THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,612
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1950
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MARINES HAMMERING TOWARD SEOUL
Action on Statehood Bill Is
Postponed Until November;
Chapman Is in Agreement
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — —
Secretary of the Interior Chapman
agreed today with the plan of Sen
ate leaders to postpone action on
statehood for Hawaii and Alaska
until November.
Chapmah is an ardent supporter
of the two House-passed statehood
bills.
The Cabinet Officer told Senator
FOR HEALTH'S SAKE
For the sake of school children’s
health, the International Chiro
practors Association has named
lovely Mary Corday (above) “Miss
Chiropractic Health Week.” They
believe the sight of her will re
mind yon that the chiropractors’
annual free childrens clinics is
held Sept. 18-24. Miss Corday, in
cldently, is 19 and from Pasadena,
Calif. (JR Wirephoto.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
•Coprrtaht. 1MO. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
M^ASHINGTON — Congressional
memories sometimes are very short.
It was only last year that the
Senate refused to confirm Carl II
genfritz as chairman of the muni
tions board because he declined to
give up his $60,000 salary from the
U. S. Steel Corporation.
However, just about the same
thing is now happening with two
other high officials and nothing is
being said about it. They are:
1. E. G. Plowman, another U .S.
Steel executive, who gets $66,000
a year from his company while
working for Uncle Sam as director
of the Defense Department’s mili-i
tary traffic service, '
2. William H. Harrison, who has!
just assumed charge of war controls
in the Commerce Department while
still drawing his salary from In
ternational Telephone and Tele-,
graph.
The excuse given for permitting
men to draw a salary from private
industry while working for the gov
ernment is that it is hard to get
good men to serve the government
without doing so. This is true in
peacetime. But in wartime, when
thousands of G.I.’s not only have to
give up their jobs but their lives, it
would seem that enough patriotic
businessmen would be willing to
work for a government stipend of
$15,000 to $20,000 a year.
Jimmy Rooaevelt
the insurance on two housing pro
jects at an air force field at Victor
ville, Calif.
Air Force officials state, however,
^ Continued on Page Four)
O’Mahoney (D-Wyo), Chairman of
the Senate Insular Affairs Commit
tee, that he thought it would be “a j
very good thing” to bring the state- !
hood measures up after the Novem
ber election and thereby remove
them from any ‘‘election atmo
sphere.”
Newsmen were present during his
conversation with O’Mahoney. '
Senate Majority Leader Lucas (D
111) announced yesterday a tenta
tive plan for Congress to quit work
the end of this week until Nov. 20.
An effort will be made, he said,
to make the Alaska statehood bill
the “unfinished business,” giving it
a degree of priority over other legis
lation now before the Senate when
Congress reconvenes. The Hawaii
bill would be next.
In any event, Lucas said, the
statehood bills would be the first
order of business before the Senate
in November.
O’Mahoney said he agreed not to
press for action on the statehood
I bills now, if Congressional leaders
decide to bring Congress back in
November.
I
ACKESON S
PROGRAM
GIVEN O.K.
Anti - Aggression Resolu
tion Put on UN Agenda
by Steering Committee
NEW YORK, Sept. 21—(N’t—Sec
retary of State Dean Acheson’s new
anti-aggression program got a green
light for full United Nations consid
eration today.
The Assembly’s 14-nation steering |
committee placed Acheson’s four- ;
point resolution on the Assembly’s
agenda. The program is called
“United Action for Peace.”
Acheson’s plan calls for a “peace
patrol" to check on the world’s
trouble spots and the designation by
U.N. members of stand-by military
forces to back up United Nations
decisions.
Over Soviet objections the steer
ing committee also voted for a full
U.N. airing of the following con
troversial questions:
1. Nationalist China’s charge that
the Soviet Union aided the Chinese
Communists to power.
2. A demand for an accounting by
Russia of thousands of German and
Japanese war prisoners whom the
Soviet Union is charged with still
keeping in Soviet territory.
3. A review of the Greek-Balkan
question.
4. A reopening of the Spanish
issue.
The Russian objection to consid
eration of Nationalist China s
charges was voted down 11 to two.
The two votes were cast by the
Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.
TRIANGULATION WORK
ON ALASKA RAILROAD
IS NOW COMPLETED
Triangulation work by the^ Topo
graphic Division of the Geological
Survey, Denver office, has just
been completed on the Alaska Rail
road between Fairbanks and Palmer. I
The last two men, Joel Langhofer j
and R. C. Foley, leave this after- |
noon for the home office.
Langhofer was project engineer j
with two helicopter parties working
under him for the summer. One j
crew had eight men with nine in
the other. With the use of heli
copters the work progressed faster
than through the use entirely of
ground parties because good wea
ther could more readily be taken,
advantage of and less time was j
spent on climbing to triangulation
points.
Last year, triangulation work was '
completed with the use of helicop- j
ters in the Gambier Bay, Ketchi- 1
kan, Glacier Bay and Skagwnyj
areas. This winter, Langhofer will |
take six parties for work of the;
same nature out of Silver City.
New Mexico.
TO PROBE
DEFENSES
OF ALASKA
; Committee to Pay Atfen
i tion to Housing, Com
| munications Also
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — (iW —
Senator Johnson (D-Tex) wants his
“watchdog” committee on defense
to concentrate on housing, radar
defenses and communications when
three members of the committee go
to Alaska next month.
He discussed the trip in a letter
made public today to Senator Morse
(R-Ore), one of the three commit
tee members named to make the
Alaskan investigation.
The other two are Senators Hunt
(D-Wyo) and Saltonstall (R-Mass).
Johnson, chairman of the special
Armed Services subcommittee set up
to watch the whole defense program,
also asked the task force to investi
gate the condition of roads in the
Territory of Alaska, of the Alaska
Railroad and of ports and air fields.
He wants their adequacy to be de
termined from the standpoint of
total mobilization.
Johnson told Morse that the Ore- j
gon Senator knows more about the j
Northwest than any other member
of the preparedness subcommittee.
"Your interest in and study of
that important section over a period
of a great many years,” Johnson
said, “has afforded you a compre
hensive viewpoint which few men
possess of any section.”
Johnson thanked Morse for taking
the Alaska assignment at a time he
had other personal problems. Morse
is running for reelection.
“I know of no more important’
service that can be rendered our j
country,” Johnson said, “than a j
proper completion of (this) inquiry I
and your acceptance of the job |
assures me that the job will be well j
done.”
MAJ. CAMERON BACK
FROM VISIT WITH
KETCHIKAN NG UNIT
Drill sessions of Company A,
208th Infantry National Guard
Battalion <sep>, Ketchikan have
just been resumed at the close of
the fishing season, according to
Maj. D. N. Cameron who returned
last night from a visit with the
company,
“Last Monday night’s drill indi
cated enthusiasm to build up an
efficient organization," said Maj.
Cameron. “Primary obstacles have
been overcome with the arrival of
some rifles, machine guns, pistols
and rocket launchers (bazookas).
In addition, through the courtesy of
the Coast Guard, an excellent
building has been made available
as an armory.”
Maj. Cameron had planned a vis
its to a platoon of Company A in
Metlakatla but due to bad flying
weather it had to be postponed un
til a later date. “This platoon is
being organized and has promise of
being a live-wire outfit,” said Maj.
Cameron.
AT THE GASTINEAU
Robert Pickering of Grant City, j
Mo., is stopping at the Gastineau '
Hotel.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:30 o'clock this mornlng%
In Juneau—Maximum, 57;
minimum, 47.
At Airport—Maximum, 56;
minimum, 45.
forecast
(Juneau end Vicinity)
Cloudy with rain and south
easterly winds 20 to 25 miles
per hour tonight and Friday.
Lowest temperature tonight
48 degrees and highest Fri
day near 58.
precipitation
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today
City of Juneau—0.81 inches;
since Sept. 1 — 703 inches;
since July 1—18.09 inches.
At Airport — 1.13 Inches;
since Sept. 1 — 4.79 inches;
since July 1—18.79 inches.
Protests Inclusion of MacArfhur Report
t 5 f
Russias Jacob A. Malik (center) vigorously protest inclusion of new MacArthur report in the U. N.
Security Council agenda during session at Lake Sucess, N. Y. He said he "would not be able to par
ticipate” in any discussion of the report at this time. MacArthur reported he had positive proof of
Soviet and Chinese Red aid to the North Koreans as late as 1950. Secretary General Trygve Lie listens
at right. Wireplioto.
TRUMAN IS
QUIZZED ON
BIGJSSUES
Cost of Living, Wages,
Korean War, Etc., Dis
cussed at Conference
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — UP) —!
President Truman said today he is
concerned about the high cost of
living and he is working on plans ]
to meet it.
He told a new's conference he will I
act as speedily as possible but is
trying to avoid the mistakes of the
last World War.
The President said his admini
stration does not want the nation tc
go through the travail of the last
price control period when it had tc
follow the road of trial and error.
Mr. Truman was asked about
wages not going up and prices ris
ing fast. He said he agreed this wa
so and he is working on a plan.
Commenting on a statement made
yesterday by Gov. Chester Bowie1
of Connecticut, former OP A ad
ministrator, favoring selective price
controls, the President said that
is being discussed but no decision
has been reached.
Taft Attack Approved
Mr. Truman endorsed the attack
by his special assistant, Averell
Harriman, on Senator Taft (R
Ohio). In a speech before the AFl
convention in Houston, Tex., Har
riman accused Taft of furthering
“the designs of the Kremlin” by
his voting record on foreign policy
Mr. Truman said the Taft record
speaks for itself.
When a reporter asked whether
he knew of many Democratic Sen
ators whose records equalled or sur
passed Taft’s, the President replied
very few and added:
There are more Republicans who
voted right than Democrats whe
voted wrong, so the country stil
has a bi-partisan foreign policy
Pleased with Congress
The President said he was very
well pleased w'ith the record of Con
gress now about to recess. He -old
it had given him not all but sub
stantially what he asked for in the
way of legislation, and had accom
plished the business it set out o
do. He said he had no plans to cam
paign for elections of Democrat- t°
the new Congress.
Mr. Truman was asked at the out -
set today to comment on Gen
George C. Marshall’s testimony be
fore the Senate Armed Services
Committee. A reporter said Marshall
disclaimed responsibility for U;-s
government’s China policy in 1
when he visited China on a spec -1
mission.
Marshall Instructed
Mr. Truman replied that Genetal
Marshall at the time was not Sec
retary of State, but a special el-''
for him. He added that Marshall,
sworn in today as the new Secre
tary of Defense, had written instruc
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Challenge
Of White
Picked Up
Taylor of Fairbanks Ac
cepts Proposal But
Where Will It Be Held?
FAIRBANKS. Alaska, Sept. 21—
iff)—Territorial Rep. Warren Taylor
has accepted the political debate
challenge of Alaska Republican
Chairman Albert White—but there’s
disagreement on where it should be
held.
Taylor is a Fairbanks attorney
and a Democratic nominee for
Fourth Division Senator.
White, a Juneau attorney, issued
the debate challenge in a weekend
speech here. He challenged Gover
nor Gruening or "any of his loyal
satellites” to debate what he lab
eled "corruption, misfeasance and
malfeasance” in Territorial affairs.
Taylor said: “I will be glad to de
bate with White any time or any
place in the Fourth Division.”
White had offered to pay for a
hall in Juneau (in the First Divi
sion) and pay travel expenses of a
debate opponent.
Subversive
Bill Seems
Certain Now!
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — 1*1 —!
President Truman sidestepped today
the question of whether he will sign
or veto the subversives control bill
passed overwhelmingly by Congress.
He did indicate early action, say
ing there will be no suspense about
what he does with the bill.
Mr. Truman told a news confer
ence the bill hasn't reached his desk,
but as soon as it does, he will let
reporters know his views on it.
While he didn't indicate whether ;
he would sign or veto it, he pre
viously has shown displeasure with I
many of its provisions and had said |
he would not sign an earlier form, j
Senate and House passed the
measure by landslide votes yester- ,
day—well aware that President,
Truman may veto it promptly.!
Backers of the measure claimed they
could command plenty of votes to;
override him if he did.
Barring any big switch in senti- i
ment, the figures bore them out.1
The Senate vote was 51 to 7, the
House vote 312 to 20—both far in
excess of the two thirds majority
needed to override the veto.
FROM SEATTLE
K. Krugstad of Seattle is regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM CORDOVA
E. W. Butler of Cordova is re
gistered at the Barano' Hotel.
CRITICISM
GIVEN CAB
AT HEARING
Inaction on Problems Gets
Rise-Renfzel Approved
by Board for Com.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21— UPI —
Civil Aeronautics Board policies
drew sharp criticism from several
Senators and Alaska’s Governor at
a hearing which brought committee
approval of Delos W. Rentzel’s ap
pointment to the Board.
Rentzel, a Texan who is ad
ministrator of the Civil Aeronautics
Administration, was nominated by
President Truman to succeed Joseph
J. O’Connell Jr., on the CAB. The
Senate Commerce Committee ap
proved the nomination after the
CAB critics spoke up.
May Be Chairman
Rentzel is expected to become
board chairman. The CAB is the
independent Federal agency that
sets up aviation rules and passes
judgment on compliance with them.
Governor Gruening. who sat in
on the committee session, declared:
"The inaction of the CAB has done
more to throttle the development
of Alaska than any other factor."
Members of the Senate commit
tee complained particularly about
what they Called the board's long
delays in acting on applications
for airline routes.
Prejudice Cited
Senators Magnuson (D-Wash),
Johnson (D-Colo) and Johnson iD
Texi were critical 01 the board.
The Texas S/anatcr accused some i
members of the board as being pre
judiced in favor of the big airlines.
He told Rentzel:
"I want you to tell the board
that at least some members of this
committee don’t like their 'CAB’S),
dilly-dallying and their prejudg
ing of cases, and expect them to
keep this a land of' opportunity.”
Rentzel replied that he had an
“open mind on the subject" and
added he believed the non-sched
ule airlines and irregular carriers
"who have pioneered in a new field
have contributed to aviation.”
He also said he considered the
system of feeder lines important
and expressed doubt that the pre
sent system is satisfactory.
F. G. GREER HERE
P. G. Greer of Anchorage is re
gistered at the Baranof Hotel.
STOCK QUOTAtToNS
NEW YORK, Bept. 21 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
99'.-, Anaconda 35 H, Curtiss
Wright International Harves
ter 31, Kennecott 64' ■ , New York
Central 17, Northern Pacific 24 i,
US. Steel 39%, Pound $2.80‘i.
Sales today were 1,650,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 226.01, rails 67.23, utilities:
39.95.
5,000 REDS
SURRENDER
TO MARINES
Communist Soldiers Trap
ped in Small Pocket
Near Tabu Give Up
By JACK MacBETH
WITH US. FIRST CAVALRY
IN KOREA, Sept. 21—OP)—Cavalry
troopers trapped about 5,000 Com
munist soldiers today in a smal'
pocket near Tabu, 13 miles north of
Taegu. A Red Divisional Chief oi
Staff surrendered.
"We've got them now,” said MaJ
Gen. Hobart R. Gay, commanding
officer of the First Cavalry. “We
have troops all around them.”
That left the trapped Reds twc
choices. They can fight it out
against the Americans or they can
surrender. ,
Asked if he expected to go in after
the Communists, General Gay re
plied: “Maybe we won't have to.
They’re pretty hungry."
The surrendered Chief of Staff is
30-year old Senior Col. Lee Hak Ku.
of the 13th North Korean Division.
He told interrogators he believed the
Red cause was finished and he be
lieves in Democracy now after
studying it out.
Remnants of both the North Ko
rean Third and 13th Divisions were
believed caught in the trap. Ele
ments of both divisions had ham
mered the American defenders of
Taegu.
One Cavalry non-com said, “Now
we move."
ON SEOUL OUTSKIRTS
WITH U.S. MARINES IN KO
REA, Sept. 21—l/P)—U.S. Marines
cut through the Seoul suburb of
Yongdungpo on the southwest bank
of the Han river and stabbed at
the northern outskirts of Seoul to
day in some of the stiffest fighting
since the Inchon landing Sept, 15.
Marines commanded by Col.
Lewis (Chesty) Puller in the Yong
dungpo action cut the main rail
road and highway before they
hacked their way through with
bayonets.
Marine airmen aided the drive by
setting Yongdungpo afire with
bombs.
TITLE CLEARED ON
NEW SCHOOL SITE;
CONDEMNATION SET
Clearing the way tor use of Ju
neau Dairy property as the site for
a new school, an opinion filed by
Judge George W. Folta settles a
claim of ownership and serves to
set condemnation proceedings at
work. The property is at the comer
of Twelfth Street and Glacier High
way.
The opinion handed down in Dis
trict Court is in the case of the Ju
neau Independent School District
versus Frances J. Smith (of the
dairy company) et al.
In it, Judge Folta rules that the
defendants acquired title by ad
verse possession, by reason of their
being in possession of the upland
portions in question for more than
ten years, and that easements like
wise were acquired by reason of
building and using roads for more
than the statutory period, both
without protest. The disputed prop
erty is approximately 3.891 acres.
Thus, he denies the claim of the
Russian Orthodox Greek Church
based on a patent issued October 25,
1915 to its predecessor.
Judge Folta rules that the public
interest requires condemnation for
the use sought, and that a commis
sion of three competent persons resi
dent in that precinct be appointed
to ascertain and determine the
amount to be paid for the property.
The commission is to be appointed
and qualified Saturday morning.
J. D. Haller of Seattle is staying
at the Baranof Hotel.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle Saturday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver, September 27.
Alaska from west scheduled south
bound sometime Monday,
FATEFUL
BATTLE
LOOMING
Column of Red Tanks from
Manchuria Reported
Entering Conflict
—
(By the Associated Press)
U.S. Marines and tanks, hitting
from two directions, hammered to
ward the heart of Seoul today as a
column of Red tanks moved down
from Manchuria, foreshadowing a
fateful battle for the ancient capi
tal of South Korea.
Red prisoners said they had been
ordered to hold at all costs for the
arrival of .reinforcements against
Marines driving from the northwest
and south In what veteran Associ
ated Press War Correspondent Rei
man Morin said looked like one of
:he big pushes toward the end of
World War IX.
Reds Cross Line
U.S. 10th Corps Intelligence of
ficers said the northern Red tank
column already may have crossed
.he 38th parallel, the line 30 miles
from Seoul separating North from
South Korea. It could be made up
of North Koreans who were sea
soned In Red China’s Manchurian
armtps and the developing battle
could have world-shaking signiflc
ince.
Other Red Korean troops were
converging on Seoul from a number
of directions, many from the south
east battle box, where Allied troops
Fire'
• American planes attacking Red
movements 'southward in North Ko
rea reported running into unusually
heavy anti-aircraft fire. Other air
men's reports indicated a general
movement northward from the
>outheast perimeter.
Land-based Allied airmen in Ko
rea flew 703 Individual flights over
war zones yesterday for a new one
day repord. One strafing attack
alone killed' 600 Reds retreating
from the southeast war box. B-28’s
hit enemy training camps near
Pyongyang, the North Korean capi
tal, and struck at other targets, but
reported relatively little traffic on
the move In North Korea. Carrier
based Navy planes concentrated on
ihe Seoul battle area.
Stiff Resistance
There was still some stiff resist
ance in the southeast battle zones,
but many Reds were withdrawing.
U.8. First Cavalry Division troops
and South Koreans were closing a
pincers trap on the Red 13th Di
vision north of Taegu. Allied hub in
the south. Dozens of Communist
troops were surrendering, amrng
them a 80-year-old Divisional Chief
of Staff.
Elimination of the trapped Red
13th Division would clear the way
for an Allied advance on the route
to Kumchon and Taejon. This is
on the Way to Seoul, the shortest
route to a linkup with the Ameri
cans in the north.
Southern Front
To the south. U.S. Second Divi
sion troops drove ahead to expand
three bridgeheads across the Nak
tong river and battered remaining
Communist forces on the east bank.
On the extreme southern front, US.
25th Division troops threw back
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MARSHALL
SWORN IN
WASHINGTON. Sept. 21 — OP —
Gen. George C. Marshall was sworn
In as Secretary of Defense today at
a ceremony attended by only two
other persons.
The General was given the oath
of office by Felix Larkin, General
Counsel of the Defense Department.
Stephen Early, the outgoing Deputy
Secretary, was the only witness.
An announcement of the cere
mony. which was held at 8:45 a.m.,
EST. said that this private swear
ing-in was "in accordance with the
wishes” of Marshall.
The new Secretary immediately
called a conference with the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
The swearing-in ceremony was
held in the office of the Secretary
of Defense,