THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,829
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1!)51
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Allied Forces Crack First Red Defense Line
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"Blood for Boys in Korea"
Is Wanted in Juneau; 400
. Pints Sought; Want Donors
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“Blood fdr the Boys in Korea,”
should be the theme song for Ju
neau Saturday when the King
County Central Blood staff arrives
on the Aleutian to conduct a blood
donation program in the Territory.
Registration can be made today
and Friday by calling the Red Cross
office at 8§3, between 9 am., and
5 p.m. Up to 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon opjy 31 had registered
leaving 369 pints to go to the re
quired 400.
It is emphasized that the process
of blood taking is painless and
takes only five minutes of time.
The patient then rests for ten min
utes and is given refreshments.
Elks hall is the place for donation.
It is being equipped for the process
by St. Ann’s hospital and a staff
of nurses and nurse's aides will
assist the Seattle crew.
This is the first time that Alas
hans have been given the oppor
tunity to give blood to save lives.
The blood will be flown to Seattle
for processing and will be at the
Korean front within six days after
leaving Juneau. '
Those eligible are persons of nor
mal health, between the ages of 21
and 60, inclusive. Those under 21
can donate by consent of parents
or guardians. No fats should be
eaten for four hours preceding the
blood giving.
King County is furnishing the
blood bank staff; the Alaska Steam
ship Company is transporting them
free of chargq; Pan American is
flying blood south; the Red Cross,
local nurses and workers_ar« dona
ting time and effort. All that is
necessary for Juneauites is to give
ive minutes of time—and one pint
if blood.
Brownies Volunteer
Added local interest developed
when Carolyn Johnson, smal’
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Johnson and a member of i
Brownie Scout troop, called Rec
Cross headquarters to see if she
vas old enough to donate blood
She explained that her troop want
ed to give blood for the soldiers ii
Korea, and was disappointed whet
old that she'd have to grow a feu
more years.
The Alaska Pioneers will be the
'first donors. Others are being lined
up but Juneau is still shore of it
quota. It is not necessary to have
blood typed in order to give blood
Assistantje is being given the
project by the National Guard. Boy
Girl and Cub Scouts: and others
Pictures will be taken for a special
edition of the Seattle P-I on the
Alaska trip.
Juneau has never fallen down or.
any project and it is a cinch the
city will go over the top in blood
donation.
Mrs. Keith Wildes of the Pioneer,
will be the first blood donor.
St. Ann’s hospital has donated
beds and linen to be used at Elk;
hall.
An appeal has been made by Vern
Harris, post commander of Ameri
can Legion Post No. 4, Juneau, for
members of the organization to reg
ister as blood donors on Saturday.
“According to reports,” Harris
said, “the number of those register
ing for the giving of blood on Sat
urday is falling far short of the
badly for the Armed Forces in
Korea."
Ancient Alaska Safe
Opened; Lawyer Takes
Liquid Asset for Fee
SEATTLE, June 7 — (#!— They
don’t have any capable safecrackers
around Scow Bay, Alaska.
So when two Seattle men — Jerry
Oaksmith and A. L. Rogers—bought
the Scow Bay Packing Co., near
Petersburg, Alaska, they were puz
zled about one of the items that
came with the property.
It was an aged and heavy safe.
It was locked.
So the Seattle men directed that
it be shipped aboard the Denali to
Seattle, be opened, and contents
noted.
The old safe no sooner had been
taken aboard the Denali than
tongues began wagging. Maybe it
was full of gold. Or, more likely,
contraband liquor from the prohi
bition era. I
The Denali docked late yesterday.
Waiting on the pier were John F.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(CoDTrlght. l»St. or Bell Syndicate, lac.
WASHINGTON. — General Mac
Arthur’s trip to Texas next week is
much more than a visit to admir
ing friends. Actually, it is a care
fully timed test of political popu
larity to see whether the General s
backers should go any further in
their latent plans to push him for
the presidency.
One of the men behind the Texas
trip is Congressman A1 "Doc” Mil
ler of Nebraska, the same GOP
leader who promoted MacArthur j
for President in 1948. It was part
ly on Congressman Miller’s urging
that MacArthur entered the Wis
consin and Nebraska primaries.
Both primaries proved a disap
pointment, and MacArthur felt that
his Republican friends had let him
down. Efarlier, in Tokyo, the Gen
eral had talked with optimistic vis
iting politicians who predicted that
the American people would rise up
almost unanimously to draft him.
MacArthur had even told Lieut.
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Dore, Jr., representing the United
States as assistant district attorney,
and G. Bradley Dalton, attorney for
Oaksmith and Rogers. Also standing
by were a father and son locksmith
combination: William Argens and
his son Robert. They clanked their
tools in readiness as the ship
moored.
The old, inscrutable safe was un
loaded on the pier. For more than
an hour father and son Argens
drilled and tinkered. Finally they
could see the tumblers. They moved
the tumbers about until they could
figure out the combination.
The door of the old safe swung
open.
Everybody looked. Then Dorp
shrugged.
"The Government has no interest
in this,” he said.
Attorney Dalton said he didn’t
think the Scow Bay Packing Co.
did, either. The safe’s contents?
In an old paper sack they fished
out a half-gallon jug of whisky,
two-thirds full. It was “legal likker.”
(Calverts). Dalton said he would
consider it his "attorney’s fee.”
NOVELTY MAN HERE
John H. Mulkey of the Washing
ton Novelty Co., Portland, is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
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Aleutian from Seattle with NEA
tour party aboard due Saturday.
Princess Louise from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive Saturday after
noon or evening.
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Frieghter Cynthia Olson scheduled
to sail from Seattle Saturday. *
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.
BRISTOL BAY
SUPPLIES GO
TO SEATTLE
Freighter, Tied Up in Strike
Bound Section, Returns
South with Cargo
SEATTLE. June 7 — I/P) — The
Alaska Steamship Company ordijec
the freighter Sailor's Splice to re
turn to Seattle yesterday withou
unloading a cargo of cannery equip
ment at strike-bound Bristol Bay
Alaska.
D. E. Skinner, general manager ol
Alaska Steam, said the vessel wa
needed for commercial and defense
shipments north.
The ship hnd been strike-bound
by the Bering Sea Fishermen's Un
ion (Indi since Friday. The unioi.
which seeks jurisdiction over 1.401
3ristol Bay fishermen, called tint
walkout when the ship put into por
The Sailor’s Splice carried 5 0C
tons of freight, 90 per cent * of i
cannery equipment. The remainder
includes fresh food for Bristol Bay
residents.
Caught in Dispute
“The ship was caught in the mid
dle of a dispute between the Alaska
Salmon Industry and the fisher
men’s union,” Skinner said. "We
waited five days for the ship to be
unloaded. We can wait no longer."
The Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc.,
the packers' representative, earlier
had filed unfair labor practices
against the Bering Sea union, the
Seafarers’ International union <AF
L i and the Sailors’ Union of the Pa
cific (AFLi.
The industry charged that the un
boycott, prohibited by the Taft
Hartley law.
A stumbling block to settlement
of the controversy is an unfair la
bor practices charge the Bering Sea
union filed first against? the Alaska
Salmon Industry, Inc. NLRB of
ficials have explained that the is
sue of a union recognition election
cannot be settled until clarifica
tion of the union's charge before
the board. The union filed the
charge as a result of the industry's
signing an agreement with the rival
Alaska Fishermen’s Union (Indi.
with which the Bering Sea union
formerly was affiliated.
Today, William Gettings, regional
director of the International Long
shoremen’s and Warehousemens
Union (Ind), said he had informed
the steamship company that the
Sailor’s Splice would be unloaded by
his longshoremen if the ship dock
at Seattle or Bellingham.
"The freighter was loaded under
fair conditions,” Gettings said.
■There is no dispute here and no
pickets. We see no chance of a
legal picket line being established
here.”
SCORES
DIE IN
FLAMES
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 7,,—iJPI—
A jammed commuter train hit a
stalled gasoline truck near here
today and a spokesman for the
railroad said at least 80 persons—
and perhaps as many as 100—
burned tc death in flaming gaso
line. Fifty other persons were hurt.
The spokesman for the line—the
government’s railroad Central do
Brasil—said the blazing gas spray
ed the first passenger car as the
engine hit the truck. Then the en
gjrjger, trying frantically to halt
his train, stopped so that the last
car was in the middle of the burn
ing wreckage of the truck. All the
deaths occurred in the first and
last cars.
The train was enroute from Qu
eimados to Rio. It hit the truck,
carrying 4,000 gallons of gasoline,
near the town of Nova Iguassu
shortly before daybreak.
The spokesman said fire caused
all the deaths and that freakishly,
all the deaths occurred in the first
and last cars.
K. W. Hundley of the Ocean Tow
Co., Beattie, is registered at the
Baiannf Hotel,
JUNEAU CHAMBER
WILL ENTERTAIN
NEA ON SATURDAY
Final plans for the entertainmeiv
of 170 members of the National Ed
itorial Association which is due
here Saturday were made at a reg
ular Juneau Chamber of Commerce
meeting at the Baranof hotel
Thursday noon.
The Aleutian bearing the party
is scheduled to arrive here at 7 a.m.
will be met by a chamber committee
and welcomed. Volunteers were call
ed to assist in preparations for a
'uncheon set for 12:30 at the Men
denhall Flacier if weather permits.
If not. lunch will be served at thp
Auk Bay recreation area. Busses
ind taxis will take the party from
the dock at 10:45 a.m. Red Hollo
way's drivers have offered their
services in helping serve lunch hi
order to leave chamber members
more free to entertain the visitors.
Th party will return to town at
2 p.m.
Those planning participating arc
requested to phone Mrs. Preston
Sar.dbo, Red 332, in order that suf
ficient. food will be on hand.
Juneau Road. Low Priority
A letter from headquarters of thr
Alaskan Command was read to the
chamber in which Brig. Gen. Rich
ard G. Prather indicated that a
road connection from Juneau to the
Alaska Highway was on a low order
of priority from a military stand
point at this time. This was in
response to a letter written by the
chamber to Gen. W. E. Kepner.
C'G on "Inside Passage” ,
A letter from 17th Coast Guard
district headquarters here was also
read to the chamber regarding the
classification of coastal waiters in
Southeast Alaska.
The district commander points 1
lout that the “inside passage” l.'ccc
Seattle i* . Sir.*',*ay {.?*< S.I ■
been considered as coastwise waters
for the purpose of vessel operation
and inspection.
“The commandant of the CG has
considered that these waters must
continue to be recognized as Um
j ited coastwise waters,” the letter
i said. “Extreme weather conditions,
i large tide ranges, unmarked dang
. ers to navigation, icebergs and float
| ing logs, are some of the hazards
to navigation on these waters where
every year vessels and lives are lost
and CG vessels and planes are en
gaged in continuous search and as
sist cases."
Another communication from the
Coast Guard pointed out local re
sponsibility in the protection of
waterfront facilities against fire,
accidents and sabotage.
Curtis Shattuck recommended
that the chamber continue its ef
forts on reclassification of Alaska
waters from an overall standpoint,
in the interests of development of
this area.
Alaska Road Signs
Robert Boochever reported that
Highway Patrolman A1 Lubcke at
Haines had made arrangements for
the transportation of the Alaska
Highway road signs for the cham
ber and would see about putting
them up.
Blood Bank Call
Juneau Is far behind on its quota
for blood donors for soldiers in
Korea and already Ketchikan had
700 signed up whereas Juneau has
less than 200, Mayor Waino Hen
drickson reported. He urged active
support of this Red Cross project.
Call 833 for appointments.
R. E. Robertson, director of civil
ian defense for Juneau, gave a brief
talk before the showing of an edu
cational picture, "Survival Under
Atomic Attack.”
Guests were Merriman Holtz, mo
tion picture distributor from Port
land, and Ed Riley of the Palmer
Supply Co., of Seattle.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 24-IIour Period
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum,
76; minimum, 50.
At Airport — Maximum,
75; minimum, 44.
FORECAST
Mostly cloudy tonight and
Friday. Lowest temperature
tonight about 47 degrees.
Highest Friday near 65.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. todlly
City of Juneau — None:
Since July 1 — 71.8G inches.
At Airport — None;
Since July 1 — 41 41 incite-.
Kilting Where if Counts
..V.'JMHi . rn Sl'SKTaHHKni
The Defense Department released this diagramed photo of a Navy dive bombing attack in support of
V. S. ground trooos slopped by enemy mortars between them and the main Chinese Communist line—a
distance of some 200 yards. Smoke rises from bomb hits (center) among buildings hiding Communist
mortars. Chinese troops established along the indicated line were forred out by the attack and fled
across rice paddies to new positions (lower arrows and line at lower left). II. S. infantrymen moved up to
' this new line. Photo made from a Navy Douglas Sky raider by Comdr. K. C. Merrick, Seattle, Wash., com
mander of Air Group 19, based on the Carrier Princeton. This action took place northwest 6f Seoul on a
recent unspecified date. II. S. Navy Photo via (ff) Wirephoto.
Mulls I! Over
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British Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison holds a hand to his head
in pondering a point v.hiie talking with John I'osteg Dulles, IT. S.
Ambassador at I.arge, at Foreign Office in London. Dulles, in Lon
don to talk with the British about a Japanese peace treaty, lunched
with top British government diplomatic and military leaders with
Morrison as host, Wirephoto.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, June 7 — Closing
quotations of American Can today
is 110, American Tel. and Tel. 155 %,
Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft 49,
General Electric 54 ,, General Mot
ors 48 l, Goodyear 79%. Kpnnecott
73%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8 .,
Northern Pacific 42 . Standard Oil
of California 45%, Twentieth Cent
ury Fox 18%-, U. S. Steel 41%. Pound
$2 80%, Canadian Exchange 93.56%.
Sales today were 1,340.000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 250.81, rail- 80.28, utili
ties 42.92.
SURPRISE VISIT
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Robinson oi
Skagway are in Juneau for an im
portant event. It happened thi
morning when Mrs. Robinson gave
birth to a baby girl, their first
child. They had plenty of boy
names in mind but no girl names.
She was born at St.. Ann's ho ,)ita!
Robinson is a partner in the Palmer
Construction Co. which is doing a
flood control project at Haines.
FROM SEATTLE.
James A. Farrell of Seattle i at
the Baranof hotel
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ALASKA NG
TO TRAIN,
FT. LEWIS
FORT LEWIS, Wash. June 7.—
I/Pi—A contingent of the Alaska Na
tional Guard will train with the
41st Infantry Division during its
summer encampment at Fort Lewis,
Colonel Robert W. Forbes, assist-'
ant Adjutant General of the Wash
ington State National Guard an
nounced today.
A party of 20 officers and non
commissioned officers of the nor
thern territory is scheduled to ar
rive by plane Saturday in Seattle
for the 15 day training session.
The group will be attached to
the 161st Infantry Regiment. Col
onel Forbes said. The annual en
campment of the National Guard
and organized reserve corps will be
gin Saturday and end June 23.
Tvler Hull of Seattle is stopping
at the Baranof hotel.
I
DENY YALTA
AGREEMENTS
AIDED REDS
Terms with Russia Did Not
Aid Commies Against
Chiang, Acheson
WASHINGTON, June 7 — l/D —
Secretary of State Acheson con
tended today there was no connec
tion between the Far Eastern con
cessions made to Russia at Yalta
and the defeat of the Chinese Na
tionalists by the Communists.
Acheson said that Generalissimo
Chiang kai-Shek, leader of the Na
tionalists, welcomed the agreements,
which gave Russia entry into Man
churia through concessions at Port
Arthur and Dairen.
It was Acheson’s sixth day of
testimony.
Did Not Aid Reds
Senator McMahon, a strong ad
ministration supporter, raised the
question of whether the Yalta agree
ments weakened Chiang'* forces. He
said his purpose was to dispel any
notion that the concessions to Rus
sia "made it possible for the Chinese
Communists to have a victory in
China."
McMahon had Acheson read the
terms of the Yalta agreement — an
understanding reached by President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill
of Britain, Premier Stalin of Rus
sia at a February, 1945. meeting in
the Russian town of Yalta.
Russia agreed thwe to come into
the war against Japan three months
after the defeat of Germany and.
in return, was given certain Far
Eastern concessions.
Not Military Strategists
After Acheson had read the terms.
McMahon observed that neither he
nor the cabinet member was a mili
tary strategist, adding:
"’Have you ever heard or have
you ever been told of aijy military
connection between the defeat of
Chiang Kai-Shek and those conces
sions that were made to the Soviet
Union at Yalta?”
"No, Senator McMahon, I think
there was none," Acheson replied.
Acheson has said the United
States was anxious at Yalta to get
the Russians into the Far Eastern
war in time to tie down 1,235,000
Japanese troop* then in China.
Tough Question
Acheson called it "a hard ques
tion'''whether Rus; in could stop the
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MOUNTAINS
CAPTURED
BY ALLIES
Approaches to Two Red
Strongholds Seized
Lines Straddled
By Associated Press
Allied troops today straddled the
two most important mountains
guarding the approaches to Chor
won and Kumhwa, Red strongholds
in North Korea.
Sweating UN Infantrymen clamb
ered to the top of 2,700-foot (Mount
Kodae) four miles south of Chor
won.
(The name and location of the
mountain were deleted by the cen
sor. But neither this story nor prev
ious censored field dispatches left
any'doubt as to the identity of the
mountain).
From this height the Allies domi
nate the mountain road and valley
corridor up which other troops were
pushing. They arc in position to
pump artillery fire into battered
Chorwon, 17 miles north of the 38th
Parallel.
Another Mountain Seized
Farther to the east mud-caked
UN troops Wednesday seized 3.100
foot Kwangdok mountain, south
west of Kumhwa, a delayed front
line dispatch said.
Allies beat off a series of bat
talion-sized counter-attucks early
Thursday morning on the road to
Kumhwa, then they clawed their
way 2,000 yards closer to the south
eastern, corner of the Reds' prized
“Iron Triangle."
To the east, Allied troop;; were
driven from one prominent ridge
line by Red counter-attacks at noon.
Elsewhere in the mountains cast the
Allied advance ground to a halt in
the face of stubborn North Koreans.
Tremendous bosses
‘They’ve suffered tremendous
losses," a UN officer said. “The
bodies must be stacked on cac-:
other."
Already the Communists were
abandoning more equipment than
they ever did before. One officer
explained it this way:
“They lost so many mules and
horses in their last attack, they
haven’t any way of getting it out
before we overrun it.”
DRAFTAGE
NOW CUT TO
181 YEARS
WASHINGTON, June 7, — «/T> —
House has passed and sent to Pres
ident Truman a bill lowering the
draft age to 18'” years and laying
the groundwork for universal mil
itary training.
The roll call vote was 339 to 41.
in addition to cutting six months
off the present minimum draft
age, the compromise legislation ex
tends the draft law until July 1,
1995, and requires inductees to
serve 24 months instead of the
present 21.
It prohibits the induction of
youths below 19 until local draft
boards have exhausted their pools
of eligible men in the 19-25 age
bracket.
The compromise was worked out
by Senate-House conferees and ap
proved by the Senate last week.
President Truman is expected to
approve it. The present draft is
due to expire July 9.
The new measure requires reg
istration of all men between the
ages of 18 and 26.
NEW ATTORNEY ARRIVES
Francis X. Riley, from Washing
ton, D. C. arrived yesterday on
PAA from Seattle to join the Al
aska Public Works staff as legal
counsel. He was previously with the
office of the Housing Expeditor
and comes originally from Chicago.
He is stopping at the Baranof Ho
tel.
FROM YAKUTAT
Mrs. Gordon Hurst and Mrs. Clara
Hussey of Yakutat came in yester
dey on PNA and are stopping at the
Baranof hotel.
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