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VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,577_JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1950_MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE JEN CENTS
Americans Close Trap on 1,000 Red_ Troops
MANY ISSUES
TALKED OYER
BY TRUMAN
Discusses Excise Profits Tax
-Korean Situation- I
Meetings on Peace
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 — MB — j
President Truman said today he
would accept an excess profits tax if
voted by Congress, but added that
such controversial proposals should
be put off until the next Congress
meets.
He conceded that an excess profits
tax—which he has not asked for—
would be voted eventually. But he
said he preferred it to come when
Congress is over the election jitters.'
He repeated that he had asked j
for tax increases which he believed ;
could be enacted quickly and that;
an excess profits levy is very con
troversial.
The President also told his news
conference that Jacob Malik, So- ]
viet representative on the United |
Nations Security Council, is con- j
ducting a filibuster on Korea, and
it is a filibuster against the Rus- j
sins themselves principally.
Optimistic on Korea
Replying to another question, he i
said he is optimistic on the Korean j
military situation. He said he is i
taking his advice from U.S. military ;
leaders and he is as optimistic as j
they are.
A reporter remarked that Gen-1
eral Douglas MacArthur had com- !
plained that defeatists and appeas
ers are working against him. The
President said he had not met any
one of that sort yet and empha
sized he and MacArthur are in com
plete agreement.
He said he put MacArthur in the
Japan job and also made him Com
mander in Chief of the U.N. Forces
in Korea, and is satisfied with what
he is doing.
Peace Conference
The President once more rejected
the idea of a meeting of heads Of
state on the question of peace.
Asked whether the U.S. would ap- j
prove “high level" meetings if
Trygve Lie, U.N. Secretary General,
took the initiative, he replied that
this had not been put up to him
yet and would comment when and
if it is.
A reporter putting this question
quoted Lie as saying the real crisis
would come after the Korean war is
ended and that “high level" meet
ings would be necessary to work out
a solution.
The President said he would favor
anything that would contribute to
world peace.
“That raises the old question
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By TOM McNAMARA and
JACK ANDERSON
.Copyrlsht, l«a«. n 0*11 Syndic***, tol
(Ed. Note—While Drew Pear
son is on a brief vacation, his
column will be written by mem
bers of his staff.)
J^SHINGTON—One of the un
told stories of the Korean war is
that Joe Stalin had a blunt fore
warning from President Truman
that we wouldn’t put up with any
more Soviet shenanigans—in Korea
or anywhere else.
The ultimatum was relayed by
Trygve Lie, U. N. Secretary-Gen
eral, when he visited Moscow just
before the Korean outbreak. Lie
wanted to work out a “peace" for
mula whereby we would recognize
Communist China as a member of
the United Nations if Stalin, in
turn, agreed to call off the cold
war.
However, Truman flatly rejected
this proposal when the U. N.
official sounded him out before
leaving for Moscow. The President
said he was wiUing to meet Stalin
halfway on “honorable” grounds,
but not as an appeaser.
Somewhat crestfallen, Lie asked
as the conference broke up: “Mr.
President, is there any message you
would like me to give to General
issimo Stalin?"
“No,” replied Truman.
Then he added, crisply: “Yes,
tell him that the United States
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EYE-FULL
Karlyne Abele (above), 18, of Des
Moines, Wash., is “Miss Washing
ton” of 1950. She will represent
the Evergreen State at Atlantic
I City. Her dramatic reading ablil
| ity is another contest asset. UP)
Wirephoto.
FORMER WAC IS
NOMINATED FOR
SHERIFF, IDAHO
IDAHO CITY, Idaho, Aug. 10—(41
—A former WAC Sergeant won the
Boise County Republican nomina
| tion for sheriff. If elected next fall
1 she will become Idaho’s first woman
| sheriff.
I Mrs. Harriet (Babe) Hansen, 50,
ran up 145 votes in eight of Boise
j county's 10 precincts to win over
j Charles Newell of Horseshoe Bend
I and John W. Rynearson of Idaho
j City.
She has served as a guide for big
j game parties in Idaho’s primitive
| area for years. She is recognized as
| one of the state’s best marksmen
and has killed 75 cougar.
Mrs. Hansen operates a ranch on
the middle fork of the Salmon river.
ILLEGAL FISHING
NEAR YAKUTAT HAS
CLOSED ITALIOR.
A marked decline in escapement
in the Italio river near Yakutat lead
to a check by the Fish and Wildlife
Service and complaints against four
fishermen who were found seine
fishing in the river.
Complaint was filed by Robert H.
Bain, enforcement agent of the
F & WS at Yakutat, against R. K.
Gildersleeve and C. M. Whipple,
both of Petersburg, and Paul Henry
and Peter Harry of Yakutat.
Gildersleeve and Whipple, pilots
who fish from their Seabee planes,
were charged before Commissioner
Gordon Gray at court held in Yaku
tat on two counts: 1. Fishing with
out registering with the local Fish
and Wildlife agent and 2. Fishing
with improper gear, using gill gear
as beach seines.
They were fined $100 each on the
first count and $400 each on the sec
ond count.
Henry and Harry, natives, were
charged with improper use of gear
and fined $150 each.
A thousand sockeye salmon were
confiscated by the Court.
Judge Gray was flown to Yakutat
by Clarence Rhode, regional direc
tor of the F & WS, who assisted in
the prosecution.
Because of the limited escape
ment, the Italio River has been
closed until such time as sufficient
fish have reached the spawning
grounds, Mr. Rhode said today.
BOOSTS IN
TAXES NOW
COMING UP
_
Corporations to Pay More
-Revamping of Income
Taxes Next Move
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 — Ml —
rhe Senate finance committee has
unanimously approved President
Truman's proposal for a $1,500,000,
J00 a year increase in corporation
taxes—boosting the top corporate
income rate from 38 percent to 45
bercent.
The committee acted shortly after
Pres,dent Truman told a news con
ference that an excess profits tax
will be enacted eventually.
The committee ruled that the
higher rates shall apply as of July
1, 1950. It refused to accept Mr.
Truman's proposal that the in
creases apply to all of 1950 cor
porate income.
The corporate increase is part
of Mr. Truman’s overall $5,000,000,
000 tax increase proposal, to help
finance the Korean war and Am
erica's armament against Com:<tfti
ist aggression.
The committee probably will vdte
tomorrow on the President’s pro
posal for a $3,000,000,000 increase
in levies on individual incomes—
raising the rates by 20 percent in
some income categories.
The corporate rate approved to
day would be 25 per cent on the
first $25,000 of corporation income,
and 45 percent on income above
$25,000.
President Truman said that he
would of course approve an excess
profits tax if it is added to his
$5,000,000,000 interim tax proposal.
CLOSE RACE
IN PRIMARY
IN IDAHO
Count, However, Favors
Clark to Nose Out In
cumbent Taylor
BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 10—-Ml—'The
hard-fought battle for the Demo
' cratic nomination to the six-year
j U. S'. Senate term in Idaho re
! mained inconclusive today—two
j days alter the primary election.
But the count definitely favored
former Senator D. Worth Clark,
I seeking to oust incumbent Senator
j Glen H. Taylor.
With 779 of 839 precincts counted,
| Clark held a 1,000 vote margin over
j the guitar-playing former cowboy
] from Pocatello.
The count showed: Clark, 26,4*5;
Taylor, 25,409.
A third man in the race, Repre
sentative Compton I. White, lias
I 14,507.
j Sen. Henry C. DworsTiak was
I assured of the Republican nomih
| ation for the four-year Senate
j post.
FWS OFFICIALS ARE
NOW DUE IN JUNEAU
Fish and Wildlife officials from
Washington, D.C., due in Juneau
today include Severn Ulmer, head
of the personnel division; Seton
Thompson is expected to arrive this
weekend and Ralph P. Silliman.
chief of the anadromous fisheries
section is already in the Juneau
area making a biological survey.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Prince George from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive Friday after
noon.
Princess Norah scheduled to ar
rive Saturday afternoon.
Aleutian scheduled to sail from
Seattle Saturday.
Chilcotin scheduled to sail from
Vancouver tonight,
j Princess Louise scheduled to sail
: from Vancouver Saturday.
! Alaska scheduled southbound on
j Saturday.
Baranof from west scheduled
J southbound Sunday.
CONTROLS
TO TRUMAN
BY HOUSE
_ I
Measure Passed, Sent to
Senate - Wages, Prices^
Rationing Included
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—OW—'The
House passed today a bill giving
broad authority to President Tru
man to start rationing and clamp
ceilings on prices and wages. ;
The home front controls bill went
to the Senate, already debating a
similar measure.
It contains more power than the
President asked, but no more than
he has indicated he would accept.
The roll call vote on final passage
was 383 to 12.
Presumably Mr. Truman would
make no immediate use of price
wage-rationing controls, as he didn’t j
ask for them originally.
He could be expected to apply
first the sections of the bill he did
request, those, for instance, provid
ing for production priorities for de
fense contracts, and for channeling
scarce materials into defense chan
nels.
The House okayed the bill after
six days of wrangling and legislative
flip flops.
The House bill would empower
Mr. Truman to:
1. Put ceilings on wages and
prices, either separately or jointly,
whenever he wants. Wages would
be stabilized at the levels of May
24-June 24 this year. In pegging
prices, the President would have to
give "due consideration” to levels fcf
that period.
2. Order rationing of anything he
thinks ought to be rationed, and
at wholesale or retail levels.
3. To allocate scarce materials.
4. Require top priorities for de
fense contracts.
5. Requisition materials or equip
ment for the defense program.
6. Make defense production loans
up to a total of $2,000,000,000.
7. Control credit, with some re
strictions.
All authority would expire next
June 30.
STEWARDS SIGN
UP; DENALI NOW
ON WAY NORTH
— i
Agreemenl ts Reported
Reached on Screening
Procedure
_
SEATTLE, Aug. 10 — <A>) — The
steamship Denali sailed today for
Alaska with a nearly-complete stew- j
ards crew after another dispute over
Coast Guard screening procedure |
was settled—at least temporarily.
An official of the Alaska Steam
ship Company said he has been no
tified there would be no further de
lays in the signing on of crews. He
said the Pacific Maritime Associa
tion and the Marine Cooks and
Stewards’ Union (CIO), the dissi
dent union, had notified him from
San Francisco that the matter had
been ironed out.
Seattle officers of the union said
they had not been informed of the
agreement.
The Denali signed 56 stewards. Its
normal complement is 60.
Two other vessels affected by the
stewards’ reluctance to submit their
sea papers to Coast Guard security
officers for screening will sail to
morrow or Saturday, steamship of
ficials said.
They are the Aleutian, which
needs 76 stewards and is scheduled
to sail Saturday, and the freighter
Victoria, with eight stewards. The
Victoria may leave tomorrow.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Aug. 10 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today Is 2%, American Can
93%, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss
Wright 10%, International Harves
ter 29%, Kennecott 61%, New York
Centrol 14%, Northern Pacific 1714,
U S. Steel 36%, Pound $2.80%.
Sales today were 1,875,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 216.64, rails 62.24, utilities
38.71.
Front Line Liaison
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A U. S. Marines’ helicopter takes off from a Marin c forward command post near the Korean front.
The plane is used as a liaison unit between front lin e position and the First Marine Division base.
UPI Wlrephoto.
Picketing in Juneau Case
Declared Illegal; Ruling
Announced by NLR Board
"COMPLETE
DEADLOCK"
IN STRIKE
Federal Mediator at An
chorage Sees No Prospect
of Settlement Soon
ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Aug. 19—
ijpi—A three-hour conference be
tween representatives of the Master
Plumbers Association and striking
members of the AFL Plumbers
Union, Local 367, broke up last
night in "complete deadlock.”
William Hosie, Federal mediator,
said both parties were firmly es
tablished in their original positions
on demanded wage increases. Side
issues, such as a two-year contract,
were discussed, he said, but the key
obstacle continued to be wages.
The union insists on $3.50 an
hour, the same wage recently
granted" plumbers in Fairbanks.
They now receive $3.
Strike Criticized
The strike, now nearing the end
of its fourth week, was criticized
by Defense Secretary Johnson this
week as threatening the security of
the United States.
“These things are long and drawn
out affairs,” Hosie said after Cie
negotiating session ended. “At
present I see no possibility of any
future meetings. Neither party
feels any more are needed and
everyone concerned believes there
is no basis for further discussions.”
Hosie said he would so infc^M
Cyrus S. Ching, director of the
Federal mediation service, in his
official report.
The mediator said he was uncer
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• WEATHER REPORT •
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• In Juneau—Maximum, 80; •
• minimum. 49. •
• At Airport-Maximum, 78; •
• minimum, 42. •
• •
• forecast •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Continued fair tonight and •
• Friday. Low temperature to- •
• night about 50 and high Fri- •
• day near 75. •
• •
• precipitation •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
• City of Juneu — None; •
• since August 1—1.14 inches; •
• since July 1—11.07 inches. •
• At Airport — None; •
• since August 1—0.82 inches; •
• since July 1—7.86 inches. •
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 10-401—The
National Labor Relations Board has
ruled for the first time that picket
ing to force employers to hire only
union members violates the Taft
Hartley Act.
The unanimous decision of the
board was reached after the Su
preme Court declared that even
peaceful picketing “has aspects
which are more than speech, and
may therefore be restricted, at least
where it is undertaken for an un
lawful objective.”
The ruling was made in two cases.
One involved the AFL Building and
Construction Trades Council of Den
ver Shore, a highway construction
contractor of Littleton. Colo.
The other case involved Local 16
of the CIO Longshoremen, headed
by Harry Bridges, and the Juneau
Spruce Corp., of Juneau, Alaska.
The board said the Denver Build
I ing Trades Council and two of its
affiliated local unions violated the
law by picketing one of Shore's pro
jects because he failed to hire only
union members.
In the Juneau case, the union had
picketed the company to force it to
employ longshoremen to load lum
ber barges in Alaska. That action
came after the board had deter
mined in a jurisdictional dispute
that the Bridges’ union had no legal !
right to have this work assigned to I
its members. The loading had been j
done by members of the CIO Wood- J
workers Union. j
In both cases the unions were j
ordered to stop such picketing. |
Board orders are enforceable in the
courts.
The Taft-Hartley Act outlaws the
closed shop, in which only union
members may be employed.
'BESERK GUNMAN’
FOUND ASLEEP IN
HOMER HOME BED
— i
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 10—
ijH—The "berserk gunman" who re
portedly terrified residents of Ka
mer, 125 miles southwest of here
early yesterday, was sound asleep
in his own bed when marshal’s
deputies arrived.
They said their investigation
showed earlier reports had Been
overdrawn.
What had happened, they said,
was that the man fired a shot into
the air with his rifle after a num
ber of trespassers had refused to
jget off his land when he orderd'.t
them to “scram."
There was no complaint signed
against the man, so the deputies
returned here on the afternoon
plane.
Eight sightseers made a 35-minute
flight over the ice cap near Juneau
yesterday by Alaska Coastal plane.
They were Tom Stewart, Mary S.
Fellows, Andrew Wood. Hartley)
Smith, Pete Warner, Ted Oberman,
P. Parker and Oliver Trower.
SC REMAINS
STALEMATED
OVER KOREA
Issue of "Obstructionism"
Is Put Up Directly to
Russian Malik
• 1 1 —
LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 10 — —
The United States told the still
stalemated Security Council today
the Soviet Union wants a settle
ment in Korea that “would send
the United Nations police away and
leave the bandits to plunder Korea
at will.”
, “People all over the world know
that international Communism
could halt the conflict in in Korea
tomorrow," declared Warren B
Austin, chief U. S. delegate. “Tile
whole world knows in which direc
tion to look for the signal that will
halt the evil of war."
Before today’s council session, the
11 delegates held a 9-minute secret
caucus. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Britain
and others put the issue of “ob
structionism" to Malik. Malik in
sisted he could not as President
rule on the immediate issue—a
point of order raised by China,
seeking to have South Korea rep
resented at the council table.
Malik, at the start of the public
session, said “the opinions of the
I parties remain unchanged."
I A few minutes later Austin took
' the floor for a full-dress review of
| the conflict from the American
I viewpoint. He said: \
i “The Soviet Union is the only
I one of the great powers on this
earth that has held aloof from the
condemnation of aggressive war
fare in Korea. Refusal to con
demn such aggression will make it
clear who is for peace and who Is
not.”
FISHING VESSEL
EXPLODES, BURNS;
MASTER INJURED
SEATTLE, Aug. 10—lift—'The fish
ing vessel Flute of Tacoma ex
ploded and burned while taking on
fuel at the Standard Oil Company
docks in Neah Bay last night.
The Coast Guard said the force
of the blast blew the clothes from
R. D. Rose of Puyallup, the ship’s
master. He was hospitalized at
Port Angeles.
Senate Passes Bill,
ANS Property Issue
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—W—A
bill to transfer Federally owned
land and buildings, no longer re
quired by the Alaska Native Ser
vice to local Alaskan authorities
for school purposes was passed by
the Senate yesterday.
| It goes back to the House, which
passed It last year, because the
^Senate amended it.
2 FRONTS,
HOWEVER
MENACED
Various Thrusts Reported
on Both Sides-Bridge
head Battle Is on
(By the Associated Press)
Two columns of Americans closed
a trnp on at least 1,000 Korean Red
troops today in a strong drive
which carried them within five
miles of the Communist .southern
base at Chinju. But the Communists
mode menacing lunges on two other
fronts.
While the southern offensive of
the Americans shot patrols to within
two miles of Chinju, the Commun
ists exploded into action on a sector
where they had been stalled for
some time, and menaced Pohang.
the U.S. air and sea base on the
east coast. Gen. MacArthur’s sum
mary said, however, the two-pronged
drive by regulars and guerrillas ap
peared to have been halted by strong
South Korean opposition eight miles
west of Pohang.
Reds Exert Pressure
The North Korean Reds also
exerted heavy pressure on South
Korean troops about 30 miles north
of the U.S. road-rail base at
Taegu. The Communist concen
trated their push in the vicinity
J of Ulsong, west of Red-held Yong
I dok. South Koreans were counter
attacking.
The headlong Communist retreat
in the southern sector "of Korea was
described , jm "in the nature of a
rout."
Bridgehead Battle
To the north in the bridgehead
battle along the Naktong river, U.S.
First Cavalry Division troops fin
ished wiping out a Red bridgehead,
and counted 300 Communist dead
and 20 captured. But the U.S.
Eighth Army reported Red pressure
! was building up farther florth. The
U.S. 24th Division was fighting new
Communist thrusts along a Naktong
j bridgehead to the south.
New Serious Threat
A serious threat •developed in the
far northeastern end of the 140
inile battlefront. Just below Yong
dok, recaptured by the Reds, two
Communist pincers drove south
against crumbling South Korean
opposition. They were attempting to
destroy a main American fighter
plane base eight miles southeast of
Pohang.
Mustang pilots at the base said
the enemy was only 5'a miles from
the end of the airstrip. Four Mus
tangs were lost during the day de
fending the strip.
Counter Measures
Vigorous countermeasures were
under way to contain the new
[ thrust, which btorstr- frort ttvo sides.
The Communists, driven back in
the south and held on the ftaktong,
had been expected to launch some
sort of drive in the north and north
east where they have been main
taining heavy pressure on South
Korean troops. With civilian-led
guerrillas, they thrust out both from
Yongdok and captured mountain
village only nine miles from Po
hang, American sea and air base
25 miles south of Yongdok.
Stand to Death
The North Koreans apparently
ordered their Sixth Division to
stand to death against the Ameri
can southern offensive white they
diverted units of their First Division
north to the Naktong bridgeheads.
To the north two elements of the
U.S. First Cavalry Division con
tained or isolated two small Red
bridgeheads across the river. Still
farther north on the river 900 enemy
dead were counted after South Ko
reans drove another Red force back
across the river. The Reds’ own
artillery fire was reported turned on
them to make them fight ahead.
Walker’s Gamble
A gamble by the U.S. 8th Army
Commander, Lt. Gen. Walton H.
Walker, was paying off. In order to
launch the drive in the south he had
thinned out the Naktong river line,
and spread five South Korean Di
visions across the northern front.
He concentrated power for the of
fensive which drove the North Ko
reans back to Chinju, and Pusan,
the main American supply base,
was safe again.
Hundreds of the Reds retreated
so fast toward Chinju that they
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