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Tvvr 7~\~Yv7~" NO~ 11.737 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19. 1951__MEMBEit ASSOC I.VI KM JJtKSS PRICE TEN CENTS
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Decisive Victory Over Reds in Cent il Korea
Memorial On
Statehood Is
Storm Center
Appearance of Measure at
Top of Calendar
Starts Fireworks
BIHXETIN — The Alaska State
hood bill failed to pass the House
this afternoon by a vote of 12 to 12.
The appearance oi II. M. 20 — a
memorial urging that the Alaska
Statehood hill be reported to the
U. S. Senate without further com
mittee hearings — at the very head
of the House calendar this morn
ing touched off a stormy debate on
parliamentary procedures.
The memorial, now in third read
ing, had not gone to a vote when the
House recessed at 12:20 today, but
was expected to reach that final
stage soon after 1:30 when the
House w as to go back into session.
Some observers believed that
there might be a notice of recon
sideration, which would hold the
measure over another day.
When the morning session open
ed, Speaker William Egan announc
ed that there had been a change in
the day’s calendar and that the
r.ules Committee, f ‘mg under au
thority of the House ,>’ules. had ad
vanced H. M. 26 to the head of the
calendar in third reading.
Protest Made
Rep. Doris Barnes immediately
pointed to another rule setting up
the order of business for the House.
This rule provides that second read
ing of bills shall come before third
reading of bills.
Mrs. Barnes contended that the
Rules Committee does not have pow
er to alter this order of business
without a suspension of the rules.
All the Rules Committee can do,
she said, is to rearrange bills within
their respective brackets on the or
der of business.
Rep. Frank Johnson said he does
not believe the Rules Committee
should be given the power to juggle
bills and the order of business of
the House and that this power might
react against the interests of mem
bers who do not have influence with
the committee.
Speaker Egan ruled that under
existing rules the committee has
the power and that he considered
die advancement of H. M. 26 in
order.
”X feel that this is a very high
handed action and I appeal the rul
ing of the chair,” said Rep. George
Miscovich.
Rep. Kay objected that the
Speaker was merely interpreting the
rule book and that there was no
point upon which to base an appeal.
This matter was referred to the
Rules Committee. After a lengthy
■cssion Chairman McCutcheon re
ported that it has decided, with one
dissenting vote, that the Speaker
bad correctly interpreted the rules
but that Miscovich had the right
of appeal.
The ruling of the chair was sus
tained by a vote of 18-6.
The statehood memorial gained
i place on today’s calendar after
the Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
Copyright, 1951, cy Bell Syndicate, Inc.,
IF/ -
tower may find himself in the em
larrassing position of getting the
Democratic nomination for Presi
ient in 1952, whether he wants it
>r not.
This leaked out of the White
rouse after a private remark made
jy President Truman to a poli
,ical adviser, who had told him
ibout a plan on the part of anti
Truman Democrats—including Jim
ny Byrnes and Jim Farley—to
lominate Eisenhower.
Mr. Truman’s reply was a bit
ilaintive but apparently sincere.
‘“Well, if Ike wants it,” he said,
‘I’ll nominate him myself.”
This coincides with a statement
iy speaker Sam Rayburn that
Sisenhower could have the Presi
lential nomination on the Demo
rratic ticket—a statement made by
i man who doesn’t often cross
vires with Truman.
Meanwhile some of Ike’s friends
iContinued on Page Four)
PUBLIC OPINION
The following communication, ad
dressed to W. E. Bonser, Editor of
the Cordova Times appeared in the
issue of February 15, 1951 and is
worth reading:
My Dear Editor:
I have reason to believe that per
sonally you are a gentleman and a
, scholar, civic minded and patriotic.
I would suppose that you are hon
est and generous.
But as an exponent of Alaska
statehood I will say that you are
either an unsplificated fool or a
permanganated liar. You quote and
endorse the effusions of a brilliant,
voluminous but contemptably false
editorial writer in the Anchorage
Times.
In theAnchorage Times of Jan
uary 25th he says, “The Statehood
movement is so right that it is
questioned only by those special
interestes whose selfish purpises
overshadow the common good."
I would like to meet that editor
and tell him in no uncertain man
ner that his statement makes him
out either a fool or a liar. If he
will come here to Chitina I will
introduce him to a number of men
and women who have been in Al
aska for nearly half a century.
They are known as people of fair
intelligence and unquestioned in
tegrity. They have lived strenuous,
frugal and hopeful lives here in
Alaska in doing their part to de
velop the Territory into an econ- j
omic condition that would warrant
Statehood. They are honest in their
expressed opinion that statehood
is not yet feasable or justified.
And anyone T-’hc says these people
are not sincere in their opposition
to Statehood is either a fool or
a liar.
These people have no connection'
or interest in any special interests.
They mostly do not even know that
these "Special Interests" even ex
ist.
Also we are suspicious (and I'm
one of them) of those proponents!
of statehood who have no better |
argument than a lot of inane
cliches that are calculated to im
press adolescents and unrealistic
adults.
There may be good arguments
in favor of statehood, but the mis
representation aiift plain damned
lying that has been put out to
date is so palpably dishonest that
I think Congress will inquire a i
lot further before it is stampeeded j
into giving S'tatehoo*d to a few
people who are willing to misrep-,
resent their Territory in so blat-■
ant a way that it would be per-1
haps vicious it it were not so
damned silly.
Yours for bigger and better
boosting.
(Signed, O. A. Nelson, Chitina.
_.
some heated debate and parlia
mentary maneuvering Saturday aft
ernoon.
The measure was in the hands of
the Committee on Engrossment,
headed by Rep. Waino Hendrickson.
In answer to a question by Rep.
McCutcheon, Rep. Hendrickson said
! his committee had not processed the
memorial.
McCutcheon quoted the rule book
to the effect that measures are to
be reported back by the Engross
ment Committee on the day after
they are received by the committee.
Hendrickson said he had received'
the memorial that morning, but
McCutcheon insisted that the me
morial had gone to the committee
on Friday when the second reading
was completed.
The parliamentarians, headed
by McCutcheon, rode roughshod
over a protest by Rep. Doris Barnes
that she had amendments for the
memorial and that she had been
given no opportunity to present
them when the memorial was rush
ed through second reading on Fri
day.
Two Way Rules
“Our rules seem to work one way
j one time and just the opposite the
! next time, depending on who wants
j them applied,” commented Mrs.
j Barnes.
"Delegate Bartlett has asked that
this memorial be sent to Congress
and the people of Alaska will be
watching our actions,” McCutcheon
said.
With the finesse of a Sherman
tank and the assistance of the Rules
Committee, which is headed by Mc
Cutcheon, McCutcheon dug the me
morial out of the Engrossment Com
mittee to take its place at the foot
of the long calendar.
—
FROM KODIAK
R. T. Guaglianone, Coast Guards
! man from Kodiak, is stopping at
j the Hotel Juneau.
REAL ESTATE
BOARD BILL
FAILS TWICE
"" By Bob De Armond
House Bill No. 2—to create a Real
Estate Board and require licensing
of brokers and salesmen—failed to
pass the House this morning on its
second trial.
On Saturday the vote on the
measure was 10-14. This morning
the vote was 11-13, Rep. McCut
cheon, who had voted against the
bill on Saturday and served notice
of his intention to reconsider, this
morning voted for the bill. No
other votes were changed.
There was a short debate before
the roll was called this morning,
most of it a repetition of Saturday’s
debate.
Saturday Session
Saturday’s session of the House]
of Representatives saw the defeat |
of the Real Estate Board bill by
a 10-13 vote—with final action
held over until today on a notice
of reconsideration—and passage of
the memorial asking for an open |
season on Kodiak Island bears by
a vote of 18-5,
Three witnesses—Peter Wood and
Bob Druxman of Juneau and J- C.
Morris of Anchorage—appeared be
fore the House in a Committee of
the Whole on the Real Estate
Board bill, and for so arid a sub
ject it provoked a good deal of
mirth when Wood took the stand
and exchanged quips with Rep.
Kay and others.
Wood opposed the measure on the
grounds that it was “loosely drawn,
poorly drawn and overdrawn,” and
that cueh a law 's unneeded in
Southeast Alaska utut -vould be “for
almost the sole 'Dtiifc'f of At,h-i
orage.”
Wood said he would go along
on a bill for some control of real
estate brokers—preferably a mea
sure to require a bond-but felt i
that H. B. 2 was too drastic. He j
suggested several amendments that ]
were later adopted by the House. j
Bob Druxman opposed the bill
on much the same grounds as Wood
and argued that laws presently on
the books cover most of the impor
tant points of the bill
Public Protection
J. C. Morris. Anchorage real es
tate and insurance broker, told the
House that the bill is more for
the protection of the general pub
lic than for the protection of es-!
tablished brokers.
Similar legislation, he said, has
been adopted by 26 states, and the
bill was aoproved by the Anchor
age Board of Realators.
"The opposition to this bill is
one of fear that some established
brokers may be damaged by it," j
Morris said. He urged reinstate- ]
ment of a “grandfather clause”
that the House had previously el-;
iminated from the bill, asserting
that this would protect brokers now
in business. • He questioned the
constitutionality of legislating a
person out of business.
Keeps Money Out
Morris cited instances to show
that outside capital is willing to
invest in first mortgages in Alas
-ka but is being deterred by the
| lack of suitable laws to control
real estate transactions.
Reps. Egan and Franklin ques
tioned the desirability of creating
another board with power to adopt
rules and regulations.
“This actually gives legislative
powers to an administration board,”
said Egan, “and I am against this
in principle.”
“Twenty-two states seem to be
1 getting along without this legisla
tion and I am sure most if not
all of them have many more real
estate transactions than Alaska,”
commented Franklin.
“We are still a last frontier and
a country of rugged individuals,”
said Mrs. Barnes. “ I think Mr.
Morris has built a very fine busi
ness without bentfit of this kind of
legislation and I believe others
should have that same opportun
ity.”
After the bill had failed to paSs,
Rep. McCutcheon, had voted
against it, gave notice of his in
tention to reconsider.
Fish vs. Bears
The arguments in favor of the
Carlson-Scavenius memorial on Ko
diak bears shifted largely from the
cattleman’s to the fisherman’s view
point during the closing debate
! on the meausre.
j Rep. Carlson quoted a report by
POWER OFF SUNDAY
NIGHT, LONG PERIOD
A slide took out the power line
on the .Annex Creek section last
night. The first power off occurred
at 7 o'clock and the city was in
total darkness until 7:53 o’clock.
Then another blackout took place
at 8 o’clock and the juice did not
come on until 8:45 o’clock.
Many dinners were stalled ofi
during the two blackouts and other
disturbances were caused.
—
Pish and Wildlife Service aquatic
biologist Richard F. Shuman on
bear depredations on red salmon
streams in the Karluk area of
Kodiak Island.
According to this report, the
bears destroyed $117,649 worth of
unspawned salmon during the 1947
season and provided only $9,000
in income for the Territory through
big gamehunts in the areaj
"In view of this report, I do not
see that we can place too much
reliance on the testimony of Mr.
Clarence Rhode,” said Rep. Frank,
lin. "He told us that although
bears are claimed to be destructive
to fish in some areas, there have
been no studies of the actual
amount of destruction.’
Bears Not in Danger
Rep. Andrew Hope, citing long
experience of the Native peoples
of Alaska, scoffed at the idea that
bears could be easily exteriminated
on Kodiak Island. The bears move
out of an area that is extensively
hunted, Hope said, ‘“There are
plenty of places on Kodiak Island
where nobody will bothei to go
after them.”
“There are plenty of bears on
Montague and Hinchinbrook Islands
to last a long time,” asserted Rep.
Carlson. "Just lay aside your wor
ries about the bear becoming ex
tinct.”
Reps. Gasser and Kay thought
the memorial entirely too drastic
and suggested that while open
seasons should perhaps be estab
lished in certain zones, there
should also be zones of refuge for
the bears on Kodiak Island.
"We are asking here for the ex
tinction of one of the world’s great
est game animals, and as such one
of Alaska’s greatest ."^sources,” Kay
asserted.
The memorial passed 18-5 with
Reps. Conright, Gasser, Kay, Laws
and Madsen voting agai.ist it and
Rep. MacKinnon absent.
DENALI BRINGS 30
FROM SOUTH TODAY
Arriving on the Denali were 25
passengers from Seattle and five
from Ketchikan. Sailing time for
the Westward is scheduled at 4
this afternoon. Master of the ship
is Capt. C. Nilsen with J. W. Hick
man, chief purser.
Disembarking from Seattle: Roy
W. Allen, D. E. Black, Mrs. Tom
Cashen and daughter; Doris E.
Clark, Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Clements,
C. F. Hansen, Ida Ruth Hayes, Mr.
and Mi's. Arnold Hildre, C. Hudson,
Beula Lee, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
McKinley, Fannie T. Phillips, Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Riddle, Dr. Robert
Staff, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Staples,
R. A.' Treffers, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Williams, Miss Arlene Winters.
From Ketchikan: Mrs. George
Dundas, Master Peter Hildre,
George Livingston, Alex Stevens, D.
E. Styke.
LIONS INITIATE
TWO NEW MEMBERS
Russ Clark and Cyrus Peck were
initiated into the Juneau Lions
Club by A1 Ransome at a regular
meeting at the Baranof Hotel.
Fairbanks Lions Joe Coble and
Herb Hilscher took over taiitwister
duties. Art Hedges, chairman of the
basketball committee, introduced
team managers here for the Gold
Medal tournament which begins to
night.
Visiting Lions were John Hope
and Bill Peters of Mt. Edgecumbe
and Bob Shuff of Hoonah. Howard
Moore, highway patrolman from
Ketchikan, was a guest.
EMERGENCY , FLIGHT
A. U. S. Coast Gua'd plane at
Kodiak made an emergency flight
to Chignik this morning to pick
| up Harold Anderson, it was learned
I at CG headquarters here. Anderson
i Was belieyed to be suffering from
I an attack of appendicitis. He was
j taken to a hospital in Kodiak.
OPERATE MINES
IN TAKU AREA
BY MID-SUMMER
The Polaris-Taku Mining Com
pany surface plant on the Tulse
quah River, about 60 miles.east of
Juneau, has been leased by the Con
solidated Mining and Smelting Com
pany of Canada, Lt. lor operations
which will commence by mid-sum
mer of this year, it was disclosed
in advices received here by the
Alaska Development Board.
Crew of 200 Men
The arrangement be!ween Corn
inco and the Polaris-Taku Minim
Company provides for a minimum
five-year lease period. A crew of
about 200 men will be employed in
the operation, which will use the
Polaris-Taku concentrator to handle
ore from Cominco’s Big Bull ana
Tulsequah Chief mines at the rate
of about 250 tons a day.
The development is of import
ance to Juneau because it will be
supplied largely from this city, ad
vises reveal, and it; products will
be shipped down the Taku River
through this area.
Adequate ore reserves from the
Canadian properties have been es
tablished by development work ex
tending over the past three year
The concentrator will produce a
copper, a lead and a zinc concen
trate. These products will be trucked
seven miles to Tulsequah Landing
and barged down the Taku River
to tidewater near Juneau. From
there the copper concentrate will
be shipped to a customs smei. j
Tacoma while the lead and zinc eon- |
centrates will be shipped to Trail,
B. C.
Local Interests
The Big Bull and Tulsequah j
Chief mines in the Taku Vahey [
w^re discovered in the late 1920s by
local mining men. The Big Bui! dis
covery was made by Victor Man
ville, weliknown oldtime mining
man, while representing Juneau in
terests, chiefly the Goldstein fam
ily of this city. Retaining a minor
ity interest in the property ar j
Juneau residents Isadore and Carol -,
Goldstein, Charles Goldstein, Dr. '
Robert Simpson, Arnot Hendrick
son, Minted Mill and Vic ■< r Man
ville now living in the Anchor.me
district, aT«' Marie Goldstein Dol
inger of Loa Angeles.
The Tulsequah Chief discovery
was made by the Kirkham .unity |
of Douglas, also in the late 1929 . I
Glen Kirkham still hold a miner- |
ity interest in the property as does j
Carl Carlson of Douglas, George |
Johnson, formerly of Douglas and
Anchorage and now living in Wald
port, Ore, and Robert Rice of ]
Juneau.
STOCK QUOTATIONS j
NEW YORK, Feb. 19 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%, American Can
107%, American Tel. and Tel. 153,
Anaconda 43%, Douglas Aircraft
104, General Electric 54%. General
Motors 50, Goodyear 70%. Kennt -
cott 77%, Libby, McNeil and Libby j
9%, Northern Pacific 36%. Stand
ard Oil of California 98. Twentieth
Century Fox 23%, U. S. Steel 45,
Pound 2.80%, Canadian Exchange
93.37%.
Sales today were 1,910,009 % ?.r<
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 251.65, rails 83.64, utili
ties 42.71.
FROM HOONAH
Jim Young of Hoonah is at the
Gastineau Hotel.
• ••••••••••
• WEATHER REPORT « ,
9 Temperatures tor 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock till:- morning •
• In Juneau — Maximum •
• 36; minimum, 32. •
• At Airport — Maximum, •
• 36; minimum, 33. •
• •
• forecast •
• ®
• Decreasing cloudiness with •
• lowest temperature near 28 •
• degrees. Fair and colder •
• Tuesday with highest tern- «
• perature near 32 degree Oc- •
• casional gusty northeasterly •
• winds Tuesday. •
• *
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m today *
• •
• City of Juneau — .98 inches; •
• Since Feb. 1 — 3.92 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 46 inches. •
• At Airport — .26 inches •
• Since Feb. 1 — 2.10 inches; •
• Since July 1 — 32.35 inches. •
• •••••••••*
BILL WOULD
DOUBLE TAX
FOR SALMON
Kv TIM HUTCHESON
A bill to double the territorial
canned salmon tax was introduced
today by the senate taxation com
mittee.
It came in as a committee sub
stitute for Sen. Ounnard Etige
breth’s proposal for a new tax per
can.
The present canned salmon tax,
based on raw fish valuation, brought
in about $1,400,000 last year, accord
ing to Tax Commissioner M. P. Mul
laney.
The senate passed two bills to
day which previously had been ap
proved by the house.
One, by Mayor Wnino Hendrick
son of Juneau, would allow city
councilmen to be elected to one,
two or three-year terms. The pres
ent law is for one or three-year
terms.
It won senate apy roval unani
mously.
The senate voted 13-3 to make
the three-volume Alaska compiled
laws the official legal code of Alas
ka. That means it will be the final
authority on territorial laws — even
though attorneys acknowledged
there were some slight variations or
omissions from the laws as passed
by previous legislatures.
The bill, by Rep. Jack Conright |
(D-Anchorage), was making its,
second trip around the legislative
merry-go-round. It was approved
by the 1949 special session but is
being reenacted because of the
legal shadow over the validity of
the special session.
The senate had held up action for
more than two weeks, awaiting an
opinion from Juneau attorneys on
the action. The final vote came after
the Juneau Ear Association recom
mended passage, in a letter to Sec- j
relary M. E. Monagle.
The letter said the association
recommended that the legislature
accept tl:e volumes as the laws of
Aluska "and repeal all session laws
previously enacted."
It said that the volumes have
been used as the source books for
attorneys for two years and "er
rors are few and inconsequential.”
Salmon Tax liill
The substitute salmon tax bill
would boost the tax from 4 per cent
of the raw fish value to 3 per cent.
The tax is on 50 per cent of the
actual prevailing wholesale market
in Seattle.
The original Engebreth bill pro
posed a new tax of three-quarter. j
of a cent a can oil red, king and j
sockeye salmon and half a cent on
other varieties.
The substitute bill would raise
more than the original proposal.
Engebreth estimated his proposal
would bring in around $1,000,000 a
year. On the basis of the tax col
lection last year, the doubling of
the raw fish tax would add $1,400,
000.
A salmon industry authority
cited a wider variation.
He said that the present tax on
pinks, for example, i.. 40 cents a
case. The doubling proposal there
fore would add 40 cent- a case com
pared to Fngebreth’s proposal of a
24-cent tax per ease on pink;.
Engeb eth’s bill provided that the
new' revenue would be earmarked
for school purpo < The ib-ntuu
does NO earmarking it would go
into the general fund.
Sen. Anita Garnick' bill for a
southeastern branch of the Uni
versity of Alaska w i. up in the sen
ate on second reading. It was clear
ed eff the day’ calendar by her
request that it be held in second
reading until next Saturday.
Two other bills were introduced
in the senate today.
Sen. W. L. (Dam Lhemon intro
duced one to make the estates of
persons v/ho died whhout 'leaving
relatives, go to the territory instead
of tile Federal Government, if no
other provision t. made l< r dispo
sition of them.
Sen. Frank Ba-. (D-Fairbank ■
[ introduced a bill for zoning restric
tions around airports. It would pro
i hibit the growing of trees, of the
I erecting of tall buildings where
I they would be a hazard to use of
the airpert. Any existing structures,
however, would not be affected.
DR. PHILLIP IH'ftE
Dr. FnjncJs Phillip of Seward is
| registered at the Burapof Hotel.
Starting positions were chosen
this noon for the 10 teams entered
in the fifth annual Gold Medio
Basketball Tournament sixmsored
by the Juneau Lions Club. Games
played tonight starting at. 7 :.<v
the Juneau Imperials playing tn"
Kake ANB in game one, Sitka ANB
pitted against Petersburg in game
two. and the Ketchikan Rockets et
against Mike's Nite Owls of Doug
las for game three.
Picking up in play Tuesday after
noon are three more games at 1:30.
Game number four has the Metla
katla Vets vs. Klukwnn ANB, game
number five with Wrangell Thun
derbirds playing the winner of the1
Imperial-Knke game, and gams six
scheduling Angoon ANB .against the
winner of the Sitka-Petersburg tilt,
Tuesday evening games get un
derway at 7 with three more games.
Game seven pits the losers of game
one and game two: game eight sees
the losers of game three and four:
while game nine has the winners of
games four and five.
Present at the drawings for start
ing positions were managers and i
captains of ay 10 teams and Art
Hedges, tournament committee
chairman, and Buck Faulkner and
Les Avrlt of the tournament com
mittee.
Other member, of the tournament
committee are: Walter Soboleff,
treasurer; Bob Scott, Ed Chester,
Carl Rusher, Clarence Warfield,
Norm Sommers and Dan Mahoney.
Judges in the awarding are Jim
Ryan, Sterling Sears. Jack Gould,
Bill Frisby and A1 Bloomquist.
The tournament teams all ar
rived over the weekend and are
staying in the three hotels, the CIO
hall and aboard their boats.
EFFORT MADE!
AVERT CRISIS;
MOBILIZATION;
_
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 —(.TV— I
President Truman talked aver with
congressional leaders t day the
crisis growing out of the dispute
between his mobilization planners
and labor union leaders.
House Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex)
told reporters after the White House
meeting the controversy was dis- •
cussed “In a general way." He add
ed that he imagines Mr. Truman is
keeping in close touch with Mobil
ization Chief Charles E. Wilson on
the matter.
Mi-. Truman may have to step in
to mediate the wrangle which
threatens to snarl the nation’s de
fense program. Rayburn reported,
however, that nothlpg was said at
today's meeting about any confer
ence between the President and the
labor union chiefs.
Organized labor’s support of the
present program — with possible
political significance as well — was
in the balance. A meeting of the
major labor groups'— the AFL, CIO
and Railroad Unions — cooperating
as the United Labor Policy Com-,
mittee (ULPC) was set for this aft
ernoon.
There was strong sentiment
among the ULPC member’, repre
senting nearly all of the 16,000,000
workers in labor unions except John
L. Lewis’ miners and four railroad
unions, to ditch the whole admin
istration program.
That could lend to widespread;
strikes and disruption ot defense
planning.
SENATOR mim
IS m NORTH TO
STUDY STATEHOOD
i ANCHORAGE, Alaska., Feb. 19 —
| OP)—Sen. Herman Welker (R-Idaho)
arrived from San Francisco by air
lust night “to inspect defense in
stallation ; and find out how Alas
kans feel and think about the ever
presertt question of statehood."
Welker plans numerous public ap
pearances durina a two-day stay
here. Tuesday lie will in pect nearby
Fort Richardson and ElmenU rf Air
| Fprce Base.
MAULED
CHINESE
RETREAT
Counier-Altocking Ameri
cans Smash Four Miles
Inlo Heart of Reds
Ry Associated Press
Counter-attacking Americans to
day smashed four miles Into the
heart of a Korean Red stronghold
in Cast-Central Korea. Hundreds
of Communists were killed.
On the Central and Western
fronts, the badly mauled Chinese
withdrew from the battlelines.
Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway
said his Allied forces had won a
decisive victory on these fronts. But
he said the Chinese Reds have
enough massed troops to prevent a
successful Allied crossing north of
Parallel 38 if the Reds commit them.
UN troops established a small
bridgehead on the north baiik of
the Han River five miles east of
Seoul but were driven back by Red
mortar and machinegun fire. ’
The Allies advanced all along the
Western front, as much as four
miles in some areas. Their lines
were jammed solidly up to the south
bank of the Han near the ruins of
the Korean capital.
The commander of the U. S.
Eighth Army reported a decisive
victory over the Chinese and North
Korean Reds. The enemy lost tens
of thousands in dead and wounded,
while Allied losses were relatively
light.
General Ridgway said a magnifi
cent stand by American and French
forces at Chipyong Thursday broke
the back of a five-day Red drive to
smash through the Allied lines. To
day the enemy had pulled back in
the 70-mile area between the west
coast and Wonju on the Central
front.
Associated Press Correspondent
Russell Brines said the Allies
achieved a brilliant local victory by
setting off an enemy trap without
getting caught in it. The Reds tried
to lead the UN forces across the
Han and into Seoul, then cut them
off by encirrllng the Allies and
taking Wonju, the key highway
town 35 miles southeast of Seoul.
But the Reds ran into massed Al
lied firepower in depth, the stout
American-French garrison held
Chipyong north of Wonju and the
enemy failed to accomplish his ob
jective.
MYSTERIOUS
MISSILES ARE SEEN
IN KOREA WATER*
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—UPl—AI
official Navy magazine Aviation
News, i ports the sighting of mys
terious, smoke-trailing missiles in
Korean waters.
The magazine said in its current
issue that the missiles plowed up
"two huge columns of water . . .
about 100 feet in height.” The report
came from the Seaplane Tender
Gardiners Bay. It added that "iden
tification of the missiles remains a
great mystery."
A Navy spokesman said, in re
sponse to a reporter’s inquiry, that
the incident occurred last Decem
ber and has not been previously
publicized. The Navy gave no fur
ther information it may have ob
tained.
MRS. ENGLISH RETURNS
Mrs. Jane English returned on
the Princes;; Norah after an ex
tended visit of over four months in
Chicago and then briefly in Port
land and Seattle.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Denali trom Seattle in port and
scheduled to sail westward at 4
this afternoon.
Freighter Square Knot from Seat
tle due to arrive Wednesday p.m.
Princess Norah scheduled to ar
rive at 10 am. tomorrow and sails
south two hours later, at 12 noon.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
. Seattle 4 p.m. Friday.