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JUNKAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FKPRUARY 8, 11>51
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ARMY WILL
TAKE OVER
RAILROADS
President Issues Orders
After Condemning
Walkout
BULLETIN — WASHINGTON—
Feb. 8 —i/PI— The Army served no
tice on striking railway men today
that they will be dismissed unless 1
they report for work by 4 p.m.(EST)
today or can prove they were phys- j
icaliy enable to vork.
ARMY TO TAKE OVER
WASHINGTON. Feb. 8 — t/PI —
President Truman today ordered the
Army to “take appropriate action” !
to return the railroad.: to full oper- j
ation.
He accused the striking railroad
workers of running out on an agree
ment like a bunch of Russians.
The President did not say what
action Secretary of the Army Pace I
would take.
Tie-up “Intolerable”
Mr. Truman, in a statement which
he read at his Washington news
conference, r aid he had been "grave
ly concerned about the interfer
ence with essential military and ci
vilian railroad transportation.”
He called the tie-up “intolerab’s" j
in an emergency. He complimented I
"the vast majority of railroad work
ers” who stayed on the job and
others who returned at the govern
ment’s request.
Mr. Truman’s reference to the]
rail workers running out on an i
agreement presumably was to a
pact initialed by union leaders at
the White House last December.
The unions later refused to ratify
the wage-hour proposals.
Workers Returning
Before the President made his
remarks, more rail workers went
back to work in Chicago, last major
holdout of the striking switchmen.
The nine-day “sick call” strike
virtually ended in most parts of the
country.
But in Chicago two-thirds of the
switchmen on the day trick stayed
off the job. However, the Army
said 727 of them came to work to
day compared with only 402 yester
day.
Elsewhere mail restrictions eased
as the rail services swung back to
normal. Many freight embargoe
: were lifted. The Railway Express
Agency also took away some re
strictions.
Throughout the east and south,
train, mail and express movements
were about normal. Most train1
were running in and out of New
York City on regular schedules.
Army Takes Over
The Army told the striking rail
way men today they will be fired
unless they report to work by 4 p.m
(EST> Saturday or can prove they
are physically unable to do so.
This notice to end the “sick call’
(Continued on Page Two)
The Washing ion
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1951, cy Beil Syndicate, Inc.)
H^ASHINGTON—Five of the na
tion’s top labor spokesmen, led by
Phil Murray of the CIO, had it hot
'and heavy with Defense Mobilize!
Charles E. Wilson last week over
the government's manpower pro
gram.
The ill feeling which flared be
tween them looked like a curtain
raiser for more trouble on the
labor front, and raised one of the
most difficult problems of any de
fense or war program.
Purpose of the labor leaders’ call
on Wilson was to keep the nation’s
civilian manpower program under
the Labor Department. This has
been the subject of a bitter back
stage battle for some time, with
Wilson and Gen. Lucius Clay want
ing to take manpower away from
Secretary of Labor Tobin and Assis
tant Secretary of Defense Anna
Rosenberg, and with the latter two
threatening to resign if the labor,
problem is taken out of their hands.,
Labor leaders have gcod reason tol
fear General Clay and any man-1
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Reds leg for Mercy
mrwi , - in ■■ »n mui■ iurrr .LaMBraHi »»*■»*i
Young Chinese Communist soldiers, captured on western Korean
front, lineei before an Allied soldier in the belief that they were about
to be shot and killed. Prison came as a relief to the Reds, apparently
victims of their own propaganda. Picture taken by Associated Press
staff photographer Jim Marteniioff. iff) Wirephoto.
IS PASSED
By JIM HUTCHESON
The territorial senate passed two
measures today, received four new
ones and heard a lot of discussion
on auditing needs and problems.
The senate passed unanimously
Sen. Frank Barr’s “minimum wage
act." It proposes a Si hourly mini
mum wage for employment in Alas
ka, with exemptions for such part
time work as babysitting and news
boy jobs. It omits the maximum hour
provision that is included in a bill
now before the house, which has
.urred controversy in the past.
The 16-0 vote came after Barr
described it as non-controversial be
cause virtually all wo>-k in the terri
tory draws m '.re than $1 an hour
anyhow.
The second bit; passed would al
low city councils io set bonds for
city treasurers, within certain lim
its. It was introduced by Sen. Steve
MeCutcheon who said the present
law requires a bond of $12,000,000
for the Anchorage treasurer. As
amended, the bond can be fixed at
35 per cent of the collectable prop
erty tax in the- city but need not
be more than $100,000. The vote
was 15-0.
Sen. John Bulrovxh (R-Fair
banks) refrained fiom voting. He
explained that he agreed with Mc
Cutcheon’s original proposal of let
ting the city council fix the bond
and thought the amendment mess
ed it up.
The senate heard a letter from
the auditing firm of Arthur Ander
son Co. of Seattle, which deflated
the discussion of having an outside
concern come in to set up a plan
for reorganizing the territorial gov
ernment in line with the auditors’
recommendations.
The Anderson company is the one
that conducted the audit in 1949-50.
The letter was sent in response to
one by Butrovich and Sen. Jame
Nolan (D-Wrangell), wbo acted as
a special auditing committee be
tween sessions.
Long-Range Program
The Anderson Co. letter expressed
the belief that “carrying out of the
principal recommendations is a
long-range program and will re
quire two to four years before the
projected goals can be accom
plished.”
It added:
“We also believe that it would be
impracticable for the territory to
encage an outside organization to
carry out flip detailed steps of thi;
suggested program because the cost
would be prohibitive.”
(Continued en Page Two)
CONGRESS
IS DARED
BY TRUMAN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 — OB —
Presidmt Truman today dared Con
gress so cut his $71,000,OOO.OOC
budget.
He told a news conference it is
a good budget and a tight budget
and that he dared the legislators tr
do anything to it.
His remarks were touched off bj
a reporter’s assertion that a num
ber of Congress members have said
they were going "to squeeze the
water” out of the President's spend
ing recommendations.
Mr. Truman said they were wel
come to try.
He added that they threatened
to do the same thing in past years
and instead of cutting his budget
they had added a couple of billion
dollar; to it.
BASES'
EVACUATION IS
Women and Childen to Be
Taken to Highway in
Drill on Saturday
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 8—<i«—
Winter highway drills to test cole
weather evaveuation plans will be
held at military installations neai
Fairbanks and Anchorage Satur
day, Brig. Gen. Lavid Baker saic
yesterday.
Baker, commander of Ladd Ail
Force Base, said private automobile.1
will carry women and children froir
military installations in the Fair
banks area down the Alaska High
way to designated points where thej
will be formed into convoys.
The test will be held in sub-zerc
weather in some areas and tht
“evacuees” will wear heavy cok
weather gear. Cars will carry specia
equipment.
Women and children at Ladd
Eielson and Elmendorf Air Fores
bases and Fort Richardson will tak<
part in the tests. They will returr
to their bases once the convoys ar<
formed.
The simulated evacuation will bs
in line with a previously announcer
military plan to remove dependents
jf military and civilian personne
nd women employees at Alaskr
bases in the event of an emergency
Alaska civilians will not be af
fected. '
R. R. WRECK
CHARGED TO
R. R.SYSTEM
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'Complete, Indifferent Dis-1
regard for Human Lives,'
Says Prosecutor
WOODBRIDGE, N. J., Feb, 8—</Pl
—A Middlesex County official in
vestigating the Pennsylvania rail
road crackup which claimed 83 lives,
today accused the big railroad .of
a complete and indifferent disre
gard for human life.”
Assistant Middlesex County Pro -
I ecutor Alex Ebcr, in a statement
vhieh he termed “my personal in
; dictment of the railroad” told a
news conference in nearby New
| Brunswick:
“We shall carefully explore an>
| oriminal aspects involved and pre
' sent the matter at some appropri
I ate time to the grand jury."
Eber’s statement came as work
ers dug into frozen snow to remove
the remaining wreckage of the ac
cident.
■ The failure of caution signals
along the right of way . . . repre
sent a complete and indifferent dis
regard for human life that is to be
condemned,” he said.
Police Chief George Keating said j
the death toll from Tuesday night's i
disaster — the third major rail
wreck in the New York metropoli
tan area within a year — probably
will remain at 83 unless some of
the 11 persons still hospitalized in
critical condition succumb.
lie said there had been no report'
of anyone missing.
The debris was covered last night
by a light snow.
Meanwhile, separate investiga
tions into the cause of the derail
ment of the crowded express were
slated by the Interstate Commerce
Commission and Middlesex County j
authorities.
PROPOSAL THAT
ALASKANS MAY
VOTE FOR PRES..
, WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 —i/PI—'The
people ot Alaska. Hawaii and the
District o Columbia would be al
lowed to /ote for President under
a propos. i put before Congress to
day.
Senator Case (R-SDi introduced
a bill to give each territory and
the district one vote in the elec
tcrial college. Alaskans and Hawai
ians now vote in territorial elec
tions but citizens of the district
are voteless.
Case told the Senate in a speech
there is ‘considerable doubt that
either territory will win statehood
in the immediate future.
“It has occured to me that grant
ing the territories and the District
of Columbia an opportunity to vote
for President, with representation
. in the electoral college, might com
K rnand the respect of many members
of Congress who oppose statehood.'
Since Case's proposal is to amend
the U. Si Constitution, it would re
quire approval by Congress, the
President and the Legislatures of
three fourths of the States.
A. L. BOOTH HERE
Alton Lee Booth, Anchorage con
tractor, is in the city.
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« WEATHER REPORT «
• Temperatures for 24-Hour Period •
• ending 6:20 o'clock this morning »
• In Juneau — Maximum •
• 20; minimum, 16. •
• At Airport — Maximum, «
• 21, minimum, 1. •
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• forecast •
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• Occasional snow flurries •
, • tonight and Friday. Lowest *
• temperature tonight about •
• 15 degrees and highest Fri- •
• day near 25. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Part 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau — .14 inches; •
• since Feb. 1 — .4 inches; •
• since July- 42.08 inches; •
• At Airport — .10 inches; •
• since Feb. 1 — .10 inches; •
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Chinese Communist prisoners captured in the hills north of Suwon are marched to rest oast Allied tanks
loaded with troun.s, as the armored vehicles moved up toward the Han River on the western Korean
front. '/?) Wirephoto.
3RD MiSiOH
LOSES FICiil
ON DELEGATES
17-7 Vole Holds Solld
"Rockinq Chair"
Bills Passed
By BOB DE ARMOND
Uttering cries of “sectionalism,”
"discrimination” and “disenfranch
isement,” seven Third Division
members of to House of Repre
sentatives yesterday afternoo 1 went
down to utter defeat at the hands
of their 17 colleagues from the other
three divisions.
The issue was rv memorial Intro
duced during the forenoon ^ssion
and carrying the names of all 17
Representatives from the First,
Second and Fourth Division;.
The memorial seeks a new ap
oortionment of delegates to the
constitutional convention in the
statehood bill now before the U. S.
Senate.
The 17 authors of the memorial,
holding more than a two-thirds
majority of the House votes had
sufficient strength to have thrown
all of the rule books out the win
dow had they chosen to do so.
Fight Against Odds
Despite the odd against them,
the seven Third Division members
of the House put up a last ditch
fight but did not succeed in re
cruiting a single vole from the solid
tri-Division ranks.
The 'skirmishing started immed
iately after the noon re e s when
Rep. McCutcheon offered an
amendment to make the measure
a joint memorisi.
If adopted, ini would have re
quired that the memorial aho ;:o to
the Senate for consideration.
“It is only fair that a memorial
of this importance be given con
sideration iiy both houses,” Mc
Cutcmson sa. ‘
Rep. Glen i» mkli.i quickly and
effectively scutued that line of ar
gument.
He dragged out and pointed to
H. M. 4. introduced by the seven
Third Division Rcpre enlatives.
"They did not see fit to make
this a joint memorial," Franklin
said. “Yet that i a memorial call
ing for secession from the United
States .and if that isn't an import
ant matter, then I’ll put in with
you.”
penies Secession Wanted
Rep. Kay, one of the authors of
what has now become known a
the "Republic of Alaska” memorial,
arose to deny that the measure calls
for secession.
"What we ask is only the right
to declare our independence, a
right guaranteed us by the Declar
ation of Independence and an is ue
I will debate with anyone,” Kay
said.
Rep. Kay charged that the ap
portionment of delegate requested
in the memorial “is arbitrary and
(Continued on Paga Two)
(ui Planned j
Civilian Use
Bask Metals
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—UP) The
! overnment plans a cut of 25 to
40 percent April 1 in the amount
of basic, metals going into automo
biles, stoves and home appliances.
Official! of the National Produc
tion Authority <NFA> disclosed this
today, saying it will be necessary
to save steel, copper and a.uminum
for defense purposes.
The cut in actual number of cars
and appliances produced may be
omewhat smaller than the cut in
a'owed use of metals, these officials
raid.
It will depenc on manufacturer'
ability to substit (te and conserve,
using such things as plastics, for in
stance, in place of metals.
The auto industry last month
promised a cut in use of basic met
als for the present quarter, but NPA
experts said a hoped-for drop in
automotive orders for steel appar
ently has not taken place.
Consequently, the mandatory ac
tion is contemplated affecting steel,
copper and aluminum. Some other
metals, such as nickel and cobalt,
already are subject to curtailment
as severe, or worse. The order prob
ably will appea-t in about two weeks,
giving producers at least a month
to get set.
...
! Declares Report Asinine in
Findings of Charges,
While House Aide
PRESIDENT IN DENFENSKt- ? E
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 .4* Pre
sident Truman accused a Senate
Banking Subcommittee today of
I having made an asinine report in
i its findings that White House abb
Donald Dawson lias exercised in
fluence on RFC loan policies.
At a news conft rente, the Presi
dent strongly defended Dawson
one of his admiuistr: tiv assistants
He said he had complete confi
dence in Dawson and added that
Dawson should not ; ■ ek a pubic
healing before the Senate group
headed by Senator Fulbright <D
Ark.i
The Fulbright committee, Mr
Truman said, ought to have asked
Dawson for testimony before it
made what.he called this asinine
reoort.
Mr. Truman said he wanted to
talk to the authors about it.
The President added that the
chairman—he did not mention Ful
bright by name left town when he
found out he wanted to . him.
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House Debates Third Divi
sion Memorial De
manding Statehood
By BOB Of: AUMOND
The War of Secession, Aim Kn sec
tor, broke into the open tills morn
in;- in the House of Representative *
when House Memorial Ko. 4 came
up in second reading.
The memorial, authored by the
seven Representatives from the
Third Division, demands statehood
or "the instant right to declare
our absolute independence of and
from the Government of the United
States, and to form ourselves into
a free society of free met; to bo
forever called the ‘Republic of
| Alaska’.”
Backing away from this proposi
tion, one of the authors, Rep. Kay.
moved to strike the closin' sent
ences of the rr 'inorial, including
i the quotation ah vc.
Rep. McCutchi n explained that
rather than jeopardize the mem"
lal’.s plea for statehood, the author:,
were willing lo drop the demand for
the right of independence.
He said, too, that it was feared
the demand might damage the
tatehood cause.
! very Word True
Rep. Kay asserted that "every
word is irue. and we have the right
:o do the t.tings requested in this
manorial." His purpose in drawing
he memorial, he ‘ aid, was to " hock
:ii* pi'npv of the United States into
consciousness and show them that
v ' have this right,"
Rep. Scaventus, another of the
ponsors of the memorial, felt the
demand for independence ;-h< t.ld
•einain. "I want to awak-n public
opinion and to embarrass Congre
for ignoring us.”
Commenting that “a lot of rhet
oric i: being throwed around here
whh a lot of pathos in it," Rep
Carlson, also of the Third Division
called for even stronger langua; e
"It takes strong English to wake
up those babies back there,” he
said.
Stand and Be Counted
Rep. Mike Stepovich, opposing
the deletion of the “independence”
riau.se, demanded that every mem
ber of the House stand and be
minted upon the main issue
-whether we, as loyal citizens, do
r do not demand the right of in
dependence. or do we wish to fol
low the democratic procedure of
majority rule?”
“The people of Alaska have been
abused, scorned, walked on and de
prived of control of their own re
: ources,” Rep. McCutcheon charged.
"It Is about time we took some
strong action!”
McCutcheon recited a version of
Alaskan history, which he i. trlbut
ed to Janette Paddock Nichols but
which was considerably at variance
j with that and other authorities.
| (Continued on Page Tvs)
ALLIED LINE
ADVANCED m
SEOUL ARE/
Armored Punches,Bayonet
Charges Rid Reds from
Snow Crusted Ridges
(By Associated Press)
U. a. tanks shelled Seoul's black
ened ruins today and howitze
wheeling into easy range, plaster
Chine positions th of th
frozen ifan River ght (Thurs
day).
Puerto Rican doughboys seized
commanding height only 4', mi
noth of the former Korean
public capital. The entire '
line advanced r mile *
' ward Seoul. Eighth A . a1
aid:
Do ruction of Communist forces
n the pocket south of the Han in
he western sector, the objective of
he current phase of the limited
offensive, is proceeding and ma)
sen up as a sizable victory ii
terms of enemy losses.
' Mo further* implications shouli
be attached to the present situs*
tion.”
Bayonet Charges
Thai was a cool military appraisa*
of a two-week series of armorer
punches and bayonet charges that
have violently rid the snow-crusteo
ridge-' and valley; of thousands ct
Chinese on Seoul’s approaches.
The Eighth Army has e.-.tlniut-ci
more than 57,000 Red cosuaitie .
most of them in the western rectoi.
Now the Chinese had their quiltrc
backs to the Han.
Red resistance "'as crumbling. In
some sectors there was no opposi
tion.
Heavy Air Arnault;
American Superforts, light nomb
f'r.s and fighters staged t.r.e of the
heaviest air assaults of the war on
ihe east coast again * North Kor
ean key rail centers
Western Allied sources pure cred
ence to a Berlin report that top
Soviet politburo member Georgl
Malenkov may be meeting with East
German officials on the future of
Germany. These talks could be ex
pected as a necessary prelude to
proposed talks between Russia and
the Western Allies on the German
problem.
The Austria newspaper Neue
Wiener T sztltung, which earlier
this week reported the escape of
Czechoslovakia's former Commun
ist Foreign Minister Vlado demen
tis from his homeland, said today
he had arrived in anti-Cominform
Yugoslav last night and asked for
asylum.
eov SCOUTS
HOMED BY
J
The Bov Scorn-, of Ajne -a we
honored by both houses of the A'
a ska Legislature today, the 41st
anniversary of the founding cf *'
Shouts.
T.Ilk" Wade, Sam "VTcPhetres,
fin monies « . ah houses
the Legislature this morning.
In addition, the Scoute conducted
Carl Beyer and Don Abel, Jr„ 1
the members of the House of P
resentatives in the pledge of
lc dance. They "e memb
Troop 623 of U.
The same ceremony was perfc
!ed in the Senate by John Jen, n.
Tom Cashen, Jr., Pat Wellington
and John Hoislngton, members o'
Troop BIO. Douglas.
The galleries were filled with Bo
Scout in uniform during the cere
monies.
STEAMER MOVEMENT
Baranof scheduled to sail f
i Seattle at 4 p. m. Fr<dav
i Princess Norah scheduled to sai’
from Vancouver 8 p.m., Feb. 14.
Denali from westward schedule
to arrive Sunday morning sout’
i bound.
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FROM KAKE
Mrs. Rav Bell of Kafce Ls at the
Baranof Hotel.