THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXVIII, NO. 11,940
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1951
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Crisis Looms
For British
In Suez Area
British and Egyptians
Rush Reinforcements;
Paratroopers Sent
! CAIRO, Oct. 17—(AT—Ismailia in
the Suez Canal area was an armed
camp bristling with machineguns
and tanks today, as both British
and Egyptians rushed reinforce
ments there Britain faced new
trouble in the Anglo-Egyptian Su
dan.
One leader of the powerful pro
Egyptian Sudanese Ashigga party
called upon the people of Sudan for
a campaign of disobedience to Brit
[ * ish authorities there in the cam
[ paign to drive the Britons out of
the land over which Egypt now has
proclaimed King Farouk the sole
monarch.
In the Suez Canal area, the
British reported that the Lan
cashire Fusiliers, military and
RAF forces and the Egyptian
police were in control of the sit
uation after the city of 50,000 was
• rocked by violent rioting yester
S' day.
A release distributed in Cairo
by the RAF said "almost all the
shops and buildings (in Ismailia)
are closed and the town resembles
an armed camp.”
British parachute troops, 3,500
strong, were taking off from Nicosia,
Cyprus, only 300 miles away, to re
inforce the British in the canal
zone, where at least seven and pos
sibly 12 .persons were killed in yes
terday’s violence.
Ismailia was divided into two
sections, the western part held by
British troops grimly alert behind
barbed wire, with Bren guns nosing
through. The section was com
pletely blacked out last night. No
lights showed from any building,
and the dark streets were empty
except for patrolling British’Jeeps
The Egyptian sector was patrolled
by Egyptian police on a 24-hour
emergency alert.
Egyptian officials said six British
army trucks were burned or other
f wise destroyed by mobs in the vio
lence yesterday. Other sources said
at least 17 trucks were burned.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Oct. 17—iff)—Closing
> quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3-4, American Can
118%, American Tel. and Tel. 15814,
Anaconda 50 >4. Douglas Aircraft
64General Electric 61%, General
• Motors 52, Goodyear 47' a, Kenne
cott 85 !4, Libby McNeill and Libby
9, Northern Pacific 5814, Standard
Oil of California 5214, Twentieth
Century Fox 2314, U.S. Steel 43%,
Pound $2.79. Canadian Exchange 95.
Sales today were 1,460,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 273.56, rails 85.13, util
ities 46.49.
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
(CoDy7; By DREW PEARSON*' ^
Washington — The two old
tyrants ot the Senate, McKellar of
* Tennessee and McCarran of Nevada,
tried to browbeat the nation's top
secret out of Atomic Energy Chair
man Gordon Dean the other day.
It’s none of their business, but they
demanded to know this country’s
exact number of atomic bombs.
This is too precious a secret to be
repeated around Congress, whose
employees are not cleared for loy
alty like other federal employees.
It would be particularly dangerous
for Senator McCarran to know,
since a parade of ex-Communists is
constantly streaming through his
office. Though they have denounced
their Communist ties and come to
McCarran to confess, the FBI is
frankly skeptical of some of them.
Nevertheless McKellar and Mc
Carran got the Atomic Energy
chairman behind closed doors of the
Senate Appropriations committee
, and hounded him to tell the exact
number of bombs in our atomic
stockpile.
“If we are going into war, we
ought to be ready, and we ought
to know what we have,” rasped
Tennessee’s McKeUar. “You are ask
ing for more money, and it is un
usual to ask for more money just
before the Congress adjourns. What
I would like to know is what you
have done with the money that we
appropriated last year?”
“We have done a great deal of
work, and we have expanded the
atomic energy program—fold," re
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Ghostly Choir 'Entertains'
Fisheries Men on Summer
Field Trip Into Wilderness
Is there a phantom choir, with,
organ accompanist, that plays clear
ly defined church music for the
lonely wanderer in the isolated
canyons of the Nahlin river?
Department of Fisheries men are
seeking a more scientific answer
to the music and bells they heard—
and finally admitted to each other
that they heard—in the seldom
seen wilderness over 100 miles east
of Juneau.
And who lifted the weight off the
packs of two of the men as they
climbed a steep goat trail over a
slide on an unnamed river?
Verification about the music came
from three of the four men on the
field trip. And the other man ad
mits having defective hearing. The
two men whose packs were lifted by
Folia Is
Confirmed
; WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 — OW —
The Senate confirmed the nomina
tion yesterday of George W. Folta
of Juneau for another term as U. S.
District Judge in * 1 ask.'
It also appro; ij the nomination
of Francis Xavier Chapados to be
U. S. Marshal of Division No. 4,
District of Alaska, succeeding Frank
Barr, resigned.
Folta is the Judge for Southeast
Alaska. His reappointment con
firmation drew letters of protest
from five Alaskans, the Senate Ju
diciary committee reported pre
viously. One was a legislator and
three were former legislators — all
from outside the division in which
Judge Folta serves.
Hungry Convicts
tmrftcvoii
After IS Hours
•
MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va„ Oct. 17
—<It)—An 18-hour revolt of 1.300
prisoners at the West Virginia State
Penitentiary ended without casu
alties at 9:45 a.m. (EST) today.
I State Police Maj. R. W. Boyles
| suddenly appeared on the steps of
' the administration building lead
! ing into the two-acre exercise yard
j where the prisoners had milled all
night.
He yelled: “I have a message for
you.”
“Get on the loud-speaker,” called
back some of the prisoners.
Warden Orel J. Skeen’s voice
came on the prison public address
system.
“If you men care to go in your
cells,” he said, “the doors are open.
And when you get in, we’ll ar
range to feed you. We can’t feed
you where you are.”
There was a surge for the door.
There were some scattered yells
among the leaders: “No, no, no.”
Ready to Quit
The main body of the cold and
hungry convicts paid no attention
to them.
c,ven me leaaers juinea me rusii.
They apparently feared they might
be identified^! they held out.
When the big break came in the
tense revolt, some of the prisoners
were picking up and eating nuts
which had been scattered in the
yard for squirrels.
Only a short time earlier the
prisoners had shouted defiance from
the cold, foggy exercise yard.
During the night, gunfire had
driven back their rushes on the
grocery storeroom and the power
plant.
Fifty heavily armed state troopers
marched into their midst soon after
dawn. The 1.300 rioters fell back,
shouting profane abuse at the po
licemen.
They had been called in from all
over the * state to augment the 90
guards. Moundsville is on the Ohio
river 12 miles below Wheeling.
1,300 In Mutiny
All but 400 of the prison’s 1,700
inmates joined the mutiny. They
protested a prison cook was filthy.
They said they had too little cloth
ing. They refused to come in from
the exercise yard last night for
the evening meal.
They haven’t eaten since yester
day noon. The temperature got
down to 47 last night.
The 90 guards on the 40-foot walls
fired over their heads so no one
was hurt when about 200 of the
prisoners rushed the boiler room
and commissary with knives and
broken scissors.
A few marched in front of the ad
ministration building all night. Most
of them stretched out on the cold,
damp pavement. A few huddled
in blankets.
.unseen hands will swear to the
I strange incident, yet each one was
afraid for more than a day to
mention it to the other.
And the music went without men
tion for longer than that. Each
one was afraid his companions
would think he had been in the
wilds too long.
They Heard Music
It all happened to the field party
mentioned in Monday's Empire
which walked over a later-discov
ered fortune in asbestos. The four
men Bob Parker, Walt Kirkness,
Karl Weidman, Jr., and Molly Mac
Spadden—were checking the upper
tributaries of the Taku for spawn
ing king salmon. They had been
out for weeks when the strange
.things began to occur—and they
began to think they had been out
too long.
The party went together from
their camp on Teddedease Lake—
where they had flown in from Ju
neau—to the Nahlin River. There
they split. MacSpadden and Kirk
ness were to work up, then back
down the Nahlin, and Parker and
Weidman packed up the old tele
graph trail, north towards the head
of an unnamed river which flows
osuth into the Nahlin. They call
it "Z" river.
Music—Bells Too
Parker -says he first heard the
organ music—and bells, too, faintly
—as they worked back south to the
Nahlin. Weidman heard them too—
but neither of them wanted to ad
mit it.
Parker and Weidman were the
ones Involved in the “helping hanu ’
incident. Parker was leading the
way up over an almost unmanage
able slide when he felt someone
giving his pack a boost. He look
ed around, he says, thinking to
tell Weidman that he didn’t need
help. He then noticed that Weid
man was not within reach. He
shook his head and went on with
out sgvttp* )>nyf,’i»ig
It was after they confessed to
each other that they had both
been hearing the ethereal, ghostly
music on the trad that Weidman
inquired if Parker had felt some
j one—or something—pushing their
packs as they climbed the slide.
They admit to an eerie feeling about
it, but they do not question that
it happened.
Compare Notes
Parker and Weidman arrived at
an agreed assembly point, near
where the Sheslay River and the
Nahlin form the Inklin river, two
days before Kirkness and MacSpad
den. They spent part of their time
comparing notes on the organ and
choir music, which was heard most
clearly here.
But the music was not mentioned
to Kirkness and MacSpadden when
they arrived hi camp. And there
was no need. For MacSpadden al
most immediately began teasing
Kirkness about strange music Kirk
ness claimed to hear as they work
ed down the Nahlin. MacSpadden,
however, had to admit that he
didn't hear well.
Parker says that they very clear
ly heard the song, "Abide With
Me,” sung by, “what sounded like
a boys’ choir,” and organ music
and bells. It was mostly church mu
| sic and choir arrangements they
heard, the field men say.
Weidman theorizes that buried
quartz crystals might have been
picking up radio waves and broad
casting them. Prospectors along the
Yukon, have, with hesitation, ad
mitted to hearing similar music.
Scientists might make a more
valid explanation.
But what about the helping, un
seen hand along the lonely canyon
trail?
Home Manufacturers
No Longer Subject
To Price Controls
Individuals manufacturing items
in their own homes, and whose sales
amount to $1,000 or less each month
are no longer subject to prife con
trol, the Office of Price Stabilization
said this week.
Until now, small home manufac
turers had an exemption of $200 a
month. Small home manufacturers
produce such items as fishing lures,
artificial flowers, baskets, small
toys, wood carvings, small scatter
rugs and thousands of similar
things.
The OPS said these commodities
have an insignificant effect on the
cost of living and to control their
prices would involve administrative
burdens out of proportion to their
value.
LICENSE TO WED
TACOMA, Oct. 17—(M—A marriage
license has been issued to: Edgar
T. Combs and Lucille Combs, both
of Fairbanks, Alaska.
Infantry
Drives on
Kumsong
Allies Within Rifle Range
of Bastion; Chinese ,
Retreat Slowly
U. S. 8TH ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, Oct. 17—(/Pi—Allied
Infantrymen drove to within rifle
range of Kumsong on the central
front today.
Chinese defenders retreated slowly
before the advancing U.S. 24th Di
vision and the South Korean Sixth
Division.
The Allies gained 1,500 to 2,000
yards in the fifth day of their drive
toward the Reds’ central Korean
bastion.
The Reds were described officially
as “slowly withdrawing.”
Whether this was general along
the entire 22-mile central sector
remained to be seen. It was still
possible for the Reds to make a
stand south of Kumsong.
Allied Infantrymen trapped a
pocket of Chinese on the highest
peak guarding the southern ap
proach to Kumsong. First esti
mates placed the number of
trapped Reds at about 800. But
a briefing officer said slackening
resistance as American and Co
lombian troops attacked the crests
indicated the number may have
dwindled.
The 24th Division moved 1,000
yards forward to close the last gap
in the trap around the Reds.
“We’re going in and clean them
out,” said Lt. Col. Albert L.
Thornton of Birmingham, Ala.
U.S. troops and Colombian In
fantrymen began the assault.
Artillery covered them from newly
captured flanking hills.
More than 40 hills have been
captured in the five-day advance on
Kujnsone. Three J’ottr-i Nations
divisions have aove.nced seven'miles
along a 22-mile front. Allied ar
tillery moved up to strategic peaks
where it could blast Kumsong, the
main Communist bastion on the
central front.
To the east, the Republic of Ko
rea (ROK) Eighth Division drove
against 2,000 to 3,000-foot ridges in
an effort to keep pace with the
central push.
Wind Breaks Mooring
Of Three Boats in
Small Boat Harbor
High winds caused three boats to
break loose from their moorings this
morning at the Small Boat Harbor.
The Vermarco, owned by Art Kin
nan, was tied to floaj one with the
Sunmore, John Wlnther, Jr., and
the Sentinel, Vincent Anderson,
tied on the outside. Lin Geiger,
harbormaster, saw the three boats
floating away from the float about
7:45 a.m.
The mail boat Yakobi, owned by
Walter Sperl, went after the boats
and tied them to the dolphin at
the entrance of the harbor. The
owners were called as well as the
Coast Guard. A shore boat was
sent from the Storis to help in
taking the boats back into the
harbor.
Winther and Anderson were able
to board their boats and take them
back to the float under their own
power. The Storis shore boat had
to take the Vermarco down the
channel toward the Northern Com
mercial Company before it was able
to turn the Vermarco around to take
it back to float one.
There was no damage reported to
the three boats.
—
NO WELL BABY SESSION I
Due to the fact that Alaska Day
is a holiday, the Juneau Health
Center will be closed Thursday.
October 18, and there will be no
Well Baby Conference. Parents
who had planned on taking their
children in may phone 218 for a
future appointment.
• WEATHER REPORT •
• (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU •
• At Airport: Maximum, 38; •
• Minimum, 28. •
• •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• .Fair with strong gusty •
• northeasterly winds tonight •
• and Thursday. Lowest tem- •
• perature tonight abput freez- •
• ing. Highest Thursday near •
• 39 degrees. •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 s.m. today •
• At Airport — None; •
• since July 1—12:52 inches. •
[•••••••••••
Leaders Tell GOPs
No More'Me, Too';
Adopt Platform
SEATTLE, Oct. 17—<JPI—Republi
cans think they can carry the west
in 1952 if they work hard enough
at it.
That’s the message drummed out
in two days of speechmaking and
policy writing at the party’s western
conference. The meeting ended
yesterday.
Ten of the 11 member states voted
for President Truman in 1948. Only
Oregon supported Republican
Thomas E. Dewey.
Why the optimism, then?
Guy G. Gabrielson, Republican
National Committee chairman, and
other speakers told delegates;
There’ll be no “Me, too” cam
paign next year. The party has
plenty of issues this time—headed
by charges of Democratic cor
ruption and Communists-in
governmcnt. And It’s not going
to let 1948 overconfidence set In
again.
The conference adopted a pro
posed 20-point Republican platform
for the west. The action was not
final, however. Because of Cali
fornia objections against some
points, delegates agreed to keep the
platform resolution open for possible
change at their January meeting
in San Francisco.
Among other Issues, the plat
form backs immediate statehood
for Hawaii and would let Alas
kans elect their own Territorial
Governor, now appointed, until
such time as it too wins state
hood.
Alaskan delegates offered no de
murrer against the phrasing which
does not specify immediate state
hood. Others pointed out that
Alaska votes Democratic; hence the
state of Alaska would send two more
Democratic Senators to Washing
ton. The Alaska delegates were
headed by Albert White of Juneau,
controversial “general counsel" for
the party in Alaska, and his wife,
the National Committeewoman.
<*?
Pakistan
Buries Prime
Minister
KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct. 17—W
—Pakistan buried her murdered I
Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan,
today, while a stunned nation
grieved.
Sobbing, sorrowing thousands
lined a route heavily guarded by
troops as Liaquat's body was brought
from his home to a hallowed ceme
tery to be placed beside that of
the man he succeeded as this na
tion's chief the revered Mohammed
Ali Jinnah.
The leader of this four-year-old
nation was shot to death yesterday
at Rawalpindi in the Punjab, where
he had'just begun a speaking tour.
The body was flown to Karachi
early today and hurried funeral
arrangements were made while the
nation trembled at the prospect of
violence in the wake of the assassin’s
act.
The crowd was orderly, obviously
stunned. As the body was borne
through the streets on a flower
decked artillery caisson, Pakistani
officials announced for the first
time that they identified Liaquat’s
slayer as an Afghanistan national.
The fanatical killer, identified as
Sher Akhtar, member of an organi
zation which wanted a "holy war”
with India, fired two bullets into
Liaquat All’s chest and head yester
day as the Prime Minister addressed
a meeting at Rawalpindi, only 30
miles from disputed Kashmire state.
The Khaksar organization, to
which the leader belonged, is a
Nazi-like group with a Hitler-like
leader, Allama Mushruqi. It often
has clashed with the Moslem league,
founded by Jinnah, and a man who
tried at one time to assassinate
Jinnah was said to have been a
Khaksar.
Sir Kwaja Nazlmuddin, Governor
General of Pakistan, has taken
over as acting prime minister of
Pakistan. A moderate right winger,
he is friendly to the west and re
spected in neighboring India.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Oct. 19.'
Denali due southbound sometime
Sunday.
Freighter L u c 1 d o r scheduled
southbound at 7 p.m.
Freighter Coastal Monarch due
northbound Oct. 21.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Oct. 20.
Betting lxs
Heavy on
Churchill
LONDON, Oct. 17—(£)—Heavy bet
ting on Winston criurchiU and his
Conservative party to win the Oct.
25 British election drove the odds
still longer against the Labor gov
ernment today.
In the books of Douglas Stuart,
one of the nation’s biggest bet tak
ers, backers of Prime Minister Att
lee's Labor party can put up £2 to
win £7. Conservative supporters
must bet £9 to win £2.
The odds reflect ^he weight of
betting money on both sides, not
the bookies' opinions, a Stuart
spokesman said. A few days ago
Stuart was offering 3 to 1 against
Labor and 1 to 4 against the Con
servatives.
Stratofreighter
With 11 Aboard
Missing at Sea
By FRANK LOCKERBY
City Editor, Tacoma (Wash)
News-Tribune
LAGES FIELD, Azores, Oct. 17—
Clerical and other non-flying air
force workers today are serving as
volunteer scanners in the intense
search for a missing Stratofreighter
plane with 11 men aboard.
Visibility was good as United
States and Portuguese military
planes combed the North Atlantic
for a distance of 855 miles west of
here.
But no sign has been found so
far of the Military Air Transport
Service (MATS) plane reported
missing on a routine flight from
here to Westover Air Force base in
Massachusetts Monday.
The rescue planes are conducting
“route and area search," flying at
an elevation of approximately 500
feet abuse sea level.
At this altitude visibility over
the search area is good, according
to rescue control officers at Flight
B Seventh Air Rescue Squadron
here.
The search plane crews are aug
mented by the volunteer scanners,
working" in shifts of two hours.
Frank Lockerby, on a month-long
tour of U.S. air bases abroad, ar
rived in the Azores just as a search
began for a missing Stratofreighter
with 11 aboard. He is delaying his
tour to cover the story for the
Associated Press.
DYE MARKERS FOUND
WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE,
Mass., Oct. 17—Iffl—A smear of yel
low dye was found on the sea to
day 490 miles east of Cape Cod by
a search plane seeking a missing
stratofreighter and her crew of
11.
Westover officers said the dye
marker was sighted by Capt. Lewis
Dandolph of East Rutherford, N. J.,
flying a C-54 search plane, at 9:30
a.m. EST, and that it was consis
tent with dye carried in pneumatic
rafts used by planes.
Capt. Randolph reported he did
not see a raft.
Capt. Randolph’s report added
impetus to a search already speeded
up by reported light flashes in the
area last night.
Eighteen search planes had con
verged on that section of the At
lantic, about 150 miles south of
Sable Island, N. S.
Heinfzleman to
Hake Alaska Day
Address at Sitka
To speak at the Alaska Day pro
gram In Sitka, B. Frank Heintzle
man, regional forester and well
known authority on Alaska’s his
tory, will leave today on the Al
aska Coastal Airlines. Tomorrow will
mark the 84th anniversary of the
transfer of Alaska from Russia to
the United States.
Mr. Helntzleman wil return to his
office on Friday.
•
PONTIAC ZONE MANAGER
STOPS HERE. ON ALASKA TOUR
C. L. Messecar, zone manager for
the Pontiac motor division of Gen
eral Motors, stopped in Juneau
Tuesday as part of his re-contract
ing tour through Alaska.
Messecar, from Portland, says he
is the first zone manager for Pon
tiac to be assigned to "Alaska duty.”
He was In Juneau to re-afflrm the
contract with the Connors Motor
Co., here.
His next stop will be Anchorage,
where he will meet with dealers
from that city and Cordova. Val
dez, Seward and Palmer. In Fair
banks he will meet with the Nome
dealer.
Seek Raise
For Nearly All
U. S. Employees
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17— If! —
House conferees sought agreement
today on terms of a compromise
bill to raise the pay of most gov
ernment workers somewhere around
$400,000,000 a year.
Benefiting would be hundreds of
thousands of government employees
in Washington and other areas. Not
covered are postal workers and
"blue collar" workers paid on an
hourly basis.
The same conferees yesterday
reached agreement on a bill to hand
the 450,000 postal workers a $250,
000,000 to $225,000,000 a year pay
hike. The measure now awaits Sen
ate action.
The conference committee has
before it a House-passed bill pro
posing a $446,000,000 a year boost
in the pay of the non-postal work
ers, and a Senate bill which would
limit the total to about $384,000,
000 a year.
Members said they thought the
differences were not irreconcilable.
Seward Dropped
As Port of Call
By Alaska Steam
SEATTLE, Oct. 17 — (PI — The
strike-bound port of Seward, Alaska,
has been dropped as a port of call
by the Alaska Steamship Co., effec
tive immediately, D. E. Skinner,
vice president and general manager,
says.
Skinner said the strike, now in
its fifth day, has made it impos
sible to discharge cargo at Seward,
the southern terminus of the
Alaska Railroad.
The dispute is between the Inde
pendent Longshoremen’s and Ware
housemen’s Union (Ind) and the
Northern Stevedoring Co.
Skinner said Alaska Steam sail
ing {o Seward would be halted until
"the situation is relieved."
'The national defense program of
Alaska is seriously affected by this
strike which is interrupting the
movement of cargo for Army and
Air Force installations," he added.
SHIPS GO TO WHITTIER
SEATTLE, Oct. 17— (PI —Alaska
Steamship Co., passenger ships will
go to Whittier, Alaska, Instead of
Seward, until a strike by longshore
men at Seward is settled, the com
pany announced today.
Whittier, like Seward, is on the
Alaska Railroad, and passengers can
get to Anchorage, Fairbanks and
other cities on the “rail belt” from
either port.
The army, which controls the Port
of Whittier, gave permission last
night for ships to use the port.
The first passenger vessel to call
at Whittier will be the Denali, which
left Sitka yesterday for Seward
and is being* diverted to Whittier.
She is due there tomorrow.
Two Alaska Steamship co., freigh
t's which had been idle at Seward
because of the strike also have been
ordered to Whittier. They are the
John H. Quick and the Susitna.
A Coastwise Line freighter, the
John W. Burgess, is due in Seward
Saturday, but plans have been made
to divert her to Whittier or An
chorage if the Seward strike has
not been settled before the week
end.
Mediterranean
Gale Kills 12
In Skily
CATANIA, Sicily, Oct. 17—(AT—
A great gale, lashing the Mediter
ranean from Sicily to Gibraltar,
smashed down a five story residence
building here today. At least 12
persons were killed.
Eight to ten others were feared
buried in the debris, and two more
persons were killed in other wreck
age. Damage ran to hundreds of
thousands of dollars along the Sic
ilian and western Italian coasts.
Want Alaska
To Have Vole
In Electric Co-op
By Associated Press
A regional meeting of the Nation
al Rural Electric Cooperative Asso
ciation in Spokane has asked the
national organization to amend its
by-laws with regard to Alaska. The
group wants Alaska granted the
same recognition as a state in the
association. This would give Alaska
cooperatives a vote on the National
Board of Directors.
MacArthur
Hits Truman
Korea Policy
Calls for All-Out Force
to End Slaughter of
Americans; Applause
MIAMI, Florid*, Oct. 17— Wl —
Gen. Douglas MacArthur bitterly
accused the Truman administration
today of plunging the nation toward
socialism and economic disaster.
And he called for an all-out use
of military force to end > the “un
necessary slaughter" of Americans
in Korea.
The five-star general told thou
sands of cheering American Legion
naires “you cannot profitably nego
tiate with Communists” and he all
but proposed an end to the truce
talks in Korea. He declared force
is the only persuasion the Reds
can understand and the best way to
end the war.
MacArthur's address was * slash
ing attack on the administration’s
domestic, foreign and military pol
icies—perhaps the hardest-hitting
since he was ousted from his far
eastern commands by President
Truman.
He was greeted with roaring
cheers when he began his speech
in the Big Dinner Key Auditorium
where more than 15,000 people had
gathered. And he often was inter
rupted by applause.
MacArthur's 45-minute speech was
Interrupted 49 times by outbursts
of cheering. The heaviest applause
broke out when the general men
tioned using greater military force
in the Korean war.
.MacArthur proposed a 15-polnt
program for the Legion to support
in correcting weaknesses as the
general saw them—Including an
“atomic program with a full com
mitment to the use as needed of
the atomic weapon,"
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Kan Work
On Tax Bill
Proposed
WASHINGTON. Oct. 17—OR—the
Senate agreed today to make new
efforts to work out with the House
a tax increase bill acceptable to
both branches of Congress.
The voice vote decision was taken
with only a handful of members on
the floor. It was on motion of Sen
ator George (D-Oa) who heads the
tax-writing finance committee.
In a brief meeting earlier, the
committee had decided it would re
comr.Vnd a further attempt to
reach agreement with the House.
The House yesterday unexpectedly
turned down the compromise 95.
732,000,000 tax measure, agreed on
by Seinate-House conferees after
lengthy hearings.
The unexpected House action
threw a roadblock into plans for
Congressional adjournment this
week.
Archie Belts Riles
Thursday Affemoon
Funeral services for Archie Betts
will be held Thursday afternoon at
2 o'clock at the Carter Chapel. The
Elks ritualistic service will be used
and Ernest Ehler will sing. Inter
ment will be in the Elks plot at
Evergreen Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be members of
the Elks Lodge. They are Arthur
Adams, Ervin Hagerup, Nick Bav
ard, Pat Carroll, Robert Schy and
Phillip Berthold.
Mr. Betts was a member of the
Elks and Moose lodges and a charter
member of the Kiwanls club serving
as treasurer of the organization
from its inception until 1946.
MRS. HERMANN LEAVES
FOR TRIP EAST
Mrs. Mildred Hermann left Tues
day on the Pan American plane for
New York City and Washington.
D. C. In the nation's capitol she will
attend a convention of the Gen
eral Federation of Woman’s Clubs
and in New York she will represent
the Alaska Cancer Society at the
meeting of the American Society.
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