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Gets Back at
Statement
By Truman
NEW YORK. Nov. 30—Wl—Arthur
Krock. chief Washington correspon
dent for the New York Times, said
today in his editorial page column
that whenever the Truman admin
istration gets confused about major
events, it tries to blame the free
press.
Krock raised the point in con
neotion with President Truman’s
complaints yesterday about press
reports of a temporary halt of hos
tilities in Korea.
He wrote:
‘Whenever this administration
falls into a state of confusion and
somewhat of dismay, and when that
condition has become a matter of
public knowledge and concern, an
unusual barrage of official denials
of unwelcome news is launched
against the free press in a manner
to persuade the people that the
press is deliberately giving a lying
account of the government.
“The Truman administration is
in this plight today . . . Accordingly,
its denials have steadily become
more short and ugly.”
(Read dispatch headed "Warn
ing Sounded”—Editor.)
Girl Scout Council
To Elect Officers at
Saturday Luncheon
Girl scout council off.cers will
be elected at the annual luncheon
tomorrow at noon in the Gold
Room of the Baranof.
Among those to be chosen are the
commissioner, secretary, treasurer
and five members of the council.
Mrs. K. s’, Clem is general chair
man for the luncheon and Mrs. T. J.
Pyle in charge of reservations.
investigators of
Tax Frauds Take
Recess to Monday
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 — tAI —
House tax investigators unexpect
edly recessed their hearings today
until Monday to allow more time
to examine Justice Department
files—including any that may throw
light on rumors of an attempted
“fix” in a New York tax fraud case.
The recess was ordered as a
House Ways and Means subcom
mittee was scheduled to resume
its fifth consecutive day of inquiry
into the activities of T. Lamar
Caudle, ousted Assistant Attorney
General and former chief tax pros
ecutor.
Earlier, Chairman King (D-Calif)
had scored failing memories of Jus
tice Department officials testifying
in the New York case. King called
Attorney General McGrath’s at
tention to what he said was "ap
parently irregular activity on the
part of the Department of Jus
tice.”
AT THE BARANOF
P. H. Alexander and R. Larrabee
of the Morrison-Knudson Construc
tion Co., from Anchorage are re
gistered at the Barano Hotel.
TheWashinglon
Merry - Go - Round
(CooyriKtat, 1951, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
rr ASHINGTON—The politicians
are so busy knocking the State De
partment these days that when the
State Department does pull a diplo
matic ten-strike it goes unnoticed.
The American disarmament pro
posal in Paris, for instance, scored
a tremendous victory, helped knock
down Communist propaganda that
we were the world’s leading war
mongers.
Before this proposal was made,
however, a hot, backstage debate
took place in the State Department.
Some advisers feared the Russians
would pick up the disarmament
plan and run away with it. But
members of the Russian section
argued the opposite, said the Rus
sians were sure to react the other
way, and play into our hands.
That was exactly what Foreign
Minister Vishinsky did. He shocked
western Europe by stating that he
had stayed up all night laughing
at the west's disarmament proposal.
Since then, U. S. intelligence re
ports that Vishinsky has received
a scorching cable‘from the polit
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National Guard
To Celebrate
Governor's Day
Governor's Day is to be celebrated
by the 208th Infantry Battalion
(Sep.) of the Alaska National Guard
on Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock
at the sub-port parade ground.
The 43rd U. S. Army Band, num
bering 34 pieces, will be flown to
Juneau Saturday irlorning from
Ft. Richardson/ by Military Air
Transport Service for the review,
weather permitting.
Presentation of the Eisenhower
! Trophy to Company D of Sitka and
! other awards will be made by Gov.
Ernest Gruening who is reviewing
the battalion. Reviewing the troops
will also be Lt. Gen. Kepner, com
mander-in-chief, Alaska and Col.
Lars Johnson, Alaska National
Guard adjutant general.
The public is invited to attend
the review.
Immediately following the cere
monies at the sub-port, there will
be an informal reception at the
Baranof Hotel by Col. Johnson and
his staff. The reception is to give
all enlisted members of the guard
an opportunity to meet Gov. Gruen
ing, the guest of honor Refresh
ments will be served.
The fact that tne 43rd U. S. Army
band, with its full complement of
34 pieces, will play at the dance
at the Moose Hall at 9 o'clock Sat
urday evening is expected to in
crease interest in the event.
Special entertainment at the
dance will begin at 9:45 p.m. and
will include the O'Reilly’s from the
Pamaray Club, Johnny and Leo
nard from the Baranof Bubble Room
entertainers from Mike's and a
special dancing act by the Skin
ners.
A highlight of the evening will
| be the presentation of an award
| to the winning guard drill team,
i Master of ceremonies, Ross Wheeler
| will make the presentation. The
i winning team will also give a short
i exihibition drill.
j Admission to the dance is free
! and open to • the public. Many of
!the guardsmen are from out-of-town
and will be without parUn.ua. It, w
hoped that all of Juneau, and par
ticularly its young ladies, will be
on hand at the dance to extend a
welcome worthy of the Capital City
and its military guests.
UN Will Wait on
Big Four Talks
lor Arms Action
I PARIS, Nov. 30——The United
Nations political committee voted
unanimously today to suspend de
bate on rival east-west disarma
ment plans pending efforts by the
Big Pour to seek agreement in se
cret talks.
The discussions among Britain,
France, the Scfciet Union and the
! United States are expected to get
! under way immediately behind clos
I ed doors. The committee asked them
to report back on their progress
by Dec. 10.
The committee acted after Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vish
insky agreed to participate in such
talks. Spokesmen for Britain,
France and the United States had
agreed previously to do so.
U. S. Delegate Philip C. Jessup
said this was a hopeful develop
ment, but commented that the bel
ligerent tone of Vishinsky’s accep
tance speech indicated the task
ahead would be difficult. Similar
views were expressed by spokesmen
for France and Britain.
Vishinsky prefaced his acceptance
with a blistering attack on previous
speeches by Jessup and others and
a castigation of the western dis
armament plan.
Matthews Knocks
Jones Out in 2nd
ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 30—^—
Harry (Kiil) Matthews of Seattle,
ranked No. 2 on the list of the na
tion’s light heavyweights, stopped
Maynard Jones of Philadelphia at
2:31 of the second round of a
scheduled ten-round bout last night.
It was the Kid’s 12th straight
knockout and his 65th consecutive
bout without a loss.
Matthews weighed 176 % pounds
for his first appearance east of the
Rockies since his victory over Irish
Bob Murphy at Madison Square
Garden last year. Jones weighed
192. A crowd of 5,261 paid nearly
$14,000 to watch the bout.
A short, jolting uppercut to the
chin was the payoff punch for the
Kid.
AT THE GASTINEAU
Mr. and Mrs. David Oehler of
Skagway are at the Gastineau Ho
tel.
Says M'Arlhur
Knew Chinese
Would Fight
BOSTON, Nov. 30—OF)—The Chris
tian Science Monitor says there is
“strong evidence’’ General Mac
Arthur withheld from the White
House information about possible
Chinese intervention in Korea.
The statement is contained in a
story by Gordon Walker, assistant
foreign editor of the Monitor and
former war correspondent attached
to General MacArthur’s command
in the Pacific and Tokyo.
In New York, a spokesman for
Gen. MacArthur said no comment
would be made until the statements
were studied.
Gen. Charles A. Willoughby,
former chief intelligence officer for
MacArthur, terms the statement
‘deliberately false, whether in the
Christian Science Monitor or the
Police Gazette.”
Walker’s story in Thursday’s
Monitor also says “front line com
manders ordered their troops into
battle without prior knowledge that
they faced overwhelming odds —
odds as high as three or four to
one.”
According to Walker, information
about Chinese intervention reached
Tokyo in mid-September, two
months before the late November
start of the ill-fated Yalu river
offensive!
“War correspondents in Tokyo
w'ho sought to establish the fact
were officially discouraged by head
quarters from writing about it,”
Walker declares.
Reds Given
New Punch
from UN
MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 30—UFi—
Allied truce negotiators today flatly
refused even to discuss the with
^ drawal of troops from Korea until
an armistice is signed.
They also made it clear the UN
command will not modify its de
mand for (1) joint inspection teams
behind the battle lines and (2)
and ironclad ban on strengthening
iront line troops.
"We are going to insist upon
those principles," Vice Adm. C.
Turner Joy, chief UN negotiator,
told the Reds. "We are not going
to agree to immediate withdrawal
of UN command forces from Korea.
Is that clear? The sooner it Is clear,
the sooner we will begin to make
profitable uSe of the time of this
conference.”
Replying to Joy’s 30-minute op
ening statement at Panmunjom,
North Korean Lt. Gen Nam 11 re
peatedly called the Allied proposals
"unreasonable and impractical.”
Jle said joint inspection teams
would be “brazen interference with
the internal affa'irs of the other
side.”
Anchorage Asks
Help in Relieving
Power Shortage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 30—
iff)—A Federal Power Administrator
arrived here yesterday for confer
ences on an electricity shortage in
the Anchorage area.
J. H. Gumz flew here from Ta
coma for the Defense Electric
Power Administration after appeals
for aid had gone as high as the
White House.
The appeals were made by the
Chugach Electric Association, which
provides power for most needs QUt
side the Anchorage city limits. The
city's population is 11,000, compared
with 19,000 outside its limits.
"We have 1,400 kilo.watts out of
service with no prospect of repairs,”
said Ed Jarvi, president of the
Chugach Association. “We can’t
meet the peak period now and must
have immediate help.”
M. S. Stewart, Chugach manager,
said the condition will be critical
until both the Eklutna and the pro
posed Susitna generating facilities
are operating.
The Chugach Association asked
for a Navy ship capable of produc
ing 10,000 kilowatts or that a power
producing train be brought north.
It also is asking that the Anchorage
vicinity be designated as a critical
power area.
FROM SEATTLE
A. T. Colman of the General Ad
justment Bureau of Seattle is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
Mrs. Judd, Slayer
Of Juneau Women,
Escapes, Hospital
PHOENIX, Ariz. Nov. 30— (A —
Crafty Winnie Ruth Judd, notorious
trunk murdress of 20 years ago,
broke out of the state hospital for
the insane last night for the fourth
time, and today eluded searchers.
She pried through a screen win
dow, slipped down a ladder fashion
ed from rags, yarn and an electric
iron cord, and vanished into the
chill night.
Escape of the greying red-haired
killer set off a great search through
the city. Bloodhounds failed to pick
up her trail.
In 1931, Mrs. Judd shot two Ju
neau, Alaska, girl friends to death
and shipped their dismembered bod
ies to Los Angeles in a trunk and
a suitcase. She was convicted of
murder and was sentenced to hang.
At almost the last moment she was
found insane and was committed
to the asylum here.
Now 48, Mrs. Judd has been in
the hospital 18 years.
Just before her escape about 10:30
p.m. she had been visiting in the
room of her 84-year-old mother,
Mrs. Carrie B. McKinnell, also a
patient in the hospital. Earlier Mrs.
Judd had attended a western movie
shown for the inmates.
Hospital officials felt that Mrs.
Judd, long unaccustomed to the
outside, could not have gone far
from the institution grounds, even
though they border on the prin
cipal east-west highway through
the city.
Alaska Plywood
Ccrp. Asks lo Buy City
Storage Warehouse
At a special meeting last night
the Juneau City Council approved
of judges and clerks for a special
election to be held December 6,
and also considered a request from
the AJP-SK" fTp tp buy
a city-owned storage warehouse.
Clerks and judges for the Juneau
Dairies polls are: clerks — Mrs.
Svend Thorite and Mrs. Gertie
Berggren; judges — Mrs. Albert
Tucker, Mrs. Gudmund Jensen, Mrs.
Carl Collen.
Library Building polls: clerks —
Mrs. Bert Lybeck and Arthur Kin
nan; judges — Mrs. Frank Olson,
Miss Hilda Krause, Mrs. Charles
Boyer.
The polls will be open from 8
a.m. to 7 p.m. next Thursday, De
cember 6. All persons whose names
appear on the last assessment and
tax rolls for real or personal prop
erty and automobile owners are
eligible to vote.
Voters will be asked to approve
three different bond issues: $290,000
for a city hall to be joined on the
fire hall now in the process of con
struction; $287,000 for a street im
provement program; and $88,000 fox
fire fighting equipment and re
habilitation of the fire alarm sys
tem.
A request from the Alaska Ply
wood Corp. offering to buy the city
storage warehouse adjoining the
lumber mill property was read. The
city paid $40,000 for the property
and if it is sold, the purchase price
would amount to approximately
$45,000; however the matter will
have to come up to the voters for
approval. It is too late to get it
on the ballot for the special elec
tion next week.
The council felt all possible co
operation should be given to the
plywood corporation which is estab
lishing a new industry here with
its attendant payroll.
A petition signed by 52 property
holders in the Seatter Tract was
read. They asked that the council
give assurance that all underground
facilities be installed and that area
be paved if the street improvement
bonds are approved.
TWO BIRDS ARRIVE
This is the time of year when
most birds are going south, how
ever two little yellow canaries from
Clark’s Pet Shop in Seattle reversed
the procedure and flew in here yes
terday (by Pan American Airways).
They were addressed to Barbara
Williams in care of Mrs. Charles
Hooper of Juneau.
VISITORS FROM SKAGWAY
Bea and Mike O’Daniel of Skag
way are guests at the Baranof Ho
tel.
TIDE TABLES
• DECEMBER 1
•
• High tide 3:30 a m., 16.5 ft.
• Low tide 9:08 a.m„ 3.2 ft.
• High tide 3:07 p.m„ 19.6 ft.
• Low tide 9:53 p.m., -3.0 ft
Sabre Jets
Win Biggest
Air Battle
SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 30 — MP) —
American Sabre jet pilots won the
greatest air battle of the war to
day, reporting a total haul for the
day of ten Red planes shot down,
four damaged and one probably
destroyed.
The Fifth Air Force said no Al
lied planes were lost.
Nine of the Red craft shot down
were propeller-driven bombers and
fighter-bombers, the first caught in
a mass flight beyond the Manchur
ian border.
Near the close of a blazing day
of aerial warfare, 31 U.S. F-86
Sabre jets spotted 16 MIG-15 Jets
flying top cover on 30 propeller
driven Russian-type planes.
The Sabres dove directly into the
flight of 12 TU-2 twin engine
bombers and 18 LA-9 single engine
fighter-bombers. Then they swooped
up and cut the flight of MIQs in
half and dove down again to finish
off the slower conventional craft.
It was one long, deadly sweep.
The 30 minute battle was the
fourth air fight of the day and the
biggest of any type — jet or pro
peller planes — fought in the Ko
rean war. The earlier flights ac
counted for the probable and the
One Sabre pilot bagged four of
the Communist planes to become
America's fifth jet ace. Maj. George
A. Davis, Jr., of Lubbock, Tex., shot
down three of the TU-2 bombers
and the MIG jet Friday. Two other
MIGs knocked down Wednesday
boost his total to six, one more
than needed to become an ace.
No flight of Red bombers and
fighter-bombers of comparable size
h.:s been reported previously from
K rrea. Air Force officers said the
Rjd flight cut up Friday probably
w is on a training mission, pos
sl >ly under the mistaken impres
s’ ui that Allied fighters had com
^w)vd their day's sweeps over
northern Korea,
fourth damaged Red.
The four day air battle total
mounted to 18 Red jet planes re
ported destroyed, one probably de
stroyed and 13 damaged, against
one U.S. plane shot down and three
damaged.
Long convoys of Red trucks were
spotted last night racing toward
the quiet forward lines with their
lights blazing.
Flare-dropping Allied planes
counted at least 9,200 of them, Far
East Air Forces (FEAF) reported
Friday. The figure is nearly double
the previous high of 5,150, and a
Fifth Air Force re-count indicated
it may be Incomplete.
Infantry action maintained the
same quiet tempo that has marked
the front since truce negotiators
agreed Tuesday on a tentative cease
fire line. Artillery fire increased
after Gen. James A. Van Fleet,
U.N. ground commander, announced
Thursday he was clarifying a direc
tive which some troops may have
misinterpreted as a cease-fire order.
Wage Talks Break Up
Between Anchorage
Unions and Builders
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 30—
■!ft—Negotiations between various
union representatives and the Asso
ciated General Contractors have
broken up here and are to be re
sumed in Seattle Dec. 10.
The negotiations, designed to set
up a wage scale for the building
industry in Alaska for the 1952 sea
son, broke up Wednesday after
three days. It was reported that
the meeting snagged on what em
ployers regarded as excessive wage
demands by the union.
A statement issued by Larry
Moore, Alaska manager of the AGC,
after the breakup said “both sides
agree that an equitable solution of
their problems necessitates further
study of existing governmental re
gulations under which the industry
must determine wage policies.”
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Nov. 30—lift—Closing
quotation of American Can today
is 107 %, American Tel. and Tel.
157*4, Anaconda 49%, Douglas Air
craft 57 %, General Electric 56, Gen
eral Motors 50%, Goodyear 42%.
Kennecott 86%, Libby McNeill and
Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 63*4,
Standard Oil of California 50%,
Twentieth Century Fox 21, U. S.
Steel 40%. Pound *2.80%, Cana
dian Exchange 96.50.
Sales today were 1,530,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industlals 261.27, rails 81.43, util
ities 46.04.
Come and Get It, or They'll Take
It to You - Beer's Free in Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 30—'
</?i—A merchant’s war drove the
price of beer down to zero here
yesterday and one dealer even de
livered it—all for flee.
Streets were Jammed with hund
reds of residents who squeezed,
| pushed and struggled to get into
local retail establishments after the
price plummeted from $6.00 a case
to nothing.
It started when one dealer slash
his prices from $6 to $3.75 a case
last week. A competitor cut to $3.35,
scarcely what it costs to ship the
^beverage from the states to Alaska
i plus taxes.
Last night, the Southside Liquor
i Market started giving it away,
j Hundreds of the thirsty lined up
I outside the market. The proprietor,
noting that many couldn't get in,
started delivering it to downtown
points.
The milling mob finally necessi
tated police action to break up the
traffic jam. But beer was still free
and one market owner said he was
going to make it even cheaper—
he didn't explain how.
Walter Hellan
Resigns After 17
Years in Office
Walter G. Hellan, acting U. S.
Marshal, today announced his re
signation stating that he expected
Sid Thompson, recently given a re
cess appointment to the marshal's
Job, to qualify for the job December
1 (tomorrow).
Hellan says he submitted his re
signation to Attorney General J.
Gerald Williams about six weeks
ago, asking that his resignation be
effective November 1, or soon after.
This was after Thompson had been
given the appointment. He says the
attorney general asked him to re- j
main on the job pending necessary j
j routine qualification of Thompson, j
Thompson was not reached for j
comment, but Mrs. Flossie Dcolin.l
chief deputy in the marshal's of-1
fice, said that Thompson had been j
officially qualified.
Hellan has worked in the mar-1
shal’s office at Juneau for over 171
years. He was appointed deputy |
marshal Aug. 1, 1934, and was ap- !
pointed acting marshal Sept. 1, 1950. ’
“I have enjoyed the work very
much indeed, as deputy under the
late marshal, William T. Mahoney,
and as acting marshal. I am re
signing with the knowledge that I
have tried rav .utmost to ahva&« do
the right thing and to serve the i
public properly and impartially,” '
Hellan said. ‘‘I have the feeling that
I have made a great many good
true friends and to all of these I
wish to extend my most sincere
greetings and gratitude.”
Hellan said that at present he
did not know his plans for the fu
ture. I
March of Dimes |
Polio Campaign
Is Now Planned
A meeting of the Executive Board
of the Southeast Alaska Chapter of
the National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis was held Wednesday
evening in the Territorial building.
This meeting was the first to be
held with the newly elected officers
presiding.
Chairman Marguerite Dudley
called the meeting to order with all
new officers present with other
members of the Executive Board
from Juneau and Douglas. A review
of the work done during the past
year was reported and plans for
mulated for the coming year, in
cluding concentrated planning for
the forthcoming March of Dimes
campaign which is held annually
during the month of January, cli
maxed by a Birthday BalJ the lat
ter part of January.
The plans for the March of Dimes
campaign which have been drawn
up under the direction of Mrs.
Hazel Mantylla, campaign director
for Southeast Alaska Chapter, were
discussed and arrangements are go
ing forward ■ for their progress in
all towns and communities in the
Cxmtheast Alaska district. Each
town and community has been no
t.fied of the coming campaign and |
a local chairman appointed for each
Individual place who will cooperate
with the campaign director here.
The work of the Alaskan Chap
ters of the Infantile Paralysis has
been during the last two years, in
creasingly important since polio
cases have been widespread through
out the Territory, bringing home
to the local residents the import
ance of knowledge of symstoms,
treatment, facilities available and
the help offered by the National
Foundation through the local chap
ters, now organized by divisions in
the Territory.
Much interest is being shown in
all divisions in the literature pro
vided and an appeal is made to the
public to read carefully any and
all booklets and pamphlets they
may receive through the mail, ar
ticles in newspapers and national
magazines, short movies shown at
the theatres and radio programs.
Informative literature is available to
anyone interested by a phone call to
any of the present officers now in
Fisheries Board
Asks Representation
On Japanese Treaty
The Alaska Fisheries Board vig
orously protested In a telegram to
day to Secretary of State Dean
Acheson, the lack of Alaska repre
sentation on the advisory board to
the Department of State now nego
tiating a fishery treaty with Japan.
The board also pointed out that
Alaska has never had representa
tion on the present International
Fisheries Commission for the con
trol and regulation of the halibut
fishery of the North Pacific where
the bulk of the halibut are caught.
Governor Ernest Gruening and
Delegate E. L. Bartlett heartily en
dorsed the board’s action and added
their signature to the wire.
A copy of the wire was sent to
Secretary of Interior Oscar Chap
man requesting his cooperation.
Protest Made
The text ef the telegram in full
read:
"The Alaska Fisheries Board now
in official session hereby vigorously
protests lack of representation by
bona fide Alaskans on advisory
group to Department of State dele
gation now in Tokyo tp negotiate
fishery treaty with Japan for pro
tection and conservation of the
JT £781 North Pacific.
"We further protest procedure
used in drafting proposed conven
tion without notification to or con
sultation with resident .Alaskans
who will be vitally affected by its
provisions. Many Alaskan fisher
men are presently engaged in fish
eries to be encompassed by this
treaty and as the Territory grows
our fisheries will expand thus more
and more Alaskans will be subject
to its provisions.
“Alaska has never had repre
sentation on present International
Fisheries Commission for control
and regulation of the halibut fish
ery of the North Pacific, despite the
fact that waters adjacent to Alaska
produce bulk of halibut catch.
"Repeated attempts to correct this
situation have been ignored. There
fore respectfully and urgently re
quest that Alaska be given equal
representation on advisory group
at earliest possible moment and j
furthermore that your department'
take no final action on this con
vention until interested Alaskans
have been consulted.
“For your information the Alaska
Fisheries Board is an official body
created by the Legislature of the
Territory and is composed of repre
sentatives of resident fishermen,
packers and the general public.
Governor Gruening and Delegate
Bartlett have heartily endorsed
views and have authorized the addi
tion of their signatures to this tele
gram.”
The wire was signed by J. H.
Wakefield, chairman; Karl Brun
stad. Ira H. Rothwell, W. O. Smith,
and' J. P. Valentine, members of
the Fisheries Board; C. L. Ander
son, director of the Alaska Depart
ment of Fisheries; Gruening and
Bartlett.
AT THE BARANOF
Herbert Gunderson of Fairbanks
is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
• ••••••••••
• •
• WEATHER REPORT •
• (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU •
• Temperatures tor 24-Hour Period •
• At Airport; Maximum. 32; •
• Minimum, 25. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Variable cloudiness with •
• occasional light snow show- •
• ers and gusty northeasterly • |
• winds tonight and Saturday. •
• Low temperature tonight •
• near 25 degrees. High to- •
• morrow around 32 degrees. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Pait 24 hours ending 7:10 a m today •
• At Airport — 0.07 Inches; •
• since July I—17.65 inches, •
• •••••••••a
charge, namely, Chairman Marg
uerite Dudley, Vice-Chairman Rev.
Willis R. Booth, Secretory, Lois
Jund and Treasurer, Saxon Snow.
Warning
Sounded
By Truman
KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 30——
The country has a warning from
President Truman that Red negotl
itions for a cease fire in Korea
nay be no more than a Communist
rap.
"We can not.” the President as
'erted. "allow our men to be caught
)ff-balance by the enemy in case
ve can not reach a satisfactory
irmistice.”
Mr. Truman, meeting with newa
nen for the second time since he
flew to Key West Nov. 8, told them
:n blunt terms late yesterday that
the fighting will continue in Korea
is long as there is a possibility
hat United Nations forces might
■>e caught off-balance.
“The continued pressure of our
forces on the enemy constitutes the
strongest incentive for the latter
o agree to a just armistice,” he
aid.
Mr. Truman warned, as his press
secretary, Joseph Short, did Wed
lesday, that there has been no
;ease-fire in Korea and "can be
lone until an armistice has been
dgned.”
KOREAN SHOOTING ISSUE
KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 30-<#)—
The White House quoted today from
i hitherto unpublished secret docu
ment to show that the Eighth Army
.ssued order Monday directing the
:ontlnuance of hostilities "until the
ilgnlng of the armistice agreement.”
Presidential Secretary Joseph
Short read from the document at
i news ‘conference in which he
denied that ground fighting had
been brought to a halt over the Ko
rean battlefront and challenged the
accuracy of an Associated Pres*
dispatch from Korea.
Short also took issue with a stater
ment issued by the Associated Press
!n New York defending the AP
«tory, and declared:
"This statement the Associated
Press issued is designated to con
'use the American people.”
Short read the first paragraph of
an AP story under a Seoul, Korea,
datedline Wednesday which said:
“Orders from the highest source,
possibly from the White House
Itself, brought the ground fighting
to a complete, if temporary halt
Wednesday, AP Correspondent
John Randolph reported through
censorship today.”
Short read from the secret dis
patch In reply to a statement by
the Associated Press which said:
"It was a fact that the ground
shooting was halted as a result of
orders or directives given to United
Nations fighting forces.
"The AP dispatch in question Was
part of a front-line reportorial ef
fort to explain the effect as well
as (he possible origins of orders
which are still surrounded In mys
tery. The Associated Press did not
report a 'cease fire’ order had been
Issued. It has fully reported the
f^cts, so far as they have been ob
tainable and observable, including
all authoritative statements which
have: (1) denied any ‘cease fire’
order has been issued, but (2) not
disnuted the fact that a lull* de
veloped In front-line ground fight
ing.”
M Day' Hay Be
On December 21
CHICAGO, Nov. 30—(jfl—The 1,
X)0,OOOth traffic death In the U. S.
irobably will be recorded on Dec.
il.
The National Safety Council said
oday that its estimates indicate
M Day” will fall on that date.
The council reported that Its
-ally for October, plus special
weekly reports for November from
state accident record bureaus, had
aised the grand total through yes
.erday to approximately 997,300.
That leaves just 2,700 lives to be
ost before victim No. 1,000,000 is
:ounted.
FROM SEATTLE
L. W. Hundley of the Alaska
Freight Lines from Seattle is stop
ting at the Baranof Hotel.
Ship MoT«m«nti
Alaska scheduled to arrive south
bound sometime Sunday afternoon
>r evening.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle at noon Saturday.
Freighter Yukon Princess sched
uled to arrive southbound from
Skagway at 8 a.m., Saturday sailing
for Vancouver at 10 a.m.
Freighter Flemish Knot in port
sailing for the Westward late to
night.