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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,720 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1951__MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
Fiery Napalm Dumped on Reds by Mustangs
STATEHOOD
OR REPUBLIC
IS DEMANDED
Third Division Men Want
Independence for Alaska
If Statehood Fails
I By BOB DE ARMOND
‘The instant right to declare our
absolute independence of and from
the Government of the United
States, and to form ourselves into a
free men to be forever called the
Republic of Alaska,’ was demanded
in the Territorial House of Repre
sentatives this morning in the event
statehood fails.
The demand was in the form of
a memorial intrbduced by the seven
Third Division Representatives —
Carlson, Conright, Egan, Kay, Me
Cutcheon, Pollard and Scavenius.
All of them are Democrats.
The memorial, H.M. No. 4, is ad
dressed to the President and people
of the United States; Congress; the
Hon. Trygvie Lie, secretary general
of the United Nations; and the]
people of Alaska.
Rep. Wendell Kay, after being |
granted special privilege of the |
floor, read the memorial in full and;
the reading was recorded for pos
terity by Rep. Conright.
Duties of Citizenship
The memorial made the following
allegations:
The people of Alaska have for 84
years submitted to the obligations
and duties of United States citizen- j
ship and have contributed without
stint the blood and treasure of the
people to the prosecution of the
wars of the United States;
Men of Alaska are fighting and :
dying on the fields of Korea in the I
forces of the United Nations for the
preservations of liberties which
they themselves do not possess;
The people of Alaska have dem
onstrated their ability and fitness
to assume the full rights and obli
gations of citizens;
Congress has met the prayers and
supplications of Alaska with indif
ference ;
Taxation without representation
is as abhorrent to free men in 1951
as it was to Thomas Jefferson in
1776.
The memorial was referred to the
newly created special Committee on
Statehood.
Ghost of 1949
A ghost of the 1949 extraordinary j
session rose in the House this morn- I
ing when Rep. Jack Conright in- I
troduced a bill which was enacted
in that session.
The bill, to approve, adopt and j
make of force as the Code of Alaska
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1B5I, Dy Beil Syndicate, Inc.)
( Ed. Note—The brass ring, good
for one free ride on the Washing
ton Merry-Go-Round, today goes to
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who now
reports to Congress on the difficult
job of rearming Europe.)
TFaSHINGTON — When General
Eisenhower went off to Europe, a
lot of people got the impression
that he was rather glad to leave
Columbia, get into uniform again
and return to his old haunts abroad.
Actually, this was not the case.
To a few close friends just be
fore he left, Ike confessed that
he dreaded going overseas again,
knew that he would face hostile
crowds, realized how tough it would
be to organize rearmament in war
weary Europe.
Ike also knew, though he didn’t
say so, that getting back into uni
form might blast any Presidential
ambitions he had.
There was nothing phony or
theatrical, therefore, about Ike's
answer when President Truman
called him in Chicago last Decem
ber and asked him to become chief
commander under the North Atlan
tic Pact. Ike replied that a soldier
has to go where he is called, and
he meant it.
k Report to Congress
Behind Eisenhower’s report to
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A mobile blood bank is hoisted onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Boxer at San Francisco, so some
of the 750 crewmen aboard could Rive blood for wounded in Korea. The carrier, undergoing overhaul,
has seen considerable action in Korea waters. (#) Wircphoto.
Practice Aiert Scheduled
For Tomorrow Night; Here
Are Rules to Be Observed
UNFREEZING
OF CONTROLS
IS STARTED
Inequities Recognized by
Officials-Many Exemp
tions Made Already
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 —(JP*—
Price and wage stabilization of
ficials set to work today on the
delicate and tedious job of releasing
some of the pressures behind the
dam they built last Friday to hold
back living costs.
Their task is to remove as quickly
as possible the acknowledged in
equities which resulted when the
government on Friday night froze
most prices at peak levels between
Dec. 19 and Jan. 25 ard all wages
as of Jan. 25.
Wage Exemptions
The Wage Stabilization Board
prepared a statement expected to
announce that large groups of em
ployes are exempt from the wage
freeze. These would include 4,000,000
Federal, state and municipal work
ers and also employes of very small
firms — all exempt from stabiliza
tion during World War II.
Price Exemptions
There are whole industries
exempted from price controls under
the Defense Production Act, too.
These include newspaper and pub
lishing fields, radio, television and
similar communications, utilities,
carriers and movie theater admis
sions. Whether wages in those in
dustries will be controlled is up to
the lawyers, already holding their
heads.
10 Per Cent Wage Hike
Besides the statement on exemp
tions, the wage board headed by
Cyrus C. Ching is driving to come
out with a formula — probably on
Tuesday or Wednesday f°r
granting blanket approval to in
creases along the pattern developed
last year. In major industries this
generally was for a 10 per cent wage
hike — sometimes with pensions and
similar benefits.
The board may pick another per
centage, but increases in steel, coal,
electrical manufacturing and alumi
num industries helped to mold the
10 per cent pattern.
R. E. Robertson, Director, Juneau
Douglas Civilian Defense announces
that the public should bear in mind
the following rules that will govern
the practice alert that will be
sounded at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan
uary 30, and will last for one-half
to three-quarters of an hour.
From time the alert is sounded
until the all-clear signal, persons
should remain off streets and high
ways. Those on streets and high
ways at time alert is sounded should
immediately take shelter in nearest
suitable building, preferably re
turning to their own homes if that
is most convenient and nearest.
From time the alert is sounded,
automobiles should not travel streets
or highways. Those traveling streets
or highways at the time the alert
is sounded, should immediately
proceed to destination (obeying
regular traffic regulations) and re
main at destination until all-clear
signal is sounded.
Throughout duration of alert,
persons should refrain from mak
ing telephone calls, so as to leave
telephone system available for use
of civilian defense organization.
These regulations should not be
violated except in case of sickness,
fire, or other serious emergency.
No black-out will be put in effect
at this alert.
The signal for alert is repeated
short blasts of fire siren, for 2 or
3 minutes.
The all-clear signal is 1-1 blast,
same as fire all-clear signal.
Juneau Telephone Central will
notify out-of-town residents by 6
quick rings on telephone lines lead
ing out the highways.
FOREST SERVICE OFFICIAL
TO WASHINGTON ON LANDS
ADMINISTRATION BUSINESS
W. A. Chipperfield, in charge of
lands administration for the U. S.
Forest Service in Alaska, has left
by Pan American plane enroute to
Washington, D. C. There he will
confer with Forest Service officials
on Land Management concerning
work which includes homesites,
homesteads, resorts and recreational
areas.
Chipperfield plans to be in the
capital several days and returning
to the west coast will go to the
Portland office of the Forest Service
to confer on land handling methods
o the National Forests of the Pa
cific Northwest region in regard tc
iand management. He expects to
return to Juneau in about one
month.
Kelly Foss of Anchorage is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
FREEZE TOO
LATE MANY
BUYERS SAY
(By Associated Press)
Pood prices apparently weren’t
budging an inch up or down to
day following the government's
freeze order of late last week, spot
checks of retailers showed.
But consumers seemed generally
unimpressed. Mrs. Eilleen Lowry,
an early-morning New York shop
per, offered this typical comment
“The government froze too late.
They locked the stable after the
horse had been stolen. I think the
prices are awful, and that they
should have been rolled back to
at least six months ago."
Some food retailers agreed.
“The freeze doeHa’t give the
public a break,” said Manhattan
food store proprietor Alexander
Pappas.
“Today’s prices are higher than
the black market prices during
World War Two.” said a New York
beef market owner, John D. Milone.
Grocers said their prices were
sticking to the levels at which the
government froze them last Friday.
Items not covered in the freeze also
appeared to be holding steady.
AI. LUBCKE BACK
A1 Lubcke, Alaska Highway Pat
rolman from Haines, who has been
on temporary duty at Ketchikan,
has returned here. He is at the
Baranof Hotel.
GRANTED DIVORCE
A divorce was granted H. E. Rid
ley from Dorothy Ridley by Judge
George W. Folta, In the Federal
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STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Jan. 29 — Closing
quotations of Alaska Juneau mint
stock today is 3%, American Can
99'i, American Tel. & Tel. 151%,
Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft
[l02'j. General Electric 54%, Gen
j eral Motors 44%, Goodyear 72, Ken
necott 75%, Libby, McNeil & Libby
1 9li, Northern Pacific 35%, Standard
Oil of California 95, Twentieth Cen
tury-Fox 22, U. S. Steel 47%, Pound
2.80's, Canadian Exchange 94.93)4.
Sales today were 2,630,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows:
Industrials 248.64, rails 84.90, utili
ties 42.21.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof from Seattle scheduled
to arrive 7 a.m. tomorrow.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 p.m. Wednesday
Denali scheduled to sail from
Seattle 4 p.m. Friday.
BRITAIN
CALLS UP
RESERVES
Expanded Defense Pro
gram Is Announced by
Prime Minister Alilee
LONDON, Jan. 29 —UR— Prime
Minister Attlee announced today
Britain will call up 235,000 Army
Reserves for 15 days of training this
summer.
At the same time the Royal Air
Force will recall 10,000 officers and
men from its own reserve.
Attlee gave this Information at
the start of a statement to the
House of Commons outlining Brit
ain’s plans for rearmament against
Red aggression.
Attlee said the total strength of
this nation’s armed forces will be
800,000 men by April 1. This com
pares with 682,000 in April, 1950.
The Army Reserves to be called
up this summer will be mainly
class “Z” men — that is, draftees
who served between the start of
World War II and Jan. 1, 1949.
Attlee said the expanded pro
gram will cost $13,160,000,000 over
the next three years. This compares
with a government estimate last
September of $10,080,000,000 for the
same period.
DRAFTING
VETERANS
IS KILLED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -AM— i
The House Armed Services Commit
tee today virtually killed the idea
of drafting any veterans now, but!
reached out for single men up to
age 28, two yiars above the present
limit.
At the same time pressure built
up at the Capitol behind the idea
of drafting childless husbands in
the present 19 through 25 age
bracket plus thousands of youths
now classified 4-F, before any 18
year-olds are taken.
But the military held out for the
18-year draft in preference to tak
ing married men.
Two Congressional Committee
hearings, one in the Senate and the
other in the House, showed those
trends in discussion of the Defense
Department’s proposal to draft at 18
instead of the present 19 years,
hold the men for 27 instead of the
present 21 months, and work the
program into permanent Universal
Military Service and Training
(UMST).
Resumption of the hearings fol
owed a proposal from Senator Ed
win C. Johnson (D-Colo) to en
list 1,000,000 Western Europeans in
the U. S. Army.
This foreign legion should re
move all military demands for
drafting our 18-year-old boys,”
Johnson told a reporter. “It also
should solve some of our domestic
manpower shortages and internr.
tional difficulties.”
31 TRAVEL WITH
PNA ON SUNDAY
Yesterdays travel score for Pa
cific Northern Airlines were 19 ar
riving from the westward and 12
outbound.
From Anchorage: Wilfred Wolfe,
G. Shaw, Gene Sheldon, Don Wil
liams, Louis Sorenson, Keith Thur
man, Arvid Norheim, Roty Utness,
L. Miller, C. C. Gorsuch, A. Z. Car
rol, G. C. Sink, G. R. McMurray,
Vern Harris, Ervin Hill, R. T. Kirby,
J. Maservich, Andy Barlow.
From Cordova: Milo Rousculp.
To Anchorage: Mary Robinson,
H. O. White, Clara MacDougall, Le
land Smith, Capt. Harold Gray, C.
F. Maxwell, Lowell Schei, Ed Han
son, Fred Brechen, George Thomp
son, W. Malcolm.
To Cordova: Steve Pytel.
BUCKLES HERE
Roy Buckles who is with PNA at
Anchorage is stopping at the Bar
anof Hotel.
No Despair
One fins reflected on these faces none of the utter despair normally _
associated with hopelessness. Mr. and Mrs. George Godfrey pose
in their East Side apartment in New York, with their four sons—all
of whom face certain death from muscular dystrophy—a mysterious
disease with 100 per cent mortality. The boys are (front) Michael,
12, George, 24, (back) Bobby, 16 (left), and Roy, 21. The family pet
is "Brownie.” (If) Wirephoto.
Wives, Lift Your Husbands Out
Of the Doghouse; Grocers, Also
Cab Drivers, Here's Something
Wives: Have you been worrying
about a mysterious telephone call
in which a sweet feminine voice I
asked for your husband by his first j
name and refused to tell you who'
was calling.
Taxicab companies: Have you
been plagued with calls to send
cabs to addresses where your drivers
on arrival found nobody wanted a
taxi?
Grocers: Have you been called to
deliver large orders to places where
your deliveryman found the people
didn’t want groceries at all?
If you are in one of these cate
gories, this story is for you.
The U. S. Marshal’s Office here
DEER REPORTED TO
BE IN GOOD SHAPE
ON WESTERN SLOPES
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There is no reason yet this win
ter season to be alarmed for the
lack of natural feed for deer in the
vicinities of the Peril Straits and
Sitka west coast areas according to
word brought to Juneau in the past
few days.
Charles Burdick, Assistant Reg
ional Director of the Forest Serv
ice who has just returned from a
10-day trip which took him as far
as the southwest end of Peril Straits
said there is only about a foot of
snow along the beaches and low
lands in the Straits and about the
same depth on the western slopes
of Chichagof and Baranof Island.
W. E. Elkins, Acting Regional Di
rector of the Fish and Wildlife
Service who returned from a shor,
trip to Sitka Saturday said there
is not more than a foot of snow on
the lowlands and slopes in that dis
trict. He said the deer were reported
to be fat and lively.
Both Burdick and Elkins ob
served a heavier depth of snow on
the east side of the islands. Elkins
said three feet of snow was re
ported in the Hoonah Sound area.
Burdick said that he put into the
community of Baranof on the
Ranger X on the east side of Bar
anof Island for two days because
of high winds and that he esti
I mated about five feet of snow in
the vicinity.
The exceptionally thick hair of
the Labrador retriever makes it a
good dog for hunting water fowl
| in cold weather.
this week rounded vp a gang ot
telephone-happy high school girl;
who thought they wire being jus'
awfully funny by placing such
calls in wholesale lots.
Acting Marshal Walter Hellar
has had in for questioning four girls
aged 14 to 16, who last Monday
were caught in the act of making
such malicious mischief over th<
telephone. The four admitted tr
cutting school that afternoon and
gathering in an apartment to whjch
one of them had a key. Then, they
confessed, they proceeded to keep
the switchboard busy with false
calls.
Local cab companies all had calls
from the group. Local grocery stores
also were sent on wild goose chases
by the girls.
There were other calls of a kind
that can’t even be described in this
family newspaper.
The most serious set of calls,
however, according to Hellan, went
out to wives and made insinuations
about the conduct of their hus
bands. Among those known to have
received such calls are the wives of
well-known Juneau business and
professional men and one promin
ent Federal official.
In placing such a call, one of the
girls would ask for the man and
on being told he was not at home
f this being in the middle of the
afternoon), would say she just had
to get in touch with him right
away to tell him something she for
got to say the last time they were
out together.
The girls confessed, Hellan said,
to making various suggestive refer
ences to alleged trysts with the
husbands in these conversations
with their wives.
All denied ever having met any of
the men mentioned, Hellan said,
and iasisted they had picked names
called at random from the tele
phone book.
Other occasions in the past when
such calls were placed, and the
names of several other girls who
had participated in the “game,”
were confessed by the four who
were apprehended.
The Marshal's office is continuing
its investigation. Anyone having re
ceived anonymous calls is asked toj
communicate with Hellan.
Meanwhile, it Is hoped that a few ]
Juneau married men will be per
mitted to come out of the doghouse.
There is also another problem
confronting city and Federal auth
orities and that is many reports of
shiplifting reported done by juven
iles.
I
30 MILES OF
FIRE BURNING,
KOREAN AREA
Reds Killed in Mountain
Fox Holes-Big Advance
Made by UN Forces
(By Associated Press)
Chinese Communists died fight
ing in their mountain foxholes to
day. They resisted to the bitter end
a wary but seemingly relentless al
lied advance to within 10 miles of
Seoul in Western Korea.
Associated Press Correspondent
Jim Becker reported 130 Reds were
killed in one hill alone. Only eight
were captured.
Air strikes and artillery raked the
enemy positions, but U. N. infantry
men finally had to scramble up the
frozen hillsides and blast out the
Reds with grenades and rifle fire
Advance 3 Miles
The U. S. Eighth Army reported
advances up to three miles along
(he 40-mile western front.
In the area north of Suwon, 38
P-51 fighter-bombers dumped 8,000
gallons of fiery napalm (jellied
gasoline) in the heaviest mustang
mass attack of the war. Red troops
and buildings were hit. Early esti
mates were that 100 Reds were
killed and 240 buildings destroyed
or damaged.
MaJ. Thomas D. Robertson, of
St. Paul, Minn., who led the attack,
said:
30 Miles of Fire
"There was over 30 miles of fire
burning when we left.”
Becker said Intelligence Officers
estimated that the entire 50th Chi
nese Communist Army and three
North Korean Divisions now were
near the combat area, holding
strong positions. At full strength
these forces would total about 60,
100 men, but losses are believed to
have cut them considerably.
Enemy Ambushes
The Allies’ five-day advance had
been slowed earlier by Red counter
attacks in battalion strength at sev
eral places, and by enemy ambushes
on the central front.
The U. N. “Limited Objective”
attack was spread from Suwon
northeastward and southeastward
11 and 13 miles to Ichon and Kum
vanjang, constantly probing and
edging forward. .
Heavy Red Losses
The U. S. Eighth Army Com
mander, Lt. Oen. Matthew B. Ridg
way, reported to Oen. MacArthur
during the U. N. commander’s visit
to the front Sunday that the Chi
nese Reds have suffered 160,000 cas
ualties, including 40,000 dead and
120,000 wounded, since Jan. 1. This
did not take into account casual
ties from the bitter cold, from di
sease and from war weariness.
B-29s Make Strikes
From Okinawa bases, 24 B-29s
struck four important rail bridges
and a highway bridge Monday and
others ranged north of the 38th
Parallel in the 10th consecutive day
of clear weather, meeting no re
sistance.
Despite hints at the United Na
tions in Lake Success — stemming
from the Indian delegation — that
there were political reasons behind
the lull in the Chinese Communist
action, the Allied Command ex
pressed belief the Chinese pullback
was merely for the purpose of re
grouping and rebuilding supplies for
a renewed full scale assault.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures for 14-Hour Period
ending 6:10 o’clock this morning
In Juneau — Maximum
19; minimum, 10.
At Airport — Maximum,
14; minimum, -8.
FORECAST
Partly cloudy with little
change in temperature to
night and Tuesday. Lowest
tonight near 12 in town and
as low as zero in outlying
areas. Highest temperature
Tuesday near 25.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a m today
City of Juneau — None;
since Jan. 1 — 3.95 inches;
since July 1—41.94 inches.
At Airport — None;
since Jan. 1 — 2.25 Inches;
since July 1—30.25 inches.
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