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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,660
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1950
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STORM IS
RAGING IN
NORTHWEST
Gales Reported in Eastern
Oregon, Washingtdn
Damage Extensive
(By Associated Press)
Gales raged through a broad
band of eastern Oregon and Wash
ington last night and today while
torrntial rainfall set an all-time
record at Eugene.
Trees were uprooted and, tele
phone and power lines tangled
from Walla Walla to La Grande as
gusts up to 81 miles an hour—well
above hurricane force—lashed the
area.
Western Oregon and southwest
ern Washington rivers began to
rise.
Eugene’s Amazon Creek boiled
out of its banks in places and one
family was evacuated by rowboat.
Southeast Portland’s Johnson Creek
spread out five inches deep over S.
E. Foster Road from 108th to 114th
Avenues.
To midnight Eugene reported a
3.45-inch rainfall in 24 hours, great
est in the 60 years of the weather
station there. Salem basements were
flooded as storm sewers failed to
carry away the deluge.
At Walla Walla, a windstorm
with 81-mile-an-hour gusts wrecked
a grain warehouse, damaged barns
and farm homes and snarled tele
phone and power lines.
Uprooted trees fell on homes and
automobiles. There were numerous
narrow escapes but no reported in
juries to persons.
RODEN SAYS TERR.
FUNDS SUFFICIENT
TO END OF YEAR
The Territory’s finances are still
in the black and there will be money
to carry it’s business through the
year, Henry Roden, Territorial
Treasurer, said today.
The Treasurer’s report for the
month to November 15. released to
day shows a bank balance of $3,
343,141.69. Outstanding warrants to
tal $724,796.51, leaving a balance
of $2,618,345.18. From this balance
is taken a sum of $2,005,403.52 for
special and earmarked funds, leav
ing an actual balance on hand of
$612,941.66 for the general fund.
Roden said that with funds com
ing in there will be a sufficient
amount to carry on the territorial
business until the Legislature con
venes in January without having
to borrow.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
Copyright 11)60. by BeU Syndicate, Ine.l
By DREW PEARSON
IRPaSHINGTON—Politics runs in
cycles. And the politics? cycle a
quarter of a century ago has some
interesting comparisons with that
today. In fact, it's almost similar.
A quarter of a century ago, in
the election of 1926, Calvin Cool
idge, supposedly supreme in the
White House, almost lost control
of Congress. He retained the Senate
by exactly the same majority as
Harry Trunman today—one vote.
The House he kept by a margin
cf 42. Today Truman’s margin
there is 34.
Some interesting figures popped
up in that surprise election of
1926. A young man from Maryland
named Millard Tydings, son of a
Susquehanna River boatman and
hitherto unknown, was elected to
the Senate. A quarter of a century
later, Tydings, in another surprise
election, bowed out. The man who
defeated him, John Marshall But
ler, was equally unknown.
Another interesting figure swept
into the Sienate in that 1926 sur
prise election was a relative new
comer from Kentucky named Al
ben Barkley. He defeated Republi
can Senator Richard P. Ernst,
chairman cf the privileges and el
ections committee and considered
a sure bet to win.
Another upstart Democrat who
surprised the Senate in 1926 was
Robert Wagner of New York, a
CHerman-t/jrn boy who rose to
sponsor our most important social
legislation. Wagner defeated a
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CITY STREET DEPT.
DOES FIRE PATROL
DUTY LAST NIGHT
i _
The city street department had
five men on fire patrol all last
night. Mayor Waino Hendrickson re
ported today. This extra precaution
will continue as long as the wind
remains high he said.
“All persons should check chim
neys and any fire hazards,” he add
ed.
The fire whistle "urping" heard
during the night was Ferdinand
again with another loose wire which
was repaired.
Among the wind casualties during
the night was a city library window
blown out at 12:40 this morning
Police installed a piece of plywood
A gust of wind swooping dowr
Main Street blew in a window
at Cowling Motors. The falling glass
hit a fender of a new Dodge in the
showroom, damaging it to the ex
tent of about $50.
A piece of tin flashing, loosened
late yesterday afternoon on the rool
of the Fedral Building, was anch
ored with heavy sand bags before
it was entirely loosened. A smallei
piece of tin flashing on the Gold
stein Building was also loosened.
Temperatures from the records ol
the Weather Bureau for 1945 on the
following dates show the weathei
colder then: Novembr 14, 11 de
grees; November 15, 12 degrees;
November 16, 14 degrees: Novembei
17, 13 degrees; November 18, 1(
degrees. The Temperatures at th«
present time are from five to 1(
degrees higher than five years ago
High winds and snow were prevail
ing five years ago as now.
Bishop Gordon on
Way to Fairbanks
Finds Juneau Cold
Juneau just now is a cold stop
on the way from Texas to Fair
banks, according to Bishop William
J. Gordon of the Episcopal Church
for Alaska, who arrived here the
first of the week.
Bishop Gordon, now on a tour of
Southeast Alaska missions, spoke
at the Episcopal Church in Ketchi
kan last Sunday, will visit Sitka
next Sunday and Wrangell before
returning to his headquarters in
Fairbanks.
During the three weeks he was
in Texas, Bishop Gordon, lecturing
on Alaska, spoke 25 times in 1C
days and drove 3,500 miles in the
State of Texas.
Weather was ‘unusual” Bishop
Gordon said, and the temperacuit
of 94 pretty constant during his
tour of the largest state in the
union.
“Texans don’t like to joke about
the possibility that Alaska might
become the largest state in the
union,” Bishop Gordon said.
In his lectures, selling Alaska tc
Texas, the Bishop of Alaska said
that he encountered a tremendous
dearth of information about the
territory.
“People still think of Alaska as
a land of Eskimos living in ice
houses. They know that it is true
because there is a picture of an
igloo made of ice in current geo
graphy books. There were people
:n audiences who did not believe
that the slides I showed were act
ually taken in Alaska. Teachers
told me they would have to revise
their teaching about the territory,”
he said.
“So many soldiers were here dur
ing the war, that I thought that
the rest of the United States had
tound Alaska to be other than a
land of ice and snow,” said the
Alaskan.
Bishop Gordon is spending his
time in Juneau with the Rev. Sam
uel A. McPhetres of Trinity Church.
MRS. HUNTER BACK FROM
VISIT IN OREGON CITIES
Mrs. Earle Hunter Jr., has re.
turned from a three weeks visit
with relatives and friends in Salem
and Portland, Ore. She visitec
chiefly with her mother in Salem
and enjoyed a visit with her sot
Earle III. (Bud1, pre-medical stu
dent at the University of Oregon
and the Dr. Robert Coffee family
former Juneau residents in Port
land.
Mrs. Hunter brought with her i
new addition to the family circle
2'.- months old “Jodalaine’s Polkt
j Dot Girl," a big name for a smal
J puppy, so Mrs. Hunter says, sh<
will be called ‘Jody.”
ON TRIP TO NORTHWEST
Mrs. Arthur Hedges went soutl
| Tuesday for a visit to Seattle anc
j Tacoma. She expects to return thi
day before Thanksgiving.
TAX FOES
BARRED AT
HEARING
i
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16— l/PI —.
Foes of excess profits taxes were
barred today from advocating be
fore the House Ways and Means
Committee any alternative tax to
produce $4,000,000,000.
By straight party votes of 15 Dem
ocrats to 10 Republicans, the com
mittee refused three times to 'et
witnesses suggest any tax plan as
a substitute for the excess profits
levy asked by the Truman admin
istration.
Witnesses favoring such alter
natives as hikes in regular corpor
ation income taxes were barred not
only from talking about them but
also from putting their prepared
statements into the committee re
!cord.
i Chairman Doughton (D-NC' said
! the committee has a mandate from
Congress to draft an excess profits
' tax bill and just hasn’t time to go
j into the entire field of taxation.
I Yesterday, the committee voted
’ 15 to 10 to close public hearings next
' Wednesday and to limit witnesses
| to 15 minutes each. This was after
. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
j had outlined administration sug
gestions for a 75 percent excess
i profits tax to take $4,000,000,000
J from corporation earnings. j
i FISHERIES BOARD
! HEARS PROGRESS
REPORTS FOR '50
Members of the Alaska Board of
Fisheries spent yesterday hear
ing progress reports of the various
tranches of the Alaska Depart
• ment of Fisheries. Biologists Rob
ert Parker and Walter Kerkness
gave a resume of work carried on
during the past season. They re
ported on trap studies which were
limited and felt that no definite
conclusions could be drawn until
further investigations could bt
made.
A good beginning was made in
the studies of troll fish and tag
ging which laid a good basis for
! future exploration in this field
! Black cod studies had been limit
i ed, due to little commercial activ
j ity this past season,
j Lewis MacDonald, head of en
| forcement division, reported that
’ 17 men had been employed to co
operate with the Fish and Wild
life Servcie this year.
A report on the Falls Creek fish
ladder construction was given
stating that it had been sufficiently
j finished to aid spawning salmon
this year and it was hoped to
complete the job next year.
A letter was read from Dr
Thompson regretting his inabilitj
to attend this Alaska meeting be
cause of a previous engagement.
Dr. Thompson has been conduct
ing investigations in Alaska on
pink and red salmon runs.
Mrs. Gladys Becker, department
librarian, reported that a substan
tial beginning had been made on
■a fisheries library. Exchange of in
I formation and publications is tak
ing place with about 60 agencies,
departments and colleges and some
valuable volumes on fish and fish
eries have been acquired, she said.
Card cataloguing and cross index
ing the material is completed. The
library is available to anyone wish
ing to use it.
It was decided that Howard
Wakefield, chairman of the Board
and C. L. Anderson, director, would
attend a meeting of the Pacific
Marine Fisheries which is to be
held in San Francisco, Dec. 4.
Today recommendations for 1951
fishing season regulations were
being heard by the Board.
FORMER JUNEAU (PR
AGENT DIES, RUPERT
According to a wire received by
Walter B. Heisel from Mrs. Dorothy
Smith, of Victoria, B.C., her father,
Harry Davies, passed away suddenly
at Prince Rupert, B.C., from a heart
attack. The funeral will be held in
Victoria, B.C., next Monday.
At the time of his death, Davies
, was serving as C.P.R. agent in
Prince Rupert, B.C., following about
two years of service as their agent
in Juneau, having been transferred
to Prince Rupert last fall shortly
1 after the death of his wife. In addi
i! tion to his daughter, he is sur
! vived by one son, Kenneth and sev
, eral grandchildren, all in Victoria,
TRYST IS ENDED;
HUSBAND KILLS
WIFE AND LOVER
PALATKA. Fla., Nov. 16—Wl—'Two
shotgun blasts ended the clandestine
romance of Jacksonville's safety
commissioner R. D. Sutton and the
wife of a prominent trucking firm
head.
The husband, J. P. McRea, 34, had
learned of the tryst and was wait
ing near Sutton's well-furnished but
lonely lakeside cabin 25 miles from
here.
He caught the two in bed in a
nude embrace yesterday morning,
fired twice at close range, staggered
from the cabin and collapsed of
a heart attack.
Mrs. McRea's head was blown
off. Sutton’s was almost so. She
was 33; Sutton 39.
McRea was jailed, then taken to
Glendale hospital here under guard.
His condition was reported as fair.
No charge was placed against him.
Sutton was married and had a
son, Charles. Mrs. Sutton was re
ported visiting somewhere in the
west.
Mrs. McRea left her Jacksonville
home early yesterday, telling friends
she was going to a meeting of the
P-TA, in which she had taken an
active part. Because of her son, 16,
she also had been active in the
patrol boys mother’s association.
London Meet
Will Attempt to
BreakDeadlock
German Rearmament and
Combined Defense West
Europe on Agenda
WASHINGTON. Nov. 16 — (A>) —
Another effort to break the German
rearmament deadlock and get on
with organization of a combined de
fense force for western Europe is
scheduled in London next month.
The North Atlantic Military Com
mittee expects to get together about
Dec. 4 with the North Atlantic
Council of Foreign Ministers’ Dep
uties, now In session there.
The military committee, com
posed on top ranking military of
ficers of the North Atlantic Treaty
nations, and the council of depu
ties are seeking a German rearma
ment plan on which the U. S.,
France, and the other member na
tions can agree.
A deadlock between U.S. and
French proposals for using western
Germans led the North Atlantic De
fense Ministers last month to post
pone further steps toward organiz
ing western Europe’s defenses and
appointing an American—expected
to be Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower—
as their supreme commander.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive from Skagway Friday at 6 a.m.
and sails south one hour later at
7 a.m.
Denali from west is scheduled to
sail south Sunday a.m.
• •
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 28; •
• minimum, 14.
• This is unofficial as weath- •
• er bureau figures for city are •
• missing and these readings •
• are taken from thermometer •
• at Fire Hall. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 19; •
• minimum, 13. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) *
• Variable cloudineess to- •
• night and Friday with few •
• scattered snow flurries to- •
• night. Gusty northeasterly •
• winds tonight decreasing on •
• Friday. Lowest temperature •
• tonight near 15 degrees and •
• highest Friday about 25. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today •
• City of Juneau—None; •
• since Nov. 1—3.99 inches •
• since July 1—33.02 inches. •
• At Airport—None; *
• since Nov. 1—155 inches; •
• since July i_23 inches. *
••••••••••*
I
RADAR mi
SUCCESSFUL
W. GERMANY
U. S. Discloses Secrel
Screen Locales Com
munist Planes
FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov. 17
——A previously secret American
radar screen backed by jet fighter
patrols to protect Western Europe
against surprise attack has passed
its first test, it was revealed today.
The test was supplied by Com
munist planes carrying delegates
from England to the Communist -
line peace congress in Warsaw.
Their flights were tracked and
patrols investigated them.
The first test came when a Sov
iet plane carrying French Com
munist leader Maurice Thorez to
Moscow for medical treatment made
an uncharted flight over Western
Germany .
Radar picked up the plane and a
jet patrol was sent to investigate.
Yesterday the radar net and pa
trols had their busiest day.
Thirty-nine unauthorized flights
by Eastern Europe Communist
t planes were sighted and traced as
,they moved over Western Germany.
The West has placed no embargo
against flying over Western Ger
many but demands that each plane
notify air headquarters of its ar
rival, course and identity.
None of the Communist planes
did so.
WAKEFIELD TELLS
CHAMBER DUTIES,
TERR. FISHERIES
| 'Tnere are some who believe that
the Territorial Department of Fish
eries is duplicating the work car
ried on by the Federal Fish anc
Wildlife Service in Alaska, but that
is not true,” Howard Wakefield de
clared today. He spoke at a reg
ular Juneau Chamber cf Commerce
luncheon meeting at the Barano;
Hotel,
He pointed out that the curtail
ment of Federal funds for FWfc
is hampering its work and that if,
and when Alaska becomes a state
it will be necessary to have a work
ing organization to take over the
work now being handled by the
Federal government' "Since the
Territory derives 60 per cent of its
income from taxes on fishing acti
vities, it is important that th<
fisheries be protected, and perpet
uated for future generations,” he
said.
• Citing a few specific instances ol
| Federal fund cutting, Wakefielc
said that at one time there were
250 stream guards to see that sal
mon got up the rivers to spawn,
but that number had been drastic
ally cut. Last season the Territorj
provided 17 stream watchmen tc
cooperate in this important phase
1 and hoped to furnish 29 next year
He also declared that the Cook
Inlet area was being overfished anc
something would have to be done
soon to save the red and king
salmon runs there.
"Despite thoughts to the con
trary, the Alaska Fisheries Boarc
is trying to do the best job posslbl.
and not show any favoritism foi
any particular type of gear or dis
trict,” he concluded.
Dick Peter of K1NY played a
recording of a Truth or Conse
quences Hollywood radio show
which featured Paul Harvey whe
recently was given a trip to Juneau
to pan some gold for an engage
ment ring for his fiance. Follow
ing his report on the Juneau trip
he was told to go to Africa where
he would have to mine a diamond
to complete the ring. Arrange
ments were thoughtfully made with
Stewart Granger, a movie star, to
take Harvey’s fiance to dinnei
while he was mining the diamond.
Guests included members of the
fisheries board: J. P. Valentine.
Ketchikan; Ira Rothwell, Cordova;
William Walton, Sitka; and Karl
Brunstad, Kodiak. Other visitors
were Bishop William J. Gordon.
Episcopal Church, Fairbanks; D.
M. Kantola, Moore Business Forms,
Anchorage; Ray McFarland, Libby,
McNeil and Libby, Seattle.
Martin Anderson, of the Ander
son Construction Company which
is building the Mendenhall Apart
ments here, was introduced as a
new member.
There will be no meeting next
week on account of Thanksgiving.
SWALLING HERE ,
A. E. Swalling, contractor of An
chorage, is stopping at the Baranof. |
U. S., BRITISH
TROOPS,ARMS
GO TO BERLIN
Reinforcements Cheered
Police to Be Armed for
City's Security
(By Daniel Deluce)
BERLIN. Nov. 16—(A1)—The west
ern powers brought British tanks
and American troop' reenforcements
to Berlin today and announced they
will arm German police here with
submachine guns and automatic
rifles.
As German school children waved
welcome, eight 33-ton Comet tanks
rolled troin a freight train to the
British armored force depot.
Shortly afterward 200 American
soldiers also arrived by rail.
The soldiers were members of
the headquarters company of the
Sixth Infantry regiment, which by
January will reenforce the American
troops here to the level of a pow
erfully armed regimental combat
team.
At noon, the Allied Kommanda
tura (The three western command
ants) announced it would equip and
train the 13,800 police force in west
Berlin with submachlneguns, auto
matic rifles and rifles.
This is "in the interests of Berlin
security,” the Kommandatura as
serted. It described the weapons as
“types normal to a modern police
force.”
"Most of them will be retained
in Allied hands and issued to the
police only in case of emergency,”
the Kommandatura continued. “It
is felt that this re-equipping of
the west Berlin police is long over
due, since the Soviets have long
ignored Allied control council direc
tive No. 16 which authorizes only
oistols and trunoheons for the po
lice.”
AIR DEFENSE
BASE MOVED
TO COLORADO
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 — (/W —
The Air Forte announced today
that headquarters of its new Air
Defense Command will be shifted
from Long Island to Ent Air Force
Base, Colorado Springs, Colo., early
n 1951.
Approximately 800 military and
civilian personnel will be assigned
to the new headquarters.
The Air Defense Command will
e responsible for the air defense
if the United States.
It is one of three separate major
commands being formed by splitting
the present Continental Air Com
mand, which has its headquarters
it Mitchel Air Force Base, Long
.sland, N. Y.
To Be Divided
The Continental Air Command is
jeing divided into the Air Defense
Command, a tactical air command
lealing with support for ground
.roops, and a reduced Continental
Air Command administering and
raining civilian units of the Air
(•"orce.
The Air Defense Command will
je under the command of Lt. Gen.
Ennis C. Whitehead, now com
manding general of the Continental
Air Command.
The Air Defense Command will
be an important nerve center in
the U. S. defense setup. Located
m the interior, it will be far beyond
the range of possible attack by
guided missiles fired from sub
marines.
Enemy planes in order to attack
it would have to fly a considerable
distance overland, making them
more subject to detection and in
terception than if their approach
were entirely over water.
LIQUOR MEN CONVENE
HERE THIS MORNING
Members of the Alaska Retail
Liquor Dealers Association con
vened at 10 o'clock this morning
to discuss a program for 1951 with
the hope that enough board mem
bers will arrive in order to take
action, including election of of
ficers.
In addition to the six here yes
terday, R. Crossett of Ketchikan,
Doug Heay of Fairbanks and Bill
Grant of Wrangell were on deck,
today,
U. N. Forces Drive Through
Sleet Storm, 30 Mile Front;
i Marines Meet Enemy Forces
CANNERY AT
DOUGLAS IS
NEAR WRECK
The 50 to 60 a mile winds which
swept Gastineau Channel last night
partially demolished the big 140
foot cannery at Douglas and ob
servers said that if the winds con
tinue in str°ngth today little will
be left of the structure by night
fall.
The building is constructed of
aluminum siding over shlplap end
last night and today large pieces
of the metal borne through .he
air by the winds have made it un
safe for a close approach to the
site, observers said.
Off Goes the Roof
By noon the roof and the top
story which is a storage loft, in
cluding its wood rafters and floor
were gone as well as the big smoke
stack. The stack had been newly re
placed after the destruction of the
original stack in a wind storm last
year.
A large portion of the beach
side of the building had been torn
away and the winds this afternoon
were completing their work of des
truction on that side and on the
other walls of the structure.
Equipment Intact
The new heavy canning equip -
men which had been stored In the
loft had been removed to the first
floor in the past week, it waa said,,
and was being crated to be ship
ped to the Continental Can Com
pany from which it was leased. At
press time today it had been im
possible to determine whether the
machinery had been damaged but
it was believed to reinain intact.
The creosoted piling on which the
cannery stands, near the north end
of Mayflower Island appeared to be
undamaged.
The cannery building was newly
built in the year 1941-48. Aluminum
siding was used in the construction,
one of the newer metals in building
preferred for its durability. It is a
thinner material than that of older
materials, corrugated steel and tin,
and observers said apparently it
could not hold against the strong
winds and was pulleed loose over
the nail heads which secured it.
Ironically the two old buildings
on the site which are covered with
corrugated metal are still stand
ing, undamaged.
It is believed insurance is car
ried for the building against wind
damage. Insurance, it was said, was
collected for wind damage done to
the building last year.
The cannery is owned by the
Douglas Canning Company, Inc.
composed of Douglas and Juneau
stockholders.
FWS PENGUIN II SAILS
THIS AFT. TO PRIBILOF
ISLANDSON XMAS RUN
Penguin II, Pish and Wildlife
Service supply ship skippered by
Capt. Daniel Drotning, docked last
evening on its Christmas supply
run to the Pribilof Islands.
Cargo carried were 20 Christmas
trees taken aboard at Ketchikan
and 600 tons of cargo taken aboard
at tieattle for the islanders. Sail
| mg time is this afternoon with
arrival at the destination expected
in about a week. The Penguin II
j left Seattle last Saturday afternoon |
with FWS cargo unloaded here
Passengers aboard are Mrs. Wil
lard French and five children who |
will join Mr. French at Unalaska
and Jesse Ballard, radio operator
on Si. Paul Island, one of the Prib
ilof s. Mrs. French and children
spent the summer at Salem. Oregon
where the youngest of the children
was born.
Skim ice was encountered in
Wrangell Narrows. Capt. Drotning
reports that two dredges are still
working on the channel in the
Narrows. Wind was encountered at
Midway Island with icing condi
tions from there into port here.
There is more snow on the British
Columbia coast than here, according
to Capt. Drotning.
Return to Seattle is expected
to be shortly before Christmas
Crew for the vessel numbers 13
in addition to the captain.
1
(By the Associated Press)
Driving through a sleet storm.
United Nations forces pushed for
ward on a 30-mile front in north
west Korea today. Other Allied
troops slogged to within 20 miles
of the Manchurian border in gen
eral advances along the frozen
northeast front.
In the western advance, lines
north and west of the Chongchon
river moved up as much as three
miles. These lines are manned by
South Korean, British and units of
the U.S. First Corps.
On their right flank, South Ko
reans who have been subject to
the heaviest blows of the Com
munist enemy, were able to stab
ilize their lines. They were driven
back four miles yesterday.
To the northeast, on the Pungsan
front, U.S. Seventh Division units
thrust against light resistance
and gained five miles.
U.S. Marines ran Into a sizable
force of Red troops on the Changjin
reservoir. This was the first time
in six days the Marines have felt
any real enemy strength.
Patrols of the Seventh Marine
Regiment encountered the Reds
west of the reservoir and the town
of Hagaru which they captured
without opposition. The Marines
pounded the foe with 105 mm.
artillery.
Earlier the Marines had heard
reports of a big Chinese Communist
buildup in the snow capped moun
tains west of the reservoir. There
were indications the whole Chinese
42nd Army was in the mountains.
The Reds made an amphibious
landing behind the lines of the
South Korean Capital Division now
within 90 miles of the Soviet Si
berian border. Communist rear and
frontal astacks Upped holesTZ
South Korean lines.
But a furious counterattack by
the South Koreans drove the Com
munists back two miles on the My
ongchong front.
American naval guns and planes
had come to the rescue of the bat
tered South Koreans. - Eight inch
guns of the U.S. Cruiser Rochester
and rockets of Marine and naval
planes hit at the enemy. The U.S.
Tenth Corps said the counterattack
wiped out half of a Red battalion
which made the amphibious land
ing.
The Allies stepped up their round
up of Red guerrillas operating be
hind the lines to the south. The U.S.
Third Division captured 200 Reds
near Wonsan.
FLEMISH KNOT FOULS
ALASKA (OM. (ABLE
The Flemish Knot, Alaska Steam
ship freighter, hooked an Alaska
Communications System r|ble
with a starboard prow anchor this
morning when it pulled up anchor
to dock from mid-channel. Be
cause of high winds, the freighter
had anchored in mid-channel on
her arrival at 2 a.m.
Jim Cole and crew went to the
assistance of the freighter with
his 32-foot work boat. Aboard the
Cole "boat was an ACS officer to
cut the cable loose from the an
chor. The cable was buoyed for
splicing during favorable weather.
The Coast Guard cutter, CG
83524, skippered by William Bent
ler, stood by.
ACS personnel aboard the Cole
work boat were Lt. Nels Ahlstrom,
officer in charge of the Juneau
station, Sgts Richard Stockdale
and Lex Utter, Cpls. Bill Howard
and Erling Martinsen.
The buoyed cable cut loose from
the Flemish Knot anchor was ta
Petersburg.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Nov. 16 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today Is 2%, American Can
100%, American Tel. and Tel. 151,
Anaconda 36%, Douglas Aircraft
B5%, General Electric 49%, General
Motors 48, Goodyear 58%, Kenne
cott 70%, Libby, McNeill and Libby
B'». Northern Pacific 27%, Standard
Oil of California 79%. Twentieth
Century Fox 21%, U.S. Steel 39%,
Canadian Exchange 96.43, Pound
(2.80%.
Sales today were 1.760,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 228.94, rails 68.74, utilities
10.66.
FROM ANCHORAGE
C. L. McCoy, Anchorage, is regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel.