THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,628
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1950
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Heavy Vote Being Cast in Juneau Election
WONSAN NOW
IN HANDS OF
UN SOLDIERS
American Forces Making
Advances Despite Stub
born Red Resistance
(By the Associated Press)
South Korean troops today cap
tured the big industrial port city of
Wonsan on North Korea's east
coast.
U S. Army sources said the South
Koreans were mopping up Red
snipers and the port would be fully
secured within 24 hours. Wonsan is
about 105 miles north of the 38th
parallel. Its airfield, now in Allied
hands, is about 95 miles east of
Pyongyang, the Communist capi
tal.
American forces, pushing across
the parallel from captured Kaesong,
met fierce Communist resistance on
the main road to Pyongyang. The
First Cavalry Division was about
80 miles south of the Red capital
but it was slowed to a yard by yard
advance by stubborn North Korean
defenses in the border area.
A spokesman at Gen. MacArthur’s
headquarters said the Communists
had prepared defenses to the depth
of 25 miles but nevertheless Ameri
can forces were making gains.
The First Cavalry was fighting on
a 25 mile front. American tanks,
artillery and planes blasted a hole
in the defense network and Infantry
reached Sinchon, a highway village
about 2'2 miles north of the 38th
parallel. Another First Cavalry unit
drove ahead on a northwest tangent
from Kaesong and a third force
reached Panbu, 15 miles to the
northeast.
South Korean troops moving up
the center of the peninsula met in
creasingly strong Communist oppo
sition. At least two Red divisions
have been regrouped here and Mac
Arthur’s headquarters said the
enemy had concentrated his main
force in this central front, five miles
north of the parallel.
FROM SEATTLE
Sgt. P. W. Phister, with the
Alaska Communications Service
from Seattle, is registered at the
Juneau Hotel.
FROM SEATTLE
K. B. Hanna of Seattle is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
(Copyright, 18S0, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
(Editor's Note — The Senate
crime committee has given num
erous hints that American crime
was dominated by the Mafia. Fol
lowing up these hints, Drew Pear
son has dug into this myster
ious organization and in this and
other columns will bring to light
the names of the Mafia leaders
who rule the criminal world of
the United States.)
rfASHINGTON—A total of 50
men control most of the big rackets
in the United States. All are mem
bers of the mysterious Mafia, and
all but one are either Italian-born
or of Italo-American descent.
Various statements have been
given by the Kefauver Crime Com
mittee regarding the power of the
Mafia, but few people realize its
tremendous power or that its head,
Lucky Luciano, directs its affairs
from Italy, whither he was deport
ed when Governor Dewey, for some
strange reason, released him from
Sing Sing during the war.
The history of these strange un
derground rulers goes back to the
18th century when the Mafia was
organized in Sicily to oppose the
tyranny of the Bourbcns.
A similar secret society, called
the Camorra; mushroomed in
Naples for the same purpose, and
expatriates from both emigrated
to America. They reorganiaed
principally in New York, but spread
out across the country, at first
preying chiefly upon wealthy Ital
ians. The Camorra became known
as the "Black Hand” and the Mafia
continued under its Sicilian name.
Eventually the two organizations
became identical.
Because the Malia started out
bootlegging and graduated to dope
i Continued on Page Four)
STEWARDS
MAY DELAY
FREIGHTER
Union Members Refuse to
Sign on Susitna, Due
to Sail Thursday
SEATTLE, Oct. 10—1The dis
pute of the Marine Cooks and Stew
ards Union over the Coast Guard
security ‘‘screening” program spread
to a Seattle-Alaska freighter yes
terday. The steward department re
fused to sign on the SS Susitna at
pier 42.
The Susitna, an Alaska Steamship
Co. cargo ship, is scheduled to sail
about Thursday with freight for
Sitka and Southwest Alaska ports.
Charles Nichols, Marine Cooks
and Stewards port agent, said he
was “not too sure” about the dis
pute on the Susitna. Another union
official was handling that ship, he
said. But, Nichols added, the re
fusal may have been because stew
ard members did not want to sign
on until the day before the ship
sailed. This would enable them to
escape payment of Alaska taxes on j
voyage pay, he said.
Meanwhile. Seattle-Alaska pas
senger service has been knocked out
by the controversy. The SS Baranof,
which sailed Friday, is enroute to
Alaska as a straight cargo ship. All
passenger reservations were can
celled by the company when the
Steward Department failed to
guarantee full compliance with pro
visions of the security program.
The SS Denali, another Alaska
Steamship Co. passenger ship, also
will be operated as a freighter un
less the union gives assurance its
members will sign articles under
the screening program and replace
any members rejected as “bad se
curity risks” the company warned. ]
The Denali is scheduled to sail
from Seattle Friday.
The screening procedure, de
signed to keep Communists and sub
versives off U.S. merchant ships
sailing to war and defense zones,
calls for seamen’s papers to be
turned over to the Commissioner
who turns them over to the Coast
Guard security officers for exami
nation at the time of signing on.
(There is an Alaska tax on all
wages earned in the Territory, which
includes wages of seamen in Alaska
waters. The tax must be withheld
from the time the ship’s articles are
signed for each voyage until the
articles are terminated at the end of
the trip.)
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof from Seattle with freight |
only, in port at 3 p.m. today, w'est
bound.
Princess Louise from Vancouver
due at 8 tonight and will dock at
City Wharf.
Alaska from west in port at 3
p.m. today sailing south at 7 o clock
this evening.
Freighter Palisana southbound
scheduled to arrive at 8 tonight.
WSCS MEETS TOMORROW
The WSCS of the Methodist
Church will meet Wednesday after
noon at 1:30 o’clock at the home of
Mrs. Arnold Larsen, 222 Seventh
street. Mrs. Larsen will begin the
study “Near East Panorama.”
OLDROYD HERE
Lorin T. Oldroyd of Fairbanks is
stopping at the Juneau Hotel.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures for 24-Flour Period
ending 6:20 o’clock th'« morning
In Juneau—Maximum, 50;
minimum, 42.
At Airport—Maximum, 50;
minimum, 40.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Mostly cloudy with light
showers tonight and Wed
nesday. Lowest temperature
tonight about 40 degrees.
Highest Wednesday near 50.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. todaj
City of Juneau—0.10 inches;
since October 1—2.26 inches;
since July 1—24.33 inches.
At Airport — 0.03 inches;
since October 1—0.72 inches;
since July 1—20.06 inches.
922 Doctors,
500 Dentists
To Be Called
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—(#1—The
Defense Department called today
for the drafting of 1.522 physicians,
dentists and veterinarians for the
Army during November, December
and January.
The total includes 922 physicians,
50 dentists and 100 veterinarians.
The department acted only four
days after President Truman set
in motion the machinery for the
drafting of medical men. The first
registration date is Oct. 16.
The Department’s announcement
raid the Navy and the Air Force
have indicated that they do not
presently plan to make similar re
quests to selective service for the
induction of the physicians and
others.
RUSSSTAND
PUZZLES UN
diplomats!
Vishinsky's Acceptance of
Peace Plan Is Received
with Grain of Salt
LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 10—LP)—
Western diplomats were skeptical
today of Russia’s surprise accept
ance of some parts of U.S. Secre
tary of State Dean Acheson’s four
point anti-veto peace plan.
They speculated on the Soviet
Union’s motives.
Was it one of Russia’s startling j
diplomatic shifts, they asked? Or j
was the tentative embrace which
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y.
Vishinsky gave the plan in the 60
nation Political Committee intended
as the kiss of death?
Puzzled diplomats were waiting for
a major Vishinsky policy speech,
which may come today, to clarify
the situation.
The plan itself, called “United
Action for Peace,” is a formaliza
tion of Acheson’s Sept. 20 pro
posals, which the State Depart
ment’s Republican adviser John
Foster Dulles called the "logical
sequence” of the lessons learned in
Korea. Its main points are:
Peace Plans
1. Emergency sessions of the veto
free General Assembly whenever the
Security Council, which has the
primary responsibility for preserv
ing peace, is hamstrung by a veto.
2. Peace patrols of observers to
report to the Assembly on acts of
aggression.
3. Designation by U.N. members
of specific units of their armed
forces to be placed at the disposal
of the U.N. in times of crisis.
4. Establishment of a commission
to report to the Security Council
and General Assembly next year on
specific means which might be used
to enforce peace.
Co-sponsors with the U.S. are
Canada, France the Philippines,
Turkey, Britain and Uruguay.
Soviet Partial Approval
The plan was introduced to the
Political Committee yesterday by
Dulles, who left the door open for
possible Soviet participation. He
said:
“The representatives of the soviet
Union profess to believe that the
United States now has aggressive
and war-like intentions which
frighten them. If they really believe
that, then they will want the pro
tection that these proposals will
afford.”
Vishinsky immediately took the
floor on a point of order and
astounded delegates by declaring
Russia favored some of the points
in the sweeping program. He added,
however, that there would have to
be many amendments and altera
tions.
Most observers had expected out
right Soviet opposition.
HOWARD LYNG HERE
Howard Lyng of Nome, National
Committeeman of the Democratic
party, is among the Alaskan poli
ticians in Juneau for the Territorial
election. He is staying at the Bara
nof Hotel.
PRESIDENT,
MacARTHUR
WILL MEET
Conference Is Reported
Planned During Weekend
"Somewhere on Pacific"
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — —
President Truman will 'meet with
Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the Pa
cific this coming weekend.
White House sources said arrange
ments have just been completed for
a conference of the President and
the commander of the United Na
tions forces.
They said it will be held "some
where in the Pacific" but did not
disclose whether it will be aboard a
Navy ship or at an island.
Details for the meeting have not:
been completed, these sources said.
When details are complete, the;
White House will have an announce- j
ment.
It was learned the President will '
go directly to the rendezvous from
St. Louis where he is flying to
morrow to witness the installation
of his sister. Miss Mary Jane Tru- j
man, as Worthy Grand Matron of '
the order of the Eastern Star.
PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — (/Pt —
President Truman announced today
he will meet this weekend with Gen.
Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific
to discuss "the final phase of United
Nations action in Korea.”
Mr. Truman said in a statement
that he will also discuss with Mac
Arthur “other matters within his
responsibility.” He did not say what
these were.
Mr. Truman’s statement did not
say wrhere he would meet with the
United Nations commander.
The White House withheld an an
nouncement on the place of the
meeting. But it was presumed to be
somewhere west of Hawaii.
Mr. Truman will take off from
St. Louis Thursday in the White
House plane, the “Independence”
for Hawaii, the first stop on a trip
expected to last about a week.
He is going to St. Louis tomorrow
to witness the installation of his
sister, Miss Mary Jane Truman, as
Worthy Grand Matron of the Order
of the Eastern Star.
Accompanying the President to
the meeting with MacArthur will
be Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff; W. Av
erell Harriman, special assistant to
the President on foreign affairs;
Philip C. Jessup, State Department
roving Ambassador-at-Large, and
Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary of
State for Far Eastern Affairs. Sec
retary of the Army Pace may also
make the trip.
Mr. Truman will leave St. Louis
at 6 p.m. (EST) Thursday for Fair
field-Suisun Air Force base in Cali
fornia.
Arriving there at 10 p.m. (Pacific
Standard Time) Thursday, he will
leave two hours later for Hickam
Air Force base in Honolulu.
The White House refused to say
the ultimate place of meeting or
give any other details except to say
Mr. Truman will return to Wash
ington Wednesday, Oct. 13.
Mr. Truman, in his statement,
said that in the final phase of UN
action MacArthur’s command “will
be working closely with the United
Nations Commission which has just
been created by the General Assem
bly and given heavy responsibilities
for the establishment of a unified,
independent, and Democratic Ko
rea.”
He added:
“We must proceed rapidly with
out part in the organization of the
United Nations relief and recon
struction program in order to give
the Korean people a chance to live
in peace."
With Congress in recess, there was
little of the formal comment from
political figures that usually follows
major Presidential announcements
and actions.
However, Chairman Guy Gabriel
son of the Republican National
Committee summed up his views on
the development with three words:
“It’s about time.”
Republicans in Congress have
been urging for months that Mac
Arthur be called home for consul
tation on Far East policy and par
ticularly to give his views to Sen
j ate and House Committees con
i cerned with defense and foreign
i affairs.
I
Giant Pincer No. 2 in Korea
Lower big shaded arrows mark giant pincer No. 1 formed by amphi
bious drive from Inchon landing and push from Pusan beachhead.
That crushed Red Koreans south of the 38th parallel. Upper big
broken arrows mark possible giant pincer No. 2 formed by potential
pushes from 175,000-man U. N. force massing in Seoul area and from
South Korean divisions which have penetrated to just south of Won
san. Solid black arrows mark current South Korean drives Into
Wonsen area and First Cavalry’s capture of Kaesong north of Seoul.
IP) W'irephoto Map.
Russia Claims American
Fighter Planes Strafed
Airfield Near Vladivostok
MOSCOW, Oct. 10—(J1)—Russia
charged today that two American
fighter planes strafed and damaged
a Soviet airfield near the key Si
berian seaport of Vladivostok last
Sunday.
(In Tokyo, an official U.S. Air
Force spokesman said he Is “unable
to comment at this time" on the
HALFBILLION
IS CUT FROM
NEW BUDGET
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — (/P) —
The Budget Bureau announced to
day a $580,271,335 cut in non-defense
appropriations — $30,271,335 more
than the minimum cut Congress
ordered after voting the funds.
The Bureau’s reductions, for the
fiscal year ending next June 30,
were approved by President Tru
man. They were spread over 31
agencies in the Executive Branch
which shared in the $35,554,600,425
single-package appropriations act to
which the cuts applied.
That act made up a large part of
the nearly $54,000,000,000 Congress
appropriated this year before re
cessing until Nov. 27.
The biggest slash of all whacked
$75,000,000, or half, off the $150,
000,000 total voted by Congress for
the Federal Security Agency’s grants
for hospital construction.
Other cuts of $50,000,000 or more:
Army Engineers civil activities,
European Recovery Program (Mar
shall Plan), and relief in occupied
areas abroad, $50,000,000 each.
The Bureau said however, the
cuts will not require stopping power
project work already contracted for
by the Army Engineers and will not
cause any halt or slowdown in the
Interior Department’s current power
projects.
FLORIDA GIRL HERE
Laura Brach, Pan American Air
ways employee from Miami Springs.
Florida, Is in Juneau on a vacation
trip. She Is stopping at, the Baranof
Hotel.
Russian assertion.)
A Russian protest note was pre
ferred to U.S. Minister-Counsellor
Walworth Barbour last night by
Soviet Deputy Minister Andrei
j Gromyko. The note placed the in
! cident 62 miles north of the Soviet
, Korean border.
! It demanded “strict punishment"
I for the "responsible personnel”
and American assurances against
such incidents in the future.
The note said two F-80 Shooting
Star jets machinegunned an airfield
in the Sukhaya Rechka area at 4:17
p.m. (local time) Sunday. Sukhaya |
Rechka is across Novik Bay from
Vladivostok and about 18 miles
southwest of that important Si
berian rail and shipping terminus.
No Casualties
“As a result of the firing damage i
was inflicted on airdrome equip- j
ment,” the note declared. It made |
no mention of casualties.
Barbour declined to accept the!
note on the grounds the protest was j
a matter for the United Nations j
to handle.
Gromyko disagreed, arguing that
since the note dealt with the firing
by American planes on a Soviet In
stallation, it was the sole concern of
the two governments involved.
The note subsequently was sent
by the Russians to the U.S. Em
bassy. U.S. Ambassador Alan G.
Kirk, who had been in bed with a
cold, went there early this morning
to inform the State Department of j
the Soviet communication.
Moscow Prints Report
It was published in Moscow papers 1
without editorial comment.
“In connection with these pro- j
vocative actions of the American Air |
Force, expressed in a gross violation (
of the U.S.S.R. state frontier, . . .
and in firing on a Soviet airdrome,
the Soviet government launches a
resolute protest with the govern- j
mtnt of the United States,” the;
note said.
In refusing to accept the note.:
| Barbour took the same stand as was ^
\ taken by the United States last Sep- |
! tember, when Russia protested the
! downing of a Soviet plane by Amer- j
j ican aircraft off Korea.
That note was never accepted by j
the United States, and Russia sub
mitted it to the United Nations for i
consideration only, not for action It
1 has remained shelved so far.
ALASKANS
BALLOTING
AT POLLS
Sixty-Eight Candidates
Seek Thirty-Five Offices
in Territorial Election
Alaskans are going to the polls
today, In little precincts and big
precincts from Hyder to Point Bar
row. From a total of 68 candidates
they will select a Delegate to Con
gress for a two-year term; a Terri
torial Treasurer for a four-year
term; a Commissioner of Labor
for a four-year term; eight Senat
ors for four-year terms; and 24 Re
presentatives for two-year terms.
The following are the candidates
for office, with their party affil
iations:
Territorial Offices
Delegate to Congress: E. L. Bart
lett (D); Aimer J. Peterson, <R).
Territorial Treasurer: Henry Ro
den (D), unopposed.
Commissioner of Labor: Henry A.
Benson (R); Ross E. Kimball (D).
F irst Oivision
Senate: Elton E. Engstrom (R);
James Nolan <D); Frank Peratro
vich <D>.
House: Doris M. Barnes (R);
Ralph A. Bartholomew < R >; Rob
ert E. Coughlin <D); Amelia A.
Gundersen (Di; R. T. Harris (D);
Waino E. Hendrickson <R>; An
drew Hope <D); Marcus F. Jensen
(D); Frank G. Johhson «R»; Ed
Locken (R); James S: MacKinnon
<R>; M. L. MacSpadden <R>; Ver
non M. Metcalfe (D); Clyde O. Pet
erson (RI; W. O. Smith (D>! B.
D. Stewart (D).
Second Division
Senate: William E. Beltz (D);_
Percy Ipalook (Ri; Charles D.
Jones <R); Charles A. O’Leary (D).
House: Rose Bronson (Ri; Frank
A. Degnan (D); Alex T. Edman
(D); W. W. Laws <R>; George P.
Madsen (D>; Peter L Reader (R>;
Nels Swanberg, Jr., (R>; James K.
Wells (D).
Third Division
Senate: Gunnard M. Engebreth
(R>; £. J. Loussac (D>; Victor C.
Rivers (D); Gerrit Snider (R).
House: Chester C. Carlson (D);
Will H. Chase (R); Jack D. Con
right (D); William A. Egan (D);
Victor V. Gill (Ri; John F. Gor
such <R); Wendell P. Kay (D>;
Stanley J. McCutcheon (D); Lee L.
McKinley (Ri; Archie P. McLane
<R>; Thorwald Osbo <R); C .A.
Pollard (D); Jack F. Scavenius
(Di; M. D. Snodgrass (R>.
FOURTH DIVISION
Senate: A. F. Coble (R>; Jess D.
Lander <D); W. L. Lhamon <R);
Warren A. Taylor (D).
House: Frank Angerman (D);
Essie R. Dale <D>; Glen D. Frank
lin (D); George W. Gasser (R);
Thomas A. Jones <D); L. F. Joy
<R); Robert S. McCombe (D>;
George J. Miscovicli <Ri; Mike
Stepovich (Ri; Alden L. Wilbur
(R).
TERRITORIAL PREDICTION
MADE BY HOWARD LYNG
Senator Howard Lyng, Nome
mining man, and Democratic Na
tional Committeeman, predicts
that, due to the closeness of the
battle in each of the four divisions,
there will be an unusually large
vote.
Senator Lyng arrived yesterday
after making public speeches and
radio talks in Anchorage and Fair- j
banks on behalf of the Democratic
Party.
He gave these legislative election
forecasts to The Empire this after
noon:
2nd Division—Split right down the
middle in both Senate and House,
with a possible chance that the
Demos take three out of four places
in the House.
3rd Division — Demos take both
Senate seats and five out of seven in
the House.
4th Division—One and one in the
Senate; three out of five seats in
the House can go either way.
1st Division — Demos take both
Senate seats: House seats equally
divided, four and four.
BOY FOR NORDLINGS
A boy, 8 pounds and 4 ounces,
vas born to Mrs. Charles Nordling
yesterday evening at 1:45 at St.
4nn's hospital here.
FROM FAIRBANKS
Cornelius P. Coughlin of Fair
banks is staying at the Baranof i
Sotel. i
POLLS STAY
OPEN UNTIL
8 P.M. TODAY
Returns Expected to Be De
layed Because of Late
Closing Hour
With the weather "not bad," and
with unusual Interest in the pres
ent election, large numbers of Ju
neau voters are going to the polls
In the city's three precincts today.
An unusually heavy vote was fore
cast by local observers.
Both parties were busy getting
out the voters today. The Repub
licans had a sound truck traveling
Juneau streets during the day, aug
mented by radio advertising. Dem
ocrats were apparently dei>ending
upon word-of-mouth to get out
their vote.
At 3 p.m. today the total vote
at the Juneau precincts was:
Precinct No. 1 . 328
Precinct No. 2 . 408
Precinct No. 3 .... 206
Total 942
Two years ago, when the fish
trap referendum was instrumental
in turning out a. huge vote, the
3 p.m. count in Juneau showed 303,
323 and 332 respectively for the
three precincts, a total of 958.
Voting will continue until 8 o’
clock tonight. This is one hour
longer than in previous general
elections.
RETURNS LATE
Although the Empire will receive
election bulletins from all parts of
the Territory as usual, it is ex
pected that they will be late coin
ing in, partly because of the later
closing of the polls.
It is expected that the first
bulletins will not be received here
until around midnight, if then.
Juneau precincts are not ex
pected to have complete totals until
early tomorrow morning.
KETCHIKAN PACKER
PAYS $1,000 FINE
FOR ILLEGAL FISHING
An unusual violation was prose
cuted yesterday in the Ketchikan
U. S. Commissioner's court, in
which a packer was charged with
fishing.
Nels Larsen, captain of the pack
er Heather Kay, pleaded guilty on
three counts: (1) Fishing during
a closed season; (2* fishing within
500 yards of a creek mouth and
(31 commercial fishing with glllnet.
The skipper was fined $1,000,
which he paid.
Word of the case was received
here by Dan H. Ralston, Law En
forcement Supervisor of the Fish
and Wildlife Service.
SPECIALIST GIVES
INSTRUCTION IN
POLIO NURSING
AI graduate nurses are urged
by (he local Red Cross chapter to
attend a series of lectures and
demonstrations on poliomyelitis
nursing to be given this week by a
visiting specialist.
Miss Helen Anderson, instructor
of orthopedic nursing at the Uni
versity of Washington, has been
sent by the National Foundation
lor Infantile Paralysis to conduct
the classes.
Instruction will be tomorrow
from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., and from
7 to 9 p.m., and Thursday morn
ing from 9:30 to 11:30 o'clock.
Health Department officials and
local doctors urge all nurses to
Lake advantage of this opportunity.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Oct. 10 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2’*. American Can
102'a. Anaconda 35, Curtiss-Wright
>■%, International Harvester 31 ti,
Kennecott 64 H, New York Central
16%. Northern Pacific 25 7», U. S.
Steel 39 >4. Pound $2.80‘4.
Sales today were 1.870,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
lustrials 227.60, rails 68.54, utilities
10.46.