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Thousands of Beaten Reds Withdraw in Korea
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CONTROLS
ARE TO BE
. EXTENDED
Rollback . on Clothing
Prices Coming Up; Beef
Inquiry fo Start
WASHINGTON, June 13 — IM—
Rotund Price Director Michael V.
DiSalle was "very happy” today —
stockyard cattle pens that had be
gan to have the empty look of hun
ger were better occupied.
And in Denver last night, DiSalle
said he was getting ready to roil
back clothing prices —j "in a day
or two." He told a reporter the
clothing order will cover all forms
of wearing apparel.
Good news for DiSalle came from
Economic Mobilizer Charles E. Wil
son and President Truman, as well
as from the cattle raising plains.
Wilson stepppd squarely behind
his price director yesterday, an
nouncing that DiSalle’s order rolling
back the price of beef on the hoof
will stand unaltered.
Truman On Air
Senate Majority Leader McFar
land, of Arizona, told newsmen after
a conference W'itb President Tru
man that in a radio address tomor
. row pirtoi ct-30 p.m., PDT) the
Jt on the line"
/week before. Even a.-> u’' • ■
known, Senator Maybank : iif
an investigationJjo spew* "th- •• •>
shortage is nothing mon
strike on the part of the me. i-,
dustry.”
• _ Beef Inquiry
Mkybank told newsmen the beef
will begin tonight by the
..«f!at?-House committee on Defense
Prodtfotiot.. which he heads. He
called $he night session because
members of the joint committee are
busy during the day in Senate and
House Banking, committees. Both
Banking committees are working
under pressure to complete a new
bill to extend wage, price and rent
controls. The present Defense Pro
duction Act expires June 30.
DORIS ANN BARTLETT
IS SCHOOL GRADUATE,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Tuesday was graduation day for
Doris Ann Bartlett, daughter of
Delegate and Mrs. E. L. Bartlett,
who was presented her diploma
with the graduating class of the
Anacostia High School at ceremon
ies at School Stadium yesterday
afternoon.
Doris Ann attended school in
Juneau before her father was el
ected delegate to Congress and the
family moved to the capital.
The Bartletts live at 1718 33rd
Place S. E., Washington, D. C.
TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. oy Beil Syndicate. Inc..
T^ASHINGTON.—President Tru
man has always felt that he made
a mistake in yielding to cabinet ad
visers in October 1946 when he
modified price controls on meat.
This is one reason why he has be
come literally a personal crusader
against the meat packers and for
the consumer in the current battle
over price controls.
Conferring privately with his
Congressional leaders last week, the
President really let loose at the big
meat packers.
“They are worried about losing
some of their big profits,” he de
clared. , "But they have brought it
on themselves by inflating prices
and squeezing the consumer.”
He added that certain vocal ele
ments among the cattlemen do not
speak for the livestock industry.
“I have some close friends in the
business out in my area, which is
the biggest cattle market in the
world,” Truman continued, “and
(Continued on Page Four)
PROPERTY
TAX LAW
ATTACKED
Luther Hess Files Com
plaint in District Court
at Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 13—
Ifl)— A new attack on validity of the
Territorial Property Tax Law was
launched here this week in a dis
trict court complaint filed by Lu
ther C. Hess.
In a suit brought to test the law,
Hess is seeking return of $729.80
which he says he paid in property
taxes for the year 1949 under pro
test.
The property taxed consised of
mining claims and machinery out
side the boundaries of any incor
porated city, school district or pub
lic utility district.
In his complaint Hess listed rea
sons he contends the property tax
law is “wholly void” in the Terri
tory.
Hess previously tried to test va
lidity of the act by usi of an in
junction, but the circuit t urt of ap
peals in San Francisco ruled this
action improper and declined to pass
,on validity of the !sw itself
mP THREAT
/Of RUSSIA
IS SERIOUS
WASHINGTON, June 13 — !3>i—
A top Air Force official told re
ligious leaders today that the
United States faces a "very, very
serious threat of atomic attack" by
Russia.
Brig. Gen. Ernest Moore, Air
Force assistant director of intelli
gence, said there is “no question but
that the tension of danger will be
with us for some time.”
' Moore told chun*imen attending
a National Civil Defense conference
"the Soviets have recognized that
the United States is probably their
only major enemy in the world to
day.
“Russians are bending every ef
fort in the field of air and submar
ines to bring their force to the point
that they could neutralize our
strength while they proceed with
the task of overrunning the world,”
said Moore.
DROUGHT
IN SOUTH
By Associated Press
Southern farmers are hopefully
watching a crop-saving rain moving
steadily in from the northwest.
Already the south has counted
crop losses running into hundreds
of millions of dollars. Farmlands
are baked and pastures parched.
Rains have ended the drought in
Arkansas, Tennessee, North Georgia
and South Carolina. Other areas
had spotty relief, but vast areas
are still suffering.
Crop and pasture damage in Ala
bama alone is expected to exceed
$150,000,000. A similar situation
exists in Louisiana and Mississippi
In all three states thej-e were scat
tered showers throughout the week
but the farmers want a good, heavy
rain.
MINING PROGRESS^
TO BE DISCUSSED
BY LORAIN AT CC
S. H. Lorain, head of the bureau
of mines here, will be guest speaker
at a regular luncheon meeting of
the Juneau Chamber of Commerce
tomorrow noon at the Baranof hotel
Lorain will discuss recent mining
developments and possibilities in
Alaska, stressing the strategic min
erals that are currently being
sought.
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BOMBING OF MANCHURIAN
RAILROAD ADVOCATED EVEN
AT RISK WAR WITH RUSSIA
WASHINGTON, June 13 — '.Id—
Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer rec
ommended today that the United
States take the "calculated risk” of
war with Russia and bomb the Man
churian railroad controlled jointly
by the Soviets and Red Chinese.
The railroad is a major supply
HIGHWAY SAFETY
NECESSARY FOR
DEFENSEJRUMAN
WASHINGTON, June 13, — (/PI —
President Truman told safety of
ficials today that “A highway ac
cident does just as much damage
to the defense effort as a deliber
ate act of sabotage by hostile ag
ents."
At a time when the United States
and its allies face a “great danger,"
he said, highway accidents “strike
directly at our national strength.”
The President made the state
ment in a speech prepared for the
annual highway safety conference
in Construction Hall. He cautioned
that skyrocketing motor travel has
raised the prospect that automobile
fatalities this year may exceed the
35,000 of 1950.
Mr. Truman paid tribute to Maj.
Gen. Philip B. Fleming; newly ap
! rain ted ambassador to Costa Rica,
and chairman of the conference
since its.JWP'&nfcvj-tru4#46. Field
ing was absent because of illness.
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer pre
sided. *
The President told the conference
of nearly 4,000 gathered from all
over the country that the defense
program depends upon efficient
transportation. Observers from 65
foreign nations were also present.
Others included representatives of
farm, youth and women’s organi
zations.
ALASKA STANDARD
OIL FILMS POPULAR
The motion pictures “Alaska,”
"Alaskan Big Game” and “Fish On”
continue to remain among the most
popular in the Standard Oil Com
pany of California film library, ac
carding to word received by T. H.
Dyer, the Company's Juneau Man
ager. •
These pictures, made in the ter
ritory in 1947 depicting big game
hunting and fishing in the terri
tory as well as a complete travel
ogue, have been viewed since their
completion by well over two mil
lion people, Dyer said. During 1950
alone, over 800 showings of the
films were made to an audience Of
252,000; In addition, 5 television
broadcasts were made to approxi
mately 300,000 persons.
Standard has distributed nearly
50 copies of these films to its mo
tion picture projectionists who show
them throughout its marketing area.
The intense interest in Alaska by
the public at this time is indicated
by this preference for these films
which are among the most popular
of the 70 films which Standard has
in its film library.
As a result of these showings,
many people have written to Stan
dard’s Travel Service for informa
tion on the Alaskan Highway, travel
accommodations, transportation, etc.
and have visited the Territory.
Ship Movements
I
Alaska scheduled to sail from
Seattle at 4 p.m. today.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
Prince George scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
Chilcotin scheduled to sail from
Vancouver 8 p.m. Monday.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
sail from Vancouver June 20.
Aleutian scheduled to sail from
Seattle June 22.
Denali from westward scheduled
to arrive 9 p.m. Friday southbound.
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I line for the whole Communist war
effort in Korea.
Wedemeyer. U. S. commanding
general in China in the latter stages
of World War II, testified for the
third days at the Senate inquiry
into the dismissal of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur for publicly advocating
direct blows at Red China.
Backs MacArthur
In general. Wedemeyer backs Mac
Arthur in the controversy over Kor
ean strategy. He has declared fur
ther that the U. S. should pull its
troops out of Korea — he called it
a “bottomless pit” for American
youth — if the MacArthur pro
posals are not adopted.
Today’s questions ranged over
many fields. In response to them,
Wedemeyer testified:
1. He backed the Roosevelt ad
ministration’s efforts in February,
1945, to get Russia into the war
against Japan but war not involved
in any way in the Yalta agreement
making concessions to Russia. He
said that in wanting Russia in the
war “I made a mistake, an error in
judgment, strategic Judgment.”
2. His four State Department ad
visers in China in 1944 and 1945
were "very critical” of the Chinese
Nationalist government but marie
“favorable” reports on activities of
the Chinese Communists.
State Department Cited
3. It has seemed to him that ell
“constructive” ideas for Asian po—
icy since Japan surrendered ha\e
developed in Covgres* “and’-the
position to those constructive ideas
usually occurred in the State De
partment.”
4. He would regard recognition of
Red China as "tantamount to a re
futation of our traditional American
friendship for these people.”
Rearm Japanese
5. He believes the United States
should go ahead and make a peace
treaty with Japan'on its own, if
nothing satisfactory can be worked
out with Great Britain, Russia and
other nations which entered the war
with the Japanese. Wedemeyer said
yesterday he believes the Japanese
should be rearmed and allowed to
fight in Korea.
6. Lack of ammunition was one
of the "greatest problems” the Chi
nese Nationalists faced in their los
ing battle with the Communists on
the mainland. Previously senators
had heard Secretary of State Ache
son quote a report by Maj. Gen.
David Barr, head of a mission to
China, that the Nationalists never
lost a battle for lack of bullets.
International Affair
7. In his opinion, there is lack
of coordination and planning in the
government’s handling of interna
tional affairs.
8. MacArthur, as Pacific com
mander, gave him an order at the
end of the war with Japan against
letting the Chinese Communists
have any of the arms taken from
Japanese who surrendered in China.
The Russians accepted the surrend
er of many Japanese and there has
been testimony that the Chinese
Communists got much of this Jap
anese equipment.
Also Blockade
Wedemeyer in urging the bomb
ing of the Manchurian railroad,
despite Russia’s interest in it, and
a naval blockade of China, said the
bombing might touch off a world
conflict — a "calculated risk” he
would take—but disputed views that
the blockade would be an act of war.
For that master, Wedemeyer con
tended at th* Inquiry, the United
States is already at war. He said:
“We are already at war, in my
judgment; we are already at war
with the Chinese Red government
because they are killing our men.”
Morse told Wedemeyer that Ad
miral Forrest P. Sherman had testi
fied he would consider a U. S. naval
blockade of such Manchurian ports
as Dairen and Port Arthur — where
Russia has been assigned rights—
an act of war.
Wedemeyer said he has the high
est respect for Sherman, chief of
naval operations.
"But I don’t agree that this (block
ade) would be an act of war,” the
general said.
The Manchurian railroad is joint
ly controlled by Russia and Red
China.
FOREST LAND
WITHDRAWN,
ALASKA AREA
WASHINGTON, June 13, — iff) —
The government set aside 34,861
acres within National Forests today
for use as administrative centers,
campgrounds, recreation areas and
ranger stations.
Some of the forest land with
drawn from settlement or mining
or commercial development will be
used for skiing and other winter
sports.
The lands are in 47 tracts in 14
states and Alaska. Although they
are part of areas administered by
the Forest Service in the depart
ment of Agriculture, the authority
for such withdrawals rests with the
Secretary of the Interior.
Marion McLawson, director of In
terior's Bureau of Land Managment,
said the withdrawals are designed
to prevent mining activities in the
specific areas to be used for ad
ministrative or recreational pur
poses. However, oil and gas devel
opment will be permitted where
circumstances warrant.
The lands withdrawn include:
Alaska—A 39.63 acre Edna Bay
administrative site in the Tongass
National Forest, and the following
parts of the Chugach National For
est: all lands within a quarter of
a mile of Summit Lake, or about
790 acres, to be known as the Sum
mit Lake Recreation Area; the 385
acres within a quar ter of a mile of
lower Summit Lake .also as a re
creational area; and the 3,017.6
| acres of land within one-fourth of
a mile of the Seward-Anchorage
highway, from the west end of the
midge crossing East Fork Creek
northeastward for 9.43 miles, to be
known as the Granite Creek Road
side zone.
H0REB00SIS
EXCISE TAXES
ARE PLANNED
WASHINGTON, June 13 — UR—
The House Ways and Means com
mittee today voted to boost excise
taxes on gasoline, automobiles, and
many other Items.
Making its final decisions on a
bill calling for an overall increase
of about $7,900,000,000 a year in
taxes, the committee also decided
to broaden the base for the excess
profits levy on corporations.
Chairman Doughton said the
committee expects to take a last
minute look at the measure tomor
row and then introduce the bill in
the House.
He said he hopes to bring it to a
House vote next week.
The bill calls for stiff increases in
individual income taxes, corporate
levies and excise taxes, and for a
new tax on wagering.
The excise increases included:
Raising the tax on new automo
biles from 7 per cent of the manu
facturers’ price to 10 per cent.
Tax on buses, trucks and automo
tive parts, from 5 per cent to 8
per cent.
The tax on gasoline would be
raised from 1% to 2 cents per gallon.
The excise rate on domestic tele
grams, radio and cable messages,
however, would be cut from 25 to
20 per cent.
GAMES TODAY
—
BOSTON, June 13 —OH— The Red
I Sox scored once In the second inn
! ing today and added another in the
eighth for a 2-0 victory over the
Detroit Tigers, the second shutout
of the season for the Bostonians
Bill Wight gave the Tigers only five
hits. The victorious Sox made only
six off Dizzy Trout who lost his
seventh game.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston at Pittsburgh, rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis at New York, rain.
Chicago at Washington, rain. Twi
■ light doubleheader tomorrow.
—
(One night American game).
U. N. Troops Collapse Triangle
United Nations forces (solid arrows) collapsed the Communist
defense triangle (shaded) by taking the southern key cities of
Chorwon and Kumhiva. Iteds (open arrows) were withdrawing
tow'ard Kumsong and were moving back to the Pyonggang area.
Red resistance weakened on all Korean fronts except east of the
Hwachon reservoir. (AP Wirephoto Map)
I Purple Hearts Come Hard
Exhausted and dejected, two til's with similar left hand wounds
sit on a bench at a mobile hospital unit near the eastern Korean
front as' they await treatment for their injuries. (AP Wirephoto)
ROLLBACKS TO
HOLD ON BEEF,
SAYS WILSON
WASHINGTON, June 13 —1*1 —
Mobilization Chief Charles E. Wil
son today rejected demands of the
cattle industry for price relief in
four words—"The rollbacks are
firm.”
Wilson told a news conference
there is no plan to relax either
the present 10 per cent rollback
on the price of live cattle or the
scheduled rollbacks of 4'j per cent
each in August and October.
He conceded that ' We will be
in a terrible mess” if cattle raisers
cut off the flow of beef to market.
He said he hoped they would not.
But when asked whether his of
fice of Defense Mobilisation had
any plans for rationing if the flow
were curtailed, he replied with em
phasis : No.”
"We have a tremendous cattle
population, and the celing prices
are good according to most econo
mists," the ODM director said.
“I hope we’ll be able to supply
150,000,000 Americans with beef
without resort to rationing.”
OPS Director Michael DiSalle
was reported to be preparing a new
statement, possibly for issuance to
day, on the beef situation. Mean
while, OPS took action that may
let the price of hot dogs go up one
to two cents a pound,
FROM NEW YORK
I) Campbell Wydroff of Pleasant
ville, N. Y. is stopping at the Bar
anof Hotel.
SENTENCED TO
YEAR AND DAY
TERM, LARCENY
Dorothy Greenhalgh of Ketchi
kan waived prosecution by indict
ment this* afternoon before Judge
George W. Folta in U. S. District
Court, and pleaded guilty on an in
formation filed by U. S. district at
torney charging her with larceny
in a Ketchikan store on May 29.
She was sentenced to a year and
a day to be served in a Federal in
stitution which will be designated by
the U. S. attorney general.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
George O. Gates of San Fran
cisco is at the Baranof Hotel.
Greenland is as large as the part
of the United States which is east
of the Mississippi River.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature for 24-Hour Period
Sndlng C 20 o'clock this morning
111 Juneau — Maximum,
54; minimum, 44.
At Airport — Maximum,
52; minimum, 44.
FORECAST
Cloudy with intermittent
rain tonight and Thursday.
Low temperature tonight
about 46. High Thursday near
55.
PRECIPITATION
IPast 24 hours ending 7:30 a m today
City of Juneau — .30 inches;
Since June 1 — 3.22 inches;
Since July 1 — 75.41 inches.
At Airport — .31 inches;
Since June 1 — 1 81 inches:
Since July 1 — 44.72 Inches.
"BOUNCING
BATTLES"
REPORTED
Allied Task Forces Fight
ing from Ridge fo Ridge;
Advance Censorized
By Associated Press
Thousands of beaten Reds stream
ed northward in Korea today as
Allied task forces roamed unopposed
over their abandoned “iron triangle.”
Allied tanks and men spilled out
over the flat lands north of Chor
won and Kumhwa. They made good
advances toward Pyonggang, north
ernmost point of the triangle. But
censors would not permit corre
spondents to mention the distances.
The big Red withdrawal was in the
wild, rugged country east of the
triangle. North Koreans sweated up
the mountain trails in groups rang
ing from a few hundred to more
than a thousand.
“Bouncing Battles"
Smaller Red forces covered the
retreat. They slowed advancing UN
infantrymen in “bouncing battles"
over the ridges stretching north of
the Hwachon Reservoir eastward to
ward the Sea of Japan.
The Fifth Air Force sent nearly
a third of the 535 flights mounted I
Wednesday skimming over these
ridges. The pilots burned the Reds
out with fire bombs and blasted
them with explosives.
Largest engagement reported Wed
nesday was fought by South Kor
eans moving up the eastf coast nofth
of Kansong against an estimated'
1,000 Reds. On the west flank pa
trols stabbed across the Imjln river,
prAblng Chinese strength.
UN officials said the only sig
nificant action was the Red flight
behind the cover of the mountain
top defenses.
The mountain warfare . followed
a uniform pattern, bouncing from
ridge to ridge.
Artillery Blasts iteas
UN forces attacked North Kor
eans, entrenched on hilltops and
supported by artillery and mortar
fire, halted them. UN air strikes and
artillery then blasted the Beds.
Communists pulled back to the next
ridge.
There the same performance was
repeated.
QIs gave this type of warfare
the name: "Bouncing Battle."
Moscow radio said the Commun
ists blocked UN attacks all along
the front Tuesday and shot down
four Allied planes.
There were no such Allied reports.
DE VALERA, PRIME
MINISTER, IRELAND
DUBLIN, June 13 — lift— Xinerl
can-born Eamon De Valera was
elected prime minister of Ireland
tonight. The vote in Parliament was
72 to 69.
De Valera, head of the Finfa Fail
party, was prime minister from 1932
to 1948, when he was ousted bjr jforiti,
Costello,
Five of the 14 Independent depu
ties of the new dail joined with Use
Fianfa Fail party’s 69 deputies to
put De Valera back into power.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK. June 13 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today Is 2%. American Can
111, American Tel. and Tel. 153%.
Anaconda 41, Douglas Aircraft 47%.
General Electric 54'4, General Mot
ors 48 V4, Goodyear 78%, Kennecott
74%, Libby .McNeill and Libby 8%,
Northern Pacific 41%, Standard Oil
of California 46. Twentieth Cent
ury Fox 18, U. S. Steel 40%. Pound
$2.80%, Canadian Exchange 93.25.
Sales today were 1,060,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 250.70, rails 79.21, utili
ties 42.56.
NEW YORK VISITORS
Mrs. Roland Beattie and Mrs.
Matthew Cavell of New York City
are stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM OHIO
Dr. Hugh Ivan Evans of Dayton,
Ohio is a guest at the Baranof
Hotel. 4