"ALL TllE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _
VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,716 _ JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1951_ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN "ENTS
Extension of Draft Period Is Now Urged
STATEHOOD,
DEFENSE
AT ISSUE
Committees Created-New
Bill Would Eliminate
Highway Patrol
The House of Representatives
this morning voted to create two
new committees—a standing Com
mittee on Civilian Defense and a
special Committee on Statehood.
The vote came only after consid
erable wrangling and after the
original motion to throw the two
matters together in a Committee on
Statehood and Defense had been
voted down.
Three new bills were introduced
during the morning session, includ
ing one to abolish the present
Highway Patrol and to set up a
Department of Police under a Su
perintendent of Police appointed by
the Attorney General.
The statehood-and-defense ques
tion, carried over from yesterday,
was briefly debated. Rep. Scavenius,
who made the motion to create the
committee, asserted that statehood
is imperative to defense of Alaska
and the two are inseparable.
Rep. Waino Hendrickson said
civilian defense has been weakened
by being spread among too many
agencies. He felt that questions cf
civilian defense should be kept
separate from statehood.
The motion to create a single
committee was defeated 10-11.
Committee on Statehood
Rep. Kay then moved for the cre
ation of a standing Committee on
Statehood.
When Rep. Miscovich pointed to
the existing Alaska Statehood Com
mittee, Rep. Kay said he believes
the Alaska Statehood Committee
, has fallen down on a part of its job
and that this might be considered
by a legislative committee.
Rep. Kay went on to say that he
has heard objections to features of
the statehood bills presently before
Congress and he thought the mat
ter should be considered by a legis
lative committee which could then
adopt recommendations.
Rep. Amelia Gundersen com
mented: “The Statehood Commit
* tee hasn't done much and should be
looked into.”
The vote on the motion was 14-7
but after objection by Rep. Stepo
vich that a two-third vote was re
quired. it was decided by the Rules
Committee that the motion war
out of order.
Subsequently, a motion by Rep.
Kay to create a special Committee
on Statehood, which would function
only during the present session, car
ried 20-1, with 3 absent.
Laws Named “Enemy”
There was another fuss over
statehood when the Committee on
Committees named Rep. W. W.
Laws of Nome temporary chairman
(Continued on Page Two)
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1951, Dy Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Washington — Last week i
went up to the little Pennsylvania
tow'n where I spent most of my
boyhood, to help dedicate the begin
ning of a new town hall. It brought
back a lot of memories. It also
' set me thinking about what forms
the real foundation of govern
ment in this country—namely, the
small towns of America.
Swarthmore boasted about 2,00C
people when I grew up there, and it
still isn’t much bigger now. The
houses are of that early peniten
tiary, mansard-roof type; solid, a
little ugly, but both the hearth
stones and the hearts of the people
inside are warm.
A few things about my town
have changed in the 30-odd years
since I moved away—but not many.
There’s a new movie house—un
heard of in my day. And an under
pass has replaced the old railroad
grade crossing where watchmar
Mike McCarthy, friend of every
kid in town, used to fret and
fume until school was out and
all the children had been herded
across the tracks.
Some swank new homes have
been built in the cow pastures and
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Korean Groundhog
Pfc. Cyril Kuhcl of Cleveland, Ohio, saw his shadow as he crawled
i out of his elaborate heated dugout on Korea's central front. Like the
groundhog, Kuhel could tell that spring was not just around the
corner as he felt the nip of 24-degrees-below-zero temperature, iff)
Wirephoto.
PRICE, WAGE
FREEZE NOW
COMING IIP
|
Stabilizer Johnston Expect
j ed to Issue Orders in
Next Few Days
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 — (J) —
Price Stabilizer Michael Disalle
said today he has given Economic
Stabilizer Eric Johnston recommen
dations for a general price freeze.
• He made the statement before
I the joint Senate-House Economic
Committee.
Disalle did not make public de
j tails of his recommendations but
j said that an announcement prob
ably will be made within a couple
of days.
His testimony followed word from
other officials that a price rollback
j may be expected tomorrow, possibly
I followed by a wage freeze on Friday
i An overall price ceiling at levels
of Jan. 2 was reported by informed
government sources to be in the
works.
Lid on Wages
The wage action, it was under
stood, will put a lid on wages as of
the day announced.
Johnston, long time president of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce and lately the president of
the Motion Picture Association, is
understood to be planning a ra<i'o
and television broadcast tomorrow
evening, at which time he will tell
the public of his plans.
Order Expected
He took the oath of office from
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson in a
brief ceremony in President Tru
man's news conference room in the
old State Department building.
An order was due shortly from
Johnston giving autonomous power
over prices to Price Stabilizion Di
rector Michael V. Disalle and over
wages to the nine-member Wage
Stabilization Board headed by
Cyrus S. Ching.
Under Johnston’s predecessor,
Alan Valentine, who resigned Fri
day, Disalle enjoyed only limited
authority and the wage board had
received no delegation of power-.it
was merely an advisory body to
Valentine.
LOWROUNDTRIP FARE
TO ANCHORAGE $85
FEB. (3 TO MAR. 4
A short period low-fare, round
trip rate to Anchorage will be of
fered by Pacific Northern Airlines
from February 13 through March
4, Robert Pheasant, Juneau agent,
| said today. This takes in the Fur
I Rendezvous dates. The special fare
will be $85, plus tax. The present
' rate is $113.40, plus tax.
AT TIIE GASTINEAU
P. R. Coffin, Jr., of Anchorage
| is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel.
FOREST SERVICE TO
ELIMINATE LANDS
IN S. E. ALASKA
Formal recommendation has been
made by the U. S. Forest Service
that certain lands adjacent to
towns in Southeast Alaska needed
for community growth be eliminated
j from the National Forests, Regional
1 Forester B. Frank Heintzleman dis
| closed today. Tins recommendation
was made in the last month while
Heintzleman was in Washington
on Forest Service business.
Lands eliminated by the Forest
Service from the National Forests
will come under the regulations of
tlie Bureau of Land Management,
with headquarters in Anchorage.
The recommendations by the
Forest Service are a result of a
survey made last summer by the
Bureau of Land Management and
the Forest Service to determine
boundaries of lands that are to
be eliminated in order to simplify
the patenting of homesites.
In place of going through two
agencies before finally acquiring
patent to his land only one process
would then be required of the
homesteader.
Towns to be chiefly affected by
the transfer will be Juneau, Doug
las, Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell and
Ketchikan and Craig.
| The boundaries in the Juneau
area extend on the beach and along
the highway from Juneau north
to Eagle River, and on Douglas
Island from Douglas north to the
onxuth of Fish Creek Heintzleman
said. Similar areas along National
Porest highways will be aifected
in the other Southxfxst Alaska
towns.
Date of the actual transfer has
not yet been made known and un
til such time the Forest Service
will continue to handle applications
for homesites.
It is expected tne entire regula
tion of the lands to be eliminated
will require that the Bureau of
Land Management extend its or
ganization from Anchorage to
Southeast Alaska to handle the
work involved.
Heintzleman said that after the
transfer is effected the main high
j ways in the eliminated areas would
continue to be Forest Highways
I and thus continue to be built, im
proved and maintained with Na
tional Forest Highway funds by the
Bureau of Public Roads.
However, he said, the branch
roads system can then no longer
be maintained or extended as has
been done in the past by the Forest
Service but will have to be taken
over by some other agency.
While no statement was made,
presumably these secondary roads,
after the elimination of homesites
from the National Forests, will have
to be taken over by the Territory.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
———
1 Baranof scheduled to sail from
I Seattle 4 p.m., Friday,
j Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver, 8 p.m., January 31.
Denali from west scheduled to
. arrive Sunday morning southbound.
ALLIES IK
SLASH OF
10 MILES
Recapture Key Mountain
Town-Air and Artillery
Bombardment Reported
« ■ ——■
(By the Associated Press)
Allied troops slashed more than
10 miles beyond Wonju on the cen
tral Korean front today and to the
southeast recaptured the key moun
tain town of Yongwol.
A heavily-armed patrol with tanks
blazed through Hoengsong, 10
miles north of Wonju, and pushed
on to within 33 miles of the 38th
parallel before withdrawing, a field
dispatch said.
It was the farthest northward
advance by any Allied force since
Seoul, the Korean capital, was
abandoned. On the way back the
task force was engaged by a com
pany of enemy troops. The Reds
retreated with heavy casualties.
Air Bombardment
The Han river town of Yongwol
southeast of Wonju fell to Allied
attack after an air and artillery
bombardment.
The capturing force was not iden- !
tified. However, the U.S. Seventh I
Division, only American force to
reach the Manchurian border in
the Korean war, has been operating
south of the tungsten mining town.
A.P. Correspondent Tom Stone
said the attacking force drove across
the ice-covered Han river after an
intense air and artillery barrage.
Reds Flee
The surprised Reds fled, leaving
only light opposition.
In the air, swift U.S. F-84 Thun
derjets damaged three Russian
built MIG-15s in northwest Korea.
First reports had claimed one enemy
jet shot down but the Fifth Air i
Force later revised its toll.
On the western front, the Eighth
Army communique reported that
enemy troops had been seen enter
ing the town of Ichon, 30 air miles
southeast of Seoul.
The communique said there was
no contact in this sector. Lt. Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway’s headquar
ters said patrols were sweeping the
I eastern and central front in an ef
i fort to keep contact with the
enemy, now showing a reluctance
i to fight.
--
West Europe Nations;
Musi Brand Red China
To Receive Mil. Aid
(By Associated Press)
Washington lawmakers are de
manding that Western European
nations expecting military aid from
this country join in the move to
brand Red China an aggressor in
Korea.
Among them, Republican Sena
tor Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa
says the Senate resolution passed
yesterday endorsing U.S. efforts in
the U.N. should serve notice of this
country’s sentiments to Atlantic
Pact partners.
And Oregon’s Republican Senator
Wayne Morse says its time Britain
decides “whether she is on our side
or on the side of Red China."
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 12; •
• minimum, 9. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 13; •
• minimum, 8. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Mostly cloudy with gusty •
• northeasterly w i*n d s and •
• light snow flurries tonight •
• and Thursday. Lowest tern- •
• perature tonight about 7, •
• highest Thursday near 10. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau—0.02 inches; •
• since Jan. 1 — 3.94 inches; •
• since July 1—41.93 inches. •
• At Airport — Trace; •
• since Jan. 1 — 2.24 inches; •
• since July 1—30.24 inches. •
• ••••••••••
1 V .
Eye Stalin's Mantle
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Georgi M. Malenkov (left), who controls the Communist party apparatus; Lavrenty P. Berla (center), who
controls the police system; and Deputy Prime Minister V. M. Molotov (right)-arc believed by western
officials to be sharpening their contest for the top spot in Russia as Premier Stalins scccessor. Stalins
health isa taboo subject for the Soviet press, but at 71, Stalin apparently is aware he cannot long sustain
the iron grip which he has held on his subordinates. Iff) Wirephoto.
TREND TO
SEND TROOPS
TO EUROPUE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—Ut)—'The
administration can count on the
Senate Foreign Relations and Arm
ed Services Committee to approve
a resolution indorsing the dispatch
of American troops to Europe.
A spot check by the Associated
Press of 21 of the 26 members of
the two committees showed that as
of today 14 favor such a move and
not one publicly opposes it.
A favorable recommendation by
the two committees would carry
heavy weight with the Senate it
self.
However, there was a sharp but
inconclusive difference of opinion
among the 21 committeemen reach
ed on whether Congress should put
a ceiling on the number of ground
forces that may be dispatched un
der the North Atlantic Treaty.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio), who fa
vors limiting the number of divi
sions involved, has said he will
carry that issue to the Senate
floor.
BARTLETT PUTS
IN 2 MEASURES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 — OP) —
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska has in
troduced a bill to allow lands re
served to Alaska for educational
purposes to be leased for periods not
to exceed 99 years.
Another bill would permit govern
ment agencies to pay cost of living
allowances and additional compen
sation to officers and employees of
the United States stationed outside
this country or in Alaska.
British Foreign
Secretary is III
LONDON, Jan. 24—W—‘The For
eign Office disclosed today that
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin has
pneumonia.
Bevin, who has been in poor
health for the last two years, came
down yesterday with what was
first diagnosed as influenza. He will
be 70 in March.
HOUSEWIFE IMPROVES ART
LOS ANGELES—OH—Mrs. Eliza
beth Ann Fry, a housewife who
has never had an art lesson, spends
her spare time improving on the
work of professional painters.
Mrs. Fry specializes in renovating
statues and religious objects in
churches, convents and monasteries.
She touches up paint faded by the
passage of time or if necessary
removes the old pigment and ap
plies a complete new coat. She got
the idea "while putting on my
makeup one day” and has been
doing it for several years.
It is less likely to snow in very
cold weather because cold air does
not hold much water vapor.
Free World
Unify Plea
Of Acheson
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-Wl— ,
Secretary Acheson said today every I
possible effort is being made to pre
serve unity of the free world in the
United Nations crisis over branding
Communist China an aggressor in
Korea.
Making it clear he considers the
situation to be too delicate, the
Secretary of State declined at a
news conference to comment on:
1. British Prime Minister Attlee’s
speech in Parliament yesterday
calling for a wait and see policy
by the UN toward Red China, or
2. Today’s speech by Prime Min
ister Nehru of India criticizing the
United States condemnation of
Communist China.
Acheson said in response to a
question on the Attlee speech that
he did not think it would be at all
helpful for him to comment at this
time.
Every possible effort, he said, is |
being made to preserve the unity
of the great free world and that is
what the United States wants to
achieve.
Despite Acheson’s refusal to com
ment, it was plain the Nehru
speech had aroused immediate in
tense interest at the State Depart
ment.
NATURALIZATION
NEW CITIZENS BE !
HELD TOMORROW
A class of 14 and possibly 15 p3t- !
itioners for naturalization as citi
zens of the United States will ap
pear with witnesses in the U. S.
Distrdict Court to be examined by
Judge George W. Folta, commenc
ing at 10 o’clock tomorrow morn- J
ing.
It is expected the examinations \
will be completed so that the nat- |
uralization ceremony may take
place in court at 2 o’clock in the
afternoon. At that time petitioners j
for naturalization will take the oath j
of allegiance to the United States j
of America and will be sworn in
by Judge Folta concerning the priv
elges and duties of a citizen of the
United States.
The program arranged for the
occasion will include an address by
Territorial Treasurer Henry Roden,
and the presentation to each new
citizen of an American Flag by Dr.
I. J. Montgomery, who will repre
sent the American Legion. United
States District Attorney P. J. Gil
more, Jr. will present each of the j
new citizens with a pamphlet en- |
titled "A Welcome to U.S.A. Cit
izenshop,” prepared by the Immi
gration and Naturalization Service
of the Department of Justice.
The naturalization ceremony will
be held in open court and the pub
lic may attend.
There are 12,500 practicing for-1
esters in the United States.
NEHRU HAS
CRITICISM,
UJ. POLICY
I
NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 24—M—
Prime Minister Nehru of India, in
a broadcast bristling with criticism
of the United States’ policy in Asia,
called tonight for a conference of
major powers to discuss world prob
lems, “instead of talking at each
other across thousands of miles."
“It is clear that enough has been
said on both sides for negotiation
in a conference to be the next
fruitful step,” Nehru said.
The Indian leader contended the
American proposal to name Com
munist China an aggressor in Korea
—a policy backed by both Houses
of the U.S. Congress—“cannot lead
to peace.” He said:
“It can only lead to intensifica
tion of conflicts and might perhaps
close the door to any attempt at
solution by negotiation.
“It is a tremendous responsibility
for any person to take such a
step.”
Nehru’s broadcast marked his re
turn from the London meeting of
Prime Ministers of the British Com
monwealth of nations. Great Britain
also is opposing any plans to im
pose U.N. penalties against the Red
Chinese as aggressors.
At no point in his address did
Nehru refer to the United States
by name.
GOVERNMENT LOSES
TAX WITHHOLDING
SUIT IN CONNECTICUT
NEW HAVEN, Jan. 24—tffl—A fed
eral jury here today returned a ver
dict for Vivien Kellems in the
Stongington industrialist’s with
holding tax suit against the United
States and the Collector of Interna!
Revenue for Connecticut.
The jury was out approximately
three hours.
The action ended a two-day civil
suit in which the interpretation j
of the word “wilfull” was the major
factor.
The jury’s job was to determine j
whether the Kellems, who brought
the suit, were entitled to get pen
alty money $6,133.80, back from the
collector, John W. Fitzpatrick.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%. American Can
97%, American Tel. and Tel. 152, |
Anaconda 39 H, Douglas Aircraft
102, General Electric 53%. General
Motors 48%, Goodyear 71%, Kenne
cott 74 '/*, Libby McNeill and Libby
914, Northern Pacific 32 %, Stan
dard Oil of California 92 4, Twen
tieth Century Fox 21%, US. Steel
45. Pound $2.80 1 6, Canadian Ex
change 94.87%.
Sales today were 2,000.000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 244.34, rails 82.28, utilities
42.04.
TRAINING
PERIOD IS
INCREASED
Anna Rosenberg Gives
Testimony at Hearing
Save Taxpayers' Money
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 — (/PI —
The Defense Department said today
extension of the draft period from
21 to 27 months would save tax
payers $700,000,000 annual training
costs and yield 50 percent more
service from troops.
These arguments were advanced
by Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, Assistant
Secretary, in further support of
the Department's request for the
I 27-months draft period, along with
! power to draft 18-yenr-olds under a
| universal military service and train
I ing program. She appeared before
I the House Armed Services Com
( mittee.
I £3he said the 27-month period
I would mean fewer men would have
to be trained, at a consequent sav
ings.
Present Training
Since from 9 to 11 months nre
now consumed in training, travel
and leave, an inductee under the
present 21-month draft limit has
only 12 months "effective service”
in a possible Western Defense the
ater and 10 months in a Far East
| theater, she told the committee.
With the same nine to 11 months
deducted under a 27-month draft
limit, Mrs. Rosenberg said, the in
ductee would have 18 months "ef
fective service” in a European the
, ater and 16 months in a Far East
! theater.
The question of deferring the
military service of thousands of
young men while they study to be
dentists, physicians, engineers or
scientists came up at a meeting of
a preparedness subgroup of the
Senate Armed Service Committee.
Want Dental Students
Dr. Rudolph Friedrich of Plain
field, N.J., said the American Den
tal Association recommends that at
least 5,000 pre-dental students be
assured each year, of whom 2,800
eventually would graduate four
years later.
Senator Saltonstall (R-Mass)
questioned the wisdom of heavy de
ferments, asking:
"Where are you going to get the
men to fight?"
LOWEST WEEKLY
KOREA CASUALTY
LIST SINCE NOV.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 24 — Of) —
A Peek’s rise of 1,064 in Korean
War casualties—the smallest weekly
increase since late in November—
was reported today by the Defense
Department. This raised the total to
46.201.
By comparison, the Department’s
figure on new casualties last week
was 2,424. Last September, there
was one- week when it reported
4.974—the largest weekly figure re
ported for the war.
The new cumulative total in
cludes casualties whose next of kin
were notified through midnight,
Jan. 19. It compares with 45,137 in
the Department’s last previous
weekly report.
Total Army casualties were 37,953,
Navy 519, Marines 7,369, and Air
Force 360
Total deaths were Army 5,971,
Navy 67, Marines 1,325, Air Foret
136.
COURT PARTY LEAVES
SAT. FOR ANCHORAGE
Judge George W. Folta and a
court party from the staff of the
District Court here expect to leave
Juneau Saturday for Anchorage to
assist Judge Anthony J. Dimond
with business in the Third Division
present term of court for the next
several weeks.
In the party accompanying Judge
Folta will be Thomas Stewart, law
clerk. Mildred Maynard, court re
porter and Marie Jensen, secretary
to the Judge.
William F. Robertson of Seattle
is staying at the Baranof Hotel.