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Negotiations Continue In Coast Ship Tie-up
RUSS MIGS
DOWNED IN
AIR FIGHT
Battles Rage Over N.W.
Korea; Terrific Encounters
Take Place for Ridges
By Associated Press
For the third straight day Amer
ican pilots today beat Red airmen
in a big jet battle over Northwest
Korea.
U. S. Sabre jets damaged four
Russian-type MIG-15S as Allied in
fantrymen knocked North Koreans
off key ridges on the eastern battle
front. On the sea fronts UN war
ships silenced a challenge by accur
ate Communist shore batteries.
6 Down, 12 Damaged
Twenty-seven Sabre jets battled
30 Red jets Tuesday in the most
evenly matched of the current air
fights. They ran their three-day
score to six Red jets shot down, 12
damaged.
The battle spread over a wide
area around Sonchon, 35 miles from
the Manchurian border. It was the
deepest recent penetration of Korea
by Red jets in force.
The Fifth Air Force did not say,
as it usually does, that all Sabre
jets returned safely from Tuesday’s
air battle.
Artillery Barrage
North Koreans opened up with a
terrific artillery barrage in an ef
fort to halt Allied infantrymen in
the east. But UN troops drove ahead
two miles in their deepest pene
tration of thajf front this year and
Hi aigti telftd MBhPbaSttJ? Ith»s.
Fierce fighting broke out when
the advance carried the Allies to
the crest of a ridge line looking
down on a Red supply area. A see
saw battle broke out and was the
only noteworthy action along the
front. It was still under way Tues
day night.
Fight Over Ridge
The dominating ridge changed
hands six times in the afternoon.
Heavy Red artillery and mortar fire
burst at tree-top level along the
wooded hills. UN 155 and 105 mm.
field pieces roared back, and 4.5
inch rockets streaked into Red posi
tions.
The ridges, reached in a pincer
movement earlier in the day, form
the southern rim of a punch bowl
valley loaded with Red supplies.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, June 19 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
110%, American Tel. and Tel. 154%,
Anaconda 41%, Douglas Aircraft
46%, General Electric 55%, General
Motors 48%, Goodyear 80%. Kenne
cott 76%, Libby, McNeill and Libby
8%, Northern Pacific 42, Standard
Oil of California 48, Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 18%, U.S.Steel 40%, Pound
$2.80, Canadian Exchange 93.50.
Sales today were 1,100,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 253.53, rails 79.78, utili
ties 42.82.
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. ay BeU Syndicate. Inc.
WASHINGTON. — Senate Demo
cratic leaders called an emergency
off-the-record huddle the other day
to decide how to meet Senator Mc
Carthy’s 60,000-word attack on Sec
retary of Defense Marshall.
Minnesota’s fiery Sen. Hubert
Humphrey suggested a mass walk
out when McCarthy got up to speak.
Pointing out how Hitler started his
rise to power by tearing down the
heroes of the German Republic,
Humphrey snorted his disgust at
McCarthy’s tactics.
“There are many ways to destroy
people—sometimes by outright mur
der, sometimes through the process
of attrition,” declared Humphrey.
"I mean character assassination,
misrepresentation and quoting out
of context. This is the most inhu
mane way.”
The Senator from Minnesota sug
gested that the Democrats had only
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Tommy The Tumbler Comes Back
Two-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Paiva takes his first steps with the help of his parents since his fif
teen-story fall from a window in his apartment. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Paiva, look almost
as pleased as Tommy as they cheer him on at Bellevue Hospital in New York, where he has been con
fined with a cast on his fractured thigh for almost six weeks. Soon he's going home as good aa new. W)
Wirephoto.
ADM. BADGER
SEES CHANCE,
CHINA SPLIT!
_
Testifies Anil Red So.China
Could Roll Iron Curtain
Back to Yangtze
WASHINGTON, June 19 —W—
Vice Adm. Oscar C. Badger told
senators today he believes there is
a chance South China may revolt
against the Communists.
Badger, one of the Navy’s old
China hands, testified as the tenth
witness in the dismissal of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur as Pacific Com
mander.
He read to the investigating com
mittees a report he had made to
the war college here last March 14.
Chance of Revolt
This said the area of Manchuria,
inner Mongolia, Slnkiang “and pos
sibly, North China,” is “generally
deemed to be securely under Com- j
munist control and definitely sub
servient to Moscow.”
But in the areas of China to the !
south, it said, there is still "a j
chance of revolutionary repercus- j
sion against Communist tyranny
and imperialism.”
Speaking generally, Badger also
told the senators the over-all ob- j
jectives of the U. S. should be to:
(1) “Create and maintain world!
conditions so that Russia will deem!
it unwise to undertake World War]
III,” and,
(2) “Initiate promptly and un- j
dertake those political, economic,'
humanitarian, and military objec- j
tives which, in case of war with I
Soviet Russia, would permit us to j
engage under the most favorable
terms.”
Roll Back Iron Curtain
Badger said he believes the “high
percentage of anti-Communist feel- i
ing in South China gives the pos- |
sibility of rolling the iron curtain j
back at least to the Yangtze river
and of relieving the pressure from
the border nations of Southeast!
Asia.
“The recent Chinese reverses in!
Korea are strengthening these,
chances,” he declared. “The remark- i
able increase in the welfare of the I
people of Formosa during recent ]
months is known widely on the!
mainland and is a spur to reac
tion.”
North China Strategic
Badger said to those familiar with
the Far East “it has been evident
that the strategic value placed by
Russia upon North China, including
Manchuria, Mongolia and Sinkiang
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Walks Again!
While her parents, Gov. and MtS.
Earl Warren, of Calif., pr6udly
watched, pretty Nina (Honey
Bear) Warren, 17, walked for the
first time without crutches since
she was stricken last November
with polio. She took her first steps
across her high school stage in
Sacramento, to receive her grad
uation diploma from Dr. John
Kennedy, president of the Sac-t
r amen to Board of Education
(left). Iff) Wirephoto.
VESSEL DISABLED
According to information received
at U. 8. Coast Guard headquarters
here this morning, the fishing ves
sel Betty Mac has been disabled
with a frozen clutch about 25 miles
off shore from Cape St. Elias. An
unnamed Canadian vessel is stand
ing by and a Navy vessel is en
route to the scene.
Ship Movements
Baranof from Seattle in port and
scheduled to sail for westward dur
ing afternoon.
Princess Louise from Vancouver
due to arrive at 9 tonight sailing
for Skagway at 1:30 p.m.
Chilcotin from Vancouver sched
uled to arrive at 3p.m. Thursday.
Princess Kathleen scheduled to
sail from Vancouver June 20.
Aleutian scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday but depends on re
sults of shipping strike on coast.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday providing
there is no strike on Canadian lines.
CZECH GOVT.
OATIS TRIAL
BEGINSSOON
Associated Press Corres
pondent Accused of
Hostile Activities
LONDON, June 19 — GW— Reports
from Prague today said the Czech
foreign ministry has informed the
U. S. embassy that Associated Press
Correspondent William Oatis will be
placed on trial within a few days.
Oatis, 37, was arrested April 23
on charges of hostile activities to
ward the Czechoslovak government.
The Prague report said Vilem 8i
roky, Czech foreign minister, told
U. S. Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs
of Oatis' forthcoming trial when
Briggs called at the foreign min
istry last Friday afternoon.
Seized by Czechs
Oatis’ arrest fiid not become
known until April 26, nearly 72 hours
after his disappearance from his
office and lodgings in Prague. He
was last seen while preparing to
keep an appointment. Three Czech
agents seized him as he was putting
his car in his garage.
A native of Marion, Ind., Oatis
had gone to Prague last June as
chief of the Associated Press bur
eau there.
Shortly before his arrest he had
informed the U. S. embassy he was
being shadowed.
At the time his arrest was an
nounced, Frank Starzel, general
manager of the Associated Press,
said the AP knew no basis for the
charges against him.
With AP Since 1937
Oatis had been writing for the
Associated Press since 1937, except
for four years when he was in the
United States Ai*my during World
War II.
The Czech announcement of April
26 said the charges against him in
cluded activities hostile to the state,
gathering and disseminating infor
mation considered secret by Czecho
slovakia and spreading malicious in
formation regarding the Czech state
through illegal news channels.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Two applications for marriage li
censes have been issued in com
missioner’s court. They are Jack
Willis Boddy, laborer, and Irene C.
McKinley, stenographer, and Theo
dore R. Oberman, optometrist, and
Mary Jane Walker, Alaska Native
Service employe.
SEATTLE VISITOR
Thor Sunberg of Seattle is reg
istered at the Gastineau Hotel.
NEW DRAFT
LAW SIGNED
BY TRUMAN
Selective Service Extended
Also Lays Way for Mili
tary Training
WASHINGTON, June 19 —MV
President Truman has signed the
new draft law.
The measure lowers the draft
age, extends the Selective Service
System for years and lays the foun
dation for Universal Military Train
ing.
Mr. Truman signed the bill in a
White House ceremony.
The new law keeps the draft in
operation until July 1, 1955, and
permits the induction of 18*4-year
olds for military service if local
draft boards exhaust their supply
of older eligible men. It makes no
change in the present maximum
draft age of 25.
The present law, which would
have expired on July 9, prohibited
the induction of anyone under 19.
The period of service under the
new law is 24 months instead of 21
under the expiring law.
Although the minimum induction
age under the new law is 18V4 years,
men still must register when they
become 18.
TROLLEYS, BUSES
RESUME SERVICE;
900 PILOTS STRIKE
By Associated Press
Streetcars and buses went back
into service in Detroit today for
the first time in two months.
But as the nation’s longest major
municipal transit walkout ended
there, 900 AFL pilots went on strike
against the United Air Lines across
the nation.
In Detroit, 3,500 trolley and bus
I drivers resumed their jobs after t
59-day walkout. They left their paj
increase demands to be settled bj
mediation or arbitration. They hac
demanded a pay boost of eight anc
a half cents an hour. The preseni
hourly base pay is *1.67*4.
A spokesman for the AFL Air Lin<
Pilots Association said the pilots
strike will not affect UAL pilots fly
ing on the Korean airlift operation
The union and the company have
been engaged in a dispute ovei
wage rates and working condition.1
for nearly two years.
CALL OFF STRIKE ORDER
WASHINGTON, June 19 —OPI—
The National Mediation Board to
day directed the AFL Air Line Pi
lots to call off what the agencj
termed an illegal strike of United
Airline operations.
A telegram to Union Presidenl
David L. Behncke signed by Thoma>
E. Bickers, secretary of the board
said Behncke's telegram to United
Air Line Pilots to the effect that
they were within their rights in
walking out under the Railway La
bor Act “is definitely incorrect."
8EATTLE VISITOR
C. M. Ambrose of Seattle is reg
istered at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM PALMER
Howard P. Andresen of Palmer
is at the Baranof Hotel.
• ••••••••*
•
• WEATHER FORECAST
• Temperature for 34-Hour Period
• ending 8 30 o'clock this morning
• In Juneau — Maximum.
• 53; minimum. 42.
• At Airport — Maximum,
• 57; minimum, 39.
•
• FORECAST
• Fair tonight and Wednes
• day. Lowest temperature to
• night about 44, highest Wed
• nesday about 63.
• PRECIPITATION
• (Pact 34 hours ending 7:10 a m. today
• City of Juneau — .03 inches;
• Since June 1 — 5.33 inches;
• 8ince July 1 — 77.52 inches.
• At Airport — .01 inches;
• Since June 1 — 3.27 inches;
• Since July 1 — 44.68 inches.
• •••••••••
A Yank soldier holds his bayonet-lipped rifle ready as he moves
cautiously into a battle-wrecked house in the center of Chorwon.
Allied troops met little resistance on this west-central Korean front
as Reds withdrew all along the line. I/Pl Wirephoto.
P LAND, ALASKA
S LIONS ABLY
L , DINNER HERE
\
Portland already does 20 percent
of the business with Alaska and
would do more if more ships were
available, the joint Portland and
Juneau Chamber of Commerce
groups were told last night by Pres
ident Edgar W. Smith of the Port
land Chamber.
Pleasure and a sense of accom
plishment was evident in the ex
pression of speakers regarding the
recent granting of air certificates to
two Alaska airlines with Portland
as co-terminal.
“Our Senator Morse and Con
gressman Angell, with the aid of
Gov. Grueiiing were responsible for
inducing President Truman to grant
certificates that gave Portland co
terminal status with Seattle on
your two Alaska airlines,” Mr. Smith
said.
And about steamer transportation
between Portland and Alaska, Mr.
Smith said. "Col. Johnson of your
Alaska Railroad made it possible
to bring to Alaska the competition
of a fair and square port. In Oc
tober 1948 the Coastwise Company
to Alaska was started and Portland
is now doing 20% of the Alaska
business.”
He said that the Portland Cham-'
ber is glad that Portland is able to
provide Alaska with fair and equit
able trade at fair and reasonable
prices.
About air rates to Portland Mr.
Smith said, “ I hope rates will be
set up so that they will be no great
er to Portland than they are to
Seattle.”
Better Trade Relations
"In any event, we will continue
our efforts to build better trade
relations , throughout the north
west,” the Portland Chamber pres
ident concluded.
The dinner meeting in the Gold
Room of the Baranof Hotel was
attended by more than 60 people,
twenty of them members of the
Portland Trade-Travel Tour.
Herb Rowland, president of the
Juneau Chamber of Commerce,
presided as toastmaster.
Gov. Ernest Gruening in welcom
ing the visitors, mentioned that
the Territory of Alaska had been
organized under the Oregon Code,
that Portland had been the princi
pal port for trade with Alaska in
the early days; that present ship
ping with Portland and the two new
air certificates that connect Alas
ka with Portland should develop
our mutual relationship.
"Alaska is a part of America that
has a great destiny, a destiny we
share with you," the Governor con
cluded.
“Transient Alaskans”
Mayor Waino Hendrickson called
the Portlanders “transient Alas
kans.” “We enjoy your visits, hope
you do and that you will all come
again.”
Bob Maloney, chairman of the
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STRIKE ON
CANADIAN
LINES' UP
Deadline for Walkout Is
Set for Midnight Next
Friday
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 19 —Of)
The Seafarer's International Union
(AFL) has set midnight Friday as
the deadline for a strike against
Canadian National, Canadian Pa
cific and Union Steamship Lines
Oil the British Columbia coast.
A union spokesman says that un
less the companies agree to a $30
a*month wage? lifcrease 900 seamen
will tie up 22 vessels of the three
companies. The company has of
fered $13.87.
During a similar seamen's strike
last summer, British Columbia ship
pers organized an airlift to trans
port supplies • to Vancouver Island
and settlements on the coast.
TERRITORY BUYS
FERRY; 1ST TRIP
IS TONIGHT AT 9
Negotiations were completed at
noon today by the Territory for
purchase of the Juneau-Halnes fer
ry, Chilkoot. A check for $38,877.74
was turned over to the former own
ers, Robert Sommers and Steve
Homer, it was announced by Henry
Roden, commissioner of finance.
First trip of the ferry from Jun
eau will be made at 9 o'clock tonight
with Gus Gustavus as skipper.
Robert Coughlin will be manager of
the operation for the Territory and
Steve Homer, will be agent at
Haines.
Roden said no regular schedule
has been arranged but that the fer
ry would operate when business
necessitated for the present.
The ferry will return to Juneau
as soon as cars, waiting at Haines
for transportation, are loaded.
JOIN HUSBANDS
To join their husbands stationed
here with the Alaska National
Guard Headquarters, Mrs. H. D.
nermann, and two daughters, and
Mrs. D. N. Cameron, aud daughter,
arrived on the Baranof.
MAURICE KELLY HERE
Maurice Kelly of the Fish and
Wildlife Service from Anchorage
is at the Hotel Juneau.
FROM HAINES
Thomas I.. Armstrong of Haines
is stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
I
TALKS ARE !
SCHEDULED
FOR TODAY
Twelve Ships Idle at
Docks; Shipowners are
Reported Optimistic
SAN FRANCISCO, June 1!) — l.H—
Omar Hoskins, Federal conciliator,
interviewed union and employer
groups separately today in hope of
reaching some basis for settlement
of the four-day maritime strike.
The CIO American Radio Asso
ciation struck West. Coast ships after
a break with the Pacific Maritime
Association over wages. Other mar
ine unions have respected picket
lines.
Hoskins indicated at mid-day that
it might be profitable to call a joint
negotiation conference late this aft
ernoon.
There were recurring but uncon
firmed reports that top shipping men
here were trying to work out a new
proposal which could lead to set
tlement. It was known that "a plan,”
details undivulged, was discussed in
private talks during the morning.
There was waterfront talk too,
that some of the other unions are
more than a little dissatisfied. The
tieup has thrown many stevedores
and seagoing crewmen out of work.
There were complaints that while
the West Coast was "tighter than a
drum,” Atlantic and Gulf Coast
strike policies were far more elas
tic, although many more workers
. ^cUjahvw^re oa strike.
TwBwe ships, Including the Mat
son Luxury Liner Lurline were
.trikebound here.
Vice President Philip O’Rourke
if the radiomen said:
"Frankly, I’m optimistic. The
■hipowners were much more friend
ly.”
Radiomen, members of the Amer
ican Radio Association, ask $415 a
month, an increase of $70. Shipown
ers said they wouldn’t pay more
.han $400.
SAIUNGOF
DENALI IS
CALLED OFF
SEATTLE, June 19 — (*l — The
Alaska Steamship Co. has canceled,
tomorrow’s sailing of the passenger
ship Denali for Alaska because of
the American Radio Association
(CIO) strike.
The firm’s piers were being pick
eted for the second straight day
today. Picketing was suspended for
a time yesterday to allow emerg
ency handling of cold storage car
go at a dock.
The Denali cancellation hit as the
tourist traffic is nearing full bloom.
It was booked to virtual capacity
with 150 or more passengers.
Two other vessels — the Coastal
Monarch and the Square Sinnet —
were also held idle at Alaska Steam’s
pier 42 by the picket lines. Company
spokesmen said the Aleutian, due
from Alaska tomorrow afternoon,
will have its Friday sailing can
celled if the strike continues.
Pickets also marched before an
other pier, idling the Matson Navi
gation Company’s Hawaiian Planter.
Carl Lundquist, port agent for
ARA, said the picketing would
spread to other piers "as and if we
determine it is needed."
MARRIED BY GRAY
Earl Joseph Skinner and Mabel
Lyman, both of Ketchikan, were
married yesterday by U. S. Com
missioner Gordon Gray in his of
fice in the Federal Building. Skin
ner is engaged in the plumbing
business.
Witnesses were Mrs. Elmer Nan
ton and M. Meyers.
DORIS BARNES HERE
Doris Barnes, Territorial Senator,
| of Wrangell arrived on the Baran
of to spend a few days in Juneau.
She is stopping at the Baranof
Hotel.
Robert Ogg and James Bortal of
Annette are at the Baranof Hotel.