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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,686
JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1950
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Allies Hold Beachhead Under Curtain of Fire
TRUMAN TO
STICK BY
SECY.STATE
Defies GOP Attempts to
Oust Acheson-Sympathy
for Underdog Sought
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 — UPI —
Democratic leaders counted today
on American sympathy for the un
derdog in attempts to rally support
for Secretary of State Acheson in
the face of formal GOP demands
for his ouster.
Two influential Democratic Sen
ators who didn’t want to be quoted
by name told reporters they think
public reaction to the Republican
stand may help solidify support for
Acheson if he stays on.
One high administration author
ity who asked not to be named said
President Truman is ‘‘absolutely de
termined” to stick by Acheson and
has no intention of yielding to the
Republican groups in both the Sen
ate and the House which voted last
Friday their belief that Acheson
has lost the confidence of the
country and should be replaced.
On the other hand, there were
reports circulating in Congress of
a possible triple-play move by Presi
dent Truman to quiet the GOP op
position.
These reports—and they weren’t
vouched for by anyone in authority
—were to the effect that if Ache
son quits Mr. Truman might ask
Chief Justice Fred Vinson to leave
the Supreme Court and take over
the State portfolio.
If this happened, it was said At
torney General McGrath might be
in line for a court appointment
and Clark Clifford, former Presi
dential legal adviser now in private
practice here, for Attorney General.
SITKA BANK MAN'S
CAR GETS TWO HITS
ON HOMESTRETCH
SEATTLE. Dec. 18—UPI—Harvey
G. Brown, a bank manager at Sitka.
Alaska, is convinced there are no
driving hazards like the hazards
of the home stretch.
He bought a car in Seattle several
weeks ago and drove east. Then he
headed west again and had run up
more than 6,000 miles without so
much as a bumped fender when he
reached Snoqualmie Pass. He stop
ped to put on chains, less than 75
miles from Seattle. Then it hap
pened. His car was hit twice within
five minutes. First it was side
swiped. Before he got back into it
again, another car hit it again from
the rear. He was glad to report,
however, damage was negligible.
The Washington
Merry - Go - Round
Copyright, use, hr Bell eradicate. Inc.l
By DREW PEARSON
Washington—When Congres
sional and Cabinet leaders filed
into the White House to hear the
President’s report on the National
Emergency, Secretary of State Ach
eson happened to take a seat just
opposite a row of his GOP critics
—Senators Taft, Bridges of New
Hampshire, and Wherry of Nebras
ka.
"Here is your opposition across
from you,” remarked Bridges, in
’ an effort to break the ice.
The Secretary of State did not
quite know how to take this, where
upon Wherry interposed:
“We mean your constructive op
postion.”
The meeting that followed was
about the nearest approach both
political parties have made toward
war cooperation. Republican Sen
ators Wiley of Wisconsin and Milli
kin of Colorado, with ex-Speaker
Joe Martin of Massachusetts, seem
ed especially sympathetic; and even
Taft, though he disagreed with the
President, offered to submit his
dissenting statement to Mr. Tru
man for his O.K.
Russian War Moves
The meeting was opened with a
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New Jei
Downs 1
Russ Jet
AN ADVANCE U.S. AIR BASE
IN KOREA, Dec. 18—ijf)—Ameri
ca's fastest jet fighter plane, in its
first combat, sent a Russian-made
MIG-15 jet spinning earthward in
flames and smoke yesterday.
Four North American F-86 Sabres
scored a clean victory in a five
minute aerial dogfight with four
Soviet-type MIG-15s 10 miles south
of Sinuiju, in northeast Korea.
The other three Red planes fled
across the Manchurian border.
Lt. Col. Bruce H. Hinton of
Stockton, Calif., shot down the
MIG in a contest eagerly awaited
by men of this stripped down air
field.
The group commander, Col. John
C. Meyer of Newcastle, Del., and
Forest Hills, N. Y., praised the
Sabre:
"It’s just the finest airplane I
ever saw or ever flew. It's just
everything good wrapped up into
one fast package.”
EARLY MORN SEARCH
FUTILE; LOST PARTY
IN TOWN ASLEEP
Members of the Juneau Volunteer
Fire Department went out on a fu
tile searching party up the Perse
verance Mine road for Mrs. Flor
ence Hibbard at 4 this morning to
find that she had come back -to
town shortly before midnight.
Mrs. Hibbard and John Moore
went to get Christmas trees about
noon yesterday up the Basin road.
They took a pack loaded with sleep
ing bags and food and also had a
Japanese .25 rifle and a .22 rifle.
About a mile up the Perseverance
road and directly opposite the
Alaska-Juneau Mine property, they
sat down to eat their lunch about
4 in the afternoon.
An argument ensued and, ac
cording to Mrs. Hibbard, Moore
threatened to shoot her. She be
came frightened and headed for
the A-J property. Moore followed
her for about 100 feet down th^
steep grade from tracks left in the
snow by the pair.
Moore hung around the area, as
near as can be determined, until
late in the evening. There are two
conflicting stories about his return
to town. Both stories were told by
Moore, His return, according to him,
was that he fell in a creek getting
his clothing wet after he had
“blacked out.” He then was sup
posed to have headed back into town
arriving here about 2:15 this morn
ing, going immediately to the Gas
tineau Hoel.
The other story ne tells Is that
he returned to towm immediately
and slept for five hours. Upon wak
ing, he reported Mrs. Hibbard’s
disappearance to the police at 2:15
a.m. The 2-9 fire call was sounded at
3:10 for the firemen to assemble
at the fire hall. A wrong call of 2-3
was given a few moments later.
At 4 this morning the searchers,
numbering about 20, went up the
Basin Road. The Japanese rifle was
found but the smaller calibered
rifle was not found at the scene of
the argument. The searchers con
tinued about another three-fourths
of a mile up the Perseverance mine
road without finding any traces of
Mrs. Hibbard.
Her tracks led to the bridge over
the creek to the A-J property. Mrs.
Hibbard stated this morning that
she had found F. N. Schindler,
guard at the mine, And had asked
directions back to town.
Instead of going home, Mrs Hib
bard stayed all night with a friend
of hers, not knowing a search was
in progress for her. The searchers
returned to town about 5:30 this
morning. When it was discovered
that Mrs. Hibbard was in town, the
proposed search later this morning
was called off.
1 Moore is to be questioned further
this afternoon by the police.
SOUTH FOR HOLIDAYS
John Adams, engineer with the
Alaska Public Works here, left Sun
day for Seattle to spend the holi
days with his family there and to
visit his mother in Bellingham,
Wash. He expects to return about
| January 15.
ATLANTIC
PACT NOW
DICUSSSED
Warning Given that Allies
Far trom Ready to Re
sist Commie Attack
BRUSSELS. Belgium, Dec. 18—(/Pi
—U S. Army Secretary Frank Pace
warned the North Atlantic Allies
today they are "far from ready"
to withstand a Communist assault
on Western Europe.
Opening a two-day meeting of At
lantic Defense and Foreign Minis
ters gathered to complete plans for
a unified European Army. Pace told
the defense'chiefs the U.S. will aid
its partners’ defense efforts only if
it is "fully convinced” each nation
is doing all it can to help itself.
Pace is representing U.S. Defense
Secretary George C. Marshall at the
meetings. He said:
"The American people already
have stepped up their preparedness
and plan for even greater sacrifices
in the next year. . . In the U.S. all
our efforts are now being geared to
expedite the organization of our
military forces and the production
of. munitions.
Need for Speed
"I know you share with us an
appreciation -of the urgency of the
situation and the need for speed in
your own efforts,” he told the min
isters.
The toughest problem they face
is either coaxing or forcing the
Germans to be rearmed.
Both the United States and Brit
ain are reported prepared to lay
down the law to the West German
Republic, if necessary, to overcome
German objections to their rearma
ment.
German Hold Out
The Germans, who are not repre
sented at the 12-power conference
have objected to joining an interna
tional army unless invited to do so
on an equal basis with the other
Atlantic Pact members.
West German Socialist Leader
Kurt Schumacher, at; Duesseldorf
last night, said his powerful party
would call for a national movement
against rearmament if West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Adenaur
accepts Allied plans.
2500 LBS. CARGO;
18 PASSENGERS
FLY WESTWARD
Fifty-one passengers were carried
by Pacific Northern Airlines over
the weekend, including 18 to the
westward, 18 from Anchorage and 15
to other points. On the outbound
flight 2500 pounds of Christmas
cargo was taken.
From Anchorage: F. Wanberg,
Ethel Watson. Len Johnson, Joe
Brione, Darrell Purnell, George
Hale, D. W. Hunt, C. M. Lynch, Rob
ert Simpson. West Altenburg, Cleda
mae Cammock, Maj. D, Cameraon,
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Finch, Dr. and
Mrs. D. Chalmers, A. Anaruk, Bob
and Don Chalmers.
To Anchorage: Dr. J. Haldeman,
Mrs. W. J. Lund, M. M. Flint, Ed
Paine, Elwood Hudson, Joe Falken
han, Dorothy Hanson, Harold Fos
ter, Joe Alamorang.
To Cordova: Philip Lydick,
Charles Nestor, Mrs. H. C. Rich.
To Yakutat: L. D. Williams, Ruth
Williams, Vera Knickerbocker, Sam
Dick, Charles Broun, and Martha
Totland.
AUTO TAGS ON SALE
CITY CLERK'S OFFiCi
Automobile license tags are now
on sale at the office of the Juneau
City Clerk. Those who desire special
numbers are calling early, C. L.
Popejoy said today. About ten of
these have already been sold.
The windshield stickers for out
of-town cars have not yet arrived,
Popejoy said, but those wishing to
pay for them when they buy their
licenses will receive the stickers by
mail later.
January 31 is the deadline for get
ting 1951 auto tags.
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FROM ANCHORAQE
Mrs. Ethel Watson of Anchorage
is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
I
CEASE-FIRE
CONFERENCE
GLOOMY ONE
Peace Talks May Be Trans
ferred to Peiping-No
Headway Here
LAKE SUCCESS. Dec. 18-Jltf)—
The U.N. cease-fire committee an
nounced today it had offered to go
to Peiping for direct Korean peace
talks with Chou En-Lai, Foreign
Minister of Communist China.
The disclosure was made in the
General Assembly’s 60-nation Polit
ical Committee by Lester B. Pearson
of Canada, a member of the three
man truce body.
Pearson read a cable, which the
group had sent to Peiping last Sat
urday. The cease-fire committee of
fered to meet Chou either in Pei
ping or at any other place desig
nated by him.
The cable was sent, Pearson said,
after the cease-fire committee had
consulted unofficially with Red
China’s envoy here, Gen. Wu Hsiu
Chuan, and discovered that he had
no authority to negotiate peace.
Pearson said no reply has yet I
been received from Peiping.
"We want to meet you at your
earliest convenience to discuss
cease-fire arrangements, either here
or elsewhere,” the telegram said.
Pearson asked the Political Com
mittee to bear with the cease-fire
group a little longer while it con
in ues its efforts.
Efforts Continue
The group met yesterday to frame
their report and hear Rau detail
his conversations Saturday night
with Red China's representative.
Wu Hsiu-Chuan.
Rau, accompanied by the Jam
Saheb, Maharajah of Nawanagar,
dined with Wu Just three hours
after the Chinese Communists had
denounced the U.N.’s plan for a
cease fire in Korea as an American
trap to get a breathing spell for a
military build up.
Wu also told a Jammed press con
ference at Lake Success that his
government might be willing to
advise its so-called volunteers in
Korea to come home, but indicated
this would only be done after com
plete surrender by the U.N. to all
Chinese Communist demands in
Asia.
These include U.N. membership,
withdrawal of American troops
from Korea and the Seventh Fleet
from Formosa, and the surrender
of Chiang Kai-Shek’s last-ditch is
’and stronghold to the Reds.
PATROL PLANE IS
MISSING IN PNW
SEATTLE, Dec. 18 — OB — The
Whiby Island Naval Air Station
reported at noon today that one of
its twin-engined patrol planes has
been “out of communication” with
the station since 7 a.m., (10 a m.,
EST).
Officials said no search has been
ordered but an attempt is being
made by Coast Guard planes in the
vicinity to establish radio communi
cations. The plane carried enough
gas to keep it aloft until 4 p.m. to
day under normal circumstances.
The plane, a P-2-V, carries a
normal crew of five but the number
varies according to the mission.
When last heard from the craft
was in the vicinity of Cape Flat
tery, approximately 150 miles north
east of here. The Cape is the ex
treme northwest point of the
United States.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
93%, American Tel. and Tel. 15011,
Anaconda 38%, Douglas Aircraft
92%, General Electric 48. General
Motors 45, Goodyear 61%. Kenne
cott 75%, Libby McNeill and Libby
8%, Northern Pacific 29%. Stan
dard Oil of California 82’.. Twen
tieth Century Fox 20%, U.S. Steel
41, Pound $2.80%, Canadian Ex
change 94.87%.
Sales today were 4.490.000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 231.03, rails 76.01, utilities
39.03.
Busy Escape Pori
North Korean women stevedores march to work at Ilungnan as Allied freighters stand ready at dock
side for evacuation of United Nations troops from nearby Hanhung. The successful return of marines
from Changjin reservoir area placed Allies in good position for sea evacuation from northeastern front.
l/P) YVircphoto.
PRICE, WAGE
FREEZE NOW
SHAPING UP
Voluntary Action Request
ed by Both Business
and Workers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 — iff) — A
request that business and workers
voluntarily freeze all prices and
.vages shaped up today as the gov
ernment’s probable next move in
fighting the inflation fired by
mounting defense spending.
Officials who asked not to be
named said such a step was con
templated within a few days by Alan
Valentine, head of the Economic
Stabilization Authority (ESA).
As they outlined it, the request
would be that business, unions and
he public adhere voluntarily to the
prices and wages which existed on
Dec. 1 or some other recent date.
But further compulsory price con
rols appeared to be in the making,
following up the rollback on new
car prices which Valentine ordered
over the weekend.
Ceilings Forecast
Meat industry officials were
called in today to discuss prices,
eading to speculation that ceilings
may be clamped shortly on beef
veal and lamb. Those three meat1
are among the relatively few farm
products now selling at prices
higher than the ceilings which may
be imposed under the Economic
Controls Law.
Meanwhile, Charles E. Wilson
prepared to take over as the overall
boss of the nation’s mobilization
against possible new Communist
aggression. Wilson is resigning a?
President of the General Electric
Co., to direct the new agency.
President Truman established the
office of Defense Mobilization on
Saturday shortly after issuing a
formal declaration of national emer
gency. The declaration carried with
it authority to do such things as
lengthen work hours under govern
ment' contracts, requisition ships
and waive competitive bids on de
fense contracts.
I
WEATHER REPORT '
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period (
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning i
Ip Juneau—Maximum, 35; 1
minimum, 30. 1
At Airport—Maximum, 31;
minimum, 25.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity) I
Mostly cloudy with inter
mittent light snow tonight
and Tuesday. Low tonight
near 28, high Tuesday near
34.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a m today i
City of Juneau — Trace;
since Dec. 1 — 2.53 inches;
since July 1—35.77 inches.
At Airport — Trace;
since Dec. 1 — 1.84 inches;
since July 1—24.96 inches.
*••••••••
Halt Sales,
1951 Autos
DETROIT, Dec. 18—l/PI—General
Motors Corporation today ordered
Chevrolet, Pontiac, Cadillac deal
ers to halt sale of 1951 model cars
received from the factory today or
hereafter. It said the government's
price rollback order of Saturday
was responsible.
The economic stabilization agency
ordered prices of all automobiles
rolled back to Dec. 1 levels. GM,
Chrysler, Ford and Nash had an
I nounced higher price tags for new
models since that date.
There was no immediate indica
tion whether the other affected
car manufacturers might halt sale
of their cars too, pending review
of the government price order.
In Washington, both the White
House and the economic stabiliza
tion agency declined any immed
iate comment on General Motors’
action.
—
LADD FIELD FLIER
IN 1ST EXPERIENCE
AS AERIAL MIDWIFE
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 18—OP)
—S-Sgt. Bill L. Combs has flown
more missions with Flight D of the
Ladd Air Force Base's Tenth Rescue
Squadron than he can count.
But he logged up his first ex
perience as an aerial midwife’s as
dstant yesterday.
Principals in the sky-borne drama
•vere Mrs. Sally Esau, a Nenana
mtive woman; Mrs. Gladys Cog
hill, a nurse; Major Gordon J.
Bradburn of Evanston, 111., the
pilot; 1st Lt. Marvin Schliep of
^tonan, Mont., and co-pilot; and
Combs.
Bradburn was about to get the j
3-47 down on the Ladd Base run
vay on the return flight with the
expectant Mrs. Esau when Combs
ourst into the cockpit.
“Stay in the air,” he yelled. “A
baby's being born back here.”
Then, while Bradburn circled
over Fairbanks, Combs and Nurse
Coghill combined efforts to deliver
a boy baby.
Commented Combs, 24, of Kings
ley, Kans., later;
“Now I can cope with any situa
tion.”
3 SUSPECTEDPOLIO
CASES ARE CONFIRMED
Thre suspected cases of poliomy
elitis were reported confirmed in
word received today from Ketchi
kan by the Alaska Department of
Health. They are Bobby Hollister,
11, of Ketchikan, and two young
women, Jean Sallee of Ketchikan
and Teresa Morrison of Annette.
This brings the total reported
cases in Ketchikan to 16 and the
total in the Territory, 66.
MRS. CAMMOCK RETURNS
Cledamae Cammock, executive se
cretary of the Territorial Federa
tion of Labor, returned to her
headquarters here Saturday after
a get-acquainted trip to Fairbanks
and Anchorage. I
AUTO PRICES
ROLL BACK IS
GOVT. ORDER
DETROIT, Dec. 18—UP)—Autqmo
bile prices will be rolled back on
government order—but only over
strong objections from both car
makers and labor.
Both factions in the big auto in
dustry have labelled "unfair” the
economic stabilization agency's Sat
urday order to push back car
prices to the Dec. 1 level.
Nevertheless, General Motors
Corp., the Ford Motor Co., and
Nash Motors, three of the firms
that boosted prices this month, said
yesterday they would comply. GM's
Cadillac Division withdrew a sched
uled price increase announcement.
One spokesman for the auto in
dustry said of the rollback order:
"They are taking advantage of the
auto industry.” A GM official called
the move “paently discriminatory.”
This view got staunch support
from Walter P. Reuther, President
of the CIO United Auto Workers
and often a bitter foe of the auto
producers’ policies.
Reuther said he opposed "pin
point price control that is discrim
inatory and does not get to the
basic causes of spiraling costs of
living.”
SETTLEMENT IS
EXPECTED NOW
IN RR DISPUTES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 — UR —
Hope rose today for an eafly set
tlement of the long wage and hour ,
dispute between the nation's rail
roads and four operating unions.
The White House pressed them to
come to terms.
The pace of negotiations was step
ped up even as the effects of a
strike by one group involved faded.
Some 10,000 yardmen walked off
their jobs for three days last week,
tying up freight and Christmas mail
in key rail terminals, but the Jam
was clearing rapidly.
President Assistant John R. Steel
man kept the negotiators in session
until 2:45 am.. <EST) today, and
reported "some progress”. The union
and management representatives |
faced each other across the bar- i
gaining table for the first time
since August, when the roads were
seized by the government to avert a
strike. Steelman arranged another
session this afternoon.
The yardmen for the most part
went back to work, although ajxjut
100 notified three railroads In To
ledo they were too sick to report.
One union official said their action
constituted a wildcat strike.
NAGLEYS SOUTH
Mr. and Mrs. Nagley of Talkeetna
and Anchorage, went through Ju
nta u Sunday enroute to the States
for the winter. They plan to go to
San Francisco, San Diego and pos
sibly Mexico. Nagley was a trader
at Talkeetna for many years and is
owner of the Westward Hotel in
I Anchorage.
WARSHIPS
SHELLING
COMMIES
t '
Dwindling Beachhead Is
Held Against 100,000
Man Chinese Army
'(By the Associated Press')
United States warships and artil
lery lit up a ring of fire around the
dwindling Hungnam beachhead to
day.
The Battleship Missouri threw
one-ton shells agninst pockets of a
100,000-man Chinese Communist
army attempting to drive the 10th
Corps’ 60,000 men into the sea.
The aproaches to the beachhead
were raked by the U.S. heavy cruis
ers st. Paul and Rochester. De
stroyers stepped up the bombard
ment with five-inch shells. A Navy
summary said the fire had made
a “no man's land” of the defense
perimeter’s outer fringes.
The beachhead is the Allies’ last
major position north of parallel
38, the boundary between North and
South Korea.
Curtain of Fire
The curtain of fire from ships
and artillery stopped the enemy
which has tried unsuccessfully for
days to find a hole in the United
Nations defenses. MaJ. Gen. Edward
M. Almond. 10th Corps commander
was pleased with the effectiveness
of the firepower defending his
troops. He said:
“Things are going just nbout the
way we planned them. Now every
time the Chinese Communists dig
in. we hit them with artillery con
centrations, mix them up and knock
them out."
Western Front Lull
The western front, where the U.S.
Eighth Army has dug in for a
stand against increasing numbers
of North Korean and Chinese Com
munists was still quiet today. But
observers said it was like the lull
before an impending storm.
General MacArthur’s' war sum
mary warned of intensified guer
rilla activity in South Korea. He
said guerrilla raids are now coor
dinated and are probably directed
by radio from a central headquar
ters. The great numbers of uncap
tured Reds left behind when Allied
forces pushed north are now a real
threat behind the Eighth Army's
lines.
Aerial Dog Fight
Allied air men were elated over
the victory of America's fastest Jet
fighter over Russian-built jets yes
terday. In a five-minute aerial dog
fight between four North American
F-86 Sabres and four Soviet-type
MG-15s near Sinuiju, one Red plane
was shot down and the others fled
to the sanctuary ofc the Manchurian
border. The Sabres are the world’s
fastest planes. It was their first en
counter with the enemy.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof from Seattle scheduled
to arrive at 11 a.m., tomorrow.
Denali Scheduled to sail from Se
attle Friday.
Princess Norah scheduled to ar
rive from Skagway at 8 a.m., tomor
row and sails south one hour later
at 9 o’clock.
CHALMERS BACK AGAIN
Dr .and Mrs. Duncan Chalmers
with the Alaska Native Service at
Bethel, have returned irom a trip
to Bethel.'They are staying at the
Gastineau Hotel.
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C SHOPPING GAPS
| & TIU CHRISTMAS