THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,649
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1950
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STASSEN MOVES
IN AS WHEELHORSE,
TUESDAY ELECTION
Chosen to Rebut Truman's
Campaign Speech Tomor-1
row Night from St. Louis
(By the Associated Press)
Harold E. Stassen appeared today
to have moved into the wheelhorse j
position in the final Republican
drive toward Tuesday’s Congres
sional elections.
Chosen to rebut President Tru
man’s campaign speech from St.
Louis tomorrow night, the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania president went
to Columbus yesterday to back Sen
ator Robert A. Taft%
It was his first political appear
ance there since he battled Taft for
Ohio delegates to the Republican
National Convention in 1948. Stas
sen won nine of Ohio’s 53 GOP
delegates but Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
of New York won the Presidential
nomination.
In answering Mr. Truman’s speech
tomorrow night, Stassen will speak
over the Mutual radio network from
New Haven, Conn., immediately
after the President concludes.
Mr. Truman’s address will go out
over about 1,200 radio and 72 tele
vision stations through a hookup of
all the major broadcasting chains.
The Democratic National Commit
tee which is laying out about
$100,000 for the time estimates that
66,590,000 citizens — the largest
American audience in political his
tory—will listen in.
Stassen’s talk over 521 stations
probably will reach only one fourth
as many.
Mr. Truman hasn’t given any
sign yet about the course his speech
will take, but political observers in
Washington think he’ll contend the
results of the Korean war shew
that venture was a bold, successful
step to preserve world peace.
H/ T-OFF IS
FOR WINTER
BY HEAVY SNOWFALL
The Haines Cut-Off has been
closed for the winter, according to
word received here by Frank Met
calf, chief of the highway patrol
and Territorial Highway Engineer.
A1 Lubcke, highway patrolman
in that area sent word that heavy,
slushy snow on this side of the pass |
has made traffic impossible al
though the pass itself is free of
snow.
The Canadian government has
taken its equipment and left the
area so the Cut-Off will probably
remain closed for the winter, Met
calf said.
PORTLAND VISITOR
F. A. McGrew of Portland is
staying at the Baranof Hotel.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Cbprrlght, M50, br Ball Sraalcate. Inc.l
By DREW PEARSON
ItasHINGTON — Two disting
uished Mormons out in Utah pre
sent a unique contrast in human
relations. One is J. Reuben Clark,
No. 2 man in the Mormon church,
a Republican; the other Elbert
Thomas, Senior Senator from Utah,
Democrat.
Twenty-five years ago, Reuben
Clark worked in the State Depart
ment, smoothed out many of Se
cretary Prank B. Kellogg's troubles,
eventually became one of our best
undersecretaries.
He was criticized, however, for
being a radical because he wrote
a document proposing a revision
of the Monroe Doctrine, whereby
other Pan-American nations would
join us in upholding the doctrine.
This theory is now generally ac
cepted, but at that time Reuben
Clark and his “Bolshevist” views
were compared to a waft of red-hot
air out of the Kremlin.
Eventually Reuben Clark left the
State Department and became Am
bassador to Mexico where he did
an equally good, though according
• to seme, a revolutionary jcb. He
believed in friendship with Mexico—
a new theory in that day.
Finally Reuben Clark retired, re
turned to Utah, settled down as j
No. 2 man in the Mormon Church,'
and as a director of insurance'
companies, hotels and railroads.
Being human, he has also grown
old.
Meanwhile, another Mormon in
Washington has been pioneering
U. S. foreign policy. Last year
Sen. Elbert Thomas of Utah in
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400 ARRESTED IN
ROUNDUP OF REDS
IN PUERTO RICO
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Nov. 3—
M—A sweeping police roundup of
Nationalists and leaders of the Com
munist party continued in full swing
today.
Already 400 had been taken in
custody in the wake of Nationalist
attempts to assassinate Governor
Luis Munoz Marin in San Juan and
President Truman in Washington.
The number of arrests was expected
to reach 650 or 750.
It was probable that abandoned
war-time army barracks would be
reopened to serve as temporary
prisons.
The government said the mop-up
of Nationalists in the hills sur
rounding Jayuya, which the rebels
seized Monday and held for a day,
had been completed with the sur
render and capture of 200. The pris
oners were being brought to San
Juan.
San Juan, which had the appear
ance of a siege city following the
revolt, began returning to normal.
National Guardsmen continued to
stop all taxicabs in the city, how
ever, to check passengers and bag
gage compartments.
PLANE IS MISSING
OVER STORMY ALPS
WiTH 40 ON BOARD
GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 3—
An Air India Constellation plane
with 40 passengers aboard is five
hours overdue here today on a
flight from Bombay to London.
It may have crashed in the Alps.
Authorities at Geneva Airport
said the plane left Cairo at 1 a.m.
GMT, (8 p.m. Thursday, ESTi on
the non-stop last leg of its flight
to Geneva, where it was due at
10:30 a.m., GMT (5:30 a.m. EST).
The plane’s last radio contact
with Geneva Airport was at 9:43
a.m. GMT, (4:43 a.m. ESTi when!
the pilot indicated his position
was over Grenoble, France, 65 miles
south of Geneva in the Rhone
Valley. There was no immediate
report from Grenoble of a crash I
there.
The weather over the Alpine re
gion between Geneva and Grenoble
was heavily overcast with fre
quent rain showers and snow at
higher altitudes.
MUSETH APARTMENT !
BURNED YESTERDAY
AFT. BY OIL STOVE
Fire from an exploding oil stove
burned out the apartment of Mr. (
and Mrs. Henry Museth and sen
on the second floor of the residence
at 835 Calhoun avenue yesterday
afternoon. Nothing was saved.
Mrs. Museth had filled the oil
stove after it had run dry and
turned it up high preparatory to
relighting it. The fire pot Hooded
and exploded throwing burning oil
into the living room.
Spectators as far away as the
small boat harbor said that balls of
flame burst through two windows.
Nothing was saved -from the Mu- |
seth apartment the family cat died
in the fire.
The apartment of Mr. and Mrs. I
William K. MacFarland and baby!
on the first floor of the house was
watersoaked. He is the Canadian ]
Pacific Railway agent for Juneau.!
The MacFarlands were working
in the CPR office at the time of
the fire and their child was at
a day nursery.
Friends of 'the two families are
taking care of them for the time
being.
Mrs. Museth escaped injury but
was unable to save anything from
the burning apartment.
ROOM FOR EIGHT IN
NIGHT TYPE (IASS
There is room for eight more in
the night school typing class, Ster
ling S. Sears, superintendent, an
nounced today. The first meeting
of the second section of this class
will be held at the high school next
Tuesday evening and all interested
persons are invited to register be
fore then.
tHUGHES GOES SOUTH
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hughes and
son. Lloyd, left this morning aboard
the Princess Louise for the states.
Hughes has been manager of the
Baranof Hotel for the past three
years.
FROM SEATTLE
O. H. Keil of Seattle is registered
at the Baranof Hotel.
Note to Army: Please
Advise Wives Winter
Wear Obtainable in
Alaska, Part of U. S.
SEATTLE, Nov. 3 — iff) — Anyone
with a spare pair of ear muffs can
make a big hit with a southern belle
i by dashing down to the Olympic
I Hotel and giving them to Mrs. Wil
liam E. Kepner, of Clarksville, Tenn.
Mrs. Kepner, wife of the com
mander of armed services in Alaska,
Lt. General Kepner, is laying in
a supply of warm clothing for a
trip to the cold north, and the ear
warmers are an item she wasn't
able to find yesterday in a whirl
wind tour of Seattle shops. But
she's still looking.
Mrs. Kepner has an accent as
authentic as hominy grits and hoe
cakes.
"I just love your shops,” she said.
“Everyone was so nice rushing the
alterations and all. I got me some
fleece-lined boots, wool slacks,
sweaters and fur-lined gloves, and
l I’m still looking for the ear muffs
| and some wool hose."
After a tour of duty at Eglin Air
Force Base. Fla., Mrs. Kepner is a
little afraid of the weather she'll
encounter.
“It's my first time to live out
side the United States. I've been an
Army wife for 30 years, and love
it, except its hard making up your
mind what >u can take with you
some time.”
She will live in a house at Elmen
dorf Air Force Base, Anchorage,
near the command headquarters at
Fort Richardson.
“All I’ve got to do is move in and
start rearranging the furniture,”
she said.
Mrs. Kepner will leave tomorrow
morning by army transport.
Alaska Pilot-Owners
Are Given One Year
Extension by CAB
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 — <0> —
The Civil Aeronautics Board has an
nounced its intention to extend to
Dec. 31. 1951, the rule under which
pilot-owners of small aircraft are
permitted to engage in air trans
portation in Alaska.
This rule, adopted in 1948, permits
a pilot to use his own plane com
mercially if it is certified for no
more than four passengers.
The board has asked interested
persons for comment by Dec. 5 on
the proposed one-year extension. It
said the results of the rule thus far
“appear to be satisfactory" and few
complaints have been received. But,
it said, the pilot-owner rule should
be considered again after a limited
period in its relation to the other
classes of air transport operators in
Alaska.
Seattle Banker
To Be Manager,
Fairbanks Bank
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 3—0P>
—E. B. Kluckhohn, for many years
vice president of the Seattle First
National bank, will take over active
management soon of the First Na
tional Bank of Fairbanks.
His appointment as vice presi
dent was announced yesterday by
E. H. Stroecker, president of the
Fairbanks bank.
Kluckhohn had been connected
with the Seattle institution for 38
years as head of its Alaska division.
MAN FOUND DEAD IN
BOAT AT N COVE
Jesse E. Shelley of Juneau was
found dead aboard his 36-foot fish
ing vessel Mable C. when his boat
ran ashore in the outer harbor of
Elfin Cove about 6 o'clock last night,
it was reported to 17th U.S. Coast
Guard headquarters here.
The master of the Carrol L dis
covered the body when he went to
investigate the beached boat. Shel
ley had apparently passed away
while running for the inner harbor.
He is believed to have relatives in
Oregon.
The United States Commissioner,
Gordon Gray, in Juneau has been
notified.
BSP 3144 DEPARTS
The CAA barge, BSP 3144, skip
pered by Gordon Meyers, leaves
on a supply run to CAA stations
I at Gustavus and on Sisters Island
returning Saturday night.
FROM SKAGWAV '
K. B. Hannan of Skagway is
. stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
BUILDING
BOOM IS
PREDICTED
Staples, FHA Director,
Sees 1951 Construction
Boom for Alaska
The greatest building boom that
Alaska has ever seen is predicted
for 1951 by Clinton C. Staples, Di
rector of the Federal Housing Ad
ministration for Alaska.
"The people of Alaska should
feel highly elated that the credit
curb restrictions now placed on the
other territories, possessions and
the states, do not apply to Alaska,"
Staples declared. "Our Government
in Washington fully realizes the
need for housing in Alaska for the
individual as well as the military.
Full advantage of this opportunity
should be taken. Extremely criti
cal defense housing needs and ob
stacles to new construction peculiar
to Alaska justifies this exception."
He believes that materials and
labor will be more plentiful for the
1951. construction season. And that
more contractors will be attracted
to Alaska.
i Since the new regulations have
gone into effect Oct. 12, Staples re
ports that he has committeed $7,
007,000 and has over $5,000,000 in
applications for single and multi
type dwellings throughout the Ter
ritory.
A recent poll taken by the Na
tional Association of Home Build
ers showed opinions of the leading
builders estimated the probable cut
back from 20 to 60 percent. The
mortage and home building business
has been thrown into a state of
confusion and uncertainty like that
of 1946—the last period of World
War II contols, according to the
report. "Because such an atmos
phere is not conducive to the mak
ing of long tern committments, it
may end with a greater curtailment
of activity than might be contem
plated as a result of these specific
regulations," the statement read.
This effect on building in the
states will work to the advantage
of Alaska which js exempted from
the new regulations', Staples point
ed out. •
FIRE DEPARTMENT
TAKES UP PLEDGE
TO LIBRARY FUND
—
Last night the Juneau Volunteer
Fire Department held their monthly
meeting in the Firemans Club.
The session, presided over by,
Assistant Chief William Neider- j
hauser, voted unanimously to pay
immediately from personal funds
the $250 pledge made the Juneau
Memorial Library Association.
A discussion arose concerning the
I coming Fireman’s Ball which will
be held next February. Chairman
i Herman Porter announced that the
decorating committee is already in
full swing. A special added attrac
tion is also being planned in con
nection with the affair.
Robert Haag was a visitor during
the evening which ended with a
crab feed. Jack Manery, former Ju
neau police chief, sent his compli
ments to the department by pre
senting a large number of delicious
crab from Tenakee. Jack was given
a resounding vote of thanks. As
usual Chef Sorenson displayed the
crustaceans and other snacks to
their' best advantage.
BIDS TO BE CALLED
FOR PAVING OF ROAD
DUCK CREEK-AUK BAY
In preparation for eventual pav
ing of 3.25 miles between Duck
Creek and Auk Bay, the Bureau of
Public Roads will advertise Novem
ber 8 for bids on widening, re
aligning . and grading the present
gravel road.
Bids will be opened November 29 j
Work probably will be started
early in the spring, to be cu !
pleted next year, according to H A
Stoddart, BPR Division Engir
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Freighter Coastal Rambler
Seattle scheduled to arrive S i-•
Baranof scheduled to sail fronr
Seattle today as cargo shir- n!)
passengers.
Princess ' Louise scheduled t‘> lli‘
( from Vancouver, Saturday, Nuv H
i WIFE OF SLAIN
ASSASSIN TAKEN
IN CUSTODY, N.Y.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3—(Ft—Mrs.
Carmen Torresola, 21-year-old wife
of slain assassin Griselio Torresola, j
i was taken into custody last night, |
it was learned today.
The young woman had been the
object of an intensive FBI search
since her husband was felled by
gunfire when he tried to storm Blair
House in an attempt to kill Presi
dent Truman Wednesday.
It was reported Mrs. Torresola,
who was taken to the Federal
Women’s House of Detention, may
be charged with conspiracy to in
jure the President.
Authoritative sources said that
Mrs. Torresola was taken into cus
tody at 9 p.m„ last night at her
home, 202 West 103rd Street. She
was listed at the House of Detention
as Mrs. Carmen Otero but there was
no immediate explanation for the
discrepancy in names.
Th§ attractive young widow dis
appeared yesterday along with her
six-month-old daughter. She- van
ished a few hours before FBI agents,
tracing her through city relief rolls,
went to the Torresola home to ques
tion her.
HELD IN $50,009 BAIL
NEW YORK, Nov. 3—(FI—Mrs.
Carmen Torresola, seized by FBI
agents last night in their investiga
tion of the attempted assassination
of President Truman, was held in
$50,000 bail today on a charge of
conspiracy to ’’injure" the President.
The 21-year-old widow of Griselio
Torresola, who was slain trying to
storm the President’s home last
Wednesday, appeared before U.S.
Commisioner Edward W. McDonald.
He set Nov. 9 for a hearing.
During her arraignment, U.S. At
torney Irving H. Saypol disclosed
that Torresola had left farew'ell let
ters to his two children before he
left for Washington to carry out
the unsuccessful death plot against
Mr- Truman, one of the children is
six months old. The other, child of
a previous marriage, lives in Puerto
Rico.
VIOLENT EARTH !
SHOCKS REPORTED
OVER WIDE AREA
aB.v The Associated Press)
Violent earth shocks felt over a
wide area of the Orient yesterday
indicated an earthquake of major
proportions has struck an area of
the East Indies, possibly somewhere
in the vicinity of Timor.
Shocks were reported from points
as far apart as Darwin, Australia
and Hwa-Lien, Formosa, about 2,
400 miles away.
The Riverview Observatory at
Sydney placed the center of the
disturbances 2,300 miles northeast
of Sydney in the Banda Sea area
This would be in the vicinity of
Timor, in Indonesia.
The force of the shocks damaged
seismographs at Jakarta, Indonesia
central meteorological observatory.
The observatory said the readings
were thus inadequate but indica
tions were that the center of the
quake was in the neighborhood of
New Guinea.
About BOO miles separates Nev.
Guinea and Timor in the Indies
Between the two is Amboina, scene
of a violent earthquake and Seis
mic, or tidal, wave on Oct. 8.
The shocks in Darwin shook
buildings in the city and elsewhere
in northern Australia, but no ser
ious damage was reported.
People rushed from their sway
ing house, and some of the abor
igines were in near panic, but
quieted later. ,
The Jakarta observatory set the
time of the shook there at 11:33 p
m. last ' night, 1:33 am., PST,
Thursday. •
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Nov. 3 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today Is 2%, American Can
98%, American Tel. and Tel. 151%,
Anaconda 35%, Douglas Aircraft
79%, General Electric 50%, General
Motors 51%, Goodyear 59%, Ken
necott 67%, Libby McNeill and
Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 25%,
Standard Oil of California 76%.
Twentieth Century Fox 22%, US.
Steel 41%.
Sales today were 1,560,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 228.10, rails 66.67, utilities
40.44.
FROM PORT CHILKOOT
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Smith of j
Port Chilkoot are stopping, at the
Hotel Juneau.
' -r . ^ _ §
SUSPECTS
SOUGHT IN
BIG PLOT
Federal Agents Look for
Accomplices in Attempt
ed Assassination
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 — (/PI — j
Federal agents moved on far-flung
fronts today to nip any offshoots
of the plot to kill President Tru
man which ended in blood-spattered
failure for two Puerto Rican revo
lutionaries Wednesday.
The President continued to show
no emotion at his escape from the
guns of two fanatics who were felled,
one of them shot dead, at the very
steps of his official residence.
But the guard around him was
increased and FBI and Secret Serv
ice men moved swiftly in an attempt
to track down any of the pair’s ac
complices who might be dangerous.
Mr. Truman did not take his
usual early morning walk, but there
was no indication he passed it up
because of concern for his safety.
He had worked late last night on
the political speech he will make in
St. Louis tomorrow night.
Visits Wounded Guards
About 9:40 a.m. after working
in his office for a while, the Presi
dent walked from the White House
to nearby Emergency hospital to
visit two guards who were wounded
in defending him. Just what he said
to them was not disclosed. Re
porters were not permitted to ac
company him to the hospital rooms.
In New York, the FBI took into
custody the 21-year-old widow of
Griselio Torresola, the would-be
assassin who was killed in front of
Blair House. It was learned the
young woman was picked up when
she visited her home. A search had
been under way for her since Wed
nesday.
subpoenas Issued
There were indications that a
federal grand Jury investigation
into the assassination plot may be
made in New York. Subpoenas were
issued for three Puerto Ricans—one
a convicted revolutionist—after they
were arrested at the apartment of
the other conspirator, Oscar Col
lazo.
If the trio had any role in the
plot it was not made clear. There
were no indications that any
charges were placed against them.
Collazo, 37, was arraigned form
ally in Washington on a murder
charge and held without bond for
a hearing on Nov. 21.
Murder Charges
The murder charge was the out
growth of the fatal injury to Leslie
Coffelt, one of the White House
policemen and Secret Service agents
who turned back in, a volley of bul
lets the attempt by Collazo and
Torresola to storm the executive
residence. Two of Coffelt’s colleagues
were seriously wounded.
The swarthy Collazo was re
ported by agents who have been
questioning him to consider himself
a martyr to the cause of Puerta
Rican independence. Both he and
Torresola belonged to the Nation
alist party, which is violently anti
U.S. and favors immediate inde
pendence for the Caribbean island.
MENDENHALL DAIRY,
MILK DELIVERY ARE
JOLD NOVEMBER 1
Maynard Peterson has purchased
the Mendenhall Dairy from George
Danner taking over the manage
ment as of November 1. Effective
the' same day wag the sale of the
A. N. Kaiser of his retail milk de
livery business to Bill Flint.
Danner started the Mendenhall
Dairy in 1910 at approximately
the same location near the Alaska
Communication System tuning sta
tion seven miles out on the Glacier
Highway. Kaiser plans on making
a visit to Chicago in the near fu
ture.
McGRAVV, DEAN TO SITKA
Donald E. McQraw, field auditor,
office of the acting U.S. property
and disbursing officer, Alaska Na
tional Guard, Anchorage, and
Major D. W. Dean, battalion com
mander of the 208th Infantry Bat
talion (sep) left yesterday after
noon for Sitka to assist in admin
istrative and supply functions of
Company B. 208th Battalion. They
are expected to return Sunday.
HAINES VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. George Benesch of
Haines are stopping at the Baranof!
Hotel, I
(
Glare in Sky
Startles Residents
In Wide Section
(By Associated Press)
A brilliant glare lit up northeast,
ern skies for a few seconds last
night. Astronomers said It must
have been a meteor.
"Definitely a meteor," said Dr.
P. M. Millman of the Dominion
Observatory In Ottawa. A Har
vard University observatory spokes
man agreed.
An airline official in Syracuse, N
Y. who declined to be identified,
had said he learned from the U. S.
Air Force that the Royal Canad
ian Air Force had discharged a
rocket at Rockcliffe Airport, near
Ottawa.
But RCAF officials declared there
''definitely ■" wore no flares or
rockets sent up from Rockcliffe
last night, and anyway they knew
of none that could cast such a bril
liant light for several hundred
miles.
The vari-colored fireball startled
residents of such widely-scattered
points as Utica, Albany, Plattsburgh
and Broome County, N. Y., Port
land, Me., Montreal and Ottawa.
ALASKA TO HAVE
HEARING ON RATES
FOR SHIPPING FISH
Alaskans will have a chance to
present their case without going
outside, in the matter of increased
rates for transporting frozen fish.
Rates were raised in September by
the Alaska Steamship Company.
The United States Maritime Board
will conduct a rate hearing Novem
ber 27 in Ketchikan, where the three
principal plaintiffs are located. They
are the Ketchikan Cold Storage
Company, E. C. Phillips and Son,
and Polar Fisheries.
The Maritime Board will also
hold a hearing in Seattle, probably
December 11. Originally, the only
one was planned fot Not-etfiber is
in Seattle.
The Information was received to
day by Oov. Ernest Oruening from
James P. Davis, director of the In
terior Department’s Office of Ter
ritories.
On learning Monday that the
Seattle hearing was the only one
planned, the Governor had wired
Davis, as well as the chairman of|
the Maritime Commission, strongly]
protesting and asking a change toj
Alaska, or additional headings in
the Territory.
Governor Gruentng today ex
pressed satisfaction over the addl-!
tional meeting in Alaska.
“Now,” he said, “Alaskans may
present their case on their home
grounds, and be spared the addi
tional costs in fighting rate in
creases.”
ALL JUNEAU SCHOOLS
IN BACK-TO-SCHOOL
NIGHT NEXT MONDAY
.
All parents or children in all the
Juneau schools are invited to at
tend a back-to-school night next
Monday evening. “The main pur
pose of this activity is to have par
ents meet the teachers and have
m opportunity to discuss problems.”
Sterling S. Sears, superintendent,
pointed out.
Exhibits of regular daily' work
will be on display with a mid
evening demonstration of physical
education activities, including tumb
ling in the high school gym. A band
concert in the grade school audi
torium is set for 8:45 with the band
under the direction of Lyle Manson
and the chorus conducted by Miss
Mary Iverson.
Visitors are welcome to attend a
regular rifle club meet in the AB
hall between 7:30 and 9 o'clock,
under the direction of A. E. Eide.
Doors will be open at 7:30 and the
outlying schools are all included.
Sears stressed.
COUNCIL TONIGHT
Regular monthly and financial
reports will be heard at a regular
meeting of the Juneau City Coun
cil tonight at 8 o’clock. With City
Attorney Howard Stabler back, the
matter of setting a date for a tele
phone rate hearing will also be
taken up. Mayor Waino Hendrick
son, said today.
P.O. INSPECTOR HERE
P. L. Dunham, Post Office ins
pector from Seattle is in Juneau
He is stopping at the Baranof Ho
tel.
AT HOTEL JUNEAU
Steve Homer and Ted Gregg of
the motor vessel Chilkoot from
Port Chilkoot are at the Hotel Ju
neau,
UN FORCES
REEL BACK, i
NO. KOREA
Furious Communist Count
erattack-Situation Is
"Very Serious"
(By the Associated Press)
U.S. pilots today reported troops
in Chinese Manchuria are pushing
toward North Korea, where United
Nations forces are reeling back in
virtually every sector from a furious
Oommunist counterattack.
Allied reinforcements have been
rushed to the flaming borderland.
Two American regiments have been
surrounded, trapped by the com
bined North Korean and Chinese
forces now attacking in great
strength on the northwest front.
U.S. Eighth Army headquarters
called the situation "very serious.”
The U.S. 24th Division, which had
I reached to within 15 miles of the
Manchurian border, was forced to
withdraw 50 road miles to Chong-Ju
to avoid encirclement.
Fight Savagely
I The heaviest fighting was In the
Unsan area. The Reds, using 82mm
rockets, 76mm howitzers and re
colless weapons not previously en
countered by the Allies, fought sav
agely.
Oen. MacArthur's intelligence
spokesman characterized the battle
in the Unsan-Onjong area as a
large scale defensive action and not
a counter-offensive. He said United
Nations forces still retain the initi
ative in North Korea as a whole.
The sharp Red attacks endangered
the right flank of British common
wealth forces, however, and they,
too, were forced to fall back.
Division Cat Off
Elements of two U.8. First Cav
alry Division rsgtmonts -were rat off
and badly mauled south of Unsan.
Pushing south at Unsan the Reds
knifed to within two miles of Kunu
and were only 47 miles north of
Pyongyang, fallen Communist capi
tal.
Only the U.S. Seventh Marine
Regiment, Jumping off from Su
dong, 20 miles south of the Chang
jin reservoir on the northeast front,
attempted to drive forward. It was
forced to pull up sharply when the
enemy, described as Chinese Reds,
began a plhcers movement endan
gering the regiment’s east and west
flanks.
Thirteen American tanks were
captured by the Communists in the
Unsan fighting yesterday. The North
Koreans, bolstered by what now
appear to be major elements of the
Chinese Red Army, probably have
more than 12 divisions, although all
may not be up to full strength.
FAIRBANKS SCHOOLS
CL0SED;3RD STUDENT
HOSPITALIZED, POLIO
FAIRBANKS. Alaska, Nov. 3—M
—A third Fairbanks high school
youth was hospitalized with polio
last night. City Health Officer Rob
ert P. Gorman Immediately ordered
all city schools closed indefinitely
to forestall further spread of th®
disease.
The latest diagnosis came only
four days after the death of 17
year-old David Osborne. He died
Sunday three days after being
stricken.
Neither the name nor the condi
tion of the latest victim was an
nounced. .
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 0:20 o’clock this morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 48; •
• minimum, 40. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 46; •
• minimum, 41. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Cloudy with showers and •
• southeasterly winds of 15 to •
• 25 miles per hour tonight and •
• Saturday. Lowest tempera- •
• ture tonight about 40 degrees •
• and highest Saturday near •
• 43 degrees. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 34 hours ending 7:30 a m today •
• City of Juneau—1.62 inches; •
• since Nov. 1 — 1.87 inches; •
• since July 1—30.90 inches. •
• At Airport — 0.39 inches; •
• since Nov. 1 — 0.48 inches; •
• since July 1—22.53 inches. •