THE : >AILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME*
VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,618
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY.
SEPTEMBER 28,
MO!" .1 ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRIC E TEN CENTS
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NORTH KOREAN ARM
FIGHT FOR
SEOUL IS
OYER NOW
By Don Whitehead
SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 28— tPI —
The battle for Seoul has ended. Col.
Lewis (Chesty) Puller of Saluda,
Va., commanding the first U. S.
Marine regiment, fixed the hour
of final Allied victory in this cap
ital at 6 p.m. Wednesday (1 a.m.
PST).
That was the time, he said,
when the last Korean Reds pulled
back north and east, giving the
Americans complete mastery of ev
ery part of Seoul.
The people have come out of dark
holes into the sunlight today in
their horribly ravaged but now
peaceful city.
Marines and army infantry, com
pletely relaxed, wandered today
through the streets where a few
hours ago they were fighting a
savage battle.
The siege of Seoul lasted seven
days, but it will be years before
the scars of battle are erased. Al
most every block in the city has
been smashed, at least in part.
Yet, immediately after the end
of the fighting, the Koreans have
begun the task of clearing the
debris and salvaging from the ruins
whatever they can for a new start.
524 AUTOS ARE
CHECKED IN TWO
DAYS OF TESTS
t *• ^ ^ f r'Qyr* *J*C2 1"
524 cars checked during the last
two days of the safety drive which is
being carried on by the Alaska High
way Patrol and the Juneau City Po
lice. In this period 108 warning
tickets were issued for faulty equip
ment. All of the warning tickets
which had been issued on the first
day of the drive were returned, in
dicating that these car owners had
complied with the safety require
ments.
It is hoped by the members of the
Highway Patrol and the local Po
lice Department that the public
will give this drive their whole
hearted cooperation rather than try
ing to evade this check by detouring
to other streets. It is planned to
continue the drive until every car
has been checked.
PEARL PETERSON IS
BACK FROM SEATTLE
Fellow-workers will welcome Miss
Pearl Peterson Monday, when she
returns to her desk in the Federal
Building. Miss Peterson is admin
istrative assistant in the headquar
ters office of the U.S. Forest Service.
She returned early this week from
a trip to Seattle.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
lI)KEbW PEAR"' lne•,
l^ASHINGTON—The story can
be told of the last Cabinet meet
ing attended by Secretary of De
fense Louis Johnson. It was not
a happy one.
Nothing much was said about1
Johnson’s forthcoming departure,
but President Truman, looking
straight at Louey, said:
"There’s a little item I want to
take up with all of you. It s the ,
matter of wire-tapping. J. Edgar;
Hoover has been doing a lot ot
wire-tapping. .
At this point, Attorney General
Howard McGrath interrupted. ,
"Mr. President,” he said, “I know
all about Mr. Hoover’s wire-tapping. 1
I know every tap he is making. He
only taps with my approval in;
cases involving sabotage, espionage
and kidnapping. He has less than
200 taps out. I review every one
of them every month.”
"That’s not the point I was try
ing to make,” continued Truman.
“I just wanted to tell you folks
that Hoover tells me he isn’t the
only one in Washington who’s tap
ping wires. He tells me that many
of you are. I just want you to
know that I don’t like it a bit. I
don’t think much of wire-tapping
and of anybody who taps wires.
I think the habit of having some
one on the telephone all the time
when you are talking to someone
' (Continued on Page Pour)
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Smoke Brings Darkness
Cleveland's lakefront stadium looked like this in mid-afternoon
September 24 from the top of Terminal Tower as windborne clouds
of smoke from forest fires in northern Alberta, Canada, spread over
the Great Lakes area. Officials at the Detroit-Cleveland baseball
game ordered lights turned on which are normally used only at night.
(#>) Wlrcphoto.
Army Wants
300Thousand
More Drafted
Selective Service Quotas
Will Be Increased An
other 160,000
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 — (/PI —
The Army made known today that
it will want to draft at least 330,000
men to bring its forces up to desired
strength.
Draft quotas thus far have been
issued only through November and
cover 170,000 men. The additional
160.000 would be in quotas for later
months.
Maj. Gen. Clovis Byers, Deputy
Chief of Staff, gave the figure to
the House Armed Services Commit
tee at a closed door session. Chair
man Vinson <D-Ga) made it public.
Byers later told reporters it was
believed the 330,000 could be secured
from the age groups now subject to
the draft, those aged 19 through 25.
Byers also said he believed some
doctors and dentists would have to
be drafted.
Vinson indicated that only 30.00C
men have been inducted into the
Army since its expansion began after
the outbreak of the Korean fight
ing. He said the Army would want
300.000 men in addition to the 30,000
already inducted.
It was not made clear, however
what date was covered by the 30,000
figure.
Byers said the figures meant a
contemplated total draft in the
next six months of 330,000 men.
BARTLETT MAKES
CAMPAIGN TALK;
TO PROTECT NOME
NOME, Sept. 28—<#)—Delegate
Bartlett (D-Alaska) says he doesn't
want Nome to become "another
Attu.”
Addressing an audience here yes
terday, Bartlett stressed what he
called the importance of keeping
Nome's Marks Air Force Base “fully
equipped and manned in view of the
importance of psychological war at
this time,”
"It’s better to keep it open at an
annual cost than to push off the
enemy after they are here,” he de
clared. He referred to the Japanese
occupation of Attu in World War II,
requiring an amphibious assault to
dislodge the Japs from the island
a year later, in 1943.
He asked for a review of the three
year old plan on Alaskan defenses,
saying "The pride and prestige of
our nation is directly involved.”
SINATRA'S
I WIFE GETS
BIG HONEY
|
I
I -
I SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 28
j—IS"—The 11-year-old marriage of
Frank Sinatra and his wife officially
hit the rocks today with Mrs. Nancy
Sinatra receiving approximately a
third of the crooner’s estimated
$1,000,000 a year income.
Sinatra let his wife have a sep
arate maintenance decree by default
in Superior Court.
Greg Bautzer, attorney for Mrs.
Sinatra, disclosed that under terms
of a property settlement, she will
receive one third of his gross income
up to $150,000 annually and then a
complicated sliding scale, based on
income tax tables, takes effect.
Bautzer said that the one time
bobby sox idol will earn close to a
million dollars this year.
Mrs. Sinatra has been receiving
{2,750 a month support for herself
and their three children during
months of negotiations over the
settlement.
In July, the singer’s manager,
Mack Millar, announced that Sin
atra had signed a three-year con
tract with Columbia Broadcasting
System under which he will be paid
$3,000,000.
U.S.STATES
PEACE PLAN
FOR KOREA
NEW YORK, Sept. 28—(^—Ameri
can sources today outlined a six
point peace formula for Korea call
ing for a unified country to be put
back on its feet by the combined
resources of the United Nations.
The elements the United States
considers essential for Korea’s fu
ture follow closely proposals ad
vanced by Britain and Canada. The
British are rushing work on a post
war plan for the nation.
American informants said the
“United States has no desire for
bases or special privileges in Korea”
and wants the country to be free
from the domination of any other
nation.
It also desires Korea’s admission
to the U.N. and the organization of
the country in such a way that it
"will pose on threats to its neigh
' bors”—China and the Soviet Union
FROM ELMENDORF FIELD
Capt. J. D. Stone from Elmen
dorf ^irbase is registered at <th«
I Barancf Hotel.
I
DEAN NAY
BE ALIVE
IS REPORT
I Major General Missing
Since July 20-Massacre
i at Prisoner Stockade
| WITH U.S. FIRST CAVALRY DI
i VISION, Korea. Sept. 28—Ile
j ports to U.S. counter-intelligence
| Corps .(CIC) officers held out a
glimmer of hope today that Maj.
Gen. William F. Dean may be alive..
He has been officially listed as
missing since July 20 when his
| doughboys last saw him fighting
i Red tanks with a GI bazooka team
i in Taejon.
The CIC said three South Ko
I reans who escaped from the prison
stockade at Chongju before- it was
dynamited by fleeing Reds reported:
j they overheard Communist officers
making plans last Saturday to move
! the former 24th Division commander
j from Chonju to Seoul.
Seoul is about 70 miles north of
I Chongju.
The CIC reports came as the 24th
! Division, now under command of'
; Maj. Gen. John H. Church, retook
‘ Taejon, scene of its most shattering
j defeat and the loss of its General.
I Taejon is 95 miles south of Seoul,
the Korean capital.
Americans Tied lTp-Shot
Two wounded U.S. soldiers re
] ported that 40-odd American pris
! oners were tied up and shot at Tac
I inn recently. j
I The wounded men said they |
j escaped the massacre by playing :
dead.
CIC officers said they did not |
| know whether the three South Ko- I
j rean informants actually saw Gen
j eral Dean before they escaped.
Horror at Chongju
A Division spokesman said Com- ;
I munist prisoners reported the Reds j
| killed and burned 18 Americans and j
; slew 787 South Korean soldiers and |
j civilians before pulling out of j
! Chongju.
! Chongju was recaptured Tuesday
i The Division spokesman said the ;
i Americans were reported slain Sept,
j 22, four days before the Americans
! chased the Communists from the ,
■ city.
I Other details of the American
! slayings at Chongju were not avail
j able, he said.
Blown to Bits
The Red prisoners-of-war said j
j 187 of the South Koreans killed were
j blown to bits when the Cominun
j ists dynamited the stockade. The
; other 600 were shot dead, the cap
j tured Red prisoners said.
U. S. army units advancing :
i through Seoul Wednesday entered |
j two schools where they believed
| some 300 American prisoners were
! held but found the buildings empty
However, a list of 300 captured
Americans was found and sent to i
the U.S. Tenth Corps headquarter
Officers at Seoul were told the |
American prisoners had been trail -
j ferred from there several da>
earlier. The CIC reports indicate |
General Dean may have been:
among them.
FROM PORTLAND
i fester Moore of Portland Is a
guest at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM HAINES
Mrs. Peggy D. Farmer of Haim
is registered at the Baranof HoUl
i • WEATHER REPORT
j • Temperatures for 24-Four Period
I • ending 6:20 o'clock th e morning
! • In Juneau—Maximum, 50;
| • minimum, 44.
! • At Airport—Maximum, 54;
: • minimum, 42,
• FORECAST
• (Juneau and Vicinity)
• Partly cloudy tonight and
• Friday. Low temperature to
• night near 42 and higli Fri
• day near 56.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m tod
• City of Juneau—0.04 inches;
• since Sept. 1 — 10.91 inches;
• since July 1—21.97 inches.
• At Airport — Trace;
• since Sept. 1 — 7.32 inches;
• since July 1—19.32 inches.
ON KOREA PATRO!_The British destroyer ships .1 !..• .iy .• u ’ ■ • on tuiri#*
o(T Korea. It is one of the British I at Iiast Heel units op, ratios with l. N. n • I fore. ••
Shiny domes are in prominence i s J'o.l Arthur, Te\., v.lurt tlili at1,
to the U. B. A. are hold ins their annual convention. U. B. A. is the
United Baldheads of America. H VI i : photo.
Korean War
Ala
(By Associated l’rr- d
Fighting fronts- -Allied < an'
says North Korean arui.v ii: r ■ (
and no longer exist > a. i mi .
fighting force. Taejon, Kamv.-on, • i
Hadong captured. Ninety-one U. .
prisoners of war rescued.
UN forces tighten grip on See J
fight to. clean out 1; t Red po -
ets of resistance.
United Nations—Oh ■rven,
Gen. MacArthur was ncce..sary au
thority to chase retreating Re
into North Korea. British delegate
rush plan to unify Korea and 11
up UN-sponsored go' rrmv ni. In
dia, United States and Canada
dorse plan.
FROM CALIFORNIA
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cameron if
Arcadia, Calif., are guests at in
Baranof Hotel.
UNION TO PARTY
The Hotel and Restaurant Em
ployees will hold a party in the
AFL Hall Friday night at 9 o’clock
lor members and invited guests.'
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
•
Princess Louise from _ Vancouver
cheduled to arrive Saturday after
noon or evening.
Alaska scheduled to sail from
Beattie Saturday.
Denali from westward due to ar
rive sometime Monday evening.
4
WASHINGTON, P
Tiie recent sec.ion of C .. r‘ ■■
videcl $254,929,889 in cs> h mid j
009,000 in coutract authority f< r [
. ':a, the large ■ amount a Con
:rc:t: lins ever voted the Territory.'
The general appropriations bill I
contained $210,573,749, plus the $9,
,00,000 contract authority. The $17 - j
000,000,000 supplemental bill signe.l!
yesterday by President Truman In- !
eluded another $44,356,140.
The totals were obtained by tb:.'j
iifice of Delegate Bartlett of Alaska j
; oin various government depart- •
a ui i.
In in,. . rvey it *. 1 .rm ,1 11. ■
Weatiier Bureau had allocated $1,
378.557 for its work In the Territory. J
The supplemental appropriation
bill contains:
$$ >.853,140 for Army end Navy
, an, £7.500 000 fur In away
>r 'ruction, $1,500,000 for replace
■n-, :t of bridges on the Portagt
•:ev. ird et.dons of the Alaska rail
road, 1,100,000 to start construction
of the Eklutna project. S110.000 for
pi icing Fish and Wildlife fjcrvrce
tacillties burned on St. George X -
..ml and :.4,393.000 i r the AU.sk:
Communications System.
When Adam Bell %w:us brought in
to Detroit cniyrt on charges of
a ling a bicycle, he was consci
enci -stricken. He told the court—“I j
ought to get about SO days In jail, i
WASHINGTON, St pt.; 28— W! —
Scuta tpr ',^chpcpii*l tii-K-.yu) re
niwSS t#*W tinnsaiidr *& dcen
cr'InVapigatfon of bis charges that
Secretary of (be Interior.. Chapman !
has “a prisonnj alliance** with the
Soviet Russiari cause.
'Ik ' Inlent.r Con. litter
after holding public hearings on the I
charges Schoeppcl had voiced in a 1
S ml ;peech, announced recently]
it had “exploded" them. Committee !
Cl.airman O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) dc
licunccd the charges as “an infa- j
mous libel.”
At the hearings, Chapman angrily
denied S'choeppel’s charges. He dar- i
ed Schocppel to repeat them with- |
out the protection of Congressional |
immunity from libel suit.
—
TOKYO, Friday, Sept. 2a it A
broadcast from New Delhi, India,;
heard in Tokyo today, said North
Korean Premier Kim II Sun* had ,
ordered his beaten troops to return
north of the 38th parallel.
The broadcast was heard by Radio j
Press, an organization of Nisei
(A.nerican-born Jup.ine.se)? It
<,t: n:d "an authorized source" that
i. t had ordered hi., troops to break '
i ontact with Allied forces and
rc.tvat to North liorea.
Radio Pro said an identical
broadcast was heard from the radio
. Brazzaville, in French Equatorial
Africa.
(How ’such di stant points could
obtain such information reliably was
not apparent.)
MISS HARRIS IV YET OI FIFE
Miss Sigrid Harris has recently
joined the Veteran. Affair-. Ciom
rni: .-,ion officl a.v .-,ccr"tary i > 1. T. !
Brelini, Deputy Commissioner whose 1
office is in the Valentine Elda- i
If.OM SKAGWAY
Mr. und Mr . M. A. Moe of Skag
way are registered at the Barauof
Hotel.
siocKoyoiATions
NEW YORK, Fes, 38 — Clo.Fn
quotation of Ala ka Juneau mine
>tock today is 2 ■ , American Can
101, Anaconda 34 ,, Curtis. -Wriqht
9. International Harvester 30',.
Kennecott 63' . New York Cchtral
16, Northern Pacific 23-%, U. S. Steel
33 . Pound *2.36
Sales today were 2,200,000 shares.:
Averages today are as follow-: in- j
dustrial, 225.93, rails 67.1-1, utilities
40.13.
1
I Remnants of 150,0GQ-Man
Army Retreat-Red Cifies
Fail to Marines
<13y the Associated Press)
An Allied commander .said today
the North Korean army is In com
plete rout and no longer exists as
an organized force. •
The appraisal was made by Lt.
Oen. Walton H. Walker, commander
of the U.S. Eighth Army, as rejp
nants of the once-powerful 150,000
man Communist army retreated to
■ 1 (he 3Rth parallel whence the
North Koreans launched their at
tack June 25.
As U.S.. Marines mopped up de
■i.iyc i Seoul, South Korean capi
tal. fast-trtov Idg armored Allied
units further carved up Communist
forces In South Korea.
To Annihilate Reds
W. lk'.' aid all Red force, south
of the Pu' fin-Tnejon-Seoul highway
winding diagonally from southeast
K ' rea to the northwest will be an
nihilated. Any possibility of or
ganized Communist retreat from the
• mth was removed Tuesday by the
Joining of armored columns pushing
up from Pusan and down from In
chon. This line joining the old
beachhead with the Allied -second
front is now secure, Walker said, and
the Neds are firmly trapped.
3' fttn\uca.l hntmx
The. XfUetf cP5ttiht3r'w wamsfl,
however, that the fanatical enemy
had fighting strength hi local areas
and there would be considerable
pocket combat before the Com
munists are wiped out completely.
United Nations forces took fresh
victories In their stride. One Red
city after another fell to the fast
v.ovingr Allied columns in the
maneuver of envelopment.
OU1 Score Settled
Taejon, important rati and road
hub in Seoul-Pusan communications
was captured by the U.S. 24th Di
vision. The 24tli had withdrawn
from Taejon in the bitterest fight
ing of the war and* thus settled an
old score, TSiere was word of the
Division’s commander, MaJ. Gen.
William F. Dean. Intelligence said
there was hope that Dean—listed as
mi-sing — might be alive. Three
South Korean informants said they
overheard Communist officers plan
ned to move Dean from a Chongju
prison to Seoul.
American POVV Rescued
Ninety-one American prisoners of
were rescued when U.N. forces
Mired Namwon and Hadong.
As Nortli Korca.’fs broke and fled
towards the 38th parallel, Allied
Commanders awaited instructions to
pursue them across the frontier to
insure their destruction as an in
vading force and prepare for the
unification of torn Korea under U.N.
auspices.
Walker aid he had not yet been
instructed whether to proceed across
the parallel but expected word from
the high command soon.
•Among United Nations Delegates
in New York the consensus is that
Gen. MacArthur already has the
»(■':> . ry authority to chase re
tr. ling Beds into North Korea and
thru, no explicit directive is neces
sary.
4-Point Plan for Korea
M i.nv. hil.-, *U,N. Delegates, led by
h: in, rushed work on a four
point plan ha- welding the war-torn
country into a united, independent
st ue under U.N. supervision. The
iiriti .h are holding almost.continu
'■■u.'. conference.; so that the political
plan will keep pace with last-moving
military developments.
Under this plan, Asian.- would be
c ulled on to make up the greater
part of a U.N. commission to super
vise ix t-war Korea. A source close
to the Indian delegation said his
country viewed the plan sympa
thetically and might even become a
co- ponsor. The United States and
Canada arc making contributions to
the plan which comes before the
i-nn political committee to
morrow.
SEATTLE GUEST
Margaret DeBcck of Seattle is a
guest at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM HAWK INLET
T. Conrad of Hawk Ti let is stay
ing at the Baranof Hotel.