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Sunrise Thursday a.m., sunset 8:58 p.m. VOLUME xxix, NO. iso FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1951 Copy PEACE CONFERENCE DEADLOCKED If eavy Guard is Reported A huge payroll for Bielson Air Force base, believed to amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, was transported to the base under heavy guard this week, after reports were heard that an attempt might made to hold up the guard and steal the money, the News-Miner learned today. Military officials did not reveaJ how large the payroll shipment of cash amounted to, but it is known that the total base payroll amounts to a million and a half dollars monthly. Elaborate Plans When" military guards and vehicles arrived at the Bank of Fairbanks to pick up the cash, elaborate plans were made to block any attempt to seize the money.

The huge sum of money was placed in a truck, under very heavy Army guard and at the city limits highway patrol vehicles met the saravan heading back to Eielson Air Force base. As the truck carrying the cash Pioneers Set Plans for Big Caravan To Dawson Gold Rush Celebration Author Joins Pioneers for Historic Trek Local House Built on City Street Highway Reported Ready for Travel. To Capital City and the United States will 'gather in Dawson Discovery Day, Aug. 17, to celebrate the anniversary of the discovery 6f gold In the Klondike. A huge caravan of automobiles will carry a large delegation from Fairbanks to the his- moved along the highway, radio- equipped patrol cars proceeded toric city for the occasion.

ahead and behind the convoy. Final plans for the big caravan head car reported by radio whenever an automobile was -sighted on the highway, or parked beside the road. Soldiers with automatic rifles stood guard on the trucks with the money, and on vehicles around it. No Attempt However, the precautions were not needed, as no attempt was made seize money on the 26-mile 'trip to Eielson. Army and air force officials today mum on the subject, and did "not state where or when they had lieen informed of a plot to steal the huge payroll.

However, the pre- By JEM DOUTHIT Should the house get out of the street of should the -street get out of the yard? That appeared to be one of the major questions brought before the city council at the Monday evening meeting. City Manager Irving Call introduced the problem when he asked that the council consider the odd Sourdoughs and pioneers from all! re ues Arthur Snow. His ctotoc questj origma uy brought'before the council at the last was for a cash settlement in payment for an alleged encroachment of Clay street on his property. He claimed that the street went through his Engineer Investigates The original request was put over to Monday night's meeting in order that the city engineer might investigate the The City Engineer, Thomas Eynck. checked the street in question and found that it did encroach upon the Snow property, lot 12, block 42.

Clay street ran into the Snoij? yard. Eynck also found, much to his surprise, that part of the Snow house were being made in Fairbanks today by members of the Pioneers of Alaska. The automobiles will leave Fairbanks Aug. 15, and travel to Dawson via the newly completed Taylor highway. All persons intending to join the caravan are asked to register with Eva McGown, at her desk in the Nordale Hotel, by Aug.

8. Truman Blasts Price Law as 'Worst Ever' Urges Congress To Pass Law With Stronger Control OLD historic city of Nome is losing an old scrap pile that has Uttered the waterfront for years. The scrap iron consists mainly of old pieces of machinery discarded by mining concerns. A Seattle firm has purchased this metal, and it is to be shipped to the States to be melted 'into new steel for the defense industry. (Photo by Jim Douthit) In addition to the many pioneers of Alaska, a prominent author lne 01 make the trek from Fairbanks to' the gold city.

Kathryn Winslow, who wrote "Big Pan Out," a story of the gold rush, today said she was mak- jjuee payrou. JIUWCVCA, wit to protect the money sent ing plans to leave with the caravan "to the base Monday were the most The author, whose story of the gold elaborate ever known here. While exact amount of the cash involved in the transfer was not known, estimates place it between $500,000 and a million and a half Collars. House Mix In Traffic Mishap; House Is Winner A Cadillac sedan and a log house tangled Tuesday evening. The house still standing, but the car had to be towed away.

Kay Simon, found in the drivers seat of the car, was drunken driving. A city policeman, investigating a call from Winn's service station reporting the occurrence, found the Cadillac had run into the front of -house at 630 Fourth avenue. A woman who gave her name as Kay Simon was at the wheel of the attempting to back it up. The lodged too tightly against Nthe house and would not move. The house, owned and occupied by Margaret -Seals, was knocked awry by the impact.

1 The 'officer arrested -the woman "on a charge of drunken driving 'after questioning her at the scene of Che rush has been translated into three languages, and is now a best selling book, is currently in Alaska gathering material for a new book to be published in 1953. She will take moving pictures of the event. The people of Dawson are preparing a. big welcome for the Alaska delegation. Reports from there said that the townspeople intended to go "all out" in showing the Alaska pioneers a big time.

(Continued on Page 4) City Seeks to Find Extent of Tax Cash The city of Fairbanks will know soon (how much money it can expect to take in from taxes. The city assessor has sent out 1500 declaration tax return forms which are to be filled out and returned by property owners before August 15. The forms are sent out each year prior to August 1 to enable the city to make out the yearly tax roll. The forms being received by taxpayers in the mail are different this year. Flyers have been tacked on the forms showing the taxpayer? the amount of their taxes'last year.

The additional information is for She taxpayers information and guidance. city's property encroached upon the city's street. The score: The city owes Snow 360 square Snow owes the city 400 square feet. Never Surveyed Eynck explained to the council members that the situation arose because the roadway had never -been surveyed. It has become a roadway through general usage.

He asked that he be allowed to resurvey and relocate the street. Th council found that such a step should straighten out the Snow property dispute, but that it would necessitate obtaining the permission of the voters to transfer the necessary small portions of property. Regular Election The council authorized the city manager- to prepare a referendum to be presented to the voters at the next regular election in October to do this. The referendum would authorize the transfer of the properties. The passage of Ordinance 522 which authorized the sale of Lot 2, Block 24 -to Neil Packer for $900, was held over until the next meet(Continued on Page 4) Acheson Flatly Rejects Red Demands for Border on 38lh Chamber Seeks Ban on Flying From (hena Near City Center WASHINGTON, Aug.

1. Secretary of State Acheson rejected flatly today the Communist pro that a buffer zone be set up in Korea along the 38th parallel. Acheson told a news conference the Reds wish to go back to a line he said that is not accept-j The defense department's weekly summary based on notificatioiib to families through last Friday reported: A motion, prohibiting the use of Ohena at the Cushman street bridge for airplane use, was unanimously passed by the chamber yesterday. Attention was called to the recent, qerious accident there, the dangers of Janding in such a confined space, closeness to Fairbanks homes, Che bridge and the hospital. Receives Letter letter, received by-Cecil Wells, 'chairman of the chamber aviation frorii.

Henry L. acting regional administrator for the pointed out that a seaplane landing area, Pike's Landing, ig now available at the Internation- al Airport. Traffic patterns for Japlanes have been incorporated into the general traffic patterns of the airport and, with the new access road's into the area, Pike's Landing is just as desirable as the Chena, the letter stated. The motion will be sent to the proper authorities. Pike's Landing, at the present time, is sufficiently large to take care of planes the size of those now using the Chena, and'is much safer according -to Bill Green, station manager for Northern Consolidated Air Lines in Fairbanks.

It is feasible to enlarge Pike's Landing to a 4,000 to 6,000 foot takeoff run without too much expense, thus allowing Norsemen, and other types of large float planes to land there. It would provide the only safe land facility for large float planes in the Fairbanks vicinity. ARC Rushing New Construction on Alaska Farm Roads Ken Goodson of the road- commission announces that work ha; been started on 24 miles of farm and industrial roads in the immediate vicinity of Fairbanks. The work will be rushed to completion as soon as possible. A serious fire near Tok has caused a construction set back on the highway in the Tok section.

An exploding tire on one, of the heavy trucks caused it to turn turtle and catch fire. Piling for four bridges was completely destroyed. The concrete has been poured on the Noyes Slough bridge connecting Garden Island with the Steese highway and College road, and the new bridge should be open for travel about August 25th, according to Mr Goodson. New Tenant Wilbur Bell Hardware company will move into the corner store by the closure of the -La-very Grocery it was reported today. The hardware company is now in the process of moving into the location at 2nd 'and Cushman.

It was not immediately known just how soon new store be open. Neither Side Will Budge From Demands on Buffer Zone Issue Each Side Making Lengthy Speeches in Attempt to End Discord; Reds Showing No Evidence of Weakening the Argument U.N ADVANCE HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Aug. United Nations and Communist truce teams again today refused to budge from their opposing stands on where to establish a buffer zone across Korea. Vice Admiral C. Turner'Joy, chief U.N.

delegate, talked for an hour and 13 minutes telling the Reds what was wrong with their demand. It was the longest speech that has been made in the 16 Kaesong cease-fire talks. The Communists want a buffer zone back along the 38tn parallel, tine old political boundary line between North, and South Ko- Cole Quits City Post rea. This is inferior terrain for mili- Itary defenses. "Since this is a military armistice," Joy told fire Red generals, "We are interested only in military reali- Another city officer submitted hisi The U.

N. insists tfhat the cease- R. R. fce jjg established along pres- where both armies Utilities, ent battle Battle Casualties Slight Rise WASHINGTON. Aug.

over which they launched an unprovoked start the Korean S. battle 80,079 today, an increase of 356 since last week. 'It was the smallest weekly rise since the first summary last August. WASHINGTON, Aug. President Truman prepared today; weefc to hammer again on congress doorj for a "Rood strong price control; controller for the ent battje wnere oma law" to replace' what he called me i submitted his resignation to the city be to good defensive posi- "deadent" act he signed last council at its last Tne res-; Mr.

Truman emphasized that he "Station be effective at the Understands Logic accepted the new. one-year of the wmiam p. Nuckols production worst I ever; August 20. The council accept i deputy rj. information of- had to because he could 6 resignation.

ificer, told a news conference: not risk the lapse of it's rent ceiling; Cole, who has held this position Ueut Nam and strong priority control clauses, jwith the Utilities system for abou see njed to understand the Good Bill year, resigned so -that- he Na tions position but couldn't But the bitterly disputed law a position witih more we used on the books, and its Republican: He holds the top position in his field Democratic backers defended i within the Utilities System The, delegates it against the angry White Housed controller checks and records the Nuckoh; said o. w. delegates Their views were and receipts of the were 31 up by the veteran GOP leader. Rep. tern.

Joy Patient Halleck who said: i Plans Vacation He reported Joy gave a "patient, I "It's a biU which, properly applied Mter his resignation from his pres-! logical detailed analysis and refu- iand administered, will effect con- ent position, Cole plans on a months tation" of the Red position, trol despite Mr. Truman's state-; vacat ion. He intends making Joy quoted a definition from toe mente." trip to New York and Los Angeles, Hague convention to emphasize the At the center of the storm. plans to visit his parents of the U. N.

position. The ael V. Disalle's office of price stab-jjus family in California. -Hague agreement says. pimiored! Dlans return to Fairbanks i "A military armistice is a suspen- wife and n-year-old son i sion of military operation by-mutual a short busing stop in Agreement between the belligerent? parties." ilization (OPS) hastily explored techniques for lifting price ceilings! Disalle ordered thousands that Secretary of De- able.

He added fense Marshall has made it entirely clear that any demarcation line must be a defensible line. Events have.shown, Acheson said, that this is not true of the 38th parallel. He declared that the talks now under way at Kaesong are essentially military talks, but that the Communists have been trying to use them for a political purpose. By this he apparently meant that instead of being willing to stop the fighting where the armies now are and where both sides would have strong defense positions, the Reds have tried to get all of North Korea again in Communist control while leaving the South to the allied forces. This would be a return to the situation which existed before the Communist assault last summer.

At the moment, truce talks seem to Last Week Killed in Action Wounded 55,597 Missing Total Battle Deaths (X) 13,340 Current Missing(Y) 10,634 Acheson said; be stalled. The negotiators have had several fruitless meetings. Acheson also said that Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway and his delegation 'to the Kaesong meetings have handled their share of the negotiations forcefully and soundly.

Truman signed the new measure. New Ceilings New ceilings, held back for a month during the congressional de- New Total items like radios, television sets, refrigerator and other home applian- ff ana liason Ollicer lor toe ces, shoes, cotton on 55,898 -1 356- 80,079 56 301 67 13,407 -10 10,624 (X) Includes killed in action, 1357 fatally wounded and 117 originally reported missing. (Y) After deducting from gross total 1,348 returned, 159 known captured and 117 known dead. Ren ton Men Die In Auto Tragedy RENTON, Aug. 1.

Two Renton men were killed yesterday when their car swerved out of control into a ditch and smashed upside down against a. telephone pole. They were Peter W. TacKell, 26, and Arne 27. A third man, Delbert Underwood, 23, also of Renton, was hospitalized with serious leg ant head injuries.

origi price agoodlynum.i a wa ber of roll-forwards-into effect last; controller. night in the final hours before Mr, Before accepting his present position, he was a special agent with the Treasury Department intelligence unit and the West Coast auditor-in-charge with ing administration, war he was chief During the last internal auditor and Uason officer for the Firestone ials Books ved By rushing the orders out last Besides his resignation. Cole pre- night OPS avoided -the immediate sented the council with the Utilities necessity of rewriting the ceilings to (Continued on Page 4) conform to the new act, which entitles each manufacturer to pass on to buyers his full business cost increases up to July 26. Individual price adjustments must now be made. Sheep Killing Grizzly Bites Dust in Wild Ranch Melee BURNS LAKE, B.

Aug. dashed for the corral. Old Red Red, the sheep-killing grizzly bear of the. Cariboo, is dead. A rancher's quick old Red's appetite for him in.

Fanners of the interior British Columbia area laid the slaughter of 29 sheep in two- months to the roan-colored varmint. Cyril. Shelf ord and Old Red met face to face Monday night when the rancher went to drive a flock of sheep to the corral. Shelford had only a short club for a weapon. He threw it at the menacing bruin.

followed before he could slam -the gate. With his footwork. failing him, Shelford resorted to headwork. He sprinted toward an injured ram, hoping it would divert Old Red. It did.

bear stopped and killed it. Shelford reached the house, and returned with a rifle. He 20 shots into Old Red before the beast fell dead on- its final charge. Shelford has ,3. collection.of claws as a souvenir.

Bach, is more than three inches long-. Searchers Fail to Find Objects Reported VANCOUVER, B. Aug. W) and air search has failed to find "yellow objects" reported sighted off "the. Alaskan coast in the hunt for the missing Canadian airlift plane.

A S. air force plane spotted the objects late Monday night. The pilot 'reported they looked like life- rafts or lifebelts. The. big plane bound for Tokyo with 38 aboard disappeared July 21.

The-U. S. coast guard cutter Storis made a wide sweep of the area, 30 miles south of Yakutat, but reported "negative the R.C.AJ 1 announced today. Planes also the area without result. Nineteen aircraft participated in the hunt yesterday, and Soldier Fined Robert E.

Thomas, Ladd air force base employee, was fined $100 in U.S. commissioner's court today for operating a gambling game at Ladd. Air policement arrested the civilian employee for conducting.a game of "Twenty-One" in military barracks. 21 were scheduled search today. to resume the Baseball Scores AMERICAN Detroit 9, New York 8 (1st game).

(2 nighters). NATIONAL Chicago 3, New York 2. (1st). Cincinnati 1 Philadelphia 0. Rogato Reaches Vancouver on Flight to Homeland VANCOUVER, B.

Aug. -Ada Rogato. -who has seen both i-ungle and tundra roll under "her plane since she left her Brazilian home four months ago, has arrived here on a goodwill mission that already has covered 15,000 miles. The 28-year-old aviator from Sao Paulo, Brazil, traveling alone, is on a tour of the Americas in a light plane donated by- the Brazilian government. She started from Rio De Janeiro, flying to the west coast of South America, then headed she got as far as Fort-Yukon on the Arctic Circle in Alaska.

Now, Miss Rogato says, she's on her. way home, via an indirect route. She plans to head her plane for san Francisco today. Late News PLAN SHELTERS to authorize" civil defense administration to waive a requirement that Alaska, match equally federal funds for raid shelters was approved today by a house armed services subcommittee. Civil defense authorities in Alaska propose construction, of a number of large underground shelters, costing- about $5,000,000 each, to care for 20,000 persons in an emergency.

LADD CONTRACT LET Kiewit Sons Co, submitted bid more than $1,000,000 under the government estimate yesterday for constructing outside utilities at Ladd air force base in Alaska. The Kiewit bid was 58,493,313. PUBLISHER FOUND DEAD GIRARD, E. Haldeman-Jullus, 62, nationally known book publisher who was under federal sentence for income tax evasion, was found dead in a swimming pool at his borne last night. Dr.

Rinehart, coroner, performed an autopsy-and death was caused by accidental drowning-. publisher's nude body was found by his wife, Sue. "CLAMPv DOWN ON TARIFFS (fP) Truman today ordered-tariff concessions for Red China and some other Communist-controlled areas suspended effective August 31. The areas affected in addition to Communist China: are. Albania, Estonia', Soviet controlled Germany, any part of Indo-China under Bed domination.

Communist Korea, the. Rurile. Islands, Latvia, Lithuania, Outer Mongolia, Romania, southern Sakhalin and Tanni Tuva..