Red Rail
Syslem
Crippled
War Planes Make Sur
prise Attack on Roiling
Stock Caught Out in Open
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Oct. 25—
Allied warplanes pounded the
crippled North Korean rail system
today in one of the war’s most
cpncentrated attacks.
Wave after wave of fighter bom
bers roared down on Red rolling
stock caught out in the open. U.S.
Fifth Air Force officers said the
Reds were completely surprised and
had no time to get their trains
into the shelter of tunnels.
Nine locomotives and 99 rail
cars were destroyed. Nineteen
locomotives and 129 cars were
listed as damaged.
Three brief jet battles were re
corded during the day. One Russian
made MIG-15 was damaged. There
were no reports of Allied losses.
One F-4-U Corsair crashed and
burned In Red territory after being
hit by ground fire. The Air Force j
said there was no chance the pilot!
survived.
A comparative lull fell across
the battle fronts as truce talks
resumed in Panmunjom.
There was some sharp action;
southeast of Kumsong on the cen
tral front. Tank-supported In
fantry seized a Communist-held
hill despite strong Red resistance.
Doughboys stormed the high
—gt-6Uftd as American tanks hit the
Chinese entrenched in their bunkers.
The North Korean war communi
que for Thursday, broadcast by
Pyonogyang radio, claimed 12 ■
American fliers were captured. It;
said Red aircraft shot down one |
B-29 Superfort and damaged two
others on the Korean east coast.!
The communique did not say when
the action took place and there was
no confirmation from the Far East
Air Forces.
Suspended N. Y.
Tsx Agent Wants
To Knew 'Why'
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25—(51—Jo
seph P. Marcelle testified today
he still doesn’t know exactly why
he was asked to resign as Internal
Revenue collector for the First
New York District.
In the witness chair at a House
hearing, he said Commissioner
John B. Dunlap, in asking him to
quit Tuesday night, told him the
request was based on “personal
activities outside of the office.”
Marcelle added that something
was mentioned “about my tax re
turn and some people I was sup
pc >ed to have consorted with.”
But that is all he knows, he said,
about why he was ousted from the
$10,000-a-year job.
Marcelle said he finally agreed
to resign but only after demanding
and obtaining an interview with
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
who backed up Dunlap.
The ex-collector, dapper in a
double-breasted gray suit and blue
shirt, apologized to a House Ways
and Means subcommittee as he
made a day-late appearance.
The committee had expected to
hear him yesterday, but Marcelle
failed to show up. The group then
Issued a subpoena for him.
In New York last night, Mar
celle said there had been a mis
understanding.
The subetmmittee, headed by
Rep. King <b-Calif), is making a
general investigation of the gov
ernment’s tax collecting system. Six
district collectors have been sus
pended or forced out of office since
its inquiry began.
Northwest Stales
Hit by Snow, Cold
By Associated Press
Snow and cold hit northwest
states today but there was warmer
weather on the way for the north
central states.
Snow fell in Montana, western
North Dakota and northern Wyom
ing. Lewiston, Montana, reported
three inches of snow on the ground
and a reading of 24 above.
Temperatures were expected to
climb into the 70's in the midwest
today after several days of cool
and rainy weather.
City Council
Meets Tonight
What Is probably the last regular
weekly meeting of the Juneau city
council will be held at the usual
time, 8 o'clock tonight.
The third and final reading is
due of the changed ordinance which
will call for meetings of the coun
cil only on the first and third
Thursdays of the month, instead
of weekly, and at 7:30 p.m. instead
of at 8 o’clock.
This meeting is at the usual
place, the chambers at the city
dock. ,
Compromise Plan
for Buffer Zone
Offered i>y UN
MUNSAN. Korea, Oct, 25—M—
The United Nation.'! today proposed
a give-and-take compromise to set
up a buffer zone across the wartorn
Korean peninsula.
The U N. proposal on lied for the
Allies to y;eld about 200 square mile ;
of North Korea in the east, and fcr
the Reds to give up a similar area
in the west.
The buffer zone would be about
2'i miles wide and follow gen
erally present battle lines.
The proposal was introduced in
a subcommittee meeting in Pan
munjom shortly after cease-fire
negotiation ■ were resumed by the
main Red and Allied teams, ending
a 64-day breakdown in the parleys.
There was no immediate indica
tion of Communist reaction. The
Reds previously demanded a buffer
zone along parallel 38, old political
boundary between North and South
Korea.
Maj. Gen. Henry I. Hodes, sub
rommittecman who presented the
Allied proposal, cautioned the
Reds to accept it, or fare a less
favorable offer later. He pointed
out (hat while talks were in re
cess, the Allies had advanced
their line many miles northward.
After the proposal, accompanied
by detailed maps, was made to the
Comuunists, the subcommittees ad
journed until 11 a.m., Friday (6 p.m.,
PST, Thursday).
brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
U N. Command spokesman, said the
Communists would be obliged to
give up Kaesong, former site of the
cease-fire talks. It is just below
parallel 38 in western Korea.
FROM WHITEHORSE
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Milne of
Whitehorse are staying at the Bar
anof Hotel.
NOTICE CORRECTION
Yacht Club meeting THURSDAY
8 p.m. Baranof Iris Room. 47-1
R. W. COWLING, Comm.
Fight Marks
0
Strikebound
Waterfront
NEW YORK. Oct. 25— P-A brief
but spirited scuffle erupted on New
York's strike-becalmed waterfront
today when some 100 longshoremen
drove through the strikers' picket
lines.
The sortie, led by a supporter of
President Joe Ryan of tile AFL In
ternational Longshoremen's Associ
ation, broke through and around a
picket line of 250 men at a Hudson
river pier where the liner Coronia
had just clocked.
Fist fights broke out. There was
a flurry of shoving, yelling and
gouging.
The invaders reached the dock,
but then turned around and left
without unloading the 280 tons
of general cargo from the British
liner. The pickets, who arc re
belling against a recently negoti
ated contract, watched sullenly
as the group retreated.
Harold Bower, a pro-Ryan man
who led the invasion, denounced
the wildcat strike, but said “we will
not work in a section where (here
are pickets."
The flurry cams as rebel leaders
of the anti-Ryan striker.; threat
ened to spread the paralyzing strike
to Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Chester, Pa.
Virtually all piers in the big
port of New York, including New
Jersey docks, and in Boston al
ready have been shut down by the
strike.
A total of 122 ships have been
•immobilized, ~ some •Trf-~-ttinTr-Trittr
perishable cargoes rotting in the
holds. Tons of other freight was
piling up on docks at the rate of
$25,000,090 worth a day.
NOTICE CORREC TION
Yacht Club meeting THURSDAY
8 p.m. Baranof Iris Room. 47-1
R. W. COWLING, Comm.
5 Perjury Charges
AieMsde Against
Remington
NEW YORK, Oct. 25 .¥)—Wil
11am W. Remington, former gov
ernment economist whose perjury
conviction was reversed on appeal.
I was indie! ed today by a federal
grand jury on new perjury charge;.
The new five-count indictment
alleged that he lied five times at
his trial earlier this year.
United States Attorney Myles J.
Lane raid a grand jury hedd that
Remington perjured himself under
oath on the witness stand when he
testified that:
He did not pass government sec
rets to an admitted Soviet spy
i courier.
He never knowingly attended
Communist party meetings.
He never paid party dues.
He never tried to recruit anyone
into the party.
He did not know until last year
i that a Young Communist League
j existed at Dartmouth college which
! he attended In the late 30s.
G, E. Krause Sells
Aiichorage Business
G. E. Kraurfe, long-time Alaska
business man, last week announced
the sale of the G. E. Krause Com
pany in Anchorage to the Anchor
age Sand and Gravel Company
I and the company's property and
building to Milt Odom's Anchorage
] Cold Storage Company.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Krause es
i tablished their business in Anch
orage in 1940, after having been
I in a similar business in Juheau for
nearly 30 years.
|—They are owners of' Hie Ilillcrrsi
apartments in Juneau, now manag
ed by their son Irving Krause, who
with his wife is living in the Krause
home on Basin Road.
According to Mrs. Krause, who
I sent word of the sale to the Empire,
j she will be in Juneau as soon as
i the business of liquidating their An
| choragc holdings has been complet
! cd.
Boy lm\ Troop
Schedules
Shipper on Friday
To raise funds for their year's
activities, members of Boy Scout
Troop No. bOd are holding a bean
supper at the Methodist church
from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Tom Priest is chef of the affair,
tost of the meal is $1. Included
in the meal are salad and dessert.
The tr iop, with Roger Miller as
(.acting scoutmaster, is sponsored by
the Methodist church and ha; ap
proximately 25 members.
Everyone is urged to attend the
■slipper.
fej’rudsos Sferfs
Ob Pfant
!rc Northern B. £. .
VANDERHOOF, B.C.. Oct. 25—
ifff—The first step toward construc
tion : a $550,000,000 aluminum
plan.' in the northern British Co
lumbia wilderness was completed
yesti r .ay.
• Tor e bulldozers and a cirag'ine
clos •: • 100-foot gap in a cofferdam
and int waters of the Nechako
rivers racing through a 1,500-foot
diversion tunnel.
Th region where a city of 50,000
is expected to rise in the future, is
400 to 430 miles north of Vancouver,
B.C. The damsite is about GO miles
inland from here.
The Kitimat project is an Alum
inum Company of Canada under
taking.
Now that the Nechako Has been
diverted, erection of a djam will
start at the site.
_B —si;-.- -4!—u4.U—--up-tha.
Nechako waters on the east side of
the Cascades summit. Then they
will be carried downhill under the
mountains through a 10-rnile tunnel
to make electricity for the alumi
num plant. The eventual power
plan* wm be about 50 miles from
the Indian village of Kitimat, where
the aluminum plant itself is to be
built.
.Something New
For Elks on •
■ Saturday Night
Elks and their ladies are going to
have something new to do on Sat
urday night in the Elks ballroom.
“Buck" Faulkner, energetic chair
man of the entertainment commit
tee, announces a pre-days of ’98,
sort of a hard times affair, to start
at 10 o'clock and continue until
everyone is tired.
Now those attending are asked
not to dress up, the ladies to wear
calico dresses or similar attire and
the men folks to wear jeans, etc.
Then there Mill be special fea
tures not only ballroom dancing
I but square dances with Gus Giss
berg as special caller.
Further announcement is made
there will be no kangaroo court and
no lines. Pat Carroll joins Faulk
ner in making laiis announcement
so the lid will be off for just having
a good time.
! Ketchikan Is Fit it .
Cify to Come Under
i Social Security Act
Territorial Auditor Neil Moore an
I ncunced today that Ketchikan is
I the first Alaska city to sign an
I agreement with the Territory for
Social Security coverage of its mun
icipal employees. The det enabling
j municipal employees to be covered
I by the provisions of the Social Se
curity Act was passed at the last
jfession of the Legislature.
MAfcJORIE JOHNSON RITES
ON FRIDA* AFTERNOON
Funeral services for Marjorie
Jul.nsriii,—wild tllCd-TTh“OfctoWr 19'
will be held at 2 ’clock Friday af
ternoon at the Carter Mortuary.
The Rev. Walter Soboleff will
conduct the services and interment
will be in Evergreen cemetery.
She is survived by her mother
and brother, Mrs. John Dick and
Sampson Nickerson, both of Kla
woclc, and a sister, Mrs. William
Gross of Wrangell.
'Losi Creek Mine !
May Have Claimed
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.. Oct.
2i- .1*1 Legend lias it that 20 men
have died hunting for a fabulous
"Lost Creek Mine" in the mountain
wilderness 45 miles north of here.
Was Alfred Gnspnrd the 21st?
R.C.M.P. Constable John Dow.-ett
and guide Stan’ Zepeski set out yes
terday to find out. .
This much was known: Gas
pard, 60 - year - old prospector,
packed his gear 15 months ago
and headed for the upper reaches
of the Pill River. lie has not
been seen' or heard from since.
Gaspnrd himself had n preJnonH
tion that he would become a part of
| the fateful legend. He leitc a' note
saying: "By the time you rend tills
I will have passed to the Great
Beyond."
That note, left with friends, was
opened in February.
Dowsett and a guide made an
aerial survey of the area but the
. now had wiped out any clues Gas
pard might have left.
The deep snow finally left the
| mountains in June but heavy foliage
' covered the trail.
The leaves have fallen now and
| in wet. overcast weather. Howsett
| and Zepeski started out by boat.
When they reach the head of Pitt
j Lake they will strike into the
mountains on foot. They expect
to be gone two weeks.
The legend of Lost Creek mine
goes back more than CO years.
The gist of it is that an Indian
named Slumach appeared in New
Westminster witli a hefty poke of
gold. He made several trips back
into the bush, returning each time
wi,Lh a sackful of yellow dust.
He was hanged in 1892 after con
-fm-TiTC—ft?—firm ~ mniTterr rr ~ trg hr
women. His secret died with him.
On each trip to the mine, he had
taken an Indian woman. None re
turned.
Since then, according to the
legend, 20 men have died in the
search for the lode. One old pros
pector stumbled out of the moun
tain country with a poke of $10,000
but died insane.
I uurbE> iTinnnibi/
ON WEDNESDAY
Claire Frances Rust of San Fran
cisco and Nick Feyko of Palmer
were married yesterday by Judge
Gordbn Gray in the U.S. Commis
sioner’s office. Mrs. Feyko is a
cashier and her husband is a miner.
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