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The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
fl Dead in Seattle Plane Accident
Medium Bomber
 Crashes Apartment; Nine in Grew Killed

SEATTLE, Aug. -Charred smoldering rubble and melted meta marked the pyre today where al least II persons were consumed ir gasoline-fed flames spewed out from a crashed B-50 Air Force bomber.
 Those who lived remembered the hot breath of death that swept through the hillside apartment house into which the medium bomber plunged yesterday afternoon moments after taking off on a rou- tine check-out flight.
 Dozens of persons in Seattle's south end industrial section saw the doomed plane suddenly lose altitude from TOO feet up and veer off sharply to the right
 Hit Apartments
 A wing dipped violently, the B-5C flicked against the side of a brewery then plowed into the frame ano brick Lester Apartments on the hill behind.
 The noise was so loud thought it was a jet coming" re- called Fred PrOut, who was below the residential hill. Then I saw it, the wings at a 90-degree angle to the ground--straight up and down." In the next instant it struck and burst into flames.
 Six of the dead were members of the planes crew--three Air Force men and three flight analysts from the nearby Boeing Airplane Con- .pany, maker of the B-50. The other five known victims were dwellers in the 4a-unit apartment house whose entire north end was destroyed.
 Still Search
 Bremen probed the still-hot de- bris until midnight, searching for the remains of others who might have been trapped in the inferno touched off by the planes $500 gallons of high test gasoline and 300 gallons of oil. The hunt was to be resumed shortly after daybreak.
 Twelve persons in the apartment building were painfully burned or injured in the impact or their escape from the lightning quick spread of the flames.
 Three residents were unaccounted for at an early hour today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
Allied Air, Naval Power
 Snag Talks
U. N. Ready 10 'CIob- Der" Reds; Enemy Needs Peace, Says General
By Robert B. Tuckman

MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. 14@Rl- Kaesong armistice talks snagged to- day on an argument over the im- portance of Allied air and naval supremacy.
 If cease fire negotiations break down, the United Nations ground commander, Gen. James A. Var Fleet, said his troops are ready to "clobber" the Reds.
 In Tokyo Gen. Matthew Ridgway LIN supreme commander, said the Reds have been steadily building up and are in a materially better position to attack than they were when truce talks started July 10
 Van Fleet, commander of the Eighth Army, commented:
 "The military feels we would like to have the opportunity to 4 meet the Communists if they at tack. It would be real clobber.
 'T don't know of better way to get it over faster.
 "The enemy is hurting. He is in bad shape. He needs peace"
 Van Fleets opinion of the ability of the 9th Army to meet Red on slaught coincided with views ex- pressed by Ridgway, when the tor Allied commander told about the Rec build-up.
 Ridgway said the LIN position wa: not inflexible, but that his troop: must have a defensible position during a truce approximately along their present battle line. He saic the LIN won't go back to the 38tf parallel, where the Reds want tC set up a buffer zone.
 It was the demilitarized zont deadlock which generated the argu ment at Kaesong over LIN air anS navy might.
 Vice Adm. c. Turner Joy, head of the LIN delegation told the Reds that Allied planes and warships "are prosecuting war behind your front lines which is not duplicated behind our lines"
 A LIN spokesman said this was { reply to a one-hour and 13-minut' attack by General Nam attempting to "discredit the independent eff fectiveness of air and naval poWel which the LIN comand would re linquish in an armistice."
 In one breath the North Koreans said they weren't doing much goot and in the next he said the Red' would run LIN troops out of Kores except for Allied planes and war. ships.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
Biggest War
 Program Geis .House0kay
Construction for Military Will Take Billions; Funds ic Come Laier

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -tR-- The House today authorized the largest single military construction program eyer presented to Con- gress in war or peace. It calls for spending 5,768, ,720,000.
 The major portion of the pro- posed work, $3.480,6 ,661 ,00O, is all lotted the Air Force and will be used to strengthen it's bases in this country, in the territories and overseas.
 The sum of S1,368, ,025, ,000 is ear- marked for Army construction and s786,267,Oo for the Navy. In addition, there is about $133, 766, 900 for joint projects and for construc- ton of recreational and welfare facilities at bases.
 The bill simply authorizes the program. Actual funds will have to be supplied later. The military services are asking S4,600,000, ,000 to get the work under way.
 This is in addition to the S56,- 000,000,000 military appropriations measure for 1852 passed by the House last week.
 The House passed the authori- zation measure after rejecting an attempt to strike out of the bill l $19,019,000 project for expan- sion of the Grandview, Mo, air 5ase in President Truman's home county That action came on a voice vote.
 Rep. Gross CR-Ia) had sougnt 70 knock out the Grandview pro- ject on the grounds that it was m "extravagance." He contended the air force could use a nearby field at Sedalia, Mo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
Bone Clues Pronounced of Animal Origin
 Yakutdt Beach Find Ex.
 dmined by FBI; Storis
 Returning to Juneau

The leg and spinal bones founo near Yakutat last week, believed of human origin and possible clue to the missing Korean air lift plane, were definitely founo of animal origin it was an nounced today.
 The skeletal remains were dis covered by search parties roam ing Monti Bay, several miles from Yakutat, and brought here foi Identification. Three Juneau doc tors pronounced them human, but another source after examining x-rays, said they were not.
 The findings were announced in telegram from J. Edgar Hoover head of the Federal Bureau oi Investigation, to Acting Marshal Walter Hellan. Hoover said:
 "Dr. Marshall Newman, assist
 ant curator of the division of
 anthropology at the National
 Museum, advises the bones are
 all of animal origin. There was
 no further report. Specimens
 being destroyed as your instruc-
 ti0ns."
 Meanwhile, Coast Guard head quarters reported that dragging operations carried on by the cut ter Storis under an oil slick seen near Yakutat were productive. The ship is returning to its Jun eau base, they said. Parties searched the nearby beaches and found no evidence of an aircraft's having landed or crashed there.
 The search for the missing Can- adian Pacific Airlines transport, carrying 38 persons, last reported June 20 off Cape Spencer en route to Anchorage, appeared slackening.
 Three Royal Canadian Air Force planes. based at White horse, were reported returned to
 their bases near Vancouver, E. C.
 The search is combined with one for a missing Norseman craft car rying Mrs. Walter A. Wood and her daughter Valerie, lost during a flight from a glacier camp while on research for the Arctic Insti- ute. Wood, with several friends, is in Yakutat pressing the search The craft, piloted by Maurice King, disappeared July 27.
 The search yesterday was linn tied by weather and a decreased number of aircraft, because of several having been diverted to the hunt for the missing Navy Privatecr lost near Adak. Incom- plete returns this morning said that two aircraft flew six hours in the Yakutat coastal area yester- | day.
 Three ships were standing by
 today to continue the search on a "weather permitting" basis. One Coast Guard plane based at Kodiak was pressed into the search for the Privateer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
The W Washington Merry Go Round
RY DREW PEARSON

tCopyrisht. 1881. py Bell Syndicate. Inc.
 Mote: Drew Pearson is on another tour of Europe, study ing conditions there in this per- iod of world tension and crisis. This is the first of his cabled dispatches from Central EurOpe.)
 Near the Iron Curtain, in Gen. tral Europe-If there was ever 8 time when propaganda was need- ed to encourage and stimulate the people behind the Iron Curtain now is it.
 Already the people of the satel- lite countries and even many ir Russia proper are torn by doubt and diSsension and distrust. Theil restlessness has been churning fol some time but now it's near the boiling point.
 All clues I have been able tC pick up from the underground and from intelligence reports convince me hat the Russian bear has swallowed too much and will have to regurgitate. A bear that's suf- fering from acute indigestion is not usually belligerent and it may be that additional propaganda barrages by balloons, the Voice of America and every other device possible could help increase that sickness and tip the scales for peace.
 Furthermore, messages of friend ship and encouragement to the people behind the Iron Curtain at this time can help produce an-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
Al Least 80 Dead Or Missing in
 Plane Accidents

SEATTLE, Aug. IA --R-A ser- les of airplane accidents along the North Pacific air lanes has left lead or missing at least 80 people, including five Seattle apartment house dwellers killed yesterday when their home was hit by a crashing B-50
 Six more persons aboard the plane were killed
 Just one day earlier Navy patrol bomber with l2 aboard vanished over the Alaska Penin- Sula. Hope has not been abandoned for the Navy men.
 The string of ill luck capped by the Aug. 13 crash began July 20 when a Korean airlift plane car rying 38 persons vanished on or near the Alaska coast. A smaller ,lane disappeared July 27 with its pilot and two New Jersey women who were passengers.
 A Queen Charlotte Airways plane carrying seven people was lost along the British Columbia coast Aug. 4. Last Monday Navy patrol plane carried nine men to death in plunge into Puget Sound.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
Catholic Priest 10 Pronounce Last Vows

The Rev. Alfred T. Brady, S.J., will pronounce his last VOWS as member of the Society of Jesus at the g o'clock Mass tomorro" morning in the Cathedral of the Nativity. The last VOWS will cul- minate his long period of train- ing in the Jesuit order.
 Father Brady was stationed in Juneau during the winter of l948 -l949. He was chaplain of St. Anns Hospital and cared for the Catholic Church in Douglas. He has been in Wrangell this sum- mer and will remain In Juneau for about month. He Is mem Der of the faculty of Seattle un- iyersity.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
Green Flares Seen Near Adak Spur Hunt for
 Missing Navy Privafeer

KODIAK, Alaska, Aug. 14-tR- Hope for 12 Naval airmen missing since Sunday in an Alaska based patrol bomber was pinned today on series of green flares sighted about 40 miles northeast of Adak. in the Aleutian Island chain.
 An investigation was being con- ducted by the Navy tug Bagaduce.
 The intermittent flashes were seen yesterday by Navy search pilot but fog and rain plotted out the ground and sea. Nothing could be seen that might lie on the surface.
 The PB4-Y-2 Privateer disappear ed on an operational flight from it's home field at Kodiak. Three officers and nine enlisted men were aboard
 The Military News Service this morning sent the following dis patch to The Empire
 Five aircraft of the Tenth Air Rescue Squadron took off from Elmendorf Air Base at am. this morning to join the search for the bomber which disappeared Sunday on routine flight from the U. S. Naval Station at Kodiak to the Aleutian Island of Adak.
 An armada of 24 Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard aircraft are now securing an area of approximately 33,000 square miles for the bomber, whose crew consists of three officers and nine enlisted men.
 The search area extends over the Aleutian Island chain and the wat CTS surrounding the chain, with planes from Elmendorf. Kodiak and Adak participating under the di- rection of Commander George Koch, commanding officer of the Kodiak Naval Station.
 Advance base for the search is Cold Bay.
 This morning at 4:39, Navy aircraft sighted three green flares on the water approximately 40 miles northeast of Adak. Shortly after, another flare was sighted about 10 miles from Adak. The Navy tug Bagaduce was dispatch ed from Adak at 7:30 o'clock this morning, and was scheduled to arrive in the area 40 miles from Adak at approximately 10 o'clock. No report has yet been received from the tug.
 A position report radioed from the missing plane at 9:34 am. Sunday morning was garbled and could not be deciphered at the Kodiak base, but it was relayed to the base at l0:14 am. by It. Evan Ryner. a Naval pilot flying in the erea
 The report indicated that at the time of the transmission, the privat- eer was about 60 miles northeast of Port Heiden.
 Names O. the men on the missing plane are presently being withheld.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
Sfotk Quotations.

NEW YORK, Aug. 14-AR-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2A, American Can 115, American Tel & Tel. 1894 Anaconda 45as, Douglas Aircraft 50A, General Electric 57%, Gen. eral Motors 48%, Goodyear 89A Kennecott 75. Libby, McNeill & Libby 8M. Northern Pacific 47ss Standard Oil of California AS Twentieth Century Fox 20%, U. s Steel 41A, Pound 2.79 15/l6, Can- adian Exchange BATS.
 Sales today were 1.180,000 shares
 Averages today were as follows industrials 262.88. rails 1889, util- ities 45.13..
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
Reds Claim Allies Dropped Gas Bombs

MOSCOW, Aug. 141Rt-Moscow newspapers and radio today claimed the Americans have dropped poison gas bombs in Korea
 The reports said protest has been sent to the United Nations They claimed the bombs were dropped on Aug. and Aug. and that deaths have resulted from chemical poisoning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14

He inherited fortune estimated at around $25.000,000 from his father, George Hearst. former United States Senator. Included in the heritage were gold mines, ranch es and railroad and bank stocks.
 Though he could have had life lof eaa4 Hearst pitched in at work immediately after he was "rusti- cated" Temporarily suspended from Harvard in his senior year for a prank, and through the years in- creased his fortune many fold.
 Newspapers and Magazines
 A 1947 compilation showed the following newspapers in the Hearst group:
 San Francisco Ca.i-Bulletin, San Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles Herald-Ex- press, Chicago Herald-American, Boston American, Boston Record and Boston Sunday Advertiser, New York Journal-American, New York Mirror, Albany Times Union, Balti- more News-Post and Sunday Am- erican, Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, Detroit Times, Seattle -Intelli- gencer, Oakland Post Inquirer, San Antonio Light and Milwaukee Sen- tinel
 The group had been larger before liquidations and consultations. The American Weekly, Sunday supple ment that for years was exclusive with Hearst newspapers, was made available to others.
 There also was a Hearst news agency, the International News Ser vice, that served all papers in the Hearst chain and many others.
 Among the magazines were Good Housekeeping, Harper's B aga a (both also published in London), Cosmopolitan. Junior Bazaar, House Beautiful, Town and Country, Mo tor, Motor Boating, American Drug gist and Connoisseur, the latter published in England.
 In Politics
 It was in 1904 that Hearst, amid great fanfare, sought the Demo- cratic nomination for President. Supporters hailed him as "the great advocate of popular welfare" Eight states and Hawaii voted for him at the Democratic National Con- vention, but the nomination went to Alton B. Parker, who was defeat ed by Theodore Roosevelt in the election.
 Four years later he was selected by the Independence League as It's standard bearer.
 Hearst carried on a long feud with Alfred E. Smith, who in 1922 refused to run for reelection as gov ernor of New York if Hearst were named on the ticket with him as Democratic candidate for the Sen ate. The Senatorial nomination went to Royal s. Copeland.
 The publisher offered large prizes to encourage the development oi aviation. He also went in for motion picture production. starting during the first World War in New York and continuing for a time in Holly wood. Many of the guests he enter tained at San Simeon came from the movie colony.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
4,5OO Prisoners
 Thought Held in
 Communist Camps

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. IA -tR - Unofficial estimates indicated today that, of the 10.624 Ameri- cans officially listed as missing ir action in Korea, as many as 4,50t probably are being held in Com munist war prisoner camps.
 This figure comes from Allied military sources which cannot be nauled uuG winch ale ill as sooc position as anyone on the Allied side to know the score on this hush-hush matter.
 The prisoners are said to be confined near Kanggye, deep in side North Korea about 20 ail miles from the Manchurian from tier.
 Reliable information reaching Allied authorities said Chinese Red leaders do not want Allied prisoners transferred t9 Chin csc soil. To do so would destroy the Communist contention that only Chinese volunteers" are fighting in Korea.
 The number of American anc other U. N. prisoners never ha: been announced by the Reds. Al lied sources estimate the tota number at approximately 10000.
 The Allies have announced they hold 164,766 counted prisoners oi war. Most of them are North Kor. cans.
 Whether prisoners will be ex- changed on a man-for-man basi. or by lot will have to be decided by the negotiators.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
William Randolph Hearst
 Dies in Beverly Hills

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. IA William Randolph Hearst, the publisher, died today He was 88
 The man whose chain of Ameri- can newspapers represented $200,- 100000 enterprise at it's peak suc- cumbed in a coma at his home here.
 He had been in ill health for some time and periodically in recent years rilefG WSffe fcpoits .l.4.t lac Eas dying. but his native strength re- peatedly returned "the chief" to active direction of his papers. Then yesterday Hearst sank into coma. He died at $50 am. to- day.
 Hearst was one of the nations most controversial figures in news paper editing and publishing. On one hand he was called a yellow journalist" and on the other, genius. Certainly it could be said that his newspapers were never dull. He was a great campaigner for or against causes. He fought public utilities, battled government, was an uncom- promising foe of Communism. Equally, he was great champion of Americanism, he fought for the eight-hour day and women's suff- rage.
 The publisher, patriarch of chain newspapers, brought many innova- tions to American journalism during the half century he directed vast empire with a value estimated as ; high as $2O000O,000 at the peak of his spectacular and often provoc- ative career.
 Violent controversies swirled all around him. Through his papers stretching from coast to coast he carried on campaigns for or against causes, jousting with governments, highly placed individuals, "crim- inal corporations" politicians and many others. He went after public utilities and crusaded for public ownership. He bitterly fought the old League of Nations and demand ed payment of war debts after World War I.
 Hearst championed such things as the eight-hour day, women suff- rage and election of U. s. Senators by direct vote of the people. h. tensely interested in politics, he served two terms in Congress from New York and aspired for other of- fices including the Presidency.
 The publisher was praised and condemned. By some he was re- garded as a genius, by others as a yellow journalist" There were those who referred to him as defender of the helpless, and those who called him a rabble rouser.
 Many F1eids
 Though most widley known as militant newspaper publisher, Hearst had many other fields of activity-magazines published both in this country and England, news paper feature syndicates, news service, photo service, art collecting. real estate, mining. motion pictures, radio and ranching.
 There was the fabulous San Sim con ranch in California, seat of his empire. with it's four castles and lavish appointments; his wooded, 67 7,000-acre estate, Wyntoon, on the McCloud River in northern Calif- ornia; a $15,OO0.000 art collection that included complete churches and castles brought over from Eu- rope stone by stone; the 18th Gen. tury St. Donat's castle in Wales; extensive ranch holdings in Mexico
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
Red Aggression Siymied by Allies. Says Committee

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14-tR-The House Foreign Affairs committee said today the Allies have plans which should deter Soviet aggres- sion or defeat it if launched" A committee said details of the plans were given to the group at secret hearings on the administra- tion's $8,5OO 100000 foreign aid pro- gram.
 While optimistic on the eventual outcome, the committee warned that any war would be long one.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
MASSES ON WEDNESDAY,

Tomorrow morning, the Feast of the Assumption, there will be Masses in the Catholic Church in Juneau at ', 8, and 10 o'clock, in Douglas at o'clock, and at the Lee Smith residence near the air. port at o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
Ship Movements

Princess Kathleen in port sched- uled to sail for Skagway at 1l:30 pm.
 Baranof due southbound some time Sunday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
KREPPS TO YAKUTAT

Jack Krepps. U. s. deputy marshal from Wrangell. was through Juneau enroute to Yakutat.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-14
VISITORS FROM CORDOvA

Marian Elston and Bessie Sand strom of Cordova are registered at the Baranof Hotel.
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Evening star., 1951-08-16

Davidson and Robert w. Furtick.
They said the campaign should
be conducted with a view to
eliminating completely the prac-
tice of overlooking which is not
only a violation of the laws of our
State. but is highly unfair to the
vast majority of our carriers who
are operating legitimately."
The 1851 general assembly, after
heated debate, approved a meas
ure providing tighter restrictions
truck weights and sitter penalties
for violations. The trucking associ-|
alton supported the bill.
Evening star., 1951-08-16
u S. Sending Soybeons Food Importation Back to Formosa

The United States is sending
back to China a food borrowed
a century ago.
Soybeans-a staple in the
Chinese diet and grown on the
mainland there for as long as
history records-are being
shipped to Formosa under the
Marshall Plan.
The amount being sent. as
one ECA official put it. will be
just a drop in the bucket"
toward the amount needed for
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Argentina Halls Shipment OF All Meats 10 Britain

Avided that Argentina supply Brit
ain with 100000 tons of carcass
meat and 10000 tons of canned
meat a year. Last month the in
stitute cut meat shipments to
Britain by l0,500 tons monthly be-
cause of the local shortage.
The Argentine shortage is large
ly due to recent droughts and re-
luctance of ranchers to ship meat
to the markets because of their
dissatisfaction with both prices
and government administra ton of
the industry.
Evening star., 1951-08-16

the diet of everybody on For
moSa.
But the 160 tons are designed
to form part of an experiment
in the diet of 10000 Nationalist
!. soldiers. Soybeans have been
woefully lacking on Formosa,
and Chiang's forces have suf-
fered the lack along with the
civilians.
On FormoSa only 1000 tons
were raised in 1850. The require
ments are 10000 tons annually.
The Chinese thought perhaps
peanuts, which are plentiful
Evening star., 1951-08-16
Maryland Vigilance Urged
Against Truck 0verIoads
BY the Assoeioied Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 16. - The
Maryland Motor Truck Associa-
tion yesterday asked the State
Roads Commission to start "a
hour-a-day campaign against
overloaded trucks.
The association made the re-
quest in resolution presented by
j. Marshall Stewart, Joseph