THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,689
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21, '1950
MEM TER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICK TEN CENTS
Red Attacks Hurled Back At UN Beachhead
LONG RAIL
DISPUTE IS
ENDED NOW
Wage Boost Is Granted to
About 300,000 Men
3-Year Peace Pact
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 — M) —
The months-long dispute between
the railroads • rind four big rail
unions was settled today with agree
ment on a three-year peace pact
granting pay boosts to about 300.000
r workers.
The agreement, calling also for
cost of living adjustments in wages,
may set a pattern for the govern
ment’s wage stabilization policies
since it was hammered out under
government sponsorship.
The settlement was anounced at
the White House by Presidential
Assistant John R. Steelman after a
26-hour overnight session with
l union leaders and railroad repre
sentatives.
Steelman has been handling the
negotiations since the government
seized the roads last August to
avert a nationwide strike.
The agreement still must be rati
fied by union bargaining commit
tees but quick acceptance is ex
pected.
Daniel P. Loomis, chairman of the
railroad negotiators, estimated the
wage increases—ranging up to 23
cents hourly—will' cost the roads
about $130,000,000 a year year.
Steelman said the union had
agreed to forego any further wage
demands for a three-year period.
He called it a “no strike” agreement
but President D. B. Robertson of
the Firemen and J. P. Shields of
the Engineers said they were not
actually writing such a clause into
the contract.
They did agree they were remov
ing the causes of strikes, however,
by committing their unions to a
• moratorium on further wage and
hour demands.
Besides the firemen and engineers,
the pact covers the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen and the Order of
Railway Conductors.
The provision for cost-of-living
adjustments in wages, pegged to the
rise and fall of the government’s
cost-of-living index, parallels sim
ilar agreements already in effect in
► the auto industry.
—
ANCHORAGE VISITOR
E. F. Hickok of Anchorage is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Denali scheduled to sail from Se
attle tomorrow afternoon.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver December 30.
Baranof from west scheduled to
arrive Sunday morning southbound.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
Copyright. UK. By Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
By DKEiV PEARSON
PJ^ASHINGTON — White House
policy can change overnight, but
lor the present we have no inten
tion of mobilizing the vast but
disorganized army of anti-Com
munist guerrillas in China. Presi
dent Truman so advised a grojip
of Congressmen at an off-thc-re
i cord and very candid meeting last
week.
► Truman also is holding firm to
his resolve not to drop the atomic
bomb in China or Korea.
“That doesn’t mean that we are
appeasing the Chinese Communists
—far from it,” Truman told his
callers. “They are aggressors and
we will continue to treat them as
such.”
Truman added that if British
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
• came with any appeasement no
tions, he left without them. He
agreed with Attlee, hoewver, that
if we used the A-bomb, Russia
would seize the opportunity to re
taliate against London, Berlin and
Paris.
But the argument that carried
the most weight with him, Tru
man explained, was that we should
* not atom-bomb Russian satellites !
in reprisal against the Kremlin.
' Regarding the question oi arming I
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Father and Daughter j
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President Truman looks every inch the proud papa as he clasps an
arm around his daughter Margaret at “Father and Daughter” dinner
at the National Press Club in Washington. It was the first public
appearance of the two since the President wrote the letter threat
ening to beat up a Washington Post music critic for saying his
daughter Margaret’s voice was flat. </P) Wirephoto.
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Thousand Korean Street
Orphans Are Air-Lifted
To Sanctuary on Island
STALIN IS
PRAISED ON
BIRTH DATE
All Kinds of Phrases Used
Used by Press - Gels
Barbed Wire Wreath
(By the Associated Press)
Today is Joseph Stalin’s birthday
—he’s 71—and while his controlled
press at home once again hailed
him in extravagant prose, Com
munists in .the ring of states around
Russia pulled out all the stops at
tempting to outdo each other in
praising him.
In Moscow, East Berlin, Prague,
Sofia, Bucharest, Budapest and
Warsaw, the Communist press
chorused the praise of the man in
the Kremlin in phrases like these:
“Greatest scientist of our time.”
“Leader of the world peace camp.”
"Defender of the worker.”
“Great genius Stalin.”
But Stalin had one gift from
Western Berlin to mull over. An or
ganization called “The Fighting
Troup Against Inhumanity” wrote
that they wanted to remind him of
the German prisoners of war still
in the Soviet Union.
They sent him a wreath made of
barbed wire.
• •
o WEATHER RETORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o’clock this morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 40; •
• minimum, 30. •
• At Airport—Maximum. 37; •
• minimum 30. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Snow tonight becoming •
• partly cloudy Friday. Low •
• temperature tonight near 3J. •
• Slightly colder Friday. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
s (Part 24 hours ending 7:20 a m today •
• City of Juneau—0.20 inches; •
• since Dec. 1 — 2.74 inches; •
• since July 1—35.98 inches. •
• At Airport — 0.19 inches; •
• since Dec. 1 — 2.07 inches; •
• since July 1—25.19 inches. •
• ••••••••••
SEOUL, Dec. 21—UP)—Nearly a
thousand big-eyed little Korean
street orphans have been air-lifted
to an island sanctuary off South
Korea in “Operation Kiddie Car.”
Fifteen twin-engine American
transport planes landed at nearby
Kimpo Air Base to fly the war waifs
out of the combat zone.
Truck after truck rolled up loaded
with children and backed up to the -
open plane doors. There were 964
kids in all, ranging in age from six
months to 11 years. Most had been
saved from gutter death by kind- j
hearted American troops who found j
them wandering or lying abandoned
on the streets of Seoul.
Scores of small pilgrims of dis
tress were covered with sores and
their bodies were still shrunken
from starvation. Some gestured at
their mouths to show their hunger
and mumbled “chop chop.” The
planes carried a 15-day Supply of
rations.
SPECIAL SESSION OF
COUNCIL POSTPONED
Due to the pressure of personal
business the special meeting of the
Juneau City Council scheduled for |
tonight has been postponed until
after Christmas, Mayor Waino Hen
drickson said today. The next regu
lar council meeting falls on Janu
ary 5.
OUTSIDE FOR HOLIDAYS
Mrs. Frank Rouse, staff member
of the Alaska Federal Savings and
Loan Association, is leaving Friday
for Seattle where she will spend
the Christmas holidays with rela
tives. She plans to return to Ju
neau shortly after the first of the
year.
firs! Woman lo
Be Elected U. S.
Senate Is Dead
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 — <#) —
Mrs. Hattie W. Caraway, 72, of Ar
kansas. first woman ever elected to
the United States Senate, died to
day at White Hall Sanitarium at
Falls Church, Va.
Mrs. Caraway was a member of
the Federal Employees’ Compensa
tion Appeals Board at the time of
her death.
She was a Senator for slightly
more than 13 years during the ad
ministration of the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
CONGRESS
SPEEDING
SPENDING
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 — —
Working at top speed, the Senate
today voted $20,000,000,000 for de
fense speeding and gave approval
for $1,600,000,000 of special defense
construction much of it top secret.
Both measures were passed by
voice votes.
The $1,600,000,000 authorization
measure goes on to President Tru
man. The House passed it yester
day.
The big appropriation bill, a
catch-all for funds asked by Presi
dent Truman since Communist Chi
nese forces surged into Korea, goes
back to the House.
As the bill cleared the Senate it
carried some $2,000,000,000 more
than voted by the House. These dif
ferences are expected to be ad
justed quickly.
Senator Russell (D-Ga), acting
chairman of the Armed Services
committee, asked the Senate to put
through the authorization bill first.
In still another move to put the
nation on a war footing, the Sen
ate passed and sent to the House
a bill restoring President Truman's
wartime powers to renegotiate de
fense contracts. Action was on a
voice vote.
As approved, the bill was stripped
of authority asked by the President
to create, transfer and abolish
emergency government agencies.
The spending bill, Russell ex
plained, contains the money for
more than 90 percent of the pro
jects in the authorization bill.
KOREA CASUALTIES
INCREASED BY OVER
12,600 IN RETREAT!
TOKYO, Dec. 21— U¥1 —General
MacArthur’s headquarters said to
day American casualties in the
worst fortnight of retreat in Korea
totaled 11,964 killed, wounded and
missing. It said other United Na
tions forces from abroad suffered
1,011 casualties in that period.
The total of 12,975 did not include
Republic of Korea losses.
Headquarters said field com
manders reported Chinese Red loss
es at a ratio of 10 to 1—a total of
more than 120,000.
The period was dated Nov. 27
Dec. 12, but the total also included
relatively small losses suffered dur
ing UN probing attacks beginning
Nov. 24.”
The Defense Department an
nounced Nov. 30 in Washington
that American casualties in Korea
since the war began had reached
a total of 31,028, saying this re
presented all whose next of kin
who had been notified through
Nov. 12. This indicated that Ameri
can casualties through Dec. 12 wiire
in excess of 42,000.
The Washington list showed 5,
307 dead, 21,114 wounded and 4,
611 missing. The new MacArthur
headquarters summary today did
not break down its casualty figures
to show how many were killed,
wounded or missing.
Hardest hit was the U. S. Army
Second Infantry Division which
suffered 4,131 casualties during
what MacArthur called the "report
orial ‘disaster’ period.” The Second
Division played a major role in
blunting the Chinese Red counter
offensive on the northwest front.
NO SOURDOCEY DANCE
The S'ourdocey Square Dancing
Club will not meet on Saturday,
December 23, according to an
nouncement.
• •
• WINTER SOLSTICE •
• 2:14 A. M. FRIDAY •
• _ •
• Tomorrow winter reaches its •
• halfway point in the northern •
• hemisphere, the winter solstice •
• occurring in Juneau at 2:14 •
• a.m., (PST), according to com- •
• putations made at the local •
• U.S. Weather Bureau Station. •
• Friday, December 22. is the •
• shortest day in the year, the •
• sun appearing on the horizon •
• at 9:45 a.m. and disappearing •
• from view at 4:06 p.m., a day •
• of six hours and 21 minutes. •
••««•••••• *j
Fight Looms
On Proposals
Hoover Makes
Demo Party Leaders Avoid
Comment - GOP Leader
Wherry Gives Views
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 — UP) —
A new Congressional battle loomed
today over former President Hoo
ver’s proposals to shorten America’s
defense lines and arm the Navy and
Air Force “to the teedh” to defend
the nation’s Atlantic and Pacific
frontiers.
Republican Senate Leader Wherry
of Nebraska said Hoover’s pro
posals “collide directly with those
of President Truman and Congress
and the public must decide who is
right.”
Most Democratic party leaders
avoided immediate comment but
Senator Lehman (D-NY) said: "It
appears to me to be a plea for a
return to complete isolationism. If
we followed President Hoover’s sug
gestion, we w'ould find oursel\*s
isolated and without any friends in
the world.”
Senators of both parties agreed
on one thing—that last night’s
broadcast proposals by the only
living former President would echo
in Congress for some time to come.
Bluntly calling the United Na
tions-U.S. efforts in Korea a de
feat, Mr. Hoover warned against
“another Korea” in Western Europe
if this country feeds men and
money there before the European
countries organize their own de
fense.
Many Republicans in Congress
were quick to cheer Hoover’s sharp
dissent from the Truman-Acheson
policy. I
Senator Taft (R-Ohio), chairman
of the Senate GOP Policy Commit
tee, told a reporter he agrees with
“many of the general principles”
Hoover stated.
CANADIAN TOWN
IS HIT HARD BY
FOUR-HOUR BLAZE
RYLEY, Alta. Dec. 21—1W—A 20
foot-long wall of fire wiped out
virtually all business buildings on
one side of this northern Alberta
town’s main street last night.
Hundreds of firefighters from
10 nearby communities battled the
fierce blaze for four hours before
bringing it under control.
Mayor John Kordich estimated
the loss at $250,000.
Only one person, an unidentified
garage mechanic, was injured. He
was hospitalized for treatment of
burns.
Marine Burial Ceremony
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This is a general view showing row after row of Marine crosses at solemn burial ceremony at Ifuugnam,
North Korea, of boys who will not be home for Christmas. Marine firing squad in background. (IP)
Wircphoto via radio from Tokyo.
Hoover Calls on Nation to
Arm to Teeth; Opposes
Sending Troops to Europe
—
NEW YORK, Dec. 21—Former
President Herbert Hoover urged the
| nation last night to concentrate on
fortifying the Western Hemisphere
as a “Gibraltar.”
He called on his fellow-country
men to "arm to the teeth” to hold
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,
with the island outposts of Britain,
Japan, Formosa and the Philippines.
Mr. Hoover, speaking on radio and
television, said it would be “sheer
folly” to engage in land war with
Communist hordes in Asia or the
continent of Europe.
He urged the United States to
“Arm our air and naval forces to
the teeth” to defend the frontier
he laid out.
Washington vs Moscow
Mr. Hoover said the Communists
could never break through American
sea and air power to invade the
Western Hemisphere. “They can no
more reach Washington in force
than we can reach Moscow," he de
clared.
At another point, he expressed the
opinion that the atomic bomb is
"a far less dominant weapon than
it was once thought to be.”
The only living ex-President,
making one of the most important j
addresses of his long public career,
said “it is clear that the United i
Nations are defeated in Korea.”
It would be “inviting another Ko
rea," he declared, to send more
troops or money to Western Euro
pean nations before they had armed
themselves as a “sure dam against
the Red flood.”
Defense Up To Europe
Defense of western continental
Europe rests primarily on the
European nations themselves, the
76-year-old former chief executive
told his audiences across the na
tion.
“We have little need for large
armies unless we are going to
Europe or ’China,” he said. Land
war with the Communist masses
in Asia or Western Europe “would
be the graveyard of millions of
American boys and would end in the
exhaustion of this Gibraltar of
western civilization."
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2i, American Can
92'i, American Tel. and Tel. J50',i,
Anaconda 37 h, Douglas Aircraft
92:li, General Electric 48‘i, General
Motors 45:ih, Goodyear 64ti, Kenne
cott 74 h, Libby McNeill and Libby
87», Northern Pacific 33, Standard
Oil of California 84 7„. Twentieth
Century Fox 21, U.S. Steel 41, Pound
$2.80lit, Canadian Exchange 94.50.
Sales today were 2.990,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 231.38, rails 77.35, utilities
39.93.
Mr. Hoover said western European
nations should arm themselves with
combat divisions of "huge numbers”
before the United States lands “an
other man or another dollar on
their shores."
His demand for a new foreign
arms policy came one day after
President * Truman named Oeil.
Dwight D. Eisenhower as Supreme
Commander of western European
forces and said additional U.S.
troops would be sent there as soon
as possible.
Mr. Hoover said his suggested
foreign policy would make it pos
sible for this country to carry on
indefinitely, even if the Communists
attacked its defense rim.
ALASKA PROJECTS
TO GET FUNDS ON
REQUESTOF ARMY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—(>P)—A
partial listing by locations of $320,
104,000 of Army public works pro
jects for which immediate funds
are asked became available today.
The list was sent to the Senate
in support of the Army’s request
lor emergency money in the pend
ing $20,000,000,000 appropriation
bill.
It included these Alaska projects:
Fairbanks, $4,253,400. Fort Rich
ardson, Anchorage, $3,601,100. Whit
tier, $5,198,900.
The bill as approved by the
House and the Senate Appropria
tions 'Committee included the full
amounts requested by the Armed
Services for warehouses, utilities,
laboratories, expansion of air fields
and other facilities.
These totaled $320,164,000 for the
Army, $303,378,000 for the Navy and
$807,000,000 for the Air Force.
The totals included funds for
projects outside the United States
and for a number of secret under
takings.
A bill to authorize the projects
is moving through Congress al
most simultaneously with the Em
ergency Appropriation Bill. The
two measures are not identical in
amount because the Armed Services
are not asking at this time for all
the money which is in the process
of being authorized. A number of
projects will take a number of years
to complete, and thus funds for
them will lie included in a num
ber of appropriation bills.
Air Force spokesmen told the
Housing Appropriations Committee
the Air Force did not want its pro
jects made public.
The Army list became available
today but with the proviso that no
details be given—only the location
and amount,
UN FORCES
HOLDING AT
BEACHHEAD
Warships, Planes, Artillery
Hurl Back Red Attacks
Frozen BodiesTellTale
(By tlic Associated Press)
Heavy pounding of Communist
lines by United Nations warships,
plan. 4 and artillery has driven
back the Reds' most menacing at
tack on the Hungnam beachhead.
The withdrawal of Allied forces
from northeast Korea was pro
ceeding according to the U.N. com
mand’s time table.
Comparative quiet was report e-1
on both the Hungnam perimeter
and on the west Korean front where
the U S. Eighth army is holding a
line near the 38th parallel.
General MacArthur said Com
munist losses of 10 to one compared
with Allied casualties had notice
ably slowed dow n the enemy opera
tions.
He disclosed that U.N. casualties
during the general retreat since
Nov. 27 following the intervention
of Chinese Reds totaled nearly
13,000. These included killed,
wounded and missing for all Allied
forces except those of the Republic
of Korea.
Censorship
A form of censorship was im
posed on correspondents yesterday
by the U.N, command.
Dispatches fr'hm the Hungnam
beachhead said the ^Communists
were thrown back from the eastern
sector which had been the point
of gravest peril to the defenders.
But warships continued to hammer
away at Red troop concentrations
north' of the beachhead.
Terrific Bombardment
Frozen bodies of Chinese and
white-robed, Korean Reds littered
the snow-crusted east flank. The
Communist survivors apparently
were numbed to a standstill by the
furious round-the-clock bombard
ment.
A high-ranking spokesman at
MacArthur’s Tokyo headquarters
denied reports that the Communists
had used gas grenades against U.N.
troops at Hungnam. The report, he
said, was wholly unconfirmed and
doubted at headquarters because
the Chinese Communists had no
training in gas warfare and did not
have gas masks. i
Red Reinforcements
1 In reviewing the retreat from
Northwest Korea, General MacAr
thur said it "was not dictated by
battle losses” or the acceptance of
defeat. He said the Allied forces,
numbering four corps of 12 divisions,
were stacked up against nine Chi
nese corps of 27 divisions with mas
sive reinforcements across the Yaiu
river in Manchuria.
High Official of
Longshore Union
Barred from Docks
(By Associated Press)
A one-time high official in the
Longshore Union has been banished
from military docks.
San Francisco Army and Navy
authorities have barred 51-yeat-old.
Henry Schmidt. He was a co-de
fendant W'ith Longshore leader
Harry Bridges in Bridges’ perju’y
trial. They were convicted last
April and are free on bail pend
ing appeal.
2 SHOPPING DAYS
TILL CHRISTMAS