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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,749
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1951_
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6,000 Reds Routed by Screaming Artillery
A-BOMBS (AN
RAZE RUSSIA,
CLAIMS BUSK
WASHINGTON, March 5—Mi
Dr. Vannevar Bush, one of the
co-developers of the atomic bomb,
says this country “without ques
tion" could "destroy Russia" with
A-bombs if she started a war in
Europe.
“We could destroy not only the
key centers from which her armies
would be supplied, but also political
centers and the communications of
her armies on the march,” Bush
said on a Mutual Network broad
cast last night.
“Initially equipped with weapons
and supplies,” those armies might
keep rolling for a time, but there
would be no Russia behind them
as we know it today.
"The answer to this is that the
armies will not roll. No all-out
war is in sight for the immediate
future unless they or we make some
serious error indeed.”
Bush, now president of the Car
negie Institution of Washington, is
a former chairman of the nation’s
research and development board.
SITKA HIT
YSIO
SITKA, Alaska, March 5 —(A>!—
Winds that reached 45 miles per
hour with Rusts up to 80 struck ihc
Sitka area yesterday, destroying twe
airplanes, knocking down chimneys
and breaking numerous windows in
town.
The winds started Saturday nigh:
and the wind velocity climbed until
it hit the record 45 mile an hour
blow at 6:20 a.m.
Power service was interrupted re
peatedly during the night.
The temperature dropped to as
low as five degrees above.
One of the planes was owned by
Mike Pusich of Juneau and the
other by Alaska Coastal.
HANFORD IS SWORN
IN AS OPS DIRECTOR
IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
Fred Hanford, Territorial Director j
of Price Stabilization returned to
Juneau Saturday from meetings in
Washington, D. C., and Seattle and ;
is preparing to get his office going ;
immediately with a skeleton crew.
With acting directors from other
territories, Puerto Rico, Guam, Vir
gin Islands and Hawaii, Hanford
was sworn into office by J. Herbert1
Meighan, OPS director for region!
14, February 27. 'Region 14 includes
the territorial OPS offices.
Juneau offices are temporarily in
rooms 15, 16 and 17. Valentine Bldg. '
In Seattle, Hanford met with the
Washington State Director, Henry:
B. Owen.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round j
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright. 1951. oy Bell Syndicate. Inc.
(Ed. Note: During Drew Pear
eon’s absence i.i Europe, the fol
lowing column was written by his
staff.)
TPasHINGTON.—It may be a j
good thing that the boss is away. |
While he is skirting the Iron Cu: - ;
tain countries and in no position |
to blue-pencil us, we can say j
seme things that he would never i
say if he were here.
For a long time the boss has de
bated what he should do about the ;
vicious attacks leveled at him from
the safety of the Senate floor by 1
Senator McCarthy — attacks in j
which McCarthy - not only called |
him a Communist but went to th, j
extreme length of urging a boycott
against all Drew’s newspapers and j
his radio sponsor.
We Jiave talked with quite a j
few senators and old-timers around !
the Senate and, so far as we can |
find out, this is the most unprec
edented Senatorial attack in Am- j
erican history. On top of thi |
McCarthy has had reprints made!
(Continued on Page Fouri ^
URGES FEMININITY
*r -i
Corrinc Calvert (above), French
actres, thinks it’s about time that
American women returned to be
ing women. Not only that, men,
she has this to say, “1 believe that
the man should be the master in
the family, and a woman's first
duty is to make him as happy as
possible.” !ffl Wircphoto.
STORIS RESCUES
CAA MAN ON RAFT
AT SUNSET COVE
It started, out to be just a routine
trip yesterday to pick up the mail
from a large timber raft anchored
400 yards offshore at the Sunset
Cove CAA VHF repeater station
in Stephens Passage—but it ended
in being a rescue mission for the
U. S. Coast Guard cutter Storis.
The mail boat Yakobi cannot dock
at the Cove so puts mail and sup
plies aboard a large raft anchored
for that purpose. Fred Biesemeyer,
CAA employee at that station for
the past three years, jumped in
his boat with an outboard motor to
run out for the mail. While Bi^ss
meyer was aboard the raft, rough
seas broke his boat loose from its
mooring and cast it adrift, leaving
him on the raft.
U. B. Coast Guard headquarters
here received word yesterday about
1 p. m. and a CG plane enroute
south flew over but, due to rough I
seas, was unable to land and so
reported back to headquarters here, j
The cutter Storis left Juneau at:
2:45 yesterday afternoon and at 8]
p. m. reported that the man had J
been safely put ashore in good con- j
dition.
BIRTHDAY CAKES W \
TERRITORIAL SENATE j
Saturday was birthcake day in
the Territorial Senate.
Sen. Walter Huntley (D-Palmer)
was greeted with a large cake from
the Senate employes when he enter
ed the “boiler room.”
Later a cake with one massive
candle appeared on the desk of
Sen. Joe Coble of Fairbanks. His
birthday had been the previous clay.
WASHINGTON. March 5 — !.G—
James E. Curry, Washington at
torney who said he represents be
tween 20 and 30 Indian groups, re
v !'< re try of In
terior Chapman has upheld four of
his contracts with Eskimos in Alas
ka and Indians in Washington
State, Montana and Nebraska.
Curry said Indian Cotntni sinner
Dillon S. Moyer fiad disallowed
these four and nine other agree- J
ments, but the action was overruled j
on appeal to Chapman. j
Curry said contracts upheld in-1
eluded :
A 10-year contract with the IT -!
kimo village of "Unalakleet, Alaska. ■
Curry said the four contracts u.p-j
held involve handling of claims
against the government.
I
JENSEN SAYS
MIGHT BARE
HIS CHARGES
By JIM HUTCHESON
Former Rep. Marcus Jensen ad
vised the territorial senate today
he might make public he evidence
he presented at the legislature's re
cent closed door sessions.
He did it in a letter taking a
rap at Rep. Stanley McCutcheon
for an interview published a week
agb in an Anchorage newspaper. In
the newspaper account, at the time
McCutcheon took a weekend trip
to Anchorage, he denounced Jen
sen’s testimony in strong language
and charged thai it was dkcredited i
by other witnesses.
The Anchorage newspaper story ■
also said McCutcheon was a pri- j
mary target in Jensen’s testimony j
Jensen’s letter to the senators to-1
day said:
“I have just been made aware oi
the attack made on me in the An
chorage Times of Feb. 24 by Mr
Stanley McCutcheon, as a result of j
the executive hearings on Feb. )6 I
17 and 19, which v. ere held after ]
my request for an open se non had j
been denied.
"It is my understanding that any!
testimony and evidence given in an i
executive session is to be held con
fidential by all participants. If suck
statements as published in the An
chorage Times are to be allowed I
shall be forced to take such step:
necessary to bring all of the evi
dence before the public.
“Respectfully yours.
"MARCUS F. JENSEN.”
The senate took no action on the
letter, merely referring it to the
files.
The letter appeared during a quiet
morning session in which the leg
islative wheels turned slowly.
The senate passed one bill, to set
up a territorial aid-to-the-blinc
program, on a basis simi'.T to old
age pensions.
The bill was approved 15 to 0 and
sent to the house. Introduced by
Sen. William Beltz, Second Divisior
Democrat, it provides for assist
ance of not more than $80 a month
to blind adults.
The bili does not provide an ap
priation. Sen. Steve McCutcheon
(D-Anchorage) suggested it could
be covered in the general appro
priation bill.
Henry Harmon, public welfare di
rector, said it would have to be a
specific appropriation because there
is no provision for it in the depart
ment’s budget.
He said the Federal Government
would join in the program on a 50-50
basis. Harmon stimated there woulc
be about 80 adults in Alaska whr
would qualify for aid. He said he
thought the territorial share of the
cost would be about $57,500 for the
biennium.
He said that the only blind aid
now is from $20 to $30 a month by
the Alaska Native Service and $3(
a month by the territory, under the
general relief program, to those not
under the ANS program.
The only measure introduced to
day was a senate joint memorial by
the four Third Division senators—
Heinie Snider, Gunnard Engebreth
Walter Huntley and McCutcheon.
It calls for road developments in
the Wasilla area, to facilitate de
velopment of homesites.
A bill was introduced in the sen- j
ate Saturday by three First Division
senators — Anita Garnick, Dr. R. M
MacKenzie and Elton Engstrom—
for a 4 per cent tax on freezer ships
and other floating cold storage fa
cilities. The proposed levy would be
cn raw fish value. It would compare
with the present 1 per cent tax on
shore plants. Engstrom said it was j
aimed at putting a heavier tax on !
the floating facilities which aren’t j
caught by most Alaska taxes.
STOCK CITATIONS
— i
NEW YORK, March 5 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3Vi, American Can]
107'-, American Tel. and Tel. 156-,,
Anaconda 417,. General Electric
55 i, General Motors 50'-, Good
year 78, Kenneeott, 74':*, Libby,
McNeil and Libby 9 ., Northern Pa
cific 35'i, Standard Oil of Cali
fornia P2' . Twentieth pen ury Fox
22" , U. S. Steel 44 ,. Pound $2.00'
Canadian Exchange 95.58',.
Sales today were 1,690,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 251.82, rails 85.10, utili
ties *3 70.
I
Winter Hits
Juneau with
lap Punch
Betcha. winter gave Juneau a
swat ciuiing the past 35 hours, the
temperature dropping to one degree
below zero and the common saluta
tion on the street s this morning
was “Did your water pipes freeze?”
With the cold swat also came an
extra amount of taku that kept
pedestrians wondering where the
softest spot on the ice was in case
the wind blew them down.
Now' everybody in Juneau and
urrounding area knows that it has
been exceedingly cold and they
wonder why—so here is weather
man Brown giving the official
iope:
A mass of co.'d air penetrated
Alaska from the northwest and due
to the influence of a low pressure
area In the Gulf of Alaska moved
nto Southeast Alaska late Satur
day afternoon. During the past
24 hours the lowest temperature on
he roof of the Federal Building
n Juneau was -1 degree.
This Is only four degrees higher
than the lowest recorded tempera
ture of -5 degrees on March 7,
1900.
It is also the coldest temperature
this winter in Juneau.
The lowest previous temperature
this winter was 7 degrees on Janu
ary 25. These two occasions aro the
only times the temperature in
Juneau has fallen below zero but
plus 2 degrees was recorded on.
March 18, 1930.
Due to winds at th° Airport the
lowest, temperature last night was
-2 degrees. This did not reach
within 5 degrees of the -8 degree
temperature recorded at the Air
port on January 28 of this year,
but was lower than the previous
March record of plus 1 degree
on March 23, 1948.
It is expected that there will {
ce slowly rising temperatures during
the next 36 hours.
Now' you have it in a nutsh'Tl
wdth the last paragraph the cheer
ful forecast.
A large sliding door on the Alaska
Steamship Co. main warehouse was
demolished by the wind early Sun
roof was also torn off the ware
day morning. Part of the tarpaper
house with a washbowl torn loose
breaking pipes and flooding the
washroom in the warehouse.
Water pipes froze in many sec
tions of the city and the Burrows
thawing machine was busy from I
early to late on Sunday. Pressure
on water mains.
Taxi cabs were kept busy answer
ing early morning calls.
There was no damage report at
the Small Boat Harbor.
Pacific Northwest Hit
Winter enfolded the Pacific
Northwest in a belated frigid em
brace over the weekend, blanket
ing the area with snow, sending
temperatures plunging near the
zero mark in some sections and
turning highways into sheets of ice.
No relief was in sight. The fore
cast was for colder weather and
more flurries of snow tomorrow.
Three traffic deaths were blamed
on blinding snowstorms or slick
roads.
New snow ranged from more than
30 inches in mountain passes to
two-thirds of a foot in North we >t
Washington flatlands and lesser
depths elsewhere.
More than a foot of snow covered
lower British Columbia, the heaviest
March fall in 30 years.
A blizzard hit the Cdriboo Dis
trict where temperatures dropped tc
23 below zero.
Portland’s 3.3-ingh snowfall wa:
the second heaviest for March i:
Weather Bureau history. j
]
SHAMES KOYEMENIi
Denali from Seattle scheduled tc
arrive Tuesday afternoon at 5.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday at 4 p.m.
Princess Norah scheduled to ar
rive from Skngway at 9 a.m. Wed
nesday, sailing south at 11:45 a.rn
«•»•*••••>*
a •
• TIDE TABLE «
a March 6 3
• * I
o Hir/h tide 1:03 a.m. 16.3 ft. °|
• Low tide 6:59 a.m. 1.6 ft. • j
• Hi".h tide 1:02 p.m. 18.0 ft. «
• Low tide 7:24 pm. -2.5 ft. «
ee*«« • *•••»
I
LINUS SET
House Approves Bill Lim
its Number of Bounties
to Be Paid
By BOB m; A I’M ONI)
A Ways and Means Committee
bill amending the hair seal bounty
law pa sed the House of Repre
sentatives this morning after it Had
been considerably amended.
The bill, as passed, halves the
[bounty on the predators, cutting i
'from $6 to $3. As introduced by the
(committee, the bill cut the bounty
fto $4.
1 The bill limits the number of
•bounties that may be paid to an in
dividual in one year to 50. It alsc
'provide; that the bounty may be
paid “only to the person actually
taking such hair seal. No intermed
iary or other person, partnership or
: corporation shall be entitled to any
payment of bounty.”
The bill as introduced set the
western limit of the bounty area at
162 degrees west longitude and the
northern limit at 62 degrees north
latitude. An amendment by Rep.
Wells of the Second Division chang
ed these figures to 166 degrees west
and 88 degrees north, thus taking in
the Norton Sound and Kotzebue
Sound areas.
Subsidy Admitted
"Why not save our fish, too?” Rep.
Wells asked in making his plea for
rn extension of the bounty area.
The Eskimos, he said, do not kill
more seals than they can use and
do not kill them solely for the
bounty.
In answer to a question by Rep.
Kay, Wells said that while the Es
kimoes may hunt a little more in
tensively because of the bounty, the
bounty actually makes little differ
ence in the number of seals killed.
“We must recognize that this is
is direct subsidy to those people,”
said Rep. Johnson. "We have had
many subsidies down here in the
form of schools and other public
improvements that they have not
had.”
Rep. Johnson said, however, that
he believes the entire method of
predatory control should be revised
to provide for the heaviest killing
of predators where there is the
greatest menace.
Commercial Hunting
“If this is merely a subsidy, let’s
label it as such,” commented Rep
Kay. He warned that it would be
possible for a hunting schooner to
go north and virtually exterminate
the hair seals in Bering Sea and
Arctic waters. "It would be a good
commercial venture, but it woulc
eliminate much of the food “mppiy
of those people.”
"There has already been pressure
to raise the bounty again above 86.'
said Rep. Carlson. "This thing can
get to be a racket.”
Carlson pointed out that there k
no commercial fishing, north oi
Bristol Bay and that most of the
seal bounties are now paid outside
of the commercial fishing region .
Carlson, however, vigorously pro
tested the limitation of 50 bounties
for one individual in a year.
"It takes all the incentive out of
seal hunting." Carlson asserted.
Eliminate Bounties
Rep. Kay said he favors the elim
ination of the hair seal bounty en
tirely. “We should appropriate 50 or
100 thousand dollars for the Depart
ment of Fisheries to • hunt seal
where they do the greatest damagf
to the commercial fisheries,” Ka>
said.
Rep Franklin agreed with thi
proposal but fell that lack of time
would prevent its enactment at tin:
session of the Legislature.
Rep. Carlson opposed pc. > age oi
.he bill in its amended form. "It
now absolutely worthless and it
won’t accomplish v.’hat it set out tc
do,” he charged.
“If we don't pass this bill we’ll
have to appropriate half a million
dollars to pay for bounties under
the present law,” Rep. Conrigh
commented.
The bill passed on a 15-5 vote but
very nearly lost its emergency clause
on the same vote, one short of the
necessary two-thirds. Pep. Kay
however, reconsidered, the reconsid
eration was acted upon Immediately
and on the second roll call the
(Continued Page Two)
FLOYD FAGERSON DIES
SUDDENLY IN (AL!F.
The sudden passing of Floyd F.<
gerson in Camarillo, Calif., last Sat
urday was learned here today .in i
letter from Mrs. Fagerson to Ralph
Wright. Fagerson had been here in
the insurance business for many
years and had gone outside last Jan
uary 15 with his wife. They plannee
to return here about April 1.
Fagerson was an old-time Alaska),
and Juneau resident and was a Past
Exalted Ruler of the B. P. O. Elks
No. 420, and a past president of
Igloo No. 0, Pioneers of Alaska.
SLIDE CN WHITE PASS;
NORAH DELAYED 1 DAY
The Princess Norah will be held
oyer for 24 hours in Skagway it wa:
learned here today by William Me
Farlane, CPR agent. The reason for
the delay was a bad slide on the
White Pass and Yukon Railway that
held up the Skagway-bound trains.
The Norah was due here tomorrow
morning at 0 with returning Elk:
who spent the weekend in Skagway.
The steamer will now arrive Wed
nesday a.m.
BIG FOUR
DEPUTIES
MEETING
Up to Russia Just How Far
Proceedings Will Be
Be Extended
PARIS, March 5 —i.'P)— Russian
and Western deputies sat down ai
a conference table here today after
Britain, France and the United
States served notice that there j
wont be any major Big Four con- |
ference unless the Russians are pre- j
pared to talk about problems other j
than Germany.
The deputies of the four nations I
met at the pink marble palace (Pa
lais Rose) on Avenue Foch. Their
job is to find out whether an agen
da can be arranged for the foreign
ministers of the four big powers.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko was the last cf
four to arrive. The Russian came
in his automobile, flying the red
flag with hammer and sickle, and |
pulled up after the other three a.l
ready were on hand. He was un- j
smiling as he joined U. S. Ambas
sador at Large Philip Jessup, Brit
ains Ernest Davie.; and France's
Alexandre Parodi.
The four deputies sat down at a
round table; with Parodi presiding,
and the first session was under way.
1 Earlier Jessup spoke for the three
western countries in saying that if
the Soviets want to limit the Ionics
for a Big Four meeting Germany,
■ here is little chance the higher
level conference will take place.'He!
told a news confer) nee the thrr j
western countries nr? fully in ue
ord in iheir views.
Capt. Juci " V Johnson, in com
mand of the Alaska Communication
System Southeast Alaska Sector',
planned to leave Juneau today by
Pan American World Airways clip
rer for the states. He* will attend
a conference of ACS officials at the
Seattle headquarters and expects
to return to Juneau in about ten
Jays.
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WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures lor 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o cloeK this morning
In. Juneau Maximum,
1 5; minimum, -1.
At Airport Maximum,
- 4; minimum, -2.
F O R E (AST
Fair and cold with • gusty
northeasterly v.inds ton.ght
and Tuesday. Lowest temp
erature tonight about 0 in
town and near 0 in outlying
areas. Highest Tuesday near
15.
PRECIPITATION
i (Past 24 hours ending 7 a.m. today
City of Juneau .01 inches;
Since March 1 32 inches;
Since July 1 - 47.15 inches;
At Airport — Trace;
Since March 1 — .41 inch'.'’ ;
Since July 1 — 32.71 Inches.
PASSED BY SENATE;
48 T3ST
By JIM Hl’TCHESON
Tli Alaska Senate passed the 40
hour week bill Saturday afternoon
after having pulled many of it‘
teeth.
The final vote was 10-6 after
Sen. William B"ltz (D '.tayoek)
failed in an attempt to , a i ret n
sideration of the 9-7 roll call by
which the Senate incorporated a
long list of exemptions.
The measure now goes to (lie
House for consideration of amend
ments exempting fishing and e..li
ning industries, retail businesses,
executives and spervisory personnel,
small gold mining and logging oper
ations, seamen, and bus and taxi
cab employes, and other.;.
Senate Highlights
Voting against the bill were Sen
ators Frank Barr tD-Fairbanks),
John Butrovich (R-FalrbankO, A.
E. (Joe) Coble iR-Fairbank .•>, W.
L. (Dan) Lhamon (R-Fairbanko,
James Nolan ID-Wrangcll), and
Beltz.
Other highlights Saturday In the
Senate were:
The Senate paired 0-7 a bill by
Sen. Gunnard M. Engebrcth (R-An
chorage) to give school boards
greater Independence from city
councils in budget matters. The
measure was amended to specify
that a council can not cut a school
budget if it doesnt exceed one-third
of total city collections or property
taxes. Mayor Waino Hendrick ion
testified against it as a step to
ward breaking down municipal gov
ernment.
The Senate passed 15-1 Etige
breths bill to allow Independent or
incorporated school districts to im
pose a 2 per cent sales tax il voters
approve the levy by referundum.
Both school bills were described
as desirable for Anchorage where
the school district embraces a wide
area outside the city.
On-Spot Arrests,
The Senate passed 15-1 a House
approved bill to allow Territorial
Tax Commission agents to make on
spot arrests for fishermen’s license
violations.
The Senate passed unanimously a
bill by Sen. Frank Barr (D-Fair
bnnks) for blanket aircraft regis
tration and inspection.
Sen. Ed Anderson (D-Nome) filed
a joint memorial to President Tru
man, Defense Officials and Congr ■
to investigate prospects of develop
ing strategic minerals and water
power sites in the Second Division.
The memorial stated that Federal
agency officials had objected to uch
projects because the Nome region
was considered Indefensible if an
attack came from the west.
It cited Lt. Gen. William Kepner,
head of the Alaskan Defense Com
mand. as having since publicly said
the region can and will be defended
NW A Sfratocruiser
Breaks Record on
Alaska Sealh Trip
SEATTLE, March 5 —!fl— Aided
by a strong tailwind, a Northwest
Airlines stratocruiser flew from An
chorage to Seattle Saturday night
In 4 hours and 1 minute, clipping
nearly two hour., off the schedule
for the run.
The day before a sister ship set
what is believed a record for the
1,500-mile flight with a time of 3
hours 42 minutes.
17 SOUTHBOUND
on mm: sun.
Fourteen passengers embarked on
the Baranof Sunday afternoon for
Leattie with three embarking for
Ketchikan.
Embarking for Seattle: Mr. and
Mrs. Fred A. Zunbrun, Mr. and
Mrs. George T. Cheney and child;
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Kirchhofer, Mrs.
Jane Stringer and two sons; A.
EL Bixby, Daniel W. Pederson,
Charles Kesner, Bernard R. Endn
For Ketchikan: George Livingston,
Mrs. Terry Howard, Billy Howard.
Old-time sailors threw coins at
Halfway Rock in Massachusetts Bay
for luck on leaving Salem and
Marblehead.
Tornadoes were so named by
Spanish explorers, from the
Spanish word for "twisted."
'stronghold
OF REDS HIT
ON 3 SIDES
! _
!wo U. S. Divisions, with
French Elements Bat
ter Mountain
By Associated Press
U. S. infantrymen with screaming
artillery support routed an esti
mated 6,000 North Korean Iteds to
day from a mountain .stronghold
In Central Korea.
The Communists’ gun-bristltnr:
stronghold was hit from three sides
by »he U. S. Seventh Division nd
the U. S. Second Division wu its
French elements.
The Allied punch forced the Reds
to flee to a hastily built new line
of resistance to the north.
Col. William “Buffalo Bill" Quinn,
I commander f>f the attack force ,
| said: “I’m going to de-.trpy those
blank Reds If they don't check out
farther over those hills.”
Sharp Fight By Reds
The North Koreans fought sharp
ly from well dug-in positions for a
hor„ time before they broke. They
were trying to buy time for building
up a probable counter assault on
the Allies on the Central and Wt st
ern fronts.
The Reds were remnants of the
North Korean Third Corps.
Quinn, who only two day ; ago led ,
an attack which was believed to
have put the North Korean 15th
Division out of action, said: “We've
got the 15th, and now the First is
number one on our hit parade.”
Fight Mile Gun Battle
On tlie West-Central front a U S.
tank patrol fought an eight-mile
’ running gun battle with Reds.
; On the extreme right of the Cen
tral front, U. S. Seventh Division
: troops jumped ahead two and one
j half miles — the day's best gain
on the front — to within 500 yards
of Changpyong. Changpyong con
trols the highway from the east
coast town of Kangnung, where
South Korean troops are operai ing.
Bombers In Attack
Fighter-bomber pilots oi the US.
Fifth Air Force reported they in
flicted more than 750 casualties in
attacks on Red troop concentrations
along the Korean front and behind
Red lines Monday.
In the Middle sector U. S. Marines
pressed forward toward Hongchon,
a key road town believed to be Com
munist Central front headquarters.
The Marines battled through a nar
row mountain canyon north of Sae
mal, nine miles south of Hongchon.
Victims of Red Trap
Trozen Allied bodies and wrecked
Army vehicle^ littered the area. The
men were victims of a Red trap in
mid-February. John Randolph, AP
war correspondent with the Marines,
aid the exact number of dead was
not known but had been estimated
at about 300. Many other; are miss
in";. Of 2,400 men in the fighting
jut Sacmal and Changbong, scarcely
half got back to Wonju unwounded.
Washington House
Approves Memorial,
Alaska Statehood
OI-MPIA, Wa. h.. March 5 T
A House-approved memorial urg
in'; Congress to enac stateh. ri for
Alaska and Hawaii was passed by
the Senate Saturday, 34 to 4.
The measure was opposed by Sen.
William Shannon, Seattle Republi
can. He said he mek ■ several busi
ness trips to Alaska each year, and
asserted the people "were consider
. bty divided on the subject.”
Shannon said ho thought the only
reason for any pro-statehood feel
ing in the Territory was because it
lacked sufficient fund, to run the
local government by itself.
Sen. Ed Riley, Seattle Democrat,
said he thought there was r.o gen
eral agreement on statehood in
either Ala -ka or Hawaii, an;1, added
“the people should be allowed to
decide for themselves without this
state stepping in.”
Sen. A E. Edwards; Denting Dem
ocrat, told the Senate he had 26
years in Alaska. “X know.” he said,
"that the people from one end of
the Territory to tire other are in
favor of statehood."