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JUNEAU, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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_J1 RK'K TEN CENTS
■Bloody Daylight Battle for Seoul Is Underway
: TAFT ACCUSES |
PRESIDENT OF
. STOP ACTION
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—UPt—Sen
, ator Taft (R-Ohio) today accused
President Truman of holding up
work of the new Congress “for per
haps two weeks” by delaying major
messages to the lawmakers.
Taft, Senate Republican policy
* chief, spoke out after Senate Demo
« cratic Leader McFarland ' D-Ariz)
asked the Senate to follow its cus
, tom of dispensing with business
until the President has delivered
his State of the Union message.
* Objecting to this, Taft said that
in the past the Presidential mess
ages usually had arrived within a
day or two after the opening of a
new session.
McFarland finally had his way
and the Se late quit until Friday.
' JANUARY COURT TERNi
’ OPENED THIS MORNING
The January term of ;he U. S.
District Court- was opened at 10
o’clock this morning by Judge
► George W. Folta.
0 First case before the court was
continued at the request of the at
> torney for the plaintiff due to ill
ness. It is a suit by the Womens
Division of Christian Service of the
’ Board of Missions and Church Ex
tension of the Methodist Church,
operating the Seward Sanatorium
at Bartlett, Alaska, and the Hart
ford Accident and Industry Co.,
a corporation versus the Alaska In
dustrial Board, and concerns a
compensation for disability alleged
due to temporary total illness grant
1 ed Wilbur Silva, then an employee
^ ' at the Sanatorium.
In further business before the
, court this morning Judge Folta
granted a judgment for the amount
of $4,000 for the plaintiff in the
case of the First National Bank
versus Fred Ferbose and the gas
screw vessel Vondja D.
A divorce was granted to Eliza
beth Dick from Peter Dick,
i The case of Robert E. Coughlin,
administrator in the estate of Art
* Gamble, deceased versus Z. Haven
and Cliff Richmond of the firm
Richmond Lumber Co., was set to
be heard before Judge Folta at
this afternoon’s session of court.
Plaintiff asks for judgment in the
amount of $450, claimed due the
estate of Gamble and court costs.
The plaintiff is represented by
William Paul, Jr., and the defend
ant is represented by the law firm
» of Faulkner, Banfield and Booch
ever.
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HERE FOR MEETINGS
Two officials of the Coastwise
Line of San Francisco, arrived in
Juneau yesterday to attend meet- j
ings being held today and tomor
row in regard to handling of ex
plosives in Alaska. They are Ben
H. Parkinson, executive vice presi
; dent and Harold M. Kelly, vice pre
sident of the Line. They are stay
ing at the Baranof Hotel.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
1 AFaSHINGTON — Putting big
business to work on important
government projects has not been
as easy as the public might sup
pose. Manufacturers are delighted
to have government contracts all
right, but a lot of them want to
operate on their own terms.
Take, for instance the problem
of stepping up vitally needed alum
inum. The public already has had
aluminum for civilian uses cut back
35 percent, but on top of this, more
than two months were wasted while
aluminum companies haggled over
increasing production.
Paradoxically two of the com
panies which General Services Ad
ministrator Jess Larson had the
most trouble with were two that
Uncle Sam helped put in business
—Reynolds Metals and Henry Kai
ser.
Reynolds was urged by Secretary
of the Interior Ickes to manufac
ture aluminum in competition with
the giant Aluminum Corporation
of America during the war, and!
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ATTEMPTS MADE
MEET SHORTAGE
SKILLED LABOR
How best to use available man
power to the maximum efficiency
for labor in the present national
emergency was one of thn major
issues at the National Labor con
ference on Labor Legislation held
recently in Washington, D. C., ac
cording to Leonard Evans, Alaska
representative of the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor. Evans returned to
Juneau Sunday by Pan American
plane after being absent from liis
Juneau headquarters the last three
weeks.
Every effort is being made to
meet the present shortage of skilled
labor, Evans said.
Hit Alaska in July
Evans said reports from Employ
ment Security agencies indicate a,
labor shortage will strike Alaska
about July 1.
Enroute to his Juneau headquart- j
ers Evans stopped over in San
Francisco to meet with Glenn E.
Brockway, regional director of fhe
Employment Security Commission
on the west coast and the territor- ,
ies of Alaska and Hawaii, to dis
cuss with him ways and means of
finding more manpower to meet
the labor shortage. Brockway re
cently disclosed that 300.000 labor
ers are needed now on the Pacific
Coast.
Evans also stopped in Denver to (
discuss his work with Gene Norton,
apprenticeship representative for
the Department of Labor in Alaska.
Norton is attending a training ses
sion in Denver being held as a part
of the program to meet the need
for skilled workmen. Norton will
return to Alaska about January 13
and will put into use the program
of the training session in facilitat
ing the progress of the 100 appren
tice laborers now at work in Al
aska.
Enforce Safety Rules
As a first step in an effort to
minimize accidents on construction |
jobs in Alaska, contracting agencies i
will in the future place safety per- |
sonnel on each major construction !
job in the territory to carry out the i
enforcement of established safety
rules, Evans said.
This policy will be activated as a
result of the discussions on acci
dent occurauce on Alaska con
struction projects taken up at the
National Labor conference. Evans
said that grave concern was ex
pregsed on the reported large num
ber and severity accidents to work
men on Alaska jobs. Efforts are
oeing made to correct the situation
by a cooperative arrangement be
tween the contractors, unions, con
tracting agencies and the Depart
ment of Labor.
Also attending the Labor Depart
ment‘conference were Henry Ben
son, Director of the Territorial De
partment of Labor, and as delegates
of organized labor in the territory
ap'io'nted by the Governor as re- ■
quested by ti.e Labor Department,
A! Owric, representing Cook Inlet
Fishermen and Robert McFarland,
representing building laborers. Den
son, Evans said, plans to return to I
Juneau this week.
Christmas In Montana
Evans was accompanied to Ju
neau by Mrs. Evans who left here
shortly before the Christmas holi
days. They spent Christmas with
Mrs. Evans’ family in Missoula,
Mont.
Best part of his return to Ju
neau Evans said was renewing his
acquaintance with his little grand
daughter, Linda Lorraine Zenger,
daughter of the Chester Zengers.
"Amazing how a baby can change
in three weeks,” commented Evans
today.
LOUIS, BESHORE TO
BATTLE TONIGHT; 10
ROUNDS SCHEDULED
DETROIT, Jan. 3—Former
heavyweight champion Joe Louis
takes another step in his comeback
campaign tonight when he goes
looking for a quick knockout over
durable Freddie Beshore in a 10
rounder here.
Louis ruled a solid 4-1 favorite
over the Harrisburg, Pa., Navy vet
eran. Beshore claims he has not
been knocked off his feet in 45 pro
fights.
FROM KANSAS
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Jones of
Wichita, Kansas, are at the Hotel
Juneau.
EXPECT STEP UP
ROAD BUILDING
IN S. E. ALASKA
An accelerated road construction
program is anticipated for the next
two years in southeast Alaska to be
financed by an expected appropria
tion of the $7,000,000 authorized by
Congress under the Federal High
way bill, according to Hugh A.
Stoddart, District Engineer for the
Bureau of Public Roads in Al
aska. Stoddart returned to Juneau
on the Princess Norah after be
ing away from the territory since
the middle of last November to at
tend conferences regarding road
work in the territory.
It is hoped that an appropriation
of at least one half the authorized
amount for road work will be made
available this coming fiscal year.
The proposed roads program is
(hitfl;, for reconstruction to bring
a;) to modern standards roads and
in: bways in the Tongass National
Forest, chiefly in the Juneau, Ket
(i iikan and Sitka areas, Stoddart
■aid.
Plans are also included in the
program for extension of certain
roads from funds of the appropria
tion under the regular roads auth
orization for all roads in the Na
tional Forest area in Alaska. The
authorization for these regular an
nual appropriations is now $1,750,
000.
In Washington, D C„ Stoddait
conferred with Bureau of Public
Roads officials and other interested
agencies regarding the plans fot
the road construction program.
In Miami, Florida, Stoddart at
tended the annual conference of
Bureau of Public Roads District
Engineers, and the annual meeting
of the American Association of
State Highway officials.
Emoute from the east he spent
several days in San Francisco to
confer with BPR officials of the
western headquarters there.
Stoddart was preceded to the
states last November by Mrs. Stod
dart and their little daughter Jean
who went to St. Paul, Minn., for a
visit with Mrs. Stoddart’s family.
They met Stoddart at Lansing,
Mich., where the family took over
delivery of a new Oldsmobile sedah
purchased in Juneau through the
Jorgenson Motor Co. and from there
they ihotored east.
Mrs. Stoddart and Jean accom
panied Stoddart to Washington
and Florida and they returned west
through the southern states to
Santa Fe, N. M., where they were
joined by the son of the family of
Hugh F. Stoddart, who is a phys
icist with the Atomic Research
Energy at Los Alamos, N. M. In
Los Angeles, Calif., the family was
joined by daughter Donna who had
gone there from Salem, Ore., where
she is a student at Willamette
University. The S'toddarts, now with
family complete motored north to
San Francisco and to Portland
where they spent Christmas. Miss
Stoddart returned to her school
and son Hugh continued north with
his family to Seattle, returning by
Jane to New Mexico.
KEW OFFICERS TO BE
INTRODUCED AT CC
MEETING THURSDAY
Introduction of new officers and
committee appointments will be the
main business on the agenda for
the regular Chamber of Commerce
luncheon meeting at noon tomorrow
in the Gold Room of the Baranof
Hotel, it was announced today by
Fred Eastaugh, ^ecr^tary.
Invited guests of the Chamber
uncheon meeting will include out
rf town visitors who are here to
ittend the U. S. Coast Guard
nearing regarding loading and dis
charge of explosives at Alaskan
oorts, scheduled to be held tomor
ow afternoon in the Senate Cham
jer.
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NURSES AID COURSE AT *
MRS. DYERS ON JAN. 8
Those taking the nurses aid
course meet at the home of Mrs.
rom Dyer, 957 Gold Belt, the eve
ning of January 8 at 8 o’clock,
rhose interested In the course may
contact her at phone 434. Dr. I. J.
Montgomery will give a lecture on
nasic information.
AT HOTEL JUNEAU
Cpl. Donald H. Ashburn of the
ACa is registered at the Hotel Ju
neau,
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PUT FEAR IN
DESPOTS, SAYS
SPK. RAYBURN
Speaker Gavels Congress
in Session with Special
Call to Lawmakers
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 — W
Speaker Sam Reyburn gnvelccl the
82nd Congress into se ion todiu
with a call for it to “do the thuu.
that will make international des
! peradoes and despots fear to get
! in our path.”
; If Congress cities not, .perform its
! duties in the day ahead, he said,
I I feat we will have a world not
i a fit place for men to live in.”
Taking the speaker's chair for
! hi;- sixth term, longer than any man
. before him. Rayburn also told the
I House America's ocean frontiers
' ire not enough to protect it In to
day's world, “No matter where other
| counsel comes from." He added:
| “The United States of America
cannot wrap two oceans around it
I and stay secure and free.”
Reply io Hoover
Rayburn mentioned no names, but
his remarks appeared to be an in*
' direct reply to former President
Herbert Hoover's recent recom
mendation that this country top
sending men and materials to
Europe until the Europeans them
selves make greater defense efforts.
From Vice President Barkley,
convening the Senate, there was
| similarly a plea for the legislators
to face their tasks with courage and
| determination.
False Ideas Abroad
Rep. Martin (Mass), tne Repub
lican leader, added to this a state
ment on the House floor that those
I abroad should not get false ideas
; from American political jousting.
“We are all united behind the
nation,” he said.
Senate and House met in color
fully refurnished chambers.
Crowded galleries, bright with
feminine figures in their best fin
ery, contributed a gay note as did
the hand-shaking and exchange of
greetings among the legislators on
the floors.
Atmosphere of Tension
But. there was in atmosphere, too,
f solemnity nnd tension, born of
'he feeling that the two-year life
of this Congress may be an era as
trying as any in American history.
It was reflected in session-eve
I Democratic pleas for national unity
and Republic a demands that Pred- :
dent Truman • lardy his interna- 1
lional aims.
A-ks Divine Guidance
Vice Pr<■: kUnt Barkley banged
down hi i-.-vel promptly at the
noon hour i convene the Senate.
The. Senate Chaplain, the Rev.
Frederick Brown Harris, asked di
vine guidance lor the legislators. !
The Vice President then began j
swearing in law Senator:, and those j
reelected to new six-year terms, in
•.roups of four
Just 38 minutes after convening
•he Senate recessed until Friday.
The old Congress which went !
out of existe: e yesterday - met for j
many months in temporary quar
ters while House and Senate cham
bers were remodeled.
In the House, the member.- stood
and recited the Lord’s Prayer with
their Chaplain at Ihi opening of
the session.
BOWLINS
THURSDAY NIGHT LEAGUE
OPENS SECOND HALF PLAY
Tomorrow night, Thursday, Jan
uary 4, the Thursday Night Men’
League will begin play on the sec
ond half of their season on the
Elks Alleys.
Teams opening play are • - fol
lows:
At 7:15 p.m.—Casler’s v.s Caro
Transfer and Alaska Coastal vs
Alaska Light and Power Co.
At 9:15 p.m.—Pacific Northern vs
Sweeney’s Bar and Juneau Drue
vs Pan American Airways.
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BOWLING CHANGE
Announcement is made today j
that the Tuesday night bowling,
league will not bowl next Tuesday 1
night, because of the big basketball
game, but will hit the alleys Sun
day, January 7.
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CONGRESS
GOES INTO
SESSIONS
82nd Meeting Called
Pleas for National Unity
Made-Gopers' Demands
By IACK Bi l l.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 eft The
I H2nd Conere went to work today
i •iniid Democratic pleas lor national
unity and Republican demands that
President Truman clarify In - inter
natiohal aims.
Refleci ina grimly on American
casualties in Korea; the Senate and
House began organizing their ranks
ior two year.'- grappling with
vital problems which may lend the
nation to devastating world v.. r or
i peace.
Stronger in both houses because
1 oi their victories In the November
elections. Republicans gave clear
signs that they will move to force
a reassessment and some possible
thjinre.- in American relations
with other countries.
The President's military ’policies
s. nd many pf his foreign policies
are hidden iri darkness now ” Tafl
declared.
Rearming Issue
Taft foresaw Congress’ almost
complete absorption with ihe issues
of rearming against the threat of
Soviet aggression such questions as
military appropriations, new taxes,
economic controls and changes in
t. ie draft law.
He gave little chance for legrsla
;«L»i to expand federal he.. 1th ..el
fare, education and other activities,
although he said he himself will
offer measures of this kind.
Senator McFarland of Arizona,
elected yesterday as Senate Demo
cratic leader, told reporters he
thinks the chief thing to b- ac
complished now is to achieve na
tional unity.
National Unity
“We must work for unity between !
Congress and the White House and ;
unity in the country,” McFarland'
said.
In that McFarland echoed the j
sentiments of lii.s predecessor, Sen
ator Luca ol Illinois. Lucas told the I
closing Senate session of the 81 - t;
Congress yesterday that “we cannot
wm a war, nor can we win a peace,,
hopelessly divided.”
McFarland declined to forecast j
the trend of legislation until Presi- I
dent Trumun reports on the state of .
the nation—and tin world—at a
joint meeting of boih houses Mon- j
day. The President will outline his j
program then and ui budget and j
economic messages later.
Armed Force- Buildup
Mr. Truman has -aid the na
tion \s armed force, should be built
up to a level oi 3.500.000 men a*
quickly as possible.
The outgoing 81st Congress left
behind it for President Truman’s
certain signature • ■ 520 O00.000.030
military appropriations bill. The
new Congress i expected to be
asked for a minimum $35,000,000,000
m military ouriay-s.
Also sent to the President was a
civilian defense bill giving broad
1 mwers to an administrator in case
of attack.
New Man for Job
The Prc. ident has said he wili
name former Gov. Millard F. Cald
..ell Jr., of Florida to this job.
Caldwell is already giving in ■<.
itnilar agency.
Mr. Truman is expected to ask
again for statehood for Hawaii and
Alaska. He probably will renew his
proposal for establishment of a
Fair Employment Practices Com
mission (FEPC), a perennial signal
lor Senate filibusters.
Hi probably will also ask for an
expanded Point Four" program to
give economic aid to the world's
backward areas.
CABLE SHIP TO SEATTLE
The Lenoir, Alaska Communica
tions System cable ship, leaves to
morrow for its home port of Seattle
after making repairs to cables in
Gastineau Channel. The cable ship,
under the command of Capt. Mal
colm Armstrong, arrived here Janu
ary 1 from Kodiak. First Lieutenant
Russell Dragoo Is officer-in-charge
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FROM ANCHORAGE
Joe F. Finnell of Anchorage i.-,
registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
DELEGATE INTRODUCES 12 BILLS
INCLUDING TRANSFER OF ALASKA
FISHERIES, FEB. TO TERR. GOYT.
"EXCESS PROFITS"
TAX LEGISLATION
SIGNED, TRUMAN
Lifts Collections to Highest
Dollar Figure in Na
tion's History
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 - i.T —
President Truman signed toda\ the
new $3,300,000,000 lax bill slapping
a 77 percent super-levy on corpo
ration "excess profits.”
It lifts tii.: nation's tax collectors
to the highest dollar figure in his
tory. but Mr rruman said “the task
ahead of u. will require more and
much heavier taxes."
He added in a statement:
"I shall in due course, submit to
the Congress recommendations for
substantial tax Increases.”
Even before Congress completed
action on this bill. Mr. Truman had
made known he would ask still fur
ther revenue-raising measurer from
the new Congress.
Heavier Tax Levies Loom
Treasury experts are studying
various possibilities. They have
given out no details, but individuals,
whose income taxes were raised
last Oct. 1, may be called on to pay
still larger levies.
The administration’s aim is to
put America’s resistance to Com
munist. aggression as near as pos
sible on a pay-as-you-rgo basis...
The bill signed today raises tax
collections to $4.7.000.000.000 or more
a year -well above the record S43,
900.000,000 set in 1945 during World
War IT.
Tax Hike Necessary
Mr Truman, who had asked that
this bill hike taxes by X},000,000,000
was critical of some of its provi
sions.
He said some features of the new
measure will probably give an undue
advantage to some corporations
“especially in relation to the tax
burdens necessarily borne by (.til
ers”
But Mr. Truman also had praise
for Congress. He said it acted with
commendable sliced in completing
what he described as a complex
piece of legislation. It thus pro
vided evidence, he stated, that the
nation is determined to finance its
huge defense program without
Jeopardy to the stability of the
economic system.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK. Jan. 3 Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2 ’>. American Can 96,
American Tel. and Tel. 151., Ana
conda 40 ,. Douglas Aircraft 96:S.
General Electric 49 - General Mo
tors 46A, Goodyear 66 . Kennecott
78'a. Libby McNeill and Libby 8 m ,
Northern Pacific 32'-. Standard Oil
of California 92 a. Twentieth C< u
tury Fox 21"-. U.S. Steel 431 , Pound
$2.80, Canadian Exchange 95.
Sales today were 3.370,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 238.99, rails 78.36, utilities
41.48.
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o WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period *
0 end inn 6:20 o'clock this in union a
• In Juneau-Maximum, 34: •
• minimum, 24. •
• At Airport- Maximum, 28; •
• minimum. 15. •
0 •
• FORECAST •
• lJlinenu ana Vic lolly I •
• Continued fair and cold with •
• occasional gusty rvorthe.i t- •
• grly winds tonight and •
• Thursday. Lowest temixra- •
• ture tonight, about 19 degree. •
«, in Juneau anti as low 10 •
• In outlying area Highest •
• Thursday near 24. •
0 •
• PRECIPITATION •
• trust 24 hours endlue 7 -0 a m today •
• City of Juneau — None; •
• since Jan. 1 0.25 inches, •
• unce July 1—38 24 inches •
• At Airport None; •
• since Jan. 1 0.16 inches, •
• since July l 26.54 inches •
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Mj (TIAUI.KS l) WATKINS
WASHINGTON. Jnn. 3 T \
bill to transfer control of the Alaska
lisherie.s from the federal govern
ment to the territory was introduced
in tie House today b\ Delegate
Bartlett as the 52nd Conares • con
| veiled.
The bill would exempt fur-seal
i and sea-otter from the transfer and
leave them In federal control *bc
! eause of international treaties cov
ering handling of those l'isherie
The bill also provides tliat onc
hall of the revenues from the ale
' of seal skins be paid to the terri
tory to aid in defraying the cost of
! protecting and conserving the Alas
kan fisheries.
The bill was one of 12 Bartlett
introduced. Many of them were
passed by the House la t session
but did not get through the Senate.
One bill would allow national
banks in the territory to retain in
their vaults one-fifth oi the 15 per
cent legal reserve on deposits and
allow tite deposit of the balance in
I Federal Reserve banks.
National banks in Alaska are pre
sently required to retain two-fifths
of the 15 percent reserve in then
| vaults and are permitted to deposit
| three-fifths w ith a national bank
ling association in any of the Fed- j
| eral Reserve centers.
Another bill would apply the I
; Workmen's Compensation Laws of
i Alaska to those working on federal |
! pr/ijects.
Lifetime appointments for iederal
judges in the territory would be pro
| vided under another. The Jurists
j now serve four-year terms,
j Other legislation would:
f,efhl1T"T!eiiiiiHiiTi'',vt'liseTs f<r MSTVt
passengers betw een ports in Alu ;Un
and to carry freight and pa sen- i
gers between some Alaskan parts j
and points in the United Stale ; un
I til June 30. 1952.
■ Exempt the 25 percent cost-of- !
living allowance paid ledertil cm- :
l ployces outside continental United '
I State.- from income tax levies.
Repeal the Alaska Railroad tax 1
which applies to a single short line;
! add an additional federal Judge in;
the Third Judicial Division; permit
! the sale of 24 acres of land on the
. Chena river to the Tatiana Valley
Sportsmen's Association of Fair- j
i banks.
Bartlett also introduced a resolu- j
lion to authorize the Bureau of j
j Labor Statistics to report to Con- I
j gress every two years on labor con- i
; dit ions in Alaska with particular
' reference to wages, working condi
! lions, jobs, prices of commodities
! cost of living and housing condi-1
■ lions,
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GEI AUIO TAGS
BEFORE JAN. 31
Due to delay in receiving ship- |
ments of auto license plates, the j
deadline tor obtaining them has :
! been extended to January 31. M. P. j
Mullaney, Director of the Depart
ment of Taxation, announced to- ]
day.
With approximately 31,000 auto
tags being sold in the Territo: .
normally, it is obvious that the
later deadline is necessary. About j
12,000 are usually sold in Anchor
age alone and some 2.&00 are taken
m the Gastlneau Channel area, he
•aid. The licenses arc sold through
the Juneau City Clerk':, office.
ANNUAL MEETING
Members of C>e Alaska Federal
Havings and Loan Association of
Juneau will hold their annual meet
ing in the office of the Alaska Fed
eral Savings and Loan Association
of Juneau at 119 Seward Street,
Juneau. Alaska, on Wedne. day,
January 17. 1951. at 2:oo P.M.
First, Publication: Jan. 3. 1951
Last Publication: Jan. 10. 1951.
KOTZLEK BACK
Bob Rotkler returned yesterday ’
from his home in San Diego where i
lie had been to spend Christina >.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS j
Princess Noraii scheduled to ar
rive at 10 n.m Friday and suis
south one hour later at 11 a in.
Bnranof scheduled to arrive Ironi j
westward at 10 a.m. Sunday south- ,
bound.
Denali scheduled to - ml fn m Se
attle F'ridav
REDS ARE
BREAKING
m LIMES
Allied Forces Withdrawing
-Surprise Move Hits
Like Thunderclap
i By the Associated Press i
Communist forces, making a
bloody daylight. thrust regardless of
casualties, hammered towards the
dying South Korean capital of Seoul
today. The third battle for Seoul in
seven months had begun.
United Nations forces were with
drawing all alone the blazing 150
mile defense lines in he face of
dangerous Communist break
throughs.
President Syngman Rhee and his
cabinet tied virtually duserled Seoul.
Most of it.-. 1,000.000 citu-ens had al
ready moved .south to escape the
oncoming Chinese and North Kc
lean Communists.
Daylight Attack
Field dispatch* said the Reds
swept through a cap m the lines
of the US. 24Ui Division and were
reported within 'even miles of
Seoul. It was their first, daylight
attack in strength Normally the
Communists push forward .it night
to avoid the deadly blows of Allied
planes. The surprise move hit the
Allies like a thunderclap.
The Eighth Army clamped a tieht
censorship on new. about Seoul.
Communications wi h the city went:
dead., . .. , . .
Situation Serious
A.P. Correspondent Stan Swing
ton said the Red' were pushing on
Seoul from the northeast, and from
positions north by northwest. He
said the Chinese had already
reached the hard-to-defend frozen
flat lands out.-id* the city and the
situation was serious.
Swiuton stated front line intelli
gence officers considered 'the pre
sent attack only a preliminary ro
a final all out assault expected
when darkness falls.
Key to Seoul Falls
The big Communist breakthrough
came between British and American
line-, where the Reds punched an
opening and poured through two
miles south nl abandoned Utjongbil,
the key to Seoul.
An Ante 1 ti divisional officer
told correspondents the Chinese
moved "recklessly through the hole
in our line, risking air attack in a
way I hat e rarely, seen.”
I’laoes Hammer Reds
Allied plain hummered away a*
the oncoming Reds Pilots n rotted
killing 1.2W •.! th< encmv 'Hits
brought to ui ily 10,000 !l>- Red
casualties from air attack alone
since their Nt.v Year push started.
But manpower is cheap to the Com
munist command and hundreds ui
thousands of fighters confuued to
stream southward
Reds Push Smith
In eastern Korea the Reds have
pushed 27 miles south ol the 38th
parallel dividing North and South
Korea Tn the central sector the
Communists swept along tin Chun
chon-Wonju highwov toward
Wonju. This spearhead is part of
the Commum-t oincer movement
aligned with the attack on Seoul.
American ca unities were believed
to be running high
Seoul fell !U ttu Coi . '
June 27 shortly utter the North
Koreans invaded South Korea T
was restored by the United N's'ions
force- to the South Kort in govern -
ment in September
Bit: Altai t Is On
Leading clement of given Chinese
(.'oniuaiii! ’ anil!.- e:n 1> I hi I -day
reportedly surged to the outskirts
of Seoul and began reforming fur
the assault on the ancient capital.
Associated Pres.; Corre.nc: orient
Stvtn Swinton reported I nun an
Eighth Army post the.] the .1 vin
city's fall depended upon how soon
the fast-charging Chinese units
could reassemble,
Seoul, lighted by unheeded i res
which devoured buildings, still was
held by U.S. and Allied Infantry
men. They were fighting to hold
their withdrawal line ; mind over
whelming odds.
The Chinese in the onslaught used
some tanks but the main assault
was borne by Communist Infantry
The Reds struck in wave on wave
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