THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXV., NO. l 1,564
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
NEW PRICE i
INCREASES!
ANNOUNCED
Commodities Include Cig
arettes But Retail Price
of Pork Chops Down
NEW YORK, July 25—New
price increases hit a variety of pro
ducts today. And pressure behind
the price spiral mounted with con
tinuing rises in raw materials
traded for future delivery.
Cigarettes joined the price upturn
as R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., ad
vanced its Camel and Cavaliei
brands to $8 a thousand from the
$7.75 level which has prevailed since
July, 1948. The company cited in
creased costs, especially for leaf to
bacco, and noted the price change
amounted to less than half a cent
a package.
The price of rubber tile floor pro
ducts was boosted an average of 7
percent by Sloaue-Blabon Corp.
Rising costs of raw materials were
cited by the company.
Celanese Corp. of America posted
advances ranging from 2 to 6 per
cent on September deliveries of ace- j
tate and viscose rayon yards, used
by weaving and knitting trades forj
apparel and hosiery.
In the commodity futures mark
ets, cotton at New York climbed as
much as $5.20 a bale at one time.
Rubber advanced the daily trading
limit of 2 cents a pound.
An exception to the general in
creases was noted in the retail price
of pork chops, reported down 10 tc
30 cents a pound from recent levels
But the wholesale food index of Dur.
& Bradstreet. based on wholesale
cost of 31 foods, pushed up to its
highest point since early October ol
1948. j
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
sail from Vancouver tonight.
Freighter Flemish Knot from
Seattle scheduled to arrive Sunday
Prince George scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Friday.
Aleutian scheduled to sail from
Seattle Saturday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
Princess Louise due to arrive at
8 a.m. Friday sailing south one houi
later at 9 a.m.
Alaska from west scheduled
southbound 5 p.m. Friday.
Baranof scheduled southbound
from west on Sunday.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, July 26 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2'i, American Can
90%, Anaconda 32%, Curtiss
Wright 10%, International Harves
ter 27%, Kennecott 59%, New York
Central 15, Northern Pacific 17%,
U.S. Stel 35%, Pound $2.80%,
Sales today were 2,450,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 204.39, rails 61.11, utilities
37.40.
Hie Washington
Merry - Go - Round
Bv DREW PEARSON
tCopTrUht. IPSO. DP Bell Syndic* t-e. Inc.)
l^\SHINGTON — The only wo
man ambassador in the Washing
ton diplomatic corps is Madame
Pandit Nehru, the sister of the
Prime Minister of India. She is a
lady of frail figure, great dignity,
and a sort of austere beauty.
Wearing the traditional white
veil and flowing robes of India.
Madme Nehru went to the State
Department the other day to hand
Secretary of State Acheson a note
written by her Prime Minister
brother, asking the United States
and Russia for peace in Korea.
Her fcaU upon the courteous,
slightly aloof Mr. Acheson at first
was quite formal. Then it warmed
up in a way only a woman can
make diplomacy warm.
“Madame Nehru," Acheson said,
after carefully considering the In
dian peace appeal, “I sympathize
with your views, but we cannot be ■
appeasers."
“Appeasers!" the bird-like In-j
dian ambassadress almost leaped |
from her chair. "Appeasers! You ■
call us appeasers! We -in India. [
who know what it is to Spend years
in jail for a cause in which we
believe! You call us appeasers!”
“When we lacked the arms to
fight," she continued, “we devel
(Continued on Page Four)
SECURITY
MEASURES
ON (OAST
Government Taking Steps!
to Guard Against Any
'Trojan Horse' Ships
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26—in
security measures designed to guard
Pacific Coast ports against "Trojan
Horse” ships which might be carry
ing atomic bombs were in effect to
day.
The newly ordered government
loyalty check to prevent Commun
ists from shipping on American
merchant vessels was expected to be
instituted immediately.
Federal officials confirmed that
customs inspectors will board ana
examine all foreign ships as they
enter the three-mile limit.
Collector of Customs Paul Leake
reported the ships would be searched
by inspectors carrying geiger coun
ters.
Any indications of atomic or bac
teriological warfare cargoes or of
improper ship registration will re
sult in holding the ship offshore for
full investigation.
The Coast Guard also will ad
minister *a screening program for
ship crews. A Coast Guard spokes
man said it was expected that its
investigation would begin with its
shipping commissioners who cus
tomarily check on all seamen re
porting for duty aboard American
merchant ships.
PUGET SOUND INSPECTION
SEATTLE, July 26—Uf>—Ships en
tering Puget Sound ports under
foreign flags will be stopped and
inspected "somewhere in the Strait
of Juan de Fuca," Customs Collec
tor Howard MacGowan said today.
The ships will be inspected to de
termine whether they may be carry
ing atomic bombs or other weapons
which could be used against the
United States.
The step has been ordered for all
Pacific coast ports.
"Any vessel which arouses any
suspicion will be held in some strait
bay until a thorough investigation
can be made," MacGowan said. He
added that there are plenty of such |
places for detention of ships where
cities would not be endangered.
EXPERT BILL FIELD
IN FROM NEW YORK
TO STUDY GLACIERS
With his daughter, Diana, who
will be a field assistant in glacio
logical work on her first trip to
Alaska, W. O. (Bill) Field, Jr., of
New York City, arrived on the Bara
nof to continue his scientific re
search.
They stayed at the Juneau Hotel
last night, and left this morning
with Geologist Paul V. Livingston to
study two glaciers in Tracy Arm and
three at Endicott.
Field, who heads the American
Geological Society’s Department of
Exploration and Field Research, will
measure the glaciers to determine
variations since his 1949 studies.
The three plan to return to Ju
neau July 31, to join Dr. and Mrs.
Donald B. Lawrence for a three
week expedition to Glacier Bay on
the charter vessel Gallivanter of
Ketchikan. Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence
and Livingston came in yesterday
from a low-level camp at Herbert
Glacier. They have been there for
ten days, studying Herbert, Men
denhall and Eagle Glaciers by tree
age determination. The Fields and
the Lawrences are doing their part
time research in connection with
the Society’s Juneau Icefield Re
search Project (JIRP), which has
its main bases established and in
operation on the Juneau Ice Cap.
Maynard M. Miller, A.G.S. re
search associate, is field director for
the 1950 JIRP expedition, as he
was previously.
Various phases are under joint
sponsorship of other interested
agencies and societies, and the U.S.
Forest Service here, headed by B.
Frank Heintzleman, is cooperating
for the entire project.
THIEF GETS FOOLED
(By Associated Press)
A thief entered a hotel room of
a jewelry salesman in Indianapolis,
and carted off 250 gold watches.
But they won’t help him tell the
time.
They’re for display purposes only
—and have no clockwork.
Marie Truex of Ketchikan is at ^
the Baranof Hotel.
I
NAVY PUTS 48 MORE
WAR VESSELS AT SEA;
PREPARATION PLANS
WASHINGTON, July 26 — l/W —
The Navy is putting a total of 48
more warships at sea, including
three large and six light aircraft
carriers, two cruisers, 32 destroyers
and 5 submarines.
This was announced today by
Chairman Vinson <D-Gal of the
House Armed Services Committee.
The announcement, which in
cluded other increases for the Navy
and Marines, was made after a
closed-door meeting of the Armed
Services committee.
This committee is probing into
how well prepared each service is
and what their plans are, not only
in the Korean crisis but to stem
possible Communist aggression
elsewhere.
Vinson said the Navy is asking for
$2,648,000,000 from President Tru
man’s $10,500,000,000 emergency bud
get request.
This steps up funds for the Navy
! from $4,075,000,000 now in the 1951
1 budget pending before the Senate,
I to a total of $6,723,000,000.
Vinson said the increase will per
mit the Navy to up its personnel
from 375,000 to 579,000, an increase
of 204,000 officers and men.
There also will be funds for a
planned increase of 1100 planes for
the Navy,
The Marines, which on June 30
had a strength of 74,200 will be
brought up to a total of 109,000.
Under the Navy’s request for ad
ditional funds about $270,000,000 will
be alloted to the Marines.
The Navy's plan to commission
three additional large aircraft car
riers will bring to nine the number
in the active fleet.
1 The Navy now has eight light air
craft carriers in commission and
with the planned increase of six,
! it will haye 14.
Slep-Up In
Rearmament
Is Demanded
WASHINGTON, July 26 — <fl*> —
Senators were reported today to
have pressed Secretary of Defense
Johnson for a speed-up in rearma
ment beyond the $10,500,000,000 in
crease asked by President Truman.
Senator Young (R-ND) told re
porters that it was the attitude of
the Senate Appropriations Commit
tee that even greater strides ought
to be made in rearming than pro
posed by the President.
He said this attitude developed at
a closed hearing at which Johnson,
General Omar N. Bradley, Chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and heads of the Armed Services
testified.
Senator Wherry (R-Neb), another
committee member, told reporters:
“This $10,500,000,000 is only the
first bite in the arms program."
Young said Johnson and Bradley
assured committee members that
everything possible will be done to
speed up purchases of military
equipment.
Johnson's statement to the com
mittee answered critics of military
policies during the past several
years. He said this country’s over
all fighting “potential” was greater
at the outbreak of the Korean war
than at any time since World War
II demobilization.
Johnson’s statement to the com
mittee staunchly defended military
policies before the Korean fighting
began.
Human Shields Used
By Reds Is Report;
Yankees Won't Fire
(By Associated Press)
An American officer tells of wo
men and children being used as
a human shield for North Korean
tanks. The officer. Major William
Witherspoon, said the Reds herded
several hundred civilians in front
of four tanks crossing a bridge in
the attack on Yongdong. The Am
ericans had mined the bridge and
could have blown it. But they
didn’t, says Witherspoon, because
the Yanks wouldn’t kill women and
children.
JUDGE FOLTA RETURNS
Federal Judge Folta and mem
bers of the court party returned on
the Baranof from Ketchikan where
a short session of the court has been j
held.
i
PROPOSEDTAX
METHODS HIT;
MORE OH WAY
i
Congress Doesn't Squawk
on Income Tax Raises,
But Screams on "Inc."
I WASHINGTON. July 26 — 1*1 —
[ President Truman’s call for $5,500,
100,000 in new taxes got an unen
thusiastic reception on Capitol Hill
today—not because of the amount
isked to fight Communist aggress
ion, but because of the tax methods
the President proposed.
The "quickie’’ increases, if ap
proved by Congress, would raise
he annual take from individual
ncomes by an estimated $3,000,000,
100 to about $21,300,000,000 reached
-n 1944.
A man with a wife and two
children who earns $3,050 (after
deductions but before family ex
emptions) now pays Uncle Sam
5100. This would be jumped to
5120; if his earnings were $4,000,
the boost would be from $266 to
5320; the $10,000 man would fork
ever $1,592 instead of $1,361 as at
present.
Mr. Truman asked that the in
creases be made effective on all of
his year’s corporation income, and
on three months of this year’s
income of individuals. He said
“speed is of the essence.” His
proposals were embodied in a letter
to Chairman George (D-Ga.) of
the Senate finance committee.
And he told George that this
I was only the first installment of
| new taxes—that a call for another
I boost might be expected, perhaps
| in January.
Lawmakers raised no argument
on the size of the President’s re
quest. They are ready to raise
raxes, but many objected to:
1. Retroactive taxation on cor
porations. I
2. The absence of any excess j
profits tax proposals in the Pres- j
ident’s program. The critics here
want a crack-down on "profiteer
| ng.”
George announced the finance ]
committee will take up the Pres
dent’s tax plan next Wednesday,
but he said flatly he doubts the
committee will make corporation
j tax increases retroactive to cover
J ill of 1950 income, as the Pres
i ident proposed.
'Quickie Tax'
Endorsed for
U. S. Defense
By FRANCIS M. LEMAY
WASHINGTON. July 26 — l/B —
House speaker Rayburn (D-Tex.)
rave his full endorsement today to
President Truman’s call for a $5,
DOO,000,000 ’’quickie” tax hilfe to
'ight Communist aggression.
Simultaneously, Senator Wherry
of Nebraska, Senate Republican
.'loor leader, said Congress woulo
ook with more favor on tax in
creases if Mr. Truman gives assur
inces that "every dime of non
essential government spending” will
oe stopped and "every possible dol
lar applied to defense."
There seemed to be general ag
eement on Capitol Hill that taxes
will be increased, but some mem
bers questioned the methods Mr.
Truman proposed.
?(L DIRECTORS TO
DISCUSS DRAFTING
LOS ANGELES, July 26 — (iW —
There will be a special meeting of
the directors of the Pacific Coast
League in Los Angeles Aug. 10,
President Clarence Rowland an
nounced today.
Rowland asked the directors to
convene to consider further stepfc
in the campaign to eliminate the
league from the Major Leagu’s
selective draft.
Leslie M. O’Connor, former sec
retary to Commissioner Landis, who
has been retained by the league as
legal counsel in the fight against
the draft, will be present at the
meeting.
KELEZ RETURNS
George B. Kelez of Seattle has I
returned from an extended stay j
in the westward on Pish and Wild- j
life Service business, and is regis-.
tered at the Baranof Hotel.
--
Mrs. Frances J. Lane of Wrangell 1
is a gues' at the Baranof Hotel. ^
TRUMAN ASKS
SACRIFICE OF
OUR RICHES
Congress' Quick Action Can
Avoid Rationing, Says
President-Output
By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON. July 26 — UP) —
President Truman today summoned
the nation to "some sacrifice” of its
civilian plenty. He declared himself
ready to call for "complete eco
nomic mobilization” if the defense
of freedom requires it.
Mr. Truman told Congress, in his
midyear economic message, that
price ceilings, rationing and “serious
shortages” can be avoided if Con
gress gives him limited control pow
ers and a $5,500,000,000 tax increase.
But he warned: “We must realize
that the engagement in Korea will
be costly and may not be short. We
must prepare against the possibility
that new crises may arise else
where.”
That hazard means, the President
said, that industrial output must
be stepped up—possibly by a rate
of $10,000,000,000 annually before
January 1—and that basic industry
itself must be expanded by federal
loans and guarantees.
“We cannot afford longer to risk
the possibility of future desperate
shortages of some of the most
essential requirements for our na
tional security," Mr. Truman said.
Steel Listed
He did not name steel specific
ally as one of the industries criti
cally needing expansion. But it
headed his list of “scarcity” mater
ials, despite capacity operation since
April.
Safety from further Communist
aggression depends, Mr. Truman
said, on "production and more pro
duction," and safety from inflation
depends on business and consumers
alike refraining from "hoarding and
avarice."
The message asked no emergency
powers beyond those requested a
week ago—to control credit, allo
cate scarce materials, limit civilian
output, requisition goods, curb com
modity speculation, and help fi
nance industry’s expansion for war.
Here, in summary, is the Presi
dent’s report on the nation's re
cord-setting prosperity when the
peace was broken at midyear:
99% Higher Output
Production: a new record rate of
$267,000,000,000 worth of goods and
services a year was reached. Pro
duction of steel, autos and buildings
were all at new highs. Industrial
output in June stood 99 percent
above the 1935-39 average.
Jobs: civilian employment wai
61.500.000, the highest June on re
cord and 1,900,000 better than a yeai
ago.
Jobseekers: the idle numberec
3.400.000, a marked improvemen.
from February’s postwar peak oi
1.700.000 unemployed.
Profits: corporation profits, befor.
axes, were at a ratee of $31,000,
100.000 a yeai, 17 percent above t
year ago.
Prices, consumer prices rose l.»
percent 'n f rst-half 1950 but ii
June were 2.5 percent under the
postwar peak. Wholesale prices rose
4 percent, and sharper increase
took place in foods, farm products
rubber and some metals.
Wages Higher
Wages: factory wage rates hit t
new high of $1.45 a hour in June
Salary and wage payments reached
an annual rate of $139,800,000,000
in the half-year, up $4,600,000,000
from a year ago.
Income: personal income, at an
annual rate of $213,700,000,000 in the
April-May-June quarter, had gainec
4 percent in six months.
Strikes: twice as much work wa;
lost in the first five months of this
year as in the same period of 1949.
Building: a peacetime high was
reached in June; the construction
rate was $26,400,000,000 a year
Home-building is at a peacetime re
cord.
Farm income: it was one of the
few declining indexes: farmers’ in
come in the second quarter was 15
percent below a year ago.
Price of Hot Dogs,
Hamburgers Go Up
NEWARK, N. J„ July 26—tffi—A
large chain today boosted the price
of hot dogs from a dime to 12
cents, and hamburgers from 15 to
17 cents.
Some restaurants hiked the price
of a cup of coffee from five to 10
cents with meals.
I
UN Members
Mobilize Aid,
U.S. in Korea
(By Associated Press)
Britain today announced she
would send "an effective land re
! inforcement" to Korea In response
| to the U. N. call for ground troops
to help hard-pressed U. S. forces
fight the Communist invaders.
The exact number of British
troops to be committed was not
disclosed, but the House of Com
mons was told the force will in
clude armor, artillery and engin
eers. Turkey and Thailand pre
viously offered more than 8,000
loldiers.
Responding to the U. N. call
hus far were:
Britain—offered infantry, armor,
artillery, engineers and adminis
rative forces, to be sent as quickty
as possible.
Turkey—offered 4,500 trained
'C.mbat troops, fully equipped with
American arms. Details of the
jffer will be worked out when
Turkey’s permanent U. N. delegate,
Selem Sarper. arrives at Lake Suc
:ess from Ankara.
Thailand—offered 4,000 soldiers.
Cuba—announced its willingness
o discuss with the U. N. the send
ng of a limited force.
Australia—said it is ready to send
loops, the number to be decided
fter Prime Minister Robert G.
Menzies confers with President
Truman in Washington tomorrow.
New Zealand—offered an artil
.ery, combat force of undisclosed
hze. Will start enlisting volunteers
.omorrow.
Bolivia—offered 30 officers.
Nat.onalist China—before the
J. N. call went out offered 40,000
roops, but the offer was turned
lown by the U. S. because of the
langer the war might spread . to
Communist China.
Lebanon—the Cabinet voted to
iend $50,000 as symbolic aid. Re
iable sources said no military aid
vould be sent.
PEACE SEEMS NEAR IN
LOCAL LABOR DISPUTE,
UNION SPOKESMAN SAYS
A strike which has tied up Ju
neau construction jobs since July
3 “seems about ready to break,"
T. B. Erickson, executive secretary
>f the Alaska Federation of Labor,
.aid today.
Three more contractors, one oi
them a member of the Juneau
Contractors and Employers Associa
tion, have signed agreements with
he Construction and General La
jorers, Local 1203 (AFL), he said.
Other strikebound contractors are
xpected to sign late today or to
norrow, he indicated.
The laborers have been striking
or a wage hike which, Ericksor
;aid, would bring their wages to e
evel with those paid laborers in
Cetchikan and on the MendenhSI
Vpartment project here.
The apartment project was not
.ffected by the laborers’ dispute.
The laborers have also been seek
ng "a contract already accepted bj
ome contractors here, and by con
tactors in Haines, Skagway Peters
■urg and Ketchikan,” according tc
!rickson.
OMMY TUCKER HERE
FROM FAIRBANKS PAA
Thomas G. (Tommy) Tucker of
he Fairbanks office, Pan American
World Airways, is> in Juneau foi
everal weeks, transferred to this
station while Dean Williams is to
the westward.
Williams will be at Kodiak and
Naknek to handle arrangements for
the extra PAA charter trips in
cident to the return to the states
of numerous fishermen at the end
of the season.
Tucker is staying at the Baranof
Hotel.
• WEATHER REPORT •
• •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 62; •
• minimum, 51. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 60; •
• minimum, 51. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Cloudy with light rain to- •
• night and Thursday. Lowest •
• temperature tonight about 52 •
• and highest Thursday near •
• 57.
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m today •
• City of Juneau—0.41 inches; •
• since July 1—7.69 inches. •
• At Airport — 0.35 inches; •
• since July 1—5.31 inches. •
• ••*••*«*•*
REDS (LOSE ON PUSAN;
OTHER NATIONS PLEDGE
NAVAL, GROUND UNITS
(By the Associated Press)
U.S. troops and carrier-based
planes battered the spearhead of a
Communist drive along the south tip
of Korea today. Other carrier planes
smashed at the Reds in the central
sector in blows aimed at slowing1
down a growing Red threat to Pu
san, Korea’s main port and big U.S,
supply base.
The United Nations foothold on'
Korea narrowed to an arc enclos
ing the defenders in an area of less
than a third of South Korea’s ter
ritory. At one point in the South-1
west the Communists were only 701
miles from Pusan. Then American
troops and planes struck, and un
confirmed reports said the Ameri
cans recaptured the port of Hadong,
taken by the Reds yesterday.
Britain, Australia and New Zea
land, rallying to the United Nations
appeal to stop the Korean aggres
sion, all promised to send in ground
forces to fight beside the Ameri
cans and South Koreans. The Brit
ish Admiralty will put Britain’s Far
Eastern fleet on a “full scale war
footing” at once. Turkey promised
4,500 fully armed troops. Little Thai
i land, beset with her own troubles,
i previously offered 4,000.
Secretary of State Acheson said
| the United States Is pleased by the
j response, and added the develop
ments would be of the greatest po
litical consequence as well as being
militarily significant.
Land Troops Promised
The British promised "effective
land reinforcement" of infantry,
armor, artillery and engineers, along
with administrative backing to
maintain it.
The U.S. carrier-based planes
striking in the south and west sec
tors of Korea showed "excellent re
sults,” a Fifth Air Force spokesman
announced. The planes were thrown]
in to help gain time for two U.S.
Infantry divisions to get into fight
ing position for the expected Red
attack eastward. The Reds, mean
while, were gathering their strength
for a running fight down the road
from captured Yongdong to Kum
chon, a dusty defile between tower
ing mountains now clogged with the
equipment of U.S. forces withdraw
ing from the biggest ground action
of the war.
Gen. MacArthur's latest summary
said American and South Korean
troops held stubbornly to their new
defense positions despite continued
pressure all along the fronts. It said
he U.S. First Cavalry Division re
pulsed several stabs in the Yong
dong sector and inflicted heavy
casualties on the tank-led infantry
men who attacked.
No More Optimism
With the American beachhead on
South Korea shrinking rapidly, a
spokesman at Gen. MacArthur’s
headquarters declared that the
battle lines in the central sector
tad stabilized considerably and he
expressed confidence that the
beachhead can be held." But the
,-osy optimism of a w'eek ago was
tot in evidence.
The Reds, flushed with the vic
mry at Yongdong yesterday in
which they drove out the U.S. First
Cavalry Division, made only small
>cale attacks east of the city today,
tut it was certain they would jump
iff soon against Kumchon. I
Kumchon, vital communications
center for troops of the U.S. First |
Cavalry and 25th Division, is only 20 j
air miles east of Yongdong—30 by
winding mountain roads. But a
fitint dispatch said the tank-led Red
assault had pushed the Americans
farther back than they had planned
to withdraw and it looked like de
fense plans for the sector would
have to be revised completely.
The undercutting Communist
sickle in the south had driven to a
point 45 miles soutliwest of Kum
chon, but even today a U.S. head
quarters spokesman in Tokyo had
said the swift Red Fourth Division
push through the southwest sector
was "unimportant” and probably
diversionary.
There was action at one other
point in the southwest sector. A
U.S. Eighth Army spokesman said
South Korean Marines and con
stabulary retook Namwon, railroad
junction 60 miles south of Taejon
and a jump-off point for one of
the Red prongs driving toward U.S.
communications lines.
Air Arm Busy
In the air. Allied fighters and
bombers kept up their steady pres
sure against Red supply lines while
battering at enemy front positions.
Under sunny skies yesterday B-29
Superforts bombed 20 more bridges
and fired rail yards at Wonju 50
miles southeast of Seoul. U.S. and
Australian fighter planes, roving
the battle area, knocked out six
tanks and much other equipment.
The enemy continued to move at
night to avoid these air strikes.
Moscow distributed a dispatch
from Korea saying more than 1,500
Americans had been killed and more
than 200 captured in the battle for
Yongdong. The Korean Communist
radio at Pyongyang, meanwhile,
urged Koreans and Communists in
Japan to attack and destroy Ameri
can military bases there, t?y suicide
tactics, if necessary.
BARUCH CALLS FOR
ALLWttfiOfflC
MOBILIZATION NOW
WASHINGTON, July 26 — i/Pl —
Elder statesman Bernard Baruch
today called for all-out economic
mobilization of the United States
with a quick freeze on prices,
wages and rents.
“Events have left us no choice,”
he said. “We have to mobilize."
Baruch, the government's mobil
ization advisor in two world wars,
urged quick action in testimony
prepared for the Senate banking
committee.
The senators are weighing a bill
to give President Truman limited
wartime controls in the present
emergency. These would not in
clude price control of any kind.
Baruch’s recommendations in
cluded—but went far beyond—the
President’s requests. In his state
ment, Baruch referred to his for
mer calls for economic mobilization.
These led to differences between
him and President Truman. Ba
ruch has taken the position that
the President was not doing enough
for preparedness.
"Our aim should be to organize
the nation so that every factory
and farm, every man, every dollar,
every bit of material can be put
to use where it will strengthen
our defenses and fill the most es
sential needs first,” Baruch told
the committee.
KETCHIKAN VISITORS
Frank Larson of Ketchikan is at
the Baranof Hotel. Another First
City resident stopping there is K.
P. Sampson.
Announcing a Special
Salmon Derby Award
Two Tickets for the
1950 Rose Bowl Game
— and —
Round-Trip Tickets
by Air for Two to the
Rose Bowl
Winner !o be chosen by a drawing
of Golden North Salmon Derby
tickets.
Territorial Sportsmen, Inc.