THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,599_ JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1950_ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
KEY POSITION RETAKEN BY U. S. TROOPS
Senator Makes Charges Against Chapman
SCHOEPPL
TALKS OUT
IN SPEECH
Also Makes Charges
Against Statehood Sup
porters-Probe Seen
, By G. Milton Kelly
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—tP)—A
charge that Secretary of Interior
Oscar L. Chapman was once closely
allied with "the Russian Soviet
cause” appeared headed today for
an early Senate investigation.
Senator Schoeppel (R-Kas) made
the accusation in a Senate speech
last night. He said the Cabinet of
ficer had associated with Communist
front groups and may have left
them only "to preserve his official
position.”
Statehood Brought Up
Schoeppel coupled his attack on
Chapman with a broadside against
persons pressing for statehood for
Alaska. He said he favors statehood
for both Alaska and Hawaii “but
not as adjuncts of the Department
of Interior. I do not want to wake
up and find a so-called American
Quisling doing a job that might be
serving the purposes of Soviet Rus
sia.”
Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) an
nounced he would order an immed
iate inquiry by the senate Interior
Committee he heads. Chapman, he
added, is “anxious” to testify and
Schoeppel will be Invited to attend.
“We’ll let the chips fall where
they may,” O’Mahoney said.
Democratic Senators had termed
Schoeppel’s accusations “politics.”
Specific Charges
Schoeppel told the Senate Chap
man’s record “is replete” with “re
ferences which show conclusively
the strong and close personal al
liance between the Russian Soviet
cause and the present Secretary
of Interior.”
O’Mahoney said that Schoeppel’s
charges were similar to ones check
ed in 1948 by a House Labor sub
committee which, he said, gave
Chapman “a clean bill.”
Governor Accused
In his remarks on statehood,
Schoeppel accused Alaska Governor
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The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
(Copyright. 1050, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
JtaSHINGTON—In the desperate
effort to rush more ground troops
to Korea, the Marine Corps has
assigned green, half-trained high
school boys to combat units due to
go into battle the minute they land.
While this unfortunate practice
has not been widespread, it has
happened so often that senators
have called for an explanation.
Nebraska’s GOP Senator Wherry,
among others recently told how a
19-year-old Marine reservist was
being shipped off to Korea.
“He has received no training ex
cept the two weeks, or whatever
it is, in the summertime,’’ ex
plained Wherry. “Yet he has been
assigned to a combat unit which
will go immediately into battle.”
“Would he get any training be
tween here and overseas?" the Neb
raska senator inquired of South
Dakota’s Senator Chan Gurney,
who often speaks for the brass
hats.
“Perhaps he would get it very
quickly at the front,” suggested
Gurney helplessly.
“Does not the Senator think that
the more training a soldier receives,
the greater will be his chances that
he will not become a casualty?"
broke in Pennsylvania’s Senator Ed
Martin, an ex-major general whO|
once commanded the 28th Division.
"Certainly,” agreed Gurney. "But
we are up against it now when
we must put boys into front-line
service too soon.”
“I know some chaps who have
had only two weeks of training last
year and two weeks of training this
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Statehood Bill May Be
Taken Up in Senate by
Next Week; Truman Acts
MISS ALASKA
APPEARS IN
BIG PARADE
Rides on Special Float at
Battling Beauty Event
in Atlantic City
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 6
—IjT)—This year's crop of compet
itors for the title of Miss America
went on public view yesterday in a
colorful boardwalk parade witnessed
by 150,000 persons.
Fifty-four girls from 46 states,
four cities, Canada, Alaska, Puerto
Rico and Hawaii drew applause and
whistles as they rode a five-mile
stretch of the beachfront.
Most of the beauties rode in
decorated rolling chairs but four
were carried on huge Mardi-Gras
type floats designed by their spon
sors. They were Miss Alaska, Miss
New Jersey, Miss Pennsylvania and
Miss Puerto Rico.
Maxine Cothern of Fairbanks, Al
aska, appeared in white parka and
black slacks, standing high on her
float behind an Alaskan sled. Four
papier mache dogs were strung
ahead on simulated snow.
The parade easily was the most
tuneful and colorful of the post
war years.
ENROLLMENT IN
JUNEAU SCHOOLS
SHOWSjNCREASE
The Juneau Public School en
rollment showed an increase of 55
students over the 1949-50 term at
the close of registration yesterday
which opened the 1950-51 school
year, according to figures released
from the office of Superintendent
Df Schools Sterling Sears.
Total enrollment at the close of
registration day was 886, which in
cludes 216 registered in the h^jh
school and 670 in the grade school.
In the 1949-50 school term total
enrollment was 206 in the high
school and 625 in the grade school.
Greatest increase in enrollment
is shown in the lower grades. The
second grade leads with a total
registration to date of 103 students.
The first grade is second with 89
and the kindergarten third with 73.
The enrollment by grades at
close of the school day yesterday
was as follows: Kindergarten, 73
divided into four groups; Fi?St
Grade, 89, in four groups; Second
Grade, 103, in four groups; Third
Grade, 71, in three groups; Fourth
Grade, 65, in three groups; Fifth
Grade, 71, in three groups; Sixth
Grade, 67, in two groups; Seventh
Grade, 58 in two groups; and
Eighth Grade, 65, in two groups.
Eight students are enrolled in
the Tee Harbor school. 1
Son of Army Man
En Alaska Killed
On Korean Front
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 — UP) —
First Lt. John M. Nelson, son of
Col. Ola A. Nelson of Port Richard
son, Alaska, has been killed in ac
tion in the Korean war. The De
fense Department announced Li^h
tenant Nelson’s death today in an
Army casualty list,
GIL RICH IN TOWN
Gil Rich, well known salesman
from Seattle is stopping at the Bar
anof Hotel. ... . ■ t -■
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6— (jP» —
President Truman prodded Congress
again today to vote statehood for
Alaska and Hawaii, and Democratic
Leader Lucas (111) said the Senate
may consider next week statehood
bills already passed by the House.
Lucas’ statement was made after
E. L. Bartlett, Alaska Delegate, and
Joseph R. Farrington, Hawaii Dele
! gate, said President Truman told
them at a White House conference
he would “use every possible influ
ence” to get a Senate vote.
Heretofore, Lucas has taken the
position that the Senate would not
have time to act on the bills at this
session of Congress.
But today, he commented that
since the House is on vacation this
week Congress won’t be able to
quit for a, fall rest until September
16. He added:
“If we clean up our other work
this week, I may call up the state
hood bills next week and let the
Senate decide what it wants to do
with them.”
Long Debate Feared
The bills might bring long debate.
Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the
GOP leader, told reporters the Re
publicans are divided on the state
hood issue. He said he thinks Demo
crats in the Senate are just as di
vided
"This is just another example of
the President’s trying to make pol
itical hay on an issue where his
party is badly divided," Wherry
said.
Delegates Visit President
The two delegates said Mr. Tru
man assured them that he would
get in touch with Administration
leaders in advance of a meeting
of the Senate Democratic policy
committee, which will decide wheth
er to press for Senate action.
The President, Farrington said,
"feels it is vital to the war effort
and our position in the Pacific that
this recognition be extended to the
people in our Pacific outposts of
Hawaii and Alaska.”
Farrington Talks
Farrington said Mr. Truman felt
that the burden of the fighting in
Korea “has fallen heavily on the
people of Hawaii."
He said ho told the President that
the rate of casualties among troops
from Hawaii is "almost five times
greater than the rate among troops
of the country as a whole.”
Farrington said Mr. Truman ask
ed him to convey that information
to the newsmen.
Key administration Senators very
strongly hinted last night that the
Senate will start debate next week
on the statehood bills.
Vote Maybe Next Week
Senate Democratic Leader Lucas
of Illinois touched off the specula
tion when he told the Senate it may
have a chance to vote on state
hood for the two territories before
it adjourns or recesses, possibly late
next week.
He observed that he had been crit
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STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof from Seattle due Friday.
Aleutian scheduled to sail from
Seattle Saturday.
Freighter Ring Splice scheduled to
sail from Seattle Sept. 15.
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive at 8 a.m. Friday and sails south
at 9 a.m.
Alaska from west scheduled south
bound early Saturday morning.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Sept. 6 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
94%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright
9%, International Harvester 29%,
Kennecott 64:4i, New York Central
13%, Northern Pacific 21%, U. S.
Steel 38, Pound $2.80%.
Sales today were 1,300,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
1 dustrials 218.20, rails 62.94, utilities
I 38.86.
COMMIE
WORLD IS
HIT HARD
Yugoslavs Denounce North
Korans as Aggressors
-Statements Made
(By Associated Press)
The closed ranks of the Com
munist world supporting the North
Koreans got a jolt last night with
the announcement in Belgrade that
Yugoslavia denounces the North
Koreans as aggressors. Yugoslav
Communists—ousted by the comin
form for failing to bow to the
Kremlin’s commands — consider
themselves more Communist than
those in Moscow.
Yugoslavia’s Foreign Minister Ed
vard Kardelj, in a statement in the
official newspaper Boba, indicated
Yugoslavia would avoid any direct
intervention in the Korean war but
he said “those who are to be
blamed for the war in Korea must
know that such a war will jeopar
dize world peace.
Yugoslavia’s delegate in the U.N.
Security Council voted against its
call for U.N. members to furnish
military aid to South Korea, but
abstained in other actions on the
issue.
The Security Council goes into
session again today with a Soviet
veto—its 44th—expected to stop an
American resolution urging all na
tions to avoid helping the North
Korean aggressors.
Soviet Delegate Jakob A. Malik
delivered a 45-minute harangue in
the council yesterday after the
United States notified the council
a plane with Red Russian mark
ings and bearing a Soviet lieuten
ant was shot down Monday in an
attack on U. N. fleet units oil
Korea. But Malik’s tone was com
partively mild, seemingly cautious,
while he awaited word from Mos
cow.
PULPFINANCING
IN ALASKA TOLD
BY BEN MULLEN
Unstable Situation on
Statehood Problem
Seems Hindrance
Ben B. Mullen has returned to
Juneau and Sitka from New York
for a two week visit in connection
with his interest in pulp. “While
interest still runs high regarding
the possibilities of locating mills
in this region there appears to be
little liklihood of any new develop
ments this year since the problems i
of financing have not been com
pletely solved,” said Mr. Mullen
It is felt that the important issue
of Statehood has great bearing on
this matter because once settled it
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• • I
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 52; •
• minimum, 45. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 49; •
• minimum, 43. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• •
• Variable cloudiness with an •
• occasional light shower to- •
• night. Mostly cloudy Thurs- •
• day with light rain by after- •
• noon. Lowest temperature •
• tonight 47. Highest temper
• ature Thursday near 55. •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today a
• City of Juneau—.66 inches; •
• since Sept. 1—3.91 inches; •
• since July 1—14.97 inches. •
• At Airport—.18 inches; •
• since Sept. 1—2.31 inches; •
• since July 1—14.31 inches. •
• •••••••••a
Probe for Reds
U. S. Second Division infantrymen start dangerous task of probing for enemy snipers as they cau
tiously try to enter burning Yongsan, on central Naktong River front. Reds, who had taken the town
the day before in major offensive drive, were driven out by counter attack and artillery fire. <#) Wire
photo. __ .
ALASKA UN-AMERICAN
ACTIVITIES HUNT IS
ASKED FOR BY LEGION
BULLETIN—At press time this
afternoon the Alaska Department
of the American Legion in con
vention here had elected Harold
Stringer of Anchorage as Depart- j
ment Commander. John Van Horn
of Sitka was named First Vice |
Commander and Aubrey Smitii of i
Fairbanks chosen Second Vice (
Commander.
The American Legion proposed to
day that the Territorial Legislature
create a special standing committee
to investigate un-American activ
ities in Alaska. The proposal was
one of 34 resolutions acted on dur
ing the five day convention of the
Legion’s Department of Alaska
which ends here tonight with a
banquet at the Baranof Hotel and
a ball at the Moose Club.
This afternoon officers are to be
elected and installed.
Other business included resolu
tions to make shores of lakes and
streams in Alaska available for set
tlement and or lease; rehabilitation
of the Alaska Railroad between
Seward and Portage; urging adop:
tion of the Arctic Health Institute;
and to change the 0.1. bill of rights
so veterans can get loans on unpat
ented lands.
Machinery was set in motion to
amend the by-laws in order to
create Legion districts in Alaska.
Further resolutions provided for
stationing the Department of Ameri
can Legion Service officer in Juneau
instead of other Alaska cities; ask
ed for a change in the wording of
the extension of the Alaska Territor
ial Loan and Bonus laws for vet
erans to cover those who enlisted
for service as well as those who were
drafted; opposed the Lemke Bill for
homesteading in Alaska by service
men ; favored the setting up of sum
mer camps throughout the U. S. for
military training; and recommended
statehood for Alaska.
Still other resolutions recommend
ed that veterans of the Korean war
be entitled to receive the benefits
of the Alaska veterans loan and
bonus laws; urged granting of leave
with pay to Territorial employees
HOSPITAL NOTES
Admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital
yesterday were Pat Gilmore, Howard
Donnell, Haller B. Ashley, Walter
Barron.
Dismissed were Richard Sorset,
Mrs. John Reynoldson and baby boy,
Mrs. R. H. Clark and baby boy, Miss
Mary Koby, Art Sawyer, Edwin L.
Stringer and Vincent Yadao.
U1KL fr UK TASSELS
A 7-pound 14-ounce baby girl
was born to Mrs. Harry Tassell
of Douglas at St. Ann's Hospital
this morning.
for temporary active duty training
in the Armed Forces; and asking
construction of a highway over
the former Copper River railroad
between Cordova and Chitina.
A proposal to move the Legion’s
Department headquarters from Ju
neau to Anchorage was defeated by
parliamentary means but will prob
ably be brought up again next year.
On the less serious side of the Leg
ion’s activities was a buffet lunch
eon held at Whing Ding last evening.
It was followed by a dozen humorous
skits and stunts presented by the
various posts of the Legion and Aux
iliary.
CAVALRY IN
'FALL BACK’
TWO MILES
By JACK MacBETII
WITH THE U. S. FIRST CAV
ALRY DIVISION IN KOREA, Sopt
6,—(.«—Dog tired cavalry troopers
fell back as much as two miles to
day towards Taegu, at one point
Duly seven miles from the front
lines.
Senior officers at the front sam
*he withdrawal was ordered "U
shorten and strengthen” the defense
perimeter of the city and that is
the main communications hub oi
the northern front.
In the center and right flank
of the divisional front, the draw
back was made under savage en
emy fire.
TODAY’S LANDINGS
The largest landing today totaled
46.000 pounds of salmon from Elfin
II, Ernie Swanson, anfi sold to Al
aska Coast Fisheries. The other
landings made sold to Engstrom
Brothers and were from the Norfin,
Rodger Baily, 1,500 pounds of sal
mon, the Aurora. A1 Schraman, 2,
)00 pounds, and Jim Hickey brought
in 600 pounds by truck from Auk
Bay for Engstrom.
FROM PELICAN
Wallace and P. S. Bonty of Pelican
are at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM FORT RICHARDSON
Janet E. Glave of Fort Richardson
is registered at the. Baranof Hotel.
SITKA GUEST
Laurence Freeburn of Sitka is a
guest at the Baranof Hotel..
|
MT. EDGECUMBE VISITOR
W. Stilwell, of Mt. Edgecumbe is
| a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
TRUMAN
ATTACKS
MARINES
Declares Corps Has "Pro
paganda Machine Al
most Equal to Stalin's"
By BILL ROSS
WITH U. S. MARINES IN KOR
EA, Sept. 6—UP)—Fighting Marines
were angry and profane today on
learning of President Truman's re
mark that the Marine Corps has a
"propaganda machine that is al
most equal to Stalin’s.”
None would be quoted by name
on what their Commander-In
Chief had to say. Their immediate
reaction generally was stunned sur
prise.
• They apparently got their first
word of the President's statement
through war correspondents and
the Army’s service newspaper Stars
and Stripes.)
Make No Comment
Most Marine officers were reluct
ant to comment on President Tru
man’s letter to Rep. Gordon Mc
Donough (R-Calif.) which was
made public in the United States.
The officers said they believed
anything they might have to say
might affect their relations with
other U. S. fighting forces in Korea.
The nearest thing to a reply
came from a field officer, who was
asked for his views.
"I think,” he replied, “it is very
unfair to ask me to comment on
such an unfair statement.”
PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT
In Washington yesterday the
President was disclosed to have
said that the Marine Corps has a
propaganda machine “almost equal
to Stalin’s.” A Marine veterans
organization promptly demanded
an apology.
Clay Nixon of Seattle, command
ant of the Marine Corps League,
said in a statement that a Pres
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MRS. BROSIUS IS TO
ATTEND GOP MEETING
TO BE HELD, CHICAGO
Mrs. Helen D. Brosious of Seward,
will attend the meeting of the Re- j
publican National Committee to be
held in Chicago, September 14 and
15.
Margaret E. White, Republican
National Committeewoman for Al
aska, unable to attend, has given
Mrs. Brosius her proxy to represent j
Alaska Republicans at the meeting.
Mrs. Brosius, a long time resident j
of Seward, and active in Republi- |
can Party affairs, is Treasurer for '
the Republican Party of the Terri-!
tory.
AIR tORlt*
AGAIN MAKE
BIG STRIKES
Weather Clears with Air
Airmen Dropping Bombs
on Ranks of Reds
(By Associated Press)
U. S. troops counterattacked today
on the critical northern front and
drove Communist guerillas out ol
Yongchon, key highway junction
whose loss would place Taegu, main
UN forward base, and the entirj
United Nations beachhead in grava
peril.
The town changed hands during
fierce fighting on that sector, bui
Eighth Army headquarters said it
now was in American hands. The
town is on the main road to Taegu,
provisional South Korean capital
20 miles to the west.
Airmen in Action
American airmen roared back into
action in clearing weather and
knocked 17 Russian-built tanks out
of action on the northern front. The
North Koreans have committed a
massive force of 84 tanks—more
than they have used in any drive—
to the battle in the north in whick
they appear to be making a desper
ate gamble to clinch the war.
Allied resistance to the Red gen
eral offensive stiffened with the re
appearance of the planes on the
battle fronts.
Doughboys Battle Back
While doughboys battled in Yong
chon, other Allied troops battered
back northward from Kyongju, an
other key highway junction 18 miles
southwest of bombed and burning
Red-held Pohang, east coast p-jrt
Kyongju, reported safe for the Al
lies now, is astride the direct east
coastal road to Pusan, last-ditch
UN supply base.
Reds Use Tanks
The Red drive along the north
ern perimeter of the 120-mile bat
tlefront is powered by tanks which
prisoners were quoted as saying
came down from the "far north.” It
is the biggest mass of North Kor
ean armor yet to appear. The armor
is split up into two brigades, one
operating in the big coastal drive
and the other menacing Taegu from
the north.
After Pohang fell to thC coastal
drive in heavy street fighting, the
Communists poured through the gap
in Allied lines for their drive on
Kyongju but they were stalled.
Meanwhile, the U. S. air strip si*. ,
miles south of Pohang remained
in Allied hands.
British Troops Engaged
On the western sector of the
northern front British troops were
in action side by side with the Am
ericans. They took over the lefi
flank of the U. S. First Cavalry Di
vision eight miles southwest of Tae
gu and were attacked right off by
Red machinegunners. The British
beat off a Red patrol which had
pinned down one company.
U. S. First Cavalry doughfoots
withdrew from a walled citadel atop
a 3,000-foot hill 12 miles north of
Taegu, but headquarters said this
was to consolidate positions. The
Americans beat back two attacks
down the "bowling alley” corridor
north of Taegu.
Suicide Mission
On the extreme southern front,
.hree Red battalions, evidently bent
on a suicide mission, were stopped
in an attempt to infiltrate U. S.
25th Division lines.
All around the 120-mile UN beach
head perimeter, airmen gave ground
troops close support, concentrating
the bulk of it on the critical north
ern front.
Bombers and fighters also attack
ed troop concentrations and other
military targets behind the Red
lines. B-29 superforts dumped 390
tons of bombs on North Korean sup
ply lines.
ARIZONA VISITORS
John E. Simmons, W. E. Clark
and Jack H. Askins, all of Phoe
nix, Ariz., are stopping at the Gas
tinea u Hotel.