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VOL. LXXV., NO- 11,549_JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1950_MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
North Korean Offensive Is Reported Checked
DRAFT ACT
SUMMARY
GIVEN OUT
WASHINGTON, July 8 — Ufl —
Here is a brief summary of the draft
action taken by President Truman
yesterday, along with main provi
sions of the Selective Service Act
which becomes effective tomorrow:
Armed forces strength — may be
increased by draft, if voluntary en
listments fail, to top limit allowed
by law: 2,005,882. Strength as of
May 31: 1,458,400. Difference:
547,482.
Who must register — all males
between 18 and 26.
Who may be inducted — all regis
trants over 19 years old.
Who may volunteer — anyone
who is 17 or older. Seventeen-year
olds must have parental consent.
Term of service — 21 months for
draftees: at least three years for
Army volunteers; at least four for
Navy; four years for Marines; four
years for Air Force.
Reserves — may be called up un
der the law, along with National
Guard, but probably won’t be at
least immediately. All services will
“welcome” certain specially-quali
fied volunteer reservists.
NEW VOLCANO IN
V ALASKA; IS
CHING SHOKE
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 8—itfl
—A new volcano was born this
week in the white snows of Knife
Mountain near the famed “Valley
of Ten Thousand Smokes.”
Ray Peterson, president of North
ern Consolidated Airlines, reported
the new crater when he returned
from a fishing trip to Katmai Na
tional Monument.
The mountain slopes were un
blemished white when the party
flew over them July 1, Peterson
said. The next morning a dark blot
was seen against the snow halfway
up the 7,000-foot mountain. An ex
ploratory flight led the party into
sulphurous fumes and they found
ash from the eruption scattered over
the nearby buttress range.
Peterson said the crater had
widened to 200 feet and still was
belching dense black smoke when
last seen by the departing fisher
men.
TWINS BORN
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Underhill
of Pelican became the parents of
twin sons early this morning at
St. Ann's Hospital. The first was
born at 7:42 a.m. and the second
at 8:09 a.m.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Bv DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. lM ny Ball Syndicate. too.)
WAsHINGTON — Ike Eisenhower
got his comeuppance from sardonic
Admiral William D. Leahy at a
recent White House meeting.
When Ike greeted Leahy, wlio
was Chief of Staff to President
Roosevelt in World War II, the
admiral looked Eisenhower over
carefully and replied:
“Hello, Professor.”
Ike shook his head vigorously.
"Well," Admiral Leahy comment
ed, “ I can’t call you 'Mr. Presi
dent’—yet.”
Ike flushed and changed the sub
ject.
Driblet to Korea
There’s been a lot of talk as to
why only a driblet of aid was
sent to Korea—$200,000—when Con
gress voted $10,500,000 more than
a year ago.
Republican Senators Homer Fer
guson of Michigan and William
Knowland of California have been
raising Cain about this, and quite
rightly.
There were two inside reasons
for this shocking neglect. One was
a wrong guess by military intelli
gence, the other was a standoff
attitude by General MacArthur.
Part of this story came out at a
closed-door meeting of the Senate
appropriations committee, but not
all.
Here is the rest of the story.
1. The National Security Council,
on advice of the Joint Chiefs of
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UNOFFICIAL CENSUS
COUNT S. E. ALASKA
IS GIVEN AS 28,000
With the First Division census
office closed and the count of Alas
kans completed for the 1950 decen
nial. Mrs. Bonnie Jo Gronroos, First
Division supervisor, announced to
day that the unofficial count for
southeast Alaska is 28,000.
This does not include Coast Guard
personnel at light stations or aboard
ships, but does include CG person
nel stationed ashore. All will be in
cluded in the official count.
Her estimate of residents who
may have been missed by her cen
sus takers is only about 400. What
increase will develop from First Di
vision residents who were counted
among transients in other localities,
is not yet known.
These unofficial figures have
been released by Mrs. Gronroos:
Juneau (within incorporated
city limits) . 5820
Area adjacent to Juneau . 1129
Douglas . 690
Ketchikan, in city limits . 5202
Sitka . 2080
Japonski Island, including Mt.
Edgecumbe School, hospitals,
and all employees . 1358
Petersburg . 1605
Wrangell . 1227
Metlakatla . 800
Skagway . 761
Hoonah . 558
Angoon . 410
Klawock . 398
Kake . 376
Craig . 370
Hydaburg . 341
Haines . 336
Yakutat . 293
Annette . 284
Pelican City . 177
Tenakee Village . 137
Port Chilkoot . 92
Klukwan . 91
Saxman Village . 71
Gustavus . 69
Thane . 58
Elfin Cove . 50
Kasaan . 47
Hyder . 31
Port Alexander . 22
Another division in census taking
is by Recording District, and these
Recording District totals have been
released by Mrs. Gronroos:
Haines Recording District . 640
Juneau Recording District 8572
Hyder Recording District . 31
Ketchikan Recording District. 9061
Petersburg Recording District. 2291
Sitka Recording District . 4611
Skagway Recording District .... 791
Wrangell Recording District.. 1575
The only recording district that
shows a population loss during the
last ten years is Skagway. But, to
be fair to Skagway, Mrs. Gronroos
called attention to the fact that the
Haines Recording District was
established following the 1940 cen
sus and portions of both the Skag
way and Juneau district were used
to make up the Haines area.
THREE WAR-BUILT
RUBBER PLANTS TO
. BE PUT TO WORK
WASHINGTON. July 8 — UPI —
Three of the government’s war-built
synthetic rubber plants are being
recalled to active service. Their
mission: to add 88,000 tons to cur
rent U.S. synthetic output of 487,000
tons a year.
A recent sharp increase in natural
rubber prices — now selling for
around 31 cents a pound compared
with 18.5 cents for synthetic—ap
peared to be behind the decision an
nounced yesterday.
Greater availability of the lower
priced synthetic will help American
manufacturers of tires and other
products to hold down their costs
and prices. They have emphasized
no tire shortage is in prospect.
Chairman of CAB
Resigns Position
WASHINGTON, July 8 — —
President Truman has accepted the
resignation of Joseph J. O’Connell,
Jr., as a member and chairman of
the Civil Aeronautics Board.
O’Connell’s decision to quit the
government came without advance
public indications, though his let
ter “reluctantly” seeking resignation
was dated June 13.
FROM SACRAMENTO
Mrs. Hays Block of Sacramento,
Calif., is at the Baranof Hotel.
RECALL OF
STATEHOOD
BILL ASKED
WASHINGTON, July 8 — (Ml —
The Association of American Indian
Affairs asked today that the Alaska
statehood bill be recalled to allow
removal of its “anti-reservation”
provisions.
Otherwise the association said, the
bill “constitutes an effective guar
antee of Alaskan native land rights
and as such is to be whole-heartedly
indorsed.”
Oliver La Farge, association presi
dent, voiced the opinion in a tele
gram to Senator O’Mahoney (D
Wyo), chairman of the Senate Com
mittee of Interior and Insular Af
fairs. The committee reported fav
orably on the bill June 29.
La Farge said the association ob
jects to the provision that “pend
ing action by the people of Alaska
and Congress ... no reservation for
use and occupancy of natives . . .
shall be designated . .
“This anti-reservation provision
in effects nullifies the 1936 Alaska
Reorganization Act, which made
possible the sound policy of settling
and confirming Alaskan native
land titles by negotiation,” La
Farge said.
NAVY FLIER SAYS
REDS SEEM TO BE
SAVING AIR POWER
TOKYO, July 8—(Ml—A veteran
Navy flier who led a carrier strike
July 3-4 over North Korea said to
day the Communists must be con
serving their air power for desper
ation use.
Cmdr. Harvey P. Lanham told a
news conference the northerners
had many planes cleverly hidden
in netted revetments which were
discovered only by low-level straf
ing.
The Reds have small dirt fields
scattered all over North Korea, the
air group commander from Los
Angeles said, and “we didn't have
time to hunt for them.”
2 ANTI-AIRCRAFT
UNITS ALERTED TO
WESTERN PACIFIC
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8—(Mi
Two antiaircraft units have been
alerted for movement to the West
ern Pacific in the near future,
Sixth Army announced today.
One unit currently is assigned to
Sixth Army in the Far West, the
other to Fourth Army in the south
west. Fourth Army headquarters is
at Fort Sam Houston, Tex.
Neither the unit designation nor
the number of men involved was
disclosed.
Suicide Attack
On Commie Tank
(By Associated Press)
The chief of South Korea’s little
air force tells of a suicide attack
on a Communist tank by one of
his ten fighter pilots.
The pilot was killed when he
crash-dived into a Red tank and
destroyed it. Said the air force
commander.
“Another pilot will take his place.
America will give us another plane
so that we’ll always have ten fight
ers and ten Korean pilots to fly
them.”
Increase Japanese
Police, C. 6. Order
Of Gen. MacArthur
TOKYO, July 8 — lift — General
MacArthur today moved to protect
his military rear by authorizing tile
Japanese to add a 75,000 man re
serve to their police force and 8,000
to their Coast Guard.
It will bring Japan's total police
force to 200,000 including 30,000
national police.
Authorization for the reserves was
made in a letter to Japanese Prime
I Minister Shigeru Yoshida.
STILL MYSTERY IN
DISAPPEARANCE OF
MOTHER, 2 KIDDIES
Apparently Mrs. Betty Jane Curry
and her two children, Dick, 5, and
Dianne, 3, missing since June 2S
have completely disappeared from
Juneau and the vicinity.
That they were missing was re
ported in The Empire, July 3, and
it was requested that anyone whc
had any knowledge of the where
abouts of Mrs. Curry report to the
United States Marshal’s office.
As far as is known, last person
to talk to Mrs. Curry was A1 Boutin,
Railway Express agent on Sunday
morning, July 2.
Mr. Boutin had noticed Mrs
Curry Saturday afternoon, standing
for at least an hour on the dock
Her apparent dejection alarmed
him, but he decided that she was
probably someone new in town whc
was lonely.
That day she talked to Miss Sadie
Billis, district supervisor for the
Alaska Welfare Department and
plans were made for her return to
the home of her mother in Chi
cago.
Seemed Distressed
Sunday morning, while Mr. Bou
tin was in his office attending to
mail she knocked on the express
company’s locked door, asked about
steamship sailings. When she was
told that the steamship office would
not be open until half an hour be
fore the arrival of the two ships
due in port Sunday night, she
seemed distressed and uncertain as
to what to do about the two pieces
of luggage and paper shopping bag
she had with her.
Mr. Boutin, who recognized her
as the woman who had been star
ing into the water from the dock
the day before, suggested that she
leave her things in his office, said
she could pick them up when the
ships came in, then asked her on
which ship she was sailing.
“I don't know. I may not leave,”
she answered.
With her at the time were Dianne
and Dick—beautiful blond children,
according to Mr. Boutin.
When the Alaska and Aleutian ar
rived Sunday evening, one north,
the other southbound, the express
agent left Mrs. Curry’s luggage and
parcels in the steamship office.
seen on steamer
No ticket was purchased by Mrs.
Curry.
She was seen boarding the Aleu
tian. Whether she remained aboard
is not known.
Telegrams were sent to both ships
by Marshal W. T. Mahoney and
Alaska S.S. Co. agent Henry Green.
None among the ships’ crews had
seen Mrs. Curry or her children.
Monday morning, her belongings
were still in the steamship office
and Mr. Boutin was about to call
police when Mrs. Dorothy Clem,
American Red Cross, -went into the
office to ask if Mrs. Curry had been
seen.
A week of searching by the Mar
shal’s office, the city police, Miss
Billis of the welfare department,
and the Red Cross developed no in
formation regarding Mrs. Curry.
She had taken her children from
the Johnson home Sunday and ar
ranged to return them after two or
three days.
During the week it was reported
that someone had seen Mrs. Curry
boarding a bus in downtown Ju
neau. It was only a rumor and no
thing has developed from it.
Whether Mrs. Curry was still in Ju
neau after the Alaska and Aleutian
sailed Sunday night is not known.
Dianne's Rag Doll
In the meantime, her suit case in
which was found her WAC dis
charge papers and her fur coat and
other belongings are in the corner
of the Railway Express office. A rag
doll, probably Dianne’s, waits for
the little blond girl to come and
claim it.
"There is just one hope that Mrs
Curry and her children are all
right,” Deputy Marshal Walter Hel
lan said. “She might have taken a
gasboat to one of the canneries and
be working near here. However, one
would think that with all the pub
licity about her disappearance we
would have learned something about
her by this time.”
Miss Billis is still working "on a
few clues” before notifying Mrs
Curry’s mother.
Blond, about 35 and described as
“buxom,” Mrs. Curry had been ir
Juneau sinee April 1949. She some
times used the name of Betty Tip
ton. She came to Juneau from Sew
ard, has been employed here, bul
not regularly.
Giant Carrier Leaves
Us flight deck jammed with combat planes, 27,000-ton carrier Philippine Sea Is shown at Naval Air Sta
tion dock at San Diego, Calif., shortly befort departure for Pearl Harbor to become nucleus of Task
Force Yoke, comprising cruisers, destroyers and other craft. Flat-top and escorting destroyers were
to rendezvous at sea with cruisers Toledo and Helem. I#I Wirephoto.
TRUMAN ORDERS
ARMY TAKE OYER
STRUCK RAILROAD
CHICAGO, July 8—MPi—President
Truman today ordered the Army to
take over and run the strikebound
Rock Island Railroad, and the
striking switchmen’s union went
into a huddle to decide what to do
about it.
The President said government
seizure—set for 4 p.m. (EST) today
—is imperative to protect the na
tional defense and security of the
nation.
He acted after the AFL Switch
I men’s Union thrice refused govern
ment requests to end their 14 day
strike against the Rock Island.
The union proposed a new un
disclosed peace proposal last night
which it said may "dispose of our
dispute.”
However because of "the threat
of direct government intervention”
the union called off its strika
against four other western and mid
western railroads Thursday.
The union contended the Rock
Island’s lines are paralleled by
tracks of other roads and that a
strike on this line alone would
create no emergency.
Dulles Asks for
increase Military
Arms 'Right Away'
HAMILTON, N.Y., July 8—(An—
John Foster Dulles pushed today for
increased U.S. military production
“right away.”
He added this note of urgency
after a speech in which he said the
nation should convert more of its
industry to manufacture of arms in
order to shield free nations against
attack by Russian-equipped Com
munist satellite forces such as in
vaded South Korea.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Kathleen from Van
couver scheduled to arrive 3 p.m.
today.
Alaska from Seattle scheduled to
arrive at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Freighter Ring Splice due Mon
day from Seattle.
Prince George from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive 3 p.m. Monday.
Baranof from Seattle scheduled
to arrive Tuesday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver 8 tonight.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
, from Vancouver Wednesday.
Aleutian from west scheduled
; southbound 7 p.m. Sunday.
—
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
AT MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN
A Daily Vacation Bible School
for all children of school age will
be held at the Memorial Presby
terian Church, beginning Monday,
July 10 at 2 p.m. Leaders will
be Mr. and Mrs. George Munson,
members of a team of eight from
Emporia, Kansas, who are working
in the Territory. The Bible School
will continue ten days, and children
from kindergarten to high school
age are eligible.
MAIDMENT HERE
Gene E. Maidment of Seattle is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
"Being Afraid" Is
Women's Drawback
Says Woman Mayor
SEATTLE, July 8—<#>—Mayor
Dorothy McCullough Lee of Port
land told an international women’s
convention last night that “now is
the time we should be afraid of
being afraid."
She told the concluding session of
the American Federation of Sorop
timist Clubs that women must over
come the fears that have held them
back. Fear of criticism, she said,
was one of them.
“If women were in policymaking
positions in thq government.” she
said, “the business status of women
would improve."
The convention attracted nearly
1,000 delegates from each of the 48
states, Alaska, Canada and Eng
land.
Seattle Will Be
Target for A-Bomb
Attack Next Monday
SEATTLE, July 8—W—Seattle
will be A-bombed twice next Mon
day—one an underwater blast in
Elliott Bay at 6:50 a.m., and the
second an aerial explosion from a
height of 2,500 feet at 3:05 p.m.
Both will be imaginary.
The theoretical attack will test
the city’s new civilian defense or
ganization and provide a dress re
hearsal of possible future disaster.
Results will be scrutinized, studied
and analyzed by government offi
cials from Washington, D.C., along
with mayors and other officials of
west coast cities.
Command Changed
In Navy Expedition
To Point Barrow
SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 8—(At—
Capt. Guy B. Helmick has been
ordered to relieve Capt. Louis D
Sharp as commander of the Navy’s
1950 resupply expedition to Point
Barrow, Alaska.
The Pacific fleet’s amphibious
headquarters said Capt. Helmick’s
assignment is in addition to his
regular duties as commander. Trac
tor Squadron One, of the Amphib
ious Farce. Capt. Sharp has been
ordered to headquarters duties.
Ships of the expedition are now
loading at Pacific coast ports.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 59; •
• minimum, 48. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 59; •
• minimum, 36. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau end Vicinity) •
• Continued fair tonight and •
• Sunday. Low temperature •
• tonight about 48, high Sun- •
• day near 68. •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
[ • City of Juneau — Trace; •
• since July 1—0.96 inches. •
| • At Airport — 0.01 inches; •
• since July 1—0.37 inches. •
• ••••••••••
MacArthur
Commands,
Korean War
WASHINGTON, July 8 — (iW —
President Truman today named
Gen. Douglas MacArthur as com
manding general of the United Na
tions forces in Korea.
Acting under a U.N. Security
Council resolution, Mr. Truman
also directed MacArthur to use the
U.N.’s blue and white flag, along
with the flags of the participating
nations, in operations against the
Communist troops of North Korea.
The Security Council at a meet
ing at Lake Success, N.Y., yester
day authorized a unified command
of U.N. forces under the United
States.
The council asked the U.S. to
name a supreme commander.
MacArthur thus becomes the first
military leader to command unified
forces of the 59-nation world or
ganization.
PACIFIC NORTHERN
BRINGS 10, TAKES 19
Pacific Northern Airlines Drought
10 passengers here yesterday and
carried 19 on the outbound flight.
From Anchorage were R. A. Ar
vidson, L. A. Moore, Tony Freidas,
Roy Rhodes, Dan C. Fowler, Jack
Bowman and A. Osteraa. Harold
Olsen, J. B. Reher and H. Hawes
came from Cordova.
John McKay went to Yakutat;
Leo Matson, Dr. and Mrs. Philip
Armstrong with Phyllis, Wesley and
Pat, wdht to Cordova and these pas
sengers to Anchorage: G. V. Gra
ham, I. L. Roher, E. E. Wilkie, K.
C. Hawkes, Max Patachnik. Ed
Hales, John Reed and Col. J. D.
Alexander.
Booked to Kodiak were Aldrich
Long, Mrs. Joyce M. Cagney, Julia
and Paula Cagney.
FROM PHOENIX
C. I. Minning of Odom and Com
pany. Phoenix, Ariz., is registered
at the Baranof Hotel.
RED DRIVE
IS STOPPED
REPORT NOW
Commies, However, Mass
ing Troops-U. S. Artil
ley Pounding Invaders
1
TOKYO. July 8—(J)—Fali or the
South Kqfean town of Chonan and
a renewed American retreat before
the North Korean invaders were re
! ported today by field dispatches.
, This news by telephone from cor
! respondents at the front came
shortly after a Tokyo headquarters
communique said the Red drive had
been "curtailed” but that the in
vaders were massing troops, armor
and artillery for a renewal of their
offensive.
There still has been no major
American unit committed, however,
a spokesman at American forward
headquarters in Korea declared.
He said a major unit would be
one larger than a battalion. (Pre
vious dispatches had mentioned a
battalion of 400 to 500 men in ac
tion. This would indicate that the
American retreat, galling as the
| dispatches indicated it was to the
men involved, was by comparatively
small numbers.)
The communique was Issued at
11:45 p.m. Saturday (8:45 a.m.
EST).
In a telephoned report from the
front ten minutes later, AP Cor
respondent O. H. P. King said angry
and weary American forward troops
had retreated again Saturday. In a
call at 12:5gsun, Sunday (8:45 a.m.
Saturday, TOT)',"King said the Reds
had captured Chonan, a large town
60 miles south of Seoul for their
deepest penertation yet. The call,
j over the one line used by both the
[ Army and all correspondents, was
[ interrupted before he could give
details about Chonan.
Small Force In Retreat
King’s report on the American
retreat gave no inkling of the num
bers of men Involved, but earlier
dispatches had indicated they were
relatively small.
King said American equipment
had arrived and fresh troops had
reached the general area, lending
encouragement to American deter
mination to reverse the trend and
hurl the Northerners back soon. He
said that as of 6 p.m. Saturday the
American equipment had not yet
gone into action, however. (The
"equipment” he mentioned presum
ably included tanks, which a Tokyo
headquarters spokesman previously
said had reached Korea but had
not yet started fighting.)
King added that the invaders had
not followed the American retreat
for its full distance, but were using
heavy artillery.
Information in Tokyo was that
the American retreat was the one
which AP Correspondent Tom Lam
bert had reported began Friday
night, followed an American thrust
northward that the Reds ambushed
j and hurled back.
Withdrawal Completed
! The withdrawal was said in Tokyo
! to have been probably completed
during Saturday.
I The accounts squared generally
with Tokyo communique, which
placed the strongest enemy force—
with 40 to 50 tanks and truck-drawn
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Lookie,.,
IRVINGS'S WILL BE OPEN
SATURDAY, JULY 8th,
at 9:00 P.M.
Sunday, July 9th, at 3 P.M.
The Cocktail Hour
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Irving’s is located just off the shores of
Gastineau Channel on the Douglas Highway
.
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all good whing dings start and end at irving’s