THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,694
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1950
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Reds Probing Attacks on UN Defense Lines
DRAFT (ALL
FOR 80,000
MEN, MARCH
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 — OP) - j
The Army today issued a draft call
for 80,000 men in March.
This will brinsj the total of Army
requests for draftees to 450,000 since
the outbreak of the Korean war.
The 80,000 asked for March is the
same quota requested in January
and February.
The Defense Department an
nouncement said the Navy, Air
Force and Marines "do not plan
to place calls upon the Selective
Service System in March.”
Only the Army has used the draft
up to now.
The original quotas for January
and February were boosted on Dec.
12 to provide 80,000 draftees in each
of the two months. The first call
for January was only 40,000 and
the original call for February was
50,000.
The draft calls are part of a
build up to give the Army a combat
force equal to 24 divisions when it
reaches its current expansion goal
next July 1.
Although the figure used by the
Defense Department involves only
18 divisions, an Army official told
a reporter today that the fighting
force will be augmented by the so
called Regimental Combat Teams
to equal the strength of 24 full di
visions.
Korean War
At a Glance
(By the Associated Press)
Fighting Front — U.N. forces de
fending 150-mile front near 38th
parallel brace for Communist blow.
Gen. MacArthur says major of
fensive may come any time in next
two weeks. Commander says Red
China is mobilized on national scale
with 1951 military budget three
times greater than in 1950.
Diplomatic Front — Twelve Asian
countries expected to meet today at
Lake Success to urge United States
to negotiate with Red China for a
settlement of all Far Easter" prob
lems. America' attitude 1 .stile tQ
appeasement
SOUTH FROM CORDOVA
Leo C. Von Tersh and Oral Burch
of Cordova arrived here on the Pa
cific Northern Airlines plane yester
day and left by Pan American Clip
per for Seattle.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
OosrrlgM, its* bj Bell Brualcate. lnc.l
Washington — Claire chen
nalt, a big leathery man who speaks
with a gruff intensity, has a plan
for starting fires against Stalinism
in Asia.
The famous Flying Tiger general
who fought with the Chinese Na
tionalists has been pounding on
doors in Washington and saying:
“Let’s arm the hatred against Rus
sia which is spreading across China.
The greatest fear of the Commun
ist is of the guerrillas—a million
of whom hold great pockets on the
mainland. We should’drop weapons
to them, and smuggle munitions
across the borders.”
“The spirit of revolt is so strong
in China today.” says Chennault,
“that Communist members don’t
dare go out alone for fear of being
ambushed. The Communists con
trol only the cities, the rail centers
and the ports. The best troops are
engaged in Korea. Tibet and along
the Indo-China border. But the
guerrillas have only the arms they
can steal. If we give them help,
they can take the pressure off
Korea."
According to the intelligence slip
ped out of China to General Chen
nault, this is the picture on the
Chinese mainland:
Mao tse-Tung, the titular boss
of Red China, is acting as a moder
ator between quarreling Communist
war lords and pressure from Mos
cow.
The general in command of Chin
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KEYBOARD KITTEN S — “Princess Yasmin,’* mother of these Burmese kittens owned Ojr
Mrs. Jewell Crowell, in Oakland, Cal., points admonishing paw at one wandering oil tune.
Committee
On Statehood
Meets Jan, 6
ANCHORAGE. Alaska. Dec. 28—
If)—1The Alaska Statehood Commit
tee will meet here Jan. 6 to discuss
plans to push the new statehood
bill to be presented to the 82nd
Congress and to consider a research
program in connection with a pos
sible state constitution.
Bob Atwood of Anchorage, com
mittee chairman, called the meet
ing. Fourteen committee members
from all parts of Alaska are ex
pected to attend, as will Governor
Gruening. Territorial Delegate R.
L. (Bob) Bartlett also is expected
here from Washington, D.C., if he
can get away.
“The Statehood Committee has
been advised that the new’ state
hood bill will win quick approval in
the Senate Committee if it is in
troduced in the upper house,” At
wood said.
“Members probably will discuss
the feasibility of making some
changes in the new legislation. They
also are expected to consider plans
to launch a research program with a
view toward developing a funda
mental principle for a state con
stitution.”
It will be the second official meet
ing of the committee since it w'as
created by act of the 1949 Legisla
ture. An organization meeting was
held in August, 1949.
Members of the committee be
side Atwood include William L.
Baker, Ketchikan, vice chairman;
Mrs. Mildred Hermann, Juneau, sec
retary; Lee Bettinger, Kodiak;
Percy Ipalook, Kotzebue; Howard
Lyng, Nome; Stanley McCutcheon,
Anchorage; Andrew Nerluud, Fair
banks; Frank Peratrovich, Klawok;
Victor C. Rivers, Anchorage; War
ren R. Taylor, Fairbanks; Delegate
Bartlett and Governor Gruening;
and Judge Anthony JJimond, An
chorage.
HOOVER'S SPEECH
IS ISOLATIONISM,
SAYS PRESIDENT
WASHINGT ON, Dec. 28 — (.'PI —
President Truman said today former
President Hoover’s foreign policy
spt ch last week was nothing but
isolationism, and added this country
is not going back to that.
You can bet on that, Mr. Truman
told a news conference.
Hoover, in his broadcast address
December 20, proposed that the
United States quit sending men and
money to western Europe until the
Europeans themselves raise a big
enough army “to erect a sure dam
against the Red flood” of Commun
ist aggression.
Hoover also urged the United
States to concentrate on turning
the Western Hemisphere into a
"Gibraltar” with defense frontiers
stretching from Britain to Japan.
At Mr. Truman’s news confer
ence, a reporter asked him: “Do you
consider his (Hoover’s) recommen
dations isolationism?”
I ■
NEW WAF GARB — Capt. Carolyn F. Greenway. Pfr.
Margaret Van llellen and CpI. Doratlia Wunderlich (left to right)
show new Women's Air Force uniforms in Washington. ■
CAAGRANTS
CHANGES FOR
ALASKA LINES
WASHINGTON, D^. 28 — OP) —
The Civil Aerona> „ics Board today
authorized two stir lines to m-'.t
changes -i thc:r services to APsfca.
Ala as Air Lines was given per
mission to eliminate Flat as an in
termediate point on its Nome-An
chorage route; and to include Moset
Point as an intermediate stop be
tween Nome and Unalaklett. Its
authority to handle mail over these
routes was extended to June 30
1953.
The board said the airport at
Flat is inadequate for the type of
equipment used between Nome and
Anchorage, and Flat is being served
by another route between McGrath
and Flat via Cripple Landing.
Northern Consolidated Air Lines
was authorized to include McGrath
as an intermediate point between
Sleitmut and Anchorage; to handle
mail between Platinum and Anchor
age by W'ay of Bethel and McGrath:
and to handle passengers, cargo, and
mail between Bethel and Hooper
Bay, with intermediate stops at
Kw’igillingok, Mekeryuk, and Tu
nunak, for a period ending June
30, 1953.
LEAVE FOR STATES
I Dr. and Mrs. Robert Simpson,
1 Jr., and their two children, and Miss
Annabelle Simpson, left yesterday
j on the Pan American Clipper for
the states, after a visit over the
i Christmas holidays with Dr. and
Mrs. Robert Simpson, Sr.
Miss Simpson will go east to New
York where she is a staff writer on
Life magazine and Dr. Simpson and
his family are returning to their
home in Seattle.
TO SITKA
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Nelson and
their daughter, Marian, arrived in
Juneau Wednesday on the Pan
American Clipper and left on the
Alaska Coastal Airlines pfane for
Sitka.
1
y .S. GOVT.
CONTROLS
RUBSER
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 — '/PI —
The government placed itself in |
control of virtually all rubber sup
plies today, announcing it will be
sole importer and distributor of
natural rubber.
The National Production Author- ;
ity ordered that effective tomorrow,
only General Services Administra
tor Jess Larson may import natural
rubber and natural rubber latex.
’
Heretofore government agencies!
have had control over synthetic rub
ber because the government owns
the synthetic rubber plants. It has
been attempting to cut down the
use of rubber in civilian goods.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
S4 , American Tel. and Tel. 150%.
Anaconda 40%, Douglas Aircraft
97, General Electric 49'-, General
Motors 46 ;i, Goodyear 6G. Kenne
cott 75%, Libby McNeill and Libby
8 !4, Northern Pacific 33. Standard
Oil of California 89 , Twentieth'
Centu.y Fox 20%, U.S. Steel 42',*. {
Pound $2.80%, Canadian Exchange
94.371*.
Sales today were 3,560,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 235.34, rails 77.89, utilities
40.88.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
F"fighter Coastal Monarch front
Seattle scheduled t.r arrive tomor
row night tr Satui lay morning
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle 5 p.m . ton rrow.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
ftom Vancouver, 8 p.m., Saturday.
Denali scheduled to arrive from.
West Sunday southbound.
LONGSHOREMEN
SPLIT REGARD,
SECURITY CARDS
Statement Is Issued by
Bridges' Spokesman-Se
aftle Workers Processed
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 28—UP!
West Coast, longshoremen appar
ently were split today on procedures
to follow in regard to the Coast
Guard’s new waterfront security
cn rds.
A spokesman for Harry Bridges
70,000 man International Longshore
men’s and Warehousemen’s Union
said the locals up and down the Pa
cific Coast had agreed to delay any
action until a meeting Jan. 11 at
Longview, Wash.
Bridges’ spokesman. Morris Wnt
son. ILWU publications chief, de
clared that regardless of cards "the
longshoremen aren’t going to com
mit any sabotage.”
In Seattle ILWU members began
the necessary processing to obtain
cards.
The Coast Guard reported at least
100 longshoremen had been proces
sed in Seattle yesterday and most
were members of the ILWU. Art
Olsen, an ILWU business agent, said
Seattle members were being sent to
the Coast Guard office as fast t.s
they could be handled.
The Seattle local voted “99 per
cent plus” to go ahead with the ap
plications, Olsen said.
“Usually,” he explained, "we make
decisions on a coastwide basis. But
with the war on, we decided to go
ahead.”
Hugh Bryson, president of the
Miii ine Cooks and Stewards Union,
sni. h” would withhold comment on
the security card order until the
union had a chance to study it
But he added:
"If the final authority on whether
a man can make a living going to
sea is up to the Coast Guard Com
mandant, then the whole thing is a
farce.”
CAUCUS OF
FISHERMEN
IS CALLED
SEATTLE, Dec. 28—(i«—A coast
widc caucus of the Fishermen and
Allied Workers’ Division of the In
ternation Longshoremen and Ware
housemen’s Union (Independent!
will be held here Jan. 29, 30, and
31, Joseph Jurich, division chair
man said today.
The caucus takes the place of the
annual convention of the. Inter
national Fishermen and Allied
Workers of America held before
the IFAWA was merged with the
ILWU, Jurich said.
Tlie caucus will be held in the
ILWU Hall.
It will be open at 10 a m. each
day with some 50 delegates at
tending.
One of the principal items of
ousiness on the caucus program will
be the completion of the division
organization under the merger,
Jurich said. The delegates will de
cide the method of electing the
various officers.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures lor 24-Jlour Period •
• ending 6:20 o’clock this morning •
• ■>••••••••*
a in Juneau—Maximum, 40; •
• minimum, 34. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 38; •
• minimum, 32. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau aud Vicinity) •
• Cloudy with light rain to- •
• night and Friday. Lowest •
• temperature near 34 degrees •
• tonight. Highest Friday •
• about 36. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (PaBt 24 hours ending 7 30 a m. today c
• City of Juneau—0.01 inches; •
» since Dec. 1 — 3.94 inches; •
• since July 1—37.18 inches. •
• At Airport — 0.01 inches; •
• since Dec. 1 — 2.92 inches; •
• since July 1—26.03 inches. •
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| Cake Baked So a Duchess' Taste!
The Duchess of Windsor (renter) savors the flavor of the SSa.OOO
prize-winning cake baked by Mrs. Peter Wuebel (left), wife of a
Redwood City, Calif., baker, in the Grand National Bake-off spon
sored by the Pillghury Mills. Holding the rake as Mrs. Wuebel holds
her check, is Philip W. Pillsbury, president of the sponsoring company.
Presentation of check was made by the Duchess at a luncheon in the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. New York City. . An orange "Kiss Me Cake”
won the contest for Mrs. JVucbel. '(Pi Wirephoto.
HOARDING
MATERIALS
IS BANKED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 — Wt —
The National Production Authority
today banned hoarding of 55 scare
materials essential to defense and
civilian production.
The order makes it illegal for
businessmen, consumers or house
holders to accumulate these pro
ducts in excess of the "reasonable
demands." It -also specifically pro
1 hiblts acquiring the products for
resale at prit'O in excess of pre
vailing me-' .et prices—a provision
aimed at ‘ ^<-u;k marketing."
The 5? .terns include cement, soft
wood ’umber and plywood, paper
and paperboard, cast iron soil pipe,
and a long list of metals and chem
icals.
Any violation of the order is pun
ishable by up to a $10,000 fine and
a year's imprisonment.
The anti-hoarding decree extends
ant} re-enforces an earlier NPA in
ventory control order which applied
only to business and Industry and
covered only 26 materials.
The new order is effective at one*
NPA said, and accomplishes these
ends:
1. It sets up a ban against house
hold hoarding and starts a list to
which NPA later could add such
items as automobile tires, cars and
other consumer goods—though none
of these is named in the present
order.
2. It plugs a loophole in the orig
inal ordfr, by eliminating the
chance that a busimv small might
hoard materials with the excuse
that they were for personal con
sumption.
3. It discourages the entry of in
dividuals into the business of specu
lative buying in hopes of making
resales to industrial consumers later
at higher prices. Such .speculative
trading, particularly by newcomers
in the field looking for a quick
profit, is often termed "gray mar
ket" or "black market” operations.
PATROLMAN WITH l
COLLEGE DEGREES
IS RETIRING NOW
BOSTON, Dec. 28 — <JR — Done
pounding a beat is patrolman Edwin
F. Flanders, A.B., B.L.I., LL.D.
But he wasn’t promoted, he’s re
tiring after 28 years in the depart
ment’s lowest grade — despite his
three college degrees.
The 60-year-old cop said he took
some examinations for promotion
to Sergeant but never made it.
He's a bachelor of arts from
Portia Lav.’ School, a bachelor of
literary interpretation from Emer
son College and a doctor of laws
from Boston University.
Flanders says he has no special
plans for his retirement but "might
write a book.”
Cold Storage Plant
Workers, Petersburg,
Switch Affiliation
PETERSBURG, Alaska, Dec. 28— |
UP)—Employees r* i.ne Kayler-Dahl
Cold Storage .-'ant have voted to
switch their affiliation to the Amer- j
ican Federation of Labor.
They have been affiliated with
the Harry Bridges-led International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse^
men’s Union, which was ousted from
I he CIO earlier this year.
The switch will associate the cold
storage worker's union with the
local of the International Long
shoremen’s Association <AFL>.
The employees’ unit signed a
memorandum agreement with Kay- '
ler-Dahl on wages and working
conditions, to > un to next March 31.
Canadian Troops
Slated 'or Europe
Is Ottawa Belie!
(By Associated Press)
There's more and more of a
feeling in Ottawa, Canada, that
certain troops are slated for ser
vice in Europe, not Korea. The
troops in question are 10,000 recruit
ed to back up the United Nations
It's • thought they will be used to
| strengthen the defenses of western
S Europe. r’iie Canadian army has
recal’cd most of an advance party
| sen', U /Corea to set up a training
j area.
Dufies io Answer
Hoover's Foreign
Affairs Speech
(By Associated Press)
John Foster Dulles has been
| chosen to deliver the administra
tion's reply to former President
Hoover’s recent speech on foreign
affairs. In the speech. Hoover urg
ed the United States to stop send
ing money and troops to western
Europe until the nations there
showed more determination to de
fend themselves.
Dulles a Republican—is now an
American delegate to the United
Nations. He will make a major j
radio address Friday night.
Work Continues on
Civil Defense Plan
Costing 3 Billion
(By Associated Press)
Senate and House conferees will
continue work today on a measure j
providing machinery for a three
year civil defense program. Officials
estimate the plan will cost at least
some three-billion dollars. The con
ferees hope to complete their work
today. The measure then would go
to the House and Senate for action
early next week.
Heavy Blew
Is Expected
By MacArfhur
Communis! Armies Report
ed Massed Near 38th
Korean Parallel
(By Associated Tress)
General MncArthur warned to
day that Communist China has
mobilized on a national scale and
that a heavy blow from Communist
armies massed near the 38th para
llel may come any time in the next
two weeks.
Pressure in the form of Red
probing attacks appeared to be in
creasing along the 150-mile defense
line across Korea’s midsection be
ing held by the U. S. Eighth Army.
But there were no major battles.
The Communists apparently have
thrown more air power into tho
area. One Allied fighter group re
ported sighting 35 Russian-built
Mig-15s yesterday. Two Soviet-built
jets were reported destroyed and
a third damaged in a series of
engagements with American jets
over North Korea.
Coordinated Assault
MacArthur's analysts speculated
on the possibility of a coordinated
assault by 19 Chinese Divisions be
tween Jan. 1 and 10. perhaps sup
ported by the Chinese Communist
Air Force.
A U. S. Eighth Army briefing of
ficer said two Chinese armies of
about 60,000 men were building up
tor a blow 5 miles north and north
west of Seoul, Jittery Republic of
Korea capital. Probably half the
citizens of Seoul have fled to the
south.
United Nations patrols on the
western sector of the defense line
destroyed and dispersed several
enemy groups in the Changdong
area Wednesday. Allied troop
threw back enemy attempts to
penetrate defense lines in the area
southeast of Taedong.
Mac Arthur's Changes
MacArthur's communique again
debunked Chinese claims that Ultir
troops intervened in the Korean
war as "volunteers." It said: "The
character of a major military ef
fort by the Chinese Communist
Government, though initially mask
ed under the treacherous ruse of
a ‘volunteer participation,’ is onl\
too apparent in the deployment of
all elements of the Third and
Fourth Field Armies constituting
the entire military structure of
China.”
MacArthur stated that Red
China’s military spending in 1951
as provided by its budget would bo
three times what it was in 1950
“and eight times more than the
Chinese Nationalist Government
has ever -pent in one year."
Estimated Red Strength
The UN commander earlier esti
mated that Red China has com
mitted great numbers of men to
the Korean conflict and that with
the reorganized North Korean
forces, their total strength is 1,350,
000.
Twelve Asian and Arab countries
in the United Nations are urging
the United States to negotiate
with Communist China for a settle
ment of all Far Eastern problems.
They are expected to meet today
to discuss ways and means cf
bringing about such talks.
The United States so far has
been opposed to the proposed pol
itical conference. The Americans
view any move for a cease-fire
with concessions to the Chinese
Reds as yielding to blackmail.
Red China has rejected a cease
fire proposal put forward by the
United Nations three-man truce
commission.
federal Reserve
Bank Lending Is
Increasing, Claim
(By Associated Press)
Lending by Federal Reserve
Board member banks rose during
the week which ended December
20- it rose despite efforts of the
Federal Reserve Board to check
lending on a voluntary basis. The
Board says the week's figure was
the second greatest rise on record.
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