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VOL. LXXVL. NO. 11,710 _JUNEAU. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 17, 1951 MEMB1 R ASSOCIATED PR1 _ PRICE TEN CENTS
ALLIED
RAIDERS
HOLD OH
Occupy Three Korean Out
posts - Generals Get
Glimpse of Front
(By the Associated Press)
Allied tank-infantry raider teams
held firmly today to three western
Korean outposts within striking
range of 120,000 Chinese troops.
Tl^e scouting forces are on the
third day of a mission to test
enemy strength south of Seoul.
They ran into their toughest fight
Tuesday at Suwon.
The U.S. Army Chief of Staff
Gen. J. Lawton Collins, watched
Allied tanks, troops and warplane
rout a 1.000 man Red garrison force
there.
Red Armies Massing
Suwon is 17 air miles south of
Seoul and closer still to the massing
area of three Chinese armie south
of the Han river and the old
capitol.
The Allied raiders swept into
Suwon as warplanes inflicted 300
casualties on the Reds.
Central Front
On the central front, a spokes
man said Allied forces still occu
pied Yongwol, 30 miles southeast of
Wonju.
Collins saw the Suwon fight on
his tour of Korean battlefronts.
Gen. Hoyt S. Vautlenberg, U.S.
Air Forces Chief of Staff, told a
Tokyo news conference Allied a-r
power aimed to hit the Reds and
their supply lines around the clock.
The Air General was just back
from Korea.
Generals at Front
Two other Washington Pentagon
Generals visited the front Wed
nesday. They are Lt. Gen. Walter
Bedell Smith, central intelligence
agency chief, and Maj. Gen. Alex
ander R. Bolling, U.S. Army intelli
gence head.
All four arrived in Tokyo Sunday
for high-level conferences and on
the-spot views of the Korean war.
Heavy Red Casualties
Field reports said U.N. casual
ties in the western effensive have
been held to a minimum, while in
flicting, with the help of scorching
air support, heavy casualties on the
Reds. Civilians report many Reds
were throwing away their arms and
moving unarmed down backroads
because of the cold. Allied planes
have been wrecking every enemy
held building where freezing troops
might fir d sanctuary or warmth.
FROM SITK/'
Howard E. Taubeneck lV Sitka i.
at the Baranof Hotel.
_
FROM KETCHIKAN
Pete Dersoer of Ketchikan is a*
the Baranof Hotel.
A. L. White of Anchorage is stay
ing at the Baranof Hotel.
The Washington!
Merry - Go - Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1951, Dy Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
J^ASHINGTON — Jumpin’ Joe
McCarthy, the “MC” from .Wis
consin, has been alternately calling
me a liar and accusing me of be
ing too accurate in publishing armv
cables estimating Chinese strength
in North Korea at about one-quart
er of the 1,000,000-mail army an
nounced by MacArthur. However,
here is another document which
Jumpin' Joe also won’t want me to I
publish.
It is the income-tax of gangster
Charlie Fischetti, cousin of Ralph
Capone of Mercer, Wisconsin, at
one time a McCarthy political
booster.
Fischetti, who is now duckin':
Senate crime investigations, took
over much of the underworld em
pire of his cousin A1 Capone, af
ter the latter was jailed for income
tax evasion. Fischetti’s domain ex
tends all the way from the ritzy
North Shore of hicago where he
maintains a penthouse at 31CC
North Shore of Chicago where he
where he has a winter place on
Allison Island off Miami Beach.
In addition to Chicago and Mia
mi, Fischetti has gambling opera
yContinued on Page Four)
The 118-inch snowfall at Houghton, Mich., has finally stopped tem
porarily after 52 straight days. Snow was sn deep that fire hydrants
around the city were marked with a long pole attached to them. The
118 inches of snow for the season thus far can be well represented
by the heighth of the street sign and windows of the house. (/PI H ire
| photo.
Metal Parts Sticking Up
from Snow Only Visible
Evidence of Accident
EDWALL, Wash., Jan. 17-^B—
Jagged pieces of airp’-ane letal
sticking up throa. ’: ?•:■■■' on an
eastern Washington wheat field
were the only visible evidence today
that 10 persons died there.
Investigators began to probe the
snow' and question witnesses today.
They are looking for the reason be
hind the crash of a Northwest Air
lines plane shortly after noon ye -
terday.
There were seven passengers ai i
a crew of three aboard. Coroner F.
Campbell stood out in a raging
blizzard for hours probing through
the snow and late last night said
four victims had been identified
from personal effects.
Torn to Shreds
The plane, a twin-engined Martin
202, W'as torn to shreds. The largest
pieces left were an engine, a wheel
and a few' pieces of metal.
The plane was on a flight from
Chicago to Seattle, when it stopped
at Spokane to pick up passenger .
Thirteen minutes after it took off
the pilot messaged by radio that he
was “in trouble and losing altitude.”
Moments later the plane smashed
into the ground near the L. E.
Bundy farmhouse north of here.
Strikes — Explodes
It struck with terrific violence
and exploded. Bundy and his wife
said it sounded like the plane was
in a power dive.
Northwest Airlines released this
list of passengers and crew:
The passengers—Curtis Edwards.
Yakima. Wash: W. J. Craft. San'
Francisco: Robert R Mann, la-1
coma: Mr and Mrs. G J. Milligan,;
Fairfax. Va : Charles Wood Seattle; j
(Continued on Page Two)
NEW YORK, Jan. 17 — Clo in« -
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3>,. American Can
99:!,, American Tel. and Tel. 152 >,
Anaconda 42 V Douglas Aircraf
106V General Electric 52V Gen
eral Motors 49V Goodyear 72V
Kennecott 79V Libby McNeill and
Libby 9N, Norlhe-n Pacific 34V
Standard Oil of California 94, Twen
tieth Century Fo-; 21 ’ i. U.S. Steel
4G, Pound $2.30, Canadian Ex
change 95.25.
Sales today were 3I8G0.C09 shares.
Averages today 3re as follows: in 1
dustrials 248.02, rails 81.53, util: " j
42.35.
Shooters in
■ ,
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 17—
r>—Authorities said today a Seattle
business man and a Juneau woman
involved in a hotel room shooting
will both recover.
Charles M. Rohda, 52, of the Sea
land Construction Company, was
i wounded in the arm, cheek, jaw and
! shoulder.
A woman identified by police as
| Mrs. Scott Murphy of Juneau has
! a bullet crease. Officers said she
! had registered at the hotel as Mr..
| H. I.. Johnson of Seattle.
Police said the woman had taken
' some kind of pills after the Monday
midnight shooting.
Rohda had been here about a
week checking on construction bids
for his firm.
Police said the woman had left
a note for Rohda when she regis
tered Monday night. A note found
later in her room was an invitation
to her room for “a last drink.”
AIR FORCE
EXPANSION
100GROUPS
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 — A —
A top officer said today the An J
For'-e intend., to expand to 95 to
100 groupi of planes and 971.000
officers and men. Tins is about
double its pre-Korean war strength.
Et. Gen. Idwal Edwards, Air
Force Deputy Chief of Staff in
charge of operations gave that re- j
port to a House Armed Service sub
committee.
As of last June, the Air Force had !
412,000 officers and mefi and 48;
air groups The number of plane..;
in an air croup varies with the pur- i
pose of the aircraft, ranging from
18 heavy bombers to 75 fighters. |
Edwards testified at hearings on 1
a bill to reorganize the Air Force
He objected to a provision limiting
to 2300 the number of officers who
could be assigned to the Air Force !
staff in Washington except in the
time of war or national emergencj ,
His testimony did not bring out ;
when the Air Force expect, to reach
its expansion goals.
PARTY FOR CHOIP
The Rev. Robert L. Whelt was
host to an informal dinner rty
for 23 members of the C< diolic
choir at the Baranof Ilotei last
evening.
PRICE-WAGE
FREEZE NOW
COMING UP
Food Is at Highest Peak
Government Announces
Latest Developments
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 — —
Spurred by the highest food price,,
in American history, the govern
ment today moved significantly
nearer general controls over price.
and wages.
A nationwide price-wage freeze
is widely expected whenever tht
Economic Stabilization Agency is
able to handle such an order with
out being snowed under. Tne ESA
is making progress toward getting
■such a staff.
Here are key developments or.
the stabilization front:
1. ESA employees rose t.i 430, an
increase of loo in the last ten days.
2. Work of opening field offices
was rushed. ESA officials said the
13 regional offices will be "in busi
ness" by Feb 1. some of them
earner.
3. Industry leaders were being
chosen rapidly to head ESA •■com
munity divisions,” such as foods,
chemicals, consumers poods, and
forest products,
4. The Bureau of Labor Statistics
announced that the retail prices of
50 foods in eight large cities hav
hit a new peak. On Jan. 2. the
average of those price .tend at 218.9
percent of the 1935-1939 avcragi
During the two weeks, prior to Jai:
2, the price level had surpass*,
the former high of 210.8 on J\r
15. 1948.
5. One government official a
man whose Influence was extrens i
important in blocking a 30-day
price freeze last week -told a re
porter he is not against a freeze,
but is only against doing it now,
when the staff is still inadequate.
PRICE ROLL-BACK
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 l/T
The government will order a gen
eral price and wage freeze within
the next five or six days, a high
level government source reported
today.
A roll-back of prices to Jan 1
levels is under consideration, this
official said.
The decision was attributed to
Charles E. Wilson, director of the
Office of Defense Mobilization. He
reportedly is convinced that neither
voluntary nor piece-meal controls
can stem the inflationary surge.
Economic Stabilization Adminis
trator Alan Valentine was reported
ready to carry out the across-the
board ceiling orders, despite ESA’s
lack of enforcement machinery a.id
staff.
There had been earlier predictions
that price-wage controls would be
applied whenever the ESA mustered
a staff able to handle the regula
tions.
These predictions were bulwarked
by the rise in food prices to the
highest point in American hisloiy.
FROM WRANGEI.L
Mr. and Mrs. II Wells of Wran
gell are stopping at the Hotel Ju
neau.
SEATTLE VISITOR
Morris. Richardson of Seattle s
rcuisti red . 1 the Hotel Juneau.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
tiidin 6:20 o’clock this tnorrnn •
In Juneau—Maximum. 16;
minimum, 9.
At Airport—Maximum, 1;
minimum —3.
F <> R E C A S T
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Continued cold with vari
able cloudiness and an occa
loruil light snow flurry to
n,ght and Thursday. Low
temperature tonight near 12
and high Thursday around
20 degrees.
PRECIPITATIO S'
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today
City of Juneau — None;
since Jan 1 3.81 Inches;
since July 1—41.80 inches.
At Airport — None:
since Jan. 1 — 2.19 inches;
since July 1—30.19 inches.
American Tanks in Berlin
Heavy l . S. 1 . rshine tanks are lined up at Cirone.wald sl.iliun in Berlin alter their arrival through the
ItU'shin /one without incident. It was the first time American tanks had keen in tile city since 1945
and they will in used to train Sisth S. regiment in utilizing armor for infantry support Twenty
two (auks were includeed in the shipment, (ffi Wirephoto via radio from Berlin.
DRAFTING OF
11-YEM-OLDS
IS URGED NOW
Senator Morse Also Urges
25-Year Mobilization
Program- Reasons
f .—
■ WASHINGTON. Jen. '7 — K -
Oregon s hepublistui Senator Morse
today backed the Pentagon's plan
l to draft 18-year-old.- and went on
j to urge a 2S-ye.:r mobilb'.uUon pro
l gram becalise "we face a period ol
'tension that Ion. wills Hus.-ia and
Communism.”
Morse is a member of the Senate
Armed Services Prepamine sub
| committee. It is considering a pro
i posal by Secretary of Defen. e Mar
shall for a pemunent universal mili
tary service and training program.
Marshall’s plan calls for lowering
the draft age from 1I> to 18. and
stretching service from 21 to 27
months.
After a week of testimony by
Marshall and A ■ >tant Secretary of
Defense Anna M. Rosenberg, the
chairman of the -uijcommittee. Beu
I ntor Lyndon John: on iD-Te::}, re
1 mained sharply critical of the pro
posal.
More declared that a quarter
century period oi military alert may
require a wide oread revision of our
educational systems." He spoke to
a reporter prior to the appearance
before the subcommittee cl a group
of educational leaders v ho helped
develop the n-.s military training
proposal.
"The manpower program 1. going
to confront i. for 23 years," Morse
said. It may bc that long before we
can feel arc. We must gear our
economy, manpower and military
plans for a long p ill.”
If many thousands of young men
must take basic military training
each year, he aid. most college
course., -hould be shortened from i
the present four years to three.
MEMORIAL ( III Ki ll
PRAYER MEETING AT 7:30
The regular prayer meeting of
Memorial Church will be at 7:30
this evening. Eibie study will be
from " fhe Acts of the Apostles."
A tape recordin', of the opening
add: ' at the National Meeting j
ot Women' OrganRations, "Thine
i.s tin Power, by Ur. Raymond I. j
Lindquist, will be heard.
m i < in: here
111 A. Thatcher. . oker. of Ket
chikan is topping at the Baranof
Hotel.
FROM WASHINGTON
Curl M Pa Misti of Snohomish,
Wash., is stopping at the Gastineau
Hotel.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Potosky
of Anchorage are guests at the
Baranof Hotel.
Ian. 22 Conference !o Promote!
Agreement Unions-Contractorf
Non-Stop Construction Program
RejAvsente lives of the Depart- ■
nimf- of Interior, Labor, Defense j
ami the Federal Mediation and |
Conciliation Service are Included:
m (Ik- Inter-Department Committee
Sian! Navy
Carrier Gets j
House Vote!
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 TP
The Hou:s voted unanimous ap
proval today for the Navy to build n
giant aircraft carrier capable of
launching plane., carrying the atom |
bomb.
Th: 57.000-ton carrier is included
in legislation luthorizing a $2,000.
000,000 ship construction and mod
ernization program.
House passage sent the bill to
the Senate It. was the first majoi
measure to dear either branch o!
Congress since the session began
Jan. 3.
The Navy estimates it will take
three and one-half years to build
the carrier.
Rep. Anderson (R-Calif) has pro
posed in a bill that it be named in
honor of the late Secretary of De
fense Forrestal.
The carrier would be 1.2,000 tons
heavier than the Navy’s present
biggest flat-tops, the 45.000 ton
Midway class.
F. 5. OFFICIALS
ON TIMBER SALES
INSPECTION TRIP
For a general Inspection and ad
ministration work on timber -ales.
Charles G. Burdick, Assistant Re
gional Forester. U.S. Forest Service,
left this morning on the Ranger 10,
enroute to point., between Juneau
and Sitka. He was accompanied by :
Malcolm Hardy, Acting Supervisor
lor the Admiralty Division.
The Forest Service officials will
visit Hood Bay, Fish Bat, tick
Cove and Sitka, returning to Juneau
about January 30.
At Fish Bay Clyde Maycock. For
ester at Sitka, will join the party
for the remainder of the trip to
Sitka.
The Ranger 10 Is in command ot
Capt. Clarence Wittanen.
Anna E. Park of Sant i Clara.
Calif, who has been visiting friends
throughout Alaska is in Juneau for
awhile. She is stoppuiv 't the Gas
t treat Hotel
of executive agencies of the United
States with defense responsibilities
in Alaska which is sponsoring the
conference of unions and contrac
tors engaged in buildup construc
tion in Alaska called for next Mon
day in Anchorage.
Telegrams were vefe1 zed in Ju
neau yesterday Irc.ni Secretary of
the Interior Oscar I . Chapman,
inviting the Governor of Alaska, the
Territorial Commissioner of Labor!
and business representatives ot in
terested unions to be represented
at the conference.
Advices from Secretary Chapman
said it is anticipated Senator
Wayne Morse of Oregon will he
chairman of the conference Sen
ator Morse is a member of the
Arm. ' Services Committee of (he
Senate
The conference is called for Jan
uary at 10 a.in. in the main
studio of radio KfciNl in Anchorage
Purposes of the conference. Se
cretary Chapman s telegram ;tales,
are "tat To discuss with the "unions
and contractors the urgent import
ance of efficient production in de
fence construction in Alaska with
out toppy-e. 01 inteniptions din
ing tile ensuing construction sea
son .and 'hi To promote agreement
among the unions and contractors
which will provide advance assur
ances that they will resort to mu
tually acceptable special proced
ures to determine equitable
and other terms and conditions ol
employment without stoppages if
the negotiations to take place fail
to result in collective bargaining
agreements."
"I have been requested, .-.tales
Chapman’s telegram, "To make it
dear that this conference will eon
tern itself with above matter, ex
clusively, and will not involve other
subject-matter of collective bar
gaining negotiations shortly to take
place. Further, the Committee as
sume that any agreements reached
wall be subordinated to and be con
sistent with any overriding nation
al agreement that may be made
with respect to the building con
.. t ruction industry.”
Business representatives of build
ing construction unions who are in
vited to be represented at the con
ference are: Robert F. fciiiapley,
Fairbanks: Carl J, Slatburg, Fair
bank.. Local 315; George H Davis.
Fairbanks Local 1213; Rober^ Cec
urelii, Fairbanks Local 1555, Irving
Hill, President Alaska Territorial
Brotherhood of Carpenters and j
Joiners of America, Juneau.
Governor Grueniug said this ]
morning he will delegate a repre-!
sentative of his office to attend the
conference Henry Benson will at
tend and Irving Hill said this morn
ing he plans to go to Anchorage
for the conference Frank Marshall
i. in Ancborafe a? pre-ent.
UN PLAN IS
GIVEN FLAT
TURN SOWN
Must Be Admitted to UN
First-Seven-Power Con- j
ference, China Proposed
TOKYO. Thursday, Jan. 18—<JV
The Peiping regime today rejected
a United Nations cease-fire plan for
Korea and proposed instead a sevens
power conference t,o be held in
Communist China,
A Peiping radio broadcast ; aid
Red Premier and Foreign Minister
Chou En-I,ai declared flatly that
Communist China must be admit ted
to the U.N. before any discussions
can be held.
Chou proposed that the question
oi pence for the Orient be settled
by a conference among Red China,
Russia, the United Kingdom, the
United States. France, India and
Egypt.
Chou gave no hint of where the
proposed conference would be held.
"If." he concluded, "the above
proposal meets with the concurrence
of the United Nations and the na
tions concerned we believe that an
early negotiation will be advan
tageous to a speedy conclusion of
the war in* Korea and a peaceful
solution of the problems of Asia."
Negotiations first
At the outset of his reply to
the United Nations. Chou insisted
that negotiations to .title Asian
problems precede any ceane-fiie.
The U.N proposed it cease-fire to
be followed by negotiations.
The t?Xf Off Pltpu's fgpiy. a:
broadcast by the Peiping radio, de
clared Red China “cannot agree to
this principle."
Chou showed no chants in Pei
ping's stand since the first plans
for ending the war in Korea v.tre
advanced.
Negotiation Points
Chou's note, addressed to David
Owen, acting Secretary-General cf
the U N. In New York, made the
ante preconditions for « settlement
that Peiping has been Insisting on
all along:
1. That negotiations for a fx*ace
ful settlement of the Korean prob
lem should be based on withdrawal
of all foreign troops from Korea
and letting the Koreans settle their
own internal problems.
2. That U.S. forces must withdraw
from Formosa (meaning tha the
U.S. 7th Fleet withdraw Its pro
tecting “neutralization" of thai Na
tionalist Island).
3. That K<d China b" admitted to
the United Nations
UN. DIPLOMATS MI I T
LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 17- F -
U N. diplomats began hurried con
sultations today on a Peiping
broadcast saying Communist china
had rejected their latest cease-fire
appeal.
A meeting of the U.N. 60-nation
Political Committee probably '.'.ill
be called tomorrow to cocsidtr f:ie
reply
Informed sources said the United
States delegation was ready to press
immediately for approval of its
plans to condemn Ked China as an
aggressor. The U.S. plan he > been
ready lor more than a week but was
held up to give the Peiping regime
another chance to accept a truce.
D legates were not surprised at
the tported rejection.
KIM < VI ION fcl*K< I AT /STS,
ANS. ON W'iiOOI. IKIPfi
Martin N. B Holm, Alaska Native
Service education specialist, left
Monday to visit ANS -schools at
Metlakatla, Hydabere and Wran
gell on personnel and budget mat
ters, routine business and class
room inspection arid classroom pro
grams He return- Friday Mu.
Bertha A. Ellinger ANS education
specialist, is on a visit ta the
ANS Wrangell Institute to hold
a school program meeting with
teachers and to a-ssi.-i iduul
teachers with the teaching program.
She returns Friday or Saturday.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Norah scheduled to sat!
from Vancouver at H tonight.
Denali scheduled to sail from Si *
attle \ p.m., Friday.
Btuanof from westward sched
uled to arrive a a m Sunday. south
bound