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JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1950
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Reds A ttempting to Drive UN Forces Into Sea
EMBARGO
ASKED BY
DOCKMEN
Longshoremen Wants Tru
man to Stop Shipments
to, from Commies
SEATTLE, Dec. 15—UP)—Seattle
longshoremen voted last night to
ask President Truman to place an
embargo on all shipments to and
from Communist-dominated count
ries.
An official reported longshore
men at the closed meeting discuss
ed a proposal to refuse to handle
such cargo, but decided on the
embargo request instead.
The Federal Government already
has clamped restrictions on ship
ments of many strategic materials
to countries under Communist con
trol.
Harry Bridges, President of the
International Longshoremen and
Warehousemen's Union (Indi came
here from San Francisco to speak
at the meeting.
The Times said “it was reliably
reported" that Bridges was greet
ed by “catcalls” from some Seattle
dock workers while discussing the
Coast Guard security screening
program and the present world cri
sis. .
Art Olsen, secretary of the Seat
tle union local, would not confirm
that Bridges was “booed" on some
issues.
Bridges has opposed the present
Coast Guard screening program.
Movie Seauly Weds
At 18; is Divorced
Before She's IS
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 15 — <^P) —
Married at 18, divorced before she’s
19. That, from the star herself,
is the prospect before Elizabeth
Taylor.
The British-born beauty, who
won’t be 19 until next Feb. 27, said
yesterday she will file a divorce
suit against hotel heir Nick Hilton
early in the new year.
“I am very sorry that Nick and I
are unable to adjust our differences
and that we have come to a final
parting of the ways,” the actress
said in a statement prepared by
her studio.
FREIGHTER IN PORT
The freighter Flemish Knot dock
ed this morning from Seattle and
is scheduled to sail tomorrow morn
ing for Skagway and Haines on the
return trip to Seattle.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Ooprrliht 18SO. by Ball Bnuilcmta, Inc. I
By DREW PEARSON
FFaSHINGTON—A Senate com
mittee will take the hide off the
munitions board next week ofr fail
ing to stockpile wool, so urgently
needed for shivering troops in
Korea.
In a blistering report, the Sen
ate preparedness subcommittee
headed by forthright Lyndon John
son of Texas, will charge the muni
tions board with “shortsightedness
. that will cost the taxpayers a min
imum of many million dollars.”
Two months ago this column
warned of the wool shortage and
revealed munitions board failure
to stockpile.
“While the munitions board was
obviously doing plenty of ’wool
gathering’,” says the Senate com
mittee, “none of it was for the
stockpile. . .Tbday the, Urtited
States—faced with the prospect of
a long winter campaign in Korea
and- the maintenance of a three
million-man armed force—has no
wool in stockpile, no wool in inven
tory and less than enough woll in
prospect throiigh domestic produc
tion. . .Training men with wooden
guns in 1940 and 1941 was tragic.
. . .But the prospect of outfitting
men in clothing inadequate to pro
tect them from the elements is a
greater tragedy still.
"The munitions board was not
created to underwrite complacency,
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Americans
To Get It
This Night
Truman Expected to Tell Us
to Prepare for Great
er Sacrifices
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 — <A1—
President Truman calls on Amer
icans tonight to unite in greater
sacrifices behind the critical effort
to build up the free world’s military
might.
The tempo of that effort was al
ready being speeded up rapidly, but
members of Congress and others
were demanding definite manpower
and production goals.
Mr. Truman, speaking at 7:30 p.m.
(PST) on radio and television, plans
to outline the home front sacrifices
he thinks are necessary to meet
the grave crisis of military defeats
in Korea and the threat of new
Communist aggression elsewhere.
A declaration of national emer
gency—to speed up military con
tract letting and put the country
nearer to a war basis—seemed cer
tain either as a prelude or after- j
math of the President’s speech.
This could be accompanied or
followed by selective price and wage
controls. Most speculation was that
their application would be gradual
while personnel *is being built up
to administer them.
President Truman outlined to his
cabinet today what Attorney Gen
eral McGrath called the general
! tone of the speech. Aside from say
i ing the subjects in the speech are
important, McGrath would not dis
cuss it.
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SENATOR TO BLOW
HIS TOP; ESKIMO
ROOFING, CAUSE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—UP)—
Rep. Lovre (R-SD) blasted a Fed
eral agency today for a housing
program that allows Eskimos to
obtain scarce corrugated alumin
um roofing.
The South Dakotan told a re
porter he would call this to the
attention of the House. His state
ment for the Congressional Re
cord said:
“While we here in this country
are being called upon to accept
less of certain strategic materials,
the Eskimo who conforms to Bu-.
reaucratic edict can get corrugated
aluminum roofing for his house.
This is a time when we desperately
need critical materials in the war
effort.”
Lovre said his information came
from a press release Dec. 2 from
the Housing and Finance agency.
He said the release said Eskimos
could now get loans with which
to buy materials from the agency
to build or improve a house, in
cluding aluminum roofing.
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SOROPTIMISTS CHRISTMAS
PLANS DISCUSSED TODAY
Soroptimist Christmas plans
were discussed at the club’s regular
business meeting at luncheon on
the Baranof Terrace today.
President Dr. Grace Field called
for committee reports and Mrs. Ilah
Parmenter, chairman of the social
committee said it had been decided
to have a Christmas dinner party
at the home of Mrs. Helen Monsen
on Thursday, December 28.
The adoption of a family for
Christmas has been arranged and
Miss Gertrude Wetzel and Mrs.
Carlie Turner announced that the
! gifts purchased by Soroptimists
would be collected at Garnick’s
! store on Saturday, December 23.
MISS BOND TO STATES
Miss Mary Bond, secretary in the
office of H. A. Stoddart, Division
, Engineer for the Bureau of Pub
; lie Roads, has resigned her posi
I tion and plans to leave Sunday for
the states. She will go to her home
; in LaGrande, Ore., to spend the
i Christmas holidays with her family
and expects to remain in Oregon
I for the present. Miss Bond has
; been with the BPR for the past
year coming here from Portland.
HOUSE GOPERS
SEEK OUSTER
OF &CHESON
Senate Republicans to
Consider'No Confidence'
Vote Late Today
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 — —
House Republicaas today adopted
a resolution calling for the ouster
of Secretary of State Dean Ache
son.
The action was taken at a closed
meeting of all House party mem
bers. GOP leaders said the resolu
tion was approved "overwhelming
ly.”
The resolution will be sent to
President Truman.
In addition to asking for Ache
son’s replacement, it urges 'chan
ges in the personnel and policies
responsible for this lack of confi
dence” in the State Department.
Senate Republicans may take
some stand concerning Acheson be
fore the day is over.
While the House Republicans
were in session, the Senate GOP
policy committee called a meeting
of all Republican senators for late
this afternoon to consider a formal
vote of no confidence in Acheson.
IGNORE
COURT
ORDERS
Railroad Strikers Make No
Attempt to Return
to Work
CHICAGO, Dec. 15—W—Striking
railroad workers in Chicago and
other key cities made no attempt
to return to work today, apparently
ignoring three Federal court orders
and their union president.
The strike, which' in two days
has disrupted vital shipments of
freight and mail and slowed some
industrial output, hit on the home
front. The postoffice department
last night clamped a partial em
bargo on parcel post mailing.
The order, coming at the peak of
the Christmas mailing rush, in
cludes all parcel post and is effect
ive immediately in hundreds of
postoffices throughout the country.
Airmail and air parcel post is not
affected.
Intervention Necessary
Meanwhile top officials of the
union, the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, said in Washington they
believed personal intervention by
President Truman might be the
only hope for quick settlement of
the strike.
The union’s attorneys are pre
paring a brief in reply to the
“back to work" orders obtained by
the government in three cities. The
brief declared the union is trying
“by every means at its command”
to control the strikes and remedy
their causes.
Edward B. Henslee, general coun
sel, who is preparing the union’s
answer, denied the union is striking
as an “entity.” •
Truman Must Act
Both Henslee and a union spokes
man said possible settlement was
contingent on action by President
Truman or someone designated by
him.
The strike, which started on a
small scale in Chicago Wednesday
and snowballed into a full' grown
stoppage, spread to the big indus
trial center of Peoria, 111., today.
The stoppage spread yesterday to
Washington, St. Louis and Alex
andria, Va.
The walkout, railroad sources
said, apparently started in an ef
fort to get the wage dispute settled
before any wage freeze is ordered
by President Truman. The union
is seeking a 40-hour work week at
48 hours pay for its yard workers.
Negotiations for settlement have
been in progress for several months
in Washington.
George and Art Jurgeleit of
Haines are stopping at the Gas
tineau Hotel.
Extra Funds
For Defense
Asked Now
Nation Must Arm Rapidly,
Be as Strong as We Can,
Soon as We Can
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—W—Rep.
Cannon (D-Mo>, head of the House
Appropriations Committee, asked
the House today to approve aii
$18,033,000,000 defense bill and des
cribed it as "the first installment
on a preparedness program that
will go to astronomical heights.”
Cannon said his committee pre
sented the measure "reluctantly but
there is no alternative.” It pro
vides the extra defense funds asked
by President Truman after the
Chinese Comunists launched their
offensive in Korea.
“We must arm as rapidly as we
can,” Cannon told the House. “We
must be as strong as we can—as
soon as we can.”
Even as Cannon spoke, Mr. Tru
man sent Congress a new request
for an extra $1,834,911,000 for stock
piling more strategic and critical
materials.
A White House statement, an
nouncing Mr. Truman’s action, said
the stockpiling program mult be
speeded up in view of recent wofTd
developments.
The additional money would
make a total of $2„923,911,000 for
the stockpiling program in the cur
rent fiscal year ending next June
30.
Cannon appealed for approval
of the big defense measure as the
House began three hours of debate
on it.
In clearing the bill for House
action, Cannon's committee did not
cut a single penny out of the funds
Mr. Truman asked.
$500,000,800
ATOMIC PLANT
FOR KENTUCKY
WASHINGTON, Dec, 15 — <*l —
The Atomic Energy Commission of
ficially announces that it will build
a huge new plant near Paducah,
Ky.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee disclosed at about the same
time that the project is expected to
cost *500,000,000. The committee
has been considering funds for a
*1,050,000,000 expansion program for
atomic production facilities, of
which the Paducah plant will be
a part.
The AEC said the Kentucky site
will cover about 5,000 acres, "a
[Considerable part of which will be
obtained through purchase,” around
the present Kentucky Ordnance
Works, 16 miles west of Paducah.
The commission’s announcement
gave these other details about the
Paducah project:
The new plant “will further ex
pand capacity for producing uran
ium-235 for use in weapons or in
fuel elements for nuclear reactors.”
B. C. HIGHWAY CLOSED
BY HEAVY SNOWFALL
Advices have been received here
that the Northern Trans-Provin
cial Highway from Skeena to Ter
race, B. C., was officially closed
to traffic December 12 due to snow
conditions. It will remain closed
until further announcement ac
cording to the Division Engineer
of the British Columbia Depart
met of Public Works.
CITY COUNCIL TONIGHT
Liquor and card table licenses
will come up for consideration
at a regular Juneau City Council
meeting in the Council Chambers
tonight. This will be the last re
gular meeting of the year. If a
replacement for Coiinctlman A1
Zenger is not chosen tonight, it
will have to be considered at a
special meeting because his resigna
tion becomes , effective January 1.
Morton M. Flint, Bureau of Pub
lic Roads official, is scheduled to
leave tomorrow for Seward where
he will confer on road matters
in that district with District En
gineer B. M. French whose head
quarters are at that city. He ex
pects to return next Wednesday.
APPROVE
DEFENSE
REQUEST
House Committee Quick
ly Okehs Fund Asked
by President
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(By William F. Arbogast)
WASHINGTON. Dec. 15—OP)—1The
White House Appropriations Com
mittee today urged Congress to
grant the entire $16,845,181,000 ask
ed by President Truman to speed
up national defense.
It did not cut a single penny
from any of the extra funds re
quested for defense after Chinese
Communist forces launched their
successful offensive in North Ko»aa
But the committee trimmed
amounts sought for the Atomic En
ergy Commission, the National Ad
visory Committee for Aeronautics,
the Tennessee Valley Authority
and the Subversive Activities Con
trol Board created by the new
anti-subversive law.
House To Take Action
Appropriations for these and var
ious other agencies were lumped by
the committee in an omnibus $tl,
820,404,424 bill slated for House
consideration later today.
The total is $260,641,610 lower
than the amounts proposed by the
President through the Budget Bu
reau, The largest cut—$210,000,000
—was made in the $1,050,000,000
sought by the Atomic Energy Com
mission for an expansion of atom
bomb production.
Defense Allotment
The new allotment for the Army,
the Navy and the Air Force would
boost defense appropriations to al
most $42,000,000,000 for the fiscal
year ending next June 30.
And the committee said “there
are already indications of treed for
more funds.” There were reports
the Pentagon might ask for an
other $8,000,000,000 before the fis
cal year ends.
That would push the year’s to
tal for defense close to $50,000,000,
000 and represent about $330 for
eevry man, woman and child in the
country.
By departments, the new delense
funds were allotted this way:
Army, $9,211,799,000, Including
$934,000 for the Alaska Communi
cations System.
Navy, $2,979,371,000; this includes
the Marine oCrps.
Air Force, $4,603,011,000.
NAVY'S EMERGENCY
REQUEST INCLUDES
FUNDS FOR ALASKA
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 — UB —
The Navy’s emergency request for
$49,002,700 for overseas construction
of public works Was approved by
the House Appropriations Commit
tee today.
The Navy’s breakdown of how it
plans to spend Its overseas and
Alaskan public works funds in
cludes:
To complete plans for Alaskan
stations, $660,000.
Kodiak, Alaska, additional oper
ational facilities, $1,525,000.
NO PLANE FROM SEATTLE
NO STUDENTS HOME TODAY
Parents of Juneau students at
tending schools outside, due home
today for the Christmas holidays
were disappointed to learn that the
Pan American clipper flight sched
uled from Seattle this morning had
been cancelled out. However, tomor
row is another day, and the wea
ther at press time looked promising.
HIT AND RUN
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 15—
—A pedestrian was hit by a truck
on Run Street here yesterday.
Police said it was a case of hit
and run.
SELLECK. Wash., Dec. 15-^VP)—
Rescue workers reported early this
forenoon that a trapped coal miner
for whom they had been digging
for a day and two nights was alive
under a rock slide.
Territorial Tax Collections
For First 11 Months of 1950
Reported Over Nine Million
EXTRA
BULLETIN — WASHINGTON,
Dec. 15—Truman will Issue pro
clamation national emergency to
morrow, high officials disclosed
late today. They also said he will
follow up his major speech to
night on world crisis with execu
tive order tomorrow setting up
office of defense mobilization un
der Charles E. Wilson. The pro
clamation of emergency to ac
company this executive order
will tighten controls over the
nations economy and to proceed
under lines laid down in his pro
clamation.
Frank Boyle
Passes Away
Frank A. Boyle, 73, Auditor of Al
aska and pioneer resident of Ju
neau, passed away late this after
noon at his home in the Assembly
Apartments, after a lingering ill
ness. He had been In a state of
coma for the past 48 hours.
Word of the death of one of Ju
nea’s best known and highly re
spected citizens was received at the
Empire office Just as the paper was
going to press.
Mobilization
At a Glance
( By the Associated Press)
A brief sum-up of America's cur
rent steps along the mobilization
preparedness road:
President Truman speaks tonight
on radio and television (7:30 p.m.
PST) to outline home front duties
in the world crisis.
Gov. Dewey of New York calls
for all-out mobilization, including
registration for national service of
all persons over the age of 17.
Government announces uniform
system of air raid warning signals—
"red alert” when an attack seems
imminent and “all clear” when dan
ger is past.
Charles E. Wilson, head of the
General Electric Company, accepts
appointment to direct industrial
mobilization.
Secretary of the Army Pace tells
Congress the lid is off U. S. mili
tary spending, because of Chinese
Communist intervention in Korea.
House appropriations committee
approves, in full, an extra $16,845,
000,000 for national defense. Ad
ministration officials talk of raising
a 4,000,000-man armed force, with
military spending perhaps to reach
*100,000,000,000 a year.
Parking Fine Is
Remiffed; Milk
For Children
CLEARWATER, Fla., Dec. 15—<iP)
—The police gave back a *1 parking
fine to a man who wrote that pay
ing it “is depriving my three chil
dren of much needed milk.”
Chief George McClamma did not
identify the man but said he in
vited an investigation to prove loss
of the dollar would hurt his fam
Uy.
McClamma did not investigate,
but returned the money with a note
that he hoped it would be used to
buy milk.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Norah from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive Saturday after
noon or evening.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle tonight.
Denali scheduled to arrive Sunday
morning enroute south.
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Territorial tax collections for the
first 11 months of 1950 totaled $9,
027,601.10.
The figures were given out by
M. P. Mullaney, Territorial Tax
Commissioner, who said a full re
port would be made In booklet
form after the first of next year.
Mullaney called collections the
highest In Territorial history.
Largest single source was the In
come tax, with $3,180,205.92 paid
through November 20. Second larg
est was the tax on raw fish, net
ting $1,399,913.05. Third was the
excise tax on liquor, $1,367,591.69.
By Divisions
Totals by divisions were:
First (Juneau) $3,265,411.92; Se
cond (Nome) $203,688.86; Third
(Anchorage) $4,158,180.42; Fourth
(Fairbanks) $1,400,319.90.
Collections this year, with those
of 1949, bring the total thus far
in the biennium to $15,193,725.T4.
Mullaney predicted an additional
$2,500,000 would be collected, bring
ing total revenues to near $18,000,
000.
The Anchorage division paid
more than half the total revenue
for the territory from the motor
fuel tax, automobile license plates,
drivers’ licenses and school tax.
The division paid almost half tire
total from tobacco and business li
cense taxes.
Tax records reflected the dif
ferences in the economy of the var
ious divisions.
Lead in S.E. Alaska
Southeast Alaska led all divisions
in revenues from Fishermen’s li
censes and fish license taxes. An
chorage and Fairbanks provided
virtually the entire $17,844 in driver
.licenses. The Panhandle produced
only $2,18V and the Nome division
only $253 under this item, while
Anchorage paid more than $10,000
and Fairbanks more than $5,000.
Revenues from license plates
showed the same geographical dis
tribution.
From Punch Boards
Collections of $6,885 were made
from punchboards, which are illegal
under existing laws. Most punch
board revenue came from south
east Alaska. Punchboards were vir
tually eliminated in Anchorage af
ter authorities confiscated and des
troyed those they found in several
raids.'
Mullaney said heavy collections
are due on Jan. 15 under the raw
lish taxes for 1950, and additional
funds will come from income tax
and the business license tax due
March • 15.
Compilations were based on the
calendar year, although the Terri
tory’s fiscal year does not coincide.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
V
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2*4, American Can
92ti, American Tel. & Tel. 149*4,
Anaconda 36 %, Douglas Aircraft
89*i, General Electric 47Vi. General
Motors 43%, Goodyear 58%, Ke*ine
cott 73, Libby, McNeil & Libby 8%,
Northern Pacific 28%, Standard Oil
of California 79%, Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 19%, U. 8. Steel 39*4,
Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange
95.12%.
Sales today were 2,410,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows:
Industrials 224.70, rails 73.38, util
ities 38.75.
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• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures lor 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock th!> morning •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 35; •
• Minimum, 29. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 36; •
• Minimum. 28. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Cloudy with intermittent •
• light snow tonight and Sat- •
• urday. Lowest temperature •
• tonight near 28 degrees and •
• highest Saturday near 34. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m today •
• City of Juneau—none; •
• since Dec. 1 — 2.40 inches; •'
• since July 1 — 35.64 inches. •
• At Airport—none; •
• since Dec. I — 1.56 inches; •
• since July — 24.68 inches. •
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BIG ATTACK
NOW FACING
DOUGHBOYS
Enemy Denting Lines of
Dwindling Beachhead,
Last Stand of Allies
(By the Associated Press )
A fiercely attacking J00,000-man
Red Chinese army swarmed over
the blazing flatlands of the dwind
ling Hungnam beachhead today, at
tempting to drive United Nations
forces into the sea.
The allies hit back with air, tank
and military support. The Chin
ese losses in infantry and cavalry
men were heavy. But still they
came on. Fighting , continued
throughout the day and by night
fall was increasing in intensity.
America doughboys pulled back
into a smaller and smaller peri
meter with their backs to the sea
of Japan. The North Korean high
command said the whole U. S.
Tenth Corps was being evacuated
by sea from Northwest Korea.
The beachhead was the last stand
in the Northeast for around 60,000
allied troops assembled there after
a general retreat from the icy
mountainous hinterland.
Serious Threat
AP correspondent Tom Lambert
with the U. S. Third Division re
ported the Chinese broke through
the outlying mountain barrier onto
the plains fringing the seashore.
One Third Division platoon was lost
in early fighting. Lambert said
the advance onto the beachhead's
flat plain poised a serious threat
to U. N. forces.
Earlier, allied forces were reported
to have pulled back to within 2'.4
miles of Hungnam port. A security
blackout covered allied troop move
ments.
No End of Reds
General MacArthur's war sum
mary said: “The bottomless well
of Chinese Communist manpower
in Manchuria continues to flow into
Korea.”
The 10th Corps defenders were
fighting with their backs to the
sea in efforts to hold the beach
head.
On the west coast, above Seoul,
Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker's Eighth
Army braced Itself for another
blow. Field dispatches continued
to report a massing of Chinese and
North Korean Communists in the
center of the peninsula. If was a
breakthrough in the center, on the
Eighth Army’s right flank, that
precipitated the general retreat
earlier this month.
All-out Air War
The enemy showed signs it may
be ready for an all-out air war.
Fifty-seven forties in Soviet-built
Red Jets have been counted in
Northwest Korea in the last 10 days.
Up until now U. N {prces have held
the mastery of the skies.
Washington observers said the
actualities of war in Asia are only
slightly more grim than the pros
pects of conflict with Communism
in Europe.
New Threat
They said the outnumbered land
forces of the United Nations in
Korea might soon be faced not only
with an enemy armada in the sky
but that a hitherto non-existent
enemy navy m'ght appear in the
same abrupt manner and from the
same "neutral" origin.
The first big assault from the
Communist Chinese ringing the
Hamhung-Hungnam perimeter be
gan in darkness and continued
through the daylight hours Friday.
Beating drums and blowing bu
gles, the Reds dented the allied lines
at Oro, a town six miles northwest
of Hamhung, abandoned by the
allies yesterday. One U. S. Third
Division platoon was cut off in the
Oro fighting.
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