THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXV.., NO. 11,646
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1950
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Air Liner Crashes In Fog Killing Thirty-one
UN FORCES
CHECKED BY
CHINA REDS
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—
Stiff Resistance Reported
on 250-Mile Front on
Manchurian Border
(By the Associated Press)
North Koreans—aided by an un
determined number of Chinese Com
munist troops—stepped up their
resistance today against United Na
tions forces on a 250-mile northern
peninsula front below the Com
munist Manchurian border.
The mountainous lront, easily
penetrated by Allied spearheads,
has now become a blazing checker
board. The Communist aim appar
ently is to stall United Nations j
forces until wintry blasts freeze the j
campaign into another year.
A U.S. Army spokesman in Wash- s
ington said the belated appearance i
of Chinese troops shows Red China's I
determination to protect the huge
Suiho-Supong power dam on the j
Yalu river which supplies electricity j
for Manchurian points as distant as j
Harbin and the Russian naval base
at Port Arthur.
Tanks. Guns in Action
Field dispatches indicated the
Reds have thrown scores of tanks
and heavy guns into the fighting
in all sectors.
Against this mounting resistance,
the only impressive gain of the day
was made by an armored column of
the U.S. 24th Division. It skirted the
British Commonwealth 27th Brigade
and pushed northwest from
Chongju through Conchon and
reached within 33 miles of the
border.
No high Allied commander has
stated that Chinese Communist
troops are in North Korea in force.
A captured Red Korean officer said
two Chinese divisions were attack
ing in northeast Korea.
Chinese Reds Captured
An intelligence officer at Gen.
MacArthur’s Tokyo headquarters
confirmed that ten Chinese Reds
were captured in North Korea. He j
added that there is no conclusive!
evidence that organized Chinese |
units have entered the fighting.
The spokesman said headquarters j
is awaiting a definite statement j
from the U.S. Eighth Army and;
10th Corps Commanders.
However, there was this indication j
of Chinese Communist participa- j
tion:
Chinese prisoners were captured j
(Continued on Page Eight)
The Washington!
Merry-Go-Round |
Copyright. luso. by Bell Syndicate. Inc. I
By DREW PEARSON
Washington—At the diplo
matic reception following President
Truman’s address to the UN Gen
eral Assembly, Indian Delegate
Jamsaheb stepped up to the Pre
sident and surprised him with an
on-the-spot peace proposal.
“Would it not be a good idea,”
said the Hindu diplomat, “to begin
the big five peace talks here and
now, Mr. Vishinsky being in the
same room with you, Sir?”
“I have Secretary Acheson here
for that job,” replied Mr. Truman,
slightly taken aback.
“Quite right, Sir,” replied Dele
gate Jamsaheb with a low bow.
“But there's an old Indian proverb
that you can't keep a dog and do
your own barking.”
The President did not seem to
catch the point, and the Hindu Am
bassador passed on.
Though what he said was meant
in all friendliness, he had unwit
tingly touched on the fact that
there had been a lot of official
barking in Washington before the
State Department and the White
House could reach an agreement
as to what the . President should
say in his UN speech about dis
armament. Some advisers protest
ed ti>ts was no moment to talk
of any tiling but arming. Other ad
visers agreed that it was necessary
to give Europe some hope for peace.
The latter 'hopeful” group finally
won out.
Friend of Nazi Agent
Watching the candidates — the
motto, “Elect in Haste, Repent at
Leisure,” has sent so many mis
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fck. »
NEW ATTACK
NECESSARY IN
KOREAN WAR
Strength of Chinese Com
mies on NE Front to
Be Determined
HAMHUNG, Korea, Oct. 31—(API— 1
Maj. Gen. Edward Almond said to- i
day that United Nations forces can j
determine Chinese Communist
strength in northeast Korea only by
"an attack in strength.”
He indicated such an attack was
coming shortly.
“In the next few days we will
develop what is there,” said the
Tenth Corps commander, who is also
in charge of all northeast Korean
combat operations.
“From prisoner reports,” he said,
“you cannot tell if there are two
Chinese Communist divisons until
you attack in enough strength on
a broad enough front to tell how
many there are, and what weapons
and artillery they have.”
Almond said at least one Chinese j
Red regiment crossed the Yalu
river into Korea on Oct. 16 and
marched south to a point 15 miles
north of Hungnam, on the east j
coast. ,
TO FIGHT POWER
BOAT FISHING IN
BRISTOL BAY AREA
Opposition to Proposal
Develops Strongly from
Two Directions
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 31—
(/B—a representative of the Alaska
Salmon Industry says residents of
the Bristol Bay area will join the
industry in opposition to a proposal
to open the bay to power boat fish
ing.
Elmer Harris, of the industry,
said residents will join the industry
in opposition at a Fish and Wildlifr
Service hearing Nov. 6 in Seattle.
Federal regulations keep power
boats from fishing in Bristol Bay
at present. A bill aimed at forcing
repeal of the federal rule passed
the House of the Alaska Legislature
in 1949 but failed in the Senate.
“The residents are vigorous in
their opposition and they have many
reasons," Harris aid here. “The resi
dents have no power boats to use
and the industry doesn’t plan to
buy any.” j
He said that would mean outsiders
“will bring in their boats and take
the fishing away from the resi
dents.”
He said the industry is opposed to
power boats because of the prospect
of having the season shortened and
a big share of the catch taken by
boats equipped with freezing facil
ities, which could take the fish back
to the states for canning.
COMEDIAN HOPE
SCHEDULED FOR
ALASKAN TOUR
TOKYO, Oct. 31—(41—Comedian
Bob Hope and his 40-member show
party left yesterday for Alaska after
entertaining troops on the Korean
war front.
Hope and his party made an
impromptu stage appearance at
Tokyo’s largest theater, Nippon
Gekijo, just before departing on an
‘ Icebox” tour of Alaskan military
outposts.
Two of Japan’s baseball idols,
Frank “Lefty" O'Doul and Joe Di
Maggio, are due Nov. 1 for a three
weeks tour.
Far be it from Kong Kong police
to interrupt a hold-up. When they
got word three bandits weie hold
tog up the Nan Yang bank Monday,
police just surrounded the place
Time plassed but no roboers emer
ged When the cops linally went
in they found the ihree robbers
missing with 20,000 Hong Kong dol
lars—about $3,500 American. They
left no forwarding address.
3rd Polio
Fatality,
Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS. Alaska, Oct. 31—I/O
—A 17-year-old high school youth,
David Osborne, became Fairbanks'
third polio fatality yesterday. The
boy was stricken with a slight par
alysis last Friday and was put into
a respirator Sunday.
His father, C. E. Osborne, has
been steward for mining camps of
the Fairbanks Exploration Company
many years.
Earlier polio victims included a
child at the Ladd Air Force Base
and an Eskimo from Point Barrow.
Meanwhile, hospital attendants
said Julian Rivers, son of Alaska’s
former Attorney General, appeared
to be recovering.
Twelve-year-old Jo Anne Wold,
confined to a respirator for several
weeks, will be flown to Seattle Fri
day for rehabilitation treatment at
the children’s orthopedic hospital
there.
CASE TO WESTWARD
The Health Department in Ju
neau has received a brief report
that a veteran by the name of
Knowles has been hospitalized at
the Air Force hospital at Elmendorf
Field as a polio suspect.
AMAZING "WRITE-IN" j
VOTES FOR TREASURER
Making the official count after a
general election is pretty monoton
ous' business, but the Territorial
Canvassing Board has an occasional
lighter moment.
Among the First Division returns
received in the office of the Secre
tary of Alaska were some amazing
ballots—legal, too.
Whiskey Pete received two votes
for the position of Territorial Trea
surer, one in Clover Pass, the other J
in Ketchikan Precinct Two.
A1 Capone got one vote in Moun- :
tain Point.
It all started, Secretary Lew M. j
Williams thought, with this para- j
graph by Sid D. Charles, publisher :
of the Ketchikan News, in his Oc- j
tober 9 column, "Observations at J
Random”:
“We suggest as a protest vote j
against Henry Roden for his active
partisanship, even though he hasJ
no opposition, write in the name of !
Harry Williams. That’s what we’re
going to do.”
Charles presumably did — along
with 48 other voters. Williams re
ceived 43 Ketchikan votes, four from
Mountain Point, one vote in Clover j
Pass and one at Re villa.
One voter at Salmon Creek cast
a vote for Neil Moore, Assistant
Auditor.
Sid Charles for Treasurer was the
vote of one Revilla citizen.
3 MORE METALS
ARE RESTRICTED
BY DECEMBER 1
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 — —
Cuts of 20 to 30 percent in the
civilian use of .copper, nickel, and
aluminum will probably be ordered
within the next 10 days, effective
Dec. 1.
That was the word today from an
official of the National Production
Authority (NPA).
Last week the NPA told manufac
turers of radio and televison sets,
washing machines, refrigerators and
other appliances that there was a
“tentative plan” for an across-the
board cutback in the three vital
metals, which are in demand for
airplanes, radar and other war
equipment.
Today the plan is a bit more than
“tentative,” and Dec. 1 is said to
have been almost positively chosen
as the effective date.
In revolution-torn Puerto Rico,
Governor Luis Munoz Marin mo
bilized 3,500 National Guardsmen to
put down antt-United States Na
tionalist rebels who brought violence
and bloodshed to 10 towns yester
day.
The uprising was the worst in the
j history of the U.S. dependency. Po
1 lice counted 28 dead and 22
i wounded. Munoz Marin called the
! revolt “a conspiracy against De
j mocracy helped by the Commun
|ists.”
PRICE OF
FOOD WILL
GO HIGHER
That Is Prospect for Next
Year, Asserts Depart
ment of Agriculture
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 — —
Higher food prices — maybe the
highest ever—are in prospect for
next year, the Agriculture Depart
ment said today.
The Department predicted that
food prices, which have risen
through most of 1590 with a fairly
sharp upturn after the outbreak of
war in Korea, probably will not go
up much more before later winter.
But in a report on the national
food situation the Department fore
saw “reinforced pressure” on prices
in the spring and declared:
“Accelerated consumer demand
for food, unless checked by anti
inflationary measures or other de
velopments, could push food prices
by mid-year up to and even above
the record level of the summer of
1948.”
While food supplies somewhat
larger than this year’s are expected,
the Department said the increase
likely will be insufficient to keep
pace with greater consumer demand
for food.
BASKIN BACK FROM
INTERESTING COURT
SESSION, KETCHIKAN
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stanley
D. Baskin returned last evening
from Ketchikan, where he had pros
ecuted a number of cases during the
court term which opened Septem
ber 26.
U.S. Attorney P. J. Gilmore, Jr.,
who was ill then, went later to the
First City, where he will remain at
least until Monday. One more case
has been set for trial, and court is
expected to continue in session all
next week.
Baskin said that 16 cases have
been tried during the Ketchikan
term. Of these, eight defendants
waived indictment and pleaded
guilty on information filed by the
District Attorney. The cases of the
other eight, all of whom had been
indicted by the grand jury were
disposed of.
Most interesting, according to
Baskin, was the bribery case in
which a Jury found Joe Patterson
guilty on both charges. He was sen
tenced to two years in a federal
penitentiary on each count (to be
served concurrently) and fined $300
on each of the two counts.
In the one murder trial, Fritz
Schloe pleaded guilty to manslaugh
ter and was sentenced to 15 years on
each of two counts, to be served
concurrently.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise from Vancouver
due to arrive at 6:30 tonight, dock
ing at City Dock, and sails for Skag
way at 11:30.
Freighter Coastal Rambler sched
uled to sail from Seattle today.
Baranof scheduled to sail fron:
Seattle, Friday, Nov. 3.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
_
NEW YORK, Oct. 31 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
99%, American Tel and Tel 150 i.
Anaconda 35*4, Douglas Aircraft
78%. General Electric 48%, General
Motors 47%, Goodyear 57*4. Kenne
cott 66%. Libby. McNeill and Libby
8%, Northern Pacific 25*4, Stand
ard Oil of California 75, Twentieth
Century Fox 22, U.S. Steel 41' I •
Sales today were 2,010,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 225.01, rails 66.28, utilities
40.02.
PRICES FLATTENED
NEW YORK, Oct. 31—CA'I—A last"
hour blast of selling flattened stock
prices today for the second day run
ning.
In the final hour of business
orders to sell suddenly flooded the
market. Prices tumbled a few cenu’
to around $3 a share before pressure
let up. Most issues closed a little
above the lows for the day.
BARANOFTO
CONTINUE AS
(ARGO SHIP
. I
—
Efforts of Alaska Steam to
Break Passenger
Tie-up Fails
SEATTLE, Oct. 31—(/ft—A new
effort has (ailed to end the Seattle- j
Alaska passenger ship service tie-up.!
Alaska Steamship Co. announced |
•that the former passenger steamer!
Baranof will continue to sail as a I
straight cargo ship.
The Baranof has been sailing as j
a freighter, carrying no passengers, j
since early October. The company j
suspended passenger service after
Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
members delayed several sailings
with disputes over the Coast Guard
screening program.
D. E. Skinner, Vice President and
General Manager of the Alaska line,
says that the company had made
a new effort last Friday to settle
the dispute. Skinner said the com
pany again asked the union for
written assurance of future com
pliance with the screening program.
There was no reply from the
union by the 3 p.m. Monday dead
line, Skinner said. The deadline had j
to be set to provide enough time j
to put the Baranof back in regular ]
passenger service, and to book pas- j
sengers, for next Friday’s scheduled j
sailing.
"We figured now that the water- 1
front security act has been invoked j
by President Truman, making the j
screening program mandatory, that:
we could make plans for resumption i
of uninterrupted passenger service,” j
Skinner said. “But we cannot re- :
sume that service until we receive
definite assurance that the union
will supply replacements for men
that might be removed under the
screening program.”
Union officials did not comment
on the ship line's reported action.
Meanwhile, there was no word
from the House committee on labor .
and education which reportedly j
was to review results of Congress- j
man Hugh B. Mitchell’s sub-corn- ,
mittee hearing in Seattle last week, j
The Marine Cooks and Stewards I
Union ignored the inquiry into the!
passenger ship dispute. The union |
said it would not send represen
tatives to the hearing on the ques
tion unless the hearing was open to j
press and public.
—
U.S. MARSHAL OF
FOURTH DIVISION
TO RETIRE JAN. 1 i
I
- I
FAIRBANKS, Alaska. Oct. 31—<.fl
—U.S. Marshal Stanley J. Nichols;
says he will retire Jan. 1. He said,
his action was taken on the advice I
of his physician.
Nichols’ appointment as marshal
ended July 15, 1950, but no successor
has been announced. He has been
with the Department of Justice in
Alaska for 23 years.
The veteran law officer said he
does not plan to leave the territory j
but will continue to look after in- j
terests in Ruby and Galena.
Nichols came to Alaska in 1919.
was appointed Deputy Marshal of j
the Third Division in 1928, sent to I
McGrath in 1938 and later to Ne
nana.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau—Maximum. 39;
minimum, 31.
At Airport—Maximum. 38;
minimum, 20.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Viclnitrl
Mostly cloudy with very
light rain showers tonight
becoming partly cloudy Wed
nesday. Lowest temperature
tonight near freezing High
est Wednesday near 39.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7.30 a m rod my
City of Juneau — Trace;
since October 1—6.93 inches;
since July 1—29.03 inches
At Airport — Trace;
since October 1—2 71 inches;
since July 1—22.05 inches.
Sidewalk Art
Children of Lowell grammar school in Brea, I alif., near Santa Ana.
daub on store windows donated by businessmen for just that purpose.
Merchants think that providing a chance for early Hallowr'rn fun
will prevent any real mischief on Witches Night. Busy with paint
and brush are, left to right, Barbara Ann Hyde, Billy Bartholomae.
Mike Nlenhouse and Judy Ann Nolan. I#l Win-photo.
Reds' Try to
Oust Lie Is
Fought by U. S.
NEW YORK, Oct. 31——The
United States fought in the General
Assembly today against 8oviet ef
forts to oust Trygve Lie as U.N.
Secretary General. Russia countered
with a charge that Lie had become
a stooge of America.
Chief U.S. Delegate Warren R
Austin said Russia sought to punish
Lie because the Norwegian had
taken a stand against aggression
in Korea and declared this must
not be allowed. He said the world
knows Lie will perform his duties
with courage.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y.
Vishinsky declared Lie "has no in
ternational tact" and has ranged
himself on the side of one power
against another. He said Lie has
played a two-faced role and served
as an echoer of United States policy,
and declared the Soviet government
will not deal with him and will not
regard him as Secretary-General.
“Lie is incapable of being an un
biased person," Vishinsky said. He
charged the attempt to continue
him in office is "mockery of the
United Nations and of the charter "
Austin spoke as strongly in favor
of Lie as Vishinsky did against the
Norwegian.
FIVE LIVES ARE LOST
IN OREGON FLOODS;
DAMAGE IS HEAVY
PORTLAND, Ore . Oct 31 Mud
dy river flood crests swept int
broad valleys of western Oregoc
today after claiming five lives and
leaving untold damage in mountain
areas.
Headwater streams that had
driven 2,000 people from hones
over the weekend were receding
almost as fast as they had swirled
out of their banks Some commun
ities were still isolated behind flood
ed roads and broken or unsafe
bridges. Many families in rural
southern Orgeon were marooned
a third day.
The evacuation of a Coqullle val
ley farm family led yesterday to
the drowning of Leo A Landive 35
and his son Dan age 8 Landive s
wife, another son and neighbor*
Joe Howanick and Tom I venae
strugged ashore when a rowboat
capsized m the churning water
Two of the other victims perished
In the same wild Oregon coastal
range river earlier
Chief Highway Engineer R. H
Baldock said damage to nmds d
bridges of south Oreean s Hague
Cmqua and Coqu.Ue Valin
be worst in hist ry Hoad were
undermined by the flaah Daodlag
after storms had fled la sfS the
Pacific day and tight tar atmuvt
a week.
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Tim Casey fm AneHange m l
the Baranof H A
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BOETTIGER
IN PLUNGE
TO DEATH
Former Seattle Publisher,
Son-in-law of Roose
velt Is Suicide
NEW YC BK Oct. 31 -h Johr.
Boettiger, former son-in-law of
President I eoseveit. leaped to ht»
death early today from his seventh
floor hotel bite
The 50-' ear -old newspaperman,
who marri- d the late President's
only da ugh er. Anna, in 1835 after
a White Ho we romance, dodged past
a male nur e and jumped through
an open wu do* at ( 31 tw. EST
Associate- said Boett igei had
been mem Jty depressed rantuij
and four di jn ago took an overhear
of sleeping fills
After his divorce in Aucuat. IM*
from the I resident s daughter hr
was reman ad He left two artw.
one of th m lUegibk- the ckher
addressed • his present ortfe it
said:
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24-Year-Old Mvder
Is Reported Solved
PLANE COES
INTOSMASHAT
RUNWAY END
Dense Fog and Darkness
Hampers Rescue Work
ers at London Airport
LONDON, Oct >1 ft* ad
liner hurtled n.ir .<
pipes on the end
runway in a 4mm ft
ing 31 persons
Rescue workers were
by autumn's firs', heart lag asad
darkness One report -aid tarpon
firemen were told to fcnft tor H
bodies ’
The plane was am nag
and origin*!!}
land at NaMl i
diverted became at mm
London airport
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then hurtled off the end mm a
heavy barrier
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supposed to ke aoefttag Mb mtmmt
at the plane Mb Ms tab*
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