THE DAILY
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ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,604
JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1950
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Investigation of Int. Dept. Will Continue
PUBLICITY
CONTINUES
ON CHARGES
Gruening, Straus Will Be
Witnesses-Atwood Also
to Testify, Statehood
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12— iff) —
Senator Cordon (R-Ore) wants to
call quits to the investigation of
charges by Senator Schoeppel (R
Kas) that Communist influences
have reached into the Interior De
partment.
However, he told reporters today,
"it’s quite clear the committee is go
ing to go ahead and take all the
publicity it can” from the inquiry.
Cordon is a member of the Senate
Interior Committee which is inves
tigating the charges. He told the
group yesterday he considered "the
incident closed” with the angry den
ial and supporting evidence submit
ted by Secretary Chapman and oth
ers Schoeppel named in his blast
at the Interior Department.
The Senate Republican policy
committee Saturday disavowed any
connection with Schoeppel’s charges,
made in a Senate speech last week.
The committee conducting the in
vestigation has a Democratic ma
jority led by Senator O’Mahoney
(D-Wyo).
To Continue Hearings
O’Mahoney told reporters he be
lieves it “would be highly improper’1
to wind up the hearings before all of
those named by Schoeppel can be
heard. He said the Committee plans
to hear some more of them tomor
row, and also hopes to take testi
mony from Frank T. Bow, Schoep
pel’s administrative assistant.
Schoeppel, who says he thinks
now his charges may have been “a
little strong,” has told the commit
tee Bow did most of the research
that led to the accusations.
Schoeppel had asserted that loy
alty affidavit was stricken from the
oath of office Chapman signed in
1946 as Undersecretary of the In
terior. He said he wanted to know
whether Chapman had stricken that
portion of the oath because of mem
bership in Communist front organ
izations.
"Edited" Affidavit
Two Interior Department offic
ials yesterday confirmed the ex
planation of the “edited" affida
vit offered by Chapman.
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
•Copyright. 1950. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
Vf'ASHINGTON—A top secret in
telligence report on China’s nego
tiations with Russia on the vital
question of coming in or staying
out of the Korean war has just
been received in Washington.
Obviously it is impossible to know
how accurate these reports are re
garding such important figures as
Molotov and Mao Tse-Tung. How
ever, here is what they are sup
posed to have talked about in their
recent, Peiping meeting.
Molotov, who is Stalin’s Far East
manager, was unable to budge Mao.
China’s Communist boss, on thc
Korcan War. Mao is reported to
have refused point-blank to intei -
vene in the Korean war or to set
a date for the invasion of For
mosa, or to attack British Hong
Kong or Portuguese Macao.
Finally, after much wrangling, a
5-point program was agreed to'
1. Russia will outfit 15 Chinese
divisions, or a total of 225,000 men.
2. Mao will send limited troops
as “volunteers” to Korea north of
the 38th parallel. This, of course,
would relieve North Korean troops
to fight south of the 38th parallel.
3. China will patrol the Man
churian-Korean border.
4. Molotov and Mao will meet
again this month to reach an agree
ment on the invasion of Formosa.
All summer the Russians have been
demanding the Communists make
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Miss America of 1951
Miss America 1951, who came to Atlantic City as Miss Alabama,
Yolande Betbeze of Mobile, steps out on the runway seconds after she
was crowned America’s queen of beauty. OP) Wirephoto.
MAINE VOTES
TRUE TO FORM
AS GOP WINS
i
; day-Sen Magnuson Un
opposed inWashington
(By the Associated Press)
Seven scattered states held pri
mary elections today, but chief na
tional interest remained centered
on New England where Maine vot
ers ran true to form yesterday and
kept Republicans in all major of
fices.
The Maine voting, always first
in the nation, was the initial state
wide election since the war broke
out in Korea. Democrats, despite
their traditional decided minority,
put up an unusually stiff campaign.
But the voters returned to office
Republican Governor Frederick G.
Payne and three sitting GOP House
Members, Reps. Robert Hale,
Charles P. Nelson and Frank Fel
lows. It was the state’s eighth
straight Republican sweep.
The GOP, in fact, polled a higher
percentage of votes than it did in
1946, also a non-presidential year.
Incomplete figures gave Payne
about 67 percent of the votes, com
pared with 61 percent in 1946.
Spotlight on New Hampshire
Attracting most interest in to
day’s primary voting was New
Hampshire. Republican Senator
Charles W. Tobey was opposed for
nomination for a third term by
Wesley Powell, an attorney and
former administrative assistant to
Tobey’s colleague, GOP Senator
Styles Bridges.
Tobey is one of the self-styled
Republican Liberals in the Senate.
The race is regarded as close.
Tobey was one of only two Sena
! tors who faced opposition in today’s
i primaries. The other is Senator
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Primaries To
BIG 3 HAVE
DIFFERENCES
OF OPINION
German Rearmament Hot
Issue-Acheson May Pro
pose Military Pooling
By Associated Press)
The foreign policy chiefs of the
United Elates. Britain and Prance
gathered in New York to map the
expansion of Western Europe’s de
fenses to meet the threat of a Red
aggression.
Sharp differences of opinion were
said to exist among Secretary of
State Acheson, British Foreign
Secretary Bevin and French For
eign Minister Schuman on the issue
of rearming Germany, but diplo
mats say the three days of Big
Three conferences probably will
iron out most of these differences.
The United States has “several
concrete proposals” to place before
the other two nations on defense
of Europe. Acheson is reported
about to propose that the 12 At
lantic Treaty nations, who meet fol
lowing the Big Three sessions, be
gin pooling military power and ex
panding forces in the maximum.
Home Front
On the American home front
the indications were that the moves
to rearm the nation would not
this time be reflected in anything
like the shortages of World Wai
II. The impact will be on the av
erage taxpayers’ pocketbook.
The government has asked the
steel industry to figure out how
much it can expand production
capacity, which has passed the 100,- |
000,000 tons a year mark, the
highest point in history. Executives j
of copper, aluminum and other in- \
dustries also are to confer with
Washington on steps to expand
production.
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JOHNSON
OUSTED BY
PRESIDENT
BULLETIN — WASHINGTON,
Sept. lZ-r iff) —President Tru
man has dropped Louis Johnson
from his Cabinet and called upon
Gen. Marshall to succeed him as
Secretary of Defense.
Marshall said he will accept the
Presidential request to become
Secretary of Defense if Congress
passes a law to permit him to
serve.
BIG PLANE
DISAPPEARS
INT. ALASKA
C-47 Transport, with Five!
Aboard Missing, Eieison
to Elmendort Base
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept, 12—
Ijfl—An Air Force C-47 transport is
reported missing on a flight from
interior Alaska to Elmendorf base
with five persons aboard.
The plane disappeared late last
night.
A wide scale search has be?n
launched by planes of the Tenth
Rescue Squadron and Air Force
fighters.
The transport was flying south
from the Eieison Air Force Base
and the last report from Talkeetna.
about 75 miles north of here, was
that it was expected to arrive about
11:15 p.m.
Flying conditions were hazardous
at the time with high wind and
rain.
Searchers thought they spotted
the wreckage in the Chugach moun
tains but a closer check showed
it to be the wreckage of a plan;
that crashed several years ago.
Names of those five aboard ‘lie
missing plane have been withheld
EXECUTIVE BOARD OF
P-TA PLAN MEETS
First Executive Board meeting of
the Parent-Teachers Association was
held last night in the office of the
Superintendent of Schools Sterling
Sears.
The board discussed committee ap
pointments, plans for the teacher
reception to be held on Wednesday
evening, September 13, and made
plans for the first regular P.-T.A.
meeting which will be held Monday.
September 18.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Aleutian from Seattle sceduled to
arrive at 7:30 o’clock tonight.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Wednesday.
Freighter Ring Splice scheduled to,
sail from Seattle Sept. 15.
Alaska scheduled to sail from;
Seattle Saturday.
Baranof from west scheduled;
southbound 8 a m. tomorrow.
STOCKQUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Sep.t 12 — Closin'-’
quotation of Alaska Juneau muie
stock today is 2%, American Can fa.
Anaconda 35'i, Curtiss-Wright 9;
International Harvester 31L. Ken-j
necott 64%, New York Central 15 •
Northern Pacific 23'i, U. S. Steel
38%. Pound $2.80%.
Sales today were 1,680,000 shares
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 220.81, rails 65.98, utilities
38 99
Ready to Even Score
A U. S. 25th Division machinegun crew stands guard for enemy approach as medics remove a wounded
soldier from mountain side near Masan on southern Korran front. U. S. Army Photo via </Pl Wircphoto.
PETERSBURG MAN
SHOT, KiLLED BY
14-YEAR-OLD BOY
Youngster Will Be Brought
to Juneau-Case Waiv
ed to District Court
PETERSBURG, Alaska, Sept. 12
— t/fi — a 14-year-old boy was
charged today with first degree
murder in connection with the
shooting Sept. 9 of Paul Albert
Hoch, 50.
Tlie boy, Richard Eugene Har
ris, is to be taken to the federal
jail at Juneau following a hearing
before U.S'. Commisioner Dale H.
Hirt. Although his case was under
the Territory's juvenile code, juris
diction was waived to district
court. Acting U.S. Marshal Walter!
Hellan came here from Juneau to
attend the hearing.
Hoch’s body was found near his
partly-built homestead cabin six
miles south of Petersburg. A cor
oner’s jury had decided he was
killed by some unknown person.
Hoch came here from Denver in
July.
The boy is the son of Richard
Harris of Petersburg and Mrs. V.
G. Fox of San Pedro, Calif. His
grandfather, Charles Harris, lives
at Sumner, Wash. For two years
the boy lived at the Hubert Spauld
ing home on Vashon Island.
Hoch filed his homesite permit
last July 20. Hoch was born Nov.
26 ,1906, in Prosser, Wash.
MATS SERVICE UPS
PACIFIC AIR LIFT,
CUTS BACK CIVILIAN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—t/PI
Civilian airlines will carry a smaller
part of the Far Pacific Air Lift
starting Sept, 20, the Military Air
Transport (MATS) Service has an
nounced.
The Air Force said a progressive
cutback in the use of civilian planer
has been made possible by the in
creasing number of military air
craft and crews now available to
fly men anU materials to Japan
and Korea.
Representatives of 17 scheduled
and non-scheduled airlines were
told yesterday that they would be
required to furnish about 10 per
cent less air lift help beginning
Sept. 20 than originally planned
for the month.
MaJ. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter,
MATS Commander, told the airlines
that the October cutback will be
about 20 percent.
FROM SEATTLE
H. V. Davis and John Portras of
Seattle are registered at the Baranof
Hotel.
Early Quils
As Dep. Secy.
Of Defense
Ross Announces Action But
Won't Talk About John
son on Way Out
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12— UR —
Stephen Early resigned today as
Deputy Secretary of Defense.
President Truman accepted the
resignation, effective Sept. 30, say
ing he did so reluctantly.
• The White House said Early has
been trying to quit since he com
pleted the one year of duty he
agreed to serve when he accepted
the appointment May, 1949. He is
to return to his post as a vice presi
dent of Pullman, Inc.
Presidential Secretary Charles G.
Ross, who announced Early’s action,
declined again to comment on a re
port by a highly placed Presidential
adviser that Secretary of Defense
Johnson is on his way out of the
Cabinet.
Asked whether Johnson is plan
ning to resign, Ross said that he was
"not a mind reader.” Pressed furth- j
er, Ross said "I have no informa
tion to give you on that poipt."
Johnson has been under fire in
Congress and elsewhere in connec
tion with the Korean war situation.
BENSON GOES WEST
ON OFFICIAL WORK
Henry A. Benson, Territorial Com
missipner of Labor, left yesterday
for the westward on official busi
ness. While absent he will hear
Workmen Compensation cases, es
pecially the Rector Land vs. Alaska
Airlines, and Stewart vs. the Mat
anuska Valley Cooperative.
ROTARY WELCOMES
GIBSON, GUERTIN
Dr. John Gibson and Floyd Guer- :
tin were welcomed into the Juneau [
Rotary Club at a regular luncheon
meeting today at the Baranof Ho
tel. President Ellis Reynolds an
nounced that it was time to take
stock of activities and passed out
paper on which members were to i
make suggestions for activties for I
the coming year.
Charles Carter gave a brief review
of Rotary history since it started
in Chicago in 1905 and has grown
to 7,074 clubs throughout the civil
ized world today.
Virgil Baker of Seattle is register- I
ed at the Baranof Hotel.
ANTITRUST
CASES COME
UP OCT. 31
Action to Start on Grand
Jury Indictments Made
at Anchorage
ANCHORAQE, Sept. 12—IA>)—'With
only a single plea of innocent the
cases of 23 corporations, 135 Individ
uals and one Trade Associatior.
charged with violations of Federal
anti-trust laws, have been contin
ued until Oct. 31. Attorneys of botl
sides believe the cases may drag on
for years until they eventually are
aired in court.
The single plea was entered by an
individual, Alice Fortney of Rain
bow Cleaners, Anchorage, through
her attorney on Aug. 31. Since that
date there has been no further court
action in connection witji the cases
Meanwhile three arraignments slat
ed for this week have been tenta
tively postponed until early Novem
ber. They are the arraignments of
liquor dealers of Anchorage, Seward
and Ketchikan.
Alaska Steam Case
The postponements clear the deck
for a full scale legal scrimmage on
Oct. 31 when the Alaska Steamship
Co. is due in Third District Court
to face both civil and criminal suits.
Attorneys for ASC and for the gov
ernment are due to arrive in Anch
orage at that time. The shipping
firtn was among those named in
sweeping indictments which early
last July charged scores of firms
with price-fixing monopolies in
transportation, fuel, liquor, food and
services.
Vote On Indictments
Alleged presence of a felon on
the record-making grand jury had
bolstered defense hopes that some
of the ten indictments would be
invalid. On Sept. 1 Judge Anthony
Dintond revealed that 19 jurors con
curred in six indictments; 18 con
curred in the remaining four. Only
12 are needed for a true bill. It is
possible that the votes indicate un
animous concurrence of all of the
22 jurors present during some days
of the long investigation.
Vote Was Challenged
The vote was challenged by at
torneys for the Healy River Coal
Corporation, one of three Alaskan
coal companies charged with divid
ing the coal market among them
selves and fixing prices on approxi
mately $2,500,000 worth of hard
coal sold to the military in the
Territory annually. Early In August
a formal order dismissed the name
of the firm's defendants,' the late
Austin E. Lathrop, who was killed
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IMPORTANT
ROAD GAIN
IN KOREA
Artillery Roars Along
Wide Front-3,000 Reds
Are Being Trapped
(By the Associated Press)
A battalion of US'. First Cavalry
Division troops stormed and cap
tured a strategic hill eight miles
north of Taegu today In the face
of heavy fire. They secured high
ground commanding the road from
the north Into Taegu, key Allied
forward base In South Korea.
The American battalion—a bat
talion Is 1,000 men—was reported to
have sustained heavy casualties in
the fighting, In which Allied planes
aided by a scorching attack with
machinegun fire, rockets and Jel
lied gasoline firebombs.
This Is the area in which a US.
'iegimental Commander said lurked
i he main threat to Taegu. Some
10,000 Reds are massed north of the
Taegu positions, and for the third
s'might day their artillery roared
in a heavy barrage against United
Nations positions. Such artillery
preparation usually signals a gen
eral attack.
Trapping 3,000 Reds
Ifl the eastern lector of the
northern front west of the fallen
port of Pohang, a secret U.B.
task force struck In a move to
trap 3,000 Red troops In a cor
ridor deep within Allied lines. The
task force Is headed by a famous
West Point football star who can
not be Identified now by name.
South Korean forces in the eastern
sector have sealed off the north
entrance to the corridor, and the
task force, striking toward the
southern gate, drove ahead 2%
miles against bitter Red opposi
tion. The force wants to take high
ground at the base of the corridor.
Ridge Recaptured
On the southwestern anchor of
the Allied front, U.S. 25th Division
troops counterattacked before dawn
Tuesday and recaptured a com
manding ridge four miles south of
the confluence of the Nam and
Naktong rivers in a tough battle
against numerically superior Reds.
Allied planes in close support ol
ground troops were out In strength
again after a record day Mpnday,
when 683 Individual flights were
made by midnight.
“Worst Is Over”
“The worst is over,” declared Lt.
Gen. Walton H. Walker, UJ3.
Ground Forces Commander in Ko
rea. While the North Koreans still
are capable of throwing a Sunday
punch and still hold the Initiative.
"I am sure we can stop him now,”
Walker said.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
ending ( 20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau—Maximum, 63;
minimum, 42.
At Airport—Maximum, 62;
minimum, 36.
FORECAST
(Jnnema and Vlclnltr)
Increasing cloudiness to
night with lowest tempera
ture 48 Mostly cloudy and
cooler Wednesday with oc
casional light showers. High
est Wednesday near 56.
PRECIPITATION
(Paet 24 hours ending 1:30 a m. todar
City of Junean—None;
since Sept. 1—4.10 inches;
since July 1—15.16 inches.
At Airport—None;
since Sept. 1—2.41 inches;
since July 1—14.41 inches.
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TIDE TABLE
September 13
High tide 2:22 a.m., 18.3 ft.
Low tide 8:32 a.m., -1.8 ft.
High tide 2:41 p m.. 18.9 ft.
Low tide 8:56 p.m., -2.0 ft.