THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,609
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
U. S. MARINES WITHIN 3 MILES OF SEOUL
10,000 MORE ARMY
RESERVE OFFICERS
CALLED TO DUTY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18— Iff) —
The Army today more than doubled
Its call-up of reserve officers by
adding 9,565 captains and lieuten
ants to the original summons for
7,862 company grade officers.
In addition the Army ordered up
205 chaplain captains and 240
Army aviation officers.
The ground troop officers called
up today will go on active duty
during November for at least 21
months.
The aviation officers, who will
fly the Army’s observation and ar
tillery spotting planes, will be called
up over a four-month period end
ing in December.
The ground forces officers involv
ed in today’s announcement include
2;561 captains and 7,004 first and
second lieutenants in 16 branches
of the service.
NO PEACE
OVERTURES
ARE MADE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18— tfl —
The State Department said today
there have been no peace overtures
Irom the North Korean Commu
nists.
Reporters were told by press
Officer Lincoln White that thfe De
partment has "absolutely nothing
to confirm” a London report pub
lished in an Italian newspaper
that feelers have been made.
White said the normal channel
for proposals for a settlement would
be the United Nations. He said al
though the North Korean Com
munist regime is not a UN member,
it has "representatives" in the
UN. He named them as Russia’s
Jacob Malik and Andrei Vishinsky.
(01. ALEXANDER GOES
TO GOVERNOR'S MEET
ON CIVIL DEFENSE
Col. Joseph R. Alexander, acting
adjutant general for the Alaska
National Guard, left today to at
tend a conference of governors of
the western states to work on a
plan of civil defense. The confer
ence will be held in Helena, Mon
tana, on September 21. Col. Alex
ander goes as the representative
of Gov. Ernest' Gruening who is
absent in Washington, D. C.
FROM PETERSBURG
Rosemary Toodes, of Petersburg,
is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
fhe Washington
Merry-Go-Round
iCoprrliht, 19M. bp Bell eradicate. Inc.)
Bj DREW PEARSON
^pASHXNGTON—The close per
sonal friendship existing between
F*resident Truman and ..General
Marshall—amounting almost to
hero worshhip—was iUustrated by
an Incident at Leesburg. Va., some
time ago when General Marshall
notified the President that a former
U. S. Senator, killed in the Civil
War, was inappropriately buried
near Marshall’s home.
The late Senator was Col. Edward
D. Baker of Oregon, and General
Marshall informed the President
that only a moss-covered stone,
overgrown with vegetation, marked
his grave.
The President, who was In fre
quent touch withh General MarshaU
even during his retirement, tele
phoned Sen. Wayne Morse, Oregon
Republican, and suggested that
since Colonel Baker was from Ore
gon they both go to Leesburg,
visit with General Marshall, and
examine the grave.
Senator Morse accepted. But be
fore leaving, he took the trouble
to ask the Library of Congress to
check on the late Senator Baker,
ahd found that although he had
been killed at Ball’s Bluff, Va.,
his body had been carried back to
San Francisco and he was buried
there.
Driving down to Leesburg, there
fore, Senator Morse told President
Truman that he was afraid Gen
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Commodity
Prices Hit
Skids Today
(By the Associated Press)
Commodity prices hit the skids
today.
With the notable exception of
coffee, quotations of commodities
for future delivery declined as news
of United Nations successes came
from the fighting fronts, and whoUy
unconfirmed rumors were heard to
the effect the North Koreans had
put out peace feelers.
Wool toops futures dipped three
and one-half to 10 cents a pound,
the 10-cent declines, the daily trad
ing limit, coming on distant deliver
ies.
Cotton futures were substantial
losers, declining 90 cents to $3.40 a
bale.
Soybeans, off 3 to 3% cents a
bushel, led a retreat in grains at
Chicago.
Rubber futures dipped as much as
two cents a pound at New York on
a combination of factors, including
news of labor settlements on Indo
nesian plantations and increased
United States synthetic production.
Also lower were cocoa, cottonseed
oil, hides and zinc.
Sugar, copper and lead were
mixed.
GOVERNMENT
PUTS STOP TO
EASY CREDIT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 — UR —
The government put “stop” orders
Into effect today against over-easy
credit to consumers and over
eager buying by business men.
Marking the first actual use of
the new home front control powers,
the orders had two aims: to check
inflation and to conserve scarce and
essential materials for defense pur
poses.
The Commerce Department forbid
businessmen to accumulate lumber,
cement, steel, copper, aluminum, tin,
rubber, nylon yarn, certain chem
icals and certain other materials,
beyond a “practical minimum work
ing inventory.”
Enforceable by penalties as stiff
as a year in prison and a $10,000
fine, the order applies not only to
the firm that buys but also to the
firm that delivers the goods.
The ban on over-easy installment
credit was put into effect by the
Federal Reserve Board, after a 10
day advance notice. Terms for
autos, household appliances, furni
ture, and home repairs were tight
ened.
PRIMARIES
TODAY IN
TWO STATES
(By Associated Press)
Senators Tydings (D-MD) and
Wfley (R-Wis) appeared headed
for renomination today and to
morrow in primaries which vir
tually wind up the picking of slates
for the Nov. 7 Congressional el
ections.
Rhode Island Democrats nominate
Gov. John O. Pastore for the Sen
ate in a primary today. His Repub
lican opponent for the seat vacated
by Attorney General J. Howard
McGrath and filled temporarily by
Senator Edward L. Leahy (D) wDl
be chosen in a similar routine pri
mary on Sept. 27.
Mayor Dermis J. Roberts of Prov
idence gets the Democratic nomin
ation for governor of Rhode Island
without opposition. Democratic
Reps. Porand and Fogarty also are
assured of renomination.
Massachusetts, without a Senat
orial contest this year, picks major
party nominees for governor and
House seats in voting tomorrow.
FROM MARYLAND
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Wise of Park
Hall, Md„ are guests at the Gas
tineau Hotel.
Crack Down
On Commies
Is Planned
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18—(.A—A
Senate-House conference commit
tee agreed today on terms of a
bill to crack down on Communists.
The group, led by Senator Mc
Carran (D-Nev), described the mea
sure as “even tougher in seme res
pects" than bills previously passed
by both the Senate and House, and
woven together by the conferees
in this compromise bill.
The bill now goes to the House,
which plans to consider it Wednes
day, and then to the Senate. Pre
sident Truman has declined to say
whether he would sign or veto the
measure but has promised a quick
decision.
It was reported in advance that
the compromise retains a Senate
provision for Internment of subver
sives in certain emergencies.
SENATE CONFIRMS
APPOINMENT OF
MAYOR O'DWYER
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 — OH —
The Senate has confirmed the ap
pointment of former Mayor William
O'Dwyer of New York City to be
Ambassador to Mexico.
The vote was 42 to 22 to confirm
ODwyer. Four Republicans voted
for the nomination—Morse of Ore
gon, Saltonstall of Massachusetts,
Smith of Maine and Wiley of Wis
consin. No Democrats, voted against
ft.
Approval of the appointment came
after Senator Ives (R-NY) had
tried unsuccessfully to postpone ac
tion until Wednesday.
Ives said he wanted to consult |
New York City officials about re- ]
ports that high police officials who
had served under O’Dwyer as Mayor
may be linked to alleged gambling
pay-offs.
The Senate voted down, 40 to 24, j
a motion by Ives to send the nomi
nation back to the Foreign Relations
Committee.
It previously had voted, 37 to 25.
against putting off action on the ap
pointment until Wednesday.
OFFICIAL HERE TO
STUDY CHANGES IN
PATENTING LANDS
Changes in the present system for
making lands available for patent
are the chief concern of Robert
Coote on his present visit from
Washington, D.C.
The lands are chiefly those along
roads and highways near Southeast
Alaska towns.
He is here to confer on the subject
with B. Frank Heintzleman. Re
gional Forester, U.S. Forest Service,
and Leonard Berlin, Regional Ca
dastral Engineer of the Land Survey
Office, Bureau of Land Manage
ment.
Coote will be here, stopping at the
Baranof Hotel, until Wednesday.
Then he and Heintzleman will go
to Ketchikan on the same matter.
The visitor specialized for many
years in Alaska land management
problems while on the B.L.M. staff.
In the recent reorganization of the
Interior Department, he was pro
moted to the post of assistant to
Dale E. Doty, Assistant Secretary of
the Interior in charge of the work
of a number of bureaus vitally im
portant to Alaska. These include
B.L.M., Fish and Wildlife Service
and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Coote recently returned to Wash
i ington after six weeks at Guam,
I where he represented his depart
ment in bringing Guam under civil
ian jurisdiction after its transfer
from the Navy.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Application for a marriage license
i was made in the U.S. Commissioner s
! office by Juan Pascua and Martha
Hopkins, both of Tenakee.
FROM FORT RICHARDSON
W. R. Mesland of Ft. Richardson
is registered at the Junedu Hotel.
FROM TENAKEE
C. W. Martin and O. T. Harrlng
1 ton of Tenakee are stopping at the
| Juneau Hotel.
ALASKA, CLINCHED
FIST, HELD UNDER
NOSE OFi. STALIN
Bernard Hubbard Set;
People Right About
Northland
SANTA CLARA. Calif.. Sept, 18
—Alaska Is “our most precious
piece of offensive property,” the
J glacier priest, Bernard R. Hubbard
; S.J., said here as he returned from
I five months in the far north.
Father’ Hubbard, who has spent, c
large part of the past 24 years w
the Arctic regions, has been lectur
ing on Arctic survival to United
States troops, weathermen and air
men stationed in Alaska.
"Many persons have the mental
picture of Alaska as a huge hand
thrusting outward from the North
American continent, warding off a
hostile Russia.” he said in an inter
view. “That is wrong. Alaska is no
warding hand. It’s a clinched fist
held right under the nose of Joe
Stalin, and he knows it.”
Alaska, the glacier priest said. Is
too big, too rugged, and has too fe'V
roads to be invaded. Probably the
best the Russians could do would
be to parachute five or six thousand
men into Fairbanks and Anchorage,
he said.
"This,” he declared, “would only
serve to deny the use of them for
offensive pperations. The supply
problem would be impossible.”
MASTER PLAN
FOR CIVILIAN
DEFENSE TOLD
WASHINGTON, Sept. IS — (<0 —
The government unwrapped a mas
ter civil defense plan telling states
and cities that home front casual
ties can be cut in half with trained
experts and millions of volunteers
President Truman approved the
plan, which lacked any price tag or
timetable. Along with a bill to crcatc
a new, separate federal civil de
fense administration, Mr. Truman
sent it to a Congress which probably
will do nothing about authority or
money for the program before next
year.
The program Is built around:
1. Cooperation on a big scale be
tween federal, state and local gov
ernment, with each sharing some of
the responsibility and expense.
2. Providing pre-attack precau
tions and post-attack help mainly
for some 140 “critical target areas"—
cities and installations an enemy al
most certainly would hit first and
hardest. (The target areas were not
named in the report.)
3. Mutual aid pacts among cities
and states.
4. Mobile civil defense teams that
could speed to stricken cities.
5. Establishing government schools
to turn out civil defense experts as
the British are doing.
COMMERCE
EMPLOYEE
SUSPENDED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 — «t -
Commerce Department officials said
today a department loyalty board
has made an adverse finding against
Michael Lee, and he has been sus
pended from his $10,000 a year job
in that agency.
The finding, handed down with
out announcement September 8, al
ready has been challenged by Lee.
His attorneys are preparing an ap
peal to Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer, officials said.
Lee, 42, was born in Manchuria of
Russian ancestry. He was head of
the Far East branch of the-Depart
ment’s Office of International Trade
before his loyalty was put under
question first in October, 1948.
Before the adverse loyalty board
ruling. Secretary Sawyer has asked
Lee to “resign or be fired" on
grounds that his continued employ
ment was detrimental to the depart
| ment aside from loyalty questions.
STATEHOOD
BILL URGED
FOR PASSAGE
O'Mahoney Makes Speech
But Congress Has Many
Big Issues Before It
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 — (A" —
Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) said
today the ‘‘psychological time" has
arrived for the Senate to act on
statehood for Alaska and Hawaii.
In a Senate speech he reminded
campaign-conscious colleagues that
the controversial issue — on which
President Truman has asked action
—still is hanging fire.
He said action on House-approved
statehood bills would counter Rus
sian propaganda that the United
States is fostering "colonial im
perialism” in the Pacific.
The statehood issue—likely to be
debated at length—was only one of
several which plagued lawmakers
bent on getting out of Washington
while there is still time to convince
the folks at home that they ought
to be re-elected.
niiu'ouuvcruvc 0111
A Senate-House conference com
mittee was about ready to give Its
fdrmal approval to a compromise
version of an anti-subversive bill
Which some of Mr. Truman’s friends
ofi Capitol Hill were urging him to
sigu.
Both Houses still have to pass on
a $4,508,000,000 tax increase bill in
final farm, which probably will take i
several days. And Senators O’Ma
ffoney and Conxially CD-Tex) were
■threatening to fight any adjourn
ment unless Congress promises spe
cifically to come back in November
and pass an excess profits tax.
0’Mahoney*s Speech
O’Mahoney said in his prepared
speech:
"Alaska and Hawaii are American
outposts in the Pacific, what we in
Congress do now with respect to
statehood for these two territories
will have an immediate effect
throughout the Asiatic area.
“To make completely successful
the present struggle in the Pacific,
the peoples of Asia must be convin
ced that the United States does not
seek to establish colonial imperial
ism, contrary to the accusations of
Russian propaganda.
“Immediate statehood for Alaska
and Hawii will be the most convinc
ing argument we can now make that
military success against Commun
istic aggression in Korea means
freedom and self-government for all
Asiatic people.”
After O’Mahoney finished his
speech, Senators Cordon (D-Ore),
Lehman (D-Llb. NY), Thye (R
Minn) and Magnuson (D-Wash)
quickly endorsed it.
Cordon said “it would be most un
fortunate if Congress adjourns be
fore both these bills have been given
adequate consideration.” He said the
statehood measures had been sub
jected to one delay after another,
adding this was “unnecessary, un
called for and unfortunate.”
10-YEAR SENTENCE
IS RECOMMENDED
FOR WARTIME SPY
’
GREENVILLE, Tenn. Sept. 18—UH
- Allred Dean Slack, pleaded guilty
in Federal Court today to charg
es of wartime spying for Russia.
Assistant U. S. Attorney James
M. Week immediately recommended
! a 10-year prison sentence for the
44-year-old Syracuse, N. Y., chem
ist.
Meek said Slack had admitted
passing on to Russian agents se
■ rets in the manufacture of RDX,
a high explosive.
“In view of the fact Slack re
isted in giving information to the
Russian agents when he realized
it was for Russia, the government
is willing to acoept the ten-year
•sentence,” Meek told the court.
TODAY’S LANDINGS
Landed today from the Fremont
kippered by Olaf Winthers were
20.000 pounds of black cod for E. C.
Johnson. Twelve trollers made land
ings totaling 6,000 pounds of sal-1
mon for other buyers. With the
ason ending Sept. 20 and the
arcity of fish, most trollers will
r.ot be going out again.
Allies Hi! Behind Enemy
J 1 !ll A '• V7
i * mwnaur-^ ^ ®
Large arrows show where United Nations forces landed behind North
Korean lines in South Korea. U. S. Marines and Infantry pushed
ashore at Inchon (1) and drove two miles into the city. The beach
head area is about ISO miles from the southeast front. South Korean
marines hit the east coast (2) in the Pehang-Yongdok area at three
places. South Koren official reported allied landing at Kunsan (3).
The U. S. S. Missouri shelled Red-held port of Samchek (4). (f) Wire
photo map. '
Governor Is Challenged
By At White to Debate
RED (HINA
AIDED KOREA
MacARTHUR
LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 18—<iP»—
Gen. Douglas MacArthur charged,
today that Communist China has!
furnished "substantial if not decisive
military” aid to North Korea by re
leasing thousands of troops of Ko
rean origin.
MacArthur also charged that Rus
sia had supplied arms and munitions
to North Korea as late as 1950.
In his fourth report to the Se
curity Council, the United Nations
Commander said approximately
140,000 of North Korea's troops have
participated in training and combat
action with Chinese Communist
forces in one way or another.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Jacob A. Malik has insisted Russia
gave no aid to North Korea after
the withdrawal of Soviet troops in
1948.
MacArthur said there has been no
confirmation of direct or overt
Chinese Communist participation in
the Korean conflict, but he added
that “they have furnished substan
tial if not decisive military assist
ance to North Korea by releasing
a vast pool of combat seasoned
troops of Korean Ethnic (racial)
origin, which provided the means
for expansion of the North Korean
army.”
Soviet Delegate Malik protested
against putting the report on the
agenda and said he could not par
ticipate in any discussion of the re
port now because he had not yet
read it.
FROM VANCOUVER
E. R. Johvick of Vancouver, B.C.,
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
SITKA VISITORS
Mrs. John Dolenc and Arlene
Dolenc of Sitka are registered at
the Baranof Hotel.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Alaska from Seattle due to arrive
sometime tomorrow.
Aleutian from west scheduled |
to arrive at 8 tonight and sails south I
at 11 pm. 1
Princess Louise scheduled to ar-!
rive at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning,
and sail south at 9 a.m.
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle Saturday.
J
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 18—
Iff)—Republican Chairman Albert
White made the kickoff in the
party's district “All-Out Campaign”
with an open debate challenge to
Governor Greuning “or any of his
satellites” on the conduct of Al
aska's Government.
The Juneau party leader spoke
at a weekend Republican dinner
rally here.
He alleged there has been "cor
ruption, fisfeasance and malfea
sance" in the Territorial govern
ment and cited instances which he
said proved it.
In his debate challenge, White
said:
“I shall pay for the hall and for
transportation expenses. If the
Governor is unable to accept this
challenge, I offer to pay travel
expenses of one of his loyal satel
lites. . .to debate the same ques
tion.”
He cited numerous instances in
which he said present and former
legislators have received pay from
bureaus, departments or commis
sions which they helped to create
while in the legislature, and added:
“This practice, if not illegal, is
certainly morally wrong."
Alaska’s general election will be
held Oct. 10.
BLOOD-TYPING PROGRAM
TO BEGIN IN WEEK
A blood-typing program lor Ju
neau residents will begin Tuesday,
Sept. 26, Red tross officials an
nounced today.
A typographical error in a prev
ious announcement made it appear
that the program would begin to
norrow.
WEATHER REPORT •
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
ending 6:20 o’clock this morning •
In Juneau—Maximum, 51; •
minimum. 47. •
At Airport—Maximum, 52; •
minimum, 45. •
•
FORECAST •
(Jaoeau and Vlelnllr) §
Cloudy with Intermittent rain •
and southeasterly winds as •
high as 25 miles per hour. •
Lowest temperature tonight •
about 47 degrees. Highest •
Tuesday near 52. •
•
PRECIPITATION •
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 n.m. todai •
City of Juneau—0.18 inches; •
since Sept. 1 — 4.32 inches; •
since July 1—15.88 Inches. •
At Airport — 0.13 inches; •
since Sept. 1 — 2.54 inches; • ]
since July 1—14.54 inches. • j
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BIG PUSH
OF ALLIES
GOING ON
Heavy Toll of Red Troops,
Tanks Being Taken
MacArfhur at Front
(By the Associated Press)
U.S. Marines drove within three
miles of Seoul today, and liberation
of the 500-year-old capital seemed
imminent.
The American drive from Inchon
beachhead has smashed ahead more
than 15 miles against resistance de
scribed as all the way from “disor
ganized” to “stubborn.”
Allied forces advanced on all
fronts in Korea. Around the beach
head box in the southeast, some of
the 140,000 Communists ringing the
perimeter were reported withdraw,
ing and UJ8. troops already had one
bridgehead across the Naktong river.
Marines on Han River
U.S. Marines in the northwest
beachhead reached the Han river on
'Seoul’s outskirts. Kimpo airfield, 12
miles northwest of Seoul, was held
by battle-tested First Marine Divi
sion troops after a night-long battle.
MaJ. Oen. Edward N. Almond, 05.
10th Corps Commander, said the
field is In operation and can be used.
A Marine prong reached the east
bank of the Han river northwest of
Seoul. Army combat engineers raced
toward Seoul with equipment to
throw a bridge across the Han be
fore the surprised Communists can
organize d defense wall before the
city. whost-teM tatom wottkl to a
heavy psychological blow.
The Reds captured Seoul June 28.
three days after their Invasion
started.
Allies Smash Inland
Elements of some 40,000 Allied
troops smashing inland are talcing a
heavy toll of Red troops and tanlcs.
Behind these Americans, U.S. Sev
enth Division troops rolled ashore
from the 262-shlp Allied task force
which opened the second front the
end of last week. They headed for
Seoul with heavy weapons and
armor.
The Reds were pouring reinforce
ments Into the Seoul area from both
north and south. Navy and Marine
warplanes smashed steadily at these
columns.
Marines eight miles east of In
chon let two Red tank columns past
their lines and then blasted away at
them. The^ knocked out 11 tanks,
bringing their two-day bag to 16.
MacArthur at Front
Oen. MacArthur visited front
lines, and heard from Oen. Almond
that the Inchon Invasion was "going
like a million dollars.” Oen. Mac
Arthur's headquarters said the Com
munists had not yet "recovered suf
ficient equilibrium from the surprise
to organize more than a sporadic
resistance." Allied strength, mean
while, mounted In the beachhead.
Bombs Rip Reds
The other Jaw of the Allied nut
cracker was moving against the
140,000 Red troops In South Korea.
Forty B-29’8 ripped Red positions
on the west side of the Naktong
river west of Taegu, apparently In
preparation for an Allied push
across the river.
The U.S. Second Division was
across the Naktong west of Chang
nyong, 24 miles southwest of Taegu.
Fighter-bombers struck all around
the two Korean battle fronts, hit
ting Red troops, tanks and trans
port. Leaflets dropped on the Reds
told them: "Surrender or die.”
The Moscow newspaper Pravada,
commenting on the Allied invasion
at Inchon, said It succeeded only
because the Americans used 20 times
as many troops as there were Red
defenders. The dispatch said the
U.S. concentrated almost all its
available armed forces in the Far
East for the Inchon attack.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Sept. 18 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today Is 2'-, American Can
lOOt-i, Anaconda 35 %, Curtlss
Wright 9'4, International Harvester
31t4, Kennecott 64 New York
Central 15%, Northern Pacific 23.
US. Steel 39%, Pound J2.8014.
Sales today were 2,040,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 228.78, rails 66.73, utilities
39.50.