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The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Mrs. NofdaIe Confirmed as Customs Head
First Woman in Alaska, Perhaps Nation, to Obtain Post

Mrs. Katherine Nordale of Ju- neau appointed hy President Tru- man, has been confirmed by the Senate to be Collector of Customs for Alaska. She is the first woman to hold that position in the Ter ritory, and perhaps the United States. The only other known woman Collector of Customs is in Puerto Rico.
 An Associated Press dispatch from Washington, D. C., to The Empire said the action was taken yesterday Mrs. Nordale succeeds James J. Corners, who resigned a short time ago.
 Mrs. Nordale, who at present is with the Federal Security Agency is a liie-long Democrat. She came to Alnska from Reardon, Wash, in 1925, going to Fairbanks where she taught. in the Fairbanks High School.
 h 1880 she married Alton c. Nor.ale, son of one of Alaska s best known pioneer families. Her husband served as Democratic from the Fourth Division in two terms of the Ter ritotial legislature, 1883 and 1885, and in August of 1885 met tragic death in a plane accident. With several friends he had been to Dawson to attend Discovery Day" ccleh.ation and on the return trip to Fairbanks the plane crashed into a mountain.
 At Che time, Nordale was deputy clerk of court in the Fourth Di- vision and following his death, Mrs Nordale was appointed to the position.
 She continued as deputy clerk of court until the summer of 1943 wiself she was named director of .l.ssssfc el U. S. Savings bonds for the Territory and came to Juneau.
 Tn 1947 that office was closed and she became head of the Fed eral Security Agency.
 Mrs. Nordale has two children, James who is in Juneau at pres snt but who will return to Con- zaga University this fall where he Is a student, and a daughter Mary, ! junior at Juneau High School
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Temperance Union Blasts Promotion
 |0f Home Drinking

BOSTON, Aug. 11-R-Distillers and brewers were blasted today by an officer of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union for almost en- tirely abandoning barroom drink promotion to go all out to recruit living room and kitchen drinkers among women and young people" ."
 Mrs. B. Blance Butts of Evanson, Ill, corresponding secretary of the 400 O.OO0-member organization, told delegates to the groups annual con- vention:
 Nearly all liquor and beer adver- Using is increasingly promoting or soliciting home drinking. The sol- icitation to drink that we hear over the radio and television is high pressure solicitation, voiced by an- nouncers who would obviously be fired if they drank as much as they ask their listeners to drink"
 In an address last night, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the WCTU, blasted American diplo- macy with whiskey on it's breath and charged that heavy drinking in Washington invites diplomatic dis aster at one end of the country while drinking in Alaska tasks for a Pearl Harbor at another"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Congfessmen Up in Arms Over Plant Dispersal Policy

WASHINGTON, Aug. H. R - Members of Congress from esta- blished industrial areas bitterly pro- tested today against President Tru- mans. new plant dispersal policy.
 MT. Truman's aim is to spread out the nations industrial install lations to make them less vulnerable to any enemy atomic attacks. But opponents argue the dispersal VIII hobble rather than help deienSe preparedness by draining vitaiy rom existing industrial regions and lore ing costly population shifts.
 The administration has power ful means to enforce the dispersal policy-award of defense contracts granting of defense loans. alloca- ton of critical materials and other measures.
 As announced by MT Truman yes terday, the policy is to disperse new industry and expanding indus try but not to interefere with es- tablished operating units. No part of the country is to be built up at the expense of any other section the President said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Defense BuiIdup
 Out if Budget Torn Down, Says (onnaIIy

WASHINGTON, Aug. H. R = Senator Connally (D-Tex) said to- day Congress can't provide for huildup in the free nations defense strength and cut military spending at the same time.
 Connally's comment was made to a reporter in announcing that the Senate Foreign Relations and Arm ed Services Committees will so to work Monday on revising the $3,- 500,0O000o foreign aid authorization bill.
 The House Foreign Affairs Committee has sliced S651 ,003,00 from the total. ConnalIy, how ever, said he believes any size able reductions made by the Sen ate committee must come out of the economic aid.
 We have to build up military de- lenses and we can't cut down on military spending at the same time" he said.
 The bill pending before the Sen ate committees would authorize S6,- 300.000000 in military outlays and s2 .2C0, ,000. GOO in economic assistance to the free nations.
 The House committee clipped s550 ,00o00o off military and econ omic funds for western Europe and slightly more than S100,0e0,000 off funds for other areas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Admiral Joy BIasis Reds for Laying Down
 Political prise'
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN Associated Press Correspondent

MUNSAN. Korea, Aug. 11-tB- Vice Adm o. Turner Joy told Com munists in strong terms today they had slammed the door on every attempt to make progress in the Kaesong cease-fire talks.
 The senior United Nations envoy aimed his words directly at It. Gen Nam Il, chief Red delegate, for Nam's inflexible stand on the 38th parallel as the only cease-fire line acceptable to the Reds.
 You did not come here to stop the fighting" Joy declared.
 You did not come here to ne- gotiate an armistice. You came here to state your price your political price for which you are willing to sell the people of Korea q temporary respite from pain.
 'You have engaged in these conferences only to present de- mands, not to negotiate a solu- tion."
 When Nam left the conference room at the end of the days session observers said he was apparently angry"
 Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols. an official spokesman, said Joy de- parted from his normally we'll tempered, coldly logical phraseology" in his most vehement attack yet on the Communists.
 Nuckols said the ncg0tiat0rs wrangled for two hours and 2O minutes and reached only one agreement: to meet again tomor- row at II am. 6 pm. today, Ju- neau time).
 Joys blast apparently followed his failure te reach any sort Of compromise agreement with the Reds.
 The communique said the Reds "hrusquely rebuffedv Joys sugges- tion that they indicate on map tAeir concept of buffer zone based on the present battle line and the overall military situation.
 Nam and his fellow Reds stood pat on the single and inflexible" demand that the line be based on the 38th parallel, old political divid- ing line between North and South Korea.
 Joys blunt words came in the afternoon session. He spoke for 36 minutes, then proposed a recess until tomorrow.
 In agreeing to meet again Sunday. Nam Il said he would continue to insist on the 38th parallel as the military demarcation line.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
\ Persons Escape
 In Skiff When Fire Destroys Mail Boat

VALDEZ, Alaska, Aug. 11-R- Fire completely destroyed the 42- foot Prince William Sound mail boat, the Debbs in Valdez Bay Thursday night.
 Four persons aboard, including Captain Perry Nicholoff and his wife, abandoned the flaming craft in it's skiff. A fifth was rescued by crewmen of the freighter Coastal Monarch which was unloading nearby.
 All the mail was saved. One of the crewmen, John Johnson, suf- fered burns while trying to save some equipment.
 The fire was believed to have started from a backfiring exhaust.
 The mail5oat had just left Valdez for it's bi-monthly trip to Cordova when the fire occurred.
 The vessel was beached and was believed to be total loss. It is owned by Pete Nicholoff.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Legion Endorses Pulp Mill, Asks
 Power Price Drop

The proposed Indian Point pulp mill at Auke Bay was endorsed Friday night by Auke Bay Post No. 25, The American Legion, in its regular monthly meeting. In a resolution which passed without opposition, the Legion group poin- ted out the many advantages that such project would mean for the entire Juneau area.
 The Auke Bay organization al- so passed two resolutions pertain ing to difficulties faced by the Glacier Highway Electrical Associ- ation after hearing that groups problems outlined by William Nor ton, association manager.
 One resolution directed to the Federal Power Commission, the Alaska Electric Light and Pow CT Co. and the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Go. demands re- duction in the price of electric ity sold to the coop by the light company.
 It points out that the coop is obliged to pay three quarters of a cent more per kilowatt hour for wholesale power than Juneau res- idents pay for retail electricity. The resolution asks for an end to this discrimination"
 Asks Loan Extension
 The other resolution directed at Congress and the Rural Electrifi- cation Administration requests an extension of time for the co-op to make the first payment on its government loan.
 The resolution declares that 'the coop will eventually be in a position to meet it's obligation but is in a difficult financial po- sition at the present time, due to high wholesale power rates and various delays which were caused by the REA and contributed to the co-op's problems"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Support Rising for
 Honorable Discharges. w. Point

WEST POINT, N. Y. Aug. II, = R-Additional supporters, inclu- ding lawyer and some West Point officials, have been won to appeals that honorable dischar- ges be granted a number of the 70 cadets accused of cheating at examinations.
 Such dismissals would permit the cadets to leave the military academy without the official stig- ma implied or contained in other forms of discharges.
 The talk of the method of dis missal in many quarters was fast taking the place of debate on whether the cadets should be expelled at all. There were indications that many of the ca dets themselves were more an- xi0us to get the honorable dis charges than to fight the sus- pension order.
 Exactly what form the dismiss sais will take, and just how many cadets finally will be affected, may be known in the next few days. Two screening boards now in ses- sion hope to complete examination of individual cases sometime over the weekend.
 As the cheating scandal ap- preached it's climax, 1t became apparent in Washington that Congress has definitely decided against an investigation at the academy.
 Senator Russell tD-Ga), chair man of the Senate Armed Services committee, said today that he saw mo need" for a probe by hls group. The House Armed Services committee had taken a similar stand earlier ths week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Missing Plane Searth Goes
 Info 22nd Day
No New Clues as B Planes S1our Areas for Two Lost Aircraft

A persistent search for a miss ing Canadian Pacific Airlines plane which disappeared off Cape Spencer went into it's twenty-second day to- day. The search for an Arctic Ins- titute Norseman missing in the Yak utat area was in it's sixteenth day
 A Canadian Pacific Airlines Tok- yo bound transport, with 38 on board, was last heard from off Cape Spencer late July 20. Seven days later the Norseman failed to show up on a flight from a Malasplna Glacier Institute camp to Yakutat.
 The Norseman, piloted by Mau- rice King, had Mrs. Walter A. Wood and her daughter, Valerie, aboard. Wood is head of the Instintute's ice studies being made on Malaspina and Seward Glaciers.
 No new clues to either aircraft have been reported. Twenty search planes spent I5O search hours yes terday combing sections that had been previously obscured by fog.
 23 Planes Up
 Today 23 aircraft were continuing the same operation under generally good weather conditions.
 Scheduled airlines have Observ- CTS on regular flights over the areas of probability and itiner- ant aircraft are alerted to watch for any possible clues.
 A 10th Air Rescue Squadron ski wheel equipped CAT made four glacier landings on the Juneau Ice cap yesterday and may go to the Arctic Institute camp on Malaspina Glacier to remove that camp tomor- row, depending upon landing and weather conditions, It. Col. w. G. Walton of the Air Force said yes terday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Modern pharoah
 Loses $175 a Minute +, Gambling Game

CANNES, France, Aug. 11-lR King Farouk's gambling "sys- tenn" backfired again today. The playboy Egyptian monarch lost S72,OOO in nine hours of play in card game that ran from midnigh. to g a.m., Casino sources said.
 Riviera mathematicians figured he lost at the rate of S175 for ev- cry minute of actual play. This brought his losses over two-day period to S157,700. Earlier, the King who had made some big win nings on his honeymoon tour, claimed he had developed his own system for winning high-stakes at the gambling table.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Alaska Dentists To Open Meeiing Here on Monday

Fifty or more dentists will be arriving in Juneau over the week. end to attend the second annual meeting of the Alaska Territorial Dental Society which opens Mon- day afternoon in the Legion Dug out at 3 o'clock.
 According to information re- ceived by pr. Joyce D. Smith, To- cal dentist in charge of arrange ments, William Patterson, presi- dent of the M. F. Patterson Dem tai Supply Co.,, is due here from Minneapolis, Minn. in his own plane today. He is accompanied by Lee B. Jones, Seattle branch manager of the Minneapolis firm.
 Monday eevning a cocktail par ty and buffet supper will be held for members and their wives at the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Williams on Glacier Highway, Doc tor Smith said.
 The Alaska group IS coHlpon- ent of the American Dental As- sociation.
 In addition to dentists in prl- vate practice, a number Of dent- ists from the Armed Forces are expected to attend. Dr. Charles 5. Ballard of Seattle will be chlel clinician. Clinics will be held in Doctor Smiths office and business sessions will take place at the Legion Dugout.
 Dr. Clayton L. Policy IS pfesl- dent of the local society and Dr' John H. Geyer is secretary-trea- surer.
 Dr. Robert E. Wheatley of Sit ka will introduce a new technique an inlay and bridge work.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Z Bribery Charges, 3 Illegal Fish Gases ai Haines

Two charges of bribery and nine cases of illegal fishing were dis posed of in U. s. Commissioners Court at Haines yesterday after noon.
 Members of the district attor- ney's office, the Marshals office and Fish and Wildlife Service heads flew to Haines yesterday afternoon to take part in the pro- ceedings.
 Ray J. Compton, IS, Fish and Wildlife Service stream inspector, was chagred with taking a $20 hribe from Charles H. Hepler, Sr.. to allow Hepler to fish inside the markers at Lutak Inlet near Haines where all the violations oc- cured.
 U. s. Attorney Patrick G. Gil- more, Jr, said that Compton con- iessed his guilt and was given a preliminary hearing before Com missioner Ross Hevel, who bound him over to the grand jury and set his bond at 5000. In lieu of bond, Compton was turned over to Acting Marshal Walter Hellan and has been lodged in federal jail in Juneau
 Compton was hired six weeks ago by the Wildlife Service and stationed at Haines.
 Hepler Sr., was charged with the offense of bribery and was also bound over to the grand jury. He was released upon payment of a $l,500 bond
 Four of the other cases, against gillnetters for fishing inside mar kers at the mouth of a stream, pleaded guilty of the charge and were fined $250 each. They were:
 Seton Dennis and Bert Dennis; Fenton Jacobs and Leo Land; Ar thur Johnson and Joe Johnson; Ronald Fisk and Robert Lytle. All were aboard two-man boats.
 Five single-man boats, which were apprehended in the same area, also pleaded guilty to fish ing inside the legal markers and were given $500 fines. They were: Joe R. Brown. Roy w. Simenstad, Thomas w. Freeman, Jr. Charles Hepler Jr. Charles Hepler, ST. se The complaints were signed by Clarence J. Watson, service agent. He was assisted in making the ar rests by Al Lubcke, of the Terri torial Highway Patrol, and Gene Ness, service agent stationed at Haines.
 Tn all cases of illegal fishing vi- olations the fines were paid and the fish confiscated.
 Assistant U. s. Attorney Stan ley Baskin aided Gilmore in the prosecutions. Regional Director Clarence Rhode and Dan Ralston, law enforcement supervisor for the Fish and Wildlife Service, ap- peared in behalf of the service.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
SquabbIe Over Air Force Job in Home
 County of Truman

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11-R-A souabble oyer a proposed Air Force installation in President Trumans home county in Missouri has tenn porarily delayed House action on 6 record s5,768, ,O00,000 military ccn- struction bill.
 The House may reach vote next Tuesday on the measure which aims chiefly at keeping the United States safe from any Russian atomic aS- tacks.
 But first, the House must take rolI-caIl vote on a Sl9,0l9,0JJ project to expand the Grandview, Mo, airport in Jackson County, near the Truman family home il Indenpendence.
 The project is part of the mlll- tary construction bill and was ap- proved by the Air Force and the House Armed Services committee It would permit the transfer of the Continental Air Command rom Mitchell Field, Long Island, to Grandview-an Air Force proposal aimed at strengthening the air re- serve and Air National Guard pro- grams.
 Quick passage is expected Tue day for the bill which authorizes the largest single military con struction program ever presented to Congress in peace or war.
 The bulk of the money in the bill -s3, ,480 ,0O0, ,000-would go to the Ali Force to strengthen it's installations in this country and overseas. The Army would get Sl.368. .000,000 and the Navy $768, 100000. The balance would go for joint Armed Services welfare and recreational projects.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
MRS. MARY MAYNARD IS CALIFORNIA BOUND

A southbound passenger on Pan American Airways today was Mrs Mary Maynard. She will visit her hrother-in-law and sister, Dr. and Mrs. Norman Nelson, in South Pasadena, Calf, and go with them to Laguna Beach.
 While south she will attend the Sourdough convention in San Francisco. Before coming to Ju- neau about 10 years ago to be with her daughter, Miss Mildred May nard, court reporter, and son and daughter-in-law, MT. and Mrs. Russel G. Maynard, the Maynards operated the Nome Nugget, farth- est northwest newspaper on the continent, for many years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
VESSEL ROBERTA REACHED AT GUT BAY

The 6a-foot fishing vessel Ro- berta was being pumped out and patched for tow to Petersberg hy the cutter Citrus, Coast Guard headquarters said today. It was reported that the stem was crush ed and the hull full of water The vessel was beached at Gut Bay with three men aboard. It had been chartered by New England Fish Co. No details of the acci- dent were given.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Civil Service
 Asks Cosl-of- Living Raise

WASHINCToN4.aeug- IL, .--lPi-z The civil service commission has asked Congress to permit it to in- crease its cost-o living allowan- ces to government employees in the territories and possessions If necessary"
 A commission spokesman told a reporter the only change con tempiated now is in Alaska. He said he did not believe any de- cision has been reached as to how much the allowance should exceed a present 25 per cent limitation.
 Cost-of- living allowances, not to exceed 25 per cent of the em- ployes basis salary, are now paid government employees in Alaska :; Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Planes Drop 1000 Bombs on Hunsnanl

U. s. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD QUARTERS, Korea, Aug. II, -R Fifteen U. s. B-29S today blas- ted Communist supplies stored near Red-held Hungnam on the east coast of North Korea.
 Sighting hy radar. the Okin- awa-based planes rained more than 2,00O bombs weighing 100 pounds each on the targets. The planes encountered no anti-air- crafc fire or enemy aircraft.
 In the week ended today, U. s. Fifth Air Force planes flew 2,700 sorties over Korea, 385 of them directed at rail and high way routes in Red territory. Pi- lots reported they destroyed 296 Red supply vehicles and dam aged 500 in the week.
 U. S. Marine fighters and Air Force light bombcrs spotted more than 2,000 enemy vehicles on Red supply routes last night.
 Aided by flares. the Allied pi- lots inflicted substantial dam age' on the enemy supply trains, the Air Force said It was the second successive night heavy Rcd traffic was spotted.
 Mud begged down ground fighting in the west. Patrol ac- ton was spotty in the central section but bitter local figh.ns rascd in the east for control of three hills southwest of Kac- song.
 The 1900 to 1,500-foot hills dominate the northern road out of Inje to the mountain fastness south of Wonsssii, heleagTea east coast port.
 United Nation troops gained control of one hill but an enemy counter-attack supported by nor tar and artillery threw Allied for ccs off another hill. The fate or the third hill was still in doubt Friday midnight as q U N. force attacked from three sides.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Defense Production Ores Gel Exemption From Price Control

WASHINGTON, Aug. II, -lR- Ten ores and materials vital to defense production are now eX- empt from price controls.
 The Office of Price Stabilization (OPS) yesterday exempted, ef- fective immediately:
 Raw asbestos, beryl ores, chrome ores, cobalt ores and metal, col umbite- -tantalite ores, natural graphite, kyanite and related ores, manganese ores, acid grade flour spar and domestic mercury
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
Human Projetiile Has His Doubts

FOR SHERIDAN, H., Aug.
 . 11-LR-If Donald F. Noth- derft, g, a now Army recruit, { winds up in the artillery, hell [ . have to change an old habit. A professional human pro- jectile for three years, Noth- . dorft has crawlet, into the hasi- . ness end of a cannon and been . shot through the air more than . . 2,800 times. . Nothdroft, who use the pro- . fessional name of Donaldo . zacchini, said yesterday on his Q arrival to begin his army train- . . ing: T don't think want to be in . . the artillery" .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Aleutian arrives 2 am. Sunday southbound.
 Princess Louise scheduled to ar rive from Vancouver at o'clock this afternoon sailing for Skagway at 11:30 pm.
 Alaska due to arrive from Seattle at pm. today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
$247,000 Approved For WrangeII Narrows Dredging Project

WASHINGTON, Aug. II, -R- The Senate Appropriations Con- mittee approved the spending of $247,000 on the Wrangell Naviga- ton project, yesterday, the same amount the House had allowed.
 The Wrangell navigation pro- ject is in Wrangell Narrows, out of Petersburg where dredging and widening of the channel has been under way for the past two years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
NEW CASUALTY LIST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1l-iR-The Defense Department today iden- tified "A additional battle casualties in Korea. A new list tNo. 37a) re- ported six killed. 54 wounded, lo missing in action and four inluf- ed in combat zone accidents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Copyright. 1851. py Bell Syndicate. Inc.

WASHINGTON. = It looks as if Secretary of Agriculture Bran nan, an honest, able public ser want, ought to investigate whats going on inside his agriculture de- partment regarding the cornering of the rye market and the huge quantities of Canadian rye dump ed in this country.
 Not only has a group of specu- lators been making lush killing, but a million-dollar bribe was dangled in front of the nose Of a former agriculture department of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
FROM PORTLAND

Waiter Hutchinson of Portland Ore. is at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11
VISITOR FROM WRANGELL

Mrs. J. c. Flory of Wrangell is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-11

Charles Diven of Petersburg ii at the Baranof Hotel.
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