THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
! “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,690
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Cease-Fire in Korea Is Spurned By Red China
ACHESON
IS TO BE
QUIZZED
Will Be Questioned Con
cerning Agreements at
Brussels Conference
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — —
Secretary of State Acheson faced
searching questions today on
American troop commitments in
Europe and whether other United
Nations members will furnish Korea
reinforcements.
Acheson goes before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee this
afternoon to report on agreements
reached at the Brussels Conference
on Atlantic Pact defenses for west
ern Europe. Members of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee were in
vited to attend.
President Truman said after a
White House conference with Ache
son yesterday that within the next
fewf weeks the soldiers of the pact
nations will begin training together
“for the defense of the free world. ’
Truman’s Views
The President added that the ap
pointment of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower as supreme commander
“greatly heartened and inspired the
European nations, who see in it
new jiroof of the firm intentions of
the free nations to stand together."
The President didn’t mention
American troop commitments in his
statement, but members of Con
gress made it plain that is the
point of most interest to them in
the new setup.
To Question Agreements
Senator Lodge (R-Mass), who
just finished a tour of duty as a
United Nations delegate, told a re
porter in advance of the meeting
he intended to question Acheson
closely about any agreements that
may have been made at Brussels
to send additional foot soldiers to
Europe.
Lodge, a former Foreign Relations
Committeeman, said he also wants
to know what, if any, arrangements
have been made to replace some of
the U.S. forces fighting in Korea
with those of other members of the
U.N.
Petersburg Plans
Practice "Alerf
PETERSBURG, Alaska, Dec. 22—
Ufl—This Southeast Alaska town is
planning a practice “alert” and
blackout test under its new home
defense program. Quentin DeBoer
heads the organization.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Coprrlcbt. 1460. M Bell Sraalcatt. Ine.l
By DREW PEARSON
^^ASHINGTON — A top-secret
study of anti-Communist guerrilla
strength in China is being rushed
to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in
case of more serious difficulties
with the Chinese Communists.
Highlights of this study are:
1. China is infested with unor
ganized, roaming bands of ex-Na
tionalist troops, dispossessed land
lords, and thousands of Chinese
driven by hunger to steal and loot
for food. They are-not coordinated
and often scrap with each other
over the spoils. The estimat'd num
ber of anti-Communist “bandits,”
as the Peking government calls
them, is around 1,500,000.
2. China’s Communist boss, Mao
tse-Tung, has reversed his policy
of “education” for non-Commun
its and ordered a drastic reign
of terror against them. The drive
is called the “bandit suppression
campaign of the people’s dictator
ship.” Martial law has been declar
ed in five provinces and wholesale
arrests are being made in such
cities as Shanghai, Tsingtao, Chun
king and Canton.
* A recent announcement by Pe
king, for example, claimed 13,063
“bandits exterminated” in Chekiang
province during the campaign, and
the seisure of stores of rifles, rock
et guns and machine guns.
3. The only well-organized guer
rillas are units of the Nationalist
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SALMON
INDUSTRY
PUZZLED
Recent Price Rollback Pre
sents Many Import
ant Problems
SEATTLE, Dec. 22—IS)—'The re
cent price rollback has the salmon
industry puzzled.
Jack Green, president of Pacific
Fisheries, said in an interview today
the industry’s concern is not so
much with the 1950 pack as with
the forthcoming 1951 pack. He
asked:
“What is the government going
to expect of us in the way of pric
ing our product when we already
are signed up with the various
unions for a 12 to 12‘4 percent labor
cost increase on next year’s pack
and the price of cans is slated to
go up 15 percent as a result of the
recent boost in steel prices follow
ing the latest wage increase grants
in that industry?
"If we are to hold prices to the
Dec. 1 level what about the new
labor contracts calling for higher
wages next year? What about the
boost in can prices on next year’s
pack?”
He said there was a remote pos
sibility the industry could get by in
the event of a tremendous pack that
would have the effect of reducing
unit costs.
“But the cold, realistic likelihood
is that the salmon industry will
have to go to Washington for re
lief if the pack has to be sold at
the Dec. 1 level.”
FORMER TRUMAN
AID RELEASED ON
POSITIVE ORDERS
ASHLAND. Ky„ Dec. 22—«7Pt—Ed
ward F. Prichard. Jr., Paris, Ky.. at
torney and former administrative
aid under President Roosevelt, was
released from the Federal Correc
tional Institution near here last
night on orders of President Tru
man.
Warden R. O. Culver said Prich
ard’s two-year sentence was com
muted by the President to the time
already served.
The 35-year-old attorney entered
the prison last July 14 after con
viction of ballot box stuffing in
Bourbon county in the 1948 Presi
dential election.
Warden Culver said the text of
the order received yesterday from
James V. Bennett, director of fed
eral prisons, said:
“The President has commuted the
sentence of Edward F. Prichard to
the time already served. He may
be released immediately.”
Reports of Prichard’s release cir
culated last night in his home town.
In response to questions. Warden
Culver said earlier this morning,
“He’s gone. I had instructions from
my superiors to release him.”
DEERSKINS ARE
NEEDED FOR U. S.
FORCES IN ARCTIC
NEW YORK. Dec. 22—#1—The
Tanners Council of America said
today the Army needs deerskins for
combat troops in Arctic climates.
The need is so great, the council
said, that game-hunting states are
being asked to reopen or extend
their deer seasons. t
“The Army Quartermaster Corps
has found that only gloves made
from native deerskin give combat
troops protection and freedom of
action necessary under battle condi
tions in Arctic climates,” the coun
cil said in a statement.
TWINING IS NOW
4-STAR GENERAL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — (/Pi —
The Senate has confirmed a full
four-star General rank for Na
than Farragut Twining, former Air
Force Lieutenant General recently
named Vice Chief of Staff. He was
former Commander in Chief of the
Alaskan Command.
TOURNAMENT QUEEN
if
Eleanor Payne (above), 17, has
been named Queen of the 1951
Tournament of Hoses. A com
mercial art student at Pasadena,
Calif., City College, she has brown
hair and blue green eyes. She
will preside over Tournament fes
tivities Jan. 1, 1951, including the
Rose Bowl game between Cali
fornia and Michigan. <If) Wire
photo.
CORPORATION TAX
BOOST APPROVED,
JOINT COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — ((PI —
A House-Senate Conference Com
mittee today approved unanimously
a S3,300,000,00c boost in corporation
taxes including a 77 percent levy on
excess profits.
The legislation would increase
America’s tax load to the highest
level in history—$45,000,000,000 or
more.
The previous record of federal tax
collection was set in wartime 1945
when the government took in $43,
900,000,000.
Following closely on the heels of
last September’s bill boosting both
individual and corporation taxes,
the new measure is intended to pro
vide more billions for defense and
curb profiteering, and check in
flation.
While the committee-approved
measure comprises separate bills
passed by the Senate and House,
final Congressional action has been
delayed until Jan. 1. That’s because
the House, for all practical pur
poses, has quit work until after the
Christmas holidays.
The Senate, however, may ap
prove the bill later today.
•
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o’clock this morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 38; •
• minimum, 31. *
• At Airport—Maximum, 36; •
• minimum, 32. •
• •
• FORECAST •
t (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Mostly cloudy with inter- •
• mittent rain tonight and Sat- •
• urday. Low temperature to- •
• night near 32 and high Sat- •
• urday near 38. •
• precipitation •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
• City of Juneau—0.32 inches; •
• since Dec. 1 — 3.06 inches; •
• since July 1—36.30 inches. •
• At Airport — 0.14 inches; •
• since Dec. 1 — 2.21 inches, •
• since July 1—25.33 inches. •
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CONDITIONS GIVEN
ON BIG FOUR MEET
PROPOSED BY REDS
PARIS, Dec. 22——The West
ern Powers agreed today to a Big
Four meeting proposed by Russia, if
the Kremlin will agree to broaden
the agenda to include outstanding
world problems in addition to Ger
many. Foreign office sources said
notes delivered in Moscow tonight
suggested that the four powers’
U.N. Delegates work out the agenda,
time and place for the meeting.
FROM SITKA
James C. Rinehart of Sitka is at
the Baranof Hotel.
ACTION ON
DEFENSE IS
SPURRED UP
Grim Warning Concerning
Russian Atomic Energy
Is Recognized
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — UPI —
Congressional ‘action on the multi
billion dollar defense program was
spurred today by a grim warning
that Russia is making “an intensive
effort" in the field of atomic energy.
Export testimony on the Russian
atomic program came from Chair
man Gordon Dean of the Atomic
Energy Commission. Originally
given behind closed-doors it was
made public by the Senate Appro
priations Committee.
Dean told of Russia’s activity, anu
filled in some details of this na
tion’s expanding atomic production,
in testifying on the $20,000,000,000
emergency defense money bill. This
measure steamed through the Sen
ate yesterday at a wartime clip. And
it carried some $2,000,000,000 more
than the House voted.
Bills In Conference
A Senate-House conference group
meets today to iron out differences
in the two bills. Speedy agreement
was expected.
Other fast-moving developments
in the nation's rearmament pro
gram:
1. Secretary of the Air Force Fin
letter told Senators that the nation
lacks "an absolute air defense”
against possible atomic attacks. The
best defense would be to attack the
bases of the enemy, he said, adding
quickly that he was not “recom
mending a preventive war.”
2. Secretary of Defense Marshall
said that this country must tool up
at once for another world war, even
though we hope it will not come.
3. Navy officials disclosed that
this country plans to turn over half
a dozen or more cruisers to some
South American countries, probably
Brazil and Chile, and possibly Ar
gentina.
4. Gen. carton a. cates, com
mandant of the Marine Corps, sug
gested that Marine strength be
boosted to twice the 18 squadrons
and two full-war strength divisions,
currently planned.
5. Navy spokesmen expressed con
fidence that "we have sufficient
strength” to handle any Russian
submarine action which might be
launched off Korea.
6. Military leaders estimated that
defense costs already nearing $45,
000,000,000 for the fiscal year end
ing next June 30 may continue near
that rate for some years in the
future.
The Senate committee published
the testimony on the emergency de
fense measure after deleting many
sections for military security.
Testimony by AEC officials dis
closed that this country’s expanding
atomic energy program "involves at
least six new sites.”
They mentioned a "new gaseous
diffusion plant” at Paducah, Ky„
and another “new type plant” near
Savannah, Ga.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Dec. 22 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2*4, American Can
93%, American Tel. and Tel 150%,
Anaconda 39, Douglas Arcraft 93*4,
General Electric 46%, General Mo
tors 45 %, Goodyear 64%. Kennecott
73%. Libby McNeill and Libby 9,
Northern Pacific 32*4, Standard Oil]
of California 87, Twentieth Century
Fox 20%, U.S. Steel 40 a, Pound
$2.80*4, Canadian Exchange 94,56*4.
Sales today were 2,720.000 hares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 231.54, rails 76.84, utilities
40.07.
STUMER MOVEMENTS
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle at 5 p.m. today.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver December 30.
Baranof from west scheduled to
arrive at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, south
bound.
heinmillers here
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Heinmiller of
Port Chilkoot are in Juneau to
spend the holidays. They are at the
Baranof Hotel.
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CHRISTMAS
EXODUS IN
CONGRESS
Emergency Legislation Ap
pears Stranded-Other
Cheering News
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — <V\ —
Caught in a home-for-Christmas
exodus, a major portion of Presi
dent Truman's emergency mobiliza
tion legislation appeared stranded
today until at least Jan. 1.
The holiday jam of absenteeism
caused House leaders to sidetrack
action on bills to (1) give the Presi
dent wider powers to speed the mo
bilization effort and (2) to auth
orize union shop agreements by
railway labor.
And unless Senate-House con
ferees can reach agreements by
nightfall final Congressional action
may be delayed on the $3,200,000,000
excess profits tax and the $20,
000,000,000 arms bill.
Both bills have been passed by
House and Senate, but a compromise
of differences remains to be ap
proved by both chambers before
they can go to the White House.
Leaders Handicapped
House leaders, handicapped by
inability to get a working majority
on the floor, worked out agreements
to act on conference reports com
pleted today. There was some hope
the profits tax might go to Mr.
Truman by tonight. '
When the House adjourns this af
ternoon, it quits for legislative pur
pose, ’intil New Year’s Day. Token
sessions will be held next week, but
no business completed.
That leaves only the two days
from Jan. 1 until the new 82nd
Congress takes over Jan. '3, for
clearing up pending legislation.
Christmas Cheer
Congress members found some
Christmas cheer in defense mobi
lizer Charles E. Wilson’s prediction
that munitions production will roll
at a swift pace in 1951.
Wilson put it this way:
“My guess is that industry can
supply 50 to 100 percent more ma
teriel in the next year than in the
first big year after Pearl Harbor.”
Wilson made the forecast late
yesterday to a Senate-House
“watchdog” committee on defense
production.
In other mobilization-connected
developments:
1. The Wage Stabilization Board
announced last night that it had
reached a unanimous agreement on
the question of wage controls over
1,000,000 workers. It did not say
what the agreement was, however.
2. Alan Valentine, chief of the
Economic Stabilization Administra
tion, (ESA), said his organization
is working on a program to stabilize
meat prices.
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DATELINE CAUSES
DOUBLE HOLIDAY
CONFUSION BY AID
VANCOUVER, B.C., Dec. 22—UP)
—An air-age Christmas can be a
confusing thing, indeed.
For 36 members of the United
States Army, it will be a clash be
tween tradition and the quirks of
time.
On their flight from here to
Tokyo, the soldiers will put down
briefly in the Aleutians, taking off
on the morning of Dec. 24
Approximately 30 minutes later
th-.y will cross the International j
Dateline and — presto — it wit! be j
Christmas bay.
And because they will be flying
westward, gaining time all along,
Christmas for them will be a 27
hour affair.
But - one thing sticks to form,
Christmas dinner.
The menu will include: roast tur- ;
key with cranberry sauce; Christ- j
mas pudding and mince pies.
A cocktail will be served to each
before dinner.
And that, Santa, is Christmas in
the air.
FROM CALIFORNIA
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smith of
Glendale, Calif., are stopping at
the Baranof Hotel.
SITKA VISITOR
M. M. Adams of Sitka is regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel.
I
Colleen Weds
Colleen Townsend, the 21-year-old beauty who gave up a movie career
for religion, gets a kiss from her husband, Louis II. Evans, Jr. ,24. a
theological student, following their marriage in Los Angeles. The
ceremony, performed by the groom's father. Dr. Louis T. Evans, was
witnessed by 1,500 persons, iffl Wirephoto.
Letter to
Santa Gets
Quick Turn
ST. PAUL, Minn. Dec. 22—(ff>—
Bobby Hiner, 9, La Porte, Ind., put
a letter into the Santa Claus mail
box in the La Porte Court House.
It read: “Last year I asked you
to bring my Daddy homp for
Christmas. This year I wish after
you had delivered your toys to all
the good girls and boys that you
would stop by and takq me with
you as far as Alaska when you
go home to the North Pole.”
Bobby’s father, Andrew Hiner,
has been working in coal mines
near Jonesville, Alaska, for about a
year and a half. Recently, he suf
fered a back injury in an accident.
La Porte businessmen, who
handle Santa Claus mail, asked'
Ronald McVickar, Chicago manager j
for Northwest Airlines, if he could
locate Bobby’s father. Northwest
headquarters here did, via tele
phone, teletype and radio. They
found he was convalescing from
the accident and able to fly back
to the United States on a ticket
purchased by the businessmen.
Bobby’s father is scheduled to
step from a Northwest plane at
the Chicago Airport today. Bobby,
his two brothers and hit' mot be i
will be on hand to see Bobby’s let
ter to Santa Claus answered in
even a better way than he hoped.
NW AIRLINES TO
KEEP UP SERVICE
TO KOREAN CITY
TOKYO, Dec. 22—(If) Don King.
Vice President of Northwest Air
lines, said today airline service to
the South Korean capital of Seoul
would continue as long as the mili
tary situation there remained un
changed.
King said the airline would con
tinue its Korean service, using Pu
san, in Southeast Korea, if Seoul
should become untenable.
The Communists last were re
ported 32 miles nprth of Seoul,
whose civilians have been given an
evacuation plan if it should be
come necessary to remove them
from the city of 1.500,000 persdns.
King’s comment came after a
Northwest Airlines spokesman at St.
Paul, Minn., said the line made its
last flight to Seoul two days age
and that henceforth it w-ould land
at Pusan. The St. Paul spokesman
said the decision to abandon opera
tions to Seoul was madP after con
sultation with Army officers and
the Civil Aeronautics Board.
SHUFFLING OF
U. S. AGENCIES
NOW SHELVED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — —
President Truman's request for
emergency power to reshuffle fed
eral agencies appeared today to bo
shelved until the new emigre;
meets next month.
Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) of
the Senate Expenditures group told
a reporter the group agreed inform
ally to defer action pending fur
ther study.
He made the statement after the
committee had conferred behind
closed doors with Mobillzer Wilson.
Wilson told reporters when he
left the meeting that he had urged
approval of the bill. He also said
in reply to questions that It is too
early to tell how much consumer
goods production may be cut as a
result of the stepped up munitions
program.
"We are still in the analyzing
I stage,” he said. "We are analyzing
| like hell.”
Senator McClellan said govern
ment reorganization powers bill
probably will be revised to meet
objections from some that It would
give blank check authority to the
President.
Committee members feel that
neither Mr. Truman nor Wilson
would abuse the reorganization
powers the President is seeking,
McClellan noted.
The House has agreed to take up
a reorganization bill on New Year’s
Day.
Before quitting today until next
Tuesday, the House passed and sent
to the Senate a stopgap bill to al
low an immediate start on necessary
defense spending without waiting
on the $20 billion money bill to
clear Congress.
This is not uncommon on non
controversial appropriations which
have been delayed.
MATANUSKA [AND
IS PLACED ON SALE'
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—OP)—'The
government today placed on sale
some small tracts of land in file
Matanuska Valley area of Alaska.
An Interior Department an
nouncement said the lands are not
suited for farming or for inclusion
in farm units of the Matanuska I
Valley farming project.* They were j
described as good as home sites, j
summer cabins, hunting lodges and I
possibly for farming.
The announcement said thV
tracts arc available in sizes of from
live to 20 acres and at prices
starting a t$10 an acre,
PROPOSAL
FROM U. N.
REJECTED
Reasons Are Given by Red
Regime-Looks Like
Fighting to End
(By the A related Press
Red China rejected today the
United Nations’ repented appeals o
negotiate for a cease-fire in Korea.
It could mean war to the bitter
end unless other means for peace
can be found.
The Peiping radio broadcast the
statement of rejection by Premier
Chou En-Lal.
It spurned the proposal of a
special U.N. Assembly committee as
rising Red attacks in Western Ko
rea prompted a warning by Gen
eral MncArthur that a big new
Chinese military offensive may be
on the way.
In Norttyinst Korea, evacuation
of nearly 25,000 frightened civilians
from the Red-besieged beachhead
port of Hungnam was reported by
AP Correspondent Tom Lambert.
Close-range rocket ships, big naval
guns and artillery still shielded the
small'beachhead -the United Na
tions’ last foothold in North Ko
rea.
Six Point Rejection
China’s rejection of any talk to
ward a cease-fire was made In a
six-point statement broadcast in
Peiping and heard here.
The Red Promicr-Foreigo Minis
ter said Lire three-mn,r. U.N. com
mittee’s appeal was “unlawful" be
cause Chinese Communists did not
participate in formation of the com
mittee at the U.N. Assembly.
The committee had sent the Pei
ping regime "“three requests to ne
gotiate for a cease-fire—the last
one Thursday night, New York time.
The United Nations General As
sembly at Lake Success set up the
committee during a consideration
of the Korean crisis.
U. N. Blasted
A Red Chinese delegation's chief
spokesman blasted the U.N. in a
lengthy speech but it was not per
mitted to participate in the deci
sions because Red China is not a
member. The Chinese left New York
for home earlier this week.
The Red attacks in western Ko
rea started shortly before Chou's re
jection of cease-fire dickering. The
attacks indicate an all-out offensive
against U.N. forces could be ex
pected almost any hour.
New Drive Indicated
Observers were guessing that
Christmas Eve might be the sir mil
for the new Red drive beeau ■ of
the Oriental practice of strikin' ;i
Occidental holidays.
General MncArthur's late Friday
war summary said from 10 to 12 di
visions have been identified! along
parallel 38. arbitrary boundar be
tween Nortli and South Korea
Artillery was the queen of t he
beachhead battle—navy guns off
shore, and army artillery ranging
from self-propelled 155-triillimcfer
howitzers to 105-millimeter • '-es.
The artillerymen had mi tube; 1
spots on their maps called “me ,l<
showing every possible npproa< ’> : r
an attack on the Hungtmm perim
eter.
A spotter only had to observe the
enemy on one of the “measles,”
call in its number and the artillery
man would let go.
TO SEATTLE
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Andrick of
Mt. Edgecumbe are in Juneau at
the Gastineau Hotel. They plan to
leave for Seattle to spend the holi
days. Andrick is with the Alaska
Native Service.
f SHOPPING DAY
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