THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME' ____
VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,578
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
U. S. Supply Base Falls in Flames to Reds
INCOME TAX
INCREASES
APPROVED
Committee Gives Nod to
Bill - Congressional
Okeh Expected
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—(iW—The
Senate Finance Committee today
approved an annual increase of
about $3,000,000,000 in personal in
come taxes.
The bill authorizes the govern
ment to begin digging deeper into
the pockets of over 50,000,000 tax
payers on Oct. 1.
At the same time, the committee
instructed its staff to draw up an
exemption which would have the
effect of removing taxes from mem
bers of American fighting forces be
low the commissioned officer rank
in Korea and other areas of hostili
ties.
Some exemption also would apply
to officer personnel, under this
plan.
If the Senate and House approve
the tax bill, as' they are expected
to do, the tax obligations of individ
uals will go up as much as 20 per
cent in some income brackets.
Beginning Oct. 1, withholdings on
wages and salaries, after personal
exemptions, would jump from the
present 15 percent to 18 percent.
The committee action completed
its approval of the major items in
President Truman's “first install
ment" $5,000,000,000 tax program in
tended to help pay for the Korean
war and America’s remarmament
against Communist aggression.
The tax framing group yesterday
okayed a $1,500,000,000 a year in
crease in corporation taxes, raising
the top levy on corporate income
from 38 percent to 45, effective as
of July 1, 1950.
The higher tax rates will apply on
one-half of 1950 corporate income,
but only to one quarter of 1950 in
dividual income.
All told, the committee now has
approved items aggregating about
$4,500,000,000 of the President’s $5,
000,000,000 request. It has yet to act
on several minor items, and pos
sibly on an excess profits tax pro
posal for corporations.
Refusal to Testify
Brings Citation of
Two by Congress
(By Associated Press)
The House has taken action
against two men who refused to
tell its un-American activities com
mittee whether they are or have
been Communists. The House
voted to cite the two, Julius Em
spak and Steve Nelson, for con
tempt of Congress. Emspak is
secretary-treasurer of the United
Electrical Workers, a union ousted
from the CIO. Nelson is a Com
munist party organizer for western
Pennsylvania. The cases now go
to a Federal attorney for possible
prosecution.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By TOM McNAMARA and
JACK ANDERSON
jCoprriibt. imml vi a«u ■iudic*fr
(Ed. Note—While Drew Pear
son is on a brief vacation, his
column will be written by mem
ber of his staff.)
Washington — The Korean
. crisis has put a crimp in the.lush
lecture fees of senators and con
gressmen. However, many still slip
away for occasional week-end lec
tures when they need spare change.
Their fees run from $200 to $750
an evening—though Vice President
Barkley, the star attraction, collects
as high as $1,500 for a one-night
stand.
These Congressional lecurers ar
gue that it is the only way they
can keep up with the high expenses
of entertaining, traveling and con
tributing to all the worthy charities
expected of officeholders.
For example, Sen. Hubert Hum
phrey, Minnesota Democrat, was so
broke after paying his campaign
bills and moving his family to
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i B-29s Lay a Deadly Blanket
Smoke from bomb bursts and subsequent fires blankets a great area
of this Bogun chemical plant at Hungnam in North Korea after one
of the first formations of U. S. Far East Air Force B-29s passed
over the target. Hungnam, on the east roast just below the 40 par*
arellel, is an important North Korean industrial center. I/P) Wire
photo from Department of Defense.
SOAP BOX
DERBY IS
ON SUNDAY
Boys Arriving in Akron for
Big Event-Special
Match Race Planned
AKRON, O.. Aug. 11— W—Soap
Box Derby drivers—the boys who
scoot downhill in low-slung, grav
ity-powered racers—were arriving
today for Sunday’s national champ
ionship run at Derby Downs.
The 147 youngsters—each a
hometown champion—will compete
for a four-year-college scholarship
in Sunday's 13th annual All-Amer
ican Soap Box Derby. A Chevrolet
sedan goes to the runner-up.
About half the lads came yester
day, and the rest poured in today
by plane, train, bus, auto—yes, and
even by taxicab.
Another champion, Gerald E.
Taylor, 12, came parka-clad earlier
this week from Juneau, Alaska,
where his dad serves in the Cosist
Guard.
The 60,000 who are expected to
witness the event will find it a
lucky day, too. They will witness
a special match race, which pre
cedes the main event, between
three well-known celebrities: Wil
bur Shaw, three-time Indianapolis
Speedway winner; Jimmy Stewart,
motion picture star; and Jack
(Dempsey, former heavyweight
champion. To thrill the youngsters.
Bill (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd will
appear in a pre-race parade and
will referee the special match race.
The celebrities will race in fan
tastic-appearing coasting cars of
unique design.
For the first time, the champion
of more than 30,000 boys who en
i tered Soap Box Derby races in the
j U. S. Occupied Zone of Germany
j will race in the National Finals at
I Akron. The Derby races in Ger
| many are co-sponsored by The
| Army’s Program for German youth
i and the Adam Opel Co., General
j Motors subsidiary.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Aug. 11 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
92%, Anaconda 32%, Curtiss
Wright 10%. International Harves
ter 29%, Kennecott 61%, New York
Central 14%, Northern Pacific 17%,
U.S. Steel 36%, Pound $2.80%.
Sales today were 1,680,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 215.03, rails 62, utilities
38.67.
ASSIGNMENT
PRIORITIES
ANNOUNCED
Units Bound for War Zone
to Have First Call on
Reserve Officers
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—UR—'The
Army said today that units des
tined for the Far East will have
first call on reserve officers being
called to active duty on an invol
untary basis.
The Army announced earlier to
day that 7,862 reserve captains and
lieutenants, including medical and
dental officers, are being ordered
to duty.
An Army spokesman told report
ers that prioritier concerning the
assignment of such officers will be
as follows:
1. Fillers for units destined for
the Far East command.
2. Duty with the station organ
izations at newly-activated posts
and stations.
3. Duty with training divisions.
4. Duty with general reserve
units as they are built up with
some of the 62,000 enlisted reserv
sts previously called to active duty.
The Army said that the reserve
officers being called will include
both active and inactive members
of the organized reserve corps. The
active members are those who are
active in training programs.
The reservists will be called up,
[whether they like it or not.
[ The officers, all men, will be on
active duty by Oct. 6, the Army
said. They are being ordered up
:or 21 months, subject to change
by Congress, unless relieved sooner.
The Army said simultaneously
that it will recall involuntarily
1,582 male officers of the active
and inactive medical, dental, vet
erinary and medical service corps
Half of Bristol
Bay Salmon Has
Readied Seattle
j SEATTLE, Aug. 11—UP)—The A1
, aska Steamship Company’s steam
ship Chena brought 15,074,47:
pounds of canned salmon to Seattt
today.
The ship arrived from Bristo
Bay and carried almost half of thi
salmon canned there this yeai
I The steamship Nadlna is schedule)
to dock at Bellingham Monda
1 with some 300,000 cases of salmon
54 ARE VOTED
IN CONTEMPT
OF CONGRESS
Total of 56 Now Face Con
viction on Red Charges
by Committee
i WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—(API—The
! House today voted contempt of
j Congress citations against 54 wit
i nesses who defied the un-American
activities committee by refusing to
1 answer questions about Commun
! ism.
The entire proceeding took only
about an hour.
This brought to 56 the two-day
total of citations voted by the
House upon recommendation of the
committee. The citations will be
referred to the Justice Department
for court action. Conviction for
contempt of Congress carries a
maximum penalty of a year in jail
and a $1,000 fine.
Four of those cited today were
identified by the committee as
scientists who worked on the war
time atomic bomb project. An
other was Philip Bart, general
manager of the Communist Dally
Worker newspaper.
Several others are officials of the
United Electrical Workers, which
the CIO kicked out for following
the Communist party line.
Also included on the list was
Mrs. Louise Bransten, a west coast
heiress now living in New York,
j Committee members have described
; her as a heavy contributor to Com
I munist causes.
Thirty-nine of those cited were
i witnesses before the committee last
'■ April when it investigated Com
i munism in Hawaii.
Ail votes were oy voice ana uiuy
i Rep. Marcantonio (American
I Labor-NY; voted against the cita
! tions.
Rep. Hoffman (R-Michl, who
; said he had no sympathy for the
; witnesses and wanted them cited,
i got up at one point to say any
j convictions growing out of the cita
| tions might be jeopardized unless
■ the record showed a quorum on
| hand.
Far fewer members than usual
| 12181 were on hand, but the point
| of no quorum was never raised
j formally, and the voting of cita
! tions continued at a rapid pace.
| ———————
ONE STOWAWAY,
! ONE HITCH-HIKER
I ON POLISH LINER
I _
WASHINGTON, Aug. il—Ufi—A
I second unscheduled passenger has
turned up aboard the Europe-bound
Polish motorship Batory, the gov
ernment disclosed today.
The Justice Department said The
Gyndia-American Line identified
the man as Howard E. Campbell,
i and listed him as an American citi
j zen of Des Moines.
The Department said Campbell
j evidently boarded the Batory as a
j stowaway before the ship left the
j United States.
Boards from Plane
Another man, with a passport
! bearing the name of William
j Jesse Newton, was reported by the
! Batory Wednesday to have landed
. a rented seaplane alongside the
j ship 100 miles out in the Atlantic,
j He was taken aboard.
The Justice Department said bcJth
men will be detained and ques
I tioned by American and British
| authorities when the Batory docks
j at Southampton, England, next
j Tuesday or Wednesday,
i FBI files show a record of nu
merous arrests for Howard E
Campbell.
The files show that Campbell
I was picked up June 14, 1949. ir
j Alberta, Canada, on a charge ol
'vagrancy; that he was deained on
Aug. 1, 1949, in Alaska and then
; released on August 11 after i
'lunacy jury found him sane; anc
; that he was a stowaway on th<
'! Queen Elizabeth in late April this
! | year.
[ MICHIGAN VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence J. April
11 of Ann % Arbor, Mich., are Juneai
i visitors, * staying at the Barano
. Hotel.
Where Allied Forces Hit
Open arrows show areas where U. S. and South Korean forces are
hitting the North Korean troops (dark arrows) on all Korean fronts.
Reds are fleeing back to Cliinju in south to escape American pincers
movement (A). U. S. 24th Division continues heavy pressure on re
inforced Communist units across the Naktong River southwest of
Changnyong (B). Northwest of Taegu, U. S. and South Korean
soldiers battered Red units which threw bridgeheads across the
Naktong north and south of Waegwan. Broken lines show where
Reds are filtering through the defense line on the north. (/PI Wire
photo Map.
Evidence in Bridges' Case Is
Before High Court; Screening
Of CIO Workers Is Next Step
PEOPLE OF JUNEAU
HEIRS TO $24,000
FROM A.6.BR0WN
The people of Juneau are heirs
to $24,000. which must be used for
j "something that Juneau needs,”
l according to the will of the late
Augustus George Brown.
The legacy—in gilt-edged secur
ities and real estate at present—
was left to the city by Mr. Brown
when he died in Seattle last fall
at the age of 85. The terms of
the will have been carried out and
the inheritance turned over to the
city.
Mr. Brown’s will stipulated that
the city shall decide to what use
the legacy shall be put. He sug
gested it be used as a nucleus of a
fund for construction of a centrally
located swimming pool—"not in
Evergreen Bowl.”
He also suggested in his will that
| a dam on Gold Creek at the west
| end of Evergreen Bowl would make
! a ‘fine large skating pond" for use
! during the long winters,
i But no decision has been reached
by city officials. Mayor Waino
Hendrickson said today, “We're not
going to be in a rush to spend this
money.”
He said city officials want first
to determine what project of bene
fit to the greatest number of people
could be carried out with the funds.
Juneau Pioneer
I Mr. Brown was a pioneer of Ju
neau. He came here first in 1386
fiom Iowa, where his English par
ents had sent him to study agricul
ture. His father was a captain in
the British army’s 7th Hussars.
He became a citizen of the United
States at the U. S. District Court
here in 1891.
A few years later he went to the
Klondike with the late Mark Russell
of Juneau, and became one of the
prospectors who struck it rich.
After selling his claims, he pro
ceeded to Nome, where he pros
pected the beaches before going to
Valdez and more prospecting.
I After the turn of the century, he
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11—(£>—
♦he government says Harry Bridges
should be kept in jail because the
right of free speech doesn’t “pro
tect an enemy ... in time of armed
conflict."
And the Armed Forces today took
steps to subject to loyalty checks
all members of Bridges CIO Long
shore union who work on Army and
Navy docks.
Government arguments were
placed before the U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals yesterday. The court is
weighing several motions by Bridges’
attorneys to free him on bail.
He was on bail after his perjury
conviction last April until Saturday
when Federal Judge George B. Har
ris—at the government’s request—
revoked the bail and labelled him
a menace to the security of the U.S.
The conviction is awaiting review
before the Appeals Court.
Bridges’ lawyers have argued that
he was jailed for his “opinions.”
The Armed Forces waterfront
[ worker screening will affect an esti
! mated 6,000 stevedores, warehouse
men and ships clerks.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Prince George from Vancouver in
port, leaving for Skagway and south
at 11:30 p.m.
Princess Norah scheduled to ar
rive Saturday afternoon.
Chilcotin from Vancouver due to
arrive Sunday evening.
Freighter Ring Splice due to ar
rive at 1 a.m. Monday.
Aleutian scheduled to sail from
Seattle Saturday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
Alaska from west is scheduled
southbound 1 p.m. Saturday.
Baranof from west scheduled
southbound 5 p.m. Sunday.
BEDLINGTONS HERE
R. T. Bedlington of JLynden,
Wash., and John Bedlington of
Annette Island are registered at
the Baranof Hotel.
CAA MAN
Don Gretzger of the Civil Aero
nautics Administration, Anchorage,
is staying at the Baranof Hotel.
•
AIR BASE
FIGHTING
FOR LIFE
Red Artillery Is Brought
Within Range of Field
30-Mile Battlefront
By HAL BOYLE
POHANG AIR BASE, Korea, Aug.
11—(/PI—This American air base
fought for its life tonight against
a surprise Red Korean envelopment
sweeping around flaming Pohang
port to the sea.
The Communists brought their
artillery within range of the field.
Rising like angry hornets defend
ing their nests, U.S. fighter planes
blasted with rockets and strafing
fire in daylight fighting Friday
against Red guerrillas l'a miles
from the end of the airstrip.
By midafternoon Communist
mortar bursts were creeping across
the rice paddies toward a road lead
ing northwest to Pohang, six miles
away. And a line of mud-stained
Negro Doughboys thrown around
the perimeter of the base was comb
ing the mountains with counter-fire.
Among them were 100 or more
men who had crawled three miles
across dank paddies after a task
force which was riding to the de
fense of the airfield twice was am
bushed last night on the highway
from Kyongju to Pohang.
A 30-mlle battlefront erupted in
action as the Reds tried to close a
trap around United Nations forces
fighting desperately from the Po
hang area northward along the
east coast to Red-captured Yong
dok,
DEFENSE FORCES ARRIVE
U.S. 8th ARMY HEADQUART
ERS IN KOREA. Saturday—lAV
American tanks and battle-tested
South Korean troops reached the
Pohang airstrip during Friday night.
Their arrival materially strength
ened defense of the vital fighter air
strip, headquarters reports said.
It was expected that a United Na
tions attack to retake the city of
Pohang, six miles northwest of the
airstrip, would develop today.
Pohang fell to Red troops late last
night.
VOLUME UP, VALUE
DOWN'49 FISH PACK;
79% FROM ALASKA
SEATTLE, Aug. 8—l<P—The U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service reported
today a valuation of $103,430,980
(to cannersi on last year’s salmon
pack in Alaska and the Pac.f.c
coast states.
It was -a drop of 14 per cent in
value from 1948. The pack of
3,524,916 cases, however, was up 15
percent in volume.
Alaska accounted for 79 percent
of the total; Puget Sound 17; the
Columbia River district 3 and other
coastal areas of the states 1.
Pink salmon accounted for 59
per cent of the volume and 50 per
cent of the value.
SEVENTH ARREST
OF FBI, ALLEGED
A-BOMB TRAITORS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—OP—The
FBI today made a seventh arrest i
in connection with its roundup of
i Americans accused of aiding the
i leak of atom bomb secrets to Rus
j sia.
; The Justice Department announ
' ced that FBI agents have taken
into custody Mrs. Ethel Green
| glass Rosenberg, 34, in New York
i City.
She is the wife of Julius Rosen
j berg and the sister of David Green
| glass, both arrested last month on
i charges of obtaining highly classi
| fied atomic information for the
Soviet Union.
FROM PELICAN
Leo H. Summers of Pelican is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
CHICAGOAN ARRIVES
William D. Burke of Chicago is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
ATTACK BY
REDS MOST
FEROCIOUS
Enemy Forces Now As
saulting Airstrip Rim
New Thrusts Expected
(By the Associated Press)
Pohang. No. 2 U.S. supply base
on the east coast of South Korea,
fell in flames today to a ferocious
Communist assault, and the Reds
brought their artillery within range
of the American airstrip, six miles
to the south. GI’s battled hand-to
hand with the Invaders virtually on
the rim of the strip.
But on the central sector, Gen.
MacArthur’s headquarters an
nounced, all Communist bridgeheads
across the Naktong river save one
have been wiped out, easing the
threat to Taegu, key inland US.
base. The one bridgehead, however,
still posed a mighty menace. The
Communists had poured some 6,000
Infantry soldiers into it, despite
heavy air and artillery attacks, at
tempting to expand the salient near
Changnyong, 29 miles southwest of
Taegu.
Black Developments
Despite the black developments
on the fighting fronts in South
Korea and the deterioration of the
international situation. President
Truman will not seek passage of
a universal military training bill
at this session of Congress, the
White House announced. The an
nouncement said he felt pressure
for it as this time would interfere
with Other Vitaliy needed legislation
related to Korean war needs.
Loss of Pohang by the Ameri
cans and South Koreans took away
the East Korean base where the
U.S. First Cavalry Division made
the first amphibious landing of
the war. It had been second only
to Pusan, 65 miles to the southeast,
as an American supply base.
Air Base Abandoned
At the edge of the air base—al
ready abandoned by the Mustang
fighters which had been taking off
at 10 minute intervals in support
of ground troops—the OI’s fought
fcr their lives against a suprise en
velopment, but Communist mortar
fire crept steadily ahead.
Black smoke columns poured from
Pohang, burning from the fierce
battle. The fall of the city was an
nounced late Friday night, Korean
time, when Eighth Arm# headquar
ters said no frlertdlyr- troops were
left inside the port. Fighter planes
from other bases ripped into the
enemy In defense of the strip they
had to abandon.
Reds Build Up Forces
On the central front along the
Naktong river, the Reds put thous
ands of troops across into their
salients and were reported building
up four or five divisions—possibly
40,000 men—for a power blow at
Taegu, key base for defending
United Nations forces.
On the southern front the U.S.
8th Army reported North Korean
Reds were abandoning the Chinju
base. This report seemed at variance
with others that the Reds were
digging in west of the base for a
fanatical stand against the creeping
advance of U.S. Marines and Dough
boys.
At Pohang. 55 miles north of
Pusan, the main American supply
base. Red forces held a ridge only
3'4 miles from the runway from
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 77; •
• minimum, 50. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 76; •
• minimum. 45. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vie in Itr) •
• Continued fair today night •
• and Saturday. Low tonight •
• near 50 and high Saturday •
• near 75. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 34 hours endlm 7:10 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. •