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JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1950
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Offensive Rolls Toward Manchurian Border
SOVIETS TRY
TO STIR JAPS
AGAINST U.S.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 — —
Russia’s criticisms of American pro
posals for a Japanese peace treaty
were regarded here today as the
launching base for a new Soviet
propaganda drive against the Uni
ted States in Japan.
The Soviets raised half a dozen
critical questions in a vote released
yesterday, one as to whether the
United States and other nations
might conclude a separate peace
with Japan.
Officials said that the Russians
will get an answer to all their ques
tions. and indicated it probably will
be made clear to them that a sep
arate pence is a possibility if they
are not willing to participate. The
U. S. wants an early Japanese peace
settlement with Soviet participation
if possible on a reasonable basis
but without it if necessary.
American officials are hopeful but
not too optimistic about the pros
pects of Morcow’s cooperation.
The fact that the Kremlin made
the American proposals public,
when they were supposed, to be
tentative and confidential, and re
leased their critical questions at
the same time was taken as a sign
that they are more interested in
propaganda than in private diplo
matic negotiation.
LOCAL HIGHWAYS
IN GOOD SHAPE;
SLIPPERY SPOTS
Highways in the Juneau area
were reported in good shape for
traffic this morning, despite the
snowfall which started Wednesday
night and has continued intermit
tently. Winds had swept the Gla
cier Highway clear of snow on the
blacktop section to the Airport yes
terday and snow plows kept other
sections cleared.
There was little snow on the road
way to the Airport this morning.
Motorists report a few slippery
spots but said with care in driving
the road can be traveled safely.
SKATERS CLEAR SNOW
OFF ICE ON AUK LAKE
Plenty of snow on Auk Lake but
the hardier enthusiasts have swept
a circle around the lake yesterday
and the skating is still good they
say. Forest Service officials today
said the ice was firm yesterday
though no report had been made on
conditions this morning.
BROWNIES ELECT
Saturday morning the girls of the
second grade Brownie Troop met
in the Methodist Church and elec
ted new officers. Frances McNa
mara is the new president and
Molly McLaughlin is vice president.
Sandra Marsh, Carolyn Johnson,
reporters.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Copyright, 1«50. by Bell Syndicate. Ine.l
By DREW PEARSON
M^AS H r NOT ON- - Though a large
part of the American public ap
pears to be convinced that flying
saucers cn exbt to far the Ail
Force has not been able to track
down a single bona fide saucer.
This is despite the fact that U. S.
aviators have spent hour upcn
hour checking reports not only of
flying saucers, but of such weird
phenomena as midgets from Vents,
shooting stars, and even an old
washtub.
This column has now been able
to examine Air Force files, and it
is Quite evident that the Air Force
has done a painstaking job of try
ing to establish whether or not
flying saucers do exist.
These files show that considerable
time was even spent checking
the report received from actor
Bruce Cabot and the Wyandotte
Echo, a newespaper published in
K.tnasa City, that corpses of blonde
beardless 3-foot men from Venus
had been seen arriving on a flying
eling midgets had no cavities in
Dead on arrival, these space-trav
tContinued on Page Four)
Wherry May
Be Named to
Chief Com.
WASHINGTON—Nov. 25— I/?) —
j Senator Butler (R-Neb), who is go
! in? to have a iot to say about Re
j publican committee appointments
j in the 82nd Congress, suggested
j today that Senator Wherry < R-Neb >
be named to the Senate Foreign
Relations committee.
Wherry is the Senate Republican
iloor leader and an outspoken foe
cf administration foreign policy
both in Europe and the Far East.
He was one of the first Republicans
to demand that Secretary of State
Achescn be fired. He told report
ers in Omaha yesterday that the
most important job ahead of the
82r.d Congress would be Acheson’s
removal from office.
Butler is chairman of the Re
publican committee on committees
which has an authoritative voice in
making assignments.
CIVIL DEFENSE MAN IS
ENROUTEANCHORAGE
FOR CD "STOPGAP”
i
A. C. Tilley from the office of j
Civilian Defence, National Secur- !
ity Resources Board, Washington,
D. C., leaves today for Anchorage
with Col. Joseph D. Alexander, ter.
l'itorial director of Civilian Defense !
, io observe the three day test of 1
civilian defense plans in that city.
The three day exercises known as
Operation "Stopgap” is held today,
Sunday and Monday by the Alas
kan Air Command with the terri
tonal Civil Defense organization j
participating.
From Anchorage, Tilley returns ■
to Washington with intermediate
steps stateside. He has come from
Hawaii where similar tests were I
successfully held.
OAKLAND BLONDE j
SAYS SHE KILLED
LA.'BLACK DAHLIA'
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 25—UFi—
Police inspector Eric Gustavson
said today an Oakland woman told
him she killed and butchered El
izabeth Short, the Los Angeles
"Black Dahlia" sex slaying victim.
The inspector said the admission
was made by 34-year-old Christine
Reynolds, a stocky blonde.
Mrs. Reynolds, he said, gave the j
statement “so I can look myself in j
the face again.”
Gustavson told reporters that
Mrs. Reynolds declared she stabbed
the model and movie extra to death
because Miss Short left her for
the company of another woman.
The statement, the inspector con
tinued, related that the two had
had unnatural relations for three |
weeks prior to the killing.
Police here talked by telephone!
with Los Angeles officers and got
word that detectives will be sent
here at once from the southern
city.
Inspector Gustavson said he was
' frankly impressed” by the ramb
ling, sometimes incoherent state- |
ment of the 1947 slaying, called by
Los Angeles police “the most re-1
volting sex crime in our files.”
FOOTBALL STAR
DIES IN ACCIDENT,
SQUIRREL HUNTING
ABILENE, Tex.. Nov. 25—i.ffl—An
accidental gunshot killed Ardin
Simmons football star Dale Witcher,
20, yesterday.
Witcher and a friend. Jack Jones
of Breckenridge were hunting
squirrels on a ranch near there.
Witcher leaned his gun against
their car and reached into the auto
for a jacket. The gun went off,
killing him instantly.
He was a standout defensive
back for the Hardin-Simmons Cow
boys.
JOE GREEN BETTER
Joe Green, former Territorial
legislator who was taken to St.
Ann’s Hospital last Wednesday with
a light stroke, was much improved
today.
BARR DOES NOT
PLAN TO VACATE
SEAT IN SENATE
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 25—
(Special to The Empire). Senator
Frank Barr, recommended by the
Fourth Division’s Democratic Com
mittee for the postion of United
States Marshal, sajs he is not
planning to resign from the Leg
islature.
He says he expects his appoint
ment when confirmed will take ef
fect after the close of his last ses
sion of the Legislature in March
1951.
Further, Barr says that he lias
not decided whether to continue
as marshal in 1952, or run for the
legislature again.
—
This statement leaves without
foundation the rumor that there
was a plan afoot for Barr to resign I
as a member of the Territorial
Senate to make it possible for Gov.
Gruening to appoint defeated Sen- |
ate candidate Warren Taylor, Fair
banks, to the post that would then
be vacant.
Miami Beals
Iowa by 14-6
_ i
MIAMI, Nov. 25—W)—In an Or- j
ange Bow] game watched by 44,999 i
last night, the unbeaten, once-tied j
Miami Hurricanes won a 14-6 de
cision over Iowa. The victors have
one game left against Missouri, on
their regular season schedule.
Both teams scored touchdowns in j
the first period and Miami regis- !
tered the final marker in the sec
ond quarter.
At Baton Rouge, La., some 10,000 \
fans sat through freezing weather I
to see Louisiana State whip Villa
nova, 13-7. LSU hit pay-dirt In the ;
first and second periods, then held j
Villanova to one tally in the third, j
2
Chinese Commies
Release Wounded
U.S. War Prisoners
(Bv Associated Press)
The Chinese Communists have i
released 30 more U.S. prisoners of ;
war, all of them wounded, and all
but three being litter cases.
Once more the American authoi
ities are treating this as a hush
hush matter. Reporters have not |
been permitted to see the released
men.
Last Wednesday the Chinese Reds
released 27 other Americans.
TO REACTIVATE
SEVENTH ARMY IN
STUTTGART, GER.
HEIDELBERG, Germany, Nov. 25 1
_</?)—The United States today an- j
nounced reactivation in Europe of
its Seventh Army—the first Ameri- ;
can “Army” on the continent since i
demobilization after World War II. j
Two veteran major tactical units j
of American forces in Germany—
the First U.S. Infantry Division
and the U.S. Constabulary—have
been assigned to the new unit, the
U.S. Commander-in-Chief in Eur
ope, Gen. Thomas T. Handy, an
nounced.
The Seventh Army will have its
headquarters in Stuttgart.
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TO JOIN ARMY
Kenneth L. Ragsdale who has
been working for CAA at Betties
cn the Koyukuk, was in Juneau j
today enroute to California where
he will join the U. S. Army. He is :
stopping at the Gastineau Hotel, j
FROM FAIRBANKS
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Anderson of
Fairbanks are stopping at the Bar
anof Hotel.
FROM ANCHORAGE
J. S'. Rood of Anchorage is re
gistered at the Baranof Hotel.
Mrs. Hal Johnson and Miss Kay
Lamoreaux of Skagway are at the
Baranof Hotel.
A. C. Tilley from Hastings, Nebr.,
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
EAST, SOUTH
HIT BY COLD,
GALES, SNOW
Hurricane Rips New York
Snow in Pittsburgh
South Shivering
(By the Associated Press)
Winter struck a large part of the
country with cold fury Saturday,
setting bitter records.
Winds of hurricane force blasted
Metropolitan New York, sweeping
sea water at least one mile inland
at one spot. Chilling temperatures
seeped into southern states and
wind-driven snow virtually paral
yzed Pittsburgh.
Winds up to 76 miles an hour of
hurrican force, were reported in
New York. The howling wind tum
bled houses and knocked over trees
as it whipped inland from the sea.
Ten persons were rescued from sea
side homes. Others in the Staten
Island area were ordered to evac
uate their homes.
Snow in Pittsburgh
Pittsburg braced itself for more
of a heavy snow storm—already the
greatest continuous snowfall in the
city’s history.
By morning, already 16 inches
of snow blanketed Pittsburgh and I
there was every prospect that an- ,
other 10 to 15 inches would fall. j
Transportation came to a virtual |
halt and essential services were |
badly hit by the heavy storm. The j
storm also took an early toll, claim
ing the lives of five men who were
stricken as they fought the mount
ing drifts.
Accidents, Deaths
The snow piled up in other west- j
era Pennsylvania sections with 10
inches reported at Meadville and
15 at Erie. Two other deaths were |
attributed to the storm, the result of j
accidents.
At Cleveland, one of the worst'
blizzards of November record al
most halted street transportation.
Traffic was whittled down to a few j
public vehicles and there was little
likelihood that these would con
tinue in operation if the storm
continued. Forecasts indicated at
least a foot of snow would fall.
Zero in South
Snow was reported as far south
as Alabama and Georgia. And in
several southern cities clear to the
Gulf, temperatures skidded to freez
ing. Nashville, Tenn., reported zero.
It was 7 above at Atlanta, 10 at
Roanoke, Va.; 17 at Montgomery, j
Ala.; 20 at Meridian, Miss.; -3 at
Bow'ling Green, Ky. Muskegon,
Michigan, reported one of the low
est early morning readings— -13.
KIDS PETITION FOR
ICE SKATING RINK
Dennis O’Day has presented a j
petition to Mayor Waino Hendrick
son asking that the ball park be
flooded for skating. It was signed
by 50 boys and girls.
The mayor explained that the
ball park was the property of the j
Juneau Volunteer Fire Department j
and that previous efforts to flood
the park were not good.
It is planned, he said, to do j
something in the Evergreen Bowl
to provide a skating place when
the weather is right.
football'
. SCORES J
Utah 68, Montana State 51.
Utah State 62, Idaho State 54.
Brigham Young 68, Regis (Den
ver) 55.
Miami (Fla.) 14, Iowa 6.
Louisiana State 13, Villanova 7.
Houston Univ. 40, Midwestern 18.
College of Pacific 55, Boston U. 7.
North Texas State 31, Fresno
State 12.
San Jose State 32, Montana State
U. 7.
HOSPITAL NOTES
Admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital
yesterday were Roy Allen and Mrs
Robert Garrison.
Dismissed were Sonja Katilnahoff
and Mrs. Billy Howard and o : •
girl.
1
Leathernecks Push On to (hangjin Reservoir
Patches of snow rover the grounds as marines of the 7tli Regiment, in heavy winter garb, pass through
Hagaru, North Korea, cn route to thangjin Reservoir, and the Manchurian border. (IP) Wirephoto.
OFFICERS
ELECTED,
JIHBy lllll
The 38th Annual Convention of
the Alaska Native Brotherhood and
Sisterhood held at Craig, Alaska,
November 13th-18th, 1950, was both
informative and successful, many
vital resolutions were considered
and passed. Elections gave the fol
lowing results:
Grand Officers for 1950-51 for the
A.N.B. are:
Harry Douglas (Hoonah) Grand
President.
Joe Williams (Saxman) Vice
Grand President.
A1 Willard (Juneau) Grand Sec
retary.
Peter Nielsen (Sitka) Grand
Treasurer.
William Smith (Wrangell) Grand
Sergeant at Arms.
Grand Officers for A.N.S. for
1950-51 are:
Mildred Sparks (Klukwan) Grand
President.
Elizabeth Williams (Saxman)
Vice Grand President.
Edith Smith (Wrangell) Grand
Secretary.
Sophie Peck (Juneau) Grand
Treasurer.
Mabel Johnson (Angoon) Grand
Sergeant at Arms.
At the invitation of the Ketchi
kan Chamber of Commerce and the
Ketchikan Camp of the Alaska Na
tive Brotherhood and Sisterhood,
the 39th Annual Convention of the
Alaska Native Brotherhood and Sis
terhood will be held at Ketchikan
in November 1951.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise from Vancouver
due at 7 o’clock tonight and sails
from Skagway at 11:30 p.m.
Denali from Seattle scheduled to
arrive Monday night.
Baranof from west delayed and
now due to arrive southbound at
2 a.m. Monday.
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WEATHER REPORT •
Temperatures for 24-Hour Pe;lod •
ending 6:2(1 o’clock this morning •
In Juneau—Maximum, 18; •
minimum, 14. •
At Airport—Maximum, 19; •
minimum, 14. •
•
forecast •
(Juneau and Vicinltri •
Mostly cloudy, occasional •
light snow and gusty north- •
easterly winds tonight and •
Sunday, Low tonight near •
12. High Sunday near 20. •
•
PRECIPITATION •
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m today •
City of Juneau—.09 inches; •
since Nov. 1 — 4.I8 inches; •
since July 1 — 33.21 inches. •
At Airport — 0.06 inche •
since Nov. 1 _ 2.07 inch' •
since July 1 _ 23.12 inche •
DEWEY DEMANDS
TRUSTEES OF L I.
RAILROAD RESIGN
NEW YORK, Nov. 25—«1—<Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey demanded last
night that the two trustees of the
bankrupt Long Island Rail Road
resign by Monday to speed a total
shakeup of the commuter line.
Seventy-seven persons died and
332 were injured Thanksgiving eve
i when a speeding Long Island ex
■ press ran through two signal lights
f and plowed into the rear of an
i other train, telescoping two crowded
passenger cars.
Dewey said the trustees, David E.
Smupker and Hunter L. Delatour,
had lost public confidence. He
threatened court action if they did
not quit by his deadline.
REX LAYNE
WINS OYER
JERSEY JOE
NEW YORK, Nov. 25—Iff)—Rex
Layne, a 22-year-old bruiser from
the Utah sugar beet farms, has be
come a heavyweight contender
overnight by his upset-of-the-year
win over Jersey Joe Walcott.
Layne punished Walcott’s body
with straight right hands through
out the fight. Despite a smeared
eye that became a circle of blood in
the late rounds, he pressed tiie at
tack all the way.
Walcott, a peppy guy of 37, was
a 5 to 1 favorite to whip this kid
who had been fighting pro only 13
months. But Jersey Joe was not
at his best, to put it mildly.
The two judges, Frank Forbes and
Bert Grant, had it 6-3 in favor of
Layne with one even. Referee Ruby
! Goldstein saw it 6-2-2 to make it
unanimous. The AP scorecard had
it for Layne 7-2-1. Walcott was
penalized the eighth round for
backhanding.
CAPT., UNBEATEN
WEST POINT TEAM,
KILLED IN ACTION
MEMPHIS. Tenn., Nov. 25 — VP) —
Second Lt. John C. Trent. 23-year
old captain of West Point’s unbeat
en, untied 1949 football squad, has
been killed in Korea.
A Defense Department telegram
was received by his parents here
yesterday saying the former United
States Military Academy end was
killed Nov. 15. three days after he
landed with the Third Division's
15th Infantry Regiment.
CALIFORNIA VISITOR
Wesley Hayes of El Cerito, Calif.,
Is at the Baranof Hotel.
i
TRUMAN H1I
FOR FOREIGN
POLICY, GOP
'WASHINGTON, Nov. 25—Ufi—Re.
publicans brought President Tru
man directly under ffre on foreign
policy today as they launched u j
new critical broadside at Secretary i
of State Acheson.
Chairman Millikin (R-Colo) of j
the conference of all Republican |
Senators told reporters he holds ;
Mr. Truman directly responsible for j
what the Senator said are "bad:
policies’’ that need weeding out. j
Senator Hickenlooper (R-Iowai, a I
foreign relations committee mem- i
ber, said in a separate interview
that he blames the President pri
marily for “blunders” which involv
ed the United States in the Kor.
ean war,
TEAMS FOR
SUGAR BOWL
NAMED TODAY
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j NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 25 — (M — '
Kentucky and Oklahoma are al- j
1 ready in the 1951 Sugar Bowl as |
1 far as New Orleans is concerned— j
the announcement promised by the j
j Sugar Bowl for 5 p.m. today would i
j just make it official,
i The Sugar Bowl hasn’t let any- j
thing out about the teams it Is j
eyeing, but that hasn’t bothered j
New Orleans a bit.
They’re sure Kentucky will be I
named unless Cotton Bowl bound
Tennessee hands them a one-sided
licking today. In that case, un
beaten but once-tied Clemson would
come into the picture.
FIGHT DOPE
Fights last night resulted as fol
lows:
New York—Rex Layne. 192. Lewis- j
ton, Utah, outpointed Jersey Joe j
Walcott. 200, Cambden, N. J., 10.
Omaha—Harold jones, 139, De
troit and Ronnie Harper, 140!4,
Charlestown, W. Va., drew, 10.
Hollywood— Lauro Salas, 126,
Mexico, outpointed Dave Gallardo,
13fl’/4, Los Angeles, 10.
GIRL FOR GARRISONS
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garrisop
are the parents of a baby girl, their
first child. She was born at St.;
Ann's Hospital at 5:10 pm. yester
day and weighed 5 pounds and |
9 ounces. The proud dad is employ- j
ed at the Elks lounge.
YAKUTAT VISITOR
Albert T. Weed ot Yakutat is at!
the Daramjf Hotel,
TASK FORCE
TAKES CITY,
NO FIGHTING
Big Push Successful in One
Area But Sharp Re
verse Elsewhere
(By the Associated Press)
A tank-led task force of the U.S.
24th Division captured the north
west Korean city of Chongju with
out a fight today and other units
of the United Nations offensive in
the northwest rolled ahead toward
the Manchurian border. But the
extreme right flank was pushed
back by counterattacking Reds.
After taking Chongju. communi
cations and highway center on the
main road to the border city of
Sinulju, the 24th Division force
moved on two miles.
Gains during the second day of
the end-of-the-war offensive ranged
up to six miles on a winding 80
mile front stretching inland from
the Yellow Sea 40 to GO miles south
of the Yalu River boundary. There
was only one setback on the entire
front as the war entered its sixth
month.
On the 24th Division’s right
flank, the big push altered. A
counterattacking Red regiment
shoved the Republic of Korea
(ROK) Eighth Division back six
miles to a point near Yongun, 22
miles east of Tokchon.
The South Koreans were heading
for the Sulho Dam on the Yalu
upstream from Slnuiju. The dam—
fourth largest in the world—sup
plies hydro-eleotric power for moot
of Manchuria and North Korea.
The greatest Red resistance is ex
pected in this sector.
B-29 superfortresses and allied
fighter planes increased their
thunderous assault, while U. S. Ma
rine and carrier-based planes sup
ported the ROK Capital Division
and other U. N. forces in the north
east.
Elements of the 24th Division, ad
vancing west of Pakchon, reported
destroying a Stalin III tank, a
Russian-built monster weighing
nearly 60 tons. It was the largest
tank yet seen in the war. Allied
forces previously have encountered
only the T-34 medium tank.
In the north central sector, U.S.
First Marine Division patrols
reached the northeastern tip of the
Changjln reservoir.
PAN AM CARRIED
31 TRAVELERS FRI.
Pan American World Airways
carried 31 passengers in and out of
Juneau yesterday. Twelve arrived
from Seattle and 19 departed.
From Seattle: Dr. Earl Albrecht,
Allen Ellston, W. L. Hawkins. Stella
Javok, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Marsh,
Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Ninni.s, Marcus
Russell, Ann Sayles, Albert Tilley,
Evelyn Williamson.
Kenneth Ragsdale, A1 Anderson
and C. W. Butler came in from
Annette.
Seattlebound were Hugh Wade,
B. Bates, James Neilson, Mrs. C. W.
Ewing, Mrs. L. E. Evans, Carl Paul
son, Betty Kloster, Fred Jacobsen,
Walter Watkins, E. M. Erickson,
Vernon Hilliker, Arne J. and Amy
Johnson, Charles Stoyre, J. E.
Smith and Emery Clark.
21 FLY PACIFIC
NORTHERN FRIDAY
Twenty-one passengers were car
ried by Pacific Northern Airlines
yesterday. Four went to Anchorage,
[our to Cordova, two to Yakutat,
[our arrived from Anchorage and
seven were carried to midpoints.
To Anchorage: Sonja Kantalin
koff, Myer Lurie. Estelle Drink
water and C. W. Butler.
To Cordova: Mr. and Mrs. Gene
Marsh, Allen Els iron, and Raymond
Wilson.
To Yakutat: Thomas and Jessie
George.
From Anchorage: J. S. Rude,
Wesley Hayes, James Browne, Mar
an McNever.
FROM MT. EDGECl'MBE
Stella Jivok of Mt. Edgecumbe Is
■eglstered at the Baranof Hotel.