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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,892
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1951
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Price Control Tying
Up 70 Fish Buying Scows
Some 70 fish buyers' scows are
being pulled in from the fishing
grounds in Southeastern Alaska
today.
This word was received here by
Andy Barlow, executive secretary
of the United Trollers of Alaska.
The news came from the princi
pal fishing ground buyers at Ket
chikan, who said that due to reg
ulations placed upon them by the
Office of Price Stabilization, they
would be unable to meet the un
ion’s price of 27 Vk cents a pound
for cohoes.
"This means,” Barlow said,
“that the buyers on the fishing
grounds have been forced out
of business for the remainder
of the season which does not
close until Sept. 20.”
No Minimums
Barlow said that under this
year's contract between the trol
lers and the fish buyers no mini
mum prices were set due to the
Office of Price Stabilization being
uncertain whether or not a ceil
ing price would be placed on fresh
and frozen fish.
Later both the buyers and trol
lers were notified that no ceil
ing would be placed on canned
salmon in Alaska for 1951 due
to the lateness of the season.
Barlow1 said.
On May 1 the buyers and fish
ermen met in Juneau to sign a
contract basing the prices of sal
mon on the competitive board at
Ketchikan which w»uld be the
minimum prise paid la .all South
eastern ports. The contract pro
vided for a differential of one
half 'cent less north of Wrangell
and four cents less on large red
salmon and three cents le,^5 on
all other -salmon as a packing
charge from the grounds to the
docks.
"Up to this time the trollers
have been receiving 27 cents on
the dock for cohoes, making the
fishing ground price 24 cents,”
Barlow said. “The heavy runs of
cohoes have created a difficult
situation for the fresh fish buyers
who in the past have had a fair
market for frozen cohos.
“With the demand for canned
fish and higher marketing con
ditions, the buyers have been
forced to turn over the bulk of
these fish to the canneries at
cost price.
“Then like a thunder bolt the
Office of Price Stabilization chan
ges its mind and notifies the
dealers that a ceiling price on all
canned salmon in Alaska is in ef
fect and a roll back on red sal
mon from $29 to $24 a case.
“Naturally this decision so late
in the season upset the buyers’
operations,” Barlow declared.
The union secretary pointed
out that thousands of cases of
salmon have already been put
up by the canners and placed
the ground buyers in a position
where it was impossible for
them to meet OPS demands
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TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Ed. Note — Drew Pearson is
on another tour of Europe,
studying: conditions there dur
ing this period of world tension
and crisis. Herewith is another
of his cabled dispatches from
Europe.)
BERLIN. — I have just spent
an evening behind the Iron Cur
tain. It’s not hard to do here in
Berlin where no guards patrol the
line between the Russian and Am
erican sectors and where, if you
flash a White House press card
and look reasonably important,
you can attend even the most ex
clusive of the Communist youth
shows.
Berlin tonight is a city of
vivid dramatic contrast — miles
of bunting and flags everywhere,
Ilags of every nation but partic
ularly and ironically the flags of
peace. Sandwiched in between al
most every national flag is the
blue and white emblem of peace.
Standing out against the gaunt
bomb-gutted ruins of Berlin, they
made a genuine appeal to the
tired population which never
wants to see war again.
There were other contracts. A
Czech youth orchestra in immac
ulate blue and white uniforms
played before the pillars of Ber
lin’s bombed-out opera house. They
played well and sang well. At one
side stood shiny new Czech buses
made in the Skoda Munitions
Works. One thousand of these
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Free Show Given
For Junior Trout
Derby Entrants
Prizes in the Junior Trout Der
by will be awarded at 9:15 o’clock
Thursday night between shows at
the 20th Century theatre, it was
announced today by the board of
directors of the Territorial Sports
men, Inc. who sponsored the event.
All 300 entrants will be guests
of the Sportsmen to attend the
show. Names of those who signed
up will be on file at the box of
fice.
The theatre management has
arranged two special features, Mag
gie and Jiggs in “Jack Pot Jitters
and a western, “Bells of San Fer
nando Valley.” The first show will
begin at 7:10 p.m. and the second
show about 9:30 o’clock.
B. F. Dunn will preside as mas
ter of ceremonies assisted by Jim
Orme. The derby was Orme's idea.
In addition to a bicycle, sleep
ing bag. camera, passes to the
theaters, and fishing outfits, two
additional prizes have been do
nated by individuals.
Tire derby closed last Sunday.
1,800 Pounds of
Crab Wing South;
3,000 Tomorrow
The Olympic Seafood Co., in
Douglas begrn Sunday to make re
gular shipments of fresh crab from
Juneau to Seattle by Pan American
. World Airways, Clarence Taylor,
superintendent, said today.
A thousand pounds of crab in
•special four-layer paper bags went
out Sunday and 3,000 pounds are
scheduled for shipment tomorrow.
The crabs are chemically treated
with a preservative in the cooking
water and dressed in order to
reach Seattle markets in the best
condition.
At present five persons are em
ployed by Olympic in the Douglas
| cannery which has been leased by
I the company for its operations. Next
' week Taylor expects to add 12 pick
i ers, he said.
Two boats are now supplying the
operation but it is expected more
will be added before long. Investi
gations have proved that crab areas
within 125 miles of Douglas will sup
port a 15-crab fleet, Hiram McAllis
ter, president of Olympic has stated.
It is expected that shrimping
operations will be carried on by
the company in connection with
the crabbing.
McAllister credits C. L. Ander
son, director of the Alaska Depart
ment of Fisheries, as being instru
mental in bringing the operation
to the Gastineau Channel area.
Cooperation of Pan American
Airways through the 5-cent-per
pound rate in lots of 1,000 pounds
or more, has made the air shipment
possible. The new rate was effective
last Sunday.
Early Pink Run
rapering Off in
Southeast Alaska
The early pink salmon run
seems to be tapering off in South
eastern Alaska, Seton Thompson
head of the Alaska fisheries ol
the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice said today.
He returned Sunday on the ser
vice vessel Brant from an inspec
tion of salmon runs in South
eastern-Alaska.
The first of last week the runs
were good, Thompson said, but
apparently the early run is about
over. Late salmon runs generally
start the last of August.
“Of course, it is too early to
predict anything on that run,”
Thompson said.
He will remain in the Territory
until the end of the fishing sea
son and will then return to h's
headquarters in Washington, D. C.
JOHN CLARKS ARRIVE
TO VISIT DAUGHTER
Mr. and Mrs. John Clark of
Phoenix, Ariz, arrived on the
Princess Norah Saturday to visit
their daughter, Mrs. George Rog
ers and her family. This is the
Clark’s first visit to Alaska and
they plan to return south in two
weeks.
CHRIS DAHL IS HERE
Chris Dahl, Petersburg cannery
man, is stopping at the Baranof Ho
tel.
Wrong Drug
Dr. Louis F. Mirhalek, 28. told a
coroner's jury at Vermillion, 8. D.,
that he injected the wrong: drug
into two laboratory employees at
the University of South Dakota.
The "human guinea pigs” died
following the injections. The
young doctor said he was per
forming an expert intent testing
the effects of sedatives as pain
controllers. Iff) Wirephoto.
Helicopter to
Join Air Search
Beaches have now become the
areas being searched by Air Force
aircraft for the missing Canadian
Pacific Airlines C-54 transport and
the long overdue Arctic Institute
Norseman, according to information
received at U. S. Coast Guard
headquarters here today.
Eight aircraft, including one heli
copter, were ready on a “weather
permitting” basis to resume the
search out of Yakutat and Anchor
age today .
Yesterday one plane made a short
flight from Yakutat to Dry Bay
to comb the beaches.
A full report of Sunday’s activities
showed that four aircraft flying
21 hours achieved 80 percent cov
erage of beaches north of Yakutat
to Yakataga and to Cordova.
The C-54, a Tokyo bound trans
port with 38 persons aboard disap
peared off Cape Spencer July 20
and the Norseman has been missing
since July 28 with Mrs. Walter A.
Wood and her daughter Valerie. It
was piloted by Alaskan bush pilot
Maurice King.
Fourth Body
Recovered in
Bush Plane Crash
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 21—
i/PI—A 10th Air Rescue Squadron
ground crew yesterday found the
bodies of four men killed last Wed
nesday when their light plane
crashed in a dead end canyon 25
miles from Talkeetna.
The rescuers, who earlier had re
ported only three bodies had been
located, radioed the body of the
fourth victim was found in the plane
wreckage.
Glen Hudson, veteran Alaska bush
flier, piloted the single-engined
Cessna plane. His passengers were
Elmer (Red) Wolford and his two
sons, Larry Lee and Steven.
Two Fly In from
Juneau Icecap
Two members of the Juneau IceT
cap Research Project who had com
pleted their studies for this yeai
on th^ ice field, left Juneau today
for their homes.
Richard Zoerb of Golden, Colo.,
geologist from the Colorado School
of Mines, and Calvin Heusser, bot
anist from the faculty of Oregon
State College at Corvallis, flew in
yesterday with Kenneth Lokken in
his ski-equipped small plane.
They said that the expedition
would continue for two or three
more weeks and that Maynard Mill
er was expected to return from
Greenland within the next week.
Miller is in charge of the project.
MRS. RANSOME’S
SISTER VISITS HERE
Miss Margaret Abbey of Oak-i
land, Calif, arrived here Saturday
to visit for two weeks with her
sister, Mrs. A1 Ransom,?. She is
planning a trip to Taku Arm and
will leave Tuesday on the Prin
cess Louise for Skagway. Miss Ab
bey visited here two years ago.
She is associated with Moore Bus
iness Forms Co. in Oakland.
Price Ceilings
Clamped on Retail
Services in Alaska
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 — —
Territories and possessions of the
United States today were included
in the coverage of the price ceilings
on all retail services.
The Office of Price Stabilization
regulation covers such businesses
as repair shops, laundries and dry
cleaners, bowling alleys and other
activities involving the sale of
services instead of goods.
The regulation after August 25,
will apply to Alaska, Guam, Hawaii,
Puerto Rico, Samoa and the Virgin
Islands. In general, the ceilings are
the same as those fixed under the
general price freeze of last Jan. 26.
Prices must be filed and posted
within 30 days after the seller de
termines his legal price.
Truman Indicates
Fight for Needed
Inflation Controls
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 — —
President Truman indicated today
he is about to open a new fight to
get from Congress the price and
other control powers he says are
needed to combat inflation.
At a White House meeting, the
President asked his National Ad
visory Board on Mobilization Policy
for advice on a message to Con
gress asking stronger control author
ity.
When Mr. Truman signed the
present law on July 31, he de
nounced it as inadequate and served
notice he would ask Congress later
for changes.
$400 MUHon Flood
Insurance Program
Asked of Congress
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (a*) —
President Truman has asked Con
gress for $400,000,000 to help the
flood-battered middle west and to
finance a new national flood disas
ter insurance program.
He told Congress in a message
last night the situation was a "grave
emergency" and asked that the
money be provided as quickly as
possible.
Vice President Barkley promptly
referred the request jointly to the
Senate Public Works and Appro
priations committees to speed ac
tion. Ordinarily each would study
the matter separately.
Statehood Bills
Sidetracked Until
Session Next Year
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—W*—
Senator McFarland (D-Arlz), Dem •
ocratic Senate floor leader, indi
cated today that bills proposing
to admit Alaska and Hawaii to
statehood will be sidetracked un
til next year.
Senator Wherry (R-Neb) asked
McFarland whether he intended
to call the measures up for action
before the Oct. 1 adjournment
date for which the Democratic
leader is shooting.
“If they are,” the Arizona Sen
ator replied, "we are not going to
adjourn Oct. 1.”
Bills not passed at this session
still will be eligible for a vote af
ter Congress reconvenes in Jan
uary.
AUDITOR HERE
J. W. Van Horn, auditor with Ar
thur Anderson and Co., of Seattle,
came in yesterday on PAA and is
at the Baranof Hotel.
•
• WEATHER REPORT
• (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
• ending 8:20 o’clock this morning
• At Airport—Maximum, 55;
• minimum, 48.
•
• FORECAST
• (Juneau and Vicinity)
• Partly cloudy tonight and
I • Wednesday with increasing
| • cloudiness Wednesday after
• noon and rain by Wednesday
• evening. Lowest temperature
• tonight near 50. Highest Wed
• nesday about 64.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hours ending 7 30 a m. today
• At Airport — .41 Inches;
• since July 1—4.94 inches.
• •••••••••
Towers in Microwave System
Here are two types of towers used in a $40,000,000 microwave radio
beam system spanning thle continent which goes into operation for
long distance telephone service. One hundred and seven towers, some
of steel, some of concrete, span the continent from New York to
San Francisco. Tower at left is near Salt Lake City, one at right
is between Chncago and Des Moines. The system will carry coast
lo-roast television after September. I If) Wirephoto.
Scrap iron from Gold
Rush Days Prospected in
Nome; 2*000 Tons Unloaded
Thousands of
West Coast
Acres Aflame
New Blazes Started as
' Lightning Cracks Through
Huge Timber Stands
(By The Associated Press)
Fires cracked through timber and
brush lands off the Pacific Coast
states today. More than 75 blazes,
many of them major fires, gnawed •
into huge timber stands.
California reported a total of 25,
000 acres blackened since fires broke
out over the weekend. Lightning
started an additional 24 new blazes
last night. In the Klamath National
Forest two ires were burning over
3,200 acres. Forty-five smaller blazes
were reported*
To the north in Oregon, some 10,
000 acres were charred by one single
fire. That was in the Vincent Creek
area between Eugene and Coos Bay.
The blaze has been out of control
since Friday.
The Federal Forest Service used
smoke jumpers yesterday to fight
26 fires that broke out in the Rogue
River National Forest of Southern
Oregon.
A blaze in the wooded area north
west of Portland was in a morning
calm as winds died down and the
situation looked better. Twelve fam
ilies were evacuated from their fire
threatened suburban homes last
night.
Yesterday Washington State had
29 new fires. All were controlled ex
cept one of 100 acres in Cowlitz
County near Toutle and one of CO
acres southeast of Chehalis.
Jury of 12 Finds
fishermen Guilty
In Petersburg
After being out only about 15
minutes a Jury of 12 persons in
Petersburg yesterday found the
seiner Katie guilty of fishing in
a closed area.
U. S. Commissioner Dale Hirt
fined the captain, Lloyd Davis
♦775 and crew members Leonard
Skeek, $375; William Beezley,
♦425; David Thomas $375; and Ar
chie Cavanaugh $375. William
Paul, Jr. represented the defend
ants in court.
. The boat was apprehended Aug.
13 In St. John’s Bay, in Rocky
Pass by an agent of the Fish and
Wildlife Service. Its home port is
Kake.
. U. S. Attorney Stanley Baskin
prosecuted the case for the gov
ernment.
SEATTLE, Aug. 21—UR— Heavy
chunks of scrap Iron, dating back
to 50 years to the gold rush, were
being unloaded'in Seattle on' Mon
day, shipped here from Alaska as
raw material for war production.
An estimated 2.000 tons of the
scrap metal, gathered in the Nome
area by Charles Esch, Seattle
scrap iron “prospector,” made up
the shipment, brought here aboard
an LST for Bethlehem Pacific
Steel Corp.
Esch, who guards the location
of the scrap metal as though it
were the gold for which he once
mined in Alaska, said there is
at least from 3,000 to 5,000 more
tons lying abandoned within a
100-mile radius of Nome.
"You can trice the evolution of
mining equipment from the gold
rush days up to the present in
the stuff you find,” he said.
Esch explained that much of it
would have to be piled up in the
fall, then carried out over the
snow on sleds. Abandoned army
equipment In the Aleutians is be
ing picked over for the defense
effort, he said.
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Fire Insurance
Underwriter
Inspects City
O. G. Hoass, San Francisco en
gineer for the Board of Fire Under
writers of the Pacific, left Juneau
today for Anchorage after spending
a week grading Juneau’s fire pro
tection facilities to establish base
insurance rates.
He conferred with Mayor Waino
Hendrickson and spent a good deal
of time with Fire Chief Minarri
Mill Inspecting equipment and fire
hazards. Hoaas praised Mill and the
Juneau Volunteer Fire Department
but said that more modern equip
ment would be needed to lower the
city from its present Class 6 to a
Class 5 rating.
A
Ship Movements
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive from Vancouver this evening
at 7 o’clock sailing for Skagway at
11:30 •'clock.
Aleutian due to arrive southbound
time time Saturday.
Denali due southbound Friday at
1 am.
Freighter Square Knot in port.
Alaska scheduled to arrive north
sound some time Saturday.
PAYROLL CHECKS
%T GUARD HEADQUARTERS
Payroll checks for Headquarters,
Headquarters and Service Company,
208 Infantry Battalion, Alaska Na
tional Guard, have arrived and may
be picked up at the organization’s
office at the subport, it was an
nounced today .
FROM GOLOVIN
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron W. Leno of
Oolovin, are at the Hotel Juneau.
U. S. Must Keep Large Armies
Overseas, Says Dewey;
He's 'Always for Statehood'
Pop Was Right
• MISHAWAKA, Ind., Aug. 21 •
• —(if)—"This is going to hurt mo •
• worse than it hurts you,” said •
• Ellsworth B. Wilson as he start- •
• ed spanking his 10-year-old •
• son, Ellsworth, Jr., for disobed- •
• ience. It did. • j
• During the spanking yester- •
• day, the 43-year-old father •
• knocked over a lamp and suf- •
• fered a head cut. He was treat- •
• ed in a Mishawaka hospital. •
• Young Ellsworth's injuries •
• were not visible. •
Hurricane
Adds New
Strength
130-Mile Winds Expect
ed on Central Mexican
Coast and Oil Fields
MEXICO City, Aug. 21—(if)—A
refortified tropical hurricane with
a- 130-mile-an-hour wind wallop
stormed through the southwest
Gulf of Mexico today toward the
central Mexican coast and its oil
fields.
Overnight It had regained
most of the force with which it I
raked Jamaica last Friday and
took 135 tl-c-;.
Along Mexico’s tropical eastern
shore on the Oulf, Tampico and !
Vera Cruz, the country's two big
gest ports, took precautions.
But the hurricane—if it kept
its present course during the
day—was due to hit the main
land about halfway between the
ports between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.
(EST). Both expected to be on
the outer fringes of the storm.
The weather bureau said the
full force was headed for the Tux
pan-Nautla area.
Tuxpan is an oil port of about
13,000 population about 135 miles
up the coast from Vera Cruz.
Nautla is a small town on the
coast between Tuxpan and Vera
Cruz.
The big blow swept across Ja- ,
maica Friday, then hit the Yuca
tan Peninsula- of Mexico yesterday.
It lost force over the sparsely
settled land and headed across
Campeche Bay in the southwest
gulf. The Mexican weather bur
eau said it picked up new force
last night.
Taft a 'Communist
Organizer/ Asserts
AFL President
WASHINGTON. Aug. 21.— Wl —
New blasts at Senator Taft (R
Ohlo) and the Haft-Hartley Act
indicate some top labor leaders may
be getting ready to throw their
strength behind a Democratic Presi- j
dential candidate again in 1952.
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor sur
prised some Republicans by linking
an attack on the Taft-Hartley Act
with an assertion in an Atlanta
speech yesterday that Taft himse'f
is "an organizer of Communism in
America.’’
Condemning the labor act os
an "insult to the working people
of America,” Green said the law
of which Taft was one of the prin
cipal authors “has made people re
sentful and may turn their faces
toward Communism.”
Dan Tobin, president of the AFL
teamsters, predicted in a union pub
lication that Taft and President
Truman will be the nominees of
their respective parties. He said Taft
is “an honorable man” but holds
"antagonism to labor.”
DIVORCE FILED
A divorce action was filed in U.
S. District Court today by Oerald
ine Wood McConnel against Paul
I. McConnel.
They were married in Wilder, Ida
ho on Sept. 26, 1931. The plaintiff
charges incompatibility.
The couple have two grown child
ren who make their home with their
* mother.
America must keep large stand
ing armies indefinitely in Asia
and Western Europe for our own
protection" according to New
York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, who
arrived in Juneau this afternoon
by air to begin a week's tour of
the Territory.
The Republican party leader is
on the last leg of an eight-week
tour of the Far East and Pacific
areas, during which he has sur
veyed conditions as they pertain
to the present world crisis.
With a party of three, he was
met by Gov. and Mrs. Ernest
Gruening and a group of Alaska
GOP leaders. An Alaska National
Guard 'honor guard saluted the
visitor as he alighted.
He shook hands all around and
was affable until questioned con
cerning political developments in
his party.
“I’m not talking politics,” he
said abruptly, and walked away.
Later, in a "running” comment
which came up as he hurried into
the airport administration building,
he said, in answer to a direct ques
tion:
"I’ve always been for statehood
for Alaska."
Party members who met the Pan
American World Airways plane and
who have not always shared the
governor’s views regarding state
hood, were:
Mr. and Mrs. A1 White, grand
counsel and national committee
woman; Elton Engstrom, national
committeeman, and Fred Eastaugh,
R. E. Robertson and H. L. Faulk
ner.
Accompanying Dewey were Ray L
Borst^ reporter for the Buffalo Ev
ening News, Buffalo, New York;
Paul E. Lockwood, secretary to the
governor and E. M. Galvin, security
man. . . . , ....
Channel residents are invited
to be guests of the governor
and Mrs. Gruening at a public
reception tonight at 9 o’clock
at the Governor's House to meet
the Detvey party. A dinner will
precede the reception.
Tomorrow Dewey will be flown
to points in Southeastern Alaska
to view the salmon runs apd scen
ic places of interest. Ketchikan
and Sitka will be included in the
trip. Friday noon he will speak to
the Juneau Chamber of Commerce
and in the afternoon depart for
Anchorage. Governor Griitining
and aide, Capt. Don Morrison will
accompany Dewey on his Alaska
tour.
The Anchorage Republican Club
has scheduled a breakfast for the
head of their party on Saturday
morning after which Dewey will
be taken on an Inspection trip to
military installations in the area.
Sunday he will be flown to
Kotzebue to be guest of honor
at the dedication of the newly
completed airport there and the
return trip will be made via
Fairbanks, if agreeable to Dewey,
Gruening said.
Monday afternoon Dewey will
be taken to view the Matanuska
Valley and in the evening will
be a guest of the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce at dinner.
A public reception will follow
with the chamber as host.
The two-time presidential nom
inee said last night in Seattle that
his impression of Alaska's import
ance in world affairs was accen
ted by his tour of Far East trouble
spots.
He said he came here In re
sponse to a long-standing invita
tion from Gov. Gruening.
"I always said 1 wanted to see
the Territory when I had the
chance,” he commented. "I have
it now.”
Sees Peace Offensive
Dewey described hts trip to the
Orient as "non-political'' and per
sonal because of his keen interest
in world affairs. He expressed the
opinion in Seattle that Russia
may wage a two-^ear peace of
fensive so it can go on "picking
daisies." He explained that he re
ferred to long-range Soviet aims
for expansion in Asia.
He said Europe and Asia can
not be considered separately and
critical decisions throughout the
Far East in the next few months
“may decide whether we will live
in a free world five years hence.”
Dewey said that no one nation
alone can save the free world.
“It will take a cooperative,
unified effort”
The Republican leader arrived
at the Seattle-Tacoma Interna
tional Airport from Honolulu and
met by his long-time friend. (
Washington’s Republican Gov. Ar
thur B. Langlie. He was an over
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