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VOL LXXIX., NO. 11,977 ’ JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
Gamblers'
Tax Law
Is Upheld
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — UP! —
A special three-judge panel ruled
today that gamblers cannot seek
the protection of federal courts in
an effort to avoid complying with
the new federal tax on their ac-.
tivities.
The three Federal judges said the
tax law “appears to be constitu
tional” and that, in any event, the
fedarl courts will not aid in the
“protection of illegal enterprises."
■ Wo think the act is constitu
tional,” the judges said, "but we
think it unnecessary to discuss the
constitutional questions . . .”
They went on to say that gamb
lers have no right to seek relief
in the federal courts since, in the
words of a long-established legal
principle, they do not come into
court "with clean hands.”
The new tax law requires all
gamblers to buy a $50 occupational
tax stamp and to pay 10 percent of
their gross gambling ihcome to the
government.
The case was the first court test
of the new tax, which went into
effect Nov. 1.
Police Warn Parents
On Children Shooting
B.B. Guns in City
Parents of children owning B.B.
guns were warned today by Ju
neau City Policy to caution their
children against shooting at street
light bulbs.
Numerous complaints have been
received and if the practice con
tinues, it will be necessary to con
fiscate all B.B. guns In the ilty,
Police Chief Bernard E. Hulk said
today. “This is not only expensive
for the city to pay for the light
bulb replacements; It is an incon
venience for night time pedestrians
and violates a city ordinance re
garding the destruction of property,”
'Hulk pointed out. “Parents are
requested to cooperate.”
Alaska Native Service
Educationalists Leave
To Attend Meeting
Victor E. Hill, principal at the
Mt. Edgecumbe Vocational School,
and Max Penrod, Alaska Native Ser
vice area educationalist, leave Sun
day for Spokane, Wash.
They are to attend the conven
tion of the Northwest Association
of Secondary and High School^
to be held Dec. 5, 6, and 7. The
asosciation is the accrediting agency
for high schools.
Hill and Penrod will spend one
day on the examination board of
the Eleventh Civil Service area at
Seattle certifying teachers for the
Alaska Native Service. They will
also visit the Edison Vocational
School in Seattle and the native
service office on supply and trans
portation problems.
TheWashingion
Merry-Go-Round
(Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
l^ASHINGTON — Though Price
Boss Mike Di Salle is a genial, fun
loving man, his relations with Mob
ilization Boss Charlie Wilson have
just about reached the boiling point.
The clash is over stimulating pro*
duction by increasing prices which,
in turn, boosts the cost of living'.
Wilson has adopted this policy
over Di Salle's bitter objections.
As an incentive to step up produc
tion, Wilson has increased the price
of machine tools, lead and zinc,
and is considering a price boost to
relieve the sulphur shortage.
But the result has been an in
crease in prices all down the line.
The price boost for lead and zinc,
for instance, caused a correspond
ing increase in all lead and zinc|
products, such as automobile bat
teries. Di Salle has argued that
this brings cracks in the economy
without actually solving the produc
tion bottleneck.
During the fight over lead and
zinc, Di Salle sent his righthand
man, Ed Phelps, to have it out with
Wilson.
"You guys always think of price
increases as an incentive to produc
tion,” argued Phelps. “We give you
the price increase, and we still
don’t get the production. Then you
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Sen. Wherry,
Republican,
Dies Today
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — UP) —
Senator Kenneth S. Wherry of Ne
braska, Republican floor leader of
the Senate, died today at George j
Washington hospital. He was 59.
Doctors In attendance said the
Senator died of pneumonia.
Wherry had been ill for weeks.
Some of those close to him said he
was suffering from cancer.
Wherry underwent an operation
last month for removal of a growth
in his intestines.
He had left the hospital after a
normal period and was reported re
cuperating.
This morning, he was brought
back to the hospital suffering fever
and chills with rcpiratory compli
cations.
Wherry was serving his second
term in the Senate. He was a
lawyer by profession and had vari
ous business interests.
Since Nebraska's Governor VaJ
Peterson is a Republican, he is ex
pected to appoint a member of his
party as successor to Wherry pend
ing an election. This will mean no
change in the Senate party line-up
of 50 Democrats and 46 Republi
cans.
ADF Only Hope for
Future Fishing,
Says Harry Tallman
The Alaska Fisheries Board was
continuing its meetings here today
in the offices of the Alaska De
partment of Fisheries in the Seward
Building.
Harry Tallman of the Seldovia
Packing Co., at Seldovia appeared
before the board yesterday to dis
cuss regulations on commercial
fishing for the comming season.
He opposed the quota system as
proposed by the FisVj and Wiiiiijfr
Service; agteed that the privilege
j of taking fish for personal use was
;being abused; and believed that
some method of limiting the inten
sity of gear in various areas should
be worked out.
Tallman remarked that the Alas
ka Department of Fisheries was the
only nope for the fisherman and the
future of the industry.
E. A. Kohlase, of the Taku gill
netters was present and discussed
open season dates and problems of
his organization.
Biologists Robert Parker and
Walter Kirkness gave the board a
detailed report on the Taku River
king salmon investigations carried
on this year and reported they
found good escapement on the
river system.
The board agreed that the pro
gram was valuable and should be
continued.
Clinton Stockley and Deitrick
Cooter of the watershed manage
ment division reported on surveys
carried on in the Kodiak area,
where it is planned to stock lakes
now barren due to natural barriers
and remove the barriers.
They pointed out that the prob
lems of the Fisheries Department
would be intensified by industrial
development in the Territory.
Kefauver to Allow
Name as Candidate
For President
LONG BEACH, Calif., Nov. 29—
(iPl—Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn)
says he has “given permission” dor
the placing of his name on the
California primary election ballot
as a candidate for president.
He told newsmen last night that
“wtfile I am not a candidate and
ahi not running for any office ex
cept the United States Senate in
1954, I am not evading the oppor
tunity of running for president.”
Kefauver, head of a recent con
gressional investigation of crime in
the United States, said he had dis
cussed the matter with a group
supporting his candidacy.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Nov. 29—OR—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3, American Can
107 Vi, American Tel. and Tel. 157,
Anaconda 49, Douglas Aircraft 57,
General Electric 55Vi, General Mo
tors 50, Goodyear 41%, Kennecott
86%, Libby McNeil land Libby 8%,
Northern Pacific 61, Standard Oil
of California 49V4, Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 20%, UJS. Steel 39 >4, Pound
$2.80Vi, Canadian Exchange 96.50.
Sales today were 1,070,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 258.96, rails 80.36, util
ities 45.88.
Elect Delegates
To Sitka at Denio
Caucus Last Night
Juneau's three voting precincts
caucused last night at the Moose
hall electing 55 delegates to the di
visional Democratic convention to
be held December 13 at Sitka.
Verne Metcalf, Territorial legis
lator, was elected permanent cau
cus chairman for the Democrats
of Juneau over nominees Ken Bow
man and Russell Maynard. Eliza
beth Peratrovich was elected unan
imously as permanent caucus secre
tary.
First and Third Democratic pre
empts elected their delegates quick
ly and nearly unanimously. A split
of opinion was evident in the Sec
ond precinct as persons present
from that precinct gradually pared
down a list of some 50 nominees
to the allotted 23 finally approved.
The only general floor squabble
came when Gene Lockridge, as
chairman for the First precinct
committee, arose moving that the
18 prospective delegates picked by
his group be unanimously approved
by the whole caucus. *
Maynard questioned the right of
the action, a recess was called, and
Lockridge withdrew the motion.
Later, nominees chosen by each
precinct were unanimously elected
as delegates representing Juneau
Democrats to the Sitka convention.
Delegates from each precinct will
now, according to the code of the
Democratic party of the Territory,
represent the party as one precinct.
Precinct No. 1
Roberta Dimond, G. E. Almquist,
Dr. Whitehead, Gene Lockridge,
Tcm Stewart. Joe Alexander, Verne
Metcalf, Madge Wade, Alice Stew
art, Bess Cross, Mrs. M. O. Johnson,
Harry McCrea, Felix Toner, Ben
Mullin, Gen Harmon, Bob Coughlin,
Lena Gilmore, Henry Roden.
Precinct No. 2
Earl Forsythe, Erv Hill, Dolly
Silva, Betty Casperson, Andy Bar
low, Paul Urlch, Mrs. S. DeLong.
R. T. Harris, Mike Haas, Chris
Henning, T. P. Newell, Mrs. Mike
Haas, Don Pegues, Jack Manery,
««. Manery.
’Robert Light, Cledamae Cam
mock, Marge Voiles, Mrs. Eail
Forsythe, Cliff Nordenson, Lillian
Uggen, William Jackson, Jack
Kearney.
. Precinct No. 3
! pete Wood, Pete Ludwig, Elizabeth
Peratrovich, Ralph Browne, Ken
Bowman, Lynne Winters, Helen Mc
Laughlin.
Mrs. Mary Sundborg, Mrs. Gyda
Samuelson, Mrs. Margaret Crisman,
Abel Anderson, Hunt Grufening,
Dean Williams, Olga Kletzing.
Chairmen and committeemen of
each precinct elected were:
Precinct No. 1—Gene Lockridge,
chairman, Betty Lockridge, Roberta
Dimond, Mary McCrea, Tom Stew
art, Joe Alexander; Precinct No. 2
—Earl Forsythe, chairman, Mike
Haas Cleda Mae Cammock, Chris
Henning, Betty Casperson; Pre
cinct No. 3—Elizabeth Peratrovich,
chairman, Kenneth Bowman, Abel
Anderson, Olga Kietzing, Peter
Wood. , .
E. L. Bartlett, delegate of Alaska,
said when called upon to talk, ‘This
has been an outstandingly excep
tional caucus—much too exception
al to be marred by a speech."
Among those present were. Crys
tal Jenne, postmaster; George Cris
man, Employment Security Com
mission; Burke Riley, executive sec
retary to Gov. Gruening; Delegate
E. L. Bartlett; Hunt Gruening, Al
aska Coastal Airlines pilot; Doro
thy Pegues, of the Tax Commis
sioner’s office; Felix Toner, engin
eer; Mrs. Ernest Gruening; George
Rogers, field committee member
of Department of Interior; Matt
Mullaney, Territorial Tax Com
missioner; Roy Peratrovich, of Al
aska Native Service; Elizabeth Per
atrovich, of the Territorial Treas
urer’s office; Mrs. Katie Alexander,
of the Governor’s staff; Bess Cross,
ex-representative; K. Nordale, col
lector of customs; Frank Metcalf,
highway engineer; George Sundborg
and Ralph Browne, Alaska Devel
opment Board; Tom Stewart, as
sistant attorney general; Hugh
Wade, area director of ANS.
Governor to Entertain
Guard Officers Saturday
Gov. and Mrs. Ernest Gruening
will entertain officers of the Alaska
National Guard, their wives or lady
friends, and a number of invited
guests at a dance at the Governor’s
mansion Saturday night beginning
at 9 o’clock, Mi s. Gruening announc
ed today.
Invitations are going out today.
A group of Juneau young ladies
have been invited as dancing part
ners for those officers who are
without partners, Mrs. Gruening j
said.
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VISITOR FROM KODIAK
J. L. Pearson of Kodiak Is at the
Gastlneau Hotel.
Seven Nominated
Chamber Executive
Board at Meeting
Nominations for executive board
members of the Juneau Chamber
of Commerce were made at a regu
lar meeting of the Chamber at the
Baranof Hotel Thursday noon.
They were: F. D. Nagel, Henry
Green, F. O. Eastaugh, O. F. Ben
ecke, E. J. O’Brien and Charles
Burdick. The only nomination
from the floor was the name of
Pete Warner.
Further nominations from the
floor can be made at next week’s
meeting and the election will take
place December 13.
Secretary Eastaugh read a let
ter of Rear Admiral Joseph Green
spun of the U.S. Coast Guard say
ing that certain testimony given
at the Bonner hearing regarding
reclassification of Southeast Alaska
waters, was not acceptablo to the
Coast Guard for inclusion in a
Coast Guard hearing on the same
subject which was held later.
The Chamber will appeal the rul
ing, it was announced. The unac
ceptable testimony were the ques
tions and answers of A. F. Parker,
Wallace Westfall and Francis C.
Hyde.
Jerry McKinley, chairman of the
road cpmmittee, reported that the
committee had met with Delegate
E. L. Bartlett regarding the pro
posed Taku road project.
He said that a letter from the
Bureau of Public Roads had been
received. The letter was in answer
to the chamber's request for infor
mation regarding the road. The
BPR favored a location on the south
side of the river and made rough
cost estimates of $10,400,000 for
the Alaska portion ard $6,000,000
for the Canadian sid<, which Mc
Kinley said were twi>e as much as
had been thought previously.
Vic Powers suggested maintenance
of the first half mile of road al
ready built south of Thane.
Dr. J. O. Rude discussed the haz
ards of coas*!ng for children on
Gold Street and the removal of
parked cars from the street during
limes " ,n,'J-'Wf*T using
the street.
Mayor Waino Hendrickson replied
that empty- lots for possible park
ing had been investigated by the
city and that Ninnis Motors, which
owns an empty lot at the corner
of Gold and Second Streets, plan
ned to convert it into a parking lot
if plans for construction there did
not materialize. He said that an
other possible lot at the corner of
Harris and Fourth Street was in
the process of changing hands and
would be investigated further.
Peter Wood brought up the need
for a long range planning commis
sion to look forward toward future
expansion and make allowance for
locations for industrial and gov
ernmental 4iites.
Eastaugh and Hendrickson agreed
that such a commission was desir
able.
Slayer of Six lo
Die in Gas Chamber
EL CENTRO, Calif., Nov. 29—W
The criminal savagery of William
Edward Cook, a 23-year-old pint
sized dtesperado who kidnapped nine
persons and killed six of them, has
been halted by California justice.
Cook, product of wretched en
vironment in a bleak and desolate
abandoned mining section near
Joplin, Mo., was sentenced yester
day to death in San Quentin gas
chamber for the murder of a Se
attle oil salesman, Robert H. Dewey.
The five-foot, four-inch self
styled badman already was under
five sentences of 60 years each in
connection with the kidnap-murders
of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mosser and
their three children of Atwood, 111.
The sentences were to be served
consecutively.
JUNEAU WOMAN
MARRIES SITKA MAN
In a ceremony at the Hotel Ju
neau yesterday before U. S. Com
missioner Gordor^ Gray, Lola Mae
Quinlivan, of Juneau, became the
bride of Eugene O’Shea, of Sitka.
Agnes Van Wettering and Floyd
Bays were witnesses.
Ship Movements
Alaska scheduled to arrive south
bound sometime Sunday afternoon
or evening.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle at noon Saturday.
Freighter Yukon Princess sched
uled to arrive southbound from
Skagway sometime Sunday.
Freighter Flemish Knot due to
arrive from Seattle on Friday morn
ing.
ASI Violated
Tail-Hartley
Law Says NLRB
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — <iW —
An NLRB examiner held yesterday
that the Alaska Salmon Industry,
Inc., violated the Taft-Hartley Law
in its 1951 labor contract for Bering
Sea fishermen.
The firm, representing a group
of employers, signed with the
Alaska Fishermen's Union find).
The action was challenged by the
Bering Sea Fishermen’s Union, an
independent group that had split
from the AFU. It was the point of
a major labor dispute during the
summer fishing season in Bering
Sea.
Actually, the finding came too
late to have any practical effect
on the contract which it con
demned. The fishing season in
Bering Sea is long since over.
New contracts are drawn each
year with Alaska fishing and
cannery unions.
The findings of examiner Wallace
E. Royster of the National Labor
Relations Board included: the Ber
ing Sea union last Jan. 29 raised
the issue of bargaining authority;
that the industry entered an ex
clusive agreement with the AFU
May 12; that the NLRB ruled June
14 that the Bering fishermen con
stituted a suitable bargaining unit
and that an election should be held
to decide on union representation.
The examiner ruled that the in
dustry-AFU agreement constituted
an unfair labor practice by the in
dustry. He said the Bering fisher
man were denied their rights of
selection under the labor law.
H( recomended that the industry
refi t in from carrying out its agree
ment with AFU insofar as it applies
to Bering Sea fishermen.
1 Tl,e examiner recommended that
the National board issue an order
in : upport of his findings unless
Ala. ca Salmon Industry, Inc., gives
notification of compliance within
McCarthy
Ouster
Delayed
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — (if) —
! Chairman Qjllette (D-Iowa) says a
Senat* Rules subcommittee is post-!
pontng until January any action on
demands by Senator Benton <D
Conn) that Senator McCarthy (R
Wis) be ousted from Congress.
Gillette’s announcement prompted
an assertion by McCarthy that "the
Democratic National Committee
and not the taxpayers should be
paying the salaries of the five in
vestigators and Gillette sub-com
mittee has looking into my affairs."
McCarthy said Benton’s charges
against him “are just an effort to
concoct a campaign issue through
a completely dishonest investiga
tion."
Informed of McCarthy’s state
ment, Gillette told a reporter:
“Investigating matters of this
kind always is unpleasant and
onerous. We have to expect crit
icism from both sides, but we are
going to carry out the job assigned
to us.”
Election Officials
To Be Appointed af
Special Council Meet
A special meeting of the Juneau
City Council will be held tonight
at 7:30 in the city clerk's office
at the city dock for the purpose
of appointing clerks and judges for
a special election to be held Decem
ber 6, City Clerk, C. L. Popejoy
announced today.
Voters will be asked to approve
three diferent bond issues; $290,000
for a city hall to be Joined on the
fire hall now in the process of con
struction; $287,000 for a street im
provement program; and $88,000 for
fire fighting equipment and re
habilitation of the fire alarm sys
tem.
TIDE TABLES
NOVEMBER 30
High tide 2:42 a.m„ 16.6 ft.
Low tide 8:20 a.m., 3.0 ft.
High tide 2:20 p.m., 20.0 ft.
Low tide 0:04 p.m., -3.5 ft.
New Jet Boeing
Bomber Starts
Tests at Seattle
•
SEATTLE, No. 29—lift—The first
XB-52 heavy jet bomber was rolled
from the Boeing Airplane Company
plant in darkness early today under
tight secrecy restrictions.
An Air Force-approved statement
said only that the new eight-jet
bomber was moved across a high
way from the Boeing plant to one
of the company’s hangars. No
•photographs or specifications wer£
released.
The company said stationary
ground tests "will require a con
siderable period of time” before
taxi tests are started.
The XB-52 is the heavy bomber
ordered into production by the Air
Force even before experimental
models are test flown. The Air Force
has announced that two test mod
els and an unspecified number of
“production models” are being built.
Reds New Propose
Withdrawal Foreign
Troops from Korea
MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 29——
Communist negotiators proposed to
day immediate discussion of a plan
for gradual withdrawal of foreign
troops from Korea.
The Reds said a withdrawal by
stages 'after an armistice is signed
would take care of Allied fears that
fighting will break out again after a
truce goes into effect.
The armistice delegations are
working on a program for supervis
ing and enforcing the truce—item
three on the agenda.
Since the discussions began the
Reds have insisted on withdrawal of
all foreign troops from Korea—a
step the Allies contend is a polit
ical matter which should be debat
ed at a formal peace conference
after the armistice is in effect.
Lt. Gen. Nam II. chief Commu
nist negotiator, injected the new
Red proposal with a hypothetical
question at Thursday's WWKe:. ir.
Panmunjom. He asked whether the
UN command would discuss the
gradual withdrawal of foreign troops
under the third item of the confer
ence agenda.
The Communists made a similar
proposal when the truce talks open
ed last July, but backed down in
the face of adamant Allied opposi
tion.
UN negotiators made no immedi
ate reply Thursday.
Cattle on Air Strip
Causes Plane Crash;
13 Persons Killed
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 29 — —
Cattle grazing over an air strip
were blamed last night by a Mexican
official for the crash of a C-54
plane in which 13 Mexicans were
killed and seven Injured.
The plane—on a local flight to
Acapulco and Mexico City with 18
passengers and two crewmen—came
in for a stop-off at San Luis Zac
atlan at dusk, but found the grass
grown airport overrun with feed
ing cattle. •
The pilot circled the field while
attendants shooed the cattle away,
but the delay forced him to take off
for Acapulco in the dark.
Tilman said the plane either ran
I into a hole, or hit a post and burst
into flames.
Petersburg Telephone
Exchange to Be Sold
Douglas S. Starr, vice president
and manager of the Alaska Tele
phone Co., today announced that
his company had reached an agree
ment with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd T.
Swanson of Petersburg to purchase
the Petersburg Telephone Exchange
for an undisclosed figure.
Attorneys are now drawing up
the necessary papers to complete
the deal, he said. The Alaska Tele
phone Co., expects to take over the
Petersburg operation about January
1.
Plans for the rehabilitation and
expansion of the system are under
way. Outside distribution cables
will be replaced during the winter
and dial equipment is on order for
installation as soon as possible.
There are npw 260 telephones in
Petersburg and it 1s expected that
number will be Increased, Starr
said.
EXPRESSMAN HERE
C. W. Brown of the Railway Ex
press Agency, 8eattle, is registered
at the Gastlneau Hotel.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Andy Longmlre of Anchorage is
at the Baranof Hotel.
'Shoot to Kill'Order
Issued to Artillery on
Western Korean Front
SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 29 — <if» —
Allied artillery opened up on the
western front today after officers
reported receiving new orders to
.shoot to kill.”
The front line report came shortly
after Gen. James A. Van Fleet an
nounced his Eighth Army Command
had issued "certain military in
structions" which some troops may
have interpreted as a cease-fire
order.
He said any such "misinterpreta
ion" would be corrected.
An official Eighth Army spokes
man said the original—and still
secret—directive remained "com
pletely unchanged.” Any changes
showing up on the front, hr said,
were the result of clarifications
ordered by General Vafa Fleet.
No (ease
Fire Order:
Ridgway
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — Wl —
Gen. Matthew Ridgway, asked for
“clarification” of the stop-shooting
situation In Korea yesterday, ad
vised the Pentagon today only that
reports of a “cease fire order are
without foundation.”
A Defense Department spokesman
said there was little else in Ridg
way's message except the statement
that "the press has been so In
formed,” and a quotation of the
announcement from Rldgway’s
headquarters last night that "no
such order” had been issued.
The spokesman was asked if
Ridgway had mentioned the state
ment today by Gen. James Van
■Fleet at* Armv commander that
a directive he issued had been "mis
interpreted” by troops. The spokes
man said Ridgway's brief reply
made no reference to that.
Korean War
At a Glance
By the Associated Press
Gen. James A. Van Fleet, U.N.
ground commander, said Iront line
troops may have misunderstood
"certain military instructions” from
his headquarters when they quit
shooting. He said steps are being
taken to correct the misunderstand
ing.
Allied artillery opened fire on
Communist lines under a new ]
"shoot to kill” order of the day, \
ending the lull which Van Fleet
said resulted from a misunder
standing of his instructions. U.N.
officers Indicated the order applied
only to artillery.
"There is no cease-fire, in Ko
rea,” the White House ‘said It. Gen.
Ridgway said it. Van Fleet said it.
The White House called "not
true" an AP report that orders for
a complete, if temporary, halt in
the fighting came from highest1
sources—possibly the White House
itself.,
Minor ground fighting was re
ported in the east. Jets tangled
for the third straight day over
northwest Korea. The Navy re
ported no break in its operations.
Communist truce negotiators sug
gested that gradual withdrawal of
foreign troops would allay Allied
fears that fighting will flare up
after an armistice is signed. Until
Thursday the Reds had demanded
complete, immediate withdrawal.
VISITING HERE
Oscar Davisson of Craig is vis
iting in Juneau. He is at the Bara
nof Hotel.
WEATHER REPORT
<U. B. WEATHER BUREAU
At Airport: Maximum, 35;
Minimum, 29.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Partly cloudy with an occa
sional snow flurry tonight
and Friday. Lowest tonight
around 28. Highest Friday
near 34.
PRECIPITATION
[Past M hours audios 7:30 a.m. today
At Airport — Tract;
since July 1—1T.H inches.
The .spokesman's comment appar
ently applied to the "shoot to kill’*
orders reported received by artillery
officers of the Third Division. Ar
tillerymen said apparently their
new Instructions did not apply to
the Infantry.
The original report of an Eighth
Army directive not to fire on the
Reds unless necessary came Wed
nesday from a Third Division offi
cer.
First high official acknowledg
ment that some sort of directive
had been Issued came Thursday
from Van Fleet, V. N. ground
commander In Korea. He said It
was not a cease-fire order — but
did not disclose Its nature be
cause security waa Involved.
' Col. Kenneth Booth. Eighth
Army Public Information Officer,
said Thursday night this "baslo
directive has not been ohanged.
"Anything appearing to be a
change at. the front Is solely the
result of the clarification ordered
by General Van Fleet.”
Shortly thereafter front line dis
patches from the western front re
ported the Allies were again firing
artillery and mortars at a nearly
normal rate after a day of abnormal
quiet.
Front line troops were reported
confused by the big guns opening
up on the front where the day be
fore they had watched Chinese Reds
play volley ball.
A Third Division briefing officer
said reconnaissance patrols went
on scouting missions as usual, but
with the understanding they would
not look for trouble.
BATTLE LULL BROKEN
SEOUL, Korea, Friday—Ml—Al
lied artillery resumed long-range
shelling of the Reds Thursday after
a strange 30-hour lull In battle
which the US. Eighth Army com
mander attributed to mlsreMtttg of
his secret orders to the troops.
Infantry of both sides stock close
to their lines, however, with the ex
ception of two small actions on the
eastern front.
In the air, Russian-built MIOs
fought American jets in a series of
battles during which 330 Red planes
were sighted — the greatest number
cf any single day. Three U.S.
Snbre Jets and one MIG were re
ported damaged.
In the armistice talks, where
agreement on a provisional buffer
zone last Tuesday had led to the
odd off-again-on-agaln ground war,
tho chief Allied negotiator' accused
the Communists of seeking a peace
treaty Instead of merely an armis
tice.
The negotiators were hung up on
the issue of behlnd-the-lines super
vision to insure that an armistice
will be observed, toiey have 30
days from Nov. 27 to complete an
armistice or start over on a buffer
zone definition.
Both President Truman and the
United Nations Commander, Oen.
Matthew B. Ridgway, denied any
such order and reiterated that there
could be no cease-fire until an
armistice was actually signed.
PRE88URE ON REDS
KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 29—Mt—
President Truman declared today
that the Ur.l-id Nations will con
tinue to bring ►Treasure on the Reds
until an armistice has been signed
in Korea and that our men will not
"be caught off balance by the
enemy."
Pundiboard Men
Liable for Tax
On Each Clerk
Th&new $50 tax on gambling ap
plies to thousands of stores which
have punch boards on their premises
according to the local office of the
Internal Revenue Commission.
Up to now. the-new federal tax
has been Interpreted as applying
only to such large-scale gambling
as bookie joints and numbers oper
ators.
But it Is emphasized that each
agent, clerk or other employee en
gaged in receiving punch board
wagers for or on behalf of the owner
or operator of the punch board .is
liable for the Federal Occupational
tax on wagering. This applies to re
tail stores where the owners ac
cept money from a customer for
a punch board chance.
As an example, 'the revenue of
fice pointed out, if the operator of
a retail drug store employs 12
clerks who at any time sell punch
board chances, a tax must be paid
for each.