
been an executive officer in Britain's
Washington embassy. Both possessed
confidential information on Britisli
American relations. Agents are
scouring Europe for a trace of them.
‘‘I have no evidence that these
men took documents with them/'
Morrison told the House.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1991. By Bell Srnaiute. Inc.
TFaSHINGTON. — The beer bar
ons are now hustling around the
Capital pulling all sorts of wires
to prevent beer from being sold in
bottles. They want their beer in
tin cans, despite the fact the Na
tional Production Authority is
clamping down on the unnecessary
use of tin, now one of the scarce
metals badly needed for mobiliza
tion.
Bottles, on the other hand, are
not scare. Despite this, the brewing
companies are howling to high
heaven against using them.
Oddly enough, the champion of
the breweries is GOP Sen. Hugh
Butler of Omaha, Neb.—which iff
a long way from Milwaukee, Wis.,'
the beer capital. Butler has bomb
barded NPA with sizzling letters
and has even made personal trips
to NPA headquarters on behalf of
the brewing companies.
His latest letter angrily denoun
ces the "pressure” against tin for
beer cans and demands that NPA
notify him before taking any action
in favor of bottled beer. What But
ler may not know, however, is that
the “pressure” is coming from right
under his nose in the Senate. Texas
Sen. Lyndon Johnson’s alert watch
dog committee does not consider
beer cans essential to the National
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New Presbyterian Leader
Dr. Ben. R. Lacy (left), of Richmond, Va., retiring Moderator of the
Presbyterian Church, presents the gavel to Dr. J. R. McCain, Presi
dent of Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga., who was elected at Orlando,
Fla., as new head of the church. <P) Wirephoto.
NAMED PRESIDENT
Mrs. Lora C. Rathvon of Boston,
Mass., was named President of
The Mother Church, The First
Church of Christ, Scientist, in
Boston, at its annual meeting on
June 4.
HITS BACK AT
TESTIMONY OF
SECY. ACHESON
Lt.Gen.Wedemeyer, Back
ing Up MacArthur, Says
Impressions Wrong
WASHINGTON, June 11 —MV
Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, back
ing up Gen. Douglas MacArthur, to
day denied that a report they made
in 1945 favored bringing the Com
munists into a coalition government
in China.
Testifying at the Senate inquiry
into MacArthur's dismissal, Wede
meyer hit back hard at some of the
testimony Secretary of State Ache
son gave the senators last week.
(Senator Brewster, who left the
closed door hearing, told reporters
Wedemeyer also had testified he
favored bombing Chinese bases in
Manchuria, as MacArthur has pro
posed, and would do it even if it
meant war with Russia.
(Wedemeyer also urged, Brewster
added, that the United States “go it
alone” on a naval blockade of China
if other UN Allies refuse to impose
such a blockade).
Wrong Impression
Wedenmeyer told the senators:
1. Acheson took "out of context”
itatements from a 1945 message from
the military commanders in the Far
East which gave some senators the
impression that MacArthur and
Wedenmeyer favored the Truman i
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FORMER
ALASKAN,
KILLER
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., June
11 —UPi— District Attorney Herbert
Grundell virtually agreed today with
wealthy Mrs. R. A. Basil Ryan that,
she shot a trespasser in self-defense,
but said he has a few questions to
clear.
“On the face of it,” Grundell said,
“this is a clear case of self defense.
But there are some things I want
to check before the inquest Tues
day.”
Mrs. Ryan is the widow of a
grandson of the tempestuous
Thomas Fortune Ryan.
She told officers and reporters
she shot Leonard Durnan Ray, 22,
with a .38 revolver after he threat
ened her with a .22 rifle. She is
building a $50,000 home on an 80
acre ranch overlooking the Pacific.
She and her foreman, Evasio H.
Poviera, related:
Ray, en route to fish, ignored no
trespass signs, locked gates arid
fences: entered her ranch and asked
Poviera for a ifrink of water. Po
viera gave him the drink'and asked
him to leave. Instead, Ray continued
through the ranch.
Mrs. Ryan got a gun and asked
Ray to leave. The man thrust his
cocked rifle against her. Mrs. Ryan
fired. Ray staggered some 100 feet
and collapsed, dead.
The youth’s mother, Mrs. Treasure
Ray, said he had been having njar
ital troubles. His wife is in Mem
phis, Tenn., with her 18-month-old
baby.
Mrs. Ryan, a novelist, is the widow
of Basil A. Ryan. She had lived in
Mexico and Alaska since her hus
band’s death in 1946.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, June 11 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
111%, American Tel. and Tel. 156%,
Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft
48%, General Electric 55, General
Motors 48%, Goodyear 79%, Kenne
cott 74%, Libby, McNeill and Libby
8%, Northern Pacific 42%, Standard
Oil of California 45%, Twentieth
Century Fox 18%, U. S. Steel 41%,
Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange
93.43%.
Sales today were 1,220,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 251.56, rails 80.14, utili
ties 42.56.
FROM METLAKATLA
Henry S. Littlefield of Metlakat
la is registered at the Baranof
Hotel.
SKAGWAY VISITOR
Howard Robinson of Skagway
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
(LOSE WAKH
KEPI, BRISTOL
BAY STRIKE
Halt in Canning Season Vi
tal to Both Military,
Civilians, Report
SEATTLE, June 11 —IAP)— The
salmon pack from Bristol Bay,
where a strike has halted prepara
tion for the 1951 canning season, is
vital to both the military and civil
ians, Maurice Rattray, deputy di
rector of the Defense Fisheries Ad
ministration, said here.
Rattray conferred with represent
atives of the Alaska Salmon Indus
try, Inc., and the Bering Sea Fisher
men’s Union (Ind). He stressed the
need to settle the dispute so that
the canneries may operate.
The military estimated earlier
that it would need 360,000 cases of
salmon from the 1951 pack. Most of
it would be red salmon. Bristol Bay
is the principal red salmon center.
Rattray, who was to return to
Washington over the weekend, said
a close watch would be kept on the
dispute to see if any government
agency could expedite a settlement.
If the dispute is not settled soon
the Wage Stabilization Board may
be asked to set salmon prices in the
area, Rattray said. Salmon prices
are regarded as wages in Bristol
Bay since the fishermen use boats
and gear furnished by the packers.
The Bering Sea union struck
industry a week a&o. It is demand*,
ing recognition. It broke away from
the Alaska Fishermen's Union (Ind)
and petitioned last January for an
election. The AFU has signed a con
tract with the Industry.
DEFENSE MA RIAL
i IS UNLOADED NOW
| ON BRISTOL BAY
SEATTLE, June 11 —M— Unload
ing of defense project materials
from two ships in Bristol Bay was
reported today.
Another ship, with cannery sup
plies, was turned back last week
because of picketing by the Bering
Sea Fishermen’s Union (Ind).
An Alaska Steamship Co. spokes
man said today supplies for defense
project contractors were being dis
charged at Naknek by the Square
Knot and the Nadina.
There were no details available
here on whether a specific agree
ment opened the way for unloading
the defense materials. The cargo is
transferred to lighters from the
ships about eight miles off shore.
The Square Knot has 4,600 tons
of cargo, of which less than 100 tons
was reported to be cannery cargo.
Most of the Nadina’s 9,000 tons,
however, was described as cannery
cargo.
Contract conferences between
the Fishermen’s Union and repre
sentatives of the Alaska Salmon In
dustry were reported continuing to
day at Dillingham. They started
Saturday. The union Is seeking rec
ognition in an inter-union contest.
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Ship Movements
Princess Kathleen from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive tomorrow at 3
p.m.
Chilcotin from Cancouver sched
uled to arrive at 4 p.m. tomorrow,
j Alaska scheduled to sail from
j Seattle Wednesday.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
! Seattle Friday.
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive at 8 a.m. tomorrow and sails
southbound one hour later at 9 a.m.
Denali from westward scheduled
to arrive 9 p.m. Friday southbound.
FROM WASHINGTON
Mrs. Harry Lakness and Mrs.
Tom Tilison of Poulsbo, Wash., are
at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM SITKA
Mrs. John Salskov of Sitka is
staying at the Baranof Hotel.
The fiy shuttle, patented in 1733.
was the first important step toward
mechanization of the wool trade.
"Recruit" for the Infantry
Three infantrymen of the IJ. S. 7th Division sit by a roadside in Korea And gaze at their new "re
crut,” a horse which is used as an ammunition and gun carrier. U. 8. Army photo via UP) Wirephoto.
360 PINTS OF
BLOOD GIVEN
HERE SATURDAY
Sore arms and that “tired feeling"
were badges of honor in Juneau to
day, aftermath of Saturday’s “blood
for Korea” program.
Juneau donors gave blood at the
rate of 36 pints an hour which was
the top capacity at which it could
be handled. Even at that, the King
County Blood Team ran out of con
tainers and had to use bottles left
over from blopd banking at Ketchi
kan. When tlie zero hour of 9 p.m.
rolled around, 360 pints had been
taken from 379 who had registered
to glvje blood.
Dr. T. D. Patel, who was in charge
of the King County Blood • Team
which arrived on the Aleution Sat
urday, said that he had never seen
finer cooperation. He was enthus
iastic in his praise of the quarters set
up in Elks hall for the blood doning.
The equipment, furnished by St.
Ann’s and the Government hospital,
was perfect, he said, for comfort,
ease of operation and sanitation and
the groups of trained nurses
and nurses’ aides who turned out to
assist were more than adequate in
efficiency and numbers. He espec
ially praised th e nurses’ aides
groups. “They worked like trained
nurses,” he said.
Twenty-four boxes of blood were
shipped south on the Saturday aft
ernoon flight of Pan American
World Airways, which was trans
porting the blood to Seattle free of
charge. The balance left on a later
flight and on Sunday.
Each box, thermos lined, held 24
pints of blood packed around a con
tainer of cracked ice. Mendenhall
Glacier played its part, too, in
the “blood for Korea” effort, for
Juneau was the only place in the
country where blood was kept in
transit with glacier ice.
Seventy per cent of the donors
Saturday were women. One espec
ially deserves mention. She was Mrs.
Mike Little whose son, Laurence
Davison, with the First Marine Di
vision in Korea, was wounded in
combat on April 10. He suffered a
concussion while in action and re
ceived a Purple Heart — his second
battle wound award. Davison was in
the Marines before the war and was
recalled to active service. His wife
and seven-months-old baby live in
Seattle.
Mrs. M. O. Johnson, who was
chairman of the local Red Cross
blood doning program and Mrs
Kenneth Clem, today expressed their
deep gratitude to the many Juneau
ites who responded so willingly.
"It was truly wonderful,” Mrs.
Johnson said, “the way people kept
their appointments and their atti
tude of cheerful willingness. The
King County Bank Team said they
had never seen anything like it.”
Dr. William Blanton, chairman of
the Juneau Red Cross Chapter and
Mrs. Kenneth Clem, executive secre
tary, joined Mrs. Johnson, who was
blood bank chairman, in extending
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Marshall in Tokyo
Gen. George C. Marshall,. U. S. Defense Secretary, hat In hand, leaves
his plane on arrival at Haneda Airport near Tokyo after flying visit
to the Korean battlefront. Behind Marshall is Gen. Ridgway being
greeted by his attractive wife. Gen. Ridgway accompanied Marshall
to Korea. <#) Wircphto via radio from Tokyo.
Grazed Giant
Goes Berserk
Aboard Plane
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 11 —
I/O— A crazed giant went berserk in
an Alaska plane late Friday, at
tacked the pilot and wrecked the
cabin in a 20-minute reign of ter
ror.
The story of the man’s dangerous
rampage while a mile high in the
ai» waS told by the pilot, Don Hul
shizer, 32, after he landed his ship
here safely.
Fairbanks police and an ambu-,
lance crew, responding to Hulshiz
er’s emergency radio call, overpow
ered the raging, 6-foot, 200-pound
passenger at the airport.
But before they could shackle him,
the man disrobed on t,he field, threw i
his shoes at the police officers and
damaged two parked planes with a
large pipe.
In Padded Cell
Identified as William Henry Miles,
31, Fairbanks, he was put in a pad
ded cell at the Federal Jail. •
Hulshizer said he picked up Miles
and his wife at Arctic Circle Hot
Springs in Interior Alaska. They
were the only persons aboard the
nine-passenger Wein Alaska Air
lines transport.
Miles, who was being brought to
Fairbanks for mental treatment, re
mained calm and normal until 20
minutes before the end of the flight.
Then, said Hulshizer, he walked sud
denly to the pilot’s compartment
and shouted:
“Do you believe in God?"
“Yes,” Hulshizer replied.
Sent Sprawling
“Well get out of that seat and let
God fly,” cried Miles as he lunged
at the controls and grabbed the
wheel.
Hulshizer wrested the controls out
of Miles’ hands and sent him sprawl
ing into the empty co-pilot’s seat,
smashing the clipboard holding the
flight records.
The crazed man then ran back to
the cabin, grabbed some canned
goods being shipped to Fairbanks,
smashed three windows, and hit Hul
shizer over the head with some of
the cans. After that, he began
throwing packages and freight over
board through the shattered win
dows.
“I didn’t try to stop him,” said
Hulshizer. “He was awful big and
I was glad enough to have him leave
me alone the rest of the way.”
Mrs. Miles was unscathed dur
ing her husband’s frenzy, but was
unable to calm him.
June 12
Low tide . 1.00 a.m. 5.2 ft.
High tide .6:37 a.m. 12.5 ft.
Low tide ... 1.09 p.m. 2.8 ft.
High tidp . 7:43 p.m. 13.9 ft.
REDS PULL
BACK FROM
TWO BASES
Tanks Rumble Into South
ern Anchors of Com
mie Iron Triangle
By Associated Press
United Nations tanks rumbled to
day into Chorwon and Kumhwa,
southern anchors of the Commua
ists’ iron triangle in North Korea.
The enemy pulled back toward
Pyonggang, apex of the triangle 20
miles north of the 38th Parallel,
abandoning huge stacks of equip
ment.' «
Lt. Oen. James A. Van Fleet, UN
ground commander, had announced
“final seizure" of the Communist
assembly area last night, but Chor
won and Kumhwa were not taken
until today. ,
The victory, after a bitter eight
day battle, underlined statements
by Defense Secretary Marshall ill
Tokyo that the Chinese Reds “have
got themselves Into a difficult sit
uation.” But Marshall added he did
not expect any Chinese peace move
soon. He told newsmen he couldn't
conceive of an indefinite stalemate
in Korea, but he expressed no opti
mism about an early end to the
war.
Thick Carpets of Mines
Oreek, Turkish, Phlllippine and
Thai troops accompanied the lum
bering tanks that entered Chorwon
and Kumhwa over thick carpets of
mines. The infantry fought over
the last hills that barred the way
to the sprawling Pyonggang valley.
The flat valley lands, controlling the
Central Korean road network, are
perfect tank territory.
40,000 Reds Killed
Van Fleet said the Reds sacri
ficed about 40,000 troops in the last
10 days in an attempt to keep the
UN forces out of the area that had
served as the fountainhead of two
Communist spring offensives.
The only place along the entire
front where Red resistance had not
weakened was east of the Hwachon
Reservoir. AP Correspondent George
A. MacArthur noted that Allied
troops in this sector are fighting
through some of the heaviest Red
Artillery and mortar barrages since
the fighting around the Pusan Peri
meter.
While the fighting went on in
Korea, these were global develop
ments elsewhere:
Moscow — Russia demanded that
all the nations who fought Japan In
World War II be invited to a peace
conference in July or August. The
Russians want Communist China at
such a parley. The Soviet demand
was made in a note which replied
to an American message of May
19 inviting the Russians to take part
in negotiations on a draft treaty
proposed by the U. S.
Tehran — Iran replied to Presi
dent Truman’s appeal for modera
tion and negotiation in the na,i^ori
alization of Iran’s oil industry. Con
tents of the reply were not disclosed
immediately. This development came
as New Britlsh-Iranlan talks were
about to start.
FROM SITKA
Jane Bacon of Sitka is stopping
at the Oastineau Hotel.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperature (or 34-Hour Period •
• ending 6:30 o’clock this morning •
• In Juneau — Maximum, •
• 52; minimum, 48. •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 52; minimum. 50. •
• - •
• FORECAST •
• Cloudy with light rain and •
• northeasterly winds as high •
• as 25 MPH tonight and Tues- •
• day. Lowest temperature to- •
• night about 48 deg. Highest •
• Tuesday near 55 degrees. •
• PRECIPITATION •
e (Past 34 hours ending 7:30 a m, today •
• City of Juneau — .61 inches; •
• Since June 1 — 2.84 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 75 03 inches. •
• At Airport — .31 inches; •
• Since June 1 — 1 48 Inches; •
• Since July 1 — 42.89 inches. •