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VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,827
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1051
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
6000 Battling Chinese Block Advance Of UN
400 BLOOD DONORS
NEEDED FOR ARMED
FORCES BY JUNE 9
Four hundred men and women
are wanted to volunteer as blood
donors for the Red Cross blood bank
for the Armed Forces in Korea. The
blood donors must be between the
ages of 21 and 60, inclusive. Younger
volunteers between the ages of 18
and 21 must have the consent of
their parents or guardians.
The blood will be taken Satur
day, June 9, at the Elks hall. Hours
will be from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, 1 p.m.
to 5 p.m., and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Nurses and nurses’ aides will be on
hand to assist the staff due to ar
rive on the Aleutian. A canteen
service will be set tin.
Mrs. Charles O. Burdick is chair
man of the nursing service with
Mrs. Bob Boochever in charge of the
professional nursing division. Mr
Tom Dyer is head of the nurse t'
aides and the canteen service will
be headed by Mrs. William A. Wood.
Cots and linens will be furnished
by St. Ann’s hospital.
Blood donors are requested to call (
the Red Cross at 883 between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday for registration. A tele
phone committee will be on hand
to take the calls at the Red Cross
only.
BLOOD BANK STAFF IS
COMING ON ALEUTIAN;
IN JUNEAU SATURDAY
SEATTLE, June 5, — (fll —A crew
from the King County Central
Blood Bank leave on the Alaska
Steamship Co. vessel Aleutian today
to conduct a blood-donation prog
ram in Alaska.
The. blood will be flown to Sc
attle for processing and relaying to
the armed forces. The Red Cross
will arrange for donors in Ketchi
kan, Juneau, Seward and Anchor
age.
Dr. Richard J. Czajkowski, dir
ector of the blood bank, said this j
will be the first opportunity for
Alaskans to donate blood for tlie
armed forceS.
Dr. T. D. Patel d'f India, who'ha :
been acting as an assistant to Dr.
Czajkowski bile ijiaking a study
of the local olopd bank will head
the crew ■ ng to Alaska.
So es in the team are Mrs.
Fern i urr Mrs. Maigaret H. Juul,
Mrs. Horii.e Jackson and Miss Betty
McQvrv .drs. Helen Proells of the
blood bank staff also is making
the trip.
The Alaska Steamship Co., is pro
viding transportation for the group
on the steamer Aleutian. The Alas
ka Railroad Commission will fur
nish transportation while the group
is in Alaska.
The blood-bank team will be at
Ketchikan June 7, Juneau June 9,
Seward June 12 and Anchorage
June 12-14.
FISHERMEN IN
Mr. and Mrs. Erling Oswald of
Juneau who have been fishing are
stopping at the Gastineau Hotel.
FROM PETERSBURG
Mr. and Mrs. E. Winther of Pet
ersburg are at the Baranof Hotel, i
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. MSI. Of Boll BynaiciU. Ine..
I'f^ASHINGTON. — The question
of whether “Drew Pearson should
go to jail” following publication of
the minutes and a suppressed report
of the Senate Banking and Cur
rency committee was threshed out
before a stormy two-hour secret
session of that committee last week.
Chief promoter of “Stripes for
Pearson” was Indiana's Senator
Homer Capehart, the music-box
king, who strongly objected to this
column’s publication of excerpts
from the Senate committee's inves
tigation of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad and the RFC.
Capehart had first demanded that
chairman Maybank of South Car
olina interrupt the Banking and
Currency committee’s important
hearings on price controls and hold
a special meeting to find out where
Pearson got his story. Instead May
bank called the committee together
45 minutes early. But the Indiana
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Paging Larry
LARRY
CO ME
TO ME
Mrs. Larry Wall of Hinsdale, 111., didn't want to lose time in con
tacting her husband. Capt. Wall on his arrival in Ban Francisco
aboard the transport.General Brewster from Korea. She holds the
sign to attract the attention of her husband as returning veterans
line the rail. The captain and Mrs. Wall were soon rc-uniled on the
dock. UP) Wirephoto.
Two Alaskans Acquire
Abandoned RR Tunnel
For Storing Records
SEATTLE, June 5 — 1.7) — Two
Alaska businessmen have acquired
an abandoned railroad tunnel in
Washington’s Cascade mountains.
They expect to put its 2.65 mile; to
use storing records against an
atomic attack.
Ralph Lomen, who with his
brother, Carl J. Lomen, operates the
Lomen Commercial Company at
Nome, Alaska, said they plan to
make the tunnel into a redoubt
“second in the world possibly only
to Gibraltar.”
“This is not a war baby,” said
Ralph. “It will be permanent. Even
if we have a declared peace tomor
row, we don't know how long it will
last. We have to face the fact that
we are living in an atomic age. We
have to take more precautions with
records than we did in years past.”
The tunnel formerly was used by
the Great Northern railroad, which
abandoned it for a better route
Bored through the Cascades at Ste
vens Pass, it is capped with 1,406
to 3,000 feet of grey granite. IU
two ends open into two counties
Seattle’s King county and Wenat
chee’s Chelan.
Ralph, whose Alaska lighterage
firm handles the discharging of all
ships in the Bering Sea and also
has warehousing, lumbering and
other interests, says the tunnnel wil
be occupied on a progressive basi:
beginning about the first of the
year.
Excavations will be started first
at each end to create storage cham
bers. Plans are to establish a com
munity of 70 acres at the east porta)
for homes for guards and other per
sonnel.
The tunnel will become a street
with some sort.of electrical convey
ance provided.
"It's too long to walk,’’ said Ralph.
He expects industrial firms, banks
and county, city and other govern
ment agencies to store duplicates of
their records in the tunnel.
BOB JOHNSON VISITS
Robert E. Johnson, former Doug
las resident, now with the U. S:
Engineers at Ft. Richardson, vis
ited has sister, Mrs. Gertrude Bog
gan here Sunday and yesterday. He
left yesterday for Lead, S. Dak.,
where he will visit another sister,
Mrs. A. G. Pendo, the former Ruby
Johnson, also of Douglas. While
outside he plans to visit a brother,
Peter Johnson in Bremerton, Wash.
AIR ATTACK ON
MANCHURIA
WAS BLOCKED
American Plan for "Hof
Pursuit" of Enemy
Planes Was Vetoed
WASHINGTON, June 5 — (A>) —
Secretary of State Acheson today
told senators how other United Na
tions vetoed an American plan Jast
November for “hot pursuit” of ene
my plans across the Korean border
into Manchuria. '
.He said the United States pro
posed only two or three minutes of
air penetration of Manchuria but
the other Allied governments would
i not go along with the plan.
Acheson was testifying for the
fourth day at hearings by the Sen
ate Armed Services and Foreign
Relations committees on the ouster
of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
“Hot Pursuit” Plan
Acheson read a telegram sent un
der his signature on last Nov. 13 to
American embassies in other United
Nations. This simply advised that it
"may become necessary" to put in
the “hot pursuit” plan.
The approval of the other govern
ments was not asked. There has
been previous testimony from U. S.
military leaders, however, that such
strong objections were raised by
other nations with troops in Korea
that the plan was never put into
effect.
Acheson’s telegram said the “priv
ileged sanctuary" of Manchuria —
a term MacArthur often used —
presented a “grave problem” to UN
forces as "enemy aircraft (nation
ality not always known) operate
from Manchurian fields, dash into
Korea air space to strike UN air
and ground forces and then fly to
safety behind Manchurian border a
very few minutes away.”
Limited Movement
“It is contemplated that UN air
craft would limit themselves to re
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PRICE WAR
SPREADING
IN NATION
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Shoppers Continue to
Swarm to Department
Stores in New York
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NEW YORK. June 5 Price
cutting spread to new sectors of the
nation's retail front today, stimulat
ing the public appetite for bargains.
Shoppers swept into big New "York
deportment stores for the sixth day
of the local price war, and grouped
about harried sales clerks.
But many items were sold out.
Emphasis shifted from the electric
mixers and toasters that were main
targets of early buying, to other ar
ticles such as watches, pens, perco
lators, phonograph records and
larger appliances.
Across the nation, sporadic out
bursts of cutting of former “fair
trade” fixed prices occurred.
At Oklahoma City, where a drug
chain had dropped prices on ail
electrical home appliances 29 per
cent, Katz Drug, a southwest chain,
announced a three-day sale with
the “world’s lowest prices.”
Reductions included: Sunbeam
Mixmaster to $33.33 from the fair
trade price of $48.50; Ronson light
ers to $3.94 from $6.60, and Motorola
television sets to $179.95 from $21990.
At San Francisco, prices were re- j
ported leveling off at the reduced
tags put on yesterday, while su
burban (hops joined in dropping
prices in hopes of keeping their
customers from flocking to t t?
stott*.
Other cities that got into the fight
yesterday included Omaha, Newark,
N. J., and Baltimore, Md.
NEW YORK PRICE
WAR EXTENDED j
to territory;
SITKA, Alaska, June" 5, — (41 —
They could say today that the
price-cutting splurge extends from
New York to Alaska.
Stofts Variety Store, like Macy's
and Gimbel's in Manhattan, cut
prices on so-called “fair trade" it
ems from 10 to 50 per cent. An au
tomatic iron sold for $9.95, com
pared with the price of $14.95 be
fore the Supreme Court knocked the
pins from under the “fair price”
provisions. Electric toasters. were
selling as low as $1.98.
GOLD PRICES
DROP, MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, June 5 —(41 —
Gold prices have dropped nearly a
dollar an ounce on the free market
here, one of the few uncontrolled
gold markets in the world.
The market opened at $39.36 an
ounce, Monday’s closing price. The
opening price yesterday looming
was $40. . The price had been
steadily declining all last week from
a high of $40.70.
Financial circles said the drop
was due to lower demand and great
er production in recent months in
the world gold situation.
COUPLE MAKK1C.O
Julia Milton of Yakutat and
John Bieker of Juneau were mar
ried last night at the Rosenburgh
Apartments by U. S. Commissioner
Gordon Gray. Witnesses were Sam
Newman and Genevieve Newman.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Aleutian scheduled to sail from
Seattle tonight.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Wednesday.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
sail from Vancouver 8 p.m. Satur
day.
Chilcotin scheduled to sail from
Vancouver 11:45 p.m. Saturday.
Baranof scheduled to arrive from
Westward Sunday southbound.
Up Another Hill
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ITN troops in full battle gear, move over the crest o' another Korean hill on the east central front as
they advance northward in pursuit of retreating Reds. The soldiers seem to be enjoying the actions of
one of the company who is taking a picture of Ed Johnson, Associated Press staff photographer, as he
was making this picture. JF) Wlrephoto.
"Take 'Em Thaf Way"
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Chinese Communist war prisoners who quit fighting when UN forces counter-attackedt, get instructions
where to wheel their wounded companions from a UN soldier while other Allied troops take a breather
alongside the road. YVirephoto.
LUMBER CONTRA S
FOR JUNEAU Fll 5
SEATTLE, June 5 —(A>»— The De
partment of Commerce reported two
lumber contracts were awarded last
week to Juneau firms under the mil
itary and defense program.
They are listed only as “over $25,
000." The firms are the Juneau
Lumber Co., and the Columbia Lum
ber Co., of Alaska.
The office also announced ap
proval by the National Production
Authority of a $15,000 store altera
tion by Northern Commercial Co.,
at Fairbanks.
ANCHORAGE VISITOR
Thomas H. Appleton of Anchor
age is at the Baranof Hotel.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
ending 8:20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
68; minimum, 45.
At Airport — Maximum,
69; minimum, 40.
FORECAST
Continued fair with some
high cloudiness tonight and
Wednesday. Lowest temper
ature tonight near 44 deg.
Highest Wednesday about 71.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau — None;
Since July 1 — 71.86 inches.
At Airport — None;
Since July 1 — 41.41 inches.
Busy Little Bees
Get Plastered,
Maturing Cider
SMARDEN, England, June 5, —!
l/W — Some 3,000 to 4,000 busy little
bees buzzed into a hard cider works
here today and tanked up on a
syrupy liquid which seeped from
the barrels of maturing cider.
When they tried to fly off they
were so plastered they just fell all
over each other.
“There were 3,000 to 4,000 drunken
bees staggering all over the floor,"
said works manager C. H. Vaughan.
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GAMES TODAY
BROOKLYN, June 5 —Wl— Roy
Campanella’s double to center scor
ed Carl Furillo from first in the
ninth Inning today to enable the
league leading Brooklyn Dodgers to
nip the St. Louis Cardinals, 3-2. It
was the Dodgers' fourth straight
victory and stretched their league
lead to four and one-half games
over the Cards.
CHICAGO, June 5—W—Chicago’s
first place White Sox bunched all of
their scoring in the sixth and eighth
innings today while gaining their
fourth straight win over the Boston
Red Sox, 10-2. Jim Busby sparked
a six-run rally with a one-on homer
in the eighth.
New York 8, Cleveland 2.
(All other major games night)
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WOOD COMING TO
BORE GLACIER HOLE
NEW YORK, June 5 —t/n—'Walter
A. Wood left today to lead an ex
pedition that will drill a hole in a
glacier twice as deep as the Empire
State building is tall.
The 102-story Empire State build
ine is 1,250 feet high, and with the
addition of the new 222-ft. steel
television antenna it towers 1,472
feet.
Wood, director of the New York
office of the Arctic Institute, left
by Northwestern Airlines enroute
to Juneau, Alaska. He said the ex
pedition wants to learn the mech
anism of ice flowage within the
great Alaskan ice sheet.
He said the party hoped to solve
the “mystery of rock deformation
and flow and cast light on the flow
age of certain metals as well.”
STOCK QUOTATIONS
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NEW YORK, June 5 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today Is 2%, American Can
108'4, American Tel. and Tel. 155%.
Anaconda 41, General Electric 5314.
General Motors 48%, Goodyear 77%,
Kennecott 73, Libby, McNeill and
Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 40,
Standard Oil of California 45%,
Twentieth Century Fox 18*4, U. S.
Steel 40%, Pound $2.80, Canadian
Exchange 93.31.
Sales today were 1.180,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 247 59, rails 78.31, utili
ties 42.45.
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RESISTANCE
OF REDS IS
NARROWING
Allies Make Some Prog
ress Toward "Iron Tri
angle" from East
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By Associated Press
Allied troops rolled today within
artillery range of Chorwon. key to
the Red "Iron Triangle" in Korea,
but 6,000 battling Chinese blocked
the advance of other United Nations
troops trying to reach the triangle
from the east.
The threatening Allied advance
was made against diminishing Red
resistance along the rain-swept
Yonchon-Chorwon highway in the
west. UN infantrymen slogged near
ly two miles through the mud. nar
rowing the 13-mlle gap between Al
lied-held Yonchon and the prize
Communist eity.
May Pound Chorwon
Front line dispatches reported Al
lies on this route now are In posi
tion to turn their long range ar
tillery on Chorwon.
Thirty-five miles to the east, the
front boiled with action. Three
thousand Reds fought through the
day, holding the Allied forces at a
standstill in their drive northwest
from Hwachon toward Kumhwa.
Another 3,000 Chinese held allies
to a 500-yard gain nCrth of Hwa
chon.
East of Hwachon Reservoir stub
born Chinese fought bitterly io stem
Allied advances tt»r<h <f Yanggu
and northeast of Inje.
Every Allied advance, even where
Red pressure decreased, was made
in tough, muddy fighting over
rugged hills.
The Fifth Air Force sent 430
planes out to strike through clouds
and rain at the Communists during
daylight Tuesday.
Censorship Soon Dropped
Censorship obscured the exact Al
lied positions. In Tokyo, the Far
East command announced that dou
ble censorship of war news from
Korea will end June 15. At that time,
censorship will be handled by gen
eral headquarters at a point in
Korea, not in Tokyo as at present,
and 8th Army censorship of news
will be dropped.
Xn the air war, two Allied fight
ing planes crashed and burned.
Their pilots were killed. Two Com
munist planes, possibly Jets, bombed
Allied lines near Yanggu on the
East Central front.
CASUALTIES,
U. N. FORCES,
KOREAN WAR
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., June
—(if!— United Nations forces fight
ing alongside U. S. and South Kor
ean troop* in Korea suffered a sharp
spurt in casualties during &ie last
Chinese Communist offensive.
Latest information received by
the British delegation to the UN
sets total British dead at more than
700 and the wounded and missing
at more than 1,100. A previous Brit
ish report had listed 52 dead and
756 wounded and missing. Heavy
losses in the Gloucestershire regi
ment accounted for more of the in
crease.
French and Turkish casualties are
among others expected to rise as a
result of the recent fighting, but
for the present only old figures are
available. Casualty figures available
here, based on April and May re
ports, include:
Turkey—Dead 408; wounded 898:
missing 307.
France—Dead 89; wounded 314;
missing, 2.
Australia — Dead, 70; wounded,
302; missing, 35.
United States battle casualty
totals announced May 25 were 67.
427, including 10,127 killed, 45.889
wounded and 11,411 missing.
Republic of Korea in figures an
nounced May 12. estimated that
from the outbreak of the hostilities
last June 25 up to April 15 18,150
ROK soldiers were killed, 50,764
were wounded and 57,250 were miss
ing.