THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
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VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,617
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1950
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PRICE TEN CENTS
SEOUL KEY POINTS REPORTED CAPTURED
TRUMAN
POLITICS
REVEALED
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Jonathan Daniels' Biogra
phy of Pesident
Shakes Skeletons
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — Wl —
Jonathan Daniels’ biography of
President Truman set political
skeletons dancing today in a parade
which might affect the November
Congressional elections.
Republicans picked up from the
writings of the Presidential confi
dante and former White House aide
the statement that Mr. Truman ap
peared "lost in uncertainty and in
eptitude” in handling one vital
foreign policy decision in 1946.
Southern Democrats whom the
administration has been trying to
woo back into the fold bristled anew
at word the President once said
James F. Byrnes had “failed miser
ably as Secretary of State.” The
New York Herald Tribune quoted
Byrnes as replying: “If he felt that
way, why should he have wanted a
miserable failure around?”
Truman supporters found solace
in repeated Presidential statements
as recorded by Daniels that Mr.
Truman had opposed for years any
policy of appeasement of Russia.
Daniels, who is publisher of the
Raleigh, N.C., News and Observer
and is Democratic National Com
mitteeman for his state, titled his
book, “The Man of Independence.”
A White House aid said Mr. Tru
man read part—-but not all—of it in
advance of today’s publication.
There seemed little doubt that
Mr. Truman had give unofficial ap
proval—the quotes in which he
slapped at Byrnes, his former Sec
retary of State who now is’in line
to become next Democratic Gover
nor of South Carolina.
The President may have missed,
however, some of Daniels’ own ob
servations.
MRS. BEN BURFORD DIES
SUDDENLY IN SEATTLE
Jack Burford has received word
that Margaret Burford, wife of his
Ibrother, G. Ben Burford, passed
away Monday' morning in Seattle
With a sudden heart attack.
G. Ben Burford, chief engineer on
the Fish and Wildlife vessel Lt.
Andrew Zussman which is now ap
proaching the Pribilof Islands, has
been contacted by wire and will at
tend funeral services which will be
held in Seattle.
Mrs. Burford is survived by her
mother, Mrs. J. Christianson and
four brothers, all of Seattle.
Hie Washington
Merry-Go-Round
*»—fc SSew BMBon*
Washington—it’s a paradoxi
cal fact that, while the government
has been cracking down on war
hoarders, the Agriculture Depart
ment has been breaking all re
cords for hoarding. Since the Kor
ean war, the Agriculture Depart
ment has hidden away in caves an
other 47,2000,000 pounds of cheese,
30.200.000 pounds of butter, and 16,
700.000 pounds of dried eggs.
This, remember, is all since the
Korean war started. Meanwhile,
food costs have been skyrocketing.
Purpose of this government hoard
ing was supposed to stabilize farm
prices. Yet the artificial shortages
on top of the war crisis, have cre
ated a crisis at the comer grocery
store.
As a result, not only the house
wives but the Army, too is paying
more for butter, eggs and cheese.
What this means is that the tax
payers are boosting the prices that
they, themselves, must pay to feed
the Army. Meanwhile, total surplus
food stocks have climbed to 191,
800.000 pounds of butter; 110,595,
296 pounds of dried eggs; 106,100,
000 pounds of cheese; 320,700,000
pounds of dried milk; 52,623,504
pounds of Mexican beef and the al
most unbelievable figure of three
billion pounds (3,052,500,000) of
grain sorghum.
Much of this stored food is likely
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PRELUDE TO A DANCE — Virginia Mayo lace*'
her dancing shoes-in her dressing room for one of her scenes in*
“The West Point Story,” being filmed in San Fernando Valley. CaV
WHITE RENEWS
CHALLENGE TO
ADMINISTRATION
In a wire Tuesday to the Fair
banks Daily News-Miner, Albert
White, General Counsel of the Re
publican Party, renewed his chal
lenge to debate “the Corruption,
Malfeasance and Misfeasance of the
Territorial Administration” with
Governor Ernest Gruening.
White said that, since the Gov
ernor is present in Juneau and is
expected to be here all week, it
should not be neces*sary to debate
the issues with what he termed
an “underling.”
White has ‘offered to pay for the
rental of a hall, charge a fifty
cent admission and donate all pro
ceeds to the Cancer Fund.
Korean War
i
At a Glance
(By the Associated Press)
Fighting front—U.S. Marines cap
ture South Korean capitol and For
eign Consulate buildings in heart of
burning Seoul, with mop-up battles
nearing end.
U.N. forces close noose around
many thousands of Reds trapped by
linkup of the Inchon-Seoul beach
head with the Allied southern forces.
United Nations — United States
and other countries support British
plan to unite all Korea as inde
pendent country with a government
elected under U.N. supervision.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
INSURANCE UPPED BY
AFS AND LOAN ASSN.
The Alasxa Federal Savings and
Loan Association of Juneau an
nounced today that, effective im
mediately, federal insurance cover
age will be provided on all savings
accounts up to $10,000. The pre
vious maximum coverage was $5,000.
The increased coverage follows the
signing into law by President Tru
man of legislation boosting insur
ance protection for associations with
savings accounts insured by the Fed
eral Savings and Loan Insurance
Corporation.
RENTZEL IS
NAMED TO
(A BOARD
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — —
President Truman named Delos W.
Rentzel as chairman of the Civil
Aeronautics Board yesterday.
Rentzel was nominated as a mem
ber of the board and confirmed by
the Senate last week. His appoint
ment as chairman, succeeding
Joseph J. O’Connell, Jr., had been
expected. O’Connell resigned re
cently.
Rentzel, a Texan, was administra
tor of the Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration (CAA) before Mr. Truman
picked him for the CAB post.
The CAB is an independent
agency charged with making avia
tion regulations and passing Judg
ment on compliance with them. The
CAA handles aviation planning, de
velopment and operations.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver at 8 tonight.
Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle Saturday.
Denali from westward due to ar
rive sometime Monday evening.
FROM HOONAH
Mrs. Don Underwood of Hoonah
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
WEATHER REVORT
Temperatures for 24-1/our Period
ending 6.20 o'clock th:« morning
In Juneau—Maximum, 51;
minimum, 44.
At Airport—Max imum, 52;
minimum, 42.
forecast
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Mostly cloudy with an occa
sional shower tonight and
Thursday. Lowest tempera
ture tonight about 45.
Highest Thursday near 54.
precipitation
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today
City of Juneau—0.02 inches;
since Sept. 1 — 10.87 inches;
since July 1—21.93 inches.
At Airport — 0.07 inches;
since Sept. 1 — 7.32 inches;
since July 1—19.32 Inches.
GIFFORD
IS NAMED
TOLONDON
Selected as Ambassador
Succeeding Lewis Doug
ias Who Quit Post
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — OB —
The White House announced today
President Truman’s selection of
Walter S. Gifford as Ambassador to
London.
Gifford, former chairman of the
board of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company and a Re
publican, will succeed Lewis W.
Douglas in the post.
The formal announcement was
made immediately after receipt of
British approval of the appointment,
a step required by diplomatic cus
tom.
Douglas resigned yesterday for
“personal considerations, including
those of health.”
The change will be made effective
November 1 after Douglas returns
to London to conclude his work
there.
Douglas plans to stay In London
a month, then go to his home in
Arizona to rest.
Gifford, who did government and
war production work in both World
Wars, is almost 10 years older than
Douglas. An active Republican, he
may add strength to bi-partisan co
operation on foreign policy.
Americans
Murdered
By Koreans
They Were Prisoners, thenj
Taken Into Ravine at j
Chinju, Machinegunned |
TOKYO, Sept. 27—General J
MacArthur’s headquarters said to
day the bodies of 12 American sol-;
diers with arms bound were dis
covered in Chinju Tuesday by the
U.S. 25th Division.
Two other men, wounded but still.
alive, said 14 of them had been
prisoners.
Headquarters reported they said
when the North Koreans realized
Chinju, on the extreme South Ko
rean front, was about to fall they
tied the Americans together,
marched them into a ravine and
turned machineguns ori them.
The two survivors were wounded
seriously but escaped by shamming
death.
Headquarters said the body of a
North Korean was found among
those of the murdered Americans.
The dead Red was reported to
have refused to help kill the Ameri
cans.
General MacArthur’s headquar
ters release said the wounded Ameri
cans had no food or water for five
days.
His summary said one survivor
was able to give an eye-witness ac
count of the mass murder even
though he had been shot five times
and was suffering from pneumonia.
Both wounded Americans were
flown to a hospital in Japan.
AP Correspondent Stan Swinton
with the 25th Division reported 12
Americans bodies were found Tues
day at Chinju. His account said
three others were still alive.
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BEACH STYLES FOR
NEXT SUMMER ARE
ANNOUNCED; WHEW
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27—<*>—Get
this men: beach styles for next
summer will include sheer lace nylon
swim suits for the gals.
Officials of California apparel
creators hastened to add. at a press
conference yesterday, that such
suits will have "strategic panels."
There’ll be other suits without
panels—lace over flesh-colored fab
ric.
See you on the beach, hey, Mac?
At the Barricades
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A U. S. Marine Corps tank plows through a break in a North Korean sand bag barricade on a street in
South Korean capital of Seoul, followed by a second tank. Photo by Max Desfor, Associated Press staff
photographer with the Marines in Seoul. (PI Wirephoto via radio from Tokyo.
Leatherneck Hot Shot
A O. 8. Marine tank flamethrower (right) shoots a searing Mast at hillside oave near Seoul after
eight enemy snipers refused to emerge and surrender. Ifl Wlrephoto.
BRITISH SHIP IS
REPORTED SEIZED
BY RUSS VESSEL
LONDON, Sept. 27—(Jl—A Russian
ship commandeered a British fish
ing trawler in the White Sea yes
terday and hurried it off toward a
Soviet port, the vessel’s owners re
ported today.
They protested to the British
Foreign Office, which began in
quiries.
The seized ship is the 684-ton
trawler Swanella, owned by J. Marr
and Son, Ltd., of HuU. Twenty men
were aboard.
Spokesmen for the owners said
news of the seizure was radioed from
another British trawler, the Kings
ton Agate, which messaged it saw
the Incident.
It waa the second Soviet seizure of
a British vessel this year. The 373
ton trawler Etruria was arrested in
the White Sea last May and ac
cused of fishing within a mile and
a half of the Soviet coast. The vessel
was released about 10 days later
after paying a fine of $75 in Rus
sian roubles.
The White Sea straddles the
Arctic Circle and is surrounded on
three sides by Russian territory.
The Russian ship was described
only as a coastal vessel.
BUREAU MEN RETURN
R. C. Johnson, assistant chief of
the Alaska Investigations Division of
the Reclamations Bureau, and Daryl
Roberts, design engineer, returned
yesterday from Denver where they
had been on business, including re
cruiting of personnel for the initi
ation of construction on the Eklutna
project.
Norman Whitaker of Wrangell is
topping at the Baranof Hotel.
Whereabouts of Hundreds
Of Allied Prisoners in
Seoul Remains Mystery
NO. KOREANS
NOT ASKING
FOR PEACE
NEW YORK, Sept. 27—(«—'United
Nations, American and Russian
sources today discounted rumors the
North Koreans have indicated they
were willing to quit fighting and
accept a U.N. settlement.
Two news agencies carried the re
port, crediting it to responsible but
anonymous sources at U.N. head
quarters.
Jacob A. Malik, Soviet diplomat
who has conveyed to the U.N. sev
eral communications from North
Korea, was shown a copy of one
dispatch.
•'Propaganda,” said Malik, with
a shrug.
RUBY CHILD DIES HERE
Services for Gerald Ross, 9, will be
held in the Catholic Church here
at 9 o’clock tomorrow morning. He
died at St. Ann’s hospital yester
day and will be buried in the Cath
olic plot here. Surviving are his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F.
Ross of Ruby.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Peterson of
Spokane. Wash., are registered at
the Baranof Hotel.
TOKYO, Sept. 27—OTV—The where
abouts of some 300 to 400 Allied
prlsoners-of-war reported liberated
in Seoul remained a mystery to
night. They apparently had been
taken from the Korean capital by
the Reds.
General MacArthur’s war sum
mary reported at 3:20 pm. that 400
prisoners had been rescued. A field
dispatch at 6:59 p.m. from AP Cor
respondent Tom Lambert said army
units In Seoul found a list of pris
oners but no prisoners.
"Koreans said the American
POWs had been moved out of Seoul
within the past several days,” Lam
bert added.
Evidently the list^-whlch was re
layed to US. 10th Corps headquar
ters—was the basis for the terse
line in MacArthur’s war summary.
Lambert’s late evening dispatch
said failure to find the prisoners
was the major disappointment of
the day for the advancing United
Nations forces.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Sept. 27 — Closing
quotation of Alaska - Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
100. Anaconda 3414, Curtiss-Wright
8%, International Harvester 3014,
Kenecott 63 14, New York Central
1614, Northern Pacific 23'4, U. S.
Steel 3814, Pound $2.8014.
Sales today were 2.350,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: In
dustrials 225.74, rails 66.78, utilities
40.16.
MOPUP IN
SEOUL IS
UNDERWAY
Effective Escape Routes
Are Closed - Fate of
Reds Now Sealed
(By the Associated Press)
The mopup tight tor burning
Seoul, South Korea's capital, ap
peared nearing its end today, and
Oen. MacArthur's headquarters an
nounced the fate of Nopih Korean
forces trapped in the south “is
sealed.”
U.S. Marines captured the capltol
building and the Russian and French
Consulates near the heart of the
city and raised the American flag
over them.
The flag flew briefly over the
shell damaged Soviet Consulate and
then was lowered by a U.S. Marine
Company because it was their only
big flag and they wanted it for the
U.S. Ambassador’s residence.
Seoul shuddered and rocked under
the Impact of heavy fighting but
only a relatively small sectloh was
still in Red hands.
United Nations forces seized the
U.S. Ambassador's residence. The
Reds were making a fight to the
death stand in sections of the busi
ness district, using steel and con
crete buildings in their defense.
Reds Die Hard
Already
ruins. Further destruction seemed
inevitable because of the fanatical
resistance of the die-hard Com
munist fighters.
Other United Nations unite solidi
fied an Allied line now running 315
miles diagonally across the penin
sula from Pusan In the extreme
southeast of Seoul, and tightened
their vise on thousands of trapped
Communists.
Unking Up Areas
The linkup between the Inchon
Seoul beachhead on the west coast
and the forces from the southeast
was madq in the walled town of
Changji, 25 miles south of Seoul. It
is near the spot where the first U.S.
soldier was killed in this war July
25.
U.S. First Cavalry Division tanks
raced up from Taegu to make oon
tact with units of the Seventh Di
vision's Slst Regiment, who had
pushed out from Suwon.
CommieK Melt Away
Communist troops melted away
before the advancing American
armor.
Oeneral MacArthur said: "While
mopping up fighting is still In pro
gress, all effective escape routes are
closed and the fate of the North
Korean forces caught in this pocket
is sealed.”
While the First Cavalry and Sev
enth Division cut the Communist
line in one direction, other UJf, Di
visions breaking out from the old
perimeter carved many miles Into
Communist-held territory to the
north and west.
Along the northern wall of the old
Pusan beachhead, South Korean
forces drove as much as 55 miles
north against virtually no Red re
sistance.
On Southern Front
On the southern front a UJS. 2Sth
Division task force pushed out from
captured Chlnju in a two-pronged
drive. One column raced southwest
ward toward Hadong; another stab
bed north west toward Hamyang.
Their objective was to deal another
pocket of Red Koreans in the south
west corner of the peninsula.
In the center, the U.S. 24th Di
vision sped northwestward toward
Taejon where in midsummer the
Allies met one of their worst defeats
in the war.
No Flrht Resistance
MacArthur's headquarters said the
North Koreans generally were show
ing little will to fight once they
realized the Allied tide had set In.
Aerial observers said there were no
signs the Reds were attempting to
regroup their forces for a stand any
where south of the 38th parallel di
viding South and North Korea.
In New York, a strong movement
led by Britain was underway in the
U.N. General Assembly to frame a
peace and relief plan for Korea. The
plan calls for North and South Ko
rea to be joined in a free and Inde
pendent state with a government
elected under U.N. supervision.